Chapter Summaries

Li Mo posed as Wu Mo, a foreign Cry Dragon, and won the Aquatic Clan’s admiration by displaying a pure bloodline and seemingly summoning a tremendous storm. He later defeated the Nine-headed Serpent Young Clan Leader, and news of the Cry Dragon Clan’s new Sky Dragon spread across the Southern Border as the Heavenly Jade’s return approached.

• Little Li introduced himself as Wu Mo, claiming he had come from the Eastern Wasteland Domain to support the Cry Dragon Clan’s dream of revival, and moved the audience with his story.
• Li Mo transformed into a Cry Dragon and used the Wind-Summoning Rain-Calling Talisman to produce a violent storm, earning unanimous perfect scores from the judges.
• After the auditions, the Nine-headed Serpent Young Clan Leader challenged Li Mo to a contest of strength, and Li Mo accepted.
• Several days later, word spread that the Cry Dragon Clan had produced a Sky Dragon who had beaten one head off the Nine-headed Serpent Young Clan Leader, drawing the attention of major demon clans, including the Green Phoenix Clan.

News of Wu Mo’s victory at Blackwater Marsh spread through the Roc Clan and Green Phoenix Territory, where Zhi Duoluo and Ying Bing learned about him. Ying Bing wondered whether Wu Mo was connected to the person from her memories, and Shang Qinqing decided to take her to the Hanging Temple to meet him.

• A Golden Peng Weather Forecast reported that Wu Mo’s birth as a powerful pure-blooded Sky Dragon had brought heavy rain and caused Roc collisions.
• Roc Clan members learned that Wu Mo had beaten the bald Roc Demon, and Zhi Duoluo broke the seventh-grade Cloud Path record before asking if Wu Mo was the one who disrupted the sect’s plans.
• Shang Qinqing told the Green Phoenixes how Wu Mo had traveled to the Southern Border, excelled in the Aquatic Clan’s selection, and smashed a head of the Nine-headed Serpent Young Clan Leader.
• Ying Bing wondered whether Wu Mo was the person from her previous life, while Shang Qinqing offered to take her to the Hanging Temple so she could bow to him in person.

Li Mo prepared for the journey to the Hanging Temple while growing wary of a possible Demon Summoning Cult plot involving Murong Xiao. As the Aquatic Clan set out to compete for the Heavenly Jade, its geniuses placed their hopes in Li Mo, who realized he had unexpectedly become their champion.

• Li Mo found that he had exhausted his supply of body-tempering pills and struggled to advance his martial arts and Divine Intent.
• Zhen Bang brought Li Mo a pearl as a betrothal gift, misunderstood his polite praise as acceptance, and ran off delighted.
• Murong Xiao reunited with his parents, Murong Feng and Wu Qing, while Li Mo suspected that the circumstances of Xiao's capture might be connected to a hidden plot.
• Li Mo agreed to travel with Murong Xiao and his family to the Hanging Temple, and the group prepared to leave Blackwater Marsh that day.
• The Aquatic Clan's four other geniuses declared confidence in facing the Avian Clan's champions because Li Mo would lead them, leaving Li Mo surprised at his new role as their hope.

Ying Bing agreed to hang Luan Qing’s wish pouches on the Marriage Tree as she prepared to leave for the Hanging Temple. Li Mo traveled there with Murong Xiao and Wu Dameng, only to find a crowd of Aquatic Clan women waiting to pursue his True Dragon blood.

• Ying Bing accepted two pouches from Luan Qing to hang on the Marriage Tree and then left with Shang Qinqing’s group.
• Li Mo watched the moon and cultivated before Murong Xiao and Wu Dameng joined him on the Fish Bone Ship.
• Murong Xiao ate roasted chives on his first day abstaining from lust, while Wu Dameng showed Li Mo marriage-proposal gifts from Aquatic Clans.
• Wu Dameng said he had learned about the idea of an overbearing empress from storytellers in Nanguan City.
• Li Mo’s party reached the Hanging Temple, where a crowd of Aquatic Clan women gathered at the dock seeking his True Dragon blood.

Li Mo arrived at the Hanging Temple for the Battle for the Heavenly Jade, but the Aquatic Clan turned his True Dragon bloodline into a matchmaking spectacle. Meanwhile, the Green Phoenix Goddess flew toward the temple, leaving her reason for anticipation unclear.

• Murong Feng told Li Mo how he met Wu Qing, learned she was a dragon, and chose to stay with her.
• Li Mo stepped ashore and was confronted by a golden-armored Roc who called him Wu Mo.
• The Aquatic Clan recognized Li Mo as a Peerless Sky Flood Dragon and began competing to court him, with the Rock Shrimp Clan and Guo Jing making offers.
• Li Mo rejected the suitors and hurried away as Wu Qing and Murong Feng watched with interest.
• The Green Phoenix Goddess and her clan flew toward the Hanging Temple, and she gazed at it with quiet anticipation.

Li Mo defeated Giant Whale Clan Princess Guo Jing in a tug-of-war and drew the attention of the Aquatic and Avian Clans. As Zhi Duoluo moved toward him, the Green Phoenix Goddess arrived and fixed her cold stare on him.

• Princess Guo Jing blocked Li Mo and challenged him to a strength contest, proposing the Giant Whale Clan's tug-of-war tradition.
• Li Mo agreed, then hurled Guo Jing into the distance when she tried to use her full strength.
• The demons praised Li Mo's power and True Dragon bloodline, while Zhi Duoluo approached him with greed in his eyes.
• Li Mo declared that he already loved someone, but the demons looked up as a winged shadow arrived.
• The Green Phoenix Goddess appeared and stared coldly at Li Mo, leaving him startled.

Ying Bing arrived at the docks and recognized Li Mo despite his disguise, revealing to the gathered demons that the Green Phoenix Goddess and the supposed Peerless Sky Flood Dragon had a personal connection. She told him she would settle accounts with him when the fight for the Divine Jade began, and their encounter was widely misreported as a rivalry between True Phoenix and True Dragon bloodlines.

• Ying Bing arrived with the Green Phoenix Clan, fixed her attention on Li Mo, and walked through the gathered demons to face him.
• Li Mo admitted he had come for Ying Bing, and she told him he should not have come before promising to settle accounts with him during the Divine Jade contest.
• The Green Phoenix Clan left the docks as Shang Qinqing went to speak with the Hanging Temple reception monk.
• The demons spread rumors that Wu Mo and the Green Phoenix Goddess had faced off as rivals, and the supposed Dragon-Phoenix Strife drew attention across the clans.

At Hanging Temple, Li Mo encouraged Murong Xiao to consider joining the Buddhist sect, then recorded promising demons for future investments. After hearing the story of the Marriage Tree, Li Mo secretly hung a brocade pouch there, but it kept falling down, and he was caught climbing the tree at night.

• Li Mo and Murong Xiao saw the Avian and Aquatic Clans arguing before they entered Hanging Temple’s hidden marshland grotto-heaven.
• Wu Qing asked Murong Xiao to stay at Hanging Temple and become Heng Yuan’s disciple, and Li Mo supported the idea; Murong Xiao agreed after learning he could return to secular life.
• Li Mo recorded demons with promising bloodlines as the group walked toward the main hall.
• Murong Feng gave Li Mo a brocade pouch and told him that the Marriage Tree had helped him and Wu Qing meet.
• That night, Li Mo secretly tried to hang the pouch on the Marriage Tree, but it fell repeatedly, and a quiet voice caught him climbing the trunk.

Li Mo and Ying Bing reunited at Hanging Temple, exchanged gifts, and shared a quiet moment beneath the moon. After Li Mo left to answer Wu Meng’s call about the fight for the divine jade, Ying Bing discovered their brocade pouches held matching halves of mooncakes.

• Li Mo and Ying Bing hung brocade pouches on the Marriage Tree and sat together, discussing their recent activities in Southern Border.
• Li Mo explained that Aquatic Clan women had offered him gifts after rumors spread that he had True Dragon blood, but he had accepted none without paying or returning them.
• Ying Bing gave Li Mo a Jade Feather Whistle, and Li Mo gave her silk socks and helped her put them on.
• Wu Meng called for Li Mo, who left to deal with the fight for the divine jade.
• Ying Bing found Li Mo’s fallen brocade pouch and saw that it held half a Snow-Skin Red Bean Mooncake; her own pouch held the matching half of a Lotus Paste Mooncake.

At a flowing banquet, Li Mo warned the Aquatic Clan about the powerful demons competing for the Heavenly Jade and heard that half-demons had arrived at Hanging Temple. Meanwhile, Zhi Duoluo persuaded the half-demons to wait for Li Mo and Luan Bing to injure each other before attacking them and taking the Divine Jade.

• Li Mo joined the Aquatic Clan's banquet and heard them place their hopes in him obtaining the Heavenly Jade and awakening as a True Dragon.
• Li Mo shared what he had learned about the powerful Demon Race competitors and told the Aquatic Clan that the Green Phoenix Goddess had excellent footwork.
• Guo Jing told Li Mo that several seemingly powerful half-demons had arrived at Hanging Temple late in the day.
• Zhi Duoluo and the other half-demons discussed Wu Mo's suspected True Dragon bloodline and Luan Bing's True Phoenix bloodline.
• Zhi Duoluo proposed that the half-demons wait until Wu Mo and Luan Bing fought and were wounded, then seize the Divine Jade.

Li Mo trained in the Cry Dragon Clan’s Water Control Technique and learned that Murong Xiao had joined the Hanging Temple under the Dharma name Cang Ai. As the Heavenly Jade contest gathered the demon clans, Li Mo identified a Demon Summoning Cult plot, and Divine Monk Huai Kong noticed him and Wu Mo.

• Li Mo mastered the Cry Dragon Clan’s Water Control Technique with Wu Qing’s help and asked about Murong Xiao’s cultivation.
• Wu Qing said Master Heng Yuan had accepted Murong Xiao into the Hanging Temple and given him the Dharma name Cang Ai.
• At the Heavenly Jade contest gathering, Li Mo used his Heavenly Mandate Divine Eye to identify Zhi Duoluo as a Demon Summoning Cult member planning to profit if Wu Mo and Luan Bing fought.
• The Green Phoenix Goddess arrived and exchanged a cold glance with Wu Mo while the half-demons anticipated a clash.
• Divine Monk Huai Kong turned toward the young man and young woman at the front of the gathering and paused in surprise.

Divine Monk Huai Kong revealed that the Heavenly Jade was kept inside his Buddha Kingdom in Palm, and the gathered demons prepared to enter it. Li Mo and Ying Bing vowed to meet at Divine Jade Lone Peak, leaving the others eager to witness their anticipated duel.

• Divine Monk Huai Kong searched his alms bowl and found the Heavenly Jade in the Five Elements Realm, where its light stirred the demons and drew Ying Bing's attention.
• Shang Qinqing played her qin to strengthen the listeners she chose, including Li Mo, while the other demons prepared their own methods for entering the alms bowl.
• Wu Qing and a Purple Electric Gill Eel shocked the Aquatic Clan members in water, boosting their reactions but leaving Li Mo's voice sounding like autotune.
• Ying Bing told Li Mo she would wait for him at Divine Jade Lone Peak, and Li Mo promised to meet her there.
• The gathered demons interpreted their promise as a planned duel and resolved to strive toward the peak to watch them fight.

Li Mo and Wu Dameng entered the Five Elements Realm to seek the other Aquatic Clan members, while the demons outside watched the trials through the Alms Bowl. The Green Phoenix Goddess defeated a Yellow Bird true spirit with ease, and the Aquatic Clan turned its hopes to Wu Mo as Shang Qinqing switched the viewing screen to him.

• Li Mo and Wu Dameng crossed the waters in search of the other Aquatic Clan members as meteors carrying true spirits descended from Divine Jade Lone Peak.
• Shang Qinqing took control of the viewing screen and showed the Green Phoenix Goddess standing with the Green Phoenix Clan in a vast forest.
• The Green Phoenix Goddess used her zither music to defeat a Yellow Bird true spirit, whose spiritual light entered her brow.
• The watching demons marveled at the Green Phoenix Goddess's strength, while the Aquatic Clan worried about their chances against her.
• The Aquatic Clan rallied around Wu Mo as their hope, and Shang Qinqing asked Divine Monk Huai Kong what he was doing before switching the screen to him.

Li Mo freed Guo Jing from a reef cave by destroying the Sea-Splitting Dragon Whale true spirit that threatened her. He received a drop of its essence blood and a clue to the Heavenly Jade’s location, leaving him wondering what other powerful true spirits awaited him.

• Li Mo found Guo Jing trapped in a reef cave and learned she could not change back from her whale form.
• A Sea-Splitting Dragon Whale true spirit appeared, and Guo Jing feared for her safety as Li Mo approached it.
• Li Mo met the charging whale head-on with his Heaven-Overturning Style and shattered it in one strike.
• The whale’s remnant spirit pointed Li Mo toward the Heavenly Jade and gave him a phantom of the Sea-Splitting Dragon Whale.
• Li Mo received a drop of the whale’s essence blood as investment feedback for helping Guo Jing escape her predicament.

Li Mo rescued demons across the waters while insisting his efforts served the unity of the Demon Race, earning admiration from clans and monks watching the Sky Screen. Meanwhile, Ying Bing waited beneath Divine Jade Lone Peak as demons gathered around her, and she brightened when she sensed someone approaching.

• Li Mo planned his route through the waters and rescued demons with Guo Jing and Wu Dameng, moving from one investment location to the next.
• The demons and Hanging Temple monks watching the Sky Screen debated Li Mo’s motives, while Wu Qing and the Giant Whale Clan praised his strength and bearing.
• Shang Qinqing asked Divine Monk Huai Kong to show the Sky Screen, revealing that the Green Phoenix Goddess was also destroying true-spirit projections instead of immediately taking the Heavenly Jade.
• Ying Bing gathered true spirits beneath Divine Jade Lone Peak and waited as Zhi Duoluo’s injured half-demons and other demons assembled around her without approaching the peak.
• Ying Bing sensed someone arriving and looked toward them with a softened expression, prompting the gathered demons to move out of the way.

Li Mo reached the foot of Lone Peak, where demons had gathered and discussed their feelings for him, while his claim that he disliked demons sparked rumors that he preferred humans. As Zhi Duoluo tried to provoke a fight, the Heavenly Jade began revealing visions and preparing to choose where it belonged.

• Li Mo counted more than a hundred blood essences he had earned and approached the foot of Lone Peak, where demons waited instead of climbing.
• Demons said Wu Mo had rescued them and expressed hope that he would prevail against the Green Phoenix Goddess.
• The Green Phoenix Goddess denied having a demon in her heart, and Sky Dragon Little Li declared that he did not like the Demon Race.
• Demons and observers outside the Five Elements Realm speculated that Wu Mo liked humans, while Shang Qinqing admitted she would watch and ship him with the goddess.
• Zhi Duoluo tried to provoke a confrontation between the Peerless Sky Flood Dragon and the Green Phoenix Goddess, but Ying Bing told him to get lost.
• Zhi Duoluo began rolling away as the Heavenly Jade atop Lone Peak burst into light and prepared to decide where it belonged.

The Heavenly Jade chose both Ying Bing and Li Mo, drawing them into the Jade Phoenix God amid a spectacle that stunned the demons gathered in the Five Elements Realm. As the pair vanished from view, Zhi Duoluo eagerly anticipated a fight over the divine treasure.

• The demons witnessed the Jade Phoenix God awaken and debated whether the Heavenly Jade would gain an eternal owner.
• Divine Monk Huai Kong silenced the Roc Demon king Zhi Duoshan, who had challenged the decision to leave the jade to the younger generation.
• The Heavenly Jade sent a pillar of light toward Ying Bing, apparently choosing her as its successor.
• A second pillar enveloped Li Mo, and the Jade Phoenix God drew both him and Ying Bing into its strange phenomena as they held hands.
• The gathered demons realized they could no longer watch what happened inside, while Zhi Duoluo hoped the two would fight over the treasure.

Li Mo and Ying Bing witnessed the Jade Phoenix God’s vision of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths falling into ruin after an immortal stole the sun’s Dao, and learned that the Nine-Colored Primal Phoenix preserved the True Spirits of dying clans. The vision left Li Mo with more questions, while the demons outside speculated about the unseen fight between Luan Bing and Wu Mo.

• Li Mo saw the Nine-Colored Primal Phoenix and the Golden Crows sacrifice themselves to keep the sun from going out.
• The vision revealed that an ascending powerhouse had stolen the sun’s Dao, causing the world and its connected beings to perish as the Dao was plundered.
• The woman preserved the True Spirits of dying clans within her divinity and asked the moon whether the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were safe.
• Li Mo wondered whether the Nine-Colored Primal Phoenix had truly ascended and questioned the history of the sun, while Ying Bing realized the vision had changed because of him.
• Outside, the demons argued over whether Luan Bing or Wu Mo would win their unseen battle, and Shang Qinqing suggested Luan Bing might grab and swing Wu Mo by the head.
• Li Mo and Ying Bing faced each other in silence after the vision ended, each waiting for the other to speak.

Li Mo and Ying Bing shared the Jade Phoenix God, and its power completed his Sea-Splitting Dragon Whale Transformation while changing Ying Bing’s appearance. The transformation left Li Mo distracted and unable to change back, and Ying Bing stepped on his foot hard enough to draw blood as the demon kings worried outside.

• Li Mo asked Ying Bing to share the Jade Phoenix God with him, and she agreed that they would share fortune and disaster together.
• The Jade Phoenix God guided the Sea-Splitting Dragon Whale into Li Mo’s Stone Monkey Divine Pattern as one of the Seventy-Two Transformations.
• Li Mo swallowed Sea-Splitting Dragon Whale essence blood and transformed into a powerful, bear-like Dragon Whale form that made his thoughts sluggish.
• Ying Bing’s appearance changed after she received the Jade Phoenix God’s power, and Li Mo stared at her while struggling to change back.
• Ying Bing stepped on Li Mo’s foot, drawing blood, while the demon kings outside fretted about the pair and Divine Monk Huai Kong could not remember where to go.

After the Jade Phoenix God chose Ying Bing, Zhi Duoluo and the half-demons ambushed the weakened pair, but Ying Bing and Li Mo defeated them. The Battle for the Heavenly Jade ended with Ying Bing as its bearer, while Li Mo wondered where his investment return was.

• The heavenly phenomena converged on Lone Peak, and the Jade Phoenix God entered Ying Bing’s brow.
• Zhi Duoluo led a dozen half-demons in an attack on Ying Bing and Li Mo.
• Li Mo shielded Ying Bing from Zhi Duoluo’s strike, and Ying Bing froze Zhi Duoluo and the other attackers with her Will Soul aura.
• Li Mo smashed Zhi Duoluo with a hammer, ending the Battle for the Heavenly Jade.
• The demons outside recognized Ying Bing as the Heavenly Jade’s bearer, while Li Mo wondered what return he would get for his investment.