Recaps

Ning Xiaochuan reunited with Nie Lanzhi and learned that His Highness the Crown Prince was staying at Cloud Heaven Palace on Cloud Heaven Mountain. He sent Huanhua Princess to attack the Crown Prince while preparing a formation around the mountain, as the Crown Prince waited for Ning Xiaochuan and had defenses ready.

• Nie Lanzhi warned Ning Xiaochuan that killing His Highness the Crown Prince inside the Bright Holy Land would bring disaster, and told him the Crown Prince was staying at Cloud Heaven Palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan sensed Huanhua Princess nearby and learned she had arrived with imperial experts to protect the Crown Prince.
• Ning Xiaochuan ordered Huanhua Princess to kill His Highness the Crown Prince, and she headed toward Cloud Heaven Mountain.
• Ning Xiaochuan placed thirty-six thousand Earth-Grade Profound Stones around Cloud Heaven Mountain to form a simplified Star Net Divine Sea Formation.
• His Highness the Crown Prince told his elders he expected Ning Xiaochuan to come and declared that the defenses on Cloud Heaven Mountain would defeat him.
• A woman in Silver Scale Armor announced that Huanhua Princess had requested an audience with His Highness the Crown Prince.

Ning Xiaochuan confronted the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince in Cloud Heaven Palace after the Huanhua Princess attempted to kill the Crown Prince and revealed her connection to Ning Xiaochuan. Ning Xiaochuan overcame the Crown Prince’s elders, but the Crown Prince combined with Purple Dragon and launched a lightning sword strike as Ning Xiaochuan charged forward.

• The Huanhua Princess attacked the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince, but his dragon barrier stopped her sword and his counterattack wounded her.
• Ning Xiaochuan entered Cloud Heaven Palace and revealed that the Huanhua Princess had become his woman; the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince crushed her head and killed her.
• The Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince activated a formation that sealed the hall, while two Eighth Realm of Celestial Being elders attacked Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan blasted the elders away with his fists, shattered their Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram with the World Extinction Divine Monument, and crushed one elder beneath it.
• The Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince combined bodies with Purple Dragon, and their attacks pierced the monument and forced Ning Xiaochuan to face their greater power.
• The Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince swung a lightning greatsword at Ning Xiaochuan, who charged toward him instead of retreating.

Ning Xiaochuan battled the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince, an Eighth Realm elder, and a silver-armored Nine Heavens Venerable after destroying Cloud Heaven Palace. He broke through their attacks with the Heavenly Emperor Blade, but the three masters then joined forces to awaken a broken Supreme King Weapon.

• Ning Xiaochuan’s World Extinction Demon Flame destroyed Cloud Heaven Palace and injured the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince and the Eighth Realm elder.
• A silver-armored woman emerged unharmed from the flames and trapped Ning Xiaochuan in her Dao Embryo Domain; Yue Mingsong identified her as a Nine Heavens Venerable.
• Ning Xiaochuan broke through the domain, summoned the Heavenly Emperor Blade, and used the World Extinction Demon Flame to suppress its Artifact Spirit.
• Ning Xiaochuan’s slash shattered the woman’s Martial Law Cloud Mirror and forced her back, though her Supreme Weapon armor protected her from the worst of the attack.
• The Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince and the other two masters poured their power into a broken Bronze Ancient Halberd to awaken its Supreme King Weapon might.

Ning Xiaochuan fought the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince and the silver-armored woman, using the Heavenly Emperor Blade and the Star Net Divine Sea Formation to gain the upper hand. As the Bright Holy Land’s experts converged on Cloud Heaven Mountain, Mo Xie, its Previous Generation God Child, appeared and shocked the watching cultivators with signs that he had reached the True Person Realm.

• Ning Xiaochuan’s Heavenly Emperor Blade overwhelmed the half Bronze Broken Halberd, injuring the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince and silver-armored woman and shattering the old man’s body.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the True Martial Bow and True Martial Arrow to strike the silver-armored woman and the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince, then drove the prince back by sending World Extinction Demon Flame along the halberd.
• The silver-armored woman froze Cloud Heaven Mountain and summoned an iceberg to attack Ning Xiaochuan as the Bright Holy Land’s experts arrived and tried to intervene.
• Ning Xiaochuan activated the Star Net Divine Sea Formation, repelling the Bright Holy Land’s experts and defeating the silver-armored woman, whose Silver Pattern Blade broke and whose waist and abdomen were badly wounded.
• The Enforcement Hall Master suppressed the silver-armored woman, then Mo Xie appeared and was identified as the Bright Holy Land’s Previous Generation God Child who might have reached the True Person Realm.

Ning Xiaochuan killed the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince despite Mo Xie’s intervention, then escaped through the Earth Veins while pursued. He emerged in an icy chamber and discovered a beautiful man cultivating on a Five-Colored Ice Bed.

• Mo Xie shattered the Star Net Divine Sea Formation and pinned Ning Xiaochuan, but Ning Xiaochuan unleashed his Godly Sun Qi and beheaded the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince.
• Ning Xiaochuan seized half of the Bronze Ancient Halberd and fled underground as Mo Xie struck at him again.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the formation’s power and the Heavenly Emperor Blade to split Cloud Heaven Mountain, escaping into an Earth Vein gravely injured.
• Mo Xie left to report to the Sect Leader True Person, while the hall masters ordered a search and the silver-armored woman insisted the masked killer was Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan healed part of his injuries with a Three-Revolution Soul Return Pill, but the silver-armored woman caught up and chased him toward the surface.
• Ning Xiaochuan emerged in an icy room and saw a beautiful man cultivating on a Five-Colored Ice Bed.

Ning Xiaochuan, badly injured after killing the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince, escaped into the Bright Holy Land’s Profound Ice Stone House and found Hua Qinglian cultivating there. When the silver-armored woman pursuing him broke into the forbidden ground, Hua Qinglian drove her back and shielded Ning Xiaochuan, leaving her suspicious that the Bright Holy Land was involved in the Crown Prince’s death.

• Ning Xiaochuan emerged into the Profound Ice Stone House, where Hua Qinglian recognized him and saw that he was gravely injured.
• Ning Xiaochuan tried to leave so he would not endanger Hua Qinglian, but Hua Qinglian blocked him and offered him a place to recover.
• The silver-armored woman arrived with cultivators and forced her way past the guardians, smashing the stone door before Hua Qinglian repelled her with five-colored divine light.
• Hua Qinglian rebuked the Enforcement Hall Master for allowing an outsider into the forbidden ground and demanded that the silver-armored woman be held accountable for injuring his guardians.
• The silver-armored woman concluded that Hua Qinglian was protecting Ning Xiaochuan and suspected the Bright Holy Land had taken the Divine Dragon Cub’s dragon essence and concealed its role in the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince’s death.

After escaping Bright Holy Land’s forces, Ning Xiaochuan returned to his room and struggled to contain his injuries and surging Godly Sun Qi. Tang Shuyue discovered his disguise and, while he could not move, tried to tempt him into becoming her man.

• Ning Xiaochuan escaped the Profound Ice Stone House, leaving Hua Qinglian a note of thanks before Hua Qinglian resumed cultivating.
• The Bright Sect Leader told Mo Xie that Bright Holy Land’s Dragon Vein was withering and ordered him to investigate the Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor’s plans and the Star Constellation Sect.
• Ning Xiaochuan returned to his residence and used the World Extinction Demon Flame to trap the True Person Qi in his body, but the Godly Sun Qi then erupted.
• Tang Shuyue entered Ning Xiaochuan’s room, revealed that she had guessed his identity, and questioned whether he was too injured to move.
• Tang Shuyue explained her conflict with her senior sister and offered Ning Xiaochuan the benefits of serving her, asking him to be her man.

The Bright Holy Maiden visited Ning Xiaochuan to investigate whether he had killed the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince, but found him in bed with Tang Shuyue. Tang Shuyue pressed the Holy Maiden to honor her promise of marriage, and when Nie Lanzhi entered the room, the two women were struggling on the bed.

• The Bright Holy Maiden entered Ning Xiaochuan's room and found him and Tang Shuyue naked in bed.
• The Bright Holy Maiden tried to withdraw her promise to marry Ning Xiaochuan, but Tang Shuyue insisted she keep her word and join their camp.
• Ning Xiaochuan objected to being accused of forcing the Bright Holy Maiden, while Tang Shuyue insulted her for breaking her promise.
• Nie Lanzhi came to check on Ning Xiaochuan, so the Bright Holy Maiden hid behind the bed curtains.
• Tang Shuyue taunted the Bright Holy Maiden, then overpowered her and tried to strip away her robe just as Nie Lanzhi opened the door.

Ning Xiaochuan tried to hide Tang Shuyue and the Bright Holy Maiden in his bed after Nie Lanzhi unexpectedly entered his room. Nie Lanxin arrived looking for her sister, and her attack exposed all three women in the bed.

• Nie Lanzhi entered Ning Xiaochuan's room, saw the scattered clothes, and mistakenly thought he was with another woman.
• Ning Xiaochuan learned from Nie Lanzhi that her sister Nie Lanxin had arrived at the Bright Holy Land and wondered why the Ten Thousand Sound Fairy Queen had come too.
• Nie Lanxin broke into the room and demanded to know where Nie Lanzhi was, while Ning Xiaochuan denied she was there.
• Nie Lanxin challenged Ning Xiaochuan to fight, then pretended to leave before striking the bed with the Heavenly Fire Palm Print.
• Tang Shuyue, the Bright Holy Maiden, and Nie Lanzhi combined their powers to shatter Nie Lanxin's attack, exposing themselves when the bed broke.

After Ning Xiaochuan was discovered with Tang Shuyue, the Bright Holy Maiden, and Nie Lanzhi, Nie Lanxin nearly fought Tang Shuyue before the Northern Frontier Holy Land Cultivator Assembly interrupted them. Yue Mingsong then gave Ning Xiaochuan a bottle of Heaven One Holy Water and proposed using it to ensnare the women gathered at the assembly.

• Yue Mingsong entered and exposed the women in bed, prompting the Bright Holy Maiden to flee and Nie Lanxin to confront Ning Xiaochuan about Nie Lanzhi.
• Ning Xiaochuan insisted that he and Nie Lanzhi were innocent, while Yue Mingsong mocked him and was sent flying by Ning Xiaochuan.
• Tang Shuyue challenged Nie Lanxin, and the two exchanged attacks until Hua Qinglian arrived to summon them to the assembly at Bright Mirror Immortal Pool.
• Nie Lanxin warned Ning Xiaochuan to stay away from Nie Lanzhi, then took her to the assembly with Tang Shuyue and Hua Qinglian.
• Yue Mingsong gave Ning Xiaochuan a drop of Heaven One Holy Water and suggested putting it into the Bright Mirror Immortal Pool to ensnare the women attending the assembly.

Ning Xiaochuan hired Yue Mingsong to forge weapons from the Fire Jiao King's remains and agreed to give him the Mystic Artifact Compendium and accept Heaven One Holy Water. Yue Mingsong planned a Heaven-Grade Profound Stone Puppet, offered to repair the Ninth Grade Black Lotus, and urged Ning Xiaochuan to get the Divine Dragon Cub's core from the Bright Holy Land, possibly with Lin Yueji's help.

• Ning Xiaochuan gave Yue Mingsong thirty-eight Fire Jiao King teeth and promised nine hundred passages of the Mystic Artifact Compendium in exchange for thirty-eight Low-Grade Supreme Weapons.
• Yue Mingsong proposed a scandalous scheme, but Ning Xiaochuan refused; Yue Mingsong then offered Heaven One Holy Water, which Ning Xiaochuan accepted.
• Ning Xiaochuan handed Yue Mingsong the Fire Jiao King's scales, bones, and tendons so he could forge a Heaven-Grade Profound Stone Puppet.
• Ning Xiaochuan asked Yue Mingsong to repair the damaged Ninth Grade Black Lotus, and Yue Mingsong said he could strengthen it with Fire Jiao King bones.
• Yue Mingsong reminded Ning Xiaochuan to recover the Divine Dragon Cub's core from the Bright Holy Land and suggested asking Lin Yueji to steal it.

Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong attended the gathering at Bright Mirror Immortal Pool, where Golden Child Buddha of Great Sun Paradise Palace and the Divine Maiden of Medicine God Valley arrived. Ning Xiaochuan sensed that the Divine Maiden’s aura resembled Ugly Old Woman’s, while Wang Xu’s attempt to approach her ended in a confrontation with Scarface Man.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong arrived at Bright Mirror Immortal Pool and discussed how the younger generation used the gathering to test one another.
• The Bright Holy Maiden welcomed Golden Child Buddha, who gave her a copy of the Calm Heart Sutra and joined the other holy land successors.
• Yue Mingsong suspected Great Sun Paradise Palace had sent Golden Child Buddha because of the Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor.
• The Divine Maiden of Medicine God Valley arrived, and Ning Xiaochuan recognized an aura like Ugly Old Woman’s and wondered whether she was connected to the valley.
• Wang Xu sought the Divine Maiden’s guidance, but Scarface Man mocked him and provoked him into defending his pill-refining skill.

Ning Xiaochuan was drawn into a pill-refinement wager against Wang Xu after the Yang Sect Saint Child and God Child provoked the contest. He accepted despite recognizing the trap, and the chapter ended with Tang Shuyue volunteering to assist him.

• The Yang Sect Saint Child and God Child challenged Wang Xu to a pill-refinement contest, with the loser required to kneel and kowtow three times.
• Wang Xu and Ning Xiaochuan were named as the competitors, but Ning Xiaochuan initially declined to avoid making an enemy of the Wang Family.
• Wang Xu mocked Ning Xiaochuan as a coward, prompting Ning Xiaochuan to accept the challenge and take the stage.
• Ji Qiankun volunteered to assist Wang Xu, and Ning Xiaochuan made him agree to honor the wager if Ning Xiaochuan won.
• Tang Shuyue, the Spirit Maiden of the Nine Heavens Pavilion, volunteered to serve as Ning Xiaochuan's assistant, surprising the gathered cultivators and making Wang Xu jealous.

Ning Xiaochuan chose the Bright Holy Maiden as his pill-refining assistant and negotiated for dragon essence and Heaven-Grade Profound Stones. As the contest began, he revealed his Heart Nourishing True Cauldron and started refining a powerful pill with help from Spiritually-Connected Rare Medicines, while Wang Xu struggled to keep pace.

• Ning Xiaochuan declined Tang Shuyue’s offer and asked the Bright Holy Maiden to assist him, and she agreed.
• Ning Xiaochuan and the Bright Holy Maiden privately agreed that she would help him seek dragon essence from the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince’s Divine Dragon Cub and ten Heaven-Grade Profound Stones in exchange for his releasing her from her marriage promise.
• Wang Xu summoned his Heart Nourishing True Cauldron and chose to attempt an Origin Returning Pill, while Ning Xiaochuan revealed his own cauldron.
• Ning Xiaochuan began refining a Six Revolutions Soul Return Pill, and more than ten Spiritually-Connected Rare Medicines willingly helped him.
• The Bright Holy Maiden stood quietly behind Ning Xiaochuan as Wang Xu grew exhausted, and the Divine Maiden of Medicine God Valley watched Ning Xiaochuan with wonder.

Ning Xiaochuan won the pill-refining contest by producing four Six-Revolution Soul Return Pills, then spared Wang Xu and Ji Qiankun after they tried to kill themselves rather than honor their wager. He left with the Bright Holy Maiden to attend to their urgent matter, while Ji Qiankun revealed that she had agreed to marry him.

• Ning Xiaochuan refined four Six-Revolution Soul Return Pills as Wang Xu's cauldron exploded, deciding the contest in Ning Xiaochuan's favor.
• Wang Xu and Ji Qiankun prepared to kill themselves rather than kneel, but Ning Xiaochuan knocked away their weapons and urged them to defend humanity instead.
• Wang Xu and Ji Qiankun apologized to Ning Xiaochuan and promised to remember his lesson, while the Divine Maiden of Medicine God Valley praised his skill and invited him to discuss the Pill Path.
• Ning Xiaochuan learned that the Divine Maiden of Medicine God Valley had encountered Ugly Old Woman, but left with the Bright Holy Maiden before she could explain further.
• Ji Qiankun told the gathered cultivators that the Bright Holy Maiden had agreed to marry Ning Xiaochuan, stunning an elder of Bright Holy Land.

The Bright Holy Maiden and Ding Chunqiu’s pledge became public, prompting her parents to leave seclusion while she took Ning Xiaochuan to the Holy Treasure Tower to steal two treasures. Before she returned, the Demon Clan Army surrounded the Bright Holy Land, and Gu Lifan charged into battle against a black-winged demon clansman.

• A white-robed elder told the Bright Holy Maiden’s parents that Yue'er had pledged herself to Ding Chunqiu, and they decided to leave seclusion and meet him.
• The Bright Holy Maiden took Ning Xiaochuan to the Holy Treasure Tower and told him to wait outside while she went in for the Dragon Essence and Heaven-Grade Profound Stone.
• Disciples reported that the Demon Clan Army had surrounded the Bright Holy Land, and the cultivators gathered at the Holy Gate saw the Earth Centipede Demon Emperor’s forces and war chariot.
• The Bright Sect Leader’s projected avatar confronted the Earth Centipede Demon Emperor, who announced the Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor’s order to destroy the Bright Holy Land within three days.
• Gu Lifan killed the demon beating the war drum, accepted a challenge from a black-winged demon clansman, and launched an attack with his halberd.

Huang Chengzi defeated Bright Holy Land fighters and challenged its younger generation while the demon army attacked the sect. The Bright Holy Land faced encirclement as Demon Empress Shiji seized an Earth Vein and Fanhou Demon Emperor arrived with a second army.

• Huang Chengzi broke Gu Lifan's halberd, defeated him, and dragged him to the White Bone Altar after killing a Bright Holy Land elder who tried to intervene.
• Huang Chengzi defeated the Merit Transmission Hall Master, who escaped back through the Holy Gate after burning his lifespan with a forbidden technique.
• Gu Lifan warned the human cultivators that Huang Chengzi was a pure-blooded descendant of the divine beast Huang Ying, and the Bright Holy Land Sect Leader True Person fought the Earth Centipede Demon Emperor.
• Demon Empress Shiji emerged from underground and gathered one of the Bright Holy Land's principal Earth Veins into an Ancient Cauldron.
• Fanhou Demon Emperor came through a Gate of Void with a second demon beast army, joining the Earth Centipede Demon Emperor and Demon Empress Shiji to surround the Bright Holy Land.

The Demon Clan Army gathered outside the Bright Holy Land while its prodigies challenged human champions, and Hua Qinglian rescued Gu Lifan before battling Huang Chengzi. As the Zhenhou King overwhelmed the Nine Ruins Saint Child, Ning Xiaochuan discovered that a demon had breached the formation around the Holy Treasure Tower and entered to investigate.

• The Earth Centipede Demon Emperor, Demon Empress Shiji, and Fanhou Demon Emperor led their armies to the Bright Holy Land, where Huang Chengzi challenged the human prodigies.
• Hua Qinglian confronted Huang Chengzi, endured his black flames, rescued Gu Lifan, and was intercepted as he returned toward the Sub-God Array.
• The Zhenhou King challenged the human cultivators, and the Nine Ruins Saint Child fought him but was gravely injured and escaped using a spatial divine ability.
• Ning Xiaochuan worried about the approaching Demon Clan Army and Lin Yueji's continued absence from the Holy Treasure Tower.
• Ning Xiaochuan's Demon Suppressing Tower reacted near the Holy Treasure Tower, where he found a gap gnawed through the formation and entered to investigate.

Ning Xiaochuan infiltrated the Holy Treasure Tower and learned that the God Devouring Old Rat had wounded its guardian while his grandson fought the Bright Holy Maiden over the Heaven-Grade Profound Stones. The Bright Holy Maiden was near defeat when a mysterious figure moved faster than the God Devouring Little Rat and carried her out of its attack.

• Ning Xiaochuan used the Demon Suppressing Tower to find a gap in the tower’s array and entered the Holy Treasure Tower.
• Ning Xiaochuan saw the injured guardian trapping the God Devouring Old Rat, who revealed that his grandson was stealing the Heaven-Grade Profound Stones.
• Ning Xiaochuan promised the guardian he would help the Bright Holy Maiden and went to find her.
• The God Devouring Little Rat cornered the wounded Bright Holy Maiden in the chamber holding the Heaven-Grade Profound Stones and demanded that she become his Human Pet.
• The God Devouring Little Rat attacked, but a figure moved faster, wrapped the Bright Holy Maiden in his arms, and dodged its seventy-two claw strikes.

Ning Xiaochuan fought the God Devouring Little Rat in the Holy Treasure Tower as it tried to steal the Bright Holy Land’s Heaven-Grade Profound Stones. He severed the creature’s arm and recovered the stones, then continued pursuing it while Bright Holy Maiden secured the stolen bag.

• Ning Xiaochuan and the God Devouring Little Rat battled in the secret chamber, and Ning Xiaochuan matched the demon beast through more than a hundred exchanges.
• The God Devouring Little Rat slipped into the Spirit Pool and collected the Heaven-Grade Profound Stones, but Ning Xiaochuan struck it with the World Extinction Divine Monument.
• The God Devouring Little Rat escaped the Spirit Pool and fled with the stones, but Ning Xiaochuan cut off its left arm with the Heavenly Emperor Blade.
• Ning Xiaochuan gave Bright Holy Maiden the Beast Hide Qiankun Bag containing the stones and continued after the wounded God Devouring Little Rat.

Ning Xiaochuan drove off the God Devouring Old Rat with the Demon Suppressing Tower, rescued the Bright Holy Maiden and the Holy Treasure Tower’s Supreme Elder, and prepared to leave as the Demon Clan Army surrounded the Bright Holy Land. The Bright Holy Maiden stopped him to ask how she could repay her debts of gratitude.

• Ning Xiaochuan and the Bright Holy Maiden faced the God Devouring Old Rat, who used his True Person-level mind power to force them to dig out their hearts.
• Ning Xiaochuan revealed the Demon Suppressing Tower, frightening the God Devouring Old Rat into fleeing with the God Devouring Little Rat.
• Ning Xiaochuan healed the Bright Holy Maiden with a Three-Revolution Soul Return Pill and saved the Supreme Elder with a Six-Revolution Soul Return Pill and a True Blood Pill.
• Ning Xiaochuan warned the Bright Holy Maiden that two Demon Emperors and one Demon Empress had surrounded the Bright Holy Land, then collected the dragon essence and ten Heaven-Grade Profound Stones.
• Ning Xiaochuan said they no longer owed each other anything and prepared to leave, but the Bright Holy Maiden stopped him and asked how she could repay him for saving her and the Bright Holy Land.

Ning Xiaochuan learned that Lin Yueji seemed to have fallen for him, then discovered that the human cultivators were being overwhelmed by Demon Clan geniuses. Yue Mingsong revealed he had already forged thirty-eight Supreme Weapon battle swords for Ning Xiaochuan, giving him a chance to strengthen his Figurative Divine Power Swords.

• The Bright Holy Maiden offered to repay Ning Xiaochuan’s favor with any request, and Ning Xiaochuan realized she might have fallen in love with him before leaving the Holy Treasure Tower.
• Ning Xiaochuan reunited with Nie Lanzhi, Nie Lanxin, Yue Mingsong, Situ Jing, and Luo Wu, revealed his true appearance, and explained why he had concealed his identity.
• Yue Mingsong and the others told Ning Xiaochuan that Demon Clan geniuses had defeated or killed human fighters, while the Bright God Child could not gain the upper hand against them.
• Ning Xiaochuan cautioned that the Demon Clan’s strongest fighters were formidable and that he might not be able to defeat them.
• Yue Mingsong secretly showed Ning Xiaochuan thirty-eight Low-Grade Supreme Weapon battle swords he had forged in less than half a day.

Ning Xiaochuan refined seven Supreme Weapon-grade battle swords into his body, reaching the threshold of the Eighth Realm of Celestial Being without understanding how to form a Dao Embryo. As he left the Bright Holy Land to test his sword power, a mysterious middle-aged man exposed his disguise and confronted him.

• Ning Xiaochuan gave Yue Mingsong the nine hundred passages of the Mystic Artifact Compendium and asked when the Heaven-Grade Profound Stone Puppet would be ready.
• Ning Xiaochuan set up defensive formations and refined seven battle swords into his body to strengthen his cultivation.
• Ning Xiaochuan reached 180 million rules in both Dao Origins but failed to condense a Dao Embryo, leaving him at the Quasi-Eighth Realm of Celestial Being.
• Ning Xiaochuan formed an eighteen-sword formation and left the Bright Holy Land to test its power.
• A mysterious middle-aged man stopped Ning Xiaochuan, rejected his Star Constellation Sect cover story, and used his power to reveal Ning Xiaochuan's true appearance.

Ning Xiaochuan mistook Lin Fengxuan, the Bright Holy Maiden’s father, for an elderly suitor and argued that she deserved a young hero. Lin Fengxuan’s words stirred Ning Xiaochuan to consider helping humanity, but when he headed toward the Holy Gate, Lin Fengxuan and Qin Luofu feared he meant to challenge the Demon Clan’s young geniuses and rushed to stop him.

• Ning Xiaochuan confronted Lin Fengxuan, believing he was an old man pursuing the Bright Holy Maiden, and criticized him for being too old and unworthy of her.
• Lin Fengxuan, secretly testing Ning Xiaochuan as a potential husband for his daughter, asked what made someone a young hero and described a hero as one who fought to protect humanity.
• Ning Xiaochuan reflected on Lin Fengxuan’s words and headed toward the Holy Gate with a renewed resolve to help more people survive.
• Qin Luofu questioned Lin Fengxuan’s test, and he worried that Ning Xiaochuan might be going to fight the Demon Clan’s powerful young warriors.
• Lin Fengxuan and Qin Luofu hurried after Ning Xiaochuan to keep him from entering the battlefield.

Ning Xiaochuan watched the human cultivators gather at the Bright Holy Land as Yan Mie fought the Three-Headed Royal Lion outside its Sub-God Array. The Lion defeated Yan Mie and killed the Ghost Raising Family elders who rushed to save him, leaving the human crowd demoralized.

• Ning Xiaochuan arrived at the Holy Gate and saw human cultivators, including Tang Shuyue, Yue Mingsong, and Situ Jing, gathered to watch the battle.
• Yan Mie fought the Three-Headed Royal Lion, who had the advantage despite Yan Mie's formidable reputation.
• Yan Mie summoned the Nine-Bodied Ghost King, prompting the crowd to cheer and the Spirit Maiden of the Azure Wood Holy Land to offer a marriage alliance if he won.
• The Three-Headed Royal Lion used Lion God Possession to overwhelm Yan Mie and leave him gravely wounded and unconscious.
• The Ghost Raising Family elders rushed to rescue Yan Mie, but the Three-Headed Royal Lion killed them before they could reach him.
• The Three-Headed Royal Lion mocked the human race, while the Demon Clan cultivators laughed at the defeated humans.