Chapter Summaries

Tongtian accused Yuanshi of killing Lin Changqing and demanded justice for his beloved disciple. He unleashed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation around the Sect of Elucidation, leaving both sects fearing that the dispute would escalate into a battle between Saints.

• Tongtian accused Yuanshi and the Sect of Elucidation disciples of violating the laws and killing Lin Changqing, while Yuanshi struggled to defend them.
• Tongtian declared that he would avenge Lin Changqing and summoned the Four Immortal Slaying Swords, enclosing the Sect of Elucidation in the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Yuanshi and the Sect of Elucidation disciples panicked as they recognized the formation's power, while the Interception Sect disciples called on Tongtian to avenge their senior disciple brother.
• Bixiao asked Tongtian for permission to attack Cihang, Puxian, and Guang Chengzi, and Tongtian silently approved of her performance.
• Duobao and the other direct disciples worried that the act could trigger a full-scale Saint battle as chaos spread through the Primordial World.

Tongtian unleashed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation after Lin Changqing was killed, threatening the Sect of Elucidation until Taishang intervened. The chapter ended with Tongtian demanding a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir, saying Changqing still had a chance and he would save him.

• Powerful beings across the Primordial World saw the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation over Kunlun and speculated that the Three Pure Ones had turned against each other.
• The Interception Sect disciples condemned the Sect of Elucidation for using the Soul Devouring Needle against Lin Changqing, while Yuanshi feared Tongtian would destroy his trapped disciples.
• Tongtian activated the formation, tearing through Heaven and Earth as Yuanshi pleaded for him to stop.
• Taishang arrived with the Taiji Diagram, stabilized Kunlun, and ordered Yuanshi to discipline the Sect of Elucidation disciples.
• Tongtian demanded a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir from Yuanshi, declaring that Lin Changqing still had a chance and he would go save him.

Tongtian forced Yuanshi to hand over a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir by threatening the Sect of Elucidation with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. Yuanshi punished the disciples responsible for attacking Lin Changqing, then ordered Juliusun’s cultivation abolished and expelled him from the sect.

• Tongtian demanded Yuanshi’s Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir to save Lin Changqing and renewed the attack with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Yuanshi questioned Yunxiao about the elixir, but Tongtian shielded her and insisted Yuanshi hand over his own.
• Yuanshi gave Tongtian the elixir, and Tongtian flew toward the Interception Sect Immortal Palace while demanding that Yuanshi punish the offenders.
• Yuanshi expelled several injured Mystic Immortal disciples and slapped them away when they begged for mercy.
• Yuanshi sentenced other disciples to seclusion, including Cihang and Puxian, then ordered Juliusun’s cultivation abolished and expelled him.

Yuanshi expelled Juliusun from the Sect of Elucidation and ordered Guang Chengzi to strip away his cultivation after Juliusun attacked Lin Changqing and plotted against the Interception Sect. As Juliusun was cast out as an Earth Immortal, he exposed Cihang Daoren and Puxian Zhenren’s involvement, leaving them eager to silence him and eyeing his Houtian Spiritual Treasure.

• Yuanshi rejected Juliusun’s pleas for mercy and ordered Guang Chengzi to strip his cultivation and expel him.
• Juliusun blamed Lin Changqing for his downfall, then accused Cihang Daoren and Puxian Zhenren of plotting with him against the Interception Sect.
• Cihang Daoren and Puxian Zhenren denied Juliusun’s accusations and urged Guang Chengzi to carry out Yuanshi’s order.
• Guang Chengzi stripped Juliusun’s cultivation down to the Earth Immortal realm and cast him off Kunlun Mountain.
• Cihang and the other Sect of Elucidation disciples noticed Juliusun still carried a Houtian Spiritual Treasure and considered taking it.

Lin Changqing returned safely to the Jie Sect Hall after faking his death, and Tongtian praised his scheme while keeping the Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir. After Bixiao reunited with him and Tongtian ordered the disciples to let the matter rest, Lin Changqing asked to leave the mountain and gain experience through cultivation.

• Lin Changqing confessed to Tongtian that he had borrowed the Three Sects' name, deceived a Sage, and faked his death, and Tongtian forgave him.
• Tongtian put away the Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir instead of giving it to Lin Changqing, leaving him disappointed.
• Bixiao rushed into the hall, hugged Lin Changqing, and worried over his injuries, while Lin Changqing reassured her and defended Yunxiao and the others.
• Bixiao told Lin Changqing that Juliusun had been expelled from the Sect of Elucidation and that Guang Chengzi had crippled his cultivation.
• Tongtian ordered the Sect of Interception disciples to end the matter, then asked Lin Changqing what he planned to do next.
• Lin Changqing told Tongtian that he wished to leave the mountain and gain experience through cultivation.

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.