Chapter Summaries

Ning Qi brought a sealed sword to the Inner Realm, where Shi Xiaokun began the lengthy work of breaking its formations and restrictions. Meanwhile, Xu Feng'er and Wang Xiaotian plotted to use the Myriad Sword Sect and two other households against Ning Qi as he prepared to leave the next day.

• Ning Qi examined the sword with Medicine Spirit, then took it to the Inner Realm, where Shi Xiaokun identified its complex formations and seals.
• Shi Xiaokun said he could eventually break the restrictions but warned it might take months or years, so Ning Qi left him to work while he prepared for the journey.
• Xu Feng'er learned that Wang Xiaotian believed Ning Qi was a powerful Taiyi Golden Immortal and that Ning Qi had taken information about Mount Buzhou.
• Wang Xiaotian vowed revenge and planned to target the Myriad Sword Sect and turn two other households against Ning Qi.
• Xu Feng'er told her guard to notify the two households while keeping the Cloud Mist Sect out of the dispute.

Ning Qi boarded the expedition ship with Xu Qingqiu and Xu Haoran, then settled into a luxurious courtyard and freed the servants who had been forced to work there. After several days of seclusion, Xu Qingqiu contacted him and invited him to visit an accompanying Flying Vessel for recreation.

• Ning Qi joined Xu Qingqiu and the gathered sect members aboard their ship, where Xu Haoran showed him a reserved cabin and explained the journey would take at least twelve or thirteen days.
• Ning Qi entered the Sumeru Courtyard and learned that its attendants had been sold into servitude, so he told them they were free to stop working.
• Ning Qi went into seclusion while the Medicine Spirit stayed behind to enjoy the food, and he sent away the attendants who came to see him.
• Xu Qingqiu contacted Ning Qi through the Jade Pendant and invited him to visit a Flying Vessel for recreation.
• Ning Qi emerged from seclusion, found the Medicine Spirit, and set out with him to meet Xu Qingqiu.

Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and Medicine Spirit visited a bustling market aboard a ship, where Ning Qi followed a faint Spiritual Qi fluctuation to a suspicious Storage Bag in a weapons shop. The shopkeeper began breaking its seal in a warded study, and the treasure inside started emitting light.

• Xu Qingqiu led Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit to a market ship, where they explored its busy streets and shops.
• Several men spotted Ning Qi and secretly followed him while one of them went to inform their Commander.
• Medicine Spirit sensed a treasure inside one of the shop’s Storage Bags, and Ning Qi asked the assistant about the sealed goods.
• The assistant demanded an advance payment and secrecy, then led Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and Medicine Spirit to the shopkeeper.
• The shopkeeper used Immortal Power to break the Storage Bag’s seal and reinforced the study’s formations as the treasure’s light emerged.

Ning Qi bought the Phantom Spirit Treasure Armor and the stone concealing it, learning that the stone came from Mount Buzhou’s Inheritance Land and that Wang Xiaotian had survived Ning Qi’s attack. After deciding to head for the inheritance site ahead of the group, Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu returned to her ship so she could inform her master, who had not yet returned.

• Ning Qi negotiated with the shopkeeper and paid one hundred million Spirit Marrow Essence for the Phantom Spirit Treasure Armor and the inscribed stone from Mount Buzhou’s Inheritance Land.
• The shopkeeper explained that the inheritance site lay near the Demon Race border, opened at intervals, and was dangerous to reach; he also revealed that Wang Xiaotian had escaped Ning Qi using a lineage Secret Method and was seeking him.
• Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit decided to travel ahead to the inheritance site, and Xu Qingqiu agreed to go with them aboard Ning Qi’s Flying Vessel.
• Xu Qingqiu returned with Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit to her ship to tell her master, but Xu Haoran said the master had not returned and offered to pass along her message.

Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit used the Compass to locate their destination and an apparent Inheritance Land, then were pursued by a fleet seeking the Crystal Box. Their vessel’s defenses withstood an attack, and the pursuing Commander ordered another strike despite a warning that the box must be preserved.

• Ning Qi used the Compass to identify the main force’s destination and an area Xu Qingqiu recognized as the Inheritance Land.
• Ning Qi persuaded Xu Qingqiu not to report their location to her master, since doing so could expose the group to their pursuers.
• The Medicine Spirit spotted several Flying Vessels following them, and Ning Qi told Xu Qingqiu not to call for help.
• The Medicine Spirit activated their vessel’s defenses, which absorbed a powerful attack without damage as the enemy fleet surrounded them.
• The Commander demanded the Crystal Box, and Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit mocked him.
• The Commander ordered his Heaven Grade Flying Vessels to attack, dismissing his subordinate’s warning that the Crystal Box had to be kept intact.

Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit evaded the commander’s fleet by steering their Flying Vessel through a void rift, then ambushed and killed the commander. They drove off the remaining guards and continued their journey with a captured Flying Vessel as a spare.

• Ning Qi ordered Medicine Spirit to activate the Flying Vessel’s defenses and target the commander while the enemy fleet attacked.
• Medicine Spirit used the vessel’s illusionary double to draw enemy fire and slipped through a void rift, locating the commander’s Flying Vessel.
• The commander’s guards dispersed to search for Ning Qi, leaving the commander exposed when Ning Qi’s vessel emerged from the rift.
• Ning Qi broke through the commander’s defenses and killed him while Medicine Spirit kept the guards from reaching them.
• The guards fled as Ning Qi and Medicine Spirit counterattacked, and Ning Qi chose not to pursue them, ordering Medicine Spirit to store the commander’s Flying Vessel as a spare.
• Ning Qi told Xu Qingqiu that she could one day grow as strong as him and promised to share opportunities that would help her improve.

Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit traveled through the Boundary Sea aboard the Flying Vessel and reached a chaotic region filled with shattered continents, Twisted Monsters, and dangerous restrictions. After Xu Qingqiu explained the region’s risks, Ning Qi decided to summon Shi Xiaokun to see whether his teleportation method could help them cross it.

• Ning Qi directed the Medicine Spirit to follow the Compass, and the group traveled at high speed aboard the Flying Vessel.
• Ning Qi showed Xu Qingqiu the vessel’s hidden inch-square space, where they cultivated for several days.
• The Medicine Spirit reported that Twisted Monsters had attacked along the way, and Xu Qingqiu explained that the group had reached territory bordering the Human, Demon, and Immortal Races.
• Ning Qi activated the Compass, which revealed formations, restrictions, and a route through an area of shattered continents.
• Xu Qingqiu warned that chaotic space could teleport them into deadly places and that formations sealed the Devil Race within the region.
• Ning Qi proposed asking Shi Xiaokun to use the teleportation method that had helped them before, then summoned him.

Ning Qi brought Xu Qingqiu into his Inner Realm, showed her its thriving cities, and invited her to stay. After they explored a city and shared a meal, the Medicine Spirit and Shi Xiaokun found a way out of the Inheritance Land and reported that it was safe to use.

• Shi Xiaokun said he could use the Ants and Giant Bees to mark the Inheritance Land and enable them to enter and leave directly, so Ning Qi took Xu Qingqiu and the Medicine Spirit into his Inner Realm.
• The Medicine Spirit explained that Ning Qi’s Inner Realm functioned like a lower realm where people could live and cultivate, and Ning Qi invited Xu Qingqiu to stay; she agreed to consider it.
• Ning Qi showed Xu Qingqiu a bustling city, explained that the Inner Realm’s Origin Power supported his Incense Power, and shared a meal with her.
• After exploring the city, Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu met the returning Medicine Spirit, who said he and Shi Xiaokun had found the exit and offered to show Xu Qingqiu a pool of condensed life essence later.
• Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu, and the Medicine Spirit reached Shi Xiaokun, who stood beside a swirling vortex and said the Ant army had scouted ahead and found the route safe.

Ning Qi and his companions left his Inner Realm and reached the dangerous formations and restrictions surrounding the Inheritance Land. Ning Qi recognized a weakness in the barrier and prepared to enter alone, while the others gathered to follow his instructions.

• Medicine Spirit brought Nine-Tailed Cat to the Life Pool Water, where Xu Qingqiu urged him to cultivate in the Time-Difference Formation and break through while they explored the Inheritance Land.
• After Shi Xiaokun found a route out, Ning Qi led Xu Qingqiu and Medicine Spirit through the passage into the Boundary Sea, and they set off aboard their Flying Vessel.
• The group reached the edge of the continent and saw formations and restrictions grinding drifting land fragments to pieces.
• Ning Qi approached the barrier alone, identified it as similar to If Water Three Thousand, and told the others to enter his Inner Realm while he went inside.
• Ning Qi asked Medicine Spirit to bring Tu Hu over, and Medicine Spirit returned to the Flying Vessel to fetch him.

Ning Qi obtained the Formation Origin Power from the ancient formation and used spirit marrow essence to restore the formation so the Shattered Continent would stabilize. He returned to his Inner Realm to refine the Origin Power in a Time-Difference Formation, where its defenses resisted him and Shi Xiaokun reinforced the formation.

• Ning Qi entered the ancient formation, reached its core, and took the Formation Origin Power, causing the Shattered Continent to shake.
• Shi Xiaokun advised Ning Qi to use spirit marrow essence and the If Water Three Thousand Formation to replace the stolen focal point, and Ning Qi stabilized the formation after several hours.
• Ning Qi descended to the Shattered Continent, met the Medicine Spirit, Xu Qingqiu, and Tu Hu, and warned them to remain in the area while he refined the Origin Power.
• Ning Qi returned to the Inner Realm and entered Shi Xiaokun's Time-Difference Formation to refine the Formation Origin Power using his Immortal-Demon Power.
• The Origin Power formed layers of barriers that resisted Ning Qi's attacks, shaking the surroundings and the formation, so Shi Xiaokun supplied spirit marrow essence to reinforce it.

Ning Qi refined the origin power and endured a powerful lightning tribulation, breaking through to become an Archaic Golden Immortal. He learned that Medicine Spirit had taken Heavenly Tribulation’s True Form and the Sword Formation away, but the ordeal still helped him advance.

• Ning Qi drew the origin power from the golden egg into his Dantian, used the Li Yuan Bell to contain its resistance, and began refining it while Shi Xiaokun stood guard.
• Medicine Spirit urged the others to explore, then left on his own while Tu Hu and Xu Qingqiu stayed behind to wait for Ning Qi.
• After refining the origin power, Ning Qi faced a lightning tribulation and endured its strikes with his body, recovering even after being blasted underground.
• Ning Qi used Heavenly Tribulation’s Fourth Realm move to confront eight lightning bolts, but suffered severe injuries when the sword lacked its True Form and the Sword Formation.
• Ning Qi regenerated his injuries and declared that he had broken through to Archaic Golden Immortal, then promised Shi Xiaokun he would help him advance too.

Ning Qi and his companions explored an ancient sect ruin in Mount Buzhou’s Inheritance Land, where Ning Qi discovered a High Antiquity Soul-Locking Formation imprisoning hundreds of thousands of souls. He began preparing to transfer them into his Inner Realm so they could reincarnate and possibly reveal what happened to Mount Buzhou.

• Ning Qi learned that the Medicine Spirit had gone exploring again and warned that he would take back the Heavenly Tribulation if the Medicine Spirit acted independently once more.
• Ning Qi used the Compass to identify strong fluctuations, and the group followed them to an abandoned sect ruin protected by ancient formations and restrictions.
• Ning Qi used his formation Origin Power to break through the ruin’s defenses, then split up with Shi Xiaokun and Tu Hu to search the site.
• At the ruined rear mountain, Ning Qi quickly comprehended a High Antiquity Soul-Locking Formation and explained that it trapped the souls of the sect members and their blood relatives to prevent their reincarnation.
• Ning Qi decided to bring the trapped souls into his Inner Realm, and Shi Xiaokun agreed to arrange their reincarnation in batches.
• Ning Qi returned to his Inner Realm to set up a Soul-Locking Formation, while Shi Xiaokun and Xu Qingqiu waited outside and Tu Hu arrived to ask about the plan.

Ning Qi trapped the wandering souls in a formation and gave Shi Xiaokun formation origin power so he could arrange their reincarnation. Ning Qi then led Xu Qingqiu and Tu Hu toward a new opportunity, where they entered a dangerous poisonous mist and Tu Hu went ahead to investigate.

• Ning Qi gathered the souls into his formation and gave Shi Xiaokun formation origin power to control it and arrange their rebirth.
• Ning Qi told Xu Qingqiu that he had broken through and led her and Tu Hu toward fluctuations he had sensed.
• Ning Qi and Tu Hu discussed Medicine Spirit’s absence as the group continued toward the source of the fluctuations.
• Ning Qi revealed poisonous, hallucinogenic mist and warned Xu Qingqiu to use her Purple Scaled Armor before the three entered it.
• Ning Qi detected movement in the mist, and Tu Hu went ahead to investigate, finding that the area seemed like a maze.

Ning Qi discovered that powerful flying insects guarded a restricted area, then used his formations to slip past them and enter a forest beyond another barrier. There he found a pool made of spirit marrow essence, but the water returned whenever he tried to move it into his Sumeru Space.

• Tu Hu reported that the insects worked together and were powerful, so Ning Qi sent him back to test whether they guarded a fixed area.
• After Tu Hu returned injured, Ning Qi sent him and Xu Qingqiu into his Inner Realm and sealed the passage behind them.
• Ning Qi used his Time-Difference Formation and If Water Three Thousand Formation to pass through the insects and evade their pursuit.
• Ning Qi reached a forest protected by a barrier that kept the insects out, then cautiously walked inside.
• Ning Qi found a pool of spirit marrow essence and tried to draw its water into his Sumeru Space, but it kept flowing back into the pool.

Ning Qi discovered that a naturally formed defense protected the depths of the Spirit Marrow Essence pool and confronted the powerful light figure within it. His sword strike failed to injure the figure, leaving him to face the danger without Heavenly Tribulation's true form.

• Ning Qi asked Shi Xiaokun why he could not transfer the pool water, and Shi Xiaokun sensed that the secret lay beneath the pool.
• Ning Qi used his Inner Realm and formation origin power to probe the depths, where a naturally formed defensive barrier counterattacked him.
• Ning Qi summoned the Li Yuan Bell and a sword-manifested Heavenly Tribulation, then went down to confront the light figure.
• The light figure crushed the void with its attacks and struck Ning Qi in the back, sending him flying toward the pool's surface.
• Ning Qi used Heavenly Profound Burial to churn the pool into a whirlpool, but the light figure evaded the strike and appeared unharmed.
• Ning Qi and Shi Xiaokun noted that Heavenly Tribulation's true form might have wounded the figure, while Ning Qi wondered why Medicine Spirit and Heavenly Tribulation had not responded.

Ning Qi returned to the pool and used the auction sword to absorb its Spirit Marrow Essence, drawing the figure of light into a furious attack. The sword drained the pool as Ning Qi evaded the figure’s strike with his formations, leaving the two facing off as the water level rapidly fell.

• The figure of light absorbed the waves of light and trapped Shi Xiaokun in a cocoon, but Ning Qi freed him with the Netherworld Ghostfire.
• Ning Qi and Shi Xiaokun retreated after the figure of light proved too powerful, and Ning Qi realized the auction sword needed vast amounts of Spirit Marrow Essence to activate.
• Ning Qi returned to the pool and threw the sword into it, where it began rapidly absorbing the Spirit Marrow Essence.
• The figure of light emerged and charged Ning Qi, but Ning Qi evaded his attack with the Time-Difference Formation and If Water Three Thousand Formation, then taunted him as the pool’s water level fell by a third.
• The figure of light declared that he would kill Ning Qi.

Ning Qi watched the transformed sword absorb the pool’s essence and defeat the figure of light, but the sword then drained his bloodline power when he tried to claim it. A crimson Sword Spirit called Blood Shadow emerged, acknowledged Ning Qi as his master, and explained that the pool held the essence of heaven and earth.

• Ning Qi realized that the sword’s absorption of the pool water weakened the figure of light, then killed him, but the figure regenerated and attacked the sword.
• The sword cut apart the figure of light, absorbed his essence and fleeing pill, turned scarlet, and took on mysterious patterns as it drained the pool.
• When Ning Qi picked up the sword, barbs pierced his palm and drained his bloodline power; the sword blasted Shi Xiaokun away when he tried to help.
• The sword stopped draining Ning Qi and formed Blood Shadow, who knelt and acknowledged Ning Qi as his master.
• Blood Shadow explained that he had absorbed Ning Qi’s bloodline power to choose his master and that the pool contained essence of heaven and earth, while Shi Xiaokun remained wary of him.

Ning Qi awakened Tian Shang, the Heavenly Sorrow Sword’s Sword Spirit, who explained his powers and how he had been sealed. After Tian Shang warned that Medicine Spirit risked exhausting Heavenly Tribulation’s Spiritual Qi, Ning Qi set out toward Mount Buzhou’s Inheritance Land and heard that someone had extracted the mountain ranges there.

• Tian Shang identified himself as the Heavenly Sorrow Sword’s Sword Spirit and learned that Heavenly Tribulation’s Sword Spirit had been destroyed.
• Tian Shang explained that his Inner Realm could regenerate stored resources, and that Ning Qi’s bloodline power and the Spirit Marrow Essence had awakened him.
• Ning Qi contacted Medicine Spirit, who said he was exploring a tomb a thousand li east and dismissed warnings to return or wait.
• Tian Shang recognized the area as Mount Buzhou’s territory and pointed Ning Qi toward a burial mound near the likely Inheritance Land.
• Ning Qi sent Shi Xiaokun into his Inner Realm, took Tian Shang along, and traveled across the grassland.
• Tian Shang appeared before Ning Qi and said someone had extracted Mount Buzhou’s mountain ranges.

Ning Qi found Medicine Spirit trapped in a sword tomb after Medicine Spirit exhausted Heavenly Tribulation’s Spiritual Qi fighting Sha Qi corpses. He rescued Heavenly Tribulation, learned Tian Shang and Heavenly Tribulation were once one sword, and left with the tomb’s remaining swords while the mystery of the sacrifice remained unresolved.

• Ning Qi followed Heavenly Tribulation’s presence into the tomb and discovered a sword tomb where Tian Shang sensed Heavenly Tribulation nearby.
• Tian Shang explained that he and Heavenly Tribulation were originally one sword and that merging would leave Medicine Spirit free of the sword.
• Ning Qi and Tian Shang reached an altar where puppets were preparing to sacrifice Heavenly Tribulation, and Tian Shang destroyed the puppets and altar.
• Ning Qi restored Heavenly Tribulation’s Spiritual Qi, waking Medicine Spirit, then Tian Shang killed the Sha Qi corpse and absorbed its Sha Qi.
• Medicine Spirit explained that it had exhausted its power fighting several corpses, while Tian Shang speculated that someone had intended to use Heavenly Tribulation’s power.
• Tian Shang collected the intact swords, and Ning Qi led the group out of the tomb without finding whoever had arranged the sacrifice.

A mysterious black figure tracked Ning Qi’s Inner Realm and secretly scattered hidden Sword Qi around the area, while Shi Xiaokun warned Ning Qi that the figure might ambush him when he emerged. Ning Qi ordered Tian Shang to reunite Heavenly Tribulation with the other sword, then left through a distant passage and checked that the way out was safe.

• After Ning Qi and the others disappeared into his Inner Realm, a black figure searched the area, inferred that Ning Qi had an Inner Realm, and planted undetectable Sword Qi before leaving; Shi Xiaokun briefly appeared and vanished.
• Shi Xiaokun warned Ning Qi that someone inside the tomb had targeted him and set barriers near the original exit, so Ning Qi planned to leave from farther away.
• Ning Qi ordered the Medicine Spirit to hand Heavenly Tribulation to Tian Shang, who began preparing to merge the two swords with Shi Xiaokun guarding him.
• As Ning Qi and the Medicine Spirit traveled toward a distant exit, the Medicine Spirit explained that the local Sword Spirits had their own consciousness and that a dark figure had taken control of him during their fight.
• Ning Qi reached another passage, entered his Sumeru Space to check the surroundings, and then left after the Medicine Spirit confirmed it was safe.