Chapter Summaries

The Blood Fiend Demon Lord sealed the Dragon Cave and unleashed nine deadly tentacles, turning the supposed treasure hunt into a massacre. As Zhou Tianjian and Liu Yunshu fled, Zhang Xuanchen completed his Heavenly Dao Foundation outside the cave.

• The Golden Light Barrier shattered, and cultivators rushed into the Dragon Cave while the dead dissolved into Demon Qi.
• The Blood Fiend Demon Lord sensed danger, locked the cave gates, and sent nine tentacles through the entrances.
• The Black-Robed Maiden warned Zhou Tianjian and Liu Yunshu that the cave was a Demon Sealing Ground, and Liu Yunshu saved Zhou Tianjian from a tentacle strike as they fled.
• Sansheng told Li Xuanlong that many people had died, while Zhang Xuanchen broke through to Foundation Establishment and formed a flawless Heavenly Dao Foundation.

Zhang Xuanchen received Li Xuanlong’s treasures and let his master possess him so they could confront the Blood Fiend Demon Lord. As the demon continued slaughtering the trapped cultivators, the defenders’ protective formation collapsed, leaving them in grave danger.

• Li Xuanlong gave Zhang Xuanchen the Myriad Spirit Ring, Dragon Abyss Sword, and True Dragon Egg before possessing his body and raising his cultivation to Nascent Soul Middle Stage Peak.
• Li Xuanlong found Zhang Xuanbing struggling through the Demon Qi, rescued him, and concealed Zhang Xuanchen’s appearance with Sansheng’s help.
• Zhang Xuanbing vowed to cut down anyone who harmed his younger brother, while Li Xuanlong and Zhang Xuanchen proceeded toward the Blood Fiend Demon Lord.
• Blood Fiend Demon Lord slaughtered the trapped cultivators and absorbed their life force, leaving fewer than five thousand survivors from the thirty thousand who entered.
• Zhou Tianjian and the Black-Robed Maiden urged the survivors to use their trump cards and defend the weaker cultivators, but the demon’s tentacles shattered their formation and killed many behind it.

As the Blood Fiend Demon Lord threatened to kill everyone in the Secret Realm, Luo Lingshuang used the Tidal Lotus Lamp to shield the survivors. Li Xuanlong then appeared to confront the Demon Lord, and their battle began.

• Zhou Tianjian and the survivors lost hope after realizing the promised opportunity was a trap, while Zhang Honghan grieved for his dead clansmen.
• Luo Lingshuang revealed herself and used the Tidal Lotus Lamp to protect the remaining three thousand people from the Blood Fiend Demon Lord’s tentacles.
• The Blood Fiend Demon Lord recognized the Tidal Lotus Lamp and attacked Luo Lingshuang’s barrier with a demonic palm, leaving her badly injured and the barrier close to collapse.
• Li Xuanlong appeared before the survivors and challenged the Blood Fiend Demon Lord, who sent nine tentacles at him.
• Li Xuanlong summoned the Dragon Abyss Sword and unleashed Nine Dragon Swords—Soaring Dragon Startling Swan against the Demon Lord’s attack.

Luo Lingshuang withdrew her protection after grateful cultivators escaped, leaving the Qi Refinement cultivators who had condemned her behind. Li Xuanlong and Zhang Xuanchen continued fighting the Blood Fiend Demon Lord, and Sansheng saved Zhang Xuanchen from the demon energy at the cost of exhausting herself.

• Luo Lingshuang ordered the cultivators to flee, and Xie Qiufeng and disciples of the Golden Core factions thanked her before escaping.
• Zhou Tianjian gathered the Nine Splendor Sword Sect disciples and left after Luo Lingshuang told him to keep the incident secret.
• Luo Lingshuang dismissed the watery barrier and disappeared, abandoning the cultivators who refused to leave.
• Li Xuanlong struck the Blood Fiend Demon Lord with Dragon Sword Breaks Heaven, but a steel hair pierced him as the demon attacked.
• Sansheng absorbed the Demon Qi ravaging Zhang Xuanchen's body and healed his wound, then vanished after exhausting her power.

Li Xuanlong and Luo Lingshuang joined forces to kill the Blood Fiend Demon Lord, but Li Xuanlong’s remnant soul dispersed after entrusting Zhang Xuanchen to her. The survivors emerged as the Sky Dragon Secret Realm collapsed, and the factions learned that the secret realm had been a trap containing a Demon Lord.

• Luo Lingshuang used the Tidal Lotus Lamp to imprison the Blood Fiend Demon Lord, allowing Li Xuanlong to unleash a final dragon strike that annihilated him.
• Zhang Xuanchen’s dragonification faded and his cultivation fell to Foundation Establishment Early Stage before he collapsed; Luo Lingshuang caught him as Li Xuanlong’s remnant soul emerged.
• Li Xuanlong asked Luo Lingshuang to look after Zhang Xuanchen, his only inheritor, then dispersed as Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang were teleported out.
• The Sky Dragon Secret Realm began collapsing and sent its survivors outside, where the entrance mountain crumbled; a little over five thousand of the fifty thousand who entered had survived.
• Zhou Tianjian told the gathered factions that a Demon Lord had been sealed inside the secret realm and that only one hundred and forty-three members of the Nine Splendor Sword Sect remained.
• The Third Elder of the Nine Splendor Sword Sect took Zhou Tianjian away to report the disaster and investigate whether the Demon Lord had truly died.

After the Secret Realm disaster, Luo Lingshuang rescued the badly injured Zhang Xuanchen and hid with him on a deserted island. Meanwhile, the Zhang Family returned to check the survivors and determine whether Zhang Xuanchen was alive, and Zhang Hongzhan learned the Great Elder had come back.

• Long Zhantian left the Secret Realm with two young lions, feared that Li Feiyu had died, and decided to care for the lions until he could investigate.
• Zhang Zujun found Zhang Honghan and learned that only thirteen Zhang Family disciples had survived; Zhang Xuanbing said he did not know where Zhang Xuanchen had been teleported.
• Zhang Zujun ordered the Zhang Family survivors to return so they could check Zhang Xuanchen's Soul Fire and arrange the fallen clansmen's burials.
• Luo Lingshuang carried Zhang Xuanchen to a cave, used a life-force droplet to heal some of his wounds, washed him, and began recovering beside him.
• Zhang Hongzhan tried to reassure Lin Wanqing that Zhang Xuanbing and Zhang Xuanchen would be safe, then heard that Zhang Zujun and the others had returned.

After the Secret Realm expedition returned with heavy losses and Zhang Xuanchen missing, the Zhang Family learned that his Soul Fire was faint but still burning. Zhang Chongxian led six others to search for him while the family heard the expedition’s account and speculated that Zhang Xuanchen had gained the Secret Realm’s true inheritance.

• Zhang Zujun returned to the Zhang Family with the survivors and told Zhang Hongzhan that a grave matter needed discussion.
• Lin Wanqing and Zhang Xuanbing reported that Zhang Xuanchen was alive but gravely endangered, and Lin Wanqing resolved to search for him.
• Zhang Chongxian ordered Lin Wanqing, Zhang Xuanbing, Zhang Hongqing, Zhang Guanghan, Zhang Zu'an, and Zhang Hongyi to search with him while concealing their identities.
• Zhang Zujun recounted the Secret Realm events, including Zhang Xuanbing's encounter with Zhang Xuanchen in the demonic qi.
• Zhang Hongwen speculated that Zhang Xuanchen's Nascent Soul aura meant he had obtained the Secret Realm's true inheritance.

Zhang Hongzhan decided to abdicate as Clan Leader in favor of Zhang Xuanchen after the family saw the treasures and inheritance he had brought back. Three days later, Zhang Xuanchen woke in a cave and accidentally touched Luo Lingshuang’s chest, leaving them both embarrassed.

• Zhang Hongzhan reasoned that Zhang Xuanchen’s weak Soul Fire came from a backlash after he temporarily raised his cultivation to fight the Demon Lord.
• Zhang Zujun presented the huge Earth Core Fire Crystal that Zhang Xuanchen had asked him to bring back, astonishing the Zhang Family elders.
• Zhang Hongzhan announced that he would yield the Clan Leader position to Zhang Xuanchen, and the six elders enthusiastically approved.
• Zhang Hongzhan ordered everyone to swear a Blood Oath.
• Three days later, Zhang Xuanchen woke in a cave, mistook Luo Lingshuang’s chest for a soft ball of dough, and squeezed it before realizing what he was holding.
• Luo Lingshuang felt embarrassed but decided that they were even because she had seen Zhang Xuanchen naked and he had touched her chest.

After waking from five and a half days unconscious, Zhang Xuanchen learned that Luo Lingshuang had cared for him and explained the three routes to the Central Land Immortal Continent. Hearing how lonely she had been stranded in the South Sea Immortal Continent, he invited her to his home, and she accepted.

• Zhang Xuanchen realized he was wearing a skirt without underwear, blushed in embarrassment, and apologized to Luo Lingshuang for what happened while he was unconscious.
• Luo Lingshuang told Zhang Xuanchen that travelers could reach the Central Land Immortal Continent by crossing the Endless Sea, passing through the Dark Abyss Forbidden Land, or finding an Ancient Teleportation Array.
• Luo Lingshuang recalled that an Ancient Teleportation Array had stranded her in the South Sea Immortal Continent three years earlier, leaving her isolated and longing to return to her family.
• Zhang Xuanchen realized Luo Lingshuang had been alone and told her that their masters' friendship made them friends too, prompting her to cry.
• Zhang Xuanchen invited Luo Lingshuang to come home with him, and she agreed.

After recovering from his injuries, Zhang Xuanchen cooked with Luo Lingshuang and they traveled to Worry-Free Island to retrieve two lion cubs from Long Zhantian. He reunited with Long Zhantian and fed the Purple Gold War Lions Monster Spirit Pills, while Long Zhantian demanded some for himself.

• Zhang Xuanchen left the cave to hunt Spirit Chickens, then cooked them for himself and Luo Lingshuang beside a stream.
• Luo Lingshuang learned Zhang Xuanchen's name, and he told her he needed to retrieve two lions from the Dragon Court's Third Prince.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang reached Worry-Free Island, where Long Zhantian contacted him through the Parent-Child Communication Talisman.
• Zhang Xuanchen adopted his Li Feiyu disguise and answered Long Zhantian, who had been waiting with the two Purple Gold War Lions.
• Zhang Xuanchen fed the lion cubs Monster Spirit Pills, and Long Zhantian asked him to trade some for a Big Treasure.

Zhang Xuanchen traded Monster Spirit Pills with Long Zhantian and received a rare Ink-Scented Dragon Intestine Fungus that could restore his damaged meridians and dantian. As Zhang Xuanchen headed back toward his family, the Turtle Prime Minister told Long Zhantian that their connection had only just begun.

• Luo Lingshuang identified Long Zhantian's Ink-Scented Dragon Intestine Fungus and explained its benefits for Zhang Xuanchen's injuries and cultivation.
• Zhang Xuanchen offered thirty Monster Spirit Pills for half the fungus, but Long Zhantian gave him the entire item and took the pills as payment.
• Long Zhantian asked Zhang Xuanchen for more Communication Talismans, and Zhang Xuanchen promised to bring him more Monster Spirit Pills on a future visit.
• Zhang Xuanchen left for Worry-Free City with Luo Lingshuang and the two lions, planning to return to his family by teleportation array.
• The Turtle Prime Minister told Long Zhantian that his connection with Zhang Xuanchen had only just begun, and Long Zhantian dove into the sea to look for Long Yao.

Zhang Xuanchen traveled with Luo Lingshuang to Worry-Free City, where he reunited with Zhang Guanghan and learned that his mother and the Zhang Family Ancestor had searched for him. The Ancestor praised his rapid Foundation Establishment breakthrough and called him the family’s Kirin Son with potential for Spirit Transformation.

• Zhang Xuanchen invited Luo Lingshuang to visit the Zhang Family, and Little Lotus asked to see Sansheng but learned that Sansheng was asleep.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang reached Worry-Free City, where Zhang Guanghan recognized him and asked him to meet outside the city.
• Zhang Guanghan reunited with Zhang Xuanchen, reassured him that his family had worried about him, and told him his mother and the Ancestor had come to search for him.
• Zhang Xuanchen introduced Luo Lingshuang as his lifesaver, and Zhang Guanghan thanked her on behalf of the Zhang Family.
• The Zhang Family Ancestor arrived, praised Zhang Xuanchen for reaching Foundation Establishment at sixteen, and declared that he had potential for Spirit Transformation.

Zhang Xuanchen reunited with his family after Luo Lingshuang saved him, and Zhang Chongxian welcomed her with a gift from the Zhang Family treasury. Lin Wanqing quickly became fond of Luo Lingshuang, and the group set off for home aboard the family’s fastest flying boat.

• Zhang Chongxian questioned whether Luo Lingshuang could be trusted, and Zhang Xuanchen assured him that she was.
• Zhang Chongxian thanked Luo Lingshuang for saving Zhang Xuanchen and offered her three items from the Zhang Family treasury.
• Lin Wanqing arrived with Zhang Xuanbing and the elders, embraced Luo Lingshuang, and teased Zhang Xuanchen with stories from his childhood.
• Zhang Chongxian brought out the Zhang Family’s Second-tier Top-grade Mystic Gold Cloud-Breaking Flying Boat, and the group began their journey home.

Zhang Xuanchen returned from the Secret Realm determined to grow stronger, and Zhang Chongxian promised to hunt Yao Beasts to support his body-tempering cultivation. At the Zhang Family, Zhang Xuanli called Luo Lingshuang her Seventh Sister-in-law, leaving Zhang Xuanchen bewildered while Luo Lingshuang played along.

• Zhang Xuanchen told Luo Lingshuang he wanted enough strength to protect what he had after seeing the Secret Realm’s dangers.
• Zhang Chongxian killed a Four-eyed Yao Eagle attacking the Flying Boat and gave its blood essence to Zhang Xuanchen for his cultivation.
• Zhang Chongxian promised to hunt Yao Beasts for Zhang Xuanchen, who explained that his body-tempering art required powerful blood essence and spiritual treasures.
• Two days later, Zhang Xuanli welcomed Zhang Xuanchen home and praised him for returning.
• Zhang Xuanli bowed to Luo Lingshuang as her Seventh Sister-in-law, and Luo Lingshuang encouraged her to knock Zhang Xuanchen on the head.

After returning safely, Zhang Xuanchen welcomed Luo Lingshuang into the Zhang Family and brought her to stay at Profound Heaven Villa. He entered the Myriad Spirit Ring to inspect his Master's treasures and discovered a powerful Upper Realm cultivation technique that could help his ancestor advance beyond Golden Core.

• Zhang Hongzhan and Zhang Guangli welcomed Zhang Xuanchen back, and the family honored the Zhang clansmen who had died in the Secret Realm.
• Zhang Xuanchen's family comforted Luo Lingshuang and invited her to stay at Profound Heaven Villa rather than build her a separate courtyard.
• Zhang Xuanchen entered the Myriad Spirit Ring, fed its hungry Purple Gold War Lions, and then explored the treasures left by his Master.
• Zhang Xuanchen found the Great Evolution Geng Gold Scripture, a technique that could cultivate to the Body Integration Realm, and realized it suited his ancestor, who had reached the limit of his current technique.

Zhang Xuanchen sorted through his master's powerful cultivation, alchemy, and artifact-refining legacies, recovered from his injuries, and learned of a White Fur Rat that could become a Treasure Seeking Rat. At the family Main Hall, he discovered that his father and the elders planned to make him the Zhang Family's new Patriarch.

• Zhang Xuanchen catalogued the Jade Slips, pill formulas, artifact arts, and treasure records in the Myriad Spirit Ring, then began refining the Ink-Scented Dragon Intestine Fungus to heal himself.
• The next morning, Zhang Xuanli told Zhang Xuanchen that Zhang Hongzhan wanted him at the family Main Hall and that she would show Luo Lingshuang around the Zhang Family.
• Zhang Xuanchen recovered from his injuries and consolidated his Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivation after refining one-third of the fungus.
• Zhang Xuanchen received Immortal Fate Information about a White Fur Rat with Treasure Seeking Rat bloodline and decided to visit Yunhua Immortal City in three days to keep it from being sold.
• Zhang Hongzhan pressed Zhang Xuanchen onto the Patriarch's throne, and Zhang Xuanchen realized his father intended to abdicate in his favor.

Zhang Xuanchen accepted the responsibility of becoming Clan Leader and prepared to share the Secret Realm inheritance with the Zhang Family. After the elders agreed on how to secure and distribute the inheritance, Zhang Chongxian ordered everyone in the Main Hall to swear a Blood Oath.

• Zhang Chongxian reassured Zhang Xuanchen that the family would support him, and Zhang Xuanchen accepted his new role.
• Zhang Hongzhan explained that Zhang Xuanchen’s quiet succession ceremony would take place in three days, and Zhang Xuanchen agreed.
• Zhang Xuanchen announced that he had brought treasures that could raise the Zhang Family to the pinnacle of the South Sea Immortal Continent, so Zhang Hongzhan strengthened the Main Hall’s protections.
• Zhang Xuanchen revealed cultivation methods, spells, arts, formulas, and artifacts, astonishing the elders and giving Zhang Hongqing hope of finding a Dark Attribute Art.
• Zhang Xuanchen proposed placing Qi Refinement, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core materials in the Transmission Tower while keeping the higher-tier inheritance private, and Zhang Chongxian approved his plan.
• Zhang Chongxian released his Golden Core pressure and ordered everyone in the hall to swear a Blood Oath.

Zhang Xuanchen helped his family choose cultivation arts, then headed to the Family School to visit Zhang Xuanli and Luo Lingshuang. Zhang Chongxian set out for the Purple Cloud Mountain Range to gather resources for Zhang Xuanchen before entering seclusion.

• Zhang Xuanchen urged his family to choose cultivation arts, and Zhang Xuanbing and Zhang Hongqing accepted arts suited to their attributes.
• Zhang Xuanchen teased Zhang Hongqing into promising to find a cultivation partner within five years, then asked Zhang Hongzhan to oversee the cultivation arts and their copies.
• Zhang Xuanchen left for Yunhua Immortal City to check on Ninth Uncle and the Xuanxiao Merchant Guild, while Zhang Chongxian flew toward the Purple Cloud Mountain Range to gather Yao Beast Blood Essence and spirit medicines.
• Zhang Xuanchen visited the Family School, where children surrounded Zhang Xuanli and Luo Lingshuang as instructor Zhang Guangzheng greeted him with a teasing remark.

Zhang Xuanchen visited Zhang Guangzheng, learned that the old man had little time left, and then invited Zhang Xuanli and Luo Lingshuang to Yunhua Immortal City. After Luo Lingshuang agreed, the three set out by flying boat.

• Zhang Xuanchen checked Zhang Guangzheng's condition and realized his grandfather's spiritual energy was nearly depleted, but Zhang Guangzheng refused a Longevity Fruit.
• Zhang Guangzheng told Zhang Xuanchen to go see Luo Lingshuang, and Zhang Xuanchen joined the children gathered around her ice-carved beasts.
• Zhang Xuanchen invited Zhang Xuanli to Yunhua Immortal City, and she eagerly agreed.
• Zhang Xuanchen invited Luo Lingshuang, who agreed and continued to prioritize preparing for the Great Dao Golden Core rather than rushing her breakthrough.
• Zhang Xuanchen took out a Second-grade Low-tier Flying Boat, and the three flew toward Yunhua Immortal City.

Yang Chengze’s Yang Family was ambushed by Evil Cultivators, with Yang Yunli betraying the clan and preventing the Clan Protection Array from being activated. As the Yang Family was slaughtered, the wounded ancestor burned his True Essence and launched a desperate attack at Yang Yunli.

• Yang Chengze sensed Evil Cultivators attacking the Yang Family and ordered Yang Yunzhong to activate the Clan Protection Array.
• Yang Yunli stabbed Yang Yunzhong and joined the black-robed Evil Cultivator, revealing his betrayal before dozens of Late Qi Refining attackers appeared.
• The Evil Cultivators began slaughtering the Yang Family, and their Foundation Establishment Middle Stage leader struck Yang Chengze down with a blood claw.
• Seeing his clansmen die and unable to defeat the enemy, Yang Chengze burned his True Essence and unleashed Heavenward Slash at Yang Yunli.