Chapter Summaries

Wang Xian and the others celebrated after killing a dragon, but a much larger black dragon emerged from the lake, believing Wang Xian had killed her mate. As the dragon confronted him, she asked how he wanted to die, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Murong Wan'er joined Wang Xian and the others for a meal, and Wang Xian explained that the dragons had wanted to eat them to advance their cultivation.
• A huge black dragon emerged from the lake and fixed Wang Xian with a furious, grieving stare.
• Wang Xian enclosed Hu Keke, Feng Yanran, Murong Wan'er, and the blind man within a protective formation before confronting the dragon alone.
• The crow tried to persuade the black dragon to eat Wang Xian and help it ascend, while Wang Xian denied killing her mate and prepared his Giant Que Sword.
• The black dragon revealed that she still sought to become a dragon and asked Wang Xian how he wanted to die.

Wang Xian battled the black wyrm with his bare hands and sword before a sudden mountain collapse revealed a cave called the Blessed Grotto. He and the black wyrm raced inside to claim its treasure, while Wang Xian offered her a chance to ascend in exchange for splitting it.

• Wang Xian met the black wyrm’s attacks with his fists, then blocked her spirit sword with the giant tower sword.
• The ground began shaking, and the black wyrm abandoned their fight to investigate a collapsing mountain.
• A cliff broke away to reveal a cave marked “Blessed Grotto,” and the crow flew inside ahead of the black wyrm.
• Wang Xian dismissed the formation and hurried after the crow and the black wyrm, followed by Hu Keke, Feng Yanran, Murong Wan'er, and the blind man.
• Wang Xian offered to help the black wyrm ascend if she agreed to split the grotto’s treasure, and she questioned whether she could trust him.

Wang Xian and the others reached the ancient cave after he endured and answered the sword intent carved into its entrance. They explored its empty hall with the black flood dragon and the crow, but the cave's purpose and dangers remained unknown.

• The black flood dragon agreed to spare the group if Wang Xian could help her ascend, while Wang Xian waited at the cave entrance for the others.
• A sword strike from the carved characters nearly injured Wang Xian, and his counterattack shattered the words “Blessed Land.”
• Wang Xian studied the character “Heaven” and unleashed a sword strike that split the clouds before an unseen force erased it.
• Feng Yanran, Murong Wan'er, Hu Keke, and the blind man joined Wang Xian, and they entered the cave after the black flood dragon and the crow.
• The group found a vast, empty hall with no remains or visible treasures, and Wang Xian asked the black flood dragon what she wanted to do.

Wang Xian and his companions encountered a sea of black snakes inside the underground palace and fought them back with fire and talismans. As more snakes poured through the walls, the black flood dragon warned that the Snake King had arrived.

• Wang Xian and the black flood dragon swore an oath to share any treasure and help each other, but the flood dragon vanished when a rustling sound approached.
• The crow warned Wang Xian of a monster, and the group discovered a vast swarm of black snakes advancing through the darkness.
• Wang Xian used fire talismans and fire oil to burn and blast back the snakes while his companions stayed behind him.
• The black flood dragon denied summoning the snakes, and Wang Xian continued holding them back as they broke through the stone walls in greater numbers.
• After Wang Xian used the last of the fire oil to incinerate another wave, the black flood dragon announced that the Snake King was already there.

Wang Xian and his companions escaped the Snake King through a stone gate, where the Black Flood Dragon let them pass. When the Snake King caught up again, Wang Xian prepared to fight, furious that Mu Rong Wan'er had no antidote for the poison she had given him.

• Wang Xian led Feng Yanran, Hu Keke, Mu Rong Wan'er, and the blind man through a gap he cut in the stone wall, then sealed it with explosive runes to block the Snake King and its snake horde.
• Hu Keke mistook a divine dragon carving for a monster, and the group discovered a stone gate they could not open; the Black Flood Dragon opened it from inside and called them in.
• The Black Flood Dragon reflected that she intended to use Wang Xian as a pawn and kill anyone who threatened him, while the Snake King continued pursuing the group through another passage.
• The Snake King caught up with Wang Xian and the others, leaving them surrounded by stone walls with nowhere to flee.
• Wang Xian asked Mu Rong Wan'er for the antidote in exchange for saving her, but she admitted she had none; he then faced the charging Snake King and vowed to kill it.

Wang Xian used the Hehuan Sect’s aphrodisiac to turn the Snake King and its swarm against one another, then merged with the Juque Sword and devoured the Snake King’s spiritual energy until it fled as a skeleton. After resting, the group continued deeper into the secret realm and spotted a mysterious light ahead.

• The Snake King broke through the wall of fire and attacked Wang Xian, who knocked it back with a punch and prepared to hold it off while the others escaped.
• Wang Xian fired three arrows carrying the Hehuan Sect’s aphrodisiac, causing the snake swarm to turn on itself and driving the Snake King into a frenzy.
• Wang Xian merged with the Juque Sword and used One Sword Devours the Soul to drain the Snake King’s spiritual energy and Divine Soul until it escaped through a stone wall.
• The group found the swarm reduced to white bones, and Wang Xian rested before warning Murong Wan’er that he was poisonous and urging everyone onward.
• Hu Keke spotted a faint light ahead, while Murong Wan’er insisted she would drink Wang Xian’s blood if she needed to break through her realm.

Wang Xian and his companions discovered a spirit spring hidden behind a magical barrier, then entered and drank from it as mysterious scriptures filled the cave with golden light. The group gained spiritual insight and prepared to soak in the spring that night, while Wang Xian planned to study the incantations and remained unable to advance his cultivation.

• Murong Wan'er revealed that the aphrodisiac required an ingredient found only in the Demon Realm, and Wang Xian promised to bring her spirit medicines from there.
• The group found a radiant spirit spring, but an invisible barrier blocked their way until Wang Xian used his rune-engraved knife and gestures to lead them through.
• Wang Xian and the others drank from the spring and collected some, while he began preparing spirit tea.
• Mysterious chanting and golden characters filled the cave, and the light entered everyone's bodies as Hu Keke began breaking through with the Blind Man's help.
• The Blind Man washed his eyes with the spring, while the group discussed their gains and agreed to wait until moonlight to soak in the water.
• Wang Xian decided to stay and study the golden characters, then told Murong Wan'er that he would not break through to Foundation Establishment overnight.

After the Spirit Spring transformed the mountain, cultivators from across Southern Border raced toward its golden light while Wang Xian awoke atop the peak and faced a Demon King within his Divine Sea. He used the mysterious incantations to turn the demon’s attempt to possess him into an apparent act of devouring, and opened his eyes with the Demon King’s aura.

• The black flood dragon, Mu Rong Wan'er, Hu Keke, and the others drank Spirit Spring tea, and Hu Keke broke through to a new realm.
• Golden light rose from the mountain as cultivators gathered at the lake; Mu Li and the Black-and-White Twin Heroes rushed toward the peak, while Li Yidao chose to search for spirit herbs instead.
• Wang Xian awoke on the mountaintop and saw a terrifying demon within his Divine Sea, while the old monk from Cold Mountain Temple appeared and attacked it with Buddhist scriptures.
• After the old monk vanished and the demon tried to possess him, Wang Xian recited the incantations and enveloped the demon in a chaotic aura.
• Wang Xian opened his eyes as an evil eye appeared, and he seemed to have become the Demon King.

After reuniting across a mountain peak, Wang Xian faced cultivators who mistook him for the secret realm’s treasure and demanded it. He killed two Imperial City guards with one sword, but the remaining challengers decided to attack him together.

• Feng Yanran, Murong Wan'er, Hu Keke, and the Blind Man woke on a mountain opposite Wang Xian, and the crow warned them that cultivators were heading to his peak.
• Mu Li, the Black-and-White Heroes, and two cultivators from Phoenix Town confronted Wang Xian and demanded that he hand over the treasure.
• Mu Li ordered his two guards to kill Wang Xian, and Wang Xian beheaded them with One Sword No Trace.
• Wang Xian collected the guards’ Storage Rings and warned the remaining challengers that they should be ready to die if they tried to kill him.
• The fat man, the old man in black, Tian Lingtian, and the others agreed to attack Wang Xian together.

Wang Xian broke Mu Li’s sword strikes, but a monstrous black mist erupted on the mountaintop and killed Mu Li, the Fatty, and Tian Lingguang. After a skeletal flood dragon swallowed Wang Xian and began to transcend its tribulation, the black flood dragon swallowed it, and a mysterious rift consumed both dragons and Wang Xian.

• A skeletal monster in the cave absorbed the spirit spring’s energy, shattered a crystal wall, and opened a passage.
• Wang Xian severed Mu Li’s thirteen sword strikes with One Sword No Trace, then Mu Li called on the Fatty and Tian Lingguang to attack him.
• A black mist and its terrifying wind swept the Fatty, Tian Lingguang, and Mu Li toward the thousand-zhang cliff, killing Mu Li and leaving the onlookers panicked.
• Wang Xian slashed at the evil eye as a skeletal flood dragon burst from the cave and swallowed him before rising into the sky to transcend its tribulation.
• The black flood dragon swallowed the skeletal flood dragon, but a mysterious rift opened in the storm clouds and swallowed both dragons and Wang Xian.
• Hu Keke collapsed and murmured that Wang Xian could not die.

Wang Xian and the black jiao were caught in a deadly struggle with the white jiao while the black jiao endured her tribulation. Wang Xian revived enough to help her, and the white jiao was beheaded as a much heavier wave of lightning descended.

• The black jiao fought the white jiao while tribulation lightning repeatedly struck them, and Wang Xian lay bloodied and barely conscious nearby.
• The white jiao attacked Wang Xian, but the black jiao blocked it and was struck by lightning alongside the beast.
• Wang Xian sent a drop of water to the black jiao, healing her wounds and renewing her strength as her body changed.
• The white jiao threatened the black jiao over Wang Xian, but Wang Xian suddenly struck it with his sword and severed its head.
• Dozens and then hundreds of bolts of tribulation lightning struck the headless white jiao as the black jiao cried out.

Wang Xian woke in the Demon Realm after Hua Yurong saved him, and learned that he had been unconscious for a month. After naming her and explaining his past, he accepted that returning home would be difficult, while Hua Yurong took him to the Azure Cloud Sect to help him train.

• Wang Xian woke in a wooden house and discovered that the woman beside him was the black flood dragon, now transformed into human form.
• Hua Yurong explained how the Snake King swallowed Wang Xian, how she swallowed the Snake King, and how a black hole brought them to the Demon Realm.
• Wang Xian named her Hua Yurong, then told her about his past and his promise to return to the lower realm.
• Hua Yurong proposed taking Wang Xian to her sect so he could train, and he said he would rather learn alchemy than pursue cultivation.
• Hua Yurong carried the frightened Wang Xian through the sky and told him they had arrived at the Azure Cloud Sect.

Wang Xian was tested for spiritual roots at the Azure Cloud Sect and was rejected as a cultivator after the five Spirit Stones revealed only a weak five-element mixed root. He offered Hua Yurong his savings and asked to work in the library, leaving Qin Jun curious about his handwriting and a Buddhist scripture he had copied.

• Hua Yurong brought Wang Xian to the Azure Cloud Sect, where he said he would study the mountain gate's formation and break it.
• Qin Jun tested Wang Xian's spiritual roots with jade and five Spirit Stones, but each stone only glimmered faintly in his hand.
• Qin Jun explained the Demon Realm's cultivation systems and Hua Yurong's transformed cultivation levels, while Wang Xian decided to keep cultivating the Immortal Longevity Scripture.
• Wang Xian gave Hua Yurong a Storage Ring containing hundreds of Spirit Stones and more than a thousand gold coins, then asked to read and copy books in the library instead of becoming a servant.
• Qin Jun urged Wang Xian to refine the spiritual energy in his body and asked him to show her his writing, so Wang Xian presented a Buddhist scripture he had copied.

Wang Xian settled into a courtyard at Azure Cloud Sect, where Qin Jun made him her personal disciple, while his companions returned to Moon City and wondered whether he had survived. In the Southern Frontier, the gentleman told Dongfang Nishang that Wang Xian had vanished from the world again, and his friends at Wutong Academy were left searching for answers.

• Hua Yurong brought Wang Xian to his new courtyard, and he planned to study the Demon Realm and learn alchemy while making himself at home.
• Qin Jun told Hua Yurong that Wang Xian was her personal disciple, and Hua Yurong revealed that he wanted no rank or resources from Azure Cloud Sect.
• Hu Keke and the others were expelled from the secret realm; Murong Wan'er took Hu Keke and the Crow to Bright Moon Manor, while Li Xiangxiang and Li Yidao held out hope that Wang Xian was alive.
• Dongfang Nishang asked the gentleman about Wang Xian, and he said Wang Xian had vanished from the world after leaving the Southern Frontier.
• Tang Tian and Li Yu questioned Li Dalu about Wang Xian, but Zi Jin and Long Jingyu confirmed that no one knew where he had gone.

Wang Xian devoured five Five-Element Spirit Stones during cultivation, turning their energy into chaos and becoming a third-level Qi Refiner while his courtyard’s pear tree gained mysterious power. Qin Jun discovered how quickly he could refine Spirit Stones, was shocked by his unusual cultivation, and told him to stay at Azure Cloud Sect and copy books before considering how to earn money.

• Wang Xian refined five Five-Element Spirit Stones, and the energy within him transformed into chaotic power while the pear tree’s fruit gained a trace of it.
• Wang Xian practiced his sword and went to the library, where Qin Jun asked about his first day in the Demon Realm and assigned him half a year of copying books and cultivation.
• Qin Jun watched Wang Xian refine a Spirit Stone in five breaths and congratulated him on becoming a third-level Qi Refiner.
• Qin Jun gave Wang Xian more Spirit Stones to refine, but his dantian showed no increase in spiritual energy even after he refined fifteen stones.
• Qin Jun called Wang Xian a monster, asked him to cultivate with her for a year before earning money, and assigned him to copy A Geography of the Western Ox Continent.

Wang Xian spent three days reading and copying a geography record under Qin Jun’s guidance, then learned he had unknowingly taken the place of Xu Baoshan, who challenged him to a fight to the death. As Wang Xian fled to his courtyard and tried to rest, Qin Jun showed Hua Yurong his copied scroll, which she believed could help improve her swordsmanship, while Wang Xian dreamed of the Scripture Repository’s rear courtyard.

• Wang Xian read and copied a geography record for three days, learning that the Demon Realm was a small region of the Western Ox-Hē Continent and that his birthplace was a small world.
• Qin Jun told Wang Xian to rest before choosing what abilities he wanted to learn, and Hua Yurong hurried to meet her at the Scripture Repository.
• Xu Baoshan accused Wang Xian of taking his chance to become Qin Jun’s disciple and challenged him to a fight to the death in three days.
• Wang Xian tried to placate Xu Baoshan with Spirit Stones, then ran home, fortified his courtyard, and realized Qin Jun might be the alchemy teacher he had wanted.
• Qin Jun showed Hua Yurong Wang Xian’s copied scroll and told her to study it for clues to advancing her swordsmanship.
• Wang Xian fell asleep beneath the eaves and dreamed he had reached the rear courtyard of the Scripture Repository.

Wang Xian dreamed that he used Qin Jun’s Dragon Cauldron to make medicine while cultivating, though he woke unsure whether the attempt had succeeded. Qin Jun found a charred pill in the cauldron and agreed to teach him medicine-making, leaving Wang Xian to prepare for Xu Baoshan’s impending duel and his new apprenticeship.

• Wang Xian dreamed that he used a spirit herb and Dragon Flame in a cauldron, then cultivated the Immortal Longevity Scripture as the cauldron breathed in unison with him.
• Wang Xian advanced his cultivation, woke after two days starving and emaciated, and returned to the library with a medicinal scent on him.
• Qin Jun led Wang Xian to the back courtyard and found a charred pill bearing a faint inscription inside the cauldron.
• Wang Xian explained his dream and offered to pay Qin Jun to teach him medicine-making, proposing to split his Spirit Stones with her.
• Qin Jun revealed that the cauldron was the Dragon Cauldron and offered to teach Wang Xian medicine-making, while warning that Xu Baoshan would challenge him the next day.

Wang Xian learned basic alchemy from Qin Jun and successfully refined a wound-healing pill, while his unusual ability to refine all five types of Spirit Stones puzzled them both. At the Azure Cloud Sect square, Xu Baoshan confronted him, and Wang Xian fled as Hua Yurong and Qin Jun watched.

• Qin Jun taught Wang Xian about medicinal herbs and fire control, and Wang Xian began practicing alchemy with the Azure Dragon Cauldron.
• After four failed batches, Wang Xian refined a wound-healing pill and suspected the small cauldron had helped him succeed.
• Wang Xian considered refining the Joyful Union Sect's aphrodisiac but decided to wait until he could obtain Heavenly Demon blood.
• Qin Jun concluded that Wang Xian's ability to refine all five types of Spirit Stones might eventually produce a unique Five Elements spiritual root.
• Wang Xian went to watch two senior brothers duel, then fled when Xu Baoshan chased him across the square.
• Hua Yurong teased Qin Jun that she had never seen Wang Xian get serious, and Qin Jun asked what he did when serious.

Wang Xian escaped Xu Baoshan by scattering gold and Spirit Stones, then hid in the library, where Qin Jun gave him resources and began teaching him to refine Spring Rejuvenation Pills. The chapter ended with Qin Jun revealing that Wang Xian already had a drop of divine dragon blood, a key ingredient for the pills.

• Wang Xian threw gold coins and Spirit Stones behind him as he fled Xu Baoshan, drawing disciples who rushed to collect the money.
• Xu Baoshan attacked Wang Xian with Sword Qi, but Wang Xian escaped into the library and Qin Jun casually deflected the strike.
• Qin Jun told Xu Baoshan to memorize an herbal medicine manual before seeking to become her student, while Hua Yurong explained that Wang Xian was not a sect disciple he could challenge.
• In the library courtyard, Qin Jun gave Wang Xian a Storage Ring containing at least fifteen hundred Five Elements Spirit Stones, and Hua Yurong asked him to treat her to buns.
• Wang Xian chose to learn how to make Spring Rejuvenation Pills, and Qin Jun explained the ingredients and refining process.
• When Wang Xian asked where to find Heavenly Demon Beast blood, Qin Jun told him he already had a drop of divine dragon blood.

Wang Xian successfully refined Rejuvenation Pills and used one to nourish a green pear tree, while his unusual approach to cultivation surprised Qin Jun and Hua Yurong. Later, as he began brewing another medicine with the Azure Dragon Small Cauldron, it absorbed his divine dragon fire and a portion of his energy, leaving him collapsing in alarm.

• After three failed attempts, Wang Xian refined two batches of Rejuvenation Pills and gave the first pill to Qin Jun.
• Wang Xian said he would dissolve the other pill beneath the courtyard’s green pear tree, and Qin Jun agreed to try the pears after they gained spiritual nature.
• Wang Xian explained that he treated copying scriptures as sword practice, prompting Hua Yurong and Qin Jun to study the strokes as sword intent.
• Wang Xian told Qin Jun he had dug a pit for the mountain beasts, then returned to his courtyard and poured a Rejuvenation Pill mixed with spiritual spring water beneath the pear tree.
• Wang Xian began refining the Hehuan Sect’s aphrodisiac with the Azure Dragon Small Cauldron, which drew in his divine dragon fire and energy before he collapsed.