Recaps

Ning Qi returned to the pool and used the auction sword to absorb its Spirit Marrow Essence, drawing the figure of light into a furious attack. The sword drained the pool as Ning Qi evaded the figure’s strike with his formations, leaving the two facing off as the water level rapidly fell.

• The figure of light absorbed the waves of light and trapped Shi Xiaokun in a cocoon, but Ning Qi freed him with the Netherworld Ghostfire.
• Ning Qi and Shi Xiaokun retreated after the figure of light proved too powerful, and Ning Qi realized the auction sword needed vast amounts of Spirit Marrow Essence to activate.
• Ning Qi returned to the pool and threw the sword into it, where it began rapidly absorbing the Spirit Marrow Essence.
• The figure of light emerged and charged Ning Qi, but Ning Qi evaded his attack with the Time-Difference Formation and If Water Three Thousand Formation, then taunted him as the pool’s water level fell by a third.
• The figure of light declared that he would kill Ning Qi.

Ning Qi watched the transformed sword absorb the pool’s essence and defeat the figure of light, but the sword then drained his bloodline power when he tried to claim it. A crimson Sword Spirit called Blood Shadow emerged, acknowledged Ning Qi as his master, and explained that the pool held the essence of heaven and earth.

• Ning Qi realized that the sword’s absorption of the pool water weakened the figure of light, then killed him, but the figure regenerated and attacked the sword.
• The sword cut apart the figure of light, absorbed his essence and fleeing pill, turned scarlet, and took on mysterious patterns as it drained the pool.
• When Ning Qi picked up the sword, barbs pierced his palm and drained his bloodline power; the sword blasted Shi Xiaokun away when he tried to help.
• The sword stopped draining Ning Qi and formed Blood Shadow, who knelt and acknowledged Ning Qi as his master.
• Blood Shadow explained that he had absorbed Ning Qi’s bloodline power to choose his master and that the pool contained essence of heaven and earth, while Shi Xiaokun remained wary of him.

Ning Qi awakened Tian Shang, the Heavenly Sorrow Sword’s Sword Spirit, who explained his powers and how he had been sealed. After Tian Shang warned that Medicine Spirit risked exhausting Heavenly Tribulation’s Spiritual Qi, Ning Qi set out toward Mount Buzhou’s Inheritance Land and heard that someone had extracted the mountain ranges there.

• Tian Shang identified himself as the Heavenly Sorrow Sword’s Sword Spirit and learned that Heavenly Tribulation’s Sword Spirit had been destroyed.
• Tian Shang explained that his Inner Realm could regenerate stored resources, and that Ning Qi’s bloodline power and the Spirit Marrow Essence had awakened him.
• Ning Qi contacted Medicine Spirit, who said he was exploring a tomb a thousand li east and dismissed warnings to return or wait.
• Tian Shang recognized the area as Mount Buzhou’s territory and pointed Ning Qi toward a burial mound near the likely Inheritance Land.
• Ning Qi sent Shi Xiaokun into his Inner Realm, took Tian Shang along, and traveled across the grassland.
• Tian Shang appeared before Ning Qi and said someone had extracted Mount Buzhou’s mountain ranges.

Ning Qi found Medicine Spirit trapped in a sword tomb after Medicine Spirit exhausted Heavenly Tribulation’s Spiritual Qi fighting Sha Qi corpses. He rescued Heavenly Tribulation, learned Tian Shang and Heavenly Tribulation were once one sword, and left with the tomb’s remaining swords while the mystery of the sacrifice remained unresolved.

• Ning Qi followed Heavenly Tribulation’s presence into the tomb and discovered a sword tomb where Tian Shang sensed Heavenly Tribulation nearby.
• Tian Shang explained that he and Heavenly Tribulation were originally one sword and that merging would leave Medicine Spirit free of the sword.
• Ning Qi and Tian Shang reached an altar where puppets were preparing to sacrifice Heavenly Tribulation, and Tian Shang destroyed the puppets and altar.
• Ning Qi restored Heavenly Tribulation’s Spiritual Qi, waking Medicine Spirit, then Tian Shang killed the Sha Qi corpse and absorbed its Sha Qi.
• Medicine Spirit explained that it had exhausted its power fighting several corpses, while Tian Shang speculated that someone had intended to use Heavenly Tribulation’s power.
• Tian Shang collected the intact swords, and Ning Qi led the group out of the tomb without finding whoever had arranged the sacrifice.

A mysterious black figure tracked Ning Qi’s Inner Realm and secretly scattered hidden Sword Qi around the area, while Shi Xiaokun warned Ning Qi that the figure might ambush him when he emerged. Ning Qi ordered Tian Shang to reunite Heavenly Tribulation with the other sword, then left through a distant passage and checked that the way out was safe.

• After Ning Qi and the others disappeared into his Inner Realm, a black figure searched the area, inferred that Ning Qi had an Inner Realm, and planted undetectable Sword Qi before leaving; Shi Xiaokun briefly appeared and vanished.
• Shi Xiaokun warned Ning Qi that someone inside the tomb had targeted him and set barriers near the original exit, so Ning Qi planned to leave from farther away.
• Ning Qi ordered the Medicine Spirit to hand Heavenly Tribulation to Tian Shang, who began preparing to merge the two swords with Shi Xiaokun guarding him.
• As Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit traveled toward a distant exit, the Medicine Spirit explained that the local Sword Spirits had their own consciousness and that a dark figure had taken control of him during their fight.
• Ning Qi reached another passage, entered his Sumeru Space to check the surroundings, and then left after the Medicine Spirit confirmed it was safe.

Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit encountered the corpse-like dark figure who had sacrificed Heavenly Tribulation, and Ning Qi used Netherworld Ghostfire to counter his Corpse Qi and sword attacks. The dark figure tried to flee, but Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit pursued and cornered him, with the Medicine Spirit using the Flying Vessel's Attack Formation to block his escape.

• Ning Qi sensed the dark figure approaching and revealed his newly attained Archaic Golden Immortal strength while preparing the Li Yuan Bell and Dragon-Soaring Spear.
• The dark figure attacked with Corpse Qi, but Ning Qi's Netherworld Ghostfire devoured it and then weakened the figure's sword attacks.
• Ning Qi pursued the fleeing dark figure and sent the Medicine Spirit ahead on the Flying Vessel with Netherworld Ghostfire to cut off his route.
• Ning Qi caught up and stalled the dark figure, allowing the Medicine Spirit to arrive and block him with the Flying Vessel.
• The Medicine Spirit activated the Flying Vessel's Attack Formation and infused it with Netherworld Ghostfire as the trapped dark figure searched for another escape.

Ning Qi defeated a shadow that tried to self-detonate, then bound it as Medicine Spirit’s servant. The shadow revealed that a fragment of Mount Buzhou was somewhere in the area and pointed toward a possible route to find it.

• The shadow begged Ning Qi for mercy, but Ning Qi demanded its loyalty and used a Time-Difference Formation to stop its attempted self-detonation.
• The shadow surrendered its Corpse Blood and Corpse Soul, and Ning Qi gave them to Medicine Spirit along with Law Seals to control it.
• Medicine Spirit refined the shadow, making it his servant, and questioned it about the sword tomb and its past.
• The shadow said it had awakened after sensing a fragment of Mount Buzhou, gained Sword Qi from the sword tomb, and had been driven to sacrifice peerless swords, though it could not recall why.
• Ning Qi decided not to return to the grave mound and had Medicine Spirit ask where to search for the Mount Buzhou fragment; the shadow pointed in a direction.

Ning Qi followed the shadow to a cave where powerful Sha Qi surged from a seemingly bottomless abyss. Using plants that absorbed the Sha Qi as protection, he descended and found a canyon filled with the remains of powerful beings, then headed toward the source of the Sha Qi.

• The shadow led Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit to a mountain gully, where they found ancient corpses and a cave emitting Sha Qi.
• Ning Qi entered the cave alone after ordering the Medicine Spirit and the shadow to conceal themselves and watch the entrance.
• Ning Qi collected black-fruited plants that absorbed Sha Qi, wove them into protective cover, and descended into the abyss.
• At the abyss's bottom, Ning Qi followed the Sha Qi through a canyon and found the remains of powerful cultivators, Spirit Beasts, and Divine Beasts.
• Ning Qi hesitated before continuing toward the source of the Sha Qi, aware that the powerful remains suggested danger ahead.

Ning Qi broke the formation concealing a blood river and fought off the blood pythons guarding it. After discovering a palace beneath the river, he planned to sneak inside while Shi Xiaokun drew the pythons away.

• Ning Qi shattered the formation around the blood river, releasing seven or eight powerful blood pythons.
• The blood pythons attacked Ning Qi, but they stopped pursuing him when he reached the boundary between the two areas.
• Ning Qi sent ants and Giant Bees toward the river, and the disturbance revealed a palace beneath its surface.
• Ning Qi asked Shi Xiaokun how to reach the palace, and they planned to use the creatures as a distraction while Ning Qi concealed himself with Sha Qi Fruits.
• Shi Xiaokun released several hundred Ants and Giant Bees to begin the plan.

Ning Qi slipped past the blood pythons guarding the palace beneath the river and searched its rooms with Shi Xiaokun, Xu Qingqiu, and Tu Hu. In a hidden chamber beneath the servants’ quarters, he found artifacts linked to Mount Buzhou and opened a stone door protected by the If Water Three Thousand Formation.

• Shi Xiaokun sent ants and giant bees to distract the blood pythons while Ning Qi entered the river and broke through the palace’s blood barrier.
• Ning Qi searched the palace, then brought Xu Qingqiu and Tu Hu out of his Inner Realm so they could help look for treasures and secret chambers.
• Ning Qi found a secluded residence whose layout and furnishings resembled Mount Buzhou’s Mountain Gate, then discovered a hidden passage beneath a bed.
• Ning Qi entered an underground chamber containing Mount Buzhou records and recognized the If Water Three Thousand Formation on a stone door.
• Ning Qi used a Water Rune to disable the formation and pushed open the stone door, recognizing the familiar breeze beyond it.

Ning Qi discovered another Mount Buzhou inheritance land and used his status as its inheritor to pull the entire fragment into the Back Mountain Area of his Mountain Gate. He then headed into a grotto-heaven courtyard to find Miss Xu, but Tu Hu's voice transmission arrived before he could go far.

• Ning Qi explored the underground space and learned from Medicine Spirit that its platforms were made of Pangu Stone and the site was a powerful Mount Buzhou fragment.
• Ning Qi released the presence of Mount Buzhou's inheritance and drew the fragment's mountains, waters, and trees through a passage into his Inner Realm.
• Medicine Spirit and Shi Xiaokun waited outside while Ning Qi completed the transfer, then learned he had stored the fragment in the Back Mountain Area for later exploration.
• Medicine Spirit told Ning Qi that Miss Xu and the others had found resources in a courtyard containing a grotto-heaven, so Ning Qi went to look for her.
• Ning Qi entered the courtyard with Medicine Spirit, and Tu Hu's voice transmission began vibrating through Ning Qi's Sound Transmission Jade Pendant.

Ning Qi opened an inheritance trial for Xu Qingqiu, then explored the palace’s hidden Immortal Domain with Shi Xiaokun and the Medicine Spirit. Guided by the Medicine Spirit, they reached the Supreme Void Palace, where they expected to find treasures.

• Tu Hu warned Ning Qi that someone was approaching, and Ning Qi told him to lure them away while he searched for a way out using Shi Xiaokun’s coordinates.
• Ning Qi used Formation Origin Power to reveal an inheritance entrance beneath an altar and sent Xu Qingqiu inside to undergo its trial.
• Ning Qi asked Medicine Spirit to arrange for his black shadow to guard Xu Qingqiu, then joined Shi Xiaokun at the palace’s main hall.
• Ning Qi and Shi Xiaokun entered the hidden Immortal Domain, where the Medicine Spirit recognized it as a place connected to Di Xi and his former master.
• The Medicine Spirit led Ning Qi and Shi Xiaokun toward the Supreme Void Palace, and they arrived at a continent filled with jade palaces and spirit marrow essence.

Ning Qi encountered Di Xi while trying to move the confined Immortal Domain sect into his Inner Realm, and Di Xi concealed it there until Ning Qi became strong enough to refine it. Xu Qingqiu completed her inheritance trial, survived her tribulation, and reached Taiyi Golden Immortal First Grade before the group prepared to leave.

• Medicine Spirit proposed moving the sect into Ning Qi's Inner Realm, and Shi Xiaokun suggested using Formation Origin Power to understand its restrictions.
• Ning Qi encountered Di Xi, who revealed that he had preserved the sect, granted Ning Qi his Inner Realm, and arranged for the Blood Pythons to draw him there.
• Di Xi advised Ning Qi to refine the Mount Buzhou fragment and moved the confined space into his Inner Realm, where it would remain hidden until his next breakthrough.
• Ning Qi returned to the ordinary hall, withheld his encounter with Di Xi from his companions, and went with them to check on Xu Qingqiu.
• Xu Qingqiu emerged from her trial and withstood the Tribulation Lightning without assistance, reaching Taiyi Golden Immortal First Grade.
• Xu Qingqiu confirmed that she had obtained the Inheritance, and Ning Qi proposed leaving because the group had already searched the remaining areas.

Ning Qi led his group away from the Blood Pythons and along an ancient road, where they clashed with Windfrost Sect members who accused them of being spies. After Shi Xiaokun killed the group, their companions identified the dead man as Young Master Long Feiquan and reported his death to Long Feishuang.

• Ning Qi took Xu Qingqiu and the others through the Inner Realm to Tu Hu, then led them onward after learning that the Sha Qi had disappeared from the cave entrance.
• The group followed a broad road and encountered a young man who accused them of belonging to the Demon Race and used a Memory Spirit Stone to record Ning Qi.
• Shi Xiaokun killed the young man and the other Windfrost Sect members despite Xu Qingqiu warning that the sect was powerful.
• A Windfrost Sect group arrived at the scene, viewed the Memory Spirit Stone, and decided to blame the deaths on Ning Qi's group when reporting back.
• The Windfrost Sect members contacted Long Feishuang and told him that Feiquan had been killed.

Ning Qi’s group encountered another party from the Windfrost Sect, whose members knew the group had killed their fellow disciples but feared confronting them. Medicine Spirit and Tu Hu taunted the newcomers, and Ning Qi stopped them from leaving, setting up a confrontation.

• Long Feishuang learned that the Myriad Sword Sect had killed his brother and ordered his men to find the killers without confronting them.
• Long Feishuang’s men agreed to pretend they had searched while continuing to pursue their own opportunities.
• At a forest entrance, Ning Qi’s group rested, and Ning Qi warned Xu Qingqiu not to reveal her sect’s identity to strangers.
• A group from the Windfrost Sect arrived, recognized Ning Qi’s group, and agreed to pass by without provoking them.
• Medicine Spirit identified himself as the killer of their fellow disciples, while Tu Hu mocked the Windfrost Sect members.
• When the Windfrost Sect group tried to leave, Ning Qi stopped them and walked toward their leader.

Ning Qi’s group captured Windfrost Sect disciples who revealed that the sect was hunting them after they killed Long Feiquan, the holy son’s brother. Xu Qingqiu warned her master, Wang Zhengqian, who promised to protect the Myriad Sword Sect’s disciples, and the group continued by Flying Vessel toward a strange, silent forest.

• Ning Qi questioned the Windfrost Sect group, and their leader identified the dead man as Long Feiquan, brother of holy son Long Feishuang, and said the holy son had ordered a search for them.
• Ning Qi ordered the captives taken into his Inner Realm as laborers, and Black Shadow swallowed them and carried them to Shi Xiaokun.
• Ning Qi suggested Xu Qingqiu warn her sect, so she used her Sound Transmission Jade Pendant to tell Wang Zhengqian about the clash and the threat to the Myriad Sword Sect.
• Wang Zhengqian backed Xu Qingqiu and said he would have the disciples change their clothes, appearances, and presence to conceal them from Windfrost Sect informants.
• Ning Qi’s group left the main road aboard the Medicine Spirit’s Flying Vessel and crossed a mountain range, where Tu Hu noticed the forest below had no Spirit Beasts or insect sounds.

Ning Qi and his companions escaped a swarm of powerful spores by using Ants and Giant Bees as a diversion. They continued toward the grasslands and mountains beyond, where Ning Qi suspected they would find ruins, and prepared for further danger.

• The Medicine Spirit sped up the Flying Vessel, but waves of spores surrounded it and crushed several of its Defensive Arrays.
• Ning Qi reinforced the vessel's defenses with the If Water Three Thousand Formation and the Pangu Stone, while Shi Xiaokun identified the attackers as spores that sought cultivators' bloodline power to nourish their mother.
• Ning Qi rejected returning to the Inner Realm because the spores had sealed the area and some could slip inside through the passage.
• Ning Qi, the Medicine Spirit, Shi Xiaokun, and the others released their Ants and Giant Bees to distract the spores, then drove the Flying Vessel through the opening.
• The group escaped the spore tide while releasing more Ants and Giant Bees to block pursuit, and Ning Qi decided not to waste time fighting the spores.
• Ning Qi led the group toward the grasslands and mountains, suspecting ruins lay ahead, and warned everyone to stay alert.

Ning Qi’s group reached a valley and prepared to spend the night there, while Xu Qingqiu worried about her missing master. Several groups from major sects arrived, and their leaders divided up the valley’s guard posts, leaving Ning Qi’s group with the dangerous entrance.

• Ning Qi reassured Xu Qingqiu that her master could handle himself and refused to turn back to look for him.
• Ning Qi assigned Medicine Spirit and Black Shadow to watch one entrance, Tu Hu to guard the other, and Xu Qingqiu and Shi Xiaokun to keep watch inside the valley.
• Ning Qi spotted several groups approaching and called his companions back, deciding they could share the valley with the newcomers.
• Xu Qingqiu identified the arriving groups as members of the Cloud Ridge Sect, Purple Cloud Valley, and the Alchemy Pavilion, and told Ning Qi who their leaders were.
• Zhang Baile learned that Ning Qi’s group belonged to the Myriad Sword Sect, and Zhao Changfu confirmed that no one else was at the valley.
• Hua Qiansui chose the safest guard position for Purple Cloud Valley, while the other sects took the interior and left Ning Qi’s group to guard the most dangerous entrance; Ning Qi accepted the assignment.

Ning Qi and his companions fled a spore swarm after realizing the creatures could move freely once night fell, then rescued the people who had earlier obstructed them. The group escaped aboard Ning Qi’s Flying Vessel, and Alchemist Xu began questioning whether Medicine Spirit was truly a Medicine Spirit.

• Ning Qi recognized that the spores were advancing because night had removed their fear of sunlight, so he ordered everyone aboard the Flying Vessel to flee.
• Xu Qingqiu warned the other groups, but Zhang Shuyao and Hua Qiansui blocked Ning Qi until he effortlessly repelled Hua Qiansui’s attack and the spores arrived.
• Hua Qiansui and Xu Shirong retreated as the spores devoured a patrolling disciple and pursued their groups, while Ning Qi’s vessel pulled ahead.
• Hua Qiansui asked Ning Qi to help, and he turned back to bring her group aboard before Medicine Spirit sped them all away from the spores.
• Hua Qiansui and Xu Shirong thanked Ning Qi and apologized for their earlier behavior, and Alchemist Xu asked whether Medicine Spirit was a Medicine Spirit.

Ning Qi led the group to a barrier dividing grassland from desert while spores pursued them, and he concluded that someone was directing the creatures. Alchemist Xu failed to damage the barrier, and the spores arrived to block their escape, leaving the group facing an immediate threat.

• Ning Qi rejected revealing Medicine Spirit’s origins, and Medicine Spirit realized that his identity could make him a target.
• Ning Qi used his Compass to show the surrounding terrain, and the group chose to travel to the boundary between the grassland and desert.
• Ning Qi argued that the spores’ coordinated ambush and pursuit meant someone was controlling them, though the group could not identify who was responsible.
• Medicine Spirit brought the group to a barrier surrounded by old animal and human remains, where Alchemist Xu’s Pill Furnace exploded without damaging it.
• The spores caught up and appeared to block the group’s escape, and Ning Qi said their tactics confirmed that someone was directing them.