Chapter Summaries

The Ghost Maiden fought the Underworld Son in the northern wastelands, but earthfire let him destroy her Ghost Source and merge with Rakshasa, becoming Underworld King Yama. Ning Chen arrived, saw the Ghost Maiden’s fate, and attacked Yama, beginning a battle witnessed by the Eternal Night Cult Master and the Four Extremes Realm Lord.

• The Ghost Maiden and the Underworld Son fought to the death, and she used Avici Hell Annihilation to drag him beneath the collapsing earth.
• Crimson earthfire weakened the Ghost Maiden, allowing the Underworld Son to destroy her Ghost Source; Rakshasa then returned to her heart, and the two bodies merged into Underworld King Yama.
• Ning Chen sensed the Ghost Maiden’s danger and rushed to the northern wastelands, where he found Yama and attacked him with the Azure Sparrow Sword.
• Yama repelled Ning Chen and wounded him, but Ning Chen unleashed his fate power and fought back with blade and sword.
• The Eternal Night Cult Master and the Four Extremes Realm Lord watched as Ning Chen and Underworld King Yama clashed.

Ning Chen fought Yama through a desperate battle, breaking through to the Fourth Tribulation and using heavenly light to expose Yama’s weakness. He finally pierced the Ghost Maiden’s Violet Palace and destroyed Yama’s demonic form, but recognized her too late as she faded away in his arms.

• Ning Chen fought Yama with Nianqing and Qingque, enraged by the Ghost Maiden’s disappearance, while powerful observers gathered nearby.
• Ning Chen broke through to the Fourth Tribulation, summoning the World-Purifying Heavenly Light and forcing Yama onto the defensive.
• Yama unleashed Human Hell and healed from Ning Chen’s attacks, while the Four Extremes Realm Lord and Eternal Night Cult Master joined forces against Prince Yan.
• Ning Chen used July Snowfall to injure Yama at the Violet Palace, then drew down heavenly light and shattered Human Hell with a final sword strike.
• Ning Chen pierced Yama’s Violet Palace and discovered that Yama was the Ghost Maiden as her body faded away.
• The Ghost Maiden touched Ning Chen’s tear and smiled without regret as torrential rain fell over them.

Ning Chen grieved Ghost Maiden’s death and drove off the Eternal Night Cult’s attackers, while Xia Ziyi attacked Wang You after the Realm Lord betrayed her. As Wang You faced death near the Great Xia Imperial City, Ning Chen finally summoned Shattering Sorrow and Pardoning Heaven.

• Ghost Maiden died in Ning Chen’s arms, and the Ghost Source and Underworld Source drifted away as starlight.
• Ning Chen attacked Zong Qianqiu, but the Eternal Night Cult Master rescued him and withdrew; the Four Extremes Realm Lord also retreated.
• In the Eternal Night Divine Cult, Zong Qianqiu was ordered to prioritize retrieving the Dao Source, and Xia Ziyi was sent to kill the Dao Body.
• Xia Ziyi fought Wang You at Linglang Mountain, overwhelmed her, and pursued her toward the Great Xia Imperial City, where Bai Qi joined the ambush.
• Wang You was gravely wounded by Xia Ziyi and Bai Qi as she tried to reach the city for help.
• After two days and nights beside Ghost Maiden’s coffin, Ning Chen called for Shattering Sorrow and Pardoning Heaven, and the swords flew to him.

Ning Chen found that the Barbarian Dynasty’s fierce destiny energy could destroy the insects, but the Barbarian King refused to lend it for a hundred years. After bidding farewell to A'man, Ning Chen fled the Four Extremes Realm Lord to Mijie Mountain and tricked him into fighting the Du'e Temple Abbot, where the battle began in earnest.

• Ning Chen tested the Barbarian Dynasty’s destiny energy and asked the Barbarian King to lend it to him for a hundred years, but the king firmly refused.
• Ning Chen visited A'man, walked with her through the palace, and promised to come for her if she wanted to leave again.
• Ning Chen left the Barbarian Palace at sunset, and the Four Extremes Realm Lord intercepted him in the southern wilderness.
• Ning Chen escaped toward Mijie Mountain and called on the Du'e Temple Abbot, then used the Scroll of Chaos to conceal his aura and provoke the Four Extremes Realm Lord into attacking him.
• The Du'e Temple Abbot intervened, and the Four Extremes Realm Lord’s strike forced him back before he unleashed Tathagata Illuminating Heavenly Light.

Ning Chen and the Du'e Temple Abbot fought the Four Extremes Realm Lord to defend Buddhist Mountain, drawing on Buddhist faith and the Temple’s hidden relics. As the Realm Lord unleashed his forbidden move, Calamity of Flame Hell, Ning Chen finally moved while watching for the source of his power.

• The Human Buddha drew on the Buddhist Kingdom’s faith power, and Ning Chen joined him against the Four Extremes Realm Lord, who amplified his strength with the White Cocoon.
• The Realm Lord targeted the Great Buddha, but Ning Chen intercepted his strike and embedded the Nianqing Blade in the statue to draw faith power into it.
• The Realm Lord seized Ning Chen’s Azure Sparrow Sword, so Ning Chen brought out King Yama’s Divine Weapons, but the Realm Lord suppressed them with Calamity of Fiery Disaster.
• The Du'e Temple Abbot summoned the Realm of Hundred Lotuses and thirteen relics, joining their power with the Human Buddha’s to unleash Boundless Buddhist Dharma, guide the Tathagata.
• The Four Extremes Realm Lord revealed Calamity of Flame Hell, shattering the Buddhist realm and destroying half the relics as Ning Chen finally moved.

Ning Chen and the Du'e Temple Abbot fought the Four Extremes Realm Lord at Mijie Mountain, but the White Cocoon transformed him and he escaped despite being gravely wounded. Ning Chen returned to the Zhiming Marquisate, while Mu Bai obtained the Chaos Sword Embryo and left the Farthest East.

• Ning Chen stabbed the Four Extremes Realm Lord, who healed and released a White Mist Insect Swarm that devoured the Hundred Lotus Buddhist Realm.
• The Du'e Temple Abbot summoned the power of the seven relics, and Ning Chen joined him in striking the Four Extremes Realm Lord with Hundred Lotuses Illuminate the World, Ten Thousand Buddhas Shine.
• Ning Chen's hidden attack pierced the Four Extremes Realm Lord's heart meridian, but the White Cocoon emerged as a giant moth and transformed him before he withdrew, vowing to return.
• Ning Chen returned to the Zhiming Marquisate, where Liu Ruoxi tended to him and Wang You warned him that those who fell into demonhood could not turn back.
• Wang You told Ning Chen she suspected the Eternal Night Divine Cult and the Four Extremes Realm Lord had made an agreement, leaving him to wonder why they had targeted her.
• Mu Bai took the Chaos Sword Embryo from the thunderous Chaos Mist Sea and annihilated the sea of thunder with a single sword swing.

Mu Bai returned to Desolate City and challenged Prince Yan to a sword test, but Ning Chen stopped their clash before it could begin. Ning Chen then went to Desolate City to persuade Mu Bai, fighting through Sword Two, Jian Liuying, and Sword One as Mu Bai watched from the Sword Pool.

• Mu Bai returned to Desolate City, learned Mu Chengxue was at Tiancang Academy, and allowed Sword One to enter the mortal world.
• Mu Bai arrived in Great Xia Imperial City to test his sword against Prince Yan, but Ning Chen blocked them and was injured by their sword intent.
• Changsun arrived and stopped the confrontation; Ning Chen told her the duel could turn deadly and then left for Desolate City to see Mu Bai.
• Sword Two tried to bar Ning Chen's way, but Ning Chen broke through his flexible sword and continued toward Mu Bai.
• Jian Liuying failed to stop Ning Chen and left Desolate City after Mu Bai declared he was no longer qualified to remain.
• Sword One and Sword Two fought Ning Chen together, while Mu Bai waited by the Sword Pool to see whether Ning Chen could reach him.

Ning Chen fought Desolate City’s twin swords to reach Mu Bai and warned him that the Four Extremes Realm Lord was harder to defeat than the Martial Lord. Ten days later, Mu Bai challenged the Realm Lord at Peerless City, where their battle began and the Realm Lord’s weapon was shattered.

• Ning Chen wounded Sword Two while breaking through the twin swords’ blockade, then reached Mu Bai and warned him about the Four Extremes Realm Lord’s strength.
• Mu Bai invited Ning Chen to observe a sword trial at Peerless City ten days later, and a sword invitation was delivered to Xuan Zhi.
• News of Mu Bai’s challenge spread across the Divine Continent, drawing the Eternal Night Divine Cult’s leaders and Prince Yan toward Peerless City.
• Mu Bai and the Four Extremes Realm Lord began fighting before a gathering of powerful witnesses, including the Eternal Night Cult Master and Xia Ziyi.
• Mu Bai’s sword broke Calamity of Fiery Disaster, and the enraged Four Extremes Realm Lord unleashed a white moth transformation.

Mu Bai defeated the Four Extremes Realm Lord after the Realm Lord transformed with the White Mist Insect Swarm and the Four Extremes origins. As the wounded Realm Lord faced Ning Chen, Mu Qianshang stepped in to confront Xuantian.

• The Four Extremes Realm Lord fused with the white moth and attacked Mu Bai with a divine weapon formed from the Heaven and Earth Creation Jade and four origins.
• Mu Bai wounded the Realm Lord with One Sword, Ten Thousand Calamities, but the White Mist Insect Swarm helped the Realm Lord regenerate and strike back.
• Mu Bai overwhelmed the Realm Lord with his sword intent, inflicted a devastating wound, and left for Desolate City.
• Prince Yan and the Eternal Night Cult Master departed as Xuantian and Xuan Zhi gathered the innate experts to protect their injured Realm Lord.
• Ning Chen revealed himself and challenged the Realm Lord, while Mu Qianshang blocked Xuantian and declared himself his opponent.

Ning Chen, Luan Fengchen, Meng Xuanji, and Wang You pursued the wounded Four Extremes Realm Lord as he tried to escape to the Four Extremes Realm. Xuan Zhi rescued him from their attack, but after they hid in an abandoned village, an unseen assailant pierced the Realm Lord’s chest.

• Mu Qianshang and Xuantian fought while Ning Chen and the Du'e Temple Abbot attacked the wounded Four Extremes Realm Lord, and Wang You trapped the seven Innate experts who tried to protect him.
• The Four Extremes Realm Lord escaped the killing formation, and Ning Chen, Xuan Zhi, and Wang You pursued him toward Featherfall Valley.
• Luan Fengchen and Meng Xuanji blocked the Realm Lord’s path, and they joined Ning Chen in wounding him while Wang You restrained Xuan Zhi.
• Xuan Zhi broke free and carried the Realm Lord toward the spatial passage, but the Barbarian King blocked their way and blasted them back.
• Xuan Zhi hid the Realm Lord in a ruined village house while Ning Chen and the others searched nearby, and the Realm Lord promised to reward Xuan Zhi after recovering.
• An unseen assailant suddenly pierced the resting Four Extremes Realm Lord through the chest.

Xuan Zhi revealed that he had betrayed the Four Extremes Realm Lord and fled with the White Cocoon, forcing Ning Chen and Great Xia's allies to pursue him. A battle erupted when the Eternal Night Divine Cult's leaders intervened, and Ning Chen pierced Xuan Zhi and wounded him severely, driving the White Moth from his body.

• Xuan Zhi tore the White Cocoon from the Four Extremes Realm Lord and revealed that he served the Eternal Night Divine Cult, killing the Realm Lord.
• Luan Fengchen found his master's body while Ning Chen pursued Xuan Zhi across Great Xia, and Marquis Kaixuan blocked Xuan Zhi's path.
• Ning Chen and Marquis Kaixuan attacked Xuan Zhi, but the Eternal Night Cult Master, Zong Qianqiu, and Xia Ziyi arrived and broke their encirclement.
• Ning Chen and Marquis Kaixuan chose to fight, while Marquis Kaixuan engaged the Eternal Night Cult Master and Wang You faced Zong Qianqiu.
• Ning Chen pierced Xuan Zhi and the White Cocoon with Azure Sparrow, severed Xuan Zhi's right arm, and forced the wounded White Moth to break free.

Ning Chen fell unconscious after an Alien Consciousness invaded his mind, and The Master said he could only rely on himself to awaken. After more than half a month with no improvement, Changsun arrived at the Zhiming Marquisate demanding to see him.

• Ning Chen and his allies fought Zong Qianqiu and the Eternal Night Cult Master, but Ning Chen collapsed after a violent pain struck his spiritual consciousness, forcing Marquis Kaixuan to order a retreat.
• Marquis Kaixuan, Meng Xuanji, and Wang You withdrew with the unconscious Ning Chen, while the Eternal Night Cult Master and Zong Qianqiu returned with Xuan Zhi and half the White Mist Insect Swarm.
• Prince Yan could not diagnose Ning Chen's coma, so Ning Xi took him to Tiancang Academy, where The Master said an Alien Consciousness had invaded and no one else could help him.
• Sword One arrived at the Zhiming Marquisate to summon Ning Chen to Arid City, but Liu Ruoxi told him the Marquis was away and kept his condition concealed.
• Ning Chen remained unconscious for more than half a month as Wang You tried to heal him, until Changsun came to the marquisate and demanded to know where he was.

Changsun arrived at the marquis's residence and found Ning Chen unconscious and suffering from the Great Tribulation of Knowing Fate. As the Eternal Night Cult Master came to take Wang You away, Prince Yan challenged him, while Zong Qianqiu began extracting Wang You's Dao Body; their battle left the Cult Master and Prince Yan unleashing ultimate attacks as Ning Chen's finger twitched.

• Changsun arrived in fury and found Ning Chen unconscious, enduring the eruption of the Calamity King's remnant consciousness in the nine drops of Phoenix Blood.
• Xuan Zhi led the White Mist Insect Swarms in a massive offensive against Great Xia's eastern territories while the emperor and Marquis Kaixuan fought fiercely in the west.
• The Eternal Night Cult Master arrived alone at the marquis's residence, and Wang You agreed to leave with him so he would not harm anyone else.
• Prince Yan intervened to protect Wang You and fought the Eternal Night Cult Master, restraining their battle's destruction to the area around them.
• Zong Qianqiu used a formation to extract Wang You's Dao Body, and the Eternal Night Cult Master held Prince Yan back as he tried to intervene.
• Prince Yan unleashed Three Swords Share Heaven, Bound Together in Life and Death, and the Eternal Night Cult Master answered with a lightning-charged ultimate move as Ning Chen's finger twitched.

Ning Chen rescued Wang You from the formation and drove off the Eternal Night Cult Master after gravely wounding Zong Qianqiu. He then went to the Barbarian Palace to seize the dynasty’s Power of Fortune, where his battle with the Barbarian King continued until A'man arrived and ordered them to stop.

• Ning Chen rescued Wang You, shattered the formation, and wounded Zong Qianqiu while fighting the Eternal Night Cult Master, who ultimately withdrew with him.
• Ning Chen visited the ailing Changsun and promised to bring Ziyi and Xin Yu back to serve her after Great Xia won the war.
• Ning Chen entered the Barbarian Palace in his Martial Marquis robes and began fighting the Barbarian King for the dynasty’s Power of Fortune.
• A'man learned of the duel from Hongzhu, took the Sword of Original Heart, and hurried to the main hall.
• Ning Chen manifested a phoenix form from his Phoenix Blood, and A'man arrived as the palace’s protective formation collapsed and ordered the two men to stop fighting.

Ning Chen gathered Meng Xuanji, Jiang Hua, and Luan Fengchen to confront Xuan Zhi and end the conflict between the Four Extremes Realm and the Divine Continent. The group departed together, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Ruoxi told Meng Xuanji to go directly to Marquis Zhongyong’s camp, and Meng Xuanji left with Jiang Hua.
• Ning Chen waited at the camp and confirmed to Marquis Zhongyong that he was certain they would come.
• Meng Xuanji and Jiang Hua arrived, and Ning Chen learned that Luan Fengchen had not come with them.
• Luan Fengchen arrived, and Ning Chen gave her Nianqing and tasked her with facing Xuan Zhi.
• Luan Fengchen led Meng Xuanji and Jiang Hua away to confront Xuan Zhi.

Marquis Zhongyong and Duke Jingwu launched Great Xia’s counterattack while King Xuanhua turned the Lihuo Dynasty’s forces against the Four Extremes coalition, plunging the enemy into chaos. As the battle spread, Meng Xuanji, Jiang Hua, and Luan Fengchen destroyed Xuan Zhi’s Divine Creation Weapon and ultimately killed him by striking the white moth beneath his heart.

• Marquis Zhongyong and Duke Jingwu led Great Xia’s forces in a sudden assault on the Four Extremes coalition, while Xuan Zhi flew out to confront Meng Xuanji, Jiang Hua, and Luan Fengchen.
• The three fighters coordinated their attacks and broke the Divine Creation Weapon, but Xuan Zhi summoned the White Mist Insect Swarm and unleashed his full evil essence.
• King Xuanhua presented the Lihuo military tally to Marquis Jinyi and ordered the Lihuo army to attack its coalition allies from behind.
• Ning Chen’s plan exploited the coalition’s internal divisions as Lihuo’s attack and Great Xia’s advance routed the Four Extremes forces.
• Luan Fengchen, Jiang Hua, and Meng Xuanji wounded Xuan Zhi, while his regenerative power continued to restore his body.
• Luan Fengchen’s hidden blade pierced Xuan Zhi’s heart and destroyed the white moth within him, ending Xuan Zhi’s life.

After the Four Extremes calamity ended, Ning Chen helped Great Xia recover and manage the succession while its surviving Martial Marquises healed. As Northern Mongol’s Emperor Mingyue approached the capital, Ning Chen prepared to receive her and put off answering Mu Bai’s summons from Desolate City.

• Ning Chen handed the Yin-Yang Jade to Luan Fengchen, and the armies returned through Featherfall Valley before the Gilded Feathered Halberd destroyed the jade and severed the route between realms.
• Ning Chen spent several days at the Zhiming Marquisate and Weiyang Palace as Great Xia rested, with Chi'er established as the next emperor despite his young age.
• Ning Chen chose Marquis Anling as the new Martial Marquis and sent Kong Yu to the Southeast Territory, telling him to return through his own ability and earn the position.
• Ning Chen took charge of receiving Mingyue after learning that the Northern Mongol Emperor was traveling to Great Xia with an escort that included Yang Hong and Su Feiyan.
• Ning Chen declined to answer Mu Bai’s summons to Desolate City, then went to see Chi'er practicing calligraphy.

While Mingyue and Changsun negotiated trade between Northern Mongolia and Great Xia, Di Jiang challenged Great Xia to literary and martial contests, but Ning Chen left the gathering after the Master summoned him. The Master revealed that the Scroll of Nothingness had appeared in the mythical Ancient Land of Western Buddhism, where A'man seemed to be preparing to leave Ning Chen.

• Mingyue and Changsun negotiated an exchange of Northern Mongolian grain and medicinal herbs for Great Xia's horses.
• Di Jiang challenged Great Xia to contests, and Yang Hong proposed that the winner determine the negotiation terms.
• Changsun chose the Minister of Foreign Affairs to face Di Jiang in a literary contest, but Ning Chen left after hearing the Master's summons.
• The Master told Ning Chen that the Scroll of Nothingness had appeared in the Ancient Land of Western Buddhism.
• Prince Yan brought A'man to Ning Chen, and she embraced him and asked him to remember her.

Sword Bodhi pursued Rong Lou across the Divine Continent, clashed with Xia Ziyi, and continued traveling while healing the land damaged by the Rong calamity. Meanwhile, Ning Chen learned that Mingyue’s identity was in danger and ordered Zijing to attempt her breakthrough to the innate realm that night.

• Ning Chen told Sword Bodhi that the person he sought had gone west, then watched him depart.
• Sword Bodhi fought Rong Lou, driving him into retreat, before the Eternal Night Cult Master intervened to rescue Xia Ziyi from their clash.
• Sword Bodhi continued across the Divine Continent, using Buddhist power to restore land ravaged by the Rong calamity.
• At the Great Xia negotiations, Ning Chen refused Yang Hong’s challenge, and Changsun accepted the terms of Great Xia’s lost wager.
• Mingyue told Ning Chen that the old Minister of the Imperial Secretariat had died, Yang Hong had taken power, and her identity might soon be exposed.
• Ning Chen learned that Zijing lacked confidence in her imminent breakthrough and ordered her to begin that night.

Ning Chen interfered with Zijing’s Heavenly Demon Tribulation, drawing a furious response from heaven before helping her complete the tribulation. Rong Lou then attacked the Zhiming Marquisate, and Ning Chen and Sword Bodhi fought him together as their battle escalated into a blood-filled clash.

• Ning Chen used his cultivation and sword techniques to block the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, causing it to intensify until he dispersed it and Zijing completed her passage into Xiantian.
• Rong Lou arrived and attacked Zijing, but Ning Chen intercepted him and fought back with his saber and sword.
• Sword Bodhi appeared to confront Rong Lou, and Ning Chen sent Zijing away from the battlefield before joining forces with Sword Bodhi.
• Ning Chen and Sword Bodhi fought Rong Lou together, with Ning Chen using the Scroll of Earth to limit the destruction spreading toward the imperial city.
• Rong Lou wounded and healed himself while targeting Ning Chen’s phoenix form, but Ning Chen and Sword Bodhi struck him with coordinated attacks.
• Rong Lou unleashed Blood Calamity Reverses the World's Collapse, turning everything within a thousand-meter radius into a blood-colored world.