Vol. 4The Crown and the Dragon King

Su Yuan gained power through the Dragon King trials, took over Xuan Haoran’s pagoda, and infiltrated Tianluo World to become Longcheng’s magistrate. He then entered the Blood God Cult and turned its mass sacrifice against its leaders, leaving the conflict underway.

  • Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi passed Long Bai’s trials and obtained the Dragon King’s legacy, while Su Yuan used the Dragon Emperor Coin and Jieyue Pearl to face the pioneering trial beneath nine suns.
  • Su Yuan awakened Chiyuan, gained new sword and beast-taming powers, and completed the university challenges before entering the Dragon King Secret Realm as Chen Nuoyi’s Dao Protector.
  • Su Yuan captured the pagoda’s occupants, spread Black Mud through its floors, and recruited Leng Qianliu into Yuan Sect.
  • Xuan Haoran entered the corrupted tower, evaded Zhu Tianqing’s fused beast, and revealed his power to control other people’s fates.
  • Su Yuan infiltrated Tianluo World as Su Youlin, manipulated the magistrate examination, and became Longcheng County’s magistrate.
  • Su Yuan challenged Longcheng’s clans and sects, crushed their riot, built up the county forces, and faced Transport Commissioner Fan’s questions.
  • Su Yuan raised money and influence in Longcheng, then joined Chen Nuoyi and Motis to disrupt the Blood God Cult’s planned sacrifice of a million people.
  • Su Yuan seized the Crown of Corruption during the ritual and turned it against Blood Soul True Monarch and the cult’s senior leaders, leaving them in battle.
Chapters 302–402 Read from Ch. 302

Arc 13The Dragon King Trials

Su Yuan completed the university’s departmental challenge, gained new sword and beast-taming powers, and entered the Dragon King Secret Realm with Chen Nuoyi. After passing its first two trials and taking the Dragon Emperor Coin, they faced a pioneering trial under nine scorching suns.

  • Su Yuan unveiled the Old One Sword Armor, led the lab to victory in the design competition, and won approval from ten departments, completing the Demonic Contamination task.
  • Su Yuan awakened Chiyuan as his second Natal Sword, mastered the Blood Corrupting Sword, and learned that True Lord Wuluo was Qi Hanyua’s mother and Chen Nuoyi’s new master.
  • Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi obtained a Night Demon Beast at Myriad Beasts University, and Su Yuan tamed more than a hundred Waste Beasts to earn a Peerless in Beast Taming certificate.
  • True Lord Wuluo took Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, and Qi Hanyua into the Dragon King Secret Realm, where Long Bai chose Chen Nuoyi as her candidate and Su Yuan as her Dao Protector.
  • Su Yuan used his abilities to pass Long Bai’s first trial, then chose the Dragon Saliva Pool reward and strengthened himself and Chen Nuoyi through ten days of bathing.
  • Su Yuan found Long Bai’s developing physical body, completed his hidden mission, and helped Chen Nuoyi face the second trial by using the Night Demon Beast against the Sinful Dragons.
  • Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi passed the second trial, chose the Dragon Palace Treasury, and Su Yuan took the hidden Dragon Emperor Coin after discovering where Long Bai had concealed it.
  • Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi began the pioneering trial with one hundred thousand mortals beneath nine suns, and Su Yuan used the Jieyue Pearl and Dragon Emperor Coin against the Golden Crows.
Chapters 302–32625 summaries Read

Arc 14The Corrupted Pagoda

Su Yuan learned how the coming Immortal Tribulation could threaten the world, then entered Xuan Haoran’s Sword Trial Tournament and used captured inheritances to take control of the pagoda. As Xuan Haoran entered the transformed tower, Zhu Tianqing confronted him and he revealed a power over other people’s fates.

  • Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi completed the human-development trial, inherited the Dragon King’s legacy with Long Bai, and learned the Immortal Tribulation could be triggered by the growth of powerful cultivators.
  • Su Yuan returned to Evil Slaying University, assembled a team with Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, and Zhu Tianqing, and entered the Eighth Floor of Xuan Haoran’s pagoda.
  • Su Yuan’s team defeated and captured Tu Kun, Yue Lan, and Lu Tianqiao, extracting their techniques and inheritances as they advanced toward Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai.
  • Su Yuan trapped Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai, took their treasures, and extracted their Spirit Transmutation Inheritances before capturing the remaining occupants of the Eighth Floor.
  • Su Yuan used the Corrupting Divine Kingdom to spread Black Mud through the tower, while Chen Nuoyi used the Dragon Emperor Coin to open the passages between floors.
  • Su Yuan overwhelmed the Ninth Floor’s team, defeated Leng Qianliu without harming her, and recruited her into the Yuan Sect before the tournament deadline expired.
  • Xuan Haoran entered the corrupted tower, where Zhu Tianqing explained Su Yuan’s changes and unleashed a monster made from a hundred corrupted spirit beasts.
  • Xuan Haoran evaded the fused beast, reached Zhu Tianqing, and revealed that he could control other people’s fates as well as see the future.
Chapters 327–35225 summaries Read

Arc 15The Longcheng Magistrate

Su Yuan entered the Tianluo World undercover, manipulated the Immortal Official Grand Examination, and became magistrate of Longcheng County. He challenged the local clans and sects, built loyalty among the county forces, and faced scrutiny from Transport Commissioner Fan.

  • Xuan Haoran defeated the School Team’s attackers and reached Leng Qianliu, but Su Yuan countered his Destined Failure, recruited him, and ended the tournament with five other winners.
  • True Lord Wuluo explained the plan to infiltrate the Tianluo World, and Su Yuan joined the mission with Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, Zhu Tianqing, Leng Qianliu, and Xuan Haoran.
  • Su Yuan received a Prismatic Grade Abyss Dharma Vein, then replaced Su Youlin during his ascension and used the Myriad Soul Banner to learn his identity and plans.
  • Su Yuan disguised himself as Su Youlin, entered Tianlu World, and began breaking its rules to complete the Dog System’s Environment Destroyer mission.
  • Su Yuan bribed and coerced examiner Huai Lingwei, then used exam corruption and his interview performance to become Longcheng County’s magistrate, with Ying Ding and Qi Junxiang appointed to county posts.
  • In Longcheng, Su Yuan killed Daoist Bai Xuan, condemned the local powers for their conduct, and demanded money from the Lin Family and Liuyang Sect to fund a campaign against pirates backed by the Blood God Cult.
  • Su Yuan rewarded the county staff and Xiang Army, then crushed the Four Great Families’ riot, arrested three hundred people, and ordered their scions to serve in the army until the pirates were defeated.
  • Lin Yanluo failed to win the arrested scions’ release with gifts, while Su Yuan trained his forces and prepared for Transport Commissioner Fan, who arrived asking about a large Spirit Beast Meat purchase.
Chapters 353–37725 summaries Read

Arc 16The Crown and the Blood Sacrifice

Su Yuan raised money and influence in Longcheng County, then joined Chen Nuoyi and Motis to disrupt the Blood God Cult’s plan to sacrifice a million people. After secretly refining the Crown of Corruption and weakening the cult’s pirate forces, he turned the sacrifice ritual against Blood Soul True Monarch and the senior leaders, leaving them in battle.

  • Transport Commissioner Fan offered Su Yuan a Heavenly Patrol Envoy post in Cold Plum World, and Su Yuan accepted while planning to reach Principal Fifth Rank by raising three million Spirit Coins.
  • Su Yuan used his mind-altering ability to impose a 94-percent tax on the powerful families and sects, collected two million Spirit Coins, and let Lin Yonghua escape toward the pirates.
  • Su Yuan summoned Chen Nuoyi and joined her in Lu Hai, where she killed Wu Sheng, destroyed the Yaksha Pirate Group, and founded the Fengxiang Pirate Group.
  • Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi discovered the Blood God Cult planned to sacrifice a million people, and they joined forces with Motis, the surviving Feng Clan daughter who had infiltrated the cult as its Saintess.
  • Su Yuan entered the Blood God Cult as Motis’s kindred spirit, became Blood Soul True Monarch’s disciple and Holy Son, and secretly refined the Crown of Corruption while pretending to study the cult’s techniques.
  • Su Yuan coordinated with Chen Nuoyi and Qi Hanyua to defeat the cult’s pirate forces and disrupt its efforts to gather offerings, while Motis helped him maintain his cover.
  • Blood Soul True Monarch brought more than five hundred thousand captives to the Holy Island and began the sacrifice ritual, targeting Su Yuan and Motis with the Crown of Corruption.
  • Su Yuan seized the crown, redirected the ritual against Blood Soul True Monarch and the senior leaders, and gained power as the crown drained them, while Blood Soul True Monarch vowed to destroy him.
Chapters 378–40225 summaries Read
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