Chapter Summaries

Xiao Heng explained that Yun Yun could refine the vast Dou Qi left by the old Sect Master, then carefully tore open its seal so she could absorb it faster. With Yun Yun beginning her cultivation, Xiao Heng left her to train while preparing to depart the Flower Sect and draw his enemies away.

• Xiao Heng told Yun Yun that the old Sect Master's Dou Qi could eventually raise her to Eight Star Dou Zun and offered to loosen its seal.
• Xiao Heng explained that his enemies in the Central Continent made it safer for him to return to Starfall Pavilion, and Yun Yun urged him to help her open the seal.
• Xiao Heng used Sword Intent inside Yun Yun's qi sea to pierce the pale green energy sphere and open a small hole in the seal.
• Yun Yun thanked Xiao Heng with a kiss, then sent him out of the cabin so she could cultivate.

Xiao Heng cultivated the low-grade Heavenly Rank Combat Skill Horizon Line, learning its origin and experiencing the Sea-Heaven Sage's technique. After successfully unleashing it, he cut open space and rapidly replenished part of the Dou Qi he had spent.

• Xiao Heng selected Horizon Line from the Heavenly Rank Combat Skills in his Sea of Consciousness and absorbed its energy, which tempered his body and opened the meridians needed to use it.
• Xiao Heng experienced a vision of the Sea-Heaven Sage demonstrating how to divide the sea and sky with a single line, then recalled the technique and its artistic conception.
• Xiao Heng practiced Horizon Line with his sword hundreds of times in his mind before gathering Dou Qi and the blue-white force into the blade.
• Xiao Heng unleashed Horizon Line, cutting open space a thousand meters away and destroying his refined iron longsword in the process.
• Xiao Heng descended to a mountain peak and drew in nearby Dou Qi, replenishing one-third of what he had spent.

Xiao Heng secured an alliance between the Flower Sect and Starfall Pavilion, then left with Qing Lin after a month at the sect. On the road, a former Flower Sect rival ambushed them with the Seventh Heavenly Venerable, and Xiao Heng prepared to fight him.

• Xiao Heng discussed an alliance with the Great Elder, and the Flower Sect agreed to negotiate its details with Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Heng spent over a month at the Flower Sect, exchanged skills and pills for resources, gave Yun Yun half his pills, and departed with Qing Lin.
• Xiao Heng and Qing Lin flew away on the Nine Netherworld Python, and Xiao Heng praised Qing Lin's three green forehead dots.
• A woman in brocade robes blocked their way and blamed Xiao Heng for her lost position and lover before summoning the Seventh Heavenly Venerable.
• Xiao Heng told Qing Lin to hold off the woman and flee if necessary, then faced the Seventh Heavenly Venerable and considered testing a Heavenly Rank Combat Skill.

Xiao Heng fought the Seventh Heavenly Venerable, proving his strength could match a Nine Star Dou Zun before trapping him in two powerful formations. Qing Lin continued battling the woman in brocade robes, and the clash remained unresolved.

• The Seventh Heavenly Venerable demanded that Xiao Heng seal his Dou Qi, but Xiao Heng refused and summoned his golden sword.
• Xiao Heng and the Seventh Heavenly Venerable exchanged attacks, and Xiao Heng matched the Nine Star Dou Zun's strength in a direct punch.
• Xiao Heng attacked with the Four Symbols Sword Art and Five Rounds Blazing Fire Method, enclosing the Seventh Heavenly Venerable in two formations.
• The woman in brocade robes taunted Qing Lin, but Qing Lin kept fighting and sent her ancient Tian She after the woman.

Qing Lin and her two Eighth-Rank Demonic Beasts fought the brocade-robed woman while Xiao Heng battled Seventh Heavenly Venerable inside a crimson formation. After both fights left their opponents badly injured, Xiao Heng activated his bloodline power and cut Seventh Heavenly Venerable down with a devastating sword strike.

• The brocade-robed woman’s Hundred Flowers Burial injured the ancient Tian She, but the two Eighth-Rank Demonic Beasts struck her and Qing Lin froze her with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils before landing a heavy blow.
• Xiao Heng’s formation cracked Seventh Heavenly Venerable’s armor, but the elder shattered it and hit Xiao Heng with Earth Collapse Poro Fist as the formation unleashed its final explosion.
• Seventh Heavenly Venerable reappeared badly wounded and prepared another Earth Collapse Poro Fist, while Xiao Heng summoned his sword and concealed his activated bloodline power.
• Xiao Heng’s strength rose to the level of a Nine Star Dou Zun, and his Sea and Sky, One Line sword strike split the fist print and cut through Seventh Heavenly Venerable’s neck.

Xiao Heng defeated Ninth Heavenly Venerable and the brocade-clad woman, then prepared to leave the ruined battlefield with Qing Lin. Hei Qing arrived and told him Zi Yan had encountered trouble and needed his help, so they traveled together toward the Ancient Void Dragon clan.

• Xiao Heng killed Ninth Heavenly Venerable with a Heavenly Rank Combat Skill and finished off the fleeing brocade-clad woman.
• Qing Lin checked on Xiao Heng, took his medicinal pills, and grew embarrassed when she realized how intimate her actions had been.
• Xiao Heng collected the enemies’ remains and belongings, then prepared to leave with Qing Lin and send a message back to Starfall Pavilion.
• Hei Qing emerged from the void and told Xiao Heng that Zi Yan had encountered trouble and needed his help.
• Xiao Heng and Qing Lin joined Hei Qing in a Space Passage, where Hei Qing praised Xiao Heng’s control over space.

Xiao Heng and Qing Lin traveled with Hei Qing to Ancient Dragon Island, where Elder Zhu Li explained that Zi Yan had consumed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and could not refine its immense power. The chapter left Xiao Heng ready to help her as he learned how the fruit’s energy had materialized.

• Xiao Heng told Hei Qing that his Ancient Void Dragon aura came from a fortunate coincidence, not his ancestry.
• Xiao Heng, Qing Lin, and Hei Qing traveled through a Space Passage and arrived at Ancient Dragon Island, hidden within the void.
• Hei Qing brought Xiao Heng and Qing Lin to the central mountain, where they met the Third Elder, Zhu Li.
• Zhu Li recognized Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and the Ancient Heavenly Snake soul within her.
• Xiao Heng asked what had happened to Zi Yan, and Zhu Li explained that she could not refine the immense power of the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit.

Xiao Heng learned that Zi Yan had been sealed inside purple-gold crystals by energy solidification and agreed to use his Heavenly Flames to help her absorb the power and mature faster. The Third Elder then explained that Gu Yue had disappeared after entering a lightning pool, leaving Xiao Heng concerned but reassured that she was still alive.

• The Third Elder took Xiao Heng to the rear mountain altar, where Xiao Heng found Zi Yan encased in purple-gold crystals.
• Xiao Heng melted a piece of Zi Yan's crystal with his Dou Qi and discovered that the energy strengthened his Golden Core's little golden dragon.
• The Third Elder explained that East Dragon Island needed Zi Yan to mature before the next gathering of the four islands, and Xiao Heng agreed to use his Heavenly Flames on the crystals.
• Xiao Heng corrected the Third Elder's assumption that he was related by blood to the Xiao Clan and then asked what had happened to Gu Yue.
• The Third Elder said Gu Yue had entered a lightning pool to cultivate and gone too deep to return, and Xiao Heng insisted that she was still alive.

Xiao Heng learned that Gu Yue was alive in the Thunder Pool, then began refining the energy crystal encasing Zi Yan in a volcano on Ancient Dragon Island. As the Ancient Void Dragons guarded the site, the crystal started melting without harming Zi Yan, though East Dragon Island's future depended on the procedure succeeding.

• Xiao Heng reassured the Third Elder that Gu Yue was alive, though her condition was strange, and declined to explore the island while Zi Yan's problem remained unresolved.
• After two days, the Third Elder led Xiao Heng to a volcano where Zi Yan rested inside a jade cauldron and gave him five drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood.
• Xiao Heng summoned the Extreme Star Flowing Light Flame and used his Heaven Tier Soul Power to heat the cauldron and carefully melt the crystal surrounding Zi Yan.
• The crystal liquefied inside the cauldron, preserving its dense energy for Zi Yan to absorb after she recovered.
• The Third Elder and another old man discussed Xiao Heng's unusual Dragon Clan origin and worried that East Dragon Island might not withstand the other three islands if the refining failed.

Xiao Heng continued melting the energy crystals inside Zi Yan, restoring her aura while East Dragon Island’s elders hoped she would become their king-class Ancient Dragon. With Zi Yan close to recovery, Xia Ao led a large force from West Dragon Island and South Dragon Island to East Dragon Island, claiming he had come to take their new king for a visit.

• Xiao Heng spent twelve days melting the crystals covering Zi Yan, then carefully began removing those inside her body.
• After twenty-three days, more than half the internal crystals had melted, Zi Yan’s aura had begun to recover, and Xiao Heng continued using Eighth-grade Pills to replenish his strength.
• Third Elder and another elder discussed trading Ancient Dragon Essence Blood for Xiao Heng’s pills after seeing him consume an Eighth-grade Pill.
• After a month, with less than one-tenth of Zi Yan’s crystals remaining, more than two hundred figures from West Dragon Island and South Dragon Island arrived outside East Dragon Island’s barrier.
• Elder Qi You confronted Xia Ao, who claimed he was acting under orders to invite East Dragon Island’s new king and disparaged East Dragon Island.

The three other Dragon Islands attacked East Dragon Island to seize Xiao Heng, forcing Zhu Li and Hei Qing to defend him while he melted the final energy crystal for Zi Yan. As the battle worsened, Qing Yan arrived at the volcano and assessed Zi Yan inside the cauldron.

• Xia Ao and Man Yan ordered the Dragon Armor Army and Savage Dragon Army to attack East Dragon Island and capture the bearer of the Royal Jade Bloodline.
• Zhu Li confronted the invaders, while Hei Qing returned to protect Xiao Heng as the fighting spread across the island.
• Zhu Li and Man Yan exchanged blows, and Man Yan realized Zhu Li had advanced to Half-Saint; Qing Yan then arrived with reinforcements from North Dragon Island.
• Xia Sha attacked Hei Qing near the volcano, while Xiao Heng continued melting the last piece of energy crystal at Zi Yan's heart.
• Qing Yan reached the volcano, saw Zi Yan in the cauldron, and remarked on the strength of her Royal Jade Bloodline.

Xiao Heng killed the Half-Saint Qing Yan with his sword, then collapsed from exhaustion as Zi Yan awakened as the Dragon Emperor. The rival islands fled, leaving Zhu Li to handle East Dragon Island while Zi Yan carried Xiao Heng away.

• Qing Yan struck at Xiao Heng, but Xiao Heng unleashed Sword Raising to Sever Heaven and cut the Half-Saint in two.
• Xiao Heng collapsed after exhausting his Dou Qi and Soul Power, and Zi Yan caught him as her Dragon Emperor aura erupted.
• Hei Qing and the Ancient Void Dragons of East Dragon Island knelt and welcomed Zi Yan as their Dragon Emperor.
• Man Yan led the North, South, and West Dragon Island forces away after Zi Yan ordered them to tell the Three Dragon Kings that she would reclaim their weak Dragon King bloodline.
• Zi Yan left the aftermath to Third Elder Zhu Li and descended while carrying the unconscious Xiao Heng.

After recovering from the battle, Xiao Heng discovered that his Dragon-Phoenix Power had become more balanced, while Zi Yan entered seclusion to stabilize her new power as Dragon Emperor. Elder Zhu Li welcomed Xiao Heng’s requests and gave him the essence of the Half-Saint Qing Yan, then agreed to take him to East Dragon Island’s lightning pool.

• Zi Yan transferred some of her energy to heal Xiao Heng, then left to enter seclusion and told Elder Zhu Li to care for him.
• East Dragon Island began rebuilding under Elder Zhu Li as its people celebrated Zi Yan’s rise as their Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Heng awoke and found his dragon bloodline strengthened and his Dragon-Phoenix Power more balanced.
• Elder Zhu Li told Xiao Heng that Zi Yan was in seclusion and Qing Lin was tempering the Ancient Heavenly Snake soul with the clan’s help.
• Elder Zhu Li gave Xiao Heng the essence extracted from the slain Half-Saint Ancient Void Dragon Qing Yan.
• Xiao Heng asked to visit the lightning pool, and Elder Zhu Li agreed to arrange it.

Xiao Heng traveled with Hei Qing to the Thunder Pool to temper his body, stabilize his rapidly advanced cultivation, and search for Gu Yue. After three days of lightning training and absorbing stored energy, he reached the peak of Seven-Star Dou Zun and drank nearly half a bottle of Half-Saint essence to try to break through to Eight-Star Dou Zun.

• Hei Qing took Xiao Heng through the void to the Thunder Pool and agreed to wait outside while Xiao Heng entered alone.
• Xiao Heng let the lightning strike him without protection, then circulated his cultivation method to heal and refine the energy in his body.
• Over three days, Xiao Heng used the lightning to draw out his stored medicinal and treasure energy, reaching the peak of Seven-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Heng swallowed five drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood and refined them in a day, but he did not break through to Eight-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Heng opened the bottle of Half-Saint essence and drank nearly half of it in one gulp, hoping to break through.

Xiao Heng endured the Thunder Pool to stabilize his Eight Star Dou Zun realm, then turned to Little Grass for resources after exhausting his own. After refining the sources of Earth, Water, and Metal, he returned to the Thunder Pool sensing that his breakthrough to Nine Star Dou Zun was near.

• Xiao Heng broke through to Eight Star Dou Zun in the Thunder Pool and spent two days stabilizing his new realm.
• Xiao Heng used his remaining resources to reach the peak of Eight Star Dou Zun, but ran out before he could break through to Nine Star.
• Xiao Heng sensed that Gu Yue remained safe and transforming within the Thunder Pool, then sent the Heavenly Demon Puppet into the lightning to be tempered.
• Little Grass gave Xiao Heng Earth Source, a Ten Thousand Year Water Spirit, and refined brass origin to strengthen his other three elements.
• Xiao Heng refined the Earth, Water, and Metal sources, then returned to the Thunder Pool and sensed that his breakthrough to Nine Star Dou Zun was approaching.

Xiao Heng endured the Thunder Pool’s lightning to break through to Nine Star Dou Zun, then checked on Gu Yue and found her safely cultivating at its center. He left her to continue and emerged to astonish Hei Qing with his rapid advancement.

• Xiao Heng endured the Thunder Pool’s lightning for half a month and broke through from Eight Star Dou Zun to Nine Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Heng entered the Thunder Pool’s inner region, opened his Third Eye, and saw Gu Yue sleeping safely while golden light shielded her from the lightning.
• Xiao Heng estimated that Gu Yue had reached seven- or eight-star Dou Zun and left her undisturbed so she could continue cultivating.
• Hei Qing greeted Xiao Heng as he emerged, and Xiao Heng confirmed that he had reached Nine Star Dou Zun.
• Hei Qing was shocked that Xiao Heng had advanced two stars in less than two months and asked if he was a monster.

Xiao Heng returned from Ancient Dragon Island to Starfall Pavilion with Qing Lin, whose strength had risen to Six Star Dou Zun. He caught up with Old Yao, learned of several developments among his allies, and heard that Sound Valley wanted him to visit.

• Xiao Heng met Elder Zhu Li and two returning Ancient Dragon elders, and learned Qing Lin had refined the Ancient Heavenly Snake and advanced to Six Star Dou Zun.
• Elder Zhu Li gave Xiao Heng a Spatial Jade Slip, and Xiao Heng left Ancient Dragon Island with Qing Lin for Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Heng reunited with Old Yao and learned Starfall Pavilion was arranging a formal alliance with the Flower Sect.
• Old Yao told Xiao Heng that Xiao Yan had found the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and that the inventor of the Poison Pill Method had gone to help Xiao Yi Xian.
• Old Yao told Xiao Heng that people from Sound Valley had asked him to visit, leaving him unsure why they wanted to see him.

Xiao Heng received an invitation to the Ancient Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony and decided to leave Starfall Pavilion to investigate why Sound Valley wanted to see him. The chapter ended with him flying off to handle the new matters piling up.

• Xiao Heng told Old Yao he planned to visit Sound Valley, and Old Yao offered support if he needed it.
• Old Yao gave Xiao Heng an Ancient Clan invitation to a coming-of-age ceremony two months away and suggested he attend with Xiao Yan if he returned.
• Xiao Heng declined Qing Lin’s offer to accompany him and left Starfall Pavilion rather than rest.
• Old Yao revealed that Qing Lin was a Six Star Dou Zun and assessed Xiao Heng as a Nine Star Dou Zun, astonishing Venerable Wind.
• Old Yao and Venerable Wind wondered about Xiao Heng’s origins but agreed not to investigate his secrets.
• Xiao Heng returned to his courtyard, found Xiao Yi Xian absent, and flew away to deal with Sound Valley and his other obligations.

Xiao Heng traveled to Sound Sea City and waited for Sound Valley to respond after crushing its jade tablet. He spent the time enjoying street food until Bai Xi found him, and the chapter ended with them sharing noodles and snacks.

• Xiao Heng flew toward Sound Valley, reached Sound Sea City, and crushed the jade tablet to summon someone from the valley.
• Xiao Heng wandered the city, bought snacks, and decided against buying jewelry.
• Xiao Heng ordered noodles at a street stall and enjoyed his meal as Bai Xi arrived and sat beside him.
• Bai Xi shared Xiao Heng’s snacks and ate noodles with him, then teased him for carrying an orchid-embroidered handkerchief.

Bai Xi brought Xiao Heng back toward the Bai Clan and explained that he had been summoned to compete for a chance to inherit the clan’s stored Bloodline Power. Their journey ended with the clan’s bloodline crisis and the elders’ hopes for Xiao Heng’s potential hanging over their relationship.

• Xiao Heng and Bai Xi shared snacks and teased each other before Bai Xi opened a spatial rift and led him away.
• Bai Xi explained that the Bai Clan had lost much of its Bloodline Power in a past calamity and extracted deceased members’ bloodlines to preserve them in a blood pool.
• Bai Xi told Xiao Heng that candidates needed to meet strict age, strength, and bloodline requirements, pass an elder examination, and compete for one of three slots to receive the blood pool’s baptism.
• Bai Xi revealed that the elders hoped Xiao Heng’s bloodline could reach God-grade, while Xiao Heng encouraged her not to rely solely on the clan’s ancestral power.
• Xiao Heng admitted that he had reached Nine Star Dou Zun, and Bai Xi concealed her own strength while reflecting on the clan elders’ hopes that the two of them would preserve the bloodline together.