Recaps

Ning Chen left the marquisate to defeat Manyang Kingdom’s eight-headed monster and help Kong Yu turn the battle at Donghua City. After returning, he faced Xuantian in a sword duel to settle their old matters.

• Mu Bai and Xuantian passed one another on the road, their swords resonating as both continued their journeys.
• Ning Chen received a report about the eight-headed monster attacking Donghua City and left for the Southeast Territory.
• Ning Chen killed the monster and the woman in red, then Kong Yu ordered Great Xia’s soldiers to pursue the retreating Manyang Kingdom army.
• Xuantian arrived at the Zhiming Marquisate, where he met Luan Fengchen and said he had come to settle old matters.
• Ning Chen returned and faced Xuantian; Azure Sparrow and the Vast Sword clashed as their contest began.

Xuantian fought Ning Chen before leaving the Marquisate, and Ning Chen then sought allies and tried to draw out the Eternal Night Cult Master. His public execution order for the Eternal Night Martial Crown brought Bian Jiang and Rong Lou into motion, while a furious attacker arrived at the Marquisate beneath the blood moon.

• Xuantian and Ning Chen fought to a final clash, after which Xuantian sheathed the Vast Sword and departed without regret.
• Ning Chen told Luan Fengchen about the blood moon, the growing threat behind the Eternal Night Divine Cult, and his plan to drive a wedge between Bian Jiang and Rong Lou; Luan Fengchen agreed to approach Rong Lou.
• Ning Chen asked Qu Li to arrange a meeting with the Eternal Night Cult Master, then left after warning that her life might be at risk.
• Three days later, Ning Chen issued an open order for the execution of the Eternal Night Martial Crown; Bian Jiang vowed to rescue her despite Rong Lou's warning that it might be a trap.
• Luan Fengchen waited outside the Eternal Night Divine Cult for Rong Lou, while Ning Chen waited at the Marquisate to draw out the Cult Master.
• A graceful figure rushed toward the Marquisate and struck at Ning Chen with the Scroll of Moon, Guanghan Falling Moon.

Ning Chen fought Consort Luo until Li Luo revealed himself and explained the Underworld King's threat, Xia Ziyi's lost soul, and the Eternal Night Divine Cult's hidden duties. Ning Chen and Li Luo agreed to work together against Bian Jiang, but when Qu Li was being taken to the Meridian Gate for execution, Bian Jiang attacked and Rong Lou intervened.

• Ning Chen fought Consort Luo until Li Luo appeared and stopped the battle, revealing himself as her father.
• Li Luo told Ning Chen that the Underworld King had once cleansed the Five Domains and that Xia Ziyi's soul was held in the Central Spirit Domain by the Mist Cloud Divine Halberd.
• Li Luo explained that he had faked his death to monitor Bian Jiang, and he and Ning Chen agreed to cooperate against the Underworld King's descent.
• Ning Chen kept Consort Luo and Qu Li in his manor as a sign of Li Luo's sincerity while the two men continued their plan.
• Three days later, Bian Jiang attacked the carriage transporting Qu Li to the Meridian Gate and tried to seize her.
• Rong Lou appeared and blocked the Ancient Suoluo Sword as the attack on Qu Li began.

Marquis of Knowing Fate and Li Luo cornered Rong Lou while Bian Jiang was forced to leave to save Qu Li, but Luan Fengchen suddenly betrayed the Marquis and helped Rong Lou escape. After Bian Jiang reclaimed Qu Li, Rong Lou and Luan Fengchen formed an alliance, while Bian Jiang tracked the ferocious beast Orochi to the Manyang Kingdom.

• Ning Chen threatened Qu Li to make Bian Jiang withdraw, and Li Luo joined Ning Chen and Sword Bodhi in attacking Rong Lou.
• Bian Jiang left after Ning Chen swore to release Qu Li, and Luan Fengchen arrived to help the others press their attack on Rong Lou.
• Luan Fengchen pierced Ning Chen's chest, allowing Rong Lou and Luan Fengchen to escape; Bian Jiang later returned and took Qu Li from the prison cart.
• Rumors spread that Ning Chen was critically wounded, while Rong Lou and Luan Fengchen agreed to cooperate and headed toward Featherfall Valley.
• Bian Jiang investigated Qu Li's unconsciousness, traced Orochi's blood from the battlefield outside Donghua City, and headed toward the Manyang Kingdom.

Prince Yan protected A'man from a coalition of Buddhist and clan fighters, then helped her transmit the Scroll of Nothingness through heart engraving. Meanwhile, Ning Chen learned how to retrieve Xia Ziyi's soul and exchanged information with Li Luo, who offered to teach him the art of using two bodies.

• Prince Yan killed the Owl Clan attacker and routed the coalition with his four-sword technique, forcing the surviving Buddhist and clan fighters to retreat.
• A'man carved the Scroll of Nothingness into her heart, transmitting its contents across realms to Ning Chen before fainting from the pain.
• Bian Jiang found a strange black orb inside Fupan Mountain and erased its spiritual consciousness while Li Luo watched.
• Ning Chen told The Master that the Scroll of Nothingness had been found and asked how to retrieve Xia Ziyi's remaining soul.
• The Master directed Ning Chen to seek the Daoist Patriarch and said Ning Chen would need to help Li Luo recover his weapon to challenge the Plutonian King's forces.
• Ning Chen and Li Luo exchanged information, and Li Luo offered to teach Ning Chen the technique that let him maintain two bodies in exchange for a price.

Ning Chen traded for Li Luo’s incarnation method, transferred part of the Scroll of Life’s power to Consort Luo, and began cultivating an incarnation while preparing a forbidden technique with Jiang Wangji. As the allied armies pushed back the Eternal Night Divine Cult, Ning Chen and Bian Jiang separately realized that the origins of special physiques were key to the coming threat.

• Li Luo gave Ning Chen the damaged incarnation method in exchange for thirty percent of his Scroll of Life cultivation base for Consort Luo and a Scroll of Heaven.
• Ning Chen transferred the cultivation base to Consort Luo, who left to face her fifth innate tribulation, then used Phoenix Blood and his heavenly soul to create an incarnation.
• Ning Chen met Jiang Wangji in the Qizhou Mountain Range and used the Scrolls of Life and Nothingness to cultivate a forbidden move with Jiang Wangji’s aid.
• The allied armies of the three dynasties counterattacked the Eternal Night Divine Cult, while Ning Chen’s weak incarnation remained at the marquis’s residence.
• Ning Chen sent Meng Xuanji to search for Consort Luo and pondered why Bian Jiang had gone to Fupan Mountain before suddenly realizing the origins were the key.
• Bian Jiang studied the Eternal Night Divine Canon and also declared that he had found what he was seeking.

Bian Jiang killed Nine-Headed Infant and claimed its origin before battling Li Luo, who was forced to retreat. Meanwhile, Ning Chen released the demon to save Consort Luo from her tribulation; the demon rescued her and returned her to the Zhiming Marquisate, leaving Li Luo and the others to face an uncertain future.

• Bian Jiang found Nine-Headed Infant on Shuli Mountain, killed it with Azure Blood Heavenly Weep, and took its origin before Li Luo could seize it.
• Bian Jiang and Li Luo fought at Shuli Mountain, but Li Luo withdrew after realizing his incarnation was at a disadvantage.
• As Consort Luo faced the Three Calamities at Miluo Plain, Ning Chen decided to release the demon and asked Sword Bodhi to remove the Sala Sword seal.
• The demon reached Miluo Plain, saved the unconscious Consort Luo, and defied the heavenly tribulation with Demonic Sword, Samsara.
• Li Luo returned to the Zhiming Marquisate, where the demon delivered Consort Luo and warned him that they would meet again.
• Li Luo carried Consort Luo inside and asked Ruoxi to care for her, then urged Ning Chen to cherish Ruoxi.

Ning Chen learned that Bian Jiang had entered the Four Extremes Realm to pursue the phoenix, a key to the Hades King's descent, and raced there with Li Luo and Sword Bodhi to stop him. Their journey became a contest of speed as Bian Jiang advanced through the spatial turbulence ahead of them.

• Ning Chen restored the Water Demon's form with Phoenix Blood, and Meng Xuanji reopened the Great River's channel through Shuli Mountain.
• Ning Chen concluded that Bian Jiang had outlived his usefulness and set out to gather allies to kill him, but the Golden Staff National Master was still in the Four Extremes Realm.
• Ning Chen and Li Luo learned that Qu Li had awakened and joined the Eternal Night army; Li Luo insisted that he would handle her and forbade Ning Chen from attacking her.
• Ning Chen received a report that Bian Jiang had entered the Four Extremes Realm, likely seeking the phoenix at Phoenix Perch Mountain, and urged Li Luo to leave at once.
• Ning Chen left Meng Xuanji to safeguard the marquis's residence, wrote instructions concerning Qu Li, and departed with Li Luo and Sword Bodhi for Featherfall Valley.
• Bian Jiang advanced through the Four Extremes Realm's spatial turbulence, while Ning Chen, Li Luo, and Sword Bodhi followed half a day later.

Bian Jiang attacked the twin phoenixes at Phoenix Perch Mountain, but Ning Chen and his companions arrived as the phoenixes were dying. One phoenix entrusted its Phoenix Source to Ning Chen, triggering a Xiantian tribulation that left him facing heavenly demons and fire while Bian Jiang sought to strike him down.

• Bian Jiang wounded the twin phoenixes with Azure Blood Heavenly Weep and drove the Golden Staff National Master from the fight.
• Ning Chen, Li Luo, and their companions reached Phoenix Perch Mountain as Bian Jiang trapped the fleeing phoenixes and killed one to seize its Phoenix Source.
• Ning Chen and two allies confronted Bian Jiang, while the surviving phoenix burned itself and passed its Phoenix Source to Ning Chen before dying.
• The Phoenix Source sent Ning Chen's avatar into the Xiantian Realm, and he asked the Golden Staff National Master to protect him during the resulting tribulation.
• Bian Jiang tried to attack Ning Chen during the tribulation, but the Golden Staff National Master blocked his sword strike and was seriously injured.
• Ning Chen summoned King Yama's Divine Sword as heavenly demons and fire descended around him.

Bian Jiang summoned the Hades King, whose overwhelming power forced Ning Chen, Sword Bodhi, Li Luo, and the Golden Staff National Master to retreat. Ning Chen then gathered the Eternal Night Cult Master and entered the Central Spirit Domain to destroy it before the Hades King could act.

• Ning Chen, Sword Bodhi, and Li Luo attacked Bian Jiang together, but Bian Jiang invoked the Hades King, who gravely wounded Li Luo and Sword Bodhi and drove the group away.
• Bian Jiang learned that his body could not withstand another descent and was ordered to recover the phoenix source and prepare the final Extreme Heaven Grand Array.
• Ning Chen's incarnation warned his original body, and Ning Chen left Taotie's stomach to seek Consort Luo's help in reaching the Eternal Night Cult Master.
• Consort Luo opened the Divine Cult's formation and fought Qu Li while Ning Chen reached the Northern Mausoleum and awakened the Eternal Night Cult Master, who agreed to help.
• The Eternal Night Cult Master led Ning Chen toward the Central Spirit Domain, refused to take the Eternal Night Divine Canon, and used the Bloody Demonic Blade to open a rift into the domain.

Ning Chen and the Eternal Night Cult Master retrieved the Mist Cloud Divine Halberd while battling the Underworld King, then freed Xia Ziyi’s soul from its prison. As they tried to escape the collapsing Central Spirit Domain, the Underworld King revealed his true form and forcibly held the two worlds together.

• The Eternal Night Cult Master tried to pull the Mist Cloud Divine Halberd free while Ning Chen faced the Underworld King’s demonic avatar and was badly wounded.
• The Eternal Night Cult Master retrieved the halberd and located Xia Ziyi’s soul, while Ning Chen and the Underworld King pursued them through the void.
• The Eternal Night Cult Master stayed behind to hold off the Underworld King as Ning Chen reached Xia Ziyi’s prison.
• Ning Chen used the four scrolls with his sword and blade to break the prison, stabilize Xia Ziyi’s soul, and escape with him.
• Ning Chen and the Eternal Night Cult Master attacked together to collapse the Central Spirit Domain, then fled toward the Divine Continent.
• The Underworld King revealed his true form and used his power to hold the two worlds together as Ning Chen and the Eternal Night Cult Master vanished.

Ning Chen returned to the Divine Continent after warning the Four Extremes Sacred Lands that Bian Jiang had taken the Phoenix Source, while Mu Bai sought The Master's guidance on the sword. The chapter ended with another attempt to open a passage between the realms failing, and Ning Chen ready to face whoever tried to cross.

• Ning Chen, the Eternal Night Cult Master, and Consort Luo escaped the Eternal Night Divine Cult as the Underworld King threatened to appear; the Cult Master entered seclusion, and Consort Luo set out to find the demonic body.
• Jiang Wangji sealed Ning Chen inside Taotie's belly until the Scrolls of Life and Death returned to balance, while Sword Bodhi and Li Luo pursued Bian Jiang with the Phoenix Source in the Four Extremes Realm.
• Ning Chen warned Luan Fengchen and Rong Lou that Bian Jiang had killed the twin phoenixes and taken the Phoenix Source; Rong Lou secured Luan Fengchen's promise to support him.
• Ning Chen and the Golden Staff National Master returned to the Divine Continent through the Spatial Turbulence.
• Mu Bai asked The Master about the sword that had surpassed the limits of human martial arts, and The Master urged him to reconnect with the purpose that had first led him to take up the sword.
• Ning Chen sensed another attempt to open a passage between the realms, but the barrier held; he prepared to face any newcomers.

Purple Heaven Palace and the Demon Buddha agreed to build the Four Directions Divine Pagoda and begin an attempt to retrieve the Eastern Divine Continent. Back in Great Xia, Ning Chen gathered allies to kill the wounded Bian Jiang and returned Mu Chengxue’s sword, hoping to persuade her to join the fight.

• Purple Heaven Palace persuaded the Demon Buddha to help build the Four Directions Divine Pagoda, with Luo Xingchen among the four candidates and work set to begin in a month.
• Ning Chen returned to the Zhiming Marquisate, learned Ziyi’s soul had been rescued, and found that the Eternal Night Cult Master had not yet recovered.
• Ning Chen asked Mu Qianshang to help kill Bian Jiang, but Mu Qianshang agreed only if Mu Chengxue joined them.
• Ning Chen went to Tiancang Academy and returned the Great Yin Azure Sparrow Sword to Mu Chengxue, who noted that he had kept it for two years.

Ning Chen, Mu Chengxue, and Mu Qianshang prepared an ambush for Bian Jiang at Featherfall Valley, using gunpowder and their combined swordsmanship to defeat him and destroy his cultivation. Ning Chen reclaimed the Phoenix Source and fired a final arrow at Bian Jiang, but a violent crash shook the Divine Continent before the outcome was revealed.

• Ning Chen persuaded Mu Chengxue to help seize the Phoenix Source, and she joined him at Azure Frost Valley with Azure Sparrow.
• Ning Chen, Mu Chengxue, and Mu Qianshang buried gunpowder throughout Featherfall Valley and waited nearly a month for Bian Jiang to return.
• Ning Chen struck Bian Jiang with a gunpowder-triggering arrow as he emerged from the spatial passage, but Bian Jiang survived the explosions.
• Ning Chen, Mu Chengxue, and Mu Qianshang coordinated their attacks, piercing Bian Jiang's chest and destroying his sea of qi.
• Ning Chen recovered the Phoenix Source and fired a scarlet arrow at Bian Jiang as Qu Li arrived, but a tremendous crash shook the Divine Continent.

After the spatial barrier above Tiancang Academy shattered, Luo Xingchen and four other Three Calamities Realm experts descended from another realm. Ning Chen brought them to the Zhiming Marquisate to gauge their intentions and left them in the eastern wing, planning to use the Cult Master’s strength if they proved hostile.

• Qu Li rescued the gravely wounded Bian Jiang and escaped as the spatial tremors disrupted the pursuit; Mu Qianshang parted ways with Ning Chen and Mu Chengxue to return to the Compassionate Sword Heavenly Pavilion.
• The barrier above Tiancang Academy broke, allowing Luo Xingchen and four other Three Calamities Realm experts to cross into the Divine Continent.
• Luo Xingchen attacked Ning Chen after recognizing the Po Shang Bow, while Yao Man tried to seize Mu Chengxue; Ning Chen and Mu Chengxue evaded them.
• Ning Chen invited the five newcomers to the Zhiming Marquisate, where they encountered Meng Xuanji and sensed the injured Third Calamity expert inside.
• After the guests were shown to the eastern wing, Meng Xuanji questioned Ning Chen’s decision to host them, and he said the Cult Master was there to deter them if necessary.

Yishui Han, Yao Man, Jie Feng, and Jie Yan discussed the Four Directions Divine Pagoda while Ning Chen questioned Luo Xingchen about the pagoda and his Zhao Family bow. After the blood moon appeared and several Three Calamity experts converged on the Marquisate, Ning Chen revealed himself to Rong Lou and Luan Fengchen, setting the gathered factions on edge.

• Yishui Han, Yao Man, Jie Feng, and Jie Yan agreed to build the Four Directions Divine Pagoda without consulting Luo Xingchen and worried about the dangers of the Eastern Divine Continent and Rong Lou.
• Ning Chen asked Luo Xingchen about his mission, and Luo Xingchen disclosed that he had come to oversee the pagoda’s construction before asking about Ning Chen’s Zhao Family bow.
• Ning Chen told Luo Xingchen how he obtained the bow, and Luo Xingchen praised the killing of the man who had carried it while refusing to explain his own hatred of the Zhao Family.
• Rong Lou and Luan Fengchen found Featherfall Valley devastated, then Li Luo and Sword Bodhi arrived and hurried back toward the Marquisate.
• A blood-colored moon appeared, and Ning Chen told the visiting experts that the phenomenon was linked to the Underworld King; Sword Bodhi, Li Luo, Rong Lou, and Luan Fengchen then gathered near the Marquisate.
• Ning Chen confronted Rong Lou and Luan Fengchen in the air, while Yishui Han stepped forward to face Rong Lou.

Ning Chen fought Luan Fengchen while forcing the two Phoenix Sources to fuse with him, using their power to break through his limits. He transformed into a Phoenix Body and triggered the Third Xiantian Tribulation, then pursued Rong Lou into the wilderness as lightning descended around them.

• Rong Lou and Yishui Han fought to a standstill while Ning Chen and Meng Xuanji battled Luan Fengchen.
• Ning Chen sent Meng Xuanji to help Yishui Han and faced Luan Fengchen alone, enduring repeated wounds as he forced the Phoenix Sources to fuse with him.
• Luan Fengchen unleashed his full strength, and Ning Chen used the pressure of their battle to make the Phoenix Source repair his injuries and accept him.
• Ning Chen dispersed his mortal body’s blood energy and true essence, allowing the Phoenix Source to form a Phoenix Body and triggering the Third Xiantian Tribulation.
• Luan Fengchen retreated with Rong Lou and the other experts, but Ning Chen pursued Rong Lou into the wilderness and drew the descending lightning onto them both.

Ning Chen defeated Rong Lou by drawing him into a heavenly tribulation, while the Hades King ordered the Eternal Night Divine Cult to prepare its next moves. After witnessing greed and indifference in the capital, Ning Chen sensed the Hades King suppressing the Scroll of Chaos, and Qu Li discovered that two figures from a thousand years ago remained on the Divine Continent.

• Ning Chen used the Phoenix Source to evade the heavenly tribulation and force Rong Lou to endure its escalating power, until Rong Lou unleashed the Evil Rong Nine Revolutions and escaped with Luan Fengchen.
• Ning Chen and Luan Fengchen chose to take the wounded Rong Lou away, and the visitors at the Zhiming Marquisate later departed to pursue their plans for the Four Directions Divine Pagoda.
• The Hades King ordered Zong Qianqiu to activate the Extreme Heaven Grand Array and sent Qu Li to find the third divine beast source, directing her to the Void Divine Hall for help.
• Ning Chen watched a crowd accept an old man's fabricated claim against a wealthy young lady, then ordered Xuanhua to take them to the authorities and give the woman one final chance.
• Ning Chen sensed the Hades King's growing power suppressing the Scroll of Chaos, while Qu Li discovered that Daoist Patriarch, Jiang Wangji, The Master, and Ji Taishi still remained on the Divine Continent.

Ning Chen learned that Taowu was hidden somewhere in the Southern Wasteland and set out with Mu Chengxue to find it before Qu Li could. They crossed paths with Yin Wugou, while in Northern Mongolia, Mingyue investigated a mysterious ice tower and prepared for possible trouble.

• The Eternal Night Divine Canon revealed the locations of several living divine beasts, and Qu Li considered seeking Taowu's origin.
• Ning Chen and Changsun planned around the Hades King's threat, while Ning Chen worried that Qu Li might target an unknown divine beast.
• Qing Ling returned with The Master's warning that Taowu was hidden somewhere in the Southern Wasteland, so Ning Chen departed with Mu Chengxue to search for it.
• Ning Chen and Mu Chengxue passed near Yin Wugou and Shang Han beneath a red umbrella, but neither pair stopped to meet.
• Mingyue ordered Yang Hong to investigate a mysterious ice tower in Northern Mongolia and sent a message to the Heavenly Pool, refusing Zijing's suggestion to ask Ning Chen for help.

Qu Li killed Taowu and took its source, but Ning Chen and his allies pursued her to reclaim it. The Underworld King’s descent devastated them, and Qu Li died protecting their escape.

• Qu Li defeated Taowu in the southern wilderness and took its source, while Knowing Fate raced after her.
• Yin Wugou blocked Qu Li with his long-stored sword strike, then departed after exchanging farewells with Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen and Mu Chengxue fought Qu Li for Taowu’s source as Li Luo and Bian Jiang joined the battle.
• The Underworld King forcibly descended through Qu Li, gravely wounded Ning Chen, Mu Chengxue, and Li Luo, then withdrew after Qu Li pleaded for their lives.
• Qu Li shielded Li Luo from Bian Jiang and held her off while Mu Chengxue carried the injured away.
• Bian Jiang struck Qu Li down, and Qu Li died watching the others escape as Bian Jiang laughed in disbelief.

After learning that Taowu’s origin had been taken and the Hades King’s descent was near, Ning Chen urged Changsun to order an all-out assault on the Eternal Night Divine Cult. As the cult activated the Extreme Heaven Array across half the Divine Continent, Ning Chen realized its purpose was to prepare for the Hades King’s arrival.

• Mu Chengxue returned to the Zhiming Marquisate with Ning Chen and Li Luo gravely wounded, and the Eternal Night Cult Master and Meng Xuanji treated them.
• Ning Chen woke and, despite his injuries, went with Liu Ruoxi to warn Changsun that Taowu’s origin had been taken and the Hades King might soon descend.
• Changsun ordered an assault on the Eternal Night Divine Cult, and Ning Chen sent letters to coordinate the three dynasties before discussing the threat with Fan Lingyue.
• Zong Qianqiu used the origins of Nine-Headed Infant, Orochi, and Taowu to activate the Extreme Heaven Array, spreading its divine light across half the Divine Continent.
• Ning Chen recognized that the array was being prepared for the Hades King’s descent.

As the Underworld King’s descent disrupted the heavens and daylight, Ning Chen learned that Qu Li had died saving him and set out to enlist allies against the threat. He reached the Northern Mongol Royal Court as Yishui Han’s Frost Pagoda threatened the capital, and the chapter ended with a distant sword strike destroying the newly built Geothermal Flame Pagoda.

• Mingyue learned that Yang Hong had been gravely injured, while the blood moon and shortened daylight signaled the Underworld King’s imminent descent.
• Mu Chengxue told Ning Chen that Qu Li had died saving him and Li Luo, and Ning Chen and the Eternal Night Cult Master agreed to seek help from the Du'e Temple Abbot and the Golden Staff National Master.
• Ning Chen traveled north to invite the Golden Staff National Master, but learned that Mingyue had summoned him back to the palace.
• Mingyue ordered the Golden Staff National Master to destroy Yishui Han’s Frost Pagoda, and the two fought until Ning Chen arrived and stopped them.
• Yishui Han revealed that the Geothermal Flame Pagoda stood east of Peerless City, and a powerful Sword Qi from the desolate city immediately destroyed it.

After Mu Bai’s sword destroyed the Geothermal Flame Pagoda, Ning Chen persuaded the Golden Staff National Master to join the effort against the Eternal Night Divine Cult’s formation. Despite his grave injuries, Ning Chen departed with Meng Xuanji and the others to seek a way to break it, while Ruoxi watched them leave in tears.

• Mu Bai’s sword destroyed the Geothermal Flame Pagoda and injured Jie Yan, while Yishui Han withdrew after Ning Chen revealed Mu Bai had defeated the swordsman at his residence.
• Ning Chen asked the Golden Staff National Master to help oppose the Underworld King, and the National Master agreed to go with him.
• At the Zhiming Marquisate, Ning Chen and the others identified Zong Qianqiu as the formation’s creator and discussed the danger that Bian Jiang could borrow the Underworld King’s power.
• The group decided Ning Chen had to join the mission despite his injuries and asked Meng Xuanji to accompany him.
• Meng Xuanji took up the Gilded Feathered Halberd and left with Ning Chen, the Eternal Night Cult Master, the Golden Staff National Master, and the Du'e Temple Abbot, while Ruoxi watched them depart in tears.

Ning Chen and the western coalition entered the Extreme Heaven Grand Array, where they uncovered an illusion and confronted Zong Qianqiu and Bian Jiang. As battles broke out across the array, a separate duel began between Luo Xingchen and Mu Bai in eastern Great Xia.

• Ning Chen, Meng Xuanji, Marquis Kaixuan, the Golden Staff National Master, the Du'e Temple Abbot, and the Eternal Night Cult Master entered the array at dawn and endured its growing suppression.
• The group defeated four flame divine generals, then Ning Chen recognized the approaching Underworld Soldiers as an illusion and helped the others shatter it.
• Zong Qianqiu appeared and overwhelmed the Du'e Temple Abbot, but Ning Chen explained that the array's suppression weakened everyone and warned the group against direct clashes.
• Bian Jiang revealed that he had taken Qu Li's cultivation and fought the suppressed Eternal Night Cult Master, while Huazhuang and Canfeng attacked Ning Chen and Meng Xuanji protected him.
• Marquis Kaixuan and the Golden Staff National Master fought Zong Qianqiu as Luo Xingchen challenged Mu Bai in eastern Great Xia, firing three arrows at the swordsman.

Luo Xingchen defeated Mu Bai at the Sword Pool, leaving the swordsman unable to draw a sword and his Sword Heart clouded. Meanwhile, Ning Chen’s allies battled to break the Extreme Heaven Grand Array, and after Meng Xuanji was struck down protecting him, Ning Chen burned his origin and attacked Zong Qianqiu.

• Luo Xingchen wounded Mu Bai with his arrows and defeated him with the Red Piercing Divine Arrow, while Mu Bai could not draw a sword from the Sword Pool.
• Sword Two asked why Mu Bai had not drawn his sword, and Mu Bai said he could not before looking toward Tiancang Academy with a confused Sword Heart.
• Ning Chen’s allies fought Zong Qianqiu, the Martial Crown Head, Huazhuang, and Canfeng while Ning Chen calculated the Extreme Heaven Grand Array’s weak point from his wheelchair tracks.
• Zong Qianqiu and Bian Jiang rushed to kill Ning Chen, but Meng Xuanji shielded him and fell after taking Zong Qianqiu’s palm strike.
• Ning Chen burned his origin and killed Canfeng before driving King Yama’s Divine Sword into Zong Qianqiu, who mocked him as Ning Chen continued attacking.