Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Chen was left trapped in the Serpent Dragon Mystic Realm, news of his fate spread through Barren North Province. At Zhenbei King Manor, Xiao Zhentian learned that Hong Yu had betrayed Xiao Chen and collapsed in grief over losing his son and heir.

• Ba Ge, Houzi, Xu Congming, Xu Potian, Liu Qingfeng, Zi Lingling, and the four women stayed on Flood Dragon Mountain for an hour before leaving, still hoping Xiao Chen would appear.
• News that Xiao Chen was trapped in the Serpent Dragon Mystic Realm spread across Barren North Province, drawing grief, regret, and celebration from different people.
• Xiao Lingtian asked Wen Wanrong whether Saintly Wasteland Academy could bring him the Water-Fire Lotus, while Xiao Zhentian rebuked him for failing to endure his shattered dantian as Xiao Chen had.
• Xiao Lingtian privately recalled that he had asked Hong Yu to keep Xiao Chen trapped in the mystic realm or kill him.
• Ling Ming reported that Hong Yu had struck Xiao Chen just before the exit gate closed, leaving Xiao Chen trapped in the mystic realm.
• Xiao Zhentian collapsed after learning that Xiao Chen was gone and that Zhenbei King Manor had lost its heir.

After Xiao Chen was presumed lost in the secret realm, Xiao Lingtian learned that the Water-Fire Lotus had not been retrieved and that Saintly Wasteland Academy would not accept him while his dantian was damaged. Desperate to recover, he decided to capture Xiao Chen’s companions and force them to reveal how Xiao Chen had healed.

• Wen Wanrong grieved over Xiao Chen’s presumed death, while Xiao Lingtian celebrated and called his brother a jinx.
• Wen Wanrong slapped Xiao Lingtian for rejoicing over Xiao Chen’s fate and rebuked herself for having indulged him.
• Ling Ming reported that a Five-Clawed Black Dragon had guarded the Water-Fire Lotus, so it had not been brought out of the secret realm.
• Ling Ming told Xiao Lingtian that Hong Yu had advised him to delay reporting to Saintly Wasteland Academy because of his damaged dantian, and Xiao Lingtian despaired.
• Xiao Lingtian realized Xiao Chen had once restored his dantian and proposed capturing Moli and Xu Potian to learn how; Wen Wanrong warned him not to hurt them.

Lin Qingxian told Lin Jiansan and Chou Wantian that Xiao Chen had been left behind in the Serpent Dragon Mystic Realm, leaving Sword Immortal Academy without hope of surviving the competition. Meanwhile, Xiao Chen was healing near Demon Dragon Lake when a seductive cry for help came from outside his cave.

• Lin Jiansan and Chou Wantian celebrated Xiao Chen’s breakthrough and hoped he could help Sword Immortal Academy reach the competition’s top thousand.
• Lin Qingxian reported that Hong Yu had plotted against Xiao Chen and left him in the mystic realm, enraging Lin Jiansan and Chou Wantian.
• Lin Qingxian worried that Sword Immortal Academy would be disbanded without Xiao Chen, and suggested asking Dong Wenjian for help.
• Lin Jiansan refused to seek help from Dong Wenjian, whom he had expelled for secretly cultivating the Demonic Wolf Earth Severing Sutra.
• Xiao Chen healed in a cave near Demon Dragon Lake until a seductive voice cried for help outside, drawing a graceful figure toward him.

Xiao Chen hid in a cave and treated Hei Meier, a wounded girl who claimed to be hunted by a Rhinoceros Demon, but grew suspicious of her strange fragrance and identity. When he tried to leave, Hei Meier revealed her immense power and a Flood Dragon phantom appeared behind her, leaving Xiao Chen facing her threat.

• Xiao Chen concealed himself when he heard a cry for help, then watched Hei Meier enter the cave with a bleeding arm.
• Hei Meier clung to Xiao Chen and claimed she was the Hei Family's eldest daughter, trapped in the secret realm after a Rhinoceros Demon hunted her.
• Xiao Chen treated Hei Meier's wound but suspected her fragrance and story might conceal that she was a black Flood Dragon.
• Xiao Chen tried to leave the cave, but Hei Meier seized his arm with overwhelming strength and demanded to know why he was avoiding her.
• Hei Meier released a vast demonic aura, healed her wound, and summoned a terrifying Flood Dragon phantom behind her.

Xiao Chen tried to persuade Hei Meier, a Five-Clawed Black Dragon, to give him essence blood so he could activate the Dragon Slayer Sword and escape her advances. The Dragon Slayer Sword finally responded with a faint red gleam and a childlike voice.

• Xiao Chen recognized Hei Meier as one of the black flood dragons guarding the Water-Fire Lotus, and she demanded that he become her human pet.
• Hei Meier tried to force herself on Xiao Chen, but he pretended to agree while searching for a way to obtain her blood and activate the Dragon Slayer Sword.
• Xiao Chen recounted the Dragon Slayer Sword's history and its power to harm and enslave dragons.
• Xiao Chen claimed he needed Hei Meier's essence blood to recover from his injuries, and she admitted that her blood had healing properties.
• The Dragon Slayer Sword glowed faintly and answered Xiao Chen when he asked whether it wanted flood dragon blood.

Xiao Chen tried to give Hei Meier’s essence blood to the Dragon Slayer Sword, but the sword spirit’s silence made Hei Meier believe he had deceived her. As Hei Meier pinned Xiao Chen down, a little girl in red appeared beside them.

• Hei Meier gave Xiao Chen a drop of her essence blood, hoping to heal and strengthen him.
• The Dragon Slayer Sword told Xiao Chen to pour the blood into the rune on its hilt, then fell silent again.
• Xiao Chen drew the sword and poured Hei Meier’s essence blood into the rune, which briefly glowed before dimming.
• Hei Meier realized Xiao Chen had used her precious blood on the sword and attacked him, knocking him to the ground.
• A Red-Clad Girl appeared beside Xiao Chen and Hei Meier and asked what they were doing.

Xiao Chen called on Little Yan Yan to save him from Hei Meier, who was forcing herself on him. After Hei Meier challenged Little Yan Yan and saw her Sword Qi, she recognized her as Long Xueyan, the sword spirit of the Dragon Slayer Sword, and Little Yan Yan offered to defeat Hei Meier.

• Hei Meier pinned Xiao Chen down while Little Yan Yan appeared and introduced herself as Long Xueyan.
• Xiao Chen begged Little Yan Yan to rescue him, but she initially showed no interest in fighting Hei Meier, whom she identified as a lowly Flood Dragon.
• Hei Meier grew angry at Little Yan Yan's insult and attacked her with a black Flood Dragon phantom.
• Little Yan Yan shattered the phantom with a streak of scarlet Sword Qi, frightening Hei Meier into recognizing her as the Dragon Slayer Sword's sword spirit.
• Little Yan Yan told Xiao Chen he was weak but offered to help him, asking whether he wanted Hei Meier alive or dead.

Xiao Chen used the Dragon Slayer Sword to subdue Hei Meier and make her his subordinate, while Little Yan Yan exhausted herself and returned to the sword to sleep. Xiao Chen asked Hei Meier to help him obtain the Water-Fire Lotus, but she warned that doing so would be extremely difficult.

• Little Yan Yan trapped Hei Meier in a scarlet sword net and urged Xiao Chen to use the Dragon Control Incantation.
• Xiao Chen activated the Dragon Slayer Sword, learned the incantation, and used his blood to bind Hei Meier.
• Xiao Chen’s Primordial Spirit defeated Hei Meier’s soul in his Sea of Consciousness, establishing a spiritual connection that let him control her life and death.
• Little Yan Yan complained that Xiao Chen had taken too long, then returned to the Dragon Slayer Sword to sleep and recover.
• Hei Meier flirted with Xiao Chen after the net dispersed, and he asked her to help obtain the Water-Fire Lotus.
• Hei Meier told Xiao Chen that obtaining the Water-Fire Lotus would be extremely difficult.

Xiao Chen learned that Hei Meier’s brothers would never abandon their guard over the Water-Fire Lotus, so he planned to seize it by force to save his injured friend. As they headed for Demon Dragon Lake, Hei Meier revealed that she welcomed her brothers’ deaths because they had killed and eaten her mother.

• Hei Meier explained that losing the Water-Fire Lotus would bring her and her brothers eternal punishment, and identified Hei Wu and Hei Sha as its guards.
• Hei Meier said her brothers would not leave their post and revealed that they had tried to force themselves on her.
• Xiao Chen told Hei Meier that he needed the Water-Fire Lotus to save an injured male friend, and she agreed to go with him to Demon Dragon Lake.
• As Xiao Chen and Hei Meier crossed a marshland path, he asked whether she would mind if he killed her brothers.
• Hei Meier said she wanted her brothers dead and revealed that they and their mother had killed and eaten her mother.

Hei Meier revealed that Hei Wu and Hei Sha had killed her mother, Hei Yun, after she stopped them from drugging Hei Meier. Xiao Chen and Hei Meier hid near Demon Dragon Lake, where the brothers plotted to claim Hei Meier and Hei Meier doubted Xiao Chen could defeat them.

• Xiao Chen comforted Hei Meier after learning that Hei Wu and Hei Sha had eaten her mother, Hei Yun.
• At Demon Dragon Lake, Hei Wu and Hei Sha complained that Hei Meier had approached Xiao Chen and discussed forcing her to submit to them.
• Hei Sha revealed that he and Hei Wu had drugged Hei Meier years earlier, and their mother had killed Hei Yun when she intervened.
• Hei Sha said he expected to reach the fifth level of Demon General within a month and planned to claim Hei Meier, refusing to share her with Hei Wu.
• Xiao Chen and Hei Meier hid in a forest near the lake, where Hei Meier warned that the brothers could overwhelm Xiao Chen if they attacked.

Xiao Chen used Ancient True Devil to defeat Hei Wu and Hei Sha, who had tormented Hei Meier and killed her mother. He took their Demon Cores and flew toward the Water-Fire Lotus, still in his True Demon state.

• Hei Wu and Hei Sha confronted Xiao Chen and Hei Meier, taunted her about her mother, and threatened to claim her for themselves.
• Xiao Chen promised to avenge Hei Meier and told her to protect him after he used a martial skill.
• Xiao Chen activated Ancient True Devil, transforming and raising his strength to the Half-Step Sword Sect level.
• Hei Wu and Hei Sha tried to flee, but Xiao Chen killed them both with Sword Qi.
• Xiao Chen retrieved the two Demon Cores as nearby demons devoured the dragon corpses, then flew toward the Water-Fire Lotus.

Xiao Chen claimed the Water-Fire Lotus and summoned his promised guardian, only to find that Qiongqi appeared as a frail old yellow dog called Old Yellow. After Xiao Chen collapsed from the backlash of his martial skill, Old Yellow promised to take him and Hei Meier out of the mystic realm, despite the vanished teleportation gate.

• Xiao Chen plucked the Water-Fire Lotus, stored it, and returned with Hei Meier to their cave before claiming his system reward.
• Xiao Chen summoned Qiongqi, who appeared as an ancient, injured yellow dog, and Hei Meier confirmed that no demons were nearby.
• Old Yellow revealed that he was Qiongqi, identified Hei Meier as a descendant of a Flood Dragon, and claimed to have eaten many True Dragons.
• Old Yellow counted down until the Ancient True Devil's backlash left Xiao Chen unable to move, and Hei Meier carried him to rest.
• Old Yellow told Hei Meier to call him when Xiao Chen recovered and promised to take them out of the mystic realm, leaving her startled because the teleportation gate had disappeared.

After Xiao Chen recovered, Lord Yellow confronted the Serpent Dragon Mystic Realm’s law spirit and demanded that it send them outside. Lord Yellow swallowed the spirit’s devastating attack, but the chapter ended as the spirit transformed into a colossal Flood Dragon and prepared to strike.

• Hei Meier kissed Xiao Chen while he was weakened, then stayed beside him as he recovered.
• Lord Yellow promised to take Xiao Chen and Hei Meier out of the mystic realm, despite Hei Meier’s doubts.
• Lord Yellow summoned the law spirit, and the black-robed elder appeared before them.
• The law spirit attacked Lord Yellow, but Lord Yellow swallowed its fist radiance and revealed his overwhelming strength.
• The law spirit refused to open the portal because the Heavenly Dao would punish it, then transformed into a massive Flood Dragon to fight Lord Yellow.

Old Yellow destroyed the Second Zone’s rule spirit and took Xiao Chen and Hei Meier out of the Serpent Dragon Mystic Realm. Xiao Chen learned that Old Yellow was Qiongqi and reached Moli’s room just as two guards forced their way in.

• The black Flood Dragon attacked Old Yellow, who crushed it with one paw and opened a way out of the mystic realm.
• Old Yellow brought Xiao Chen and Hei Meier to Serpent Dragon Mountain, then revealed that he was Qiongqi, disguised himself to escape his enemies in Martial God Hall, and could be called on only once a year.
• Old Yellow entered Xiao Chen’s chest to sleep, and Xiao Chen told Hei Meier to keep his identity secret before leading her down the mountain.
• Moli mourned Xiao Chen beside a memorial tablet after hearing the false report that a demon beast had eaten him in the mystic realm.
• Two black-armored guards forced their way into Moli’s room while claiming to serve Young Lord Xiao Lingtian of Zhenbei King Manor.

Xiao Chen returned from the Serpent Dragon Mystic Realm just in time to stop Xiao Lingtian’s guards from taking Moli away. As Xiao Chen confronted the guards, a powerful figure appeared and asked whether he was all right.

• Two black-armored guards threatened Moli and revealed that Xiao Chen was believed trapped in the Serpent Dragon Mystic Realm.
• Xiao Chen and Hei Meier arrived at the inn and stopped the guards from seizing Moli.
• Moli rushed toward Xiao Chen, but Hei Meier blocked her and Xiao Chen introduced Hei Meier as an ordinary friend.
• Xiao Chen learned that Wen Wanrong had sent the guards to bring Moli to the manor, and the guards fell to their knees when he challenged them.
• A powerful figure appeared in the room and asked Xiao Chen if he was all right.

Xiao Zhentian tried to take Xiao Chen back to Zhenbei King Manor and kill Hei Meier after discovering she was a demon, but Lord Yellow intervened. Lord Yellow wounded Xiao Zhentian and defended Xiao Chen’s freedom, leaving the king subdued and questioning the dog’s identity.

• Xiao Zhentian found Xiao Chen and demanded that he return to the manor and restore Xiao Lingtian’s dantian, but Xiao Chen refused.
• Xiao Zhentian threatened to capture Xiao Chen and recognized Hei Meier as a demon, then tried to kill her.
• Xiao Chen stood in front of Hei Meier and challenged Xiao Zhentian, but Xiao Zhentian’s aura immobilized him and crushed her.
• Lord Yellow appeared, dismissed Xiao Zhentian’s threats, and struck him with two beams of light that scattered his blood and qi and injured his soul.
• Xiao Zhentian bowed and asked Lord Yellow who he was, while Lord Yellow rebuked him for interfering with Xiao Chen’s romance after Xiao Chen had severed ties with him.

Old Yellow drove Xiao Zhentian away but told Xiao Chen he must face his own enemies, then entered a weakened slumber. Xiao Zhentian returned to Zhenbei King Manor badly injured and found Wen Wanrong grieving over Xiao Lingtian’s rejection of the Blue Blossom Cakes she had made for him.

• Old Yellow used his aura to wound Xiao Zhentian and force him to leave, then explained to Xiao Chen that he would only intervene in life-or-death situations.
• Old Yellow said the Martial God Hall had badly injured him and returned to Xiao Chen’s chest to seal his spiritual awareness and sleep.
• Xiao Chen reassured Moli, and he mediated when Hei Meier grew jealous of her.
• Xiao Zhentian flew into Zhenbei King Manor, where guards recognized him and hurried to support him to see Wen Wanrong.
• Wen Wanrong offered Xiao Lingtian Blue Blossom Cakes she had made by hand, but he rejected them and knocked the food and tea to the floor.
• As Xiaoqing was leaving the hall, Xiao Zhentian entered with the guards, and Wen Wanrong learned that he was injured.

Xiao Zhentian returned badly injured after encountering Old Yellow while searching for Chen's maidservant, and revealed that Xiao Chen had escaped the Serpent Dragon Mystic Realm. Xiao Lingtian demanded that his father seize Xiao Chen, but Xiao Zhentian struck him down and ordered everyone to keep Xiao Chen's return secret.

• Wen Wanrong treated Xiao Zhentian after he said Old Yellow had badly injured him while he searched for Chen's maidservant.
• Xiao Zhentian revealed that Xiao Chen had come out of the Serpent Dragon Mystic Realm, possibly after its rule spirit was slain.
• Xiao Zhentian told Wen Wanrong that Xiao Chen had refused to save Xiao Lingtian, prompting Xiao Lingtian to rage.
• Xiao Zhentian ordered the household to keep Xiao Chen's return top-secret and condemned Wen Wanrong's continued bias toward Xiao Lingtian.
• Xiao Lingtian demanded that Xiao Zhentian use the army to capture Xiao Chen, so Xiao Zhentian slapped him and rebuked him.

Xiao Chen left the inn with Hei Meier and Moli, then took them to a cave to treat Liu Sanji with the Water-Fire Lotus. After one petal entered Liu Sanji’s body, it glowed with blue light, and Xiao Chen prepared to continue the treatment.

• Xiao Zhentian warned Wen Wanrong that Xiao Chen and Old Yellow were dangerous, and Wen Wanrong grieved over how their family had fallen apart.
• Moli settled the inn bill and received a seventy percent discount from the innkeeper.
• Xiao Chen, Hei Meier, and Moli met outside the inn and went to the cave where Liu Sanji lay in the Ice Jade Immortal Coffin.
• Old Yellow recognized Liu Sanji and reacted with astonishment, though Xiao Chen did not notice.
• Xiao Chen followed the system’s instruction and fed Liu Sanji a Water-Fire Lotus petal, which entered his body and gave off a faint blue glow.

Xiao Chen used all six water petals of the Water-Fire Lotus to save Liu Sanji, but Liu Sanji only awoke after terrifying black mist erupted from him. Hei Meier identified the mist as a possible power of the Path of Deathly Silence, and Liu Sanji then stood up unharmed.

• Xiao Chen fed Liu Sanji six Water-Fire Lotus petals, restoring his body but failing to wake him.
• Black mist burst from Liu Sanji, destroyed the ice coffin and cave, and formed a phantom that knelt before him.
• Xiao Chen carried Moli to safety while Hei Meier retreated, and Hei Meier explained that the mist resembled the Path of Deathly Silence.
• Liu Sanji stood up after the mist vanished and asked Xiao Chen if he had saved him.