Recaps

Sang Ying won first place in Ten Thousand Daos Born’s entrance trial, chose Jiulian as her master, and helped inspire the sect’s disciples to prepare for the inter-sect competition. At the competition, she defeated Su Fuyun despite Elder Luo’s attempt to award the match to Mara Gate, and Ten Thousand Daos Born secured many Foundation Establishment final spots.

• Sang Ying passed the Thousandfold Formation and was named its first-place candidate after Elder Xiao showed that she had surpassed Jing He, who had expected to win.
• Jiulian brought Sang Ying to Carefree Peak, and she accepted him as her master after telling him she had once been Gu Huaiwei’s disciple.
• Jiulian gave Sang Ying ice-attribute treasures and a sword soul for Floating River, while her example encouraged Ten Thousand Daos Born’s disciples to train harder for the competition.
• Ten Thousand Daos Born traveled to Azure Feather Sect, where Sect Master Jimo moved them from the dilapidated West Mountain Courtyard into the Swan Courtyard after Mu Ren damaged the wall.
• Sang Ying prepared to face Su Fuyun, while Hua Yaoyu and Lu suspected that Azure Feather Sect and Ten Thousand Daos Born were forming an alliance.
• Elder Luo tried to declare Su Fuyun the winner by forfeit before Sang Ying arrived, but Sang Ying challenged him and forced the match to begin.
• Sang Ying overwhelmed Su Fuyun and shattered the arena, then proved she had remained within its bounds when Elder Luo wrongly awarded the match to Mara Gate.
• Sang Ying urged Ten Thousand Daos Born’s disciples to stay cautious, won her remaining matches, and helped the sect secure thirty percent of the Foundation Establishment final spots and eight or nine Golden Core spots.

Sang Ying led Ten Thousand Daos Born to victory at the Grand Sect Competition after exposing the Mara Gate’s schemes on White Duckweed Island. The arc ended with Rong Ji accusing her of causing Chi Yan’s death and attacking her at the Azure Feather Sect.

• Jingshui learned that scarlet, malignant fortune came from stealing another person’s fortune, while Jing He’s fellow disciples stole his pills, beat him, and made him clean their room.
• Sang Ying defeated Chi Yan in the Golden Core Realm final, won first place for Ten Thousand Daos Born, and secured the sect a wager of Spirit Artifacts from Elder Xu.
• Su Fuyun forced a medical cultivator to give Chi Yan a deadly pill, while Sang Ying and Dong Fuzhu cultivated at the Azure Feather Sect and met Shen Yu.
• Sang Ying led Ten Thousand Daos Born into White Duckweed Island, where her group joined the Buddha Sound Temple and Taotie Gate, hunted beasts, and climbed the rankings.
• Shen Yu secretly helped Su Fuyun and Chi Yan plan an attack on Sang Ying’s group, but Sang Ying spotted his tracking powder and turned the Mara Gate’s beast-attracting scheme against them.
• Sang Ying stabbed Su Fuyun and led the allied cultivators against the Primordial Azure Oxen, then used Jimo Bai’s explosive bomb, which caused White Duckweed Island to expel everyone and end the competition early.
• Ten Thousand Daos Born took first place and won a Spirit Vein, but Su Fuyun accused Sang Ying of killing Chi Yan, and Rong Ji arrived with Chi Yan’s soul stone and attacked her.
• Jiulian struck Rong Ji with his life-bound Law Artifact, and he, Elder Gu, and Sect Master Jimo blocked Rong Ji’s next attack as Sang Ying resolved to grow strong enough to defeat him.

After exposing Chi Yan’s demonic corruption, Sang Ying left Ten Thousand Daos Born under a hidden identity and reunited with old companions in the northern snowfields. She entered Delusion-Breaking City to reclaim Jiang Zhuoxue’s lost belongings and uncovered the Gong Household’s use of a jade pearl that drained vitality from the Northern Snowfield.

• Rong Ji admitted Chi Yan’s Demonic Qi was in the arena fragment, crushed his soul stone, expelled him from the Mara Gate, and compensated Sang Ying after the sects stripped the Mara Gate of its ranking.
• Jing He stole Chi Yan’s corpse and fled toward the Corpse Fiend Gate, while a Twin-Winged Snow Lion brought its cub to Ten Thousand Daos Born and Jiulian helped Sang Ying leave under a new identity.
• Sang Ying returned to Qing Zhou, revived Jiang Zhuoxue with the Earth Spirit Pearl, and joined Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou in fighting Three-Tailed Silver Wolves in the snowfields.
• Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou told Sang Ying that her parents had returned to the Flowing Light Sword Sect and that Su Fuyun had fled to the Devil Realm before Gu Huaiwei was killed.
• Sang Ying and her companions entered Delusion-Breaking City, where Liang Ranyue took Jiang Zhuoxue and Sang Ying gained entry to the Gong residence by claiming a connection to the Jimo Household.
• After the Gong Household returned Jiang Zhuoxue, Sang Ying noticed tensions within the household and secretly investigated its garden, where she found a passage leading to a chamber with a jade pearl that absorbed Northern Snowfield vitality.
• Gong Chengjue tracked Sang Ying to her courtyard with Blood-Drinking Insects, but Sang Ying, Fang Chi, and Hai Tingzhou stopped his guards, and Gong Chengjue apologized and agreed to prepare a courtyard for Jimo Qing.

Sang Ying returned to Ten Thousand Daos Born, then joined an expedition to the Black Tortoise Realm, where she helped fight the beast tide and pressed Fu Shuangjiang to investigate its cause. The group entered the Hidden Moon Forest, where Sang Ying followed a red thread toward a presence connected to the rusted sword marked “sever.”

• Gong Chengsi seized power in the Gong Household as Sang Ying and her companions broke the Vitality Formations, freeing the snowfield and allowing Cang Lian to survive his tribulation and become a true dragon.
• Sang Ying returned to Ten Thousand Daos Born and agreed to join the mission to the Black Tortoise Realm, bringing Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou along.
• Sang Ying’s group arrived in the devastated Black Tortoise Realm and helped defeat the Demon Beasts, while Sang Ying suspected that something was controlling them.
• Sang Ying urged Fu Shuangjiang to investigate the Hidden Moon Forest, and he agreed to search for his missing master and elders with her.
• Sang Ying and Fu Shuangjiang set out for the forest, while Su Fuyun and Jiang Zhuoxue secretly followed and later joined them.
• Sang Ying recognized that the red-eyed monsters were not ordinary Demon Beasts, and the group found black Qi surrounding the Sword Master’s bonded sword, “sever.”
• Fusheng rejected a ceasefire and threatened to destroy the Flowing Light Sword Sect, while Fu Shuangjiang and Jiang Zhuoxue argued over Jiang Zhuoxue’s relationship with Sang Ying.
• After Sang Ying reconnected with a presence in the forest using her blood, she noticed a red thread and followed it.