Recaps

Chen Ning played A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix, overwhelming the Immortal Music Palace’s musicians and defeating the enemies who had threatened Su Ling'er. Afterward, he prepared to cure the Palace Master of Immortal Music Palace, who revealed that Fairy Qin had left another instruction concerning him.

• Chen Ning received A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix from the system and played it, summoning a divine phoenix that suppressed the power of music throughout the area.
• The Immortal Music Palace elders confronted Rong Yumo, while Chen Ning killed King Li's Consort for attacking Su Ling'er.
• Chen Ning used Heaven-Stealing Ghost Hand to tear apart the gravely injured Rong Yumo, then reassured Su Ling'er that he would protect her.
• Chen Ning prepared to refine a pill for the Palace Master of Immortal Music Palace, who told him Fairy Qin had left another instruction.

Immortal Music Palace and the Dragon-Seeking Sect became allies by the founding ancestor’s command, while Chen Ning was recognized as both the sect leader and the palace’s Holy Son. Chen Ning refined Spirit-Awakening Pills that cured the palace master’s poison and helped her reach the Nine-Star Martial Venerable level.

• The palace master announced that Immortal Music Palace and the Dragon-Seeking Sect would remain friends and stand together for generations.
• The palace master revealed Chen Ning’s identity and ordered Immortal Music Palace to obey him as its Holy Son.
• Chen Ning refined nine-marked Spirit-Awakening Pills and sent some to the palace master through Lan Yuqing.
• The palace master swallowed a Spirit-Awakening Pill, recovered from the poison, and broke through to the Venerable Martial Realm Ninth Layer.

Chen Ning cared for Su Ling'er as she recovered, then learned that the Dragon-Seeking Sect and Immortal Music Palace had reconciled. The Yama Holy Lord suspected the Dragon-Seeking Sect was gaining extraordinary fortune.

• Chen Ning bathed Su Ling'er and realized she had already recovered but had pretended otherwise because she wanted his attention.
• Lan Yuqing delivered breakfast, saw Chen Ning beside the sleeping Su Ling'er, and left flustered.
• Su Ling'er recovered fully, and King Li's rebel army collapsed after its leaders died.
• News that the Dragon-Seeking Sect and Immortal Music Palace had reconciled spread through Qian Province.
• The Yama Holy Lord considered the alliance and his past dealings with Chen Ning, concluding the Dragon-Seeking Sect might be blessed with fortune.

The Heavenly Net Emperor dismissed a proposal to visit Immortal Music Palace and instead ordered an invitation sent for a banquet, following Mister Kunmu’s advice. The ministers feared the emperor’s indulgence and Kunmu’s cruelty would provoke Immortal Music Palace and bring disaster to the dynasty.

• A commander reported that the Heavenly Net Dynasty had crushed King Li’s rebellion and retaken its lost cities, and the sleepy Heavenly Net Emperor rewarded everyone without hearing the details.
• The ministers urged the Heavenly Net Emperor to visit Immortal Music Palace and honor its role in ending the rebellion, but he disliked the idea of making the trip.
• Mister Kunmu persuaded the Heavenly Net Emperor to invite Immortal Music Palace’s Palace Master to a banquet, and the emperor ordered an invitation sent for a feast three days later.
• After court, the ministers worried that the emperor’s disregard for Immortal Music Palace could cause trouble and that Mister Kunmu was encouraging his indulgence and abuse of commoners in the spirit beast garden.

Chen Ning accepted a mission to attend a banquet at the Heavenly Net imperial palace and persuaded the Palace Master to accept the invitation. The Heavenly Net Emperor prepared a trap for the banquet while Mister Kunmu waited for Chen Ning to arrive.

• The seal-bearing eunuch invited the Palace Master to an imperial banquet and offered to make Immortal Music Palace the state religion, but she refused.
• Chen Ning received and accepted a mission to attend the banquet, thwart a plot, and obtain the complete Map Lost by the Dwarf Race.
• Chen Ning urged the Palace Master to attend, and she agreed to go in three days after learning his wishes as Holy Son.
• The Heavenly Net Emperor watched people flee from beasts, lost his wager, and ordered a second round with the Sword Spirit Tiger.
• Mister Kunmu saw the returning eunuch and understood that the Palace Master had agreed to attend the trap.

Chen Ning and the Palace Master of Immortal Music Palace attended the Heavenly Net Emperor’s banquet, where the emperor drunkenly tried to detain the Palace Master and force her into his bed. Shang Qingya killed the imperial guard commander who attacked, and the courtiers began to realize the banquet had left them in a strange, intoxicated daze as the emperor called for more guards.

• Chen Ning arrived at the palace banquet with the Palace Master of Immortal Music Palace, Su Ling'er, Shang Qingya, and Lan Yuqing.
• The Palace Master of Immortal Music Palace sat quietly while Chen Ning searched the banquet for whoever had supposedly set a trap for him.
• The Heavenly Net Emperor approached the Palace Master, made lewd demands, and ordered the guards to block the exits when she tried to leave.
• Shang Qingya and Lan Yuqing summoned their musical instruments, and Shang Qingya killed the imperial guard commander who charged at her.
• The courtiers began to recover from their daze and suspected the wine had affected them, while the Heavenly Net Emperor called on Commander Zheng to seize the visitors.

Mister Kunmu revealed that he had secretly deployed the four Dynasty Attendants and manipulated the Heavenly Net Emperor, while the Palace Master of Immortal Music Palace defeated the Attendants in battle. As the emperor collapsed amid the ruins, Mister Kunmu turned his attention to Chen Ning.

• The Palace Master restrained Commander Zheng, and the Heavenly Net Emperor learned that Mister Kunmu had secretly deployed the four Attendants, Wind, Rain, Thunder and Lightning.
• The Heavenly Net Emperor realized Mister Kunmu had manipulated him and sealed his mouth, leaving him unable to stop the scheme.
• The Palace Master fought the four Attendants, who formed an array and launched their Heaven Crumbles and Earth Collapses attack.
• The Palace Master used Garo Formation-Breaking Melody to shatter their purple-gold hammer, killing two Attendants and leaving the other two mortally wounded.
• The palace collapsed, and the Heavenly Net Emperor knelt in despair while Mister Kunmu escaped with him and fixed his gaze on Chen Ning.

Mister Kunmu revealed that he had engineered the crisis to create an opening to possess Chen Ning’s body, and invaded Chen Ning’s sea of consciousness. While the people outside feared Chen Ning had been possessed, Kunmu said his motive was revenge.

• Mister Kunmu told Chen Ning that he had used the Heavenly Net Emperor and the Palace of Immortal Music to create an opening for possessing Chen Ning’s body.
• Mister Kunmu explained that he had arranged the conflict with the Heavenly Net Emperor and summoned the dynasty’s four guardians, knowing the Palace Master of Immortal Music Palace would defeat them.
• Su Ling’er and Lan Yuqing grew alarmed when Chen Ning remained motionless, and the Palace Master of Immortal Music Palace said someone had invaded his sea of consciousness and might possess his body.
• The Palace Master of Immortal Music Palace said killing Mister Kunmu’s body would not save Chen Ning because Kunmu’s Divine Sense was already inside him.
• Chen Ning asked Mister Kunmu why he had chosen him, and Kunmu answered that he wanted revenge.

Chen Ning recognized Mister Kunmu as a member of Three Quarters Past Noon and learned that Kunmu sought revenge for his son, whom Chen Ning had killed. Chen Ning destroyed Kunmu’s divine thought with his overwhelming spiritual power and woke to find Su Ling’er crying beside him.

• Chen Ning recognized Mister Kunmu’s token and learned that Kunmu’s son was the man Chen Ning had killed while fighting over the Marrow-Cleansing Divine Fruit.
• Mister Kunmu revealed that he had repeatedly seized other bodies to survive and had set his trap to avenge his son and take Chen Ning’s body.
• Mister Kunmu attacked Chen Ning’s divine thought, but Chen Ning unleashed the Spirit Control Technique and overwhelmed him with spiritual power.
• Chen Ning obliterated Mister Kunmu’s divine thought and regained consciousness.
• Su Ling’er hugged Chen Ning and cried with relief, while the Palace Master of Immortal Music Palace looked on in shock.

After completing the banquet task, Chen Ning received a map that opened the Dwarf Realm and accepted a task to help Su Ling'er advance to the Earth Martial Realm. They entered the realm and found its Essence Power scarce, then reached a sturdy dwarf city where outsiders did not seem unusual.

• Chen Ning found Yi Six's token and received cultivation, the Dwarf Realm map, and the Hammer of Appraisal as rewards for completing [Attend the Banquet].
• Chen Ning accepted [Explore the Dwarf Realm], which tasked him with helping Su Ling'er find a breakthrough opportunity and reach the Earth Martial Realm.
• Chen Ning used the map to transport himself and Su Ling'er into the Dwarf Realm, where they discovered that Heaven and Earth Essence Power was extremely thin.
• Chen Ning offered Su Ling'er cultivation resources, but she said her spatial bags were already full.
• Chen Ning and Su Ling'er followed the map to a dwarf city and noticed that its residents seemed accustomed to outsiders.

Chen Ning and Su Ling'er visited Earth Spirit Main City, where they came upon an appraisal competition to choose Master Gu’s disciple. As Shi Tian struggled to identify a weapon’s defect against the favored Lie Tu, Chen Ning received a system choice about recruiting him into the sect.

• Chen Ning and Su Ling'er explored Earth Spirit Main City and went to the eastern square after hearing a commotion.
• A blue-robed dwarf announced that the apprentice appraisers would compete to find defects in three weapons, with the winner becoming Master Gu’s disciple.
• Lie Tu exchanged a discreet signal with the blue-robed dwarf, while Shi Tian resolved to keep competing despite Lie Tu’s insults.
• Shi Tian identified the short blade’s material and quality but could not name its defect, and the other two contestants gave up.
• The system offered Chen Ning a choice to recruit Shi Tian, and Chen Ning summoned the Hammer of Appraisal.

Chen Ning secretly helped Shi Tian appraise three weapons, allowing him to defeat Lie Tu and win the competition. As the crowd celebrated, Master Gu accused Shi Tian of cheating and ordered him disqualified, handing the place to Lie Tu.

• Chen Ning used the Shadow Cloak to transmit the short saber's appraisal details to Shi Tian, who repeated them before the judges.
• The appraisers confirmed Shi Tian's accurate findings, and Lie Tu grew unsettled as Shi Tian gained the crowd's support.
• Chen Ning secretly supplied appraisals for the spear and dagger, and Shi Tian identified both weapons' qualities and flaws.
• The blue-robed dwarf declared Shi Tian the winner, and Chen Ning told him to meet afterward.
• Master Gu stood and accused Shi Tian of cheating, disqualifying him and giving his place to Lie Tu.

Master Gu accused Shi Tian of cheating and stripped him of his apprentice appraiser status, protecting Lie Tu and his own reputation. Chen Ning stepped forward as Shi Tian’s master, challenged the lack of evidence, and confronted the dwarves who questioned his right to speak.

• Master Gu claimed Shi Tian had stolen the appraisers’ prepared results and declared him unfit to become an appraiser.
• Lie Tu praised Master Gu and urged that Shi Tian lose his apprentice status.
• Master Gu stripped Shi Tian of his status after the four appraisers raised no objections.
• Chen Ning called out Master Gu for accusing Shi Tian without evidence, prompting the onlookers to reconsider the verdict.
• Chen Ning identified himself as Shi Tian’s master and challenged the blue-robed dwarf’s authority to silence him.

Chen Ning defended Shi Tian against Master Gu’s accusation that he had stolen appraisal results, then challenged the appraisers to test Shi Tian on every unappraised item. With Chen Ning secretly lending Shi Tian power from the Hammer of Appraisal, Shi Tian appraised the entire collection, leaving Master Gu and the others stunned.

• Chen Ning claimed he was Shi Tian’s master in the Appraisal Technique and proposed testing Shi Tian on new items to disprove the theft accusation.
• Chen Ning demanded that Master Gu apologize publicly if Shi Tian succeeded, and Master Gu accepted the challenge.
• The blue-robed dwarf brought more than a hundred unappraised items, including several high-grade Mystic Artifacts and a top-grade Mystic Artifact.
• Chen Ning secretly transferred a third of the Hammer of Appraisal’s power to Shi Tian, who gained the ability to appraise items by touch.
• Shi Tian rapidly appraised every item, ending with the Heaven-Slaying Sword, a perfect-quality top-grade Mystic Artifact, and leaving the onlookers and Master Gu stunned.

Chen Ning forced Master Gu to kneel and kowtow after Master Gu admitted he had framed Shi Tian for selfish gain. Shi Tian chose to remain Chen Ning's student, and the system rewarded Chen Ning for earning Shi Tian's resolve to follow him.

• Master Gu restored Shi Tian's first-place standing and offered to take him as a disciple, but Shi Tian refused and stayed with Chen Ning.
• Chen Ning used True Essence Power to force Master Gu to kneel, while Su Ling'er wounded the blue-robed dwarf who tried to intervene.
• Lie Tu threatened Chen Ning and left to fetch reinforcements, but Chen Ning insisted Master Gu still had to kowtow and apologize.
• Master Gu confessed that he had framed Shi Tian to win Lie Tu as a disciple and kowtowed before the onlookers.
• The system announced that Shi Tian had resolved to follow Chen Ning and awarded Chen Ning a Super-First-Grade Pill Formula.

Chen Ning brought Shi Tian to the dwarf king’s palace to seek permission for him to leave the Dwarf Realm. After learning of the king’s peculiar appetite for praise, Chen Ning tried an unexpected approach and rebuked him, leaving the king and his guards stunned.

• Shi Tian thanked Chen Ning for saving him and agreed to join his sect, but explained that only the dwarf king could let him leave the Dwarf Realm.
• Chen Ning decided to meet the dwarf king, while Su Ling'er looked forward to the journey and secretly hoped to steal some of the king’s wealth.
• The dwarf king demanded fresh praise from his old dwarf attendant, then ordered him to wait outside when he could think of nothing new.
• A guard announced that Shi Tian had come to request permission to leave, and Chen Ning entered the palace with Shi Tian and Su Ling'er.
• Chen Ning claimed he had something more interesting than gold, then abruptly reproached the dwarf king, shocking the guards.

Chen Ning won the Dwarf King’s favor with original flattery, secured the removal of Shi Tian’s mark, and persuaded the king to investigate Lie Canghai’s accusations fairly. After Lie Canghai reported poor weapon profits and showed the king the goods, Chen Ning suggested that a parasite close to the king was responsible.

• Chen Ning sold the Dwarf King flattering phrases for a thousand mid-grade Origin Stones, and the king agreed to remove Shi Tian’s mark.
• Lie Canghai returned and accused Shi Tian and the two humans of causing trouble at the appraisal assembly, but Chen Ning urged the king to investigate impartially.
• The Dwarf King ordered an investigation, frustrating Lie Canghai, who then reported that weapon profits had fallen to thirty percent of the previous month’s.
• Lie Canghai presented mostly ordinary-quality weapons for the king to inspect, and Chen Ning said the poor profits were caused by a parasite at the king’s side.

Chen Ning exposed Minister Lie's scheme of disguising fine weapons as inferior ones, prompting the Dwarf King to condemn him. The chapter ended with the king realizing Chen Ning's Appraisal Technique might surpass Master Gu's.

• The Dwarf King asked Chen Ning to prove that Lie Canghai was corrupt, and Chen Ning questioned Lie about the weapons and their sales.
• Chen Ning secretly used the Hammer of Appraisal to reveal that the supposedly ordinary weapons were actually fine or perfect quality.
• The Dwarf King accused Lie Canghai of concealing weapon quality and pocketing the profits, but Lie denied responsibility and begged for mercy.
• The Dwarf King stripped Lie Canghai of his posts and ordered him sent to the underground death prison for execution.
• Lie Canghai pleaded with Chen Ning to intervene, but Chen Ning refused, and the Dwarf King marveled that Chen Ning's Appraisal Technique might surpass Master Gu's.

Su Ling'er broke through to the Earth Martial Realm Third Heaven, and Chen Ning completed his mission in the Dwarf Realm before returning to the Dragon-Seeking Sect. There, he ran into Cang Yue and insisted that he would not stay overnight on Verdant Peak.

• Su Ling'er revealed that she had broken through, and the system advanced her three more levels while rewarding Chen Ning with three rare-grade rewards.
• The dwarf king removed Shi Tian's mark and gave Chen Ning a spatial ring holding two thousand mid-grade Origin Stones; after Chen Ning left, the king discovered his treasury had been robbed.
• Chen Ning, Su Ling'er, and Shi Tian teleported back to Qian Province and then returned to the Dragon-Seeking Sect, where Chen Ning told the protector not to alert the elders.
• Chen Ning tried to sneak toward Vermilion Bird Peak to avoid staying on Verdant Peak, but Cang Yue appeared and questioned his eagerness to see Xiao Mei.
• Chen Ning declared that he would not stay overnight on Verdant Peak, no matter what Cang Yue said.

Chen Ning returned to Vermilion Bird Peak, reviewed Xiao Yuan’s growing network of informants, and decided to bring liquor to Xiao Mei. Meanwhile, the Dream-Eating Devil confronted Xiao Mei about her intelligence work, but Chen Ning’s late-night arrival interrupted his plan to hypnotize her.

• Chen Ning returned to Vermilion Bird Peak, welcomed Xiao Yuan, and asked him to settle the Dwarf Race appraiser Shi Tian.
• Xiao Yuan reported that his agents had gathered intelligence across the sect but had failed to spy on the elders, and Chen Ning praised their progress.
• Chen Ning thought of Xiao Mei’s uncertain loyalties and decided to visit her with strong liquor.
• The Dream-Eating Devil infiltrated Xiao Mei’s bedchamber and demanded to know why she had provided the Devil Race with little useful intelligence.
• The Dream-Eating Devil used the Hypnotic Devil Sound while plotting against Xiao Mei, but Chen Ning knocked and called out that he had brought wine.

Chen Ning visited Xiao Mei with wine, unaware that the Dream-Eating Devil was hiding in her room and plotting to control his dreams. After the devil attacked him with the Deep Sleep Devil Incantation, Chen Ning used a Clear Mind Card to resist its effects.

• Chen Ning brought wine to Xiao Mei and persuaded her to let him into her room.
• The Dream-Eating Devil hid as black mist, was burned by Chen Ning's Fire God Seal, and fled to the roof.
• Chen Ning used the Great Dao of Music to purify the black mist, causing the Dream-Eating Devil severe pain.
• The Dream-Eating Devil cast the Deep Sleep Devil Incantation on Chen Ning.
• The system triggered the Devil Extermination task and gave Chen Ning a Clear Mind Card, which he used to resist the spell.

Chen Ning resisted the Dream-Eating Devil’s hypnosis and killed him with one strike, protecting Xiao Mei and warning her of his strength. As Xiao Mei began to feel an unbearable heat, Chen Ning’s next problem emerged.

• Chen Ning used the Clear Mind Card to break the Dream-Eating Devil’s drowsiness effect and realized a higher Devil had ambushed him in Xiao Mei’s Law Enforcement Hall.
• The Dream-Eating Devil’s hypnosis subdued Xiao Mei, but Chen Ning resisted and fought back.
• Chen Ning equipped the Devil Subduer title and used Sword Intent to cripple the Dream-Eating Devil in one strike.
• The Dream-Eating Devil offered Chen Ning a secret in exchange for his life, but Chen Ning killed him instead.
• Xiao Mei was relieved that the Dream-Eating Devil had died, then suddenly felt unbearable heat spreading through her body.

After completing the Devil Extermination mission, Chen Ning received rewards while Xiao Mei advanced to Five-Star Martial Venerable and he helped her control her turbulent Qi. He then accepted a mission to preside over the Dragon-Seeking Sect’s upcoming disciple ranking battle and take the winner as his personal disciple.

• The system awarded Chen Ning a Devil Crystal Stone and the Enhanced Mist Transformation Technique, while raising Xiao Mei’s cultivation and strengthening her Devil Qi.
• Chen Ning helped Xiao Mei suppress the chaotic Qi caused by her breakthrough, and they spent the night together.
• Xiao Mei left for the Law Enforcement Hall, pleased with her new Five-Star Martial Venerable cultivation and strengthened Devil Qi.
• Cang Yue told Chen Ning that the sect’s annual disciple ranking battle would take place in a few days and asked him to preside over it.
• The system gave Chen Ning a mission to take the ranking battle’s first-place contestant as his personal disciple, and he accepted it.

Cang Yue and Xiao Mei inferred that the sect master's recognition and favor could grant them power, then discussed guarding the sect during the coming Dragon-Seeking Ranking Battle. As the battle approached, Jiang Bei prepared to face a returning prodigy, whose reputation left Vermilion Bird Peak’s disciples in awe.

• Cang Yue confronted Xiao Mei about her sudden cultivation increase, and the two inferred that deeper contact and the sect master's acceptance could bring them power.
• Cang Yue warned Xiao Mei to secure the sect during the Dragon-Seeking Ranking Battle, while insisting she would personally look after the sect master.
• Jiang Bei trained under his Peak Master and admitted he would strive for the top three, though he could not claim confidence against the returning woman.
• Lu Ping told Vermilion Bird Peak’s disciples that the woman was so strong that, had she competed last year, a Verdant Peak disciple would not have taken first place.

The Dragon-Seeking Sect’s ranking battle began before a crowd of disciples and distinguished guests, including the Great Yan emperor, Li Changtian, and Feng of the Wind Shadow Sect. Chen Ning presided over the event as the rules were announced and the contestants took their places, leaving him wondering which disciple would become his personal disciple.

• The Great Yan emperor, Li Changtian, Wine Maniac, and Sect Master Feng arrived as honored guests for the ranking battle.
• Chen Ning arrived with the elders and took the seat of honor, while Meng Yuyi sat beside him and said she meant to keep him safe.
• The general affairs elder announced that the top one hundred inner disciples would compete in pairs across nine platforms, with strength deciding the victors.
• The fighting platforms rose, and the disciples stepped onto them as Chen Ning wondered who would win and become his personal disciple.