Recaps

Jiang Ning received the Moon Scripture from the Moon Palace Woman and became her disciple, bringing his Yin and Yang origins into harmony. After warning him about the dangers ahead and the perfect life form in Qingyi’s womb, she began using the osmanthus pollen to help him advance his Moon Scripture cultivation.

• Jiang Ning left Qingyi and traveled to the Water Moon Sword Palace to meet the Moon Palace Woman at Moon Lake.
• The Moon Palace Woman passed the Moon Scripture to Jiang Ning, allowing his Taiyin Origin to grow and balance the Great Sun within him.
• Jiang Ning formally accepted the Moon Palace Woman as his master, and she told him to protect the perfect life form in Qingyi’s womb.
• The Moon Palace Woman explained that the Martial Saint had died, chaos would soon erupt, and Jiang Ning had little time to grow.
• The Moon Palace Woman brought Jiang Ning beneath a huge Osmanthus Tree, explained how pollen and Dao Fruits related to the Immortal Path, and began boosting his Moon Scripture experience with falling pollen.

After the Martial Saint’s death, Ji Minghao sought the Nine Heavens’ protection to preserve Great Xia, while Jiang Ning weighed the Immortal Path against continuing his Martial Path. A white-robed Sword Immortal headed for the Royal Capital, where the Blind Old Man and White Granny prepared to test him.

• Ji Minghao told Xu Xiao that he had chosen to seek the Nine Heavens’ protection and revealed that he had already made a deal with them.
• Jiang Ning left Water Moon Sword Palace, assessed his progress in the Sun Sutra and Moon Scripture, and decided to focus on the Sun Sutra while continuing the Martial Path.
• A white-robed Sword Immortal cleaved through the Eastern Sea and set off toward Great Xia’s Royal Capital after learning that the Martial Saint had passed away.
• The Blind Old Man and White Granny discussed whether the Martial Saint was truly dead, and White Granny prepared to send her Paper Doll to test the approaching Sword Immortal.
• A dazzling sword light appeared in the clear sky beyond the Royal Capital and cut across the heavens.

A white-robed Sword Immortal attacked the Royal Capital to test whether the Martial Saint had truly died, destroying White Granny’s ten paper Heavenly Soldiers and threatening to kill ten thousand people. Jiang Ning returned to Qingyi and prepared to intervene as the Sword Immortal gathered a massive blade over the city.

• White Granny sent ten paper dolls that transformed into Silver-Armored Heavenly Soldiers, but the Sword Immortal destroyed them despite their formation’s ability to rebuild them.
• The Blind Old Man left the Star Gazing Platform after the Sword Immortal located White Granny, and the Sword Immortal annihilated all ten Heavenly Soldiers.
• Xiang Yuan and Xiao Wuque decided to wait and see whether the Sword Immortal attacked the Imperial Palace or the city, while Ji Xuan agreed to defend the palace but planned to use an attack on civilians to gauge the enemy.
• Jiang Ning returned to Qingyi and told her he had to act because the Sword Immortal’s test could make her a target; he also confirmed that the Martial Saint had passed away in meditation.
• The Sword Immortal declared that ten thousand people would die if no one answered his challenge, then gathered the phantom of an enormous sword above the Royal Capital.

Su Qingying and the Martial King tried to stop the white-robed Sword Immortal, but both were defeated by his sword techniques. Jiang Ning stepped forward to face the attacker, who launched Seeing the Blue Sky at him.

• Su Qingying intercepted the white-robed Sword Immortal’s attack, but his Seeing the Blue Sky pierced her and sent her falling.
• Jiang Ning caught Su Qingying as the Martial King stepped forward to challenge the Sword Immortal.
• The Sword Immortal struck the Martial King’s Spirit Soul with a Nascent Soul sword, leaving him badly injured.
• Jiang Ning recognized the Sword Immortal’s powerful Nascent Soul and learned that he had come to draw out and kill Jiang Ning.
• The white-robed Sword Immortal unleashed Seeing the Blue Sky against Jiang Ning, turning the sky azure and the world black and white.

Jiang Ning endured the white-robed Sword Immortal’s attacks, destroyed his Flying Sword and Sword Array, and overcame his Nascent Soul Sword with Sun and Moon Shining Together. Recognizing Jiang Ning’s exceptional foundation, the Sword Immortal finally began to draw the Immortal’s sword he had kept sheathed.

• Jiang Ning caught the white-robed Sword Immortal’s Seeing the Blue Sky with his bare hand, then punched away and shattered a Flying Sword before swallowing its remains.
• The white-robed Sword Immortal unleashed his Sword Array, but Jiang Ning withstood its tiny swords and swallowed them as they attacked.
• The white-robed Sword Immortal struck at Jiang Ning’s spirit with his Nascent Soul Sword, but Jiang Ning’s Sun and Moon Shining Together melted the attack and disabled the Sword Array.
• Jiang Ning swallowed the fallen Flying Swords and revealed his manifested Nascent Soul, prompting the white-robed Sword Immortal to recognize his top-grade foundation.
• Ji Minghao and Ji Xuan watched Jiang Ning’s power from the Imperial Palace and feared how far he had surpassed them.
• The white-robed Sword Immortal declared Jiang Ning qualified to face his Immortal’s sword and began drawing it from its sheath.

Jiang Ning survived the Sword of the Immortal, killed the white-robed Sword Immortal, and returned to his family after the battle. After tending to Su Qingying and sharing a brief reunion at the Dongling Marquis Mansion, he left to visit his first Master, Wang Jin.

• The white-robed Sword Immortal unleashed the Sword of the Immortal, but Jiang Ning endured its strike with his Sixteen-Foot Golden Body.
• Jiang Ning used the power of time to accelerate and killed the white-robed Sword Immortal with one punch, then took and swallowed the damaged sword.
• Xia Xuanyan watched Jiang Ning descend and concluded that they were destined to be enemies, while Ji Minghao and Ji Xuan discussed whether Jiang Ning had reached the Martial Saint's level.
• Jiang Ning healed Su Qingying's lingering sword wound and took his leave of Xiao Wuque and Xiang Yuan.
• Jiang Ning returned to the Dongling Marquis Mansion, reunited with Jiang Li and his family, and shared a meal with them.
• Jiang Ning told Jiang Li and Liu Wanwan that he was going to visit his first Master, Wang Jin.

Jiang Ning returned to Luoshui and reunited with Li Qing and Wang Jin at Canglang Martial Hall, where he shared Dream Immortal wine with his former teacher. While waiting for Wang Jin, Jiang Ning considered how to strengthen his Nascent Soul and left the chapter resolved to advance it further.

• Jiang Ning entered Luoshui and found Li Qing practicing at Canglang Martial Hall.
• Li Qing told Jiang Ning that the Nine-Pecks-of-Rice Church had spread through Bashu and that she had returned because the region felt unsafe.
• Jiang Ning visited Wang Jin and brought him Dream Immortal wine, and Wang Jin went out to buy food for them to share.
• While waiting for Wang Jin, Jiang Ning reviewed his gains from battle and concluded that he needed to advance his Nascent Soul using the origins of Taiyin and Taiyang.
• Jiang Ning and Wang Jin shared wine and ordinary cooked dishes, and Wang Jin told Jiang Ning not to spend his precious time on an old teacher.

Jiang Ning toasted Wang Jin and discussed the dangers following the Martial Saint’s death before returning to the Royal Capital. At Lishui Imperial Palace, he began cultivating the Sun Scripture to balance and strengthen his Nascent Soul, and its golden radiance illuminated the palace grounds.

• Jiang Ning thanked Wang Jin for his past protection and told him he had accepted another master, while Wang Jin supported his decision.
• Jiang Ning told Wang Jin that the Martial Saint had passed away, and Wang Jin warned that powerful figures and the Imperial Clan might fear Jiang Ning and seek to remove him.
• Jiang Ning returned to the Royal Capital, told Luyi he would cultivate at Lishui Imperial Palace, and agreed to attend the Emperor’s Court Assembly the next day.
• Jiang Ning reviewed his Moon Scripture and Sun Scripture progress, changed the Panel’s displays to percentages, and resolved to cultivate the Sun Scripture to balance his Nascent Soul.
• Jiang Ning visualized the Great Sun and Golden Crow as he cultivated, and golden light spread from him across Lake Heart Island while his Sun Scripture experience increased.

Jiang Ning discovered that the Moon Scripture progressed faster under moonlight and the Sun Scripture advanced much faster in Yang Lake Grotto-heaven beneath its ten suns. After a night of cultivation, he left at dawn to attend the Court Assembly he had promised to join.

• Jiang Ning compared his scripture progress at Lishui Imperial Palace and found that moonlight made cultivating the Moon Scripture roughly four times more efficient.
• Jiang Ning traveled to Yang Lake Grotto-heaven, where the ten suns and dense Pure Yang Qi provided an ideal setting for the Sun Scripture.
• Jiang Ning cultivated on a barren crimson-rock island and deepened his understanding of the Sun Scripture as he absorbed the suns’ radiance.
• After a little over three hours, Jiang Ning’s Sun Scripture reached 3.1% initiation, advancing far faster than it had outside the grotto-heaven.
• When darkness made further cultivation unsuitable, Jiang Ning returned to Yang Lake and remembered Ji Minghao’s invitation to the Court Assembly.
• Jiang Ning set off toward the Royal Capital at dawn so he could keep his promise to attend.

At court, Ji Minghao asked Jiang Ning what reward he wanted for his achievements, and Jiang Ning requested cultivation resources rather than rank or power. Ji Minghao granted him access to the Imperial Clan’s Inner Treasury and a large supply of gold, ores, medicines, and elixirs, leaving Jiang Ning pleased at the prospect of advancing his strength.

• Ji Minghao began the court assembly while Jiang Ning was still absent, then announced him when he arrived at Taiji Hall.
• Ji Minghao asked the court to propose a reward for Jiang Ning’s achievements, and Li Xiang, Xiao Wuque, and other officials said no ordinary title could do them justice.
• Ji Minghao invited Jiang Ning to state what he desired, and Jiang Ning requested gold, treasures, medicines, and other cultivation resources instead of office, wealth, or territory.
• Ji Minghao decreed that Jiang Ning could choose three treasures from the Imperial Clan’s Inner Treasury, including one of the Nine Treasury-Guarding Treasures, and granted him gold, ores, medicines, and elixir pills.

Jiang Ning declined the Victory Banquet, received a secret invitation from Ji Mingyue, and returned to the Dongling Marquis Mansion, where he praised Jiang Yiming’s resolve and spent time with his family. He told Qingyi about his reward from Ji Minghao, including access to the Imperial Clan’s Inner Treasury to choose three treasures.

• Jiang Ning refused Ji Minghao’s invitation to the Victory Banquet, rebuked Ji Xuan, and accepted a letter from Ji Mingyue asking to meet at the Vermilion Bird Gate at Xu Time.
• Jiang Ning found Jiang Yiming training with a 3,500-jin iron lock and urged him to balance martial practice with study.
• Jiang Yiming told Jiang Ning that Xiao Jia had ended their relationship, and he firmly rejected the idea of trying to win her back.
• Jiang Ning praised Jiang Yiming’s maturity, then greeted Jiang Li and ate buns prepared by Liu Wanwan.
• Jiang Ning combed Qingyi’s hair and told her Ji Minghao had rewarded him with resources and permission to choose three treasures from the Imperial Clan’s Inner Treasury, including one of the Nine Treasury-Suppressing Treasures.

Jiang Ning received the Emperor’s rewards and went to the Imperial Clan’s Inner Treasury to choose one of the remaining Treasury-Guarding Treasures. He selected the ancient crimson sword red cloud, whose power briefly stirred when he grasped it.

• Jiang Ning accepted three Imperial Clan Gold Notes and ordered the chests of materials, treasures, and pills sent to Lishui Imperial Palace.
• Jiang Ning declined the Victory Banquet invitation and told Zhou Wenyuan to pass his refusal to the Emperor.
• Xie Xun and Zhou Wenyuan escorted Jiang Ning to the Inner Treasury, where he reunited with White Granny.
• White Granny revealed five remaining Treasury-Guarding Treasures and explained their known origins and powers.
• Jiang Ning chose the crimson immortal sword red cloud, and it flared with heat and trembled when he took hold of it.

Jiang Ning chose two treasures from the Imperial Clan Inner Treasury, then refined the rewards and cultivation items delivered to Central Island to raise his Origin Points above a thousand. He shattered five shackles in his left arm and advanced the Black Dragon Swallowing Whale Skill, awakening the Kunpeng transformation.

• Jiang Ning chose a crimson ore and pitch-black deadwood from the treasury before leaving with Xie Xun and Zhou Wenyuan.
• Chen An told Jiang Ning that Ji Minghao's rewards had been secured on Central Island, where Jiang Ning ordered the island cleared and began refining the supplies.
• Jiang Ning sent Chen An to buy more body-tempering resources with three Gold Notes, then refined the contents of more than twenty chests until his Origin Points reached 1287.9.
• Jiang Ning shattered five of the nine shackles in his left arm through physical strength, then spent a thousand Origin Points to advance the Black Dragon Swallowing Whale Skill.
• Jiang Ning witnessed a giant fish transform into a sky-spanning roc and found fish and roc patterns on his palms, recognizing the Kunpeng transformation.

Jiang Ning gained the Kunpeng Transformation, shattered all nine Shackles in his left arm, and began breaking the Shackles in his legs. At the Imperial Palace, Wang Yu arrived from the Nine Heavens to offer an alliance, and his attendant demonstrated overwhelming power by temporarily stripping Xiang Yuan of his strength.

• Jiang Ning tested the Kunpeng Transformation and sensed that it had greatly strengthened his body and affinity with space.
• Jiang Ning shattered the remaining four Shackles in his left arm, completing all nine, then began directing his Blood Qi toward his right leg.
• At the Victory Banquet, Wang Yu arrived with two attendants and announced that the Nine Heavens wished to ally with Great Xia.
• Li Xiang questioned Wang Yu's intentions, and Wang Yu said the Nine Heavens had come to help the Human Emperor secure his realm.
• Xiang Yuan challenged Wang Yu's claim, but an attendant struck him and left him coughing blood as his strength vanished.
• Xiao Wuque discovered that Xiang Yuan's power was gradually returning.

At the Victory Banquet, Wang Yu returned the Human Emperor Sword to Ji Minghao and revealed his standing as a bearer of the Yu Emperor Bloodline. Meanwhile, Jiang Ning tested his newly shattered limb shackles and consumed two treasures, gaining Origin Points and awakening a powerful vitality within himself.

• Wang Yu defended his treatment of Xiao Wuque and persuaded Ji Minghao to trust the Nine Heavens.
• Wang Yu presented the Human Emperor Sword to Ji Minghao, who recognized its resonance with his bloodline and accepted it.
• An attendant revealed that Wang Yu bore the Yu Emperor Bloodline, and Wang Yu praised the absent Prince of Luoshui at the banquet.
• Jiang Ning discovered that he could float across the lake after shattering all thirty-six shackles in his arms and legs.
• Jiang Ning swallowed crimson ore from the Imperial Clan's Inner Treasury and gained 7.8 Origin Points.
• Jiang Ning consumed the charred wood, awakening a vigorous life force within his body.

Jiang Ning refined an ebony treasure and the Sun Essence Gold in an immortal sword, dramatically advancing his Immortal Tree, Origin Points, and Sun Scripture. After arriving late at the Vermilion Bird Gate, he followed Ji Mingyue’s maid to Moonview Pavilion, where Ji Mingyue waited alone by the window.

• Jiang Ning refined the ebony treasure, grew his Immortal Tree into a small tree, and gained nearly a hundred Origin Points.
• Jiang Ning devoured the immortal sword forged from Sun Essence Gold, whose fierce heat set the island ablaze as his Sun Scripture experience surged.
• Wang Yu noticed the golden radiance over Lishui Lake and identified Jiang Ning as the cultivator manifesting a Great Sun.
• Jiang Ning completed his refinement with Sun Scripture at Initiation 27.1% and 1311.3 Origin Points, then set out to meet Ji Mingyue.
• A palace maid escorted Jiang Ning through the Vermilion Bird Gate to Moonview Pavilion, where he found Ji Mingyue standing alone by the window.

Jiang Ning visited Ji Mingyue, then killed Ji Xuan and sixty-eight others in the Shoulder-to-Shoulder King's Manor to remove a perceived threat. Ji Minghao learned of the massacre and set out for the manor, while Xie Xun tried to temper his response.

• Ji Mingyue invited Jiang Ning to drink, and after he woke beside her the next day, she wondered whether their unborn child could persuade her elder brother to reconcile with her.
• Jiang Ning left the Imperial Palace and went to the Shoulder-to-Shoulder King's Manor, where he killed Ji Xuan and shattered the Spirit Souls of everyone else in the residence.
• Jiang Ning departed for Yang Lake Grotto-heaven to cultivate the Sun Scripture.
• An Imperial Guard told Ji Minghao that Ji Xuan and sixty-eight others had been killed, and Ji Minghao ordered a carriage and took up the Human Emperor Sword.
• At the Vermilion Bird Gate, Xie Xun urged Ji Minghao to think carefully, but Ji Minghao identified Jiang Ning as the likely killer and continued toward the manor.

After Prince Ji Xuan’s death, Wang Yu used his attendants’ ritual to summon the Shoulder-to-Shoulder King’s True Spirit, but the spirit vanished without naming its killer. Ji Minghao was left wondering whether the culprit came from the Upper Three Heavens, while Jiang Ning cultivated the Sun Scripture beneath the rising suns at Yang Lake Grotto-heaven.

• Xie Xun warned Ji Minghao that someone might be trying to turn him against the Prince of Luoshui, but Ji Minghao went to inspect the Shoulder-to-Shoulder King’s Manor anyway.
• Wang Yu told Ji Minghao that his attendants were gathering Prince Ji Xuan’s scattered True Spirit so the dead prince could reveal what happened.
• Wang Yu’s attendant warned that the gathered True Spirit was insufficient and suggested the killer had invoked the power of the River of Time.
• Wang Yu’s attendants briefly summoned Prince Ji Xuan’s phantom, but it refused to identify the killer before disappearing.
• Ji Minghao and Xie Xun concluded that Wang Yu was likely innocent, while Ji Minghao wondered whether the killer came from the Upper Three Heavens.
• At Yang Lake Grotto-heaven, Jiang Ning cultivated the Sun Scripture as the suns rose and golden radiance flowed into his Spiritual Platform.

Jiang Ning cultivated the Sun Scripture until it reached Mastery, then used the changing light at twilight to draw Sun Origin into his Primordial Spirit. He began drawing in Taiyin Origin as well, as the moon rose over Yang Lake.

• Jiang Ning cultivated beneath Ten Suns Over Heaven, gathered nearly two thousand Origin Points, and continued practicing above the clouds outside Yang Lake Grotto-heaven.
• After two more days of cultivation, Jiang Ning advanced the Sun Scripture to Mastery and confirmed that the Moon Scripture had also reached Mastery.
• Jiang Ning waited for twilight over Yang Lake and used the Sun Scripture to make the setting sun rise again, astonishing Morning Glory, the old man, and the villagers.
• Molten-gold Sun Origin descended into Jiang Ning and made his Primordial Spirit solid and golden.
• Jiang Ning activated the Moon Scripture, and the sun rapidly set as the moon rose and poured silver light over him.

Jiang Ning transformed his Primordial Spirit by harmonizing the Taiyin and sun origins, forming a Chaos Seed that unified his power and brought him to the pinnacle of the Human Immortal Realm. After returning to the Shangyang Inner Scenery Ground, he realized that six more Sun Lords had resumed their positions, bringing the coming contest for the Lord of the Great Sun closer.

• Jiang Ning absorbed the moon’s Silver Paste above Yang Lake, where the Taiyin and sun origins refined his Primordial Spirit and formed a Chaos Seed.
• Jiang Ning left Yang Lake and returned to the Royal Capital, where he anticipated further probing by the Immortal Sects and thought he might become the key if the Martial Saint had died.
• Wang Yu learned that the Prince of Luoshui had returned to the Royal Capital and decided to visit him the next day.
• Jiang Ning entered the Shangyang Inner Scenery Ground and tested how the Chaos Seed had unified and strengthened his Primordial Spirit.
• Jiang Ning sensed that eight of the ten Great Suns now bore unusual auras and suspected Xuanyang was behind the other Sun Lords’ return.

Jiang Ning encountered Feng Qingyin on the Sermon Platform and learned that she came from a different time and space and had reached the Supreme Perfected Celestial Immortal realm. The Shangyang Immortal Sect’s long-dead Sect Master manifested across time to praise Jiang Ning’s Chaos Seed and teach the Sun Scripture, after which Jiang Ning resolved to climb the Heavenly Ladder.

• Jiang Ning entered the Sermon Platform’s domain and met Feng Qingyin, who recognized him as a Sequence True Disciple from a later age.
• Feng Qingyin revealed that she had condensed five Flowers of the Great Dao and stood one step from the Eternal Undying True Immortal realm.
• The Shangyang Immortal Sect’s Sect Master appeared and praised Jiang Ning’s supreme foundation, then secluded him from Feng Qingyin to speak with him across time and space.
• The Sect Master delivered a sermon on the Dao of the Great Sun, immersing Jiang Ning in the Sun Scripture and greatly increasing his mastery.
• After the sermon ended, Jiang Ning saw that his Sun Scripture had reached 51.31% mastery and decided to climb the Heavenly Ladder.

Jiang Ning climbed the Ascending Heaven Stair to the three hundredth step, confirming that his Primordial Spirit was nearing the Celestial Immortal Realm, then considered how Dao Flowers and the higher Immortal Path realms worked. He went to the Crimson Radiance Grotto-Heaven to visit Shen Yue Ru and seek information from her.

• Jiang Ning climbed past his former limit on the Ascending Heaven Stair and struggled through the immense pressure to reach the three hundredth step.
• The Grotto-heaven Will descended, and Jiang Ning sensed that he had earned the reward for reaching the Celestial Immortal threshold, though he could not remain firmly on the step.
• Jiang Ning examined his Immortal Tree and reasoned that the Moon Scripture and Sun Scripture could form Dao Flowers, while full blooms marked the Perfected Celestial Immortal Realm.
• Jiang Ning reflected on the four Immortal Path realms and resolved to visit Shen Yue Ru for information from the gatherings Xuanyang had held.
• Jiang Ning arrived beside Shen Yue Ru as she cultivated Purple Qi, reassured her, and waited while she completed her breathing cycle.

Jiang Ning learned that the Ten Domains’ merger would bring a great opportunity and upheaval, while Shen Yue Ru warned him about Xuanyang Sun Lord. The Crimson Radiance Patriarch recognized Jiang Ning’s rapid progress and met with him, leaving Cang Yue wondering whether he was the protagonist of the era.

• Shen Yue Ru told Jiang Ning that Xuanyang expected the Ten Domains to merge when the world’s environment revived, potentially bringing ancient powerhouses back and revealing the laws of heaven and earth.
• Shen Yue Ru warned Jiang Ning that Xuanyang Sun Lord appeared connected to the six Sun Lords who had recently risen rapidly.
• Jiang Ning said he had progressed further, and Shen Yue Ru called him a monster before urging him to focus on the Immortal Path; he replied that he knew of two Undying Rank existences beyond Celestial Immortals.
• The White-Haired Cold Woman sent Cang Yue to invite Jiang Ning to meet her, and Cang Yue brought Shen Yue Ru along.
• The White-Haired Cold Woman said Jiang Ning was nearing the formation of his first Dao Flower, while Cang Yue realized he had reached Peak Human Immortal and wondered if he was the protagonist of the era.

Jiang Ning learned about the True Immortals and the coming merger of the Ten Domains from the Crimson Radiance Patriarch, then returned to the Dongling Marquis Mansion and tested whether moonlight could improve his Moon Scripture. The attempt yielded no lasting increase in its proficiency, while his concerns about enemies and the coming upheaval remained.

• The Crimson Radiance Patriarch told Jiang Ning that True Immortals stood above Celestial Immortals, that she ranked among the Canglan Realm’s top three, and that the Ten Domains’ merger would revive the world.
• Jiang Ning revealed that his Master was a True Immortal and that he had encountered another woman True Immortal who could cross worlds; the Crimson Radiance Patriarch advised Cang Yue to have her disciple build a good karmic bond with him.
• The Crimson Radiance Patriarch told Cang Yue that a destined figure had appeared in the Six Saints Sect and that Jiang Ning’s True Immortal Master gave him a chance to surpass that rival.
• Jiang Ning said farewell to Shen Yue Ru and returned to his body at the Dongling Marquis Mansion, where he reflected that his Primordial Spirit had reached the threshold of the Celestial Immortal Realm and that his enemies remained his immediate concern.
• Jiang Ning practiced the Moon Scripture beneath the moon until dawn, but his Panel showed no change in its proficiency, so he abandoned the idea of gaining progress that way.

Jiang Ning cultivated the Sun Scripture and learned from Wang Yu that the Human Emperor Sword could grant Ji Minghao power through the Heavenly Dao and the dynasty’s fortune. Wang Yu warned that Ji Minghao would likely strike at Jiang Ning over Ji Xuan’s death, but Jiang Ning trusted The Emperor’s character and remained confident as Wang Yu challenged his certainty.

• Jiang Ning’s morning cultivation increased his Sun Scripture proficiency by three ten-thousandths, and he reflected that the lecture in the Shangyang Inner Scenery Ground had saved him years of progress.
• Jiang Ning spent a quiet morning with Qingyi before joining Liu Wanwan and the others for breakfast at the Dongling Marquis Mansion.
• Wang Yu arrived at the mansion with two attendants, and Jiang Ning welcomed him into the courtyard for tea.
• Wang Yu explained that the Human Emperor Sword could commune with the Heavenly Dao and command the dynasty’s fortune, making Ji Minghao unrivaled in the present age.
• Wang Yu warned Jiang Ning that Ji Minghao had likely decided he killed Ji Xuan and would attack him despite his friendship with The Emperor.
• Jiang Ning said he trusted The Emperor’s character and choice, prompting Wang Yu to remark that Jiang Ning was very confident.