Chapter Summaries

Ning Fa learned that Sky Palace City had fallen and set out with Ancestor Nihuo to reinforce the retreating defenders. The chapter then showed Yong'an Immortal City under attack, where Sea Race and Demon Race forces slaughtered cultivators and civilians.

• Ning Fa arrived at the hall and revealed cultivation that had reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage, astonishing Ancestor Nihuo.
• Ning Fa received Wen Yuchen's message that Sky Palace City had fallen and its defenders were retreating along three routes.
• Ning Fa and Ancestor Nihuo took the Teleportation Array to Sun Wheel Sea to receive one of the retreating armies.
• Sea Race and Demon Race forces invaded Yong'an Immortal City and massacred its residents.
• A blue-robed cultivator sent his wife and children away from a Wolf Demon attack, but the demon killed them all and tore him apart.

Sea Race and Demon Race forces slaughtered the people of Yong'an Immortal City until Ning Fa sensed the carnage and rushed there. He rescued a trapped family, then unleashed his three Innate Divine Thunders in a citywide storm that destroyed more than a hundred thousand enemies while sparing the humans.

• Sea Race cultivators and demon beasts massacred humans throughout Yong'an Immortal City, and many cultivators died protecting civilians and their families.
• Ning Fa sensed the slaughter aboard the flying boat and raced toward the city, followed by Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant and Ancestor Nihuo.
• Ning Fa stopped a Giant Ape from devouring a boy, killed it with a punch, and freed the boy's family from its Beast Net.
• Ning Fa surveyed the city's devastation and gathered his three Innate Divine Thunders to create a vast Five-Colored Thunder Cloud.
• Ning Fa's lightning storm burned more than a hundred thousand Sea Race cultivators and demon beasts to ash while leaving the humans unharmed.

Ning Fa unleashed his three Innate Divine Thunders to devastate Yong'an Immortal City and rescue trapped human cultivators, but the effort depleted his strength and weakened the thunders’ origins. Tulun and a force of Sea Monster and Beast Race cultivators confronted him, and the chapter ended as they trapped him inside a barrier.

• A wounded human cultivator used the Haoyuan Sword to kill a Fourth-grade Sea Race cultivator and try to break the Azure Water Realm-Trapping Pearl, but Tulun destroyed the sword and revealed that he had killed Ji Zixiu.
• Ning Fa arrived in a Five-Colored Thunder Cloud and killed more than two hundred thousand Sea Monster and Beast Race creatures with his Innate Divine Thunders.
• Tulun recognized Ning Fa as a powerful human Nascent Soul Cultivator but persuaded the other Sea Race cultivators and three great demons to attack him for the promised Ancestral Spirit Infusion.
• Ning Fa realized that using his Innate Divine Thunders at full force had depleted their origins, then challenged the approaching Sea Monster and Beast Race cultivators to emerge.
• Tulun’s forces surrounded Ning Fa, and three Fourth-grade Sea Race cultivators used their triangular crystal towers to trap him in a pale-blue barrier.

Ning Fa restored his peak strength with the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book and overwhelmed the Sea Race and Beast Race forces in Yong'an Immortal City. After defeating Tulun’s final attacks, he killed Tulun and gained 300 Origin Points.

• Ning Fa used a True Form Imprint to restore his strength and Innate Divine Thunder Origin, spending 300 Third-Tier Origin Points.
• Ning Fa unleashed a purple lightning sword qi that shattered the attackers’ techniques, then used Moon-Slaying Divine Light to kill the great demons and dozens of Sea Monster and Beast Race cultivators.
• Tulun sacrificed three Sea Race Nascent Souls to empower the triangular crystal tower, whose self-destruction broke Ning Fa’s divine soul space.
• Tulun summoned the bone fork and attacked Ning Fa with its vicious gray rays, but Ning Fa’s innate Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder destroyed them.
• Tulun used a sealed Blue Orb to strengthen himself and trap Ning Fa with blue rays, but Ning Fa’s Lightning Sword Silk cut through them and reduced Tulun’s body to blood.
• Ning Fa forced Tulun’s escaping Nascent Soul back from the void and made it vanish, gaining 300 Origin Points.

After destroying the invading sea monster and beast forces, Ning Fa broke through to Sword Heart Immaculate, then hurried to aid Ancestor Nihuo against another Sea Race group. Ning Fa swiftly killed several enemies and left Luotai and the remaining cultivators facing his overwhelming sword power.

• Ning Fa killed the attackers at Yong'an Immortal City as the surviving humans gathered to thank him.
• The five Heaven-Shattering Swords merged around Ning Fa, who transformed into a five-colored longsword and reached Sword Heart Immaculate.
• Ning Fa returned to his human form, recognized the strength of his breakthrough, and collected the fallen enemies’ Nascent Souls before setting off with Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant.
• Ning Fa arrived to help Ancestor Nihuo, forcing Luotai and the other Sea Race cultivators to retreat.
• Ning Fa shattered Luotai’s defensive shield and killed the six Core Formation Sea Race cultivators with a sword strike.
• Balor used his Illusion Wave Eye on Ning Fa, but the attack backfired; Ning Fa killed Balor and seized his Nascent Soul.

Ning Fa rescued Ancestor Nihuo’s group and then rushed to aid retreating Human Race forces, where he found Ying Xiao, a Spirit Transformation demon, besieging four cultivators. Ning Fa chose to face Ying Xiao alone, and his defenses absorbed the demon’s wind-and-lightning attack, leaving Ying Xiao shocked and unsettled.

• Ning Fa killed the fleeing Sea Race woman and scar-faced cultivator, then collected the woman’s Nascent Soul and Storage Shell.
• Ning Fa told Ancestor Nihuo that a Skywatch City army was retreating nearby and flew northeast to help it.
• Ning Fa summoned Little Ice and Hei Yu to attack the Sea Monster and Beast Race cultivators harassing the Spiritual Ships.
• Ning Fa found Hermit Wuxin, Madam Min, Venerable Kong Qing, and Su Wanwan trapped by Ying Xiao, while Bai Ning fought Human Race cultivators elsewhere.
• Ning Fa sent Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant to support the other battles and challenged Ying Xiao himself.
• Ying Xiao’s wind-and-lightning claw failed to break Ning Fa’s five-colored sword-qi lotus, and its lightning vanished into Ning Fa’s Five-Colored Lightning.

Ning Fa used his Five Elements Thunder Body, sword skills, and divine soul to counter Ying Xiao, a faster and higher-realm Spirit Transformation Demon Cultivator. After trapping Ying Xiao, Ning Fa deployed the Zhou Tian Thunder Domain and Calamity Heaven Sword Array, preparing to test whether Ying Xiao could withstand both.

• Ning Fa's Immaculate Sword Heart anticipated Ying Xiao's sudden attack, and his Five-Colored lightning damaged Ying Xiao's arm and suppressed his Thunder Spiritual Power.
• Ying Xiao recognized Ning Fa's Five Elements Thunder Body and launched a deadly assault, while his divided phantom stabilized the tornadoes trapping Hermit Wuxin and the others.
• Ying Xiao used a set of finger-guard spirit treasures and wind attacks to break through Ning Fa's defenses, then pursued him through the sky as Ning Fa relied on Lightning Escape and Supreme Earth Divine Thunder to hold out.
• Ying Xiao trapped Ning Fa's movement and attacked his divine soul, but Ning Fa's Moon God Art and Immaculate Sword Heart inflicted a backlash on Ying Xiao.
• Ning Fa sealed Ying Xiao's claw with Five-Colored crystals, bound him with the Zhou Tian Thunder Domain, and completed the Calamity Heaven Sword Array around him.

Ning Fa battered Ying Xiao with the Zhou Tian Thunder Domain and Calamity Heaven Sword Array, but Ying Xiao spent five drops of origin blood essence to recover and overwhelm him. Just as Ying Xiao was about to kill Ning Fa, Ning Fa's thunder tree restrained him and began draining his blood essence, leaving the battle's outcome unresolved.

• Ying Xiao broke free of the Five-Colored Lightning chains by spending a drop of origin blood essence, then transformed into his Sky-Splitting Thunder Owl form to escape the Zhou Tian Thunder Domain.
• Ning Fa used the Zhou Tian Thunder Domain and Calamity Heaven Sword Array to bombard Ying Xiao, leaving him badly wounded and nearly depleted.
• Ning Fa recovered his strength with a powerful method and restored his attacks, prompting Ying Xiao to explode five more drops of origin blood essence and regain more than his former peak strength.
• Ying Xiao broke through the thunder domain and pursued Ning Fa, overpowering his Lightning Escape and Thunder Vortex Divine Light.
• Ning Fa drew the Great Immortal Extermination Bead, but his thunder tree activated on its own, bound Ying Xiao with a purple-gold thunder-rune chain, and began drawing blood essence from him.

Ning Fa survived the battle by killing Ying Xiao with the power of his Thunderwood, which absorbed the demon’s essence and produced a mysterious fruit. He captured the weakened Ying Xiao, gained his riches and a severed piece of Bai Ning’s tail, then left with the others to drive off their remaining pursuers.

• Ning Fa’s Thunderwood devoured Ying Xiao’s essence, leaving the Sky-Splitting Thunder Owl alive but reduced to the early first grade while a mysterious purple fruit began to grow.
• Hermit Wuxin, Madam Min, and Venerable Kong Qing escaped the tornado and mistook Ning Fa’s Thunderwood for a Zi Yin Clan Divine Wood Totem.
• Ning Fa used his Lightning Control ability to place restrictions on Ying Xiao and store him, then discovered valuable treasures in Ying Xiao’s Storage Ring.
• Su Wanwan reunited with Ning Fa and hinted that she had brought several pieces of good news, while Hermit Wuxin and the others thanked him for saving their lives.
• The Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant gave Ning Fa a severed piece of Bai Ning’s tail and requested another Top-grade Water Spirit Stone for the battle.
• Ning Fa told the others to drive away the remaining pursuers, then departed with the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant after sending Su Wanwan a message.

After Skywatch City fell to a human betrayal, Ning Fa learned that Su Wanwan had gathered rare materials and could help him locate Xiyuan Divine Soil. She gained his help stabilizing her Nascent Soul, while her Mysterious Bronze Mirror revealed intelligence about Ning Fa, an impending Sea Race transmission, and a hidden treasure she still intended to claim alone.

• Hermit Wuxin told Ning Fa that True Lord Huiyang and other Muyang Sect cultivators had betrayed Skywatch City, and that the Tianshu Alliance was evacuating the Five Spirits Sea and Leiming Sea toward Chiyang Sea.
• Su Wanwan gave Ning Fa the spiritual materials she had collected, and he agreed to stabilize her Nascent Soul and help her reach the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Su Wanwan told Ning Fa that the Qianyuan Merchant Alliance had bought Xiyuan Divine Soil, prompting him to consider contacting Lu Caifu about it.
• Ning Fa used his Divine Thunder of the Five Elements to stabilize Su Wanwan's Nascent Soul, allowing her to attempt her breakthrough safely.
• After Ning Fa left, Su Wanwan consulted her Mysterious Bronze Mirror, which revealed that Ning Fa had extraordinary fortune, the Sea Race planned another cross-realm transmission, and a powerful helper might help her obtain a hidden treasure.
• Su Wanwan refused to share the treasure and resolved to break its restrictions herself.

Ning Fa was admitted to the human allied army’s highest decision-making level after confirming that he had killed Ying Xiao. In Zhenhai City, he learned Ning Huarong had been abducted and found her being tortured under the orders of a powerful Nascent Soul woman.

• Venerable Jizhao and Wen Yuchen questioned Ning Fa about Ying Xiao’s death, and Venerable Jizhao granted him equal standing and voting rights in major strategic decisions.
• Ning Fa surveyed Zhenhai City’s formidable defenses and headed toward the northwestern district to contact the Qianyuan Merchant Alliance.
• Ning An told Ning Fa that Ning Huarong had been captured after they were lured into an ambush at a Taichu Gate-operated shop.
• Ning An used a magical treasure to point Ning Fa toward Fu Ling Garden, where Ning Fa left to find Ning Huarong.
• A green-dressed Nascent Soul woman ordered a Fourth-grade healing pill given to Ning Huarong so the brawny woman could continue beating her.

Ning Fa rescued Ning Huarong and overwhelmed Tan Yingzhen’s powerful guards, then learned that Tan Yingzhen was Gu Ying’s Dao Companion and a young mistress of the Qianyuan Merchant Alliance. Lu Caifu intervened before Ning Fa killed her, and Tan Yingzhen later revealed that Gu Ying had taken her Spiritual Phoenix Essence and was pursuing Ning Fa’s daughter despite planning to abandon her.

• Ning Fa broke Ning Huarong’s bonds, healed her, and crushed the burly woman who had been torturing her.
• Ning Fa defeated Liang Xiong in a brief fight and subdued the six Nascent Soul Cultivators with Divine Soul Pressure.
• Tan Yingzhen claimed Gu Ying’s status would protect her, but Ning Fa nearly suffocated her until Ning Huarong urged him to stop.
• Lu Caifu arrived and persuaded Ning Fa to spare Tan Yingzhen, who then threatened him and was struck unconscious by Ning Fa.
• After Ning Fa left, Tan Yingzhen admitted that Gu Ying had absorbed her Spiritual Phoenix Essence and intended to court Ning Fa’s daughter, and she hoped the incident would ruin his chances.

Ning Fa learned why Gu Ying wanted to end his Dao Companion relationship with Tan Yingzhen: Gu Ying hoped to marry Ning Fa’s daughter Le'er and cultivate a dual cultivation technique with her to advance toward Spirit Transformation. Ning Fa rejected the proposal with fury, then questioned how Gu Ying could be so certain of Le'er’s aptitude.

• Ning Huarong thanked Ning Fa for saving her, and Ning Fa descended with Lu Caifu to hear what she knew about Tan Yingzhen.
• Lu Caifu explained that Tan Yingzhen had powerful backing in the Qianyuan Merchant Alliance and that Gu Ying, the great-grandson of Gu Zun, was seeking to dissolve their Dao Companion relationship.
• Lu Caifu revealed that Gu Ying wanted to marry Ning Fa’s daughter Le'er because he believed her spiritual body could help him cultivate a secret dual cultivation technique and break through to Spirit Transformation.
• Ning Fa erupted in killing intent, wrecked the courtyard, and angrily ordered Lu Caifu to stop defending Gu Ying.
• Lu Caifu admitted that Gu Ying and her grandfather had asked her to sound out Ning Fa, then explained that Gu Ying wanted only a promise for now and had prepared a generous betrothal gift.
• Ning Fa demanded to know how Gu Ying had learned of Le'er’s aptitude and why he trusted Yuan Cha Gate’s claim that she was a Mystic Maiden.

Lu Caifu tried to persuade Ning Fa to accept Gu Ying’s lavish betrothal gifts, but Ning Fa firmly refused to marry Le’er off and warned her not to plead Gu Ying’s case again. In Zhenhai City, Ning Fa considered how to advance his divine thunders, accepted a cold flame from Wen Yuchen as an apology gift, and learned that the Zi Yin clan would soon arrive for a human alliance conference.

• Lu Caifu told Ning Fa that Gu Ying had used the Mysterious Obscurity Spirit Bell to predict events and had acquired the Xiyuan Divine Soil and other treasures as betrothal gifts, but Ning Fa rejected them and warned her against pleading for Gu Ying again.
• Lu Caifu contacted Gu Ying and reported that Ning Fa was furious and would not change his mind, while Gu Ying vowed to make him reconsider.
• Ning Fa pondered how to advance the Tai Yin True Fire and his remaining divine thunders, deciding that he might need to enter Ice Phoenix Clan territory after Blue Lightning emerged from seclusion.
• Wen Yuchen brought his nephew-disciple Liu to apologize for endangering Ning Huarong and Ning An; Ning Fa left Liu’s punishment to Wen Yuchen, who fined him one hundred thousand battle merits.
• Wen Yuchen gave Ning Fa a fourth-tier high-grade Crimson Sunset Cold Flame as an apology gift, and told him that the Zi Yin clan would soon reach Zhenhai City for the upcoming supreme conference.

Ning Fa settled his family in Zhenhai City, refined the Crimson Sunset Cold Flame, and learned that a rumor claiming he belonged to the Ziyin Clan had spread ahead of the Spirit Transformation meeting. At the meeting, Old Monster Tiansheng provoked Ning Fa and was beaten back before Lord Xuanyi arrived and challenged the Nine Immortals Association over the attack.

• Ning Fa brought Ning Huarong and Ning An to their new residences, then checked on the recovering Ying Xiao and began refining the Crimson Sunset Cold Flame.
• Murong Zhaoxue told Ning Fa that a blurry recording of his thunderwood had fueled rumors that he was a high-ranking Ziyin Clan member, and Ning Fa suspected Huangfu Ziyue and her allies had arranged it.
• Ning Fa attended the Spirit Transformation meeting, where the gathered cultivators watched him warily and Yue Long and Old Monster Tiansheng arrived.
• Old Monster Tiansheng demanded Ning Fa's seat and attacked him, but Ning Fa matched his strike, countered his demonic techniques, and sent him flying with a sword strike.
• Lord Xuanyi entered the hall and rebuked Yue Long and Old Monster Tiansheng for attacking an ally within Tianshu Alliance territory.

Ning Fa attended a gathering of Human Realm Spirit Transformation cultivators, where they signed the Taichu Spirit Sealing Scroll and discussed how to confront the Sea Race. After three days of strategic negotiations, Ning Fa left to meet Huangfu Jin at Zhenhai City’s southern edge.

• Yue Long apologized for Tiansheng’s attack with a Top-grade Water Spirit Stone, and Xuan Yi praised Ning Fa and offered him a chance to visit Sword-Embracing Cliff.
• Huangfu Jin arrived and privately told Ning Fa they should talk after the meeting, while Wen Yuchen introduced Ning Fa to the other gathered cultivators.
• Venerable Jizhao presented the Taichu Spirit Sealing Scroll, and the cultivators signed it after Wen Yuchen, Yue Long, and Lu Chenyuan pressed them to unite against the Sea Race.
• Venerable Jizhao explained that the Sea Race’s cross-realm passage was heavily protected and that the allies planned to exploit a future weakening of its restriction to destroy it.
• The cultivators discussed recruiting the Demon Race, arranging reinforcements, and sharing resources and battle merits over three days and nights.
• Ning Fa returned to his residence, then quietly left for the southern edge of Zhenhai City to meet Huangfu Jin.

Ning Fa learned that the mysterious runes on his Thunderwood were an Innate Divine Ability and obtained the demonic essence needed to awaken it through dual cultivation with Huangfu Ziyue. He discovered the ability, Origin Devouring, could convert other beings’ essence into qi, leaving him with a powerful but limited ability that could grow stronger.

• Yuanzun ordered Old Monster Tiansheng and Yue Long not to act against Ning Fa, while a shadowed man and a voice in his body plotted to devour the injured Saint Puppet, the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant.
• Ning Fa brought the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant aboard a ship and questioned Huangfu Jin about the runes on his Thunderwood.
• Huangfu Jin explained that Ning Fa’s runes came from a high-grade Innate Divine Ability and offered him a dual cultivation art to produce the demonic essence needed to awaken it.
• Ning Fa agreed to dual cultivate with Huangfu Ziyue, who joined him in the cabin and transferred demonic essence to him.
• Ning Fa awakened Origin Devouring and learned it could refine living beings’ essence into qi, but it had limits on its targets, cooldown, and conversion rate.

Ning Fa awakened a purple-grade high-tier Origin Devouring ability, drew closer to the Ziyin Clan by promising to aid it in danger, and tested his power against a Sea-Covering Whale. Five years later, human Spirit Transformation Cultivators gathered in Zhenhai City to face a second Sea Origin Realm invasion, leaving the alliance to endure ten years while diviners sought a weakness in the enemy’s defensive restriction.

• Huangfu Jin learned Ning Fa had awakened Origin Devouring, a purple-grade high-tier ability, and offered him the Ziyin Clan leadership, Huangfu Ziyue, and three portions of high-tier cold flames.
• Ning Fa declined to lead the Ziyin Clan against the Tianshu Alliance but promised to help if the clan faced danger, then tested Origin Devouring by consuming a peak third-rank Sea-Covering Whale.
• Zhuo Qing told Huangfu Jin she would give Huangfu Ziyue ten years to conceive before trying to take Ning Fa for herself, and Huangfu Jin agreed.
• The Sea Monster and Beast Races withdrew their forces while awaiting reinforcements, and human Spirit Transformation Cultivators reclaimed territory but avoided attacking their stronghold.
• Five years later, twenty-five human Spirit Transformation Cultivators assembled in Zhenhai City and learned that the second wave from the Sea Origin Realm included roughly ten Spirit Transformation Cultivators.
• Gu Zun said Tianyi expected to break the defensive restriction’s instant transmission capability within ten years, and the cultivators agreed they needed to hold out until then.

Ning Fa rejected Gu Zun’s proposal to marry his daughter to Gu Ying, then used Lightning Control to bind Ying Xiao as his spirit beast as war approached. After Little Ice sensed the Ice Phoenix Clan’s sacred statue was in danger, Ning Fa agreed to help, and Little Ice demanded Bing Yi begin advancing Ning Fa’s Tai Yin True Fire before he returned with the clan’s envoys.

• Yuanzun produced the Primordial Azure Pact, and the gathered Spirit Transformation Cultivators signed it in exchange for access to the Ancient Star Stone Tablet.
• Gu Zun asked Ning Fa to marry his daughter to Gu Ying, but Ning Fa refused and left; Gu Zun told Gu Ying the matter was not for Ning Fa to decide.
• Ning Fa used Lightning Control to make the recovering Ying Xiao kneel and become his spirit beast.
• Little Ice showed Ning Fa an image of the Ice Phoenix Clan’s damaged sacred statue and asked to return to help the clan, so Ning Fa agreed to meet its representatives.
• Ning Fa and Little Ice met Bing Yi and Bing Ning, and Little Ice insisted Bing Yi use her natal frostflame to advance Ning Fa’s Tai Yin True Fire before he returned with them.

Su Wanwan struggled to decide whether to seek Ning Fa’s help in entering the Nine Profound Pot, while Ning Fa fought off Mattis with aid from Huan Yu. Back at Zhenhai City, the Human Race learned that the Sea Race passage’s teleportation defenses had been cracked and prepared to destroy it.

• Su Wanwan recalled that the Nine Profound Pot held vast quantities of Five Phases True Origin and that Ning Fa was the best candidate to breach its restrictions, but she refused to give up on entering it herself.
• Ning Fa fought Mattis at sea, and Mattis powered up to attack until Huan Yu arrived and drove him away.
• Huan Yu gave Ning Fa six Sea Race Nascent Souls in exchange for Golden Spirit Fragrance Jade Pills, then joined him in returning to Zhenhai City.
• Venerable Jizhao announced that Tianyi and the others had cracked the Sea Race passage’s instantaneous-transmission defenses and presented a plan to destroy the passage.