Recaps

Wang Baole joined Nangong Yu, Zhang Heng, and Xiong Kui to hunt a tiger demon in the mountains. After they defeated and killed it, a group of young cultivators emerged and claimed the tiger demon, and Wang Baole recognized one of the women.

• Chu Feng led the Miscellaneous Dao Institute off the flying boat, established camp, and warned the disciples to travel in groups and use their Sword Jades against powerful enemies.
• Wang Baole joined Nangong Yu, Zhang Heng, and Xiong Kui to search the forest for prey, and they found a tiger demon at the Middle Stage of the True Fate Realm.
• Nangong Yu and the others fought the tiger demon, then pursued it when it fled; Nangong Yu used a sword talisman to knock it from the sky.
• Wang Baole approached the fallen tiger demon and killed it with his woodcutting knife before it could launch a desperate counterattack.
• As Wang Baole prepared to claim the tiger demon, more than a dozen young men and women emerged from the woods and told him to stop; he recognized one of the women.

Wang Baole reunited with Wang Yulin, who scorned him and denied their engagement, until Nangong Yu and his Dao-Seeking Academy companions intervened and drove off Sima Rui’s group. Back at camp, Wang Baole told Chu Feng and the others what had happened, and Chu Feng began explaining how the encounter could bring him fortune.

• Wang Yulin rebuked Wang Baole for calling her his wife and accused him of stealing the tiger demon they had killed.
• Sima Rui of the Luo River Aristocratic Family ordered Wang Baole to leave, but Nangong Yu, Zhang Heng, and Xiong Kui revealed their True Fate Realm cultivation and confronted him.
• Sima Rui and his companions fled after Nangong Yu identified herself and threatened them, while Wang Yulin vowed to ask her clan’s old ancestor to cancel their engagement.
• Wang Baole returned to camp, told Chu Feng and the others about the encounter, and heard Chu Feng say it could bring him a fortune buff.

Chu Feng explained how fortune and opportunities shaped his disciples’ futures and offered each of them guidance. Half a month later, the disciples gathered with him to attend the first day of the Rogue Cultivators’ contest for places in the Great Void Secret Realm.

• Chu Feng explained that Cao Youqian’s fortune had grown through hardship and encounters with Nangong Yu, and that a new opportunity awaited him in the Great Void Secret Realm.
• Chu Feng advised Wang Baole to grow strong enough to choose his own fate rather than marry someone from the Wang Clan out of obligation.
• Chu Feng told Xiao Chen he was missing the guidance of a reclusive expert, predicted Cao Youqian’s opportunity would arrive with a troublesome chosen one, and told Qin Qin that future enemies would deliver treasures.
• Half a month passed as cultivators from more than a hundred forces gathered around the Great Void Secret Realm, while the Dao-Seeking Academy’s disciples stayed mostly out of trouble.
• Chu Feng told his disciples he had drawn the first day of the Rogue Cultivators’ selection contest, then led them and the Mountain-Moving Marquis to the venue the next morning.

At the Great Void Valley, Rogue Cultivators competed for entry slots to the Great Void Secret Realm as Wang Yulin learned of Wang Baole’s standing and fled in disbelief. That night, the Great Evolution Holy Land’s Chief Zhong ordered his disciples to kill Qin Qin if they found her alone.

• Chu Feng and his companions arrived at Great Void Valley, where the Rogue Cultivators began competing for ten daily slots to enter the Great Void Secret Realm.
• Wang Yulin heard cultivators explain Wang Baole’s achievements and fled, unable to accept that he had become a prominent Dao-Seeking Academy disciple.
• Chu Feng exchanged knowing looks with the Great Evolution Holy Land’s Dark Hall chief, who ordered an investigation into Chu Feng.
• The first day’s ten slots were decided, and Chu Feng’s group returned to camp.
• Chief Zhong confirmed Qin Qin would join the expedition and ordered the Great Evolution Holy Land’s disciples to kill her if they found her alone, offering merit as a reward.

Wang Baole confronted Wang Yulin and agreed to end their engagement, then joined Chu Feng and the other disciples as they entered the Great Void Secret Realm. The chapter ended with Chu Feng watching the disciples disappear through the gate and anticipating what they would find.

• Wang Baole told Wang Yulin he would ask the old ancestor to end their engagement after the secret realm trip, and she left in a daze.
• Chu Feng gathered Xiao Chen, Cao Youqian, Qin Qin, and Wang Baole before their departure, and they revealed their disguises and agreed on a code phrase.
• King Hengjiang led the Dao-Seeking Academy’s disciples to the valley, where representatives of the ten holy lands opened the gate to the Great Void Secret Realm.
• The Great Thunderclap Temple’s monks entered first, followed shortly by the Dao-Seeking Academy’s disciples.
• Chu Feng watched the disciples enter and wondered what surprises they would bring back.

Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er entered the Great Void Secret Realm, joined forces to gather herbs, and traveled to the Sword Tomb. After they encountered an ambush in its mist, the desolate mountain began to transform as night fell.

• King Hengjiang invited Chu Feng and the other cultivators to spend the month before the secret realm opened discussing the Dao and cultivating in his palace.
• After arriving alone in the secret realm, Xiao Chen found Liu Yue'er fighting several cultivators and helped her claim a thousand-year-old Blood Spirit Ginseng.
• Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er searched the mountain, rested overnight, then used a map to head northeast toward the Sword Tomb.
• At the Sword Tomb, Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er drew their swords as Sha Qi thickened, and Xiao Chen struck an attacker hiding in the mist.
• Xiao Chen ignored the fleeing attackers, took the dead man's storage bag, and continued up the mountain with Liu Yue'er.
• As darkness fell, the once-desolate Sword Tomb underwent an earth-shaking transformation.

Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er fought through the Sword Tomb’s undead, rescued Dao-Seeking Academy disciples, and reached the summit, where the factions were waiting outside the Sword Cottage. Xiao Chen proposed a sword contest to decide who entered first and challenged the gathered cultivators to say who agreed or objected.

• Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er battled skeletons and departed souls through the night, then rescued Yuan Hua and other cultivators with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin.
• Xiao Chen led the Dao-Seeking Academy disciples up the mountain while other factions followed, and the group reached the summit two days later.
• Xiao Chen met Ye Lingxiao outside the Sword Cottage and learned the factions had not agreed on who should enter first.
• Xiao Chen proposed that the cultivators test their Sword Intent on the sword-testing stone to decide who entered first, then asked who agreed and who objected.

Xiao Chen won the right to enter the sword cottage by displaying the strongest Sword Intent, then was transported to a dark cavern where he awakened an ancient sword spirit. The spirit offered him an inheritance test, but Xiao Chen asked to trade the inheritance for something else, enraging the spirit.

• Xiao Chen and Ye Lingxiao stood together as the gathered cultivators agreed to determine who entered the sword cottage by testing their Sword Intent.
• Ye Lingxiao tied for first with a Divine Sword Holy Land cultivator at nine feet of Sword Intent, but Xiao Chen surpassed them all with nine feet and nine inches.
• Xiao Chen entered the cottage, saw a painting of an old man swinging a sword, and was enveloped by a beam of light after clashing with its Sword Intent.
• Ye Lingxiao and Xie Biwen entered the cottage and found Xiao Chen gone, while he awoke in a dark cavern and approached a statue holding a sword.
• Xiao Chen resisted the statue's imposing presence and awakened an ancient phantom, then introduced himself as Black Robe, a deathsworn with no name.
• The phantom offered Xiao Chen a chance to earn its inheritance, but Xiao Chen asked to exchange it for something else, making the phantom furious.

Xiao Chen challenged a phantom claiming to be the Heaven-Treading Divine King and defeated his God-Slaying Sword Intent with the Invincible Sword Dao. He then drew the sentient divine sword from the statue after naming it Peerless, leaving the phantom astonished.

• Xiao Chen refused the phantom’s offer to teach him the God-Slaying Sword Art and asked to see his God-Slaying Sword Intent instead.
• The phantom suppressed his cultivation to the peak of Heavenly Origin and attacked Xiao Chen with a sword strike.
• Xiao Chen countered with Ten Thousand Swords Return to One, pierced the phantom’s remnant soul, and proved his Invincible Sword Dao surpassed the God-Slaying Sword Intent.
• The phantom admitted he had nothing to teach Xiao Chen and allowed him to try claiming the divine sword held by the statue.
• Xiao Chen named the sword Peerless and asked it to ring three times if it accepted him; the sword rang three times and he drew it, stunning the phantom.

Xiao Chen left the dilapidated hall with the God-Slaying Sword Art after promising to pass it on, while Cao Youqian entered the Trial Tower and fought his way to the eighth floor. The chapter ended with Cao Youqian unleashing his Extreme Dao Divine Fist against the bronze figures’ formation.

• Xiao Chen received the God-Slaying Sword Art jade slip from the apparition and promised to leave it for someone fated to learn it.
• Cao Youqian arrived at the Trial Tower, and the waiting cultivators made way for him after recalling his brutal reputation.
• Cao Youqian defeated the bronze figures on the first six floors with one punch apiece and fought his way through the seventh floor.
• Cao Youqian chose to ascend rather than comprehend the Dao after clearing the seventh floor, then faced eighteen bronze figures attacking in formation on the eighth.
• Cao Youqian gathered his strength and launched his Extreme Dao Divine Fist at the bronze figures.

Cao Youqian passed the Trial Tower’s ninth-floor challenge by defeating an illusion twice as strong as himself. He began cultivating inside the tower’s reward light, unaware that the tower spirit was baffled by his choice of techniques.

• Cao Youqian shattered the Eighteen Bronze Men Grand Formation and advanced to the ninth floor.
• Cao Youqian faced an illusion that copied his appearance and techniques and was twice as strong as him.
• Cao Youqian activated his Divine Physique and defeated the illusion with the Extreme Dao Divine Fist and numerous attached Fist Intents.
• The Trial Tower rewarded Cao Youqian with eighty-one days to comprehend the Dao, and he began cultivating the remaining techniques among the hundred techniques.
• The tower spirit watched Cao Youqian cultivate what it considered a trash technique and wondered why he had chosen it.

Qin Qin faced an attack by the Great Evolution Holy Land while playing zither in Supreme Yin Valley. After her music made the attackers fight each other, she revealed her Double Pupils and unleashed a taiji phenomenon that swallowed them.

• Thousand Mechanisms Sect disciples reached Supreme Yin Lake and saw Qin Qin cultivating in the pavilion at its center.
• Senior Brother Du arrived with Great Evolution Holy Land disciples and their allies, demanding that Qin Qin summon her fellow disciples from the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• Qin Qin refused, saying she alone was enough, and Senior Brother Du ordered the attackers to surround the lake and kill her.
• Qin Qin's zither music made the attackers slaughter one another until only a few wounded cultivators remained.
• Qin Qin revealed her Double Pupils and turned the Spiritual Qi vortex into a black-and-white taiji diagram that swallowed the Great Evolution Holy Land attackers.

Qin Qin let the Thousand Mechanisms Sect retrieve corpses from Supreme Yin Lake in exchange for half of the Supreme Yin Stone they found. After they delivered her spoils and a nine-Dao-Runed stone, she continued cultivating and waited for more people from the Great Evolution Holy Land to bring her treasures.

• Qin Qin spared the Thousand Mechanisms Sect and offered them access to Supreme Yin Lake if they retrieved the corpses and gave her half their findings.
• Zhuge Zheng led his disciples into the lake to recover the corpses and collect the belongings of the dead cultivators.
• At the Great Evolution Holy Land encampment, the head of the Dark Hall and the elders discovered that more than a dozen disciples' soul lamps had shattered.
• Qin Qin let Junior Sister Lan select ten weapons for the Thousand Mechanisms Sect and erased the spiritual-sense traces on the recovered storage bags and rings.
• After three days and nights, Zhuge Zheng delivered Qin Qin a Supreme Yin Stone bearing nine Dao Runes, and she stored it away before resuming cultivation.

At Hundred Treasures Mountain, Wang Baole and Nangong Yu were cornered by cultivators seeking their Dragon Blood Fruits. Wang Baole used his master's Sword Jade to defeat them and forced the surviving monks to surrender their valuables before continuing to search the mountain.

• Wang Baole rescued Nangong Yu, and they found nine Dragon Blood Fruits before other factions began pursuing them.
• Xue Sha threatened Nangong Yu, while Monk Puyuan offered to let them go if they surrendered the fruit.
• Wang Baole dismissed the threats and revealed that he had been holding back to avoid hurting his fellow disciples.
• Wang Baole called for his master’s help and unleashed a Sword Qi strike from the Sword Jade, killing Xue Sha and the pursuing cultivators.
• Wang Baole let Puyuan and the other monks leave after they handed over their storage ring and bags, then set off with Nangong Yu to search for more treasure.

Wang Baole and Nangong Yu explored a cavern beneath Hundred Treasures Mountain, ate spirit fish that helped them break through, and discovered a colony of Taisui. The Crimson Taisui set them a one-day trial: eat as much Taisui meat as they could, and they could take away Taisui of equal size.

• Wang Baole and Nangong Yu found an underground spirit river and caught Dragon-Tail Fish to cook and eat.
• After cultivating on the fish’s spiritual energy, Wang Baole and Nangong Yu each broke through a minor realm, then caught more fish to take back.
• Wang Baole and Nangong Yu discovered a huge cavern filled with Taisui and met the Crimson Taisui, who mistook them for Great Void Sect disciples.
• Nangong Yu told the Crimson Taisui that their master had left the trial’s terms to it, and it ordered them to eat Taisui meat for one day, allowing them to take away Taisui equal in size to what they ate.
• Wang Baole and Nangong Yu agreed to the trial and began searching for smaller Taisui to eat.

Wang Baole and Nangong Yu completed the taisui trial, and Wang Baole prepared to break through to the True Fate Realm. Cao Youqian perfected his Extreme Dao Divine Fist in the Trial Tower and left seeking Xiao Chen, who had entered seclusion in the Great Void Secret Realm to perfect his Sword Intent.

• Crimson Taisui let Nangong Yu and Wang Baole choose taisui to take with them, then sent them out of the cave.
• Wang Baole asked Nangong Yu to stand guard while he broke through to the True Fate Realm.
• Cao Youqian used the Taiji Visualization Diagram to fuse one hundred fist techniques into the Extreme Dao Divine Fist and destroyed a bronze figure with his perfected punch.
• Cao Youqian left the Trial Tower calling himself Tyrant Fist, then set off to challenge his eldest senior brother, Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er dominated the Great Void Secret Realm, and Xiao Chen entered seclusion to perfect his Sword Intent.

Cao Youqian and Song Zhaoyi followed Little White into a mine, where they discovered supreme-grade profound yin cold iron ore. Cao Youqian made Song Zhaoyi help collect it as he punched a path through the mountain, and the chapter ended with him breaking through a wall in search of profound yin cold iron essence.

• Cao Youqian cleared a collapsed tunnel and followed Song Zhaoyi and Little White into the cave to search for treasure.
• Cao Youqian found supreme-grade profound yin cold iron ore and handed Song Zhaoyi a pickaxe so she could mine it.
• Cao Youqian punched through the rock to collect ore while Song Zhaoyi knocked loose the exposed chunks.
• After three days of mining, Cao Youqian sensed they were nearing profound yin cold iron essence and unleashed the Extreme Dao Divine Fist against the stone wall.

Cao Youqian obtained the Profound Yin Cold Iron Essence and recruited Little White to lead him to more ore. Meanwhile, Chu Feng emerged from seclusion having resolved to pursue the Primordial Great Dao, then heard that factions tied to the Great Evolution Holy Land had suffered heavy losses in the secret realm.

• Cao Youqian pulled the spirit-bearing Profound Yin Cold Iron Essence from the cave wall and stored it.
• Cao Youqian promised Little White unlimited Profound Yin Cold Iron if he led him to more ore, and Little White agreed.
• Chu Feng's disciples continued to grow stronger while he cultivated in seclusion, and he decided to unite the Great Daos he knew into the Primordial Great Dao.
• Chu Feng emerged from seclusion and asked the gathered seniors about the Great Evolution Holy Land's losses.
• King Hengjiang said the Great Evolution Holy Land had lost more than forty disciples, and Chu Feng suspected Qin Qin was responsible while preparing for a possible fight after the secret realm closed.

Wang Baole recognized the White-Robed Zither Demon in Supreme Yin Valley as his third senior sister, Qin Qin, and led Dao-Seeking Academy disciples to support her. As Dugu Ming prepared to attack Qin Qin, someone condemned the Great Evolution Holy Land for having three men confront one woman.

• Wang Baole and Nangong Yu learned that the White-Robed Zither Demon had gathered Spiritual Qi at Supreme Yin Valley and defeated cultivators who provoked her.
• Wang Baole realized the White-Robed Zither Demon was Qin Qin and led his fellow disciples into the valley to support her.
• Dugu Ming, Wang Lie, and Chao Xiu arrived and argued over who should challenge Qin Qin first.
• Dugu Ming drew his sword to attack Qin Qin, but a voice mocked the Great Evolution Holy Land for sending three men against one woman.

Cao Youqian arrived with Song Zhaoyi and declared that he had come to avenge Qin Qin, whose sect the Great Evolution Holy Land had destroyed. Xiao Chen joined the Dao-Seeking Academy’s side, and both groups prepared to fight in Supreme Yin Valley.

• Cao Youqian revealed that Qin Qin was his junior sister and called the Dao-Seeking Academy disciples to face the Great Evolution Holy Land.
• Cao Youqian demanded that the Great Evolution Holy Land surrender its storage treasures and beg Qin Qin for mercy, but Chao Xiu refused.
• Xiao Chen arrived and declared that he could represent the Dao-Seeking Academy, prompting the onlookers to clear Supreme Yin Valley.
• Cao Youqian sent Song Zhaoyi to safety as the leaders chose their opponents: Chao Xiu faced Xiao Chen, Wang Lie faced Cao Youqian, and Dugu Ming challenged Qin Qin.
• Cao Youqian provoked Wang Lie and the black tiger, while Qin Qin accepted Dugu Ming’s duel and prepared her zither as both sides drew their weapons.

Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian overwhelmed Chao Xiu and Wang Lie in battle, while Qin Qin used her zither and World Destruction to turn Dugu Ming against the Great Evolution Holy Land’s disciples. The Great Evolution fighters were left defeated or fleeing as Dugu Ming attacked his own side.

• Xiao Chen shattered Chao Xiu’s Nine Mysteries Pagoda with sword rain, then pierced his sacred-grade armor with Sword Qi.
• Cao Youqian smashed Black Venerable’s claws and killed the black tiger with his Extreme Dao Divine Fist, while Wang Lie fled.
• Qin Qin unleashed World Destruction against Dugu Ming, then used her zither music to disorient him.
• Dugu Ming descended into the Great Evolution Holy Land’s crowd and began killing its disciples, ignoring their pleas.

Xiao Chen defeated Chao Xiu while Dugu Ming slaughtered the Great Evolution Holy Land disciples under Qin Qin's influence, leaving the Dao-Seeking Academy victorious in Great Void Valley. At the encampment, Diwu Qingyun learned of the Great Evolution Holy Land's losses and vowed to investigate and retaliate personally.

• Xiao Chen defeated Chao Xiu and revealed that Dugu Ming had been distracted by Qin Qin's mind-confusing technique.
• Dugu Ming killed Great Evolution Holy Land disciples until Qin Qin struck him down with a taiji diagram.
• The Dao-Seeking Academy disciples finished the battle and collected spoils while leaving the three geniuses' storage rings untouched.
• Cao Youqian introduced Song Zhaoyi to Xiao Chen as his good little sister.
• The Great Evolution Holy Land's elders discovered that more than fifty soul lamps had gone out, and Diwu Qingyun ordered them to keep quiet while he handled the matter.

Lei Aojie learned that the Dao-Seeking Academy had defeated the Great Evolution Holy Land’s disciples, while the Great Void Secret Realm closed and Xiao Chen’s group returned safely. Chu Feng and King Hengjiang backed the disciples after hearing what they had done, just as an enraged elder from the Great Evolution Holy Land arrived to confront them.

• Lei Aojie heard from Wang Lie that Xiao Chen had perfected Sword Intent and Cao Youqian had perfected Fist Intent, then chose to hide with the survivors until the secret realm closed.
• King Hengjiang led the others to receive the returning disciples, and Xiao Chen brought the Dao-Seeking Academy group out safely.
• Cao Youqian introduced Song Zhaoyi to Chu Feng as his good little sister, and she went back to her sect’s seniors.
• Xiao Chen told Chu Feng that the group had killed nearly all the Great Evolution Holy Land’s cultivators, and Chu Feng took his disciples to inform King Hengjiang.
• King Hengjiang praised Xiao Chen and promised to protect the disciples, but an angry voice from the sky demanded that the Dao-Seeking Academy come out.

Chu Feng faced down Diwu Qingyun after the Great Evolution Holy Land threatened the Dao-Seeking Academy over Qin Qin’s survival. As Diwu Qingyun trapped the camp in a sword formation, Chu Feng walked into its center.

• Diwu Qingyun arrived with Great Evolution Holy Land disciples and demanded a fight, while King Hengjiang tried to calm him.
• Diwu Qingyun challenged the Dao-Seeking Academy’s elders, but Chu Feng stepped forward and declared he would defend his disciple Qin Qin.
• Chu Feng told Qin Qin he would slay a Half-Saint for her, provoking Diwu Qingyun to unleash a nine-sword formation infused with nine portions of the True Essence of the Great Dao.
• While the onlookers feared for the Dao-Seeking Academy, Chu Feng walked into the center of Diwu Qingyun’s sword formation.

Chu Feng revealed that he was a Half-Saint, defeated Diwu Qingyun, and killed him with a sword strike before sparing the Great Evolution Holy Land cultivators. After returning to the Dao-Seeking Academy, he was summoned to explain his strength to the elders.

• Chu Feng revealed his Half-Saint cultivation and dispersed Diwu Qingyun’s sword formation with the Taiji Fist Art.
• Diwu Qingyun fled, but Chu Feng summoned ten thousand swords and killed him with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin.
• Chu Feng spared the Great Evolution Holy Land cultivators and told them to send a Half-Saint to challenge him if they wanted to settle the matter.
• Chu Feng collected Diwu Qingyun’s nine holy swords and returned to the Dao-Seeking Academy, where Cao Youqian and the students praised him.
• King Hengjiang brought Chu Feng to the main tent, where the Mountain-Moving Marquis demanded an explanation for what had happened.