Chapter Summaries

Ning Luo rescued Han Xue’s convoy from Hong Mu and Hong Lie, then agreed to help the Han Family in exchange for no stated reward. After reaching Tianbei City, he entered the Han Family estate with Han Xue and saw a crowd gathered outside the council hall.

• Ning Luo stopped the Hong Family attackers by killing their black-clad fighters and capturing Hong Mu and Hong Lie.
• Han Xue asked Ning Luo to help the Han Family against the Hong Family and offered to become his concubine, and Ning Luo agreed.
• In Tianbei City, Han Xue rebuked Han Lin for disrespecting Ning Luo and proved his strength by showing him the captured Hong elders.
• Han Xue led Ning Luo into the Han Family estate and brought him to a spot where they could watch the figures gathered near the council hall.

Hong Chen challenged the Han Family to a duel on the Sky Stone Platform, wagering that Han Xue and Han Yue would marry him if they lost. Ning Luo arrived with Han Xue and offered to fight for the family, then boldly claimed he could defeat Han Tian within five exchanges.

• Hong Chen demanded that the Han Family accept his terms and proposed a duel against him in three days.
• Han Yue accepted the challenge, promising to marry Hong Chen if her family lost but refusing to give up Han Xue.
• Han Xue returned with Ning Luo, and the family learned he had saved her on their journey.
• Han Yue asked Ning Luo to help the Han Family, and Han Tian challenged him to withstand ten exchanges before earning the right to fight Hong Chen.
• Ning Luo said he could defeat Han Tian within five exchanges and invited him to make the first move.

Ning Luo proved his strength to the Han Family and agreed to help them survive their crisis, while seeking medicinal ingredients to recover from his injuries. In his guest room, he tortured Fire Protector until he agreed to reveal the location of the Soul Hall.

• Ning Luo defeated Han Tian with a single punch and revealed that he was a Dou Zong, shocking the Han Family.
• Ning Luo asked Han Chi for medicinal ingredients so he could recover within three days, and Han Chi offered Elder Zhu Qian to examine him.
• Zhu Qian's Soul Power encountered the beast-like flame inside Ning Luo and recoiled; he concluded that Ning Luo was at least a sixth-grade Alchemist.
• Han Xue escorted Ning Luo to a guest room, where he reflected on his debt to her and Han Yue before taking out Fire Protector's jade bottle.
• Ning Luo demanded the Soul Hall's location from Fire Protector and intensified the Fallen Heart Flame's torture until Fire Protector agreed to talk.

Ning Luo learned that Soul Hall was in Nether City in the Western Region of the Central Plains, then recovered from his injuries while the Han Family prepared for its contest with the Hong Family. At Sky Stone Platform, he stepped forward as Han Yue’s champion and faced Hong Chen.

• Ning Luo forced Fire Protector to reveal that Soul Hall was in the Western Region of the Central Plains, in Nether City, and sealed him in his Ring of Holding.
• Ning Luo spent two days cultivating and healing while the Han Family gathered the medicinal ingredients he needed.
• Han Yue and Han Xue waited for Ning Luo, and Han Yue teased her younger sister about possibly falling for him.
• Ning Luo emerged with his injuries nearly healed and joined the Han Family as they went to Sky Stone Platform for the contest.
• When Hong Chen demanded to know the Han Family’s challenger, Han Yue pointed to Ning Luo, who accepted the fight and refused Hong Chen’s threat to cripple him.
• Hong Chen summoned lightning around his body as the contest began.

Ning Luo battled Hong Chen, who unleashed Wind Thunder Pavilion techniques and the Haolei Hammer, but Ning Luo repeatedly overpowered him. After Ning Luo knocked Hong Chen down, Hong Chen rose and drenched his hammer with blood, preparing to continue the fight.

• Hong Chen attacked Ning Luo with lightning-based Dou Qi, but Ning Luo matched his power and blocked his strikes.
• Hong Chen unleashed Thunder God Descent and wielded the Haolei Hammer, but Ning Luo’s lightning dragon erased his attack.
• Ning Luo’s aura surpassed Hong Chen’s, and he countered Hong Chen’s Three Thousand Lightning Movement before striking him with a palm and sending him flying.
• Hong Chen got back up, admitted Ning Luo had pushed him farther than anyone of his generation, and sprayed blood onto the Haolei Hammer.

Ning Luo defeated Hong Chen with the Great Sky Thunder Seal, then crippled him after Hong Chen tried to ambush him from behind. Hong Li and Shen Yun confronted Ning Luo, while the Han Family vowed to protect him.

• Hong Chen unleashed the Lightning Annihilation Hammer, but Ning Luo shattered its thunder beast with the Great Sky Thunder Seal and forced him to concede.
• After Hong Chen secretly fired a lightning-hidden arrow at Ning Luo, Ning Luo struck him and shattered his meridians, leaving him crippled.
• Hong Li threatened Ning Luo, but Han Chi and the Han Family stepped in and declared they would protect him.
• Shen Yun of the North Wind-Thunder Pavilion identified himself, and Han Chi acknowledged his standing as one of the Northern Pavilion's four great elders.

Ning Luo refused Shen Yun’s demand to return the Three Thousand Lightning Movement and faced the Wind Thunder Pavilion elder’s attack. An Earth Demon Puppet overwhelmed Shen Yun while Ning Luo drew Hong Li away and began forming a Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus.

• Shen Yun accused Ning Luo of stealing the Three Thousand Lightning Movement and demanded that he return with him or die, but Ning Luo refused.
• Han Xue rushed to shield Ning Luo from Shen Yun, and Ning Luo pulled her back as his Earth Demon Puppet blocked Shen Yun’s Lightning Ghost Claw.
• The Earth Demon Puppet forced Shen Yun onto the defensive, prompting him to call for Hong Li to attack Ning Luo.
• Hong Li charged Ning Luo, but his broadsword struck only an afterimage as Ning Luo appeared nearby and summoned two Heavenly Flames.
• Ning Luo fused the cyan and invisible flames into a Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus while Hong Li charged at him again.

Ning Luo annihilated the Hong Family experts who surrounded him and seized the battered Hong Li, but Hong Tianxiao arrived in a fury to avenge his family. As Hong Tianxiao demanded that Ning Luo release Hong Li, Ning Luo remained caught between the newcomer and his battle with Shen Yun.

• Hong Li ordered the Hong Family experts to surround Ning Luo, while Han Chi stopped Han Xue from joining the fight.
• Ning Luo detonated his Jade-Green Fire Lotus, blasting the surrounding experts across Sky Stone Platform and leaving a massive crater.
• Ning Luo took to the air with his bone wings and burned Hong Family members as Han Chi warned him that Hong Tianxiao was coming.
• Ning Luo's Heavenly Demon Puppet continued attacking Shen Yun while Ning Luo pulled Hong Li from the crater and grabbed him.
• Hong Tianxiao rushed toward Sky Stone Platform and roared for Ning Luo to release Hong Li or die.

Ning Luo escaped Shen Yun and Hong Tianxiao, stole a mysterious scroll from Shen Yun’s Ring of Holding, and discovered it contained the Wind Thunder Pavilion’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body. As pursuers searched the mountains, Han Xue and her great-grandfather watched from concealment, worried that Ning Luo would be found.

• Hong Tianxiao arrived to confront Ning Luo, who hurled Hong Li toward him and warned that a hidden force inside Hong Li could kill him.
• Ning Luo and the Heavenly Demon Puppet struck Shen Yun, knocked him down, and tore the finger bearing his Ring of Holding; Ning Luo then fled into the mountains.
• Ning Luo opened Shen Yun’s Ring of Holding and found a silver scroll that revealed the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body, a high-tier Heaven-class technique.
• Shen Yun and Hong Tianxiao led their followers in searching the mountain range after Shen Yun lost his connection to the Blood Thunder Mark.
• Han Xue arrived with her great-grandfather, who warned her that he would intervene only without revealing his identity because the Han Family could not afford to provoke the Wind Thunder Pavilion.

Ning Luo overwhelmed Shen Yun in battle after revealing his immense strength, while the Heavenly Demon Puppet fought Hong Tianxiao. Cornered, Shen Yun self-destructed, unleashing a massive energy storm that Ning Luo and the others had to evade.

• Han Xue asked her Great-Grandfather to judge the situation and withdraw if helping Ning Luo became too dangerous.
• Ning Luo emerged from a cave and sent the Heavenly Demon Puppet to fight Hong Tianxiao while he faced Shen Yun.
• Ning Luo blasted Shen Yun away and used spatial power to smash him into the ground as Hong Tianxiao ordered his people to retreat.
• Shen Yun swelled up and self-destructed, and Ning Luo used Space Lock to contain him before fleeing the explosion's energy storm.
• Hong Tianxiao fled faster, while Han Xue's Great-Grandfather carried her to safety and watched Ning Luo from a mountain peak.

Ning Luo destroyed Shen Yun's escaping soul and learned that the Wind Thunder Pavilion would investigate the incident. After eight days of cultivation, he broke through to become a nine-star Dou Zong.

• Ning Luo crushed Shen Yun's phantom soul, ending his attempt to escape.
• Han Fei warned Ning Luo that the Wind Thunder Pavilion would learn of the incident, and Han Fei left with Han Xue.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable told Ning Luo that he had recovered to the strength of an eight-star Dou Zong but needed a compatible body to regain Dou Venerate strength.
• The North Wind-Thunder Pavilion learned that Elder Yun's Soul Thunder Stele had shattered and sent Elders Wind, Thunder, and Lightning to investigate.
• After cultivating for eight days, Ning Luo broke through from seven-star to nine-star Dou Zong.

After learning that the North Wind-Thunder Pavilion had put him on a wanted list and detained the Han Family to draw him out, Ning Luo flew to Tianbei City despite the danger. He arrived and defeated the first group of attackers, while the imprisoned Han Xue and Han Yue awaited what he would do.

• Ning Luo found a wanted poster bearing his portrait and learned that the North Wind-Thunder Pavilion had placed the Han Family under house arrest.
• Ning Luo decided to go to Tianbei City, saying he could not abandon the Han Family and the two girls waiting for him.
• Han Xue told Han Yue that she hoped Ning Luo would stay away, even though she would be disappointed if he did not come.
• Ning Luo arrived above Tianbei City amid a rainstorm and identified himself to the North Wind-Thunder Pavilion's men.
• More than a dozen attackers rushed Ning Luo with silver spears, and he used emerald flames to knock them from the sky.

Ning Luo confronted the North Wind-Thunder Pavilion’s three Elders and their Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Formation in Tianbei City. He shattered their lightning attack with his own power, leaving the elders injured as his silver lightning surged toward the formation’s thunderclouds.

• Ning Luo faced Elders Wind, Thunder, and Lightning after refusing to go with them to the North Wind-Thunder Pavilion.
• Hong Tianxiao arrived with the Heavenly Demon Puppet, while Han Fei withdrew after the elders threatened the Han Family.
• The North Wind-Thunder Pavilion’s Tiangang Hall formed the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Formation around Ning Luo.
• Ning Luo’s lightning clashed with the elders’ Wrath of the Thunder God, and his silver lightning shattered their giant lightning fist, injuring the three elders.
• Ning Luo’s silver lightning pierced the formation’s lightning pillars and continued toward the thunderclouds.

Ning Luo defeated the North Wind-Thunder Pavilion’s formation, drove off its elders, and killed Hong Tianxiao. He agreed to marry Han Xue and Han Yue, then left Tianbei City to continue his journey.

• Ning Luo shattered the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Formation, forcing Long-Brows Elder and the other two elders to flee, and took three Rings of Holding containing silver scrolls.
• Ning Luo killed Hong Tianxiao and extracted his soul after rejecting his offer of compensation.
• Ning Luo reassured Han Xue that he would return, and Han Fei agreed to let Han Xue and Han Yue marry Ning Luo despite the Han Family’s custom.
• Ning Luo kissed Han Yue and Han Xue, spent the night with them, and promised to return for them after finishing his other affairs.
• Ning Luo left Tianbei City and headed toward the distant horizon, aware that the North Wind-Thunder Pavilion might pursue him.

Ning Luo recovered in a cave, studied the four scrolls of the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body but could not find the key to its cultivation method, and traveled to Bone Transformation City. He learned that the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool would appear in the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range the following month and heard that the Northern Region was discussing his battle against the Wind Thunder Pavilion.

• Ning Luo memorized the four lightning scrolls but could not discover how to cultivate the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body, so he decided to leave the Wind Thunder Pavilion’s sphere of influence.
• Ning Luo entered Bone Transformation City and bought a detailed map of the Northern Region from a shopkeeper.
• The shopkeeper told Ning Luo about the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, and Ning Luo learned that it would appear again the following month.
• Ning Luo listened at an inn as travelers discussed powerful factions and young fighters heading for the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range.
• A scar-faced man praised Ning Luo, and another traveler recalled that Ning Luo had killed Shen Yun and broken the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Formation.

Ning Luo faced Fei Tian, the North Wind-Thunder Pavilion master known as Tian Lei Zi, when Fei Tian demanded the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body. Ning Luo defeated him with the Fallen Heart Flame, obtained the complete cultivation method, and flew away.

• Ning Luo overheard people discussing his battle in Tianbei City at an inn.
• Fei Tian sat with Ning Luo and demanded the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body.
• Ning Luo and Fei Tian fought in the sky above the mountains.
• Ning Luo used the Fallen Heart Flame to destroy Fei Tian's illusory body.
• Ning Luo absorbed the information Fei Tian left behind and gained the complete cultivation method.
• Ning Luo laughed and vanished beyond the horizon.

Ning Luo trained in the mountain range to improve the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body and unexpectedly condensed a clone while dodging the Azure Wolf King. The Azure Wolf King recognized Ning Luo’s Heavenly Phoenix Demon Wings, but their fight over the Pulp-less Fruit began before he could explain what he knew.

• Ning Luo trained through the night and decided to spend the month before the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range’s energy tide cultivating and fighting Magical Beasts.
• Ning Luo killed an Earth Demon Bear, collected its Sixth-tier Magic Core, and lamented that he still could not condense a clone.
• The Azure Wolf King arrived demanding Ning Luo hand over the Pulp-less Fruit, and Ning Luo evaded his attacks with the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Ning Luo’s lingering afterimage revealed a clone, and the Azure Wolf King recognized the Heavenly Phoenix Demon Wings behind him.
• The Azure Wolf King refused to answer Ning Luo’s questions about the Heavenly Demon Phoenix and attacked, but Ning Luo countered with a silver fist that struck his chest.

Ning Luo forced the Azure Wolf King to explain the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and learned which ancient clans could rival them. He began tempering a Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body clone and then flew toward the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range, where the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool would soon appear.

• Ning Luo defeated the Azure Wolf King with the Earth Demon Puppet and made him describe the power and reputation of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• The Azure Wolf King named the Nine Netherworld Nether Python and the Ancient Void Dragon as the two clans capable of contending with the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Ning Luo tested his clone and used the Fallen Heart Flame to begin tempering it, estimating that reaching the introductory stage would take at least two months.
• After storing the Earth Demon Puppet, Ning Luo checked his map and flew north toward the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range and its upcoming energy tide.
• Ning Luo considered the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool's benefits and the difficult gap between his nine-star Dou Zong cultivation and Dou Venerate.

Ning Luo reached the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range and waited for the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool competition to begin. Miss Feng of the Wind Thunder Pavilion arrived with her elders, and when the mountain range’s energy tide appeared, the crowd rushed inside.

• Ning Luo arrived at the crowded entrance to the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range after traveling for nearly five hours.
• Miss Feng arrived on a Seven-Colored Spirit Crane, and her elders named Tang Ying, Wang Chen, and Mu Qingluan among the other pavilion competitors.
• Miss Feng and her elders discussed Ning Luo as a formidable rival.
• After nearly three days of waiting, Ning Luo sensed the mountain range’s energy surge and watched a vast multicolored energy tide sweep across the sky.
• The crowd surged into the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range as the competition began.

Ning Luo entered the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range and encountered Feng of the Wind Thunder Pavilion and Tang Ying of the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion. After they each departed, he continued through the forest, fighting Magical Beasts as night fell.

• Feng tried to stop Ning Luo from entering the mountain range, but he countered her attack and refused to be provoked; she said she would wait for him at the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool.
• Ning Luo used his Soul Perception to locate energy flowing north and traveled through the foggy forest.
• Ning Luo watched Tang Ying kill a Sixth-Tier Magical Beast with a swift sword draw, then introduced himself to Tang Ying.
• Tang Ying recognized Ning Luo and suggested they might cooperate at the Heavenly Mountain Platform before disappearing into the fog.
• As night fell and the Magical Beasts grew active, Ning Luo killed a lurking beast and paused on a tree branch with a moonlight stone.