Chapter Summaries

The Mountain and Sea Realm Will gave Ning Qi three powerful treasures and sent him into the fiercest fighting to draw the Vast Origin Realm’s Dao Integration Cultivators away. Ning Qi rescued Leng Qing'ao from a Gray-Robed Cultivator, revealed himself, and drew enemies from both sides into pursuit.

• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will gave Ning Qi Core Realm Force, the Mountain Stabilizing Seal, and the Heart of the Ocean before sending him to the battlefield.
• Leng Qing'ao fought the Gray-Robed Cultivator, whose Soul-Reaving Sword shattered her attacks and threatened to overwhelm her.
• Ning Qi halted the Gray-Robed Cultivator’s sword shadows and appeared before Leng Qing'ao, preventing her from using the Myriad Shark Disintegration Art.
• The Gray-Robed Cultivator recognized Ning Qi and summoned nearby Vast Origin Realm Dao Integration Cultivators to capture him.
• Ning Qi fled across the battlefield, drawing Vast Origin Realm cultivators after him while Fan Cheng, Jin Guanghua, and Mu Qingtian joined the pursuit.

Ning Qi lured the Vast Origin Realm cultivators south while the Mountain and Sea Realm Will secretly moved most of its Dao Integration forces toward the Central Domain. When Fan Cheng’s group tried to trap Ning Qi, both sides attacked, and Ning Qi revealed the Mountain Stabilizing Seal before breaking open a Great Gate as he appeared to advance into Dao Integration.

• Fan Cheng, Jin Guanghua, and Mu Qingtian pursued Ning Qi, while Leng Qing'ao followed to make sure he was safe.
• Mi Hui received Jiang Yingchu’s order to pursue Ning Qi only as far as one-third of the way into the Southern Domain, and the Mountain and Sea Realm Will secretly sent most of its cultivators toward the Central Domain.
• Mi Hui halted the pursuit at the boundary, but Fan Cheng’s group crossed behind Ning Qi and tried to trap him; Ning Qi flung Leng Qing'ao a thousand li away.
• Mi Hui’s forces attacked Fan Cheng’s group, while Ning Qi used the Mountain Stabilizing Seal to withstand the attacks aimed at him.
• Ning Qi released his magical power and shattered a Great Gate within himself, prompting the cultivators to suspect he was breaking through to Dao Integration.

Ning Qi began his breakthrough to the Union Realm, and the three hundred Rules he had mastered summoned a terrifying Thunder Tribulation that affected both realms. As the Vast Origin Realm cultivators withdrew and Fan Cheng’s side began to lose strength, Fan Cheng ordered his forces to retreat.

• Ning Qi protected himself with the Mountain Stabilizing Seal while Fan Cheng ordered more than four hundred Mountain and Sea Realm Dao Integration Cultivators to attack him.
• Ning Qi used his Yin-Yang Divine Art to merge three hundred kinds of Power of Rules into a Taiji Diagram as his physical body disappeared.
• The rules across the War Domain gathered into a colossal Thunder Tribulation, whose clouds and lightning spread into both the Mountain and Sea Realm and the Vast Origin Realm.
• The Sage Ancestor divined danger and ordered the Vast Origin Realm cultivators, including Mi Hui, to withdraw from Ning Qi.
• Fan Cheng urged his forces to keep attacking, but the gathered clouds drained their strength, and he finally ordered them to leave.

Ning Qi’s breakthrough drew the rules of both realms and trapped the Dao Integration cultivators in his Thousand Locks Myriad Knots Unbreakable Formation. He summoned the Burial Lightning Tribulation against them, leaving half of the cultivators dead as the thunderstorm continued.

• Fan Cheng led the cultivators south, but they found themselves blocked by a barrier, and Pu Fang warned that attacking it could strengthen it.
• As lightning intensified, the cultivators from both realms searched for weaknesses and attacked what they thought were flaws in the barrier.
• Ning Qi awakened inside the Yin-Yang Diagram, revealed that the apparent flaws were traps, and used the formation to bind both groups and turn their attacks against them.
• Ning Qi’s body re-formed as the rules of both realms poured into it, while Leng Qing'ao watched from outside the barrier.
• Ning Qi summoned the Burial Lightning Tribulation, and its Thunder Dragon struck the trapped cultivators, killing half of them in the first barrage.

Ning Qi endured a two-realm thunder tribulation that struck down the trapped Dao Integration cultivators and disrupted both Spirit Realm Wills’ efforts to interfere. He crossed nine increasingly terrible lightning tribulations, while the clouds showed no sign of fading.

• The Three Strongest Immortal Sect Masters and the three Old Ancestors recognized Ning Qi’s extraordinary tribulation, while Sage Ancestor sent the Vast Origin Realm Will with a Dissolution scroll to free the trapped cultivators.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will and the Vast Origin Realm Will entered the War Domain but discovered they could not control or interfere with the rules inside Ning Qi’s tribulation.
• The Vast Origin Realm Will used Sage Ancestor’s Dissolution scroll to loosen the Thousandfold Lock Knots, but Ning Qi summoned a second Thunder Dragon and the tribulation interrupted the rescue.
• The second strike killed half of the remaining Dao Integration cultivators, damaged the Dissolution scroll, and battered the Two Realm Wills’ Avatars as Ning Qi’s Rule Body rapidly regenerated.
• Ning Qi drew down the third through ninth lightning tribulations, enduring their varied rule-infused attacks and rebuilding his body after each one.
• After the ninth strike, only a small group of badly injured Dao Integration cultivators remained, the Two Realm Wills had retreated to the edge, and the tribulation clouds still showed no sign of diminishing.

Ning Qi transformed his tribulation into a means of transcending the limits of the Mountain and Sea Realm and the Vast Origin Realm, ultimately absorbing the World Sea’s power and passing thirty-six Thunder Tribulations. He emerged in a mysterious new form, leaving the Two Realm Wills convinced that he would surpass the Three Ancestors if he continued to grow.

• Ning Qi charged into the Thunder Cloud, causing his tribulation to awaken emotions and unleash the Nine Sons Thunder Tribulation against the Two Realm Wills.
• Ning Qi endured twenty-seven tribulations, using the thunder to rehearse and integrate the Mystical Abilities he had learned and created.
• Ning Qi restarted the tribulation by adding Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, the two realms’ Power of Rules, and World Sea Power to the Thunder Cloud.
• Ning Qi passed thirty-six Thunder Tribulations, became one with the storm, and sensed the War Domain, the three worlds, and the surrounding World Sea before the Fragmented Leaf and withered leaf brought him back.
• Ning Qi reformed within the Yin-Yang Diagram wearing a Yin-Yang Dharma Robe, and the Two Realm Wills realized he had surpassed the Three Ancestors’ tribulation count.

Ning Qi survived an unprecedented thirty-six thunder tribulations, advanced to Dao Integration, and gained a Rule Body with sixty-five additional rules. He followed a surviving, disguised enemy toward Sword Ancestor and Qi Keqing’s armies, where the enemy attacked as the cultivators began their own tribulations.

• Ning Qi completed thirty-six thunder tribulations and discovered that his new Rule Body let him release his Supernatural Powers and spells with a thought.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will praised Ning Qi and followed him as he pursued a charred Shadowy Figure who had survived the tribulation and gained strength.
• The Shadowy Figure headed for the Profound Truth Domain Army and Whirling Wind Domain Army, intending to kill Sword Ancestor, Qi Keqing, and their cultivators.
• Ning Qi recognized the Shadowy Figure and let him approach the armies, then urged the Body Integration Realm cultivators who had reached their limits to undergo tribulation.
• Sword Ancestor, Qi Keqing, and the eligible cultivators rose into the sky as tribulation clouds gathered, while the Shadowy Figure overcame his fear and charged at them with lightning surging from his body.

Ning Qi used Fan Cheng’s Residual Thunder to alter the tribulation of Sword Ancestor and the others, but Fan Cheng seized control of the storm and attacked everyone beneath it. Ning Qi stopped the thunder, reversed it, and pulled Fan Cheng into the clouds, where the lightning destroyed him.

• Ning Qi recognized Fan Cheng and realized he could use the Residual Thunder in Fan Cheng’s body to alter Sword Ancestor and the others’ tribulation.
• Sword Ancestor, Qi Keqing, and the others began their tribulation as Fan Cheng charged into their Thunder Cloud.
• Fan Cheng joined the storm, amplified it, and directed its lightning at the cultivators below, badly injuring Sword Ancestor and the others.
• Fan Cheng expanded the Thunder Cloud and unleashed lightning across the region, threatening Ning Qi’s followers and other cultivators.
• Ning Qi froze the descending Tribulation Thunder and reversed it, taking control of the storm and drawing Fan Cheng into the Thunder Cloud.
• The Thunder Serpents cut apart Fan Cheng’s body and will, and he disappeared within the churning clouds.

Ning Qi reversed Fan Cheng’s thunder tribulation, entered its cloud, and discovered he could command its lightning as its true master. He began drawing on the rules of both the Mountain and Sea Realm and the Vast Origin Realm, whose Will could not stop its power from flowing toward him.

• Ning Qi reversed the tribulation lightning, erased Fan Cheng, and spared the cultivators below from the attack.
• Ren Boping, Lang Yingying, Jiang Yuyue, Qing Chu Lan, Zhu Yanchuan, and Leng Qing'ao realized Ning Qi had intervened, while Zhu Yanchuan regretted leaving his group.
• Ning Qi stepped onto the cloud ladders and entered the thunder cloud, where the tribulation lightning welcomed him and gathered into a sphere at his command.
• Ning Qi told Sword Ancestor and the others that their thunder tribulation would continue, then drew more Mountain and Sea Realm rules into the lightning.
• Ning Qi turned toward the Vast Origin Realm and drew its rules into the tribulation; the Vast Origin Realm Will failed to stop their flow.

Ning Qi used the rules of the Vast Origin Realm and World Sea to create a powerful tribulation that tempered Sword Ancestor, Qi Keqing, and dozens of other cultivators, teaching them the Tribulation Birth Myriad Dao Art. Most stopped after the ninth tribulation, while Qi Keqing and Sword Ancestor endured further trials; Sword Ancestor emerged from the eighteenth with gray-black Evil Qi streaming from a newly opened Heavenly Eye toward Ning Qi.

• Ning Qi gathered the Vast Origin Realm's rules and the War Domain's World Sea Rules into his Tribulation Lightning and began the first tribulation for Sword Ancestor and the other cultivators.
• Ning Qi taught the group the Tribulation Birth Myriad Dao Art, allowing them to absorb the lightning and transform their bones and bodies as they survived successive tribulations.
• Sword Ancestor and the others endured nine tribulations, stripping away the Mountain and Sea Realm's marks within them, before most descended to consolidate their cultivation.
• Ning Qi continued the trials for Sword Ancestor and Qi Keqing, sending them into lightning spheres and adding successive tribulations; Qi Keqing emerged first and bowed to him.
• After the eighteenth tribulation, Sword Ancestor cleaved apart his lightning sphere, and gray-black Evil Qi streamed from the Heavenly Eye between his brows toward Ning Qi.

After the Sword Ancestor broke through, Ning Qi used his tribulation lightning to force out and battle the strange evil qi sealed in the Sword Ancestor’s body. Ning Qi suppressed it with his Golden Key, then used the remaining tribulation cloud to temper his followers, leaving them stronger and the two realm wills wary of his growing influence.

• The Sword Ancestor’s Great Dao Injury healed, but the evil qi forced from his body survived his sword attack and crawled into Ning Qi’s Tribulation Cloud.
• The evil qi adapted to and absorbed tribulation lightning, so Ning Qi joined his will with the lightning to drive its particles together and trap them.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will warned Ning Qi that the evil qi might come from outside their world, while the Vast Origin Realm Will’s Avatar suspected it was the legendary Limitless Evil Qi.
• Ning Qi used the Golden Key to split and suppress the evil qi, then sealed it in Spirit Stone Evil Sealing Bottles and stored them away.
• Ning Qi tried to collect the remaining Tribulation Cloud, then redirected its lightning to temper the bodies and Primordial Spirits of his Profound Truth Domain and Whirling Wind Domain followers.

Ning Qi refined the tribulation clouds into a seven-colored Tribulation Elixir, empowering himself and helping his army grow into a formidable force. He led the reorganized army toward the Central Domain as Sage Ancestor prepared to enter the conflict, and the Mountain and Sea Realm Will opened the way.

• Ning Qi absorbed the tribulation clouds into a Tribulation Lightning Pellet, refined it into an elixir, and swallowed it, gaining a new supernatural power.
• Ning Qi learned that his Two Domain Grand Army now had more than seventy Dao Integration Cultivators and five hundred Body Integration Realm cultivators, then ordered the army to march to the Central Domain.
• Leng Qing'ao congratulated Ning Qi, agreed to join the expedition, and offered to introduce him to Zhao Yujun of the Moon Sea Immortal Sect.
• The Vast Origin Realm Will told Sage Ancestor how Ning Qi had overwhelmed the Vast Origin Realm forces, and Sage Ancestor sent an incarnation to accompany him into the War Domain.
• The Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor considered Ning Qi's growing influence, while the Mountain and Sea Realm Will warned him not to trigger the final battle too soon.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will opened a gate in the Central Domain's Realm Wall, and Ning Qi led the armies through it.

Ning Qi and Leng Qing'ao entered the blood-misted Central Domain, where the Moon Sea and Zhou Mountain Immortal Sects competed over Ning Qi's allegiance. Ning Qi met Moon Sea Sect Master Zhao Yujun, heard Sea Ancestor's assurances, and learned that Sea Ancestor saw a resemblance between him and herself.

• Ning Qi and Leng Qing'ao crossed into the Central Domain and encountered patrols Gu Qingyan of Moon Sea Immortal Sect and Zhou Hanshan of Zhou Mountain Immortal Sect.
• Zhou Hanshan insisted Ning Qi belonged with Mountain Ancestor, but Gu Qingyan defended him and cited the Mountain-side cultivators who had targeted him; Zhou Hanshan then left.
• Gu Qingyan led Ning Qi and his forces to meet Zhao Yujun, who tested Ning Qi's strength through a handshake and acknowledged his ability.
• Zhao Yujun relayed Sea Ancestor's promise to protect Ning Qi's Profound Truth Domain and reward his contributions in the War Domain.
• Zhao Yujun told Ning Qi that Sea Ancestor thought he resembled her, especially in his use of World Sea Power.

Ning Qi joined Zhao Yujun and Gong Tiandao to assess the Vast Origin Realm’s preparations and offered to help reconcile their incompatible formations. The two sect masters tested him with basic formations, and the chapter ended with Ning Qi studying them while Gong Tiandao assumed he was stumped.

• Sea Ancestor sent word through Zhao Yujun that she and Ning Qi were alike in their use of World Sea Power, and Ning Qi concluded she was warning him while claiming the right to be his master.
• Gong Tiandao arrived at Zhao Yujun’s camp, failed to persuade Ning Qi to return under the Mountain Ancestor, and joined Zhao Yujun and Ning Qi at the Realm Wall to discuss strategy.
• Ning Qi used the Eye of Truth to locate Jiang Yingchu and see that he was rallying subordinates to carve a formation, giving the Mountain and Sea Realm’s forces a strategic advantage.
• Zhao Yujun warned Ning Qi not to interfere with formations, but Ning Qi offered to mediate the conflict between the two sects’ incompatible methods.
• Gong Tiandao urged Zhao Yujun to let Ning Qi try, and the two sect masters carved miniature formations for him to examine.
• Ning Qi studied the formations in silence as Gong Tiandao mistook his concentration for confusion and asked whether the basic designs had stumped him.

Ning Qi harmonized Zhao Yujun and Gong Tiandao’s conflicting formations and led the three armies in building a Grand Formation in the southern Central Domain. The Sage Ancestor of the Vast Origin Realm then arrived as an avatar, and Ning Qi learned that the Old Ancestors were near a breakthrough, leaving him excited to face a new challenge.

• Ning Qi discovered that the imprints of the Mountain and Sea Ancestors made Zhao Yujun and Gong Tiandao’s formations repel each other.
• Ning Qi created a Taiji Grand Formation that joined the two formations and absorbed Gong Tiandao’s attack, earning both Sect Masters’ approval.
• Ning Qi, Zhao Yujun, Gong Tiandao, and cultivators from their three armies inscribed the Grand Formation in the southern Central Domain.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will explained that the Realm Wall could not be removed while the Vast Origin Realm maintained its power, but said the Mountain and Sea Realm was gaining ground in the Outer Domain.
• The Sage Ancestor arrived through a Spatial Passage as an avatar, and the Mountain and Sea Realm Will warned Ning Qi that the Old Ancestors were near a breakthrough.
• Ning Qi realized the Old Ancestors were near-Immortal beings and felt excited at the prospect of challenging them.

The Sage Ancestor descended into the Central Domain as both sides prepared for the coming final battle. Ning Qi reassured his followers and distributed an enormous store of resources to them, astonishing the cultivators of the two great immortal sects.

• The Sage Ancestor's Avatar arrived on the northern side of the Central Domain and exchanged a look with Ning Qi across the Realm Wall.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will's Avatar said he would speak with the Two Ancestors, while Zhao Yujun and Gong Tiandao organized their forces for the coming battle.
• Ning Qi addressed his followers, promised them life-saving Supernatural Powers, and received Sword Ancestor's assurance that they would take care of themselves.
• Gong Tiandao distributed pills and a Technique Personally Revised by Mountain Ancestor to Zhou Mountain Immortal Sect cultivators, while Zhao Yujun handed supplies to Moon Sea Immortal Sect cultivators.
• Ning Qi refused Zhao Yujun's offer of extra supplies and produced vast piles of resources for the Two Domain Grand Army, leaving both great immortal sects astonished.

Ning Qi and the forces of the two realms began their first battle after the Realm Wall fell, and Ning Qi confronted the Sage Ancestor’s avatar. The Sage Ancestor briefly trapped Ning Qi and began summoning Dao Integration avatars, but Ning Qi broke free and returned to stop him.

• Ning Qi distributed resources to his army, declined Zhao Yujun’s offer to combine their forces, and agreed that the three sides would fight separately while coordinating.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will shattered the Central Domain’s Realm Wall, and the opposing forces exchanged a massive opening volley.
• Ning Qi challenged the Sage Ancestor’s avatar while Zhao Yujun and Gong Tiandao faced Jiang Yingchu; Ning Qi struck the Sage Ancestor and drove him back, but the Sage Ancestor trapped Ning Qi with a “Retreat” character.
• Jiang Yingchu attacked Zhao Yujun and Gong Tiandao with “Trapped” characters, but Zhao Yujun split one with her White Bone Sword and Gong Tiandao broke the other with his Small Pagoda.
• The Sage Ancestor used the void as paper to summon Dao Integration avatars, and Zhao Yujun moved to stop him while Gong Tiandao held Jiang Yingchu back.
• Ning Qi broke free, appeared beside the Sage Ancestor, and cut apart a newly summoned avatar; the Sage Ancestor acknowledged that his avatar could no longer suppress Ning Qi.

Ning Qi fought the Sage Ancestor inside the Peach Blossom Spring Painting, where the Sage Ancestor suppressed him with the Hundred-Character Heavenly Tablet and escaped to turn the battle around. The Sage Ancestor later realized the apparent victory was an illusion, and Ning Qi had still not revealed where he truly was.

• Ning Qi killed the Sage Ancestor’s summoned Dao Integration Avatars and entered the Peach Blossom Spring Painting with the Sage Ancestor for a twenty-breath duel.
• Ning Qi attacked with his Great Dao Sword Condensation, and the Sage Ancestor defended himself with a Hundred-Character Divine Power.
• The Sage Ancestor combined his character shadows into a heavenly tablet, suppressed Ning Qi, and left the painting to return to the Central Domain.
• The Sage Ancestor summoned more Dao Integration Avatars and used the Hundred-Character Divine Power against Zhao Yujun and Gong Tiandao while the Mountain and Sea Realm Army advanced.
• After the Sage Ancestor noticed Ning Qi had not broken free, Ning Qi’s voice revealed that the apparent battlefield was an illusion.

Ning Qi trapped the Sage Ancestor's Avatar in Inverted Space, then tested his Calamity Dao Manifestations against the Sage Ancestor's Law Serpent. The Law Serpent began to collapse under the Thunder Dragons' assault, leaving the Sage Ancestor stunned by Ning Qi's power.

• Ning Qi revealed that he had used Inverted Space to deceive the Sage Ancestor's Avatar, who admitted he had not discovered the trick in time.
• Ning Qi attacked the Sage Ancestor's Avatar with Calamity Dao Manifestations, summoning a Thunder Ball that drew on the Peach Blossom Spring Space's Power of Rules.
• The Sage Ancestor's Avatar sent his Law Serpent into the Thunder Sea, where it swallowed the Thunder Ball's power and the Wandering Dragons.
• Ning Qi ordered the Thunder Dragons into the Law Serpent's mouth, and their attacks made the serpent's body begin to collapse.
• The Sage Ancestor's Avatar wondered why his Law Serpent could not withstand Ning Qi's Thunder Tribulation power.

Ning Qi defeated Sage Ancestor's Avatar in a contest of power and comprehension, learning to imitate and adapt the Sage Ancestor's character-based divine power during their fight. The exhausted Sage Ancestor suggested Ning Qi might be his ally and realized Ning Qi was deliberately maintaining balance between the two realms, leaving Ning Qi uneasy that his intentions had been exposed.

• Ning Qi burst apart Sage Ancestor's Avatar's Dharma Serpent and attacked him with a Black Dragon.
• The Black Dragon's black flames trapped Sage Ancestor's Avatar, and the Sage Ancestor discovered Ning Qi had copied his Hundred-Character Divine Power.
• Ning Qi and Sage Ancestor's Avatar fought with Severance Characters, and Ning Qi's comprehension rapidly improved until their final characters shattered together.
• Sage Ancestor's Avatar admitted his mental energy was nearly spent and said a divination had suggested Ning Qi might be his aid rather than his enemy.
• Sage Ancestor's Avatar accused Ning Qi of deliberately keeping the two realms in balance, and Ning Qi felt alarmed that the Sage Ancestor might see through him.