Recaps

Sang Ying was framed by Su Fuyun and condemned by the Flowing Light Sword Sect, but escaped after her Golden Core was shattered and fell into the forbidden grounds. There she bargained with the imprisoned Jiang Zhuoxue to regain a way to cultivate, while her parents sought her and Fan Nanjun faced pressure in the Devil Realm.

• Sang Ying returned to the Flowing Light Sword Sect, confronted Su Fuyun, and was accused of colluding with the Devil Race after Fan Nanjun appeared in an image-retaining record.
• Sang Ying severed her bond with Gu Huaiwei, but the sect master condemned her and ordered her Golden Core shattered and her cultivation crippled.
• Gu Shu freed Sang Ying on the execution platform, and she fled into the forbidden grounds, and Gu Huaiwei shattered her Golden Core before she stabbed his Dantian and jumped into the rift.
• Sang Ying survived in the valley with Gu Shu, used the Sarira to protect her wooden house, and met the chained Jiang Zhuoxue, a devil dragon who offered to restore her cultivation.
• Sang Ying used a Shared Fate Gu to force Jiang Zhuoxue to agree to heal her Dantian and take her out of the valley, then helped break one of his chains.
• Sang Zheng and Wen Miaoshu learned that Sang Ying had been framed and searched for her, while Sang Zheng publicly beat the sect master and threatened those who had harmed his daughter.
• Jiang Zhuoxue taught Sang Ying to cultivate through other Qi Vortexes, and she woke with a new one after passing out from the pain.
• Fan Nanjun faced righteous-path visitors led by Immortal Venerable Yanchen and devil generals demanding answers about his injury, lost cultivation, and sheltering Gu Huaiwei.

Sang Ying reached the Immortal Spirit Realm, rose swiftly in cultivation and renown, and traveled to Yao Zhou with Jiang Zhuoxue. At the Gong Household’s Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly, she tried to free Cang Lian and left with Jimo Qing after he publicly claimed her as his little sister.

• Liu Wu broke into the Devil Palace seeking Sang Ying, learned from Su Fuyun that she had jumped into a fissure, and escaped while a hidden subordinate carried Su Fuyun away to the Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Sang Ying left the valley with Jiang Zhuoxue, survived the collapsing rift, and reached the Immortal Spirit Realm, where she formed a ten-marked Golden Core and rose to fifteenth on the Heaven’s Chosen Ranking.
• Sang Ying settled in Golden Sea City, claimed Floating River as her sword, and won the Gong Household’s dragon-slaying feast invitation at auction despite Cui Shu’s offer of favors.
• Sang Ying traveled to Yao Zhou with Jiang Zhuoxue and Jimo Qing, then prepared escape arrays as the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly approached.
• At the assembly, Sang Ying recognized the captive ice dragon Cang Lian and learned that the Gong Household planned to divide his body and sell his parts.
• Sang Ying sneaked into the bunker and gave Cang Lian array plates to help him escape and take revenge, then partially cut his chains with the Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Gong Chengsi confronted Sang Ying as she escaped, but Jimo Qing called her his little sister and took her away, leaving Gong Chengsi furious.

Sang Ying joined the Jimo Household, uncovered a conspiracy behind disappearances and a hidden Spirit Stone mine, and freed the captives there. As the plot against Rizhao City came to light, the Jimo leaders prepared to march on Eternal Night City and asked Sang Ying to help defend the city.

• Cang Lian escaped the Dragon-Slaying Grand Assembly after Sang Ying helped disable its trap formations, and the Gong Household was left facing the other cultivators’ anger.
• Sang Ying contracted with Cang Lian, reached Golden Core Late Stage, and accepted the Jimo Household’s public protection while declining adoption.
• After investigating missing people and strange Tuyao Flowers, Sang Ying and the Jimo family discovered a Spirit-Locking Formation concealing a mine and suspected Jimo Hong was involved.
• Sang Ying infiltrated the mine as Sang Ye, where she and Cang Lian exposed the guards’ deception and worked to free the abducted cultivators and mortals.
• Sang Ying broke the Spirit-Sealing Locks, fought the overseer’s men, and froze them with the Spirit Stones, allowing the captives to return home.
• The Jimo Household confronted Jimo Hong as a powerful man in Eternal Night City ordered an attack on Rizhao City.
• The Jimo leaders asked Sang Ying to help Madam Yinqiu defend Rizhao City while they led an expedition against Eternal Night City, and Sang Ying agreed.

Sang Ying helped the Jimo Household repel Feng Ji’s siege, then left for Ten Thousand Daos Born to take its entrance test. The arc ended with her entering the Thousandfold Formation as the Gu cultivator wagered on her success.

• Sang Ying rallied Miao Lian and the Devil Crows to strike Feng Ji’s forces, but Zhang Huizhen and Jimo Renjie later helped bring down Rizhao City’s barrier.
• Sang Ying and Fu Yinqiu defended the Jimo Residence, while Sang Ying sent Fu Yinqiu away to seek reinforcements and the city’s people chose to stand with the household.
• Feng Ji wounded Sang Ying, but Jimo Lan returned and defeated the attackers, and Jimo Bai also escaped the secret realm and reunited with him.
• Jimo Duange punished Jimo Hong and several clan elders, while the Jimo Household considered offers from Azure Feather Sect and Ten Thousand Daos Born for Sang Ying.
• Feng Ji revealed that he had been sent to sow discord among the Immortal Spirit Realm’s factions, then died when his restriction activated, and Sang Ying chose to take Ten Thousand Daos Born’s entrance test.
• Sang Ying traveled to Dujiu City with the Gu cultivator, received farewell gifts from her brothers, and learned about the Thousandfold Formation and its candidates.
• Sang Ying entered the Thousandfold Formation, while the Gu cultivator wagered heavily that she would take first place.