Chapter Summaries

Meng Zhao confronted the Gebhu Dharma King and effortlessly dissolved his Vajra Mountain Push with Flowing Cloud Iron Sleeve. Impressed by Meng Zhao’s talent and his integration of Buddhist, Daoist, and demonic arts, the Dharma King offered him a chance to withdraw and live.

• The Gebhu Dharma King attacked Meng Zhao with repeated Vajra Mountain Push punches empowered by the Dragon Elephant Golden Body.
• Meng Zhao used the Emperor's Qi Gazing Technique to read the Dharma King’s movements and shifted onto an earth-vein node to weaken the attack.
• Meng Zhao swept out Flowing Cloud Iron Sleeve and absorbed and dispersed the Dharma King’s overwhelming fist force.
• The celestial maiden, the large monk, and Yuan Bin were astonished by Meng Zhao’s effortless defense.
• The Gebhu Dharma King recognized Meng Zhao’s talent and offered to let him withdraw rather than kill him.

Meng Zhao refused the Gebhu Dharma King's offer to withdraw and led him away from Taoyun Residence to fight in the mountains. Back at the residence, Niu Dali repelled a Pudu Cult monk's attack while Yuan Bin and the heavenly maiden tried to prevent the confrontation from escalating.

• Meng Zhao declared that he would defend Yuan Bin and challenged the Gebhu Dharma King to a fight, with the loser agreeing to yield.
• The Gebhu Dharma King attacked, but Meng Zhao read his movements and drew him outside to White Bottle Mountain to avoid damaging Taoyun Residence.
• Yuan Bin urged Niu Dali to follow and watch over Meng Zhao as the Pudu Cult's great monk challenged Niu Dali to a fight to the death.
• Niu Dali blocked the monk's invisible vajra-pestle attack with a dragon-scale technique devised by Meng Zhao.
• The heavenly maiden reminded the great monk to guard the Gebhu Dharma King, while Yuan Bin urged Niu Dali to stand down and be ready to retreat.

Meng Zhao drew Gebhu Dharma King away from Taoyun Residence and fought him through the mountains, where neither could gain the advantage. At a waterfall, Gebhu Dharma King revealed that his Dragon Elephant Golden Body was only at minor completion, leaving Meng Zhao to face a stronger opponent than he had expected.

• Meng Zhao transformed into a purple Qi Dragon and fled toward the mountain as Gebhu Dharma King pursued him.
• Meng Zhao dodged Gebhu Dharma King's attacks with the Emperor's Qi Gazing Technique, while his purple flames failed to harm the Dharma King.
• The two fighters clashed across the mountains in a stalemate, and Meng Zhao led Gebhu Dharma King far from Taoyun Residence.
• Meng Zhao stopped beside a waterfall and faced Gebhu Dharma King, who asked why he was confident enough to stand his ground.
• Meng Zhao recognized signs of a Buddhist golden body, and Gebhu Dharma King said his Dragon Elephant Golden Body had reached minor completion with three sealed gates of weakness remaining.

Meng Zhao fought Gebhu Dharma King to test his strength against the monk’s Dragon Elephant Golden Body. After their first head-on clash, Meng Zhao remained composed while Gebhu Dharma King stood driven into the stone but with his aura growing stronger.

• Meng Zhao kicked a massive boulder toward Gebhu Dharma King, who shattered it with a single palm strike.
• Meng Zhao and Gebhu Dharma King charged into close combat, each eager to face a formidable opponent.
• Meng Zhao struck with Mountain Crushing Strike, while Gebhu Dharma King answered with a powerful fist seal.
• Their attacks collided with enough force to crack the stone ground, blast the waterfall upward, and send creatures fleeing.
• The dust cleared to show Meng Zhao nearly unscathed and Gebhu Dharma King driven several feet into the ground, his aura rising rather than weakening.

Meng Zhao and Gebhu Dharma King clashed in a fierce contest of strength, with Gebhu’s decades of cultivation briefly giving him the advantage over Meng Zhao’s Purple Origin Dragon Body. They continued their close-range battle, devastating the surrounding terrain as neither fighter yielded.

• Meng Zhao praised Gebhu Dharma King’s Steel Muscles, Iron Bones, and indestructible golden body after his Mountain Crushing Strike failed to harm him.
• Gebhu Dharma King freed himself from the mountain soil and attacked Meng Zhao with the Dragon Elephant Fist Scripture’s Star Breaking Stance.
• Meng Zhao unleashed his Purple Origin Dragon Body and met Gebhu Dharma King’s fist force with his own, triggering an explosive clash that shattered stone and battered trees.
• Gebhu Dharma King’s deeper cultivation and accumulated strength briefly suppressed Meng Zhao, while his Dragon Elephant Golden Body spread the impact of Meng Zhao’s attacks across his body.
• Meng Zhao and Gebhu Dharma King pressed into close-range combat, their blows splitting the earth, crushing Mountain Stone, and cutting off waterfalls.

Meng Zhao fought Gebhu Dharma King in a direct contest of physical strength, shocking the Pudu Cult party and his allies with his resilience. The onlookers suspected Meng Zhao possessed a Dragon Body as the two continued their hundred-exchange battle despite his being three levels below the Dharma King.

• The Pudu Cult party, Niu Dali, and Yuan Bin arrived to find Meng Zhao and Gebhu Dharma King trading fierce blows without dodging or yielding.
• The Heavenly Maiden and the bald monk were stunned by Meng Zhao’s ability to match Gebhu Dharma King, while Yuan Bin realized he could not have harmed the Dharma King himself.
• Niu Dali recognized that Meng Zhao’s strength and vitality far exceeded what he had previously understood about him.
• The onlookers noticed the innate aura, purple radiance, and dragon roars surrounding Meng Zhao and conjectured that he possessed a Dragon Body.
• After a hundred exchanges, Meng Zhao continued to contend with Gebhu Dharma King despite being three levels behind in martial cultivation.

Meng Zhao replenished his qi by swallowing Heaven and Earth Vital Energy and broke through into Qi Condensation into Gang during his battle with the Gebhu Dharma King. The Gebhu Dharma King, realizing Meng Zhao was growing stronger and might outlast him, prepared to fight at a deadly cost.

• As the battle wore on, Meng Zhao’s true qi began to run low, while the Gebhu Dharma King increased his strength and pressed the attack.
• Meng Zhao widened the distance and used the Ziwei Star Swallowing Technique and the Heaven Swallowing Sun Devouring Great Law to absorb Heaven and Earth Vital Energy, replenishing his qi and advancing into Qi Condensation into Gang.
• The Gebhu Dharma King realized Meng Zhao’s strength and physical defenses were improving, and feared he could not win a prolonged fight.
• The Gebhu Dharma King resolved to wound or kill Meng Zhao quickly and pushed his Dragon Elephant Golden Body to its limit, allowing a thread of blood-red Killing Aura to appear in his Buddhist light.
• The Pudu Cult Heavenly Maiden and the vicious great monk changed expression when they saw the Gebhu Dharma King’s ominous transformation.

Gebhu Dharma King unleashed Heavenly Blood Rain, risking his essence blood to preserve his invincible momentum and cripple Meng Zhao. Meng Zhao answered with Purple Pole Returning Origin, and the two killing moves collided.

• The Pudu Cult's Heavenly Maiden and the fierce monk worried that Gebhu Dharma King was damaging his foundation by fighting Meng Zhao.
• Gebhu Dharma King chose to spend his essence blood rather than risk losing the momentum he needed to pursue the Grandmaster realm.
• Gebhu Dharma King unleashed Heavenly Blood Rain, spreading a destructive force that made the blood of everyone nearby boil and began dissolving Meng Zhao's dragon blood.
• Meng Zhao summoned a True Dragon Dharma Form to resist Heavenly Blood Rain and prepared his strongest killing move.
• Meng Zhao formed purple dragon origin with Purple Pole Returning Origin, and it collided with a drop of blood light from Gebhu Dharma King's attack.

The Taoyun Residence steward and servants prepared to flee as a tremendous shock shook White Bottle Mountain and a pillar of light appeared in the distance. Yuan Bin returned with Niu Dali and Meng Zhao, declared the Pudu Cult thieves defeated, and ordered healing medicines for the badly weakened Meng Zhao.

• The middle-aged steward and five servant women waited with packed valuables, ready to flee if Yuan Bin and the others lost.
• A violent tremor and thunderous boom knocked the steward and servants down, and the steward saw a vast pillar of light and smoke beyond the valley.
• The middle-aged steward recognized the spectacle as being in the direction Yuan Bin, the Pudu Cult men, and the young man and old monk had pursued.
• Yuan Bin returned with Niu Dali and Meng Zhao and told the steward that the Pudu Cult thieves had been dealt with and the manor was safe for now.
• Yuan Bin ordered the steward to fetch Five Revolutions Bear Snake Pills, Qingning Powder, and Jade Bee Nectar for the frail-looking Meng Zhao.

Meng Zhao and Niu Dali returned to Taoyun Residence with Yuan Bin after Meng Zhao defeated Gebhu Dharma King and drove back the Pudu Cult. Though the cult withdrew and Yuan Bin was safe, Meng Zhao was badly depleted, and the Pudu Cult escaped with its wounded leader.

• Yuan Bin sent his steward to fetch medicine and led Meng Zhao and Niu Dali into the damaged reception hall, where he thanked Meng Zhao for saving him from the Pudu Cult.
• Meng Zhao modestly accepted Yuan Bin’s gratitude and helped him rise from his formal bow.
• The chapter recounted how Meng Zhao broke through during his battle with Gebhu Dharma King, then answered the Dharma King’s Heavenly Blood Rain with Purple Pole Returning Origin.
• Meng Zhao shattered Gebhu Dharma King’s golden body and severed an arm, but the Pudu Cult Heavenly Maiden and a great monk intervened and carried him away.
• After using Purple Pole Returning Origin, Meng Zhao had less than forty percent of his strength left, so he let the Pudu Cult retreat and returned to Taoyun Residence with Niu Dali and Yuan Bin.

Meng Zhao assessed Yuan Bin and Niu Dali while testing their loyalty, then declined Yuan Bin’s offer of treasures and warned him about the Pudu Cult. Yuan Bin resolved to leave White Bottle Mountain and rebuild the Flower-Insect Valleys elsewhere.

• Meng Zhao judged that Niu Dali had guarded him reliably and that Yuan Bin seemed sincerely grateful, while remaining prepared to kill Niu Dali if he betrayed him.
• Niu Dali urged Yuan Bin to offer treasures as thanks, and Yuan Bin invited both men to choose something from his vault.
• Yuan Bin explained that he wanted to befriend Meng Zhao because Meng Zhao had defeated the Pudu Cult Dharma King and saved him.
• Meng Zhao declined the treasures and warned Yuan Bin that the Pudu Cult could regroup and attack again.
• Niu Dali described the Pudu Cult’s widespread influence and formidable martial strength, and Yuan Bin said he planned to leave White Bottle Mountain and rebuild the Flower-Insect Valleys elsewhere.

Meng Zhao warned Yuan Bin that the Pudu Cult would keep pursuing him because it wanted to exploit his claim to the Yuan Family, and Yuan Bin refused to seek help from the family that had betrayed him. Niu Dali considered asking Meng Zhao to recruit Yuan Bin as the chapter ended.

• Meng Zhao told Yuan Bin that the Pudu Cult had investigated his background and might still be watching his estate, making escape unlikely.
• Yuan Bin explained that he feared the Pudu Cult's ambitions and did not believe it could successfully contend for the realm.
• Niu Dali advised Yuan Bin to seek protection from a powerful patron, but Yuan Bin rejected returning to the Yuan Family because it had abandoned him and his mother.
• Yuan Bin said he might join the Pudu Cult and later expose his identity to drag the Yuan Family into danger.
• Niu Dali looked to Meng Zhao, considering whether to help him recruit Yuan Bin.

Meng Zhao agreed to protect Yuan Bin from the Pudu Cult, and Yuan Bin learned that his rescuer was the famous Northern Meng Dragon King. The chapter ended with Yuan Bin preparing to ask Meng Zhao about a doubt he had harbored since they first met.

• Niu Dali asked Meng Zhao to take Yuan Bin under his protection, and Meng Zhao subtly agreed.
• Niu Dali urged Yuan Bin to join Meng Zhao's household to escape the Pudu Cult's harassment.
• Yuan Bin asked Meng Zhao's name and recognized him as the Northern Meng Dragon King.
• Yuan Bin and Niu Dali traded jokes while Meng Zhao quietly tried to recover from the strain of using Purple Pole Returning Origin.
• Yuan Bin asked Meng Zhao to answer a doubt, and Meng Zhao invited him to speak.

Yuan Bin tested why his insects refused to approach Meng Zhao, who revealed that his spirit pet, Flood Dragon Little Nine, had frightened them. Niu Dali and Yuan Bin were stunned by the flood dragon’s appearance, and Yuan Bin realized it was the source of the insects’ fear.

• Yuan Bin summoned swarms of strange insects and commanded them to approach Meng Zhao, but they stopped short and repeatedly retreated.
• Yuan Bin asked Meng Zhao what made his insects disobey, and Meng Zhao explained that they feared his flood dragon spirit pet.
• Meng Zhao summoned Little Nine and used the Size-As-You-Wish Divine Ability to reveal its enormous flood dragon form.
• Niu Dali and Yuan Bin stared in amazement at Little Nine, and Yuan Bin understood that the insects feared the flood dragon rather than Meng Zhao.

Meng Zhao revealed that Little Nine was a flood dragon, prompting Yuan Bin to pledge allegiance and Niu Dali and Yuan Bin to promise secrecy. After Yuan Bin explained his expertise in insects, Meng Zhao showed him the Fat White Worm, which Yuan Bin identified as an Eclosion Worm.

• Meng Zhao summoned Little Nine and had it coil around his waist, astonishing Niu Dali and Yuan Bin.
• Yuan Bin half-knelt before Meng Zhao and pledged his life and strength in exchange for protection from the Pudu Cult.
• Meng Zhao agreed to take Yuan Bin to Lingwu City and promised to help destroy the Pudu Cult once they obtained conclusive evidence.
• Niu Dali and Yuan Bin promised to keep Little Nine's existence secret.
• Yuan Bin explained his expertise in insect control, and Meng Zhao released the Fat White Worm for him to examine.
• Yuan Bin recognized the Fat White Worm as an Eclosion Worm.

Yuan Bin identified Meng Zhao’s Fat White Worm as the rare Eclosion Worm, which ancient records linked to Zhuangzi and the origins of the Heavenly Silkworm Nine Transformations. Meng Zhao prepared to test the worm’s properties while reflecting on his many opportunities and the need to keep striving, especially with Shen Tianci’s gains in mind.

• Yuan Bin explained that the Eclosion Worm had inspired Zhuangzi’s supreme martial arts and could help its host cultivate toward the Divine Demon Realm.
• Meng Zhao asked whether Yuan Bin could be certain the Fat White Worm was an Eclosion Worm, and Yuan Bin confirmed that its appearance matched the ancient records.
• Yuan Bin proposed wrapping the worm in ink-soaked bamboo paper to reveal a phenomenon, so Meng Zhao had him prepare the materials.
• Niu Dali praised Meng Zhao’s luck and predicted he would become invincible, while Meng Zhao modestly acknowledged Shen Tianci’s talent.
• Meng Zhao recalled that Shen Tianci had claimed the final treasure hall of the Tuxiu Treasure and resolved not to grow arrogant or stop advancing.

Meng Zhao confirmed that the strange insect was an Eclosion Worm, a treasure that could continually evolve its host, and learned how to bind it to his body with a Worm Pill. He ordered Yuan Bin to prepare the pill and planned to incorporate the worm as soon as possible.

• Yuan Bin tested the Eclosion Worm on ink-soaked bamboo paper, where it revealed moving images of its transformation into a butterfly.
• Niu Dali confirmed that the display matched the Yuan Family's ancient record, and Meng Zhao recognized the worm's immense potential.
• Yuan Bin explained that the Eclosion Worm had to be placed in a Worm Pill made from Three Wonders Gold and Four Wonders Wood, then dissolved inside the body with true qi.
• Yuan Bin offered to test the pill on himself, but Meng Zhao refused and ordered him to prepare one quickly.
• Yuan Bin warned that Meng Zhao would undergo a process of spinning silk and forming a cocoon after the worm entered his body.

After Meng Zhao defeated Gebhu Dharma King, the Pudu Cult members used sacred medicine to reattach his severed arm, but his injuries and shattered momentum jeopardized his path to becoming a Grandmaster. The fierce monk suspected that Meng Zhao was the Dragon King, a peerless genius from Lingwu City.

• The fierce monk returned Gebhu Dharma King's severed arm, and the heavenly maiden used three drops of medicine to help him reattach it.
• The heavenly maiden worried that Gebhu Dharma King's depleted essence and damaged foundation would prevent him from recovering soon and disrupt the Pudu Cult's plans.
• The fierce monk said that Gebhu Dharma King's defeat had shattered his martial conviction and delayed his already difficult path to the Grandmaster realm.
• The heavenly maiden questioned how Meng Zhao could have defeated Gebhu Dharma King, and the fierce monk suggested that Meng Zhao was no obscure nobody.
• The fierce monk asked whether she had heard of the Dragon King and recalled that a Pudu Cult junior had wanted to challenge him in Lingwu City.

The Heavenly Maiden and her senior brother recognized Meng Zhao as the famed Dragon King and worried that he could expose the Pudu Cult’s plans to the Imperial Court. Gebhu Dharma King urged them to kill Meng Zhao before he left Yunhua County, despite his injuries.

• The Heavenly Maiden and the burly monk matched Meng Zhao’s identity to the Dragon King through his martial arts, background, and words.
• The monk condemned Meng Zhao for protecting Yuan Bin and criticized Niu Dali and the noble families for collaborating with the Pudu Cult.
• The Heavenly Maiden defended the Pudu Cult’s mission and condemned the greed and cruelty of many aristocratic descendants.
• The burly monk feared Meng Zhao would report the Pudu Cult to the Imperial Court, and the Heavenly Maiden resolved to eliminate him.
• Gebhu Dharma King called for Meng Zhao to be killed at White Bottle Mountain, recommending that the Cult Master or the other Dharma Kings join the attack.

Meng Zhao swallowed the Worm Pill to merge with the Eclosion Worm and endured a fierce burst of heat as Flood Dragon Little Nine guarded him. After dissolving the pill with dragon qi, he found both the pill and worm had vanished, leaving him unsure whether the process had succeeded.

• Yuan Bin refined the Worm Pill, and Meng Zhao watched the Eclosion Worm merge into it.
• Meng Zhao swallowed the Worm Pill, which unleashed scorching heat that burned away his clothes and threatened his weakened body.
• Meng Zhao instructed Flood Dragon Little Nine to guard him, and the dragon coiled around him to keep others away.
• After enduring the heat, Meng Zhao used dragon qi to dissolve the Worm Pill.
• Meng Zhao found the Worm Pill and Eclosion Worm gone from his body and wondered whether the merging had worked.