Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuan challenged Ji Wushuang and publicly exposed Mu Xueyuan for keeping gifts he had given her, demanding she return a borrowed Golden Thread Luan Bird Bodice. After the Azure Wood Pill King activated the formation with the Heart of the Wood God, the Golden Horn Sky Devouring Serpent was summoned to assist with the second trial.

• Ji Wushuang criticized Chen Xuan, and the crowd praised Ji while condemning Chen.
• Chen Xuan insulted Ji Wushuang, then rebuffed Mu Xueyuan when she defended Ji and attacked him.
• Chen Xuan demanded that Mu Xueyuan return the items he had given her, especially the borrowed Golden Thread Luan Bird Bodice she was wearing.
• Mu Xueyuan refused to return the bodice, accused Chen Xuan of bullying her, and rode away after the Azure Wood Pill King ended their argument.
• The Azure Wood Pill King used the Heart of the Wood God to summon the Golden Horn Sky Devouring Serpent for the second trial, leaving the crowd eager to see how Chen Xuan would bear the cauldron.

The Golden Horn Sky Devouring Serpent arrived to provide its pill qi for Mu Yun Sanxian’s second trial, and Chen Xuan learned it would follow him because it sensed his true dragon blood. The cauldron trial eliminated most participants, and Chen Xuan was the last person left to attempt it.

• The Golden Horn Sky Devouring Serpent sensed Chen Xuan’s True Dragon Heart and bowed to him, though the spectators assumed it was saluting Mu Yun Sanxian.
• The serpent released its Jiaolong Inner Core’s pill qi, allowing the Seven Tower Masters to form Flood Dragon Pill Cauldrons for the second trial.
• The serpent told Chen Xuan that Mu Yun Sanxian had ordered it to follow him, and Chen Xuan promised it fine food and many silver dragon wives.
• Azure Wood Pill King began the trial, and Ji Taimei failed to carry even one cauldron as participant after participant was crushed by their weight and pressure.
• Ouye Zangfeng succeeded with three cauldrons, while Niu Ben and sixteen others passed; Wu Tengshan led with four cauldrons.
• Chen Xuan, the only untested participant remaining, stepped forward excitedly as everyone watched.

Chen Xuan shocked the trial’s spectators by proving he had recovered and could wield Purple Extreme True Essence as he shouldered a series of Flood Dragon Pill Cauldrons. Luo Qingxian realized his cultivation was restored and, recalling their past together, decided she might rekindle their bond.

• Chen Xuan entered the second trial confidently as his former senior sisters and other spectators mocked him and expected him to fail.
• Luo Qingxian explained that her Flying Immortal Art sensed immense power in Chen Xuan’s True Essence, suggesting his dantian and meridians had been repaired.
• Chen Xuan caught the first Flood Dragon Pill Cauldron and revealed his Purple Extreme True Essence, stunning the crowd and observers from the Nine Sects and Thirteen Schools.
• Chen Xuan caught the second, third, and fourth cauldrons as dragon-scale markings appeared across his body, displaying his True Dragon Overlord Body.
• Luo Qingxian remembered her past with Chen Xuan and resolved to renew their former bond as he caught the fifth cauldron.
• Ji Wushuang, Liu Ruyan, Zhao Caiyue, Shen Qingqing, Bai Ling, and Ji Yaoyue reacted with shock and disbelief at Chen Xuan’s strength.

Chen Xuan endured six Flood Dragon Pill Cauldrons during the second trial while Li Yinglian accused him of stealing a sect treasure and conspiring with a demon. Bai Qian arrived to defend Bai Bingyan, and Chen Xuan declared he would break through to the Qi Refining Stage before facing more cauldrons.

• Ji Yaoyue feared Chen Xuan’s Purple Extreme True Essence might attract Mu Yun Sanxian and threaten her Great Dao Bet and debt.
• Li Yinglian accused Chen Xuan of being involved in the disappearance of the Myriad Manifestations Profound Heaven Jade Marrow and threatened to take him back to the Vast Sword Sect.
• Chen Xuan denied the accusation as cultivators condemned him, while Du Meng, Luo Qingxian, and others spoke in his defense.
• Bai Qian arrived, pressured Li Yinglian to his knees, and defended Bai Bingyan’s reputation before Mu Yun Sanxian promised her justice.
• Chen Xuan endured six Flood Dragon Pill Cauldrons, then announced he would break through to the Qi Refining Stage before attempting more.

Chen Xuan revealed that he was still at the Ninth Stage Qi Refining Stage, then consumed a Nine Orifices Golden Core Pill and five hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones to rebuild his cultivation and break through to Foundation Establishment. His breakthrough produced Crimson-Gold True Essence and a hundred-li Spirit Canopy, leaving the gathered sect leaders eager to recruit him and Ji Yaoyue stunned.

• Chen Xuan unveiled his Ninth Stage Qi Refining cultivation while bearing six Flood Dragon Pill Cauldrons, then absorbed a Nine Orifices Golden Core Pill and five hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Xuan broke through to Foundation Establishment amid heavenly phenomena, and his Spirit Canopy expanded past ninety li as the gathered cultivators recognized his extraordinary potential.
• Ji Yaoyue accused Chen Xuan of hiding his recovery and warned the sect leaders against recruiting him, while Ji Wushuang called him malicious.
• Shangguan Yayin recognized Chen Xuan's Crimson-Gold True Essence, and Luo Qingxian, Niu Ben, Du Meng, Dong Yufei, and Bai Qian reacted with admiration or excitement.
• Chen Xuan fused his Dragon Might with his aura and expanded his Spirit Canopy to one hundred li, leaving Ji Yaoyue dumbfounded.

Chen Xuan completed the second trial by bearing all twelve Flood Dragon Pill Cauldrons, then absorbed their Serpent Dragon Pill Qi and surged to the peak of the ninth tribulation of the Tenth Grade Foundation Establishment Realm. As the Golden Horn Sky Devouring Serpent offered its inner core to help him advance, the onlookers realized his resurgence was genuine, leaving Ji Yaoyue stunned.

• Chen Xuan broke through to the first level of the Tenth Grade Foundation Establishment Realm, while Zhao Caiyue, Shen Qingqing, and Liu Ruyan struggled to accept his return to power.
• Chen Xuan continued the second trial, enduring the weight of twelve Flood Dragon Pill Cauldrons as Ji Yaoyue claimed he was using a forbidden method and would die from hidden injuries.
• Bai Qian slapped Ji Yaoyue and warned her to stop speaking, while Li Yinglian revealed that someone had desecrated her sect’s grave to obtain the Myriad Manifestations Profound Heaven Jade Marrow.
• Chen Xuan cast off the twelve cauldrons and used the Nine Yang True Dragon Art to devour their pill qi, causing nearby spirit beasts and the Golden Horn Sky Devouring Serpent to submit to his Dragon Might.
• Chen Xuan reached the peak of the ninth tribulation of the Tenth Grade Foundation Establishment Realm, and the Golden Horn Sky Devouring Serpent offered him its inner core as the onlookers wondered whether he could form another Tenth Grade Golden Core.

Chen Xuan manifested the Extreme Yang True Dragon Bloodline and began condensing an unprecedented Tenth Grade Golden Core, shocking the gathered cultivators. Heaven’s condemnation struck, but an azure immortal light from Mu Yun Immortal Palace stopped his breakthrough and postponed the third trial for three days.

• Chen Xuan revealed the Extreme Yang True Dragon Bloodline, prompting awe, envy, and renewed jealousy from Ji Wushuang and the gathered cultivators.
• The Five-Clawed Golden Dragon’s presence made spirit beasts bow and stirred regret among members of Vast Sword Sect, while Ji Yaoyue insisted she would still have expelled Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan gathered spiritual energy and formed a ten-colored sphere, which onlookers identified as a Tenth Grade Golden Core.
• Black clouds gathered over Mu Yun Mountain Range, and a blood-red lightning bolt descended toward Chen Xuan as an ancient voice declared him a heaven-defying being.
• Azure immortal light from Mu Yun Immortal Palace blocked the lightning and forcibly ended Chen Xuan’s breakthrough, returning him to the peak of the Tenth Grade Ninth Rank Foundation Establishment Stage.
• An aged voice from Mu Yun Immortal Palace announced that the Heavenly Condemnation Lightning Tribulation would take three days to disperse and that the third trial would begin afterward.

After Chen Xuan’s breakthrough triggered a Heavenly Condemnation Lightning Tribulation, Mu Yun Sanxian secretly encouraged him to prepare and try again. Powerful sect leaders competed to recruit Chen Xuan, and he postponed his choice before calling out to Bai Qian as she departed.

• Dragon Cry Superior said Chen Xuan’s Heavenly Condemnation Lightning Tribulation made his future breakthroughs dangerous, while Chen Xuan feared he could not survive another attempt.
• Mu Yun Sanxian secretly told Chen Xuan that his chances were poor without more preparation but urged him not to lose hope.
• Shen Qingqing, Ji Wushuang, Ji Yaoyue, and others mocked Chen Xuan and coveted his bloodline, while Du Meng, Dong Yufei, and their companions worried for him.
• Ouyang Xuri, Jin Wuji, Bi Yuntao, and Shangguan Yayin each offered Chen Xuan major incentives to join their sects, and Ji Yaoyue failed to stop them.
• Chen Xuan said he needed three days to consider the offers, then called for Bai Qian as she prepared to leave.

Bai Qian assured Chen Xuan that Bing Yan was safe and that Qingqiu would assess him, while Mu Yun Sanxian announced a third, combat-focused trial. Chen Xuan prepared for the trial by mastering the Haotian Sword and refining the Azure Blood Loyal Heart Token, whose inheritance began to reveal itself.

• Bai Qian visited Chen Xuan, confirmed Bing Yan was safe, and accepted the Dream Orchid he offered her.
• Mu Yun Sanxian announced that the third trial would be actual combat, with the Nine Sects and Thirteen Schools’ Saint Sons and Saintesses participating, and the top ten entering Mu Yun Immortal Palace.
• Mu Yun Sanxian told Yu Meiren he had intervened to protect Chen Xuan and would award him the thirteen-level pagoda if his trial performance impressed him.
• Chen Xuan entered seclusion, used his True Dragon Bloodline and Sword Heart Realm to restore his bond with the Haotian Sword, and prepared it as his combat trump card.
• Chen Xuan began refining the Azure Blood Loyal Heart Token, and its emerald aura triggered a mysterious inheritance that astonished him.

Chen Xuan completed the inheritance of the Divine Power sword art “Tyrant Thirteen Swords” and prepared to enter the third trial, confident he would defeat everyone. Dragon Cry Superior announced the arena rules and ordered the participants to begin.

• Ji Wushuang and Liu Ruyan were injured when Chen Xuan’s domineering Sword Intent disrupted their combined sword technique, and Ji Wushuang vowed to kill him in the third trial.
• Chen Xuan received the Azure Blood Old Man’s inheritance of “Tyrant Thirteen Swords,” then spent three days comprehending the art with the aid of the Sword Heart Realm.
• Dong Yufei brought Chen Xuan a meal, and Shi Lei told him that sect representatives had tried to recruit him and that Luo Qingxian had left a Thousand Mile Teleportation Talisman.
• Chen Xuan accepted Luo Qingxian’s talisman, strapped the Haotian Sword to his back, and led his companions toward the third trial.
• Dragon Cry Superior announced that participants would lose by leaving the Battle Arena or surrendering, and that the last ten standing would qualify to enter Mu Yun Immortal Palace.

The third trial began as a free-for-all, and Luo Qingxian openly sided with Chen Xuan despite her faction’s objections. When six cultivators moved to eliminate them, Chen Xuan swiftly crushed Xuan Luo and defeated the other five with one sword strike, leaving the arena stunned.

• Dragon Cry Superior announced that the third trial would be a chaotic battle, and fifty-eight contestants gathered on the Battle Arena in three factions.
• Luo Qingxian left her faction to stand beside Chen Xuan and warned him that Ji Wushuang might try to kill him.
• Ji Wushuang proposed that each faction send two fighters to eliminate the outsiders, and six cultivators approached Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian.
• Xuan Luo demanded that Chen Xuan kneel and crawl beneath him, but Chen Xuan seized him with an invisible force, threw him down, and crushed his face beneath his foot.
• Chen Xuan stomped Xuan Luo’s head into the arena floor and used the first sword of the Tyrant Thirteen Swords to send the other five attackers flying off the arena.
• The contestants and spectators stared in shock at Chen Xuan’s strength, while Luo Qingxian praised him.

Chen Xuan dominated the Battle Arena, defeating Xuan Luo and then overwhelming the other young geniuses with his swordsmanship and True Dragon Overlord Body. He stood as the arena’s sole victor after Ji Wushuang and Liu Ruyan fled and conceded.

• Chen Xuan crushed Xuan Luo, who conceded, and kicked him from the arena before Xuan Po carried him away.
• Ouye Zangfeng attacked Chen Xuan with a storm of Sword Qi, but Chen Xuan reversed it and sent him tumbling from the arena.
• Chen Xuan defeated challenger after challenger, then invited everyone to attack him together, prompting the Saint Sons and Saintesses to charge.
• Chen Xuan’s Tyrant Thirteen Swords left only Shen Wentian, Zhen Yi, Lin Mo, Liu Ruyan, and Ji Wushuang standing.
• Chen Xuan defeated Lin Mo and Shen Wentian, broke Zhen Yi’s Imperishable Golden Body, and forced him to concede.
• Ji Wushuang and Liu Ruyan fled Chen Xuan’s attack and conceded, leaving Chen Xuan as the sole victor on the arena.

After winning the third round, Chen Xuan was chosen by Mu Yun Sanxian as his inheritor, tasked with helping reinforce the True Dragon Grand Array against the Great Dark Heaven Demon Lord. Chen Xuan accepted and asked his new master to help arrange his marriage to Bai Bingyan and restore his sealed memories, leaving Li Yinglian and Ji Yaoyue alarmed.

• Chen Xuan won the third round, but Ji Yaoyue swore that he had pressured her to draw an erotic picture, while Chen Xuan swore that he had not lusted after her.
• Mu Yun Sanxian appeared and questioned Chen Xuan; Li Yinglian interrupted to accuse him of involvement in the desecration of the Vast Sword Sect's graves, and Mu Yun Sanxian sent Li Yinglian flying.
• Mu Yun Sanxian chose Chen Xuan as his inheritor, explaining that his Extreme Yang True Dragon Bloodline could reinforce the True Dragon Grand Array before Mu Yun Sanxian's tribulation in three to five years.
• Chen Xuan accepted Mu Yun Sanxian as his master and asked him to go to Qingqiu to seek Bai Bingyan's hand in marriage; Mu Yun Sanxian agreed.
• Chen Xuan asked Mu Yun Sanxian to restore and publicly reveal the memories sealed from him after he self-detonated his Ninth Grade Golden Core, leaving Li Yinglian and Ji Yaoyue pale.

Mu Yun Sanxian restored Chen Xuan’s sealed memory, exposing Li Yinglian and Ji Yaoyue’s affair and the scheme to give Ji Wushuang Chen Xuan’s position and treasures. Ghost Granny then launched a Blood Demon Sect attack to free the Great Dark Heaven Demon Lord, and Chen Xuan and other cultivators headed for the Black Sin Abyss as the battle spread there.

• Mu Yun Sanxian restored Chen Xuan’s memory, revealing that Li Yinglian and Ji Yaoyue had been together and that Li Yinglian struck Chen Xuan when he discovered them.
• Chen Xuan realized Ji Wushuang was Ji Yaoyue’s son and suspected his past misfortunes had been deliberately arranged; Ji Wushuang recognized Li Yinglian as his father.
• Ghost Granny activated the Nether Nine Fiends Pillars and a Bloody Altar, unleashing demonic qi and Blood Demon Sect forces upon the Mu Yun Mountain Range.
• Mu Yun Sanxian killed Ghost Granny, destroyed the altar, and left for the Black Sin Abyss to stop the Great Dark Heaven Demon Lord from escaping.
• Chen Xuan and five companions rode the Golden Horn Sky-Devouring Python toward the Black Sin Abyss, while other cultivators also made their way there.
• Half a day later, the cultivators arrived at the Black Sin Abyss and were stunned by what they saw.

Mu Yun Sanxian survived his Ninth Loose Immortal Lightning Tribulation but lost his immortal body while suppressing the Great Dark Heaven Demon Lord, leaving Chen Xuan with the task of guarding Central Province. After Ji Wushuang exposed an Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon inside Chen Xuan, the crowd turned against him and accused him of framing Li Yinglian.

• Mu Yun Sanxian used his All Heavens Great Cycle Immortal Disc to trap the Great Dark Heaven Demon Lord beneath the tribulation lightning, and the Chaos Lightning Dragon destroyed his immortal body.
• Mu Yun Sanxian gave Chen Xuan the Azure Dragon Array Disc and a Storage Ring, then instructed him to seal the Black Sin Abyss and seek the Dragon Gate in the Burial Immortal Graveyard.
• Chen Xuan used twelve drops of essence blood to activate the Azure Dragon Array Disc and reseal the Black Sin Abyss as the Great Dark Heaven Demon Lord threatened to break free within a hundred years.
• Ji Wushuang shone his Righteous Spirit Demon Mirror on Chen Xuan, revealing the hidden aura of an Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon.
• The Vast Sword Sect demanded Chen Xuan surrender Mu Yun Sanxian's inheritance, while Li Yinglian accused him of using demonic methods to frame him.

Yu Meiren rescued Chen Xuan from the powerful factions that tried to seize Mu Yun Sanxian’s inheritance, and helped expose the false Demon Seed accusation. After escaping to Golden Horn Great King’s Water Mansion, Chen Xuan learned that Yu Meiren’s Ageless Divine Art had gone wrong and that she needed his Pure Yang to help her cultivate.

• Dragon Cry Superior attacked Chen Xuan to take his Storage Ring, and Golden Horn Great King and Bai Qian fought back against him and the other factions.
• Yu Meiren appeared, drove back the attackers, and identified the Demon Seed aura as a frame-up by the Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon.
• The Righteous Spirit Demon Mirror revealed Chen Xuan’s crimson-gold Dragon Might, but Li Yinglian and the other Tower Lords still demanded that he guard the Black Sin Abyss.
• Yu Meiren led Chen Xuan and his companions north on Golden Horn Great King, while the factions let them leave and worried about Central Province’s future without Mu Yun Sanxian.
• At Golden Horn Great King’s Water Mansion, Yu Meiren suddenly coughed blood and told Chen Xuan that her Ageless Divine Art needed his Pure Yang to help her cultivate.

Yu Meiren drained Chen Xuan’s blood to restore her cultivation, transformed into a beautiful young woman, and knocked him unconscious after he accidentally grabbed her. As Central Province’s enemies mobilized and the Demon Ancestor ordered Chen Xuan captured, Chen Xuan awoke alone in the secret chamber, mostly recovered.

• Yu Meiren bit Chen Xuan’s finger and greedily drew on his blood, restoring her body until she transformed into a young woman.
• Yu Meiren fell toward Chen Xuan, who accidentally grabbed her; she struck him with killing intent, then treated his injuries and moved him to a secret chamber.
• The Seven Towers Master and leaders of the Nine Sects and Thirteen Schools agreed to send experts to suppress the Black Sin Abyss as rival factions prepared to target Central Province.
• Bai Qian warned Bai Bingyan that Chen Xuan was in danger, and Bai Bingyan decided to leave the Northern Border and find him.
• The National Teacher told the Demon Ancestor that the plan had failed and Bai Bingyan had escaped; the Demon Ancestor ordered him to capture Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan woke in the secret chamber, mostly healed, and remembered Yu Meiren draining his blood and his accidental grab.

Chen Xuan activated the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda with his True Dragon Blood, unlocked its first level, and began cultivating under hundredfold time acceleration to prepare for the Burial Immortal Graveyard. Meanwhile, a sudden immortal phenomenon revealed an Immortal Array in the graveyard’s core, promising that the True Dragon’s entry would bring the Fairy’s return.

• Chen Xuan decided to strengthen himself and build his own power before confronting the threats to Mu Yun Sanxian, Bing Yan, and Central Province.
• Chen Xuan refined Mu Yun Sanxian’s pagoda with his blood, unlocked its first level, and learned that its Time Seed could provide hundredfold acceleration for a steep Spirit Stone cost.
• Chen Xuan spent five hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones to activate the Time Cover and began a thousand days of accelerated cultivation.
• She Li and his Nascent Soul elder slaughtered a group of rogue cultivators near the Burial Immortal Graveyard, while She Li spared Shui Linglong and took her for himself.
• Immortal light erupted from the graveyard’s depths, and She Li’s elder warned him that they could not safely reach the source.
• An Immortal Array appeared in the graveyard’s core, allowing only cultivators below the Transformation Spirit Realm to enter and bearing the inscription, “When the True Dragon Enters the Gate, the Fairy Returns!”

After rebuilding his strength, Chen Xuan went with Yu Meiren to the Vast Sword Sect to collect his debts and enforce his Great Dao Bet. Ji Yaoyue conceded that Chen Xuan had won, but the sect still faced his demands.

• Chen Xuan emerged from nearly three years of accelerated cultivation with a transformed True Dragon Overlord Body and consummate mastery of the Tyrant Thirteen Swords.
• Chen Xuan persuaded Yu Meiren to accompany him to the Vast Sword Sect, where he planned to reclaim his belongings and take Elder Tian Xing away.
• At the Vast Sword Sect, Ji Wushuang prepared to lead an expedition to the Burial Immortal Graveyard as Chen Xuan and Yu Meiren arrived to collect a debt.
• Yu Meiren revealed that she could unleash a strike comparable to a First Tribulation Loose Immortal, while Chen Xuan challenged the sect over the Great Dao Bet.
• Chen Xuan reclaimed the Five-Colored Turtle Spirit Shield and demanded that Ji Yaoyue apologize publicly and return his gifts; Ji Yaoyue conceded that he had won.

Chen Xuan made Jade Maiden Peak return the gifts he had given them and rejected Ji Yaoyue’s offer to take him back as her disciple. After the disciples apologized, his Dao heart cleared and he awakened extraordinary True Dragon Spiritual Sense, drawing the attention of Vast Sword Sect’s Grand Elder, Daoist Xuanyang.

• Yu Meiren slapped Mu Xueyuan and the other women after they insulted Chen Xuan, and Ji Yaoyue, Ji Wushuang, and the others returned his gifts, including Mu Xueyuan’s Golden Thread Luan Bird Bodice.
• Ji Yaoyue asked Chen Xuan to return to her tutelage, but he rejected her and demanded that she lead the Jade Maiden Peak disciples in apologizing.
• Ji Yaoyue and the disciples bowed and apologized to Chen Xuan, while Yu Meiren assured him that she would remain by his side.
• Chen Xuan’s Dao heart became clear, and he developed powerful True Dragon Spiritual Sense despite being in the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Daoist Xuanyang emerged from the Vast Sword Sect’s forbidden grounds, praised Chen Xuan’s True Dragon Bloodline and spiritual sense, and declared the sect had produced a True Dragon.