Chapter Summaries

Ning Daozhen and Ning Fa fought over the cave abode, with Ning Daozhen unleashing Blood Threads, Blood-colored Runes, and his Blood Sun True Flame. Ning Fa’s golden lightning destroyed the flames, leaving the clash poised to continue.

• Ning Daozhen sealed the remnant soul in a bottle and spared Ning Fa, but Ning Fa refused to surrender the cave abode.
• Ning Daozhen attacked with Blood Threads and Blood-colored Runes while Ning Fa countered with Silver Magic Orbs.
• Ning Fa used Secret Art—Sky-Splitting, forcing Ning Daozhen to evade relentless silver spear qi.
• Ning Daozhen unleashed his Blood Sun True Flame and sent it toward Ning Fa.
• Ning Fa summoned golden lightning that annihilated the Blood Sun True Flame, shocking Ning Daozhen.

Ning Fa and Ning Daozhen faced off in the underground hall after Ning Fa’s Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder shattered Ning Daozhen’s Blood Flame. Both revealed lethal hidden weapons, then negotiated a tense truce over their secrets and the cave abode’s treasures.

• Ning Fa used the Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder to destroy Ning Daozhen’s Blood Flame, prompting Ning Daozhen to recognize the power and demand to know its source.
• Ning Daozhen summoned a fire-phoenix True Treasure and threatened Ning Fa, while Ning Fa countered with two Thunder Calamity Beads and his Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder.
• Ning Daozhen offered to spare Ning Fa in exchange for his Golden Thunder Bamboo, but Ning Fa refused and threatened to fight to the death.
• Ning Daozhen proposed that Ning Fa swear not to reveal his affairs, but Ning Fa countered by asking them both to swear oaths and split the cave abode’s treasures.
• Ning Daozhen threatened to attack within ten breaths, and Ning Fa let his aura, golden lightning, and Thunder Calamity Beads build toward a possible battle.

Ning Fa and Ning Daozhen swore Heart Demon Oaths to protect each other’s secrets, avoid attacking each other for ten years, and divide the cave dwelling’s treasures. While copying two rare manuals and inspecting the remaining spoils, Ning Fa discovered that the damaged Star-blue Compass had provoked a strong reaction from the Mysterious Scroll.

• Ning Fa and Ning Daozhen agreed to mutual secrecy, a ten-year truce, and rules for dividing the cave dwelling’s treasures, then swore binding Heart Demon Oaths.
• The two entered the cave dwelling and gathered its manuals, pills, puppets, magic artifacts, and spirit materials on a stone table.
• Ning Fa copied the Heavenly Puppet Treasure Scripture and the Primordial Soul Split Spirit Art while noticing Ning Daozhen’s interest in the latter.
• Ning Fa saw that the Mysterious Scroll reacted violently to the damaged Star-blue Compass, but concealed his response from Ning Daozhen.
• Ning Fa and Ning Daozhen examined the Foundation Establishment Pills, Essence Gathering Pill, spirit artifact sword, puppets, and materials, suspecting the materials were intended to finish the incomplete puppet.

Ning Fa and Ning Daozhen divided the cave dwelling's treasures before Ning Daozhen left Thousand Wave Lake. Back on Small Bamboo Island, Ning Fa discovered that the mysterious scroll was the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book and learned it could trace the origins of spiritual objects using Origin Points.

• Ning Daozhen and Ning Fa divided the treasures, with Ning Fa choosing the damaged Star-blue Compass, the damaged Second-tier Puppet, and artifact-refining materials.
• Ning Fa and Ning Daozhen left the cave dwelling, erased the battle traces, and buried the main hall.
• Outside Spirit Deer Island, Ning Daozhen told Ning Fa he was leaving and flew away from Thousand Wave Lake.
• Ning Fa returned to Small Bamboo Island and activated the scroll beside the Star-blue Compass fragment.
• The compass sent a blue star mark onto the scroll, which revealed its name as the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book and stated that it had fifteen First-Tier Origin Points.

Ning Fa examined the broken compass, damaged puppet, and cultivation technique, learning that the compass was an extraordinary Star-Fixing Disk and the puppet contained a rare Heavenly Puppet Heart. He left with plans to study puppet crafting while rejecting the risky Primordial Soul Split Spirit Art and its costly origin tracing.

• Ning Fa used the transformed scroll to identify the broken compass as an Imperfect Star-Fixing Disk that required three hundred Third-Tier Origin Points to trace.
• Ning Fa discovered that the damaged puppet contained a low-grade Heavenly Puppet Heart that could replenish the Heavenly Book with three hundred First-Tier and fifty Second-Tier Origin Points.
• Ning Fa studied the Heavenly Puppet Treasure Scripture and learned that the puppet's spiritual heart gave it the potential to grow into a powerful Heavenly Puppet.
• Ning Fa decided to study puppet crafting and eventually make the damaged puppet into a true Heavenly Puppet.
• Ning Fa studied the Primordial Soul Split Spirit Art, chose not to cultivate its risky method, and gave up tracing its origin because it required one hundred Second-Tier Origin Points.

As conflict engulfed Thousand Wave Lake, Ning Fa advanced to the ninth layer of Qi Refining through dual cultivation with Meng Ruoqi. He emerged with strength approaching that of a half-step Foundation Establishment Cultivator as the region descended into chaos.

• The Ning Clan blamed Calamity Cultivators for Ning Jiannan's death and clashed with the Ironclad Alliance, while Ning Fa suspected the clan was preparing for a larger plan.
• Ning Fa steadily cultivated, refined pills, and dual cultivated with Yun Ying; after his Jinlu Pills restored Yun Jian's foundation, Yun Ying agreed to accompany him for three more years.
• Ning Fa supported Meng Ruoqi and her family, securing them a spirit island and market shop and arranging for Meng Ruofu to study at Cui Ning Courtyard, while Meng Ruoqi studied the Thunder Derivation Talismans.
• Ning Fa reached the peak of the Eighth Level of Qi Condensation, but his breakthrough stalled as conflict spread across Thousand Wave Lake and a Xue Family branch fled south.
• Ning Fa dual cultivated with Meng Ruoqi and broke through to the ninth layer of Qi Refining, gaining near-Foundation Establishment levels of mana and divine sense.

After the Xue Family lost Golden Flower Island’s Spirit Eye Tree to the Ironclad Alliance, the Xue, Ning, and Qian Families formed a secret alliance and sent a powerful force toward Thousand Blade Island. Ning Zhongyuan exposed Ning Weize as the clan’s traitor and trapped him in the Bewitching Immortal Bell’s Golden Cage, while revealing that the Ning Clan had prepared a surprise attack against the Xue Family.

• The Ironclad Alliance slaughtered Golden Flower Island’s Xue Family residents and stole its second-rank Spirit Eye Tree, prompting the Xue Family to seek an alliance with the Ning and Qian Families.
• The Ning, Xue, and Qian Families formed a Secret Alliance and assembled a force of five Foundation Establishment Cultivators and hundreds of elite cultivators to attack the Ironclad Alliance’s base on Thousand Blade Island.
• Ning Zhongyuan ordered Ning Fa to join the joint bandit-suppression operation, and Ning Fa accepted the assignment.
• Ning Weize realized the Ning Clan was secretly mobilizing beyond the force sent on the expedition and suspected a larger plan.
• Ning Zhongyuan confronted Ning Weize, explaining that he had identified him as a traitor after detecting Qu Sang Grass juice in the Origin-Nourishing Spirit Liquid Ning Weize had prepared.
• Ning Zhongyuan revealed his Foundation Establishment Late Stage strength and used the Bewitching Immortal Bell to trap Ning Weize in a Golden Cage, while Ning Weize realized the Ning Clan had used him to conceal its surprise attack plan.

The Xue, Ning, and Qian Families attacked the Ironclad Alliance at Thousand Blade Island, but Ning Weidong and Qian Zhengfeng revealed their alliance with the enemy and ambushed Xie Feng. Ning Fa led the assault on the Xue Family, though the Xue elders gained the upper hand in the Foundation Establishment battles.

• Xue Zongyou challenged Gongye Nan, and the two began fighting while Xue Zhishen watched the Ironclad Alliance's unusually calm forces with suspicion.
• The Ironclad Alliance's black-dressed woman and masked cultivator flew into the battle, and Ning Weidong and Qian Zhengfeng ambushed and killed Xie Feng.
• Ning Fa activated Sky-Splitting and struck the Xue Family with silver lightning, then ordered the Ning and Qian cultivators to attack.
• Ning Fa used his Cloud-Breaking Spear and Illusory Demon Steps to kill Xue Family cultivators and evade a group sent to stop him.
• Xue Zongyou used a Low-grade Spirit Artifact and Second-tier Puppet to suppress three opponents, while Xue Zhishen's Red Fire Cloud and Shadow Splitting Leopard put Ning Weidong and Qian Zhengfeng in danger.

Ning Zhongyuan and his allies crushed the Xue Family force, revealing Ning Hongye’s survival and their long-prepared alliance. After the battle, they moved to reinforce Ning Zhongjiu’s attack on Tianshui Market.

• Ning Zhongyuan arrived at the battle with Foundation Establishment Late Stage strength, and Ning Hongye revealed himself as an ally who had faked his death.
• Ning Zhongyuan blocked Xue Zhishen’s escape, and the battle ended with Xue Zongyou and Xie Feng dead while Xue Zhishen fled badly wounded.
• Ning Fa reunited with his Third Uncle, Ning Hongye, and learned that Hongye had secretly survived and joined the Ironclad Alliance.
• Ning Zhongyuan sent Brother Gongye to lead an attack on Blue Cang Island, then ordered the others to reinforce Ning Zhongjiu at Tianshui Market.
• Ning Fa realized Ning Zhongyuan’s plan had divided their forces to strike both the Xue Family’s elite troops and Tianshui Market at once.

The Ning Clan, Qian Family, and Ironclad Alliance seized Tianshui Market and destroyed much of the Xue Family’s strength in a surprise assault. The Xue Family mustered its hidden forces and counterattacked, leaving the two sides locked in a major battle whose outcome remained undecided.

• The Ning Clan, Qian Family, and Ironclad Alliance ambushed the Xue Family on Thousand Blade Island and at Tianshui Market, killing several elders and cultivators.
• Xue Tiansheng split the Xue Family’s elders between the two fronts, but the Xue Family forces at Tianshui Market fell before he arrived, and the Ning Clan took control behind the Black Tortoise Yuan Protecting Array.
• After learning that the Xue Family had lost its forces on Thousand Blade Island, Xue Tiansheng summoned hidden elders, guest elders, and vassals to gather at Tianshui Market.
• Xue Tiansheng led the Xue Family in an assault that breached the Ning Clan’s defensive array, but Ning Zhongyuan and other reinforcements arrived to stabilize the defense.
• The Xue Family and the Ning Clan’s allied forces fought a fierce battle outside Tianshui Market, while Ning Fa helped the outnumbered Ning Clan cultivators resist and counterattack.

The Ning Clan coalition captured Tianshui Market after the Xue Family retreated to defend its ancestral grounds on Yuanzhen Island. Ning Zhongyuan then organized the coalition’s next steps, leaving the war poised to continue through a steady advance and efforts to win over neutral factions.

• Xue Tiansheng received word about Blue Cang Island and ordered the Xue Family forces to retreat, while Ning Huarong killed a Xue Family guest elder during the withdrawal.
• The Xue Family abandoned Tianshui Market, and Ning Fa recognized how Ning Zhongyuan’s raid on the Xue Family’s rear had forced their retreat and shifted the strategic balance.
• Ning Fa noticed Ning Weize was absent and realized Ning Zhongyuan had used him to mislead the Xue Family.
• Ning Shaohong reunited with Ning Fa, and Ning Huarong challenged him to a fight after he reached Foundation Establishment.
• Ning Zhongyuan led a coalition meeting, ordered Tianshui Market’s defenses rebuilt, and sent envoys to recruit Thousand Wave Lake factions or keep them neutral.

The Anti-Xue Coalition Army defeated the Xue camp in a brutal battle, prompting more forces to join the Ning-led alliance and leaving the Xue Family increasingly isolated. Ning Fa rescued the surviving Meng Family members and restored their ancestral islands, while Meng Ruoqi stayed behind and swore lifelong loyalty to him.

• The Ning-led coalition and the Xue camp fought a day-and-night battle outside Tianshui Market, where Ning Weidong sacrificed himself and the Xue camp suffered heavier losses.
• The Chang Kong Alliance and most previously neutral forces joined the Anti-Xue Coalition Army, which began isolating the Xue Family by attacking its dependent forces.
• Ning Fa persuaded Ning Zhongyuan to secretly attack the Cai, Xu, and Ji families while they continued bargaining with the Ning Clan.
• Ning Fa's force defeated the three-family alliance, and he rescued several hundred thousand surviving Meng Family members.
• Ning Fa returned Meng Island and the Meng Family's other main islands to them, but Meng Ruoqi stayed behind and swore lifelong loyalty to him.

Ning Fa persuaded Ning Huarong to join him in a raid on Cloud Crystal Island to seize its Cloud Crystal Liquid. He entered the island undetected using the Star Chart Compass’s positional teleportation ability, leaving its defenders unaware of his arrival.

• After the Anti-Xue Coalition Army captured another Xue Family island, Ning Fa learned that Cloud Crystal Island held Cloud Crystal Liquid and asked Ning Huarong to help raid it.
• Ning Huarong agreed after Ning Fa assured her that he could bypass the island’s defenses and that few powerful defenders were present.
• Ning Fa and Ning Huarong flew to Cloud Crystal Island under cover of darkness, and Ning Fa went ahead while concealing his presence from her divine sense.
• Ning Fa used the Star Chart Compass to mark a location beyond the defensive restrictions and teleported inside without triggering them.
• Ning Fa identified the compass’s ability as Positional Teleportation, which could bypass restrictions and teleport him to a marked spot within roughly thirty zhang.

Xue Danping tried to preserve a damaged Spirit Beast Egg in the Cloud Crystal Pond despite the threat from the Ning Clan. Ning Fa and Ning Huarong broke into Cloud Crystal Island to seize its Cloud Crystal Liquid, and Ning Fa discovered the egg’s extraordinary aura.

• Xue Danping refused to remove the Spirit Beast Egg from the Cloud Crystal Pond, hoping it would revive despite her maid’s warning that the Ning Clan was closing in.
• Ning Fa and Ning Huarong entered Cloud Crystal Island after Ning Fa killed its guards and used their formation-control disk to admit Ning Huarong.
• Ning Huarong attacked Xue Danping while Ning Fa rushed toward the pond, and Ning Fa killed the green-robed maid who tried to defend it.
• Xue Danping used a life-risking secret technique against Ning Huarong but was suppressed as Ning Fa prepared to collect the Cloud Crystal Liquid.
• Ning Fa sensed an unusual, powerful aura from the weakened Spirit Beast Egg and realized Xue Danping had been trying to revive it.

Ning Fa took the Spirit Beast Egg and Cloud Crystal Liquid before he and Ning Huarong escaped the hall. After they divided the spoils, Ning Fa kept the egg and each took half the liquid, while he owed Ning Huarong an unspecified favor.

• Ning Fa took the icy Spirit Beast Egg and collected the Cloud Crystal Liquid as Xue Danping fought Ning Huarong.
• The Golden-Haired Strange Beast attacked the three with a Divine Soul Secret Technique, but Ning Fa resisted it and struck the beast with his black gauntlet.
• Ning Fa and Ning Huarong fled after he warned her, while she delayed Xue Danping and the beast with Purple Blade Lights.
• Xue Danping confronted the Golden-Haired Strange Beast until her Seventh Uncle arrived, and she urged him to capture it.
• Ning Fa and Ning Huarong divided the Cloud Crystal Liquid equally, and Ning Fa kept the egg after agreeing to owe Ning Huarong a favor.

Ning Fa learned that the Spirit Beast Egg held a mutated Ice Luan Bird with traces of Heavenly Luan and Ice Phoenix bloodlines, but he could not stop its life force from fading. After the Xue Family suffered a decisive defeat, Ning Fa followed the Golden-Haired Strange Beast, which promised to explain how to save the egg, while Liao Wuyin reappeared with a strange finger bone.

• Ning Fa identified the egg as a mutated Ice Luan Bird and learned that tracing its powerful bloodlines required Second-Tier Origin Points he did not possess.
• Ning Fa tried various treatments, then submerged the egg in spiritual liquid mixed with Cloud Crystal Liquid and healing pills, which only stabilized its life force.
• Three months into the war, the Xue Family lost the decisive battle on Xingqing Island, suffering heavy casualties as several of its allies switched sides.
• The Golden-Haired Strange Beast contacted Ning Fa through Old Ghost He's Spirit Beast Bag, revealed that a Divine Soul Secret Technique had harmed the egg, and begged Ning Fa to save it.
• Ning Fa followed the beast's signal after Old Ghost He fled from Ning Zhongjiu, hoping it could save the egg.
• On a desolate island, Liao Wuyin searched Old Ghost He's soul and found a remarkable finger-bone-like object, celebrating his good fortune.

Liao Wuyin defeated Old Ghost He and gave Ning Fa the bound Golden-Haired Strange Beast, then warned him to seize the Xue Family quickly. Ning Fa learned the beast, Jin Hao, could help save the Ice Luan Bird egg by having him bear its lingering Divine Soul Attack through a Master-Servant Contract.

• Liao Wuyin put away the Black Spirit finger bone and found Old Ghost He nearly dead, while wondering about another item from the priest's prophecy.
• Ning Fa arrived and asked Liao Wuyin for Old Ghost He's Spirit Beast Bag; Liao Wuyin released the bound Golden-Haired Strange Beast and let Ning Fa take it.
• Liao Wuyin urged Ning Fa's family to seize the Xue Family quickly, then departed without finishing off Old Ghost He.
• Ning Fa killed Old Ghost He, took his head to fulfill his promise to Yun Ying, and released the Golden-Haired Strange Beast to question it.
• The Golden-Haired Strange Beast introduced itself as Jin Hao and explained that a Master-Servant Contract could let Ning Fa shoulder the Divine Soul Attack harming the Ice Luan Bird egg.

Ning Fa discovered a mysterious Black Spirit Relic hidden on Old Ghost He and tried to nurture the Ice Luan Bird's weakened divine soul using a secret technique. The attempt unleashed a hostile three-headed bird phantom that attacked him.

• Ning Fa released the Golden-Haired Strange Beast, which fled while fantasizing about eating the Black Spirit's remains.
• Ning Fa found a hidden parchment on Old Ghost He's body that the scroll identified as a Black Spirit Relic worth one hundred Second-Tier Origin Points.
• Ning Fa sealed the relic in a brocade box and returned to the coalition encampment as the Anti-Xue Coalition Army prepared to attack Nanping Island.
• Ning Fa rejected the Golden-Haired Strange Beast's risky method for reviving the Ice Luan Bird's egg and used the Thousand Transformation Soul Nurturing Art instead.
• The egg's residual divine soul energy turned Ning Fa's separated soul thread gray, then formed a three-headed bird phantom that attacked him.

Ning Fa survived a dangerous soul attack, subdued and hatched the Ice Luan Bird, and named it Little Ice. As the Anti-Xue Alliance neared victory over the Xue Family, a Myriad Laws Sect envoy arrived and ordered the alliance to withdraw, leaving Ning Zhongyuan to challenge the order.

• Ning Fa used his Moon God Art to repel the strange bird's remnant soul, then nourished the Ice Luan Bird's egg and bound it to himself through a soul-control ritual.
• The Ice Luan Bird hatched, formed a close connection with Ning Fa, and received the name Little Ice.
• Ning Hongye sent Ning Fa word that the final assault on Nanping Island was approaching.
• The Anti-Xue Alliance captured Nanping Island, then attacked the Xue Family's ancestral land on Yuanzhen Island and drove the family to the brink of defeat.
• A Silver Winged Tiger carried a False Core cultivator and Xue Zongqi to Yuanzhen Island, where the envoy ordered the alliance to return the Xue Family's occupied islands and property.
• Ning Zhongyuan questioned the Myriad Laws Sect envoy's authority to intervene in disputes between cultivation families.

A Myriad Laws Sect envoy forced the Anti-Xue Coalition Army to send most of its forces south, leaving the Xue Family poised to dominate Thousand Wave Lake. The Ning Clan chose to relocate together, while Ning Fa worried about his plans to establish his Foundation and join the Huayu Sect.

• The Myriad Laws Sect envoy defeated Ning Zhongyuan and ordered the coalition factions to send seventy percent of their forces south, while the Xue Family had to send only ten percent.
• Ning Zhongyuan and the other faction leaders accepted the decree, and the Tian Family's First Elder allied his family with the Ning Clan.
• Ning Zhongyuan rallied the shaken Ning Clan, and Ning Fa worried that relocation would disrupt his cultivation plans and leave the clan dependent on him.
• The Ning Clan's leaders decided to relocate with their millions of mortals because the Xue Family would overwhelm those who stayed behind.
• Ning Zhongyuan learned that the envoy had manipulated the conscription to benefit the Xue Family, and Ning Fa remained uncertain about his future plans.