Recaps

Ning Qi used the Sword Sheathing Art to take Mountain Ancestor’s Black Divine Sword and sealed them together inside the repaired Cavern Space. Mountain Ancestor then invoked Sage Ancestor’s Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram Original, and the two resumed their battle with the Time Rule.

• Mountain Ancestor realized the Vast Origin Realm’s Spirit Domains and energy were disappearing, and accused Ning Qi of using their fight to stall him.
• Mountain Ancestor used the Black Divine Sword to devour space and attack Ning Qi, but Ning Qi condensed a sword sheath and drew the sword and its roots inside it.
• Ning Qi struck Mountain Ancestor away and used the Enlightenment World Tree to repair the space, sealing Mountain Ancestor inside with him.
• Mountain Ancestor summoned Sage Ancestor’s Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram Original and absorbed its Immortal Dao Power.
• Ning Qi revealed that Sage Ancestor had passed his teachings to him and fought Mountain Ancestor with the Time Rule.
• Mountain Ancestor projected another Void Shadow from the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram Original into his body.

Mountain Ancestor used the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram to wield the Starry Sky Ancient Sage’s power against Ning Qi, but Ning Qi comprehended the inheritance during their battle and received it when the sage chose him. Mountain Ancestor retreated into Buzhou Mountain and threatened Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor, leaving Ning Qi to pursue him into the mountain’s shadow.

• Mountain Ancestor summoned the Starry Sky Ancient Sage’s power from the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram and attacked Ning Qi with stars and a Black Hole.
• Ning Qi entered an Enlightenment State while dodging, absorbed Mountain Ancestor’s star attacks, and drew the Ancient Sage’s inheritance to himself.
• The Starry Sky Ancient Sage separated from Mountain Ancestor, entered Ning Qi, and passed on his cultivation methods along with a warning about Boundary Sea Star City and a Curse.
• Mountain Ancestor put away the diagram, challenged Ning Qi to enter Buzhou Mountain to retrieve it and save Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor, then vanished into the mountain.
• Mountain Ancestor appeared inside Buzhou Mountain Interior and charged toward Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor as the Buzhou Mountain Shadow expanded.
• Ning Qi vanished from the Boundary Sea and pursued Mountain Ancestor into Buzhou Mountain.

Ning Qi emerged in the Boundary Sea after Vast Origin Realm vanished and saw Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor fighting to survive inside Buzhou Mountain Shadow. He returned to True Martial Spirit World, where he oversaw its smooth merger with Mountain and Sea Realm and Vast Origin Realm, leaving their inhabitants to settle into the newly transformed world.

• Sea Ancestor rejoiced that Ning Qi had defeated Mountain Ancestor in Vast Origin Realm, while Mountain Ancestor used Buzhou Gate of Heaven to unleash an army against Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor inside Buzhou Mountain.
• Ning Qi appeared in the Boundary Sea as the last remnant of Vast Origin Realm disappeared, then returned to True Martial Spirit World and merged his three bodies.
• Ning Qi showed Sage Ancestor's avatar and both Realm Wills how the three realms had combined into a single, vastly expanded True Martial Spirit World.
• Ning Qi reorganized the merged world's mountains, seas, sects, cultivation grounds, and tribulation trials to support cultivators at different stages.
• Ning Qi kept Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor in charge of their realms' cultivators as they integrated, and the newcomers embraced True Martial Spirit World as their home.

After the Three Realms fused, Ning Qi’s strength rose with the True Martial Spirit World, and he merged with the world to experience the thoughts of all its living beings and glimpse distant places in the Boundary Sea. He returned to his body, appointed Zhi Li as the Spirit of Education, and wondered whether the visions he had seen were real.

• Ning Qi’s fusion of the Three Realms triggered a surge in his cultivation and expanded the True Martial Spirit World, while its inhabitants welcomed the improved world and met cultivators from the other realms.
• Ning Qi dissolved into particles of light and merged with the True Martial Spirit World, bearing the emotions of its living beings without being overwhelmed.
• The Sage Ancestor's Avatar and the Mountain and Sea Realm Will explained how Ning Qi had earned the willing reverence needed to become a World Will and how difficult it was to bear an entire world's thoughts.
• Ning Qi sensed Buzhou Mountain Shadow and glimpsed distant regions of the Boundary Sea, but a voice from an Immortal City struck him out of his heightened state.
• Ning Qi returned to the Inner World and told the Sage Ancestor's Avatar that he had seen the Sage Ancestor’s true body being beaten by the Mountain Ancestor.
• Ning Qi appointed Zhi Li the Spirit of Education of the True Martial World, and Zhi Li accepted the position.

Ning Qi freed Shan Hai and Zhi Li from their former spirit-realm duties, gave them a way to form physical avatars, and assigned them and Sage Ancestor’s Avatar roles in the True Martial Spirit World. At the True Martial Immortal Sect, the reunited followers from three realms waited to see Ning Qi, who finally descended before them.

• Ning Qi enfeoffed the Vast Origin Realm Will as the Spirit of Education and the Mountain and Sea Realm Will as the Mountain and Sea Spirit, then gave them insight that would let them form physical avatars.
• Ning Qi asked Sage Ancestor’s Avatar, Shan Hai, and Zhi Li to help settle the migrated beings, while Sage Ancestor’s Avatar warned that the True Martial Spirit World might need to flee Mountain Ancestor.
• The True Martial Immortal Sect filled with returning cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm, the Vast Origin Realm, and the Profound Truth Domain, including infants reincarnated only months earlier.
• The returning followers learned more about Ning Qi’s hidden identity and connections, while Lu Ziyue, Sword Ancestor, Qi Keqing, and others reflected on their ties to him.
• Ning Qi descended from the sky, and the gathered cultivators stood to greet him.

Ning Qi reunited the Three Realms under the True Martial Immortal Sect, but their people insisted on joining his fight against Mountain Ancestor. Their shared devotion generated Belief Power that enveloped Ning Qi and the Enlightenment World Tree, which appeared to awaken and urge him to gather more of that power.

• Ning Qi welcomed the Mountain and Sea Realm cultivators into the True Martial Immortal Sect and urged everyone to put aside divisions between realms.
• Sword Ancestor, the Sage Ancestor's Avatar, the Shan Hai and Zhi Li Two Spirits, Zhao Yujun, and Jiang Yingchu offered to join Ning Qi's final battle, though he worried they would die facing Mountain Ancestor.
• The united people of the True Martial Spirit World directed their Belief Power toward Ning Qi, surrounding him with gentle golden light.
• The Enlightenment World Tree emerged across the True Martial Spirit World, and its shadow was gilded by Ning Qi's golden light as all beings felt their minds grow clearer.
• Ning Qi touched a branch of the tree and received a message urging him to gather more of the power, realizing that the Enlightenment World Tree seemed to have developed intelligence.

Ning Qi discovered that the Enlightenment World Tree had gathered the living beings’ Belief Power into a Golden Water Drop while promising them a chance to join the final battle. In the Boundary Sea, he found Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor trapped inside Buzhou Mountain and began approaching its shadow to reach them.

• Ning Qi examined the Enlightenment World Tree and found a Golden Water Drop forming from Belief Power at its heart.
• Ning Qi told the gathered living beings to cultivate and said he would let them join the battle when the time was right.
• Mountain Ancestor searched the Boundary Sea for Ning Qi while his summoned creatures besieged Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor inside Buzhou Mountain.
• Sage Ancestor told Sea Ancestor that Ning Qi’s True Martial Spirit World was replenishing his strength through his avatar, and they planned to use a joint Supernatural Power.
• Ning Qi appeared in the World Sea and turned into gray World Sea Power to approach Buzhou Mountain’s shadow, where he sensed the mountain wall blocking the energy.

Ning Qi infiltrated the Buzhou Mountain Shadow and discovered Mountain Ancestor had turned the sacrificed followers into an endless army to attack Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor. As the two ancestors fought Mountain Ancestor’s blood-based powers, Ning Qi secretly aided their Sun-Moon Radiance Kill, leaving them charging at Mountain Ancestor as he retreated into a Blood Cloud.

• Ning Qi used the Seedling of Jianmu to pierce Buzhou Mountain’s wall and slip into its shadow, where he saw Mountain Ancestor summoning an endless army against Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor.
• Ning Qi recognized Gong Tiandao and his followers among the army as zombies who retained their old Mystical Abilities, and he realized Mountain Ancestor had enslaved them even after death.
• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor unleashed Sun-Moon Radiance Kill, sweeping away the army, but Mountain Ancestor answered with Blood Soul Nether Rain and the Curse Power of All Beings.
• Sea Ancestor faltered under the attack, but Ning Qi sent power to the two ancestors and urged them to continue fusing their Sun-Moon Shadows.
• The Sun-Moon Shadows merged into a pure Light Wheel, and Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor charged at Mountain Ancestor, who fled into the Blood Cloud.

Ning Qi entered the Buzhou Mountain Shadow and rescued Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor from Mountain Ancestor’s Blood Cloud and curse. Mountain Ancestor then merged with the other figure atop Buzhou Mountain, revealing a terrifying four-armed, two-faced form as the confrontation escalated.

• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor fought through Mountain Ancestor’s Blood Cloud, while Mountain Ancestor realized Ning Qi had entered the Buzhou Mountain Interior and deliberately drew him out.
• Mountain Ancestor attacked Ning Qi with blood rain and the Curse Power of All Beings, but Ning Qi scattered the rain and destroyed the curse with Belief Power of All Beings.
• Ning Qi tore through the Blood Cloud, joined Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor, and cleared the firmament with his golden radiance.
• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor warned Ning Qi that Mountain Ancestor had lured him into the Buzhou Mountain Shadow, but Ning Qi challenged Mountain Ancestor to use his remaining methods.
• Mountain Ancestor flew to Buzhou Mountain Summit and merged with the other Mountain Ancestor into a four-legged, four-armed, two-faced Dharma Appearance.

Mountain Ancestor transformed and trapped Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor inside Buzhou Mountain Shadow, then used Jianmu’s roots to locate the True Martial Spirit World. Ning Qi fought back with the Enlightenment World Tree and broke free just as Mountain Ancestor joined Buzhou Mountain Shadow with its real fragment, leaving the three facing his descending hands in the World Sea.

• Mountain Ancestor merged into a two-faced, four-armed form and intensified Buzhou Mountain Shadow’s crushing pressure on Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor.
• Ning Qi summoned the Enlightenment World Tree to brace the shrinking space, but Mountain Ancestor used Root-Seeking Art to locate the True Martial Spirit World and drove Buzhou Mountain Shadow toward it.
• Ning Qi’s tree roots absorbed power from Buzhou Mountain’s roots, bringing the three closer to Mountain Ancestor despite his attempts to suppress Jianmu.
• Mountain Ancestor left Buzhou Mountain Shadow and compressed it in his hands, then summoned the real Buzhou Mountain Fragment to merge with the shadow.
• Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor broke out into the World Sea before the merger; Mountain Ancestor completed it and sent his other three hands crashing down toward them.

Mountain Ancestor summoned a solid Buzhou Mountain Fragment and trapped Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor beneath his Dharma Body’s palms. Ning Qi revealed that he was only an avatar and set the True Martial Spirit World moving toward the fragment’s point of origin while secretly activating Array Inscriptions in the Buzhou Mountain Shadow.

• The Buzhou Mountain Fragment fused with Mountain Ancestor’s shadow, and Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor escaped just before it became solid.
• Mountain Ancestor attacked them with three Giant Palms, but the Enlightenment World Tree’s trunk absorbed the blows and repaired its cracks.
• Mountain Ancestor drew the fragment into his hand, trapped the three with his palms, and headed toward a vast hollow in the Boundary Sea.
• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor learned that Ning Qi was an avatar and heard him say he could move the True Martial Spirit World away from Mountain Ancestor.
• Ning Qi sent the True Martial Spirit World toward the fragment’s origin, then sat inside Mountain Ancestor’s palm and used the Enlightenment World Tree’s roots to break down its power.
• Ning Qi’s hidden Array Inscriptions remained active within the Buzhou Mountain Shadow, and Mountain Ancestor did not know he had also contacted the incoming fragment.

Ning Qi used the True Martial Spirit World and the World Sea’s energy to keep Mountain Ancestor at bay, prompting Mountain Ancestor to abandon his pursuit and begin drawing on his other self to force an immortal breakthrough. The scar-covered Mountain Ancestor weakened as his future self drained him, then shriveled away, leaving Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor horrified.

• Mountain Ancestor chased the moving True Martial Spirit World, but Ning Qi accelerated it and sent a giant World Sea wave against him.
• Mountain Ancestor stopped pursuing perfection and began forcing a breakthrough, while Ning Qi reinforced the Boundary Tree against his attack.
• Mountain Ancestor withdrew one Giant Palm and used Buzhou Mountain to channel power from the scar-covered Hao Shan into his other self.
• Ning Qi noticed the scar-covered Mountain Ancestor shrinking as his other self grew stronger, and Sea Ancestor called attention to the change.
• The future self admitted that he was burying the past, and the scar-covered Mountain Ancestor shriveled away after asking whether they were truly the same person.

Mountain Ancestor absorbed his Past Self and the body of Buzhou Mountain, then forced the Immortal Gate to transform as he sought to ascend. Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor could not cross the gate and watched as Mountain Ancestor rejected its successive forms, leaving him facing a Silver Immortal Gate.

• Mountain Ancestor devoured his Past Self, freeing Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor from suppression, but his Immortal Gate prevented them from escaping.
• Sage Ancestor explained that the Immortal Gate protected Mountain Ancestor, while Ning Qi searched his inherited knowledge and studied the gate and Mountain Ancestor’s power.
• Mountain Ancestor swallowed Buzhou Mountain’s solid body, strengthening his Immortal Dao aura as Ning Qi secretly analyzed him and considered how to escape later.
• The White Jade Immortal Gate transformed into a Bronze Immortal Gate, which Mountain Ancestor rejected while invoking Buzhou Mountain’s former authority and the Immortal-Mortal Crossing Agreement.
• Mountain Ancestor battered the Bronze Gate until it transformed into a Silver Immortal Gate, then used Buzhou Mountain’s power and a mountain-shaped mark to strike at its doorway.

Mountain Ancestor transformed the Silver Immortal Gate into a Golden Immortal Gate and tried to enter, but the gate rejected him as World Sea energy poured from his body. He invoked the Immortal-Mortal Crossing agreement, and the gate began reverting to silver as it responded to his Mountain Mark.

• Mountain Ancestor used his Buzhou Mountain inheritance to transform the Silver Immortal Gate into a Golden Immortal Gate, which he said signified the aptitude to attain the Indestructible Golden Immortal.
• Sage Ancestor explained that the Boundary Sea might be a sea of suffering that cultivators had to leave behind to become immortal, unsettling Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor because they had absorbed World Sea energy.
• Mountain Ancestor climbed the golden steps and pushed open the Golden Immortal Gate, but black mist began pouring from his body and the gate repeatedly pushed him back.
• Ning Qi realized that Mountain Ancestor had likely absorbed World Sea energy from the Buzhou Mountain Fragment he summoned from the Boundary Sea.
• Mountain Ancestor struggled against the closing gate, invoked the Immortal-Mortal Crossing agreement, and branded it with his Mountain Mark; the gate’s golden light then began turning silver.

Mountain Ancestor struggled to enter the Silver Immortal Gate after the Golden Immortal Gate rejected the World Sea Black Mist within him. As Mountain Ancestor neared immortality, Ning Qi sent Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor away and stayed behind, preparing to test Mountain Ancestor’s power and seek a different path to immortality.

• Mountain Ancestor’s Golden Immortal Gate retreated because of the World Sea Energy in his Buzhou Mountain Fragment, and Ning Qi discovered that his Golden Key reacted to the gate.
• Mountain Ancestor suppressed the Black Mist within himself with Buzhou Law Extinction, abandoned the Golden Immortal Gate, and began entering the Silver Immortal Gate.
• Sage Ancestor warned Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor that Mountain Ancestor was nearing immortality, but Ning Qi could not cross the Silver Light Mass’s barrier back to the True Martial Spirit World.
• Ning Qi gave Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor gate tokens, then sent them into the depths of the World Sea while he remained to witness Mountain Ancestor’s transformation.
• Ning Qi tried attacking Mountain Ancestor’s Silver Light Mass with a World Sea energy net and ferocious beasts, but silver flames burned them away.
• Ning Qi hid a clone near Mountain Ancestor and traveled toward the World Sea Turbulence region to investigate whether its dangers could threaten an immortal.

Ning Qi entered the World Sea Turbulence seeking powerful beings who could help him test Mountain Ancestor, then gathered intelligence from Sage Ancestor's Avatar and the World Sea Ferocious Beasts. He learned that Sage Ancestor had already summoned a vast Twisted Monster Army, whose arrival could aid them but also threaten the True Martial Spirit World.

• Ning Qi crossed the Blackwater Region and struggled through the World Sea Turbulence, using Sword Dao Rules to resist its growing vortexes.
• Ning Qi contacted the True Martial Spirit World and asked Sage Ancestor's Avatar and the World Sea Ferocious Beasts for information about the depths of the World Sea.
• Feng Baihua sent Ning Qi a map to a location suspected of harboring a terrifying existence, and the other ferocious beasts shared information that identified two possible locations.
• Sage Ancestor's Avatar revealed that he had released a streak of black light to summon a vast Twisted Monster Army against Mountain Ancestor.
• Zhi Li explained that Twisted Monsters could reveal a world's location to terrifying beings in the Boundary Sea, leaving the True Martial Spirit World at risk when the summoned army arrived.

Ning Qi confirmed that his sealed evil qi was Limitless Evil Qi, which could devour energy and destroy twisted monsters, then lured the approaching Twisted Monster Army toward Mountain Ancestor. Mountain Ancestor completed his ascension, becoming an immortal with a Full Moon Immortal Body, and prepared to end everything.

• Ning Qi showed Sage Ancestor's Avatar and Zhi Li a wisp of evil qi, which devoured their energy and confirmed it was Limitless Evil Qi.
• Sage Ancestor's Avatar explained the qi's limitless growth and destructive power, while Ning Qi concealed that the Golden Key allowed him to suppress it.
• Ning Qi found the Twisted Monster Army crossing the World Sea and used Mountain Ancestor's stolen energy as bait to draw the monsters toward him.
• Mountain Ancestor absorbed the final three Immortal Patterns and became an immortal, achieving the second-rate Full Moon Immortal Body rather than the Golden Immortal Body.
• Mountain Ancestor isolated himself from the Boundary Sea with Immortal Radiance and declared that he would end everything.

Ning Qi used a clone and a trap to draw the newly ascended Mountain Ancestor into the path of a Twisted Monster Army. As Mountain Ancestor fought the monsters, Ning Qi noticed that his Immortal Radiance destroyed them in a way he had never seen before.

• Ning Qi’s scouting clone confronted Mountain Ancestor, who trapped and destroyed it while sensing the purity of his Immortal Radiance.
• Mountain Ancestor used Buzhou Immortal Eye to locate Ning Qi, but Ning Qi had lured him toward the Twisted Monster Army and hidden beyond the reach of his radiance.
• Mountain Ancestor recoiled from the approaching monsters, while Ning Qi wondered why they reacted so intensely to the newly ascended immortal.
• The Twisted Monster Army surged toward Mountain Ancestor, forcing him to stop searching for Ning Qi and attack them with a Giant Palm of Immortal Radiance.
• Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Radiance turned the slain twisted monsters into black water, a result Ning Qi had never witnessed as the battle continued.

Ning Qi secretly used Limitless Evil Qi to weaken Mountain Ancestor while Mountain Ancestor fought the Twisted Monsters. The evil qi seized control of Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Fire and drenched him in the monsters’ black water, leaving Mountain Ancestor horrified and defiled.

• Mountain Ancestor slaughtered the Twisted Monsters and burned their black remains, but the surviving monsters fused into stronger forms.
• Ning Qi sent Limitless Evil Qi into Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Radiance, where it secretly consumed his power without being detected.
• Mountain Ancestor used the Evil Slaying Immortal Sword to cut apart a huge Twisted Monster, then shielded himself from its burst of black water.
• Mountain Ancestor warned Ning Qi that the Twisted Monsters could devour his world, but Ning Qi stayed hidden and focused on defeating him.
• Ning Qi ordered the evil qi to act before it escaped his control, and it took over Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Fire and sprayed the black water onto his body.

Ning Qi used the Limitless Evil Qi to attack Mountain Ancestor, who struggled against its corruption and lost control of his Immortal Power. Mountain Ancestor summoned a transformed Buzhou Mountain Fragment to seal himself as Ning Qi watched warily.

• Mountain Ancestor failed to remove the black water left by the Twisted Monsters, while the Limitless Evil Qi secretly made the stains grow and absorbed his Immortal Power.
• Mountain Ancestor used the Five Elements Origin Immortal Thunder Talisman to cut away the black stains, leaving pits across his Immortal Body.
• Mountain Ancestor began searching for Ning Qi with an immortal pupil, but the Limitless Evil Qi absorbed his Immortal Radiance and invaded his body.
• Mountain Ancestor realized Limitless Evil Qi had taken root in his body and began seizing control of his Immortal Power.
• Mountain Ancestor shouted “Remaining Mountain Absorbs Sea” and summoned a pitch-black, sacred Buzhou Mountain Fragment shadow around his Immortal Body.

Ning Qi used Limitless Evil Qi and layered formations to challenge Mountain Ancestor, who relied on the Buzhou Mountain Shadow to defend himself. After drawing Mountain Ancestor into the World Sea Turbulence, Ning Qi linked an array to the mountain shadow, causing a violent tremor inside Mountain Ancestor’s body.

• Mountain Ancestor summoned the Buzhou Mountain Shadow and forced the Limitless Evil Qi out of his body, preventing Ning Qi from reaching him with it.
• Ning Qi released three wisps of Limitless Evil Qi and sent them against Mountain Ancestor’s defenses, but Mountain Ancestor repelled them with his shadow and Evil Slaying Immortal Sword.
• Ning Qi withdrew most of his Evil Sealing Bottles as Mountain Ancestor charged, then trapped him in layers of formations across the World Sea.
• Mountain Ancestor broke through the formations and entered the World Sea Turbulence, but Ning Qi linked array inscriptions to the Buzhou Mountain Shadow.
• A violent tremor erupted inside Mountain Ancestor’s body as Ning Qi’s array took effect.

Ning Qi used the Boundary Sea Coiling Dragon Grand Formation and the Buzhou Mountain Fragment to ambush Mountain Ancestor and trap him in the depths of the World Sea. After their clash left Ning Qi injured but alive, Mountain Ancestor was horrified when Ning Qi absorbed Limitless Evil Qi and recognized him as a Human Demon.

• Ning Qi’s Array Inscriptions activated inside the Buzhou Mountain Fragment and around Mountain Ancestor, disrupting his control and dragging him deeper into the World Sea Turbulence.
• Ning Qi used the Ten Directions Turbulent Flow Array to trap Mountain Ancestor, forcing him to face Ning Qi instead of escaping.
• Mountain Ancestor attacked with the Severing Immortal Lotus Palm, overpowering Ning Qi’s Myriad Manifestations Hand and blasting him into a vortex.
• Ning Qi survived the attack, healed himself, and opened the Evil Sealing Bottle to release Limitless Evil Qi.
• Ning Qi fused the Limitless Evil Qi into his Yin-Yang Diagram, and Mountain Ancestor called him a Human Demon.

Ning Qi fused Limitless Evil Qi into his Yin-Yang Dao Diagram without losing his clarity and defeated Mountain Ancestor in the World Sea. After killing him, Ning Qi rejected the claim that cutting off his Immortal Path would prevent him from becoming an immortal.

• Ning Qi’s Yin-Yang Dao Diagram absorbed the Immortal Qi and Limitless Evil Qi, giving him a new balance of power while he remained clear-minded.
• Ning Qi clashed with Mountain Ancestor and matched his strength, then forced him to avoid a sword strike with One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Laws.
• Mountain Ancestor unleashed the Six Paths Immortal Wheel, but Ning Qi countered with the Limitless Yin-Yang Sword, overcame him, and held his sword to Mountain Ancestor’s throat.
• Mountain Ancestor spat out the Buzhou Mountain Fragment to ambush Ning Qi, but Ning Qi struck it back and pinned Mountain Ancestor beneath it.
• Ning Qi explained that he had retained and learned to control the Limitless Evil Qi, then dismissed Mountain Ancestor’s warning about his severed Immortal Path and beheaded him.

After defeating Mountain Ancestor, Ning Qi claimed the Buzhou Mountain Fragment and preserved Mountain Ancestor’s body, then returned to the True Martial Spirit World and celebrated the victory with its people. He later showed Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor Mountain Ancestor’s corpse, revealing that the immortal had not died completely.

• Ning Qi explored the Buzhou Mountain Fragment and discovered a world within it containing cultivation methods, Supernatural Powers, and records carved into a cliff.
• Ning Qi collected Mountain Ancestor’s severed body in a jade coffin, found his Storage Ring but could not open it, and took the Buzhou Mountain Fragment.
• Ning Qi’s clone showed the battle to people in the True Martial Spirit World, while Sea Ancestor toured the realm with Zhao Yujun and witnessed how its inhabitants had begun to prosper.
• Ning Qi returned to the True Martial Immortal Sect, reunited with his clone, and announced a three-day feast as the crowd celebrated his victory.
• Three days later, Ning Qi appointed Sea Ancestor Venerable of the Four Seas and told her and Sage Ancestor that Mountain Ancestor had not died completely.
• Ning Qi brought out Mountain Ancestor’s jade coffin and opened it for Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor to see.

Ning Qi discussed Mountain Ancestor’s preserved Immortal Soul and regenerative body with Sea Ancestor and Sage Ancestor, offering to remove Sea Ancestor’s World Sea energy and proposing a new path to immortality. The chapter left the three preparing to investigate the Immortal Gate, with Ning Qi urging the others to abandon their reverence for immortals.

• Ning Qi explained that Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Soul remained alive and demonstrated how his body regenerated after its head was reattached.
• Ning Qi offered to extract the World Sea energy from Sea Ancestor, then removed a strand from her body and Divine Soul without causing pain.
• Ning Qi revealed that fusing with Limitless Evil Qi had given him control over World Sea energy, and Sea Ancestor chose to wait before deciding whether to have it all removed.
• Ning Qi told Sage Ancestor to pursue the traditional path to immortality so they could study the Immortal Gate and possibly break it open to reach whoever controlled it.
• Ning Qi said they could use Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Body as they wished and challenged Sea Ancestor and Sage Ancestor to stop placing immortals above humans.