Chapter Summaries

Zhu Lingyun met with Ning Fa and True Lord Yun Jing to investigate the prophecy about the Tianli Cultivation World, then privately asked Ning Fa to help explore an island relic in a year. Ning Fa agreed in exchange for access to rare spiritual materials, and Zhu Lingyun left him her sect’s token as a public sign of support.

• Zhu Lingyun praised Ning Fa’s rapid cultivation progress and revealed that his presence was one reason she had come.
• Ning Fa explained that he had personally experienced the events described in the prophecy, while True Lord Yun Jing confirmed that divination had persuaded him to relocate.
• After dismissing True Lord Yun Jing, Zhu Lingyun asked Ning Fa to accompany her to Zhenhai City and explore an island relic containing an array connected to the Thunder Derivation Profound Scroll.
• Ning Fa agreed and gave Zhu Lingyun a list of rare spiritual materials he needed; she promised to provide an initial batch through her sect.
• Zhu Lingyun presented Ning Fa with a Divine Heart Token before departing on her Five-Colored Peacock, publicly signaling her support for him.

At the relocation ceremony, Ning Fa gained recognition from the Divine Maiden and arranged support for the Ning Clan’s trading company before visiting the clan’s new home. He reunited with Ning Huarong, learned she planned to attempt Core Formation without a Condensing Crystal Pill, and hurried away after True Lord Tianyou called for help.

• The Divine Maiden’s regard for Ning Fa impressed the gathered sect leaders, and True Lord Yun Jing gave him Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk for True Lord Tian You.
• Ning Fa asked Gu Mengqiu to help the Ning Clan establish a trading company, and she gave him a token in exchange for his help with an ancient pill formula.
• Ning Fa celebrated at Yunyue Marketplace with Chou Zheng, Ji Minxiong, and the Ouyang family elders, then sent for Ning Huarong to accompany him to Changning Mountain.
• Ning Fa and Ning Huarong renewed their intimate relationship, and he discovered that she had reached the Quasi-Core Formation Realm and planned to attempt Core Formation without a Condensing Crystal Pill.
• True Lord Tianyou urgently summoned Ning Fa, who left Ning Huarong and flew away to help him.

Ning Fa tried to stop Tian You from losing control, but after the Spirit Sound Wooden Fish only temporarily subdued her, she decided to leave. Before departing, Tian You entrusted Ning Fa with a dowry for Qing He and warned him that Ning Huarong might be targeted by the Yuan Cha Gate.

• Ning Fa used the Spirit Sound Wooden Fish and his Lightning Escape to keep Tian You at bay as she broke free of her chains and attacked him in her berserk state.
• Ning Fa crushed his last Spirit Descending Talisman and poured his Mana into the wooden fish, restraining Tian You with five Seven-Colored Lotuses until the blood-red light around her vanished.
• Tian You mistook Ning Fa for True Lord Donghua, wept, and kissed him, but Ning Fa kicked her away and escaped the hall.
• Tian You regained her composure and told Ning Fa that the wooden fish could not cure her condition, so she needed to leave.
• Tian You gave Ning Fa a dowry for Qing He and a Jade Slip, then warned him that Ning Huarong fit the Yuan Cha Gate's selection criteria before disappearing.

Ning Fa learned that True Lord Tianyou had been bound by a sinister wager with the Yuan Cha Gate and might have left to face its terms. He discovered that Ning Huarong had also made a wager with the same force, but she rejected his warning.

• Ning Fa read Tianyou's account of her past wagers with the Yuan Cha Gate, her failing cultivation, and her possible choice between resisting and joining them.
• Ning Fa worried that Ning Huarong met the Yuan Cha Gate's recruitment criteria and confirmed with Ning Zhongyuan that she was at Changning Mountain.
• Ning Fa comforted Ouyang Qinghe after Tianyou left, asked Cheng Susu and Meng Ruoqi to keep the matter secret, and wondered about Cheng Susu's unusually long pregnancy.
• Ning Fa confronted Ning Huarong and learned she had made a wager with someone from the Yuan Cha Gate a year earlier in exchange for items and had agreed to perform several tasks.
• Ning Fa warned Ning Huarong about the consequences of failing her wager, but she angrily told him not to meddle.

Ning Fa learned that Ning Huarong had wagered for the Purple Nether Profound Maiden Art, then returned to the Huayu Sect after True Lord Tianyou left and helped its elders conceal his departure. As the sect rebuilt and Ning Fa received resources from the Divine Heart Sect, Fairy Ningxiang arrived to ask for his help refining a lightning-related magic treasure, offering a rare spiritual item for his unborn child.

• Ning Huarong told Ning Fa she had traded with the Yuan Cha Gate for the Purple Nether Profound Maiden Art because it could give her hope of reaching the Nascent Soul Dao despite her Yang Sha Poison.
• Ning Fa told the Huayu Sect's ruling elders that Senior Tian You had left, and they agreed to claim he had entered life-or-death seclusion while keeping Ouyang Qinghe in the sect.
• The Huayu Sect concealed Tian You's departure, gathered resources, resumed business, recruited disciples, and began rebuilding as the Ning Clan reestablished the Changfeng Merchant Guild.
• Wu Hong of the Divine Heart Sect delivered Ning Fa a generous Storage Bag and offered to help him obtain more resources in Shenwu City.
• Fairy Ningxiang asked Ning Fa to help Tianyin Pavilion refine a lightning-related magic treasure and offered a rare spiritual item said to benefit his unborn child.

Ning Fa agreed to help Tianyin Pavilion refine a magic treasure in exchange for the valuable Hundred Flower Spirit Dew, which could benefit his unborn child. He arrived at the pavilion and met Fairy Jingchen, Mo Yu, and Pavilion Master Fairy Miaoyin, but the nature of the treasure and the task ahead remained undisclosed.

• Fairy Ningxiang offered Ning Fa Hundred Flower Spirit Dew for helping Tianyin Pavilion refine a magic treasure, and he agreed after learning the work would take about a month.
• Ning Fa made arrangements with Sound Transmission Talismans and followed Fairy Ningxiang to Tianyin Pavilion, where he admired its spirit-veined peaks and harmonious music.
• At the main peak, Ning Fa met Fairy Suxian, Fairy Jingchen, and Mo Yu, whose cultivation and strength made him wary.
• Fairy Ningxiang told Ning Fa that Suxian disliked his reputation for romantic affairs and that Mo Yu had joined the pavilion out of love for Jingchen.
• Ningxiang explained that Mo Yu was a powerful cultivator and a high-tier Third-grade alchemist who had joined Tianyin Pavilion ten years earlier.
• Fairy Miaoyin welcomed Ning Fa and promised him a generous reward after the magic treasure was completed.

Ning Fa discovered that Moon Immortal Lake could enhance his comprehension while the reflected golden Full Moon remained, then joined Tianyin Pavilion’s effort to refine a Thunderous Roar Drum using his Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder. The refinement began successfully when the thunder beast’s remnant spirit submitted to his lightning, and the sect’s cultivators continued the process.

• Fairy Miaoyin asked Ning Fa to use his Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder to preserve and strengthen a thunder beast’s remnant spirit during the Thunderous Roar Drum’s refinement, and Ning Fa agreed for a generous reward.
• Ning Xiang led Ning Fa to a cave residence near Moon Immortal Lake, where he later discovered that visualizing his Moon God Heart let him touch the lake’s reflected Full Moon and gain heightened comprehension.
• Ning Fa cultivated at the lakebed through the night and realized the golden Full Moon’s shrinking reflection limited the opportunity’s duration.
• Ning Xiang brought Ning Fa to a fiery mountain, where Fairy Miaoyin and the Tianyin Pavilion cultivators began refining the Thunderous Roar Drum with a formation and musical magic treasures.
• A crimson thunder beast’s remnant spirit emerged and shattered the cultivators’ sound waves, so Fairy Miaoyin called on Ning Fa to act.
• Ning Fa trapped the remnant spirit with his Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder, which made it shrink and grow more solid as it submitted to him, and Fairy Miaoyin urged everyone to continue refining.

Ning Fa helped Tianyin Pavilion refine the Thunderous Roar Drum while secretly using Moon Immortal Lake to cultivate at night, repeatedly driving Fairy Jingchen away from her usual spot. After twenty more days, the drum was fully refined with a thunder beast Artifact Spirit, and Ning Fa judged it might eventually grow into a spirit treasure.

• Ning Fa withdrew from the formation after claiming he had little Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder left, though his Five Elements Thunder Body continued to deter the thunder beast remnant spirit.
• Ning Fa interrupted Fairy Jingchen’s guqin playing to make her leave the cherry blossom grove, allowing him to return to Moon Immortal Lake and cultivate.
• Ning Fa repeatedly disturbed Jingchen when she returned to the grove, and she eventually stopped cultivating and playing there; Su Xian later warned Ning Fa not to harass her.
• Ningxiang invited Ning Fa to hear her play guqin, while Mo Yu visited him with wine and food, and the two bonded over alchemy and cultivation before Mo Yu asked whether Ning Fa liked Jingchen.
• After another twenty days of refinement, the thunder beast remnant spirit entered the Thunderous Roar Drum, completing the treasure and giving it the potential to grow into a spirit treasure.

Ning Fa’s stay at Tianyin Pavilion greatly advanced his cultivation and comprehension, and he remained to attend its Hundred Flower Banquet. Before the banquet, he rescued Bai Feng and Cheng Ziyi from Chu Kai’s harassment, and the chapter ended with Fang Wei identifying Chu Kai as a cultivator of Tianyang Sect.

• Ning Fa asked Fairy Miaoyin to stay at Tianyin Pavilion, and she invited him to its upcoming Hundred Flower Banquet despite Su Xian’s suspicions about his motives.
• After another month of cultivation at Moon Immortal Lake, Ning Fa exhausted its comprehension-enhancing effect and found his cultivation and understanding of the Silver Palace Heavenly Book substantially improved.
• Ning Fa waited at the entrance to Hundred Flower Valley, where he greeted Fang Wei and reunited with Chou Zheng, Ji Minxiong, Ouyang Tianzong, Ouyang Huai, and Ji Qingqing.
• Ning Fa sensed Bai Feng and Cheng Ziyi were in danger and rushed to find them facing Chu Kai, his guards, and a powerful gray-robed elder.
• Ning Fa forced the elder back in a clash and stood with his arriving companions against Chu Kai, until Fang Wei recognized Chu Kai as a cultivator of Tianyang Sect.

Ning Fa and his companions encountered Chu Kai, whose concubine seemed to be an old acquaintance of Ji Minxiong, before arriving at the Hundred Flower Banquet. At the gathering, Ning Fa followed Huang Xuzi out of the valley to discuss a mysterious treasure.

• Chu Kai apologized to Ning Fa and left, but Ji Minxiong recognized his maidservant as Xiaoya, who denied knowing him and was taken away as Chu Kai's concubine.
• Fang Wei explained Chu Kai's powerful family background, and the group decided not to pursue the matter while Ji Minxiong reluctantly held back.
• Ning Fa and the others arrived at Hundred Flower Valley, where Golden Core Cultivators gathered to trade ahead of the next day's banquet.
• Gu Mengqiu directed Ning Fa to an exchange meet, where he pursued a six-hundred-year-old Dragon Scale Fruit and gained several items through later trades.
• Huang Xuzi approached Ning Fa with an offer to trade for a body-refining treasure, then led him outside the valley and revealed a sealed white jade bottle.

Ning Fa traded valuable spiritual items for Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Essence, while suspecting the Yellow-Browed Old Daoist had tested him on behalf of the Demonic Sect. The old Daoist then met Fairy Ningxiang, who revealed her investigation pointed toward Bai Yueqiu instead, before Ning Fa rushed to a clash with Tianyang Sect.

• The Yellow-Browed Old Daoist offered Ning Fa Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Essence in exchange for Gale Thunder Talismans, then agreed to trade it for Ning Fa's Life Transformation Fruit, Crimson Blood Ganoderma, High-grade Flowing Light Iron, and spirit stones.
• After the trade, Ning Fa suspected the old Daoist was a Demonic Sect member probing whether he had refined the Gale Thunder Talismans.
• Chou Zheng summoned Ning Fa to help after Huazhen Sect clashed with people from Tianyang Sect, and Ning Fa immediately departed.
• The Yellow-Browed Old Daoist met Fairy Ningxiang and delivered the treasures he had obtained from Ning Fa.
• Fairy Ningxiang concluded Ning Fa likely had not refined the Gale Thunder Talismans and identified Bai Yueqiu of Jingming Sect as the more likely source.

Fairy Ningxiang arranged for Heavenly Pavilion to travel to Zhenhai City in half a year while ordering Yellow-Browed Old Daoist to avoid contacting her. In Hundred Flower Valley, Ji Minxiong discovered that Xiaoya had been abused as Chu Kai’s concubine and attacked him, escalating into a battle among several sects as the chapter ended with the Jin Brothers arriving to support Tianyang Sect.

• Fairy Ningxiang told Yellow-Browed Old Daoist that Heavenly Pavilion would depart for Zhenhai City in roughly half a year and ordered him not to contact her meanwhile.
• Ji Minxiong confronted Xiaoya in Hundred Flower Valley, saw the many wounds on her arm, and attacked Chu Kai when he arrived.
• The gray-robed old man joined the fight against Ji Minxiong, and cultivators from Tianyang Sect and Huayu Sect rushed into the battle.
• Fang Wei and Gu Mengqiu led Golden Rainbow Sect cultivators to defend Huayu Sect, despite Gong Shutong warning them to stay out of the conflict.
• Tianyin Pavilion’s middle-aged Golden Core cultivator asked Gong Shutong to stop fighting, but Jing Chen said their Master had not responded to a sound transmission.
• The Jin Brothers arrived and offered to help Tianyang Sect, while Chu Kai demanded that Ji Minxiong be killed.

Ning Fa arrived as the Huayu Sect and Golden Rainbow Sect were on the verge of defeat and revealed overwhelming power against Gong Shutong and the Tianyang Sect. After seeing Cheng Ziyi injured, he unleashed a devastating lightning assault that left the enemy cultivators trapped beneath the thunderclouds.

• The Jin Brothers and five other Golden Core Cultivators joined the Tianyang Sect's attack, while Jing Chen, Su Xian, and Mo Yu came to aid the Huayu Sect and Golden Rainbow Sect.
• Gong Shutong's blue halberd shattered Gu Mengqiu's silver bronze bell, leaving her injured as the besieged cultivators struggled to hold out.
• Ning Fa arrived amid silver thunderclouds and challenged Gong Shutong, then revealed a powerful lightning form that shocked the gathered cultivators.
• Cheng Ziyi urged Ning Fa not to escalate the conflict, but he saw her wounds and demanded an explanation from Gong Shutong.
• Ning Fa intensified the thunderclouds and struck the Tianyang Sect's fifteen Golden Core Cultivators with gold, silver, and violet lightning, overwhelming them as the onlookers fled or watched in shock.

Fairy Miaoyin stopped Ning Fa and the Tianyang Sect cultivators from fighting again, then heard both sides’ accounts and proposed compensation instead of handing Ji Minxiong over. Ning Fa accepted her resolution, but Gong Shutong objected that spirit stones would not satisfy his sect.

• Fairy Miaoyin arrived and used sound waves to disperse Ning Fa’s thunderstorm, leaving the Tianyang Sect cultivators battered and their Magic Treasures damaged.
• Gong Shutong demanded that Ji Minxiong be handed over, but Ning Fa offered to accept that demand if Gong Shutong could withstand sixty breaths against him.
• Fairy Miaoyin prevented them from fighting and brought Ning Fa and Gong Shutong to a pavilion to explain the dispute.
• Ji Minxiong told the others that he had attacked Chu Kai because Chu Kai’s concubine was the descendant of an important old friend.
• After hearing both sides, Fairy Miaoyin proposed that Tianyang Sect give up its demand for Ji Minxiong and that Huayu Sect pay spirit-stone compensation; Ning Fa agreed, but Gong Shutong objected.

Ning Fa settled the conflict with the Tianyang Sect and learned why Ji Minxiong had been so shaken by Xiaoya’s appearance, only for Xiaoya to be murdered and delivered to them. After restraining Ji Minxiong’s grief and rage, Ning Fa attended the Hundred Flower Banquet and declined an invitation to travel with Tianyin Pavilion to Zhenhai City.

• Fairy Miaoyin negotiated compensation for the clash, and Ning Fa and Gong Shutong accepted her arrangement.
• Ning Fa returned to the banquet and explained the settlement while Ji Minxiong insisted on staying despite his injuries.
• Ji Minxiong told Ning Fa about his mother, Aunt Ping, and Xiaoya, whom he had helped cure with an Emperor Sap Fruit.
• A Tianyin Pavilion disciple delivered Xiaoya’s severed head, and Ning Fa used his Spiritual Heart Divine Thunder to stop Ji Minxiong from falling into cultivation deviation.
• Ning Fa urged Ji Minxiong not to seek revenge impulsively, and Ji Minxiong calmly stored Xiaoya’s head.
• After the banquet, Fairy Ningxiang gave Ning Fa his reward and invited him to travel with Tianyin Pavilion to the Zhenhai City Auction, but he declined.

After Ning Fa returned to Huayu Sect from Hundred Flower Valley, news of his strength spread across the Xu Kingdom, while four young cultivators considered joining his sect. A mysterious Ling Shu Pavilion Star Ranking then appeared at Yunyue Marketplace, placing Ning Fa twenty-fifth in the Cangyuan Cultivation World and shocking the gathered cultivators.

• Ning Fa returned to Huayu Sect and arranged for Ji Qingqing, Ji Yongchang, and Chou Zheng to watch over the injured Ji Minxiong.
• Ning Fa met with Huayu Sect's governing elders as reports of his Hundred Flower Banquet feats spread and made him famous throughout the Xu Kingdom.
• At Yunyue Marketplace, four young cultivators discussed joining Huayu Sect after hearing about Ning Fa's strength.
• A five-colored light screen appeared above the marketplace and displayed the Ling Shu Pavilion Star Ranking, including Ning Fa in twenty-fifth place.
• The ranking shocked the crowd, and Fang Yong recorded the screen and notified Spirit Talisman Sect.

The Ling Shu Pavilion Star Ranking revealed several Golden Core Cultivators from Xu Kingdom among the top 150, astonishing the crowds and drawing four Nascent Soul Cultivators to Yunyue Marketplace. True Lord Tianfu and Fairy Miaoyin explained that the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion appeared before past disasters and that the ranking likely signaled an approaching Great Calamity; the four began considering how to prepare.

• The ranking settled at Rank 150 with Duan Sheng, and cultivators noticed that star colors divided the listed powerhouses into tiers.
• Four Nascent Soul Cultivators arrived at Yunyue Marketplace as four other cultivators decided to hurry to Huayu Sect and seek entry, believing Ning Fa and Zheng Xuanyan made it a promising sect.
• True Lord Huiyu asked about the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion, and True Lord Tianfu described its ancient appearances during disasters and its role in uniting the cultivation world against invaders.
• True Lord Yun Jing concluded that the ranking confirmed information Ning Fa had shared and worried that his earlier prophecy might be true.
• Fairy Miaoyin explained that the Star Ranking was updated every three months, restricted by age and potential, and offered valuable rewards to help cultivators prepare for the Great Calamity.

Nascent Soul leaders discussed the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion’s Star Ranking and Ning Fa’s remarkable placement, while True Lord Tianyang responded to Huayu Sect’s rising strength. The chapter revealed that the Tianli Cultivation World would invade Cangyuan within ten years and that the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion might release its Profound Ranking.

• Fairy Miaoyin explained that the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion sometimes ranked Nascent Soul Cultivators, and the leaders noted that Ning Fa ranked twenty-fifth at the Gold Star tier despite being under eighty and only at Mid Core Formation.
• True Lord Tianyang learned that Ning Fa and Zheng Xuanyan ranked above Tianyang Sect’s disciples, returned fifty thousand spirit stones to Ning Fa, and challenged Xiao Ming to surpass Zheng Xuanyan when the ranking refreshed.
• True Lord Luo Li told Xu Yi and True Lord Biwu that Tianli would likely invade Cangyuan within ten years, targeting the southern Cloud Wasteland Great Marsh.
• True Lord Luo Li explained that Tianli had erased Cangyuan’s memories through the Moon Radiance Heavenly Seal and had likely exposed the Spirit Medicine Garden to weaken Cangyuan before the invasion.
• True Lord Biwu said the Profound Ranking had appeared and might offer Spirit Transformation secret arts and Peiying-level pills as rewards.

True Lord Luo Li and Xu Yi prepared to rescue cultivators trapped in the Purple Cloud Sect’s secret realm and organize allies against the Great Calamity, while Huayu Sect celebrated Ning Fa and Zheng Xuanyan’s high Star Ranking placements. After Zheng Xuanyan decisively defeated Xiao Ming, Ning Fa sensed another Late Golden Core challenger approaching.

• True Lord Luo Li tasked Xu Yi with joining the rescue mission and True Lord Biwu with preparing the Yunhuang Alliance for war without causing panic, while promising to seek help from the Righteous-Demonic Alliance and Ice Plains Alliance.
• True Lord Biwu spoke with Xiao Yusheng, who set out to challenge Ning Fa at the Huayu Sect.
• Huayu Sect disciples and elders celebrated Ning Fa and Zheng Xuanyan’s high rankings, and Tianyang Sect visitors Xiao Ming and Gong Shutong arrived so Xiao Ming could challenge Zheng Xuanyan.
• Zheng Xuanyan overcame Xiao Ming’s fire-based attacks with azure leaf tornadoes and won decisively, prompting Xiao Ming and Gong Shutong to leave.
• Ning Fa sensed a powerful Late Golden Core cultivator approaching from the north and guessed that another challenger had arrived.

Xiao Yusheng of He Yi Gate challenged Ning Fa at the Huayu Sect, and their battle drew nearby cultivators to watch. Ning Fa broke through her sealing chains with his Mysterious Thunder True Body, but Xiao Yusheng transformed the battlefield into a desert that suppressed his lightning power.

• Xiao Yusheng arrived at the Huayu Sect and challenged Ning Fa, who agreed to fight her away from the mountain gate.
• Ning Fa struck first with his Void-Piercing Thunder Spear, but Xiao Yusheng absorbed his lightning with a five-colored vortex.
• Xiao Yusheng used five ancient mirrors to form Elemental Sealing Spirit Chains that restrained Ning Fa and weakened his spear clones.
• True Lord Yun Jing, Fairy Miaoyin, and True Lord Tianfu arrived and identified Xiao Yusheng's mirrors and sealing technique as Five Elements-based abilities that countered Ning Fa's lightning.
• Ning Fa activated his Mysterious Thunder True Body, shattered the chains and mirror phantoms, and struck Xiao Yusheng with a lightning palm.
• Xiao Yusheng survived and transformed the area into a vast yellow desert, suppressing Ning Fa's Thunder Spiritual Power with Earth Attribute energy.