Recaps

Ning Xiaochuan and his companions encountered a God Eating Beast in the Ninth District and joined forces to fight it. As they nearly defeated the beast, the Four Symbols God Child attacked Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong from behind.

• The Four Symbols God Child divined that Yue Mingsong faced a death trigram, then privately predicted that the Ninth District would become his burial place.
• A God Eating Beast emerged from beneath the ground and chased Little Red, who fought back in her dragon form.
• Ning Xiaochuan fused with Little Red and attacked the beast with the Star Luo Spear, while the beast retaliated with a fragment of a Supreme King Weapon.
• The invading Demonic Qi was devoured by Ning Xiaochuan's own Demonic Qi, raising his cultivation to the peak of the Eighth Realm of Celestial Being.
• Ning Xiaochuan, Zi Hanyan, Yue Mingsong, and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury combined their power through the Star Luo Spear and nearly destroyed the God Eating Beast.
• The Four Symbols God Child ambushed Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong with Purple Jade Sabers, badly wounding both of them.

The Four Symbols God Child attacked Zi Hanyan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury, then tried to force them into submission while Ning Xiaochuan was badly depleted. Yue Mingsong gave Ning Xiaochuan the Fire Jiao King, whose power let him overwhelm the Four Symbols God Child and pursue him toward the Ninth District.

• The Four Symbols God Child injured Zi Hanyan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury, then threatened them and bound Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury with a rune-carved chain.
• Ning Xiaochuan confronted the Four Symbols God Child, but the latter pointed out that Ning was weakened from fighting the God Eating Beast and from his earlier attack.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury refused the Four Symbols God Child's demand to use her for dual cultivation, while Yue Mingsong sent Ning Xiaochuan the Fire Jiao King.
• Ning Xiaochuan filled the Fire Jiao King's seven hollows with Heaven-Grade Profound Stones and merged his heart-spirit with it to attack the Four Symbols God Child.
• The Fire Jiao King shattered the Four Symbols Sacred Method and cracked the Four Symbols God Child's Protective Jade Talisman, then struck his head as he fled toward the Ninth District.

Ning Xiaochuan killed Xuan Tianji, the Four Symbols God Child, with the Fire Jiao King and recovered his Mid-Grade Supreme Weapon. Yue Mingsong identified the weapon as the Li Stone Eight Trigrams, a spirit treasure that could locate the ancient road in the Ninth District, and traded four Mid-Grade Supreme Weapons to keep it.

• Ning Xiaochuan controlled the Fire Jiao King to break Xuan Tianji's Protective Jade Talisman and kill him, despite Xuan Tianji's pleas and threats.
• Ning Xiaochuan learned that the Fire Jiao King was equivalent to a third-grade Heaven-Grade Profound Stone Puppet, but had only three Heaven-Grade Profound Stones left.
• Ning Xiaochuan refined Xuan Tianji's ancient Eight Trigrams weapon and let Yue Mingsong examine it.
• Yue Mingsong identified the weapon as the Li Stone Eight Trigrams, a Daoist spirit treasure that could find Earth Veins and the ancient road in the Ninth District.
• Ning Xiaochuan offered the Li Stone Eight Trigrams to Yue Mingsong in exchange for four Mid-Grade Supreme Weapons, and Yue Mingsong agreed.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury chose Yue Mingsong's silver-thread belt, testing how it extended tens of thousands of meters before it shrank back to nine feet.

Zi Hanyan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury claimed rare weapons, while Ning Xiaochuan received a newly upgraded Buddha Lotus and began refining the God Eating Beast’s corpse. Demon Empress Shiji revealed that she had followed the group to the Ruins of Return for the Earth Scripture, then abducted Yue Mingsong and confronted him.

• Zi Hanyan chose a starlight ancient sword and violet-blue armor, while Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury took a translucent throwing knife.
• Yue Mingsong gave Ning Xiaochuan the repaired Ninth Grade Black Lotus, which unfolded into a Twelfth Grade defensive weapon.
• Ning Xiaochuan gave Yue Mingsong the complete Mystic Artifact Compendium, then used the World Extinction Demon Flame to refine the God Eating Beast’s corpse for Weapon Marrow.
• Demon Empress Shiji explained that her true body had entered the Ruins of Return to pursue the Earth Scripture and observed Ning Xiaochuan and his companions.
• Demon Empress Shiji secretly seized Yue Mingsong and brought him away from the group; Yue Mingsong recognized her and begged for his life.

Demon Empress Shiji learned from Yue Mingsong that Ning Xiaochuan had obtained treasures in the God Sealing Cave Abode, including a supposed divine elixir, and set out to seize it. She caught up with Ning Xiaochuan and his companions, while Ning Xiaochuan realized Yue Mingsong had invented the elixir story to save himself.

• Demon Empress Shiji threatened Yue Mingsong until he claimed Ning Xiaochuan taught him artifact refinement and gave him the Mystic Artifact Compendium from the God Sealing Cave Abode.
• Yue Mingsong told Demon Empress Shiji that Ning Xiaochuan possessed a Marrow Cleansing Divine Elixir, then pretended to resent Ning Xiaochuan and pledged his loyalty to her.
• Ning Xiaochuan finished refining the God Eating Beast’s body and collected nine drops of Weapon Marrow, but then noticed Yue Mingsong had disappeared.
• Ning Xiaochuan fled with Zi Hanyan, Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury, and Little Red when Demon Empress Shiji’s Demon Cloud approached, but she caught and blocked them.
• Yue Mingsong demanded that Ning Xiaochuan hand over the divine elixir, and Ning Xiaochuan inferred that Yue Mingsong had fabricated the story about his Heaven One Holy Water.

Ning Xiaochuan gave the Demon Empress Shiji a bottle she believed contained divine liquid in exchange for letting his companions leave. The Earth Centipede Demon Emperor then stole the bottle, and Shiji attacked him to reclaim it.

• Yue Mingsong betrayed Ning Xiaochuan by revealing that he supposedly possessed divine liquid, and Shiji demanded the liquid and that he lead her to the God Sealing Cave Abode.
• Shiji stopped Zi Hanyan’s Star Ancient Sword and struck Ning Xiaochuan with her spiritual will, but his Seven Aperture God-Demon Heart Palace blocked it.
• Ning Xiaochuan sent Zi Hanyan, Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury, and Little Red out of the Ruins of Return, then handed Shiji the bottle of Heaven One Holy Water.
• The Earth Centipede Demon Emperor emerged, stole the bottle, and revealed that the Hundred Feet King had helped him learn Shiji had entered the ruins.
• Shiji killed the Hundred Feet King and attacked the Earth Centipede Demon Emperor with an Earth Vein to take back the bottle.

Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong escaped the Demon Empress Shiji and searched the Ninth District for the Purple Gold Imperial Lord’s ancient road. They found a hidden route into Guixu’s depths and reached a stone temple, where Ning Xiaochuan discovered a footprint left by Xue Lingxu.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong entered the Ninth District while the Earth Centipede Demon Emperor fought the Demon Empress Shiji, then used the Li Stone Eight Trigrams to search for the ancient road.
• A Blood Yin Spirit dragged Yue Mingsong underground, but Ning Xiaochuan destroyed it with the Demon Sword, which absorbed its blood energy and strengthened Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong reached a cliff surrounded by floating broken weapons, where Zi Hanyan, Little Red, and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury joined them.
• Ning Xiaochuan led the group down the cliff to a stone staircase and a temple built into the cliff wall.
• Ning Xiaochuan found a footprint at the temple threshold and recognized it as a mark left by Xue Lingxu.

In the Stone Temple, the Purple Gold Imperial Lord’s statue released divine power that transformed Ning Xiaochuan and helped him break through to the peak of the Ninth Realm of Celestial Being. Sui Hanyu awakened through the Demon Sword and taught him the God Receiving Path, while Zi Hanyan and the others also gained from the statue’s power.

• Ning Xiaochuan identified Xue Lingxu’s Dao aura in a footprint near the Stone Temple, and Zi Hanyan recognized the temple’s statue as the Purple Gold Imperial Lord.
• When Zi Hanyan kowtowed, the statue manifested its divinity and released power that strengthened everyone present.
• Ning Xiaochuan fed all nine drops of Weapon Marrow to the Demon Sword, awakening its Sword Spirit and raising it to a Low-Grade Supreme Weapon.
• The divine power and the Demon Sword’s advancement pushed Ning Xiaochuan into the peak of the Ninth Realm of Celestial Being, and Sui Hanyu awakened within the sword.
• Sui Hanyu imparted the God Receiving Path to Ning Xiaochuan, who studied it for three days without gaining insight.
• The statue’s manifestation ended, and Zi Hanyan, Little Red, Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury, and Yue Mingsong cultivated; Zi Hanyan formed a Purple Haze Dao Embryo.

Ning Xiaochuan and Xue Lingxu discovered the other half of the Town Suppressing Tower sealed in a hidden Small World and debated how to prevent the Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor from being reborn. A blood-colored figure appeared atop the tower and struck them with its overwhelming aura, and Xue Lingxu attacked it with the Emperor's Life-Death Seal.

• Xue Lingxu told Ning Xiaochuan that she had obtained the Purple Gold Imperial Lord's Martial Heart Palace but could not remove it without alerting the Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor.
• Xue Lingxu led Ning Xiaochuan through the Stone Temple's teleportation array to a Small World deep within the Ruins of Return.
• Ning Xiaochuan split open a mountain and revealed the other half of the Town Suppressing Tower, which the Purple Gold Imperial Lord had sealed there.
• Ning Xiaochuan argued that they should take the Martial Heart Palace and tower to Burial God Mountain to help the Purple Gold Imperial Lord revive and oppose the Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor.
• A sinister blood-colored figure appeared atop the tower and forced Ning Xiaochuan and Xue Lingxu to their knees with its aura.
• Xue Lingxu attacked the figure with the Emperor's Life-Death Seal, summoning a towering Emperor Shadow to suppress it.

Ning Xiaochuan and Xue Lingxu were overpowered by a blood spirit guarding the Town Suppressing Tower, which Yue Mingsong identified as a Blood Robe soaked in the Purple Gold Imperial Lord’s sub-god blood. Ning Xiaochuan planned to lure it away so the others could take the tower, while Yue Mingsong fled through the Stone Temple’s Teleportation Formation.

• Xue Lingxu attacked the scarlet figure with the Emperor's Life-Death Seal, but it broke her attack and wounded her with Evil Qi.
• Ning Xiaochuan struck the scarlet figure with the World Creation Severing Knife and gave Xue Lingxu time to escape, though the counterattack injured him.
• Ning Xiaochuan told Xue Lingxu that his knifeplay technique came from the Heavenly Emperor, and she agreed to learn it after they seized the Town Suppressing Tower.
• Yue Mingsong used a Bronze Mirror to reveal that the scarlet figure was a Blood Robe that had become an evil spirit after absorbing the Purple Gold Imperial Lord's divine blood.
• Ning Xiaochuan proposed that he and Little Red lure the blood spirit away while Xue Lingxu collected the tower and escaped with the group.
• Yue Mingsong activated the Stone Temple's Teleportation Formation and fled, promising to bring back human experts.

Ning Xiaochuan lured the Blood Spirit away from the Town Suppressing Tower so Xue Lingxu could seize it, but the creature pursued him through a teleportation formation. Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury saved Ning Xiaochuan at great cost, and their escape ended with Demon Empress Shiji appearing before them as the Blood Spirit closed in.

• Ning Xiaochuan combined with Little Red and repeatedly shot at the Blood Spirit, drawing it away from the Town Suppressing Tower while Xue Lingxu took the tower.
• Xue Lingxu sent Zi Hanyan away through the teleportation formation, while Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury stayed behind to wait for Ning Xiaochuan.
• The Blood Spirit caught Ning Xiaochuan, destroyed his Fire Jiao King, and struck at him as he reached the Stone Temple; Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury shielded him, and they escaped through the formation together.
• Ning Xiaochuan revived the injured Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury with a Three-Revolution Soul Return Pill, but the Blood Spirit followed them through the formation and chased them out of the Return to Ruins.
• With the Blood Spirit closing in, Ning Xiaochuan agreed to Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury's request to dual cultivate, then rushed toward the arriving Demon Empress Shiji for help.

Demon Empress Shiji captured the century-old Blood Spirit but was injured when she touched Purple Gold Imperial Lord’s Blood Robe. She forced Ning Xiaochuan to retrieve the robe, and he wondered whether its evil power had caused Purple Gold Imperial Lord’s death.

• Ning Xiaochuan fled toward Demon Empress Shiji with Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury as the Blood Spirit caught up and attacked.
• Demon Empress Shiji fought the Blood Spirit and sealed it inside her Stone Purification Vase.
• Demon Empress Shiji touched the fallen Blood Robe and was hurled away, her arm corrupted by its evil power.
• Ning Xiaochuan tried to escape, but Demon Empress Shiji’s Thought Manifestation stopped him and identified the robe as Purple Gold Imperial Lord’s.
• Demon Empress Shiji compelled Ning Xiaochuan to retrieve the robe, arguing that his Demonic Path Supreme Body could withstand its Evil Qi.
• Ning Xiaochuan suspected that the Blood Robe’s evil power might have been connected to Purple Gold Imperial Lord’s death in the Ruins of Return.

Ning Xiaochuan retrieved the Blood Robe for Demon Empress Shiji, who forced him to guide her to the God Sealing Cave Abode by threatening Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury with a Petrification Pearl. After they left the Returning Ruins, they encountered human cultivators captured by Shiji, including several prominent figures, whom she ordered locked up and threatened with sacrifice.

• Ning Xiaochuan placed the ten-million-jin Blood Robe inside the Stone Box and handed it to Demon Empress Shiji, who refused to let him approach closely.
• Ning Xiaochuan learned that Demon Empress Shiji had made Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury swallow a Petrification Pearl that would turn her to stone without an antidote.
• Demon Empress Shiji demanded that Ning Xiaochuan lead her to the God Sealing Cave Abode, promising the antidote if he obeyed.
• Demon Empress Shiji took Ning Xiaochuan, Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury, and Little Red out of the Returning Ruins, saying her cultivation had been damaged by Evil Qi and they needed to leave.
• Ning Xiaochuan recognized Tai Qingxu, Yan Mie, and the Azure Wood Spirit Maiden among thirteen captured human cultivators, who mistook him and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury for demon servants.
• Demon Empress Shiji ordered the captives locked up, offering a Slave Token to those who submitted and threatening to sacrifice the rest at the White Bone Altar.

Demon Empress Shiji prepared to leave the Ruins of Return and ordered Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury to ride with her. When her disciple Ling Yun tried to demean Ning Xiaochuan, he resisted her pressure and forced her back, then warned Demon Empress Shiji to restrain the Son of Qi Niu King.

• Demon Empress Shiji revealed that Hundred Feet King had betrayed her and been executed, then ordered the demons to keep searching for the woman who stole Purple Gold Imperial Lord's Martial Heart Palace.
• Demon Empress Shiji summoned her Nine Dragons Flying Carriage and told Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury to board it with her.
• Ling Yun objected to the humans riding in the carriage and demanded that Ning Xiaochuan kneel, while Demon Empress Shiji allowed her to provoke him.
• Ning Xiaochuan confronted Ling Yun with his force of mind and made her retreat, surprising Demon Empress Shiji and the watching human captives.
• The Son of Qi Niu King stepped forward to challenge Ning Xiaochuan, who warned Demon Empress Shiji to call him off.

The Earth Centipede Demon Emperor and Thunder God Demon Emperor attacked Demon Empress Shiji to seize the Divine Liquid, while their forces slaughtered her followers. As Shiji fought and her subordinates were overwhelmed, Ning Xiaochuan freed five human cultivators and fought his way into the demon horde with Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury.

• Qiniu Prince prepared to attack Ning Xiaochuan, but Demon Empress Shiji ordered him to stand down and departed in the Nine Dragons Flying Carriage.
• The Earth Centipede Demon Emperor confronted Shiji over the Divine Liquid, and the Thunder God Demon Emperor arrived to help seize it.
• The two Demon Emperors attacked Shiji, while their forces assaulted her subordinates and the Spirit Vulture King pursued Ling Yun.
• Ning Xiaochuan freed five chained human cultivators, gave them Three-Revolution Soul Return Pills, and told them to escape on their own.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury charged through the demon horde, killing their attackers as they tried to escape.

Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury escaped the demon clan and became lost in the Great Wilderness. As Ning Xiaochuan tried to locate Master Tan Qian to help remove the Petrification Pearl, fine white threads suddenly bound him, Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury, and Little Red.

• Ling Yun fled to Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury for protection, drawing the Spirit Vulture King and hundreds of demon clan pursuers after them.
• Ning Xiaochuan burned the pursuing demon clan experts and three Beast Kings to ashes with the World Extinction Demon Flame and Divine Extinction Dragon Fire, then warned Ling Yun not to follow.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury fled deep into the Great Wilderness, where they discovered they were lost and discussed the Petrification Pearl threatening Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury.
• Ning Xiaochuan tried to sense the location of the Heavenly Emperor Blade so he could find Master Tan Qian, but could not retrieve the weapon from his control.
• Ning Xiaochuan sensed a powerful demonic aura approaching and readied his Demon Sword, but fine white threads suddenly bound him, Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury, and Little Red.

Ning Xiaochuan confronted the wounded Demon Empress Shiji and used the demigod Blood Robe to negotiate for Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury’s safety. He gave Shiji the first section of the Earth Scripture and the real location of the God Sealing Cave Abode, intending to turn her into a force against the Northern Frontier demon clan.

• Demon Empress Shiji’s white hair dragged Ning Xiaochuan, Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury, and Little Red to her hiding place in a secluded canyon.
• Ning Xiaochuan demanded the antidote to the supposed Petrification Pearl, then donned the demigod Blood Robe to stop Shiji’s attack and gain leverage.
• Shiji revealed that Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury had received a Youth Preservation Pill, not a Petrification Pearl, and Ning Xiaochuan believed her.
• Ning Xiaochuan gave Shiji the first section of the Earth Scripture and marked the real location of the God Sealing Cave Abode on a map.
• After leaving the canyon, Ning Xiaochuan explained that he spared Shiji because she could oppose the Northern Frontier demon clan, though the cave abode remained dangerous for her.

Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor began using the White Bone Altar’s accumulated human blood energy to condense her First Level Sub-God Body, while Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury fled toward the Central Land World. After blood rain spread across the northern frontier, Ning Xiaochuan agreed to accompany Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury to Nine Heavens Pavilion.

• Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor learned that the human cultivators had been driven from the northern frontier, ordered Thunder God Demon Emperor to seize the remaining Holy Land grounds, and prepared to condense her First Level Sub-God Body.
• Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor summoned four sub-god thoughts to guard her, then flew into the White Bone Altar’s sea of blood.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury crossed a ruined Fifth Grade Civilization and saw blood clouds cover the northern frontier.
• Ning Xiaochuan explained that Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor was forming her Evil Body and warned that only a sub-god could likely stop her.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury asked Ning Xiaochuan to accompany her to Nine Heavens Pavilion for the selection of its next Young Pavilion Master, and he agreed.

Ning Xiaochuan used the blood qi unleashed by the Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor to cultivate and made progress toward contacting his master, Sui Hanyu. After traveling to Nine Heavens Pavilion, he learned about the unusual customs of the Mother-Son River Region and arrived with Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury and Little Red in a city where women greatly outnumbered men.

• Ning Xiaochuan absorbed the blood qi and spent three days trying to trace Sui Hanyu's divine power, sensing a wisp before it vanished.
• Little Red showed Ning Xiaochuan her new ability to summon rain, and he scolded her for neglecting her cultivation.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury traveled for more than three months to Nine Heavens Pavilion's territory, accompanied by Little Red and the Two-Headed Stone Beast.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury explained that the Mother-Son River Region's water led most children to be born girls and that women held authority while men served as descendants-bearers.
• Ning Xiaochuan admired the region's beautiful women, and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury teased him for supposedly coming to see Northern Frontier's greatest beauty rather than help her compete for Young Pavilion Master.

Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury followed Qian Biluo and Gongsun Yibai to a Yang Sect Branch, where the two Yang Sect prodigies had captured a Divine Maiden. After Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury was poisoned and trapped, Ning Xiaochuan intervened, leaving Gongsun Yibai stunned to see Elder Yue's successor.

• Ning Xiaochuan recognized the Scarface Men carrying a captive as Qian Biluo and Gongsun Yibai, and he and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury followed them.
• Qian Biluo and Gongsun Yibai entered a Yang Sect Branch with their captive, and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury broke through the gate to confront them.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury killed two Outer Disciples and fought Gongsun Yibai, overpowering him with her Buddhist hand seal.
• Qian Biluo and Gongsun Yibai revealed that Mortal Powder had weakened Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury and that the Branch's barrier would prevent her escape.
• Gongsun Yibai pursued Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury, but Ning Xiaochuan struck him away, and Gongsun Yibai recognized him as Elder Yue's successor.

Ning Xiaochuan rescued Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury and the Divine Maiden of Medicine God Valley from the Yang Sect Branch and cured most of the Mortal Powder poisoning. After the women woke, he asked the Divine Maiden how she had been captured and where the other Medicine God Valley cultivators were.

• Ning Xiaochuan entered the Yang Sect Branch, where Gongsun Yibai and Qian Biluo recognized him but kept his identity secret.
• Ning Xiaochuan demanded the Divine Maiden of Medicine God Valley, and Gongsun Yibai ordered the Outer Disciples to let him take her away.
• Ning Xiaochuan brought Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury and the Divine Maiden to an inn, made an antidote, and used medicated baths to draw out the Mortal Powder.
• Little Red urged Ning Xiaochuan to consider Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury’s feelings and fulfill his promise to dual cultivate with her, and Ning Xiaochuan agreed to speak with her after she woke.
• Ning Xiaochuan refused to give Little Red the dragon core until she mastered another Innate Divine Power, then considered refining it himself to reach the True Person Realm.
• After Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury and the Divine Maiden woke, Ning Xiaochuan clarified that Little Red had bathed them and asked the Divine Maiden how the Yang Sect captured her and where the other Medicine God Valley cultivators were.

Ning Xiaochuan learned that Ugly Old Woman might be Medicine God Valley’s second-generation Valley Master and had gone overseas seeking the Elixir of Immortality. He discovered that Ji Hanxing and the Heart Demon had accompanied her to Medicine God Valley, but he did not learn whether they had gone overseas with her.

• The Divine Maiden of Medicine God Valley recognized Ning Xiaochuan as Ding Chunqiu, one of Northern Frontier’s Three Great Divine Successors, and told him that the holy lands had gathered in North Holy City.
• Ning Xiaochuan asked about Ugly Old Woman, and the Divine Maiden said that medicine king Su Qinghe believed she was Medicine God Valley’s second-generation Valley Master, who had vanished over eighty thousand years ago.
• The Divine Maiden showed Ning Xiaochuan a portrait of the second-generation Valley Master, whose appearance seemed to resemble Ugly Old Woman’s eyes.
• The Divine Maiden told Ning Xiaochuan that Ugly Old Woman had left Medicine God Valley to search overseas for the Elixir of Immortality.
• The Divine Maiden revealed that Ugly Old Woman had arrived with a lifeless-looking beautiful woman and a grotesque old man overflowing with life force, whom Ning Xiaochuan recognized as Ji Hanxing and the Heart Demon.

Ning Xiaochuan agreed to accompany Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury to Nine Heavens Pavilion and meet her master, Taihua True Person. After Taihua learned that Treasure Pearl had reached the Ninth Realm, she objected to her choosing Ning Xiaochuan as her Dao Companion and summoned him to speak with her.

• Two Supreme Elders from Medicine God Valley arrived, thanked Ning Xiaochuan for rescuing their Divine Maiden, and took her away after finding the Yang Sect Branch deserted.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury told Ning Xiaochuan that his ties to several future leaders could help him command the Northern Frontier's holy lands, but he said he only wanted to protect those close to him and save others.
• Ning Xiaochuan asked Treasure Pearl to cultivate with him, and she agreed to take him to Nine Heavens Pavilion to meet her master.
• Treasure Pearl and Ning Xiaochuan reached Nine Heavens Holy City and went to the Main Pavilion on its floating Immortal Island to see Taihua True Person.
• Taihua praised Treasure Pearl's breakthrough to the Ninth Realm, then argued with her about Ning Xiaochuan and called him in for a personal conversation.

Ning Xiaochuan confronted Taihua True Person after she rejected his wish to become Dao Companions with Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury, but he left the Nine Heavens Pavilion at Treasure Pearl's request. Treasure Pearl refused her master's plan to match her with powerful suitors, and after being ordered to charm them, she warned that she would kill them if forced.

• Taihua True Person rejected Ning Xiaochuan as Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury's Dao Companion and struck Treasure Pearl when she tried to object.
• Ning Xiaochuan drew the Demon Sword to defend Treasure Pearl, but put it away when Treasure Pearl reminded him of Taihua True Person's past kindness.
• Taihua True Person ordered Ning Xiaochuan out of the Nine Heavens Pavilion, and he left after promising Treasure Pearl he would wait in Nine Heavens Holy City.
• Treasure Pearl knelt before Taihua True Person and insisted that she had chosen Ning Xiaochuan, while Taihua argued that he lacked the status and support needed to be worthy of her.
• Taihua revealed that she wanted Treasure Pearl to marry the Nine Ruins God Child or Azure Wood God Child to strengthen her bid to become Young Pavilion Master, and ordered her to charm them the next day.
• After Taihua struck her again and ordered her to reflect in the Profound Ice Grotto-mansion, Treasure Pearl declared that she would kill the two God Children if Taihua forced her to accept them.

Ning Xiaochuan learned from Tang Shuyue that powerful rivals were competing to become Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury’s Dao Companion, and that Taihua True Person favored them over him. Tang Shuyue offered to help him win Taihua’s approval if he could get the Holy Maiden to agree to her condition.

• Chu Jing tried to seduce Ning Xiaochuan, but Tang Shuyue intervened and warned her to stay away from him.
• Tang Shuyue took Ning Xiaochuan to her residence and explained that Taihua True Person favored the Nine Ruins God Child and the Azure Wood God Child as potential Dao Companions for the Holy Maiden.
• Tang Shuyue told Ning Xiaochuan that Heaven’s Chosen from across the regions had gathered in Nine Heavens Holy City to compete for the Pavilion’s women and the Young Pavilion Master’s position.
• Tang Shuyue revealed that two Ancient Clan God Children were pursuing her, but Ning Xiaochuan remained focused on the Holy Maiden.
• Tang Shuyue offered to help Ning Xiaochuan deal with Taihua True Person if he could persuade the Holy Maiden to accept one condition of hers.