Chapter Summaries

Tianli’s Sacred Shamans debated the Sea Race’s plan to break Zhenyou City’s array and the growing threat of their allies after Cangyuan fell. In the Sea Race camp, Hathaway revealed that the council was targeting Ning Fa, seeking the Ice Phoenix ancestor’s remains, and pursuing something in the Abyssal Heavenly Pool.

• Aruoye, Mei Danlun, and Su Rihe questioned why the Sea Race wanted Ning Fa and whether they should abandon the agreement, but Su Rihe argued that Tianli needed the Sea Race’s help to take Cangyuan.
• Su Rihe warned that the Myriad Bone Gate and the Underworld Sea Sect might become a threat after Cangyuan fell, while Mei Danlun noted that the Abyssal Heavenly Pool had drawn away their strongest forces.
• Lor dismissed concerns about spending a Heart of the Ancestral Sea to break Zhenyou City’s array, saying the decision belonged to the Tidal Council.
• Hathaway arrived and explained that the council had chosen to use the Heart largely because Ning Fa was expected to grow stronger soon and had to be eliminated quickly.
• Hathaway said the Sea Race also needed the Ice Phoenix ancestor’s remains to force the clan to compromise and wanted to secure something important to the Ancestral Sea inside the Abyssal Heavenly Pool.

The armies of Tianli, the Rakshasa Immortal Realm, and the Sea Race launched a renewed assault on Zhenyou City, forcing the defenders to rely on the Grand Extermination Immortal Array. The array devastated the attackers but shifted its power to support Cangyuan’s outnumbered Great Cultivators, leaving True Lord Kongli besieged by two Tianli opponents.

• Ning Fa heard the battle horn while meditating in seclusion and flew out to join the defenders of Zhenyou City.
• The Tianli, Rakshasa, and Sea Race armies attacked Zhenyou City with coordinated formations, sea tornadoes, demonic creatures, and Bone Rakshasa Battle Puppets.
• Cangyuan’s defenders counterattacked, but the three armies advanced to the city walls until the Grand Extermination Immortal Array struck them.
• The array annihilated many enemy cultivators and beasts, then redirected its power to assist Cangyuan’s Great Cultivators in the high-sky battle.
• True Lord Kongli fought two Tianli Great Cultivators while a feather-robed woman attacked him with sound waves from a giant drum.

True Lord Kongli and Ning Fa sprang a trap against two enemy Great Cultivators, and Ning Fa revealed his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. After killing the crimson-robed man, Ning Fa and Baili Ming cornered the wounded woman as she tried to escape.

• True Lord Kongli used the Heart-Illuminating Divine Lotus to fend off the fire dragon and the seductive woman’s attacks, but he was injured and his treasure was badly damaged.
• Kong Li trapped the crimson-robed man and the woman in a net of lotus petals, revealing his life-or-death technique.
• Ning Fa appeared behind the crimson-robed man, struck him with the Five-Colored Thunder Sword, and revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• The crimson-robed man split into sparks and tried to flee, but Ning Fa used Dutian Nether Thunder and his void-shaking technique to stop him and destroy his Nascent Soul.
• Baili Ming wounded the seductive woman, who tried to escape into the void, but Ning Fa forced her back out and the two men charged at her.

Ning Fa returned to the battle after breaking through to the middle stage and quickly turned the tide against Cangyuan’s enemies. As he trapped two Sea Race Great Cultivators in his sword array, Hathaway appeared beside a mysterious Deep Blue Crystal and demanded that he surrender.

• Ning Fa failed to catch the escaped Tianli cultivator, then exposed two hidden Rakshasa demonic Great Cultivators, whom Baili Ming pursued as Ning Fa flew to another battlefield.
• Ning Fa chose not to attack Aruoye and instead rushed to aid True Lord Yuchan against two Sea Race Great Cultivators.
• True Lord Yuchan used the Grand Extermination Immortal Array to restrain the fleeing Sea Race cultivators while Ning Fa deployed his Five Elements Calamity Heaven Sword Array.
• Ning Fa wounded the Sea Race pair with Essence Annihilation Sword Silk, and the female cultivator merged with the male sea dragon to empower him before Ning Fa pressed the attack.
• A crystal pyramid and a Deep Blue Crystal appeared in the summoned ocean, drawing the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book’s attention, and Hathaway emerged to demand Ning Fa’s surrender.

Ning Fa battled Lor, the Sea Race commander, while crushing the two Sea Race Great Cultivators trapped in his sword array. After capturing their Nascent Souls, he faced Lor as the commander prepared to unleash his full strength.

• Ning Fa strengthened his sword array to finish the two Sea Race Great Cultivators and seized the chance to pursue the Deep Blue Crystal.
• Lor escaped the Grand Extermination Immortal Array, appeared beside Ning Fa, and challenged him with the Sea-Splitting Spear.
• Lor's Spear Sea Formation engulfed Ning Fa, but Ning Fa's Divine Firmament Manifestation shattered the spear-qi tide with a giant lightning hand.
• Ning Fa crushed the trapped sea dragon, stopped the two Great Cultivators' Nascent Souls from escaping, and captured them, earning eight hundred Third-Tier Origin Points.
• Lor gathered blue-green flames and revolving seawater around himself as the seawater vanished and he prepared to fight at full strength.

Lor and Ning Fa fought fiercely until the Sea Race activated the Heart of the Ancestral Sea, transforming the area around Netherguard City into an Abyssal Sea. As Azure Giant Whales attacked the city's barrier and the Grand Extermination Immortal Array struggled to repel them, another wave of whales gathered.

• Lor transformed with the Deep Blue Profound Meaning and attacked Ning Fa with refracting spear auras, but Ning Fa dispelled them and trapped Lor with Mysterious Lightning.
• Ning Fa struck Lor with the Heaven-Shattering Sword, shattered his crystal shield, and sent him fleeing through the suspended Crystal Scales as the sword qi destroyed them.
• Ning Fa noticed the crystal pyramid activate and recognized its Deep Blue Crystal as the Sea Race's Heart of the Ancestral Sea, which flooded the area around Netherguard City and strengthened the Sea Race.
• Hathaway used her crystal scepter to summon Azure Giant Whales, whose smaller forms struck Netherguard City's barrier and forced the Grand Extermination Immortal Array to unleash a devastating counterattack.
• The city defenders realized the array could not repeat its powerful blast many times, and another wave of giant whales began gathering in the Abyssal Sea.

Ning Fa unleashed the Divine Firmament Manifestation’s First Transformation to defeat Hathaway and seize the Heart of the Ancestral Sea. The demonic whale assault collapsed and Zhenyou City’s defenses stabilized, while the battle between Hermit Xuyuan and the enemy Great Cultivators remained unresolved.

• Hermit Xuyuan summoned his life-consuming Dao Yuan Sword as the Cangyuan Great Cultivators fought desperately without the Grand Extermination Immortal Array.
• Hathaway joined Lor to attack Ning Fa and used her crystal pyramid to protect the Heart of the Ancestral Sea.
• Ning Fa activated the Divine Firmament Manifestation’s First Transformation, shattered Hathaway’s crystal pyramids, and unleashed Divine Firmament Thunder Marsh against the enemy forces.
• Ning Fa formed the Heavenly Punishment Thunder Spear and shattered the crystal on Hathaway’s forehead, defeating her as the Heart of the Ancestral Sea’s protection broke.
• Ning Fa seized the Heart of the Ancestral Sea, causing the demonic whale wave and the Abyssal Sea to vanish and restoring Zhenyou City’s defenses.
• The Cangyuan cultivators cheered as Zhenyou City held, while Hermit Xuyuan and the enemy Great Cultivators continued fighting.

Ning Fa turned the battle for Zhenyou City by killing two more Great Cultivators and driving the enemy forces into retreat. He left the battlefield severely injured, while the surviving Cangyuan cultivators faced uncertainty over the badly damaged Grand Extermination Immortal Array.

• Ning Fa killed the Sea Race female Great Cultivator with a Heavenly Punishment Thunder Spear and absorbed her Nascent Soul, earning four hundred Third-Tier Origin Points.
• Nether Bone fled after Ning Fa's display of strength, prompting the Rakshasa Immortal Realm's Great Cultivators and the remaining Sea Race Great Cultivator to retreat.
• Su Rihe ordered the Tianli Great Cultivators to withdraw, abandoning their stone-giant ally, whom Ning Fa crushed along with his Nascent Soul.
• Ning Fa reappeared covered in blood and out-of-control lightning, then left with Baili Ming to recover.
• True Lord Yu Chan credited Ning Fa and Hermit Xuyuan with saving Zhenyou City, while Lin Qingyi warned that the Grand Extermination Immortal Array had been badly damaged.
• Hermit Xuyuan led the Cangyuan Great Cultivators back to discuss the array's condition.

After recovering from his injuries, Ning Fa strengthened his defenses against Spirit Transformation Cultivators and learned that the Abyssal Heavenly Pool was about to open. Hermit Xuyuan revealed the danger to Cangyuan, leaving Ning Fa to face the decision of entering the pool to compete for its opportunity.

• Ning Fa spent three months recovering, then used the Heart of the Ancestral Sea's Origin Points to upgrade Pei Nanshu's Immortal Extermination Bead into a Great Immortal Extermination Bead.
• Ning Fa contacted Xiao Yu and asked her to bring back the spirit ores she had gathered, then met with Sang Wen and learned that the enemy had not attacked while he recovered.
• Ning Fa met Hermit Xuyuan, who had sacrificed decades of lifespan, and offered him a Life Origin Pill, which Xuyuan declined.
• Hermit Xuyuan told Ning Fa that unusual fluctuations near the Cloud Wasteland Great Marsh suggested the Abyssal Heavenly Pool was opening and that Moon Lord of Tianli and other vanished enemy cultivators might be involved.
• Ning Fa understood that Cangyuan needed him to compete for the pool's opportunity, but that his death there could leave Cangyuan unable to survive.

Ning Fa prepared to enter the Abyssal Heavenly Pool while gathering materials and equipment as Cangyuan braced for another invasion. When a Sea Race Spirit Transformation Cultivator named Kailandir pursued him, Ning Fa fought to survive until Great Qin’s reinforcements arrived.

• Ning Fa agreed to enter the Abyssal Heavenly Pool, and Hermit Xuyuan explained that Cangyuan needed him to become a Spirit Transformation powerhouse.
• Ning Fa learned the Grand Extermination Immortal Array had been badly damaged, then gathered spirit ores and prepared armor components, teleportation talismans, and other equipment.
• Three months later, the enemy attacked Zhenyou City, and Ning Fa recognized the Blue Robe Youth as a Sea Race Spirit Transformation Cultivator named Kailandir.
• Ning Fa escaped Kailandir’s crystal hand and fled north, but Kailandir pursued him and struck with a Bronze Trident.
• Ning Fa blocked the trident with the Zhou Tian Yan Lei Mirror’s Five-Colored Lightning, but Kailandir prepared another attack until a silver brush trapped the trident in ink-character cages.
• Ning Fa put away the Great Immortal Extermination Bead as he realized Great Qin’s reinforcements had arrived.

Venerable Ling Jun and Lu Caifu arrived to save Ning Fa from Kailandir, forcing the Sea Race cultivator to retreat. They then reached Zhenyou City and lifted Cangyuan’s siege as Great Qin’s reinforcements arrived, while Mo Qianqiu anticipated trouble for Ning Fa from the Yuan Cha Gate and the Demon Race.

• Venerable Ling Jun confronted Kailandir and refused to let him capture Ning Fa.
• Lu Caifu reassured Ning Fa, and Venerable Ling Jun prepared to fight Kailandir, who withdrew after noticing his own injuries.
• Venerable Ling Jun, Lu Caifu, and Ning Fa hurried to Zhenyou City, where Ling Jun announced that he would intervene because foreign races had joined the siege.
• A massive Spiritual Ship and a three-headed, six-winged golden bird arrived with Great Qin’s main reinforcements, prompting cheers from Cangyuan’s cultivators.
• Mo Qianqiu suspected the Yuan Cha Gate and Demon Race would seek revenge against Ning Fa.

Ning Fa faced Yuan Gang, a powerful Three-Eyed Heavenly Ape, and overwhelmed him in a clash of divine abilities and treasures. As Yuan Gang’s Spirit Transformation ancestor stopped Ning Fa’s finishing strike, Venerable Ling Jun challenged the old man for intervening.

• Ning Fa recognized Yuan Gang among the demon reinforcements, and Yuan Gang charged him with a Black Iron Staff, demanding his life.
• Ning Fa transformed into his Divine Firmament Manifestation and met Yuan Gang’s attack with the Heaven-Shattering Sword, revealing his Innate Divine Thunder and sword intent.
• Yuan Gang used his Third Eye’s Spirit Attachment to strengthen his staff and Essence Absorption to attack Ning Fa, but Ning Fa’s lightning broke through the attack and inflicted severe pain on him.
• Ning Fa shattered Yuan Gang’s staff and swung the Heaven-Shattering Sword at the injured ape, intent on killing him.
• Yuan Gang’s shriveled Spirit Transformation ancestor stopped the sword with two fingers, and Venerable Ling Jun questioned his intervention in the juniors’ spar.

After Ning Fa fought off Yuan Gang and the demons withdrew, Great Qin's reinforcements returned to Zhenyou City and met with Cangyuan's cultivators. There, Lin Xiue accused Ning Fa of murdering Cangyuan leaders and endangering the realm, leaving the gathered powers poised against him.

• Ning Fa thanked Venerable Ling Jun for intervening, while Yuan Gang threatened revenge before fleeing with the demons.
• Fairy Qing Yao and a red-armored demon cultivator departed after noticing Ning Fa's abilities, and the Great Qin cultivators recognized his strength.
• Venerable Ling Jun asked about the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion, then returned to Zhenyou City with the gathered cultivators.
• Lin Wuji and Cang He met the local branches of their sects and offered to help their leaders return to the main sects.
• A masked woman demanded to know what had happened to the Yuan Cha Gate, and a silver-masked cultivator accused Ning Fa of killing its Cangyuan Sect Master.
• Lin Xiue accused Ning Fa of killing Shen Xinlan, Huangfu Hong, and Pei Nanshu, abducting Ji Lianxing, and abandoning Cangyuan, prompting his allies to react with alarm.

Ning Fa defended himself against accusations of killing Huangfu Hong, Shen Xinlan, and Pei Nanshu, and Ji Lianxing confirmed his account before Venerable Ling Jun. Lin Wuji and the masked woman still demanded vengeance, but Ye Cangfeng and Shen Cizhou stepped in to support Ning Fa, as Lu Caifu revealed that he was the young friend Senior Tianyi had mentioned.

• Ning Fa admitted killing Huangfu Hong, Shen Xinlan, and Pei Nanshu, explaining that they had plotted with Tianli cultivators to kill him and that Ji Lianxing had chosen to stay with him for protection.
• Hermit Xuyuan supported Ning Fa's account, while Lin Xiue and Mo Qianqiu challenged it and urged Ji Lianxing to speak.
• Ji Lianxing confirmed Ning Fa's account and revealed that Mo Qianqiu had coveted her Heavenly Charm Body and wanted to refine her into a Yin Pellet.
• Venerable Ling Jun accepted Ji Lianxing's testimony, judged that the three dead cultivators had deserved their fate, and left with Hermit Xuyuan.
• Lin Wuji and the gold-patterned masked woman continued to threaten Ning Fa, who challenged them to attack him together; Ye Cangfeng and Shen Cizhou then offered to stand by him.
• Lu Caifu told Lin Wuji and Chong Li that Ning Fa was the young friend Senior Tianyi had mentioned.

Ning Fa learned that Hermit Tianyi was a powerful Fifth-Rank Diviner from Great Qin’s Tianhong Hall, and that his prophecy had brought Great Qin’s forces to Cangyuan. Lu Caifu revealed that the Abyssal Heavenly Pool might hold a way to break the Human Realm’s severed path of ascension, leaving Ning Fa stunned by the stakes of the coming expedition.

• Lu Caifu identified Hermit Tianyi as a Spirit Transformation Cultivator, and Lin Wuji and the masked woman withdrew their auras from Ning Fa.
• Ye Cangfeng proposed a fair spar with Ning Fa after he advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and Ning Fa agreed.
• Xuan Weizi welcomed the Great Qin cultivators to Zhenyou City, where Cangyuan’s leaders hosted a banquet and learned that seven Spirit Transformation forces had sent people.
• Lu Caifu privately told Ning Fa that Hermit Tianyi came from Tianhong Hall, was Great Qin’s only Fifth-Rank Diviner in over ten thousand years, and had called Ning Fa a friend of vastly different age.
• Lu Caifu revealed that Tianyi’s divination linked the Abyssal Heavenly Pool to a special opportunity and possibly a way to break the Human Realm’s ascension impasse.
• Ning Fa recalled Ancestor Juelei’s account that a mysterious race had used a Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure to sever the Human Realm’s connection to the Spirit Realm.

Lu Caifu proposed that the Qianyuan Merchant Alliance support Ning Fa and Fu Ling Hall in exchange for cooperation, but Ning Fa withheld his answer. After learning that the Teleportation Array had been repaired, Ning Fa prepared to relocate his sect and family, then joined the expedition toward the Cloud Wasteland Great Marsh.

• Lu Caifu told Ning Fa that powerful forces were converging on the Abyssal Heavenly Pool and revealed that she knew he was Fu Ling Hall’s Hall Master and possessed the Five Elements Thunder Body.
• Lu Caifu offered Qianyuan Merchant Alliance support for Fu Ling Hall in exchange for cooperation against the Tianshu Alliance, and Ning Fa asked for time to consider the proposal.
• Ning Fa celebrated with Ji Lianxing, then resolved to move his sect and family through the Teleportation Array because of threats from demonic sects and the Sea Race.
• Blue Lightning told Ning Fa that Meng Ruoqi had repaired and tested the Teleportation Array, making it ready for use.
• Three days later, Ning Fa and other Great Qin and Cangyuan cultivators headed toward the Cloud Wasteland Great Marsh as the demons from the Cloud Break Mountain Range traveled there too.

Ning Fa and the other cultivators reached the Abyssal Heavenly Pool, where several factions and Spirit Transformation Cultivators had gathered. A powerful new arrival, Yue Long of the Nine Immortals Association, appeared, leaving Baili Ming warning Ning Fa to stay out of his sight.

• Ning Fa’s group reached the Cloud Wasteland Great Marsh and followed the unusually active Water Attribute spiritual qi to the Abyssal Heavenly Pool’s vast lake phantom.
• Venerable Ling Jun recognized that the starry towers surrounding the lake used an altered Thousand Star Yuan Concealment Technique and led the group to a tower.
• Ning Fa saw Kailandir, the Tianli leaders, and Old Ghost Star Remains arrive with their Nascent Soul cultivators, bringing four Spirit Transformation Cultivators together.
• Old Ghost Star Remains offered Venerable Ling Jun a Vast Star Origin Stone in exchange for an Azure Nether Pill Heart, provoking Ling Jun to prepare for a fight.
• A flying white palace arrived, carrying Yue Long, a Mid Spirit Transformation Cultivator, and Baili Ming warned Ning Fa not to attract his attention.

Yue Long, vice president of the Nine Immortals Association, joined the other Spirit Transformation Cultivators to discuss the Abyssal Heavenly Pool after Ling Yuqing revealed her inherited knowledge of its secrets. The cultivators agreed to send people into the Pool when it opened in three months and ten days, and Venerable Ling Jun granted Cangyuan ten places; Ning Fa then offered to accompany Kong Li to Zhenyou City.

• Yue Long arrived, and the four Spirit Transformation Cultivators agreed to let the Nine Immortals Association join their plans for the Abyssal Heavenly Pool.
• Ling Yuqing said the Pool would open in three months and ten days, and Old Ghost Star Remains explained that her inheritance from Moon Chasing had helped her uncover its mysteries.
• Shen Cizhou revealed that Ancestor Xuanyue had accepted Ling Yuqing as her final disciple, curbing the other cultivators' interest in taking her inheritance.
• Ling Yuqing shared her findings in Jade Slips, and the five Spirit Transformation Cultivators agreed to send people into the Abyssal Heavenly Pool.
• Venerable Ling Jun granted Cangyuan ten places in the expedition, and Kong Li declined his place because his lifespan was nearly over.
• Ning Fa offered to accompany Kong Li to Zhenyou City.

Ning Fa decided to flee Cangyuan with Zhu Lingyun and arrange for his relatives and sect members to escape through a cross-realm Transmission Array, while securing protection for those left behind. He returned to Zhenyou City to support the final forging of his Divine Firmament Thunder Armor Set, which Cheng Ziyi expected to complete in about two months.

• Ning Fa told True Lord Kongli that he planned to leave Cangyuan with Zhu Lingyun, and Kongli approved.
• Ning Fa entrusted Baili Ming with overseeing the evacuation of his relatives and sect members, and they discussed building Teleportation Arrays to connect the Changning Mountain Range with the Profound Fire Sect Ruins.
• Ning Fa planned to take only several hundred people through the cross-realm Transmission Array and intended to negotiate Qianyuan Merchant Alliance protection for those left behind.
• Ning Fa reviewed the five pieces of his Divine Firmament Thunder Armor Set and considered how completing it would let him sustain the First Transformation of the Divine Firmament Manifestation for longer.
• Ning Fa visited Cheng Ziyi as she finished refining another armor component, and she said the full set should be ready in about two months.

Ning Fa prepared for the Abyssal Heavenly Pool by refining powerful Mystic Talismans and completing the Divine Firmament Thunder Armor Set. After an intimate encounter with Cheng Ziyi, he finished the Spirit Transformation Talisman just before the Heavenly Pool opened and set out.

• Ning Fa decided to refine the Supreme Clarity Five Thunder Talisman and Spirit Transformation Talisman to prepare for the dangers of the Abyssal Heavenly Pool.
• Ning Fa spent three Fourth-Tier Origin Points to trace back a Primal Harmony Five Thunder Stone, then refined the Supreme Clarity Five Thunder Talisman and charged it with his Divine Thunder of the Five Elements.
• Ning Fa and Cheng Ziyi completed the remaining components of the Divine Firmament Thunder Armor Set, and Ning Fa assembled and donned the full set.
• Ning Fa succumbed to Moon Tribulation Burning Emotions and kissed Cheng Ziyi; the next day, he worried about how he would face her and Cheng Susu.
• Ning Fa finished refining the Spirit Transformation Talisman before the Heavenly Pool opened, then vanished from the quiet chamber.