Chapter Summaries

Qin Taiyi restored Qin Wangchuan’s treasures, gave him a pill made from the essence of Immortal Bone for Dragon Scale, and revealed that the True Dragon Tribe was about to emerge. He sent Qin Wangchuan and Dragon Scale to the Dragon Lair to claim its Dragon Qi for the Qin Clan, warning them that rival Successors would compete for it.

• Qin Wangchuan visited Qin Taiyi in Longevity Heaven, where the Old Ancestor recognized his restored Origin Source and condensed True Dragon Qi.
• Qin Taiyi reforged Qin Wangchuan’s Nine-Layer Profound Heaven Ring and Heavenly Dao Silk, imbuing all three treasures with Immortal Bone Dao Rhyme.
• Qin Taiyi gave Qin Wangchuan a Jade Bottle containing pills made from the recovered essence of Immortal Bone and Sacrificial Bone, instructing him to give Dragon Scale one pill every seven days.
• Qin Taiyi revealed that the True Dragon Tribe would emerge in the Middle Thousand Provinces and told Qin Wangchuan to subdue it and bring its Dragon Qi back to the Qin Clan.
• Qin Taiyi sent Qin Wangchuan and Dragon Scale outside the Tenth Heaven and warned them to defeat rival Successors, showing no mercy to disrespectful elders.

Qin Wangchuan recovered with Dragon Scale before the Wheel of Fate answered a plea for help from another version of himself. He arrived at the Dayan Dynasty’s Dao Debate Battle, where a bloodied Qin Wangchuan faced the unleashed Pseudo-Immortal Body, and learned that the Wheel’s appearance was their doing.

• Qin Wangchuan gave Dragon Scale an Immortal Bone pill and placed her in a Dragon-Raising Pool while he recovered in another pool.
• Qin Wangchuan experienced another life through the River of Karma, then awakened to find Dragon Scale asleep against him and sensed his treasures resonating with his Immortal Bone.
• Dragon Scale recovered and transformed into a dragon pattern on Qin Wangchuan’s robes as he prepared to leave for the Middle Thousand Provinces.
• The Wheel of Fate opened in response to a plea from downstream in the River of Fate, and Qin Wangchuan stepped through to another time and space.
• Qin Wangchuan found the young prodigies fallen on the Cloud Platform of the Dayan Dynasty while a Pseudo-Immortal Body rose from its coffin.
• Qin Wangchuan recognized the bloodied zither cultivator at the battlefield’s center as another version of himself, and a voice told him that they had caused the Wheel of Fate to appear.

Qin Wangchuan learned from Spirit Law Dao that an Ancestral Dragon Egg could transform his Immortal Bone, then helped destroy the Pseudo-Immortal Physique in the past. Back in the present, he received a sword sheath from Fifth Dao Child and prepared to travel with Ye Jianwei to the Middle Thousand Provinces.

• Spirit Law Dao told Qin Wangchuan that an Ancestral Dragon Egg lay in the Elder True Dragon Clan's nest and could transform his Immortal Bone.
• Qin Wangchuan and Spirit Law Dao joined forces to destroy the Pseudo-Immortal Physique, and their intervention triggered a karmic lightning tribulation against Zither Dao Qin Wangchuan.
• Qin Wangchuan realized that the other versions of himself were beginning to unite across time and space.
• Ye Jianwei delivered a defensive sword sheath sent by Fifth Dao Child, and Qin Wangchuan found that it nourished the Ten Directions Mystic Law Sword.
• Qin Wangchuan told Ye Jianwei to prepare for their departure to the Middle Thousand Provinces.

Qin Wangchuan and Ye Jianwei visited Wen Dao Palace’s recruitment in Two Realms City, where the disciples selected candidates who had suffered major setbacks. Ye Jianwei’s appearance and circumstances caught their attention, and Wu Zheng led her, Qin Wangchuan, and two other applicants to a quieter area for further selection.

• Qin Wangchuan passed through Two Realms City and learned that Wen Dao Palace had arrived to recruit disciples.
• Qin Wangchuan and Ye Jianwei reached the plaza and saw Wen Dao Palace recruiting applicants with histories of major hardship.
• Wu Zheng directed candidates who had suffered serious setbacks to step aside, and two applicants joined him.
• Qin Wangchuan stepped forward, but Wu Zheng doubted he fit the selection criteria until Qin Wangchuan revealed Ye Jianwei behind him.
• Wu Zheng welcomed Ye Jianwei and led her, Qin Wangchuan, and the two other candidates away for further selection.

Qin Wangchuan observed Wen Dao Palace’s recruitment and reminded two candidates that they had to save themselves before Meng Yu recognized him as the Young Master. As Qin Wangchuan left, he learned that Wang Qiming, an old acquaintance from the Upper Thousand Provinces, was behind the neighboring group.

• A late-arriving candidate was rejected for changing his mind to gain a pill, while the other people in line received free Third-Rank Foundation-Nourishing Pills.
• Qin Wangchuan told two prospective disciples that Wen Dao Palace was a refuge, not a tool for revenge, and that they could only rely on themselves.
• Meng Yu arrived to inspect the four selected candidates and recognized Qin Wangchuan as the Young Master, prompting the other disciples to bow.
• Qin Wangchuan told the two candidates, “The strong save themselves,” then left with the Wen Dao Palace disciples.
• Qin Wangchuan learned that Wang Qiming was behind the neighboring group and recalled their past encounter and Wang Qiming’s ideal of equality among all living beings.

Qin Wangchuan sent Meng Yu to tell Wang Qiming that he had seen his path, while Wang Qiming dealt with Princess Cai Yi’s trouble in Two Realms City. The message left Wang Qiming deeply encouraged, though Qin Wangchuan did not meet him in person.

• Qin Wangchuan told Meng Yu to personally deliver his message that he had seen Wang Qiming’s path.
• Cai Yi arrived in Two Realms City with Cheng Yu, insulted Wang Qiming, and injured his guards.
• Wang Qiming ordered Cai Yi to leave, but Cheng Yu persuaded her to avoid a fight because the True Dragon Tribe was about to emerge.
• Wang Qiming compensated his injured guards and considered returning to the Upper Thousand Provinces to seek support.
• Meng Yu appeared on a rooftop and relayed Qin Wangchuan’s message before vanishing.
• Wang Qiming recognized Qin Wangchuan’s name and felt encouraged by his acknowledgment.

Wang Qiming regained his strength after hearing Qin’s name, while Cheng Yu and Cai Yi set out to recover the hidden Nine Heavens Pure Qi before heading to the Glazed Realm for the True Dragon Tribe’s emergence. Hou Yanzhi left seclusion to seize the Dragon Qi, eager to pursue the Dragon Girls despite warnings about the True Dragons’ strength.

• Wang Qiming told his guard that Qin was immensely powerful and then continued his work, feeling his strength return.
• Cheng Yu told Cai Yi to prioritize retrieving the hidden Nine Heavens Pure Qi in Wen Dao Palace’s territory before going to the Glazed Realm.
• Cheng Yu explained that the Demon Race sought the Ancestral Dragon Egg to temper the Old Ancestor’s Emperor Blood and extend his lifespan.
• Hou Yanzhi left seclusion and learned that he had been ordered to seize the Dragon Qi accumulating in the True Dragon Tribe’s Dragon Lair.
• Hou Yanzhi announced that he wanted to gather Dragon Girls into a Dragon-Taming Palace, but an elder warned him of the True Dragons’ power and the Dragon Girls’ fierce desires.

The Emperor Clans and Ancient Sects prepared to seek Dragon Qi in the Glazed Realm, while Wang Xuance was sent by the Netherworld Wang Clan. Yun Qingyao left her twenty-year confinement to search the Mortal World for emotions, unaware that she herself was the True Dragon everyone sought.

• The Great Powers treated the coming Dragon Qi contest as training for younger disciples, while the Netherworld Wang Clan ordered Wang Xuance to go to the Glazed Realm.
• Wang Xuance worried that Qin Wangchuan might also attend, then dismissed the thought and resumed cultivation.
• Yun Qingyao emerged from the Cold Corridor Forbidden Land after twenty years and told the woman in the shadows that she did not understand emotions.
• Yun Qingyao's mother asked her to find something or someone that could awaken her feelings and complete her Immortal Physique.
• Yun Qingyao left the Heavenly Mystery Yun Clan's forbidden land and headed toward the Mortal World as the True Dragon sought by the cultivators.

Aboard the Flying Ship to Wen Dao Palace, Qin Wangchuan learned of a Nine Heavens Pure Qi hidden in the mountains and ordered Meng Yu to retrieve it. In the ship’s Quiet Room, Ye Jianwei asked Qin Wangchuan to help her practice dual-cultivation arts, and he agreed.

• Qin Wangchuan admired Wen Dao Palace’s Flying Ship, and Meng Yu assured him that the palace remained his.
• Meng Yu reported finding an immature Nine Heavens Pure Qi concealed in a mountain, and Qin Wangchuan ordered him to bring it back.
• Meng Yu took several attendants to retrieve the qi while Qin Wangchuan returned to the Quiet Room to read cultivation texts.
• Ye Jianwei presented Qin Wangchuan with dual-cultivation manuals and asked him to help her cultivate, pointing out the Phoenix-Taming Art.
• Qin Wangchuan kissed Ye Jianwei and tied Silver Bells around her ankle and neck before they began practicing together in the isolated cabin.

Jiang Yan and Little Junior Brother guarded Nine-Colored Pure Qi at Qi-Nurturing Mountain and discussed Young Master and Wen Dao Palace’s ruthless methods. When Cai Yi and Cheng Yu arrived, Meng Yu ambushed Cheng Yu, and the group escaped with the treasure, leaving Cheng Yu alone and Cai Yi missing.

• Jiang Yan described Young Master as handsome, powerful, and all-embracing, then asked Little Junior Brother how he had entered Wen Dao Palace.
• Little Junior Brother explained that his childhood sweetheart had dug out his Spirit Root and the senior brothers later replaced it with a better one taken from an evil person.
• Cai Yi and Cheng Yu arrived at the mountain, and Little Junior Brother claimed that he and Jiang Yan belonged to the Blood Evil Sect.
• Meng Yu struck Cheng Yu from behind with an iron rod, and Jiang Yan, Little Junior Brother, and Meng Yu seized the Nine-Colored Pure Qi and treasures before fleeing.
• Cheng Yu recovered and found the mountain empty, then realized Cai Yi had disappeared too.

Meng Yu and his companions escaped Qi-Nurturing Mountain with the Nine Heavens Pure Qi and unexpectedly brought back Cai Yi as a captive. Qin Wangchuan confirmed that the qi was immature, then asked to see the captive.

• Meng Yu discovered that Jiang Yan and Junior Brother had tied up Cai Yi and ordered everyone to leave with her.
• Meng Yu returned to the Flying Ship and presented Qin Wangchuan with the Nine Heavens Pure Qi and the recovered treasures.
• Qin Wangchuan confirmed that the Nine Heavens Pure Qi was genuine but had not yet matured.
• Meng Yu reported the powerful enemy at Qi-Nurturing Mountain and the captive they had brought back.
• Qin Wangchuan called in Jiang Yan, then asked to see Cai Yi.

Qin Wangchuan’s group captured Cai Yi, an arrogant heir of the Heavenly Sparrow Dynasty, and exposed her attempt to claim she was Wang Qiming’s friend. After bringing her to Wen Dao Palace for interrogation, they left her stunned by a Nine-Turn Pill that Jiang Yan said they used for bathing.

• Cai Yi threatened Qin Wangchuan and his companions with the power of the Heavenly Sparrow Dynasty, while Meng Yu and Jiang Yan casually dismissed her threats.
• Qin Wangchuan asked Cai Yi whether she knew Wang Qiming, and Cai Yi falsely portrayed herself as his old friend to win her release.
• Meng Yu revealed that Cai Yi had been suppressing Wang Qiming and his dynasty, so Qin Wangchuan ordered her interrogated for useful intelligence.
• The Flying Ship landed at Wen Dao Palace, where Jiang Yan and his junior brother escorted the still-bound Cai Yi toward the Mountain Gate.
• Cai Yi recognized a floating Nine-Turn Pill, and Jiang Yan told her that they used such pills for bathing.

Cai Yi was brought into Wen Dao Palace after trying to rob its disciples and was stunned by its immense resources and bizarre inhabitants. Facing threats of being refined into a Blood Pill, she agreed to confess, while Fang Yuan still tried to persuade her to give them an excuse to kill her.

• Cai Yi saw Wen Dao Palace’s dense Spiritual Power, powerful disciples, and an Artificial Heaven and Earth Law as Jiang Yan and the others escorted her inside.
• Jiang Yan’s group discussed the sect’s defensive formation and argued over whether Wen Dao Palace was strong or weak.
• Meng Yu ordered Cai Yi taken to the dungeon and interrogated, while he, Wu Zheng, and Fang Yuan discussed refining her into a Blood Pill.
• Wu Zheng asked Cai Yi if she would confess, and she protested that he had not asked her who she was or why she had come.
• Cai Yi said she could not reveal her identity or purpose, then agreed to confess after the disciples threatened to refine her and spoke of plucking her feathers.
• Fang Yuan urged Cai Yi to give them a half-true, harmless answer so they could kill her, convincing her that he genuinely wanted her dead.

Qin Wangchuan reviewed Wen Dao Palace’s growth and affirmed that its harmonious, unstratified culture mattered more than elite training. He then summoned the Returnees, leaving Shen Yian stunned when his system identified Qin Wangchuan as an apparently invincible enemy.

• Yin Qiyue reported Wen Dao Palace’s membership, reserves, and expansion plans, but Qin Wangchuan rejected stratification and elite selection.
• Qin Wangchuan observed the disciples’ chaotic but harmonious routines and learned that Returnees from Blue Star were selling distinctive clothes across several realms.
• Yin Qiyue assured Qin Wangchuan that Wen Dao Palace’s Artificial Heaven and Earth Law was a tightly controlled strategic weapon, then shyly asked his opinion of the clothes.
• Qin Wangchuan ordered Feng Qingjue to gather the Returnees and went alone to meet them in a Side Hall.
• Shen Yian warned the Returnees that Qin Wangchuan’s summons might involve danger, while another man said he owed Qin Wangchuan for reviving his beloved.
• Qin Wangchuan entered, and Shen Yian’s system listed his many traits and highest Qi Yun level, leaving Shen Yian convinced he was invincible.

Qin Wangchuan introduced himself to the gathered transmigrators and explained why he had brought them together. He could not guarantee that he would send them home, but offered to try in exchange for their help when a future Great Calamity came.

• Shen Yian's system assigned him a mission to defeat Qin Wangchuan for 180 million Face-Slapping Points, but Shen Yian rejected the idea as suicidal.
• Qin Wangchuan introduced himself and asked whether anyone in the hall had a system, and Shen Yian admitted that he did.
• Qin Wangchuan said he had gathered the transmigrators for safety because they might threaten the world, and because he might need their strength against a future Great Calamity.
• When a transmigrator asked whether Qin Wangchuan could send them home, he said he could not promise it but would do his utmost once he was powerful enough, asking for their help in return.
• Qin Wangchuan asked the transmigrators what kinds of worlds they came from.

At a gathering in Wen Dao Palace, Qin Wangchuan learned that other attendees had systems and realized their collective presence could become a world-shaking force. The meeting ended with everyone accepting him as their boss, while Shen Yian’s group began considering how to use their systems to grow stronger.

• Du Ruoheng told Qin Wangchuan that she had a Check-in System, but her friends overheard and playfully forced her to reveal that it had given her a Sacred Body.
• Qin Wangchuan recognized that the people gathered at Wen Dao Palace were anomalies from many worlds whose combined power might become a destructive torrent.
• The attendees discussed survival and development, recognized Qin Wangchuan’s knowledge and leadership, and began calling him "Boss."
• After the meeting, Shen Yian celebrated that his group had found a powerful ally, and the attendees questioned whether Qin Wangchuan was a transmigrator.
• Shen Yian dismissed the question as unimportant, and another attendee suggested that people with systems could cooperate to complete missions and level up faster.

Qin Wangchuan learned that the Demon Race was pursuing the Ancestral Dragon Egg and ordered Cai Yi interrogated for more details. The Heavenly Sparrow Dynasty learned of her abduction, prioritized the egg, and dispatched Shadow Feather Guards to investigate the Blood Evil Sect and rescue her.

• Du Ruoheng told Shen Yian that no one else could help with her Check-in System, and Shen Yian lamented missing a chance to gain 180 million points.
• Yin Qiyue gave Qin Wangchuan the interrogation results, and he learned that the Demon Race was interested in the Ancestral Dragon Egg.
• Qin Wangchuan ordered the interrogation to continue, and Meng Yu and Fang Yuan used their time-distorting torture to make Cai Yi reveal what she knew about the egg.
• The Heavenly Sparrow Dynasty’s elders decided to stop the main search for Cai Yi so Cheng Yu could focus on the True Dragon’s emergence in the Glazed Realm.
• The white-haired elder sent Shadow Feather Guards to investigate the Blood Evil Sect and rescue Cai Yi, ordering them to destroy the sect if it proved to be a force from the Middle Thousand Provinces.

The Heavenly Sparrow Dynasty sent its Shadow Feather Guard to search for Cai Yi and the Blood Evil Sect, but Wen Dao Palace intercepted the intruders. Shen Yian defeated five Spirit Venerables with temporary trial cards, while the other five faced Wen Dao Palace’s hidden weapons.

• The Shadow Feather Guard arrived in the Jiuqu Realm, found no trace of Cai Yi or the Blood Evil Sect, and split into two teams to attack Wen Dao Palace and continue searching.
• Li Shixiong ordered Wen Dao Palace’s disciples to intercept the guards, sending one team toward hidden defenses and leaving the other to the madmen.
• Wen Dao Palace’s orbital weapons, missile launchers, and Divine Mechanism giants attacked five Shadow Feather Guard members who entered the prepared zone.
• Feng Qingjue sent Du Ruoheng, Shen Yian, and elite Returnees to intercept the other five guards above a wasteland.
• Shen Yian activated several trial cards, defeated all five Spirit Venerables within a minute, and joked that he had only peed himself from fear rather than sweated.

After Shen Yian and his companions dealt with the five Shadow Feather Guards, several companions’ hidden systems came to light. In the Ancient Dragon Minor Realm, the True Dragon Tribe prepared to seek outside allies as its world barrier neared collapse, while vowing revenge against the Demon Race.

• Shen Yian found that his companions had stripped the five corpses for loot, and a young woman explained that her system grew stronger by collecting corpses.
• Shen Yian confronted the group about hiding their systems, but several companions only gave themselves away through guilty expressions.
• The Heavenly Sparrow Dynasty remained unaware that its ten Spirit Venerables had died, as it received no word from the Lower Realm.
• Acting clan leader Ao Cang warned the True Dragon elders that the Ancient Dragon Minor Realm’s barrier could soon collapse after its sustaining Origin Source ran out.
• Ao Cang announced that the tribe would open the Dragon Gate in ten days and offer alliances, treasures, and marriage ties to secure powerful allies.
• The True Dragon elders swore to repay the Demon Race for the attack that had trapped their tribe in the minor realm for ten thousand years.

Long Yue summoned the two destined bearers to seek the Ancestral Dragon Egg, while Qin Wangchuan and others headed toward the Glazed Realm amid rumors of a True Dragon’s emergence. Qin traveled toward the coming conflict with Ye Jianwei as Xuanye’s faction arrived to hunt for dragon blood and warned of Qin’s strength.

• Long Yue called the destined ones to return for the Sacred Relic’s final baptism and declared that only one could become the Ancestral Dragon.
• A Green Robe Youth left the Azure Cloud Sect for the Profound Thunder Realm, following a growing call and carrying a Dragon Scale pendant inscribed Long Yin.
• Xuanye emerged from a blood-red passage with his followers and warned them to take Qin Wangchuan seriously as they sought dragon blood.
• After checking that the Wen Dao Palace had not departed, Qin Wangchuan set out for the center of the gathering storm in the Glazed Realm.
• Qin Wangchuan traveled toward the Central Province with Ye Jianwei resting beside him and studied a strange Dog System task.