Chapter Summaries

Yang Shan and Zi Yan rescued Yun Jun after Fei Feng and Xin Lian nearly killed him, then escaped with him while the poison in his body continued to worsen. Yang Shan’s updated quest required him to evade their pursuit and escort Yun Jun to the Cloud Flipping Flood Dragon Clan’s territory.

• Fei Feng and Xin Lian teamed up against Yun Jun, using their bloodline skills to overwhelm him and demand that he submit.
• Yang Shan watched the fight from behind a barrier and waited for Yun Jun to be seriously wounded before intervening.
• As Fei Feng moved to kill Yun Jun, Zi Yan punched Fei Feng and Xin Lian away, and Yang Shan carried Yun Jun out of the hall.
• Yang Shan gave Xin Quan a Seventh Order spiritual item as a reward, then used his movement skills to escape with Zi Yan and Yun Jun.
• Yang Shan stopped a hundred li away because the Emperor Python Heart-Corroding Poison was draining Yun Jun’s life, and the system updated his quest to require escorting Yun Jun home.

Yang Shan cured Yun Jun’s poison and decided to protect him despite the danger of Fei Feng and Xin Lian pursuing them. As Yun Jun recovered, Yang Shan prepared to hide with Zi Yan and strengthen Black Da Sha before the inevitable battle.

• Yang Shan used the Sea Heart Flame to remove Yun Jun’s Emperor Python Heart-Corroding Poison, then gave him healing pills and restored his dislocated jaw.
• Yun Jun recognized Zi Yan’s powerful dragon bloodline and learned that she and Yang Shan had sought the Ancient Void Dragon Clan through him.
• Yang Shan decided to protect the badly injured Yun Jun, whose knowledge could lead them to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, even though Fei Feng and Xin Lian might pursue them.
• Yang Shan used Extraterrestrial Ghoul Lightning to help Yun Jun recover and introduced himself and Zi Yan, while Yun Jun learned Yang Shan was the Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master.
• Yang Shan fed Black Da Sha five Seventh Order spiritual treasures so it could refine them in the Blood Contract Space, then told Zi Yan to hide with him while Yue Mei stayed out of the fight.

Fei Feng and Xin Lian confronted the injured Yun Jun, but Zi Yan struck Xin Lian away and Yang Shan ambushed the group with a soul-shocking technique. Yang Shan and Yue Mei left a female Colored Cloud Goose blinded and bleeding as the battle continued.

• Fei Feng and Xin Lian found Yun Jun and challenged him, while Yun Jun warned that his clan elders would arrive.
• Yun Jun transformed and attacked Fei Feng, who decided the mysterious allies were gone and prepared to fight alongside Xin Lian.
• Zi Yan punched Xin Lian away with a Void Fist and chased after him as Yun Jun attacked Fei Feng.
• Yang Shan appeared with Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls, stunning Fei Feng and his Seventh Order subordinates.
• Yang Shan stabbed a female Colored Cloud Goose in both eyes while Yue Mei poisoned her, inflicting blindness and continuous bleeding.

Yang Shan used the death of one Colored Cloud Goose and a calculated display of strength to intimidate Xin Lian’s lackeys while he waited for Zi Yan to defeat Xin Lian. When five geese attacked him together, he trapped one and began hacking at its neck, leaving the wider battle unresolved.

• Yang Shan blinded and gravely injured a Colored Cloud Goose, then bound her with lightning so her health would keep falling.
• Yang Shan wiped his blade and taunted the remaining lackeys, making them mistake his confidence for overwhelming strength.
• A female Colored Cloud Goose urged her four sisters to attack Yang Shan together, while Xin Lian’s other lackeys held back.
• Yang Shan unleashed Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls—Overload Version, blasting through the five geese’s Demon Energy protection.
• Yang Shan bound one goose with lightning, and Yue Mei bit its neck while Yang Shan hacked at its wound.
• The captured goose claimed it was male and had not threatened Yang Shan, but Yang Shan dismissed the plea and struck harder.

Yang Shan, Zi Yan, and Yun Jun defeated Fei Feng, Xin Lian, and their followers, then brought the captives to Zhiyun Mountain. There, Elder Yun Jiang agreed to help investigate Zi Yan’s origins but revealed that the Cloud Flipping Flood Dragon Clan had lost contact with the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Yang Shan killed a Colored Cloud Goose and advanced to Five Star Dou Zong, while Zi Yan captured Xin Lian.
• Yang Shan forced Xin Lian’s followers to turn against Fei Feng, and Zi Yan defeated Fei Feng until he surrendered.
• Yang Shan bound Fei Feng, Xin Lian, and their twenty-one followers, then traveled with Zi Yan and Yun Jun to Zhiyun Mountain over seven days.
• Yun Jun introduced Yang Shan and Zi Yan to Elder Yun Jiang, who agreed to help investigate Zi Yan’s origins.
• Elder Yun Jiang explained that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had withdrawn from the world and that the Cloud Flipping Flood Dragon Clan no longer knew how to contact it.

Yang Shan learned that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had split into four Dragon Islands and concealed Zi Yan’s identity while envoys came to claim her. The envoys diagnosed her with a draining bloodline and declared that her cultivation path had ended, leaving Bai Jing to search for another solution.

• Yun Jiang told Yang Shan and Zi Yan that the Cloud Flipping Flood Dragon Clan would contact Ancient Dragon Island and help Zi Yan if no reply came.
• Yang Shan warned Zi Yan that Ancient Dragon Island might be divided and that the Dragon Islands could pose a danger, then learned that all Four Great Dragon Islands had dispatched envoys.
• Yang Shan borrowed Zi Yan’s blood, and three days later four eighth-tier Ancient Void Dragon envoys arrived at Zhiyun Mountain to compete to take her back.
• Yang Shan led the envoys to Zi Yan, and they each examined her before concluding that her Ancient Void Dragon bloodline was draining away and her cultivation could not progress.
• Yang Shan pleaded with Bai Jing to save Zi Yan, and Bai Jing said she would think of another way.

Yang Shan reunited Zi Yan with Bai Jing, who confirmed that Zi Yan was a pure-blood Ancient Void Dragon, and the three traveled to Eastern Dragon Island. There, Bai Jing sought an urgent meeting with Elder Zhu Li while Hei Qing went to summon him.

• Yang Shan explained that Yue Mei had lost three stars of potential and fallen to an Excellent foundation after suppressing her Ancient Void Dragon bloodline, and promised to make it up to her.
• Zi Yan sensed Bai Jing's kinship, learned she was an Ancient Void Dragon, and cried with relief before thanking Yang Shan for helping her.
• Bai Jing promised Yang Shan the Eastern Dragon Island's friendship after hearing that Zi Yan had beaten an Eighth Order Heaven Demon Phoenix with a Ninth Grade Bloodline.
• Huang Xuan and a Nine Netherworld Python Clan Dou Zun paid ransom for Fei Feng, Xin Lian, and their followers before taking them away.
• Bai Jing brought Yang Shan and Zi Yan through a spatial passage to Eastern Dragon Island, where Hei Qing greeted her and agreed to invite Elder Zhu Li.

Yang Shan delivered Ziyan to Eastern Dragon Island, where her overwhelming bloodline pressure and a jade pendant identified her as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Royal Daughter. After Zhu Li revealed that her father, Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun, had been missing for three thousand years, Yang Shan comforted Ziyan and earned the island’s leaders’ gratitude and friendship.

• Zhu Li examined Ziyan’s bloodline despite Yang Shan’s warning, then fell to his knees when her pressure overwhelmed him and the others.
• Zhu Li used a dragon-patterned Jade Pendant to confirm that Ziyan was the Royal Daughter and the only descendant of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Emperor.
• Zhu Li told Ziyan that Zhu Kun had been missing for three thousand years after leaving to seek a way to break through to Dou Di.
• Yang Shan comforted the upset Ziyan by suggesting that Zhu Kun might have encountered an extraordinary opportunity, and she accepted his reassurance.
• Zhu Li thanked Yang Shan on behalf of Eastern Dragon Island and named him its most honored guest; the quest system awarded him the friendship of the island’s high-ranking leaders.
• Ziyan clung to Yang Shan and demanded that Zhu Li arrange rewards for him, and Zhu Li agreed.

Zhu Li arranged Zi Yan’s identity and tried to reward Yang Shan, who demanded better treasures and secured Ancient Dragon Origin Blood Essence and access to the Dragon Refining Secret Realm. As Zhu Li helped him refine the blood essence, Yang Shan’s beast phantoms appeared and an Ancient Void Dragon Phantom emerged, prompting Hei Qing to challenge the beasts.

• Zhu Li disguised Zi Yan’s bloodline pressure as eighth-grade potential and praised Yang Shan for recognizing her importance.
• Yang Shan rejected Zhu Li’s Fire Origin Spirit Ginseng as inadequate and revealed that he possessed Bodhi Transformation Saliva.
• Zi Yan pressured Zhu Li to offer Yang Shan something better, so Zhu Li promised him seventh-order Ancient Dragon Origin Blood Essence and entry to the Dragon Refining Secret Realm.
• Zhu Li refined the blood essence into Yang Shan, whose body heated up and whose magical beast phantoms emerged.
• A wolf phantom exploded, revealing a thirty-meter Ancient Void Dragon Phantom above the other beasts, and Hei Qing challenged them to roar at him.

Yang Shan defeated Hei Qing in a demonstration, earning recognition and a new enhancement to his sonic Dou Skill, while Zi Yan explained how Yue Mei had helped protect her and secured opportunities for her friend on Eastern Dragon Island. After the system announced Zi Yan’s storyline had concluded, Yang Shan prepared for the Dragon Refining Secret Realm, and Bai Jing came to escort him there.

• Yang Shan’s Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls struck Hei Qing with a soul attack, and Hei Qing admitted defeat after feeling pain despite his overwhelming cultivation advantage.
• Yang Shan discovered that Ancient Dragon Origin Blood Essence had given Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls a Dragon Roar trait that increased its power and made it harder to defend against.
• Zi Yan told Zhu Li how Yue Mei had taken her place to lure away the Dou Zuns, and Zhu Li promised to arrange opportunities for Yue Mei on Eastern Dragon Island.
• Yang Shan joked that he almost wanted to marry Zi Yan, and the system announced that Zi Yan’s storyline had concluded and her Favorability toward him had risen to 45 points.
• Yang Shan logged off to prepare for the Dragon Refining Secret Realm, then met Bai Jing when she came to escort him to see Zhu Li.

Yang Shan entered the Dragon Refining Secret Realm with the rare Traceless Meteorite Iron Zhu Li gave him and gathered materials by defeating lingering souls. After ten days, he reached the Dragon Refining Hall with thirty-one materials, ready to forge a saber.

• Zhu Li gave Yang Shan the Traceless Meteorite Iron Zi Yan had chosen and sent him into the Dragon Refining Secret Realm.
• Yang Shan killed a yellow-furred marten lingering soul with Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls and collected Golden Spirit Steel from its skeleton.
• Yang Shan continued through the secret realm, defeating lingering souls and gathering refining materials while Hei Qing and Bai Jing watched him.
• Bai Jing let Yang Shan collect more than twenty materials before Hei Qing began interfering, leaving Yang Shan to find no further materials for eight days.
• Yang Shan reached the Dragon Refining Hall with thirty-one materials and prepared to forge the saber he had long designed.

Yang Shan used Dragon Refining Hall to forge his custom weapon, Yan Luo, with help from the residual soul Zhu Tian, and his combat attributes rose after he obtained it. After leaving the hall with Hei Qing and Bai Jing, Yang Shan learned from Su Yitang that the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly was about to begin.

• Yang Shan designed a custom blade with AI Xiao Qing and asked the residual souls in Dragon Refining Hall to forge it.
• Zhu Tian borrowed Yang Shan's Sea Heart Flame, explained how Traceless Meteorite Iron worked, and warned him to nurture it properly.
• Zhu Tian presented Yang Shan with Yan Luo, a Mid-Grade Primal Artifact whose special traits included a dual-blade transformation.
• Yang Shan checked his improved panel and used Extraterrestrial Ghoul Lightning, boosting his speed and Dou Qi intensity to seven-colored ratings.
• Yang Shan left Dragon Refining Hall and met Hei Qing and Bai Jing, then received Su Yitang's message that the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly was about to be held.

Yang Shan traveled to Eastern Thunder City for the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly and learned of a trade fair hosted by Appraisal Treasure Mountain. At the entrance, he encountered Feng Qing'er again and revealed his strength to enter without paying the fee.

• Yang Shan discussed the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly with the Players, and Yu Feifei arranged for Liu Ruyan to stream their matches.
• Hei Qing brought Yang Shan through a Space Channel to Eastern Thunder City, where Yang Shan learned about Appraisal Treasure Mountain’s trade fair outside the city.
• Yang Shan went to the trade fair, whose entrance rules required early-stage Dou Zongs to pay a fee.
• Feng Qing'er recognized Yang Shan, and her hatred toward him rose by five points.
• Yang Shan ignored Feng Qing'er's mockery and released his Five-Star Dou Zong aura, prompting the gatekeepers to let him enter.

Yang Shan entered the Appraisal Treasure Mountain trade fair, where his enhanced Heavenly Eye Vision helped him search for valuable bargains while Feng Qing'er followed and tried to obstruct him. After Yang Shan identified a rare healing vine, Feng Qing'er abruptly outbid him, leaving the purchase unresolved.

• Feng Qing'er revealed that she had reached Eight-Star Dou Zong and watched Yang Shan head toward the trade fair.
• Yang Shan received three uses of Heavenly Eye Vision, enhanced by his 99 points of Good Fortune, and began carefully inspecting the stalls.
• Feng Qing'er grew impatient with Yang Shan’s slow browsing, then argued with him when he demanded that she bow or lend him money.
• Fei Tian saw Yang Shan and Feng Qing'er whispering closely and suspected something was going on between them.
• Yang Shan used Heavenly Eye Vision to identify a Seventh Order Rare Hundred Leaf Heavenly Heart Vine that could weaken weakened states.
• Feng Qing'er offered twelve million Spirit Stones for the vine before Yang Shan could finish negotiating.

Yang Shan provoked Feng Qing'er into wagering the Hundred Leaf Blood Vine on their fight at the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly, then met with Thunder Lord to secure favorable terms for the contest. As Yang Shan prepared to meet Fei Tian, a beast in his Blood Contract Space announced that it had advanced.

• Yang Shan and Feng Qing'er agreed that she would give him the Hundred Leaf Blood Vine if he beat her at the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly, and she paid twelve million Spirit Stones for it.
• Yang Shan used his remaining Heavenly Eye Vision chances at the trade fair, then visited Thunder Lord at the Wind and Thunder East Pavilion.
• Thunder Lord expanded eligibility for learning the Three Thousand Thunder Illusory Body to the assembly's top ten and offered Yang Shan a twenty percent discount on Contribution Point exchanges.
• Yang Shan concluded that Thunder Lord was trying to avoid offending either him or Feng Qing'er, then prepared to meet Fei Tian.
• A beast in Yang Shan's Blood Contract Space told him that it had advanced.

The Four Directions Pavilion Assembly began as the four pavilion leaders and sixty-four contestants gathered, while Liu Ruyan livestreamed the event. Feng Qing'er’s maneuver left Yang Shan to enter alone, so he made a dramatic, music-backed entrance that put him above the other contestants.

• Fei Tian welcomed the guests, and Thunder Lord, Sword Lord, Yellow Spring Venerable, and Venerable Feng arrived to open the assembly.
• Fei Tian announced the sixty-four contestants, and Liu Ruyan livestreamed their entrances, including Xiao Aotian, Mu Qingluan, Yi Qingyang, Tang Ying, Wang Chen, Blood Rampage, and Feng Qing'er.
• Feng Qing'er entered before Yang Shan, leaving him behind the gate, and Thunder Lord instructed Fei Tian to announce Yang Shan as the Eastern Thunder Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master.
• Yang Shan blamed Feng Qing'er for leaving him to enter alone and asked Liu Ruyan to set the scene with music.
• Liu Ruyan played flute and drum music as Yang Shan appeared in his Blood-Red Cloak, rode a blue phoenix into the air, and looked down at the contestants.

Yang Shan entered the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly preliminaries and let his Ancient Beast, Black Da Sha, fight his group while he watched the other matches. The preliminaries unfolded across eight areas, and Yang Shan suspected the finals might arrange for him to face Mu Qingluan.

• The four Venerables praised Yang Shan’s strength, and Thunder Lord revealed that the Wind and Thunder Pavilion Patriarch, Chen Zhanghao, had sent Yang Shan back to gain experience.
• Fei Tian began the preliminary draw, and Yang Shan, Xiao Aotian, Yi Qingyang, and Blood Rampage received the competition’s Blood Lock system prompt.
• Yang Shan entered the northern competition area, summoned the transformed Howling Moon Wolf Black Da Sha, and ordered him to defeat the other seven contestants.
• Yang Shan watched Mu Qingluan, Feng Qing'er, Wang Chen, Tang Ying, Yi Qingyang, and Xiao Aotian display their abilities in their respective areas.
• Blood Rampage struggled against a One-Star Dou Zong, and Yang Shan judged him the only dark horse before wondering whether the Venerables would arrange his first final match against Mu Qingluan.

Xiao Aotian fought Mu Qingluan in the Starfall Pavilion quarterfinals, using his Fallen Heart Flame and refined ruler techniques to withstand her attacks. As Yang Shan predicted, Mu Qingluan began losing her advantage before using her Bloodline Secret Skill, and Xiao Aotian prepared to counterattack.

• Liu Ruyan announced that Xiao Aotian and Mu Qingluan would face each other in the quarterfinals and opened a betting pool.
• Xiao Aotian entered the arena determined to impress Mu Qingluan, and Fei Tian began the match.
• Xiao Aotian defended against Mu Qingluan's Azure Wind with his Giant Ruler and Fallen Heart Flame, but she overpowered him in a direct clash with her shortsword.
• Yang Shan bet Feng Qing'er a Seventh Order Essence Spirit Crystal that Mu Qingluan would fall behind before using her Bloodline Secret Skill, and Feng Qing'er accepted.
• Mu Qingluan used the Wind Spirit Swordplay and pressured Xiao Aotian, but his concealed, intricate ruler techniques gradually reduced her openings.
• Xiao Aotian told Mu Qingluan it was his turn and launched his Six Harmonies Roaming Body Ruler.

Xiao Aotian fought Mu Qingluan in the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly quarterfinals, forced her to use her Bloodline Secret Skill, then conceded so she could advance in good condition. After joking with Yang Shan about their favorability gains and arranging to accompany Mu Qingluan, Xiao Aotian watched Blood Rampage lose a one-sided quarterfinal to Tang Ying as the next match paired Yang Shan with Wang Chen.

• Xiao Aotian used the Six Harmonies Roaming Body Ruler and other Dou Skills to suppress Mu Qingluan until she escaped with Wind Luan Instantaneous Movement.
• Mu Qingluan offered to concede if Xiao Aotian showed a potentially dangerous Dou Skill, but Xiao Aotian instead admitted defeat and Fei Tian declared Mu Qingluan the winner.
• Xiao Aotian learned that Yang Shan had received a Seventh Order Essence Spirit Crystal from Feng Qing'er, then hurried to invite Mu Qingluan to another viewing platform while she recovered.
• Male viewers in Liu Ruyan's livestream cursed Xiao Aotian for getting close to Mu Qingluan, while he enjoyed their reaction.
• Tang Ying defeated the One-Star Dou Zong Blood Rampage in the second quarterfinal without a prolonged fight.
• Fei Tian drew the third quarterfinal matchup, and Liu Ruyan announced that Yang Shan would face Wang Chen.

Yang Shan faced Wang Chen in the tournament final and overwhelmed him despite Wang Chen’s higher cultivation. The match ended with Wang Chen surrendering after Yang Shan pinned him down and battered him.

• Livestream viewers and Liu Ruyan dismissed Wang Chen’s chances against Yang Shan, while Wang Chen focused on avenging his defeat in the Tyrant Blade Secret Realm.
• Wang Chen recalled his family’s support and Yellow Spring Venerable’s training, then boasted that his Six-Star Dou Zong cultivation would let him defeat Yang Shan.
• Thunder Lord wagered thirty spirit crystals against Yellow Spring Venerable after Yang Shan assured him he could win.
• Wang Chen opened with the Corpse Erosion Hand, but Yang Shan shattered its attack with Extraterrestrial Ghoul Lightning, bound Wang Chen, and pinned him to the ground.
• Yang Shan repeatedly struck Wang Chen through his Protective Gang Qi until Wang Chen shouted that he surrendered.