Chapter Summaries

Ning Fa agreed to help his branch family relocate but set strict terms for his maternal aunt’s and Fourth Uncle’s families, then planned to expand his shop and entrusted its management to Ning Zhengqian and Ning Zifeng. After they left, he examined the Azure Condensation Mirror gifted by Ning Zhongjiu and considered its extraordinary origins and power.

• Ning Fa accepted the 2,300 spirit stones from Ning Muchun’s family and agreed to let the past go, but said her family and Fourth Uncle’s family would have to pay to relocate to a spiritual island.
• Ning Fa told Ning Zhengqian and Ning Zifeng that he wanted to buy the Great Abundance Spiritual Material Shop and combine it with his existing shop in Jinchang Island Market.
• Ning Fa provided 2,200 spirit stones for the purchase and promised to supply pills for the business, then offered Ning Zhengqian and Ning Zifeng ten percent of its annual income for managing it.
• Ning Fa gave Ning Zifeng five Three Yuan Pills and urged him to advance to Late Qi Condensation so he could help the branch family.
• After Ning Zhengqian and Ning Zifeng left, Ning Fa activated the Guardian Spirit Array and examined the Azure Condensation Mirror that Ning Zhongjiu had given him.

Ning Fa refined the Azure Condensation Mirror, reviewed a pill inheritance, and began studying the Ancient Source Thunder Scripture’s body-refining section. He learned that the technique came from an ancient Demon Race art and discovered that his unusually strong body let him endure its strenuous training for six hours.

• Ning Fa refined the Azure Condensation Mirror and learned that its Azure Condensation Spiritual Light could trap, pursue, and protect.
• Ning Fa planned to exchange for Imprint Pearls in the Scripture Pavilion so he could study recorded cultivator battles and improve his combat experience.
• Ning Fa reviewed Wei Chengzong’s second-tier Pill Master Inheritance, including recipes for the Essence Refining Pill and Clear Gloom Pill.
• Ning Fa read the body-refining section of the second layer of the Ancient Source Thunder Scripture and learned it had originated from an ancient Demon Race technique.
• Ning Fa tried tracing the technique’s origin with the Mysterious Scroll, but it lacked enough energy to identify the source.
• Ning Fa practiced the body-refining postures for six hours before stopping when his body began to feel as if it were tearing apart.

Ning Fa studied the costly ingredients needed for the Body Tempering Potion and decided to seek Wei Shiqin’s help obtaining them. After learning that Wei wanted to meet him, he joined her and Ning Shaohong on Yun Chang Island, where Wei presented him with a valuable pill-making inheritance.

• Ning Fa found that the Body Tempering Potion required rare second-grade ingredients, including Cloud Crystal Liquid, and resolved to ask Wei Shiqin for help sourcing them.
• Ning Xiuying told Ning Fa that the Ninth Elder had returned and that Wei Shiqin wanted to see him the next day.
• Ning Fa met Ning Shaohong and Wei Shiqin at a lakeside pavilion on Yun Chang Island.
• Wei Shiqin congratulated Ning Fa on becoming a First-grade Mid-rank Pill Master and gave him a Jade Slip containing several pill recipes as a gift.

Ning Fa accepted Wei Shiqin’s valuable pill inheritance and agreed to refine Three Yuan Pills for her, while Ning Shaohong learned that the Ironclad Alliance might have gained a third Foundation Establishment cultivator. Ning Fa noticed Ning Shaohong’s contempt for the Xue Family as the conversation ended.

• Wei Shiqin gave Ning Fa a second-grade mid-rank Pill Master Inheritance and asked him to refine Three Yuan Pills using her materials.
• Ning Fa accepted Wei Shiqin’s offer to buy each Three Yuan Pill for fifty-five spirit stones, and Ning Shaohong checked that the work would not overburden him.
• Wei Shiqin told Ning Shaohong that a third Foundation Establishment cultivator had likely joined or emerged within the Ironclad Alliance.
• Ning Shaohong thanked Wei Shiqin for the warning and mentioned that calamity cultivators had recently caused more crimes and clan casualties.
• Ning Fa noticed Ning Shaohong’s cold, mocking reaction when Wei Shiqin mentioned the Xue Family.

Ning Fa accepted Ning Shaohong’s invitation to attend Tongbao Pavilion’s auction in Tianshui Market and received a Cloud Star Robe she had made for him. On his way to Ningchang Island, he studied Wei Shiqin’s Pill Master Inheritance and discovered several valuable Second-grade Pill Recipes with scarce ingredients.

• Wei Shiqin gave Ning Shaohong and Ning Fa VIP invitations to Tongbao Pavilion’s auction in Tianshui Market, and Ning Shaohong agreed to take Ning Fa there in a month.
• Ning Fa offered Ning Shaohong the spirit stones he earned from refining Three Yuan Pills until he repaid the cost of the spiritual materials she had advanced.
• Ning Shaohong gave Ning Fa a high-grade magic artifact, the Cloud Star Robe, and demonstrated its protective barrier before he tried it on.
• Ning Fa left for Ningchang Island to exchange for the Travelogue of Yun Songzi and Imprint Pearls and planned to visit Xiao Yu.
• Ning Fa studied Wei Shiqin’s Pill Master Inheritance and found the Peiyang Pill and Jinlu Pill recipes, though their ingredients were difficult to obtain.

Ning Fa returned to Ningchang Island with new pill formulas and saw that his status as a First-grade Mid-rank Pill Master had changed how clan members approached him. At the Scripture Pavilion, he met Ning Wanyun of the powerful Yongchang Island branch, who introduced herself before he could learn more about her.

• Ning Fa obtained the Qi Gathering Pill and Blood Fury Pill formulas, including the life-threatening Blood Fury Pill’s effects and risks.
• Ning Zonglie warmly congratulated Ning Fa on becoming a First-grade Mid-rank Pill Master and asked him to help secure high-rank pills in the future.
• Ning Fa agreed to help Ning Zonglie, considering him a valuable ally, and continued toward Changning Mountain while thinking about buying a flying artifact.
• At the Scripture Pavilion, Ning Fa found Ning Yuwen drawing erotic pictures and encountered a young woman who identified herself as Ning Wanyun from Yongchang Island.
• Ning Fa recalled that Yongchang Island was a powerful direct branch associated with the Sixth Elder, Ning Yaozu, and the talented Ning Nanqing.

Ning Fa obtained the Travelogue of Yun Songzi and combat imprints, including one documenting Ning Huarong fighting two powerful opponents, to prepare himself against her. He applied to change spiritual islands and visited Xiao Yu, whose cultivation had stalled despite her efforts, promising to help her later.

• Ning Wanyun praised Ning Fa and said her brother Ning Nanqing wanted to thank him, but Ning Fa excused himself and went to the Scripture Pavilion.
• Ning Fa spent Contribution Points to copy the Travelogue of Yun Songzi and rented several combat Imprint Pearls, including Ning Huarong's fight against two Peak Qi Condensation Qian Family clansmen.
• Ning Fa applied at the Sect Affairs Hall to change spiritual islands, and Ning Xugong promised to prioritize the request for Elder Council review.
• Ning Fa visited Xiao Yu at Cui Ning Courtyard and learned that her cultivation had not advanced beyond the First Level of Qi Condensation despite her diligence and Essence Replenishing Pills.
• Ning Fa comforted Xiao Yu and considered refining Essence Replenishing Pills with One Dao Mark for her after she left Cui Ning Courtyard.

After returning to Pingchang Island, Ning Fa read Yun Songzi's Travelogue and learned about the vast Cangyuan Cultivation World, its alliances, and the dangers and history of the Cloud Wasteland Great Marsh. He ended with a broader sense of the Human Realm's scale, while postponing his move into Ning Ruiming's former residence until he could buy better protective formations.

• Ning Fa received Wei Chengzong's message that Ning Ruiming's residence in the Alchemy Hall was vacant, but decided to wait until after visiting Tianshui Market to move in.
• Ning Fa read Yun Songzi's Travelogue and learned how the Cangyuan Cultivation World was divided among the Ice Plains Alliance, the Righteous and Demonic Path Alliances, and the Cloud Marsh Alliance.
• Ning Fa learned that the Cloud Wasteland Great Marsh bordered the Jiang Kingdom, contained dangerous depths, and had been gradually developed by cultivators over many years.
• Ning Fa read about the Demonic Path Alliance's invasion of the Seven Nations of Cloud Wasteland and the truce that followed.
• Ning Fa learned that the Human Realm contained other cultivation worlds, including one more powerful than Cangyuan, though natural dangers and guarded Ancient Teleportation Arrays made travel between them difficult.

Ning Fa watched an Imprint Pearl recording of Ning Huarong killing two Qian Family cultivators and witnessed her overwhelming strength. He left wary of her but resolved that his potential and cultivation would eventually let him surpass her.

• Ning Fa finished Travelogue of Yun Songzi and felt that its price had been worthwhile.
• Ning Fa viewed the recording of Ning Huarong facing two Qian Family cultivators at Yanqing Island.
• Ning Huarong used her purple crescent blades and violet armor to break through the Yellow Wind Banner's attacks and kill both men.
• Ning Fa was shocked by Ning Huarong's strength, then rejected his fear and trusted that his Great Five Elements Thunder Body and Ancient Source Thunder Scripture could let him match or surpass her.

Ning Fa used the Mysterious Scroll to trace Imprint Pearls back to immersive scenes of their battles, gaining combat insights through firsthand observation. After destroying four recordings, he feared owing Contribution Points, but Ning Yuwen erased his borrowing records and let him leave without compensation.

• Ning Fa used the Mysterious Scroll to enter an immersive view of Ning Huarong fighting two Qian Family members, where he could use his spiritual sense to study the battle.
• After the Qian Family members died again in the replay, Ning Fa returned to his alchemy chamber and found that the Imprint Pearl's recording had vanished.
• Ning Fa traced three more Imprint Pearls and learned from their prolonged fights, varied techniques, and combat stratagems.
• Several days later, Ning Fa brought the four damaged Imprint Pearls to the Scripture Pavilion, where Ning Yuwen erased his borrowing records so he owed no Contribution Points.

Ning Fa traveled with Ning Shaohong and Ning Xiuying to Tianshui Market, where Ning Shaohong revealed that the Sixth Elder wanted to arrange Ning Fa’s marriage to Ning Wanyun. Ning Fa refused, choosing to focus on cultivation and alchemy, while Ning Xiuying felt relieved.

• Ning Fa boarded Ning Shaohong’s Red Flying Boat with Ning Xiuying and an escort of Blazing Wind Hall guards bound for Tianshui Market.
• Ning Shaohong served Ning Fa and Ning Xiuying Red Su Tea, and Ning Fa noticed that it strengthened his Mana.
• Ning Shaohong told Ning Fa that the Sixth Elder had asked her to sound him out about marrying Ning Wanyun.
• Ning Fa said he did not want to consider personal matters because he needed to focus on cultivation and alchemy.
• Ning Shaohong emphasized the benefits of marrying Ning Wanyun, but Ning Fa refused again, leaving Ning Xiuying relieved.

Ning Fa arrived at Tianshui Market with the Ning Clan and came face-to-face with Qian Shouzhong, the Qian Family cultivator who had killed his parents. After learning the truth, Ning Fa vowed to avenge them, then entered the bustling market.

• Ning Fa and the Ning Clan reached Tianshui Island and saw the market protected by a powerful defensive array.
• Qian Shouzhong arrived with the Qian Family, and his appearance provoked Ning Shaohong and put both groups on guard.
• Ning Shaohong told Ning Fa that Qian Shouzhong had personally killed his parents, and Ning Fa vowed to kill him one day.
• Ning Shaohong warned Ning Fa that Qian Shouzhong was too powerful for him to confront, and the group entered the market after paying the entry fee.
• Ning Fa explored the crowded market, where shops and vendors displayed a wide variety of spiritual treasures.

Ning Fa visited Tongbao Pavilion in Tianshui Market to discuss a large purchase with Wei Shiqin. After reviewing his list of spirit materials, Wei Shiqin said the pavilion could obtain most of them but had difficulty supplying Cloud Crystal Liquid.

• Ning Shaohong told Ning Fa about the Xue Family’s power and the Ning Clan’s shops in Tianshui Market as they walked to Tongbao Pavilion.
• Wei Shiqin welcomed Ning Shaohong’s group, and Ning Shaohong left Ning Xiuying and Ning Zonglie to accompany Ning Fa while she went to Cloud Embroidery Pavilion.
• Ning Shaohong told Wei Shiqin that the clan elders had decided not to pursue a certain item.
• Wei Shiqin led Ning Fa to a private room and asked what he needed to buy.
• Ning Fa handed Wei Shiqin a Jade Slip listing spirit materials, and she explained that Cloud Crystal Liquid would be difficult for the pavilion to provide.

Ning Fa sought Cloud Crystal Liquid for refining Nine Revolutions Purple Yuan Powder, but Wei Shiqin said Tongbao Pavilion would trade its remaining portion only for Hundred Year Spirit Milk or a deeper partnership. Ning Fa and Wei Shiqin agreed to discuss long-term cooperation, though the exact terms remained unsettled.

• Ning Fa asked Wei Shiqin to sell him Cloud Crystal Liquid, and she explained that Tongbao Pavilion required Hundred Year Spirit Milk in exchange for its unauctioned portion.
• Ning Fa considered how urgently he needed Cloud Crystal Liquid to make Purple Yuan Powder and strengthen his body for cultivating the Ancient Source Thunder Scripture.
• Wei Shiqin offered to give Ning Fa the Cloud Crystal Liquid if he established a deeper cooperative relationship with Tongbao Pavilion, citing his pill-refining talent.
• Ning Fa agreed that he also wanted lasting cooperation because he needed Tongbao Pavilion's spirit-material channels for his long-term cultivation needs.
• Ning Fa and Wei Shiqin negotiated the terms of deeper cooperation, but the chapter ended before they finalized the arrangement.

Ning Fa and Wei Shiqin formalized an expanded alchemy partnership, with Tongbao Pavilion providing spiritual materials and Ning Fa supplying more pills. He collected most of the costly ingredients for Nine Revolutions Purple Yuan Powder, and the chapter ended with Wei Shiqin asking what he planned to make and Ning Fa declining to tell her.

• Ning Fa agreed to increase his Three Yuan Pill supply by at least fifty percent, provide other healing and recovery pills, and work with Tongbao Pavilion as his sole alchemy partner outside the Ning Clan.
• Wei Shiqin agreed to procure spiritual materials and asked Ning Fa to refine certain specified pills using formulas and materials she would provide.
• Wei Shiqin recorded their agreement in a symbolic contract, then brought Ning Fa nearly ten boxes and bottles of valuable spiritual materials, including Cloud Crystal Liquid.
• Ning Fa inspected and stored the materials, while noting that some ingredients for Nine Revolutions Purple Yuan Powder were still missing and would be difficult and expensive to obtain.
• Wei Shiqin promised to send the remaining materials within a month and asked what Ning Fa needed them for, but he refused to disclose his plans.

Ning Fa sought a high-tier defensive array with powerful divine sense concealment, and Wei Shiqin offered him a chance to acquire one from her friend. The friend, famed as Thousand Wave Lake's Number One Beauty and Number One Array Master, was on her way to meet Ning Fa about selling the array for spirit stones.

• Ning Fa told Wei Shiqin he wanted a defensive array with excellent divine sense concealment, and she showed him two Tier 1 High-grade arrays that did not meet his expectations.
• Wei Shiqin described a Quasi-Tier 2 defensive and illusion array that could conceal its user from Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivators.
• Wei Shiqin explained that her friend wanted to trade the array for a dual water-fire flying sword magic artifact, but suggested she might sell it to Ning Fa for spirit stones.
• Wei Shiqin contacted her friend, identified her as Thousand Wave Lake's Number One Beauty and Number One Array Master, and arranged for her to meet Ning Fa.
• Wei Shiqin's friend arrived at the pavilion to meet Ning Fa.

Ning Fa met Meng Ruoqi to negotiate for her Clear Spirit Illusion Bamboo Formation, but he lacked the rare Dual Water-Fire Attribute Flying Sword she had requested. After Wei Shiqin explained Ning Fa’s growing standing in the Ning Clan, Meng Ruoqi agreed to sell him the formation for spirit stones instead.

• Meng Ruoqi arrived, and Ning Fa greeted her and confirmed that he wanted to buy her formation.
• Wei Shiqin introduced Meng Ruoqi as a high-grade spiritual-root cultivator and a first-grade high-rank Array Master who had crafted the Quasi-Tier 2 formation.
• Meng Ruoqi asked whether Ning Fa had a Dual Water-Fire Attribute Flying Sword, and he offered spirit stones or pills instead.
• Wei Shiqin told Meng Ruoqi that Ning Fa was a First-grade Mid-rank Pill Master being groomed as the Ning Clan’s future chief pill master.
• Meng Ruoqi briefly showed sorrow while thinking of a recent event in her clan, then agreed to exchange the formation for spirit stones.

Ning Fa bought Meng Ruoqi’s array at a discount and learned that her family was in danger after its Second Elder was gravely injured. Wei Shiqin proposed that Ning Fa marry Meng Ruoqi so the Ning Clan would protect the Meng Family, but Ning Fa doubted the Meng Family would accept such an arrangement.

• Meng Ruoqi sold Ning Fa a Quasi-Tier 2 Array for two thousand spirit stones, and Wei Shiqin gave him eighteen emerald-green bamboo stalks.
• Meng Ruoqi wondered why Ning Fa showed no desire to pursue her, while Wei Shiqin asked whether he was unmoved by her beauty.
• Ning Fa said he would not seek a Dao Companion before reaching Foundation Establishment, and Wei Shiqin hinted that he could help Meng Ruoqi through marriage.
• Wei Shiqin revealed that the Meng Family’s Second Elder had been severely injured and might lose his Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• Wei Shiqin suggested that Ning Fa’s marriage to Meng Ruoqi could secure the Ning Clan’s protection for the Meng Family, and Ning Fa considered the risks posed by his clan’s ruthless ways.

Ning Fa completed a profitable trade with Wei Shiqin and secured supplies for future cultivation, then settled into the Ning Clan’s residence in Tianshui Market. There, Ning Xiuying drew him into a private encounter, and Ning Shaohong discovered their affair by hearing them through the guest-room door.

• Ning Fa sold his Three Yuan Pills to Wei Shiqin, bought battle recordings and books, and acquired a cultivation technique that made the Mysterious Scroll react.
• Ning Fa left Tongbao Pavilion pleased with his purchases and his stronger business ties with Wei Shiqin, while Ning Xiuying wrongly thought his excitement came from the women he had met.
• Ning Zonglie gave Ning Xiuying a Jade Hairpin, but she rejected it and glanced at Ning Fa, who hurried away to avoid drawing suspicion to their affair.
• Ning Fa, Ning Xiuying, and Ning Zonglie arrived at the Ning Clan’s residence in Shangqing Quarter, where Ning Fa went to rest after Ning Shaohong returned to her room.
• Ning Xiuying insisted on a private discussion with Ning Fa, and the two became intimate in his guest room.
• Ning Shaohong arrived carrying a food box, heard the sounds from Ning Fa’s room, and quietly left.

Ning Fa and the Ning Clan group arrived at Tongbao Pavilion’s auction, where they encountered Meng Ruoqi and Meng Family First Elder Meng Hongji, then the Xue Family’s Danping and an arrogant, mysterious cultivator. The scholar-robed man’s presence worried Ning Shaohong as the group prepared to enter the auction.

• Ning Shaohong led Ning Fa and the others to Lingguang Pavilion for Tongbao Pavilion’s auction.
• Meng Ruoqi and Meng Hongji arrived, and Ning Shaohong exchanged greetings with them before asking whether they had come for a particular item.
• Danping arrived with several companions, greeted Ning Shaohong and Meng Hongji, and drew their attention to the powerful aura of a scholar-robed cultivator beside her.
• The scholar-robed cultivator dismissed the auction and entered the venue after Danping said she had reserved him a private room.
• Meng Hongji entered with Meng Ruoqi, while Ning Fa suspected Danping belonged to the Xue Family and Ning Shaohong grew wary of the unfamiliar cultivator.