Chapter Summaries

Li Xiangrou rejected the lavish entertainment and told Ning Qi she wanted strength to protect herself and those she cared about. After she returned to the City Lord’s Mansion, Wang Mang revealed to his subordinates that he had drugged her personal guards and planned to frame her for losing her chastity.

• Li Xiangrou watched the fireworks and performances with Ning Qi, then said she wanted strength rather than an extravagant life.
• Ning Qi promised to provide Li Xiangrou with cultivation techniques and magic treasures, and she agreed to rely on herself once he was gone.
• Wang Mang escorted Li Xiangrou back to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Ning Qi ordered Commander Li to split the guards into two patrol teams.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit suspected Wang Mang was plotting, while Wang Mang’s officers debated Ning Qi’s identity and strength.
• After receiving a secret letter directing him to use a soft approach, Wang Mang told his officers he had drugged Li Xiangrou’s personal guards and planned to spread rumors that she had lost her chastity.

Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit saved Li Xiangrou after she was drugged at the City Lord's Mansion, and Ning Qi uncovered how the scheme had been set up. Li Xiangrou chose to leave for the imperial city at full speed, while Wang Mang tried to make her stay.

• Medicine Spirit absorbed the aphrodisiac that had overwhelmed Li Xiangrou and stayed nearby until she recovered.
• Li Xiangrou learned that Wang Mang and his associates had used flowers and pollen in her room to trigger the drug, but Ning Qi stopped her from confronting them.
• Li Xiangrou told Commander Li to prepare the party to leave at full speed and ordered him to keep the incident quiet.
• Ning Qi and Li Xiangrou waited with the guards outside the City Lord's Mansion for Commander Li to return.
• Wang Mang arrived with his associates and urged Li Xiangrou to stay for lunch.

Li Xiangrou and Ning Qi traveled toward the Yue Country imperial city, where she planned to confront the tangled powers that had driven her away. After reaching a relay station near the city, Li Xiangrou received word that the Duke requested an audience.

• Li Xiangrou told Ning Qi she would sweep away the people who had deceived her, and he promised to help her resolve the problems in the imperial city.
• Ning Qi told Li Xiangrou about his True Martial Spirit World and explained why he intended to strengthen its own foundation rather than move elsewhere.
• Li Xiangrou revealed that she had left Yue Country after being pushed aside by her imperial elder sister, then returned after learning that Father Emperor was gravely ill.
• The convoy crossed the mountains and reached a lively relay station on the plains near the imperial city.
• Li Xiangrou and Ning Qi ate in a private room at the relay station, where a guard arrived to announce that the Duke requested an audience.

Li Xiangrou returned to Yue Country intending to seize power, and she used Duke Zhao Tianxiong to spread word of her plans to the imperial factions. The next day, she and Ning Qi reached the imperial city, where soldiers blocked their convoy and refused to believe she was the Second Princess.

• Li Xiangrou told Zhao Tianxiong she had returned to claim power and warned him to tell the imperial factions not to interfere.
• Zhao Tianxiong left intending to report her plans to the Emperor and the Eldest Princess, while Li Xiangrou expected the news to draw her opponents out.
• Ning Qi and Li Xiangrou rested overnight, then set out for the imperial city with Commander Li and their convoy.
• The convoy reached the imperial city gates, where no officials had come to receive Li Xiangrou.
• When Commander Li identified Li Xiangrou as the Second Princess, the gate soldier accused the convoy of impersonation and ordered his men to seize them.

Li Xiangrou returned to Yue Country to claim the throne, but palace officials delayed and disrespected her until Ning Qi forced the confrontation. He demanded that her father abdicate and pass the throne to her.

• Commander Li showed Princess Li Xiangrou's token to secure her convoy's entry into the city, while officials imposed further restrictions at the imperial palace.
• Li Xiangrou waited in a side hall for her father, who failed to receive her for more than half an hour.
• Ning Qi confronted a palace maid who challenged Li Xiangrou and sent the imperial guards flying with his Heavenly Immortal Peak aura.
• Ning Qi urged Li Xiangrou to choose between visiting her family and claiming the throne, and she firmly chose to become queen.
• Li Xiangrou's father emerged and ordered Ning Qi seized, but Ning Qi's immortal aura forced those present to their knees.
• Ning Qi demanded that the king abdicate and pass the throne to Li Xiangrou.

Ning Qi forced the Yue Country court to accept Li Xiangrou as its new ruler and crushed resistance with overwhelming power. The officials knelt to Li Xiangrou, while Li Xiaotian abandoned his opposition.

• Ning Qi ordered Li Xiaotian to gather the court and threatened to destroy the imperial city if he refused.
• Ning Qi urged Li Xiangrou to act decisively, and she sat on the dragon throne as the officials assembled.
• Li Xiaotian announced his abdication and named Princess Xiangxiang the next ruler, prompting Li Fengrou, Zhao Tianxiong, and other officials to object.
• Ning Qi killed the loudest objectors and defeated Xu Wannian when he intervened, then warned Li Xiaotian against further schemes.
• The officials and Li Xiaotian knelt to Li Xiangrou, who accepted their greetings and ordered them to rise.

After Li Xiangrou took control of Yue Country, Ning Qi agreed to attend her enthronement before heading to an auction in the imperial city. There, he planned to seek information about Buzhou Mountain and vowed to protect Li Xiangrou if anyone disrupted her ceremony.

• Li Xiangrou announced that Yue Country would be renamed Yongning Tianxia when she ascended the throne, then dismissed the court.
• Li Xiaotian asked Li Xiangrou to spare her siblings, and she agreed not to kill them while confirming that their titles would be stripped.
• Ning Qi promised to attend Li Xiangrou's enthronement, praised her bearing, and accepted her arrangements to stay in Jingxiang Tower.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit discussed finding fragments of Buzhou Mountain and decided to visit an auction held by an elder of the Myriad Sword Sect.
• Ning Qi entered a private room at the auction and said he would help Li Xiangrou deal with anyone who caused trouble at her ceremony.

Ning Qi attended a banquet hosted by Li Fengrou, where she and the officials sought his help securing their futures under Li Xiangrou's rule. He agreed to speak for them and advised Li Fengrou to surrender her military authority; after returning to the imperial city, they encountered Li Xiangrou.

• Li Fengrou invited Ning Qi to Phoenix King's Mansion, where she and several officials welcomed him with a feast.
• Ning Qi told the officials he would ask Li Xiangrou not to punish them, provided they stopped opposing her and continued serving Yue Country.
• Li Fengrou agreed to hand over her military tally and people, and said she would live in seclusion with her father; the generals pledged their support to Li Xiangrou.
• Ning Qi advised the generals not to make sudden moves that might provoke neighboring nations, and urged everyone to reassure their followers.
• Ning Qi and Li Fengrou returned to the imperial city, where Li Xiangrou called out to her imperial sister.

Ning Qi watched Li Xiangrou ascend the throne of Yue Country and prepared to leave for the Myriad Sword Sect to find Xu Qingqiu. After the ceremony, Li Fengrou asked to follow him and become his disciple, but Ning Qi refused.

• Li Xiangrou thanked Ning Qi for helping her secure the throne, and he told her he would leave after her enthronement ceremony.
• Generals arrived to hand over their military authority, while Wang Zhenggan and Xu Qingqiu discussed whether to attend the ceremony at the Myriad Sword Sect.
• Ning Qi watched from the sky as Li Xiangrou was crowned ruler of Yue Country and paraded through the city.
• Ning Qi returned to the rear garden, where Li Fengrou asked to leave with him and become his disciple.
• Ning Qi refused Li Fengrou's request as she knelt before him.

Ning Qi left Yue Country after helping Li Xiangrou secure her rule and traveled to the Myriad Sword Sect to visit Xu Qingqiu. After clashing with Cloud City’s lord on the way, he reached the sect and was escorted inside by Xu Qingqiu’s fellow disciples.

• Ning Qi refused Li Fengrou’s request to become his disciple, warned her not to harm Li Xiangrou, and said Li Xiangrou could teach her the cultivation techniques he had passed on.
• Ning Qi congratulated Li Xiangrou on reaching True Immortal strength, then left Yue Country despite her asking him to stay longer.
• After Ning Qi departed, intruders probing Yue Country’s imperial city were killed or driven off, and his voice forbade anyone above True Immortal strength from entering.
• In Cloud City, the city lord attacked Ning Qi for flying over the city; Ning Qi defeated him and continued toward the Myriad Sword Sect.
• At the Myriad Sword Sect’s mountain gate, Ning Qi showed Xu Qingqiu’s jade pendant, and a disciple recognized it and escorted him inside to see her.

Ning Qi reunited with Xu Qingqiu at the Myriad Sword Sect, where they shared a meal and discussed the sect's strength and its rival factions. Xu Qingqiu revealed that the Immortal Gate conscripted people to fight at the Boundary Sea Battlefield, leaving Ning Qi curious about the dangerous place.

• Ning Qi arrived at Xu Qingqiu's residence and reunited with her, while the Medicine Spirit joyfully reunited with the Nine-Tailed Cat.
• Xu Qingqiu brought Ning Qi to her master's courtyard, but learned her master had gone to meet the Sect Master, so she offered to cook for Ning Qi herself.
• Xu Qingqiu, Ning Qi, the Medicine Spirit, and the Nine-Tailed Cat prepared and ate a meal as Xu Qingqiu explained the Myriad Sword Sect's powerful leaders and their rivals.
• Ning Qi asked about the strength of other sects, and Xu Qingqiu explained that the three factions avoided open conflict because the others would join forces.
• Xu Qingqiu said the Immortal Gate conscripted people each year to fight at the Boundary Sea Battlefield, and Ning Qi asked what kind of place it was.

Ning Qi learned how the Boundary Sea Battlefield protected the surrounding regions and accepted Xu Qingqiu’s offer to join the Myriad Sword Sect’s trial there next month. Wang Zhenggan approved their plan, and Xu Qingqiu said she would bring her Senior Brother along.

• Xu Qingqiu explained the Boundary Sea Battlefield, the Twisted Monsters, and how the outer, inner, and core regions shared the burden of defending against them.
• Xu Qingqiu offered Ning Qi a place on the Myriad Sword Sect’s group heading to the trial ground in a month, and he agreed to go.
• Xu Qingqiu told Ning Qi that she would accompany him and give him her available spot, despite his concern for her safety.
• Xu Qingqiu asked Wang Zhenggan for permission to attend the trial with Ning Qi, and he agreed while advising them to recruit more companions.
• Xu Qingqiu and Ning Qi left to explore the nearby town, and she said she planned to bring her Senior Brother on the trial.

Xu Qingqiu brought Ning Qi to meet her Second Senior Brother, Liu Baifeng, and asked him to join their trip to the Boundary Sea Battlefield. Liu Baifeng agreed, and after a dinner together, Ning Qi wondered why he drank away his sorrows so often.

• Xu Qingqiu and Ning Qi left the Myriad Sword Sect and brushed off Gao Yunze when he tried to stop them and invoke their supposed marriage agreement.
• Xu Qingqiu told Ning Qi that her sect could enter the Fourteen Region if one of its experts reached the required strength, and Ning Qi revealed he had reached Celestial Immortal strength.
• Xu Qingqiu led Ning Qi to Deshun Tower, where they met Liu Baifeng, her Second Senior Brother.
• Xu Qingqiu asked Liu Baifeng to join their trip to the Boundary Sea Battlefield and bring Ning Qi along, and Liu Baifeng agreed while warning Ning Qi to follow their arrangements.
• Liu Baifeng stayed at the restaurant after dinner, and Ning Qi asked Xu Qingqiu whether her senior brother was drinking to drown his sorrows.

Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu enjoyed the town festivities before entering an auction, where they kept out of sight from Gao Yunze and his companions. As the auction began, they passed on several unappealing items until Medicine Spirit spotted something promising.

• Xu Qingqiu explained the Myriad Sword Sect's elder ranks and why its leaders strictly controlled disciples who defected.
• Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu watched street performers and sampled snacks while Gao Yunze and several disciples secretly followed them.
• Ning Qi rented a private auction room for five hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones, and Gao Yunze waited downstairs for a chance to confront him.
• The auction opened with a breastplate that Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu declined to bid on, and they judged several other lots to be unimpressive.
• Medicine Spirit spotted a promising item as the auction continued.

Ning Qi bid on a Golden Immortal corpse and armor after sensing a reaction from his Immortal Clan Bloodline Power, then competed with a young man for the Weaving Fate ribbon. He won the ribbon for one hundred million Spirit Marrow Liquid, while the rival vowed to make him pay.

• The auctioneer revealed a Golden Immortal corpse and Immortal Artifact armor, and Ning Qi bid twenty-five million Spirit Marrow Crystals to win them.
• A young man in another private room recognized Xu Qingqiu as Wang Zhenggan’s disciple and chose to let Ning Qi have the corpse, while suggesting it might not remain his for long.
• Ning Qi paid for the corpse and stored it away as the auction continued.
• The auctioneer presented the Weaving Fate ribbon, and Ning Qi bid on it despite Xu Qingqiu questioning why he wanted a weapon made for women.
• The young man repeatedly raised the ribbon’s price against Ning Qi, who won it with a bid of one hundred million Spirit Marrow Liquid.
• The young man threatened to make Ning Qi pay, but his old man urged him to endure the insult because Ning Qi was clearly no ordinary person.

Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu were followed out of town by Zhao Haoran and his men after winning an auction, but Ning Qi defeated them and forced them to pay for their lives. The pair returned safely to the Myriad Sword Sect, while Gao Yunze waited in vain for them at the auction house.

• Ning Qi discovered that Zhao Haoran’s group had been watching him and Xu Qingqiu, so the pair disguised themselves and left town.
• Zhao Haoran and his men tracked Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu to a gorge, where they surrounded them and revealed they had sealed the area with a Prohibition.
• Ning Qi killed Zhao Haoran’s dozen-plus subordinates in one move, then demanded five hundred million Spirit Marrow crystals from Zhao Haoran and Uncle Fu in exchange for sparing them.
• Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit returned to the Myriad Sword Sect, where Xu Qingqiu arranged a Cave Abode for Ning Qi.
• Gao Yunze waited with his fellow disciples for Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu to leave the auction house, then concluded they had escaped after discovering they were being watched.

Xu Qingqiu took Ning Qi to investigate a branch helm that had stopped reporting and swallowed two previous inspection teams. As they accelerated their Flying Boat with Ning Qi’s Spirit Marrow, they suspected Gao Yunze was following them aboard his master’s Gold Boat.

• Ning Qi agreed to accompany Xu Qingqiu on a mission to investigate the missing reports and teams from a branch helm.
• Xu Qingqiu and Ning Qi departed Myriad Sword Sect aboard a Flying Boat, while Gao Yunze bribed a disciple for details of her mission.
• Gao Yunze borrowed his master’s Gold Boat, recruited more than a dozen disciples, and set off in pursuit of Xu Qingqiu and Ning Qi.
• As they crossed Longevity Mountain, Ning Qi gave Xu Qingqiu Spirit Marrow to speed up their journey.
• Xu Qingqiu recognized the golden Flying Boat as possibly belonging to Gao Yunze’s master, and Ning Qi warned he would not hold back if Gao Yunze caused trouble.

Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu traveled toward Purple Cloud City, where Xu planned to show him around after completing her mission. After Ning Qi drove off several flocks of Bloodthirsty Black Crows with his Heavenly Immortal Peak strength, they reached the city’s official road and hired a carriage to enter.

• Xu Qingqiu sped up the Flying Boat and told Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit that they would reach Purple Cloud City before nightfall.
• Several flocks of Bloodthirsty Black Crows pursued the Flying Boat, but Ning Qi’s aura and roar frightened them into retreating.
• Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu suspected someone had arranged the crows’ attack, though Xu decided to focus on her mission.
• Xu Qingqiu explained that Purple Cloud City connected their realm with the Immortal Clan and that flying was forbidden along its official road.
• Ning Qi paid five hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones for a carriage, and the youth drove them toward Purple Cloud City.

Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu entered a busy city on their way to the Boundary Sea Battlefield, using Xu Qingqiu’s Myriad Sword Sect status to pass the guards. They rented a Sumeru Courtyard and went out to explore the city, ending the chapter at a restaurant enjoying a feast.

• Xu Qingqiu showed the coachman her Personal Disciple Jade Pendant, and he brought Ning Qi and her to the city gate.
• Xu Qingqiu presented her token to the guards, who let her and Ning Qi enter the city without delay.
• Ning Qi paid three thousand Spirit Marrows to rent a Sumeru Courtyard where they could view the city through a pavilion.
• Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and Medicine Spirit went out after dark to explore the streets and find food.
• Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu ordered a lavish meal at a restaurant and began tasting the dishes.

Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu explored Purple Cloud City and were threatened by a shop that forced customers to buy its weapons. After Ning Qi subdued the shopkeeper, the old man showed him a mysterious iron pagoda that reacted when Ning Qi infused it with Immortal Power.

• Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu browsed a weapon shop, where the staff demanded that they buy a flexible sword after Ning Qi tested it.
• Ning Qi killed two shop assistants and defeated the shopkeeper when they tried to stop him from leaving.
• Ning Qi demanded compensation, and the shopkeeper led him and Xu Qingqiu to a hidden treasure in the backyard.
• The shopkeeper opened a brocade box containing an iron pagoda said to have come from the upper realm but to be sealed by restrictions.
• Ning Qi infused the pagoda with Immortal Power, and it showed a slight reaction.