Chapter Summaries

Ning Xiaochuan claimed Li Xun’s True Martial Bow and arrows, then stayed behind in the God Spirit Secret Realm to avoid the factions waiting to ambush him outside. Little Red brought him the Demon Suppressing Tower, whose imprints revealed the ultimate techniques of the Purple Gold Imperial Lord and the Heavenly Emperor, giving Ning Xiaochuan a chance to learn their arts and draw upon their divine power.

• Ning Xiaochuan used the True Martial Bow to wound a Li Clan Elder, forcing the Li Clan powerhouses to withdraw from the God Spirit Secret Realm.
• Ning Xiaochuan refined the bow and arrows, mastered the True Martial Arrow Manual, and recalled the arrow from the Li Clan Elder’s corpse.
• After the other cultivators left, Ning Xiaochuan stayed in the God Spirit Secret Realm because powerful enemies were waiting outside, and he wondered where its suppression of divine abilities came from.
• Little Red emerged with the Demon Suppressing Tower, and Ning Xiaochuan discovered imprints left by the Purple Gold Imperial Lord and the Heavenly Emperor.
• The Heavenly Emperor Blade identified the imprints as the Primal Chaos Unifying Sword and the World Creation Severing Knife, explaining that Ning Xiaochuan might comprehend both arts and draw upon the rulers’ lingering divine power.

Ning Xiaochuan spent nine days studying the Purple Gold Imperial Lord’s Primal Chaos Unifying Sword, advancing his understanding of the Sword Dao without mastering the technique. When the Demon Suppressing Tower nearly released Kun, the Ten Thousand Sound Fairy Queen suppressed it and explained the danger Ning Xiaochuan had inherited; he ended by asking whose traces had delayed her arrival.

• Ning Xiaochuan studied the Purple Gold Imperial Lord’s sword imprint for nine days, improving his cultivation and understanding but failing to grasp the Primal Chaos Unifying Sword’s essence.
• The Demon Suppressing Tower shook violently and leaked demonic aura, which Ning Xiaochuan could not contain with the World Extinction Demon Flame.
• The Ten Thousand Sound Fairy Queen arrived, identified the sealed demon as Kun, the North Sea Demon Lord, and used Jade Saint Qi to suppress it temporarily.
• The Ten Thousand Sound Fairy Queen explained that only a phoenix or divine dragon could likely refine Kun, and warned Ning Xiaochuan that Kun would target him if it escaped.
• Ning Xiaochuan asked whose traces had delayed the Ten Thousand Sound Fairy Queen before she retrieved the Demon Suppressing Tower.

Ten Thousand Sound Fairy Queen rescued Ning Xiaochuan from the factions waiting at Diwu Mountain and warned him that the Demon Clan Army had invaded the Heaven Pivot Great Empire. After she left him by a lake, Ning Xiaochuan and Little Red encountered another Battle God Dragon Envoy with a powerful Purple Dragon Cub.

• Ten Thousand Sound Fairy Queen urged Ning Xiaochuan to return to Heavenly Emperor Mountain before it sealed its gates, and he accepted her help escaping the God Spirit Secret Realm.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Little Red emerged from the Ancient Taoist Temple, where Saint Fish King, the Li Clan, and other factions attacked them, but Ten Thousand Sound Fairy Queen spirited them away before the temple was destroyed.
• Ten Thousand Sound Fairy Queen left Ning Xiaochuan and Little Red beside a lake and warned that the Demon Clan Army had invaded the Heaven Pivot Great Empire.
• Little Red sensed another Divine Dragon Cub approaching, and Ning Xiaochuan saw an illusory man accompanied by a Purple Dragon Cub.
• The illusory man recognized Ning Xiaochuan as the other Battle God Dragon Envoy and remarked on how much his strength had grown.

Ning Xiaochuan pursued the Battle God Dragon Envoy and Purple Dragon Cub to Heaven Pivot Imperial City, where Earth Treasury King’s theft of the National Treasury sparked a battle with the imperial family. Earth Treasury King revealed that Heavenly Emperor Mountain was under siege by the Demon Clan Army and declared himself the true power in the empire.

• The Battle God Dragon Envoy left with the Purple Dragon Cub, and Little Red explained that the Purple Dragon Cub wanted to harvest her Dragon Essence.
• Ning Xiaochuan decided to pursue the pair and seize their Dragon Essence, then followed Little Red’s guidance to Heaven Pivot Imperial City.
• Earth Treasury King broke through the City Protection Array while escaping with the stolen National Treasury’s resources, and the Tianshu Emperor challenged him.
• Earth Treasury King struck down the nine flying dragons and attacked the imperial palace, but an old man in gray robes blocked his Buddha’s Hand Seal with an ancient array.
• The old man revealed himself as the imperial family’s Supreme True Emperor, and Earth Treasury King announced that Heavenly Emperor Mountain was surrounded by the Demon Clan Army and claimed dominion over the empire.

Ning Xiaochuan seized the Heaven Pivot Great Empire’s jade seal during Earth Treasury King and the Supreme True Emperor’s battle, then pursued Earth Treasury King after he gravely wounded the emperor. The chapter left the imperial clan reeling as the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince asked the Tianshu Emperor about the Supreme True Emperor’s condition.

• The Supreme True Emperor drew on the empire’s eight Earth Veins to fight Earth Treasury King, while Ning Xiaochuan waited for them to weaken each other.
• Ning Xiaochuan swallowed the Sarira, concealed his identity, and took the jade seal as the Supreme True Emperor tried to reclaim it.
• Earth Treasury King struck the Supreme True Emperor from behind and severely wounded him, allowing Ning Xiaochuan to suppress the jade seal.
• Earth Treasury King asked Ning Xiaochuan to return the seal, but Ning Xiaochuan revealed he knew Earth Treasury King’s former name and attacked him.
• Earth Treasury King fled as a demonic cloud, and Ning Xiaochuan pursued him as a golden Buddha cloud, leaving Heaven Pivot Imperial City in turmoil.
• The Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince asked the Tianshu Emperor whether the Supreme True Emperor’s injuries were serious.

The Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince planned to cultivate by battling the invading demon army and later claim Ning Xiaochuan’s life. After swallowing the Sarira, Ning Xiaochuan used its temporary True Person-level power and the Heavenly Emperor Blade to behead the Earth Treasury King, but the King’s headless body attacked him as the Sarira’s power waned.

• The Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince told the Tianshu Emperor that he intended to capture a Divine Dragon Cub’s dragon core and remain in the empire to temper himself against the demon invasion.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the Sarira’s power to injure the fleeing Earth Treasury King and pursued him with the True Martial Bow and arrows.
• The Earth Treasury King blocked Ning Xiaochuan’s arrows with his Ninth Grade Black Lotus and continued fleeing.
• Ning Xiaochuan wielded the Heavenly Emperor Blade, whose power severed the Earth Treasury King’s head.
• The headless Earth Treasury King attacked Ning Xiaochuan with his Zen Staff, and Ning Xiaochuan used the remaining Buddhist power to strengthen the Azure Wood Sky Garment for defense.

Ning Xiaochuan survived Earth Treasury King’s final attack and fled with Little Red, using six mystic beasts to mislead the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince and the Purple Dragon Cub. After recovering in the Wild Marsh, he claimed the Heaven Pivot Great Empire’s jade seal, but its Artifact Spirit attacked him as he tried to make it his own.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Little Red helped block Earth Treasury King’s final strike, and Earth Treasury King died after exhausting his strength.
• Ning Xiaochuan treated Little Red and himself, took Earth Treasury King’s remains and Zen Staff, and fled before other cultivators could arrive.
• Ning Xiaochuan released six mystic beasts in different directions to confuse the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince’s Purple Dragon Cub, then escaped into the Wild Marsh with Little Red.
• The Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince learned that Ning Xiaochuan had defeated Earth Treasury King and ordered the Purple Dragon Cub to pursue him, but Ning Xiaochuan escaped beyond its sensory range.
• After recovering from his injuries, Ning Xiaochuan refined the royal family’s mark from the Heaven Pivot Great Empire’s jade seal, but its Artifact Spirit attacked and threatened to make him a human slave.

Ning Xiaochuan subdued the imperial seal and used it to absorb Earth Veins, rapidly advancing his cultivation while fleeing the Battle God Dragon Envoy. After a month in the northern wilderness, he reached the peak of Profound Realm Heaven, still needing to break through to Fate Realm Heaven before he could face his pursuer.

• Ning Xiaochuan used the Heavenly Emperor Blade to suppress the imperial seal, then bound it as his own Supreme Weapon.
• Ning Xiaochuan commanded three small Earth Veins and absorbed their Earth Qi, increasing his Earth Rules from sixty-two thousand to sixty-five thousand.
• When Little Red sensed the Divine Dragon Cub approaching, Ning Xiaochuan sent six demon beasts in different directions and fled with her.
• Ning Xiaochuan spent six days evading the Divine Dragon Cub and entered the northern wilderness to cultivate away from Heavenly Emperor Mountain.
• Over the next month, Ning Xiaochuan absorbed more than ten small Earth Veins, including one over three hundred miles long, and reached the peak of Profound Realm Heaven.

After escaping deep into the Great Wilderness, Ning Xiaochuan examined Earth Treasury King's immense hoard and discovered that the Heaven Pivot Great Empire's treasury had been hidden inside a sealed Supreme Weapon. He could not open the treasury, leaving its riches beyond his reach for now.

• Ning Xiaochuan searched Earth Treasury King's Universe Bracelet and found hundreds of thousands of Earth-Grade Profound Stones and countless other treasures.
• Ning Xiaochuan refined Earth Treasury King's damaged Ninth Grade Black Lotus and gave the golden Zen Staff to the Heavenly Emperor Blade to settle his debt.
• Ning Xiaochuan discovered a sealed scarlet box inside Earth Treasury King's Buddhist Bead Heart Palace and identified it as the Heaven Pivot Great Empire's treasury, the Low-Grade Supreme Weapon Universe World.
• Ning Xiaochuan tried several methods to open the Universe World but could not break through its formations.

Ning Xiaochuan fused the World Extinction Demon Flame with his Heart Nourishing True Cauldron while Little Red and the demonic beasts fled from a pursuing Divine Dragon Cub. Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury guarded him until he awakened, then warned him that the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince and the Earth Treasury King Sect were hunting him.

• Ning Xiaochuan put the sealed Universe World into his Martial Heart Palace and decided to fuse the World Extinction Demon Flame with his Heart Nourishing True Cauldron.
• Ning Xiaochuan spent seven days refining Yin Yang Bright Flame into the World Extinction Demon Flame and began the dangerous process of fusing it with his cauldron.
• When the Divine Dragon Cub neared, Little Red sent the six demonic beasts and herself in separate directions to lure it away from Ning Xiaochuan.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury approached Ning Xiaochuan but withdrew her hand instead of killing him, then guarded him as he completed the fusion over half a month.
• Ning Xiaochuan awakened to find mystical beast corpses around him and learned that Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury had protected him from them.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury revealed that the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince, four other Earth Treasuries, and Profound Mystery Dharma King were pursuing Ning Xiaochuan, and he asked whether her family had been destroyed by the Heaven Pivot Great Empire.

Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury agreed to cooperate against the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince, trading Earth Treasury King's corpse for her help and information about Little Red. After learning Little Red was being held captive, Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury began secluded cultivation to strengthen themselves before confronting the prince.

• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury explained that the Earth Treasury King Sect was pursuing Ning Xiaochuan for Earth Treasury King's fortune and proposed working together to kill the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury recalled the six Supreme Weapons, and Ning Xiaochuan tested her strength before discovering she had reached the Sixth Realm of Celestial Being, Ten Thousand Realms Heaven.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury revealed that she wanted Earth Treasury King's True Person Corpse to complete the Death Spirit Zen Scripture and advance toward God Realm Heaven.
• Ning Xiaochuan agreed to give her the corpse in exchange for Little Red's whereabouts, and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury said the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince had captured Little Red to exploit her Dragon Essence.
• Ning Xiaochuan handed Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury the corpse, and they began secluded cultivation as she practiced the Death Spirit Zen Scripture and he refined Three-Soul Human-Grade Pills.

Ning Xiaochuan refined several Human-Grade Pills before using Earth Treasury King’s Martial Heart Palace to create and consume a powerful Three-Soul Human-Grade Pill. He broke through to the Fifth Realm of Celestial Being and reached its peak, still striving to enter the Sixth Realm.

• Ning Xiaochuan refined six Three-Revolution Soul Return Pills, then made Tyrant Dragon Blood Pills and True Blood Pills using blood taken from Earth Treasury King’s corpse.
• Ning Xiaochuan began refining Earth Treasury King’s Martial Heart Palace into a Three-Soul Human-Grade Pill while studying the Purple Gold Imperial Lord’s Primal Chaos Unifying Sword, which he could not yet comprehend.
• After a month, Ning Xiaochuan finished purifying the Martial Heart Palace and spent half a month refining it with six Spiritually-Connected Rare Medicines and other ingredients.
• Ning Xiaochuan caught the pill when it tried to flee and swallowed it, breaking through to the Fifth Realm of Celestial Being after absorbing a fraction of its power.
• Ning Xiaochuan’s two Dao Origins each accumulated 1.7 million rules, bringing him to the peak of the Fifth Realm as he continued toward the Sixth Realm.

Ning Xiaochuan consumed Nine Flowers Nectar and broke through to the Sixth Realm of Celestial Being, while Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury considered him as a possible partner for cultivating the Joyful Zen Scripture. After Ning Xiaochuan mastered his new power, Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury approached him while he bathed beneath a waterfall.

• Ning Xiaochuan used the Nine Flowers Nectar and the remaining medicinal power of the Three-Soul Human-Grade Pill to attempt a breakthrough, then collapsed into a month-long drunken sleep.
• Ning Xiaochuan awoke having reached the Sixth Realm of Celestial Being, and his uncontrolled gaze blasted two holes through a distant mountain.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury watched Ning Xiaochuan's breakthrough and considered him a potential Buddha Yang Body for the Joyful Zen Scripture.
• After three more days, Ning Xiaochuan gained control of his new cultivation, broke through the mountain, and washed beneath a waterfall.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury appeared beside the waterfall, and Ning Xiaochuan noticed her long black hair as he looked her over.

Ning Xiaochuan learned that the Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor had destroyed the Tang Clan and Heaven Pivot Great Empire, while the demon army ravaged the northern frontier. Worried about Little Red, he traveled with Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury to the Bright Holy Land, where the northern frontier’s strongest powers had gathered to discuss resisting the demons.

• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury teased Ning Xiaochuan by revealing her long hair and saying she wanted to return to secular life for an unnamed man.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury told Ning Xiaochuan that the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince and other young elites had gone to the Bright Holy Land for a gathering against the demon army.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury reported that the Tang Clan had fallen, its clan king had been killed by the Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor, and its captives were to be sacrificed to the Demon God.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury revealed that the Heaven Pivot Great Empire had been destroyed and its capital reduced to a desolate ruin.
• Ning Xiaochuan decided to go to the Bright Holy Land because he feared for Little Red’s safety, and he and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury crossed the wilderness to reach its territory.

Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury rested in a ruined border city of the Fire Cloud Great Empire, whose defenses had fallen to the demon beast army. Tang Shuyue, the Nine Heavens Pavilion’s Nine Heavens Spirit Maiden, attacked them but escaped wounded after Ning Xiaochuan shot her with the True Martial Arrow.

• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury explained that the demon beast army had breached the Fire Cloud Great Empire’s border and warned that the empire might fall without aid from the Bright Holy Land.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury entered the abandoned City Lord Manor to rest and prepare for Ning Xiaochuan’s coming battle against the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince.
• Tang Shuyue slipped past Ning Xiaochuan’s formation and held him at knifepoint while asking about Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury’s identity.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury burst into the room and identified the intruder as Tang Shuyue, but Ning Xiaochuan seized her wrist and attacked with purple lightning.
• Tang Shuyue escaped Ning Xiaochuan’s True Martial Arrow with a True Person Ancient Chart, though the arrow wounded her, and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury revealed that she was the Nine Heavens Pavilion’s third-ranked young expert.

Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury revealed why she joined the Nine Heavens Pavilion and confessed that she had chosen Ning Xiaochuan as her potential dual cultivation partner, but he rejected her advances. Meanwhile, Tang Shuyue recovered from Ning Xiaochuan’s arrow and received an offer of assistance from the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince’s Thought Manifestation.

• Ning Xiaochuan questioned Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury about being a Buddhist cultivator in the Nine Heavens Pavilion, and she asked him to become her dual cultivation partner.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury explained that the Nine Heavens Pavilion had raised its disciples to choose talented men who could protect the sect, and admitted that she had chosen Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan dismissed Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury’s advances and returned to his room, leaving her frustrated.
• Tang Shuyue recovered in her cave dwelling from the wound caused by Ning Xiaochuan’s True Martial Arrow.
• The Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince’s Thought Manifestation appeared before Tang Shuyue and offered to help her kill the Holy Maiden and enslave the Holy Maiden and Divine Maiden.

Tang Shuyue tested the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince’s strength, then agreed to cooperate with him while concealing her own goals. After Ning Xiaochuan recovered from his journey, he sensed Little Red in the Fire Cloud Great Empire’s imperial city and set out to locate it.

• Tang Shuyue’s Thought Manifestation attacked the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince, but he shattered it with a single palm and claimed his strength surpassed hers.
• The Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince identified himself as Heavenly Emperor Mountain’s Saint Child and offered to help Tang Shuyue deal with the Nine Heavens Pavilion maidens in exchange for the Tang Clan’s hidden Treasure Land.
• Tang Shuyue denied knowing the Treasure Land’s location, and she and the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince agreed to cooperate while privately distrusting each other.
• After resting overnight, Ning Xiaochuan recovered and continued cultivating with resources from Earth Treasury King’s Universe Bracelet, bringing his laws close to two million.
• Ning Xiaochuan sensed Little Red in the Fire Cloud Great Empire’s imperial city and explained that he had found its direction by following the empire’s converging Earth Veins.

Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury investigated the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince’s trap in Fire Cloud Imperial City and learned that Little Red was to be sacrificed at an auction. They planned to strike at the Crown Prince and Tang Shuyue before the auction, though a powerful Nine Heavens Pavilion expert stood in their way.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury discussed how to evade the Profound Mystery Dharma King while approaching Fire Cloud Imperial City, where they suspected the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince was waiting.
• In Fire Cloud Imperial City, Ning Xiaochuan questioned a Nine Heavens Pavilion disciple about the Divine Dragon Blood auction, and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury revealed her Holy Maiden identity to make the disciple answer.
• The disciple revealed that the auction would drain the blood from a Divine Dragon Cub, and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury killed her to prevent news of their arrival reaching Tang Shuyue and the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury deduced that Tang Shuyue and the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince had taken control of the local Nine Heavens Pavilion branch and were using the auction to lure Ning Xiaochuan out.
• Ning Xiaochuan proposed killing Tang Shuyue and the Heavenly Emperor Crown Prince before the auction, while Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury warned that the branch’s Ninth Realm of Celestial Being expert could make the plan dangerous.

Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury learned that powerful factions were converging on Fire Cloud Imperial City to obtain the Divine Dragon Cub and its blood. Determined to rescue Little Red that night, they sought help from the Godslayer Ranking and reached its hidden stronghold, where a masked white-haired elder arrived.

• The Lin Clan's dying ancestor ordered two elders to capture the Divine Dragon Cub alive so he could refine it and extend his life.
• Major powers and holy-land heirs prepared to bid for the Divine Dragon Blood or seize the Divine Dragon Cub, while the imperial clans also sought to negotiate with the Nine Heavens Pavilion.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury heard that the Nine Heavens Spirit Maiden would preside over the auction and choose a dual-cultivation partner, and they decided to rescue Little Red that night.
• Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury proposed hiring assassins, and she led Ning Xiaochuan to the Godslayer Ranking's concealed stronghold in Fire Cloud Imperial City.
• At the stronghold, Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury found Wordless Monuments used to offer payment, and a masked white-haired elder entered and approached one.

Ning Xiaochuan posted a contract worth two hundred thousand Earth-Grade Profound Stones on the Wordless Monument, startling a white-haired Celestial Venerable who mistook him and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury for peerless experts. The Godslayer Ranking's contact found Ning Xiaochuan and took him and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury underground to discuss the commission.

• The white-haired old man carved a demand for one hundred thousand Earth-Grade Profound Stones onto the Wordless Monument and warned Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury that the Godslayer Ranking was beyond their means.
• Ning Xiaochuan blocked the old man's divine sense, then carved a two-hundred-thousand-Earth-Grade-Profound-Stone offer onto another Wordless Monument and left with Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury.
• The white-haired old man found the offer and wondered whether the pair were Holy Land Successors, then considered the era's famed Big Dipper Seven Stars and other hidden geniuses.
• A short Sea Bottom Race man from the Godslayer Ranking approached Ning Xiaochuan, confirmed his identity, and praised the organization's ability to find employers.
• The Haiti Clan contact swept Ning Xiaochuan and Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury underground, assuring Ning Xiaochuan that the Godslayer Ranking honored its reputation and protected its employers' interests.