Recaps

Lin Xuan claimed the Chongming Bird inheritance for Wu Liang, defeated their enemies, and broke through to the Great Emperor Realm. He reunited with Lin Ye, learned how to restore the Vast Sea Saint King and Gu Hao, and began reviving them with the Spiritless Spiritual Spring.

• Wu Liang claimed the Chongming Sun-Setting Bow, and Lin Xuan defeated Yuan Ying and forced Wu Huan and Wu Lie to recognize Wu Liang as the clan’s Holy Son.
• Lin Xuan crippled Yuan Ying and vowed to destroy the Profound Heaven Holy Land in three years.
• Lin Xuan killed Tu Zhengshan while defending the Feng Household, then broke through to the Great Emperor Realm during a lightning tribulation.
• Lin Xuan and Wu Liang reached Bifang Divine Mountain, where Lin Xuan killed the Ancient Tuo Saint and another Ancient Alligator Half-Saint before inviting the Bifang Clan into his Sword Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan awakened the stone wall and met Lin Ye’s remnant soul, who offered the Spiritless Spiritual Spring as a way to nourish the Vast Sea Saint King and explained how to restore his own remnant souls.
• Lin Xuan and Wu Liang found the spring and ancient Spirit Soul Moss, then released the Vast Sea Saint King’s remnant soul into the water while the Bifang Clan forged a body for Gu Hao.
• After a month, Gu Hao’s soul had nearly become solid and his body was taking shape, but Lin Ye warned that the spring was exhausted and Gu Hao would regain only a little over thirty percent of his former strength.

Lin Xuan rescued the Chongming Bird Clan, then traveled to the Taiyu Divine Dynasty to investigate Ancestor Zhiruo’s sword and search for Wang Yan. After saving Dongfang Muxue from an assassination plot, he stayed at the True Spirit Prince’s Mansion while a Mansion Competition and political tensions gathered around him.

• Lin Xuan revived Gu Hao and Cheng Jing Ting, recruited Cheng Jing Ting into the Sword Pavilion, and set out for the Chongming Bird Clan’s Saint City.
• Wu Liang wielded the Sun-Setting Bow to rally the Chongming Bird Clan against its attackers, while the Vast Sea Saint King and Lin Xuan drove off the Holy Spirits threatening Saint City.
• Wu Jishan recognized the Vast Sea Saint King and let Wu Liang remain the clan’s holy son and follow Lin Xuan beyond the Luo Heaven Domain.
• After receiving messages about the Taiyu Divine Dynasty and learning of a broken Saint Weapon engraved with Lin, Lin Xuan accepted Xia Mengyao’s invitation to the Mansion Competition.
• Lin Xuan and the Vast Sea Saint King reached the Blackwater Swamp, where they found two Nether Soul Saint Lingzhi plants alongside Dongfang Muxue’s party.
• The Eldest Imperial Prince’s forces trapped Dongfang Muxue’s group, but Lin Xuan shattered their killing array and killed its two Saint Realm leaders, allowing Dongfang Muxue to deal with the traitor Hong Xi.
• Lin Xuan and the Vast Sea Saint King arrived at the True Spirit Prince’s Mansion, where Lin Xuan searched for Wang Yan and Ancestor Zhiruo’s soul and received a gift from the princess he had saved.
• Lin Xuan noticed a young swordsman following a flawed Sword Intent, received gifts sent by Princess Muxue, and confronted Commander Liu, who said Lin Xuan’s companion herbs had helped him and his colleagues recover.

Lin Xuan entered the Dark Orchid Secret Realm, won the Mansion Competition for Dongfang Muxue’s faction, and recovered the pieces of Zhiruo’s broken sword. He then entered the Great Cosmos Holy Academy’s Sword Pool to study its sword traces before preaching, while skeptical holy teachers prepared to challenge him.

• Commander Liu offered Lin Xuan a place in the Dark Orchid Secret Realm, and Lin Xuan accepted despite the risks of joining Dongfang Muxue’s faction.
• Lin Xuan entered the secret realm with Ji Yanbai and Wan Hao, found fragments of Zhiruo’s sword, and concluded he would need to win the Mansion Competition to obtain its hilt.
• Dugu Yun challenged Lin Xuan over his place in the secret realm, but Lin Xuan’s pressure forced Dugu Yun to his knees, and Lin Xuan later accepted Dongfang Muxue’s offer to compete for the True Spirit Prince’s Mansion.
• Lin Xuan defeated Xue Yan and then Xu Yan with his sword, turning the Mansion Competition in Dongfang Muxue’s favor as defectors regretted abandoning her.
• Lin Xuan received the sword hilt and blade fragments as his competition reward, but his attempts to join them failed because the residual Sword Qi threatened his divine soul.
• Dongfang Muxue invited Lin Xuan to the Great Cosmos Holy Academy to study its Sword Pool and preach the Dao, and Lin Xuan accepted.
• Lin Xuan lit all twelve sword shadows with one strike, entered the Sword Pool, calmed its surging Sword Qi, and studied its sword traces for three days.
• Lin Xuan emerged from the Sword Pool, while the holy teachers gathered to challenge and humiliate him.

Lin Xuan taught at the Great Cosmos Holy Academy, helped Wang Yan rise to the top of the Pagoda of a Hundred Saints, and rescued Ji Zhenyi and his ancestor Lin Zhiruo from the Forgotten River Small World. At the succession announcement, Dongfang Muxue was named heir, but the Eldest Imperial Prince’s alliance with the Mingli remnants sparked an attack on the Taiyu Divine Dynasty.

• Lin Xuan silenced the Great Cosmos Holy Academy’s skeptical instructors by displaying his sword intents and Edgeless Sword Domain, then taught the students and gave Wu Qing weapons and guidance.
• Lin Xuan strengthened Wang Yan through the Stele Forest trials, and Wang Yan reached the Thearch Realm before taking first place in the Pagoda of a Hundred Saints.
• Lin Xuan learned that Ji Zhenyi was trapped in the Forgotten River Small World, broke in to save her and A Lin, and recognized A Lin as his ancestor Lin Zhiruo.
• Lin Xuan brought Ji Zhenyi and Lin Zhiruo out of the small world and accepted an invitation to the Taiyu Divine Dynasty’s succession announcement.
• The Taiyu Divine Lord named Dongfang Muxue his successor, but the Eldest Imperial Prince objected and summoned the Mingli Divine Dynasty remnants.
• The Mingli remnants sealed the capital and attacked Dongfang Ji, while two Taiyu Great Saints betrayed him and joined the assault.
• Lin Xuan and the Vast Sea Saint King intervened, but Dongfang Ji told them not to interfere as he prepared to fight the three Great Saints.
• The Vast Sea Saint King chose to defend the Taiyu Divine Dynasty and the Sword Pavilion, then broke through the attackers’ combined strike with his halberd.