Chapter Summaries

Jiang Bei discovered that Long Wenxue was being mistreated despite Long Feng’s assurances, healed her injuries, and grew suspicious of the Vast Void Dragon Clan’s hospitality. The chapter ended with him examining the Nine Dragon Flower Pill the clan had sent and deciding to uncover what was hidden in it.

• Long Feng sent Long Wenxue to the Sacred Doctor Hall for treatment, but she recoiled when he tried to comfort her, making Jiang Bei wary.
• After reaching Qingfeng Residence, Jiang Bei sensed Long Wenxue crying by a stream and found her injuries had worsened because the two disciples had assaulted her again.
• Jiang Bei healed Long Wenxue, who explained that the Sacred Doctor Hall had refused to treat her, then he left her by the stream.
• The next morning, a disciple delivered the Nine Dragon Flower Pill on Long Feng’s instructions, and Jiang Bei accepted it.
• Jiang Bei recalled the clan’s treatment of Long Ting and Long Wenxue, suspected the clan’s motives, and resolved to investigate the pill before taking it.

Jiang Bei discovered that the Nine Dragon Flower Pill contained a slow-acting poison and realized the Vast Void Dragon Clan had sealed every escape route. He agreed to display the Vast Void Origin at the Grand Competition in six days while concealing his suspicions.

• Jiang Bei fed a piece of the Nine Dragon Flower Pill to a field mouse, which grew stronger and raced away, then sensed poison in the pill when his Spirit Marrow Sacred Body activated.
• Jiang Bei suspected the Vast Void Dragon Clan meant to control or weaken him and found the valley’s exits and skies heavily guarded.
• Young members of the Vast Void Dragon Clan recognized Jiang Bei as the bearer of the Vast Void Origin and asked to see its power, but he declined.
• Long Feng and Long Angyang asked Jiang Bei to demonstrate the Origin at the Vast Void Grand Competition in six days and open the Dragon Void Secret Realm for the top three.
• Jiang Bei agreed to their request while inwardly remaining wary.

Jiang Bei, trapped in the Vast Void Dragon Clan with only six days before the Vast Void Grand Competition, followed Long Wenxue to her imprisoned grandfather. He discovered that the chained elder was Long Zhenhai, the clan’s supposedly deceased former Clan Leader, who recognized the Vast Void Origin within him.

• Long Feng and Long Angyang urged Jiang Bei to recover after delivering the Nine Dragon Flower Pill, and Jiang Bei suspected they were scheming to use him at the Vast Void Grand Competition.
• Jiang Bei concluded he had only six days to escape the guarded valley before the competition and could not fight his way out.
• Long Wenxue begged Jiang Bei to save her grandfather, saying he had warned that the Vast Void Origin must not fall into certain people’s hands.
• Jiang Bei agreed to visit Long Wenxue’s grandfather, and she led him through a hidden entrance into an underground karst cave.
• Jiang Bei found Long Zhenhai chained and gravely weakened; Long Zhenhai recognized the Vast Void Origin, and Jiang Bei realized he was the supposedly deceased former Clan Leader.

Jiang Bei learned from Long Zhenhai that Long Hanhai had imprisoned him and was plotting to steal Jiang Bei’s Origin at the Vast Void Grand Competition. Long Zhenhai revealed that the scheme was meant to open the Dragon Void Secret Realm and claim the Vast Void Heavenly Blade, a Primordial Treasure.

• Jiang Bei discovered that Long Zhenhai was Long Wenxue’s grandfather and heard how Long Hanhai and his allies had faked his death and imprisoned him with Dragon Restraining Chains.
• Long Zhenhai explained that Long Hanhai had smeared his name and allowed Long Wenxue to be bullied to erase their support within the clan.
• Long Zhenhai revealed that opening the Dragon Void Secret Realm required both Jiang Bei’s Origin and the missing essence blood.
• Long Zhenhai warned that Long Hanhai planned to use the Dragon Seizing Heavenly Art on the Ascending Dragon Platform during the Vast Void Grand Competition to strip Jiang Bei’s Origin and frame him.
• Long Zhenhai disclosed that the secret realm held the Vast Void Heavenly Blade, a Primordial Treasure that could suppress dragon bloodlines.

Jiang Bei accepted Long Zhenhai’s Origin Essence Blood and cultivated the Pure Blood Vast Void Divine Dragon Body. He rejected the chance to flee with Long Wenxue alone and resolved to attempt entering the Vast Void secret realm to obtain the Heavenly Blade and rescue Long Zhenhai.

• Long Zhenhai asked Jiang Bei to take Long Wenxue with him if he found a way to escape, and Jiang Bei promised he would.
• Long Zhenhai gave Jiang Bei his hidden Origin Essence Blood, and Jiang Bei absorbed it to complete his Pure Blood Vast Void Divine Dragon Body.
• Jiang Bei asked how to free Long Zhenhai from the Dragon Restraining Chains, and Long Zhenhai said they could be severed with the key or the Vast Void Heavenly Blade.
• Long Zhenhai warned Jiang Bei that Long Hanhai’s restriction made the secret realm dangerous and that the Heavenly Blade might not submit to him.
• Jiang Bei refused to abandon Long Zhenhai and said he would try to enter the secret realm despite the danger.

Jiang Bei discovered that Long Hanhai had poisoned the Nine Dragon Flower Pill with Six Harmonies Frost Poison and investigated the heavily guarded approach to the Vast Void Secret Realm. Four days later, Long Ting visited and offered Jiang Bei a place in the secret realm after the Vast Void Grand Competition, while asking him to display the Vast Void Divine Dragon Body during the event.

• Long Zhenhai identified Six Harmonies Frost Poison in Jiang Bei’s Nine Dragon Flower Pill and explained that it would suppress Jiang Bei’s spiritual power before the Dragon Seizing Heavenly Art.
• Jiang Bei learned where the Vast Void Secret Realm was and found a forbidden formation and hundreds of patrolmen guarding the area, so he left a Perfect Clone to watch for an opening.
• Jiang Bei returned to Clear Water Residence and waited as Long Hanhai’s side made no further moves and the secret realm’s patrols remained in place.
• Four days later, Long Ting visited Jiang Bei and said the clan would grant him a place in the Vast Void Secret Realm after the competition.
• Long Ting asked Jiang Bei to display the Vast Void Divine Dragon Body and its origin during the Vast Void Grand Competition, and Jiang Bei agreed to accept the place.

Jiang Bei tricked Long Ting into believing the Nine Dragon Flower Pill had crippled his spiritual power, while the Vast Void Dragon Clan prepared to seize the origin source and trap him. After the patrols withdrew, Jiang Bei used Demon Shadow Divine Breath to slip through the restriction and reached the entrance to the Vast Void Secret Realm.

• Long Ting sparred with Jiang Bei, then told him his sluggish spiritual power was a normal effect of the Nine Dragon Flower Pill.
• Long Ting reported to Long Hanhai and Long Feng that Jiang Bei had believed the deception, and Long Hanhai ordered the patrols withdrawn and the secret realm’s exit guarded.
• Jiang Bei revealed that he had faked weakness to exploit the Six Harmonies Frost Poison and wondered how to get past the increased patrols.
• Jiang Bei noticed through his Perfect Clone that the patrols had left the restriction and hurried toward the Vast Void Secret Realm.
• Jiang Bei concealed his aura with Demon Shadow Divine Breath, passed through the unreactive restriction, and reached the ancient stone gate leading to the secret realm.

Jiang Bei entered the Vast Void Secret Realm and obtained the Vast Void Heavenly Blade by using the Ten Thousand Mothers Cauldron to suppress its resistance. He returned to Long Zhenhai, who urged him to flee with Wen Xue, and Jiang Bei prepared to show him what he had secured.

• Jiang Bei opened the Vast Void Secret Realm with his Vast Void Divine Dragon Body and found the Vast Void Heavenly Blade on an altar.
• The Vast Void Heavenly Blade repelled Jiang Bei and suppressed his dragon body when he tried to take it.
• Jiang Bei used the Ten Thousand Mothers Cauldron to suppress the blade, seized it, and stored it in his Cosmic Bag.
• Jiang Bei left the secret realm and returned to Long Zhenhai, who urged him to take the essence blood and Origin Power and escape with Wen Xue.
• Jiang Bei told Long Zhenhai that he had not failed his trust and asked him to look at what he had brought back.

Jiang Bei showed Long Zhenhai that he had recovered the Vast Void Heavenly Blade, and they agreed to wait until the Vast Void Grand Competition to expose Long Hanhai before the clan. Two days later, the competition began, with Jiang Bei watching as the contestants drew lots for their first-round opponents.

• Jiang Bei gave Long Zhenhai the Vast Void Heavenly Blade, which Long Zhenhai recognized as the lost token of their Lineage.
• Jiang Bei and Long Zhenhai decided not to break the Dragon Restraining Chain until the competition, planning to reveal Long Hanhai's wrongdoing before the clansmen.
• Two days later, Jiang Bei joined Long Ting at the Ascending Dragon Platform, where the clan gathered for the Vast Void Grand Competition.
• Long Hanhai arrived and took his seat as the steward announced that the top three contestants could enter the Vast Void secret realm.
• The steward declared the competition open, and the contestants began drawing lots while Jiang Bei watched, knowing the plan's success depended on what happened next.

During the Vast Void Grand Competition, Jiang Bei was pressured to reveal the power of the returned Vast Void Origin, then trapped when Long Hanhai and the elders exposed their hostility. Long Feng accused Jiang Bei of being a Tiannan spy who had stolen the Origin and plotted to seize the clan’s Divine Blood and Heavenly Blade.

• The Vast Void Grand Competition ended with Long Yingjue in first place, Long Qingyi in second, and Long Poyue in third.
• Long Hanhai and the elders urged Jiang Bei to demonstrate the Vast Void Origin, dismissing his warning that the Nine Dragon Flower Pill had slowed his spiritual energy.
• Jiang Bei unleashed his Vast Void Divine Dragon Body on the Ascending Dragon Platform, revealing a pure Origin aura to the gathered clansmen.
• Long Hanhai, Long Feng, Long Ting, and several elders activated the Dragon Seizing Heavenly Art and trapped Jiang Bei beneath a dark crimson net.
• Long Feng declared Jiang Bei a Tiannan spy and accused him of ambushing Long Ting, stealing and refining the Vast Void Origin, planting Slave Gu, and plotting to take the Vast Void Divine Blood and Vast Void Heavenly Blade.
• The clansmen, shocked by Long Feng’s accusations, turned from admiration to anger and hatred toward Jiang Bei.

Jiang Bei exposed contradictions in Long Hanhai’s claim to the Vast Void Heavenly Blade, then shattered the Dragon Seizing Heavenly Art by revealing his Pure Blood Vast Void Divine Dragon Body. The chapter ended as Long Wenxue brought forth a frail old man who accused Long Hanhai of murdering his brother, imprisoning the Clan Leader, and seizing power.

• Long Feng and Long Ting convinced the clan members that Jiang Bei had stolen their Origin Power and that the Dragon Seizing Heavenly Art was a trap to reclaim it.
• Jiang Bei questioned Long Hanhai’s claim that Long Zhenhai had entrusted him with the Vast Void Heavenly Blade, pointing out that the original blade had been sealed inside an inaccessible secret realm.
• Long Hanhai activated the Dragon Seizing Heavenly Art, but Jiang Bei revealed his Pure Blood Vast Void Divine Dragon Body and shattered the formation.
• Long Hanhai demanded to know who had given Jiang Bei the divine blood, and an old man declared that he had given it to him.
• Long Wenxue supported the old man onto the Ascending Dragon Platform, where he revealed himself and accused Long Hanhai of murdering his brother, imprisoning the Clan Leader, and usurping power.

Long Zhenhai appeared before the Vast Void Dragon Clan and revealed that Long Hanhai had imprisoned and tortured him for hundreds of years. After Long Hanhai ordered Long Feng and Long Ting to kill him, Jiang Bei blocked their attack and stunned Long Ting with his strength.

• Long Zhenhai reunited with his old clansmen and accused Long Hanhai, Long Feng, and Long Ting of imprisoning him and fabricating his supposed death.
• Long Zhenhai showed the Dragon Restraining Chains and the scars on his arms, convincing many clansmen that he was the real Old Clan Leader.
• Long Hanhai rejected Long Zhenhai's accusations, called him an impostor, and ordered Long Feng and Long Ting to kill him.
• Jiang Bei stepped in front of Long Feng and Long Ting, challenging them as they moved to attack Long Zhenhai.
• Jiang Bei met Long Ting's claw strike with a punch, and Long Ting was shocked when he could not overpower Jiang Bei.

Jiang Bei revealed the true Vast Void Heavenly Blade and used its bloodline-suppressing power to defeat Long Hanhai’s elders and expose the clan leader’s years of deception. He then faced Long Hanhai’s overwhelming attack and severed his arm, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Jiang Bei fought Long Feng and Long Ting while Long Hanhai ordered the elders to attack, then rose into the air to draw their assault away from the clansmen.
• Jiang Bei unleashed the true Vast Void Heavenly Blade, suppressing the Vast Void Dragon Clan’s bloodline and revealing that Long Hanhai’s blade was fake.
• Jiang Bei’s single slash killed or gravely wounded the elders, and the clansmen turned against Long Hanhai after learning he had deceived them and usurped the old clan leader.
• Long Hanhai unleashed a powerful dragon-claw attack, but Jiang Bei’s blade suppressed his black dragon phantom and weakened him.
• Jiang Bei struck Long Hanhai with a final slash, severing his arm and sending him crashing toward the ruins of the Ascending Dragon Platform.

Jiang Bei killed Long Hanhai and his followers, ending their rule over the Vast Void Dragon Clan. Long Zhenhai resumed leadership, offered Jiang Bei the Vast Void Heavenly Blade and the position of Supreme Elder, and pledged the clan's support as Jiang Bei prepared to return to Tiannan to face Gao Wanfeng.

• Jiang Bei killed Long Hanhai at Long Zhenhai's command, then beheaded Long Ting and Long Feng as well.
• Long Zhenhai's clansmen urged him to resume leadership, and he accepted the position of Clan Leader.
• Jiang Bei offered the Vast Void Heavenly Blade back to Long Zhenhai, but Long Zhenhai told him to keep it and asked him to become Supreme Elder.
• Jiang Bei refused to stay because Gao Wanfeng threatened his friends and brothers on the Tiannan Continent.
• Long Zhenhai promised that the Vast Void Dragon Clan would stand with Jiang Bei and ensure he would not face Gao Wanfeng alone.

Long Zhenhai restored the Vast Void Dragon Clan and named Jiang Bei its Supreme Elder, while Jiang Bei broke through to Minor Refinement Ancient Immortal. Scouts then reported that Gao Wanfeng and Pei Chenyuan had captured Jiang Bei’s friends and were holding them in a heavily guarded military camp, where they appeared to be waiting for him.

• Long Zhenhai sent scouts to investigate Tiannan, purged Long Hanhai’s former followers, reinstated his imprisoned allies, and began rebuilding the Vast Void Dragon Clan.
• Long Zhenhai named Jiang Bei Supreme Elder, and the clan’s members bowed to him in gratitude.
• Jiang Bei spent merit points to upgrade the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Scripture and broke through from Major Refinement Saint Immortal to Minor Refinement Ancient Immortal.
• Five days later, scouts told Jiang Bei that Gao Wanfeng and Pei Chenyuan had found the Spatial Vortex and captured all the friends sheltered there.
• The scouts reported that the captives were in the main military camp, guarded by three generals and the Grand Marshal, while Gao Wanfeng and Pei Chenyuan waited for Jiang Bei to come.
• Jiang Bei gripped the Vast Void Heavenly Blade and vowed to meet the trap with icy resolve.

Jiang Bei resolved to return to Tiannan and rescue the imprisoned Tianyao Alliance members, despite the trap awaiting him. Long Zhenhai and the Vast Void Dragon Clan vowed to join the expedition, and Jiang Bei revealed the Ten Thousand Mothers Cauldron as a possible way to restore Long Zhenhai’s strength.

• Jiang Bei insisted he would return to Tiannan to save the Tianyao Alliance members trapped at the Fengxian Sacred Dynasty’s general headquarters.
• Long Zhenhai promised the Vast Void Dragon Clan could shelter the rescued people, while Long Cheng warned that extracting over a thousand prisoners would be difficult.
• Jiang Bei prepared to face the danger alone, but Long Zhenhai refused to let him go without the clan’s help.
• Long Zhenhai ordered Long Cheng and the other Elders to muster the clan’s forces and prepare to march for Tiannan the next day.
• Long Zhenhai explained that he was slowly purging the Dragon Restraining Chains’ poison and would force out some Ancient Immortal Realm strength for the expedition.
• Jiang Bei remembered the Ten Thousand Mothers Cauldron’s purifying power and summoned it, prompting Long Zhenhai to recognize the Primordial Treasure.

Jiang Bei used the Ten Thousand Mothers Cauldron to remove some of the Dragon Restraining Chain poison from Long Zhenhai, then learned that a stronger purification required the Eternal Stone. While reading Long Zhenhai’s ancient treasure book, Jiang Bei discovered the stone was already in his possession, leaving him able to unlock the cauldron’s greater power and help Long Zhenhai recover.

• Jiang Bei activated the Ten Thousand Mothers Cauldron, and its Origin Purification removed thirty to forty percent of the poison from Long Zhenhai.
• Long Zhenhai explained that the cauldron’s strongest purification required unlocking its power of slaughter, which needed the Eternal Stone.
• Jiang Bei read Long Zhenhai’s ancient book and learned about the Vast Void Heavenly Blade and the cauldron’s three powers.
• Jiang Bei found the Eternal Stone’s illustration and recognized it as the azure-blue gemstone he had taken from a cave dwelling in the Ten Thousand Mothers Relic.
• Jiang Bei realized the Eternal Stone had been in his Cosmic Bag all along and that he could now activate the cauldron’s power of slaughter.

Jiang Bei activated the Ten Thousand Mothers Cauldron’s power of slaughter and used it to purge Long Zhenhai’s remaining poison, restoring him to Supreme Immortal strength. With Long Zhenhai leading more than a thousand Vast Void Dragon Clan warriors, Jiang Bei set out for Tiannan to rescue the imprisoned Tianyao Alliance members and confront their enemies.

• Jiang Bei used the Eternal Stone to fully activate the Ten Thousand Mothers Cauldron’s power of slaughter.
• Jiang Bei purified the Dragon Restraining Chain’s poison from Long Zhenhai, who recovered his peak strength above the Ancient Immortal Realm.
• Jiang Bei tested the cauldron’s destructive power by annihilating a valley, then resolved to face Pei Chenyuan, Gao Wanfeng, and the Grand Marshal.
• Long Zhenhai rallied more than a thousand Vast Void Dragon Clan warriors to rescue Jiang Bei’s imprisoned allies and march on Tiannan.
• Long Zhenhai and Jiang Bei entered the Spatial Vortex toward Tiannan, followed by Long Cheng and the dragon warriors.

Jiang Bei returned to the Ten Thousand Mothers Relic with Long Zhenhai and the Vast Void Dragon Clan, while Gao Wanfeng and Pei Chenyuan plotted to visit the main army camp. Gao Wanfeng revealed that he intended to seize the Vast Void Heavenly Blade, and both groups headed toward the camp.

• Jiang Bei discovered that his pure-blooded Vast Void Divine Dragon Body let him cross the spatial passage without protection, and he arrived at the Ten Thousand Mothers Relic with the Vast Void Dragon Clan.
• Long Zhenhai killed four scouts Gao Wanfeng had stationed at the ruins, then led Jiang Bei and the others toward the main army camp.
• Pei Chenyuan confronted Gao Wanfeng over the lack of news about Jiang Bei and complained that he could not retrieve the Ten Thousand Mothers Cauldron while Jiang Bei remained in the Canglan Realm.
• Xuan Jingchi warned that Jiang Bei might enlist the Vast Void Dragon Clan against them, while Pei Chenyuan and Gao Wanfeng discussed the danger of the clan obtaining the cauldron.
• Gao Wanfeng revealed that he planned to seize the Vast Void Heavenly Blade, then set out with Pei Chenyuan, Xuan Jingchi, and Xuan Shan for the main army camp.
• Pei Chenyuan planned to use the imprisoned Tianyao Alliance members as leverage against Jiang Bei if he returned, as the main army camp stood more than ten thousand miles outside Holy City.

Yuan Fan prepared to use the imprisoned Tianyao Alliance members and his Heavenly General Tiger to bait Jiang Bei into coming to General Headquarters. He brought the captives onto the drill ground for a public display, where Gu Cangsheng denounced him and demanded that he release the others.

• Bai Duanyue, Wu Zhenhai, and Shen Ling reported that Jiang Bei had not appeared, but Yuan Fan revealed that Vast Void Dragon Clan spies had recently scouted General Headquarters.
• Yuan Fan ordered Gu Cangsheng and other Tianyao Alliance leaders brought out, then had Wu Zhenhai fetch the Heavenly General Tiger for his amusement.
• Gao Wanfeng arrived with Pei Chenyuan, Xuan Jingchi, and Xuan Shan and took seats to watch Yuan Fan's display.
• Wu Zhenhai dragged the roaring Heavenly General Tiger onto the drill ground as soldiers brought out Gu Cangsheng, Wen Shiqing, Zhou Yunnan, Pei Xiu, and Qin Tianhong in shackles.
• Gu Cangsheng confronted Yuan Fan, accused him of using the prisoners to lure Jiang Bei, and demanded that he release the Tianyao Alliance members.