Recaps

Xiao Hei and his companions escorted the Ninth Prince through a succession struggle, then returned to Chaotic Spirit Academy and survived the Second Elder’s attempt to undermine them. As the group advanced through the academy’s inheritance realms, Hong Ying and Ning Chenxin secured Lu Changsheng’s Creation-grade cultivation techniques for Azure Firmament Academy.

• Xiao Hei defeated Feng Ye in their spar, rejected the Second Elder’s offer to become his final disciple, and accepted a mission to escort the Ninth Prince with his companions.
• The Ninth Prince exposed Elder Lin’s betrayal and revealed his hidden allies and Mo Clan puppet army, forcing the Third Prince’s forces to retreat.
• Heavenly Thicket Sword Ancestor killed Cheng Dahai and Yu Cheng, while Mu Fusheng concealed his presence near their bodies.
• The Ninth Prince returned to Nine Dragons City and hosted a banquet where Xiao Hei and Feng Ye sparred for the Chaotic Spirit Academy against the princes’ guests.
• The Law Enforcement Hall arrested the group over Cheng Dahai and Yu Cheng’s deaths, but Elder Fen expelled the hall master and the First Elder turned the Second Elder’s power play against him.
• Xiao Hei and his companions entered the inheritance secret realms, climbed the rankings, and advanced their cultivation, while Mu Fusheng continued to hide his strength.
• Hong Ying and Ning Chenxin brought Liu Ziru to the Changsheng Realm and asked Lu Changsheng for cultivation methods for Azure Firmament Academy.
• Lu Changsheng created dozens of Creation-grade techniques and told Hong Ying and Ning Chenxin to screen the students for character and trustworthiness.

Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, and Fang Qiong helped the Crown Prince win the military exercises through traps, arrays, and Xiao Hei’s strength. Xiao Hei absorbed all nine dragon souls and reached the Human Ancestor Realm, then faced He Xiangwang’s challenge to a fight to the death.

• Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, and Fang Qiong accepted the Crown Prince’s request to compete in the military exercises, while Mu Fusheng investigated the princes and met Jiu Bailu, who revealed she was the Crown Prince’s sister.
• Mu Fusheng defeated Cang Ming in a banquet spar by trapping him with talismans, and Xiao Hei challenged the Xuanming Holy Son before the emperor stopped further fighting.
• Mu Fusheng persuaded the Azure Dragon Army to follow his ambush plan, and the army’s traps and arrays devastated the six rival armies at White Dragon Mountain.
• Xiao Hei fought the Crimson Dragon Commander and the Heavenly Dragon Commander after reaching the Ancestor Realm, forcing them and the other surviving commanders to withdraw and securing the Azure Dragon Army’s victory.
• The Crown Prince claimed the Reverse Scale Army and Scarlet Dragon Army through his wager, while Xiao Hei received all nine dragon souls as a reward.
• Jiu Bailu told Mu Fusheng that a demigod-grade talisman brush would appear in the Southern Desert, but he refused to go with her and hurried away.
• Xiao Hei fused the nine dragon souls into Yinglong, reached the early-stage Human Ancestor Realm, and defeated groups that tried to intercept him on the journey back.
• He Xiangwang challenged Xiao Hei to a fight to the death on the Crown Prince Platform and offered to suppress his cultivation, but Xiao Hei refused the handicap and prepared to fight.

Xiao Hei and the others entered the desert tomb, where they faced deadly traps and rival factions while Shi Sheng and Fang Qiong uncovered another route through it. Ye Qiubai gained the Azure Cloud Sword Master’s inheritance, while the Xuanming Holy Son escaped and Huang Jun followed the group, leaving new threats ahead.

• Xiao Hei killed He Xiangwang in a deathmatch, and Shi Sheng absorbed the Star Core at Star Stone Mountain to reach the peak God Emperor realm.
• Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and their companions traveled to the Southern Desert, where Huang Mangzi’s attempt to force them to a banquet ended when elders intervened and warned that the factions needed to preserve their strength for the tomb.
• The tomb opened, and its black death Qi killed several prodigies before a trap sent the survivors underground, where they faced terracotta warriors that quickly reassembled after being destroyed.
• Shi Sheng and Fang Qiong found a mechanism that opened a hidden passage, then led the survivors through a beetle attack to a burial chamber containing a chained coffin and a sealed door.
• Fang Qiong weakened the red-dressed woman’s rules, then made her the formation spirit of Nightfall after enduring her soul power and reaching the Half-Step Ancestor Realm.
• Ye Qiubai grasped the sword above the throne as it shattered his bones and began reshaping them, while Xiao Hei fought the Xuanming Holy Son and defeated his summoned Black Tortoise.
• The Azure Cloud Sword Master revealed that Ye Qiubai’s Sword Bone would attract hostile sword cultivators and that merging their souls could bring the master back to life, but Ye Qiubai refused that outcome and completed his inheritance.
• Ye Qiubai reached the Half-Step Ancestor Realm and received the Cloud Azure Sword and an Azure Cloud token, while Huang Jun followed the group and the academy learned that He Song’s soul tablet had shattered.

Mu Fusheng rescued Ye Qiubai’s group from the prince’s tomb, while Lu Changsheng recruited Mo Yu and the academy prepared for the Six Realms Academy Grand Competition. Shi Sheng inherited insights in the Star Tower, but an ambush split the delegation on its way to the Black Tortoise Divine Dynasty, leaving Mu Fusheng’s group planning a dangerous escape.

• Mu Fusheng entered the tomb, defeated its guardian, freed Ye Qiubai’s group, and helped them confront Prince Purple Firmament, whose soul Mo Ling captured with a puppet.
• Mo Ling let Ye Qiubai’s group take treasures before they returned to the academy, where each of them trained while Ye Qiubai set out alone to seek another inheritance.
• Lu Changsheng traveled to a Mo Clan outpost with Mo Yu, defeated the corrupt old man using a giant puppet, and persuaded Mo Yu to become his disciple.
• Zhao Jinshan named the academy’s competitors and substitutes, and Xiao Hei challenged Gu Sheng to a spar but was overwhelmed by his skill.
• Shi Sheng entered the Star Tower, mastered star power and the Starry Sky Domain, and comprehended the Nine Stars of Heavenly Profundity before joining the academy delegation.
• Vice Dean Ming led the delegation toward the Black Tortoise Divine Dynasty for the exchange, but black-robed attackers ambushed them and demanded that the academy withdraw.
• Vice Dean Ming sacrificed the immortal crane to get the students away and stayed behind to delay three Demigod experts, while Mu Fusheng’s group fled with Tan Zongzhao.
• Mu Fusheng detected pursuers and an ambush ahead, then began planning how his group could break through without using the Heavenly Lightning Escape Talismans.