Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen hid Zhao Liusu in the imperial city while Yi Xuanmiao visited and quietly left without searching the house. As the Lantern Festival began, Ning Chen revealed to Hua Zhongdie that he planned to draw Mo Qingbai into his coming Three Calamities Tribulation, while Hua Zhongdie prepared to conceal her identity and Zhao Liusu pulled Ning Chen out to celebrate.

• Yi Xuanmiao visited Ning Chen, said he trusted Ning Chen’s Sword Heart, and left without searching for the missing Zhao Liusu.
• Ning Chen warned Hua Zhongdie that Yi Xuanmiao might become a problem for them and took Zhao Liusu out to buy clothes in disguise.
• Emperor Yuan learned that Ning Chen had appeared in the city and ordered his guard not to alert him or reveal their surveillance.
• Ning Chen told Hua Zhongdie that he faced the Three Calamities Tribulation and intended to use its karmic fire to draw in Mo Qingbai, but Hua Zhongdie objected to the danger.
• As the Lantern Festival began, Hua Zhongdie disguised herself while Zhao Liusu dragged Ning Chen out to join the celebrations.

During the Lantern Festival, Ning Chen accompanied Zhao Liusu through the crowds, where they solved lantern riddles and encountered Hua Zhongdie performing onstage. Ning Chen’s martial aura summoned a storm, bringing him and Hua Zhongdie face-to-face with Mo Qingbai and Mi Fei; as battle loomed, the Kaiyang Dynasty’s four princes and Imperial City forces arrived to intervene.

• Zhao Liusu set a lantern bearing her wishes afloat, then explored the festival with Ning Chen, who secretly protected her from people in the crowd.
• At a lantern-riddle stall, Ning Chen supplied answers for Zhao Liusu and solved several difficult herb riddles himself.
• A maid invited Ning Chen to meet her lady, but he declined and continued with Zhao Liusu to watch the opera.
• Zhao Liusu recognized Hua Zhongdie onstage, and Ning Chen’s martial essence stirred the heavens, bringing a torrential rain that scattered the crowd.
• Mo Qingbai confronted Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie alongside Mi Fei, while Zhao Liusu left at Ning Chen’s request; Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie prepared to fight.
• The Kaiyang Dynasty’s four princes arrived with Imperial City forces, and Yi Xuanmiao told the gathering to take their private grievances elsewhere.

Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie fought Mo Qingbai and Luoshen in the Primeval Land, but Luoshen’s Words Become Law and the arrival of Yao Qiluo turned the battle against them. After a second Demon Venerable appeared, Ning Chen sent Hua Zhongdie away and unleashed a vast karmic fire tribulation on the gathered enemies.

• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie lured Mo Qingbai and Luoshen west and engaged them in a devastating battle across the Primeval Land.
• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie exchanged opponents to counter Mo Qingbai and Luoshen, but Luoshen used Words Become Law to freeze the battlefield and Mo Qingbai injured Hua Zhongdie.
• Ning Chen regained control of himself, combined his blade and sword to wound Luoshen, and attacked alongside Hua Zhongdie as their enemies pressed them.
• Yao Qiluo appeared, Ning Chen confronted her with Nirvana, and Luoshen answered with Silent Reincarnation before a second Demon Venerable emerged.
• Ning Chen sent Hua Zhongdie out of the battlefield and summoned karmic fire that engulfed himself, three venerables, and Luoshen.
• Hua Zhongdie escaped the flames and looked back at the figures swallowed by the karmic fire.

Zhiming endured an apocalyptic karmic fire tribulation in the Primeval Land while Luoshen, Mo Qingbai, and two Demon Venerables were trapped inside and forced to help him survive. As allies sent their power and blood to restore his Phoenix Body, the tribulation continued to intensify, leaving Zhiming to face one final assault.

• Qi Yanxia and Yi Qingqiu sensed the terrifying tribulation burning over the Primeval Land and feared for the person within it.
• Zhiming revealed his Phoenix Body as karmic fire and lightning overwhelmed him, while Luoshen, Mo Qingbai, Yao Qiluo, and the other Demon Venerable struggled to withstand the calamity.
• The Demon Venerables offered their heart's blood to help Zhiming return to his ancestral lineage, and he swallowed the blood as he dived through the lightning.
• Human experts gathered beyond the tribulation, while allies sent palm force, sword lights, and a crimson arrow to lend Zhiming their strength.
• The blood of the Azure Dragon and Black Tortoise restored Zhiming's Phoenix Body, and he soared into the clouds as ten thousand lightning bolts and a meteor shower of karmic fire descended.

After Ning Chen vanished in the aftermath of his phoenix tribulation, Hua Zhongdie and several old companions searched the ruined void while wounded powers fought over the phoenix. The search ended without finding him, and Hua Zhongdie continued alone, badly injured and refusing to give up.

• Ning Chen’s phoenix tribulation devastated the Nine Heavens, leaving him unconscious and the Human Sovereigns and Luoshen gravely wounded.
• Hua Zhongdie entered the turbulent void to search for Ning Chen, while Mo Qingbai and the Demon Venerables pursued the phoenix.
• Consort Luo and Luoshen held off human powerhouses as Sword Two, Mu Qianshang, and Luo Xingchen searched the void for Ning Chen.
• Sword Two fought the injured Yao Qiluo, broke his ancient sword with a powerful strike, and forced her to retreat after Luo Xingchen’s arrow joined the attack.
• Mo Qingbai ambushed a Demon Venerable near Ning Chen, but she escaped into white mist with the unconscious phoenix before he could capture them.
• The searchers found neither Ning Chen nor his corpse, and Hua Zhongdie continued searching through the void for a full day and night despite her worsening injuries.

Prince Yan arrived in Primeval Land, defeated Luoshen in a one-sword duel, and later destroyed Mo Qingbai’s martial arts while seeking justice for a junior. Meanwhile, Hua Zhongdie continued searching desperately for the missing Zhiming, her health and spirit failing.

• The Zhao Family identified Luo Xingchen among the mysterious experts and ordered people to kill him and recover the Star Scar Bow.
• Prince Yan and A'man visited Tiancang Academy, where Yi Qingqiu explained the events surrounding Zhiming and Luoshen’s unexpected appearance.
• Prince Yan challenged Luoshen by the Luoshui River and pierced her shoulder with one sword, sparing her life; Consort Luo helped her recover.
• After finding Butterfly gone from White Emperor City, Prince Yan agreed to seek justice for a junior and traveled north with A'man.
• On the White Wolf Plains, Prince Yan defeated Mo Qingbai, severed his hand, and shattered his sea of qi, leaving the Human Sovereign alive but without his martial arts.
• Hua Zhongdie searched the streets for Zhiming despite coughing blood and collapsing from exhaustion, while Zhao Liusu urged her to rest.

Ning Chen and the weakened White Flood Dragon struggled to survive and find a way out of Burial Gorge while competing over fire, shelter, and food. The chapter ended with them agreeing to share half a wild wolf in exchange for Ning Chen starting a fire.

• Ning Chen woke in Burial Gorge and fought off the White Flood Dragon when he tried to reclaim the Phoenix source.
• Ning Chen and the White Flood Dragon discovered they were trapped between sheer cliffs, then fought over a fire as both endured the cold.
• The White Flood Dragon took control of Ning Chen's rain shelter, while Ning Chen later kept the fire by threatening to douse it.
• Ning Chen found a wild wolf, but the White Flood Dragon stole it and failed to make a fire by copying Ning Chen.
• After chasing each other until they were exhausted, Ning Chen offered to start a fire for half the wolf, and the White Flood Dragon agreed.

Ning Chen followed White Flood Dragon through Burial Gorge, trying to witness her comprehension of Words Become Law, but she repeatedly drove him off. Outside the gorge, news of Mo Qingbai and Luoshen’s injuries spread, while the bloodied Butterfly searched for a young man in red robes.

• Ning Chen and White Flood Dragon briefly shared a campfire, and he noticed her unusual quietness and ethereal presence the next morning.
• Ning Chen followed White Flood Dragon to observe her Words Become Law, but she attacked him and chased him through a torrential rainstorm that turned into water arrows.
• That night, Ning Chen watched White Flood Dragon condense water under the moon and realized Burial Gorge’s power might also be a form of law.
• White Flood Dragon attacked Ning Chen again at dawn, and he fled after failing to defeat her.
• News spread across Central Province that Mo Qingbai had been taken away and a Supreme’s martial arts had been crippled, while reports of Luoshen’s injuries linked both events to the tribulation in Primeval Land.
• The bloodied Butterfly staggered through a Central Province city and asked whether anyone had seen a handsome young man in red robes.

Ning Chen forced White Flood Dragon to swear not to trouble him for half a year and explained a plan to escape Burial Gorge. As they began preparing, Hua Zhongdie continued searching for Ning Chen in Qiyue City while her health deteriorated.

• Ning Chen repeatedly disrupted White Flood Dragon's cultivation until White Flood Dragon agreed to swear he would leave Ning Chen alone for half a year after they escaped.
• Ning Chen explained that White Flood Dragon's control over rainwater could help them escape, and they agreed to work together.
• During a heavy rain, Ning Chen dug a pit with Ghost Maiden's sword and called for White Flood Dragon to drain the water from it.
• Hua Zhongdie arrived in Qiyue City with Zhao Liusu, coughing up blood as she continued searching for Ning Chen.
• Yi Qingqiu learned that the Academy had not yet found Hua Zhongdie and that Scholar had gone out to search for her.

White Flood Dragon used Words Become Law to escape Burial Gorge with Ning Chen, then bargained for Phoenix essence. Meanwhile, Hua Zhongdie was poisoned and gravely wounded while fighting the Kaiyang princes, and the academy sent Elder Qi to rescue her as another mysterious figure arrived.

• White Flood Dragon mastered Words Become Law during a downpour and raised a waterfall to carry Ning Chen out of Burial Gorge.
• The Kaiyang princes ambushed Hua Zhongdie and Zhao Liusu, and their army attacked after Yi Zhaohui declared that Hua Zhongdie had to die.
• Hua Zhongdie fought the princes despite her wounds, but poison and crossbow bolts weakened her until she unleashed Butterfly Dance, Peaceful Clarity and escaped.
• White Flood Dragon demanded Phoenix origin heartblood from Ning Chen in exchange for granting him one request after half a year, and Ning Chen reluctantly agreed.
• Yi Qingqiu learned that Hua Zhongdie was in grave danger and sent Elder Qi to bring her back, but a red-lit newcomer appeared before the old gatekeeper could depart.

Ning Chen rescued Hua Zhongdie from the three princes of the Kaiyang Dynasty, but her wounds and poison left her near death. The White Flood Dragon sent him to Fallen Phoenix Pass to seek the Yin-Yang Dual-Polarity Heavenly Thunder, where Ning Chen flew into a tribulation that threatened him as he tried to save her.

• Hua Zhongdie and the exhausted God of Blades fought the three princes and their forces outside Qiyue City until Hua Zhongdie fell gravely wounded.
• Ning Chen arrived, carried Hua Zhongdie on his back, and slaughtered the black-clad experts before killing all three princes despite Yi Xuanmiao’s plea for their lives.
• At Tiancang Academy, Yi Qingqiu said Hua Zhongdie could not be saved by ordinary means, so Ning Chen sought help from the White Flood Dragon.
• The White Flood Dragon told Ning Chen that the Yin-Yang Dual-Polarity Heavenly Thunder at Fallen Phoenix Pass might restore Hua Zhongdie’s failing vitality, despite being a deadly tribulation for him.
• Ning Chen carried Hua Zhongdie into Fallen Phoenix Pass, avoided the first bolts of heavenly thunder, and flew toward the cliff where Solar Thunder swallowed him.

Ning Chen endured the Solar Thunder to carry Hua Zhongdie to the summit, where the alternating yin and yang thunder began restoring her life while he fell unconscious below. The Abnormal Roc then freed the Red Serpent Demonic Sword, and the Demonic Body of Slaughter faced Sword Forging Villa’s Half-Venerable as upheaval spread across Central Province.

• Ning Chen repeatedly took Solar Thunder strikes as he carried Hua Zhongdie toward the summit, where the thunder swallowed her and the sash binding them snapped.
• Over nine days, alternating Solar and Yin Thunder consumed Hua Zhongdie’s poison and began reversing her failing life force, while Ning Chen remained unconscious below the cliff.
• The Abnormal Roc seized a soul belonging to the Phoenix Body and departed, prompting Suan Tianhe and powerful figures across Central Province to sense a great change in fate.
• The Abnormal Roc broke the seals on the Red Serpent Blood Edge at Cold Mountain Flame Ridge, while Sword Forging Villa’s old man tried to stop it.
• The Abnormal Roc took the Red Serpent Demonic Sword and transformed into the Demonic Body of Slaughter; the old man raised an ancient stone sword to confront him.

The Sword Forger Master fought the Knowing Fate Demonic Body at Cold Mountain Flame Ridge but was defeated, and the demonic body departed with Red Serpent. Hua Zhongdie brought the soulless red-clad figure to Bailu Academy, while the Venerable Lady and Nu Chang discovered that killing karma had stolen the Phoenix Body’s soul and prepared to send a portion of Knowing Fate’s True Body soul to him.

• The Sword Forger Master unleashed his strongest move, but the demonic body countered with Demonic Art, Blood Flame, broke the stone sword, and left him fallen as the Sword Forging Villa disciples rushed to him.
• The White Flood Dragon crossed the lightning tribulation at Fallen Phoenix Heavenly Pass and found the red-clad figure without soul or spirit; Hua Zhongdie took him away with Tears of Buried Flowers ready.
• Hua Zhongdie returned to Bailu Academy, told Yi Qingqiu that the figure’s soul and spirit were gone, and collected prepared pills from the scholar in Jinglun Pavilion.
• Killing karma surged around Knowing Fate’s True Body at the Purple Light Platform, and Nu Chang and the Changling Venerable Lady suppressed it with help from the four cauldrons.
• The Venerable Lady determined that the Phoenix Body’s killing karma had stolen its soul and ordered Nu Chang to separate part of Knowing Fate’s soul and send it swiftly to Bailu Academy.

Ning Chen’s Demonic Body of Slaughter fought off a sect alliance led by Gong Wuhen, leaving the wilderness strewn with bodies before continuing west. At Bailu Academy, Nu Chang delivered Ning Chen’s lost soul and placed it into his sleeping Phoenix Body, leaving Yi Qingqiu to help him recover.

• Gong Wuhen led the demon-slaying alliance against Ning Chen’s Demonic Body of Slaughter, but his attacks failed to stop it.
• Ning Chen’s killing body unleashed Demonic Style, Heaven’s Lament and defeated Gong Wuhen, who fled as the three-thousand-strong vanguard was slaughtered.
• Hua Zhongdie arrived too late to find Ning Chen and resumed chasing him westward, while Nu Chang hurried to Bailu Academy with the Human Sovereign’s letter.
• Emperor Yuan ordered Yi Xuanmiao to respond to Red Serpent’s emergence and secretly sent a shadow to monitor him.
• Nu Chang introduced herself to Yi Qingqiu as Chang Yue and brought Ning Chen’s phantom soul to the academy.
• Nu Chang placed Ning Chen’s one soul into his sleeping Phoenix Body and told Yi Qingqiu that the mortal world owed him and the academy should help restore his lost soul.

After learning of the killing body’s rampage, Ning Chen set out while Yi Xuanmiao joined the allied forces sent to destroy it. Hua Zhongdie trapped the demonic body at Shenghua Mountain, but Bi Qingwei attacked her and the net shattered, leaving the demon free to strike.

• Yi Qingqiu told Ning Chen about the Phoenix Body and the demonic body that had taken the Red Serpent Demonic Sword, and Ning Chen departed to pursue it.
• The leaders at Demon Garment Mountain sent Yi Xuanmiao, Zhan Feibai, Zhu Jingwu, and Bi Qingwei to confront the demon, and the allied army set out from Chaohui City.
• Hua Zhongdie met the demonic body at Shenghua Mountain and battled him with Tears of Buried Flowers and her Butterfly Dance techniques.
• Hua Zhongdie trapped the demonic body in her Heavenly Net, then sat down to recover after her injuries flared up.
• Bi Qingwei attacked the recovering Hua Zhongdie, but the net shattered and the demonic body emerged, driving his sword through Bi Qingwei’s heart.

Ning Chen and Yi Xuanmiao joined forces against the Demonic Body, but the demon unleashed Heaven’s Lament and Bloodflame, killing many disciples and defeating Yi Xuanmiao. Ning Chen revealed that his apparent fatal wound had been stopped by Black Tortoise Heart Armor, rescued Yi Xuanmiao, and resumed the fight with the weakened demon.

• The Demonic Body advanced on the wounded Hua Zhongdie, while Zhan Feibai and Zhu Jingwu waited; Yi Xuanmiao arrived, and Ning Chen appeared with King Yama’s Sword.
• Ning Chen and Yi Xuanmiao agreed to fight the demon together, but their attacks failed to overcome him, and he hurled them both back.
• The Demonic Body struck Ning Chen into the mountain, prompting Zhan Feibai to lead the sect forces into battle; the demon answered with Heaven’s Lament and Bloodflame, killing or wounding many disciples and driving Zhan Feibai and Zhu Jingwu away.
• Yi Xuanmiao unleashed Azure Moth’s strongest technique, but the Demonic Body defeated him in a devastating clash and prepared to kill him.
• Ning Chen rose unharmed, revealed that Black Tortoise Heart Armor had protected him, and sent Yi Xuanmiao out of the battle before attacking the weakened demon with phoenix fire.

Ning Chen defeated and absorbed his Demonic Body, but signs showed that the demonic calamity was still growing. Elsewhere, Xia Ziyi killed Zhan Feibai and Zhu Jingwu, and the authorities realized that two demons might be active.

• Ning Chen defeated the exhausted Demonic Body with Nirvana, absorbed him, and sealed Red Serpent within his phoenix phantom before leaving with Hua Zhongdie and the wounded Yi Xuanmiao.
• Suan Tianhe sensed demonic miasma rising again and traced the new calamity toward the Eastern Domain and the forbidden land where the god had descended.
• Ning Chen and Hua Zhongdie returned to Bailu Academy, handed Yi Xuanmiao to the Academy Head, and entered seclusion to heal.
• A disturbance at the Demon Wheel Sea led Innate experts to suspect that the Shaking Light King had survived and found the Immortal Palace.
• Xia Ziyi attacked Zhan Feibai and Zhu Jingwu near Chaohui City, killed them despite the Commander-in-Chief's intervention, and gave his name before departing.
• On Demon Garment Mountain, the Commander-in-Chief and others concluded that two demons might exist and ordered the sects to send their true experts.

After recovering, Ning Chen traveled north with Zhao Liusu toward the Zhao Family, while Emperor Yuan grew suspicious of Bailu Academy and the forces behind recent events. At the chapter’s end, Xia Ziyi fought a powerful coalition sent to eliminate the demonic calamity as a white-robed figure approached nearby.

• Emperor Yuan learned that Ning Chen had survived the battle and returned to Bailu Academy, then suspected Yi Qingqiu, Hua Zhongdie, and Mr. Ning of conspiring against him.
• Ning Chen left Bailu Academy with Zhao Liusu and persuaded her to help him approach the Zhao Family under a false identity.
• Ning Chen and Zhao Liusu reached Jiufu City, where he disguised himself as Bai Yujing and warned her not to reveal his identity.
• The White Flood Dragon left the Primeval Land, Yi Qingqiu tried to stop it, and Yao Qiluo intervened to block her.
• Xia Ziyi confronted Ren Jiuge and sixteen powerful experts at the northwestern border, then began fighting them without using Crimson Practice.
• As the battle raged, a white-robed figure approached from a thousand miles away, and two prayer beads in his hand changed color.

The Demon Venerable destroyed Qingyuan Prefecture while pursuing Kong Yuanci and Mo Qingbai, as the demon-slaying battle ended with Wen Lun dead and Buddha and demon locked in combat. Elsewhere, sect elders entered Demon Wheel Sea, while Ning Chen and Zhao Liusu traveled toward the Zhao Family and spoke about love and letting go.

• The Demon Venerable struck Qingyuan Prefecture into ruins, but Kong Yuanci escaped with the unconscious Mo Qingbai and fled west as the White Flood Dragon pursued them.
• Xia Ziyi’s demonic power broke through the demon-slaying formation, killed Wen Lun, and defeated Ren Jiuge before Bodhi Venerable arrived to confront him.
• A second great bandit appeared during the battle between Bodhi Venerable and Xia Ziyi and cried out to his master for help.
• The Human Sovereign restrained the corpse gods at Demon Wheel Sea, allowing the sects’ supreme elders to enter the forbidden land, where their war chariots were destroyed.
• Ning Chen and Zhao Liusu camped beneath the moon on their way toward the Zhao Family, and Ning Chen said that he could now live only for the person he owed.

Bodhi Venerable fought the White Flood Dragon and the devil in a battle that left all three injured, while Ning Chen returned Zhao Liusu to the Zhao Family and asked to see its Heavenly Bows. A woman interrupted Zhao Tengkong to reject his request, leaving Ning Chen’s plan unresolved.

• Bodhi Venerable fought the White Flood Dragon and the devil, blocking their attacks while protecting the two bandits in wheelchairs.
• The devil wielded the Reincarnation Devil Diagram and the Divine Demon Manifestation’s sword strike, injuring Bodhi Venerable before Bodhi’s ultimate Buddhist move wounded both opponents.
• The devil continued fighting Bodhi Venerable, who shattered the devil’s left arm and pressed his attack as the White Flood Dragon unleashed torrents.
• Ning Chen returned Zhao Liusu to the Zhao Family estate, where Zhao Tengkong scolded her and sent her to see her mother.
• Ning Chen introduced himself as Bai Yujing and asked Zhao Tengkong to let him see the Zhao Family’s three Heavenly Bows.
• A woman outside the hall declared that Ning Chen’s request was inconvenient and told him to choose another.