Chapter Summaries

Ye Zhen used the Black Stone Bead’s tremors to gather Top-grade Green Wood and Yellow Earth Spirit Crystals, then followed the bead’s growing heat east through the Black Dragon Secret Palace. The bead led him toward a newly forming vortex gate, where he recognized a figure standing beside it.

• Ye Zhen discovered that dropping the Black Stone Bead shook nearby spirit crystals toward him, and he collected three Top-grade Green Wood Spirit Crystals before heading east.
• Ye Zhen met Ye Yuan, learned that the Black Dragon Secret Palace seemed to be a sealed wasteland without buildings, and continued following the bead’s energy changes.
• Ye Zhen reached a mountain covered in Top-grade Yellow Earth Spirit Crystals and obtained four by repeatedly dropping the Black Stone Bead.
• The Black Stone Bead grew dangerously hot as Ye Zhen traveled onward, and he spotted Black Light rising a hundred miles to the southeast.
• Ye Zhen rode Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao toward the Black Light and saw it forming a vortex gate beside an unidentified figure.

Ye Zhen killed Bu Changtian at a Secret Realm Gate, then entered alone and discovered a martial skill hidden in a vision of a black dragon fighting a three-headed monster. The chapter left him beginning to comprehend the three techniques of the Black Dragon Hegemony Style.

• Ye Zhen confronted Bu Changtian at the Secret Realm Gate and killed him with a single sword strike.
• Ye Zhen hid Bu Changtian's corpse and cleared away the bloodstains as he considered a plan to escape the consequences of Hua Wushuang's death.
• Mo Xinshui arrived and asked to explore the gate with Ye Zhen, but left after learning that it only allowed one person to enter and leave.
• Ye Zhen entered the Secret Realm Gate and checked that the Dragon Roar had not triggered a magma storm from his Black Stone Bead.
• Ye Zhen watched a vision of a black dragon battling a three-headed monster and recognized the repeated attacks as a martial skill.
• Ye Zhen comprehended the Black Dragon Tail Sweep, Black Dragon Divine Claw, and Black Dragon Overlord Fist, which formed the Black Dragon Hegemony Style.

After leaving the Black Dragon Secret Realm, Ye Zhen abandoned further exploration to carry out a plan against the Tiannan Hua Family. He arranged Bu Changtian’s corpse and Hua Wushuang’s valuables to implicate the dead Bu Changtian, and Zuo Bin’s greed made the deception even more convincing.

• Ye Zhen was expelled from the Secret Realm after memorizing the Black Dragon Hegemony Style, then decided to prioritize a plan that might protect his relatives and friends from the Tiannan Hua Family.
• Ye Zhen sent Illusory God Sect emergency contact talisman signals to draw Zuo Bin toward Bu Changtian’s corpse, and Zuo Bin finally responded after receiving the fifth signal.
• Ye Zhen staged Bu Changtian’s corpse in a sword-scarred mountain hollow and placed Hua Wushuang’s High-grade Treasure Ring and valuables on it while hiding nearby.
• Zuo Bin arrived, searched for an ambush, and examined Bu Changtian’s body before discovering the unfamiliar High-grade Treasure Ring.
• Zuo Bin took the ring for himself, and Ye Zhen realized the unexpected theft would make his framing plan even more effective.

Ye Zhen followed the Black Stone Bead into a soul-suppressing basin and discovered that the Black Dragon Secret Palace lay within the fallen Black Dragon’s body. After returning the bead to the dragon’s eye, he was engulfed by black light, while the Old Turtle watched in disbelief; seven days later, a figure emerged from the Black Dragon Ancient Land.

• Ye Zhen found the metal and fire spirit mountains, then followed the Black Stone Bead into a basin that suppressed his Soul Power.
• The Black Stone Bead conveyed that it wanted to return, and Ye Zhen sent it into a hollow in the basin’s ceiling, where it fit like an eye.
• Dragon Roars shook the Black Dragon Secret Palace, the soul suppression vanished, and Ye Zhen realized the secret palace was inside the fallen Black Dragon.
• The Black Dragon’s Left Eye fixed on Ye Zhen and sent black light into him, but the Mirage Dragon Pearl forced the light toward a single point as Xiao Mao also absorbed a small amount.
• Seven days after the Black Dragon Ancient Land opened, Qingyi told Thousand Illusions Eagle King that the disciples would emerge at different times, and an azure-lit figure appeared.

After emerging from the Black Dragon Secret Palace, Ye Zhen learned that his Qi Yun Sect had claimed the top two places in the Black Dragon Ranking and discovered that something foreign had appeared inside his body. As the Qi Yun Sect tried to hurry home, the Illusory God Sect and Sword Origin Sect blocked their path over Bu Changtian’s death.

• Leng Tao emerged from the Black Dragon Ancient Land with gains and hurried home with his clansmen.
• Zuo Bin told the Illusory God Sect elders that Bu Changtian was dead, blamed Ye Zhen, and concealed the High-grade Treasure Ring.
• Ye Zhen emerged unconscious, awakened, and sensed something foreign inside his body; Ji Che urged the Qi Yun Sect to leave quickly.
• Qingyi and the Thousand Illusions Eagle King pursued the Qi Yun Sect, while Zhisheng and the Sword Origin Sect joined them.
• The Illusory God Sect confronted Ji Che over Bu Changtian’s death, and Zhisheng demanded an explanation for the Sword Origin Sect’s dead disciples.

Ye Zhen led Caiyi and the Qi Yun Sect elders through an ambush, but Sword Origin Sect Sect Leader Yu Ruhai intercepted them and joined forces with their pursuers. The chapter ended with Yu Ruhai engaging Guo Qijing while five enemies charged at Ye Zhen’s group.

• Ye Zhen ordered the Dark Cloud Wind-Breaking Falcon to charge, and Caiyi killed the Wind Spirit Vermilion Crown Crane with a Soul Attack so the group could break through Qingyi and Thousand Illusions Eagle King’s blockade.
• Zhisheng detonated a crimson seal that wounded the Golden Winged Sky Flipping Eagle, while Caiyi’s Soul Attack stunned Hong Feng and helped Ye Zhen’s group escape.
• Zhisheng revealed that Sword Origin Sect intended to stop Ye Zhen and Caiyi from returning safely, then pursued them with Qingyi, Thousand Illusions Eagle King, Hong Feng, and Kong Shan.
• Yu Ruhai launched his dragon-shaped sword technique at the fleeing group, but Guo Qijing appeared and protected them from the attack.
• Yu Ruhai challenged Guo Qijing and ordered Qingyi, Thousand Illusions Eagle King, Hong Feng, Zhisheng, and Kong Shan to attack Ye Zhen’s group; the five charged while Yu Ruhai held Guo Qijing back.

Qi Yun Sect’s reinforcements drove off the attackers, and Guo Qijing revealed the five-year alliance with Li Shui Sect. Ye Zhen then told the sect leaders that he had killed Hua Wushuang and needed to carry out the second step of his framing plan, which Guo Qijing agreed to help with.

• Liao Feibai and Chu Taiping arrived to aid Qi Yun Sect, forcing Qingyi’s group and Yu Ruhai’s Sword Origin Sect fighters to retreat.
• Chu Taiping departed after Guo Qijing confirmed their five-year agreement, under which Li Shui Sect would receive one Black Dragon Ancient Land slot.
• Ye Zhen left the Dark Cloud Wind-Breaking Falcon to handle an urgent matter despite Guo Qijing’s warnings about the danger.
• Ye Zhen privately revealed Hua Wushuang’s death and his framing plan to Guo Qijing, Liao Feibai, Ji Che, and Zhong Li Jing.
• Guo Qijing asked Ye Zhen to explain the plan and promised to personally help if it was feasible.

Ye Zhen and his allies killed Steward Hua, the Hua Family guards, and the Flowing Light Flower Butterfly King to conceal Hua Wushuang’s death and buy time for the Qi Yun Sect. After they left, an Old Turtle sensed the Black Dragon Secret Palace’s reopening, awakened a distant martial artist, and sent the Black Dragon Ancient Land back underground.

• Steward Hua ordered Hua Qi to slap himself after Hua Qi voiced concern that Hua Wushuang had not emerged from the secret palace.
• Ye Zhen told Steward Hua that Hua Wushuang had sent a message, then attacked with Guo Qijing and Instructor Liao Feibai as Caiyi killed the Flowing Light Flower Butterfly King.
• Ye Zhen, Guo Qijing, and Instructor Liao Feibai killed Steward Hua and all four remaining Hua Family guards before they could send a signal.
• Ye Zhen explained that the slaughter would delay the Tiannan Hua Family’s discovery of Hua Wushuang’s death, and Guo Qijing credited Caiyi with making the plan succeed.
• Guo Qijing burned the bodies, and Ye Zhen and the others left the Black Dragon Ancient Land.
• An Old Turtle appeared, spoke of the secret palace’s reopening and a distant “little mudfish,” and caused a middle-aged martial artist in the east to awaken before returning the land to dormancy.

After Ye Zhen and Caiyi returned to Qi Yun Sect, Guo Qijing sealed the sect to let the Black Dragon Ranking’s fortune strengthen its disciples, and Qi Yun Sect’s strength surged as breakthroughs and discoveries followed. Ye Zhen’s own cultivation advanced quickly, but the chapter ended with him worried because another of his four Talent Bloodlines had developed a problem.

• Guo Qijing ordered Qi Yun Sect’s disciples to return, barred them from leaving, and arranged to seal the sect so it could benefit from Ye Zhen, Caiyi, Wu Minda, and Mei Yuanju’s Black Dragon Ranking fortune.
• Ye Zhen and Caiyi settled on Fairy Maiden Peak while disciples and elders gathered nearby to cultivate; Liao Feibai and Little Yue Meng also moved in, and Ye Zhen spent time drinking with Jin Yuanbao, Sha Fei, and Han Shi.
• Guo Qijing gave Ye Zhen and Caiyi generous cultivation resources, and the sect’s disciples began making unexpected breakthroughs as its fortune strengthened.
• In a month and a half, Qi Yun Sect gained new elders and True Disciples, uncovered a Mid-grade Spirit Crystal branch vein, and increased its overall strength by roughly thirty to forty percent.
• Ye Zhen tempered more than seventy percent of his bones and neared the third level of the Spirit Transformation Realm, but grew worried when another of his four Talent Bloodlines developed a problem.

After discovering that black radiance had transformed his Second Talent Bloodline and Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao, Ye Zhen remained unsure of its purpose. Myriad Stars Tower Master Hai Luoshuang arrived to take him to the Tower, and Qi Yun Sect agreed after she revealed her plan to transport him aboard a General-class Heavenly Spirit Boat.

• Ye Zhen found that the Black Dragon's radiance had turned his Second Talent Bloodline black and extended it to eleven feet, but he could not make it respond.
• Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao awoke with black markings and radiance throughout its body, giving Ye Zhen a possible way to study the change.
• After more than two months of unwanted attention at Qi Yun Sect, Ye Zhen met Hai Luoshuang, who came to take him to Myriad Stars Tower under their agreement.
• Guo Qijing insisted that Ye Zhen's safety be guaranteed, and Hai Luoshuang revealed she had brought a General-class Heavenly Spirit Boat and Spirit Crystals.
• Hai Luoshuang summoned the hundred-zhang Heavenly Spirit Boat, promised to return Ye Zhen safely in two and a half months, and led him aboard.

Hai Luoshuang explained the General-class Heavenly Spirit Boat’s power, weapons, and enormous Spirit Crystal consumption to Ye Zhen as it carried him to Myriad Stars Tower’s independent headquarters in Starfall City. After receiving his reward and preparing to leave for home, Ye Zhen spotted four servants carrying off a struggling young woman and ordered them to stop.

• Hai Luoshuang told Ye Zhen that the General-class Heavenly Spirit Boat was a formidable war machine, though operating it consumed vast quantities of Spirit Crystals.
• The Heavenly Spirit Boat crossed the Sword Origin Empire and reached Starfall City, where Myriad Stars Tower ruled its heavily defended headquarters.
• Myriad Stars Tower welcomed Ye Zhen and awarded him three hundred thousand Star Points while waiving his one-hundred-thousand-Point debt.
• After more than a month in Starfall City, Ye Zhen left the inner city to shop for gifts before returning home.
• Ye Zhen saw four blue-robed servants carrying off a struggling young woman and shouted for them to stop.

Ye Zhen rescued Ban Xia from Yan Shaoqi’s servants and fought Yan Shaoqi and his allies after they threatened and tried to abduct her. When Deputy Tower Master Yan Kun defended his son, Ye Zhen mocked him by asking whether he had a daughter, just as Hai Luoshuang arrived and challenged Yan Kun for threatening Ye Zhen.

• Ye Zhen defeated the servants who were abducting Ban Xia and learned that they had injured her father.
• Yan Shaoqi arrived with Cui Yu, demanded that Ye Zhen kneel and pay him, and ordered his servants to take Ban Xia.
• Ye Zhen wounded Cui Yu and attacked Yan Shaoqi, who cried for help and used protective Jade Talismans.
• Yan Kun intervened to protect Yan Shaoqi, dismissed Ban Xia’s plight, and confronted Ye Zhen.
• Ye Zhen asked whether Yan Kun had a daughter and offered to pay one thousand taels of gold to play with her.
• Hai Luoshuang arrived and questioned Yan Kun about trying to kill Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen protected Ban Xia from Yan Shaoqi and helped her family, but the next day he found Ban Xia and her parents murdered. He left Miracle Medicine Hall in a fury, carrying their bodies and ready to seek justice.

• Hai Luoshuang stopped Yan Kun from punishing Ye Zhen and ordered Yan Shaoqi driven out, but Yan Kun beat his son and made him apologize to Ye Zhen and Ban Xia.
• Ye Zhen escorted Ban Xia home to Miracle Medicine Hall, urged her family to leave Starfall City, and left them one thousand taels of gold.
• Yan Kun explained that he had appeased Ye Zhen to give Yan Shaoqi a chance to gain Ye Zhen's luck aura, while Yan Shaoqi hid his fury.
• The next morning, Ye Zhen returned to Miracle Medicine Hall and found Ban Xia's parents dead at the entrance and Ban Xia's naked corpse inside.
• Ye Zhen wrapped Ban Xia's body in a sheet, seized all three corpses, and rushed out in a rage.

Ye Zhen stormed into the Yan residence to kill Yan Shaoqi, carrying the bodies of Ban Xia's family, and fought Yan Kun when he tried to protect his son. Though Yan Kun drove Ye Zhen back, Ye Zhen refused to leave and pointed to the corpses as proof of why he had come.

• Yan Shaoqi learned from Yan An that Ye Zhen was powerful, then ordered him to clean up the bodies left in the shop.
• Ye Zhen killed Yan An and charged at Yan Shaoqi while carrying the three corpses of Ban Xia's family.
• Yan Kun intervened to save Yan Shaoqi and attacked Ye Zhen, who fought back but could not get past him.
• Yan Shaoqi urged his father to kill Ye Zhen, while Ye Zhen insisted that Yan Shaoqi must die that day.
• Yan Kun used Ice Spin Annihilation to break Ye Zhen's Floating Cloud Finger and injure him, then demanded that he leave.
• Ye Zhen walked back toward the corpses instead of retreating and told Yan Kun that the dead would not let him leave.

Ye Zhen confronted Yan Kun and Yan Shaoqi over the three people they had killed, then attacked them with Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao. As Xiao Mao tortured Yan Shaoqi and Ye Zhen held Yan Kun off, Hai Luoshuang and other Myriad Stars Tower officials arrived, and Wei Chen moved to attack the tiger.

• Ye Zhen accused Yan Shaoqi of killing three people, but Yan Kun dismissed the deaths and openly defended his son.
• Yan Shaoqi admitted he had left evidence of the killings to show Ye Zhen that he could not interfere, and Ye Zhen decided Yan Kun also had to die.
• Ye Zhen empowered himself and Xiao Mao with the Battle Soul Blood Banner, then blocked Yan Kun while Xiao Mao pinned Yan Shaoqi and scraped flesh from his back with its tongue.
• Yan Kun failed to break through Ye Zhen's attacks and begged Hai Luoshuang and the arriving officials to save his son.
• Hai Luoshuang recognized the likely cause of the confrontation and did not intervene, but Wei Chen charged Xiao Mao with his spear.

Ye Zhen punished Yan Shaoqi for Ban Xia’s family’s deaths while fighting Yan Kun, and the conflict escalated when Myriad Stars Tower Guardians turned against Wei Chen. Ye Zhen unleashed his Illusory Image Domain and a Divine Ability attack on Yan Kun, who realized too late that the real strike had reached him.

• The Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao tortured Yan Shaoqi while Ye Zhen rebuked him for what he had done to Ban Xia and her family.
• Hai Luoshuang ordered the Guardians to separate Ye Zhen and Yan Kun, but Yan Kun threatened anyone who interfered and vowed to kill Ye Zhen.
• Jin Gang attacked Wei Chen, and Du Xinglei condemned him, leaving Xiao Mao free to continue tormenting Yan Shaoqi.
• Ye Zhen promised to kill Yan Kun, evaded his Ice Flame Art with Silver Thread Flash, then attacked him with Soul Power and a Divine Ability that created more than thirty illusory golden arcs.
• Yan Kun saw through the illusion and identified the real golden arc, but it had already reached him as his ice-blue spiritual power burst apart.

Ye Zhen killed Yan Kun after Yan Kun’s men tortured Ban Xia’s family, then made Yan Shaoqi suffer for their deaths. Hai Luoshuang admitted the Myriad Stars Tower had failed to stop Yan Shaoqi’s crimes, but warned Ye Zhen that Yan Kun’s powerful family in the main tower would bring serious consequences.

• Ye Zhen killed Yan Kun with his Origin Sword Meridian, shocking Hai Luoshuang and the gathered martial artists.
• Ye Zhen forced Yan Shaoqi to face Ban Xia’s family’s corpses, then ordered Little Cat to eat him alive.
• Ye Zhen and Du Xinglei drank together after Du Xinglei arranged the burial of Ban Xia’s family.
• Hai Luoshuang summoned Ye Zhen and admitted she had failed to investigate Yan Shaoqi’s crimes, including the abduction of more than twenty young women in Starfall City.
• Hai Luoshuang warned Ye Zhen that Yan Kun’s death could not be concealed and revealed that Yan Kun came from a prominent family in the Myriad Stars Tower’s main tower.

After learning that Yan Kun’s powerful clan might retaliate, Ye Zhen set the threat aside and explored the Myriad Stars Plate’s trading functions. He discovered a Talent Bloodline Augmentation Pill in the catalogue, and its listing left him shaken.

• Hai Luoshuang warned Ye Zhen that Yan Kun belonged to an influential Yan Clan and that she had to report the killing to the main tower, though Yan Shaoqi’s crimes made open retaliation difficult for the clan.
• Ye Zhen returned to his Refined Chamber and dismissed the Yan Clan threat, reasoning that he had already made enemies of numerous powerful factions and would have killed Yan Kun and Yan Shaoqi regardless.
• Ye Zhen studied the Myriad Stars Plate and learned that it traded Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, techniques, and secret arts for Star Points, with restrictions based on membership rank.
• Ye Zhen examined listings for Spirit Calming Jade Liquid and high-grade manuals, noting their steep prices and purchase qualifications.
• Ye Zhen’s Spiritual Sense stopped on a listing for the Talent Bloodline Augmentation Pill, and he stared at it in shock.

Ye Zhen studied Myriad Stars Tower’s costly offerings and resolved to pursue the Talent Bloodline Augmentation Pill and Purple Spirit Jade while focusing on his cultivation. Myriad Stars Tower sent him away aboard a swift Heavenly Spirit Boat, foiling the ambushes waiting outside Starfall City, while an aged voice in the eastern Illusory God Empire asked whether Wu Shuang had returned.

• Ye Zhen discovered that the Talent Bloodline Augmentation Pill cost fifty million Star Points and was out of stock, but marked it as a priority.
• Ye Zhen found Purple Spirit Jade listed for one hundred thousand Star Points per piece and decided to seek it later, then calmed himself and recommitted to raising his cultivation, mastering the Black Dragon Hegemony Style, and investigating his second black Talent Bloodline.
• Six days later, Hai Luoshuang piloted a General-class Heavenly Spirit Boat out of Starfall City with Ye Zhen aboard, leaving the Soul Sea Realm experts lying in wait unable to track his route.
• Sword Origin Sect elders Zhisheng and Kong Shan and the Thousand Illusions Eagle King failed to ambush Ye Zhen, and messengers spread word that Myriad Stars Tower had sent him away safely.
• An aged voice in a valley deep in the eastern Illusory God Empire asked Hua Zhu whether his grandson Wu Shuang had returned.

The Hua Family’s Old Ancestors ordered Hua Zhu to summon the martial world’s rulers to a ceremony meant to reassert the family’s power, while Ye Zhen and Caiyi returned to Jincheng County. Ye Zhen reunited with his parents and brought Caiyi into the Ye home, where she wondered what having a family felt like.

• The Hua Family’s Old Ancestors learned Hua Wushuang had been missing for nearly four months and ordered Hua Zhu to search for him.
• The Old Ancestors instructed Hua Zhu to invite every nation’s monarchs and every sect’s leaders to the Hundred Flower Consorts’ ceremony, threatening those who refused.
• Ye Zhen and Caiyi left Qi Yun Sect on Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao and flew toward Jincheng County so Ye Zhen could bring his family a share of his fortune.
• Ye Zhen and Caiyi arrived in Jincheng County, where the townspeople welcomed the sight of Xiao Mao as a familiar sign of Marquis Wu'an.
• Ye Tiancheng and Mi Jiangxue welcomed Ye Zhen home, and Mi Jiangxue warmly took Caiyi inside as Caiyi reflected on the meaning of home.