Chapter Summaries

After abandoning the pursuit of the Supreme Scepter, Meng Zhao discussed Feng Susu’s training with Feng Ling, who then asked him to supply the Tiantian Clan with necessities from within the Passes. Meng Zhao recognized the political risks and questioned why Feng Ling had approached him.

• Feng Ling promised to alert the Hundred Clans’ leaders about the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord’s scheme, and Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng gave up on the Supreme Scepter.
• Meng Zhao reflected that his Arctic Ice Plains journey had still taught him about the local Heavenly Dao and the Hundred Clans’ martial arts.
• Feng Ling asked what Meng Zhao thought of Feng Susu, and Meng Zhao said she had courage and drive and that he had taught her some Drunken Dream Fist.
• Feng Ling hinted that Meng Zhao should continue teaching Feng Susu and form a lasting bond with her, but Meng Zhao declined to commit to a master-disciple relationship.
• Feng Ling asked Meng Zhao to provide daily necessities from within the Passes to improve the Tiantian Clan’s living conditions.
• Meng Zhao questioned why Feng Ling could not find other Human Clan partners and considered how supplying the Tiantian Clan could invite political backlash or lead to demands for weapons.

Meng Zhao refused Feng Ling’s request to smuggle supplies to the Tiantian Clan, citing the danger to his reputation and the difficulty of the route. Back at their lodging, Zhao Rulíng warned him that helping one tribe could draw the entire Hundred Clans into exploiting him, leaving their meeting on bad terms.

• Feng Ling explained that Heaven Pass prevented large-scale supply shipments to the Hundred Clans and offered Arctic Ice Plains treasures in exchange for Meng Zhao’s help.
• Meng Zhao refused, saying the Beitang Imperial Clan would hold him accountable if the scheme were exposed and that his influence was too far from the Arctic Ice Plains.
• Feng Ling’s attitude toward Meng Zhao grew more distant, and the meeting ended unhappily.
• Zhao Rulíng warned Meng Zhao that supporting the Tiantian Clan would make the Hundred Clans demand equal access to his supplies and could entangle him in their conflict with the Human Clan.
• Meng Zhao agreed that he could not risk his reputation or allegiance, while Zhao Rulíng explained that the Hundred Clans’ hatred of the Human Clan could not easily be overcome.

After a week in the Tiantian Tribe, Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng watched preparations for the Clan War and its festivities. The bustle stirred Meng Zhao’s memories of home and seemed to bring an unexpected elevation of his state of mind.

• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng spent the week exploring the area and helping Feng Susu cultivate, while Zhao Rulíng drove away other young clan members seeking their favor.
• The Tiantian Tribe built a vast ice arena and prepared traditional dances and a feast to host the Lan Clan for the Clan War.
• Feng Susu explained that the dances reflected a clan’s ancient heritage and standing among the Tiantian people.
• Meng Zhao used the Wind Listening Technique to take in the tribe’s lively preparations and was reminded of Meng Family Village and his previous life.
• Zhao Rulíng noticed Meng Zhao’s change and wondered whether the experience had elevated his state of mind and Primordial Spirit.

Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng watched the Lan Clan arrive to contest the Divine Connection Post and assessed the clan’s strength. Meng Zhao recognized the Lan Clan patriarch’s aura as the Demonic Seed and realized the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord had turned the Celestial Being into a demonic slave.

• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng were advised not to wander the Tiantian Tribe during the Clan War because they were Human Clan members.
• Feng Ling welcomed the approaching Lan Clan, whose arrival carried a cordial, familial atmosphere.
• Zhao Rulíng and Meng Zhao sensed that the Lan Clan patriarch was stronger than Feng Ling and possessed a ferocious, unusual Primordial Spirit.
• Meng Zhao recognized the patriarch’s power as the Demonic Seed he had encountered inside Bei Tangsu.
• Meng Zhao concluded that the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord had refined the Lan Clan patriarch into a demonic slave and wondered how he had overcome such a powerful Celestial Being.

Meng Zhao learned from Zhao Rulíng that the Lan Clan chief’s Demonic Seed might come from the Four-Void Precepts, an ancient law that made master-servant bonds impossible to reverse, stop, escape, or end. Zhao Rulíng suspected the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord’s plans might involve the Lan Clan and the Supreme Scepter, while Meng Zhao focused on understanding the precepts.

• Meng Zhao told Zhao Rulíng that the Lan Clan chief had been silently refined into a demonic slave.
• Zhao Rulíng explained the Four-Void Precepts and said the Heavenly Demon Palace used related methods to enslave people across generations.
• Zhao Rulíng suggested that the Lan Clan chief’s Demonic Seed might have been inherited from an ancestor or planted by the current Heavenly Demon Palace Lord long ago.
• Meng Zhao became absorbed in the Four-Void Precepts and considered how their laws could defy nature and resist even Supreme Great Emperors.
• Zhao Rulíng wondered whether the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord and the Lan Clan chief were connected, and whether they sought the Supreme Scepter or intended to influence the Clan War.
• Zhao Rulíng concluded that Feng Ling’s findings about the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord and the Supreme Scepter would make the Hundred Clans more alert to his schemes.

Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng assessed the fighters before the Tiantian Clan’s Clan War began. The Feng Clan won the opening Grandmaster battle, while the Great Grandmaster and Celestial matches remained ahead.

• Meng Zhao concluded that the Four-Void Precepts were connected to the Heavenly Dao and considered the discovery a new direction for his research.
• The Lan Clan Patriarch detected a disturbance in Zhao Rulíng’s Wind Listening Technique but mistook him for a Feng Clan ally secretly positioned to interfere.
• Feng Ling and the Lan Clan Patriarch agreed that each side would field three fighters in Grandmaster, Great Grandmaster, and Celestial battles, with two victories deciding the Clan War.
• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng judged that the Feng Clan held the advantage at Grandmaster level while the Lan Clan was stronger at Great Grandmaster level.
• The Feng Clan’s Grandmaster fighter overwhelmed his opponent with a fierce spear art and knocked him out of the arena in fewer than thirty exchanges.

The Feng and Lan Clans tied their first two battles, setting the stage for a decisive contest between their chiefs. Feng Ling proposed that they fight through Dharma bodies controlled by their Primordial Spirits, and the Lan Clan Chief accepted and made the first move.

• The Feng Clan celebrated its Grandmaster's victory while the Lan Clan members grew distant toward their defeated Grandmaster.
• The Lan Clan Great Grandmaster used Daoist-style open-hand techniques to dissolve the Feng Clan Great Grandmaster's attacks and won after 176 moves, tying the score at one to one.
• Feng Ling and the Lan Clan Chief prepared for the Celestial battle as their auras collided outside the arena.
• Feng Ling proposed that both chiefs control Dharma bodies with their Primordial Spirits to fight without destroying the arena or Feng Clan ancestral grounds.
• The Lan Clan Chief accepted the proposal and sent a streak of light from between his brows toward the arena.

The Lan Clan Patriarch revealed a strange, chaotic Primordial Spirit and challenged Feng Ling with a newly created technique. Feng Ling’s mastery of wind initially let him evade the attack, but the Patriarch’s disordering power disrupted his perception and began breaking apart his Dharma body.

• The Lan Clan Patriarch released his Primordial Spirit, and its hazy light and shadow confused everyone watching.
• The Lan Clan Patriarch and Feng Ling left their bodies and formed Dharma bodies in the arena.
• The Lan Clan Patriarch attacked with lightning pythons while Feng Ling used his profound understanding of wind to evade them.
• The Patriarch’s chaotic power shattered the wind patterns Feng Ling perceived and disrupted his Dharma body.
• Feng Ling’s Dharma body cracked as the electric pythons pierced it, and it showed signs of collapse.

Feng Ling countered the Lan Clan Patriarch’s chaotic Dao with his Great Dao of Wind, then unleashed a Pure Origin Gang Wind against the Patriarch’s Black and White Inversion. Meng Zhao realized the Patriarch’s visible Dharma body was a decoy and entered the arena with Zhao Rulíng as the battle neared its decisive moment.

• Feng Ling reshaped his collapsing Dharma body into a fluid form and escaped the Lan Clan Patriarch’s chaos and disorder.
• The Lan Clan Patriarch used Black and White Inversion to make the arena seem pitch-black.
• Feng Ling transformed his Dharma body into a vast tornado and attacked with a Pure Origin Gang Wind that shredded tangible and intangible things.
• The Lan Clan Patriarch let the wind engulf his motionless Dharma body, prompting Meng Zhao to realize it was a trap and his true Primordial Spirit was dispersed across the arena.
• Meng Zhao entered the arena through the Five Elements’ water, while Zhao Rulíng merged his Primordial Spirit Power into the darkness.

The Lan Clan Patriarch nearly defeated Feng Ling by using a false Dharma body and a carefully concealed scheme, but Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng intervened and exposed him. The Lan Clan Patriarch conceded, securing victory for Feng Ling’s clan and leaving only the four Celestials aware that Meng Zhao had turned the battle.

• Feng Ling realized the Dharma body caught in his Pure Origin Gang Wind was a decoy, while the Lan Clan Patriarch’s true body approached through the gale.
• The Lan Clan Patriarch’s layered deceptions nearly let him reach Feng Ling’s Primordial Spirit and win the battle.
• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng used their Primordial Spirit powers to disrupt the lightning serpents, relieve Feng Ling’s pressure, and force the Lan Clan Patriarch out of hiding.
• With his power constrained, the Lan Clan Patriarch conceded defeat and the Feng Clan’s Heaven Listeners celebrated their victory.
• The Tiantian Clan members were confused by the battle’s quick outcome, while Feng Ling, the Lan Clan Patriarch, Meng Zhao, and Zhao Rulíng knew Meng Zhao’s intervention had decided it.

Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng left the Tiantian Tribe and traveled across the Arctic Ice Plains toward Dragon Tree Monk of Little Cold Mountain Temple. After surviving severe weather and an avalanche, they encountered a group of Feather Clan members led by the Great Grandmaster Feiyu.

• Meng Zhao secretly gave Feng Susu a cultivation tome before he and Zhao Rulíng departed the Tiantian Tribe.
• Feng Ling let the two Human Clan guests leave and focused on the Lan Clan.
• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng lost their way in heavy snow, corrected their course with help from a Hu People tribe, and survived a massive avalanche.
• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng stopped to meet dozens of flying Feather Clan members led by the Great Grandmaster Feiyu.
• Feiyu sensed the two travelers' overwhelming strength, approached cautiously, and asked what they wanted.

Meng Zhao proposed infiltrating Little Cold Mountain Temple by posing as a Feather Clan member to investigate Dragon Tree Monk and his inheritance. He demonstrated his ability to copy Dan Ying’s appearance and said he could also take a target’s memories, leaving Zhao Rulíng impressed by the plan.

• Dan Ying told Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng that he was taking young Feather Clan members to Little Cold Mountain Temple to seek Dragon Tree Monk’s Peacock King Sutra inheritance.
• Meng Zhao stopped Zhao Rulíng from questioning Dan Ying about the Supreme Scepter and let the Feather Clan group leave.
• Meng Zhao explained that he wanted to steal a Feather Clan identity and enter the inheritance selection to investigate Dragon Tree Monk from within.
• Meng Zhao transformed into an exact replica of Dan Ying, and Zhao Rulíng asked how he would imitate a Feather Clan member’s memories and behavior.
• Meng Zhao said his secret art could extract a person’s memories and make their experiences feel as if he had lived them himself.

Meng Zhao replaced the Feather Clan junior Dan Qing and searched his memories while following Dan Ying's party toward Little Cold Mountain Temple. Dan Qing's memories revealed why the Feather Clan had declined and why its members sought the Peacock King Sutra despite their wariness of Dragon Tree Monk.

• Meng Zhao and Zhao Rulíng caught up with Dan Ying's group, and Meng Zhao secretly replaced Dan Qing.
• Meng Zhao read Dan Qing's memories and learned about his distinguished family, powerful bloodline abilities, and cultivation prospects.
• Dan Qing's memories revealed that the Feather Clan had split into rival branches after its chief died without naming an heir, weakening the clan through decades of internal conflict.
• Meng Zhao learned that key parts of the Phoenix Nirvana Scroll had been lost, making its cultivation perilous and leaving the Feather Clan unable to restore its supreme art.
• Dan Ying led the Feather Clan juniors to Little Cold Mountain Temple to seek the Peacock King Sutra, while Dan Qing's family warned him not to force himself and remained wary of Dragon Tree Monk.

Meng Zhao continued impersonating Dan Qing as the Feather Clan traveled toward the Peacock King Sutra inheritance, while concealing his identity and studying Dragon Tree Monk’s motives. Dan Ying grew wary after sensing unusual events around the group, and the chapter left the inheritance and Dragon Tree Monk’s intentions uncertain.

• The chapter explained that Dan Qing’s family had sent him to seek the Peacock King Sutra in hopes of raising the Feather Clan’s prospects, despite the dangers.
• Meng Zhao decided to maintain Dan Qing’s identity through the end and let Dragon Tree Monk take the blame for Dan Qing’s disappearance.
• The Feather Clan set out again with Dan Ying leading, while Meng Zhao sensed that Zhao Rulíng was secretly following them.
• Dan Ying stayed vigilant after sensing the Heavenly Roc Spirit Imprint react when Meng Zhao replaced Dan Qing.
• Dan Ying suspected Dragon Tree Monk’s sudden offer of the Peacock King Sutra might be tied to the arrival of two Human Clan Celestial Being experts.

Meng Zhao, disguised as Dan Qing, spoke with Dan Xin about why he had stopped pursuing influence within the Feather Clan and had focused on cultivation instead. He left her with the explanation that gaining strength and learning the Peacock King Sutra at Little Cold Mountain Temple mattered more to his future than clan rivalries.

• Dan Ying remained uneasy about the possibility that someone was following the Feather Clan, but relaxed somewhat after several uneventful days.
• Dan Xin secretly drew Meng Zhao away from the group and challenged him for neglecting his followers while Dan Hong gathered support against him.
• Meng Zhao explained that Dan Ying’s humiliating encounter with the two Human Clan Celestials had taught him that martial strength mattered more than followers and petty schemes.
• Dan Xin argued that the weakening Feather Clan still needed people to build influence and protect their futures.
• Meng Zhao told Dan Xin that he had made progress through diligent cultivation and hoped to gain essential teachings from the Peacock King Sutra at Little Cold Mountain Temple.

Meng Zhao, still disguised as Dan Qing, reassured Dan Xin that he could become a Grandmaster and learned that she was pregnant with Dan Qing’s child. He secretly strengthened the unborn child’s bloodline, leaving the child’s future tied to the Feather Clan and unaware that Meng Zhao had killed his father.

• Dan Xin doubted Dan Qing’s hopes of obtaining the Peacock King Sutra, and Meng Zhao told her he expected to become a Grandmaster within one or two years.
• Dan Xin revealed that she was pregnant and said they could marry after returning from Little Cold Mountain Temple.
• Dan Xin said she would wait for Dan Qing if he stayed to cultivate after winning Master Longshu’s favor.
• Meng Zhao comforted Dan Xin and secretly used his Primordial Spirit Power to strengthen the unborn child’s origins and bloodline.

Dan Ying praised Dan Qing for his newfound maturity and urged him to pursue the Peacock King Sutra at Little Cold Mountain Temple. Meng Zhao asked why the Feather Clan had sealed the Phoenix Nirvana Scroll, and Dan Ying began explaining the clan’s restrictions.

• Dan Ying told Dan Qing he was pleased by his changed attitude and encouraged him to cultivate diligently and seek Dragon Tree Monk’s inheritance.
• Dan Ying warned that Dragon Tree Monk might have an ulterior motive for offering the Peacock King Sutra, but said the Feather Clan could not let the inheritance go to waste.
• Dan Ying explained that the Peacock King Sutra embodied the Way of the Five Elements and advised Dan Qing to focus on that path, given his command of water and fire and cultivation of metal.
• Meng Zhao asked why the Feather Clan had sealed the Phoenix Nirvana Scroll despite its power and potential value in the competition.
• Dan Ying said the clan’s experts had forbidden teaching the scroll to martial artists at the Innate realm or below to prevent it from corrupting them.

Meng Zhao learned why the Feather Clan had sealed the Phoenix Nirvana Scroll: even its essential insights could cause cultivators to form deadly Nirvana Fire. As Dan Ying ended their conversation, Dan Hong confronted Meng Zhao out of jealousy, and Meng Zhao answered by insulting him.

• Meng Zhao asked Dan Ying whether the Feather Clan could extract safe cultivation insights from the Phoenix Nirvana Scroll, and Dan Ying explained that cultivating even its partial essentials could create Nirvana Fire that burned away vitality irreversibly.
• Meng Zhao realized that only martial artists with established Grandmaster-level foundations could study the scroll safely, and he considered pursuing the Peacock King Sutra from Dragon Tree Monk instead.
• Dan Ying quickly ended his conversation with Meng Zhao to avoid drawing resentment toward Dan Qing from the other young clansmen.
• Dan Hong, jealous of Dan Qing's family advantages and relationship with Dan Xin, accused Meng Zhao of relying on his background to claim benefits.
• Meng Zhao dismissed Dan Hong as trash and taunted him to form a Marriage Alliance with Dan Xia for support.

Meng Zhao taunted Dan Hong about his pride and his prospects, while the Feather Clan traveled toward Little Cold Mountain Temple. A manifestation of the Feather Serpent Clan’s Myriad Serpents Returning to the Nest appeared overhead, and Dan Ying recognized the rival clan’s provocation.

• Meng Zhao reasoned that Dan Hong could improve his prospects by accepting Dan Xia and relying on her family’s strength.
• Dan Hong threatened Meng Zhao, but held back because Feather Clan members were watching and Dan Ying was nearby.
• Dan Hong claimed he would obtain the Peacock King Sutra inheritance and left to join several clansmen.
• As the Feather Clan prepared to continue to Little Cold Mountain Temple, Meng Zhao noticed a mass of black cloud gathering above them.
• Dan Ying confronted the apparent serpents and burned their qi manifestation away with black demonic flames.
• The Feather Clan recognized the attack as the Feather Serpent Clan’s Myriad Serpents Returning to the Nest technique.

A powerful Feather Serpent Clan member, Yu Feilong, provoked Dan Ying and promised to meet him again at Little Cold Mountain Temple. Dan Ying explained that ten years earlier Yu Feilong had defeated him using a Heavenly Dragon Chant secretly supplied by his Dragon Clan brother-in-law, leaving Dan Ying convinced he still could not match that expert.

• Yu Feilong mocked Dan Ying from the sky, and Dan Ying answered with insults before Yu Feilong departed and promised a surprise at Little Cold Mountain Temple.
• Meng Zhao asked Dan Ying who Yu Feilong was, prompting Dan Ying to tell the young Feather Clan members about their past encounter.
• Dan Ying recounted how he had challenged the Feather Serpent Clan ten years earlier and faced Yu Feilong, a less talented fighter who had powerful connections through his sister.
• Yu Feilong defeated Dan Ying with the Heavenly Dragon Chant, shattering Dan Ying’s Bone Spirit Poison Flame and ending his rising momentum.
• Dan Ying revealed that Yu Feilong’s Dragon Clan brother-in-law had imprinted the chant into Yu Feilong’s bloodline and remotely enabled its use.
• Meng Zhao realized Dan Ying remained burdened by his defeat and suspected that the lingering doubt could keep him from reaching the celestial realm.