Chapter Summaries

Ning Fa fought off the Yuan Cha Gate’s cultivators and escaped with the gravely wounded Zhu Lingyun, but the pair vanished into a Spatial Rift while Huangfu Hong sent a spirit insect after them. Huangfu Hong revealed that the sect wanted Zhu Lingyun’s unborn child to become its Mysterious Maiden and had used a supreme-grade Joyous Union Gu.

• Zhu Lingyun confronted Huangfu Hong, then flew up to battle her while urging Ning Fa to escape; the Five-Colored Peacock fought Hermit Qingyan.
• Ning Fa summoned his Divine Firmament Profound Thunder Dharma Form, killed Meng Chong, and used True Person Cang Lei’s silver lightning ball to paralyze Meilan Fairy and hinder Hermit Qingyan.
• Ning Fa fled to the shore, where the wounded Zhu Lingyun and Five-Colored Peacock reached him, but Huangfu Hong pursued them on a black snail-shaped spirit beast.
• The Five-Colored Peacock used its five-colored pearl to repel Huangfu Hong’s black blade, then collapsed and returned to Zhu Lingyun’s Spirit Beast Bag.
• Carrying Zhu Lingyun, Ning Fa entered a slow-moving yellow Spatial Rift after she briefly gave him instructions; Huangfu Hong sent a spirit insect through before the rift closed.
• Huangfu Hong said the Yuan Cha Gate wanted Zhu Lingyun’s unborn child to become its Mysterious Maiden and that a supreme-grade Joyous Union Gu would make Zhu Lingyun unable to resist.

Ning Fa and Zhu Lingyun escaped into a sealed space, where a Joyous Union Gu drove them into an uncontrollable union. Zhu Lingyun left after waking, while Ning Fa remained trapped and decided to cultivate until he could break out.

• Ning Fa carried Zhu Lingyun through the Spatial Rift, and the Array Spirit's spirit deer began closing it behind them.
• A black spirit insect entered through the shrinking rift, burst into mist, and infected both Ning Fa and Zhu Lingyun with an overpowering aphrodisiac.
• After three days together, Zhu Lingyun woke, considered killing the unconscious Ning Fa, then spared him and escaped through a hole she opened in the barrier.
• Ning Fa revealed he had been awake before Zhu Lingyun left and found he could not break through the barrier with his current strength.
• Ning Fa decided to cultivate in the sealed space until he reached the Late Golden Core realm, then began refining pills.

After seven years away, Ning Fa’s declining Star Ranking position left Huayu Sect vulnerable as Thousand Water Sect encroached on its territory. Huayu Sect’s elders chose to defend Ancient Wood Peak, while leaders from nearby sects gathered to discuss the escalating conflict.

• Ning Fa’s Star Ranking position fell to forty-ninth, drawing ridicule and weakening Huayu Sect’s standing.
• Ouyang Zhenhua told Huayu Sect’s elders that Thousand Water Sect had killed three disciples and seriously injured more than ten at Ancient Wood Peak, and confirmed that Senior Tian You had left the sect.
• Ouyang Zhenhua explained how Ji Minxiong’s attack on Chu Kai and suspicions that True Lord Tianyou was absent had strained Huayu Sect, while Thousand Water Sect took advantage of the approaching invasion and Huayu Sect’s isolation.
• Zheng Xuanyan, Chou Zheng, Nie Guping, and other elders volunteered to defend Ancient Wood Peak, and Huayu Sect sent its Golden Core Elders there to hold the line.
• Thousand Water Sect increased its forces, and several Nascent Soul Cultivators from Golden Rainbow Sect, Tianyin Pavilion, and Spirit Talisman Sect met to discuss the conflict as the Star Ranking update approached.

Ning Fa’s sudden rise to second place on the Star Ranking shocked cultivators across the Yunhuang Alliance and changed the debate over the Huayu Sect’s future. The chapter leaves the three sect masters reconsidering whether to favor the Thousand Water Sect, as Fairy Miaoyin points to the purpose of the Star Ranking.

• Cultivators at Yunyue Marketplace mocked Ning Fa’s declining rank, but the refreshed Star Ranking placed him second, behind Wang Xuance.
• Huayu Sect disciples celebrated Ning Fa’s achievement, while a Thousand Water Sect cultivator hurried off to report the news.
• True Lord Tianfu argued that the Huayu Sect should make way for the Thousand Water Sect, while Fairy Miaoyin opposed the plan because Ning Fa had helped her sect.
• True Lord Yun Jing hesitated over whether to support the Huayu Sect until Gu Mengqiu sent him the new rankings and Ning Fa’s second-place standing.
• True Lord Yun Jing renewed his support for the Huayu Sect, but True Lord Tianfu insisted Ning Fa’s Golden Core strength did not qualify him to decide the matter.
• Fairy Miaoyin challenged True Lord Tianfu’s reasoning by reminding him of the purpose behind the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion’s Star Ranking.

The Cloud Wasteland Token forced the Thousand Water Sect to end its conflict with the Huayu Sect, and Ning Fa returned after reaching the Late Golden Core realm. He rescued Huayu Sect disciples on the way home and hurried to see Cheng Susu, who was expected to give birth within days.

• Fairy Miaoyin and True Lord Yun Jing warned True Lord Tianfu that Ning Fa’s fame and future strength made it dangerous to oppose him, and the Cloud Wasteland Token declared that the Huayu Sect should not be insulted.
• Senior Brother Clear Water accepted the three great sects’ order, withdrew the Thousand Water Sect’s disciples, and yielded half the territory they had occupied.
• Ning Fa killed five Calamity Cultivators who were pursuing four Huayu Sect disciples, then told Liu Ruohong to visit him at Cloud Show Peak in three days.
• Ning Fa returned to the Huayu Sect, where its disciples and elders welcomed him and Xia Xinlan embraced him.
• Ning Fa learned that Cheng Susu would likely give birth within days and left immediately to see her.

Ning Fa returned to Cloud Show Peak, learned that Cheng Susu’s long-awaited child was near birth, and told Cheng Ziyi and Huayu Sect’s elders that he planned to enter Ancient Immortal Island to rescue True Person Cang Lei. He then visited the allied sects and the Ning Clan, where he celebrated Ning Zhongjiu’s Golden Core breakthrough but grew concerned about Ning Huarong’s unexplained journey.

• Ning Fa reunited with Cheng Susu, whose child had been in the womb for nearly nine years, and reassured her that he would help restore her cultivation after the birth.
• Ning Fa told Cheng Ziyi that True Person Cang Lei was trapped in Ancient Immortal Island and that he intended to rescue him when the island opened.
• Ning Fa informed Huayu Sect’s elders that he would enter Ancient Immortal Island, arguing that rescuing the newly Nascent Soul True Person Cang Lei would help the sect face looming troubles.
• Ning Fa thanked Tianyin Pavilion and Golden Rainbow Sect for supporting Huayu Sect before traveling to Changning Mountain to visit the Ning Clan.
• Ning Fa learned that Ning Zhongjiu had formed a Golden Core and that Ning Huarong had left on a distant journey; Ning Zhongyuan said her soul lamp remained lit.
• Ning Fa rewarded new clan cultivators Jing Feng and Shao Xuan with superior-grade spirit artifacts and heard that the clan had grown to more than six hundred cultivators with spiritual roots.

Ning Fa discovered that Liu Ruohong possessed a prototype Sword Spiritual Root and accepted her as his personal disciple. After her public apprenticeship ceremony, he equipped her with powerful cultivation resources, and Cheng Susu then felt that her child was about to be born.

• Ning Zhongyuan gave Ning Fa the spiritual materials the family had collected, and Ning Fa asked him to prioritize gathering the items listed on a jade slip.
• Ning Fa examined Liu Ruohong and learned from the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book that she possessed a prototype Sword Spiritual Root, so he offered to take her as his disciple.
• Liu Ruohong accepted Ning Fa's offer, and three days later the Huayu Sect held a grand ceremony announcing her as Ning Fa's personal disciple.
• Ning Fa gave Liu Ruohong the Geng Metal Sword Art, spiritual artifacts, and pills, while his wives and concubines presented her with gifts.
• Cheng Susu clutched her stomach and told Ning Fa that she felt their child was about to be born.

Cheng Susu gave birth to Ning Fa’s son, Ning An, whose birth triggered a celestial anomaly that revealed his rare Seven Luminaries Dao Body. An Outer Realm Heavenly Demon arrived to seize the child, and Ning Fa prepared to defend him.

• Cheng Susu gave birth to a healthy boy, and Ning Fa named him Ning An and placed Hermit Tianyi’s jade pendant around his neck.
• Seven golden stars appeared in the sky and around Ning Fa, but the jade pendant concealed the anomaly before the women could understand it.
• Ning Fa sensed a powerful evil presence approaching, carried Ning An into his cultivation chamber, activated its restrictions, and prepared his Mysterious Thunder True Body and Divine Firmament Manifestation.
• An Outer Realm Heavenly Demon broke through the restrictions and identified Ning An as the bearer of a Seven Luminaries Dao Body, demanding that Ning Fa hand over the child.
• Ning Fa refused and challenged the demon, arguing that the Great Dao laws restricted its ability to attack him.

Ning Fa drove off an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon that threatened his family, then prepared to strengthen his defenses and make more Gale Thunder Talismans. A visitor from the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion arrived and congratulated him on having a Kirin Child.

• Ning Fa repelled the demon's attacks with the Moon God Heart, Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder, and a Gale Thunder Talisman, but a wisp of the demon's divided soul escaped after threatening to return for Ning An.
• Ning Fa reassured Cheng Susu and the others, asked the Huazhen Sect elders to protect his child and gather materials for Gale Thunder Talismans, and began guarding the family at Cheng Susu's residence.
• Ning Fa considered using his two-thousand-year-old Haolei Flower to strengthen his Wood Element Divine Thunder against the demon's return.
• Ouyang Zhenhua summoned Ning Fa to meet Sang Wen, a visitor from the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion, who congratulated him on obtaining a Kirin Child.

Sang Wen revealed that the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion wanted Ning An, whose Seven Luminaries Dao Body had attracted an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon, to become its inheritor for protection. After Ning Fa agreed to entrust Ning An to the pavilion, Sang Wen turned to Ning Fa’s Hidden Thunder Spiritual Body and warned that its hidden phase could prevent him from advancing toward the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Sang Wen told Ning Fa that the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion had detected Ning An’s Seven Luminaries Dao Body and the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon that attacked on the day he was born.
• Sang Wen offered to take Ning An to the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion, where its defenses and heavenly-secrets methods could shield him and where he would be raised as a True Disciple.
• Sang Wen showed Ning Fa a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Buddhist Sarira as evidence that the pavilion could fend off the demon and conceal Ning An from it.
• Ning Fa agreed to entrust Ning An to the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion, and Sang Wen warned that Cangyuan’s peaceful days were ending and that more than one great enemy might threaten it.
• Sang Wen told Ning Fa that the pavilion believed he possessed a Hidden Thunder Spiritual Body and might soon enter a long hidden phase that could halt his cultivation for centuries.
• Ning Fa kept the secrets of his Five Elements Thunder Body and Source-Crossing Heavenly Book to himself and suspected Sang Wen’s warning had a purpose.

Ning Fa learned that a method from Fu Ling Hall could delay the dormant phase of his Hidden Thunder Spiritual Body, and realized its ingredients might point to Creation Thunder Pool materials in the Nine Dragons Sea. Sang Wen revealed that the Tianli passage would breach within five years and gave Ning Fa a top-ranking reward before preparing to take Ning An to the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion.

• Sang Wen explained that Fu Ling Hall had developed a spiritual liquid formula to delay a Hidden Thunder Spiritual Body's dormant phase, though it would make the later dormant period longer.
• Ning Fa discovered that the formula's ingredients resembled the materials needed for the Creation Thunder Pool and might lead him to the Five Spirits Sea and Leiming Sea in the Nine Dragons Sea.
• Sang Wen said the passage to the Tianli Cultivation World would be completely breached within five years, making an invasion unavoidable.
• Ning Fa agreed that handing Ning An to the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion was the best course and asked when Sang Wen would take the child.
• Sang Wen presented Ning Fa with a fourth-grade Thunder Brilliance Pill with One Dao Mark and Sea-Overturning Rage Ape Heart Blood Essence as a reward equal in value to the Star Ranking's first-place prize.

Sang Wen gave Ning Fa and Zheng Xuanyan precious cultivation resources from the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion to help them prepare for Cangyuan’s approaching Great Calamity. Ning Fa sent Ning An to the pavilion for protection, then received intelligence from Cao Xian that left him concerned.

• Sang Wen gave Ning Fa two Star Ranking rewards and urged him to help Cangyuan face the Great Calamity.
• Sang Wen offered Zheng Xuanyan the Filthy Wood Rebirth Technique and purified natal filthy wood, warning that the demonic art could consume his reason; Zheng Xuanyan accepted.
• Cheng Susu agreed to send Ning An to the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion after Ning Fa explained that an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon threatened the child.
• Ning Fa and Cheng Susu tearfully entrusted Ning An to Sang Wen, who promised the pavilion would protect him and allow visits after he reached Foundation Establishment.
• Cao Xian gave Ning Fa six sets of materials for Gale Thunder Talismans and a Jade Slip containing Yunhuang Alliance intelligence.
• Ning Fa read that True Lord Luo Li and Sword Lord Xu Yi had led Nascent Soul Cultivators in a surprise attack on Pinghai Pavilion in Zhenhai City.

Ning Fa learned that the Divine Heart Sect had attacked Pinghai Pavilion and arranged to protect Chu Kai from Ji Minxiong. Zhu Lingyun chose to keep her child, while Ji Minxiong killed Chu Kai and then died by Ning Fa’s hand at his own request.

• Ning Fa learned that the Divine Heart Sect had dealt Pinghai Pavilion heavy losses and planned to have Chou Zheng watch the places where Chu Kai might appear.
• True Lord Luo Li told Zhu Lingyun that the Divine Heart Sect had captured and killed the Nascent Souls of Meilan Fairy and Hermit Qingyan, then asked her to decide whether to keep her child.
• Zhu Lingyun chose to keep the child, and True Lord Luo Li declared the Green Bamboo Courtyard a Forbidden Land so she could recuperate.
• Ji Minxiong caught up with Chu Kai and broke through his barrier despite the gray-robed elder’s attempt to stop him.
• Ning Fa arrived and hesitated to intervene when he saw Ji Minxiong’s desperation, allowing Ji Minxiong to kill Chu Kai.
• Ji Minxiong asked Ning Fa for help and guided Ning Fa’s hand to cut his throat, dying after fulfilling his wish.

After Ji Minxiong died, Ning Fa protected his body and discovered that his Black Ring had absorbed Ji Minxiong’s soul. True Lord Baidan then arrived at the Huayu Sect demanding an exorbitant compensation, and Ning Fa refused before confronting his attack.

• Ning Fa seized the injured Tianyang Sect elder, forced him to retract his accusation against the Huayu Sect, and let him leave with Chu Kai’s corpse.
• The Black Ring drew Ji Minxiong’s soul out of his body and absorbed it, leaving Ning Fa determined to uncover the ring’s secret.
• Ning Fa placed Ji Minxiong’s body in an ice coffin, convened the Huayu Sect’s Golden Core Elders, and visited three neighboring sects before True Lord Baidan arrived.
• True Lord Baidan demanded five million spirit stones and the surrender of Ji Yongchang and Ji Qingqing, but Ning Fa offered only five hundred thousand spirit stones and refused the other terms.
• True Lord Baidan attacked with a giant blue mountain magic treasure, and Ning Fa ordered the Huayu Sect Elders not to interfere as he rose to meet him.

Ning Fa used his Divine Firmament Manifestation to repel True Lord Baidan’s attack, proving he could contend with an ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivator and persuading three sect leaders to intervene. True Lord Tianyang stopped the confrontation and asked Ning Fa to gather Spirit Burning Grass on Ancient Immortal Island in exchange for letting the matter pass.

• Ning Fa blocked True Lord Baidan’s Blue Wonder Peak with his Divine Firmament Manifestation, then struck it back at the cost of blood and much of his mana.
• True Lord Baidan prepared a stronger attack, but True Lord Yun Jing, Fairy Miaoyin, and True Lord Tianfu arrived and demanded that he respect the Cloud Wasteland Token and the alliance between the four sects.
• True Lord Tianyang arrived, ordered True Lord Baidan to leave, and summoned Ning Fa to speak with him in the sky.
• True Lord Tianyang acknowledged the death of a Tianyang Sect Golden Core Cultivator and asked whether Ning Fa planned to seek the next portion of the Ancient Source Thunder Scripture on Ancient Immortal Island.
• True Lord Tianyang offered to let the matter pass if Ning Fa collected two stalks of Spirit Burning Grass at least six hundred years old during his trip to the island.

After Ning Fa resolved the Huayu Sect’s crisis, he prepared for Ancient Immortal Island after receiving a sudden premonition that the journey might be dangerous. He made arrangements for his family, sect, and disciple before setting out, but an unexpected visitor sought him at the last moment.

• True Lord Tianyang asked Ning Fa to find Spirit Burning Grass on Thunder Hong Road, and Ning Fa agreed before the Tianyang Sect cultivators departed.
• Ning Fa thanked True Lord Yun Jing, True Lord Tianfu, and Fairy Miaoyin for helping the Huayu Sect, then news of his strength spread and deterred potential challengers.
• Cao Xian told Ning Fa that Ancient Immortal Island would open in about half a year, and Ning Fa received a premonition of himself speeding through a chaotic expanse.
• Ning Fa ordered spiritual materials for high-level elixirs, arranged regular cultivation guidance for Liu Ruohong, and gave elixirs and instructions to his family and loved ones.
• After completing his preparations and preparing to leave for Zhenhai City, Ning Fa received a request for a meeting from an unexpected person.

Ning Fa returned to Zhenhai City in disguise to learn about the upcoming Ancient Immortal Island expedition. After hearing how many powerful cultivators planned to enter, he learned that Jingming Sect’s Bai Yueqiu might also cultivate the Ancient Source Thunder Scripture.

• Fairy Bai Feng gave Ning Fa three Extreme Ice Talismans before he left for Ancient Immortal Island.
• Ning Fa arrived in Zhenhai City in disguise and found the city crowded with powerful cultivators despite the Yunhuang Alliance’s boycott.
• Ning Fa overheard Yuan Zi and Zhuang Min discuss their need for another Guiding Spiritual Item and the possibility of trading their Purple Lightning Eagle Beast Egg.
• Ning Fa introduced himself to Yuan Zi and Zhuang Min, and they invited him to a restaurant to discuss Ancient Immortal Island.
• Yuan Zi told Ning Fa that more than a hundred high-level cultivators, including nearly twenty Nascent Soul Cultivators and several Star Ranking experts, might enter the island.
• Ning Fa learned that Bai Yueqiu was rumored to cultivate the Ancient Source Thunder Scripture and recalled the mysterious woman who had bought the Vast Sea Thunder Whale’s inner core.

Ning Fa learned more about the dangers and factions involved in the Ancient Immortal Island expedition, then secretly marked Meng Yi, a fellow cultivator of the Ancient Source Thunder Scripture. True Monarch Cangxu ordered Meng Yi to retrieve Thunder Saltstone and avoid Ning Fa, while he and Huangfu Hong discussed gathering other materials for the Ancient Teleportation Array.

• Ning Fa declined Yuan Zi and Zhuang Min's invitation to explore Ice Flame Lake with them.
• Yuan Zi warned Ning Fa that Old Monster Yang was ruthless and Meng Yi belonged to Pinghai Pavilion, whose forces were seeking the Ancient Source Thunder Scripture inheritance.
• Ning Fa placed a Soul Mark on Meng Yi and left after thanking Yuan Zi for the warning.
• Meng Yi told True Monarch Cangxu that he had met Old Monster Yang, and Cangxu ordered him to retrieve Thunder Saltstone and withdraw from the Thunder Roc Road trial.
• True Monarch Cangxu gave Meng Yi a Spirit Shifting Mask and warned him that Ning Fa had killed Meng Yi's brother, Meng Chong.
• Huangfu Hong assured True Monarch Cangxu that she had dispatched people to obtain Tidal Crystal Cluster and Empty Cloud Sand, and Cangxu regretted that their Instant Space Crystal was too small to stabilize the Ancient Teleportation Array.

Huangfu Hong refused True Monarch Cangxu’s request for Myriad Spirit Heavenly Treasure Liquid, while Ning Fa followed the Guiding Spiritual Item to Ancient Immortal Island. As powerful cultivators gathered at its entrance, True Lord Xuanqiong proposed that the Taiqing Sect and Jingming Sect join forces to seek Oblivion River Spiritual Dew.

• True Monarch Cangxu asked Huangfu Hong for a drop of Myriad Spirit Heavenly Treasure Liquid to repair Pinghai Pavilion’s Tide Sound Bell of Guixu, but she refused and said Yuan Cha Gate needed the remaining drop.
• True Monarch Cangxu coldly anticipated that the arriving Lord Envoy would claim the liquid despite Huangfu Hong’s decision.
• Ning Fa followed the Guiding Spiritual Item west and found Ancient Immortal Island, where more than a hundred cultivators waited outside its barrier and formation.
• Ning Fa recalled the island’s treasures and dangers as cultivators discussed the prominent experts and their plans for its locations.
• Immortal Zhaoming and True Lord Xuanqiong arrived with cultivators from the Jingming Sect and Taiqing Sect, and Xuanqiong proposed that their four Nascent Soul Cultivators join forces to obtain Oblivion River Spiritual Dew.

Ning Fa observed the powerful cultivators gathering before Ancient Immortal Island opened, including Bai Yueqiu, Ye Xuanqing, Tu Lie, and Gu Yan. After declining Yuan Zi’s invitation to visit Ice Flame Lake, Ning Fa saw a Daoist-robed Nascent Soul Cultivator arrive, prompting Yuan Zi and his companions to withdraw.

• Ning Fa watched Wang Xuance and Bai Yueqiu, noting their formidable cultivation and Bai Yueqiu’s carefree appetite.
• As Ancient Immortal Island neared opening, Ning Fa surveyed the crowded gathering and spotted Ye Xuanqing, Tu Lie, Gu Yan, and a disguised Meng Yi among the cultivators.
• Yuan Zi and Zhuang Min approached Ning Fa and invited him to Ice Flame Lake, but Ning Fa declined because he had another destination in mind.
• An old Nascent Soul Cultivator in a Daoist robe embroidered with the Eight Trigrams flew over, and Yuan Zi signaled Ning Fa before the three withdrew several li.