Recaps

Desolate Wind City’s party fought off a tide of Black-Armored Moles before encountering a seventh-tier Thorn Behemoth in the Savage Lands. Uncle Fu urged Bai Qingluo to retreat, then sacrificed a man to the beast as the chapter ended.

• Chen Ning saved Bai Qingluo from a Black-Armored Mole with a bolt of heavenly lightning.
• Ling Xiaoxiao and Uncle Fu helped subdue the mole tide, and the party resumed its journey.
• Chen Ning suspected the moles had been fleeing from something as the party traveled deeper into the Savage Lands.
• A Thorn Behemoth appeared and destroyed Uncle Fu’s horse, prompting him to warn Bai Qingluo to retreat.
• Uncle Fu hurled a man at the Thorn Behemoth, which tore him apart and swallowed him, leaving Bai Qingluo horrified.

Bai Qingluo learned that her father planned to marry her to the Grey Wolf Tribe's young prince, while Chen Ning intervened to save her and her guards from the Thorn Behemoth. Chen Ning killed Uncle Fu and used a desolate artistic conception that caused the beast's thorns to age and fall away.

• The Thorn Behemoth knocked Wei Heng aside, while Uncle Fu urged Bai Qingluo to abandon her guards and flee.
• Bai Qingluo refused to leave her loyal guards, who kept charging the beast to protect her.
• Uncle Fu revealed that Bai Qingluo was intended as a marriage gift to the Grey Wolf Tribe's young prince, and she collapsed in despair.
• Chen Ning offered to help Bai Qingluo, killed Uncle Fu with his Sword Intent, and sent Ling Xiaoxiao to protect her.
• Chen Ning confronted the Thorn Behemoth and unleashed a desolate artistic conception that made its thorns age and fall away.

Chen Ning killed the thorn behemoth, saved Bai Qingluo's party, and agreed to help her seize control of Desolate Wind City. The group reached the Grey Wolf Tribe for the little prince's coming-of-age ceremony, where Chen Ning prepared to make trouble.

• Chen Ning killed the thorn behemoth and collected its beast soul while Wei Heng watched in shock and shame.
• Chen Ning gave pills to the injured guards and Wei Heng, then accepted Wei Heng's apology.
• Bai Qingluo asked Chen Ning to help her take control of Desolate Wind City, and he agreed on the condition that the city obey his commands.
• Wei Heng became deferential to Chen Ning, and the party traveled safely through the savage lands to the Grey Wolf Tribe's territory.
• Chen Ning saw the demi-human guests at the Grey Wolf Tribe and told Ling Xiaoxiao that they had come to make trouble before asking Bai Qingluo when the ceremony would begin.

Chen Ning intervened at the Grey Wolf prince’s coming-of-age ceremony and tricked Chief Xueliao into blaming Bai Canglan for the failed marriage arrangement. The ceremony then shifted to the prince’s public appearance, where guests discussed his Supreme Demon Bone and its origins.

• Xueliao welcomed the guests and demanded that Bai Canglan’s daughter be married to his son that night.
• Chen Ning claimed Bai Canglan had offered his elder daughter instead of Bai Qingluo and accused him of insulting the Grey Wolf Tribe.
• Chen Ning offered to rebel against Bai Canglan, and Xueliao accepted his explanation and postponed settling accounts with the city lord.
• A Grey Wolf vice chief praised the prince’s Supreme Demon Bone and urged the guests to support his future leadership.
• The Grey Wolf prince arrived, and guests discussed his cultivation and the fact that his Supreme Demon Bone had belonged to Ling Xiaoxiao.

At the Grey Wolf Prince’s coming-of-age ceremony, he used his Supreme Demon Bone to badly wound a challenger, and Chen Ning helped Xueliao silence the challenger’s elder and set up a barrier for further fights. The barrier was completed, but no one dared to face the prince.

• Xueliao announced the Grey Wolf Prince’s strength and offered rewards to Spirit Martial Realm fighters who challenged him.
• A Ninth Heaven Spirit Martial Realm fighter from the Frenzied Lion Tribe challenged the Grey Wolf Prince, who used his Supreme Demon Bone to grievously wound him.
• A Frenzied Lion elder intervened to save the wounded man, and Chen Ning backed Xueliao as the two tribes argued.
• The elder backed down after Xueliao threatened war, and Chen Ning suggested a barrier to protect the prince and keep elders from interfering.
• Chen Ning claimed he was a renowned talisman master, set up the barrier, and watched as no one dared to challenge the Grey Wolf Prince.

Ling Xiaoxiao fought the Grey Wolf Prince to avenge her parents, revealing the terrifying power she gained from the Heavenly Pride Ranking when injured. After she tore off both of his arms, Xueliao demanded that Chen Ning open the barrier, but Chen Ning refused to soften what was happening.

• Ling Xiaoxiao entered the barrier to fight the Grey Wolf Prince, and her first strike drove him back despite her lower cultivation level.
• The Grey Wolf Prince recognized Ling Xiaoxiao as a survivor of the White Wolf Tribe and taunted her about her parents and the Supreme Demon Bone.
• The Grey Wolf Prince blasted Ling Xiaoxiao into the barrier, but she unleashed blood-red power and tore off his arm.
• Ling Xiaoxiao tore off the Grey Wolf Prince's other arm as Xueliao shouted for her to stop and failed to break the barrier.
• Xueliao threatened to destroy Desolate Wind City unless Chen Ning opened the barrier, and Chen Ning replied that Ling Xiaoxiao was killing his son.

Ling Xiaoxiao avenged her parents by killing the Grey Wolf Prince and destroying his Supreme Demon Bone. Outside the barrier, Chen Ning fought Xueliao and the Grey Wolf Tribe’s remaining experts, leaving the battle with Xueliao still raging.

• Ling Xiaoxiao tore the Supreme Demon Bone from the Grey Wolf Prince, crushed it, and pierced his heart, avenging her parents.
• Xueliao attacked Chen Ning, but Chen Ning trapped him with an Immortal-Trapping Talisman and used the Setting Sun Sword Intent to defeat the two Grey Wolf Tribe experts he sent against him.
• Xueliao broke free and attacked Chen Ning with the Grey Wolf Clan’s powerful roar.
• Chen Ning countered with Grand Music of the Central Heaven and the Heavenly Extremity Sonic Wave Technique, while Xueliao asked why he had sided with Ling Xiaoxiao.
• Chen Ning told Xueliao that he could not offer what Ling Xiaoxiao had given him.

Chen Ning sealed Xueliao’s Essence Power and gave Ling Xiaoxiao a new Supreme Demon Bone so she could take revenge. When Xueliao revealed that surviving White Wolf tribespeople were imprisoned in a hidden place, Ling Xiaoxiao spared him to make him lead her to them.

• Chen Ning sealed Xueliao’s Essence Power with the Heaven-Sealing Instruction, then used Bewitch Hearts to control the Grey Wolf tribespeople.
• The system rewarded Chen Ning with the Power of Roaring and two Supreme Demon Bones, including a Qilin right arm bone for himself.
• Chen Ning gave Ling Xiaoxiao a complete set of Supreme Demon hand bones, which let her pierce Xueliao’s defenses despite his Martial Venerable physique.
• Xueliao told Ling Xiaoxiao that he had imprisoned surviving White Wolf tribespeople and threatened that they would starve if she killed him.
• Ling Xiaoxiao knocked Xueliao to the ground and warned him to lead her to the tribespeople without lying.

Ling Xiaoxiao avenged the White Wolf Tribe by killing Xueliao, then joined Qingwei in freeing the imprisoned tribespeople. The White Wolf chief urged Qingwei to live and rebuild the tribe, while entrusting Ling Xiaoxiao to Chen Ning’s care.

• Qingwei revealed that he had secretly served Xueliao to learn where the White Wolf tribespeople were held and had gathered an elite force for revenge.
• Ling Xiaoxiao killed Xueliao with her Supreme Demon Bone, and Chen Ning comforted her as she grieved after taking her revenge.
• Qingwei led Ling Xiaoxiao and Chen Ning to the stone prison, where Ling Xiaoxiao reunited with the White Wolf chief and more than a hundred tribespeople.
• Qingwei tried to take his own life out of shame for the bloodshed he had caused while undercover, but Chen Ning stopped him and the chief ordered him to live and help rebuild the tribe.
• The White Wolf chief told Chen Ning to keep caring for Ling Xiaoxiao and accepted that she would continue traveling with him.

Ling Xiaoxiao imagined returning to lead the White Wolf Tribe and taking Chen Ning as her strategist, while Chen Ning promised the tribe safety in its former territory. In Desolate Wind City, Bai Canglan learned Uncle Fu had been killed and sent Bai Yu'er to ask her husband, Ancient Lamp Venerable, to protect the city from Bai Qingluo.

• Ling Xiaoxiao decided she would repay Chen Ning for helping her take revenge and later spirit him away as her strategist when she conquered Desolate Province.
• Ling Xiaoxiao told the White Wolf patriarch that Chen Ning had given her a Supreme Demon Bone, and the patriarch urged her to serve him well.
• The White Wolf patriarch ordered Qingwei to find a place for the tribe to recover, and Chen Ning said Desolate Wind City would help them because it would soon have a new master.
• A guard told Bai Canglan that Uncle Fu had been killed in one strike by a powerful expert accompanying Bai Qingluo, and Bai Canglan feared she would return for revenge.
• Bai Yu'er reassured Bai Canglan that Bai Qingluo would not get past the Grey Wolf Tribe, then agreed to ask her husband, Ancient Lamp Venerable, to protect Desolate Wind City.

Bai Yu'er persuaded Ancient Lamp Venerable to help Bai Canglan defend Desolate Wind City by promising him a life-extending pill. Bai Qingluo reached the city and won the guards’ support, entering after they killed the defending commander; Chen Ning rode in beside her as she wondered what he meant by being on the same side.

• Bai Yu'er told Ancient Lamp Venerable that Bai Qingluo planned to seize power and promised him Bai Canglan’s first-grade life-extending pill if he helped defend the city.
• Ancient Lamp Venerable agreed to aid Bai Canglan for the sake of obtaining the pill.
• The defending commander ordered the guards to keep Bai Qingluo out and branded her a rebel.
• Bai Qingluo admitted she had come to seize power and said she wanted only Bai Canglan.
• The guards turned against the defending commander, and Wei Heng killed him with a sword thrust.
• The guards opened the gates and welcomed Bai Qingluo, who entered Desolate Wind City with Chen Ning.

Bai Qingluo returned to Desolate Wind City and confronted her father, Bai Canglan, after Chen Ning defeated the city's strongest defender. As Bai Canglan revealed his contempt for her, Ancient Lamp Venerable arrived at the city lord's residence.

• Desolate Wind City's residents welcomed Bai Qingluo home, and she sent them away from the coming conflict.
• Two Half-Step Martial Venerable attendants joined Bai Qingluo and broke through the city lord's gates.
• Chen Ning defeated the One-Star Martial Venerable guard with a single strike of Qilin Profound Power.
• Bai Qingluo confronted Bai Canglan and condemned him for treating her and her sister Yu'er as tools for his ambitions.
• Bai Canglan insulted Bai Qingluo and defended sending her into a marriage alliance, while Ancient Lamp Venerable arrived.

Chen Ning fought Ancient Lamp Venerable, who unleashed the power of six lamps and nearly overwhelmed him. After Wei Heng died protecting Bai Qingluo, Chen Ning rose from the crater and challenged Ancient Lamp Venerable to fight again.

• Ancient Lamp Venerable arrived to defend Desolate Wind City, and Chen Ning prepared to face the Three-Star Martial Venerable.
• Chen Ning used the All-Heavens Bow to destroy one of Ancient Lamp Venerable's lamps, then clashed with him using the Fire God Seal.
• Ancient Lamp Venerable lit his remaining six lamps and pressed Chen Ning with a powerful handprint as Chen Ning answered with Five Fingers Shatter the Firmament.
• A stray force struck Bai Qingluo, and Wei Heng sacrificed himself to protect her before dying with a plea for her to bring peace to Desolate Wind City.
• Bai Canglan gloated over Ancient Lamp Venerable's apparent victory and threatened to betroth Bai Qingluo to him.
• Chen Ning survived the clash despite his shattered Sword Heart Barrier and invited Ancient Lamp Venerable to fight another round.

Chen Ning defeated Ancient Lamp Venerable with his newly created Qilin Fire God Seal, while Bai Canglan’s betrayal and desperation ended in his death. Bai Yu'er killed her father, and she and Bai Qingluo faced each other in grief.

• Chen Ning combined Qilin Profound Power with the Fire God Seal to create the Qilin Fire God Seal and shatter Ancient Lamp Venerable’s attack.
• Ancient Lamp Venerable, gravely wounded, demanded a Lifespan-Extending Pill from Bai Canglan, then attacked him when Bai Canglan admitted he had none.
• Ancient Lamp Venerable died after Bai Canglan survived his final attack with his gold-thread armor.
• Bai Canglan begged Bai Qingluo to spare him, but Bai Yu'er stabbed him through the heart with a dagger from Ancient Lamp Venerable.
• Bai Yu'er dropped the dagger and broke down crying before Bai Qingluo.

After Bai Canglan's death, Bai Qingluo took control of Desolate Wind City, while Chen Ning secured an alliance with the White Wolf Tribe. Bai Yu'er tried to win Chen Ning's favor, but Bai Qingluo confronted her over her scheming and warned that she had crossed a line.

• Bai Qingluo ruled Desolate Wind City with Chen Ning's support, and Chen Ning said the White Wolf Tribe's chief would visit to discuss an alliance.
• Bai Qingluo entrusted Bai Yu'er with managing affairs in the city lord's residence.
• Bai Yu'er tried to ingratiate herself with Chen Ning, hoping to secure her future by seducing him, but he left without entertaining her.
• Bai Qingluo summoned Bai Yu'er late that night and challenged her sudden show of affection.
• Bai Qingluo said she had kept Bai Yu'er's role in the deaths of Bai Canglan and Ancient Lamp Venerable quiet out of their slight bond, but accused her of crossing a line.

Bai Qingluo exposed Bai Yu'er’s schemes and had her killed, while Chen Ning prepared to leave Desolate Wind City after offering Bai Qingluo the White Wolf Tribe’s support. The chapter ended with Bai Qingluo welcoming him into her room as he came to say goodbye.

• Bai Qingluo confronted Bai Yu'er, revealing that she understood her schemes and that her real danger was plotting against Chen Ning.
• Bai Yu'er tried to flee, but Bai Qingluo’s people killed her and planned to blame Bai Canglan’s remaining subordinates.
• Chen Ning trimmed Ling Xiaoxiao’s fur, and she shyly ran off when he asked her to repay him with a kiss.
• Chen Ning went to Bai Qingluo’s bedchamber to say goodbye and found her exhausted from managing Desolate Wind City.
• Chen Ning offered Bai Qingluo the White Wolf Tribe’s support if she needed help.

Chen Ning persuaded Bai Qingluo to seek the throne of the mortal dynasties, then returned with Ling Xiaoxiao to Vermilion Bird Peak, where he learned the evil sects had been wiped out. The news showed that the Eighth Elder had helped with the purge, prompting Chen Ning to decide it was time to settle their old score.

• Chen Ning asked Bai Qingluo whether she would contend for power across the Nine Provinces, and she agreed to pursue the throne for his sake.
• As Chen Ning and Bai Qingluo drew close, Ling Xiaoxiao burst in and announced they needed to return to Spirit Province.
• Chen Ning and Ling Xiaoxiao returned to Vermilion Bird Peak, where Su Ling'er greeted him and teased him about Bai Qingluo.
• Chen Ning read the Black Dragon clansmen's intelligence and learned that several groups, including the Eighth Elder's people, had helped wipe out the evil sects.
• Chen Ning recalled his suspicions about the Eighth Elder and decided to settle their score now that he was stronger.

Chen Ning confronted Lin Xiaotian about his past attempts to depose him, and Lin Xiaotian revealed that the Supreme Elder had ordered an attempt on Chen Ning’s life. Chen Ning verified Lin Xiaotian was telling the truth, leaving the Supreme Elder identified as the real threat.

• Chen Ning confronted Lin Xiaotian and accused him of wanting to kill him.
• Lin Xiaotian admitted he had helped Han Zhuang try to depose Chen Ning at the Azure Cloud Rite but denied being the mastermind behind the earlier attack.
• Chen Ning pressed Lin Xiaotian about who had tried to harm him before the Azure Cloud Rite.
• Lin Xiaotian revealed that the Supreme Elder had sent a disciple to kill Chen Ning and that he had traced the plan back to him.
• Chen Ning used Lie Detection and confirmed Lin Xiaotian was telling the truth.

Chen Ning accepted a system quest to catch the Chaos Fish King in the Sun and Moon Divine Pool in exchange for reaching the Martial Venerable Realm. After poisoning Lin Xiaotian to secure his obedience, Chen Ning set out alone for the forbidden ground and chose its dangerous road when bandits demanded payment.

• The system assigned Chen Ning an epic quest to catch the Chaos Fish King in the Sun and Moon Divine Pool and gave him a Master-Level Fishing Rod.
• Chen Ning fed Lin Xiaotian a life-taking poison pill and warned him that only Chen Ning could provide the antidote.
• Chen Ning secretly placed a surveillance talisman on Lin Xiaotian and left for the Sun and Moon Divine Pool without Su Ling'er or Ling Xiaoxiao.
• Chen Ning arrived near the forbidden ground, put away his borrowed flying treasure, and approached a fork in the road.
• Roadblockers demanded five hundred low-grade Origin Stones from travelers, and Chen Ning ignored their demand and took the road to the Sun and Moon Divine Pool.

Chen Ning reached the Sun and Moon Divine Pool, where he ignored its deadly dangers and began fishing with a rod that resisted the poisonous water. He left Venerable Huangchuan astonished after discarding the first treasure he caught.

• Chen Ning used Sword Intent to defeat the Earth Martial Realm roadblockers, then asked two sword cultivators for directions to the Sun and Moon Divine Pool.
• Chen Ning traveled safely through the poisonous winds and reached the forbidden pool, where he met Venerable Huangchuan.
• Chen Ning set up a bench and began fishing, while Venerable Huangchuan warned that the corrosive water could destroy his rod.
• Chen Ning's fishing line entered the pool unharmed, and he caught a string of jade beads before tossing them back into the water.
• Venerable Huangchuan watched Chen Ning discard the beads and became excited at the thought that they might be a treasure.

Chen Ning caught Chaos Fish and a Chaos Fish King in the Sun and Moon Divine Pool, gaining Poison Dao intent from eating one. Venerable Huangchuan tried to deceive him with a forged fishing rod and steal his treasures, but Chen Ning confronted him as the Three-Star Martial Venerable prepared to attack.

• Venerable Huangchuan told Chen Ning about the Sun and Moon Divine Sect and the treasures hidden in its poisonous pool.
• Chen Ning caught seven Chaos Fish and then a Chaos Fish King, whose Dao intent was a hundred times stronger than an ordinary Chaos Fish's.
• Chen Ning ate a Chaos Fish and gained a faint sense of Poison Dao intent, then began cooking the Chaos Fish King.
• Venerable Huangchuan borrowed Chen Ning's fishing rod, retrieved a bronze token, and returned a convincing forgery instead of the real rod.
• Chen Ning exposed the forgery with the Hammer of Appraisal and confronted Venerable Huangchuan, who revealed himself as a Three-Star Martial Venerable and claimed the strong could take what they wanted.

Chen Ning fought Venerable Huangchuan, who used the Lunar Eclipse Plaque to draw on moonlight and rise to Four-Star Martial Venerable. Chen Ning ascended to the Martial Venerable Realm and activated a system-made Solar Eclipse Plaque, summoning daylight and striking Huangchuan with its power.

• Chen Ning blocked Venerable Huangchuan's Desolate River Fist Scripture and countered with the Qilin Fire God Seal.
• Venerable Huangchuan revealed the Lunar Eclipse Plaque and said he was descended from an undercover agent who had infiltrated the Sun and Moon Divine Sect.
• Venerable Huangchuan activated the plaque, drew on moonlight, and reached Four-Star Martial Venerable.
• Chen Ning received system rewards, ascended to the Martial Venerable Realm, and obtained the Solar Eclipse Plaque.
• Chen Ning activated the Solar Eclipse Plaque, which brought daylight and connected with the sun.
• The sun's power struck Venerable Huangchuan, making him spit blood in disbelief.

Chen Ning killed Venerable Huangchuan, returned to Vermilion Bird Peak, and gave Su Ling'er the Lunar Eclipse Plaque. When he learned that Ling Xiaoxiao was investigating intruders in the Peach Blossom Spring Mountain Range, the story shifted to her painfully interrogating a captive without asking him what he knew.

• Venerable Huangchuan begged for his life, but Chen Ning killed him and took the Solar Eclipse Plaque, the Lunar Eclipse Plaque, a Heaven-Slaying Sword fragment, and resources from the Sun and Moon Divine Pool.
• Chen Ning rode Broad Feather back to Vermilion Bird Peak and gave the Lunar Eclipse Plaque to Su Ling'er.
• Chen Ning learned that Ling Xiaoxiao had taken Vermilion Bird Peak disciples to investigate martial artists who had entered the Peach Blossom Spring Mountain Range.
• Ling Xiaoxiao crushed a captive's kneecap and repeatedly demanded that he talk, until he pointed out that she had not actually asked him anything.

Lu Ping and Ling Xiaoxiao captured seven intruders, and the young man in fine clothes revealed that he was the Heaven-Praying Sacred Hall’s young hall master. The Poison Venerable learned that the young hall master had been captured by the Dragon-Seeking Sect and set out with Aofeng to retrieve him and test the sect’s strength.

• Lu Ping threatened the captured young man until he admitted he was the Heaven-Praying Sacred Hall’s young hall master.
• Ling Xiaoxiao struck the young hall master when he acted arrogantly, and Lu Ping decided to take the captives to Vermilion Bird Peak for the sect master to judge.
• A surviving Heaven-Praying Hall disciple reported to the Poison Venerable that the young hall master and his companions had been exposed and captured.
• The Poison Venerable brought Aofeng along to the Dragon-Seeking Sect to rescue the young hall master and assess the sect’s strength.

Chen Ning mocked Long Aoshi and the Poison Venerable after the Heaven-Praying Hall party was captured in Dragon-Seeking Sect territory. The Poison Venerable came to secure Long Aoshi’s release, but Chen Ning’s insults left him struggling to state his purpose.

• Lu Ping and the others washed the Heaven-Praying Hall prisoners and brought them before Chen Ning.
• Long Aoshi tried to pressure Chen Ning with his status, but Chen Ning ordered Ling Xiaoxiao to kick him again, and Long Aoshi quickly apologized.
• Chen Ning questioned the prisoners about why they had entered Dragon-Seeking Sect territory, but they claimed they had wandered in by mistake.
• Su Ling'er told Chen Ning that Deputy Hall Master the Poison Venerable had arrived, and Chen Ning went to meet him, planning to demand a ransom.
• The Poison Venerable and Aofeng remained seated when Chen Ning entered the reception hall, so Chen Ning called the Poison Venerable an old dog and mocked him.
• The Poison Venerable, stung by Chen Ning’s insults, decided to speak plainly about why he had come.