Chapter Summaries

Jun Tongtian and Little White resolved to fight the Devil Race to buy the Xuanqiong Realm time, while Zhang Xuanlong encountered and contracted the Jade Ripple Water Nymph in the Azure Sea Secret Realm. Zhang Xuanlong broke through to Foundation Establishment peak and continued exploring, as Zhang Xuanchen emerged from the Profound Heaven Villa after stabilizing his cultivation.

• Little White and Jun Tongtian discussed Jun Xiaoyao's preparations and the danger facing the Xuanqiong Realm, then set out to fight for time.
• Zhang Xuanlong found a Jade Ripple Water Nymph in the Azure Sea Secret Realm and learned she wanted an equal contract so she could see the outside world.
• Zhang Xuanlong formed an equal contract with the Jade Ripple Water Nymph, whom he named Water Ripple, and absorbed energy that loosened his cultivation bottleneck.
• Zhang Xuanlong broke through to Foundation Establishment peak while Water Ripple subdued Lion One, Lion Two, and Thor and won the Azure Sea Mote Spirit's cooperation.
• Zhang Xuanlong and Water Ripple continued deeper into the secret realm to seek treasures, while Zhang Xuanchen emerged from the Profound Heaven Villa with his cultivation stabilized.

Zhang Xuanchen prepared to enter the Dragon Court Secret Realm after Xuanjing gave him Demon-Detecting Mirrors and warned of an approaching demon calamity. Before leaving, he comforted Zhang Delin, who doubted his cultivation potential, with a poem.

• Xuanjing gave Zhang Xuanchen three Demon-Detecting Mirrors and explained that the Xuanqiong Realm’s sublimation could bring more demonized creatures and Devil Race survivors.
• Luo Lingshuang tested a mirror, and Zhang Xuanchen assigned the others to the Immortal Ancestor and Xiao Tian before setting out for Dragon Court.
• Luo Lingshuang resolved to cultivate in seclusion and attempt a breakthrough to Nascent Soul after Zhang Xuanchen left.
• Zhang Xuanchen found Zhang Delin resting alone and learned the boy felt talentless and was considering abandoning cultivation.
• Zhang Xuanchen recognized Zhang Delin’s lingering reluctance and shared a poem about people who give up on themselves.

Zhang Xuanchen encouraged Zhang Delin to keep pursuing cultivation and assured him the Zhang Family would support him. He then visited Zhang Chongxian to say goodbye before entering the Dragon Court Secret Realm, despite the risks.

• Zhang Xuanchen told Zhang Delin not to give up on himself and promised the Zhang Family would provide the resources he deserved.
• Zhang Delin resolved to cultivate and fight for his own chance, then returned to class.
• Zhang Xuanchen visited Zhang Chongxian and said he planned to gather resources in the Dragon Court Secret Realm while the South Sea remained peaceful.
• Zhang Chongxian warned Zhang Xuanchen that cultivating the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art could provoke the Dragon Clan, but ultimately let him go and urged him to return alive.

Zhang Xuanchen prepared to leave for the Dragon Court Secret Realm, giving the Zhang Family tools to detect demon seeds and assigning reforms to Xiao Tian. He departed with Little Flame and Ao Tun, carrying Little Peach’s life essence while worrying about the harm it had caused her.

• Zhang Xuanchen gave Zhang Chongxian two Demon-Detecting Mirrors and asked him to give one to Xiao Tian so the Zhang Family could identify people possessed by demon seeds.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Zhang Chongxian about Zhang Delin’s concerns and tasked Xiao Tian with reforming the Family School and addressing problems in the Lineage.
• Zhang Xuanchen went to Flower Fruit Mountain and announced that he would take Little Flame and Ao Tun to the Dragon Court Secret Realm.
• Little Peach gave Zhang Xuanchen a drop of life essence, and he warned her not to condense any more after realizing it had harmed her.
• Zhang Xuanchen left for Yunhua Immortal City with Little Flame and Ao Tun, then asked Xuanjing how much damage the life essence had caused Little Peach.

Zhang Xuanchen visited Li Lan’s and Zhang Qingqing’s graves, where Xuanjing used the Three Lives Samsara Mirror to collect karmic threads that might help locate their reincarnated selves. After leaving offerings, Zhang Xuanchen traveled to the East Sea Dragon Court, where Long Xuan and Gui Ming stood beside a young man undergoing a ritual.

• Xuanjing told Zhang Xuanchen which treasures could help Little Peach recover, and Zhang Xuanchen traveled through several Teleportation Arrays to Hanhai Royal City.
• Zhang Xuanchen used the Immortal Ancestor’s map to find the ruined site of Little Village and the graves of Li Lan and Zhang Qingqing.
• Xuanjing explained that his Destiny Anchor divine ability could use karmic threads from the graves to search for Li Lan’s and Zhang Qingqing’s reincarnated selves.
• The Three Lives Samsara Mirror drew two strands of karmic destiny from the graves, and Zhang Xuanchen left spirit fruit and spirit wine before departing.
• Three days later, Zhang Xuanchen was at Zhantian Palace in the East Sea Dragon Court, where Long Xuan and Gui Ming stood beside a young man sitting in a rotating magic array.

Long Zhantian used two drops of true golden dragon essence blood to break through to the fourth transformation of the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art, changing half his flood dragon blood into true dragon blood. After discussing his future rule of the Dragon Court with Long Xuan and Gui Ming, he learned that Zhang Xuanchen had arrived.

• Long Zhantian endured a painful transformation as the two drops of essence blood replaced his flood dragon scales and blood with true dragon traits.
• Long Zhantian completed the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art’s fourth transformation, gaining dark gold scales and the power to weaken Demon Beasts with Dragon Clan bloodlines.
• Long Xuan praised Long Zhantian’s breakthrough and told Gui Ming to advise him if his attachment to Zhang Xuanchen affected important decisions.
• Long Xuan said he planned to abdicate after Long Zhantian returned from the Dragon Court Secret Realm and enter the Myriad Dragon Cave to cultivate.
• Long Zhantian teased Long Xuan about his ambitions, then Green Crab told him that Clan Leader Zhang had arrived.

Long Zhantian learned that Zhang Xuanchen had reached Nascent Soul and went to meet him, only to discover that Zhang had also mastered the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art’s fourth transformation. The two headed toward the Dragon Court after Long Zhantian accidentally knocked Green Crab unconscious during a test of Zhang’s strength.

• Long Zhantian transformed into a dark-gold flood dragon and told Green Crab that he was close to becoming a true dragon and planned to enjoy his future power and status.
• Five days later, Zhang Xuanchen flew over the Endless Sea with Xuanjing and reflected on how his Nascent Soul strength had given him confidence.
• Long Zhantian attacked Zhang Xuanchen to test his strength, but Zhang blocked the strike with his fourth-transformation body, shocking Long Zhantian.
• Long Zhantian offered Zhang Xuanchen a ride toward the Dragon Court, then remembered that Green Crab had been blasted away by their clash.
• Long Zhantian found the unconscious Green Crab, and Zhang Xuanchen gave him a medicinal pill before joking that Long Zhantian should blame his father for comparing them.

Zhang Xuanchen met Long Xuan in Zhantian Palace, where the Dragon Court Lord tested his intentions and discussed the growing threat of demonized creatures. Long Xuan accepted Zhang Xuanchen’s assurances and agreed to take him to the Dragon Court Secret Realm after Long Zhantian stabilized his cultivation.

• Long Zhantian brought Zhang Xuanchen into Zhantian Palace, where Long Xuan revealed that major Demon Race powers wanted Zhang Xuanchen dead.
• Zhang Xuanchen promised that he and the Zhang Family would not threaten the Dragon Court unless it harmed the family, and suggested humans and demons might unite against a common enemy.
• Zhang Xuanchen explained that demonized creatures and demon seeds might be connected to the great transformation of heaven and earth and future disasters.
• Long Xuan said he believed Zhang Xuanchen and admitted he could not kill him, then left the two of them to talk before their trip to the Secret Realm.
• Long Zhantian apologized for his father’s test, and Gui Ming gave Zhang Xuanchen a map of the Secret Realm’s outer region.

Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian entered the Dragon World, where Zhang Xuanchen discovered an opportunity in the inner region and they were immediately confronted by demonized beasts. The chapter ended as Zhang Xuanchen summoned the Meteor Sword to face a pack of Armored Wolves.

• Long Xuan explained the Dragon World's entrances, dangers, and his demand that Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian return together.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian activated the Dragon Gate and entered the Dragon World.
• Zhang Xuanchen's Demon-Seeking Pearl revealed several places dense with demon qi, and his immortal fate information marked a Myriad Dragon Blood Pool in the inner region.
• Zhang Xuanchen reassured Long Zhantian that he understood Long Xuan's warning and would not take it personally.
• More than a hundred demon-qi-wreathed Armored Wolves, led by a late-third-stage Wolf King, attacked, and Zhang Xuanchen summoned the Meteor Sword to use Falling Star.

Zhang Xuanchen slaughtered the Armored Wolves and preserved their remains for cultivation materials before introducing Long Zhantian to Little Flame, a true dragon. Long Zhantian submitted to Little Flame’s bloodline pressure, and Zhang Xuanchen urged him to keep Little Flame’s identity secret from the Dragon Court.

• Zhang Xuanchen killed the Armored Wolves, separated the Demon Seed-possessed wolf king, and packed the corpses and blood for later use.
• Zhang Xuanchen summoned Little Flame and Ao Tun from his Spirit Beast Bag to show Long Zhantian the two dragons he had brought.
• Little Flame assessed Long Zhantian’s bloodline and invited him to follow, prompting Long Zhantian to bow and address him as his lord.
• Little Flame called Long Zhantian his brother, while Zhang Xuanchen told him to treat Little Flame like an ordinary Demon Beast.
• Long Zhantian revealed that Long Xuan had never heard of Little Flame, and Zhang Xuanchen asked him to keep the true dragon’s identity secret from the Dragon Court.

Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian set out for the inner region of Hidden Dragon in the Wilds while the Dragon Clan’s remnant leaders debated the fate of Zhang Xuanchen and the young fire dragon. Long Jingjing warned them that Zhang Xuanchen must not be killed, leaving his fate in the hands of Dragon Emperor Long Taiyi and the gathered dragon souls.

• Long Zhantian told Zhang Xuanchen that he trusted him because the Turtle Prime Minister had called him a benefactor and because he trusted his own judgment.
• Zhang Xuanchen, Long Zhantian, and Little Flame headed toward the inner region, while Ao Tun coiled around Zhang Xuanchen’s wrist to cultivate and protect him.
• Dragon Emperor Long Taiyi convened the Dragon Clan’s remnant leaders at the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall and discussed the surviving Explosive Flame Fire Dragon and the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art.
• Long Jingyun vowed to protect the young Explosive Flame Fire Dragon, while Long Qingtao argued that the human cultivating the Dragon Clan’s supreme art should be executed.
• Long Jingjing divined that Zhang Xuanchen bore the fortune of three Emperor Sovereigns and warned that he must not be killed.

Long Taiyi decided Zhang Xuanchen might help resolve the Devil Race invasion and ordered the Dragon Clan not to make an enemy of him. Meanwhile, Zhang Xuanchen and the three dragons reached Dragon's Weeping Valley, where Little Flame charged ahead to fight two Dragon Bears guarding dragon marrow flowers.

• Long Jingjing detected Zhang Xuanchen's extraordinary fortune and powerful auras, causing Long Qingtao to abandon his threat to kill him.
• Long Taiyi offered to teach Zhang Xuanchen the second part of the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art if he reached the Myriad Dragon Blood Pool, and warned the Dragon Clan not to antagonize him.
• Long Taiyi recalled the Dragon Clan's losses to the Azure Devil Clan and said they would seek vengeance after the Dragon Domain merged with the Xuanqiong Realm.
• At Dragon's Weeping Valley, Xuanjing sensed someone watching the group and then discovered over a hundred dragon marrow flowers guarded by two Dragon Bears.
• Little Flame rushed ahead to fight the two Dragon Bears, and Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian hurried after him.

Xiong Rui explained the Dragon Domain’s regions, dragon-descendant hierarchy, and the danger posed by Devil Creatures, then led Zhang Xuanchen and the others to harvest dragon marrow flowers. After gathering twenty flowers, Zhang Xuanchen asked for seeds to plant for his descendants, and Xiong Rui agreed.

• Little Flame stopped fighting the dragon bears when Xiong Rui recognized his pure draconic bloodline and addressed him as her lord.
• Xiong Rui explained that dragon descendants lived within ancient formations, that true dragons periodically hunted Devil Creatures, and that the Dragon Domain’s deeper regions required stronger bloodlines.
• Xiong Rui offered the group twenty dragon marrow flowers and led them to a ravine where the flowers grew.
• Little Flame used his blood to harvest the flowers, and Zhang Xuanchen, Long Zhantian, and Ao Tun helped collect twenty.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked Xiong Rui for seeds so he could plant dragon marrow flowers for his descendants, and she agreed.

Zhang Xuanchen learned of dragon breath crystals hidden in the Dragon Breath Cavern and led the group there while warning them about the realm’s demon qi. They reached the cavern, where Little Flame sensed an ancestor’s aura and rushed inside.

• Xiong Rui gave Zhang Xuanchen forty seeds in an Earthgreen Gourd and warned him to avoid areas with heavy yin qi.
• Zhang Xuanchen and the dragons traveled toward the Myriad Dragon Blood Pool, then rested overnight in a cave protected by formations.
• Zhang Xuanchen learned that sixth-stage high-tier dragon breath crystals lay in the Dragon Breath Cavern and that earth vein profound sun fire could burn away their azure demon qi.
• Xuanjing urged Zhang Xuanchen to check whether demon seeds had possessed Dragon Court experts after they left the secret realm, and Zhang Xuanchen agreed.
• Seven days later, Zhang Xuanchen opened the cavern entrance in a red-earth basin, and Little Flame sensed an ancestor’s aura and rushed inside.

Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian discovered the remains of an ancient dragon and witnessed the Dragon Clan’s destruction by the Azure Devils, while Little Flame inherited a dragon pearl and began advancing. Half a year later, Xuanxiao Mountain learned that demonized creatures had wiped out the Ice Cold Palace, raising fears that the threat had spread across the South Sea.

• Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian entered a cavern lined with valuable sixth-stage dragon breath crystals and found Little Flame kneeling before an enormous skeleton.
• Little Flame touched the skeleton, and he, Zhang Xuanchen, Long Zhantian, and the other dragons witnessed the Azure Devils destroy the Dragon Domain and kill the Ancestral Dragon and the Azure Devil Demon Emperor.
• A dragon soul gave Little Flame its sixth-stage supreme-grade fire dragon pearl and asked him to avenge the Dragon Clan; the pearl merged into Little Flame, who began advancing toward the fourth stage.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian stayed to guard Little Flame and cultivated using the cavern’s dragon breath crystals.
• Half a year later, a messenger told Zhang Detian and the elders that demonized creatures had overrun the Ice Cold Palace, leaving no survivors.
• The elders worried that powerful demon seeds threatened the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain and that they could not identify anyone possessed while the Clan Leader and Xuanjing were absent.

Zhang Detian learned that demonized creatures had seized the Ice Cold Palace and promised to alert the major factions. In the Dragon Domain, Little Flame broke through to the fourth stage, but after he awakened, the group encountered a powerful Netherthread Ghost Maiden on their way toward the Myriad Dragon Blood Pool.

• Guo Yuteng warned Zhang Detian that nascent soul-level demonized creatures had taken the Ice Cold Palace and were threatening the Ice Plain, and Zhang Detian agreed to notify the major factions.
• Over the next half year, Zhang Xuanchen reached the peak of the early nascent soul stage, Long Zhantian reached the peak of the third stage, and Little Flame prepared to undergo his fourth-stage breakthrough.
• Little Flame survived his tribulation and broke through to the fourth stage, then fell unconscious from exhaustion and the Dragon Pearl's effects.
• A month later, Xuanjing warned Zhang Xuanchen that a late fourth-stage Netherthread Ghost Maiden was approaching, so he and Little Flame and Long Zhantian went out to confront her while Ao Tun stayed behind.
• The Netherthread Ghost Maiden attacked with ten powerful dragon corpses; Zhang Xuanchen's sword strike failed, and Little Flame attacked her with Dragon Breath and a descending dragon claw.

Zhang Xuanchen, Long Zhantian, and Little Flame defeated the Netherthread Ghost Maiden and discovered a sealed demon seed inside her crystal core. Long Zhantian then questioned Xuanjing about his identity and connection to the mirror-shaped Spiritual Artifact.

• The Netherthread Ghost Maiden trapped Little Flame in threads, but Zhang Xuanchen used earth vein profound sun fire to cut him free and weaken her.
• Long Zhantian emerged from underground and pierced the Netherthread Ghost Maiden, splitting her body and breaking her control over ten dragon corpses.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Little Flame attacked the Ghost Maiden together, destroying her and scattering her remains.
• Long Zhantian buried the ten Dragon Lords' remains, while Zhang Xuanchen collected a crystal core from the Ghost Maiden's remnants.
• Xuanjing revealed that an unawakened demon seed lay inside the core, and he and Shuoxing reinforced its seal before Zhang Xuanchen stored it in the Myriad Spirit Ring.
• Long Zhantian asked whether Xuanjing was the artifact spirit of Zhang Xuanchen's mirror-shaped Spiritual Artifact and recalled its familiar aura.

Zhang Xuanchen refused to trade Xuanjing to Long Zhantian but offered him a mirror replica that could detect demon seeds in exchange for three Dragon Court Treasuries. The group headed toward the Dragonspine Sky Corridor, where Zhang Xuanchen learned of a dragonblood jade mine he had thirty days to reach.

• Long Zhantian offered Zhang Xuanchen up to three Dragon Court Treasuries for Xuanjing, but Zhang Xuanchen refused because he considered Xuanjing family.
• Zhang Xuanchen offered Long Zhantian a spiritless Mirror Replica that could detect demon seeds for three Dragon Court Treasuries, and Long Zhantian accepted.
• Long Zhantian worried about whether the Xuanqiong Realm could withstand the Devil Race, and Zhang Xuanchen urged him to focus on doing their best in the present.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian set out with Little Flame toward the Dragonspine Sky Corridor to seek opportunities in the middle region.
• Zhang Xuanchen received information about a dragonblood jade mine forty thousand li beyond the Dragonspine Sky Ladder and realized he had thirty days to reach it.

Two years after demonized forces appeared across the four sea domains, human and beast forces joined battle against Hei Chuanwu and his demonic army on the Ice Plain. Zhang Chongxian wounded Hei Chuanwu, while the Zhang Family helped devastate the blood servants, but the allied Nascent Soul fighters were being overwhelmed by the demonic puppets.

• Hei Chuanwu revealed himself above the Ice Cold Palace and ordered his demonic puppets and tens of thousands of blood servants to attack the human-beast alliance.
• Zhang Chongxian charged Hei Chuanwu with his Evil-Breaking Sword and wounded him with the Great Expansion Nirvana Sword Art.
• Qingming True Lord, Azure Lion, and Golden Roc fought Hei Chuanwu's five demonic puppets while the allied troops battled the blood servants below.
• Zhang Xuance killed hundreds of blood servants with a rain of golden swords, Zhang Hongru trapped others in a formation, and Zhang Zujun burned nearly a thousand with heavenly fire.
• Qingming True Lord, Azure Lion, and Golden Roc struggled against the puppets' power and regeneration, leaving the battlefield's hopes on Zhang Chongxian's fight with Hei Chuanwu.

Zhang Chongxian defeated Hei Chuanwu’s demonic shadow and nearly killed him, but Hei Chuanwu escaped using a blood-burning secret art. Zhang Chongxian then went to aid Hua Shisan as the weakened demonic puppets and blood servants faced the allied forces.

• Zhang Chongxian battered Hei Chuanwu with the Evil-Breaking Sword and its Nirvana Sword Intent.
• Hei Chuanwu summoned Demon King Descends, but Zhang Chongxian countered with One Sword, Return to the Void and shattered the demonic shadow.
• Zhang Chongxian cornered Hei Chuanwu, who used Blood-Escaping Demon Shadow Art to distract him and flee, abandoning his five demonic puppets.
• Zhang Chongxian destroyed Hei Chuanwu’s blood shadow and moved to support Hua Shisan, while Azure Lion reconsidered his plans against the Zhang Family.
• Without Hei Chuanwu’s demon qi, the demonic puppets and blood servants weakened, and the allied human and demon forces gained momentum.