Chapter Summaries

The Ascension Alliance tried repeatedly to force Chu Nianyao, Ning Fa, Qi Ran, and Liang Song off Luoxia Island, then claimed ownership after buying the island from the City Lord’s Mansion. When the four refused to leave, Li Shuhan attacked the island’s defenses, and Ning Fa revealed his thunder cultivation to destroy a powerful talisman’s golden spear.

• Miao An repeatedly offered the four generous terms to leave Luoxia Island, but Chu Nianyao and Ning Fa refused, and Qi Ran and Liang Song eventually stood with them.
• Li Shuhan met with Shang Yang after Miao An reported the four’s continued refusal.
• Li Shuhan arrived with Ascension Alliance members and presented a deed claiming the alliance had bought Luoxia Island from the City Lord’s Mansion, but all four refused to leave or join the alliance.
• Li Shuhan ordered five Core Formation Cultivators to attack Luoxia Island’s defensive restrictions while Chu Nianyao, Qi Ran, and Liang Song defended them.
• Li Shuhan used a Golden Spear Piercing Heaven Talisman against the restrictions, but Ning Fa summoned silver thunderclouds and lightning that destroyed the golden spear.

Ning Fa helped drive off Li Shuhan’s Ascension Alliance group when Shang Ying intervened to defend Luoxia Island, then agreed to craft a Purple Blood Puppet for her. As the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book revealed the more powerful Great Heavenly Fiend Spirit Puppet blueprints, Li Shuhan and True Man Kui Sha began planning a way to obtain Ning Fa’s Puppetry Art and settle the dispute over Luoxia Island.

• Ning Fa revealed Mid Core Formation cultivation, and Li Shuhan drew the Blood-Devouring Spirit-Slaying Bow before Shang Ying arrived with Yun Jin and stopped the Ascension Alliance’s attack on Luoxia Island.
• Shang Ying explained that the island’s ownership was disputed because her father had agreed it could not be sold without Chu Nianyao’s consent, and Li Shuhan left with his cultivators.
• Ning Fa suspected Shang Ying had delayed intervening to gain leverage over him, but he agreed to craft her Purple Blood Puppet so he could remain on Luoxia Island and let the Nine Revolutions Thunder Lotus absorb more spiritual power.
• The Source-Crossing Heavenly Book revealed Great Heavenly Fiend Spirit Puppet blueprints behind the Purple Blood Puppet plans, and Ning Fa recognized their potential Nascent Soul-level strength.
• On Fengluo Island, True Man Kui Sha urged Li Shuhan to recruit Ning Fa for his Puppetry Art and proposed a plan that might also resolve the Luoxia Island dispute; Li Shuhan approved it.

Ning Fa discovered that the Ascension Alliance had coerced Jiang Xueting into delivering a trapped Storage Bag and arranged for her family’s rescue. After some of her clansmen died, he sheltered Jiang Xueting and gave her cultivation treasures; a year later, Sikong Jing reported that the Alliance had secured twelve of thirteen locations for a masked man.

• Zhou Qin delivered osmanthus wine from Fairy Chu Nianyao, and Jiang Xueting asked Ning Fa to refine a Third-Tier Puppet using her family’s resources.
• As she left, Jiang Xueting warned Ning Fa that the Ascension Alliance had tampered with the Storage Bag; a gu insect attacked her, and Ning Fa killed it and healed her.
• Jiang Xueting told Ning Fa that the Ascension Alliance had captured her clansmen and forced her to deliver the bag, so Ning Fa asked Shang Ying to help rescue them.
• Yun Jin reported that Jiang Huai and Jiang Yong had died, while Shang Ying had transferred the remaining Jiang Family clansmen and promised compensation.
• Ning Fa sheltered Jiang Xueting, gave her cultivation techniques and a sword, and let her establish a cave abode on his mountain.
• A year later, Sikong Jing told a masked man that the Ascension Alliance had secured twelve of his requested locations but had not obtained Luoxia Island.

Sikong Jing discussed the Wusheng Sword Pavilion’s ambitions and her family’s need for Illusory Spirit Five Elements Jade Embryos. Later, Yun Jin told Ning Fa that the Ascension Alliance kept a large batch of the rare materials on Hidden Dragon Island, leaving Ning Fa eager to pursue a deal.

• Sikong Jing questioned the Wusheng Sword Pavilion’s search and confirmed that it would deliver her family a Blood Fiend Sword Embryo within five years.
• Sikong Jing and Uncle Tai discussed the Wusheng Sword Master’s ambitions, the Yuanshou Ancestral Court’s plans, and the delayed arrival of Ninth Elder’s group after a Sea Ruin Storm.
• More than half a year later, Ning Fa saw that the Nine Revolutions Thunder Lotus had reached its second revolution while Blue Lightning recovered nearby.
• Yun Jin brought Ning Fa more materials for the Purple Blood Puppet, learned Ning Fa was gathering high-grade Five Elements materials, and proposed a transaction involving Illusory Spirit Five Elements Jade Embryos.
• After Ning Fa signed a Blood Spirit Contract, Yun Jin revealed that the Ascension Alliance stored a sizeable batch of the jade embryos on Hidden Dragon Island.

Yun Jin persuaded Ning Fa to help raid Hidden Dragon Island for the Illusory Spirit Five Elements Jade Embryo, revealing his true cultivation and a detailed plan. They traveled toward the island with Lu Yu, an Ascension Alliance elder who agreed to help in exchange for freedom and a cure, disguising their cultivation with ancient talismans.

• Yun Jin told Ning Fa that the Ascension Alliance had stored Illusory Spirit Five Elements Jade Embryos on Hidden Dragon Island and invited him to raid it.
• Yun Jin revealed that he was a Late Core Formation cultivator, and Ning Fa agreed to join the operation.
• Yun Jin planned to raid Hidden Dragon Island during True Lord Fenglong's birthday celebration and explained the details to Ning Fa.
• One month later, Yun Jin and Ning Fa used short-range Teleportation Arrays to approach the island, while Yun Jin explained that routes to Leiming Sea had been shut down by Lei Prison Mountain.
• Yun Jin met Lu Yu near Hidden Dragon Island, and Lu Yu agreed to guide them in exchange for freedom, a cure for his poison, and resources.
• Ning Fa and Yun Jin used ancient Breath Concealment Talismans to disguise their cultivation, then let Lu Yu capture them with a net and lead them toward Hidden Dragon Island.

Ning Fa and Yun Jin infiltrated Hidden Dragon Island by posing as live Blood Food for the Yin Bone Python. Yun Jin used the Yun Family’s Star Roaming Compass to bypass the island’s restrictions, and Ning Fa learned that his own broken compass came from the same Spirit Treasure.

• Lu Yu led Ning Fa and Yun Jin through the Heavenly Scroll Wind Fiend Array and convinced the Black Armored Man that they were Blood Food for the Yin Bone Python.
• The Black Armored Man verified Lu Yu’s story with Junior Brother Li, then opened a passage into Hidden Dragon Island.
• After reaching the island’s interior, Yun Jin handed Lu Yu a Jade Slip and took Ning Fa toward a treasure vault passage.
• Yun Jin summoned a complete but fading compass projection and used its starlight to let himself and Ning Fa pass through a gray restriction.
• Ning Fa recognized the compass as related to his broken magic artifact, and Yun Jin revealed that the Star Roaming Compass was the Yun Family’s ancestral Spirit Treasure.

Ning Fa and Yun Jin reached the Jia-3 Treasury, where Yun Jin began breaking the array guarding the World-Suppressing Beast while Ning Fa fought to protect him. Ning Fa destroyed the beast once, but it regenerated unharmed, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Yun Jin warned Ning Fa about the Spirit Devouring Ants, and Ning Fa slipped past them in the form of a thin strand of silver lightning.
• Yun Jin used the Star Roaming Compass to shield the great hall and led Ning Fa inside to find the World-Suppressing Beast.
• Yun Jin began breaking the grand array with his Eight-Trigram Disk while Ning Fa blocked the awakened beast's attacks.
• The World-Suppressing Beast attacked Yun Jin, but Ning Fa struck it with his Void-Piercing Thunder Spear and Golden Longsword, destroying its body.
• The World-Suppressing Beast regenerated nearby without losing strength, and Ning Fa recognized how difficult it would be to defeat.

Ning Fa and Yun Jin defeated the World-Suppressing Beast and opened the treasury hall, where Ning Fa found the Illusory Spirit Five Elements Jade Embryos. As Yun Jin tried to break a barrier protecting a jade-green purification vase, Ning Fa’s own attack failed, and a mournful wail rang out.

• The World-Suppressing Beast trapped Ning Fa with the hall’s formation and attacked Yun Jin, but Ning Fa broke free and restrained the beast with his Spirit-Commanding Thunder Whip.
• The beast absorbed the hall’s energy and grew to Fourth-grade strength, forcing Ning Fa to use his Divine Firmament Profound Thunder Dharma Form to keep it from reaching Yun Jin.
• Yun Jin finished breaking the formation, cutting off the beast’s energy source, and Ning Fa struck it down for good.
• Yun Jin opened a passage into the treasury, where he and Ning Fa found a hall filled with third- and fourth-grade treasures.
• Ning Fa discovered a pile of Illusory Spirit Five Elements Jade Embryos, while Yun Jin tried to break the barrier around a jade-green purification vase.
• Ning Fa’s Void-Piercing Thunder Spear dented but failed to break the barrier, and a shrill, mournful wail sounded.

Ning Fa and Yun Jin raided the Ascension Alliance treasury, escaped its guards, and fled to safety with their plunder. True Lord Fenglong arrived too late to stop them and demanded an account from Wei Bo.

• Ning Fa and Yun Jin broke through the treasury barriers, taking the Illusory Spirit Five Elements Jade Embryos, the Emerald Purification Vase, and treasures from other platforms before escaping the closing array.
• Ning Fa and Yun Jin evaded Wei Bo with Yun Jin’s Heavenly Palace Talisman, then escaped the Heavenly Scroll Wind Fiend Array using another Star Roaming Compass projection.
• Wei Bo discovered the World-Suppressing Beast had died, and True Lord Fenglong arrived to find ten treasury platforms looted before ordering Wei Bo to recount what happened.
• Ning Fa and Yun Jin used a Teleportation Array to travel several thousand li, destroyed it, and reached the vicinity of Jinchang Island by dawn.
• Yun Jin congratulated Ning Fa on their successful partnership, and both men celebrated their gains.

Ning Fa returned from plundering Hidden Dragon Island with a trove of rare pills, magic treasures, spiritual materials, and the Illusory Spirit Five Elements Jade Embryos. As the Ascension Alliance announced a hunt for him, Yun Jin, and Lu Yu, Ning Fa prepared to refine the Primal Harmony Heaven-Robbing Sword.

• Yun Jin asked Ning Fa to share the treasures, and Ning Fa agreed to split everything except the Illusory Spirit Five Elements Jade Embryos; Yun Jin then used a water-blue bead to deal with a hidden danger.
• Ning Fa returned to Luoxia Island, praised Jiang Xueting, and examined the treasures he had taken, including rare pills, magic treasures, spirit materials, and the Wondrous Spirit Alchemy Furnace he planned to return to Chu Nianyao.
• Ning Fa began absorbing Profound Heavy Gold Mother to strengthen his Divine Thunder Origin.
• Qi Ran told Ning Fa, Liang Song, and Chu Nianyao that the Ascension Alliance had accused Lu Yu of helping two outsiders plunder Hidden Dragon Island and issued bounties for the three thieves.
• Ning Fa sent Hei Yu to Jinchang Island to buy supplementary spirit materials and prepared to refine the Primal Harmony Heaven-Robbing Sword.

Ning Fa sought Chu Nianyao’s help understanding an array barrier for the Primal Harmony Heaven-Robbing Sword, but the Wondrous Spirit Alchemy Furnace revealed that he had visited Hidden Dragon Island. Chu Nianyao mistook his actions as devotion to her, became his Dao companion, and promised to study the barrier while Ning Fa returned to his own cave abode.

• Ning Fa brought Chu Nianyao a Jade Slip containing an unfamiliar sword-forging array barrier, and she agreed to study it.
• Chu Nianyao’s alchemy-furnace painting reacted to the Wondrous Spirit Alchemy Furnace Ning Fa carried, and she realized he had taken it from Hidden Dragon Island.
• Ning Fa explained that he had obtained the furnace while pursuing another goal, but Chu Nianyao believed he had risked himself for her and embraced him.
• Ning Fa and Chu Nianyao became lovers, and Chu Nianyao asked him not to betray her.
• Zhou Qin overheard them in the alchemy chamber and secretly left, while Chu Nianyao later asked Ning Fa to move in with her.
• Ning Fa declined to move because he was refining a puppet, then returned to his cave abode as Chu Nianyao promised to comprehend the array barrier.

Ning Fa and Chu Nianyao became Dao Companions, while Jiang Xueting discovered the famed Nine Yin Eclipse Moon Art on her bronze mirror and began cultivating it. After Ning Fa completed the Purple Snow Puppet for Shang Ying and Yun Jin, Chu Nianyao offered to take Jiang Xueting as her disciple and bring her to live with her.

• Ning Fa and Chu Nianyao announced that they had become Dao Companions, and Qi Ran and Liang Song congratulated them.
• Jiang Xueting found the general outline and first six layers of the Nine Yin Eclipse Moon Art written on her bronze mirror, memorized them, and wondered who had bestowed the technique on her.
• Shang Ying and Yun Jin inspected the Purple Snow Puppet Ning Fa had refined and explained that a special ritual was still needed to complete it.
• Jiang Xueting asked Ning Fa for cultivation guidance, but Chu Nianyao arrived and offered to take her as a disciple and have her move to Chu Nianyao's residence.
• Jiang Xueting accepted Chu Nianyao's offer, and Ning Fa agreed that it was a good arrangement.

Ning Fa completed the Primal Harmony Heaven-Robbing Sword and learned that Chu Nianyao had been helping Yun Jin’s group break into an Ancient Cultivator Relic. When Yun Jin asked Ning Fa to come repair the relic’s damaged Purple Blood Puppet, Ning Fa learned Chu Nianyao was still there and could see her if he went.

• Chu Nianyao took Jiang Xueting as her disciple to prevent her from becoming a threat to her relationship with Ning Fa.
• Sikong Jing learned that the Zi Yin Immortal Dynasty’s hidden treasury was connected to the Jinchuan Archipelago, and the Ninth Elder said he had prepared for the Wusheng Sword Pavilion’s involvement.
• After more than half a year of forging, Ning Fa completed the five swords of the Primal Harmony Heaven-Robbing Sword and decided to prepare for a trip to the Leiming Sea.
• Chu Nianyao told Ning Fa that Shang Ying had asked her to help break a secret formation, and Ning Fa agreed to let her go.
• Chu Nianyao remained away for three years, and Yun Jin later asked Ning Fa to visit the Ancient Cultivator Relic to repair its Purple Blood Puppet.
• Ning Fa asked how Chu Nianyao was doing, and Yun Jin assured him that she was well and that he could see her if he went to the relic.

Ning Fa agreed to help Yun Jin explore the Ancient Cultivator Relic on Red Crystal Island and joined the group at Purple Light Mountain, where purple mist and powerful puppets had halted their progress. He reunited with Chu Nianyao, then appeared beside her and pulled her into his arms as another cultivator pursued her.

• Yun Jin offered Ning Fa a Star Roaming Compass projection, and Ning Fa agreed to join the exploration.
• Ning Fa stored his belongings, took the Nine Revolutions Thunder Lotus and Blue Lightning with him, and traveled with Yun Jin through hidden Teleportation Arrays to Red Crystal Island.
• Yun Jin explained that Purple Light Mountain's toxic purple mist suppressed cultivators and that powerful puppets had stopped the group's ascent.
• Ning Fa met Shang Ying and learned that Chu Nianyao had entered the mist to inspect the barriers.
• Chu Nianyao emerged with four other cultivators, while the persistent scholar-robed cultivator Chai tried to win her attention despite her rejection.
• Ning Fa appeared beside Chu Nianyao and pulled her into his arms, leaving Chai dumbfounded.

Ning Fa reunited with Chu Nianyao at the restriction site and learned that powerful puppets guarded its purple sea of mist. Hei Yu discovered he could devour the puppets’ origins, defeated a Sea Ape Puppet, and began absorbing its power.

• Ning Fa confronted Chai Liang after he tried to challenge him, and Chu Nianyao revealed her affection for Ning Fa by kissing him.
• Shang Yang and True Lord Mingya arrived, and Mingya asked Ning Fa to examine a captured puppet and help find the puppets’ weaknesses.
• Shang Ying showed Ning Fa and Chu Nianyao a caged Sea Ape Puppet and an Imprint Pearl containing images of other puppets.
• Ning Fa summoned Hei Yu, who sensed the Sea Ape Puppet’s origin could help him advance and let him enter and leave the purple mist.
• Hei Yu fought the Sea Ape Puppet, tore off its head, and absorbed its purple origin as his aura grew stronger.

Ning Fa discovered that Hei Yu could absorb Purple Blood Puppets and used it with Yun Jin to clear the Purple Mist Sea, helping the City Lord's Mansion break its restrictions. Their progress brought them face-to-face with a powerful fourth-rank puppet, which abruptly withdrew into the mist.

• Hei Yu absorbed the Purple Blood Puppet and grew stronger, then Ning Fa brought it into the Purple Mist Sea despite Shang Ying's warning that the mist weakened puppets.
• Hei Yu easily defeated two wolf-shaped Purple Blood Puppets and extracted their Purple Blood Crystals, astonishing Yun Jin.
• Ning Fa and Yun Jin secretly hunted Purple Blood Puppets together, allowing Hei Yu to reach Late Core Formation and helping Chu Nianyao's group advance through the restrictions.
• Over the following half year, they killed many stronger puppets as the Purple Mist Sea shrank and the group neared the mountain peak.
• A towering Three-Headed Six-Armed puppet appeared, but after Yun Jin made a strange soundless utterance, it turned and disappeared into the mist.
• Ning Fa refused to venture farther, suspecting the powerful puppet was too dangerous to confront again.

Ning Fa and the other cultivators discovered the Zi Xu Palace and its guardian, a powerful Purple Origin Star Dragon, on Purple Light Mountain. After the dragon drove them back, True Lord Mingya said they would wait for reinforcements from True Lord Yujing and Han Che.

• Yun Jin and Ning Fa reported finding a fourth-rank puppet, but True Lord Mingya found no trace of it when he investigated.
• The purple mist and restrictions disappeared, revealing a palace on the mountaintop; True Lord Mingya insisted Ning Fa and Chu Nianyao stay to help investigate.
• The cultivators reached the summit and saw a purple palace above a vast sea of mist, guarded by a Purple Origin Star Dragon.
• True Lord Mingya identified the site as the Zi Xu Palace, one of the treasure vaults of the Zi Yin Immortal Dynasty.
• The Purple Origin Star Dragon attacked with purple spheres, forcing True Lord Mingya and the others to retreat to their camp.
• True Lord Mingya returned battered and said he could not defeat the dragon, but True Lord Yujing and Han Che were expected to arrive soon.

Ning Fa suspected Yun Jin was connected to the Zi Yin Immortal Dynasty and planned to escape with Chu Nianyao, while the City Lord's Mansion secured the site and prepared to seize Zi Xu Palace. After True Lord Yujing and True Lord Hanchen failed to easily defeat the Purple Origin Star Dragon, Yujing decided to use the mansion's Taihe Diagram.

• Ning Fa suspected Yun Jin was a descendant of the Zi Yin Immortal Dynasty and resolved to find a chance to flee with Chu Nianyao.
• True Lord Mingya placed Divine Soul Imprints on the Golden Core Cultivators, excluding Shang Ying and Shang Yang, and warned them not to reveal Zi Xu Palace's discovery.
• True Lord Yujing and True Lord Hanchen arrived and fought the Purple Origin Star Dragon, then returned without defeating it.
• True Lord Yujing learned that the dragon was weaker than the legendary Purple Origin Star Dragons but could recover rapidly beneath the purple mist.
• True Lord Yujing praised Shang Ying for discovering Red Crystal Island, while Shang Yang mocked her and her prospects of becoming the mansion's Nascent Soul seed.
• True Lord Yujing insisted they defeat the dragon quickly and decided to use the Taihe Diagram.

The City Lord’s Mansion fought the Purple Origin Star Dragon with the Taihe Diagram and a formation powered by Golden Core Cultivators, eventually splitting the dragon in two. As the mist vanished and the group prepared to enter Zi Xu Palace, True Lord Yujing revealed that another cultivator was hiding nearby.

• True Lord Yujing told the cultivators that he had brought the Sky-Crossbow Formation, and Yun Jin privately invited Ning Fa to join another scheme.
• The City Lord’s Mansion returned to the mountaintop, where the three Nascent Soul Cultivators blocked the Purple Origin Star Dragon’s attack and True Lord Yujing trapped it with the Taihe Diagram.
• Shang Ying led the Golden Core Cultivators in activating the Sky-Crossbow Formation, whose bolts wounded the dragon as the Nascent Soul Cultivators attacked.
• True Lord Yujing used the Taihe Diagram and his sword to split the exhausted dragon, but its front half fled through the palace gates as the purple mist dispersed.
• True Lord Yujing stopped True Lord Mingya from entering Zi Xu Palace and called out the concealed Wind Dragon.

The Ascension Alliance and Sikong Family revealed themselves at Red Crystal Island, and Shang Yang admitted betraying the City Lord’s Mansion for an Infant Transformation Pill. As True Lord Fenglong gained the advantage, True Lord Yujing activated a concealed formation, leaving the gathered cultivators trapped within its spreading array.

• True Lord Fenglong and the Ascension Alliance appeared with Sikong Jing and the Sikong Family, revealing their hidden approach to Zi Xu Palace.
• True Lord Mingya accused Chai Liang of betraying the City Lord’s Mansion, while Shang Ying accused Shang Yang of helping the Ascension Alliance enter Red Crystal Island.
• Shang Yang confessed that he had betrayed his father for an Infant Transformation Pill and joined True Lord Fenglong’s side with his followers.
• True Lord Fenglong revealed that he had advanced to Nascent Soul Middle Stage and challenged the depleted True Lord Yujing.
• True Lord Yujing activated a concealed formation through his thumb ring, and Chu Nianyao recognized that the earlier Sky-Crossbow Formation had been a smokescreen for it.