Recaps

Yun Yao boasted of her rapid progress under the Thousand Sounds Pavilion, but a powerful Emperor Realm outsider attacked the Yun Household and easily defeated Elder Qiu and destroyed its protective formation. The outsider recognized Lin Xuan as the white-robed sword cultivator who had overwhelmed him and four other Emperor Realm outsiders in the Void Realm.

• Yun Yao claimed she would soon enter the Heavenly Profound Realm and might reach the Hidden Dragon Ranking, while the Yun Household marveled at her progress.
• A host of outsiders approached the Yun Household, led by a powerful three-horned Emperor Realm outsider whom Lin Xuan recognized from the Void Realm.
• Elder Qiu challenged the outsider, but her zither music had no effect on him, and he shattered her instrument and gravely wounded her with one strike.
• The outsider destroyed the Yun Household's clan-protecting formation, leaving the clan members and elders injured and helpless.
• The outsider spotted Lin Xuan and recognized him as the white-robed sword cultivator who had defeated five Emperor Realm outsiders in the Void Realm.

Lin Xuan arrived to rescue the Yun Household and killed the fleeing nonhuman Emperor Realm cultivator and every other nonhuman with one sword strike. Elder Qiu and Yun Donglai realized how powerful the Jade Balance Sword Palace must be, while Yun Yao watched in disbelief.

• The nonhuman Emperor Realm cultivator recognized Lin Xuan from their past encounter and fled in terror.
• Lin Xuan pursued the cultivator with a sword strike that cut him in two and swept away every nonhuman on the battlefield.
• Elder Qiu and the Yun Household witnessed Lin Xuan's overwhelming strength and realized the crisis had ended.
• Yun Donglai reconsidered his assumptions about Lin Xuan and the sect Yunyi had joined.
• Elder Qiu understood why Yunyi had rejected the Thousand Sounds Pavilion, while Yun Yao stared in disbelief.

After Lin Xuan defeated an Emperor Realm alien, Yun Yao regretted choosing the Thousand Sounds Pavilion over Yunyi’s path, while Yunyi explained that Yun Yao’s real loss came from her disposition. Lin Xuan offered to escort the Yun Household from its ruined home, and the group prepared to leave amid the alien invasion.

• Yun Yao bitterly realized that Yunyi’s master, Lin Xuan, was stronger than Elder Qiu and regretted believing she had surpassed her sister.
• Yunyi told Yun Yao that she had lost because she could not distinguish right from wrong, then joined Lin Xuan.
• Elder Qiu thanked Lin Xuan for saving her and decided to return to the Thousand Sounds Pavilion to report the alien threat.
• Yun Canghai recognized that the Yun Household’s home was no longer safe and worried that his weakened people could not evacuate alone.
• Lin Xuan offered to let Yunyi’s kin travel with him, and Yun Canghai gratefully accepted.
• Yun Canghai watched Lin Xuan and Yunyi depart and reflected that Yunyi had found an extraordinary master.

After fleeing the ruined Yun Household grounds, Yun Canghai and his people were confronted by an other-race Venerable, but Wu Liang appeared and crushed the enemy with one hand. The Yun Household learned that Wu Liang served Lin Xuan, and Yun Donglai accepted that Yunyi had chosen the right sect.

• Yun Canghai led the wounded Yun Household away from their destroyed ancestral grounds toward the Jade Balance Sword Palace.
• An other-race Venerable blocked their flying boat and overwhelmed the injured elders with his pressure.
• Lin Xuan sensed someone approaching and said that he had arrived.
• Wu Liang emerged from the shadows and crushed the other-race Venerable, then greeted Lin Xuan as Pavilion Master.
• Yunyi asked Yun Donglai whether he still believed her choice had been wrong, and Yun Donglai realized she had chosen wisely.

After returning to the Jade Balance Sword Palace, Lin Xuan received an ancient Dao field as a system rebate and gathered the Sword Pavilion to cultivate in it. They emerged several days later with greatly increased strength, while Lin Xuan had reached the King Realm twenty-ninth layer and stood on the verge of the Emperor Realm.

• Lin Xuan sent Yun Canghai and the surviving Yun Household members onward after Wu Liang confirmed that nearby nonhumans had been eliminated.
• Lin Xuan gave Su Lianxin a phoenix soul, and the system rebated him an ancient Dao field.
• Lin Xuan expanded the ancient Dao field over the rear mountain and invited the Sword Pavilion, Heavenly Venerable Yunli, and Wu Liang to cultivate inside it.
• After several days of secluded cultivation, Lin Xuan reached the King Realm twenty-ninth layer and comprehended twenty-nine Great Daos.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli, Wu Liang, Youying, and the disciples all improved their cultivation, with Su Lianxin, Yunyi, and Qu Youmeng comprehending several Great Daos.
• Qin Feng made the fastest breakthrough among the disciples, reaching the Earth Profound Realm ninth layer.

After emerging from seclusion, Lin Xuan learned from Fairy Cold Moon that the Profound Domain had formed an alliance against the invading races and opened the Great Emperor Treasury, whose war merit rankings rewarded cultivators for their kills. Su Lianxin spotted Su Ditian at eighty-fifth on the Earth Ranking and vowed to reclaim her Emperor Blood and prove him inferior.

• Lin Xuan put away the exhausted ancient Dao field and met Fairy Cold Moon, who told him that war had engulfed the Profound Domain.
• Fairy Cold Moon explained that the Profound Domain's leading powers had formed the Profound Alliance and opened the Great Emperor Treasury, giving cultivators jade talismans to record kills for war merits.
• Fairy Cold Moon showed Lin Xuan the War Merit Rankings, where the Nine Profundities Heavenly Sect dominated the top positions and Su Ditian ranked eighty-fifth on the Earth Ranking.
• Su Lianxin learned that Su Ditian had awakened the Su Ancestor's Thearch Blood and grown strong enough to enter the Earth Ranking.
• Su Lianxin's fighting spirit ignited, and she vowed that Su Ditian would soon answer for stealing her bloodline.

Lin Xuan and Wu Liang protected the Jade Balance Sword Palace with an incomplete ninth-tier formation before Lin Xuan entered seclusion. Meanwhile, the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace master guided two Emperor Realm members of the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect toward the palace, hoping they would extort more Spirit Stones from it than she had paid.

• Lin Xuan and Wu Liang laid down the incomplete Azure Wood Sacred Origin Formation, which could withstand attacks below the Thearch Realm.
• After taking stock of his gains from the Void Realm, Lin Xuan entered seclusion to improve his strength.
• Two Emperor Realm cultivators from the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect traveled by flying boat toward the Jade Balance Sword Palace, planning to collect protection fees.
• The Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace master joined them as a guide, still resentful over paying Fairy Cold Moon fifty million Spirit Stones.
• The Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace master had praised the Jade Balance Sword Palace's wealth to the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect and hoped it would be forced to pay even more than her palace had.

The Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect arrived at the Jade Balance Sword Palace and demanded seventy million Spirit Stones in exchange for protection. Fairy Cold Moon rejected the demand, confident that Lin Xuan and the others could defend the sect.

• The Palace Master of the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace and Xie Xiao led the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect toward the Jade Balance Sword Palace, hoping to use the invasion of the other races to extort it.
• Lu Ming greeted the visitors at the mountain gate, but the two Emperor Realm cultivators dismissed him and demanded sixty million Spirit Stones for protection.
• When Lu Ming hesitated and said he needed the sect leader's approval, one cultivator raised the demand to seventy million Spirit Stones.
• Fairy Cold Moon appeared and told the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect that the Jade Balance Sword Palace would pay nothing and did not need its protection.

As an army of other races attacked, Fairy Cold Moon protected the Jade Balance Sword Palace while the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect’s flying ship came under assault. Lin Xuan emerged from seclusion and offered shelter to the people outside for seven hundred million Spirit Stones.

• Fairy Cold Moon refused to hand Spirit Stones to the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect, even as other sect leaders urged her to comply.
• An enormous army of other races appeared, and Fairy Cold Moon activated the Jade Balance Sword Palace’s Azure Wood Sacred Origin Formation.
• The attackers shattered the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect’s flying ship formation, forcing its two Emperor Realm cultivators to defend themselves with the Four Directions Treasure Pearl.
• The people aboard the ship saw that the Jade Balance Sword Palace’s formation withstood the attackers’ assault and begged Fairy Cold Moon to let them inside.
• Lin Xuan emerged from seclusion and offered to shelter them in exchange for seven hundred million Spirit Stones.

Lin Xuan refused to save the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect cultivator and his companions, then killed the otherworldly beings and took their Spirit Stones. At Chiyao Heavenly Palace, Ruoli defended the Profound Domain’s hopes by recalling Lin Xuan’s victory over the Nineteenth Highness, but the other disciples dismissed her account.

• The Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect Emperor Realm cultivator offered Lin Xuan one hundred million Spirit Stones, but Lin Xuan revealed he had only been joking and refused to help.
• The Four Directions Treasure Pearl shattered, and the otherworldly beings killed the Heavenly Baleful Intent Sect cultivator, the Jade Pivotal Star Sword Palace palace master, and their companions.
• Lin Xuan left the Azure Wood Sacred Origin Formation, killed the remaining otherworldly beings, and retrieved a Storage Bag containing one hundred million Spirit Stones.
• At Chiyao Heavenly Palace’s spiritual pool, Ruoli heard elite disciples lament the otherworldly races’ strength and the Profound Domain’s recent losses.
• Ruoli told the disciples that she had seen a white-robed sword cultivator defeat the Nineteenth Highness with one strike, but a Crimson Refining Sect disciple mocked her story.

Su Lianxin told Lin Xuan that the Su Clan’s main lineage had summoned its branch lineages for a competition offering the winners protection and membership. Determined to confront Su Ditian over the Emperor Blood he had taken from her, she chose to participate, and Lin Xuan agreed to accompany her with Wu Liang.

• Su Lianxin explained that her parents and the Tangqing Empire branch lineage wanted her to join their clan head and other geniuses at the Su Clan’s main lineage competition.
• Lin Xuan questioned why the main lineage was holding a competition while the Profound Domain faced invasion and the struggle over the Great Emperor Treasury.
• Su Lianxin declared that she would participate and settle the grievance over her stolen Su Ancestor’s Thearch Blood.
• Lin Xuan agreed to accompany Su Lianxin to the main lineage and called on Wu Liang to go with them.
• Lin Xuan promised Su Lianxin that he would help her reclaim what had always been hers.

Lin Xuan accompanied Su Lianxin back to her family’s branch household in Ansui City before the Su Clan main branch’s grand competition. After the main branch’s flying boat arrived to collect the competitors, a woman bearing the main branch’s symbol descended, drawing the branch disciples’ attention.

• Lin Xuan, Su Lianxin, and Wu Liang traveled to Ansui City, where the Su Household warmly welcomed Su Lianxin and Lin Xuan.
• Su Lianxin reunited with her parents at the Bamboo Zen Courtyard, while Lin Xuan was received as an honored guest.
• Lin Xuan spent two days exploring Ansui City with Su Household juniors as Su Lianxin visited with her parents.
• A stern main branch deacon arrived by flying boat and told the branch households that they would leave for the lineage competition the next morning.
• A woman wearing a sash marked with the main branch’s seven-cloud symbol descended from the flying boat, catching the attention of the Ansui City disciples.

Su Su returned to Ansui City as a main-lineage disciple and impressed the branch-lineage disciples with stories about the Holy Son, Su Ditian. She said no one would dare challenge him at the tournament, but Su Lianxin privately doubted that.

• Su Lianxin told Lin Xuan that Su Su was from their Ansui City branch and had recently joined the main lineage.
• Su Su descended from the flying boat and received respectful greetings from the Ansui City disciples and elders.
• Su Su described Su Ditian's status and bearing, leaving the branch-lineage disciples in awe.
• Su Su told Su Rong and Su Qiyu that they would see Su Ditian at the tournament, where he would participate but would not be challenged.
• Su Lianxin listened to Su Su's claims and silently thought that someone might challenge Su Ditian after all.

Su Lianxin ignored Su Su’s taunts about her rejection of Su Ying and her failure to enter the Azure Yang Sword Sect’s inner sect, remaining focused on surpassing Su Ditian. She traveled with the branch disciples and Lin Xuan to the Su Clan’s main branch, where an unexpected voice called out to her.

• Su Su mocked Su Lianxin over Su Ying’s advances and his breakthrough to the Tribulation Realm, but Su Lianxin said affection could not be forced.
• Su Su was welcomed by the branch disciples, while Su Lianxin returned to her room to cultivate and reaffirmed that Su Ditian was her target.
• The main-branch steward declined the branch’s banquet invitation and led the group, including Lin Xuan, to the Su Clan’s main branch; Wu Liang followed in concealment.
• Su Lianxin viewed the main branch’s lavish grounds without her former awe, while Su Su warned the others to avoid offending its disciples.
• As a main-branch servant led them toward their temporary lodgings, someone recognized Su Lianxin and called her name.

Su Ying reunited with Su Lianxin and invited her to meet Su Ditian at a private gathering. Su Lianxin declined for now, saying Su Ditian might not want to see her.

• Su Ying recognized Su Lianxin and eagerly greeted her, revealing that he had never forgotten his love for her.
• The Ansui City branch disciples and Su Su were stunned by Su Ying's attention toward Su Lianxin.
• Su Ying invited Su Lianxin to join a private gathering and meet Su Ditian, the main lineage's Holy Son.
• Su Lianxin politely refused for the time being and said Su Ditian might not want to see her.

Su Lianxin refused Su Ying’s invitation to meet Su Ditian and settled into the Su Household’s temporary lodgings with Lin Xuan. When the main lineage competition began, Su Ditian arrived before the gathered geniuses, and Su Lianxin watched him with a darkened gaze.

• Su Lianxin declined Su Ying’s invitation to meet Su Ditian, leaving the gathered disciples stunned and Su Ying dejected.
• Su Lianxin told the servant to take her and Lin Xuan to their temporary lodgings, and Su Ying agreed to her request.
• A few days later, the Su Household’s main lineage competition began at a lavish arena formed by activated formations and floating islands.
• The branch-lineage disciples learned that the Su Clan leader was an Earth Venerable and saw the strength of the three Venerables and Emperor Realm elders overseeing the competition.
• Su Ditian descended before the heavenly geniuses, and Su Lianxin watched him arrive.

Su Ditian arrived at the Su Clan’s grand Lineage competition and received the reverence of the clan, while Su Lianxin resolved to bring him down with her master’s support. The competition began, and the disciples fought across ten arenas as everyone treated first place as Su Ditian’s already.

• Su Ditian appeared at the competition and sat beside his father, the patriarch, among the clan elders.
• Su Lianxin watched Su Ditian with contempt and resolved to make him fall from his pedestal; her master encouraged her and promised to handle the rest.
• Su Ditian sensed that something unexpected might happen, then turned his attention to the competition.
• Twenty disciples started matches across the ten arenas, and fierce battles broke out.
• The crowd and elders watched two unfamiliar branch-lineage disciples fight evenly, while the clan continued to regard Su Ditian as the uncontested first-place contender.

After a hard-fought match ended on the fourth arena, Su Lianxin challenged the Su Clan’s Holy Son, Su Ditian, and ordered him to come down. Su Ditian accepted the provocation and appeared before her, ready to punish her.

• Two branch-lineage contestants fought until one defeated the other, and both received praise from Su Ditian.
• Su Lianxin entered the arena and challenged Su Ditian, stunning the spectators.
• Su Ditian recognized a resemblance between Su Lianxin and a woman he had encountered in the Void Realm.
• Su Lianxin ignored Su Ditian’s question and shouted, “Get down here!”
• Su Ditian appeared in the arena and warned Su Lianxin that he was not someone she could provoke.

Su Lianxin defeated Su Ditian with a single sword strike, humiliating the Su Clan Holy Son before the gathered disciples. She revealed that her stolen Thearch Blood had served him, leaving Su Ditian stunned by her accusation.

• Su Lianxin unleashed a sword strike that sent Su Ditian flying through several arena barriers and left him severely injured.
• The Su Clan disciples watched in disbelief as Su Ditian lost to Su Lianxin in one strike.
• Su Lianxin mocked Su Ditian as trash, and he spat blood and struggled to stand.
• Su Ditian demanded to know who Su Lianxin was and suspected a conspiracy.
• Su Lianxin asked Su Ditian whether her Su Ancestor's Thearch Blood had served him well.

Su Lianxin exposed that Su Ditian’s famed Thearch Blood had been forcibly taken from her, and the Su Clan patriarch tried to silence her and end the tournament. Lin Xuan stopped him with a single sword strike and told Xin'er to continue speaking.

• Su Lianxin revealed that Su Ditian’s Thearch Blood had been extracted from her and given to him, shocking Su Ditian, his father, and the assembled guests.
• The Su Clan patriarch suspended the tournament and ordered Supreme Elder Su Jie to escort the guests out.
• The Su Clan patriarch unleashed his Earth Venerable Realm pressure on Su Lianxin and ordered her to stop talking.
• Lin Xuan stepped in and struck at the Su Clan patriarch, destroying the floating island and forcing him back.
• Lin Xuan told Xin'er to keep talking, disregarding the patriarch’s attempt to silence her.

Su Lianxin accused the Su Clan patriarch of stealing her Emperor Blood and challenged Su Ditian to prove its origin, while the patriarch’s refusal convinced many clansmen that her charge was true. When Su Clan experts attacked Lin Xuan, he revealed overwhelming strength and drove them back with one sword strike.

• Su Lianxin recounted how the Su Clan patriarch had extracted her Emperor Blood and turned her from a prodigy into a cripple.
• Su Lianxin challenged Su Ditian to use the Blood Guidance Technique, and the patriarch’s panicked refusal made the clansmen suspect her accusation was true.
• The Su Clan elders and experts decided to suppress Lin Xuan, treating Su Ditian’s bloodline scandal as an internal matter.
• Lin Xuan revealed his formidable cultivation and met the attack of three Venerables and dozens of Emperor Realm experts with a single sword strike.
• Lin Xuan’s sword sent the Su Clan patriarch and the other attackers flying, leaving them injured and stunned.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed the Su Clan and faced its ancestor, whose strength exceeded the rumors. After learning that the patriarch had stolen Su Lianxin’s Su Ancestor’s Thearch Blood for Su Ditian, the ancestor extracted the blood from Su Ditian.

• Lin Xuan defeated the Su Clan’s patriarch and elders, leaving the clansmen stunned.
• The patriarch called for the clan-protecting array and summoned the Su Clan ancestor, whose presence revealed that he had reached the heavenly venerable realm.
• The Su Clan ancestor asked Lin Xuan why he had attacked, and Lin Xuan told him to question the patriarch.
• Lin Xuan explained that the patriarch had secretly taken Su Lianxin’s Su Ancestor’s Thearch Blood and given it to Su Ditian, while erasing Su Lianxin’s memories.
• The ancestor recognized the patriarch’s guilt, then pulled Su Ditian close and extracted the golden blood from his body.

The Su Clan ancestor returned Su Lianxin’s Emperor Blood and offered to restore her place in the clan, but she rejected his offer and left with Lin Xuan. After they departed, the ancestor rebuked Su Qiji and revealed that a hidden Heavenly Venerable Perfection or stronger presence had prevented him from fighting, while he wondered whether Su Ditian could still recover.

• The Su Clan ancestor extracted the Emperor Blood from Su Ditian and returned it to Su Lianxin, apologizing for the clan’s wrongdoing.
• The Su Clan ancestor offered to make Su Lianxin the clan’s sole Holy Maiden and repay what she had lost, but she refused and said her bond with the Su Clan had ended.
• Lin Xuan left with Su Lianxin, who bowed briefly to the Su Clan ancestor before following her master without looking back.
• Su Qiji urged the Su Clan ancestor to stop them, but the ancestor rebuked him for sacrificing Su Lianxin’s potential and warned that his actions had endangered the clan.
• The Su Clan ancestor revealed that a concealed presence at least as powerful as Heavenly Venerable Perfection had been watching, and that the Su Clan might have been annihilated if a fight had begun.
• Seeing Su Ditian barely alive, the Su Clan ancestor wondered whether he was truly beyond recovery.

The Su Clan patriarch brought Su Ditian and the Su Clan chief to the hidden ancestral grounds and revealed an Emperor Bone left by Ancestor Su. He gave the bone to Su Ditian, hoping to help the Su Clan preserve its fading bloodline, while lamenting that Su Lianxin had become estranged from the household.

• The Su Clan patriarch decided to take Su Ditian and the Su Clan chief to the ancestral grounds, warning that the Su Household needed another Thearch Realm expert to preserve its bloodline.
• Su Ditian followed the patriarch to the forbidden grounds, where the patriarch slowly undid a concealed, high-tier formation.
• The Su Clan patriarch revealed a golden heart bone left by Ancestor Su and explained that it was an Emperor Bone refined for his descendants.
• The patriarch said the bone required Emperor Blood and reflected that it would have suited Su Lianxin best if she had stayed with the Su Household.
• The Su Clan patriarch gave the Emperor Bone to Su Ditian, and Su Ditian and the Su Clan chief thanked him excitedly before he returned to seclusion.

After fusing with the Emperor Blood, Su Lianxin joined the fight against the invading races in the eastern Profound Domain and honed her swordsmanship on the battlefield. She pursued His Highness Sixty-Five, but two overconfident Mystic Ranking geniuses intervened, and he struck one of them down.

• Su Lianxin fused smoothly with the Emperor Blood and returned to the Sword Pavilion with a flawless state of mind.
• As the eastern Profound Domain came under attack, Su Lianxin led Sword Pavilion disciples out to fight while the Profound Alliance sent reinforcements.
• Su Lianxin spent days killing invaders, sharpening her Sword Intent and seeking to climb the Earth Ranking and earn the Great Emperor Treasury’s rewards.
• Su Lianxin encountered His Highness Sixty-Five, who had disguised his royal horn, and severed his arm with one sword stroke.
• His Highness Sixty-Five fled from Su Lianxin and ran into two Mystic Ranking saber geniuses, one of whom blocked his escape to help her.
• Enraged at being cornered, His Highness Sixty-Five punched the blocking genius and sent him flying with blood pouring from his mouth.