Chapter Summaries

Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong reached a testing site with Wu Qingchou’s help to seek Examination Permits for the Heaven’s Gate Examination. Ning Xiaochuan revealed a Talent Level of Once in Three Millennia, prompting the Ten Thousand Swords Palace to consider recruiting him, while Yue Mingsong began his own test.

• Ning Xiaochuan declined Wu Qingchou’s offer to join the Ten Thousand Swords Palace, but agreed to let her arrange testing for him and Yue Mingsong.
• Wu Qingchou brought them to Martial Uncle Qian, who explained that applicants needed at least a Talent Level of Once in a Hundred Years to qualify for an Examination Permit.
• Ning Xiaochuan suppressed his essence qi with the Demon Sword, but the Testing Pearl still showed a Talent Level of Once in Three Millennia.
• Martial Uncle Qian and Wu Qingchou decided to recruit Ning Xiaochuan, whose talent could make him a future Core Disciple.
• Yue Mingsong stepped forward to take his test and claimed he was only twenty-one despite his aged appearance.

Yue Mingsong proved he was twenty-one and revealed a Once in Three Millennia Talent Level, joining Ning Xiaochuan as a rare genius. The two joined the Ten Thousand Swords Palace for protection and resources, then Ning Xiaochuan asked where the other Examination Permit holders had gathered so he could find his companions.

• Yue Mingsong let Martial Uncle Qian use Heaven Eye Vision to confirm his age, then tested at a Once in Three Millennia Talent Level.
• Martial Uncle Qian invited Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong to join the Ten Thousand Swords Palace and warned that rival factions might target them.
• Martial Uncle Qian offered the pair protection, training, and discounted access to the Ten Thousand Swords Palace's resources.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong accepted the offer and received their Examination Permits as Wu Qingchou prepared to take them to the training ground.
• Ning Xiaochuan asked Wu Qingchou where the other talented Examination Permit holders were gathering, hoping to find Ning Xiner, Yu Qianqian, and Situ Jing.

Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong joined Ten Thousand Swords Palace after earning exceptional talent ratings, and Wu Qingchou brought them to its grounds. There, Ning Xiaochuan endured a mind attack from the red-clad Dance Fairy, Luo Wu, and learned she was one of Heavenly Emperor Mountain’s Two Fairies.

• Ning Xiaochuan told Wu Qingchou that he had other friends who might take the Heaven's Gate Examination, and she offered to help recruit them after returning to Ten Thousand Swords Palace.
• Martial Uncle Qian announced that Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong had joined Ten Thousand Swords Palace, and the palace elders celebrated the arrival of two rare geniuses.
• Wu Qingchou led Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong through the Ten Thousand Swords Palace grounds, where they saw Elder Huo’s chained flood dragon and listened to Elder Ji expound the Dao.
• Luo Wu sent a mind attack at Ning Xiaochuan after he stared at her, but he resisted it, and she withdrew the attack without anyone else noticing.
• Wu Qingchou identified Luo Wu as the Dance Fairy, one of Heavenly Emperor Mountain’s Two Fairies, and Yue Mingsong eagerly asked to meet her.

Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong attended their Entry Ceremony at Ten Thousand Swords Palace, where the Four Great Elders considered taking them as disciples. Ning Xiaochuan revealed that he was an Advanced Heart Nourisher, leaving the elders to recognize he might qualify as a Core Disciple even if he failed the Heaven’s Gate Examination.

• Elder Ji praised Ning Xiaochuan for withstanding half of Luo Wu’s strength and brought him and Yue Mingsong to the Entry Ceremony.
• The Four Great Elders introduced themselves and discussed taking the two Once in Three Millennia geniuses as disciples, but the martial arts elders competed for them.
• Ning Xiaochuan revealed that he was a Heart Nourisher and summoned his Heart Nourishing True Cauldron, stunning the elders and Outer Disciples.
• Ning Xiaochuan admitted he was preparing to become a Grand Heart Nourisher, and the elders realized he could be promoted to Core Disciple even if he failed the Heaven’s Gate Examination.

Ning Xiaochuan revealed his exceptional Heart Nourisher talent and was recommended to the Second Palace Lord as a potential disciple, while Yue Mingsong became Elder Pu’s disciple. After receiving a second-class Outer Disciple token, Ning Xiaochuan prepared to cultivate the Source Water needed to become a Grand Heart Nourisher.

• The elders agreed that the Second Palace Lord was the only suitable master for Ning Xiaochuan and promised to seek his acceptance.
• Yue Mingsong chose Elder Pu as his master, and Elder Pu summoned him to help raise his cultivation.
• Elder Ji, Elder Huo, and Elder Cheng decided to report Ning Xiaochuan’s talent through the Sixth Palace Lord, while the Second Palace Lord received the news and set out to meet the new prodigies.
• Ning Xiaochuan received a second-class Outer Disciple token and prepared to refine a drop of Source Water to become a Grand Heart Nourisher.

Ning Xiaochuan tried to refine Source Water and accidentally fused his Martial Soul Cauldron Seal with the Heart Nourishing True Cauldron, turning it into a powerful weapon while leaving his breakthrough uncertain. He decided to seek more Mystic Essence and prepared to go with Wu Qingchou to Heaven's Gate City.

• Ning Xiaochuan refined the Millennial Nourishing Heart Rare Grass and Mystic Essence, then struggled to refine the exceptionally potent Evergreen Spirit Vine.
• Ning Xiaochuan successfully refined the Evergreen Spirit Vine, but his Martial Soul Cauldron Seal unexpectedly merged with the Heart Nourishing True Cauldron and absorbed the Mystic Essence.
• The fusion formed a tiny Ruin World inside the cauldron, which Ning Xiaochuan suspected had become an Innate Ninth Grade Profound Weapon.
• Ning Xiaochuan found that the remaining ingredients had become Five-Colored Mist instead of Source Water and decided to buy more Mystic Essence to try again.
• Wu Qingchou arrived to escort Ning Xiaochuan to Heaven's Gate City, and he planned to first check the Ten Thousand Swords Palace Resource Treasure Vault for Mystic Essence.

Ning Xiaochuan and Wu Qingchou traveled to Heaven's Gate City to find Profound Essence for his cultivation. After finding nine drops in a shop, Ning Xiaochuan saw them taken by a wealthy Heart Nourisher surnamed Lu and stopped Lu as he tried to leave.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Wu Qingchou left for Heaven's Gate City after the Ten Thousand Swords Palace vault proved to have no Profound Essence.
• Yue Mingsong tried to follow them while wearing the Mystic Iron Mountain-Bearing Armor, but fell and was left behind.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Wu Qingchou reached Heaven's Gate City, where Ning Xiaochuan searched the trading market for Profound Essence.
• Ning Xiaochuan found a crystal containing nine drops of high-grade Profound Essence and agreed to buy it for six million Profound Stones.
• A Heart Nourisher surnamed Lu entered with his companions, paid for the crystal, and ignored Ning Xiaochuan's claim to it.
• Ning Xiaochuan ordered Lu to stop as Lu and his companions prepared to leave the shop.

Ning Xiaochuan confronted Lu Ren over the nine drops of Profound Essence and defeated him after Lu Ren invoked the Prince's Mansion to intimidate him. Outside the shop, Nie Lanxin concealed herself and Lan Zhi, while Lan Zhi pleaded with her not to harm Ning Xiaochuan.

• Ning Xiaochuan rejected Lu Ren's Earth-Grade Profound Stone and demanded that he respect their agreed transaction.
• Nie Lanxin hid her and Lan Zhi's auras after sensing Ning Xiaochuan, then said she would let Lu Ren's conflict with him do the work of harming him.
• Lu Ren stopped Brother Jin from attacking and claimed he had bought the Profound Essence, challenging Ning Xiaochuan to seek him at the Prince's Mansion.
• Ning Xiaochuan slapped Lu Ren through the shop wall, took the box of Profound Essence, and struck him away again when he tried to reclaim it.

Ning Xiaochuan’s fight with Lu Ren drew Jin Wuhui and the Prince’s Mansion’s geniuses into a confrontation, but Luo Wu intervened and drove them off. She warned Ning Xiaochuan that Lu Ren would seek revenge and urged him to return to Ten Thousand Swords Palace, while he asked to attend the Dao discussion she was heading to.

• Wu Qingchou blocked Jin Wuhui and the Prince’s Mansion’s cultivators, claiming Ning Xiaochuan was a rare genius and a disciple of Ten Thousand Swords Palace’s Second Palace Lord.
• Lu Ren persuaded Jin Wuhui to attack Ning Xiaochuan, and Jin Wuhui sent his Heavy Sword toward Ning Xiaochuan’s heart.
• Luo Wu knocked Jin Wuhui’s sword aside and made him and Lu Ren leave without harming Ning Xiaochuan.
• Wu Qingchou and Ning Xiaochuan thanked Luo Wu, who warned them that Lu Ren would pursue revenge and advised them to return to Ten Thousand Swords Palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan asked to join Luo Wu at the Dao discussion, but she said the gathering was for young Heaven-Man Realm experts and told him to return to the palace.

Ning Xiaochuan learned about the Prince's Mansion and searched for the Yulan Empire and Nine Yue Territory cultivators in Heaven's Gate City. He found Situ Jing and the other Nine Yue Territory geniuses preparing to confront the Prince's Mansion over a humiliating incident.

• Wu Qingchou explained that the Prince's Mansion recruited heirs of powerful Heaven Pivot Great Empire families, and warned Ning Xiaochuan that Lu Ren might target him.
• Ning Xiaochuan learned that Ning Xiner and Yu Qianqian were cultivating in the Sacred Land, then headed north with Wu Qingchou to find the Nine Yue Territory cultivators.
• Nie Lanxin and Nie Lanzhi emerged from a spatial barrier after Ning Xiaochuan left, and Nie Lanxin said she could spare him if he submitted to her.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Wu Qingchou reached the estate where the Nine Yue Territory geniuses were staying and met Situ Jing and Zi Hanyan.
• Situ Jing told Ning Xiaochuan that the Nine Yue Territory cultivators were going to demand an explanation from the Prince's Mansion after its members humiliated them.

After a female cultivator from Nine Yue Territory was killed by a Second-Class Outer Disciple of the Prince’s Mansion, Ning Xiaochuan helped the aggrieved young cultivators weigh how to seek justice. The group joined the Ten Thousand Swords Palace for protection, while Zi Hanyan stayed with Ning Xiaochuan as he set out to buy materials for powerful weapons.

• Situ Jing told Ning Xiaochuan that a Second-Class Outer Disciple of the Prince’s Mansion had beaten a Nine Yue Territory female examinee to death after she refused to become his slave.
• Wu Qingchou warned that the Prince’s Mansion was too powerful to challenge safely, then recruited the young cultivators into the Ten Thousand Swords Palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan explained that joining the Ten Thousand Swords Palace offered added protection but could not guarantee their safety, and the Nine Yue Territory group decided to become Outer Disciples before seeking justice.
• Zi Hanyan asked to travel with Ning Xiaochuan, and he welcomed her while Wu Qingchou led the recruits back to the Ten Thousand Swords Palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Zi Hanyan went to purchase materials for three Ninth Grade Profound Weapon battle swords that he hoped would help him break through to the Heaven-Man Realm.

Lu Ren and Jin Wuhui sought revenge on Ning Xiaochuan, and Jin Ling proposed hiring Burning Sword Sect expert Fang Jie to kill him. Back at the estate, Ning Xiaochuan questioned Zi Hanyan about her talent and clan’s incomplete martial scripture, but their conversation was interrupted when the female ghost grew more substantial and flew away after Ning Xiaochuan sensed she had found her body.

• Lu Ren and Jin Wuhui vowed to make Ning Xiaochuan pay, and Jin Ling suggested offering Fang Jie a Sword Pill Elixir to have him kill Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan spent nearly all his Profound Stones buying materials for three Ninth Grade Profound Weapons and planned to search Heaven’s Gate City for more.
• Ning Xiaochuan asked Zi Hanyan why her cultivation did not match her apparent talent, and she revealed that the Zi Clan’s martial scripture was incomplete.
• Zi Hanyan began to explain that the scripture was her clan’s greatest secret, but a female ghost appeared behind Ning Xiaochuan.
• The female ghost’s body grew solid and a jade halo formed behind her head; Ning Xiaochuan realized she had found her body, and she flew out of the estate.

Ning Xiaochuan followed the female ghost to Mo Li Taoist Temple, where he found Nie Lanxin and watched the ghost try to merge with her. The confrontation paused when Nie Lanxin accused Ning Xiaochuan of having defiled her, leaving Nie Lanzhi stunned.

• Ning Xiaochuan suspected the female ghost had sensed Nie Lanxin in Heaven's Gate City and followed her south to Mo Li Taoist Temple.
• Ning Xiaochuan entered the temple, triggered its formations, and broke through to confront Nie Lanxin.
• Nie Lanxin and the female ghost revealed equally powerful auras, and the ghost charged at Nie Lanxin, demanding her body back.
• Nie Lanxin repelled the ghost with a Ninth Grade Profound Weapon zither and protected herself with the Jade Saint Flame.
• Ning Xiaochuan said he had come to see Lan Zhi, but Nie Lanxin accused him of defiling her and causing her to abandon her body.
• Nie Lanzhi heard Nie Lanxin's accusation and froze in shock.

Nie Lanzhi misunderstood the history between Nie Lanxin and Ning Xiaochuan, while Ning Xiaochuan refused to take sides as Nie Lanxin and a female ghost fought. Meanwhile, Fang Jie led Burning Sword Sect cultivators to attack Zi Hanyan, who studied a fragment of the Purple Haze Scripture and sensed danger.

• Nie Lanzhi concluded that Nie Lanxin’s hatred for Ning Xiaochuan came from love and considered trying to reconcile them.
• Nie Lanxin offered to wipe away her grudges with Ning Xiaochuan if he helped her subdue the female ghost, but Ning Xiaochuan distrusted her and refused to help either side.
• The female ghost pleaded with Ning Xiaochuan to help her reclaim her body, then fought Nie Lanxin with ghostly abilities against Nie Lanxin’s Fairy Sword Servant.
• Fang Jie brought twelve young cultivators from the Burning Sword Sect to kill Ning Xiaochuan and ordered four to guard the estate while the rest entered.
• Zi Hanyan studied a fragment of the Purple Haze Scripture, unaware that the Zi Clan descended from the Purple Gold Imperial Lord, and noticed the Bronze Lamp’s flame sway.

Zi Hanyan fought off Fang Jie and the black-robed cultivators who had attacked her estate while searching for Ning Xiaochuan. After Fang Jie wounded her, her divine bloodline awakened, but her pursuers caught up as she fled toward the outskirts of Heaven's Gate City.

• Zi Hanyan emerged from her ruined house and fought the black-robed cultivators, killing one who attacked her and then fleeing their encirclement.
• Zi Hanyan targeted the woman wielding the Silver Cocoon Profound Silk Whip, but three cultivators joined forces to attack her with a hurricane divine power.
• Zi Hanyan used Purple Qi Comes From The East to kill three more cultivators and reach the estate wall.
• Fang Jie struck Zi Hanyan in the back, severely injuring her, and led the remaining cultivators in pursuit.
• Zi Hanyan's bloodline awakened, revealing the divine inheritance of her Purple Clan ancestor, but she continued fleeing as Fang Jie and the others caught up.

Ning Xiaochuan avoided being drawn into the battle between Nie Lanxin and the female ghost, then spoke with Nie Lanzhi, who urged him to reconcile with her sister. After Nie Lanxin left with Nie Lanzhi, she questioned what her sister had discussed with Ning Xiaochuan and was startled by Nie Lanzhi’s claim that he still loved her.

• Nie Lanxin tried to draw Ning Xiaochuan into her fight with the female ghost, but he used Rainbow Shift to evade her and return to Mo Li Taoist Temple.
• Ning Xiaochuan caught Nie Lanzhi when she nearly fell, and she shyly told him that Nie Lanxin loved him and wanted him to make peace with her.
• Ning Xiaochuan said he and Nie Lanxin could not reconcile while she still intended to kill him, and Nie Lanxin later left the valley with Nie Lanzhi.
• The female ghost followed Ning Xiaochuan as he headed toward Heaven's Gate City, while Nie Lanxin and Nie Lanzhi stopped beside a river three hundred miles away.
• Nie Lanxin demanded to know what Nie Lanzhi had said to Ning Xiaochuan, and Nie Lanzhi claimed he had called her his first and most deeply loved woman.
• Nie Lanxin doubted the claim but asked whether Ning Xiaochuan had really said it.

Nie Lanxin considered whether Ning Xiaochuan might truly love her, while Ning Xiaochuan dismissed the idea and then sensed that Zi Hanyan was in danger. He rushed to her as she faced Fang Jie and seven black-robed cultivators outside Heaven's Gate City.

• Nie Lanzhi told Nie Lanxin that Ning Xiaochuan regretted trying to kill her and hoped she would give him another chance.
• Nie Lanxin weighed her feelings for Ning Xiaochuan and decided she would test whether he truly loved her.
• Ning Xiaochuan dismissed the idea that Nie Lanxin loved him, then sensed through his Seven Aperture God Demon Heart that Zi Hanyan was in trouble and flew toward her.
• Zi Hanyan, wounded and pursued outside Heaven's Gate City, found Fang Jie blocking her path as seven black-robed cultivators surrounded her.
• Zi Hanyan summoned purple lightning and charged at the seven cultivators behind her, hoping to break through the encirclement.

Ning Xiaochuan arrived in time to save Zi Hanyan and fought Fang Jie, revealing strength far beyond what Fang Jie expected. Just as Ning Xiaochuan was about to interrogate him, a Dragon Pattern Golden Needle killed Fang Jie and shot toward Ning Xiaochuan.

• Fang Jie wounded Zi Hanyan and ordered his men to capture her, but seven swords suddenly killed all seven black-clad cultivators.
• Ning Xiaochuan arrived with the female ghost, and Fang Jie recognized him as the target of the Burning Sword Sect's attack.
• Ning Xiaochuan attacked Fang Jie with Bright Flame and seven ancient swords, breaking his Golden Gauntlet and injuring his arm.
• Fang Jie summoned his Evil Sword Dharma Form, but Ning Xiaochuan broke his arms and demanded to know who had sent him.
• A Dragon Pattern Golden Needle pierced Fang Jie's head and killed him, then flew toward Ning Xiaochuan from close range.

Ning Xiaochuan survived an ambush by the black-clad woman who killed Fang Jie, then fought her as she mistook him for a peak Fifth Step Heavenly Ladder Realm cultivator. After Ning Xiaochuan protected the wounded Zi Hanyan and escaped her attack, the woman opened a gate to a Different Dimension so they could continue their battle without restraint.

• Ning Xiaochuan dodged the Dragon Pattern Golden Needle, while the black-clad woman emerged and admitted she had killed Fang Jie.
• Ning Xiaochuan accused the woman of arranging Fang Jie's attack, but she denied it and challenged him to a battle to pursue the Heaven-Man Great Dao.
• Ning Xiaochuan and the woman exchanged Martial Dao Divine Powers and Daoist arts, and Ning Xiaochuan destroyed her Every Plant a Soldier technique with his Yin and Yang flames.
• Ning Xiaochuan fled with the injured Zi Hanyan, but he turned back and deflected the woman's pillar of light with a Lightning Divine Beast attack.
• Ning Xiaochuan gave Zi Hanyan a healing profound pill and left her with the Golden Jiao, then agreed to fight the woman in a Different Dimension.
• The woman tore open the void and created a gate to the Different Dimension.

Ning Xiaochuan fought the black-clad woman in a Different Dimension, where she relied on expensive defensive arrays and her Spirit Realm Dharma Form. He countered with the World Extinction Divine Monument, leaving her defenses cracking beneath its power.

• Ning Xiaochuan agreed with the black-clad woman not to use a Ninth Grade Profound Weapon, and he shattered her array with a punch before chasing her through the air.
• Ning Xiaochuan tore off the woman’s outer sleeve and recognized her as a wealthy descendant of the Prince’s Mansion who had ordered Fang Jie to kill him.
• The black-clad woman protected herself with nine powerful array plates, then put away eight of them after Ning Xiaochuan argued that she needed danger to awaken her potential.
• The black-clad woman unleashed her Spirit Realm Dharma Form and sent a river of sword qi at Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan summoned the World Extinction Divine Monument and sixteen streams of World Extinction Qi, crushing the Spirit Realm Dharma Form and cracking the array plate protecting the woman.