Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xing reunited with his old comrades in Anshan County and organized a province-wide effort to protect rural people from the war, while his other incarnations rescued musicians and cultivators in danger. After a year of cultivation, Zhao Xing completed the top-grade Soul Devouring Law Body and reached the Thousand Laws Body Realm, preparing to leave the Star Palace.

• Zhao Xing traveled through Azure Roaming Azure Sea to Datong Prefecture, learned that Zhai Zhong had defected, and arrived in Anshan County to reunite with Xia Jing and their former companions.
• Zhao Xing persuaded Xia Jing to organize shelters, medical stations, supplies, and workers to save rural commoners, and the relief operation expanded across Pinghai Province with support from officials, clans, and academies.
• Zhao Xing rescued Qin Qingqiu, Lin Yichen, Jiang Li, and other captives from abusive rebels, directing the survivors toward safer areas.
• Zhao Xing learned that Liu Si had been killed and judged that the Liang King would soon rally the feudal lords, then continued cultivating the Soul Devouring Law Body while managing its effects on his emotions.
• On the twenty-fifth day of the fourth month in the thirty-sixth year of the Jingxin Calendar, Zhao Xing completed the top-grade law body, reached the Thousand Laws Body Realm, and decided to leave the Star Palace.

After ending a year of secluded training, Zhao Xing began avenging Yang An and hunting the Liang King's followers for treasures. He killed the Xier King, Luo Zhen, and later joined Ye Yukong in defeating the Prosperous Martial Marquis, whose Grand Luck Coin helped Ye Yukong break through to the Second Rank.

• Zhao Xing sent out his avatars to raid the Liang King's forces and prepared an Origin Soul Pool to restore them if they died.
• Zhao Xing disguised himself as Luo Le, infiltrated Xier City, and killed Luo Zhen with Yang An's Azure Dragon Sword Qi.
• Zhao Xing discovered two Purple-Gold Ancient Coins in Luo Zhen's treasury and learned that the coins could guide their bearers to treasures and greatly increase their luck.
• Zhao Xing recruited Ye Yukong to ambush Qiu Changchi, the Prosperous Martial Marquis, after discovering that Qiu possessed another ancient coin.
• Zhao Xing and Qiu Changchi spent days baiting and testing each other before Zhao Xing and Ye Yukong launched their final attack, killing Qiu and his guards.
• Ye Yukong absorbed some of the power of the recovered Grand Luck Coin and broke through to the Second Rank.

After surviving Qi Jun’s bombardment of Huangze County, Zhao Xing helped Ye Yukong escape and later helped the Divine Luo King use a Grand Luck Coin to seize Yan Da’s fortune and reach the Heavenly Luck Realm. As Great Zhou’s forces turned the tide, the Liang King was defeated and killed in Zhenxun Royal City, while Zhao Xing remained in the Star Palace reflecting on how quickly the rebellion had ended.

• Ye Yukong broke through to the Heavenly Luck Realm with the Grand Luck Coin, but Qi Jun trapped him and Zhao Xing in Huangze County with a Boundary Marker Formation, Fire Source Divine Cannons, and Mechanism Divine Needles.
• Zhao Xing used stacked Earth Spirit Barriers beside a Mechanism Divine Needle to survive the bombardment, then bluffed Qi Jun with secret codes that persuaded the Illusionary Nether King to delay his attack.
• The Divine Luo King arrived with reinforcements, and Zhao Xing later agreed to help him use the Grand Luck Coin to absorb fortune from Southern Barbarian and Extraterritorial Demonic experts.
• The Divine Luo King, Ye Yukong, and Zhao Xing trapped Yan Da in Cuihe County; Ye Yukong killed Yan Da’s Second Rank protector, and the Divine Luo King killed Yan Da and broke through to the Heavenly Luck Realm.
• Zhao Xing claimed Yan Da’s Heaven Spirit Pearl by spending a favor owed by the Divine Luo King, while Great Zhou’s forces reclaimed Pinghai Province and besieged the Liang King in Zhenxun Royal City.
• The Ten Directions Primordial Heavenly Net Spirit-Refining Grand Array suppressed the Liang King’s divine artifacts and fortune, and Ji Mingxian died on the eighth day of the twelfth month as the rebellion was quelled.

After the Liang King's defeat, Zhao Xing arranged posts for Chen Shijie and Zong Shichang, helped Long Xiao kill Ji Chen, and advised Xia Jing's allies to withdraw from the Shelter Plan before the court reclaimed control. As Pinghai Province recovered, Zhao Xing took on government work and learned that Liu Tianning's Ten Thousand Laws Clone cultivation had a dangerous flaw; the chapter ended as imperial envoys arrived to review the rebellion and begin a purge.

• Zhao Xing delivered Chen Shijie to Tongming Prefecture with a fourth-rank appointment as Pingyuan Decree, Agrarian Commandant, and Earth Passage Division special envoy.
• Zhao Xing eased the flooding around Wangjia Village, offered Zong Shichang a temporary sixth-rank post elsewhere, and accepted his friend's decision to remain in Nanyang County.
• Long Xiao tracked down Ji Chen at Yunbei Lake, resisted Ji Chen's attempts to provoke him into torture, and killed him after Zhao Xing urged him to act decisively.
• Zhao Xing warned Xia Jing against chasing battlefield merit, advised him to urge his father to surrender military authority, and began transferring the Shelter Plan to local governments.
• Zhao Xing accepted work on Military Realm passage calculations and Grotto-Heaven surveys, then used his Kun transformation to calm the Sky Sea disaster in White Stone Grotto Heaven.
• Liu Tianning revealed that the Ten Thousand Laws Clone had a worsening flaw, while Zhao Xing said he believed it could be solved; on Spring She Day, imperial envoys arrived to investigate the Pinghai Province Rebellion.

Zhao Xing received a major promotion and the title Divine Might Marquis after helping suppress the Liang King Rebellion and stabilize Great Zhou. He joined Liu Tianning’s ceremonial procession bound for Shangluo Academy, where Liu faced a final challenge for the first vice principal position.

• Zhao Xing returned from Shuihua Grotto Heaven after mastering the Great Peng Transformation, and Heaven Derivation King told him Emperor Jing had extended his life by appointing him a first-rank Fate Official.
• Heaven Derivation King explained Zhao Xing’s merits and revealed that he would become a lower third-rank official awaiting assignment before his planned journey to Dragon Court Ancient Land.
• Wei Gongming read Zhao Xing’s decree, promoting him to Divine Might Marquis, granting him honors and rewards, and arranging an examination of his family lineage.
• Zhao Xing learned that his birth parents and close blood relatives were gone, then discussed the rewards and political changes with Long Xiao, Chen Shijie, and Xia Jing.
• Liu Tianning arrived at Li Fire Dao Academy with a grand procession, and Zhao Xing joined him aboard his warship as they prepared to travel to Shangluo Academy.
• Liu Tianning said he had one final hurdle before securing the first vice principal position, and Zhao Xing pledged to support him in writings and a Great Dao Contest.

Zhao Xing reached Shangluo Academy with Liu Tianning, who sought full authority as the academy’s next leader and demanded control of key treasures. As Liu Tianning’s final ultimatum took shape, Chu Qianqiu weighed resisting him while Zhuang Danian yielded the medicinal plants, then tried to send students to challenge Zhao Xing.

• Zhao Xing extracted five wisps of five-element spiritual energy from the Heaven Spirit Pearl, expanding his Pure Yuan Space to level five and strengthening his Pure Yuan Projection.
• Liu Tianning brought Zhao Xing to Shangluo Academy, explained its institutes, and revealed that he intended to secure complete control by winning a Great Dao Competition if necessary.
• Liu Tianning told Zhao Xing to accept and win challenges, promising to obtain more valuable cultivation resources for him.
• At the Soldier Envoy Institute, Chu Qianqiu discussed Liu Tianning’s ultimatum with Jiang Yaochun and refused to surrender the Heaven Soul Divine Tree’s authority.
• At the Divine Wood Institute, Zhuang Danian swore to let Liu Tianning decide the fate of his three Ninth Order medicinal plants, then ordered his disciples to challenge Zhao Xing; they made excuses and fled.

Zhao Xing accompanied Liu Tianning to Shangluo Academy, where Liu was appointed acting chancellor and Zhao was named a Five Classics Scholar. When opponents challenged Liu Tianning’s Green Seedling Law, Zhao fought all seven of their chosen disciples at once and killed them in two exchanges, leaving the academy stunned.

• Wen Weiqi, Xin Bojian, and Yu Gongzhi feigned severe illness to avoid a possible Great Dao Contention at the Divine Wood Institute.
• Zhao Xing arrived at Shangluo Academy with Liu Tianning and met Xu Xing, who welcomed him as his grand-disciple.
• Xu Xing appointed Liu Tianning acting chancellor, named Zhao Xing a Five Classics Scholar, and presented Liu’s Green Seedling Law for consideration.
• Kang Zhengxian, Chu Qianqiu, and Zhong Yuan objected to the law, so Liu Tianning called for a Great Dao Contention between Zhao Xing and their disciples.
• Zhao Xing challenged all seven disciples at once and used his Pure Yuan Projection, Soul Devouring Law Bodies, Heavenly Thunder Fingers, and Earth Palace Art to kill them in two exchanges.

Zhao Xing secured Liu Tianning’s Green Seedling Law plan by defeating its challengers, then studied the Ten Thousand Dao Tree and broke through to the Third Rank in the Divine Splendor Pool. After setting a new record for the strongest Third-Rank foundation, he headed to Shangluo Academy’s Debate Dao Field to explain his treatises.

• Zhao Xing defeated seven challengers, leading Kang Zhengxian, Zhong Yuan, and Chu Qianqiu to accept Liu Tianning’s Green Seedling Law plan and its full implementation.
• Xu Xing announced that the Ten Thousand Dao Tree would open to visitors, and Zhao Xing promised to debate his New Treatise on True Self Heavenly Creations at the academy a month later.
• Zhao Xing studied the Ten Thousand Dao Tree and mastered Three Lights Divine Water, Sun Geng Metal, Azure Firmament, Li Fire, and Spirit Mountain True Intents.
• Liu Tianning brought Zhao Xing to the Divine Splendor Pool, where Zhao Xing absorbed the Four Seasons Divine Splendor and broke through to the Third Rank after twenty-five days.
• Zhao Xing’s Pure Origin Soil reached Level Six and his Floating Vine matured into a peak seventh-rank plant, while the Void Seed remained dormant.
• Xu Xing reminded Zhao Xing of his delayed debate, and Zhao Xing set out for the Debate Dao Field to explain his treatises.

Zhao Xing lectured at Shangluo Academy for two months, presenting detailed law treatises and completing a framework for the True Self Faction that stunned the academy's scholars. After his works were compiled and he left for Tianyong Province, scholars at Profound Heaven Academy discussed his growing influence and new publications.

• Xu Xing and Liu Tianning brought Zhao Xing to Shangluo Academy, where he agreed to lecture at the Pine Mountain Dao Discussion Forest that day.
• More than a hundred thousand people gathered to hear Zhao Xing explain his True Self Heavenly Creation Theory, including practical methods for using plants to alter Celestial Timing and nourish Earthly Advantage.
• Zhao Xing lectured through early November, expanding his theory to cover self-nature and Dao-nature, and the academy's scholars recognized his work as a major new doctrine.
• Liu Tianning, Chu Qianqiu, Zhuang Danian, Yu Xia, and other scholars discussed the Dao with Zhao Xing, helping refine his work and establishing his standing at Shangluo Academy.
• After consuming the academy's treasures, Zhao Xing reached the middle third rank in his Dao Body and the late third rank in his life soul, then left for Tianyong Province with Heaven Derivation King.
• Liu Tianning named Zhao Xing's compiled works Zhao's Two Classics Commentary Collection and Yin Yang Five Elements Matter and Law Theory, while Ling Tianchen, Hu Yang, and Zhang Tianxing discussed Zhao's publications at Profound Heaven Academy.

Zhao Xing visited Heavenly Yang True Lord’s mausoleum, received the Shang Tang Token that summoned an Ancient Yin Warship, and traveled to the Yin Realm to learn how to use it. Heaven Derivation King then brought him to Holy Word Academy for Dragon Language training, where Shi Wenxuan set a demanding goal for his progress.

• Heaven Derivation King took Zhao Xing to the Fu residence, where Fu Xingwen arranged their visit to Heavenly Yang True Lord’s mausoleum temple.
• Heavenly Yang True Lord carried Zhao Xing’s Essence Soul into the Yin Realm and lent him the Shang Tang Token, which summoned an Ancient Yin Warship capable of crossing between the Yin and Yang realms.
• Zhao Xing spent seven days learning to control the warship before Heavenly Yang True Lord returned him to his body.
• Heaven Derivation King brought Zhao Xing to Holy Word Academy, where Shi Wenxuan agreed to intensively train him in Dragon Language.
• Shi Wenxuan assessed Zhao Xing’s Dragon Language skills and gave him five Rare Sound Dragon Stones and seven Preaching Paintings, demanding that he advance three levels within a month.

Zhao Xing underwent a year of intensive Dragon Language training under Shi Wenxuan, mastering mid-level Dragon Language and rapidly learning high-level spells before his special instruction ended. After leaving the Holy Word Institute, he recovered sealed memories that revealed the Shang Tang Token’s importance and Shi Wenxuan’s true standing, then looked ahead to studying Transformation of Seasons Arts at the Profound Heaven Academy.

• Zhao Xing studied the Progenitor Dragon’s Cry painting, cultivated with more than a thousand clones, and learned Dragon Language under Shi Wenxuan, who demonstrated the Dragon King Bone Removal Curse and taught him unsealing, sealing, and edict spells.
• After Zhao Xing mastered mid-level Dragon Language in a month, Shi Wenxuan focused his training on high-level Dragon Language spells and warned him about dangers in the Dragon Court Ancient Land.
• During the Great Governance Era, Zhao Xing progressed through unsealing, sealing, and edict spells so quickly that Lu Manman and Lu Xiuyuan were astonished, while the Heaven Derivation King took the siblings away for a silencing technique.
• The Heaven Derivation King and Shi Wenxuan ended Zhao Xing’s special training, and Zhao Xing thanked Shi Wenxuan before leaving the Holy Word Institute with the Heaven Derivation King.
• On the journey to the Profound Heaven Academy, Zhao Xing recovered sealed memories identifying the Shang Tang Token as the Yin-Shang Royal Ship and recalling that Shi Wenxuan had mastered three great Dragon Language curses.
• Zhao Xing planned to study dragon-related Transformation of Seasons Arts at the Profound Heaven Academy, hoping that transforming into a dragon would help him master the nine great dharma curses.

Zhao Xing traveled to Mystic Heaven Academy and entered Ten Thousand Transformations Grotto Heaven, where Ling Tianchen revealed the Transformation Faction’s preserved Divine Beast bloodlines and began training him in Fire Transformation. Zhao Xing quickly advanced through the art and then split off a clone to study other laws, while preparing for the approaching Dragon Court Ancient Land opening.

• Zhao Xing arrived at Mystic Heaven Academy with the Heaven Derivation King and met Hu Yang, Zhang Tianxing, and Dean Ling Tianchen.
• Ling Tianchen brought Zhao Xing to Ten Thousand Transformations Grotto Heaven, showed him its preserved Divine Beast bloodlines, and explained that many beasts there were former human practitioners who had chosen to preserve the inheritance.
• Zhao Xing began learning Fire Transformation under Ling Tianchen, mastered its first three turns, and acquired Dragon Flame Burst and Eye of Fire.
• After reaching a bottleneck, Zhao Xing asked Ling Tianchen to teach him the Pig Trap Art while a clone left the grotto to study other time laws.
• Zhao Xing trained in wind, rain, cloud, and thunder laws at Mystic Heaven Academy as the Dragon Court Ancient Land opening approached.
• By April 20 of the third year of the Great Governance Era, Zhao Xing was still cultivating at Mystic Heaven Academy.

Zhao Xing completed his training, received upgraded treasures and a solemn warning to prioritize survival, then entered the Dragon Court Ancient Land with his battle pets. He discovered he had landed near a city in Guting Kingdom and set out for Guting Royal City.

• Zhao Xing defeated Wang Tianzhi's defenses with a modified Cold Shattering Thunder Domain, prompting Wang Tianzhi to seek intensive training from Li Boqian.
• Zhao Xing left Ten Thousand Transformations Grotto Heaven, reviewed his cultivation and techniques during the journey, and received upgraded treasures and heavenly concealment from the Heaven Derivation King.
• Zhao Xing visited his family, met his young sister Zhao Yuling, and then entered Great Dream Academy, where he suspected the First Guardian was interfering with the Heavenly Mandate Dark Bird and the Dream God Contract.
• Zhao Xing joined the East Sea contingent and traveled with Long Xiao, Bai Yang, Mountain Cat, the Gray-Faced Hound, and the Inverted Sheep to the Dragon Court Ancient Land.
• Zhao Xing entered the Dragon Court through the Heaven and Earth Dragon Gate, used his clones to locate himself, and identified his landing place as Guting Kingdom near a city.
• Zhao Xing headed toward Guting Royal City, pleased that he had landed in one of the Dragon Court's ten great kingdoms.

Zhao Xing reached Meng Yun Dragon City, seized its Great Arena, and defeated its city lord Pu to claim the city and its treasures. As Cao Qianyue organized the spoils, Zhao Xing searched the City Lord's Manor and discovered a yellow glow inside a bronze tripod.

• Luo King learned that Zhao Xing was alive, while Heaven Derivation King reported uncertain fates for several officials and no update on Bai Yunwu's Dragon King title.
• Zhao Xing encountered a dragon convoy transporting prisoners, rescued Cao Qianyue from the prison cart, and killed the Yuan Yin Sect disciple Yu Yuan.
• Zhao Xing brought Cao Qianyue into Meng Yun Dragon City and found its Great Arena sealed beneath a junkyard.
• Zhao Xing broke the seal, challenged Meng Yun City Lord Pu, and defeated him with his Cloud Gate Art and Thunder Primordial Lock to become the new city lord.
• Zhao Xing ordered the city's dragons to gather and inventory its treasures, then collected Pu's dragon crystals and scanned thousands of artifacts.
• Zhao Xing found a bright yellow glow inside a small bronze tripod while searching the City Lord's Manor.

Zhao Xing entered Guting Royal City, traded tribute to Yin Li for authority in the Fu Ming Divine Hall, and used dragon craftsmen to plunder the Corpse Puppet Sect’s hidden treasury. The chapter left Purple Violet True Person discovering the emptied vault and demanding to know who stole it.

• Zhao Xing gathered treasures from Meng Yun Dragon City, left Cao Qianyue to prepare, and set out for Guting Royal City with three dragon ships.
• Zhao Xing offered tribute to Yin Li and received a token granting him Level Two authority in the Fu Ming Divine Hall, though Yin Li took all three ships of treasure.
• Zhao Xing explained to Cao Qianyue that he planned to requisition enemy factions’ hidden treasuries and summoned Fu Ming craftsmen to help uncover them.
• Zhao Xing opened the Corpse Puppet Sect’s three-layer Giant Stone Vault and took its treasures, including Rank Seven and higher materials worth at least twenty million dragon coins.
• Purple Violet True Person arrived with his disciples, found the Giant Stone Vault empty, and roared over the theft of the Corpse Puppet Sect’s treasure.

Zhao Xing raided the Corpse Puppet Sect’s hidden treasury in Guting Royal City and used the loot to offer tribute to Dragon King Xiu. He left the treasury with two divine artifacts, while Great Zhou’s fate officials discovered that both had gone to Zhao Xing.

• Zhao Xing divined that Corpse Puppet Sect experts had arrived, then had Cao Qianyue open ancient chests while he and the Fuming craftsmen looted hidden vaults around the royal city.
• Zhao Xing entered Lord Sang Ting’s trading district disguised as a Fu Ming Divine Hall repairman and stole the Corpse Puppet Sect’s treasury from a dragon spring before Purple Violet True Person could reach it.
• Purple Violet True Person obtained a Lord Level identity, found the treasury empty, and sent his disciples to hunt Zhao Xing while releasing corpse insects to track him.
• Zhao Xing took the stolen treasures to Dragon King Xiu’s sleeping place, completed the trials to reach his palace, and offered tribute for two free selections from the treasury world.
• Zhao Xing chose a section of Dragon Emperor Jie's Dragon Emperor Codex and the Kun Yuan Divine Hoe, then left Dragon King Xiu’s treasury without the Sea Stabilizing Divine Needles.
• Four first-rank fate officials divined that two divine artifacts had entered Great Zhou and identified Zhao Xing as their owner.

Zhao Xing obtained four Divine Artifacts from Dragon King Yin Xiu and helped Great Zhou uncover the tribute exchange, while he and his allies looted enemy treasuries around Guting Royal City. By the twelfth month of the third year of the Great Governance Era, more than fifty-six top-tier experts had gathered in the city, and Zhao Xing planned to leave for the Central Dragon Court to unlock the Dragon Emperor Codex.

• Ji Si entered the Dragon Court to protect Zhao Xing after Great Zhou’s Fate Officials linked him to two Divine Artifacts, while other factions also sent experts to investigate the discovery.
• Zhao Xing traded for the Limitless Sword Embryo and Giant God Soldier from Dragon King Yin Xiu, then revealed to Ji Si that he already possessed them and the Kun Yuan Divine Hoe.
• Zhao Xing teamed up with the Divine Luo King and Ye Yukong to excavate enemy treasuries, gathering treasures worth about two hundred million dragon coins before Yin Xiu raised the tribute threshold.
• Zhao Xing lent Ye Yukong his money and Grand Luck Coin for a tribute exchange, then continued merit missions while preparing to leave Guting Royal City and unlock the Dragon Emperor Codex.
• By the twelfth month of the third year of the Great Governance Era, more than fifty-six top-tier experts had gathered in Guting Royal City after news of Yin Xiu’s tribute rule spread.

Zhao Xing led Ji Mengjun and the others to the Ascension Dragon Platform to unseal a Dragon Emperor Codex fragment, hoping to rescue Bai Yunwu and protect the East Sea kings. After the team fought its way to the correct platform, Zhao Xing began the ritual, leaving the others to defend him as hostile forces closed in.

• Ji Si arranged for Ji Mengjun, Tong Jin, Jiang Chuan, and Xiao Huang to escort Zhao Xing, and gave Ji Mengjun a secret edict for emergencies.
• Zhao Xing traveled with Ye Yukong and Divine Luo King to the Central Dragon Court, where he explained that he intended to visit the Ascension Dragon Platform before heading to the Nine Stars Fire Hell.
• Zhao Xing resolved to save Bai Yunwu and the East Sea kings despite the danger, then tried to divine Long Xiao's condition and badly injured his fingers.
• Ye Yukong captured Gu Shisan, a White Bone Sect elder, and Ji Mengjun drew out his Fate Soul to interrogate him.
• Zhao Xing helped Divine Luo King remove Gu Shisan's White Bone Soul Nails, and the team learned the enemy's defenses around the Ascension Dragon Platform.
• The team reached the correct platform, where Ji Mengjun and Xiao Huang silently defeated its dragon guards, and Zhao Xing began unsealing the Codex fragment with his blood.

Zhao Xing unsealed the Dragon Emperor Codex, passed its trials by reaching the ninth turn of the Hou Transformation Art and creating the Progenitor Dragon Transformation, then used the codex’s decrees to turn Dragon Clan Lords against the White Bone Sect. After Zhao Xing and his allies left the Ascension Dragon Platform, Yin Xiu sensed the codex’s awakening and prepared to rebuild the Dragon Court; Zhao Xing then learned that Yin Xiu had arrived in True Dragon Royal City.

• Purple Bone Celestial Venerable and Red Bone Celestial Venerable sacrificed peak Lord Level Flying Dragons to refine Great Dragon King Wu’s skull, then sent Bone One and Bone Two to investigate Zhao Xing’s group.
• Zhao Xing completed the Dragon Emperor Codex’s unsealing ritual, swallowed it, passed its bloodline and Fate Soul trials, and reached the ninth turn with his new Progenitor Dragon Transformation.
• Bone One and Bone Two led White Bone Sect elders toward the Dragon Emperor Ascension Platform, where Ji Mengjun and Zhao Xing’s allies engaged them while Zhao Xing finished mastering the codex.
• Zhao Xing used the Vein Severing Decree to strip Bone Two and seven elders of their Dragon Clan identities, then ordered the Dragon Clan Lords to attack; they killed Bone Two and the elders before Zhao Xing led the survivors away.
• Purple Bone Celestial Venerable and Red Bone Celestial Venerable found the Ascension Dragon Platform inactive and decided to warn their allies while concealing their losses; Yin Xiu sensed the Dragon Emperor Codex and set out to awaken ancient Dragon Kings and rebuild the Dragon Court.
• Zhao Xing explained the codex’s authority to his allies, then sensed that Yin Xiu had already arrived in True Dragon Royal City.

Zhao Xing accepted Dragon King Yin Xiu’s loyalty and used the Dragon Emperor Codex to turn the battle on the Fire Hell Plains, then entered the Nine Stars Fire Hell to rescue Bai Yunwu and Long Xiao. He explored the prison for spiritual qi, where the Floating Vine advanced to the ninth rank and the Void Seed finally sprouted.

• Ji Si sent future-dated messages to Heaven Derivation King, who alerted Luo King and ordered Yang Xiong Ying to prepare for a counterattack.
• Yin Xiu pledged his loyalty to Zhao Xing, who recorded him in the Dragon Emperor Codex and led his forces to the Fire Hell Plains.
• Yin Xiu killed Wind Dragon King Yichuan, while Zhao Xing stripped Pompeii and Tuoyan of their Dragon King ranks and drove them into flight.
• Zhao Xing entered the Nine Stars Fire Hell, removed Bai Yunwu’s chains, and told Long Xiao to return with Bai Yunwu and find Ji Si.
• Zhao Xing found a Dragon Well and absorbed its spiritual qi, advancing the Floating Vine to the ninth rank as the Void Seed sprouted.