Chapter Summaries

Xie Jinjia singled out Yang Ling, offered him books after the battle, and left the others wondering whether he was trying to recruit him. As the boats approached Fire Flood Dragon Island, a gigantic mantis shrimp erupted from the sea and smashed Qin Kunlun’s boat.

• Xie Jinjia questioned Yang Ling about Zhao State’s classics, learned he had read none, and invited him to choose books from his residence after the Sixth Rank Top Hundred Battle.
• Yang Ling and Zhao Zheng boarded a fast boat with Xu Qingnian while other factions and the Rong Tribe headed toward different landing spots on Fire Flood Dragon Island.
• Zhao Zheng explained that the group would wait for his people to arrive after landing and warned that some fighters might attack at once.
• A gigantic mantis shrimp burst from the sea and destroyed Qin Kunlun’s boat, forcing Qin Kunlun, Zhao Yingying, Tong He, Dongfang Haojie, and another expert into the scalding water.

Yang Ling and his companions survived the Super Giant Pipi Shrimp’s attack and reached Fire Flood Dragon Island, where they were ambushed by hostile martial artists. After killing most of his attackers, Yang Ling confronted the lone survivor and asked why they had attacked.

• The Super Giant Pipi Shrimp capsized the speedboats, forcing Yang Ling, Zhao Zheng, Xu Qingnian, and the other martial artists to swim toward Fire Flood Dragon Island.
• Yang Ling used Lingxu Step to race across the sea while the Super Giant Pipi Shrimp surged past, and the survivors eventually reached shore.
• Xie Jinjia speculated that the Super Giant Pipi Shrimp had grown stronger by eating Fire Spirit Pearls and warned that the Old Flood Dragon beneath the island remained a formidable unknown.
• Yang Ling found Zhao Zheng and Xu Qingnian as unfamiliar martial artists prepared to ambush them, and he shouted a warning.
• Yang Ling killed more than a dozen attackers, retrieved his Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers, and questioned the sole survivor about the ambush.

Yang Ling and Zhao Zheng gathered a force of Sixth-Rank experts and led them inland across Fire Flood Dragon Island, where they encountered Zhao Yingying’s group at an abandoned mine. The chapter ended with Yang Ling asking whether the jade box she carried contained a Fire Spirit Pearl.

• Zhao Zheng defeated the Star Sea Fishing Alliance ambushers, and Xu Qingnian killed their surviving disciple after the interrogation revealed that the Alliance’s elites had already gone deep into the island.
• Zhao Zheng summoned more than thirty Sixth-Rank experts, including He Tongchen of the Extreme Flame Sword Mansion and Jieshu of Arhat Temple, and led them inland after they took Fire-Avoidance Pills.
• Yang Ling recognized the route toward the red fire iron mine as the group traveled for seven days, while Zhao Zheng warned that the abandoned mine contained dangerous beasts and worms.
• At the mine, Zhao Zheng’s group encountered Qin Kunlun and Zhao Yingying, who was carrying a jade box that Yang Ling suspected held a Fire Spirit Pearl.

Yang Ling's group joined Qin Kunlun's party on the way to the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect after Qin Kunlun revealed Fire Flood Dragon Blood and negotiated an equal split of any spoils. They reached the ruined sect and found at least a thousand Star Sea Fishing Alliance martial artists there, raising fears that the Alliance had found a substitute for Fire-Avoidance Pills.

• Zhao Yingying denied Yang Ling's guess that her jade box held a Fire Spirit Pearl, and Qin Kunlun's group agreed to travel with Zhao Zheng's party.
• Qin Kunlun proposed that his group receive seventy percent of any spoils from the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect, but Zhao Zheng negotiated a fifty-fifty split.
• Qin Kunlun revealed Fire Flood Dragon Blood, which repelled ordinary exotic beasts, and explained that it would help the group travel safely through the island's ruins.
• Yang Ling studied the Human-Skin Map and planned to search the sect for the building marked as the entrance.
• Zhao Zheng, Qin Kunlun, and their companions reached the ruined sect and found at least a thousand Star Sea Fishing Alliance martial artists gathered there.
• Yang Ling and Zhao Zheng suspected the Star Sea Fishing Alliance had found a way to replace Fire-Avoidance Pills, allowing it to bring many more people onto the island.

Yang Ling and Zhao Zheng’s party were surrounded and captured by the Star Sea Fishing Alliance, whose Fourth-Rank Grandmasters had unexpectedly come ashore on Fire Flood Dragon Island. Hua Jinsong promised to keep them alive, but another chief then brought in the captured Sixth Ranks from Zhao State and the Rong Tribe, leaving their planned battle in the Alliance’s hands.

• Pei Ran suggested charging the Star Sea Fishing Alliance’s encampment, but Qin Kunlun and Zhao Zheng cautioned against an uncertain attack.
• Hua Jinsong, chief of Raging Tide Fishing Village, identified Zhao Zheng and his companions, revealed himself as a Fourth-Rank Grandmaster, and escorted them to the Alliance’s encampment.
• Yang Ling privately told Zhang Wei to warn Eunuch Xu that several Star Sea Fishing Alliance Fourth-Rank Grandmasters were on the island.
• An Alliance Grandmaster suggested killing the captives, but Hua Jinsong chose to keep them confined and said they could leave unharmed after the Alliance’s business was done.
• Hua Jinsong revealed the Star Sea Fishing Alliance shared origins with the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect and said the island was Alliance territory.
• Another chief announced that he had captured both sides of the Sixth Rank Top Hundred Battle, and Hua Zhuo’s group and more than a hundred Rong Tribe Sixth Ranks were brought in.

Yang Ling learned that the Star Sea Fishing Alliance had captured nearly all the Sixth-Rank fighters from Zhao State and the Rong Tribe, and that Fourth-Rank Grandmasters could now enter Fire Flood Dragon Island safely. He then received word that Xie Jinjia had captured Zhang Wei and his godfather, while River Elder began forcing the captives to fight.

• River Elder and Old Tu persuaded Hua Jinsong to let the captured Zhao State and Rong Tribe fighters compete while the Star Sea Fishing Alliance watched.
• Old Tu revealed that Fourth-Rank Grandmasters could land on Fire Flood Dragon Island without triggering its danger, alarming the captives and prompting Yang Ling to suspect Old Flood Dragon had died.
• Yang Ling received Zhang Wei's private message that Xie Jinjia had captured Zhang Wei and his godfather after the godfather went to speak with him.
• Yang Ling feared Xie Jinjia had betrayed Zhao State and resolved to break through to Fifth Rank and help drive off the Star Sea Fishing Alliance.
• River Elder ordered the two teams to line up and made the Sixth-Rank Heavenly Wolf Guard choose the first opponent; the guard first pointed at Yang Ling, then changed his choice to Xu Qingnian.

Yang Ling was forced to fight an Upper Sixth-Rank Heavenly Wolf Guard, whom he defeated with a rapid barrage of kicks and left unconscious. Hua Jinsong discovered Yang Ling had perfected his qi and blood, then offered him a Golden Dragon Treasure Fish if he kept winning.

• The Rong Tribe’s Sixth-Rank Heavenly Wolf Guard challenged Yang Ling, but Yang Ling argued that a Lower Sixth Rank should fight an opponent of equal rank.
• Old Tu ordered Yang Ling and the Heavenly Wolf Guard into the clearing and threatened them with injury if they failed to fight seriously.
• Yang Ling overwhelmed the Heavenly Wolf Guard with swift kicks, leaving him unconscious but alive.
• Hua Jinsong recognized Yang Ling’s perfected qi and blood and praised his prospects as a Minor Grandmaster.
• Hua Jinsong invited Yang Ling to keep fighting and promised him a Golden Dragon Treasure Fish if he continued winning.

Hua Jinsong offered a hundred-year-old Golden Dragon Treasure Fish as a prize for the Sixth Rank Top Hundred Battle, drawing interest from Yang Ling, Chu Ling, and the fishing village chiefs. Chu Ling’s arrival raised concerns that the Rong Tribe’s Heavenly Might King had become a second-rank immortal, and Hua Jinsong widened the offer to all village contestants who won the championship.

• Hua Jinsong revealed that he had obtained a fully matured, hundred-year-old Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, which could strengthen flesh regeneration for a fifth-rank martial artist.
• Old Tu, River Elder, and other village chiefs tried to buy or trade for the fish, but Hua Jinsong offered it to Yang Ling if he won the championship.
• Yang Ling doubted Hua Jinsong’s intentions and said he did not think he could win.
• Chu Ling asked whether she could receive the fish if she won, and Hua Jinsong recognized her as the daughter of the Rong Tribe’s Heavenly Might King.
• Zhao Zheng warned that the Heavenly Might King might have broken through to the second rank, alarming the Zhao State martial artists.
• Hua Jinsong agreed that contestants from the fishing villages could also win the fish, saying it was meant for outstanding talents.

At Fire Flood Dragon Island, Hua Jinsong and the other Fourth-Rank Grandmasters arranged a contest for the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, while Yang Ling watched for a chance to reach the entrance to Tun Tian Dao Palace. The chapter ended with Qin Kunlun challenging Yang Ling and revealing formidable strength as their duel began.

• Yang Ling received Zhang Wei’s messages about Godfather being taken away and assured him that the Pacify the Rong King was safe for now.
• River Elder proposed that the groups choose their strongest Sixth-Rank fighters before competing for the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, and Hua Jinsong accepted the plan.
• Hua Jinsong dismissed a Fifth Rank’s chances of advancing and argued that the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish should go to younger Sixth Ranks.
• Chu Ling began fighting for the Rong Tribe, while Zhao Zheng agreed that the Zhao State’s fighters would spar among themselves.
• Qin Kunlun challenged Yang Ling, then activated the Divine Path Heart Sutra and the Giant Spirit Mountain-Shaking Art, boosting his strength to 340 and agility to 209.

Yang Ling defeated Qin Kunlun in a spar by evading his Divine Sense Palm and striking him from behind, leaving Qin injured and conceding. After a confused Heavenly Wolf Guard asked to resume a fight that had already ended, no one else from Zhao State would challenge Yang Ling.

• Zhao Zheng warned Constable Yang that Qin Kunlun cultivated two second-rate internal skills, and Qin charged with his Divine Sense Palm.
• Yang Ling analyzed Qin's attack, dodged it with a deft turn, and struck Qin from behind as Qin tried to recover.
• Qin fell to his knees with a bleeding injury, then stood and admitted that he had lost the exchange.
• A recovering Heavenly Wolf Guard mistook the scene and asked to fight again, prompting Qin to angrily explain that their match had ended long ago.
• Zhao Zheng invited others to spar with Yang Ling, but Hua Zhuo, He Tongchen, and Jieshu all refused.

Yang Ling assessed Chu Ling as the final opponent for the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish while Zhao Zheng warned that her father, the Heavenly Might King, might have become a Human Immortal. The fishing village chiefs changed the final contest into a free-for-all, leaving Yang Ling to face the other nine Sixth-Rank prodigies and the Grandmasters who would follow.

• Qin Kunlun urged Zhao Zheng to fight for the Zhao State, but Zhao Zheng said Yang Ling was qualified to represent it.
• Zhao Zheng warned Yang Ling that Chu Ling's father had defeated the Iron Clothes Department's leader and might have emerged from seclusion as a Human Immortal.
• Chu Ling defeated another opponent, and Yang Ling examined her abilities before she turned her attention toward him.
• After the fishing villages selected their strongest Sixth-Rank experts, River Elder proposed a ten-person free-for-all for the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish.
• Old Tu and Hua Jinsong agreed to the free-for-all, and Yang Ling worried that the Grandmasters could beat him after he defeated the other contestants.

Hua Jinsong revealed a genuine Golden Dragon Treasure Fish as the prize for a melee, and Yang Ling refused Chu Ling’s offer to team up against the Star Sea Fishing Alliance. Chu Ling overwhelmed several opponents with a dangerous technique that consumed her mental power, and Yang Ling realized she had only 80 seconds before it ran out.

• Hua Jinsong produced a Golden Dragon Treasure Fish and explained that eating it increased flesh regeneration by twenty percent.
• Chu Ling offered Yang Ling the fish’s tail if they joined forces, but Yang Ling refused and chose to wait for the melee to unfold.
• The eight fishing village disciples left Yang Ling alone and attacked Chu Ling together.
• Chu Ling used the Reverse Yang Meridian Opening Art and Martial Skills to send three Sixth-Rank opponents flying.
• Yang Ling noticed Chu Ling’s mental power rapidly draining and concluded that her enhanced state could last only 80 seconds.

Chu Ling used the lifespan-consuming Reverse Yang Meridian-Penetrating Art to defeat the Star Sea Fishing Alliance’s Sixth Ranks and face Yang Ling in the final match. Though she attacked with overwhelming speed, Yang Ling suddenly turned the fight around and left her unconscious on the ground.

• Chu Ling defeated three Sixth Ranks, and Hua Jinsong explained that her secret art traded lifespan and cultivation potential for a surge of power.
• Chu Ling said reaching the Second Rank could offset the art’s drawbacks, then defeated two more opponents and forced the remaining three to concede.
• The arena narrowed to a showdown between Chu Ling and Yang Ling, and Chu Ling criticized him for refusing to join forces earlier.
• Chu Ling activated all three internal skills and attacked Yang Ling at immense speed, convinced she had him cornered.
• Yang Ling picked his nose, then Chu Ling lost consciousness and awoke sprawled on the ground with a black footprint on her chest.

Yang Ling defeated Chu Ling and claimed the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, while the witnesses struggled to understand the gap between their abilities. After Yang Ling revealed that he cultivated three Second-rate Internal Skills, he took the fish in a chilled jade box and the gathering ended.

• Qin Kunlun and the others admitted they could not follow Yang Ling and Chu Ling’s movements, while Zhao Zheng realized Yang Ling might become a Fourth-Rank Grandmaster.
• The River Elder identified Yang Ling and Chu Ling as cultivators of multiple Internal Skills, and Yang Ling confirmed that he cultivated three Second-rate Internal Skills.
• Hua Jinsong awarded Yang Ling the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, then placed it in a freezing jade box so Yang Ling could save it until he advanced to Fifth Rank.
• Chu Ling questioned how Yang Ling had balanced his qi and blood, but Hua Jinsong declared that her loss was final.
• Hua Jinsong ended the sparring and told everyone to rest without wandering off.

Yang Ling was summoned away from the courtyard by Shi Jinglong under the pretense that Hua Jinsong and River Elder wanted to see him. Shi Jinglong and two other upper fifth-rank experts trapped him in a ruined hall and demanded the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish.

• Zhao Zheng suspected the Star Sea Fishing Alliance was searching Fire Flood Dragon Island for an entrance to a hidden chamber containing the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect's inheritance.
• Shi Jinglong ordered Yang Ling to leave the courtyard and follow him, while Zhao Zheng and the others worried that Yang Ling might be in danger.
• Chu Ling doubted that the Star Sea Fishing Alliance was holding back only out of fear of the Rong Tribe.
• Shi Jinglong led Yang Ling to a dilapidated hall, where he shut the doors and joined two other upper fifth-rank experts.
• Shi Jinglong demanded that Yang Ling hand over the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish.

Yang Ling entered Tun Tian Dao Palace to escape the three Fifth Ranks and prepare for his breakthrough to Lower Fifth Rank. After enduring the Death Tribulation with Yun Tianqing’s Snow Spirit Marrow, he began undergoing a mysterious bodily transformation.

• Yang Ling tricked Shi Jinglong and the other two Fifth Ranks into turning away, then entered Tun Tian Dao Palace.
• Yang Ling planned to break through, increase his recovery with the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, and investigate the Star Sea Fishing Alliance.
• Yun Tianqing gave Yang Ling the Snow Spirit Marrow and warned him that the Fifth-Rank breakthrough could make him forget who he was.
• Yang Ling raised his agility to 150 and endured the Death Tribulation, drinking the Snow Spirit Marrow when the pain became unbearable.
• Yang Ling felt his flesh changing and began to believe he was a praying mantis as tiny bristles grew from his body.

Yang Ling underwent a gene mutation as his attributes and physical strength rose, but a hallucination nearly convinced him to reshape himself into a mining-focused giant mantis. He broke free and continued evolving, though his ambitions to become a divine beast kept clashing with his desire to mine for experience.

• Yang Ling’s gene mutation accelerated, raising his strength and agility while his body grew bristles, a carapace, scales, and horns.
• Yang Ling imagined evolving forelimbs into Mantis Pickaxes so he could mine and gain experience, then mistook a vision of an attribute panel for reality.
• Yang Ling recognized the vision as a hallucination, checked that his body was unharmed, and watched his health and qi and blood continue to rise.
• Yang Ling’s strength and agility reached 170, his health approached 6,000, and his qi and blood climbed to 23,000 as he neared a Fifth-Rank breakthrough.
• Yang Ling imagined becoming a light-dark divine beast with lightning and fire powers, but again struggled with the urge to turn his hooves into Qilin Pickaxes and mine.

Yang Ling completed a dangerous seven-day gene mutation and broke through to Lower Fifth Rank after escaping a hallucination that made him believe he was becoming a qilin. He spent his free attribute points to reach Middle Fifth Rank, triggering another painful mutation.

• Yang Ling's gene mutation raised his strength and agility to 180, his health to 8,000, and his qi and blood to 40,000, while making his qi and blood denser.
• As the mutation continued, Yang Ling's mental power surpassed 300 and helped him dispel the qilin hallucination before he lost his human identity.
• Yang Ling realized the mutation had ended and confirmed that he had successfully reached Lower Fifth Rank.
• Yang Ling allocated 20 free attribute points each to strength and agility, raising both to 200 and breaking through to Middle Fifth Rank.
• A new gene mutation began, bringing intense pain as Yang Ling's body was torn apart and reconstructed; he used hypnosis to endure it.

Yang Ling endured a five-day gene mutation as he broke through to Upper Fifth Rank, gaining a major increase in his attributes, health, and qi and blood. With his sights set on reaching the Fourth-Rank Grandmaster realm, he prepared to eat the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish.

• Yang Ling completed his breakthrough to Middle Fifth Rank after three days of painful gene mutation and used free attribute points to raise his strength to 301 and agility to 300.
• A fiercer gene mutation began, and Yang Ling reasoned that free attribute points gave players an advantage as natural attribute gains became harder at higher ranks.
• After five days, Yang Ling's mutation ended, leaving him with 351 strength, 350 agility, 10,000 health points, and 45,000 qi and blood.
• Yang Ling resolved to reach 399 in both strength and agility to break through to Fourth Rank, then took out the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish.

Yang Ling ate the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish and raised his qi and blood to fifty thousand points before going to find Yun Tianqing. He arrived during a tense meeting about the Ministry of War’s summons to fight the Jingxiao Bandits and revealed his breakthrough to Lower Fifth Rank.

• Yang Ling ate the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, endured a daylong gene mutation, and gained five thousand qi and blood points.
• Yang Ling suppressed his aura and went looking for Yun Tianqing, but her Xuantie Falcon led him to the Sect Master Hall.
• A Ministry of War envoy told Yun Tianqing that Tun Tian Dao Palace had to send martial artists to help destroy the Jingxiao Bandits alongside Arhat Temple and the Extreme Flame Sword Mansion.
• Lin Zhen accused the envoy of arranging the summons as revenge for Yang Ling defeating Wang Yaozu, but the envoy denied it.
• The Mountain Master of Qingyun Mountain volunteered to go, and Yang Ling entered the hall and announced that he had advanced to Lower Fifth Rank.