Chapter Summaries

Qin Yang discovered that he had condensed two Divine Gates, including a Black Jade Divine Gate too powerful for him to open, then used it to destroy a colossal Horned Dragon threatening him and Meng Yi. The gate absorbed the black qi and grew stronger, while Qin Yang suspected the Temple Keeper had manipulated the creatures and resolved to confront whoever had forced this setback on him.

• Qin Yang examined his White Jade and Black Jade Divine Gates, realizing that the Black Jade Gate was extraordinarily hard and likely impossible for him to push open.
• As night fell inside the Bronze Coffin, Meng Yi used layered auxiliary arrays to slow the black Horned Dragons while he and Qin Yang waited for dawn.
• The black Horned Dragons began slaughtering one another and merging into stronger creatures, leading Qin Yang to suspect that the Temple Keeper was influencing them.
• A ten-thousand-zhang Horned Dragon overwhelmed the weakening array, and its black qi entered Qin Yang's body before sinking into the Black Jade Divine Gate.
• Qin Yang summoned the Black Jade Divine Gate with Ninefold Rashomon, crushed the giant Horned Dragon, and absorbed its black qi, making the gate even stronger.
• Qin Yang concealed the gate's identity from Meng Yi and resolved not to forgive whoever had made his path to opening it even harder.

Qin Yang watched Yinglong's buried memories and deduced that the Mountain Ghost had been his mortal lover, then faced another night of black Horned Dragons. When the Temple Keeper made the dragons retreat, Qin Yang realized the Temple Keeper wanted the Evil Dragon's power and threatened to destroy it all.

• Meng Yi and Qin Yang watched Yinglong, as Ying Qian, meet the young Mountain Ghost near Kunlun and Qin Yang deduced how she had become a Mountain Ghost.
• Qin Yang and Meng Yi followed Ying Qian and the girl through a village where no one was over thirty, until night fell and the memory vanished.
• Black Horned Dragons emerged from the earth, and Qin Yang summoned the Black Jade Divine Gate to devour them.
• Qin Yang called for the Temple Keeper, but the Temple Keeper stayed hidden and made the Horned Dragons retreat.
• Qin Yang concluded that the Temple Keeper had come to claim the Evil Dragon's power and threatened to use his divine ability until nothing remained.

Qin Yang pieced together that the Temple Keeper had used him to reach and open the Bronze Coffin, then spent ten days investigating the village while the Keeper remained absent. On the final night, the Temple Keeper appeared and thanked Qin Yang for helping him weaken the Evil Dragon’s power so he could reclaim it.

• Qin Yang realized the Temple Keeper had needed him to cross the dangers and open the Bronze Coffin, though he could not explain why the Keeper had stopped appearing.
• Qin Yang and Meng Yi returned to the village, gathered clues, and watched Ying Qian and the young girl while the nights passed without attacks.
• Qin Yang and Meng Yi reasoned that the Temple Keeper was likely occupied trying to regain control of the Evil Dragon’s power before Demon Mother opened a crack in seven days.
• Qin Yang listened as Ying Qian told the young girl stories about his old friend and other figures, and he suspected Yinglong’s tales were mostly true.
• On the tenth night, the Temple Keeper appeared and thanked Qin Yang for leading him through the sea of suffering and bridge of the heart, opening the Bronze Coffin, and weakening the Evil Dragon’s power.

Qin Yang fought the Temple Keeper with help from Meng Yi, the Black Jade Divine Gate, and a newly awakened Thinking Art, eventually forcing the Temple Keeper to abandon his body and vanish. The Temple Keeper then used the seal’s suppressive force to trap everyone, but Qin Yang realized the worlds were separate and called on Miss Bai to hold the Temple Keeper back as the exit began to open.

• The Temple Keeper admitted he had used Qin Yang and attacked him, but Meng Yi’s strange power forced the Temple Keeper to retreat before he resumed his assault.
• Qin Yang baited the Temple Keeper beneath the Black Jade Divine Gate, which smashed apart his body and absorbed some of his black qi.
• Under pressure, Qin Yang entered the Thinking Art and used his heightened perception to evade the Temple Keeper’s attacks and repeatedly pin him with the Black Jade Divine Gate.
• The Temple Keeper tried to make peace, then vanished after threatening to keep Qin Yang trapped; Qin Yang found Uncle Meng still frozen in place.
• As the night ended, the Temple Keeper triggered the seal’s suppressive force and flooded the world with black qi, but Qin Yang’s gates absorbed the sea and daylight returned.
• The Temple Keeper realized he and Bai had been in separate worlds, then struck the heavens to strengthen the seal while Qin Yang asked Miss Bai to keep him in check.

Qin Yang uncovered the truth of the Dragon Tomb and let Ying Bai decide the Temple Keeper’s fate, allowing Yinglong to briefly return. Yinglong asked Qin Yang to take Ying Bai away and helped awaken Meng Yi, leaving the group ready to depart.

• Ying Bai appeared and asked the Temple Keeper to let Qin Yang and the others leave, but he insisted on taking her away.
• Qin Yang realized the Dragon Tomb was Yinglong’s body and that Yinglong had transformed himself into a world to keep Ying Bai alive.
• The Temple Keeper attacked Qin Yang, then exhausted his black qi against the Black Jade Divine Gate and revealed Yinglong’s remaining fragment of consciousness.
• Yinglong asked Qin Yang to take Ying Bai away and find her a place to settle, but he could not break the Black Jade Divine Gate.
• Yinglong explained that Meng Yi was frozen while trying to drag the Temple Keeper into the River of Time, and Ying Bai’s song awakened him.
• Qin Yang stopped Meng Yi from rushing toward the river and told him the Temple Keeper was gone.

Qin Yang and his companions escaped the Bronze Coffin after helping Yinglong persuade Ying Bai to leave, and Yinglong rewarded Qin Yang and Meng Yi with treasures before vanishing with the collapsing world. Back in the outside world, the Demon Mother kept her promise and left Qin Yang free, while Qin Yang recovered and prepared to return to the Divine Dynasty.

• Meng Yi calmed down, agreed to help Qin Yang resolve the Divine Gate problem, and watched Ying Bai absorb the golden world before she vanished into her crystal coffin.
• Yinglong gave the Demon Mother a drop of essence blood and gave Qin Yang dragon blood, another drop of essence blood, the Mountain Ghost Goddess Temple treasures, and a sacred crescent moon.
• Yinglong sent Qin Yang, Meng Yi, and the Demon Mother back through the Bronze Coffin, and Qin Yang and Meng Yi escaped as the gate closed behind them.
• The Demon Mother honored her agreement and flew away, while Qin Yang explained to Meng Yi that he had understood Yinglong’s hidden intentions and chosen to play along.
• Qin Yang recovered aboard the flying vessel as the Puppet Master arrived, then entered the Sea Eye and told the Three-Eyed Demon he would release him after returning to the Divine Dynasty.
• Qin Yang showed Ugly Chicken and Black Shadow the pile of treasures Yinglong had given him, insisting that Yinglong had forced them on him.

Qin Yang returned from the sea eye, learned that the Puppet Master had kept their group safe, and began sorting through the treasures he had gained from Yinglong. He turned an ancient crescent moon and twenty-eight ritual treasures into an extravagant Starfall Array, then asked Mo Yang to test it, leaving him warned that moon-worshipping ancient races might recognize its power.

• Qin Yang bragged to Ugly Chicken, Black Shadow, and the Three-Eyed Demon about the expedition and claimed the Three-Eyed Demon Race owed him a great favor for Yinglong's blood essence and Demon Mother's rescue.
• Qin Yang erased the Three-Eyed Demon's recent memories with the Fisherman's Slumber Calming Song and sealed him away until their return.
• The Puppet Master told Qin Yang that he had killed spying Demon Race creatures and that Bald Head and other human cultivators had kept their distance; Qin Yang ordered him to take the border buffer zone back and avoid trouble.
• Qin Yang examined his gains, set aside Yinglong's blood and dragon vein, and discovered that Yinglong's high-grade treasures were mainly useful for sacrificial rites.
• Qin Yang embedded the crescent moon in his Starfall Array Disk, refined four array flags, and used twenty-eight treasures as Array Eyes to complete the array.
• Qin Yang called Mo Yang to test the array, and Mo Yang warned him that ancient moon-worshipping races such as the Tu Shan Clan might recognize its power and that flaunting it could attract enemies.

Qin Yang continued across the ice field while the Three-Eyed Demon Mother refined Yinglong Blood Essence and transformed her bloodline. Meanwhile, Great Yan’s counterattack and the Kill Word Tablet’s deadly effects plunged Great Ying’s army into crisis, prompting Emperor Ying to put the Great Emperor Princess in command.

• Qin Yang gathered materials and replenished his power while no one dared approach his flying vessel.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Mother refined Yinglong Blood Essence in an ice pool and emerged with a powerful dragon-descendant bloodline and new abilities.
• Great Yan lured Zou Hongshen’s forces into the buffer zone, then struck his command camp and drove the Great Ying army three thousand miles south before the Great Emperor Princess turned the tide.
• The Kill Word Tablet’s self-sacrifice effect was confirmed when a deputy general survived fatal injuries briefly before dying, and the army descended into chaos.
• Emperor Ying punished Wei Xingchao and ordered Zou Hongshen back to Li Capital, placing the Northern Border entirely under the Great Emperor Princess’s authority.

Jia Yi led Great Ying’s army into the Three-Eyed Demon Race’s Territory and removed its spiritual mountains, prompting the Three-Eyed Demon Mother to attack her. Qin Yang watched their battle from afar and learned that neither woman wanted him to interfere.

• Jia Yi advanced into Demon Country after Great Ying and Great Yan agreed to join forces against it, while Demon Country’s demon kings fled rather than resist.
• Jia Yi ordered the army to remove every mountain taller than one hundred zhang in the Three-Eyed Demon Race’s Territory and carry the spiritual mountains away.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Mother returned to find her territory stripped of its mountains and attacked Jia Yi with lightning and rain, but Jia Yi countered with her diagrams.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Mother claimed Qin Yang was alive and had left willingly, then she and Jia Yi resumed fighting over him.
• Qin Yang sent an incarnation to stop the battle, but both women told him to get lost and destroyed it with their combined attacks.

Qin Yang watched Jiayi and the Three-Eyed Demon Mother fight, then learned their battle ended when Demon Race experts intervened and the human army retreated with its spoils. After Jiayi heard how he survived, Qin Yang left for Mount Kui to fulfill his promise to Yinglong and send Ying Bai there.

• Qingluan explained that Jiayi and the Three-Eyed Demon Mother had old grudges, and Qin Yang watched them fight for a day without intervening.
• Demon Race experts forced Jiayi and the Three-Eyed Demon Mother to stop, and the human army withdrew after taking Spirit Mountains from the Demon Country.
• Qin Yang returned to camp, recovered, and spent more than ten days cultivating before Jiayi asked how the Three-Eyed Demon Mother had treated him.
• Qin Yang told Jiayi how he had survived with the Three-Eyed Demon Mother and Yinglong, then asked whether Mount Kui could shelter mountain ghosts.
• Jiayi said Mount Kui had unknown dangers but might be able to receive Ying Bai, so Qin Yang left the camp and headed there.

Qin Yang brought Ying Bai to the Kui Mountain Range, where she settled as its mountain ghost, then headed toward the Eastern Border to visit the little Human Demon. Han Anming intercepted him and explained that the Heavenly Order Guard had arrested Scarface and Blackie, but Qin Yang turned the accusation back on him and demanded their release.

• Han Anming waited a day to question Qin Yang at the Great Emperor Princess's camp, only to learn that Qin Yang had already left.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Mother told the returned Three-Eyed Demon what had happened and gave him fused blood essence, which he accepted to become a Dragon Descendant.
• Meng Yi and Old Man Wei traveled south from the Extremely Northern Ice Field, while the Tian Lineage left a message for Qin Yang in Li Capital.
• Scarface and Blackie entered the Eastern Border, where constables arrested them, and Scarface asked his companion to notify the Captain.
• Qin Yang settled Ying Bai in the Kui Mountain Range, where she merged into the mountains and gave him a five-colored stone.
• Han Anming told Qin Yang that the Heavenly Order Guard had arrested Scarface and Blackie, and Qin Yang accused the guards of abusing them and challenged the arrest.

Qin Yang confronted Han Anming over the Heavenly Order Guard’s imprisonment of Scarface and Blackie, then freed them and headed for Li Capital. After Qin Yang left, Han Anming learned that a merfolk imperial princess had been abducted and lost inside the Divine Dynasty, threatening the peace between humans and the sea race.

• Qin Yang accused Han Anming’s men of mistreating Scarface and Blackie, and Han Anming brought him to the underground jail to see them.
• Qin Yang found Blackie starved and dangerous, fed him meat broth, and reunited with both Blackie and Scarface.
• Qin Yang told Han Anming he would let the misunderstanding go, then left with Scarface and Blackie to have Scarface’s Golden Seal removed in Li Capital.
• Han Anming scolded his subordinate for mishandling the prisoners and learned that Blackie had overwhelmed the guards when hunger made him ferocious.
• Han Anming received word that the Little Princess of the merfolk imperial clan had been abducted into the Divine Dynasty and ordered a search for her and the kidnapper.

Han Anming scrambled to contain the diplomatic crisis caused by the abduction of Little Seventh, while Qin Yang learned what had happened and began tracking the jiao people’s black-market network. The chapter ended with Qin Yang, Scarface, Blackie, and the Puppet Master setting out to investigate one of the traffickers’ contacts.

• Han Anming ordered his subordinates to locate Little Seventh and the kidnapper, while secretly keeping track of Qin Yang and turning east after learning Qin Yang had gone west.
• Scarface told Qin Yang that Little Seventh had been abducted by a trafficker, escaped after reaching shore, and triggered an uproar among the sea folk.
• Qin Yang sent requests for help to his intelligence networks and Five Elements Mountain, then asked for news of his whereabouts to be spread so Little Seventh might find him.
• The Thieves' Sect intelligence network sent Qin Yang a list of people involved in processing and selling captured jiao people.
• Qin Yang chose a contact on the list and left with Scarface, Blackie, and the Puppet Master to investigate.

Qin Yang pressured the underground businesses in White Water Long Affection and elsewhere to investigate Little Seventh’s abduction, using threats and promises to turn their rivalries toward uncovering the truth. After seven days, the network traced the abduction route and identified everyone involved, but Little Seventh’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Qin Yang confronted Great Shopkeeper Wang Defu at White Water Long Affection and demanded to know whether the business had captured a young female merman.
• Wang Defu denied involvement, and Qin Yang urged him to help expose the perpetrators in exchange for protection and rewards.
• Qin Yang explained to the Puppet Master and Scarface that he was getting underground businesses to investigate their own rivals using threats and the promise of profit.
• Qin Yang visited businesses listed in his records, encouraging them to find Little Seventh while he continued searching for clues.
• After seven days, the underground network uncovered the abduction route and identified everyone who had handled Little Seventh’s capture, but they still had not found her.

Bitter Gourd Face and Figure Eight Eyebrows realized that everyone connected to Little Seventh’s captors was dying, and decided to flee with her to seek help from Qin Yang. Little Seventh agreed to put in a word for them so they could join the Netherworld Ship, and they left the manor that evening.

• Little Seventh and the black donkey argued over their share of a roasted beast while Bitter Gourd Face and Figure Eight Eyebrows watched through a bronze mirror and lamented the cost of feeding her.
• Bitter Gourd Face and Figure Eight Eyebrows compared reports of people connected to their organization dying and concluded they could no longer trust anyone around them.
• The two captors asked Little Seventh whether she knew Qin Yang, and she described him and offered to ask him not to kill them.
• Bitter Gourd Face and Figure Eight Eyebrows begged Little Seventh to help them join the Netherworld Thieves, while Little Seventh mistook their intentions and feared they wanted to make her scrub decks.
• After learning that people might soon come for Little Seventh, the two promised to find her food and take her to Qin Yang; Little Seventh agreed to help them join his crew.
• That evening, Bitter Gourd Face and Figure Eight Eyebrows left the manor through the back gate with Little Seventh riding the black donkey, abandoning their belongings to avoid being traced.

Qin Yang learned that Little Seventh had escaped with her guards, but they were being hunted by people connected to the Hongxi Merchant Guild. After Oil Mouse brought him the news, Qin Yang headed west and captured a Dao Palace Expert, then killed him and searched his memories for clues about Little Seventh.

• An old man destroyed the estate where Little Seventh had been held, but found only ruined tracking tokens and no sign of her or her guards.
• Bitter Gourd Face and Figure Eight Eyebrows fled west with Little Seventh and Ugly Donkey, believing powerful figures wanted to silence them.
• Oil Mouse told Wang Defu that the Hongxi Merchant Guild was eliminating people connected to Little Seventh's capture, and Wang Defu used Gold Paper Wooden Doors to escape with him.
• Wang Defu and Oil Mouse reached Qin Yang and reported that Little Seventh's guards had likely taken her west.
• Qin Yang set out west aboard the Puppet Master's flying vessel, where the Puppet Master captured a pursuing Dao Palace Expert.
• Qin Yang tortured the captured man for answers, killed him, and examined the information in his remains.

Qin Yang uncovered evidence that the Hongxi Merchant Guild and the sea clans were being manipulated, then tracked down Little Seventh. An attacker fired a God-Killing Arrow at her, and Qin Yang protected her while the Puppet Master pursued the assailants.

• Qin Yang broke the seals on the old man's memories and learned that a snake-marked middle-aged man had ordered the Hongxi Merchant Guild's traces erased and the merman princess silenced.
• Qin Yang concluded that several factions, including people in the Divine Dynasty, were exploiting the crisis, then threatened Oil Mouse and made him guide the group to a Hongxi Merchant Guild estate.
• The Puppet Master tracked Little Seventh to a battered Jade Carriage, where Qin Yang found her riding with a black donkey.
• An invisible black arrow targeted Little Seventh, but Qin Yang's Black Jade Divine Gate and Yinglong Relief devoured its power, and the Puppet Master captured the arrow.
• Qin Yang sent Little Seventh and the black donkey to the sea eye, while the Puppet Master went after the attackers; Qin Yang identified the weapon as a forbidden God-Killing Arrow fired with the Illusion Feather Bow.

After a God-Killing Arrow killed Little Seventh, Qin Yang and the Puppet Master pursued the attack’s source and investigated Wang Defu and Oil Mouse. Qin Yang exposed Oil Mouse as the conspirator, but Oil Mouse poisoned himself; as his body withered, Qin Yang activated a skill on his head.

• The Puppet Master returned without catching the archer, then modified the flying vessel to better defend against future God-Killing Arrows.
• Qin Yang ordered the Puppet Master to secretly monitor Wang Defu and confronted Wang Defu and Oil Mouse about the attack that killed Little Seventh.
• Qin Yang tested Oil Mouse by ordering Blackie to attack; Oil Mouse revealed his hidden Divine Gate Realm Body Refiner strength, but Blackie overwhelmed him until Qin Yang calmed Blackie with soup.
• Qin Yang deduced that Oil Mouse had arranged the assassination using a beacon and exposed him as the operative behind the plot.
• Oil Mouse poisoned himself, but Qin Yang remained indifferent and urged him to die quickly; after Oil Mouse’s life force and soul were gone, Qin Yang placed a hand on his head and activated his skill.

Qin Yang uncovered how Oil Mouse had been drawn into a scheme involving the masked Archery Expert and learned that Little Seventh had been abducted by someone disguised as him. After arranging for Wang Defu to be watched, Qin Yang reunited with Little Seventh and Ugly Donkey, and realized her abduction had been planned from the beginning.

• Qin Yang extracted Oil Mouse's beacon, hidden-treasure map, and key memories, discovering that a Smiling Face Mask had tasked Oil Mouse with using Qin Yang to find Little Seventh.
• Qin Yang concluded that the masked archer and the Dao Palace Experts were not connected to the Hongxi Merchant Guild, and that Oil Mouse had concealed his role by letting Wang Defu make the decisions.
• The Puppet Master revealed that he had planted tiny puppets in Wang Defu's hands and feet, while Qin Yang ordered Scarface and an incarnation to monitor Wang Defu.
• Qin Yang released Little Seventh and Ugly Donkey, and Little Seventh explained that someone disguised as Qin Yang had tricked her into leaving with him.
• Qin Yang realized that Little Seventh's abduction and journey to the Great Wilderness had not been a sudden incident.

Qin Yang suspected that hidden enemies were manipulating events against him, so he sent Zhang Zhengyi a video and a bottle of True Dragon Blood. Old Ancestor Cui used some of the blood to make nourishing soup for Qin Yang, and Zhang Zhengyi set out for Li Capital with it.

• Qin Yang reasoned that two separate groups were targeting him and decided to send Zhang Zhengyi a message and a valuable gift.
• Zhang Zhengyi received Qin Yang’s package, watched his video, and brought the sealed bottle to Old Ancestor Cui.
• Old Ancestor Cui recognized the liquid as True Dragon Blood and believed Qin Yang had risked much to obtain it.
• Old Ancestor Cui killed a Beast King with Dragon Descendant blood, cooked it with some of the True Dragon Blood, and sealed the resulting soup in a jade gourd.
• Zhang Zhengyi left for Li Capital with the jade gourd, resolving not to steal any of Qin Yang’s soup.