Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan agreed to help the Spirit Vein Dragon Descendant Clan deal with the powerful Spirit-Devouring Clan, despite Luo Yuan's warning about its numbers and Demon Immortal Realm experts. He decided that he and the Primordial Ancient Dragon would go together the next day, leaving the clan's crisis unresolved for now.

• Luo Yuan asked Lin Fan to confirm that he would help the Spirit Vein Dragon Descendant Clan, and Lin Fan calmly stood by his promise.
• Luo Yuan warned Lin Fan that the Spirit-Devouring Clan had thousands of members and three Demon Immortal Realm experts stronger than himself.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon mocked the Spirit Vein Dragon Descendant Clan for its decline and offered to confront the Spirit-Devouring Clan alone.
• Lin Fan told the Primordial Ancient Dragon to wait and said they would go together to the Spirit-Devouring Clan the next day.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon agreed to follow Lin Fan's plan.

Luo Yuan’s clan welcomed Lin Fan and his companions, hoping the Dragon Clan envoy would help them face the Spirit-Devouring Clan. While resting, Lin Fan used 3,000 years of lifespan to raise Demon-Resisting Power to Perfection, and a new power awakened within him.

• Luo Yuan told the clan elders that the Dragon Clan envoy had agreed to help them confront the Spirit-Devouring Clan and urged them to receive the envoys properly.
• Luo Yuan and the elders prepared a richly spiritual cave mansion and delivered regional treasures for Lin Fan and his companions.
• Lin Fan distributed most of the gifts among the Primordial Ancient Dragon, the Black Jade Qilin, and Ruo Xuan.
• Lin Fan checked his panel and agreed to spend 3,000 years of lifespan to raise Demon-Resisting Power from Major Mastery to Perfection.
• Golden light and ancient divine runes enveloped Lin Fan, awakening a unique power within him.

Lin Fan gained the uninitiated Eerie-Resisting Power and anticipated using it against future eerie threats. In the Soulbreak Mountains, Wei Yun reported the defeat of Gu Li and his companions, then faced suspicion from the Spirit Devouring Clan figures questioning how he had escaped.

• Lin Fan inspected his status and discovered that Demon-Resisting Power had transformed into Eerie-Resisting Power.
• Lin Fan considered the new skill a potential advantage against the eerie calamity and the Eerie Divine Statue.
• A black-robed man in the Soulbreak Mountains ordered Wei Yun to recount what he had witnessed.
• Wei Yun reported that Luo Yuan had defeated Gu Li and the others, imprisoned them in Spirit City's dungeon, and handed the Spirit Vein Dragon Descendant Clan's secret to dragon clan envoys.
• A figure in the cave questioned why Wei Yun had escaped while Gu Li and the others were captured, and Wei Yun said he had slipped away during the chaos.

Lin Fan prepared to leave the Soulbreak Mountains with his companions to confront the Spirit-Devouring Clan. The Spirit Vein Dragonkin assembled and insisted on joining him, determined not to leave their benefactors to face danger alone.

• Ruo Xuan asked Black Jade Qilin whether they could leave the mist-covered mountains that day, but he said he did not know.
• Lin Fan told the Primordial Ancient Dragon it was time to go, and the dragon agreed.
• Lin Fan and his companions found the Spirit Vein Dragonkin gathered and armed in the clearing, bowing to them as they emerged.
• Luo Yuan explained that the Spirit Vein Dragonkin would not wait safely while Lin Fan and the others faced the Spirit-Devouring Clan.
• Saintess Orchid and the clan elders asked to accompany Lin Fan, offering to fight and even die alongside him.

Lin Fan and his companions reached Sword Bone Peak, the Spirit-Devouring Clan’s territory, but found it completely deserted and sensed that the area’s spatial fluctuations had been tampered with. Lin Fan remained calm after probing the region with his Primordial Spirit.

• Luo Yuan identified the cliffs and cave network as Sword Bone Peak and warned that the Spirit-Devouring Clan was powerful and dangerous.
• Lin Fan ordered the Primordial Ancient Dragon to guide the warship down into the silent territory.
• Ruo Xuan wondered why no clansmen were in sight, while the Black Jade Qilin and Primordial Ancient Dragon sensed something was wrong.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon detected strange spatial fluctuations and offered to investigate, but Luo Yuan volunteered to go ahead instead.
• Lin Fan told them not to be nervous, having already used his Primordial Spirit to probe the Spirit-Devouring Clan’s territory.

A powerful array enveloped the Spirit-Devouring Clan, suppressing the group’s demonic power and interfering with Primordial Spirit perception. As Luo Yuan suspected a traitor had exposed them, a black-robed figure appeared on a stone platform.

• Black runes surrounded the Spirit-Devouring Clan and caused the grayish-white mist to recede.
• Ruo Xuan found her demonic power sealed, while the Black Jade Qilin said the array had suppressed most of his power as well.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon warned that the array could interfere with the Primordial Spirit.
• Luo Yuan suspected someone had tipped off the Spirit-Devouring Clan and recalled his unsuccessful search for a traitor among his own kin.
• Lin Fan realized the Spirit-Devouring Clan might possess a treasure that could evade his Primordial Spirit perception.
• The mist vanished, revealing a black-robed figure standing on a stone platform.

Luo Yuan confronted Wei Yun over his betrayal, then received Lin Fan’s permission to punish both traitors himself. He attacked Lian Zhou but discovered that the Spirit-Annihilating Grand Array had weakened him and left Lian Zhou with the advantage.

• Luo Yuan learned that Wei Yun had secretly leaked their arrival to the Spirit Devouring Clan and demanded to know why he had betrayed the Spirit Vein Dragonkin.
• Wei Yun admitted that he wanted a better future with a stronger force, despite the clan having treated him well.
• Luo Yuan asked Lin Fan for permission to kill Lian Zhou and Wei Yun, and Lin Fan agreed while offering assistance.
• Luo Yuan charged at the traitors, but Lian Zhou met his punch and blocked it with ease.
• Lian Zhou explained that the Spirit-Annihilating Grand Array suppressed Luo Yuan’s cultivation, physical body, and Primordial Spirit.

The Primordial Ancient Dragon challenged the Spirit Devouring Clan after its members mocked the Ancient Dragon Clan, and Lin Fan allowed him to fight Bone Yuan. The Primordial Ancient Dragon shattered Bone Yuan’s opening attack, but the battle was still underway.

• The Spirit Devouring Clan members jeered at the Ancient Dragon Clan while Lin Fan remained calm.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon stepped forward and declared that he would destroy the clan to avenge the insult.
• Bone Yuan warned that the Spirit Devouring Clan Territory’s formation made the Dragon Clan envoy vulnerable, and the Primordial Ancient Dragon asked Lin Fan for permission to fight.
• Lin Fan gave the Primordial Ancient Dragon permission, and he rushed toward Bone Yuan.
• Bone Yuan launched his law-infused bone spikes at the Primordial Ancient Dragon, who blasted them apart with streams of golden light.

The Primordial Ancient Dragon faced three Demon Immortal realm foreign-race experts empowered by Bone Yuan’s formation. He broke free of their restraints with the ancient dragon race’s power and struck the scale-armored man, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The scale-armored man formed a black spear and attacked the Primordial Ancient Dragon as the gaunt old man sent Demon-Devouring Insects toward him.
• Bone Yuan activated the formation, binding the Primordial Ancient Dragon with Order Divine Chains and strengthening the three foreign-race experts.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon awakened his ancient dragon inheritance and summoned a true dragon phantom, whose roar shattered the chains.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon struck with a golden dragon claw, destroying the scale-armored man’s spear and making him cough up blood.

The Primordial Ancient Dragon suppressed the Spirit Devouring Clan’s patriarchs, and Lin Fan signaled him to kill the clan members fleeing the collapsing stronghold. Lian Zhou begged Luo Yuan to spare him, but Luo Yuan refused, and Lian Zhou began a violent transformation as their fight continued.

• The Spirit Devouring Clan’s formation shattered after the Primordial Ancient Dragon suppressed Bone Yuan and the other patriarchs, sending clan members fleeing in panic.
• Lin Fan nodded to the Primordial Ancient Dragon, who killed fleeing Spirit Devouring Clan experts with repeated strikes of golden finger light.
• Lian Zhou asked Luo Yuan to spare him, but Luo Yuan condemned him as a traitor responsible for the clan’s suffering and deaths.
• Luo Yuan unleashed his bloodline’s dragon might, and Lian Zhou’s scales peeled away as barbs erupted from his flesh and his body began to mutate.

The Primordial Ancient Dragon annihilated the Spirit Devouring Clan’s powerful experts, leaving Luo Yuan to take control of its surviving remnants. Wei Yun was captured and revealed that the clan possessed an ancestral artifact, prompting Lin Fan to order a soul search.

• The Primordial Ancient Dragon finished slaughtering the Spirit Devouring Clan’s experts and reported to Lin Fan.
• Luo Yuan thanked Lin Fan, who left the surviving clan members in Luo Yuan’s hands.
• The Black Jade Qilin brought the captured Wei Yun to Luo Yuan, who confronted him over his betrayal.
• Wei Yun accepted his defeat and disclosed that the Spirit Devouring Clan had an artifact left by its ancestor.
• Lin Fan ordered the Primordial Ancient Dragon to search Wei Yun’s soul.

Lin Fan extracted three Spirit-Devouring Clan experts’ Primordial Spirits and destroyed them to obtain their pure law energy. The law energy remained suspended before him on the warship, while the Black Jade Qilin stood nearby.

• Lin Fan called the Black Jade Qilin to him on the warship.
• Lin Fan summoned the three Primordial Spirits of the Spirit-Devouring Clan experts, including the nearly unconscious Bone Yuan.
• Two Primordial Spirits begged Lin Fan to spare them and offered to serve him, but he ignored their pleas.
• Lin Fan caused all three Primordial Spirits to collapse, releasing their law energy as their remaining wills vanished.
• Three clusters of pure law energy remained before Lin Fan.

Lin Fan and his companions navigated a dangerous field of stellar fragments toward the entrance to the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest. They stopped before a massive fragment emitting a faint spatial ripple, and all three beasts and Lin Fan turned their attention to Ruo Xuan.

• The Primordial Ancient Dragon guided the warship through dense, colliding stellar fragments while Ruo Xuan admired their shapes.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon warned Ruo Xuan that the fragments contained terrifying power and could trigger chain reactions.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon stopped the warship before a colossal fragment that matched the coordinates for the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest.
• Lin Fan sensed a faint spatial ripple within the fragment, and he, the Primordial Ancient Dragon, and the Black Jade Qilin all looked at Ruo Xuan.

Lin Fan restored Ruo Xuan and sent the dragon-shaped warship through the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest gate. The ship endured crushing spatial force and crossed the threshold, leaving everyone disoriented as heaven and earth spun.

• Lin Fan used mana to restore Ruo Xuan’s blood essence and strength.
• The Black Jade Qilin told Ruo Xuan that Lin Fan had never intended to use her name to open the gate.
• Lin Fan ordered the Primordial Ancient Dragon to enter the gate with the warship.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon raised energy barriers as crushing force battered the warship inside the gate.
• The warship crossed through, and everyone felt dizzy as heaven and earth spun.

A black hand emerged from an exploding dragon skeleton in the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest, and the Primordial Ancient Dragon identified the being as an Ancient Dragon Puppet. As the bones fell away, the towering, blood-eyed puppet was revealed, surrounded by killing intent.

• The dragon-shaped skeleton trembled and exploded, and a black hand reached out from the ruins.
• Ruo Xuan hid behind Lin Fan while Black Jade Qilin wondered if other beings lived in the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon sensed the strange aura and explained that the Ancient Dragon Clan had created powerful puppets from fallen clansmen to guard important sites.
• The skeleton collapsed around the hand, revealing a tall black humanoid puppet with crimson eyes and a terrifying killing aura.

Black Jade Qilin defeated the Ancient Dragon Puppet with overwhelming violet lightning in the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest. Ruo Xuan watched the battle end and praised Big Brother Mo for becoming so amazing.

• The Ancient Dragon Puppet grew larger, summoned dragon phantoms, and attacked Black Jade Qilin with a punch that formed a black dragon.
• Black Jade Qilin unleashed violet lightning and destroyed the black dragon, but the Ancient Dragon Puppet emerged from it to launch a surprise strike.
• Black Jade Qilin shattered the puppet’s attack and body with his palm, then finished it with a lightning sword.
• Black Jade Qilin remarked that the Ancient Dragon Puppet was nothing special.
• Ruo Xuan relaxed after the fight and told Big Brother Mo that he had become so amazing.

Lin Fan and his companions were surrounded by Ancient Dragon Puppets at the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest and decided to fight through them rather than retreat. Primordial Ancient Dragon transformed and drew the attention of more than half the puppets, while Lin Fan and Ruo Xuan remained behind.

• Black Jade Qilin and Primordial Ancient Dragon warned Lin Fan that the Ancient Dragon Puppets could drain their strength, but Lin Fan said it was too late to leave.
• Dragon puppets rose from the ruins and closed in from every direction, numbering more than a hundred and continuing to grow.
• Lin Fan ordered Black Jade Qilin and Primordial Ancient Dragon to charge straight through the puppets, while Ruo Xuan stayed beside him.
• Ruo Xuan asked whether the two fighters could defeat the puppets, and Lin Fan explained that they were only the nest’s outermost defense.
• Primordial Ancient Dragon transformed into a golden-scaled half-dragon, drawing more than half the puppets toward him.

After the Primordial Ancient Dragon and Black Jade Qilin defeated more than a hundred Ancient Dragon Puppets, Ruo Xuan offered them spirit fruits while the Primordial Ancient Dragon warned Lin Fan that the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest held further defenses. Lin Fan agreed to act if needed, and the warship continued toward the core as dragon-shaped corpses grew scarce.

• Ruo Xuan offered spirit fruits to the Black Jade Qilin, who ate one and recovered some strength.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon declined the fruits, explaining that the dragon-vein energy in the nest would help him recover.
• Ruo Xuan praised the fighters and said she trusted Lin Fan and the others to keep them safe.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon warned Lin Fan that the nest’s deeper regions could contain dangerous defenses beyond the puppets.
• Lin Fan said he would act personally if necessary, and the warship advanced as the dragon-shaped corpses became fewer.

Lin Fan fell into a powerful illusion at the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest, where a figure resembling Zhou Wanqing appeared and took control of his body. He recognized the deception but could not reach or mobilize his Primordial Spirit as the false Zhou Wanqing urged him to return to the cave mansion.

• Lin Fan recognized the familiar mountain gate in the illusion and cautiously walked toward it.
• A mist-shrouded figure appeared and used her voice to strip Lin Fan of control over his body.
• The figure revealed herself as Zhou Wanqing, or an illusion resembling her, and asked whether Lin Fan remembered her.
• Lin Fan answered against his will and found that an invisible force had severed his Primordial Spirit from the outside world.
• The false Zhou Wanqing expressed concern, supported Lin Fan, and urged him to return to the cave mansion and rest.

Lin Fan awakened the Primordial Ancient Dragon, Black Jade Qilin, and Ruo Xuan from a powerful illusion in Ten Thousand Dragons Nest. The Primordial Ancient Dragon suspected an ancient dragon-race formation was guarding the area, leaving them wary of hidden dangers ahead.

• The Primordial Ancient Dragon, Black Jade Qilin, and Ruo Xuan became trapped in an illusion while standing on the warship.
• Lin Fan used a gentle but penetrating force to awaken all three.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon and Black Jade Qilin described how real and powerful the illusion had felt, while Ruo Xuan recalled a dream about stolen treats.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon suspected the illusion came from a hidden ancient dragon-race formation protecting Ten Thousand Dragons Nest.