Chapter Summaries

Liang Menghua learned that Yu Zhiwei had returned alive and suspected Jian Wushuang and his companions were dead, while preparing to confront Qin Wuyi if the meeting turned against him. In Xuanji Hall, Qin Wuyi gathered the elders with Yu Zhiwei and two unfamiliar guests seated in the Great Elder’s places, leaving the arriving elders uneasy about what was coming.

• Liang Menghua learned that Yu Zhiwei had returned and erupted in anger over Jian Wushuang’s failure to kill her.
• Liang Menghua and Jian Wuliang found that the sensory talisman could not reach Jian Wushuang, leading Liang Menghua to suspect he and his companions had died.
• When the Heavenly Bell summoned the elders, Liang Menghua ordered Jian Wuliang to prepare their faction to attack Qin Wuyi’s followers if a confrontation began.
• Liang Menghua headed to Xuanji Hall, where Qin Wuyi sat with Yu Zhiwei, Yao Shengxue, Ning Wangshu, and Bei Ji Tianzun.
• The elders arriving at Xuanji Hall questioned why the two unfamiliar guests occupied the seats belonging to Liang Menghua.

Qin Wuyi confronted Liang Menghua over Jian Wushuang’s ambush on Yu Zhiwei, while Ning Wangshu and Bei Ji Tianzun watched. Liang Menghua denied responsibility and blamed Jian Wushuang and the others, but Yu Zhiwei called his story a lie.

• Liang Menghua entered the hall, attacked Ning Wangshu and Bei Ji Tianzun, and was stopped by Qin Wuyi.
• Qin Wuyi challenged Liang Menghua for attacking guests and said he had summoned the elders to question him.
• Liang Menghua suspected Yu Zhiwei had told Qin Wuyi about the ambush and wondered whether Ning Wangshu and Bei Ji Tianzun had saved her.
• Qin Wuyi asked Liang Menghua to answer for Jian Wushuang, Fang Jinyuan, Zhou Zhixing, and their cultivators ambushing Yu Zhiwei.
• Liang Menghua claimed Jian Wushuang and the others had fled after being punished, then offered to avenge Yu Zhiwei.
• Yu Zhiwei accused Liang Menghua of lying and rejected his claim that Jian Wushuang had betrayed him.

Yu Zhiwei accused Liang Menghua of sending Jian Wushuang to ambush her, but Liang Menghua challenged the evidence and the elders hesitated to condemn him. Ning Wangshu then declared that he would kill Liang Menghua himself, ending the chapter by daring anyone to object.

• Yu Zhiwei presented fragments of Liang Menghua's Four Symbols Five Elements Slaughter Demon Formation flags as evidence of the ambush.
• Liang Menghua claimed he had given the flags to Jian Wushuang for a task before Jian Wushuang defected, and offered to resign or leave the sect.
• Xuanji Tianzong's elders said the fragments alone were not enough to convict Liang Menghua and worried that the dispute could destabilize the sect.
• Ning Wangshu dismissed the debate and said he would kill Liang Menghua himself.
• Liang Menghua called Ning Wangshu an outsider with no right to interfere, and Ning Wangshu declared that no one could object if he chose to kill him.

Ning Wangshu killed Liang Menghua in the Xuanji Tianzong hall, revealing himself as a Mahayana Earth Immortal and silencing the sect elders. Qin Wuyi began purging Liang Menghua’s faction, while Yu Zhiwei returned to her courtyard and arranged an invitation for the Treasure Appraisal Banquet at Tianjilou.

• Liang Menghua mocked Ning Wangshu, but Ning Wangshu seized him with a conjured hand and crushed his body and soul.
• The Xuanji Tianzong elders recognized Ning Wangshu as a Mahayana Earth Immortal and stayed silent when he challenged them to object.
• Ning Wangshu left for Yu Zhiwei’s residence with Bei Ji Tianzun and Yao Shengxue, leaving the sect’s affairs to Yu Zhiwei.
• Yu Zhiwei told the elders that Liang Menghua had ordered the ambush against her, then departed to speak with Ning Wangshu.
• Qin Wuyi ordered an investigation into the ambush and used it to purge Liang Menghua’s faction, with the elders offering no resistance.
• Yu Zhiwei thanked Ning Wangshu and agreed to request an invitation to the Treasure Appraisal Banquet at Tianjilou, which would be held in three days.

Ning Wangshu, Bei Ji Tianzun, Yao Shengxue, and Yu Zhiwei arrived in Moonshadow City for Tianjilou’s monthly Treasure Appraisal Banquet. They reached the banquet on the Ninth Layer, where Ning Wangshu recognized Tianjilou as a Half Immortal Artifact and saw its guests gathered in a world within the building.

• Yu Zhiwei collected the invitations and led the group into Moonshadow City, where she explained Tianjilou’s floors and the banquet’s invitation requirements.
• Ning Wangshu recognized Tianjilou as a Half Immortal Artifact but kept his discovery to himself when Bei Ji Tianzun asked about his reaction.
• Yao Shengxue asked Ning Wangshu what treasure she should present for appraisal, and he told her he would give her an item at the banquet.
• Yu Zhiwei presented the invitation, and a Tianjilou attendant led the group to the Ninth Layer.
• Ning Wangshu and his companions entered the Ninth Layer’s hidden world and climbed to the mountain where the banquet guests were dining and watching a dance.

Yu Zhiwei brought Ning Wangshu and the others to the Treasure Appraisal Banquet, where her refusal to sit with Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming and her decision to let Yao Shengxue and Bei Ji Tianzun sit with her angered the gathered elites. Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming stirred up the crowd against her, and the chapter ended with them urging her to make her companions stand.

• Yu Zhiwei arrived at the banquet with Ning Wangshu and Yao Shengxue, drawing attention from the crowd.
• Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming invited Yu Zhiwei to sit with them, but she declined and chose seats beside Ning Wangshu instead.
• Yu Zhiwei told Ning Wangshu who Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming were, while the two men grew displeased at her familiarity with him.
• Ning Wangshu invited Bei Ji Tianzun to sit, and Yao Shengxue joined them at Yu Zhiwei's invitation.
• Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming encouraged the guests to condemn Yu Zhiwei for letting her companions sit at the table.
• Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming urged Yu Zhiwei to make Yao Shengxue and Bei Ji Tianzun stand, warning that their presence would harm her and the Xuanji Tianzong's reputation.

Yu Zhiwei and Ning Wangshu defended Bei Ji Tianzun after others objected to him sitting at their table, and Ning Wangshu’s insults provoked the gathering. He ordered Bei Ji Tianzun to slap those who had spoken against them as more than a dozen powerful cultivators unleashed their auras.

• Yu Zhiwei rejected the crowd’s criticism of Yao Shengxue and Bei Ji Tianzun, insisting that her choices were none of their concern.
• Ning Wangshu called the people at the table worthless ants and said they were fortunate to sit beside his servant, enraging many of them.
• Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming watched with satisfaction as the crowd turned against Ning Wangshu.
• Ning Wangshu ordered Bei Ji Tianzun to slap everyone who had spoken out of turn.
• More than a dozen cultivators, including two in the early Combined Body Stage, released their auras against Ning Wangshu and Bei Ji Tianzun.

Yu Zhiwei revealed that she had reached the late Body Integration Stage and defended her honored guests, Ning Wangshu and Bei Ji Tianzun, from a group that had attacked them. She slapped the attackers and left them too intimidated to protest.

• Yu Zhiwei unleashed her late Body Integration Stage aura and overwhelmed the people bearing down on Ning Wangshu and Bei Ji Tianzun.
• Yu Zhiwei revealed that she had hidden her true cultivation to guard against Liang Menghua, and explained that Liang Menghua's death left her no reason to keep concealing it.
• Yu Zhiwei slapped the dozen or so attackers across the face, while Bei Ji Tianzun stood back after Ning Wangshu gave no further signal.
• One attacker started to challenge Yu Zhiwei, but fell silent when she asked whether he was dissatisfied.
• Yu Zhiwei taunted the attackers, and they swallowed their anger rather than speak.

At Tianjilou’s Treasure Appraisal Banquet, Yu Zhiwei exposed Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming for instigating a confrontation, and the two threatened to seek redress from her sect. The master of Tianjilou arrived and enforced order; as the appraisal began, Ning Wangshu recognized that she was a Mahayana Earth Immortal, and Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming prepared to present their treasures.

• Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming tried to make peace after Sun Chengwei and Zhu Yu caused trouble, but Yu Zhiwei accused them of ordering the provocation.
• Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming demanded an explanation and threatened to have their sects confront Xuanji Tianzong, while Yu Zhiwei challenged them to fight.
• The master of Tianjilou arrived, and Yu Zhiwei introduced her to Ning Wangshu, who recognized her early-stage Mahayana cultivation.
• The master ordered everyone to settle their disputes outside Tianjilou, and Yu Zhiwei and her opponents agreed to obey her rules.
• Guests began presenting treasures for appraisal, and Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming rose to offer their own.

At Tianjilou’s Treasure Appraisal Banquet, Yao Shengxue presented a fragment Ning Wangshu had given her, which onlookers mocked as scrap metal. Tianjilou Master recognized something about it and tried to stop Bei Ji Tianzun from attacking Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming, but his terrifying aura shook the Ninth Layer.

• Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming offered Three Lights Divine Water and Purple Obsidian Jade in exchange for Heavenly Secrets Calculations.
• Ning Wangshu gave Yao Shengxue a fragment of the Locking Demon Tower, and she presented it to Tianjilou Master.
• The attendees mocked the fragment as worthless scrap, while Tianjilou Master stared at it in alarm.
• Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming taunted Yao Shengxue and her companions, and Ning Wangshu ordered Bei Ji Tianzun to slap them.
• Bei Ji Tianzun swung his palm as Tianjilou Master tried to stop him, unleashing an aura that shook the Ninth Layer.

Bei Ji Tianzun revealed his overwhelming Mahayana Earth Immortal strength, striking Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming and warning everyone not to disrespect Ning Wangshu. The Tianjilou Master and banquet guests realized Bei Ji Tianzun was Ning Wangshu’s servant, leaving them terrified and wondering how powerful Ning Wangshu was.

• Bei Ji Tianzun slapped Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming away, then warned the crowd that they were ants before his master, Ning Wangshu.
• The Tianjilou Master sensed Bei Ji Tianzun’s late-stage Mahayana aura and feared that Ning Wangshu might be a peak-stage Mahayana powerhouse.
• Bei Ji Tianzun retracted his aura after using it to deter the Tianjilou Master from interfering.
• The banquet guests recognized that Bei Ji Tianzun’s strength surpassed the Tribulation Stage, while Tang Qi regretted mocking him as a servant.
• Yu Zhiwei sensed that Bei Ji Tianzun was a Mahayana Earth Immortal rather than a Tribulation True Monarch.

Bei Ji Tianzun revealed himself as a Mahayana Earth Immortal, shocking the guests and frightening Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming. The Tianjilou Master identified Yao Shengxue’s offering as a faded Immortal Treasure fragment, accepted it from Ning Wangshu, and ended the Treasure Appraisal Banquet.

• Yu Zhiwei and the other guests were stunned when Bei Ji Tianzun revealed his Mahayana Earth Immortal aura, and Situ Chengfeng and Yang Ruoming retreated to their seats in fear.
• The Tianjilou Master chose Yao Shengxue’s apparently ordinary metal fragment as her favorite treasure, prompting guests to assume she was accommodating Ning Wangshu.
• The Tianjilou Master identified the fragment as part of an Immortal Treasure from before the Immortal Relic Era, and Ning Wangshu confirmed her assessment.
• Ning Wangshu told the Tianjilou Master to keep the fragment and explained that Yao Shengxue had come to request a divination.
• The Tianjilou Master accepted the fragment, declared the banquet over, and returned the other treasures to their owners.

Hua Lingyue used Heavenly Secrets Calculation to learn that Yao Shengxue’s two elders were alive in the southwest. Ning Wangshu recognized that Hua Lingyue’s technique might be one of the Nine Secrets and asked her what it was called, leaving her unsure how to respond.

• Hua Lingyue introduced herself to Ning Wangshu and Bei Ji, then asked Yao Shengxue what she wanted calculated.
• Yao Shengxue gave Hua Lingyue two items from the Miaoyu Sect elders, and Hua Lingyue used them to perform Heavenly Secrets Calculation.
• Ning Wangshu sensed that Hua Lingyue’s technique shared an aura with the Nine Secrets and wondered whether it was the Jie Technique or Xing Technique.
• Hua Lingyue determined that both elders were alive and somewhere to the southwest, leaving Yao Shengxue relieved and grateful.
• Ning Wangshu asked Hua Lingyue the name of her Heavenly Secrets Calculation technique, and she hesitated over whether to answer.

Ning Wangshu demonstrated the Lin Technique to show Hua Lingyue that her Heaven's Secrets Calculation shared its origins with the Nine-Word True Words Secret Technique. After Hua Lingyue explained the Great Evolution Peering into Heaven Technique's lost inheritance, Ning Wangshu learned that only its first two realms remained, while its third was a battle art said to rival creation.

• Ning Wangshu performed the Lin Technique, startling Hua Lingyue, Yu Zhiwei, and Bei Ji Tianzun with its immense aura.
• Hua Lingyue sensed similarities between the Lin Technique and her Heaven's Secrets Calculation, then revealed that her technique was called the Great Evolution Peering into Heaven Technique.
• Ning Wangshu explained that the technique might originally have been the Jie Technique or Xing Technique, part of the Nine-Word True Words Secret Technique.
• Ning Wangshu asked how much of the technique's inheritance survived, and Hua Lingyue said only the first and second realms had been passed down.
• Hua Lingyue said scattered records described the lost third realm as a Douzhan Shengfa rivaling creation, while she considered whether to share the technique with Ning Wangshu and what she might gain in return.

Ning Wangshu offered Hua Lingyue the Heavenly Dipper True Thunder Sword Art in exchange for her incomplete Great Evolution Peering into Heaven Technique. Hua Lingyue accepted, and both prepared jade slips containing the techniques to complete the exchange.

• Ning Wangshu asked Hua Lingyue to pass on her incomplete Great Evolution Peering into Heaven Technique and offered a powerful sword art in return.
• Ning Wangshu gave Hua Lingyue a jade slip with part of the Heavenly Dipper True Thunder Sword Art, and she judged it worthy of the exchange.
• Hua Lingyue agreed to trade her incomplete secret technique for the sword art.
• Ning Wangshu retrieved the jade slip and recorded the complete sword art, while Hua Lingyue engraved her technique into another jade slip.

Ning Wangshu and Hua Lingyue exchanged secret techniques, then he revealed that she was a Mahayana Earth Immortal and that Tianjilou was a Half Immortal Artifact. The revelation left Hua Lingyue and the others stunned.

• Ning Wangshu recognized Hua Lingyue's incomplete technique as the Jie Technique and exchanged it for the Heaven Dipper True Thunder Sword Art.
• Hua Lingyue praised the sword art, and Ning Wangshu said it could let her challenge stronger Mahayana opponents and ordinary Earth Immortal Giants.
• Ning Wangshu revealed that Hua Lingyue had long since reached the early Mahayana Stage, shocking Yu Zhiwei, Yao Shengxue, and Bei Ji Tianzun.
• Ning Wangshu said Tianjilou gave Hua Lingyue further protection, then asked her permission to explain its secret.
• Ning Wangshu identified Tianjilou as a powerful Half Immortal Artifact, shocking Hua Lingyue and confusing the others.

Ning Wangshu revealed that he possessed two Half Immortal Artifacts, astonishing Hua Lingyue and the others. After the group agreed to keep Hua Lingyue’s secret, she escorted them out of the Tianjilou, where onlookers speculated about their identities.

• Ning Wangshu explained that Hua Lingyue’s Tianjilou was a Half Immortal Artifact and described its power.
• Ning Wangshu summoned the Wangshu Sword and Xuantian Divine Fire Furnace, revealing that he owned two Half Immortal Artifacts.
• Hua Lingyue, Yu Zhiwei, and Yao Shengxue were stunned by Ning Wangshu’s treasures, while Hua Lingyue realized his strength exceeded her expectations.
• Ning Wangshu said he would leave after Yao Shengxue’s divination located the two Miaoyu Sect elders, and Hua Lingyue asked Yu Zhiwei and Yao Shengxue to keep her secret.
• Hua Lingyue escorted Ning Wangshu and the others out of the Tianjilou, and onlookers speculated about who they were.

After leaving Xuanguang Island, Ning Wangshu agreed to help Yao Shengxue search for the two elders of Miaoyu Sect while traveling southwest. He found a possible lead on an island, where Feng Guanlan was struggling with Qionghua Immortal Sect’s threat to her and Tingchao Sect.

• Hua Lingyue returned to Tianjilou after Ning Wangshu and the others departed.
• Ning Wangshu offered to accompany Yao Shengxue southwest to search for the elders of Miaoyu Sect, and Yu Zhiwei returned to Xuanji Tianzong.
• After several days of searching, Ning Wangshu sensed two possible candidates on an island and led Yao Shengxue and Bei Ji Tianzun there.
• Feng Guanlan’s two companions urged her to resist Qionghua Immortal Sect’s demands that she become its chief disciple’s maid and that Tingchao Sect submit.
• Feng Guanlan refused to submit but worried that resisting Qionghua Immortal Sect would cost her sect many lives.

Yao Shengxue reunited with Li Qihan and Tao Ranqing at Tingchao Sect, where Feng Guanlan explained that Qionghua Immortal Sect was threatening the sect. As Li Qihan and Tao Ranqing refused to abandon Feng Guanlan, Yao Shengxue turned to Ning Wangshu and struggled to ask him for help.

• Three streaks of light broke through Tingchao Sect's protective formation and arrived, prompting Feng Guanlan to fear that Qionghua Immortal Sect had come early.
• Yao Shengxue reunited with Li Qihan and Tao Ranqing and told them that Ning Wangshu had helped her find them and that she had found the Bihai Yundao Flower.
• Li Qihan and Tao Ranqing explained that Feng Guanlan had saved them from demonic cultivators and refused to leave Tingchao Sect while it was in danger.
• Feng Guanlan explained the threat from Qionghua Immortal Sect and urged Yao Shengxue and her companions to leave.
• Yao Shengxue turned to Ning Wangshu and hesitantly began asking him for help.

Ning Wangshu agreed to help Feng Guanlan and the Tingchao Sect against the Qionghua Immortal Sect, and Yao Shengxue revealed that he was the powerful figure behind the massacre at Thousand Absolute Ridge. When the Qionghua Immortal Sect blockaded Liuyun Island, Feng Guanlan remained confident that Ning Wangshu could handle the threat.

• Ning Wangshu agreed to help Yao Shengxue protect Feng Guanlan and the Tingchao Sect from the Qionghua Immortal Sect.
• Yao Shengxue told Li Qihan and Tao Ranqing that Ning Wangshu had killed the leaders of the Youquan Demon Sect, the Wuji Xuan Sect, and the Tiandu City Wang family, and was the master of the Thousand Absolute Ridge Daoist temple.
• Li Qihan, Tao Ranqing, and Feng Guanlan were shocked to learn that Ning Wangshu was a Mahayana Earth Immortal, and Feng Guanlan bowed to him.
• Ning Wangshu proposed going straight to the Qionghua Immortal Sect and destroying it rather than waiting for it to attack.
• Elder Miao reported that the Qionghua Immortal Sect had blockaded Liuyun Island, and Feng Guanlan told her to reassure the disciples because she had a way to deal with the threat.