Recaps

Jiang Ning watched Linglong awaken her dragon bloodline and reach more than eight hundred years of cultivation, then sent her to bring rain to Dongling Commandery. As the rain spread across the commandery, a young man carrying a massive sword was dispatched from an immortal sacred land to investigate.

• Jiang Ning replenished his blood loss with Blood Ginseng, and two days later he and Jiang Li watched Linglong’s evolution light up the lake and sky.
• Linglong revealed that her awakened bloodline gave her eight hundred years of cultivation and new abilities, and Jiang Ning ordered her to bring a great rainstorm to Dongling City.
• Lü Yi drove off martial artists spying outside Jiang Ning’s courtyard, and the Inspection Office arrived as the intruders fled.
• Jiang Ning saw that his Source Energy reserves were insufficient for his upcoming limit breaks, then sent Linglong to bring rain across Dongling Commandery.
• Jiang Ning joined his aura with heaven and earth, intensifying Linglong’s torrential rain, while Wang Shouyi recognized its merit.
• A young man carrying a massive sword left an immortal sacred land after being asked to investigate the disturbance in Dongling Commandery.

After completing his fourth blood replacement, Jiang Ning recovered with the Blood Jade Nine-Aperture Lotus and continued strengthening his body. A mysterious giant-sword wielder entered Dongling City as Xiao Emei and Hou Yingying arrived to meet Jiang Ning.

• Jiang Ning completed his fourth blood replacement in the Dongling Mountain Range and used the Blood Jade Nine-Aperture Lotus to replenish and strengthen his blood and qi.
• Jiang Ning returned home, where he found Wang Qingtan waiting in his room, and the two spent the night together.
• Jiang Ning decided to train his Indestructible Vajra Body rather than attempt another blood replacement before his physical strength improved.
• A young man carrying a giant sword entered Dongling City, and Hou Yingying warned Xiao Emei that he might be a grandmaster.
• Xiao Emei and Hou Yingying visited Jiang Ning, and Hou Yingying felt overwhelmed by his presence as he asked who she was.

Jiang Ning agreed to help the embattled Water-Moon Sword Palace in exchange for half its wealth and half its income for ten years, but delayed action while he recovered and trained. After learning that a mysterious visitor might come from a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, Jiang Ning decided to test the visitor’s strength.

• Xiao Emei and Hou Yingying pledged the Water-Moon Sword Palace’s allegiance to Jiang Ning, who demanded half its wealth and half its income for ten years in exchange for his aid.
• Xiao Emei accepted Jiang Ning’s terms, and he told the women to wait while he recovered and improved his strength.
• Zhao Yulong received a portrait of the greatsword-carrying visitor, learned he was in the southern West District, and went to meet him.
• Jiang Ning trained by refining solar essence, bringing the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique close to a breakthrough.
• After reading the Inspection Office’s report, Jiang Ning concluded the visitor might belong to a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land and decided to test his strength.

Jiang Ning watched Linglong confront a sword-wielding young man from a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, then chose not to kill him so he would return and report that the Nu River Dragon God had caused the rain. Linglong ended the storm, declared herself the Nu River Dragon God, and abolished living sacrifices.

• People along the Nu River worshipped as golden light rose from the water, and Zhao Yulong recognized the signs of another storm and suspected the mysterious young man came from a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
• Jiang Ning used his Heavenly Eye to assess the approaching young man and signaled Linglong to test his strength with a clash.
• The young man entered Linglong's thunderclouds, was gravely injured, and fled using a blood-consuming escape technique when Linglong attacked with golden light.
• Jiang Ning decided not to kill the weakened young man, reasoning that doing so could provoke the powerful force behind him, and returned to Dongling City through the Nu River.
• Linglong ended the rain and proclaimed herself the Nu River Dragon God, ordering the people along the banks to abolish living sacrifices.

Jiang Ning sent Linglong to bring rain to the drought-stricken lands downstream, then used 20,000 Source Energy to break Water-Fire True Force through to its eighth limit. The breakthrough gave him powerful Water-Fire True Intent and transformed Fire Eye into Fiery Spirit Sight, leaving him wondering whether he could now challenge a second-rank grandmaster.

• Jiang Ning and Wang Qingtan visited the Nu River with Wang Qinghan, who offered tribute and asked the Dragon God to bless her with a husband.
• After returning home, Jiang Ning told the recovered Linglong to bring another rainstorm to the drought-stricken lands downstream.
• Jiang Ning traveled to the Dongling Mountain Range and spent 20,000 Source Energy breaking through Water-Fire True Force.
• Jiang Ning manifested Water-Fire True Intent, whose wheel and eight chains devastated the surrounding forest and shattered a large boulder.
• Jiang Ning considered whether his strengthened abilities could let him match Li Sixiang, a second-rank grandmaster.
• Jiang Ning discovered that Fire Eye had become Fiery Spirit Sight, which could expose illusions and fire golden rays that burned a distant tree.

Jiang Ning strengthened his forces and prepared to move against the Five Swords Sect, securing evidence from Zhao Yulong and troops from Yan Yikuan. He left with five hundred soldiers under Feng Xiaochen’s command to support his operation.

• Jiang Ning learned that Xie Xiaojiao, Feng Ji, and Zhou Xing had reached the Sixth Rank, while their subordinates had advanced to the Seventh and Eighth Ranks, and ordered them to Stone Mountain County to assist Bai Luoyu.
• Jiang Ning asked Zhao Yulong for evidence of the Five Swords Sect’s crimes and revealed his sword intent, convincing Zhao Yulong to provide it.
• Jiang Ning went to Yan Yikuan’s military camp to borrow troops, and Yan Yikuan agreed after learning he planned to target the Five Swords Sect in support of the Water-Moon Sword Palace.
• Yan Yikuan assigned Feng Xiaochen and five hundred soldiers to follow Jiang Ning’s orders.

Jiang Ning traveled to Stone Mountain County, where drought and famine had left people desperate enough to eat flesh ganoderma distributed by the God-Worship Cult. After destroying the tainted food and killing two men who had eaten human flesh, he left the starving survivors hoping his arrival would bring help.

• Jiang Ning assigned Captain Feng Xiaochen to lead five hundred troops to Stone Mountain County, then returned home and arranged for Linglong and Old Softshell to guard his family.
• Qi Xin reported to the eldest senior brother of Azure Source Grotto-Heaven that the Nu River Dragon God had brought rain, and the senior brother decided to let it remain.
• Jiang Ning reached Stone Mountain County and saw its barren surroundings, poverty, and starving residents queuing for talisman water.
• Jiang Ning followed the smell of meat to a ruined temple and discovered Shopkeeper Liu and others cooking flesh ganoderma from the God-Worship Cult.
• Jiang Ning destroyed the cauldron and its contents, then burned two men who had eaten human flesh before leaving the survivors to wonder whether he could help them.

Jiang Ning searched Stone Mountain County with his divine sense, learned the God-Worship Cult planned to sacrifice Bai Luoyu, and struck first at its East City Winery stronghold. He killed the cultists there but failed to uncover the Cult Leader’s identity, leaving the God of Flesh and the Cult Leader beyond his reach.

• Jiang Ning sensed across Stone Mountain County and found Bai Luoyu, while five God-Worship Cult protectors plotted to attack and sacrifice him.
• Jiang Ning warned Bai Luoyu that the cult planned to target him, and Bai Luoyu agreed to help Jiang Ning confront the Five Swords Sect over its clans’ grain hoarding.
• Jiang Ning told Bai Luoyu to bring men to the East City Winery, then broke into the God-Worship Cult’s stronghold and demanded to know the Cult Leader’s whereabouts.
• Jiang Ning killed the five protectors after they failed to reveal any information about the Cult Leader.
• Jiang Ning left the stronghold disappointed that he had only eliminated minor followers and could not yet stop the God-Worship Cult’s leaders.

Jiang Ning killed the five core members of the God-Worship Cult in Stone Mountain County, allowing Bai Luoyu to turn his attention to the county’s grain crisis. After overhearing the Mu and Xu family heads plan to guard their hidden stockpile, Jiang Ning tracked their experts to a vast store of grain inside Stone Mountain.

• Jiang Ning showed Bai Luoyu the God-Worship Cult Protectors he had killed and revealed that he had also killed the fifth core member.
• Bai Luoyu thanked Jiang Ning and said he would restore order in Stone Mountain County and address the grain crisis.
• Mu Changsheng met the Xu Family head and agreed to send experts to guard their hidden grain storehouse.
• Jiang Ning sent out his Yin Spirit and followed two experts from the Mu and Xu families beyond the city.
• The two experts entered a crevice in Stone Mountain, where Jiang Ning discovered hundreds of thousands of shi of grain stored in a cavern.

Jiang Ning and Bai Luoyu recovered the grain hidden in a cave and prepared to confront the Xu and Mu Families over their refusal to release food. Jiang Ning then planned to use the conflict to gauge the Five Swords Sect’s strength and seize its resources if he could.

• Jiang Ning led Bai Luoyu and three trusted fighters through the Stone Mountains to the hidden cave, where he caught two guards’ weapons barehanded and crushed them before defeating them.
• Bai Luoyu and his men subdued the cave’s defenders and stopped one man from setting fire to the grain; Bai Luoyu thanked Jiang Ning for helping ease Stone Mountain County’s crisis.
• Jiang Ning told Bai Luoyu to give the Xu and Mu Families one final chance to cooperate, then eliminate them if they refused, and carved a wider passage through the mountain for transporting the grain.
• Bai Luoyu arranged to meet the two families’ heads at noon, while Jiang Ning considered the greater threat posed by the Five Swords Sect and resolved to use the families as bait to test it.

Jiang Ning trained while Bai Luoyu confronted the Xu and Mu Families over their hoarded grain. After Jiang Ning arrived and killed the families’ leaders and guards, he ordered their clans exterminated and their estates seized, then helped plan famine relief and road construction.

• Jiang Ning trained the Indestructible Vajra Body and absorbed the sun’s essence, bringing the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique close to its next breakthrough.
• At Four Directions Tower, Bai Luoyu demanded that the Xu and Mu Families surrender their hoarded grain, but the family heads resisted and began to negotiate.
• Jiang Ning arrived, struck down the guards and family heads with a single burst of force, and ordered the Xu and Mu Families’ estates confiscated and their clans exterminated.
• Jiang Ning offered Bai Luoyu reinforcements and proposed three days of famine relief followed by work in exchange for aid, beginning with road construction.
• The Xu and Mu Families were destroyed, and Jiang Ning reflected on how his power now let him decide the fate of families that once would have required others’ protection.

Jiang Ning remained in Stone Mountain County while Bai Luoyu stabilized the county and prepared for the Xu and Mu Families’ executions. Jiang Ning broke the limit of his Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique, gained the Longevity Seed trait, and saw the Five Swords Sect’s elders approaching with a confident archer.

• Bai Luoyu restored order in Stone Mountain County with arrests and grain relief while Jiang Ning stayed to support him against the Five Swords Sect’s likely intervention.
• Jiang Ning completed the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique’s first limit break, which gave him the Longevity Seed trait and enhanced his body’s ability to preserve vitality and extend his lifespan.
• Jiang Ning considered strengthening the Indestructible Vajra Body next and recognized lifespan as a key constraint on his ambitions.
• Bai Luoyu walked toward Jiang Ning after arranging an altar for worship of the Nu River Dragon God, though he doubted it would bring rain.
• Two Xu and Mu Family elders rode toward Stone Mountain County with True Disciple Yang, who boasted that his sound-barrier-breaking archery would force the patrol envoy to release the prisoners.

Jiang Ning summoned rain over drought-stricken Stone Mountain County, then received Feng Jiuge and Xie Xiaojiu as reinforcements. As Xiao Emei and the Water-Moon Sword Palace’s Great Elder arrived seeking his help, Jiang Ning ordered his people to gather at the marketplace before the next day’s execution of the Xu and Mu families.

• Jiang Ning used the Nu River Dragon God’s name to summon clouds and heavy rain over Stone Mountain County, temporarily easing the drought.
• The next morning, Feng Ji led dozens of riders from the Commissioner Office toward Stone Mountain County, where the soldiers recognized them as allies and admitted them.
• Feng Jiuge and Xie Xiaojiu met Jiang Ning after entering the city, while Zhou Xing took the other men to find lodging.
• Xiao Emei and the Water-Moon Sword Palace’s Great Elder arrived at Stone Mountain County, and the Great Elder assured Xiao Emei that Jiang Ning would protect the sect.
• Jiang Ning learned that Feng Xiaochen’s army needed four or five more days to arrive and told Feng Jiuge and Xie Xiaojiu to bring everyone to the marketplace before the end of the following day.

Xiao Emei tried to secure Jiang Ning’s favor to protect the Water-Moon Sword Palace, but he rejected her and spent the night with Wang Qingtan in Dongling City. As Jiang Ning prepared to oversee the Xu and Mu families’ executions, Elder Xu and Elder Mu arrived in Stone Mountain County with an inner sect true disciple and planned an ambush.

• Xie Xiaoj iu and Feng Ji saw Xiao Emei heading to Jiang Ning’s residence and discussed rumors about her past connection to him.
• Xiao Emei told Jiang Ning that the Water-Moon Sword Palace’s elders had accepted his demands and offered him half the sect’s wealth, but he postponed visiting the palace and refused her request to stay at his home.
• Xiao Emei secretly hid naked beneath Jiang Ning’s covers and offered to serve him, but Jiang Ning sent her away and traveled to Dongling City to visit Wang Qingtan.
• Jiang Ning returned to Stone Mountain County the next morning, greeted Xiao Emei, and resumed training while she wondered how he had reached Dongling City and returned overnight.
• Elder Xu, Elder Mu, and the bow-wielding True Disciple Yang entered Stone Mountain County and decided to wait near the marketplace for a chance to ambush the officials at the executions.

Jiang Ning arrived at the marketplace to join Bai Luoyu for the executions of the Xu and Mu Families, while the Five Swords Sect prepared an ambush. A Five Swords Sect archer launched a sound-breaking arrow at Jiang Ning, then aimed a second shot at Xiao Emei to force Jiang Ning to protect her.

• Jiang Ning cultivated the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique while the Xu and Mu Families awaited execution in the marketplace.
• Bai Luoyu anticipated interference from the Five Swords Sect, whose members secretly planned to attack during the executions with support from the Heaven-Answering Alliance.
• Jiang Ning arrived with Xiao Emei and Hou Yingying, used his divine sense to locate the hidden Five Swords Sect members, and joined Bai Luoyu on the platform.
• True Disciple Yang coated his arrows with a mysterious blue liquid and prepared to attack Jiang Ning as Elder Xu got ready to storm the execution ground.
• Jiang Ning spotted Yang's first arrow as it crossed the sky, and Yang then aimed a second arrow at Xiao Emei, expecting Jiang Ning to intervene.

Jiang Ning repelled the Five Swords Sect’s attack on the execution ground, wounded their archer Yang Zhenchuan, and let the surviving attackers escape. After ordering the executions to continue, he left the Five Swords Sect with a new pretext for retaliation, while Elder Xu found the injured Yang Zhenchuan.

• Jiang Ning caught Yang Zhenchuan’s arrow barehanded and threw it back, forcing the Five Swords Sect’s elders and fighters to retreat.
• Feng Ji, Xie Xiaoj iu, Zhou Xing, and their allies fought the attackers as Jiang Ning drew a hard bow and shot Yang Zhenchuan from a thousand meters away.
• Jiang Ning’s arrow tracked Yang Zhenchuan as he dodged and tore through his right arm, but Jiang Ning let him flee to create an excuse to march on the Five Swords Sect.
• The Five Swords Sect members fled the market, and Feng Ji collected tokens from the attackers’ corpses while Jiang Ning ordered the prisoners executed.
• Jiang Ning ordered the executions to continue as Elder Xu found Yang Zhenchuan, who furiously challenged him over the supposedly safe operation.

Jiang Ning traveled to the Water-Moon Sword Palace to collect the resources owed to him and prepare for his move against the Five Swords Sect. After he demonstrated his overwhelming strength to the Sword Palace elders, they accepted that Hou Yingying’s assessment of him might be right.

• Jiang Ning discovered a token belonging to Five Swords Sect true disciple Yang Hong and ordered the token and two disciples’ corpses kept for use in a few days.
• Jiang Ning left Stone Mountain County with Xiao Emei and Hou Yingying, planning to collect his reward before acting against the Five Swords Sect.
• During a break on the journey, Hou Yingying judged that Jiang Ning might have completed his second blood exchange and surpassed the former palace master, Xiao Qiushui.
• Jiang Ning arrived at the Water-Moon Sword Palace and learned from its disciples that the sect had declined under pressure from the Five Swords Sect.
• Wu Yuan challenged Jiang Ning to demonstrate his strength, and Jiang Ning subdued him with a hand on his shoulder.
• The other elders cleared the way for Jiang Ning, and Wu Yuan admitted afterward that Hou Yingying might have been right about Jiang Ning’s power.

Jiang Ning collected Water-Moon Sword Palace’s treasures and replenished the losses from his fourth blood replacement rebirth. By opening his Heavenly Eye, he discovered that the goddess statue held a hidden connection to a woman who offered him a gift before the vision shattered.

• Xiao Emei opened the secret chamber and explained that Water-Moon Sword Palace’s reserves were depleted and its holdings threatened by Five Swords Sect.
• Jiang Ning took the stored medicinal treasures, ordered Xiao Emei to settle the remaining payment within a month, and claimed half of Five Swords Sect’s holdings after he dealt with them.
• Jiang Ning refined the medicines, restored his body, and checked his source energy and Indestructible Vajra Body progress.
• Jiang Ning used Fiery Spirit Sight and his Heavenly Eye to investigate the goddess statue, revealing a vision of a woman beside a lake.
• The woman told Jiang Ning that her inheritance suited only women, then sent a droplet of water toward his brow as the vision shattered.

Jiang Ning received a gift from the moonlit goddess that transformed his Yin God and brought him closer to becoming a Yang God, then learned his Source Energy had surged. As Feng Xiaoch en arrived with five hundred elite soldiers, Jiang Ning prepared to confront the Five Swords Sect and awaited Wang Qingtan, whom he hoped could receive the goddess’s inheritance.

• Jiang Ning received the goddess’s gift, which caused golden patterns to appear on his Yin God and gave him the potential to transform into a Yang God.
• Jiang Ning saw that his Source Energy had risen to 73,215 and trained the Indestructible Vajra Body at the Water-Moon Sword Palace.
• He Chang Kong and the Five Swords Sect elders discussed Jiang Ning’s actions against the Xu and Mu families, then decided to pause their plans against the Water-Moon Sword Palace while keeping what they had already taken.
• Jiang Ning learned that Feng Xiaoch en had reached Stone Mountain County with five hundred elite soldiers and sent him a letter by Skyborne Letterbird.
• Jiang Ning decided it was time to demand an explanation from the Five Swords Sect and wondered when Wang Qingtan would arrive to test whether she could receive the goddess’s inheritance.

Feng Xiaoch en led elite troops armed with Star-Chasing Ballistae to surround the Five Swords Sect under Jiang Ning's orders. After Xie Xiaojiu fought a sect elder to a standstill, Jiang Ning arrived just as the elder's sword closed in on him.

• Feng Xiaoch en split his troops to block the Five Swords Sect's northern and southern routes, then advanced toward the mountain gate with Feng Ji, Xie Xiaojiu, and Zhou Xing.
• The Five Swords Sect discovered the approaching army, rang its alarm bells, and gathered its leaders at the mountain gate.
• He Chang Kong learned that Jiang Ning had ordered the operation and tried to negotiate, but an elder confronted Xie Xiaojiu after she refused to wait quietly.
• Xie Xiaojiu fought the fifth-rank elder and held her own, though he gradually forced her backward.
• Jiang Ning rushed up the mountain and appeared between Xie Xiaojiu and the elder's incoming sword.

Jiang Ning confronted He Chang Kong at the Five Swords Sect, killing an elder who attacked him and accusing the sect of crimes under Great Xia law. After revealing evidence and his inborn supernatural phenomenon, he continued pressing He Chang Kong while both men waited for the sect’s Supreme Elder to arrive.

• Jiang Ning caught a Five Swords Sect elder’s sword between two fingers, shattered it, and killed the elder by throwing a broken sword tip through his palms and brow.
• He Chang Kong challenged Jiang Ning over the killing, but Jiang Ning argued that the elder had tried to assassinate him and deserved execution under Great Xia law.
• Xiao Emei arrived, and He Chang Kong offered to settle the conflict with Water-Moon Sword Palace before Jiang Ning revealed that he had come to demand an explanation from the sect.
• Jiang Ning destroyed the coffins holding two Five Swords Sect members and accused the sect of storming an execution ground and attempting to assassinate him.
• Jiang Ning displayed flames in his eyes, revealing an inborn supernatural phenomenon, while He Chang Kong stalled for time as he awaited the Supreme Elder.
• Jiang Ning sent several identity tokens to He Chang Kong as evidence, but He Chang Kong continued demanding proof.

Jiang Ning confronted the Five Swords Sect over Yang, a one-armed true disciple, while the sect’s Supreme Elder and He Chang Kong resisted him. The clash widened into a battle at the sect gates, and Jiang Ning met the Supreme Elder’s attack with a mysterious five-colored fist technique.

• Jiang Ning revealed Yang’s true disciple token and demanded that He Chang Kong surrender him, but He Chang Kong refused.
• The Five Swords Sect’s Supreme Elder arrived and called on He Chang Kong to defend the sect; Jiang Ning charged through the disciples and seized Yang.
• He Chang Kong attacked Jiang Ning with his Hundred-Step Flying Sword while Feng Xiaoch en ordered the crossbow squads to fire; Jiang Ning’s layered Indestructible Vajra Body repelled the sword.
• Arrows struck He Chang Kong and the Five Swords Sect disciples as the Supreme Elder rallied the elders and charged Jiang Ning.
• The Supreme Elder struck at Jiang Ning, who countered with a five-colored punch that made the elder’s movements grow sluggish.

Jiang Ning defeated the Five Swords Sect’s Supreme Elder and led the assault that shattered the sect’s resistance. After the Supreme Elder’s final effort failed, Jiang Ning warned the fleeing disciples and began disabling those who continued to escape.

• Jiang Ning overpowered the Five Swords Sect’s Supreme Elder, captured him, and announced that he was Dongling Commandery’s Sixth-Rank Inspector.
• The Supreme Elder pleaded for the disciples’ lives, but Jiang Ning declared that the Five Swords Sect had to be destroyed.
• The Supreme Elder burned his vital blood to break Jiang Ning’s suppression and ordered the disciples to flee, while He Chang Kong and the disciples also attempted to escape.
• Jiang Ning enveloped himself and the Supreme Elder in his Water-Fire Wheel as Feng Xiaoch en ordered the guards to attack the fleeing disciples.
• Jiang Ning’s chains knocked He Chang Kong unconscious, and the guards captured him; the Supreme Elder was left gravely wounded.
• Jiang Ning warned the fleeing disciples that anyone resisting arrest would be killed, then pierced the legs of several who continued to flee.

Jiang Ning’s forces defeated the Five Swords Sect’s defenders, and he killed the Grandmaster guarding its treasury with a single saber strike. After the sect fell, he divided its wealth, ordered compensation for his troops, and arranged for its valuable materials to be sent to the Water-Moon Sword Palace.

• Jiang Ning covertly aided his men as they fought the Five Swords Sect disciples who stayed behind to cover the retreat, and the battle ended with three of his men dead and nine severely wounded.
• Jiang Ning went to the Five Swords Sect treasury, identified its guardian as Yellow River Old Ghost, and killed him with one strike of the Awakening-of-Insects Saber Technique.
• Jiang Ning ordered Xie Xiaoj iu to seal the treasury and took the wounded Five Swords Sect Supreme Elder with him rather than leave him in others’ custody.
• Xie Xiaoj iu reported that the Five Swords Sect’s assets were worth about twenty-five to thirty thousand taels of gold, with over three thousand one hundred taels of gold and two hundred thirty thousand taels of silver in cash.
• Jiang Ning ordered ten taels of gold for each person who fought, one hundred taels of gold in compensation for each death, two hundred thousand taels of silver for Feng Xiaoch en, and twenty percent of the proceeds for the imperial treasury.
• Jiang Ning ordered the Five Swords Sect’s heavenly treasures and earthly materials transported to the Water-Moon Sword Palace, where he planned to stay for several days.

Jiang Ning waited at Water-Moon Sword Palace for Wang Qingtan, whose Phoenix Heavenly Maiden memories were awakening, and brought her to seek the inheritance within the Moon Palace Goddess statue. The goddess rejected Wang Qingtan as a candidate, leaving Jiang Ning to find someone else who could accept the inheritance.

• Jiang Ning's Source Energy exceeded one hundred thousand, and Xiao Emei brought him ten Crimsonflame Blood Crystals as payment toward Water-Moon Sword Palace's debt.
• Wang Qingtan arrived at Water-Moon Sword Palace, teased Jiang Ning, and revealed that her condition was worsening as she questioned whether she would remain herself after awakening the Phoenix Heavenly Maiden's memories.
• Jiang Ning tested Wang Qingtan's identity with a humiliating nighttime experiment and concluded that she was still herself.
• Jiang Ning brought Wang Qingtan before the Moon Palace Goddess statue and opened his Heavenly Eye to reach the moonlit lakeside vision.
• The woman by the lake told Jiang Ning that Wang Qingtan could not accept her inheritance because she carried a familiar aura.