Recaps

Chen Ning advanced to the Heaven Martial Realm, claimed the Power of the Void, and named the mysterious girl Hua Luo before deciding to bring her to the Dragon-Seeking Sect. Meanwhile, the Sword Heavenly Venerable reported his failure to the Asura Divine Lord, who revealed that the Divine Sect’s grand plan was nearing completion.

• Chen Ning absorbed the Worldly Qi surging through the Heaven-Burying Ancient Land and advanced to the Heaven Martial Realm First Stage.
• Chen Ning looted the slain elder, obtained the legendary-grade Power of the Void, and found a blank Jade Slip inside the yellow cloth.
• The mysterious girl insisted on accompanying Chen Ning, and he decided to take her to the Dragon-Seeking Sect for her safety.
• Chen Ning named the girl Hua Luo after the rare fabric of her dress, and she accepted the name.
• The Sword Heavenly Venerable returned to the Asura Divine Sect and reported that he had failed to capture the woman but had encountered Chen Ning in the forbidden land.
• The Asura Divine Lord dismissed the failure and hinted that the Divine Sect’s grand plan was close to completion.

Chen Ning returned to Azure Cloud Mountain with Hua Luo, welcomed her as a Dragon-Seeking Sect Attendant, and received an invitation from the Yin-Yang Holy Land to refine an immortal pill. After granting the elders access to the sect-protecting array, he entered the Jade Slip and met the first sect leader’s Divine Sense.

• Chen Ning introduced Hua Luo as a Heavenly Martial expert and appointed her an Attendant of the Dragon-Seeking Sect, then arranged for her to stay beside his courtyard.
• Cang Yue told Chen Ning that the Yin-Yang Holy Land had invited him to refine an immortal pill, and he realized Senior Mu had recommended him.
• Chen Ning linked Cang Yue, the Third Elder, and Lin Xiaotian to the Divine Abyss Soul-Annihilating Array so they could activate the sect’s protective formation.
• Chen Ning entered the Jade Slip with his Divine Sense and encountered the first sect leader, who was amazed that the Dragon-Seeking Sect had survived to its ninth generation.

Chen Ning met the first sect master inside the Jade Slip, learned he was still alive somewhere beyond a blinding light, and received the Immoral Scripture. After returning from the Jade Slip, Chen Ning found Hua Luo waiting and saying she was hungry.

• The first sect master stopped Chen Ning from leaving and revealed that the rumor of a secret treasure had been fabricated.
• The first sect master told Chen Ning he was not dead and challenged him to see what lay beyond a dazzling light once he became strong enough.
• The first sect master refused to answer Chen Ning's questions or teach him more until he could see beyond the light, but then passed on the Immoral Scripture.
• Chen Ning learned the Immoral Scripture trained its user to attack enemies with cutting words and thanked the first sect master.
• Chen Ning left the Jade Slip and found Hua Luo waiting for him; Hua Luo told him she was hungry.

Chen Ning brought Hua Luo to the Yin-Yang Holy Land, where its leaders asked him to refine a Spirit-Awakening Pill to help their patriarch recover his fading memories. The patriarch’s condition reminded Chen Ning of Hua Luo’s own lost memories, leaving him eager to learn whether the two cases were connected.

• Hua Luo asked Chen Ning for a divine fruit, and he gave her his last Nirvana Divine Fruit.
• Chen Ning told Hua Luo he was going to the Yin-Yang Holy Land, but she insisted on accompanying him so he could handle her matter.
• Chen Ning and Hua Luo arrived at the Yin-Yang Holy Land, where Holy Lords Qingfeng and Qinghe welcomed them.
• Qingfeng explained that the patriarch had awakened with lost memories and had forgotten the Yin-Yang Holy Land and his grand-disciples.
• Qinghe asked Chen Ning to refine a Spirit-Awakening Pill that could cleanse the soul and awaken a person's true self.

Chen Ning met Wangyou Saint, the amnesiac Ancestor of the Yin-Yang Holy Land, whose damaged Dao heart threatened to drive him into demonic madness. After Hua Luo calmed him and convinced him Chen Ning could help restore his memories, Wangyou Saint agreed to take medicine Chen Ning would refine.

• Holy Lords Qingfeng and Qinghe told Chen Ning that Wangyou Saint's memory loss had damaged his Dao heart and asked him to refine a Spirit-Awakening Pill.
• Holy Lord Qingfeng led Chen Ning and Hua Luo to meet Wangyou Saint, who demanded to know who he was and grew furious when the Holy Lords could not answer.
• Wangyou Saint attacked with the Power of the Void, and Holy Lords Qinghe and Qingfeng used the Dragon-Locking Diagram to seal him.
• Chen Ning warned that forcing Wangyou Saint further could make him fall into demonic madness, so the Holy Lords withdrew the seal.
• Hua Luo told Wangyou Saint that Chen Ning could refine medicine to restore their memories, and Wangyou Saint calmed down and asked Chen Ning to make it.

Chen Ning revealed that Wangyou Saint’s lost memories were caused by a Demon Seed and refined a Spirit-Awakening Pill to remove it. As the Holy Lords carried the pill to their patriarch, Chen Ning began making another for Hua Luo, while Feng Moxiu waited for his scheme to force the Yin-Yang Holy Land to seek his help.

• Chen Ning told the Yin-Yang Holy Lords that Wangyou Saint’s soul contained a Demon Seed from the Demon Battle Saint Sect.
• Holy Lord Qinghe and Holy Lord Qingfeng explained that Feng Moxiu had offered to cure Wangyou Saint in exchange for a suspicious condition.
• Chen Ning assured the Holy Lords that the Spirit-Awakening Pill could cleanse Wangyou Saint’s soul and remove the Demon Seed.
• Chen Ning refined the pill, endured its heavenly lightning, and handed it to the grateful Holy Lords, who hurried to the patriarch.
• Chen Ning began refining a second pill for Hua Luo, while Feng Moxiu waited for the Yin-Yang Holy Land to come begging for his help.

Wangyou Saint recovered his memories, but the Spirit-Awakening Pill failed to restore Hua Luo's. After rewarding Hua Luo and promising Chen Ning a favor, Wangyou Saint confronted Old Monster Asura over the scheme against him, while the Asura Divine Sect moved to advance its plans and abandon the Demon Battle Saint Sect.

• Wangyou Saint recovered his memories after swallowing Chen Ning's Spirit-Awakening Pill and thanked him for his help.
• Hua Luo swallowed a second Spirit-Awakening Pill, but she showed no change; Wangyou Saint gave her illusory annihilation dark gold and promised Chen Ning that he would do one thing for him.
• Wangyou Saint ordered Qingfeng and Qinghe to bring the Demon Battle Saint Sect a great gift in retaliation for the scheme against him.
• Wangyou Saint confronted Old Monster Asura, who admitted breaking the rules and gave him a Saint-Replenishing Stone as compensation.
• After Wangyou Saint left, Old Monster Asura ordered the Asura Divine Lord to speed up the Divine Sect's grand plan and abandon the Demon Battle Saint Sect.

After the Yin-Yang Holy Land forced the Demon Battle Saint Sect to surrender half its territory, Feng Moxiu blamed Chen Ning and sent the Three Sha of the Demon Land to attack the Dragon-Seeking Sect. Eighth Elder Lin Xiaotian killed all three with the Divine Abyss Soul-Annihilating Array, leaving him impressed by its power.

• The Yin-Yang Holy Land defeated the Demon Battle Saint Sect, and Heavenly Lake mediated a settlement in which Feng Moxiu ceded half the sect's territory.
• Feng Moxiu learned Chen Ning had refined the Spirit-Awakening Pill that restored the Wangyou Saint's memories and vowed revenge.
• Feng Moxiu ordered the great elder to send the Three Sha of the Demon Land to damage the Dragon-Seeking Sect.
• The Three Sha approached Azure Cloud Mountain in secret, but Eighth Elder Lin Xiaotian spotted them at the sect gate.
• Lin Xiaotian used the Divine Abyss Soul-Annihilating Array to kill all three attackers and marveled at its power.

Cang Yue left the Dragon-Seeking Sect for Spirit Province, unaware that Chen Ning had followed her to observe a system mission that forbade him from interfering. She met the Yan Emperor and Lin Yuan, who demanded she seize an opportunity to redeem herself, leaving her caught between her family’s demands and her ties to the sect.

• Cang Yue asked Chen Ning to return to Spirit Province, and he gave her the Space Scepter after a system mission instructed him not to interfere with her choice.
• Chen Ning and Hua Luo traveled secretly to Spirit Province, where Chen Ning also planned to visit Su Ling'er, the Sword Immortal, and the old Wine Maniac.
• Feng Moxiu learned that the Three Sha of the Demon Land had been killed, and the losses left the Demon Battle Saint Sect with only two Heavenly Martial Realm experts, including him.
• Cang Yue secretly met the Yan Emperor, who accused her of failing to obtain the Dragon-Seeking Sect's secret treasure and used her mother, Consort Xuan, to pressure her.
• The Yan Emperor summoned Lin Yuan, who revealed that he knew Cang Yue had been a spy.

Cang Yue was ordered by the Yan Emperor and Lin Yuan to erase Su Ling'er’s soul in exchange for her mother’s release, forcing her to choose between her family and the Dragon-Seeking Sect. When the Yan Emperor revealed that her mother had died long ago, Cang Yue erupted in fury.

• Lin Yuan revealed that Su Ling'er was being held in his spatial Spirit Artifact and proposed possessing her to control the Dragon-Seeking Sect in Spirit Province.
• The Yan Emperor told Cang Yue to erase Su Linger's soul, promising to release her mother in return.
• Cang Yue demanded that the Yan Emperor release her mother first and threatened to expose their plan if he refused.
• Lin Yuan agreed to her condition, but the Yan Emperor admitted that Cang Yue's mother had died long ago.
• Cang Yue's eyes turned red as scorching flames surged around her.

Cang Yue tried to help Su Ling'er escape after suspecting the Yan Emperor had killed her mother, but the Yan Emperor revealed his Heaven Martial Realm cultivation and trapped them both. Chen Ning arrived in time to stop Cang Yue from destroying herself, then confronted Lin Yuan and the Yan Emperor.

• Cang Yue used her Heaven Martial Realm might to hold Lin Yuan back while Su Ling'er fled, hoping she could bring Chen Ning back to save her.
• The Yan Emperor revealed that he had reached the Heaven Martial Realm and immobilized Su Ling'er, explaining that he wanted the Dragon-Seeking Sect's secret treasure to make the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty a superpower.
• Cang Yue tried to destroy her body and cultivation rather than let Lin Yuan seize her, but an unknown power of frost extinguished her flames.
• Chen Ning appeared and revealed that he had entered the palace after the system notified him of Cang Yue's choice.
• The Yan Emperor and Lin Yuan prepared to join forces against Chen Ning, who provoked Lin Yuan enough to nearly disrupt his composure.

Chen Ning used the supposed Dragon-Seeking Sect secret treasure and his Bewitch Hearts Divine Ability to manipulate the Yan Emperor and Lin Yuan into fighting for his favor. The Yan Emperor was left near death, while Lin Yuan claimed victory and demanded the promised power.

• Chen Ning demanded that the Yan Emperor and Lin Yuan atone with their lives, then faced their joint attack.
• Chen Ning absorbed their assault with the Power of Space, and the two men mistook his ability for the Dragon-Seeking Sect's secret treasure.
• Chen Ning bewitched them with promises of a share of the treasure's power and a chance to follow him to Central Province.
• The Yan Emperor stabbed Lin Yuan in the ribs to prove himself worthy, but Lin Yuan defeated him despite his injuries.
• Lin Yuan, badly hurt but victorious, told Chen Ning that he had earned the secret treasure's power.

Chen Ning defeated Lin Yuan and the Yan Emperor, allowing Cang Yue to avenge her mother and reclaim her resolve. Lin Yuan revealed the old sect leader's ties to the Heavenly Lake Holy Lord, then Chen Ning spared him but confined him in the Heaven-Swallowing Bag; Cang Yue remained with her master as the mission rewards began arriving.

• Chen Ning used Bewitch Hearts to make Lin Yuan kneel, and Lin Yuan realized his meridians had been shattered and he was dying.
• The Yan Emperor confessed that Cang Yue's mother, Consort Xuan, had taken her own life after he imprisoned her, and Cang Yue killed him.
• Chen Ning healed Lin Yuan enough to preserve his life, and Lin Yuan revealed that the eighth-generation sect leader had been close to the Heavenly Lake Holy Lord and had traveled with him to Central Province.
• Chen Ning honored his promise to spare Lin Yuan's life but confined him in the Heaven-Swallowing Bag.
• Cang Yue struggled to face Chen Ning after deceiving him, but Chen Ning gently reaffirmed that she was still his disciple, and the mission rewards began arriving.

After Cang Yue completed her choice, Chen Ning received rewards that strengthened his cultivation, the Feipeng Battle Robe, and the Dragon-Seeking Sect’s ability to forge Spirit Artifacts. The sect-wide advancement took effect across several regions, leaving Xiao Mei on the verge of a breakthrough as her army faced the Prison Devil King.

• Chen Ning enhanced the Feipeng Battle Robe, giving it a chance to reflect attacks at three times their power, and advanced to the Third Heaven of the Heavenly Martial Realm.
• Chen Ning received the Holy Armament Pavilion, which could forge Spirit Artifacts, and learned that all Dragon-Seeking Sect members would advance by one minor realm.
• Dragon-Seeking Sect disciples broke through together in the Peach Blossom Spring Mountain Range and bowed toward Chen Ning in gratitude.
• The Bear King and Monkey King broke through in the heartland of the Nine Li Demon Race.
• During the Prison Devil King’s assault on Xiao Mei’s forces, Ren Tiankuang broke through to the Heaven Martial Realm Third Layer, while Xiao Mei began advancing toward the Heavenly Martial Realm.

Ren Tiankuang and the new Devil Emperor won a major battle against the Prison Devil King, while Bai Qingluo received Chen Ning’s summons and traveled to Spirit Province. Chen Ning installed her as ruler of the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty, tasking her with competing against the other provinces’ dynasties ahead of an upcoming grand gathering.

• Ren Tiankuang broke through during his fight with the Prison Devil King, and Xiao Mei entered the Heaven Martial Realm and killed three Devil Venerables, forcing the Prison Devil King to retreat after losing an arm.
• Ren Tiankuang praised his decision to join the Dragon-Seeking Sect, while the Dark Devil King suspected the sect had enabled their breakthroughs.
• Bai Qingluo’s forces made Desolate Wind City prosperous, and she used Old Master Wine Maniac to punish an orc tribe and deter potential troublemakers.
• Bai Qingluo received a letter from Young Master Chen inviting her to Spirit Province, then set out with Old Master Wine Maniac.
• Chen Ning placed Bai Qingluo on the throne of the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty and told her to contend with the dynasties of the other eight provinces.

With the Nine Provinces faction ranking gathering two months away, Chen Ning prepared the Dragon-Seeking Sect for a difficult attempt to reach the top three and appointed Shi Tian to lead its artifact-refining branch. Inside the Sacred Armament Pavilion, Shi Tian began forging a Spirit Artifact with seemingly innate mastery.

• The system unlocked the third stage of Chen Ning's legendary quest, requiring the Dragon-Seeking Sect to rank among the top three superpowers at the Nine Provinces gathering.
• Su Ling'er decided to focus on managing the Dragon-Seeking Sect in Spirit Province while Chen Ning returned to Central Province with Cang Yue and Hua Luo.
• Chen Ning appointed Shi Tian master of the newly built Sacred Armament Pavilion and tasked him with overseeing artifact refinement.
• Shi Tian entered the Pavilion, where its blueprints and facilities seemed to awaken his ability to refine artifacts.
• Shi Tian used ten-thousand-year-old mystic iron and a Starry Sky Leopard beast soul to begin forging the spirit sword shown in a blueprint.

Shi Tian led the Holy Armament Pavilion to produce a large number of Spirit Artifacts, but its dwindling material reserves threatened output. News of the Dragon-Seeking Sect’s success spread across Central Province, drawing powerful factions’ attention, and Ling Xiaoyun learned that the sect had set terms for acquiring artifacts.

• Shi Tian refined a Low-Grade Spirit Artifact and was appointed to lead twenty-nine disciples in the Holy Armament Pavilion.
• The pavilion’s disciples refined Spirit Artifacts, and Shi Tian reached its second and third floors to produce Mid-Grade and High-Grade Spirit Artifacts.
• After half a month, Shi Tian reported that the pavilion had refined seven High-Grade, twenty-one Mid-Grade, and three hundred and twenty Low-Grade Spirit Artifacts, including three perfect-quality High-Grade artifacts.
• Shi Tian warned Chen Ning that the pavilion was running short of materials, and Chen Ning told him to wait a few days for more supplies.
• News of the Dragon-Seeking Sect’s artifact production spread across Central Province, while a Heaven Martial Realm Seventh Layer expert died outside Azure Cloud Mountain and deterred factions from attacking.
• Ling Xiaoyun heard that the Dragon-Seeking Sect had announced its terms, and he eagerly asked what they were.

Chen Ning’s tenfold material requirement drew powers from across the Nine Provinces to the Dragon-Seeking Sect, while the sect’s artifact-forging operation prospered. After failing to see through the Jade Slip again, Chen Ning learned that the founding sect leader still considered his cultivation far behind.

• Ling Xiaoyun decided to personally visit the Dragon-Seeking Sect with materials after learning that the Yin-Yang Holy Land, the War Academy, and the Snow God Pavilion had already sent offerings.
• The Heavenly Sea Sect deputy sect master left for Central Province with gifts despite an artifact refiner’s claim that he could forge a Low-Grade Spirit Artifact in five years.
• Wind and Thunder Divine Cult disciples secretly discussed escaping to join the Dragon-Seeking Sect after hearing its inner disciples could receive Low-Grade Spirit Artifacts.
• Shi Tian explained how the Holy Armament Pavilion’s three floors forged different grades of Spirit Artifacts and realized that successful crafting left most of the supplied materials for the Pavilion.
• Chen Ning accepted martial arts scrolls from the Heaven-Praying Hall Master in exchange for a High-Grade Spirit Artifact.
• Chen Ning failed to see through the Jade Slip, and the founding sect leader teased him about the gap between their cultivation.

Chen Ning agreed to join Zhuge Bai at the Hall of Heroic Souls, where soul cultivators from across the Nine Provinces had gathered to help unlock the founder’s ancestral hall and claim the Prajna Ancient Scripture. As they arrived, someone broke a statue’s mental-power restriction before the gathered disciples could finish, prompting an angry demand to know who had taken the reward.

• Chen Ning asked the founding sect master about Hua Luo’s origins, but the old man said he did not know and explained that he had hidden the Jade Slip in the Heaven-Burying Ancient Land so no one would find it.
• Zhuge Bai told Chen Ning that the Hall of Heroic Souls had invited soul cultivators to break the restrictions on its founder’s ancestral hall, with the Prajna Ancient Scripture promised as a reward.
• Chen Ning decided to join the contest, hoping the scripture would help him understand the light in the Jade Slip and resolve Hua Luo’s problem.
• Chen Ning and Hua Luo met Zhuge Bai in Seven Stars City, then traveled with him to the North Wind Region as he described the Hall of Heroic Souls.
• At the Hall of Heroic Souls, a restriction on one of the statues vanished and its blessing descended into the crowd before the disciples working on it could break it.
• A disciple of the Hall of Heroic Souls angrily demanded to know who had broken the statue’s restriction and claimed the reward.

Soul cultivators gathered at the Hall of Heroic Souls to compete for a chance to receive the Prajna Ancient Scripture. After Hall Master Hua Xusheng led them to the ancestral hall, he explained that anyone who broke the founding ancestor’s restriction would be rewarded with the scripture.

• Pei Wen challenged Snake Venerable for taking the fruits of his attempt to break a statue’s restriction, but Song Qingzi silenced him.
• The waiting soul cultivators discussed the Prajna Ancient Scripture and the powerful guests who had gathered to seek it.
• Chen Ning arrived with his companions and noticed that an unknown burly man had soul power exceeding Grandmaster Ge’s.
• Hua Xusheng appeared, greeted the guests, and led them to the ancestral hall.
• Hua Xusheng explained that the guests had to enter the founding ancestor’s restriction with Divine Sense and promised the Prajna Ancient Scripture to whoever broke it.

Chen Ning, Zhuge Bai, and other soul cultivators entered the Hall of Heroic Souls' ancestral hall to seek the Prajna Ancient Scripture, facing soul pressure and the first trial. They reached a swarm of Spiritual Light Jellyfish, which they would have to break through to continue.

• Hua Xusheng assured the gathered cultivators that the ancestral hall was safe and that four Heaven Martial Realm elders would protect their bodies.
• Chen Ning told Hua Luo to guard their bodies in exchange for two divine fruits, then entered the ancestral hall with Zhuge Bai.
• The cultivators struggled against soul pressure created by the Divine Sense of the Hall of Heroic Souls' predecessors, and about a dozen had to withdraw.
• Chen Ning and Zhuge Bai noticed a burly stranger who moved through the soul pressure as easily as Song Qingzi and Snake Venerable.
• Song Qingzi explained that the Spiritual Light Jellyfish ahead formed the next trial and that the group would have to break through their swarm.

Song Qingzi led the remaining soul cultivators through the Spiritual Light Jellyfish to the final trial: a mysterious painting that concealed the Prajna Ancient Scripture. The group learned that the Hall of Heroic Souls had invited cultivators from across the Nine Provinces because it had failed to decipher the painting for ten thousand years.

• A soul cultivator charged into the Spiritual Light Jellyfish and was killed when they exploded around him.
• Zhuge Bai used the Shield of Star Concealment, Snake Venerable sent illusory snakes ahead, and Song Qingzi used spiritual power to make their way through the swarm.
• A burly man endured the jellyfish explosions unharmed, while Chen Ning also passed through without revealing his abilities.
• Song Qingzi led the roughly twenty survivors to a painting made by the founding ancestor ten thousand years earlier and explained that filling its patterns with spiritual power would unlock the Prajna Ancient Scripture.
• The group realized the Hall of Heroic Souls had invited soul cultivators from across the Nine Provinces because it could not unravel the painting on its own.

Chen Ning sensed something suspicious about the Hall of Heroic Souls’ image and urged Zhuge Bai to abandon the Prajna Ancient Scripture, while most of the gathered soul cultivators chose to decipher it. Chen Ning and Zhuge Bai left with the burly man as Song Qingzi began the process.

• Song Qingzi offered each of the gathered soul cultivators one scroll of the Prajna Ancient Scripture if they helped decipher the image, and Snake Venerable agreed to join in.
• Chen Ning warned Zhuge Bai that something was strange and advised him to give up, and Zhuge Bai trusted him and agreed to leave.
• Chen Ning urged Grandmaster Ge to abandon the scripture, but Grandmaster Ge refused and prepared to decipher the patterns.
• Song Qingzi told Chen Ning to leave with Zhuge Bai, and the burly man also chose to give up and follow them.
• Song Qingzi poured spiritual power into the image, lighting up the first pattern as the others began deciphering it.

Chen Ning and Zhuge Bai left the ancient diagram, where Chen Ning agreed to spar with Zhao Jinxiu, a villain of Three Quarters Past Noon. Meanwhile, Hua Xusheng revealed that the diagram was a trap meant to consume powerful divine souls, and he set out to capture Chen Ning and Zhuge Bai after it absorbed the others.

• Zhao Jinxiu revealed that he had come to challenge Chen Ning, and Chen Ning agreed to spar while Zhuge Bai stood guard.
• The soul cultivators at the ancient diagram found they could no longer stop their spiritual power from being drained into it.
• Hua Xusheng appeared and admitted that the Hall of Heroic Souls had lured the soul cultivators into a deadly trap.
• Hua Xusheng told Song Qingzi that the diagram needed powerful divine souls and that he had never planned to spare him.
• The ancient diagram absorbed the gathered divine souls and lit up halfway, while Hua Xusheng lamented that Chen Ning and Zhuge Bai had escaped the trap.
• Hua Xusheng vanished to capture Chen Ning and Zhuge Bai himself.

Zhao Jinxiu unleashed his strongest soul attack against Chen Ning, but Chen Ning absorbed it with the Feipeng Battle Robe and returned it threefold, defeating him. Chen Ning spared Zhao Jinxiu on the condition that he pledge service to the Dragon-Seeking Sect while remaining with Three Quarters Past Noon.

• Zhao Jinxiu ignored the trapped soul cultivators’ questions and challenged Chen Ning to settle their fight.
• Zhao Jinxiu unleashed an ocean-like spiritual power attack that tore through the Spiritual Light Jellyfish swarm.
• Chen Ning used the Feipeng Battle Robe to absorb Zhao Jinxiu’s attack and return it with threefold power, crushing the jellyfish and nearly destroying Zhao Jinxiu’s divine soul.
• Zhao Jinxiu admitted defeat and asked Chen Ning to spare Sister Qiu Shui if he ever fought Three Quarters Past Noon.
• Chen Ning refused to make that promise, spared Zhao Jinxiu, and ordered him to pledge service to the Dragon-Seeking Sect while continuing as a member of Three Quarters Past Noon.