Recaps

Ning Qi sent his divided spirit with Shi Xiaokun and Azure Dragon to explore the ruins while his main body returned to the pool’s bank. Deep underground, Azure Dragon claimed an Immortal Artifact saber and discovered Dragon Clan members sealed inside stalactites, whose Dragon Qi he offered to help Ning Qi absorb.

• Ning Qi condensed a divided spirit, sent it with Shi Xiaokun and Azure Dragon to explore, and returned to the pool’s bank with Medicine Spirit.
• Ning Qi learned that Zhao Cheng’s Jade Talisman could detect formations and prohibitions, then rested while the others explored below.
• Azure Dragon sensed that a saber in a main hall was extraordinary, took it with his Dragon Clan Bloodline Power, and absorbed it into his body as a powerful weapon.
• The group continued through the passages and found a cave full of dragon-shaped stalactites containing Dragon Clan members and faint life auras.
• Azure Dragon explained that the stalactites held Dragon Qi that could strengthen Ning Qi’s divine soul, and offered to help him absorb it; Ning Qi first asked whether doing so would affect Azure Dragon.

Ning Qi searched the stalactites with the Azure Dragon and Shi Xiaokun, finding Dragon Clan Bloodline Power that could help him grow stronger. Outside the deep pool, he persuaded Li Qiuwan’s group to return by the more dangerous route, and they set out prepared to face whatever awaited them.

• Ning Qi used his Dao Pattern to locate stalactites containing Dragon Clan Bloodline Power, and the Azure Dragon began merging it with the Dragon Qi.
• After waking, Ning Qi joined Li Qiuwan’s group as they prepared to leave the deep pool and return along the battlefield route.
• Zhao Cheng recommended a detour to avoid the road where a fierce beast and a mysterious fighter had clashed the previous night, prompting the group to debate which way to go.
• Ning Qi urged the group to face hardship instead of retreating, and Li Qiuwan’s disciples agreed to follow the original route with renewed battle spirit.
• As the group set out, Medicine Spirit asked whether the fierce beast and the mysterious fighter were enemies or allies, and Ning Qi hoped they were friends.

Ning Qi and the Thousand Crane Sect disciples crossed the ruins of a devastating battle and encountered Xu Haoran and Liu Chengfeng of the Iron Garment Sect. The rival sect mocked Li Qiuwan’s group, and Ning Qi remained with them as tensions grew.

• Ning Qi explained that the group had escaped the battlefield before the Golden Immortal-level fighters wrecked the mountain range, and said his divided spirit was gathering Dragon Qi and the Dragon Clan’s Bloodline Power beneath the deep pool.
• Li Qiuwan led the disciples toward their branch through a forest, warning them to stay alert, while Ning Qi agreed to help if anyone threatened them.
• A scout reported that Xu Haoran and Liu Chengfeng of the Iron Garment Sect were ahead, and Li Qiuwan told her disciples not to provoke them.
• The groups met on the road, and Xu Haoran and Liu Chengfeng mocked the Thousand Crane Sect disciples for their depleted numbers and missing Eldest Senior Brother.
• Li Qiuwan and Zhao Cheng pushed back against the taunts, while Medicine Spirit complained to Ning Qi about the Iron Garment Sect’s noisy behavior.

Ning Qi intervened when the Iron Garment Sect challenged the Thousand Crane Sect’s group and defeated Liu Chengfeng without being touched. He forced the opponents to apologize and leave, ending the confrontation with the two groups still headed back separately.

• Xu Haoran and Liu Chengfeng provoked the Thousand Crane Sect’s group, and Ning Qi stepped forward to fight Liu Chengfeng.
• Ning Qi struck Liu Chengfeng with his Chaos Sword and Chaos Blazing Flames, forcing him back while remaining unharmed.
• Ning Qi trapped Liu Chengfeng in a Thunder Prison with his Thunder Roar Bead, and Liu Chengfeng realized he could not win.
• Liu Chengfeng admitted defeat, and Xu Haoran conceded after Ning Qi reminded them they had agreed to a life-and-death battle.
• Liu Chengfeng apologized to the Thousand Crane Sect’s disciples, and Ning Qi warned the Iron Garment Sect to leave and avoid provoking them again.
• Xu Haoran led the Iron Garment Sect’s disciples away.

Ning Qi helped Li Qiuwan and Zhao Cheng’s group defeat their pursuers, then concealed his identity after accidentally revealing that he had been to the Devil Race’s territory. As the group searched for a safe place to rest, Ning Qi learned they might have to keep following Liu Wanshan unless they challenged him, and he considered how to prepare for what came next.

• Ning Qi let the defeated pursuers leave to avoid drawing attention, then accepted the group’s thanks for helping them.
• Li Qiuwan and Zhao Cheng explained that traveling after dark had become dangerous because several of their people had recently been killed.
• After Ning Qi let slip that he had been to the Devil Race’s side, he claimed his team had gone on a mission, escaped through the water, and been wiped out by a fierce beast.
• Li Qiuwan led the group to an open area among earthen slopes, where they planned to patrol and spend the night.
• Ning Qi learned from Li Qiuwan that the group might have to keep following Liu Wanshan, and that challenging him was their only alternative despite his strength and Grand Elder Heiyou’s support.

Ning Qi and his companions discovered a sealed passage beneath an altar and opened it using Azure Dragon’s bloodline power. They descended into the passage, where a crushing pressure nearly overwhelmed Ning Qi’s divided spirit.

• Li Qiuwan told Ning Qi that an unknown catastrophe was approaching and planned for her disciples to rest before it began.
• Ning Qi returned to his split soul and joined Azure Dragon and Shi Xiaokun as they explored beyond the stalactite cave.
• The three found an altar with powerful lingering qi and blood, and Azure Dragon sensed a Supreme Treasure nearby.
• Ning Qi suggested moving the inscribed stone table, and Azure Dragon used Dragon Qi and bloodline power to shift it aside.
• The altar opened to reveal a bottomless passage, and Ning Qi, Azure Dragon, and Shi Xiaokun descended into it.
• A powerful pressure struck them below, leaving Ning Qi’s divided spirit wavering as Shi Xiaokun checked on him.

Ning Qi and his companions discovered two Dragon Pearls and returned to reunite Ning Qi’s split soul with his true body. With Azure Dragon’s help, Ning Qi began refining the lightning Dragon Pearl and absorbing Dragon Qi and Dragon Clan Bloodline Power, and after half a month of accelerated cultivation his aura continued to rise as the surrounding mountain was devastated.

• Azure Dragon identified the gold and silver Dragon Pearls hidden in the stone wall as real and removed them using his Dragon Qi.
• Shi Xiaokun opened a passage to their Inner Realm, then connected it to Ning Qi’s Sumeru Space so his true body could join them.
• Azure Dragon took the lightning Dragon Pearl while Ning Qi kept the fire-attribute pearl, and they went to the Back Mountain to cultivate in Shi Xiaokun’s time-accelerating formation.
• Azure Dragon entered Ning Qi’s body and guided the lightning Dragon Pearl through his meridians, then fused Dragon Qi and Dragon Clan Bloodline Power into him through a painful process.
• After half a month in the formation, Ning Qi’s aura kept climbing and wrecked the surrounding rocks, mountains, and trees, while Shi Xiaokun watched with concern.

Ning Qi absorbed the Dragon Pearl and broke through from Fifth Grade Golden Immortal to First-grade Daluo Golden Immortal, with the Azure Dragon and Shi Xiaokun helping him withstand the Thunder Tribulation before he took it on himself. He returned to the group, concealed the cause of the heavenly phenomenon, and continued toward the Immortal Clan’s branch division with Li Qiuwan.

• Ning Qi’s aura surged after he absorbed the Dragon Pearl, and the Azure Dragon told Shi Xiaokun that his mixed bloodlines and the power of the Inner Realm could let him reach Daluo Golden Immortal strength.
• When the Daluo Golden Immortal Thunder Tribulation began, the Azure Dragon and Shi Xiaokun tried to protect Ning Qi, but Ning Qi told them to retreat and endured the lightning himself.
• Ning Qi broke through to First-grade Daluo Golden Immortal, sensed the laws and Prohibition Arrays in the Inner Realm, and destroyed a mountain with a casual gesture.
• Ning Qi returned to the resting group and, when Li Qiuwan asked about the heavenly phenomenon, pretended he did not know what had caused it.
• The group set out toward their sect, and Li Qiuwan told Ning Qi she would introduce him to her approachable master when they arrived.

Ning Qi and Li Qiuwan entered an Immortal Clan city, where they learned about its strict entry rules and the dominance of Holy Domain sects and families. They went to a restaurant to try its Immortal Realm delicacies, and Ning Qi ordered all of its signature dishes.

• Li Qiuwan and Zhao Cheng explained that their Thousand Crane Sect lacked the strength to occupy a place inside the city, and Medicine Spirit suggested the sect's tales of past glory might be exaggerated.
• Zhao Cheng led the other disciples back to the sect's encampment while Li Qiuwan accompanied Ning Qi toward the city.
• At the gates, guards checked Li Qiuwan's sect token and warned them they would owe fifty million Spirit Marrow Liquid if they stayed past dark.
• Li Qiuwan showed Ning Qi the city's busy streets and explained how its shops and trading fees benefited the Immortal Clan's Holy Domain families and sects.
• Li Qiuwan brought Ning Qi to a restaurant she had visited with her master, and Ning Qi ordered all its signature dishes.

Ning Qi treated Li Qiuwan to three tables of Immortal World dishes, then paid the enormous bill with ease using his vast supply of Spirit Marrow Liquid. Afterward, he and Li Qiuwan joined a growing crowd in the street, while she wondered who he really was.

• Ning Qi ordered an expensive spread, and Li Qiuwan worried that she would have to pay for it.
• Ning Qi and Li Qiuwan ate the first table, then ordered more food and a packed table for their companions.
• The waiter announced a bill of seven hundred million Spirit Marrow Liquid, and Ning Qi paid from a Storage Bag containing at least a trillion.
• Ning Qi and Li Qiuwan left the restaurant and headed toward a gathering crowd as Li Qiuwan questioned Ning Qi's status and wealth.

Ning Qi and Li Qiuwan entered an invitation-only auction after paying the entrance fee, then watched from a private room as the auction began. The first item was a Blazing Flame Armor with a starting bid of five hundred million top-grade Spirit Marrow Liquid, and bidding was about to start.

• Ning Qi paid one million top-grade Spirit Marrow Liquid for himself and Li Qiuwan to enter the auction house, then chose a private room.
• Ning Qi ordered food and paid the waiter, while telling Li Qiuwan he would help her bid for anything she liked.
• An auctioneer opened the crowded auction and brought out a piece of Blazing Flame Armor tempered with Chaos Blazing Flames.
• The auctioneer set the armor's starting bid at five hundred million top-grade Spirit Marrow Liquid, and many people balked at the price.

Ning Qi won a powerful suit of armor at auction and gave it to Li Qiuwan, then competed with Wang Dingnan for the Wandering Dragon Spear, a weapon once wielded by a Daluo Golden Immortal. After Ning Qi won the spear for three hundred and ten million Spirit Marrow Liquid, Wang Dingnan decided to confront him despite Uncle Hao’s warning.

• Ning Qi bid eight hundred million Spirit Marrow Liquid for the treasured armor, won it, and insisted that Li Qiuwan accept and wear it.
• Li Qiuwan found that the armor was light and could enhance her Immortal Power.
• The auctioneer presented the Wandering Dragon Spear, which had belonged to a fallen Daluo Golden Immortal, and opened bidding at one hundred billion Spirit Marrow Liquid.
• Ning Qi and Wang Dingnan competed for the spear, and Ning Qi won it with a bid of three hundred and ten million Spirit Marrow Liquid.
• Wang Dingnan asked Uncle Hao how to deal with Ning Qi, but Uncle Hao advised him to avoid trouble; Wang Dingnan insisted on meeting Ning Qi.

Ning Qi won the Abyssal Glass Bell for eighty million drops of Spirit Marrow Essence, outbidding Wang Dingnan and a mysterious bidder. After sensing someone’s attention, he followed an attendant upstairs to settle payment with the auction house shopkeeper.

• Ning Qi and Li Qiuwan watched as the auctioneer revealed the Abyssal Glass Bell, a defensive Supreme Treasure that could protect against soul and ordinary attacks.
• Ning Qi, Wang Dingnan, and a mysterious bidder raised the price, and Ning Qi won the bell with a bid of eighty million drops of Spirit Marrow Essence.
• Wang Dingnan told Uncle Hao to discover Ning Qi’s identity, and Uncle Hao revealed that he had secretly placed his divine sense on an attendant.
• Ning Qi received the Abyssal Glass Bell and briefly sensed someone watching him before leaving the auction hall with Li Qiuwan.
• Ning Qi and Li Qiuwan followed an attendant to the shopkeeper’s room, where Ning Qi handed over a Storage Bag of Spirit Marrow Essence.

Ning Qi and Li Qiuwan struggled to find lodging in a crowded city after leaving Liu Piaopiao’s shop, where she had sensed Ning Qi’s hidden strength. They rented the last small room just as rumors spread that the Devil Race had entered the city, and Ning Qi prepared to investigate any disturbance.

• Liu Piaopiao recognized that Ning Qi had hidden strength at least at the peak of Golden Immortal, but she chose not to pursue him.
• Ning Qi and Li Qiuwan searched several full inns before finding one last small room in an alley.
• An attendant warned them that Devil Race members had reportedly entered the city and that people outside inns could be conscripted, so Ning Qi paid five thousand Spirit Marrow Liquid for the room.
• Ning Qi offered Li Qiuwan the bed and brought out food and wine for them to share.
• Li Qiuwan worried that the Thousand Crane Sect disciples would be sent to the vanguard if fighting began, while Ning Qi said he would investigate any disturbance; she warned him that it was too dangerous.

Ning Qi and Li Qiuwan left the city to investigate an attack by ghostlike Shadowy Figures and find Li Qiuwan's sect. Ning Qi effortlessly fought off the creatures, and they reached the battered mountain gate, where Li Qiuwan's wounded master was still fighting.

• Ning Qi and Li Qiuwan joined a guarded procession leaving the city after sensing powerful fluctuations beyond its protective formation.
• Outside the formation, they found the landscape devastated and immortals fighting ghostlike creatures that Li Qiuwan suspected were Twisted Monsters.
• Ning Qi crushed attacking Shadowy Figures with ease and told Li Qiuwan he would leave after escorting her to her sect.
• Ning Qi and Li Qiuwan reached the destroyed mountain gate, where Li Qiuwan saw her wounded master battling a group of Shadowy Figures.
• Li Qiuwan's master recognized her and asked why she had returned instead of staying in the city.

Ning Qi returned Li Qiuwan to her master, Xu Qianhe, amid a battlefield and rejected Wang Qingnian’s attempt to recruit and command him. After revealing his Daluo Golden Immortal strength and defeating Wang Qingnian, Ning Qi forced him to discipline Liu Wanshan and protect the disciples Ning Qi had saved.

• Ning Qi brought Li Qiuwan back to Xu Qianhe and headed toward the fiercest part of the battlefield.
• Wang Qingnian tried to accept Ning Qi into the Thousand Crane Sect and ordered him to guard against the enemy, but Ning Qi shattered the Jade Talisman and refused.
• When Liu Wanshan and Wang Qingnian ordered the disciples to seize Ning Qi, they refused, and Ning Qi struck Wang Qingnian down with a single punch.
• Xu Qianhe asked Ning Qi to spare Wang Qingnian, and Ning Qi agreed while warning that he would kill Wang Qingnian and Liu Wanshan if they harmed or betrayed his friends again.
• Liu Wanshan attacked Ning Qi, but Wang Qingnian struck his own son and promised to discipline him and keep the disciples safe.

Ning Qi left his companions and reached a battle between Immortal Guards and Devil Shadows, where he revealed overwhelming strength after the guards provoked him. After learning the Devil Shadows had emerged from tombs the guards were exploring for resources, he agreed to join them in exchange for information and flew to confront a Daluo Golden Immortal Devil Shadow.

• Ning Qi parted ways with Li Qiuwan, Xu Qianhe, and the others, then traveled toward the fiercest fighting.
• Ning Qi found Immortal Guards battling Devil Shadows and approached Ji Wanru's group to ask about the situation.
• Ji Wanru attacked Ning Qi when he refused to join the fight, but he caught her sword, sent another disciple flying with a glance, and forced the group to back down.
• Ji Wanru identified herself and Xu Haotian as Immortal Guards and revealed that the Devil Shadows had been found among tombs the guards were exploring for resources.
• Ning Qi offered to save Xu Haotian if the guards let him join their expedition and explain the Devil Shadows, and Ji Wanru agreed.
• After receiving Ji Wanru's message, Xu Haotian turned back toward the group as Ning Qi flew toward the Daluo Golden Immortal Devil Shadow.

Ning Qi fought a powerful Devil Shadow, then revealed his Devil Qi and claimed to be a Devil Race infiltrator to earn its trust. The Devil Shadow agreed to pass him its Royal Family Bloodline Power, and their staged battle continued as its strength waned.

• Ning Qi told Xu Haotian to handle the other enemies and fought the Devil Shadow in a Void Crack.
• Ning Qi pierced the Devil Shadow with his Wandering Dragon Spear, but it re-formed and acknowledged his strength.
• Ning Qi revealed his Devil Qi and claimed he had come undercover to investigate the Immortal Clan's actions at the Devil Graveyard.
• The Devil Shadow explained that it had awakened when the Immortal Clan disturbed the Royal Family's graveyard and offered Ning Qi its Royal Family Bloodline Power.
• Ning Qi and the Devil Shadow returned to the battlefield and continued their staged fight while the surrounding groups watched.
• The Devil Shadow's strength began to fade, and it promised to give Ning Qi its final aid and Bloodline Power.

Ning Qi returned to the city after defeating the Devil Shadow and learned that its Teleportation Array required a sect elder or commander to use. He went back to the Thousand Crane Sect to seek help, but planned not to stay there.

• The Devil Shadow passed its Bloodline Power and two Supreme Treasures to Ning Qi before he killed it, ending the battle and earning the Immortal Clan's gratitude.
• Ji Wanru and Xu Haotian invited Ning Qi to meet Domain Lord Xiao Lingtian, but he refused and left; other observers arrived after he had gone.
• Ning Qi disguised himself, returned to the city, and learned from an inn attendant that only sect elders or commanders could use its Teleportation Array.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit left the city and returned to the Thousand Crane Sect, where Li Qiuwan and the others welcomed him back.
• Ning Qi declined Wang Qingnian's invitation to stay, but accepted Xu Qianhe's invitation to talk in the main hall.

Ning Qi accepted a commander identity token and merit points from the Thousand Crane Sect so he could teleport elsewhere, while concealing himself from investigators searching for the powerful expert. He entered his Inner Realm to check on Shi Xiaokun and learned that its growing Incense Power could increase his strength, though he did not yet know how to use it outside the realm.

• Ning Qi shared a banquet with Wang Qingnian and Xu Qianhe, who gave him a commander identity token containing ten thousand merit points for his planned teleportation.
• Gao Lingtian and Liang Xiao came to the Thousand Crane Sect asking about the expert from the previous battle, and Wang Qingnian and Xu Qianhe concealed Ning Qi’s presence.
• Ning Qi reassured Li Qiuwan that the visitors had not recognized him, then returned to the mountaintop to wait for nightfall.
• Ning Qi entered his Inner Realm and saw that Shi Xiaokun had built thriving villages and towns there.
• Shi Xiaokun told Ning Qi that Incense Power had reached its peak and that he had arranged three reincarnations, prompting Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit to ask how to use that power outside the Inner Realm.

Ning Qi tested a ring that let him draw on the Inner Realm’s Incense Power, then prepared to leave for the Boundary Sea Battlefield. While waiting for the city’s teleportation array, he heard from Xu Qingqiu that many unranked Human Race sects had also arrived, raising suspicions that something unusual was happening.

• Shi Xiaokun gave Ning Qi a ring that let him channel the Inner Realm’s Incense Power, and Ning Qi demonstrated its strength by flattening a mountain peak with one sword strike.
• Shi Xiaokun explained that Incense Power was rare and costly outside their Inner Realm, and Ning Qi learned that the people there could only grow stronger as he broke through his own limits.
• Wang Qingnian told Ning Qi that his identity had been approved, and Ning Qi set off alone after giving Li Qiuwan his protective armor and saying farewell to his fellow disciples.
• Ning Qi learned that the city’s teleportation array would need two days of adjustment, so he rented an inn courtyard and later went to an auction to pass the time.
• Xu Qingqiu contacted Ning Qi and said she and many unranked Human Race sects had arrived at the Boundary Sea Battlefield; Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit suspected the arrivals were connected to a larger disturbance.

Ning Qi won a Royal Family Dragon Egg at auction, then met the beautiful shopkeeper after she summoned him to ask about the egg and how to hatch it. He claimed he planned to refine it, while she revealed that she knew its royal lineage and asked whether he could hatch it.

• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit recognized the auctioned Dragon Egg as a likely Royal Family Li Dragon egg after Azure Dragon identified it.
• Ning Qi outbid the competition and bought the Dragon Egg for four hundred million Spirit Marrow Essence.
• Azure Dragon opened the box, but Ning Qi quickly shut it when Gang Wind surged out and decided to inspect the egg back at the inn.
• Ning Qi left the auction and agreed to meet the shopkeeper after her attendant offered him a treasure.
• The shopkeeper asked Ning Qi about the Dragon Egg, identified it as a Royal Family egg, and asked whether he could hatch it; Ning Qi said he intended to refine it.

Ning Qi learned that a war was being prepared near the city and that people could enter but not leave, so he returned to the Thousand Crane Sect to warn its leaders. The chapter ended as he told them that the city’s lockdown was tied to something major.

• Ning Qi had the Azure Dragon examine the dragon egg, and the Azure Dragon estimated that it would hatch after at least two years of incubation in Ning Qi’s Inner Realm.
• Ning Qi discovered that the Teleportation Array still allowed people to enter the city but not leave, and a restaurant attendant told him that Human, Demon, and Devil forces were gathering for war.
• Ning Qi found hidden Immortal Guards outside the city, then lured the men who had demanded the dragon egg into a valley and killed them all.
• Ning Qi decided to warn the Thousand Crane Sect and returned to find Zhao Cheng, Li Qiuwan, Wang Qingnian, and Xu Qianhe.
• Ning Qi told the sect leaders that he had been unable to leave the city and that something major was happening.

Ning Qi warned Xu Qianhe, Wang Qingnian, and the others that a multi-race battle was imminent and showed them evidence of an Immortal Guard ambush. The Thousand Crane Sect was ordered to assemble at the front line, where Ning Qi suspected their placement might let them avoid the strongest fighters as the battle approached.

• Ning Qi showed Xu Qianhe, Wang Qingnian, and the others a Spirit Stone image proving that Immortal Guards had been concealed nearby and warned that battle would begin within days.
• After several days, Wang Qingnian reported that Immortal Guards had emerged, and Ning Qi recognized Gao Lingtian moving toward the Immortal Guards' position.
• An Immortal Guard ordered Xu Qianhe to gather his people and head to a designated area; Ning Qi and Xu Qianhe discovered it was the front line near the Border Zone.
• Ning Qi told the Thousand Crane Sect disciples to stay together and suggested that being sent to the front might let them face weaker enemies and avoid the experts' clashes.
• The Immortal Guard distributed armor and weapons, announced the battle would begin within hours, and threatened anyone who tried to flee.

Ning Qi and the Thousand Crane Sect faced a Devil Race assault after Gao Lingtian deliberately left their position without Immortal Guard support to draw out a hidden Daluo Golden Immortal. Ning Qi concealed his true strength, then lured a Devil Race Golden Immortal into his Inner Realm, where he demanded to know why the Devil Race had attacked.

• Gao Lingtian and Liang Xiao discussed using the battle to expose the hidden Daluo Golden Immortal, and Gao ordered that no one support the Thousand Crane Sect's position.
• As the Devil Race advanced, the Thousand Crane Sect realized it had been left without Immortal Guards and prepared to defend itself alone.
• Ning Qi concealed his Daluo Golden Immortal strength, fought as a peak Golden Immortal, and killed the Devil Race members who attacked him.
• Ning Qi drew a Devil Race Golden Immortal away from the battlefield by provoking him and staying ahead during the chase.
• Ning Qi brought the Devil Race man into his Inner Realm and demanded to know why the Devil Race had attacked the Immortal Clan.