Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi entered the Dragon’s Stomach for Long Bai’s second trial, where they had to defeat two hundred Sinful Dragons without being corrupted by their resentment. After Su Yuan’s Night Demon Beast became possessed, he killed it, preserved its soul in the Myriad Soul Banner, and used its corpse to summon Bai Ling, leaving Long Bai stunned by his ruthless resourcefulness.

• Long Bai transported Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi to the Dragon’s Stomach and explained that they had to defeat two hundred Sinful Dragons within an hour without touching them themselves.
• Su Yuan summoned the Night Demon Beast, which quickly killed ten Sinful Dragons and began transforming from their Dragon blood.
• The Night Demon Beast succumbed to resentment and attacked Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi, prompting Long Bai to ask whether they would kill it or seek a way to save it.
• Su Yuan swiftly decapitated the corrupted Night Demon Beast, then trapped its soul in the Myriad Soul Banner.
• Su Yuan drew a Holy Sect Blood Sacrifice Array and summoned Bai Ling, who absorbed Dragon blood from the Night Demon Beast’s corpse while Su Yuan took in its resentment.

After defeating the second trial, Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi chose a Dragon Palace treasure as their reward and entered the treasury. Long Bai secretly revealed the location of the real treasure, which Su Yuan was about to claim.

• Long Bai explained that the Night Demon Beast and the other Waste Beasts were mentally ill demons who had harmed people, and Su Yuan continued the trial.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi defeated the Waste Beasts repeatedly, while Bai Ling refined the blood of two hundred Sinful Dragons and began to slumber.
• Long Bai presented the rewards for passing the second trial, and Su Yuan chose the Dragon Palace Treasury rather than the incomplete Dragon King Bloodline or advance information about the next trial.
• Long Bai led Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi into the treasury and warned them they could take only one treasure.
• Su Yuan heard Long Bai think that the real treasure was hidden in a box on the roof beam, and realized he could take it.

Su Yuan baited Long Bai into revealing details about her treasures and learned the Dragon Emperor Coin could take others’ possessions on credit. He identified the coin hidden on the treasury’s roof beam, seized it, and left Long Bai crying.

• Su Yuan coaxed Long Bai into describing her treasures while disguising his interest in their locations.
• Long Bai explained that the Dragon Emperor Coin forced equivalent exchanges but also offered credit based on its holder’s wealth and Purple Gold Dragon Venerable’s endorsement.
• Chen Nuoyi warned Su Yuan that borrowing against the coin could leave them vulnerable to stronger cultivators, but Su Yuan planned to take treasures secretly and default.
• Su Yuan claimed the coin was meant for Chen Nuoyi and revealed he had figured out it was hidden in a box on the roof beam.
• Su Yuan flew to the beam, broke open the box, and grabbed the Dragon Emperor Coin, leaving Long Bai in tears.

Su Yuan took the Dragon Emperor Coin from Long Bai by promising to return it, while secretly planning to keep it, and then he, Chen Nuoyi, and Long Bai began the third trial. Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi entered a lifelike ancient world tasked with building a home for one hundred thousand people, beneath nine blazing suns.

• Su Yuan took the Dragon Emperor Coin from Long Bai and persuaded her to trust him by promising to return it in twenty years.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi left the Dragon Clan's treasure vault, and Long Bai explained that the third trial, called Pioneering, would test their ability to lead displaced people through hardship and build a home.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi entered Long Bai's Sea of Consciousness, where she began the trial and warned that more than half of the mortals had to survive.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi saw the one hundred thousand uncultivated but physically powerful mortals and looked up at nine suns scorching the barren land.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi faced nine Golden Crows threatening one hundred thousand mortals in the Illusionary World. Su Yuan suppressed the birds with the Netherworld Blood Sea, then mortgaged the mortals’ value through the Dragon Emperor Coin to strip the Golden Crows of their fire-producing feathers.

• Chen Nuoyi urged Su Yuan to kill the nine Golden Crows while she led the one hundred thousand mortals to safety.
• Su Yuan armed himself with the Old One Sword Armor and charged the Golden Crows, but Demonic Art: Finger Beast failed against the True Fire surrounding them.
• Su Yuan summoned the Jieyue Pearl and flooded the Golden Crows with Netherworld Blood Sea, overwhelming their True Fire despite their formation.
• The Golden Crows tried to flee, so Su Yuan used the Dragon Emperor Coin to mortgage the one hundred thousand mortals and strip away the birds’ special feathers.
• The Golden Crows’ True Fire dwindled as blood poured down over them.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi built a city and trained the human race to survive in the Illusionary World, then passed the third trial’s hidden hundred-year development test. The simulation ended with a prosperous nation of Demonic Cultivators, and they received three trial rewards.

• Su Yuan subdued the nine Golden Crows and used their feathers to help the human race hunt, preserve food, and tame blood beasts.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi led the people to a plain, where they built a city and fought repeated floods until Chen Nuoyi lured Wuzhiqi onto land and Su Yuan killed it.
• After teaching the people a breathing technique, Su Yuan learned from Long Bai that the trial would simulate the human race’s development for a hundred years.
• The human race survived attacks, grew into a nation called Twin Saints City, and developed a tradition of Demonic Cultivation, satisfying the trial’s hidden condition.
• Long Bai took Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi out of the Sea of Consciousness, and they received three rewards, including a Golden Apple and seven days to prepare for the next trial.

Su Yuan gave Purple Gold Dragon Venerable’s Golden Apple to Chen Nuoyi, who gained the Prismatic Battle Victorious Emperor ability. Long Bai explained that the fourth trial would let them speak with her father’s divine sense about the future, and she transported them to her Dragon Pearl to begin.

• Su Yuan insisted that Chen Nuoyi eat the Golden Apple, and she accepted after they agreed that the final trial’s reward would go to him.
• Chen Nuoyi gained the Prismatic Battle Victorious Emperor ability, which made her stronger as she approached death.
• Long Bai explained that the fourth trial would let Purple Gold Dragon Venerable’s divine sense hear their views of the future before deciding whether to pass on the inheritance.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi chose to enter the fourth trial despite their nervousness about meeting a Spirit Transmutation Demon Saint.
• Long Bai used spatial power to take them into the trial, where Su Yuan realized they stood on her Dragon Pearl.

Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, and Long Bai met Purple Gold Dragon Venerable’s projection, who warned them that the Immortal Tribulation would return once the cultivation world reached certain population thresholds. He urged the two humans to inherit his legacy and help save the world, leaving Chen Nuoyi wary after he offered Long Bai as Su Yuan’s reward.

• Purple Gold Dragon Venerable appeared from the Dragon Pearl and questioned Su Yuan about human rule and his demonic arts.
• Purple Gold Dragon Venerable revealed that the Immortal Tribulation would descend when the world held five thousand Nascent Soul Cultivators and one million Golden Core Cultivators.
• Chen Nuoyi estimated that the rapidly growing civilizations might reach those thresholds within a century, perhaps even ten years or less.
• Su Yuan agreed that he and Chen Nuoyi would try to save the world, and Purple Gold Dragon Venerable urged them to inherit his legacy.
• When Su Yuan asked about the fourth trial’s reward, Purple Gold Dragon Venerable offered Long Bai, prompting Chen Nuoyi to react with suspicion.

Purple Gold Dragon Venerable entrusted Long Bai and the treasures of the Dragon King Secret Realm to Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi, then revealed the hidden danger behind the Immortal Tribulation. Su Yuan learned that Spirit Transformation Cultivators could defect to survive the tribulation, leaving the Cultivation World unsure how many ancient enemies it would face.

• Purple Gold Dragon Venerable explained that Long Bai's True Spirit had been preserved and asked Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi to take her in with the Secret Realm's treasures; Chen Nuoyi agreed, and Su Yuan promised Long Bai he would never abandon her.
• Purple Gold Dragon Venerable exposed Su Yuan's earlier eavesdropping and intrusion into Long Bai's Sleeping Palace, prompting Long Bai to scold and stomp on him before her favorability rose and his Cave Explorer quest was completed.
• Su Yuan asked how the Immortal Tribulation could be delayed, and Purple Gold Dragon Venerable explained that it could be prevented by keeping the numbers of Golden Core and Nascent Soul Cultivators below their thresholds.
• Su Yuan proposed raising many Spirit Transformation Cultivators, but Purple Gold Dragon Venerable revealed that forty-nine of them could trigger the Immortal Tribulation regardless of other conditions.
• Purple Gold Dragon Venerable privately told Su Yuan that Spirit Transformation Cultivators could defect to survive the tribulation, and that thirty-six human Spirit Transformation Cultivators had defected during the previous calamity.
• Su Yuan realized the ancient Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lords might be enemies and learned that defectors from even earlier tribulations might also still be alive.

Su Yuan reflected on Purple Gold Dragon Venerable’s warning about the coming Immortal Tribulation and comforted Long Bai after her father’s farewell. Ten days later, Chen Nuoyi emerged from the Dragon Pearl with a Unique Dragon Emperor True Body and overwhelming new power, leaving her eager to face the future alongside Su Yuan.

• Purple Gold Dragon Venerable told Su Yuan to temper his Dao Heart and vanished, assuring Long Bai that his true body had not fallen and that they would meet again.
• Su Yuan comforted Long Bai, then waited with her as Chen Nuoyi absorbed the Dragon King Inheritance from the Dragon Pearl.
• After ten days, the Dragon Pearl shattered and Chen Nuoyi emerged with blue hair, golden eyes, and sixth-layer Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• Su Yuan inspected Chen Nuoyi’s ability panel and discovered her Unique Dragon Emperor True Body, which combined all dragon-clan talents and could summon a divine dragon by sacrificing seven talents.
• The System confirmed that Su Yuan could acquire Dragon Emperor True Body’s component abilities through the Human Pill method.
• Chen Nuoyi told Su Yuan that she had become strong enough not to fear being left behind by him.

Su Yuan tested the Dragon Prince Consort title and discovered that Chen Nuoyi's Dragon Emperor Bloodline greatly increased its cultivation bonus. After they returned from the Dragon King Secret Realm, Su Yuan tried to spank Long Bai, but she recovered quickly and sent him flying; she demanded an explanation.

• Su Yuan equipped the Dragon Prince Consort title and found it sharply increased his cultivation speed near Chen Nuoyi and Long Bai, with Chen Nuoyi providing the larger bonus.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi agreed to study together, and Chen Nuoyi explained how she planned to develop her Dragon Emperor Bloodline while continuing her human studies.
• Su Yuan called Long Bai and returned with her and Chen Nuoyi to Long Bai's Sleeping Palace.
• Su Yuan approached Long Bai's bed and spanked her, while Chen Nuoyi considered pinching her cheek.
• Long Bai revealed she had rehearsed using her new body and headbutted Su Yuan into a wall before demanding to know why he had spanked her.

Su Yuan returned from the Dragon King Secret Realm with Long Bai and reported the Immortal Tribulation’s secrets to True Lord Wuluo, who revealed the Federation’s plan to unite the starry sky before the crisis arrived. Su Yuan left reassured about the Federation’s preparations and secured Hidden Points for himself and Chen Nuoyi.

• Long Bai joined the Yuan Sect as a guest elder, and Su Yuan discovered her perfect loyalty, high King's Aide Devil Index, and powerful Talents.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi emerged from the Dragon King Secret Realm after nearly two months and reunited with True Lord Wuluo and Qi Hanyua.
• Su Yuan told True Lord Wuluo and Qi Hanyua what Purple Gold Dragon Venerable had revealed about the Immortal Tribulation.
• True Lord Wuluo explained that the Federation had already investigated earlier Immortal Tribulations and planned to conquer the starry sky rather than restrict its own development.
• Su Yuan asked whether his intelligence could earn Hidden Points, and True Lord Wuluo awarded him and Chen Nuoyi two hundred points each.

Su Yuan returned from the Dragon King Secret Realm with Long Bai, the daughter of Purple Gold Dragon Venerable, and brought her into his family. After Long Bai and Taihua Yu Xi’s tense first meeting ended in a candy-and-gem exchange, Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan that a Son of Spirit Transmutation would soon arrive in Ten Immortal City to hold a Sword Trial Tournament.

• True Lord Wuluo agreed that Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi could raise Long Bai, and arranged for her to stay in Chen Nuoyi and Qi Hanyua’s dorm room.
• Long Bai shrank the Dragon Corpse into a bracelet containing her treasury, and True Lord Wuluo teleported the group out of the Dragon King Secret Realm.
• Su Yuan reunited with Taihua Tianji in Evil Slaying University City and introduced Long Bai, prompting Taihua Yu Xi to confront her over Su Yuan.
• Taihua Yu Xi offered Long Bai a strawberry lollipop, and Long Bai paid her with a valuable gem while insisting that she not take Su Yuan.
• Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan that a Son of Spirit Transmutation would soon arrive in Ten Immortal City and hold a Sword Trial Tournament against peerless geniuses of his age.

Su Yuan learned that the Heavenly Evolution Divine Son, Xuan Haoran, would arrive for the Sword Trial Tournament and spent the month preparing while advancing his cultivation and training. At Evil Slaying University’s departure gathering, he met the formidable fourth-year Guo Zhengyi, the school’s undisputed top student and the Federation’s second-strongest university student.

• Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan that twenty-year-old Xuan Haoran had reached Foundation Establishment Peak and warned him to stay alert because Xuan Haoran and True Lord Wuluo were arriving around the same time.
• Su Yuan spent the next month handling Yuan Sect affairs, recruiting Chi Lean, cultivating to the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment, and mastering two Spirit Transmutation Inheritances.
• Chen Nuoyi mastered the Heaven Shaking Star Shattering Sword, while Qi Hanyua used donated resources to learn the first stage of the Blood Corrupting Sword; both qualified for the tournament.
• On April 11, Xuan Haoran arrived at Guantian Pavilion, and Evil Slaying University’s selected School Team members gathered to travel there for the Sword Trial Tournament.
• Su Yuan joined Qi Hanyua and Chen Nuoyi at the school plaza, where he recognized several fellow students and observed the powerful upperclassmen competing for the team’s top spots.
• Guo Zhengyi, a fourth-year student and the university’s undisputed First in School, approached Su Yuan and introduced himself.

Su Yuan and Evil Slaying University’s School Team arrived at Guantian University for the Sword Trial Tournament, where he learned why their strongest seniors feared Xuan Haoran’s unique inheritance. Su Yuan encountered the world’s number-one Foundation Establishment Devilish Talent, and Xuan Haoran opened his ordinary-looking eyes and greeted the gathered teams.

• Su Yuan met Guo Zhengyi, Jiang Taibai, and Lu Tianqiao, who explained that their university’s Spirit Transmutation Inheritances could not match the unique true teachings passed down by the Ten Great Heavenly Lords.
• Taihua Tianji brought the School Team, Taihua Yu Xi, and Long Bai to Guantian University, where Ye Muyu warned Su Yuan that the world’s fate was increasingly tied to him.
• Su Yuan entered the Guantian Department’s plaza and saw Xuan Haoran sitting atop a nine-story Exquisite Pagoda as the School Teams of the Ten Great Immortal Sects gathered.
• The Dog System revealed that Xuan Haoran had devoured his twin in the womb, rejected his exceptional talent for a time, and embodied the True Demon before finally opening his eyes.
• Xuan Haoran opened his ordinary-looking eyes, scratched his head, and remarked that everyone had arrived quickly.

Xuan Haoran announced the Sword Trial Tournament’s rules, giving the school teams fifteen days to prepare the Nine-Story Pagoda before he climbed it, and revealed his Future Foresight ability. After learning the tournament was part of the Guantian Pavilion Master’s plan to select talented youths, Su Yuan formed a team and agreed to compete; the Federation’s top prodigies assigned tower floors according to their rankings.

• Xuan Haoran gave the Ten Great School Teams fifteen days to prepare the pagoda floors, then announced he could see twenty seconds into the future.
• Jiang Taibai, Guo Zhengyi, and Lu Tianqiao discussed countering Xuan Haoran and allocating the floors, while Su Yuan suspected Future Foresight might not be his strongest technique.
• Qi Hanyua suggested giving up, but True Lord Wuluo told Su Yuan the tournament was a pretext for the Guantian Pavilion Master to select youths for an important plan and urged him to clear a floor with his team.
• Su Yuan agreed to try, contacted Zhu Tianqing, and formed a team with her, Chen Nuoyi, and Qi Hanyua.
• The twenty-three Federation prodigies agreed to assign tower floors by Federation ranking, with Guo Zhengyi, Jiang Taibai, and Lu Tianqiao taking the eighth floor.

Su Yuan chose the Eighth Floor of the High Tower, intending to use Evil Slaying University’s battlefield environments to strengthen his team and eventually challenge Xuan Haoran. There, Chen Nuoyi began fighting Tu Kun, whose Corrupting Profound Light transformed the Snow Flood Dragon’s icy attack into flesh, leaving Su Yuan determined to learn the technique.

• Su Yuan chose the Eighth Floor with Chen Nuoyi, Zhu Tianqing, and Qi Hanyua, explaining that he knew Evil Slaying University’s inheritances and could use their battlefield environments to build strength.
• Su Yuan’s team arrived in the Eighth Floor’s Small World and headed toward the center while taming Demon Beasts, planning to find the entrance to the Ninth Floor before establishing a base.
• At a mountain lake, the team encountered Tu Kun, a third-year Evil Slaying Department student who used the Blood Corrupting Sword to stain the water and attack a Snow Flood Dragon.
• Su Yuan told Chen Nuoyi to fight Tu Kun, and she stepped onto the Snow Flood Dragon’s head, whose instincts made it submit to her dragon emperor aura.
• Tu Kun used Corrupting Profound Light to turn the Snow Flood Dragon’s icy beam into flesh, and Su Yuan decided he had to learn the technique.

Su Yuan’s team captured Tu Kun, extracted his Corrupting Profound Light, and used it to spread a vast Flesh and Blood Carpet across the Eighth Floor. As the group headed toward the Ninth Floor and prepared to pursue more Spirit Transmutation Inheritances, they finally spotted another member of the School Team.

• Chen Nuoyi struck Tu Kun from a distance with Vibration Force, gravely injuring him without triggering his elimination.
• Su Yuan extracted a Corrupting Profound Light Pill from Tu Kun, and Zhu Tianqing used Spirit Enslavement to keep him captive and recovering.
• Su Yuan consumed a Corrupting Profound Light Pill and transformed the surrounding landscape into a Flesh and Blood Carpet, intending to use it to power his Boundless Dao Seed.
• Su Yuan told Chen Nuoyi and Zhu Tianqing that he planned to collect the second stages of the Heaven Shaking Star Shattering Sword and the Divine Body Sacrificial Artifact Great Law before facing Guo Zhengyi’s group and Xuan Haoran.
• Su Yuan’s team traveled toward the Ninth Floor, with Su Yuan corrupting the land and Zhu Tianqing subduing Demon Beasts along the way.
• After more than two hours, Su Yuan’s team spotted the second member of the School Team.

Su Yuan sent Qi Hanyua to fight Yue Lan, a third-year Sword Dao student whose hidden Vibration Force trap battered her. Qi Hanyua used her Boundless Dao Seed to draw on the people’s support, overcame the trap, and defeated Yue Lan, while Su Yuan turned his attention to investigating Yue Lan’s sword technique.

• Su Yuan ordered Qi Hanyua to challenge Yue Lan, and Qi Hanyua nervously accepted the fight.
• Yue Lan’s concealed Vibration Force trap struck Qi Hanyua when she entered the area within one kilometer, but Qi Hanyua got back up and charged again.
• Qi Hanyua invoked the Boundless Dao Seed’s Sea of People and Mountains, using the will of the people across her mother’s worlds to restore herself and amplify her strength.
• Qi Hanyua charged through Yue Lan’s trap and defeated her in a sword clash, then knocked her unconscious with a punch.
• Zhu Tianqing used Spirit Enslavement to wake Yue Lan and have her dispel the Vibration Force in Qi Hanyua’s body.
• Su Yuan praised Qi Hanyua and turned to examine the unconscious Yue Lan to learn how the second stage of the Heaven Shaking Star Shattering Sword worked.

Su Yuan gained the Star-Shattering Static Domain ability and confronted Lu Tianqiao, who attacked him with the Artifact Refining Department’s inheritance. After her sword-shaped tree began draining his vitality, Su Yuan used his Demonic Arts to target Lu Tianqiao and her transformed weapon.

• Su Yuan extracted Star-Shattering Static Domain Pills, gave one to Chen Nuoyi, and consumed one himself.
• Lu Tianqiao confronted Su Yuan’s team over their enslavement of Tu Kun and Yue Lan, then merged with her wooden sword and struck at Su Yuan.
• Su Yuan used Deceive Sword Physique to evade Lu Tianqiao’s first sword strike.
• Lu Tianqiao transformed her sword into a towering tree whose branches attacked Su Yuan and drained vitality from his arm.
• Su Yuan used Demonic Art: Finger Artifact on Lu Tianqiao, then activated Demonic Art: Finger Beast: Enslave on the sword-shaped tree.