Recaps

In the Twin Orchid Realm, Rogue Cultivators and townspeople watched Sang Ying undergo her Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation, while a newcomer learned of her role in restoring the realm and opening its secret realms. Sang Ying survived the final strike, and the tribulation cloud dispersed as the realm welcomed a new Spirit Transformation Venerable.

• A customer visiting Pingge City asked a Rogue Cultivator about his wares, and another stallholder explained that everyone was focused on Sang Ying’s tribulation.
• The stallholder told the customer how Ten Thousand Daos Born’s Teleportation Arrays connected the small worlds and brought renewed fame and wealth to the sect.
• The stallholder explained that Sang Ying and her mother established the Twin Orchid Realm’s Teleportation Array and that Sang Ying discovered three renowned secret realms.
• The customer questioned whether Sang Ying could survive the tribulation, and the stallholders angrily defended her.
• The final bolt struck the Flowing Light Sword Sect, after which a bell rang, sweet rain fell, and the tribulation cloud dispersed.

After reaching Spirit Transformation, Sang Ying decided to travel with Jiang Zhuoxue to the Hidden Nether Realm to reclaim the treasures he had lost there. They arrived in the gloomy realm with Gu Shu and the Sword Qi, beginning their journey.

• Sang Ying's Spirit Transformation tribulation caused a bell to toll across the Flowing Light Sword Sect and Pingge City, and Sang Zheng helped keep the phenomenon quiet.
• Sang Ying told Sang Zheng she and Jiang Zhuoxue planned to retrieve his remaining treasures from the Hidden Nether Realm, and Sang Zheng agreed to let them go.
• Sang Zheng assured Jiang Zhuoxue that he and Sang Ying could rely on the Flowing Light Sword Sect if they encountered trouble.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue packed their belongings and departed with Gu Shu and the Sword Qi using a Teleportation Array.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue arrived in the Hidden Nether Realm, where a fishy wind blew and their Spiritual Qi was suppressed.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue returned to the Hidden Nether Realm and found its people oppressed and its atmosphere bleak. In Spring Returns City, an innkeeper told them the city’s former rulers had come from Moonless City and revealed that the people of the Hidden Nether Realm suffered from a Curse.

• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue noticed that residents and visitors in the Hidden Nether Realm seemed grim and withdrawn.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue entered an inn in Spring Returns City and paid the innkeeper for rooms and information.
• Gu Shu told Sang Ying that the innkeeper did not seem to be a native of the Hidden Nether Realm.
• The innkeeper said that the former rulers of Spring Returns City had come from Moonless City, and that only one child of the Moonless Household had escaped after they lost power.
• The innkeeper explained that cultivators in the Hidden Nether Realm had little hope of ascending and revealed that its people were afflicted with a Curse.

A child brought spirit chicken soup to his estranged little uncle, whose body was covered in a deadly Curse, but was driven away. An old fortune-teller declared that their luck was about to turn, while innkeeper told Sang Ying that the Hidden Nether Realm was cursed.

• The child arrived at his little uncle’s shelter with spirit chicken soup, but an old man emerged and drank a bowl before the uncle could have any.
• The little uncle rejected the child and sent him away, insisting they had nothing to do with each other.
• The old man warned the little uncle that anger could trigger the Curse, revealing scarlet runes covering his face.
• The old man cast a fortune and announced that his and the little uncle’s luck was about to turn.
• At the inn, Sang Ying asked about the Curse, and the innkeeper explained that red markings eventually spread into a person’s eyes before they burst into blood mist and disappear.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue questioned an innkeeper in the Hidden Nether Realm about rare, durable treasures that could be used to forge a sword. The innkeeper pointed them toward the Min Household’s supposedly unbreakable black jade, then began explaining the household’s troubles.

• Sang Ying asked the innkeeper about the Hidden Nether Realm’s Curse, and he explained that it struck unpredictably and appeared as red markings.
• Jiang Zhuoxue offered the innkeeper a high-grade Spirit Stone in exchange for information about rare treasures and described wanting to forge Sang Ying a unique sword.
• The innkeeper said many clans had sent their treasures to medical cultivators seeking a cure for the Curse, but some durable treasures remained in the realm.
• The innkeeper identified ten black carapaces in Moonless City and two pieces of black jade held by the Min Household in Spring Returns City.
• Jiang Zhuoxue learned that the black jade had been mistaken for dragon horns, but was so tough that the Min Household’s ancestor could not damage it.
• The innkeeper described the Min Household’s influence and began to say that its youngest child had suffered greatly.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue learned about the Min Household’s cursed young master and the black jade pieces, then set out to investigate the family. Their inquiries uncovered that an expert had temporarily suppressed the Curse, and the chapter ended when a child collided with Sang Ying and broke a pot of soup.

• The innkeeper told Jiang Zhuoxue and Sang Ying about the Min Household’s young master, the Curse, and the reward of black jade for saving him.
• Sang Ying asked the innkeeper to introduce them to the Min Household, and he offered directions instead.
• Jiang Zhuoxue covered Sang Ying’s room with layers of array disks before they went out to gather information.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue questioned young beggars and learned that a powerful expert had temporarily suppressed the young master’s Curse.
• A child ran into Sang Ying, dropped his earthenware pot, and began sobbing over the spilled soup.

After Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue replaced the soup and jar that a little boy had dropped, he brought the soup to his uncle, Wuming, in the displaced people's slum. Wuming let his nephew visit once every three days, easing the distance he had tried to keep between them.

• Sang Ying comforted the crying boy and offered to replace his soup, while Jiang Zhuoxue bought him a fresh jar and expensive soup.
• Wuming worried as his nephew failed to return, but the old man reassured him with a divination that the boy was safe and would encounter good fortune.
• The boy returned carrying soup and told Wuming that he had fallen and broken his jar before a fairy sister helped him.
• The old man revealed that Wuming had bought a new bowl for the boy, and the three of them shared the nourishing soup together.
• Wuming allowed his nephew to visit once every three days, and the boy happily left with his jar.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue returned to the inn before the Hidden Nether Realm’s curfew, where Sang Ying learned more about the city’s precautions against the Curse and replenished her Spiritual Qi. The chapter ended when she saw a black-robed pursuer closing in on a fleeing figure after a scream shattered the night.

• Wuming prepared to leave for dangerous work, but the old man told him his nephew had met a benefactor and that their fortunes might change.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue returned to the inn before the streets were sealed for the night, and the innkeeper explained the city’s curfew as protection against people driven mad by the Curse.
• Sang Ying returned to her room, where Gu Shu complained about her late return and discussed preserving his Spiritual Qi with her.
• Sang Ying meditated with Gu Shu, then rushed to the window after a scream sounded and saw a black-robed person pursuing a fleeing figure with a curved blade.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue followed a nighttime pursuit and witnessed a cursed man die, while an unusual corpse puppet fought to protect him. The pursuer warned them away from the Hidden Nether Realm’s curse and vanished with the body, leaving Jiang Zhuoxue troubled by a sense that the dead man shared his blood.

• Sang Ying chased a fleeing man and his pursuer, and Jiang Zhuoxue followed to protect her while Gu Shu stayed behind at the inn.
• The fleeing man collapsed and begged the pursuer to spare him, revealing red markings that Sang Ying recognized as signs of the curse.
• A corpse puppet appeared, used spiritual power to fight the pursuer, and fled after the pursuer killed the cursed man.
• The pursuer noticed Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue, warned them not to investigate the curse, and left with the corpse.
• Sang Ying returned to the inn worried about the next day’s meeting with the Min Household, while Jiang Zhuoxue wondered whether the dead man had been related to him.

After collecting the pursuer’s blood and learning from Xiao Sanzi that cultivators who investigate the Hidden Nether Realm’s curse sometimes contract it, Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue went with Shopkeeper Zhao to the Min Household. The steward welcomed them as possible healers for the dying young master, whose illness had defeated every medical cultivator brought in before.

• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue collected the blood left by the pursuer, concealed their tracks, and returned to the inn.
• Sang Ying asked Xiao Sanzi about the curse, and he warned that healthy cultivators who pursued it had caught it themselves.
• Shopkeeper Zhao brought up breakfast, then asked whether Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue intended to visit the Min Household.
• Jiang Zhuoxue asked Shopkeeper Zhao to lead them there, and he took them to the Min Household’s residence.
• The old steward welcomed Shopkeeper Zhao and admitted Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue, hoping they could save the young master after other medical cultivators had failed.

Shopkeeper Zhao and the Min Household steward discussed the young master's worsening red markings and the old man's prophecy that two benefactors might save him. Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue waited in the front hall as Zhao hoped they could be the Min Household's last chance.

• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue were seated in the Min Household's front hall while the steward went to fetch the household head.
• Shopkeeper Zhao met the steward outside and learned that the young master's red markings had spread to his chest.
• Shopkeeper Zhao recalled how an old man had prophesied the young master's short life unless he met two benefactors, and how the prophecy was confirmed by the infant's red markings.
• The Min Household Head had rushed to the back gate and knelt before the old man after the young master's markings appeared.
• Shopkeeper Zhao admitted he could not know whether Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue were the promised benefactors, but hoped they could save the young master.

Wuming returned from work with spiritual fruit for his nephew, then collapsed as the red markings spread between his brows. At the Min residence, Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue examined Min Renjie and discovered that the blood of those afflicted by the Blood Incantation was mixed with Jiang Zhuoxue’s.

• Wuming brought home spiritual fruit and shared soup with his little nephew and the old man.
• Wuming gave his nephew a parcel for the boy’s parents, then collapsed as the red markings reached between his brows.
• The Min Household head rushed to Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue and begged them to save his grandson, Min Renjie.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue examined the frail Min Renjie after asking the household to leave.
• Jiang Zhuoxue tested Min Renjie’s blood and concluded that his own blood was mixed with the blood of everyone afflicted by the Blood Incantation.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue discovered that Min Renjie’s Curse was connected to dragon blood inherited through Young Madam Min’s ancestors, who had lived in Corpse Soul City. They revealed the blood’s origin to the Min Household, leaving the family to confront the history behind Renjie’s condition.

• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue realized that Duan Yuan had given Jiang Zhuoxue’s blood to the people of Corpse Soul City and had tried to use it to control them.
• Sang Ying proposed that Min Renjie’s dragon blood might have come through Young Madam Min’s family, and Jiang Zhuoxue agreed that his blood was merging with the child’s.
• Jiang Zhuoxue soothed Min Renjie, allowing him to sleep, while Sang Ying warned the Min Household that his Curse had only been suppressed temporarily.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue questioned Young Madam Min about her ancestors, and she confirmed that they had once lived in Corpse Soul City.
• Jiang Zhuoxue told the Min Household that Min Renjie’s red markings came from dragon blood inherited from ancestors who had received it from Duan Yuan ten thousand years earlier.

Jiang Zhuoxue explained that Min Renjie's dragon-blood affliction came from his exceptional talent, and agreed to remove it in two days in exchange for the Min Household's black jade. On the way back to the inn, he told Sang Ying that he had been born from schemes between his dragon father and devil mother, who each intended to use the other.

• Jiang Zhuoxue explained how dragon blood could merge with Min Renjie's bloodline, causing dangerous red markings, and the Min family chose to have it removed.
• Jiang Zhuoxue agreed to return in two days to remove the dragon blood and asked for the Min Household's two pieces of black jade and the extracted blood.
• Jiang Zhuoxue and Sang Ying declined the Min family's offer to stay at their residence and returned to the inn.
• Sang Ying remarked that Jiang Zhuoxue had treated Min Renjie and his family unusually gently, and Jiang Zhuoxue admitted Min Renjie reminded him of himself.
• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying that his mother was a devil woman who sought a child with dragon and devil blood to overturn the Gods and Devils Battlefield, while his father was trapped there as punishment.
• Jiang Zhuoxue revealed that his parents had each discovered the other's intentions and had been using one another from the beginning.

Bai Nianchou left the Gods and Devils Battlefield to demand that Patriarch Qing help him find Xuan Yu, hoping to use the imprisoned Black Dragon to summon his son and obtain the Dragon Abyss Sword. Xuan Yu refused, declared that he had disowned his son and welcomed the Dragon Race’s destruction.

• Bai Nianchou told the gathered dragon elders that cracks in the seal were letting low-level devils through and warned that the seal needed repair.
• Bai Nianchou demanded that Patriarch Qing honor his promise and take him to see Xuan Yu, whose son was prophesied to bring the Dragon Abyss Sword back to the Dragon Race.
• Patriarch Qing led Bai Nianchou to the Azure Dragon Clan’s prison and raised Xuan Yu from the icy pool, revealing him chained to a heavenly pillar.
• Bai Nianchou asked Xuan Yu to use their father-son connection to call his son back because the Gods and Devils Battlefield faced a coming calamity.
• Xuan Yu disowned his son, rejected the Dragon Race’s fate, and laughed at the prospect of its destruction.

Jiang Zhuoxue recalled how his parents and the Dragon Race had used and rejected him, but Sang Ying promised she would never leave him. After returning to the inn, Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue learned that a mysterious old man had foretold their arrival as the Min Household’s benefactors, and the household had likely contacted him.

• Jiang Zhuoxue recalled revealing his and his mother’s heritage to thwart Xuan Yu’s plan, which led to his mother fleeing and Xuan Yu being imprisoned while Jiang Zhuoxue was exiled.
• Sang Ying comforted Jiang Zhuoxue, and he admitted he had let go of his past; she promised she would never leave him.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue returned to the inn and declined the food sent by the Min Household, offering it to Shopkeeper Zhao and Xiao Sanzi instead.
• Sang Ying asked why the Min Household Head had trusted them, and Shopkeeper Zhao explained that an old man had foretold two benefactors would come to help the household.
• Shopkeeper Zhao revealed that the old man had asked the Min Household to light his communication incense when the benefactors arrived, and the household had likely already done so.

Xiao Sanzi secretly consumed the spirit chicken after making it appear that the food from the Min Household had been ruined. Meanwhile, the old man sensed the message incense and went to find the Min Household’s benefactor, unaware that the red mark on Wuming’s brow had vanished.

• Xiao Sanzi claimed he had spilled the Min Household’s food and that a wild cat had carried off the spirit chicken, while Shopkeeper Zhao chose not to punish him.
• Xiao Sanzi watched a kitten die after it ate the spirit chicken, then used black mist to consume the chicken and bones.
• The old man recovered from suppressing the Spiritual Qi inside Wuming and recognized the scent of the message incense.
• The old man went to the Min Household’s benefactor, hoping to meet the person he had sought for years.
• Wuming’s red mark flickered and vanished while the old man was away.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue performed a separation of the dragon blood in Min Renjie, protecting the procedure with formations and easing the child’s pain. The blood left Min Renjie, whose markings disappeared, and returned to Jiang Zhuoxue.

• Sang Ying brought Gu Shu along to the Min Household because she feared something might happen if he stayed behind at the inn.
• The Min Household prepared supplies and protective formations, and Jiang Zhuoxue confirmed Min Renjie was ready for the separation.
• Sang Ying set up additional formations and a Spirit Gathering Formation before Jiang Zhuoxue put Min Renjie to sleep.
• Jiang Zhuoxue drew the dragon blood toward Min Renjie's brow while Sang Ying held the child still with spiritual power.
• Three drops of blood emerged from Min Renjie's brow, his red markings vanished, and the drops flew back to Jiang Zhuoxue.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue removed the dragon blood from Min Renjie, saving him, and learned that a divination elder had been seeking to meet them. They agreed to meet the elder, accepted the Min Household’s tokens of gratitude, and the chapter ended with the elder in the Refugee Slums predicting that his feverish youngest son would soon wake.

• Sang Ying told the Min Household that the dragon blood had been extracted, and Min Renjie’s family found the child safe and free of his red markings.
• Jiang Zhuoxue advised Min Renjie’s parents to help him recover and said his opened meridians gave him promising prospects for cultivation.
• The Min Household head revealed that a divination elder had asked him to light message incense if he ever met Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue, then requested a meeting with them.
• Sang Ying agreed to meet the elder after learning he had divined details about them and Min Renjie’s future.
• The Min Household head gave Jiang Zhuoxue two pieces of black jade and Sang Ying a plaque promising the family’s aid.
• In the Refugee Slums, the elder reassured his nephew that the feverish youngest uncle would wake soon.

The old man hid Wuming’s nephew as Sun-Chasing Hall apostles attacked, hoping to kill the cursed Wuming while he was weakened. Sang Ying learned the attackers had gone to the refugee slums, where the old diviner lived.

• The old man put Wuming’s sleeping nephew under a bed and confronted two Sun-Chasing Hall apostles who came to kill Wuming.
• The apostles revealed that they had caused Wuming’s curse to erupt and demanded that the old man step aside.
• The old man fought the apostles, sustaining wounds as they pressed their attack.
• Gu Shu told Sang Ying that an inn attendant had turned into mud and headed toward the refugee slums.
• Sang Ying realized the old diviner lived in the slums and could be in danger.

Sang Ying intervened as two mud men attacked Wuming and the old man, freezing both intruders and saving the child. She gave the exhausted old man a high-grade Rejuvenation Pill, and he recognized her as Sang Ying of the Flowing Light Sword Sect.

• One mud man restrained the old man while the other began swallowing Wuming and then threatened the old man's waking nephew.
• The old man rushed to protect the child, but the mud man's tentacle stopped just before it reached him.
• An unseen force kicked the mud man away from the bed, freeing Wuming, while ice Spiritual Qi froze both intruders.
• Sang Ying gave the old man a high-grade Rejuvenation Pill, restoring his Dantian and meridians.
• The old man asked whether the woman was Sang Ying of the Flowing Light Sword Sect, and she confirmed that she was.

Duan Hanyi revealed that his master, Old Man Buyun, had prophesied Sang Ying would be the Child of the Heavenly Dao destined to quell a great calamity. Elsewhere, a man noted that Duan Hanyi had likely met Sang Ying and decided it was time for her to learn her identity and responsibility.

• Duan Hanyi shed his disguise and explained that he had sought Sang Ying because his master had foretold her arrival.
• Duan Hanyi recounted how Old Man Buyun’s death led to chaos in the Heavenly Mystery Palace and the sect’s decline.
• Duan Hanyi revealed the prophecy that Sang Ying would drive out evil demons, end the turmoil of war, and restore peace to the Hidden Nether Realm.
• A man’s chess piece was struck by lightning as he considered that the world’s rules still did not acknowledge his existence.
• The man concluded that Duan Hanyi had probably met Sang Ying and that she should learn she was the Child of the Heavenly Dao.

Sang Ying learned from a diviner that she had been destined to become Gu Huaiwei’s sole disciple and save the cultivation world, but someone had stolen her fortune and taken her place. As the young man continued investigating, Sang Ying remembered how Su Fuyun’s arrival had displaced the affection she once received at the Flowing Light Sword Sect.

• The young man revealed that Elder Buyun’s prophecy named Fantou Mountain as the place where Sang Ying and Immortal Venerable Yanchen were meant to meet.
• Sang Ying explained that Su Fuyun had met Yanchen there and become his disciple, while Sang Ying had also been taken in by him; she added that she had killed Su Fuyun three hundred years ago.
• The young man collapsed after recalculating the prophecy, and Sang Ying gave him another Rejuvenation Pill and urged him to rest.
• The young man insisted the prophecy was true and declared that Sang Ying’s fortune had been stolen so someone else could take her destined place.
• Sang Ying recalled that before Su Fuyun arrived, the sect’s elders and disciples had loved her, and she realized how much of that affection she had lost.

Sang Ying considered the plot behind the stolen fortune and stopped the young man from exhausting himself with divinations. She and her companions checked on Wuming, and Jiang Zhuoxue discovered that his blood had begun merging with dragon blood.

• Sang Ying reassured the angry young man and urged him to save his strength for the coming calamity.
• The young man briefly sensed that he had forgotten an important secret, then joined Sang Ying and her companions to inspect the two frozen people.
• Sang Ying and the others went to check on Wuming while the child cleaned his uncle and vowed to keep their conversation secret.
• Duan Hanyi asked Sang Ying to save Wuming, and the child begged Jiang Zhuoxue and Sang Ying to help his uncle.
• Jiang Zhuoxue accepted the child's plea and found that Wuming's blood had already begun merging with dragon blood.

Jiang Zhuoxue explained that Wuming had begun fusing with dragon blood and offered to remove it or help him pursue the dangerous fusion. Wuming chose the risk, survived the fusion, and set out to avenge his family before repaying his benefactors.

• Jiang Zhuoxue explained that the Curse was a sign of strength and that Wuming had begun absorbing dragon blood, but warned that fusion could take years and kill him.
• Min'er chose to have the dragon blood removed from Wuming, but Wuming awoke and begged Jiang Zhuoxue to help him complete the fusion.
• Wuming told Min'er about his dream of becoming strong and avenging his family, then asked him to return to the Chen Household and forget him if he did not return within three days.
• Duan Hanyi escorted Min'er away, and Jiang Zhuoxue began helping Wuming fuse with the dragon blood as the two trapped people watched.
• Wuming's red markings vanished, and he emerged full of vigor; Sang Ying and the others heard him promise to repay their help after avenging his family.