Recaps

Chen Jin confronted Ji Ning over Nine Lotus and threatened to destroy the Ji Clan, but Ji Ning defeated him in a fight. Ji An then seized Chen Jin and crushed Fire Saint with an invisible force, leaving both men helpless.

• Chen Jin arrived with Fire Saint, saw Nine Lotus’s affection for Ji Ning, and lost his composure despite Fire Saint’s warnings.
• Nine Lotus rejected Chen Jin, and Chen Jin challenged Ji Ning to a duel above the Ji Clan West Prefecture.
• Ji Ning shattered Chen Jin’s attacks, broke through his Wind and Cloud Lock Heaven and Earth, and threw him aside.
• Chen Jin threatened to have outlaws wipe out the Ji Clan unless Ji Ning left Nine Lotus, and Ji An appeared and grabbed him by the throat.
• Fire Saint tried to rescue Chen Jin, but Ji An’s force slammed him into the ground and grievously injured him.

Ji Ning forced Chen Jin to swear a Heavenly Dao oath, and Ji An shattered Chen Jin’s Violet Palace before letting him leave. Ji Ning and Nine Lotus pledged themselves to each other, while Chen Jin retaliated by informing the Dongyan Clan of their relationship; Ji An’s hidden energy then killed Chen Jin in his residence.

• Ji Ning offered Chen Jin the choice of swearing never to harm the Ji Clan or having his soul scattered, and Chen Jin swore the oath under pressure.
• Ji An shattered Chen Jin’s Violet Palace, and Ji Ning warned him against threatening the Ji Clan before Fire Saint took him away.
• Chen Jin warned Ji Ning that Nine Lotus was the Dongyan Clan’s designated next leader, while Ji Ning and Nine Lotus reassured each other and drew closer.
• Ji Ning held Nine Lotus’s hand and received her agreement to be his Dao companion, and Yuchi Xue warmly welcomed her.
• Chen Jin carried word of Ji Ning and Nine Lotus’s relationship to the Dongyan Clan’s outpost, prompting the clan’s leadership to react.
• Ji An’s hidden elemental energy erupted inside Chen Jin’s shattered Violet Palace, killing him as he returned to his residence.

The Dongyan Clan sent Beiqu Immortal to bring Nine Lotus back, but Zhu Yan nearly destroyed the expedition before Ji An intervened and let her choose. Nine Lotus returned to the clan, leaving Ji Ning heartbroken and determined to grow stronger; nine years later, Ji An had greatly advanced his cultivation and claimed the Stars Circumference Sword Formation.

• Beiqu Immortal led the Dongyan Clan’s forces to the Ji Clan West Prefecture and tested Ji Ning with Divine Sense.
• Zhu Yan attacked the Dongyan party, destroyed their warship, and gravely wounded Beiqu Immortal and his nine disciples before Nine Lotus pleaded for mercy.
• Ji An stopped Zhu Yan and told Nine Lotus she could stay, but she chose to return to the Dongyan Clan and asked Ji Ning to wait for her.
• Nine Lotus left by flying boat, and Ji An urged Ji Ning to become strong enough to control his own fate; Ji Ning devoted himself to cultivation.
• Over the next nine years, Ji An advanced his Spatial Power, Heaven and Earth Great Dao, and Crimsonbright Nine Heavens Diagram, then cleared the ninth level of the War God Hall and chose the Stars Circumference Sword Formation.

After nine years of cultivation, Ji An remained unable to master Heart Force while he and Ji Ning became famous for their power. Nine Lotus broke free of her formation and traveled to Yan Mountain, where a gathering at the Ji residence ended as a Heavenly Tribulation began.

• Ji An advanced his divine abilities, became a four-clawed Yinglong Guard, and saved Chuncao, while Ji Ning trained diligently beside him.
• Ji Ning killed a Primordial Spirit Daoist at the Perfection stage during a Yinglong Guard mission, and news of his feat spread throughout Anchan Commandery.
• Nine Lotus learned of Ji Ning’s victory, understood her ambition to lead the Dongyan Clan, and walked out of Ten Thousand Lotus Cave before setting off for Yan Mountain.
• Mu Zishuo, Yu Wei, Cangjiang, Beishan Baiwei, and other Black-White College disciples visited Ji Ning at the Ji Clan West Prefecture, where they discussed the realms above Heavenly Immortals.
• As Ji An and the gathered cultivators discussed True Immortals and the Grand Dao, fierce winds converged nearby, and they sensed a Heavenly Tribulation.