Chapter Summaries

Yang Ling watched Zhao State, the Rong Tribe, and the Star Sea Fishing Alliance quickly settle the division of Fire Flood Dragon Island and its surrounding waters in response to the threat of the Great Dream Dynasty. With the island’s temperature falling, tens of thousands of martial artists returned to explore it under a neutral-territory truce, while Yang Ling planned to search for the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect’s Inheritance.

• Minister Kong and the Rong Tribe’s minister of war agreed on dividing Fire Flood Dragon Island, sharing its Fire Spirit Pearls, restricting trade, and exchanging refugees and younger people among the three sides.
• Yang Ling suspected Li Fengxian was aboard the Giant Ship and sent him private messages, but received no response or sign that anyone had taken out silver.
• The Rong Tribe’s minister of war proposed a friendly competition, but Minister Kong declined and proposed dividing the Fire Flood Dragon Corpse instead.
• Minister Kong and the Rong Tribe’s minister of war allowed the martial artists to stay on Fire Flood Dragon Island for several months as its temperature fell.
• Minister Kong declared the island neutral territory, forbidding the parties from killing one another, and Yang Ling planned to absorb his rare flowers and herbs before searching for the sect’s inheritance.

The Iron Clothes Department settled into the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect’s courtyard while its masters speculated that Yang Ling was being groomed for leadership and discussed the risks of condensing Martial Way Kindling. The middle-aged layman then questioned Yang Ling about his cultivation and began explaining the four grades of Martial Way Kindling, ending with the legendary stellar fire.

• The middle-aged layman assigned the groups lodging, and Zhao Xun and Yun Buchuan speculated that Yang Ling was being secretly prepared to succeed the Iron Clothes Department’s master.
• Xu Wenjun explained that condensing Martial Way Kindling could endanger the cultivator’s life and that it had to become a Martial Way Furnace within three years.
• Wei Xing noted that Yang Ling’s foundation had been damaged, and Xu Wenjun described possible fuels for turning kindling into a furnace.
• The middle-aged layman ordered Li Zhong and the other masters to search Fire Flood Dragon Island for remnants of the Great Dream Dynasty and the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect’s inheritance.
• Yang Ling told the middle-aged layman that he had condensed his Martial Way Kindling on Fire Flood Dragon Island.
• The middle-aged layman explained that Martial Way Kindling had four grades—spirit fire, mystic fire, tribulation fire, and the legendary stellar fire.

Yang Ling learned how Martial Way Kindling developed and discovered that his weakened foundation would make his path to Fourth Rank more difficult. He left determined to fuel his Sacred Kirin Kindling, with Hua Jinsong offering to guide his cultivation.

• The middle-aged layman explained the rarity of Mystic Fire and Tribulation Fire and said Yang Ling's Kindling seemed to be Spirit Fire.
• Yang Ling learned that Martial Way Kindling could not ordinarily be inspected by others, and he felt relieved that his Sacred Kirin Kindling would remain concealed.
• The middle-aged layman warned that the Fire Flood Dragon's power had damaged Yang Ling's foundation, leaving him three years to turn his Kindling into a furnace and requiring time for recovery.
• Yang Ling learned that internal-skill advancement and medicines could fuel his Kindling, and resolved to use his five first-class internal skills to reach Fourth Rank.
• The middle-aged layman invited Yang Ling to seek cultivation advice from him or the Iron Clothes Department's Fourth-Rank chiefs, while Hua Jinsong asked Yang Ling to come to him first.

Yang Ling ate an Ironback Thorn Fish King deep in the abandoned Red Fire Iron Ore mine and discovered that strengthening his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling advanced a new progress bar. He then ate an eight-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit, raising the progress to 3/500.

• Yang Ling met Zhao State's Mine Gang prospecting for ore veins on Fire Flood Dragon Island and encouraged them to find deposits that could strengthen Zhao State.
• Yang Ling reached the mine's depths, took out the Ironback Thorn Fish King, and ate it to gain 1,000 Health Points.
• Yang Ling sensed that the fish had slightly strengthened his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling, and his Attribute Panel revealed a new 1/500 progress bar.
• Yang Ling rested and ate the Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit, increasing his Martial Way Kindling progress to 3/500.

Yang Ling consumed rare treasures to strengthen his martial way kindling and improve his skills. The Divine Ape Spirit Body appeared and asked who had given Yang Ling the map, leaving him struggling to answer honestly.

• Yang Ling ate Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit and Bixue He Shouwu, raising his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling progress to 4/500 and improving his Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual.
• Yang Ling used other rare herbs to raise Divine Ape Visualization and Candle Dragon Seven-Star Sword Technique, while saving the Black Thunder Tortoise-Shell Lingzhi for Heavenly Will Divine Saber.
• Yang Ling reviewed his gains and noted that Little White had not yet shown signs of evolving.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body revealed it had one last breath left and asked Yang Ling who had given him the map.
• Yang Ling feared the answer might get him killed and asked the Divine Ape Spirit Body to promise not to take his explanation seriously or slap him to death.

Yang Ling told the Divine Ape Spirit Body about memories he believed were dreams, including receiving the map from Ji Tianming, and the Divine Ape Spirit Body accepted that they might have been sworn brothers. He refused to give Yang Ling fuel for his supreme martial way kindling but offered to direct him to a place with ancient herbs.

• Yang Ling claimed Ji Tianming had given him the map, then described a dream in which he joined the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect and fought the Divine Guard Office.
• Yang Ling recounted another dream involving Zhao De, the Jingxiao Bandits, and a secret vault on Wuheng Mountain, prompting the Divine Ape Spirit Body to suspect he believed the events were real.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body recognized that Yang Ling was sincere about the map and his supreme martial way kindling, and realized Yang Ling had meant him when he said “sworn brother.”
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body agreed to treat their dreamed brotherhood as real, but said he had no fuel to spare for Yang Ling’s kindling.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body offered to guide Yang Ling to a place where rare flowers and herbs at least a thousand years old might still grow, and Yang Ling eagerly welcomed the prospect.

The Divine Ape Spirit Body told Yang Ling how White Bone Cave fell and gave him a map to its hidden medicinal herb garden, while warning him about the dangers surrounding the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect. Yang Ling resolved to keep the garden secret and visit it discreetly.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body explained that the Great Dream Dynasty destroyed White Bone Cave after its Land Immortal died, with other Martial Alliance factions benefiting from the sect's fall.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body gave Yang Ling a map to White Bone Cave's hidden island medicinal herb garden near Fire Flood Dragon Island and said its herbs might be a thousand years old.
• Yang Ling asked about White Bone Cave's Flying Sword Technique, and the Divine Ape Spirit Body said the Divine Guard Office had acquired it and suspected White Bone Cave came from the Shura Path.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body warned Yang Ling that he might lose his human mind if he left Fire Flood Dragon Island and fully transformed into a flood dragon.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body urged Yang Ling to visit the medicinal herb garden quietly, and Yang Ling resolved to keep its existence to himself.

Yang Ling learned from the Divine Ape Spirit Body about the dangerous Abyssal Beast Cavern, where he might find the purple thunderstone needed to master Lightning Saber. After the spirit vanished, Immortal God Cult disciples approached Yang Ling with an offer of support in exchange for his secret help.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body explained that his strength was limited and advised Yang Ling that the Abyssal Beast Cavern contained purple thunderstone and lightning-controlling beasts, though it was extremely dangerous.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body said the Great Dream Dynasty's cavern held at least ten divine beasts as powerful as Water Qilin or the Old Ancestor, and Yang Ling imagined it as a place to level up.
• Three Rong Tribe players entered the abandoned mine and told Yang Ling they had come to discuss cooperation on behalf of Cult Master Li Fengxian.
• Yang Ling inferred that Li Fengxian was communicating through the disciples and challenged the Cult Master's claims about his standing and wealth among the Rong Tribe.
• The disciples said Li Fengxian could make powerful radiation bombs from the Fire Flood Dragon's corpse and offered rare herbs and funding until Yang Ling reached Fourth-Rank Grandmaster if he secretly supported the Immortal God Cult.

Yang Ling killed three Immortal God Cult players who confronted him, then asked the Divine Ape Spirit Body about the Great Dream Dynasty’s Abyssal Beast Cavern and the martial rankings it produced. He learned more about the cavern’s influence and revealed that he had eaten the Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit in a dream.

• Yang Ling rejected the Immortal God Cult’s offer and killed its three players despite their warnings about the neutral zone.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body explained that the Great Dream Dynasty used the Abyssal Beast Cavern to develop generations of experts and maintain its influence over the Martial Alliance.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body described the Heaven Ranking and said the Iron Clothes Department Master and the Heavenly Wolf Guard Wei Lord qualified for the Lower Third Rank.
• Yang Ling asked about Vice Minister Hua’s martial way sacred medicine, and the Divine Ape Spirit Body identified it as the Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit.
• Yang Ling said he had eaten the Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit in a dream, recognizing that his sworn brother had been testing him.

Yang Ling asked the Divine Ape Spirit Body to preserve his Sky Wolf Battle Armor, but his Sworn Brother infused it with Fire Flood Dragon Blood and turned it into a divine weapon. The Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor remained usable at Yang Ling's level and granted powerful boosts.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body recognized Yang Ling's Sky Wolf Battle Armor as an ancient standard armor from Rong State's Heavenly Wolf Guard and identified its maker as Zhou Bingyi.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body identified Yang Ling's Fire Flood Dragon Blood as coming from the Abyssal Beast Cavern and decided to use it to infuse spirituality into the armor.
• Yang Ling worried that an upgrade would make the armor unusable, but the Divine Ape Spirit Body dismissed his concern and began the infusion.
• After two hours, the armor transformed into Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor, with a level 100 equip requirement, 400-point dual-attribute boosts, and the Giantification skill.

The Divine Ape Spirit Body finished refining Yang Ling’s Sky Wolf Battle Armor into the Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor, and Yang Ling tested its powerful attribute boosts and rare Gigantification ability. The Divine Ape Spirit Body warned that the armor would drain his qi and blood and suggested he find weapons suited to its enormous form.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body explained that Yang Ling’s Fire Flood Dragon Blood had helped the Sky Wolf Battle Armor become a lower fourth-rank divine weapon.
• Yang Ling equipped the Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor and saw his strength and agility rise to 799 points before his internal skills and weapons boosted them further.
• Yang Ling told the Divine Ape Spirit Body he thought he could challenge a Lower Fourth-Rank Grandmaster, but the Divine Ape Spirit Body warned that he lacked the qi and blood to sustain the armor.
• Yang Ling activated the armor’s Gigantification ability, and it grew until it towered four meters tall.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body praised the rare spiritual ability and recommended that Yang Ling acquire suitable weapons, preferably a saber, instead of relying on his sword and crane-mouth hoe.

Yang Ling asked the Divine Ape Spirit Body to forge a giant Crane-Mouth Hoe and improve his sword, and watched him reshape both weapons with hundred refined blazing gold. The new weapons boosted Yang Ling’s strength and attributes, and he ended by asking his sworn brother to forge oversized flying daggers.

• Yang Ling decided to have his Crane-Mouth Hoe enlarged and strengthened with kirin iron, then learned the Divine Ape Spirit Body was a master blacksmith.
• Yang Ling gave the Divine Ape Spirit Body hundred refined blazing gold and asked for a Crane-Mouth Hoe to match his Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body reforged the Heaven Swallowing Golden Sword and Crane-Mouth Hoe into a Heaven Swallowing Divine Blade and a giant Hundred Refined Qilin Crane-Mouth Hoe.
• Yang Ling equipped the new weapons and noticed their improved boosts and the Divine Blade’s new Instant Slash skill.
• Yang Ling took out more than a thousand Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers and asked the Divine Ape Spirit Body to forge them into enormous daggers weighing no more than eight jin each.

Yang Ling had the Divine Ape Spirit Body forge eight hundred Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers into Giant Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers, then escaped the fleets around Fire Flood Dragon Island to follow a map toward a spiritual medicine garden. At the island, he tested Instant Slash on a Water King Crab and discovered the skill could carry him at least fifty meters in an instant and cut the crab in two.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body forged eight hundred flying daggers into Giant Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers with 3,000 attack power, but told Yang Ling to keep the Fire Flood Dragon Scales as shields.
• Yang Ling decided to save the scales for a future deal and planned to wait until he reached Tun Tian Dao Palace or returned to the Divine Guard Office Instance before trading one.
• Yang Ling observed the fleets around Fire Flood Dragon Island, slipped away through the sea, and swam for seven days while following the White Bone Cave Spiritual Medicine Garden Route Map.
• A level 180 Water King Crab attacked Yang Ling near the island, but he dodged its Water King Cannon and lured it ashore.
• Yang Ling equipped the Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor and used Instant Slash to appear behind the retreating crab, splitting it in two and marveling at the skill's speed and power.

Yang Ling found a patch of twelve-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit in White Bone Cave’s abandoned spirit herb garden, then encountered martial artists from Yellow Sea Fishing Village. He discovered they had defected to the Great Dream Dynasty, but their village chief Pan Hui was only an Upper Fifth Rank.

• Yang Ling finished eating crab, considered the cost of replenishing his Qi and Blood, and followed Ji Tianming’s map to the spirit herb garden.
• Yang Ling found whole patches of twelve-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit that could significantly strengthen his Martial Way Kindling.
• A group of martial artists from Yellow Sea Fishing Village arrived and challenged Yang Ling’s presence on their territory.
• Yang Ling claimed he was from the Zhao State’s Iron Clothes Department and proposed splitting the herbs, while the villagers suspected he had come to hunt them down.
• Pan Hui arrived and revealed that Yellow Sea Fishing Village had defected to the Great Dream Dynasty; Yang Ling inspected his Attribute Panel and found he was only an Upper Fifth Rank.

Yang Ling learned that Pan Hui and the Yellow Sea Fishing Village had come to the island after being misled about their alleged defection, then killed Pan Hui and his men when they threatened him over the spirit herbs. He collected the garden’s plants and discovered that each twelve-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit advanced his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling by four points.

• Yang Ling questioned Pan Hui about how the Iron Clothes Department found the island, and learned that Pan Hui believed the Star Sea Fishing Alliance’s claim that Yellow Sea Fishing Village had defected to the Great Dream Dynasty.
• Pan Hui spotted thirteen twelve-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits and planned to use them to advance to Fourth Rank and secure influence in the Great Dream Dynasty.
• Yang Ling admitted that he had come to the island alone to claim the spirit herb garden, which he identified as a remnant of White Bone Cave.
• Yang Ling killed Pan Hui’s Sixth-Rank followers with flying daggers, then overwhelmed Pan Hui with a flurry of kicks and finished him with another dagger strike.
• Yang Ling gathered the garden’s rare herbs and found that one Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit raised his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling progress from four to eight out of five hundred.

Yang Ling consumed the Spirit Medicine Garden's rare herbs and fruits, greatly advancing his martial way kindling, internal energy, and sword technique. After checking the rankings and seeing other players close the level gap, he grew wary of Li Fengxian and resolved to kill him secretly at their next meeting, just as a flying sword rushed toward him.

• Yang Ling ate twelve Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits, raising his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling to 56/500.
• Yang Ling consumed rare flowers and herbs, increasing the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual's experience to 374,000 and the Candle Dragon Seven-Star Sword Technique's proficiency to 505,000.
• Yang Ling checked the Divine Realm Rank List and noticed that Lin Caiyi and other players had been leveling faster since the Divine Domain 2.0 update.
• Yang Ling suspected Luo Kai was leveling the Li Fengxian account and vowed to kill him in one hit when they next met.
• A flying sword silently approached Yang Ling, then accelerated toward his vital points from within a hundred zhang.

Yang Ling protected Little White as it underwent its next evolution while an unseen White Bone Cave expert repeatedly attacked them with flying swords. After repelling the attacks, Yang Ling demanded Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit and gave the hidden attacker fifteen minutes to comply.

• Yang Ling shattered a hidden attacker’s flying sword and suspected a White Bone Cave remnant was on the island, but could not find them with his mental perception.
• Little White emerged from the spirit pet space surrounded by white light, and Yang Ling realized it was nearing the end of its evolution.
• The attacker sent three flying swords at Little White, but Yang Ling cut them down and concluded the swords could block his mental perception until they came within a hundred zhang.
• Yang Ling guarded Little White as its aura continued to rise, narrowing his perception range and waiting for another attack.
• After several hours, the attacker sent nine flying swords at Little White, and Yang Ling destroyed them with a Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Dagger.
• The attacker wrote a warning for Yang Ling to leave, but Yang Ling refused and demanded a batch of Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit within fifteen minutes.

Yang Ling fed the Fire Flood Dragon Scales to Little White during a seven-day evolution while fending off repeated flying-sword attacks. Little White emerged as a level-150 Fire Qilin Lord, and Yang Ling prepared to confront whoever had been attacking him.

• After waiting for Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit that never arrived, Yang Ling realized Little White was hungry and gave it the Fire Flood Dragon Scales to eat.
• Yang Ling guarded Little White as it digested the scales for seven days, repeatedly destroying flying swords sent in sneak attacks.
• When over a hundred more flying swords rushed in, flames from the newly evolved Little White melted them into molten iron.
• Yang Ling checked Little White's Attribute Panel and discovered it had become a Fire Qilin Lord with doubled Spirit and a dramatically changed appearance.
• Yang Ling searched Pan Hui and the others' bodies, then set out to settle accounts with the attacker.

Players mined blazing gold ore in Xiangfeng Prefecture while Chen Xu tried to follow Yang Ling’s example and level quickly. Chen Hong arrived with explosives and demanded that Chen Xu message Yang Ling for the Immortal God Cult, but Zhao Qing subdued and arrested him before he could harm anyone.

• Zhao Chonghong rewarded the players mining at the Blazing Gold Ore mine, spurring them to work harder.
• Chen Xu and the other players saw that Yang Ling’s spirit pet had become the level 150 Fire Qilin Lord.
• Chen Hong revealed explosives strapped to himself and ordered Chen Xu to message Yang Ling with a threat from the Immortal God Cult.
• Chen Hong claimed his Cult Master could help him leave Divine Domain and refused the players’ offers to pay him instead.
• Zhao Qing shot Chen Hong with a crossbow bolt, ordered the explosives removed, and took Chen Hong away after discarding the Reincarnation Herb.
• Jiang Tian'ai urged the group to privately message Yang Ling and warn him about the Immortal God Cult.

Yang Ling learned that Li Fengxian was pressuring him to publicly support the Immortal God Cult, then countered by warning Zhao State’s players and offering a reward for reporting cultists. He and Little White uncovered an underground palace and found the supposedly dead White Bone Daoist, Zhu Xiu, whom Yang Ling confronted.

• Yang Ling received Chen Xu’s report that Chen Hong had smuggled explosives into the Blazing Gold Ore mine and warned Chen Xu to investigate for Immortal God Cult remnants.
• Li Fengxian threatened to make Zhao State’s players hunting targets unless Yang Ling publicly told them to stop opposing the cult, but Yang Ling refused and recognized the cult’s recruitment troubles after the Divine Domain 2.0 update.
• Yang Ling warned players in the Divine Realm Chat Channel that the cult used a hallucinogenic blue herb to deceive recruits and offered 50 taels for reporting cultists.
• Yang Ling and Little White smashed through the cliff and discovered an underground palace identical to the White Bone Cave Instance.
• Yang Ling inspected the skeletal figure’s Attribute Panel, identified him as Zhu Xiu, a crippled Fourth-Rank Dao Law True Lord, and accused him of still being alive.