Recaps

Lu Changsheng brought the Four Great Beast Clans under Xu Yeming’s leadership and helped him uncover the enemies who had attacked his parents and the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan. Back at the Changsheng Realm, Lu Changsheng began intense individual training for his disciples as a new era approached.

• Lu Changsheng subdued the Seven Star White Tiger, Bifang, Qiongqi, and Qilin Clans with force and promises of support, then left Xu Yeming to negotiate their terms.
• Xu Yeming secured benefits and leadership changes for the clans, learned that his mother came from the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan, and set out to find them with Bi Yan, Qi Wu, and the White Tiger ancestor.
• At the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan, Zuoqiu Hong revealed that he was Xu Yeming’s grandfather and named the Xuanyuan Clan and the current head of the Xu Clan as enemies tied to his parents’ attack.
• Xu Yeming asked Xiangliu, Zhu Jiuyin, and the Bone-Winged Serpent Tiger to watch over the beast clans, then returned to the Changsheng Realm as Lu Changsheng rescued Ye Qiubai from the Xuanyuan Clan.
• Lu Changsheng sent his disciples to separate training grounds, where Ye Qiubai practiced swordsmanship without Immortal Qi, Hong Ying studied resurrection, Ning Chenxin pursued insight, and Xiao Hei endured harsh trials.
• Lu Changsheng arranged difficult exercises for the remaining disciples and agreed to help Liu Ziru’s plan to mislead the Clear Breeze Pavilion, giving him pills to test.
• Ye Qiubai advanced his Sword Dao Rules, while Shi Sheng derived the power of light from the stars and began seeking how to understand the power of life.

Mu Fusheng protected Jiu Bailu from a forced marriage and helped rally the Four Great Beast Clans against the Seven Treasures Holy Sect, while Liu Ziru used the Dark Domain’s intelligence network to draw out the Xuanyuan Clan. The arc ended with Ye Qiubai and Xu Yeming entering Cangxuan Academy to investigate the Xu Clan’s connections, where Xu Yeming’s blunt reply angered the students.

• Xu Yeming entered the blood pool to absorb the fused Essence Blood, and Lu Changsheng and Willow Tree kept him alive through the destructive process and a lightning tribulation.
• After completing three hundred years of training, Ye Qiubai and the other disciples returned to the Cottage with major breakthroughs, and Lu Changsheng sent groups to investigate the unfolding conflicts.
• Mu Fusheng arrived at the Nine Dragons Divine Dynasty and challenged Ji Yang to stop the Seven Treasures Holy Sect’s marriage alliance with Jiu Bailu.
• Mu Fusheng defeated Ji Yang’s Seven Treasures seal with his lightning dragons, and Jiu Bailu declared that only Mu Fusheng could stand beside her.
• Liu Ziru used false intelligence to draw the Xuanyuan Clan’s attention, then gave it authentic information about Ye Qiubai while escaping the clan’s surveillance.
• Ye Qiubai faced Xuanyuan Junru and the Xuanyuan Clan elders, revealed his Sword Dao Rules, and escaped with Mu Fusheng’s lightning barriers and talismans.
• The Seven Treasures Holy Sect backed attacks on the Nine Dragons Divine Dynasty, but the Four Great Beast Clans joined its defense and the White Tiger Ancestor killed two Seven Treasures elders.
• Mu Fusheng helped spread false intelligence that Jiu Bailu was connected to the Four Great Beast Clans, while Ye Qiubai and Xu Yeming went to Cangxuan Academy to investigate the Xu Clan’s ties there.
• Cangxuan Academy students mocked Ye Qiubai and Xu Yeming, and Xu Yeming’s retort that their academy had lost to the people they called barbarians angered them.

Ye Qiubai and Xu Yeming entered Cangxuan Academy, where Xu Yeming’s Qilin identity led them to the dying guardian beast and Lu Changsheng. After the Fourth Elder’s plots became clear, the pair left the academy and fled pursuing Xu and Xuanyuan Clan forces with help from Cangxuan Academy’s Grand Elder.

• Ye Qiubai challenged Cangxuan Academy’s students’ confidence in their swordsmanship, improved their technique, and fought Xuanyuan Che to a draw, revealing his Sword Dao Rules Realm.
• Xuanyuan Che urged the Xuanyuan Clan to befriend Ye Qiubai, but the grand elder rejected him and ordered Ye Qiubai killed for his Sword Bone and the Azure Cloud Sword Master’s inheritance.
• Xu Yeming’s blood assessment revealed his Qilin Bloodline, and Qi Wu arrived with two Qilin princes to confirm him as the Qilin Son and support him.
• Dean Cangxuan brought Ye Qiubai and Xu Yeming to the Cangxuan Guardian Beast, who asked Xu Yeming to inherit his mantle, but Xu Yeming proposed that Lu Changsheng might restore the beast’s vitality instead.
• Lu Changsheng entered the hidden space, healed the Cangxuan Guardian Beast, and learned from him that Lady Nüwa was resisting invaders beyond the Six Realms, and the beast gave him the World Tree she had left behind.
• Lu Changsheng consulted the Willow Tree about the World Tree and began testing a handheld cannon design, while Xu Yeming and Ye Qiubai grew suspicious of the Fourth Elder.
• Xu Yeming and Ye Qiubai left Cangxuan Academy, then faced the Fourth Elder and forces from the Xu and Xuanyuan Clans, and they escaped with a Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman.
• Cangxuan Academy’s Grand Elder helped Xu Yeming and Ye Qiubai evade the pursuers with black robes and jade pendants, split them from the Qilin Clan members, and led them west along a hidden route.

Xu Yeming inherited the Black Lord’s legacy, uncovered clues about his father’s search for the Azure Spirit Sea Soul, and escaped the Xu Clan and Xuanyuan Clan’s pursuit. Disguised as Xu Luo, he infiltrated the Xu Clan and rapidly advanced in the Lunar Eclipse Nether Record, drawing the attention of its elders and a mysterious observer.

• The First Elder activated the Heaven-Sinking Netherlight Formation against Xu Yeming and Ye Qiubai, but the Third Elder and Dean Cangxuan intervened and protected them from the Xu Clan and Xuanyuan Clan.
• The Black Lord gave Xu Yeming his inheritance, and Xu Yeming accepted it after learning that the Black Lord would continue guarding Cangxuan.
• Xu Yeming questioned the imprisoned First Elder and Fourth Elder, learning that his father sought the Azure Spirit Sea Soul to reconstruct a soul and may have intended to save the Xuanyuan Clan’s eldest young lady.
• When Xu Tianguang and Xuanyuan Wuji threatened Cangxuan Academy, Xu Yeming and Ye Qiubai escaped pursuit with decoys and returned in disguise.
• Xu Yeming killed Xu Luo inside Lu Changsheng’s isolation formation, assumed his appearance, and infiltrated the Xu Clan while Hong Ying and Xiao Hei joined him in disguise.
• With Xiao Hei’s Nine Nether Underworld Qi and the Fusheng Diagram, Xu Yeming mastered the fourth level of the Lunar Eclipse Nether Record and regained Xu Luo’s privileges.
• Xu Yeming obtained the record’s second half, reached its fifth level, and challenged Xu Qing, shattering his black crescent with a full black moon.
• The cane elder praised Xu Yeming’s progress as a white-robed man watched from above the Xu Clan.