Chapter Summaries

Ning Xiaochuan resisted Silver Pool Madam’s attempt to seduce and control him, then left for Sword Pavilion Marquis’s Mansion to meet the Old Marquis and his Second Uncle, Ning Qiancheng. Ning Qiancheng treated his injuries and prepared to discuss serious matters.

• Silver Pool Madam told Ning Xiaochuan that Qi Tian Marquis had died after finding his servant in her bed, and Ning Xiaochuan condemned the revenge that had turned Yue Minghua into Silver Pool Madam.
• Silver Pool Madam tried to seduce Ning Xiaochuan and remove his mask, but he pushed her away and stabbed his own thigh to break free of her influence.
• Ning Xiaochuan told Silver Pool Madam that he understood why her daughter, Qi Chan'er, despised her, then left the carriage; Silver Pool Madam vowed to conquer him and wondered whether he attended Heavenly Emperor Academy.
• Ning Xiaochuan refused to explain the carriage incident to Situ Fengwu and entered Sword Pavilion Marquis’s Mansion through a secret passage.
• Ning Xiaochuan met the Old Marquis and Ning Qiancheng, who gave him Reconnecting Healing Pills after noticing how badly the Crown Prince had injured him.

Ning Xiaochuan learned that the Great Golden Roc King was using foreign armies to prepare a challenge to the Jade Ripple Great Emperor, and advised the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion to remain neutral while building its strength. He also revealed plans to use captured Artifact Refinement Masters and equipment to establish the Divine Sword Palace, while concealing that he himself was Netherworld Manor's master.

• Ning Qiancheng showed Ning Xiaochuan the dragonhide map and explained that seventeen million troops from thirty western kingdoms had gathered near Fan Sai Border City.
• The Sword Pavilion Marquis said a prince was backing the foreign alliance and identified the Great Golden Roc King as the likely rival to the Jade Ripple Great Emperor.
• Ning Xiaochuan reasoned that the Great Golden Roc King was forcing the empire's powerful factions to choose sides, and urged the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion to remain neutral for now.
• The Sword Pavilion Marquis told Ning Xiaochuan that he had arranged to buy mines from the Kirin King, but Netherworld Manor still threatened access to them.
• Ning Xiaochuan offered to speak with an important figure in Netherworld Manor and revealed that he had bought the Situ Family's Artifact Refinement Masters and equipment for the Divine Sword Palace.
• The Sword Pavilion Marquis praised Ning Xiaochuan's plan, and Ning Xiaochuan declared that the Divine Sword Palace would become the greatest Artifact Refinement Holy Land under heaven.

Ning Xiaochuan and the Sword Pavilion Marquis planned to establish a vast Pasture Land and the Divine Sword Palace, while Ning Xiaochuan pressed Situ Fengwu into helping organize the captured Situ Family artifact refiners. After Minister Tian resisted handing them over, a masked attacker descended on Ning Xiaochuan at Jade Viewing Pavilion.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Ning Qiancheng finalized plans for a large Pasture Land, and the Sword Pavilion Marquis pledged the mansion’s resources to buy land and mystic beasts.
• Ning Xiaochuan sent Xie Mengyao to deliver instructions to Minister Tian and obtained the Earth Dominion Pill formula as he began preparations for the Divine Sword Palace’s artifact-refining center.
• Situ Fengwu begged Ning Xiaochuan to feed her Gu insect, and he agreed to spare her punishment if she helped establish the Divine Sword Palace and organize the Situ Family’s artifact refiners.
• Minister Tian warned in a letter that Netherworld Manor’s people would oppose transferring the refiners and tools, while Xie Mengyao explained his concerns to Ning Xiaochuan.
• A concealed attacker struck from above, but Ning Xiaochuan pierced the roof with a mystic qi sword, revealing a masked figure with Ice-Fire Twin Flying Wings and a Dragon Scale Black Sword.

Ning Xiaochuan confronted Xie Mengyao, who revealed that she was Meng Ying, Dark Emperor City's former number one Gold-Rank Assassin sent by Minister Tian to kill him. As Meng Ying negotiated for a place at Ning Xiaochuan's side, Yu Ningsheng broke through her barrier and challenged her, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Ning Xiaochuan revealed that he suspected Xie Mengyao cultivated Daoist arts and had concealed her true strength.
• Xie Mengyao admitted that her real identity was Meng Ying, Dark Emperor City's former number one Gold-Rank Assassin, and demonstrated her lethal speed with a sword strike that wounded Ning Xiaochuan.
• Meng Ying said she no longer wanted to be Minister Tian's puppet and proposed becoming Ning Xiaochuan's wife instead of killing him.
• Yu Ningsheng broke through Meng Ying's Heaven and Earth Barrier and entered the courtyard, startling Meng Ying.
• Yu Ningsheng attacked Meng Ying with her snow-and-ice Divine Power, and Meng Ying countered with her Dragon Scale Black Sword and fiery lotus.

Meng Ying attacked Yu Ningsheng at Jade Viewing Pavilion, but Yu Ningsheng wounded her and drove her away. As Ning Xiaochuan prepared to confront Minister Tian, Yu Ningsheng refused to go with him to Netherworld Manor because her presence would endanger him, leaving her and Xiao Ling'er behind.

• Meng Ying and Yu Ningsheng fought across the courtyard until Yu Ningsheng used the Eight Aspects Bright Lamp to injure Meng Ying, who escaped after warning that the imperial army would surround Jade Viewing Pavilion.
• Xiao Ling'er entered through the barrier, and contact with her forehead caused Ning Xiaochuan's blood to transform into three Divine Tigers; he then discovered a Purple Star sealed within her brow.
• Holy light enveloped Xiao Ling'er, and after it faded she appeared a little older and told Ning Xiaochuan she was hungry again.
• Yu Ningsheng warned Ning Xiaochuan that their identities could be exposed, and he invited her to Netherworld Manor to help him eliminate Minister Tian and to repay her favor.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Situ Fengwu left for Netherworld Manor, while Yu Ningsheng refused to follow because Demon Sect experts might track her there and endanger him.
• Yu Ningsheng told Xiao Ling'er that only the death of the Demon Sect's great devil could keep Ning Xiaochuan safe, then left Jade Viewing Pavilion with her.

Minister Tian tried to have Ning Xiaochuan killed, but Ning Xiaochuan and Murong Hua confronted him at Netherworld Manor and fought him in the mountains. After Ning Xiaochuan wounded him with the Demon Sword and Murong Hua rejected his attempt to turn them against each other, Minister Tian unleashed Blood Demon Spirit Release to escape or counterattack.

• Minister Tian expected Meng Ying to return with Ning Xiaochuan's head, but Situ Fengwu arrived disguised as Sword Servant with Ning Xiaochuan in chains.
• Minister Tian recognized the deception and struck Situ Fengwu, while Ning Xiaochuan broke free and attacked him.
• Minister Tian fled through the hall roof, but Murong Hua struck him with a dragon soul and sent him crashing into the mountains.
• Minister Tian summoned hundreds of death warriors, whose arrows Ning Xiaochuan redirected before he struck Minister Tian with the Demon Sword and collapsed the mountain.
• Minister Tian tried to persuade Murong Hua to betray Ning Xiaochuan, but Murong Hua refused and attacked him with seven golden dragons.
• Minister Tian used Blood Demon Spirit Release, transforming into drops of qilin-shaped essence blood that filled the sky.

Ning Xiaochuan battled Minister Tian, whose Heaven and Earth Without Form divine power countered the Demon Sword and let him absorb much of Ning Xiaochuan’s blood qi. Fleeing underground on Tai Sui, Ning Xiaochuan persuaded the Heavenly Emperor Blade to lend him power, then stopped to face Minister Tian again.

• Ning Xiaochuan unleashed his blood qi and Divine Tigers against Minister Tian’s qilin, but Minister Tian’s stronger Martial Dao realm gave him the advantage.
• Minister Tian used Heaven and Earth Without Form to redirect the Demon Sword’s devouring power, then pursued Ning Xiaochuan underground and absorbed nearly one-third of his blood qi.
• Murong Hua attacked Minister Tian, but Minister Tian rebounded his dragon qi before pursuing Ning Xiaochuan beneath the earth.
• While fleeing on Tai Sui, Ning Xiaochuan questioned the Heavenly Emperor Blade about its past and persuaded it to lend him power by challenging its pride.
• Ning Xiaochuan stopped to face Minister Tian, who mocked him and demanded the rest of his blood qi.

Ning Xiaochuan used the Heavenly Emperor Blade to defeat and refine Minister Tian, then learned that the Heavenly Emperor’s sub-divine blood was likely hidden in the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace. He planned to return to the Heavenly Emperor Academy and found an ingredient that brought him close to completing the list for the Earth Dominion Pill.

• Ning Xiaochuan borrowed the Heavenly Emperor Blade’s power, wounded Minister Tian, and absorbed the blood qi he spilled.
• Ning Xiaochuan chased Minister Tian, destroyed his blood-formed qilin, and used the Heart Nourishing True Cauldron to refine him into five treasure pills.
• Ning Xiaochuan took Minister Tian’s valuables, including a Seventh Grade Profound Weapon, and traded the weapon to the Heavenly Emperor Blade for information about the Heavenly Emperor’s blood.
• The Heavenly Emperor Blade revealed that the blood was likely in the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace and identified the Celestial Palace as White Cloud Grotto-Heaven, prompting Ning Xiaochuan to plan a return to the Heavenly Emperor Academy.
• Ning Xiaochuan found an Earthly Rare Flower among Minister Tian’s belongings, leaving only Earth Core Magma Blood to gather for the Earth Dominion Pill.

After killing Minister Tian, Ning Xiaochuan returned to Netherworld Manor, restored order with Murong Hua, and recruited Meng Ying as the new Netherworld Envoy. He then found the critically wounded Situ Fengwu and began treating her.

• Ning Xiaochuan told Murong Hua that he had killed Minister Tian and gave him an Essence Qi Treasure Pill, renewing Murong Hua’s confidence in reaching the Earth Venerable Realm.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Murong Hua returned to Netherworld Manor and suppressed the chaos, while Ning Xiaochuan resolved to strengthen his cultivation after reflecting on his battle.
• Meng Ying visited Ning Xiaochuan, agreed to become the new Netherworld Envoy, and accepted his offer of an Earth Dominion Pill in exchange for helping him.
• Ning Xiaochuan found Situ Fengwu near death in Minister Tian’s empty courtyard, gave her a Reconnecting Healing Pill, and used mystic qi to treat her injuries.

After recovering from his injuries and consolidating Netherworld Manor, Ning Xiaochuan went to the Imperial City seeking the final Mysterious Medicine for the Earth Dominion Pill. At the Golden Roc Heart Nourishing Hall, Steward Hua told him the Thousand-Year Ancient Demon had killed more marquises and escaped the Divine Dragon Warriors, leaving Ning Xiaochuan determined to find a way to stop it.

• Ning Xiaochuan refined four Essence Qi Treasure Pills beneath the Blood Toad Wood Tree, healed his injuries, and advanced to the peak of the fifth level of the Worldly Detachment Realm.
• Meng Ying reported that Netherworld Manor had stabilized and that Situ Fengwu had joined the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion's effort to establish an artifact-refining workshop.
• Ning Xiaochuan traveled alone to the Imperial City and met Steward Hua at the Golden Roc Heart Nourishing Hall.
• Steward Hua told Ning Xiaochuan that the Thousand-Year Ancient Demon had killed Heavenly Mystery Marquis, Moonless Marquis, and Nether South Marquis, then escaped after four Divine Dragon Warriors died fighting it.
• Ning Xiaochuan suspected the demon was driving marquises out of the Imperial City so it could hunt them elsewhere, and worried about his grandfather and the demon's growing strength.

Ning Xiaochuan returned to Heavenly Emperor Academy seeking Earth Core Magma Blood and clues to the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace. At the Heavenly Gate, Han Fu accused him of murdering Sun Haixing and ordered his arrest, but Yu Qianqian intervened before the soldiers could bind him.

• Ning Xiaochuan learned that Jade Viewing Pavilion was safe, but the Golden Roc, Royal, and Divine Path Heart Nourishing Halls had no Earth Core Magma Blood.
• Ning Xiaochuan returned through the Heavenly Gate to the Emperor Ruins, where the Heavenly Emperor Blade said White Cloud Grotto-Heaven held clues to the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace.
• Han Fu surrounded Ning Xiaochuan with Enforcement Team soldiers and accused him of killing Sun Haixing.
• Ning Xiaojian testified that he had witnessed Ning Xiaochuan kill Sun Haixing, revealing his alliance with Han Fu and his desire to eliminate Ning Xiaochuan.
• Han Fu ordered his soldiers to bind Ning Xiaochuan, but Yu Qianqian's voice rang out in his defense.

Yu Qianqian and Princess Lanfei arrived as the Enforcement Team tried to arrest Ning Xiaochuan for killing Sun Haixing. Ning Xiaochuan overpowered Han Fu and stripped Ning Xiaojian of his Martial Dao Profound Qi, while Han Fu realized the Northern Darkness Divine Art had fueled Ning Xiaochuan’s rapid advancement.

• Yu Qianqian arrived with her followers and challenged Han Fu as he tried to arrest Ning Xiaochuan, while Princess Lanfei arrived and supported the arrest.
• Ning Xiaochuan blasted away two Enforcement Team experts and confronted Ning Xiaojian over accusing him of killing Sun Haixing.
• Han Fu attacked Ning Xiaochuan, but Ning Xiaochuan shattered his palm blades with Myriad Swords Turn to Rain and forced him to retreat.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the Demon Sword’s power to devour Ning Xiaojian’s Martial Dao Profound Qi, then threw him into a ditch.
• Han Fu recognized the Northern Darkness Divine Art as the source of Ning Xiaochuan’s rapid cultivation and resolved that he wanted it.

Ning Xiaochuan fought Han Fu, whose World Reflection Mirror could copy attacks and summon reflected objects, while Princess Lanfei’s array trapped them in the sealed space. Ning Xiaochuan discovered the mirror could not copy his World Extinction Sword Wave, leaving Han Fu shocked and the battle unresolved.

• Han Fu confronted Ning Xiaochuan and attacked him with his Fire Element Power, while Ning Xiaochuan met his strike head-on.
• Princess Lanfei ordered Teacher Mu and Teacher Yun to seal the surrounding space with an array, limiting Ning Xiaochuan’s movement.
• Ning Xiaochuan wounded Han Fu with Stars and Moon Same Sky and a World Extinction Sword Wave, but Han Fu blocked the attack with the World Reflection Mirror.
• Han Fu used the World Reflection Mirror to project buildings, a giant sword, and the Heaven Reaching Bridge at Ning Xiaochuan, who countered with Myriad Swords Turn to Rain and broke part of the bridge.
• Ning Xiaochuan struck the World Reflection Mirror with another World Extinction Sword Wave, which the mirror could not copy because it was powered by World Extinction Qi rather than Profound Qi.

Ning Xiaochuan defeated Han Fu, took the World Reflection Mirror, and forced him to admit that Ning Xiaojian had framed him. After freeing himself from the formation, Ning Xiaochuan reunited with Yu Qianqian, who had passed the seventh level of the Heaven Reaching Bridge; he planned to recruit Han Fu into Netherworld Manor.

• Ning Xiaochuan overwhelmed Han Fu with World Extinction Sword Waves and lightning, then took the World Reflection Mirror after breaking Han Fu's hand.
• Han Fu yielded and admitted that Ning Xiaojian had misled him and that Little Marquis had been framed; Ning Xiaochuan spared him and left him alive.
• Ning Xiaochuan shattered the formation's Low-Grade Profound Stones and walked out as Princess Lanfei's carriage escaped down the street.
• Yu Qianqian met Ning Xiaochuan and told him she had passed the seventh level of the Heaven Reaching Bridge.
• Ning Xiaochuan said Han Fu's talent made him worth sparing and intended to bring him into Netherworld Manor.

Ning Xiaochuan reunited with Ning Xiner at Three Masters Martial Academy and learned that Yue Mingsong believed the Heavenly Emperor had left behind a Mystic Artifact Compendium. The chapter ended with Ning Xiaochuan questioning Yue Mingsong about whether he was from the Yulan Empire.

• Ning Xiaochuan returned to Three Masters Martial Academy with Yu Qianqian and reunited with Ning Xiner, while Little Red and Little Black accompanied them.
• Ning Xiner explained that Little Red and Little Black had devoured the academy vice dean’s prized medicines, and Little Black fought Yue Mingsong after he insulted it.
• Ning Xiaochuan gave Ning Xiner a defensive Sixth Grade Profound Weapon and learned that Murong Wushuang had gone to train in the native territory.
• Ning Xiaochuan told Yue Mingsong that he planned to recruit Artifact Refinement Masters for the Divine Sword Palace, but Yue Mingsong proposed that he alone could attract them.
• Yue Mingsong claimed the Heavenly Emperor had left behind a Mystic Artifact Compendium and suggested it might be hidden in the Heavenly Emperor Tomb Forest or the Celestial Palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan asked Yue Mingsong whether he was from the Yulan Empire.

Ning Xiaochuan searched for Earth Core Magma Blood and visited the mysterious woman’s abandoned home in the Ghost Dream Wildlands, where he received a powerful Phoenix Feather. After he accidentally set the surrounding mountains ablaze, the Heavenly Emperor Blade warned that carrying the feather could bring him disaster and asked to keep it.

• Yue Mingsong claimed he had learned weapon forging from the Number One Weapon Forging Master's disciple and offered to forge weapons for Ning Xiaochuan in exchange for reading the Mystic Artifact Compendium.
• Ning Xiaochuan found the Vice Dean furious over stolen Mysterious Medicine, concealed his guilt, and left without asking for Earth Core Magma Blood.
• Ning Xiaochuan visited the mysterious woman's valley and learned from the little black tiger that she had left half a year earlier.
• Ning Xiaochuan approached the Golden Silk Nest, received a blazing crimson feather from the palace within, and accidentally set the Ghost Dream Wildlands' mountains on fire.
• Ning Xiaochuan and the Howling Sky Tiger extinguished the fire, and the Heavenly Emperor Blade identified the feather as a Phoenix Feather and warned Ning Xiaochuan to hand it over.

Ning Xiaochuan discovered that the White Bone Pearl contained teachings on the Six Paths and Five Arts, then returned to Heavenly Emperor Academy to challenge the Heaven Reaching Bridge. He quickly passed its first eleven levels, leaving the crowd astonished.

• Ning Xiaochuan concealed the Phoenix Feather and tried to advance his Heaven and Earth Profound Qi, but the seventh level remained his limit.
• Ning Xiaochuan activated the White Bone Pearl by sensing the spirit well and read a few lines describing the Six Paths and Five Arts before the effort nearly injured him.
• Ning Xiaochuan returned to Heavenly Emperor Academy with Yu Qianqian, Yue Mingsong, Ning Xiner, Jin Quexi, and the others to test his talent on the Heaven Reaching Bridge.
• Ning Xiaochuan passed the bridge’s first ten levels in quick succession, then cleared the eleventh level in fewer than three breaths.

Ning Xiaochuan defeated the gatekeepers of the twelfth and thirteenth levels of the Heaven Reaching Bridge, then learned that his talent was Once in Three Thousand Two Hundred Years. He stopped at the fourteenth level, where the gatekeeper told him he needed greater cultivation to challenge it, and Ning Xiaochuan vowed to return before reaching the Earth Venerable Realm.

• Ning Xiaochuan defeated the twelfth-level gatekeeper and was told his talent was at least once in fifteen hundred years.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the World Extinction Sword Soul to overcome the thirteenth-level gatekeeper, then finished him with the Demon Sword.
• Ning Xiaochuan felt the Demon Sword stir destructive thoughts in him and suppressed his negative emotions as he advanced.
• The fourteenth-level gatekeeper said Ning Xiaochuan could not defeat him at his current realm and rated his talent Once in Three Thousand Two Hundred Years.
• Ning Xiaochuan vowed to return and defeat the fourteenth-level gatekeeper before entering the Earth Venerable Realm.
• The gatekeeper explained that the fifteenth level was the Heaven Reaching Bridge's limit and that the Yulan Empire's resources could not support talent beyond once in five thousand years.

After passing the thirteenth level of the Heaven Reaching Bridge, Ning Xiaochuan rejected the prospect of marrying Princess Lanfei and prepared to cultivate in the Celestial Palace. He learned that the Academy Master planned to leave the Yulan Empire, then warned him about the Thousand-Year Ancient Demon threatening the realm.

• Ning Xiaochuan left the Heaven Reaching Bridge after deciding that finding the Heavenly Emperor's Divine Blood was his only chance to surpass the Once in a Millennium talent limit.
• Princess Lanfei announced that she would ask the Jade Ripple Great Emperor to arrange her marriage to Ning Xiaochuan, while Yu Qianqian warned him that Lanfei wanted to draw him and his family into the emperor's faction.
• Ning Xiaochuan told Yu Qianqian that he would never marry Princess Lanfei, despite the danger of defying an Imperial Decree.
• Ning Xiaochuan said he would spend eight days cultivating in the Celestial Palace and search for clues about the Mystic Artifact Compendium and the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace.
• The Academy Master revealed that he planned to leave the Yulan Empire to seek a martial breakthrough and invited Ning Xiaochuan to go with him, but Ning Xiaochuan refused because of his family and enemies.
• Ning Xiaochuan warned the Academy Master that a Thousand-Year Ancient Demon had emerged and urged him to eliminate it before leaving.

Ning Xiaochuan accepted the Academy Master's request to pass on the Imperial Power Token and entered White Cloud Grotto-Heaven to search for the Mystic Artifact Compendium and clues to the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace. After becoming lost, he followed the Heavenly Emperor Blade to the Nine Colors Divine Pool, where he recognized a woman cultivating in a pavilion.

• The Academy Master explained that he could suppress the Thousand-Year Ancient Demon but chose to pursue a higher martial realm, and asked Ning Xiaochuan to give the Imperial Power Token to a talented member of the imperial clan.
• Ning Xiaochuan entered White Cloud Grotto-Heaven, changed Heaven Li Palace's door token to "Quiet," and tried to navigate the misty paths without being noticed.
• Ning Xiaochuan's trail marks vanished, leaving him lost, so he asked the Heavenly Emperor Blade to guide him toward the Mystic Artifact Compendium and Suspended Mountain.
• The Heavenly Emperor Blade led Ning Xiaochuan to a nine-colored river flowing from the Nine Colors Divine Pool and explained the value of its profound water.
• Ning Xiaochuan concealed himself when the Heavenly Emperor Blade sensed someone nearby, then saw a woman cultivating in a pavilion at the pool and recognized her.