Chapter Summaries

Ning Fa entered Ancient Immortal Island and landed in the Ice Horn Wasteland, where he hunted demonic beasts with Blue Lightning and Little Ice. Frost Fairy Ye Xuanqing offered powerful rewards for Little Ice, but Ning Fa refused and left.

• Yuan Zi warned Ning Fa that the notorious Greedy Wolf Old Monster preyed on Core Formation Cultivators.
• Ancient Immortal Island opened, and Ning Fa entered through its formation with Yuan Zi and his wife; Ning Huarong arrived later and entered as well.
• Ning Fa landed in the Ice Horn Wasteland and sent Blue Lightning and Little Ice to defeat two powerful ice-attribute demonic beasts.
• Ning Fa and his spirit beasts hunted several more demonic beasts so Little Ice could consume their inner cores and advance.
• Ye Xuanqing offered Ning Fa two Late Third-grade spirit beasts and two drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Essence in exchange for Little Ice, but Ning Fa refused and vanished.

Ning Fa reached Thunder Swan Road after escaping a Fourth-grade demonic beast with a nearly thousand-year-old Dragon Blood Fruit. The first trial began with each participant bearing a massive silver mountain, and Ning Fa suspected the gorge would test more than raw strength.

• Ning Fa fled a winged blue ape into a thundercloud region, where he escaped its pursuit and revealed the Dragon Blood Fruit he had stolen.
• Ning Fa reached Thunder Swan Road and entered a lightning-filled gorge, where he found more than ten other cultivators waiting for the trial to begin.
• Bai Yueqiu recognized Ning Fa through his disguise, revealed that she had cultivated nine Lesser Thunder Sources, and challenged him to compete with her.
• Two more cultivators arrived, bringing the participants to twenty, and the Thunder Chains opened the path as the first stage was announced.
• A silver mountain weighing three hundred thousand jin descended onto each participant; Ning Fa caught his and realized the trial tested their physical strength as they crossed the gorge.

Ning Fa raced through the Thunder Peak Bearing Heaven trial, enduring its escalating mountain weight and using his Lightning Avoidance Innate Divine Ability to withstand powerful body-tempering lightning. He passed with the highest purple-grade rating and received the Thunder Peak Gauntlets, one component of the Divine Firmament Thunder Armor Set.

• Tu Lie took an early lead, but Bai Yueqiu and then Ning Fa overtook him as the trial-takers carried silver mountains through the canyon.
• The mountains grew heavier as Ning Fa and Bai Yueqiu sped up, and Ning Fa used the embryonic Divine Firmament Manifestation to pull ahead.
• Near the canyon's exit, purple gold lightning struck Ning Fa and tempered his body; he used his Lightning Avoidance Innate Divine Ability to withstand its increasing intensity.
• After an hour, Ning Fa completed the stage, having gained greatly improved physical strength and potential.
• The trial announced Ning Fa's highest purple-grade rating and awarded him the Thunder Peak Gauntlets.

Ning Fa received the Thunder Peak Gauntlets as the Purple Grade Reward for the first Thunder Roc Road trial, then entered the Yin Yang Thunder Vortex. He discovered that refining the water’s Thunder Spiritual Power propelled swimmers forward, and his eighteen Lesser Thunder Sources let him race ahead of Bai Yueqiu while strengthening his mana.

• Ning Fa received the Thunder Peak Gauntlets, a component of the Divine Firmament Thunder Armor Set, and waited at the gorge’s end for the other participants.
• Bai Yueqiu reached the end and received a Golden Reward, while Tu Lie and Gu Yan earned Silver Rewards; Ning Fa considered taking their treasures before Bai Yueqiu warned him that participants could not casually attack one another.
• After a day passed, fourteen participants remained, and the chains vanished to reveal the silvery water of the second trial, the Yin Yang Thunder Vortex.
• The trial’s announcement required participants to swim to the opposite shore within a day, and the group discovered they could neither fly across nor swim by ordinary means.
• Ning Fa realized that refining the water’s Thunder Spiritual Power made participants swim faster, then used his eighteen Lesser Thunder Sources and Main Thunder Source to surge ahead of Bai Yueqiu.
• Ning Fa swam more than fifty li as his mana grew, but wondered whether the Yin Yang Thunder Vortex concealed another challenge.

Ning Fa navigated the Mana trial’s whirlpools by synchronizing the Thunder Sources in his body with their rotations, then struggled to overcome an enormous reverse whirlpool. He ultimately split the rotation directions of his Thunder Sources, shattered the whirlpool with a punch, and was blasted onto the shore.

• Ning Fa discovered that refining chaotic spiritual energy helped him resist ordinary whirlpools, then passed them by matching his Thunder Sources’ rotation speeds to theirs.
• Ning Fa saw Bai Yueqiu struggling with a whirlpool and Tu Lie and Gu Yan attempting to avoid one as he continued ahead.
• Ning Fa encountered a gigantic reverse whirlpool, suffered injuries while learning to reverse his Thunder Sources, and began crossing it after reversing their rotation directions.
• Bai Yueqiu arrived and claimed she had found the trick, but Ning Fa weakened the whirlpool’s repulsion by reversing more Thunder Sources and passed its center.
• Ning Fa drove half his Lesser Thunder Sources forward and half in reverse, then punched apart the reverse whirlpool and was propelled onto the shore, while the waves blasted Bai Yueqiu backward.

Ning Fa passed the Yin Yang Thunder Vortex, gained a Purple Grade Mysterious Pivot Chestplate, and learned to unleash a powerful forward-and-reverse Thunder Source strike. He reached the free-exploration section of Thunder Hong Road and climbed the massive mountain in search of spiritual items, stopping beneath its storm-shrouded summit.

• Ning Fa discovered that reversing and advancing his Thunder Source let him unleash a strike comparable to a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s full-power attack, though it badly injured him.
• The trial voice awarded Ning Fa a Purple Grade Mysterious Pivot Chestplate after he cleared the Yin Yang Thunder Vortex in four and a half hours.
• Ning Fa saw Bai Yueqiu make progress through the reverse vortex, then continued through a river valley toward the next trial area.
• Ning Fa reached the sealed iron chain bridge and learned that the third trial would open in four days, leaving time to explore the middle section of Thunder Hong Road.
• Ning Fa flew up the massive mountain, drove off a flock of third-tier lightning demonic birds with his Five Elements Thunder Body, and paused beneath the dark clouds near the summit.

Ning Fa gathered rare spiritual materials on the mountain and learned that the summit held a Nine Revolutions Thunder Lotus, a crucial ingredient for producing the Creation Thunder Liquid needed for his Nascent Soul advancement. After resolving to face the summit’s dangers, he destroyed the tiger demon and flew upward to investigate.

• Ning Fa sent Little Ice and Blue Lightning to gather spiritual materials while he searched in another direction.
• Ning Fa defeated and captured a powerful two-headed tiger demon guarding a fifteen-hundred-year-old Heavenly Spirit Fruit, then took the fruit.
• Ning Fa used soul searching on the old man fused with the tiger and learned that the summit held a Nine Revolutions Thunder Lotus inside a pond of thunder slurry.
• Ning Fa decided to risk the summit despite its terrifying lightning storms and the growing sense of danger.
• Ning Fa killed the tiger demon, collected its inner core, regrouped with Little Ice and Blue Lightning, and flew toward the summit.

Ning Fa braved the summit’s deadly lightning storm and found a first-revolution Nine Revolutions Thunder Lotus protected by a Prajna Mirror Yuan Barrier. He used the Shattered Compass to bypass the barrier, claimed the lotus, and began nourishing it in his dantian.

• Ning Fa pushed through the intensifying lightning storm by strengthening his Lightning Avoidance Innate Divine Ability with the Five Elements Divine Thunder Origin.
• At the summit, Ning Fa found a Nine Revolutions Thunder Lotus growing in a pool of thunder slurry beside a White Skeleton.
• Ning Fa identified the barrier around the pond as a Prajna Mirror Yuan Barrier after it reflected his attacks back at him.
• Ning Fa sent the Shattered Compass’s blue star through the barrier, entered behind it, and cut apart part of the formation to bring the barrier down.
• Ning Fa drew the Nine Revolutions Thunder Lotus into his dantian and used his primary Golden Core to nourish it.

Ning Fa took the White Skeleton and Nine Revolutions Thunder Lotus, escaped a terrifying being’s interrupted transmission, and pursued Meng Yi after sensing his mark. After capturing and searching Meng Yi, Ning Fa learned that Pinghai Pavilion’s forces were gathering Thunder Void Stones for a scheme in Dragon Ruins.

• Ning Fa bound the White Skeleton and stored it, but the formation trapped him again as a White Figure began to materialize; the figure vanished before it could arrive.
• A White-robed Youth in an underground palace blamed Lei Hong for trying to steal his Ancient Spirit Embryo and Nine Revolutions Thunder Lotus, then used a White Thunder Pearl to begin cutting through the Thunder Throne’s restraints.
• Ning Fa fled the summit with the Nine Revolutions Thunder Lotus, sent Blue Lightning to search for Spirit Burning Grass, and pursued Meng Yi after detecting his Moon Chasing Mark.
• Meng Yi tried to escape with an azure cloak, but Ning Fa caught him, overwhelmed him, and planted restrictions before searching his soul.
• Ning Fa learned that Meng Yi and his brother Meng Chong were disciples of True Monarch Cangxu, and that Pinghai Pavilion had sent its people to gather Thunder Void Stones for a plan involving Dragon Ruins.

Ning Fa killed Meng Yi, collected his treasures, and returned to the trial participants with Spirit Burning Grass. At the Thousand Mechanisms Thunder Wall, he began studying its shifting lightning realm in search of a powerful lightning art.

• Ning Fa killed Meng Yi and took his Spirit Shifting Mask, Flying Cloud Cloak, and Storage Bag.
• Blue Lightning brought Ning Fa several Spirit Burning Grasses, including one that was a thousand years old.
• Ning Fa returned to the bridge, where Tu Lie, Gu Yan, and the other surviving participants gathered before Bai Yueqiu arrived with a Thousand Year Thunder Marrow Ganoderma.
• Bai Yueqiu offered Ning Fa the ganoderma in exchange for instruction in his Yin Yang Thunder Vortex technique, but he refused.
• The participants began the third trial at the Thousand Mechanisms Thunder Wall, which required them to comprehend a lightning spell within one day.
• Ning Fa used his Five Elements Thunder Body to slow his perception of the wall's lightning world and began discerning its underlying patterns.

Ning Fa comprehended the heaven-grade Thunder Strike Indestructible Body, earned the highest purple reward, and advanced to the fourth trial of Thunder Swan Road. There, he and the three other remaining trial-takers faced Mind Thunder Prison, a test they had to break within one day.

• Bai Yueqiu formed the Nine Luminaries Combined Thunder Art and expected to win the purple reward, but Ning Fa vanished into lightning and re-formed with the Thunder Strike Indestructible Body.
• Ning Fa received the Myriad Laws Thunder Crown as his highest purple reward and was transported to the mountain peak where the fourth trial awaited.
• Ning Fa teased Bai Yueqiu about taking first place again, while she vowed to defeat him in the next trial.
• Gu Yan and one other trial-taker arrived, while Tu Lie failed to advance, leaving only four of the original twenty participants.
• The trial voice opened Mind Thunder Prison and announced that the participants had one day to break it; Ning Fa stepped onto the cloud bridge first.

Ning Fa fought the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon after it trapped him in a heart-demon space, then broke free and drove the demon away. Thunder Firmament Road recognized his escape as passing the Mind Thunder Prison and awarded him a purple-grade reward.

• The Outer Realm Heavenly Demon revealed that it had marked Ning Fa and seized control of his heart-demon trial, then tried to make him reveal Ning An’s whereabouts.
• Ning Fa awakened inside an illusion of his first days after transmigrating and used five Gale Thunder Talismans to break through the heart-demon space.
• Ning Fa attacked the demon with his silver-white sword infused with Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder, forcing it to retreat and vow to return when he reached the Nascent Soul realm.
• Ning Fa emerged at the foot of the mountain, where Thunder Firmament Road confirmed he had passed the Mind Thunder Prison with a purple-grade rating.
• Ning Fa received the Unintentional Inner Armor, another component of the Divine Firmament Thunder Armor Set.

Ning Fa completed Thunder Hong Road and entered its hidden trial stage to find True Person Cang Lei. After reaching him, Ning Fa faced the trial of obtaining a Void-Rending Thunder Eagle egg.

• Ning Fa found the road cut off by a vast void, followed a Silver Chain across it, and reached the Silver Palace at the Inheritance Hall.
• Ning Fa declined the Ancient Source Thunder Scripture inheritance and used the right Silver Ring to enter the Candle Spirit Thunder Domain.
• Ning Fa learned he had half a month to obtain a Void-Rending Thunder Eagle egg and activated True Person Cang Lei's Spiritual Power Mark to locate him.
• Ning Fa crossed a dense forest and hilly terrain as the Spiritual Power Mark led him onward.
• A streak of Silver Light Shadow arrived, and True Person Cang Lei appeared before Ning Fa.

Ning Fa met True Lord Cang Lei, who explained how he became trapped in the Candle Spirit Thunder Domain and survived Cang Liao’s pursuit. Cang Lei revealed that an unseen benefactor had secretly aided him and warned him when Ning Fa was in danger on Gray Luo Island.

• True Lord Cang Lei recognized Ning Fa as the Cheng Family’s son-in-law, and Ning Fa greeted him as Seventh Uncle.
• Ning Fa told Cang Lei that he had earned purple-grade evaluations in the first four Thunder Roc Road stages and cultivated eighteen Lesser Thunder Sources, astonishing Cang Lei.
• Cang Lei warned Ning Fa that completing his beast-egg mission was nearly impossible because the Void-Rending Thunder Eagle, Cang Liao, now kept its last egg with it.
• Cang Lei recounted how he was trapped after Cang Liao captured him, later escaped by breaking its restrictions, and spent over a hundred years fleeing its pursuit.
• Cang Lei revealed that an unknown benefactor had secretly helped him and had alerted him when Ning Fa faced danger on Gray Luo Island, leaving Ning Fa shocked.

Ning Fa followed True Lord Cang Lei’s plan to reach a hidden valley and prepare a formation that could help them escape the Candle Spirit Thunder Domain. There, the Black Ring awakened a trapped soul, and the White-robed Youth revealed that he had saved Ning Fa from Lei Ming and warned that Lei Ming could turn him into an Ancient Spirit.

• True Lord Cang Lei told Ning Fa to set up a strength-boosting formation at a hidden valley while he lured Cang Liao away, and Ning Fa agreed.
• After True Lord Cang Lei left, Ning Fa sensed the malicious gaze of the White-robed Youth and hurried toward the valley.
• Ning Fa reached the valley, found the weak point in its spatial barrier, and confirmed that his Void-Piercing Thunder Spear could not break through it.
• The Black Ring reacted near a hidden cave, and Ning Fa uncovered a stone man that the ring’s black light entered before it emerged as the White-robed Youth.
• The White-robed Youth thanked Ning Fa for rescuing another wisp of his divided soul and admitted he had saved Ning Fa from Lei Ming, who could turn him into an Ancient Spirit.

Ning Fa learned that Lei Hong and Lei Ming were split spirits of an Ancient Immortal and that Lei Ming planned to turn him into an Ancient Spirit. The White-robed Youth revealed Ning Fa’s Great Five Elements Thunder Body and offered a path to survival in exchange for help defeating Lei Ming after Ning Fa reached the Nascent Soul Realm.

• The White-robed Youth revealed that Lei Hong Road’s founder was an Ancient Immortal exiled from the Spirit Realm, and that Ancient Spirits were puppet creations made to serve the imprisoned immortals.
• The White-robed Youth warned Ning Fa that Lei Ming wanted to use him as a vessel for a new Ancient Spirit because of his outstanding performance.
• The White-robed Youth explained that he and Lei Ming were split spirits locked in a struggle, and that their last battle caused the Spirit Transformation Sea of Lightning to break away.
• The White-robed Youth identified Ning Fa’s Great Five Elements Thunder Body and proposed helping him survive if Ning Fa returned after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm to help defeat Lei Ming.
• Ning Fa accepted the deal and examined a Jade Slip listing precious lightning treasures, then asked the White-robed Youth where the promised path to survival lay.

The White-robed Youth told Ning Fa about two ways to leave Ancient Immortal Island and revealed an Ancient Teleportation Array leading to the Nine Dragons Sea, which could help Ning Fa pursue Nascent Soul Formation. After learning Ji Minxiong had been preserved as a potential Ancient Spirit, Ning Fa left with True Lord Cang Lei through a newly opened passage as the valley collapsed.

• The White-robed Youth told Ning Fa that a Transmission Barrier in Dragon Lair No. 17 could take him off Ancient Immortal Island, but warned that Lei Ming would still threaten him in Cangyuan.
• The White-robed Youth showed Ning Fa Pinghai Pavilion cultivators repairing an Ancient Teleportation Array in the Dragon Ruins and explained that it led to the Nine Dragons Sea, where Ning Fa might have a better chance of forming a Nascent Soul.
• The White-robed Youth revealed Ji Minxiong's preserved soul and said he had agreed to become an Ancient Spirit; Ning Fa gave the White-robed Youth the white-boned skeleton to use as a foundation for Ji Minxiong's body.
• The White-robed Youth said he would prepare to free Ning Fa and delay Lei Ming's pursuit, but disappeared before Ning Fa could tell True Lord Cang Lei about him.
• A gap opened in the valley's wall of light, and Ning Fa and True Lord Cang Lei fled through it as the valley collapsed behind them.

Lei Ming forced Cang Liao to serve as his mount, then broke through Lei Hong’s protection to pursue Ning Fa. In the Dragon Ruins, Ning Fa sensed Lei Ming approaching and decided to draw him away from True Lord Cang Lei, who remained reluctant to abandon him.

• Lei Ming intercepted Cang Liao, made him transform into an eagle, and rode him west in search of Ning Fa.
• Lei Ming attacked the mountain concealed by the Void Thunder River Map until the map emerged, then cut open a passage and left with Cang Liao as Lei Hong recovered the scroll.
• Ning Fa and True Lord Cang Lei traveled through the dangerous volcanic Dragon Ruins, where Cang Lei fought a skeletal bird and Ning Fa estimated they were about a thousand li from Dragon Lair Number Seventeen.
• Ning Fa sensed Lei Ming pursuing them and told True Lord Cang Lei to continue alone while he lured their pursuer away.
• True Lord Cang Lei refused to leave Ning Fa, but wavered after Ning Fa revealed he had learned the Lightning Escape divine ability from the Thousand Mechanisms Thunder Wall.

Ning Fa asked True Lord Cang Lei to protect his family, clan, and sect before setting out for the Nine Dragons Sea Cultivation World. Disguised as Meng Yi, he reached Number One Dragon Lair with Lei Ming close behind and tried to pass himself off to True Monarch Cangxu, who questioned his hurried arrival.

• Ning Fa asked True Lord Cang Lei to look after his loved ones and sect if he could not return, then demonstrated his Lightning Escape and departed.
• Pinghai Pavilion repaired the Teleportation Array, but no one appeared, and True Monarch Cangxu could not send anyone to inspect it without a Great Teleportation Token.
• Ning Fa disguised himself as Meng Yi and fled toward Number One Dragon Lair while Lei Ming and a Void-Rending Thunder Eagle pursued him.
• Ning Fa entered the cavern and told True Monarch Cangxu that Lu Kun had revealed the location and that he had brought the requested Thunder Void Stones.
• True Monarch Cangxu accepted the stones, then questioned why Ning Fa looked so flustered.

Ning Fa tried to use the Teleportation Array to escape after luring Pinghai Pavilion with news of Heavenly Spirit Fruits, but a Sea Race envoy arrived and a lightning sword attack disrupted his plans. The chapter ended as the envoy intercepted the incoming White Sword Qi, while Ning Fa’s disguise was under suspicion.

• Ning Fa told True Monarch Cangxu and Huangfu Hong about the ten-thousand-year Heavenly Spirit Fruits and showed them a fifteen-hundred-year fruit, which Huangfu Hong took.
• True Monarch Cangxu, Huangfu Hong, and two Pinghai Pavilion Nascent Soul Cultivators went out to confront Lei Ming, leaving Ning Fa with Junior Brother Sun and three Golden Core cultivators.
• A Sea Race cultivator appeared through the Teleportation Array, and Ning Fa recognized him as a likely envoy from the Nine Dragons Sea.
• Lei Ming realized Ning Fa might escape through the Ancient Teleportation Array and transformed into a lightning sword to rush back into the Dragon Lair.
• The Sea Race envoy’s sea serpent identified Ning Fa, prompting suspicion from Junior Brother Sun, but the envoy then used a Blue Trident to meet Lei Ming’s incoming White Sword Qi.