Recaps

Fan Nanjun faced accusations from the Devil Race over keeping Gu Huaiwei and Su Fuyun in his palace, then Liu Wu broke in and demanded to know where Sang Ying was. After Liu Wu escaped, a hidden subordinate revealed that Su Fuyun’s body housed a jade pendant containing a woman who called herself Young Master and ordered him to take the body to her father.

• Fan Nanjun admitted that Gu Huaiwei and Su Fuyun were righteous cultivators but claimed he had captured them, and a female devil general challenged his explanation.
• A guard reported that Liu Wu had forced his way into the Devil Palace to find Su Fuyun, and Liu Wu fought through the guards to reach her.
• Liu Wu demanded to know where Sang Ying was, and Su Fuyun revealed that Sang Ying had jumped into a fissure after the sect master accused her of colluding with devils and threatened her Golden Core.
• Liu Wu knocked Su Fuyun unconscious and escaped, while Fan Nanjun was delayed by the devil generals and failed to notice another intruder.
• A hidden subordinate revealed himself in Su Fuyun’s room and addressed the jade pendant inside her as Young Master, who ordered him to take her body to her father.

As the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s disciples regretted how they had treated Sang Ying, she secretly cultivated in the forbidden grounds and quickly advanced toward Core Formation. Jiang Zhuoxue decided to leave and collect a debt, intending to take Sang Ying with him.

• Song Jiaojiao rebuked the disciples for doubting Sang Ying and reminded them that they had once joined in condemning her.
• A fellow disciple urged the crowd to be more careful and to apologize when Sang Ying returned.
• Sang Ying stabilized her cultivation at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and expected to reach Core Formation soon.
• Sang Ying used a modified array to remove Demonic Qi from Devil Beast meat and promised to find Gu Shu a suitable body.
• Jiang Zhuoxue ate food taken from his vine and decided to go out to collect a debt, bringing Sang Ying along.

Sang Ying prepared to leave the valley with Jiang Zhuoxue so she could undergo Core Formation, while Helian Mo broke through the miasma and was captured by Jiang Zhuoxue. Helian Mo explained that he had come to find Sang Ying, and Jiang Zhuoxue offered to let them meet the next day.

• Sang Ying asked Jiang Zhuoxue to take her out of the valley so she could undergo her lightning tribulation, and he agreed to leave the next day.
• Sang Ying returned to her cabin and carved formation plates to prepare for possible danger after leaving the valley.
• Helian Mo forced his way through the miasma in his wolf form, but Jiang Zhuoxue's vines captured him and dragged him into the cave.
• Jiang Zhuoxue recognized Helian Mo as a member of the Helian Household and learned that he had come to find Sang Ying.
• Helian Mo admitted he felt guilty about his past treatment of Sang Ying and explained that he had escaped the Demon Emperor Palace to see her.
• Jiang Zhuoxue offered to let Helian Mo meet Sang Ying the next day, and Helian Mo eagerly accepted.

Sang Ying freed Jiang Zhuoxue, who transformed into a black dragon and carried her out of the collapsing rift. He took Sang Ying, the vine, and Gu Shu through a temporary tunnel to the Immortal Spirit Realm, leaving the Flowing Light Sword Sect behind.

• Sang Ying cut Jiang Zhuoxue's chains despite his questions about black wolf Demon Beasts.
• The valley shook as Jiang Zhuoxue vanished and a giant black wolf appeared, then a black dragon burst from the ruins.
• The black dragon dispersed the miasma and carried Sang Ying, the vine, and Gu Shu away from the collapsing rift while the black wolf pursued them.
• The dragon brought Sang Ying aboveground, where the Flowing Light Sword Sect disciples recognized her and marveled that she had tamed a dragon.
• Jiang Zhuoxue carried Sang Ying through a temporary tunnel as a figure raced after them, and the tunnel closed before he could reach them.
• Sang Zheng and Wen Miaoshu watched Sang Ying disappear, while a stele at the tunnel's far end identified their destination as the Immortal Spirit Realm.

Sang Ying awoke on an island in the Immortal Spirit Realm after falling through the tunnel with Jiang Zhuoxue, Gu Shu, and the vine. With Jiang Zhuoxue unconscious and the island isolated, she prepared to form her Golden Core so she could attempt to reach land.

• Sang Ying opened her Storage Bag, and Gu Shu and the vine emerged after the group had fallen into the sea.
• The vine led Sang Ying to Jiang Zhuoxue, who lay unconscious in a small, wounded black form with his scales, horn pieces, and claws missing.
• Sang Ying recognized the small world as the Immortal Spirit Realm and realized her Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation left her at a disadvantage there.
• Sang Ying searched the barren island, cleared away dangerous Demon Beasts, and prepared a cave for the group to stay in.
• Sang Ying decided to undergo her Golden Core Lightning Tribulation on the island, then risk flying away to search for land.

Sang Ying endured the Golden Core tribulation on the island and formed a ten-marked Golden Core before recovering in the heavenly rain. Meanwhile, Fan Nanjun learned that Su Fuyun had vanished from the Devil Palace, unaware she had already been taken to the Immortal Spirit Realm.

• Gu Shu and the vine watched as Sang Ying faced forty-nine lightning bolts, with the final strike nearly overwhelming her.
• Sang Ying formed a Golden Core bearing ten markings and collapsed, but Gu Shu and the vine caught her.
• Heavenly rain healed Sang Ying's wounds and improved Jiang Zhuoxue's condition, and Sang Ying gathered seafood to celebrate her breakthrough.
• Fan Nanjun questioned a maid about Su Fuyun's disappearance and went to confront He Lianyi after hearing how the search had been delayed.
• Su Fuyun had already been secretly taken to the Immortal Spirit Realm to use her power to bewitch people's hearts.

After Sang Ying formed her core, Jiang Zhuoxue woke and arranged for a ship to take them from the island to the Immortal Spirit Realm, where Sang Ying learned about its major sects. Meanwhile, Sang Ying’s name climbed to fifteenth on the Heaven’s Chosen Ranking, drawing attention from powerful groups across several small worlds.

• Sang Ying laid down rules for Gu Shu and the vine before they left the island, and Jiang Zhuoxue woke, asked where she was taking them, then revealed that he wanted to reclaim things from old acquaintances.
• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying that a ship would arrive the next day, and he asked her to conceal his identity from its crew.
• Sang Ying boarded the ship and met Jiang Haisheng, who explained the Immortal Spirit Realm’s three prefectures, major sects, and inter-sect competition.
• Cultivators watching the Heaven’s Chosen Ranking saw Sang Ying rise from one hundredth place to fifteenth, and her name attracted the notice of powerful groups in several small worlds.

Sang Ying arrived in Golden Sea City, where Jiang Haisheng helped her find lodging before returning home. After settling in with Jiang Zhuoxue and naming the vine Green Vine, Sang Ying planned to buy a new spirit sword, but Jiang Zhuoxue insisted he could forge one for her.

• Jiang Haisheng brought Sang Ying ashore in Golden Sea City and explained that sea-beast materials were widely used to craft artifacts and pills.
• Jiang Haisheng found Sang Ying a place to stay and urged her to come back to the Jiang Household, but she refused and sent him home with a sixth-tier sea beast's bones as payment for passage.
• Jiang Haisheng left Sang Ying an atlas of the Immortal Spirit Realm's powers before departing, and Sang Ying secured the courtyard with formations.
• Jiang Zhuoxue complained that Sang Ying had paid Jiang Haisheng with beast bones, while Sang Ying planted the vine in the courtyard and named it Green Vine.
• Sang Ying told Jiang Zhuoxue she needed to buy a spirit sword, and he offered to forge one, but she doubted he could do it in his little snake form.

Sang Ying went to All Under Heaven Pavilion to buy a spirit sword, where the supposedly temperamental swords all flocked to her. The pavilion’s sword king chose her too, attaching itself to her belt as the shopkeeper and a customer stared in disbelief.

• Sang Ying sold her sea beast materials in Golden Sea City and replenished her Storage Bag.
• Jiang Zhuoxue directed Sang Ying to All Under Heaven Pavilion to look for a spirit sword.
• At the pavilion, the shopkeeper explained that its swords chose their owners and boasted that no one could force them to go along.
• When Sang Ying entered the third floor, the spirit swords awoke and crowded around her.
• The sword king flew to Sang Ying and wedged itself into her belt, silencing the other swords.

Sang Ying accepted Floating River after it chose her, and the All Under Heaven Pavilion’s shopkeeper invited her to an upcoming auction. Jiang Zhuoxue showed unusual interest in the event and offered her his Spirit Stones, while the shopkeeper told his master about Sang Ying and Floating River.

• The shopkeeper explained that Floating River was the All Under Heaven Pavilion’s Sword King, but it returned to Sang Ying when she tried to give it back.
• The shopkeeper confirmed that Floating River belonged to Sang Ying and invited her to the pavilion’s auction in Golden Sea City.
• Jiang Zhuoxue asked Sang Ying to take him to the auction and gave her his Storage Bag of Spirit Stones to use there.
• The shopkeeper reported to his master that Floating River had chosen Sang Ying, and his master ordered him to watch over her and help if she encountered trouble.

Hai Tingzhou and Fang Chi learned that Sang Ying had risen to fifteenth on the Heaven's Chosen Ranking, inspiring Fang Chi to train harder. Sang Ying prepared for a mysterious auction and entered its venue with Jiang Zhuoxue and her two swords.

• Hai Tingzhou found Sang Ying ranked fifteenth on the Heaven's Chosen Ranking and showed the roster to City Lord Hai.
• Fang Chi saw Sang Ying's name on the roster and left to practice her saber so she could catch up to her.
• Sang Ying accepted Jiang Zhuoxue's Storage Bag and asked about the auction's powerful hosts, the Jimo Household.
• Sang Ying soothed Green Vine and set out with Jiang Zhuoxue, Gu Shu, and Floating River.
• Sang Ying presented her invitation at the unremarkable shop, received a jade token, and entered through the door to be shown to her private room.

Sang Ying attended the All Under Heaven Pavilion auction and watched its first two finale items draw fierce bidding. The third finale item appeared, but its identity remained unknown.

• Sang Ying entered the auction house, received a catalog from Xiao Lan, and took a private room on the third floor.
• Jimo Huan opened the auction with a Thousand-Year Ice Lotus, which sold for a high price after Sang Ying declined to bid.
• Sang Ying watched dozens of treasures sell and saw Jimo Huan have two fighting cultivators removed from the auction.
• Jimo Huan presented a ninth-grade Spirit Explosion Pill, and Jiang Zhuoxue warned Sang Ying it could cause Qi Deviation despite raising cultivation by one minor stage.
• A cultivator swallowed a demonstration pill and advanced from Nascent Soul Middle Stage to Nascent Soul Late Stage; the auctioned pill sold for ten thousand Spirit Crystals.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Lifespan Fruit sold after intense bidding, and the third finale item appeared.

At the auction, Sang Ying learned that the gilded invitation offered access to a feast where a dragon would be slain, recalling Jiang Zhuoxue’s own brutal past. She won the invitation for eighty thousand Spirit Crystals, leaving her expecting a dangerous pursuit.

• Jimo Huan announced that the Gong Household was auctioning an invitation to its dragon-slaying feast, where a flood dragon with a Dragon Pearl would be hunted.
• Jiang Zhuoxue revealed that he had once been the young dragon hunted and stripped of his treasures, and Sang Ying asked whether he had enough Spirit Stones to bid.
• Sang Ying entered the bidding and raised her offer past Cui Shu, an elder of the Imperial Ultimate Sect who offered her three favors to yield the invitation.
• Sang Ying bid eighty thousand Spirit Crystals and won the invitation, then realized she could no longer safely remain in her courtyard.

Sang Ying escaped the auction through a concealed entrance, disguised herself with Jiang Zhuoxue’s help, and used the Floating River Sword and a fabricated noble identity to scare off Cui Shu’s men. She then apologized to the All Under Heaven Pavilion for invoking the Jimo Household’s name, while two watchers noticed her connection to the pavilion and went to report it.

• Sang Ying paid Xiao Lan, learned the Storage Bag held millions of Spirit Crystals, and escaped the auction through a concealed side entrance.
• Sang Ying changed her appearance and clothes, and Jiang Zhuoxue concealed her transformation at the cost of weakening himself.
• Two Imperial Ultimate Sect cultivators tried to bring Sang Ying to Cui Shu, but she invoked Jimo Huan and threatened them with her family’s power, prompting them to retreat.
• Sang Ying visited the All Under Heaven Pavilion and gave its shopkeeper a jade box as an apology for borrowing the Jimo Household’s name.
• Two people watched the shopkeeper respectfully see Sang Ying off and hurried away to report what they had seen.

Sang Ying learned why the Gong Household planned to hold its dragon-slaying event in Yao Zhou and agreed to travel there with Jiang Zhuoxue. Meanwhile, Cui Shu suspected she was connected to the Jimo Household, while the All Under Heaven Pavilion’s master accepted her Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Lotus and identified her as the Jimo Household’s eldest young lady.

• Jiang Zhuoxue explained that the Gong Household chose Yao Zhou for the dragon-slaying event because the Mara Gate would not interfere, and Sang Ying suggested they travel there early.
• After Sang Ying escorted Jiang Zhuoxue to his room, he remembered her kindness and wished he could keep her with him forever.
• Cui Shu heard that Sang Ying carried the Floating River Sword and was respected by the All Under Heaven Pavilion, then ordered his attendants to keep watching her.
• The shopkeeper told his master that Sang Ying had sent a thank-you gift, and they discovered it was a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Lotus.
• The master accepted the Ice Lotus and said Sang Ying was the Jimo Household’s eldest young lady.

Sang Ying booked passage to Yao Zhou, bought Gu Shu a Spiritual Qi-filled jade pendant to live in, and prepared for the voyage with Jiang Zhuoxue. Three days later, they boarded the spirit ship, heading toward a Yao Zhou whose calm surface concealed danger.

• Sang Ying booked a room on Captain Wu's spirit ship to Yao Zhou for a hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Sang Ying bought a jade sword pendant at the All Under Heaven Pavilion, and Gu Shu moved into it.
• The shopkeeper told Sang Ying that his master would also travel to Yao Zhou, and Sang Ying agreed that meeting him would be a pleasant twist of fate.
• Sang Ying bought provisions and prepared for the journey while Jiang Zhuoxue asked her to cook sweet-and-sour fish.
• Sang Ying, Jiang Zhuoxue, and their companions boarded Captain Wu's spirit ship and set sail for Yao Zhou.

Su Fuyun worried about returning to her injured master, but the jade pendant urged her to cultivate and obtain the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly attendee list from the Gong Household. Meanwhile, Sang Ying boarded a Jimo Household flying boat bound for Yao Zhou’s main city, where its young master planned to investigate the assembly and possibly help the dragon targeted by it.

• Su Fuyun asked the jade pendant when she could return to the Twin Orchid Realm to see Gu Huaiwei, but it rebuked her for neglecting cultivation and reminded her that she had schemed to become his disciple.
• The jade pendant promised to seek a way to bring Gu Huaiwei to the Immortal Spirit Realm and told Su Fuyun to get the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly attendee list from the Gong Household’s third young master.
• Sang Ying accepted the boat owner’s help and paid for a place aboard the Jimo Household’s flying boat to Yao Zhou’s main city.
• The Jimo Household’s young master told his steward he wanted to see how the Gong Household brought about its own destruction at the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly.
• After recalling an earlier Dragon-Slaying Platform survivor who had upended the cultivation world, the young master considered helping the dragon and preventing the Immortal Spirit Realm from becoming another Nether Treasury Realm.

Sang Ying arrived in Yao Zhou with a Jimo Household caravan and watched Mara Gate disciples extort docking and entrance fees from them. When the disciples threatened the Jimo Household, Jimo Qing intervened and revealed his identity, leaving them terrified.

• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying that the quiet man in blue was a direct descendant of the Jimo Household, and Rogue Cultivators avoided attacking the flying boat because its caravan was associated with Jimo Qing, Spirit Prefecture's Blood Rain.
• At Yao Zhou's main city, two Mara Gate outer disciples demanded a docking fee and took the caravan leader's Storage Bag.
• The same disciples demanded entrance fees at the city gate and tried to charge the caravan extra after the leader identified it as belonging to the Jimo Household.
• After the leader warned the disciples that the Jimo Household would not tolerate their behavior, a flash of white light sent the two men flying.
• Jimo Qing stepped forward, mocked the Mara Gate's arrogance, and revealed his name, causing a disciple to turn deathly pale.

Jimo Qing confronted the Mara Gate disciples who had extorted his caravan and demanded that the two offenders be left in his household’s hands. Sang Ying entered Yao Zhou’s main city unnoticed, declined the caravan leader’s offer of lodging, and set out to find a place to stay.

• The jade-token disciple recognized Jimo Qing as Spirit Prefecture Blood Rain and apologized for the Mara Gate disciples’ actions.
• Jimo Qing refused reconciliation and asked to keep the two injured outer disciples so his household could teach them a lesson.
• The jade-token disciple agreed to leave the two men behind and cleared the way for Jimo Qing’s caravan to enter the city.
• Sang Ying slipped through the city gate unnoticed by the Mara Gate disciples.
• Sang Ying declined the caravan leader’s offer to stay at the All Under Heaven Pavilion and went to find lodging on her own.

Jimo Qing recognized Sang Ying’s potential and ordered his people to protect her from a distance, while Sang Ying investigated the Mara Gate’s mysterious cultivation method. The chapter ended with Gate Master Qi considering a way to give mortals Spirit Roots, unaware that it would cost them something important.

• Jimo Qing told his group leader that Sang Ying’s future was boundless and ordered him to watch over her without interfering or letting her notice.
• Sang Ying rented a secluded courtyard in Yao Zhou, layered it with defensive formations, and heard Jiang Zhuoxue explain how Gate Master Qi founded the Mara Gate.
• Jiang Zhuoxue revealed that Qi’s talented daughter had died after practicing the Mara Cultivation Method, and Sang Ying suspected the method was actually a formation.
• Gate Master Qi asked a black-clothed woman whether her method could give someone a Spirit Root, while she concealed that gaining one would make the person lose something more important.

Sang Ying learned a High Antiquity Teleportation Array from Jiang Zhuoxue and prepared escape routes before the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly. As the assembly approached, she remained unaware that forces from all sides had infiltrated Yao Zhou's main city.

• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying that he could teach her a small-scale Teleportation Array and use an array disc for the second end of the escape route.
• Sang Ying struggled with Jiang Zhuoxue's instruction until she shut herself away for ten days and mastered the array.
• Sang Ying set up a Teleportation Array in the courtyard, engraved another on an array disc, and tested that she could teleport back from around Yao Zhou's main city.
• Sang Ying established more arrays in secluded places inside and outside the city and gave extra array discs to Jiang Zhuoxue and Green Vine.
• Forces from all sides infiltrated Yao Zhou's main city as the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly drew near.

Sang Ying attended the Gong Household’s Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly in disguise, where the imprisoned dragon was revealed to be Cang Lian, the Ice Flood Dragon she had met in the Qishan Secret Realm. The chapter ended as Sang Ying recognized the scarred dragon in the iron cage.

• Two Golden Core cultivators discussed the captive dragon while guards whipped it and secretly collected its blood.
• Sang Ying disguised herself and went to the assembly venue with Jiang Zhuoxue, who was unsettled by the oppressive atmosphere.
• Jiang Zhuoxue identified the stern cultivator from Ten Thousand Daos Born among the gathering’s prominent guests.
• The Gong Household head announced that the assembly’s purpose was to slay a dragon, and chains hoisted an iron cage from the pond.
• Sang Ying recognized the scarred ice dragon in the cage as Cang Lian, whom she had met in the Qishan Secret Realm.

Sang Ying learned that the Gong Household had stolen Jiang Zhuoxue’s dragon eyes and planned to expose its scheme while rescuing Cang Lian. As the Gong Household auctioned off Cang Lian’s body and lowered his cage into the water, Sang Ying secretly altered a formation plate to save him.

• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying that the Gong Household’s Illusion Piercer used dragon eyes, revealing why he had come to the Immortal Spirit Realm to seek revenge.
• Sang Ying proposed making the assembled cultivators believe the Gong Household intended to use the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly to kill them all.
• The Gong Household auctioned Cang Lian’s bones, heart, claws, skin, flesh, and scales, even accepting a cultivator’s daughter as a stake.
• Sang Ying began altering a formation plate so she could rescue Cang Lian.
• The Gong Household head announced that Cang Lian would be dealt with and divided at the Dragon-Slaying Platform, then had his cage lowered into the water.

Sang Ying infiltrated the Gong Household’s underground water prison and reached the badly injured Cang Lian, who recognized her as his friend. She gave him array plates and instructions to escape and retaliate, while Jimo Qing spotted a familiar figure and hurried after them.

• Jimo Qing rebuffed the Gong Household head’s attempt to befriend him and left after spotting someone familiar.
• Guided by Jiang Zhuoxue, Sang Ying slipped past the Gong Household’s patrols and reached the guards at the lowest level of the bunker.
• Jiang Zhuoxue used Green Vine to restrain the two guards while Sang Ying tried to wake Cang Lian.
• Cang Lian attacked Sang Ying until she revealed her true appearance and showed him the dragon scale and a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Lotus.
• Sang Ying gave Cang Lian two array plates and told him to escape the cage, attack the people who sought his horn and heart, and take revenge on the Gong Household.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue prepared to help Cang Lian escape, then Sang Ying was stopped by Gong Chengsi while returning to the venue. Jimo Qing claimed her as his little sister and escorted her inside, while Gong Chengsi was left furious.

• Sang Ying partially cut Cang Lian's chains with the Dragon Abyss Sword, and Jiang Zhuoxue soothed him and gave him a drop of his blood.
• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue slipped past the guards, but Gong Chengsi stopped Sang Ying and accused her of being involved in his guards' collapse.
• Sang Ying traded insults with Gong Chengsi as he ordered his guards to seize her.
• Jimo Qing arrived and called Sang Ying his little sister, then confronted Gong Chengsi when he questioned their relationship.
• Sang Ying urged Jimo Qing to return to the venue, and the two left Gong Chengsi seething behind them.