Chapter Summaries

Ning Fa defeated a Golden Dragon Bird with his upgraded Dragon-Breaking Spear and Lightning Fire Bow, then discovered that the bird’s Golden Orb strengthened the spear’s Artifact Spirit. After helping the others defeat a second bird and claiming its orb for the spear, he faced Shen Hao’s anger and a tense standoff.

• Liang Ruicheng and Ning Fa endured the Golden Dragon Bird’s lightning attack, while Ning Fa summoned his upgraded High-grade Dragon-Breaking Spear to fight it.
• Ning Fa used the Lightning Fire Bow to destroy the bird’s claws and head, then defended against its Spiritual Heart Divine Thunder with the Moon God Heart.
• The Dragon-Breaking Spear pierced the bird’s second form and swallowed its Golden Orb, strengthening its Artifact Spirit.
• Ning Fa joined Liang Ruicheng and the others in defeating a second Golden Dragon Bird, then stopped Shen Hao from taking its Golden Orb and let the spear devour it.
• Shen Hao confronted Ning Fa angrily, and Qi Han moved beside him as the group’s tension escalated.

Ning Fa and the others entered the Golden Grand Hall and discovered an ancient inheritance site filled with treasures, including Golden Thunder Bamboo and Silver Core Pills. They claimed the first platform’s rewards, but the route to the more valuable treasures on the second platform remained blocked by powerful Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder.

• Liang Ruicheng calmed the tension between Ning Fa and Shen Hao, and the group flew up to the Golden Grand Hall after Qi Han’s bird found no danger on the way.
• The group entered the hall and saw a giant golden tree bearing a Golden Altar and precious treasures, including Golden Thunder Bamboo, Soul Nurturing Wood, and Ancient Treasures.
• Qi Han’s bird was destroyed by Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder when it approached the second platform, so Liang Ruicheng led everyone to inspect the first platform instead.
• The group found two token recesses on the first platform, then divided the ancient artifacts and copied the cultivation manuals that appeared before them.
• Liang Ruicheng opened three pill bottles, and Shen Hao recognized the silver-white pills as Silver Core Pills that could improve a cultivator’s chance of forming a golden core.

The group divided the Silver Core Pills and spiritual materials, then Liang Ruicheng revealed a way to reach Thunderwood Palace’s second-tier platform using an imitation Thunder Token. Ning Fa seized Qi Han before entering Liang’s array and accused Liang Ruicheng of being sent by the Xia Family to deal with him.

• Liang Ruicheng offered Yun Ying spirit stones for her Silver Core Pill, and she agreed; Ning Fa gave up his claim to a pill in exchange for all the remaining spiritual materials.
• Qi Han’s puppets were destroyed by the Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder while testing the second-tier platform.
• Liang Ruicheng revealed that a Wood Token and Thunder Token were needed to reach the platform and described a Thunder Gathering Array that could forge an imitation Thunder Token using Yun Ying’s blood essence.
• Liang Ruicheng set up the array and directed Ning Fa, Qi Han, and Shen Hao to take its three points.
• Ning Fa suddenly attacked and captured Qi Han, then told Liang Ruicheng he feared being trapped in the array.
• Ning Fa asked whether the Xia Family had sent Liang Ruicheng to deal with him, and Liang Ruicheng reacted in shock.

Ning Fa uncovered Liang Ruicheng’s plot and fought back as Liang and Shen Hao turned hostile inside the Golden Grand Hall. Ning Fa killed Liang’s mutated Black Stone Leopard, while Liang defended himself with a powerful talisman formation and the battle continued.

• After Yun Ying warned Ning Fa that Liang Ruicheng was involved, Ning Fa realized the trip had been a plot and chose to wait for the right moment to strike.
• Liang Ruicheng revealed his Thunder Gathering Array and joined Shen Hao against Ning Fa, who seized Qi Han to take the initiative.
• Liang summoned his mutated Black Stone Leopard and rushed to a golden platform to control the hall’s restrictions, while Yun Ying struggled toward it under his control.
• Ning Fa sent Little Ice and Hei Yu after Liang, then used his lightning and purple flame to overcome the leopard’s Petrification Divine Ability and kill it.
• Liang faced Little Ice and Hei Yu’s attacks by deploying forty-nine yellow talismans that formed a powerful defensive ring formation, while Ning Fa continued attacking Shen Hao.

Ning Fa defeated Shen Hao and crippled Liang Ruicheng after unveiling his Mysterious Thunder True Body. Liang Ruicheng claimed the unfinished Thunder Token could not open the second-layer restriction, but Ning Fa used a Blue Scale to activate the formation.

• Liang Ruicheng gathered Yun Ying's blood and Lightning Attribute materials to forge a Thunder Token while Shen Hao used the Seven Ghosts God Control Technique to approach Golden Core strength.
• Ning Fa revealed his Mysterious Thunder True Body, matched Shen Hao's enhanced strength, and overwhelmed him with Silver Lightning Balls.
• Ning Fa empowered his Lightning Fire Bow and killed Shen Hao with an arrow carrying Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder.
• Ning Fa destroyed the formation's rings and shattered Liang Ruicheng's jade barrier before smashing his dantian.
• Liang Ruicheng said the incomplete Thunder Token could not open the second-layer restriction, but Ning Fa fitted a Blue Scale into the golden wooden platform and activated the formation.

Ning Fa opened the second-tier platform with Lan Yu’s Blue Scales and claimed two Golden Thunder Bamboos, but a powerful woman emerged from the Soul Nurturing Wood and attacked him. The chapter ended with her recognizing his techniques and demanding to know his background as he activated the Mysterious Thunder True Body.

• Ning Fa opened the true inheritance grounds’ second-tier platform with the Blue Scales and warned Liang Ruicheng to reveal everything he knew.
• Ning Fa spotted a dormant two-way Transmission Array and collected both Golden Thunder Bamboos from the Golden Altar.
• Ning Fa sensed danger from the Soul Nurturing Wood, but a silver-white woman emerged from it and caught his Dragon-Breaking Spear.
• The woman attacked Ning Fa with Divine Soul blades, which his incomplete Moon God Heart managed to block.
• Ning Fa activated the Mysterious Thunder True Body, and the woman recognized his techniques and questioned his background.

Ning Fa fought the silver-white woman, who sought to learn how he had acquired the Moon God Art and tried to capture him with her Cage of the Moon. After he survived her soul attack, she suspected he was an inheritor of Fu Ling Hall, but an activated Transmission Array drew her attention to the newly opened Underground Palace of Sunset Ancient City.

• Ning Fa refused to explain his Moon God Art, and the silver-white woman attacked him with moon-white blades while demanding answers.
• Ning Fa defended himself with his Moon God Heart, puppets, Little Ice, Hei Yu, and divine thunders, using Supreme Earth Divine Thunder to protect his shield and Dutian Nether Thunder to break hers.
• The silver-white woman trapped Ning Fa in the Cage of the Moon, but Ning Fa used the Five Elements Thunder Mark to unleash his thunders and withstand her attack until the soul space collapsed.
• Back in the Golden Grand Hall, the silver-white woman noticed Ning Fa had cultivated three Divine Thunders of the Five Elements and asked whether he was an inheritor of Fu Ling Hall.
• The Transmission Array began glowing, and the silver-white woman exclaimed that the Underground Palace of Sunset Ancient City had opened.

Ning Fa and the silver-white woman fought over the treasures on the Golden Altar, then she escaped through the Teleportation Array with the Soul Nurturing Wood and several treasures. After Ning Fa disabled the array, Zhuo Qing emerged from his Blood-Colored Token, offered to serve him, and revealed that the realm’s path to ascension had been severed.

• Ning Fa seized the three cultivation manuals and two Ancient Treasures from the Golden Altar while the silver-white woman took the jade bowl, crimson cauldron, and Soul Nurturing Wood.
• The silver-white woman escaped through the Teleportation Array, and Ning Fa removed its seven Mid-grade Spirit Stones to shut it down.
• Ning Fa summoned the woman from the Blood-Colored Token and learned that her name was Zhuo Qing and that she knew about his Five Elements Thunder Body.
• Zhuo Qing explained that she knew much about Ning Fa but became unconscious whenever he used a secret tied to his pill refinement, and Ning Fa still prepared to kill her.
• Zhuo Qing offered to acknowledge Ning Fa as her master and accept a Soul Restraint, then explained that the realm suffered a calamity and cultivators could not ascend normally to the Spirit Realm.

Ning Fa learned that Zhuo Qing had lost most of her memories but might know a way to reach the Spirit World, and he bound her with a Spirit Control Barrier after verifying her claims. Her memories also revealed that Ning Daozhen had escaped the Primordial Spirit Secret Realm and was connected to the Blood Heaven Sect, prompting Ning Fa to take an interest in the Underground Palace beneath Sunset Ancient City.

• Zhuo Qing told Ning Fa that the world's barrier made ascending to the Spirit World normally require the Void Refining Stage, but she had forgotten the details of another possible method.
• Zhuo Qing agreed to become the Artifact Spirit of Ning Fa's future Natal Magic Treasure and let him plant a Spirit Control Barrier on her.
• Ning Fa examined Zhuo Qing's memories and confirmed her memory loss, her account of the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book, and fragments about ascending to the upper realm.
• Ning Fa discovered that Ning Daozhen had left the Primordial Spirit Secret Realm through the altar in Silver Light Valley and that Zhuo Qing believed he was tied to the Blood Heaven Sect.
• Zhuo Qing told Ning Fa that Ning Daozhen had not been possessed, and she noticed his interest in the Underground Palace beneath Sunset Ancient City.

Ning Fa weighed the dangers of entering the Underground Palace to seek the Haolei Flower and Heavenly River Divine Milk, then learned why Yun Ying had been controlled by Liang Ruicheng. After Liang Ruicheng refused to reveal Yun Jian’s whereabouts, Ning Fa tried to search his soul but could not penetrate a barrier protecting his memories.

• Zhuo Qing explained that the Blood Nether Token could grant Ning Fa access to the Underground Palace’s core third level, then returned to the token to rest.
• Yun Ying awoke, thanked Ning Fa, and explained that she and Yun Jian had searched for the Thunderwood Palace inheritance grounds before Liang Ruicheng captured them and used them to make a replica Thunder Token.
• Yun Ying revealed that she had secretly warned Ning Fa about Liang Ruicheng’s plot by using her Netherwood Spirit Body to control a fallen leaf.
• Yun Ying pleaded with Ning Fa to find her imprisoned brother, but Liang Ruicheng refused to disclose Yun Jian’s hiding place.
• Ning Fa used the Soul Searching Technique on Liang Ruicheng, but a sturdy barrier in Liang Ruicheng’s Sea of Consciousness blocked his memories.

Ning Fa forced Liang Ruicheng to reveal that Xia Yuanjue had recruited him to kill Ning Fa, then killed him and gave Yun Ying the Heavenly Wood Profound Art and a Silver Core Pill. Despite the Xia Family’s ambush outside, Ning Fa chose to explore the Underground Palace beneath Sunset Ancient City and teleported ahead after sending Hei Yu to scout.

• Ning Fa threatened Liang Ruicheng’s clan until Liang confessed that Xia Yuanjue had offered him a thousand-year-old Xuan Shen Ginseng to help kill Ning Fa, with Shen Hao and Jing Dongji also involved.
• Liang Ruicheng urged Ning Fa to spare his clan and blamed Jing Dongji for exposing their plans, but Ning Fa killed Liang Ruicheng and vowed to deal with Jing Dongji.
• Ning Fa told Yun Ying that her brother was hiding safely, gave her the Heavenly Wood Profound Art and Silver Core Pill, and collected the fallen cultivators’ Storage Bags.
• Ning Fa decided to pursue the Haolei Flower in the Underground Palace, told Yun Ying to wait, and protected the Teleportation Array with a Lesser Five Elements Reversal Array.
• Ning Fa sent Hei Yu through the Teleportation Array to scout, waited an hour, then followed him despite Yun Ying’s worry.

Ning Daozhen used the blood altar to reveal pills and treasures, then slipped through the North Magnetic Yuan Light barrier while the rival sects fought over the rewards. In another hall, Zhang Zhilong revealed himself as Xiao Han of the Blood Heaven Sect and told Ye Ji that a Blood Essence Soul Crystal lay on the Underground Palace’s third level.

• Ning Daozhen activated the altar, revealing legendary pills and powerful Ancient Treasures to the Black Spirit Church and Divine Heart Sect cultivators.
• Qin Yan and the other cultivators fought over the prizes, and Qin Yan escaped with the Life Restoration Pill as the survivors pursued one another out of the hall.
• Ning Daozhen used the altar’s barrier to pass safely through the North Magnetic Yuan Light corridor toward the third level.
• Zhang Zhilong identified himself to Ye Ji as Xiao Han, the Heavenly Craftsman of the Blood Heaven Sect, and claimed he had forged the palace’s Blood Guard Puppets.
• Zhang Zhilong offered Ye Ji the Dream Epiphyllum and revealed that a Blood Essence Soul Crystal lay on the third level.

Zhang Zhilong recruited Ye Ji to help him obtain the Blood Essence Soul Crystals and planned to retrieve his Heavenly Puppet before reaching the Underground Palace’s third level. Meanwhile, Ning Fa found an incomplete Quasi Heavenly Puppet and let Hei Yu begin devouring it in hopes of advancing to the third grade.

• Zhang Zhilong told Ye Ji about the Blood Essence Soul Crystals and asked her to join forces against the threat of Jiang Chun.
• Ye Ji agreed to pursue the crystals but refused to help kill Jiang Chun, and Zhang Zhilong gave her a Dream Epiphyllum.
• Zhang Zhilong said he needed to retrieve his nearly completed Third-grade Heavenly Puppet before going to the third level.
• Ning Fa secured the Transmission Array room, concealed himself with a spirit artifact cloak, and explored the maze-like corridors.
• Ning Fa used the Blood Nether Token to open a sealed hall and discovered an incomplete Quasi Heavenly Puppet in a blood pool.
• Hei Yu asked to devour the Quasi Heavenly Puppet to advance, and Ning Fa ordered him to begin.

Hei Yu devoured Zhang Zhilong’s Heavenly Puppet and advanced to Third-grade, giving Ning Fa a powerful ally for the trip to the Underground Palace. When Zhang Zhilong and Ye Ji discovered them, the Blood Nether Token stopped Zhang Zhilong’s guard puppet, and Ye Ji revealed that Ning Fa could use the Mysterious Thunder True Body and might be an inheritor of Fu Ling Hall.

• Hei Yu devoured the young-man-shaped Heavenly Puppet with Ning Fa’s help and advanced to Third-grade, though Ning Fa noticed their Mental Connection briefly weaken.
• Ning Fa gave Hei Yu two Ancient Treasures and two High-grade Spirit Stones to support him in battle.
• Ning Fa concealed himself when Zhang Zhilong and Ye Ji entered the hall, but Ye Ji detected him and Hei Yu blocked her attack.
• Zhang Zhilong recognized Hei Yu as his stolen Heavenly Puppet and ordered his Third-grade Blood Guard Puppet to attack Ning Fa.
• Ning Fa used the Blood Nether Token to stop Zhang Zhilong’s puppet, and Ye Ji refused to fight after describing Ning Fa’s abilities and suggesting he was an inheritor of Fu Ling Hall.

Ning Fa joined forces with Zhang Zhilong and Ye Ji to enter the Underground Palace’s third level, while Bai Yeming revealed his powerful Third Eye and subdued a Golden Core cultivator. After learning that Ning Fa had gone ahead, Bai Yeming agreed to join Ji Suwan and head deeper into the palace.

• Ning Fa agreed to cooperate with Zhang Zhilong and Ye Ji as they explored the Underground Palace’s second level.
• The trio reached the altar guarded by North Magnetic Yuan Light, and Ning Fa used his Blood Nether Token to let them pass into the third level.
• Bai Yeming appeared near the first-level exit and used his Third Eye to overpower and control an injured Golden Core cultivator from He Yi Gate.
• Bai Yeming ordered the controlled cultivator to report what had happened in the palace and learned that Ning Fa had entered the third level.
• Ji Suwan met Bai Yeming, explained that she had expected Ning Fa to enter the third level, and proposed they join forces to follow him.

Ning Fa and his companions reached the third level of the Underground Palace and found the Blood Heaven River nourishing a Haolei Flower and a Blood Essence Soul Crystal. Ning Daozhen revealed Zhang Zhilong’s identity as Xiao Han and refused Ye Ji’s request for a share of the crystal, leaving her poised to oppose him.

• Ning Fa discovered the Blood Heaven River, a five-petaled Haolei Flower with only one intact petal, and a pool of dwindling Heavenly River Divine Milk nourishing two barriers.
• Ning Fa recognized Ning Daozhen, while Ye Ji identified him as Jiang Chun, the Blood Heaven Sect’s famed Son of Sacred Blood.
• Ning Daozhen recognized Zhang Zhilong as his former junior brother Xiao Han, who accused him of having caused his apparent death.
• Ning Fa and his companions learned that the crystal inside the crimson barrier was a Blood Essence Soul Crystal, a sacred soul-path artifact nurtured by the Blood Heaven River.
• Ye Ji asked Ning Daozhen for a share of the Blood Essence Soul Crystal, but he refused, and she responded with a dangerous glint in her eyes.

Ning Daozhen revealed that the Underground Palace was built to restore a Demonic Offspring Body, drawing the attention of the gathered cultivators. As Ji Suwan, seemingly possessed by Black Spirit, joined forces with Bai Yeming and unleashed a powerful attack, Ning Fa and the others were caught in the opening strike.

• Ning Fa asked Ning Daozhen for the Haolei Flower and Heavenly River Divine Milk, but Ning Daozhen refused and revealed a woman inside a lightning-wreathed barrier.
• Zhang Zhilong and Ye Ji recognized the woman as a Demonic Offspring Body, and Ning Daozhen explained that the Underground Palace had been built to restore it using the Blood Essence Soul Crystals.
• Ning Daozhen warned Ning Fa, Zhang Zhilong, and Ye Ji to leave, but they prepared to attack before a giant fish delivered Ji Suwan, Bai Yeming, and a yellow-robed Golden Core Cultivator into the hall.
• Ji Suwan identified the Demonic Offspring Body and proposed that she take it while Bai Yeming claimed the Blood Essence Soul Crystals; Bai Yeming agreed.
• Black mist and a towering phantom transformed Ji Suwan's aura, and she attacked the group and both barriers with strange black threads that formed rings around Ning Fa and the others.

Ning Fa and the other cultivators battled Ji Suwan and the Blood River over the Blood Essence Soul Crystal while Ning Fa secretly collected Heavenly River Divine Milk. After Ji Suwan blocked his attempt to seize the Haolei Flower, Ning Fa activated a Spirit Descending Talisman and attacked it at full strength.

• Ning Daozhen broke free of his black ring, claimed the Blood Jade Seal, and advanced to the Golden Core Realm as the others shattered their rings and attacked the Blood River’s barriers.
• Zhang Zhilong, Ye Ji, Bai Yeming, the yellow-robed cultivator, and Ning Daozhen rushed toward the exposed Blood Essence Soul Crystal while Hei Yu collected the Heavenly River Divine Milk for Ning Fa.
• Ning Daozhen and Ji Suwan struggled over the sealed black-armored woman as Ning Fa moved toward the Haolei Flower and Ji Suwan sent a wolf-shaped demonic beast to stop him.
• Hei Yu restrained the wolf beast with an Ancient Treasure, and Ning Fa destroyed it with Zi Wei Heavenly Fire and a silver lightning fist.
• Ning Fa crushed the Spirit Descending Talisman, boosted his strength to rival a Golden Core Cultivator, and slashed at the Haolei Flower with his spear.

Ning Fa escaped Ji Suwan’s attack as Ning Daozhen and Bai Yeming suppressed her, but Zhang Zhilong’s transformation triggered the collapse of the third-level hall. As the others raced toward the revealed mountain gate, Ning Fa stole a fragment of the Blood Essence Soul Crystal and fled through the passage.

• Ning Fa secured the Haolei Flower, but Ji Suwan attacked him with a powerful Black Symbol that shattered Hei Yu and his defensive artifacts.
• Ning Daozhen’s Blood Jade Seal and Bai Yeming’s Third Eye jointly suppressed Ji Suwan, whose Black Spirit avatar became a black-red bead that Ning Daozhen absorbed into the black-armored woman.
• Ning Fa tried to escape past the yellow-robed Golden Core Cultivator, then used the Nirvana Thunder Seal and a Silver Light Shadow to break through when Ye Ji distracted Bai Yeming and Zhang Zhilong transformed into a Myriad Yuan Blood Fiend.
• Zhang Zhilong, Ye Ji, Bai Yeming, and Ning Daozhen fought over fragments of the Blood Essence Soul Crystal as the hall and Blood River began to collapse and the mountain gate appeared.
• Ning Fa used the Heaven-Stealing Hook projection to steal a fragment from Zhang Zhilong’s Storage Bag and escaped through the passage; Zhang Zhilong realized the fragment was missing as the hall collapsed.

Ning Fa and Yun Ying escaped the Thunderwood Palace inheritance grounds through a hidden exit and later rescued Yun Jian, bringing the siblings to Qingfeng City. After arranging for them to join the Huayu Sect, Ning Fa returned to Cheng Ziyi and found that Su Hao had just been rejected as her potential Dao Companion.

• Yun Ying showed Ning Fa the Xia Family’s forces surrounding the island and revealed a hidden gate leading to Misty Lake, and they escaped through it together.
• Ning Fa and Yun Ying followed Liang Ruicheng’s information to rescue Yun Jian from a secret cave residence on Iron Eagle Mountain.
• Ning Fa urged Yun Ying and Yun Jian to cultivate in the Huayu Sect so they could eventually seek revenge, and they agreed to his plan.
• Ning Fa visited Cheng Ziyi’s residence and overheard Su Hao asking her to become his Dao Companion before she firmly rejected him.
• Ning Fa greeted Cheng Ziyi, who welcomed him back after his prolonged trip to the Ancient Ruins.