Chapter Summaries

Ning Qi left the Limitless Sword Sect and infiltrated the Northern Profound Upper Sect disguised as an ancient patriarch, arriving as the sect prepared to attack his home. He killed three Great Powers and claimed to be the creator of their cultivation method, challenging Zhou Tianzi to come pay his respects.

• The Flying Star Sect Master declined Ning Qi’s request for help, while the Five Sects whose Great Powers had died hesitated to seek revenge against the Limitless Sword Sect.
• Ning Qi secretly set up a concealed, one-way Teleportation Array outside the Limitless Sword Sect and traveled toward the Northern Profound Upper Sect in disguise.
• Zhu Jianxing and Zhou Qindao discovered that all eight Great Powers sent to the Limitless Sword Sect had died, and reports confirmed Jian Jingjue and Ning Qi had defeated them.
• The Northern Profound Upper Sect’s Great Powers persuaded Zhou Tianzi to leave seclusion, and he vowed to destroy the Limitless Sword Sect.
• Ning Qi attacked the Northern Profound Upper Sect’s Sect Protecting Grand Formation, killed three Great Powers with the sect’s Primordial Spirit Severing Blade, and claimed to be the Slashing Profound Exalted Lord, the Void God Refining True Method’s founder.

Ning Qi, disguised as Slashing Profound Exalted Lord, destroyed the Northern Profound Upper Sect and killed Zhou Tianzi after overpowering him with borrowed Body Integration Realm strength. He returned to the Limitless Sword Sect, where its relieved elders celebrated the sect’s survival and welcomed reinforcements from the Bull Demon Upper Sect.

• Ning Qi killed the Northern Profound Upper Sect’s thirteen Great Powers at the mountain gate and dismantled its protective formation before Zhou Tianzi arrived.
• Ning Qi borrowed his main body’s power, defeated Zhou Tianzi in close combat, and annihilated everyone in the Northern Profound Upper Sect.
• Ning Qi looted the ruins, returned to the Limitless Sword Sect, and learned that observers had identified Slashing Profound Exalted Lord as the sect’s destroyer.
• Cang Wanhe and the elders celebrated the Northern Profound Upper Sect’s fall, and Ning Qi agreed to their plan to erect a statue honoring Slashing Profound Exalted Lord.
• Ning Qi told the Sword Ancestor to host the incoming reinforcements, then welcomed Niu Dingtian, Ma Long, Niu Man, White Tiger, and the Bull Demon Upper Sect delegation.

Ning Qi tested his strength against Niu Dingtian, gained the Bull Demon Upper Sect elder’s friendship, and entered seclusion after sending the Northern Profound Upper Sect’s spoils to his True Martial World. Ten years later, he awakened with fourteen Rule Chains attached to his body, reaching the Half-Step Body Integration Realm, and began teaching the gathered Limitless Sword Sect cultivators what he had learned.

• Ning Qi sparred with Niu Dingtian, first using One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Laws and then forming a powerful Qiu Niu Divine Form from Rule Chains.
• Niu Dingtian exchanged cultivation insights with Ning Qi, offered to support the Limitless Sword Sect, and warned him that the Spirit Realm War and suspicions from the Heavenly Star Upper Sect and Ascension Upper Sect could bring trouble.
• Ning Qi entered seclusion and sent the Northern Profound Upper Sect’s treasures to his main body, which completed the True Martial World’s Wood Rule and added several more Rule Sources.
• After ten years of cultivation, Ning Qi mastered Sword Ancestor’s sword techniques, expanded the True Martial World, and increased its population of Void Dao Realm cultivators to five.
• Ning Qi awakened in the Limitless Sword Sect with fourteen Rule Chains attached to his body, and Sword Ancestor identified his advancement as the Half-Step Body Integration Realm.
• Ning Qi began sharing his comprehension with the assembled elders and disciples through Dao Sound.

Ning Qi emerged from seclusion, preached the Dao to the Limitless Sword Sect, and used his Five Elements Divine Chains to suppress the Sword Ancestor’s Evil Qi. After thirty years of strengthening the sect and gathering Rules, Ning Qi broke through to the Body Integration Realm.

• Ning Qi taught the Limitless Sword Sect’s disciples and elders, helping several people break through, including Sun Xing, who entered the Void Dao Realm.
• Ning Qi used his Five Elements Divine Chains to suppress the Evil Qi in Jian Jingjue, allowing the Sword Ancestor to reach the Half-Step Body Integration Realm before the Evil Qi surged and was contained again.
• Jian Jingjue told Ning Qi that the Northern Profound Domain was in turmoil and that the Mountain and Sea Realm’s factions were destroying Lesser Worlds at an accelerating pace.
• Ning Qi sent Five Elements Divine Chains into the Boundary Sea to gather Rule Sources for the True Martial World and later expanded the Limitless Sword Sect’s cultivation, combat, alchemy, forging, and formation systems.
• Thirty years later, Ning Qi’s breakthrough gathered dozens of immense Rule Chains around him, and he entered the Body Integration Realm.

Ning Qi emerged from seclusion as a Body Integration Realm expert, strengthened the Limitless Sword Sect, and began reclaiming its seized resources. After most offending sects apologized, he led an expedition to punish the Blood Demon Sect, which had refused to make amends.

• Ning Qi broke through to the Body Integration Realm, demonstrated the breakthrough method to the Limitless Sword Sect, and passed on sword techniques.
• Ning Qi reinforced the seal on the Sword Ancestor, allowing him to enter the Body Integration Realm, and agreed to reclaim the sect’s seized industries.
• Ning Qi contacted his reincarnated allies across the domains and learned about their circumstances and the Ascension Upper Sect’s role in targeting the Limitless Sword Sect.
• The news of Ning Qi’s breakthrough spread, and three sects returned the resources they had taken and offered gifts to make amends.
• One more sect returned its seized resources and supplied the Limitless Sword Sect after Ning Qi gave it a deadline, but the Blood Demon Sect refused to come.
• Ning Qi left the Sword Ancestor to guard the sect and led Great Powers and True Disciples toward the Blood Demon Sect.

The Blood Demon Sect refused to submit to Ning Qi, trusting that the Ascension Upper Sect would protect it, while the other sects gathered to witness Ning Qi’s first battle after reaching the Body Integration Realm. Ning Qi broke the Blood Demon Sect’s protective formation and killed the Ascension Upper Sect’s Ye Wuxin, leaving its forces stunned.

• Mo Tianxing rejected Li Xinxuan’s repeated advice to submit, believing the Ascension Upper Sect would support the Blood Demon Sect against Ning Qi.
• After the deadline passed, sects across the Northern Profound Domain gathered outside the Blood Demon Sect as Ning Qi and the Limitless Sword Sect arrived.
• Ning Qi used a single sword strike to dismantle the Blood Demon Sect’s Sect Protecting Grand Formation, then let Qin Minghao challenge Mo Tianxing.
• Ye Wuxin and ten other Great Powers arrived from the Ascension Upper Sect, and Mo Tianxing celebrated their numerical advantage.
• Ning Qi defeated Ye Wuxin in three exchanges, bound him with Five Elements Divine Chains, and caused him to explode in a burst of Five-Colored light.

Ning Qi killed Ye Wuxin and led the Limitless Sword Sect to annihilate the Blood Demon Sect and Ascension Upper Sect forces, establishing the sect as the Northern Profound Domain’s supreme power. Later, he met with reincarnated acquaintances to discuss the Spirit Realm War and learned that the Mountain and Sea World’s enemy was the Vast Origin Realm.

• Ning Qi killed Ye Wuxin, an Integrated Body Late Stage expert, and ordered the Limitless Sword Sect’s forces to deal with the remaining enemies.
• Qin Minghao, Wang Ye, Jiang Qingxue, Luo Zhan, and the other Limitless Sword Sect cultivators combined their attacks to destroy the Blood Demon Sect and Ascension Upper Sect forces without losing anyone.
• The Boundless Sect submitted to Ning Qi, who was hailed as the Five Elements Sword Venerable, and the Limitless Sword Sect returned home as the Northern Profound Domain’s dominant sect.
• Seven of the remaining Upper Sects and many smaller sects brought congratulatory gifts to the Limitless Sword Sect, where Cang Wanhe arranged a celebration.
• Ning Qi met with reincarnated acquaintances at the Gathering Immortal Pavilion and teased Baishan Real Person about his romantic troubles.
• A guest informed Ning Qi that the Mountain and Sea World’s enemy was the Vast Origin Realm, a world of comparable strength with a more stable internal world.

Ning Qi briefed his companions on Mountain and Sea Realm, its Ancestors, and the coming Spirit Realm War, then prepared True Martial World to exploit the conflict. After Ning Qi defeated Ye Wuxin’s force and impressed Niu Dingtian in a rematch, the chapter left Limitless Sword Sect’s power and prestige greatly strengthened.

• At Gathering Immortal Pavilion, Zhou Qing described Vast Origin Realm, and Ning Qi explained that Mountain and Sea Realm was named after Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor, who had ruled its land and seas.
• Ning Qi revealed that Mountain and Sea Realm, Mountain Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor were cooperating to break through their limits, and he estimated that the Spirit Realm War would begin in ten to twenty years.
• Ning Qi told the True Martial World cultivators about their likely conscription and tested their strength before preaching the Dao to them; afterward, he sought Vast Origin Realm’s coordinates so he could send more people there to reincarnate.
• Ascension Upper Sect learned that Ye Wuxin and the other eleven cultivators it had sent were dead, and its Old Ancestor ordered the sect to avoid provoking Limitless Sword Sect until the Spirit Realm War began.
• Niu Dingtian brought Niu Man to visit Ning Qi, expressed regret that Bull Demon Upper Sect had not helped against Ascension Upper Sect, and asked Ning Qi to spar with him.
• Ning Qi defeated Niu Dingtian in their rematch, leaving the spectators stunned as Niu Dingtian recognized the greater mastery of Ning Qi’s Qiu Niu Divine Form.

Ning Qi and the Bull Demon Upper Sect agreed to join forces against the Ascension Upper Sect, with Niu Dingtian revealing his sect’s hidden strength and a plan to seize control of the re-forming Profound Truth Domain. After five years of preparation and escalating clashes, the Ascension Upper Sect’s young prodigy Fang Chenjin was killed, and Niu Dingtian summoned Ning Qi to begin the attack.

• Ning Qi defeated Niu Dingtian in a spar, then welcomed him and Niu Man into the Limitless Sword Sect’s main hall, where Niu Dingtian apologized for not helping earlier and proposed an alliance against the Ascension Upper Sect.
• Niu Dingtian revealed that the Bull Demon Upper Sect had four Body Integration Realm cultivators and proposed splitting the Ascension Upper Sect’s territory and industries with Ning Qi and Sword Ancestor; Ning Qi agreed.
• Ning Qi told the Limitless Sword Sect’s Great Powers about the plan, and they supported it; over the next five years, Ning Qi cultivated fifty Rules and the sect became the Northern Profound Domain’s undisputed overlord.
• The Bull Demon Upper Sect secretly provoked the Ascension Upper Sect into a growing conflict, drawing its attention away from the Limitless Sword Sect and killing many of its disciples and descendants.
• A Bull Demon Upper Sect disciple killed Fang Chenjin, the Ascension Upper Sect Sect Master Fang Xiandao’s youngest son, prompting the sect to prepare for war; Niu Dingtian then messaged Ning Qi that the trap was ready and told him to come quickly.

Ning Qi led the Limitless Sword Sect to ally with the Bull Demon Upper Sect against the Ascension Upper Sect, while Fu Chen learned that Ning Qi had eclipsed the prodigies he had hoped to challenge. As the allied forces set out to attack, they were ambushed by six Body Integration Realm experts, including reinforcements from the Qingxuan Sect.

• Ning Qi gathered the Limitless Sword Sect's Great Powers, activated its improved protective formation, and led fifteen Great Powers with Sword Ancestor toward the Bull Demon Upper Sect.
• Fu Chen emerged from decades of seclusion, learned of Ning Qi's rise and the deaths of Wu Dao, Chu Xiaotian, and Ren Zong, and agreed with Wei Wuyai to leave for the Whirling Wind Domain.
• Xia Tianhe decided that the Heavenly Star Upper Sect would stay out of the conflict between the Bull Demon Upper Sect and the Ascension Upper Sect after Xia Xing and another young elder warned against intervening.
• Ning Qi and Niu Dingtian agreed to attack the Ascension Upper Sect, and their forces rehearsed together before setting out in concealed formation.
• Ning Qi sensed an ambush in a deep ravine and warned the allied forces, who formed a Black Tortoise Formation as six Body Integration Realm experts emerged and revealed their concealment.

Ning Qi and the others were ambushed on their way to confront the Ascension Upper Sect, and True Lord Baicai revealed himself as a long-planted traitor who struck down Niu Dingtian. As the enemy attacked, Ning Qi unleashed his hidden strength, killed two opponents, broke the Qingxuan Sect’s formation, and bound the remaining five as the battle turned decisively in his favor.

• True Lord Baicai betrayed the Bull Demon Upper Sect and sent Niu Dingtian plunging into the Deep Ravine, while Ning Qi’s group formed a defense against the seven enemy Giants.
• True Lord Baicai admitted that the Ascension Upper Sect had planted him in the Bull Demon Upper Sect, and Sword Ancestor urged Ning Qi to escape with the disciples if the battle went badly.
• Hu Xiaotian carried the disciples of both sects away from the fight as Sword Ancestor destroyed the Faro Divine Net with a sword strike.
• Ning Qi killed Qin Zizhen with the True Dragon Gold Wind Lightning Strike and obliterated another Ascension Upper Sect Giant with the Five Elements Obliteration Hand.
• Ning Qi used the Array Severing Stance to break the formation protecting Feng Feiyu, his three Qingxuan Sect allies, and True Lord Baicai, then bound all five with Five Elements Divine Chains.

Ning Qi and the allied sects destroyed the Ascension Upper Sect after Ning Qi broke its protective formation. The allies divided the spoils, and Ning Qi agreed to visit the Bull Demon Upper Sect to celebrate and learn more about the Azure Profound Sect.

• Ning Qi killed Feng Feiyu and three other Body Integration Realm enemies, then handed the powerless True Lord Baicai over to Niu Dingtian and Hu Xiaotian, who swallowed him.
• Ning Qi healed Niu Dingtian and the allied forces continued to the Ascension Upper Sect, while Fang Xiandao learned that its two Old Ancestors had died and ordered the sect to strengthen its formation.
• Jian Jingjue's sword strike shook the Ascension Upper Sect's formation, and Ning Qi shattered its formation cores with nine Rule Divine Dragons.
• Niu Dingtian, Hu Xiaotian, Jian Jingjue, and their followers stormed the Ascension Upper Sect and killed its defenders; Qin Minghao killed Fang Xiandao, who suspected Ning Qi had slain the Old Ancestors.
• Ning Qi proposed dividing the Ascension Upper Sect's resources and records between the two allied sects, and Niu Dingtian invited them to celebrate at the Bull Demon Upper Sect.

After destroying Ascension Upper Sect, Ning Qi strengthened Bull Demon Upper Sect’s defenses and forged an alliance between the two sects before returning to Limitless Sword Sect through a teleportation gate. He learned Lu Ziyue was nearing a breakthrough and prepared her a spiritual armor; she emerged from seclusion having reached the Void Dao Realm, and Ning Qi appeared before her.

• At Bull Demon Upper Sect’s celebratory banquet, Niu Dingtian explained Azure Profound Immortal Sect’s motives and warned that Sikong Qing might seek revenge for the four Venerables Ning Qi had killed.
• Ning Qi used Bull Demon Upper Sect’s resources to install a powerful Twelve Zodiac Formation, took three Dragon Scales, and gave Niu Dingtian a Jade Talisman for a Teleportation Array linking their sects.
• Ning Qi led Limitless Sword Sect back through a teleportation gate, impressing the Bull Demon demons and prompting Kong Caichen to predict that Ning Qi could become the most exalted figure in the Mountain and Sea Realm.
• Back at Limitless Sword Sect, Ning Qi arranged for the sect to guard against Sikong Qing and learned that Lu Ziyue was close to breaking through.
• Ning Qi forged the Dragon Scales into a High-Grade Spiritual Treasure inner armor for Lu Ziyue.
• Lu Ziyue emerged from seclusion with ten Sword Dao Rule Chains and ten Thunder Rule Chains, and Ning Qi appeared before her as she greeted him.

Ning Qi gave Lu Ziyue a powerful Dragon Scale Armor and invited her to fight alongside him. After learning that Ning Qi had destroyed seven Body Integration Realm experts, Sikong Qing set out to capture him, but Ning Qi intercepted and defeated him before the Mountain and Sea Realm Will stopped their battle.

• Ning Qi gave Lu Ziyue the Dragon Scale Armor, and she agreed to fight alongside him to make her name known again.
• Xia Xing and Elder Zhu reported to Xia Tianhe that Ning Qi had helped destroy the Ascension Upper Sect by killing seven Body Integration Realm experts.
• Xia Tianhe went to the Azure Profound Sect and told Sikong Qing that Ning Qi had killed the four Azure Profound Sect Venerables.
• Sikong Qing headed for the Limitless Sword Sect to capture Ning Qi, while Ning Qi followed him and intercepted him in a desolate region.
• Ning Qi fought Sikong Qing with Wind and Sword Rules, repeatedly destroying his body until the Mountain and Sea Realm Will interfered.
• Ning Qi stopped attacking, and Sikong Qing retreated toward the Azure Profound Sect.

Sikong Qing returned to the Azure Profound Sect battered after losing to Slashing Profound Exalted Lord, leaving the Heavenly Star Upper Sect without his support. Ning Qi used the teleportation array to join the Bull Demon Upper Sect and attack the Heavenly Star Upper Sect, where the Tang brothers fused into a Half-Step Dao Harmonization giant that launched a beam at him.

• Sikong Qing identified the old Daoist who defeated him as Slashing Profound Exalted Lord and sealed the Azure Profound Sect behind its grand formation.
• The Bull Demon Upper Sect and Limitless Sword Sect learned that Sikong Qing had retreated, and Ning Qi agreed with Niu Dingtian to resume their attack on the Heavenly Star Upper Sect.
• Ning Qi led Cang Wanhe, Lu Ziyue, other Great Powers, and True Disciples through the teleportation array to the Bull Demon Upper Sect, then marched with Niu Dingtian and Kong Caichen toward their target.
• The Tang brothers decided to fight and used the Star Fusion Light Art to merge into a starlight giant whose strength reached the Half-Step Dao Harmonization realm.
• The giant overwhelmed Jian Jingjue, Niu Dingtian, and Kong Caichen, then fired a dazzling beam of starlight at Ning Qi.

Ning Qi defeated the three Tang brothers and their Star Giant, then compelled the Heavenly Star Upper Sect to submit and installed Xia Xing as its sect master. The surrounding sects began seeking his alliance, and Ning Qi was honored as the Profound Truth Domain Lord.

• Ning Qi reflected the Tang brothers’ Star Light Arrow, shattered their Star Annihilation Blade, and revealed that he could wield their sect’s ultimate art.
• Ning Qi used a Hundred-Zhang Star Giant and the Star Annihilation Blade to overwhelm the Tang brothers and make them disappear into the blade.
• Xia Xing offered a Heavenly Dao Oath to Ning Qi, and the Heavenly Star Upper Sect’s disciples followed by swearing oaths of submission.
• Ning Qi appointed Xia Xing sect master of the Heavenly Star Upper Sect, established a Teleportation Array there, and returned to the Limitless Sword Sect.
• The other Southern Truth Domain sects sent envoys to befriend Ning Qi, who came to be called the Two Domain Lords and the Profound Truth Domain Lord.

Ning Qi established the Profound Truth Alliance to unite the North and South Domains for the coming Spirit Realm War, then discovered that the domains’ Spiritual Qi was flowing toward the former site of the Profound Truth Secret Realm. He proposed moving the Limitless Sword Sect there, leaving the gathered sects to decide whether to help.

• Luo Feiyu and He Mingxing led their sects toward the Limitless Sword Sect, where Luo Feiwo and a Big Dipper Upper Sect disciple recognized each other as reincarnated Seeds from the True Martial World.
• At the gathering, Xia Xing brought Xia Tianhe before Ning Qi, and Xia Tianhe swore to honor Ning Qi as his master.
• Ning Qi called on the assembled sects to unite for the Spirit Realm War, named their coalition the Profound Truth Alliance, and gave its members a cultivation method.
• The North and South Domains began to reunite, and the Sword Ancestor identified the upheaval as the domains merging.
• Ning Qi had the sects trace the Spiritual Qi’s flow, and they determined it converged at the former site of the Profound Truth Secret Realm.
• Ning Qi offered to relocate the Limitless Sword Sect to that center and asked the gathered sects to help.

Ning Qi taught the Profound Truth Domain’s cultivators the Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art and led them in lifting and relocating the Limitless Sword Sect to the center of the domain. After twelve days, the sect arrived at the former Profound Truth Secret Realm, and the cultivators who helped had gained substantial cultivation advances and a strong sense of belonging to the Profound Truth Alliance.

• Ning Qi transmitted the Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art to the gathered sect leaders and ordered the Limitless Sword Sect’s Array Cultivators to help him re-refine its Grand Formation.
• Ning Qi completed the formation’s cores, and the Array Cultivators installed them, creating six coordinated formations that absorbed Spiritual Qi and drew Rules from the void.
• Ning Qi and the gathered cultivators used the Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art to lift the Limitless Sword Sect’s territory, then pushed it south as its formations absorbed Spiritual Qi and Rules and gradually shrank the sect.
• Cultivators from other sects joined the journey after their leaders recognized the opportunity to improve their cultivation, and Ning Qi taught the newcomers the mountain-moving art.
• After twelve days, Ning Qi and the cultivators brought the Limitless Sword Sect to the former Profound Truth Secret Realm, where its territory had shrunk to a radius of fifty miles.
• The cultivators celebrated their successful relocation and major cultivation gains, and those from other sects developed a strong sense of belonging to the Profound Truth Alliance.

Ning Qi settled the Limitless Sword Sect at the center of the Profound Truth Domain and united the sects to restore the domain’s spiritual veins and establish teleportation arrays. Three years later, the domain had returned to its peak, while Sikong Qing suspected Ning Qi had powerful backing and postponed his revenge until the Spirit Realm War.

• Ning Qi settled and expanded the Limitless Sword Sect, then told the sect leaders that the Profound Truth Domain’s restoration could be accelerated with his Void Spiritual Vein Restoration Art.
• Ning Qi gave the art to the allied sects, assigned them to restore spiritual veins, and arranged for teleportation arrays to link their territories with the Limitless Sword Sect.
• Luo Feiyu and the other sect leaders agreed to install teleportation arrays, while Ning Qi taught their chosen geniuses array-building methods and sent the leaders back through one-way teleportation gates.
• Over the next three years, the sects restored the domain’s spiritual veins, established the Profound Truth Alliance headquarters, and helped the Profound Truth Domain return to its peak.
• Sikong Qing learned that the domain had recovered, suspected Ning Qi had an Immortal Sect force backing him, and decided to delay his revenge until the Spirit Realm War.

After becoming Domain Lord, Ning Qi gained the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s permission to wield and cultivate Spirit Realm World Power, greatly increasing his strength over ten years. As the Spirit Realm War began, the Mountain and Sea Realm Will revealed a new world and the bridgehead being formed where the two realms met.

• Ning Qi tested his new control over the Profound Truth Domain, and the Sword Ancestor learned that the Mountain and Sea Realm Will granted Domain Lords access to domain power.
• Ning Qi fused Spirit Realm World Power into himself after the Mountain and Sea Realm Will explained that Domain Lords could use ten threads each year and earn more by carrying out its tasks.
• Over ten years, Ning Qi advanced to the Late Body Integration Realm, comprehended the Spatial Laws, and created the Void Interstice supernatural power as the Profound Truth Alliance and its sects grew stronger.
• At the alliance’s tenth-anniversary gathering, the Mountain and Sea Realm Will announced that the Spirit Realm War had begun, and Ning Qi emerged from seclusion to steady the Profound Truth Domain amid the upheaval.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will showed the gathered cultivators a massive world connected to their realm and the construction of a shared bridgehead in the Boundary Sea.