Recaps

Lin Changqing insisted on leaving Kunlun Mountain openly to gain experience, despite Tongtian’s concern that he remained vulnerable after his supposed injuries. As he began his journey alone, Guang Chengzi confronted him and pressed him about whether he had recovered.

• Lin Changqing told Tongtian he would descend the mountain openly, arguing that cultivators had to face danger to pursue the Great Dao.
• Tongtian approved Lin Changqing’s decision but warned him to be careful and promised to protect him if trouble arose.
• Lin Changqing refused Bixiao and the other disciples’ offers to accompany him, then left the Interception Sect alone.
• The Interception Sect disciples celebrated Lin Changqing’s apparent recovery, while the Sect of Elucidation disciples accused him and his sect of deception.
• Guang Chengzi appeared before Lin Changqing, asked whether his injuries had healed, and exerted pressure on him as a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

Lin Changqing left Kunlun Mountain after intimidating the Sect of Elucidation disciples and spent a thousand years searching the Primordial World for humanity. He came across signs of a fierce battle and heard someone threaten to eat the Dragon Clan.

• Guang Chengzi questioned Lin Changqing about his recovery, but Lin Changqing claimed the Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir had healed him and insisted on leaving Kunlun.
• Guang Chengzi stepped aside, and Lin Changqing frightened the Sect of Elucidation disciples into fleeing with his powerful aura.
• Lin Changqing left Kunlun Mountain and traveled the Primordial World for a thousand years, searching for the human settlement while finding spiritual roots and killing demons.
• Lin Changqing encountered the aftermath of a battle that had devastated the landscape.
• An angry voice declared that the Dragon Clan's flesh was a great tonic and said it would taste some.

Lin Changqing encountered a wounded East Sea Azure Dragon being hunted by a Golden Condor and decided to confront the demon after it threatened to eat him and insulted the human race. The Azure Dragon crashed onto Lin Changqing’s mountaintop, leaving him to face the mid-stage Golden Immortal alone.

• Lin Changqing descended onto a mountaintop after sensing a battle between powerful combatants and saw a wounded Azure Dragon flee toward him.
• The Azure Dragon begged Lin Changqing for help, but its pursuer, a mid-stage Golden Condor, mocked him and threatened to eat him.
• The Azure Dragon turned to fight the Golden Condor, but the condor overwhelmed it, broke its claw, and wounded its belly.
• The Azure Dragon crashed onto Lin Changqing’s mountaintop and apologized for bringing danger to him.
• Lin Changqing declared he would fight for the human race, challenged the Golden Condor, and prepared to test himself against the mid-stage Golden Immortal.

Lin Changqing faced the Golden Condor and endured its storms before summoning the Spear of Divine Demons for a decisive strike. The Golden Condor prepared to meet his attack, while the wounded Azure Dragon watched in astonishment.

• The Golden Condor attacked Lin Changqing with furious gales, but his blood-red armor held firm and quickly repaired itself.
• Lin Changqing leaped toward the Golden Condor and decided to kill it with one blow before reinforcements could arrive.
• Lin Changqing summoned the Spear of Divine Demons, draining half the power in his three thousand six hundred apertures and unleashing a pillar of killing intent visible for a million li.
• Living beings across the surrounding region panicked at the immense clash, while the Golden Condor felt fear and gathered power in its talons.
• The Azure Dragon transformed into human form and marveled at Lin Changqing's strength.

Lin Changqing wounded the Golden Condor with his Spear of Divine Demons, but the mid-stage Golden Immortal survived and prepared to unleash its true strength. The chapter ended with the Golden Condor revealing that it had been holding back, its Geng Metal Qi boosting its power and size.

• Ao Ying watched Lin Changqing fight the Golden Condor and began to hope he could save her.
• Lin Changqing pierced the Golden Condor’s talons with the Spear of Divine Demons, draining its blood and energy.
• The Golden Condor tore the spear free and prepared to attack Lin Changqing with its beak, its true killing move.
• Lin Changqing taunted the Golden Condor, hoping to provoke it into losing its composure.
• The Golden Condor unleashed its Geng Metal Qi, stripped away the remaining Killing Dao aura, and grew from five hundred zhang to twelve hundred zhang.

Lin Changqing fought the Golden Condor, a mid-stage Golden Immortal, and pierced through his defenses with a blood-red spear. He left the Golden Condor gravely wounded and declared that he would take his life.

• Lin Changqing faced the Golden Condor's gale and Geng Metal attacks with his blood and qi and the phantom image of a Divine Demon.
• Ao Ying watched anxiously as Lin Changqing charged through the storm, while he realized he had to end the fight before his strength ran out.
• The Golden Condor swooped to bite Lin Changqing, but Lin Changqing threw his spear straight at him.
• Lin Changqing's spear shattered the Golden Condor's beak, pierced his right eye, and blasted a hole through his right wing.
• Lin Changqing caught the returning spear and told the wounded Golden Condor that he had won and would take his life.

Lin Changqing badly wounded the Golden Condor Demon King, but the mid-Golden Immortal fled before Lin could finish him with the Spear of Divine Demons. Lin used the Heart-Piercing Lock, a Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, to catch and kill the Golden Condor, exhausting his strength in the process.

• Ao Ying emerged from the devastation and saw that Lin Changqing had gravely wounded the Golden Condor Demon King.
• The Golden Condor fled from Lin Changqing, who could not catch him with his own speed.
• Lin Changqing revealed the Heart-Piercing Lock and poured his Divine Demon energy into it.
• The Heart-Piercing Lock caught up with the wounded Golden Condor and pierced through his beak and skull, killing him.

Lin Changqing killed the Golden Condor with the Heart-Piercing Lock, but the demon’s surviving soul invaded his sea of consciousness. There, Lin Changqing faced the intruder with the Divine Demon image and prepared to turn the possession attempt against the Golden Condor.

• Lin Changqing recovered the Heart-Piercing Lock and descended toward the Golden Condor’s fallen body, intending to claim its flesh for blood qi.
• The Golden Condor’s soul burst from its body and entered Lin Changqing’s sea of consciousness, hoping to seize his body and treasures.
• Ao Ying feared Lin Changqing had been possessed and prepared to kill him once the Golden Condor took control.
• The Golden Condor saw the Divine Demon image and the Spear of Divine Demons in Lin Changqing’s sea of consciousness and believed he had found a fortuitous encounter.
• Lin Changqing opened his eyes in his sea of consciousness, trusted the Divine Demon image to overcome the Golden Condor, and declared that the demon was doomed.

Lin Changqing’s Divine Demon image devoured the Golden Condor’s divine soul, strengthening his sea of consciousness and awakening the Divine Demon Wings ability. He learned of an ancient Dragon Clan treasury in a hidden realm in the East Sea, then opened his eyes just as Ao Ying attacked him.

• The Golden Condor’s divine soul rampaged through Lin Changqing’s sea of consciousness and charged at him.
• Lin Changqing taunted the Golden Condor and gambled that the image of the Divine Demon would protect him.
• The Divine Demon image seized and devoured the Golden Condor’s divine soul, repairing and more than doubling Lin Changqing’s sea of consciousness.
• Lin Changqing absorbed the Golden Condor’s refined divine-soul power and memories, discovering that an ancient Dragon Clan treasury had appeared in a hidden realm in the East Sea.
• The Divine Demon image awakened the Divine Demon Wings ability, and Lin Changqing opened his eyes to find Ao Ying attacking him with wind and thunder.

Lin Changqing awakened the Divine Demon Wings and escaped the wounded Azure Dragon, Ao Ying, who mistook him for the Golden Condor. After Lin Changqing proved he was human, Ao Ying apologized, and he decided to use the encounter to investigate the Dragon Clan’s secret land.

• Lin Changqing manifested the Divine Demon Wings and dodged Ao Ying’s attacks while planning to escape and recover.
• Ao Ying accused Lin Changqing of being the Golden Condor and charged at him, refusing to believe his explanations.
• Ao Ying’s wounds split open after she used a Dragon Clan divine ability, and she fell from the sky in human form.
• Lin Changqing revealed his soul and claimed the Golden Condor’s damaged soul had already been destroyed, convincing Ao Ying he was human.
• Ao Ying tearfully apologized and said she was seventy thousand years old and had only recently gone out to gain experience.
• Lin Changqing decided to investigate the Dragon Clan’s secret land with Ao Ying’s help.

Lin Changqing saved Ao Ying, the daughter of East Sea Dragon King Ao Guang, from a Golden Condor and took her somewhere safe to recover. After they ate the demon’s roasted flesh, Ao Ying questioned Lin Changqing about his strength, and he revealed that he was Sage Tongtian’s senior-most direct disciple.

• Lin Changqing learned that the wounded Azure Dragon was Ao Ying, princess of the East Sea Dragon Clan and daughter of Ao Guang.
• Lin Changqing carried Ao Ying and the Golden Condor’s corpse millions of miles away, then concealed their refuge beneath a waterfall while they recovered.
• Lin Changqing roasted the Golden Condor’s wings, and he and Ao Ying ate the demon’s flesh.
• Lin Changqing absorbed the Golden Condor’s flesh and increased his Divine Demon Power by about a tenth.
• Ao Ying asked how Lin Changqing could defeat a mid-stage Golden Immortal as a Mystic Immortal, and Lin Changqing revealed that he was Sage Tongtian’s senior-most direct disciple.

Lin Changqing convinced Ao Ying to help him find a Dragon Clan secret realm, and they reached its location after three hundred years of travel. When a vortex finally appeared in the swamp, Lin Changqing sensed another presence nearby, and an unseen figure called them meals.

• Ao Ying learned that Lin Changqing was a Sage's eldest disciple and eagerly agreed to explore a Dragon Clan secret realm with him.
• Lin Changqing and Ao Ying traveled to a vast swamp, where they spent years searching and hunting its monsters without finding the secret realm.
• A vortex appeared in the swamp, and Ao Ying sensed that it was connected to the Dragon Clan.
• Lin Changqing sensed someone nearby and called them out, prompting an unseen figure to laugh and call Lin Changqing and Ao Ying fine meals.

Lin Changqing and Ao Ying confronted Green Vine, a mid-stage Golden Immortal serpent who had lured the Golden Condor into helping him hunt the Dragon Clan. After Green Vine attacked, Lin Changqing revealed his strength and set a trap, leaving the serpent caught by surprise.

• Green Vine revealed that he had used the Golden Condor to draw Ao Ying into his swamp, hoping to devour her Dragon Clan bloodline.
• Green Vine attacked Lin Changqing and Ao Ying, and Ao Ying transformed into an Azure Dragon to fight him.
• Lin Changqing shattered Green Vine’s fangs with the Spear of Divine Demons, revealing that he had killed the Golden Condor himself.
• Green Vine fled into the swamp and tried to overwhelm Lin Changqing with poisonous mist, but Lin Changqing’s preparations triggered a trap.
• Green Vine roared in shock after realizing Lin Changqing had trapped him.

Lin Changqing killed Green Vine with a coordinated attack and reached the Dragon Clan secret realm with Ao Ying. They used Green Vine’s body to satisfy the seal’s blood-sacrifice requirement, but opening it sent pillars of light beyond the Nine Heavens.

• Lin Changqing used the Heart-Piercing Lock, Ao Ying’s attack, his spear, and a Divine Demon palm to exploit Green Vine’s fatal weakness and kill it.
• Lin Changqing told Ao Ying to disperse the poisonous fog, then recovered his strength while she cleared the way.
• Lin Changqing and Ao Ying flew to the vortex and found ancient Dragon Clan buildings beneath it.
• Ao Ying discovered that the seal required true dragon blood and the body of at least one Golden Immortal as a blood sacrifice.
• Lin Changqing sent Green Vine’s body into the vortex, triggering golden pillars of light that shot beyond the Nine Heavens.

Lin Changqing and Ao Ying entered the Dragon Clan’s secret realm despite the attention its opening drew, then split up to search two promising locations. Lin Changqing found a palace filled with the skeletons of tens of thousands of dragons, including one belonging to a Primordial Golden Immortal.

• Lin Changqing rejected Ao Ying’s suggestion to abandon the secret realm and entered it with her.
• Ao Ying used her true dragon blood to locate a mountaintop palace and a sinkhole as the realm’s strongest places.
• Lin Changqing and Ao Ying split up, and Ao Ying gave him a drop of her essence blood before heading to the sinkhole.
• Lin Changqing flew to the palace, entered through a broken section, and found its treasures decayed to dust.
• Lin Changqing discovered tens of thousands of enormous dragon skeletons in the main hall, including one he recognized as belonging to a Primordial Golden Immortal.

Lin Changqing explored an ancient Dragon Clan burial hall and discovered that a force had annihilated even its Quasi-Sage dragons. As he tried to leave after paying his respects, the dragon skeletons awakened and the largest confronted him.

• Lin Changqing entered a hall filled with dragon skeletons and resisted the pressure of a Quasi-Sage dragon using the Divine Demon image in his sea of consciousness.
• He studied the hall's carvings and saw hundreds of dragons with Quasi-Sage auras, then thought of the Interception Sect's coming tribulation and renewed his resolve to change its fate.
• Lin Changqing found purple-black cracks across the hall and inferred that an overwhelming force had killed the dragons and destroyed their treasures.
• He refused to take the dragons' remains, apologized to the Quasi-Sage dragon, and turned to leave.
• All ten thousand dragon skeletons trembled, and the giant Quasi-Sage skeleton rose and accused Lin Changqing of trespassing and disrespect.

Lin Changqing met the Dragon Clan elder’s surviving remnant soul, learned how the ancient calamity destroyed the clan, and reported on the Dragon Clan’s present state. The elder offered Lin Changqing a treasure in hopes of gaining an ally and easing the Dragon Clan’s karmic burdens.

• The Bone Dragon demanded Ao Ying’s blood essence, then explained that the Heavenly Dao’s Purple Firmament Divine Lightning had destroyed the secret realm and killed its dragons.
• The Bone Dragon examined Ao Ying’s blood essence, recognized her as a nine-patterned true dragon descended from Elder Azure Dragon, and asked Lin Changqing about the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans.
• Lin Changqing said the Dragon Clan survived as the Four Seas Dragon Clans, with Ao Ying as the East Sea Dragon King’s daughter, while the Phoenix Clan had few descendants and the Qilin Clan had vanished.
• The Bone Dragon noticed Lin Changqing’s unusual strength, hidden power, and abundant merit, then offered him an opportunity after Ao Ying found one in the Ancestral Dragon Pool.
• Lin Changqing promised to help the Dragon Clan if it faced danger, and the Bone Dragon gave him the treasure that had protected its remnant soul.

The Bone Dragon gave Lin Changqing a Quasi-Sage Dragon Pearl containing the Dragon Clan’s legacy, and the System appeared with a quest to bestow that legacy for a hundredfold reward. Lin Changqing rushed to the Ancestral Dragon Pool to give it to Ao Ying, but found her wounded and fighting a black Flood Dragon.

• The Bone Dragon gave Lin Changqing its Dragon Pearl and Ao Ying’s blood essence, then remained in the hall to face anyone who came seeking Dragon Clan treasures.
• The System appeared and offered Lin Changqing a hundredfold reward for bestowing the Dragon Clan’s legacy.
• Lin Changqing decided to give the Dragon Pearl to Ao Ying and flew toward the Ancestral Dragon Pool.
• Lin Changqing used the Spirit Pearl to part the golden clouds and enter the pool’s hidden depths.
• Lin Changqing found Ao Ying wounded in her Azure Dragon form as a black Flood Dragon attacked the Dragon Transformation Pool, claiming it as its opportunity.

Lin Changqing stayed hidden as Ao Ying entered the Ancestral Dragon Pool to heal and strengthen her bloodline, while the Ink Flood Dragon tried to break through the formation. The Ink Flood Dragon revealed a Dragon Pearl, intent on using it after killing Ao Ying.

• Lin Changqing recognized the Ink Flood Dragon as a late-stage Golden Immortal and realized a damaged true dragon reverse scale had let him enter the Ancestral Dragon Pool.
• Lin Changqing secretly urged the wounded Ao Ying to absorb the pool’s power and break through before they confronted the Ink Flood Dragon together.
• Ao Ying sank into the pool, where the Ancestral Dragon bloodline rapidly healed and tore her body apart as her cultivation and dragon form grew stronger.
• The Ink Flood Dragon grew enraged at Ao Ying’s progress and used his reverse scale to batter the pool’s formation, but he could not reach her.
• The Ink Flood Dragon threatened to kill Ao Ying and revealed a Dragon Pearl, saying he would use it to make up for his losses.

The Ink Flood Dragon used a Dragon Pearl to force a partial transformation and press against the barrier of the Ancestral Dragon Pool, where Ao Ying remained inside. Lin Changqing prepared to hold him off, and the chapter ended with the Ink Flood Dragon attacking Lin Changqing after dismissing him as a Mystic Immortal.

• The Ink Flood Dragon swallowed a Dragon Pearl and partially transformed, greatly increasing his strength as he attacked the Dragon Transformation Pool’s barrier.
• Ao Ying endured the purification inside the Ancestral Dragon Pool and trusted Lin Changqing to protect her.
• Lin Changqing chose to stay and defend Ao Ying, summoning his blood-red armor, Spear of Divine Demons, and Divine Demon Wings.
• The Ink Flood Dragon spotted Lin Changqing, attacked him, and mocked him as a mere Mystic Immortal after Lin Changqing shattered his claw energy and taunted him.
• The Ink Flood Dragon unleashed a devastating horn attack at Lin Changqing, who smiled and asked, “That’s it?”

Lin Changqing fought Ink Flood Dragon to stop him from breaking the barrier around the Dragon Transformation Pool while Ao Ying transformed inside. Ink Flood Dragon was forced to turn and face Lin Changqing, and their clash left his fang cracked and his horn dimmed.

• Ink Flood Dragon ignored Lin Changqing’s taunts and attacked the golden barrier, while Lin Changqing used the Divine Demon Wings to evade his strike and hit him from behind.
• Lin Changqing shattered Ink Flood Dragon’s true dragon power and sent him flying, but Ink Flood Dragon focused on the barrier as the Azure Dragon inside the pool neared the mid-stage Golden Immortal realm.
• Lin Changqing repeatedly interrupted Ink Flood Dragon’s attacks on the barrier and mocked him, then blocked a claw strike and charged again despite being hurt.
• Ink Flood Dragon finally turned on Lin Changqing, and the two collided in a direct clash that cracked one of Ink Flood Dragon’s fangs and dimmed his horn.

Lin Changqing fought Ink Flood Dragon in the Dragon Transformation Pool, badly injuring him despite their vast difference in cultivation. When Ink Flood Dragon threatened Lin Changqing’s sect and the human race, Lin Changqing revealed that he belonged to the Interception Sect, leaving the demon disbelieving.

• Ink Flood Dragon and Lin Changqing both suffered serious injuries in their clash, but Lin Changqing’s body and armor began to recover.
• Lin Changqing taunted Ink Flood Dragon and prepared to keep fighting, though his Divine Demon Power had fallen to forty percent.
• Ink Flood Dragon threatened to devour humans and destroy everything Lin Changqing held dear, while conserving his remaining True Dragon Power.
• Lin Changqing mocked Ink Flood Dragon’s threats and said his sect was the Interception Sect.
• Ink Flood Dragon refused to believe that a Mystic Immortal could be a disciple of a Saint.

Lin Changqing stalled Ink Flood Dragon while Ao Ying absorbed bloodline power in the Ancestral Dragon Pool. When Ink Flood Dragon pretended to make peace and then attacked, Lin Changqing fled and sent the Spear of Divine Demons toward him, leaving Ink Flood Dragon confident he could claim the treasure.

• Ink Flood Dragon suspected Lin Changqing might be a Sage's disciple, then decided to kill him despite the risk.
• Lin Changqing pretended to accept Ink Flood Dragon's offer of friendship while buying time for Ao Ying to absorb bloodline power.
• As Ao Ying neared the mid-stage of the Golden Immortal realm, Ink Flood Dragon lunged at Lin Changqing and revealed his intent to kill him.
• Lin Changqing fled in a streak of blood-red light and sent the Spear of Divine Demons toward Ink Flood Dragon's abdomen.
• Ink Flood Dragon failed to block the spear and believed his scales would stop it, then grew eager to claim the treasure.

Lin Changqing detonated the Spear of Divine Demons against the Ink Flood Dragon, grievously wounding him but failing to kill him. When the Ink Flood Dragon charged again, Lin Changqing revealed an even more powerful Innate Spiritual Treasure and challenged him to come closer.

• The Ink Flood Dragon boasted that Lin Changqing could not pierce his defenses and tried to claim the Spear of Divine Demons.
• Lin Changqing drove the spear against the Ink Flood Dragon's abdomen and made it self-destruct.
• The explosion tore open the Ink Flood Dragon's abdomen, destroyed his claws, and embedded him in rubble, but he survived.
• The Ink Flood Dragon's wounds resisted healing as Lin Changqing mocked him and explained that he had anticipated the dragon's scheme.
• The enraged Ink Flood Dragon charged Lin Changqing, who revealed a silver lock that radiated even greater killing intent than the spear.

Lin Changqing drove off the wounded Ink Flood Dragon, then entered the Ancestral Dragon Pool and absorbed its true dragon power while Ao Ying cultivated. Ao Ying reached the mid-stage Golden Immortal realm, while Lin Changqing came close to a breakthrough but stopped just short.

• Lin Changqing threatened the Ink Flood Dragon with the Heart-Piercing Lock, and the injured dragon fled the Ancestral Dragon Pool.
• Lin Changqing used a Quasi-Sage dragon pearl to pass through the pool's golden barrier and began absorbing its true dragon power.
• Lin Changqing restored his Divine Demon Power and strengthened the divine demon phantoms in his apertures as he refined the Ancestral Dragon's power.
• Ao Ying absorbed the remaining power in the pool and broke through to the mid-stage Golden Immortal realm.
• Ao Ying excitedly told Lin Changqing about her breakthrough, and he realized he had fallen just short of his own.