Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng explained Black Dragon’s final wishes to Qingtian and Nan You Ling, who recognized the significance of Lady Black Dragon’s remains and vowed revenge on the Six Harmonies Sect. When Lu Feng showed them the Netherworld Bow, Nan You Ling identified it as a weapon made by the Netherworld Dragon, leaving Lu Feng stunned.

• Qingtian questioned Lu Feng about his Bone Removal Technique, and Lu Feng revealed that Black Dragon had passed it down to him.
• Lu Feng described Black Dragon’s three tasks, including finding Hua Yuan Valley, burying Lady Black Dragon’s remains, and destroying the Jiang Family.
• Qingtian expanded the tent into a vast Domain Realm, where Lu Feng brought out Lady Black Dragon’s skeleton and Qingtian and Nan You Ling reacted with grief and fury at the marks on it.
• Lu Feng told them the Jiang Family might be connected to the Six Harmonies Sect, and Nan You Ling secretly resolved to destroy the sect.
• Qingtian and Nan You Ling asked about the Netherworld Bow, and Nan You Ling recognized it as a weapon made by the Netherworld Dragon, shocking Lu Feng.

Lu Feng learned that the Netherworld Bow was made from a Netherworld Dragon and that its immense draw weight resisted anyone without Dragon Race blood essence. Nan You Ling could draw it easily because of her bloodline, but Lu Feng could too, leaving the reason unexplained.

• Qingtian and Nan You Ling explained that the Netherworld Dragon had evolved from an ordinary Netherworld Wolf, and Lu Feng worried that the hunter who gave him the bow had hidden its true origins.
• Lu Feng recounted his visits to Worryfree Village while withholding details about the Ancient Desolation Altar and the Six Paths Coffin, then told Old Wood that Lan Tian was still alive.
• Qingtian revealed the Netherworld Bow's draw weight, and Old Wood and Halberd Emperor struggled to draw it while Lu Feng pulled it effortlessly.
• Nan You Ling also drew the bow with ease, and she explained that it was made from a Netherworld Dragon and normally resisted anyone without pure Dragon Race blood essence.
• Nan You Ling revealed that she carried Dragon Race blood, prompting Lu Feng to ask why he could draw the bow so easily.

Lu Feng learned that Qingtian and Nan You Ling carried dragon bloodlines and discovered that the Bone Removal Technique was part of an ancient art connected to Qingtian’s lost clan and Hua Yuan Valley. Qingtian hoped Lu Feng’s Half-Beast Bloodline could open the restriction beneath the Black Abyss, but Lu Feng refused, fearing the deadly risk.

• Lu Feng revealed that he had a Half-Beast Bloodline, and Qingtian and Nan You Ling recognized that it might help with an unknown problem.
• Nan You Ling revealed that she was descended from a Netherworld Dragon, while Qingtian confirmed that he was a Silver White True Dragon.
• Qingtian explained that his Dragon Capturing Art and Lu Feng’s Bone Removal Technique were complementary halves of the ancient Dragon Capturing Bone Removal technique.
• Qingtian showed Lu Feng a damaged bamboo scroll describing young dragons who found a dragon skeleton in Hua Yuan Valley, which Nan You Ling identified as the lost territory of Qingtian’s clan, now beneath the Black Abyss.
• Qingtian and Nan You Ling explained that they could not break the Black Abyss restriction, and Qingtian asked Lu Feng to help using his bloodline.
• Lu Feng handed over the Bone Removal Technique but refused to risk entering the Black Abyss after realizing the danger.

Lu Feng refused to enter the Black Abyss, but Qingtian revealed that it might hold the secret to the Dragon Race’s disappearance and offered him valuable techniques and a jade pendant. Lu Feng left to consider Qingtian’s plea, while Qingtian’s companions discussed their plans and the exceptional talent of the Beast Cultivator traveling with him.

• Lu Feng rejected Qingtian’s request to enter the Black Abyss, so Qingtian offered him the Dragon Capturing Art, Nan You Ling’s Unification Divine Fist, a jade pendant, and protection for Old Nine.
• Lu Feng insisted that Qingtian tell him everything he knew about the Black Abyss, and Qingtian explained its connection to the Dragon Race’s vanished clans and asked him to help break its restriction.
• Qingtian gave Lu Feng the promised manuals and arranged to teach him the Eternal Startled Dragon Step, then explained how the Black Abyss’s aura might have changed the Teng Flood Dragon King Snake.
• After Lu Feng and Old Wood left, Qingtian justified rewarding Lu Feng and suggested Nan You Ling use teaching the Beast Cultivator to keep him near Dragon Abyss.
• Qingtian revealed that the Beast Cultivator had extraordinary talent, and Nan You Ling explained that White Dragon’s Eye could perceive people’s affinity with the world.

Around the campfires, Lu Feng and Old Wood discussed their pasts and the feelings of the women around them. Old Wood learned that Qu Qiqi and Lin Xuxu cared for him, while Lu Feng was left confronting Old Wood’s claim that Little Fifth had always loved him.

• Qingtian told Huang San Niang, Nan You Ling, and the Halberd Emperor that he could barely sense the Beast Cultivator boy’s true essence and that Lu Feng seemed to repel it.
• Lu Feng told Lin Xuxu and her companions that the Dragon Abyss leader would help activate her jade pendant and teach them the Eternal Startled Dragon Step.
• At the campfire, Old Wood teased Lu Feng about Xia Yiyun, and Lu Feng told him that Qu Qiqi and Little Fifth both loved him.
• Old Wood explained that Little Fifth’s many acts of care had shown she loved Lu Feng, but Lu Feng said he regarded her as a younger sister and loved someone else.
• Qu Qiqi pulled Old Wood aside and made her feelings clear, leaving him bewildered when he returned.
• Lin Xuxu later invited Old Wood aside and offered to remain with him to repay his kindness, leaving him even more confused.

Qingtian used a Strange Array to let Lin Xuxu, Lu Feng, and the others sense the Eternal Startled Dragon Step inside the Black Abyss jade pendant. The technique’s severe meridian requirements left most unable to cultivate it, while Lu Feng continued sensing it, leaving his potential unclear.

• Qingtian explained that the Strange Array could draw out the jade pendant’s aura, and Lin Xuxu learned she could join Dragon Abyss before eventually rebuilding Flying Dragon Soul Hunter Squad.
• Qingtian placed the jade pendant on the platform, and Lin Xuxu, Wu Zilong, and the others sensed the Eternal Startled Dragon Step before Lu Feng entered its strange space and began comprehending it.
• Nan You Ling wagered that Lu Feng would outperform Tang Yuan, despite the group’s doubts about Lu Feng’s meridian strength.
• Wang Bafang, Shi Xiaojiang, and Guo Enshu found that their meridians or existing cultivation foundations prevented them from readily learning the technique.
• Lin Xuxu realized Azure Sea Sword had led her to cultivate the technique with inadequate meridian strength, and Wu Zilong confirmed that his own meridians were also insufficient.
• The group recognized that the Eternal Startled Dragon Step’s escalating meridian demands placed it beyond ordinary cultivation, while Lu Feng remained immersed in sensing it.

Tang Yuan rapidly comprehended the Eternal Startled Dragon Step, triggering the Dragon Might within his Black Dragon Beast Core and reaching the threshold of its fourth level. As he chose not to pursue the technique further, the others discovered Lu Feng bleeding as he attempted to reshape his meridians, and Tang Yuan urged them to trust his brother.

• Lin Xuxu explained the seven levels of the Eternal Startled Dragon Step, including the fourth level, Startled Dragon Breaks the Sky, and the mysterious sealed seventh level.
• Tang Yuan’s aura filled the tent with Dragon Might, and Qingtian realized he had used the technique’s qi circulation to unleash the power of his Black Dragon Beast Core.
• Tang Yuan said he had nearly reached the fourth level but could not balance the Yin Yang Two Qi in his body; he chose to take the technique’s principles and not cultivate it to completion.
• Lin Xuxu spotted blood seeping through Lu Feng’s clothes, and Nan You Ling feared his meridians were rupturing during an attempt to soothe and expand them.
• Tang Yuan stopped Nan You Ling from intervening and said Lu Feng must have a reason for his actions, while Qingtian suspected Lu Feng was reshaping his meridians to resemble a dragon’s.

Lu Feng repeatedly reconstructed his meridians, awakening a terrifying aura from his Half-Beast Bloodline and alarming Qingtian, who warned that an imbalance could kill him. Outside the tent, Lin Xuxu’s group agreed to remain in Dragon Abyss, while Old Wood woke to signs that he had spent the night with a woman but could not remember who she was.

• Lu Feng endured repeated damage and healing as he tried to forge a meridian system combining the strengths of humans and beasts, and Qingtian judged the undertaking dangerously difficult.
• Lu Feng released an overwhelming beastly aura, prompting Qingtian to send Lin Xuxu and the others away before a pale tuft of fur appeared on Lu Feng’s neck.
• Qingtian warned Tang Yuan that Lu Feng might reveal his true form if he awakened his Half-Beast Bloodline, but that an imbalance between his bloodline powers could be fatal.
• Lin Xuxu, Wu Zilong, Guo Enshu, Shi Xiaojiang, and Wang Bafang agreed to remain in Dragon Abyss and considered joining Lord Hammer Nine’s squad.
• Qu Qiqi recalled spending the night entwined with Ninth Master and hoped he would seek her out after waking.
• Old Wood woke to evidence that a woman had been with him, but he could not remember her appearance before Lin Xuxu called from outside his tent.

Old Wood mistook Lin Xuxu for the woman he had spent the night with and confessed that he would take responsibility by making her his companion, while Qu Qiqi mistakenly believed he truly loved Lin. Qu Qiqi confronted Lin and demanded she leave him, but Lin challenged her story, and the two women faced off near the cliff.

• Old Wood misread Lin Xuxu’s remarks about repaying her debt and asked her to become his companion, and Lin happily accepted.
• Qu Qiqi overheard the confession, assumed Old Wood had chosen Lin over her, and told Zhao Thirteen about the misunderstanding.
• Qu Qiqi and Zhao Thirteen agreed not to tell Old Wood directly, and Qu Qiqi planned to persuade Lin to leave him.
• Old Wood and Lin Xuxu walked through camp together as the group teased them about becoming a couple.
• Qu Qiqi confronted Lin, claimed Old Wood had mistaken her for Qu Qiqi, and offered her ten High-Grade Source Stones to withdraw.
• Lin questioned why Old Wood did not remember Qu Qiqi and challenged her claim that their feelings had led to what happened; Qu Qiqi grew angry when Lin refused to back down.

Lin Xuxu and Qu Qiqi set aside their rivalry to focus on winning Ninth Master's affection, but a sudden disaster at the camp sent Lu Feng plunging into the Black Abyss. Qingtian and Nan You Ling went down with Tang Yuan to search for him, while the others learned that Lu Feng had transformed into an unidentified white beast.

• Lin Xuxu and Qu Qiqi agreed not to fight over Ninth Master yet and instead to compete for his heart while guarding against other women.
• A mysterious white blur tore through Qingtian's camp tent and vanished into the Black Abyss, and Lu Feng was soon revealed to have leaped after it.
• Tang Yuan insisted on descending to search for Lu Feng, and Qingtian and Nan You Ling agreed to take him down while Old Wood stayed behind.
• Lin Xuxu and Qu Qiqi persuaded Old Wood to let Tang Yuan go in his place, and the Halberd Emperor sealed off the cliff from view.
• The Halberd Emperor explained that Lu Feng had moved too quickly to stop and had transformed into an unidentified white, furry creature before jumping into the Black Abyss.

Tang Yuan, Qingtian, and Nan You Ling descended into the Black Abyss and found Lu Feng inside a closing restriction, transformed into a holy, many-tailed beast. After Lu Feng devoured the dragon essence within, he returned to human form and reopened the restriction, leaving Qingtian and Nan You Ling to rush inside.

• Qingtian and Nan You Ling shielded Tang Yuan as they descended through the Black Abyss, where supernatural cold and pressure increasingly weakened them.
• The group found a glowing stone stele and saw Lu Feng inside its restriction in a radiant beast form with what appeared to be nine tails.
• They spotted countless dragon essences surrounding Lu Feng, then watched him devour them as Qingtian and Nan You Ling struggled to endure the abyss.
• Lu Feng emerged from the mist in his human form, and the restriction reopened after he waved to them.
• Qingtian and Nan You Ling immediately dived toward the open restriction.

Lu Feng explained how his beastification had strengthened his meridians and led him and the others deeper into the stone stele’s restricted space, where they found two figures beneath a blood-written wall. Meanwhile, the Halberd Emperor and Dragon Abyss’s fighters went to face an attack on their camp, leaving Huang San Niang fearful for their lives.

• Lu Feng told Qingtian, Nan You Ling, and Tang Yuan that his beast form had helped him develop powerful meridians, and that instinct and Dragon Essence had drawn him to the restricted space.
• Lu Feng sensed Extremely Yin Energy deeper inside, so the group pressed on to investigate while Qingtian reacted uneasily to the mention of it.
• A guard warned the Halberd Emperor that the Black Fox Soul Hunter Group and its allies were attacking Mountain Peak, and the camp’s leaders learned that Seventh had been injured.
• The Halberd Emperor and six companions marched to defend Dragon Abyss while Huang San Niang, Lin Xuxu, and Qu Qiqi remained behind, fearing for them.
• Qingtian and the others reached a stone wall bearing crimson characters and saw two figures beneath it; Qingtian changed back into human form and rushed toward them.

Qingtian discovered that the kneeling skeletons were his parents and found his mother’s Dragon Core, which held blood essence meant to purify his bloodline. As Qingtian refined the essence and Tang Yuan began absorbing the core’s Extremely Yin Energy, Dragon Essence poured from the stone inscription and overwhelmed Nan You Ling, while Lu Feng could not repeat his earlier unconscious devouring.

• Qingtian kowtowed nine times before the skeletons, and Nan You Ling identified them as his parents and explained the Dragon Race’s rite for honoring elders.
• Qingtian revealed that his mother had mixed her essence blood with bone essence from the dead dragons to create a bloodline-purifying substance, then transformed to refine it.
• After the blood essence left the cracked Dragon Core, Qingtian sent its remaining Extremely Yin Energy to Tang Yuan, who began absorbing it for his cultivation.
• Dragon Essence emerged from the blood-red inscription on the stone wall, and Nan You Ling fought off the attacking remnants with her Unification Divine Fist.
• Nan You Ling urged Lu Feng to devour the Dragon Essence, but he admitted he could not do so voluntarily and had only devoured it unconsciously before.

Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Nan You Ling survived the Dragon Essence attack when Cheng Huang drove the spirits back, allowing Tang Yuan to complete his Extremely Yin foundation. Qingtian transformed into a complete white dragon and found his parents’ letter, which revealed that a hidden thing in the chamber trapped them and forced his mother to sacrifice herself; the group was left wondering what that thing was.

• Nan You Ling tested whether Dragon Essence targeted Dragon Race bloodlines by throwing one at Lu Feng, but it struck him and nearly made him pass out.
• Cheng Huang emerged from the Hand-Held Furnace and roared, sending the Dragon Essences back into the wall carvings as Tang Yuan completed his refinement.
• Qingtian’s bloodline cleansing finished several hours later, giving him a more imposing white dragon form and making his transformation into human form easier.
• Qingtian found an ancient Storage Ring among his father’s remains and read a letter explaining that his parents had sought a way to strengthen his incomplete dragon bloodline.
• Nan You Ling revealed that Qingtian’s mother sacrificed herself to provide blood essence for his transformation, while Qingtian’s father was left gravely wounded.
• Qingtian said a hidden thing had trapped his parents, attempted to extract his mother’s Dragon Soul, and forced them to fight and seal away the Dragon Blood essence, leaving Lu Feng, Tang Yuan, and Nan You Ling to wonder what it was.

Qingtian explained that the inscription pointed to a Dragon Tomb behind the stone wall, where the Dragon Race had been trapped and their Dragon Souls extracted. As Lu Feng learned that Cheng Huang might have followed his soul scent from his unknown parents, Qingtian recalled an ancient account of a being called the Jing Beast, leaving Lu Feng with a powerful sense of recognition.

• Qingtian deciphered the inscription and told Lu Feng, Nan You Ling, and Tang Yuan that the true secret realm lay beyond the wall in a Dragon Tomb, where the Dragon Race had been trapped and killed.
• Qingtian described how his parents' remains suggested that his father had fought to the death while his mother's Dragon Soul had been forcibly extracted.
• Qingtian explained that Cheng Huang could cleanse spiritual energy and smell people's unique soul scents, and he noted that the creature carried an aura resembling Lu Feng's beast form.
• Lu Feng considered that Cheng Huang might have been sent by his unknown parents and found him through his soul scent, while Nan You Ling offered to treat him as family.
• Qingtian recalled an ancient record of a human-shaped being who had ridden a Cheng Huang and helped avert a Dragon Race calamity; it was called the Jing Beast, or Jing Demon.
• Lu Feng felt an inexplicable connection when he heard the name Jing Beast.

Qingtian explained the Jing Beast’s ancient history and suggested Lu Feng might carry its bloodline, while the group’s attempt to break the stone wall instead activated its restriction. The wall released a black staff wrapped in Black Gold Cloth, and the staff’s strange image unsettled the surrounding Dragon Essences.

• Qingtian told Nan You Ling and the others that one Jing Beast had eradicated the Devouring Beast race but later killed many true dragons during the Jing Disaster.
• Qingtian judged that Lu Feng’s beast bloodline might have come from a Jing Beast, leaving Lu Feng worried that he would not know how to cultivate it.
• After Qingtian sensed powerful auras clashing at the camp above, the group struck the wall carving to try to open the hidden space.
• The wall absorbed their auras, and its red inscriptions formed a vortex that drew out a black staff wrapped in Black Gold Cloth.
• Dozens of Dragon Essences hovered around the staff, then grew restless when its cloth fell and revealed an abstruse image.

Lu Feng’s Ancient Desolation Altar subdued the Soul-Guiding Banner after it nearly pulled Qingtian and Nan You Ling’s Dragon Souls into its blood pupil. The banner was stored in the altar’s fourth layer, leaving Lu Feng weakened and the group unsure what the strange artifact could do.

• Nan You Ling and Qingtian were immobilized by the banner, while Lu Feng and Tang Yuan remained largely unaffected.
• The Soul-Guiding Banner drew Nan You Ling’s Dragon Soul out, then forced Qingtian’s Dragon Soul from his body as he tried to protect her.
• Lu Feng and Tang Yuan attacked the banner, but two dragon-shaped strands of Dragon Essence blasted them with Dragon Flame.
• Lu Feng’s Ancient Desolation Altar appeared and began turning its fourth layer, causing the banner to release Qingtian and Nan You Ling’s Dragon Souls.
• A ring of burning skulls formed around the banner, but Lu Feng’s spiritual energy opened a gap that let the two Dragon Souls return to their bodies.
• The altar killed a black-flame bull that emerged from the skull frame, then drew the banner into its fourth layer; Lu Feng’s attempt to sense it nearly drained his soul power.

Lu Feng and his companions escaped the Domain Realm after containing the Black Banner, though the Blood-colored War Corpse grew stronger by absorbing dragon bones. They returned to find Dragon Abyss battered after an attack, and Qingtian began to suspect Lu Feng was the mysterious Saber Wielder who had saved the camp.

• Lu Feng explained that the Black Banner was one of the Five-Colored Divine Banners, a weapon that suppressed beast clans whose souls and blood had been used to forge it.
• Qingtian estimated that the banner contained sixty or seventy thousand Dragon Essences, while Lu Feng realized he still lacked the strength to control it.
• The Blood-colored War Corpse absorbed a vast quantity of dragon bones from the altar, and its growing power threatened to exceed Lu Feng's control.
• Lu Feng, Qingtian, and Nan You Ling left the Domain Realm and returned to the Black Abyss camp, where they found Old Wood safe and the Dragon Abyss fighters injured.
• Huang San Niang and Halberd Emperor explained that Black Fox, Hidden Bat, Mad Bear, and other Soul Hunter groups had attacked, but an unknown Saber Wielder had forced them to retreat.
• After hearing that the Saber Wielder had defeated two powerful opponents, Qingtian suspected Lu Feng was connected to him, and Huang San Niang wondered if he was Lu Feng's friend.

Lu Feng and Dragon Abyss learned that Ling Tian had defeated Liu Dong and helped them during the battle, while Qingtian prepared to confront Black Fox's group alone. Lu Feng returned to his companions, curious about Old Wood, Qu Qiqi, and Lin Xuxu.

• Lu Feng connected the unknown Saber Wielder to Ling Tian after Qingtian described the saber wounds on a Teng Flood Dragon King Snake.
• Liu Dong returned injured and revealed that a young Saber Wielder had defeated him with one slash, then planned to challenge other formidable Saber Wielders.
• Halberd Emperor recognized the young man's skill as the Blade Fusion Realm, and Liu Dong recalled that his movements reminded him of Bai Ju.
• Lu Feng concluded that the Saber Wielder was probably Ling Tian, whom Bai Ju had taken away after they parted in the Triangle Region.
• Qingtian told Lu Feng to invite Ling Tian to Dragon Abyss if they met again, then left alone at night to demand an explanation from Black Fox's group.
• Lu Feng rejoined Tang Yuan and the others and asked Bian Tianya about Old Wood, Qu Qiqi, and Lin Xuxu.

After recounting Dragon Abyss’s battle against Black Fox, Mad Bear, and Hidden Bat, Lu Feng predicted that Qingtian would settle the conflict before dawn. Meanwhile, Ghost Mask Flower Fox gathered nearly twenty Soul Hunter Group leaders and announced that they would seize control of Vine Abyss the next morning.

• Bian Tianya described Halberd Emperor overpowering Azure Wood Staff and holding off Black Fox’s three leaders until two Saber Wielders joined the fight and turned the battle against Dragon Abyss.
• Qu Qiqi and Lin Xuxu credited each other for protecting Ninth Master, while Lu Feng learned that Old Wood’s relationship with the two women had become complicated.
• Bian Tianya agreed to return to Light Feather Sect the next morning, but Qu Qiqi warned that Black Fox’s forces had vowed to return with reinforcements and challenge Qingtian.
• Lu Feng noticed that Qingtian was missing from camp and predicted he would resolve the conflict before dawn, leaving Qu Qiqi wondering how he could do so alone.
• Ghost Mask Flower Fox told the assembled Soul Hunter Group leaders that Black Fox, Mad Bear, and Hidden Bat would take Dragon Abyss’s title and redraw Vine Abyss’s rules, prompting Liu Aolong and the Sky Wolf leader to rise in anger.