Recaps

The dragons faced a choice between abandoning Invisible Dragon Theodore’s inheritance and risking death in his spatial maze, and several chose to enter. Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to see through the maze’s paths and set off, leaving the others watching to see what would happen.

• Invisible Dragon Theodore warned that dragons who entered the maze would die unless they found its single safe path, while those who withdrew could leave unharmed.
• Several dragons gave up the competition and were teleported away by Invisible Dragon Theodore.
• More than a dozen dragons, including two Ancient Dragons, chose to enter the maze despite the danger.
• Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to see the maze’s entrances, traps, and shifting branches, realizing he could navigate them.
• Xia Ping entered the maze, prompting the other dragons to watch him go.

Xia Ping entered Invisible Dragon Theodore’s Spatial Maze and passed through it with ease, while many other dragons died in its traps. At the maze’s end, Theodore revealed that it had survived as an undying ghost and planned to possess a suitable dragon to regain its power.

• The dragons outside discussed Wu Taidou’s decision to enter the maze and worried that his sacred medicines would be lost if he died.
• Xia Ping used the Formless Mask and Hell Golden Crow Eye to navigate the maze and swiftly find its safe passages.
• Other dragons fell victim to the maze’s dark prison, holy fire, freezing winds, and other deadly traps.
• Invisible Dragon Theodore watched the dragons from its palace and declared that it had no intention of giving away its treasures.
• Theodore revealed that the Undying Ghost Fruit had revived it as an immortal ghost after its death in the war against the Abyss Demons.
• Theodore explained that it had designed the maze’s rules and trials to find a suitable dragon to possess and reclaim its strength.

Xia Ping reached Invisible Dragon Theodore’s palace after secretly bypassing the maze, where Theodore tried to deny him the treasure and inheritance. Xia Ping subdued Theodore with the Soul-Locking Chain and discovered that the ghost dragon was likely the legendary Invisible Dragon itself.

• Invisible Dragon Theodore watched the maze trials and selected dragons as potential bodies, intending to prevent any challenger from passing.
• Xia Ping entered the palace after using the Formless Mask to conceal himself and pass through the maze undetected.
• Theodore demanded that Xia Ping leave and denied him access to the treasure, so Xia Ping attacked with the Soul-Locking Chain.
• The chain bound and sealed Theodore before he could activate the palace’s defenses.
• Theodore denied being Invisible Dragon Theodore, but Xia Ping saw through the lie and began interrogating him.

Xia Ping forced the ghost dragon to reveal that it was the Invisible Dragon Theodore and to explain the purpose of the trial. He seized control of Theodore’s top-grade Saint artifact, the Invisible Hall, leaving Theodore powerless inside it.

• After an hour of torture, Xia Ping made the ghost dragon identify itself as the Invisible Dragon Theodore and reveal the trial’s purpose.
• Xia Ping recognized that Theodore had gained invincible-realm strength through a divine medicine and mocked his weak combat ability.
• Xia Ping demanded the method for controlling the Invisible Hall, and Theodore refused to surrender the palace.
• Xia Ping punished Theodore with the Soul-Locking Chain, forcing him to hand over the Invisible Hall’s refinement method.
• Xia Ping expelled Theodore’s spiritual imprint from the dragon throne and refined the Invisible Hall, bringing its restrictions under his control.

Xia Ping discovered that the Invisible Hall was a peerless Saint artifact focused entirely on escape and defense, but its artifact spirit had been destroyed. He merged Cat Immortal into the Hall as its new artifact spirit, giving Cat Immortal access to its spacetime powers while it began learning to control them.

• Xia Ping learned that the Invisible Hall could escape through dimensional spacetime, conceal itself, and weaken incoming attacks, but had no offensive abilities.
• Xia Ping concluded that the Hall's original artifact spirit had been destroyed during the primordial war and considered how to restore it.
• Xia Ping proposed making Cat Immortal the Invisible Hall's new artifact spirit, and Cat Immortal eagerly agreed.
• Green Ox felt jealous of Cat Immortal's opportunity but recognized that it could not leave the Mountain River Bead.
• Xia Ping merged Cat Immortal's soul into the Invisible Hall's core, then helped it control the artifact's power.
• Cat Immortal regained consciousness with a preliminary grasp of the Hall's laws and began learning to master its spacetime powers.

Xia Ping and Cat Immortal surveyed the Invisible Hall’s vaults after Cat Immortal took control, discovering vast stores of rare ores and supreme-grade sacred medicines. The chapter left Xia Ping with the Invisible Dragon Theodore’s immense fortune in his possession.

• The Invisible Dragon Theodore realized Xia Ping’s new artifact spirit had taken control of the Invisible Hall and exposed his hidden tricks.
• Cat Immortal sent Xia Ping information about the palace’s treasure vaults.
• Xia Ping found a warehouse holding over a thousand tons of Sound Pattern Stones and many other rare ores.
• Green Ox identified the Seven Orifices Exquisite Flower and Calamity Divine Fruit among the sacred medicines.
• Green Ox identified the Origin Demon Flower and explained that it could help cultivate the Primordial Demon Body.

Xia Ping found Invisible Dragon Theodore’s Dragon Core in the Invisible Hall and learned that it could help Green Ox advance the Mountain River Bead into a supreme-grade sacred artifact. With Xia Ping’s help, Green Ox began refining the core, absorbing its origin energy and cosmic-law insights as the artifact transformed.

• Xia Ping discovered a transparent pearl near the dragon throne and recognized it as Invisible Dragon Theodore’s Dragon Core.
• Green Ox sensed that the Dragon Core’s spatial laws and origin energy could transform the Mountain River Bead, and Xia Ping gave it to him.
• Green Ox placed the Dragon Core in the Mountain River Bead and began devouring it while Xia Ping used his mana to help refine it.
• Hell Golden Crow Fire melted the Dragon Core into origin energy, which Green Ox consumed, gaining Theodore’s cosmic-law insights as the Mountain River Bead underwent a reborn transformation.

Xia Ping’s Mountain River Bead absorbed the laws and origin energy from Invisible Dragon Theodore’s dragon core and advanced into a supreme-grade Saint Artifact. It transformed into the Classic of Mountains and Seas, leaving Xia Ping planning to populate its worlds with more rare species.

• The Mountain River Bead absorbed the dragon core’s laws and origin energy, completing its cosmic laws and expanding its inner world more than ten thousand times.
• Xia Ping sensed the artifact’s transformation as it became a book with thirty-three greater worlds and far sturdier internal space.
• Green Ox condensed a body of laws and asked Xia Ping to give the advanced artifact a new name.
• Xia Ping named the artifact the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and Green Ox inscribed the name on its cover.
• Xia Ping considered capturing divine beasts and other rare species to enrich the worlds inside the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Xia Ping’s avatar brought Ye Mengyao and the young dragons from their hiding place to the Invisible Dragon Ruins, which his true body had taken over. There, the hatchlings reunited with Betty and Karida, explored the luxurious lair, and learned that Theodore had become a Ghost Dragon and was imprisoned.

• The Hell Golden Crow avatar told Ye Mengyao and the young dragons that Xia Ping had mastered the Invisible Dragon Ruins and could bring them there safely.
• The avatar teleported the group past the Saint Dragons hunting them and brought them to the ruins half a day later.
• The young dragons reunited with Betty and Karida in the Invisible Hall and excitedly tried to claim its jewels.
• Wells panicked at the sight of the chained Theodore, and Betty and Karida explained that he was a Ghost Dragon imprisoned after becoming a threat.
• The hatchlings praised the adults for capturing Theodore, angering him as he protested that he had once been a mighty dragon.

The young dragons swarmed Invisible Dragon Theodore, while Xia Ping explained to Ye Mengyao how the ruin abode could protect them and help him capture more dragons. He planned to keep exploiting the trials to secretly gather dragon slaves for the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

• The young dragons climbed over Theodore, playing with his whiskers, head, and tail while he struggled helplessly against his restraints.
• Ye Mengyao wondered how Xia Ping had captured Theodore and worried that the other dragons would target him for taking the ruins.
• Xia Ping explained that Theodore's spatial restrictions made the ruin abode exceptionally safe from dragons who tried to break in.
• Xia Ping told Ye Mengyao he could secretly capture wounded dragons from the trials and imprison them in the Classic of Mountains and Seas as laborers.

Xia Ping sent Fate Dragon Betty, the other young dragons, and Invisible Dragon Theodore into the Classic of Mountains and Seas World, where the dragons discovered a strange world filled with powerful Dragon Race origin energy. The young dragons fled from a group of walking treants, who continued planting forests under Lord God's command.

• Xia Ping tossed Fate Dragon Betty, the other young dragons, and Invisible Dragon Theodore into the Classic of Mountains and Seas World.
• Memory Dragon Maper recognized that the world had dense spiritual energy and Dragon Race origin energy, while Fate Dragon Betty warned the young dragons about humans and other unfamiliar creatures.
• The young dragons encountered towering walking treants and fled in fear.
• A treant elder learned that the young dragons had entered the forest and told the treants to continue planting trees throughout the expanding world.

Fate Dragon Betty and the young dragons escaped a dangerous forest and encountered unfamiliar races in a new world. Golden Slime Little Gold won their loyalty with gemstones, while the Black Hole Worm King and another bedraggled girl approached them, leaving Betty with a foreboding sense of trouble.

• Fate Dragon Betty and the young dragons fled the forest and found a gathering of unfamiliar races on a plain.
• Gluttonous Dragon Auston spotted Golden Slime Little Gold, whose extravagant jewels astounded the young dragons.
• Golden Slime Little Gold gave the young dragons a pile of gemstones, and they immediately declared her their boss.
• The Black Hole Worm King grew furious when the young dragons judged her bedraggled appearance and treated her like a beggar.
• A second dark, exhausted-looking girl appeared and asked whether they had heard of King's Supremacy, making Fate Dragon Betty sense she was caught up in trouble.

Xia Ping consumed the Limitless Pure Yang Fruit in seclusion, using its stellar essence to awaken his Hell Golden Crow bloodline. After seven days and nights, he reached one hundred billion awakened cells, transformed his bones, expanded his divine consciousness, and gained a new bloodline ability.

• Xia Ping swallowed the Limitless Pure Yang Fruit, while his clone handled capturing the dragons trapped in the maze.
• The fruit’s stellar essence flowed through Xia Ping’s body as his Hell Golden Crow Cells devoured it and began awakening in vast numbers.
• After seven days and nights, Xia Ping had awakened one hundred billion Hell Golden Crow Cells and transformed his bones into dark golden divine bones.
• Xia Ping’s divine consciousness expanded from seven hundred light-years to one thousand light-years, and he awakened a new bloodline divine ability.

Xia Ping awakened the Hell Golden Crow bloodline ability Soul Screech, which could tear souls from bodies and devour them. To avoid revealing himself in the Dragon World, he returned to Burning Hell, where a massive Ding Fire tribulation gathered above him and began to strike.

• Xia Ping discovered that Soul Screech could forcibly extract weak souls and devour them to increase his strength.
• Xia Ping sensed a tribulation far stronger than his previous one and left the Dragon World through the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• Xia Ping returned to Burning Hell and found a 365-fold Ding Fire tribulation gathering over the realm.
• The demons and Nether Ghosts of Burning Hell saw the tribulation clouds and discussed Xia Ping's power and their loyalty to him.
• After half a day, the tribulation clouds released their accumulated power toward Xia Ping, who faced the strike without fear.

Xia Ping survived the Ding Fire Tribulation Lightning, grew stronger, and sensed a massive horde of Void Monsters approaching Burning Hell. He went out to test his new bloodline divine ability as the monsters charged at him.

• Xia Ping swallowed the final bolt of Ding Fire Tribulation Lightning and absorbed its energy, awakening 150 billion Hell Golden Crow Cells and advancing to the peak of the Near Ancient realm.
• The tribulation tempered Burning Hell, strengthening its origin and giving some Burning Demons the chance to absorb Ding Fire power.
• Xia Ping sensed more than 200,000 Void Monsters gathering outside Burning Hell, drawn by the energy from his tribulation.
• Xia Ping crossed several hundred light-years to confront the Void Monsters and test his new bloodline divine ability.
• The Void Monsters roared and pounced on Xia Ping, treating him as food.

Xia Ping used his Hell Golden Crow Bloodline’s Soul Screech to extract and devour the souls of two hundred thousand Void Monsters, awakening fifty billion more Hell Golden Crow Cells. Their memories revealed that they were intelligent, immortal beings who gathered in armies, but a mysterious force erased the memories that might have revealed where they were reborn.

• Xia Ping unleashed Soul Screech, terrifying the Void Monsters and pulling their souls from their bodies.
• Xia Ping devoured all two hundred thousand souls, and the Hell Furnace and Sun Furnace refined them into energy.
• The energy awakened fifty billion Hell Golden Crow Cells, bringing Xia Ping’s total to two hundred billion.
• Xia Ping learned from the Void Monsters’ memories that they spoke a mysterious Void language, gathered allies to hunt, and were reborn with their memories after death.
• Xia Ping tried to learn where the Void Monsters were reborn, but a powerful law had erased those memories.

Over three months, Xia Ping’s clone captured two thousand dragons who were defeated by the Spatial Maze in the Invisible Dragon Theodore’s relic. As dragons and Dragon God Palace elders discussed the deadly trial and Xia Ping’s supposed death, the elders also recalled Theodore’s notorious history as a thief.

• Xia Ping’s true body cultivated in the Classic of Mountains and Seas while his clone captured injured dragons entering the Spatial Maze and sealed them as laborers.
• After two thousand dragons were captured and none passed the trial, later arrivals grew wary, and the Dragon God Palace barred other Middle Antiquity dragons from entering.
• Dragons speculated that Wu Taidou had died in the relic and that his holy medicines and martial arts class payments were lost.
• Dragon God Palace elders discussed the relic’s appearance and recalled how the Invisible Dragon Theodore had stolen treasures across the universe.

The Dragon God Palace decided to seal Theodore’s ruins after thousands of Saint-level dragons disappeared in its trials. Xia Ping left the Invisible Dragon Ruins before the palace finished clearing the area, taking the teleportation formation out.

• A flame dragon urged the elders to seal the ruins because the Spatial Maze had swallowed thousands of dragons and the trials were too dangerous.
• The elders rejected brute force, explaining that Theodore’s spatial formations could teleport attackers to deadly places or destroy the ruin and its treasures.
• The Dragon God Palace designated the ruins a forbidden ground and barred dragons from entering while it worked to crack the formations.
• Xia Ping learned of the decision and realized he could no longer capture dragons entering the ruins or safely remain there.
• Xia Ping used the ruin’s teleportation formation to leave before the Dragon God Palace finished clearing the area.

Abyss Demons revealed their plan to use the Cosmic Light World to make the Dragon Race and other divine beast races fight and suffer heavy losses. They intended to ambush survivors and launch a full-scale attack on the Dragon World in three days.

• More than a dozen Abyss Demons concealed themselves from the Dragon World's will and discussed how the Dragon Race's pursuit of Theodore's ruins was weakening it.
• An Abyss Demon revealed that the abyssal Kings had found the Cosmic Light World and arranged for it to appear near the Dragon World in three days.
• The demons explained that the treasure-filled but dangerous world would draw the Dragon Race and other divine beast races into deadly competition.
• The Abyss Demons revealed that an army was lying in ambush near the Cosmic Light World to kill survivors and seize its treasures.
• The demons planned to attack the Dragon World from within and without once chaos began, and eagerly anticipated slaughtering its dragons.

Xia Ping learned from Theodore the Invisible Dragon that the Cosmic Light World was formed from a fallen god and that the Dragon Race and other divine beast races had survived from the previous cosmic era. Theodore explained that their ancestors sacrificed themselves to endure the universe’s destruction, leaving their descendants bound to the Dragon World by the current universe’s laws.

• Several days after the Cosmic Light World appeared, Saints from the Dragon, Phoenix, Qilin, and other races discovered it and raced to spread the news to their clans.
• Xia Ping heard about the Cosmic Light World and summoned Theodore the Invisible Dragon to explain what it was.
• Theodore told Xia Ping and Ye Mengyao that the Cosmic Light World had formed after a god fell, and that gods had lived in the previous cosmic era.
• Theodore explained that the Dragon Race and other divine beast races survived the previous universe’s destruction because their gods transformed themselves to withstand it.
• Theodore said the surviving races were incompatible with the current universe’s laws, so they had to return to the Dragon World before breakthroughs or risk heavenly punishment.
• Xia Ping noticed that the dragons’ breakthrough tribulations sounded much like the lightning strikes he endured when he advanced.

Invisible Dragon Theodore explained that Cosmic Light World was a divine abode containing possible clues to godhood, while the Dark Forbidden Zone was the far more dangerous Graveyard of Gods. Xia Ping and Ye Mengyao learned that the gods might have deliberately slumbered there to survive the universe’s destruction, as Theodore secretly hoped the revelations would lure Xia Ping to his death.

• Theodore told Ye Mengyao and Xia Ping that Cosmic Light World had appeared in the Primordial Ancient era and could hold the secret to becoming a god.
• Theodore explained that the Abyss Kings and countless Saints had sought to become the first god of the current cosmic era, which would make their race the era’s overlord.
• Xia Ping asked about other divine abodes, and Theodore revealed that the Dark Forbidden Zone was the Graveyard of Gods, filled with divine abodes and deadly secrets.
• Theodore said some believed the gods had willingly slumbered in the Graveyard of Gods to survive the universe’s destruction and might someday revive.
• Theodore secretly admitted that he had shared these secrets to tempt Xia Ping into dangerous places and escape him if he died.

Xia Ping decided to enter the Cosmic Light World, a god’s former cave abode rumored to hold the secret to becoming a god, and traveled to the Dragon God Palace to access its teleportation formation. There, disguised as a Late Antiquity dragon named Wu Wudi, he claimed to be Wu Taidou’s younger brother as the dragons gathered to enter.

• Xia Ping questioned Ye Mengyao about Theodore’s account, and she confirmed that it matched rumors she had heard about the Cosmic Light World.
• Xia Ping chose to enter the Cosmic Light World despite its dangers, arguing that his dragon disguise and numerous clones would help him survive.
• A day later, Xia Ping transformed into a Late Antiquity dragon and traveled to the Dragon God Palace, where dragons were gathering to reach the Cosmic Light World.
• Xia Ping saw hundreds of thousands of Immortal Dragons assembled and reflected that the Dragon Race far outnumbered the Human Race in Immortal Saints.
• When Ternshi asked Xia Ping about his name, Xia Ping introduced himself as Wu Wudi and claimed that Wu Taidou was his big brother.
• Ternshi said Wu Taidou had not returned from Theodore’s ruins, and Xia Ping dismissed the possibility that his supposed brother would die easily.

Xia Ping witnessed the Dragon Race’s leaders gather to discuss entry into the Cosmic Light World, a dangerous realm left behind by a fallen god. Samuel barred dragons below the Near Ancient Dragon realm from entering, then teleported the eligible dragons, including Xia Ping, to another stretch of void.

• More than a thousand Primordial Dragons and twenty-eight invincible Dragons gathered in the Dragon God Palace plaza as Xia Ping watched from the edge.
• Samuel, the Lord of the Dragon God Palace, warned that the Cosmic Light World was deadly and forbade dragons below the Immortal Dragon realm from entering, requiring entrants to be at least Near Ancient Dragons who had comprehended space laws.
• Immortal Dragons left the plaza, while Samuel told the remaining dragons they could travel alone or in teams and warned them to watch out for other races.
• Samuel tapped his cane and teleported Xia Ping and the other eligible dragons to another stretch of void.

The Dragon Race and Xia Ping arrived at the Cosmic Light World, a vast divine realm formed after a god’s fall. As Phoenixes, qilins, kui oxen, and other divine beast races gathered, Xia Ping began thinking about capturing them for the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

• The sacred dragons were teleported to the void before the Cosmic Light World, and Xia Ping recognized that it contained a miniature universe and powerful laws.
• The dragons identified the sphere as the Cosmic Light World and cautiously assessed its danger.
• The Phoenix, Qilin, and Kui Ox races arrived through teleportation arrays, followed by other divine beast races seeking the world’s treasures.
• Ye Mengyao sensed the many rare divine beast races through the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• Xia Ping eagerly considered capturing the divine beasts to expand the creatures kept in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, leaving Ye Mengyao speechless.

The Dragon Race arrived near the Cosmic Light World and traded insults with the other divine beast races, renewing their old rivalry. Samuel persuaded the Invincible Realm Saints to let the younger generation enter first, then lounged in the void reading an adult dragon magazine.

• The divine beast races resented the Dragon Race’s arrival and recalled their ancient conflicts, especially the long war between the Dragon Race and Phoenix Race.
• The dragons joked about their unpaid loans to the other races and boasted that the Dragon Race was now a super overlord, while Xia Ping and Ye Mengyao reacted to their shamelessness.
• Samuel proposed that the Invincible Realm Saints stay out of the Cosmic Light World and let the younger generation explore, and the other Saints agreed.
• Samuel announced that he would cultivate while waiting, pulled out a beach chair and an adult dragon magazine, and embarrassed the Dragon God Palace elders.