Chapter Summaries

Ning Que revealed his identity as Ning Yuanzhou’s son while they traveled through the desert, and the two discussed Flowing Sand and the cultivator ruins. As the party neared the ruins, Ning Yuanzhou warned everyone to be quiet.

• Ning Yuanzhou sensed that Ning Que seemed familiar and asked whether they had met before.
• Ning Que showed Ning Yuanzhou half of the Dragon-Shaped Jade Pendant, revealing that he was his son, and Yi Tao realized the truth.
• Ning Que told Ning Yuanzhou that Flowing Sand was ready to act, and Ning Yuanzhou understood that his son had reunited the movement.
• Ning Que questioned Ning Yuanzhou about cultivation and the ruins, learning that the ruins were real and that Ning Yuanzhou had kept their location as leverage.
• Ning Yuanzhou said the party included a cultivator and warned them that they were nearing the ruins.

Ning Que, Ning Yuanzhou, and Yi Tao were forced to lead the way into the ruins after Feng Shande marked Ning Yuanzhou with a Heavenly Thunder Seed. The trio entered a fog-shrouded desert where a mysterious figure suddenly swept past them.

• Feng Shande overheard Ning Yuanzhou reveal the ruins' location and threatened him into repeating it privately.
• Feng Shande planted a Heavenly Thunder Seed in Ning Yuanzhou to punish him if the location was false, while Ning Que warned that Feng Shande intended to kill them anyway.
• Feng Shande promised the Mara leaders ten percent of the ruins' treasure and kept the rest for himself and his allies.
• The procession reached an empty desert where Feng Shande sensed danger, and Ning Yuanzhou confirmed they had arrived at the ruins.
• Feng Shande sent Ning Que, Ning Yuanzhou, and Yi Tao into the thick fog to scout ahead, and a figure suddenly swept past them.

Ning Que, Ning Yuanzhou, and Yi Tao encountered Heroic Spirits guarding the ruins, and Ning Que sent Feng Shande’s forces into the fog without warning them how to avoid provoking the spirits. After Feng Shande destroyed the Heroic Spirits with Sword Energy, the fog thickened and a cave abode emerged from the sand.

• Ning Yuanzhou identified the figures in the fog as Heroic Spirits and explained that they guarded the nearby ruins.
• Ning Que learned that Ning Yuanzhou knew basic Mystic Arts from his time as a Star Pavilion disciple and asked about the Fallen Star Pavilion.
• Ning Que told Feng Shande that ghosts guarded the ruins, then led him to believe the party had to charge through the fog.
• Feng Shande ordered the Mara soldiers and prisoners into the fog, where Heroic Spirits killed many of them.
• Feng Shande attacked the Heroic Spirits with Sword Energy, making them vanish as the fog grew denser.
• A tremor shook the area, the sand swirled away, and a dilapidated cave abode appeared.

A Cultivator's ruins appeared in the desert, but Feng Shande feared what lay inside and stopped everyone from entering. When his fellow disciples arrived, Ning Que recognized an unfamiliar man among them, who greeted him as someone he had met before.

• A fierce wind cleared the fog and revealed the buried Cave Abode, which the Mara Dynasty soldiers recognized as the legendary Cultivator's residence.
• When a prisoner approached the glowing entrance, Feng Shande cut off his legs with Sword Energy and warned the others not to enter ahead of him.
• Feng Shande hesitated to enter the ruins because he sensed danger, and Ning Que asked whether he was afraid.
• Ning Yuanzhou worried that Feng Shande's fellow disciples would worsen their situation, while Ning Que waited quietly at the entrance.
• More than a dozen Cultivators arrived with Liu Piaoying, and Feng Shande greeted his fellow disciples.
• Ning Que recognized an unfamiliar man among the arrivals, and the man approached him, saying they would meet again.

Ning Que reunited with Li Jieyang as the prisoners and cultivators entered the ruins, where they discovered coffins full of treasures. Feng Shande claimed the relics for the Supreme Sect and threatened the Mara prisoners as they tried to approach.

• Li Jieyang recognized Ning Que and warned Feng Shande that Ning Que might be his match, before Liu Piaoying stopped their argument and led everyone into the ruins.
• Li Jieyang invited Ning Que to join his sect, but Ning Que asked which sect he belonged to, and Li Jieyang fell silent.
• The group found no treasures in the empty, deathly cave until the prisoners opened a door to a chamber lined with coffins and headless centaur knights.
• Ning Que opened a coffin and revealed treasures, prompting the cultivators to open the rest and rush to claim their contents.
• Feng Shande struck the chamber with sword light, forbade the Mara prisoners from moving, and declared that the treasures belonged to the Supreme Sect.

Ning Que warned the Supreme Sect cultivators that the treasures in the coffins were fake and cursed, then realized the number of coffins matched the number of people in the ruins. As Feng Shande’s group prepared to leave, the first cultivator to step forward exploded into blood mist.

• The Supreme Sect disciples looted the coffins while Feng Shande offered Li Jieyang a share of the treasures.
• Ning Que urged everyone not to touch the coffin treasures, warning that they were likely fake and cursed.
• Feng Shande dismissed Ning Que’s warning and threatened to kill the prisoners after leaving the ruins.
• Ning Que and Ning Yuanzhou sensed decay from the treasures and noticed that the number of coffins matched the number of people who had entered.
• As Feng Shande’s group set off to leave, the first cultivator to take a step exploded into blood mist.

Ning Que discovered that the coffin chamber's treasures were illusions and that anyone who touched the coffins was cursed and could not leave the ruins. As black Spirit Bodies formed from the fake treasures and advanced on the trapped cultivators, Liu Piaoying realized the ruins' owner had been an evil cultivator.

• A Supreme Sect disciple exploded when he tried to leave the chamber, and Ning Que demonstrated that he and his companions could cross the threshold safely.
• A cultivator charged at Ning Que and exploded after crossing the boundary, while a Teleportation Talisman failed to work.
• Ning Que concluded that touching the coffins had cursed the cultivators and speculated that the ruins' owner might still have a Remnant Consciousness.
• The treasures in the coffins crumbled into black soil, leaving Feng Shande, Liu Piaoying, and the others devastated.
• The black soil gathered into hostile Spirit Bodies, and Liu Piaoying declared that the ruins' owner had been an evil cultivator.

Ning Que discovered that the Fallen Star Pavilion had once been the condemned Demon Star Sect and encountered Lu Tong, the Evil Cultivator whose tomb lay in the ruins. He claimed to understand Lu Tong’s injustice, then explained that the Dynasty had forced his wife into a diplomatic marriage with an enemy nation.

• Ning Que learned that the Fallen Star Pavilion had originated as the Demon Star Sect, a heretical lineage that renamed itself to escape a future purge.
• Ning Que concluded that the ruins’ owner had been unjustly hunted, pointed out a newly appeared statue, and was transported away from Yi Tao, Ning Yuanzhou, and Li Jieyang.
• Ning Que met the statue’s Spirit Body, who identified himself as Lu Tong, the Evil Cultivator known as the Man-Demon.
• Lu Tong questioned whether the righteous were truly righteous and the heretics truly evil, while Ning Que told him he understood his experience.
• Lu Tong asked whether Ning Que had also been branded an Evil Cultivator and killed unjustly, and Ning Que replied that the Dynasty had forced his wife into a diplomatic marriage with an enemy nation.

Ning Que earned Lu Tong's trust by revealing his own hatred for the Dynasty, and Lu Tong shared the story of his persecution before disappearing. As the trapped cultivators struggled against the vengeful spirits, Ning Que reached the ruins' deepest chamber and found Lu Tong's letter to the Fallen Star Pavilion.

• Ning Que told Lu Tong that the Dynasty had betrayed him by forcing his wife into a diplomatic marriage, and Lu Tong let him pass to seek the cenotaph's treasure.
• Lu Tong passed Ning Que memories of his life, persecution as an evil cultivator, death in the Skeleton Desert, and the cenotaph built to give his soul rest before fading away.
• Ning Que returned to the ruins as black-earth vengeful spirits killed more cultivators and cornered Feng Shande, Liu Piaoying, and the others.
• Feng Shande killed several prisoners, and Liu Piaoying realized the restrictions might allow treasure artifacts through even if they trapped people.
• Feng Shande tried to escape in his flying boat, but it exploded, leaving the cultivators in despair.
• Ning Que reached the deepest part of the ruins and found an ancient letter Lu Tong had left for the Fallen Star Pavilion.

Ning Que found Lu Tong’s letter, lifting the ruins’ curse and saving the trapped cultivators. After the cultivators slaughtered the prisoners, Feng Shande confronted Ning Que and his companions, who had returned from the ruins’ depths.

• Ning Que stored Lu Tong’s letter, and his Background Editing completion rate reached twenty percent.
• The Black Soil Wraith and the coffins vanished, ending the danger in the ruins and allowing the cultivators to escape alive.
• Feng Shande and the other cultivators killed the remaining hundreds of prisoners, while Liu Piaoying warned them about karma.
• Feng Shande found Ning Que, Yi Tao, and Ning Yuanzhou and threatened them, but Ning Que claimed he had saved everyone.

Ning Que confronted Feng Shande and the cultivators who threatened him, Ning Yuanzhou, and Yi Tao, then revealed the Fourfold Azure Cloud. When Feng Shande attacked, Ning Que destroyed his flying sword and killed him, leaving the other cultivators stunned.

• Feng Shande dismissed Ning Que’s claim that he had lifted the ruins’ curse and threatened to kill the prisoners.
• Feng Shande belittled Ning Yuanzhou and warned Li Jieyang not to interfere, but Ning Que told Li Jieyang to stay out of the fight.
• Ning Que drew the Fourfold Azure Cloud and invited the cultivators to take his other treasures.
• Feng Shande sent his flying sword at Ning Que, who blocked it and snapped it in two.
• Ning Que broke through Feng Shande’s barrier with a sword strike and killed him, earning 500 Karma Points.

Ning Que killed Feng Shande and then challenged Liu Piaoying’s cultivators, who attacked him together. As the battle erupted, he unleashed the Four Divine Constellations Scripture, leaving Li Jieyang stunned by the star-formed beasts behind him.

• Ning Que killed Feng Shande and earned five hundred karma points, shocking the Supreme Sect cultivators and his companions.
• Ning Que told the others that his strength went beyond killing a family of thirty-six and invited Liu Piaoying’s group to attack him together.
• Liu Piaoying suspected Ning Que was a cultivator, but Ning Que denied it and charged at the group with his sword.
• Liu Piaoying and the other cultivators attacked Ning Que with spiritual energy and magical treasures while Ning Yuanzhou and Li Jieyang watched.
• Ning Que roared the name of the Four Divine Constellations Scripture, releasing an overwhelming aura and summoning star-formed dragon, phoenix, white tiger, and tortoise apparitions.
• Li Jieyang recognized the technique as the Four Divine Constellations Scripture.

Ning Que revealed his mastery of the Four Divine Constellations Scripture, and Li Jieyang suspected he was the Fallen Star Pavilion’s missing Inner Pavilion Senior Brother. Ning Que then began killing the Supreme Sect cultivators and earning karma points.

• Ning Que unleashed the Four Divine Constellations Scripture, destroying the Ruins and leaving only Lu Tong’s statue standing.
• Li Jieyang recognized the technique and concluded Ning Que was likely the Inner Pavilion Senior Brother who had left the Fallen Star Pavilion ten years earlier.
• Ning Yuanzhou reacted with shock and joy at his son’s apparent identity and accomplishments.
• Ning Que gave Liu Piaoying and the other Supreme Sect cultivators a chance to speak before declaring he would kill them for betraying his kindness.
• Ning Que killed four cultivators with attacks empowered by the White Tiger, gaining karma points for each kill.

Ning Que slaughtered the Supreme Sect cultivators in the Skeleton Desert, but Liu Piaoying survived his attack thanks to a life-saving jade pendant. As Ning Que and his companions left the desert, Wu Pengfei prepared to ambush them with troops and martial arts experts supplied by Wang Tianque.

• Ning Que killed several Supreme Sect cultivators, and Li Jieyang told Ning Yuanzhou that the Fallen Star Pavilion would not let the Supreme Sect retaliate unchecked.
• Ning Que killed Liu Piaoying despite her threats, but received no karma points and suspected she had a way to survive.
• After Ning Que and the others departed, Liu Piaoying revived with the Life Wheel jade pendant, which broke while saving her life.
• Liu Piaoying vowed revenge and left the Skeleton Desert on her flying treasure.
• At the desert's border, Wu Pengfei waited with elite troops and martial arts experts borrowed from Wang Tianque, planning to capture Ning Que.

Ning Que and Ning Yuanzhou faced Wu Pengfei’s force in the Skeleton Desert, but Li Jieyang revealed himself as an Exalted Immortal and protected them. Wu Pengfei objected to Li Jieyang’s intervention, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Wu Pengfei told Wei Guping and the other martial experts that Ning Que was a dangerous fugitive who had survived the Skeleton Desert when the rest of his party died.
• Ning Que, Ning Yuanzhou, and two companions approached the assembled soldiers and martial experts, and Wu Pengfei identified Ning Que as his target.
• Wu Pengfei accused Ning Que of murdering the prisoners and ordered him to surrender, but Ning Que refused and declared that Wu Pengfei had no authority to arrest him.
• Li Jieyang displayed his token, prompting Wu Pengfei and the martial experts to recognize him as an Exalted Immortal of the Fallen Star Pavilion.
• Li Jieyang declared that Ning Que and his companions were under his protection, but Wu Pengfei insisted that this would not do.

Li Jieyang persuaded Wu Pengfei to let Ning Que and his companions leave by giving him cultivation aids, and Ning Que parted ways with Yi Tao before declaring he would destroy the Supreme Sect. A day later, Liu Piaoying returned to the Supreme Sect alone, and Liu Fusheng realized the others were missing.

• Li Jieyang gave Wu Pengfei a pouch of cultivation aids, and Wu Pengfei let Ning Que and the others pass.
• Ning Que told Yi Tao that they had to part after rescuing Ning Que's father, and Yi Tao reluctantly accepted.
• Li Jieyang warned that the Supreme Sect would retaliate, but Ning Que said he wanted to make the sect disappear.
• Liu Piaoying returned to the Supreme Sect alone, and Liu Fusheng asked where her senior sisters and junior brothers were.

Liu Piaoying returned to the Supreme Sect as the sole survivor of an expedition, reporting that Ning Que had killed the others with the Four Divine Constellations Scripture. Liu Fusheng realized Ning Que was likely the Fallen Star Pavilion’s missing eldest senior disciple and resolved to stop him from returning, leaving the second of two possible paths unstated.

• Liu Piaoying told Liu Fusheng that a prisoner named Ning Que had killed all her fellow disciples in an Evil Cultivator’s tomb, and Liu Fusheng struck her for their failure.
• Liu Piaoying said Ning Que had used the Four Divine Constellations Scripture and that she had survived his attack only because of the Life Wheel Liu Fusheng had given her.
• Liu Piaoying confirmed that Ning Que had manifested the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise, causing Liu Fusheng to recognize him as the Fallen Star Pavilion’s missing eldest senior disciple.
• Liu Fusheng declared that Ning Que had to be eliminated before he returned to the Fallen Star Pavilion, then considered exposing the sect’s secret history as the Demon Sect.

Liu Fusheng mobilized the Supreme Sect’s elders and protectors to hunt Ning Que, while Ning Que took Ning Yuanzhou to reunite with Flowing Sand. They reached the headquarters behind the waterfall and found Flowing Sand surrounded by the Heaven and Earth Gate.

• Liu Fusheng ordered the Supreme Sect’s guest elders and protectors to kill Ning Que, and Liu Piaoying joined them.
• Ning Que rejected Li Jieyang’s suggestion to seek safety at the Fallen Star Pavilion and chose to take Ning Yuanzhou to Flowing Sand’s headquarters.
• Li Jieyang left to report what had happened, and Ning Que and Ning Yuanzhou traveled toward Flowing Sand.
• After three days, Ning Que and Ning Yuanzhou reached the waterfall and found the Heaven and Earth Gate surrounding Flowing Sand’s members.
• Mu Lingfeng refused the Heaven and Earth Gate’s demand that Flowing Sand surrender.

Ning Yuanzhou returned to Flowing Sand with Ning Que and helped save his former followers from the Heaven and Earth Gate. After Ning Que revealed he belonged to the Fallen Star Pavilion and planned to return there, he stayed at Flowing Sand instead, unaware that Liu Fusheng and twelve Infant Transformation experts were waiting along the route.

• Ning Yuanzhou appeared with Ning Que just as the Heaven and Earth Gate prepared to attack Flowing Sand, and Mu Lingfeng and the others celebrated his return.
• Ning Que killed the Heaven and Earth Gate’s two Core Formation cultivators and slaughtered the attacking men.
• Ning Yuanzhou reunited with Flowing Sand and told his followers that Ning Que had saved him in the Skeleton Desert.
• Ning Que said he belonged to the Fallen Star Pavilion and would leave, while Mu Lingfeng and the others promised to guard Flowing Sand until his return.
• Liu Fusheng and twelve Infant Transformation experts waited for Ning Que along the route to the Fallen Star Pavilion, not knowing he was at Flowing Sand with no intention of going there.

After bidding farewell to Flowing Sand, Ning Que traveled toward the Fallen Star Pavilion while its sect prepared to protect him from the Supreme Sect. Liu Fusheng and his group finally spotted Ning Que after waiting for him along the road.

• Zhuge Qing visited Ning Que, reflected on leaving Qingzhou City, and learned he planned to keep traveling rather than stay with Flowing Sand or the Fallen Star Pavilion.
• Ning Yuanzhou and nearly ten thousand members of Flowing Sand saw Ning Que off, and Ning Que promised to return.
• Li Jieyang told Xingyunzi that he had found the Inner Pavilion Senior Brother and warned him that the Supreme Sect might target Ning Que.
• Xingyunzi ordered the Divine Stone Guard and Shadow Guard to lie in wait and kill anyone from the Supreme Sect who entered their territory.
• After waiting three days, Liu Fusheng agreed to leave, but he spotted Ning Que approaching from a kilometer away.