Recaps

Cao Youqian rejected the Fire God Sect’s surrender and gave its Great Sages a chance to flee while his allies hunted them. He defeated Great Sage Blood Pupils, and Great Sage Eight Treasures killed his opponent as they prepared to search for the sect’s treasures.

• The Fire God Sect master and his followers offered to serve Cao Youqian, but he refused and declared that he would slaughter them.
• Great Sage Blazing Sun challenged the Fire God Sect master and took him away to fight, while Cao Youqian offered Great Sage Blood Pupils a chance to live if he could defeat him.
• Cao Youqian let the Fire God Sect’s disciples flee, except for Black Harrier, and sent Song Zhaoyi and the others to hunt them as Great Sage Eight Treasures chose a Great Sage to fight.
• Cao Youqian fought Great Sage Blood Pupils without using the Sword Jade and killed him with the Extreme Dao Divine Fist after revealing his mastery of the True Essence of the Great Dao.
• Great Sage Eight Treasures used the opening to defeat and kill his opponent, then asked Cao Youqian whether his fighting skills were worthy of notice.

Cao Youqian, Great Sage Blazing Sun, and Great Sage Eight Treasures searched the Fire God Sect and discovered a hidden treasury, while the three major factions launched their assault on Cloud Witch Mountain. Great Sage Profound Crystal spotted approaching enemies as the armies advanced.

• Great Sage Blazing Sun returned after defeating the Fire God Sect Master, and Cao Youqian explained that he had let the sect’s forces escape to delay the three major factions.
• Cao Youqian, Great Sage Blazing Sun, and Great Sage Eight Treasures searched the Fire God Sect and found a concealed passage guarded by restrictions.
• Great Sage Blazing Sun used an ancient Dao Script character to dispel the Devil Qi sealing a door, revealing a vast treasury that the three agreed to divide equally.
• The three major factions surrounded Cloud Witch Mountain and ordered their armies to attack the Fire God Sect.
• Great Sage Profound Crystal led the Frenzied Lion Kingdom’s army into the mountain, then warned his forces that enemies were approaching.

Great Sage Profound Crystal intercepted Great Sage Devious Claw and bluffed him into checking the Fire God Sect’s soul lamp, then exploited his shock to defeat and kill him. Giant God Academy’s forces routed the sect’s fleeing followers, and Profound Crystal ordered them to leave no survivors as the academy pursued its victory.

• Great Sage Devious Claw flew toward the Frenzied Lion Kingdom, found Giant God Academy’s army, and tried to hide until he could escape.
• Great Sage Profound Crystal confronted Devious Claw and claimed that the Fire God Sect’s leader and other Great Sages had been suppressed or killed.
• Devious Claw checked the eight-flame lotus lamp and saw that the sect leader’s flame had gone out, giving Profound Crystal the opening to attack.
• Great Sage Profound Crystal battered Devious Claw while Giant God Academy’s forces charged the fleeing Fire God Sect cultivators.
• Profound Crystal killed Devious Claw and destroyed his escaping soul, then ordered the academy’s forces to pursue every remaining sect follower.
• Great Sage Profound Crystal admitted to King Golden Rhinoceros that he had bluffed about receiving a message from the Holy Son.

Heavy Sword Academy and Nine Nether Holy Land forces intercepted fleeing Fire God Sect cultivators and learned that the Holy Son of Dao Seeking had attacked the sect. They set out to seize the Fire God Devil Crystal, believing the Holy Son’s raid would lead them to its treasures.

• Great Sage Wufeng ordered the Heavy Sword Academy army to prepare after learning that Fire God Sect followers and Great Sages were fleeing toward them.
• Wufeng and Great Sage Xuantie ambushed two Fire God Sect Great Sages, killing one and crippling Great Sage Moya.
• Moya revealed that the Holy Son of Dao Seeking had attacked the Fire God Sect and was likely taking its treasures, but Wufeng dismissed his warnings and killed him.
• Wufeng told Xuantie that their forces would eventually make the Holy Son surrender the treasures he had taken.
• After learning about the Holy Son from defeated Fire God Sect Great Sages, Great Sage Guili ordered the Nine Nether Holy Land to hurry and claim the Fire God Devil Crystal.

Cao Youqian continued plundering the Fire God Sect before meeting the armies of the three major powers, whose leaders questioned the Giant God Academy’s actions. As Cao Youqian faced a hostile Great Sage at the sect headquarters, he invited the man to test his strength, leaving the gathered cultivators in silence.

• Cao Youqian and Great Sage Eight Treasures spent the night looting the Fire God Sect’s treasury, then Cao Youqian led his attendants to search more of the sect.
• Great Sage Guili accused Great Sage Profound Crystal of secretly sending Cao Youqian to attack the Fire God Sect’s headquarters, and Profound Crystal claimed Cao Youqian had defeated him and acted independently.
• The armies of the Nine Nether Holy Land, Heavy Sword Academy, and Giant God Academy entered the valley, with tensions rising between their leaders.
• After receiving Great Sage Eight Treasures’ warning that the other powers had arrived with ill intentions, Cao Youqian went to meet them.
• A hostile red-haired Great Sage confronted Cao Youqian, who identified himself as the Holy Son of Dao Seeking and challenged the man to test his strength.

Cao Youqian confronted the other forces’ Great Sages at the Fire God Sect headquarters and negotiated how they would divide its spoils. After three days of searching, the forces departed, and Cao Youqian planned to cultivate and grow stronger so he would not fall behind his Eldest Senior Brother.

• Cao Youqian intimidated Great Sage Heiming with his power, then explained that he had taken only the Fire God Sect Master’s treasury and a tenth of the headquarters’ other treasures.
• Great Sage Xuantie accepted Cao Youqian’s proposed division, and Great Sage Guili agreed as well despite wanting the Fire Devil God’s devil crystal.
• The six Great Sages assigned their forces separate areas to search, while Great Sage Guili warned Great Sage Heiming not to provoke Cao Youqian or his Dao Protector.
• Great Sage Wufeng advised Heavy Sword Holy Land’s disciples to avoid making an enemy of Cao Youqian.
• After three days and three nights, the three forces left the Fire God Sect, and Cao Youqian said he would cultivate and advance on the Barbarian Continent to keep up with his Eldest Senior Brother.

After Great Sage Benlei made progress in secluded cultivation, Chu Caiyi learned that the External Affairs Institute had found her children. She left Miaomiao Mountain with Chen Qianqian and Bai Qian to seek them out.

• Great Sage Benlei arrived after comprehending two points of the True Essence of the Great Dao and told Chu Feng he planned to travel and continue cultivating.
• Elder Little White visited Chu Feng's feast and gave Chu Caiyi a jade slip showing where her children were.
• Chu Caiyi told Chu Feng she had searched for her children and decided to leave to find them.
• Chen Qianqian and Bai Qian asked to accompany Chu Caiyi, and Chu Feng agreed after warning them to follow her instructions.
• Chu Caiyi, Chen Qianqian, and Bai Qian left Miaomiao Mountain.

Chu Caiyi traveled toward the Southern Yan Kingdom to find the children she had left behind, while the chapter introduced Li Ping'an, who supported his younger sister in Ningzhou City. Li Ping'an's engagement to Liu Jiahui was called off, and the chapter ended as Uncle Liu took offense at his refusal of the offered silver.

• Chu Caiyi told Chen Qianqian and Bai Qian that her children were almost eighteen, and Marquis Colorful Feather flew faster toward the Southern Yan Kingdom.
• Li Ping'an returned home to his younger sister, Li Yingying, and shared meat buns and roast chicken with her.
• Li Ping'an tended his wounds and prepared to practice the Black Tiger Saber Technique before Uncle Liu arrived with a chest of silver.
• Uncle Liu said Liu Jiahui had joined an immortal sect and wanted to sever her worldly ties, so he offered Li Ping'an a thousand taels to end their engagement.
• Li Ping'an rejected the thousand taels and asked for the original hundred taels and the money he had spent over the years, angering Uncle Liu.

After refusing most of the Liu Lineage’s money, Li Ping'an learned that they intended to kill him and planned an escape from Ningzhou. He evaded the Black Tiger Gang’s trap, though its men discovered the empty residence and alerted Deacon Yu.

• Li Ping'an accepted two hundred taels from Uncle Liu, who later revealed that he still intended to have Li Ping'an killed so Liu Jiahui could sever her emotional ties.
• Li Ping'an told Li Yingying to escape through the residence’s secret passage while he sought help from his master, the Fierce Tiger Hall Master.
• The Fierce Tiger Hall Master gave Li Ping'an a token for a Canal Gang boat, but secretly planned to use the token and Spirit Bee honey to track him and endanger the Canal Gang.
• Li Ping'an hid the token, disguised himself, and left through the secret tunnel beneath the residence.
• Black Tiger Gang members searched the empty Li residence, realized Li Ping'an had escaped, and sent word to Deacon Yu.

Deacon Yu pursued Li Ping'an and Li Yingying, but Chu Caiyi arrived with Chen Qianqian and Marquis Colorful Feather and revealed herself as their long-lost mother. After learning the Fierce Tiger Hall master's plan, Chu Caiyi agreed to let her children take revenge themselves and asked about their lives over the past seventeen years.

• Deacon Yu tracked Li Ping'an and Li Yingying to a road north of Ningzhou Prefecture and ordered his disciples to attack them.
• Chu Caiyi descended with Chen Qianqian and Marquis Colorful Feather and killed the Fierce Tiger Hall disciples with a single blow.
• Li Yingying recognized Chu Caiyi as their mother, and Chu Caiyi embraced her children.
• Chen Qianqian immobilized Deacon Yu and forced him to reveal the Fierce Tiger Hall master's plan against the siblings.
• Chu Caiyi promised to avenge her children, but agreed to let Li Ping'an and Li Yingying settle accounts with their enemies themselves.

Chu Caiyi reunited with Li Ping'an and Li Yingying, comforted them, and began preparing them to cultivate so they could pursue revenge. After assessing their aptitude and choosing their cultivation paths, she gave them new family names and taught them their first cultivation art; by morning, their presence had begun to change.

• Chu Caiyi embraced Li Ping'an and Li Yingying after hearing about their hardships, then made them a meal.
• Chu Caiyi tested the siblings’ aptitude: Li Ping'an showed top-grade aptitude, while Li Yingying’s violet light had faint traces of gold.
• Li Ping'an chose saber techniques and Li Yingying chose sword techniques, so Chu Caiyi gave them a Saint Rank art to build their foundation.
• Chu Caiyi told the siblings to take her surname and named Li Ping'an Chu Xuedao, keeping Ping'an as his familiar name.
• Chu Caiyi passed the siblings the Five Elements Primordial Art: Body Tempering Chapter, and they began cultivating while Deacon Yu remained silent in despair.
• At sunrise, Chu Caiyi opened her eyes and saw that her children’s presence had changed.

Chu Xuedao and Chu Yingying awakened their spirits and continued cultivating outside Ningzhou Prefecture while the Black Tiger Gang and other powers searched for Li Ping'an. When Fierce Tiger Hall disciples attacked, Chu Xuedao felled them with a cold snort and warned the gathered crowd that they had come to die.

• Chu Xuedao awakened his spirit, thanked Chu Caiyi, and learned that he had taken the first step toward cultivation.
• The Black Tiger Gang's leader, Hu Li, ordered Fierce Tiger Hall and the Tiger Fang Guards to search for Li Ping'an.
• News that Li Ping'an was outside the city drew the outer city's powers to Chu Xuedao and Chu Yingying as they cultivated.
• Hall Master Meng ordered Fierce Tiger Hall disciples to seize Chu Xuedao, but his cold snort made them collapse and injure themselves.
• Chu Xuedao stood and told the Black Tiger Gang's members that he had wanted to let them live longer, leaving the crowd silent.

Chu Xuedao revealed his newfound power as an immortal cultivator, killed the Black Tiger Gang’s attackers, and forced the surrounding factions to swear to destroy the gang by sunrise. After learning that Liu Jiahui had joined Severed Emotion Valley and was meant to sever her feelings for him, he left the assembled factions to carry out his ultimatum and faced his mother’s question about what he would do next.

• Chu Xuedao cut down the eighteen Tiger Fang Guards with a single saber strike, shocking the gathered factions into realizing he possessed extraordinary power.
• Chu Xuedao revealed that he had joined the ranks of immortal cultivators, and Hall Master Meng and Deacon Yu each took their own lives at his command.
• Chu Xuedao declared that Li Ping'an was dead and demanded a reason to spare the surrounding factions, while Hall Master He explained Liu Jiahui’s connection to Severed Emotion Valley.
• Chu Xuedao ordered the factions to wipe out the Black Tiger Gang by sunrise or face death themselves, and they hurried away to carry out his command.
• After the factions departed, Chu Caiyi asked Chu Xuedao what he planned to do next.

After Chu Xuedao vowed to destroy the Liu Lineage, the outer-city gangs wiped out the Black Tiger Gang for having hunted Li Ping'an, now known as Immortal Chu. Chu Caiyi and her companions then arrived in the inner city, drawing the attention of its households as Father Liu scrambled to learn what had happened.

• Chu Caiyi told Chu Xuedao to recover his Spiritual Qi before they went to destroy the Liu Lineage, while the outer-city gangs learned that Li Ping'an had joined an immortal sect.
• The outer-city gangs surrounded the Black Tiger Gang, and Iron Palm Water Skimmer told Black Tiger that Li Ping'an was now Immortal Chu and had ordered the gang's destruction.
• Black Tiger wrote a farewell letter and killed himself after the gangs promised to spare his descendants; the Black Tiger Gang's members followed, and the gangs moved to divide its wealth.
• Father Liu learned that the Black Tiger Gang had been attacked and ordered an investigation, then Chu Caiyi and her companions descended into the inner city.

Chu Xuedao and his family confronted the Liu Lineage at its residence, where Chu Caiyi destroyed the Liu Lineage’s supposed immortal artifacts. After Chu Xuedao revealed his identity and rejected Father Liu’s plea, he killed him, leaving the Liu Lineage finished.

• The Ningzhou prefect and local family heads hurried to the Liu residence after hearing that immortals had arrived, while the steward warned Father Liu that Li Ping'an was coming to attack.
• Chu Xuedao confronted Father Liu at the gates and declared that he would destroy the Liu Lineage; the prefect and family heads arrived but said they had come to pay their respects to Chu Xuedao.
• Father Liu ordered his men to bring out three blood-refined wooden swords and sent one flying at Chu Xuedao, but Chu Caiyi caught and shattered it, destroying the other two with it.
• Chu Caiyi told Chu Xuedao and Chu Yingying to handle the rest, and Father Liu realized that Chu Xuedao was his former son-in-law, Li Ping'an.
• Chu Xuedao told Father Liu that his name was Chu Xuedao and killed him with a stroke of his treasured saber.

After the Chu siblings killed the Liu Lineage, Chu Caiyi learned the general location of Severed Emotion Valley and set out with her companions. Liu Jiahui succeeded in Spirit Awakening, then discovered her family was dead and vowed revenge.

• Chu Caiyi confirmed that the Liu Lineage had been wiped out except for Liu Jiahui, then offered spirit beast meat and a cultivation manual in exchange for directions to Severed Emotion Valley.
• The prefect of Ningzhou and the local lineage heads gave Chu Caiyi information about the valley, and she spared the prefect and left the two rewards for them to divide.
• Chu Caiyi, Chen Qianqian, Bai Qian, and Marquis Colorful Feather flew toward Severed Emotion Valley, while the prefect warned the onlookers to keep quiet about what had happened.
• Liu Jiahui succeeded in Spirit Awakening, and Abbess Mieqing examined her after she asked why she still remembered Li Ping'an but not her family.
• Abbess Mieqing discovered that Liu Jiahui's blood relatives had died and promised to let her leave the sect grounds for revenge once she reached the third layer of Body Tempering.

Chu Xuedao arrived at Severed Emotion Valley to settle his grudge with Liu Jiahui, while Chu Caiyi and her companions watched from above. After Chu Caiyi killed two disciples who threatened him, the valley’s cultivators gathered to face the attackers, and Liu Jiahui was stunned to recognize Chu Xuedao as the man she had once known as a gang martial artist.

• Chu Caiyi brought Chu Xuedao down outside Severed Emotion Valley and told him she would help him settle his grudge with Liu Jiahui.
• Two Severed Emotion Valley disciples confronted Chu Xuedao, threatened him, and dismissed his warning that he could call for help.
• Chu Xuedao called to his mother, and Chu Caiyi struck down from above, reducing the two disciples to ashes.
• Severed Emotion Valley sounded its alarm, and thousands of cultivators, including Liu Jiahui, gathered outside the valley.
• Liu Jiahui recognized Chu Xuedao and told Abbess Mieqing that he was the person she had to sever her feelings for.
• Liu Jiahui insisted Chu Xuedao could not have joined an immortal sect because she had known him as a gang martial artist.

Chu Xuedao arrived at Severed Emotion Valley to confront Liu Jiahui, backed by four powerful women led by Chen Qianqian. Chen Qianqian crushed the valley master with a single Go stone, and as she prepared to strike again, an aged voice called for her to wait.

• Chu Xuedao challenged Liu Jiahui to face him at Severed Emotion Valley.
• The valley master demanded that Chu Xuedao's hidden backer reveal herself, and Chen Qianqian answered from above on a peacock with three other women.
• Chen Qianqian demanded that Severed Emotion Valley hand over Liu Jiahui, while the valley master drew the Severed Emotion Sword and attacked her.
• Chen Qianqian placed a black Go stone, summoning a giant hand that shattered the valley master's Sword Qi and slammed him into a crater.
• The cultivators of Severed Emotion Valley froze in fear as Chen Qianqian threatened them with another Go stone, and an aged voice called for her to wait.

Chu Caiyi and her companions forced Severed Emotion Valley to surrender Liu Jiahui and provide compensation after someone there threatened her children. Chu Xuedao killed Liu Jiahui, and the group left with an old wooden box, while Severed Emotion Valley’s supreme elder realized they had narrowly avoided disaster.

• Severed Emotion Valley’s supreme elder emerged and agreed to hand over Liu Jiahui and compensate Chu Caiyi’s group.
• Abbess Mieqing told Liu Jiahui to face the consequences, and Liu Jiahui pleaded with Chu Xuedao for her life.
• Chu Xuedao revealed that Li Ping'an was dead and killed Liu Jiahui with his saber.
• Chu Caiyi chose an old wooden box from Severed Emotion Valley’s treasury and declared the matter settled.
• Marquis Colorful Feather revealed his Nirvana Demon King presence as the group departed, and the supreme elder was relieved he had not fought them.

Chu Caiyi brought Chu Feng a sealed box from Severed Emotion Valley, and he discovered it contained a Netherworld Boat Ticket. Soon afterward, a descendant of Elder Bing asked Bing Yan to represent Extreme Cold Mountain Manor in the Sexagenary Battle, and she agreed.

• Chu Feng opened the box Chu Caiyi had found and revealed a parchment covered in Devil Qi and eerie Qi.
• Chu Feng identified the parchment as a Netherworld Boat Ticket, which Great Sage Golden Wing said could let its holder board a ship said to grant eternal life.
• Chu Feng accepted the ticket from Chu Caiyi and said he might explore the Netherworld Treasure Boat when the time was right.
• Elder Little White arrived with a young descendant of Elder Bing, who told Bing Yan that Extreme Cold Mountain Manor needed her help in the Sexagenary Battle.
• Bing Yan verified the ice feather, agreed to compete in half a month, and ordered the young man to leave.

Bing Yan told Chu Feng how her painful childhood at Extreme Cold Mountain Manor led her to cut ties with the clan, and he comforted her. They later arrived at the manor for the Sexagenary Grand Competition, where Chu Feng let Bing Yan decide whether to deal with its leaders.

• Steward Little White and Great Sage Golden Wing made excuses and left Chu Feng and Bing Yan alone.
• Bing Yan recounted how her father favored her younger brother, her mother suffered, and her clan peers resented her talent; after her mother died, she agreed to act for Extreme Cold Mountain Manor three times in exchange for three ice feathers.
• Chu Feng comforted Bing Yan, and they spent the night together; the next morning, she apologized for confiding in him while drunk.
• Ten days later, Chu Feng, Bing Yan, and the disciples traveling with them used Dao-Seeking City's teleportation array to reach Extreme Cold Mountain Manor.
• The manor's leaders welcomed Chu Feng and Bing Yan, and the manor master asked Bing Yan to set aside her grievances because the clan faced a crisis.
• Chu Feng questioned whether anyone else could receive them, then asked Bing Yan to decide what to do.

Bing Yan returned to Extreme Cold Mountain Manor with Chu Feng, but a quarrel over the Windflower Courtyard convinced her that the clan had discarded its last chance to mend their relationship. As Mu Rou prepared to apologize, Bing Yan remained in the guest courtyard with Chu Feng, leaving the Bing Clan to face her displeasure.

• Bing Yan asked Ninth Granduncle to keep Chu Feng's arrival secret and declined to stay in the Windflower Courtyard after overhearing Mu Rou refuse to leave it.
• Bing Tie Xin led Bing Yan and her companions to the guest courtyard, where Bing Yan told him not to disturb her and Chu Feng comforted her.
• Bing Aogu confronted Mu Rou and explained that Bing Yan's help would cost the clan only an ice feather and might help her son become Great Sage Qiankun's disciple.
• Mu Rou asked Bing Xiaofeng what Bing Yan liked, then ordered him to accompany her to beg Bing Yan for forgiveness.

Bing Xiaofeng and Mu Rou came to the guest courtyard to seek Bing Yan’s forgiveness and ask her to take on a disciple, but Bing Yan refused them. Chu Feng suggested a way to make them suffer by giving what they wanted to someone they looked down on, and Bing Yan agreed.

• Chen Qianqian told Chu Feng and Bing Yan that a bare-chested man carrying thorny branches was approaching, and Chu Feng punished her with a thousand book copies for not studying.
• Chen Qianqian and Bai Qian blocked Bing Xiaofeng and Mu Rou at the courtyard entrance, and Marquis Colorful Feather slapped Bing Xiaofeng twice before Mu Rou explained they had come to apologize to Bing Yan.
• Chen Qianqian challenged Mu Rou’s right to address Bing Yan by name and initially refused to announce the couple.
• Bing Yan told Bing Xiaofeng and Mu Rou to let bygones be bygones and go back, refusing Mu Rou’s invitation to stay at the Wind and Flower Courtyard.
• Bing Yan asked Chu Feng what the couple wanted, and he said they sought forgiveness and wanted her to take on a disciple.
• Chu Feng proposed giving what Bing Xiaofeng and Mu Rou wanted to someone they looked down on, and Bing Yan agreed to his plan.

Bing Yan and Chu Feng discovered Bing Xiaofeng’s daughter Bing Ya secretly practicing the Proud Snow Sword Technique on a secluded peak. Learning that Bing Ya wanted to escape her life as a maid, Bing Yan took her as a disciple and renamed her Bing Qin, promising to take her away later.

• Bing Yan sent Bing Xiaofeng and Mu Rou away, and the incident left the Extreme Cold Mountain Manor’s elders worried about their standing in the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• Bing Yan brought Chu Feng to the peak where she had practiced as a child, and they found a young girl cultivating swordsmanship in the snow.
• The girl introduced herself as Bing Ya and revealed that she was Bing Xiaofeng’s daughter, born to a maidservant and forbidden from openly practicing the Proud Snow Sword Technique.
• Bing Ya told Bing Yan that her mother had wished for her to leave the manor and live freely, and Bing Yan offered to make her a disciple.
• Bing Yan renamed Bing Ya Bing Qin and promised to take her with them when she left, while Bing Qin returned to the manor before the young miss could punish her.

Chu Feng and Bing Yan secretly observed Bing Qin and the Bing Clan as the family sought to win Dao-Seeking Academy’s favor. Bing Qin endured abuse at the Wind and Flower Courtyard and began to suspect she had already met the academy’s important figures.

• Chu Feng and Bing Yan watched Bing Qin kneel after Bing Yushu ordered her to stay in the courtyard as punishment.
• The Bing Clan’s younger generation trained in hopes of becoming disciples, while Bing Aogu and the elders discussed approaching Bing Yan or her disciples.
• Bing Aoxin asked Ninth Uncle to help place clan descendants with Bing Yan, but Ninth Uncle refused.
• Bing Yushu returned from training and whipped Bing Ya, while Bing Xiaofeng encouraged her to continue.
• Bing Qin wondered whether Chu Feng and Bing Yan were the Dao-Seeking Academy figures she had met that morning, and they watched her from the guest courtyard.