Recaps

Su Lianxin defeated the bronze-armored wooden man, and Lin Xuan gained the Saint Grade Immortal-Slaying Sword Array by investing her reward. After returning from the mystic realm and reassuring Wang Yan about a killing, Lin Xuan attended the Azure Yang Sword Sect competition, where Su Lianxin’s first opponent surrendered.

• Su Lianxin defeated the bronze-armored wooden man in two strikes, accepted Lin Xuan’s correction, and gave him the illustrated volume she had won.
• Lin Xuan memorized Su Lianxin’s volume, gave her his Star Sea Sword Array Diagram, and received the Saint Grade Immortal-Slaying Sword Array in return.
• Lin Xuan and Su Lianxin left the closing mystic realm and met Wang Yan, who confessed that he had killed a cultivator from a powerful Dawn Empire faction; Lin Xuan refused to blame him.
• Lin Xuan returned to the Azure Yang Sword Sect with Su Lianxin and Wang Yan, but found Qu Youmeng still absent despite her name remaining in the system’s disciple column.
• Before the sect competition, Su Lianxin advanced to the Earth Mysterious Fifth Layer and Wang Yan reached the Earth Profound Realm; Sect Master Xuanyang then opened the competition.
• Su Lianxin drew Yang Jin as her first opponent, and Yang Jin, recognizing her strength from the mystic realm, surrendered.

Yang Jin conceded his match against Su Lianxin, while Qu Youmeng arrived at the tournament confident she could win first place. When she faced Su Lianxin, the two fought with a single strike, and Qu Youmeng was knocked out of the arena.

• Yang Jin conceded to Su Lianxin, judging that he could not defeat her and choosing to save his strength for later matches.
• Qu Youmeng arrived at the sect tournament, and Lin Xuan noticed that her cultivation remained at the fourth level of the Earth Profound Realm but her presence had grown stronger.
• Su Lianxin and Qu Youmeng drew each other for their first match and met on arena one.
• The crowd focused on the arena-five clash between Shi Hao and Jiang Lan, representing the Holy Maiden's and Holy Son's factions.
• Su Lianxin struck first, but Qu Youmeng met her head-on; Su Lianxin won with one blow, sending Qu Youmeng out of the arena.

Su Lianxin defeated Qu Youmeng in one strike, and Qu Youmeng discovered that the Azure Emperor Scripture Lin Xuan had given her was an emperor-grade cultivation method. As Jiang Lan defeated Shi Hao, the next match unexpectedly paired Li Fufeng against Lu Tianxing.

• Su Lianxin defeated Qu Youmeng with one strike and credited her rapid cultivation progress to the Azure Emperor Scripture.
• Qu Youmeng found the scripture Lin Xuan had given her and realized it was an emperor-grade method superior to the Profound Ice Instruction.
• Jiang Lan defeated Shi Hao on Arena Five, giving the Holy Son's faction a crucial victory.
• Li Fufeng resolved to defeat Lu Tianxing, while he watched her with a mocking smile.
• The elder announced that Numbers Thirteen and Seventy-Nine would fight on Arena One, revealing that Li Fufeng and Lu Tianxing had been matched.

Li Fufeng challenged Lu Tianxing for the Young Sect Master position, but he defeated her after revealing a sixth level of Green Mountain Sword Instruction. As the Holy Maiden’s supporters reeled from her loss, the Ninth Peak Master taunted Lin Xuan over his decision to side with her.

• Li Fufeng and Lu Tianxing faced off on arena number one, both at the Earth Mysterious Fifth Layer, and clashed with their nascent sword intent.
• Li Fufeng unleashed the fifth level of Green Mountain Sword Instruction, Long Sword Cascades Through the Sky, but Lu Tianxing emerged unharmed.
• Lu Tianxing revealed that he had comprehended the unwritten sixth level of Green Mountain Sword Instruction and defeated Li Fufeng with a single strike.
• Lu Tianxing’s victory crushed the Holy Maiden’s faction’s morale and strengthened the position of the Holy Son’s supporters.
• The Ninth Peak Master mocked Lin Xuan for supporting the defeated Holy Maiden and warned that he might lose his position as Peak Master.

Su Lianxin challenged Lu Tianxing in the sect tournament and defeated him with a single sword strike, stunning the Azure Yang Sword Sect. She looked to Lin Xuan for approval as the gathering reeled from the Holy Son’s unexpected loss.

• Lin Xuan ignored the Ninth Peak Master’s taunts while the tournament battles resumed.
• Lu Tianxing was drawn to fight number 129 and took the platform, confident that no opponent could challenge him.
• Su Lianxin announced herself as Lin Xuan’s personal disciple and refused to concede to Lu Tianxing.
• Lu Tianxing offered Su Lianxin a chance to join the Second Peak if she could force him back within ten moves, but she said one strike would suffice.
• Su Lianxin slashed Lu Tianxing off the platform in a single blow, then sheathed her sword and thanked him for yielding.
• Su Lianxin smiled at Lin Xuan’s approving nod as the sect’s disciples and Sect Master Xuanyang reacted in disbelief to Lu Tianxing’s defeat.

Su Lianxin defeated Lu Tianxing with a single sword strike, stunning the sect and proving Yang Jin had been wise to forfeit against her. The Ninth Peak Master was left humiliated after his earlier mockery of Lin Xuan went unanswered.

• Li Fufeng and the sect elders were shocked when Su Lianxin knocked Lu Tianxing off the platform with one strike.
• Lu Tianxing struggled with his defeat as Su Lianxin told him that being conceited was no good and left the platform.
• Chu Xiao and the Mysterious Spirit Peak disciples realized Yang Jin had forfeited because he knew Su Lianxin was too strong to beat, and they apologized to him.
• Yang Jin remained silent and coldly accepted the apologies from the disciples who had mocked him.
• The Ninth Peak Master flushed with shame when Lin Xuan ignored him despite his earlier ridicule and humiliation.

After Su Lianxin defeated Lu Tianxing, the enraged Holy Son faced Wang Yan of Starfall Peak and attacked with his strongest technique. Wang Yan drew his sword and revealed true sword intent, shocking the elders and leaving the duel poised for a clash.

• Lu Tianxing struggled to accept his defeat by Su Lianxin and suppressed his fury as the tournament continued.
• Lu Tianxing was matched against Wang Yan of Starfall Peak and blamed the peak for disrupting his plans to become Young Sect Master.
• Lu Tianxing opened the duel with the sixth form of the Green Mountain Sword Instruction, expecting to overwhelm Wang Yan.
• Wang Yan planted himself against the attack, drew his sword, and unleashed true sword intent, stunning the elders.

Wang Yan revealed that he had comprehended true Sword Intent and defeated Lu Tianxing, who later lost to Qu Youmeng and missed the finals. Starfall Peak claimed the top three tournament places, leaving former Starfall Peak disciples and the Holy Son faction reeling as Lin Xuan taunted the Ninth Peak Master about who regretted their choices.

• Wang Yan unleashed Sword Intent and defeated Lu Tianxing, sending the Holy Son out of the arena severely injured.
• Lu Tianxing drew Qu Youmeng and lost to her in two sword strikes, giving him three consecutive defeats and eliminating him from the finals.
• Disciples who had once left Starfall Peak regretted their decisions, especially Yang Hao, who admitted he was now the one regretting it.
• Sect Master Xuanyang announced Su Lianxin in first place, Qu Youmeng in second, Wang Yan in third, and Li Fufeng in fourth.
• Lin Xuan told the Ninth Peak Master that he would remain Peak Master and asked who regretted things now.

After Starfall Peak won the sect tournament, Lin Xuan rejected former disciples seeking to return and received gifts and rewards, which he reinvested in Su Lianxin and Wang Yan to gain powerful pills. The chapter ended with Heavenly Venerable Yunli awakening and asking Qu Youmeng whether she had won first place.

• Su Lianxin refused Yang Hao's plea to return to Starfall Peak, reminding him that he had once urged her to leave and asking whether he regretted it.
• Li Fufeng visited Lin Xuan to thank Starfall Peak and presented him with a top-grade fifth-rank Spirit Recovery Pill; Sect Master Xuanyang then delivered the tournament rewards.
• Su Lianxin offered Lin Xuan her first-place Mysterious Dragon Pill, and he gave her Li Fufeng's pill, receiving a top-grade seventh-rank Source Reformation Spirit Pill in return.
• Lin Xuan gave Wang Yan the Mysterious Dragon Pill, received a Nine Netherworlds Netherflame Pill in return, and awarded it to Wang Yan to awaken a special physique.
• Qu Youmeng lamented missing first place and entry to the Azure Sun Secret Realm until Heavenly Venerable Yunli awakened and asked whether the tournament was over and Qu Youmeng had won.

After learning that Qu Youmeng lost the sect competition to Su Lianxin because of the Azure Emperor Scripture, Heavenly Venerable Yunli was shocked to discover Lin Xuan knew she was hiding within Qu Youmeng. Yunli revealed her past and asked Lin Xuan to retrieve a secret-realm treasure that could restore her body, but Lin Xuan instead offered a pill that he said could bring her back to life.

• Qu Youmeng told Heavenly Venerable Yunli that Su Lianxin had won the competition, and Yunli learned that the Azure Emperor Scripture Lin Xuan gave Qu Youmeng was Thearch Grade.
• Qu Youmeng visited Lin Xuan, who revealed that he knew Heavenly Venerable Yunli was inside her and offered the later levels of the scripture only if she truly became his disciple with Yunli's consent.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli emerged from Qu Youmeng and explained that she had come to the Azure Yang Sword Sect seeking a secret-realm treasure to reconstruct her body after being betrayed and killed by enemies.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli offered to guard Lin Xuan for a hundred years if he retrieved the treasure, but Lin Xuan declined and said he had another way to restore her body.
• Lin Xuan presented a top-tier seventh-grade Source Reformation Spirit Pill, claiming it could let Heavenly Venerable Yunli return to life, and she examined its extraordinary pill patterns.

Heavenly Venerable Yunli accepted a five-hundred-year oath to protect Lin Xuan in exchange for the Source Reformation Spirit Pill, while Su Lianxin reported Nangong Yaoyue’s rise on the Hidden Dragon Ranking. An urgent summons then brought Lin Xuan and Wang Yan before the Azure Yang Sword Sect’s leaders, where they learned the Spirit Jade Sect was coming over its young sect master’s death and Lu Tianxing demanded Wang Yan be sent to beg forgiveness.

• Heavenly Venerable Yunli agreed to protect Lin Xuan for five hundred years after he offered her the Source Reformation Spirit Pill, and she left with Qu Youmeng to absorb its medicinal power.
• Su Lianxin told Lin Xuan that Nangong Yaoyue had defeated several Hidden Dragon Ranking geniuses and reached the top ten, then vowed privately to surpass her.
• Sect Master Xuanyang urgently summoned Lin Xuan and Wang Yan to the main hall, where Ancestor Xuanjian and the sect’s leaders awaited them.
• A sect member accused Wang Yan of killing the Spirit Jade Sect’s young sect master, and Lin Xuan began to explain that Wang Yan was not at fault before Ancestor Xuanjian interrupted him.
• Ancestor Xuanjian warned that the enraged Spirit Jade Sect was approaching and asked how the sect should respond.
• Lu Tianxing argued that Wang Yan should personally go to the Spirit Jade Sect to beg forgiveness rather than put the entire sect at risk.

The Azure Yang Sword Sect debated whether to hand Wang Yan over to the Spirit Jade Sect, and most leaders chose to abandon him. Lin Xuan ended the dispute by declaring that he and Wang Yan were leaving the sect.

• Lu Tianxing and his supporters argued that the sect should hand Wang Yan over to appease the Spirit Jade Sect.
• Li Fufeng defended Wang Yan and urged the sect to fight, but several leaders condemned her and refused to stand with her.
• Ancestor Xuanjian called for those who supported handing over Wang Yan to step forward, and most Peak Masters joined Lu Tianxing.
• Li Fufeng grew bitterly disappointed as she watched members of her own camp support abandoning Wang Yan.
• Lin Xuan declared that he and his disciple were leaving the Azure Yang Sword Sect and severing their ties with it.

Lin Xuan and Wang Yan left the Azure Yang Sword Sect after the sect refused to stand by them, and Li Fufeng chose to leave with them. Ancestor Xuanjian dismissed their departures and rewarded Lu Tianxing with two Dragon Soul Pills.

• Lin Xuan stopped Wang Yan from apologizing and left the Azure Yang Sword Sect with him, while Ancestor Xuanjian let them go and called them doomed to die.
• Li Fufeng thanked the sect leaders who had protected her, rejected their attempts to persuade her, and followed Lin Xuan and Wang Yan out of the sect.
• Ancestor Xuanjian asked whether anyone else wanted to leave, but the remaining members stayed; the Qingwei Peak Master silently mourned Li Fufeng's departure.
• Lu Tianxing celebrated the departures, expecting to become junior sect master, while Sect Master Xuanyang lamented losing Wang Yan's talent.
• Ancestor Xuanjian showed the sect treasures he had obtained in the Heaven-Burning Mystic Realm and gave Lu Tianxing two seventh-grade Dragon Soul Pills.

Ancestor Xuanjian gave Lu Tianxing two Dragon Soul Pills and tasked him with placing in the top hundred of the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition. Lin Xuan left the Azure Yang Sword Sect, formed plans to establish the Sword Pavilion, and arrived alone at the Spirit Jade Sect to declare that he would destroy it.

• Ancestor Xuanjian gave Lu Tianxing two seventh-grade Dragon Soul Pills and demanded that he place in the top hundred of the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition.
• Lin Xuan told Su Lianxin, Qu Youmeng, and Wang Yan that he was leaving the Azure Yang Sword Sect and set them the goal of claiming the competition's top three places.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli suggested that Lin Xuan's disciples go to the Heron Empire, where she had once founded a faction, while Lin Xuan planned to establish the Sword Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan sent his disciples toward the Heron Empire and went to the Dawn Empire to confront the Spirit Jade Sect over Wang Yan's grievance.
• Lin Xuan appeared above the Spirit Jade Sect, ordered its ordinary disciples to leave within one incense stick, and vowed to raze the sect.

Lin Xuan arrived at the Spirit Jade Sect to avenge its plan to seize his disciple Wang Yan, and shattered the sect-protecting formation with one sword strike. After revealing who Wang Yan’s master was, Lin Xuan attacked the sect master, leaving the Spirit Jade Sect’s fate uncertain.

• The Spirit Jade Sect’s elders confronted Lin Xuan as he stood outside their gate.
• Lin Xuan struck the sect-protecting formation with his fourth-level Sword Intent and shattered it in a single blow.
• The Spirit Jade Sect’s sect master arrived and asked Lin Xuan why he was humiliating the sect.
• Lin Xuan revealed that Wang Yan was his disciple and accused the Spirit Jade Sect of planning to seize him.
• The sect master tried to call the situation a misunderstanding, but Lin Xuan cut him off and launched another sword strike.

Lin Xuan destroyed the Spirit Jade Sect after its sect master appealed to reason and its ancestor tried to ambush him. He left the sect in ruins, while witnesses spread news of a mysterious sword immortal who had razed it alone.

• Lin Xuan's sword strike devastated the Spirit Jade Sect, grievously injuring the sect master and killing many disciples and elders.
• The sect master accused Lin Xuan of acting without justice, but Lin Xuan dismissed his plea as hypocrisy.
• The Spirit Jade Sect's ancestor attempted to attack Lin Xuan from behind, and Lin Xuan beheaded him with one stroke.
• Terrified disciples fled as Lin Xuan killed the sect master and unleashed another sword strike that wiped out everyone remaining within the sect grounds.
• A witness used a voice transmission talisman to report that one man and one sword had destroyed the Spirit Jade Sect.

After destroying the Spirit Jade Sect, Lin Xuan reunited with his disciples in Zhencang City, where Heavenly Venerable Yunli revealed that her old sect, the Jade Balance Sword Palace, still existed. As they traveled toward it, Lin Xuan heard that the sect was under attack and stopped when its fleeing cultivator Chen Xiong was identified as one of its members.

• Lin Xuan arrived in Zhencang City and told his disciples that he had destroyed the Spirit Jade Sect.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli revealed that the Jade Balance Sword Palace had risen to become one of the Heron Empire's seven great sects, led in her absence by Deputy Palace Master Han Yue.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli decided to take a pill and reconstruct her body during the journey to the Jade Balance Sword Palace, and Lin Xuan agreed to help.
• Near Mystic Moon Forest, Chen Xiong fled two pursuers and begged Lin Xuan for help, but Lin Xuan initially continued on without intervening.
• The pursuers revealed that the Illusory Feather Sect and the Spirit Firmament Sect were attacking the Jade Balance Sword Palace, and Lin Xuan stopped to ask Chen Xiong if he was from that sect.

Lin Xuan saved Chen Xiong by killing the two Spirit Firmament Sect cultivators pursuing him, then learned Chen was an elder of the Jade Balance Sword Palace. After Heavenly Venerable Yunli reconstructed her body, Lin Xuan told Chen to bow before his palace master.

• The two King Realm cultivators warned Lin Xuan not to interfere in their dispute with Chen Xiong, but Lin Xuan killed them instantly with Sword Qi.
• Chen Xiong thanked Lin Xuan and offered him his possessions, but Lin Xuan asked whether he belonged to the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Chen Xiong identified himself as the Jade Balance Sword Palace’s second elder.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli appeared in a reconstructed body, and Qu Youmeng announced that her master had awakened.
• Lin Xuan pointed out Heavenly Venerable Yunli and asked Chen Xiong why he was not bowing before his palace master.

Heavenly Venerable Yunli revealed herself as the Jade Balance Sword Palace’s palace master and learned that the Illusory Feather Sect and Spirit Firmament Sect threatened her sect. Lin Xuan sent Chen Xiong to the Illusory Feather Sect with a Demonic Shadow Clone, which killed its sect master and demanded an apology from both sects within seven days.

• Heavenly Venerable Yunli proved her identity to Chen Xiong with her jade token and asked him to explain the threat facing the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Chen Xiong explained that the Illusory Feather Sect sought a treasure and planned to ally with the Spirit Firmament Sect against the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Lin Xuan gave Chen Xiong black jade containing a Demonic Shadow Clone and sent him to the Illusory Feather Sect.
• The Illusory Feather Sect’s sect master attacked Chen Xiong, but Lin Xuan’s clone emerged from the shattered jade and killed the sect master with one sword strike.
• Lin Xuan’s clone ordered the Illusory Feather Sect and Spirit Firmament Sect to bring ten million Spirit Stones each to the Jade Balance Sword Palace as an apology within seven days.

Chen Xiong left the Illusory Feather Sect unharmed after Lin Xuan's black jade deterred its remaining King Realm cultivators. At the Spirit Firmament Sect, Elder Zhou's recording of Lin Xuan killing the Illusory Feather Sect's master silenced the furious elders and led the sect master to decide to apologize with ten million Spirit Stones.

• Lin Xuan's demonic shadow turned back into black jade, and Chen Xiong departed the Illusory Feather Sect without anyone daring to stop him.
• Elder Zhou left the Illusory Feather Sect, while its deputy sect master faced the burden of paying ten million Spirit Stones after the sect master's death.
• Elder Zhou returned to the Spirit Firmament Sect and told its sect master that Elder Han had died and Lin Xuan had demanded ten million Spirit Stones and an apology.
• The Spirit Firmament Sect's sect master watched Elder Zhou's recording stone and ordered ten million Spirit Stones prepared so he could personally apologize at the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• The recording showed Lin Xuan killing the Illusory Feather Sect's master with a single sword strike, leaving the Spirit Firmament Sect's elders in stunned silence.

The Spirit Firmament Sect learned that a powerful clone had killed the Illusory Feather Sect’s master and prepared to apologize to the Jade Balance Sword Palace. In the Tangqing Empire, the Azure Yang Sword Sect learned the Spirit Jade Sect had been destroyed, while Lu Tianxing focused on the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition and vowed to kill Lin Xuan’s disciples if he met them again.

• Elder Zhou identified the black-robed swordsman who killed the Illusory Feather Sect’s master as a clone summoned with a strange stone, and the Spirit Firmament Sect prepared ten million Spirit Stones to apologize to the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• An intelligence disciple told Ancestor Xuanjian and Sect Master Xuanyang that the Spirit Jade Sect had been destroyed and its ancestor and senior members were dead.
• Ancestor Xuanjian reflected that allowing Lin Xuan and his disciples to leave had been the right choice, and Sect Master Xuanyang sighed with relief that they had survived.
• Lu Tianxing heard of the Spirit Jade Sect’s destruction, dismissed Lin Xuan and his disciples as unworthy of concern, and promised himself he would kill them if they crossed paths again.
• The Peak Master of Heavenly Sword Peak urged Lu Tianxing to refine the Dragon Soul Pills’ medicinal potency for the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition, and Lu Tianxing confidently resolved to place in the top hundred.

Fairy Cold Moon failed to persuade Clear Breeze Valley to aid the Jade Balance Sword Palace, then learned that the Spirit Firmament Sect had joined the Illusory Feather Sect against them. The enemy forces arrived at the sect’s gate, where the Spirit Firmament Sect’s master unexpectedly bowed and presented two storage rings.

• Fairy Cold Moon offered Clear Breeze Valley’s master treasures and pills in exchange for help, but Valley Master Yang refused and returned a precious treasure to repay his personal debt.
• Fairy Cold Moon returned to the Jade Balance Sword Palace and told its elders that Clear Breeze Valley would not intervene.
• The elders revealed that the Jade Balance Sword Palace’s informant had identified the Spirit Firmament Sect, not Thundercloud Pavilion, as the Illusory Feather Sect’s ally, and they had lost contact with Chen Xiong.
• Fairy Cold Moon sensed more than ten King Realm cultivators approaching, and the elders activated the sect-protecting formation and rushed to the mountain gate.
• Three King Realm cultivators from the Illusory Feather Sect and ten from the Spirit Firmament Sect arrived, but the Spirit Firmament Sect’s master bowed to Fairy Cold Moon and offered two storage rings.

The Spirit Firmament Sect and the Illusory Feather Sect apologized to the Jade Balance Sword Palace and paid twenty million Spirit Stones after learning it was connected to a powerful senior. Chen Xiong returned and revealed that he had met the palace master, just as several unfamiliar presences arrived outside the main hall.

• The Spirit Firmament Sect and the Illusory Feather Sect offered Fairy Cold Moon twenty million Spirit Stones and apologized for offending the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Chen Xiong returned and told Fairy Cold Moon to accept the compensation, assuring the elders that the sect’s crisis was over.
• Fairy Cold Moon accepted the Spirit Stones, and the leaders of both sects departed with their elders.
• Chen Xiong explained that Senior Lin and the palace master had saved him from two King Realm pursuers during his journey to Cangnan.
• Chen Xiong described the palace master to the elders, and Fairy Cold Moon realized the woman was the long-missing master.
• Several unfamiliar presences arrived outside the main hall, prompting the Jade Balance Sword Palace elders to demand to know who was there.

Heavenly Venerable Yunli returned to the Jade Balance Sword Palace with Lin Xuan, announced that she had joined his Sword Pavilion, and arranged for three of his disciples to take the palace’s competition places. The unfamiliar selections angered several disciples, while Fairy Cold Moon remained confident they would win both the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition and the coming contest with the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace.

• Heavenly Venerable Yunli introduced Lin Xuan as the Pavilion Master and appointed Han Yue as Palace Master, then asked for three competition places for Lin Xuan’s disciples, which Fairy Cold Moon readily granted.
• Several days later, Chen Xiong announced the ten disciples chosen to represent the Jade Balance Sword Palace, including the unfamiliar Su Lianxin, Wang Yan, and Qu Youmeng instead of Xuan Mo and two other expected contenders.
• Xuan Mo and the other displaced disciples demanded an explanation from Chen Xiong, who told them the selections had been made by the Palace Master.
• Chu Jianchen questioned Fairy Cold Moon about the selections, citing the wager with the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace, but she refused to change her decision.
• Fairy Cold Moon privately recalled that her rival had used outside help before and resolved to answer in kind with Lin Xuan’s disciples.

Lin Xuan accepted an invitation to attend the Immortal Ascension Ceremony at Silver Heron Sacred Mountain, hoping to find more talented disciples. Meanwhile, Yunyi entered the Heron Empire determined to find Lin Xuan and ask him to become her master.

• Su Lianxin, Wang Yan, and Qu Youmeng endured hostile looks from Jade Balance Sword Palace followers who thought they had taken places from Xuan Mo and the other prodigies.
• Fairy Cold Moon told Lin Xuan about the Immortal Ascension Ceremony, where the Heron Empire’s seven great sects recruited disciples.
• Lin Xuan accepted the Jade Balance Sword Palace token and agreed to travel to Silver Heron Sacred Mountain with Chen Xiong.
• Yunyi arrived at the Heron Empire, having changed her plans after learning that Lin Xuan had gone to the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Yunyi resolved to seek Lin Xuan as her master despite her clan’s opposition and headed for the Immortal Ascension Ceremony.