Chapter Summaries

Yang Qingyun and Elder Bu flew through Clearwater Moon Lake to find the Qingwen Dragon Python, but the beast ambushed them from beneath the river. Yang Qingyun saved Elder Bu and prepared to fight the peak Grandmaster Realm monster.

• Elder Bu showed Yang Qingyun the beautiful Clearwater Moon Lake and pointed out the valley where the Qingwen Dragon Python was hiding.
• Yang Qingyun scanned the area with his powerful soul consciousness as they flew slowly over the bamboo forest toward the valley.
• A water column burst from the river in a sudden attack, and Yang Qingyun pulled Elder Bu out of its range.
• Elder Bu spotted the Qingwen Dragon Python beneath the river and realized Yang Qingyun had saved his life.
• Yang Qingyun faced the beast and released the aura of his Great Grandmaster Realm cultivation.

Yang Qingyun and Elder Bu attacked the Qingwen Dragon Python as it sped downriver, but the beast evaded most of their blows and escaped into Crescent Moon Lake. Yang Qingyun lost his soul-sense of it as soon as it entered the lake, leaving him alarmed by the water’s strange effect.

• Yang Qingyun unleashed Thunderous Annihilation Slash against the Qingwen Dragon Python as it attacked from beneath the river.
• The Qingwen Dragon Python dodged Yang Qingyun’s saber strikes at high speed while Elder Bu added his own attacks.
• Yang Qingyun realized the beast was moving downstream toward Crescent Moon Lake and tried to stop it.
• The Qingwen Dragon Python dodged another saber strike and plunged into Crescent Moon Lake.
• Yang Qingyun lost his soul-sense of the beast upon its entry into the lake and wondered what was wrong with the water.

Yang Qingyun and Elder Bu realized the Qingwen Dragon Python might possess a newly awakened Flood Dragon bloodline and considered retreating. The python ambushed them from Half-Moon Lake with a powerful water cannon.

• The Qingwen Dragon Python vanished beneath Half-Moon Lake, whose waters blocked spiritual sense.
• Elder Bu warned Yang Qingyun that the python might descend from the Green Flood Dragon Demon King and carry Flood Dragon bloodline.
• Yang Qingyun recalled ancient records describing Flood Dragons as rare descendants of the World-Ending True Dragon, with powerful innate abilities.
• Yang Qingyun and Elder Bu suspected the python had recently awakened its bloodline and agreed it was too dangerous to face without reinforcements.
• As Elder Bu proposed retreating, Yang Qingyun warned that it was too late, and the python fired a massive water cannon at them from the lake.

Yang Qingyun and Elder Bu faced the Qingwen Dragon Python’s relentless water-cannon barrage at Half-Moon Lake, where the water blocked soul perception. Yang Qingyun shielded Elder Bu and continued the fight alone, considering another way to counter the hidden beast.

• The Qingwen Dragon Python fired a dense barrage of powerful water cannons at Yang Qingyun and Elder Bu.
• Elder Bu dodged several attacks, then blocked three water cannons with astral essence but was driven back and nearly exhausted.
• Yang Qingyun used golden arcane light to destroy the next attacks and protect Elder Bu.
• Elder Bu withdrew from the battlefield while Yang Qingyun covered him and continued fighting.
• Yang Qingyun looked down at Half-Moon Lake and formed an idea for dealing with the Python despite being unable to sense it with his soul.

Yang Qingyun used a devastating blade strike to split the lake and drive Qingwen Dragon Python from its hiding place, then exploited dream power to catch it off guard in its lair. The python survived his final attack but suffered a grievous wound as Yang appeared behind it.

• Yang Qingyun endured Qingwen Dragon Python’s water-bullet attacks while planning how to overcome its speed and concealment beneath the lake.
• Qingwen Dragon Python hesitated over whether to flee, but kept attacking Yang from the water as its anxiety grew.
• Yang Qingyun unleashed a massive blade strike that split the lake and forced Qingwen Dragon Python to leap away.
• Qingwen Dragon Python found itself back in its lair amid a false vision, then sensed danger and dodged as Yang’s attack pierced its body.
• Yang Qingyun revealed that he had used dream power to catch Qingwen Dragon Python, which returned to the real lakebed with a bloody wound.

Yang Qingyun used the power of dreams to locate and defeat the Qingwen Dragon Python beneath Half-Moon Lake. The wounded beast unexpectedly surrendered, and Yang Qingyun returned to Elder Bu with it subdued.

• Yang Qingyun reflected on how the power of dreams had let him sense the Qingwen Dragon Python through the lake and catch it off guard.
• Yang Qingyun prepared to kill the wounded Qingwen Dragon Python with his Profound Yin Annihilation Finger.
• The Qingwen Dragon Python rushed toward Yang Qingyun, then lowered its head and pleaded through a soul transmission to be spared and allowed to submit.
• Half an hour later, Yang Qingyun emerged from Half-Moon Lake wearing an ordinary green jade bracelet, while Elder Bu waited anxiously above.
• Yang Qingyun told Elder Bu that he had dealt with the Qingwen Dragon Python, and Elder Bu urged him to avoid such risks and put his life first.

After securing the valley and building a crude cave dwelling, Yang Qingyun reviewed his gains from the encounter with the Qingwen Dragon Python. He accepted the subdued beast as a pet called Little Green and planned to study its Flood Dragon bloodline abilities.

• Yang Qingyun used his strength and knowledge of earth veins to carve a spirit-energy-rich cave dwelling into the mountain cliff.
• Elder Bu praised the new dwelling's spirit energy, though it remained sparsely furnished and unfinished.
• Yang Qingyun recalled that the Qingwen Dragon Python had offered him a Blood Contract to escape death.
• Yang Qingyun secretly planted a Dream Seed as a safeguard before taking control of the Blood Contract.
• After confirming that the Qingwen Dragon Python had fully submitted, Yang Qingyun named it Little Green and prepared to investigate its bloodline abilities.

Yang Qingyun learned that the Qingwen Dragon Python’s Flood Dragon abilities came from a red fruit it ate in a cave beneath Crescent Lake. He followed Little Green to the lake’s bottom and discovered strange crystals and a cavern that swallowed his soul perception.

• Yang Qingyun failed to understand Little Green’s bloodline techniques and asked how it had awakened its powers.
• Little Green told Yang Qingyun that it had eaten a red fruit in a freezing cave beneath Crescent Lake before sleeping for a long time and awakening its abilities.
• Yang Qingyun followed Little Green back to Crescent Lake and found that the lake swallowed his spiritual sense.
• Yang Qingyun descended to the lakebed, examined strange blue crystals, and noticed they contained an unusual power.
• Yang Qingyun spotted a deep cavern at the lake’s center, where an unknown aura erased his soul perception.

Yang Qingyun followed Little Green into the dangerous depths beneath Half-Moon Lake and found Dragon Blood Grass bearing a Dragon Blood Fruit. He collected the fruit and one plant, then left quickly, wary of a terrifying presence deeper underground.

• Yang Qingyun descended into the cavern beneath the lake, where an unknown force severely restricted his spiritual-soul perception.
• As Yang Qingyun and Little Green traveled deeper, he sensed a deathly aura and feared that a powerful being had died below.
• Little Green led Yang Qingyun through an icy passage into a vast underground cavern and showed him the Dragon Blood Grass where it had once found two fruits.
• Yang Qingyun harvested the Dragon Blood Fruit and one Dragon Blood Grass, stored them, and left the cavern with Little Green.

Yang Qingyun returned from the underwater cavern maze with the Dragon Blood Grass and Dragon Blood Fruit, while Little Green warned him that Half-Moon Lake felt dangerously threatening. Back in his cave, Yang Qingyun began consuming the fruit, hoping its power would help him comprehend a divine ability.

• Yang Qingyun escaped Half-Moon Lake with the treasures, and Little Green described his strong sense of danger beneath the water.
• Yang Qingyun suspected the lake concealed a great secret but decided to investigate only after his strength improved.
• Yang Qingyun let Little Green guard the area, instructing him to hunt wild beasts but notify him if any people arrived.
• Yang Qingyun studied the Dragon Blood Grass and Dragon Blood Fruit and considered using them to grasp the True Dragon's divine power.
• Yang Qingyun swallowed the Dragon Blood Fruit, and his powerful Qi and Blood began refining its scorching medicinal essence.

Yang Qingyun refined the Dragon Blood Grass and Dragon Blood Fruit, strengthening his body and awakening a small measure of wind power. He left his cave abode to receive Elder Bu and Xie Qingtian, whose visit reminded him of the gap between their cultivation.

• Yang Qingyun discovered that refining the Dragon Blood treasures had strengthened his physique and given him a trace of control over wind, improving his movement speed.
• Yang Qingyun continued refining the remaining medicinal power, expecting it to help advance his cultivation.
• Little Green informed Yang Qingyun that Elder Bu had arrived with visitors, so he left his cave abode.
• Yang Qingyun greeted Elder Bu and Xie Qingtian, remembering that he had postponed Xie Qingtian’s requested visit and then forgotten about it.
• Xie Qingtian compared his peak Grandmaster cultivation and Innate Sword Bone with Yang Qingyun’s Great Grandmaster realm and wondered if his own talent was overrated.

Yang Qingyun explained to Xie Qingtian that taking every day of cultivation seriously had driven his progress, and realized that the resolve he forged in his previous life was his greatest asset. Elder Bu praised Yang Qingyun’s insight, and Yang welcomed him and Xie Qingtian into his newly opened grotto-heaven.

• Xie Qingtian asked Yang Qingyun for guidance after noting how far Yang had advanced beyond their former cultivation level.
• Yang Qingyun told Xie Qingtian that steady, serious effort mattered more than talent or resources.
• Yang Qingyun reflected that his hardships in his Previous Life had forged the discipline that kept his cultivation advancing.
• Xie Qingtian pondered Yang Qingyun’s advice, while Elder Bu praised his insight and wondered at his unusual maturity.
• Elder Bu reminded Yang Qingyun to invite them inside, and Yang led both visitors into the grotto-heaven to sit around a stone table.

Elder Bu and Xie Qingtian invited Yang Qingyun to seek the Dual Sword and Saber Master's legacy, but Yang Qingyun declined so he could consolidate his recent gains. Xie Qingtian then challenged him to a spar, and the chapter ends as Xie Qingtian unleashes a mighty sword strike.

• Elder Bu explained that True Master Fang's burial mound contained trials and a Dao Fruit legacy that Yang Qingyun and Xie Qingtian might claim together.
• Yang Qingyun declined the expedition, choosing to stabilize his cultivation and digest the gains from his recent adventures.
• Xie Qingtian asked Yang Qingyun to spar with him, and Yang Qingyun accepted.
• The two went to a barren mountain while Elder Bu watched from the sky.
• Xie Qingtian drew his sword and launched a tremendous strike that impressed Yang Qingyun.

Yang Qingyun tested his Blade Dao against Xie Qingtian’s Sword Dao and endured two powerful sword strikes with his physique, which had grown stronger after the Dragon Blood Grass’s tempering. The second collision devastated the surrounding land, and Yang Qingyun again shattered Xie Qingtian’s attack with his fist.

• Yang Qingyun met Xie Qingtian’s first sword strike with an unarmed palm and emerged unharmed, shocking Xie Qingtian and Elder Bu.
• Yang Qingyun realized the Dragon Blood Grass had greatly strengthened his physique and let him withstand a sword strike that had once rivaled his full-strength blade.
• Xie Qingtian recovered from his shock and unleashed his second technique, Heavenly River Inverted.
• Yang Qingyun answered with a fist that merged the Yin Yang power of the Great Zhou Heaven Yin Yang Technique and broke Xie Qingtian’s killing sword technique, while their collision tore apart the surrounding landscape.

Yang Qingyun effortlessly overcame Xie Qingtian’s sword techniques, dodging his strongest concealed strike with the wind-controlling power of his True Dragon Divine Abilities bloodline. Exhausted and unable to continue, Xie Qingtian admitted defeat, and Yang Qingyun thanked him for yielding.

• Yang Qingyun broke Xie Qingtian’s second sword with brute force and praised his Sword Dao comprehension.
• Xie Qingtian launched a concealed, intensely condensed sword strike from behind Yang Qingyun.
• Yang Qingyun used his wind-controlling divine ability to evade the strike, leaving an afterimage that the sword shattered.
• Xie Qingtian, drained by his strongest technique, acknowledged the vast gap between them and surrendered.
• Yang Qingyun clasped his fists and thanked Xie Qingtian for yielding.

After defeating Xie Qingtian, Yang Qingyun exchanged cultivation insights with him and Elder Bu before entering seclusion to refine the remaining medicinal power of the Dragon Blood Fruit and Dragon Blood Grass. He reached the peak of the early Grandmaster Realm, suppressed further advancement, and planned to polish his strength while developing his cave dwelling and other abilities.

• Elder Bu praised Yang Qingyun after witnessing him dodge Xie Qingtian's three sword strikes and win their sparring match.
• Yang Qingyun invited Elder Bu and Xie Qingtian to his cave dwelling, where the three shared cultivation insights over several days.
• After the two visitors departed, Yang Qingyun digested his gains from the battle and entered seclusion to refine the medicinal power remaining in his body.
• A month later, Yang Qingyun had refined all the medicinal power and reached the peak of the early Grandmaster Realm, but he deliberately suppressed further advancement.
• Yang Qingyun began polishing his cultivation and strength, improving his cave dwelling, and studying his Blade Path will, Flood Dragon divine ability, and Entering the Great Thousand Dreams.

After two years of secluded cultivation, Yang Qingyun reached the late Grandmaster Realm and strengthened his abilities, then decided it was time to go out. He learned that the war between the Sacred Extremity Sect and the Profound Spirit Sect had devastated the country of Song, leaving it in name only.

• Yang Qingyun explored and cultivated the valley plain, tending spiritual fields and deepening his understanding of nature and his control over wind.
• Yang Qingyun advanced his Blade Path will and made progress toward cultivating Entering the Great Thousand.
• Yang Qingyun rose from the peak of the early Grandmaster Realm to the late Grandmaster Realm during his two years of seclusion.
• Yang Qingyun decided to leave the valley after reflecting on his increased strength.
• Yang Qingyun learned from visitors that the war between the Sacred Extremity Sect and the Profound Spirit Sect had intensified, and the country of Song had been destroyed and its people displaced.

Yang Qingyun reflected on his growing ties to the Sacred Extremity Sect and decided to head to the battlefield to seek clues about its destruction in his Previous Life. Meanwhile, a fight broke out in Great Liang City as Bai Yuanli confronted Bai Zongyi over his ties to the Profound Spirit Sect.

• Yang Qingyun considered how the war had spread across the Southern Heaven Domain and how his actions had changed events since his rebirth.
• Yang Qingyun resolved to investigate the Profound Spirit Sect on the battlefield, then summoned Little Green and departed.
• A martial battle erupted in the Imperial Palace in Great Liang City, prompting Imperial Guards to evacuate the area and surround the fighting.
• Bai Yuanli accused Bai Zongyi of colluding with the Profound Spirit Sect and demanded his surrender.
• Bai Zongyi admitted that Bai Yuanli had caught him off guard and threatened that Profound Spirit Sect experts would eventually come for him.

After Bai Zongyi’s failed escape and death, Deng Guangzhi and Du Wenhe discussed the Sacred Extremity Sect’s worsening war with the Profound Spirit Sect and the powerful enemy prodigy driving its defeats. The chapter ended with them hoping that Xie Qingtian’s return from seclusion could help stabilize the battlefield.

• Bai Zongyi charged at Bai Yuanli in desperation, but martial artists in the air struck him down and killed him.
• Bai Yuanli directed the Imperial Guards as they cleared the wreckage, while Du Wenhe congratulated Deng Guangzhi for exposing the scheme.
• Deng Guangzhi told Du Wenhe that the Profound Spirit Sect’s prodigy had defeated Senior Brother Yu and worsened the Sacred Extremity Sect’s position on the front line.
• Du Wenhe and Deng Guangzhi reflected that Yang Qingyun might be too inexperienced to change the overall war, despite his extraordinary strength.
• Du Wenhe reported that Xie Qingtian had emerged from seclusion after reaching the Great Grandmaster Realm, and they hoped he could stabilize the battlefield.

Sacred Extremity Sect’s forces in Southern Heaven Domain lost ground and morale, but news that Xie Qingtian had entered the Great Grandmaster Realm gave them hope. When he arrived alone at the fiercely contested Hengshui battlefield, Sacred Extremity Sect was already struggling against Profound Spirit Sect’s stronger top fighters.

• Sacred Extremity Sect disciples took heart when they heard Xie Qingtian had advanced to the Great Grandmaster Realm and planned to challenge Profound Spirit Sect.
• Xie Qingtian arrived alone at the Hengshui frontline several days later, drawing the attention of tens of thousands.
• Ouyang Qing killed an enemy with a punch while fighting in the aerial melee, but saw Sacred Extremity Sect’s side losing ground.
• Blood Wolf Linghu Feng broke through Sacred Extremity Sect’s encirclement, then severely wounded another steward, boosting Profound Spirit Sect’s morale.