Recaps

Ning Xiaochuan refined stone beasts to strengthen Xiao Shuang and began refining the Three-Leaf Vitality Grass while studying the Mystic Gate Evasion Technique. After discovering Nie Lanzhi lacked a heart eye, he taught her Nine Palaces Divination and Calculation, which she learned with remarkable speed.

• Ning Xiaochuan hurled the Stone Beast Dragon Elephant and the Two-Headed Stone Beast into the Heart Nourishing True Cauldron to be refined with other stone beasts.
• After three days of refinement, the Two-Headed Stone Beast emerged forty-eight meters tall and able to breathe crimson fire.
• Ning Xiaochuan sealed off the Three-Leaf Vitality Grass and began refining its Yuan Life Pearl in the cauldron.
• Ning Xiaochuan studied the Nine Palaces Art in the Mystic Gate Evasion Technique while refining the rare medicine.
• Ning Xiaochuan examined Nie Lanzhi and told her that her incomplete Martial Heart Palace lacked a heart eye, making her unsuited to becoming a Heart Nourisher.
• Ning Xiaochuan began teaching Nie Lanzhi Nine Palaces Divination and Calculation, and she quickly showed strong comprehension.

Ning Xiaochuan refined Yuan Life Pills from Three-Leaf Vitality Grass, raising his Talent Level to Rare in Nine Thousand Years while Nie Lanzhi reached Rare in Six Thousand Years. After a year in this world, the Red Little Dragon discovered that the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace had appeared, and Ning Xiaochuan set out with Nie Lanzhi to find it.

• Ning Xiaochuan refined ten Advanced Yuan Life Pills and gave Nie Lanzhi the leftover medicinal elixir to improve her physique.
• Ning Xiaochuan consumed the pills over three months, awakened signs of the Seven Aperture God-Demon Heart Palace, and suppressed his cultivation at the Worldly Detachment Realm Ninth Level.
• Ning Xiaochuan reached the Rare in Nine Thousand Years Talent Level and concluded that only Divine Blood could help him advance further.
• Ning Xiaochuan raised Nie Lanzhi's Talent Level to Rare in Six Thousand Years and advised her to cultivate the Nine Palaces Calculation to make up for her Martial Heart Palace's missing heart eye.
• The Red Little Dragon returned on the Two-Headed Stone Beast with news that the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace had appeared, so Ning Xiaochuan and Nie Lanzhi flew off to investigate.

Ning Xiaochuan arrived at the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace as it emerged from the clouds and watched Ye Nantian and Nie Lanxin fail to break through its barrier. He recognized the barrier’s two gates of life, leaving open the possibility that he could find a way inside.

• The Two-Headed Stone Beast carried Ning Xiaochuan to the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace, where he waited among the gathered martial experts and arcane beasts.
• Ning Xiaochuan reunited with Yu Qing, who accused Ye Nantian of ambushing him to steal his Three-Leaf Vitality Grass.
• Ye Nantian denied the accusation, and Nie Lanxin backed his account, so Ning Xiaochuan restrained Yu Qing from attacking him.
• Ye Nantian and Nie Lanxin tried to breach the palace barrier together, but its lightning attacks forced them to retreat.
• Ning Xiaochuan identified the barrier as an ancient Mystic Gate Evasion Technique formation with gates of life at the Kan Palace Position and Kun Palace Position.

Ning Xiaochuan studied the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace’s barrier and devised a plan based on the Three Great Mystic Gates. He joined forces with Nie Lanzhi to open two gates without triggering the barrier’s backlash, leaving the gathered martial artists astonished.

• Spirit Void Venerable explained that the barrier’s 8.45 million pivots made it nearly impossible to break through with brute force, while Ning Xiaochuan studied it from a distance.
• Ning Xiaochuan told Nie Lanzhi that the Three Great Mystic Gates were the key, and she agreed to study them with him.
• Ning Xiaochuan tested the barrier with thirty-six palm strikes before charging toward the palace in his Divine Dragon Battle Armor.
• Nie Lanzhi arrived atop a Two-Headed Stone Beast and followed Ning Xiaochuan’s signal to the Ding Gate.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Nie Lanzhi used their powers together to open two gates in the barrier without suffering its counterattack.

Ning Xiaochuan and his allies broke the barrier around the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace, only to discover its interior was Chaotic Space. The White Fox Young Master returned in a powerful stone body and chased Ning Xiaochuan and the Demon Sect Saintess inside, where she demanded to know whether he could choose her.

• Ning Xiaochuan, Nie Lanzhi, and Spirit Void Venerable broke the Three Great Mystic Gates, revealing the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace and its three Divine Springs.
• Cloud Marquis and the other martial artists entered the palace and disappeared into its Chaotic Space, while Nie Lanxin took Nie Lanzhi inside and the Demon Sect Saintess asked Ning Xiaochuan to refine her Three-Leaf Vitality Grass.
• The White Fox Young Master returned as a powerful stone beast and defeated the Two-Headed Stone Beast in battle.
• Ning Xiaochuan and the Demon Sect Saintess fled into the palace to escape the White Fox Young Master, who pursued them inside.
• In a ruined city within Chaotic Space, the Demon Sect Saintess told Ning Xiaochuan she would never let go if he took her hand and asked whether he loved another woman; Ning Xiaochuan began to answer.

Ning Xiaochuan and the Demon Sect Saintess escaped the White Fox Young Master and reached the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace, where Ning searched for the Divine Blood. After briefly trapping the White Fox Young Master, Ning followed the Red Little Dragon to a mysterious Lotus Pond and began to suspect it held the clue he needed.

• Ning Xiaochuan and the Demon Sect Saintess combined their powers to block the White Fox Young Master's attack, then fled through a crack in space while holding hands.
• Ning Xiaochuan guided the Demon Sect Saintess and reached the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace, where the Spirit Void Venerable was subduing a river of heaven-and-earth essence.
• The White Fox Young Master attacked the Demon Sect Saintess, and Ning Xiaochuan intercepted it before luring it into the palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the World Extinction Divine Monument to pin the White Fox Young Master for nine breaths, then hurried deeper into the palace to find the Divine Blood.
• The Red Little Dragon led Ning Xiaochuan to a Lotus Pond, where he questioned how its lotuses could remain alive for ten thousand years.

Ning Xiaochuan took the Divine Blood from the Lotus Pond and kept fighting the White Fox Young Master while others gathered the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace’s treasures. As the remaining martial artists began leaving through the array back to the Yulan Empire, the Demon Sect Saintess decided to help Ning Xiaochuan.

• Ning Xiaochuan used the Nine Palaces Eight Winds technique to reveal the blood-filled Lotus Pond and collect its Divine Blood, then evaded the White Fox Young Master’s attack and fought back.
• Ning Xiaochuan told the White Fox Young Master he knew how to return to the Yulan Empire, but the White Fox Young Master continued attacking him.
• The martial artists gathered outside the Seventh Divine Palace, where Ning Xiaochuan had found the return array beneath the dried-up Lotus Pond, and shared news of the treasures they had obtained.
• Nie Lanxin revealed her Martial Soul Avatar after reaching the Earth Venerable Realm and restrained Nie Lanzhi when she tried to help Ning Xiaochuan.
• Yu Qing joined Ning Xiaochuan against the White Fox Young Master, while the Spirit Void Venerable activated the array and departed with the other martial artists.
• After most others had left, the Demon Sect Saintess told Ling Er to take the others through the array and said she would help Ning Xiaochuan.

Ning Xiaochuan and his companions escaped the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace, learned that the dragon clan had left the Yulan Empire, and were ambushed while leaving Mu Teng Forest. The chapter ended with Mu Honglai demanding Ning Xiaochuan's Northern Darkness Divine Art and Divine Dragon Cub, then revealing power at the third level of the Earth Venerable Realm.

• The Demon Sect Saintess, Yu Qing, and Ning Xiaochuan drove back the White Fox Young Master and escaped through the fading Teleportation Formation.
• Outside Dragon Valley, Yu Qing praised the Demon Sect Saintess, while Ning Xiaochuan teased him about mistaking her feelings for love.
• Shi Jin Gan emerged from Dragon Valley and told Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Qing that the entire dragon clan had left the Yulan Empire, leaving the court without its Divine Dragon Warrior Battalion.
• A Stone Beast Giant escaped Dragon Valley and threatened Ning Xiaochuan before transforming into an ancient black city and flying away.
• Ning Xiaochuan, Yu Qing, and Shi Jin Gan found Luo Chong's looted corpse in Mu Teng Forest and were attacked by a giant foot formed from Martial Dao Essence Qi.
• Mu Honglai confronted Ning Xiaochuan, demanded the Northern Darkness Divine Art and Divine Dragon Cub, and struck Yu Qing with power from the third level of the Earth Venerable Realm.

Ning Xiaochuan lured Mu Honglai away, wounded him with the World Extinction Sword Soul, then hid underground and refined Divine Blood until he reached the talent level of Once in Ten Thousand Years. Sui Hanyu revealed that a Supreme Body could surpass that level, and Ning Xiaochuan decided to pursue it despite the Heavenly Emperor Blade’s doubts.

• Mu Honglai defeated Yu Qing, and Ning Xiaochuan drew him away so he could fight without holding back.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the Demon Sword’s World Extinction Sword Soul to wound Mu Honglai, then hid underground as Mu Honglai searched for him.
• Ning Xiaochuan refined the Divine Blood and transformed every drop of blood in his body into dragon form, reaching the talent level of Once in Ten Thousand Years.
• Sui Hanyu spoke to Ning Xiaochuan through the Demon Sword and explained that a Supreme Body could surpass talent levels.
• Ning Xiaochuan chose to gamble on cultivating a Supreme Body, while the Heavenly Emperor Blade rejected the idea and Sui Hanyu insisted it existed.

Sui Hanyu took most of Ning Xiaochuan’s Lesser Divine Blood and warned him that absorbing it all could make the Heavenly Emperor’s martial path overwhelm his own. With her help, Ning Xiaochuan awakened his Seven Aperture God-Demon Heart Palace and began condensing a Martial Soul Avatar, facing a choice that would shape his martial path.

• Sui Hanyu explained that Supreme Body cultivation remained possible before the Heaven-Man Realm and asked Ning Xiaochuan to let her take ninety percent of the Lesser Divine Blood’s blood qi.
• Ning Xiaochuan agreed after Sui Hanyu warned that fully absorbing the blood could assimilate his martial path into the Heavenly Emperor’s and limit his future achievements.
• The Demon Sword absorbed most of the blood qi, strengthening Sui Hanyu’s projection, and she urged Ning Xiaochuan to master the sword and prepare for a coming great era.
• Sui Hanyu sent the remaining Lesser Divine Blood into Ning Xiaochuan, awakening his Seven Aperture God-Demon Heart Palace and unleashing streams of dragon-shaped blood qi.
• Ning Xiaochuan began condensing his Martial Soul Avatar and considered a sword form for his World Extinction Sword Dao or a cauldron form for his Heart Nourishing practice.

Ning Xiaochuan condensed a World Extinction-inscribed Martial Soul Avatar and learned that it could grow by gathering three thousand World Extinction Diagrams. After reaching the first level of the Earth Venerable Realm, he emerged with immense power and confronted the wounded Mu Honglai beneath a storm-darkened sky.

• Ning Xiaochuan forged his Martial Soul Avatar into a crimson cauldron bearing World Extinction Inscriptions, which awakened the Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood Diagram.
• Sui Hanyu explained that Ning Xiaochuan’s Martial Soul Avatar could grow through three thousand World Extinction Diagrams and described the World Extinction Path’s aim of destroying the world and creating a new order.
• Sui Hanyu revealed that Ning Xiaochuan had entered the first level of the Earth Venerable Realm and that the remaining demi-divine blood in his body would gradually strengthen him.
• Sui Hanyu vanished after telling Ning Xiaochuan to master the Demon Sword, and Ning Xiaochuan broke through the earth to the surface, demonstrating his extraordinary strength, speed, and ability to absorb profound energy.
• Ning Xiaochuan sensed Mu Honglai hiding in a mountain to recover from his Demon Sword wound, traveled there, and summoned black clouds and lightning overhead.

Ning Xiaochuan defeated Mu Honglai, read his thoughts, and made him a Heart Slave before returning to Netherworld Manor. There, he found the Netherworld Envoy training young women to become sword attendants for the Manor Lord.

• Ning Xiaochuan overpowered Mu Honglai with his awakened Earth Venerable strength despite Mu Honglai’s Mystic Weapon and desperate attacks.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the Seven Aperture God Demon Heart to uncover that Cloud Marquis had saved Mu Honglai and sent him after Ning Xiaochuan, then controlled Mu Honglai and made him a Heart Slave.
• Ning Xiaochuan, Little Hong, and Mu Honglai rode the Two-Headed Stone Beast back toward the Imperial City while Ning Xiaochuan cultivated during the two-day journey.
• Ning Xiaochuan returned to Netherworld Manor and saw the Netherworld Envoy leading young women in sword training.
• The Netherworld Envoy told the trainees that the Manor Lord needed at least four capable, beautiful sword attendants who could assist him and serve him.

Ning Xiaochuan returned to Netherworld Manor, chose three new sword servants, and revealed the strength of the newly appointed Second Netherworld Envoy. The chapter left Netherworld Manor’s leaders recognizing that the manor now had three Martial Venerables.

• Ning Xiaochuan returned to Begonia Manor, where Meng Ying reported Netherworld Manor’s growing influence and her plan to recruit sword servants and assassins.
• Ning Xiaochuan tested the candidates with his Martial Venerable aura and chose Huo Shiyin, Chen Jiuxuan, and Ye Yuetian as his sword servants, giving the others Nine Colors Profound Water.
• Ning Xiaochuan named Situ Fengwu, Huo Shiyin, Chen Jiuxuan, and Ye Yuetian the Four Great Sword Servants, abbreviated as “Phoenix Sound Nine Heavens.”
• Ning Xiaochuan appointed Meng Ying the First Netherworld Envoy and Mu Honglai the Second Netherworld Envoy.
• The Second Netherworld Envoy struck Han Fu down with one move, revealing his Martial Venerable strength, and Ning Xiaochuan rewarded Han Fu with an Earth Dominion Pill.

Ning Xiaochuan rewarded Netherworld Manor’s martial artists with Earth Dominion Pills and Nine Colors Profound Water while learning that the Demon Sect might target the Sword Pavilion Marquis’s Mansion. He entered the Imperial City that night and went to Jade Viewing Pavilion, where Yu Ningsheng played the zither.

• Ning Xiaochuan gave Earth Dominion Pills to Meng Ying, Murong Hua, Wan Xue, and Yu Manlou after Han Fu received one, and he distributed Nine Colors Profound Water to the martial artists.
• Murong Hua warned that the Demon Sect had brought powerful figures into the Imperial City and might attack the Sword Pavilion Marquis’s Mansion; Wan Xue explained the political rivalries that could leave the mansion isolated.
• Meng Ying sought to comfort Ning Xiaochuan in Purple Qi Garden, but he told her to cultivate and predicted a great upheaval originating in the Imperial City.
• Ning Xiaochuan entered the Imperial City that night and went to Jade Viewing Pavilion, where he found Yu Ningsheng playing the zither amid concealed Demon Sect experts.

Ning Xiaochuan learned that No Life Path Lord and Asura Path Lord had targeted the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, but he refused Yu Ningsheng's attempt to keep him away and returned to protect it. He arrived with Yu Ningsheng and Xiao Ling'er, drove off the Crown Prince's men, and reunited with Ning Xiner as onlookers recognized Yu Ningsheng.

• Yu Ningsheng warned Ning Xiaochuan that No Life Path Lord sought the Northern Darkness Divine Art and that the Demon Sect threatened the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, but Ning Xiaochuan insisted on returning.
• Ning Xiaochuan refined all eleven stalks of Three-Leaf Vitality Grass into Yuan Life Pills overnight, and Yu Ningsheng decided to accompany him with Xiao Ling'er.
• Ning Xiaochuan's carriage was blocked by a crowd after Ning Xiner drove the Crown Prince's marriage-proposal party from the mansion.
• Ning Xiaochuan confronted the Crown Prince's men, declared that the Demon Sect could not harm the mansion, and blasted them away with a palm strike.
• Ning Xiner embraced Ning Xiaochuan and told him that more than forty martial artists from the mansion had been killed by the Demon Sect.
• Yu Ningsheng and Xiao Ling'er stepped out of the carriage, and the crowd recognized Ningsheng Girl of Jade Viewing Pavilion.

Ning Xiaochuan brought Yu Ningsheng and Xiao Ling'er to the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, stirring rumors and drawing the attention of powerful figures across the Imperial City. After demonstrating that he had reached the Earth Venerable Realm, he met Old Marquis, who enlisted his help in preparing for the Demon Sect's looming attack.

• Ning Xiaochuan brought Yu Ningsheng and Xiao Ling'er into the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, and onlookers spread news that they had a daughter.
• Yu Qianqian learned that Yu Ningsheng was staying at the mansion and arranged an elaborate visit with hundreds of guards and servants.
• The Crown Prince and Cloud Marquis learned of Ning Xiaochuan's return and his bringing Yu Ningsheng home, and Cloud Marquis urged the Crown Prince to denounce him to the Holy Emperor.
• Ning Xiaochuan sensed the mansion's anxiety over the approaching Demon Sect and went to see Old Marquis.
• Old Marquis tested Ning Xiaochuan with a powerful palm strike, then welcomed him after recognizing that he had reached the Earth Venerable Realm.
• Old Marquis told Ning Xiaochuan to help defend the mansion, whose formations and mechanisms had been prepared to repel attackers.

Ning Xiaochuan visited Divine Sword Palace and learned how Yue Mingsong’s artifact refining had made it the Empire’s dominant weapon enterprise. He left after giving Yue Mingsong more chapters of the Mystic Artifact Compendium and decided it was time to publish the Weapon Ranking Chart, while the Demon Sect threat remained unresolved.

• Ning Xiaochuan told Old Marquis about Yu Ningsheng, then left Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion to visit Divine Sword Palace.
• Liu Wenyu showed Ning Xiaochuan the palace’s vast expansion and explained how Yue Mingsong’s Seventh Grade Profound Weapons had earned him the name “Artifact Refinement Maniac.”
• Ning Xiaochuan found Yue Mingsong reveling among maidservants, sent them away, and gave him another nine hundred chapters of the Mystic Artifact Compendium.
• Liu Wenyu told Ning Xiaochuan that Yue Mingsong’s maidservants were all virgins and asked how Divine Sword Palace should respond to the Demon Sect.
• Ning Xiaochuan told Liu Wenyu not to worry about the Demon Sect for now and said Divine Sword Palace should release the Weapon Ranking Chart.

Ning Xiaochuan returned to the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion and found Yu Qianqian confronting Yu Ningsheng, whom she saw as a rival for his affection. After Yu Qianqian left, Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Ningsheng examined the Weapon Ranking Chart, and Yu Ningsheng said the Demon Emperor should not rank first.

• Ning Xiaochuan returned to the mansion and learned that Yu Qianqian had gone to Brocade Embroidery Courtyard to confront Yu Ningsheng.
• Yu Qianqian attacked Yu Ningsheng with zither music, but Yu Ningsheng defended herself with her reed pipe until Little Red interrupted them.
• Ning Xiaochuan entered and stopped Yu Qianqian from having Yu Ningsheng attacked, prompting Yu Qianqian to leave in anger.
• Yu Qianqian considered burning Jade Viewing Pavilion but changed her mind and returned toward the royal residence to devise another plan.
• Ning Xiaochuan showed Yu Ningsheng the Weapon Ranking Chart, and she said the Demon Emperor should not be ranked first.

Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Ningsheng finalized the Weapon Ranking Chart, placing the Jade Ripple Great Emperor first to provoke challenges and promote Netherworld Manor. After the chart stirred debate throughout the Imperial City, Ning Xiaochuan set out with Ning Xiner to visit the Great Golden Roc King Residence and gave her ten Yuan Life Pills.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Ningsheng discussed candidates for the greatest martial master under heaven and chose the Jade Ripple Great Emperor over the Undead City Lord.
• Ning Xiaochuan revised the Weapon Ranking Chart, added Netherworld Manor martial artists, and had Yue Mingsong make it into a Seventh Grade Profound Weapon.
• The Weapon Ranking Chart was displayed at Divine Sword Palace and distributed around the Imperial City, where residents and officials debated its rankings.
• Ning Xiaochuan decided to visit Yu Qianqian at the Great Golden Roc King Residence to apologize, and Ning Xiner asked to go with him.
• Ning Xiaochuan gave Ning Xiner ten Yuan Life Pills and told her to keep them concealed as their carriage headed to the Great Golden Roc King Residence.

Ning Xiaochuan visited the Great Golden Roc King Residence, where West Mu Royal Concubine questioned him about Yu Qianqian and the Weapon Ranking Chart. The chapter left the Great Golden Roc King Residence considering how the Jade Ripple Great Emperor’s conflict with Ning Xiaochuan could help them seize the imperial throne.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Ning Xiner discussed Yu Qianqian, Yu Ningsheng, and Ning Xiner’s lack of interest in her suitors.
• Ning Xiaochuan went to the Great Golden Roc King Residence, where Yu Qianqian first refused to see him but the Queen Consort summoned him instead.
• West Mu Royal Concubine told Ning Xiaochuan to be tolerant of Yu Qianqian and questioned him about compiling the Weapon Ranking Chart.
• Ning Xiaochuan denied having any deeper purpose for the rankings, and West Mu Royal Concubine let him leave.
• After Ning Xiaochuan departed, West Mu Royal Concubine, Worldly Son Jin Du, Yu Qianqian, and Great Golden Roc King discussed how his actions positioned him against the Jade Ripple Great Emperor.
• Worldly Son Jin Du and the others considered the possibility that the empire would fracture into rival warlords and give the Great Golden Roc King Residence a chance to claim the throne.

Ning Xiaochuan refused Yu Qing’s offer to alter the Weapon Ranking Chart and learned that the court was preparing to crush rebellions linked to major sects. The Demon Sect then attacked the Divine Sword Palace, and its white-haired elder recognized Ning Xiaochuan after he saved the Three Great Elders from a fiery assault.

• The Great Golden Roc King left the Purple Bamboo Tower, and Yu Qianqian received a Jade Beauty Pill from the Little Marquis.
• Yu Qing treated Ning Xiaochuan to wine and offered him two hundred thousand taels of Azure Gold to rank him above Ye Nantian on the Weapon Ranking Chart.
• Ning Xiaochuan refused to change the chart unless Yu Qing defeated Ye Nantian himself, and Yu Qing revealed that the court was preparing to suppress rebellions tied to the major sects.
• A dark demonic cloud seized the Weapon Ranking Chart as the white-haired Demon Sect elder rode toward the Divine Sword Palace on a Black-haired Ghost Bat Beast.
• The elder’s beast burned the Three Great Elders, but Ning Xiaochuan absorbed the flames and saved them.
• The white-haired elder recognized Ning Xiaochuan’s Northern Darkness Divine Art and identified him as a member of the Sword Pavilion Marquis’s Mansion.

Ning Xiaochuan fought Ghost Bat King in the Imperial City after revealing that he had become the Yulan Empire’s youngest Martial Venerable at age twenty. He ended the chapter by severing Ghost Bat King’s arm with a lightning-charged sword strike.

• Ghost Bat King demanded that Ning Xiaochuan hand over the Northern Darkness Divine Art, but Ning Xiaochuan challenged him and summoned the eighty-seven-meter giant sword.
• Ning Xiaochuan struck Ghost Bat King with the giant sword, and the Black-haired Ghost Bat Beast intervened to save its master from a follow-up attack.
• Ghost Bat King discovered that Ning Xiaochuan had entered the Earth Venerable Realm, shocking the watching warriors and earning their praise.
• Yu Qing and Shi Jin Gan discussed Ning Xiaochuan’s talent and the possibility of joining an Ancient Clan.
• Ghost Bat King and the Black-haired Ghost Bat Beast continued fighting Ning Xiaochuan, while the Sky-series City Domain’s formations shielded the city from their attacks.
• Ning Xiaochuan unleashed nine bolts of lightning and cleaved through Ghost Bat King’s White Bone Hand Claw Print, severing one of his arms.

Ning Xiaochuan pursued the wounded Ghost Bat King, but an Ironclad Death God of the No Life Path intervened and challenged him to fight in a Different Dimension. Ning Xiaochuan entered the battle, killed the Ghost Bat King, and continued facing the Ironclad Death God.

• Ning Xiaochuan chased down the fleeing Ghost Bat King and shattered his Martial Soul Avatar, but the Ironclad Death God appeared and stopped Ning Xiaochuan from killing him.
• The Ironclad Death God challenged Ning Xiaochuan to fight in a Different Dimension, and Ning Xiaochuan forced the wounded Ghost Bat King to enter with them.
• Inside the Different Dimension, the Ironclad Death God attacked Ning Xiaochuan with seventy-two iron swords, but Ning Xiaochuan countered with the Blood City Iron Seal.
• Ning Xiaochuan summoned the Demon Sword and severed one of the Ironclad Death God's steel wings.
• Ning Xiaochuan trapped the Ghost Bat King in a demonic image of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, then killed him with the Demon Sword.

Ning Xiaochuan killed the Ghost Bat King and used the Seven Aperture God Demon Heart to enslave the Ironclad Death God. He returned to Divine Sword Palace with the Weapon Ranking Chart, publicly declared the Demon Sect’s defeat, and left the No Life Path Lord furious.

• Ning Xiaochuan drained the Ghost Bat King with the Netherworld Demon Sword, killing him and taking the Weapon Ranking Chart.
• The Ironclad Death God recognized Ning Xiaochuan and tried to escape, but Ning Xiaochuan broke his scythe and controlled his mind with the Seven Aperture God Demon Heart.
• The No Life Path Lord and the Asura Path Lord assumed the Ironclad Death God had captured Ning Xiaochuan and discussed their plans against the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion.
• Ning Xiaochuan emerged at Divine Sword Palace, announced the Ghost Bat King's death, and presented the Ironclad Death God as his subdued follower.
• The No Life Path Lord erupted in anger over losing two Martial Venerables, while the Old Marquis taunted him and invited him to join the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion.

The Demon Sect attacked the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, forcing Sword Pavilion Marquis and No Life Path Lord to unleash their sects' Ninth Grade Profound Weapons in a battle over the Imperial City. Ning Xiaochuan rushed to defend the Marquis Mansion and found its people slaughtered, including Ji Bo, before striking back at the invaders.

• Sword Pavilion Marquis used the Sword Pavilion to repel No Life Path Lord's attack, and the Jade Ripple Great Emperor ordered the Nine Dukes to activate the Celestial Dipper Grand Luo Formation.
• No Life Path Lord and Asura Path Lord awakened the Slaughtering Millstone and clashed with Sword Pavilion Marquis's Sword Pavilion, shaking the Imperial City and damaging the Divine Sword Palace.
• Sword Pavilion Marquis ordered Ning Xiaochuan to protect the Marquis Mansion after Ning Xiaochuan offered to help control the Sword Pavilion.
• Ning Xiaochuan met Yu Qing and Shi Jin Gan, who agreed to help him despite the Divine Dragon King's order not to intervene.
• Ning Xiaochuan reached the breached, burning Marquis Mansion and found Ji Bo dead, then killed more than twenty Demon Sect martial artists with a palm strike.