Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiu chose male-female fusion with Snow, and she eagerly agreed, believing it meant having a child. After Snow explained that her body could not nurture life, they went to bathe together, where she asked him how to begin.

• Jiang Qiu weighed the fusion methods and decided against soul devouring and dual-soul symbiosis, then asked Snow to use male-female fusion.
• Snow agreed eagerly and said she had been born knowing about male-female fusion, though no one had wanted her as a cultivation vessel before.
• Jiang Qiu asked what fusion meant to Snow, and she explained that she thought it meant having children.
• Snow realized her body could not bear children because it was created by Two Poles, and Jiang Qiu led her to the bath.
• Snow climbed into the pool with Jiang Qiu and asked how they should fuse, admitting she had never tried it.

Jiang Qiu and Snow’s souls merged during their cultivation, helping Jiang Qiu break into the Dharma Manifestation Realm and revealing that Snow could unleash hidden power by spending her lifespan. Nearly three years later, Snow had reached the realm’s peak and faced the upcoming sect tournament, while she worried that advancing to the Path-Glimpsing Realm might cost her the body she wanted to keep.

• Jiang Qiu and Snow entered a shared soul space, where their realms surged and Jiang Qiu broke through to the Dharma Manifestation Realm.
• Snow told Jiang Qiu she could summon a powerful force by expending her lifespan, and he urged her to reserve it for emergencies.
• Over nearly three years, Jiang Qiu and Snow cultivated together in the pool, and Snow rose to the peak of the Dharma Manifestation Realm.
• Jiang Qiu learned that the Underworld sovereign planned to open a Great Secret Realm, with the Hundred Ghosts Sect receiving only one hundred entry slots.
• Snow asked whether she could become the strongest disciple and win the Holy Maiden position at the approaching sect tournament, and Jiang Qiu said a battle might help her comprehend the Dao.
• Snow told Jiang Qiu she feared that reaching the Path-Glimpsing Realm through the Hundred Ghosts Grand Dao would make her cultivation-vessel body disappear, because she wanted to keep bathing and sleeping with him.

Jiang Qiu and Snow began a formal fusion that incorporated Snow as his cultivation vessel and deepened his fourth Jade Tendon. The soul-level power of their fusion shook Lingyu’s palace, where she advanced to the middle stage of the Path-Glimpsing Realm.

• Snow told Jiang Qiu that she had to fuse with his body for him to complete Forging Jade Tendons and said she had learned the method from the Yin Network.
• Snow’s fusion with Jiang Qiu enveloped his Dragon Bloodline, deepened his fourth Jade Tendon, and transferred Abyssal Dark Spiritual Essence and its conversion ability into him.
• Jiang Qiu’s primal instincts awakened, and he took control of the fusion with Snow.
• Lingyu heard powerful rhythmic noises coming from Baimo and Snow’s room and sensed overwhelming soul-level pressure.
• Lingyu activated the palace’s shielding function, then broke through her bottleneck and advanced to the middle stage of the Path-Glimpsing Realm.

Jiang Qiu and Snow completed their fusion, bringing Snow into the Path-Glimpsing Realm and triggering Jiang Qiu’s second dragon-body transformation. They went to see Elder Lingyu and found that she had also broken through, leaving her astonished by their cultivation and Snow’s new form.

• Snow’s fusion with Jiang Qiu formed his fourth Jade Tendon, raised her to the initial Path-Glimpsing Realm, and transformed his body.
• Snow appeared in a dragon-maiden form, and Jiang Qiu noticed that she shared his origin while retaining her own soul.
• Jiang Qiu and Snow left to visit Elder Lingyu after deciding they could not advance further for the time being.
• Elder Lingyu opened her cultivation-room door and revealed that she had reached the middle Path-Glimpsing Realm.
• Elder Lingyu stared in shock at Jiang Qiu and Snow’s breakthrough and asked how Snow could remain fully formed after their fusion.

Jiang Qiu and [Snow] learned that [Ming], a secluded Path-Glimpsing Realm disciple, could threaten their bid for the Holy Maiden position. At the sect tournament, Jiang Qiu sensed something unsettling about the Grand Elder and suspected [Ming] was connected to [Yamata].

• [Lingyu] praised Jiang Qiu and [Snow]'s strength and ancient aura, then warned them that [Ming] had also reached the Path-Glimpsing Realm and was a leading Holy Son candidate.
• Jiang Qiu declared that he would win the sect tournament so [Snow] could become Holy Maiden, and [Lingyu] reflected on how much he had changed.
• The Hundred Ghosts Sect tournament began in the Duel Secret Realm, where defeat meant death, and tens of thousands of disciples gathered to compete.
• [Snow] asked Jiang Qiu where [Ming] was, but he could not sense the secluded disciple among the contestants.
• Jiang Qiu studied the Grand Elder and sensed a familiar, troubling presence like [Yamata].

Jiang Qiu watched the Grand Elder while the Hundred Ghosts Sect tournament advanced to the personal disciples’ melee. Ming appeared at the Path-Glimpsing Realm and instantly killed a powerful challenger, leaving the elders stunned by his seemingly undetectable attack.

• Jiang Qiu remained wary of the Grand Elder, fearing Yamata might someday return to threaten Blue Star and humanity.
• After the ordinary and elite disciple matches ended, 624 personal disciples gathered to compete in the Duel Secret Realm.
• Snow asked where Ming was, and Ming appeared overhead with a Path-Glimpsing Realm aura, prompting the other disciples to recognize him as the Grand Elder’s personal disciple.
• When the melee began, most contestants fled to the arena’s edge, while several proud disciples stayed behind to challenge Ming.
• Ming instantly killed a perfected Dharma Manifestation Realm disciple with an attack no one noticed, shocking the spectators and elders.

Ming killed a disciple at the tournament and prepared to slaughter the others, but Snow revealed her true dragon body and killed him before the Grand Elder could intervene. Jiang Qiu then walked toward the furious Grand Elder, while the Grand Elder’s killing pressure began harming spectators and Lingyu stood up.

• Ming’s instant killing of a famous disciple frightened the other geniuses into retreating and left him alone in the arena.
• Ming tried to kill Snow, but she regenerated and blocked his attacks with dragon scales, revealing her true dragon body.
• Jiang Qiu recognized Ming’s connection to Yamata and told Snow to twist his head off.
• Snow’s deathly domain overwhelmed the arena, and her descending claws killed Ming before the Grand Elder could save him.
• The enraged Grand Elder unleashed his pressure, injuring spectators as Jiang Qiu calmly approached him and Lingyu stood up.

Lingyu prepared to sacrifice herself to save Baimo and Snow, but Jiang Qiu revealed overwhelming strength and subdued the Hundred Ghosts Sect’s Grand Elder. Lingyu realized she had not needed to worry, though she wondered why Jiang Qiu could suppress the Grand Elder’s domain.

• Lingyu decided to risk her life so Baimo and Snow could survive and reach the Two Poles Heavenly Pride List.
• Jiang Qiu released a dragon roar that scattered Lingyu’s Spiritual Essence and prevented the Grand Elder from summoning his domain.
• Jiang Qiu accused the Grand Elder of targeting them and being connected to Yamata, then seized him and slammed him into the ground.
• Jiang Qiu’s transformed Dragon Bloodline shocked the onlookers, who speculated that he was invincible below the Path-Integration Realm.
• Lingyu realized Jiang Qiu’s strength came from his Dragon Bloodline and wondered how he had suppressed the Grand Elder’s domain.

Jiang Qiu killed the Grand Elder and confronted [Yamata], who revealed it had been hiding in the Hundred Ghosts Sect as a soul vessel. [Yamata] suddenly died after [Snow] spoke, and she absorbed its soul fragments along with those of the sect’s dead, gaining its accumulated memories.

• Jiang Qiu snapped the Grand Elder’s neck and crushed his body, revealing [Yamata]’s eight-headed soul form.
• [Yamata] told Jiang Qiu it had come to the Two Poles Great World to restore itself and claimed it had once been a Demon Emperor.
• After [Snow] spoke to [Yamata], its soul suddenly dispersed, and its split souls burst out of the spectator elders and personal disciples.
• Jiang Qiu questioned [Snow] about [Yamata]’s death, but she only recalled feeling her heart race and wanting to cuddle with him.
• [Snow] absorbed the soul fragments of [Ming], the Grand Elder, [Yamata], and the others, boosting her and Jiang Qiu’s cultivation and giving them [Yamata]’s memories.

Jiang Qiu reviewed Yamata’s memories and discovered how he had infiltrated the Hundred Ghosts Sect before dying in the tournament. With the sect’s leadership devastated, Jiang Qiu appointed Lingyu as Sect Master and the Duel Elder as Vice Sect Master before he and Snow departed for the Kyoto secret realm.

• Jiang Qiu learned from Yamata’s memories that the ancient powerhouse had controlled the Hundred Ghosts Sect and used its members as cultivation vessels.
• Snow’s aura surged to the peak Path-Glimpsing Realm, while Jiang Qiu’s power kept the survivors trapped in the secret realm.
• The Duel Elder asked Lingyu to plead for the survivors, and Lingyu received Jiang Qiu’s message appointing her to lead the sect.
• Jiang Qiu announced that he and Snow would seek the Holy Son positions and enter the Underworld Imperial Dynasty’s Kyoto secret realm.
• Jiang Qiu appointed Lingyu Sect Master and the Duel Elder Vice Sect Master, warning that he would deal with anyone who objected.

Jiang Qiu had Snow use Orochi Nightmare to erase the Dragon Clan from the crowd’s memories, allowing Baimo and Snow to be declared Holy Sons and Lingyu to take office as sect master. Afterward, Jiang Qiu considered finding Snow a True Dragon body, while Snow asked him to snuggle.

• Jiang Qiu announced Lingyu as the new sect master, and the elders rushed to apologize and offer her valuable gifts.
• Jiang Qiu asked Snow to use Orochi Nightmare, and she erased the Dragon Clan from the memories of those whose souls were not strong enough.
• The crowd blamed the tournament’s deaths on an unknown eight-headed serpent, and Lingyu declared Baimo and Snow Holy Sons.
• Jiang Qiu told Snow that a coming Great Secret Realm might contain True Dragon remains he could use to reshape her body.
• Snow embraced Jiang Qiu and asked to see his dragon-form body.

Jiang Qiu completed a devastating formation to protect the weakened Hundred Ghosts Sect before traveling with Snow to Kyoto for the Great Secret Realm. They arrived at Sunset City's transmission formation, where the guard examined them and let them proceed.

• Jiang Qiu refined the Hundred Ghosts Killing Domain, whose activation could destroy everyone below the Path-Integration Realm across a hundred miles, though it would ruin the sect.
• The formation's completion sent frost across Sunset City and raised nightmare asuras around the Hundred Ghosts Sect, causing the other powers to abandon their plans to probe it.
• Lingyu warned Jiang Qiu and Snow to be cautious in Kyoto, where the Great Secret Realm might hold Dragon Spirit Fish and many powerful visitors.
• Jiang Qiu and Snow said farewell to the Hundred Ghosts Sect and went to Sunset City's transmission formation with the other cultivators bound for Kyoto.
• The Path-Entering Realm guard recognized them as the Hundred Ghosts Sect's Holy Sons, praised Snow's unusual cultivation, and allowed them to enter.

Jiang Qiu and Snow traveled from Sunset City to Kyoto to take part in the Great Secret Realm, where they registered and found an inn in the Outer City. The chapter left them bathing together while Jiang Qiu prepared to search the Yin Network for news about the Nine Venerables Great World.

• Jiang Qiu and Snow arrived in Kyoto after multiple costly teleportations and registered for the Great Secret Realm.
• The registrar assigned them a random ranking based on their early Path-Glimpsing Realm cultivation and dismissed them.
• Jiang Qiu and Snow explored Kyoto's crowded streets and settled into a room high above the city in an inn.
• Jiang Qiu agreed to bathe with Snow and said he would use the Yin Network to investigate the Nine Venerables Great World.
• Snow admired Jiang Qiu underwater and decided she should give him a massage.

Jiang Qiu explored Kyoto's Yin Network and learned about the coming Great Secret Realm, the Nine Venerables Great World, and its Hollow Demon Race. He reflected on his prospects and the long distance separating him from Zuo Xuan and Liu Zili before Snow pinched him during a massage.

• Jiang Qiu joined Kyoto's Yin Network and found a chat group for people authorized to enter the Great Secret Realm.
• Jiang Qiu asked about the Nine Venerables Great World, and Old Man explained that the Hollow Demon Race was coming to compete for Dragon Spirit Fish.
• Old Man described the Two Poles Great World’s standing among the Great Worlds and warned that the three Ancient Great Worlds were taboo to discuss.
• Jiang Qiu considered making a name for himself and wondered whether Zuo Xuan had brought Liu Zili and the others home yet.
• Snow pinched Jiang Qiu while massaging him, and he told her to massage properly.

Jiang Qiu and Snow spent half a month together before the Underworld Imperial Dynasty announced the opening of the Dragon Spirit Great Secret Realm. As the cultivators prepared to enter, Underworld revealed that nine Dao Conjoining Realm experts and more than two hundred thousand others would take part.

• Jiang Qiu pulled Snow from the bath and tried to understand why she kept exploring his body, then concluded that she longed for a body of her own.
• Jiang Qiu held Snow close in the nourishing bath, and they continued bathing, sleeping, and using the Yin Network together for half a month.
• Underworld announced that he would open the Dragon Spirit Great Secret Realm above Kyoto and told cultivators to bring their digital plaques.
• Jiang Qiu took Snow's hand and prepared to enter with her, wary that the secret realm might teleport them to separate locations.
• Underworld revealed that nine Dao Conjoining Realm experts, thousands of Path-Integration Realm experts, and more than two hundred thousand cultivators would enter the realm.

Jiang Qiu and [Snow] entered the Great Secret Realm, where they found themselves as soul bodies in a lifeless world called the Dragon Spirit World. After learning that Dragon Spirit Fish could be caught by fishing the great waters, they discovered an old fishing platform and rod.

• A Dao Conjoining Realm expert transported Jiang Qiu and [Snow] from Kyoto into the Great Secret Realm, where they appeared as soul bodies beneath a bright sky over a still sea.
• Jiang Qiu searched the Yin Network and learned that cultivators were scattered across the realm and that Dragon Spirit Fish might be needed to clear the trial.
• Jiang Qiu and [Snow] found a moss-covered stone tablet instructing them to use the soul as bait to fish for Dragon Spirit Fish.
• [Old Man] posted that the Dragon Spirit World had suffered a calamity and that fishing the great waters could yield Dragon Spirit Fish or lead to the True Dragon's body.
• [Snow] found an old fishing platform and a usable bamboo fishing rod, which Jiang Qiu examined.

Jiang Qiu fished on the island while learning that the Dragon Spirit Secret Realm could dissolve souls and that its inhabitants might need to eat fish to survive. Snow claimed she could see the fish and sense their imminent death, then suggested they use their own souls as bait.

• Jiang Qiu decided not to explore the land or descend into the dangerous water and began fishing from the platform.
• A Yin Network warning said soul bodies would dissipate without fish, and reports described a cultivator seeing golden fish underwater before going offline.
• Jiang Qiu warned Snow to stay out of the water, but she said she could see fish swimming past his empty hook.
• Snow sensed that their souls would scatter unless they ate fish, while Jiang Qiu found no bait despite the stone tablets' instructions to use souls.
• Snow pointed out that she and Jiang Qiu were soul bodies and said the fish would bite as long as they had bait.

Jiang Qiu and Snow discovered that Snow could fish safely using a fragment of her soul, and Jiang Qiu caught several purple-gold Life Fish. As the secret realm brightened toward dawn, Dharma Manifestation Realm cultivators on the Yin Network began disappearing after their souls were drained by their fishing rods.

• After someone caught the first Life Fish, Snow sensed fish flowing toward successful fishing waters and offered a fragment of her soul as bait.
• Jiang Qiu caught a purple-gold Life Fish, which Snow absorbed to strengthen her soul and which also nourished Jiang Qiu.
• Cultivators on the Yin Network debated how to fish, while many struggled to find equipment or safely use their souls as bait.
• Dharma Manifestation Realm cultivators reported that their fishing rods were draining their souls, then stopped appearing on the Yin Network.
• As the secret realm's sky turned pale blue, Jiang Qiu caught and absorbed another purple-gold Life Fish, finding the fishing easy and Snow's bait reusable.

The Dream Demon fished in the Dragon Spirit Secret Realm, confident that Emperor Chen’s Dragon Bloodline aura would help him claim the Dragon Spirit Fish. Meanwhile, Jiang Qiu and Snow absorbed thousands of Life Fish, and Jiang Qiu checked the Yin Network to learn that many cultivators had suffered severe soul damage or died.

• The Dream Demon caught and absorbed Life Fish, believing his soul and Emperor Chen’s Dragon Bloodline aura gave him an advantage in the secret realm.
• Jiang Qiu discovered that Snow’s soul bait was not consumed by the fish, so he gave her a bamboo fishing pole and she caught fish more efficiently than he did.
• Jiang Qiu and Snow absorbed several thousand Life Fish, leaving Jiang Qiu unable to take in more while Snow continued fishing.
• Jiang Qiu checked the Yin Network and learned that fishing drained soul power, many Dharma Manifestation Realm cultivators had been drained dry, and numerous Path-Glimpsing Realm cultivators had fallen unconscious.

Jiang Qiu and Snow survived the Dragon Spirit Secret Realm’s second stage by using Snow’s soul power to kill the Two-Life Fish, while the deadly fish slaughtered cultivators across the realm. Old Man announced that the third stage and the Dragon Spirit Fish might soon arrive, leaving Jiang Qiu hopeful that he and Snow could break through.

• Jiang Qiu caught a Two-Life Fish, then grabbed Snow as a purple-black swordfish leaped from the water; Snow killed it with a small amount of soul power.
• Dream Demon recalled that Emperor Chen had prepared Dragon Bloodline aura to help him hook a Two-Life Fish, and he narrowly survived its soul-piercing attack.
• Jiang Qiu and Snow drew in and killed more Two-Life Fish, building a huge pile as their soul cultivation approached a breakthrough.
• Cultivators on the Yin Network reported mass casualties as Two-Life Fish attacked them in the water and sky.
• Old Man urged the surviving cultivators to hold on, saying the secret realm might soon enter its third stage and bring out the Dragon Spirit Fish.
• Jiang Qiu saw a chance for him and Snow to advance if they obtained and absorbed a Dragon Spirit Fish.