Chapter Summaries

True Lord Yujing’s trap for the Ascension Alliance was challenged by the Sikong Family’s hidden reinforcements, and the balance shifted again when True Lord Hanchen betrayed Yujing. Hanchen revealed that Yujing had secretly consumed the longevity pill meant for Shi Ya, while Shang Yang admitted he had exposed the truth to Hanchen.

• True Lord Yujing trapped the Ascension Alliance inside a fourth-grade Crimson Sun Sword Array and revealed that True Lord Cangbo of Illusion Butterfly Palace was among his preparations.
• True Lord Cangbo explained that he had allied with Yujing because True Lord Fenglong’s death could leave him a chance to explore ancient ruins with He Hua.
• Sikong Zhibo revealed Sikong Yuanba, a fourth-grade body cultivator, as the Sikong Family’s hidden reinforcement, leaving the confrontation uncertain.
• True Lord Hanchen suddenly struck True Lord Yujing from behind and fled to the Ascension Alliance, gravely wounding Yujing.
• Hanchen accused Yujing of consuming the Three-Dao Mark Longevity Pill meant for Shi Ya fifty years earlier, and Shang Yang admitted he had told Hanchen the truth.

Shang Yang revealed that True Lord Yujing had taken the Three-Dao Mark Longevity Pill meant for Shi Ya, helping explain Han Che’s betrayal as the Ascension Alliance and Sikong Family moved to seize the Jinchuan Archipelago. After Yujing fled into Zi Xu Palace with several Nascent Soul Cultivators in pursuit, Ning Fa remained behind with the restrained City Lord’s Mansion cultivators as Li Shuhan and Chai Liang threatened Shang Ying and Chu Nianyao; Ning Fa prepared to act.

• Shang Yang told True Lord Yujing that he had uncovered how Yujing took Shi Ya’s Three-Dao Mark Longevity Pill and had informed Han Che, who had poisoned Yujing with Heart Refining Poison.
• True Lord Fenglong affirmed his Taicang Blood Pact with Shang Yang, while Sikong Zhibo declared that the Sikong Family would take over the Jinchuan Archipelago.
• True Lord Yujing crushed his thumb ring to activate the Crimson Sun Sword Array and fled toward Zi Xu Palace, followed by True Lord Mingya, True Lord Cangbo, True Lord Fenglong, and other Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• True Lord Fenglong restrained Ning Fa and the City Lord’s Mansion cultivators beneath the steps before pursuing Yujing, while the remaining Nascent Soul Cultivators also entered Zi Xu Palace.
• Li Shuhan offered to spare Shang Ying if she became his Dao Companion, and Chai Liang demanded Chu Nianyao as promised; Chu Nianyao told Ning Fa she regretted not meeting him sooner.
• Ning Fa watched Li Shuhan approach and decided to make his move, confident that Fenglong’s restraint could not stop him and that the Nascent Soul Cultivators had gone far enough away.

Yun Jin and Shang Ying escaped toward Zi Xu Palace, while Ning Fa trapped the Ascension Alliance cultivators in his Cage of the Moon and slaughtered most of them. He captured Li Shuhan and then attacked Sikong Tai, whose fate remained undecided.

• Yun Jin broke free of True Lord Fenglong’s restraint, freed Shang Ying, and gave Ning Fa an Azure Orb and a warning about Zi Xu Palace and Hidden Dragon Island.
• Ning Fa trapped Li Shuhan and the Ascension Alliance cultivators inside the Cage of the Moon, where they could neither use their magic treasures nor cast ordinary spells.
• Ning Fa strengthened his moon blades with Spiritual Heart Divine Thunder and killed six Core Formation Cultivators, including Chai Liang.
• Ning Fa broke Li Shuhan’s defenses and planted restrictions in him, sparing his life for the time being.
• Ning Fa attacked Sikong Tai after considering the trouble that might follow from letting the Sikong Family elder go.

Ning Fa escaped Red Crystal Island after defeating the Ascension Alliance cultivators, freeing Chu Nianyao, and breaking through the island’s concealment restriction. As Little Ice carried them east, Ning Fa discovered that Sikong Tai’s final attack had left an ineradicable mark on his Moon God Heart.

• Sikong Tai sacrificed himself to place a lunar blemish on Ning Fa’s full moon before the Cage of the Moon dissipated.
• Ning Fa returned to the mountaintop, found the Ascension Alliance cultivators dead except for Li Shuhan, and used his Metal Origin Sword to free himself and Chu Nianyao.
• Chu Nianyao activated an array to help the trapped City Lord’s Mansion cultivators, while Ning Fa seized Li Shuhan, collected the dead cultivators’ belongings, and burned their bodies.
• Ning Fa spotted the concealed Shang Yang but left him alive, then escaped Red Crystal Island with Chu Nianyao and Li Shuhan by breaking through its hidden barrier.
• Ning Fa summoned the recovering Little Ice and ordered it to carry them east at full speed.
• Ning Fa inspected his Moon God Heart and found that he could not remove the lunar blemish Sikong Tai had left behind.

After learning that Hidden Dragon Island had no hidden Nascent Soul Cultivators, Ning Fa decided to plunder it again and leave the Jinchuan Archipelago. He parted from Chu Nianyao, made Li Shuhan his puppet, and arrived at Ascension Island disguised as Tan Ming to seek True Man Kui Sha.

• Ning Fa searched Li Shuhan's soul and learned that the Ascension Alliance had no other hidden Nascent Soul Cultivators, making a return to Hidden Dragon Island seem feasible.
• Ning Fa told Chu Nianyao to flee with their allies to the Huan Yu Islands while he dealt with the Soul Mark, and they parted after exchanging Myriad-Mile Concentricity Plates.
• Ning Fa used the Moon Puppet Art to control Li Shuhan, then disguised himself as Tan Ming with the Spirit Mask.
• Ning Fa and Li Shuhan reached Ascension Island, where a blue-haired Core Formation cultivator questioned their return and Ning Fa asked whether Senior Brother Kui Sha was there.

Li Shuhan lured True Man Kui Sha to Hidden Dragon Island by promising him access to the Golden King Battle Puppet, while Chu Nianyao left Luoxia Island after learning Jiang Xueting had disappeared. Jiang Xueting survived a deadly encounter with a fourth-rank Wraith and helped a mysterious person complete a spirit-transfer array, then agreed to join the Heavenly Evolution Sect in exchange for cultivation techniques.

• Li Shuhan told True Man Kui Sha that the Golden King Battle Puppet was available for him to study and led him and Ning Fa through Teleportation Array Number Seven.
• Zhou Qin told Chu Nianyao that Jiang Xueting had vanished, and Chu Nianyao sent Jiang Xueting a message before leaving Luoxia Island with Qi Ran and Liang Song.
• Jiang Xueting fought through a tunnel of Wraiths but collapsed when a fourth-rank Wraith blocked her path; a mysterious person killed it and invited her onward.
• Jiang Xueting completed the main array of the Two Elements Spirit Transfer Array with the mysterious person's guidance.
• The mysterious person gave Jiang Xueting the complete Nine Yin Eclipse Moon Art and the first three layers of the Heart Purity Soul Nurturing Technique, asking her to join the Heavenly Evolution Sect after forming her core.
• Jiang Xueting agreed to the request, and the mysterious person revealed that he was Little Friend Ning and regretted how much trouble his caution had caused.

Ning Fa killed True Man Kui Sha and seized his valuable puppets before returning with Li Shuhan to Hidden Dragon Island. When Wei Bo refused to let them leave the Transmission Hall without a token, Ning Fa attacked him, and Wei Bo revealed a fourth-tier Sky-Splitting Sword Talisman.

• Ning Fa ambushed True Man Kui Sha, took his Golden Core, and destroyed the soul inhabiting his escaping puppet.
• Ning Fa took True Man Kui Sha's Storage Ring and refined his collection of puppets for use on the island.
• Ning Fa and Li Shuhan arrived at Hidden Dragon Island's Transmission Hall, where its guards and Wei Bo refused to let them pass without Alliance Leader Feng Long's token.
• Ning Fa teleported out of the hall, and Li Shuhan killed the two guards and destroyed the Teleportation Array.
• Ning Fa attacked Wei Bo with Spiritual Heart Divine Thunder, but Wei Bo's helmet blocked it and his magic treasures bound and assailed Ning Fa.
• Wei Bo drew a fourth-tier Sky-Splitting Sword Talisman whose power matched a full-force strike from a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

Ning Fa defeated Hidden Dragon Island’s guard commander, Wei Bo, and used his identity token to reach the heavily guarded Jia-One Treasury. His Star Roaming Compass merged with its projection and revealed new abilities, allowing him and Li Shuhan to pass the White Bone Spirit Flame restriction, but the Heavenly Net Spirit Protection Array and its powerful World-Suppressing Beast still stood between them and the treasury.

• Ning Fa suppressed Wei Bo with the Nirvana Thunder Seal and Thunder Peak Gauntlets, then broke the Soul Locking Technique with his Moon God Heart and searched Wei Bo’s memories.
• Ning Fa learned that True Lord Fenglong and the Ascension Alliance headquarters had been alerted, but they would take several days to reach Hidden Dragon Island.
• Ning Fa took Wei Bo’s treasures and token, freed Li Shuhan from the Transmission Hall, and led him toward Jia-One Treasury.
• Ning Fa used Wei Bo’s token to pass the island’s barriers, then discovered White Bone Spirit Flames guarding the route to the treasury.
• The Star Roaming Compass absorbed its projection, partially repaired itself, and revealed abilities to bypass and weaken restrictions.
• Ning Fa used the compass to lead himself and Li Shuhan through the White Bone Spirit Flames, then approached the powerful Heavenly Net Spirit Protection Array and its World-Suppressing Beast.

Ning Fa weakened the Jia-One Treasury’s formation and fought its World-Suppressing Beast, while the Sikong family learned that he might possess the complete Heavenly Moon Void God Diagram. After Ning Fa killed the beast and headed for the treasury, Sikong Jing left to pursue him.

• Ning Fa used the Star Roaming Compass to weaken the treasury formation, then summoned his spirit pets, puppets, and Li Shuhan to fight the World-Suppressing Beast.
• Sikong Zhibo, Sikong Yuanba, and Sikong Jing took refuge in a side hall of Zi Xu Palace, where Uncle Tai’s remnant soul revealed that Ning Fa had used the Heavenly Moon Totem.
• Sikong Zhibo concluded that Ning Fa might possess the missing portion of the Heavenly Moon Void God Diagram and ordered Sikong Jing to capture him with the Taiyin Slaughter God Banner.
• Sikong Jing transformed into a Silver Giant Wolf and left as the purple puppet pursued the others.
• After a day of battle, Ning Fa used his five Primal Harmony Heaven-Robbing Swords and Five Elements Divine Thunder to kill the World-Suppressing Beast.
• Ning Fa, pale but excited, rushed toward the Jia-One Treasury.

Ning Fa looted another treasury on Hidden Dragon Island and fled as Sikong Jing tracked him through the mark left by Sikong Tai. After the Ascension Alliance reinforcements failed to stop him, Sikong Jing pursued him toward the dangerous Desolate Sea and pushed her flying boat beyond its limits.

• Ning Fa and his spirit beasts broke open around thirty barriers in a treasury and seized treasures including Ten Thousand Year Golden Thunder Bamboo, Soul Nurturing Wood, and Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk.
• Ning Fa chose to raid the Jia-Three Treasury before fleeing, but the mark Sikong Tai had planted alerted him that the Sikong Family was tracking him.
• Ning Fa entered the Jia-Three Treasury with the Star Roaming Compass, looted it for half a day, and escaped Hidden Dragon Island as the Ascension Alliance reinforcements arrived.
• Ning Fa used Lightning Escape to evade the Ascension Alliance elder, while Sikong Jing followed his location using a Jade Pendant.
• After seven days of pursuit, Ning Fa fought off a flock of monster birds and prepared for battle as Sikong Jing closed to within a thousand li.
• Sikong Jing feared Ning Fa would reach the Desolate Sea, so she forced her Wind-Riding Flying Boat to double its speed despite the damage it would suffer.

Ning Fa stopped fleeing and fought Sikong Jing, revealing his powerful divine thunders and overcoming her formidable treasures. He tore the Moon Erosion Celestial Wheel in half, leaving Sikong Jing badly shaken as their battle continued.

• Ning Fa waited for Sikong Jing and challenged her after realizing she had pursued him alone.
• Sikong Jing attacked with the Moon Slaying Blade, but Ning Fa's Gui Water Yin Thunder and Dutian Nether Thunder shattered her first two slashes.
• Sikong Jing wounded Ning Fa with the Moon Erosion Celestial Wheel, but he activated his Mysterious Thunder True Body and repelled it with a punch.
• Sikong Jing split the Moon Erosion Celestial Wheel into forty-nine hidden wheels, but Ning Fa used Supreme Earth Divine Thunder to expose and suppress its true body.
• Sikong Jing used her blood essence to free the wheel, but Ning Fa bound it with his Law-Breaking Thunder Eyes and tore it into two halves.

Ning Fa fought Sikong Jing after she transformed into the Silver Moon Wolf Manifestation, and their battle escalated into a clash between powerful Dharma Forms. Ning Fa gained the upper hand, leaving Sikong Jing badly wounded and struggling to evade his attacks.

• Sikong Jing used her Silver Moon Wolf Manifestation to break Ning Fa's Cage of the Moon and revealed that she sought the Heavenly Moon Void God Diagram.
• Sikong Jing attacked Ning Fa with her natal wolf hair, but it struck his Thunder Peak Gauntlets instead of piercing his body.
• Ning Fa summoned his Divine Firmament Profound Thunder Dharma Form and broke apart Sikong Jing's Heavenly Wolf Claw with a thunderous punch.
• Ning Fa's Gui Water Sword unleashed a Dutian Nether Thunder sword curtain that blasted Sikong Jing away and covered her body in profound black ice.
• Sikong Jing used Moon Phase Shift to evade Ning Fa's Lightning Escape attacks, but his Law-Breaking Thunder Light stopped her movement.
• Ning Fa struck Sikong Jing with the Gui Water Sword, leaving a deep wound across her back and nearly severing her right foreclaw.

Ning Fa overwhelmed Sikong Jing’s Blood Moon Forbidden Chapter with his Endless Thunder Prison, but she used the Taiyin Slaughter God Banner and a Great Teleportation Talisman to escape. Ning Fa severed her right arm as she vanished, leaving the banner and her Storage Ring behind.

• Sikong Jing invoked Falling Moon, covering the sea in blood-red moonlight and sending a blood moon crashing toward Ning Fa’s Divine Firmament Manifestation.
• Ning Fa unleashed the Endless Thunder Prison, breaking the blood-moon attack and destroying the Silver Moon Wolf Manifestation’s summoned moon with Punishment Thunder.
• Sikong Jing used the Taiyin Slaughter God Banner to shatter Ning Fa’s lightning and flee, but Ning Fa pursued her and forced her back into human form.
• As Ning Fa closed in, Sikong Jing crushed a Great Teleportation Talisman and used the Crescent Moon Gem to block his Silver Thunder Beam.
• Ning Fa redirected the beam and severed Sikong Jing’s right arm before she teleported away, leaving her arm, the Taiyin Slaughter God Banner, and her Storage Ring behind.

Ning Fa defeated Sikong Jing, took her banner and treasures, and set out for South Rainbow Island to evade pursuit while planning his crossing to Leiming Sea. In Zi Xu Palace, rival Nascent Soul Cultivators discovered the Great Desolation Dragon Suppressing Seal, and tensions rose as they gathered to claim it.

• Ning Fa collected Sikong Jing’s severed arm, silver-white banner, and Storage Ring after defeating her, then destroyed the arm and fled with Little Ice.
• Ning Fa considered using the Seven Treasures Merchant Guild’s fleet but feared the Ascension Alliance or Sikong Family would track it, so he chose to wait for the Four Seas Merchant Guild’s fleet at South Rainbow Island.
• True Lord Yujing and True Lord Cangbo found the Great Desolation Dragon Suppressing Seal in Zi Xu Palace and agreed to work together to seize it.
• True Lord Fenglong, True Lord Yangguang, and True Lord Heihe entered the hall and recognized the seal as a spirit treasure of the Zi Yin Immortal Dynasty.

Yun Jin revealed that she was Huangfu Ziyue, a descendant of the Zi Yin clan, and used the Purple Origin Dragon Transformation Array to trap the Nascent Soul Cultivators while she revived a black-armored ancestor. She told him the Zi Yin Immortal Dynasty had fallen and that the Emperor had not exterminated his Zi Yan lineage.

• Sikong Zhibo detected Yun Jin hiding in the hall, and the Nascent Soul Cultivators attacked her.
• Yun Jin used the Great Desolation Dragon Suppressing Seal to activate the Purple Origin Dragon Transformation Array, summoning eighteen purple dragons and trapping the cultivators behind a Three-Headed Six-Armed Purple Blood Puppet.
• Yun Jin entered a hidden side hall and used the Soul Nurturing Divine Spring from the Glazed Jade Bottle to revive the Black Flood Dragon bound by starlight chains.
• Yun Jin revealed her true identity as Huangfu Ziyue, a woman of the Zi Yin clan, and addressed the revived man as Ancestor-Uncle.
• The black-armored ancestor learned that the Zi Yin Immortal Dynasty had been destroyed and reacted with hatred, while Huangfu Ziyue told him the Emperor had spared many members of his Zi Yan lineage.

Yun Jin persuaded her imprisoned Great-Uncle to return and lead the Zi Yin clan by proving that his Zi Yan clansmen still lived and warning of an approaching campaign against them. As the Nascent Soul cultivators fought the hall’s formation, Yun Jin captured several of them to refine a pill for her Great-Uncle and questioned Yujing about the Devil Master, who agreed to talk only if Han Che was captured too.

• Yun Jin used the Star Roaming Compass to let the black-armored young man sense his surviving clansmen, then asked him to return and lead the Zi Yin clan.
• Yun Jin warned that the Star Luo Palace might persuade Taichu Gate and Pure Sword Lodge to join the campaign against the Zi Yin clan, and the young man agreed to return for his clansmen.
• The formation’s purple dragons trapped the Nascent Soul cultivators, and star chains seized Yangguang and Black River as they tried to escape.
• Yun Jin placed Yangguang and Black River’s Nascent Souls in a cauldron to refine a Void Origin Dragon Pill for her Great-Uncle; Fenglong and Sikong Zhibo escaped while Yujing, Cangbo, and Sikong Yuanba were captured.
• Yun Jin questioned Yujing about the Devil Master, and he agreed to speak if she captured Han Che and let him witness Han Che’s death in the cauldron.

The Devil Master fought off Li Cuicheng and six other sword cultivators who had come to kill him, revealing his mastery of the fourth level of sword intent. After defeating them, he was left weakened and turned toward the passage as Huangfu Ziyue arrived.

• Li Cuicheng led six masked sword cultivators into the sealed space and ordered the Devil Master to take his own life.
• Li Cuicheng and the others formed the Wusheng Sword Array, but the Devil Master stopped their giant sword with one hand.
• The Devil Master used Heaven and Earth as Sword to turn the cultivators' blood runes against them, killing six of the seven sword cultivators.
• Li Cuicheng summoned the Blood Fiend Origin Sword, and the Devil Master broke two restraints before destroying it with an azure lightning sword.
• The Devil Master killed Li Cuicheng but was left badly weakened, then noticed Huangfu Ziyue entering the passage.

Ning Fa assessed the treasures he had seized and discovered that the Golden King Battle Puppet contained a weakened Golden Palace Remnant Spirit, which was not enough to advance Hei Yu to the fourth grade. When the Four Seas Merchant Guild arrived early, Ning Fa boarded under the alias Meng Yi and learned that the Sikong Family had occupied the Jinchuan Archipelago, starting a wider conflict.

• Ning Fa reviewed his spoils and used the Heavenly Sea Essence to raise his Supreme Water Divine Thunder to the third grade.
• Ning Fa examined the Golden King Battle Puppet and learned from the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book that its Golden Palace Remnant Spirit could yield sixty Third-Tier Origin Points.
• Hei Yu told Ning Fa that devouring the puppet would only bring him to the level of a quasi-fourth-grade puppet, so Ning Fa kept it as a trump card.
• The Haifeng Ship arrived at South Rainbow Island, and Ning Fa approached steward Zeng Han in the disguised appearance of Meng Yi to buy passage.
• Zeng Han told Ning Fa that the Sikong Family had occupied the Jinchuan Archipelago and that the Illusion Butterfly Palace was preparing a punitive campaign.
• Ning Fa paid the increased fare, received a cabin token, and boarded the ship under his assumed identity.

Ning Fa reunited with Yun Jin and the mysterious man he had met beneath Luoxia Island, discovering that the man was the legendary Devil Master, Zhuang Mingxiao. Zhuang offered Ning Fa a deal involving the Heavenly Evolution Sect and Silver Firmament Thunder Orchids, leaving Ning to weigh a dangerous opportunity that could strengthen his Divine Thunder.

• Ning Fa boarded the Spiritual Ship and unexpectedly encountered Yun Jin and the green-robed man from beneath Luoxia Island.
• Zhuang Mingxiao asked Yun Jin to leave so he could speak privately with Ning Fa, then revealed his identity as the Devil Master.
• Zhuang told Ning Fa that he also possessed a Hidden Thunder Spiritual Body and had learned how to identify and cultivate its manifest phase.
• Zhuang offered to teach Ning Fa the complete Lightning Magnetism Primordial Light Art and a refined secret formula if Ning Fa retrieved and matured his Silver Firmament Thunder Orchids at the Heavenly Evolution Sect within fifty years.
• Ning Fa recognized that the rare orchids could help him raise his Divine Thunder of the Five Elements, a key requirement for reaching Nascent Soul.

Ning Fa agreed to help the Devil Master obtain a Silver Firmament Thunder Orchid in exchange for cultivation methods and other rewards, then traded Soul Nurturing Wood with Yun Jin for Golden Scale Flood Dragon Heart Blood Essence. As Ning Fa traveled toward Leiming Sea, a terrifying sword cultivator attacked and split the Spiritual Ship in two.

• Ning Fa swore a Heart Demon Oath to help the Devil Master nurture a Silver Firmament Thunder Orchid within fifty years, and the Devil Master gave him the Lightning Magnetism Primordial Light Art and an improved Hidden Thunder Spiritual Body Delay Formula.
• Ning Fa learned that Yun Jin had removed another restriction on the Devil Master, but Yun Jin refused to reveal details about Zi Xu Palace or his origins.
• Ning Fa exchanged Soul Nurturing Wood with Yun Jin for a drop of Fourth-grade Golden Scale Flood Dragon Heart Blood Essence and declined to travel with him to the Five Spirits Sea.
• Ning Fa stayed in his cabin aboard the Spiritual Ship, studied the Devil Master's techniques, and sensed that danger was approaching.
• A powerful sword cultivator arrived, shattered the Spiritual Ship's defenses, split the vessel in two, and killed dozens of cultivators with one strike.