Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen learned that the Heavenly Prime Minister had arrived in Youzhou City, but remained focused on finding a way to awaken the Shaking Light King. After meeting the Heavenly Prime Minister and being offered work at the City Lord's Mansion, Ning Chen decided to teach Qing Ming swordsmanship and use the opportunity to learn about Tianfu Star.

• Ning Chen heard that the Heavenly Prime Minister was coming to Youzhou City and left the teahouse to search for a way to save the Shaking Light King.
• The Heavenly Prime Minister approached Ning Chen, but Ning Chen declined to show him around and later recognized who he was from the black-clad girl's concealed aura.
• At Pianfeng Tower, Ning Chen tried to buy a cheap sword, but Qing Ming claimed it before he could purchase it.
• Qing Ming's mother rebuked her son, apologized to Ning Chen, and invited him to teach Qing Ming swordsmanship at the City Lord's Mansion.
• Ning Chen examined Qing Ming, realized the job could help him learn about Tianfu Star, and agreed to teach him.

Ning Chen instructed Qing Ming in swordsmanship while Youzhou City's City Lord received news that Heavenly Minister had arrived to investigate the missing Vermilion Bird Divine Treasure. Elsewhere, Demon Buddha and Purple Heaven Palace attacked Demon Butterfly for the ultimate origin, but the Venerable Lady and Prince Yan intervened, leaving the battle in Prince Yan's hands.

• Ning Chen told Qing Ming to preserve his original purpose for learning the sword and taught him to practice striking a hole in a boulder without deviation.
• A guard reported Heavenly Minister's arrival, and Youzhou City's City Lord hurried to meet him as Ning Chen recognized the visitor as troublesome.
• Demon Buddha and Purple Heaven Palace entered the Dragon Gate to pursue the ultimate origin, and the Venerable Lady followed them.
• Demon Buddha and Purple Heaven Palace confronted the wounded Demon Butterfly, and their attacks left her near collapse.
• The Venerable Lady arrived and fought off Demon Buddha long enough to pull Demon Butterfly away from the attackers.
• Prince Yan entered the battlefield and told the Venerable Lady to take Demon Butterfly while he faced the two enemies.

Xiao Bieli came to Youzhou City to investigate the Vermilion Bird Divine Treasure and grew suspicious of Mister Bai, while Qing Ming completed a difficult sword exercise and Ning Chen faced Fan Xinghong. Elsewhere, Prince Yan battled Purple Heaven Palace and the Demon Buddha, and the clash escalated as Ning Yuan and the Sand Sword joined the fight.

• Xiao Bieli questioned Ren Baixiu about the Vermilion Bird's appearance and asked him to find a young man in red.
• Ren Baixiu recognized Mister Bai in the description and led Xiao Bieli to the courtyard, where Qing Ming practiced under Ning Chen's instruction.
• After repeated practice, Qing Ming finally struck the sword mark, and Xiao Bieli praised Ren Baixiu before ordering Fan Xinghong to test Ning Chen.
• Fan Xinghong attacked Ning Chen with her Willow Blade, and he met her strike with his sword.
• Prince Yan helped Venerable Lady retreat with the wounded Butterfly, then fought Purple Heaven Palace and the Demon Buddha with the Azure-Crimson Twin Swords.
• Prince Yan was wounded but smiled as Ning Yuan and the Sand Sword flew into the battle.

Ning Chen sparred with Fan Xinghong in Youzhou City, convinced Xiao Bieli that he did not possess the Vermilion Bird Divine Treasure, and received a Celestial Prime Token. Elsewhere, Mu Chengxue pushed the Heavenly Sound Dao Mill to prolong someone’s life, while Prince Yan fought Demon Buddha and Purple Heaven Palace and discovered Demon Buddha’s Undying Body.

• Ning Chen defeated Fan Xinghong with a single sword, then denied Xiao Bieli’s suspicion that he possessed the Vermilion Bird Divine Treasure and swore to Heaven.
• Xiao Bieli accepted Ning Chen’s oath and gave him a Celestial Prime Token, later telling Fan Xinghong that he valued Ning Chen’s judgment and forbearance as well as his strength.
• The Heavenly Sound Pavilion Master told Wu Qingying that Mu Chengxue had agreed to push the Heavenly Sound Dao Mill in exchange for extending someone’s life.
• Prince Yan fought Demon Buddha and Purple Heaven Palace alone outside Demon Wheel Sea, using his swords to wound both Sovereigns and drive them back.
• Prince Yan’s sword pierced Demon Buddha’s chest, but Demon Buddha’s wound healed rapidly, revealing his Undying Body.

Prince Yan overwhelmed the Demon Buddha and Purple Heaven Palace with his ultimate sword, but his mortal swords shattered before he could finish them. He entered the Demon Wheel Sea, while Hua Zhongdie set out to find Ning Chen and Venerable Lady prepared to take half of the Marquis of Knowing Fate's body to the Northern Plains.

• Prince Yan fought the Demon Buddha and Purple Heaven Palace as Venerable Lady and Hua Zhongdie watched from afar.
• Venerable Lady told Hua Zhongdie that Prince Yan was Ning Chen's only elder, and Hua Zhongdie decided to find her junior brother after healing.
• Prince Yan unleashed his ultimate sword, wounded both Venerables, and destroyed the coffins emerging from the Demon Wheel.
• Condensing Abyss and the War-Stopping Sword shattered, and the wounded Venerables fled.
• Prince Yan entered the Demon Wheel Sea, while Hua Zhongdie left to find him and Venerable Lady returned to Changling.
• Venerable Lady told Nu Chang she would take half of the Marquis of Knowing Fate's body to the Northern Plains in hopes of prolonging his life.

Ning Chen reached the Pill Pagoda seeking a way to save the Shaking Light King and secured Ji Furong’s offer of a Rejuvenation Pill. He left with ten days to obtain Heavenly Craftsmanship Spring Water, a condition for her help.

• Ning Chen said farewell to Qing Ming and Ren Baixiu in Youzhou City, then continued east with Ren Baixiu’s letter for the Pill Pagoda.
• After traveling for seven days, Ning Chen arrived at the Pill Pagoda during its annual Pill Martial Grand Assembly and met Elder Yu Mo.
• Ning Chen asked Yu Mo for help saving the Shaking Light King, whose blood and vitality had withered and whose lifespan was nearly exhausted.
• Yu Mo brought Ning Chen to Ji Furong, who initially refused to see him and struck him after he provoked her into granting an audience.
• Ji Furong offered a Rejuvenation Pill in exchange for Heavenly Craftsmanship Spring Water and gave Ning Chen ten days to obtain it.

Ning Chen challenged Le Chengyi, the Po Jun Palace Lord, for the Heavenly Craftsmanship Spring Water and fought her with his weapons and techniques. He unleashed his combined sword art and Scroll of Sun, but the clash left him retreating amid the destruction, with the outcome unresolved.

• Ning Chen reached Skywork Spring and called for the Po Jun Palace Lord, and Le Chengyi recognized him as Phoenix.
• Le Chengyi refused to give him the spring water unless he defeated her or risked being attacked while breaking its restriction.
• Ning Chen fought Le Chengyi, but her Heaven Cleaver shattered his ordinary sword and forced him onto the defensive.
• Ning Chen summoned Greedy Wolf’s Reincarnation Mirror, but Le Chengyi revealed that she had given it to Greedy Wolf and tried to take it back.
• Le Chengyi announced that the test was over and increased her power, so Ning Chen countered with Sword Art, First Sun Illuminates the East, fused with the Scroll of Sun.
• Their saber and sword intents collided, destroying the surrounding space and driving Ning Chen back through the dust.

Ning Chen defeated Le Chengyi and obtained Skywork Spring Water, then brought it to Ji Furong to save his senior. As the Rejuvenation Pill neared completion at the Pill Martial Grand Assembly, Le Chengyi alerted the Seven Kill Palace Master that Ning Chen had appeared, and pill-formation tribulation was about to descend.

• Ning Chen used the Reincarnation Mirror to restrain Le Chengyi and win their duel, prompting her to remove the restriction over Skywork Spring.
• Ning Chen collected the Skywork Spring Water, learned that the Seven Kill Palace Master was hunting him, and refused to return the Reincarnation Mirror to Le Chengyi.
• Ning Chen delivered the spring water to Ji Furong and asked her to save his senior, then joined her in watching the Rejuvenation Pill near completion.
• Le Chengyi told the Seven Kill Palace Master that Ning Chen had appeared and asked him to return the Reincarnation Mirror after killing him.
• Ning Chen watched Bai Zhaomu struggle to complete the Rejuvenation Pill as the moment of pill formation and heavenly tribulation approached.

Ning Chen protected the Rejuvenation Pill and another divine pill through a doubled heavenly tribulation while the Seven Kill Palace Master attacked him and the Tianfu Saintess and Po Jun Palace Lord arrived. The pills were completed, and Ji Furong urged the Seven Kill Palace Master to take his pill and leave.

• Ning Chen blocked the combined tribulation lightning while Bai Zhaomu and another Pill Pagoda disciple continued refining their pills.
• The Seven Kill Palace Master arrived in a seven-colored spiritual-sense avatar and attacked Ning Chen, blaming him for Greedy Wolf's death.
• The Tianfu Saintess arrived to protect the pill refinement, and Le Chengyi revealed that she had disclosed Ning Chen's whereabouts to retrieve her Reincarnation Mirror.
• When the pills were completed, Ning Chen blocked the tribulation lightning and the Seven Kill Palace Master tried to strike him, but the Tianfu Saintess intervened.
• The Third Pagoda Master lent Ning Chen a sword, and Ning Chen used Void Severance to disperse the divine pill tribulation.
• Ning Chen returned the sword after the Rejuvenation Pill succeeded, and Ji Furong secretly urged the Seven Kill Palace Master to take his pill and leave.

Ning Chen seized the Rebirth and Soul-Transference Pills and was maneuvered by the Pill Pagoda into fighting Seven Kill, whom he defeated with a sword technique that erased the battlefield. After Le Chengyi departed, Ning Chen refused to return the Soul-Transference Pill and began fighting the Tianfu Saintess.

• Ning Chen snatched the two divine pills, and the old man in black offered him a sword and promised another reward if he killed one of his enemies.
• Ning Chen told the Tianfu Saintess that the Pill Pagoda had urged him to seize the pills, then raced east to collect a sword while the Saintess, Seven Kill, and Le Chengyi followed.
• The Tianfu Saintess refused to help Seven Kill, and Ning Chen fought his divine-sense avatar with the sword supplied by the Pill Pagoda.
• Ning Chen used Sword, Return to Truth and Words Become Law to defeat Seven Kill's avatar, while Seven Kill's True Body awakened in the distant Seven Kill Palace.
• Le Chengyi left after warning Ning Chen that Seven Kill's True Body might come for him, and Ning Chen refused the Tianfu Saintess's demand for the Soul-Transference Pill before attacking her.

Ning Chen ended his fight with the Tianfu Saintess by revealing their battle was a performance, then learned where the Immortal Palanquin had gone before clashing with the Vermilion Bird. Meanwhile, the Venerable Lady sought the Heavenly Sound Pavilion Master's help to save a friend, but Mu Chengxue's escape from the Sound Mill interrupted their confrontation.

• Ning Chen and the Tianfu Saintess stopped fighting, exchanged the Soul-Transference Pill, and discussed the Pill Pagoda, the Jade Pool, and the Immortal Palanquin's route toward Qihui City and Jiaxing Mountain.
• Ning Chen chose to awaken the Shaking Light King and continue searching for the Immortal Palanquin, then confronted the Vermilion Bird, which said one of them had to devour the other.
• The Venerable Lady entered the Heavenly Sound Pavilion and battled Wu Qingying's zither attacks before asking the Heavenly Sound Pavilion Master to save her friend.
• The Heavenly Sound Pavilion Master refused to help the Venerable Lady's friend, whose lifespan had run dry.
• Mu Chengxue shattered the Heavenly Sound Dao Mill and broke free, prompting the Heavenly Sound Pavilion Master and Wu Qingying to rush toward the Sound Domain as the Venerable Lady followed.

The Heavenly Sound Pavilion Master restored a hundred years of life to Marquis of Knowing Fate, while Mu Chengxue accepted a century of punishment for driving the Sound Mills and kept her presence from him. Meanwhile, A'man learned that Xia Chi might attack Northern Mongol and prepared to stop him as Xia Chi received confirmation that the Northern Mongol Emperor was missing.

• Wu Qingying and the Venerable Lady suppressed Mu Chengxue’s Grand Forgetfulness backlash, and the Heavenly Sound Pavilion Master used the Sound Mills to restore a hundred years of lifespan to Marquis of Knowing Fate.
• Mu Chengxue explained that she had chosen Grand Forgetfulness of Emotion because Desolate City needed an Innate, then gave the Nianqing Blade to the Venerable Lady and asked her not to reveal that she was there.
• The Heavenly Sound Pavilion Master ordered Mu Chengxue to drive the Sound Mills for a hundred years, and iron chains pierced her shoulders as she returned to her task.
• Hongzhu told A'man that Xia Chi had stationed troops at Yan Returning City while the Northern Mongol Emperor was missing, and A'man decided to go to Great Xia to stop him from fighting.
• The Barbarian King and his father stopped A'man from leaving, while Xia Chi received a report confirming that the Northern Mongol Emperor had been missing for nearly a year and eagerly welcomed the news.

Ning Chen searched Jiaxing Mountain for the Immortal Palanquin and encountered the Ghost Maiden at an ancient temple dedicated to the Underworld King. As the Seven Kill Palace reappeared and declared its intent to kill Phoenix, the Star Sovereign revealed that a Great Life Star would collide with Tianfu Star within ten years, leaving invasion of the Inside the realm as the only way to save its people.

• Ning Chen failed to revive the Immortal Peach Tree, told the Shaking Light King how they had reached Tianfu Star, and left to search Jiaxing Mountain for the Immortal Palanquin.
• Ning Chen discovered an ancient temple dedicated to the Underworld King and waited there for seven days for the Ghost Maiden.
• Rakshasa arrived, restored the temple, and left after asking where someone had gone; Ning Chen followed but lost her trail.
• The Seven Kill Palace emerged, and its master stepped forth declaring that he had come to kill Phoenix.
• Chao Tianxi told Xiao Bieli that a Great Life Star would collide with Tianfu Star within ten years, and they concluded that invading the nearest world, the Inside the realm, was their only hope of relocating Tianfu Star's people.

Xia Chi faced a decision over the northern campaign while Xia Xinyu urged him to choose and accept the consequences. On Tianfu Star, a sacred land decree demanded Blazing Sun Star Soul Iron, and Ning Chen was ambushed by Yan Yuntian after the Tianfu Saintess revealed his whereabouts; their battle ended in a devastating clash.

• Xia Chi heard Xia Xinyu's counsel that war was wrong but that he had to make the decision himself and bear its consequences.
• The sacred land ordered all sects to surrender their Blazing Sun Star Soul Iron within half a year, prompting the Heavenly Prime Minister Dynasty and Pill Pagoda leaders to deliberate.
• The black-robed elder agreed to hand over thirty percent of the Star Soul Iron first and told Eastern Patrol Venerable that Ning Chen might become a formidable swordsman.
• Ning Chen left Jiaxing Mountain after the Ghost Maiden failed to return, leaving a Yellow Springs Restriction and a thread of his soul consciousness at the divine temple.
• Yan Yuntian confronted Ning Chen after the Tianfu Saintess traded his whereabouts for the Heavenly Star Pearl, and Ning Chen's mortal sword shattered as he tried to attack.
• Ning Chen hurled the Green Cauldron at Yan Yuntian's halberd strike, triggering an enormous catastrophe that split Jiaxing Mountain and sent magma erupting.

Ning Chen escaped Yan Yuntian through Black Prison Ridge, then joined Le Chengyi in a raid on Seven Kill Palace. They broke into the palace, where Ning Chen began searching for Yan Yuntian’s treasures before he could return.

• Ning Chen caught Yan Yuntian off guard with the Reincarnation Mirror and struck him with the Green Cauldron, but Yan Yuntian survived and resumed the pursuit.
• Ning Chen used Black Prison Ridge’s terrain and a Yellow Springs Restriction to delay Yan Yuntian while Le Chengyi watched.
• Le Chengyi offered to take Ning Chen to Seven Kill Palace in exchange for a Mist Concealing Pearl, and he accepted.
• Ning Chen broke the illusory formation and smashed open Seven Kill Palace’s gates with the Green Cauldron.
• Le Chengyi named Yan Yuntian’s known treasures, and Ning Chen went deeper into the palace to search for them.

Ning Chen and Le Chengyi looted Seven Kill Palace before parting, and Ning Chen then visited the Pill Pagoda to claim the divine sword Mo Kuang. He accepted Venerable Zhenyang’s condition to kill the Tianfu Saintess within ten days, leaving with the sword and a deadline.

• Ning Chen smashed through Seven Kill Palace’s walls with the Green Cauldron, and he and Le Chengyi gathered treasures, including two pearls, Immortal Source, and Star Soul Iron Mother.
• Ning Chen asked Le Chengyi about the Star Soul Iron Mother, but she refused to explain unless he gave her half, so he left with his loot.
• Ning Chen went to the Pill Pagoda and thanked Venerable Zhenyang for the medicine that had helped an elder in his family.
• Venerable Zhenyang offered Ning Chen the divine sword Mo Kuang on the condition that he kill the Tianfu Saintess within ten days.
• Ning Chen took Mo Kuang and declared that the Tianfu Star would have no Saintess after ten days.

Ning Chen followed a prisoner convoy to the Eastern Wasteland and discovered that the Tianfu Sacred Land was mining unusual Star Soul Iron Ore. After Xi Mujin’s actions triggered a mine collapse, Ning Chen saved the trapped prisoners and attacked her, ending the chapter with his devastating Bury Life sword strike descending.

• Venerable Zhenyang ordered the Pill Pagoda to hunt the thief who had taken Mo Kuang, while Ning Chen departed for the Eastern Wasteland to find the Tianfu Saintess.
• Ning Chen followed a convoy of prisoners to Buqun Mine and learned that the Sacred Land was seeking unusual ore that he identified as Star Soul Iron Ore.
• Xi Mujin entered the mine and split open the ore-bearing rock with her sword, causing the mine tunnel to shake and collapse.
• Ning Chen used Mo Kuang’s sword light to shield the prisoners from falling boulders and directed them toward the exit as the tunnel collapsed.
• Ning Chen emerged from beneath the mine and attacked Xi Mujin, then unleashed his Bury Life sword technique.

Ning Chen fought Xi Mujin until the Tianfu Star Venerable took control of her and unleashed overwhelming power. At the same time, A'man stopped Xia Chi from waging war against Northern Mongolia, and Ning Xi warned him that Great Xia lacked the strength to win.

• Ning Chen battered Xi Mujin’s protective armor and drove her to the brink of defeat, but she awakened with the power of the Tianfu Star Venerable.
• Ning Chen broke free of Xi Mujin’s spatial prison and clashed with the Star Venerable’s frost techniques.
• A'man fought her way into the Great Xia palace and demanded that Xia Chi recall the troops from Yan Returning City.
• Xia Chi activated Great Xia’s imperial fortune, but A'man blocked it with the Sword of Original Heart, and Ning Xi identified her as the Barbarian King’s younger sister.
• Ning Xi questioned Xia Chi’s plan to expand Great Xia and warned that its army could not safely invade Northern Mongolia without the Marquis of Knowing Fate.

Ning Chen defeated Tianfu Star Venerable’s spiritual-consciousness incarnation, rescued Xi Mujin, and left Tianfu Star to pursue the Immortal Palanquin. As he departed, the Shaking Light King blocked attacks against him, while Mingyue and Zijing later tracked Bodhi and crossed paths with Bai Lingling and Qing Ling.

• Ning Chen grievously wounded Xi Mujin and defeated Tianfu Star Venerable’s soul consciousness, then sealed Xi Mujin’s acupoints and stored her in a phoenix shadow.
• After delivering a shattered divine robe to Venerable Zhenyang, Ning Chen returned to the Shaking Light King and saw the Immortal Palanquin departing with Three Dragon Corpses.
• Ning Chen transformed into a phoenix and pursued the Immortal Palanquin; the Shaking Light King stayed behind and blocked attacks from Yan Yuntian and Tianfu Star Venerable.
• Le Chengyi sent Heaven Slash after Ning Chen as a farewell, and Ning Chen and Le Chengyi exchanged parting words before he vanished beyond the Nine Heavens.
• Mingyue and Zijing encountered Bodhi, sensed Ning Chen’s aura around him, and decided to follow him from a distance.
• Bai Lingling and Qing Ling approached as Mingyue and Zijing set off after Bodhi.

Bodhi’s battle against Yao Qiluo and the White Flood Dragon drove him fully into demonic madness, while Zijing struggled to protect Mingyue from his soul-devouring attack. Just as Mingyue was in mortal danger, a phoenix cry rang across the Primeval Land and an enraged voice challenged Bodhi.

• Bodhi entered the Primeval Land and fought Yao Qiluo and the White Flood Dragon, using both Buddhist and demonic power.
• Yao Qiluo sacrificed her dantian qihai to hold Bodhi back, while the White Flood Dragon revealed herself as Bai Yunlian and attacked with her strongest move.
• Bodhi transformed into a demon, unleashed Blood Sin Hell, and wounded both Demon Venerables as they tried to escape.
• Bodhi’s Deity Sealing Spirit Devourer threatened Mingyue, and Zijing’s attempt to activate Marquis of Knowing Fate’s imprint failed.
• As Mingyue’s soul consciousness began to leave her body, a phoenix cry shook the Primeval Land and an enraged voice demanded to know how Bodhi dared hurt her.