Recaps

Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit explored the ruined immortal sect, securing a powerful corpse before entering a dark, trap-filled labyrinth. They found a destroyed teaching hall beyond its life gate, but the labyrinth’s purpose and the fate of the sect remained unclear.

• Ning Qi stored the bleeding black-armored corpse in the Inner Realm, sealing it in the Time-Difference Formation under If Water Three Thousand and setting ants and giant bees to guard it.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit reached the mountaintop plaza, examined its strange living vines, and entered the dark interior of the best-preserved great hall.
• Ning Qi used ants and giant bees to find a safe route through the dark labyrinth, then broke through a wall with Water Runes.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit discovered a teaching hall filled with lingering presences, including a meditation cushion whose owner had been more powerful than the corpse.
• Ning Qi looked back and saw that the route they had followed was the labyrinth’s life gate, while traps and hidden passages had killed many of his ants and giant bees.

Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit found a sealed brocade box in the cultivation ground but could not keep it open, then escaped through the Life Gate of an Eight Gates Golden Lock formation. Back at the square, Ning Qi realized the strange vines had trapped them in an illusion and warned Medicine Spirit that neither of them was who they appeared to be.

• Ning Qi used Dao patterns to remove the restriction on a meditation cushion and uncovered a brocade box beneath it.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit tried to open the self-repairing brocade box with Heavenly Tribulation, the Sword Formation, and netherworld ghostfire, but it healed every cut, so Ning Qi stored it away.
• Ning Qi identified the Life Gate among the meditation cushions and opened a fissure that let him and Medicine Spirit escape the cultivation ground.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit returned to the square and examined the strange vines, whose drifting pollen-like waves made Medicine Spirit feel as if he were floating.
• Ning Qi told Medicine Spirit that the vines had trapped them in an illusion and that neither of them was truly themselves.

Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit tested whether the Mountain Gate’s illusion punished anyone who damaged its ruins, then left for Xu Qingqiu’s coordinates. They reunited with Xu Qingqiu at a vast Human Race territory, where she noticed Ning Qi’s strength had grown beyond her ability to discern.

• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit used Memory Spirit Stones to watch the Ants and Giant Bees attack the ruins, confirming that the vines’ powder made them turn on one another.
• Ning Qi decided not to take the vines and left the Mountain Gate with the Medicine Spirit, heading toward Xu Qingqiu’s coordinates.
• Shi Xiaokun and Tu Hu emerged after recovering, and Ning Qi’s group encountered two Human Race guard squads; Ning Qi proved his identity as a Myriad Sword Sect disciple.
• Ning Qi contacted Xu Qingqiu, who told him to enter through the northern region and said she would wait for him there.
• Ning Qi’s group reached the vast Human Race territory and met Xu Qingqiu aboard her Flying Vessel.
• Xu Qingqiu sensed Ning Qi’s power and said she could no longer see through his strength.

Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit traveled to the Myriad Sword Sect’s encampment before visiting the Human Race’s Main City. Xu Qingqiu led them into its Black Market, where they began looking for valuable goods.

• Ning Qi agreed to join Xu Qingqiu’s garrison mission, which would begin the next day, and she brought him and the Medicine Spirit to the Myriad Sword Sect’s encampment.
• Xu Haoran told Xu Qingqiu that their master and the other elders had gone to the Main City to coordinate the departing sects.
• Xu Qingqiu took Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit to the Main City, where she explained that ordinary residents were kept unaware of the battlefield and that some experts used them as sources of Incense Power.
• Xu Qingqiu explained that the city’s Black Market sold goods taken through murder and robbery, drawing in many desperadoes and buyers.
• Ning Qi entered the Black Market with Xu Qingqiu and the Medicine Spirit, then dismissed the armor in the first shop as worthless.

Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit paid to enter the Cloud Mist Sect auction, drawn by rumors of Mount Buzhou news. They arrived at the auction hall as Cloud Mist Sect holy maiden Xu Feng'er began presenting the first lot.

• Ning Qi learned that the auction required a nonrefundable fee of one billion spirit marrow essence per person and paid for himself and Xu Qingqiu to enter.
• An attendant led Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit through a teleportation formation to a private room overlooking the auction hall.
• Xu Qingqiu explained that the Cloud Mist Sect gathered wealthy bidders from many cities, and that their main competition would be the people in other private rooms.
• The group watched Xu Feng'er, the Cloud Mist Sect's holy maiden, take the stage as auctioneer.
• Xu Feng'er ordered an attendant to open a chest, and he used a black stone to activate it before placing it in a recess in the chest.

Ning Qi recognized a sealed sword with a powerful Sword Spirit at the auction and bought it, then sent it with Medicine Spirit to Shi Xiaokun to examine in the Inner Realm. The auction continued with a women’s Treasure Armor that could defend against poison, fire, and other attacks, and Xu Feng'er opened bidding at five hundred million Spirit Marrow Essence.

• Xu Feng'er displayed Demon Race gauntlets that granted Yao Qi and doubled the wearer’s strength, while Medicine Spirit dismissed them as unimpressive.
• Ning Qi recognized that the Sword Spirit in a miniature mountain was sealed, bid sixty million Spirit Marrow Essence, and won the treasure sword.
• After the attendants delivered the sword to Ning Qi’s private room, its Sword Qi burst out, and Medicine Spirit shielded Ning Qi from it.
• Ning Qi placed the miniature mountain in his Sumeru Space and sent Medicine Spirit to take it to Shi Xiaokun in the Inner Realm for examination.
• Xu Feng'er presented women’s Treasure Armor that resisted poison, fire, and powerful attacks, then began bidding at five hundred million Spirit Marrow Essence.

Ning Qi won the treasure armor at auction for three hundred million spirit marrow essence, sensing that it held hidden power. He helped Xu Qingqiu bind it, and she discovered it was the Purple Scaled Armor, a powerful treasure with a mysterious internal space.

• Ning Qi joined the bidding for the treasure armor, eventually outbidding the other buyers with an offer of three hundred million.
• After the auction attendant delivered the armor, Ning Qi sensed its oppressive might and explained that Immortal-Demon Power revealed its unusual qualities.
• Ning Qi asked Xu Qingqiu to wear the armor and activate it with her Immortal Power and bloodline power.
• The armor sprouted barbs, pierced Xu Qingqiu, and began draining her bloodline power, so Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit helped her subdue it.
• Xu Qingqiu became the armor's master and learned that the Purple Scaled Armor enhanced her cultivation and abilities and contained a chaotic internal space.

Ning Qi gave Xu Qingqiu the Treasure Armor, which merged into her body, then bid successfully on a crystal chest said to be connected to Mount Buzhou. After the auction, Xu Feng'er sent guards to deliver the chest and ask Ning Qi to meet with her.

• Ning Qi reassured Xu Qingqiu that the Treasure Armor was a gift, and it merged into her body when she wished to put it away.
• Xu Feng'er revealed the auction’s final treasure was connected to Mount Buzhou and opened bidding at ten billion Spirit Marrow Essence.
• Ning Qi outbid the other buyers, while a middle-aged rival said he wanted the second piece of Mount Buzhou and left with his old servant and guards.
• Xu Feng'er declared Ning Qi the winner of the crystal treasure chest and ordered guards to deliver it and invite him to meet her.

Xu Feng'er learned that Ning Qi would not share what he knew about Mount Buzhou, so she had the Cloud Mist Sect leak his information to hostile cultivators. Ning Qi’s group was ambushed in the mountains, where Medicine Spirit summoned Tu Hu as the attackers realized they faced a Taiyi Golden Immortal spirit beast.

• Ning Qi collected the crystal treasure chests and refused Xu Feng'er’s invitation until she offered information about Mount Buzhou.
• Xu Feng'er tried to trade secrets with Ning Qi, but he denied knowing anything and left without sharing information.
• After Ning Qi departed, Xu Feng'er ordered her guard to reveal his identity and location to his enemies.
• Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and Medicine Spirit left the city by carriage, unaware that several groups were following them.
• In the mountains, Ning Qi confronted the attackers, and Medicine Spirit summoned Tu Hu, whose Taiyi Golden Immortal presence frightened them.

Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu were ambushed by people sent after them, but Ning Qi revealed his Taiyi Golden Immortal strength and killed them all. He returned with Xu Qingqiu to the Myriad Sword Sect camp, while the middle-aged man survived by using a black Spirit Stone to shed his body and flee.

• Ning Qi agreed to fight his pursuers alone and told the Medicine Spirit and Tu Hu to stand back while the attackers surrounded him.
• Ning Qi unleashed the strength of a seventh-grade Taiyi Golden Immortal, killed the attackers, and pursued the middle-aged man and old man as they fled.
• The middle-aged man escaped by shedding his body through a black Spirit Stone, then fled toward the city in a weakened state.
• Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu returned to the Myriad Sword Sect camp, where Wang Zhengqian welcomed Ning Qi and said they would travel together.
• Xu Qingqiu led Ning Qi to an unoccupied cave abode where he could rest.

Ning Qi brought a sealed sword to the Inner Realm, where Shi Xiaokun began the lengthy work of breaking its formations and restrictions. Meanwhile, Xu Feng'er and Wang Xiaotian plotted to use the Myriad Sword Sect and two other households against Ning Qi as he prepared to leave the next day.

• Ning Qi examined the sword with Medicine Spirit, then took it to the Inner Realm, where Shi Xiaokun identified its complex formations and seals.
• Shi Xiaokun said he could eventually break the restrictions but warned it might take months or years, so Ning Qi left him to work while he prepared for the journey.
• Xu Feng'er learned that Wang Xiaotian believed Ning Qi was a powerful Taiyi Golden Immortal and that Ning Qi had taken information about Mount Buzhou.
• Wang Xiaotian vowed revenge and planned to target the Myriad Sword Sect and turn two other households against Ning Qi.
• Xu Feng'er told her guard to notify the two households while keeping the Cloud Mist Sect out of the dispute.

Ning Qi boarded the expedition ship with Xu Qingqiu and Xu Haoran, then settled into a luxurious courtyard and freed the servants who had been forced to work there. After several days of seclusion, Xu Qingqiu contacted him and invited him to visit an accompanying Flying Vessel for recreation.

• Ning Qi joined Xu Qingqiu and the gathered sect members aboard their ship, where Xu Haoran showed him a reserved cabin and explained the journey would take at least twelve or thirteen days.
• Ning Qi entered the Sumeru Courtyard and learned that its attendants had been sold into servitude, so he told them they were free to stop working.
• Ning Qi went into seclusion while the Medicine Spirit stayed behind to enjoy the food, and he sent away the attendants who came to see him.
• Xu Qingqiu contacted Ning Qi through the Jade Pendant and invited him to visit a Flying Vessel for recreation.
• Ning Qi emerged from seclusion, found the Medicine Spirit, and set out with him to meet Xu Qingqiu.

Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and Medicine Spirit visited a bustling market aboard a ship, where Ning Qi followed a faint Spiritual Qi fluctuation to a suspicious Storage Bag in a weapons shop. The shopkeeper began breaking its seal in a warded study, and the treasure inside started emitting light.

• Xu Qingqiu led Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit to a market ship, where they explored its busy streets and shops.
• Several men spotted Ning Qi and secretly followed him while one of them went to inform their Commander.
• Medicine Spirit sensed a treasure inside one of the shop’s Storage Bags, and Ning Qi asked the assistant about the sealed goods.
• The assistant demanded an advance payment and secrecy, then led Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and Medicine Spirit to the shopkeeper.
• The shopkeeper used Immortal Power to break the Storage Bag’s seal and reinforced the study’s formations as the treasure’s light emerged.

Ning Qi bought the Phantom Spirit Treasure Armor and the stone concealing it, learning that the stone came from Mount Buzhou’s Inheritance Land and that Wang Xiaotian had survived Ning Qi’s attack. After deciding to head for the inheritance site ahead of the group, Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu returned to her ship so she could inform her master, who had not yet returned.

• Ning Qi negotiated with the shopkeeper and paid one hundred million Spirit Marrow Essence for the Phantom Spirit Treasure Armor and the inscribed stone from Mount Buzhou’s Inheritance Land.
• The shopkeeper explained that the inheritance site lay near the Demon Race border, opened at intervals, and was dangerous to reach; he also revealed that Wang Xiaotian had escaped Ning Qi using a lineage Secret Method and was seeking him.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit decided to travel ahead to the inheritance site, and Xu Qingqiu agreed to go with them aboard Ning Qi’s Flying Vessel.
• Xu Qingqiu returned with Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit to her ship to tell her master, but Xu Haoran said the master had not returned and offered to pass along her message.

Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit used the Compass to locate their destination and an apparent Inheritance Land, then were pursued by a fleet seeking the Crystal Box. Their vessel’s defenses withstood an attack, and the pursuing Commander ordered another strike despite a warning that the box must be preserved.

• Ning Qi used the Compass to identify the main force’s destination and an area Xu Qingqiu recognized as the Inheritance Land.
• Ning Qi persuaded Xu Qingqiu not to report their location to her master, since doing so could expose the group to their pursuers.
• The Medicine Spirit spotted several Flying Vessels following them, and Ning Qi told Xu Qingqiu not to call for help.
• The Medicine Spirit activated their vessel’s defenses, which absorbed a powerful attack without damage as the enemy fleet surrounded them.
• The Commander demanded the Crystal Box, and Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit mocked him.
• The Commander ordered his Heaven Grade Flying Vessels to attack, dismissing his subordinate’s warning that the Crystal Box had to be kept intact.

Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit evaded the commander’s fleet by steering their Flying Vessel through a void rift, then ambushed and killed the commander. They drove off the remaining guards and continued their journey with a captured Flying Vessel as a spare.

• Ning Qi ordered Medicine Spirit to activate the Flying Vessel’s defenses and target the commander while the enemy fleet attacked.
• Medicine Spirit used the vessel’s illusionary double to draw enemy fire and slipped through a void rift, locating the commander’s Flying Vessel.
• The commander’s guards dispersed to search for Ning Qi, leaving the commander exposed when Ning Qi’s vessel emerged from the rift.
• Ning Qi broke through the commander’s defenses and killed him while Medicine Spirit kept the guards from reaching them.
• The guards fled as Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit counterattacked, and Ning Qi chose not to pursue them, ordering Medicine Spirit to store the commander’s Flying Vessel as a spare.
• Ning Qi told Xu Qingqiu that she could one day grow as strong as him and promised to share opportunities that would help her improve.

Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit traveled through the Boundary Sea aboard the Flying Vessel and reached a chaotic region filled with shattered continents, Twisted Monsters, and dangerous restrictions. After Xu Qingqiu explained the region’s risks, Ning Qi decided to summon Shi Xiaokun to see whether his teleportation method could help them cross it.

• Ning Qi directed the Medicine Spirit to follow the Compass, and the group traveled at high speed aboard the Flying Vessel.
• Ning Qi showed Xu Qingqiu the vessel’s hidden inch-square space, where they cultivated for several days.
• The Medicine Spirit reported that Twisted Monsters had attacked along the way, and Xu Qingqiu explained that the group had reached territory bordering the Human, Demon, and Immortal Races.
• Ning Qi activated the Compass, which revealed formations, restrictions, and a route through an area of shattered continents.
• Xu Qingqiu warned that chaotic space could teleport them into deadly places and that formations sealed the Devil Race within the region.
• Ning Qi proposed asking Shi Xiaokun to use the teleportation method that had helped them before, then summoned him.

Ning Qi brought Xu Qingqiu into his Inner Realm, showed her its thriving cities, and invited her to stay. After they explored a city and shared a meal, the Medicine Spirit and Shi Xiaokun found a way out of the Inheritance Land and reported that it was safe to use.

• Shi Xiaokun said he could use the Ants and Giant Bees to mark the Inheritance Land and enable them to enter and leave directly, so Ning Qi took Xu Qingqiu and the Medicine Spirit into his Inner Realm.
• The Medicine Spirit explained that Ning Qi’s Inner Realm functioned like a lower realm where people could live and cultivate, and Ning Qi invited Xu Qingqiu to stay; she agreed to consider it.
• Ning Qi showed Xu Qingqiu a bustling city, explained that the Inner Realm’s Origin Power supported his Incense Power, and shared a meal with her.
• After exploring the city, Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu met the returning Medicine Spirit, who said he and Shi Xiaokun had found the exit and offered to show Xu Qingqiu a pool of condensed life essence later.
• Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit reached Shi Xiaokun, who stood beside a swirling vortex and said the Ant army had scouted ahead and found the route safe.

Ning Qi and his companions left his Inner Realm and reached the dangerous formations and restrictions surrounding the Inheritance Land. Ning Qi recognized a weakness in the barrier and prepared to enter alone, while the others gathered to follow his instructions.

• Medicine Spirit brought Nine-Tailed Cat to the Life Pool Water, where Xu Qingqiu urged him to cultivate in the Time-Difference Formation and break through while they explored the Inheritance Land.
• After Shi Xiaokun found a route out, Ning Qi led Xu Qingqiu and Medicine Spirit through the passage into the Boundary Sea, and they set off aboard their Flying Vessel.
• The group reached the edge of the continent and saw formations and restrictions grinding drifting land fragments to pieces.
• Ning Qi approached the barrier alone, identified it as similar to If Water Three Thousand, and told the others to enter his Inner Realm while he went inside.
• Ning Qi asked Medicine Spirit to bring Tu Hu over, and Medicine Spirit returned to the Flying Vessel to fetch him.

Ning Qi obtained the Formation Origin Power from the ancient formation and used spirit marrow essence to restore the formation so the Shattered Continent would stabilize. He returned to his Inner Realm to refine the Origin Power in a Time-Difference Formation, where its defenses resisted him and Shi Xiaokun reinforced the formation.

• Ning Qi entered the ancient formation, reached its core, and took the Formation Origin Power, causing the Shattered Continent to shake.
• Shi Xiaokun advised Ning Qi to use spirit marrow essence and the If Water Three Thousand Formation to replace the stolen focal point, and Ning Qi stabilized the formation after several hours.
• Ning Qi descended to the Shattered Continent, met the Medicine Spirit, Xu Qingqiu, and Tu Hu, and warned them to remain in the area while he refined the Origin Power.
• Ning Qi returned to the Inner Realm and entered Shi Xiaokun's Time-Difference Formation to refine the Formation Origin Power using his Immortal-Demon Power.
• The Origin Power formed layers of barriers that resisted Ning Qi's attacks, shaking the surroundings and the formation, so Shi Xiaokun supplied spirit marrow essence to reinforce it.

Ning Qi refined the origin power and endured a powerful lightning tribulation, breaking through to become an Archaic Golden Immortal. He learned that Medicine Spirit had taken Heavenly Tribulation’s True Form and the Sword Formation away, but the ordeal still helped him advance.

• Ning Qi drew the origin power from the golden egg into his Dantian, used the Li Yuan Bell to contain its resistance, and began refining it while Shi Xiaokun stood guard.
• Medicine Spirit urged the others to explore, then left on his own while Tu Hu and Xu Qingqiu stayed behind to wait for Ning Qi.
• After refining the origin power, Ning Qi faced a lightning tribulation and endured its strikes with his body, recovering even after being blasted underground.
• Ning Qi used Heavenly Tribulation’s Fourth Realm move to confront eight lightning bolts, but suffered severe injuries when the sword lacked its True Form and the Sword Formation.
• Ning Qi regenerated his injuries and declared that he had broken through to Archaic Golden Immortal, then promised Shi Xiaokun he would help him advance too.

Ning Qi and his companions explored an ancient sect ruin in Mount Buzhou’s Inheritance Land, where Ning Qi discovered a High Antiquity Soul-Locking Formation imprisoning hundreds of thousands of souls. He began preparing to transfer them into his Inner Realm so they could reincarnate and possibly reveal what happened to Mount Buzhou.

• Ning Qi learned that the Medicine Spirit had gone exploring again and warned that he would take back the Heavenly Tribulation if the Medicine Spirit acted independently once more.
• Ning Qi used the Compass to identify strong fluctuations, and the group followed them to an abandoned sect ruin protected by ancient formations and restrictions.
• Ning Qi used his formation Origin Power to break through the ruin’s defenses, then split up with Shi Xiaokun and Tu Hu to search the site.
• At the ruined rear mountain, Ning Qi quickly comprehended a High Antiquity Soul-Locking Formation and explained that it trapped the souls of the sect members and their blood relatives to prevent their reincarnation.
• Ning Qi decided to bring the trapped souls into his Inner Realm, and Shi Xiaokun agreed to arrange their reincarnation in batches.
• Ning Qi returned to his Inner Realm to set up a Soul-Locking Formation, while Shi Xiaokun and Xu Qingqiu waited outside and Tu Hu arrived to ask about the plan.

Ning Qi trapped the wandering souls in a formation and gave Shi Xiaokun formation origin power so he could arrange their reincarnation. Ning Qi then led Xu Qingqiu and Tu Hu toward a new opportunity, where they entered a dangerous poisonous mist and Tu Hu went ahead to investigate.

• Ning Qi gathered the souls into his formation and gave Shi Xiaokun formation origin power to control it and arrange their rebirth.
• Ning Qi told Xu Qingqiu that he had broken through and led her and Tu Hu toward fluctuations he had sensed.
• Ning Qi and Tu Hu discussed Medicine Spirit’s absence as the group continued toward the source of the fluctuations.
• Ning Qi revealed poisonous, hallucinogenic mist and warned Xu Qingqiu to use her Purple Scaled Armor before the three entered it.
• Ning Qi detected movement in the mist, and Tu Hu went ahead to investigate, finding that the area seemed like a maze.

Ning Qi discovered that powerful flying insects guarded a restricted area, then used his formations to slip past them and enter a forest beyond another barrier. There he found a pool made of spirit marrow essence, but the water returned whenever he tried to move it into his Sumeru Space.

• Tu Hu reported that the insects worked together and were powerful, so Ning Qi sent him back to test whether they guarded a fixed area.
• After Tu Hu returned injured, Ning Qi sent him and Xu Qingqiu into his Inner Realm and sealed the passage behind them.
• Ning Qi used his Time-Difference Formation and If Water Three Thousand Formation to pass through the insects and evade their pursuit.
• Ning Qi reached a forest protected by a barrier that kept the insects out, then cautiously walked inside.
• Ning Qi found a pool of spirit marrow essence and tried to draw its water into his Sumeru Space, but it kept flowing back into the pool.

Ning Qi discovered that a naturally formed defense protected the depths of the Spirit Marrow Essence pool and confronted the powerful light figure within it. His sword strike failed to injure the figure, leaving him to face the danger without Heavenly Tribulation's true form.

• Ning Qi asked Shi Xiaokun why he could not transfer the pool water, and Shi Xiaokun sensed that the secret lay beneath the pool.
• Ning Qi used his Inner Realm and formation origin power to probe the depths, where a naturally formed defensive barrier counterattacked him.
• Ning Qi summoned the Li Yuan Bell and a sword-manifested Heavenly Tribulation, then went down to confront the light figure.
• The light figure crushed the void with its attacks and struck Ning Qi in the back, sending him flying toward the pool's surface.
• Ning Qi used Heavenly Profound Burial to churn the pool into a whirlpool, but the light figure evaded the strike and appeared unharmed.
• Ning Qi and Shi Xiaokun noted that Heavenly Tribulation's true form might have wounded the figure, while Ning Qi wondered why Medicine Spirit and Heavenly Tribulation had not responded.