Chapter Summaries

Qin Yi learned that an unknown cultivator had made Great Qian’s Dragon Vein manifest as a physical dragon, prompting Hidden Dragon Temple to seek aid from the Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace. After revealing his identity and agreeing to investigate, he asked Lingxu to look into a yellow-clad fat man surnamed Han.

• Lingxu explained that rival cultivators had drawn nobles away from Hidden Dragon Temple by offering faster paths to power and longevity.
• Lingxu said Great Qian’s immortal backing would prevent cultivators from overthrowing the mortal state, and Qin Yi identified himself as a senior Immortal Palace envoy.
• Lingxu revealed that Great Qian’s normally intangible Dragon Vein had solidified, and that Hidden Dragon Temple was restraining it from escaping.
• Qin Yi agreed to investigate the strange Dragon Vein and asked Lingxu to look into a yellow-clad fat man surnamed Han.

While waiting at Hidden Dragon Temple, Qin Yi discussed fate, karma, and the changing relationship between cultivators and mortal regimes with Liusu. They concluded that Great Joy Temple was weakening Great Qian’s fate, while the mysterious figure who made dragon qi tangible might be pursuing a separate scheme connected to the Myriad Phenomena Asura Sect.

• Lingxu left Qin Yi alone in the luxurious guest hall, where Qin Yi turned down a Little Daoist Nun’s tea and late-night snack and drank his own Poetry Wine Drifting.
• Qin Yi and Liusu discussed how dynastic fate protects rulers and why cultivators avoid the karma of mortal affairs.
• Liusu explained that cultivators in her time would have supported mortal regimes through sect representatives, while Qin Yi suggested that changing conditions had gradually separated cultivators from the mortal world.
• Qin Yi and Liusu reasoned that Great Joy Temple’s use of beautiful women and dual cultivation could weaken Great Qian’s court and its dragon qi.
• Qin Yi suspected that the Myriad Phenomena Asura Sect might be connected to the separate, unexplained method that made dragon qi tangible.

Qin Yi visited Humble Origins's tavern in Dragon Abyss City and learned that Great Joy Temple was systematically infiltrating Da Qian's officials and palace. Their discussion was interrupted by the sudden arrival of Ye Ling, who recognized them both.

• Qin Yi found Humble Origins dozing in his tavern and pressed him to share what he knew about Da Qian.
• Humble Origins said Great Joy Temple's organized expansion across Da Qian was likely directed by its upper ranks and had gained support from the lecherous Emperor's palace.
• Qin Yi connected the infiltration to a roster he had found and considered using it to alert the Emperor and expose Great Joy Temple's agents.
• Qin Yi asked about the dragon qi taking form, but Humble Origins said he knew nothing about it.
• A shadow passed the tavern's closed door, and Ye Ling appeared, greeting Qin Yi and calling Humble Origins naughty.

Qin Yi met Meng Qingying in Dragon Abyss City, where she demanded the roster he had taken from Great Joy Temple in exchange for a favor from her sect. He refused to surrender his mission item, and Meng Qingying threatened Humble Origins as Lingxu summoned Qin Yi to meet the Emperor.

• Meng Qingying arrived at Humble Origins's tavern, and she and Qin Yi exchanged teasing remarks about her handkerchief.
• Meng Qingying revealed that she had cooperated with Great Joy Temple and wanted the roster Qin Yi had taken from the temple.
• Meng Qingying explained that Great Joy Temple had gathered the other rosters and offered Qin Yi a favor from the Myriad Phenomena Asura Sect in exchange for his copy.
• Qin Yi refused to give up the roster because it was the item required for his Senior Sister's mission, and he and Meng Qingying prepared to fight.
• Humble Origins warned that a battle could damage the capital, so Meng Qingying threatened to kill him if Qin Yi left without handing over the roster.
• Lingxu reported that the Emperor was ready to receive Qin Yi, and Qin Yi asked whether Meng Qingying's threat would matter if he did not care what happened to Humble Origins.

Qin Yi went to the Imperial Palace to investigate Great Qian’s dragon aura, but the Crown Prince tried to humiliate him at the gates. Qin Yi outmaneuvered the Crown Prince and his monk, leaving the Crown Prince with a pig’s snout as he entered the palace with Lingxu.

• Qin Yi decided to judge the Emperor for himself before choosing whether to help Great Qian or cooperate with Meng Qingying.
• The Crown Prince mocked Qin Yi’s age and demanded that he bow, but Qin Yi reminded him that Great Qian had to treat Southern Li’s envoy carefully.
• The Crown Prince’s monk challenged Qin Yi to offer him guidance, and Qin Yi told him to wait by the gate until after his audience with the Emperor.
• Qin Yi used Wind Thunder Movement to evade the monk’s attempt to block him, then drank from Never-Emptying and walked away with Lingxu.
• The Crown Prince discovered that Qin Yi had transformed his nose into a pig’s snout.

Qin Yi failed to find a way to present the registry to the Emperor after seeing how Great Joy Temple’s influence shaped the court, and he investigated the palace’s strange power suppressing the dragon qi. He left the audience without answers, while the Emperor dismissed the danger and focused on seeking longevity.

• Ci Hui failed to undo the pig-nose transformation on the Crown Prince, who fainted in rage before Ci Hui took him away.
• Qin Yi entered the Inner Palace and sensed a force that seemed to restrain the dragon-shaped phantom above the Star Gazing Platform.
• Lingxu introduced Qin Yi to the Emperor, who asked whether he had learned anything about the dragon qi.
• Qin Yi asked whether the palace held a treasure that suppressed fortune, but the Emperor dismissed the idea and boasted of his own rule.
• The Emperor asked Qin Yi for a method of longevity, and Qin Yi directed him to Hidden Dragon Temple’s methods instead.
• Qin Yi left without presenting the registry after recognizing the Emperor’s complacency and Great Joy Temple’s presence beside him.

After questioning the Emperor’s claims about Da Qian’s fortunes, Qin Yi returned to the tavern and found Meng Qingying reading his biography. She threatened Southern Li to test his attachment to Li Qingjun, and Qin Yi defended the bonds that made him human.

• Qin Yi declined Lingxu’s invitation to drink tea and considered whether Humble Origins’ Demon Qi might connect it to the crisis.
• Liusu urged Qin Yi to join Meng Qingying in overthrowing Da Qian, but Qin Yi refused to act before understanding the karma involved.
• Qin Yi returned to the tavern and found Meng Qingying reading his biography while Humble Origins complained about being made to work.
• Meng Qingying threatened to use the Myriad Phenomena Asura Sect against Southern Li, prompting Qin Yi to warn her not to involve others in their personal grievances.
• Meng Qingying identified Li Qingjun as the person Qin Yi was attached to, and Qin Yi replied that immortals were still people despite their different paths.

Meng Qingying explained that she wanted Qin Yi’s roster as leverage in a dangerous cooperation within the Demonic Path, while Qin Yi offered to hand it over if she answered his questions. She led him away to discuss the matter privately, leaving Humble Origins furious at being excluded.

• Meng Qingying apologized for threatening Qin Yi’s reverse scale and said she wanted the roster to strengthen her bargaining position in a cooperation.
• Qin Yi questioned why she needed the roster and asked for details about the cooperation before agreeing to trade it.
• Meng Qingying warned Qin Yi not to mistake her offer for fear, saying the roster was useful but not essential to her.
• Qin Yi promised to give her the roster if she resolved his confusion, explaining that he valued understanding her simply because he wanted to.
• Meng Qingying took Qin Yi somewhere private, and Humble Origins angrily told them not to come back.

Meng Qingying explained how she and Great Joy Temple had weakened Great Qian to seize its dragon aura, and why their alliance had broken down. She asked Qin Yi to hand over the roster, leaving their bargain unresolved.

• Meng Qingying warned Qin Yi that her Soaring Cloud Realm strength far exceeded his and said he had hindered her by destroying her Shadow Puppet.
• Meng Qingying revealed that she planned to turn Great Qian's dragon aura into a puppet and had found a suitable puppet, but Qin Yi's actions were causing trouble.
• Meng Qingying explained that she had encouraged Great Joy Temple to undermine Great Qian by misleading the monks into thinking her sect had abandoned the dynasty.
• Meng Qingying said Great Joy Temple had blocked her attempt to steal a treasure anchoring the dragon aura and tried to use it to extort her.
• Meng Qingying finished explaining the situation and demanded that Qin Yi give her the roster.

Qin Yi gave Meng Qingying the register and proposed cooperating against Great Joy Temple, but she declined to fight its powerful leader and instead revealed his location. After Meng Qingying departed, Ci Hui and a group of monks cornered Qin Yi, who prepared to test himself against them.

• Qin Yi gave Meng Qingying the original register, and she tried to attack him before he scattered her shadow aura with Gale Qi.
• Qin Yi explained that he would not apologize for their past feud but had given her the register to keep Great Joy Temple from controlling her.
• Qin Yi proposed joining forces with Meng Qingying to stop Great Joy Temple's scheme and help her seize Da Qian's dragon aura, but she said she could not challenge Guan Ji and offered his location instead.
• Meng Qingying left as Ci Hui and several monks approached Qin Yi on the mountain.
• Qin Yi invited Ci Hui to fight, and the two drew their weapons as Meng Qingying watched from a cloud.

Qin Yi outmaneuvered Ci Hui in a contest of martial strength, then used a Divine Power to grow even larger than his opponent. Ci Hui called on the surrounding monks to attack, but Qin Yi vanished as their spells converged on empty air.

• Ci Hui attacked Qin Yi with his Zen Staff, but Qin Yi used agile footwork and the Wolf Tooth Club to evade and counter him.
• Ci Hui unleashed waves of Gale Qi, and Qin Yi used them to lure him into a powerful strike that drove him into the earth.
• Qin Yi pressed his advantage with repeated blows until Ci Hui used Buddhist Light and the Giant Transformation Art to grow two zhang tall.
• Qin Yi used the Creation Golden Chapter's Divine Power to grow three zhang tall, and his Wolf Tooth Club enlarged along with him.
• Ci Hui ordered the monks to attack Qin Yi, but Qin Yi vanished and their spells struck empty air.

Qin Yi defeated Ci Hui, then learned from Meng Qingying why Great Joy Temple’s Guan Ji had refrained from attacking him directly. Meng Qingying tried to enlist Qin Yi to help her obtain the Luck Dragon by offering a thread of its luck to the Nanli Queen, leaving Qin Yi conflicted over Southern Li’s future.

• Qin Yi used the Wolf Tooth Club to injure Ci Hui from within, but an unseen Soaring Cloud expert rescued Ci Hui before Qin Yi could finish him.
• Meng Qingying appeared and explained that Great Joy Temple would avoid directly attacking Qin Yi because his conflict with them counted as a private grudge and he had powerful backing from the Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace.
• Qin Yi recognized that Meng Qingying was using the rules between sects to persuade him to help her obtain the dragon qi.
• Meng Qingying offered to grant a thread of the Luck Dragon’s power to the Nanli Queen, promising that it could help Southern Li flourish for generations.
• Qin Yi fell silent, torn between wanting Southern Li to fall so Qing Jun could be freed and the thought of wishing harm on the kingdom.

Meng Qingying and Guan Ji failed to agree on how to deal with Qin Yi and the Treasures Suppressing Luck, while Qin Yi weighed whether to cooperate with her. The chapter ended with news that Southern Li had fallen into chaos and its Regent Prince was fleeing toward Da Qian with the Little King.

• Meng Qingying disrupted Guan Ji and his Cauldron, then reminded him that killing or restraining her could jeopardize his plan to obtain the dragon aura.
• Guan Ji offered to let Meng Qingying take the Treasures Suppressing Luck if she killed Qin Yi, but she refused and proposed helping him recover the officials' roster instead.
• Guan Ji hesitated over Meng Qingying's proposal because he desired her, and the two parted without reaching an agreement.
• After hearing that a guest had brought intelligence to Universal Salvation Hall, Meng Qingying decided to seek out Qin Yi.
• Lingxu told Qin Yi that Southern Li was in chaos and the Regent Prince was fleeing toward Da Qian with the Little King, prompting Qin Yi to seize him and demand an explanation.

Qin Yi learned that Li Qingjun had fled Southern Li and hurried to meet her, while she escorted the Little King through Da Qian under pursuit by demons. Just as Li Qingjun was nearly exhausted fighting off strange birds, Qin Yi arrived and destroyed them, and she recognized him with relief.

• Lingxu told Qin Yi that Li Qingjun had fled north with the Little King, and Qin Yi rushed to find them.
• A Da Qian border detachment escorted Li Qingjun and the child toward Dragon Abyss City as the commander admired her beauty and valor.
• A flock of four-eyed strange birds attacked the escort, and Li Qingjun fought them off while protecting the child despite her exhaustion.
• Li Qingjun turned to face the pursuing birds after her strength began to fail.
• Qin Yi appeared and crushed the flock with Gale Qi, then beat down the remaining birds with his staff.
• Li Qingjun recognized Qin Yi and murmured his name as relief overcame her.

Qin Yi reunited with Li Qingjun after Southern Li fell to demons and promised to investigate Lihuo City. He reached the besieged city, where a terrifying demon appeared—only to curl up when Qin Yi approached and patted its head.

• Qin Yi embraced Li Qingjun and learned that demons had overrun Southern Li, while her sister-in-law had died of illness.
• Li Qingjun asked Qin Yi to drive the demons from Southern Li, even if he would not help restore the kingdom.
• Qin Yi flew toward Lihuo City, wondering whether Cheng Cheng was behind the attack and how powerful she had become.
• Qin Yi found Lihuo City damaged but still resisting after the demon army had pursued Li Qingjun.
• A powerful dragon-like demon approached Lihuo City, but it curled into a ball when Qin Yi confronted it, and he put away his Wolf Tooth Club to pat its head.

Qin Yi reunited with Ye Ling and helped her destroy the demons attacking Lihuo City, then learned Xiao King was pursuing Li Qingjun for her Startling Dragon Jade Pendant. As Qin Yi and Ye Ling rushed to protect her, an unknown sword strike killed Xiao King, leaving them stunned and its wielder unidentified.

• Ye Ling explained that Cheng Cheng had sent her to investigate Xiao Kingdom's invasion, and that she had spent two days fighting Xiao King while it repeatedly escaped.
• Qin Yi reunited with Ye Ling and her guards, then helped her wipe out the demons overwhelming Lihuo City.
• A Southern Li official told Qin Yi that the demons had shouted about capturing Li Qingjun's Startling Dragon Jade Pendant.
• Qin Yi realized Xiao King had been evading Ye Ling to pursue Li Qingjun, so he rode with Ye Ling toward the army escorting her.
• Xiao King appeared near Li Qingjun's army, but a sudden sword radiance sliced it in two before Qin Yi or Ye Ling could act.

Li Duanxuan, the founder of Southern Li, appeared before Qin Yi and Li Qingjun and offered to take Li Qingjun as his disciple. After explaining that Southern Li’s fall was its allotted fate, he left Li Qingjun to decide whether to pursue the sword Dao.

• Li Duanxuan recognized Ye Ling as a cleansed Soaring Serpent and identified Qin Yi as Ju Yunxiu’s junior disciple.
• Li Duanxuan reclaimed the Startling Dragon Jade Pendant from Li Qingjun and offered to teach her after recognizing her sword bone.
• Li Qingjun struggled with whether to abandon her efforts to restore Southern Li, while Qin Yi urged her to accept the opportunity at Penglai Sword Pavilion.
• Li Duanxuan revealed that he was Li Duanxuan, the founder of Southern Li, and told Li Qingjun that she had no obligation to carry on the kingdom’s legacy.
• Li Duanxuan explained that he had given Li Qinglin the pendant to protect him after foreseeing Southern Li’s fall, and said the kingdom’s fate—not the pendant—had caused its destruction.

Li Qingjun chose to leave Southern Li’s burdens behind and cultivate with Li Duanxuan so she could one day travel alongside Qin Yi. Qin Yi stayed behind with Li Wuxian, whose extraordinary dragon fate pointed toward a future in Da Qian.

• Qin Yi urged Li Qingjun to let go of Southern Li and follow her wish to cultivate, while Li Duanxuan said Li Wuxian could not train at Penglai but bore a True Dragon Aspect.
• Li Wuxian asked Qin Yi to take her to Da Qian, prompting him to plan a future for her there and consider how she might gain the realm’s dragon aura.
• Li Qingjun decided to cultivate so she could keep pace with Qin Yi, and her qi began advancing toward Gale Qi after her emotional burdens lifted.
• Li Duanxuan took Li Qingjun away with Sword Qi Soaring to the Sky, while Qin Yi remained with Li Wuxian and set out to bring her to Da Qian.

Qin Yi reunited with Cheng Cheng and Ye Ling after the crisis, then set off for Da Qian with the little girl. He left Cheng Cheng with a promise to visit when he was strong enough to face her as an equal.

• Ye Ling told Qin Yi that Cheng Cheng had let her come help and that the Demon King could now handle the two countries.
• Ye Ling asked to travel with Qin Yi to Da Qian, but Cheng Cheng appeared and called her back to the Demon City.
• Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng exchanged a brief greeting, and he warned Ye Ling to be cautious about the dangerous lands near the Demon City.
• Cheng Cheng took Ye Ling away, while Qin Yi flew north with the little girl as Da Qian soldiers watched in astonishment.
• Liusu teased Qin Yi about his meeting with Cheng Cheng, and Qin Yi said he would return when he could stand before her as an equal.

After Southern Li was incorporated into Da Qian, Li Wuxian became the adopted Xianning Princess, and Qin Yi guarded her place in the palace. He reunited with Meng Qingying, who discussed the girl’s uncertain destiny before revealing that Great Joy Temple had offered her a deal too.

• With Southern Li leaderless after Li Qingjun left, the Nanli Kingdom Teacher brought the Little King to offer the territory to Da Qian, whose armies incorporated the Southern Border with little resistance.
• The Da Qian Emperor adopted Li Wuxian as his daughter and named her Xianning Princess, tying her to Da Qian’s national fortune.
• Qin Yi watched over Li Wuxian’s care in the palace and checked that Great Joy Temple cultivators had not entered among the servants.
• Meng Qingying appeared disguised as a palace maid, and she and Qin Yi discussed Li Wuxian’s promising but unclear destiny and Qin Yi’s own obscured fate.
• Meng Qingying told Qin Yi that Great Joy Temple had also agreed to a deal with her and asked which transaction she should choose.