Recaps

Chu Feng outbid Ling Zitong for a private audience with Qin Qin, while Han An concluded that Chu Feng was deliberately provoking Ling Zitong to spur his growth. After Qin Qin played a tune that told of a girl surviving the slaughter of her family, Chu Feng asked to hear the rest of her story.

• Chu Feng bid two thousand spirit stones for the chance to hear Qin Qin play, and Ling Zitong let him have it despite his anger.
• Chu Feng paid in advance and followed Qing'er to the fifth floor, while Kuang Sandao offered to teach him a lesson and Ling Zitong refused.
• Han An told his disciple that Chu Feng was making Ling Zitong suffer setbacks to draw out his potential, and declared Ling Zitong the disciple Chu Feng intended to take.
• Qing'er brought Chu Feng to Qin Qin's room, where he asked her to tell her story through music.
• Qin Qin played a mournful tune that showed Chu Feng a girl hiding in a dry well while cultivators slaughtered her family and destroyed her home.
• Chu Feng asked Qin Qin for wine and the rest of the story, startling her by recognizing the tale in her music.

Chu Feng used Qin Qin’s Zither Dream Technique to witness the destruction of her family and sect, then learned she had been born with extraordinary pupils that were injured by attackers seeking her eyes. He offered to take her away in exchange for a healing spirit herb, and Qin Qin asked him to prove he could provide one.

• Chu Feng listened to Qin Qin’s zither and saw a girl escape the slaughter of her sect before returning to find it in ruins.
• Chu Feng heard Qin Qin’s final piece and saw black-clad attackers pursue her for her extraordinary pupils, then broke free of the Zither Dream Technique.
• Qin Qin explained that her parents had protected her, that she found the Zither Dream Technique during a training expedition, and that her pupils had been injured when she used their power once.
• Chu Feng asked whether Qin Qin would leave the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties for enough in return, and she said she wanted a spirit herb to heal her pupils.
• Chu Feng said a saint herb was no problem, and Qin Qin asked him to demonstrate his strength.
• Chu Feng placed his identity token on the table and asked whether it would prove his strength.

Chu Feng persuaded Qin Qin that he was one of the Dao-Seeking Academy’s ten chief elders, and she agreed to walk through the city with him. Outside the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties, Elder Qi offered to take Ling Zitong as his disciple, and Chu Feng congratulated him, drawing everyone’s attention.

• Qin Qin saw Chu Feng’s chief elder token and agreed to verify his identity by walking with him through the city the next day.
• Qin Qin left the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties with Chu Feng, telling Yuan Shuxiao she had not decided whether to leave.
• Ling Zitong and Kuang Sandao encountered Dao-Seeking Academy elders outside the pavilion and bowed to them.
• Elder Qi offered to take Ling Zitong as his disciple, and Ling Zitong accepted.
• Chu Feng congratulated Elder Qi on gaining a disciple, prompting everyone to turn their attention to him.

Chu Feng rejected Kuang Sandao and took Qin Qin, a courtesan from the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties, as his disciple. After bringing her to Dao-Seeking Academy and registering her, he encountered Elder Qi, who mocked his choice.

• Elder Qi told Chu Feng that Dao-Seeking Academy believed he had praised Ling Zitong, and Ling Zitong was taken away with Elder Qi’s group.
• Kuang Sandao and Qin Qin both asked Chu Feng to accept them as disciples, but Chu Feng rejected Kuang Sandao and chose Qin Qin.
• When Kuang Sandao protested that Qin Qin was a courtesan, Chu Feng refused to explain his choice and left with her.
• Chu Feng took Qin Qin back to the Pavilion of Fragrant Beauties, then brought her to Dao-Seeking Academy and urged her to earn respect through her own strength.
• After Chu Feng registered Qin Qin, Elder Qi and Ling Zitong’s group encountered them, and Elder Qi mocked Chu Feng for choosing a courtesan.

Chu Feng brought Qin Qin to the nearly empty Miscellaneous Dao Institute and promised to create a cultivation method suited to her special eyes. After receiving his Eye of World Destruction Cultivation Method, Qin Qin found it far better than any eye cultivation text she had encountered and decided joining him had been the right choice.

• Chu Feng told Elder Qi he had never intended to take Ling Zitong as his disciple and left with Qin Qin, while Elder Qi dismissed his explanation.
• At the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, Chu Feng explained that his two senior disciples were away, and Qin Qin worried she had joined the wrong sect.
• Qin Qin chose to cultivate an ocular technique, and Chu Feng spent hours devising a method based on observing the Great Dao.
• Chu Feng gave Qin Qin the Eye of World Destruction Cultivation Method and warned her to practice carefully.
• After reading the method, Qin Qin recognized its power and concluded that becoming Chu Feng's disciple was the right choice.

Chu Feng guided Qin Qin in cultivating the Eye of World Destruction, and she discovered how to absorb Yin and Yang essence to awaken her Double Pupils. Her progress rewarded Chu Feng with the technique at great perfection, though he realized his spiritual sense was too weak to unleash its full power.

• Chu Feng told Qin Qin to observe the sun and moon with her mind's eye after she struggled to make progress with the Eye of World Destruction.
• Qin Qin used the guidance to perceive the moon's Yin Qi, then balanced its essence with the sun's Yang essence and set a cultivation schedule.
• Seven days later, Qin Qin got started with the Eye of World Destruction and planned what food to make for Chu Feng.
• The system rewarded Chu Feng with the Eye of World Destruction at great perfection, but he found his spiritual sense could only shatter a boulder with a glance.
• Chu Feng woke at noon, smelled food in the courtyard, and asked Qin Qin if she had gotten started with the technique.

Qin Qin learned that the Great Evolution Holy Land had destroyed her clan and vowed to grow strong enough to take revenge, while Chu Feng encouraged her and promised support. Nearly two months later, Cao Youqian returned to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, met his new junior sister, and told them he was ready to continue his body tempering.

• Qin Qin told Chu Feng that the Great Evolution Holy Land had wiped out her clan after her parents refused to let an old Daoist take her away.
• Chu Feng explained that Qin Qin would need to awaken a Divine or Saint Physique and eventually become a saint to defeat the Great Evolution Holy Land, and he promised that he and her senior brothers would support her.
• Over the next two months, Qin Qin's Double Pupils fully recovered and her cultivation advanced as Chu Feng guided her.
• Cao Youqian returned to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, met Qin Qin, and gave her a bottle of True Essence Pills as a first-meeting gift.
• Cao Youqian told Chu Feng that he had completed Body Tempering with the Qi of Earth Sha, and Chu Feng said he was ready for Sword Qi Body Tempering.
• Cao Youqian sat down to eat with Chu Feng and Qin Qin and said he looked forward to continuing his Five Elements Body Tempering.

Cao Youqian completed Sword Qi body tempering while Lin Ping'an awakened a Saint Physique and became the Sword Martial King's disciple. Cao Youqian, Chu Feng, and Qin Qin secretly left the academy so Cao Youqian could break through to the True Fate Realm away from prying eyes.

• Chu Feng tempered Cao Youqian with Sword Qi for eighty days as Qin Qin watched and resolved to persevere in her own cultivation.
• Lin Ping'an awakened a Saint Physique, and the Sword Martial King accepted him as a disciple and planned a ceremony.
• The Sword Martial King invited Chu Feng to Lin Ping'an's disciple-taking ceremony, and Chu Feng accepted.
• Cao Youqian revealed that Lin Ping'an had once humiliated him and asked Chu Feng to guard his secret breakthrough to the True Fate Realm.
• Chu Feng agreed to take Cao Youqian and Qin Qin down the mountain, and the three found a beast's cave where Cao Youqian began his breakthrough.

After Cao Youqian awakened the Tyrant Divine Physique and reached the True Fate Realm, cultivators broke into his cave, hoping to seize its treasures. Cao Youqian faced their leader, Old Monster Blood Saber, as the man drew his weapon and threatened to make him the saber’s thousandth victim.

• Cao Youqian awakened the Tyrant Divine Physique, and Chu Feng gained twenty years of cultivation from his breakthrough.
• Cultivators broke the cave’s formation and attacked, prompting Cao Youqian to stride out and confront them.
• Cao Youqian’s five-colored barrier blocked the weapons of more than a dozen cultivators, and they called on their leader, Old Monster Blood Saber.
• Old Monster Blood Saber revealed his Heavenly Origin Realm strength and drew his blood-red saber, while Cao Youqian showed no fear.

Cao Youqian defeated Old Monster Blood Saber with a punch, while Chu Feng killed the fleeing enemy with a sword strike. Back at the Dao-Seeking Academy, Chu Feng began creating a fist technique for Cao Youqian and named it Extreme Dao Divine Fist.

• Cao Youqian broke Old Monster Blood Saber's Blood Saber Slash and forced him to flee.
• Chu Feng sent a sword strike from the cave that killed Old Monster Blood Saber, prompting the crowd to kneel and beg for mercy.
• Cao Youqian took the crowd's storage bags after Chu Feng told him to do as he pleased.
• Cao Youqian admitted he needed a suitable fist technique and more combat experience, and Chu Feng promised to help him train.
• Chu Feng returned to the Dao-Seeking Academy and, after testing the fist techniques he remembered, began writing the Extreme Dao Divine Fist.

Cao Youqian studied the Extreme Dao Divine Fist, then trained in the Mist Marsh to develop his Fist Intent before returning to the Dao-Seeking Academy for his appointed battle with Lin Ping'an. He arrived just before the deadline and, the next morning, encountered Xiao Chen, whose strength seemed more terrifying than before.

• Cao Youqian asked Chu Feng why the Extreme Dao Divine Fist focused on Fist Intent instead of stance training, and Chu Feng advised him to seek insight through battle and stillness.
• Chu Feng explained that Cao Youqian could develop different kinds of Fist Intent and eventually fuse them into the Extreme Dao.
• Cao Youqian spent half a month fighting Heavenly Origin Realm demonic beasts in the Mist Marsh, imitating their presences to help comprehend Fist Intent.
• After a month of training, Cao Youqian reached thirty percent Fist Intent and hurried back to the Dao-Seeking Academy before his battle with Lin Ping'an.
• Cao Youqian returned to the academy at midnight, then encountered Xiao Chen the next morning and asked when his eldest senior brother had returned.

Xiao Chen returned to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute to support Cao Youqian before his duel with Lin Ping'an, while Chu Feng urged Cao Youqian to win decisively. The rivals finally faced each other at the crowded Life-and-Death Platform, and the battle was about to begin.

• Xiao Chen returned and told Cao Youqian he had come to support him in his fight with Lin Ping'an.
• Chu Feng advised Cao Youqian to defeat Lin Ping'an decisively, then stayed behind to prepare a feast for his return.
• Cao Youqian, Xiao Chen, and Qin Qin went to the Life-and-Death Platform, where a crowd gathered to watch the duel.
• Lin Qingyu arrived with Lin Ping'an and Sword Dao Institute disciples, and Lin Ping'an stared at Cao Youqian from below the platform.

Cao Youqian faced Lin Ping'an on the life-and-death stage and endured his sword attacks without a scratch, shocking the watching disciples. Lin Ping'an then gathered his hostility for a decisive strike as Cao Youqian prepared to counter with the Extreme Dao Divine Fist.

• Lin Ping'an taunted Cao Youqian and released his True Fate Realm pressure, while Cao Youqian mocked him and refused to back down.
• Ling Zitong insulted Qin Qin, and Xiao Chen ordered him to slap himself a hundred times, which Ling Zitong did.
• Lin Ping'an struck Cao Youqian with his sword, but the Sword Qi dispersed against Cao Youqian's body without harming him.
• Lin Ping'an attacked repeatedly, and Cao Youqian remained unharmed while taunting him to use his full strength.
• Lin Ping'an gathered his hostility and launched the Seven Killings Sword Art as Cao Youqian unleashed the Extreme Dao Divine Fist.

On the Life and Death Arena, Cao Youqian defeated Lin Ping'an despite Lin Ping'an using the Seven Killings Sword Art and borrowing power from his master. When a Sword Dao Institute elder arrived to intervene, Cao Youqian challenged him over interfering with Dao-Seeking Academy's rules.

• Lin Ping'an's Seven Killings Sword Art failed to break Cao Youqian's defenses, and Cao Youqian struck him down and slapped him.
• Lin Ping'an called on his master, who raised his cultivation to Peak True Fate by spending soul power.
• Lin Ping'an attacked Cao Youqian again, but Cao Youqian broke his heart-protecting mirror and resumed beating him.
• A Sword Dao Institute elder arrived and ordered Cao Youqian to stop, but Cao Youqian punched Lin Ping'an again and challenged the elder's authority.

Cao Youqian defeated Lin Ping'an at the life-and-death arena, and the Profound Fire Pill King stopped Elder Xiong from interfering. Back at the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, Chu Feng warned Cao Youqian not to grow complacent, while Lin Ping'an lost consciousness after doubting himself and his master realized his Dao heart had shattered.

• Elder Xiong tried to intervene after Lin Ping'an's defeat, but the Profound Fire Pill King appeared and made the Sword Dao Institute admit defeat.
• The Profound Fire Pill King left after praising Cao Youqian, who departed the arena with Qin Qin and Xiao Chen amid the crowd's cheers.
• At the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, Cao Youqian described how he had targeted Lin Ping'an's Dao heart, and Chu Feng warned him that Lin Ping'an might still make a comeback.
• The Sword Martial King ordered Elder Xiong to find healing pills for Lin Ping'an and decided to direct more resources toward Lin Qingyu.
• Lin Ping'an questioned his master's guidance and wondered whether he was truly worthless, then lost consciousness as his master realized his Dao heart had shattered.

The Sword Martial King jolted Lin Ping'an out of despair and urged him to pursue the Seven Kills Sword Intent through slaughter. At the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian prepared to leave and cultivate, while Chu Feng turned his attention to Qin Qin and asked her to set a goal.

• The Sword Martial King found Lin Ping'an drunk and despondent, then repeatedly dunked him in a pond until anger stirred in him.
• Lin Ping'an admitted his frustration over losing to Cao Youqian, and the Sword Martial King explained that Lin Ping'an lacked ruthlessness and had yet to comprehend his own Sword Intent.
• The Sword Martial King offered Lin Ping'an support and told him to pursue the Seven Kills Sword Intent through deadly battles; Lin Ping'an agreed to walk the path of slaughter.
• Xiao Chen told Chu Feng he would return in a year for his agreement with Qin Rou, and Chu Feng advised him to use alternate identities while traveling.
• Cao Youqian announced that he would leave the mountain to cultivate Fist Intent, and Chu Feng advised him to fight when he could win and run when he could not.
• Chu Feng asked Qin Qin to set herself a goal.

Chu Feng guided Qin Qin to cultivate through the zither, and she discovered a new way to use her music. After expressing her buried feelings through playing, Qin Qin achieved a clear mind and heart.

• Chu Feng encouraged Qin Qin to set a goal of reaching the True Fate Realm before her eldest senior brother returned and suggested she broaden her cultivation methods.
• Qin Qin said she loved playing the zither, so Chu Feng brought her a treasured guqin and played High Mountains and Flowing Water beside a waterfall.
• Qin Qin listened and meditated, then told Chu Feng she had understood the direction of her cultivation.
• Qin Qin began playing her zither regularly, channeling her loneliness, hatred, and happiness into her music as she cultivated.
• Qin Qin blended her spiritual sense into the music and shaped a note into a blade that cut a stone.
• Qin Qin removed her blindfold, looked at the moon, and realized she had achieved a clear mind and heart.

Chu Feng enjoyed his new leisure time at the Miscellaneous Dao Institute while Dao-Seeking Academy considered where to place Wang Baole, a chubby youth carrying a Dao-Seeking Token and descended from the Heavenly Saber Half-Saint. After the eight great institutes refused to take Wang Baole, Deacon Bai prepared to send him to Chu Feng.

• Chu Feng decided to try fishing after enjoying the cultivation rewards from his three disciples.
• Wang Baole arrived at Dao-Seeking Academy with a Dao-Seeking Token and asked to become a disciple.
• Deacon Bai brought Wang Baole to the External Affairs Institute, where testing confirmed his descent from the Heavenly Saber Half-Saint.
• Elder Zhang ordered the eight great institutes to choose whether to take Wang Baole, with the Miscellaneous Dao Institute as the fallback.
• The outer sect elders of all eight great institutes refused to take Wang Baole, so Deacon Bai said he would send him to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute.

Deacon Bai brought Wang Baole, an eighteen-year-old with poor cultivation and little talent, to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute to become Chu Feng’s disciple. There, he discovered Qin Qin’s extraordinary zither cultivation before presenting Wang Baole to Chu Feng, who had been fishing.

• The outer sect elders agreed to send Wang Baole to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, dismissing his prospects as a disciple.
• Deacon Bai led Wang Baole to the institute, where Qin Qin’s zither music drew them in and revealed her remarkable cultivation.
• Qin Qin told Deacon Bai that Chu Feng was cultivating below the cliff and guided him and Wang Baole to the stream.
• Wang Baole screamed as he was carried down the cliff, startling the fish Chu Feng had been trying to catch.
• Deacon Bai asked Chu Feng to accept Wang Baole as his disciple, and Wang Baole bowed and introduced himself.

Wang Baole began his life at the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, where Chu Feng discovered the boy had an unawakened bloodline despite his apparent lack of talent. After Wang Baole was moved to tears by his first sumptuous meal there, Chu Feng assigned him the dishes to wash.

• Chu Feng accepted Wang Baole as a disciple and had Qin Qin complete his enrollment and arrange a courtyard for him.
• Qin Qin told Wang Baole that he had annoyed Chu Feng by interrupting his fishing and making a fish escape.
• Wang Baole learned that his senior brothers were away tempering themselves, then went with Qin Qin to dinner at Chu Feng's residence.
• Chu Feng noticed Wang Baole had a hidden, unawakened bloodline and decided to observe him before passing on his true teachings.
• Wang Baole cried over the delicious meal, ate until he was full, and Chu Feng told him to wash the dishes.

Chu Feng corrected Qin Qin's cultivation priorities and learned why Wang Baole was content doing chores at the Miscellaneous Dao Institute. Wang Baole revealed that he had been raised as a live-in son-in-law and that his grandfather had offered him a chance to change his life with a token from the Dao-Seeking Academy.

• Wang Baole continued doing chores for Chu Feng, while Qin Qin asked why Chu Feng had not guided his cultivation.
• Chu Feng told Qin Qin that she had neglected comprehending intent in her rush to increase her cultivation.
• Qin Qin recognized the opportunities she had missed, and Chu Feng advised her to prioritize intent and build a solid foundation.
• Wang Baole told Chu Feng and Qin Qin that his wife's family had raised him as a live-in son-in-law, forbidden him from cultivating, and trained him to serve others.
• Wang Baole revealed that his grandfather had found him half a year earlier with a token from the Dao-Seeking Academy and offered him a chance to change his life.

Chu Feng tried several cultivation paths with Wang Baole, teaching him basic swordsmanship and explaining why disciples should pursue what suits their interests. After Wang Baole found that eating was what he loved most, Chu Feng suggested he consider cultivation methods based on food and asked him to think it over.

• Chu Feng agreed to teach Wang Baole different skills each day so he could discover a suitable cultivation path.
• Wang Baole declined music and admitted he was ordinary at chess, calligraphy, and painting, so Chu Feng began teaching him swordsmanship.
• Chu Feng taught Wang Baole the thirteen basic sword moves and explained that cultivation should follow a disciple's talents and interests.
• Over the next half month, Wang Baole tried other cultivation methods but showed little interest and asked whether he was Chu Feng's worst disciple.
• Wang Baole realized that eating was what he loved most, and Chu Feng suggested he investigate food-based cultivation before giving his answer.

Chu Feng studied a Half-Saint Culinary Dao inheritance and created the Ice and Fire Immortal Chef cultivation method for Wang Baole. After Wang Baole studied it for five days, Chu Feng began teaching him cooking with a lesson in knife techniques.

• Chu Feng read a Half-Saint Culinary Dao tome overnight and wrote a new cultivation method called Ice and Fire Immortal Chef.
• Chu Feng gave Wang Baole the cultivation method and told him he would take him into the kitchen in five days; Qin Qin decided to seek out the original inheritance.
• Wang Baole studied the method, became eager to prove the Culinary Dao, and vowed to become a Culinary Saint.
• Five days later, Chu Feng met Wang Baole in the kitchen and began his first lesson by teaching him knife techniques.

After three months of learning to cook and cultivate under Chu Feng, Wang Baole remained at the institute while Chu Feng took Qin Qin to Cloud Dream Marsh to gather ingredients. There, members of the Great Evolution Holy Land surrounded Qin Qin, who stood her ground when they insulted her and Chu Feng.

• Wang Baole practiced knife skills and the Tendon-Separating Bone-Dislocating Ruyi Hand, which increased his spiritual-power consumption and appetite.
• Qin Qin told Chu Feng that the institute was nearly out of ingredients, so Chu Feng took her to Cloud Dream Marsh to hunt.
• Chu Feng and Qin Qin settled into a cave for the night while a group of Great Evolution Holy Land cultivators gathered nearby and tracked Qin Qin with a blood talisman.
• Qin Qin sensed the pursuers and prepared her guqin, while Chu Feng noticed the approaching cultivators but did not initially consider them a threat.
• Deacon Nine and his group surrounded the cave, and Qin Qin refused to flee when they accused her of becoming Chu Feng's concubine and demanded the secret behind his strength.

Qin Qin defeated the Great Evolution Holy Land disciples hunting her, while Chu Feng captured their Ninth Deacon and questioned him. The Ninth Deacon revealed that the Holy Land tracked Qin Qin through a mark before Chu Feng ordered her to kill him.

• Qin Qin used her zither to trap the Great Evolution Holy Land disciples in an illusion, causing them to kill one another until only the Ninth Deacon remained.
• The Ninth Deacon attacked Qin Qin, but Chu Feng pierced his dantian with Sword Qi and seized him before he could escape.
• Qin Qin collected the enemies’ storage bags, and Chu Feng gave them to her as spoils.
• Chu Feng identified himself as a chief elder of the Dao-Seeking Academy and questioned the Ninth Deacon about how the Holy Land had found Qin Qin.
• The Ninth Deacon said the Great Evolution Holy Land had placed a tracking mark on Qin Qin, and Chu Feng ordered Qin Qin to give him a quick death.