Recaps

As the Holy Heaven Alliance searched for Ning Chuan, Mu Shangyun taunted the Federation online and claimed ten Great River Realm Heavenly Kings would kill him. Hidden in the Fire Gold Sea, Ning Chuan strengthened his Laws, arranged for Li Wenyue to refine Divine Metal Liquid, and prepared to ambush Mu Cangyuan's team for its Heaven-Overturning Seal Martial Seal.

• Mu Shangyun announced that the Holy Heaven Alliance had organized ten Great River Realm Heavenly Kings into teams to hunt Ning Chuan, sparking a fierce online argument with the Federation's people.
• Ning Chuan assessed his growing combat power and decided that Heaven-Overturning Seal would best complement his Mountain Realm Law.
• Li Wenyue delivered about fifty-eight thousand drops of Divine Metal Liquid, and Ning Chuan gave him the spatial key to refine it into Divine Metal Tears.
• Ning Chuan asked the recovering Li Wenyue to return with him to the Blood Curtain Plateau and help manipulate the Holy Heaven Alliance's plans.
• Ning Chuan chose Mu Cangyuan's team as his first target because Mu Cangyuan possessed the initial Martial Seal for Heaven-Overturning Seal.

Ning Chuan visited the Beast Emperor Hall to refine its ferocious beasts and strengthen his body, but the supply ran out before he could reach his unknown Mortal Transcendence Realm limit. He ordered Xi Fengrou to gather weaker beasts and considered how to obtain more cultivation resources from Horse Road Mountain.

• Ning Chuan detoured to the Beast Emperor Hall, where Xi Fengrou had emptied its eighteen beast-taming mountains and barred others from entering.
• Ning Chuan refined the beasts from all eighteen mountains in less than half a day, increasing his physical strength by about five hundred thousand tons.
• Ning Chuan learned that the Beast Emperor Hall had no more powerful ferocious beasts available, so Xi Fengrou offered to gather ordinary beasts instead.
• Ning Chuan agreed to take the ordinary beasts and worried that their lower-quality energy would not let him reach his cultivation goal in time.
• Ning Chuan considered asking Horse Road Mountain for resources but struggled to justify it after telling Chu Longye he lacked talent for body cultivation.
• Ning Chuan came up with the idea of introducing himself to Horse Road Mountain.

Ning Chuan infiltrated the Holy Heaven Alliance’s search operation in disguise, then used a Force clone to avoid detection and secretly reached Mu Cangyuan’s team. He watched the three Great River Realm Heavenly Kings from nearby, preparing to act while they remained unaware of him.

• Ning Chuan disguised himself as Ye Shanliang and joined Li Wenyue’s group as they returned to the Blood Curtain Plateau.
• Gu Yunyou ordered Li Wenyue to join Liu Cangdong’s team and sent Ning Chuan and the other Divine Generals to await orders at the command post.
• Ning Chuan spotted three Great River Realm Heavenly Kings in a nearby building and considered killing them, but delayed because Gu Yunyou was close and the Heavenly Kings might carry Divine Oracle Talismans.
• When his search assignment began, Ning Chuan sent a Void Law Force clone away with the Spirit-Seeking Talisman and slipped out of Gu Yunyou’s sight.
• Ning Chuan crossed the plateau and found Mu Cangyuan, Li He, and Qiu Huiyang leading a search team; the three Heavenly Kings did not notice him hiding nearby.

Ning Chuan lured the Holy Heaven Alliance’s Heavenly Kings into a trap, killed Mu Cangyuan with a surprise attack, and then fought Li He and Qiu Yanghui while pretending to be injured and weakened. He planned to keep the alliance believing they could defeat him long enough to hunt more Heavenly Kings and secure benefits through his cooperation with Horse Road Mountain.

• A Knight used a Spirit-Seeking Talisman to reveal Ning Chuan’s presence, drawing Mu Cangyuan, Li He, and Qiu Yanghui to the area.
• Ning Chuan attacked with a mountain-and-river seal, which the three Heavenly Kings destroyed along with his Force clone.
• Ning Chuan emerged from the void and killed Mu Cangyuan with a sudden strike, then claimed his soul and spatial ring.
• Ning Chuan taunted the Holy Heaven Alliance and announced that its members had become his prey.
• Li He and Qiu Yanghui attacked Ning Chuan together, and he met them head-on before feigning injury and fighting as if trying to escape their encirclement.
• Ning Chuan reflected that his staged weakness could help him kill more Heavenly Kings without revealing his full strength while he pursued benefits from Horse Road Mountain.

Ning Chuan used his Force clones and a feint to kill Qiu Yanghui while Li He fled rather than face him. After warning the arriving Heavenly Kings that the real hunt had only just begun, Ning Chuan vanished, and their search found no trace of him.

• Li He destroyed a Force clone of Ning Chuan with the Heaven-Suppressing Sword, then tried to search for the hidden Ning Chuan by attacking the surrounding area.
• Ning Chuan’s feint drew Li He and Qiu Yanghui into separate defenses, allowing Ning Chuan to appear above Qiu Yanghui and strike him with the Mountain and River Seal.
• Ning Chuan killed Qiu Yanghui with the falling seal, leaving the watching Divine Generals and Knights terrified.
• Li He fled toward the approaching Great River Realm Heavenly Kings, refusing to counterattack even after noticing Ning Chuan’s weakened aura.
• Ning Chuan took Qiu Yanghui’s soul and spatial ring, warned Li He and the other Heavenly Kings that their turn would come, and vanished into the void.
• Li He and the other Great River Realm Heavenly Kings searched the area with martial arts, but they found no trace of Ning Chuan.

Gu Yunyou received news that Ning Chuan had killed two Great River Realm Heavenly Kings and remained trapped in the northern Blood Curtain Plateau, leaving him unsure whether the Holy Heaven Alliance could stop Ning Chuan or whether to seek more Moxuan Consortium support. Venomous Sting then leaked the news, stirring both ancient life-bearing planets.

• A Divine General reported that Ning Chuan had killed Heavenly King Cangyuan and Heavenly King Yanghui, while Li He had fled, and that Ning Chuan possessed a powerful concealment Law.
• The Divine General said Ning Chuan remained badly injured and trapped in the northern Blood Curtain Plateau, prompting Gu Yunyou to order Mu Cangyuan and Qiu Yanghui to return after their soul injuries healed.
• Gu Yunyou learned that Li He had already joined the three-person Heavenly King team and wondered whether four Heavenly Kings could stop Ning Chuan.
• Gu Yunyou hesitated to ask the Moxuan Consortium for help because he feared losing his privileged position and would have to contact them through another Holy Heaven Alliance member.
• Venomous Sting sent word of Ning Chuan's latest battle, and both ancient life-bearing planets erupted over his killing of two Heavenly Kings and forcing another to flee.

After Ning Chuan killed two Great River Realm Heavenly Kings, his victory terrified the Holy Heaven Alliance and silenced its families across the Heavenly Martial Realm. Searching the fallen kings’ memories, he learned Gu Yunyou had reclaimed the clan-guarding martial arts, complicating his plan to defeat him.

• The Federation publicized Ning Chuan’s battle, and people across Martial Star and the Heavenly Martial Realm reacted with shock and celebration at his killing of Mu Cangyuan and Qiu Yanghui.
• The Holy Heaven Alliance’s Heavenly King families ordered their offspring to delete comments about Ning Chuan, while Mu Shangyun feared retaliation over his earlier post.
• Ning Chuan hid on the Blood Curtain Plateau and searched the two dead Heavenly Kings’ souls for the location of Mu Cangyuan’s incarnation.
• Ning Chuan learned that Gu Yunyou had taken and guarded the Heaven-Overturning Seal and the other clan-guarding martial arts.
• Ning Chuan realized he could not obtain the martial arts needed to strengthen himself and ambush Gu Yunyou without confronting Gu Yunyou first.

Ning Chuan considered how to obtain Gu Yunyou’s Marquis-Bestowing martial arts, then used his soul collector and sought advice from Liu Cangdong and Li Wenyue. He learned that powerful Heavenly Kings could receive guardian martial arts without enough merit and repay the shortfall later.

• Ning Chuan examined the soul collector, confirmed it recorded one Great River Realm Heavenly King, and set out to destroy four more avatars or true bodies for a complete Spirit of Law Comprehension.
• Ning Chuan reached the team accompanied by Liu Cangdong and Li Wenyue, asked about the Heaven-Overturning Seal, and learned that Gu Yunyou had taken the guardian martial arts.
• Ning Chuan instructed Liu Cangdong to leave the Blood Curtain Plateau because of his injuries and later give Gu Yunyou the Mountain and River Seal.
• Li Wenyue proposed exchanging merit for the inheritance, but he and Liu Cangdong lacked enough merit and said borrowing it would be difficult.
• Liu Cangdong explained that powerful Heavenly Kings could receive guardian martial arts before paying the full merit cost, while Li Wenyue said his available Spirit of Law Comprehension did not match his Law.

Ning Chuan planned to kill several Great River Realm Heavenly Kings and recruit one or two through the Divine Kingdom. He ambushed Xie Feng, but the other three Heavenly Kings wounded him and pursued him as he merged into the void, while Li Wenyue secretly produced a strange card.

• Ning Chuan agreed to kill Nanshan Gong, Lu Meng, and Xie Feng, then possibly recruit suitable survivors, while Li Wenyue asked to demonstrate the alliance’s need for River Realm experts.
• Ning Chuan chose Xie Feng as his first target and lured the four Heavenly Kings toward him by revealing his soul fluctuations.
• Ning Chuan struck Xie Feng with a Blazing Heavenly Sun, engulfing him in golden flames and injuring Li Wenyue and Liu Cangdong nearby.
• The other three Heavenly Kings attacked Ning Chuan together, blasting him away and leaving him severely wounded.
• Ning Chuan taunted the pursuing Heavenly Kings and began merging into the void as Nanshan Gong ordered the others to use martial attacks.
• As the Heavenly Kings unleashed attacks, Li Wenyue secretly produced a card engraved with peculiar patterns.

Ning Chuan escaped the Holy Heaven Alliance's encirclement, forcing Gu Yunyou to seek help from the Moxuan Consortium. As Gu Yunyou weighed the alliance's losses and Li Wenyue sought a Marquis-Bestowing martial art, Ning Chuan targeted three Great River Realm Heavenly Kings from afar, and Gu Yunyou suddenly sensed the danger.

• Ning Chuan faked the severity of his injuries, escaped Nanshan Gong and the other Heavenly Kings, and vanished after breaking through the encirclement to the north.
• Gu Yunyou summoned Ren Cang and secretly gave him an ancient token so he could contact the Moxuan Consortium for help.
• Liu Cangdong asked to return to the Beast Emperor Hall to recover and retrieve the Martial Seal for the Mountain and River Seal, while Li Wenyue requested a Marquis-Bestowing martial art.
• Li Wenyue sensed Nanshan Gong, Lu Meng, and Xie Feng in a room below, while Ning Chuan watched them from three thousand li away and reached into the void.
• Gu Yunyou suddenly sensed danger, opened his eyes, and shouted for everyone to run.

Ning Chuan destroyed the Holy Heaven Alliance’s central buildings with a long-range attack, killing three Heavenly Kings while Gu Yunyou could not intervene. After Li Wenyue received a Marquis-Bestowing martial art, Ning Chuan calculated how to use the rewards from his victories and began searching for more Great River Realm Heavenly Kings.

• Ning Chuan sent a blazing sun across three thousand li, annihilating the central buildings and killing Nanshan Gong, Lu Meng, and Xie Feng while gravely injuring Li Wenyue.
• Gu Yunyou confronted Ning Chuan from afar, but he could not leave his domain without giving Ning Chuan time to escape, and Ning Chuan vanished into the void.
• Li Wenyue searched the crater, reported the three Heavenly Kings’ deaths, and received a Martial Seal from Gu Yunyou to claim a Marquis-Bestowing martial art.
• Ning Chuan calculated the Spirits of Law Comprehension he could earn from his victories and recommendations, then began searching for the Holy Heaven Alliance’s Great River Realm Heavenly Kings.

Ning Chuan learned that Ren Cang had left the Blood Curtain Plateau and suspected the Holy Heaven Alliance was planning something. He subdued the injured Nanshan Gong and arranged to leave the plateau disguised among his attendants to investigate Gu Yunyou’s plans.

• Ning Chuan heard Gu Yunyou order the Holy Heaven Alliance to gather in the plateau’s central region and suspected Ren Cang’s departure was connected to the order.
• Ning Chuan caught up with the injured Nanshan Gong and rendered him unconscious despite the Spirit-Seeking Talisman failing to detect him.
• Ning Chuan searched Nanshan Gong’s memories and successfully merged a Divine Oracle Talisman into his soul, making him a subordinate of the Myriad Stars Divine Kingdom.
• Ning Chuan ordered Nanshan Gong to request treatment outside the plateau and bring attendants so Ning Chuan could hide among them.
• Nanshan Gong reached the fixed passage and met Gu Yunyou while Ning Chuan departed using the Void Law.

Ning Chuan used Nanshan Gong’s departure from the Blood Curtain Plateau to escape in disguise with Li Wenyue, then inherited the Heaven-Overturning Seal and rapidly comprehended the Third-Heaven True Realm Law. He decided to pursue the Spirits of Law Comprehension before risking a confrontation with Gu Yunyou, while anticipating the North Sea Domain’s opening in a few days.

• Nanshan Gong left the Blood Curtain Plateau with three Divine General attendants, then killed two of them after encountering Li Wenyue and Liu Cangdong, who vanished; the remaining attendant was Ning Chuan in disguise.
• Li Wenyue gave Ning Chuan the Heaven-Overturning Seal Martial Seal, which he had taken from Gu Yunyou while pretending to leave for healing.
• Ning Chuan inherited the Heaven-Overturning Seal and, through sudden enlightenment, advanced it to the third level and raised the True Realm Law to the Third Heaven.
• Ning Chuan considered returning to seize Gu Yunyou’s Marquis-Bestowing martial arts but decided to prioritize obtaining the Spirits of Law Comprehension.
• Ning Chuan anticipated that the North Sea Domain would open in a few days, bringing Martial Star experts and a bloody struggle over the Prison-Suppressing Dao Lineage.

Ning Chuan brought three Heavenly Kings to the Heavenly Weapon Secret Realm and negotiated with Horse Road Mountain’s leaders, presenting himself as a covert ally who had helped him defeat powerful enemies. Chu Longye confirmed Ning Chuan had earned a Spirit of Law Comprehension, leaving him to choose which one he wanted.

• Ning Chuan explained that the Moxuan Consortium could not send devastating weapons to Martial Star, then led Li Wenyue, Liu Cangdong, and Nanshan Gong into the Heavenly Weapon Secret Realm.
• Li Wenyue collected more than thirty drops of Divine Metal Tear before Chu Longye appeared with Mo Lan, another of Horse Road Mountain’s seven chief leaders.
• Ning Chuan told Chu Longye that Ren Cang had sought Moxuan Consortium aid and that more Great River Realm Heavenly Kings might follow, so he had quickly contacted trusted allies.
• Ning Chuan claimed he had secretly provided information and helped Ning Chuan kill Great River Realm Heavenly Kings, prompting Liu Cangdong and Nanshan Gong to stage angry objections.
• Chu Longye promised Horse Road Mountain would honor its agreement and offered Ning Chuan a Spirit of Law Comprehension for one complete Third-Grade Law, asking him to choose one.

Ning Chuan asked Chu Longye and Mo Lan about Laws that could grow from the Mystic Ice Law and Heavenly Flame Law, learning of the rare Second-Grade Ultimate Heart Law. He suspected the silver box held a path to mastering it, but Chu Longye and Mo Lan urged him to stop concealing his identity and cooperate openly.

• Ning Chuan asked Chu Longye which Laws the Mystic Ice Law and Heavenly Flame Law could advance into.
• Mo Lan explained that the Ultimate Heart Law fused five Third-Grade Laws and had eighteen foundational Laws, including the Mystic Ice Law and Heavenly Flame Law.
• Mo Lan told Chu Longye that a former Myriad Stars Divine Kingdom Demigod had used the Ultimate Heart Law to attain the King-Bestowing rank and later established his own Divine Kingdom.
• Ning Chuan suspected the silver box contained a Demigod-level path to mastering the Ultimate Heart Law, but kept his suspicions to himself while considering Lin Fengyang's consumed insights.
• After Ning Chuan asked about dozens of Laws, Chu Longye and Mo Lan told him to stop muddying the waters and cooperate openly.

Ning Chuan negotiated for Spirits of Law Comprehension from Chu Longye and proved he met the conditions for two additional ones. He then asked whether an unused basic Law’s Spirit of Law Comprehension could repair a high-grade Law’s Spirit of Law Comprehension, prompting Mo Lan to question his reason for asking.

• Ning Chuan explained that he trusted Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong because he had leverage over them, and said Horse Road Mountain’s treatment of them would reveal whether it posed a threat.
• Ning Chuan reminded Chu Longye that he was entitled to three complete Spirits of Law Comprehension and, for introducing a Great River Realm Heavenly King, ones for the Mountain Realm Law and the All Things Penetration Law.
• Chu Longye said Ning Chuan would need to fully comprehend a basic Mystic Truth to qualify for the two additional Spirits of Law Comprehension.
• Ning Chuan revealed that he had already perfected the Mountain-Bearing Mystic Truth and the Air-Striking Mystic Truth, meeting Chu Longye’s condition.
• Chu Longye agreed to send the two Spirits of Law Comprehension and their Law materials into the Heavenly Weapon Secret Realm.
• Ning Chuan asked whether an unused basic Law’s Spirit of Law Comprehension could repair a high-grade Law’s Spirit of Law Comprehension, and Mo Lan asked why he wanted to know.

Ning Chuan chose the Third-Grade Law Spirits he wanted from Horse Road Mountain and learned that two of them would take time to find. After the group’s avatars dispersed, Mo Lan insisted that they still try to control Li Wenyue’s soul because she could not trust the black-robed man’s identity.

• Ning Chuan selected Spirits of Law Comprehension for the Illusory Spirit Law, the Supreme Yin Law, and the Ultimate Yang Law, and Chu Longye agreed to send the Illusory Spirit Spirit while searching for the other two.
• Chu Longye told Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong that Horse Road Mountain would help them enter the Sea Realm, and promised Li Wenyue a Spirit of Law Comprehension for the Mountain Realm Law.
• Chu Longye and Mo Lan’s avatars dispersed after Chu Longye said he would begin transmitting the items.
• In the spatial rift, Chu Longye asked Mo Lan whether they still needed to control Li Wenyue’s soul despite the black-robed man having introduced two Great River Realm cultivators.
• Mo Lan said she could not identify the black-robed man and insisted they try to merge her soul-control seed into Li Wenyue’s soul.

Ning Chuan received a storage card and watched Li Wenyue die when the Divine Oracle Talisman inside his soul clashed with another seal. He claimed to be a Myriad Stars Divine Kingdom spy to protect Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong, then threatened Chu Longye and Mo Lan as they assessed the situation.

• Ning Chuan gave Li Wenyue the Mountain Realm Spirit of Law Comprehension and inspected the information on his storage card.
• Li Wenyue screamed as a silver Divine Oracle Talisman fought a deep blue substance inside his soul, killing him in an instant.
• Chu Longye recognized Li Wenyue as a god slave, while Mo Lan accused Ning Chuan of being one too.
• Ning Chuan secretly instructed Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong to act shocked, and they accused him of serving the Myriad Stars Divine Kingdom.
• Ning Chuan threatened Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong with the Divine Kingdom's future retaliation, then warned Chu Longye and Mo Lan not to provoke it.

Ning Chuan confronted Chu Longye and Mo Lan over Li Wenyue’s death and the exposure of his identity, then negotiated compensation from Horse Road Mountain. The chapter ended with Mo Lan asking what additional compensation he wanted.

• Chu Longye and Mo Lan explained that Li Wenyue died by accident when a Divine Oracle Talisman and Mo Lan’s soul-control seed fought for control.
• Ning Chuan accused Horse Road Mountain of causing Li Wenyue’s death and exposing his identity, then challenged them to name the crime under Divine Kingdom law.
• Chu Longye and Mo Lan were surprised to learn that Ning Chuan himself had brought Li Wenyue under control, and Mo Lan argued that Li Wenyue was not important to the Divine Kingdom.
• Mo Lan promised to keep Ning Chuan’s identity secret and confirmed that Horse Road Mountain would give Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong their promised Spirits of Law Comprehension.
• Ning Chuan insisted that he deserved the two Spirits of Law Comprehension he had previously been promised, and Mo Lan offered additional compensation and asked what he wanted.

Ning Chuan negotiated with Mo Lan and Chu Longye for compensation from Horse Road Mountain, disguising his real goal of obtaining a King-Bestowing martial art containing the Ultimate Heart Law. Horse Road Mountain agreed to provide that martial art and six Spirits of Law Comprehension, and Ning Chuan left the secret realm with Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong under his watch.

• Ning Chuan demanded a Spirit of Law Comprehension for the Ultimate Heart Law, but Chu Longye rejected the request as too costly.
• Mo Lan explained that Divine Oracle Talismans limited their bearers to the peak of the Earth Realm, and Ning Chuan insisted that this made powerful combat strength even more important.
• Mo Lan offered five or six Spirits of Law Comprehension for Third-Grade Laws, and Ning Chuan accepted six.
• Ning Chuan also demanded an offensive King-Bestowing martial art containing the Ultimate Heart Law, and Mo Lan agreed to provide one along with the six Spirits of Law Comprehension.
• Mo Lan said the Spirits would take seven to ten days and the martial art no more than a month to obtain, then she and Chu Longye dispersed their incarnations.
• Ning Chuan collected Li Wenyue's corpse and warned Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong that he would monitor all their dealings with Horse Road Mountain as they left the secret realm.

After leaving the Heavenly Weapon Secret Realm, Ning Chuan learned that Ren Cang had returned to the Blood Curtain Plateau with a device from the Moxuan Consortium that could seal the continent. He decided to return with Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong, hoping to subdue Ren Cang and secure a chance to cooperate with the consortium, while using Spirits of Law Comprehension to advance toward becoming a Heavenly King.

• Ning Chuan left the Heavenly Weapon Secret Realm with Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong, uncertain whether Horse Road Mountain would honor its promised compensation.
• Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong reported that Ren Cang had returned to the Blood Curtain Plateau with a Moxuan Consortium sealing device, freeing Gu Yunyou to act.
• Ning Chuan told Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong to heal before taking him back to the Blood Curtain Plateau.
• Ning Chuan decided to seek Ren Cang's allegiance with a Divine Oracle Talisman and pursue the Brahma Spear and Heaven-Suppressing Sword.
• Ning Chuan used a Spirit of Law Comprehension on the Illusory Spirit Law and learned that it would cultivate nearly two hundred times faster.
• Ning Chuan used his remaining Spirits of Law Comprehension on the Mountain Realm Law and All Things Penetration Law to gather insights toward condensing a Heart of Law.

Ning Chuan continued cultivating toward condensing Hearts of Law while Gu Yunyou’s Sea Realm strength stirred the Heavenly Martial Realm and intensified threats against him. At the North Sea Domain, Bai Qi and his companions resolved to force their way through the Divine Martial Stele’s passage with five ultimate weapons to get Ning Chuan off the Blood Curtain Plateau.

• Ning Chuan estimated that he could condense Hearts of Law within about a week, though he regretted becoming a Heavenly King with a Third-Grade Law and chose not to delay for greater potential.
• Several days later, Ning Chuan’s Illusory Spirit Law reached Fifth Heaven perfection and entered a bottleneck, while his Mountain Realm Law and All Things Penetration Law neared their own breakthroughs.
• News spread that Gu Yunyou was a Sea Realm Heavenly King, emboldening the Heavenly Martial Realm’s people to mock Ning Chuan and praise their alliance leader.
• Bai Qi told Wei Chen and Ye Wuchen that other powerful enemies were targeting Ning Chuan and insisted they must get him off the Blood Curtain Plateau.
• Wei Chen revealed that the Federation had brought five of its twelve ultimate weapons, and Bai Qi activated the Vast Universe Grand Mystic Shield and entered the dangerous passage.

Bai Qi escaped the North Sea Domain’s barrier after a snake-haired young man attacked him and warned that other forces were moving toward the Heavenly Martial Realm. Ning Chuan reached the Blood Curtain Plateau, tested its Black Heavenly Dragon Chains, and revealed he had no intention of leaving.

• Bai Qi emerged from the North Sea Domain barrier injured, then fled with Wei Chen and Ye Wuchen as a snake-haired young man’s sword attack devastated the area.
• The snake-haired young man said he was waiting for Ning Chuan and expected forces in the Myriad Stars Divine Kingdom to open a passage through the North Sea Domain in about a week.
• Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong reported that their injuries had healed, and Ning Chuan led them north to the Blood Curtain Plateau.
• Nanshan Gong explained that the Black Heavenly Dragon Chains allowed entry but blocked anyone trying to leave, and he demonstrated how the chains closed around him.
• Ning Chuan used the Void Law to test the chains and found that they could only vaguely sense his location before he withdrew.
• Nanshan Gong suggested that Ning Chuan leave by arranging for him to be carried out for treatment, but Ning Chuan stopped him and said he had not asked to leave.

Ning Chuan joined the Great River Realm Heavenly Kings' search party while secretly preparing to attack them. Before he could strike, his Mountain Realm Law advanced to the Spring Realm, making him a Heavenly King after only a year of cultivation.

• Nanshan Gong and Liu Cangdong joined the search party with eight other Great River Realm Heavenly Kings, following Ning Chuan's plan to bring Ren Cang under his control.
• Gu Yunyou challenged Ning Chuan to appear and fight him one on one, while the assembled Heavenly Kings discussed Ning Chuan's threat.
• Ning Chuan hid beyond the Spirit-Seeking Talisman's range and began gathering power for a Blazing Heavenly Sun without alerting the others.
• Ning Chuan's Mountain Realm Law advanced to the Spring Realm, formed a Heart of Law, and made him a Heavenly King.
• Ning Chuan watched his Force Wheel transform into a vast Force Sea and reflected that he had become a Heavenly King after just one year of cultivation.

After reaching the Heavenly King realm, Ning Chuan examined his Mountain Realm Law and Divine Weapons before ambushing the Great River Realm Heavenly Kings. He killed Mu Cangyuan and injured three others, but was badly wounded by their counterattack and fled as six Heavenly Kings pursued him.

• Ning Chuan found that becoming a Heavenly King had made the Mountain Realm Law part of him through its Heart of Law, while his Force had increased only modestly.
• Ning Chuan saw that his Mountain Realm Law had reached 81% progress in the Spring Realm and that his Mountain and River Seal Divine Weapon had grown much stronger.
• A Spirit-Seeking Talisman alerted Mu Cangyuan and the other Great River Realm Heavenly Kings, who rushed toward Ning Chuan's location.
• Ning Chuan ambushed the group and killed Mu Cangyuan with a Blazing Heavenly Sun, while the attack severely wounded Ren Cang, Liu Cangdong, and Nanshan Gong.
• Several Heavenly Kings struck Ning Chuan and badly injured him, but he fled as six pursued him while Nanshan Gong and the other two wounded Heavenly Kings stayed behind to recover.