Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan traveled to the Central Plains to gather rare medicinal ingredients and other materials, then visited Starfall Pavilion to meet his teacher Yao Lao’s old friend, Feng Xian. With Feng Xian away, Mu Qingluan explained the pavilion’s situation and recognized Lu Yuan as the suspicious figure who had outmaneuvered Feng Qing Er at the Tianshan Blood Pool.

• Lu Yuan left Xiao Yan and Yao Lao after explaining his plans and headed to the Central Plains for ingredients and other rare materials.
• Mu Qingluan told Lu Yuan that Feng Xian was away discussing a possible alliance among the Four Directions Pavilion, complicated by Yellow Springs Pavilion’s reputation and conduct.
• Mu Qingluan explained Starfall Pavilion’s seating customs and apologized that Feng Xian was absent, offering to let Lu Yuan wait or leave a letter for him.
• Lu Yuan noticed that Yao Lao’s old chair remained beside Feng Xian’s, showing Feng Xian still regarded Yao Lao as a co-owner of Starfall Pavilion.
• Mu Qingluan recalled Lu Yuan’s role in the Tianshan Blood Pool incident and suspected he had infiltrated Wind and Thunder Pavilion, gained Feng Qing Er’s trust, and deceived her.

Mu Qingluan imagined a future for herself and Lu Yuan at Starfall Pavilion before Feng Xian returned. Lu Yuan asked Feng Xian to help gather ingredients for Yao Chen’s resurrection, but the request for Eight-Order Heavenly Demon Phoenix essence blood showed that Lu Yuan planned to obtain the rarest materials himself.

• Mu Qingluan reflected on her place in the Qingluan Clan and considered leaving its registry to become Starfall Pavilion’s future pavilion master.
• Mu Qingluan imagined herself and Lu Yuan leading Starfall Pavilion together, until Feng Xian returned and interrupted her reverie.
• Lu Yuan told Feng Xian that he had a procedure for resurrecting Yao Chen and asked him to collect some auxiliary ingredients.
• Feng Xian questioned whether the ingredients Lu Yuan assigned him were truly easy to find after examining part of the Pill Formula.
• Lu Yuan named Eight-Order Heavenly Demon Phoenix essence blood as one of the materials he would obtain, leaving Feng Xian unable to offer help.

Lu Yuan revealed to Feng Xian and Mu Qingluan that he was a Three-Star Dou Sheng, had known Zi Yan since Canaan Academy, and had caused Feng Qing Er to lose the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. Feng Xian offered Starfall Pavilion’s support, then outlined the tangled conflicts spreading across the Central State.

• Mu Qingluan told Feng Xian that Lu Yuan was friends with Zi Yan, prompting Feng Xian to reconsider his warning about the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Lu Yuan disclosed his Three-Star Dou Sheng cultivation and confirmed his connections to Zi Yan and Feng Qing Er’s lost Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Feng Xian accepted Lu Yuan’s explanation, praised Yao Chen’s judgment, and offered Starfall Pavilion’s help with the Void Ancient Dragon Clan’s troubles.
• Mu Qingluan offered support from the Qingluan Clan, but Lu Yuan asked her not to approach them yet and requested an account of recent events.
• Feng Xian described the widespread clashes among the Ancient Eight Clans, major sects, Danta, and other powers across the Central State.

Lu Yuan learned that a Thunder Clan Dou Zun and a Nine Netherworld Python Clan Dou Zun were fighting near the Thunder Clan’s battlefield with the Soul Clan, so he teleported there to investigate. The two fighters stopped when they sensed his strength, and the Nine Netherworld Python Dou Zun told him where the larger battle was taking place.

• Guards in a teahouse discussed the chaos across the Central Plains and the Thunder Clan and Nine Netherworld Python Clan Dou Zuns fighting in the Manmang Mountain Range.
• Lu Yuan overheard that the Thunder Clan and Soul Clan battlefield was nearby and decided to go see it.
• Lu Yuan appeared behind the Thunder Clan Dou Zun during his battle with the Nine Netherworld Python Dou Zun, startling both fighters into stopping.
• The Thunder Clan Dou Zun respectfully asked Lu Yuan what he wanted, while the Nine Netherworld Python Dou Zun waited silently.
• Lu Yuan asked whether the Thunder Clan and Soul Clan battlefield was nearby, and the Nine Netherworld Python Dou Zun said it lay four hundred thousand miles southwest, with both clans’ Young Clan Leaders present.

Lu Yuan learned that the Thunder Clan and Soul Clan were clashing in separate circles, with Lei Dong and Hun Feng leading the younger generation. At the battlefield’s edge, he realized Hun Feng had already become a Dou Sheng and suspected the Soul Clan was concealing his strength to kill Thunder Clan geniuses.

• A Nine Netherworld Python Clan elder told Lu Yuan that the Thunder Clan and Soul Clan’s fighting centered on their young clan leaders, while a Thunder Clan Dou Zun confirmed that Lei Dong had recently become a Dou Sheng.
• The elder described three battle circles: seniors, juniors, and outsiders, and explained how the major clans were fighting across several fronts.
• Lu Yuan left the two Dou Zuns to resume their battle and traveled four hundred thousand li to the Thunder Clan–Soul Clan battlefield.
• Lu Yuan assessed the Soul Clan’s superior high-level forces and noted that the Soul Clan’s younger fighters continued battling while Hun Feng and other top geniuses avoided direct combat.
• Lu Yuan sensed that Hun Feng had become a Dou Sheng and concluded that the Soul Clan was hiding his strength to inflict heavy losses on the Thunder Clan’s younger generation.

Lu Yuan secretly killed Soul Clan forces on the battlefield, prompting Hun Feng to conclude that Lei Dong was demanding a decisive battle. Fearing a Thunder Clan–Gu Clan alliance, Hun Feng set out to confront Lei Dong and ordered the use of fallen Soul Clan members to complete a blood formation.

• Lu Yuan reflected on his grievances with the Soul Clan and decided to intervene, then secretly caused Soul Clan cultivators across the battlefield to die.
• Hun Feng examined the shattered Life Tablets and inferred that Lei Dong had attacked, while a messenger reported that Hun Ya's unit had lost contact.
• Hun Feng concluded that the Thunder Clan's strength and the Soul Clan's losses made a decisive battle unavoidable.
• Hun Feng ordered his forces to use the dead Soul Clan members to complete the blood formation and said he would bear responsibility for the clan's forbidden actions.
• Hun Feng warned that a Thunder Clan–Gu Clan alliance would leave the Soul Clan outmatched, then flew toward the Thunder Clan as blood clouds gathered overhead.

Lei Dong concluded that the Soul Clan’s apparent losses meant reinforcements had intervened, and he charged into battle as the Gu Clan’s Black Submerging Army approached. Led by Gu Qingyang, the Gu Clan force had been sent to stop the fighting and keep the weakened Soul Clan from collapsing.

• Lei Dong and Hun Feng waited each other out for more than a month while their clans’ younger fighters clashed, and Lei Dong inferred that an allied force had joined the battle against the Soul Clan.
• Lei Dong charged toward the blood-red sky, believing the Thunder Clan needed to act before Hun Feng made his move.
• Gu Qingyang led the Gu Clan’s Black Submerging Army toward the battlefield, where his commanders discussed the strength of the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and the coalition’s fragile alliances.
• Gu Qingyang explained that Gu Yuan could not risk confronting Zhu Kun while Hun Tiandi and Void Swallowing Flame remained threats to the Gu Clan.
• The Gu Clan had sent its forces to mediate and prevent the Soul Clan from falling into disorder while Hun Tiandi was injured.

Gu Qingyang arrived to mediate the battle between Hun Feng and Lei Dong, reporting that Hun Tiandi had been severely injured and the Soul Clan had withdrawn from Dragon Island. Hun Feng rejected the news without verifiable proof and decided that the Soul Clan had to fight on, while the unexplained attacks on his forces left Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong suspecting each other.

• Gu Qingyang arrived with the Black Submerging Army and found Hun Feng and Lei Dong already fighting above the battlefield.
• Hun Feng revealed that he had prepared a trump card to kill Lei Dong and would use it against Gu Qingyang as well.
• Gu Qingyang told Hun Feng that Zhu Kun had severely injured Hun Tiandi and that the Soul Clan army had withdrawn from Dragon Island.
• Hun Feng demanded evidence, arguing that Gu Qingyang's claim could be a ploy to help the Thunder Clan recover and weaken the Soul Clan.
• Lei Dong vouched for Gu Qingyang and ordered the Thunder Clan forces to withdraw, but Hun Feng refused to stop fighting because the Soul Clan's losses and Hun Tiandi's injury threatened its standing.
• Hun Feng questioned why the Soul Clan had suffered repeated surprise attacks, and Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong each suspected the other of causing them.

Hun Feng’s attempt to unleash the Soul Devouring Life Extinction Array failed before the formation turned against the Soul Clan, leaving Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong searching for the hidden controller. As Gu Qingyang told Lei Dong that Gu Xun’er loved Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan stood silently behind them.

• Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong tried to persuade Hun Feng to avoid a fight, but Hun Feng laughed and activated the Soul Devouring Life Extinction Array.
• The array initially failed to appear, then unexpectedly trapped and refined the Soul Clan descendants while Hun Feng lost control of it.
• Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong realized the Gu Clan and Thunder Clan were unharmed and concluded that an unknown, powerful ally had seized control of the formation.
• Lei Dong asked about the Thunder Clan’s courting proposal, and Gu Qingyang explained that Gu Xun’er loved Lu Yuan and would be allowed to choose her future after her Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
• Lei Dong cursed the man Gu Xun’er loved and threatened to kill him, while Lu Yuan stood silently behind Gu Qingyang.

Lu Yuan confronted Lei Dong and Gu Qingyang after overhearing Lei Dong curse him, then demanded that Gu Qingyang either give Gu Xun'er the position of young clan leader or help her reject the Marriage Contract. Gu Qingyang had not yet chosen how to respond when he questioned whether Lu Yuan's ultimatum was a threat.

• Lu Yuan seized Lei Dong and Gu Qingyang by the shoulders, crushed Lei Dong's Lightning Armor, and revealed that he could overpower him with ease.
• Lu Yuan rejected Gu Qingyang's claim that the Gu Clan and Thunder Clan were his allies, insisting that Lei Dong's insults deserved consequences.
• Gu Qingyang said he would make a public insult into a small matter, so Lu Yuan released him and mocked his judgment and tolerance.
• Lei Dong defended Gu Xun'er as kind and pure, while Lu Yuan dismissed his view and explained that he would not listen to the defense.
• Lu Yuan gave Gu Qingyang two choices: yield the young clan leader position to Gu Xun'er or help her reject the Marriage Contract, and threatened to revise the Gu Clan's rules if Gu Qingyang delayed.
• Gu Qingyang asked whether Lu Yuan was threatening the Gu Clan, believing Lu Yuan lacked the strength to challenge it directly.

Lu Yuan confronted Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong over Gu Xun'er's marriage, demanding that the Gu Clan stop treating her as a tool for alliances. He overwhelmed their forces and ended the chapter by swallowing Gu Qingyang's strongest technique, the Ancient Emperor Shattering Nirvana Finger, with spatial power.

• Lu Yuan warned Gu Qingyang and the Gu Clan to choose between giving Gu Xun'er the young clan leader position or letting her decide her own marriage.
• Lu Yuan suppressed Lei Dong with a hand of mana, then endured Gu Qingyang's Great Extinction Finger with his body.
• Gu Qingyang refused Lu Yuan's demands, defended his right to the young clan leader position, and urged Lu Yuan to speak directly with Gu Yuan and Gu Xun'er.
• Lu Yuan released Lei Dong, said he would visit the Gu Clan during Gu Xun'er's Coming-of-Age Ceremony, and shattered the Black Submerging Army's array before it formed.
• Gu Qingyang unleashed the Ancient Emperor Shattering Nirvana Finger, but Lu Yuan healed the space around them and swallowed the attack.

Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong suspected Lu Yuan was a disguised Void Ancient Dragon after he overwhelmed them and shattered the Soul Devouring Life Extinction Array. Lu Yuan killed the fleeing Hun Feng with a mysterious blade strike, leaving the gathered clansmen panicked and uncertain about Lu Yuan’s true identity.

• Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong activated their Clan Tattoos after Gu Qingyang accused Lu Yuan of being a disguised Void Ancient Dragon.
• Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong questioned why the Soul Devouring Life Extinction Array had broken, then suspected Lu Yuan was responsible.
• Lu Yuan dismissed their suspicions and explained that he had not intended to kill either of them.
• Lu Yuan summoned a multicolored blade and killed the fleeing Hun Feng with a single strike.
• Gu Qingyang, Lei Dong, and the assembled clansmen feared Lu Yuan could kill them just as easily, but remained unsure whether he was a Void Ancient Dragon.

Lu Yuan explained his identity and reasons for joining the battle, then discussed the worsening conflict between the Thunder Clan and Soul Clan with Lei Dong and Gu Qingyang. He revealed that he had caused the Soul Clan’s heavy losses and made clear he would help the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and his other allies, leaving Gu Qingyang unconvinced by his choices.

• Lu Yuan calmed Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong, explained his ties to Gu Xun'er, Zi Yan, Zhu Kun, and Mang Qianchi, and said he had come to oppose the Soul Clan.
• Gu Qingyang questioned why Lu Yuan had killed Soul Clan members rather than capturing them, and the three men then turned their attention to the battlefield spoils.
• Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong reported that Zhu Kun had nearly killed Hun Tiandi, leaving the Soul Clan leaderless, and explained that Gu Qingyang had come to mediate between Hun Feng and Lei Dong.
• Lu Yuan admitted that he had caused the Soul Clan’s losses, which had helped drive Hun Feng to use the Soul Devouring Life Extinction Array.
• Lu Yuan listed his reasons for coming to the Central Plains, including helping the Void Ancient Dragon Clan, and rejected Gu Qingyang’s argument that supporting Zi Yan could conflict with their races’ interests.

After Lu Yuan left to support the Void Ancient Dragon Clan, Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong decided to hide what they knew rather than risk confronting him. Lu Yuan headed toward Zi Yan’s battlefield as the chapter revealed how the Central Plains’ conflicts had spread among the Ancient Clans, magical beast races, and human factions.

• Lu Yuan dismissed Gu Qingyang’s concerns and departed, leaving Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong to debate whether they could stop him.
• Gu Qingyang and Lei Dong agreed to keep quiet about Lu Yuan’s plans and prepare excuses to avoid blame for Hun Feng’s death and the Soul Clan’s losses.
• Lu Yuan learned that Zi Yan was fighting the Stone Clan and Flame Clan near Dragon Severing Valley, while the Spirit Clan and Nine Netherworld Python Clan clashed near Crescent Moon Mountain.
• The Yao Clan’s younger generation competed with Danta in pill refinement, while the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s dispute with the Flame Clan widened the fighting.
• Dragon Descendants, Mixed-bloods, and human sects descended into increasingly indiscriminate battles as the wider war destabilized the Central Plains.

Lu Yuan changed course for Dragon Severing Valley because he feared Zi Yan’s outnumbered forces were in danger. In the valley, scattered Void Ancient Dragon Clan fighters struggled to regroup, while a wounded girl and her companion planned their next move in Stone Clan territory.

• Lu Yuan reasoned that Zi Yan’s side faced a severe disadvantage against the Stone Clan, Flame Clan, and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, so he headed toward Dragon Severing Valley instead of Dragon Island.
• In Dragon Severing Valley, the Void Ancient Dragon Clan’s young fighters fought across a vast swamp basin divided into territories, with Zi Yan and her forces under pressure in the Core Area.
• A young Void Ancient Dragon carried an injured girl into an underground chamber after their squad was scattered by a clash with Huo Zhi’s Flame Clan members and an encounter with a Heavenly Demon Phoenix.
• The girl explained that their squad had been sent to reinforce the East District, whose defenses were threatened by enemy forces and their numerical advantage.
• The young man advised waiting until the girl recovered, then searching nearby for surviving squad members and ambushing Stone Clan fighters in the South District.

Shi Potian’s squad searched the Stone Clan’s rear for scattered Void Ancient Dragon Clan fighters while complaining about the Flame Clan’s mess. They encountered Lu Yuan, whose connections to several major factions prompted them to recognize him and lower their weapons.

• Shi Yao complained that the Stone Clan had to hunt Void Ancient Dragon Clan remnants after Huo Zhi’s forces scattered them, and Shi Potian explained that the Young Clan Leader had also sacrificed his chance to fight Zi Yan to reinforce the rear.
• Shi Potian warned his squad that the scattered Dou Zongs were dangerous hunters, and Shi Yao pointed out that he had promised three days earlier they would clear them out within three days.
• Shi Potian’s squad spotted a lone figure in the forest, drew their weapons, and asked who he was.
• Lu Yuan introduced himself as being connected to Starfall Pavilion, Wind and Thunder Pavilion, and Danta, then explained that Xuan Yi was his teacher and Feng Qing Er was his senior sister.
• Shi Yao recognized Lu Yuan as the man Gu Xun'er had chosen over the Thunder Clan’s Young Clan Leader, and Shi Potian apologized as the squad sheathed their weapons.

Lu Yuan stopped the Stone Clan and Void Ancient Dragon Clan fighters from fighting, then used Zi Yan’s token to take command of the captured dragons. After learning the Flame Clan had also disrupted the forces in Dragon Severing Valley, he set out to gather reinforcements for Zi Yan in the Core Area.

• Shi Potian introduced his Stone Clan squad and advised Lu Yuan to seek Heavenly Demon Phoenix blood from the Flame Clan if Feng Qing Er could not help him.
• Four Void Ancient Dragon Clan fighters ambushed the Stone Clan squad, but Lu Yuan neutralized their Spatial Slashes and forced all four to emerge.
• Shi Potian asked Lu Yuan to hand over the captured dragons in exchange for the Stone Clan’s friendship, but Lu Yuan showed Zi Yan’s token and ordered the dragons to obey him.
• Qian Chengyue verified the token and submitted to Lu Yuan on behalf of the four Void Ancient Dragons.
• Lu Yuan told Shi Potian he was friends with Zi Yan but represented only himself, then ordered the dragons to contact their companions and join him in supporting Zi Yan in the Core Area.
• The Void Ancient Dragons explained that the Flame Clan had fought the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, scattered their forces, and had strained relations with Gu Xun’er’s younger generation.

Lu Yuan led thirty-odd Void Ancient Dragon Dou Zongs through the Stone Clan’s rear area toward the Core Area, where they avenged their companions on the Flame Clan and joined the battle. He arrived to find Zi Yan fighting as the rearguard while Feng Qing Er and Jiu Feng pursued her.

• Lu Yuan gave the gathered Void Ancient Dragon Dou Zongs an hour to rest, then led them toward the Core Area, sparing Stone Clan members who surrendered and killing Flame Clan members he permitted them to attack.
• The Void Ancient Dragons learned that the Flame Clan had turned their slain companions into food, and they tortured Flame Clan fighters in retaliation.
• Lu Yuan killed successive groups of Flame Clan experts, including several Dou Zuns, while nearly ten Flame Clan Dou Zun Life Tablets shattered without survivors to explain what had happened.
• Lu Yuan and the thirty-odd Dou Zongs reached the Void Ancient Dragon Clan’s main force and saw Zi Yan fighting as the rearguard against Feng Qing Er and Jiu Feng.

Lu Yuan arrived in the battle between the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and stopped the fighting, then faced Feng Qing Er’s anger over his past deception. He proposed that the two clans coexist by ending their mutual predation, declaring that he could make both sides comply.

• Lu Yuan appeared between Zi Yan, Feng Qing Er, and Jiu Feng, suppressed their attacks, and halted the battle around them.
• Feng Qing Er confronted Lu Yuan about hiding his identity and betraying her trust, while the watching clans mistook the scene for a love triangle.
• Lu Yuan asked both clans to withdraw and negotiate; Jiu Feng and Zi Yan ordered their people to stop fighting and pull back.
• Feng Qing Er demanded to know what Lu Yuan would have done if she had refused, and Lu Yuan admitted he had wronged her but denied betraying her.
• Jiu Feng and Zi Yan argued that the clans’ accumulated hatred and instinct to devour one another made coexistence impossible.
• Lu Yuan argued that neither clan needed to eat the other to survive and said he would enforce peace and dispel the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s hopes of devouring Zi Yan.

Lu Yuan argued that lasting peace between the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan required overwhelming power, while Jiu Feng explained why generations of powerful leaders had failed to overcome their mutual distrust. After learning Lu Yuan was a Three-Star Dou Sheng, Jiu Feng agreed to a temporary truce, leaving Lu Yuan one hundred days to persuade the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s leaders to withdraw.

• Jiu Feng rejected Lu Yuan’s proposed peace, arguing that old grudges, family ties, and distrust would reignite conflict even if both clans’ leaders tried to act fairly.
• Jiu Feng described the strategic benefits of an alliance and explained that Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit made cooperation especially valuable to the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Jiu Feng admitted that he lacked the authority to make his clan accept peace, since the clan leader and elders would oppose it.
• Lu Yuan asked whether peace would be possible if he possessed strength beyond a Primordial Dragon Phoenix, then revealed that he was already a Three-Star Dou Sheng.
• Jiu Feng agreed to obey Lu Yuan’s orders and keep his forces inactive for one hundred days, provided the Void Ancient Dragon Clan did not attack the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Jiu Feng said the truce could end if the Void Ancient Dragon Clan gained a clear advantage or if Lu Yuan persuaded the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s leaders to order a retreat.