Recaps

Lin Xuan entered the Void Realm’s war against the Blood River Holy Clan, rescuing human cultivators and capturing several of its princes before sending a clone undercover. After returning, he went with Yunyi to defend her household, where the invaders retreated after Elder Qiu intervened.

• Su Ditian defeated Baili Liancheng in their fight for first place on the Hidden Dragon Ranking, while Su Lianxin resolved to reclaim her stolen blood.
• Lin Xuan and Wu Liang explored the Void Realm, and Lin Xuan used his presence to settle a dispute at the Jade Balance Sword Palace’s spirit tree.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Blood River Holy Clan was hunting humans, then killed a powerful horned Emperor and routed its forces at the Dazzling Stone Forest.
• The Nineteenth Highness confronted Lin Xuan and fled after being wounded, but Lin Xuan captured him and later rescued Yan Shan from a trap set by the Sixty-Third Highness.
• Lin Xuan captured the Sixty-Seventh Prince, killed a five-horned Venerable, and spent days fighting the nonhumans before sending a clone disguised as the Sixty-Third Prince undercover.
• Lin Xuan returned from the Void Realm, introduced Wu Liang as Vice Pavilion Master Chongming, and brought the Sword Pavilion and Jade Balance Sword Palace back to the Seven Moon-Reflecting Kingdoms.
• When Yunyi’s Lineage summoned her, Lin Xuan accompanied her to the Yun Household, where Elder Qiu’s intervention forced the invading nonhumans to retreat.
• Elder Qiu credited Yun Yao with bringing her to the Yun Household and revealed her Emperor Realm Seventh Stage cultivation, while Yun Yao prepared to share further news.

Lin Xuan protected the Yun Household, then accompanied Su Lianxin to the Su Clan, where she exposed the theft of her bloodline and reclaimed it. Back at the Sword Pavilion, Su Lianxin joined the war against the invaders and confronted His Highness Sixty-Five.

• Lin Xuan killed the nonhuman attackers threatening the Yun Household, and Wu Liang later escorted its survivors safely onward.
• Lin Xuan expanded his ancient Dao field and helped the Sword Pavilion disciples improve their cultivation before Fairy Cold Moon told him the Profound Domain was at war.
• Lin Xuan accompanied Su Lianxin to the Su Clan’s main lineage competition, where Su Lianxin challenged Su Ditian and defeated him with one strike.
• Su Lianxin revealed that the Su Clan patriarch had stolen her Su Ancestor’s Thearch Blood and given it to Su Ditian, while Lin Xuan fought off the patriarch and the clan’s experts.
• The Su Clan ancestor confirmed the patriarch’s wrongdoing, returned the Emperor Blood to Su Lianxin, and apologized, but Su Lianxin left with Lin Xuan and rejected the clan’s offer to restore her place.
• The patriarch gave Su Ditian an Emperor Bone from the ancestral grounds, hoping it would help him become another Thearch Realm expert.
• Su Lianxin fused with her Emperor Blood, returned to the Sword Pavilion, and led disciples against the invaders as she pursued war merits and a higher Earth Ranking position.
• Su Lianxin severed His Highness Sixty-Five’s arm, and when a Mystic Ranking saber genius blocked his escape, he struck the genius and sent him flying.

Su Lianxin and Qu Youmeng brought the Sword Pavilion prominence by defeating otherworldly royals, while Di Xi’s rise ended in a near-fatal defeat. Lin Xuan operated through an undercover royal identity, and the stretch ended with Qu Youmeng confronting him over Chen Xiao’s injuries.

• Su Lianxin killed the Sixty-Fifth Highness and took first place on the Earth Ranking, stirring celebration and disputes between the Profound Alliance and Ancient Alliance.
• After the Sixty-Fourth Highness repeatedly challenged Su Lianxin, Qu Youmeng fought in her place, defeated him, and declared that he was unworthy of challenging her senior sister.
• Lin Xuan killed Your Highness Thirty-Six and Your Highness Thirty-Seven with one sword strike, while Di Xi killed His Highness Fifty-Five and rose to second on the Earth Ranking.
• Di Xi defeated His Highness Forty-Seven, but later grew overconfident and was nearly killed by Their Highnesses Forty-Three and Forty-Six before a woman in white slew them.
• Ouyang Henshui attacked Your Highness Sixty-Three, unaware that the royal was Lin Xuan’s undercover clone, and was sent away badly injured.
• Your Highness Sixty-Three battered Chen Xiao and let him escape, while Chen Xiao returned to his companions believing the royal had seen through his methods.
• Qu Youmeng investigated Chen Xiao’s account and confronted Lin Xuan on the battlefield, asking whether he had injured her junior brother.

Lin Xuan and his allies defeated the Holy Spirit Essence, exposed Chu Chen’s lies, and left Wu Liang to punish the imperial clans. As the other races challenged humanity to a deadly arena contest, the human roster was shaken by defections, and Cheng Jing Ting stepped forward to face His Highness Thirty-Nine.

• Lin Xuan saved Qu Youmeng from other-race royals, then met Bai Linglong and Su Lianxin near the Great Yu Empire’s imperial mausoleum.
• Wu Liang defeated the Holy Spirit Essence with the Chu Household’s help and revealed himself as Chongming, while Chu Chen’s false claims were exposed and Su Lianxin killed him.
• Wu Liang sealed the secret realm’s exit and slaughtered the imperial clans, sparing the Bai Household except for its chief culprit.
• The alliances selected ten human prodigies for the arena challenge, but four great imperial lineages defected to the other races and left several places vacant.
• Su Lianxin emerged from seclusion, received an ancient sword from Lin Xuan, and joined him and the Demon Thearch as they set out for the arena.
• His Highness Thirty-Nine killed Jiang Ta in one blow, then taunted the humans as Cheng Jing Ting entered the arena to avenge his destroyed sect.