Chapter Summaries

Wang Daoyuan returned to Treasure Cauldron Mountain after gathering Mystic Iron Crystals and discussed his cultivation doubts with True Man Lei Yan. He learned that he could cast the Feather Blades without forming the Golden Roc Phantom by deepening his grasp of the Golden Roc’s divine charm.

• Tu Youming and Zheng Ping improved the Spirit Gathering Bead, while Cui Ming mined tens of thousands of jin of Mystic Iron Crystals.
• Wang Daoyuan left the Southern Wilderness and returned to Treasure Cauldron Mountain to seek his master's guidance.
• True Man Lei Yan recognized Wang Daoyuan's progress and learned that he had gathered all five kinds of Five Elements Spirit Fire but had not obtained the Wutu Essence.
• Wang Daoyuan explained that condensing the Golden Roc Phantom took too long and asked whether he could use the Feather Blades on their own.
• True Man Lei Yan identified the Golden Roc Subdues Dragon Technique as a damaged Nascent Soul inheritance and explained that profound comprehension of a divine beast's charm could allow spells to be cast without a phantom.

Wang Daoyuan learned from True Man Lei Yan how to improve spells by incorporating their true intent, then strengthened the Meteorite Starfall Technique with Star Power. After two years at Treasure Cauldron Mountain, he received Zhou Jingyuan’s invitation to hunt dragonkin in Hidden Dragon River for Pseudo Dragon Pearls.

• Wang Daoyuan asked True Man Lei Yan to repair his Feather Blade, but his master instead taught him to modify a spell and follow his own path.
• True Man Lei Yan showed Wang Daoyuan how meteorites contained Star Power and explained how true intent gave higher-order spells their power.
• Wang Daoyuan separated Star Power from five meteorites and used it to make the Meteorite Starfall Technique much stronger.
• Wang Daoyuan stayed at Treasure Cauldron Mountain for two years, improving the spell with True Man Lei Yan’s guidance while keeping in touch with his lineage.
• Zhou Jingyuan invited Wang Daoyuan to hunt dragonkin that had appeared in Hidden Dragon River, knowing he needed Pseudo Dragon Pearls.

Wang Daoyuan accepted Zhou Jingyuan’s invitation to hunt dragonkin at the Hidden Dragon River, hoping to obtain a source for his Azure Dragon Pearl. At the Hidden Dragon Banquet, Zhou Jingyuan revealed that nine powerful pseudo-dragons would appear during the coming Spiritual Energy Tide, while Wang Daoyuan recognized the banquet’s music and dance from his previous life.

• Wang Daoyuan told True Man Lei Yan that he planned to join Zhou Jingyuan’s dragonkin hunt, and his master approved while urging him to return at Violet Mansion Peak for Core Formation guidance.
• Wang Daoyuan traveled to Hidden Dragon Market Town and followed a Zhou cultivator’s invitation to the Hidden Dragon Pavilion banquet.
• Zhou Jingyuan introduced Zhou Jingyan, Zhou Jinggui, Song Yi, and the other young cultivators attending the banquet.
• Zhou Jingyuan announced that nine third-rank upper-grade pseudo-dragons had appeared near the river mouth and were expected to emerge during the Spiritual Energy Tide in half a month.
• Zhou Jingyan led a dance accompanied by music, and Wang Daoyuan was shocked by its resemblance to the Nishang Yuyi Dance from his previous life.

Wang Daoyuan attended the Zhou family’s banquet, learned why Song Yi might challenge him, and watched the Hidden Dragon River’s Spiritual Energy Tide begin. As the tide grew stronger than ever, he suspected it reflected a gradual rise in the Northern Abyss Cultivation World’s spiritual energy.

• At the banquet, Zhou Jingyuan asked Zhou Jingyan whether any guests had caught her interest, and she criticized the princes while bristling at Wang Daoyuan’s lack of attention.
• After Wang Daoyuan settled into Hidden Dragon Pavilion, Zhou Jingyuan visited him, discussed the ancient Nishang Yuyi Dance, and warned him that Song Yi might seek trouble over his conflicts with her relatives and fellow disciple.
• Before dawn on the tide’s appointed day, Wang Daoyuan sensed the river’s spiritual energy rising and joined the other guests on Hidden Dragon Pavilion’s rooftop.
• Zhou Jingyuan explained that the tide occurred every sixty years, attracted aquatic Demon Beasts and creatures with dragon bloodlines, and had grown stronger in recent cycles.
• Wang Daoyuan connected the tide’s changing strength to the Northern Abyss Cultivation World’s spiritual energy, which had stopped declining more than nine hundred years earlier.
• The tide’s spiritual energy surpassed the previous record and reached the highest level of a top-grade fourth-order spirit vein before noon.

Wang Daoyuan watched dragon descendants emerge at the mouth of the Hidden Dragon River during the Spiritual Energy Tide, then joined the hunt when an exceptionally powerful Jade Scale Flood Dragon appeared. He abandoned the Silver Flood Dragon and flew to confront it.

• Aquatic Demon Beasts gathered at the river mouth, and cultivators attacked an alligator dragon after it badly injured a Late Violet Mansion Cultivator.
• More dragon descendants appeared, including a Black Flood Dragon and a Silver Flood Dragon, and cultivators joined the fights while Wang Daoyuan waited.
• After eight of the nine Pseudo Dragons had appeared, Wang Daoyuan flew toward the river mouth to attack the Silver Flood Dragon.
• A jade-green flood dragon emerged and flew through the air, revealing itself as a peak third-order Jade Scale Flood Dragon with unusually strong dragon blood.
• Wang Daoyuan abandoned the Silver Flood Dragon and headed straight toward the Jade Scale Flood Dragon as it swam upstream.

Wang Daoyuan battled the Jade Scale Flood Dragon during the Spiritual Energy Tide and killed it by striking its reverse scale. The dragon’s final tail attack badly injured him and destroyed his defenses, while everyone watching was stunned by his feat.

• Wang Daoyuan tested the Jade Scale Flood Dragon with sword techniques, but its scales and roar defeated his attacks and forced the besieging cultivators to flee.
• Wang Daoyuan used Cloud Smoke Evasion to buy time while he formed a Golden Roc Phantom, then damaged the dragon with a hidden barrage of nine hundred Feather Blades.
• Wang Daoyuan directed the Golden Roc Phantom to tear at the dragon’s wound until it coiled around the phantom and exposed its reverse scale.
• Wang Daoyuan pierced the reverse scale with the White Tiger Blade, and the mortally wounded Jade Scale Flood Dragon struck him with a final tail blow before falling into the river.
• The onlookers, including the princes and princesses atop Hidden Dragon Pavilion, were left stunned.

After Wang Daoyuan slew the Jade Scale Flood Dragon, he survived an attempt to rob him and recovered from his severe injuries. Zhou Jingyuan then tried to recruit him to the Zhou Kingdom by offering safety and a prestigious future for the Wang Clan, but Wang Daoyuan remained unwilling to abandon his ancestral home.

• Wang Daoyuan threatened the cultivators who approached the Jade Scale Flood Dragon's corpse, and Zhou Jingyuan warned them not to harm his invited guest.
• Kui Jian killed a scar-faced cultivator who tried to seize the dragon, and Wang Daoyuan used the Nether Sound Soul Burying Bell to defeat the man when he attacked again.
• Wang Daoyuan stored the Jade Scale Flood Dragon's corpse and returned to Hidden Dragon Pavilion to heal, while Kui Jian fought the Silver Flood Dragon.
• After the Spiritual Energy Tide ended, news of Wang Daoyuan's victory spread, and Zhou Jingyuan visited him with healing pills and an offer to relocate the Wang Clan to a fourth-rank spirit mountain in the Zhou Kingdom.
• Wang Daoyuan refused to abandon the Wang Clan's ancestral foundation, despite Zhou Jingyuan offering the prospect of marriage to Princess Jingyan and a future title.

Wang Daoyuan refused Zhou Jingyuan’s offer to join the Zhou Kingdom and secured medical inheritances for the Wang Clan before returning to the Netherworld Sect. He defended his Pseudo Dragon Pearl from demands by Luo Jiuyou and Honglie, then exchanged some of the Jade Scale Flood Dragon’s blood and scales for Contribution Points.

• Wang Daoyuan rejected Zhou Jingyuan’s offer of a kingship and asked him to gather medical inheritances for ordinary people in the Wang Clan.
• Zhou Jingyuan delivered dozens of Animal Hide Books, and Wang Daoyuan left the Zhou Kingdom after recovering from his injuries.
• Wang Daoyuan went to Treasure Cauldron Mountain to leave the Jade Scale Flood Dragon’s corpse with his master, then returned toward Qingli Market.
• Luo Jiuyou summoned Wang Daoyuan to the Netherworld Sect and asked whether he still had the Jade Scale Flood Dragon’s corpse.
• Wang Daoyuan rebuked Honglie for demanding the Pseudo Dragon Pearl and told Luo Jiuyou he had left the corpse with his master.
• Luo Jiuyou valued Wang Daoyuan’s remaining flood dragon blood and scales at three million Contribution Points, which Wang Daoyuan accepted.

Wang Daoyuan accepted the Netherworld Sect’s appointment as Garrison Envoy of Returning Goose Market and the title Dragon Slayer Rogue, despite recognizing the Sect Master’s suppression. After returning to Jade Spring Peak, he learned that the Wang Clan was also being constrained through official postings, leaving the clan facing growing pressure from the sect.

• Luo Jiuyou offered Wang Daoyuan the vacant Vice Hall Master position but instead appointed him Garrison Envoy of Returning Goose Market; Wang Daoyuan accepted while privately seeing the move as suppression.
• Luo Jiuyou bestowed the title Dragon Slayer Rogue on Wang Daoyuan, who accepted it, and told him to complete his handover before visiting his Lineage.
• Wang Daoyuan collected his contribution points, exchanged for Violet Rhyme Pills, and left the Merit Hall without obtaining a fourth-order spell.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to Jade Spring Peak and congratulated Wang Daochang on opening his Violet Mansion; Wang Daochang explained that Wang Shouye had been posted as Garrison Envoy of Golden Goose City.
• Wang Daoyuan and Wang Daochang concluded that the Netherworld Sect was increasingly suppressing the Wang Clan by stationing its Violet Mansion cultivators at the northern frontier.

Wang Daoyuan learned how the Wang lineage had grown despite the Netherworld Sect’s suppression, gave Wang Daochang medical inheritances and Violet Rhyme Pills, then refined the Azure Dragon Pearl from the Jade Scale Flood Dragon’s Pseudo Dragon Pearl. After testing its healing and life-draining abilities, he received a message from Zhou Luan about a new piece of Yin Yang Violet Jade.

• Wang Daochang told Wang Daoyuan that the lineage had nearly a thousand cultivators, almost three hundred thousand ordinary clansmen, and remained largely self-sufficient despite the Netherworld Sect’s suppression.
• Wang Daoyuan gave the lineage medical inheritances for training physicians and offered Wang Daochang fifty Violet Rhyme Pills, which Wang Daochang accepted.
• Wang Daoyuan’s Artifact Refiner clones finished processing the Jade Scale Flood Dragon’s corpse, and he buried its remains beside the Wood Attribute Spirit Vein to add Dragon Qi.
• Wang Daoyuan refined the Pseudo Dragon Pearl into a third-grade high-grade Azure Dragon Pearl and tested its ability to drain life force and heal injuries.
• Wang Daoyuan tested the Azure Dragon Pearl’s ability to release an Azure Dragon Phantom that could seize life force from multiple targets.
• Zhou Luan messaged Wang Daoyuan that headquarters had sent another piece of Yin Yang Violet Jade and chided him for not visiting her after more than thirty years.

Wang Daoyuan met Zhou Luan to obtain the Yin Yang Violet Jade, traded for it, and learned that she had reached the peak of Violet Mansion cultivation. After warning her not to provoke conflict between the Demon Race and Half-demons, he traveled to a karst cave to prepare Pseudo Spirit Fires that could boost his cultivation before Core Formation.

• Wang Daoyuan traveled secretly to Returning Goose Market after inspecting the Wang Clan’s fortified Dragon Fall Ridge.
• Zhou Luan greeted Wang Daoyuan with a sword and teased him about Zhou Jingyan, his reputation as a gentleman, and whether he had what it took.
• Wang Daoyuan revealed that he was an acquired spirit body and explained that the Netherworld Sect had assigned him as Returning Goose Market’s Garrison Envoy.
• Zhou Luan said she had reached the peak of Violet Mansion cultivation, then exchanged the Yin Yang Violet Jade for Spirit Peach Dew and Ink Jade Nether Lotus seeds.
• Wang Daoyuan warned Zhou Luan not to stir up trouble between the Demon Race and Half-demons, then left the branch.
• Wang Daoyuan reached the karst cave, where he planned to condense Fire and Water Attribute Pseudo Spirit Fires and refine them into his body.

Wang Daoyuan cultivated three Pseudo Spirit Fires in the lava lake and at the Gui Water Nether Spring while strengthening his body with a Blood Lotus Seed. With the Fire Seeds stable and his preparations complete, he was ready to refine the spirit fires.

• Wang Daoyuan ignited the lava lake with Crimson Sun True Fire and Dust Returning Flame, helping the fire and earth attribute Pseudo Spirit Fires grow rapidly.
• Wang Daoyuan learned that the Grand Unity Golden Flame had become a third-rank high-grade spirit fire and that the Crimson Feather Crow had grown a crimson-gold tail plume.
• Wang Daoyuan left Cui Ming to watch the lava lake and went to the Gui Water Nether Spring, where he condensed a water attribute Pseudo Spirit Fire.
• Wang Daoyuan swallowed a Blood Lotus Seed and used its qi and blood power to strengthen his body until he could defeat an ordinary Late Violet Mansion Cultivator through physical strength alone.
• The water attribute Pseudo Spirit Fire's Fire Seed grew to half the size of a mung bean, and Wang Daoyuan prepared to refine the spirit fires.

Wang Daoyuan refined all five Spirit Fires into his Spiritual Power Seeds, greatly increasing his cultivation and combat potential. He discovered that his cultivation could reach the consummate Violet Mansion Stage in just over ten years, while the remaining flames in the Spirit Pearl Space began growing faster.

• Wang Daoyuan refined the Life Spirit Fire into his Wood Attribute Spiritual Power Seed without harming himself.
• He used the Life Spirit Fire to suppress and refine the Dust Returning Flame, then refined the Gui Water Nether Flame with both flames’ help.
• Wang Daoyuan refined the Crimson Sun True Fire and Grand Unity Golden Flame, completing the refinement of all five Spirit Fires.
• He circulated the Five Spirits Immortal Transformation Art and found that his spiritual qi refinement and recovery were exceptionally fast.
• Wang Daoyuan tested his ability to transform spiritual power into Spirit Fires and saw how their properties strengthened his techniques.
• The Spirit Pearl Space’s spiritual qi concentration fell after the five Spirit Fires left, but its remaining flames began growing faster.

Wang Daoyuan prepared to explore the lands east of the Skyrend Mountain Range through his avatar, then took up his post as Garrison Envoy of Returning Goose Market. He left Jiang Jingming in charge of the market and went to cultivate at Zhou Luan’s cave abode.

• Wang Daoyuan gave the Yin Yang Violet Jade to Wang Daochang and sent Zheng Ping to scout a passage through the Skyrend Mountain Range.
• Wang Daoyuan visited Twelfth Uncle in Golden Goose City, left him fifty Violet Rhyme Pills, and continued to Returning Goose Market.
• Ming Huai handed Wang Daoyuan the account books, treasury key, and Garrison Envoy’s seal after the inventory matched the records.
• Wang Daoyuan met the four Violet Mansion cultivators, including Jiang Jingming, and appointed Jiang Jingming to manage the market while he was away.
• Wang Daoyuan left Returning Goose Market and traveled to the northern branch of Blood Shadow to cultivate at Zhou Luan’s cave abode.

After years of cultivation in Zhou Luan’s cave abode, Wang Daoyuan reached the Violet Mansion peak while Zhou Luan comprehended a trace of flame law. The chapter ended with Zhou Luan preparing to form her Golden Core at Snow Dragon Volcano and asking Wang Daoyuan to protect her.

• Wang Daoyuan returned to Zhou Luan’s cave abode and explained that refining five kinds of spirit fire had changed his aura and strengthened his body.
• Zhou Luan said she had reached the Violet Mansion peak but still needed to comprehend laws before forming her Golden Core, and Wang Daoyuan offered to help with flame laws.
• Wang Daoyuan discovered that the five Spiritual Power Seeds consumed the Violet Rhyme Pill’s medicinal power, then used century-old Spirit Peach Dew to speed his cultivation.
• Wang Daoyuan cultivated for seven years until he reached the Violet Mansion peak, while his spirit fires, Crimson Feather Crow, and Natal Feather developed within the Spirit Pearl Space.
• Zhou Luan comprehended a trace of flame law and announced that she would form her core at Snow Dragon Volcano, asking Wang Daoyuan to prepare and protect her.

Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan prepared for Zhou Luan’s Core Formation at Snow Dragon Volcano, completing the Vermilion Bird Fan and traveling to the volcano. They reached the crater, where Wang Daoyuan agreed to clear out its Molten Poison Fire Scorpions so Zhou Luan could form her core.

• Zhou Luan explained that Snow Dragon Volcano’s distance from the Extreme Cold Ice Plains would give them time to withstand the brief danger after her Core Formation tribulation.
• Zhou Luan said she had prepared five defensive artifacts and medicines to endure the nine Golden Core tribulations and the Lesser Divine Ability Tribulation.
• Wang Daoyuan refined the Vermilion Bird Fan with Tu Youming’s help, then tested the increased power of the four completed Natal Artifacts.
• Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan left Returning Goose Market separately, reunited north of it, and traveled by Zhou Luan’s Crimson Luan Flying Boat to Snow Dragon Volcano.
• Zhou Luan explained that Molten Poison Fire Scorpions occupied the crater and asked Wang Daoyuan to deal with them before she attempted Core Formation.
• Wang Daoyuan assured Zhou Luan he could handle the scorpions and prepared to enter the crater.

Wang Daoyuan cleared the Molten Poison Fire Scorpions from Snow Dragon Volcano so Zhou Luan could form her Golden Core safely. Zhou Luan survived the nine Golden Core lightning tribulations but was badly injured and prepared to face the Lesser Divine Ability Tribulation.

• Wang Daoyuan killed the Molten Poison Fire Scorpions in the crater with the Azure Dragon Pearl and his flames, leaving the Crimson Sun True Fire burning in the lava to aid Zhou Luan.
• Zhou Luan began forming her Golden Core by the lava lake while Wang Daoyuan guarded the crater for half a year.
• Zhou Luan's Golden Core descended, and the heavenly tribulation began; Wang Daoyuan withdrew beyond its range.
• Zhou Luan endured all nine Golden Core lightning tribulations, losing five artifacts and suffering grave injuries.
• Zhou Luan swallowed healing pills and drank Spirit Peach Dew to recover before facing the Lesser Divine Ability Tribulation.

Zhou Luan endured the Lesser Divine Ability Tribulation and survived, then recovered under the Heaven and Earth Boon while Wang Daoyuan guarded her. As more Fourth-order Demon Beasts approached and Zhou Luan remained unconscious, Wang Daoyuan held the volcano against the first attacker.

• Zhou Luan's Natal Artifact phantom lost to the tribulation Crimson Luan, which burned her nearly to death before the auspicious clouds appeared.
• Wang Daoyuan entered the crater, used the Azure Dragon Pearl to strengthen Zhou Luan's vitality, and covered her with a cloak as the Heaven and Earth Boon healed her.
• A strange Low-grade Fourth-order bird demanded Zhou Luan as its queen, and Wang Daoyuan insulted it and blocked its attacks with spiritual fire.
• The strange bird tried to circle the sea of fire and reach the crater, but Wang Daoyuan enveloped the volcano in flames and kept it at bay.
• More beast cries came from the north and east while Zhou Luan remained unconscious, leaving Wang Daoyuan to defend them against the approaching Fourth-order Demon Beasts.

Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan escaped the erupting volcano after wounding a strange demon bird, then returned to Returning Goose Market. Zhou Luan helped Wang Daoyuan study the laws of flame, turning their old teasing dynamic around.

• Wang Daoyuan lured the strange bird into a trap, and Zhou Luan transformed into a Crimson Luan Divine Bird to help him drive it off and wound it.
• As demon beasts arrived, Zhou Luan carried Wang Daoyuan away while he absorbed spiritual power from the flames; behind them, fighting beasts destabilized the lava lake and caused the volcano to erupt.
• Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan reached Returning Goose Market and went to her cave abode, where he reflected on the laws of flame in the heavenly tribulation.
• Zhou Luan emerged from the back courtyard and invited Wang Daoyuan to her bedchamber, but he declined and asked her to help him comprehend the laws instead.
• Zhou Luan condensed a flame with her Lesser Divine Ability and teased Wang Daoyuan as he accepted it and offered her several jars of Spirit Peach Dew.

Wang Daoyuan was summoned to a meeting after Snow Dragon Volcano’s eruption worsened conflict between the Demon Race and the Half-demons. He refused to let the Netherworld Sect take sides and left the question of continued trade unresolved.

• Wang Daoyuan studied the fire laws in Zhou Luan’s Rootless Fire until Jiang Jingming summoned him back to the Netherworld Sect stronghold.
• Jiang Jingming told Wang Daoyuan that the volcanic eruption had triggered a Beast Tide, devastating Half-demon tribes and escalating their conflict with the Demon Race.
• Wang Daoyuan met Hu You and Cang Yun at Returning Goose Tower, where both sides asked for the Netherworld Sect’s stance.
• Wang Daoyuan refused to intervene, rejected Cang Yun’s claim that humans were responsible, and directed him to seek answers from Wind Snow Divine Palace.
• Hu You asked whether the Netherworld Sect would continue trading with the Half-demons.