Recaps

Wang Hao gathered martial arts, defeated the Wheel-Turning King and Feng Qingyang, and narrowly escaped Qin Yan’s ancient sword. Under the name Wuming, he crushed frontier forces trading with the steppe and reached Mount Heng, where he exchanged arts with Long Ling and Abbess Qingmiao while preparing to investigate the steppe martial world.

• Wang Hao invented Divine Sense Object Control, collected martial arts across Guanzhong, and offered Xue Mei a chance to learn his swordsmanship if she developed Sword Intent.
• Wang Hao defeated the Wheel-Turning King and Feng Qingyang, left sword marks and teachings at Mount Hua, and persuaded Puyin that Shaolin’s divine arts could be exchanged for knowledge of their origins.
• Qin Yan ambushed Wang Hao and wounded him with an ancient sword, but Wang Hao severed Qin Yan’s hand and escaped into the Yellow River before improving his body-tempering method.
• Wang Hao adopted the name Wuming, gathered intelligence with Xie Feng, and used remotely controlled swords to destroy frontier martial forces that traded weapons with the steppe.
• Wang Hao spared Abbess Dingyi and arranged a gathering where surviving powers could exchange martial arts, while his magnetic-field sword control grew stronger.
• Wang Hao visited the Mount Heng Sword Sect, explained his fabricated vendetta against steppe collaborators, and demonstrated his sword control to Long Ling and Abbess Qingmiao.
• Wang Hao exchanged martial arts with the Five Wheels Temple and Mount Heng, then offered Long Ling a body-tempering method in return for secrecy, a pledge not to harm Huaxia, and information about the steppe’s ultimate arts.

Wang Hao led the defense against a massive steppe invasion, defeating its army and the experts who sought his techniques. Afterward, he arranged martial arts and aid for survivors, warned of a coming calamity, and set out for Mount Heng with Dingzhen, whose magnetic field had awakened.

• Wang Hao tested the Mount Heng Sword Formation, refined his Wuji Sword Formation against the nuns, and accepted Dingzhen into his Sword Faction.
• After learning that steppe forces had crossed the Yellow River and killed civilians, Wang Hao prepared medicines and swords, then rode out with Dingzhen and her giant huskies to attack them.
• Wang Hao used his Wuji Sword Formation and lightning-powered railgun to devastate the steppe army, while Central Plains experts joined the fight to seize his techniques.
• The Mount Heng nuns and Xu Miaoyin’s cavalry charged to aid Wang Hao, and the seven senior nuns sacrificed themselves to help him defeat Patriarch Red Sun.
• Wang Hao killed or captured the remaining attackers, learned secrets from Patriarch Red Sun and the captured experts, and reached the Mortal Realm Third Layer after opening his fifth magnetic field.
• Wang Hao offered martial arts and support to the survivors, but killed an imperial envoy who ordered his arrest and stopped soldiers’ crossbow bolts with his sword formation.
• Wang Hao agreed to trade the Black Tortoise True Scripture’s Foundation Establishment Chapter for official recognition of Mount Heng, then warned the Wheel-Turning King and Xu Miaoyin of a calamity and the Heavenly Demon Sacred Cult’s plans.
• Wang Hao taught Foundation Establishment external arts to more than thirty thousand people and left for Mount Heng, where Dingzhen revealed that her awakened magnetic field could control seven flying swords.

Wang Hao pursued Dugu Qiubai’s sword guidance, secured the Dugu Household’s cooperation, and took in Zhu Ruoxue after seeing how they had mistreated her. In the Great Ming capital, he won Zhu Yuanzhang’s support, copied imperial martial arts, and set out south with Zhu Ruoxue and a group of Sunflower Manual cultivators.

• Wang Hao fought Dugu Qiubai, concealed his identity from Dongfang Bai, and became Dugu Qiubai’s disciple in exchange for sword instruction.
• Wang Hao helped Dongfang Bai unlock her Root Chakra, then visited the Dugu Household to study its sword manuals and endured the Sword Demon’s Sword Force for a month.
• Wang Hao offered the Dugu Lineage a path to the Innate Realm and asked them to protect Dugu Jian’s chosen inheritor, but rejected Dugu Qingshan’s request to inherit the other legacies.
• Wang Hao intervened when Dugu Qingshan attacked his daughter, named the injured girl Zhu Ruoxue, treated her, and taught her the Foundation Establishment Sword Art.
• Wang Hao brought Zhu Ruoxue to the Great Ming capital and convinced Zhu Yuanzhang that he needed imperial support to resist the Great Heavenly Demon’s Demon Seed.
• Wang Hao gave Zhu Yuanzhang a genuine Secret Method for reaching the Innate Realm, gained access to the imperial vault, and copied valuable martial arts manuals.
• Wang Hao set out south with Zhu Ruoxue and ten Innate eunuchs, then gave Princess Shaoyang a cultivation method and challenged her to qualify as heir to his Impermanence Sword Dao.

Wang Hao defeated the Western Regions attackers and the Confucian School’s sword formation before returning to the capital, where he set new plans for martial training and the imperial family. He then traveled east as Ye Gucheng and began discussing Divine Sense cultivation with Mount Tai’s Taoist masters.

• Wang Hao arrived at Mount Qingyuan, exposed concealed martial artists, and fought Black Mountain Old Devil’s allies while Eunuch Chen’s group battled the Confucian School’s eight swordsmen.
• Wang Hao crippled the Western Regions man and the old woman, helped Eunuch Chen’s companions withstand the Confucian School formation, and let the fleeing Confucian heirs escape rather than risk provoking their Peak Xiantian Grandmasters.
• Wang Hao examined Zhu Yunlu and Zhu Yijun, set Zhu Yunlu on a path toward the Dao Classic, and offered Zhu Yijun the Qi and Blood Martial Dao inheritance.
• Wang Hao returned to the capital, where Zhu Yuanzhang adopted his martial inheritance and marriage-policy proposals, and Wang Hao carved an Ancestral Dragon statue to guide the Black Python’s development.
• Wang Hao used Xiao Mengmeng’s Treasure-Seeking Function to select talented descendants of the Old Zhu Household, while Zhu Yuanzhang assigned the Wheel-Turning King to train them and ordered Wang Hao named Prince Carefree.
• Wang Hao sailed east with Xie Feng, studied a method for cultivating Divine Sense, and learned from Xiao Mengmeng about the Fortune he had gained and the risks of spending it.
• Wang Hao recruited the Wheel-Turning King and Zhu Wudao, gave Zhu Wudao a replica Masamune blade, and traveled toward Mount Tai as Xie Feng and the Wheel-Turning King dealt with corrupt martial forces.
• Wang Hao arrived at Mount Tai as Ye Gucheng, declined Daoist Qingsong’s proposed sword fight for a month, and began explaining the Dantians and Spirit Sea to the Taoist masters.