Recaps

Ji Zining led the group through the Ancient Chaos Graveyard, effortlessly slaying waves of increasingly powerful yin spirits. After Li Chang'an warned her about a Peak Saint King Realm commander, an enormous black yin spirit appeared ahead.

• Ji Zining used Ten Thousand Swords Pay Homage to destroy the yin spirits at the graveyard entrance before Li Chang'an or the others could fight.
• Ji Zining continued deeper into the graveyard, cutting down every yin spirit while the group followed behind her.
• Li Chang'an recognized a gravestone and warned Ji Zining that a Peak Saint King Realm yin spirit commander was ahead.
• A towering black yin spirit appeared with the other spirits gathered meekly behind it, and Ji Zining eagerly asked if it was the commander.

Ji Zining challenged the Yin Spirit Commander and used the Asura Seven Steps to overwhelm it in close combat. After defeating the commander, she rejoined Li Chang'an and the others, and they continued onward.

• The Yin Spirit Commander warned Ji Zining to leave the Chaotic Ancient Forbidden Land, but she challenged it to a fight instead.
• The Yin Spirit Commander attacked, and Ji Zining put away the Immortal-Slaying Sword to face it with her close-combat skills.
• Ji Zining used the first six Asura Seven Steps to batter the Yin Spirit Commander through the air while Li Chang'an watched in disbelief.
• Ji Zining landed the seventh step, leaving the Yin Spirit Commander badly injured as the Yin Spirits gathered to protect it.
• Ji Zining told Li Chang'an and the others that they should keep moving, while Li Chang'an struggled to process her one-sided victory.

Ji Zining led her companions deeper into the Ancient Chaos Graveyard, where the peaceful landscape differed from Li Chang'an’s previous visit. They discovered a Black Demon among enormous black eggs, leaving them to face the mystery of why the creatures were there.

• Ji Zining spared the weakened yin spirit commander because it had been guarding the entrance, then continued into the graveyard with Xiao Jing and the others.
• Li Chang'an caught up and said the landscape and the commander’s behavior differed from his last visit; Ji Zining concluded that unknown changes had occurred and told everyone to stay close.
• The group advanced through the unusually quiet graveyard until a Black Demon’s roar came from a dense forest.
• Ji Zining sensed something in the forest and led the others to a clearing, where they found enormous black eggs and a Black Demon growing stronger as it ate eggshells.

Ji Zining and her companions discovered Black Demon eggs and growing Black Demons in the Ancient Chaos Graveyard, then found an enormous city inhabited by countless Black Demons. Unsure what had changed during the Martial Emperor Secret Realm’s hundred-year closure, they prepared to enter Black Demon City.

• Ji Zining and her companions destroyed the giant Black Demon eggs and the newly hatched Black Demon in the forest.
• Li Chang'an said the forest had not been there on his previous visit, and the group wondered what had happened during the hundred years the Martial Emperor Secret Realm was closed.
• Ji Zining led the group deeper into the Ancient Chaos Graveyard, where they encountered and killed Black Demons in the Great Saint Realm.
• Several hours later, the group found a gateway marked “Black Demon City” and saw countless Black Demons living in an enormous city beyond it.
• Ji Zining drew the Immortal-Slaying Sword and told the others to prepare to enter the city.

Ji Zining followed her intuition into Black Demon City alone to investigate a possible opportunity. After testing how the Demonic Qi reacted to her spiritual power, she realized the city did not harm her when she held no hostile intent, and she began exploring its strange rules.

• Ji Zining told Xiao Jing and the others that her intuition sensed an opportunity in Black Demon City and decided to enter alone while they waited outside.
• Ji Zining crossed the city gate and found that the Demonic Qi did not harm her while she refrained from using spiritual power against it.
• When Ji Zining circulated spiritual power to resist the Demonic Qi, it corroded her power and threatened to attack her flesh, so she stopped.
• Ji Zining wrapped spiritual power around her body without directing it against the Demonic Qi and found that it did not corrode her.
• Ji Zining concluded that Black Demon City responded to hostile intent and would not affect those who harbored no hostility toward anything inside.

Ji Zining explored Black Demon City, where the demonic Qi and Black Demons left her unharmed, and discovered the Spiritual Qi-filled Abyssal Spirit Hall. There she met a preserved soul who identified himself as Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel.

• Outside Black Demon City, Li Chang'an, Xiao Jing, and Lin Shan wondered why the demonic Qi ignored Ji Zining and stayed ready to rescue her.
• Ji Zining walked among the Black Demons, finding them docile and friendly as she followed the summons from deep within the city.
• Ji Zining discovered the Abyssal Spirit Hall, entered it, and found that it contained Spiritual Qi instead of demonic Qi.
• A voice from the hall told Ji Zining that its speaker was human and that the Abyssal Spirit Hall preserved the last wisp of his soul.
• The delicate figure clarified that he was a man, then introduced himself as Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel.

Ji Zining met Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel, a powerful remnant from the Primordial Era who asked her to take him and the Abyssal Spirit Hall with her in exchange for guiding her cultivation. After she explained that the Great Emperors had sacrificed themselves to defeat It, he asked whether she had decided to take him away.

• Ji Zining tried to leave Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel, but he stopped her and realized that the Abyssal Spirit Hall had been moved to Black Demon City.
• Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel offered to guide Ji Zining's cultivation if she took him and the Abyssal Spirit Hall with her.
• Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel explained that Ancient Emperor was his title and said he came from the True Martial Dao Domain in the Primordial Era.
• Ji Zining told Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel that four eras had passed and that the current Emperor's Fall Era could no longer produce Great Emperors.
• Ancient Emperor Demon Wheel learned that all the Great Emperors had self-destructed to kill It, and he asked Ji Zining whether she would take him away.

Ji Zining agreed to help Jun Yi leave Black Demon City after trusting his account of his past, and he transferred ownership of the Abyssal Spirit Hall to her. After learning the hall’s abilities, she promised to take him and the imperial weapon outside once she had explored the deepest part of Black Demon City.

• Ji Zining warned Jun Yi not to deceive her or bring chaos to the True Martial Dao Domain, and he insisted that he had acted in good faith.
• Jun Yi revealed his real name, Jun Yi, and offered to relinquish the Abyssal Spirit Hall so Ji Zining could claim it and take them both out.
• Jun Yi severed his ownership, and the Abyssal Spirit Hall stopped resisting when he urged it to cooperate with Ji Zining.
• Ji Zining claimed the Abyssal Spirit Hall and learned it could preserve divine souls and suppress enemies.
• Ji Zining promised to take Jun Yi and the hall outside after she explored the deepest part of Black Demon City, and Jun Yi agreed to answer her questions.

Ji Zining collected the Abyssal Spirit Hall and continued through Black Demon City to a golden hall, where Jun Yi identified the light as the power of a long-dead Great Emperor of the Great Dao of Light. A voice inside the hall recognized Ji Zining’s Exquisite Immortal Physique and said it had been waiting for her, so she entered seeking answers.

• Ji Zining shrank the Abyssal Spirit Hall and fastened it in her hair, disturbing the nearby Black Demons before they let her pass.
• Ji Zining reached a golden hall that filled her with unsettling peace, and Jun Yi explained that it had likely been left by a Great Emperor of the Great Dao of Light.
• Jun Yi taught Ji Zining the Heavenly Purity Mystic Art to protect her mind from the golden light.
• A low voice inside the hall told Ji Zining it had been waiting for the bearer of the Exquisite Immortal Physique.
• Ji Zining questioned the voice about the Ancient Chaos Graveyard’s changes, then entered the hall to learn more.

Ji Zining entered the golden hall and met the Light Emperor Venerable, a Great Emperor who had been trapped there in a grotesquely altered form. He revealed that he had built Black Demon City with Black Demons and was a descendant of Empress Linglong, but he knew nothing about the Ancient Chaos Graveyard’s changes.

• Jun Yi warned Ji Zining that the voice in the hall belonged to an abnormal Great Emperor, but the hall cut off their connection when she entered.
• Ji Zining questioned the figure, who identified himself as the Light Emperor Venerable and turned around to reveal his hideously altered face.
• The Light Emperor Venerable said he could not leave the hall or kill himself and had summoned Ji Zining because of her Exquisite Immortal Physique.
• He explained that he built Black Demon City by assimilating the local Black Demons with light, while the building on Ji Zining’s head had been there before he awoke.
• The Light Emperor Venerable said It had infected the Great Emperors who self-destructed, leaving them unable to live or die, and revealed that he was descended from Empress Linglong.

Ji Zining learned from the Light Emperor Venerable that Black Demon City and the Ancient Chaos Graveyard occupied opposite sides of a two-sided world whose spaces had switched. The Light Emperor Venerable gave her his inheritance in the Light Seed and urged her to leave before her friends entered Black Demon City.

• Ji Zining believed the Light Emperor Venerable's account of being cursed after joining the final battle against it, then questioned his claim of descent from Empress Linglong.
• The Light Emperor Venerable showed Ji Zining the mixed immortal spirit Qi of the Exquisite Immortal Physique and explained that Black Demon City and the Ancient Chaos Graveyard had always existed on opposite sides of the same location.
• Ji Zining realized the two spaces had switched places, explaining the changes in the Ancient Chaos Graveyard.
• The Light Emperor Venerable gave Ji Zining the Light Seed containing his inheritance and cautioned her that its condition might be affected by his state.
• The Light Emperor Venerable warned that Ji Zining's friends were about to enter Black Demon City and told her to leave before the Black Demons swarmed them.

Ji Zining left Black Demon City and stopped Xiao Jing and the others before they could trigger an attack, then explained the city’s rules and her discoveries. After revealing the Abyssal Spirit Hall and the Light Emperor Venerable’s story, she left them stunned by the truth about Black Demon City and the two-sided world.

• Ji Zining asked the Light Emperor Venerable whether he could leave or regain his appearance, then departed after learning he could do neither.
• Ji Zining hurried back to Black Demon City and found Xiao Jing and the others entering, then led them outside before they provoked the Black Demons.
• Ji Zining explained that Black Demons and demonic Qi would leave them alone unless they showed hostility, and Xiao Jing and the others realized how close they had come to being surrounded.
• Ji Zining showed Xiao Jing and the others the Abyssal Spirit Hall and told them it could restore a dispersed divine soul and housed a Great Emperor’s soul.
• Ji Zining recounted the Light Emperor Venerable’s account of Black Demon City and the Ancient Chaos Graveyard, leaving Xiao Jing and the others shocked that the world had been inverted into two sides.

Ji Zining and her companions realized they were in a parallel world and decided to find the true Ancient Chaos Graveyard. They broke through an overlapping space in the forest and entered the other world.

• Li Chang'an, Xiao Jing, Lin Shan, and the others concluded that they had crossed into a parallel world after passing the Yin Spirit commander.
• Ji Zining realized that the group had spent most of their time in the Martial Emperor Secret Realm and asked whether they should keep exploring or leave.
• Lin Shan suggested visiting the true Ancient Chaos Graveyard, and Ji Zining agreed.
• Ji Zining sensed a passage to the other world and led the group to the forest where they had found the giant Black Demon egg.
• Xiao Jing recognized that the unusually stable space around the egg marked an overlap between the two worlds.
• Xiao Jing and the others broke open the overlapping space, and Ji Zining led them through the breach into the true Ancient Chaos Graveyard.

Ji Zining and her companions reached the true Ancient Chaos Graveyard and began climbing the grave-covered mountain toward the great tomb. They left Qing Tan behind when the mountain’s intense Yin Cold Qi became too much for her, then continued toward the summit.

• Ji Zining found a passage from the empty void into the true Ancient Chaos Graveyard, and Li Chang'an recognized its Yin Baleful Qi.
• Li Chang'an identified the mountain’s peak as the entrance to the great tomb, while Xiao Jing and the others cleared a path through attacking Yin Spirits.
• The party reached the mountain, where the Yin Spirits refused to approach, and Ji Zining led everyone up on foot because a formation prevented flight.
• Li Chang'an realized the mountain differed from his previous visit because powerful Yin Cold Qi filled it.
• Qing Tan struggled with the worsening cold and, with Ji Zining’s permission, returned to wait near the mountain’s foot.
• Ji Zining and the others continued climbing toward the summit and the great tomb entrance.

Ji Zining and her companions reached the summit of the Ancient Chaos Graveyard and entered a side hall, where her check-in rewarded her with the Immortal-Gazing Art. After using it to identify the only safe exit, Ji Zining led the group toward the left-hand doorway.

• Ji Zining and her companions reached the summit, where Li Chang'an led them to a stone platform that teleported them into a side hall.
• Ji Zining checked in before the others arrived and received the Immortal-Gazing Art, which let her observe the fortune and past paths of living beings and the dead.
• Xiao Jing, Lin Shan, Qingshuang, and Li Chang'an joined Ji Zining in the hall, where Li Chang'an recalled receiving a Sword Dao inheritance from a figure that had emerged from the coffin.
• Ji Zining used the Immortal-Gazing Art on the coffin and learned that only one of the four doorways was safe.
• Ji Zining identified the left doorway as the life gate and led Xiao Jing, Lin Shan, Qingshuang, and Li Chang'an toward it.

Ji Zining led Xiao Jing and the others through the gate of survival and across a passage covered in blurred murals of species from the Martial Emperor Secret Realm. They reached a new hall without incident, but the murals left Ji Zining wondering who had made them and why.

• Ji Zining entered the passage with Xiao Jing and the others, and they all felt watched as they crossed the gate of survival.
• Lin Shan noticed the murals looked familiar, and Xiao Jing identified the first beasts as Lightning Spirit Beasts from Extreme Thunder Valley.
• Ji Zining found different murals that Li Chang'an and Qingshuang recognized as Crimson Serpent Beasts from Extreme Yang Valley.
• Ji Zining sent the group to inspect the passage, and they reported murals depicting many more species from places in the Martial Emperor Secret Realm.
• Ji Zining and the others reached a new hall, where she told them to stay alert and said they would deal with any danger by fighting it.

Ji Zining and her companions entered a burial chamber where Qingshuang heard a voice calling from a white coffin. The tomb guardian Bing Li offered Qingshuang her inheritance, while Ji Zining learned Bing Li recognized her Exquisite Immortal Physique, and the group prepared to continue through the tomb.

• Ji Zining and her companions found a white coffin in the otherwise empty chamber, and Qingshuang heard a faint voice calling her toward it.
• Ji Zining realized the call might signal an inheritance, and she and Qingshuang approached the coffin despite its Quasi-Emperor-level cold.
• Bing Li emerged from the coffin, introduced herself as a tomb guardian, and offered Qingshuang her inheritance because of her Profound Ice Saint Physique.
• Bing Li recognized Ji Zining's Exquisite Immortal Physique and connected it to Empress Linglong, but did not explain further.
• Qingshuang accepted Bing Li's inheritance, and Ji Zining confirmed with the Immortal-Gazing Art that the next doorway was safe before leaving Qingshuang behind.

Ji Zining and her companions discovered a strange, lifeless valley inside the tomb and followed its only path to a wooden house. There, an unseen host welcomed them with Great Dao Tea, leaving them wondering how powerful their host was and whether Ji Zining’s fortune had led them there.

• Bing Li instructed Qingshuang to lie on the ice coffin and passed her inheritance to her through waves of mysterious Qi.
• Ji Zining and her companions crossed a passage with clearer murals and emerged into a Spiritual Qi-rich valley with no living creatures.
• Li Chang'an and Lin Shan said they could not probe the wooden house, while Ji Zining decided the group should investigate it for a possible opportunity.
• As the group crossed the valley, Ji Zining warned them about the strange wind, and they noticed the ground seemed to drain their life force.
• An unseen elderly host invited the four visitors to drink tea while they waited, and Ji Zining led the group to the table.
• Xiao Jing, Li Chang'an, and Lin Shan recognized the tea as Great Dao Tea and wondered if the host was a Great Emperor; they suspected Ji Zining’s fortune had brought them there.

Ji Zining and the others drank Great Dao Tea, and Ji Zining comprehended the Law of the Sword and perfected her Force Artistic Conception. The wooden house’s owner chose Lin Shan as his inheritor, while Ji Zining asked him about the great tomb’s origins and murals.

• Ji Zining and the other three drank the Great Dao Tea and began refining its profound energy.
• Ji Zining advanced her Sword Artistic Conception toward the Law of the Sword, while Xiao Jing, Li Chang'an, and Lin Shan also improved their comprehension.
• The hunched old man emerged from the wooden house, recognized Ji Zining’s Exquisite Immortal Physique, and chose Lin Shan to receive his inheritance.
• Ji Zining completed her comprehension of the Law of the Sword and perfected her Force Artistic Conception.
• Ji Zining thanked the old man and asked who was buried in the great tomb and what the murals meant.

Ji Zining learned from Great Emperor Devouring that the tomb was a cenotaph for Empress Linglong, who had possessed the Exquisite Immortal Physique. Great Emperor Devouring offered Lin Shan his inheritance, while Ji Zining continued seeking answers about the empress’s missing body.

• Great Emperor Devouring explained that Silent Valley drained the vitality of living beings and that the tomb’s murals recorded creatures made when the secret realm was created.
• Ji Zining deduced that the buried expert was Empress Linglong, and Great Emperor Devouring confirmed that the tomb held only a cenotaph.
• Great Emperor Devouring revealed his former title and asked Ji Zining whether Lin Shan could receive his inheritance; Ji Zining said Lin Shan should decide for himself.
• Ji Zining learned that the secret realm drifted through the void until it connected with the Heavenly Pride Battlefield, and that its unstable entrance opened only once every hundred years.
• Great Emperor Devouring explained that he cultivated the Law of Devouring and chose Lin Shan because he cultivated his body, but he left the whereabouts of Empress Linglong’s body unexplained.

Li Chang'an comprehended the Law of the Sword after drinking Great Dao Tea, and Great Emperor Devouring recognized him as Old Man Sword's inheritor. As Lin Shan and Xiao Jing reached the perfection level in their artistic conceptions, Great Emperor Devouring offered Lin Shan an inheritance, startling him.

• Li Chang'an awakened from his comprehension and announced that he had mastered the Law of the Sword.
• Great Emperor Devouring identified Li Chang'an as Old Man Sword's inheritor and told him to cultivate diligently, explaining that an alternate path to a realm near the Great Emperor Realm was possible.
• Ji Zining explained the broken laws of heaven and earth to Great Emperor Devouring, who understood why Li Chang'an lacked confidence in reaching the Great Emperor Realm.
• Lin Shan and Xiao Jing reached the perfection level in their artistic conceptions.
• Great Emperor Devouring offered Lin Shan his inheritance, and Lin Shan recoiled in fear and asked who he was.

Lin Shan accepted Great Emperor Devouring’s unusual inheritance and entered the wooden house, while Ji Zining, Xiao Jing, and Li Chang'an discovered that the rock wall led to the next burial chamber through spatial power. The three passed through it to seek their own opportunities.

• Great Emperor Devouring offered Lin Shan his inheritance, and Lin Shan eagerly agreed before following him into the wooden house.
• Ji Zining told Xiao Jing and Li Chang'an that Great Emperor Devouring’s tea had helped them improve their intent; Li Chang'an revealed he had comprehended the Law of the Sword.
• Ji Zining examined the rock wall and realized it concealed spatial power beyond the Quasi-Emperor level.
• Ji Zining, Xiao Jing, and Li Chang'an entered the rock wall and disappeared toward the next burial chamber.

Ji Zining, Xiao Jing, and Li Chang'an entered a vast white palace world and discovered a Great Emperor's coffin surrounded by the Law of the Saber. Just as they prepared to leave, the Great Emperor spoke and offered his inheritance to one of them.

• Ji Zining led Xiao Jing and Li Chang'an through a passage into a dazzling white palace world.
• The three saw a snow-white coffin whose presence surpassed the Quasi-Emperor level but seemed weak.
• Xiao Jing recognized the sharp power surrounding the coffin as a Law of the Saber beyond the Quasi-Emperor level.
• Ji Zining decided they should leave when no voice came from the coffin, and she looked toward the four portals.
• The Great Emperor spoke from the coffin, praised the three's dispositions, and asked which one would receive his inheritance.

Ji Zining and Li Chang'an chose Xiao Jing to receive the Saber Emperor’s inheritance, while the Saber Emperor directed Li Chang'an and Ji Zining toward the final accompanying tomb chamber and the Empress’s main tomb. As Xiao Jing screamed through the painful inheritance process, Ji Zining and Li Chang'an continued onward, with only Ji Zining permitted to enter the main tomb.

• The Saber Emperor let Ji Zining, Li Chang'an, and Xiao Jing choose who would inherit his legacy, and Li Chang'an and Ji Zining nominated Xiao Jing because he cultivated the saber Dao.
• The Saber Emperor accepted their choice, praised Xiao Jing’s completed saber intent, and warned that Li Chang'an could not enter the main tomb chamber, which only Ji Zining could enter.
• Ji Zining and Li Chang'an left for the final accompanying tomb chamber while the Saber Emperor began passing his inheritance to Xiao Jing.
• The inheritance unleashed terrifying sharpness, and Xiao Jing repeatedly screamed as the Saber Emperor beat him during the process.
• Ji Zining and Li Chang'an heard Xiao Jing’s screams in the passageway, suspected the inheritance was painful, and continued toward the next chamber.

Ji Zining and Li Chang'an crossed a black curtain that tested them while strengthening their Laws of the Sword, then met the thin old man beside a golden coffin. He rejected Ji Zining as a recipient of his inheritance and chose Li Chang'an, despite resenting that he was Old Man Sword's inheritor.

• Ji Zining and Li Chang'an entered the black expanse beyond the passage and sensed a profound Law of the Sword within it.
• Ji Zining and Li Chang'an kept walking through the curtain as their Laws of the Sword gradually improved.
• Ji Zining and Li Chang'an emerged into a secluded hall, where they found a thin old man beside a golden coffin.
• The thin old man recognized Ji Zining's Exquisite Immortal Physique and told her to seek Her Majesty the Empress's inheritance instead.
• The thin old man chose Li Chang'an to inherit his mantle, complaining that he had to select Old Man Sword's inheritor.
• Ji Zining urged Li Chang'an to thank the thin old man for the inheritance.