Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan returned to True Bone Peak with the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix, who requested permission to build her own cave mansion. He learned that the Dark Dragon Clan’s Ancient Ancestor might soon die and began sensing the Primordial Ancient Dragon’s condition inside the Dragon Transformation Pool.

• Han Yan and Ghost Mother Wuji mistook the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix for Lin Fan’s new concubine, but Lin Fan clarified that she was his follower.
• The Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix asked to build a separate cave mansion on True Bone Peak, and Lin Fan agreed.
• Han Yan gave Lin Fan tens of thousands of cultivation manuals from Clan Leader Ao and reported that the Dark Dragon Clan’s Ancient Ancestor might die within days.
• Lin Fan told Han Yan to keep watching the Dark Dragon Clan and report any developments instead of withdrawing the Dark Blood Jiaolong Ancestor and the clan members.
• Lin Fan gave Ghost Mother Wuji True Phoenix Divine Blood to share with Han Yan so they could improve their cultivation.
• After the women left, Lin Fan sensed the Primordial Ancient Dragon, which had possessed Fu Feng and entered the Dragon Transformation Pool, where it had helped Ao Mingyue resolve a crisis.

Lin Fan mastered the Qilin Seal and learned to summon devastating scarlet lightning. Three days later, the Ancient Ancestor of the Dark Dragon Clan could no longer suppress his Dao injuries, and Dragon City prepared for the coming heavenly punishment.

• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to raise the Qilin Seal to mastery and witnessed a vision of its overwhelming destructive power.
• Lin Fan spent an hour studying the vision, then successfully summoned and dismissed a strand of scarlet lightning.
• Three days later, an aura of decay and annihilation erupted from the depths of Dragon City, destroying buildings and killing weaker dragon clansmen.
• Floating Origin Dragon Lord ordered the clansmen into shelters, warning that the Ancient Ancestor could no longer suppress his Dao injuries and that heavenly punishment was coming.
• Dragon experts escorted most of the Dark Dragon Clan into reinforced shelters, leaving only those needed to maintain Dragon City.

The Dragon Clan witnessed heavenly punishment descend upon its Ancient Ancestor, Jie Cang, for his past actions against heaven and earth. Jie Cang fought through the lightning, but heavenly punishment summoned powerful soul-shadows that wounded him and left him in danger.

• A Dragon Clan expert explained that heavenly punishment was a fatal judgment, and said it targeted the Ancient Ancestor for his past deeds and attempt to gain a second life.
• Jie Cang emerged in his enormous true form and charged into the leaden clouds, striking at the heavenly punishment.
• Jie Cang endured the lightning as it gradually collapsed beneath his attack.
• Heavenly punishment gathered its clouds and summoned more than a dozen soul-shadows of powerful figures who had once perished beneath its wrath.
• The soul-shadows attacked Jie Cang, shattered his scales, and drew his golden blood as Dragon Clan members feared for his safety.

Jie Cang used the Primordial Ancient Dragon's essence blood to regain his strength, but heavenly execution empowered its divine shadows and fatally overwhelmed him. As his body and spirit began to fail, he looked upon his clan and accepted that his era had passed.

• Jie Cang absorbed the Primordial Ancient Dragon's essence blood, recovered his strength, and shattered several divine shadows.
• Heavenly execution empowered the remaining divine shadows, which struck Jie Cang repeatedly until he vomited blood and his hidden injuries returned.
• The divine shadows pierced Jie Cang and cracked his Primordial Spirit, then faded after their strongest strike extinguished his life force.
• Jie Cang gathered his ruined body with his remaining origin power and told the Dark Dragon Clan that his era had passed.
• The Dragon Lord and the Dark Dragon Clan knelt and cried out their farewell as Jie Cang's form began to collapse.

Bai Wushuang and Chang Feng led a group of ancestors from the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox Clan and Violent Ghost Tiger Clan to attack the Dark Dragon Clan in Dragon City. As the battle began, Azure Flame Ancestor killed one of their opponents, leaving the Dragon Lord and Qu Yu furious.

• Bai Wushuang summoned Chang Feng to help him confront the dying Jie Cang, and Chang Feng admitted he had come to kill his former senior for his clan’s sake.
• The Dragon Lord challenged the intruders, but Qu Yu and the Dark Dragon Clan’s other ancestors emerged to defend Dragon City.
• Bai Wushuang and Chang Feng brought four more ancestors, bringing the invading forces to six and prompting Qu Yu to warn them to leave.
• Bai Wushuang attacked Jie Cang with a Heavenly Fox phantom, and Chang Feng followed with a giant ghost tiger as the clans prepared to fight.
• Azure Flame Ancestor suddenly killed an opponent and held up the victim’s head, drawing the furious attention of the Dragon Lord and Qu Yu.

A mysterious man fought his way into the Dragon Transformation Pool, defeated its dragon-shaped phantoms, and sought to absorb their lingering power. Just as he claimed he would control the pool, Fu Feng appeared and confronted him.

• The Bloodlight Demon Saint battled a peak Demon Saint of the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox while the fighting spread through Dragon City.
• A mysterious man entered the palace, killed the Dragon Clan experts guarding the Dragon Transformation Pool, and smashed through its bronze doors.
• The man devoured the first level’s dragon-shaped phantoms and fought his way through the second level to the third.
• The man defeated more than a hundred enormous dragon-shaped phantoms and declared that he would refine them to control the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• Fu Feng, disguised by the Primordial Ancient Dragon, appeared nearby and challenged the man to identify himself.

Jie Cang died after exhausting himself against Bai Wushuang and Chang Feng, and the Dark Dragon Clan activated Dragon City's powerful defensive formation as the royal clans continued their assault. Azure Flame warned that the two royal clans had brought more forces than Qu Yu realized.

• Jie Cang collapsed and exploded, scattering his essence blood and law power across Dragon City, while Bai Wushuang and Chang Feng gathered what they could.
• Qu Yu confronted Azure Flame, who urged him to abandon the Dark Dragon Clan in exchange for a chance to survive.
• Qu Yu rejected Azure Flame's offer and activated the Dragon City Grand Formation, which repaired the city and strengthened the Dragon Clan fighters.
• The Dragon Lord ordered the Dragon Clan experts to retreat into Dragon City and joined with the Dragon Pearl to control the formation.
• Azure Flame mocked Qu Yu's confidence in the formation and suggested that the two royal clans had brought additional forces.

With Dragon City facing an overwhelming assault from two clans, the Dragon Lord assessed the city’s remaining defenders and sought to secure the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan’s support. He offered the Bloodlight Demon Saint a rare Dragon Emperor Talisman and promised his clan a rise to royal status if the Dark Dragon Clan survived.

• Elder Black Steel reported that most young clansmen had escaped to hidden realms, civilians were sheltering, and only a small force of Demon Saints remained in Dragon City.
• The Dragon Lord summoned the Bloodlight Demon Saint and thanked him for aiding the Dark Dragon Clan.
• The Dragon Lord offered the Bloodlight Demon Saint a Dragon Emperor Talisman for protection in the coming battle.
• The Dragon Lord promised to help the Dark Blood Jiaolong Clan become a royal clan if the Dark Dragon Clan survived, while offering it the chance to claim three or four provinces.

Bloodlight Demon Saint left Dragon City to distract the enemy, but Bai Wushuang saw through the plan and kept the peak Demon Saints focused on breaking the formation. The Dragon Lord then used the Dragon Pearl and Dragon City Grand Formation to raise Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord, Black Steel, and Heavenly Flood Dragon to the ninth rank so they could delay the attackers.

• Bai Wushuang refused to send the peak Demon Saints after Bloodlight Demon Saint and ordered several eighth-rank Demon Saints to stop him instead.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint suppressed the attackers without killing them, while Bai Wushuang and the others prepared to break the Dragon City Grand Formation.
• The Dragon Lord and his allies realized that the Dark Blood Jiaolong ancestor would not draw the enemy peak Demon Saints away from the formation.
• The Dragon Lord used the Dragon Pearl and the Dragon City Grand Formation to raise Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord, Black Steel, and Heavenly Flood Dragon to the ninth rank of the Demon Saint Realm.

The Dragon Lord used the Dragon Pearl and Dragon City's formation to resist the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox and Violent Ghost Tiger clans, but Bai Wushuang’s Violet-Gold Heavenly Fox Tower destroyed the formation. With the Dark Dragon Clan’s defenders weakened, Patriarch Wu Xiang was killed, and Patriarch Qu Yu prepared to fight the Black and White Ancestors to the death.

• The Dragon Lord drew on the Dragon Pearl and Dragon City's grand formation to attack Bai Wushuang and the other peak Demon Saint experts, but their combined assault forced him back.
• Bai Wushuang summoned the Violet-Gold Heavenly Fox Tower, and the experts of the two clans powered it together.
• The tower conjured a snow-white fox phantom that shattered Dragon City's formation and destroyed the formation core palace, killing its guards.
• Without the formation's support, the Dark Dragon Clan's fighters were suppressed, and the White Ancestor killed Patriarch Wu Xiang.
• The Black Ancestor and White Ancestor cornered Patriarch Qu Yu, who erupted in true flames and vowed to make them suffer.

Jie Cang revealed how he had survived and disguised himself as Azure Flame, then fought the leaders of the two royal clans after they refused to abandon their alliance with the Eerie Sources. He overwhelmed them, killing two of their top experts as the battle continued.

• Jie Cang explained that he had used the True Spirit Soul-Splitting Technique to transfer his injuries and disguise himself as Azure Flame to lure the two clans into revealing themselves.
• Bai Wushuang and Chang Feng surrounded Jie Cang with their allies, while Jie Cang sent the Dragon Lord to fight the Black and White Ancestors.
• Bai Wushuang admitted that the two clans had joined the Eerie Sources to seek survival amid the coming calamity, and Chang Feng defended their choice.
• Jie Cang seized a Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox ancestor, destroyed his body, and devoured his Primordial Spirit.
• Jie Cang shattered the experts' attacks and struck down the Violent Ghost Tiger ancestor, demonstrating his overwhelming power.

Bai Wushuang and Chang Feng drew on bizarre power to hold back Ancient Ancestor Jie Cang while the two royal clans attacked Dragon City. Ao Mingyue and the others hid in the Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord’s manor, but a Vertical-Eyed Ghost Tiger broke through its protective formation.

• Black mist covered Dragon City, and the Dragon Lord realized the two clans had pledged themselves to the bizarre.
• Bai Wushuang and Chang Feng’s power surged, allowing them to fight Ancient Ancestor Jie Cang on equal terms.
• A Violent Ghost Tiger ordered the two clans’ elites to slaughter the Dark Dragon Clan, and the attackers overwhelmed Dragon City’s defenders.
• Ao Mingyue, Ao Jianlie, Qin Gu, and Longevity stayed hidden inside the Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord’s manor as the battle raged outside.
• A Vertical-Eyed Ghost Tiger spotted the manor, attacked its formation, and shattered the protective screen.

Ao Mingyue fought the Vertical-Eyed Ghost Tiger after awakening her True Dragon Bloodline, but the stronger Demon Saint battered her until she could no longer resist. Lin Fan appeared just as the Ghost Tiger moved to kill her, leaving Ao Mingyue relieved to see him.

• Ao Mingyue transformed into her battle form and used her True Dragon Bloodline to block the Vertical-Eyed Ghost Tiger’s attack.
• Ao Jianlie, Longevity, and Qin Gu fled as Ao Mingyue kept the Ghost Tiger from pursuing them.
• The Vertical-Eyed Ghost Tiger transformed into a bearded man and struck Ao Mingyue until her armor and barriers failed and she lost the strength to fight.
• The bearded man prepared to kill Ao Mingyue, but Lin Fan appeared and absorbed the incoming force.
• Ao Mingyue recognized Lin Fan and cried out to him in delight.

Lin Fan accelerated the Primordial Ancient Dragon’s refinement of the Dragon Transformation Pool while Ao Mingyue led Ao Jianlie and the others away from Dragon City. Jie Cang’s distraction over the Pool’s fading power let Bai Wushuang and Chang Feng land a powerful combined attack, leaving his condition uncertain.

• Lin Fan forced the Dragon Transformation Pool’s source powers into the open and helped the Primordial Ancient Dragon refine them more than ten times faster.
• Ao Mingyue gathered Ao Jianlie and the others and led them away, while Longevity stayed with the Dark Dragon Clan.
• Jie Cang sensed that the Dragon Transformation Pool’s source power was fading and realized someone was refining it.
• Bai Wushuang and Chang Feng exploited Jie Cang’s distraction, striking him with a Godslaying Spear and a ghost tiger claw.
• Bai Wushuang and Chang Feng wondered whether their attacks had killed Jie Cang, knowing their borrowed Demon Immortal Realm strength was declining.

The Thousand-Handed Demon Idol appeared and its demonic chants killed hundreds of cultivators, forcing the surviving Dragon Clan powerhouses to retreat. Ancient Ancestor Jie Cang summoned the power of Dragon City's ancestral legacies, while the Dragon Lord and others sacrificed their demon power to help him face the idol.

• The Thousand-Handed Demon Idol emerged, and its chants drove cultivators from the three royal clans to kill themselves or burst apart as their blood vanished.
• The Dragon Lord and the other Dark Dragon Clan powerhouses gathered, fearing that Ancient Ancestor Jie Cang might not withstand the idol.
• Ancient Ancestor Jie Cang confronted the idol and demanded to know its origin, but it replied that the calamity was heaven's will and could not be escaped.
• Ancient Ancestor Jie Cang awakened the ancestral marks in thirteen of Dragon City's secret grounds, drawing the past Dragon Clan experts' wills toward himself.
• The Dragon Lord, Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord, and other dragon clansmen sacrificed their remaining demon power to strengthen Ancient Ancestor Jie Cang, and their combined light weakened the idol's strange aura.

Lin Fan prepared to confront an Eerie Divine Statue with help from the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix and the Primordial Ancient Dragon. Elsewhere, the Thousand-Handed Demon Idol defeated Ancient Ancestor Jie Cang and captured his Primordial Spirit, leaving the Dragon Clan elders terrified.

• The Primal Divine Statue awakened and warned Lin Fan that an Eerie Divine Statue had arrived, so he asked the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix and the Primordial Ancient Dragon to help him fight it.
• Ancient Ancestor Jie Cang used the Dragon Clan's foundation to attack the Thousand-Handed Demon Idol, but the idol's two empowered summoners were destroyed.
• The Thousand-Handed Demon Idol pierced Jie Cang with a black chain, enlarged, and battered his golden dragon form into a bloody pulp.
• The Thousand-Handed Demon Idol captured Jie Cang's Primordial Spirit and stopped him from self-destructing with Eerie divine chains.
• The Dragon Lord, Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord, Black Steel, and the other clan elders realized how powerful the Eerie Divine Statues were.

Lin Fan fought the Thousand-Handed Demon Idol, resisting its mind-affecting voice and defeating the demonic shadows it summoned. The idol then unleashed a barrage of attacks that bypassed space-time and struck Lin Fan.

• The Thousand-Handed Demon Idol sensed a trace of its kind in Lin Fan and tried to make him its believer, but Lin Fan resisted its demonic voice.
• The idol attacked Lin Fan with black runes and its arms, while Lin Fan countered with nebula sword light and the Qilin Seal.
• Ancient Ancestor Jie Cang led Dragon Lord and the others to retreat as the idol’s attack killed Dragon Clan Demon Cultivators and revived the fallen as demonic shadows.
• Lin Fan activated Demon-Resisting Power and swiftly destroyed the demonic shadows, including Bai Wushuang and other ancestral powerhouses.
• The Thousand-Handed Demon Idol shattered the void and launched hundreds of arms at Lin Fan; its palm shadows bypassed space-time and struck him before he could escape.

Lin Fan and the female divine idol fought the Thousand-Handed Demon Idol, whose power was weakened by her law of time. Lin Fan summoned the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix and the Primordial Ancient Dragon to help destroy its body, and the female divine idol trapped its fleeing phantom in azure light.

• The female divine idol used a star-filled domain and the law of time to suppress the Thousand-Handed Demon Idol.
• She asked Lin Fan to help kill it, and he summoned the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix and the Primordial Ancient Dragon.
• Lin Fan and the two companions attacked the Thousand-Handed Demon Idol together, shattering its black lotus platform and cracking its body.
• The female divine idol destroyed the demon idol’s counterattack and broke apart its collapsing body.
• The Thousand-Handed Demon Idol fled as a black phantom, but the female divine idol suppressed the void and captured it in azure light.

The Bloodlight Demon Saint confronted the Dark Dragon Clan over its ancestors’ betrayal of the Black Blood Royal Clan. Ancient Ancestor Jie Cang offered his life to spare his descendants, but when the Bloodlight Demon Saint refused, Jie Cang prepared to fight him.

• The Bloodlight Demon Saint accused the Dark Dragon Clan of conspiring with the Bloodthirsty Heavenly Fox and Violent Ghost Tiger clans to destroy the Black Blood Royal Clan.
• Ancient Ancestor Jie Cang confirmed that the Black Blood Royal Clan had founded the Demon Kingdom and that the three clans had betrayed it a thousand years earlier.
• Jie Cang knelt before the Bloodlight Demon Saint, accepted responsibility for the old betrayal, and asked him to spare the Dark Dragon Clan.
• Jie Cang told the Dragon Lord not to seek revenge after his death, then offered himself to the Bloodlight Demon Saint.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint refused to spare the clan in exchange for Jie Cang’s life, so Jie Cang rose and released his Demon Immortal Realm aura to fight.

Bloodlight Demon Saint killed the remaining Dragon Clan ancestors and demanded access to the Dragon Soul Secret Realm, a burial ground where visitors could inherit power from ancient Dragon Clan remnants. The Dragon Lord led Lin Fan and his companions to the realm’s entrance, a Teleportation Array in Dragon City.

• Bloodlight Demon Saint crushed the two Dragon Clan ancestors’ heads and absorbed their Dao Principles, provoking the Dragon Clan experts.
• The Dragon Lord restrained Flame-Devouring Dragon Lord, Elder Black Steel, and the others from attacking Bloodlight Demon Saint, insisting that the Dark Dragon Clan must survive.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint asked to enter the Dragon Soul Secret Realm with Lin Fan, and the Dragon Lord agreed to lead them there.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon asked to join Lin Fan, and Lin Fan also allowed the Golden-Eyed Black Phoenix to come along.
• The Dragon Lord escorted Lin Fan, Bloodlight Demon Saint, and the others to the Teleportation Array that served as the entrance to the Dragon Soul Secret Realm.