Chapter Summaries

Ning Qi helped the Medicine Spirit suppress the hostile Sword Qi inside Heaven's Tribulation, then confronted the sword's lingering obsession and learned it had sent out the Sword Spirits to seek a destined successor. He pressed the figure to reveal the true inheritance, which it vaguely remembered was nearby, and demonstrated the Heavenly Mystic Sword Instruction to earn its recognition.

• Ning Qi gathered the Sword Qi so the Medicine Spirit could enter Heaven's Tribulation and attempt to subdue it.
• A hidden mass of gray Sword Qi attacked the Medicine Spirit, and Ning Qi used his netherworld ghostfire to suppress it and give it to the Medicine Spirit to refine.
• Ning Qi found the sword's self-repairing inner passages and stabilized them by performing every move of the Heavenly Mystic Sword Instruction.
• A phantom revealed itself as the former owner's lingering obsession, and Ning Qi struck it down before learning it had dispersed the Sword Spirits to find someone with the right destiny.
• Ning Qi asked the obsession where the true inheritance was; it said the inheritance should be nearby, so Ning Qi demonstrated the Heavenly Mystic Sword Instruction to gain its recognition.

Ning Qi obtained a compass pointing toward the dark figure’s legacy and helped Medicine Spirit merge with the Heavenly Tribulation Divine Sword. After contacting Ye Lingshuang and organizing their group, Ning Qi led an expedition into a black hole, where they found enormous black insects waiting below.

• The dark figure gave Ning Qi a compass that could locate the legacy and warned him that trials awaited there.
• Medicine Spirit endured a lightning tribulation, merged with Heavenly Tribulation, and became the sword’s mature Sword Spirit.
• Ning Qi contacted Ye Lingshuang, learned that her group had found two ruins, and arranged for Shi Xiaokun to guard the entrance while he and Xu Fu led an expedition below.
• Ning Qi and Xu Fu jumped into the black hole, where Ning Qi spotted huge black insects breathing clouds of black mist.

Ning Qi led Xu Fu and the guards through a pit filled with giant statues and hostile bugs to a bloodstained altar. After moving the offering cauldron, Ning Qi uncovered a sealed iron chest and triggered its restriction, leaving him facing a barrage of summoned blades.

• Ning Qi burned back the bugs and led Xu Fu and the guards across the pit toward an altar surrounded by enormous statues.
• Ning Qi and Xu Fu found divine-beast blood on the altar and a sacrificial cauldron containing ancient bones.
• The guards and Xu Fu failed to move the cauldron, but Ning Qi lifted it slightly and shifted it aside.
• Ning Qi sensed something beneath the inscriptions, cut through the altar's stone slab, and uncovered an iron chest covered in sealing papers.
• Ning Qi activated the chest's restriction, causing the papers to form blades aimed at him, while Xu Fu and the guards retreated.

Ning Qi and his companions found a sealed finger, then he used a Compass and a refined Flying Vessel to race toward the inheritance. In the darkness, strange flying islands pursued them, and Ning Qi sent Giant Bees to investigate.

• Ning Qi broke the restriction beneath the bluestone slab, opened a brocade box, and claimed the finger inside.
• Ning Qi split from Xu Fu and the others, followed the Compass, and returned to his inner realm to bring out the refined Flying Vessel with the Medicine Spirit.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit entered a pitch-black region in the Flying Vessel, suspecting they might have begun the inheritance trial.
• Flying islands appeared on both sides and continued pursuing the Flying Vessel even after it sped far ahead.
• Ning Qi stopped the Medicine Spirit from confronting the islands and sent several dozen Giant Bees to scout them.

Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit discovered that Giant Bees were destroyed by ancient formations on the islands, while Ants could withstand the attacks. After the Ants broke the formations, Ning Qi searched the area and found a bamboo house in the forest, then opened its door.

• Giant Bees flew over the islands and were killed by sudden beams of light, so Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit sent more creatures to investigate.
• Ning Qi attached his Divine Sense to an Ant and discovered that it could absorb the beams that destroyed the Giant Bees.
• Ning Qi concluded that the Ants had encountered the formations before, put away the Flying Vessel, and rode with the Medicine Spirit toward the island.
• Ning Qi ordered the Ants to destroy the formations and restrictions, then split up with the Medicine Spirit to search the ruins.
• Ning Qi examined an intact formation, ordered the Ants to memorize its patterns, and followed lingering fluctuations into the forest.
• Ning Qi found a bamboo house among the trees, checked that it was safe, and pushed open its door.

Ning Qi discovered that the incense burner in the bamboo building contained an ancient Time-Difference Formation and had incense that doubled his combat strength. He sent the burner to the sect for Shi Xiaokun to study, collected pills from a protected room, and summoned Medicine Spirit to inspect a garden of withered spirit medicines.

• Ning Qi searched the bamboo building and found an incense burner whose smoke made his Immortal-Demon Power circulate and increased his strength.
• When Ning Qi tried to lift and test the burner, its formation slowed time; he summoned Shi Xiaokun, who identified it as an ancient Time-Difference Formation and explained the incense ash's effects.
• Ning Qi sent the incense burner and its bamboo base to the sect in the Inner Realm for Shi Xiaokun to study.
• Ning Qi collected the formation-protected pills from the last room and found a medicinal garden filled with withered spirit medicines.
• Ning Qi contacted Medicine Spirit and asked him to see whether his life essence could revive the plants; Medicine Spirit arrived and began inspecting them.

Ning Qi investigated an island of ruins, where he discovered that walking skeletons reacted to immortal or demonic power and that many had been slain by Heavenly Tribulation. In the city lord’s residence, he encountered a stronger red skeleton that could sense his presence and appeared to be guarding the ruins.

• Medicine Spirit determined that the spirit medicines had been restricted rather than withered, gathered them into Ning Qi’s inner realm, and began setting up a Time-Difference Formation to refine the restrictions.
• Ning Qi left for another island and found a ruined city near an abandoned immortal abode, where skeletons wandered and fought.
• Ning Qi tested the skeletons and discovered that different groups responded to fluctuations of immortal power or demonic power.
• After examining the skeletons’ cores and sword wounds, Ning Qi concluded they were puppets slain by Heavenly Tribulation’s Sword Art.
• Ning Qi searched the ruined city lord’s residence and was attacked by a red skeleton carrying a bow and arrows.
• Ning Qi evaded the red skeleton, realized it could sense his presence without relying on Immortal-Demon Power, and inferred that it had once served the city lord’s residence.

Ning Qi searched a second city and uncovered a hidden cellar containing treasures and cultivation books, then watched the city’s skeletons reenact a war between the Immortal Race and Devil Race each night. After seeing the shattered bones reassemble by morning, he stayed to investigate and headed for the City Lord's Mansion to examine the green skeleton.

• Ning Qi found a concealed passage behind a wardrobe in the second city’s rear courtyard and collected the cellar’s treasures, books, and other useful items.
• Ning Qi watched skeletons return to the city, where armored guards took their posts and the dead resumed routines from life.
• Ning Qi observed Devil Race skeletons attack the city and overwhelm the defending Immortal Race skeletons before the fighting subsided.
• Ning Qi saw the scattered bones reassemble by morning and the Devil Race skeletons leave, then stayed to witness the nightly battle repeat.
• Ning Qi examined the gate skeletons and discovered their core fluctuations rebuilt their bones, then headed to the City Lord's Mansion to investigate the green skeleton.

Ning Qi left the city and climbed the Mountain Gate, where he discovered two spirit beasts whose presence did not attract the skeletons. He lured them into his Inner Realm, defeated their fused form, and offered to spare the surviving beast if it became his mount.

• Ning Qi abandoned his attempt to take the green glow from a skeleton, then left the city for the Mountain Gate.
• At the foot of the mountain, Ning Qi watched reassembled Withered Bone Warriors follow separate routes without noticing him.
• Ning Qi encountered two winged spirit beasts and realized their movements did not draw the skeletons' attention.
• Ning Qi lured the spirit beasts through his Sumeru Space into his Inner Realm, where he revealed his Taiyi Golden Immortal strength.
• The spirit beasts fused into a Taiyi Golden Immortal First Grade creature, but Ning Qi crushed its attack and trapped it with Netherworld Ghostfire.
• Ning Qi offered to spare the trapped spirit beast if it became his mount.

Ning Qi subdued the Dragon-Bearded Tiger Tu Hu, learned about the Heavenly Tribulation ruins, and set out with him toward the inheritance site. After checking in with Xu Qingqiu, Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit entered a dangerous stretch of turbulent currents aboard the Flying Vessel, whose defenses held as they crossed.

• Ning Qi overwhelmed the spirit beast with Netherworld Ghostfire and the Dragon-Soaring Spear, forcing it to offer its soul blood and submit as his mount.
• Tu Hu identified himself as a Dragon-Bearded Tiger and explained that the Heavenly Tribulation master had turned the slain people of the ruins into Sword Spirits and skeletons.
• Ning Qi gave Tu Hu the Thunderclap Pearl and learned that Tu Hu knew the way to the Heavenly Tribulation inheritance, then set off with him aboard the Flying Vessel.
• Ning Qi contacted Xu Qingqiu, learned she was safely assigned to rear-area duties, and warned her to avoid the ruins and dangerous missions.
• Tu Hu guided the group to a vast region of turbulent currents, and the Medicine Spirit piloted the Flying Vessel through it with its protective formations activated.
• Tu Hu recognized the Flying Vessel's defenses as long-lost formations and Ning Qi asked how long they would take to cross the currents.

Ning Qi reached the inheritance’s Outer Region and used Heavenly Tribulation to make its Sword Spirits recognize him as their master. As a crowned Sword Spirit guided him toward the inheritance trial, Ning Qi realized he had entered an illusion and uncovered a plot to steal his inheritance.

• Ning Qi and his companions escaped the Boundary Sea’s countercurrent and reached the Outer Region, where powerful Sword Spirits guarded the inheritance.
• Ning Qi summoned Heavenly Tribulation, and the Outer Region’s Sword Spirits knelt and acknowledged him as their master.
• Ning Qi followed the leading Sword Spirit onto a vast island and toward the mountain’s inheritance trial, while Medicine Spirit and Tu Hu waited behind.
• Ning Qi grew suspicious when he detected no formations or treasures, then attacked the guide with his Dragon-Soaring Spear.
• The guide escaped and revealed himself as a crowned Sword Spirit, summoning a group of seven-colored Sword Spirits to kill Ning Qi and seize his inheritance.
• Ning Qi realized the mountain was an illusion and that the Sword Spirits had lured him there to take the Heavenly Tribulation swordsmanship inheritance.

Ning Qi defeated the Sword Spirit Commander’s forces and revealed that Medicine Spirit had become Heavenly Tribulation’s new Sword Spirit. The Commander escaped after a fierce clash, leaving Ning Qi to disguise himself as Lei Shan to conceal their swordsmanship inheritance.

• Ning Qi unleashed Netherworld Ghostfire and used the Dragon-Soaring Spear to destroy the attacking Sword Spirits.
• Ning Qi summoned Heavenly Tribulation, and the Sword Spirit Commander failed to control it because Ning Qi had severed their connection and made Medicine Spirit its new Sword Spirit.
• Medicine Spirit demonstrated his ability to wield Heavenly Tribulation’s Sword Formation and fought the Commander over his Origin Sword Qi.
• The Commander used a second attack as a diversion and vanished before Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit could stop him.
• Ning Qi decided to disguise himself as Lei Shan so the escaped Commander would not expose their identity and inheritance.

Ning Qi escaped the Sword Spirit’s trap and learned that the Sword Spirit had publicized his identity to lure others into the Inheritance Land. He planned to keep searching while preparing an escape through his Inner Realm, and the chapter ended with his group speeding toward the inheritance’s core region.

• Ning Qi broke the formations, revealed the floating island, and explained to Tu Hu and the Medicine Spirit how the Sword Spirit had tried to seize his body and inheritance before fleeing.
• Ning Qi had the Medicine Spirit activate the Flying Vessel’s defenses, blocked the Sword Spirit’s probing, and contacted Shi Xiaokun to arrange a safe escape point outside the Inheritance Land.
• Shi Xiaokun told Ning Qi that people were heading to the Inheritance Land after news of Ning Qi’s inheritance spread, and agreed to separate from the others and wait somewhere safe.
• Ning Qi warned Ji Wanru and Xu Haotian that the Sword Spirit had set a trap, but Xu Haotian said they had to continue on the city lord’s orders.
• Ning Qi refused to reveal his Inner Realm or bring the group along, and the Medicine Spirit accelerated the Flying Vessel toward the inheritance’s core region.

Ning Qi and his companions raced toward the Inheritance Land while the Sword Spirit King prepared traps and planned to devour the people gathering outside. Near the final line of defense, several Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts blocked Ning Qi’s way, and he prepared to fight without abandoning Tu Hu.

• Ning Qi passed the ruined Immortal Abode sites and urged Medicine Spirit to hurry toward the inheritance before their rivals arrived.
• Members of the Demon Race, Human Race, Devil Race, and Immortal Race gathered outside the Inheritance Land, while Ye Chuanwu and others decided to wait for the rest of their factions.
• The Sword Spirit King drained captured guards of their vitality and ordered his subordinates to release mechanisms and Fierce Beasts to stop Ning Qi and lure the gathered factions inside.
• Ning Qi’s Flying Vessel sped through the Sword Spirit King’s formation attacks, and Tu Hu said they were nearing the inheritance after passing the final line of defense.
• Several Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts appeared and blocked the Flying Vessel; Tu Hu offered to hold them off, but Ning Qi refused to abandon him and prepared to fight.

Ning Qi was swallowed by a Boundary Sea Fierce Beast and discovered a vast inner realm containing a deadly formation and inscriptions revealing the Sword Spirit King's conspiracy. He learned the supposed Sword King Inheritance was bait to lure people to their deaths, but resolved to stop the plan and protect his friends outside.

• Ning Qi could not open the Inner Realm passage while several Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts attacked, so he let one swallow him and Tu Hu.
• Ning Qi, Tu Hu, and the Medicine Spirit found a vast realm inside the beast, where a refining formation activated and threatened them.
• The Medicine Spirit used the Flying Vessel's powerful Defensive Array to shield them from the formation's devouring force.
• Ning Qi summoned Shi Xiaokun to read inscriptions that revealed the Sword Spirit King had fabricated the inheritance to gather people and condense his true body.
• Ning Qi rejected leaving because his friends were among those outside, despite the Medicine Spirit warning that nobody had listened to their voice transmissions.

Ning Qi and his companions entered the Boundary Sea fierce beast’s sea of consciousness and devised a plan to destroy its soul so Tu Hu could possess the beast. Ning Qi wounded the soul with his Netherworld Ghostfire and spear, but his attack met unexpected resistance.

• Ning Qi agreed to try possessing the fierce beast, and Shi Xiaokun explained that they had to destroy its soul before Tu Hu could control it.
• Ning Qi, Tu Hu, Medicine Spirit, and Shi Xiaokun traveled through the beast’s airway in the Flying Vessel and waited for it to grow quiet.
• When they could not find the soul, Shi Xiaokun suggested using Ning Qi’s presence to lure it out, and Medicine Spirit helped conceal the group with his life essence.
• Ning Qi used his Netherworld Ghostfire to draw the fierce beast’s soul close, then attacked it while Medicine Spirit shielded the group.
• Ning Qi’s spear shattered the soul’s protective light screen, but his next strike rang against it with a metallic clash and sparks.

Ning Qi and his allies defeated the leader of a group of Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts and helped Tu Hu take control of its body, gaining command of the others. After learning Ji Wanru's coordinates, they prepared to meet her and set out with the beasts, with half to be stored in Ning Qi's Inner Realm.

• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit used Heavenly Tribulation to destroy the Boundary Sea Fierce Beast leader's soul, and Tu Hu entered its Sea of Consciousness to possess its body.
• Tu Hu endured the body's bloodline and meridian power, while Medicine Spirit infused him with life essence and Ning Qi used netherworld ghostfire to help refine it.
• After three days, Tu Hu succeeded in taking control of the beast and told Ning Qi that more than a dozen Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts had followed their leader.
• Ning Qi contacted Ji Wanru, learned that she was inside the dangerous area with powerful sword spirits, and received her coordinates so he could meet her.
• Tu Hu led Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit onto the beast's head, then began checking for observers and preparing to bring the other beasts along, with half to be stored in Ning Qi's Inner Realm.

Ning Qi used Tu Hu and the Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts to reach Ji Wanru’s group, rescue them by swallowing them, and send them away from danger. After Ye Lingshuang asked for help, Ning Qi realized her location might be a trap set by the Sword Spirit King, but decided to go to her in disguise.

• Ning Qi and Tu Hu traveled through the meteorite belt on Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts and used one beast’s enhanced senses to locate Ji Wanru and her companions.
• Ning Qi ordered three Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts to swallow Ji Wanru, Xu Haotian, and the remaining guards after Xu Haotian’s attack failed to hurt them.
• Ning Qi put the beasts that had swallowed Ji Wanru’s group into his Inner Realm so they could be taken out of the Inheritance Land, while Tu Hu reported that the group was considering leaving.
• Ning Qi contacted Ye Lingshuang by Sound Transmission Jade Pendant, learned her coordinates, and agreed to go help her despite her warning that many people were looking for him.
• The Medicine Spirit noticed Ye Lingshuang was near the Sword Spirits’ former location, leading Ning Qi to suspect the Sword Spirit King had brought her there deliberately.
• Ning Qi decided to continue toward Ye Lingshuang, put away the Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts, and disguise himself before approaching.

Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit traveled toward Ye Lingshuang, while she and her companions were trapped by Xu Youshou’s forces. Ye Chuanwu was badly wounded, and Xu Youshou attacked Ye Lingshuang as the battle erupted.

• Ning Qi told Medicine Spirit that he suspected the Sword Spirit King had a plan beyond taking their Inheritances, then traveled with Tu Hu’s Fierce Beasts for two days.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit set off aboard their Flying Vessel to reach Ye Lingshuang and lure her enemies toward the Fierce Beasts.
• Ye Chuanwu confronted Xu Youshou and Uncle Li, but Uncle Li gained the upper hand and repeatedly struck him down.
• Ye Lingshuang refused to abandon her brother, and Xu Youshou’s men surrounded her group and began attacking.
• Xu Fu fought off several guards to give Ye Lingshuang time to retreat, but Xu Youshou intercepted her and slashed at her with his longsword.

Ning Qi rescued Ye Lingshuang and Ye Chuanwu from Xu Youshou and Uncle Li, defeating their forces and taking Uncle Li’s spatial-translocation cauldron in exchange for Xu Youshou. He brought the Ye Household group aboard his Flying Vessel, activated its Defensive Grand Formation, and prepared to explain the danger in the area.

• Ning Qi stopped Xu Youshou’s attack on Ye Lingshuang and challenged Uncle Li, then used If Water Three Thousand, the Time-Difference Formation, and his Dragon-Soaring Spear to overpower him.
• Uncle Li escaped with his mountain-like cauldron and ordered his people to retreat, but Ning Qi pursued Xu Youshou and slaughtered the guards who tried to stop him.
• Ning Qi crippled Xu Youshou and demanded Uncle Li’s cauldron in exchange for sparing him; Uncle Li handed it over, and Ning Qi returned the unconscious Xu Youshou.
• Ye Lingshuang introduced her elder brother, Ye Chuanwu, to Ning Qi, and Ning Qi invited them and their guards onto his Flying Vessel to discuss the danger nearby.
• Ning Qi activated the Flying Vessel’s Defensive Grand Formation as everyone waited for him to explain.