Recaps

Jiang Ning watched Linglong awaken her bloodline, gain eight hundred years of cultivation, and demonstrate her new powers. After he ordered her to bring rain to Dongling County, the downpour spread across the region, drawing the attention of an Immortal Sect that sent Zhan Yue to investigate.

• Jiang Ning recovered from blood loss with the Five-Hundred-Year-Old Blood Ginseng and continued cultivating the Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill.
• Linglong evolved in the lake, awakened her bloodline, learned Telepathic Communication, and revealed that her cultivation had surpassed eight hundred years.
• Luyi drove off several Martial Artists outside Jiang Ning's residence, and Patrol Office reinforcements caused the remaining watchers to flee.
• Jiang Ning checked his progress and Source Energy, then ordered Linglong to bring heavy rain to Dongling County.
• Linglong summoned clouds and rain, and Jiang Ning expanded the storm's reach as residents celebrated the rainfall.
• Wang Shouyi recognized the rain's merit, while an Immortal Sect sent Zhan Yue to Dongling County after detecting the disturbance.

Jiang Ning completed his Fourth Blood Exchange, recovered with the Blood Jade Nine Aperture Lotus, and chose to strengthen his body before pursuing further breakthroughs. As Xiao Emei arrived in Dongling City amid growing tension with the Five Swords Sect, Jiang Ning received her and the Water Moon Sword Palace Great Elder, while a mysterious sword-bearing young man also entered the city.

• Jiang Ning survived the Fourth Blood Exchange in the Eastern Mausoleum Mountain Range and used the Blood Jade Nine Aperture Lotus to restore and strengthen his Qi and Blood.
• Jiang Ning returned home, spent the night with Wang Qingtan, and then decided to train the Indestructible Vajra Body because his physique was not yet strong enough for the Fifth Blood Exchange.
• A young man carrying a huge sword entered Dongling City, and the Water Moon Sword Palace Great Elder warned Xiao Emei that he might be a Grandmaster.
• The sword-bearing young man dismissed the idea that he was merely a Grandmaster and claimed he was far beyond one.
• Xiao Emei and Great Elder Hou Yingying visited Patrol Envoy Jiang, and Hou Yingying felt overwhelmed by Jiang Ning's presence.

Jiang Ning agreed to aid the embattled Water Moon Sword Palace in exchange for half its current wealth and half its income for ten years, but delayed action while he recovered and trained. After learning that a mysterious visitor drawn by the rain might come from a Blessed Grotto-heaven, Jiang Ning reconsidered the threat and decided to test the visitor's strength.

• Xiao Emei and Hou Yingying asked Jiang Ning to save the Water Moon Sword Palace, and Xiao Emei accepted his demands for wealth and tribute.
• Jiang Ning told the two women to wait several days while he recovered and advanced his Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill.
• Zhao Yulong received a portrait and location for the mysterious giant-sword visitor, then went to meet him in the West District.
• Jiang Ning trained by absorbing Great Sun Essence Qi and brought his Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill to 9188 experience points.
• Jiang Ning learned that the visitor might come from a Blessed Grotto-heaven and resolved to test how strong he was.

Jiang Ning watched Linglong confront a young man from a Blessed Grotto-heaven, then let him escape to avoid provoking the force behind him. Linglong ended the rain and declared herself the Nu River Dragon God, abolishing living sacrifices.

• During a river sacrifice, a Golden Light rose from the Raging River as thunderclouds gathered, and Zhao Yulong connected the spectacle to the mysterious young man and his Cave Heaven origins.
• Jiang Ning used his Heavenly Eye to assess the approaching sword-wielding young man and decided to let Linglong test his strength while he remained ready to intervene.
• Linglong summoned a violent storm, and the young man entered the thunderclouds, where lightning badly injured him before he escaped using a blood-consuming technique.
• Jiang Ning tracked the weakened young man but chose not to kill him, reasoning that doing so might draw the Blessed Grotto-heaven's attention.
• Jiang Ning returned to Dongling City, while Linglong ended the rain and proclaimed herself the Nu River Dragon God, forbidding living sacrifices.

Jiang Ning sent Linglong to bring more rain to drought-stricken regions, then traveled to the Eastern Mausoleum Mountain Range and broke through Water Fire True Force. His new Water Fire True Intent greatly increased his strength, and Fire Eye transformed into Fire Eye Spirit Pupils with the power to expose illusions and attack.

• Jiang Ning and Wang Qinghan offered tributes to the Nu River Dragon God at the Raging River, where people gathered after the rain and rumors spread that a temple would be built.
• Jiang Ning ordered Linglong to bring rain to downstream drought-stricken regions to help the people and keep suspicion away from him.
• Jiang Ning spent twenty thousand Source Energy Points to break through Water Fire True Force beneath a waterfall in the Eastern Mausoleum Mountain Range.
• Jiang Ning manifested a Water Fire Wheel and eight chains, whose True Intent devastated the surrounding rocks and trees.
• Jiang Ning saw that Fire Eye had become Fire Eye Spirit Pupils, then used golden beams from his eyes to set a distant tree ablaze.

Jiang Ning prepared to move against the Five Swords Sect, gathering evidence and borrowing soldiers while sending his subordinates to Shishan County. The chapter ended with Yan Yikuan assigning Feng Xiaochen and five hundred troops to follow Jiang Ning’s command.

• Jiang Ning learned that Xie Xiaojiu, Zhou Xing, Feng Jiuge, and their subordinates had made major advances in strength, with Feng Jiuge reaching Sixth Rank Mysterious Bone.
• Jiang Ning sent Xie Xiaojiu, Feng Jiuge, and Zhou Xing with personnel to Shishan County to support Bai Luoyu and prepare for his coming move against the Five Swords Sect.
• Jiang Ning asked Zhao Yulong for evidence of crimes committed by Five Swords Sect members, and Zhao agreed after sensing Jiang Ning’s Saber Intent.
• Yan Yikuan warned Yan Youjiao not to provoke Jiang Ning and explained Jiang Ning’s connection to Wang Qingtan and Lu Zhao.
• Jiang Ning asked Yan Yikuan to lend troops for a move against the Five Swords Sect, explaining that he wanted to relieve pressure on the Water Moon Sword Palace.
• Yan Yikuan assigned Feng Xiaochen and five hundred soldiers to serve under Jiang Ning’s command.

Jiang Ning traveled to drought-stricken Shishan County, where he destroyed a pot of dangerous Meat Ganoderma and killed two people who had devoured their own kind. He left the starving survivors hoping he would bring relief, while the Qingyuan Grotto-Heaven decided to tolerate the Nu River Dragon God's rainmaking.

• Jiang Ning left Feng Xiaochen to lead five hundred soldiers to Shishan County, said farewell to his family, and entrusted Linglong and Old Turtle with guarding his home.
• At Qingyuan Grotto-Heaven, Qi Xin reported the Nu River Dragon God's rains, and his Senior Brother decided the deity could remain because the rain would not end the wider drought.
• Jiang Ning reached Shishan County and saw its poverty and famine, with residents queuing for Talisman Water to stave off hunger.
• Jiang Ning followed a rich meat fragrance to a ruined temple and recognized black Evil God aura in the Meat Ganoderma being cooked there.
• Jiang Ning destroyed the pot and warned the starving people against eating the Meat Ganoderma, then burned two people who had devoured their own kind.
• After Jiang Ning left, Shopkeeper Liu and the others wondered whether the powerful stranger would give them a way to survive.

Jiang Ning used his Divine Sense to assess Shishan County, learned from Bai Luoyu that two powerful lineages were hoarding grain, and warned him of an impending attack by the God Worshipping Sect. He killed the sect members at their East District winery stronghold but learned nothing about their elusive Sect Leader, leaving the sect’s central threat unresolved.

• Jiang Ning searched Shishan County with his Divine Sense and discovered the famine’s devastation and the God Worshipping Sect’s influence.
• Jiang Ning met Bai Luoyu, learned that two local lineages had hidden grain outside the city, and agreed to help deal with them and the Five Swords Sect.
• Jiang Ning told Bai Luoyu that God Worshipping Sect members planned to attack him, then went to their East District winery stronghold.
• Jiang Ning confronted five sect members, killed them, and failed to learn the Sect Leader’s identity or whereabouts.
• Jiang Ning left disappointed that he could not yet eliminate the God Worshipping Sect’s Sect Leader or the God of Flesh and Blood.

Jiang Ning destroyed the God Worshipping Sect’s core forces in Shishan County and helped Bai Luoyu regain control of the unrest. He then tracked the Mu and Xu families’ guards to a hidden cave on Stone Mountain, where he found their enormous stockpile of grain.

• Jiang Ning waited for Bai Luoyu after killing the God Worshipping Sect’s five core members, and Bai Luoyu inspected the corpses and learned that the sect’s leaders were gone.
• Bai Luoyu thanked Jiang Ning and said he expected to restore peace in Shishan County within three to five days.
• Mu Changsheng warned the Xu Family Head that Bai Luoyu’s arrests might target their families, and they agreed to send experts to guard their hidden grain.
• Jiang Ning used his Yin Spirit to follow black-clad Mu and Xu family experts from the northern city gate toward Stone Mountain.
• Jiang Ning traced the guards through a rock fissure to a hidden cave and found several hundred thousand dan of grain stored inside.

Jiang Ning led Bai Luoyu to a hidden store of grain in Stone Mountain, defeated the guards, and opened a wider passage so the grain could be moved. He urged Bai Luoyu to give the Xu and Mu Families one final chance before destroying them, while planning to use the confrontation to test the Five Swords Sect.

• Jiang Ning guided Bai Luoyu and four trusted men through a fissure in Stone Mountain to a hidden cave filled with grain.
• Two Sixth Rank guards ambushed Jiang Ning, but he caught their weapons barehanded, broke them, and incapacitated the guards.
• Bai Luoyu and his men subdued the cave’s defenders and stopped one man from setting fire to the grain; Bai Luoyu thanked Jiang Ning for helping Shishan County.
• Jiang Ning widened the fissure into a passage, then advised Bai Luoyu to question the Xu and Mu Family heads once more and destroy their families if they refused to cooperate.
• Bai Luoyu arranged to meet the family heads at noon, while Jiang Ning planned to use the dispute to gauge the Five Swords Sect’s strength and gain resources.

Jiang Ning trained while Bai Luoyu confronted the Xu and Mu Families over their hoarded grain. When the families refused to cooperate, Jiang Ning killed their leaders and guards, and the two Lineages were destroyed; relief work was set to begin in Shishan County.

• Jiang Ning trained his Indestructible Vajra Body and absorbed Great Sun Essence Qi while Bai Luoyu left to meet the Xu and Mu Families.
• At Sifang Pavilion, Bai Luoyu demanded that the Xu and Mu Families surrender their hoarded grain, but their leaders resisted and began to negotiate.
• Jiang Ning arrived, struck down a guard, and killed the Xu and Mu Family leaders and their men with a burst of Gang Qi.
• Jiang Ning told Bai Luoyu to confiscate the families’ property and exterminate their Lineages; Bai Luoyu agreed to use the grain for refugee relief.
• Jiang Ning proposed providing relief through public works after three days of food aid, including building roads, and Bai Luoyu praised the plan.
• The Xu and Mu Families were destroyed, and Jiang Ning reflected on how far his strength had advanced since his earlier struggle against the Cao Family.

Jiang Ning completed a breakthrough in the Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill, gaining the Longevity Species trait, while Bai Luoyu prepared to carry out Jiang Ning’s plan for Shishan County. As Jiang Ning considered his new lifespan and cultivation prospects, two Xu and Mu Family Elders arrived with a Five Swords Sect procession, intending to stop the executions.

• Bai Luoyu maintained disaster relief and arrests in Shishan County while Jiang Ning stayed to prepare for the Xu and Mu Families’ executions and the Five Swords Sect’s response.
• Jiang Ning completed the Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill’s breakthrough, and its cleansing effects helped preserve his body’s vitality.
• Jiang Ning discovered that the skill had granted him the Longevity Species trait, which extended his lifespan beyond ordinary limits.
• Bai Luoyu approached Jiang Ning after preparing an altar to the Nu River Dragon God, as he remained uncertain whether the ritual would bring rain.
• Two Xu and Mu Family Elders rode toward Shishan County with a large Five Swords Sect procession and a confident White-robed Man archer, planning to force the Inspector to release their people.

Jiang Ning summoned rain over drought-stricken Shishan County, then received Feng Jiuge and her group as they arrived ahead of the planned executions. Xiao Emei and the Water Moon Sword Palace’s Great Elder also reached the county, seeking Jiang Ning’s help against the Five Swords Sect.

• Jiang Ning used the altar at Shishan County’s Vegetable Market to summon storm clouds, and heavy rain fell across the county.
• The next morning, Feng Jiuge led dozens of Patrol Envoy Office riders into Shishan County, where the soldiers welcomed them as Jiang Ning’s people.
• Xiao Emei and the Water Moon Sword Palace’s Great Elder entered Shishan County, and the Great Elder reassured Xiao Emei that Jiang Ning would protect the sword palace.
• Feng Jiuge and Xie Xiaojiu met Jiang Ning at his residence, and he told them to bring all their men to the Vegetable Market before the end of the next day’s hour.

Jiang Ning refused Xiao Emei’s attempt to win his favor, then visited Wang Qingtan in Dongling City before returning to Shishan County. As the execution of the Xu and Mu families approached, Elders Xu and Mu arrived with an inner-sect disciple and planned an ambush at the Vegetable Market.

• Xie Xiaojiu and Feng Jiuge saw Xiao Emei heading to meet Jiang Ning and discussed rumors about their past and Water Moon Sword Palace’s dangerous position.
• Xiao Emei told Jiang Ning that her sect had agreed to give him half its accumulated wealth, and he said he would visit the sword palace the next day.
• After Jiang Ning rejected Xiao Emei’s offer to serve him, he traveled to Dongling City and spent the night with Wang Qingtan.
• Jiang Ning returned to Shishan County late the next morning and resumed cultivating, while Xiao Emei questioned where he had been.
• Elders Xu and Mu entered Shishan County with Yang True Disciple and decided to wait near the Vegetable Market to ambush the officials overseeing their clansmen’s execution.

Jiang Ning arrived at the Vegetable Market as the execution of the Xu and Mu Families approached, while the Five Swords Sect prepared an attack to stop it. A poisoned arrow shot toward him, and Yang True Disciple aimed a second arrow at Xiao Emei, forcing Jiang Ning to defend her.

• Jiang Ning cultivated the Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill while Bai Luoyu prepared to execute the Xu and Mu Families at the Vegetable Market.
• Five Swords Sect members plotted to attack the execution, with Elder Xu coordinating the assault and Yang True Disciple providing archery support.
• Jiang Ning used his Divine Sense to find the hidden Five Swords Sect members, then arrived at the platform with Xiao Emei and Hou Yingying.
• Yang True Disciple fired a poisoned arrow toward Jiang Ning, but Jiang Ning detected it before it could reach the execution ground.
• Elder Xu leaped from a nearby building as Yang True Disciple nocked another arrow and aimed it at Xiao Emei.

Jiang Ning repelled the Five Swords Sect’s attack at the vegetable market, wounded its archer Yang True Disciple, and let the sect members escape so he could use their actions as an excuse to confront the sect. After ordering the prisoners executed, he left Yang True Disciple injured and furious at Elder Xu.

• Jiang Ning caught Yang True Disciple’s arrow barehanded and threw it into the second arrow, while the Five Swords Sect’s forces hesitated and Elder Xu reconsidered charging into the Execution Ground.
• Jiang Ning’s subordinates, led by Feng Jiuge, Xie Xiaojiu, and Zhou Xing, fought back the attackers as Jiang Ning fired a tracking arrow that severed Yang True Disciple’s right arm.
• Jiang Ning let the Five Swords Sect members flee, explaining to Bai Luoyu that their escape would give him a reason to go after the sect, and he collected Tokens from two bodies left behind.
• Jiang Ning ordered Feng Jiuge to inspect the damaged building, then ordered the hooded prisoners executed and told the soldiers to continue bringing in prisoners.
• Yang True Disciple met Elder Xu while fleeing and angrily confronted him for claiming the operation would be free of danger.

After executing the Xu and Mu Families, Jiang Ning traveled to the Water Moon Sword Palace to collect the resources owed to him and prepare for a move against the Five Swords Sect. He left the Palace’s Elders convinced that his strength was beyond their ability to challenge.

• Jiang Ning identified Yang Hong’s broken Five Swords Sect disciple Token and ordered the dead sect disciples prepared in coffins for use in a few days.
• Jiang Ning left Shishan County with Xiao Emei and Hou Yingying, planning to collect his reward from the Water Moon Sword Palace while waiting for the Five Swords Sect attackers and Feng Xiaochen’s five hundred soldiers to return.
• Jiang Ning practiced absorbing Great Sun Essence Qi on the road, and Hou Yingying judged that he might have reached the Second Blood Exchange.
• At the Water Moon Sword Palace, Jiang Ning heard that its disciples feared the sect’s decline and hoped his resources could help it recover.
• Elder Wu Yuan challenged Jiang Ning to demonstrate his strength, but Jiang Ning’s Jin Force left Wu Yuan trembling and forced him to concede.
• Wu Yuan told the other Elders that Jiang Ning was beyond their power, leading them to suspect he was a Heavenly Human Grandmaster who had completed at least the Second Blood Exchange.

Jiang Ning recovered from the damage caused by his Fourth Blood Exchange using resources from Water Moon Sword Palace and investigated the strange Divine Maiden Statue. His Heaven’s Eye revealed a mysterious woman who said he could not inherit her woman-only path, but sent a bead of water into his brow before vanishing.

• Xiao Emei opened the Secret Chamber and explained that Water Moon Sword Palace had little wealth left after its treasures were looted and the Five Swords Sect seized its foundations.
• Jiang Ning took the chamber’s treasures, promised to resolve the Five Swords Sect’s threat soon, and demanded half of its foundation as payment.
• Jiang Ning refined the medicinal resources, fully recovered from the damage of his Fourth Blood Exchange, and watched his body strengthen as his Source Energy reached 7401.
• Jiang Ning used his Fire Eye Spirit Pupils and Heaven’s Eye to detect unusual energy gathering inside the Divine Maiden Statue under the moonlight.
• Jiang Ning saw a mysterious woman in the statue’s hidden vision; she said her inheritance suited only women, then sent a bead of water into his brow before the vision shattered.

Jiang Ning received a gift from the Divine Maiden that transformed his Yin Spirit and brought it close to becoming a Yang Spirit, then prepared to confront the Five Swords Sect after Feng Xiaochen arrived with troops. He also hoped Wang Qingtan would qualify for the Divine Maiden’s inheritance.

• Jiang Ning saw the Divine Maiden in the moonlit illusion, received a chilling Water Droplet in his Spiritual Platform, and watched golden patterns appear across his Yin Spirit as it began transforming toward a Yang Spirit.
• Jiang Ning saw his Source Energy rise to 73215, trained the Indestructible Vajra Body, and later asked Xiao Emei to arrange a room and bathwater.
• He Changkong and the Five Swords Sect Elders discussed Jiang Ning’s connection to the Water Moon Sword Palace and the destruction of the Xu and Mu Families, then decided to pause further expansion while keeping what they had already taken.
• Two days later, Jiang Ning received a letter saying Feng Xiaochen had arrived in Shishan County with five hundred elite soldiers and sent him a reply by Flying Messenger Bird.
• Jiang Ning prepared to demand an explanation from the Five Swords Sect and wondered when Wang Qingtan would reach the Water Moon Sword Palace to test whether she could receive the Divine Maiden’s inheritance.

Feng Xiaochen led troops armed with Star Chasing Crossbows to besiege the Five Swords Sect under Patrol Envoy Jiang Ning’s orders. After Xie Xiaojiu fought one of the sect’s Elders, Jiang Ning arrived just as the Elder’s sword was closing in on him.

• Feng Xiaochen split his troops to block both roads to the Five Swords Sect and advanced on its southern gate with Feng Jiuge, Xie Xiaojiu, and Zhou Xing.
• The Five Swords Sect discovered the approaching army, rang its Bell, and gathered its leaders at the mountain gate.
• He Changkong learned the troops had come under Jiang Ning’s orders and asked to speak with him, but Xie Xiaojiu said he had not arrived.
• A Five Swords Sect Elder challenged Xie Xiaojiu, and their sword exchanges revealed that her strength had grown enough to contend with him.
• As Xie Xiaojiu began to lose ground, Jiang Ning rushed up the mountain and appeared between her and the Elder’s incoming sword.

Jiang Ning confronted the Five Swords Sect over an attempted assassination, the execution-ground robbery, and the deaths of two men, killing an Elder who attacked him and invoking Great Xia Law. He presented evidence to Sect Master He Changkong while both sides waited for the sect’s Supreme Elder to arrive.

• Jiang Ning caught an Elder’s sword between two fingers, shattered it, and killed him with a fragment as He Changkong rushed forward.
• Jiang Ning identified himself as the Dongling County Patrol Envoy and said the Elder had tried to assassinate him and his subordinate; He Changkong held back after assessing Jiang Ning’s forces.
• Xiao Emei arrived, and He Changkong tried to redirect the dispute toward the Water Moon Sword Palace, but Jiang Ning demanded an explanation for the execution-ground robbery and assassination attempt.
• Jiang Ning blasted open two coffins, revealing corpses that sect members recognized, and threatened He Changkong with punishment under Great Xia Law.
• After Jiang Ning revealed flames in his eyes, He Changkong questioned the evidence and secretly sent disciples to summon the Supreme Elder.
• Jiang Ning gave He Changkong genuine identity Tokens taken from the suspects, while holding back the Token of a Five Swords Sect Direct Disciple.

Jiang Ning confronted the Five Swords Sect over Yang True Disciple, but the sect’s Supreme Elder and He Changkong resisted, turning the entrance square into a battle. Jiang Ning captured Yang and faced the Supreme Elder as the fighting escalated, ending with his Five-Colored Radiance slowing the elder’s attack.

• Jiang Ning displayed Yang True Disciple’s identity token and demanded that He Changkong surrender him, but the Supreme Elder arrived and urged Jiang Ning to relent.
• Jiang Ning charged through the disciples and seized the fleeing, one-armed Yang True Disciple while He Changkong’s Hundred-Step Flying Sword struck Jiang Ning’s Protective Golden Light and failed to pierce it.
• Feng Xiaochen ordered the crossbow squads to fire, forcing He Changkong to defend the disciples and leaving him wounded as the sect’s elders rallied against the intruders.
• Jiang Ning held Yang and confronted the Supreme Elder, who charged in and struck at him with a palm.
• Jiang Ning answered with a Five-Colored Radiance punch that made the Supreme Elder’s movements sluggish.

Jiang Ning defeated the Five Swords Sect’s Supreme Elder and led the assault to destroy the sect. After the Supreme Elder’s last stand failed, Jiang Ning ordered the fleeing disciples to surrender and began crippling those who continued to escape.

• Jiang Ning overwhelmed the Five Swords Sect’s Supreme Elder in a fist clash, seized him in midair, and demanded the sect surrender.
• Jiang Ning identified himself as a Sixth Rank Inspector of Dongling County and learned that the Supreme Elder was the Five Swords Sect’s only Grandmaster.
• The Supreme Elder burned his Essence Blood to break Jiang Ning’s seal and ordered the disciples to flee, while He Changkong commanded them to scatter.
• Jiang Ning unleashed his Water Fire Wheel as Feng Xiaochen ordered the guards to attack, and Jiang Ning’s chains knocked He Changkong unconscious.
• Jiang Ning subdued the Supreme Elder, declared that resisting arrest meant death, and struck fleeing disciples with Gang Force that shattered their leg bones.

Jiang Ning helped his forces defeat the Five Swords Sect, killed the Grandmaster guarding its treasury with one saber strike, and secured the sect’s wealth. After reviewing the casualties and spoils, he ordered compensation for his soldiers and arranged to send treasures to the Water Moon Sword Palace.

• Jiang Ning secretly protected his troops during the battle on the square, where three of his men were killed and nine were seriously wounded.
• Jiang Ning found the Grandmaster guarding the treasury, Old Ghost of the Yellow River, and killed him with a single saber strike after the elder lowered his guard.
• Jiang Ning ordered Xie Xiaojiu to seal the treasury and took the captured Supreme Elder with him rather than leave him in his subordinates’ custody.
• Xie Xiaojiu reported that the Five Swords Sect’s assets were worth about Twenty-Five Thousand to Thirty Thousand Taels of Gold, including over Three Thousand One Hundred Taels of Gold and Two Hundred Thirty Thousand Taels of Silver.
• Jiang Ning ordered battle participants to receive ten taels of gold, the families of fallen soldiers to receive One Hundred Taels of Gold each, and Two Hundred Thousand Taels of Silver to be given to Feng Xiaochen.
• Jiang Ning ordered two-tenths of the spoils prepared for the national treasury and the Five Swords Sect’s Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures transported to the Water Moon Sword Palace.

Jiang Ning reached 101,333 Source Energy, received ten Crimson Flame Blood Crystals from Xiao Emei, and waited for Wang Qingtan to visit the Divine Maiden Statue. After learning that Wang Qingtan was awakening memories of the Phoenix Celestial Woman, Jiang Ning tested her identity and brought her to seek the statue’s inheritance, but the Moon Palace Divine Maiden rejected her.

• Jiang Ning saw his Source Energy reach 101,333 and continued training while waiting for Wang Qingtan to arrive at the Water Moon Sword Palace.
• Xiao Emei gave Jiang Ning ten Crimson Flame Blood Crystals, which he counted toward the Water Moon Sword Palace’s debt.
• Wang Qingtan visited Jiang Ning, revealed concerns about whether she was still herself as her memories worsened, and Jiang Ning concluded she was awakening the Phoenix Celestial Woman’s memories.
• Jiang Ning tested Wang Qingtan and concluded she was still herself, then took her to the Divine Maiden Statue and used his Heavenly Eye to enter its moonlit vision.
• The Moon Palace Divine Maiden told Jiang Ning that Wang Qingtan could not accept her inheritance because she carried a familiar aura.