Recaps

At the Silver Heron Sacred Mountain recruitment ceremony, Lin Xuan discovered that Xi Huan’s purple talent was concealed by his destroyed spirit body and offered to take him as a disciple. Elder Feng of the Azure Luan Pavilion then tried to lure Xi Huan away with a core disciple position, prompting Lin Xuan to confront her.

• The testing elder explained that the Jade Void Sword Sect’s founder was the only person in Heron Empire history known to have lit eight pillars, while candidates continued taking the test.
• Yun Chengzhi lit five pillars and accepted the Spirit Taming Sect’s offer to become a true disciple.
• Lin Xuan scanned Xi Huan and learned that his Clear Wind Spirit Body had been destroyed in childhood, explaining why the spirit stele showed no pillars; he then asked Xi Huan to take him as his master.
• As Xi Huan prepared to accept Lin Xuan, Elder Feng offered him a core disciple position in the Azure Luan Pavilion, seemingly to antagonize the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• Lin Xuan glared at Elder Feng and asked, “You want to die?”

Lin Xuan threatened Elder Feng after she mocked the Jade Balance Sword Palace, but Elder Li stopped them from fighting at the Immortal Ascension Ceremony. Xi Huan chose the Azure Luan Pavilion, and a candidate who lit seven pillars of light received no recruitment offers.

• Lin Xuan threatened Elder Feng, and Chen Xiong clashed presences with her when she retaliated.
• Elder Li intervened and ordered Lin Xuan and Elder Feng to stand down until the ceremony ended.
• Elder Feng invited Xi Huan to join the Azure Luan Pavilion, and Xi Huan accepted despite his hesitation.
• The ceremony continued, but Lin Xuan saw no further candidates with destiny above green.
• An unnamed candidate lit seven pillars at the testing spirit stele, yet none of the sect elders offered to recruit them.

Lin Xuan defied the Scarlet Ghost King's threat and accepted the gifted but shunned Qin Feng as his fourth disciple. As the Immortal Ascension Ceremony continued, a beautiful woman carrying an ancient zither arrived at the square.

• Chen Xiong warned Lin Xuan that the Scarlet Ghost King had forbidden anyone from taking Qin Feng as a disciple and explained the danger of opposing him.
• Lin Xuan asked Qin Feng to become his disciple despite the warning, stunning the crowd and the elders.
• Qin Feng accepted Lin Xuan's offer, and Lin Xuan declared him his fourth disciple.
• Elder Feng hid her malice behind her folding fan and expected the Scarlet Ghost King to deal with Lin Xuan.
• A woman carrying an ancient zither arrived at the square and said she had made it in time.

Yunyi arrived at the Immortal Ascension Ceremony, displayed unprecedented talent, and asked Lin Xuan to accept her as his disciple. Lin Xuan agreed, then left the ceremony while a shadow quietly pursued Elder Feng’s departing group.

• Yunyi lit all ten pillars of the testing spirit stele, stunning the crowd and prompting the sect elders to compete to recruit her.
• Yunyi rejected the elders’ offers and asked Lin Xuan to accept her as his disciple, despite Elder Feng’s objections.
• Lin Xuan accepted Yunyi as his fifth disciple, and she paid her respects to him.
• The ceremony ended without Lin Xuan finding a third suitable disciple, while Chen Xiong worried about the danger Lin Xuan faced from the Scarlet Ghost King.
• Elder Feng left with her recruits and Xi Huan, and Lin Xuan sent a pitch-black shadow after their group.

On the way back to the sect, Lin Xuan reassured Qin Feng that he would handle the Scarlet Ghost King, while Yunyi casually offered to have someone kill him. Chen Xiong and Qin Feng doubted their confidence, and Lin Xuan left them wondering who Yunyi really was.

• Qin Feng urged Lin Xuan to reconsider taking him as a disciple because the Scarlet Ghost King would retaliate.
• Chen Xiong explained the Scarlet Ghost King's atrocities and King Realm fifth level perfection strength to Yunyi.
• Yunyi offered to send someone to kill the Scarlet Ghost King, startling Chen Xiong and Qin Feng.
• Lin Xuan declined Yunyi's offer and said he would kill the Scarlet Ghost King himself if he came.
• Lin Xuan asked whether Chen Xiong and Qin Feng thought Yunyi was joking, then said they would understand if they knew who she was.

Yunyi joined Lin Xuan as his disciple, and Qin Feng asked to bring his younger sister Qin Lan to the Jade Balance Sword Palace before returning. Meanwhile, a black-robed attacker ambushed the Azure Luan Pavilion’s spirit boat and mortally wounded Elder Feng, whose attacker revealed his face.

• Chen Xiong and Qin Feng learned that Yunyi was the Spirit True Empire’s foremost prodigy and had become Lin Xuan’s disciple.
• Qin Feng told Lin Xuan about Qin Lan’s mistreatment after his rejection of the Scarlet Ghost King and asked to settle her situation before returning to the sect.
• Lin Xuan agreed that Qin Feng could bring Qin Lan to the Jade Balance Sword Palace, and Qin Feng gratefully accepted.
• Xi Huan traveled with Elder Feng aboard the Azure Luan Pavilion’s spirit boat and sensed her disdain toward him.
• A black-robed man broke through the spirit boat’s defensive formation, seized Elder Feng, and hurled her into a mountain hollow.
• The attacker pierced Elder Feng’s heart with a Sword-Ray and revealed his face, leaving her stunned with recognition.

Lin Xuan killed Elder Feng without remorse, while the Azure Luan Pavilion’s Pavilion Master confronted the Jade Balance Sword Palace over the elder’s disappearance. The Pavilion Master threatened the sect, but Lin Xuan revealed that he was responsible and challenged her to do something about it.

• Lin Xuan’s clone killed Elder Feng and left her body behind without concern for the consequences.
• Fairy Cold Moon assigned the returning disciples and elders to Lin Xuan’s Sword Pavilion and discussed the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition with him.
• The Pavilion Master of the Azure Luan Pavilion arrived at the Jade Balance Sword Palace and accused it of possibly being involved in Elder Feng’s disappearance.
• The Pavilion Master threatened the gathered elders with her King Realm Fourth Layer Perfection pressure, while Heavenly Venerable Yunli remained in seclusion.
• Lin Xuan admitted that he had killed Elder Feng and challenged the Pavilion Master to retaliate.

Lin Xuan drove the Azure Luan Pavilion Master away with his overwhelming Sword Intent, then entered seclusion and broke through to King Realm Fifth Layer before the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition. While his disciples traveled to the Dawn Empire, tensions with the Jade Balance Sword Palace representatives erupted when someone challenged Qu Youmeng.

• Lin Xuan overpowered the Azure Luan Pavilion Master with his Sword Intent and ordered her to leave after she admitted nothing further about her elder's death.
• Lin Xuan entered seclusion, inspiring the Jade Balance Sword Palace elders and Fairy Cold Moon to cultivate; over two months he reached King Realm Fifth Layer Perfection.
• Lin Xuan's disciples advanced in cultivation, and Qu Youmeng and Yunyi comprehended Sword Intent while Yunyi learned she ranked behind several of her fellow disciples.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli met Lin Xuan as the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition approached, then stayed with him while Fairy Cold Moon led the participants toward the Dawn Empire's imperial capital.
• On the spirit vessel, Chu Jianchen and the other Jade Balance Sword Palace disciples continued to isolate Su Lianxin's group, until an antagonistic disciple pointed a sword at Qu Youmeng and demanded a fight to see why she had replaced Xuan Mo.

Qu Youmeng refused to fight an angry disciple, while Lin Xuan tested his newly increased strength against Heavenly Venerable Yunli and then set out with her for the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition. On a spirit boat bound for the same competition, Lu Tianxing confidently aimed to rank among the top contenders.

• Qu Youmeng dismissed a disciple's challenge and left, unimpressed by his attempts to provoke her.
• Lin Xuan suddenly tested his sword against Heavenly Venerable Yunli, whose defense was pushed back by his strike.
• Lin Xuan assessed that he could fight an Emperor Realm expert and could defeat one with the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array.
• Lin Xuan and Heavenly Venerable Yunli rushed toward the Dawn Empire's imperial capital for the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition.
• Lu Tianxing, strengthened by Dragon Soul Pills and the Azure Yang Sword Sect's support, declared that he aimed higher than the top hundred.

As the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition approached, Fairy Cold Moon challenged the palace master of the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace to a wager, raising it from ten million to fifty million Spirit Stones. The rival palace master accepted, while Fairy Cold Moon remained confident that her side would win.

• Lu Tianxing vowed to achieve a high ranking in the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition, and Sect Master Xuanyang praised his ambition.
• Lin Xuan and Heavenly Venerable Yunli arrived in Dawn Imperial City and met Fairy Cold Moon, Chen Xiong, and the others at the Clouds Come Inn.
• The palace master of the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace proposed a ten-million-Spirit-Stone wager based on which sect's disciple ranked higher in the competition.
• Fairy Cold Moon declared ten million too little and challenged her rival to wager fifty million Spirit Stones; the rival palace master accepted.
• Chu Jianchen objected that he was not certain he could defeat the rival who had beaten him the previous year, but Fairy Cold Moon told him to prepare and said she had confidence in the wager.

The Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition began with its first round inside the Dawn Empire’s Ten Directions Ancient Mirror, where prodigies had to slay Demon Beasts for points. Separated from his companions, Wang Yan discovered that the beasts were easy prey and realized how much stronger he had become.

• Three Dawn Empire clan elders summoned the Ten Directions Ancient Mirror and announced that contestants had to earn at least ten thousand points by killing Demon Beasts inside it.
• The elders distributed jade tokens that recorded each contestant’s points, then sent the prodigies into the mirror as the first round began.
• Su Lianxin, Wang Yan, and the others were separated upon entering the mirror’s world.
• Wang Yan found himself surrounded by Demon Beasts and eagerly drew his sword to test his combat skills.
• Wang Yan killed the Demon Beasts with a few strokes and realized they seemed weak because he had grown strong through training and sparring with his senior sister and companions.

Wang Yan found the first-round Demon Beasts too weak to provide meaningful combat experience, so after surpassing ten thousand points he cultivated inside the Ten Directions Ancient Mirror. The first round ended with the leaderboard dominated by the three great nations and several unfamiliar contestants among the top twenty.

• Wang Yan hunted Demon Beasts until his score reached 10,078, then decided to cultivate instead of wasting time on easy fights.
• Su Lianxin and the other disciples also exceeded ten thousand points and chose to rest or cultivate while other contestants fought for higher scores.
• As the three-day first round neared its end, the leaderboard stabilized with the top score at one hundred thousand and the hundredth-place score above sixty thousand.
• The Heron Empire's delegation found none of its contestants in the top hundred, while spectators wondered about the unfamiliar top-twenty names Ao Tai, Shi Zhen, and Lin Xingzhou.
• The clan elder rang the bells, the Ten Directions Ancient Mirror released the contestants, and he announced that the first round had ended.

The first-round scores exposed a vast gap between the Jade Balance Sword Palace disciples and the competition’s leading prodigies, while Gongyi Wen mocked Chu Jianchen and Fairy Cold Moon quietly remained confident. In the second round, Lu Tianxing won nine straight matches for the Azure Yang Sword Sect and awaited his final opponent, whose name appeared as Wang Yan.

• The Jade Balance Sword Palace disciples saw the top scores exceed a hundred thousand points, while Chu Jianchen had earned 29,300 and Wang Yan had barely advanced.
• Gongyi Wen revealed his 73,000-point score, mocked Chu Jianchen, and left the Jade Balance Sword Palace disciples feeling overwhelmed.
• The Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace grand elder taunted Fairy Cold Moon over the results and their 50-million-Spirit-Stone wager, but Fairy Cold Moon privately anticipated the second round.
• Lu Tianxing received praise for placing in the top hundred, and Sect Master Xuanyang warned him not to underestimate the coming matches.
• Lu Tianxing won nine consecutive second-round matches, defeating each opponent without needing to show his full strength.
• The spirit monument selected Wang Yan as Lu Tianxing’s next opponent.

Wang Yan faced Lu Tianxing at the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition, where Lu Tianxing sought revenge for his earlier defeat. Wang Yan struck him off the arena with one sword, leaving Lu Tianxing humiliated again.

• Lu Tianxing recognized Wang Yan on the spirit stele and decided he could finally avenge his former loss.
• Wang Yan ignored Lu Tianxing's taunts and raised his sword, determined not to disappoint his Master.
• Lu Tianxing attacked Wang Yan, confident that the Dragon Soul Pills had made him stronger.
• Wang Yan knocked Lu Tianxing out of the arena with a single sword strike.
• Wang Yan told the humiliated Lu Tianxing that they truly no longer belonged to the same world.

Wang Yan defeated Lu Tianxing with one strike, while Lin Xingzhou’s victory over Shen Li revealed another major upset at the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition. Chu Jianchen lost to Lei Yuan, but his fellow disciple Su Lianxin faced the same opponent and left everyone stunned when Lei Yuan ended up on the ground.

• Wang Yan walked away after defeating Lu Tianxing, who collapsed from anger and despair over how far Wang Yan had surpassed him.
• Lin Xingzhou of the Galan Sect defeated Shen Li, shocking the crowd and privately intending to claim the top three places with his fellow disciples.
• Lei Yuan knocked Chu Jianchen out of Arena Five, leaving the Jade Balance Sword Palace disciple devastated by his loss and its consequences.
• Su Lianxin refused Lei Yuan’s offer to surrender and faced his charging attack in the arena.
• The crowd and Chu Jianchen saw that Lei Yuan, not Su Lianxin, had fallen and was struggling to get up.

Su Lianxin defeated Lei Yuan with a single sword strike, while Wang Yan won another match against a top-hundred prodigy, earning the Jade Balance Sword Palace disciples’ respect. The next round paired Wang Yan against Li Jing'an, a formidable top-twenty contender.

• Su Lianxin knocked Lei Yuan off the stage, and he conceded defeat after recognizing that she had shown mercy.
• Wang Yan defeated a prodigy ranked eighty-first in the first round, impressing the Jade Balance Sword Palace disciples and renewing their hopes of winning the wager.
• Lin Xuan praised Wang Yan and urged him to focus on surpassing himself rather than comparing himself with his senior sisters.
• The spirit stele announced Wang Yan’s next opponent, Li Jing'an, a Heavenly Profound Realm First Level prodigy from the Dawn Empire and a top-twenty championship contender.

Wang Yan lost to Li Jing'an after enduring a fierce assault, and Lin Xuan healed him and reassured him that he had done well. Li Jing'an then drew Su Lianxin as his next opponent, and she prepared to face him.

• Wang Yan entered the arena to face Li Jing'an despite expecting to lose.
• Li Jing'an attacked viciously, but Wang Yan held out for a quarter of an hour and forced him to use his full strength.
• Li Jing'an struck Wang Yan again after he was already falling from the arena, leaving him badly injured.
• Su Lianxin brought Wang Yan back to Lin Xuan, who healed him and told him not to blame himself.
• Li Jing'an drew Su Lianxin as his next opponent, and she reacted with a cold smile.

After Lin Xuan ordered Su Lianxin to cripple Li Jing'an, she defeated him in the arena and destroyed his Dantian to avenge Wang Yan. The Li Household threatened retaliation, but Su Lianxin returned calmly to her seat, while Lin Xuan showed no concern about the consequences.

• Lin Xuan told Su Lianxin to cripple Li Jing'an, and she accepted before entering the arena.
• Li Jing'an mocked Su Lianxin and charged at her, but she broke through his defenses and pierced and twisted his Dantian, reducing him to a mortal.
• Su Lianxin reminded Li Jing'an that he had invoked the arena's rules when he injured Wang Yan, then blamed his defeat on his weakness.
• Li Household retainers carried off Li Jing'an and threatened Su Lianxin, while onlookers feared the Li Household's King Realm Eighth Level ancestor would retaliate.
• Su Lianxin returned to Wang Yan and said she had avenged him; Lin Xuan praised her and dismissed the Li Household's threat.

The third round of the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition began as Yunyi defeated Prince Jinyang with her Zither Intent and Sword Intent, forcing him to concede. Lin Xingzhou then challenged third-ranked Jing Zang.

• The contestants advanced to the third round, where they could challenge one another and take their opponents' rankings.
• Prince Jinyang challenged Yunyi, expecting to defeat her and later overcome Su Lianxin.
• Yunyi trapped Jinyang with Sword Intent carried through her zither music, and he conceded rather than risk dying.
• The other heaven's chosen realized Yunyi wielded both Zither Intent and Sword Intent as she returned to her place.
• Lin Xingzhou leaped onto the platform and challenged Jing Zang for third place.

Lin Xingzhou defeated Jing Zang, the second-place contestant, and the top-ranked Shi Ming in quick succession, then mocked the assembled prodigies. The chapter ended as Yunyi stepped onto the arena to challenge him.

• Lin Xingzhou challenged Jing Zang and knocked him out of the arena with a swift attack.
• Lin Xingzhou called out the second-place contestant, kicked him off the arena, and laughed at his fall.
• Lin Xingzhou challenged Shi Ming and overwhelmed him, sending the top-ranked prodigy crashing out of the arena.
• Lin Xingzhou declared that his strength ranked last among his martial brothers and insulted the defeated contestants and spectators.
• Yunyi appeared onstage with an ancient zither and challenged Lin Xingzhou to prove his strength.

Yunyi defeated Lin Xingzhou with her zither, and Qu Youmeng overcame Shi Zhen despite his poison. Su Lianxin challenged Ao Tai, whose Heavenly Profound Third Layer cultivation was revealed as the fight began.

• Yunyi struck Lin Xingzhou with her zither notes and sent him flying off the platform.
• Shi Zhen tried to stop Yunyi, but Qu Youmeng challenged him and defeated him, turning his own poison against him and severing one of his arms.
• Ao Tai confronted Qu Youmeng over Shi Zhen’s defeat, but Su Lianxin mounted the platform and mocked him.
• Ao Tai erupted with killing intent and revealed that he had reached the Heavenly Profound Third Layer.

Su Lianxin defeated Ao Tai and secured first place in the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition, while Yunyi and Qu Youmeng took second and third, completing a sweep for the Jade Balance Sword Palace. The results left the rival sects reeling, especially the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace and Azure Yang Sword Sect, which regretted their earlier choices and wagers.

• Su Lianxin defeated Ao Tai in a swift sword duel and announced the match was over.
• Qu Youmeng conceded, and Yunyi admitted she could not defeat Senior Sister Lianxin.
• No one challenged Su Lianxin, and the Jade Balance Sword Palace claimed the top three places with Su Lianxin first, Yunyi second, and Qu Youmeng third.
• Fairy Cold Moon reminded the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace elder of their fifty-million-Spirit-Stone wager, leaving the elder distraught.
• Sect Master Xuanyang regretted that the Azure Yang Sword Sect had abandoned Wang Yan and the others, imagining they could have won the competition instead.

The Heron Empire learned that the Jade Balance Sword Palace had swept the top three places in the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition. The Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace’s palace master then discovered her sect had placed forty-sixth and hoped the Li Clan’s anger at Su Lianxin would let her avoid paying fifty million Spirit Stones.

• The Heron Empire’s imperial steward read the rankings and realized his empire’s Jade Balance Sword Palace had taken the top three places, with Yunyi among its members.
• The Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace’s palace master welcomed her returning disciples and learned that her sect had placed forty-sixth in the competition.
• The team elder told the palace master that the Jade Balance Sword Palace had swept the top three, making their fifty-million-Spirit-Stone wager a loss.
• The palace master examined the rankings and despaired over the money she owed.
• The team elder explained that Su Lianxin had crippled Li Jing’an with one sword strike, and the palace master hoped the Li Clan’s retaliation would keep the Jade Balance Sword Palace too occupied to demand payment.

After the Seven Kingdoms Grand Competition, Yunyi rejected her father’s plan for her to join the Thousand Sounds Pavilion and returned to the Jade Balance Sword Palace. Lin Xuan distributed the disciples’ prizes and received an eighth-rank pill and an Imperial Grade Spirit Sword in return.

• Yun Donglai urged Yunyi to leave the Jade Balance Sword Palace and accept the Thousand Sounds Pavilion elder’s offer, but Yunyi refused and departed despite his anger.
• Yunyi returned to the spirit boat, where Lin Xuan praised the disciples for sweeping the competition’s top three places.
• Lin Xuan gave Su Lianxin’s sixth-rank cultivation pill to Wang Yan, triggering a return of a nine-pattern Ultimate Dao Spirit Fusion Pill.
• Lin Xuan gave Yunyi’s sixth-tier spirit sword to Wang Yan, triggering a seventh-tier spirit sword in return.

Lin Xuan distributed the tournament rewards and received a powerful pill through his investment rebate, while the Li Household learned that Li Jing'an had been crippled. Enraged, Li Tiantong led more than fifty King Realm cultivators toward the Heron Empire, putting the Jade Balance Sword Palace in grave danger.

• Lin Xuan gave Wang Yan the pill and treasured sword, then gave Qu Youmeng’s Origin Sword Pill to Su Lianxin and received a six-marking Supreme Sword Heart Pill through a rebate.
• The Li Household patriarch learned that Li Jing'an had been crippled and ordered servants to notify the ancestor.
• Li Tiantong emerged from seclusion, and powerful figures across the Dawn Empire sensed his formidable presence.
• The Li Household sent spirit boats carrying more than fifty King Realm cultivators toward the Heron Empire, with Li Tiantong at the front.