Recaps

Lin Xuan prepared to break through to the Saint Realm and traveled to the ninth layer of the Endless Sea to enter seclusion in a Demon Beast’s cave. He began concentrating on his advancement while the Vast Sea Saint King stayed behind to protect the Primordial Holy Heaven, the Sword Pavilion, and Lin Xuan’s disciples.

• Lin Xuan refused the Vast Sea Saint King’s offer to guard him, asking him instead to protect the Primordial Holy Heaven, his disciples, and the members of his Lin Household.
• The Vast Sea Saint King agreed to hold the fort and arranged for protective items to be prepared before Lin Xuan’s departure.
• A month later, Lin Xuan flew through the Endless Sea, where his Great Saint-level presence frightened away the Demon Beasts watching him.
• Lin Xuan traveled toward the ninth layer, entered a Demon Beast’s lair, killed its occupant, and took over the cave abode.
• Lin Xuan sealed the cave with formations, sat down to meditate, and began his advancement to the Saint Realm.

The Endless Hidden Vault emerged from beyond the Ninth-Layer Sea as cultivators gathered to seize its treasures and inheritances. A bloody battle erupted around the Eastern Desolation Divine Hall, while two women watched from a distance.

• The deep blue curtain at the edge of the Ninth-Layer Sea churned as shadowy forms moved through the fog toward the world beyond.
• Cultivators from the Eastern Continent and the Endless Sea gathered at the curtain, hoping to enter the Endless Hidden Vault and find treasures or a path to greater power.
• A vast void palace emerged from the sea with ancient inscriptions, and cultivators identified it as a possible inheritance palace from the Eastern Desolation era.
• The gathered powerhouses rushed for the palace doors, attacking one another while Demon Beasts converged on the bloody battle.
• Two graceful figures, one in white and one in yellow, watched the palace from far away and contemplated the Endless Hidden Vault.

Su Lianxin killed the Evil Old Man with a single sword strike, then entered the void palace with Lin Ling as its gates opened. The palace sealed itself behind them, leaving the cultivators outside unable to enter.

• The Evil Old Man confronted Su Lianxin and Lin Ling, ordering them to scout the void palace and sending his corpse puppets to attack.
• Su Lianxin killed the Evil Old Man and his corpse puppets with one sword strike.
• Su Lianxin and Lin Ling flew into the void palace while the nearby cultivators kept their distance.
• The palace’s radiance turned violet and its array wall solidified, trapping the remaining cultivators outside.

Su Lianxin and Lin Ling entered the void palace and found themselves in a purple-and-gold hall, where Great Saint Goumang warned them that its murals contained dangerous Divine Script. He identified the hall as an inheritance hall, leaving them on the verge of learning what its murals recorded.

• The void palace’s entrance closed, trapping those outside and prompting them to wait for it to reopen.
• Su Lianxin and Lin Ling were teleported through a formation barrier filled with Twenty Liquid into a hall in the palace’s northern region.
• Lin Ling gave Su Lianxin a Mystic Heart Bell so they could find each other if they became separated.
• Great Saint Goumang warned the two women not to look at the murals because activating their formations could bring the depicted beasts and dragons to life.
• Su Lianxin asked what the Divine Script in the murals described, and Great Saint Goumang said the hall was likely an inheritance hall.

Great Saint Goumang identified the murals as the inheritance hall of a Saint King from the Central Divine Continent, who had been trapped in the Endless Sea and left her inheritance while longing to return home. He found the inheritance hidden in eight scenes of mortal suffering, but warned Su Lianxin and Lin Ling that claiming it could lead them toward becoming Saint Lords, a power the Eastern Continent could not sustain.

• Great Saint Goumang explained that a Saint King from the Central Divine Continent had been stranded in the Endless Sea more than a hundred thousand years earlier and left the inheritance hall before dying beyond the nine heavens.
• Great Saint Goumang said the murals mentioned Immortals and described the realms above Saint Realm as Great Saint, Saint King, Saint Lord, and Immortal.
• Su Lianxin and Lin Ling endured the murals' attack on their Divine Sense as they followed Great Saint Goumang to the corridor's end.
• Great Saint Goumang protected the girls' seas of consciousness and showed them the final mural, whose eight scenes depicted mortal suffering and concealed the inheritance.
• Great Saint Goumang warned Su Lianxin and Lin Ling that the Eastern Continent could not support a Saint Lord, so they would have to go to the Central Continent to receive the inheritance.

Great Saint Goumang explained that the Saint King's inheritance hall could transport them from the Eastern Continent to the Central Continent, forcing Su Lianxin and Lin Ling to confront the possibility of leaving their loved ones behind. Before they could decide, the hall began shaking as someone outside appeared to be undergoing a tribulation.

• Great Saint Goumang said the senior Saint King's dying wish was for them to go to the Central Continent.
• He explained that the inheritance hall was a teleportation treasure capable of crossing the spatial barriers with enough Spiritual Power.
• Su Lianxin resisted leaving because she still hoped to find her master and fellow Sword Pavilion disciples on the Eastern Continent.
• Lin Ling was reluctant to abandon her family and homeland on the Eastern Continent.
• The hall shook violently, while cultivators outside feared that someone was undergoing a tribulation in the Nine Heavens of the Endless Sea.

Lin Xuan completed his Saint Realm tribulation and gained a fourth-level Sword Domain as an ancient hall was drawn toward him. The hall’s teleportation formation began activating with Lin Ling and Su Lianxin trapped inside, while Lin Xuan noticed it was absorbing the Spiritual Qi around him.

• A terrifying lightning tribulation caused the ancient hall to move toward its center, and observers saw the hall’s Divine Marks activate.
• Great Saint Goumang told Lin Ling and Su Lianxin that the tribulation had begun reviving the teleportation hall, whose exits would close once its formation activated.
• Lin Xuan emerged from his underwater cave abode and endured all one hundred and eight bolts of the Saint Realm lightning tribulation.
• He broke through to the Saint Realm, began developing the fourth level of his Sword Domain, and received heaven’s blessing.
• Lin Xuan noticed that the approaching ancient hall was draining the Spiritual Qi around him.

A mysterious teleportation palace seized Lin Xuan from the ninth layer of the Endless Sea and vanished with a vast portion of the sea. In the Central Continent’s Desolate Forest, mute Fang Yun’er was abandoned by her caravan after insisting on saving the wounded stranger, while she, her old servant, and her old horse remained behind.

• The palace froze everyone near the ninth layer of the Endless Sea and drew Lin Xuan inside before disappearing with the surrounding area.
• The Fang Household caravan traveled through the dangerous Desolate Forest on its way to Azure Wave City.
• Fang Yun'er pleaded with the caravan to save a bloodied man who had appeared in their path, but the others feared he might be dangerous.
• A golden-robed girl ordered Fang Yun'er to stay behind with her old Qilin Dragon Horse, saying she would delay the Lineage tournament.
• The caravan left Fang Yun'er, her old servant, and the wounded man behind, and Fang Yun'er wept while trusting her feeling that she had to save him.

Fang Yun'er and Uncle Li were left behind during the dangerous journey to Azure Wave City, where she needed to pass the Fang Household's assessment to secure support for her mother. As Fang Yun'er struggled with her illness and the prospect of crossing the Desolate Forest alone with Uncle Li, he vowed to protect her and wondered what to do with the unconscious white-robed man she had saved.

• Fang Yun'er worried that failing the assessment would leave her and her mother without resources, and she began coughing blood.
• Uncle Li offered her a Blood-Replenishing Pill, but Fang Yun'er refused, urging him to save their few pills for the journey through the Desolate Forest.
• Uncle Li recalled that he had escorted Fang Yun'er because her mother once saved his life, though he knew his Great Emperor cultivation might not be enough to protect her.
• Fang Yun'er concluded that the collateral branch had likely planned to abandon her regardless of her decision to save the white-robed man.
• Uncle Li promised to protect Fang Yun'er until they reached Azure Wave City, then asked what they should do with the unconscious man.

Fang Yun'er used her precious Heavenly Zenith Pill to save the injured Lin Xuan, even though it had been meant to help her pass the Fang Household assessment. After waking in the Desolate Forest, Lin Xuan learned he had reached the Central Continent and heard rumors of a route to the Central Divine Continent, where the Lin Saint Clan resided.

• Fang Yun'er ignored Uncle Li's protests and gave the Heavenly Zenith Pill to the unconscious Lin Xuan.
• Uncle Li set up a formation plate at their camp in the Desolate Forest while Fang Yun'er waited near the carriage.
• Lin Xuan woke in the carriage and saw Fang Yun'er's identity and recent events through his system interface.
• Lin Xuan asked where he was, and Uncle Li told him they were in the Desolate Forest.
• Uncle Li explained that Lin Xuan had arrived in the Central Continent, where rumors spoke of an Immortal opening a gate to the Central Divine Continent.

Lin Xuan reflected on the Central Continent and the debt he owed Fang Yun'er after she saved him with a Heavenly Zenith Pill. As dawn broke, he agreed with Uncle Li that they needed to cross the dangerous Desolate Forest, though he believed ordinary demons posed little threat.

• Lin Xuan considered the Central Continent's vast powers and the Fang Household's annual assessment that Fang Yun'er had to attend.
• Lin Xuan recalled being discarded by the mysterious palace and acknowledged that he owed Fang Yun'er for saving his life with the Heavenly Zenith Pill.
• Uncle Li urged Lin Xuan to help him and Fang Yun'er leave the Desolate Forest, a perilous forbidden-land remnant filled with powerful demons and other hazards.
• Lin Xuan said ordinary demons did not concern him, but he made no promises because his Spiritual Power had not yet recovered.
• Uncle Li warned Lin Xuan not to provoke the ferocious beasts and felt reassured when Lin Xuan stayed quiet.

Lin Xuan, Fang Yun'er, and Uncle Li traveled through the Desolate Forest as their supplies dwindled and their exhausted Qilin Dragon Horse was injured. A beast tide driven by two battling Saint Realm Demon Beasts engulfed the forest, leaving them with no apparent chance to escape.

• Fang Yun'er wondered whether the group had lost their way as the assessment in Azure Wave City drew closer.
• Lin Xuan concealed his recovered strength and relied on defensive treasures while traveling with Fang Yun'er and Uncle Li.
• A Saint Realm Demon Beast frightened the Qilin Dragon Horse, and another beast injured it, leaving it barely able to walk.
• Uncle Li sensed a beast tide and ordered everyone to run, but countless Demon Beasts were already charging through the forest.
• Uncle Li recognized two Saint Realm Demon Beasts fighting at the rear of the tide, and Fang Yun'er despaired of escaping.

Lin Xuan revealed his terrifying swordsmanship by wiping out the Demon Beasts threatening Fang Yun'er and Uncle Li. After Uncle Li begged him to take Fang Yun'er as a maid to protect her, Lin Xuan refused, saying he had no need for one.

• A stampede of Demon Beasts trapped Fang Yun'er and the Qilin Dragon Horse as two Saint Realm Demon Beasts approached.
• Lin Xuan unleashed a single Sword Qi strike that destroyed one Saint Realm Demon Beast and badly wounded the other, forcing it to flee.
• Uncle Li and Fang Yun'er were stunned by Lin Xuan's strength, and Lin Xuan gently asked Fang Yun'er if she was all right.
• Uncle Li knelt before Lin Xuan, apologized for his earlier rudeness, and begged him to keep Fang Yun'er by his side as a maid to save her life.
• Lin Xuan refused, saying he had never needed a maid.

Lin Xuan refused Uncle Li’s suggestion that he take Fang Yun’er as a maidservant, but then offered to accept her as his disciple. Fang Yun’er worried that her poor talent made her unworthy, yet Lin Xuan assured her that he valued her character, and she knelt to accept.

• Uncle Li and Fang Yun’er accepted Lin Xuan’s refusal without resentment, though both felt regret and uncertainty.
• Lin Xuan considered Fang Yun’er’s kind but dangerously trusting nature and saw that her destiny was only green, seventh grade.
• Lin Xuan asked Fang Yun’er to become his disciple, explaining that her talent did not matter to him.
• Fang Yun’er doubted whether she was worthy, but Lin Xuan told her that he valued her character and heart.
• Fang Yun’er knelt and kowtowed to Lin Xuan, accepting his offer.

Lin Xuan, Uncle Li, and Fang Yun'er secured a Saint Realm demon beast to guide them out of the Desolate Forest toward Azure Wave City while Lin Xuan recovered and taught Fang Yun'er swordsmanship. Despite her progress in sword intent, Lin Xuan wondered why her cultivation advanced so slowly under his guidance.

• Uncle Li thanked Lin Xuan for agreeing to help Fang Yun'er, but Lin Xuan pointed out that they still needed a way out of the Desolate Forest and a route to Azure Wave City.
• A surviving Saint Realm demon beast offered to guide them, and Lin Xuan accepted its offer.
• The demon beast carried Lin Xuan, Fang Yun'er, and Uncle Li through the forest, keeping other demon beasts away as Lin Xuan recovered his spiritual power.
• Lin Xuan taught Fang Yun'er swordsmanship during the journey, and she comprehended fourth-layer sword intent and advanced from Venerable to Earth Venerable.
• Lin Xuan questioned why Fang Yun'er's cultivation and swordsmanship were progressing so slowly despite his guidance and the sparring he arranged.

Lin Xuan brought Fang Yun'er and Uncle Li to the Fang Household's main lineage grounds for the assessment. After the steward assigned Fang Yun'er to Black Robe Lane and other descendants mocked her, she resolved that she would not fail.

• Lin Xuan watched Fang Yun'er's rapid cultivation and Sword Intent progress, then accepted that he would guide her as his disciple regardless of her pace.
• After about twenty days in the Desolate Forest, Lin Xuan arrived in Azure Wave City with Fang Yun'er and Uncle Li and entered the Fang Household grounds.
• Uncle Li identified Fang Yun'er as the fourteenth daughter of Fang Panzhi of the Jinglan City collateral branch when the steward registered her.
• Fang Household descendants mocked Fang Yun'er for her poor aptitude and presumed death in the Desolate Forest, while the steward treated her with contempt.
• The steward gave Fang Yun'er a token assigning her to Black Robe Lane, where descendants with the poorest aptitude stayed.
• Fang Yun'er left with the token and vowed not to fail the assessment or become Lin Xuan's first disciple to lose.

Fang Yun'er arrived alone at the Fang Household’s Black Robe Lane, where she met fellow collateral descendants Fang Linlin and Fang Yu. Her difficulty communicating left her uneasy as the two recognized her from rumors and wondered about her aptitude.

• Fang Linlin worried about the assessment in three days, and Fang Yu told her that anxiety would only hurt her chances.
• Fang Linlin clung to Fang Yu, who had chosen to live beside her in Black Robe Lane despite qualifying for Silver Frost Lane.
• Fang Yun'er entered the courtyard and greeted Fang Linlin and Fang Yu in sign language, then panicked when she remembered that Uncle Li and Lin Xuan were not with her.
• Fang Linlin and Fang Yu recognized Fang Yun'er as the Fang Household’s mute girl and wondered whether her aptitude was as poor as the rumors claimed.

Fang Linlin warmly welcomed Fang Yun'er and helped her feel at ease with Fang Yu. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan searched Azure Wave City for a way back to the Eastern Continent and learned about the Central Continent’s powers before heading to the Qin Household’s Linglong Pavilion to buy pills.

• Fang Linlin introduced herself and Fang Yu to Fang Yun'er, offered to learn sign language, and suggested they communicate by writing.
• Lin Xuan found no information in Azure Wave City about the palace in the void or the Eastern Continent, but learned that the Endless Sea was sealed and dangerous to cross.
• Lin Xuan studied the Twelve-Story Pavilion’s information about Azure Wave City, Azure Cloud Prefecture, and the Heaven-Gazing Domain’s ruling powers.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Qin Household specialized in pills and ran the Linglong Pavilion, then entered the pavilion to shop.

Qin Meier complained that no young men from the Fang or Zhang Households met her standards, then became captivated by the white-robed Lin Xuan at Linglong Pavilion. She offered to pay his thirty-five-million bill and asked whether he would marry into the Qin Household, leaving Lin Xuan taken aback.

• Qin Meier entered Linglong Pavilion with her two sword-bearing maids and criticized the Fang and Zhang Households’ young men as unsuitable dao companions.
• Qin Meier insisted that her standards were not too high and described the kind of exceptional man she wanted.
• Qin Meier noticed Lin Xuan descending the staircase and was struck by his appearance.
• Lin Xuan selected pills and spirit herbs worth thirty-five million, then asked the steward how much a Thearch Grade treasure would fetch.
• Qin Meier offered to put Lin Xuan’s bill on her tab and asked whether he was betrothed or would consider marrying into the Qin Household.

Fang Liqiu interrupted Qin Meier and offered Lin Xuan fifty million Spirit Stones a month to join the Fang Household as a servant, hoping to humiliate Qin Meier. Lin Xuan ignored both women, traded a defensive treasure for pills, and left, prompting Fang Liqiu to angrily insult him.

• Fang Liqiu arrived at Linglong Pavilion and mocked Qin Meier for considering Lin Xuan as a marriage prospect.
• Qin Meier and Fang Liqiu argued over Fang Yuan and their failed matchmaking arrangement.
• Fang Liqiu offered Lin Xuan fifty million Spirit Stones a month to serve the Fang Household, and Qin Meier fell silent rather than match the offer.
• Lin Xuan exchanged his twin-fish jade pendant, valued at twenty million Spirit Stones, for a Storage Bag of pills and left without acknowledging either woman.
• Fang Liqiu called Lin Xuan a poor Rogue Cultivator and warned him not to let her see him again.

After Qin Meier claimed Lin Xuan’s jade pendant, Lin Xuan devised a way to earn spirit stones by writing a sword scripture to auction at the Twelve-Story Pavilion. As he engraved his Sword Domain insights, the Pavilion’s appraisers began reviewing auction items and discovered a scroll of dragon-pattern paper.

• Qin Meier took Lin Xuan’s jade pendant and charged its cost to her monthly allowance.
• Lin Xuan returned to his residence and decided to write a sword scripture to sell at auction for spirit stones.
• Lin Xuan used Sword Intent to engrave his Sword Dao insights onto dragon-pattern paper, intending to create a scripture that could guide cultivators toward the Sword Domain.
• At the Twelve-Story Pavilion, appraisers reviewed the items submitted for the upcoming auction.
• One appraiser picked up a scroll of dragon-pattern paper.

Si Ming struggled to find someone able to appraise a sword scripture brought in by an unfamiliar white-robed cultivator. After Bikong found nothing useful in the auction catalog to help him condense a Sword Domain, Si Ming revealed that an uncataloged sword scripture remained, leaving its potential to be examined.

• Si Ming asked Elder Bai to assess a sword scripture, but Elder Bai objected that he lacked Sword Dao knowledge and could not judge it.
• The Pavilion Master arrived with Bikong of the Cinnabar Cloud Sword Sect and asked Si Ming for the auction catalog.
• The Pavilion Master let Bikong review the catalog early so he could look for something to help him condense a Sword Domain.
• Bikong found nothing promising in the catalog and prepared to leave with the Pavilion Master.
• Si Ming stopped them and said that an uncataloged item for the auction was a sword scripture.

Bikong examined a sword scripture that had been dismissed as low-grade and recognized it as a priceless guide to forming a Sword Domain. After learning its mysterious author would return in a few days, Bikong resolved to wait for that senior.

• The man in charge explained that the Twelve-Story Pavilion could not properly appraise the sword scripture because its cultivation-method appraiser had died.
• Bikong asked to inspect the scripture under the pavilion’s appraisal rules, and the master, Chang Mi, agreed.
• Bikong became engrossed in the scripture’s sword marks and grew furious when the appraisal restriction prevented him from reading further.
• Bikong declared the scripture a priceless treasure that could help him form a Sword Domain and demanded to know where its author was.
• The man in charge said the senior had been told an appraisal was required and had promised to return in a few days.
• Bikong asked Chang Mi for Spirit Stones and a place to stay while he waited, offering a favor from himself and the Cinnabar Cloud Sword Sect.

Lin Xuan returned to the Twelve-Story Pavilion and agreed to meet the buyer of his sword scripture, Bikong, who was astonished to discover Lin Xuan was a young Saint Realm expert. Before they could speak, Chi Peng trapped the floor in a sealing formation and attacked Bikong over the death of his daughter.

• Lin Xuan arrived at the Twelve-Story Pavilion on the final day of the auction and asked whether his sword scripture had sold.
• The man in charge told Lin Xuan that the scripture was a top-grade Class A auction item and that its buyer wanted to meet him, and Lin Xuan agreed.
• The man in charge brought Lin Xuan to the VIP lounge and went to fetch the buyer.
• Bikong arrived, recognized Lin Xuan as the sword scripture's author, and was shocked by his youth and Saint Realm presence.
• Chi Peng and an accomplice appeared after sealing off the floor, and Chi Peng threatened to kill Bikong for killing his daughter.

Lin Xuan revealed his overwhelming swordsmanship when Chi Peng and Dongfang Li attacked the Twelve-Story Pavilion, killing both Middle Stage Saint Realm experts with a single strike. As the sealing formation broke, Azure Wave City’s powerful figures arrived, leaving the consequences of the attack unresolved.

• Chi Peng and Dongfang Li confronted Bikong and threatened to kill everyone in the Twelve-Story Pavilion, with Chi Peng seeking revenge for his daughter and Dongfang Li pursuing his feud with the Cinnabar Cloud Sword Sect.
• Chi Peng and Dongfang Li launched their strongest techniques, while Bikong feared they would kill everyone before help could arrive.
• Lin Xuan stood, drew and sheathed his sword, and killed Chi Peng and Dongfang Li with a single attack that destroyed their souls.
• Bikong recognized that Lin Xuan’s strike surpassed Sword Intent and realized he was a young Sword Domain expert.
• The sealing formation shattered after its contracted master died, and powerful figures arrived in Azure Wave City demanding to know who had caused trouble.