Chapter Summaries

Mu Qing accepted the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief’s private job to retrieve a True Water Dragon Blade fragment from the Sea Dragon King in exchange for entering the True Dragon Blood Pool. After reaching the pool, Elder Tu recognized that it contained God Emperor-level true dragon essence blood and warned Mu Qing to refine its dragon aura to avoid Dragonification.

• Mu Qing met the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief, declined help with killing the Sea Dragon King, and learned another Lunar Palace member had already arrived.
• The Chief explained that the Heavenly Whale Clan sought fragments of the True Water Dragon Blade to open the Water Essence Dragon Palace ruins.
• The Chief offered Mu Qing access to the True Dragon Blood Pool if he retrieved the fragment held by the Sea Dragon King, while the other Lunar Palace member pursued the Mermaid Clan Chief’s fragment.
• Mu Qing accepted the private job, and the Chief led him through a hidden passage to the blood pool, where the other commission-taker was absorbing its power.
• Elder Tu identified the pool’s contents as God Emperor-level true dragon essence blood and cautioned Mu Qing to refine its dragon aura to prevent Dragonification.

Mu Qing entered the True Dragon Blood Pool after Blood Qi was forced to stop absorbing its third wave of dragon blood. As Mu Qing began refining the first wave, Blood Qi suddenly attacked him from behind.

• Blood Qi expelled excess dragon blood with a Blood Clan technique to escape Dragonification, then left the pool after gaining strength.
• Blood Qi and Mu Qing exchanged taunts and clashed their auras, but the Heavenly Whale Clan chieftain stopped them from fighting on Heavenly Whale Island.
• Mu Qing entered the pool as Blood Qi stayed to watch, and the chieftain activated the True Water Dragon Blade fragment to release dragon blood.
• Mu Qing withstood the first wave and began refining its dragon qi and divine energy.
• Blood Qi flashed into the pool and tore at Mu Qing with a blood claw.

Mu Qing endured the first three waves of dragon blood and, rather than expelling the dangerous dragon qi, used the Starry Sky Origin Returning True Scripture to merge the dragon blood into his own bloodline. He transformed into a dragonman, shocking Blood Qi and the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief as the chapter ended.

• Blood Qi stopped himself from attacking Mu Qing after his precognitive ability warned him that the strike would leave Mu Qing unharmed and badly injure him.
• Mu Qing refined the first wave of dragon blood and absorbed its divine energy, but could condense only a wisp of chaos demonic qi.
• Mu Qing endured the second wave, accumulated more dragon qi, and began to grow horns.
• The third wave triggered the dragon qi within Mu Qing, causing extensive Dragonification as Blood Qi turned to leave and Elder Tu warned that Mu Qing was in danger.
• Mu Qing circulated the Starry Sky Origin Returning True Scripture to merge the dragon blood into his bloodline, transforming into a dragonman and startling Blood Qi and the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief.

Mu Qing used the Starry Sky Origin Returning True Scripture and the Moon God Lamp to absorb five waves of Water Essence True Dragon blood without losing his consciousness. After enduring the painful fusion, he emerged without visible Dragonification but with the aura of a true Dragon Clan member.

• Mu Qing merged the dragon blood into his bloodline while the Moon God Lamp devoured its resentment and negative emotions.
• Mu Qing absorbed the third wave, gained insight into water-element Dao laws, and turned the dragon aura into Chaos Demonic Qi.
• Blood Qi fought the cursed seed’s urge to attack as Mu Qing received and absorbed the fourth wave, forming a fourth strand of Chaos Demonic Qi.
• The fifth wave violently forced the dragon blood to expel Mu Qing’s human bloodline, so he endured ten days of pain to suppress and fuse it.
• Mu Qing finished absorbing all five waves, lost his visible dragon scales, and released an aura that made the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief recognize him as a true Dragon Clan member.

After refining five waves of dragon blood, Mu Qing grew much stronger and set out for the Sea Dragon Palace to complete his commission. He killed the Sea Dragon Clan patrol blocking his route, while the Sea Dragon King received news of an approaching human and refused to believe it.

• Mu Qing refined the dragon aura into a fifth strand of chaotic demonic energy, suppressed the dragon blood in his veins, and expanded his Starry Sky Demon Domain to one million stars.
• The Heavenly Whale Clan Chief told Mu Qing that Blood Qi had departed for the Mermaid Clan's Western Sea Region to complete his commission.
• Mu Qing left for the Sea Dragon King's territory, planning to complete his own commission and reclaim the fragment of the True Water Dragon Blade.
• When a Sea Dragon Clan patrol challenged him, Mu Qing killed its leader and crushed the other sea dragons with his spatial power.
• The nearby islanders recognized Mu Qing as the expert from the Eastern Sea Region battle, and a shrimp soldier warned the Sea Dragon King that a human was approaching the palace.
• The Sea Dragon King dismissed the shrimp soldier's warning and threatened to kill him for repeating such nonsense.

Mu Qing attacked the Sea Dragon Palace and confronted the Sea Dragon King, revealing himself as the Lunar Palace disciple the king had once hunted. He overwhelmed the king with his divine abilities and unleashed a lightning assault, leaving their battle unresolved.

• A shrimp soldier warned the Sea Dragon King that Mu Qing had killed Hai Ming and other Sea Dragon clansmen in a single move and was approaching the palace.
• Mu Qing reached the Sea Dragon Palace, killed a peak True God Sea Dragon with a glance, and forced the Sea Dragon King to retreat with his clansmen behind the palace’s defensive formations.
• Mu Qing identified himself as a member of the Lunar Palace, and the Sea Dragon King recognized him as the disciple he had once pursued.
• Mu Qing attacked with the Demon Blade and Heaven-Flipping Seal, then used the Thousand-Hand Demon Body to overwhelm the Sea Dragon King.
• Mu Qing summoned the Thunder Pool and unleashed lightning qilins on the Sea Dragon King.

Mu Qing killed the Sea Dragon King, destroyed the Sea Dragon Palace, and took the True Water Dragon Blade fragment hidden inside. As he left, he encountered Mei Qian, a Demon Guild member who had come to collect materials and showed an intense interest in his Kunpeng Behemoth.

• Mu Qing overwhelmed the Sea Dragon King with his attacks, bound him with chaotic chains, and killed him with the Demon Blade.
• Mu Qing found no True Water Dragon Blade fragment on the Sea Dragon King's corpse, then crushed the Sea Dragon Clan members who tried to avenge their king.
• Mu Qing destroyed the Sea Dragon Palace's defenses, looted its resources, and found a fragment of the True Water Dragon Blade inside.
• Mu Qing left the Sea Dragon Palace in ruins and discovered that a black-clad woman had killed the beings who had fled from it.
• The woman introduced herself as Mei Qian of the Demon Guild in the Lunar Palace and complained that Mu Qing had fed the Sea Dragon King's corpse to his Kunpeng Behemoth.
• Mei Qian recognized Mu Qing from the True God Grand Competition and fixed her attention on his Kunpeng Behemoth.

Mu Qing completed the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief’s commission and traveled to the Mermaid Clan to hunt Blood Qi, while Mei Qian persistently followed him to try to acquire his Kunpeng Behemoth. He reached the Mermaid Clan and found it untouched, with Blood Qi’s whereabouts still unknown.

• Mei Qian revealed that she wanted sea dragon corpses for experiments and tried to buy Mu Qing’s Kunpeng Behemoth, but he refused and left for Heavenly Whale Island.
• Mei Qian repeatedly followed Mu Qing and survived his attacks by turning into Black Mist and re-forming.
• Mu Qing delivered the True Water Dragon Blade hilt to the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief and asked for the Mermaid Clan’s location, saying he intended to kill someone.
• Mu Qing traveled through blood-soaked islands in the Western Sea Region and found that Blood Qi had slaughtered their inhabitants.
• Mu Qing and Mei Qian reached the Mermaid Clan’s underwater settlement, where Mu Qing discovered that Blood Qi had not attacked it.

Mu Qing waited near the Mermaid Clan for Blood Qi, while Mei Qian tried to bargain for blood from his Kunpeng Behemoth by offering information about the Water Essence Dragon Palace. Blood Qi eventually appeared, vastly empowered, and slaughtered the Mermaid Clan’s warriors and experts.

• Mu Qing concealed himself near the Mermaid Clan and ignored Mei Qian’s offers to trade information about the Water Essence Dragon Palace for the Kunpeng Behemoth or its blood.
• Several days later, Mu Qing sensed a chaotic, violent aura approaching the Mermaid Clan and saw that Blood Qi had become far stronger than before.
• Blood Qi killed the Mermaid Clan’s True God warriors with a wave of power, then crushed the Sea God phantom summoned by their peak True Gods.
• Blood Qi immobilized the surviving peak True Gods, drained their blood, and gathered it into a river beside him.

Blood Qi destroyed the Mermaid Clan and killed its chief, then seized the True Water Dragon Blade fragment until the Kunpeng Behemoth snatched it for Mu Qing. Blood Qi’s curse seed blossomed into a Cursed Flower, greatly increasing his power and corrupting him as he confronted Mu Qing.

• Blood Qi crushed the Mermaid Clan’s resistance, defeated its chief, and destroyed the clan’s territory.
• Blood Qi drained the Mermaid Clan chief’s blood, then recovered a fragment of the True Water Dragon Blade.
• The Kunpeng Behemoth took the fragment from Blood Qi and handed it to Mu Qing.
• Blood Qi’s curse seed blossomed into a Cursed Flower, strengthening him and spreading black markings across his face.
• Mei Qian recognized that a foreign power had stimulated Blood Qi’s potential as he faced Mu Qing.

Mu Qing effortlessly destroyed Blood Qi’s attack, revealing that his strength far exceeded Blood Qi’s. Blood Qi rejected the result and transformed into hundreds of thousands of blood bats, each carrying the aura of an early-stage Celestial God.

• Mei Qian offered to help Mu Qing defeat Blood Qi in exchange for Kunpeng Behemoth blood, but Mu Qing cut her off.
• Blood Qi, empowered by the curse seed, demanded that Mu Qing kneel and cripple his cultivation.
• Mu Qing stopped Blood Qi’s enormous blood dragon with one hand and shattered it using five Chaos Chains.
• Mei Qian abandoned her plan to steal the Kunpeng Behemoth after seeing Mu Qing’s strength.
• Blood Qi’s Lunar Mirror foresight failed to predict Mu Qing’s defense, and Blood Qi transformed into hundreds of thousands of early-stage Celestial God blood bats.

Mu Qing defeated and killed Blood Qi, taking the final fragment of the True Water Dragon Blade. He brought the fragments to the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief, who began restoring the blade in the True Dragon Blood Pool so it could open the Water Essence Dragon Palace.

• Mu Qing used External Incarnation and Qilin Descends to destroy Blood Qi’s Blood Bat avatars and leave Blood Qi severely wounded.
• Mu Qing offered to spare Blood Qi if he explained how his strength had increased, but Blood Qi refused, so Mu Qing killed him and took the True Water Dragon Blade fragment.
• Mu Qing returned to Heavenly Whale Island and gave the final fragment to the frightened Heavenly Whale Clan Chief.
• The Heavenly Whale Clan Chief explained that the True Dragon Blood Pool could restore the blade enough to open the Water Essence Dragon Palace.
• Mu Qing followed the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief underground as he cast the fragments into the pool and began using Water Essence True Dragon methods to restore them.

Mu Qing, Mei Qian, and the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief used the restored True Water Dragon Blade to reveal the Water Essence Dragon Palace. The palace appeared above an ordinary island in the Eastern Sea Region, and the three prepared to explore it.

• Mei Qian recognized the True Water Dragon Blade as the key to the Water Essence Dragon Palace and revealed that she knew its secrets.
• Mu Qing struck Mei Qian with the Heaven-Flipping Seal when she insisted on joining them, but she re-formed from black mist unharmed.
• After three days, the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief finished repairing the True Water Dragon Blade, which could now be used only once.
• Mei Qian traded her knowledge of the palace for permission to join Mu Qing and the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief.
• Mu Qing summoned the Kunpeng Behemoth and carried the group to an island in the Eastern Sea Region near where he had fought Gu Feng.
• The Heavenly Whale Clan Chief stabbed the True Water Dragon Blade into the island, revealing a vast cluster of blue palaces in the sky.

Mu Qing, Mei Qian, and the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief explored the Water Essence Dragon Palace, finding it mostly plundered but uncovering a heavenly-grade divine medicine and a powerful divine sword. As the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief tried to refine the sword, an unknown figure arrived and rushed toward it.

• The Heavenly Whale Clan Chief realized the Water Essence Dragon Palace had appeared above the clouds, and Mu Qing led Mei Qian and him to explore it.
• The trio found the palace largely empty and split up to search its halls for anything left behind.
• Mu Qing collected over a million divine stones and refined a heavenly-grade divine medicine, increasing his cultivation and raising his Starry Sky Demon Domain to one and a half million stars.
• Mu Qing and Mei Qian joined the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief at a hall where a cyan heavenly-grade divine sword had shattered the treasures around it.
• As the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief tried to refine the sword, an unknown figure declared that three early-stage Heavenly Gods had opened the palace and charged toward the divine sword.

Mu Qing and his companions were attacked in the Water Essence Secret Realm by Blood Bat, who revealed that he served the Cursed Flower and sought an evil art hidden in a heaven-grade divine sword. Blood Bat unleashed the art by destroying the sword, leaving the battle and the art’s power unresolved.

• A Wingfolk man attacked Mu Qing, then transformed and revealed himself as Blood Bat, a former creature controlled by the Cursed Flower.
• Blood Bat fought Mu Qing and overpowered him, while Mei Qian offered to help in exchange for Kunpeng Behemoth blood.
• Blood Bat summoned two curse-inscribed monsters to attack Mei Qian and the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief as he continued fighting Mu Qing.
• Blood Bat explained that the Water Essence True Dragon Clan had obtained an evil art created by the first Great Emperor of the Evil Clan and hidden it in the divine sword.
• Blood Bat seized the heaven-grade divine sword, poured his power into it, and caused it to explode.

Blood Bat battled Mu Qing and Mei Qian for the black orb containing an ancient evil art, shrugging off their attacks and destroying their summoned corpses. He used a secret art to raise his strength to the late stage of the Heavenly God Realm, leaving Mu Qing and Mei Qian badly outmatched.

• Blood Bat crushed the heavenly-grade divine sword and released a black orb, but Mei Qian’s exploding Sea Dragon corpses interrupted his attempt to seize it.
• Mei Qian’s four-armed Giant Strength Clan corpse defeated the humanoid monster, while Blood Bat emerged unharmed from the Sea Dragons’ repeated explosions.
• Blood Bat killed the Giant Strength Clan corpse and wounded Mei Qian with his palm, prompting Mu Qing to drive him back with the Demon Blade.
• Mei Qian summoned more powerful corpse puppets as she and Mu Qing joined forces against Blood Bat, but he shattered their attacks and destroyed the puppets.
• Blood Bat used a secret art to grow wings and raise his aura to the late stage of the Heavenly God Realm.

Blood Bat overwhelmed Mu Qing and Mei Qian while trying to seize the evil art, forcing them to fight for a chance to escape the Water Essence Secret Realm. They teleported away just before Blood Bat’s attack destroyed the Water Essence Dragon Palace, and Blood Bat responded with renewed killing intent.

• Blood Bat killed the Heavenly Whale Clan Chief, shattered Mu Qing’s Kunpeng Behemoth, and tried to seize the evil art.
• Mu Qing’s World Serpent swallowed the black orb and escaped into the void, while Mei Qian used a bronze shield to block Blood Bat’s scythe strike.
• Mei Qian activated a spatial crystal as Mu Qing attacked Blood Bat with the Thousand-Armed Thunder God and wounded him with Qilin Descends.
• Blood Bat’s scythe threatened to kill Mu Qing and Mei Qian, but Mu Qing’s Moon God’s Dreamscape briefly stalled him and let them teleport away.
• Blood Bat’s attack destroyed the depleted Water Essence Dragon Palace, and he watched the escape with a savage smile and growing killing intent.

Mu Qing and Mei Qian escaped Blood Bat but were stranded inside the Water Essence Secret Realm. They acquired the Dusk Curse, and Mu Qing learned that its full power depended on combining immortal and divine power.

• Mu Qing and Mei Qian landed in the Water Essence Secret Realm after Blood Bat shattered their spatial crystal block, leaving them unable to reach the Lunar Palace.
• Mei Qian told Mu Qing that she could temporarily copy other people’s divine abilities and techniques.
• Mu Qing’s World Serpent avatar recovered the Kunpeng Behemoth’s miniature Black Hole, which entered Mu Qing and gave him its terrifying Devouring power.
• The evil technique shattered and entered both Mu Qing and Mei Qian, revealing itself as the Dusk Curse.
• Mu Qing learned that the Evil Clan’s power came from fusing immortal energy and divine power, and that the Dusk Curse reached its full potential when both forces clashed.

Mu Qing mastered the Dusk Curse with his demonic qi and realized he might be able to weave it into his own techniques. As he and Mei Qian approached the Water Essence Secret Realm’s teleportation array, Blood Bat appeared to block them.

• Mu Qing learned that the Dusk Curse amplified immortal and divine power, and Elder Tu explained that Mu Qing’s perfectly fused demonic qi could unleash it more powerfully than the Evil Clan’s bloodline power.
• Mu Qing cultivated the Dusk Curse with ease, briefly releasing its terrifying power and nearly exhausting his demonic qi.
• Mei Qian tried and failed to cultivate the Dusk Curse while she and Mu Qing traveled toward the secret realm’s teleportation array, their only route back to the Lunar Palace.
• Mu Qing considered integrating the Dusk Curse into his moves and said he lacked a blade technique.
• Blood Bat appeared before Mu Qing and Mei Qian as they neared the teleportation array.

Blood Bat attacked Mu Qing and Mei Qian with late-stage Heavenly God strength, forcing them to use their strongest abilities to survive. Mei Qian weakened him with a summoned phantom, giving Mu Qing a chance to unleash Dusk Slash, whose outcome remained uncertain.

• Blood Bat appeared before Mu Qing and Mei Qian, revealed his late-stage Heavenly God strength, and struck Mei Qian with his scarlet scythe despite her escape into black mist.
• Mu Qing attacked Blood Bat with his Thousand-Hand Demon Body and External Incarnation, wounding him with ten thousand Thunder Qilins but failing to stop his charge.
• As Mu Qing prepared to use the Dusk Curse to hold Blood Bat back, Mei Qian summoned the Turbid Demon from a pitch-black orb.
• The Turbid Demon's attack caused Blood Bat's strength to plummet to the early stage of the Heavenly God realm, while leaving him without pain.
• Mu Qing fused the Dusk Curse into his Demon Blade and unleashed Dusk Slash, spending all his demonic qi.