Recaps

After Jiang Zhuoxue was captured, Sang Ying and her companions planned how to protect themselves and rescue him from the Limitless Sect. They decided to seek allies among Sword Frost Cliff and the Star-Forging Sect, whose unexpected return suggested someone inside the sect was secretly helping them.

• Jimo Qing asked Sang Ying what she would do if rescuing Jiang Zhuoxue required a fight to the death, and she weighed gaining overwhelming power against trading a valuable treasure for him.
• Sang Ying reassured the group that Jiang Zhuoxue might be able to protect himself, and said they should prepare for Sect Master Wu to use them as hostages.
• Sang Ying proposed joining forces with Sword Frost Cliff and the Star-Forging Sect, and Ji Fucang supported her plan to build alliances and exploit divisions among Sect Master Wu’s allies.
• Jimo Xuan urged the group to let their enemies turn against one another, and they agreed to continue plotting together.
• Sang Ying received Fu Shuangjiang’s message that he and Sect Master Ji were bringing Sword Frost Cliff’s disciples back, while the Star-Forging Sect was also on its way.
• Jimo Xuan said the returning sects could help them even though they had not sent a message, and the group concluded that someone in the Limitless Sect had secretly passed along the news.

Fu Shuangjiang and the Star-Forging Sect arrived with Sword Frost Cliff to challenge the Limitless Sect over Sang Ying and the others. Sect Master Wu agreed to treat them as honored guests with freedom to come and go and expenses paid, and Sang Ying planned to take full advantage of his promise.

• Fu Shuangjiang worried about Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue as the two sects flew to the Limitless Sect.
• Sect Master Wu confronted Sect Master Ji and Luo Li, who accused him of capturing Sang Ying and imprisoning her companions.
• Luo Li demanded that Sang Ying and the others be brought out and asked whether they had stayed at the Limitless Sect willingly.
• Dong Fuzhu and Hai Tingzhou revealed that the group had been kept from leaving the courtyard, while Sang Ying pretended to take the blame for the trouble.
• Sect Master Wu agreed that Sang Ying and her companions could move freely and have the Limitless Sect pay for their purchases, and Sang Ying smiled at him.

Sang Ying and her companions visited the town market with Limitless Sect disciples and, at Fu Shuangjiang’s urging, went on a lavish shopping spree in the west market. The disciples were left to arrange payment for 570,000 high-grade Spirit Stones, while one of them noticed that Sang Ying seemed different from before.

• Sang Ying and her companions explored the east market with Fu Shuangjiang and the Limitless Sect disciples, buying only a few inexpensive items.
• Fu Shuangjiang suggested they visit the west market, and Dong Fuzhu urged him to take the group to its most expensive shops despite the disciples’ objections.
• Jimo Xuan, Ji Fucang, Bai Kejin, Lan Fusheng, and Dong Fuzhu selected costly goods at the largest shop, including a sword, a whip, a robe, a zither, and dresses.
• The Limitless Sect disciples signed for the bill of 570,000 high-grade Spirit Stones and arranged for the shop to deliver the goods to their sect.
• After returning to the group, one disciple wondered why Sang Ying seemed different from before, but Jimo Qing’s calls interrupted his thoughts.

Ji Fucang and the others used a puppet of Sang Ying to distract the Limitless Sect disciples while the real Sang Ying secretly set up a Teleportation Array outside Crane Islet City. After returning to the sect, they heard Sect Master Wu promise his allies that the evil dragon would be dead within three days.

• Fu Shuangjiang led Ji Fucang and the others through the west market while Ji Fucang used a puppet of Sang Ying to conceal their plan from the watching disciples.
• Sang Ying set up a Teleportation Array, a concealment array, and other arrays in a cave outside Crane Islet City, then returned to the city.
• Sang Ying and the others secretly switched her back with the puppet and noticed two unfamiliar passersby, one of whom was Si Jing.
• The group returned to the Limitless Sect, where the outer sect steward paid the west market merchants for their costly purchases.
• Sect Master Wu reassured his allies that he had a plan and vowed that the evil dragon would be dead within three days.

After Jiang Zhuoxue was accused of massacring the people of Peach Blossom Village, Sang Ying and her allies rushed to inspect the victims and defend him. Sect Master Wu announced that the sects had confirmed Jiang Zhuoxue’s guilt and would execute him in two days.

• News spread that Jiang Zhuoxue had escaped the Limitless Sect dungeon and allegedly killed the people of Peach Blossom Village before being recaptured.
• Sang Ying, Fu Shuangjiang, Ji Fucang, and others went to the mountain gate to examine the victims and seek evidence that Jiang Zhuoxue had been framed.
• The surviving villager confronted Sang Ying for defending Jiang Zhuoxue and uncovered the burned bodies of his parents.
• A Limitless Sect disciple drew his sword against the villager, but Sang Ying knocked the weapon away.
• Sect Master Wu announced that Jiang Zhuoxue had killed four hundred villagers and declared that he would be beheaded in two days.

Sect Master Wu used an Image-Retaining Stone to convince the crowd that Jiang Zhuoxue had massacred Peach Blossom Village and had been defeated by the Limitless Sect. After Sang Ying and her companions withdrew to discuss what they had seen, Sang Ying revealed that the black dragon in the images had been a transformed flood dragon, not Jiang Zhuoxue.

• Sect Master Wu displayed images that appeared to show Jiang Zhuoxue setting Peach Blossom Village ablaze and then losing a fight against the Limitless Sect’s experts.
• A grieving young man accused Sang Ying and her companions of defending a murderer, while they insisted Jiang Zhuoxue would not harm innocents.
• Sang Ying stopped Dong Fuzhu from confronting the young man and led her companions away to discuss the evidence in private.
• Sang Ying told the group that the black dragon in the images was a transformed flood dragon, and pointed out that its easily shed scales and disregarded blood exposed it as a fake.

Sect Master Wu celebrated the black dragon’s capture and claimed most of its treasures for the Limitless Sect, while revealing Xuan Lin’s origins as a flood dragon raised by the sect. Xuan Lin watched the other sect leaders’ resentment grow and concluded that they might destroy the Limitless Sect without his help.

• Sect Master Wu’s guests praised his scheme to capture Jiang Zhuoxue, then asked about the man who had impersonated him.
• Sect Master Wu introduced Xuan Lin as a flood dragon and explained how the Limitless Sect had raised him for ten thousand years in hopes of creating a true dragon.
• A guest asked how the black dragon’s body would be divided, and the sect leaders waited for Sect Master Wu’s decision.
• Sect Master Wu claimed half the dragon’s blood, its two largest teeth, a third of its meat, the Dragon Pearl, and the scales as compensation for the Limitless Sect.
• The other sect leaders hid their anger behind smiles, while Xuan Lin watched and thought they might bring about the Limitless Sect’s destruction themselves.

The Limitless Sect prepared and began its Dragon-Slaying Assembly, where Jiang Zhuoxue was to be executed before a crowd eager to profit from the dragon. As Sect Master Wu opened the event, a cultivator who claimed his invitation had been stolen was turned away at the mountain gate.

• Sword Frost Cliff disciples defended Sang Ying and the Immortal Spirit Realm against rumors, and their senior sister rebuked the Rogue Cultivators who mocked them.
• The Limitless Sect built an execution platform and decorated the sect grounds for the Dragon-Slaying Assembly.
• Guests gathered as Xuan Lin watched their greed, while Sect Master Wu displayed the meteoric-iron blade meant to kill Jiang Zhuoxue.
• Limitless Sect disciples rejected a cultivator who said someone at the banquet had stolen his invitation and drove him away.
• Sect Master Wu announced that the Dragon-Slaying Assembly had officially begun.

Jiang Zhuoxue was chained to the Dragon-Slaying Platform as Sect Master Wu prepared to execute him and collect his blood. Sang Ying stepped forward, claiming she wanted to dissolve her contract with Jiang Zhuoxue, and Sect Master Wu allowed her to approach.

• Limitless Sect disciples chained Jiang Zhuoxue to the Dragon-Slaying Platform while Sect Master Wu assured the gathered cultivators that his blood would be collected beneath it.
• Ji Fucang and Jimo Qing reviewed the rescue plan, telling Sang Ying to free Jiang Zhuoxue while the others caused a disturbance and then escaped through the Teleportation Array.
• Sang Ying and her companions affirmed their commitment to the rescue, and she thanked them for helping her and Jiang Zhuoxue.
• Sect Master Wu addressed the crowd and prepared to order Jiang Zhuoxue's execution.
• Sang Ying interrupted, claiming she wanted to dissolve her contract with Jiang Zhuoxue because he was evil, and Sect Master Wu let her approach the platform.

Sang Ying pretended to quarrel with Jiang Zhuoxue while her companions prepared to help, then revealed the Dragon Abyss Sword to free him from his chains. Sect Master Wu attacked her, and their clash sent him flying while Sang Ying crashed into a pillar, leaving the blade above Jiang Zhuoxue teetering.

• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue staged a bitter argument to buy time while Dong Fuzhu and Lan Fusheng moved through the crowd unnoticed.
• Sect Master Wu urged Sang Ying to sever her pact with Jiang Zhuoxue, and she asked to use her sword to do it.
• Sang Ying revealed the Dragon Abyss Sword, which the cultivators recognized as a divine artifact, and struck twice to break Jiang Zhuoxue's hand chains.
• Sect Master Wu attacked Sang Ying, and she met his palm strike with the Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Sang Ying's second slash sent Sect Master Wu flying dozens of miles, but she crashed into a pillar, making the blade above Jiang Zhuoxue teeter.

Sang Ying freed Jiang Zhuoxue as Sect Master Ji fought Sect Master Wu, but the gathered experts closed in before she could escape. Si Jing and his masked companion opened a passage to the past, and Jiang Zhuoxue sent Sang Ying through it to discover who he had been.

• Sang Ying and her allies detonated Sword Qi orbs to immobilize the cultivators on the Dragon-Slaying Platform, while Sword Frost Cliff and the Star-Forging Sect attacked those who had escaped.
• Sect Master Ji blocked Sect Master Wu and revealed that Sang Ying had dispelled the Demon Beasts' resentment and saved the Black Tortoise Realm.
• Sang Ying cut Jiang Zhuoxue free and shattered the great blade, but Ji Fucang, Jimo Qing, and Fang Chi could not reach them because they were surrounded.
• Si Jing and his masked companion opened a dark blue passage using treasures from various small worlds as the great experts rushed toward the platform.
• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying to discover his past and save who he had been, then sent her through the passage to the world of ten thousand years ago.

Sang Ying awoke in a mass grave in the Hidden Nether Realm and struggled to adapt to its impure Spiritual Qi. After learning the local date, she realized she had been sent ten thousand years into the past, to the era in which Jiang Zhuoxue had suffered.

• Sang Ying regained consciousness among corpses and identified the place as a mass grave.
• Sang Ying recognized the realm as the Hidden Nether Realm, where cultivators followed the Dao of death because the Spiritual Qi was impure.
• A red-eyed black crow followed Sang Ying from the mass grave and perched stubbornly on her shoulder.
• Sang Ying reached a town and asked a stallholder how the realm counted the years.
• The stallholder told Sang Ying it was the three hundredth year of Tianyu, revealing she had traveled ten thousand years into the past.

The mutilated young black dragon escaped his dungeon cell in Corpse Soul City, freeing the other prisoners and setting the city lord’s manor ablaze. The city lord sealed the city and ordered a search, while the dragon remained hidden in the alleys.

• The guards watched over the black dragon, who was barely alive after his captors had taken nearly everything from him.
• When the guards entered the cell and found no movement, the dragon killed them with his scarred tail and absorbed blood from their bodies.
• The young dragon freed the dungeon’s prisoners, while an unknown person set fire to the city lord’s manor.
• The city lord discovered the dragon was gone and ordered Corpse Soul City sealed and searched.
• After guards searched a house and moved on, the black dragon emerged from a dark alley, listened, and vanished again.

Sang Ying rescued the blind, injured youth from the guards pursuing him through Corpse Soul City and brought him to her rented residence. He denied being Jiang Zhuoxue but accepted her tea and wound medicine, while Sang Ying quietly watched over him.

• The youth fled through Corpse Soul City as guards chased him, but a hidden hand pulled him into an alley and helped him escape.
• Sang Ying hid the youth in her courtyard after the guards searched it and told him, "I finally found you, Jiang Zhuoxue."
• The youth insisted he was not Jiang Zhuoxue and refused to give Sang Ying his name, thinking of himself as number 342 of the Black Dragon Clan.
• Sang Ying offered him shelter, tea, and wound medicine, then left him alone in the room.
• The youth drank the tea and took the medicine, while Sang Ying watched through a crack in her door.

Sang Ying tried to persuade the badly injured Jiang Zhuoxue to wash in spiritual water and accept her help, while he remained wary of her intentions. As she considered how to heal him and escape the Hidden Nether Realm, Green Vine emerged from her Storage Bag, and Sang Ying decided to show it what its master used to look like.

• Sang Ying prepared spiritual water and urged Jiang Zhuoxue to clean his wounds, but he refused because he did not trust her.
• Sang Ying explained that she wanted to help him recover and left him alone; Jiang Zhuoxue eventually entered the tub and immersed himself in the spiritual water.
• Sang Ying reasoned that Jiang Zhuoxue would need to leave the Hidden Nether Realm to find skilled medical care and searched her Storage Bag for supplies.
• Green Vine sprang out of Sang Ying's Storage Bag, and she recognized it as a clone that had followed Cang Lian.
• After hearing Jiang Zhuoxue bathing, Sang Ying decided to let Green Vine see what its master used to look like.

The young Jiang Zhuoxue accepted Sang Ying’s help while secretly planning to use her to escape the Hidden Nether Realm. As Sang Ying offered Spirit-Stabilizing Pearls for his empty eye sockets, the city lord of Corpse Soul City ordered another search for the missing black dragon.

• The young Jiang Zhuoxue changed into clean black robes and decided to take the real Jiang Zhuoxue’s place until he could escape with Sang Ying’s help.
• He caught Green Vine’s avatar, then soothed it when Sang Ying explained that it was sad because its master would not acknowledge it.
• Sang Ying offered two Spirit-Stabilizing Pearls to fill Jiang Zhuoxue’s eye sockets, and he quietly agreed.
• The city lord of Corpse Soul City sensed that the Dragon Pearl wanted to return to its master and insisted the black dragon was still in the city.
• The city lord ordered his guards to search every place again and investigate everyone in Corpse Soul City.

With Duan Yuan’s citywide investigation threatening to expose the Demon Cultivators hiding in Corpse Soul City, they debated escaping and decided instead to raid his estate for his treasures. Their plan gained an unexpected guide: a young woman whose presence revealed she was a human cultivator.

• Duan Yuan’s investigation and the closed city gates drove hidden members of other races to gather in a house in the mortal district.
• The burly man proposed killing the guards, but Liu Sanniang warned that attacking them would draw more attention to the Demon Cultivators.
• A man in the corner suggested the gathered races join forces to break out of the city, then urged them to attack Duan Yuan’s estate and steal his Storage Bag and treasures.
• Elder Xuan worried that the estate’s layout would make the raid difficult, but a young woman offered to lead them through it.
• The Demon Cultivators realized from the woman’s presence that she was a human cultivator.

A female cultivator offered a group of Demon Race members a way to reach the city lord and safely escape Corpse Soul City, leaving them a terrain map to investigate. After one demon volunteered to scout the manor, she returned to her rented courtyard, where a young man asked whether the group had agreed.

• The Demon Race members accused Chen Ci of betraying them by bringing a human cultivator to their gathering, but the woman said he wanted to help them survive.
• The female cultivator offered to guide them safely to the city lord and out of Corpse Soul City, then left a terrain map of the city lord's manor behind.
• Elder Xuan decided to investigate the map, and a lizard demon volunteered to infiltrate the manor in hopes of claiming a treasure from Duan Yuan's Storage Bag.
• The female cultivator left the mortal district, changed her appearance and clothes, and returned to her rented courtyard.
• A young man asked the female cultivator whether the Demon Race members had agreed to her offer.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue waited for the Demon Race to respond to their offer of cooperation while Duan Yuan began inspecting the City Lord’s Manor. Sang Ying met with the Demon Race, convinced them of her identity, and revealed that heavenly lightning could disrupt Corpse Soul City’s Yin Qi.

• Sang Ying told Jiang Zhuoxue that the Demon Race had received his map and seemed interested, while he worried Duan Yuan might find them first.
• Jiang Zhuoxue secretly prepared another plan in case the Demon Race could not be trusted.
• Chen Ci sent word, and Sang Ying left to meet the Demon Race while Jiang Zhuoxue told her to watch out for herself.
• Elder Xuan and Liu Sanniang questioned Sang Ying’s motives, and she explained that she had escaped from Duan Yuan’s dungeon.
• Sang Ying told the Demon Race that heavenly lightning could suppress the city’s Yin Qi and throw Corpse Soul City into chaos.

Sang Ying convinced Elder Xuan and the Demon Race cultivators to join forces against Duan Yuan, offering Lightning Spirit Root Sword Qi Balls to create a diversion in Corpse Soul City. The alliance launched its attack the next night, plunging the city into chaos as hidden figures began to move.

• Sang Ying revealed that she had Sword Qi Balls made by Lightning Spirit Root cultivators, which could disrupt Corpse Soul City and distract its guards.
• Elder Xuan and the Demon Race cultivators agreed to cooperate with Sang Ying after learning other races had also been targeted and killed.
• Sang Ying offered more than two hundred Sword Qi Balls in exchange for their promise to kill Duan Yuan, keeping thirty for herself.
• The Demon Race cultivators continued planning through the night, then launched their operation the following night.
• Lightning-charged Sword Qi Balls exploded throughout Corpse Soul City, damaging corpse puppets and injuring guards as figures hidden in the shadows made their move.

Jiang Zhuoxue and the foreign races unleashed Sword Qi orbs across Corpse Soul City, crippling its Yin Qi cultivators and corpse puppets as Duan Yuan prepared to defend his residence. The foreign races attacked the residence, and the first explosions marked the beginning of its destruction.

• Sword Qi orbs exploded throughout Corpse Soul City, dispersing the Yin Qi of corpse keepers and guards and destroying many corpse puppets.
• The city’s cultivators blamed Duan Yuan for provoking Jiang Zhuoxue and feared the foreign races’ attack.
• Duan Yuan learned of the chaos through a two-winged moth and ordered his remaining guards to surround the city lord’s residence.
• The foreign races attacked the residence, where Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue watched the battle against Duan Yuan’s corpse puppets.
• A giant black eagle struck down two corpse puppets, and the foreign races threw Sword Qi orbs at the residence, beginning its destruction.

Duan Yuan overwhelmed the Demon Cultivators after swallowing the Dragon Pearl and transforming into a scaled monster. Sang Ying recognized the pearl as the youth’s and sent him to try to control it while she leaped into the battle to help reclaim it.

• The Sword Qi Balls destroyed the city lord’s manor and Duan Yuan’s corpse puppets, but Duan Yuan turned the battle by summoning venomous creatures with his flute.
• Liu Sanniang turned Duan Yuan’s snakes against his other creatures, while Elder Xuan attacked Duan Yuan and eventually knocked his jade flute away.
• Duan Yuan swallowed a crystal pearl and transformed into a powerful scaled monster with vertical pupils and deer antlers.
• Duan Yuan knocked back the Demon Cultivators attacking him, and the youth revealed that the pearl was his Dragon Pearl.
• Sang Ying told the youth to try to control the Dragon Pearl, then drew her sword and leaped down to help him reclaim it.

Sang Ying and the demons fought Duan Yuan after he swallowed the Dragon Pearl and became a monster, while Jiang Zhuoxue began drawing the Pearl out of him. Duan Yuan died beneath a storm of lightning, and Elder Xuan decided the demons would take control of Corpse Soul City.

• Duan Yuan’s dragon-like presence paralyzed Liu Sanniang until Sang Ying blocked his claw with her sword and urged the demons to fight alongside her.
• Sang Ying led the demons against Duan Yuan, while Jiang Zhuoxue reestablished his connection to the Dragon Pearl and began pulling it from Duan Yuan’s body.
• Sang Ying drove Duan Yuan into the city lord’s manor ruins and unleashed Sword Qi Balls as purple lightning filled the dust and smoke.
• A Lie swept away the smoke, revealing Duan Yuan’s dead, blood-soaked body and no sign of Sang Ying.
• Elder Xuan realized the female cultivator had helped the young dragon and told the wounded man that the demons would proceed with their plan to take Corpse Soul City.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue escaped Corpse Soul City with the Dragon Pearl and traveled to Moonless City, where they took refuge under disguises. After Sang Ying told Gu Shu they had arrived ten thousand years in the past, he realized Gu Wangchuan might still be alive and had not yet ascended.

• Jiang Zhuoxue reclaimed the dragon blood scattered through Corpse Soul City, and Sang Ying led him out before their identities were discovered.
• Sang Ying disguised herself and Jiang Zhuoxue, and they traveled for three days before settling in Moonless City as sister and brother.
• Sang Ying booked separate rooms at an inn and warned the still-injured Jiang Zhuoxue not to run away before he had recovered.
• Sang Ying told Gu Shu about her recent experiences, and Gu Shu said Gu Wangchuan might still be traveling in the world if they were ten thousand years in the past.

Sang Ying learned that Jiang Zhuoxue had used an array to bring them ten thousand years into the past, though Gu Shu did not know how they could return. As Sang Ying prepared her room, she found something alive and covered in fine scales inside her Storage Bag.

• Gu Shu told Sang Ying about Gu Wangchuan and explained that he did not know where the Sword Master was now.
• Sang Ying decided not to search for Gu Wangchuan and focused on staying safe while stranded in the past with Jiang Zhuoxue.
• Gu Shu explained that Jiang Zhuoxue had used an array powered by treasures containing space and time, but its method of returning to the present was unknown.
• Gu Shu urged Sang Ying to make Jiang Zhuoxue kneel and apologize if she saw him again.
• Sang Ying began setting up an array in her room and felt a cold, smooth length of scales move inside her Storage Bag.