Vol. 9The Road to Godhood
Ning Xiaochuan traveled from the fallen Bright Holy Land through the Returning Ruins and the Demon Clan’s territories, protecting his companions and rising to power. He left God Heir Palace after human cultivators branded him a traitor and his companions broke their formation.
- Ning Xiaochuan defeated the Three-Headed Royal Lion and Huang Chengzi, reclaimed Tang Shuyue’s True Person Bone Whip, and later led surviving Bright Holy Land cultivators to Heavenly Emperor Mountain.
- Ning Xiaochuan gave the Yulan Empire an Earth Vein, then entered the Returning Ruins with his companions and accepted the Four Symbols God Child’s offer to guide them while warning Yue Mingsong to watch him.
- Ning Xiaochuan survived the Four Symbols God Child’s ambush and Shiji’s schemes, found Xue Lingxu at the Stone Temple, and escaped the Ninth District with Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury.
- Ning Xiaochuan traveled with Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury to Nine Heavens Pavilion, where Taihua True Person rejected him as her Dao Companion and Tang Shuyue offered help in exchange for a condition.
- Ning Xiaochuan defeated the Holy Land leaders and fled north with Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury and Little Red, then became Exterminate Humans King under the Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor.
- Ning Xiaochuan defended Little Red from Long Taiyi, broke through to the True Person Realm Second Level, and struck Long Taiyi with the Primal Chaos Unifying Sword.
- Ning Xiaochuan helped lure the Earth Centipede Demon Emperor to Mang Gu Plain, where Demon Empress Shiji defeated him, and advanced to the fourth level of the True Person Realm after drinking Heaven One Holy Water.
- Ning Xiaochuan went to God Heir Palace with Ugly Old Woman, was denounced as a traitor, defeated Qin Hantian, and took the Zhou Tian Millstone as his companions broke the cultivators’ formation.