Chapter Summaries

Ning Qi discovered that the figures ahead were Zhao Zhirou and Zhao Tianlei, who revealed that Immortal Race forces were preparing for ruins due to emerge in a month. After the siblings set out to ambush another group, Ning Qi returned to his own party and led them onward, concealing what he had actually found.

• Li Tian and Ning Qi investigated a mysterious presence ahead, and Ning Qi continued alone after finding traces of it.
• Ning Qi met Zhao Zhirou and Zhao Tianlei, who explained that Immortal Race troops were gathering to claim an approaching set of ruins and that they planned to intercept their enemies.
• Ning Qi directed Zhao Tianlei toward Xiao Haotian’s group, warning him about the dangerous Void Insects and identifying Xiao Haotian as a domain lord’s brother.
• Ning Qi returned to Li Tian’s party and claimed the figures had been Giant Bees, showing them inner cores as proof.
• The group resumed its journey toward the entrance, while Medicine Spirit asked whether the Zhao siblings would be safe, and Ning Qi said their real danger lay elsewhere.

Ning Qi learned that the Sword King's inheritance site opened only at set times and that forcing entry was deadly, so he used Shi Xiaokun's Inner Realm passage to enter ahead of the waiting groups. He emerged in a vast hidden world and began searching for Sword Spirits, leaving the others to enter later through the normal route.

• Ning Qi and his allies reached a black vortex surrounded by Flying Vessels and learned from Commander Zhao that the entrance would open in about a day.
• Commander Zhao explained that forcing entry triggered a deadly backlash and that his team had lost contact with its members inside.
• Ning Qi told Ji Wanru he could enter first, and she agreed to stay with the others and cover for his early departure.
• Shi Xiaokun opened a passage from the Inner Realm, and Ning Qi crossed through it despite the lightning and spatial turbulence.
• Ning Qi arrived in a vast, lush hidden world filled with distant Fierce Beasts and set off into the forest to search for Sword Spirits.

Ning Qi and his companions used swarms of ants and Giant Bees to hunt Sword Spirits and gather Sword Qi while Ning Qi refined it. When more than a thousand people prepared to attack their nests, Ning Qi ordered the insects withdrawn and planned to relocate.

• Ning Qi, Shi Xiaokun, and Medicine Spirit explored the Sword King's Inner Realm and found a vast, empty landscape.
• Shi Xiaokun revealed that he had bred tens of thousands of ants and over a hundred thousand Giant Bees, and he and Ning Qi built ten nests with Time-Difference Formations to hunt Sword Spirits.
• After waiting two days, Ning Qi ordered the insects to search for Sword Spirits and set up If Water Three Thousand Formations around their nests.
• Shi Xiaokun brought back the bodies of people killed by the insects and the Sword Qi they had gathered, which Ning Qi refined over the following days.
• Shi Xiaokun warned that more than a thousand people were coming to destroy the nests, so Ning Qi ordered the insects and their eggs withdrawn and told the group to relocate.
• Medicine Spirit asked whether Ji Wanru and the others had arrived, then suggested that they contact them.

Ning Qi contacted Ji Wanru and Xu Haotian, learned that people were gathering to attack the insects in his mountain region, and headed east instead. After refusing a group’s attempt to recruit him, he learned that they had begun fighting his Ants and Giant Bees, then considered turning the fight to his advantage and taking their Sword Qi.

• Ning Qi contacted Ji Wanru, who said she had reunited with Xu Haotian and was traveling through a desert toward the coast; Xu Haotian warned Ning Qi that people were preparing to wipe out the insects in the mountain region.
• Ning Qi decided to travel east toward the coast and search for Sword Spirits elsewhere, while the Medicine Spirit noted that the attackers did not know Ning Qi was behind the trouble.
• A group encountered Ning Qi near the insect nests and tried to recruit him as a guide, but Ning Qi refused and continued on his way.
• Shi Xiaokun told Ning Qi that the group had started fighting the Ants and Giant Bees, and the Medicine Spirit suggested they could take the attackers’ Sword Qi.
• Ning Qi became interested in the suggestion and asked Shi Xiaokun what they should do.

Ning Qi reached the sea of floating islands and explored alone, refusing to join Ji Wanru’s group. On an inhabited island, a clash with Zhao Hong’s companions ended when their young leader intervened and apologized, leaving Ning Qi’s strength a point of wary curiosity.

• Ning Qi used his jade pendant to confirm with Ji Wanru that he had reached the floating islands, then declined her invitation to meet her group.
• Ning Qi flew across several islands, finding traces of battle on one and nothing of interest on another.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit spotted a village where young people were resting and cooking, and Ning Qi went to investigate.
• Zhao Hong attacked Ning Qi, but Ning Qi repelled him; a young woman among the group blocked the resulting blast and showed formidable strength.
• The group surrounded Ning Qi, but their young leader ordered Zhao Hong to stand down and apologized, while Zhao Hong wondered whether Ning Qi was a Taiyi Golden Immortal.

Ning Qi met Ye Lingshuang at sea, then went to investigate an island sect and fought off two spirit beasts. After defeating them, he found the sect protected by a powerful mountain-guarding formation that Shi Xiaokun began examining.

• Ning Qi accepted Ye Lingshuang's invitation to eat and learned that she had found nothing about the sea or its Sword Qi.
• Ning Qi left Ye Lingshuang's group and flew toward an island with buildings that resembled a small sect.
• Two qilin-like spirit beasts attacked Ning Qi, but he killed both with his Netherworld Ghostfire.
• Shi Xiaokun sensed something strange at the sect and emerged to investigate with Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit.
• Ning Qi found a mountain-guarding formation at the sect gate, and Shi Xiaokun stepped forward to try to break through it.

Ning Qi entered the mountain compound with Shi Xiaokun and the Medicine Spirit, where he activated an ancient martial arts platform and mastered the Heavenly Mystery Art through its combat figures. After leaving the compound, he encountered Ye Lingshuang and her companions, who had just arrived.

• Shi Xiaokun opened the mountain-protecting array, and Ning Qi, Shi Xiaokun, and the Medicine Spirit entered the compound and split up to search its halls.
• Ning Qi broke through an array protecting a great hall, then discovered a dormant martial arts platform and activated it with Immortal Power and Spirit Marrow.
• Ning Qi merged with the platform’s fighting figures and learned that their techniques formed the upper and lower parts of the same cultivation method.
• After two days of repeated study, Ning Qi fully comprehended the Heavenly Mystery Art, and the two figures merged into his body, leaving the platform unusable.
• Ning Qi, Shi Xiaokun, and the Medicine Spirit headed toward the mountaintop and met Ye Lingshuang, Zhao Hong, and her companions; Ye Lingshuang asked whether they had discovered anything.

Ning Qi and Ye Lingshuang explored a great hall and found an Emperor-grade Pill, which Ning Qi subdued and gave to Ye Lingshuang in exchange for the pill-refining cauldron. The chapter left them puzzled when neither could remove the immovable throne, which shook slightly under Ning Qi’s power.

• Ning Qi and Ye Lingshuang broke the hall’s formation barrier with Ye Lingshuang’s treasure pagoda and explored inside.
• Ye Lingshuang discovered an Emperor-grade Pill that transformed into a fierce tiger and escaped the pagoda’s capture.
• Ning Qi used the If Water Three Thousand Formation to restrain the tiger phantom and capture the pill.
• Ning Qi gave Ye Lingshuang the Emperor-grade Pill and claimed the emerald pill-refining cauldron for himself.
• Ye Lingshuang tried to put away the throne but could not move it, and Ning Qi also failed despite making it shake.

Ning Qi, Ye Lingshuang, and Shi Xiaokun discovered a hidden passage beneath a throne and followed it to a glowing stone door. Ning Qi’s first strike was absorbed by the door, and he unleashed his full strength to test it again.

• Ning Qi moved the throne, opening a secret passage in the stone wall, and he, Shi Xiaokun, and Ye Lingshuang went inside while Zhao Hong waited outside.
• The group smelled blood and examined the strange totems; Ye Lingshuang copied them with a Memory Spirit Stone.
• Shi Xiaokun led them to an underground open area, where they found another door and concluded that no outsiders had reached the place before them.
• Ning Qi struck the glowing, patterned stone door with Immortal Power, but it absorbed his attack and made its patterns shine brighter.
• Ning Qi unleashed his full strength and blasted the stone door.

Ning Qi and Ye Lingshuang entered a blood-scented cave and became separated from Shi Xiaokun and the Medicine Spirit when its entrance sealed behind them. As Ning Qi and Ye Lingshuang found themselves trapped by an illusion and a restriction draining their Immortal Power, Shi Xiaokun failed to reach them or open the Inner Realm.

• Ning Qi opened one of three stone doors with his Water Runes, and he and Ye Lingshuang entered a cave where Ning Qi destroyed a formation that had concealed the view.
• Ning Qi and Ye Lingshuang could not fly, so they sent Shi Xiaokun and the Medicine Spirit outside before walking deeper into the cave.
• A light curtain sealed the entrance behind Shi Xiaokun and the Medicine Spirit, blocking their attacks and preventing them from contacting Ning Qi or opening the Inner Realm.
• Ning Qi and Ye Lingshuang walked through the cave but made little progress, while Ning Qi noticed his Immortal Power draining away.
• Ye Lingshuang saw that the way out behind them had disappeared, leaving her and Ning Qi trapped inside.

Ning Qi and Ye Lingshuang reached a cultivation platform surrounded by dense life essence and fought off the fish monsters guarding it. After Ning Qi activated the platform’s formation, it drew life essence into both of them, leaving them to absorb it.

• Ning Qi stopped Ye Lingshuang from rushing back when a hidden curtain of light blocked their path, and they climbed the High Platform instead.
• Ning Qi swam through the life essence pool and killed several dozen ordinary fish monsters with his Dragon-Soaring Spear.
• A stronger fish monster attacked Ning Qi, but he blocked its strike with the Li Yuan Bell and fought it alongside Ye Lingshuang until he killed it and collected its life-essence inner core.
• Ning Qi and Ye Lingshuang reached the stone cultivation platform, examined its formation, and Ning Qi activated it.
• The formation gathered the pool’s life essence into fine threads that entered both Ning Qi’s and Ye Lingshuang’s bodies for them to absorb.

Ning Qi awakened the Sword King's inheritance and discovered that the Heavenly Mystery Art was actually the Heavenly Profound Sword Art. After helping Ye Lingshuang refine the remaining Sword Qi, he left the pool with her and encountered Shi Xiaokun, Zhao Hong, and the others approaching.

• Ning Qi's cultivation resonated with the formation, drawing in the golden dragons of life essence and their Sword Qi.
• Ning Qi combined the two portions of the Heavenly Mystery Art and realized it was the Heavenly Profound Sword Art, while Ye Lingshuang was prevented from attacking him by the formation.
• Ning Qi told Ye Lingshuang he had obtained the Sword King's inheritance and shared the excess Sword Qi with her, though the formation initially rejected her.
• Ning Qi helped Ye Lingshuang refine the Sword Qi, and the two spent several hours strengthening her before deciding to find a way out.
• Ning Qi noticed someone approaching, discovered he could fly, and left the pool with Ye Lingshuang as Shi Xiaokun, Zhao Hong, and the others came toward them.

Ning Qi and the others left the sealed chamber after learning that a time-difference formation had kept them inside for only a short time. Shi Xiaokun and Medicine Spirit stayed behind, absorbed the pool of life force into the Inner Realm, and claimed the powerful sword hidden beneath it before Shi Xiaokun returned to Ning Qi with a surprise.

• Zhao Hong and Shi Xiaokun explained that the entrance had opened after several days and released Sword Qi, while Ye Lingshuang realized Ning Qi and she had experienced a time difference on the training platform.
• Ning Qi agreed to leave with Ye Lingshuang and the others, while Shi Xiaokun and Medicine Spirit stayed to absorb the pool's life force.
• Shi Xiaokun drew the life force into his Inner Realm as Medicine Spirit replenished his strength, and they discovered an iron chest surrounded by lightning and Sword Qi.
• Shi Xiaokun summoned his Ants, whose venom corroded the Sword Qi, then collected the iron chest and absorbed the remaining life force.
• Shi Xiaokun left Medicine Spirit in the Inner Realm to refine the life force, traveled through a passage to Ning Qi's Sumeru Space, and announced that he had brought a surprise.

Ning Qi opened an iron chest Shi Xiaokun had brought into the Inner Realm and found Heavenly Tribulation, a powerful sword missing its Sword Spirit. After testing the sword and considering the Medicine Spirit as a possible replacement, Ning Qi prepared to teach him the Heavenly Profound Sword Art so they could try to earn the sword’s recognition.

• Shi Xiaokun revealed an iron chest and said he sensed Heavenly Tribulation inside, but only Ning Qi could open it.
• Ning Qi opened the chest, with Shi Xiaokun helping him withstand the heavenly lightning released by the sword.
• Ning Qi realized Heavenly Tribulation lacked a Sword Spirit and suspected the scattered Sword Spirits in the Inner Realm had come from it.
• Ning Qi tested Heavenly Tribulation with a slash, and its Sword Qi flattened a mountain, demonstrating the power of the Heavenly Profound Sword Art.
• Ning Qi tried to summon the sword’s Sword Spirit but received no response, so the Medicine Spirit offered to become its Sword Spirit.
• Shi Xiaokun advised that the Medicine Spirit first absorb Sword Qi and learn the sword art, and Ning Qi took him into the Inner Realm to teach him.

Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit practiced the Sword Art inside the Time-Difference Formation while the others speculated that the Sword King’s remaining inheritance might be hidden nearby. The next morning, Ning Qi agreed to continue searching with Ye Lingshuang’s group as more people gathered among the islands.

• Ning Qi, Shi Xiaokun, and Medicine Spirit reasoned that the original Sword Spirit had scattered itself to guard or test those seeking the Sword King’s inheritance, and that more of the inheritance might remain in the area.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit entered the Time-Difference Formation to practice the Sword Art while Shi Xiaokun activated it and watched the time.
• Ye Lingshuang and Zhao Hong saw crowds arriving at the islands, and Ye Lingshuang contacted her brother Ye Chuanwu, who said he was traveling to join her.
• The next morning, Ning Qi learned that people had gathered throughout the area and initially planned to leave Ye Lingshuang’s group to find his companions.
• Ning Qi agreed to continue with Ye Lingshuang’s group, and they prepared to search higher islands for signs of the inheritance.

Ning Qi and Shi Xiaokun discovered a powerful sword formation in a deep pit, and Ning Qi found that its Sword Qi was connected to the Heavenly Profound Sword Art. He absorbed the formation into Heavenly Tribulation and tested its power, leaving him with a new weapon ability.

• Ning Qi and Ye Lingshuang split their party to search a large island, with Xu Fu and several guards accompanying Ning Qi.
• Ning Qi and Shi Xiaokun found a sword formation inside a deep pit; it attacked Shi Xiaokun but left Ning Qi unharmed.
• Ning Qi studied the familiar sword marks below and practiced the Heavenly Profound Sword Art, drawing the area's Sword Qi into Heavenly Tribulation.
• Ning Qi realized the formation could be replicated and absorbed it into Heavenly Tribulation.
• Ning Qi activated the newly formed sword formation within Heavenly Tribulation, slicing open the void as it swept toward a stone wall.

Ning Qi absorbed the sword formation left by Heavenly Tribulation’s former master and led the group onward through a swamp. While exploring an abandoned Flying Vessel, he activated a jade pendant that revealed an arrogant young girl’s remnant soul, which threatened to take his body.

• Ning Qi unleashed the sword formation stored in Heavenly Tribulation, destroying the mountain path, then told the group it had been left by an expert and that its Sword Qi was spent.
• Ning Qi admitted to Shi Xiaokun that he had merged the formation into Heavenly Tribulation, and the two rejoined Xu Fu and the others as they continued onward.
• Ning Qi led the group through a swamp and arranged for them to rest separately aboard abandoned Flying Vessels.
• Ning Qi explored the cabins of his vessel, found a jade pendant in a woman's chamber, and activated it with his Immortal Power.
• A young girl's remnant soul appeared from the pendant, identified Ning Qi as a Taiyi Golden Immortal, refused to reveal who she was, and threatened to take his body.

Ning Qi discovered that the girl in the jade pendant depended on Immortal Power to manifest, then transferred her to the Medicine Spirit, who had no Immortal Power for her to absorb. He returned to the cabin, leaving the girl contained while the Medicine Spirit guarded her.

• Ning Qi cut off his Immortal Power and watched the girl vanish, confirming that she relied on his power to appear and attack.
• Ning Qi repeatedly taunted and tested the weakened girl, deducing that she could store Immortal Power and hoped he would take her somewhere she could absorb more.
• Ning Qi drew the girl and her jade pendant into his hand and teleported to his Inner Realm to give the pendant to the Medicine Spirit.
• Ning Qi explained the girl's abilities and warned the Medicine Spirit to seal her with his breath of life and use up any stored Immortal Power before letting her out.
• Ning Qi asked the Medicine Spirit to question and subdue the girl, then returned to the cabin to inspect it.

Ning Qi explored the swamp-corroded Flying Vessel and discovered a second, perfectly preserved vessel beneath it, which he brought into his Inner Realm. After testing its extraordinary durability and exploring its cabins with the Medicine Spirit, he left with a powerful Time-Difference Formation and a functional vessel under his control.

• Ning Qi descended beneath the swamp and found a Flying Vessel protected by a formation.
• Ning Qi used the power of Origin from his Inner Realm to store the vessel after its deck resisted his attacks.
• The Medicine Spirit tested the deck with Heavenly Tribulation, but the vessel’s self-repairing protective patterns stopped the strike.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit entered the cabins, where they found a Time-Difference Formation and cultivation resources.
• Ning Qi tested the formation and found it could boost cultivation more effectively than Shi Xiaokun’s formation.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit searched the remaining cabins and confirmed the cockpit still worked before ending their exploration.

Ning Qi led Xu Fu and Shi Xiaokun to a mysterious cave, broke its formations, and discovered that its darkness could strip away Divine Sense. After securing the entrance for the night, he returned to his Inner Realm to watch the Medicine Spirit attempt to merge with Heavenly Tribulation, but the sword rejected him again.

• Ning Qi split the group into three parties and arranged for them to meet at the highest mountain in the forest.
• Ning Qi reached the mountain first, found altars and a pitch-black cave, and waited for Xu Fu and Shi Xiaokun to arrive.
• Ning Qi broke the formations and restrictions around the cave while Xu Fu and Shi Xiaokun’s people stood guard.
• Ning Qi tried to probe the cave with Divine Sense, but the darkness forcibly stripped it away, so he set up a defensive formation and postponed exploring until morning.
• Ning Qi returned to his Inner Realm and let the Medicine Spirit try to merge with Heavenly Tribulation, which threw him out twice.