Chapter Summaries

Ning Fa used a diversion to draw the Huang Family’s elite guards away from Bright Yellow Island, then attacked a weak point in the Elemental Light Flame Array. With Ning Yunhui and Ning Yuwen’s help, he shattered the island’s protective formation.

• Shi Shaoyang sent Uncle Ying to Quhuang Island after the Huang Family reported an attack by Calamity Cultivators.
• Ning Fa watched the Huang Family’s golden-armored guards leave Bright Yellow Island and told Huang Cunshan to return to Spring Pear Island with his family.
• Ning Fa ordered Qingxiang to use Burning Flame Talismans to create a commotion elsewhere and identified a weak point in the island’s formation.
• Ning Fa marked the weak point with a Formation-Breaking Talisman, then told Ning Yunhui and Ning Yuwen to attack it with him.
• Ning Fa, Ning Yunhui, and Ning Yuwen struck the weakened formation until it collapsed.

Ning Fa’s forces defeated a Huang Family guard squad and confronted Clan Leader Huang Shuheng, demanding access to the island while claiming they were pursuing a traitor. Shi Shaoyang intervened on behalf of the Huang Family and accepted Ning Fa’s challenge to a duel, leaving both sides to make room for the fight.

• Ning Fa, Ning Yuwen, and Ning Yunhui defeated the Huang Family guards, restrained their captain, and spared the guards’ lives.
• Ning Fa’s returning Blazing Wind Hall members arrived as Huang Shuheng and a large group of Huang Family cultivators approached with Shi Shaoyang and Meng Ruoqi.
• Ning Fa told Huang Shuheng that the Ning Clan wanted to pursue a traitor, but Huang Shuheng accused them of retaliating over the Blood Fang Rice quota and refused to trust him.
• Ning Fa warned Shi Shaoyang not to interfere, but Shi Shaoyang declared the Huang Family an ally of the Chang Kong Alliance and challenged him to a duel.
• Ning Fa and Shi Shaoyang had their groups retreat, while Huang Shuheng agreed to let the duel proceed and Meng Ruoqi moved back with her companions.

Ning Fa fought Shi Shaoyang with the Cloud-Breaking Spear and revealed the power of his Thunder Yuan Overlord Body. He shattered Shi Shaoyang’s blood lotus and drove his spear toward him, leaving the outcome of the attack unresolved.

• Ning Fa revealed the Cloud-Breaking Spear, and Shi Shaoyang answered with a powerful lotus-patterned longsword.
• Ning Fa attacked with silver lightning spears, but Shi Shaoyang blocked them with the first form of the Cloud Lotus Sword Art and countered with its second form.
• Ning Fa activated the Thunder Yuan Overlord Body and met Shi Shaoyang’s lotus sword with the Cloud-Breaking Spear, forcing Shi Shaoyang backward.
• Ning Fa merged Thunder Yuan Overlord Spears into the Cloud-Breaking Spear to strengthen it for a decisive strike.
• Shi Shaoyang used his blood essence to unleash a blood lotus, but Ning Fa shattered it and continued thrusting toward him.

Ning Fa forced Shi Shaoyang to withdraw from their duel, leaving the Huang Family without its strongest ally. He then threatened the Huang Family until Huang Shuheng agreed to restore its Blood Fang Rice supply to the Ning Clan and repay what it owed.

• Shi Shaoyang used a life-risking secret technique after Ning Fa broke his copper coin defense, but the long-browed cultivator persuaded Ning Fa to call their duel a draw and led the Chang Kong Alliance group away.
• Ning Fa chose not to pursue Shi Shaoyang, while the Ning Clan and Blazing Wind Hall members were impressed by his performance.
• Huang Shuheng begged Meng Ruoqi for help and offered the Meng Family most of the Blood Fang Rice, but she refused to oppose the Ning Clan.
• Ning Fa aimed the Cloud-Breaking Spear at the Huang Family and accused them of colluding with a Ning Clan traitor.
• Huang Shuheng admitted the Huang Family's fault and promised to restore its original thirty percent Blood Fang Rice supply and repay everything it owed.

Ning Fa forced the Huang Clan to accept harsh terms that made it subordinate to the Ning Clan. Huang Shuheng signed the spirit contract, leaving the Huang Clan’s leadership bound to obey.

• A Ning Clan member rejected the Huang Clan’s offer and demanded seventy percent of its annual Blood Fang Rice at the old price, along with spirit contracts for its leaders.
• Ning Fa required future Huang Clan leaders to receive Ning Clan approval and accept resident Ning Clan supervisors, prompting Huang Shuheng and his allies to resist.
• Ning Fa and his subordinates revealed powerful talisman treasures, and Ning Fa threatened to attack unless the Huang Clan surrendered within three breaths.
• Huang Shuheng signed the spirit contract, and the other Huang Clan higher-ups followed; a browless cultivator refused and killed himself.

Ning Fa secured the Huang Family’s submission and turned away Meng Ruoqi’s implied request for Blood Fang Rice, while gaining an invitation to the Meng Family’s Hundred Bamboo Assembly. He then asked Huang Shuheng about the clan’s Premium Blood Fang Rice, which Ning Fa hoped to use to strengthen his body.

• Ning Fa’s strength and his victory over Shi Shaoyang helped him subdue the Huang Family without bloodshed, and the Huang Family’s members signed spirit contracts.
• Ning Fa promised that the Ning Clan would protect the Huang Family and offered to arrange for the Meng Family to receive some of the remaining Blood Fang Rice.
• Wei Family, Feng Family, and Bai Family rescue cultivators arrived, but they left after learning the Huang Family had already surrendered and Ning Fa challenged their hostility.
• Meng Ruoqi invited Ning Fa to the Hundred Bamboo Assembly before she and the other Meng Family members departed.
• Ning Fa explained that he wanted Ning Yuwen to gain Foundation Establishment and a stronger position in the clan, then asked Huang Shuheng to show him the Premium Blood Fang Rice.

After Ning Fa settled the Huang Family dispute, tensions grew across Thousand Wave Lake as rival powers backed smaller factions against the Ning Clan. Ning Zhongjiu defeated two Chang Kong Alliance Foundation Establishment Cultivators and forced the Feng Family to resume and increase its green rubber supply, though the broader conflict remained unresolved.

• Ning Fa agreed to exchange pills for the Huang Family's Blood Fang Rice, and the Huang Family promised to prioritize supplying him.
• Ning Fa's victory over Shi Shaoyang spread his fame, while the Chang Kong Alliance, Xue Family, and Qian Family took positions against the Ning Clan's campaign.
• One month later, the Feng Family tore up its green rubber supply contract with the Ning Clan, backed by the Chang Kong Alliance and Qian Family.
• Ning Zhongjiu challenged the opposing Foundation Establishment Cultivators and defeated the Chang Kong Alliance's two fighters despite suffering serious injuries.
• The Feng Family resumed supplying green rubber, increased its supply by twenty percent, and signed a binding spiritual contract.

Xue Zhishen told Xue Danping how the Xue Family had secretly injured Ning Zhongjiu and explained its strategy against the Ning Clan. He revealed that the family was diverting resources to support a potential ally at the Myriad Beast Gate, then promised Xue Danping a chance to earn priority for a Foundation Establishment Pill by attending an important visitor.

• Xue Zhishen revealed that he had secretly used a spiritual technique to help the Chang Kong Alliance strike Ning Zhongjiu, leaving him with injured vital essence and delaying his advancement.
• Xue Zhishen explained that the Xue Family aimed to isolate the Ning Clan and weaken figures like Ning Zhongjiu and Ning Huarong, but avoided a direct assault because Ning Zhongjiu could still fight back dangerously.
• Xue Zhishen said the family would not yet target Ning Fa because he carried enough Life-Saving Items to escape a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
• Xue Danping asked for a Foundation Establishment Pill, and Xue Zhishen said the family had suspended approvals while pouring resources into a person at the Myriad Beast Gate's Alchemy Hall.
• Xue Zhishen promised Xue Danping that she could accompany an important visitor and earn priority for a Foundation Establishment Pill, and she guessed the visitor was a young lady from the Huayu Sect.

Ning Fa led Blazing Wind Hall in ambushing the Liu Family’s smuggling operation, capturing Liu Zhili and the surviving cultivators. Liu Zhili surrendered, leaving Ning Fa in control of the seized goods and the Liu Family’s fate.

• Ning Fa told Ning Yuwen that he had gathered conclusive evidence against the Liu Family and ordered Uncle Wen to assemble the men for a nighttime raid.
• Liu Zhili and Liu Liangji proceeded with a secret shipment despite Liu Zhili’s ominous premonition, and Liu Liangji took the Fire Sun Stones and Shihua Wood aboard a spirit boat.
• Ning Fa’s forces destroyed the spirit boat with a lightning attack and defeated the Liu Family cultivators, capturing seven survivors and seizing Liu Liangji’s Storage Ring.
• Ning Fa accused Liu Zhili of smuggling strategic resources, and Ning Yunhui and Ning Liuan praised Ning Fa for uncovering the operation.
• Liu Zhili offered the cargo to Ning Fa in exchange for release, but Ning Fa rejected the bribe and had him seized.

Xue Zhishen told Xue Danping to prepare Cloud Crystal Island for a powerful Huayu Sect figure, while relieving her of her duties accompanying Zhao Yanhua. At the Ning Clan, Ning Fa learned that the Liu Family planned a major smuggling operation and prepared to use it as grounds to act against them.

• Xue Zhishen explained that the Huayu Sect figure had likely come for the Xue Family's Cloud Crystal Pond and ordered Xue Danping to secure the pond on Cloud Crystal Island.
• Xue Zhishen arranged for someone else to accompany Zhao Yanhua, easing Xue Danping's concerns about his behavior.
• Ning Fa lamented the shortage of Cloud Crystal Liquid, which had hindered his access to Nine Revolutions Purple Yuan Powder and slowed his body refinement.
• Ning Yuwen told Ning Fa that the Liu Family would smuggle Fire Sun Stone and Shihua Wood from Cui Liu Island that night.
• Ning Fa welcomed the news and resolved to use the Liu Family's major smuggling attempt as an opportunity to act against them.

Ning Fa stripped the Liu Family of its Fire Sun Stone veins and Shihua Wood forests after uncovering its smuggling, then learned that many Ning Clan branches were involved. He refused to spare the Liu Family because of his relationship with Liu Qinghui, who offered to trade three pieces of information for his leniency.

• Ning Fa rejected Liu Zhili's bribe and declared that the Ning Clan would seize the Liu Family's Fire Sun Stone veins and Shihua Wood forests while Blazing Wind Hall investigated its accounts.
• Ning Yunhui gave Ning Fa confession records showing that numerous Ning Clan branches had participated in smuggling.
• Ning Fa met the First Elder, who authorized him to deal with the Liu Family but told him not to investigate the other branches too deeply.
• Ning Fa ordered Ning Yuwen to secretly investigate the Yuan Chang Island branch despite the First Elder's instruction.
• Liu Qinghui asked Ning Fa to spare the Liu Family, but he rejected her appeal and their past relationship.
• Liu Qinghui offered Ning Fa three pieces of information in exchange for leniency toward the Liu Family.

Liu Qinghui traded information about Yuan Chang Island’s smuggling, a suspected cave mansion, and a Golden Silk Silkworm nest for leniency for the Liu Family. Ning Fa agreed to preserve thirty percent of the family’s profits, and the chapter ended with Liu Qinghui seducing him.

• Liu Qinghui told Ning Fa that the Yuan Chang Island branch was smuggling prohibited spirit materials and had been investigating something like a cave mansion on a deserted island.
• Liu Qinghui offered Golden Silk Silkworm silk and revealed that Ning Jikun had found a nest on Nan Hua Island, guarded by powerful Blood Poison Bees.
• Ning Fa accepted Liu Qinghui’s information as credible and agreed to travel with her to the island after a month or two.
• Ning Fa agreed to spare the Liu Family from death and let them keep thirty percent of the profits from the Fire Sun Stone mine and Shihua Wood forest.
• Liu Qinghui began removing her clothes, and Ning Fa carried her into the room before the doors shut.

Liu Qinghui explained why she had told Ning Fa about Nan Hua Island, while Ning Fa concluded the Liu Family smuggling case and secretly targeted the Yuan Chang Island branch. After studying the Soul Quenching Pill, he successfully refined genuine pills and greatly strengthened his divine sense.

• Liu Qinghui told the voice in her pendant that she had chosen to cooperate with Ning Fa over the cave abode and rejected the suggestion that she become his Dao Companion.
• Ning Fa reclaimed seventy percent of the Liu Family’s Fire Sun Stone and Shihua Wood proceeds, while secretly having Ning Yuwen investigate the Yuan Chang Island branch.
• Ning Fa practiced the Moon God Art and assembled silver crescent fragments in his Sea of Consciousness as he worked to refine the Soul Quenching Pill.
• Ning Fa refined two Soul Quenching Pills, took one, and cultivated with it for a day.
• Ning Fa found that the pill had advanced the third layer of the Moon God Art and expanded his divine sense to roughly two hundred zhang.

After discovering that visualizing the Moon God Art let him refine a genuine Soul Quenching Pill, Ning Fa learned of a planned transaction between Ning Jiannan’s branch and the Qian Family and decided to investigate it himself. At Tongbao Pavilion, he encountered Huayu Sect disciples and felt an inexplicable attraction to Junior Sister Ling.

• After cultivating with the visualization diagram, Ning Fa refined an extraordinary Soul Quenching Pill and concluded that the process required his divine soul to enter an unusual state.
• Ning Yuwen reported seeing Ning Jiannan’s branch trade with the Qian Family, and Ning Fa decided to investigate their expected transaction in three to five days.
• Ning Fa left Jinchang Island alone and traveled to Tianshui Market before heading to the deserted island where the transaction was expected.
• At Tongbao Pavilion, Ning Fa saw Wei Shiqin escorting four Huayu Sect disciples, including the beautiful Junior Sister Ling, and felt an unfamiliar urge to draw closer to her.
• After Ning Fa stared at Junior Sister Ling, one of her companions challenged him; Ning Fa removed his conical hat and apologized, but another disciple mocked his excuse.

Ning Fa delivered a Soul Quenching Pill to Wei Shiqin and received a high fee and confidential intelligence from the Xudong Merchant Guild. He then flew to a deserted island and concealed himself to ambush someone, waiting for his prey to arrive.

• Ning Fa felt an inexplicable familiarity with Miss Ling, a Huayu Sect outer sect disciple, as she and her companions left Tongbao Pavilion.
• Wei Shiqin told Ning Fa that the Huayu Sect disciples had come to Thousand Wave Lake on a mission to find spirit materials, and she teased him about helping Miss Ling.
• Ning Fa gave Wei Shiqin the Soul Quenching Pill, and she rewarded him generously and shared confidential intelligence from the Xudong Merchant Guild.
• Ning Fa left Tianshui Market without visiting Ning Xiuying and flew southwest to a deserted island, where he found clues connected to Ning Yuwen's hint.
• Ning Fa hid in a grove, used the Moon Concealment Art to suppress his aura, and waited for his target to arrive.

Ning Fa ambushed Ning Jiantao after he completed a transaction with Qian Shouzhong, then confronted Qian Shouzhong to avenge his parents. Their battle began with Ning Fa breaking through Qian Shouzhong’s ghostly attack, leaving both cultivators ready to escalate the fight.

• Ning Fa watched Ning Jiantao meet Qian Shouzhong and exchange Storage Bags before the two parted.
• Ning Fa ambushed and subdued Ning Jiantao with a restriction, then waited for Qian Shouzhong to return.
• Qian Shouzhong recognized Ning Fa and tried to leave, but Ning Fa blocked him and declared that one of them would die on the island.
• Qian Shouzhong attacked with black rings that filled the area with a ghostly domain, while Ning Fa transformed into his Thunder Yuan Overlord Body.
• Ning Fa’s spear strikes destroyed the ghostly domain and forced Qian Shouzhong’s rings to return to him.

Ning Fa fought Qian Shouzhong and destroyed his powerful Formless Ghost with Dark Water Yin Thunder. After restraining Qian Shouzhong, Ning Fa left him facing the threat of death.

• Ning Fa shattered Qian Shouzhong's black-ring defense with the Cloud-Breaking Spear and wounded him.
• Qian Shouzhong used Blood Dragon Chant to send Mana-draining blood snakes at Ning Fa, who destroyed them with a punch empowered by the Obsidian Gauntlets.
• Qian Shouzhong summoned the Formless Ghost, which blocked Ning Fa's spear attacks.
• Ning Fa struck the Formless Ghost with Dark Water Yin Thunder, then used the Cloud-Breaking Spear to destroy it completely.
• Ning Fa restrained Qian Shouzhong, who realized he was outmatched and shouted that Ning Fa could not kill him.

Ning Fa killed Qian Shouzhong after learning of his claim that the Ning and Qian families were secretly allied, then forced Ning Jiantao to reveal the Yuan Chang Island branch’s excavation of a powerful cave mansion on Spirit Deer Island. He decided to use Ning Jiantao as an informant and left him fearing for his life.

• Qian Shouzhong claimed that the Ning and Qian families had secretly allied against the Xue Family, but Ning Fa killed him and burned his body to ashes.
• Ning Fa questioned Ning Jiantao about the secret discovery on Spirit Deer Island and shocked him until he confessed.
• Ning Jiantao revealed that the branch had found cave mansion ruins likely left by a Golden Core cultivator and was using formations to wear down a second-rank restriction.
• Ning Fa decided not to alert the clan and instead planned to exploit the discovery and possibly kill Ning Ruiming and Ning Jiannan.
• Ning Fa chose Ning Jiantao as an informant, while Ning Jiantao pleaded that killing a fellow clansman would bring severe punishment.

Ning Fa forced Ning Jiantao to sign a Spirit Contract, then discovered a crescent-shaped stone that replenished the mysterious scroll’s energy. He told Ning Zhongyuan about killing Qian Shouzhong, and Ning Zhongyuan confirmed the Ning Clan’s alliance with the Qian Family against the Xue Family, which had also targeted Ning Fa and Hua Rong.

• Ning Fa threatened Ning Jiantao into signing a Second-order Contract and promised to help him take control of the Yuan Chang Island branch.
• Ning Fa gave Ning Jiantao pills, instructed him to conceal what happened to Qian Shouzhong, and then cleaned the battlefield before leaving.
• Ning Fa found a crescent-shaped stone in Qian Shouzhong’s Storage Bag, and the scroll absorbed it, restoring about three percent of its energy.
• Ning Fa asked Wei Shiqin to identify and collect more stones like it, then returned to the clan and told Ning Zhongyuan that he had killed Qian Shouzhong.
• Ning Zhongyuan confirmed the Ning Clan’s Secret Alliance with the Qian Family and revealed that the Xue Family had arranged Ning Fa’s past interception and Hua Rong’s failed Foundation Establishment attempt.

After learning that the Xue Family had sabotaged Ning Huarong’s Foundation Establishment, Ning Fa was appointed Blazing Wind Hall Master and the Ning Clan’s Eleventh Elder. He visited Ning Shaohong, who began secluded cultivation to prepare for Foundation Establishment, before reorganizing the hall and setting out with Liu Qinghui for Nan Hua Island.

• Ning Zhongyuan told Ning Fa that the Xue Family had caused Ning Huarong’s Foundation Establishment failure, warned him to keep the Ning-Xue alliance secret, and promised to nominate him as Blazing Wind Hall Master and Eleventh Elder.
• Ning Fa visited Ning Shaohong on Yun Chang Island and told her that he had killed Qian Shouzhong; she revealed that she was preparing for Foundation Establishment and would enter seclusion.
• The Ning Clan’s upper ranks concealed Ning Shaohong’s plans by claiming she was studying a new spell robe.
• The Elder Council officially appointed Ning Fa Blazing Wind Hall Master and the Ning Clan’s Eleventh Elder, after which Ning Jikun resigned as Deputy Hall Master.
• Ning Fa promoted Ning Yuwen and Ning Yunhui to deputy positions, appointed Ning Zonglie as a captain, brought Xu Guanting and two Xu Family cultivators into the hall, and saw Ning Daozhen depart.
• When the time came, Ning Fa and Liu Qinghui set out for Nan Hua Island.