Recaps

Chu Yunfei cured Ling Zhantian’s poison and obtained the pill needed to restore his body and soul, while drawing the attention of Qin Hao and the Blood Baleful Intent Tower. After the Tower’s assassins attacked the palace, Ling Changkong drove them off, and the group concluded that the Tower’s scheme reached into the seven sects and the coming competition.

• Xiaoxiao Dragon explained how the Divine Cauldron could refine origins from corpses and revealed that its second seal required a heavenly mandate origin, while Chu Yunfei began drawing poison from Ling Zhantian.
• Chu Yunfei spent hours removing the Soul-Devouring Nether Poison from Ling Zhantian’s body and soul, then told Ling Xueyao and Shen Qianyue that pills were needed to restore him.
• Chu Yunfei trained in the Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword and mastered its first four strikes before Ling Xueyao took him and Shen Qianyue to the Pill Pavilion auction.
• Chu Yunfei won the Purple Lightning Heart-Devouring Vine for Little Purple, and Ling Xueyao bid three million mid-grade spirit stones to secure the Soul-Consolidating Origin-Returning Pill for Ling Zhantian.
• Chu Yunfei won a mysterious stone stele after Xiaoxiao Dragon urged him to obtain it, then faced Qin Hao outside the auction as Ling Xueyao named Chu Yunfei her future prince consort.
• The Blood Baleful Intent Tower sent assassins to test whether Ling Zhantian had awakened, and Chu Yunfei administered the pills while Shen Qianyue and Zhou Xuancheng fought the attackers.
• Ling Changkong shattered a Dao Mysterious Realm deputy tower master’s attack and forced the observers to withdraw, while Chu Yunfei removed the remaining poison from Ling Zhantian.
• Ling Xueyao, Chu Yunfei, and Ling Changkong linked the Tower to Ling Zhantian’s poisoning and a wider scheme involving the seven sects, then Ling Xueyao and Chu Yunfei agreed to remain in the palace for three days.

Chu Yunfei advanced rapidly, mastered the Great Heaven-Burning Art, and defeated several sect prodigies at Ling Chengyuan’s banquet. As the Seven Sects Grand Competition approached, new enemies and old connections converged on the imperial city, and Chu Yunfei sent Si Yunshu a cryptic message for Qin Yangui.

• Chu Yunfei broke through to the third level of the Heavenly Origin Realm, then practiced the Great Heaven-Burning Art until its backlash forced him into a dangerous exchange of power with Ling Xueyao that advanced both their cultivation.
• Ling Chengyuan held a banquet to test Chu Yunfei, where Chu Yunfei killed Lin Yue, defeated Wu Changge, destroyed Yue Chenzhou’s puppet, and severed Qin Hao’s sword arm.
• Chu Yunfei warned Ling Xueyao that he would grow strong enough to face the consequences of crippling Qin Hao, while the Heavenly Evil Devil Sect’s holy son resolved to capture him at the Seven Sects Grand Competition.
• Lin Wanyin learned that Situ Shuang’er had awakened the Nine-Colored Imperial Phoenix Physique and warned her to protect the secret and not harm Chu Yunfei, while the Heavenly Sword Sect’s leaders debated targeting him for the Heaven-Slaying Sword Emperor Key.
• Wen Buqi left the Heavenly Sword Sect for the Jade Firmament Sect after opposing Meng Tianyun’s plan, while Nangong Wuhen vowed to kill Chu Yunfei and obtain Situ Shuang’er and Lin Wanyin.
• Li Tianxing ambushed Chu Yunfei on East Street, but Si Yunshu interrupted and challenged him to meet at the Seven Sects Grand Competition.
• Si Yunshu questioned Chu Yunfei about the Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword, and Chu Yunfei asked her to deliver a message to Qin Yangui naming Lu Shaoyuan, then left for the palace.

Chu Yunfei deepened his relationship with Ling Xueyao and learned the significance of his swords, but Ling Zhantian forced him out of the palace to avoid conflict with his enemies. After killing two pursuing elders, Chu Yunfei faced a stronger attacker and exposed him as Ling Zhantian, who sought to capture him and take his secrets.

• Chu Yunfei and Ling Xueyao strengthened their cultivation together, and Ling Xueyao confessed that she liked him.
• Ling Zhantian identified the Giant Que Sword as an inheritance key and revealed that Luo Wuxu had left with an envoy from the Vast Waves Sacred Academy.
• Ling Zhantian warned Chu Yunfei that the Blood Baleful Intent Tower intended to use him to provoke conflict and forced him to leave the palace.
• Chu Yunfei concealed his expulsion from Ling Xueyao, accepted her supplies, and left while enemy watchers followed him.
• Ling Xueyao confronted Ling Zhantian and declared her commitment to Chu Yunfei, prompting Ling Zhantian to confine her and forbid her from sending messages.
• Chu Yunfei lured Chen Xuanhai and Han Kui into the mountains, killed them with the Great Heaven-Burning Art and his sword techniques, and refined their corpses.
• Chu Yunfei used Origin Divine Liquid to recover from a hidden attacker’s strike and advanced to the seventh level of the Heavenly Origin Realm.
• Chu Yunfei exposed the attacker as Ling Zhantian, and Ling Zhantian drew the Imperial Dao Dragon Sword to capture him and seize his secrets.

Chu Yunfei survived Ling Zhantian’s attack, recovered through Wen Jiao’s sacrifice, and killed Zhou Heng and Zhou Changgeng. He set out for the imperial capital as the Blood Baleful Intent Tower prepared to exploit the conflict between Great Qian and the seven sects.

• Chu Yunfei used his Great Heaven-Burning Art to defeat Ling Zhantian, who escaped before Chu Yunfei collapsed from his injuries.
• Wen Jiao brought Chu Yunfei to the Jade Firmament Sect and used the Dragon and Phoenix Dao Emperor Scripture to heal him, advancing both their cultivation.
• Chu Yunfei recovered, learned that Ling Zhantian had attacked him and that Ling Xueyao was unreachable, then resolved to return to the capital with Wen Jiao.
• Chu Yunfei killed Zhou Heng after Zhou attacked him, then fought Zhou Changgeng and Wu Yong until Danyuanzi stopped the confrontation and let him go.
• The Blood Baleful Intent Tower Master learned that Ling Zhantian had recovered and planned to draw Chu Yunfei to the capital, while an attempt to probe Elder Nether Baleful Intent’s memories nearly killed him.
• Chu Yunfei perfected all nine strikes of the Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword and boarded Wen Jiao’s flying boat despite sensing an ambush nearby.
• Zhou Changgeng intercepted the boat with two elders, but Chu Yunfei killed him and the fleeing elders after discovering Zhou’s allegiance to the Blood Baleful Intent Tower.
• Chu Yunfei warned Wen Buqi that the Blood Baleful Intent Tower had infiltrated the Jade Firmament Sect, then entered seclusion aboard the boat to prepare for a breakthrough to the Divine Sea Realm.