Chapter Summaries

Ning Fa accepted Lu Hanyou’s challenge and faced the Sword Ding Sect cultivator’s formidable sword intent before the gathered sects. Ning Fa crushed Lu Hanyou’s attack with a giant lightning hand, seized his flying sword, and forced him to admit defeat.

• Su Mo offered Moon Gazing Sect a share of Sword Ding Sect’s Golden Spirit Profound Liquid if Ning Fa endured one hundred moves from Lu Hanyou, but Ning Fa accepted the duel and urged Lu Hanyou to use his full strength.
• Ning Fa and Lu Hanyou flew above Tian Yue Peak to fight while cultivators from the four sects gathered to watch.
• Lu Hanyou summoned his Azure Flying Sword and revealed major accomplishment in the second level of sword intent, forming an Azure Cold Flood Dragon from thousands of Sword Lights.
• Fairy Chaolu wagered her Thousand Year Cold Jade Leaf that Ning Fa would not necessarily lose, and Venerable Kusong staked a piece of Fourth-grade Iron Crystal against her.
• Ning Fa conjured a Sky-Supporting Giant Lightning Hand that caught and shattered Lu Hanyou’s flood dragon, then seized his sword and pinned its tip at Lu Hanyou’s forehead.
• Lu Hanyou failed to escape Ning Fa’s lightning hand and conceded defeat.

Ning Fa decisively defeated Lu Hanyou at his Nascent Soul ceremony, bringing honor to the Moon Gazing Sect and winning Fairy Chaolu a wager. The celebration ended with Lu Yang of the Heavenly Evolution Sect warning that Skywatch City faced mounting pressure from the Sea Race and Demon Race, while the sealed Spirit Abyss behind the crisis remained unexplained.

• Ning Fa defeated Lu Hanyou in one move, stunning the gathered Nascent Soul Cultivators and revealing his formidable strength as a lightning-rooted cultivator of both body and law.
• Fairy Chaolu collected the Fourth-grade Iron Crystal she had won from Venerable Kusong, while True Lord Cangya claimed the Golden Spirit Profound Liquid from Su Mo.
• Ning Fa and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators returned to the hall, where they shared cultivation insights and held a small trade fair as the ceremony continued.
• Lu Yang arrived on behalf of the Heavenly Evolution Sect and urged the four sects to send more people to assist Skywatch City against the Sea Race and Demon Race reinforcements.
• Su Mo connected the crisis to a sealed Spirit Abyss in the Falling Star Sea Region, and Cang Ya later told Ning Fa that the Moon Gazing Sect knew little about it.

Ning Fa agreed to travel to the Dead Silent Abyss after an abnormal change trapped True Monarch Cangya and other Nascent Soul cultivators there. Before departing, he discovered Fairy Suyü was nurturing a mysterious Soul Lotus for another sect and restrained it, demanding she explain its origins.

• True Monarch Cangya led Moon Gazing Sect reinforcements to Skywatch City, where a conflict over the Dead Silent Abyss was expected.
• More than a year later, True Lord Mingguang told Ning Fa that an abnormal change had trapped Cangya and other Nascent Soul cultivators at the abyss, and Ning Fa agreed to join the rescue.
• Ning Fa moved the nearly mature Silver Firmament Thunder Orchid into his dantian so he could finish nurturing it before traveling to Skywatch City.
• Ning Fa overheard Fairy Suyü and a masked woman discussing the Soul Lotus growing within Suyü, then knocked Suyü unconscious and examined the lotus.
• Ning Fa restrained the Soul Lotus with moon-white chains, woke Suyü, and demanded that she explain her background and the lotus.

Ning Fa secured Su Yu’s cooperation in nurturing her Soul Lotus and prepared to restore the Five Flames Lamp before departing with a group from the Moon Gazing Sect for the Sword Ding Sect. The chapter left them arriving at Sword-Questioning Peak, where Ning Fa met the unsettling one-eyed cultivator waiting alongside True Monarch Su Mo.

• Ning Fa told Su Yu that her Soul Lotus would eventually drain her Divine Soul, and she agreed to help him nurture it in exchange for protection and compensation.
• Ning Fa restricted the Soul Lotus and Su Yu’s Divine Soul, inspected the Myriad Feed Soul Liquid, and promised her Golden Spirit Profound Liquid.
• Ning Fa gave Wen Hui pills and instructed her to consult Qiu Ruhe while he was away.
• Ning Fa used two drops of Myriad Spirit Heavenly Treasure Liquid to begin repairing the damaged Five Flames Lamp for the dangerous journey ahead.
• Ning Fa and True Lord Mingguang led several Core Formation Cultivators, including Luo Feixuan, to the Sword Ding Sect, where they met True Monarch Su Mo and a one-eyed cultivator at Sword-Questioning Peak.

Ning Fa defeated Mo Rong in a secret sword-intent clash, impressing the Moon Gazing Sect and alarming the Sword Ding Sect. After Fairy Chaolu revealed that Nascent Soul cultivators were trapped in the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh and that it might contain Phoenix Flame Nirvana Fruits, the four sects traveled to Sky Palace City, where they encountered cultivators from the Myriad Desire Sect.

• Ning Fa repelled Mo Rong's sword intent, and Su Mo realized Ning Fa's strength posed a major threat to the Sword Ding Sect.
• Fairy Chaolu told the gathered cultivators that the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh held a site of the ancient Profound Fire Sect and trapped cultivators from several factions.
• Fairy Chaolu revealed that the marsh might contain Phoenix Flame Nirvana Fruits, stirring the Nascent Soul Cultivators' interest despite the danger.
• Ning Fa and the other cultivators traveled by teleportation arrays to Sky Palace City and were greeted by Gao Xu of the Heavenly Evolution Sect.
• A teleportation array activated as the group set off, and cultivators from the Myriad Desire Sect appeared.

Ning Fa protected Luo Feixuan from the Blood Desire Old Demon’s attack and negotiated an apology before the four Golden Water Marsh sects continued to Xiuhuo Manor in Skywatch City. The group settled in to await a meeting with three Heavenly Evolution Sect Great Cultivators in three days.

• The Blood Desire Old Demon attacked Luo Feixuan with a spiritual peach blossom, but Ning Fa destroyed it with his Black Spiritual Flame and demanded an explanation.
• The Nascent Soul Cultivators from the four Golden Water Marsh sects united against the Myriad Desire Sect, and the Blood Desire Old Demon apologized to Ning Fa with a Thousand Year Mu Han Flower.
• Ning Fa accepted the compensation on Luo Feixuan’s behalf, and Gao Xu led the cultivators to Xiuhuo Manor in Skywatch City.
• Gao Xu told the Nascent Soul Cultivators that three Heavenly Evolution Sect Great Cultivators would meet them in three days to discuss the Falling Star Sea Region.
• Mingguang thanked Ning Fa for protecting Luo Feixuan, and the Moon Gazing Sect group chose adjacent pavilions.

Ning Fa reunited with Yun Jin at Cloud-Washing Pavilion and learned that the former dynasty’s hidden forces were preparing a dangerous expedition into the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh. Yun Jin offered Ning Fa a ten-thousand-year Phoenix Flame Nirvana Fruit for helping, but Ning Fa remained undecided.

• Mingguang warned Luo Feixuan that Blood Desire Old Demon might have detected her concealed spirit body, and Luo Feixuan accepted the risk of using it to save her grandfather.
• Ning Fa contacted Murong Zhaoxue and confirmed that her mission was connected to the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh, then went to Cloud-Washing Pavilion to find a three-hundred-and-thirty-year Silver Orchid.
• Ning Fa reunited with Yun Jin, who had reached the Nascent Soul stage and was receiving the Silver Firmament Thunder Orchid for Devil Master.
• Yun Jin revealed that his forces had been watching newly advanced Nascent Soul cultivators and suspected Ning Fa would visit to complete his deal with Devil Master.
• Yun Jin invited Ning Fa to join an expedition into a perilous area of the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh, promising him a ten-thousand-year Phoenix Flame Nirvana Fruit.
• Ning Fa weighed the fruit’s value against the expedition’s danger and the trouble of joining the Zi Yin Immortal Dynasty’s remnants, and did not agree immediately.

Ning Fa joined Fu Ling Hall after proving his age and extraordinary skill with the Five Elements Divine Thunder, and the elders agreed to make him the Punishment Hall’s Thunder Heir. When the Myriad Spirits Register recorded his name, its Five Elements Thunder Rune Pattern reacted to him, revealing a mysterious connection that Ning Fa sensed but kept to himself.

• Hu Lie challenged Murong Zhaoxue’s claim that Ning Fa had formed his Nascent Soul at the age of one hundred and eight, but Murong defended his age and recommended him as Thunder Heir.
• Xuan Po arrived and asked Ning Fa to demonstrate his talent in the Thunder Derivation Method, so Ning Fa displayed all five types of Divine Thunder, three of them at the second tier.
• Jin Feng agreed to support Ning Fa as Thunder Heir if the Myriad Spirits Register confirmed his identity and membership in Fu Ling Hall.
• Ning Fa wrote his name in lightning on the register, which recorded his age as one hundred and ten and triggered a reaction between its Five Elements Thunder Rune Pattern and the pattern in his dantian.
• Xuan Po welcomed Ning Fa to Fu Ling Hall and said he could assist with the hall’s current mission before completing the formal entry ceremony.

Ning Fa learned that Fu Ling Hall wanted him and three fellow cultivators to search Sky Furnace Fire Marsh’s Array Eyes for a relic connected to Sun Peak, while Lei Prison Mountain’s formidable Yan Jingchen was also joining the mission. He then attended the Heavenly Evolution Sect’s gathering, where more than a hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators assembled, including representatives of Myriad Desire Sect and Thousand Souls Hall.

• Xuan Po assigned Ning Fa and three Punishment Hall cultivators to enter separate regions of Sky Furnace Fire Marsh and search the Array Eyes for a relic linked to Sun Peak.
• Xuan Po revealed that Lei Prison Mountain’s Mountain Lord and Yan Jingchen would come, alarming the Nascent Soul Elders; Murong Zhaoxue told Ning Fa of Yan Jingchen’s power and threat to Fu Ling Hall.
• Xuan Po advised Ning Fa to leave after completing his task, but Ning Fa privately resolved to investigate Sun Peak and pursue any Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure he found.
• True Lord Mingguang took Ning Fa to the Heavenly Evolution Sect’s gathering in Skywatch City, where over a hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators had gathered.
• Ning Fa recognized Blood Desire Old Demon and Madam Mingluo among the Myriad Desire Sect and Thousand Souls Hall delegations, then joined Mingguang and other Golden Water Marsh cultivators as more attendees arrived.

Ning Fa encountered Sikong Yuanlie and Sikong Jing at a gathering of Nascent Soul Cultivators, and the Sikong Family withdrew rather than provoke him. The Heavenly Evolution Sect then revealed its plan to seize control of the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh barrier and offered rewards to those who joined the dangerous mission.

• Ning Fa confronted Sikong Yuanlie, Sikong Jing, and a Fourth-grade body cultivator, but Sikong Yuanlie restrained his companions and led them away.
• Mingguang and other Golden Water Marsh cultivators assured Ning Fa that they would support him if the Sikong Family caused trouble.
• Madam Min and Venerable Kong Qing arrived and announced that the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh was sealed by a Fifth-grade Barrier with thirty-six Array Eyes.
• Madam Min explained that the Heavenly Evolution Sect planned to send twenty-four teams to seize Array Eyes before the barrier weakened in a month, while the Sea Race and Demon Race threatened to oppose them.
• Venerable Kong Qing offered a portion of Formless True Origin matching each volunteer's primary spiritual root as a reward for joining the mission.

Ning Fa joined the Heavenly Evolution Sect’s effort to seize the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh, where Nascent Soul cultivators could earn Formless True Origin by occupying Array Eyes. After reuniting with Su Wanwan, who urged him toward a treasure, Ning Fa chose a dangerous red Array Eye despite his allies’ warnings.

• Venerable Kong Qing explained the Array Eye mission and offered increasing amounts of Formless True Origin for occupying the white, blue, and red Array Eyes.
• Su Mo, Ku Chen, Mingguang, and Fairy Chaolu debated which Array Eye to choose, while Chang Jingren advised Ning Fa to pick a safer white one.
• Su Wanwan, disguised as a Nascent Soul cultivator, revealed that she was still at Late Core Formation and had recognized Ning Fa through a special treasure.
• Su Wanwan told Ning Fa that a great treasure lay near a particular Array Eye, and Ning Fa recognized it as the red Array Eye he had already considered.
• Ning Fa entered his name in the central red Array Eye, prompting Mingguang and Chang Jingren to warn him that he had chosen too dangerous a target.

Ning Fa and the other cultivators chose Array Eyes to defend in exchange for Formless True Origin, with Ning Fa selecting a dangerous red Array Eye. After the meeting, Fairy Chaolu wagered that Ning Fa would succeed, while Su Wanwan revealed she planned to advance to the Nascent Soul realm and called on Ning Fa to honor his promise.

• Ning Fa chose the most dangerous red Array Eye despite Chang Jingren's concern, and Su Wanwan selected the same one.
• Sikong Yuanlie stopped Sikong Jing from choosing Ning Fa's Array Eye and instead selected a nearby blue Array Eye with Sikong Jing and Sikong Hao.
• Venerable Kong Qing offered extra Formless True Origin for defending red Array Eyes, and the cultivators kept their selections after Madam Min gave them a chance to withdraw.
• Fairy Chaolu wagered a Jade Crystal Crane Beast Egg against Xi Hao's two taels of Geng Metal Divine Sand that Ning Fa would survive and hold his Array Eye.
• Su Wanwan told Ning Fa that a great treasure awaited at their Array Eye, then said she intended to advance to the Nascent Soul realm and reminded him of his promise.

Ning Fa used his Five Elements Divine Thunder and Su Wanwan’s secret technique to stabilize her dual water-and-fire golden cores and guide her Nascent Soul breakthrough. After the cores shattered, he began fusing their spiritual power through the Five Elements, and the chapter ended with the fusion complete.

• Su Wanwan swore a Heart Demon Oath, and Ning Fa revealed that he could wield all five types of Divine Thunder of the Five Elements.
• Su Wanwan and Ning Fa left Skywatch City for a deserted island, where she set up defensive and Spirit Gathering Arrays and began her breakthrough.
• When Su Wanwan’s water and fire golden cores became dangerously unstable, she used a secret technique to let Ning Fa channel divine thunder into her body.
• Ning Fa used Supreme Earth, Water, and Fire Divine Thunder to restrain the golden cores and control their growth until they cracked and shattered.
• As Su Wanwan’s spiritual power threatened to explode, Ning Fa used the Five Elements’ mutual generation to fuse the incompatible water and fire energies.
• After two hours, Ning Fa completed the fusion of the spiritual power from Su Wanwan’s shattered golden cores.

Ning Fa helped Su Wanwan begin her Nascent Soul Formation, then killed the demonic cultivator Kui Ming and his followers when they tried to exploit her tribulation. While searching Kui Ming’s belongings, Ning Fa discovered a second Myriad Swords Diagram.

• Ning Fa finished helping Su Wanwan stabilize her spiritual power, and she began enduring the Nascent Soul tribulation.
• Ning Fa noticed Kui Ming and his demonic cultivators approaching, then confronted them and urged them to leave.
• Kui Ming attacked Ning Fa, who revealed his strength and overwhelmed the group with silver lightning.
• Kui Ming unleashed his Yin Bone Demon and Youmu Poison Sand, but Ning Fa destroyed them with Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder.
• Ning Fa killed Kui Ming and took his Storage Ring after the demonic cultivator tried to flee.
• Ning Fa searched the Storage Ring and found a brocade bearing a little white sword, recognizing it as another Myriad Swords Diagram.

Ning Fa discovered that two Myriad Swords Diagrams fused into a Lingxu Sword Silk that could be traced into a Sword Soul Pearl, then returned to find Su Wanwan had successfully formed her Nascent Soul. Su Wanwan learned her new Nascent Soul remained unstable, and Ning Fa agreed to help her again only if she found at least twenty percent of a list of rare Five Elements Spiritual Materials.

• Ning Fa’s two Myriad Swords Diagrams fused into a Lingxu Sword Silk, which the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book offered to trace into a Sword Soul Pearl for five hundred Third-Tier Origin Points.
• Ning Fa saw that Su Wanwan had survived her Nascent Soul tribulation and collected the Storage Bags left behind after the demonic cultivator’s disciples perished.
• Su Wanwan thanked Ning Fa for helping her form a Nascent Soul, then revealed that her water-fire spiritual power could make it unstable as her cultivation advanced.
• Ning Fa refused to promise another rescue unless Su Wanwan helped him find special Five Elements Spiritual Materials that could strengthen his Divine Thunder of the Five Elements.
• Su Wanwan objected that Ning Fa’s list included rare fifth-tier treasures, but Ning Fa insisted that helping him was necessary for her own survival.

Ning Fa and Su Wanwan agreed that she would search for fifth-rank divine treasures to help advance his Divine Thunder of the Five Elements, then prepared to head to the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh. At the gathering for their Array Eye, Ning Fa unexpectedly reunited with Jiang Xueting, now Madam Qingxia’s disciple.

• Ning Fa explained that Su Wanwan would need to help him find fifth-rank divine treasures if she hoped to advance further, and promised to join her when a search became difficult.
• Su Wanwan agreed to search for the treasures after the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh expedition, and she and Ning Fa returned to Skyvault City.
• True Lord Mingguang told Ning Fa that the expedition would depart the next morning, and Ning Fa gave him two Gale Thunder Talismans to guard against Blood Desire Old Demon.
• Ning Fa, Su Wanwan, Hei Yu, Sun Xiong, and Liu Wenyuan gathered at their assigned Array Eye before Madam Qingxia arrived with Jiang Xueting.
• Ning Fa and Jiang Xueting recognized each other with surprise and delight.

Ning Fa reunited with Jiang Xueting aboard Madam Qingxia’s flying boat and learned how she escaped the Jinchuan Archipelago’s upheaval and joined Heavenly Evolution Sect. The group reached the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh, where Madam Qingxia located their Array Eye and revealed a Crimson Flame Lotus.

• Madam Qingxia arrived, recognized that Ning Fa knew Jiang Xueting, and led the group east aboard a blue flying boat.
• Ning Fa and Jiang Xueting spoke privately; she confessed her happiness at seeing him again and explained how she fled the Jinchuan Archipelago and became Madam Qingxia’s disciple.
• Ning Fa reassured Jiang Xueting about leaving Chu Nianyao, then agreed she could visit him; Su Wanwan teased him about his romantic prospects, and he teased her in return.
• The group entered the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh, where intense heat and distorted spiritual sense slowed their progress despite the flying boat’s protective barrier.
• Madam Qingxia used a Star-Track Disk to find the Array Eye, split the disk into nine pieces, and revealed an enormous Crimson Flame Lotus among the fire waves.

Ning Fa and the others reached a Sky Flame Red Lotus Array Eye, where Madam Qingxia began taking control while her allies prepared defenses. As Sea Race and Demon Race forces arrived to seize the Array Eye, both sides launched their attacks, and Ning Fa recognized that the long-awaited Origin Point had appeared.

• Madam Qingxia explained how to take control of the Sky Flame Red Lotus Array Eye and assigned Jiang Xueting and two others to set up a Li Fire Burning Sun Array.
• Ning Fa sensed that Jiang Xueting's cultivation art stirred his Moon God Heart and resolved to investigate it after the battle.
• Madam Qingxia bound the Array Eye with nine stellar chains and began breaking its array while Ning Fa and the others prepared to defend her.
• Jiang Xueting detected approaching enemies, and Ning Fa led the group to the barrier, where they faced seven Nascent Soul Cultivators from the Sea Race and Demon Race.
• Sun Xiong refused the invaders' demand to yield the Array Eye, and the Sea Race and Demon Race cultivators attacked the barrier.
• Sun Xiong and Ning Fa counterattacked, with Sun Xiong drawing a gray arrow from his Stone Bow and Ning Fa sending five flying swords forward.

Ning Fa and his allies held off the Sea Race and demon cultivators until Sun Xiong betrayed him with a surprise attack. Ning Fa escaped, struck Sun Xiong with Spiritual Heart Divine Thunder, and unleashed a Silver Lightning Storm that engulfed Sun Xiong and his disciples, while an ancient talisman appeared on Sun Xiong’s forehead.

• Liu Wenyuan used his ink-wash bell and sword to block enemy attacks and destroy a Sea Race cultivator’s Blue Light Sea spell, while Hei Yu, Su Wanwan, Jiang Xueting, and the others defended their positions.
• Ning Fa asked Sun Xiong to hold back the enemy while he prepared a powerful secret technique, and Sun Xiong agreed before turning his attack on Ning Fa.
• Su Wanwan and Jiang Xueting tried to intercept Sun Xiong’s Blood-colored Light Arrow, but Ning Fa vanished in silver lightning and reappeared behind him.
• Ning Fa hurled his Silver Lightning Ball at Sun Xiong and struck his Sea of Consciousness with Spiritual Heart Divine Thunder, leaving him unable to defend himself.
• Ning Fa’s Silver Lightning Storm engulfed Sun Xiong and his four Core Formation disciples, and a pale-yellow ancient talisman appeared on Sun Xiong’s forehead.

Ning Fa exposed Sun Xiong as a traitor working with Sikong Yuanlie and the enemy races, then unleashed his completed Divine Firmament Profound Thunder Dharma Form and killed him. The remaining Demon Race and Sea Race cultivators hesitated in fear as Ning Fa stood over the silent battlefield.

• Ning Fa revealed that he had overheard Sun Xiong's secret spiritual sense transmission and suspected Sikong Yuanlie had arranged the betrayal.
• Ning Fa summoned his completed Divine Firmament Profound Thunder Dharma Form, startling the surrounding Nascent Soul Cultivators and making them hesitate.
• Sun Xiong transformed and raised a Black Mountain Peak against Ning Fa's thunderous sword strike, but the sword split the mountain and destroyed his body.
• Sun Xiong's Nascent Soul tried to escape through teleportation, but Ning Fa's Dharma Form intercepted and annihilated it.
• The battlefield fell silent, and the surviving Demon Race and Sea Race cultivators stared at Ning Fa's Dharma Form in fear.