Chapter Summaries

Xuan Yang Zhenren tried to bring Chen Xuan back into the Vast Sword Sect, but Chen Xuan demanded repayment of Ji Yaoyue’s debt and the return of his Great Evolution Sword Palace. Xuan Yang Zhenren attempted to seize him, but Yu Meiren fought him off and escaped with Chen Xuan and Tian Xing, leaving Xuan Yang Zhenren to berate the sect members who had driven Chen Xuan away.

• Xuan Yang Zhenren learned that Li Yinglian had expelled Chen Xuan and offered to stand up for him, but Yu Meiren challenged his right to claim Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan demanded that Ji Yaoyue repay her debt or hand over Tian Xing and the Great Evolution Sword Palace, and Xuan Yang Zhenren agreed to his terms.
• Tian Xing asked to leave the Vast Sword Sect, and Xuan Yang Zhenren granted his request before Chen Xuan took the Great Evolution Sword Palace.
• Xuan Yang Zhenren trapped Yu Meiren with an Azure Cloud and tried to seize Chen Xuan, but Yu Meiren broke free, wounded him, and escaped with Chen Xuan and Tian Xing.
• Xuan Yang Zhenren scolded Li Yinglian and mocked Ji Yaoyue for expelling Chen Xuan despite admitting he had treated her well.

Ji Wushuang won Xuan Yang Zhenren’s favor and a powerful spear before the Vast Sword Sect learned of the Wild Heaven Supreme Talent Competition, whose champion would marry Bai Bingyan. Ji Wushuang resolved to pursue an immortal opportunity at the Burial Immortal Graveyard and claim the competition’s prize, unaware that Chen Xuan would soon cross his path.

• Ji Yaoyue retreated after Xuan Yang Zhenren rebuked her, while Li Yinglian asked him to accompany Ji Wushuang to the Burial Immortal Graveyard.
• Xuan Yang Zhenren agreed to guard Ji Wushuang and gave him a top-grade silver spear, then revealed that Li Yinglian had acknowledged him as his illegitimate son and promised him the sect leadership.
• A message announced that the Wild Heaven Supreme Talent Competition would begin at year’s end, with the champion receiving treasures and the right to marry Bai Bingyan.
• The Vast Sword Sect members mocked Chen Xuan and expected Ji Wushuang to contend for the championship, while Liu Ruyan suspected Bai Bingyan was bait to obtain Chen Xuan’s True Dragon Blood Essence.
• Ji Wushuang vowed to seize an immortal opportunity in the Burial Immortal Graveyard and imagined winning the competition and marrying Bai Bingyan.

Yu Meiren, Chen Xuan, and Tian Xing rescued Murong Hongxiu and her companions from Tian Boguang, then learned that the Demon Ancestor had set a trap involving Bai Bingyan. Back at the Water Mansion, Chen Xuan asked Yu Meiren about rescuing his wife, but their serious discussion turned flirtatious as he massaged her shoulders.

• Tian Boguang killed Murong Hongxiu’s senior brother and six other men, then bound the remaining women and moved to assault Murong Hongxiu.
• Yu Meiren, Chen Xuan, and Tian Xing emerged from a void rift, and Yu Meiren killed Tian Boguang with a single finger.
• Murong Qingsong arrived with Nine Spirits Sect members, thanked the rescuers, and told Chen Xuan that the Demon Ancestor was using Bai Bingyan as bait.
• Yu Meiren said that storming Ten Thousand Demon Mountain to rescue Bai Bingyan would likely be a trap, with little chance of success.
• Chen Xuan returned to Golden Horn Great King’s Water Mansion with Yu Meiren and Tian Xing, then asked Yu Meiren about the Demon Ancestor and rescuing Bai Bingyan.
• Yu Meiren asked Chen Xuan to massage her shoulders as she explained, and Chen Xuan began staring at her while trying to focus on her advice.

Yu Meiren calmed Chen Xuan’s fears about Bai Bingyan and laid out a plan to prepare for the Wild Heaven Supreme Talent Competition. As Chen Xuan set out for the Burial Immortal Graveyard, Luo Qingxian also insisted on going, unaware that Wei Ziyang planned to assault her there.

• Yu Meiren scolded Chen Xuan for staring at her, then explained the Demon Ancestor’s marriage scheme and urged him to use the next six months to grow stronger.
• Yu Meiren proposed rebuilding the Heavenly Maiden Dao Sect, and Chen Xuan agreed before gathering everyone in the Great Evolution Sword Palace.
• Chen Xuan said he would go to the Burial Immortal Graveyard, while Bai Bingyan waited in the Water Mansion for news of him.
• Luo Qingxian insisted on visiting the Burial Immortal Graveyard to help Chen Xuan obtain an immortal opportunity, and Mo Qinglian reluctantly allowed Wei Ziyang to accompany her.
• Wei Ziyang secretly lusted after Luo Qingxian and planned to seize and abuse her during the journey.

Chen Xuan stumbled upon North Sea Demonic Lecher Lu Da Ding holding Ni Chang captive in a canyon of the Burial Immortal Graveyard. After killing Lu Da Ding with a powerful sword talisman, Chen Xuan saved Ni Chang from the wounded monster snake, but they crashed to the ground and kissed.

• Xuan Yang Zhenren and the Vast Sword Sect reached an Immortal Array, where Seven Fiends Evil Lord, the Hidden Sect, and other cultivators entered to seek the immortal opportunity.
• Chen Xuan fought a swarm of poisonous creatures in a canyon as Lu Da Ding appeared with the captive Ni Chang.
• Chen Xuan mocked Lu Da Ding until the demon charged, then activated the Astonishing Rainbow Sword Talisman and killed him with its golden sword qi.
• The wounded black monster snake tried to flee with Ni Chang, but Chen Xuan caught her after it shook her from its back.
• The monster snake struck Chen Xuan with its tail, and he crashed into the ground while holding Ni Chang, whose lips landed on his.

Yuan Bu'er rescued Ni Chang and, after learning Chen Xuan had saved her, gave him the Illusion Sky Robe when Chen Xuan proved he could refine it. Chen Xuan arranged a mutually beneficial cooperation with Yuan Bu'er, then disguised himself as a Nascent Soul cultivator and headed deeper into the Burial Immortal Graveyard.

• Yuan Bu'er appeared, freed Ni Chang, and learned Chen Xuan had rescued her from the North Sea Lecherous Demon.
• Ni Chang stopped Yuan Bu'er from threatening Chen Xuan and persuaded him to reward Chen Xuan with the Illusion Sky Robe.
• Chen Xuan revealed he was Mu Yun Sanxian's legacy disciple and successfully refined the High-Grade Dao Artifact.
• Chen Xuan negotiated a cooperation with Yuan Bu'er before Yuan Bu'er and Ni Chang departed.
• Chen Xuan used the Illusion Sky Robe to disguise himself as a handsome man in white with a Nascent Soul cultivation aura and flew toward the depths of the Burial Immortal Graveyard.

Disguised as Xuan Chen, Chen Xuan joined Madam Linglong’s expedition into the Burial Immortal Graveyard, where a deadly journey led the survivors to an apparent Immortal Light Oasis. Beneath the oasis, he discovered Ji Wushuang preparing to use the group as blood sacrifices to unlock an inheritance, and decided to attack him.

• Chen Xuan boarded Madam Linglong’s treasure ship after hearing she possessed a map, then refused her attempt to seduce him while her martial granduncle judged him to have a noble bloodline.
• Chen Xuan entered the Immortal Array, sensed a mysterious connection, and traveled with Madam Linglong’s group through a dangerous red-earth region.
• Madam Linglong used her Emerald Gourd to kill a ninth-level Nascent Soul Realm Unicorn Viper, but the group lost more than half its members before reaching the Immortal Light Oasis.
• Chen Xuan sensed danger near the oasis and secretly burrowed underground, where he detected intense demonic qi and overheard Ji Wushuang discussing the Immortal-Demon Pillar and an Instant Kill Great Divine Power.
• Chen Xuan realized Ji Wushuang planned to sacrifice the twelve Nascent Soul cultivators and decided to get him.

Chen Xuan saw through the Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon’s illusion and discovered Ji Wushuang sacrificing cultivators to activate the Immortal-Demon Pillar. He launched a sneak attack, badly wounded Ji Wushuang, then fled after the demon struck his soul.

• Chen Xuan’s True Dragon Heart revealed that the apparent paradise was a demonic graveyard where Ji Wushuang had trapped twelve independent cultivators.
• Ji Wushuang killed the cultivators to feed the Immortal-Demon Pillar, while the Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon began activating its inheritance.
• Ji Wushuang released Madam Linglong and began indulging himself as the pillar’s inheritance awakened.
• Chen Xuan ambushed Ji Wushuang and Madam Linglong, killing her body and severely wounding Ji Wushuang, whose jade pendant shielded him from the attack.
• Chen Xuan seized Ji Wushuang’s silver spear and used it to stab him, but the Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon struck Chen Xuan’s soul with a blood-colored ray.
• Chen Xuan hurled the silver spear at Ji Wushuang and escaped underground while Ji Wushuang screamed in agony.

Chen Xuan disguised himself as the physician Heaven Eating Daoist and approached Ji Wushuang, whose injuries had left him unable to claim the Immortal-Demon Pillar inheritance. After healing Ji Wushuang enough to earn his trust, Chen Xuan manipulated him into accepting him as an adoptive grandfather.

• Chen Xuan recovered his soul in the Time Cover, then secretly observed the Demon Tomb and learned that Ji Wushuang was protected by Liu Ruyan and other Vast Sword Sect disciples.
• Disguised as Heaven Eating Daoist, Chen Xuan entered the Demon Tomb and offered to treat Ji Wushuang, while teasing Liu Ruyan and exposing the embarrassing location of Ji Wushuang's injury.
• Chen Xuan examined Ji Wushuang, learned from his urgent request for recovery within ten days that the inheritance's opening was time-limited, and gave him a Meridian Renewal Spirit Pill.
• After the pill began healing Ji Wushuang's meridians, Chen Xuan claimed he could fully heal him in three days by using a precious treasure, then joked that Ji Wushuang resembled the grandson he never had.
• Zhao Caiyue suggested Ji Wushuang become Chen Xuan's adopted grandson, and Liu Ruyan urged him to kneel; Ji Wushuang complied and called Chen Xuan "Adoptive Grandpa."

Chen Xuan tricked Ji Wushuang into taking a fake Half-Immortal Pill and used the resulting crisis to draw the Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon away from the Gods and Devils Pillar. He seized the pillar’s inheritance and escaped, while Ji Wushuang woke up injured and humiliated.

• Chen Xuan persuaded Ji Wushuang to call him Grandfather, then prepared a poisonous bath and disguised a ball of dung as a Half-Immortal Pill.
• Ji Wushuang entered the bath and swallowed the fake pill, while Chen Xuan released Madam Linglong’s Nascent Soul body to stir chaos and lure rescuers to the cave.
• Liu Ruyan destroyed Madam Linglong’s Nascent Soul body, and the cultivators found Ji Wushuang frozen and unconscious in the cave.
• The Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon left the Gods and Devils Pillar to help Ji Wushuang, allowing Chen Xuan to enter the pillar and obtain the Instant Kill Great Divine Power before escaping.
• With the demon’s help, Ji Wushuang awoke, but shit poured from his mouth, and Zhao Caiyue’s remark that he had eaten shit enraged him into fainting again.

Ji Wushuang learned that Chen Xuan had taken the Instant Kill inheritance and gained the power to control weaker souls, while Chen Xuan tested the divine power against Yellow Springs Gate cultivators. Luo Qingxian escaped an ambush by Devouring Lust Monk and Wei Ziyang, but her injuries and the Great Joy Soul Seal left her fleeing in despair.

• The Extraterrestrial Great Heart Demon told Ji Wushuang that Chen Xuan had stolen the Instant Kill inheritance and used the revelations to awaken Ji Wushuang's Heart Demon Transformation.
• Chen Xuan combined the Instant Kill Divine Power with Tyrant Thirteen Swords to kill nine Yellow Springs Gate cultivators attacking Central Province independents, then warned the survivors to leave the Burial Immortal Graveyard.
• Devouring Lust Monk and Wei Ziyang joined forces to capture Luo Qingxian, and Wei Ziyang revealed his resentment over her love for Chen Xuan.
• Luo Qingxian wounded both attackers with the Netherworld Flying Immortal Slash and escaped using a Thousand Mile Teleportation Talisman.
• Devouring Lust Monk tracked Luo Qingxian with his prayer beads, while Luo Qingxian failed to remove the Great Joy Soul Seal and fled, fearing she would not escape.

Chen Xuan abandoned his search for the Dragon Gate after sensing Luo Qingxian was in danger and rushed to save her from Wei Ziyang and Devouring Lust Monk. After killing Wei Ziyang, Chen Xuan faced a seductive illusion summoned by Devouring Lust Monk.

• Chen Xuan's True Dragon Heart warned him that Luo Qingxian was in danger, so he raced through the chained formations toward her.
• Luo Qingxian, weakened and under the Great Joy Soul Seal, resisted Wei Ziyang and Devouring Lust Monk and nearly killed herself before the monk stopped her with his prayer beads.
• Chen Xuan arrived, shattered the Soul-Seizing Bell's music with his spiritual sense, gave Luo Qingxian a spirit pill, and placed her inside the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda.
• Chen Xuan fought Wei Ziyang and Devouring Lust Monk, then killed Wei Ziyang with the Instant Kill Divine Power.
• As Chen Xuan prepared to attack Devouring Lust Monk, a group of seductive beauties appeared in pink mist, and their leader called him to come play.

Chen Xuan killed Devouring Lust Monk, but found Luo Qingxian badly injured and bound by a Great Joy Slave-Character Seal. Carrying her through a deadly array, he reached the Dragon Gate, where his dragon bloodline let him cross the Fire Dragon Bridge and enter in search of a way to save her.

• Chen Xuan shattered Devouring Lust Monk's Beauty Scroll illusion, turned the monk's Lingering Fragrance against him, and killed him and his Nascent Soul.
• Chen Xuan found Luo Qingxian alive but severely injured, with her soul marked by a Great Joy Slave-Character Seal, and urged her to keep fighting for her life.
• Chen Xuan gave Luo Qingxian Wei Ziyang's Essence Nourishing Pill, which improved her injuries but did not remove the seal's effects.
• Chen Xuan carried Luo Qingxian through the array and reached the Dragon Gate, while other cultivators watched Qi Xiu burn to ash while probing its defenses.
• The Dragon Gate recognized Chen Xuan's dragon bloodline, formed a Fire Dragon Bridge for him, and let him carry Luo Qingxian inside.

Chen Xuan entered the Dragon Gate and learned that his Yan Huang Dragon Blood came from the Upper Realm, while the Dragon Spirit offered a way to save Luo Qingxian if he passed the inheritance trial. The chapter left Chen Xuan facing a deadly first trial as Qingxian, whose soul was mutating, asked him for a kiss.

• Shi Batian charged onto the Scarlet Dragon Bridge, but it turned into a fire dragon and nearly killed him before he escaped with a Thousand Mile Teleportation Talisman.
• Zhen Yi explained that Chen Xuan’s Extreme Yang True Dragon Bloodline had triggered the Dragon Gate, and cultivators outside vowed to kill him when he emerged.
• The Dragon Spirit told Chen Xuan that Yan Huang Dragon Blood flowed within him and that he came from the Upper Realm, though it did not know his origins.
• Chen Xuan agreed to undertake the inheritance trial after the Dragon Spirit promised it could save Luo Qingxian and grant her an Immortal Soul if he succeeded.
• The Dragon Spirit sent Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian to a wasteland and ordered him to kill one hundred Nascent Soul Realm Demon Race members, warning that Body Integration Realm enemies were also present.
• Chen Xuan placed Luo Qingxian in the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda, and she asked him to call her Qingxian and kiss her before he left.

Chen Xuan hunted Nascent Soul Realm demons to help Luo Qingxian, then devised a scheme involving Jiu Cai’s supposed Phoenix blood to pit the Three Brothers Hall against the Golden Toad King. The three flood dragons led their forces toward Golden Toad Palace, where Chen Xuan’s plan was set to unfold.

• Chen Xuan left the treasure tower and spent three days hunting demons, killing seventeen Nascent Soul Realm Demon Cultivators before retreating from a powerful bald Spirit Transformation demon.
• Chen Xuan disguised himself as a protector and ambushed Mo Ling’s group, killing its members except Mo Ling, whom he captured and questioned.
• Chen Xuan took Mo Ling’s appearance, abducted Jiu Cai, and returned to Three Brothers Hall.
• Chen Xuan told Jiao Li, Jiao Ning, and Jiao Kuang that Jiu Cai had Phoenix blood and that the Golden Toad King and Black Eagle King planned to use her, persuading the flood dragons to seize her first.
• Jiao Li, Jiao Ning, and Jiao Kuang gathered their forces and marched on Golden Toad Palace that night.

Chen Xuan provoked a war between the Golden Toad Palace and the Three Brothers Hall, then exploited the chaos to raid the Three Brothers Hall's treasure vault. He was caught by Jiao Ning just as he tried to escape, leaving his life in grave danger.

• The Golden Toad King swallowed Mo Li and several dancers before learning that the Three Brothers Hall was approaching, and the two forces began fighting after Chen Xuan shouted for them to attack.
• Chen Xuan escaped underground, released Mo Ling and Jiu Cai near the Three Brothers Hall, and disguised himself as He Yi Ming to infiltrate its territory.
• Chen Xuan tricked Vice Hall Master Jin Wu Que into leading reinforcements away, then killed the two demons left guarding the hall and broke into the Treasure Vault.
• Chen Xuan collected the vault's treasures and more than ten million High-Grade Spirit Stones, but Jiao Ning arrived and exposed his disguise.
• Jiao Ning surrounded Chen Xuan with his Spirit Transformation Stage pressure and threatened to kill him.

Chen Xuan passed the first trial and found Luo Qingxian in critical condition, promising to save her before kissing her and entering the second trial. He faced Dragon Seven, a powerful dragon puppet, as the battle for the Dragon Ladder began.

• Dragon Spirit rescued Chen Xuan from Jiao Ning and confirmed that he had passed the first trial.
• Chen Xuan found Luo Qingxian suffering in the pagoda, reassured her, and used the Time Seed to heal and cultivate.
• Chen Xuan kissed Luo Qingxian before returning to attempt the second trial.
• Dragon Spirit introduced the Dragon Ladder and explained that Chen Xuan had to reach its sixth step to pass.
• Dragon Seven appeared as Chen Xuan's guardian opponent and charged him with a heavy sword.

Chen Xuan killed Dragon Seven at the cost of severely damaging his Dao Foundation, then climbed the Dragon Ladder and glimpsed a memory of his infancy on its ninth level. After passing the first two trials, he faced the third: entering a Jade Coffin and awakening the Qionghua Fairy by practicing the Way of Yin and Yang.

• Chen Xuan used a forbidden misty net, offensive talismans, and his Instant Kill Great Divine Power to kill Dragon Seven, sacrificing his Soul Source and Origin Essence Blood.
• Chen Xuan recovered from his injuries in the pagoda, though his Dao Foundation remained damaged and his strength had fallen.
• Chen Xuan climbed the Dragon Ladder and received portions of seven dragon clan inheritances before reaching its eighth level and gaining part of the Sky Dragon Eight Sounds.
• Chen Xuan stepped onto the ninth level, saw a vision of himself as an infant and a snow-white finger attacking, then fell as the Dragon Ladder cracked.
• Chen Xuan asked to claim the Dragon Ladder, and Dragon Spirit told him to pass the third trial.
• Chen Xuan entered a starry realm, where Dragon Spirit instructed him to use his dragon blood to open a Jade Coffin and awaken the Qionghua Fairy by practicing the Way of Yin and Yang.

Chen Xuan passed the Dragon Gate’s third trial by refusing to violate his principles, then learned how to save Luo Qingxian and traded Heavenly Dragon Blood Essence for Ice Phoenix Blood Essence to restore her. The chapter ended with Dragon Spirit saying that Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian still needed to undergo Yin-Yang dual cultivation to remove the lingering danger and unlock their fortune.

• Chen Xuan refused Dragon Spirit’s demand that he enter the Jade Coffin and make love with the Qionghua Fairy, and Luo Qingxian said she would rather die than become a burden to him.
• Chen Xuan gave up on the third trial, but Dragon Spirit revealed that his refusal had passed the test and explained that the coffin’s defenses would have killed him.
• Dragon Spirit awarded Chen Xuan thirteen drops of Heavenly Dragon Blood Essence, a wisp of unconscious Dragon Soul, and the secret method to refine the Dragon Gate.
• Dragon Spirit said ten drops of Ice Phoenix Blood Essence could rebuild Luo Qingxian’s three souls and seven spirits, and Chen Xuan immediately agreed to trade for them.
• Dragon Spirit exchanged ten drops of Heavenly Dragon Blood Essence with Princess Qionghua and infused the Ice Phoenix Blood Essence into Luo Qingxian, restoring her soul.
• Dragon Spirit told Chen Xuan that Yin-Yang dual cultivation was still needed to remove the Great Joy Slave Seal’s lingering danger and unlock their fortune.

Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian followed Dragon Spirit’s advice and practiced Yin-Yang dual cultivation after Chen Xuan swallowed Heavenly Dragon Blood Essence. Seven days and nights later, Luo Qingxian had reached the peak of the Ninth Grade Ninth Rank Spirit Transformation Stage, while Chen Xuan gained the confidence and power to attempt the Heavenly Punishment Golden Core Tribulation.

• Dragon Spirit told Chen Xuan that Yin-Yang dual cultivation was the only method and advised him to swallow Heavenly Dragon Blood Essence beforehand.
• Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian agreed to cultivate together, and Chen Xuan swallowed a drop of Heavenly Dragon Blood Essence.
• The blood essence replenished Chen Xuan’s lost origin, transformed his True Dragon Heart, and strengthened his bloodline, physique, and soul body.
• Chen Xuan and Luo Qingxian’s soul bodies resonated as dragon and phoenix phantoms merged into a Tai Chi Yin-Yang Diagram.
• After seven days and nights of dual cultivation, Luo Qingxian reached the peak of the Ninth Grade Ninth Rank Spirit Transformation Stage and neared a breakthrough to Body Integration.
• Chen Xuan sensed that he could trigger the Heavenly Punishment Golden Core Tribulation and that his True Dragon Heart retained much of the blood essence’s power.