Chapter Summaries

Long Qingyue defeated Ling Mei and Ding Feng, while onlookers learned that the black-clad young man with her had also crushed She Yuan. As the Dragon-Phoenix Platform contest approached, the Monster Emperor, the Netherworld Prince, and Xuan Yuan arrived, only for a mysterious newcomer to attack the top two and level their mountains.

• Long Qingyue warned Ling Mei and Ding Feng that she would settle their score after they left Dragon-Phoenix Haven, then went to recover for the contest.
• A Rogue Cultivator told the crowd that Long Qingyue possessed a True Dragon Body and that the black-clad young man with her had defeated She Yuan, forcing him to leave Dragon-Phoenix Haven.
• The Monster Emperor appeared, followed by the Netherworld Prince and Xuan Yuan, drawing the attention of the gathered experts.
• A newcomer in a streak of light called the Netherworld Prince and Xuan Yuan skulking rats and fired multicolored and purple-gold beams at them.
• The Netherworld Prince and Xuan Yuan dodged the beams, which struck and demolished both mountains beneath them.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan faced the Netherworld Prince and Xuan Yuan, who exposed their group’s Dragon-Phoenix treasures to incite the gathered experts against them. Zi Yan calmly countered Xuan Yuan’s Void Great Handprint, piercing it with her purple-gold power.

• Lin Ming and Zi Yan appeared and attacked the Netherworld Prince and Xuan Yuan, drawing the crowd’s attention.
• The Netherworld Prince mentioned the Super Dragon Phoenix Pool, and Xuan Yuan revealed that Lin Ming’s group had claimed three pools and two Dragon-Phoenix Fruits.
• The crowd grew greedy for the fruits, while Long Qingyue worried that Lin Ming and Zi Yan were surrounded by potential enemies.
• Zi Yan vanished and reappeared before Xuan Yuan after he unleashed his Void Great Handprint.
• Zi Yan pierced the handprint with her purple-gold fingers and began dissolving its spatial power.

Zi Yan injured Xuan Yuan with a single strike, ending his attempt to turn the gathered experts against her and Lin Ming. As everyone waited for the Dragon-Phoenix Platform, it emerged from a vast spatial vortex, and the gathered cultivators prepared to enter the coming battle.

• Zi Yan's strike pierced Xuan Yuan's afterimage and injured his true body, causing the watching experts to abandon their plans to attack her and Lin Ming.
• Zi Yan declared that she would not spare Xuan Yuan, then returned to Lin Ming's side without answering his request for her name.
• Xuan Yuan and the other top experts waited as the tense gathering held off from fighting until the Dragon-Phoenix Platform appeared.
• A tremendous spatial vortex formed overhead, releasing an ancient aura and the roars of True Dragons and cries of True Phoenixes.
• The immense Dragon-Phoenix Platform emerged from the void, and the gathered experts' excitement and spiritual power surged.

The Dragon-Phoenix Platform appeared, drawing thousands of young experts eager to claim its inheritance. After its golden barrier drove away the unqualified, Lin Ming, Long Qingyue, and Zi Yan reached the platform with their True Dragon and True Phoenix blood protecting them.

• The Dragon-Phoenix Platform emerged, and its presence stirred the bloodlines of Lin Ming and Zi Yan.
• Thousands of experts rushed toward the platform, but its golden light blasted away those without refined Dragon-Phoenix Blood Essence.
• Xuan Yuan, the Netherworld Prince, the Monster Emperor, Qingyue, and other qualified peak experts flew toward the platform.
• Lin Ming, Long Qingyue, and Zi Yan charged through the barrier, whose pressure their bloodline protection dispersed.
• Lin Ming, Long Qingyue, and Zi Yan stepped onto the Dragon-Phoenix Platform.

Lin Ming and the other competitors gathered on the Dragon-Phoenix Platform, where the platform’s Golden Mirror examined the Dragon-Phoenix Blood Essence in their bodies. Ding Feng and Ling Mei produced the strongest displays so far, while the detection continued.

• The competitors appeared across the Dragon-Phoenix Platform and kept their distance, while Zi Yan fixed her hostility on Xuan Yuan.
• After the crowd waited in silence, the dragon-scale platform transformed into a Golden Mirror that scanned everyone’s Dragon-Phoenix Blood Essence.
• Golden light and dragon roars or phoenix cries revealed the varying strength of each competitor’s essence blood.
• Ding Feng produced a golden light pillar about thirty yards tall and laughed proudly at his result.
• Ling Mei’s light pillar nearly matched Ding Feng’s, and she looked pleased that she had surpassed most of the competitors.

The Dragon-Phoenix Platform’s Essence Blood Detection revealed that Lin Ming and Zi Yan possessed power beyond all the other prodigies. Their two-hundred-zhang pillars appeared and shattered every other pillar, leaving the experts stunned beneath their overwhelming pressure.

• Qingyue displayed a powerful false phoenix body, while the Monster Emperor, the Netherworld Prince, and Xuan Yuan produced enormous pillars that suggested they had cultivated true dragon or phoenix bodies.
• Long Qingyue’s pillar reached a hundred and twenty zhang, surpassing the three men’s pillars.
• The Golden Mirror showed no reaction to Lin Ming and Zi Yan, though both felt it awakening the Dragon-Phoenix Power hidden in their bloodlines.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan released their bloodlines, and two-hundred-zhang pillars rose around them, one dark gold with dragon and phoenix phantoms and the other purple-gold with a Dragon-Phoenix Phantom.
• The appearance of Lin Ming and Zi Yan’s pillars shook the platform and caused every other expert’s pillar to burst into golden motes.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan’s extraordinary two-hundred-zhang pillars overwhelmed the other cultivators during the Essence Blood Detection, revealing their immense dragon-phoenix blood essence. Once the pillars faded, Xuan Yuan, the Netherworld Prince, the Monster Emperor, and the other contenders raced up the Dragon-Phoenix Platform to seize the inheritance, beginning the decisive struggle.

• Lin Ming and Zi Yan’s two-hundred-zhang pillars appeared, suppressing the other pillars and shocking everyone on the Dragon-Phoenix Platform.
• The cultivators realized Lin Ming and Zi Yan’s dragon-phoenix blood essence far surpassed their own, while Long Qingyue, Xuan Yuan, and the Netherworld Prince reacted with awe and unease.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan’s pillars faded, leaving the other contenders wary but still determined to compete for the inheritance.
• Xuan Yuan, the Netherworld Prince, and the Monster Emperor raced toward the ascending stone tiers to reach the summit first.
• The other powerful cultivators followed them upward, and the contest for the Dragon-Phoenix inheritance began in earnest.

Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and Long Qingyue climbed the Dragon-Phoenix Platform as the upper platforms dwindled and fierce battles erupted. Lin Ming left the fighters stunned by defeating Mo Fan with a single palm strike.

• Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and Long Qingyue raced past the lower platforms while Long Qingyue warned that the shrinking number of platforms would force them to fight.
• The young experts began battling over the scarce upper platforms, and Lin Ming and his companions each claimed a well-positioned platform.
• Mo Fan of the Dark Demon Sect attacked Lin Ming and struck at him with his Dark Demon Dharma Body.
• Lin Ming countered with a palm using only his True Dragon Body, shattering Mo Fan's Dharma Body and sending him crashing into a mountain.

After Lin Ming killed Mo Fan with a single palm strike, he watched the other contestants fight for the Dragon-Phoenix Platforms. The thirty-two survivors received Dragon-Phoenix Blood Essence and were carried to a higher level, where sixteen platforms awaited them.

• Lin Ming's display against Mo Fan deterred other contestants from challenging him, and he watched the battles from his platform.
• Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince remained among the elite opponents Lin Ming expected to face in the struggle for the inheritance.
• The battles ended with thirty-two experts occupying the Dragon-Phoenix Platforms, while defeated fighters fell from the sky.
• The platforms released Dragon-Phoenix Blood Essence to the thirty-two survivors, though Lin Ming and Zi Yan gained little from it.
• Golden light carried the thirty-two experts to a higher level, where sixteen larger Dragon-Phoenix Platforms awaited them.

The contest narrowed from sixteen contenders to eight as Lin Ming, Zi Yan, Xuan Yuan, and the Netherworld Prince went unchallenged, while Long Qingyue fought her way into the final eight. After receiving a richer Dragon-Phoenix Blood Essence reward, the eight finalists gathered before the higher platforms as the decisive battle approached.

• Lin Ming and Zi Yan challenged the remaining contenders, but no one dared approach their platforms.
• Long Qingyue defeated Lu Ming of the Overlord Blade Sect, then overcame a Fifth Grade Sovereign to enter the final eight.
• Ding Feng secured a place in the final sixteen, but the Monster Emperor knocked him from the platform with a casual palm strike.
• Lin Ming, Zi Yan, Xuan Yuan, and the Netherworld Prince advanced without being challenged, while the other platforms hosted fierce battles.
• The eight finalists received a richer Dragon-Phoenix Blood Essence reward and gathered before the four higher platforms as the final battle approached.

As the eight contenders faced the final four Dragon-Phoenix Platforms, the Netherworld Prince proposed that the strongest contenders unite against Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and Long Qingyue to secure a share of the inheritance. Ling Mei joined the alliance, but the Monster Emperor and Qingyue hesitated, leaving the battle lines uncertain.

• Lin Ming surveyed the seven other contenders as they gathered above the four remaining Dragon-Phoenix Platforms.
• Zi Yan challenged Xuan Yuan, whose earlier injury made him wary of fighting her alone.
• The Netherworld Prince moved behind Zi Yan and proposed that he and Xuan Yuan fight her together.
• The Netherworld Prince urged the Monster Emperor, Long Qingyue, and Ling Mei to join forces against Lin Ming, Zi Yan, and Long Qingyue, warning that the pair’s immense Essence Blood could claim the inheritance.
• Ling Mei immediately sided with the Netherworld Prince, while the Monster Emperor and Long Qingyue hesitated because they feared provoking Lin Ming and Zi Yan.

Zi Yan fought Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince after they joined forces to challenge her. She effortlessly blocked their combined attacks and sent both men flying with a single palm strike.

• Zi Yan charged between Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince and attacked them both.
• The Netherworld Prince summoned the Netherworld God Halberd, while Xuan Yuan formed a sword formation of more than a hundred giant silver swords.
• Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince launched a combined attack that Zi Yan swallowed with a Spatial Rift.
• Zi Yan vanished, and the three fighters reappeared in a clash of palms that sent Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince flying backward.

Zi Yan overwhelmed Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince, forcing them to stake everything on a final attack. As Long Qingyue battled Ling Mei and Lin Ming watched with Qingyue and the Monster Emperor, the Netherworld Prince unleashed the Netherworld Palace’s supreme divine art.

• Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince shifted to a fast, evasive battle against Zi Yan, while Long Qingyue confronted Ling Mei over her pursuit outside Dragon-Phoenix Haven.
• Long Qingyue drove Ling Mei back as Lin Ming, Qingyue, and the Monster Emperor chose not to fight each other.
• Zi Yan exploited a brief gap in Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince’s coordination and struck both men in the chest, sending them flying and coughing up blood.
• Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince resolved to risk everything after realizing they could not defeat Zi Yan with their ordinary methods.
• The Netherworld Prince unleashed the Netherworld God World-Ending Flame, a wave of freezing black flames that consumed frozen spiritual energy as it swept forward.

Zi Yan unleashed her newly created Great Annihilation Dragon-Phoenix Technique against Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince’s strongest divine arts. Her beam annihilated both attacks and forced the two men to escape with their life-saving Jade Tablets.

• The Netherworld Prince summoned the Netherworld God World-Ending Flame while Xuan Yuan formed his Heaven-Piercing Divine Lotus, and both attacks bore down on Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan created and unleashed the Great Annihilation Dragon-Phoenix Technique, manifesting a vast Dragon-Phoenix True Soul that fired a beam of annihilation.
• Zi Yan’s beam pierced through the Netherworld Prince’s flames and Xuan Yuan’s lotus, erasing both divine arts.
• Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince crushed their life-saving Jade Tablets and were transported out of the realm before the beam struck them.
• The beam continued past where the two men had stood and annihilated several distant mountains.

After Zi Yan drove off the last challengers, the survivors climbed the Dragon-Phoenix Stairway toward the inheritance left by the true dragon and true phoenix. Lin Ming and Zi Yan reached the final ten steps before the altar, where overwhelming pressure threatened to bar their way.

• Zi Yan defeated Xuan Yuan and the Netherworld Prince, while Long Qingyue struck Ling Mei and forced her to flee.
• The Monster Emperor and Qingyue conceded the inheritance to Zi Yan and Lin Ming without further objection.
• A golden stairway formed from the Dragon-Phoenix Platform, and Lin Ming, Zi Yan, Long Qingyue, the Monster Emperor, and Qingyue began climbing it.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan reached an enormous altar made from the true dragon and true phoenix's bones and essence blood.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan stopped before the altar's final ten steps, which radiated pressure far greater than that of the Super Dragon Phoenix Pool.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan climbed the Dragon-Phoenix Stairway despite its escalating trials of will and crushing dragon and phoenix pressure. They reached the tenth step, the first people ever to set foot on it.

• Qingyue explained that the ten-step stairway held the final Dragon-Phoenix Inheritance trial and that no one had ever reached its tenth step.
• Lin Ming stepped onto the first stair, and Zi Yan followed as the dragon and phoenix pressure assailed them.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan climbed to the eighth step while Long Qingyue, the Monster Emperor, and Qingyue struggled behind them.
• Long Qingyue reached the seventh step but was wounded by the pressure, while the Monster Emperor and Qingyue stopped at the sixth.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan reached the ninth step, then continued upward as spectators watched in disbelief.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan stepped onto the tenth stair together.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan reached the tenth stair and received the legendary Dragon-Phoenix Blood Bath, transforming their bodies with the True Dragon and True Phoenix’s Origin Blood Essence. As the bath ended, golden dragon scales and phoenix feathers emerged from the ancient altar.

• Lin Ming and Zi Yan found the tenth stair’s pressure unexpectedly weak after preparing to endure its full force.
• A Dragon Roar Phoenix Cry shook the Dragon-Phoenix Platform, and a pillar of pure Dragon-Phoenix Blood Essence enveloped Lin Ming and Zi Yan.
• Long Qingyue, the Monster Emperor, and Qingyue absorbed the Blood Essence that overflowed down the stairs.
• The Blood Bath ended, leaving Lin Ming and Zi Yan surrounded by manifestations of dragons and phoenixes and transformed by the Origin Blood Essence.
• Golden dragon scales and phoenix feathers inscribed with ancient script erupted from the altar at the summit.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan reached the summit of the Dragon-Phoenix Platform and selected a dark golden bone fragment that resonated with their Dragon-Phoenix Bodies. It drew them into a golden sea, where they witnessed a mysterious Dragon-Phoenix cultivator merge a True Dragon and True Phoenix into a single creature.

• Dragon scales and Phoenix Feathers descended across the Dragon-Phoenix Stairway, with higher levels receiving rarer inheritances.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan saw ten precious inheritance orbs above the altar, and one orb chose to approach them.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan touched the orb together and discovered a dark golden bone fragment that resonated with their Dragon-Phoenix Bodies.
• The bone's light transported Lin Ming and Zi Yan into a golden sea, where a colossal wave carried a mysterious meditating figure.
• The mysterious figure revealed a True Dragon and True Phoenix behind him, then caused them to collide and merge into an enormous creature.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan received the Ancient Dragon-Phoenix’s inheritance and learned that the Dragon-Phoenix Stairway had been waiting for a descendant with Zi Yan’s bloodline. The illusion collapsed after the Dragon-Phoenix True Scripture entered their minds, leaving them with a supreme cultivation method and a transformed Zi Yan.

• Lin Ming realized the figure behind the inheritance was an Ancient Dragon-Phoenix, and that Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix Bloodline had let them pass the final stair without a trial.
• The Ancient Dragon-Phoenix revealed the Dragon-Phoenix True Scripture and sent its knowledge into Lin Ming and Zi Yan’s minds.
• The golden ocean illusion collapsed, and the mysterious figure gave Zi Yan a satisfied smile before disappearing.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan awoke on the Dragon-Phoenix Platform as the golden bone crumbled to powder and Zi Yan’s aura transformed.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan recognized the scripture’s benefits for their cultivation and celebrated the inheritance they had gained.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan left Dragon-Phoenix Haven and accepted Long Qingyue’s invitation to visit the Dragon Battle Palace. They arrived at its headquarters with the Southern Heavenly King, who thanked them for saving and supporting Long Qingyue.

• Lin Ming and Zi Yan entered the Spatial Vortex and emerged from Dragon-Phoenix Haven into the crowded Dragon-Phoenix Mountain Range.
• Long Qingyue arrived and invited Lin Ming and Zi Yan to the Dragon Battle Palace to repay their help.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan accepted Long Qingyue’s invitation and traveled with her through several spatial teleportation arrays to the Dragon Battle Palace’s territory.
• Long Qingyue introduced the Southern Heavenly King to Lin Ming and Zi Yan and recounted how they had helped her in Dragon-Phoenix Haven.
• The Southern Heavenly King thanked Lin Ming and Zi Yan, then led the group through the Dragon Battle Palace’s defenses to its headquarters.