Recaps

Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and Shi Sheng helped the Yang Lineage reclaim its position, won three places in the Kunlun Heavenly Pool qualification contest, and killed Zheng Yongqi after she challenged Xiao Hei. They reached Kunlun City, where powerful allies and enemies appeared, and met Mu Fusheng in disguise just before the Pool opened.

• Ye Qiubai and his companions helped the Yang Lineage defeat the Kang and Li Lineages, earning the three contest places for the Kunlun Heavenly Pool.
• Ye Qiubai and Shi Sheng won their qualification matches, then Xiao Hei killed Zheng Yongqi after she challenged him and Zheng Yong'an attacked the group.
• Ye Qiubai's sword formation wounded Zheng Yong'an, and the three companions left the City Lord's Manor with the Pool spots secured.
• The group reached Kunlun City, where an old man examined Ye Qiubai's meridians and gave him a rusty iron fragment.
• A Profound Brightness Cliff elder attacked the trio, but a slovenly old man blocked him and warned Ye Qiubai that someone would hold him accountable if he died.
• At Kunlun Snow Mountain, Mu Fusheng announced the Pool's opening and later disguised himself to invite Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and Shi Sheng to drink.
• Ye Qiubai saw through Mu Fusheng's disguise and asked what he really wanted with them.

Ye Qiubai, Shi Sheng, and Xiao Hei survived the Kunlun Heavenly Pool’s trials, where Shi Sheng claimed a Star Core and Ye Qiubai defeated challengers before receiving the Starfall Sword Emperor’s inheritance. As threats from the Extraterrestrial Evil Race gathered, Ye Qiubai learned that the Starfall Sword Sect had been founded to prepare for a calamity across the Low-Latitude Realm.

• Mu Fusheng opened the Kunlun Heavenly Pool, and Ye Qiubai, Shi Sheng, and Xiao Hei entered as hostile disciples from Profound Brightness Cliff and the Cold Spirit Sect confronted them.
• Xiao Hei and Shi Sheng defeated most of the attackers while Ye Qiubai descended into the pool, adapted to its crushing pressure, and advanced in cultivation.
• Mu Zhengting and Heavenly Master Li warned that the Extraterrestrial Evil Race had overrun the Heavenly Fire and Purple Lightning Realms, while Hong Ying led a force to fight invaders in Han City.
• Ning Chenxin and Mu Wan'er helped Hong Ying’s forces repel the Evil Race, and a Boundless Dynasty envoy confirmed that the two neighboring realms had fallen.
• Ye Qiubai and Lin Jie descended through the pool as Shi Sheng reached its bottom, absorbed a Star Core, and broke through to the Emperor Realm.
• Ye Qiubai and Xiao Hei defeated cultivators who tried to seize the pool’s treasure, then traveled with Lin Jie and Mu Cisheng to the Starfall Sword Sect.
• Jian Wufeng guided Ye Qiubai into the Celestial Person State, and Ye Qiubai quickly connected with the Starfall Sword Emperor’s incomplete Sword Intent through an iron fragment.
• Ye Qiubai completed the Starfall Sword Emperor’s inheritance, received the Starfall Sword, and was recognized as the Sword Child, while Jian Wufeng explained the sect’s role in preparing for a future calamity.

Ye Qiubai’s return to the Starfall Sword Sect drew three powerful factions into a war, and Lu Changsheng destroyed them to protect his disciples. After Mu Fusheng became Lu Changsheng’s disciple, he joined Mu Qingqing’s expedition to Boundary Mountain, where Xiao Hei sensed a presence connected to his origin.

• Ye Qiubai defeated Lin Jie in a spar with the Starfall Sword Technique, while an Evil Race force approached the Heavenly Spirit Realm and Lu Changsheng killed them before they arrived.
• The Cold Spirit Sect, Profound Brightness Cliff, and Divine Spear Sect demanded Ye Qiubai and his companions, but Jian Wufeng refused and prepared the Starfall Sword Sect for war.
• Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, and Lin Jie fought the invading forces, and Ye Qiubai killed the Cold Spirit Sect fairy while Shi Sheng’s domain helped the defenders.
• As the Starfall Sword Sect’s defenses faltered, Mu Fusheng arrived with the Silver-Armored Imperial Guard, but the allied sects rejected his appeal to withdraw.
• Lu Changsheng arrived, killed the attackers, and erased the three factions after they had targeted his disciples, and Mu Fusheng and Jian Wufeng suppressed news of their destruction.
• Lu Changsheng reprimanded Ye Qiubai, gave Jian Wufeng a wisp of Sword Dao Rules, and accepted Mu Fusheng as a disciple, giving him talisman and lightning techniques.
• Mu Fusheng learned that the Mu Clan might oppose Ye Qiubai marrying Mu Ziqing, then joined Mu Qingqing’s mission to investigate the strange Evil Qi at Boundary Mountain.
• At Boundary Mountain, Mu Qingqing organized an investigation while Xiao Hei sensed a presence in the north that shared his origin and told Ye Qiubai he wanted to investigate.

Mu Qingqing’s forces fought the Extraterrestrial Evil Race at Boundary Mountain and pursued it into the Demon Abyss, where Xiao Hei’s bloodline opened a path to trials that strengthened him and his companions. Lu Changsheng left Xiao Hei to continue, then sealed a disturbance in space after emerging from the abyss.

• Mu Qingqing led reinforcements into Boundary Mountain, where her group fought the Extraterrestrial Evil Race and Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, and Mu Fusheng helped repel its commanders.
• Mu Qingqing activated a World-Purifying Great Array, weakening the enemy, and the survivors learned that the Extraterrestrial Evil Race planned to head to the Demon Abyss.
• The Boundless Dynasty and other factions assembled an expedition, and Ye Qiubai absorbed the Starfall Sword Emperor’s Sword Intent from a sculpture, breaking through to the Sword Saint realm.
• Xiao Hei’s Eternal Devil Body allowed the group to pass the Demon Abyss gatekeepers, and the black-haired guardian recognized him as the Devil Master and sent him to face trials alone.
• Xiao Hei endured demonic tempering and defeated a clone, while Mu Fusheng absorbed World-Destroying Devil Lightning and Ye Qiubai reached the Emperor Realm during their trials.
• Lu Changsheng confronted the black-haired guardian, confirmed Xiao Hei was safe, and chose not to take him away despite a warning of greater danger ahead.
• After leaving the Demon Abyss, Lu Changsheng found violent spatial fluctuations and evil power in the black plains and sealed the trembling space with ancient characters.