Chapter Summaries

Ning Fa agreed to join a dangerous mission to destroy the Sea Race’s cross-realm passage in exchange for Xiyuan Divine Soil. After he left, Gu Zun revealed that he intended to use the mission to eliminate Ning Fa and other supposed threats, while the Nine Immortals Association prepared a genuine attempt to seek aid from the upper realm.

• Venerable Jizhao explained the plan to lure away the Sea Monster and Beast Races’ experts and destroy the cross-realm passage with the Six Paths Annihilation Array, whose six Array Eyes would cost their cultivators a hundred years of lifespan.
• Gu Zun offered a Three-Turn God-Seeking Pill and secret rewards, persuading Ba, Huangfu Jin, Zhu Yan, and Ancestral Beast Huan Yu to volunteer; Ning Fa agreed after Gu Zun offered him Xiyuan Divine Soil.
• Ning Fa received the Xiyuan Divine Soil from Gu Zun and promised to do his utmost in the mission, which was scheduled to begin in three months.
• After Ning Fa left, Gu Zun told Venerable Jizhao that he intended to use the operation to eliminate Ning Fa and other targets, while Yuanzun said the Nine Immortals Association would genuinely seek support from the upper realm.

Zhenhai City repelled the Sea Race’s first assault with the Myriad Dragon Trees and the Nine Palaces Vast Star Array, but Elena raised a crystal shield to resist the array as both sides committed their Spirit Transformation fighters. Ning Fa faced a newly advanced Sea Race Spirit Transformation Cultivator, ready to test his improved strength.

• Venerable Jizhao activated the Myriad Dragon Trees, whose branches dissolved the corrosive waves until Elena countered them with crystal towers that cut through the branches.
• Wen Yuchen activated the Nine Palaces Vast Star Array, which wiped out the waves and over ten thousand Sea Race cultivators, while Elena used the Myriad Ruins Sea Eye to form a crystal shield against the nine stars.
• Elena led the Sea Race Spirit Transformation Cultivators into battle, and Gu Zun led the human cultivators out to meet them as the armies attacked Zhenhai City.
• Lord Xuanyi sent his subdued Abyssal Demon Vine to fight, while Lord Liyang, Lu Chenyuan, and Yue Long brought out powerful beasts and a fifth-tier puppet to help offset the human side’s numerical disadvantage.
• The Spirit Transformation Cultivators spread into separate battles, and Ning Fa confronted a newly advanced Sea Race cultivator who challenged him for looking around.

Huangfu Jin gave Ning Fa a projection of the Star Roaming Compass and entrusted him with the Ziyin Clan’s leadership if anything happened to him. Ning Fa and the others attacked Yilan Island to destroy the Sea Race’s cross-realm passage, and the chapter ended as Ning Fa trapped a Sea Race Spirit Transformation cultivator in a black chain cage.

• Huangfu Jin explained the Star Roaming Compass’s origins, gave Ning Fa a projection that Huangfu Ziyue had entrusted to him, and asked him to lead the Ziyin Clan if Huangfu Jin died.
• The Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant sensed a peculiar aura and briefly left the ship, while Yuanzun secretly followed the group and discussed a plan to trap him.
• Ning Fa and six human experts reached Yilan Island and attacked after Venerable Jizhao confirmed that only two Sea Race Spirit Transformation cultivators were stationed there.
• Kailandir and the seductive Sea Race cultivator tried to summon reinforcements through the Sea Heart Great Array, but a beam of starlight disrupted the instant transmission.
• The human experts began setting up an array around Yilan Island, prompting Kailandir and the seductive woman to borrow the Ancestral Sea’s power and attack them at Mid Spirit Transformation strength.
• Ning Fa used a bloodstained black chain to trap the seductive woman as the Sea Race cultivators charged at him.

Ning Fa helped activate the Six Paths Yuan Destruction Great Array, only to discover that its modified formation trapped and sacrificed those at its Array Eyes. Yuanzun and Yan Jingchen revealed their conspiracy to capture the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant and kill Ning Fa, while Yan Jingchen sought the small realm he believed Ning Fa had cultivated.

• Ning Fa and the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant defeated the Sea Race cultivators, and Ning Fa absorbed their Nascent Souls for Origin Points.
• Ning Fa and the other array masters activated the Six Paths Yuan Destruction Great Array, powering it with Top-grade Spirit Stones and their lifespans.
• The activated array formed black crystalline barriers around its Array Eyes, trapping Ning Fa and the other cultivators and preventing Ning Fa from teleporting away.
• A Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure bound the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant as Yuanzun and Yan Jingchen appeared outside the array.
• Yuanzun recalled that Yan Jingchen had arranged the alliance and modified the array to trap its operators, while Gu Zun and the Tianshu Alliance joined the plot against Ning Fa and the merchant.
• Yan Jingchen revealed that he intended to capture Ning Fa's soul essence, locate the small realm he believed Ning Fa had cultivated, and claim it for himself.

Ning Fa fought to escape as the Six Paths Yuan Destruction Great Array began to erupt, while Venerable Jizhao and the major human factions’ trap doomed the interrealm passage. Ning Fa reached the outside at the cost of his strength and the help of Huangfu Jin, and ordered Hei Yu to flee with him.

• The Fanluo Bitter Sand engulfed the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant, while Ning Fa realized Venerable Jizhao and the other major factions had trapped them.
• Ning Fa used two Chaos Divine Thunder strikes to break free of his array eye, but could neither free the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant nor break through the array’s outer barrier.
• Huangfu Jin and Ancestral Beast Huan Yu escaped their array eyes and joined Ning Fa in attacking the barrier, but Venerable Jizhao’s death triggered the great array’s eruption before they could escape.
• Huangfu Jin sacrificed himself to activate a Nine Dragons barrier, and Ancestral Beast Huan Yu used its Third Eye to shield itself as the black radiance swept through the array.
• Ning Fa depleted his Divine Thunder of the Five Elements to power another Chaos Divine Thunder, crossed the opening, and collapsed in a state of grievous weakness.
• Ning Fa swallowed pills, released Hei Yu, and weakly ordered it to run.

Su Wanwan received an urgent message from the Mysterious Bronze Mirror directing her to Green Crystal Island, while the mirror helped Fairy Yuanxing escape her cage and intervene as Ning Fa faced Yan Jingchen. After Fairy Yuanxing teleported Yan Jingchen away, Ning Fa fled toward Green Crystal Island, still pursued by danger and with only about an hour to escape.

• Su Wanwan's mysterious mirror told her to reach Green Crystal Island within three hours, and she departed aboard her Void-Breaking Shuttle.
• The Mysterious Bronze Mirror entered the Heavenly Star Orb, restored Fairy Yuanxing's power, and freed her from the vine cage.
• Hei Yu carried the badly weakened Ning Fa away from the erupting Six Paths Yuan Destruction Great Array, while Yuanzun pursued a golden box instead of Ning Fa.
• Yan Jingchen intercepted Ning Fa and demanded the Primordial Realm Pearl, but Ning Fa repeatedly used the Star Roaming Compass to escape before exhaustion left him nearly helpless.
• Fairy Yuanxing teleported Yan Jingchen away and urged Ning Fa to flee to Green Crystal Island, giving herself about an hour to hold Yan Jingchen back.
• Ning Fa sent Hei Yu southeast toward Green Crystal Island, realizing Star Luo Palace had anticipated his attempt to seek Fairy Yuanxing's help.

Su Wanwan rescued Ning Fa from Yan Jingchen and brought him to the valley of the Nine Profound Pot, where Five Phases True Origin could restore his depleted Divine Thunder Origin. After Fairy Yuanxing concealed Xuan Ning Island to protect Ning Fa’s family, Ning Fa found the valley’s barrier beyond his weakened strength, but the dormant Source-Crossing Heavenly Book suddenly reacted to the teapot.

• Su Wanwan recognized Ning Fa as the opportunity foretold by Little Mirror and rescued him after Hei Yu explained that a powerful Spirit Transformation Cultivator was hunting him.
• Yan Jingchen searched Green Crystal Island for Ning Fa, while Fairy Yuanxing revealed she had trapped him briefly and used the Heavenly Star Orb to conceal Xuan Ning Island and protect Ning Fa’s family.
• Ning Fa’s relatives gathered on Xuan Ning Island and were warned to stay put, especially Ning Le’er, so the enemy could not use them to track Ning Fa.
• A day later, Su Wanwan brought the weakened Ning Fa to the seabed valley containing the Nine Profound Pot and its abundant Five Phases True Origin.
• Ning Fa failed to break the valley’s Crystal Light Shield, but the dormant Source-Crossing Heavenly Book stirred and formed a blurry image of the teapot.

Ning Fa was trapped inside the Pottery Teapot, where the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book repaired the treasure at the cost of all his Origin Points and opened access to the Five Phases True Origin. After discovering that Gu Ying and Gu Zun had slaughtered his clansmen, Ning Fa recovered over twenty years and chose to keep cultivating inside the sealed space so he could reach Spirit Transformation and seek revenge.

• The Pottery Teapot absorbed the valley’s Five-Colored Liquid, drew Ning Fa inside, and vanished, leaving Su Wanwan stranded outside.
• The Source-Crossing Heavenly Book repaired a fragment of the Pottery Teapot, exhausting Ning Fa’s Origin Points and causing the barrier over the Five Phases True Origin pool to shatter.
• Ning Fa entered the pool to heal his injuries and restore his Thunder Sea Divine Treasuries, while fearing for his clansmen and relatives.
• Six months later, Ning Fa witnessed Gu Ying and Gu Zun refine his clansmen into a Bloodline Pearl, and he swore to exterminate the Gu Family.
• After twenty years of cultivation, Ning Fa recovered his injuries but could not break out of the teapot’s space; he resolved to advance his divine thunders and reach Spirit Transformation before seeking revenge.

Ning Fa completed his Five Elements Innate Divine Thunder and reached the peak of the Nascent Soul realm before opening his final Sea of Lightning Divine Treasury and advancing toward Spirit Transformation. Teleported above a sea, he faced the onset of an unusually powerful Spirit Transformation Heavenly Tribulation.

• Ning Fa found True Origin Crystal Cores in the pool and reforged the Heaven-Shattering Swords with them, then nurtured the sword embryos within his body.
• After sixty years of cultivation, Ning Fa reached the peak of the Nascent Soul realm, while his Divine Firmament Manifestation and Moon God Heart also advanced to the peaks of their current stages.
• Ning Fa absorbed the accumulated Earth Phase True Origin and completed his fifth Sea of Lightning Divine Treasury, breaking through the limits of the Nascent Soul realm.
• The Pottery Teapot enveloped Ning Fa in Five-Colored Radiance and teleported him away; an intelligent figure emerged from the teapot and decided to remain behind and recover.
• Ning Fa appeared above a sea as a vast tribulation cloud formed, and he recognized that he was facing the Spirit Transformation Heavenly Tribulation and its fourteen lightning bolts.

Ning Fa endured the Spirit Transformation tribulation, defeated the heart demon that tried to trap him, and received an immense blessing of spiritual energy from heaven and earth. After three days of transformation, he emerged as a Spirit Transformation Cultivator.

• Ning Fa used his Heaven-Shattering Swords, his fists, and his Divine Firmament Manifestation to withstand the tribulation lightning, then switched to opposing Five Elements techniques to block the final elemental bolts.
• Hei Yu flew out to guard Ning Fa as he began the heart demon tribulation, while a ghostly demon trapped Ning Fa's divine soul with a Devouring Nightmare Bead.
• Ning Fa's divine soul destroyed the bead and dissipated the ghostly demon, which warned that its true body would confront him in the Spirit Realm.
• Heaven and earth gathered spiritual energy around Ning Fa, and Hei Yu slew approaching sea beasts while Ning Fa received the laws' blessing for three days and three nights.
• Ning Fa opened his eyes and declared that he had finally attained Spirit Transformation after cultivating for three hundred and sixty years.

After advancing to Spirit Transformation, Ning Fa discovered major increases in his strength and several new abilities, including the Heavenly Law Lightning Realm and Lightning Leap. He learned that a bolt of lightning containing the resonance of lightning laws could help his peak fourth-grade divine thunders advance to fifth-grade Grotto-Heaven Divine Thunder.

• Ning Fa examined how Spirit Transformation had greatly strengthened his mana, spiritual sense, body, Nascent Soul, Moon God Heart, and Divine Firmament Manifestation.
• Ning Fa found that his Five Elements Thunder Body had gained the Thunder Control ability, which weakened heavenly tribulations, and Lightning Leap, which let him teleport within his spiritual sense range.
• Ning Fa discovered Thunder Concealment, also called the Heavenly Law Lightning Realm, which suppressed enemies’ access to Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy while empowering his own lightning arts.
• Ning Fa observed that several of his divine thunders had not advanced to fifth grade and wondered what conditions they required.
• A bolt of lightning containing the Dao resonance of lightning laws appeared, and Ning Fa learned that it could help his peak fourth-grade Supreme Metal, Supreme Fire, and Supreme Wood Divine Thunders advance to Grotto-Heaven Divine Thunder.
• Ning Fa considered how cultivation increasingly drew upon heaven and earth’s origin and how heavenly tribulations might return absorbed origin to the realm.

After reaching Spirit Transformation, Ning Fa learned that advancing his Five Elements Thunder Body to Void Refinement required upgrading all five Divine Thunders, building five Divine Bridges, and merging his Lightning Seas into a Chaos Lightning Sea. He used his attribute-free lightning Law Charm to advance Supreme Metal Divine Thunder into Grotto-Heaven Divine Thunder, then tested its immense power.

• Ning Fa learned that Grotto-Heaven Divine Thunder wielded a trace of Heaven and Earth law power and that his lightning Law Charm could advance one Divine Thunder.
• Ning Fa discovered that Void Refinement required advancing all five Divine Thunders, constructing Divine Bridges with rare spiritual materials, and merging his five Lightning Seas into a Chaos Lightning Sea.
• Ning Fa chose Supreme Metal Divine Thunder for the lightning Law Charm because it emphasized killing and could strengthen his Sword Dao.
• The lightning Law Charm entered Ning Fa's Supreme Metal Thunder Sea Divine Treasury and transformed its Divine Thunder into Grotto-Heaven Divine Thunder.
• Ning Fa unleashed the transformed lightning and erased a vast desolate island, realizing that three such strikes could threaten even powerful Spirit Transformation Cultivators.

After emerging from 110 years of cultivation, Ning Fa resolved to take revenge and headed for Xuan Ning Island, worried about his family and unable to locate several companions. On the way, he encountered Su Wanwan and Jin Hao fleeing Yan E, a Giant Spirit Race Spirit Transformation Cultivator, and decided to confront him.

• Ning Fa attained the Deity Transformation Realm and vowed to kill Yan Jingchen, Gu Zun, Yuanzun, and the factions that had harmed his family.
• Ning Fa found that his connections to Blue Lightning and Baili Ming were faint and the Star-Calling Disc had gone blank, so he set out for Xuan Ning Island.
• Ning Fa used Lightning Leap to travel five thousand li, then continued west toward the Five Spirits Sea.
• Ning Fa recognized Su Wanwan and Jin Hao fleeing Yan E, whom he planned to use to complete the Heavenly Flame Candle.
• Su Wanwan blamed Jin Hao for stealing a Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Origin Ganoderma and trusted Little Mirror's information that help awaited ahead.

Ning Fa reunited with Su Wanwan and Jin Hao after advancing to Spirit Transformation, then defeated and captured Yan E, the Giant Spirit Race cultivator pursuing them. He bound Yan E’s essence soul, gave it to Liuying to strengthen the Heavenly Flame Candle, and asked Su Wanwan and Jin Hao to explain what had happened in the Human Realm.

• Ning Fa appeared before Su Wanwan and Jin Hao, revealed his Spirit Transformation cultivation, and renewed his promise to help Su Wanwan advance.
• Yan E arrived and demanded that Su Wanwan hand over Jin Hao, but Ning Fa refused and challenged him.
• Yan E unleashed his five eyes and Blazing Sun Dharma Form, but Ning Fa’s Geng Metal Sword and Grotto-Heaven Divine Thunder destroyed his axe and defeated him.
• Ning Fa trapped Yan E’s five fleeing eyes, merged his divine souls, and planted a restraint on his essence soul.
• Liuying acknowledged Ning Fa as her master, and he sent Yan E’s essence soul into the Heavenly Flame Candle to help it advance.
• Su Wanwan and Jin Hao returned in amazement, and Ning Fa asked them what had happened in the Human Realm during his absence.

After learning from Su Wanwan and Jin Hao that the Human Realm had spent decades at war and that Spirit Transformation Cultivators remained trapped in Mi Tian Valley, Ning Fa considered his next move and asked about his clan and sect. He then learned that Su Wanwan and Jin Hao planned to steal a nearing-maturity Profound Life Immeasurable Fruit, and they invited him to join them.

• Su Wanwan and Jin Hao told Ning Fa how the Sea Monster and Beast Races breached Zhenhai City, expanded the war across the Human Realm, and later gained ground against the human alliance.
• Su Wanwan explained that the Cloud Break Mountain Range Demon Clan joined the human side while the Myriad Monster Sea Demon Clan allied with the Sea Monster and Beast Races.
• Su Wanwan said that Heaven and Earth phenomena appeared at Mi Tian Valley forty years earlier, after which Spirit Transformation Cultivators from both camps entered and none of the later arrivals had returned.
• Ning Fa decided the weakened upper ranks gave him room to act, then asked Su Wanwan and Jin Hao whether they knew anything about his clan and sect; they did not.
• Ning Fa revealed he had overheard their discussion of a Sea Race treasure site, and Jin Hao invited him to help steal its nearing-maturity Profound Life Immeasurable Fruit.

Ning Fa learned of the Sea Race’s Profound Life Immeasurable Fruit and agreed to consider joining Su Wanwan and Jin Hao’s plan to steal it, while preparing to investigate the Sea Race’s coming ritual. After gathering Origin Points and crossing occupied seas, he returned to Xuan Ning Island’s hidden entrance and discovered a high-grade warning array.

• Su Wanwan and Jin Hao told Ning Fa about the fruit tree, the Sea Race’s preparations to communicate with the Ancestral Sea, and their plan to steal fruit when the Spirit Transformation cultivators gathered.
• Ning Fa gave Su Wanwan and Jin Hao Moon Transmission Runes and told them to scout the fruit tree while he went elsewhere first.
• Ning Fa absorbed Yan E’s five eyes, gaining two hundred Fourth-Tier Origin Points and clearing his corresponding debt to the Heavenly Book.
• Ning Fa crossed the occupied Five Spirits Sea and Chiyang Sea, saw human cultivators imprisoned by foreign races, and reached the human-held Haoqiong Sea Domain.
• Ning Fa traveled to Qianmo Sea and approached Xuan Ning Island, where he spotted a concealed high-grade warning array around its entrance.

Ning Fa discovered that his family had been scattered and pursued by the major factions, but learned Huangfu Ziyue had taken his relatives to safety while Ning An and other Ning Clan members remained captives. After learning of Gu Ying’s upcoming wedding, Ning Fa controlled two Gu Family retainers and disguised himself as Ning Zhuo to enter the Great Qin Cultivation World’s stronghold in Zhenhai City.

• Ning Fa found Xuan Ning Island empty, then uncovered Huangfu Ziyue’s message saying she had taken his relatives somewhere safe.
• Ning Fa searched the souls of two Qianyuan Merchant Alliance retainers and learned that Gu Zun had pursued him, Ning An was held by the Qianyuan Merchant Alliance, and surviving Ning Clan members were imprisoned in the Great Qin Cultivation World.
• Ning Fa learned that Gu Ying’s Dual Cultivation Ceremony would take place in less than a month and vowed to rescue his family before striking the Gu Family and the Qianyuan Merchant Alliance.
• Ning Fa controlled the two retainers, disguised himself as Ning Zhuo, and traveled with Daoist Lu to Zhenhai City.
• Ning Fa and Daoist Lu arrived at the Great Qin Cultivation World’s territory, where Commander Wen recognized Ning Fa’s resemblance to Ning An.

Old Daoist Lu brought Ning Fa to the Qianyuan Merchant Alliance headquarters, where Ning Fa hoped Gu Ying would come to him and expose himself. Meanwhile, Gu Ying revealed the sinister purpose of his family’s dual cultivation art and imprisoned Wang Min, still intent on finding Ning Fa’s daughter.

• Commander Wen learned that Ning Fa was Ning Fa’s grandson, and Old Daoist Lu escorted Ning Fa through successive teleportations toward Qin Jing Immortal City.
• Ning Fa recalled the Gu Family’s bloody history and vowed to destroy the family for the slaughter of the Ning Family.
• Old Daoist Lu brought Ning Fa to the Qianyuan Mountain Range, where Wei Feng sent word to Gu Ying about his arrival.
• Gu Ying revealed to Wang Min that the Gu Family’s dual cultivation art drained women’s spiritual body power, then suppressed her resistance and sent her into the black pool.
• Gu Ying lamented that Wang Min’s spiritual body fell short of his ideal, resolved to seek Ning Fa’s daughter, and plunged into the white pool.

Ning Fa revealed himself to Steward Liao inside the Gu Family’s underground prison and overwhelmed him before he could send word of the rescue. He freed his imprisoned family and clansmen, but chose to delay his revenge until the Gu Family gathered for Gu Ying’s Dual Cultivation Ceremony.

• Gu Ying learned that Ning Zhuo was Ning Fa’s grandson and wondered whether the young man might possess a powerful spiritual body.
• Steward Liao searched Ning Fa’s soul, then brought him to an underground hall where Ning An and other Ning Clan members were imprisoned beneath a giant White Spider.
• Ning Fa revealed his identity and Spirit Transformation cultivation, stopped Steward Liao from sending a warning, and subdued him with a divine soul seal.
• Ning Fa decided to spare Steward Liao and postpone his planned massacre until the Gu Family gathered for Gu Ying’s Dual Cultivation Ceremony.
• Ning Fa defeated and sealed the White Spider, freed his relatives and clansmen, and apologized for arriving late.
• Ning Zhongyuan comforted Ning Fa, and the rescued Ning Clan members declared that their clan would endure as long as their Ancestor lived.

Ning Fa freed and healed the surviving Ning Clan members, but discovered that Ning An’s Seven Luminaries Dao Body had been gravely damaged and his lifespan nearly spent. After learning the full history of the Gu Family’s persecution and the fate of their allies, Ning Fa resolved to find a way to restore Ning An while preparing to strike back.

• Ning Fa confirmed his Spirit Transformation advancement, removed the Gu Family’s restrictions from the Ning Clan survivors, and used precious pills, spirit stones, and Green Thunder to heal them.
• Ning Fa found that Ning An’s Seven Luminaries Dao Body had been shattered, and Ning An explained that the Gu Family’s experiments had left him with only a dozen years to live.
• Ning Fa promised to restore Ning An after the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book revealed that tracing the Dao Body required three hundred Fifth-Tier Origin Points.
• Ning Zhongyuan and the others recounted how the Gu Family’s agents captured the Ning Clan, while members close to Ning Fa escaped through the Huayu Sect’s Teleportation Array.
• Ning Fa searched Steward Liao’s soul and learned that the Gu Family had imprisoned Ning Clan descendants for spiritual-body research, while Cang Lei and Tian You were captured and Zheng Xuanyan escaped.
• Ning Fa learned that the Huayu Sect had been placed under restrictions before Hermit Xuyuan later restored it, and that Xuyuan’s forced advancement left him with less than a century to live.