Chapter Summaries

Ning Xiaochuan collected a vast amount of Nine Colors Profound Water from the Nine Colors Divine Pool before following the Heavenly Emperor Blade to Suspended Mountain. Unable to enter because his talent fell short of its requirement, he spent two and a half years cultivating, reaching the brink of a bloodline breakthrough.

• Ning Xiaochuan entered the Nine Colors Divine Pool’s barrier and filled bottles and his Heart Nourishing True Cauldron with Nine Colors Profound Water while Spirit Void Venerable cultivated nearby.
• The Heavenly Emperor Blade tried to approach Spirit Void Venerable through the Mystic Beast Appraisal, but Ning Xiaochuan retrieved it and escaped without waking her.
• Ning Xiaochuan followed the Heavenly Emperor Blade through the White Cloud Grotto-Heaven for over forty days and reached Suspended Mountain.
• Suspended Mountain’s barrier repelled Ning Xiaochuan with a hurricane and lightning, declaring that only martial artists with talent Once in Four Thousand Years could enter.
• Ning Xiaochuan cultivated with Nine Colors Profound Water for a year and broke through to the sixth level of the Worldly Detachment Realm.
• After another year and a half of cultivation, Ning Xiaochuan’s blood began advancing toward manifesting five Divine Tigers.

After reaching the One Blood Transforms into Five Tigers realm, Ning Xiaochuan ascended Suspended Mountain and encountered a projection of the Heavenly Emperor. The projection’s words revealed a clue to the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace, and Ning Xiaochuan discovered an ancient stone book containing the Mystic Gate Evasion Technique, which he planned to study for pill refinement.

• Ning Xiaochuan reached the One Blood Transforms into Five Tigers realm after more than two years of cultivation and decided he needed the Heavenly Emperor’s Divine Blood to break through further.
• Ning Xiaochuan ascended Suspended Mountain, where he saw a powerful projection of the Heavenly Emperor speak sixteen mysterious words before vanishing.
• The Heavenly Emperor Blade interpreted the words as a clue that the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace lay at the central palace of a vast Nine Palaces formation.
• Ning Xiaochuan found an azure stone platform inscribed with the Mystic Gate Evasion Technique and transformed it into a palm-sized jade stone book.
• Ning Xiaochuan spent three months reading the stone book and learned that the Mystic Gate Evasion Technique covered many arts, including pill refinement and formations.
• Ning Xiaochuan decided to study its formation methods and use them to improve the medicinal properties of his pills.

Ning Xiaochuan learned to integrate formations into pills, advanced to the Seventh Level of the Worldly Detachment Realm, and discovered the eighth-level cultivation formula on the White Bone Pearl. After eight years in the White Cloud Grotto-Heaven, he emerged to find the Academy Master gone and the Yulan Empire facing an uncertain future.

• Ning Xiaochuan used an Essence Gathering Formation to refine four Jade Beauty Pills that absorbed profound qi and grew stronger over time.
• Ning Xiaochuan spent three years consuming Nine Colors Profound Water and reached the Seventh Level of the Worldly Detachment Realm.
• Ning Xiaochuan read the White Bone Pearl and memorized the eighth-level formula for "Heaven and Earth Profound Qi" before recovering his depleted mind.
• Ning Xiaochuan completed eight years of secluded cultivation and left the White Cloud Grotto-Heaven.
• Ning Xiaochuan found the Academy Master's Martial Soul Avatar gone and looked over Heavenly Emperor City, considering whether the Yulan Empire would survive the coming upheaval.

Ning Xiaochuan gave Ning Xiner cultivation treasures, then forced Han Fu to submit and secretly recruited him to establish Netherworld Manor’s Enforcement Hall. He left Han Fu presumed dead after burning down the Academy’s Enforcement Hall, and the story ended with the Academy believing Ning Xiaochuan had killed him.

• Ning Xiner told Ning Xiaochuan that Spirit Void Venerable had taken over the Heavenly Emperor Academy and Princess Qianqian had left, and he gave her Nine Colors Profound Water and a Jade Beauty Pill.
• Ning Xiaochuan went to the Enforcement Hall and demanded that Captain Han Fu meet him, then offered Han Fu a choice between submission and death.
• Han Fu attacked Ning Xiaochuan but was defeated with one punch, and he agreed to submit when Ning Xiaochuan pointed a Profound Qi Sword at his throat.
• Ning Xiaochuan revealed that he wanted Han Fu to establish Netherworld Manor’s Enforcement Hall, and Han Fu killed a soldier who tried to spread the secret.
• Ning Xiaochuan burned down the Enforcement Hall and declared Han Fu dead, while Han Fu put on a black robe and took on the identity of Netherworld Manor’s Enforcement Hall master.
• The Enforcement Team found a charred corpse in the ruins, and word spread that Ning Xiaochuan had killed Han Fu and destroyed the Enforcement Hall.

Ning Xiaochuan met Yue Mingsong at Jade Viewing Pavilion and gave him part of the Mystic Artifact Compendium, then confronted him after realizing he could read writing that should have been beyond his cultivation. Their exchange was interrupted when Ning Heng was thrown into the room and attacked by men acting on a neighboring patron’s orders, leaving Ning Xiaochuan facing a new confrontation.

• Ning Xiaochuan gave Yue Mingsong a jade book containing the first nine hundred chapters of the Mystic Artifact Compendium.
• Ning Xiaochuan tested Yue Mingsong’s cultivation and demanded to know his true identity after Yue Mingsong read the tiny inscriptions.
• Yue Mingsong joked that he had Heavenly Divine Eyes and swore he was telling the truth, but the oath was followed by a thunderclap that sent Ning Heng crashing through the wall.
• Ning Xiaochuan recognized the injured Ning Heng, a descendant of the Sword Pavilion Marquis’s Mansion.
• A man in the next room ordered Zhang Zhuo and Li Guang to strip Ning Heng, break his legs, and throw him out, and the two armored martial artists began beating him.

Ning Xiaochuan intervened when Luo Mufeng assaulted Ning Heng and a young marquis, then defeated the Cloud Marquis's general after Luo Mufeng attacked him. He left Luo Mufeng branded with the name “Netherworld Manor, Young Master Chuan,” giving him a name to seek if he wanted revenge.

• Ning Xiaochuan watched as Luo Mufeng refused to kneel to a young marquis and beat him after insulting his mother.
• Luo Mufeng discovered that Ning Xiaochuan had killed Zhang Zhuo and Li Guang with a Profound Qi Sword.
• Ning Xiaochuan admitted killing the two generals and warned Luo Mufeng that he could kill him too.
• Luo Mufeng attacked Ning Xiaochuan with a Martial Dao Divine Power, but Ning Xiaochuan shattered it with one finger and blasted him through a wall.
• Ning Xiaochuan branded the words “Netherworld Manor, Young Master Chuan” onto Luo Mufeng's chest with wine.

Ning Xiaochuan fought the Cloud Marquis's Mansion forces after Luo Mufeng summoned the Cloud Twelve Tiger Generals to Jade Viewing Pavilion. He killed two generals and wounded Liao Cheng, but Ji Hanxing intervened just as he was about to kill him.

• Ning Xiaochuan rejected Luo Mufeng's threats, and Lou Guyan arrived with the Cloud Twelve Tiger Generals and Ji Hanxing to confront him.
• Huo Hai attacked Ning Xiaochuan with his Purple Iron Whip, but Ning Xiaochuan killed him with World Extinction Qi.
• Ning Xiaochuan summoned the Demon Sword, destroyed the generals' attacks, killed another Tiger General, and severed one of Liao Cheng's arms.
• Lou Guyan challenged Ning Xiaochuan to fight in the sky, but Ning Xiaochuan instead attacked Liao Cheng and wounded his leg.
• Ning Xiaochuan flew down and thrust his Demon Sword at Liao Cheng, but Ji Hanxing blocked the blade with her Dragon Elephant Halberd Spear.

Ning Xiaochuan, disguised as Young Master Chuan, fought Cloud Marquis's forces at Jade Viewing Pavilion and escaped when he sensed Cloud Marquis approaching. He left with Yue Mingsong for Divine Sword Palace, while Cloud Marquis ordered Ji Hanxing to track him down.

• Ji Hanxing confronted Young Master Chuan, and Ning Xiaochuan teased her by proposing she become the Manor Lord's Wife before dodging her attacks.
• Ning Xiaochuan turned Ji Hanxing's boulders against Liao Cheng, killed him, then wounded Lou Guyan when he attacked.
• Sensing Cloud Marquis's arrival, Ning Xiaochuan escaped the army's encirclement and left with Yue Mingsong, still searching for Yu Ningsheng and Xiao Ling'er.
• Cloud Marquis arrived at Jade Viewing Pavilion, and Ji Hanxing said she had a chance of identifying Young Master Chuan by his aura.
• Cloud Marquis ordered Ji Hanxing to use her tracking ability to find and eliminate Young Master Chuan.

Ning Xiaochuan brought Yue Mingsong to the Divine Sword Palace, where Yue demonstrated his extraordinary artifact-refining skill and began training its guards. Later that night, a young marquis traveling through the Imperial City discovered that his carriage beast and servants had been killed, and he demanded to know who attacked him.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Yue Mingsong arrived at the newly built Divine Sword Palace, where Yue mocked its weapons and instantly upgraded six guards’ Common Weapons into First-Grade Profound Weapons.
• Liu Wenyu welcomed Yue Mingsong, and Yue used Purple Flame Lightning Fire to refine the Palace’s giant sword into a Fifth-Grade Profound Weapon, promising to improve it further.
• Ning Xiaochuan told Liu Wenyu to recruit promising young Artifact Refinement Masters for Yue to teach, then left while Yue continued instructing the guards.
• A young marquis from Qi Tian Marquis’s Mansion complained about being injured by a man from Cloud Marquis’s Mansion and said Young Master Chuan dared challenge the Cloud Marquis.
• An attacker killed the young marquis’s carriage beast and beheaded the three servants driving it, leaving the marquis to demand the attacker’s identity.

Ning Xiaochuan killed Luo Mufeng and brought the wounded Qi Ming to Qi Tian Marquis’s Mansion, where Silver Pool Madam welcomed her son and later summoned Ning Xiaochuan. As he hid from the Thousand-Year Ancient Demon and struggled to comprehend the eighth level of Heaven and Earth Profound Qi, he met Silver Pool Madam in a private pavilion.

• Ning Xiaochuan appeared behind Luo Mufeng, shattered his thrown blade, and killed him as he fled.
• Qi Ming asked Ning Xiaochuan to take him as a disciple, and Ning Xiaochuan took him to Qi Tian Marquis’s Mansion to avoid an approaching expert.
• Silver Pool Madam greeted Qi Ming, but he rejected her concern and led Ning Xiaochuan inside.
• Ning Xiaochuan stayed at the mansion to assess the Imperial City and search for signs that the Thousand-Year Ancient Demon had left.
• After two days of failing to understand the eighth-level cultivation incantation, Ning Xiaochuan accepted Silver Pool Madam’s invitation to meet her in a pavilion.

Ning Xiaochuan resisted Silver Pool Madam’s seduction, then accepted Qi Ming as a nominal disciple and began guiding his cultivation. He revealed that Qi Ming had fought Luo Mufeng to defend his mother’s reputation, leaving Silver Pool Madam shaken by the truth.

• Silver Pool Madam asked Ning Xiaochuan to teach Qi Ming, explaining that her son refused instruction from anyone in the Marquis Mansion.
• Silver Pool Madam tried to seduce Ning Xiaochuan, but he resisted and fled to cultivate Heaven and Earth Profound Qi.
• Qi Ming came to Ning Xiaochuan’s room believing his mother had secured his acceptance as a disciple, and Ning Xiaochuan agreed to take him as a nominal disciple.
• Ning Xiaochuan guided Qi Ming in cultivating Heaven and Earth Profound Qi, and Qi Ming trained diligently on the martial field.
• Ning Xiaochuan told Silver Pool Madam that Qi Ming had fought Luo Mufeng because Luo Mufeng insulted her, and Silver Pool Madam bit her lip until it bled.

Ning Xiaochuan found the Earth Core Magma Blood he needed for the Earth Dominion Pill in Qi Tian Marquis's Mansion, and Silver Pool Madam gave it to him. After sharing Heart Nourishing advice with her and rejecting her requests to watch his pill refinement and learn his name, Ning Xiaochuan returned to his room and began refining the pill.

• Ning Xiaochuan found Earth Core Magma Blood in the Medicine Storage Chamber, and Silver Pool Madam gave it to him in gratitude for teaching Ming'er martial cultivation.
• Ning Xiaochuan told Silver Pool Madam he was an Advanced Heart Nourisher preparing to refine the Earth Dominion Pill, then explained how Petrified Gold Wood could help her fuse her True Cauldron.
• Ning Xiaochuan refused Silver Pool Madam's request to observe his pill refinement and declined to reveal his name before leaving.
• A beautiful maid mocked Silver Pool Madam and threatened to take her place, so Silver Pool Madam injured her with a burst of Martial Venerable aura.
• Ning Xiaochuan set up a barrier, summoned his Heart Nourishing True Cauldron, and began refining the Earth Dominion Pill by melting sixty-four Seventh Grade Nourishing Heart Grasses into elixir.

Ning Xiaochuan risked inscribing an array into his Earth Dominion Pills while refining them, and Huai Rou’s interruption nearly ruined the batch. After half a month of nurturing the pills at Qi Tian Marquis's Mansion, they took shape, leaving Ning Xiaochuan to perform the final step.

• Ning Xiaochuan began inscribing an array into the Earth Dominion Pills, but Huai Rou broke through his barrier and distracted him.
• Ning Xiaochuan blasted Huai Rou with the Yin Yang Bright Flame, and Silver Pool Madam ended her suffering after discovering she could not be saved.
• Ning Xiaochuan finished inscribing the array, then nurtured the pills while cultivating and guiding Qi Ming for half a month.
• Qi Ming broke through two levels to reach the fifth level of the Profound Qi Realm, while Silver Pool Madam spent evenings discussing heart nourishing and pill refining with Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan’s sixteen nine-colored Mysterious Pills took shape, and he prepared the Earth Core Magma Blood for the final refining step.

Ning Xiaochuan refined seven Earth Dominion Pills before leaving the Qi Tian Marquis's Mansion, but the Cloud Marquis, the Crown Prince, and Ling Yi Daoren trapped him on the City Protecting River. A black-veiled woman intervened to help him escape, but the Cloud Marquis struck her down and pursued her.

• Ning Xiaochuan used Earth Core Magma Blood to refine seven Earth Dominion Pills, while Silver Pool Madam struggled with her feelings for him.
• Ning Xiaochuan left the Qi Tian Marquis's Mansion and tried to slip out of the Imperial City by boat.
• Ji Hanxing confronted Ning Xiaochuan from the Cloud Marquis's Red Fang Battleship as the Crown Prince and Ling Yi Daoren closed in, surrounding him with three Martial Venerables.
• The Crown Prince and Ling Yi Daoren attacked Ning Xiaochuan, who fought back with the Demon Sword and World Extinction Qi but suffered injuries.
• A black-veiled woman attacked Ling Yi Daoren and helped Ning Xiaochuan flee, then used her Frigid Cicada Ice Soul to hold off the Crown Prince and Ling Yi Daoren.
• The Cloud Marquis shattered the black-veiled woman's ice blades and wounded her as she fled, then sent a lightning palm after her.

Ning Xiaochuan returned to rescue the gravely wounded black-clad woman from Yue Wuyang, the Crown Prince, and Ling Yi National Teacher, using the Heavenly Emperor Blade’s borrowed power to drive Ling Yi back. The Crown Prince then summoned an enormous savage dragon, and Ning Xiaochuan and the woman remained surrounded as the fight continued.

• Yue Wuyang wounded the black-clad woman and joined the Crown Prince and Ling Yi National Teacher in trapping her inside a Heaven and Earth Cage.
• Ning Xiaochuan turned back toward the Imperial City, used the World Reflection Mirror to shatter the cage, and interrupted Ling Yi National Teacher’s attack with the Heavenly Emperor Blade.
• The Heavenly Emperor Blade explained that its borrowed power could help Ning Xiaochuan survive but could not kill three Martial Venerables, and Ning Xiaochuan concealed it in the form of a narrow saber.
• Ning Xiaochuan told the black-clad woman they would leave together, and the Crown Prince summoned eighteen dragon eyes that formed a huge savage dragon.

Ning Xiaochuan defeated the Crown Prince and escaped Yue Wuyang with the injured woman in black, using the Tai Sui Beast to reach a mountain hollow. After her veil fell and he learned she was Silver Pool Madam, he carried her away to recover, while she found a brief sense of peace on his back.

• Ning Xiaochuan wounded the Crown Prince, destroyed the savage dragon, and collected its eighteen dragon eyes.
• Ning Xiaochuan broke through Yue Wuyang's Divine Walls and escaped underground with the woman in black, while Yue Wuyang and the others failed to find them.
• Ning Xiaochuan treated the woman's injuries in a mountain hollow, and her veil slipped off to reveal Silver Pool Madam.
• Silver Pool Madam explained that she had saved Ning Xiaochuan for Ming'er, then collapsed from her severe injuries.
• Ning Xiaochuan carried Silver Pool Madam into the forest, and she fell asleep feeling peaceful on his back.

Ning Xiaochuan and Silver Pool Madam drifted into White Dragon City territory, where they clashed with the Yulan Water Palace. Mu Honglai recognized Ning Xiaochuan and attacked him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Silver Pool Madam woke on the boat, and Ning Xiaochuan told her they had drifted down the Yulan River for two days.
• After four days, the boat entered White Dragon City territory, where Yulan Water Palace martial artists surrounded them and demanded their treasures and Silver Pool Madam.
• Ning Xiaochuan killed the six martial artists with Cloudglow Return Essence Qi, and their leader was thrown back by the force.
• Mu Honglai appeared, recognized Ning Xiaochuan, and accused him of ruining his chance to become Path Master of the Heaven Extinction Path.
• Ning Xiaochuan warned Mu Honglai that killing him would bring the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion and the imperial court against him, but Mu Honglai unleashed his martial soul and pressed him with its field force.

Ning Xiaochuan and Silver Pool Madam fought Mu Honglai on the Yulan River after he refused to let them go. Outmatched by the Earth Venerable, they fled in separate directions as powerful figures from the Imperial City approached.

• Ning Xiaochuan denied responsibility for Mu Honglai’s losses, but Mu Honglai prepared to kill him anyway.
• Silver Pool Madam offered to become Mu Honglai’s woman in exchange for Ning Xiaochuan’s safety, and Mu Honglai mistook her for Yu Ningsheng.
• Ning Xiaochuan removed his Golden Mask, and Silver Pool Madam suddenly pierced Mu Honglai’s chest and tore out a lobe of his lung.
• Mu Honglai retaliated with flaming attacks, while Ning Xiaochuan and Silver Pool Madam joined forces to fight him on the river.
• Silver Pool Madam warned that they could not defeat Mu Honglai, and Ning Xiaochuan sensed powerful figures approaching from the Imperial City.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Silver Pool Madam exchanged two more strikes with Mu Honglai, then escaped in separate directions.

Ning Xiaochuan escaped Mu Honglai by luring him toward White Dragon City, then gave Qiu Xinghui the Earth Dominion Pill in exchange for the Heaven Extinction Path dealing with their mutual enemy. After a devastating battle, Mu Honglai’s fate remained uncertain, and Ning Xiaochuan received a letter from a mysterious pretty big sister.

• Ning Xiaochuan fled Mu Honglai toward White Dragon City, where Mu Honglai stopped short because an archenemy was inside.
• Ning Xiaochuan gave Qiu Xinghui the Earth Dominion Pill and told him that Mu Honglai had founded the Yulan Water Palace; Qiu Xinghui promised to report the threat to the Path Master.
• The Path Master of the Heaven Extinction Path fought Mu Honglai with an ancestral profound weapon, flattening more than ten mountains, but witnesses could not confirm whether Mu Honglai had been killed.
• Luo Jingfei found Mu Honglai’s severed arm, and martial artists fought over it for its Martial Venerable Essence Blood.
• A barefoot little boy delivered Ning Xiaochuan a letter from a pretty big sister, and Ning Xiaochuan paid him ten large silver coins.

Ning Xiaochuan learned from the Heavenly Emperor Blade that he must travel north to Cold Star Lake to find the Heavenly Emperor’s homeland and Divine Palace. Meanwhile, Silver Pool Madam returned to the Imperial City, where the Undead City Lord ordered her to make another attempt to recruit Ning Xiaochuan.

• Ning Xiaochuan received Yue Minghua’s letter explaining that she had returned to the Imperial City and would keep his secret.
• The Heavenly Emperor Blade revealed that the Heavenly Emperor’s descendants might help locate the Divine Palace and identified Cold Star Lake as the place to seek them.
• Ning Xiaochuan set out north through remote mountains on the Two-Headed Stone Beast while cultivating, and the Red Little Dragon woke after sleeping off the Nine Colors Profound Water.
• Silver Pool Madam returned to the Imperial City and told the Undead City Lord that she did not know Ning Xiaochuan’s identity or whereabouts.
• The Undead City Lord pressured Silver Pool Madam to recruit Ning Xiaochuan into Dark Emperor City, threatening to act personally if she failed again.