Recaps

Ye Qiubai traveled to Dark-Bright Island to seek heavenly dipper dark-bright wood and unexpectedly reunited with Elder Yao, who helped him obtain a piece from the Azure Wood Sect. The sect’s ancestor, Lei Feng, recovered from his hidden ailment and ordered the sect to hand the wood over to Ye Qiubai.

• Mo Xun lent Ye Qiubai the Azure Cloud Sword for five days and gave him a map of places where the other three materials might be found.
• Ye Qiubai left Jade Qilin City aboard Mo Xun’s sea vessel, while Ai Zhi resolved to cultivate harder after Ai Shouxian encouraged her.
• Ye Qiubai reached Dark-Bright Island and found Elder Yao, who confirmed that the Azure Wood Sect had acquired heavenly dipper dark-bright wood.
• Elder Yao took Ye Qiubai to meet Lei Feng and gave the Azure Wood Sect ancestor medicine that cured his hidden ailment.
• Lei Feng brought Ye Qiubai to the Azure Wood Sect’s main hall and ordered the sect master to give him the heavenly dipper dark-bright wood.

Ye Qiubai obtained the Heavenly Dipper Dark-Bright Wood and entered the Azure Wood Primal Spirit Pool, where Elder Yao began a painful treatment to temper his Sword Bone. The chapter left Ye Qiubai enduring the ordeal while Lei Feng accepted Elder Yao's prediction that the Azure Wood Sect would prosper because of him.

• The Azure Wood Sect Master gave Ye Qiubai the Heavenly Dipper Dark-Bright Wood after Lei Feng urged him to cooperate with Elder Yao.
• Elder Yao asked to use the Azure Wood Primal Spirit Pool, and Lei Feng agreed despite the sect's ancestral rules.
• Elder Yao led Ye Qiubai into the pool, told him to circulate the Primordial Sword Scripture along his Sword Bone, and set wood alight around him.
• The boiling pool and burning wood caused Ye Qiubai intense pain as he endured the treatment.
• Lei Feng explained to the Azure Wood Sect Master that befriending Elder Yao was more important than clinging to the pool's rules.
• Elder Yao told Lei Feng that the Azure Wood Sect would reach unprecedented heights because of Ye Qiubai.

Ye Qiubai endured Ashen Fire and the Azure Wood Primal Spirit Pool’s power to cleanse and complete his Sword Bone, then spent seven days comprehending Ashen Fire and advanced to the mid-stage Ancestor Realm. Elder Yao disappeared after leaving a note urging him to rely more on his master, and Ye Qiubai asked the Azure Wood Sect Master about two ingredients he needed.

• Ye Qiubai withstood Ashen Fire as the Azure Cloud Sword Master's consciousness emerged and questioned Elder Yao about him.
• Elder Yao told the Azure Cloud Sword Master that Ye Qiubai would resolve his own future troubles, and the consciousness dissipated.
• Ye Qiubai entered the Celestial Person State for seven days, then wielded Ashen Fire with his Cloud Azure Sword and showed Elder Yao his progress.
• Elder Yao gave Ye Qiubai fiery-red medicinal broth, which Ye Qiubai absorbed over a day as his cultivation advanced to the mid-stage Ancestor Realm.
• Ye Qiubai found Elder Yao's note telling him to follow his path and rely more on his master, then asked the Azure Wood Sect Master about Divine Mystic Fire Soul and Core of the Heavenly Spirit Heart.

Ye Qiubai learned how to reach the Divine Mystic Fire Soul and traveled to Divine Mystic Island, where he sought to join the Black Fire Branch. The branch arranged three trials to test him, and Ye Qiubai agreed to face them.

• Lei Feng told Ye Qiubai that the Divine Mystic Fire Soul grew atop the Divine Mystic Fire Tree on Divine Mystic Island, and that the island's nine rival factions controlled access to it.
• Ye Qiubai revealed his mastery of the Flame Origin, thanked Lei Feng and the Azure Wood Sect Master, and left after Lei Feng asked him for a token.
• Two days later, Ye Qiubai arrived on Divine Mystic Island and saw the fire-poisonous landscape and the enormous Divine Mystic Fire Tree surrounded by nine volcanoes.
• Ye Qiubai went to the nearest volcano and told Huo Shuyun, leader of the Black Fire Branch's cultivators, that he wanted to join the branch.
• Huo Shuyun returned with a powerful man, who warned Ye Qiubai that joining required three dangerous trials; Ye Qiubai accepted.

Ye Qiubai passed the Black Fire Branch’s first test, but his spar with Commander Ren revealed that his Sword Dao far surpassed the other sword cultivator’s. The chapter ended with Ren wounded and Ye Qiubai lamenting that he had warned them not to pair him with a sword cultivator.

• Huo Shuyun and Commander Wei brought Ye Qiubai to the Black Profound Volcano to test whether he belonged to the Divine Mystic Fire Sect.
• Ye Qiubai released the Primordial Sword Scripture and a wisp of flame, and Commander Wei declared that he had passed the first test when the lava showed no reaction.
• Commander Wei arranged for Ye Qiubai to spar with Commander Ren, the Black Fire Branch’s strongest sword cultivator.
• Commander Ren attacked with his Divine Fire Sword Dao, but Ye Qiubai formed a Sword Domain that suppressed Ren’s Sword Dao and revealed his Power of Origin.
• Ye Qiubai’s slash and Sword Qi blades broke through Ren’s flaming defense, wounded him, and drove him back.

Ye Qiubai passed the Divine Mystic Fire Sect’s final test by entering the magma without a pill and absorbing its deadly fire poison as nourishment. Commander Wei found him unharmed after hours and told him he had passed.

• Ye Qiubai overwhelmed Commander Ren in a sword duel, and Commander Ren conceded, acknowledging Ye Qiubai’s superior Sword Dao.
• Commander Wei explained that the final test was to endure the crater’s fire poison using only the Law of Fire.
• Ye Qiubai leaped into the magma before taking a Divine Fire Pill, where the fire poison merged into his body and nourished him.
• After Ye Qiubai remained below for hours without emerging, Commander Ren jumped into the magma to look for him.
• Commander Wei found Ye Qiubai calmly cultivating in the magma, and Ye Qiubai asked if he had stayed long enough.
• Commander Wei told Ye Qiubai that he had passed the test.

After Ye Qiubai passed the Black Fire Branch’s assessment, its commanders brought him to the Black Fire General, who offered him a guest elder position despite warning him that the branch was the weakest and surrounded by rivals. Ye Qiubai chose to stay, and Commander Wei arranged for him to live in his cave abode and join a mission near the Divine Mystic Fire Tree in three days.

• Ye Qiubai returned safely from the fire-poison assessment, and Commander Wei realized his Law of Fire was far stronger than his own and Commander Ren’s.
• Commander Ren proposed taking Ye Qiubai to the Black Fire General to secure him a guest elder position and access to the Divine Mystic Fire Tree.
• The Black Fire General explained that the Black Fire Branch was the weakest of the nine branches and invited Ye Qiubai to join another branch instead.
• Ye Qiubai declined the offer to leave and accepted the guest elder position in the Black Fire Branch.
• Commander Wei offered Ye Qiubai his own cave abode and told him he could join Commander Ren on a mission near the Divine Mystic Fire Tree in three days.

Ye Qiubai and Commander Ren led Black Fire Branch disciples to gather Divine Fire Stones near the Divine Mystic Fire Tree, where two rival branches ambushed them. Ye Qiubai took on Commander Yang and the opposing disciples while Commander Ren fought Commander Lin.

• Commander Ren explained that the Black Fire Branch needed Divine Fire Stones and warned Ye Qiubai that rival branches would fight to weaken one another before the climb in ten days.
• Ye Qiubai, Commander Ren, Huo Shuyun, and nine other disciples traveled toward the Divine Mystic Fire Tree to collect the stones.
• Ye Qiubai sensed groups approaching from the northeast and southwest, and Commander Ren identified their leaders as Commander Yang of the Azure Fire Branch and Commander Lin of the Xuan Fire Branch.
• Ye Qiubai told Commander Ren to fight Commander Lin while he handled Commander Yang and the opposing disciples.
• Commander Ren charged Commander Lin, and Ye Qiubai drew the Cloud Azure Sword to face Commander Yang.

Ye Qiubai fought Commander Yang and survived his flame attacks, then unleashed a vast array of swords that incapacitated the Azure Fire Branch and its ally. After Huo Shuyun’s group left with the Divine Fire Stone, Commander Yang tried to recruit Ye Qiubai, who answered by attacking again with the Geng Metal Sword Case.

• Ye Qiubai attacked Commander Yang with the Cloud Azure Sword, but Commander Yang’s body became a flame clone before he struck back and caught the sword.
• Commander Yang twisted Ye Qiubai’s sword and slammed him into the ground in a whirlwind of azure fire, filling the area with lava and fire poison.
• Thousands of swords formed from Sword Dao Law and surrounded the two branches’ disciples as Commander Yang tried to intervene.
• Ye Qiubai blocked Commander Yang, then sent the swords into the disciples, pinning them down and shattering their bones.
• Ye Qiubai told Huo Shuyun to take the Divine Fire Stone, and she left with the Black Fire Branch group.
• Commander Yang offered Ye Qiubai a place in the Azure Fire Branch, but Ye Qiubai opened the Geng Metal Sword Case and sent its swords at him.

Ye Qiubai fought Commander Yang and was engulfed by the azure flames of Yang’s fire-poison eruption, but he later appeared alive before the exhausted commander. Meanwhile, the Black Fire Branch prepared to stake everything on its upcoming climb up the Divine Mystic Fire Tree.

• Ye Qiubai used his Sword Domain and Cloud Azure Sword to wound Commander Yang while Commander Ren kept Commander Lin from intervening.
• Commander Yang unleashed his fire-poison secret art, and Commander Ren warned Ye Qiubai that the eruption could overwhelm even a Late-Stage Ancestor Realm fighter.
• Ye Qiubai covered himself in Ashen Fire as Commander Yang’s blazing azure flames engulfed him, while Commander Ren and Commander Lin fled the eruption.
• Huo Shuyun led the others toward the Black Fire Branch with the divine fire stone, and the Black Fire General vowed that the branch would risk everything in the coming climb.
• After the flames dissipated, Commander Yang found Ye Qiubai standing alive before him.

Ye Qiubai survived Commander Yang’s attack through his mastery of the fire origin, then crippled Commander Yang and departed with Commander Ren. Commander Huang recognized that Ye Qiubai had spared them to avoid jeopardizing his chance at the Divine Mystic Fire Tree’s opportunity, and decided to warn the other branches.

• Ye Qiubai approached Commander Yang unharmed, while Commander Ren and Commander Lin realized he had mastered the power of fire origin.
• Ye Qiubai shattered Commander Yang’s limbs and severed his meridians, then learned Commander Lin had escaped.
• Ye Qiubai asked whether they had enough divine fire stones, and he and Commander Ren returned to the Black Fire Branch’s volcano.
• Commander Huang arrived, heard Commander Yang recount the battle, and warned that Ye Qiubai’s presence could cause trouble during the Divine Mystic Fire Tree’s ascent.
• Commander Huang explained that Ye Qiubai had spared Commander Yang to protect his chance at the tree’s opportunity, then took the injured away and resolved to inform the other eight branches.

As the climb up the Divine Mystic Fire Tree began, Ye Qiubai stayed behind while the Black Fire Branch and the other branches raced upward. With the other branches watching him closely, he chose to wait until they started fighting among themselves before climbing.

• Ye Qiubai confirmed that the Divine Fire Pills had been refined, and the Black Fire General explained the rules for the climb.
• The Black Fire Branch set out for the Divine Mystic Fire Tree, where representatives of all nine branches had gathered.
• Ye Qiubai noticed that the other branches were focusing on him and told the Black Fire General and commanders to climb ahead without him.
• As the climb began, the other branches slowed to watch Ye Qiubai, allowing Commander Ren and the others to pull ahead.
• Ye Qiubai remained at the foot of the tree, planning to climb once the others grew impatient and began fighting.

Ye Qiubai waited below the Divine Mystic Fire Tree while the other branches fought, then surged upward through the disciples’ encirclement. He reached the commanders’ level as Commander Ren and Commander Wei moved to protect his route.

• Ye Qiubai used the rival branches’ urgency to climb the tree as they fought, while the Black Fire General shielded him from the other generals.
• The other branches eliminated most of the Black Fire Branch’s disciples as their commanders raced upward.
• Commander Yuan, Commander Huang, and Commander Pang attacked the Black Fire Branch’s commanders, knocking two down and forcing the others to retreat or defend themselves.
• As the commanders’ melee began, Ye Qiubai launched upward and broke through the disciples’ encirclement with his Sword Qi.
• Ye Qiubai spiraled up the Divine Mystic Fire Tree and reached the commanders, while Commander Ren and Commander Wei moved to safeguard his passage.

Ye Qiubai used his Origin of Fire to climb the Divine Mystic Fire Tree despite its fire poison, drawing attacks from rival commanders. As he neared the leaders of three branches, they joined forces to block his path.

• Ye Qiubai's Origin of Fire let him climb rapidly without resisting the tree's fire poison, shocking the generals and commanders watching below.
• Five commanders from the Purple Fire and Nether Fire Branches attacked Ye Qiubai, but he used their strikes to propel himself higher instead of fighting them.
• Ye Qiubai passed more commanders, enduring internal injuries that he healed with a pill from Lu Changsheng and the Primordial Sword Scripture's Intent of Unending Life.
• Commander Huang, Commander Pang, and Commander Yuan agreed to cooperate against Ye Qiubai and spread out to block his route up the tree.
• The Divine Fire General praised Ye Qiubai for forcing three branches to join forces, while the Black Fire General insisted the outcome remained undecided.

Ye Qiubai fought Commander Yuan, Commander Huang, and Commander Pang after they joined forces to stop his ascent of the Divine Mystic Fire Tree. He broke Commander Pang’s attack with Heavenly Slaughter, but Commander Yuan and Commander Pang charged him as the chapter ended.

• Commander Yuan, Commander Huang, and Commander Pang blocked Ye Qiubai’s path and offered him a chance to surrender or join the Divine Fire Branch.
• Ye Qiubai refused to betray the Black Fire Branch and declared that he would not abandon his word.
• Commander Yuan, Commander Huang, and Commander Pang launched simultaneous attacks from different directions.
• Ye Qiubai drew the Cloud Azure Sword, gathered ashen fire and the intent of unending life, and unleashed the fifth sword of the Primordial Sword Scripture, Heavenly Slaughter.
• Ye Qiubai’s slash split Commander Pang’s flaming meteor and clashed with the attacks of Commander Yuan and Commander Huang, sending destructive flames across the tree.
• Commander Yuan and Commander Pang charged Ye Qiubai, and Ye Qiubai used the Geng Metal Sword Case to send flying swords at Commander Pang with Pohong Sword Art, Long Rainbow Piercing the Sun.

Ye Qiubai used the Divine Mystic Fire Tree’s power and his ashen fire to fight three commanders, then unleashed the Primordial Sword Scripture’s Sixth Sword to defeat Commander Yuan’s strongest attack. The clash left Ye Qiubai injured and Commander Yuan falling, while the watching commanders stared in shock.

• Ye Qiubai used his flame origin, Sword Domain, and Geng Metal Sword Case to hold off Commander Huang and Commander Pang while facing Commander Yuan.
• Commander Yuan infused his spear with Flame Dao Law and transformed its fire serpent into a fire dragon to attack Ye Qiubai from a distance.
• Ye Qiubai combined the intent of unending life and ashen fire in the Cloud Azure Sword and unleashed the Primordial Sword Scripture’s Sixth Sword, Three Origins Transforming into Purity Sword.
• Commander Yuan summoned his strongest attack as the enormous fire dragon charged Ye Qiubai, who was unable to evade it.
• Ye Qiubai merged his three slashes into one, split the fire dragon, and sent Commander Yuan plummeting from the backlash as the watching commanders stared in disbelief.

Ye Qiubai defeated Commander Yuan and drove Commander Pang, Commander Huang, and most of the other climbers off the Divine Mystic Fire Tree. With no one left able to challenge him, he continued climbing and secured the Black Fire Branch’s victory.

• Ye Qiubai defeated Commander Yuan, shocking the other commanders and generals.
• Commander Pang and Commander Huang considered attacking Ye Qiubai while he recovered, but he used pills to restore his strength and took control of the Geng Metal Sword Case and Sword Domain.
• Ye Qiubai unleashed Pohong Sword Art: Ashen Fire Pierces the Sun, forcing Commander Pang to leap off the tree.
• Ye Qiubai turned the giant sword on Commander Huang and drove her and many other commanders and disciples off the tree without killing anyone.
• Ye Qiubai continued climbing as Commander Ren and Commander Wei realized they had not helped him, and the Black Fire Branch’s victory was effectively secured.

Ye Qiubai climbed to the top of the Divine Mystic Fire Tree, obtained the Divine Mystic Fire Soul with the help of his ashen fire, and cultivated there for three days. As the sect master addressed the branch generals, a presence announced that someone had broken through to the late-stage ancestor realm.

• While the other commanders cultivated at heights they could withstand, Ye Qiubai continued climbing toward the tree’s summit.
• Ye Qiubai reached the top, grasped the Divine Mystic Fire Soul, and used his ashen fire to subdue it before putting it away.
• Ye Qiubai began cultivating amid the power of the flame origin, feeling that his breakthrough was near.
• Three days after Ye Qiubai took the soul, the sect master emerged from seclusion and summoned the branch generals.
• The Divine Fire General and the Black Fire General argued over the branches’ results, and the sect master backed the Black Fire General before a presence of someone entering the late-stage ancestor realm swept through the sect.

Ye Qiubai obtained the Divine Mystic Fire Soul and the Core of the Heavenly Spirit Heart as he prepared to return to his junior brothers and sisters for the Six Realms' academy exchange. The Divine Mystic Fire Sect's master let him keep the treasure, betting that Ye Qiubai might someday protect the sect, and Ye Qiubai returned to Jade Qilin City with the materials Mo Xun had been seeking.

• Ye Qiubai met the Divine Mystic Fire Sect's master, who let him keep the Divine Mystic Fire Soul despite objections from the Divine Fire General and Azure Fire General.
• The sect master explained that he accepted Ye Qiubai's goodwill and hoped the young cultivator would become the Divine Mystic Fire Sect's future after the master risked his life on another lightning tribulation.
• Ye Qiubai defeated Commander Ren in a spar, learned the location of the Core of the Heavenly Spirit Heart, and obtained it after helping a faction kill its demigod-level guardian beast.
• Ye Qiubai escaped the faction pursuing him with a Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman and returned to Jade Qilin City, where he saw that the Dai Clan had helped the Ai Clan prosper.
• Ye Qiubai gave Mo Xun the items he had been searching for, leaving Mo Xun stunned by how quickly he had gathered them.

Ye Qiubai collected the remaining shipbuilding materials from the Ai Clan and visited Ai Zhi, whose sword practice had advanced to the Sword God Realm. After showing her how sharpness and softness could work together, he left her pondering his guidance.

• Mo Xun inspected the four rare materials Ye Qiubai had gathered and angrily asked for the remaining materials, which Ye Qiubai said were at the Ai Clan.
• Ye Qiubai arrived at the Ai Clan, where Ai Shouxian confirmed the basic materials were ready and said Ai Zhi was still practicing the sword technique Ye Qiubai had taught her.
• Ye Qiubai sensed that Ai Zhi had reached the Sword God Realm and followed Ai Shouxian to her courtyard.
• Ye Qiubai pointed out that Ai Zhi's Sword Intent wavered between sharpness and softness, then demonstrated how a soft sword could shift between the two.
• Ai Zhi contemplated Ye Qiubai's advice as he left the courtyard, accepted the materials from Ai Shouxian, and departed.

After Mo Xun completed Ye Qiubai’s powerful ship, Ye Qiubai sailed into the depths of the Qingming Sea to follow the Azure Cloud Token toward its destination. He neared the location as a destructive presence grew stronger, leaving him to wonder whether the inheritance lay beside the Qingming Beast.

• Mo Xun completed a ship equipped with powerful materials, weapons, and propulsion, then entrusted it to Ye Qiubai.
• Ye Qiubai said farewell to Ai Shouxian, Ai Zhi, and the Dai Clan’s patriarch before sailing into the Qingming Sea.
• Ye Qiubai followed the Azure Cloud Token toward the depths, wary of the Divine Realm-level Qingming Beast that ruled the sea.
• After three days, Ye Qiubai reached the storm-lashed depths and found the token’s destination only a thousand li away.
• As Ye Qiubai approached, he sensed a destructive presence and wondered whether the inheritance was near the Qingming Beast.

Ye Qiubai tracked the inheritance to the Qingming Beast in the depths of the Qingming Sea and arrived as two Divine Realm members of the Xuanyuan Clan confronted it. The Qingming Beast refused to surrender the inheritance, and the two men prepared to fight as it rose from the sea.

• Ye Qiubai sailed deeper into the Qingming Sea, following the Azure Cloud Token’s fluctuating presence toward the Qingming Beast.
• As waves and overwhelming pressure surrounded him, Ye Qiubai reached the battle and used his master’s jade pendant to withstand the force.
• Ye Qiubai saw two Divine Realm old men, a beautiful woman, and an enormous ship facing the Qingming Beast, whose dragon-like head rose from the water.
• One of the old men demanded that the Qingming Beast hand over the inheritance in exchange for the Xuanyuan Clan’s friendship and compensation.
• The Qingming Beast refused, and the balding old man drew his sword and threatened to kill it for its devil core and horns; the second old man also drew his sword.
• The Qingming Beast roared as its enormous body began rising from the sea.

The Xuanyuan Clan and the Ringing Sword Li Clan fought the Qingming Beast over the sea, while Ye Qiubai watched from his ship. The beast swallowed Ye Qiubai, Xuanyuan Suxian, and Li Che, then fled to the seabed as the four Divine Realm experts hesitated to pursue it.

• The Qingming Beast clashed with two Xuanyuan Clan elders, and their attacks sent tsunamis crashing into Jade Qilin City.
• Ai Shouxian ordered the Ai Clan to move its shop materials, while Ai Zhi and Mo Xun worried over the disturbance.
• Ye Qiubai powered the ship’s central mechanism and watched the battle, relying partly on Lu Changsheng’s jade pendant to withstand the shock waves.
• Two Divine Realm experts of the Ringing Sword Li Clan arrived with Li Che, who exchanged words with Xuanyuan Suxian.
• The Qingming Beast swallowed Ye Qiubai, Xuanyuan Suxian, and Li Che before diving to the seabed, leaving the four clan elders anxious and reluctant to follow.

Ye Qiubai, Li Che, and Xuanyuan Suxian found the Azure Cloud Sword Master's inheritance inside the Qingming Beast. As Li Che and Xuanyuan Suxian faltered under a trial that weighed on their sword hearts, Ye Qiubai walked forward unhindered.

• Ye Qiubai told Li Che that he came from the Azure Cloud Sword Sect, and Li Che dismissed the gap between their backgrounds and talents as unbridgeable.
• The three crossed the strange, flesh-like island inside the Qingming Beast and spotted a sword at its center, which Xuanyuan Suxian recognized as the Azure Cloud Sword Master's inheritance.
• Ye Qiubai sensed that the Azure Cloud Token pointed toward the sword and resolved to keep his sword bone hidden from Li Che and Xuanyuan Suxian.
• Li Che and Xuanyuan Suxian raced toward the sword but stopped a hundred meters away when an unseen presence weighed on their sword hearts.
• Ye Qiubai continued walking toward the sword without hesitation because his clear sword heart left him unaffected by the trial.

Ye Qiubai absorbed the Azure Cloud Sword Master's inheritance, strengthening his Sword Domain and reaching the peak ancestor realm. When Li Che challenged him for the inheritance, Ye Qiubai's enhanced Sword Domain suppressed both Li Che and Xuanyuan Suxian, and the battle began.

• Ye Qiubai used his Clear Sword Heart to grasp the rusted sword and receive the Azure Cloud Sword Master's Sword Dao insights and power of origin.
• Xuanyuan Suxian and Li Che waited without attacking while Ye Qiubai spent two days absorbing the inheritance, which transformed half his Sword Dao Law into power of origin and raised his Sword Domain to divine level.
• On the third day, Ye Qiubai broke through to the peak ancestor realm, drew the Azure Azure Sword, and agreed to fight for the inheritance.
• Li Che attacked Ye Qiubai with the Ringing Sword Li Clan's lightning-infused Sword Dao, while Xuanyuan Suxian watched.
• Ye Qiubai unleashed his enhanced Sword Domain, suppressing Li Che's and Xuanyuan Suxian's Sword Dao as he rose into the air to face Li Che.