Chapter Summaries

Zhou Yun escaped the trial grounds as Jiang Ning used Source Energy to break through the Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill, gaining a Pure Yang Body amid a scorching upheaval. He entered the Mysterious Yin Sea on a Light Boat toward the next trial island, where he encountered powerful Silver Spear Fish.

• Zhou Yun told Aunt Bai that she had chosen to be injured inside the Shangyang Immortal Sect trial grounds, and they flew away together.
• Jiang Ning spent 20,000 Source Energy to advance his Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill, triggering a surge of heat across Shangyang Cave Heaven.
• Jiang Ning discovered that his breakthrough had given him a Pure Yang Body and transformed his Inner Alchemy Pellet into a Golden Elixir.
• Jiang Ning received the second-round trial instructions to cross the Mysterious Yin Sea, then set out to search for Heavenly Stars Yang.
• Jiang Ning used a Light Boat to cross the sea and watched the island behind him dissolve into energy.
• Jiang Ning caught and ate a Silver Spear Fish, then continued toward the next trial grounds.

Jiang Ning feasted on Silver Spear Fish in the Mysterious Yin Sea, then discovered a river of Earthly Fiends Yin and took three stones before the Grotto-heaven Will warned him to stop. He headed toward the next Trial Grounds, where he spotted the Desert Flying Eagle approaching.

• Jiang Ning killed and roasted Silver Spear Fish, then entered the sea and used his Heavenly Eye to hunt more, consuming over a hundred before his body could absorb no more.
• Jiang Ning reached the seabed and found a river of Earthly Fiends Yin, took three stones, and stopped when the Grotto-heaven Will warned him not to take more.
• Jiang Ning reasoned that Heavenly Stars Yang should lie above the sea, then followed the sensed direction toward an island with a volcanic peak whose energy suggested it held a supreme treasure.
• Jiang Ning approached the island, which he believed was the next Trial Grounds, and saw the Desert Flying Eagle’s Light Boat heading toward him.
• The Desert Flying Eagle greeted Jiang Ning as Patrol Envoy Jiang and reflected on the dangers he had faced crossing the Mysterious Yin Sea.

Jiang Ning ignored the second trial’s contest for Shangyang Immortal Sect ranks and continued toward a mountain where he sensed a powerful yang treasure. The trial rules allowed ten inner disciples or one True Disciple to emerge after three day-and-night cycles, while Jiang Ning remained focused on finding Heavenly Stars Yang.

• Jiang Ning and Desert Flying Eagle agreed not to attack each other unless necessary, while Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger formed a temporary alliance to eliminate other participants.
• Long Xiaofeng rejected the idea of allying with a Grandmaster, and Second Senior Brother proposed that the Qingyang Sect disciples clear out the other trial-takers.
• Zhong Yue and Ye Zhengqi worried that Jiang Ning and Sun Yuancheng had failed the first round and might have been killed.
• Jiang Ning spotted concentrated energy around a towering mountain, ignored a signal from Zhong Yue and Ye Zhengqi, and followed a yang-rich river toward its source.
• The Cave Heaven Will announced that ten participants could become inner sect disciples after three day-and-night cycles, while the sole victor could become a True Disciple; Jiang Ning continued toward the mountain in search of Heavenly Stars Yang.

Jin Chan withstood the Qingyang Sect Second Senior Brother’s Thunder Fire Collision Technique and escaped, while Jiang Ning used the daytime Great Sun Essence Qi to cultivate before climbing toward the mountain peak. As night brought a dangerous plunge in temperature, the trial-takers sought warmth, and the Qingyang group found a Yang River and decided to follow it upstream toward its source.

• Jin Chan resisted the Qingyang Sect Second Senior Brother’s one hundred and eight swords, then countered his Thunder Fire Collision Technique with a living golden Buddhist dragon and retreated unharmed.
• Jiang Ning used his Heavenly Eye to witness Jin Chan’s escape, then cultivated under Five Suns Over Heaven and discovered his Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill gained experience at tenfold efficiency.
• Jiang Ning stopped cultivating to climb toward the peak in search of Heavenly Stars Yang, then hurried onward when night fell and the temperature plunged.
• Across the island, trial-takers sought shelter and warmth as the cold intensified, while Wang Yuan and his companions headed for a warm river.
• The Qingyang Sect Second Senior Brother suspected a supreme treasure lay at the river’s source, and the group agreed to follow the river upstream.

Jiang Ning found Heavenly Stars Yang Stones in a volcano crater and used their Yin and Yang energies with an Earthly Fiend Yin Stone to begin forging Divine Bones. As dawn approached, Wang Yuan and the Qingyang Grotto-heaven group heard the forging and realized someone was working toward the foundation of a Martial Saint atop the peak.

• Jiang Ning descended into the volcano crater, spotted a Heavenly Stars Yang Stone in the magma, and used a floating rock to reach it.
• Jiang Ning tested the magma, found it too hot to enter safely, and waited until he could retrieve a second Heavenly Stars Yang Stone.
• Jiang Ning cracked open a Yang Stone and an Earthly Fiend Yin Stone with his teeth, drew their energies into his body, and tempered his first bone until it turned faint gold.
• Wang Yuan told the Qingyang Grotto-heaven group that Divine Bone lay beyond Jade Bone and formed the foundation of a Martial Saint, though he had failed to forge one himself.
• Wang Yuan sensed that a trial-taker above the peak was forging a Divine Bone, and the Second Senior Brother's eyes flashed as the group considered the possibility of a supreme treasure.

Jiang Ning completed the forging of twenty-six Divine Bones and defeated Wang Yuan, who had come with Qingyang Sect disciples to reclaim Wang Xuan’s Flying Sword. Xie Yang then challenged Jiang Ning alongside Ge Xian’er and another junior brother, leaving the confrontation about to begin.

• Ge Xian’er used the Divine Wind Fan to clear the smoke, revealing Jiang Ning forging his bones above the lava.
• Wang Yuan recognized Wang Xuan’s Flying Sword on Jiang Ning’s back and descended to demand its return.
• Jiang Ning finished forging twenty-six Divine Bones, then charged Wang Yuan and overwhelmed him with two punches before driving him into a pit.
• Jiang Ning emerged after defeating Wang Yuan, who had been eliminated from the trial, and swallowed a jade treasure he had taken from him.
• Xie Yang introduced himself as the Qingyang Sect’s Direct Disciple and asked for Wang Xuan’s Flying Sword, but Jiang Ning said Xie Yang would have to prove his ability.
• Xie Yang called on Ge Xian’er and the other junior brother to face Jiang Ning together.

Jiang Ning battled Xie Yang, Ge Xian'er, and Xu Ming above the volcano crater, overcoming their attacks and taking their treasures. After defeating Ge Xian'er and Xu Ming, he faced Xie Yang as the Four Spirit Array formed around them.

• Jiang Ning leapt toward the three Qingyang Sect disciples and cleaved apart Xu Ming's twin flying swords with a single sword strike.
• Xie Yang began setting up the Four Spirit Array while Ge Xian'er attacked Jiang Ning with her Divine Wind Fan and Xu Ming sent his twin dragons after him.
• Jiang Ning reached the crater, seized Ge Xian'er's treasures and fan, then struck her hard enough to eliminate her.
• Jiang Ning caught Xu Ming's flying swords and charged him, but Xie Yang's thirty-six-sword attack struck Xu Ming and knocked him unconscious.
• Xie Yang completed the Four Spirit Array, summoning the four Spirit phantoms as Jiang Ning prepared to face him.

Jiang Ning broke Xie Yang’s Four Spirit Array and drove him away, then used his spoils and gathered stones to advance his Divine Bone tempering. As the trial moved into the afternoon with only about ten to twenty contestants remaining, Jiang Ning considered pursuing the sole-victor prize and searched for more treasures.

• The Qingyang Sect’s old woman rescued Ge Xian'er and Xu Ming, healed Xu Ming, and learned that Xie Yang was fighting Jiang Ning.
• Jiang Ning used his Fire Eye to find and disrupt the Four Spirit Array’s energy nodes, forcing Xie Yang to withdraw and dismantle the array.
• Jiang Ning consumed stolen Spiritual Plants and Ge Xian'er's white jade, gaining Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill experience and nourishing his Spirit Soul.
• Jiang Ning absorbed the substances from two Heavenly Stars Yang Stones and two Earthly Fiend Yin Stones, bringing his tempered Divine Bones to forty-three, then collected another Yang Stone from the magma.
• Jiang Ning sensed that only roughly ten to twenty contestants remained and considered seeking the sole-victor position while surveying the island for treasures.
• Long Xiaofeng defeated two challengers, while Ye Zhengqi and Zhong Yue discussed their fight for Inner Sect Disciple positions and regretted that Jiang Ning was not with them.

Jiang Ning explored Shangyang Cave Heaven through the perilous night, gathering Spiritual Plants and discovering that his Pure Yang aura and Fire Eye let him move through the darkness. He found the Four Spirit Envoys sheltered by a powerful Divine Tree, overheard their plan to kill him, and prepared to attack under cover of night.

• Jiang Ning gathered seven energy-rich flowers and refined their medicinal power to strengthen his Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill.
• When Nether Wind struck, Jiang Ning’s Extreme Yang aura dispersed it, and his Fire Eye let him travel safely through the pitch-black night.
• Jiang Ning approached Zhong Yue and Ye Zhengqi by the golden-lit Yang River, recognized them, and left without attacking.
• Jiang Ning found the Azure Dragon Envoy, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger Envoy beside a blazing Divine Tree, whose Tree Heart held extraordinary energy.
• Jiang Ning overheard the three Envoys discussing their intention to kill him and deciding that his Ninth Blood Exchange could not succeed.
• Jiang Ning decided to attack the Envoys, recognizing that the darkness favored him.

Jiang Ning attacked the three Heaven Response Alliance Spirit Envoys in the dark of Shangyang Cave Heaven, using the severed Divine Tree and Nether Wind to weaken them. The White Tiger Envoy and Vermilion Bird Envoy were caught in the wind, while the Azure Dragon Envoy was left facing Jiang Ning’s continuing sword attacks and the deadly night.

• Jiang Ning severed the Divine Tree that had protected the three Spirit Envoys, forcing them to flee into the darkness.
• The White Tiger Envoy charged into the Nether Wind, which rapidly weakened his Qi and blood as Jiang Ning watched.
• Jiang Ning used two Flying Swords to delay the Vermilion Bird Envoy, allowing the Nether Wind to reach her.
• The Azure Dragon Envoy searched the fallen Divine Tree for a flame that might protect him, but Jiang Ning repeatedly attacked him with sword lights.
• When the Azure Dragon Envoy tried to endure a sword strike and escape the cave heaven, Jiang Ning’s attack vanished, leaving him trapped in the Nether Wind and facing death.

Jiang Ning watched the Nether Wind kill the Azure Dragon Envoy and the other Heaven Response Alliance Spirit Envoys, then absorbed the Fire-Bathing Divine Tree’s Tree Heart. Its energy filled his Source Energy and completed his Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill’s second limit break, leaving him with golden Heterogeneous Energy formed from the unity of essence, qi, and spirit.

• The Nether Wind extinguished the Azure Dragon Envoy’s fiery Blood Qi Beacon and drained the life from him despite his Sixfold Blood Exchange.
• Jiang Ning cut into the Fire-Bathing Divine Tree’s trunk, took its Tree Heart, and swallowed it to keep the treasure safe.
• Jiang Ning cultivated as the Tree Heart’s warmth repelled the darkness, and the Nether Wind killed the other Spirit Envoys before daylight returned.
• Jiang Ning found more than sixty thousand Source Energy points and saw that his Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill had reached its second limit.
• Jiang Ning spent fifty thousand Source Energy points to break through, forming golden energy in his Dantian as essence, qi, and spirit merged into Unity.

Jiang Ning upgraded his Longevity Species Trait after advancing the Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill, while reflecting on the Honored Martial Saint’s approaching death and the turmoil it had caused. At the Yang River, Long Xiaofeng challenged the remaining trial participants, defeated Lei Huo, and faced attacks from Xie Yang and a saber-wielding man.

• Jiang Ning observed golden energy forming in his Dantian, saw his Longevity Species Trait upgrade, and considered how the Honored Martial Saint’s nearing lifespan limit had stirred the major factions.
• Jiang Ning sensed six or seven people gathered near the Yang River and went to join them.
• Xie Yang revealed his plan to use a Spirit Crystal-enhanced Four Spirit Array to eliminate the trial’s remaining experts.
• Long Xiaofeng arrived with Long Xingyun, challenged the gathered fighters, and defeated Lei Huo in a brief exchange.
• Long Xiaofeng invited the remaining opponents to attack together, then blocked Xie Yang’s Flying Sword and shattered repeated blade strikes with his Golden Dragon Scales.

Jiang Ning arrived at the battle between Long Xiaofeng, Ye Zhengqi, Zhong Yue, and Xie Yang, drawing the attention of everyone present. He acknowledged defeating Xie Yang’s Qingyang Sect companions and prepared to face the situation while keeping the sect’s powerful elder in mind.

• Long Xiaofeng defeated the saber-wielding man with a single punch and challenged Xie Yang, who warned that Jiang Ning was the one person who might surpass him.
• Long Xiaofeng attacked Ye Zhengqi and Zhong Yue, and the two fought back as Jiang Ning felt the battle’s vibrations and hurried toward them.
• Jiang Ning reached the battlefield, where Long Xiaofeng stopped fighting and the others recognized him as the final trial-taker.
• Jiang Ning confronted Xie Yang about the Four Spirit Array, which Xie Yang had strengthened with Spirit Crystals, but Jiang Ning declined to enter it.
• Jiang Ning confirmed to Ye Zhengqi and Zhong Yue that he had defeated the Qingyang Sect cultivators without killing them, and Zhong Yue explained that their elder was too powerful to provoke.

Jiang Ning dismantled Xie Yang’s Four Spirit Array while Long Xiaofeng defeated Xie Yang in battle, leaving Jiang Ning and Long Xiaofeng as the last two in Shangyang Cave Heaven. The chapter ended with the rivals preparing to face each other.

• Long Xiaofeng rejected Xie Yang’s proposal to team up and attacked him, but Xie Yang trapped him in the Four Spirit Array.
• Jiang Ning broke the Vermilion Bird Array Foundation, weakening the Formation, and ate Spirit Crystals to absorb their energy.
• Xie Yang unleashed the Thunder Fire Collision Technique, but Long Xiaofeng countered with Dragon Soaring in the Sky and emerged unharmed.
• As Jiang Ning destroyed more Array Foundations and the Formation collapsed, Long Xiaofeng struck Xie Yang and sent him out of the Cave Heaven World.
• Jiang Ning and Long Xiaofeng sent Long Xingyun, Zhong Yue, and Ye Zhengqi out, leaving only the two of them in the Cave Heaven World.

Jiang Ning defeated Long Xiaofeng with the newly formed Essence, Qi, and Spirit energy, then spent the remaining trial gathering Spiritual Plants and rare treasures. After he became the sole survivor of the three-day trial, the Shangyang Grotto-heaven Will named him a Direct Disciple and awarded him an Identity Token that granted monthly access to the Shangyang Inner Scenery Ground.

• Xie Yang emerged injured after losing to Long Xiaofeng, and the old woman urged the Qingyang Sect cultivators to cultivate the Martial Path alongside the Immortal Path.
• Ye Zhengqi and Zhong Yue saw Long Xiaofeng emerge, while Long Xiaofeng recognized the power of Essence, Qi, and Spirit Unity.
• Jiang Ning realized that one punch of his Heterogeneous Energy had defeated Long Xiaofeng, though the energy had emptied his Dantian and recovered slowly.
• Jiang Ning spent the night eating Spiritual Plants and rare treasures, then gathered more as the trial’s darkness lifted.
• The Grotto-heaven Will declared Jiang Ning the only survivor after three day-and-night cycles and granted him a Direct Disciple’s Identity Token.
• Jiang Ning registered the Token with his blood, and it recognized him as its owner and entered the space between his brows.

Jiang Ning negotiated with the Grotto-heaven Will to gather Earthly Fiends Yin Stones and spent the trial’s Ten Suns Over Heaven forging his bones with Yin and Yang Stones. As he finished another round of tempering and rushed to collect more resources, people outside Shangyang Cave Heaven discussed looming unrest and the extraordinary power Jiang Ning had displayed.

• Jiang Ning persuaded the Grotto-heaven Will to grant him Earthly Fiends Yin Stones, then retrieved three from a seabed Yin River.
• Jiang Ning used Heavenly Stars Yang Stones and Earthly Fiends Yin Stones to temper his Jade Bone, turning one piece golden after 108 hammer blows.
• Jiang Ning continued Bone Forging to digest the energy stored in his body, using more stones as the Great Suns rose toward Ten Suns Over Heaven.
• Zhong Yue told Zhong Ling that Five Peaks Prefecture faced danger and sent her away to stay with Jiang Ning, while Ye Zhengqi questioned him about the threat.
• Long Xiaofeng told Long Xingyun that Jiang Ning had touched the power of the Hunyuan Realm, the peak of the First-Rank Martial Dao.
• Jiang Ning secured a final hour from the Grotto-heaven Will, completed another Jade Bone transformation, and headed into the forest to gather resources before planning to visit the Shangyang Inner Scenery Ground.

Jiang Ning returned from Shangyang Grotto-heaven and handed back the Qingyun sect disciples’ Flying Swords after Elder Han Qiu demanded them. He left Yang Lake with Ye Zhengqi and Zhong Yue, while he resolved to grow stronger and eventually demand an explanation from the Qingyun sect.

• Jiang Ning emerged from Shangyang Grotto-heaven with the True Disciple status and reunited with the officials aboard the Tower Ship.
• Elder Han Qiu asked Jiang Ning to return the Flying Swords he had taken from Xie Yang, Xu Ming, and Wang Xuan, and he gave them back.
• Wang Xuan thanked Jiang Ning and vowed to repay him, while Jiang Ning accepted Han Qiu’s demand to avoid a confrontation and privately resolved to seek an explanation from the Qingyun sect later.
• Long Xiaofeng and Long Xingyun thanked Jiang Ning and departed, and Sun Yuancheng left soon after.
• Desert Flying Eagle told Yan'er to return to the Northern Desert because she and Jiang Ning walked different paths, while Jiang Ning sailed away with Ye Zhengqi and Zhong Yue.
• Han Qiu praised Jiang Ning’s restraint, and Wang Xuan insisted she would redeem her loss as the Qingyun sect disciples teased one another about Jiang Ning.

After leaving the Qingyang Grotto-heaven, Jiang Ning began forging his bones with the remaining Yin Yang stones and continued the process alone in the wilderness. Once the stones were exhausted, he discovered that the mysterious Cyan Round Fan could be refined, leaving its secrets unexplored.

• Jiang Ning told Zhong Yue and Ye Zhengqi that the hidden gaze had disappeared, then said he would digest his gains and improve his strength.
• Jiang Ning began Bone Forging in his room, and Zhong Yue and Ye Zhengqi discussed whether he could reach the Martial Saint Body and revealed that the Dao Palace might possess a Grotto-heaven World.
• Jiang Ning left the ship to avoid disturbing the others, then forged his bones through the night in the mountain forest.
• The next day, Jiang Ning saw that the Heavenly Stars Yang Stone and Earthly Fiend Yin Stone had been exhausted and checked his Source Energy and cultivation progress.
• Jiang Ning examined the Cyan Round Fan, discovered he could refine it, and used the Lingbao Weapon Refining Art as green light illuminated the forest.

Jiang Ning refined the Divine Wind Fan, learned its Lesser Oblivion Technique, and gained Lingbao Divine Light before failing to refine the Ice Coffin. He chose to complete Bone Forging before undergoing the Sixth Blood Exchange and ended the chapter tempering his skull, one step from Perfected Bone Forging.

• Jiang Ning refined all seventeen restrictions in the Divine Wind Fan, tested its devastating Gang Wind, and learned that using it rapidly exhausted his energy.
• Jiang Ning comprehended the fan’s Lesser Oblivion Technique and gained Lingbao Divine Light when the Divine Wind Fan entered his body.
• Jiang Ning tried refining the Ice Coffin but ran out of energy before completing its second restriction, and the unfinished progress faded.
• Jiang Ning chose to finish Bone Forging before attempting the Sixth Blood Exchange and used the Heavenly Stars Yang Stone and Earthly Fiend Yin Stone to temper his bones.
• Jiang Ning carefully tempered his skull over several days and brought Bone Forging to one final step before the Perfected Realm.

Jiang Ning completed Divine Bone formation, then underwent the Sixth Blood Exchange and discovered the Divine Radiance in his blood. He left the forest with a stronger foundation and renewed determination to reclaim what Qingyun Sect had taken from him.

• Jiang Ning completed Bone Forging and formed Divine Bone, gaining enough strength to consider challenging Second Rank Great Grandmasters.
• Jiang Ning recalled surrendering his spoils to Han Qiu and vowed to make Qingyun Sect return twice what it had taken.
• Jiang Ning absorbed Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and completed the Sixth Blood Exchange, recovering swiftly with the help of his accumulated medicinal power and Tree Heart.
• Jiang Ning lost his old teeth, grew a new set, and found golden Divine Radiance particles in his blood.
• Jiang Ning burned one Divine Radiance particle and felt its power surge through his body, realizing Long Xiaofeng had not fought him desperately.