Recaps

Sang Ying challenged Rong Ji’s attempt to take her away by exposing suspicions about Chi Yan’s transformed spirit root and death. Rong Ji backed down and ended the accusation, while Su Fuyun’s hatred of Sang Ying deepened.

• Rong Ji threatened to take Sang Ying to the Mara Gate, but Jiulian refused to let him remove his disciple.
• Sang Ying pointed out that Chi Yan had changed from having three spirit roots to one and suggested a secret method had caused his death.
• Rong Ji realized Sang Ying had struck a nerve and decided not to risk exposing the Mara Gate’s secret, declaring that Chi Yan’s death had nothing to do with her.
• Su Fuyun objected to Sang Ying’s release, so Rong Ji slapped her and ordered the matter to end.
• Sang Ying silently told Su Fuyun that she had lost to her again, fueling Su Fuyun’s jealousy and hatred.

Jimo Xuan returned to the grand competition hall and challenged Mara Gate over Chi Yan, presenting evidence that Chi Yan had been tainted with Demonic Qi. A Buddhist elder also detected karmic sin on the evidence, leaving Sang Ying wondering whether it came from White Foothill City.

• Elder Rong Ji agreed to put Mara Gate’s dispute with Sang Ying behind them to protect his sect’s secrets.
• Sect Master Jimo and Elder Xu moved to settle the matter, but Jimo Xuan returned and declared that the Azure Feather Sect still had a score to settle.
• Jimo Xuan asked Mara Gate’s elders whether they knew Chi Yan was tainted with Demonic Qi.
• Jimo Xuan fitted a formation stone fragment into the damaged number four arena and showed that it carried Demonic Qi.
• A Buddhist elder examined the fragment and said it also bore karmic sin, startling the gathered sects and worrying Sang Ying.

Jimo Xuan presented evidence of Demonic Qi and brought in Jimo Qing to trace its owner, while the Mara Gate tried to shift suspicion onto Sang Ying. The test identified Sang Ying’s ice spiritual power and Chi Yan’s Demonic Qi, but Rong Ji destroyed the latter trace before it reached the soul stone, then admitted it belonged to Chi Yan.

• Elder Xu challenged Jimo Xuan’s claim, and Mara Gate disciples accused Sang Ying of killing Chi Yan and colluding with the Devil Race.
• Sang Ying confronted Rong Ji, who rebuked his disciples but insisted the Demonic Qi did not necessarily belong to Chi Yan.
• Jimo Xuan called in Jimo Qing and revealed that Chi Yan’s corpse had disappeared, leaving only foul-smelling black blood behind.
• Jimo Xuan used the soul stone and a cyan lotus to trace the spiritual power in the fragment, identifying Sang Ying’s ice power and Chi Yan’s Demonic Qi.
• Rong Ji dispersed the streak of Demonic Qi before it reached the soul stone, then admitted that it had certainly belonged to Chi Yan.

After Chi Yan was expelled from the Mara Gate, Sang Ying forced Rong Ji to compensate her and accept the loss of his sect’s competition ranking. As Ten Thousand Daos Born traveled home, Sang Ying noticed a strange reaction among the Beast Taming Sect’s caged beasts, hinting at trouble ahead.

• Rong Ji crushed Chi Yan’s soul stone, expelled him from the Mara Gate, and prepared to leave after declaring Chi Yan responsible for his own death.
• Sang Ying confronted Rong Ji over his attempt to kill her and demanded that Chi Yan’s points be erased, the Mara Gate lose its ranking, and Rong Ji apologize.
• Jiulian and the other sects backed Sang Ying, leaving the Mara Gate without a ranking and forcing Rong Ji to give her an Earth Spirit Pearl as compensation.
• Rong Ji left with a deepened desire to kill Sang Ying, and the Mara Gate departed before the awards ceremony ended.
• Ten Thousand Daos Born encountered the Beast Taming Sect while traveling home, and Sang Ying noticed a caged beast’s strange eyes as a lion-shaped Demon Beast woke inside the boat.

Su Fuyun dismissed the disappearance of Jing He and another disciple, unaware that Jing He had returned to the Azure Feather Sect to retrieve Chi Yan’s corpse. Unable to return to the Mara Gate or his family, Jing He set out for the Corpse Fiend Gate, hoping to regain his strength and take revenge.

• A Mara Gate cultivator told Su Fuyun that Jing He and another Foundation Establishment disciple were missing, and she ordered him to treat them as disloyal runaways.
• Jing He sneaked into the Azure Feather Sect and dug up Chi Yan’s corpse from beneath a dead willow by the abandoned pond.
• Jing He carried Chi Yan’s corpse out of the sect and recalled how he had overheard Su Fuyun and Medical Cultivator Chen planning to destroy it.
• Jing He revealed that he had killed a fellow disciple who discovered him stealing Chi Yan’s corpse, then disguised the body in Chi Yan’s clothes.
• Jing He decided to take Chi Yan’s body to the Corpse Fiend Gate, promising to regain his strength and avenge them both against the Mara Gate.

Sang Ying recalled Jingshui’s warning about the Mara Gate as the Beast Taming Sect’s flying boat came under attack by its abused Demon Beasts. Mu Ren was left surrounded, while a white-winged beast flew toward Ten Thousand Daos Born’s boat.

• Sang Ying told Dong Fuzhu that the Beast Taming Sect’s cruelty toward Demon Beasts would bring it trouble, remembering Jingshui’s warning about the Mara Gate and Su Fuyun.
• A caged creature stirred aboard the Beast Taming Sect’s boat, and the cage vanished as a patrolling disciple went to report to Mu Ren.
• Mu Ren awoke to the chaos, killed a canine Demon Beast that attacked him, and rushed onto a deck where Demon Beasts and cultivators were fighting.
• Mu Ren killed the Demon Beasts that attacked him, but the other cultivators disappeared and winged beasts surrounded him.
• The Demon Beasts trapped the boat and declared war on Mu Ren as a white-winged beast flew toward Ten Thousand Daos Born’s distant boat.

The Twin-Winged Snow Lion entrusted its cub to Ten Thousand Daos Born before fleeing, and Jiulian arranged for Sang Ying to leave the flying boat under a concealed identity. Sang Ying disappeared into Qing Zhou, while a disguised cultivator returned to the sect in her place.

• The injured adult Twin-Winged Snow Lion brought its cub to Ten Thousand Daos Born and pleaded for the cultivators to protect it.
• Elder Gu agreed to keep the Snow Lion cub as a guardian beast, and the adult Snow Lion fled into the night to escape the Beast Taming Sect.
• Jiulian realized the adult Snow Lion had chosen Sang Ying and told her that her Ice Lotuses might have drawn it to her.
• Jiulian gave Sang Ying the concealment artifact Thousand Faces and advised her to leave the flying boat and gain experience under a new identity.
• Sang Ying disembarked unnoticed in Qing Zhou, while a blue-dressed cultivator disguised as her returned to Ten Thousand Daos Born with Jiulian.

A teahouse tale about Ten Thousand Daos Born’s unexpected victory and Sang Ying sent two cultivators from the Twin Orchid Realm rushing to the Immortal Spirit Realm to find someone. In northern Qing Zhou, a mysterious woman rescued a child from a snow beast and left as the villagers began treating her as a guardian deity.

• A Golden Core Rogue Cultivator told teahouse patrons that Ten Thousand Daos Born had won the sect competition, with Sang Ying playing a crucial role in defeating the Mara Gate.
• A red-robed disciple of the Layered Heavens Palace and her male companion hurried to the passage to the Immortal Spirit Realm and booked places to search for someone.
• A mysterious woman ambushed a snow beast in northern Qing Zhou and rescued a small girl it had been carrying toward its den.
• The woman returned the girl to her parents, who thanked her, but she vanished before they could repay her.
• The villagers decided the mysterious woman was the Devil Beast hunter from local rumors and resolved to erect a longevity stele in her honor.

Sang Ying searched the snowfield for Cang Lian while hunting Snow Beasts and protecting locals, then used the Earth Spirit Pearl to help the sleeping Jiang Zhuoxue recover. Jiang Zhuoxue absorbed the pearl and was sealed inside an earthen cocoon, where great changes began.

• Sang Ying returned to her rented home, where Zhang Niang praised her for hunting Snow Beasts and saving people as the Snowfield Hunter.
• Sang Ying recalled traveling to northern Qing Zhou to find Cang Lian, whose secretive message about seeking seclusion and condensing a Dragon Pearl had left her worried.
• Sang Ying asked Gu Shu to help locate Cang Lian, but he could not identify where the dragon had gone into seclusion.
• Sang Ying took out the Earth Spirit Pearl and placed it beside the unconscious Jiang Zhuoxue after Gu Shu reminded her it could help him.
• Jiang Zhuoxue absorbed the Earth Spirit Pearl, and an earthen cocoon formed around him as he began undergoing changes inside.

Jiang Zhuoxue awoke from his long unconsciousness after Sang Ying’s Spiritual Qi pulled him from the darkness, then offered to help her find Cang Lian. After sensing Cang Lian hiding in Delusion-Breaking City, Jiang Zhuoxue proposed they go there to retrieve his eyes.

• Jiang Zhuoxue relived his past suffering and feared he would never wake, but Sang Ying’s voice and Spiritual Qi drew him back from the darkness.
• Jiang Zhuoxue emerged from the earth cocoon, coiled around Sang Ying’s wrist, and told her he had returned.
• Jiang Zhuoxue regained the ability to take human form and negotiated with Sang Ying, offering to help her before deciding what favor he wanted.
• Jiang Zhuoxue used his Divine Sense to search the northern snowfields and found Cang Lian hiding in Delusion-Breaking City.
• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying they should retrieve the eyes he had left in Delusion-Breaking City.

Sang Ying hunted Snow Beasts with Jiang Zhuoxue’s help to gather enough Snow Crystals to enter Delusion-Breaking City, while Gu Shu grew jealous of Jiang Zhuoxue’s closeness to her. At night, Jiang Zhuoxue led her toward a stronger Devil Beast, where a pack of Three-Tailed Silver Wolves had trapped seven cultivators and killed one of them.

• Sang Ying decided to gather more Snow Crystals instead of entering Delusion-Breaking City, and Gu Shu taunted Jiang Zhuoxue for clinging to her wrist.
• Jiang Zhuoxue offered to guide Sang Ying to Snow Beast dens, and she accepted his help to collect low-grade Snow Crystals.
• After assessing her harvest, Sang Ying asked Jiang Zhuoxue to find a stronger pack of Devil Beasts so she could obtain high-grade Snow Crystals.
• Jiang Zhuoxue found a pack of Three-Tailed Silver Wolves pursuing seven cultivators through the worsening storm.
• Nine Three-Tailed Silver Wolves surrounded the Foundation Establishment cultivators, and one cultivator was killed as the others screamed in terror.

A group of cultivators stranded in the northern snowfields fought a silver wolf pack while Hai Tingzhou tried to complete a killing array. Just as the pack was about to kill him, a familiar swordswoman arrived and completed the array, leaving the group’s survival uncertain.

• After the shuttle pilot abandoned them in the snowfields, the red-clad female cultivator took command and ordered Hai Tingzhou to build a defensive array and then a killing array.
• Hai Tingzhou raised a defensive barrier, while the red-clad female cultivator fought the wolf leader and the others tried to draw the pack away.
• The wolf leader realized the cultivators’ plan and directed the silver wolves to attack Hai Tingzhou, forcing the others to hold them back.
• The barrier shattered before Hai Tingzhou could finish the killing array, and a wolf knocked him down and sent the final Spirit Stone flying.
• As Hai Tingzhou faced death, a familiar swordswoman charged in, killed a silver wolf, and flicked the Spirit Stone into the array’s core, completing the killing array.

Su Fuyun was punished by the Mara Gate’s Gate Master, who intended to use her body for a greater purpose. Far away on the northern snowfields, Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou reunited with Sang Ying, who announced she now belonged to Ten Thousand Daos Born.

• The Gate Master ordered Su Fuyun to receive ten lashes, then told her to reflect behind closed doors.
• Elder Rong Ji questioned why Su Fuyun remained the Mara Gate’s saintess, and the Gate Master said she was still useful and her body would serve a better master.
• Su Fuyun had Shen Yu dragged back to the rear courtyard and locked up, then fell asleep while thinking of Gu Huaiwei and her master.
• On the northern snowfields, Sang Ying killed the lead silver wolf as Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou recognized her.
• Fang Chi called for Sang Ying of the Flowing Light Sword Sect, and Sang Ying corrected her, saying she was now Sang Ying of Ten Thousand Daos Born.

During a meal with Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou, Sang Ying learned that her parents had survived and returned to the Flowing Light Sword Sect. She then heard that Gu Huaiwei had died in the Devil Realm and considered sending Su Fuyun after him.

• Zhang Niang served Sang Ying and her guests a hot meal, and Sang Ying considered compensating her for her help.
• Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou reunited with Sang Ying after traveling to the Immortal Spirit Realm to find her.
• Fang Chi told Sang Ying that her parents had survived the beast tide, reached another small world, and returned to the Flowing Light Sword Sect.
• Hai Tingzhou explained that Sang Ying's parents had been unable to return sooner and had not known how the Flowing Light Sword Sect treated her.
• Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou said Su Fuyun had fled to the Devil Realm with Gu Huaiwei, then disappeared and left him behind to be killed.
• Sang Ying reacted to the news of Gu Huaiwei's death and wondered whether she should send Su Fuyun to join him.

Fan Nanjun was defeated by an iron-masked intruder who declared himself Fusheng, the new Devil Lord. Fan Nanjun submitted to him, while two women held captive in the Devil Palace remained behind, one hoping Senior Sister Sang Ying might rescue her.

• Fan Nanjun kept two women who resembled Su Fuyun as substitutes, then left to confront an intruder attacking the Devil Race.
• The two women argued over whether to placate Fan Nanjun, and the cultivator whose cultivation had been crippled silently hoped Senior Sister Sang Ying would come save her.
• Fan Nanjun confronted an iron-masked man and fought him from the marketplace to the Devil Palace, where the man defeated him and wounded his shoulder.
• The iron-masked man declared himself Fusheng, the new Devil Lord, and claimed the Devil Realm as his own.
• Fan Nanjun offered to serve Fusheng, who accepted him on the condition that he acknowledge Fusheng as his master and never betray him.

Sang Ying and her companions entered Delusion-Breaking City after helping clear the snowfields of Snow Beasts, then learned about the Gong Household’s control and the city’s dangers. A procession’s perceptive gaze briefly examined them, but Jiang Zhuoxue’s presence and Jiulian’s Thousand Faces kept them from being recognized as unusual.

• Sang Ying, Fang Chi, Hai Tingzhou, and the others killed several batches of Snow Beasts and collected enough Snow Crystals to travel to Delusion-Breaking City.
• Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou chose to accompany Sang Ying into the city, while the body cultivators parted ways and asked Sang Ying to leave their payment with Zhang Niang.
• Sang Ying left Zhang Niang Snow Crystals and food, then entered Delusion-Breaking City with Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou.
• A Rogue Cultivator warned Sang Ying that the Gong Household controlled the city, advised them to avoid offending the second young master’s fiancée, and recommended seeking lodging in the eastern outer city.
• A guarded palanquin procession entered the city, and the Rogue Cultivator hurried Sang Ying and her companions aside.
• The procession’s perceptive gaze swept over Sang Ying and her companions but withdrew without discovering anything unusual; Sang Ying soothed Jiang Zhuoxue and resolved to reclaim his things.

Gong Chengjue returned to the Gong Household, while his fiancée Liang Ranyue resented their betrothal and refused to visit him. In the outer city, Sang Ying and her companions rented a house and discussed Liang Ranyue, hinting that they planned to stir up trouble in the inner city.

• Gong Chengjue returned to the Gong Household, ignored his father's greeting, and entered the residence while Gong Chengsi arranged for news of his return to reach Shengxiao Courtyard.
• Liang Ranyue destroyed a spirit tree with her whip and complained that Gong Chengjue should visit her, rejecting the idea that their betrothal could bind her to him.
• Sang Ying, Fang Chi, and their companion rented a courtyard house from Landlord Zhou, who warned them that Liang Ranyue was the only person allowed to wear red in Delusion-Breaking City.
• Sang Ying discussed Liang Ranyue's possible ties to the Liang Household, and the three companions looked toward the inner city, intending to cause a storm there.

On their first morning in Delusion-Breaking City, Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue’s possessive teasing led Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou to mistake them for lovers. The group then visited Moon-Seeking Restaurant to investigate the Gong Household’s second young master, while Jiang Zhuoxue grew jealous when Fang Chi offered Sang Ying food.

• Jiang Zhuoxue teased Sang Ying in bed, but she tossed him aside and threatened to make dragon soup.
• Fang Chi entered, saw Jiang Zhuoxue sprawled on Sang Ying’s bed, and hurried away after misreading the scene.
• Jiang Zhuoxue followed Sang Ying and leaned against her in front of Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou, reinforcing their suspicions despite Sang Ying’s explanations.
• The four agreed to enter the inner city and investigate the Gong Household’s second young master, who had returned the day before.
• At Moon-Seeking Restaurant, Sang Ying listened to patrons discuss the second young master’s inspection while Fang Chi offered her roast snow spirit rabbit.
• Jiang Zhuoxue mocked Fang Chi for not knowing Sang Ying disliked rabbit meat and claimed that he cared about her most.

Sang Ying learned that Gong Chengjue might appear in the outer city while preparing for his wedding, giving her a possible chance to approach him. Before she could reunite with her companions, Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou rushed over to say Gong Chengjue’s fiancée had taken Jiang Zhuoxue.

• Fang Chi, Jiang Zhuoxue, and Hai Tingzhou competed for Sang Ying’s attention over a piece of snow rabbit meat, and Sang Ying divided it equally among them.
• Sang Ying learned that entering Delusion-Breaking City’s inner city required help from someone in the Gong Household, and resolved to settle her grievances there.
• Sang Ying questioned the restaurant proprietor about Gong Chengjue and learned he might tour the outer city with his dao companion while preparing for his wedding in the middle of next month.
• Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou hurried back to Sang Ying and told her Gong Chengjue’s fiancée had taken Jiang Zhuoxue away.

After Liang Ranyue took Jiang Zhuoxue into the inner city, Sang Ying realized he had gone willingly and saw a chance to use the incident to enter the city. She posed as the Jimo Household’s eldest young lady and confronted the Gong Household at its gates, where Gong Chengsi learned of her arrival.

• Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou told Sang Ying that Liang Ranyue had taken Jiang Zhuoxue, who had signaled them not to intervene.
• Sang Ying thanked Fang Chi and said she had found a way to enter the inner city and disrupt the Gong Household, asking Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou to perform a ruse with her.
• Sang Ying and her companions went to the inner city gates, where she claimed Liang Ranyue had snatched one of her people and threatened to have her elder brother, a Jimo from Spirit Prefecture, demand an explanation.
• A guard recognized Sang Ying as the Jimo Household’s eldest young lady and hurried to report her arrival to Gong Chengsi.
• Gong Chengsi learned that Sang Ying had come to confront the Gong Household over his younger brother’s fiancée and darkened his expression.

Liang Ranyue learned that the beauty she had brought to the Gong Household, Jiang Zhuoxue, was connected to the Jimo Household's eldest young lady. Sang Ying confronted the Gong Household over its treatment of Jiang Zhuoxue and demanded compensation, leaving the Gong father and son in despair.

• Liang Ranyue tried to comfort Jiang Zhuoxue, who insisted that his companion would come for him.
• Gong Chengsi barged into Liang Ranyue's courtyard and accused her of causing trouble by taking someone from the Jimo Household's eldest young lady.
• Liang Ranyue learned that Jiang Zhuoxue had come with the Jimo Household's eldest young lady and realized she had made a serious mistake.
• Sang Ying criticized the Gong Household head and Gong Chengjue for their conduct and declared that Jiang Zhuoxue belonged to Jimo Zanxing.
• Sang Ying told the Gong father and son that she had come to discuss compensation rather than retrieve Jiang Zhuoxue.

Sang Ying secured compensation and a place to stay at the Gong residence while demanding the return of her man. After the Gong family confronted Liang Ranyue, Gong Chengjue questioned their engagement, and Household Head Gong brought Jiang Zhuoxue back to Sang Ying.

• Sang Ying accepted Gong Chengjue’s offer to stay at the Gong residence after he promised compensation, but insisted that her man be returned promptly.
• Household Head Gong arranged the best courtyard for Sang Ying, and the Gong father and son went to Shengxiao Courtyard.
• Gong Chengjue scolded Liang Ranyue for provoking Jimo Zanxing, but she refused to apologize and blamed him for agreeing to their marriage.
• Gong Chengjue said the Liang Household was beyond his reach and that they should call off the marriage, then left Shengxiao Courtyard.
• Household Head Gong brought Jiang Zhuoxue out and apologized; Jiang Zhuoxue said he held no grudge, and Household Head Gong noticed his sightless eyes.

Sang Ying reunited with Jiang Zhuoxue and discussed how to exploit discord within the Gong Household while investigating the inner city’s suspicious formation. During a nighttime search of the Gong residence, she accidentally opened a hidden passage beneath the garden rockery.

• The Gong Household returned Jiang Zhuoxue to Sang Ying, and he teased her about coming to find him.
• Sang Ying rejected Jiang Zhuoxue’s suggestion that she abandon her companions, and she, Fang Chi, Hai Tingzhou, and Jiang Zhuoxue went inside to discuss the Gong Household.
• Sang Ying and Fang Chi noted tensions among the Gong Household’s leaders and considered using them to stir up internal conflict.
• Sang Ying described Spiritual Qi streaming into Delusion-Breaking City and said she would investigate the inner-city formation that night.
• Sang Ying slipped into the Gong residence’s garden and accidentally triggered a stone that revealed a pitch-black secret passage beneath the rockery.

Sang Ying discovered that the Gong Household’s Vitality Formations drained vitality from the Northern Snowfield, but she was wounded while escaping. Gong Chengjue tracked her to the guests’ courtyard and confronted her, only for Jiang Zhuoxue to appear beside her with a bloody bite mark on his collarbone.

• Sang Ying overheard the Gong Household head and Gong Chengjue discuss the jade pearl and learned that it absorbed vitality from the Northern Snowfield.
• Several strands of vitality struck Sang Ying, and she fled the secret chamber after destroying Gong Chengjue’s spiritual needle.
• Gong Chengjue released Blood-Drinking Insects to track Sang Ying’s blood, and they led him to the courtyard where she and the others were staying.
• Gong Chengjue forced his way into the courtyard and ordered his guards to restrain Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou so he could reach Sang Ying’s room.
• Sang Ying stepped out with her sword drawn and challenged Gong Chengjue, who faltered under her presence.
• Jiang Zhuoxue appeared behind Sang Ying with an arm around her waist and a bloody bite mark on his collarbone.

Gong Chengjue abandoned his plan against Sang Ying, apologized, and left to pursue a reported assassin, who had already escaped. After returning at dawn, he was summoned to the household head’s courtyard.

• Sang Ying stopped Gong Chengjue’s search and warned him to call off his guards, while Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou subdued them.
• Jiang Zhuoxue made a suggestive remark about Sang Ying dressing him, and Gong Chengjue accepted the explanation and apologized.
• Sang Ying told Gong Chengjue that Jimo Qing would arrive and demanded he prepare another courtyard for him.
• A guard reported finding the assassin, but Gong Chengjue arrived to discover the person had vanished; he ordered his injured guards taken away without disturbing Sang Ying.
• Gong Chengjue returned to his courtyard at dawn, then went to meet the household head after a guard summoned him.