The Untamed Episode 35 Recap, Plot

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Jin Ling woke up, completely unaware that Wei Wuxian had transferred the curse mark away. He thought Wei Wuxian had deliberately attacked him. Wei Wuxian came up with an idea and lied that Lan Wangji was coming, scaring Jin Ling into running off. That night, Wei Wuxian walked alone through the silent streets. Looking up, he saw Lan Wangji standing on a bridge in his white robes, bathed in the clear moonlight, making him appear even more upright and dignified.

Wei Wuxian sighed inwardly—he had always thought Jiang Cheng would be the one by his side while Lan Wangji would forever stand in opposition. Yet time had passed so swiftly, and everything had reversed. Wei Wuxian stepped forward, and Lan Wangji quickly noticed the curse mark on his leg, along with the wounds left by Zidian’s lashes. His expression darkened. Wei Wuxian, pretending to be carefree, laughed it off, saying it was just an ordinary curse mark, nothing serious.

Lan Wangji frowned and insisted on carrying him. Wei Wuxian, feeling that being carried as a grown man was embarrassing, refused. Lan Wangji merely sighed lightly, bent down, and lifted Wei Wuxian onto his back. Wei Wuxian had no choice but to comply. Testing the waters, he asked how Lan Wangji had recognized him back at Dafan Mountain. Lan Wangji didn’t give a direct answer, only telling Wei Wuxian to figure it out himself.

Back in their room, Lan Wangji showed Wei Wuxian a piece of cloth he had torn from the mysterious person’s clothing. It bore the Nie Clan’s emblem. Wei Wuxian then put on a mask, and the two of them went to confront Nie Huaisang, determined to get the truth about the rumored man-eating fortress. Years had passed, but Nie Huaisang was still as timid as ever, responding to every question with an "I don’t know.

" Seeing this, Wei Wuxian simply sat down and started reasoning with him. Wei Wuxian explained leisurely that while there had always been rumors about a man-eating fortress on Xinglu Ridge, there had never been any real victims, proving the stories to be mere rumors. Such rumors kept ordinary people away from the ridge, making it a defensive measure—this was the first layer of defense.

The second layer was the supernatural creatures on the ridge, frightening off anyone who ventured too close. The third layer was the maze formation near the stone fortress, preventing cultivators from entering. The purpose of these defenses was clearly to keep the so-called "man-eating fortress" hidden. Given that this place was within the Qinghe Nie Clan’s territory, it was obvious that they had set everything up. At this point, Nie Huaisang could no longer deny the truth.

He admitted that the fortress was not a man-eating den but the ancestral tomb of the Nie Clan. Unlike other cultivation clans that practiced swordsmanship, the Nie Clan’s ancestors were butchers, so they cultivated the Dao of the Blade. Each successive clan leader’s saber carried immense hostility and murderous energy, leading nearly every one of them to eventually succumb to qi deviation and die violently.

While alive, a clan leader could control their saber’s aggression, but after death, the unrestrained blade would become a deadly weapon, requiring sacrifices to appease its spirit. The sixth patriarch of the Nie Clan devised a solution: he placed the sabers of his father and grandfather inside coffins in the stone fortress and buried them alongside supernatural creatures as funerary objects to suppress the blades’ violent energy. This brought the Nie Clan several generations of peace.

At first, the Nie Clan’s blade tomb was just an ordinary burial site, but it was later disturbed by grave robbers. As they rummaged through the tomb, they accidentally awakened the blade spirits and unleashed the buried malevolent entities. With fewer sacrificial offerings, the grave robbers themselves became replacements, absorbed into the walls of the fortress. From then on, rumors spread of a man-eating entity on Xinglu Ridge.

To keep people away, the Nie Clan exaggerated these tales, making them even more terrifying. Jin Ling had unknowingly broken part of the wall when he entered the fortress, causing the trapped remains of the grave robbers to spill out. The walls needed to be "fed," and so he was nearly absorbed in their place. Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian promised to keep the secret, and only then did Nie Huaisang nervously leave.

Lan Wangji noticed the curse mark on Wei Wuxian’s leg was growing more severe and grew increasingly concerned. At that moment, the sword spirit inside the spirit-locking pouch reacted, as if resonating with the curse mark. The two quickly played a Requiem Melody together to subdue the sword spirit. Wei Wuxian realized that the "man-eating fortress" was precisely where the sword spirit was leading him. Determined, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji returned to the fortress.

By now, Nie Huaisang had sealed the area again, but Lan Wangji, without hesitation, tore down the wall once more. Skeletons poured out, yet no further clues were found. Wei Wuxian had Nie Huaisang open all the stone coffins and carefully examined the sabers inside, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Lan Wangji pondered for a moment and noticed that the saber of Nie Mingjue, Baxia, was missing.

Nie Huaisang’s expression turned grave as he recalled that Nie Mingjue had suddenly gone berserk during the Jin Clan’s Hundred Flowers Banquet, his meridians shattering, and then mysteriously disappeared. No one had ever found his body. Wei Wuxian drew a sharp breath. It seemed highly likely that the sword spirit inside the spirit-locking pouch was actually the blade spirit of Baxia. If the blade spirit was so agitated, then Nie Mingjue had probably met a tragic end.

To uncover the truth, they needed to follow the blade spirit’s guidance. As they continued their journey, they stopped at an inn to rest. The innkeeper was animatedly recounting the massacre of the Chang Clan years ago, mentioning that Xue Yang was now a guest cultivator of the Jin Clan. This greatly surprised Wei Wuxian. Xue Yang had suddenly reappeared at Jinlintai a few years prior. While most clan leaders had demanded severe punishment, Jin Guangshan had strongly opposed it.

Even Chang Ping, the only survivor of the Chang Clan, had recanted his testimony, claiming that Xue Yang had nothing to do with the massacre. In this way, Xue Yang narrowly escaped death. However, after Jin Guangshan’s passing and Jin Guangyao’s rise to power, Xue Yang was eventually cast out. Wei Wuxian was curious—if Xue Yang had been set free, had Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan not confronted him?

Lan Wangji replied that Xiao Xingchen had gone missing, and Song Lan had disappeared on a journey, never to be seen again. Meanwhile, Chang Ping, after recanting his statement, had his eyes gouged out and later died by lingchi. The weapon used for his execution was none other than Xiao Xingchen’s sword, Shuanghua. Naturally, people assumed Xiao Xingchen had killed Chang Ping in revenge. The unpredictability of fate was truly ironic. Even Lan Wangji, rarely given to emotion, uncharacteristically raised a cup of wine and drank, sighing at the cruel twists of life.

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