Recaps

Sang Ying survived her Nascent Soul tribulation, confronted the Limitless Sect, and returned to the Twin Orchid Realm to fight Fusheng’s invasion. After Fusheng captured and disguised her as Xiao Yao, her allies searched for a way to rescue her while Fusheng’s intentions remained unclear.

• Sang Ying returned to the Limitless Sect, triggered her Nascent Soul tribulation, and endured its hundred lightning strikes while Sect Master Wu and the other trapped cultivators suffered severe injuries.
• The supreme elder punished Wu Renyao and the other elders, and Sang Ying reunited with Jiang Zhuoxue before leaving the realm with her companions.
• When Sang Ying learned that Fusheng’s forces were attacking the Twin Orchid Realm, she turned her flying boat back and helped repel the siege of the Flowing Light Sword Sect.
• Sang Ying’s group reached the Layered Heavens Palace too late to prevent its palace master from sacrificing herself, but they rescued the surviving disciples and found the palace master alive beneath the rubble.
• After helping the Myriad Phenomena Sect, Sang Ying and her companions were ambushed, and the flying boat was destroyed, and Fusheng captured Sang Ying.
• Fusheng sealed Sang Ying’s cultivation and voice, changed her appearance, named her Xiao Yao, and declared her his only disciple, but she insisted that she already had a master and wanted to leave.
• While Sang Ying tried to escape, her allies planned to exchange Fan Nanjun for her and considered using Jiang Zhuoxue’s coming-of-age lightning tribulation against the enemy.
• The exchange failed when the Devil Race denied holding Sang Ying, and Fusheng confronted her before abruptly releasing her from his grasp.

Sang Ying escaped Fusheng’s captivity as the Flowing Light Sword Sect lured the Devil Race into a devastating trap. After the sect survived and Gu Huaiwei died, the Saintess rescued Fan Nanjun and continued her conflict with Sang Ying.

• Fusheng exchanged Qi Yaoji disguised as Sang Ying for Fan Nanjun, while the real Sang Ying remained captive in his manor.
• Sang Ying secretly used a red fox to contact Jiang Zhuoxue, and Wen Miaoshu and the sect elders uncovered Qi Yaoji’s imposture and prepared a trap for the Devil Race.
• The Devil Race attacked the Flowing Light Sword Sect, whose formation sealed the invaders inside as Jiang Zhuoxue’s tribulation lightning devastated them and Sang Ying escaped with three foxes.
• Fusheng caught up with Sang Ying, but she rejected him as Gu Huaiwei, regained her cultivation, and challenged him while Jiang Zhuoxue came to her aid.
• The Flowing Light Sword Sect and its allies defeated the invading devils, then began rebuilding as Sang Ying stayed with her family and Gu Huaiwei was imprisoned.
• Qi Yaoji attacked Sang Ying in the water prison, but Gu Huaiwei took the fatal blow and died after telling Sang Ying about his beginnings.
• The elders buried Gu Huaiwei without a funeral, while the Saintess rescued Fan Nanjun and ordered him to serve her in her continuing conflict with Sang Ying.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue traveled to the Hidden Nether Realm to retrieve treasures and became involved in the Min Household’s curse and the fate of Wuming. They cured Min Renjie, uncovered a prophecy about Sang Ying, and helped Wuming fuse with dragon blood as he set out to avenge his family.

• Sang Ying survived her Spirit Transformation tribulation, then traveled with Jiang Zhuoxue to the Hidden Nether Realm, where they learned that its people suffered from a deadly Curse.
• At the Min Household, Jiang Zhuoxue traced Min Renjie’s red markings to dragon blood inherited from ancestors exposed to Duan Yuan’s blood, and the pair agreed to remove it in exchange for black jade.
• Jiang Zhuoxue extracted the dragon blood from Min Renjie, curing him, while the Min Household gave the pair the black jade and asked them to meet the diviner who had predicted their arrival.
• Sang Ying rescued the diviner Duan Hanyi from two Sun-Chasing Hall apostles, and he revealed a prophecy that she would drive out evil demons and restore peace to the Hidden Nether Realm.
• A young man told Sang Ying that she was the Child of the Heavenly Dao and that someone had stolen her destined fortune, leading her to recall how her sect’s affection for her had changed after Su Fuyun arrived.
• Jiang Zhuoxue found that Wuming’s blood was merging with dragon blood, and Wuming chose to continue the dangerous fusion rather than have the blood removed.
• Jiang Zhuoxue helped Wuming complete the fusion, his red markings vanished, and Wuming promised to repay their help after avenging his family.

Sang Ying and her companions uncovered the Sun-Chasing Hall’s living-corpse plot and fought Wuyue Sha as his methods threatened Moonless City. They freed the trapped souls and restored the cursed residents, then brought Wuyue Sha back to the city, where Liu Chengzhi recognized him as Wuyue Jizong.

• Wuming killed Song Xiong for the massacre of the Chu Household, while Madam Song revealed Song Xiong’s crimes and his youngest son chose to leave with her.
• Sang Ying’s group reached Moonless City and was imprisoned after a corpse was planted in their inn room, but monsters later broke into the jail and freed them.
• Sang Ying and her companions learned that the Sun-Chasing Hall operated beneath the Yin Mountain Sect and captured a living corpse to investigate its puppet strings and missing soul.
• Yu Heng agreed to lead Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue into the bunker, where they confronted Wuyue Sha and his horde of living corpses.
• Jiang Zhuoxue froze the living corpses and removed their dragon blood while Sang Ying pursued Wuyue Sha, who used the Nine Yin Soul-Locking Banner to spread black smoke over Moonless City.
• Sang Ying destroyed the Soul-Locking Banner, and the freed souls swallowed Wuyue Sha before accepting her promise to expose his crimes and letting him live.
• The trapped souls returned to their bodies and the cursed residents recovered, while Yu Heng agreed to discuss removing Dongdong’s dragon blood and Liu Chengzhi recognized the captured Wuyue Sha as Wuyue Jizong.