Chapter Summaries

Nalan Ye discovered that Fire Battle’s Extinction Divine Light was made from layered space and learned to use it through his Ancient Void Dragon bloodline. With the light neutralized and his own physical strength superior, Nalan Ye drove Fire Battle back until he called for help.

• Fire Battle used Extinction Divine Light to weaken Nalan Ye’s attacks and sent him crashing into the ground.
• Cai Lin stopped Qing Lin from joining the fight and continued toward Eastern Dragon Island with her and Black Water Profound Yin.
• Nalan Ye used his Dragon Eyes to see that Extinction Divine Light consisted of layers of space and learned to reproduce it.
• Nalan Ye’s Extinction Divine Light dispersed Fire Battle’s, allowing his punch to send the dragon flying.
• Nalan Ye and Fire Battle exchanged hundreds of physical blows, and Fire Battle gradually fell behind.
• Fire Battle called for Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu to save him.

Nalan Ye helped Eastern Dragon Island repel an attack after Fire Battle fled and Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu withdrew their forces. Zhu Li revealed that Zi Yan had been seriously injured fighting the three Dragon Kings and was absent from the battle.

• Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu pretended to hurry to Fire Battle's aid but left him to face Nalan Ye alone.
• Nalan Ye struck Fire Battle with the Great Heaven Creation Palm, and Fire Battle fled to Northern Dragon Island and ordered his forces to retreat.
• Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu blamed Fire Battle for the withdrawal and led their own forces back to Western and Southern Dragon Islands.
• Zhu Li introduced himself to Nalan Ye, and Hei Qing confirmed that Nalan Ye was Zi Yan's friend.
• Zhu Li explained that Zi Yan had driven back the three Dragon Kings after refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, but she had been seriously injured.

Nalan Ye learned that Eastern Dragon Island was threatened by the three Dragon Kings and went to check on Zi Yan, who was badly injured. After reuniting with her, he discovered that her vital energy and blood were severely depleted and told her to eat as much as she wanted for now.

• Zhu Li told Nalan Ye that Xuan Mo, Zhu Mu, and Fire Battle had tested Eastern Dragon Island and would likely attack again while Zi Yan was injured.
• Zhu Li asked Nalan Ye to take Zi Yan to the human world, but Nalan Ye insisted on seeing her first and offered to treat her.
• Nalan Ye reunited with Cai Lin, Qing Lin, and the others before Zhu Li led him to Zi Yan's quarters.
• Nalan Ye found Zi Yan hiding and eating a spiritual herb, and she explained that Zhu Li had forbidden her from eating herbs before they were refined into pills.
• Nalan Ye examined Zi Yan and discovered that her vital energy and blood were dangerously depleted, so he told her to eat whatever she wanted for the time being.

Zi Yan learned that the blood essence came from her father, Zhu Kun, and struggled with years of loneliness before accepting Nalan Ye’s promise to help rescue him. As she began refining the blood essence, news from Eastern Dragon Island reached Northern Dragon Island, where Fire Battle entered the Dragon Hall.

• Zi Yan recognized Zhu Kun’s blood essence and, after Nalan Ye explained that her father had been trapped, broke down over her childhood without parents.
• Nalan Ye comforted Zi Yan, promised to help rescue Zhu Kun when the time came, and gave her the blood essence to refine.
• Zi Yan began refining the blood essence while Nalan Ye stood guard beside her.
• The armies of the three Dragon Islands returned to their islands with news from Eastern Dragon Island.
• Fire Battle entered the Dragon Hall on Northern Dragon Island with a grim expression.

The Three Great Dragon Kings joined forces to attack Eastern Dragon Island while Zi Yan was believed to be injured. Zhu Li rallied the outnumbered defenders to fight for the Dragon Emperor as the armies clashed.

• Fire Battle told the Northern Dragon King that Zi Yan had not appeared during the previous attack and was likely badly injured.
• The Northern Dragon King ordered the three Dragon Islands to unite and destroy Eastern Dragon Island.
• Several days later, the three islands' armies gathered and advanced on Eastern Dragon Island.
• Hei Qing warned Zhu Li that the allied armies had arrived, and Zhu Li saw the Three Great Dragon Kings leading them.
• Zhu Li condemned the Dragon Kings as rebels and refused their demand to submit.
• Zhu Li called on Eastern Dragon Island to fight for Zi Yan, and its defenders charged into battle.

The Three Great Dragon Kings attacked Eastern Dragon Island, overwhelming its defenders while Zi Yan continued refining the blood essence. Nalan Ye prepared to face the attackers in her place, but Zi Yan stopped him, claiming she could teach him a powerful secret technique.

• The Three Great Dragon Kings and their elders badly outnumbered Eastern Dragon Island's three elders and drove them into a desperate fight.
• Qing Lin panicked at the battle, and Cai Lin sent her to find Nalan Ye while she stayed behind.
• Nalan Ye realized the Three Great Dragon Kings had attacked as Zi Yan remained in the Cultivation Quiet Room refining the blood essence.
• Zi Yan decided to leave the quiet room and fight for Eastern Dragon Island, but Nalan Ye offered to hold off the attackers so she could keep cultivating.
• Zi Yan thanked Nalan Ye and promised him half of any spiritual medicine she found, then stopped him and offered to teach him a powerful secret technique.

After Zi Yan passed Nalan Ye the Dragon Emperor Sword secret art, he emerged to confront the Southern Dragon King as Eastern Dragon Island’s defenders were being overwhelmed. He saved Zhu Li from an execution attempt but narrowly dodged the Southern Dragon King’s devastating counterattack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Zi Yan revealed that she had inherited the Dragon Emperor Sword secret art and passed it to Nalan Ye, whose bloodline let him learn to use it.
• Nalan Ye left the Cultivation Quiet Room and reassured Qing Lin before heading into the chaotic battle on Eastern Dragon Island.
• The Southern Dragon King defeated Zhu Li with one punch and moved to crush him while declaring his intent to rule the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Nalan Ye flew out and struck at the Southern Dragon King with the Great Heaven Creation Palm, but the Dragon King broke the attack and retaliated.
• Nalan Ye dodged the Southern Dragon King’s punch, which shattered the ground and left Eastern Dragon Island close to collapse.

I used Zi Yan’s secret technique, the Dragon Emperor Sword, to sever the Southern Dragon King’s arm and reveal the Dragon Emperor’s authority over the Ancient Void Dragons. When the Northern Dragon King joined the confrontation, I held my ground to buy Zi Yan time to refine the Dragon Emperor Blood Essence.

• The Southern Dragon King attacked me, and I summoned the Dragon Emperor Sword using Zi Yan’s secret technique.
• I cut off the Southern Dragon King’s forearm with one strike, causing the Ancient Void Dragons to feel the sword’s bloodline suppression.
• The Eastern Dragon Island Great Elder recognized the Dragon Emperor Sword and declared that the Dragon Emperor had returned.
• I challenged the Dragon Kings and elders to submit or die, and they hesitated to face me.
• The Northern Dragon King stepped forward to confront me, and I stayed to buy Zi Yan time to finish refining the Dragon Emperor Blood Essence.

The narrator was overwhelmed as the Northern Dragon King and Southern Dragon King attacked him together, despite his use of the Dragon Emperor Sword. Just as everyone on Eastern Dragon Island believed he was doomed, a furious, majestic voice threatened to destroy both rival islands if he was harmed.

• The Northern Dragon King drove the narrator back with his golden halberd, revealing that the Dragon Emperor Sword did not suppress him while he held a weapon.
• The Northern Dragon King wounded the narrator, while Zhu Li, Qing Lin, and Cai Lin watched helplessly.
• The Southern Dragon King launched Dragon's Regret, and the narrator's Great Heaven Creation Palm failed to stop the energy dragon.
• The Northern Dragon King stopped attacking and watched as the Southern Dragon King's technique continued toward the narrator.
• An icy voice threatened to slaughter Southern Dragon Island and Northern Dragon Island if anyone harmed the narrator.

Zi Yan used Zhu Kun's essence blood to unleash the Dragon Emperor Sword and overwhelm the Southern Dragon King and his allies. As the Northern and Western Dragon Kings joined the fight, she attacked the Western Dragon King and shattered his dragon-scale defenses.

• Zi Yan summoned a powerful violet-gold Dragon Emperor Sword and broke the Southern Dragon Island dragons' encirclement, killing one and badly injuring the Southern Dragon King and Xuan Mo.
• Zi Yan blamed the Dragon Kings for fighting over the Dragon Emperor Position while her father was missing, then charged at the Southern Dragon King.
• The Northern Dragon King intercepted Zi Yan and struck her from behind, but her Dragon Phoenix Armor withstood his halberd.
• The Northern Dragon King called the Western Dragon King to join the fight, and Zi Yan told the Eastern Dragon Island Great Elder to let him come.
• Zi Yan condemned the three Dragon Kings and struck the Western Dragon King, whose golden scales shattered under her Dragon Emperor Sword.

Zi Yan defeated the Three Great Dragon Kings, but her self-sacrificing attack left her gravely injured. Nalan treated her and ordered two defecting elders to lead him to the dragon islands’ treasuries for treasures that might restore her.

• Zi Yan shattered the Three Great Dragon Kings’ golden bell with the Dragon Emperor Sword, sending the kings fleeing after they were wounded.
• Nalan caught Zi Yan as she nearly collapsed, discovered her injuries had worsened, and fed her his best Healing Pills.
• The surviving elders scattered, while Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu defected to Eastern Dragon Island and argued with Zhu Li that they had followed clan rules.
• Nalan silenced Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu, demanded their submission, and accepted their offer to reveal Western Dragon Island’s treasury.
• Nalan and Zhu Li followed Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu toward Southern Dragon Island to seek treasures that could help heal Zi Yan.

On the way to Southern Dragon Island, Nalan considered comprehending the Fire Great Dao as his second Great Dao and cultivating the Flame Mantra. After Xuan Mo broke into the Southern Dragon King’s vault, Nalan and his companions chose treasures before discovering a mysterious flame deep inside.

• Zhu Li explained that Nalan needed to comprehend a second Great Dao to advance and suggested choosing one that complemented his first.
• Nalan proposed comprehending the Fire Great Dao, realizing that his Saint realm let him transcend the limits of his innate lightning attribute.
• Xuan Mo led Zhu Li, Nalan, and their companions into Southern Dragon Island’s deserted Dragon Palace and smashed open the Southern Dragon King’s sealed treasury.
• Nalan allowed Qing Lin, Cai Lin, and Black Water Profound Yin to choose treasures, while Black Water Profound Yin picked a rare mushroom for Nalan to refine into pills.
• As the group explored deeper into the vault, they encountered scorching air and purple-black light, then discovered a flame at its far end.

Nalan Ye discovered the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Southern Dragon King's treasury and subdued it despite its violent resistance. He left with the rare Different Fire contained in a spatial barrier, and Zhu Li remarked that it seemed to point toward Nalan Ye's second Great Dao.

• Nalan Ye recognized the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Zhu Li offered it to him because it was of little use to the Ancient Void Dragons.
• Nalan Ye tried to seize the flame, but it burned away his Dou Qi and attacked as the treasury's restrictions began to fail.
• Nalan Ye used the Great Heaven Creation Palm to scatter the flame, but it reformed and broke free into a raging sea of fire.
• Nalan Ye shielded Cai Lin, Qing Lin, and the others, then trapped and compressed the Three Thousand Burning Flame with spatial power.
• Cai Lin warned Nalan Ye when the flame struck back, but he suppressed it, and Zhu Li congratulated him on obtaining the treasure.

Nalan obtained the Three Thousand Burning Flame and helped Zi Yan’s side secure the dragon islands, then returned to Eastern Dragon Island to prepare healing pills for her. He began studying the Exotic Flame in a quiet room, intending to use fire as the foundation of his second Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

• Nalan thanked Elder Zhu Li for the Three Thousand Burning Flame and gathered medicinal herbs from the treasure vault.
• Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu reclaimed treasures from the vault, and Nalan stopped Zhu Li from confronting them because he still needed their help.
• The group searched Western and Northern Dragon Islands, but Northern Dragon Island had no treasure vault and its remaining eighth-tier magical beasts had fled or refused to submit.
• Nalan returned to Eastern Dragon Island, found Zi Yan eating wine and meat despite her injuries, and told her to rest while he made pills.
• Nalan entered a cultivation quiet room, brought out the Three Thousand Burning Flame and the Human World Kindling Flame, and prepared to begin his Fire Great Dao.

Nalan Ye refined three Seven Rank Eight Color Pills for Zi Yan, then prepared to return to the Central Plains to deal with the Hall of Souls. Zi Yan could not leave Dragon Island, so Nalan Ye arranged for Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu to accompany him instead.

• Nalan Ye failed to understand the essence of Exotic Flames and put off comprehending the Fire Great Dao to focus on Zi Yan’s injuries.
• Nalan Ye spent more than ten days refining three Seven Rank Eight Color Pills, which Zi Yan immediately swallowed.
• Nalan Ye told Zi Yan he needed to return to the Central Plains, and Zi Yan offered to go with him to fight the Hall of Souls.
• Zhu Li and the elders persuaded Zi Yan to remain on Dragon Island because she was still weak and the escaped Three Great Dragon Kings remained a threat.
• Nalan Ye proposed taking Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu with him and reminded them that he wielded the Dragon Emperor Sword.
• Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu agreed to follow the Dragon Emperor’s command and accompany Nalan Ye.

Wu Hall Master returned to the Hall of Souls with spoils from a raid and earned the Seventh Heavenly Venerate’s praise, while rivals challenged him to kill Nalan Ye. The Seventh Heavenly Venerate then announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would soon appear, stirring excitement over the rare chance to gain enlightenment.

• Wu Hall Master reported to the Seventh Heavenly Venerate and presented a Ring of Holding and a Soul Bottle filled with souls from Pill Tower members he had killed.
• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate praised Wu Hall Master, returned the Ring of Holding as a reward, and drew envy from the other Hall Masters.
• Zhe Hall Master and others mocked Wu Hall Master, urging him to kill Nalan Ye, but Wu Hall Master challenged Zhe Hall Master to avenge Star Plucking Old Ghost instead.
• Wu Hall Master warned the other Hall Masters that the Great Love Alliance might discover their whereabouts and silently remembered those who had mocked him.
• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would soon appear, prompting the Hall of Souls members to discuss its power to grant enlightenment.

The Seventh Heavenly Venerate prepared to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while Wu Hall Master worried that the Hall of Souls would grow too powerful. On the journey back to the Central Plains, Nalan persuaded Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu to join the Great Love Alliance by suggesting that the Hall of Souls’ collected souls could ease their need for long slumbers.

• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate chose Wu Hall Master and several trusted experts to accompany him when the Bodhi Ancient Tree emerged.
• Wu Hall Master feared that the Hall of Souls would gain enough strength to destroy the balance with the Great Love Alliance and Pill Tower.
• Nalan left Eastern Dragon Island with Qing Lin, Cai Lin, Black Water Profound Yin, Xuan Mo, Zhu Mu, and the others.
• Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu explained that exhausted magical beasts needed to sleep because their powerful bodies strained their weak souls.
• Nalan urged Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu to join the Great Love Alliance, claiming the Hall of Souls’ soul power could help them avoid long slumbers.

Nalan persuaded Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu to pursue greater strength by cultivating their souls and promised that Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion might offer them a chance to advance further. He brought Cai Lin and the others to the Great Love Alliance headquarters in the Star Realm, where Cai Lin saw Starfall Pavilion for the first time.

• Nalan argued that Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu needed to strengthen their souls if they wanted to advance beyond their bloodline limits.
• Nalan cited Cai Lin's evolution and suggested that Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu could someday become Ninth Order Magical Beasts.
• Nalan revealed that Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion might hold opportunities for advancement, and Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu agreed to act if the opportunity arose.
• Nalan and the others traveled to the Great Love Alliance headquarters at Starfall Pavilion and entered the Star Realm quietly.
• Cai Lin admired the Star Realm, and Nalan welcomed the group while telling Qing Lin to treat it as her new home.