Recaps

Ning Chen and Mu Qianshang fought to a standstill in a battle that pushed both to their limits, until Mu Qianshang began breaking through to the Xiantian Realm. As three Ninth Rank experts attacked the vulnerable Mu Qianshang, Ning Chen stood between them and the breakthrough.

• Ning Chen and Mu Qianshang exchanged increasingly powerful sword techniques, and Mu Qianshang’s mountain-and-water sword realm wounded Ning Chen and drove him to the brink of defeat.
• Ning Chen shattered Mu Qianshang’s sword realm with a wave of palm force, then drew the Great Yin Azure Sparrow Sword after smiling at the chance to fight without carrying the burden of guaranteed victory.
• Ning Chen and Mu Qianshang unleashed their strongest attacks, gravely injuring each other without producing a winner.
• Mu Qianshang halted their duel as a black-and-white pillar of light revealed that he had entered the Xiantian Realm and begun crossing the Heavenly Demon Tribulation.
• Three Ninth Rank peak experts attacked Mu Qianshang, and the severely wounded Ning Chen blocked their strikes and vowed that no one would pass him.

Ning Chen protected Mu Qianshang as he entered the innate realm, suffered grievous wounds, and survived with help from Xia Ziyi and Qing Ling. After returning to the marquis's residence, he weighed the imperial princes’ claims and warned Xia Ziyi about the Third Prince, while Liu Ruoxi began to suspect Mingyue was a girl.

• Ning Chen blocked the hidden attackers from reaching Mu Qianshang, enduring a sword wound and two palm strikes until Mu Qianshang took over and Xia Ziyi and Qing Ling rescued him.
• Mu Qianshang pursued the fleeing attacker, while Xia Ziyi and Qing Ling supported Ning Chen back to the imperial city.
• Ning Chen recovered at the marquis's residence with the Great Sigh Pill and Qing Ling's innate power, and Qing Ling returned the Great Yin Azure Sparrow Sword to Changsun.
• The Tenth Prince admitted to Ning Chen whose martial cultivation he had concealed, and the Third Prince later tried to recruit Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen told Xia Ziyi that the Third Prince must be killed and warned that his contact with the Northern Mongols might be real; Xia Ziyi also relayed that Changsun would not interfere in Ning Chen's marriage with Xin Yu.
• Ning Chen warned Liu Ruoxi not to mention that Mingyue resembled a little girl after she voiced her suspicion, and Liu Ruoxi promised to keep quiet.

Ning Chen attended Kylin Pavilion’s auction with Mingyue and Liu Ruoxi, secretly determined to obtain the Nine Marvelous Separation-Reunion Flower. After winning Blazing Sun Iron at a low price, he watched the flower appear as the auction’s final treasure.

• Ning Chen learned that Duke Xiyu had ordered Lord of Yingcheng’s death and heard that Eunuch Pei had left the imperial mausoleum.
• Ning Chen invited Liu Ruoxi to the auction, concealed her identity with true qi, and reflected on having less than half a month to live.
• Fan Lingyue remained awake at the Northern Mongol encampment and sent a figure away after speaking with them.
• Ning Chen arrived at Kylin Pavilion with Mingyue and Liu Ruoxi, and the auction began.
• Ning Chen outbid another attendee to buy Blazing Sun Iron for thirteen thousand one hundred taels, knowing the Daoist Sect’s refining method.
• The Nine Marvelous Separation-Reunion Flower was revealed as the final treasure, with bidding starting at one hundred thousand taels of gold.

Ning Chen swore to help Xia Yanwu claim the throne in exchange for the Separation-Reunion Flower, shifting the succession struggle as support for Xia Mingri grew. Xia Yanwu’s faction prepared to mobilize troops, while the Empress Dowager refused Ning Chen an audience and the Three Grand Ministers and Changsun reconsidered their choice.

• At the auction, Ning Chen bid against Mu Chengxue for the Nine Marvelous Separation-Reunion Flower, and Kylin Pavilion delivered the flower, Blazing Sun Iron, and gold notes to him.
• At the Yanwu Prince's Estate, Ning Chen learned that Xia Yanwu had agreed to help Fan Lingyue withdraw Northern Meng’s troops, then swore to help Xia Yanwu ascend the throne in exchange for the flower.
• Duke Xiyu and Duke Jingwu met with the Grand Tutor, and the Grand Tutor shifted toward Xia Mingri; the Empress Dowager also leaned toward Xia Mingri, unsettling Xia Yanwu’s faction.
• Xia Yanwu ordered his allies to prepare to deploy troops, and Nangong Qing revealed that Marquis Nangong’s forces stood ready to obey him.
• The Empress Dowager again barred Ning Chen from Heavenly Edict Hall, and news of the refusal spread through the court.
• The Three Grand Ministers and Changsun met in Heavenly Edict Hall, while Duke Jingwu sent Xia Yanwu a letter saying, “Your teacher has done his best.”

Ning Chen set a trap for Xia Yanwu’s planned coup, using the Third Prince’s confidence in him to bring troops toward the capital while preparing the imperial forces to contain the rebellion. As Xia Ziyi’s forces surrounded the Divine Wind Camp, Ning Chen’s elite Dragon Guard Army emerged from Chuwu Gate.

• Ning Chen told Qing Ling that Xia Yanwu planned to force the palace and revealed that Marquis Nangong secretly served the Third Prince.
• Xia Yanwu ordered Ning Chen to mobilize troops from Guming and Luo River, and Ning Chen set out with Qing Ling as the deadline arrived.
• Ning Chen left Qing Ling with the military token while the Divine Wind, Swift Rain, and Purple Lightning Camps moved to seize control of the capital.
• The Tenth Prince and Xia Ziyi surrounded the Swift Rain and Purple Lightning Camps, while Duke Xiyu and Eunuch Pei stopped Marquis Nangong from reinforcing them.
• Xia Ziyi ordered the Divine Wind Camp surrounded, and Ning Chen’s elite Dragon Guard Army appeared at Chuwu Gate.

Xia Ziyi defeated Xia Yanwu but spared him, only to protect him from Yin Wugou and Kong Yu when they moved to kill him. Xia Yanwu sacrificed himself to save his brother, leaving Xia Ziyi grieving amid the battlefield.

• Ning Chen left Xia Ziyi and Xia Yanwu to settle their final fight, and Xia Yanwu admitted he had secretly contacted the Northern Mongols.
• Xia Ziyi and Xia Yanwu fought with their signature techniques, and Xia Ziyi revealed his half-step innate strength before defeating Xia Yanwu.
• Xia Ziyi could not bring himself to kill Xia Yanwu and ordered him to leave Great Xia, but Yin Wugou and Kong Yu attacked them on the Chief's orders.
• Xia Ziyi broke into the innate realm and shielded Xia Yanwu from the attackers and a heaven-shaking arrow, declaring he would bear his brother's mistakes.
• Xia Yanwu remembered how Xia Ziyi had protected him since childhood, destroyed his own qi sea, and self-destructed to block Yin Wugou and Kong Yu's sword strikes.
• Xia Ziyi watched Xia Yanwu's remains fall and broke down in grief.

After the Third Prince’s rebellion collapsed, Ning Chen hunted Northern Mongolian assassins and confronted Su Feiyan at Lingyan Pavilion while the Tenth Prince was crowned. Eunuch Pei exposed Duke Xiyu’s impersonation and struck him down, but Yin Moxiao fled as Duke Xiyu urged him to take the princess and escape.

• Ning Chen used the Po Shang Bow to kill Northern Mongolian assassins, but Mu Chengxue attacked him and left with Mingyue.
• Ning Chen sent Yin Wugou and Kong Yu to carry out his orders, then went to Lingyan Pavilion to kill and blocked Su Feiyan from reaching Heavenly Edict Hall.
• The Three Grand Ministers named Xia Mingri emperor, and the Tenth Prince took the Dragon Throne.
• Eunuch Pei recognized that the new emperor had spoken the wrong first sentence, struck him, and revealed Duke Xiyu’s true appearance.
• Eunuch Pei’s attack crippled Duke Xiyu, while Yin Moxiao fled and Duke Xiyu shouted for him to take the princess and leave.

Ning Chen fought Eunuch Pei before Heavenly Edict Hall to fulfill his promise to die by dawn, while Xia Mingri took the throne and the court learned what was happening. Ning Chen survived the duel, but heavenly fire descended at sunrise to punish him for breaking his oath.

• Eunuch Pei killed Duke Xiyu, while Ning Chen defeated Su Feiyan’s guards and drove her away with Yin Moxiao after an arrow wounded her shoulder.
• Kong Yu told Ning Chen that Xia Mingri had been found in a secret chamber, and Ning Chen returned to the imperial palace to face Eunuch Pei before dawn.
• Ning Chen told Xia Mingri to become a good emperor, then battled Eunuch Pei with all his strength as the officials watched.
• Ning Chen and Eunuch Pei unleashed their final attacks, devastating the steps and hall before Heavenly Edict Hall; Ning Chen survived the clash.
• At sunrise, heavenly fire began burning Ning Chen for breaking his oath, and Qing Ling arrived and understood what was happening.

Ning Chen suffered heavenly punishment for his actions, and Prince Yan and the Ghost Maiden carried him into the underworld to escape the flames, though his life was nearly gone. Meanwhile, Fan Lingyue moved the Northern Meng army to seize Jialing City as rebellion broke out across Great Xia.

• Ning Chen was engulfed by heavenly fire as Changsun and Qing Ling tried to reach him, but lightning struck Qing Ling and Eunuch Pei restrained her at Ning Chen's request.
• Prince Yan used the Azure Sword and five swords to shield Ning Chen from heavenly punishment, then followed the Ghost Maiden's carriage into the underworld, where he placed Ning Chen in her chamber.
• Mu Chengxue returned Mingyue to Fan Lingyue, declared that Arid City's debt was repaid, and departed.
• Fan Lingyue ordered Qing Wuyou to escort the emperor back to the palace and directed the Northern Meng army to march toward Jialing City.
• The Northern Meng army captured Jialing City, while uprisings bearing the Third Prince's banner erupted in cities across Great Xia.

After the rebellion, Great Xia’s court changed while Ning Chen remained alive but crippled and dependent on the Yellow Springs Flower’s poison. He chose to stay in the Underworld Netherworld, and the chapter ended with the Ghost Maiden warning that he might eventually lose his sense of self and become a living corpse.

• Yin Wugou left the Ministry of Justice and retired from the world, while Kong Yu was appointed its acting overseer.
• Prince Yan and the Ghost Maiden awakened Ning Chen by releasing the Yellow Springs Flower’s power, and Ning Chen chose to live despite the risk of becoming a monster.
• The Ghost Maiden made Ning Chen a wheelchair, helped control the poison, and carried his letter to Qing Ling at the palace.
• Qing Ling read Ning Chen’s message that he was still alive and shared it with Changsun, who wept upon seeing his handwriting.
• A'man woke at the Barbarian King's palace, sensing that Ning Chen was alive while still feeling heartache.
• The Ghost Maiden warned Ning Chen that the poison could make him lose himself, and Ning Chen asked her to sink him beneath the Weakwater if that happened.

While Ning Chen wandered the Underworld Netherworld, he gave Ghost Maiden his true qi to help her approach the Innate realm, worsening his poison. Outside, Fan Lingyue’s Northern Mongol forces battered Great Xia and began probing Yueyang City, leaving Duke Jingwu to face the war’s uncertain turning point.

• Ning Chen explored the Underworld Netherworld with Ghost Maiden and found that the demon blade and violet divine sword still would not accept him.
• Ning Chen used the Scroll of Life to transfer his true qi to Ghost Maiden, accelerating the poison in his own body as she prepared to enter seclusion.
• Fan Lingyue’s cavalry defeated Great Xia’s forces, while assassinations and the Eternal Night Divine Cult’s advance further weakened the dynasty.
• Xia Mingri sent 150,000 Imperial Guards north to defend Yueyang City and Xiling City against Northern Mongol’s advance.
• Northern Mongol’s army halted near the cities and began probing attacks on Yueyang City, where Duke Jingwu watched from the walls and reflected on Great Xia’s decline.

Ning Chen visited Old Lu and The Master before heading toward the southeastern tombs after a Heavenly Book appeared. The twin Yin and Yang Tombs slaughtered many powerful intruders, and the survivors came to believe the Yang Tomb held the chance of life.

• Ning Chen visited Old Lu, borrowed a better wheelchair, and then went to see The Master at Tiancang Academy.
• The Master urged Ning Chen to keep living and told him the Scroll of Nothingness was about to emerge and that they were relying on him to find it.
• A Heavenly Book’s radiance appeared in the southeast, and Ning Chen rode his ghost carriage toward the twin tombs.
• The Yin and Yang Tombs unleashed deadly yin mist and fire waves, killing many intruders and forcing others to retreat.
• Grand Elders who escaped the Yin Tomb died soon afterward, and the crowd shifted its attention to the Yang Tomb, believing it offered a chance of survival.

Ning Chen and the Ghost Maiden entered the Yin Tomb after he judged that its death-and-life cycle was about to change, hoping to reach the Scroll of Life. Deep inside, they encountered a vast swarm of ancient yin spirits, and the Ghost Maiden warned that the tomb could be far older than a thousand years.

• Ning Chen kept watch on the twin tombs and confirmed that the Scroll of Life lay in the Yin Tomb, while the Ghost Maiden said she was still half a step from a breakthrough.
• Ning Chen questioned the Ghost Maiden about undying bodies, and she explained their limits and revealed that taking the Underworld Source from the Underworld Son could repair Ning Chen's body.
• After observing the tombs for several more days, Ning Chen concluded that the Yin and Yang Tombs alternated between governing death and life, and decided the time had come to enter the Yin Tomb.
• As the Yang Tomb erupted in flames and those who escaped were killed, Ning Chen and the Ghost Maiden rode the ghost sedan into the Yin Tomb.
• Ning Chen and the Ghost Maiden passed through the ancient tomb and spotted countless yin spirits drifting from the darkness; the Ghost Maiden warned that they might be in a ten-thousand-year-old sage's tomb.

Ning Chen and Ghost Maiden explored the Yin Tomb, where they found a Humanoid Medicine King and reached the seventh gate. The Underworld Son arrived with You Yue, and after You Yue attacked Ning Chen and Ghost Maiden intervened, Ning Chen challenged the Underworld Son to fight.

• Ghost Maiden explained that the Yin Tomb likely held the remains of an ancient sage, while attacks from outside shook the tomb and the pair hurried onward.
• Ghost Maiden burned hundreds of yin spirits with her source ghostfire after they trapped the pair, leaving her exhausted.
• Ning Chen passed up the Humanoid Medicine King and tried to open the seventh gate, but his sword strike only marked it.
• The Underworld Son arrived with You Yue and ordered her to attack Ning Chen, but Ghost Maiden struck You Yue back.
• The Underworld Son revealed that he had killed the people who entered the tomb behind them, and Ning Chen charged at him with the Ink Sword.

Ning Chen and Ghost Maiden fought the Underworld Son and You Yue, then opened a Yin Tomb door and took a Heavenly Book guarded by four Headless Knights. After recovering in the Underworld, Ning Chen learned Yueyang City had fallen to a devastating fire attack and arrived to find the city in ruins, where he identified the fuel as crude oil.

• Ning Chen and Ghost Maiden fought the Underworld Son and You Yue, and Ghost Maiden forced a fragment of Underworld Source from the Underworld Son before the pair escaped.
• Ghost Maiden opened the middle door of the Yin Tomb, and she took the Heavenly Book while Ning Chen held off four Headless Knights.
• Ning Chen and Ghost Maiden returned to the Underworld, where he healed and she fused the fragment of Underworld Source into his body.
• Ghost Maiden entered seclusion to pursue the Innate realm, while Ning Chen left the Underworld and learned that Yueyang City had fallen after the Northern Mongols set it ablaze with black liquid.
• Ning Chen reached the ruins of Yueyang City and identified the substance that had burned the city as crude oil.

After discovering that Fan Lingyue had used crude oil to capture Yueyang City, Ning Chen realized Great Xia faced a grave military crisis. He returned to the underworld and began cultivating the Scroll of Heaven, though the Yellow Springs Flower poison still limited his progress.

• Ning Chen searched the camps at Jialing City and found oil trenches, realizing Fan Lingyue had used crude oil as a weapon.
• Ning Chen assessed Great Xia's repeated defeats and the severe losses at Yueyang City, while Changsun and Qing Ling grieved over the empire's worsening situation.
• Ning Chen left Jialing City and returned to the underworld before dawn.
• Ning Chen cautiously circulated his true qi, but the Yellow Springs Flower poison began spreading when he used too much.
• Ning Chen began cultivating the Scroll of Heaven, slowly gathering qi in his dantian.

Fan Lingyue pressed toward Great Xia’s Imperial City while her illness worsened, and Ning Chen emerged from the Underworld to advise Xia Mingyue before returning to the Zhiming Marquisate. He left Liu Ruoxi with no promise that he would stay, while the war with Northern Mongol continued to threaten Great Xia.

• Fan Lingyue coughed blood on the march toward Great Xia’s Imperial City and entrusted Mingyue with Northern Mongol’s future.
• The Barbarian King ordered a figure to follow Fan Lingyue in secret, while A'man continued searching Great Xia for Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen woke after seven days in the Underworld and found that he had to rebuild his cultivation through the Scroll of Heaven and Changsun Lineage martial arts.
• Ning Chen advised Xia Mingyue to use the approaching wheat harvest to track Northern Mongol’s route and requested thirty thousand cavalry to counter its heavy cavalry.
• Ning Chen returned to the Zhiming Marquisate, where Liu Ruoxi welcomed him and asked whether he would leave again; he said he had only come back to take a look.

Ning Chen left the marquis's estate, met Xia Ziyi, and drank with him before returning to the underworld. Meanwhile, Prince Yan entered Featherfall Valley seeking Phoenix Blood and faced seven terrifying innate experts as their deathly power darkened the sky.

• Ning Chen departed the marquis's estate, leaving Liu Ruoxi in tears, and traveled to the Haowu Prince's Estate.
• Ning Chen apologized to Xia Ziyi for the arrow that had prevented him from entering the innate realm, and Xia Ziyi urged him to visit Changsun.
• Ning Chen and Xia Ziyi drank together through the night as they discussed Changsun, Xin Yu, and Ning Chen's refusal to pursue love against his beliefs.
• Ning Chen returned to the underworld at dawn, and Xia Ziyi headed for the imperial palace.
• Prince Yan entered Featherfall Valley and demanded a drop of Phoenix Blood, then split an enormous attacking palm with the Crimson Sword.
• Seven innate experts emerged from beneath Featherfall Valley, and Prince Yan summoned the Azure Sword to face them.

Prince Yan defeated seven Xiantian experts in Featherfall Valley and obtained Phoenix Blood, while Ning Chen advised Great Xia on seeking Barbarian reinforcements without surrendering territory. Prince Yan then found Ghost Maiden cultivating with the Scroll of Life's power and restrained his swords, saying he would wait until dawn.

• Prince Yan defeated and grievously wounded seven experts in Featherfall Valley, then forced its hidden beings to give him Phoenix Blood.
• The Master appeared as Ji Taishi and told Prince Yan that Grand Righteous Qi could neutralize Phoenix Blood, instructing him to bring Ning Chen to the academy.
• Ning Chen advised Xia Ziyi to reject the Barbarian King's demand for Southern Xinjiang and negotiate for troops using grain, supplies, and Zhenji Kingdom as leverage.
• Prince Yan searched the Underworld, broke through the restrictions around Ghost Maiden's chamber, and found her attempting to break through the Xiantian barrier.
• Prince Yan sensed the Scroll of Life's power within Ghost Maiden, restrained the trembling Azure-Crimson Twin Swords, and said, “Wait until dawn!”

Ning Chen returned to the Underworld Netherworld in time for Prince Yan to save the Ghost Maiden’s cultivation, then accompanied him to the academy, where the Master and Prince Yan used Phoenix Blood and Xiantian True Qi to protect Ning Chen from the Yellow Springs poison. After learning his body could not be healed, Ning Chen chose the Yin Tomb and Prince Yan broke through its defenses to reach the unopened doors.

• Ning Chen returned to the Underworld Netherworld just as Prince Yan intercepted the Azure-Crimson Twin Swords and prevented them from interrupting the Ghost Maiden’s cultivation.
• Prince Yan left a War-Stopping Sword to guard the Ghost Maiden’s chamber, examined the divine sword in the great hall, and then took Ning Chen to the academy.
• The Master purified Phoenix Blood with righteous energy while Prince Yan dissolved the Yellow Springs poison in Ning Chen’s body, protecting his spiritual consciousness from the final corpse transformation.
• Ning Chen awoke, learned that his body was beyond saving for now, and followed Prince Yan to the twin tombs, choosing the Yin Tomb.
• Prince Yan cut through the Yin Tomb’s yin spirits, restrictions, and four Headless Knights, then shattered one of the two unopened doors and revealed a cascade of mirror light.

Ning Chen and Prince Yan opened the final gate of the Yin Tomb and witnessed Ancient Sage’s grief over Yaoyue, then escaped the tombs and returned to the underworld. As Ning Chen began cultivating toward the Innate realm, Fan Lingyue realized the Northern Mongol army’s rear forces had fallen dangerously far behind.

• Prince Yan retrieved the ancient mirror from the sixth gate and gave it to Ning Chen, then the seventh gate opened and revealed Ancient Sage’s lingering image and memories of Yaoyue.
• Ancient Sage watched Yaoyue fade away after waiting for his return, and his shadow vanished, leaving the ancient mirror and two empty coffins behind.
• Prince Yan and Ning Chen left the Yin Tomb; Prince Yan entered the Yang Tomb alone, then carried Ning Chen back to the underworld and gave him two Medicine Kings to aid his cultivation.
• Ning Chen entered secluded cultivation while Prince Yan guarded the underworld, and three days later the Yin and Yang Tombs sank underground and their energies disappeared.
• As Northern Mongolia’s campaign against Great Xia continued, Fan Lingyue learned that her army’s rear force had fallen 120 li behind and reprimanded the general who had failed to report it.

Fan Lingyue anticipated Great Xia’s attacks on Northern Mongolia’s supply lines and worked out that Ning Chen’s strategy aimed to force her army toward difficult terrain. Meanwhile, A'man traveled toward Taiyue City to find Ning Chen, unaware of the danger around her, and revealed his identity to a brothel madam.

• Fan Lingyue sent Qing Wuyou to protect the grain convoys, then learned that Great Xia had destroyed twenty percent of Northern Mongolia’s provisions.
• After Qing Wuyou reported back, Fan Lingyue predicted Great Xia would attack the supplies again to force Northern Mongolia to change its route and identified Ning Chen as the planner.
• Duke Jingwu ordered Great Xia’s forces to keep intercepting Northern Mongolian grain convoys while warning that the enemy might have prepared an ambush.
• A'man asked for directions to Taiyue City, changed into simpler clothes, and followed an old woman into an alley for tea while her hidden guard watched in alarm.
• When the old woman asked whom she was seeking, A'man named Ning Chen and said he seemed to be Great Xia’s Marquis of Knowing Fate, making the woman spit out her tea.

A'man traveled west with Prince Yan, who had her carry his sword rack while promising to take her to Ning Chen. As Northern Mongolia's forces advanced south after a feint by Fan Lingyue, Ning Chen reached the peak of the ninth rank and began cultivating the Daoist Sect's Clear Sky After Snowfall Art.

• A'man escaped a band of criminals at an inn when an unseen figure killed them before they could attack her.
• Prince Yan met A'man on the road and had her carry his sword rack as they traveled west to fight a bad man.
• The Barbarian King recalled A'man's secret guard, leaving Prince Yan and A'man to continue their journey alone.
• Duke Jingwu's forces destroyed a Northern Mongolian grain depot, but Fan Lingyue had falsified the reported provisions and redirected her army south to escape the encirclement.
• Ning Chen consumed two Medicine Kings, reached the peak of the ninth rank, and failed to break through to the innate realm.
• Ning Chen began cultivating the Clear Sky After Snowfall Art, the Daoist Sect's secret art suited to the Scroll of Life and his cold constitution.

As Great Xia faced invasion on several fronts, Prince Hua secured the Barbarian Dynasty’s military support by offering iron ore, while Prince Yan reached Marquis Kaixuan and challenged the Martial Lord. Prince Yan wounded the Martial Lord in their opening exchange, as Ning Chen watched from the Underworld Netherworld and considered how the Martial Lord’s dual seas of qi might be overcome.

• The Northern Mongol army advanced through Great Xia, while Marquis Kaixuan and Marquis Zhongyong struggled to hold their respective fronts.
• Prince Hua negotiated with the Barbarian King, offering twenty percent of Bairuo Plains’ iron ore output for ten years in exchange for troops; the Barbarian King sent one hundred thousand soldiers north.
• Prince Yan and A'man arrived at Marquis Kaixuan’s camp, where Prince Yan agreed to fight the Martial Lord the next day.
• Prince Yan and the Martial Lord began their duel, and Prince Yan’s twin swords pierced the Martial Lord, drawing first blood.
• Ning Chen watched from the Underworld Netherworld and reasoned that defeating the Martial Lord required overcoming the advantage of his dual seas of qi.

Prince Yan and the Martial Lord fought a devastating battle between the Blackwater Army and the Divine Cult's iron cavalry. After the Martial Lord gained the advantage, Prince Yan used Ning Chen's advice to search for the Martial Lord's second qi sea, and launched his twin swords toward the healed sword scars.

• Prince Yan and the Martial Lord exchanged supreme techniques, with neither gaining the upper hand despite grievous injuries.
• The Martial Lord unleashed Heavenly Desolation God-Slaying, and Prince Yan answered with Three Swords Share the Heavens, leaving both men badly wounded.
• As their true qi waned, the Martial Lord struck Prince Yan with his palm and appeared to secure victory.
• Prince Yan recalled Ning Chen's plan to locate the Martial Lord's second qi sea by tracking the places his swords had struck.
• Prince Yan sent his twin swords toward the Martial Lord with Azure and Crimson in Shared Breath, One Qi Without Delusion.