Recaps

Qiaoqiao used a High Antiquity sword form to defeat a Howling Wind Beast, impressing the elders and silencing Yue Su. Yue Liuqin then stole Qiaoqiao’s prey and defended herself with the same argument her father used to justify the theft, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Qiaoqiao drove a Howling Wind Beast into a crater with Slay the Star River, earning praise from the elders and a rebuke from Yue Su.
• Qiaoqiao went to claim the trapped beast, but Yue Liuqin killed it with her Law Treasure and took the points.
• Qiaoqiao accused Yue Liuqin of stealing her prey and pointed out the Sword Qi she had left on the beast.
• Yue Liuqin insisted that the trial rewarded strength, and Qiaoqiao reminded her that those were Yue Liuqin’s own words.
• Shen Ji criticized Moonlight Peak, while Yue Su defended his daughter and disparaged Ethereal Peak’s disciples, angering Xiao Tingyu and Wen Zhi.

Qiaoqiao learned that Tingxi was Yue Liuqin’s younger brother, Yue Tingxi, and heard how their father had abused and disowned him. She also discovered that Yue Liuqin had entered the trial with an illegally smuggled Earth Grade Seven Stars Compass, leaving the elders appalled at Yue Su.

• Yue Liuqin mocked Tingxi for associating with Qiaoqiao and revealed that he had been cast out of the Yue household.
• Tingxi admitted that Yue Liuqin was his older sister and tried to leave, but Qiaoqiao stopped him.
• Qiaoqiao recalled that Yue Su had favored Yue Liuqin, punished Yue Tingxi for her injuries, forced him to heal her with his heart’s blood, and then disowned him.
• Qiaoqiao thought Yue Su’s schemes had come to nothing and revealed that he had secretly given Yue Liuqin a Seven Stars Compass to help her win the trial.
• Qiaoqiao realized Yue Liuqin had used the compass to locate Demon Beasts and steal her kill, while the elders learned Yue Su had smuggled an Earth Grade Law Treasure into the trial.

Qiaoqiao continued through the secret realm with Yue Tingxi, despite his ties to Yue Liuqin, and discovered that Moonlight Peak disciples had been stripping the area of spirit herbs to hinder her. The pair ended the day with almost no points and learned Yue Liuqin had ordered the sabotage.

• After defeating the Howling Wind Beast, Qiaoqiao cut up the tangled demonic vine and stored it, then told Yue Tingxi she did not blame him for being Yue Liuqin’s brother.
• Qiaoqiao and Yue Tingxi searched for spirit herbs, but found the nearby plants already harvested and footprints left behind.
• Qiaoqiao found a Moonlight Peak disciple’s waist token in the weeds and realized Yue Liuqin had sent her disciples ahead to take the spirit herbs.
• After a day of searching, Qiaoqiao and Yue Tingxi had gained no points beyond what they had collected at the start, and Yue Tingxi apologized for dragging her down.

Qiaoqiao led Yue Tingxi to the cliff where Yue Liuqin was battling two Startled Owl Birds, intending to collect points and watch her rival suffer. After Yue Liuqin used an earth-grade Law Treasure to wound one bird, Qiaoqiao claimed its points while Yue Liuqin was too injured to stop her.

• Qiaoqiao took Yue Tingxi deeper into the secret realm to find fourth-rank Demon Beasts and brought him to the cliff where the Startled Owl Birds were attacking Yue Liuqin and Xuan Sheng.
• Yue Liuqin’s disciples fell in battle, and she was driven to the cliff edge after the birds proved more aggressive than she had expected.
• Yue Liuqin threw her Seven Stars Compass at an attacking bird, destroying the earth-grade Law Treasure and injuring herself, Xuan Sheng, and the birds.
• Qiaoqiao and Yue Tingxi appeared as Yue Liuqin lay injured, and Qiaoqiao gathered Sword Qi to claim the wounded Startled Owl Bird’s points.
• Yue Liuqin protested that the bird was hers, but Qiaoqiao pocketed its five hundred points and told her she should have protected her prey.

Yue Tingxi hesitated over whether to save Yue Liuqin, while Qiaoqiao warned him about her past betrayal. Yue Liuqin fell from the cliff and escaped the secret realm with her Spirit Root ruined, as Mu Liuyun confronted Yue Su over the Earth Grade Law Treasure.

• Yue Liuqin clung to the collapsing cliff and called for Yue Tingxi to save her.
• Qiaoqiao reminded Yue Tingxi that Yue Liuqin had abused and betrayed him, and he stopped before helping her.
• Yue Su cursed Yue Tingxi for hesitating, but Immortal Venerable Wanghan's killing intent silenced him.
• Yue Liuqin lost her grip as the Startled Owl Bird struck her with vengeful fire, and she crushed her wooden token to leave the secret realm.
• Mu Liuyun questioned Yue Su about the Earth Grade Law Treasure, while a medical cultivator reported that demonic fire had destroyed Yue Liuqin's Spirit Root.

Inside the trial secret realm, Qiaoqiao led Yue Tingxi to a cave where he received Xiaoyaozi’s legacy, while she discovered the remains of the Eastern Divine Pillar and met the Flowing Cloud Sect’s founding ancestor, Sword Immortal Liuyun. The chapter ended with Liuyun asking Qiaoqiao whether she had learned Slay the Star River.

• Qiaoqiao made Yue Tingxi scout through the mist and pushed him into a cave, where Xiaoyaozi offered to teach him the Innate Primordial Five Elements Technique.
• Yue Tingxi accepted Xiaoyaozi’s legacy, and Peak Master Yue collapsed after learning that the son he had driven out had found a great opportunity.
• Qiaoqiao accidentally fell into a lower level of the cave and found what the elders identified as the remains of the Eastern Divine Pillar.
• Qiaoqiao opened a stone door behind the altar and met Sword Immortal Liuyun, the Flowing Cloud Sect’s founding ancestor.
• Liuyun told Qiaoqiao that she had once been the master of Ethereal Peak and asked whether Qiaoqiao had learned Slay the Star River.

Qiaoqiao won the trial after receiving sword instruction from the Sword Immortal, then visited Yue Liuqin to make her honor their wager. Yue Liuqin posted her admission on the Jade Slip forum and accused Qiaoqiao of plotting against her, prompting Yue Su to strike her.

• The Sword Immortal taught Qiaoqiao two ancient sword forms, and Mu Liuyun told Yue Su that Yue Liuqin had lost her wager; Yue Su fainted in anger.
• Qiaoqiao and Yue Tingxi gathered herbs and defeated Demon Beasts, finishing first and second in the trial with 1,000 and 800 points.
• Qiaoqiao thanked Yue Liuqin for the 500 points during her acceptance speech, and the injured Yue Liuqin fainted again in fury.
• Qiaoqiao visited Yue Liuqin with Yue Tingxi and insisted that she fulfill their wager, reminding her of the suffering Yue Tingxi had endured.
• Yue Liuqin made the required post on the Jade Slip forum, accused Qiaoqiao of deliberately plotting against her, and was slapped by Yue Su.

After Yue Liuqin revealed that Yue Tingxi had been falsely accused, Yue Su tried to bring his son back to Moonlight Peak. Yue Tingxi refused and joined Ethereal Peak as Ning Shuang’s disciple, leaving Yue Su behind in humiliation.

• Yue Liuqin told Yue Su that Yue Tingxi had not injured her and condemned Yue Su for falsely accusing him.
• Yue Su asked Yue Tingxi to return to Moonlight Peak, but Yue Tingxi walked to Qiaoqiao and asked to join Ethereal Peak.
• Yue Su tried to stop Yue Tingxi, but the sect master reminded him that Yue Tingxi could choose his own peak and that Yue Su had severed ties with him.
• Ning Shuang offered to take Yue Tingxi as her disciple, and Yue Tingxi accepted.
• Qiaoqiao and the others left with Yue Tingxi for Ethereal Peak to hold his discipleship ceremony, while Yue Su remained behind.

Qiaoqiao collected the bets she had won after taking first place in the trial, then attended Yue Tingxi’s discipleship ceremony and reported to Immortal Venerable Wanghan. The chapter ended with her telling her master she had been hurt and him asking where.

• Disciples from the other peaks paid Qiaoqiao their bets and tried to add her as a Jade Slip friend, but Shen Ji drove them off.
• Ethereal Peak disciples praised Qiaoqiao for winning the trial as Yue Tingxi completed his discipleship ceremony.
• Yue Tingxi secretly added Qiaoqiao to his closest friends on his Jade Slip.
• Qiaoqiao credited Shen Ji’s instruction for her victory, and Immortal Venerable Wanghan rewarded him with a sword manual from the library’s seventh floor.
• Qiaoqiao told Immortal Venerable Wanghan that she had been hurt during the trial, and he asked where.

Qiaoqiao earned permission from Bai Fu to attend the lantern festival after the sect master's birthday banquet, then reached Foundation Establishment during seclusion and went to the celebration with Elder Ning and Yue Tingxi. At Flowing Cloud Peak, she discovered a group of disciples beating and mocking a mute boy who was her senior brother.

• Qiaoqiao showed Bai Fu a small cut, and he gave her precious Nine Fragrance Jade Dew to treat it.
• Bai Fu invited Qiaoqiao to represent Ethereal Peak at Mu Liuyun's birthday banquet and granted her wish to visit Flying Kite City's lantern festival afterward.
• Qiaoqiao entered seclusion, reached Foundation Establishment, and emerged having also practiced the sword moves she had been taught.
• Qiaoqiao, the immortal crane, Elder Ning, and Yue Tingxi went to Flowing Cloud Peak with Ethereal Peak's birthday gift.
• Qiaoqiao heard disciples insulting her senior brother, then saw them kick and mock the silent boy as he curled around his Dantian.

Qiaoqiao rescued Fu Fengyuan from a group of sect disciples who were beating and humiliating him, then drove them off with help from A Xue. Afterward, she cared for her injured fourth senior brother and remembered how his cultivation had been crippled by blocked meridians.

• Qiaoqiao rushed in and knocked down the disciple about to kick Fu Fengyuan, then warned the group about the sect rules.
• The disciples mocked Qiaoqiao and Fu Fengyuan, and Wu Fang tried to lash Qiaoqiao with his whip.
• Fu Fengyuan caught the whip and told the wastrels not to touch Little Junior Sister, but Wu Fang burned his hand and the group attacked.
• A Xue descended and struck the wastrels down with Spiritual Qi feathers, while Qiaoqiao taunted them for ganging up on her.
• Qiaoqiao made Wu Fang kneel before Fu Fengyuan and gave her injured fourth senior brother wound medicine.
• Qiaoqiao recalled that Fu Fengyuan had once been cheerful, but blocked meridians had left him unable to use techniques and in recurring pain, so Elder Ning sent him to True Person Yao for treatment.

Qiaoqiao remembered how Fu Fengyuan’s torment would end in his suicide and cried, prompting her fellow disciples to defend him and confront his abusers. The group headed for the birthday banquet, where they found the wastrels preparing to drink together.

• Fu Fengyuan tried to leave so his junior sister would not be dragged into trouble, but Qiaoqiao’s tears stopped him.
• Qiaoqiao remembered that Fu Fengyuan’s injuries and abuse would drive him to pierce his Dantian and kill himself.
• Xiao Tingyu threatened Wu Fang, and Wen Zhi gave him Excruciating Pain Powder until he revealed where the wastrels had gone.
• Shen Ji took Fu Fengyuan with him to demand justice, and Qiaoqiao and the immortal crane joined them.
• The group arrived at the birthday banquet and saw the wastrels gathered beneath a peach blossom tree, where one boasted about his Flying Jade Wine.

Shen Ji and the others from Ethereal Peak defended Fu Fengyuan after Flowing Cloud Sect wastrels humiliated him, but Elder Chang arrived and ordered only their group to face punishment. Qiaoqiao recognized something about Elder Chang just as he moved to summon the Law Enforcement Hall.

• Shen Ji poured wine over a wastrel and kicked him down after he tried to celebrate with Sword Immortal Liuyun's wine.
• A Xue hid Qiaoqiao and the others behind an illusion while Qiaoqiao beat the wastrels, and Xiao Tingyu kicked one who insulted Fu Fengyuan.
• Qiaoqiao threatened the wastrels with Wen Zhi's Excruciating Pain Powder, and they swore heart oaths not to harm Fu Fengyuan again.
• Elder Chang shattered A Xue's illusion and listened as Wu Fang and the wastrels accused Ethereal Peak's group of causing trouble.
• Elder Chang ordered only Ethereal Peak's disciples to go to the Law Enforcement Hall, and Qiaoqiao stared at him, thinking that she remembered something.

Qiaoqiao revealed through her inner thoughts that Elder Chang planned to meet Immortal Lord Moonfall in secret while dressed in women’s clothes, prompting Ethereal Peak’s disciples and a growing crowd to follow him. Elder Chang reached the secluded willow in the back mountains, unaware that Qiaoqiao’s group—and his wife—were heading there too.

• Qiaoqiao remembered that Elder Chang wore women’s clothes to meet his lovers and revealed that he was hurrying to see Immortal Lord Moonfall.
• Elder Chang let the dispute with Wu Fang go and hurried away, while Qiaoqiao and her senior brothers and sisters decided to follow him.
• Qiaoqiao told people along the way that Elder Chang had an urgent matter, and more than a hundred people joined the group.
• Elder Chang changed into women’s clothes in a secluded room and went to the willow in the back mountains to meet Sword Lord Moonfall.
• Madam Chang heard that Elder Chang had an urgent matter and followed the crowd, leaving her freshly brewed medicine unattended.

Elder Chang’s secret rendezvous with Immortal Lord Moonfall was exposed when Qiaoqiao and a crowd of spectators caught him dressed as a woman. His wife immobilized him with silver needles and began tearing off his dress, leaving him helpless and exposed.

• Elder Chang dressed up and met Immortal Lord Moonfall beneath the great willow, where Moonfall praised his appearance and held him.
• Qiaoqiao arrived with hundreds of spectators, who saw Elder Chang posing seductively in Moonfall’s arms.
• Elder Chang panicked when the crowd recognized him, and Moonfall dropped him to the ground beside his wife.
• Elder Chang’s wife calmly asked if he had put on the wrong clothes and accidentally fallen onto Moonfall.
• Elder Chang’s wife took out medical scissors and said she would grant his wish to dress as a woman.
• Elder Chang’s wife immobilized him with silver needles and ripped his dress apart, exposing his legs.

At the sect master's birthday banquet, Qiaoqiao helped expose Elder Chang's affair and received a jade token promising three treatments from Madam Chang, the Apricot Medical Immortal. As the group headed to the banquet, Bai Fu gave Fu Fengyuan hope that his damaged meridians might recover, while Qiaoqiao stayed close to her master.

• Sword Lord Qingyun stopped Madam Chang from cutting Elder Chang and persuaded her to leave his punishment to the sect rules.
• The Law Enforcement Hall took Elder Chang away, and Madam Chang thanked Qiaoqiao with a white jade token promising to treat three people for her.
• Sword Lord Qingyun recognized Qiaoqiao as the trial's first-place disciple before the group set off for the birthday banquet.
• Bai Fu called Fu Fengyuan over and examined his wrist, then told him to wait calmly for a turning point.
• Qiaoqiao encouraged Fu Fengyuan by pointing to Yue Tingxi's unexpected path to becoming Xiaoyaozi's successor.
• Bai Fu called Qiaoqiao to his side, and she obediently went to him.

Mu Ye arrived at the Flowing Cloud Sect’s birthday banquet, where Qiaoqiao presented a gift and heard the story of Sword Lord Qingyun’s devotion to Mu Liuyun. Qiaoqiao then remembered that Qingyun was a hypocrite and rotten to the core, leaving the gathered disciples eager to learn what he had done.

• A wastrel told Mu Ye that Qiaoqiao had beaten him and that Fu Fengyuan had Ethereal Peak backing him, prompting Mu Ye to go find them.
• Qiaoqiao presented Ethereal Peak’s gift to Mu Liuyun, who encouraged her to try something, while Mu Ye arrived and respectfully greeted his mother.
• Ning Shuang told Qiaoqiao and the others that Mu Liuyun had once been married to Sword Lord Qingshuang and that Qingyun had stayed beside her after his death.
• Qiaoqiao questioned how Elder Chen could have embezzled eighty million Spirit Stones if Qingyun was as upright as people said.
• Qiaoqiao remembered that Qingyun was a hypocrite and condemned him in her thoughts, startling the disciples who heard her.

At the birthday banquet, Ethereal Peak’s disciples reacted to Qiaoqiao’s thoughts revealing that Sword Lord Qingyun had murdered his sworn brother and switched the sect master’s son with his own. When Mu Ye tried to poison Fu Fengyuan, Qiaoqiao intervened and revealed that Fu Fengyuan was the sect master’s biological child, leaving him stunned.

• Mu Liuyun visited Ethereal Peak’s table with Sword Lord Qingyun and Mu Ye, while the disciples struggled to hide their disgust at Qingyun’s alleged crimes.
• Mu Ye offered Fu Fengyuan a cup of wine that Wen Zhi noticed had been tampered with.
• Qiaoqiao took the cup and declared in her thoughts that Fu Fengyuan was the sect master’s real son, whom Qingyun had abandoned in the mortal realm.
• Fu Fengyuan stood abruptly after hearing Qiaoqiao’s revelation, drawing the sect master’s attention as Mu Ye assumed he was upset about Qiaoqiao intervening.

Qiaoqiao proposed a sword match with Mu Ye, but Bai Fu sent Fu Fengyuan to fight in her place. Fu Fengyuan unexpectedly cleared his meridians and defeated Mu Ye, leaving everyone stunned as he began to recover.

• Qiaoqiao challenged Mu Ye to a sword match, offering to drink the cup if she lost and having her senior brother drink it if she won.
• Bai Fu ordered Fu Fengyuan to face Mu Ye, and Fu Fengyuan accepted despite believing he had little chance.
• Qiaoqiao encouraged Fu Fengyuan with storybook lines, and he shouted the response before the duel began.
• As Fu Fengyuan exchanged blows with Mu Ye, icy Spiritual Qi cleared his blocked meridians, awakening his sword intent and a golden dragon image.
• Fu Fengyuan defeated Mu Ye with the seventh form of the Ethereal Sword, then spat out stagnant blood and felt unprecedentedly at ease.

At Mu Liuyun’s birthday banquet, Qiaoqiao exposed Mu Ye’s poisoned wine and claimed he was not Mu Liuyun’s biological son, turning the gathering against him. Mu Liuyun ignored Mu Ye and stared at Fu Fengyuan, while Bai Fu stepped in to protect Qiaoqiao and Wen Zhi confirmed the wine was poisoned.

• Qiaoqiao urged Mu Ye to drink the wine he had poisoned for Fu Fengyuan and accused him of being a fake young sect master.
• The guests were shocked by Qiaoqiao’s claims, and Mu Ye denied them before looking to Mu Liuyun for reassurance.
• Mu Liuyun ignored Mu Ye and stared intently at Fu Fengyuan, making Mu Ye suspect Fu Fengyuan’s identity.
• Mu Ye’s killing intent rose toward Qiaoqiao, but Bai Fu stepped between them and frightened him with his presence.
• Sword Lord Qingyun offered to drink the wine for Mu Ye, but Wen Zhi tested it with a silver needle and declared it poisoned.
• Xiao Tingyu accused Mu Ye of poisoning the wine because he feared his identity would be exposed.

Mu Liuyun learned that Fu Fengyuan carried the Radiant Dragon Bloodline and began to believe he was her son with Sword Lord Qingshuang. Sword Lord Qingyun and Mu Ye tried to deflect suspicion, but Ning Shuang called for a blood relationship test, which Qingyun agreed to.

• Mu Liuyun recognized Fu Fengyuan’s Radiant Dragon Bloodline and asked who his parents were.
• Sword Lord Qingyun claimed Fu Fengyuan was his elder brother’s child, while Qiaoqiao insisted he was Mu Liuyun and Sword Lord Qingshuang’s son.
• Mu Ye panicked at the possibility of Fu Fengyuan taking his place, then accused Ethereal Peak of framing him and denied knowing about the poisoned wine.
• Fu Fengyuan defended Qiaoqiao, and Bai Fu showed his support for her.
• Ning Shuang proposed testing the blood relationship, and Sword Lord Qingyun agreed, assuring Mu Ye that he knew whose child Mu Ye was.

Qiaoqiao used the Zhaowu Mirror to expose Sword Lord Qingyun tampering with the blood test that had appeared to prove Mu Ye was Mu Liuyun’s son. The evidence led Mu Liuyun to suspect that Mu Ye was Qingyun’s child and that Qingyun had deceived her for years.

• Mu Liuyun and Mu Ye gave blood to the Blood-Drinking Gu, which glowed red after Sword Lord Qingyun secretly interfered with the test using Spiritual Qi.
• Mu Ye celebrated the result and accused Qiaoqiao of slandering him, while Qingyun urged that she be questioned.
• Qiaoqiao showed the Zhaowu Mirror’s record of green wood Spiritual Qi entering the basin, and Bai Fu enlarged the image for everyone to see.
• The spectators recognized the Spiritual Qi as Qingyun’s Vitality Sword Qi, and Qiaoqiao declared that Qingyun had tampered with the test to hide that Mu Ye was his son.
• Mu Liuyun noticed Mu Ye’s closeness to Qingyun, became shaken by the revelation, and accused Qingyun of tampering with the Gu insect.

Qiaoqiao exposed that Sword Lord Qingyun had fathered Mu Ye and murdered his elder brother, Sword Lord Qingshuang, to place his own son in the Flowing Cloud Sect’s succession. Qingyun confessed and was subdued, while Mu Liuyun confronted him over her husband’s murder.

• Qiaoqiao urged Mu Liuyun and Sword Lord Qingyun to test their blood with the Blood-Drinking Gu, and the results showed that Mu Ye was Qingyun’s child but not Mu Liuyun’s.
• Qiaoqiao revealed that Qingyun had abandoned Mu Ye’s birth mother and killed Qingshuang to make Mu Ye the young sect master.
• Qingyun attacked Qiaoqiao with Sword Qi, but Bai Fu deflected it, and Mu Liuyun and Elder Yao restrained him and sealed his cultivation.
• Qingyun confessed to killing Qingshuang and cursed Mu Liuyun, claiming he had acted to secure the sect for their child.
• Mu Liuyun told Qingyun coldly that he had killed her husband as Qingyun tried to justify his actions as love.

Mu Liuyun killed Sword Lord Qingyun after his crimes were exposed, and Qiaoqiao received praise and a reward for saving the Flowing Cloud Sect. A sudden Devil Cultivator invasion interrupted the celebration, leaving Qiaoqiao fighting three attackers with her newly mastered sword form.

• Mu Liuyun snapped Sword Lord Qingyun’s neck, and the sect praised Qiaoqiao for uncovering his treachery.
• Bai Fu told the elders that Qingshuang had revealed the truth in a dream and explained Fu Fengyuan’s bloodline awakening.
• Elder Yao gave Qiaoqiao five hundred thousand Spirit Stones, while the elders offered to guide Fu Fengyuan in cultivation.
• Mu Ye fled in despair but was strangled by Devil Qi emerging from a spatial rift.
• Devil Cultivators invaded the Flowing Cloud Sect, and Qiaoqiao drove back three attackers with Descending Flower Rain.

Qiaoqiao and the Flowing Cloud Sect fought off the Devil Cloud Sect’s invasion until the Devil Master arrived, demanding to know who had killed his daughter. Bai Fu intervened when the Devil Master attacked Qiaoqiao, and the two powerful masters began battling above Flowing Cloud Peak.

• Qiaoqiao fought Devil Cultivators while Shen Ji and Xiao Tingyu protected her, and she noticed suspicious elders and a familiar figure on the battlefield.
• The Devil Master emerged from the spatial rift and demanded to know whether Qiaoqiao had killed his daughter, Ziling.
• Shen Ji claimed responsibility for killing Ziling, but Qiaoqiao admitted she had arranged to send the Devil Heart to the Devil Master and asked whether he had eaten it.
• The enraged Devil Master struck at Qiaoqiao, knocking Shen Ji aside, but Bai Fu appeared and blocked the attack.
• Bai Fu challenged the Devil Master, and they fought more than a hundred moves in the air while the cultivators watched.