Recaps

Li Feng awakened as Ning Xiaochuan, healed his meridians with a blood-red sword, and used its power to cultivate and become a Heart Nourisher. After surviving an assassination attempt and saving Yu Ningsheng from poison, he set out to earn the wealth needed to help her enter Heavenly Emperor Academy.

• Li Feng awakened in Ning Xiaochuan’s coffin, learned about his new life from Ning Xiner, and decided to live as Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan discovered a blood-red sword in his heart, healed his blocked meridians, and advanced rapidly through the Profound Qi Realm.
• Ning Xiaochuan rescued Yu Yan from Ning Han and his servants, then used the sword’s blood-draining power to defeat them and reach Profound Qi Fourth Level.
• Ning Xiaochuan refined Heart Nourishing Elixir, joined the Golden Roc Heart Nourishing Hall, and earned Yu Qianqian’s support as an Elementary Heart Nourisher.
• Ning Xiaochuan learned that Ning Qianwu had arranged his earlier killing, while the Old Marquis granted him Begonia Manor and sent the young descendants to train.
• Wang Yunchong freed Yu Yan by presenting her Indentured Contract, and Ning Xiaochuan took her with him to Begonia Manor.
• Ning Qianwu’s Dark Warriors attacked Ning Xiaochuan’s carriage, but Ning Xiaochuan escaped and Yu Ningsheng intervened before collapsing from Evil Dragon Poison.
• Ning Xiaochuan changed Yu Ningsheng’s blood to save her, promised to secure her admission to Heavenly Emperor Academy, and searched for Mysterious Medicine to fund the effort.
• After training with the Gold Thread Purple Wood Box, Ning Xiaochuan found a Blood Toad Wood leaf and offered its young owner fifty thousand Small Coin to reveal where he had found it.

Ning Xiaochuan hunted for Blood Toad Wood, protected Minister Tian, and fought Xiao Li while advancing his cultivation and refining skills. After breaking through to the Divine Body Realm, he began preparing for the Heavenly Emperor Academy and Intermediate Pill refinement, while Ji Hanxing continued pursuing him.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Murong Wushuang found Blood Toad Wood in Nanyue Mountain, defeated Cui Buping and a Fire Spider, and brought the tree back to Begonia Manor.
• Ning Xiaochuan rescued the badly injured Minister Tian and hid him, then killed Steward Qiu and Ye Chenglong when they discovered his cultivation and the Profound Spirit Wood.
• Ning Xiaochuan reached the Profound Qi Ninth Level, traveled to the Imperial City for an Intermediate Pill, and saved the Golden Roc Heart Nourishing Hall from Silver Pool Madam’s accusation.
• Xiao Li attacked Ning Xiaochuan on his way home, but Ning Xiaochuan escaped, opened his hidden meridians, and wounded Xiao Li before Ji Hanxing’s forces interrupted the pursuit.
• Ji Hanxing surrounded Begonia Manor to find Minister Tian, but Ning Qiancheng’s Martial Soul Avatar forced the Cloud Marquis’s army to withdraw.
• Ning Xiaochuan opened his final hidden meridian, reached the Divine Body Realm, met Sui Hanyu within his heart, and comprehended the World Extinction Demon Sword.
• Ning Xiaochuan decided to take the Heavenly Emperor Academy’s examination and learn to refine Intermediate Pills so he could earn enough to redeem Yu Ningsheng.
• Guo Shidao invited Ning Xiaochuan to study at the Golden Roc Heart Nourishing Hall, where Ning Xiaochuan memorized ninety-seven medicine books, while Ji Hanxing confronted him outside.

Ning Xiaochuan’s attempt to free Yu Ningsheng brought him into conflict with Yue Wuyang and cost him his planned marriage to Yu Qianqian. At the Heavenly Emperor Academy entrance examination, he killed Xiao Li, joined forces with Qi Chan’er, and went searching for Ning Xiner while pursuing a breakthrough.

• Ning Xiaochuan refined Blood Toad Pills, earned Guo Shidao’s praise, and took forty pills to auction at the Golden Roc Auction House.
• Three-Fingered Lin and Murong Hua revealed the betrayal and massacre at Nine Deaths Cliff, while Ning Xiaochuan defeated Cheng Lin and sold his pills at auction.
• Ning Xiaochuan tried to ransom Yu Ningsheng, but Yue Wuyang accused her of being the daughter of a condemned minister and moved to have Ning Xiaochuan seized.
• Ning Qiancheng and the Old Marquis intervened, Yu Qianqian annulled her planned marriage to Ning Xiaochuan, and the Old Marquis confined him until the Heavenly Emperor Academy entrance examination.
• Ning Xiaochuan entered the Fire Demon Mountain Range, watched Xiao Li kill Lin Hen, and later killed Xiao Li after a fierce battle.
• Qi Chan’er hesitated over killing Ning Xiaochuan, then fled with him from the mystic beasts, and they found Black Fire Wood Pearls and other treasures in a scorpion’s nest and agreed to seek a ruined demon palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Qi Chan’er watched Yu Tiandi’s group ambush examinees for their Black Fire Wood Pearls, then Ning Xiaochuan set off to find Ning Xiner.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the Demon Sword to absorb a Vine Wood Snake’s blood qi, found a golden fire pool, and unleashed the World Extinction Demon Sword against an explosive ape.

Ning Xiaochuan rescued Yu Qianqian, fought Dark Emperor City, and climbed Blood Mountain to retrieve an Ancient Pill Cauldron while avenging Ning Xiner. After surviving Ming Yang and discovering Ning Xiner was alive, he returned with his companions as the martial arts examination was declared over.

• Ning Xiaochuan killed the explosive ape, claimed a Mystic Beast Egg from a tiny winged dragon, and met Murong Wushuang at the Four Prefectures Alliance’s valley.
• Dark Emperor City attacked the alliance and captured Yu Qianqian, so Ning Xiaochuan and Murong Wushuang gathered Black Fire Wood Pearls and set out to rescue her.
• Ning Xiaochuan fought the black-robed leader at Dragonfall Valley, helped Yu Qianqian escape, and killed Dark Emperor City’s Second Leader in a narrow gorge.
• Ning Xiaochuan, Yu Qianqian, and Murong Wushuang fled through a cave to Blood Mountain, where an old crone ordered Ning Xiaochuan and Princess Lanfei to retrieve an Ancient Pill Cauldron.
• Ning Xiaochuan took the cauldron from the Demon Palace, absorbed power from a gigantic heart, and learned that Yao Jindao had thrown Ning Xiner into an abyss.
• Ning Xiaochuan killed Yao Jindao and Hua Ruyue, defeated Zhuo Yichan, and was driven off Blood Mountain by Ming Yang, whose sword strike advanced Ning Xiaochuan to the Divine Body Fourth Level.
• Ning Xiaochuan found Ning Xiner alive, learned she had survived her fall with the Little Red Dragon’s help, and left the Fire Demon Mountain Range with his companions.
• The Jade Ripple Great Emperor closed the examination before Ning Xiaochuan, Yu Qianqian, and Ning Xiner reached the Heavenly Gate, where they protested that more participants had returned.