Recaps

Ning Xiaochuan cultivated at Suspended Mountain in the Celestial Palace, advancing his realm and comprehending the ninth level of Heaven and Earth Profound Qi. After years of cultivation inside, he formed a trace of Supreme Body power, and his nine vortices condensed into a tiny sphere.

• Ning Xiaochuan released Dark Sky King and Yu Ningsheng from the tower-shaped profound weapon, and they each found a place to cultivate for ten days.
• Ning Xiaochuan gave Yu Ningsheng an Earth Martial Pill and went to Suspended Mountain, the Heavenly Emperor's former Cultivation Dojo.
• Ning Xiaochuan discovered that the White Bone Pearl and three Seventh Grade Profound Weapon battle swords siphoned off half the essence qi he cultivated, and the Heavenly Emperor Blade explained the costs and forms of Figurative Divine Powers.
• Ning Xiaochuan focused on comprehending the ninth level of Heaven and Earth Profound Qi while cultivating at Suspended Mountain, breaking through to the fifth level of the Earth Venerable Realm after three years inside the Celestial Palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan's blood took the form of countless swords as a trace of Supreme Body power grew, and he continued to increase his profound qi absorption speed.
• Ning Xiaochuan's nine vortices converged into a massive storm and collapsed into a bright sphere the size of a grain of rice.

Ning Xiaochuan cultivated the ninth level of Heaven and Earth Profound Qi and strengthened Myriad Swords Turn to Rain before leaving the Celestial Palace with Yu Ningsheng and the Dark Sky King. He returned to the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion and sensed Nie Lanxin inside, fearing that Ning Xiner and the Old Marquis were in danger.

• Ning Xiaochuan condensed an Earth Core Pearl, raising his profound qi absorption speed to two hundred and fifty-six times.
• Ning Xiaochuan refined Cui Tao's Eighth Grade Profound Weapon into his body, strengthening Myriad Swords Turn to Rain to control four battle swords.
• Ning Xiaochuan cultivated on Suspended Mountain for three years, then met the Dark Sky King and Yu Ningsheng at the Nine Colors Divine Lake and collected its divine water with them.
• Ning Xiaochuan left the Heavenly Emperor Academy with Yu Ningsheng and the Dark Sky King, who departed after they reached the Imperial City.
• Ning Xiaochuan returned to the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, sensed Nie Lanxin's aura, and feared she had harmed Ning Xiner and the Old Marquis.

Ning Xiaochuan returned to the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion and found Nie Lanxin waiting there with Xiao Ling'er. When Nie Lanxin demanded Xiao Ling'er's origins and attacked Ning Xiaochuan in a Different World, he fought back but was ultimately injured and driven downward by her overwhelming strength.

• Ning Xiaochuan returned to the Marquis Mansion, where Ning Xiner told him the Imperial City faced a Demon Sect invasion and Nie Lanxin had been waiting for eight days.
• Ning Xiaochuan found Nie Lanxin with Xiao Ling'er and ordered Ning Xiner to leave; Nie Lanxin revealed she had discovered Xiao Ling'er was a Heaven and Earth Spirit Seed and demanded her true origins.
• Nie Lanxin threatened to take Xiao Ling'er, and Ning Xiaochuan warned her to leave his family alone before they were transported into a Different World.
• Ning Xiaochuan provoked Nie Lanxin and dodged her palm strike, then used four battle swords and Figurative Original Life Divine Power to counterattack.
• Nie Lanxin summoned Nine Heavens Cloud Wings to break Ning Xiaochuan's sword formation, then struck him in a direct clash, making him spit blood and plummet downward.

Ning Xiaochuan fought off Nie Lanxin’s Jade Saint Scripture and pursued her after she abducted Xiao Ling’er from the Sword Pavilion Marquis’s Mansion. He and the Red Little Dragon caught up with her outside the Imperial City, where their combined attack was stopped at Nie Lanxin’s shoulder.

• Ning Xiaochuan forced the Jade Qi out of his arm with his Supreme Body power and struck Nie Lanxin, severely injuring her consciousness body.
• Nie Lanxin escaped the Different Dimension, seized Xiao Ling’er, and fled the mansion as Ning Xiaochuan and the Red Little Dragon pursued her.
• The Red Little Dragon combined with Ning Xiaochuan, and their fiery flight out of the Imperial City caused an uproar among its martial artists.
• The Heavenly Emperor Blade warned Ning Xiaochuan that Nie Lanxin was luring him into a trap, but he continued chasing her to rescue Xiao Ling’er.
• Ning Xiaochuan and the Red Little Dragon struck Nie Lanxin with a powerful sword attack, but she stopped the blade at her shoulder and taunted him for losing his calm.

Ning Xiaochuan faced Nie Lanxin as she came to seize Xiao Ling'er and the Divine Dragon Cub, but allies arrived before Nie Lanxin attacked Yu Ningsheng. Ning Xiaochuan awakened the ninth strand of World Extinction Qi, gained true control of the Demon Sword, and wounded Nie Lanxin, though she survived.

• Ning Xiaochuan used the Eight Winds Erosion God Formation to strike Nie Lanxin's consciousness body and rescue Xiao Ling'er, but Nie Lanxin's true body arrived and demanded the girl and the Divine Dragon Cub.
• Nie Lanzhi knelt and begged Nie Lanxin to spare Ning Xiaochuan, offering to serve her, while Ning Xiaochuan told her not to get involved.
• The Dark Sky King and Duanmu Linye arrived with Yu Ningsheng, who took Xiao Ling'er into her arms, and Nie Lanxin recognized Yu Ningsheng as the Demon Sect's Holy Maiden.
• Nie Lanxin lunged at Yu Ningsheng's face, and Ning Xiaochuan stepped in front of her as the ninth strand of World Extinction Qi awakened and Sui Hanyu sent power through the Demon Sword.
• Ning Xiaochuan's Demon Sword pierced Nie Lanxin's palm and chest before returning to his hand, and he felt spiritually united with the weapon as Nie Lanxin's wound began to heal.

Ning Xiaochuan refined the Demon Sword with his blood, leaving himself weakened as Nie Lanxin threatened to attack again. Demon Emperor Duanmu Han arrived, defeated Nie Lanxin, and let her leave with Nie Lanzhi, believing she might help restrain the Jade Ripple Great Emperor and the Great Golden Roc King.

• Ning Xiaochuan used his blood and the Nine Dao of World Extinction Qi to forge the Demon Sword into a larger, stronger blade, but the process left him severely weakened.
• Nie Lanxin noticed Ning Xiaochuan’s depleted essence qi and challenged him, while Duanmu Linye and Dark Sky King stood ready to defend him.
• Ning Xiaochuan revealed that the Ten Thousand Sound Fairy Queen had fallen and that the woman before them was her disciple, Nie Lanxin.
• Demon Emperor Duanmu Han arrived and recognized that Nie Lanxin had seized the Ten Thousand Sound Fairy Queen’s power, but lacked her experience and understanding.
• Nie Lanxin attacked with eighteen Ancient Zithers, but Duanmu Han shattered them and sent her retreating.
• Nie Lanxin left with Nie Lanzhi, and Duanmu Han allowed them to go because Nie Lanxin might restrain the Jade Ripple Great Emperor and the Great Golden Roc King.

The Demon Emperor accepted Ning Xiaochuan as his grandson, but Ning Xiaochuan refused to join the Demon Sect Army and returned to the besieged Imperial City to stand with his family. At the locked gates, Princess Qianqian confronted him over rumors that he had eloped with Silver Pool Madam.

• The Demon Emperor questioned Ning Xiaochuan, then left after declaring that he disliked his name, which the Dark Sky King and Duanmu Linye took as proof that he cared for his grandson.
• Duanmu Linye urged Ning Xiaochuan to retreat to the Demon Sect camp before the Allied Army attacked the Imperial City, but Ning Xiaochuan insisted on returning to fight beside his family.
• Ning Xiaochuan left Xiao Ling'er and Little Red in Yu Ningsheng's care and flew toward the Imperial City.
• The Allied Army closed in on the Imperial City, whose gates were sealed and defenses activated, and Ning Xiaochuan arrived at its gates seeking entry.
• Princess Qianqian shot an arrow at Ning Xiaochuan, who caught it, and accused him of eloping with Silver Pool Madam and spending a night in her boudoir.

Ning Xiaochuan waited outside the Imperial City while Yu Qianqian refused to open the gates over his relationships with Yu Ningsheng and Silver Pool Madam. As he cultivated, Sui Hanyu urged him to leave the Yulan Empire and explained that talent alone was not enough to determine strength, ending with a lesson on the importance of innate constitution.

• Yu Qianqian kept the city gates closed and demanded that Ning Xiaochuan stop associating with Yu Ningsheng and Silver Pool Madam.
• Ning Xiaochuan offered Yu Qianqian an Earth Martial Pill in exchange for opening the gates, but she refused and left him waiting outside.
• Ning Xiaochuan sat outside the city to recover his Martial Dao Essence Qi and entered his heart’s Blood Aperture to inspect the Demon Sword.
• Sui Hanyu appeared through the Demon Sword and told Ning Xiaochuan that his nine Dao of World Extinction Qi made him a fourth-generation successor, then urged him to leave the Yulan Empire.
• Sui Hanyu explained that cultivation strength depended on Martial Dao cultivation, techniques, divine ability martial arts, Talent Level, and constitution, and contrasted the Origin Human Race with advanced human races.

Ning Xiaochuan learned the third move of the World Extinction Sword Dao and began cultivating it outside the Imperial City. As a massive rebel alliance approached the city, Yu Qianqian rallied the defenders to prepare for battle.

• Sui Hanyu urged Ning Xiaochuan to leave the Yulan Empire for training, then demonstrated the World Extinction Sword Prison and explained its immense difficulty.
• Ning Xiaochuan sat beneath the Demon Sword and devoted himself to cultivating the new move while Yu Qianqian watched from a hidden corner.
• A rebel army reached the Imperial City after breaking through the empire’s defenses, and its War Flag landed beside the City Protecting River.
• Yu Qianqian ordered the soldiers to stop panicking and prepare to defend the city and their loved ones.

Yu Qianqian tried to bring Ning Xiaochuan inside the Imperial City, but he remained absorbed in cultivating as the rebel army arrived. With the gate sealed and the Thirty-Three Layer Defense Formation raised, Lu Heng attacked Yu Qianqian outside the walls, and an armored old master moved to fight him.

• Yu Qianqian opened the gate and approached Ning Xiaochuan, but his sword energy kept her outside the ten-zhang boundary while he continued cultivating.
• Seeing the rebel Mystic Beast Knights approach, Yu Qianqian ordered the gate shut and the Thirty-Three Layer Defense Formation activated, remaining outside with a squad of elite soldiers.
• Lu Heng and Cui Yan reached the Imperial City with the One Yuan Sect forces and chose to wait for the other Allied Army forces before attacking its defenses.
• Lu Heng spotted Yu Qianqian, crossed the City Protecting River on his Fire Tiger Lion, and attacked her after mistaking her for Yu Ningsheng.
• An old man in Crimson Flame Armor stepped forward and slashed at Lu Heng, who leapt from his mount and brought his Wolf Tooth Club down at him.

Ning Xiaochuan awakened after comprehending the World Extinction Sword Prison, killed Lu Heng, and began absorbing blood qi as his cultivation neared a breakthrough. When Cui Yan led the One Yuan Sect's forces against the city, Ning Xiaochuan faced them alone and slaughtered their army.

• Lu Heng killed the old defender and more than twenty military experts, then tried to capture Yu Qianqian as Dragon Tendon Bow arrows failed to stop him.
• Ning Xiaochuan awakened, trapped Lu Heng in a Sword Qi Cage, killed him with a finger, and absorbed his blood qi.
• Ning Xiaochuan sensed that he was close to reaching the sixth level of the Earth Venerable Realm and joked with Yu Qianqian after she scolded him for frightening her.
• Cui Yan led several hundred Mystic Beast Knights and other One Yuan Sect martial artists in an attack on the city gate, ordering them to kill Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan charged into the One Yuan Sect forces and used the World Extinction Sword Prison to kill and absorb blood qi from more than a thousand martial artists in half an hour.

Ning Xiaochuan slaughtered the One Yuan Sect’s forces at the City Protecting River and confronted Xun Jun Peak Master, whose sword strike matched his own. As the imperial court gathered to watch, the Great Golden Roc King chose to let Ning Xiaochuan fight, leaving his strength against the Peak Master about to be tested.

• Ning Xiaochuan absorbed the blood qi of the One Yuan Sect’s warriors, killed Cui Yan, and forced the remaining fighters to flee.
• Xun Jun Peak Master arrived and attacked Ning Xiaochuan with his ancient sword, but Ning Xiaochuan’s four battle swords met the strike and sent them both flying back.
• Yu Qing boasted to Princess Lanfei that he had helped kill a One Yuan Sect Peak Master, while Lanfei mocked him and watched Ning Xiaochuan.
• Five marquises worried that Xun Jun Peak Master had reached the eighth level of the Earth Venerable Realm and that Sword Saint might soon arrive.
• The Great Golden Roc King arrived at the city wall and refused to bring Ning Xiaochuan and Princess Qianqian inside, saying he wanted to watch Ning Xiaochuan fight Xun Jun Peak Master.

Ning Xiaochuan fought the Xun Jun Peak Master and used the Demon Sword to drain his blood, forcing him to sacrifice an arm before Ning struck him into the City Protecting River. As Ning pursued him, the Sword Saint arrived, and the Jade Ripple Great Emperor and nearly a hundred marquises assembled to face the newcomer.

• Ning Xiaochuan and the Xun Jun Peak Master clashed above the City Protecting River, then continued their evenly matched battle inside the Different Dimension.
• Ning Xiaochuan summoned the Demon Sword and pierced the Xun Jun Peak Master's palm, draining his blood until he severed his own arm to escape.
• Ning Xiaochuan pierced the Xun Jun Peak Master with all four battle swords and knocked him into the City Protecting River, then stopped his attempted sneak attack with a lightning hand seal.
• As Ning Xiaochuan moved to finish the wounded Xun Jun Peak Master, the Sword Saint appeared and attacked him, but the Great Golden Roc King blocked the sword qi.
• The Jade Ripple Great Emperor invited the Sword Saint to a palace banquet, while nearly a hundred imperial marquises gathered on the city walls to confront him.

Sword Saint, Jade Ripple Great Emperor, Great Golden Roc King, and the Demon Emperor entered the Celestial Palace to fight in the Heaven-Man Dao Debate, where only one could survive. As Yu Qianqian feared for her injured father, Peacock Bright King took charge of the Imperial City and summoned the court to plan for the rebel army.

• Sword Saint arrived to find Jade Ripple Great Emperor, Great Golden Roc King, and Ning Xiaochuan, while the Demon Emperor proposed holding the century’s Heaven-Man Dao Debate.
• Jade Ripple Great Emperor, Great Golden Roc King, Sword Saint, and the Demon Emperor entered the Gate of Heaven, and Great Golden Roc King secretly asked Yu Qianqian to seek Ning Xiaochuan’s help if he died.
• Ning Xiaochuan learned that Great Golden Roc King had been injured fighting White Fox Old Ancestor, and he comforted the guilt-stricken Yu Qianqian.
• Peacock Bright King summoned the lords, Ning Xiaochuan, and Yu Qianqian to the palace council and took charge of coordinating the Imperial City’s defenses.
• After the court planned how to repel the rebel army, Ning Xiaochuan returned to the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion.

Ning Xiaochuan discussed how the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion would survive the rebel armies gathering around the Imperial City, while the Old Marquis resolved to defend the court unless retreat became unavoidable. As the siege intensified, the city’s defenses and both sides’ armies suffered devastating losses.

• Ning Xiaochuan returned to the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion and received an enthusiastic welcome from its soldiers, elders, servants, and maids.
• Ning Xiaochuan told the Four Old Ancestors that the Imperial City must be defended, but the clan should escape and rebuild elsewhere if the city fell.
• The Old Marquis emerged from seclusion, and the ancestors revealed that they had already moved more than half the clan out of the Imperial City.
• Ning Xiaochuan said he had established another force outside the city to help the mansion withdraw, but the Old Marquis doubted it could withstand the rebels.
• The Old Marquis decided that the mansion would fight alongside the court unless driven to the utmost extremity, despite having a southern refuge with Qian Cheng.
• Over the next two days, millions of soldiers fought around the Imperial City, its walls were battered, and blood and corpses filled the City Protecting River.

Ning Xiaochuan cultivated the World Extinction Path by absorbing qi from the battlefield and successfully condensed his eleventh strand. He gave Yu Qing the Imperial Power Token, but Yu Qing refused it and suggested it should go to Jin Du.

• Ning Xiaochuan absorbed World Extinction Qi from the battle outside the Imperial City and condensed his eleventh strand.
• Yu Qing approached Ning Xiaochuan after fighting outside the city, and Ning Xiaochuan handed him the Imperial Power Token on the Academy Master's behalf.
• Yu Qing realized the token could grant authority over the empire and asked why Ning Xiaochuan did not keep it; Ning Xiaochuan said he planned to leave the Yulan Empire after the crisis.
• Yu Qing said he hoped to enter an Ancient Clan to cultivate, and Ning Xiaochuan advised him to strengthen himself before facing the dangers there.
• Yu Qing refused the Imperial Power Token and suggested that Jin Du would want it, and Ning Xiaochuan agreed to consider giving it to him.

Ning Xiaochuan visited the Great Golden Roc King Residence, where Guo Shidao gave him his insights on advancing to Grand Heart Nourisher and explained Ugly Old Woman’s history and extraordinary achievements. After learning about the path to becoming a Saint-Level Grand Heart Nourisher, Ning Xiaochuan revealed that he had come to give Worldly Son Jin Du something.

• Ning Xiaochuan visited the Great Golden Roc King Residence and learned that Worldly Son Jin Du had gone outside the city to meet the enemy.
• Guo Shidao recognized Ning Xiaochuan as an Advanced Heart Nourisher and gave him his personal cultivation insights for reaching Grand Heart Nourisher.
• Ning Xiaochuan asked Guo Shidao about the Ugly Old Woman, and Guo Shidao recounted how she had given him a Medicine Scripture more than a century earlier.
• Guo Shidao explained that the Ugly Old Woman was researching the Resurrection Pill and described the Divine Farmer realm beyond Grand Heart Nourisher.
• Ning Xiaochuan promised to share Guo Shidao’s insights with Yu Qianqian when she advanced, then said he had come to give Worldly Son Jin Du something.

Ning Xiaochuan gave the Imperial Power Token to West Mu Royal Concubine for Jin Du, then the White Fox Old Ancestor breached the Imperial City's defenses and the rebel army invaded. After rescuing Chen Jiuxuan, Ning Xiaochuan learned Netherworld Manor had opened an underground passage, giving him a possible route out of the besieged city.

• Ning Xiaochuan gave West Mu Royal Concubine the Imperial Power Token and urged her to let Jin Du wield it.
• West Mu Royal Concubine jokingly—or seriously—offered to marry Yu Qianqian to Ning Xiaochuan in exchange for the token.
• The Celestial Dipper Grand Luo Formation collapsed, and Ning Xiaochuan saw the Outer City wall breached by White Fox Old Ancestor.
• Ning Xiaochuan returned to the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion through streets overwhelmed by panic and lawlessness, rescuing Chen Jiuxuan from Vajra Sect disciples on the way.
• Chen Jiuxuan told Ning Xiaochuan that Netherworld Manor had opened an underground passage, though its entrance lay in the fallen Outer City.

Ning Xiaochuan returned to the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion amid the Imperial City's collapse and urged the Old Marquis to prepare an escape plan. Before the clan could decide whether to withdraw, the Zhenbei Marquis arrived with a military order appointing Ning Xiaochuan commander-in-chief of the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion and ordering him to retake the Outer City breach before nightfall.

• Ning Xiaochuan crippled the Vajra Sect disciples who had attacked him, destroying their cultivation without killing them.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Chen Jiuxuan returned to the mansion, where crowds of powerful families sought refuge as the Outer City fell into chaos.
• Ning Xiaochuan told the Old Marquis that his forces had dug a secret underground passage and urged him to evacuate the clan from the Imperial City.
• The Old Marquis agreed to send the clan's young talents and wealth south but planned to remain and fight, while urging Ning Xiaochuan and Xin'er to leave as well.
• The Zhenbei Marquis delivered the Peacock Bright King's order appointing Ning Xiaochuan commander-in-chief of the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion and commanding him to drive the rebels from the Outer City and seal the breach before nightfall.
• The Old Marquis questioned whether Ning Xiaochuan was ready to lead the battalion, but the Zhenbei Marquis argued that Ning Xiaochuan's victories made him the best choice.

Ning Xiaochuan accepted command of the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion and prepared to retake the rebel-held districts while secretly arranging to evacuate the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion's young talents. He left with powerful allies and urged the Zhenbei Marquis to restore order in the Inner City as the Outer City battles worsened.

• Ning Xiaochuan accepted the Peacock Bright King's military order despite the Old Marquis's objections, planning to use the campaign to move the mansion's young clansmen out of the Imperial City.
• Ning Xiaochuan persuaded the Old Marquis to remain and guard the mansion, then selected three hundred young talents and sent them into the Sword Pavilion Tower; Ning Xiner promised to lead them toward the Southern Border.
• Ning Xiaochuan emerged in Evil Dragon Scale Armor with Chen Jiuxuan and the Four Old Ancestors, whom he introduced to the Zhenbei Marquis as a sword attendant and four Earth Venerable elders.
• The Zhenbei Marquis reported that three more Outer City districts had fallen and over a hundred thousand people had died, then prepared to join the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion.
• Ning Xiaochuan told the Zhenbei Marquis to stay behind and restore order in the Inner City, warning that hidden agents and public panic could make the Imperial City collapse without a fight.

Ning Xiaochuan took command of the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion and led it out to fight the rebels after ordering Zhenbei Marquis to restore order in the Inner City. The court pinned its hopes on Ning Xiaochuan’s force to strike back and protect the Imperial City until reinforcements arrived.

• Ning Xiaochuan ordered Zhenbei Marquis to remain in the Inner City and suppress unrest, then gathered the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion.
• Ning Xiaochuan rallied the battalion with a speech, and its soldiers swore to fight for honor and bloodshed against the rebels.
• Peacock Bright King withheld the Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion because the Inner City needed protection, while learning that reinforcements would take at least seven days to arrive.
• Ning Xiaochuan rode out with the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion as the rebels continued overrunning the Outer City’s domains.
• Divine Dragon King learned that Ning Xiaochuan was leading the battalion and ordered him to strike the rebels without advancing too far.
• Divine Dragon King ordered several other commanders to support Ning Xiaochuan and recover the six fallen city domains.

Ning Xiaochuan led the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion through the Outer City, crushing rebel forces as they advanced toward the heavily defended Diqian City Region. There, he learned that three marquises had died trying to breach the rebels’ first line of defense, and the Nether Firmament Sect Master confronted him.

• The Four Old Ancestors of the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion and Chen Jiuxuan slipped away from Ning Xiaochuan’s army toward an underground secret passage.
• Ning Xiaochuan led the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion into the Diqian City Region, routing rebel forces and inspiring the imperial army to counterattack.
• The No Life Path Lord and the Asura Path Lord recognized Ning Xiaochuan and plotted to attack him once his strength was depleted, seeking his Northern Darkness Divine Art and Heavenly Emperor Blade.
• The Two-Headed Stone Beast froze and crushed rebels as Ning Xiaochuan’s battalion advanced toward the Diqian City Region’s first defensive line.
• A wounded soldier told Ning Xiaochuan that Four Directions Marquis had died; Ning Xiaochuan saw the heads of Four Directions Marquis, Blade Emperor Marquis, and Heroine Marquis displayed on a tower.
• The Nether Firmament Sect Master appeared before Ning Xiaochuan and declared that the Peacock Bright King had sent him to die.

Ning Xiaochuan led the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion through the rebels’ first defense after shattering the Nether Firmament Sect’s barrier and defeating Yue Wentian. As the army advanced into the devastated Diqian City Region, Ning Xiaochuan’s sword qi killed a group of looters and allowed two captive girls to escape.

• Ning Xiaochuan ordered the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion to fall back, then broke the Nether Firmament Sect’s defensive barrier with a lightning-infused palm strike.
• The Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion breached the rebels’ stone wall, killed an elder of the Nether Firmament Sect, and overwhelmed the sect’s forces.
• Ning Xiaochuan caught Yue Wentian and defeated him through the Profound Nether Cold Mist, after which the battalion captured the Nether Firmament Sect Master.
• The Clan Head of the Yun Clan and the other sect experts withdrew, while the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion broke the first line of defense and news reached the Divine Dragon King.
• Ning Xiaochuan entered the war-ravaged Diqian City Region and saw more than twenty looters leave an estate with stolen goods and two captive girls.
• Ning Xiaochuan’s sword qi killed the looters, and the two girls crawled free from the corpses.

Ageless Ji and Undying Po ambushed Ning Xiaochuan with their Eighth Grade Profound Weapons, but he survived thanks to his Evil Dragon Scale Armor. After identifying the two academy masters, Ning Xiaochuan attacked Ageless Ji as they demanded the Northern Darkness Divine Art and Heavenly Emperor Blade.

• Ning Xiaochuan ordered the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion to halt its advance and spread out through the city district.
• Ageless Ji and Undying Po revealed their strength and struck Ning Xiaochuan with the Soul Extinguishing Bell and Thousand Blade Ruler, blasting him into a ruined building.
• Undying Po shattered the Two-Headed Stone Beast, while Ageless Ji killed the Second Battalion Commander with her bell.
• Ning Xiaochuan emerged from the ruins with minor injuries and identified the two women as Ageless Ji and Undying Po.
• Ageless Ji demanded the Northern Darkness Divine Art and Heavenly Emperor Blade, and Ning Xiaochuan sent four battle swords toward her.

Ning Xiaochuan fought Ageless Ji while shielding the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion from her Soul Extinguishing Bell and Grand Mystic Force. When Undying Po joined the battle, he brought out the Bronze Ancient Lamp to end the fight quickly.

• Ageless Ji used the Soul Extinguishing Bell to assault the battalion's martial souls, while Ning Xiaochuan used his four battle swords and Cloudglow Return Essence Qi to protect the soldiers from her Grand Mystic Force.
• Ning Xiaochuan infused the four battle swords with lightning and wounded Ageless Ji, alarming Undying Po with his ability to fight across three realms.
• Undying Po attacked Ning Xiaochuan with the Thousand Blade Ruler, forcing him to redirect and break apart his World Extinction Sword Prison.
• Ageless Ji and Undying Po attacked together, combining the Soul Extinguishing Bell against Ning Xiaochuan's martial soul with the Thousand Blade Ruler against his body.
• Ning Xiaochuan, worried that the bell would soon disable the battalion, took out the Bronze Ancient Lamp, whose light spread across more than half the Imperial City.