Chapter Summaries

Ning Fa reunited with his grown son Ning An and learned that Pei Nanshu had targeted the Huayu Sect and Ning Clan to undermine Ning An’s bid to become the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion’s Spirit Child. Sang Wen then revealed that Cangyuan’s expected reinforcements came from the Great Qin Cultivation World, leaving Ning Fa asking how they could cross the Cloud Break Mountain Range.

• Ning Fa recognized Ning An, and the father and son tearfully reunited after decades apart.
• Ning Fa confronted Sang Wen over the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion’s failure to stop Pei Nanshu from harming the Huayu Sect and Ning Clan.
• Sang Wen explained that Ning An and Pei Ruiqing were rivals for the Spirit Child position, and Pei Nanshu had targeted Ning Fa’s sect and clan to distract Ning An.
• Ning Fa realized Pei Nanshu had exploited his influence to endanger the sect and clan, and he blamed himself for not protecting Ning An sooner.
• Sang Wen revealed that Cangyuan’s reinforcements were coming from the Great Qin Cultivation World, and Ning Fa questioned how anyone could cross the Cloud Break Mountain Range to reach it.

Sang Wen explained that Pei Nanshu’s Three-Eyed Heavenly Ape ally had helped Cangyuan’s envoys cross the Cloud Break Mountain Range, and warned Ning Fa that harming Pei could provoke the demon clans and the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion. Ning Fa postponed his revenge for now and agreed to meet Hermit Xuyuan, while remaining determined to grow strong enough to kill Pei later.

• Sang Wen told Ning Fa that Pei Nanshu had saved a Three-Eyed Heavenly Ape who later became a powerful clan candidate and opened a passage through the Cloud Break Mountain Range for Cangyuan’s envoys.
• Sang Wen explained that the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion was founded to protect Cangyuan and that Hermit Xuyuan would intervene if Ning Fa attacked Pei Nanshu.
• Ning An declared that he would support Ning Fa even if he had to give up his position as Spirit Child.
• Sang Wen described the ancient contract that restrained the demon beasts and warned that Pei’s ally might break it to seek revenge.
• Ning Fa decided to delay killing Pei Nanshu until he was stronger, then agreed to visit Tianyu City and meet Hermit Xuyuan for access to resources.
• Ning Fa and the others flew south as onlookers anticipated major changes in Xuguo.

Ning An reunited with his parents and demonstrated the power he had gained at the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion, impressing Ning Fa with his Seven Luminaries abilities. After learning about Ning An’s cultivation and the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon’s past attacks, Ning Fa brought out several treasures and pills for his son.

• Ning An reunited with Cheng Susu and Ning Fa at Huayu Sect, and Cheng Susu teased him about finding a Dao Companion.
• Ning An challenged Ning Fa to assess his strength and unleashed his Seven Luminaries Starfall Manifestation, but Ning Fa extinguished the attack with Silver Lightning without being harmed.
• Ning Fa praised Ning An’s strength, and Ning An explained that he practiced the Brilliant Sacred Scripture and ranked around the top seventy on the Star Ranking.
• Ning Fa learned that the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion had protected Ning An from an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon that he had likely injured during his Nascent Soul tribulation.
• Ning Fa brought out several powerful treasures and pill bottles for Ning An.

After returning, Ning Fa gave Ning An, Meng Ruoqi, and Yun Ying rare treasures to strengthen their cultivation and reunited with his two Dao Companions. Meng Ruoqi revealed her talent for formations before Ning Fa received compensation from True Lord Yu Chan and killed the suspected culprit who had targeted her; the chapter left Shi Shaoyang still bound in the hall.

• Ning Fa gave Ning An Golden Thunder Bamboo and a Phoenix Flame Nirvana Fruit to help him cultivate and break through bottlenecks.
• Ning Fa reunited with Meng Ruoqi and Yun Ying, learned about their years in the Huayu Sect, and gave them spirit treasures suited to their constitutions.
• Meng Ruoqi showed Ning Fa the formations she had comprehended from the Thunder Derivation Profound Scroll, surprising him with her talent.
• An envoy sent by True Lord Yu Chan delivered Shi Shaoyang, Yuan Kang, and two Storage Rings of compensation to Ning Fa.
• Ning Fa searched Yuan Kang's soul and killed him with lightning after confirming he was the rogue Nascent Soul Cultivator who had been hired to harm Meng Ruoqi.

Ning Fa settled matters with his enemies, arranged for the Huayu Sect and Ning Clan to relocate to Xuguo, and helped several allies recover or strengthen their cultivation. The chapter ended with Ning Fa sharing a bed with Ning Shaohong and Wei Shiqin.

• Ning Fa killed Shi Shaoyang, gave Meng Ruoqi the two Storage Rings, and secured additional compensation from Yuchan for the Huayu Sect and Ning Clan.
• Ning Fa told True Lord Cang Lei about Xuguo, and Cang Lei began preparing the sect to relocate there.
• Ning Fa gave Zheng Xuanyan Buddhist treasures to help suppress his demonic qi and killing intent, then Zheng Xuanyan reunited with Nie Guping.
• Ning Fa used his divine thunders to heal Ning Zhongyuan and Ning Zhongjiu, gave them treasures, and approved the Ning Clan's relocation to Xuguo under his authority.
• Ning Fa warned the Ning elders to handle the Main Family carefully and said he would wait before acting against the Yuan Cha Gate over Ning Huarong.
• Ning Fa gave Ning Hongye and Ning Zonglie treasures, then shared a bed with Ning Shaohong and Wei Shiqin.

Ning Fa visited Ning Xiuying and Xiao Yu before setting out to meet Hermit Xuyuan, while the Huayu Sect and Ning Clan took control of Xuguo. He arrived at Hermit Xuyuan’s mountain and recognized that the powerful cultivator surpassed even Su Rihe.

• Ning Fa reunited with Ning Xiuying and left her precious spiritual items before meeting Xiao Yu, who asked to bring her surviving Zhao Family clansmen to Xuguo.
• Xiao Yu told Ning Fa that a mysterious Nascent Soul Cultivator had taken Mu Xue Wei away forty years earlier, claiming to be Hermit Tianyi’s friend and presenting a related token.
• Ning Fa agreed that the Zhao Family could relocate to Xuguo, then flew northeast to meet Hermit Xuyuan.
• The Pei Clan withdrew into hiding, and the Huayu Sect and Ning Clan took control of Xuguo as local powers sought ties with them and the Elder Council formally assigned them the region.
• Ning Fa entered Hermit Xuyuan’s mountain and found that his divine sense could barely perceive the cultivator, whose strength exceeded Su Rihe’s.
• Hermit Xuyuan welcomed Ning Fa and invited him to sit.

Ning Fa learned that Cangyuan’s expected reinforcements from Great Qin were being sought with information about the Abyssal Heavenly Pool, whose reappearance could attract powerful outside forces. As Cangyuan faced mounting threats from Tianli, the Myriad Bone Gate, and the Sea Race, Hermit Xuyuan offered the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion’s resources to help Ning Fa grow stronger.

• Hermit Xuyuan accepted the Blood Li Banner from Ning Fa and explained that its incomplete refinement could be finished without major difficulty.
• Hermit Xuyuan revealed that the Wushi Demonic Palace, Taiqing Sect, and Yuan Cha Gate had originated as branch sects of Great Qin powers before contact with Cangyuan was cut off.
• Hermit Xuyuan told Ning Fa that two Spirit Transformation Cultivators had died investigating the Abyssal Heavenly Pool and had predicted its return in the near future.
• Ning Fa realized that Great Qin’s aid was being sought by offering the three sects information about the Abyssal Heavenly Pool.
• Hermit Xuyuan warned that Tianli and the Sea Race were reinforcing their forces, while Tianli was building a Teleportation Array for Myriad Bone Gate reinforcements.
• Hermit Xuyuan told Ning Fa that Cangyuan’s survival depended on his growing strength and offered the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion’s resources to support him.

Ning Fa sought powerful spiritual fires and other resources from Hermit Xuyuan to advance his cultivation, and the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion promised what it could provide. Hermit Xuyuan then explained that Tianli had retreated because a demonized savage-beast tide had ravaged its rear, revealing a threat linked to ancient demons and True Demonic Qi.

• Ning Fa asked Hermit Xuyuan for powerful pure-yang Innate Spiritual Fires to speed his progress toward the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Hermit Xuyuan offered the pavilion's stored Heaven and Earth Exotic Fires and access to a fire pool containing Earth Core Flame Fire, while mentioning another promising fire that required verification and approval.
• Ning Fa gave Hermit Xuyuan a list of resources he needed, and Hermit Xuyuan said the pavilion could supply about thirty percent and would prepare the Earth Core Flame Fire pool.
• Hermit Xuyuan told Ning Fa that Tianli had retreated ten years earlier because a mysterious force unified the savage beasts in the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range and triggered a devastating beast tide.
• Hermit Xuyuan explained that the beasts had been demonized by pure True Demonic Qi, and that ancient demons had once built altars capable of transmitting it from the Ancient Demon Realm.

Hermit Xuyuan asked Ning Fa to lead a mission into the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range to destroy the Tianli people’s array, then sent him to learn about Zhu Lingyun’s condition. Ning Fa found her sealed in ice, apparently lifeless and pregnant, and demanded that Kong Li explain what had happened.

• Hermit Xuyuan explained that the Tianli people had driven the savage beasts back into the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range and sealed it with an array, then proposed that Ning Fa lead a mission to destroy it.
• Hermit Xuyuan revealed that the mission involved Zhu Lingyun, and Kong Li arrived to take Ning Fa to the Divine Heart Sect.
• Kong Li led Ning Fa through the Divine Heart Sect’s guarded mountain range to an ice chamber beneath an ice mountain.
• Ning Fa found Zhu Lingyun sealed inside an ice wall with no apparent sign of life and her abdomen visibly swollen.
• Ning Fa realized Zhu Lingyun appeared to be carrying his child, erupted with Five-Colored Lightning, and demanded that Kong Li explain what had happened.

Kong Li explained that Zhu Lingyun was cursed by Tianli’s Nine Li God Sealing Curse while pregnant and had begun using the dangerous Primordial Soul Splitting Art to try to break it. The chapter ended with Ning Fa learning that Lingyun’s divine soul had collapsed three years into the treatment, while the fate of her and the child remained unknown.

• Kong Li told Ning Fa that Huangfu Hong had used a Joyous Union Gu to make Zhu Lingyun conceive a child sought by the Yuan Cha Gate as a potential Mysterious Maiden.
• Kong Li explained that the Yuan Cha Gate and Tianli forces had tried to seize Lingyun’s unborn child, and that Aruoye had struck Lingyun with the Nine Li God Sealing Curse.
• Ning Fa recognized the Primordial Soul Splitting Art as dangerous and told Kong Li he had discovered a hidden abnormality in the method through his own cultivation.
• Kong Li said the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion had given Lingyun the complete version of the art and that its Nirvana Soul Essence Technique might break the curse by collapsing and rebuilding her divine soul.
• Kong Li revealed that Lingyun had begun the secret technique after being sealed in ice, and that her divine soul collapsed three years later.

Kong Li explained that Zhu Lingyun’s Divine Soul had been repeatedly shattering because the Nine Li God Sealing Curse still clung to it, and that she endured the cycle to protect the child in her womb, Le'er. After Le'er briefly spoke to Ning Fa through his Sea of Consciousness, Kong Li told him that a Soul-Bending Pill made with Thousand Soul Grass could save them, and Ning Fa vowed to obtain the ingredient on the mission into Tianli.

• Kong Li revealed that Zhu Lingyun’s Divine Soul had been shattering and re-forming for decades as she tried to protect the child in her womb from the lingering curse.
• Ning Fa nearly succumbed to rage at the Holy Witches, Aruoye, and the Tianli people, but Le'er’s voice brought him back to his senses.
• Le'er told Ning Fa that she and Zhu Lingyun had waited for him, then faded away to rest and gather strength.
• Kong Li explained that the Soul-Bending Pill could help Zhu Lingyun and that its missing ingredient, thousand-year-old Thousand Soul Grass, grew in the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range in Tianli territory.
• Ning Fa agreed to lead the infiltration mission and promised Zhu Lingyun and Le'er that he would obtain the Thousand Soul Grass and refine a Dao-Pattern Soul-Bending Pill.

Ning Fa discovered that Moon Tribulation Heartfire had unexpectedly pushed him into the Moon Tribulation Burning Emotions stage, amplifying his emotions and nearly causing cultivation deviation. After suppressing its effects, he learned that the teleportation array to Tianli’s rear would take another year or two to complete, too long for Zhu Lingyun to wait.

• As Ning Fa flew from the icy hall, Baili Ming warned that his near cultivation deviation seemed unlike him and urged him to examine himself.
• Ning Fa found Moon Tribulation Heartfire burning on his Moon God Heart and realized he had entered the Moon Tribulation Burning Emotions stage years earlier than expected.
• Ning Fa considered whether heavy Killing Intent, missed cultivation requirements, the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon, or lingering effects of the Primordial Soul Splitting Art had caused the early change.
• Baili Ming gave Ning Fa a Jade Slip containing methods to refine Killing Intent, and Ning Fa continued onward to meet Kong Li.
• Kong Li explained that the modified teleportation array to Tianli’s rear needed another year or two, while Ning Fa feared Zhu Lingyun could not wait that long.
• Kong Li warned Ning Fa that infiltrating Tianli alone would be dangerous and that the fifth-rank Five Elements Chaos Sealing Spirit Great Array blocked access to the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range.

Ning Fa waited for Hermit Xuyuan to arrange a way through the restriction, and Sang Wen agreed to surrender her natal Pure Yang True Flame to help him. Sang Wen brought Ning Fa to the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion’s hidden mountain gate, where he received rare spirit materials and discovered that his Sword Soul Pearl reacted to a Sword Training Valley.

• Ning Fa accepted Kong Li’s advice to wait for Hermit Xuyuan’s arrangements and gave him a chess-piece-like object to contact him if Ling Yun was in danger.
• Hermit Xuyuan told Sang Wen that Ning Fa needed Pure Yang Fire and urged her to sacrifice her natal flame, explaining that Ning Fa might possess the Five Elements Thunder Body; Sang Wen agreed.
• Half a month later, Sang Wen escorted Ning Fa toward the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion, keeping her distance from him during their journey.
• Sang Wen used a concealed formation to bring Ning Fa into the Pavilion’s hidden mountain gate, then gave him an elder token and a Storage Ring containing rare spirit materials.
• Ning Fa noticed his Sword Soul Pearl reacting to the Pavilion’s Sword Training Valley and later found a large piece of Yin Yang Five Elements Jade among the materials Sang Wen had provided.

Ning Fa found Yin Yang Five Elements Jade that could help him meet the requirements for the Five Elements Calamity Heaven Sword Array, but he stored it rather than consume it and began studying the Lightning Magnetism Primordial Light Art. He then visited Sword Training Valley, where he confronted Pei Ruiqing, the young man whose rivalry had caused trouble for the Huayu Sect and Ning Clan.

• Ning Fa examined the Yin Yang Five Elements Jade and concluded it could help refine his sword and fulfill several requirements for the Five Elements Calamity Heaven Sword Array, but he put it away because he still lacked the five kinds of Innate Qi.
• Ning Fa decided to cultivate the Lightning Magnetism Primordial Light Art to gain an advantage against Tianli Cultivators, then studied it in his cave abode for two days.
• Ning Fa flew to Sword Training Valley after sensing that something inside might be connected to his Sword Soul Pearl.
• Ning Fa met Wanrong and Pei Ruiqing outside the valley and asked the young man to identify himself.
• Ning Fa's pressure terrified Pei Ruiqing, who feared the consequences of having caused trouble for the Huayu Sect and Ning Clan, before Ning Fa withdrew his aura.

Ning Fa entered Sword Training Valley and discovered that the Sword Soul Pearl was drawn to sword scars left by the Sword Demon. After the pearl absorbed a hidden fragment, the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book revealed it could be traced back into a Sword Origin Pearl, and Ning Fa considered using his available Origin Points to do so.

• Ning Fa spared Pei Ruiqing, entered Sword Training Valley with Ni Yan, and learned about its nine sword valleys and a sealed, dangerous one.
• Ning Fa and Ni Yan entered the sealed valley, where Ning Fa found blood-red sword scars and learned they had been left by the Sword Demon.
• Ni Yan explained that the Sword Demon had once been brought to the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion injured and deranged, then vanished a year later, leaving the scars behind.
• Ning Fa released the Sword Soul Pearl, which resonated with a sword scar and absorbed a black iron fragment, weakening the valley's vicious sword qi.
• The Source-Crossing Heavenly Book revealed that the Sword Soul Pearl could be traced back into an Initial-Grade Sword Origin Pearl using one Fourth-Tier Origin Point and three hundred Third-Tier Origin Points.

Ning Fa transformed the Sword Soul Pearl into a Sword Origin Pearl and mastered the first layer of Sword Intent by merging with its Sword Puppet. After Sang Wen prepared a fire pool for his cultivation, she entered it naked, leaving Ning Fa stunned and uncertain of her intentions.

• Ning Fa spent Fourth-Tier Origin Points to trace the Sword Soul Pearl back into a Sword Origin Pearl, then merged with its Sword Puppet and comprehended the first layer of Sword Intent, Condensing Sword into Intent.
• Ning Fa tested the next trial, where snowflakes became flying swords that attacked his divine soul, and realized the trial was meant to teach the second layer, Sword Soul First Cry.
• Ning Fa stayed in his cave abode, received seven Heaven and Earth Exotic Fires from Spiritual Pivot Pavilion disciples, and began refining High-grade Burning Origin Pills.
• Sang Wen told Ning Fa that the fire pool for Earth Core Fire Attraction was ready, and he followed her to a blazing underground hall before diving into the pool.
• Sang Wen removed her clothing and entered the fire pool, prompting Ning Fa to open his eyes and ask what she meant.

Ning Fa absorbed Sang Wen’s Wood Yang True Flame, then spent a year cultivating until he opened the Sea of Lightning Divine Treasury and mastered Innate Supreme Fire Divine Thunder. When Sang Wen summoned him, he left to join a mission using a newly completed teleportation array to reach Tianli’s rear, meeting his fellow squad members at the array.

• Sang Wen approached Ning Fa with her Pure Yang True Flame, and the two entered the magma pool together; Ning Fa later used the absorbed flame to accelerate his cultivation.
• After a year of seclusion, Ning Fa opened his Sea of Lightning Divine Treasury, cultivated Innate Supreme Fire Divine Thunder, and gained the ability to absorb spiritual energy of the same attribute.
• Ning Fa learned that the front lines had endured a year of fierce fighting, with Cangyuan losing two Nascent Soul Cultivators, while the Sea Race remained quiet.
• Sang Wen told Ning Fa that the teleportation array was complete, and the two traveled toward Tianyu City before entering a concealed valley where the array was located.
• Ning Fa met Hermit Xuyuan and recognized the other members waiting by the array: Ji Lianxing, Bai Yueqiu, and a man he knew.

Ning Fa took command of a covert mission to infiltrate Tianli and destroy the inner-layer restriction around the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range. After arriving in southern Tianli disguised as Core Formation cultivators, the group set out for Aisa City aboard a captured Twin-headed Savage Bird.

• Hermit Xuyuan appointed Ning Fa to lead the operation, gave him the plan, formation tools, and a Great Teleportation Talisman, and urged him to prioritize his safety.
• Ning Fa and the others swallowed Illusion Spirit Pills and teleported into a secluded cave in Tianli.
• Ning Fa explained that they would pose as beast hunters, travel to Aisa City, and enter the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range to destroy its inner-layer restriction.
• Ning Fa identified their location as the Qige Mountain Range and estimated that Aisa City was more than twenty days away.
• Ning Fa summoned a Twin-headed Savage Bird prepared by a Beast Barbarian Tribe informant and used his Black Ring to subdue it.
• The group boarded the bird and flew toward Aisa City as Ning Fa kept it from flying too high.

Ning Fa’s group crossed the dangerous Tianli wilderness and encountered a bronze chariot carrying Ling Yue and Ye Ji, who sensed something unusual about one of the travelers. As Ye Ji urged Ling Yue to secure the Moon Lord position and sever her ties to Ning Fa, Ling Yue remained preoccupied with him and troubled by news that people in Cangyuan might also seek his death.

• Ning Fa’s group escaped the Qige Mountain Range’s deadly multicolored clouds and crossed a perilous wilderness toward Aisa City.
• Ning Fa sensed a powerful pursuer before the others and let a bronze chariot race past his group.
• Ling Yue and Ye Ji rode in the chariot, and Ling Yue was unsettled by the unusual aura she sensed among Ning Fa’s companions.
• Ye Ji explained that Ling Yue needed to complete the clan’s treasure-refining mission to challenge Bai Muqing for the Moon Lord position and protect her family from the Bai Family.
• Ye Ji discussed Ning Fa’s family, his enemies, and the threat posed by those in Cangyuan who might want him dead, while Ling Yue struggled to hide her concern.
• Ye Ji suggested Ling Yue trade Xia Xinlan and Ji Qingqing to Cangyuan, but Ling Yue said they would discuss it later.

Ning Fa and his companions reached Aisa City and discovered that the Holy Temple had sealed off the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range. Ning Fa’s search for Thousand Soul Grass stalled when the city’s trading houses said the herb was strictly controlled, leaving the group to gather information while the lockdown remained in effect.

• Ning Fa and his companions arrived at Aisa City and learned that the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range had been sealed off by order of the Holy Temple.
• Ning Fa questioned E Chen, who relayed rumors that Cangyuan spies had targeted the mountain range’s restriction formation, though he suspected the Holy Temple was concealing a threat from Demonized Savage Beasts.
• Ning Fa led the group into Aisa City, where the gate commander suggested looking for Thousand Soul Grass at the trading houses but could not say when the lockdown would end.
• Ning Fa and his companions split up to shop and gather intelligence, then agreed to meet at an inn that night.
• Ning Fa found no Thousand Soul Grass at the large trading houses he visited, whose shopkeepers said the Holy Temple strictly controlled the herb and punished anyone caught hoarding it.