click to show/hide spoilersIn chapter 21, Ji Ninefire & Ji Ning's group continue their attack on the He Siblings. Thanks to the Ji Clan's superior numbers and coordination, the siblings are backed into a corner and realize that if they don't go all out, the battlefield will be their grave and therefore activate forbidden arts. In exchange for sacrificing some of their
lifespan, the two receive a large power-up and their control over the magic treasures increase, allowing average Zifu Disciples, such as them, to match more powerful and experienced experts of the same levels, like Ji Ninefire and Granny Shadow.
With their power boost, the siblings are able to find off the Ji Clan's coordinated attacks and launch a counterattack. The two release many rays of "dark light" at the group, but Ji Ning blocks the attacks meant for him and his comrades using the Fire-Water Lotus and his Darknorth swords. Thanks to him, Ji Ninefire and the other two experts, all of whom are Ki refiners, are protected from life threatening injuries, while Ji Ning, himself merely walks off his injuries, before his Fiendgod body heals itself moments later.
In the face of the previous attack, the Ji Clan's Ki-refiners hesitate to engage the He Siblings in close combat because of the danger to their lives. However, Ji Ning as a Fiendgod body refiner volunteers to engage them. The two are thrilled at the aspect of killing the Ji Clan's monster and weakening them in the future and meet his attack
head on. He engages the sister, He Xing, who had already lost her protective talisman, first. The younger expert uses his superior swordsmanship and Fiendgod body to draw He Xing into an exchange of lethal blows between the two, where he is struck in the head, but survives, and she was decapitated.
He Fang watches as his little sister's head flies off in horror and comes under the mistaken impression that Ji Ning's Fiendgod body is already at the Zifu Disciple level. Now enraged, he draws upon the Zifu Violet Palace in his body, which was like an enormous lake containing endless amounts of water, and detonates it, hoping to catch Ji Ning and other Ji Clan members in the destructive wave of ki that he unleashed. Ji Ning senses something amiss, and using his Windwing Evasion technique in attempt to flee while warning the other members of his clan.
In Chapter 22, Ji Ning survives, having fled from the ki wave's epicenter, and was flung a distance away and smashed into the ground by the wave, resulting in a huge crater and his wing type magic treasures being destroyed. Ji Ning's fellow clansmen/woman rush to Ji Ning's location to see if he is alive. Ji Ning emerges from
the crater after answering Ninefire's call, his body already healing the horrible damage from the blast and shortly after leaving no traces of the injuries.
After a quick explanation on the nature and importance of a Zifu Disciple's Zifu Lake, the story turns to Dong Ziqi and Muse for a moment. Muse is still expanding the vines from his technique to locate the others and escape and has unknowing come close to locating Ju San, who should be engaging his father and Ji Truekeep. After hearing He Fang's death throws, Dong Ziqi roars that he will annihilate the Ji Clan. Ninefire calls Dong Ziqi a coward and points out that Dong Ziqi had intended to annihilate them anyway since Ji Ninefire refused to hand over the official writ.
Ji Ninefire prepares the others to engage Dong Ziqi and Muse, but has Ji Ning hold back, as he has another task for him. As the creator of the bewildering formation, he is aware that Muse is close to locating Ju San with his technique, so he orders Ji Ning to rush over to his father and Ji Truekeep and help them kill Ju San before Muse
can locate him.
Ji Ning locates his father's group and Ju San, witnessing Ji Ishwin and Ji Truekeep striking the later from afar. Ji Ning reveals, through his thoughts, how it is strange how that he has never seen his father use any magic treasures, and wonders if he is a Zifu Disciple. He remembers the words Ji Ninefire had spoken that led to Ji Ning
assuming his father was a Zifu Disciple, then recalls how, during the Serpentwing Incident, Ji Ishwin had to ask Lady flower for a ride, using her Azure Firebird, to pursue the snake and becomes bewildered even further. Since his father has refused to answer him when asked about the inconsistency, he decides to ask Ji Ninefire after they have dealt with Dong Ziqi and the others.
Ju San, being a Fiendgod body refiner and a practioner of the [Mighty Demon Introductory] body refining technique was able to hold his own against the two Ji Clan members' long range attacks when Ji Ning arrived. Ji Ning announces his arrival and, using a new winged magic treasure, engages Ju San in close combat, much to
Snowdragon Mountain warrior's delight, as he preferred (close combat) and tired of being relentlessly beaten down from a distance.
Besides being a Fiendgod body refiner, Ju San wields a greataxe and has spent over a century of his efforts to develop his (CC) skills, and while he is also Zifu ki refiner as well, he did not expend much effort in learning how to ride magic treasures. That did not stop him from using a wing type, ranked magic treasure, which caught Ji Ning's interest, to engage the young Ji Clan member.
The two closed in on one another and began their (CC) battle in earnest, tearing apart the landscape in the wake of their attacks. While Ji Ning was impressed with Ju San's axe wielding, he was still able to land numerous blows against the Zifu Disciple, with his ability to divide his mind allowing him to wield each of his two Darknorth swords with a different swordplay technique. Ju San on the other hand, had only wounded Ji Ning twice, and only then because the younger expert had willingly accepted the blows to strike his opponent in exchange. Ju San realized that he was at a disadvantage.
Ji Ning refused to relent, upping the intensity of his attacks, hoping to force Ju San to reveal more flaws in his defense. Ji Ning's assault increased in speed as well, throwing Ju San's movements into disorder and giving Ji Ning the opening he needed to strike a decisive blow. Ju San was now unable to keep up, and Ji Ning bisected him at his waist, then unleashed his Thunderflash Flintx3 on further cutting up Ju San, as his head roared that it would the damage Ji Ning inflicted wouldn't be enough to kill him. Ji Ning agreed, and before Ju San's Fiendgod body could repair itself, he summoned his Fire-Water Lotus to grind the down what remained of Ju San until he was no more.
Ji Iswin and Ji Truekeep stood some distance from where Ji Ning ended up after he ended the ended the battle with Ju San. Staring with looks of shock and disbelief, as Ji Ning happily gathered the belongings of the defeated. Ji Ning then turned to the two men and suggested that they hurry over to the Patriarch so that they could aid his group in killing Dong Ziqi and Muse.