Recaps

Sang Ying learned that her parents had entered the Vast Sea Secret Realm seeking a Thousand-Year Ice Lotus for her, despite there being no Ice Lotuses there, and suspected someone had deceived them. As she resolved to uncover the truth, Nan Gurong revealed a pill inheritance that might help repair Sang Ying’s Spirit Root.

• Sect Leader Meng told Sang Ying that her parents went to the Vast Sea Secret Realm after receiving information about a Thousand-Year Ice Lotus that could suppress Sang Ying’s cold poison.
• Sang Ying recalled that the Complete Spirit Plant Book showed no Ice Lotuses in the Vast Sea Secret Realm and suspected someone in the Flowing Light Sword Sect had deliberately misled her parents.
• Nan Gurong settled Sang Ying in a quiet courtyard, where Sang Ying decided to uncover what had happened to her parents.
• Sect Leader Meng told Nan Gurong that Sang Ying’s unusually pure Ice Spirit Root caused her cold poison and could become increasingly difficult to treat as she cultivated.
• Nan Gurong told Sect Leader Meng that she had received a pill inheritance and Pill Formulas that might contain a way to repair Sang Ying’s Spirit Root.

Su Fuyun traveled toward White Foothill City with Zhao Yunhe, who grew closer to her while neglecting his junior sister Gu Hongyi. In an inn, they heard that Sang Ying and Nan Gurong had helped expose the former city lord’s crimes, leaving Su Fuyun distressed by Sang Ying’s acclaim.

• Zhao Yunhe gave Su Fuyun pastries and reassured her as they traveled together toward White Foothill City to look for Sang Ying.
• Zhao Yunhe criticized Sang Ying, and Gu Hongyi argued with him for favoring Su Fuyun before running off after he threatened to send her back to the sect.
• Su Fuyun encouraged Zhao Yunhe to offer her the same closeness he gave Gu Hongyi, and she began calling him Brother Yunhe.
• At the inn, Su Fuyun and Zhao Yunhe overheard people say White Foothill City had come under the Facing Heaven Sect after its former lord’s crimes were exposed.
• The crowd praised Sang Ying and Nan Gurong for helping save people, and Su Fuyun felt distressed that Sang Ying was receiving acclaim again.

Sect Leader Meng and Nan Gurong found a way to restore Sang Ying’s Spirit Root with a Frost Return Pill, but the Thousand-Year Ice Lotus they needed had already been given to Gu Huaiwei. Sang Ying revealed that she had an even rarer Ice Lotus and another to spare, leaving Sect Leader Meng ready to begin refining the pills.

• Nan Gurong told Sang Ying that a medical classic described a Frost Return Pill that could restore her Spirit Root, and Sect Leader Meng explained that it required a Thousand-Year Ice Lotus.
• Sect Leader Meng learned from the Flowing Light Sword Sect that Immortal Venerable Yanchen had given its Thousand-Year Ice Lotus to Gu Huaiwei to help her reach Foundation Establishment.
• Sang Ying reflected that the sect leader had likely known why Gu Huaiwei wanted the lotus, but she suppressed her hurt over his favoritism.
• Sang Ying revealed that she had already prepared a ten-thousand-year Ice Lotus, and Sect Leader Meng decided to refine the Frost Return Pill the next day.
• Sang Ying produced another Ice Lotus so Sect Leader Meng could refine extra pills, and Sect Leader Meng agreed to return in seven days to treat her injuries.

After recovering at the Plain Robe Pavilion, Sang Ying set out for Haizhou City to reach the secret realm on Gleaming Gold Island. At an inn along the way, she unexpectedly encountered Su Fuyun and the Gale Hound pup, which recognized her.

• Sang Ying left the Plain Robe Pavilion after Sect Leader Meng and the disciples gave her medicine, and Nan Gurong saw her off.
• Sang Ying and Gu Shu flew toward Haizhou City, where they planned to take a ferry to Gleaming Gold Island.
• After flying for a day and a night, Sang Ying stopped at a town to rest because her Spiritual Qi was nearly exhausted.
• At the inn, Sang Ying saw Su Fuyun coming downstairs after her talking Gale Hound pup.
• The Gale Hound ran into Sang Ying, then froze when it recognized her as Su Fuyun called her Junior Sister.

Sang Ying encountered Su Fuyun, Gu Hongyi, and Zhao Yunhe at an inn and challenged Su Fuyun’s version of her departure from the sect and her early release from punishment. Later that night, Amo showed up at Sang Ying’s door.

• Su Fuyun called Amo back, and Sang Ying noticed that Su Fuyun had reached Foundation Establishment despite supposedly being confined to a quiet room.
• Gu Hongyi questioned Su Fuyun about her punishment and asked Sang Ying whether she was as spoiled and willful as Su Fuyun had claimed.
• Zhao Yunhe defended Su Fuyun and criticized Sang Ying for supposedly leaving the sect in a fit of temper.
• Sang Ying said she had followed sect rules when she left to train and asked Su Fuyun how she had left the quiet room early.
• After Sang Ying settled into her inn room for the night, Amo scratched and whimpered at her door, then complained that she had taken too long to open it.

Sang Ying refused Amo’s plea to stop opposing Su Fuyun and left the inn after Zhao Yunhe accused her of framing her senior sister. When Su Fuyun invited her to travel together to Gleaming Gold Island, Sang Ying declined and flew away, while Su Fuyun resolved to claim the island’s treasures for herself.

• Amo entered Sang Ying’s room and pleaded with her to stop targeting Su Fuyun, but Sang Ying only promised not to go after her unless Su Fuyun caused trouble first.
• Amo insulted Sang Ying by repeating Zhou Heng'an’s criticism and claiming Immortal Venerable Yanchen preferred Su Fuyun, so Sang Ying shut the door on her.
• The next morning, Zhao Yunhe accused Sang Ying of lying to frame Su Fuyun, and Sang Ying dismissed his accusations before leaving the inn.
• Su Fuyun caught up with Sang Ying and invited her to travel with her group to Haizhou City and Gleaming Gold Island, but Sang Ying flew off alone on her spirit sword.
• After Sang Ying disappeared, Su Fuyun touched her jade pendant and vowed to take the treasures on Gleaming Gold Island for herself.

Sang Ying arrived in Haizhou City, paid the refundable entry fee, and explored its bustling sea-beast markets. She headed west to rent a courtyard and met Xiao Liu, a young cultivator who offered to show her one.

• Sang Ying reached Haizhou City and learned that the Hai Clan controlled the city and chose its head through a contest among eligible members.
• Sang Ying paid the entry fee and entered the city with Gu Shu, who complained about the cost until Sang Ying explained that it would be refunded if she obeyed the rules.
• Sang Ying explored the seafood stalls and exchanged a polite greeting with a Demon Cultivator youth whose fins showed through his clothes.
• Sang Ying decided to rent a courtyard in the western part of the city before the Shimmering Gold Island Secret Realm opened.
• Xiao Liu approached Sang Ying and offered to take her to see a courtyard.

Sang Ying rented Xiao Liu’s family courtyard in Haizhou City and arranged to pay extra for his mother’s fish congee. After walking Xiao Liu home with the rent money, she met his older brother, who watched her leave with suspicion.

• Xiao Liu showed Sang Ying a small courtyard, and she rented it for three months at three hundred low-grade Spirit Stones a month, including daily fish congee.
• Sang Ying completed the rental formalities and paid Xiao Liu nine hundred low-grade Spirit Stones, then offered to escort him home so he would not be robbed.
• Xiao Liu explained that his older brother had received the courtyard as a reward from the young master of the Hai Household and that his family rented it out to support his cultivation.
• Xiao Liu introduced Sang Ying to his mother, who nervously refused the hundred Spirit Stones Sang Ying offered for the congee.
• Sang Ying left with Xiao Liu and encountered his older brother, who watched her retreating figure warily.

Sang Ying settled into the Meng Household courtyard, strengthened it with formations, and secured passage to Gleaming Gold Island by trading Dao Enlightenment Tea to the white-bearded boatman. As she returned home with a ticket for a ship departing in eight days, she saw Su Fuyun and her companions approaching.

• Meng Luosheng learned that Sang Ying had rented the Meng Household courtyard and explained why she had paid Xiao Liu in low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Sang Ying set up protective, Mystifying, and Spirit Gathering Formations in the courtyard, using Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones to boost its Spiritual Qi.
• Sang Ying went to Haizhou City's docks and used the code to ask the white-bearded boatman about passage to Gleaming Gold Island.
• Sang Ying traded Dao Enlightenment Tea for a place aboard the boatman's ship and received a green jade ticket for its departure at midnight eight days later.
• Sang Ying spotted Su Fuyun and her companions approaching as she headed back to her residence.

Sang Ying encountered Su Fuyun and Zhao Yunhe at the docks, where a white-bearded boatman defended her and exposed Zhao Yunhe’s arrogance. Su Fuyun realized the boatman was connected to the Golden Summit, but Zhao Yunhe led her away before she could make use of the connection.

• Sang Ying stopped beside the white-bearded old man when Su Fuyun called after her, and the old man offered to help with her unwanted companions.
• Su Fuyun tried to join Sang Ying, but Sang Ying pointed out that she had never agreed to travel with her and that Su Fuyun could have caught up on her sword.
• Zhao Yunhe defended Su Fuyun, and the old man mocked him for making a Golden Core Realm cultivator wait; Zhao Yunhe threatened him but held back from striking.
• Su Fuyun urged Zhao Yunhe to be cautious, but he dismissed the boatman as a mortal, while Sang Ying left the docks.
• Su Fuyun recognized the old man’s boat as the Golden Summit and tried to speak with him, but Zhao Yunhe dismissed the boatman and pulled her away.

Sang Ying prepared for her trip to Gleaming Gold Island, bought talismans and Law Artifacts at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, and received an invitation to its auction. As she was leaving, she heard Su Fuyun trying to calm a woman who was causing a scene over a stolen Storage Bag.

• Sang Ying prepared a supply list for her upcoming trip to Gleaming Gold Island and welcomed Xiao Liu, who brought her congee.
• Sang Ying asked Xiao Liu where to buy talismans and Law Artifacts, and he recommended the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion over the Idle Cloud Pavilion.
• Sang Ying visited the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, bought the supplies she needed, and accepted an invitation to its auction in two months.
• The shopkeeper and Sang Ying heard that a young woman was demanding compensation because her Storage Bag had been stolen in the shop.
• Sang Ying recognized Su Fuyun telling Hongyi to stop making a scene and return with him before Brother Zhao became angry.

At the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, Gu Hongyi was caught on an Image-Retaining Stone causing damage and had to pay compensation, while Su Fuyun tried to make Sang Ying cover the cost. Sang Ying refused and reminded Su Fuyun that she still owed money for the Gale Hound, leaving the beast stunned in its Beast Ring.

• The shopkeeper showed an Image-Retaining Stone recording that proved Gu Hongyi had caused the commotion and damage, then demanded one high-grade Spirit Stone in compensation.
• Gu Hongyi agreed to pay but asked Su Fuyun to contact her senior brother, then urged Su Fuyun to get Sang Ying to help cover the bill.
• Su Fuyun tried to stop Sang Ying from leaving, and Gu Hongyi asked Sang Ying to lend her Spirit Stones with a promise to repay tenfold.
• Sang Ying told the shopkeeper she was not familiar with the two women and refused to pay for them.
• Sang Ying reminded Su Fuyun that she had already borrowed Spirit Stones to buy the Gale Hound and asked whether she could repay that debt.

Sang Ying exposed Su Fuyun’s unpaid debt and gave her three days to repay one hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones. After returning to her courtyard, Sang Ying was approached by a young man who asked to look around.

• Su Fuyun tried to portray herself as the victim, and a male cultivator offered to pay her debt before fleeing when Sang Ying demanded one hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Sang Ying gave Su Fuyun three days to repay the full debt and left the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.
• Sang Ying told Gu Shu she intended to grow stronger, form her Golden Core, and eventually leave Gu Huaiwei’s tutelage.
• Sang Ying returned to her courtyard, where a young man in green robes asked to look around.

Hai Tingzhou visited Sang Ying to investigate the powerful Spirit Gathering Formation in her courtyard and, impressed by her explanation, tried to make her his master. Sang Ying refused and sent him away, then worried that befriending a Hai Household heir could draw her into a succession dispute.

• Hai Tingzhou showed Sang Ying his Hai Household identity plaque and persuaded her to let him inspect the formation from the courtyard.
• Sang Ying explained how a small change to the formation’s eye reduced its burden and helped it gather Spiritual Qi.
• Hai Tingzhou knelt and insisted that Sang Ying take him as her master, but she refused and told him she had not modified the formation.
• Hai Tingzhou apologized and asked permission to return to study the formation, but Sang Ying sent him and Meng Luosheng away for the day.
• Gu Shu asked why Sang Ying had not accepted Hai Tingzhou, and Sang Ying privately worried that he might lose the Hai Household succession contest.

Hai Tingzhou waited for Sang Ying, then witnessed Steward Li try to repay Su Fuyun’s debt with Spirit Stones while insulting Sang Ying. Sang Ying refused the money and asked Hai Tingzhou whether he had considered becoming the next family head, leaving him stunned.

• Hai Tingzhou bought the courtyard next to Sang Ying’s and waited for her to emerge from meditation.
• Steward Li brought one hundred and ten mid-grade Spirit Stones to repay Su Fuyun’s debt and mocked Sang Ying and Hai Tingzhou.
• Sang Ying warned Steward Li that she could appeal to the city lord, causing him to abandon his arrogance and apologize.
• Sang Ying refused the Spirit Stones and told Steward Li to make Su Fuyun repay her herself or return the demon pet.
• Sang Ying asked Hai Tingzhou whether he had considered becoming the next family head, and he dropped his fan in surprise.

Sang Ying offered Hai Tingzhou a chance to become head of the Hai Household by helping him prepare for a test and find a treasure on Gleaming Gold Island. Meanwhile, Hai Pingge admitted that Su Fuyun had an uncanny influence over him and dismissed Gu Huaiwei and the Flowing Light Sword Sect as threats.

• Sang Ying led Hai Tingzhou into an isolated courtyard and said she wanted to prevent Hai Pingge from becoming household head.
• Hai Tingzhou admitted that he wanted to compete for the position, and Sang Ying gave him a Jade Slip to study before a test in three days.
• Sang Ying planned to accept Hai Tingzhou as her mother's disciple if he understood the Jade Slip and to help him find a mysterious treasure on Gleaming Gold Island.
• Steward Li told Hai Pingge that Sang Ying had returned the Spirit Stones and said Su Fuyun should pay for them herself.
• Hai Pingge explained that Su Fuyun's strange influence drew him toward her, then scoffed at Gu Huaiwei and predicted the Flowing Light Sword Sect would soon decline.

Sang Ying tested Hai Tingzhou’s array skills and made him the personal disciple of her mother, Wen Miaoshu. Afterward, she encountered Su Fuyun and Zhao Yunhe arguing aboard the ship bound for Gleaming Gold Island.

• Sang Ying boarded the Golden Summit with Hai Tingzhou and learned that its spatial arrays concealed a corridor of rooms inside the ship.
• Sang Ying tested Hai Tingzhou with the Seven Kills Formation and found his talent for arrays exceptional.
• Sang Ying gave Hai Tingzhou her mother’s inheritance and announced that he was now Wen Miaoshu’s personal disciple.
• Sang Ying went onto the deck and saw Su Fuyun trying to calm Zhao Yunhe while Hai Pingge stood behind her.
• Zhao Yunhe accused Su Fuyun of abandoning their plans, while Gu Hongyi said Su Fuyun had refused to return with her and Su Fuyun denied it.

Sang Ying confronted Su Fuyun over her unpaid debt while meeting Fang Chi of Layered Heavens Palace. The Golden Summit sailed for Gleaming Gold Island, where Sang Ying intended to claim the divine weapon Su Fuyun had once used to defeat her.

• Fang Chi introduced herself to Sang Ying and mocked Su Fuyun as a white lotus.
• Hai Pingge forced Zhao Yunhe and his junior sister to back down, and Zhao Yunhe left after giving Su Fuyun a searching look.
• Sang Ying demanded that Su Fuyun repay the hundred Spirit Stones she owed, and Su Fuyun retreated after Sang Ying threatened her with a sword.
• Fang Chi asked Sang Ying for a chance to speak with Su Fuyun, and Sang Ying agreed.
• The white-bearded old man transformed the Golden Summit into a vast ship and set sail with the passengers for Gleaming Gold Island.

Sang Ying, Hai Tingzhou, and Fang Chi entered Gleaming Gold Island’s secret realm and sought the altar that opened the Great Yang Underground Palace. Sang Ying offered her blood, triggering the altar and releasing a huge creature, which left a massive hole behind.

• Sang Ying and Fang Chi stepped onto Gleaming Gold Island, where boiling crimson seawater and scorching earth revealed how dangerous the island was.
• After the secret realm opened, Hai Pingge and Su Fuyun headed toward the island’s center while Sang Ying chose a shortcut with Hai Tingzhou and Fang Chi.
• Sang Ying led her companions around the dense forest and across the sea of sand to find the Great Yang Underground Palace’s altar.
• The three discovered the altar with twelve jade pillars, and Sang Ying cut her palm to offer blood on its center.
• A huge creature burst from the altar and swept the surrounding sand away with its tail, leaving a large hole in the altar.

Sang Ying and her companions entered a hidden underground palace on Gleaming Gold Island, where Sang Ying lost consciousness and awoke inside a dragon egg in an illusion of the White Dragon Clan. She learned that she had been born with her mother’s help, leaving her with mediocre aptitude and placing the clan’s hopes for survival in doubt.

• After a dragon cried out across Gleaming Gold Island, the Demon Beasts bowed, and Hai Pingge led the other cultivators toward the sound.
• Sang Ying, Fang Chi, and Hai Tingzhou entered the passage beneath the altar and explored the cold underground palace.
• Sang Ying became separated from her companions and lost consciousness as the path ahead disappeared into mist.
• Sang Ying awoke trapped inside an egg and heard a woman and an old man discuss Qinglong’s deadline to hatch and the threat of the Fallen Dragon Pit.
• The woman, A Lan, cracked Sang Ying’s shell, and the old man warned her to keep the hatchling’s assisted birth secret.
• Sang Ying realized she had been reborn as a White Dragon hatchling whose assisted hatching meant she would have mediocre aptitude.

Sang Ying rejected a marriage alliance that would make her the Black Dragon Clan leader’s wife and insisted that her fiancé marry into the declining White Dragon Tribe instead. After four hundred years of cultivation and service on the Gods and Devils Battlefield, the Black Dragon Clan’s representative arrived to discuss breaking off the engagement.

• Sang Ying defied Bai Shou’s attempts to stop her from practicing with a wooden sword and told him to obey her or leave her courtyard.
• Sang Ying overheard the honored guest propose a marriage between the Black Dragon Clan’s young clan leader and her, and told old clan leader Bai she would only accept if the fiancé married into the White Dragon Tribe.
• Old clan leader Bai arranged the betrothal for four hundred years later and sent Sang Ying away to study under a master.
• Sang Ying went to the Gods and Devils Battlefield with another young white dragon and asked the scarred general to let her serve as a soldier for four hundred years.
• Four hundred years later, the honored guest returned to the White Dragon clan leader’s residence and said he had come to discuss breaking off the engagement.

Madam Lanxin and Old Patriarch Bai learned that Xuan Jingshan’s clan had sent Xuan Han to break his engagement to Bai Qinglong. Old Patriarch Bai accepted the breakup and sent a letter urging Bai Qinglong to return, while the steward looked forward to her arrival.

• Madam Lanxin cursed Xuan Jingshan for breaking off the engagement and planned to introduce Bai Qinglong to a young White Dragon general returning from the Gods and Devils Battlefield.
• Xuan Han told Old Patriarch Bai that the Black Dragon Clan’s young master had fallen for another woman and returned the engagement token.
• Old Patriarch Bai returned the Dragon Pearl and declared that Bai Qinglong had no further ties to Xuan Jingshan’s young master.
• After Xuan Han left, the steward ordered the tea set he had used burned.
• Old Patriarch Bai gave the steward a letter for Bai Qinglong, warning that she could collect his corpse if she still refused to return.

Sang Ying led the White Dragon Tribe warriors to defeat a group of Devil Creatures on the Gods and Devils Battlefield, then learned from the patriarch’s letter that he wanted her to return to the tribal lands. She agreed, unaware that her engagement had already been broken off, and prepared to leave with Bai Shou.

• Sang Ying led her squad in killing the Devil Creatures, and she pulled Bai Shou out of danger when he lost focus.
• After the rift closed, Sang Ying received a letter from the patriarch urging her to return to the tribal lands.
• Sang Ying told Bai Shou she would go back and deal with her engagement, not knowing it had already been broken off.
• The camp mourned Sang Ying’s departure, while the messenger celebrated and wondered whether the Black Dragon Clan’s young master would still reject her after seeing her now.

Xuan Han returned the Dragon Pearl to Patriarch Xuan, while Xuan Jingshan announced plans to challenge the White Dragon Tribe at the coming competition. Meanwhile, Sang Ying returned from the Gods and Devils Battlefield and revealed herself as Bai Qinglong, leaving Madam Lanxin shocked that her daughter was not the son-in-law she had expected.

• Xuan Han presented the Dragon Pearl to Patriarch Xuan and questioned why the marriage alliance with the White Dragon Tribe had been abandoned.
• Xuan Jingshan confirmed his plans to form a marriage alliance with the Red Dragon Clan and defeat the White Dragon Tribe at the upcoming competition.
• Patriarch Xuan worried that his son's confidence could lead the Black Dragon Clan into a costly conflict.
• Sang Ying led the returning White Dragon Tribe warriors toward the patriarch's residence as tribespeople admired her imposing presence.
• Old Patriarch Bai and Madam Lanxin waited at the residence, and Sang Ying greeted them as she arrived.
• Madam Lanxin recognized Sang Ying as her daughter Bai Qinglong and lamented that the son-in-law she had hoped for was gone.

Sang Ying returned to the White Dragon Clan and reunited with her mother, while Old Patriarch Bai revealed that the Black Dragon Clan had broken her engagement and smeared her reputation. He asked her to retaliate at the Dragon Clan Grand Competition by keeping the Xuan Household’s boys out of the top ten.

• Old Patriarch Bai welcomed Sang Ying home and scolded her for being away for hundreds of years.
• Madam Lanxin learned Sang Ying had been on the Gods and Devils Battlefield, and Sang Ying reassured her that she had grown stronger.
• Sang Ying told Madam Lanxin she would have chosen the battlefield even if her father and brothers had survived.
• Old Patriarch Bai showed Sang Ying the betrothal ring returned by the Black Dragon Clan and explained how they had blamed her for the broken engagement.
• Old Patriarch Bai asked Sang Ying to beat the Xuan Household’s boys at the Dragon Clan Grand Competition and keep them out of the top ten.