Chapter Summaries

Ning Qi subdued the Black Tortoise and freed the Vermilion Bird, gaining their Soul Blood and strengthening his control over water and fire. After resting, he joined Zhao Zhirou on deck and learned that several Devil Race clans had gathered to break a seal around a treasure-filled Devil Trace.

• Ning Qi overwhelmed the Black Tortoise and forced it to acknowledge him as master, then took its Soul Blood and gained greater command over water.
• Ning Qi used Chaos Blazing Flames to melt a gap in the Chaos Profound Iron cage, freeing the Vermilion Bird, who offered him her Soul Blood and joined him.
• Ning Qi decided to rest after subduing two Divine Beasts, then returned to the small courtyard and confirmed Zhao Zhirou was still nearby.
• Ning Qi and Zhao Zhirou went onto the deck and saw several Devil Race fleets gathered near a sealed Devil Trace.
• Zhao Tianlei explained that the clans were waiting to cooperate in breaking the Prohibition Array, and Ning Qi wondered whether the gathered clans would leave enough resources to share.

Ning Qi entered a sealed Shattered Continent after charging the assembled clans one Supreme Treasure each to open the barrier. Inside, he found a ruined celestial body and parted ways with Zhao Tianlei to explore it alone.

• Zhao Zhirou introduced Ning Qi to the clans gathering before the barrier, and Ning Qi offered to help break it open.
• After the clans mocked him, Ning Qi slipped through the barrier and explained that he had found a flaw while their attacks could not stop it from healing.
• Ning Qi demanded one Supreme Treasure from each faction in exchange for bringing them inside, and Zhao Tianlei defended him against Zhao Yuntian's threats.
• Ning Qi used Dao Patterns to open a gap in the barrier, collected the clans' Supreme Treasures, and let them enter.
• Zhao Tianlei brought experts inside with Ning Qi, while Zhao Zhirou stayed outside to guard the team; Ning Qi then split from Zhao Tianlei to explore the ruined celestial body.

Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit searched a desolate Gobi Desert for hidden opportunities, then discovered an oasis concealing a strange lake. When Ning Qi descended into it, he realized they had been caught in an illusion and began searching for a way to break free.

• Ning Qi ignored Zhao Tianlei’s offer of protection and headed alone toward the barren Gobi Desert, convinced it hid an opportunity.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit found bones scattered across the desert and suspected the dead had been tricked into a trap.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit reached an oasis, where Ning Qi sensed something beneath the lake and summoned the Black Tortoise to help him dive.
• Ning Qi found that the lake’s apparent bottom and exit remained unreachable, despite detecting no formations or restrictive seals.
• Ning Qi realized the oasis and lake were an illusion, and Medicine Spirit worried they might remain trapped inside it.

Ning Qi escaped the Inner Realm’s core passage by using his Dao Patterns to unravel its folded space, then explored a vast desert oasis with Medicine Spirit and Shi Xiaokun. They found a sealed, unusually life-rich jungle and reached an abandoned thatched hut, but had not yet discovered why the oasis was empty.

• Shi Xiaokun explained that Ning Qi and his companions were trapped in the Inner Realm’s core passage, where escape required becoming its World Lord or exhausting its Origin Power.
• Ning Qi used his knowledge of spatial folding to refine and break apart the passage, with Medicine Spirit and Shi Xiaokun helping sustain him, and escaped through the lake.
• Ning Qi, Medicine Spirit, and Shi Xiaokun suspected their arrival had been guided by someone and left the lake to search the desert for resources.
• Ning Qi entered a large jungle oasis, broke its formations and Prohibitions, and let Medicine Spirit absorb the abundant life aura sealed there.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit noticed that the oasis had no people, beasts, insects, or remains, then found a dilapidated thatched hut with no spider webs inside.

Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit found a vast field of Immortal Herbs, which Shi Xiaokun moved into Ning Qi’s Inner Realm to help build their realm. They continued through a suspicious desert and Gobi toward a mountain range that seemed to conceal a treasure, but black-misted lifeforms appeared in the night and vanished, leaving Ning Qi convinced they were being watched.

• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit discovered a hillside covered in rare Immortal Herbs, and Shi Xiaokun transferred them into Ning Qi’s Inner Realm.
• Shi Xiaokun explained that he had used the old World Lord’s Origin Power and Soul Power to create people for the realm, and Ning Qi told him to continue developing it.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit left the valley and continued across the desert, suspecting that someone had deliberately lured experts into the area.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit reached a cliff overlooking a Gobi Desert, woods, and a vast mountain range, then prepared to investigate the mountains the next day.
• Ning Qi set up the If Water Three Thousand Formation while the Medicine Spirit searched nearby, and they settled in for the night.
• After the Medicine Spirit woke him, Ning Qi spotted black-misted lifeforms in the void; they disappeared before he could approach, and he warned that someone was watching them.

Ning Qi discovered that the black mist was a swarm of powerful flying insects and had Shi Xiaokun capture them to refine into an army. He and Medicine Spirit left the wasteland, found a ruined city, and began searching a wealthy household for clues.

• Ning Qi identified the black mist as True Immortal-strength insects, and Shi Xiaokun lured the swarm into his Inner Realm to refine them.
• Ning Qi learned that the women in the Bronze Mirror World had been devoured by its Origin Power, then set out with Medicine Spirit.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit crossed the desert and Gobi, passed through an abandoned town, and found an intact city in the mountains.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit entered the city and inspected a ruined wealthy household where they found corpses and signs of battle.

Ning Qi searched the ruined city and uncovered a hidden underground pool of Li River Water, a rare substance that corroded both bodies and souls. He left Shi Xiaokun to collect it and regrouped with the Medicine Spirit, who warned that its vapor could contaminate the surrounding area.

• Ning Qi and Shi Xiaokun searched a ruined mansion, found records of the Wanxiao Sect, and decided to investigate it after searching the city.
• Ning Qi searched the City Lord's Mansion, collected more than ten Storage Bags, and discovered a concealed entrance beneath its rear garden.
• Ning Qi descended underground, found stored Spirit Marrow and weapons, and followed a passage to a pool of black water surrounded by pitch-black corpses.
• Shi Xiaokun identified the pool as Li River Water, and Ning Qi arranged for him to collect it and store it in the Inner Realm.
• Ning Qi reunited with the Medicine Spirit, who warned that Li River Water could corrode Divine Souls and that its vapor could contaminate the surrounding area.

Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit watched Xu Wanrou’s group enter the ruined city, then hid in their Inner Realm to monitor the city after dark. Strange creatures attacked the city, and one sensed the Memory Spirit Stones and made a connection with their Inner Realm.

• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit set up a guarded resting place atop the South City Gate and spotted Xu Wanrou and her Xu Family subordinates approaching.
• Xu Qian spoke with Ning Qi, and Xu Wanrou’s group entered the city and set up restrictions and puppets in several residences.
• Ning Qi, the Medicine Spirit, and Shi Xiaokun went into their Inner Realm, where Shi Xiaokun showed them the mountain gate he had built.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit activated Memory Spirit Stones to observe the city, and hundreds of strange creatures gathered outside and charged toward the gate.
• Two creatures stared at a Memory Spirit Stone, and Ning Qi sensed a connection reaching into their Inner Realm, so he ordered the stones deactivated.

Ning Qi rescued Xu Wanrou from the Demonic Beasts and brought her into his Inner Realm, where Shi Xiaokun trapped the beasts that followed. Xu Wanrou revealed that the creatures came from the Wanxiao Sect, a nearby forbidden zone, and Ning Qi remained interested in investigating it.

• Ning Qi watched the Demonic Beasts overwhelm Xu Wanrou's group and decided to intervene so he could learn about their unusual aura.
• Ning Qi killed two Demonic Beasts, discovered that nearby beasts grew stronger by devouring their auras, and rescued Xu Wanrou while her remaining guards stayed behind to fight.
• Ning Qi brought Xu Wanrou into his Inner Realm, where Shi Xiaokun sealed the entrance and trapped the Demonic Beasts that pursued them.
• Xu Wanrou explained that the Demonic Beasts had hunted her group from the Wanxiao Sect, where most of her people had been lost.
• Ning Qi learned that Xu Wanrou's elder brother was gathering people to investigate the Wanxiao Sect, and he considered going there himself.

Ning Qi and Xu Wanrou investigated the Wanxiao Sect, where Blood Pools seemed to be producing Demonic Beasts. Ning Qi entered the largest pool and discovered countless dormant lifeforms, a formation at the bottom, and blood-red creatures approaching him.

• Ning Qi inspected the Demonic Beasts trapped in Li River Water and took the Iron Gourd that could replenish the water.
• After daybreak, Ning Qi and Xu Wanrou left the Inner Realm and reached the ruined mountain gate of the Wanxiao Sect.
• Xu Wanrou showed Ning Qi the Blood Pools and explained that blood from them could corrode people and turn puppets into Demonic Beasts.
• Ning Qi protected himself with Chaos Blazing Flames and plunged into the largest Blood Pool to investigate.
• Ning Qi sensed tens of thousands of dormant lifeforms beneath the blood, found a formation blocking the bottom, and drew his Chaos Sword as blood-red creatures swam toward him.

Ning Qi discovered that the monsters in the Blood Pool were Spirit Eaters, creatures that grew stronger by hunting and fusing with their own kind, and decided to capture them for his own use. He and Xu Wanrou headed toward the Forbidden Land in Back Mountain, where Ning Qi warned her that he might not be able to protect her if the Spirit Eaters ambushed them.

• Ning Qi defeated the armored monsters in the Blood Pool, broke through the barriers, and reached the altar.
• The Medicine Spirit read the altar’s records and explained that the Spirit Eaters were made from sacrificed cultivators’ and Spirit Beasts’ bloodline power and grew stronger by merging.
• Ning Qi decided to withdraw and return at night to gather the Spirit Eaters, while leaving the altar intact to avoid alerting whoever had arranged the sacrifice.
• Ning Qi learned from Xu Wanrou that her group had entered the Forbidden Land in Back Mountain and been attacked by monsters that grew stronger as they killed one another.
• Ning Qi explained that the monsters were Spirit Eaters and led Xu Wanrou into the dense forest toward their Forbidden Land.
• Ning Qi sensed Spirit Eaters nearby and warned Xu Wanrou that he might not be able to protect her if they ambushed the pair.

Ning Qi, Xu Wanrou, and Medicine Spirit entered the Forbidden Land through a Teleportation Array and found a suspended complex of Blood Pools and black buildings that served as the Spirit Eaters’ lair. Ning Qi used the Chaos Blazing Flames to weaken the pursuing Spirit Eaters without killing them, and the group reached the largest platform, where Medicine Spirit noticed something behind them.

• Ning Qi ignored the weak Spirit Eaters forming in the forest and activated the Teleportation Array with Spirit Marrow, bringing Xu Wanrou and Medicine Spirit into the Forbidden Land.
• Ning Qi and his companions discovered suspended platforms connected by iron chains, with Blood Pools on many platforms and black pavilions around a central great hall.
• Xu Wanrou explained that the Spirit Eaters in the Forbidden Land were powerful and that she had previously escaped using a secret art and a space-breaking artifact; Ning Qi said he could also leave with help from Shi Xiaokun and the Inner Realm.
• Ning Qi moved toward the great hall despite the awakening Spirit Eaters, surrounding himself and Xu Wanrou with Chaos Blazing Flames that weakened the attackers without killing them.
• Ning Qi reached the largest platform, which had buildings but no Blood Pool, and Medicine Spirit pointed out something behind them.

Ning Qi and Xu Wanrou discovered that the ruined sect had been built to cultivate Spirit Eaters, and Ning Qi realized its surviving Old Ancestor had lured intruders in to regain his strength. The Old Ancestor confronted them and attacked Ning Qi, whose Chaos Blazing Flames could not penetrate the crimson treasure armor; the fight remained unresolved as the old man reached for Ning Qi’s head.

• Ning Qi, Xu Wanrou, and Medicine Spirit explored the memorial hall and Reward Hall, finding evidence that the sect had hunted bloodline clans to feed its Spirit Eaters.
• Ning Qi deduced that other clans had sealed the sect after killing its strongest members, and that the Old Ancestor was manipulating intruders to recover his power.
• Xu Wanrou contacted her companions and warned them about the trap, while Ning Qi called out the hidden Old Ancestor, who appeared as an illusory white-haired man.
• The Old Ancestor explained that Ning Qi’s arrival had disrupted his plans but that he intended to take Ning Qi’s body and escape after restoring his strength.
• The Old Ancestor charged at Ning Qi, who unleashed the Chaos Blazing Flames; the old man protected himself with crimson treasure armor and struck at Ning Qi, while Medicine Spirit shielded him with life aura.

Ning Qi used Li River Water from Iron Gourd to destroy the old man's Spirit Eaters and overwhelm his body, then escaped the ruined Inner Realm with Xu Wanrou. He and Xu Wanrou reached the Boundary Sea, where Zhao Tianlei called out to them.

• The old man wounded Ning Qi and devoured his blood and qi, but Ning Qi had Shi Xiaokun infuse it with Li River Water to corrode him.
• Ning Qi sent Xu Wanrou through the Sumeru Gate, then poured Li River Water across the realm, destroying the Spirit Eaters and weakening the old man.
• The old man turned into blood mist and tried to invade Ning Qi, but Ning Qi blocked him with Chaos Blazing Flames, Li River Water, and the If Water Three Thousand Formation.
• Ning Qi left the old man trapped in the corrupted realm and reunited with Xu Wanrou in the outside void.
• Ning Qi and Xu Wanrou reached the Boundary Sea, where Zhao Tianlei called out to Ning Qi.

Ning Qi and Zhao Tianlei’s group traveled toward the Boundary Sea Battlefield while keeping quiet about the Spirit Eaters and Ning Qi’s encounter with Xu Wanrou. As they reached the battlefield region, Zhao Tianlei warned Ning Qi that their branch family might be assigned a dangerous post by the main-line family.

• Ning Qi asked Xu Wanrou to keep what happened between them secret, then reunited with Zhao Tianlei and boarded the Flying Boat.
• The Devil Race fleet continued toward the Boundary Sea Battlefield, passing wreckage and corpses from past battles as Zhao Tianlei explained the dangers ahead.
• Ning Qi told Zhao Zhirou about the powerful Spirit Eaters in the Inner Realm and asked her not to reveal their presence.
• Ning Qi learned from Zhao Zhirou that the Devil Race had a single direct-line family and that it assigned battle regions to the branch families.
• In his Inner Realm, Shi Xiaokun reported that he had controlled the Li River Water, tamed the Spirit Eaters, and was preparing to nurture more of them.
• After reaching the Boundary Sea Battlefield region, Ning Qi agreed to use the name Brother Lei, and Zhao Tianlei warned that their branch family might receive a dangerous assignment and had to send Supreme Treasures to the main-line family.

Ning Qi and Zhao Tianlei’s team passed a Devil Race inspection and traveled to the General Altar to receive orders for the war. They reached the altar, where direct-line families and accomplished fighters were granted access to the main hall.

• Zhao Tianlei explained that collateral families were sent to the frontier to wear down the Immortal Clan’s forces, while direct-line troops would respond if the danger became severe.
• The team passed the Devil Race patrol’s sacred-object inspection when Ning Qi’s Devil Race bloodline concealed his identity.
• Zhao Haoran, a powerful direct-line commander, questioned Zhao Tianlei about his preparations and ordered the team onward as the battle began.
• Zhao Zhirou warned that a mole might be among their forces, but Zhao Tianlei and Ning Qi dismissed the concern and continued toward the General Altar.
• After half a day, the team reached the General Altar, a remodeled meteorite, and Ning Qi accompanied Zhao Tianlei toward its great hall to receive their mission.

Ning Qi and Zhao Tianlei received orders to garrison a dangerous border region of the Boundary Sea Battlefield for two months. Zhao Tianlei learned that his father had deliberately assigned them there, and the fleet set off for its destination.

• Ning Qi and Zhao Tianlei waited for their assignment while Zhao Tianlei explained how drifting ruins brought resources to the Boundary Sea Battlefield.
• A guard gave Zhao Tianlei a Jade Slip, and its map revealed that their post lay in a vulnerable region bordered on three sides.
• Zhao Zhirou and Zhao Tianlei protested the assignment, but Zhao Lingtian told them he had arranged it to force them to temper themselves and ordered them to go.
• Zhao Tianlei accepted his father's decision and ordered Lu Wantian to lead the fleet toward the assigned region.
• Zhao Tianlei explained that a Wormhole would shorten the journey, though they would still need a day to reach their post after transmission.

Ning Qi and Zhao Tianlei’s forces traveled through a Wormhole to a frontier made of fragments of the shattered Inner Realm, where they learned that a major ruin outbreak was imminent. Zhao Tianlei divided the army to defend against the Immortal Clan, Human Race, and Demon Race, while Ning Qi chose to join the force facing the Immortal Clan.

• Ning Qi’s team entered the Wormhole alongside Xu Shijie and Xu Wanrou’s forces, all heading toward the frontier region.
• Zhao Tianlei’s group arrived at the branch altar, where Xu Dewang and Cao Xiong welcomed them and presented a map of the territories and enemy positions.
• Xu Dewang explained that ruins would soon appear and that the clans sent to the frontier often suffered heavy losses.
• Zhao Tianlei split the forces into three routes, assigning Cao Xiong and Lu Wantian to face the Human Race, Xu Dewang to face the Demon Race, and his own force to face the Immortal Clan.
• Ning Qi told Zhao Tianlei that he would join the force confronting the Immortal Clan.

Ning Qi traveled with Zhao Tianlei’s forces to a frontier garrison facing the Immortal Clan, where their unexpectedly large troop buildup suggested that a ruin or treasure had appeared. After the scouts failed to uncover what was happening, Ning Qi volunteered to infiltrate the Immortal Clan’s territory and investigate.

• Zhao Tianlei and Ning Qi set out with their troops, following Zhao Tianli’s route through a dangerous region of shattered Inner Realms and old wartime mechanisms.
• Zhao Tianli explained that the Immortal Clan could reinforce its forces more easily, while Zhao Tianlei and his officers discussed the dangers of enemy alliances and past battles over Supreme Treasures.
• Patrol commanders reported that the Immortal Clan had sent more troops than ever before, prompting Zhao Tianlei to order caution as they continued to the frontier garrison.
• Zhao Tianlei arrived at Wang Mang’s camp, where Wang Mang confirmed that scouts had found no explanation for the Immortal Clan’s troop buildup.
• Ning Qi volunteered to enter the Immortal Clan’s territory and investigate, drawing a frown from Wang Mang.

Ning Qi volunteered to scout the Immortal Clan’s territory alone and traveled to the contested Fragment Continent, where he sensed that the land itself was a sealed Prohibition containing resources. He reached the Devil Race’s final line of defense as two teams approached him.

• Ning Qi refused an escort, accepted a Compass and Zhao Zhirou’s Flying Boat, and set out to scout the enemy territory alone.
• A guard showed Ning Qi the route to the river dividing the Devil Race and Immortal Clan territories, and Ning Qi crossed into the contested area.
• Ning Qi used his status token to pass a Devil Race patrol and told them to keep his arrival secret.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit reached the black Fragment Continent and concluded that it was likely a sealed Prohibition concealing a resource storehouse.
• Ning Qi spotted the Devil Race’s final line of defense, and two teams from the encampment sped toward him.