Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuanchen diverted into the Three Calamities Thunder Marsh after learning that a demon-possessed Thunder Flood Dragon guarded five drops of three-clawed thunder tyrant dragon blood essence. He and his companions fought the late Fourth Stage beast, and Long Zhantian shielded Zhang Xuanchen from its desperate lightning attack.

• Zhang Chongxian declined to commit to Azure Lion’s request to explore the newly manifested Plains Domain in a month.
• Zhang Xuanchen, Little Flame, and Long Zhantian continued through the Dragonspine Sky Corridor toward the Myriad Dragon Blood Pool while Ao Tun remained inside the Myriad Spirit Ring.
• Zhang Xuanchen received an immortal fate notification about the thunder tyrant dragon blood essence and changed course for the Three Calamities Thunder Marsh.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions endured the marsh’s tribulation lightning before finding the demon-possessed Thunder Flood Dragon in its lair.
• Little Flame burned the Thunder Flood Dragon, and Zhang Xuanchen severed one of its foreclaws with Star-Splitting Slash.
• Long Zhantian blocked the Thunder Flood Dragon’s lightning spear, then blasted it into Thunder Lake as Zhang Xuanchen prepared to strike.

Zhang Xuanchen killed the Thunder Flood Dragon, refined its essence blood with Long Zhantian and Little Flame, and gained Thunder Dragon Battle Intent. An Immortal Opportunity led them to the True Dragon Orchard, where Zhang Xuanchen found seven Coiling Dragon Fruits and considered how quickly they might advance his cultivation.

• Zhang Xuanchen killed the Thunder Flood Dragon after it wounded Long Zhantian, then found five drops of Three-Clawed Thunderstorm Tyrant Dragon essence blood in its lair.
• Zhang Xuanchen, Long Zhantian, and Little Flame each refined a drop; three months later, Zhang Xuanchen had mastered Thunder Dragon Battle Intent and advanced his Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art.
• Zhang Xuanchen received an Immortal Opportunity pointing to the True Dragon Orchard, and the group flew there over four months while collecting other opportunities along the way.
• Xuanjing identified a damaged formation node, and Zhang Xuanchen broke through the stone wall to reveal the orchard and its dragon-aspected treasures.
• Zhang Xuanchen found the seventh-stage high-grade Coiling Dragon Fruit Tree and learned that each person could benefit from only one fruit, while Xuanjing said his opportunities might advance him faster than years of cultivation.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions raided the True Dragon Orchard, then traveled to the Myriad Dragon Blood Pool to cultivate in its powerful dragon blood. As Xuanjing detected something at the bottom of the pool, Zhang Xuanchen stopped descending and prepared to investigate.

• Zhang Xuanchen shared the Coiling Dragon Fruits with Little Flame and Long Zhantian, then gathered the orchard’s dragon-attributed treasures while learning that its fruit tree could not be transplanted.
• Dragon Emperor Taiyi watched Zhang Xuanchen in the True Dragon Orchard and ordered the Dragon Clan not to harm him, choosing to forge a favorable bond instead.
• Seven days later, Zhang Xuanchen and his companions left the orchard, traveled for a year, and reached the Ancient Dragon Hall containing the Myriad Dragon Blood Pool.
• Zhang Xuanchen, Little Flame, and Long Zhantian entered the pool to cultivate, while Xuanjing and Shuoxing began extracting true dragon essence blood.
• Xuanjing sensed something near the bottom of the pool and directed Zhang Xuanchen toward it, assuring him that his sea of consciousness would be protected.

Zhang Xuanchen encountered the remnant soul of Taotie at the bottom of the Myriad Dragon Blood Pool, then cultivated there for five years and advanced his Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art to the late fourth transformation. Long Zhantian began his fourth-stage tribulation, and Zhang Xuanchen sent him outside the pool to face it.

• Zhang Xuanchen reached the Taotie Bone, where its remnant soul explained how the bone devoured flesh and the pool rebuilt it, but told him the inheritance was meant for a Dragon Clan talent.
• Zhang Xuanchen returned to the pool and cultivated for half a year before telling Long Zhantian and Little Flame about the encounter.
• Over the following years, Little Flame reached the late fourth stage, Long Zhantian's bloodline advanced toward that of a golden dragon, and Zhang Xuanchen refined his body with dragon-aspect fruits.
• In the fifth year, Zhang Xuanchen reached the late fourth transformation and found he could absorb streams of dragon qi with little pain.
• Long Zhantian's fourth-stage tribulation lightning gathered, so Zhang Xuanchen pushed him toward the ancient Dragon Hall to face the tribulation outside the pool.

Long Zhantian endured heavenly tribulation and broke through to the early fourth stage, while Zhang Xuanchen and Little Flame discussed the Dragon Domain’s danger and the art’s lost portion. After five more years of cultivation in the Myriad Dragon Blood Pool, Zhang Xuanchen reached the fifth revolution of the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art.

• Long Zhantian used the heavenly tribulation to temper his body and transformed into a dark golden true-dragon form, though his dragon horns remained incomplete.
• Little Flame promised to seek the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art’s latter portion in the core region and share it with Zhang Xuanchen.
• Long Zhantian celebrated his breakthrough, and Zhang Xuanchen urged him to keep cultivating because their strength was still insufficient against the demon calamity.
• Zhang Xuanchen returned to the Myriad Dragon Blood Pool and continued refining his body with the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art.
• Five years later, Zhang Xuanchen’s aura erupted as he reached the art’s fifth revolution, startling Little Flame and Long Zhantian.

As Zhang Xuanchen underwent flesh tribulation to stabilize his fifth-revolution body, an early fifth-grade Nightmare and two demonized dragon beasts attacked. Long Zhantian and Little Flame fought to keep them from disturbing Zhang Xuanchen’s tribulation, but the Nightmare wounded Little Flame and overwhelmed them with its pressure.

• Zhang Xuanchen flew into the tribulation clouds as Long Zhantian and Little Flame stood guard nearby.
• An early fifth-grade Nightmare arrived with two demonized Blood Dragon Armored Beasts and ordered them to attack Long Zhantian and Little Flame while it targeted Zhang Xuanchen.
• Little Flame’s Flame Spear failed to break through one beast’s demon-qi shield, while Long Zhantian wounded the other with Dragon Soul Rending Claw.
• The Nightmare pierced Little Flame’s tail with a beam of evil energy and descended to crush the defenders with its pressure.
• Long Zhantian charged the wounded beast again, and Little Flame activated Dragon King Burning Slaughter: Blood Burning, raising his aura to the threshold of the fifth grade.

Zhang Xuanchen endured the tribulation lightning until he transformed into a Five-Clawed World-Destroying Golden Dragon and rescued Little Flame and Long Zhantian. He destroyed Nightmare and the two demonized dragon beasts, then Little Flame recognized the origin of Zhang Xuanchen’s blood essence.

• Little Flame burned his blood essence to fight Nightmare while Long Zhantian battled two demonized dragon beasts.
• Zhang Xuanchen entered the tribulation lightning and used it to temper his body despite the agony.
• As Nightmare nearly struck down Long Zhantian, Zhang Xuanchen transformed into a Five-Clawed World-Destroying Golden Dragon and crushed it.
• Zhang Xuanchen returned to human form and killed both demonized dragon beasts with the Meteor Heavy Sword and Earth Vein Profound Sun Fire.
• Little Flame recognized Zhang Xuanchen as a Five-Clawed World-Destroying Golden Dragon and realized that his blood essence came from one.

After revealing his five-clawed world-destroying golden dragon form, Zhang Xuanchen learned from Little Flame that the lineage was once a supreme Dragon Clan bloodline before mysteriously vanishing. He healed and cultivated with the two injured dragons, while Long Taiyi later arranged for Little Flame to teach them the next portion of the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art in preparation for the coming devil race.

• Zhang Xuanchen gave Little Flame and Long Zhantian Dragon Marrow Crimson Blood Fruits to help heal their severe injuries.
• Little Flame explained that the world-destroying golden dragons once rivaled the Canghuan Ancestral Dragons for supremacy before their lineage vanished without a trace.
• Zhang Xuanchen dismissed concerns about the Dragon Clan's reaction and returned to the Myriad Dragon Blood Pool with Little Flame and Long Zhantian.
• Zhang Xuanchen and the two dragons used the blood pool to recover, while Zhang Xuanchen consolidated his early fifth revolution cultivation.
• One year later, Long Taiyi ordered the Fire Dragon Lineage leader to summon Little Flame and teach him the latter part of the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art for him to pass on to Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian.

Little Flame received the complete Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art and an eighth-stage dragon pearl from Long Jingyun, who warned that a calamity would threaten the Xuanqiong Realm. After a year in the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall, Little Flame returned to Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian and was allowed to pass the art to them and their clans.

• A commanding voice summoned Little Flame to the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall while Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian remained in the Myriad Dragon Blood Pool.
• Long Jingyun gave Little Flame the Complete Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art and an eighth-stage flame hellfire dragon pearl, and warned him to prepare for a future calamity.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian continued refining dragon essence blood for a year, advancing their cultivation and stabilizing their body art.
• Little Flame returned with fourth-stage peak cultivation and stronger draconic might after a year of training with the dragon pearl.
• Little Flame told Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian that he could teach them the complete body art and that they could pass it on to their clans.

Little Flame passed the final four transformations of the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art to Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian before the trio was expelled from the Dragon Domain. Long Zhantian reunited with Long Xuan, who was astonished to find that his son’s strength had surpassed his own.

• Little Flame revealed the remaining formulas and cultivation methods of the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art to Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian.
• The Myriad Dragon Blood Pool shuddered and expelled the three into the sea near the Dragon Domain’s entrance.
• Green Crab and Red Shrimp recognized Long Zhantian and sent word to Long Xuan that the Third Prince had returned.
• Zhang Xuanchen teased Green Crab about overlooking him, and Green Crab began telling him how much the South Sea Immortal Continent had changed.
• Long Xuan and Gui Ming arrived, and Long Xuan praised Long Zhantian after sensing his powerful dragon might and fourth-transformation body.

After returning from the Dragon Domain, Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian told Long Xuan about the complete Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art and the coming threat of the outer realm devil race. Long Xuan welcomed them with a banquet and, seeking to repay Little Flame, began offering his unmarried daughter Long Xue'er.

• Zhang Xuanchen introduced Little Flame as a true dragon contracted partner who had secured the complete Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art for the Dragon Court.
• Long Zhantian confirmed the Dragon Court could cultivate the art and warned Long Xuan that the outer realm devil race would soon threaten the Xuanqiong Realm.
• Long Zhantian revealed Zhang Xuanchen had reached Early Fifth Revolution and could flatten the East Sea Dragon Court with one punch, prompting Long Xuan to abandon his grievances.
• Long Zhantian urged Long Xuan to pass the Dragon King's throne to him and focus on cultivating the art and preparing for the coming calamity.
• Long Xuan welcomed Zhang Xuanchen, Long Zhantian, and Little Flame back with a grand banquet and offered to strengthen ties with the Zhang Family's Xuanxiao Merchant Guild.
• Long Xuan thanked Little Flame for the Dragon Court's gift and began proposing his unmarried daughter Long Xue'er as a way to repay him.

Little Flame agreed to marry Long Xuan’s daughter Xue'er and demanded that she marry into the Xuanxiao Zhang Clan. Long Xuan then told Zhang Xuanchen that secret realm mergers had plunged the South Sea Immortal Continent into chaos, with organized Demonized Creatures attacking across the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain.

• Long Xuan proposed that Little Flame marry his daughter Xue'er, and Little Flame agreed after securing the promise that she would join the Xuanxiao Zhang Clan.
• Long Xuan offered a lavish dowry and set the wedding for three years later, while Little Flame asked Zhang Xuanchen to build him a grand palace.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked Long Xuan about events outside the Dragon Domain, and Long Xuan explained that the four great sea domains had expanded through secret realm mergers.
• Long Xuan described the newly appeared Ancient Forest and Cloudmist Continent, both vast and dangerous regions in the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain.
• Long Xuan warned that intelligent Demonized Creatures had organized Devil Creatures into factions, including the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern and Blood Night Demon Cult, which were seizing territory and slaughtering humans and demons.

Long Xuan told Zhang Xuanchen that the outside world had fallen into chaos as humans and demons faced the demonized forces, but the Xuanxiao Zhang Clan remained safe and had grown powerful. Zhang Xuanchen hurried back to check on his family, while Long Zhantian realized he had forgotten to give him something.

• Long Xuan explained that cultivators and mortals had crowded into fortified settlements to escape the demonized forces.
• Long Xuan reassured Zhang Xuanchen that Xuanxiao Mountain and his family were safe behind two fourth-tier peak-grade grand formations.
• Long Xuan told Zhang Xuanchen that Luo Lingshuang and Zhang Xuanbing had formed Nascent Souls, and the Zhang Clan now had five Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Long Xuan said humans and demons had joined forces against the devils, and Zhang Xuanchen's return could help them suppress the demonized forces.
• Zhang Xuanchen left the Main Hall with Little Flame to return to Xuanxiao Mountain, while Long Zhantian realized he had forgotten to give him something.

Zhang Xuanchen returned to Xuanxiao Mountain, destroyed a demonized scorpion secretly damaging the clan’s protective formation, and reunited with his family and clan. His return ended with Zhang Dexiao asking him for the true dragon essence blood.

• Long Xuan persuaded Long Zhantian to teach him the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art and spend time with Long Yao before delivering Zhang Xuanchen’s promised treasures.
• Zhang Xuanchen returned to Xuanxiao Mountain with Little Flame and discovered a fourth-stage peak Bone-Eroding Demon Scorpion weakening the clan’s formation.
• Zhang Xuanchen seized and killed the scorpion, then burned away its demon soul before it could escape.
• Zhang Chongxian, Luo Lingshuang, Zhang Xuanbing, Little Flame, and Sleeping Turtle welcomed Zhang Xuanchen home, and he learned that Great Sage and Little Peach were in seclusion.
• Zhang Xuanchen greeted Zhang Detian and reunited with his grown children, Zhang Dexiao and Zhang Deling.
• Zhang Dexiao asked Zhang Xuanchen for the true dragon essence blood.

Zhang Xuanchen returned to the Zhang Family after more than ten years away, reunited with his children and elders, and described the Dragon Court Secret Realm. He revealed its great opportunities and dangers, then laid out strict rules for sharing its resources as the Lineage prepared for the Demon Calamity.

• Zhang Dexiao asked Zhang Xuanchen for true dragon essence blood, so Zhang Xuanchen scolded and kicked him while Zhang Deling welcomed her father and received an Azure Origin Meridian-Nourishing Pearl.
• Zhang Xuanchen gathered Zhang Chongxian, Luo Lingshuang, and the elders and hall masters in the Main Hall to discuss his long absence.
• Zhang Xuanchen explained that the Dragon Court Secret Realm had formed from the shattered Dragon Domain and recounted its surviving True Dragons, treasures, and demonic dangers.
• Zhang Xuanchen showed the gathered members recorded scenes of the Dragon Domain, including Coiling Dragon Ancient Trees and the Myriad Dragon Blood Pool.
• Zhang Xuanchen said twenty-eight drops of true dragon essence blood would go to the Lineage treasury and set conditions for cultivating the Divine Dragon Tyrant Body and obtaining essence blood.

Zhang Xuanchen revealed his greatly increased strength and learned how the Zhang lineage had developed while he was away. He planned to eradicate two Devil Race factions, then travel with Luo Lingshuang to the Central Continent, while preparing Zhang Detian to lead the clan.

• Zhang Xuanchen revealed that he had reached the nascent soul late stage and could defeat an early-stage spirit transformation cultivator with his fifth-revolution Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art.
• Zhang Xuanchen cautioned the elders against claiming dominance while the demon calamity persisted and mysterious factions emerged from merging secret realms.
• Zhang Detian and Zhang Guangyao reported the lineage's growth in trade, intelligence, military forces, spiritual fields, artifact forging, and alchemy.
• Zhang Xuanchen said he would attack the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern and Blood Night Demon Cult in three days, then visit the Luo Family with Luo Lingshuang in the Central Continent.
• Zhang Xuanchen proposed formally passing the Zhang Clan Patriarch position to Zhang Detian and asked whether he was ready to lead.

Zhang Xuanchen arranged to pass the Zhang Family leadership to Zhang Detian after stabilizing the demon calamity and trade routes, then returned to the Profound Heaven Villa with Luo Lingshuang. Zhang Xuntong and Zhang Xuance arrived, and Zhang Xuanchen asked whether they wanted to visit Sky Scar Sword Mountain.

• Zhang Xuanchen told Zhang Detian he would eventually become Clan Leader, while Zhang Detian agreed to do his best after the demon calamity was quelled and the trade routes reopened.
• Zhang Xuanchen ordered the Four Symbols Legion divisions expanded and reorganized the merchant association, Dark Hall, army, and clan resources.
• Zhang Xuanchen took Luo Lingshuang back to the Profound Heaven Villa, while Zhang Deling stopped Zhang Dexiao from following them in search of true dragon essence blood.
• Zhang Xuntong and Zhang Xuance visited Zhang Xuanchen at the villa with spirit wine, and he asked whether they wanted to go to Sky Scar Sword Mountain.

Zhang Xuntong and Zhang Xuance prepared to seek an inheritance at Sky Scar Sword Mountain, despite the danger. Zhang Xuanchen gave them powerful protective talismans and tokens, then shared a farewell drink with them before they left.

• Zhang Xuntong told Zhang Xuanchen that he and Zhang Xuance planned to climb Sky Scar Sword Mountain and pursue its inheritance.
• Zhang Xuanchen warned them that the mountain could cost them their lives, but Zhang Xuntong and Zhang Xuance stood by their decision.
• Zhang Xuanchen gave them fourth-tier spirit talismans and tokens containing his spirit avatar, urging them to put their safety first.
• Zhang Xuanchen, Zhang Xuntong, and Zhang Xuance spent the afternoon drinking and sharing stories with Luo Lingshuang bringing them more wine.
• Zhang Xuntong and Zhang Xuance set off, and Zhang Xuanchen told them to return and look after Zhang Xuance's father themselves.

Zhang Xuanchen watched Zhang Xuntong and Zhang Xuance depart, then spent the night with Luo Lingshuang. The next morning, he gave Zhang Dexiao rare dragon essence blood to begin training in the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art, while Dexiao’s spatial physique revealed its growing potential.

• Zhang Xuanchen watched Zhang Xuntong and Zhang Xuance leave, then tidied the courtyard with Luo Lingshuang.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang spent the night together.
• Zhang Dexiao visited Zhang Xuanchen, who gave him essence blood from a Four-Clawed Radiant Ash Heavenly Dragon.
• Zhang Xuanchen sent Zhang Dexiao to Uncle Little Flame to begin practicing the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art.
• Zhang Dexiao used short-range teleportation, and Xuanjing explained that his spatial physique could let him enter ordinary secret realms early.
• Zhang Xuanchen decided he first needed to eliminate the Devil Creature forces in the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain before seeking the Guixu Immortal Hall in the Central Lands.

Zhang Xuanchen organized a coalition to destroy the Myriad Baleful Fiend Cavern and the Blood Night Demon Cult, whose leaders and demonic artifacts posed a growing threat to the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain. At Jueyun Peak, he revealed his Spirit Transformation-level power and true-dragon form, leaving the assembled Yao Sects overwhelmed by his pressure.

• Zhang Chongxian told Zhang Xuanchen that the two demon factions commanded tens of thousands of demonized creatures, more than three hundred thousand demon thralls, and fifteen Nascent Soul cultivators led by Li Juechuan and Su Hongling.
• Zhang Xuanchen decided to summon the domain’s Nascent Soul and stronger experts to eradicate both factions, and Zhang Chongxian agreed to lead part of the assault.
• Zhang Xuanchen instructed Zhang Detian to gather the allied experts at Yunhua Immortal City and arrange supplies for the campaign.
• Two months later, Qingming True Lord and four Yao Sects arrived at Jueyun Peak to join Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Chongxian.
• Zhang Xuanchen revealed his blood-gold dragon form and unleashed his draconic pressure, forcing the four Yao Sects to their knees.