Recaps

After Li Xiuran died, Xu Long entered the Southern Foothills Mountain Range and met Hong Gu, whom he had come to invite on Alliance Leader Youquan’s behalf. He used her Spirit-Gathering Array to absorb most of the mountain range’s spiritual energy, restored his magic power to sixty percent, and retrieved nine array flags before a jade tablet bearing Li Xiuran’s name cracked at Mount Emei.

• Li Xiuran sensed that his cultivation path had ended, and a savage blade’s edge appeared above him.
• Xu Long entered the mountain range and found Hong Gu seated within the Spirit-Gathering Array; she agreed to leave with him.
• Xu Long activated the array and absorbed the spiritual energy stored throughout the mountain range, restoring his magic power to sixty percent.
• Xu Long stopped the array and retrieved its nine hidden array flags from beneath the mountain range.
• At Mount Emei, a jade tablet engraved with Li Xiuran’s name cracked as an old man sat motionless in a cavern.

Xu Long used the names of the Insomnia Blood Demon and Dan Chenzi to raid cultivation grounds across both factions, draining their spiritual resources and provoking war while restoring his power. As the real Dan Chenzi pursued him toward Zhuolu, Xu Long defended Hong Gu’s nearly completed seal-breaking array from Dan Chenzi’s sword attack.

• In a cavern, an old man learned from Li Xiuran’s shattered jade token that the Insomnia Blood Demon had killed him, then identified the Southern Foothills Mountain Range as the destination and set out for revenge.
• Xu Long persuaded Hong Gu to make an array to break the Chi You Blood Cave seal, invoked Alliance Leader Youquan’s authority, and took the Qing and Luan protectors with him.
• Xu Long destroyed righteous cultivation grounds and drained their spiritual energy with the Spirit-Gathering Array, while Qing and Luan helped plunder the resources and the real Dan Chenzi began investigating the devastation.
• Xu Long attacked the Blood Alliance’s Maoling Mountain Range while impersonating Dan Chenzi, drained its spiritual energy, and restored his magic power to its peak.
• As Xu Long continued raiding both factions’ cultivation grounds with Qing and Luan, the real Dan Chenzi followed his sword beam and confronted him near Zhuolu.
• Dan Chenzi sent a rain of sword beams at Hong Gu’s array, but Xu Long’s World-Breaking Blade intercepted the attacks and tangled with Dan Chenzi’s sword light.

Xu Long endured Dan Chenzi’s attacks while absorbing the mountain range’s spiritual energy, then broke through to the Mid Tribulation Transcendence Stage and revealed a mysterious array and Dharma body. He vanished after Dan Chenzi considered retreat, leaving the elder to pursue the supposed Blood Alliance villain while Dan Chenzi suspected a trap.

• Dan Chenzi used his fan-feather sword and power of laws to attack the Spirit-Gathering Array, but Xu Long’s barriers and World-Breaking Blade resisted him.
• Xu Long refined the abundant spiritual energy, steadied his magic power, and advanced to the Mid Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• Xu Long emerged with a towering Dharma body and a nine-star array diagram, astonishing Dan Chenzi and Hong Gu.
• Dan Chenzi decided he could not defeat Xu Long alone, but Xu Long put away the array and vanished before Dan Chenzi’s martial uncle arrived.
• Dan Chenzi told the elder that the Blood Alliance cultivator was dangerous and suggested waiting for reinforcements, but the enraged elder pursued the villain alone.
• Dan Chenzi suspected the vanished cultivator had lured them away from the sect and could not determine the purpose of the clues.

Xu Long lured Dan Chenzi and other righteous cultivators to the ancient battlefield, where the Blood Alliance prepared to break its seal and open the Chi You Blood Cave. When the factions converged, Youquan and Li Yijun fought, and Xu Long faced Li Yijun while keeping a mysterious array diagram and his hidden tricks in reserve.

• Xu Long deliberately drew Dan Chenzi and the pursuing righteous cultivators toward the ancient battlefield of Zhuolu.
• Youquan and the Blood Alliance broke through the valley’s ancient seal, and Mo Yu arrived with Hong Gu, who began forming the seal-breaking formation.
• Youquan led the Blood Alliance to rescue Protectors Qing and Luan from Li Yijun’s storm, then battled Li Yijun as the righteous and evil factions gathered.
• Dan Chenzi and Xu Long revealed themselves among their respective forces, and Youquan and Li Yijun redirected their fury toward them.
• Xu Long blocked Li Yijun’s storm with the World-Breaking Blade, then used a sealing power and a sudden sword strike to force Li Yijun to defend himself.
• Li Yijun noticed the mysterious array diagram behind Xu Long, while Xu Long watched for the tiny sword light concealed in Li Yijun’s sleeve.

Xu Long battled Li Yijun, breaking his storm phenomenon with the Colossus Dharma Body and a Spiritual Qi Bombardment before turning their sword techniques against each other. Li Yijun survived Xu Long’s final strike by unleashing power beyond the Half-Immortal realm, but appeared battered and decayed as the World-Breaking Blade attacked again.

• Li Yijun summoned a law-powered storm, but Xu Long’s Power of Oblivion and sword light tore open its defenses.
• Li Yijun trapped Xu Long’s sword light and sent a hidden sword strike at him, but Xu Long blocked it with barriers and summoned the Colossus Dharma Body.
• Xu Long crushed Li Yijun’s storm with the Dharma Body, then detonated the Spiritual Qi Bombardment he had gathered in secret, disrupting Li Yijun’s plan to unleash the storm’s energy.
• Xu Long and Li Yijun exchanged sword attacks, with Li Yijun’s nimble hidden sword briefly threatening Xu Long before the Dharma Body caught it between its palms.
• Xu Long’s sword light struck toward Li Yijun’s head, prompting Li Yijun to release power beyond the Half-Immortal realm and block the blow with a Magic Power shield.
• Li Yijun recalled his sword light in a frenzied, decayed state as the World-Breaking Blade attacked again.

Xu Long defeated Li Yijun in a final clash, while Youquan killed Dan Chenzi and the remaining Mount Emei disciples after they refused to join the Blood Alliance. As an ancient force stirred beneath the mountains, Youquan reunited with the injured Mo Yu.

• Xu Long trapped Li Yijun's sword light and blasted him with a shell, but Li Yijun rose again and attacked with his remaining strength.
• Xu Long unleashed a Spiritual Qi Bombardment, destroying Li Yijun and his Dao, though Li Yijun's sword qi wounded Xu Long before the World-Breaking Blade stopped it.
• Youquan demanded that the Mount Emei disciples submit, but Dan Chenzi rallied them to fight rather than surrender.
• Youquan killed Dan Chenzi and the surviving blue-robed disciples, then sensed an ancient, powerful aura emerging beneath the mountains.
• Youquan found the wounded Mo Yu and praised him for helping kill Li Yijun, while Mo Yu credited Youquan with doing most of the work.

Xu Long pretended to be too injured to enter the Chi You Blood Cave, but Youquan sent Divine Lord Chishi to probe his secrets. Chishi attacked Xu Long’s soul, only to find Xu Long’s steadfast Dao heart turning the possession attempt into a fight Chishi was losing.

• Xu Long refused Youquan’s invitation to enter the Chi You Blood Cave and asked for the Blood Alliance’s protection from Mount Emei.
• Youquan brought Xu Long to the ancient battlefield, where Lady Hong and the Blood Alliance cultivators prepared for the formation to open the cave.
• Youquan entrusted the injured Xu Long to Divine Lord Chishi, who used eye contact to invade his mind with blue will-o’-the-wisps.
• Xu Long gathered his soul and resisted Chishi’s illusions and resentment by relying on his firm Dao heart.
• Xu Long counterattacked by devouring the will-o’-the-wisps, absorbing their soul force and leaving Chishi increasingly weakened.

Xu Long overcame the devil spirit’s final assault by allowing it to enter his soul core and confronting it with the memories of his arduous journey, then consumed its remaining power. Meanwhile, Hong Gu’s formation opened the ancient battlefield’s seal enough to reveal it, but the Yellow Emperor’s seal remained unbroken.

• Xu Long enveloped the scattered ghost fire in his solidified soul and endured the devil spirit’s resentment and yin-cold power.
• The devil spirit invaded Xu Long’s soul core, became overwhelmed by his memories, and was struck by a powerful will as Xu Long devoured its remaining soul energy.
• Divine Lord Chishi told Youquan that he had examined Protector Mo’s injuries and offered to continue treating him after they left the Chi You Blood Cave.
• Hong Gu completed the formation by sending eighteen formation flags into fissures in the earth, while the crowd watched the seal-breaking energy gather.
• Youquan promised to restore the Jade Pivot Sect, and Hong Gu departed as the seal emerged from beneath the ancient battlefield.
• The formation’s energy fully revealed the Yellow Emperor’s seal, but it did not budge.

The Chi You Blood Cave opened, and Youquan led the Blood Alliance cultivators inside while Xu Long revealed that he had faked his injuries to stay behind. Investigating Li Yijun’s flying sword, Xu Long uncovered evidence that Li Yijun had relied on a mysterious stump and planned to seize Li Xiuran’s body to escape death.

• Youquan told the Blood Alliance cultivators that Xu Long would guard the Chi You Blood Cave instead of entering, and the cultivators swore to destroy Mount Emei.
• Cracks opened in the seal, and Youquan, Divine Lord Chishi, and the other Blood Alliance cultivators entered the Chi You Blood Cave.
• After the cultivators entered, the array closed the cracks, and Xu Long recovered his strength and revealed that he had faked his weakness to deceive Youquan.
• Xu Long examined Li Yijun’s flying sword and used its remnant of divine sense to search Li Yijun’s memories.
• Xu Long discovered that Li Yijun had drawn life from a mysterious stump and suspected that he intended to seize Li Xiuran’s body to prolong his existence.

Xu Long recovered his damaged will by absorbing Divine Lord Chishi’s devil spirit, then sent his True Dragon Clone into the Chi You Blood Cave while preparing to seize the Haotian Mirror. The clone found itself alone in the sealed cave, where it sensed that the dense blood energy could offer a major opportunity.

• Xu Long suspected that the mysterious tree stump had corrupted Li Yijun and considered whether someone from the Heavenly Palace could enter other worlds to collect world origin.
• Xu Long absorbed Divine Lord Chishi’s devil spirit, restoring and strengthening his will, while his True Dragon Clone took Chishi’s place and followed Youquan into the Chi You Blood Cave.
• Xu Long reflected that his plans had weakened both the righteous and evil factions, leaving him the strongest cultivator aside from Master White Eyebrows as he moved toward the Haotian Mirror.
• The True Dragon Clone entered the Chi You Blood Cave with the other Blood Alliance cultivators, but the cave scattered them into separate locations.
• The clone examined the cave’s sealed, gray world and sensed that its dense blood energy could benefit cultivators who practiced blood-energy techniques.

The young man entered the Chi You Blood Cave and resisted a deceptive haze that tried to lure him toward the mountain range and its bloodline inheritance. After fighting two ancient warriors who appeared from the sky, he accepted their demand to follow the War Lord, triggering a surge of power and a strange phenomenon around him.

• The young man burned Divine Lord Chishi's corpse and headed toward the mountain range, following the growing bloodline qi.
• The young man realized that the green weeds and hazy sky formed a trap that could lead him to wander until he died, so he suppressed his bloodline's summons and waited.
• The young man sensed a presence in the haze and sent two blood dragons to attack it, forcing two towering, armored figures to appear.
• The young man recognized that the figures had no life in their eyes, then bowed and agreed to follow the War Lord when they demanded his allegiance.
• The young man's acceptance unleashed a vast surge of energy and caused the power of the rules in the space to erupt around him.

A young man crossed a deceptive wilderness with two towering figures and reached an ancient encampment filled with ferocious beasts, undead, and armored warriors. After the War Lord ordered the camp to break, its forces began preparing to march beyond the mountains, while the young man remained caught up in the mysterious army’s plans.

• The young man followed two towering figures across the wilderness and realized a Blood Alliance cultivator had become lost by chasing illusory mountains.
• The young man reached a vast encampment beneath the mountains, where ferocious beasts, undead, and gray-eyed warriors stood in an orderly formation.
• The towering figures brought the young man before the War Lord, and he accepted a long weapon before enduring a powerful energy assault without injury.
• The young man spotted another Blood Alliance cultivator being led into the encampment and wondered why the ancient figures had captured them.
• A voice announced the War Lord’s command to break camp, and the encampment’s forces raised their banners and began assembling to march beyond the mountains.

A young man followed a vast, precisely organized encampment to a battlefield where he discovered Chi You's essence blood in a deep pit. Trapped among converging armies, he watched Youquan fight through the formation and waited for him to open a path.

• The young man joined an enormous encampment as it marched through the mountains, drawn onward by the stirring of his bloodline power.
• The encampment reached an open plain where other armies gathered, and the young man sensed Chi You's essence blood beneath a spiral pit.
• A command to suppress an Earth Immortal's magic power rang out as the encampments joined into a vast formation and carried the young man away from his intended direction.
• Crashes disrupted the outer ranks, and the young man recognized Youquan's attack as other Blood Alliance cultivators struggled against the encampments.
• The young man held back from approaching Chi You's essence blood and waited for Youquan to carve a path through the formation.

Youquan broke out of the encampment surrounding Chi You's essence blood, triggering chaos as other Blood Alliance cultivators followed. The young man held back from acting, while Youquan stopped to confront Protector Qing.

• Youquan attacked the encampment’s fierce beasts with an Earth Immortal Dharma Seal and forced a gap through its ranks, though the figures shattered his seal and pinned down his blade.
• Youquan escaped through the gap as the encampments fell into disorder, and hidden Blood Alliance cultivators emerged and tried to break out.
• The young man considered pursuing Chi You’s essence blood but sensed it was too soon, so he stayed inside the only encampment still moving in order.
• Protector Qing greeted the alliance leader and declared that they would each rely on their own opportunities.
• Youquan halted, recalled his blade, and sent it at Protector Qing, who countered with a surge of magic power and claimed he was no longer the man he had been.

Youquan fought off Blood Alliance cultivators scrambling for the Chi You Essence Blood while the young man waited for the encampment’s defenses to resume, then escaped through the formation and its outer beasts. The young man reached the perimeter, leaving the struggle for the treasure behind him unresolved.

• Protector Qing tried to reach the Chi You Essence Blood, but Youquan struck him down with an Earth Immortal Dharma Seal before he could claim it.
• Youquan escaped the encampment’s defenses and turned on another Blood Alliance cultivator who was heading for the treasure as the cultivators fought among themselves.
• The young man waited for the defenses to reactivate, studied their movements, and found a path through the shifting ranks and banners.
• A towering figure attacked the young man with a giant sword, but he used blood dragons and an afterimage to slip through the formation unharmed.
• The young man sent a blood dragon into the pack of vicious beasts, opened a passage, and escaped beyond the encampment’s defenses.

Youquan reached Chi You's essence blood, but a young man wielding a small dark sword emerged from the camp and challenged him. As their battle escalated, Youquan shattered the young man's blood dragons and prepared to counter the sword strike following them.

• Youquan defeated the remaining Blood Alliance cultivators and stood alone before Chi You's essence blood.
• The young man escaped the vicious beasts' encirclement on a blood dragon and attacked Youquan, whose blade and Earth Immortal Dharma Seals failed to stop the small dark sword.
• Youquan recalled his blade and faced the young man, recognizing that both of them were enemies competing for Chi You's essence blood.
• Youquan and the young man traded attacks as Youquan's blade fought the blood dragons and the little sword threatened him.
• The young man's blood dragons wrapped around Youquan, but he seized them and smashed them apart before preparing to strike at the little sword and its wielder.

The young man used his Blood Domain and sword techniques to withstand Youquan’s attacks in the Chi You Blood Cave. As Youquan’s Dharma Seal pressed down, the young man revealed the nine-sword Sea-Overturning Sword Formation and gathered it for his next move.

• The young man’s Blood Domain caught Youquan’s sword edge with two blood dragons while his small sword circled back to attack Youquan.
• Youquan invoked an Earth Immortal Dharma Seal that clashed with the sword light before rolling toward the young man.
• The Dharma Seal crushed down on the young man, but his Blood Domain endured the pressure as the seal grew dim.
• The young man revealed nine small swords and used the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation to batter Youquan’s Dharma Seal.
• Youquan reinforced the Dharma Seal, and the young man gathered the nine swords beneath his Blood Domain.

The young man used the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation to break Youquan’s Earth Immortal Dharma Seal and withstand its explosive energy. Youquan then targeted the young man’s Blood Domain, and their weapons clashed as Youquan launched a law-infused strike meant to break the formation.

• The young man’s Sea-Overturning Sword Formation repeatedly struck Youquan’s Dharma Seal, halting its attack and forcing Youquan to make it self-destruct.
• The young man used the formation to break through the Dharma Seal’s explosive energy and stabilize his damaged Blood Domain.
• Youquan severed his connection to the destroyed seal, took control of his blade, and sent it toward the young man’s Blood Domain.
• The young man restored his Blood Domain and sent the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation to intercept Youquan’s blade.
• The sword formation repelled the blade’s first attack, but Youquan infused it with the power of laws and sent it plunging down to break the formation.

Youquan battled the young man, whose Sea-Overturning Sword Formation trapped Youquan’s blade while blood dragons bound his Earth Immortal Dharma Seal. Youquan drew a mysterious cyan recurve bow and released an arrow into the sky, but its overwhelming power locked onto the young man, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Youquan’s blade struck the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation twice, but the formation stayed intact and counterattacked.
• The sword formation surrounded and trapped Youquan’s weakened blade, while the young man sent two blood dragons against Youquan’s Dharma Seal.
• The blood dragons bound the Dharma Seal, and Youquan realized the young man drew strength from the Blood Domain.
• Youquan empowered the Dharma Seal to pressure the young man, then drew a cyan recurve bow with an invisible string.
• Youquan released an arrow toward the sky, and its immense power locked onto the young man below.

Youquan fired a devastating arrow at the young man and turned toward the Chi You Essence Blood, while the young man used his Blood Domain to draw the arrow toward the fortified camp. The arrow broke through the camp’s defenses, leaving the young man inside as its relentless target.

• Youquan shot a giant arrow at the young man, then headed toward the Chi You Essence Blood, believing his greatest obstacle was gone.
• The young man transformed his contracting Blood Domain into a vortex, disrupted the arrow’s lock for an instant, and fled toward the fortified camp.
• The young man entered the camp’s formation as the towering figure and its soldiers attacked him with a forest of giant swords, but he navigated the formation using what he had observed earlier.
• The young man sent his blood-colored vortex back toward the arrow, but the arrow carried the vortex through the camp’s outer defenses and continued pursuing him.
• The camp’s commanders shouted orders to drive out the intruder and stabilize the formation as the arrow and vortex crashed into the camp’s outskirts.

The young man used the encampment formation to wear down Youquan’s giant arrow, then devoured it with his bloody vortex and found himself trapped within the formation. Meanwhile, his sword formation and blood dragon destroyed Youquan’s other weapons, and he approached the Chi You Essence Blood to absorb its blood qi as danger closed in behind him.

• The young man sensed that intelligent beings commanded the encampment formation and retreated as its ranks reorganized to resist Youquan’s giant arrow.
• The formation’s beasts and towering figures weakened the giant arrow, and the young man devoured it with his bloody vortex after it exhausted its strength.
• The young man realized the formation had trapped him as its layers rapidly began merging again.
• The nine-sword formation crushed the sharp edge until it lost contact with its master and fell into the earth.
• The blood dragon destroyed another Earth Immortal Dharma Seal, and the young man sent it and the sword formation toward the sunken ground.
• A figure on the sunken ground stood atop the Chi You Essence Blood and absorbed its blood qi, gaining surging bloodline power, memories, and insights.

Youquan absorbed the Chi You Essence Blood and became vulnerable while pursuing its power, allowing the young man to kill him and claim his ancient bow, Cloud Hunter. Afterward, the young man watched the earth’s eye begin to reopen and suspected that intelligent beings were directing the military formation inside the Chi You Blood Cave.

• Youquan absorbed the blood qi around the eye of the earth, became entranced by the Chi You Essence Blood, and approached the abyss.
• The young man attacked with a sword while a blood dragon disrupted Youquan’s defenses and blocked his escape.
• Youquan recognized the distant young man, who identified himself as a disciple of Mount Emei, and the young man killed him with the sword formation and blood dragon.
• The young man recovered Youquan’s longbow, learned that its name was Cloud Hunter, and stored it away.
• The eye of the earth began to open again, and the young man concluded that intelligent beings might be controlling the encampment’s military formation.

The young man escaped detection inside the camp-fortress until upheaval from the Chi You Essence Blood gave him a chance to break out. As the army formation sealed the perimeter and trapped him at its edge, he summoned his Blood Domain and two blood dragons to confront the barrier.

• The Chi You Essence Blood shook the earth and drew the camp-fortress's searching divine senses away from the young man.
• The young man summoned his sword formation, which carved a passage through the camp-fortress, and fled in the opposite direction.
• The camp-fortress recovered from the surprise attack, and the young man used blood arrows to boost his escape while its banners repaired the disruption behind him.
• As the young man neared the perimeter, the camp-fortress's commander ordered the great formation locked down and condensed its defenses.
• The young man unleashed his Blood Domain and summoned two blood dragons as the banners blocked his escape.

Xu Long used his strengthened Blood Domain and blood dragons to disrupt Youquan’s camp-fortress army formation while trying to escape its encirclement. The formation quickly replenished its forces, and Xu Long halted the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation as the battle continued.

• Xu Long’s Blood Domain grew stronger after devouring the Cloud Hunter giant arrow, and he realized it carried power resembling a Mahayana phenomenon.
• Xu Long sent blood dragons above the camp-fortress, disrupting the flow of magic power among its banners and creating an opening.
• A blood dragon struck the rear of the formation, scattering its defenders, while the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation wheeled back toward Xu Long.
• The army formation quickly replenished its ranks and launched a torrent of short spears at the sword formation.
• Xu Long ordered the blood dragon to strike again, clearing many defenders, as the banners withdrew and the formation began restoring its forces.
• Xu Long let the banners move freely and abruptly stopped the sword formation.

The young man used his Blood Domain to empower the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation, which crushed the camp’s black torrent and gave him the initiative against the battle formation. As he drove the blood dragon through the camp, he noticed the banners changing their patterns while strange energy gathered around the distant eye in the earth.

• The young man expanded and rotated the Sea-Overturning Sword Formation, grinding the camp’s black torrent of short spears to nothing.
• The blood dragon swept through the camp, clearing an area, while the camp’s battle formation stopped pressing its attack.
• The young man seized the initiative but kept to his plan to fight quickly before the battle formation could adapt.
• Denser blood qi and an unknown substance gathered around the eye in the earth as fissures continued opening in the distance.
• The young man studied the changing banner patterns and seemed to realize something while his blood dragon grew more powerful and attacked through the camp.