Chapter Summaries

The Mountain and Sea Realm Will conscripted most cultivators into the coming Spirit Realm War, and Ning Qi prepared the Profound Truth Alliance for the battle. Fu Chen and Wei Wuyai returned to the Profound Truth Domain intending to submit to Ning Qi, while Ning Qi planned to use the war to strengthen the True Martial World.

• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will ordered sects and Rogue Cultivators to send most of their Nascent Soul Realm and stronger cultivators to the War Domains, promising rewards such as Rule Shards and giving them six months to prepare.
• Fu Chen and Wei Wuyai learned that Ning Qi had unified the North and South Domains and become the Profound Truth Domain Lord, so Wei Wuyai urged Fu Chen to return and submit to him.
• Wei Wuyai revealed that his former sect had fought for the title of Profound Truth Domain Lord and warned Fu Chen to treat Ning Qi with absolute respect; Fu Chen agreed to return with the Dao Unification Profound Skill as a gift.
• Ning Qi built the Limitless Arena and opened high-authority teleportation access so the Profound Truth Alliance's sects could gather there for final preparations and joint training.
• Ning Qi taught the cultivators coordinated battle techniques and assigned reincarnated True Martial World cultivators to collect War Domain intelligence and Vast Origin Realm spatial coordinates.

Fu Chen returned to the Profound Truth Domain seeking refuge with Ning Qi and offering the Dao Unification Profound Skill, while Ning Qi exposed and recruited Fu Chen’s hidden teacher, Wei Wuyai. Six months later, the Mountain and Sea Realm opened the War Domain, and Ning Qi led the Profound Truth Domain Army into the war.

• Fu Chen met Niu Man outside the Profound Truth Alliance headquarters and asked him to bring him to Ning Qi, offering the Dao Unification Profound Skill in exchange for refuge.
• Niu Man led Fu Chen through the thriving alliance headquarters, where cultivators recognized Fu Chen and let him pass once they learned he planned to present the skill to Ning Qi.
• Ning Qi confronted Fu Chen in the Limitless Arena, revealed Wei Wuyai’s presence, and identified him as a former late-Dao Harmonization Realm Grand Elder of the Bloodfire Immortal Sect.
• Wei Wuyai surrendered a strand of his origin Nascent Soul Power to Ning Qi, who agreed to take in Fu Chen and restore Wei Wuyai’s cultivation.
• Six months later, the Mountain and Sea Realm Will opened the War Domain and ordered the assembled cultivators to fight there without attacking one another.
• Sikong Qing hoped to meet Ning Qi in the War Domain, while Ning Qi led the Profound Truth Domain Army through its entrance.

Ning Qi led the Profound Truth Domain cultivators into the War Domain, where they faced the realm’s suppressive effects and learned its rules and resources. After discovering a Territory Node, they set out to claim it, while Ning Qi also shared an improved cultivation technique with the Alliance’s Body Integration Realm cultivators.

• Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor watched as the armies of the Spirit Domains entered the War Domain, and the Vast Origin Immortal Sect rallied its cultivators to fight.
• Ning Qi led the Profound Truth Domain forces into the War Domain, where they killed a charging World Sea Ferocious Beast and formed their battle groups.
• Xia Xing reported that the War Domain suppressed cultivation but contained abundant Spiritual Qi and unfamiliar treasures, and Ning Qi offered rewards for submitting unknown items for study.
• Ning Qi discovered that he was less affected by the suppression than most cultivators and considered how devouring the War Domain’s space could strengthen his true body.
• Xia Xing announced that the group had found a Territory Node, and Ning Qi ordered the cultivators to advance toward it.
• Ning Qi shared the improved Solar Body Forging Art with the Alliance’s Body Integration Realm cultivators and kept the more complete Yin-Yang Divine Art for himself.

Ning Qi led the Profound Truth Domain cultivators in a concealed assault on the White Crane Immortal Sect at a Territory Node, while the Mountain and Sea Realm Will punished cultivators who broke its ban on infighting. The ambush devastated the Vast Origin Realm force, and Ning Qi seized the Black Flood Dragon as Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran remained among the few survivors.

• Xia Xing reported that the Vast Origin Realm cultivators at the node were fighting a Black Flood Dragon, and Ning Qi concealed his army with a formation before ordering it to advance.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will killed cultivators who slaughtered one another and warned the realm’s fighters against further infighting.
• Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran discussed the White Crane Immortal Sect’s plan to use the node and lure Mountain and Sea Realm cultivators while their forces fought the Black Flood Dragon.
• The White Crane Immortal Sect nearly subdued the dragon, but it wounded three Body Integration cultivators with black-and-red beams.
• Ning Qi’s Profound Truth Domain army launched a surprise attack that killed many White Crane Immortal Sect cultivators and turned the battle in their favor.
• Ning Qi grabbed the fleeing Black Flood Dragon by its tail, while the surviving White Crane Immortal Sect fighters were surrounded or left facing the attack.

Ning Qi’s forces ambushed the White Crane Immortal Sect, seized the Territory Node, and captured Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran. After learning the Spirit Bird Domain Lord had entered the War Domain with Body Integration Realm strength, Ning Qi looked forward to confronting another Domain Lord.

• Ning Qi led the Profound Truth Domain Cultivators in a surprise attack that killed most of the White Crane Immortal Sect’s forces and left Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran surrounded.
• The Black Flood Dragon spat out the Territory Node, which Ning Qi recovered and identified as a pearl containing power from three realms.
• Jian Jingjue defeated Hao Qiuran’s and Shu Lingyu’s combined attack, while Ning Qi captured Shu Lingyu with a single palm strike.
• Ning Qi’s forces subdued the remaining White Crane Immortal Sect Cultivators and captured both elders alive.
• Ning Qi activated the Territory Node, reducing the Mountain and Sea Realm Cultivators’ domain suppression, then extracted the Spirit Bird Domain’s coordinates and information about its Domain Lord.
• Ning Qi learned that the Spirit Bird Domain Lord had entered the War Domain with Body Integration Realm strength and wondered whether the Domain Lord could use Spirit Realm World Power there.

Ning Qi stabilized the captured Territory Node, collected its rewards, and used the opportunity to advance his cultivation and send a million True Martial World Beings to reincarnate in the Vast Origin Realm. He then captured another White Crane Immortal Sect team and created a compass that could locate nearby Nodes.

• Array Formation cultivators built an Altar beneath the Heavenly Star, and Ning Qi calmed the energies in its Crystal Spirit Jade so the Mountain and Sea Realm Will could control the area.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will rewarded the Profound Truth Domain with ten Medium Rule Shards and twenty Miniature Rule Shards; Ning Qi absorbed one shard and shared another’s power with the cultivators.
• Ning Qi extracted information from Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran, then his main body chose one million True Martial World Beings to reincarnate in the Vast Origin Realm.
• Ning Qi led the Profound Truth Domain forces to capture another White Crane Immortal Sect team and then began searching for Nodes.
• Ning Qi carved a Spirit-Seeking Node Discernment Compass that could point to the nearest Node.

Ning Qi led the Profound Truth Domain Army to a Half-Enemy Realm claimed by the White Crane Immortal Sect and devised a plan to attack without sacrificing his people. He infiltrated the area undetected and tested how closely the Vast Origin Realm Will could sense him, discovering clues about its nature.

• Ning Qi used the Spirit-Seeking Node Discernment Compass to lead the Profound Truth Domain Army northwest.
• Su Haoran and Wu Feiyu regrouped the White Crane Immortal Sect’s remaining forces, captured a small node, and summoned the Vast Origin Realm Will by turning its Node Pearl into a Heavenly Star.
• Ning Qi halted his army outside the Half-Enemy Realm and rejected a direct assault, saying he wanted to preserve as many lives as possible.
• Ning Qi told the army to prepare a Grand Formation, then vanished to approach the White Crane Immortal Sect’s Altar alone while Jian Jingjue prepared to distract its guards.
• Ning Qi tested the Heavenly Star’s starlight and Realm Power as he drew closer, remaining undetected by both the White Crane Immortal Sect and the Vast Origin Realm Will.
• Ning Qi sensed a distinct Vast Righteousness in the Vast Origin Realm Will and began breaking through into the ten-meter range.

Ning Qi tested how close he could approach the Vast Origin Realm Will before it detected him, then used Jian Jingjue’s ambush to disrupt the White Crane Immortal Sect’s ritual. After touching the Will and being wounded, Ning Qi revealed himself and vanished again when it and Su Haoran’s group attacked.

• Ning Qi approached the Altar and its descending starlight step by step, testing the Vast Origin Realm Will’s perception while the White Crane Immortal Sect completed the ritual.
• Once the energies in the Crystal Spirit Jade separated, Ning Qi crushed a Jade Tablet to signal Jian Jingjue, who unleashed a devastating sword strike that destroyed part of the Altar and killed hundreds of cultivators.
• Su Haoran pursued Jian Jingjue while Wu Feiyu and the remaining White Crane Immortal Sect cultivators tried to continue the ritual.
• Ning Qi touched the starlight, suffered a severe wound, and was discovered by the Vast Origin Realm Will, which forced him to reveal himself.
• Ning Qi signaled the Profound Truth Domain Army to attack, while Su Haoran and his followers launched the Xuanyuan Blood Sword at him alongside the Will’s starlight tendrils.
• Ning Qi used Space Shuttle to escape the combined attack, leaving the Vast Origin Realm Will searching for him.

Ning Qi used Mountain and Sea Realm Power and a Yin-Yang Divine Art to stop the Vast Origin Realm Will from completing its occupation of the land. After taking down the Heavenly Star and restoring it as a Node Pearl under the Mountain and Sea Realm, he ordered the Profound Truth Domain Army to build the Altar.

• Su Haoran and Wu Feiyu’s White Crane Immortal Sect forces continued the Earthly Star ritual as the Profound Truth Domain Army attacked, and Su Haoran’s Blood Shadow Divine Crane was destroyed while protecting them.
• Wu Feiyu and the surviving Body Integration Realm Cultivators poured their life force into the Crystal Spirit Jade, bringing its Yin-Yang transformation close to completion as the Profound Truth Domain Army tried to stop them.
• Jian Jingjue repeatedly broke the Earthly Star’s purple barrier, but the Vast Origin Realm Will regenerated it until Ning Qi appeared and severed the Star Beam with One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Laws.
• Ning Qi used Mountain and Sea Realm Power to reach the Crystal Spirit Jade, then released its energies and circulated his Yin-Yang Divine Art to drive back the Vast Origin Realm Will’s Star Beam.
• Ning Qi reached the Heavenly Star, removed it, and transformed its Node Pearl with Mountain and Sea Realm Power before embedding it in the Realm Wall.
• Ning Qi descended after restoring the Heavenly Star, ordered the Profound Truth Domain Army to build the Altar, and absorbed the Yin-Yang Fish.

Ning Qi absorbed the energy at a Half-Enemy Realm Node, negotiated with the Mountain and Sea Realm Will for support, and led the Profound Truth Domain Army north to seek more Nodes. Elsewhere in the Lower Domain, Sikong Lan joined forces with Qi Keqing’s Yaoguang Immortal Sect while secretly pursuing Sikong Qing’s ambitions against the Limitless Sword Sect.

• Ning Qi absorbed the Node’s excess energy, advancing his cultivation and discovering that the Yin-Yang Divine Art could help him harvest energy from other Nodes.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will rewarded the army for conquering the Half-Enemy Realm and privately gave Ning Qi twenty strands of Realm Power.
• Ning Qi negotiated with the Mountain and Sea Realm Will, learned that the Southeast War Domain held nine Spirit Domains divided among upper, middle, and Lower Domains, and received a Mountain and Sea Imprint for future contact.
• Ning Qi used the Spirit-Seeking Node Discernment Compass to direct the Profound Truth Domain Army north after conquering a Medium Node and a Small Node.
• Sikong Lan brought the Azure Profound Immortal Sect’s army to join Qi Keqing’s Yaoguang Immortal Sect, and Qi Keqing questioned his intentions.
• Sikong Lan resolved to advance Sikong Qing’s interests and considered using the conflict to target the Limitless Sword Sect.

Sikong Lan persuaded Qi Keqing to absorb the Azure Profound Sect’s army into her ranks and led her toward a contested Node. Meanwhile, Ning Qi’s army reached the same Node and found the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect fighting a powerful bee swarm, leaving Ning Qi to decide how to seize it.

• Sikong Lan approached Qi Keqing and persuaded her to let the Azure Profound Sect’s army join hers, while Qi Keqing required his forces to disperse into her ranks.
• Ye Qinghe and Dragon Mountain Daoist discussed Sikong Lan’s motives and watched Qi Keqing agree to his conditions.
• Sikong Lan led Qi Keqing’s army toward a medium-sized Node, where he had previously encountered the Vast Origin Realm cultivators.
• Ning Qi’s army arrived at the Node and discovered the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect battling a bee swarm protected by a formation and sustained by a queen bee.
• Ning Qi used the Spirit-Seeking Node Discernment Compass to locate another distant Node, then decided to attack the contested Node first.

Ning Qi’s Profound Truth Domain Army ambushed the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect and the bee demon swarm, then Ning Qi confronted and subdued the Bee Demon Queen. The Whirling Wind Domain Army arrived as the Bee Demon Queen weighed whether to use the newcomers to her advantage.

• Ning Qi asked the sect leaders for battle strategies, and Xia Xing proposed specialized counter-teams while Niu Dingtian urged them to capture the Bee Demon Queen.
• Baishan Real Person proposed combining water and lightning attacks, joined the Army of Array Cultivators, and helped set the ambush plan.
• As the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect and the bee demons clashed, Ning Qi’s army disrupted their formations with fire, earth, ice, water, and lightning attacks, nearly wiping out both forces.
• Sword Ancestor split the hive open, and Ning Qi froze the Bee Demon Queen’s poisoned needles before resisting her clones and wind blades.
• The Bee Demon Queen offered to surrender, but Ning Qi sensed the approaching Whirling Wind Domain Army and ordered his troops to prepare.

Ning Qi's army defeated the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect and the bee demons, seized the Node, and subdued the Bee Demon Queen as the Whirling Wind Domain Army arrived. Qi Keqing chose to speak with Ning Qi rather than challenge him for the Node, leaving the two leaders poised to negotiate.

• Qi Keqing led the Whirling Wind Domain Army toward the Node, where her forces sensed an unknown army destroying the Vast Origin Realm cultivators and Boundary Sea demons.
• Sikong Lan recognized Ning Qi as the leader of the Profound Truth Domain Army, and Qi Keqing halted her troops outside the sword wall Jian Jingjue created.
• Ning Qi forced the Bee Demon Queen to surrender, bound Feng Baihua with a life-and-death contract, and took the Node Pearl.
• Ning Qi activated the Node and ordered his troops to build an Altar while the Whirling Wind Domain Army approached.
• Qi Keqing told Ning Qi she would have contested the Node if he had not already taken it, then asked to discuss matters with him.

Ning Qi rejected Qi Keqing’s offer to unite their armies unless she surrendered command, then led the Profound Truth Domain Army to a Large Node using his Compass. Qi Keqing’s force followed to investigate the Compass, but Ning Qi’s army vanished before their eyes.

• Ning Qi defeated Qi Keqing in a clash of Nascent Soul Power, then met with her after the Sword Ancestor withdrew the sword wall.
• Qi Keqing proposed an alliance, but Ning Qi refused unless she handed him command of the Whirling Wind Domain Army; she returned to her troops without an agreement.
• Sikong Lan considered leaving Qi Keqing’s army and continued plotting against Ning Qi, while Ning Qi exchanged messages with Dragon Mountain Daoist and Ye Qinghe.
• The Profound Truth Domain Army captured the Medium Node, received thirteen Medium Rule Shards, thirty-nine Miniature Rule Shards, and twenty strands of Realm Power for Ning Qi, then set off toward a detected Large Node.
• Qi Keqing followed Ning Qi’s army to learn whether his Compass could locate Nodes, while her formation experts praised the army’s complex formation.
• Ning Qi’s army disappeared from sight, leaving Qi Keqing’s followers shocked.

Ning Qi led the Profound Truth Domain Army to a large Node, where the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect was fighting five coordinated World Sea Ferocious Beast species. When the Whirling Wind Domain Army was discovered and clashed with the sect, Ning Qi stayed hidden and watched, but the battle shifted again when the Azure Profound Sect contingent abandoned Qi Keqing’s army.

• Qi Keqing ordered the Whirling Wind Domain Army to follow Ning Qi’s route and found a mist-shrouded large Node ahead.
• Ning Qi’s army reached the Node and discovered the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect battling Tiger, Leopard, Wolf, Lion, and Eagle World Sea Ferocious Beasts.
• The Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect detected Qi Keqing’s approaching army, and Qi Keqing revealed that the Yaoguang Immortal Sect had arrived.
• Ning Qi kept his army concealed as Qi Keqing’s followers killed two Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect Limit Venerables, triggering a battle between the armies.
• The Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect sent half its forces against Qi Keqing while the beasts pressed the remaining cultivators, and Ning Qi’s army waited for an opening.
• A large contingent from the Azure Profound Sect broke away from the Whirling Wind Domain Army and retreated.

Sikong Lan abandoned Qi Keqing’s army while Ning Qi’s hidden forces waited for the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect and Qi Keqing’s troops to weaken each other. After Qi Keqing refused to expose Ning Qi’s army, Ning Qi launched a surprise attack that wiped out the forces battling the World Sea Ferocious Beasts, leaving Qi Keqing’s side stunned.

• Sikong Lan withdrew the Azure Profound Sect army during the battle, while a third of his troops stayed with Qi Keqing.
• Ning Qi held his concealed army in reserve as Qi Keqing’s forces fought the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect, and he chose not to pursue Sikong Lan.
• Qi Keqing used the Yaoguang Qi Annihilation Art to blind and confuse the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect’s army, then her troops clashed with its battle formation.
• Elder Li urged Qi Keqing to reveal Ning Qi’s hidden army, but she refused and insisted that they keep fighting without exposing him.
• Ning Qi ordered his army to concentrate on the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect forces battling the World Sea Ferocious Beasts.
• The Sword Ancestor struck the enemy’s three Limit Venerables, and Ning Qi’s army followed with a combined assault that annihilated the forces below.

Ning Qi subdued five World Sea Fiend Beast Kings and sent the Profound Truth Domain Army to help Qi Keqing fight the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect. When Domain Lord Chixia Zi returned, Ning Qi stopped him and faced him in battle, leaving the two armies to continue their attack.

• Ning Qi captured five weakened Fiend Beast Kings, bound them with Five Elements Divine Chains, and used the Primordial Spirit Possession Technique to make them submit.
• Ning Qi sent the Profound Truth Domain Army to aid Qi Keqing, and their combined forces pressed the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect into a desperate defense.
• The Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect’s cultivators drew strength from Chixia Zi’s crimson Domain Force as they awaited their returning Domain Lord.
• Chixia Zi arrived and tried to pass Ning Qi to rescue his sect, but Ning Qi seized him with a Five-Colored Giant Hand and hurled him back.
• Ning Qi identified himself as the Profound Truth Domain Lord and countered Chixia Zi’s attempt to attack the armies by sending Divine Beasts after his four avatars.
• Ning Qi’s Divine Beasts and Chixia Zi’s avatars destroyed one another, leaving Ning Qi and Chixia Zi facing each other.

Ning Qi fought Chixia Zi, the Spirit Fowl Domain Lord, and used the Heavenly Star and Mountain and Sea Imprint to draw the Mountain and Sea Realm Will into lending him more World Power. After Ning Qi’s cultivation and defenses surged, Chixia Zi froze under his gaze, leaving the fight poised for Ning Qi’s next move.

• Chixia Zi attacked Ning Qi with a Vermilion Bird claw, but Ning Qi transformed his Five-Colored Giant Hand into a Fire Giant Hand and crushed the attack, slamming Chixia Zi into the ground.
• Ning Qi summoned the Heavenly Star to remove Chixia Zi’s suppression of the allied armies, then used his Wind and Thunder Wings to batter Chixia Zi until he raised a Realm Power shield.
• Ning Qi broke the Mountain and Sea Imprint against Chixia Zi’s shield, forcing the Mountain and Sea Realm Will to send him World Power through the Heavenly Star.
• Chixia Zi unleashed Vermilion Bird attacks while Ning Qi absorbed more World Power and provoked the Mountain and Sea Realm Will into granting him additional strength.
• Ning Qi’s cultivation and defenses surged as Chixia Zi drew in more Vast Origin Realm energy and attacked, but his assault could no longer penetrate Ning Qi’s shield.
• Ning Qi fixed his gaze on Chixia Zi, who suddenly froze as if something had seized him by the throat.

Ning Qi defeated Chixia Zi after Chixia Zi used the Vermilion Bird Divine Body and absorbed the life force of the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect cultivators. The Mountain and Sea Realm took control of the Node, and Ning Qi left Qi Keqing with a Compass so the Whirling Wind Domain could find Nodes and contact his forces.

• Ning Qi revealed his full power, but Chixia Zi broke free by transforming into the Vermilion Bird Divine Body and drawing in energy and life force from the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect cultivators.
• Qi Keqing and Sword Ancestor tried to help Ning Qi, but he told them to leave the fight to him as Chixia Zi launched a devastating strike.
• Ning Qi summoned a giant white shadow that restored the shattered space and crushed Chixia Zi, then absorbed the scattered energy.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will rewarded Ning Qi with Rule Shards, while Ning Qi used the Crystal Spirit Jade to complete the occupation of the Node.
• Ning Qi refused thanks from Qi Keqing's army, gave them a Spirit-Seeking Node Discernment Compass, and offered to keep in contact and help them in the War Domain.

Ning Qi left the Profound Truth Domain Army under the Sword Ancestor’s command so he could hunt powerful enemies and search for places to expand the True Martial World. Meanwhile, Sikong Lan’s force followed Sima Fei to a strange region beyond the Two Realm Wills’ reach, where they planned to lure Ning Qi into a trap.

• Ning Qi gave the Spirit-Seeking Node Discernment Compass to the Sword Ancestor and entrusted him with leading the Profound Truth Domain Army to capture Nodes.
• Ning Qi taught the Array Cultivators the Concealment Grand Array, promised to teleport to the army when needed, and set off alone to eliminate threats and seek places to expand the True Martial World.
• Qi Keqing’s Whirling Wind Domain Army appreciated the Compass Ning Qi had given them, and Qi Keqing vowed to kill Sikong Lan if they met again.
• Sikong Lan and Ma Feng praised Sikong Lan for abandoning Qi Keqing’s force, while Sima Fei warned that Qi Keqing and Ning Qi would retaliate.
• Sima Fei led Sikong Lan’s force to a dim, mist-shrouded region and discovered it was untouched by the Two Realm Wills, proposing to use it to trap Ning Qi.