Chapter Summaries

Ning Fa and Little Ice discovered two ancient Ice Spirit Flowers on the floating island, and Little Ice consumed the older one before entering a deep sleep. Ning Fa repeatedly struck the mysterious ice block with Thunder Cloud Break until it shattered, revealing that whatever it contained was within reach.

• The black serpent chased Ning Fa to the storm barrier but stopped before entering the island, and Ning Fa found two ancient Ice Spirit Flowers atop a massive block of ice.
• Little Ice consumed the fifteen-hundred-year Ice Spirit Flower and began to freeze inside a cocoon of ice, while Ning Fa harvested the other flower and stored it in a brocade box.
• Ning Fa tried to break the ice block with Silver Lightning Balls and the Cloud-Breaking Spear, but neither caused more than minor damage.
• Ning Fa used Thunder Cloud Break repeatedly, recovering his Mana between strikes and watching for the black serpent.
• After several hours of bombardment, Ning Fa shattered the ice block into countless fragments.

Ning Fa discovered a mid-tier Heavenly Puppet Brain and a mysterious blood-colored token on the sky island, then hid the token with the Black Spirit Relic. He escaped the storm barrier after wounding the giant black snake and set off toward the inner region.

• Ning Fa discovered that the frozen black-clad figure was a puppet containing a mid-tier Heavenly Puppet Brain, which could replenish the Heavenly Book with Origin Points.
• Ning Fa found a blood-colored triangular token in the puppet's hand and used the Black Spirit Relic to conceal it from spiritual sense.
• Ning Fa prepared to break through the storm barrier, using Little Ice's white wind vortex to aid his escape.
• Ning Fa fought the giant black snake with Gui Water Yin Thunder and a Thunder Calamity Bead, wounding it and blinding one eye before escaping.
• Ning Fa recovered for several hours, then left Ice Plains Island to hurry toward the inner region.

Ning Fa reached Black River Gorge and confronted Golden Scale Valley and Giant Sword Fortress cultivators who were blocking the entrance to the inner region. He overwhelmed their forces, but an unidentified cultivator wielding Green Wind Blades intervened just as Ning Fa was about to kill the green-haired disciple.

• Ning Fa arrived at Black River Gorge and saw Golden Scale Valley and Giant Sword Fortress cultivators barring Huayu Sect and Myriad Laws Sect disciples from entering the inner region.
• Ning Fa rejected the green-haired Golden Scale Valley cultivator's offer to let him enter alone and attacked the group with the Cloud-Breaking Spear.
• Ning Fa defeated the burly Giant Sword Fortress cultivator's flying sword and killed both of the green-haired cultivator's wolf beasts.
• Ning Fa unleashed a barrage of spear light that nearly destroyed the restriction the two sects were setting up, then used the Thunder Yuan Overlord Spear to attack the green-haired cultivator.
• A cultivator wrapped in green wind blades swept the Cloud-Breaking Spear into a tornado, but Ning Fa broke it free as the newcomer appeared beside the Golden Scale Valley cultivators.

Ning Fa entered the dangerous inner region and chose to cross Dark Moon Forest alone, gathering rare spirit herbs and killing frenzied demonic beasts along the way. His Moon God Art then sensed a powerful, intimate presence, and he rushed toward it.

• Feng Chi saved a green-haired cultivator from Ning Fa and let Ning Fa and several Huayu Sect disciples enter the inner region, while he blocked the Myriad Laws Sect disciples.
• Ning Fa saw Mount Qiyun, Dark Moon Forest, and Gray Bone Wasteland, then told the Huayu Sect disciples to choose their own routes and vanished into Dark Moon Forest.
• Ning Fa cautiously traveled northwest through the forest, killing more than a dozen frenzied demonic beasts and collecting rare spirit herbs, including a five-hundred-year-old Soul Condensing Grass.
• Ning Fa's Moon God Art activated and sensed an intimate presence far stronger than the one he felt from Ling Yue, so he rushed toward it.

Ning Fa found Ling Yue unconscious behind a light barrier and fought Zou Yu of Golden Scale Valley, who was trying to break through to her. After Zou Yu transformed into a demonic creature and gained the upper hand, Ning Fa used golden lightning to destroy his right arm and shoulder, with the lightning spreading toward the rest of his body.

• Ning Fa reached a clearing and found Ling Yue unconscious inside a light barrier while Zou Yu attacked it.
• Ning Fa refused Zou Yu’s offer to leave him alone and fought him, overpowering him in their initial clash.
• Zou Yu tore away the skulls attached to his chest tattoo and transformed, greatly increasing his strength and speed.
• Zou Yu wounded Ning Fa and drove him back, but Ning Fa grabbed him and spat golden lightning at his face.
• Zou Yu dodged the golden lightning with his head, but it struck his right shoulder and arm and began consuming his body.

Ning Fa killed Zou Yu with the Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder and found a mysterious Blood-Colored Crystal in his ashes. He then used the Moon God Art alongside Ling Yue, strengthening his soul as she stabilized, but resisted an overwhelming desire to touch her before the chapter ended.

• Ning Fa pierced Zou Yu's heart with the Cloud-Breaking Spear, and the Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder reduced him to ash.
• Ning Fa found a seed-like Blood-Colored Crystal in the ash and stored it in a wooden box inside his Storage Bag.
• Ning Fa released his Moon God Art, whose moon-white light merged with Ling Yue's and eased her unstable condition.
• Ning Fa visualized the Moon God Art's diagram, increasing his soul strength by roughly ten percent while Ling Yue's condition stabilized and a moonlike pattern appeared on her forehead.
• Drawn to Ling Yue by an intense desire, Ning Fa stopped himself from touching her and retreated until the desire subsided.

Ning Fa rescued Ling Yue after she was ambushed, and Little Ice found valuable treasures in a nearby ice pool. Ning Fa and Ling Yue parted ways, leaving Ling Yue troubled by the changes in herself and her growing closeness to him.

• Ling Yue woke and thanked Ning Fa for killing the Golden Scale Valley cultivator who had ambushed her.
• Ling Yue explained that she had used the Life-risking Secret Technique after the cultivator attacked her, but she remembered nothing from while she was unconscious.
• Little Ice led Ning Fa and Ling Yue to two three-hundred-year-old Black Crystal Lotus in an ice pool.
• Little Ice retrieved a Thousand-Year Ice Marrow Crystal Stone from the pool, and Ling Yue insisted Ning Fa keep all the treasures.
• Ning Fa put Little Ice away and left to venture deeper into the inner region, while Ling Yue headed the other way.

Ning Fa escaped a Second-tier Demonic Beast with an ancient Golden Marrow Ganoderma, crossed the Crimson Flame Desert, and reached Primordial Spirit Mountain after a treasure sign appeared at its summit. As the staircase entrance opened, cultivators fought to reach it, and Ning Fa charged onto the stairs in Silver Light Shadow.

• Ning Fa escaped a black toad after stealing its nearly eight-hundred-year-old Golden Marrow Ganoderma.
• Ning Fa crossed the Crimson Flame Desert, collecting several Crimson Flame Fruits, and reached Primordial Spirit Mountain.
• Ning Fa saw five-colored radiance burst from the mountain summit and hurried to its foot, where cultivators battled invisible enemies on the staircase.
• Pan Jiao told Ning Fa that the staircase opened every half hour and warned him that attacks intensified when cultivators stayed close together.
• When the gray mist cleared, Ning Fa charged through the fighting cultivators and took the lead onto the stone stairs.

Ning Fa charged up the mountain’s perilous stone stairs, battling increasingly powerful transparent figures and catching up with the leading cultivators. He reached a Bluestone Plaza just behind Yun Miaomiao, Xie Heng, and Feng Chi, where a second staircase awaited.

• Ning Fa and nine other cultivators entered the stone stairs before the gray mist sealed the entrance again.
• Ning Fa accelerated through the staircase’s attacks, using his physique, Thunder Armor, and spell spheres to smash through the transparent figures as Pan Jiao and the others followed behind.
• Ning Fa steadily climbed into fourth place, drawing the attention of Yun Miaomiao, Xie Heng, and Feng Chi as the restrictions grew stronger.
• Other cultivators arrived and began climbing the stairs, while several died to the transparent figures and many onlookers left.
• After a grueling climb that left him wounded and depleted, Ning Fa reached a Bluestone Plaza where Yun Miaomiao, Xie Heng, and Feng Chi were recovering.
• Yun Miaomiao and Xie Heng rose and headed up the second staircase, while Ning Fa noticed the ancient characters on its White Stone Tablet but could not read them.

Ning Fa climbed the Heart-Questioning Path and resisted an illusion in which he married Su Xinyu before killing her for the sake of immortality. The trial plunged him into a second vision of his younger self parting from his father as he entered university.

• Feng Chi recognized the stairs as a trial of the Dao heart and meditated with Ning Fa before they began climbing.
• Ning Fa entered an illusion where Su Xinyu agreed to be his girlfriend and later married him.
• Ning Fa rejected the life he had imagined with Su Xinyu, killed her with a Silver Lightning Thread, and returned to the stairs.
• Ning Fa saw Xie Heng grieving and Feng Chi emerge from his own illusion, then continued climbing.
• Ning Fa entered a vision of his eighteen-year-old self at Zhendan University as his father left, and he vowed to make something of himself.

Cultivators battled for protection from deadly Silver Beams in Silver Light Valley, while other groups explored a medicinal garden and a mountain cave. Li Tieniu survived a Second-tier Demonic Beast with the help of a mysterious iron shard and found blue spiritual herbs.

• Ning Daozhen and Cao Xian waited with other cultivators as Silver Rings appeared in Silver Light Valley, then Ning Daozhen claimed the foremost ring and killed those who challenged him.
• Endless Silver Beams struck the valley, killing cultivators who had failed to reach a ring, while Ning Daozhen and Cao Xian survived beneath the rings’ protective curtains.
• Zhang Zhilong and Fu Yang agreed to stop fighting temporarily and join forces to break the restriction around a medicinal garden filled with ancient herbs and Heavenly Spirit Fruits.
• Li Tieniu found a Second-tier Demonic Beast dead after a rust-covered iron shard killed it, secured the shard, and spotted more than ten blue spiritual herbs.

Ning Fa broke free of the Heart-Questioning Path’s powerful illusions and reached the final Spirit Severing Path, where he pushed ahead under increasing pressure. With the mountaintop in sight, he unleashed his Thunder Yuan Overlord Body and accelerated toward it.

• Ning Fa emerged from an illusion of his father and continued along the Heart-Questioning Path, drawing close to Yun Miaomiao.
• Ning Fa passed the second illusion and reached the platform, where his divine soul had grown stronger; Feng Chi and then Xie Heng also arrived.
• Ning Fa, Yun Miaomiao, and Feng Chi entered the Spirit Severing Path, while Xie Heng paused to recover before following them.
• Ning Fa took first place on the steep path, with Xie Heng close behind and Yun Miaomiao and Feng Chi trailing.
• Ning Fa activated his Thunder Yuan Overlord Body and surged up the final stretch toward the mountaintop.

Ning Fa reached the Hidden Spirit Land through the Five-Colored Light Cluster and found Primal Qi Lotus in a dangerous valley. As he tested the lake for a way to claim the lotuses, Yun Miaomiao, Xie Heng, and Feng Chi attacked his Thunder Lock Array from the summit.

• Ning Fa reached the summit first, enclosed the Five-Colored Light Cluster in Meng Ruoqi's Thunder Lock Array, and entered the Hidden Spirit Land.
• Ning Fa found five Primal Qi Lotus floating in a lake beside the corpse of a blue-robed young man and sensed that the valley held danger.
• Ning Fa used the Star Chart Compass to search for a hidden restriction in the lake, but received no response.
• Ning Fa armed himself with Thunder Armor, two Thunder Calamity Beads, and the Cloud-Breaking Spear, then tried to retrieve the nearest lotus with a silver net.
• Yun Miaomiao, Xie Heng, and Feng Chi reached the summit and began attacking Ning Fa's Thunder Lock Array.

Ning Fa seized the Primal Qi Lotus but was attacked by a powerful Green Ringed Snake, and Yun Miaomiao’s group arrived just as the four cultivators prepared to fight it together. The snake launched another assault, forcing them to regroup around Feng Chi’s defensive shield.

• Ning Fa survived the Green Ringed Snake’s ambush, suffered injuries, and secured the Primal Qi Lotus in his Storage Bag.
• Yun Miaomiao, Feng Chi, and Xie Heng appeared as the Hidden Spirit Land closed to further entrants.
• Feng Chi identified the Primal Qi Lotus as the key ingredient in the Spirit Enlightenment Pill, and Yun Miaomiao recognized the snake’s possible Sky Swallowing Python bloodline.
• The four cultivators revealed their defensive or offensive trump cards, including Xie Heng’s True Treasure, and agreed they needed to drive off the snake.
• The Green Ringed Snake attacked all four with green ring phantoms; Ning Fa endured the blow and rushed toward Feng Chi’s shield as Yun Miaomiao and Xie Heng joined them.

Ning Fa, Yun Miaomiao, and Xie Heng used their treasures to restrain and wound the Green Ringed Snake, but Yun Miaomiao betrayed them and took control of the beast. The snake recovered under her command, leaving Ning Fa, Feng Chi, and Xie Heng facing a new threat.

• Feng Chi’s Star Transformation Shield held off the Green Ringed Snake while Ning Fa, Yun Miaomiao, and Xie Heng prepared their treasures.
• Ning Fa’s Taihe Diagram slowed the snake, and Yun Miaomiao’s Black Horn disrupted its movements as Feng Chi tried to restore the shield.
• Xie Heng’s flying-sword True Treasure cut through the snake’s horn and severed half its body before the sword shattered into spirit-light fragments.
• Yun Miaomiao secretly turned the Black Horn’s power against the wounded snake, then evaded Ning Fa’s and Feng Chi’s attacks with her Golden Rings.
• The Green Ringed Snake submitted to Yun Miaomiao, who fed it a pill and watched as its tail regrew and its aura recovered.

Ning Fa, Feng Chi, and Xie Heng fought Yun Miaomiao after she gained control of the wounded Green Ringed Snake, but Ning Fa summoned Little Thunder and helped turn the battle against her. Yun Miaomiao unleashed the Deficient Moon Secret Tome and then used the Black Horn again, leaving the fight unresolved as black ripples enveloped her opponents.

• Feng Chi warned Ning Fa and Xie Heng that Yun Miaomiao's Black Horn could suppress the wounded Green Ringed Snake, and Yun Miaomiao demanded their Storage Bags.
• Xie Heng prepared another sword strike while Ning Fa summoned Little Thunder, a Thunder Fox Beast, and Ning Fa and Feng Chi attacked Yun Miaomiao.
• Little Thunder overpowered the injured Green Ringed Snake until Yun Miaomiao used the Black Horn to weaken it and strengthen the snake.
• Yun Miaomiao invoked the Deficient Moon Secret Tome and sent a flood of crescent blades at the three cultivators.
• Ning Fa detonated his last Thunder Calamity Bead and used the Cloud-Breaking Spear to destroy Yun Miaomiao's white halo, while Feng Chi's Green Wind Blade split her Golden Ring.
• Yun Miaomiao blew the Black Horn again, enveloping Ning Fa, Feng Chi, and Xie Heng in black ripples.

Ning Fa, Feng Chi, and Xie Heng survived Yun Miaomiao's powerful attacks and negotiated a truce to divide the Primal Qi Lotuses. After everyone took one, Ning Fa's Star Chart Compass finally responded.

• Yun Miaomiao summoned silver crescents and wounded Little Thunder with a Silver Beam, but Little Thunder struck back with Blue Lightning and killed the Green Ringed Snake before the secret realm teleported it away.
• Yun Miaomiao fired another Silver Beam at Xie Heng, who split it and shattered the crescents with his flying sword before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Ning Fa and Feng Chi confronted Yun Miaomiao, but she restored her Mana with Thousand Year Spirit Milk, leaving the three sides at a stalemate.
• Feng Chi proposed dividing the four Primal Qi Lotuses, and Yun Miaomiao agreed.
• Ning Fa, Feng Chi, Xie Heng, and Yun Miaomiao each picked a Primal Qi Lotus under watch, and Ning Fa's Star Chart Compass responded.

After leaving the Hidden Spirit Land, Ning Fa waited until Feng Chi was gone before using the Star Chart Compass to enter a hidden space. There he found a Five Elements Spirit Lotus that might awaken the rest of his Divine Thunders and help him break through to Foundation Establishment.

• Ning Fa secretly located the hidden restriction above the lake, then left the Hidden Spirit Land with Feng Chi, Yun Miaomiao, and Xie Heng.
• The group returned to Primordial Spirit Mountain’s summit and discovered they could fly down; Yun Miaomiao and Xie Heng departed, while Feng Chi spoke of wanting Ning Fa as a friend.
• Ning Fa pretended to dig up White Jade Crystal Stones, and Feng Chi returned once to question him before flying away again.
• After waiting three hours to ensure Feng Chi had left, Ning Fa reentered the Hidden Spirit Land and activated the Star Chart Compass to reach a hidden space.
• Ning Fa collected seven Thousand Year Yao Guang Grass and discovered a powerful Five Elements Spirit Lotus whose aura stirred the Five Elements Thunder Mark within him.

Ning Fa swallowed the Five Elements Spirit Lotus and collapsed as its power transformed his Five Elements Thunder Rune Pattern. In Silver Light Valley, Ning Daozhen took the altar’s treasures and entered a hidden passage, while a mysterious Transparent Figure discovered Ning Fa and the unusual Blood Heaven Token in his Storage Bag.

• Ning Fa swallowed the Five Elements Spirit Lotus, which unleashed five streams of spiritual power that activated the symbols in his Five Elements Thunder Rune Pattern and left him unconscious.
• Ning Daozhen defeated the other cultivators in the hall and confronted Cao Xian, who vanished in a Silver Beam just as Ning Daozhen attacked.
• Ning Daozhen collected the Blood-colored Ring, Blood-colored Triangle Token, and Jade Slip, then used the token to open a passage and entered it.
• A Transparent Figure appeared above the altar and used a blood-colored mirror to watch events in the secret realm.
• The Transparent Figure saw Ning Fa unconscious amid Five-Colored Lightning, recognized an unusual Blood Heaven Token among his possessions, and entered his Storage Bag.

A red beam from the black-robed puppet possessed Zhang Zhilong, who killed the Huayu Sect disciples and headed to the Floating Island, only to find it stripped bare. On the secret realm’s final day, Ning Fa woke in the Hidden Spirit Land and discovered that all five elements of his Five Elements Thunder Rune Pattern were activated.

• Zhang Zhilong defeated Fu Yang’s group, then the black-robed puppet seized his ankle and sent a red beam into his face, possessing him.
• Zhang Zhilong killed the three Huayu Sect disciples, took most of the medicinal garden’s herbs, and left Immortal Binding Cave.
• Zhang Zhilong subdued and killed the Black Feathered Serpent with a Blood-colored Jade Talisman, then found the Floating Island empty and roared in fury.
• As the secret realm’s half-month deadline arrived, Ning Fa woke in the Hidden Spirit Land and saw that the symbolic objects for fire, earth, and metal in his Five Elements Thunder Rune Pattern had activated.