Chapter Summaries

The Dragon Slayer shattered Great Zhou Dynasty’s barrier and wounded its Golden Dragon of National Fortune, but the dragon escaped into the dynasty. As the Dragon Slayer prepared to kill Great Zhou Great Ancestor Yang Sheng, Wulan Tianjue forced himself back into the Martial Saint realm to fight him.

• The Dragon Slayer’s Endless Blade Intent broke through Great Zhou Dynasty’s hastily assembled mental barrier, allowing the Golden Dragon of National Fortune to evade his attack at the cost of its tail.
• The injured Golden Dragon of National Fortune fled toward Great Zhou Dynasty, while the Dragon Slayer decided to target Great Zhou Great Ancestor Yang Sheng.
• Yang Sheng swallowed petals from the shattered National Fortune Golden Lotus to refine them and extend his lifespan, but the Dragon Slayer moved to stop him.
• Wulan Tianjue attacked the Dragon Slayer after the destruction of the Golden Meng Empire’s Golden Dragon of National Fortune left him gravely wounded and weakened.
• Wulan Tianjue gathered all his blood and vital essence to force his way back into the Martial Saint realm, determined to take the Dragon Slayer down with him.

After the Golden Dragon of National Fortune was slain, two strands of national fortune entered Yang Chan, leaving the Great Yin Saintess convinced he was doomed. She abandoned him and planned to use his misfortune to eliminate her rivals in the Great Yin Holy Sect.

• The Great Yin Saintess continued pursuing Yang Chan despite learning that the Golden Meng Empire's Golden Dragon of National Fortune had been slain.
• Two streaks of golden light carrying the origin national fortune of the Golden Meng Empire and Great Zhou Dynasty entered Yang Chan's body.
• Yang Chan asked the Great Yin Saintess how to remove the national fortune, but she told him to wait for death and refused to help.
• The Great Yin Saintess fled from Yang Chan, fearing the national fortune would taint her, and considered luring her rival Quasi Saintesses into contact with him.

Dragon Slayer Ouyang Qingtian killed Golden Meng Empire's ancestor Wulan Tianjue and challenged Great Zhou Great Ancestor Yang Sheng, hoping to slay another Martial Saint and strengthen his foundation. Yang Sheng fought to protect the Great Zhou Dynasty, and their clash ended with Ouyang Qingtian's aura still growing stronger.

• Ouyang Qingtian killed Wulan Tianjue and set his sights on Yang Sheng and the Great Zhou Dynasty.
• Yang Sheng's attempt to extend his lifespan failed, but he resolved to fight Ouyang Qingtian and buy time for Old Emperor Yang Yu to break through.
• Ouyang Qingtian drew the Dragon-Engraved Blood Saber and unleashed Dragon Slaying Slash as Yang Sheng countered with One Finger Points to Cang Mountain.
• Ouyang Qingtian's Dragon Slaying Slash shattered Yang Sheng's attack, and his aura continued to grow stronger.

Yang Chan escaped the conflict near Jinyun City and waited until dawn for the panel to absorb the power of national fortune at its source. He then used Xuantian Divine Lord’s control art to punish Black Dragon for its suspected scheme, forcing it to call him Master while it remained resentful.

• Yang Chan left the battlefield and traveled a thousand li from Jinyun City before hiding in a trapped mountain cave.
• At dawn, the panel absorbed the power of national fortune at its source, removing Yang Chan’s arrogant sense of being destined to succeed.
• Black Dragon revealed that it had awakened and was shocked that Yang Chan had completely digested the power.
• Yang Chan activated Xuantian Divine Lord’s control art and made Black Dragon suffer for its suspected attempt to plot against him.
• Black Dragon called Yang Chan Master, but it remained unwilling and resentful as he continued to control it.

Yang Chan learned that Black Dragon had too little power to defeat a Martial Saint and that reaching the Divine Aperture Realm required divine vein power. Black Dragon explained Yang Chan’s Essence Origin Upper Fetus and agreed to share the cultivation methods he had collected.

• Yang Chan sensed the distant aftershocks of a Martial Saint battle, and Black Dragon explained how clashes between powerful cultivators could devastate the world.
• Yang Chan asked whether Black Dragon could defeat a Martial Saint, and Black Dragon admitted that his remaining strength was limited to briefly reaching the Marrow Cleansing Realm.
• Black Dragon said that even devouring two Golden Dragons of National Fortune could not let him reach the Divine Aperture Realm without divine vein power.
• Yang Chan asked whether his Essence Origin Upper Fetus counted as a Divine Aperture, and Black Dragon explained that it could aid his future spiritual condensation and martial will but did not yet make him a Divine Aperture cultivator.
• Yang Chan asked for soul-body cultivation methods, and Black Dragon said he had none but offered to show him the human and dragon cultivation methods he had collected.

Yang Chan questioned Black Dragon about Dragon Tamers and learned how they differed from Dragon Slayers. Black Dragon described their ties to dragons and the Black Dragon clan’s distrust of contracts, while Yang Chan quietly considered what the information meant for him.

• Yang Chan asked Black Dragon whether he knew about Dragon Tamers and whether they were connected to Dragon Slayers.
• Black Dragon explained that Dragon Slayers were fated figures who could destroy a dynasty’s national fortune, and that their appearance marked a change of dynasties.
• Black Dragon said Dragon Tamers could command dragons and sometimes form contracts to cultivate together, though he had never witnessed such a partnership himself.
• Black Dragon said the Black Dragon clan rejected Dragon Tamers and believed contracts could limit a dragon’s cultivation potential.
• Black Dragon qualified his claims as inherited knowledge because he feared provoking Yang Chan again.

Yang Chan sealed Black Dragon’s ability to sense beyond the Mysterious Yin Hanging Beads and raised his Calm Heart Breath Holding Method to the fourth order, concealing his cultivation and aura. He left the cave and headed toward the border, planning to gather news about the war and continue improving while avoiding the Great Yin Saintess and Tianxuan Holy Land’s conflicts.

• Yang Chan asked Black Dragon about Dragon Tamer cultivation and whether he could sense outside the Mysterious Yin Hanging Beads, then sealed the beads’ power to block his perception.
• Yang Chan spent Potential Points to raise the Calm Heart Breath Holding Method to the fourth order, hiding his essence energy, blood vitality, and apparent cultivation.
• Yang Chan changed clothes and his disguise before leaving the cave at night, intending to avoid any tracking method the Great Yin Saintess might have left on him.
• Yang Chan set off toward the border rather than returning to the Qingyuan Sect, planning to learn the outcome of the border war and improve his abilities.
• Yang Chan resolved to remain cautious about joining Tianxuan Holy Land and to seek greater strength before pursuing the divine dynasty or a way off the Taiyu Divine Continent.

Yang Chan learned in Taiding City that the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Golden Meng Empire had called a truce after Ouyang Qingtian killed the Golden Meng Empire's Martial Saint ancestor and wounded the Great Zhou Imperial Family's Grand Ancestor. As rumors spread that the sects would soon return and unite against the Great Zhou Imperial Family, Yang Chan prepared to head back to Qingyuan Sect.

• Tavern patrons in Taiding City debated the border war, the truce, and Ouyang Qingtian's rumored origins and feats.
• Yang Chan listened in disguise and learned that the sects had suffered heavy losses and that the Great Zhou Imperial Family's Old Emperor Yang Yu had become a Martial Saint.
• Yang Chan concluded that he could return to Qingyuan Sect now that the war had ended and the sect members were returning.
• Yang Chan ordered wine and roast chicken while patrons discussed rumors that the sects would unite to pressure the Great Zhou Imperial Family.

Yang Chan returned to Qingyuan Sect after surviving the Martial Saint battle and explained how he had become separated from Song Yunxiang’s group. Gu An welcomed him back and learned that Yang Chan was alive, while Yang Chan planned to return to his cultivation in the sect.

• Yang Chan reached Qingyuan Sect and learned that Song Yunxiang and the other survivors had returned from Jinyun City two days earlier.
• Yang Chan gave the gatekeeping disciple pills and went to the Council Pavilion to report his return to Gu An.
• Song Yunxiang was astonished to see Yang Chan alive and brought him back into the Council Pavilion.
• Gu An questioned Yang Chan about how he had escaped, and Yang Chan explained that he had fled in the opposite direction, gathered information in Yanzhou, and traveled home by the main roads.
• Yang Chan finished his account, and Song Yunxiang apologized for still holding his hand.

Yang Chan returned safely to Qingyuan Sect, where Gu An and Song Yunxiang welcomed him and discussed making the Great Zhou Imperial Family answer for its actions. Back at Yuanqing Courtyard, Yang Chan asked Han Bingyu to help him relax, while Princess Lanyue reflected on her hopes of winning his favor.

• Gu An and Song Yunxiang accepted Yang Chan's need to rest and said the Great Zhou Imperial Family should pay for the sects' losses.
• Han Bingyu greeted Yang Chan at Yuanqing Courtyard, and he postponed hearing her report so he could bathe and rest.
• Han Bingyu accompanied Yang Chan to the bathing room after telling him the hot water was ready.
• The maidservants and Princess Lanyue felt relieved to see Yang Chan alive, and Lanyue worried that his death would leave her without an antidote.
• Princess Lanyue watched Yang Chan enter the bathing room with Han Bingyu and left, disappointed that she had not gained his attention.

Yang Chan returned from the devastating battle at Jinyun City and focused on recovering and improving his cultivation. After training in a hidden chamber, he demonstrated a new air-arrow attack that could kill even an Internal Refinement Grandmaster if it struck by surprise.

• The surviving Qingyuan Sect disciples blamed the Great Zhou Imperial Family for the battle's heavy casualties, while Ouyang Qingtian gathered support to overthrow the weakened Wulan Imperial House.
• Yang Chan ate pomelo and rested while Han Bingyu bathed him, then changed into training clothes after she fell asleep.
• Yang Chan entered a hidden chamber and cultivated the Internal Refinement of Five Organs with the Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method, absorbing the pills' medicinal power.
• Yang Chan exhaled a condensed air arrow that could pierce stone and potentially kill an Internal Refinement Grandmaster if used as a surprise attack.

Yang Chan spent his refreshed Potential Points improving the Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method, Sword Master, Tai Chi Health Cultivation Technique, Pharmacist, and Dragon Tamer. He gained the knowledge of a Senior Alchemist but decided to leave Dragon Tamer development aside until he could find a suitable young dragon, while continuing to prepare for his eventual journey to Tianxuan Holy Land.

• Yang Chan used seven Potential Points on the Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method, one on Sword Master, and one on Tai Chi Health Cultivation Technique.
• His Pharmacist profession reached Fourth Order: Proficient, granting him broad Senior Alchemist knowledge beyond pill refinement.
• Yang Chan learned that Dragon Tamer growth depended on bonding with a young dragon, but he could not use the Black Dragon Soul Body or find a dragon in the Taiyu Divine Continent.
• He concluded that Dragon Tamer would have to wait until he could search for dragons using Tianxuan Holy Land's resources.
• Yang Chan planned to keep advancing Sword Master steadily, recalling that his Sword Momentum had let him fight the Great Yin Saintess to a draw.

Yang Chan updated Princess Lanyue on the near-death state of the Great Zhou Grand Progenitor and revealed that Old Emperor Yang Yu’s Martial Saint power depended on the dynasty’s national fortune. Princess Lanyue saw a possible route to revenge by severing the Great Zhou’s Golden Dragon of National Fortune.

• Yang Chan allocated Potential Points to improve his cultivation methods, then left the secret chamber and slept in warm bedding.
• Yang Chan gave Princess Lanyue a month’s supply of antidote for the Three Flower Insect God Pill.
• Yang Chan told Princess Lanyue that the Great Zhou Grand Progenitor was gravely wounded after fighting Ouyang Qingtian and was unlikely to live much longer.
• Yang Chan explained that Old Emperor Yang Yu had become a Pillar-Supporting Martial Saint through the Great Zhou’s national fortune and would perish if the dynasty fell.
• Yang Chan told Princess Lanyue that severing the Great Zhou’s Golden Dragon of National Fortune could make Yang Yu die suddenly, and Princess Lanyue resolved to grow stronger on the journey to the Tianxuan Holy Land.

Yang Chan began refining the Essence Condensing Organ Refining Pill despite Princess Lanyue’s warning that he lacked experience and should focus on the Five-Cycle Organ Nourishing Pill. As she watched his remarkably skilled technique, Princess Lanyue wondered whether he could succeed and rise beyond King-level Alchemist.

• Princess Lanyue warned Yang Chan that attempting the Essence Condensing Organ Refining Pill was risky and urged him to master the Five-Cycle Organ Nourishing Pill first.
• Yang Chan confidently suggested his pill-refining abilities had improved since he went down the mountain, and Princess Lanyue chose to watch his attempt.
• Yang Chan began placing the ingredients into the pill furnace and refining the Essence Condensing Organ Refining Pill.
• Princess Lanyue noticed Yang Chan’s smooth, practiced techniques and struggled to understand how his skill had improved so greatly.
• Princess Lanyue wondered whether Yang Chan could refine the pill and become an Alchemist Above King-level.

Yang Chan successfully refined an Essence Condensing Organ Refining Pill on his first attempt, impressing Princess Lanyue and encouraging her to keep developing her alchemy. He urged her to prepare pills and improve her cultivation before their journey to Tianxuan Holy Land, promising to remove the Three Flower Insect God Pill’s restriction once she reached the Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster realm.

• Yang Chan refined a qualified Essence Condensing Organ Refining Pill on his first attempt, and Princess Lanyue recognized his exceptional talent.
• Princess Lanyue envied Yang Chan’s skill and said she hoped to improve her own alchemy despite being an Intermediate Alchemist.
• Yang Chan explained that watching his process would help Princess Lanyue and encouraged her to continue refining pills when she was ready.
• Princess Lanyue revealed that her master believed she could become a Top Alchemist and might reach King-level Alchemist, and Yang Chan said he thought highly of her potential.
• Yang Chan told Princess Lanyue to stockpile pills before they went to Tianxuan Holy Land, advance her Martial Cultivation, and promised to stop restricting her after she reached the Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster realm.

Yang Chan refined premium Essence Condensing Organ Refining Pills and found that they pushed his daily Potential Point gain above ten. After allocating more points to the Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method, he contacted the Black Dragon to obtain its dragon and human cultivation methods.

• Yang Chan refined Essence Condensing Organ Refining Pills, quickly advancing from qualified-grade pills to premium-grade pills while Princess Lanyue watched.
• Yang Chan took a premium pill and found that it strengthened his five viscera and aided his Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method cultivation.
• After midnight, Yang Chan saw his Potential Points rise by 10.2, including an additional 0.9 daily gain from the Essence Condensing Organ Refining Pill.
• Yang Chan allocated his new points to the Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method and adjusted to his increased strength.
• Yang Chan removed the secret technique concealing the Mysterious Yin Hanging Beads and asked the Black Dragon whether it had organized its dragon and human cultivation methods.

Yang Chan studied the True Dragon Manual and learned about the dragon race’s cultivation, lifespan, and path to becoming True Gods. Black Dragon explained that living beings were bound by an internal Longevity Lock, leaving Yang Chan wondering whether his Life-Nourishing Technique could overcome it.

• Black Dragon presented Yang Chan with three scrolls, including the True Dragon Manual, and explained that dragons had to cross the Dragon Gate into the Divine Aperture Realm to become True Dragons.
• Yang Chan asked how long dragons took to reach the Body Tempering Peak, and Black Dragon said they usually reached it within a thousand years but died by two thousand if they failed to advance.
• Yang Chan considered how the Great Zhou Imperial Family’s resources and Old Emperor Yang Yu’s breakthrough had shaped the balance of power with the sects.
• Yang Chan asked how long dragons lived after reaching the Divine Aperture Realm, and Black Dragon explained that beings below True Gods could live at most ten thousand eight hundred years.
• Black Dragon told Yang Chan that the lifespan limit came from a Longevity Lock within living beings, which only a breakthrough into the True God realm could open.

Yang Chan learned from Black Dragon about the Longevity Lock and how contracts with Dragon Tamers could speed a dragon’s growth and help both partners reach the Divine Aperture Realm. He finished studying the True Dragon Manual, though Black Dragon warned that dragon cultivation offered little practical use to humans, especially in a land without divine veins.

• Black Dragon explained that beings below True God were bound by the Longevity Lock and could live no more than one hui, while Yang Chan asked whether it could be opened by other means.
• Black Dragon said a Dragon Tamer contract could cut a dragon’s growth time by more than half and help both partners reach the Divine Aperture Realm within a few hundred years.
• Yang Chan read about the differences between dragon and human divine apertures, and Black Dragon advised him to focus on human cultivation methods.
• Black Dragon explained that the destruction of the Taiyu Divine Continent’s divine veins made breaking through to the Divine Aperture Realm exceedingly difficult.
• Yang Chan finished reading the True Dragon Manual and decided to keep an eye out for a dragon cub without forcing the search.

Yang Chan examined Black Dragon’s records on human divine apertures and a soul-body cultivation method called Primordial Soul Sword. After learning he could use a sacrificial array to draw Primordial Qi and begin cultivating it, Yang Chan considered whether he could do so without attracting attention.

• Yang Chan read Black Dragon’s incomplete Human Race Divine Aperture Chapter and learned about the Circumheaven apertures and their role in cultivation.
• Black Dragon explained that he had opened a little over three hundred apertures before he fell and that all Circumheaven apertures were required to reach the True God realm.
• Yang Chan read Primordial Soul Sword and learned that it required Sword Momentum and Primordial Qi, which could be drawn using the Great Array of Primordial Sacrifice.
• Black Dragon told Yang Chan that he already possessed the array’s main materials and could gather the ordinary remaining materials outside Qingyuan Sect.
• Yang Chan asked whether the array would cause a disturbance, and Black Dragon said its effects would be most apparent to soul bodies and could be concealed or performed outside the sect.

Yang Chan questioned the Black Dragon about the Great Array of Primordial Sacrifice and the risks of condensing a Primordial Sword. After realizing the Black Dragon wanted Primordial Qi for himself, Yang Chan learned that the dragon’s soul body had weakened since he became an Artifact Spirit.

• Yang Chan asked whether the Black Dragon had experience setting up the Great Array of Primordial Sacrifice, and the Black Dragon explained that he had entered the Primordial Realm directly to condense his Primordial Sword.
• The Black Dragon described the Primordial Realm’s dangers, the benefits of Primordial Qi, and the strength a Primordial Sword could grant Yang Chan.
• Yang Chan pressed the Black Dragon about drawbacks, and the Black Dragon explained the sword’s ongoing need for Primordial Qi and the recovery time after a failed attempt.
• Yang Chan asked whether Primordial Qi could strengthen the Black Dragon, and the Black Dragon admitted that he hoped to absorb it to restore his weakening soul body.