Recaps

Su Lianxin killed a disguised otherkin royal and earned a place on the Earth Ranking, while Lin Xuan, Heavenly Venerable Yunli, and Wu Liang secured prominent Heaven Ranking positions for the Sword Pavilion. The sudden rankings spread the Sword Pavilion’s name throughout the Profound Domain, and Nangong Yaoyue was stunned when she saw who had displaced her master from ninth place.

• Su Lianxin killed the sixty-fifth prince, whose purple-gold horn revealed him as an otherkin royal, after he delayed her pursuit.
• The green-robed young man learned Su Lianxin belonged to the Sword Pavilion and resumed fighting after taking healing pills.
• Su Lianxin appeared at eighty-fourth on the Earth Ranking, while Chongming, Lin Xuan, and Yunli ranked third, ninth, and eighteenth on the Heaven Ranking.
• The Profound Domain’s cultivators speculated about the unfamiliar Sword Pavilion and whether it had a Heavenly Venerable.
• Nangong Yaoyue noticed that Fairy Chiyao had fallen from ninth to tenth on the Heaven Ranking and stared in shock at the person who took her place.

Nangong Yaoyue dismissed the possibility that the Sword Pavilion’s Lin Xuan was her former master, while Lin Xuan’s battlefield held steady amid bad news from elsewhere. The secluded Thearch lineages emerged to resist the invasion but formed their own Ancient Alliance, and a young man with a folding fan condemned Profound Alliance cultivators for insulting them.

• Nangong Yaoyue heard the name Lin Xuan and decided the Sword Pavilion’s Venerable-ranked swordsman could not be her former master, who had been a wounded Tribulation Realm cultivator.
• Lin Xuan maintained the upper hand on his battlefield as reports of defeats elsewhere troubled the Profound Domain alliance.
• News spread that the secluded Thearch lineages had emerged from the Ancient Realm and formed the Ancient Alliance rather than joining the Profound Alliance.
• Profound Alliance cultivators discussed the Thearch lineages in a camp until a blue-robed Rogue Cultivator told them the lineages considered them unworthy of cooperation.
• A young man with a folding fan overheard the cultivators and scornfully called them lowly and contemptible for insulting the Thearch lineages.

A young man from the Ancient Alliance mocked the Profound Alliance and pointed to the War Merit rankings as proof of his faction’s strength. He challenged the gathered cultivators to a wager, leaving them facing an escalating confrontation.

• The folding-fan young man called the Profound Alliance cultivators trash and claimed the Ancient Alliance had saved the Profound Domain from the other races.
• A Profound Alliance cultivator argued back, but the folding-fan young man told everyone to check the War Merit Heaven Ranking and Earth Ranking.
• The cultivators saw Ancient Alliance members rapidly filling the rankings, including nine of the Earth Ranking’s top ten, while Kan Liuhuo had fallen out of the top ten.
• The cultivators took comfort in Lianxin of the Sword Pavilion holding first place on the Earth Ranking after killing the Sixty-Fifth Highness and other foreign-race fighters.
• The folding-fan young man predicted the Ancient Alliance would soon claim all ten Earth Ranking spots and first place on the Heaven Ranking, then proposed a wager.

Fairy Cold Moon challenged an arrogant Ancient Alliance youth to wager ten million Spirit Stones that Su Lianxin would keep first place on the Earth Ranking. The youth accepted, while the white-haired old man warned that the Ancient Alliance’s strongest heirs had yet to emerge.

• The folding-fan youth wagered one million Spirit Stones that an Ancient Alliance cultivator would replace first-ranked Lianxin within a month, but the crowd stayed silent.
• Fairy Cold Moon arrived from the battlefield, saw that Su Lianxin held first place, and raised the wager to ten million Spirit Stones.
• The folding-fan youth accepted, convinced that Bai Linglong and other Ancient Alliance heirs would soon surpass the Profound Domain cultivators.
• Fairy Cold Moon mocked the youth for ranking below Lianxin, and he grew angry as the crowd held back out of fear of the white-haired old man.
• The white-haired old man told Fairy Cold Moon to wait until the Ancient Alliance’s leading heirs emerged, naming Bai Linglong, Ouyang Henshui, and Tian Shenyue.

News that Lianxin had killed the other races' Sixty-Fifth Highness spread through the Profound Domain, raising human morale and giving Profound Alliance cultivators a reason to taunt the Ancient Alliance. Two days later, the Sixty-Fourth Highness challenged Lianxin to fight.

• Word spread that Lianxin had risen to first place on the Earth Ranking by killing the Sixty-Fifth Highness, shocking the Profound Domain.
• Profound Alliance cultivators celebrated Lianxin's victory, which lifted battlefield morale and eased their fear of the other races' royals.
• In the Seven Treasures Teahouse safe zone, Profound Alliance cultivators mocked the Ancient Alliance for never having killed a royal, and the two sides argued.
• An Ancient Alliance genius insisted that their geniuses could kill a royal if given the chance, while a Profound Alliance cultivator challenged them to prove it.
• Two days later, the Sixty-Fourth Highness issued Lianxin a written challenge after learning of the Sixty-Fifth Highness's death.

Ming Shou, a Ten Heroes prodigy of the Ancient Realm, decided to answer the Sixty-Fourth Highness’s challenge and take first place on the Earth Ranking. As the royal taunted the crowd over Su Lianxin’s absence, a white-robed figure stepped onto the battlefield.

• Ming Shou left the Seven Treasures Teahouse to answer the challenge, hoping to defeat the Sixty-Fourth Highness and claim first place on the Earth Ranking.
• News of Ming Shou’s decision spread, exciting the Ancient Alliance and drawing attention from the Profound Alliance and the other race.
• The Sixty-Fourth Highness waited in the abandoned arena while powerful observers from both sides watched over the battle.
• Su Lianxin failed to appear by the agreed time, and the Sixty-Fourth Highness mocked the human cultivators for her absence.
• An Ancient Alliance cultivator claimed Su Lianxin had killed the Sixty-Fifth Highness by chance, and a white-robed figure stepped out from the crowd onto the battlefield.

Ming Shou arrived to face the Sixty-Fourth Highness after Lianxin failed to appear, and the two exchanged dismissive words before Ming Shou launched a powerful saber strike. The Sixty-Fourth Highness calmly raised one finger to block it, leaving the strike’s outcome unresolved.

• Ming Shou arrived at the platform, and the Ancient Alliance cultivators celebrated his appearance while the Profound Alliance crowd feared Lianxin would not accept the challenge.
• Ming Shou offered to fight the Sixty-Fourth Highness, who questioned whether he was qualified to be his opponent.
• The Sixty-Fourth Highness openly dismissed Ming Shou, and Ming Shou responded by attacking with a powerful crescent-shaped saber strike.
• The Sixty-Fourth Highness remained calm and raised one finger to block Ming Shou’s incoming strike.

His Highness Sixty-Four defeated Ming Shou, a member of the Ten Heroes of the Ancient Realm, in two moves and mocked the Ancient Alliance’s assumptions about the other-race royals. The Ancient Alliance cultivators reconsidered both their own strength and Lianxin’s achievement in killing His Highness Sixty-Five.

• Ming Shou’s slash struck His Highness Sixty-Four’s fingertip, but Sixty-Four stopped it without moving.
• His Highness Sixty-Four punched Ming Shou’s saber aside, sending Ming Shou flying and leaving him badly injured.
• His Highness Sixty-Four mocked Ming Shou and the Ancient Alliance for assuming that the other-race royals were weak.
• The Ancient Alliance cultivators recognized that Ming Shou had been defeated in two moves and reconsidered their view of the other-race royals.
• The cultivators began to question how strong Lianxin must be, since she had killed His Highness Sixty-Five.

After the Sixty-Fourth Prince waited in vain for Lianxin to accept his challenge, he mocked her and stirred doubts about how she had killed the Sixty-Fifth Prince. Rumors spread across the Profound Domain, while two cultivators who had witnessed Su Lianxin’s victory remained certain she was powerful; the green-robed young man believed she had her reasons for staying away.

• The Sixty-Fourth Prince waited until nightfall for Lianxin, then called her absence disappointing and claimed she had used underhanded means to kill the Sixty-Fifth Prince.
• The Ancient Alliance cultivators were shaken when Ming Shou, one of their Ten Heroes, suffered a crushing defeat, then questioned how Lianxin could have killed an other-race royal.
• The Ancient Alliance spread doubts about Lianxin’s ranking and her silence, leaving the Profound Alliance unable to defend her.
• Two Mystic Ranking prodigies who had witnessed Su Lianxin kill the Sixty-Fifth Prince listened to the rumors while recovering at a tavern.
• The green-robed young man dismissed the accusations and believed Su Lianxin had reasons for not appearing, confident she would have beaten the Sixty-Fourth Prince.

After emerging from seclusion, Su Lianxin learned that rumors and the Sixty-Fourth Highness’s repeated challenges had spread while she was away. Though she wished to focus on cultivation, she agreed to let Qu Youmeng handle the matter to protect the Sword Pavilion.

• Su Lianxin emerged from seclusion and found Chen Xiao furious about people accusing her of using underhanded means to kill the Sixty-Fifth Highness and refusing the Sixty-Fourth Highness’s challenge out of fear.
• Su Lianxin told Chen Xiao not to let rumors or challenges distract him from cultivation.
• Chen Xiao explained that the Sixty-Fourth Highness had challenged Su Lianxin again and threatened to keep doing so until she lost face among humans.
• Qu Youmeng offered to fight the Sixty-Fourth Highness so Su Lianxin could remain focused on her cultivation.
• Su Lianxin accepted Qu Youmeng’s offer after realizing the rumors could harm the Sword Pavilion.

Qu Youmeng answered His Highness Sixty-Four’s challenge in place of her senior sister, Su Lianxin. She told him that Su Lianxin was not afraid to face him, but that he was not worthy of challenging her yet.

• His Highness Sixty-Four waited on the platform while Lianxin failed to appear, and Ancient Alliance cultivators mocked the Profound Alliance for defending her.
• Qu Youmeng stepped onto the platform, and the gathered cultivators mistook her for Lianxin.
• Qu Youmeng told His Highness Sixty-Four that she was not the Lianxin he had challenged, but that Lianxin was her senior sister.
• Qu Youmeng declared that Lianxin did not fear him; he simply was not worthy of challenging her yet.

Qu Youmeng challenged His Sixty-Fourth Highness to defeat her before he could face her senior sister, Lianxin, and nearly drove him out of the arena with one sword strike. His Sixty-Fourth Highness recognized the depth of her Sword Dao and no longer underestimated her.

• Qu Youmeng told His Sixty-Fourth Highness he was not worthy of challenging Lianxin unless he could first defeat her.
• His Sixty-Fourth Highness decided to injure Qu Youmeng to force Lianxin to appear, dismissing the danger she posed.
• Qu Youmeng vanished and struck with her flexible sword, transforming its force into Sword Qi that sent His Sixty-Fourth Highness flying to the arena's edge.
• Qu Youmeng warned His Sixty-Fourth Highness that Lianxin was far stronger than she was and beyond his imagining.
• His Sixty-Fourth Highness felt the pain of Qu Youmeng's attack and recognized that her Sword Intent had penetrated to its core.

Qu Youmeng defeated Your Highness Sixty-Four in the arena and declared that he was unworthy of challenging her senior sister, Su Lianxin. As news of Qu Youmeng’s victory spread and drew attention to the mysterious Sword Pavilion, reports that Di Xi had killed another other-race royal eclipsed it.

• Qu Youmeng fought Your Highness Sixty-Four, evading his attacks and wounding him as he unleashed his full strength.
• Qu Youmeng struck Your Highness Sixty-Four with a sword attack that sent him off the arena, winning the match.
• Qu Youmeng told Your Highness Sixty-Four and the onlookers that he was unworthy of challenging her senior sister, Su Lianxin, and identified herself as Qu Youmeng of the Sword Pavilion.
• News of Qu Youmeng’s victory spread through the Profound Domain, prompting powers to wonder about the mysterious Sword Pavilion.
• News arrived that Di Xi of the Ancient Alliance had taken an other-race royal’s head to the Great Emperor Treasury and exchanged it for a Return to True Pill.

Di Xi’s killing of His Highness Fifty-Five shocked the Profound Domain, while Lin Xuan advanced deep into otherworldly territory and climbed the Heaven Ranking. As the Sword Pavilion’s standing rose, two purple-gold-horned invaders cornered Lin Xuan, who welcomed the fight.

• Di Xi returned with the head of His Highness Fifty-Five, stunning the Profound Alliance and eclipsing Qu Youmeng’s victory over His Highness Sixty-Four.
• Lin Xuan traveled through occupied lands, killing otherworldly invaders and rising from ninth to seventh on the Heaven Ranking.
• Heavenly Venerable Yunli entered the Heaven Ranking’s top ten, while Su Lianxin held first place on the Earth Ranking, giving the Sword Pavilion first place on both rankings.
• Lin Xuan reached the ruins of the former empire’s capital and continued deeper into enemy territory.
• Two purple-gold-horned otherworldly invaders spotted Lin Xuan, doubled back, and trapped him between them; Lin Xuan smiled, ready to fight.

Lin Xuan killed two other-race royals who had challenged him together, then encountered Bai Linglong, who arrived hoping to fight royals herself. Bai Linglong found both targets dead and complained that Lin Xuan had left none for her.

• Your Highness Thirty-Six and Your Highness Thirty-Seven argued over who would kill Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan told them to attack together.
• Your Highness Thirty-Six and Your Highness Thirty-Seven lunged at Lin Xuan, then tried to flee when he revealed his overwhelming sword strength.
• Lin Xuan killed both royals with one sword strike and told them to keep Your Highness Nineteen company.
• Bai Linglong arrived, discovered the dead royals, and lamented that Lin Xuan had not left one for her to kill.

Lin Xuan left after meeting Bai Linglong, while Di Xi’s emergence and victory over His Highness Fifty-Five reignited arguments over whether she or Lianxin was stronger. The debate drew the alliances into repeated clashes, until Di Xi issued a challenge to the otherworlder prodigies.

• Lin Xuan refused Bai Linglong’s invitation to hunt otherworlders together and left, while Bai Linglong hurried off to avoid losing to Di Xi.
• Di Xi became the first of the upper five Ten Heroes to emerge and killed His Highness Fifty-Five, rising to second on the Earth Ranking behind Lianxin.
• The Profound Alliance and Ancient Alliance argued over whether Di Xi or Lianxin was stronger, and their cultivators fought over the dispute.
• Sword Pavilion disciples dismissed the debate, noting that Su Lianxin had defeated a higher-ranked royal and that Di Xi was still formidable.
• After days of escalating arguments and petty clashes, Di Xi challenged the otherworlder prodigies.

Di Xi challenged His Highness Forty-Seven, an infamous other-race royal, and drew the attention and hopes of both human alliances. As the fight began, Forty-Seven revealed he had mastered a Divine Ability and sent lightning toward Di Xi.

• Di Xi challenged His Highness Forty-Seven, whose assassinations had killed many human prodigies and cultivators.
• Human spectators gathered at the battle platform, where Ancient Alliance cultivators praised Di Xi’s courage and Profound Alliance cultivators worried about the consequences of a loss.
• Ming Shou feared that Di Xi might lose and damage human morale, while many spectators began to regard Di Xi as the human side’s leading prodigy over the absent Lianxin.
• His Highness Forty-Seven arrived, mocked Di Xi, and attacked by summoning thunderclouds and sending bolts of lightning toward him.
• The spectators realized that His Highness Forty-Seven had mastered a Divine Ability and cried out in shock.

Di Xi and the Forty-Seventh Highness traded powerful lightning attacks before agreeing to settle their duel with one decisive move. As the Forty-Seventh Highness lunged with a lightning-fast punch, a golden light suddenly shielded Di Xi.

• The Forty-Seventh Highness unleashed a lightning Divine Ability, but Di Xi used the Di Household’s Thunder Method of Control to crush the bolts beneath a golden seal.
• The seal and lightning shattered, forcing both fighters to retreat, and the Forty-Seventh Highness proposed they use their full strength to decide the outcome in one move.
• Di Xi accepted, confident in his strength as the fifth of the Ten Elites and a member of the Di Household.
• The Forty-Seventh Highness transformed, displaying dragon-like scales and golden, lightning-wreathed horns before vanishing and striking at Di Xi with a devastating punch.
• As the Forty-Seventh Highness’s fist neared Di Xi, a clear voice cried, “Unmoving... As a Mountain!” and golden light enveloped Di Xi.

Di Xi defeated Your Highness Forty-Seven, but his sudden fame and confidence led him to underestimate the other races. On the battlefield, he challenged Your Highness Forty-Three and Your Highness Forty-Six and was badly wounded by Forty-Three’s first punch.

• Di Xi shattered Your Highness Forty-Seven’s lightning horns and defeated him with a single strike, winning the Human Race cultivators’ cheers.
• The Ancient Alliance promoted Di Xi’s victory, and his prestige rose as the other races launched an all-out assault on Human Race territory.
• Di Xi grew overconfident on the battlefield, dismissing Lianxin and other-race warriors as weak while pursuing enemies away from the cultivators following him.
• Di Xi encountered Your Highness Forty-Three and Your Highness Forty-Six, recognized the notorious pair, and prepared to fight them with his mother-and-child swords.
• Your Highness Forty-Three broke through Di Xi’s golden defense with one punch and sent him flying while spitting blood.

Di Xi was overwhelmed by Their Highnesses Forty-Three and Forty-Six and nearly died before reaching the human forces in the mountains. A mysterious woman in white killed both pursuers with one strike and vanished before he could learn her name.

• Di Xi realized that Their Highnesses Forty-Three and Forty-Six were far stronger than he expected and fled from them.
• Forty-Three and Forty-Six pursued Di Xi with Divine Abilities and repeatedly wounded him as he raced toward the mountains.
• Di Xi collapsed near the mountains, and Forty-Six prepared to kill him with his scythe.
• A woman in white appeared and killed Forty-Three and Forty-Six with a single streak of Sword Qi.
• Di Xi asked the woman for her name, but she left without answering, leaving him to wonder who she was.

Ouyang Henshui emerged from the Ancient Realm, defeated Your Highness Fifty, and believed his newly gained strength could surpass Di Xi. He encountered Your Highness Sixty-Three, unaware that the royal was Lin Xuan’s undercover clone and had awakened Imperial Blood, and dismissed him as too weak to fight.

• Ouyang Henshui killed Your Highness Fifty and ignored the Profound Alliance cultivators he had rescued as he flew off seeking a stronger opponent.
• The Profound Alliance cultivators recognized Ouyang Henshui as an Ancient Alliance prodigy and lamented how the Ancient Realm’s fighters overshadowed their own.
• Ouyang Henshui recalled receiving his clan’s inheritance, grew confident he could defeat Di Xi, and imagined proving his strength against powerful other-race royals.
• Ouyang Henshui met an other-race royal and asked his rank; the royal identified himself as Your Highness Sixty-Three.
• The narration revealed that Your Highness Sixty-Three was Lin Xuan’s undercover clone, had awakened Imperial Blood, and was a contender to become the next King.
• Disappointed by the royal’s low rank, Ouyang Henshui decided Your Highness Sixty-Three was too weak to be worth fighting.

Ouyang Henshui challenged Your Highness Sixty-Three, unaware that the seemingly low-ranked royal possessed overwhelming strength. After defeating Ouyang and sparing his life, Your Highness Sixty-Three noticed someone approaching.

• Ouyang Henshui prepared to leave Your Highness Sixty-Three and pursue two powerful presences after receiving a plea for help from the Ancient Alliance.
• Your Highness Sixty-Three demanded that Ouyang stay, and Ouyang attacked him with his twin sabers.
• Your Highness Sixty-Three blocked Ouyang's strike with one finger and blasted him backward, severely injuring his arms and chest.
• Ouyang mistook Your Highness Sixty-Three for a higher-ranked royal, but Your Highness Sixty-Three returned his sabers and let him go.
• Your Highness Sixty-Three watched Ouyang flee, then noticed a figure rapidly approaching.

Chen Xiao, newly confident after defeating Your Highness Fifty-Six, challenged Your Highness Sixty-Three on the battlefield. Sixty-Three sent Chen Xiao flying with a single punch, leaving him to wonder whether he had been too weak all along.

• Chen Xiao reflected on how the Sword Pavilion's exceptional disciples had made him doubt himself, though he had recently regained confidence by defeating Your Highness Fifty-Six.
• Chen Xiao encountered Your Highness Sixty-Three and boasted that he would defeat him to earn enough military merits for the Earth Ranking.
• Your Highness Sixty-Three told Chen Xiao to take one move from him before making such claims, then struck with a punch.
• Chen Xiao met the punch with his greatsword but was sent flying and suffered pain in his internal organs.
• Chen Xiao stared at Your Highness Sixty-Three in shock and wondered whether he was simply too weak.

Chen Xiao was badly defeated by Your Highness Sixty-Three, whose speed and strength far exceeded what his rank suggested, and escaped with his life. He returned to Yunyi and the others, unaware that Lin Xuan had secretly arranged the encounter to humble him.

• Your Highness Sixty-Three outpaced Chen Xiao, struck him hard, and mocked him for underestimating his opponent.
• As Your Highness Sixty-Three continued attacking, Chen Xiao escaped while his opponent seemed to let him go, then treated his injuries with medicinal pills.
• Chen Xiao returned to Yunyi and the others badly battered and admitted that Your Highness Sixty-Three had nearly killed him.
• Wang Yan questioned how Chen Xiao could lose to a royal ranked sixty-third after defeating Your Highness Fifty-Six, while Yunyi teased him and soothed him with her zither.
• Chen Xiao insisted that Your Highness Sixty-Three had seen through his methods, not knowing that Lin Xuan was inside the royal's shell and had deliberately arranged the fight.

Yunyi and Qu Youmeng learned that Chen Xiao had been defeated by the Sixty-Third Highness, and Qu Youmeng went to confront him. Lin Xuan, disguised as the Sixty-Third Highness, recognized her as she arrived and challenged him over her junior brother’s injury.

• Yunyi doubted Chen Xiao’s account and offered to defeat the Sixty-Third Highness herself.
• Qu Youmeng suspected Chen Xiao had told the truth and decided to investigate personally.
• Lin Xuan defeated a human prodigy but left him alive, reflecting that ordinary Profound Domain cultivators were no match for his borrowed body.
• Qu Youmeng found Lin Xuan on the battlefield, pointed her sword at him, and asked whether he had injured her junior brother.