Recaps

Ning Qi defeated a Devil Race member, bound him as a servant, and ordered him to investigate the Devil Race's orders. After spotting Immortal Guards sent by City Lord Gao Lingtian to watch him, Ning Qi revealed himself as a powerful Human and agreed to meet the city lord, suspecting a trap.

• Ning Qi used his avatars to defeat a Devil Race member and forced him to become his servant by refining his Soul Blood.
• Ning Qi ordered the Devil Race servant to return and gather information about the attackers, then noticed Immortal Guards watching them.
• Ning Qi and the servant staged a fight and the servant fled so the watching guards would not suspect their alliance.
• Ning Qi told Medicine Spirit that the city lord had sent the guards to watch them, then encountered another squad of Immortal Guards.
• Ning Qi revealed that he was from the Human Race and displayed Half-Step Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal strength when the guards tried to stop him.
• A commander invited Ning Qi to meet the city lord, and Ning Qi accepted despite Medicine Spirit's suspicion that it was a trap.

Ning Qi agreed to join Gao Lingtian’s expedition to an Immortal Ruins at the borders of the three races, where they sought Origin Power. After the group teleported into a specially opened Wormhole, Liang Xiao explained that the passage greatly increased their travel speed.

• Gao Lingtian admitted that he had put Ning Qi’s friends in danger, then offered him a place on an expedition to find an inheritance and obtain its Origin Power.
• Ning Qi agreed to go, joining Ji Wanru, Xu Haotian, Liang Xiao, and two teams of Immortal Guards.
• Gao Lingtian told the expedition to prioritize bringing him the Origin Power, then watched the group teleport away and arranged for the battlefield withdrawal to continue as cover.
• Ning Qi and the others arrived in a Wormhole passage, where Liang Xiao explained that it was a forcefully opened route that let them travel hundreds or thousands of times faster than normal.

Ning Qi and Ji Wanru led a team into the honeycomb-like Meteorite Zone, where they learned that hostile spirit creatures carried Sword Qi that could help them comprehend sword moves. After Ji Wanru demonstrated how to kill two creatures, Ning Qi asked to see the Sword Qi she had collected.

• Ning Qi and Ji Wanru left through the fog and entered a hollow in the Meteorite Zone with their subordinates.
• Ning Qi tested the meteorite wall and found it so hard that his Mystic Sword could leave only a small mark.
• Ji Wanru told Ning Qi that killing the spirit creatures yielded Sword Qi and that the creatures varied in strength and color.
• Ji Wanru killed two spirit creatures by weakening one with a soul attack and shooting the other with a soul-attacking arrow.
• Ning Qi noticed Ji Wanru collect Sword Qi from a defeated creature, and she agreed to show it to him when they rested.

Ning Qi and the Vermilion Bird tracked the Origin Flame through the blazing underground passages after the rest of the group split off. At the entrance to a cave where powerful fluctuations surged, Ning Qi was caught by a restriction that stopped him from moving.

• Ning Qi led the group through passages marked with mysterious ancient writing, which Shi Xiaokun and Medicine Spirit copied for later study.
• After the group changed routes to avoid distant fighting, they entered increasingly hot passages and eventually split up, with Ji Wanru taking the others away while Ning Qi continued alone.
• Ning Qi summoned the Vermilion Bird, who sensed the Origin Flame nearby and led him down a passage where its extreme yang aura kept spiritual beings away.
• The Vermilion Bird discovered that the intelligent Origin Flame had noticed them and was using avatars to flee, so she and Ning Qi searched in different directions.
• Ning Qi followed the rising heat to a cave entrance, where a restriction suddenly froze him in place.

Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit searched the magma caverns for the Flame Spirit, while a false Vermilion Bird tried to lure them into the dangerous core. Ning Qi exposed the impostor as the Flame Spirit but let him proceed, ending as the Flame Spirit began his act in the magma’s core.

• Medicine Spirit helped Ning Qi overcome his paralysis, and Ning Qi followed the Origin Flame’s resonance down a passage into the magma caverns.
• Ning Qi and Vermilion Bird split up to search for the Flame Spirit, and Medicine Spirit sensed a faint trace that guided Ning Qi onward.
• Ning Qi realized the apparent Vermilion Bird was an impostor after contacting the real Vermilion Bird through their Soul Blood bond.
• Ning Qi concluded the impostor was the Flame Spirit and refused to follow him into the magma, instead telling him to go ahead and investigate.
• The fake Vermilion Bird reached the magma’s core while Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit watched.

Ning Qi fought the Fake Vermilion Bird in its magma territory, recovering from its fire poison and overpowering it with his combined abilities. After the Fake Vermilion Bird unleashed the Origin Flame’s souls, Ning Qi used the Thunder Roar Bead to weaken it and prepared another attack, while the Vermilion Bird remained trapped outside the barriers.

• The Fake Vermilion Bird revealed that its fire poison had reduced Ning Qi’s strength, but Medicine Spirit restored Ning Qi’s vitality and healed his injuries.
• Ning Qi battered the Fake Vermilion Bird with Devil Qi, Li River Water, incense aura, and Chaos Blazing Flames, forcing it to retreat into the magma.
• Ning Qi taunted the Fake Vermilion Bird and began recording it, enraging it into summoning fire dragons that were the Origin Flame’s souls.
• The Vermilion Bird contacted Ning Qi and warned him that the fire dragons could corrode his Divine Soul, then explained that barriers kept her outside.
• Ning Qi retreated from the Fake Vermilion Bird’s attack and used the Thunder Roar Bead to clash with its flames, weakening it before preparing another strike with Medicine Spirit’s aid.

Ning Qi trapped Fake Vermilion Bird and Vermilion Bird took him to the Inner Realm to refine him. After reuniting with Ji Wanru and learning her group had clashed with Xiao Haotian, he continued with them into an area full of sword-wielding spiritual creatures, where he began fighting while Ji Wanru's group prepared a formation to support him.

• Ning Qi shattered Fake Vermilion Bird's defenses and trapped him inside his protective waves of light.
• Vermilion Bird explained she could refine Fake Vermilion Bird in the Inner Realm, and she took him there with help from the Time Difference Array.
• Ning Qi reunited with Ji Wanru, whose guards had been injured in a conflict with Xiao Haotian, the Domain Lord Xiao Lingtian's brother.
• Ji Wanru led the group onward, and sword-wielding spiritual creatures emerged from the stone walls and surrounded them.
• Ning Qi tore Sword Qi from one spiritual creature and absorbed it into his palm as the others attacked; Ji Wanru ordered her guards to set up a formation to assist him if needed.

Ning Qi refined the Sword Qi from defeated spiritual beings and sensed that it could lead him to a powerful sword, while hiding his discovery from Ji Wanru. The group continued through the dangerous area, where they found signs that Demon Race fighters had also entered, and Ning Qi suspected the City Lord had sent Ji Wanru’s party into danger with little information.

• Ning Qi and Ji Wanru’s formation defeated a group of spiritual beings, and Ning Qi collected their Sword Qi.
• Ning Qi resisted and refined the Sword Qi with his Immortal-Demon Power, sensing that it would guide him toward a sword.
• Ning Qi hid his success from Ji Wanru and stored his own Sword Qi in a Storage Bag, letting her believe he had merely forced out one strand.
• Ji Wanru led the guards onward with her Compass, warning them to stay alert as spiritual beings grew more numerous.
• The group found corpses and sword marks from a battle; Ji Wanru identified the dead as Demon Race fighters and chose to continue rather than split up.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit suspected that the City Lord knew the truth about the area and had sent Ji Wanru’s group to take the risk.

Ning Qi warned Ji Wanru’s group that a dangerous spirit object was waiting in a stalactite cavern, but several guards ignored him and were killed by unseen Sword Qi. With the Compass offering only this route forward, Ning Qi laid out their options and left the group facing a difficult choice.

• Ning Qi noticed the Compass was leading Ji Wanru’s group through passages without spiritual beings and suspected it was avoiding them.
• Ning Qi sensed danger in a vast stalactite cavern and persuaded Ji Wanru to retreat to the entrance.
• Several guards disobeyed Ning Qi and entered the cavern, where unseen Sword Qi killed three of them.
• Ning Qi concluded that a powerful spirit object guarded the boundary and learned from Ji Wanru that her Compass showed no other route.
• Ning Qi proposed retreating, charging through the attack, or a third option that he had not yet explained.

Ning Qi forced Ji Wanru to reveal that their mission was to gather Sword Qi from a sword tomb for the City Lord’s plan to claim a Divine Sword. After the group agreed to follow his lead, Ning Qi confronted two powerful red Sword Spirits in Stalactite Cave and shielded himself from their attack with his Abyssal Glass Bell.

• Ning Qi explained that the Compass might not show a safe route and demanded that Ji Wanru reveal her mission and the secrets of the area.
• Ji Wanru handed Ning Qi the Compass and disclosed that the place was a sword tomb where Sword Qi could be collected, and that a rare Divine Sword lay within.
• Ning Qi deduced that the City Lord was using the group to gather Sword Qi before claiming the Divine Sword, and learned that Ji Wanru’s quota was twenty thousand.
• Ning Qi convinced the guards to continue the mission, then revealed that two stronger red Sword Spirits were nearby and asked the group to help with a sword formation.
• Medicine Spirit lent Ning Qi his life aura as Ning Qi confronted the two red Sword Spirits in Stalactite Cave.
• The red Sword Spirits attacked with powerful Sword Qi, but Ning Qi activated his Abyssal Glass Bell, whose inscriptions halted the incoming force.

Ning Qi defeated two red Sword Spirits, helped the surviving guards learn to see hidden Sword Spirits, and discovered that Ji Wanru’s mission was to reach a dangerous core area containing the Sword King. Though Ji Wanru wanted to take a detour, Ning Qi insisted they move straight through, trusting his strength.

• Ning Qi used the bronze bell to break the Sword Spirits’ Sword Qi, devoured the Spirits with a fire dragon, and sealed two red Sword Lights in his dantian.
• Ning Qi showed Ji Wanru and the guards his wound, then gave them Sword Qi so they could see hidden Sword Spirits.
• Ji Wanru revealed that the City Lord and Domain Lord had deliberately leaked news to draw other races toward the core area, where the Sword King waited.
• After studying the Compass, Ji Wanru proposed taking a detour around the dangerous area, but Ning Qi rejected the plan and said they should go straight through.

Ning Qi refined and subdued two strands of Sword Qi before leading Ji Wanru and her group deeper into the tunnel. After finding several corpses from the Demon Race, he urged the group onward, leaving the bodies behind.

• Ning Qi used the Medicine Spirit’s life aura to protect him as he refined two strands of Sword Qi and forced them to submit.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit discussed the dangers ahead and resolved to follow the other groups before making their move toward the Sword King.
• Ning Qi led Ji Wanru and her people into a wider tunnel, then went ahead alone after detecting a scent of blood.
• Ning Qi found several corpses and returned with Ji Wanru’s group to inspect them.
• Ji Wanru identified the dead as members of the Demon Race, and Ning Qi persuaded the group to continue onward without collecting the bodies.

Ning Qi confronted Xiao Haotian after Xiao Haotian’s men threatened Ji Wanru and her guards. To avoid attracting the Sword Spirits, they agreed to a contest of one move each, with Supreme Treasures at stake, and Xiao Haotian let Ning Qi go first.

• Ning Qi and Ji Wanru encountered Xiao Haotian, whose men mocked and threatened her while blocking their way.
• Xiao Haotian ordered his men to attack unless Ji Wanru agreed to go with him, but Ning Qi refused to abandon her.
• Ning Qi taunted Xiao Haotian and proposed a quiet contest because a full fight could draw the Sword Spirits.
• Ning Qi and Xiao Haotian wagered one Supreme Treasure each, and Xiao Haotian agreed to apologize to Ji Wanru and stop pursuing her if he lost.
• After both groups moved aside, Xiao Haotian told Ning Qi to make the first move.

Ning Qi defeated Xiao Haotian, took his Supreme Treasure, and continued exploring a dangerous passage after his companions left. He discovered an underground Dark River full of corrosive black insects and began searching for their weaknesses.

• Ning Qi defeated Xiao Haotian in a clash, and Xiao Haotian handed over a Supreme Treasure before leaving with his men.
• Ji Wanru and the others found corpses ahead and warned Ning Qi that the passage was dangerous, but Ning Qi chose to investigate alone.
• Ning Qi told Ji Wanru and the others to wait for three days, then continued through the passage with Medicine Spirit.
• Ning Qi discovered an underground Dark River of black water that periodically released waves of heat and thick liquid.
• Large black insects crawled out of the Dark River and attacked Ning Qi with green venom that corroded the stone walls.
• Ning Qi rose above the insects and used his divine sense to search for their weaknesses while Medicine Spirit watched anxiously.

Ning Qi used the Origin Flame and Nether Ghost Fire to destroy the insects blocking the passage, then led Ji Wanru and her guards onward. They reached a clearing to rest, but Ji Wanru remained worried because she could not contact her Senior Brother and the others.

• Ning Qi warned Ji Wanru and her group not to enter, then used the Origin Flame fused with Nether Ghost Fire to burn the insects to ash.
• Ning Qi contacted Ji Wanru, who brought her guards to the passage after he reported that the danger had been handled.
• Ning Qi and Ji Wanru's group crossed the insect corpses and entered the next passage, where Ning Qi explained that the insects had been burned by the flames from the Dark River.
• Ning Qi checked the Compass and confirmed the route, then led the group to a clearing where they arranged patrols and rested.
• Ji Wanru told Ning Qi she still could not contact her Senior Brother and the others, and Ning Qi reassured her that they were strong enough to be safe.

Ning Qi and Ji Wanru rested before leading their group toward the next level, but they entered an unmapped mountain area that Ning Qi suspected was an illusion. At an altar, Ning Qi defeated fire-attribute Sword Spirits and called Shi Xiaokun to interpret the sacrificial inscriptions, leaving their deeper secrets unknown.

• Ning Qi and Ji Wanru agreed to rest before continuing, while Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit anticipated stronger Sword Spirits and more competitors below.
• After two hours, Ji Wanru rallied the group, and Ning Qi used the Compass as they headed toward the path leading downward.
• Ning Qi and Ji Wanru discovered an open area of mountain peaks that did not match the Compass, and Ning Qi suspected they had entered an illusion.
• Ning Qi approached an altar alone, where his Immortal-Demon Power triggered blazing attacks and fire-attribute Sword Spirits to appear.
• Ning Qi used the If Water Three Thousand Formation and his Wandering Dragon Spear to defeat the Sword Spirits, then gathered their Sword Qi.
• Ning Qi summoned Shi Xiaokun to read the Giant Cauldron’s inscriptions, and Shi Xiaokun explained that the altar was used to sacrifice to a heavenly god before examining it further.

Shi Xiaokun deciphered the inscriptions and revealed that Heavenly Tribulation had created the Sword Spirits and Sword Kings to lure in sacrifices, but the group escaped the illusion by moving the Giant Cauldron. They continued through the void passage and reached three routes, where Ning Qi rejected the one that seemed safest.

• Shi Xiaokun read the inscriptions and explained that Heavenly Tribulation had been sealed there, using Sword Spirits and Sword Kings to attract cultivators and strengthen its defenses.
• Shi Xiaokun could not move the Giant Cauldron alone, so Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit helped him send it into Ning Qi's Inner Realm.
• The illusion collapsed, but Ning Qi and the others survived and returned to the void passage.
• Ning Qi reassured Ji Wanru and her guards, then led the group onward as Ji Wanru admitted she had initially hidden the Compass from him.
• At a fork with three passages, Ning Qi examined their differing auras and rejected the route filled with life aura.

Ning Qi and Ji Wanru’s group entered a seemingly safe tunnel that led to a dangerous, interconnected nest of passages. Ning Qi discovered how to navigate it, found Sword Spirits trapped in cocoons, and extracted their Sword Qi before preparing to move on.

• Ning Qi chose the most dangerous-looking passage, and Ji Wanru’s group followed him through it to a beehive-like cavern.
• Ning Qi entered the hot, branching passages alone and realized that the walls’ linked threads would alert the beasts if he damaged them.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit learned to navigate the passages by taking three routes in the opposite direction and then one correct route.
• Ning Qi found a nest of cocoons containing trapped Sword Spirits and deduced that the beasts had gone forward to hunt more of them.
• Ning Qi extracted the Sword Qi from several thousand Sword Spirits while leaving them alive, then told the Medicine Spirit they would move on to another nest.

Ning Qi discovered that the Fierce Beasts were ant-like creatures that used Sword Spirits to hatch their eggs, then waited with Ji Wanru and her guards for the ants to leave. While waiting, he refined his Sword Qi and grew to half-step Primordial Unity Golden Immortal strength; the group prepared to move when the nest emptied.

• Ning Qi placed hidden Memory Spirit Stones in the ants’ nest and told Ji Wanru that the Fierce Beasts hunted Sword Spirits and would not target them while moving toward the next level.
• Ning Qi and Ji Wanru watched the nest through the Memory Spirit Stones and saw the ants hatch eggs with Sword Spirits, feed the larvae, and guard the new cocoons.
• Ji Wanru assigned guards to watch the nest while Ning Qi rested, entered his Inner Realm, and refined the Sword Qi in a Time Difference Array.
• Shi Xiaokun told Ning Qi that he had reached half-step Primordial Unity Golden Immortal strength and might break through after refining the Sword King’s Sword Qi.
• After waiting several days, Ning Qi and Ji Wanru saw the ants begin leaving the nest and prepared to wait another half hour before setting out.

Ning Qi entered the Origin Flame to refine it and break through, but the Fire Spirit revealed that it had been pretending to submit and tried to seize his body. The Vermilion Bird, Azure Dragon, and Black Tortoise cornered the Fire Spirit, while Ning Qi’s breakthrough remained unresolved.

• Ning Qi entered Shi Xiaokun’s Inner Realm and began refining the Origin Flame in a time-difference array.
• The Origin Flame scorched Ning Qi’s body and threatened to consume his will, so Medicine Spirit restored his body while Shi Xiaokun replenished his Immortal Power.
• Ning Qi used Incense Power to restore his physique as the flames continued to attack him.
• The Fire Spirit entered Ning Qi’s Consciousness Sea and revealed it had faked being subdued so it could take over his body.
• Ning Qi summoned the Vermilion Bird, Azure Dragon, and Black Tortoise, who attacked the Fire Spirit as it tried to flee.
• Black Tortoise blocked the Fire Spirit’s escape, and Vermilion Bird struck at it with a crimson whip.

Ning Qi defeated and refined the Fire Spirit, broke through to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, and shared resources with his companions. He returned to the passage and prepared to lead Ji Wanru and the guards after the ants in the Memory Spirit Stones began moving.

• The Black Tortoise captured the Fire Spirit, and Ning Qi crushed it while refining it as part of his breakthrough.
• Ning Qi endured the Thunder Tribulation as it clashed with the Origin Flame, completing his breakthrough to Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Ning Qi gave the Vermilion Bird the Origin Flame to refine and distributed strands of Origin Power to his companions.
• Ning Qi left his Fine Space and returned to the passage, where Ji Wanru and the guards had been waiting for signs of movement.
• After the ants in the Memory Spirit Stones began moving, Ning Qi told Ji Wanru and the guards to follow him as they set out.

Ning Qi led Ji Wanru and the guards through the maze to nests he had already explored, where they collected Sword Qi from controlled Sword Spirits. After ten hours and more than a dozen nests, Ning Qi had gathered a great deal of Sword Qi, though it was now of little use to him.

• Ning Qi led the group through the maze, taking them back to the nest he had found earlier.
• Ning Qi assured Ji Wanru and the others that collecting Sword Qi would not alert the ants, then demonstrated by harvesting Sword Qi from two Sword Spirits.
• Ji Wanru and the guards collected all the Sword Spirits in the nest while Ning Qi reassured them that the ants would not return soon.
• Ning Qi guided the group from nest to nest, and they visited more than a dozen over ten hours.
• Ning Qi collected a great deal of Sword Qi, which had become nearly useless to him after his strength breakthrough.

Ning Qi scouted the route to the next level after Li Tian warned that powerful Void Flying Insects and other beasts blocked the way. He found giant venomous bees in a meteorite field and lured them into the Inner Realm, where he waited to face them.

• Ji Wanru verified Li Tian's identity, learned that dangerous creatures had driven his group back, and agreed to wait for more allies.
• Ning Qi flew ahead alone while Ji Wanru gathered allies and later told him more groups were arriving.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit found a meteorite field and tracked powerful life signs to a swarm of giant, venomous bees.
• Ning Qi killed one bee, then fled from the others to draw them away from the swarm's territory.
• Ning Qi instructed Shi Xiaokun to open the Inner Realm and lured the pursuing bees inside, where he waited for them.

Ning Qi disguised himself as a Giant Bee after killing a swarm, then raided their nest and took their Spirit Honey and bee eggs. He reunited with Ji Wanru and her allies, but their Flying Vessels came under attack from a relentless Void Insect Swarm as they headed for the next level.

• Ning Qi endured the Giant Bees' body-corroding venom and soul poison, killed them, and collected their inner cores.
• Ning Qi used the inner cores to disguise his presence, entered the Beehive, and took its Spirit Honey and bee eggs while Shi Xiaokun and the Medicine Spirit helped.
• Ning Qi had Shi Xiaokun use the Time-Difference Formation to hatch the bee eggs, then left the Meteorite Region and met Ji Wanru's party.
• Ning Qi joined Ji Wanru and the other teams as they flew toward the next level, concealing that he had raided the Giant Bees' nest.
• A Void Insect Swarm emerged from a Void Rift and battered the Flying Vessels' defensive formations, prompting Li Tian to order everyone to attack with Sword Qi.

Ning Qi led the survivors through the Void Insect swarm, using his Netherworld Ghostfire and newly refined Origin Flame to defeat the Insect Kings and escape. After the group rested, he shared Spirit Honey with Ji Wanru and used it to restore himself and the Medicine Spirit while Shi Xiaokun reported that giant bee eggs had hatched and were being tamed for the dangers ahead.

• Ning Qi proposed fighting forward through the Void Insect swarm and led the group through a passage cleared by his Chaos Sword.
• The Insect Kings attacked the group with poisonous mist, and Ning Qi killed several with stored Sword Qi, Netherworld Ghostfire, and Origin Flame.
• Ning Qi urged the survivors through the opening, and they escaped the insect-filled void with more than fifty people remaining.
• Li Tian introduced Zhao Yuntian, Liu Qianfeng, and Xu Lexian, and the group planned to rest before traveling toward the next level.
• Ning Qi gave Ji Wanru Spirit Honey, then absorbed some himself and let the Medicine Spirit replenish its life force.
• Shi Xiaokun told Ning Qi that some giant bee eggs had hatched and that he was taming the bees for the coming battles.