Chapter Summaries

The Wusheng Sword Master confronted the Devil Master and unleashed a devastating sword attack, but the Devil Master revealed that his mastery of Heaven and Earth as Sword exceeded the Sword Master’s expectations. Ning Fa and Yun Jin escaped the battle, then parted ways after Yun Jin invited Ning Fa to join the Zi Yin clan.

• The Wusheng Sword Master arrived, revealed himself as the Devil Master's former disciple, and declared that he had come to kill his master.
• The Wusheng Sword Master used his sword intent to seize control of nearby swords and slay the fleeing cultivators, while Ning Fa and Yun Jin escaped.
• The Devil Master shattered the Sword Lights aimed at him and redirected them toward the Wusheng Sword Master, revealing that he had concealed the true extent of his sword mastery.
• Ning Fa and Yun Jin fled thousands of miles to a barren island, where Yun Jin assured Ning Fa that the Devil Master could survive the duel.
• Yun Jin revealed that he was descended from the Zi Yin Immortal Dynasty and invited Ning Fa to join the Zi Yin clan, but Ning Fa declined and said he was bound for Leiming Sea.
• Yun Jin departed for the Five Spirits Sea, telling Ning Fa that they would meet again, while Ning Fa privately hoped they would not.

Three years after escaping the Wusheng Sword Master, Ning Fa reached Qiyuan Island aboard a merchant ship, hoping to find Lightning Attribute spirit materials in the dangerous Thunder Abyss. When the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book reacted to an unfamiliar probe, Ning Fa grew uneasy, while a woman aboard the ship received a hunting lead from her bronze mirror.

• Ning Fa recalled surviving the Desolate Sea, including a prolonged pursuit by a Sea-Splitting Three-Headed Python that ended when he wounded it in a Thunderstorm Region.
• Ning Fa learned that Qiyuan Island prospered around the Lightning Attribute-rich Thunder Abyss, whose dangers included natural hazards, demonic beasts, and the Sea Race.
• Ning Fa sensed a concealed probe, and the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book reacted before the presence vanished, leaving him concerned that it was not connected to the Sikong Family.
• A beautiful female cultivator asked her ancient bronze mirror for a hint, and it revealed a weakened Late Third-grade Nanli Crocodile in a seabed cave seven hundred li northeast.

Su Wanwan used the Mysterious Bronze Mirror to search for someone aboard her Spiritual Ship who could resolve the trouble in her body, then began seeking out powerful Core Formation Cultivators. Meanwhile, Ning Fa attended Huo Yong’s exchange gathering, where Dream Weaver Fairy arrived with a Heavenly Heart Clarity Fruit.

• Su Wanwan read the mirror’s monthly messages, including a warning that a mysterious, powerful passenger could resolve her bodily trouble.
• The mirror identified the person only as special and powerful, so Su Wanwan decided to meet the ship’s Core Formation Cultivators.
• Huo Yong invited Ning Fa to an exchange gathering and told him Dream Weaver Fairy would attend.
• Ning Fa joined the gathering, where he recognized that Dream Weaver Fairy was concealing her appearance and Late Core Formation cultivation.
• Dream Weaver Fairy opened the exchange with a fragrant white fruit, and a scholar-robed cultivator identified it as a possible Heavenly Heart Clarity Fruit.

Dream Weaver Fairy offered the Heavenly Heart Clarity Fruit and other rare spiritual materials to recruit a powerful cultivator to help her slay an undisclosed demonic beast. Ning Fa recognized the Heavenly River Star Dew as a material he needed and revealed overwhelming spiritual power, though Dream Weaver Fairy had not yet announced her choice.

• Dream Weaver Fairy offered the Heavenly Heart Clarity Fruit to one cultivator who could help her hunt a formidable demonic beast, and she used a treasure pearl to test candidates’ spiritual power.
• Three Late Core Formation cultivators tested the pearl, but Dream Weaver Fairy rejected Cultivator Liu’s nearly six-foot spiritual radiance as insufficient.
• Dream Weaver Fairy displayed several fourth-grade spiritual materials, including the Heavenly River Star Dew, and offered the chosen cultivator one as an additional reward.
• Ning Fa recognized the Heavenly River Star Dew as a material needed to construct the Creation Thunder Pool and resolved to obtain it.
• Wen Moxuan concealed his strength no longer and produced nearly nine feet of spiritual radiance, but Dream Weaver Fairy remained unsatisfied.
• Ning Fa sent silver Thunder Spiritual Power into the pearl, producing a radiance that reached thirteen feet.

Ning Fa joined the Wangyue Merchant Guild’s rescue party and found Sea Race attackers slaughtering and torturing human captives. He annihilated the Sea Race forces at the wrecked ship and then pursued an approaching Mid Core Formation Sea Race cultivator.

• Ning Fa impressed Dream Weaver Fairy at the exchange meeting, and she gave him a communication conch while concealing that her demon-beast hunt was a pretext to draw him closer.
• Qiu Ruhe called on the Spiritual Ship’s Core Formation cultivators to aid merchant ships attacked by sea demons, and Ning Fa and Dream Weaver Fairy joined the rescue party.
• Ning Fa discovered the captured humans being brutalized aboard a wrecked ship and arrived just as a Sea Race cultivator prepared to feed a child to a giant octopus.
• Ning Fa crushed the Sea Race leader, burned the other Sea Race members and Blue Wolf Beasts, and destroyed the giant octopus with the leader’s compressed body.
• After the rescued humans thanked him, Ning Fa sensed an approaching Mid Core Formation Sea Race cultivator and flew to confront it.

Ning Fa discovered that the Sea Race cultivators’ spirit crystals replenished the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book with Third-Tier Origin Points and hurried toward the main battle to find more. Elsewhere, a Late Core Formation female Sea Race cultivator killed a fleeing human cultivator and turned on her remaining opponent.

• Ning Fa defeated Duozhe, a Sea Race Core Formation cultivator, and took his spirit crystal after the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book reacted to it.
• The Heavenly Book revealed that Duozhe’s spirit crystal added three Third-Tier Origin Points, raising Ning Fa’s total from sixty to sixty-three.
• Ning Fa took Duozhe’s Storage Shell, killed him, and flew with Su Wanwan toward the main battlefield.
• A Late Core Formation female Sea Race cultivator fought two human Core Formation cultivators while one of them, Ying Xue, fled.
• The female Sea Race cultivator caught and killed Ying Xue, then faced the blue-robed man.

Ning Fa killed a Late Core Formation Sea Race cultivator and gained ten Third-Tier Origin Points, then joined the Wangyue Merchant Guild’s rescuers on their journey to Qiyuan Island. He arrived at Qiyuan Immortal City and began recalling what he knew about the island.

• Ning Fa chased down Lan Xiu, overcame her Gui Water Yin Thunder and Mirage Mist Technique, and killed her to obtain her Blue Crystal Core.
• The Heavenly Book awarded Ning Fa ten Third-Tier Origin Points, bringing his total to seventy-three, and he took Lan Xiu’s Storage Shell.
• Ning Fa returned to the merchant ships, where Qi Tao thanked him and introduced him as Meng Yi to the other cultivators.
• Qiu Ruhe promised the rescuers fifty thousand Spirit Stones and a drop of True Rosy Cloud Pill Dew each, which Su Wanwan explained could increase an Early Core Formation cultivator’s cultivation.
• Ning Fa searched the Sea Race cultivators’ Storage Shells during the voyage, then arrived with the Wangyue Merchant Guild at Qiyuan Island two days later.
• Qiu Ruhe led the group toward Qiyuan Immortal City, and Ning Fa began reviewing Huo Yong’s information about Qiyuan Island.

Ning Fa reached Qiyuan Island and was offered a position as a Guest Official of the Wangyue Merchant Guild, but declined. While discussing Lightning Attribute materials needed for the Creation Thunder Pool, he learned the guild had Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystal but kept it restricted to qualified members.

• Qiu Ruhe brought Ning Fa and the other cultivators into Moonwatch Tower and gave each a reward of spirit stones and True Rosy Cloud Pill Dew.
• Qiu Ruhe offered Ning Fa a third-rank Guest Official position, but Ning Fa declined because he wanted to explore the island and might leave soon.
• Qiu Ruhe let Ning Fa browse a list of precious materials and revealed that the guild possessed Nine Tribulation Thunder Jade, Thunder Marrow Star Essence, and Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystal, though they were restricted strategic resources.
• Ning Fa learned the materials were found in the dangerous depths of the Thunder Abyss and were crucial to constructing the Creation Thunder Pool.
• Qiu Ruhe confirmed the guild still had some Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystal but said Ning Fa would need to serve for thirty years and earn Contribution Points to exchange for it.

Ning Fa sought rare lightning treasures on Qiyuan Island and learned the Wangyue Merchant Guild might trade him Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystal in exchange for his help. He settled in Qiyuan Immortal City and, after consulting Huo Yong, learned the other two treasures would be nearly impossible to obtain.

• Ning Fa bought spiritual materials from Qiu Ruhe, who gave him a map and agreed to ask the Wangyue Merchant Guild about Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystal.
• Qiu Ruhe told Luo Feixuan that Meng Yi had killed Lan Xiu and proposed trading Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystal for his help in a dangerous mission; Luo Feixuan said she needed to discuss it with her father.
• Ning Fa searched Qiyuan Immortal City for the three treasures, found none at other merchant guilds, and rented a cave dwelling at Heavenly Crane Spiritual Garden.
• Ning Fa contacted Dream Weaver Fairy, learned she was away, and met Huo Yong at Xianlaiju to ask about the treasures.
• Huo Yong said the Nine Tribulation Thunder Jade and Thunder Marrow Star Essence were nearly impossible to obtain, but Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystal might be attainable.

Ning Fa learned about Song Zetao as a possible source of Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystals and visited the Hidden Star Pavilion, where he paid for three-star intelligence. The revelations gave him clues about the Illusory Spirit Five Elements Jade Embryo and warned of major changes brewing around Thunder Abyss and Qiyuan Island.

• Huo Yong told Ning Fa that Song Zetao might sell him Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystals and offered to arrange a meeting.
• Huo Yong explained that the Hidden Star Pavilion belonged to Star Luo Palace and could provide valuable intelligence for spirit stones.
• Ning Fa visited the pavilion and paid five hundred thousand spirit stones to view its three-star intelligence.
• The Hidden Star Pavilion reported that Devil Master Zhuang Mingxiao had been rescued and that the Demon Sea Alliance's leading sects disagreed over whether to welcome him back or destroy him.
• The pavilion revealed that the Sikong Family had secured the Jinchuan Archipelago and sought the Illusory Spirit Five Elements Jade Embryo for a likely role in constructing the Yuanshou Ancestral Hall.
• The pavilion reported rising tensions over the Wangyue Merchant Guild, unusual changes expected in Thunder Abyss, and a Crystal Scale Tribe member's rare Prophecy Talent.

Ning Fa paid Hidden Star Pavilion for the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant’s whereabouts and found the merchant on Lanxi Island. The merchant offered a Pure Yuan Five Elements Spiritual Material in exchange for Ning Fa’s Divine Thunder Origins, leaving Ning Fa stunned by how much the merchant knew about his Five Elements Thunder Body.

• Ning Fa learned that the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant had been seen near Qiyuan Island and paid Hidden Star Pavilion for more information.
• Hidden Star Pavilion told Ning Fa to seek the merchant on Lanxi Island on the night of the full moon.
• Ning Fa flew to Lanxi Island and waited through the night until a White-robed Youth appeared, undetectable to his divine sense.
• The White-robed Youth identified himself as a potential trading partner and asked for the Five Elements Divine Thunder Origin within Ning Fa.
• The White-robed Youth offered one Pure Yuan Five Elements Spiritual Material for measured quantities of Ning Fa’s Divine Thunder Origins, revealing knowledge of Ning Fa’s needs that left him questioning whether others had possessed the Five Elements Thunder Body.

Ning Fa traded five bottles of Divine Thunder Origin to the mysterious Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant for Five-Colored Divine Soil, then met Song Zetao to seek three rare thunder materials. Song Zetao considered the requested items too precious, leaving Ning Fa’s deal unresolved.

• Ning Fa exchanged five types of Divine Thunder Origin with the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant for Five-Colored Divine Soil, but the merchant refused to trade for more materials.
• The Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant hinted that he might trade with Ning Fa again after he advanced to Nascent Soul, then vanished.
• Ning Fa received Huo Yong’s invitation and went to Mingchuan Tower to meet Song Zetao of the Baichuan Association.
• Song Zetao revealed that he knew Ning Fa had killed Lan Xiu, surprising Huo Yong.
• Ning Fa asked Song Zetao for Nine Tribulation Thunder Jade, Thunder Marrow Star Essence, and Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystal; Song Zetao said the three items were too precious.

Ning Fa traded a thousand-year Golden Silk Blood Luo Flower for Song Zetao’s help obtaining five taels of Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystal, while Song secretly planned to use him in a scheme against Huo Yong. Su Wanwan defeated Wen Moxuan and forced him to spy on arrivals at Qiyuan Island’s Transmission Hall, leaving him bound to her next task.

• Ning Fa offered Song Zetao a Golden Silk Blood Luo Flower, and Song agreed to obtain five taels of Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystal for two million spirit stones or a lower price if Ning Fa joined the Baichuan Association.
• After Ning Fa left, Song Zetao learned that Junior Brother Lu had been invited to join Huo Yong’s Changsong Association and instructed him to accept in three days.
• Song Zetao revealed that an elder from the Punishment Hall was handling the matter and planned to lure Huo Yong into the deeper reaches of Thunder Abyss.
• Twenty days later, Su Wanwan escaped an exploding mountain with Wen Moxuan, who had lost an arm and a leg and suffered severe spiritual and soul injuries.
• Wen Moxuan accused Su Wanwan of using Dark Azure Nether Luo Flower to poison a Nascent Soul remnant soul, and she confirmed his suspicion.
• Su Wanwan tortured Wen Moxuan with her harp until he agreed to infiltrate Qiyuan Immortal City’s Transmission Hall and watch for arrivals from the Five Spirits Sea.

Su Wanwan left Wen Moxuan with a pill and a deadline before returning to Qiyuan Island to meet Ning Fa. She explained that the Five Spirits Sea’s Spiritual Abysses foster exceptional spiritual roots but have fueled dangerous wars, and the Heavenly Evolution Sect’s worsening situation has intensified conscription.

• Su Wanwan gave Wen Moxuan a Returning Sun Pill and ordered him to reach the Transmission Hall within ten days, though she intended to kill him afterward.
• Su Wanwan flew to Qiyuan Island, hoping another meeting with Ning Fa would prompt the Mysterious Bronze Mirror to reveal more about him.
• Ning Fa visited Su Wanwan at her cave mansion, where she said her preparations to hunt the fast, perceptive demon beast would take up to a year.
• Su Wanwan described how the Five Spirits Sea’s Spiritual Abysses produced pure, single-attribute spiritual veins and unusually high numbers of cultivators with superior spiritual roots.
• Su Wanwan warned Ning Fa that humans, Sea Race, and Demon Race fought over the Spiritual Abysses, and that the Heavenly Evolution Sect had increased conscription as its position worsened.

Ning Fa learned that the Heavenly Evolution Sect stood isolated within the Tianshu Alliance and that the Five Spirits Sea’s best sources of rare metal- and fire-element materials lay near dangerous borders. He then accepted Huo Yong’s invitation to explore a Star Pattern Thunder Iron vein, which might contain the Thunder Marrow Star Essence he sought, while suspecting the discovery was suspiciously convenient.

• Su Wanwan explained why Taichu Gate and Pure Sword Studio were unlikely to aid the Heavenly Evolution Sect, and Ning Fa asked where he might find high-grade metal- and fire-element materials.
• Su Wanwan said recent metal- and fire-element spiritual abysses lay near the borders of the three races and had no Tai Bai Refined Gold, Geng Metal Divine Sand, or Fire Spirit Essence Pearls to offer.
• After Ning Fa left, Su Wanwan wondered whether he needed top-tier Five Elements Spiritual Materials to refine a powerful magic treasure and hoped Little Mirror would explain matters to her.
• Huo Yong showed Ning Fa a piece of Star Pattern Thunder Iron and explained that Liu Chenjun had discovered its vein in a Thunder Abyss cavern occupied by Thunder Fierce Beasts, including two Late Third-grade beasts.
• Huo Yong invited Ning Fa to help clear the cavern and promised him the first share of any Thunder Marrow Star Essence; Ning Fa agreed but grew suspicious of the convenient discovery.

Su Wanwan discovered that the Mysterious Bronze Mirror had produced contradictory messages and exposed Huo Yong’s plot to sacrifice her to the Thunder Devouring Ancestor. Meanwhile, Ning Fa obtained the Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystal, and a Fu Ling Hall elder warned True Monarch Xuan Ge to avoid conflict with the Nu Tao Sect.

• Huo Yong agreed to recruit Dream Weaver Fairy for the expedition, while Ning Fa secretly marked him with the Moon Chasing Mark to monitor his actions.
• Su Wanwan’s Mysterious Bronze Mirror produced only four messages, warning that Huo Yong served the Thunder Devouring Ancestor and planned to offer her as a sacrifice.
• Su Wanwan suspected the mirror’s strange behavior was connected to Ning Fa, but decided to join the expedition to seek his help and uncover his secrets.
• Ning Fa collected the Mirage Thunder Cloud Crystal from Song Zetao, who privately regarded him as another sacrifice for the Thunder Devouring Ancestor.
• True Monarch Xuan Ge met Murong, a Fu Ling Hall elder who planned to face the Thunder Devouring Ancestor alone, and she warned him to avoid major conflict with the Nu Tao Sect.

Ning Fa uncovered Huo Yong’s plan to sacrifice Lightning Spiritual Root cultivators to the wounded Thunder Devouring Ancestor, then learned the ancestor was Fu Qiming, a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator. Deciding to confront him, Ning Fa joined Huo Yong’s expedition toward the Thunder Abyss, where the group set out with Zhu Tianlei and other potential victims.

• Huo Yong and Liu Chenjun prepared to lead Lightning Spiritual Root cultivators to Thunder Devouring Ancestor, while Liu Chenjun worried that Zhu Tianlei’s disappearance would provoke the Nu Tao Sect.
• Ning Fa learned of Huo Yong’s scheme and decided to investigate Thunder Devouring Ancestor before choosing whether to act.
• Ning Fa paid the Hidden Star Pavilion three hundred thousand spirit stones and learned that Thunder Devouring Ancestor was Fu Qiming, an injured Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator hiding in the Thunder Abyss.
• An elderly man at the Hidden Star Pavilion questioned why the Heavenly Star Orb had revealed such valuable information to Ning Fa, and the pavilion soon closed temporarily.
• Three days later, Ning Fa departed Qiyuan Island with Huo Yong, Dream Weaver Fairy, Zhu Tianlei, Lu Dong, and the other cultivators bound for the Thunder Abyss.
• Zhu Tianlei demanded a share of any Thunder Marrow Star Essence they found, while Ning Fa concealed his knowledge of Huo Yong’s intentions.

Ning Fa traveled with the group through Thunder Abyss, where Zhu Tianlei displayed his strength and the party narrowly escaped a deadly natural phenomenon. The group continued deeper while Ning Fa sensed a powerful presence following them from beyond his divine sense.

• Su Wanwan avoided Ning Fa and went to rest in the cabin, still wary of him because of the Mysterious Bronze Mirror.
• The Spiritual Ship crossed into Thunder Abyss’s layers, and Huo Yong warned the group that Third-Tier Demonic Beasts would appear in the fourth layer.
• Zhu Tianlei killed a Mid Third-Rank Tyrant Bull Beast and gave Ning Fa a provocative glance, while Ning Fa recognized that he was showing off ahead of their contest for the Thunder Marrow Star Essence.
• The party barely escaped the moving Blue Conch Mirage Fog after it erased a mountain range, and Huo Yong explained that the phenomenon had appeared unusually early.
• Ning Fa sensed an unseen presence following the group from more than a hundred miles away and suspected it was a Fourth-grade Demonic Beast, but chose not to alert anyone.

Ning Fa followed Liu Chenjun's group into the Star Pattern Thunder Iron Vein, knowing that a Fu Ling Hall Nascent Soul cultivator was tracking them and hoping to exploit the coming clash. In the cavern, Huo Yong revealed his betrayal and Thunder Devouring Ancestor appeared, leaving Ning Fa to wait for a chance to escape amid the danger.

• Ning Fa detected a veiled Fu Ling Hall Nascent Soul cultivator following the group and suspected Lu Dong was her agent.
• Ning Fa chose to continue toward the underground cave, hoping the Fu Ling Hall cultivator and Thunder Devouring Ancestor would weaken each other.
• Huo Yong admitted that his group had already mined the Star Pattern Thunder Iron Vein, and blue lightning rings trapped Ning Fa, Zhu Tianlei, Su Wanwan, and Lu Dong.
• Thunder Devouring Ancestor emerged riding a Late Third-grade Thunder Fierce Beast and threatened to devour Zhu Tianlei for his Lightning Spiritual Root.
• Zhu Tianlei used a Blood-colored Talisman to break free and flee, but Thunder Devouring Ancestor sent lightning pythons to seize him.

Thunder Devouring Ancestor devoured Zhu Tianlei and Lu Dong to restore his strength, but Lu Dong’s poisoned core revealed Fu Ling Hall’s plan and brought Murong Zhaoxue into the cavern. Thunder Devouring Ancestor recovered from the poison and trapped Murong Zhaoxue and the others in a Black Thunder Spirit Absorption Array, intending to devour her Lightning Spiritual Body.

• Thunder Devouring Ancestor drained Zhu Tianlei’s Lightning Spiritual Power and swallowed his golden core, horrifying Su Wanwan and Ning Fa.
• Thunder Devouring Ancestor captured Lu Dong and devoured his golden core while Ning Fa pretended to struggle against the lightning pythons and the Changsong Association cultivators attacked him.
• Thunder Devouring Ancestor was overcome by green lightning from the Thunder Serpent Ash inside Lu Dong, and Murong Zhaoxue appeared and claimed responsibility for preparing it.
• Murong Zhaoxue attacked Thunder Devouring Ancestor with a Blue Ancient Mirror, but he removed silver needles from his head and revealed that his injuries had healed.
• Thunder Devouring Ancestor sealed the hall with a Black Thunder Spirit Absorption Array and announced that he planned to devour Murong Zhaoxue to advance his cultivation.