Chapter Summaries

Ning Qi exposed the Sword Spirit King's plan to make entrants fight over false promises of inheritance and led Ye Chuanwu's party to proof inside Tu Hu. Ye Chuanwu chose to press on without Ning Qi, who left with Ye Lingshuang and sealed the passage into his Inner Realm before the Sword Spirit King arrived.

• Ning Qi told Ye Chuanwu and the others that the Sword Spirit King was provoking conflict to obtain the master's inheritance, then offered to show them proof.
• Ning Qi had Tu Hu open its mouth and took the group inside the Boundary Sea Fierce Beast to examine markings revealing the Sword Spirit King's plot.
• Ye Lingshuang urged Ye Chuanwu to leave, but Ye Chuanwu decided to continue searching and asked Ning Qi to take his sister to safety.
• Ye Lingshuang reluctantly left with Ning Qi while Ye Chuanwu and his guards flew deeper into the Boundary Sea.
• Ning Qi, Ye Lingshuang, Medicine Spirit, and Tu Hu entered Ning Qi's Inner Realm, and Ning Qi sealed the passage.
• The Sword Spirit King and more than a dozen Sword Spirits arrived and searched the area, but found no trace of them.

Ning Qi gathered Ji Wanru, Ye Lingshuang, Xu Haotian, and the others inside his Inner Realm, then brought them out of the Inheritance Land with Shi Xiaokun’s help. He left them in hiding and began traveling alone past the Sword Spirit King’s patrols, aiming to escape without being recognized.

• The Sword Spirit King ordered his subordinates to search for Ning Qi and drive the people in the area toward the core so he could activate the grand formation.
• Ning Qi met Ji Wanru and the others at the Mountain Gate, reassured them that they could leave through his Inner Realm, and summoned Shi Xiaokun.
• Shi Xiaokun opened a passage, allowing Ning Qi and everyone else to leave the dangerous area without confronting the Sword Spirit King.
• Ning Qi sent his friends back into his Inner Realm and set off alone with Tu Hu and the Medicine Spirit, choosing a Flying Vessel over the conspicuous Fierce Beasts.
• Ning Qi activated his time differential to slip past a patrol of Sword Spirits, while their commander ordered them to hold their posts.

Ning Qi discovered that the Gobi’s yellow sand was made of powerful insects and realized the Sword Spirit King had used it to trap people and force them toward the Inheritance Land. After spending the night behind a protective barrier, Ning Qi used ants from his Inner Realm to suppress the insects and led his companions across the Gobi, wary that the Sword Spirit King might still be watching.

• Ning Qi spotted unusual yellow sand in the Gobi and sent Tu Hu to investigate.
• Tu Hu discovered the sand consisted of powerful insects, which pursued him until he escaped behind a barrier that protected Ning Qi and the others.
• Ning Qi deduced that the Sword Spirit King had created the barrier and insect threat to trap people and drive them toward the Inheritance Land.
• After resting overnight, Ning Qi summoned ants from his Inner Realm, whose presence forced the insect swarm to move aside.
• Ning Qi, the Medicine Spirit, and Tu Hu rode the ants through the Gobi while concealing their presence in case the Sword Spirit King was watching.

Ning Qi escaped the Gobi and reached the mountain passage, where he gathered the ants and Giant Bees before learning the Sword Spirit King had guarded the exit. He arranged for Zhao Tianlei and the Devil Race to attack the guards, then waited for the fighting to begin so he could slip out.

• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit crossed the marshes and reached the mountains, leaving the yellow sand trapped behind them.
• Ning Qi opened his Inner Realm passage, and Shi Xiaokun used the ant queen and queen bee to gather the surviving ants and Giant Bees.
• Shi Xiaokun found the exit but warned that the Sword Spirit King had placed a barrier outside to detect anyone leaving.
• Ning Qi contacted Zhao Tianlei and persuaded him to bring the Devil Race to attack the Sword Spirits guarding the exit.
• Zhao Zhirou told Ning Qi that Zhao Tianlei would attack in an hour, and Ning Qi prepared to leave during the battle.
• The Sword Spirit King confronted a Sword Spirit in a pitch-black abyss and demanded an explanation.

Ning Qi escaped the Inheritance Land with help from Zhao Zhirou, Zhao Tianlei, and the Devil Race, defeating a Sword Spirit Commander who tried to stop them. The group entered a wormhole to leave, while Zhao Tianlei used Spirit Stones to check the scene outside the Inheritance Land.

• The Sword Spirit King sent a Sword Spirit and three thousand troops to investigate the arriving Devil Race and guard against Ning Qi's escape.
• Zhao Zhirou told Ning Qi that the Devil Race had routed the Sword Spirits and urged him to come out before reinforcements arrived.
• Ning Qi, the Medicine Spirit, and Shi Xiaokun left the Inner Realm and emerged into a battle between the Devil Race and the Sword Spirits.
• Ning Qi killed the Sword Spirit Commander with one strike, then joined the Devil Race as they withdrew toward a wormhole.
• Ning Qi told Zhao Tianlei and Zhao Zhirou that the Sword Spirit King had lured the inheritors into a trap so he could devour them and escape.
• Zhao Tianlei activated Spirit Stones inside the wormhole to display the scene outside the Inheritance Land.

Ning Qi and the Devil Race emerged from the wormhole, where he used Heavenly Tribulation to defeat three Sword Spirit Commanders and lure out the Sword Spirit King. The Sword Spirit King arrived and prepared to fight Ning Qi.

• Ning Qi and his companions listened as the Sword Spirit King debated whether to pursue them or attack the people inside, then split his forces between the two tasks.
• Ning Qi persuaded Zhao Tianlei to let him lure the Sword Spirit King away, and the Devil Race party emerged near the Inheritance Land’s exit, where Sword Spirits were waiting.
• Zhao Tianlei’s guards attacked the Sword Spirits while Ning Qi revealed himself and challenged three Sword Spirit Commanders.
• Ning Qi summoned Heavenly Tribulation and killed the three Commanders with successive slashes, while the Devil Race guards fought the remaining Sword Spirits.
• The Sword Spirit King teleported to the battlefield, and Ning Qi taunted him into preparing to attack.

Ning Qi fought the Sword Spirit King after the king absorbed the surrounding Sword Spirits to increase his strength. Ning Qi overwhelmed him with powerful sword techniques and formations, and the Medicine Spirit extracted the Sword Soul while the king was trapped.

• The Sword Spirit King absorbed the Sword Qi of the surrounding Sword Spirits, and Ning Qi sent Zhao Tianlei and the others away before facing him alone.
• Ning Qi recognized the sword in the king’s hand as Heavenly Tribulation’s soul form, then used the Heavenly Mystery Art and circulated Immortal-Demon Power.
• Ning Qi struck with Heavenly Profound Burial, destroying the stone wall and forcing the Sword Spirit King to flee from the attack.
• Ning Qi unleashed Heavenly Mystery Unification and injured the king with a sword shadow that pursued him through the void.
• Ning Qi trapped the weakened Sword Spirit King with the Sword Formation, If Water Three Thousand Formation, and Time-Difference Formation.
• The Medicine Spirit used Life Essence to seize the king and pull the Sword Soul from his body while Zhao Tianlei watched in amazement.

Ning Qi defeated the Sword Spirit King, freed the survivors, and left the Immortal Race to visit the Human Race and find Xu. He traveled toward Human Race territory while the Medicine Spirit began refining Heavenly Tribulation’s Sword Soul inside the Inner Realm.

• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit subdued the Sword Spirit King, extracted his Sword Soul, and cleared the area of Sword Spirits.
• Ning Qi parted from Zhao Zhirou and Zhao Tianlei, then returned to the Inner Realm and brought Ji Wanru, Ye Lingshuang, Xu Haotian, and their people out safely.
• Ye Lingshuang learned her elder brother was safe, while Ning Qi refused to stay with the Immortal Race and set off to find his friend among the Human Race.
• Ning Qi used the Compass to choose a route toward Human Race territory and entrusted the Flying Vessel to Tu Hu and Shi Xiaokun.
• Ning Qi entered the Inner Realm with the Medicine Spirit, who began refining Heavenly Tribulation’s Sword Soul under Ning Qi’s supervision.

Ning Qi exposed the Sword Spirit King hiding inside the Sword Soul and used Origin Flame to break his defenses, letting the Medicine Spirit finish him while Heavenly Tribulation was refined with the Origin Sword Soul. The completed sword summoned a heavenly tribulation, and the Medicine Spirit faced increasingly powerful Heavenly Thunder as Ning Qi watched.

• Ning Qi revealed that the Sword Spirit King was hiding inside the Sword Soul, and the Sword Spirit King manifested and demanded a body in exchange for the sword.
• Ning Qi used Origin Flame to melt and shatter the Sword Spirit King's defensive barrier, then left the Medicine Spirit to deal with him.
• Ning Qi returned to the Time-Difference Formation and saw Heavenly Tribulation absorb the Origin Sword Soul, strengthening its Sword Qi.
• After several months, Heavenly Tribulation summoned a heavenly tribulation, and the Medicine Spirit emerged transformed into a youth and began enduring its lightning.
• The lightning intensified into black-and-purple Heavenly Thunder, which marked Heavenly Tribulation and repeatedly blasted the Medicine Spirit onto the ground.

Ning Qi helped Medicine Spirit refine the Sword Spirit King into a remnant soul, then led him and the others toward the Human Race’s territory while following Compass fluctuations to investigate ruins. They found a ruined sect in the Boundary Sea, where Medicine Spirit defeated a group of twisted monsters, and the chapter ended as he identified a powerful armored corpse at the sect’s gate.

• Ning Qi used the Li Yuan Bell to protect himself and Medicine Spirit from heavenly lightning until the tribulation ended, and Medicine Spirit said he had spared the Sword Spirit King as a remnant soul.
• Ning Qi emerged from his Inner Realm with Medicine Spirit, reunited with Tu Hu and Shi Xiaokun aboard the Flying Vessel, and learned they were two or three days from the Human Race’s territory.
• Ning Qi followed the Compass fluctuations toward ruins and contacted Xu Qingqiu, telling her he expected to reach her in about five days after exploring the area.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit found a well-preserved abandoned sect amid drifting wreckage and corpses, then flew over to investigate.
• Medicine Spirit fought and killed the attacking twisted monsters while Ning Qi watched and advised him to strike more decisively.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit reached the sect’s Mountain Gate, where Medicine Spirit recognized a remarkably powerful Black Armor Corpse.

Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit explored the ruined immortal sect, securing a powerful corpse before entering a dark, trap-filled labyrinth. They found a destroyed teaching hall beyond its life gate, but the labyrinth’s purpose and the fate of the sect remained unclear.

• Ning Qi stored the bleeding black-armored corpse in the Inner Realm, sealing it in the Time-Difference Formation under If Water Three Thousand and setting ants and giant bees to guard it.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit reached the mountaintop plaza, examined its strange living vines, and entered the dark interior of the best-preserved great hall.
• Ning Qi used ants and giant bees to find a safe route through the dark labyrinth, then broke through a wall with Water Runes.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit discovered a teaching hall filled with lingering presences, including a meditation cushion whose owner had been more powerful than the corpse.
• Ning Qi looked back and saw that the route they had followed was the labyrinth’s life gate, while traps and hidden passages had killed many of his ants and giant bees.

Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit found a sealed brocade box in the cultivation ground but could not keep it open, then escaped through the Life Gate of an Eight Gates Golden Lock formation. Back at the square, Ning Qi realized the strange vines had trapped them in an illusion and warned Medicine Spirit that neither of them was who they appeared to be.

• Ning Qi used Dao patterns to remove the restriction on a meditation cushion and uncovered a brocade box beneath it.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit tried to open the self-repairing brocade box with Heavenly Tribulation, the Sword Formation, and netherworld ghostfire, but it healed every cut, so Ning Qi stored it away.
• Ning Qi identified the Life Gate among the meditation cushions and opened a fissure that let him and Medicine Spirit escape the cultivation ground.
• Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit returned to the square and examined the strange vines, whose drifting pollen-like waves made Medicine Spirit feel as if he were floating.
• Ning Qi told Medicine Spirit that the vines had trapped them in an illusion and that neither of them was truly themselves.

Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit tested whether the Mountain Gate’s illusion punished anyone who damaged its ruins, then left for Xu Qingqiu’s coordinates. They reunited with Xu Qingqiu at a vast Human Race territory, where she noticed Ning Qi’s strength had grown beyond her ability to discern.

• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit used Memory Spirit Stones to watch the Ants and Giant Bees attack the ruins, confirming that the vines’ powder made them turn on one another.
• Ning Qi decided not to take the vines and left the Mountain Gate with the Medicine Spirit, heading toward Xu Qingqiu’s coordinates.
• Shi Xiaokun and Tu Hu emerged after recovering, and Ning Qi’s group encountered two Human Race guard squads; Ning Qi proved his identity as a Myriad Sword Sect disciple.
• Ning Qi contacted Xu Qingqiu, who told him to enter through the northern region and said she would wait for him there.
• Ning Qi’s group reached the vast Human Race territory and met Xu Qingqiu aboard her Flying Vessel.
• Xu Qingqiu sensed Ning Qi’s power and said she could no longer see through his strength.

Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit traveled to the Myriad Sword Sect’s encampment before visiting the Human Race’s Main City. Xu Qingqiu led them into its Black Market, where they began looking for valuable goods.

• Ning Qi agreed to join Xu Qingqiu’s garrison mission, which would begin the next day, and she brought him and the Medicine Spirit to the Myriad Sword Sect’s encampment.
• Xu Haoran told Xu Qingqiu that their master and the other elders had gone to the Main City to coordinate the departing sects.
• Xu Qingqiu took Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit to the Main City, where she explained that ordinary residents were kept unaware of the battlefield and that some experts used them as sources of Incense Power.
• Xu Qingqiu explained that the city’s Black Market sold goods taken through murder and robbery, drawing in many desperadoes and buyers.
• Ning Qi entered the Black Market with Xu Qingqiu and the Medicine Spirit, then dismissed the armor in the first shop as worthless.

Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit paid to enter the Cloud Mist Sect auction, drawn by rumors of Mount Buzhou news. They arrived at the auction hall as Cloud Mist Sect holy maiden Xu Feng'er began presenting the first lot.

• Ning Qi learned that the auction required a nonrefundable fee of one billion spirit marrow essence per person and paid for himself and Xu Qingqiu to enter.
• An attendant led Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit through a teleportation formation to a private room overlooking the auction hall.
• Xu Qingqiu explained that the Cloud Mist Sect gathered wealthy bidders from many cities, and that their main competition would be the people in other private rooms.
• The group watched Xu Feng'er, the Cloud Mist Sect's holy maiden, take the stage as auctioneer.
• Xu Feng'er ordered an attendant to open a chest, and he used a black stone to activate it before placing it in a recess in the chest.

Ning Qi recognized a sealed sword with a powerful Sword Spirit at the auction and bought it, then sent it with Medicine Spirit to Shi Xiaokun to examine in the Inner Realm. The auction continued with a women’s Treasure Armor that could defend against poison, fire, and other attacks, and Xu Feng'er opened bidding at five hundred million Spirit Marrow Essence.

• Xu Feng'er displayed Demon Race gauntlets that granted Yao Qi and doubled the wearer’s strength, while Medicine Spirit dismissed them as unimpressive.
• Ning Qi recognized that the Sword Spirit in a miniature mountain was sealed, bid sixty million Spirit Marrow Essence, and won the treasure sword.
• After the attendants delivered the sword to Ning Qi’s private room, its Sword Qi burst out, and Medicine Spirit shielded Ning Qi from it.
• Ning Qi placed the miniature mountain in his Sumeru Space and sent Medicine Spirit to take it to Shi Xiaokun in the Inner Realm for examination.
• Xu Feng'er presented women’s Treasure Armor that resisted poison, fire, and powerful attacks, then began bidding at five hundred million Spirit Marrow Essence.

Ning Qi won the treasure armor at auction for three hundred million spirit marrow essence, sensing that it held hidden power. He helped Xu Qingqiu bind it, and she discovered it was the Purple Scaled Armor, a powerful treasure with a mysterious internal space.

• Ning Qi joined the bidding for the treasure armor, eventually outbidding the other buyers with an offer of three hundred million.
• After the auction attendant delivered the armor, Ning Qi sensed its oppressive might and explained that Immortal-Demon Power revealed its unusual qualities.
• Ning Qi asked Xu Qingqiu to wear the armor and activate it with her Immortal Power and bloodline power.
• The armor sprouted barbs, pierced Xu Qingqiu, and began draining her bloodline power, so Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit helped her subdue it.
• Xu Qingqiu became the armor's master and learned that the Purple Scaled Armor enhanced her cultivation and abilities and contained a chaotic internal space.

Ning Qi gave Xu Qingqiu the Treasure Armor, which merged into her body, then bid successfully on a crystal chest said to be connected to Mount Buzhou. After the auction, Xu Feng'er sent guards to deliver the chest and ask Ning Qi to meet with her.

• Ning Qi reassured Xu Qingqiu that the Treasure Armor was a gift, and it merged into her body when she wished to put it away.
• Xu Feng'er revealed the auction’s final treasure was connected to Mount Buzhou and opened bidding at ten billion Spirit Marrow Essence.
• Ning Qi outbid the other buyers, while a middle-aged rival said he wanted the second piece of Mount Buzhou and left with his old servant and guards.
• Xu Feng'er declared Ning Qi the winner of the crystal treasure chest and ordered guards to deliver it and invite him to meet her.

Xu Feng'er learned that Ning Qi would not share what he knew about Mount Buzhou, so she had the Cloud Mist Sect leak his information to hostile cultivators. Ning Qi’s group was ambushed in the mountains, where Medicine Spirit summoned Tu Hu as the attackers realized they faced a Taiyi Golden Immortal spirit beast.

• Ning Qi collected the crystal treasure chests and refused Xu Feng'er’s invitation until she offered information about Mount Buzhou.
• Xu Feng'er tried to trade secrets with Ning Qi, but he denied knowing anything and left without sharing information.
• After Ning Qi departed, Xu Feng'er ordered her guard to reveal his identity and location to his enemies.
• Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and Medicine Spirit left the city by carriage, unaware that several groups were following them.
• In the mountains, Ning Qi confronted the attackers, and Medicine Spirit summoned Tu Hu, whose Taiyi Golden Immortal presence frightened them.

Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu were ambushed by people sent after them, but Ning Qi revealed his Taiyi Golden Immortal strength and killed them all. He returned with Xu Qingqiu to the Myriad Sword Sect camp, while the middle-aged man survived by using a black Spirit Stone to shed his body and flee.

• Ning Qi agreed to fight his pursuers alone and told the Medicine Spirit and Tu Hu to stand back while the attackers surrounded him.
• Ning Qi unleashed the strength of a seventh-grade Taiyi Golden Immortal, killed the attackers, and pursued the middle-aged man and old man as they fled.
• The middle-aged man escaped by shedding his body through a black Spirit Stone, then fled toward the city in a weakened state.
• Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu returned to the Myriad Sword Sect camp, where Wang Zhengqian welcomed Ning Qi and said they would travel together.
• Xu Qingqiu led Ning Qi to an unoccupied cave abode where he could rest.