Chapter Summaries

Hong Yun exposed the little white dragon as Ancestral Dragon, who had survived the Dragon-Han Tribulation by transforming into the Dragon Vein Spirit. Ancestral Dragon stopped pretending and revealed his true identity.

• Xuanming attacked the black shadow until its baleful aura dispersed, revealing a tiny white dragon made of Spirit Vein Essence.
• The little white dragon claimed to be the Earth Vein Spirit and said it had only happened to encounter Hong Yun and Xuanming.
• Hong Yun recognized the little white dragon as Ancestral Dragon, and Xuanming questioned how he could still be alive.
• Hong Yun explained that Ancestral Dragon had faked his death and become the Spirit of the Dragon Vein.
• The little white dragon gave up the pretense and shifted his form.

Ancestral Dragon transformed from the earth veins and confronted Hong Yun and Xuanming, questioning their claim to be Dragon Clan members. After Hong Yun admitted they were borrowing the identity, Ancestral Dragon urged them to part ways before Jieyin and Zhun Ti noticed them.

• Ancestral Dragon appeared in his imposing dragon form and demanded to know who Hong Yun was.
• Xuanming recognized Ancestral Dragon and wondered whether he had truly survived.
• Hong Yun introduced himself and Xuanming as Long Wu and Long Jiu, but Ancestral Dragon said he knew they were not Dragon Clan members.
• Ancestral Dragon explained that their cultivation made their claimed identities impossible and asked why they were impersonating the Dragon Clan.
• Hong Yun admitted they had borrowed the identity for convenience and said they had no designs on the Dragon Clan.
• Ancestral Dragon warned that a disturbance could attract Jieyin and Zhun Ti, then retreated and proposed that they part ways.

Hong Yun and Xuanming confronted Ancestral Dragon beneath the earth and questioned him about Luohu’s Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus. Ancestral Dragon denied knowing anything, though he had secretly spent countless years tracking the lotus, and Hong Yun stopped Xuanming before she attacked him.

• Xuanming blocked Ancestral Dragon’s escape, while Hong Yun tried to keep him there and asked about the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Ancestral Dragon claimed he had come to the Western Boundary by coincidence, but privately recalled that he had been searching the leylines for Luohu’s vanished treasures.
• Ancestral Dragon refused to share what he knew and challenged Hong Yun to take his life if he could.
• Xuanming grew impatient and moved to beat Ancestral Dragon until he talked, but Hong Yun reached out to stop her.

Hong Yun pressured Ancestral Dragon over the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and the Dragon Clan’s karmic debt. Ancestral Dragon offered a cultivation technique as compensation, but Hong Yun insisted it was not enough.

• Hong Yun warned Ancestral Dragon that he and Xuanming could beat or seal him, and threatened that the Dragon Clan owed him a karmic debt.
• Hong Yun let Ancestral Dragon sense the karmic connection to the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, prompting Ancestral Dragon to ask why Hong Yun was threatening him.
• Ancestral Dragon offered the Great Dragon Yin-Yang Cultivation Technique to settle the debt and teased Hong Yun about his romantic entanglements.
• Xuanming stomped apart Ancestral Dragon’s condensed dragon form, while Hong Yun denied interest in the technique but kept the jade slip for two little dragons at his mountain gate.
• Hong Yun told Ancestral Dragon that the technique was not enough to match the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus.

Hong Yun demanded more from Ancestral Dragon after accepting his divine ability, then set his sights on the Innate Water Spirit Pearl. Ancestral Dragon tried to protect the treasure that sustained his remnant soul but ultimately yielded to Hong Yun’s pressure.

• Ancestral Dragon felt kinship with Hong Yun and wondered why Hong Yun had pursued him without seeming to intend harm.
• Hong Yun told Ancestral Dragon that the divine ability he had given him was not enough and demanded actual treasures.
• Ancestral Dragon claimed he had no treasures with him and planned to direct Hong Yun to hidden caches instead.
• Hong Yun spotted the Innate Water Spirit Pearl nourishing Ancestral Dragon’s soul and insisted on taking it.
• Ancestral Dragon silently tried to bargain for the pearl’s safety, but backed down because he could not resist Hong Yun.

Hong Yun accepted the Innate Water Spirit Pearl from Ancestral Dragon in exchange for letting him leave the earth vein. Ancestral Dragon departed with lingering doubts, while Hong Yun and Xuanming remained behind.

• Ancestral Dragon revealed the Innate Water Spirit Pearl and described it as one of the Innate Five Elements Spirit Pearls.
• Hong Yun accepted the pearl, erased the other aura from it, and stored it in his inner world, where its water power nourished the Innate Gourd Vine.
• Hong Yun cleared the barriers in the earth vein and beckoned Xuanming to his side.
• Hong Yun invited Ancestral Dragon to leave and claimed that Long Wu was known for keeping his word and acting reasonably.
• Ancestral Dragon thanked Long Wu and Long Jiu, then retreated through the earth vein.

Hong Yun and Xuanming returned to the abyss where Luohu had perished to search for the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, expecting Ancestral Dragon to come back. Ancestral Dragon secretly returned to the same place, where Hong Yun greeted him and left him shocked.

• After Ancestral Dragon left, Xuanming questioned Hong Yun about letting him go, and Hong Yun explained that Ancestral Dragon might still have a reason to remain in the Western Boundary.
• Hong Yun and Xuanming returned to the abyss where Luohu had perished to look for the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Ancestral Dragon checked that Hong Yun had not marked him, then circled back because he had sensed the lotus platform's aura near the abyss.
• Ancestral Dragon secretly approached the abyss through an abandoned ley-line passage, but Hong Yun greeted him from inside.
• Ancestral Dragon realized Hong Yun and Xuanming had been waiting for him and feared they would infer his purpose.

Hong Yun and Xuanming encountered Ancestral Dragon again while searching for the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, and Ancestral Dragon proposed an alliance to find Luohu’s remnant soul. Hong Yun accepted, but stayed wary when Ancestral Dragon asked them to reveal their true identities.

• Ancestral Dragon emerged from the leyline and greeted Hong Yun and Xuanming, then asked what Hong Yun wanted.
• Hong Yun said he had come for the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, and Ancestral Dragon offered to join forces and let him keep the treasure.
• Ancestral Dragon explained that he wanted Luohu’s remnant soul and promised to take nothing else if they found it.
• Hong Yun considered Ancestral Dragon’s motives and agreed to work together, hoping to learn more about Luohu from him.
• Ancestral Dragon asked Hong Yun and Xuanming to show their true faces, but Hong Yun decided not to reveal their identities.

Hong Yun, the Ancestral Dragon, and Jieyin entered the hidden world formed from Luohu’s death to investigate it. They found a dim Demonic World where Hong Yun’s protective light destroyed the phantoms that attacked him.

• Hong Yun refused to explain how he and Jieyin had met or change their identities, and the Ancestral Dragon agreed to join their investigation.
• The Ancestral Dragon endured the Heavenly Dao Shackles’ backlash and sent a temporary human-form clone out of the earth veins.
• Hong Yun led the group through the abyss to the water that concealed Luohu’s world, and the Ancestral Dragon explained why Hongjun had not erased it.
• Hong Yun entered the Demonic World and found that the Heavenly Dao’s laws and his connection to the Primordial Wilderness were weak there.
• Phantoms rushed at Hong Yun, but they vanished when they touched the light surrounding him.

Hong Yun, Xuanming, and Ancestral Dragon entered the growing Demonic World and pursued the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus after it appeared. Meanwhile, Jieyin and Zhun Ti announced that they would move Mount Sumeru above the Demonic World to suppress it, and began preparing to raise the mountain.

• Ancestral Dragon recognized that Luohu’s resentment and the living beings’ negative emotions were turning the world into a Demonic World, while Hong Yun warned Xuanming to be careful.
• Ancestral Dragon offered Hong Yun a dual-cultivation technique, but Hong Yun refused after noticing Xuanming’s reaction.
• The Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus flashed into view, and Hong Yun, Xuanming, and Ancestral Dragon chased it through the demonic qi as it devoured energy.
• At Mount Sumeru, Zhun Ti told the disciples that demons were escaping into the Primordial World and that he and Jieyin would move Mount Sumeru above the Demonic World to suppress it.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti released golden light and seals as they began to raise Mount Sumeru.

Jieyin and Zhun Ti moved Mount Sumeru above the abyss and sealed the entrance to the Demonic World by linking the formation to the Western lands. Meanwhile, Hong Yun pursued the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus inside the Demonic World, where it continued replenishing its demonic energy instead of panicking.

• Maitreya helped Jieyin and Zhun Ti lift Mount Sumeru, preserving its ley lines as they carried it toward the abyss.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti formed a golden sealing formation over the abyss and linked it to Mount Sumeru and the Western lands.
• Zhun Ti lowered Mount Sumeru into place, reconnecting its ley lines and concealing the completed seal within the earth and space.
• Hong Yun nearly caught up with the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus as Xuanming and Ancestral Dragon trailed behind.
• The Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus continued absorbing demonic energy, trusting that it could escape the Demonic World once replenished.

Hong Yun trapped the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus with his laws of space and let Ancestral Dragon approach it first to investigate for Luohu’s remnant soul. Xuanming suspected Hong Yun was using Ancestral Dragon as a shield, while both men pursued their own aims.

• The Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus tried to flee, but Hong Yun froze the surrounding space and trapped it.
• Xuanming and Ancestral Dragon caught up, and Ancestral Dragon eagerly studied the lotus.
• Hong Yun asked Ancestral Dragon to investigate the lotus first, and Ancestral Dragon agreed because he wanted to find Luohu’s remnant soul and secrets.
• Xuanming questioned whether Hong Yun was setting Ancestral Dragon up, but Hong Yun claimed they were each getting what they wanted.
• Xuanming accepted Hong Yun’s cunning against outsiders and privately thought about how she and her big sister complemented each other.

Hong Yun and Xuanming watched Ancestral Dragon approach the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, which unleashed a devastating killing intent and tried to escape. Hong Yun used the power of his entire world to suppress the lotus, while Ancestral Dragon wondered who Hong Yun really was.

• Hong Yun told Xuanming that she had become easier to approach, and she looked embarrassed by his observation.
• Ancestral Dragon landed on the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, which erupted with killing intent and blasted him away, piercing his dragon tail.
• Hong Yun realized the lotus’s killing intent had broken through his spatial restrictions and might alert Jieyin and Zhun Ti, so he moved to stop it.
• Hong Yun unleashed the World Seal with the power of his entire world, sending the lotus flying back into his spatial restrictions and trapping it again.
• Ancestral Dragon watched Hong Yun’s display in astonishment and wondered about his true identity.

Hong Yun subdued the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, whose killing aura struck Mount Sumeru and killed several Western Boundary disciples. As Jieyin and Zhun Ti rushed toward the Demonic World to investigate, Hong Yun concealed his identity by returning to his True Dragon Body.

• Ancestral Dragon was shaken by Hong Yun's power and wondered whether the Dragon Clan's glory had passed.
• The Black Lotus's killing aura pierced the Demonic World and struck the seal beneath Mount Sumeru.
• The seal intercepted most of the killing aura, but the remaining wisps killed several disciples during Jieyin and Zhun Ti's sermon.
• Zhun Ti ordered Maitreya to secure Mount Sumeru, then he and Jieyin headed into the Demonic World.
• Hong Yun sensed Jieyin and Zhun Ti approaching, suppressed his aura, and transformed into his True Dragon Body.

Hong Yun tried to subdue the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and escape the Demonic World before Jieyin and Zhunti arrived. The lotus activated its killing-intent formation again, and Hong Yun’s punch sent it spinning toward the outskirts.

• Hong Yun erased the traces around himself and called for Xuanming to leave as Jieyin and Zhunti approached.
• Hong Yun tightened his spatial confinement around the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and told Xuanming she could enter his inner world if needed.
• Hong Yun tried to pull the black lotus toward himself, but its power surged to match his and its killing-intent formation began activating again.
• Hong Yun sensed the renewed attack was more concentrated than the first and warned Xuanming to watch out.
• Hong Yun punched the black lotus, flipping it so its surface faced the outskirts of the Demonic World.

Jieyin and Zhun Ti were struck by a concentrated spear of killing intent as they entered the Demonic World, and Zhun Ti took the hit to protect Mount Sumeru. While Jieyin raged and searched for their attacker, Hong Yun seized the weakened Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and moved it into his inner world, where it could not escape.

• A phantom spear of killing intent pierced Jieyin’s golden body and broke through Zhun Ti’s defenses as they entered the Demonic World.
• Zhun Ti chose to face the spear rather than dodge, taking its scattered blades into his body to keep the seal from being left unguarded.
• Jieyin saw that Zhun Ti had protected Mount Sumeru, erupted with wrath, and sent the Jieyin Treasure Banner toward the source of the attack.
• Hong Yun redirected the formation’s killing intent toward the Demonic World’s exterior and took the weakened Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Hong Yun transferred the lotus into his inner world and suppressed its attempts to escape.

Hong Yun suppressed the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and prepared to escape the Demonic World with Xuanming. He brought Ancestral Dragon along as well, despite the risk of exposing his identity as Long Wu.

• Hong Yun used the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler, the Three Innate Five Elements Flags, and the Heavens Celebration Cloud to seal the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Hong Yun sensed Jieyin's surging aura and suspected that Jieyin had become a Quasi-Saint after severing his evil corpse.
• Hong Yun grabbed Xuanming and began opening a spatial escape route from the Demonic World.
• Ancestral Dragon shouted for Hong Yun to take him along, fearing Jieyin and Zhun Ti would capture him.
• Hong Yun decided to rescue Ancestral Dragon despite the risk of revealing his identity, and pulled him through space to join them.

Hong Yun escaped the Demonic World with Ancestral Dragon and Xuanming, while Jieyin's rampage inspired him to sever his Evil Corpse and become a Quasi-Saint. Hong Yun returned to Fire Cloud Cave, where Xuanming had kept Ancestral Dragon under watch.

• Hong Yun sent Ancestral Dragon and Xuanming to Fire Cloud Cave, erased their traces, and vanished before Jieyin's Treasure Banner could hit him.
• Jieyin, consumed by evil thoughts, attacked the demons around him until Zhun Ti urged him to sever his Evil Corpse.
• Jieyin regained clarity and shouted to sever his Evil Corpse, gaining the chance to become a Quasi-Saint.
• Hong Yun collected the suppressed Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and returned to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Ancestral Dragon wondered where he was and tried to question Xuanming, but she stopped him from leaving the hall.
• Hong Yun entered the hall, and Xuanming signaled that she had kept Ancestral Dragon under close watch.

Hong Yun returned to Fire Cloud Cave with Ancestral Dragon and revealed his identity to him. He handed over the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus as promised, then began surrounding it with layers of formations.

• Xuanming worried until Hong Yun returned safely to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Hong Yun revealed that he was Hong Yun, and Xuanming disclosed her identity to Ancestral Dragon.
• Hong Yun explained that he could have abandoned Ancestral Dragon to take the blame, but chose to bring him along.
• Hong Yun showed Ancestral Dragon the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and honored their agreement by giving him the treasure.
• Hong Yun placed layers of grand formations around the black lotus, prompting Xuanming to question why he was being so cautious in his own territory.

Hong Yun prepared to capture the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, and its hidden God-Slaying Spear emerged. He and Ancestral Dragon forced Luohu’s remnant soul to reveal himself, leaving the old enemies face-to-face.

• Hong Yun arranged layers of formations around the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and removed the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler.
• The God-Slaying Spear burst from the lotus and pierced through successive formations as Hong Yun worked to wear down its power.
• Hong Yun called on Luohu to appear, while Ancestral Dragon recognized that Luohu’s remnant soul was hiding inside the lotus.
• Luohu appeared atop the lotus and greeted Ancestral Dragon, who vowed he would not die before seeing Luohu destroyed.