Chapter Summaries

The Spirit-Seizing Battle began with the Shen family heavily outmatched by five Spirit Sea Realm fighters from the Li Family. Ning Chuan joined the Shen family’s team and faced Li Chengliang, while Li Zhenfei unexpectedly attacked Shen Qian, Shen Feng, and Shen Lei instead of Shen Qianxun.

• Li Zhenfei revealed that he had reached the eighth level of the Spirit Sea Realm, while Li Chengliang and three other Li family fighters also possessed Spirit Sea cultivation.
• Shen Qianxun urged Ning Chuan to hold Li Chengliang back while she tried to defeat Li Zhenfei, and Zhao Songzhai started the Spirit-Seizing Battle.
• Ning Chuan leaped into the arena with Shen Qianxun, Shen Qian, Shen Feng, and Shen Lei, surprising spectators who believed he had no cultivation.
• Shen Qianxun advanced toward Li Zhenfei as Shen Qian, Shen Feng, and Shen Lei engaged the Li family’s three first-level Spirit Sea Realm fighters; Ning Chuan confronted Li Chengliang.
• Li Zhenfei ignored Shen Qianxun and struck at Shen Qian, Shen Feng, and Shen Lei with a palm attack.

Li Zhenfei crippled three Shen family fighters and pressed Shen Qianxun, while Ning Chuan revealed that his cultivation had recovered and struck Li Chengliang hard enough to make him spit blood. The Spirit-Seizing Battle continued with the result uncertain.

• Li Zhenfei ambushed Shen Qian, Shen Feng, and Shen Lei, breaking their arms and knocking them off the arena before evading Shen Qianxun's sword.
• Shen Qianxun attacked Li Zhenfei with the Flame Dragon Sword Technique, but he dodged her Sword Qi while preparing a powerful attack.
• Li Chengliang approached Ning Chuan to intimidate him as Shen Wan and Shen Qingqing worried whether he could hold out.
• Ning Chuan revealed his Spirit Sea Realm cultivation and struck Li Chengliang with Great Wind Thunder Palm, forcing him back to the arena's edge and making him spit blood.

Ning Chuan revealed his restored cultivation and defeated four Li Family Spirit Sea Realm warriors with the Great Wind Thunder Palm. As Li Zhenfei used a Spirit Artifact to wound Shen Qianxun, Ning Chuan rescued her and faced Li Zhenfei.

• Ning Chuan drove back Li Chengliang, shocking Li Yan and Chen Lin with his recovered cultivation and strength.
• Li Chengliang and three other Li Family Spirit Sea Realm warriors attacked Ning Chuan together.
• Ning Chuan shattered Li Chengliang's saber, struck him from the arena, and defeated the other three warriors with the Great Wind Thunder Palm.
• Li Zhenfei revealed a low-grade Spirit Artifact and cut Shen Qianxun's Flame Dragon Sword in two, wounding her arm.
• Ning Chuan swept Shen Qianxun into his arms, dodged Li Zhenfei's next blow, and told her to leave the rest to him.

Ning Chuan rescued Shen Qianxun from Li Zhenfei and fought him despite Li Zhenfei's eighth-level Spirit Sea Realm cultivation and spirit artifact. Ning Chuan gained the upper hand with his movement technique and powerful palm strikes while Shen Qianxun healed and watched in disbelief.

• Ning Chuan carried Shen Qianxun out of Li Zhenfei's sword strike and told her to heal while he fought alone.
• Ning Chuan used the Wandering Dragon Movement Technique to evade Li Zhenfei's sword and struck him with the Great Wind Thunder Palm.
• Ning Chuan's Hurricane palm strikes overwhelmed Li Zhenfei's Starlight Fist and forced him to stagger back bleeding.
• Ning Chuan continued attacking Li Zhenfei at close range, evading his spirit artifact longsword and keeping the advantage.
• Shen Qianxun watched from the side as Ning Chuan suppressed Li Zhenfei, astonished by his strength.

Ning Chuan gained the upper hand against Li Zhenfei despite their cultivation gap, but Li Zhenfei swallowed a Blood-Burning Spirit Pill and surged in power. Li Zhenfei sent Ning Chuan flying and charged at him, leaving Ning Chuan in danger.

• Ning Chuan overwhelmed Li Zhenfei's spirit artifact sword with close-range attacks and struck him with the Great Wind Thunder Palm, forcing him to the arena's edge.
• Li Zhenfei took a Blood-Burning Spirit Pill, raising his cultivation to the peak of the ninth level of the Spirit Sea Realm and increasing his physical strength.
• Li Zhenfei punched Ning Chuan out of the air and sent him flying.
• Li Zhenfei charged at Ning Chuan like a savage tiger and vowed to kill him.

Ning Chuan shattered three spiritual energy stars with the Star-Shattering Secret Art and used his newly comprehended Wind Thunder Surge to defeat Li Zhenfei. He won the Spirit-Seizing Battle, while Li Zhenfei lay unconscious and his survival remained uncertain.

• Li Zhenfei unleashed a Sword Qi Net that covered the arena, and Shen Qianxun tried to intervene but was knocked out of the arena.
• Ning Chuan shattered his three spiritual energy stars, doubling his combat strength with the Star-Shattering Secret Art.
• Ning Chuan comprehended the third stage of the Great Wind Thunder Palm and unleashed Wind Thunder Surge against Li Zhenfei's Sword Qi Net.
• Ning Chuan's palm broke through the Sword Qi Net and struck Li Zhenfei, sending him crashing into the stone paving unconscious.
• The spectators realized Ning Chuan had won the Spirit-Seizing Battle.

Ning Chuan defeated Li Zhenfei and secured the Spirit-Seizing Battle for the Shen family. Li Yan then accused him of killing Li Yunfei and attacked him, prompting Shen Wan to intervene.

• Ning Chuan overwhelmed Li Zhenfei despite his boosted cultivation and powerful Sword Qi Net.
• Zhao Songzhai declared the Shen family the winner and awarded them the Spirit Stone Mine.
• Li Yan accused Ning Chuan of killing Li Yunfei in the Great Wilderness Mountains.
• Ning Chuan denied the accusation and challenged Li Yan to produce evidence.
• Li Yan attacked Ning Chuan, and Shen Wan flew in front of him to block the strike.

Shen Wan and Li Yan clashed over Li Yan’s accusation that Ning Chuan had killed Li Yunfei, but City Lord Zhao Songzhai intervened and declared his protection of Ning Chuan. When Chen Lin threatened Zhao on behalf of the Chen, Huo Xiyan revealed that Ning Chuan was an Honorary Elder of the Treasure Pavilion, leaving Li Yan and Chen Lin stunned.

• Shen Wan blocked Li Yan from attacking Ning Chuan, and Li Yan threatened to fight the Shen Family to the death.
• Zhao Songzhai stopped the clash, demanded evidence against Ning Chuan, and warned that fighting was forbidden in Flame Dragon City.
• Zhao Songzhai openly defended Ning Chuan, while Ning Chuan told Shen Qianxun that the Li Family was no threat.
• Chen Lin challenged Zhao Songzhai for taking Ning Chuan’s side and invoked the Chen’s influence.
• Huo Xiyan declared that Ning Chuan was an Honorary Elder of the Treasure Pavilion, shocking Li Yan and Chen Lin.

Huo Xiyan offered Ning Chuan an Honorary Elder position in the Treasure Pavilion, and he accepted after considering its resources and protection for the Shen family. Li Yan and Chen Lin abandoned their plan to attack him, though the enmity between the Li Family and Ning Chuan remained.

• Huo Xiyan presented a Treasure Pavilion Guest Elder Token and offered Ning Chuan the Honorary Elder position, leaving Chen Lin shocked.
• Zhao Songzhai urged Ning Chuan to accept, while Shen Qianxun told him to follow his own wishes and Huo Xiyan promised the position came with no restrictions.
• Ning Chuan accepted the token, hoping to gain access to the Treasure Pavilion's resources and protection for the Shen family.
• Huo Xiyan welcomed Ning Chuan as an elder and hoped to obtain his pill formula through sincere dealings.
• Zhao Songzhai challenged Li Yan over attacking a Treasure Pavilion Honorary Elder, and Li Yan left with the Li Family as Chen Lin held back.

After defeating Li Zhenfei and securing the Shen Family’s victory, Ning Chuan received gifts and support from Zhao Songzhai and Huo Xiyan. He accepted a Purple Thunder Spear, promised to cure Luo Luo’s poison, and prepared to visit the Treasure Pavilion to refine pills.

• Zhao Songzhai congratulated Ning Chuan, gave him the Purple Thunder Spear, and arranged for him to visit the City Lord’s Manor in a few days to purge Luo Luo’s poison.
• Huo Xiyan gave Shen Qianxun a Spirit-Tempering Pill, which Ning Chuan encouraged her to accept.
• Ning Chuan handed Huo Xiyan a list of spirit herbs and asked to draw several months of his stipend in advance.
• Huo Xiyan promised to prepare the herbs within three to five days and gave Ning Chuan three thousand spirit stones and a Storage Bag.
• Huo Xiyan and Zhao Songzhai took their leave, while Shen Qianxun, Shen Wan, and Shen Qingqing looked at Ning Chuan with surprised delight.

After Ning Chuan won the Spirit-Seizing Battle, he revealed that he could cure Luo Luo’s God-Devouring Gu Poison and refine a pill needed by the Treasure Pavilion. While the Shen family planned to seize the mine and Ning Chuan resolved to eliminate the Li Family before they could strike, Shen Ruzhuo and the Li Family separately plotted to kill him.

• Ning Chuan told Shen Wan, Shen Qianxun, and Shen Qingqing that he could cure Luo Luo’s poison and refine the Treasure Pavilion’s needed spirit pill.
• Shen Wan ordered the Shen family to take over the Spirit Stone Mine and warned Ning Chuan to prepare for Li Family retaliation, while Ning Chuan resolved to wipe out the Li Family first.
• Shen Ruzhuo and Grand Elder Shen Zhong decided Ning Chuan had to die and considered secretly joining forces with the Li Family.
• Shen Ruzhuo hoped Ning Chuan would kill Luo Luo while treating her, provoking Zhao Songzhai to turn against him.
• Li Yan vowed to avenge Li Yunfei, and Li Zhenfei proposed asking his master at the Black Tortoise Academy to intervene.
• Chen Lin dismissed Li Zhenfei’s concerns about Zhao Songzhai and the Treasure Pavilion, and Li Zhenfei asked him for a plan.

Chen Lin persuaded Li Yan and Li Zhenfei to ambush the Shen family at the Spirit Stone Mine with help from the Black Dragon Stronghold, intending to kill Ning Chuan and capture Shen Qianxun. Ning Chuan then cultivated for three days and advanced to the sixth level of the Spirit Sea Realm, gaining enough strength to kill even a ninth-level Spirit Sea Realm martial artist with one punch.

• Chen Lin proposed using the Spirit Stone Mine as an ambush site and recruiting the Black Dragon Stronghold to attack the Shen family and Ning Chuan.
• Li Zhenfei pledged the Li family's support, and Chen Lin gave him a token to secure Black Dragon's cooperation.
• Ning Chuan used three thousand spirit stones and a Spirit-Gathering Array to cultivate, while tempering his body with the Chaos Gods and Devils Art.
• After three days and nights, Ning Chuan reached the sixth level of the Spirit Sea Realm and estimated his strength at four hundred thousand jin.

Ning Chuan mastered the Ninefold Thunder Spear with the Purple Thunder Spear, greatly increasing his confidence ahead of the Spirit-Seizing Battle. After considering how to obtain more spirit stones, he was interrupted when someone kicked open his courtyard gate.

• Ning Chuan chose the Ninefold Thunder Spear as the weapon technique to prepare for the Spirit-Seizing Battle against Li Zhenfei.
• Ning Chuan used the Purple Thunder Spear and the Asura Demon Emperor's experience to master the Ninefold Thunder Spear.
• Ning Chuan tested the technique by shattering a massive block of bluestone with a spear thrust.
• Ning Chuan considered seeking an advance from the Treasure Pavilion or asking his wife for spirit stones to improve his cultivation.
• Someone kicked open the gate to Ning Chuan's courtyard.

Zhang Xiaoxiao came to Ning Chuan pretending to seek his help, but he saw through her apparent plea as a likely Li Family scheme involving Zhao Luo Luo’s god-devouring gu poison. When she asked him to treat Zhao Luo Luo, Ning Chuan refused and struck her.

• Shen Qingqing angrily brought Zhang Xiaoxiao to see Ning Chuan.
• Zhang Xiaoxiao pleaded with Ning Chuan to rescue her from the brothel, claiming she wanted to preserve herself for him.
• Zhang Xiaoxiao asked Ning Chuan to cure Zhao Luo Luo’s god-devouring gu poison so the City Lord would grant her freedom.
• Ning Chuan suspected the Li Family had sent Zhang Xiaoxiao to lure him into a dangerous scheme.
• Ning Chuan refused Zhang Xiaoxiao’s request and slapped her, sending her flying.

Ning Chuan exposed Zhang Xiaoxiao as a conspirator with the Li Family and had her taken away for questioning. He rushed to the City Lord's Manor to check on Zhao Luo Luo and discovered that her medicinal decoction had been used to feed her gu parasite.

• Ning Chuan slapped Zhang Xiaoxiao, accused her of plotting with the Li Family to injure him, and ordered guards to torture her for information.
• Shen Qingqing followed Ning Chuan as he headed to the City Lord's Manor, where he warned that Zhao Luo Luo might be in danger.
• Zhao Songzhai welcomed Ning Chuan and led him to Zhao Luo Luo's bedchamber.
• Ning Chuan checked Zhao Luo Luo's pulse and realized the decoction she had taken had fed her gu parasite.
• Zhao Songzhai reacted with fury and fear after Ning Chuan revealed the medicine was dangerous.

Ning Chuan discovered that black blood vine had awakened and strengthened the God-Devouring Gu inside Luo Luo, exposing a plot to make her death provoke Zhao Songzhai against him. He refined a Heart-Guarding Spirit Pill and a Five-Poison Pill to treat her, then hurried to her bedchamber.

• Ning Chuan realized black blood vine had weakened his seal on Luo Luo’s God-Devouring Gu and that the poison could soon kill her.
• Ning Chuan explained the scheme to Zhao Songzhai, and Shen Qingqing identified the Li Family as the likely culprit.
• Ning Chuan urged Zhao Songzhai to prioritize saving Luo Luo, while Zhao ordered the manor physician seized and the manor sealed off.
• Ning Chuan used the manor’s earthcore flame vein to refine a Heart-Guarding Spirit Pill and a Five-Poison Pill.
• Ning Chuan took both pills and hurried to Luo Luo’s bedchamber.

Ning Chuan used the Five-Poison Pill and Thirteen Life-Taking Needles to neutralize the God-Devouring Gu Poison and draw the gu worm out of Luo Luo. Zhao Songzhai destroyed the worm, and Luo Luo recovered as Ning Chuan confirmed she was safe.

• Ning Chuan fed Luo Luo a Heart-Guarding Spirit Pill and used thirteen silver needles to restrain the erupting God-Devouring Gu Poison.
• Ning Chuan gave Luo Luo a Five-Poison Pill, whose toxicity neutralized the poison and forced the gu worm to reveal itself.
• Ning Chuan trapped the weakened gu worm with the Thirteen Life-Taking Needles and drove it out through Luo Luo's brow.
• Zhao Songzhai killed the escaping gu worm with his Crimson Flame Palm, and Luo Luo's breathing steadied.
• Ning Chuan told Zhao Songzhai that Luo Luo was safe.

Ning Chuan cured Luo Luo’s God-Devouring Gu and learned that someone had planted it to nurture a god-devouring heavenly gu, while Zhao Songzhai suspected the culprit was in Jade Capital City. As Ning Chuan and Shen Qingqing headed to the Treasure Pavilion, a bloodied Shen Song arrived with news that something had happened to the family head.

• Ning Chuan told Zhao Songzhai that someone had deliberately planted the God-Devouring Gu in Luo Luo to consume her glazed divine soul and evolve into a gu capable of killing Dragon Transformation Realm experts.
• Zhao Songzhai realized he knew who was behind the plot and looked toward Jade Capital City.
• A black-robed old man suffered a backlash when his God-Devouring Gu was destroyed and sent a shadow to investigate who had cured Zhao Songzhai’s granddaughter.
• Ning Chuan said Luo Luo would recover, then left the City Lord’s Manor with Shen Qingqing to visit the Treasure Pavilion.
• Shen Song, covered in blood, rushed up to Shen Qingqing and Ning Chuan and said something had happened to the family head.

After Shen Song reported that the Li Family, the Black Dragon Stronghold, and Shen traitors had attacked Shen Qianxun and her allies at the Spirit Stone Mine, Ning Chuan rushed to rescue them while Shen Qingqing and Shen Song sought help. The chapter ended with Li Hu pursuing Ning Chuan into an ambush arranged by Chen Lin.

• Shen Song returned gravely wounded and told Ning Chuan and Shen Qingqing that the Li Family and Black Dragon Stronghold had attacked the Shen at the Spirit Stone Mine, while Shen Ruzhuo and the Grand Elder betrayed them.
• Shen Song reported that Shen Qianxun and Shen Wan were still fighting and had sent him to warn Ning Chuan and ask the City Lord's Manor and Treasure Pavilion for help.
• Ning Chuan ordered Shen Qingqing and Shen Song to seek help, then rushed toward the Spirit Stone Mine alone.
• Chen Lin revealed that he had arranged for the Black Dragon Stronghold's Second-in-Command to ambush Ning Chuan and promised Li Hu that he would keep Zhao Songzhai and Huo Xiyan occupied.
• Li Hu left Flame Dragon City to pursue Ning Chuan, confident that he and the Second-in-Command could kill him.

Ning Chuan was ambushed on his way to the Spirit Stone Mine by Yuan Ying of the Black Dragon Stronghold and Li Family Grand Elder Li Hu, who revealed that he was their real target. The two Dao Foundation Realm warriors and their fighters launched a coordinated attack, leaving Ning Chuan facing arrows and saber strikes from both sides.

• Ning Chuan raced through the forest toward the Spirit Stone Mine, worried that the Li Family had attacked the Shen Family.
• Black Dragon Stronghold fighters ambushed Ning Chuan with arrows, and he dodged them before clashing with a saber-wielding attacker.
• Yuan Ying identified himself as the Black Dragon Stronghold’s second chief and revealed that he had been sent to kill Ning Chuan.
• Li Hu arrived and confirmed that the Li Family had lured Ning Chuan out of Flame Dragon City because he was their target.
• Li Hu and Yuan Ying ordered their fighters to attack as both Dao Foundation Realm warriors struck at Ning Chuan.