Recaps

The Vice Dean of Three Masters Martial Academy explained the legends of Battle God Dragon Envoys as Ning Xiaochuan’s Red Little Dragon transformed into armor and a sword. Ning Xiaochuan and Ming Yang fought to the brink of collapse, leaving the crowd to realize that Supreme Sword Dao had a rival.

• The Vice Dean of Three Masters Martial Academy described how Battle God Dragon Envoys bonded with young dragons destined to vie for the title of Supreme Divine Dragon King, while the Vice Dean of Vajra Martial Academy dismissed the tale as unlikely.
• Ning Xiaochuan discovered that the Red Little Dragon had become Dragon Scale Divine Armor and a heavy Crimson Dragon Sword, powered by the profound qi in his Martial Heart Palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan flew at Ming Yang and struck him, then the Red Little Dragon burned Ming Yang’s face with dragonfire.
• Ming Yang countered with White Rainbow Pierces the Sun, but his sword failed to pierce Ning Xiaochuan’s dragon scales; Ning Xiaochuan retaliated by cutting Ming Yang’s scalp.
• Both Ning Xiaochuan and Ming Yang continued fighting despite severe wounds and exhaustion, while onlookers declared that Supreme Sword Dao had enemies too.

Ning Xiaochuan and Ming Yang collapsed after their battle, which the academy ruled a draw, and Ning Xiaochuan awakened in the Heart Nourishers’ home at the edge of the Ghost Dream Wildlands. He learned that he had become a Battle God Dragon Envoy and was challenged to face Ming Yang again in a year, then set out with Yu Qianqian to collect his academy rewards.

• Ning Xiaochuan pierced Ming Yang with a golden beam from his brow, then fainted as both fighters fell; the academy declared the match a draw and left first place vacant.
• In his consciousness, Ning Xiaochuan saw the Dragon Vein in his Martial Heart Palace, and Sui Hanyu explained that it made him a Battle God Dragon Envoy tied to the Red Little Dragon’s possible inheritance as Supreme Divine Dragon King.
• Ning Xiaochuan awakened after two days in the Heart Nourishers’ residence, where Yu Qianqian told him the Vice Dean had brought him there.
• Yu Qianqian explained that Ning Xiaochuan and Ming Yang would fight again in a year to decide the champion and who could cultivate in the Celestial Palace for seven days.
• Yu Qianqian told Ning Xiaochuan that the academy had rewards waiting for him at Furnace Mountain and offered to take him there.

Ning Xiaochuan collected the rewards for tying for second place in the Start of Term Battle and learned how the High-Grade Profound Stone could help him advance as a Heart Nourisher. The Vice Dean also explained that Ning Xiaochuan could enter the Celestial Palace before his rematch with Ming Yang by challenging the Heaven Reaching Bridge.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Qianqian met Vice Dean Li Dan, who accepted twenty million Small Coin from Ning Xiaochuan as payment for the Tiger Qi Intermediate Pill and then took the offered money as well.
• Li Dan gave Ning Xiaochuan a High-Grade Profound Stone as his Start of Term Battle reward and explained it could help him forge a True Cauldron and become an Advanced Heart Nourisher.
• Li Dan awarded Ning Xiaochuan a Seventh-Grade Jade Ganoderma on behalf of the Three Masters Martial Academy.
• Li Dan warned Ning Xiaochuan that he would fight Ming Yang again in one year for the chance to cultivate in the Celestial Palace for seven days.
• Li Dan explained that students could also enter the Celestial Palace by challenging the Heaven Reaching Bridge, where each level passed earned one day of cultivation.

Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Qianqian traveled to Heavenly Emperor City to find medicinal ingredients and learn about Merit Points. They discovered that Ming Yang had already passed three levels of the Heaven Reaching Bridge and entered the Celestial Palace, leaving Ning Xiaochuan to face his rival’s early lead.

• Ning Xiaochuan offered Yu Qianqian his Seventh Grade Jade Mushroom, but she refused it and said she preferred for him to remain indebted to her.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Qianqian discussed ingredients for Intermediate Pills and hurried along the ancient road to Heavenly Emperor City.
• Yu Qianqian explained that the Emperor Ruins had native inhabitants who were driven into distant wastelands by the academy.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Qianqian entered Heavenly Emperor City before the gates closed and went to the trading market to look for Mysterious Medicine.
• Ning Xiaochuan met Luo Li at her stall and learned that Ming Yang had passed the first three levels of the Heaven Reaching Bridge and entered the Celestial Palace.

Ning Xiaochuan searched the trading market for medicines and heard warnings about the dangers awaiting him in the Emperor Ruins. After Yu Qianqian left to confront Xie Mengyao, Ning Xiaochuan received another invitation from Netherworld Manor, setting up a mysterious meeting.

• Ning Xiaochuan bought a Flame Fire Lotus from Luo Li and watched Xie Mengyao and Yu Qianqian bid against each other for Ice Muscle Grass until Xie Mengyao paid ten times its price.
• Ning Xiaochuan recognized Yue Mingsong, who invited him to the Heavenly Principles Society and asked whether he had challenged the Heaven Reaching Bridge; Ning Xiaochuan said he would attempt it the next day.
• Yu Qianqian warned Ning Xiaochuan that he should join an alliance for protection and that powerful members of the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion might try to kill him in the Emperor Ruins.
• A subordinate from the Great Golden Roc King Residence summoned Yu Qianqian, and she left to gather experts and teach Xie Mengyao a lesson.
• Ning Xiaochuan caught a pebble bearing a scented invitation from Netherworld Manor to meet its master at Spirit Water Lakeside in Heavenly Emperor City.

Ning Xiaochuan met Xie Mengyao at Spirit Water Lakeside, learned that she served Minister Tian and was the Third Leader among Dark Emperor City's younger generation, and took the Ice Muscle Grass she brought instead of yielding to her seduction. After a night of cultivation, he went to challenge the Heaven Reaching Bridge, where he learned that few new students had passed even its first level.

• Ning Xiaochuan met the masked Xie Mengyao at Spirit Water Lakeside and recognized her by her scent.
• Xie Mengyao revealed that Minister Tian had sent her to infiltrate Dark Emperor City and that she was the Third Leader among its younger generation.
• Xie Mengyao told Ning Xiaochuan that Netherworld Manor needed to recruit talent from Heavenly Emperor Academy, but he remained wary and asked her to leave the Ice Muscle Grass.
• Xie Mengyao left the Ice Muscle Grass and vowed to win Ning Xiaochuan over as Netherworld Manor's Manor Lord's Wife.
• Ning Xiaochuan cultivated through the night, healed his hidden injuries, and went to the Heaven Reaching Bridge at dawn.
• Ning Xiner and Murong Wushuang greeted Ning Xiaochuan, and Murong Wushuang told him that only Ming Yang had passed the bridge's third level while four other new students had passed its first.

Ning Xiaochuan challenged the Heaven Reaching Bridge after Xie Mengyao passed its first level and Yu Qianqian was injured trying. He quickly defeated the first level's opponent and began battling the powerful guardian of the second level.

• Princess Lanfei passed the first level but failed the second, while Yu Qianqian failed the first level and was severely injured; Ning Xiaochuan gave her a Blood Toad Pill.
• Xie Mengyao passed the first level without injury and taunted Yu Qianqian, so Ning Xiaochuan asked Ning Xiner to keep watch over her.
• Ning Xiaochuan entered the Heaven Reaching Bridge and defeated the first level's white-robed opponent with Ten Thousand Swords Turn to Rain.
• At the second level, Ning Xiaochuan fought a white-robed man who wielded vines and steel-like leaves, blocking the leaves and sending them back with Shift Stars.

Ning Xiaochuan defeated the Wood Element Power guardian and passed the second level of the Heaven Reaching Bridge, while Ning Xiaojian and Situ Mingyu plotted to kill him. On the third level, Ning Xiaochuan fought the Water Element Power guardian, suffered serious injuries, and chose to keep fighting.

• Ning Xiaochuan used Burning Sky with Scorching Sun to burn the second white-robed man to ashes and passed the second level of the Heaven Reaching Bridge.
• Ning Xiaojian learned that Ning Xiaochuan had passed the second level, and he and Situ Mingyu discussed killing him before he entered the Celestial Palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan reached the third level and recognized that its white-robed guardian wielded Water Element Power.
• The guardian's ice swords drove Ning Xiaochuan back, and the guardian struck his chest and wounded him with a massive ice sword.
• Ning Xiaochuan refused to admit defeat, dodged the fatal blow at the cost of flesh from his shoulder, and landed on the bridge to suppress his bleeding.

Ning Xiaochuan used Martial Venerable Blood to defeat the Heaven Reaching Bridge Third Level guardian, then learned about talent levels from the fourth guardian. He left without challenging the Fourth Level, having learned that he needed talent seen once in three hundred years to have a chance of passing.

• Ning Xiaochuan poured two drops of Martial Venerable Blood onto his wounds, ignited his Burning Sky with Scorching Sun divine power, and defeated the Third Level guardian.
• Ning Xiaochuan passed the Heaven Reaching Bridge Third Level, reaching the peak of the Divine Body Fifth Level and drawing Princess Lanfei’s admiration.
• Ning Xiaochuan met the Fourth Level guardian, who explained the levels of talent and said Ning Xiaochuan possessed Once in Two Hundred Years talent.
• The Fourth Level guardian told Ning Xiaochuan that talent could improve before the Earth Venerable Realm and that Once in Eight Hundred Years talent might earn a meeting with the Academy Master.
• Ning Xiaochuan declined to challenge the Fourth Level after the guardian warned that he needed Once in Three Hundred Years talent to have a chance of surviving the test.

After Ning Xiaochuan joined the Heavenly Principles Society, Lu Huntian attacked its headquarters to avenge Yao Jindao, but Nie Hai stopped him. Zhang Linshan then arrived with more disciples and injured Murong Wushuang, prompting Ning Xiaochuan to challenge them to a one-on-one fight.

• Ning Xiaojian learned that Ning Xiaochuan had reached the one-in-a-hundred-years talent tier and sent Ning Yi to tell Lu Huntian where to find him.
• Ning Xiaochuan admitted his talent level to the Heavenly Principles Society and agreed to join after meeting Nie Hai.
• Lu Huntian broke into the society’s headquarters and demanded Ning Xiaochuan’s life for killing Yao Jindao.
• Jin Quexi and Nie Hai tried to protect Ning Xiaochuan, and Nie Hai knocked Lu Huntian back.
• Zhang Linshan arrived with dozens of Cloud Marquis’s disciples and slapped Murong Wushuang, leaving him coughing blood.
• Ning Xiaochuan challenged Zhang Linshan, Lu Huntian, and the others to fight him one at a time.

Ning Xiaochuan faced a planned assault by Cloud Alliance and other enemies, while Nie Hai promised to protect Ning Xiner and Murong Wushuang. After Ning Xiaochuan killed one attacker, Lu Huntian launched a powerful strike against him.

• Ning Xiaochuan asked the Heavenly Principles Society not to join his fight and entrusted Ning Xiner and Murong Wushuang to Nie Hai's protection.
• Ning Xiner agreed to stay behind, and Ning Xiaochuan went outside to face Zhang Linshan, Lu Huntian, and Cloud Alliance's fighters.
• Xie Mengyao learned that the Cloud Alliance leader had distracted the Enforcement Team captain, while enemies from several factions waited nearby to kill Ning Xiaochuan.
• Lu Huntian taunted Ning Xiaochuan about being betrayed by Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, and Ning Xiaojian watched, hoping to inherit the position of heir.
• A Divine Body Sixth Level fighter attacked with a spear, but Ning Xiaochuan seized the weapon and killed him with it.
• Lu Huntian attacked Ning Xiaochuan with his Savage Beast Arm, and Ning Xiaochuan leapt forward with the stolen spear to meet him.

Ning Xiaochuan fought the Cloud Alliance despite Lu Huntian’s superior cultivation, killing several opponents before Zhang Linshan severely wounded him. He discovered that Yue Wuyang had ordered his death, revealed the Blood Devouring Demon Art, and was left trapped as hidden experts blocked every escape route.

• Lu Huntian overwhelmed Ning Xiaochuan, destroyed his spear with Heaven's Jealousy Profound Fire, and urged him to give up, but Ning Xiaochuan used his World Extinction Sword Intent to kill several Cloud Alliance martial artists.
• Lu Huntian engulfed Ning Xiaochuan in Heaven's Jealousy Profound Fire, but Ning Xiaochuan escaped with his Rage Wind Wings and killed another opponent with Burning Sky with Scorching Sun.
• Zhang Linshan struck Ning Xiaochuan from the sky and revealed that Yue Wuyang had ordered his death because he was Ning Qianyi and the Demon Sect Saintess's son.
• Ning Xiaochuan drained Zhang Linshan's blood and profound qi with the Blood Devouring Demon Art, but Zhang Linshan broke free and warned the Cloud Alliance.
• Badly wounded and unable to reach the Divine Body Sixth Level, Ning Xiaochuan tried to flee, but hidden experts and Cloud Alliance fighters repeatedly blocked his routes.

Ning Xiaochuan fought the Cloud Alliance’s encirclement in Heavenly Emperor City and devoured his attackers to force a breakthrough to the Divine Body Sixth Level. After his injuries healed and he awakened the Seven-Colored Shift, Lu Huntian cornered him and threatened Xin'er, prompting Ning Xiaochuan to summon his first wisp of World Extinction Qi and vow to kill them all.

• Lu Huntian attacked Ning Xiaochuan with Heaven's Jealousy Profound Fire while other martial artists pressed him from behind, but Ning Xiaochuan drained several attackers with the Blood Devouring Demon Art.
• Ning Xiaochuan fled into a High-Walled Compound, ambushed a searching martial artist, and refined the blood qi within him until he broke through to the Divine Body Sixth Level and gained the Seven-Colored Shift.
• The Old Marquis's seal broke open, releasing blood qi that healed Ning Xiaochuan's wounds and strengthened his body beyond that of a Divine Body Ninth Level martial artist.
• Lu Huntian and dozens of martial artists surrounded Ning Xiaochuan and threatened Xin'er to force him to kill himself.
• Ning Xiaochuan vowed to kill every attacker and formed his first wisp of World Extinction Qi.

Ning Xiaochuan unleashed his newly formed World Extinction Qi and slaughtered the Cloud Alliance warriors who had attacked him, killing Lu Huntian and leaving Zhang Linshan to face him. As Ning Xiner rushed out to find her brother, the survivors learned that Ning Xiaochuan had wiped out the siege and returned with Red Little Dragon at his side.

• Ning Xiaochuan used Seven-Colored Shift to kill the Cloud Alliance warriors and beat Lu Huntian through a wall.
• Ning Xiaochuan used Myriad Swords Turn to Rain to kill the surviving warriors, then shattered Lu Huntian's shield and killed him.
• Ning Xiaochuan caught Red Little Dragon as it tried to flee and urged it to fight beside him.
• Ning Xiner fought past Jin Quexi and Yue Mingsong and ran out of the Heavenly Principles Society to find Ning Xiaochuan.
• Xie Mengyao and the hidden factions saw Ning Xiaochuan approach Zhang Linshan through a blood-red wave of corpses, with Red Little Dragon on his shoulder.

Ning Xiaochuan signed a Life and Death Duel Contract with Zhang Linshan to protect his sister and friends, then fought the stronger Cloud Alliance expert. After being wounded and driven into the Heaven Reaching Bridge, Ning Xiaochuan escaped Zhang Linshan temporarily, but Zhang Linshan waited outside for the bridge to expel him.

• Ning Xiaochuan challenged Zhang Linshan to a life-and-death bet, securing a promise that the Cloud Alliance would leave his sister and friends alone if Zhang could not kill him.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Zhang Linshan signed the Life and Death Duel Contract, and Zhang immediately attacked with his sword and Ghost Mist Haze.
• Ning Xiaochuan broke through the Ghost Mist but was wounded, then combined bodies with the Red Little Dragon and clashed swords with Zhang Linshan.
• Ning Xiaochuan tried to flee into the sky, but Zhang Linshan raised the street’s buildings into the air and hurled the wreckage at him.
• Ning Xiaochuan escaped into the Heaven Reaching Bridge, whose power blocked Zhang Linshan from entering.
• Zhang Linshan waited outside, expecting the bridge to expel Ning Xiaochuan within an hour if he failed to reach a higher level.

Ning Xiaochuan passed the Heaven Reaching Bridge Fourth Level after strengthening his body and defeating its fire-wielding guardian. Outside the bridge, Zhang Linshan tried to have him punished by accusing him of practicing the Blood Devouring Demon Art, but Yu Qianqian and the World-Shaking Vice-Dean challenged his claims.

• Ning Xiaochuan cultivated on the Heaven Reaching Bridge, then returned to its Fourth Level after reaching the Divine Body Sixth Level and raising his physical strength to the Divine Body Ninth Level.
• Ning Xiaochuan defeated the white-robed guardian with his lightning sword and passed the Fourth Level, earning the best result among new students in three hundred years.
• Instructors and Vice Deans gathered at the bridge, and Zhang Linshan accused Ning Xiaochuan of killing students; Ning Xiner and Nie Hai rejected his account.
• Zhang Linshan claimed Ning Xiaochuan practiced the Blood Devouring Demon Art, but a Cloud Alliance disciple reported that the relevant corpses had disappeared.
• Yu Qianqian arrived with the World-Shaking Vice-Dean and accused Zhang Linshan of framing Ning Xiaochuan; Zhang Linshan claimed he had witnesses.
• The World-Shaking Vice-Dean demanded that Zhang Linshan produce his witnesses.

Ning Xiaochuan passed the fifth level of the Heaven Reaching Bridge by unlocking hidden potential through the Demon Sword and World Extinction Qi. He challenged the sixth level, barely escaped its qilin attack by surrendering, and left injured but determined to return.

• Yan Vice-Dean called for Ning Xiaochuan to face the Enforcement Team, while Yu Qianqian and the World-Shaking Vice-Dean insisted Zhang Linshan should be judged as well.
• Ning Xiaochuan endured the fifth white-robed man's Earth Element attacks until the Demon Sword and World Extinction Qi awakened his hidden potential and destroyed the stone mountain and his opponent.
• The fifth white-robed man declared that Ning Xiaochuan had passed the trial and reached talent ranked Once in Four Centuries, and Ning Xiaochuan continued to the sixth level.
• Ning Xiaochuan challenged the sixth white-robed man, who transformed into a fiery-red qilin and warned that he could kill him instantly.
• Ning Xiaochuan surrendered as the qilin pounced, but its claw tore flesh from his back before it stopped attacking and promised to face him again.

Ning Xiaochuan and Zhang Linshan were brought before Heavenly Emperor Academy’s Enforcement Hall after forty-one students died in the clash. Zhang Linshan accused Ning Xiaochuan of being a Demon Sect member, and Spirit Void Venerable arrived to use the Time-Space True Mirror as the inquiry continued.

• Ning Xiaochuan left the Heaven Reaching Bridge wounded, reunited with Ning Xiner, and was taken to the Enforcement Hall with Zhang Linshan.
• Enforcement captain Han Fu condemned the deaths while concealing his prior knowledge of the Cloud Alliance’s plan.
• Zhang Linshan blamed Ning Xiaochuan for the deaths and claimed he had used the Blood Devouring Demon Art.
• Ning Xiaochuan denied the accusation, and World-Shaking Vice-Dean challenged Han Fu to demand evidence.
• Zhang Linshan called for Spirit Void Venerable to verify his claim, and she arrived and summoned the Time-Space True Mirror.

Spirit Void Venerable used the Time-Space True Mirror to question whether Ning Xiaochuan had cultivated the Blood Devouring Demon Art, and her testimony turned the Enforcement Hall’s suspicion into greed for his supposed superior art. Ning Xiaochuan concealed the Demon Sword’s power by inventing the Northern Darkness Divine Art and left the assembled martial artists believing his story.

• Spirit Void Venerable showed the scene of Ning Xiaochuan absorbing Zhang Linshan’s blood qi and profound qi, but argued that the absence of a Blood Devouring Cloud meant Ning Xiaochuan had not used the Blood Devouring Demon Art.
• Han Fu halted the Enforcement Team’s attempt to take Ning Xiaochuan for execution, while the gathered martial artists grew eager to learn his supposedly superior art.
• Ning Xiaochuan claimed he had cultivated the Northern Darkness Divine Art and invented a story about a mysterious teacher surnamed Zhuang.
• Ning Xiaochuan quoted the teacher’s parables about the Northern Darkness and rivers flowing into the sea, and Spirit Void Venerable explained them as a principle of absorbing others’ power.
• Ning Xiaochuan praised Spirit Void Venerable’s insight and declared that the Northern Darkness Divine Art could make its cultivator invincible beneath heaven.

Ning Xiaochuan’s trial for killing forty-one academy students became a power struggle among the academy’s leaders. The Vice Dean of the Three Masters Martial Academy presented Fuyao Great Heart Nourisher’s token, securing a reduced punishment for Ning Xiaochuan while Zhang Linshan was punished and expelled.

• Han Fu argued that Ning Xiaochuan should be punished, while World-Shaking Vice-Dean defended his actions as self-defense and Yan Vice-Dean blamed him for the conflict.
• The Vice Dean of the Three Masters Martial Academy arrived and threatened to cut off the Enforcement Team’s supplies unless it treated Ning Xiaochuan fairly.
• Yan Vice-Dean proposed crippling Ning Xiaochuan’s hands and breaking Zhang Linshan’s legs, but the Three Masters Martial Academy’s Vice Dean demanded a lighter punishment.
• The Vice Dean revealed Fuyao Great Heart Nourisher’s Jade Token, and Han Fu ordered Zhang Linshan’s legs broken and expelled him while Ning Xiaochuan lost his five-day Celestial Palace qualification and was sentenced to one year of reflection.
• The Vice Dean took Ning Xiaochuan away, and the others accepted the ruling because of Fuyao Great Heart Nourisher’s authority.

Ning Xiaochuan learned that he had survived the Enforcement Hall’s judgment because he was a valuable piece in a larger political struggle, then returned to Three Masters Martial Academy and discovered how Yue Wuyang and the Cloud Alliance controlled Heavenly Emperor Academy. Yu Qianqian asked him to help shatter Yue Wuyang’s legend, and Ning Xiaochuan agreed to do his utmost.

• Ning Xiaochuan told the crippled Zhang Linshan that they were pawns in a struggle between regimes, then secretly planted World Extinction Sword Qi in him to kill him within three months.
• Spirit Void Venerable sped away from Heavenly Emperor City, and the Vice Dean explained that she had mastered time and space and that Ning Xiaochuan’s potential might rival hers.
• The Vice Dean revealed that Sword Pavilion Marquis had asked him to protect Ning Xiaochuan and warned that the mansion’s internal factional strife made Heavenly Emperor City dangerous until Ning Xiaochuan passed the seventh level of the Heaven Reaching Bridge.
• Yu Qianqian explained that Jade Ripple Great Emperor controlled the Heavenly Emperor Academy students through Yue Wuyang, supported by the empire’s two strongest military forces and Yue Wuyang’s reputation as a young Martial Venerable.
• Yu Qianqian asked Ning Xiaochuan to help destroy Yue Wuyang’s legend and the Cloud Alliance, and Ning Xiaochuan agreed to work hard toward that goal.

Ning Xiaochuan entered the Ghost Dream Wildlands to hunt Mystic Beasts and improve his cultivation, while Yu Qianqian set out after him. After defeating a Two-Headed Stone Beast, he discovered that the Mystic Beast Appraisal could subdue it and help it grow.

• Ning Xiaochuan trained in the Seven-Colored Shift above Furnace Mountain, reaching the Rainbow Three Movement Body before leaving for the Ghost Dream Wildlands.
• Ning Xiaochuan told Ning Xiner he planned to train in the wildlands for at least three months, and Yu Qianqian hurried after him despite Ning Xiner wanting to join her.
• After traveling two hundred li into the wildlands, Ning Xiaochuan fought and defeated a Two-Headed Stone Beast with the World Extinction Sword Wave.
• The Stone Beast turned into light and entered Ning Xiaochuan's Mystic Beast Appraisal, where it greeted him as its master and was named Xiao Shuang.
• Ning Xiaochuan discovered that the Mystic Beast Appraisal's First Mystic Beast Palace could help Xiao Shuang cultivate and potentially increase its grade.

Ning Xiaochuan tested the Mystic Beast Appraisal, hunted a black python to strengthen his cultivation, and advanced his Rainbow Shift. In a gorge, the Red Little Dragon unearthed a Tai Sui Beast Cub, which attacked Ning Xiaochuan and fought the Two-Headed Stone Beast.

• Ning Xiaochuan summoned the Two-Headed Stone Beast with the Mystic Beast Appraisal, and the Red Little Dragon borrowed the device and rode the beast into the Ghost Dream Wildlands.
• The Red Little Dragon tried to swallow the Mystic Beast Appraisal, but Ning Xiaochuan pulled it from its throat and scolded it.
• Ning Xiaochuan killed a black python and absorbed its blood qi, then used the Rainbow Shift four times to climb a cliff and improve his technique.
• The Red Little Dragon dug a qilin-headed beast out of a gorge's rocks, and the cub grew enormous and attacked Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan summoned the Two-Headed Stone Beast to fight the cub, recognized it as a Tai Sui Beast Cub, and realized the Red Little Dragon had provoked it by dragging it from the ground.

Ning Xiaochuan subdued the Tai Sui Beast Cub and traveled deeper into the Ghost Dream Wildlands with the Red Little Dragon. He encountered Xie Mengyao, Jin Quexi, and Yue Mingsong surrounded by Mystic Beasts and began fighting his way toward them.

• Ning Xiaochuan wounded the Tai Sui Beast Cub, collected its blood, and captured it inside the Mystic Beast Appraisal.
• Ning Xiaochuan and the Red Little Dragon crossed the Ghost Dream Wildlands, evading a gigantic flying creature and cultivating as they traveled.
• Ning Xiaochuan heard a battle and found Xie Mengyao, Jin Quexi, and Yue Mingsong fleeing a horde of Mystic Beasts summoned by flute music.
• Li Jinming abandoned the other three and fled alone, leaving Jin Quexi, Xie Mengyao, and Yue Mingsong surrounded.
• Ning Xiaochuan arrived as the Mystic Beasts attacked and charged into the horde, cutting down beasts as he advanced toward the three students.

Ning Xiaochuan rescued Jin Quexi, Xie Mengyao, and Yue Mingsong from a flute-controlled beast horde and fought through hundreds of mystic beasts. After reaching the peak of the Divine Body Sixth Level, he faced the Pied Piper, a native of the Emperor Ruins who declared the academy students invaders and threatened to kill them.

• Ning Xiaochuan reached his friends, protected them with a sword formation, and used Profound Meridian Reconnecting Elixir to stabilize their injuries.
• Ning Xiaochuan fought his way into the beast horde, killing and devouring mystic beasts as his cultivation surged.
• Ning Xiaochuan unleashed a widespread lightning attack that killed more than forty beasts and wounded over a hundred, flattening the nearby forest.
• The Pied Piper stopped playing his flute and flew toward Ning Xiaochuan on a black eagle, vowing to kill him and sacrifice him to his clan's ancestors.
• Jin Quexi identified the Pied Piper as an Emperor Ruins native and Great Wizard, while he called the academy students invaders and threatened to hang their heads at Heavenly Emperor City.