Chapter Summaries

Qin Yang waited for the bronze coffin’s occupant to reveal himself and discovered that a Three-Eyed Demon incarnation had possessed the corpse. After capturing it and learning how the Demon Country had stirred conflict between Great Ying and Great Yan, Qin Yang threatened to take it to the Li Clan and gave it three days to negotiate.

• Qin Yang waited three days until the coffin’s restrictions reacted, then watched a crimson light escape from the corpse.
• The crimson light attacked the Puppet Master and Qin Yang, but Qin Yang swallowed it and sent it into the Sea Eye.
• Black Shadow trapped the Three-Eyed Demon, and Qin Yang identified it as an incarnation of the Three-Eyed Demon Mother sent to sow discord.
• The Three-Eyed Demon explained how the rumors surrounding the Kill Word Tablet could deepen the rift between Zou Hongshen and Great Ying; Qin Yang said he had decided to intervene after the demon tried to use him.
• Qin Yang showed the Three-Eyed Demon the Black Li, White Li, and Mystic Li tokens and threatened to take it to the Li Clan, then gave it three days to decide how to settle their grudge.

Qin Yang kept the Three-Eyed Demon imprisoned in the Sea Eye and questioned him for intelligence about the Demon Country and the planned resurrection. The Three-Eyed Demon revealed that the target was the Centipede Dragon Clan’s Great Priest, and Qin Yang left him alive for now to learn more.

• Black Shadow sealed the Three-Eyed Demon’s mouth while he and Ugly Chicken mocked him and lamented their own imprisonment.
• Qin Yang studied records about the Three-Eyed Demon Mother and learned that killing her incarnation could injure her through their close connection.
• Three days later, Qin Yang returned to the Sea Eye and asked the Three-Eyed Demon what he could offer to escape his grudge.
• The Three-Eyed Demon revealed that the Demon Country planned to resurrect the Centipede Dragon Clan’s Great Priest, whose survival was tied to something extremely important.
• Qin Yang told Ugly Chicken to record the Three-Eyed Demon’s remaining information and decided to spare the Three-Eyed Demon Mother for now.
• After Qin Yang left, Ugly Chicken threw away the writing materials and laughed at Black Shadow for being unable to write the characters of his era.

Qin Yang revealed the Demon Race’s plan to revive the Centipede Dragon Great Priest and learned that the scheme might involve treasures left by true dragons. After a demon creature infiltrated the Northern Border secondary capital and an apparent Puppet Master later attacked him, Qin Yang exposed the disguised assassin and killed it.

• Jiayi requested permission to leave the army, and Emperor Ying sent her to recuperate at the Northern Border secondary capital while Zou Hongshen wrote to the Crown Prince that she posed no threat.
• Qin Yang let Han Anming learn that the Demon Race was trying to revive the Centipede Dragon Great Priest, then consulted the big shot from Yilou, who suspected the plan involved true dragon treasures and bloodline.
• The Puppet Master killed a demon creature that had infiltrated the secondary capital and sent its body to Han Anming, who ordered the Heavenly Order Guard to investigate and arrest suspected collaborators.
• Qin Yang continued reviewing the Three-Eyed Demon’s intelligence while the Heavenly Order Guard arrested members of a Lineage suspected of helping the infiltrator.
• Qin Yang recognized that the Puppet Master in his courtyard was an impostor, stabbed it through the head with the Talisman Sword, and revealed it as a disguised demon creature.

Qin Yang was abducted by the Three-Eyed Demon Mother, who wanted to learn what had happened to her incarnation. He kept her from killing him by claiming that the Li Clan could curse her through the incarnation, and she eventually brought him to the Demon Country while his allies searched for him.

• Qin Yang concealed the Dream Eater’s remains and left the untouched weasel demon for Han Anming, whose investigation exposed and destroyed a family tied to the demons.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Mother entered the secondary capital disguised as Wu Family Second Young Master Wu’s concubine, then abducted Qin Yang after luring the Puppet Master away with an attack.
• Qin Yang endured the Heaven Imprisoning Cocoon for weeks, then threatened the Three-Eyed Demon Mother with the Hundred Days Curse and Nailing Head Seven Arrows Book to make her spare him.
• Qin Yang guessed that her incarnation was more important to her than she admitted and used the threat of mutual destruction to keep her cautious while he recovered and attempted to escape.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Mother gave Qin Yang a Transformation Worm and took him west through Great Yan and into the Demon Country, where he questioned her plan to exchange hostages.

Qin Yang entered the Demon Country with the Three-Eyed Demon Mother and used a marketplace dispute to make news of his survival spread. After he demonstrated his skills at breaking arrays, the Demon Mother recruited him to help with an expedition, while Bridal Gown learned he was alive and prepared to confront the Demon Mother.

• The Three-Eyed Demon Mother brought Qin Yang to a Demon Country gathering place, where he bought local goods and drew the attention of human merchants.
• Two human merchants arranged to sell Qin Yang to the Lustful Demon, but Qin Yang struck him and provoked the Demon Mother into killing him.
• The guards arrested the merchants involved, and Qin Yang reassured them before continuing to trade; rumors about him spread among merchants returning to human territory.
• The Demon Mother tested Qin Yang's array-breaking ability and agreed to take him on an expedition in exchange for trading him for her incarnation after they returned.
• Bridal Gown learned that Qin Yang was alive in the Demon Country and ordered preparations to track him and attack the Three-Eyed Demon Mother's territory.

Qin Yang joined the Demon Race expedition to the Nine Heavens Ying Dragon’s Tomb, where he reunited with Meng Yi and helped decipher the tomb’s secrets. The group opened the tomb’s gate, but two demons died after ignoring Qin Yang’s warnings, leaving him facing the furious Bull Demon Clan Leader.

• Qin Yang secretly communicated with Meng Yi during a clash of formations and restrictions, and they agreed to conceal their connection while pursuing the True Dragon’s Blood.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Mother sent Qin Yang a blood demon to consume for recovery, then later led him and the other demons north to the Land of Eternal Night.
• Qin Yang studied books from Meng Yi and joined the leaders of the demon clans as the Great Priest revealed that the tomb belonged to the Nine Heavens Ying Dragon.
• The Centipede Dragon Clan Leader and other clans sacrificed their people to sustain the Great Priest, who opened the bronze gate to Yinglong’s Tomb.
• A bull demon tried to force the gate open and was destroyed by its divine light; another died after slapping the gate, and Qin Yang told the enraged Bull Demon Clan Leader that the proper knockers were on the doors.

Qin Yang and Meng Yi opened Yinglong’s bronze gate by following human customs, then entered a vast world where the demons gradually vanished after taking its treasures. Trapped with the remaining party, Qin Yang realized that touching anything in the world—including primordial energy and moonlight—caused people to disappear, but the group still had to discover how to escape.

• Qin Yang inferred that the bronze gate required a polite knock and human rites, and Meng Yi performed them to open it safely.
• Qin Yang and Meng Yi entered the tomb with the demons, while secretly recognizing that only humans could have opened the gate and leaving the demons unaware.
• The party crossed a vast world fragment, where demons stopped to absorb primordial energy, moonlight, and other tempting riches.
• Qin Yang and the remaining demons discovered that the entrance and the way back had vanished, trapping them in the seemingly endless landscape.
• Qin Yang recalled his warning not to touch anything and concluded that those who disappeared had taken something from the world, including its primordial energy or moonlight.

Qin Yang realized that the way out of Yinglong’s sealed world lay beyond its deadly sky, and he crossed into the endless void to reach safety in Yinglong’s palace. Meng Yi and the Three-Eyed Demon Mother followed, and Qin Yang told Meng Yi about Emperor Ying and the Theft Sect before the group prepared to continue.

• Meng Yi mapped the world’s shifting spatial loops, while the trapped demons grew desperate and a great demon died after accusing Qin Yang of plotting against them.
• Qin Yang recognized that escaping the maze required crossing the sky, and he leapt into the endless void as the others watched him seemingly perish.
• Qin Yang awoke in Yinglong’s palace, and Meng Yi later arrived after following his hint; Qin Yang explained his history with Emperor Ying and the Theft Sect.
• Meng Yi bowed to Qin Yang and offered the Theft Sect’s cooperation, but Qin Yang refused the sect master position and said he wanted the sect kept separate from his plans.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Mother emerged from the World Fragment, recovered from her apparent death, and questioned why Qin Yang had let her follow him into danger.

The Three-Eyed Demon Mother escaped the World Fragment by following Qin Yang’s example and leaping into the void as the crescent moon rose, while the Centipede Dragon Clan Leader later survived the same way. Qin Yang, Meng Yi, and the Demon Mother left the fragment, found an underground world filled with Dragon Descendants, and entered a human city, where Qin Yang prepared to meet the City Lord.

• The Three-Eyed Demon Mother overcame her doubts and jumped into the void at moonrise, reappearing safely beside Qin Yang in the white jade palace.
• Qin Yang refused to take Yinglong’s World Fragment or crescent moon, tested the black stone walls with his pickaxe, and led Meng Yi and the Demon Mother through a dark passage.
• The Centipede Dragon Clan Leader eventually jumped into the void at moonrise and survived, then realized Qin Yang had discovered the way out and followed the others.
• Qin Yang, Meng Yi, and the Demon Mother reached an underground world where the creatures carried traces of Yinglong’s aura and found a city inhabited by humans who were Dragon Descendants.
• Qin Yang disguised the group’s origins with an ancient human language, entered the city, and received an invitation from the City Lord’s Manor.
• Qin Yang and Meng Yi set out for the City Lord’s Manor with Qin Yang openly revealing his unusual aura, while the Demon Mother stayed behind.

Qin Yang gained the City Lord’s trust by posing as a human Dragon Descendant, then studied local records and led Meng Yi and the Three-Eyed Demon Mother north toward the rumored burial place of the Yinglong Great God. Beyond Connecting Heaven Peak, they were attacked by regenerating Horned Dragons and escaped into a village protected by strange lights, where Qin Yang hoped to find clues about the way forward.

• Qin Yang convinced the City Lord that he was a human Dragon Descendant, and drinking Flying Dragon Beast blood triggered a Dragon Descendant aura that helped confirm his story.
• Qin Yang spent a month studying books, learned that the northern route led toward the Sea of Mire, and obtained Identity Tokens and a personal token from the City Lord before leaving with Meng Yi and the Three-Eyed Demon Mother.
• An armored expert warned the group not to head east because of unusual Demon Race movements, and Qin Yang cautioned the Three-Eyed Demon Mother to avoid drawing attention from powerful locals.
• After crossing Connecting Heaven Peak, the group was ambushed by a black Horned Dragon that the Three-Eyed Demon Mother could not kill permanently, and Qin Yang spotted many more approaching.
• Qin Yang used the Radiant Sun Treasure Bell to destroy the pursuing Horned Dragons, but enormous ones continued after them until the group reached a village whose temple lights drove the creatures away.
• Qin Yang, Meng Yi, and the Three-Eyed Demon Mother entered the protected area and prepared to investigate the village and its mysterious lights.

Qin Yang and his companions reached Mountain Village, where the Mountain Ghost Temple’s treasures and Yinglong imagery revealed a connection to Yinglong Great God. After the Temple Keeper allowed them to stay, another group of strange creatures arrived outside the village despite warnings that those who disturbed it had died.

• Qin Yang followed the gentle singing to Mountain Village and waited until daylight before entering with Meng Yi and the Three-Eyed Demon Mother.
• An old villager brought the travelers to Temple Keeper Ying, who granted them one day’s stay and explained that the village served the Mountain Ghost Goddess.
• Inside the temple, Qin Yang recognized the building materials and altar objects as powerful divine treasures and spotted a roof painting resembling the Yinglong Relief.
• Qin Yang worshiped the Mountain Ghost Goddess with several bundles of Spirit Incense, then stopped the Three-Eyed Demon Mother from touching the altar treasures.
• A group of bizarre creatures arrived outside the village, and a dog-head demon warned their burly leader not to attack or take anything there.

Qin Yang helped the villagers with farmwork to learn local legends, then discovered that treasures in the Mountain Ghost Goddess Temple's rear hall could be taken without disappearing. He secretly left the village with Meng Yi and the others, while the dog-head demon confirmed the secret and stole an ornament for himself.

• Qin Yang greeted the Centipede Dragon Clan Leader at the Mountain Ghost Goddess Temple, and the two traded threats before agreeing to wait until they left the village to settle their grudges.
• Qin Yang helped the villagers clear farmland and, over a meal, learned their stories about the dangerous Wailing Swamp and other local legends.
• Qin Yang warned the Three-Eyed Demon Mother and the Centipede Dragon Clan Leader not to take anything from the village, then secretly told Meng Yi that rear-hall treasures could be removed safely.
• The dog-head demon overheard Qin Yang's conversation with Meng Yi and saw him hide a bronze bell, then concealed what he had learned.
• Qin Yang, Meng Yi, and the others left the village before dawn, and the dog-head demon confirmed the bronze bell had not returned to the rear hall.
• The dog-head demon stole an ornament from the rear hall and rejoined the Centipede Dragon Clan Leader, who had set out to pursue Qin Yang's group.

Qin Yang’s trap caused the greedy dog-head demon to disappear, leaving the Centipede Dragon Clan Leader without his guide as he pursued the group through dangerous terrain. Qin Yang and his companions followed at a safe distance while the clan leader’s anger triggered deadly hazards, and the chapter ended with Qin Yang wondering whether the leader was thinking about them.

• Qin Yang explained that he had used the ancient language to lure the greedy dog-head demon into taking a treasure, while intending to separate him from the Centipede Dragon Clan Leader.
• Qin Yang, Meng Yi, and the Three-Eyed Demon Mother fled the Connecting Heaven Peaks as black Horned Dragons pursued them, and the clan leader’s group barely escaped after losing nearly half its members.
• The dog-head demon vanished at dawn after taking the treasure, and Qin Yang led his companions in a detour that left the Centipede Dragon Clan Leader chasing onward without them.
• The Centipede Dragon Clan Leader’s anger triggered collapsing ravine walls and deadly mudslides, killing more of his followers before he suppressed his emotions by punching himself.
• Qin Yang and his companions trailed behind the clan leader, and Qin Yang wondered whether thinking about their position would make the leader angry enough to suffer another calamity.

Qin Yang discovered that Wailing Swamp could carry them safely to an exit if they completely relaxed, while anger and resistance caused the mud to crush its victims. After the Centipede Dragon Clan Leader’s fury trapped his group in the swamp, Qin Yang reunited with Meng Yi and the Three-Eyed Demon Mother and concluded they had entered the Yinglong Great God’s Dragon Tomb.

• Qin Yang tested Wailing Swamp with clones and learned that the mud carried relaxed victims onward but crushed those who resisted or let anger rise.
• Qin Yang found the Centipede Dragon Clan Leader and offered to make peace, but the leader rejected his warning and ordered his demons to attack.
• Qin Yang taunted the Centipede Dragon Clan Leader until the leader lost control of his anger and sent him flying into the mud.
• The Centipede Dragon Clan Leader trapped the Three-Eyed Demon Mother, Meng Yi, and his own demons beneath a giant mud wave, and they were crushed as they struggled.
• Qin Yang drifted safely to the shore, reunited with Meng Yi and the Three-Eyed Demon Mother, and concluded that they were inside the Yinglong Great God’s Dragon Tomb.

Qin Yang and his companions reached a seemingly endless abyss in the Dragon Tomb, where he sent thousands of clones to test the Stone Bridges. While searching for a way forward, Qin Yang recognized that the Mountain Ghost Temple’s mysterious Temple Keeper had looked exactly like one of Yinglong’s rumored human identities, leaving him to reconsider their earlier encounter.

• Qin Yang tested a Stone Bridge with a clone and discovered that leaving a bridge meant falling into the abyss and being torn apart by chaotic force.
• Qin Yang sacrificed locks of hair to create thousands of clones, but their search failed to find a safe bridge.
• Qin Yang questioned Black Shadow about Yinglong and learned that Yinglong had taken many human identities, including a scholar who supposedly married a human woman.
• Qin Yang recognized the scholar’s appearance as matching the Temple Keeper from the Mountain Ghost Goddess Temple.
• Qin Yang realized the Temple Keeper was likely Yinglong or a fragment of his consciousness, and that they had encountered him face-to-face.

Qin Yang discovered that singing the Mountain Ghost Goddess’s song created the only bridge across the broken cliffs, then reached the Dragon Tomb’s core and met the Temple Keeper. After agreeing to confront the Evil Dragon, Qin Yang realized the Temple Keeper might be manipulating his thoughts, while the Temple Keeper separately persuaded Demon Mother and Meng Yi to proceed alone.

• After spending three months searching 129,600 broken bridges, Qin Yang sang the Mountain Ghost Goddess’s song and created a glowing suspension bridge that carried him, Meng Yi, and Demon Mother across the abyss.
• The three entered separate cave openings that sealed behind them, and each navigated a different labyrinth before emerging in separate places.
• The Temple Keeper revealed that an Evil Dragon formed from Yinglong’s resentment was growing stronger and asked Qin Yang to reach the core and suppress it.
• Qin Yang accepted the request and swallowed Yinglong Blood Essence, which healed most of his injuries before its power overwhelmed his Dragon Blood Treasure Art.
• Qin Yang realized the Temple Keeper might have influenced his thoughts and questioned whether his explanation was true, but decided to investigate the core himself.
• The Temple Keeper separately promised Demon Mother freedom from her curse and promised Meng Yi that helping suppress the Evil Dragon could restore Qin Yang; both headed toward the distant peak.

Qin Yang, the Three-Eyed Demon Mother, and Meng Yi encountered reflections meant to stop them as they climbed toward the Bronze Coffin. Qin Yang’s reflection warned him that the Temple Keeper had another purpose, while the Demon Mother defeated her reflection and Meng Yi teamed up with his to divine the future.

• Qin Yang questioned the Temple Keeper’s account of the Evil Dragon, then saw an enormous Bronze Coffin bearing an Yinglong Relief at the summit and sensed something struggling inside it.
• Qin Yang’s reflection emerged from a mirror, attacked him after he told it to leave the group, and then warned him that the Temple Keeper wanted more than to stop him before returning to the mirror.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Mother fought her reflection, trapped it in a Heaven Imprisoning Cocoon, and erased it with her vertical eye’s divine radiance.
• Meng Yi and Reflection Meng Yi used compasses and Tortoise Shell to divine their fates, then chose to keep working together on questions Meng Yi could not answer alone.

Meng Yi sacrificed his reflection to divine a way forward, while Qin Yang learned that the mirror was tied to the Three Lifetimes Mirror and reunited with the Three-Eyed Demon Mother. Meng Yi entered the Bronze Coffin alone to seek the means to save Qin Yang, leaving him instructions to open a narrow gap and receive him after ten days.

• Meng Yi let his reflection perform a dangerous divination, and the reflection was erased after revealing a crucial sign.
• Qin Yang questioned Black Shadow about the mirror and learned it might be connected to the Three Lifetimes Mirror, an ancient treasure.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Mother attacked Qin Yang while disguised as a silver-haired demon, but the Transformation Worm exposed his identity and they recognized each other.
• Qin Yang and the Three-Eyed Demon Mother compared what the Temple Keeper had told them and chose to trust each other rather than his promises.
• Meng Yi reached the main peak, opened a narrow gap in the Bronze Coffin, and entered it with the black dragon head before the coffin sealed again.
• Qin Yang found Meng Yi's lamp and instructions, understood that he had to reopen the gap, and resolved to receive Meng Yi after ten days.

Qin Yang entered the Bronze Coffin after Uncle Meng failed to escape, while the Temple Keeper followed and Demon Mother realized his plans had been a trap. Inside, Qin Yang rescued Meng Yi, who explained that his divination had shown Qin Yang would be his chance of survival, but not how.

• Qin Yang entrusted Demon Mother with operating the compass and agreed to wait ten days before entering the Bronze Coffin himself if Uncle Meng did not return.
• Qin Yang used the compass to open a sliver in the Bronze Coffin, caught a true dragon’s spinal bone, and refined its power to strengthen himself.
• When Uncle Meng failed to emerge, Qin Yang entered the closing Bronze Coffin, and the Temple Keeper followed him inside.
• Demon Mother realized the Temple Keeper had manipulated events and that his claims about suppressing the Evil Dragon were likely lies.
• Qin Yang found Meng Yi unconscious after the black vapor was suppressed, cleared the vapor from his face with a Three Lives Ghost Willow branch, and helped him wake.
• Meng Yi told Qin Yang that his divination had identified Qin Yang as his chance of survival, but he had mistaken that to mean Qin Yang would wait to receive him rather than come in to rescue him.

Qin Yang used the Divine Marrow Dragon Vein to heal his hidden injuries, which triggered his advancement into the Divine Gate Realm. He left with two immense Divine Gates formed from his stored powers and a warning from Black Shadow that they might be too powerful for him to open later.

• Meng Yi told Qin Yang that an Evil Dragon was sealed nearby and that Mountain Ghost Goddess was buried within the Bronze Coffin, then urged him to heal his injuries quickly.
• Qin Yang used a drop of divine marrow to repair his damaged bones and hidden injuries, while deciding against becoming a Dragon Descendant in this dangerous place.
• As his injuries healed, Qin Yang's power surged beyond his control and he began advancing into the Divine Gate Realm.
• Qin Yang poured his stored True Essence and other powers into his upper and lower Divine Gates until they matched the size of his Spirit Platforms.
• Black Shadow warned Qin Yang that his powerful Divine Gates might become impossible to open, while Ugly Chicken mocked him; Qin Yang examined the gates and admitted they were outrageously powerful.