Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping sealed eight Dragon Race Saints and demanded information about the Dragon World, but Ye Mengyao revealed that an Ancestral Dragon Contract would kill any dragon who divulged its secrets. Xia Ping then produced the Book of Karma, intending to find another way to obtain what he wanted.

• Xia Ping released the eight Dragon Race Saints from his illusion after sealing them with his Six Paths Sealing Technique, leaving them powerless.
• Xia Ping ordered the captives to tell him everything they knew about the Dragon World, but they refused to betray their race.
• Ye Mengyao explained that the Ancestral Dragon Contract killed dragons who revealed information about the Dragon World.
• Xia Ping told the dragons he had another way to get the information and pulled out the Book of Karma.

Xia Ping used the Book of Karma to extract the memories of eight Dragon Race Saints and learned about the Dragon World, its dragon peoples, and the Dragon God Palace. He sent the helpless Saints to the Mountain River Bead’s space to work as laborers.

• Xia Ping used the Book of Karma to devour traces of the eight Dragon Race Saints’ souls and record all their memories.
• Xia Ping learned that the Dragon World was vast and divided its dragons into five major categories.
• Xia Ping discovered that dragon nations fought among themselves while the Dragon God Palace ruled above them and managed the Dragon World.
• The eight Dragon Race Saints demanded to know how Xia Ping had bypassed the Ancestral Dragon Contract, but he refused to explain.
• Xia Ping summoned Green Ox, who took the eight Dragon Race Saints to the Mountain River Bead’s space to serve as laborers.

Xia Ping traded an Immortal Fruit and a Spatial Fruit with Ye Mengyao for her Dragon Wood Star Core. He gave the Star Core to Xiao Dai, whose growth began to transform her Gaia Space and send energy into Xia Ping.

• Ye Mengyao saw that Xia Ping had put eight captured Dragon Race Saints to work plowing fields.
• Xia Ping offered Ye Mengyao an Immortal Fruit and a Spatial Fruit in exchange for her Dragon Wood Star Core, and she accepted the trade.
• Ye Mengyao took the fruits and went into seclusion to recover and improve her cultivation.
• Xia Ping gave the Dragon Wood Star Core to Xiao Dai, who swallowed it eagerly.
• The Star Core’s energy transformed Xiao Dai’s Gaia Space and flowed into Xia Ping through their contract.

Xia Ping absorbed energy from the Dragon Wood Star Core, which greatly strengthened him and Gaia Xiao Dai, then nurtured a Gaia Clone and learned its abilities. After advancing his avatars, he followed Ao Wu toward a hidden passage into the Dragon World before it vanished.

• Gaia Xiao Dai devoured most of the Dragon Wood Star Core, expanding her Gaia Space and absorbing its cosmic laws, then fell asleep.
• Xia Ping absorbed the remaining energy over several days and brought his cultivation close to the peak of the mid-stage Near Ancient Realm.
• Xia Ping nurtured his third avatar, the Gaia Clone, and discovered its Internal World, Gaia's Guardians, and Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations abilities.
• Xia Ping used the World Tree's Spatial Fruits to advance the Gaia, Hell Golden Crow, and World Tree avatars to the Early Ancient realm.
• Ao Wu found a temporary hidden route into the Dragon World and warned Xia Ping that it would disappear within a day, so Xia Ping set out immediately.

Xia Ping entered the Dragon World with Ao Wu’s guidance, where the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman shielded him from the world’s hostility and enhanced his power. Ao Wu explained that it could absorb the Dragon World’s scattered origin energy, but doing so naturally would be extremely slow.

• Ao Wu guided Xia Ping to a hidden spatial crack leading into the Dragon World, and Xia Ping passed through it undetected.
• Xia Ping saw the immense Dragon World and followed Ao Wu’s directions through another concealed crack into a dense forest.
• The Dragon World’s laws suppressed Xia Ping because he lacked dragon bloodline, limiting his strength.
• The Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman flooded Xia Ping with Heavenly Dragon energy, causing the Dragon World to accept him and boosting his combat power.
• Xia Ping asked Ao Wu how it would absorb the Dragon World’s origin energy, and Ao Wu said its natural absorption would take too long to restore its peak power.

Xia Ping learned that the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman could recover by consuming Dragon Crystals or Dragon Veins, then discovered a rare Formless Flower in a valley. He reached to take it, but an unseen voice ordered him to stop.

• Ao Wu explained that devouring Dragon Veins or Dragon Crystals could speed the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman's recovery, though one hundred billion Dragon Crystals were needed.
• Xia Ping considered seizing a Dragon Vein and decided to visit a nearby city to learn about the area.
• Xia Ping spotted a Formless Flower in a distant valley, and Green Ox explained its spatial-law properties and rarity.
• Green Ox suggested giving the Formless Flower to a Black Hole Worm to cultivate more blooms.
• Xia Ping entered the valley and reached for the Formless Flower, but an angry voice from the void commanded him to stop.

Xia Ping encountered three Dragon Race Saints who had captured a young Fate Dragon and claimed a valuable Formless Flower. After they attacked him, he subdued them and left the curious dragon girl with him.

• Three Dragon Race Saints celebrated finding a Formless Flower and discussed using their captive Fate Dragon’s power of fate.
• The Saints threatened Xia Ping and claimed the Formless Flower, then attacked him when he refused to yield it.
• Xia Ping used Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly to trap all three Saints in an illusion.
• Xia Ping captured the Saints, sealed their powers, and sent them into the Mountain River Bead’s space.
• The little dragon girl watched Xia Ping with calm curiosity after he defeated her captors.

Xia Ping rescued Betty and several young dragons from a spatial treasure and learned their names and abilities. He then discovered and caught Karida, an invisible dragon who had tried to attack him.

• Xia Ping questioned Betty about her claims of fate, and she admitted she was only a divination dragon named Betty.
• Betty asked Xia Ping to rescue her captured companions, and he found and seized the spatial treasure holding them.
• Xia Ping released Maper, Da Qisi, Constance, Caesar, Wells, and Auston, who celebrated their rescue and thanked him.
• Xia Ping noticed someone behind him and pulled the invisible dragon Karida into view after Betty identified her as their companion.
• Xia Ping dropped Karida onto the ground after she struggled and called him a bad guy.

Xia Ping revealed that he could see Invisible Dragon Karida and assessed the rare powers of the captured special dragons. The young dragons’ abilities made them immensely valuable and vulnerable to exploitation, while the full extent of Gluttonous Dragon Auston’s power remained unknown.

• Karida sprang up in shock and asked Xia Ping how he had detected her while she was invisible.
• Xia Ping explained that his Hell Golden Crow Eye could see through dimensions and recognized that the young dragons were special dragons.
• Xia Ping considered the dangers facing special dragons, whose powers could be extracted by malicious dragons despite the Dragon God Palace’s ban.
• Xia Ping assessed Betty’s fate-sight, Maper’s memory control, Karida’s invisibility, Constance’s sleep power, and Da Qisi’s dream power.
• Xia Ping considered Caesar’s time control, Wells’s slowing ability, and Auston’s enormous appetite, noting that Auston’s other abilities were unclear.

Xia Ping agreed to protect Betty and the other young dragons after Betty offered to help him find a Dragon Vein by targeting the Black Wind Stronghold. The young dragons began traveling with Xia Ping and ate the food he provided.

• Xia Ping told Betty and the other young dragons to leave, but they clung to him and insisted on following him.
• Betty offered to use her power of fate to help Xia Ping find a Dragon Vein and revealed that Black Wind Stronghold controlled one nearby.
• Betty proposed that Xia Ping attack Black Wind Stronghold, avenge their capture, and take its Dragon Vein.
• Xia Ping agreed to protect the young dragons on the condition that they obey his orders.
• Auston asked for food, and Xia Ping brought out a large supply of food for the young dragons, who eagerly devoured it.

Xia Ping reached Black Wind Stronghold with the rescued special dragons and confronted Black Dragon Basta, who had mistakenly believed his missing subordinates had betrayed him. Xia Ping declared his intention to destroy the stronghold and unleashed his Spatial Domain over it.

• Black Dragon Basta accused Jerak and his two companions of betraying him and ordered the stronghold to hunt them down.
• Xia Ping appeared in Black Wind Stronghold with seven or eight young special dragons and revealed that he had killed Jerak and the others.
• Black Dragon Basta realized Xia Ping had rescued the special dragons and demanded to know why he had come.
• Xia Ping declared that he had come to slaughter Black Wind Stronghold and spread his Spatial Domain across the lair.

Xia Ping and the young special dragons fought Black Dragon Basta and the bandits of Black Wind Stronghold. Basta shattered the young dragons’ abilities and launched a devastating assault, which Xia Ping blocked with the Book of Karma’s Karmic Barrier.

• Black Dragon Basta unleashed his Dragon Domain, and the Black Wind Stronghold dragons attacked Xia Ping and the young dragons.
• Wells slowed the bandits with his Sluggish Domain, while Constance tried to put them to sleep and Da Qisi drew them into a dream.
• Basta shattered the three domains with a roar and sent Wells, Constance, and Da Qisi flying.
• Basta and the bandits attacked Xia Ping and the young dragons, while Fate Dragon Betty and the others watched in terror.
• Xia Ping formed a Karmic Barrier with the Book of Karma, and the Black Wind Stronghold’s assault shook the fortress and split the ground.

Xia Ping defeated and sealed Black Dragon Badas and the other bandit dragons at Black Wind Stronghold. He and the young dragons looted the stronghold’s treasure vault, and Xia Ping then headed to its Dragon Vein to devour it.

• Black Dragon Badas and the other dragons attacked Xia Ping, but his barrier reflected their assault and left them severely wounded.
• Xia Ping used Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly to make the injured bandit dragons lose consciousness, then sealed them with the Six Paths Sealing Technique.
• Fate Dragon Betty and the other young dragons admired Xia Ping and followed him to search Black Wind Stronghold for treasure.
• Invisible Dragon Karida found the treasure vault, and Xia Ping broke its restriction array to reveal gemstones, Dragon Crystals, and other valuables.
• The young dragons rushed to collect the treasure while Xia Ping went to the end of Black Wind Stronghold’s Dragon Vein to devour it.

Xia Ping had Ao Wu devour the Dragon Vein, restoring some of the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman's power while draining the mountain range of its accumulated energy. He then returned to Black Wind Stronghold's treasury, collected its treasures, and offered to keep the young dragons' valuables safe.

• Xia Ping asked Ao Wu to devour the Dragon Vein, and the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans consumed its accumulated energy.
• Some Dragon Vein energy entered Xia Ping's body, strengthening his mana, soul, and body, while Ao Wu recovered a portion of its power.
• Ao Wu explained that the Dragon Vein would recover over hundreds of millions of years, leaving the Black Wind Stronghold mountain range barren for a long time.
• Xia Ping returned to the treasury and saw the young dragons gathering gemstones, Dragon Crystals, and rare materials.
• Xia Ping stored most of the treasury's treasures, prompting Fate Dragon Betty and the other young dragons to protest.
• Xia Ping told the young dragons he could keep their treasures safe for them until they grew up.

Xia Ping confiscated the young dragons’ treasures and led them toward White Dragon City after Fate Dragon Betty told him it was the region’s largest city. Meanwhile, dragons arriving at Black Wind Stronghold found it completely destroyed and stripped bare, and reports of its fall spread across the region without revealing who had done it.

• Xia Ping took all the young dragons’ treasures, then asked Fate Dragon Betty about nearby cities and chose to travel to White Dragon City.
• Fate Dragon Betty vowed to eat lavishly in White Dragon City to make up for the treasures she had lost.
• Dragons passing Black Wind Stronghold discovered its formations and Dragon Vein had been destroyed, but the stronghold had been stripped of every valuable item.
• Dragon scouts discussed Black Wind Stronghold’s sudden destruction and reported it to their respective cities.
• News of Black Wind Stronghold’s fall spread across the region, while investigations failed to identify the attacker.

Black Dragon Basta and the bandit dragons awoke powerless in the Mountain River Bead space and learned they had been made prisoners and slaves. When Basta challenged their overseers, the Black Baleful Demon Bird hung it from a mountain to suffer for three days and three nights.

• Black Dragon Basta and the bandit dragons woke in an unfamiliar place and discovered they could no longer use their power.
• Herbert told them the place was a prison outside Dragon World where the master had sealed every dragon’s abilities.
• Herbert warned the dragons that overseers would arrive soon and that escape would not help them while their powers remained sealed.
• Feiyi ordered the dragons to plow fields, plant spiritual herbs, and haul fertilizer, declaring them slaves with code names.
• Black Dragon Basta insulted the overseers, and the Black Baleful Demon Bird struck it and hung it from a mountain for three days and three nights.

Feiyi and the other primordial remnants forced the power-sealed dragons from Black Wind Stronghold to work as slaves, while the dragons realized how completely they were at Wu Wudi’s mercy. The overseers discussed Wu Wudi’s immense strength, and the Nine-Headed Lion suggested seeking his favor rather than trying to escape.

• Badas raged as Xia Ping’s Six Paths Sealing Technique left him powerless, and the bandit dragons reluctantly followed Feiyi to the fields.
• Feiyi, the Nine-Headed Lion, and the Black Baleful Demon Bird punished dragons who resisted and took charge as overseers.
• Green Ox approved of letting the primordial remnants manage the dragon slaves.
• At the spirit field, the overseers learned the dragons came from the Dragon World and included ancient dragons who had comprehended the laws of time.
• Feiyi and the Black Baleful Demon Bird marveled at Wu Wudi’s power, while the Nine-Headed Lion argued they should curry favor with him and seek a chance to become Saints.

Xia Ping arrived at White Dragon City with Fate Dragon Betty and the young dragons, then brought Ye Mengyao out of the Mountain River Bead after giving her the aura and body of a Heavenly Dragon. The group stood in the Dragon World as the young dragons reacted to Ye Mengyao’s sudden appearance.

• Xia Ping reached White Dragon City with Fate Dragon Betty and the other young dragons.
• Xia Ping met Ye Mengyao in the Mountain River Bead and learned that the Immortal Fruit had healed her and raised her cultivation to the peak of the mid-stage Immortal Realm.
• Xia Ping told Ye Mengyao he had entered the Dragon World and used the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman to make her appear as a Heavenly Dragon.
• Xia Ping warned Ye Mengyao to call him Wu Taidou so she would not reveal his real name.
• Xia Ping brought Ye Mengyao into the Dragon World, where Fate Dragon Betty called attention to the unfamiliar female dragon and Invisible Dragon Karida recognized that she had emerged from Xia Ping.

Xia Ping brought Ye Mengyao and the young dragons into White Dragon City, where they discovered the Dragon Race’s advanced technology and learned that Tania had helped introduce it. Ye Mengyao decided to use the Dragon World’s virtual network to investigate the world, and Xia Ping agreed to fund the equipment with his Dragon Crystals.

• Ye Mengyao arrived in the Dragon World and questioned Xia Ping about the young dragons, then learned he had saved them.
• Xia Ping claimed Ye Mengyao was one of his concubines, embarrassing her and drawing contempt from the female dragons.
• Xia Ping led the group into White Dragon City, where they saw its prosperous shops, dragon residents, and advanced technology.
• Ye Mengyao explained that the Dragon Race had traded for technology and that Tania had helped bring it into the Dragon World.
• Ye Mengyao urged Xia Ping to buy virtual network devices, and he said his Dragon Crystals could pay for them.
• Ye Mengyao hurried Xia Ping toward a shop, while Betty and the other young dragons grew excited about the virtual devices.

Xia Ping bought virtual equipment for Ye Mengyao, Fate Dragon Betty, and the young dragons, then tricked the shop owner into returning the full hundred Dragon Crystals after receiving payment. The group left with their devices while the owner remained confused about what he had lost.

• Fate Dragon Betty and the young dragons explored a virtual equipment shop until its owner scolded them for touching the merchandise.
• Xia Ping silenced the owner’s insults by placing a hundred-Dragon-Crystal coin on the counter and demanding the shop’s best equipment.
• Xia Ping bought ten intelligent wristbands for 4.5 Dragon Crystals each and received fifty-five Dragon Crystals in change.
• Xia Ping offered the owner forty-five Dragon Crystals and persuaded him to return the original hundred-Dragon-Crystal coin.
• Xia Ping left with Ye Mengyao, Fate Dragon Betty, and the young dragons, while the shop owner stood puzzled about what he had lost.