Chapter Summaries

Zi Yan declared herself the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Emperor and announced a campaign to reunite the clan. Three days later, she led Eastern Dragon Island’s Imperial Dragon Army north to attack Northern Dragon Island first.

• Zi Yan agreed to launch a campaign against the three islands in three days, while Lin Yuan proposed sealing off Eastern Dragon Island to keep the plan secret.
• Zi Yan appeared above Eastern Dragon Island and proclaimed her return as Dragon Emperor, promising to defeat the rebels and reunite the clan.
• Zi Yan’s bloodline pressure convinced the dragons on the island of her authority, and Black Azure and the gathered experts welcomed her as their emperor.
• Three days later, Zi Yan addressed the assembled Imperial Dragon Army and ordered it to punish the traitors and unite the Dragon Clan.
• Zi Yan ordered the army to attack Northern Dragon Island first, and the Four Great Elders used their spatial power to set Eastern Dragon Island flying north.

Northern Dragon King Zhuchen learned that Eastern Dragon Island had launched a surprise invasion of Northern Dragon Island and rushed to the battlefield. He ordered his forces to mobilize and confronted the Eastern Dragon Island elders, who blocked his attack.

• Northern Dragon King Zhuchen questioned Huozhan and Qianxuan about reports from the Dragon Islands and learned that Eastern Dragon Island’s spies had missed their regular message.
• A messenger reported that Eastern Dragon Island had driven its island into Northern Dragon Island and routed the perimeter Defense Legion.
• Zhuchen ordered Huozhan to summon the Three Great Elders, Qingyan to gather the Dragon Ascent Army, and Qianxuan to monitor informants on the Western and Southern Islands.
• Zhuchen flew to the battlefield and challenged Qingshan and Qing Mu, then attacked the Imperial Dragon Army with a purple light dragon.
• Qingshan, Qing Mu, Qi You, and Zhuli joined forces to block Zhuchen’s attack with a purple light screen.

The Northern Dragon King attacked Eastern Dragon Island, but Zi Yan emerged as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s new Dragon Emperor and revealed her overwhelming power. The Northern Dragon King and his elders were left wounded and stunned as Zi Yan confronted him.

• The Northern Dragon King and his three elders prepared to capture Great Elder Qingshan and the other Eastern Dragon Island elders.
• Four powerful palms struck from the Imperial Dragon Army’s tent, knocking the Northern Dragon King and his three elders into nearby mountain peaks.
• The Northern Dragon King accused Qingshan of bringing an outsider into the clan’s conflict and warned the hidden attacker not to interfere.
• Qingshan revealed that the attacker was Zi Yan, the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s new Dragon Emperor.
• Zi Yan stepped from a purple-gold pillar of light and mocked the Northern Dragon King for his weakness and ambition.

Lin Yuan watched as Zi Yan confronted the Northern Dragon King and asserted her claim as Dragon Emperor, using her complete royal bloodline to subdue Northern Dragon Island. After rejecting the Northern Dragon King’s false offer of submission and exposing his selfishness, Zi Yan challenged him to three moves, and he launched his first attack.

• Lin Yuan identified the Northern Dragon King as a threat who had to die and planned with Zi Yan and the elders to use his defeat to win Northern Dragon Island’s loyalty.
• Zi Yan revealed that she was the daughter of the former Dragon Emperor Zhukun and the current Dragon Emperor, and her Dragon Phoenix bloodline suppressed the dragons across Northern Dragon Island.
• The Northern Dragon King pretended to welcome Zi Yan and offered to submit, while secretly plotting to seize her Dragon Phoenix bloodline.
• Zi Yan rejected his offer, condemned him and the other Dragon Kings for dividing the clan, and challenged him to move her half a step within three moves.
• Enraged by Zi Yan’s insults, the Northern Dragon King summoned a purple dragon and attacked with Mad Dragon Devouring Heaven.

Zi Yan defeated the Northern Dragon King, exposed his use of kin’s blood and souls to create a counterfeit Dragon Slaying Sword, and executed him with the true sword. Northern Dragon Island’s forces surrendered to her as their Dragon Emperor.

• Zi Yan overwhelmed the Northern Dragon King’s attacks and endured his forbidden art, leaving him battered after two moves.
• The Northern Dragon King summoned a counterfeit Dragon Slaying Sword and revealed his ambition to seize the throne, but Zi Yan exposed that he had sacrificed his own kin to create it.
• Zi Yan shattered the counterfeit sword with her Emperor Dragon Claw and revealed the true Dragon Slaying Sword, which only the complete Dragon King bloodline could wield.
• Zi Yan suppressed Zhu Chen with the true sword and executed him in the name of the Dragon Emperor.
• The elders and warriors of Northern Dragon Island knelt and hailed Zi Yan as their Dragon Emperor.

Zi Yan subdued Northern Dragon Island, then led the combined armies to conquer the Western and Southern Islands and unite the Ancient Dragon Clan. The chapter ends as Zi Yan and thirteen Dou Saints begin merging the four Dragon Islands.

• Zi Yan declared Zhu Chen a traitor, reassured Northern Dragon Island’s people, and ordered them to atone through service.
• Zi Yan assigned Hanya, Shuang Gu, and Lie Feng to coordinate with the Eastern Dragon Island army while she prepared to pacify the other islands.
• After the armies reorganized, Zi Yan lifted the information-blocking barrier and led the Eastern and Northern Dragon Islands toward Western Dragon Island.
• Over the following month, Zi Yan killed the Western and Southern Dragon Kings, and all three islands submitted to her.
• Zi Yan and thirteen Ancient Dragon Clan Dou Saints began the ritual to merge the four Dragon Islands, sending pillars of light into each island.

Lin Yuan, Qing Lin, and Medusa witnessed the four Dragon Islands reunite, restoring the Ancient Dragon Clan’s earth veins and protective formation. Zi Yan declared the clan unified and granted a general amnesty, as the tribesmen celebrated their renewed unity.

• The four Dragon Islands merged into one vast island, restoring its dragon vein and greatly increasing its world energy.
• Lin Yuan explained that the restored earth-vein formation strengthened the Ancient Dragon Clan’s foundation, and Qing Lin confirmed its power.
• Lin Yuan resolved to advance to ninth-grade alchemy sooner to help Zi Yan rebuild the clan.
• Zi Yan announced the islands’ unification, declared a general amnesty, and called on the clan to put aside past grievances.
• The Ancient Dragon tribesmen cheered, while young dragons transformed and soared through the sky in celebration.

Lin Yuan said goodbye to Medusa and Little Cai as they entered seclusion on Dragon Island, then set out with Zi Yan and Qing Lin for the Beast Region. They planned to subdue the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe, whose declining bloodline threatened its standing among the Three Great Beast Families.

• Lin Yuan gave Medusa cultivation supplies and told Little Cai to listen to her mother while they secluded themselves to complete her bloodline transformation.
• Medusa kissed Lin Yuan, then took Little Cai into the Extreme Nether Profound Abyss and promised to emerge before the Pill Convention.
• Lin Yuan reunited with Zi Yan and Qing Lin, and Zi Yan opened a space passage so they could travel to the Beast Region.
• Zi Yan said she would help Qing Lin subdue the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe and use its cooperation to aid the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• The chapter described how the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe's bloodline was weakening under Clan Head Yao Xiaotian, who had abandoned efforts to address the problem.

Lin Yuan, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin infiltrated the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe’s territory and learned that its Saint Realm experts were gathered in the Nether Snake Mountain Range. Lin Yuan led them to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs to pursue his true goal of reaching the sealed Yao Ming, leaving the group deep inside the earth vein.

• Zi Yan carried Lin Yuan and Qing Lin past the tribe’s defenses into the Underground World, and Qing Lin used her followers to guide them to the Nether Snake Earth Vein.
• Lin Yuan surveyed the tribe’s strong forces while Qing Lin captured a Nine-Star Dou Venerate and learned that Yao Xiaotian, Yao Qing, and the tribe’s other Saint Realm experts were in the Nether Snake Mountain Range.
• Lin Yuan refused Zi Yan’s offer to attack and said they should go to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs to seek Yellow Springs Blood Crystals, concealing his real aim of contacting Yao Ming.
• Zi Yan used her space ability to take the group undetected through the earth vein to the Yellow Springs Ravine.

Lin Yuan, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin descended into the Nine Nether Yellow Springs to search for Yellow Springs Blood Essence. At the bottom, they uncovered a skeletal person bound by chains after hearing a faint plea for help.

• Lin Yuan identified the deep-yellow lake as the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and tested its powerful cold qi.
• Zi Yan shielded Lin Yuan and Qing Lin as they plunged through the lake, driving away the Yellow Springs Nether Snakes with her pressure.
• The three reached a vast rocky ground at the bottom, where Qing Lin offered to help search for the Yellow Springs Blood Essence.
• After they heard someone weakly calling for help, Zi Yan swept away the ground and exposed four chains surrounding black sludge.
• Zi Yan dispersed the sludge and revealed a withered, skeleton-like person who had been bound there.

Lin Yuan and Zi Yan found Yao Ming, the imprisoned former Clan Head of the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe, and heard how Yao Xiaotian had betrayed and sealed him. Lin Yuan refused to free Yao Ming on promises alone and demanded to place a soul restriction on him before considering him an ally.

• Yao Ming begged Lin Yuan and Zi Yan to save him, but Zi Yan silenced him with her pressure.
• Yao Ming identified himself as the former Clan Head and explained that Yao Xiaotian had seized his position and imprisoned him for centuries.
• Yao Ming offered the Nine Nether Staff and the tribe’s obedience in exchange for help, but Lin Yuan said the tribe was already a target and Yao Ming’s offer was not enough.
• Yao Ming offered to serve Lin Yuan as a Two-Star Dou Saint, but Lin Yuan demanded that he open his soul to receive a soul restriction.

Lin Yuan bound Yao Ming with a soul restriction and agreed to let him seek revenge on Yao Xiaotian, but forbade him from killing Yao Xiaotian in the short term. He offered Yao Ming Ancient Heavenly Snake essence blood as compensation, securing his cooperation and advancing his plan to use the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe to strengthen Qing Lin.

• Yao Ming agreed to Lin Yuan's terms, including a soul restriction, in exchange for permission to take revenge on Yao Xiaotian.
• Lin Yuan placed a powerful soul restriction on Yao Ming and warned him that betrayal or certain actions could trigger it.
• Yao Ming demanded to be released so he could kill Yao Xiaotian, but Lin Yuan forbade killing him in the short term and revealed he had other uses for him.
• Lin Yuan offered Yao Ming Saint-realm Ancient Heavenly Snake essence blood, and Yao Ming eagerly accepted it as a chance to improve his bloodline and strength.
• Lin Yuan considered Yao Ming a valuable asset whose growth could benefit Qing Lin and support his plans for the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe.

Lin Yuan revealed his Sky Dome Ascension Plan to use the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe to help Qing Lin overcome drug resistance and rapidly grow stronger. After Yao Ming agreed to cooperate, he gave Lin Yuan the Yellow Springs Blood Crystal, and Lin Yuan asked how to break the seal holding him.

• Lin Yuan explained his plan for Yao Ming and the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe to help Qing Lin increase her cultivation through medicinal pills and her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Qing Lin showed Yao Ming her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and told him she would manage the tribe on Lin Yuan's behalf.
• Lin Yuan ordered Yao Ming to gather medicinal ingredients and choose people to help Qing Lin, while warning him not to kill Yao Xiaotian or Yao Qing.
• Yao Ming gave Lin Yuan the remaining Yellow Springs Blood Crystal, which Lin Yuan stored in his Nether Sea Ring.
• Lin Yuan asked how to undo Yao Ming's seal and whether the four iron chains needed to be destroyed.

Zi Yan freed Yao Ming from the Yellow Springs chains, and Lin Yuan gave him pills to recover while Zi Yan collected the Yellow Springs Yin Stones. Yao Xiaotian sensed the seal had broken and went to seek the Great Elder; as Lin Yuan, Zi Yan, and Yao Ming emerged from the Yellow Springs, two Heaven Tier Dou Skills attacked them.

• Yao Ming explained that the Yellow Springs Yin Stones drained his Dou Qi, and Zi Yan broke his chains with ease.
• Lin Yuan supported the weakened Yao Ming and gave him medicinal pills, while Zi Yan uprooted and stored the four Yellow Springs Yin Stones.
• Yao Xiaotian sensed that the seal had broken, dressed, and left to find the Great Elder so they could deal with Yao Ming together.
• After recovering sixty percent of his Dou Qi, Yao Ming joined Lin Yuan and Zi Yan as they left the Yellow Springs.
• Two Heaven Tier Dou Skills, the Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Great Seal, struck at the group as they surfaced.

Zi Yan effortlessly destroyed Yao Xiaotian and Yao Qing’s attacks, then rejected their pleas and accusations against Yao Ming. As she struck at them, the two joined forces to summon their strongest defense, the Nine Nether Armor.

• Yao Xiaotian and Yao Qing attacked Zi Yan, but she froze their attacks in midair and shattered them with a squeeze of her hand.
• Yao Xiaotian and Yao Qing apologized to Zi Yan and tried to persuade her that Yao Ming was a traitor who had threatened their clan.
• Yao Ming angrily accused Yao Xiaotian of murdering his elder brother, while Yao Xiaotian and Yao Qing spun a tale of regret and mercy.
• Lin Yuan stopped Yao Ming from charging at the pair and urged him to let their side handle the fight.
• Zi Yan called out Yao Xiaotian and Yao Qing’s lies and punched at them, forcing them to form the Nine Nether Armor together.

Zi Yan defeated and sealed Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder, allowing Yao Ming to confront his betrayers and prepare to reclaim leadership of the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe. As the clan members arrived, Yao Ming revealed the Nine Nether Scepter and declared his return.

• Zi Yan shattered Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder’s Nine Nether Armor, defeated them, and sealed their Dou Qi.
• Lin Yuan gave Yao Ming three days to deal with the two captives before they were taken away, and told him to reclaim his position as clan head.
• Yao Ming revealed that he had reached Two-Star Dou Saint and confronted Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder about their betrayal.
• Yao Xiaotian begged Yao Ming for mercy and blamed the Great Elder, but Yao Ming promised to make them suffer for the years he had endured.
• Yao Ming sensed the arriving clan members, summoned the Nine Nether Scepter, and declared that he had returned to the tribe to set things right.

After two months of secluded cultivation and three days of rest, Lin Yuan reached nine-revolving Dou Venerate and completed the pill orders, but he could not safely seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s heart in the underground world. He chose to accelerate his “Human and Pill as One” experiment and prepared to meet Gu Zhen and Shi Yi in Holy Pill City after speaking with the Dan Tower Great Elder.

• Lin Yuan left his sealed retreat, slept for three days, and recovered from refining five pills while raising his cultivation from five-revolving to nine-revolving Dou Venerate.
• Lin Yuan concluded that searching underground for the Bodhi Ancient Tree was too dangerous and decided to pursue sainthood through his “Human and Pill as One” experiment.
• Fu Xuan told Lin Yuan that she had reached nine-revolving Dou Venerate using thirty percent of the Demonic Essence Mark, and he considered how to use the remaining energy.
• Lin Yuan read Ye Zhong’s letter and found visiting cards from Shi Yi and Gu Zhen, who had arrived in Holy Pill City to collect pills and meet him.
• Lin Yuan decided to meet the Dan Tower Great Elder before returning to Holy Pill City, while Fu Xuan decoded the letter and then merged into his body as purple flames.

Lin Yuan asked Great Elder Lin for guidance on breaking through from Nine-Revolving Dou Venerate to Half-Saint and Dou Saint. Great Elder Lin warned him about the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s strength and, after considering Lin Yuan’s questions, asked what he thought distinguished Dou Saints from Dou Venerates.

• Lin Yuan visited Great Elder Lin at Cuiyun Residence and acknowledged that he had gained opportunities in the Dou Saint Remains.
• Great Elder Lin warned Lin Yuan to keep his early entry into the remains secret, since the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was still investigating and had six known Dou Saints.
• Great Elder Lin named Huang Yue and Huang Ling as two of the clan’s other Dou Saints and urged Lin Yuan to avoid direct conflict with the clan before reaching Dou Saint.
• Lin Yuan asked Great Elder Lin how an ordinary cultivator could break through to Half-Saint and Dou Saint, and whether the Dan Tower preserved its predecessors’ experiences.
• Great Elder Lin asked Lin Yuan where the fundamental difference between Dou Saints and Dou Venerates lay.

Great Elder Lin explained that Dou Saints controlled World Energy by comprehending heaven-and-earth rules and gathering a Rule Seed, while bloodlines and constitutions could provide an innate advantage. He outlined how ordinary cultivators could prepare for sainthood, leaving Lin Yuan intent on finding a way to accelerate the process.

• Lin Yuan asked Great Elder Lin how Dou Saints differed from Dou Venerates, and Great Elder Lin explained that Saints could control a region of heaven and earth to mobilize World Energy freely.
• Lin Yuan asked how cultivators entered sainthood, and Great Elder Lin said they needed Unity of Man and Heaven and a Rule Seed formed through comprehension of the rules.
• Great Elder Lin explained that bloodlines and constitutions reflected compatibility with the Dou Qi Continent's rules, and that the Dou Di Bloodline carried a Rule Seed inherited from a Dou Di.
• Great Elder Lin advised Lin Yuan to cultivate a high-level Qi Method, raise his Soul Realm to the Heaven Realm, use Bodhi Seeds if possible, and advance patiently through the Half-Saint stages.
• Great Elder Lin said sainthood transformation involved absorbing Saint Aura into the body and soul, predicting that Lin Yuan could become a Dou Saint in ten years.
• Lin Yuan thought ten years was too slow and resolved to find a way to speed up his progress.

Lin Yuan worried that he needed to reach the Dou Saint Realm quickly as the Hun Clan's plans and the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling threatened to bring future crises forward. Great Elder Lin gave him the Dan Tower's Legacy Crystal and agreed to send a message to the elusive old ancestor so Lin Yuan could seek guidance for a Human Form Medicinal Pill Spirit.

• Lin Yuan considered how to break through to Dou Saint quickly and feared that the Hun Clan might locate the Ancient Emperor Jades or uncover the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling.
• Lin Yuan asked Great Elder Lin for the Dan Tower's collected insights on breakthroughs, and Great Elder Lin lent him a Legacy Crystal to return within three years.
• Lin Yuan asked Great Elder Lin to help him meet the old ancestor for advice about cultivating a Human Form Medicinal Pill Spirit.
• Great Elder Lin agreed to send a message to the old ancestor but warned that his whereabouts were unknown and a reply might take time.
• Great Elder Lin gave Lin Yuan a communication jade slip and told him he would use it to pass along any response, and Lin Yuan left the Small Dan Tower.