Chapter Summaries

Gu Linyuan forced Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong to choose one person to die, and Flender sacrificed himself so the other two could live. At the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Gu Linyuan absorbed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and reached level forty, becoming a Soul Ancestor.

• Gu Linyuan told Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong that only one of them could live, and Yu Xiaogang admitted that he wanted to survive.
• Flender chose to die, confessed that he had liked Liu Erlong, and killed himself with the sword.
• Liu Erlong wept over Flender as he died, while Yu Xiaogang remained silent; Gu Linyuan ordered the prisoners released.
• Gu Linyuan went to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and absorbed the Infernal Delicate Apricot, forming a black Soul Ring for his Tree of Life Martial Soul.
• Gu Linyuan's cultivation rose from level thirty-nine to level forty, making him a Soul Ancestor.

Gu Linyuan entered the Star Dou Great Forest with Dugu Yan, Meng Yiran, and Zhu Zhuqing to hunt powerful Soul Beasts. A spatial rift suddenly pulled all four of them in, and Gu Linyuan suspected Gu Yuena was responsible before losing consciousness.

• Dugu Yan, Meng Yiran, and Zhu Zhuqing insisted on accompanying Gu Linyuan into the forest.
• Gu Linyuan sensed that the nearby Soul Beasts were too weak and decided they would need to travel deeper into the forest for stronger ones.
• A dazzling silver light erupted, and Gu Linyuan sensed an unfamiliar spatial fluctuation.
• A spatial rift opened and dragged Gu Linyuan and the three girls inside despite his attempt to resist.
• Gu Linyuan suspected Gu Yuena had caused the rift, then lost consciousness and later felt his body hit something.

Gu Linyuan and Dugu Yan, Meng Yiran, and Zhu Zhuqing found themselves trapped in Dragon Valley, where his Life Domain was suppressed but the abundant life energy and dragons offered a chance to grow stronger. Gu Linyuan suspected Gu Yuena had brought them there and decided to explore the valley for Soul Rings while the girls competed for his attention.

• Gu Linyuan woke in a strange valley with Dugu Yan, Meng Yiran, and Zhu Zhuqing, and discovered his Life Domain could reach only ten meters.
• Gu Linyuan recognized the distant creatures as true dragons and identified their location as Dragon Valley, an ancient secret realm associated with the Dragon God.
• Gu Linyuan reassured the girls that whoever brought them there would not harm them, and proposed using the dragons as Soul Rings rather than searching for an exit.
• Gu Linyuan sensed that the valley's life energy was more than ten times denser than outside, while Meng Yiran tore her skirt on a thorn and deliberately showed more of her leg.
• Dugu Yan silently criticized Meng Yiran's flirtation, while Zhu Zhuqing tightened her grip on Gu Linyuan's hand and remained confident that she was the one he truly liked.

Gu Linyuan defeated a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Thunder Dragon in the valley and absorbed its Soul Ring as his fourth. Afterward, his cultivation rose to level forty-three, and he believed he could now fight a Spirit Douluo.

• Gu Linyuan and the three girls reached a lake where they found Dragon Horses and a fissure in the cliff.
• A Dark Gold Thunder Dragon emerged and attacked Gu Linyuan, who told the girls to retreat and fought it with the Scepter of Destruction and Eight Spider Lances.
• The dragon fled after its lightning attacks failed, but Gu Linyuan caught it and killed it with a strike to the head.
• Gu Linyuan absorbed the dragon's black Soul Ring while Dugu Yan, Meng Yiran, and Zhu Zhuqing kept watch.
• Gu Linyuan gained his fourth Soul Ring, advanced to level forty-three, and said he felt capable of fighting a Spirit Douluo.

Gu Linyuan found the Dragon Valley Herb Garden and led Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Meng Yiran to gather its powerful spiritual plants. He opened the Dragon Tomb and discovered countless dragon skeletons, where he said the reason for the Dragon Clan’s decline lay hidden.

• Gu Linyuan sensed the Dragon Valley Herb Garden and explained that its spiritual plants could strengthen the women’s Martial Souls, especially by helping Meng Yiran and Dugu Yan undergo a Dragon-Snake Transformation.
• Meng Yiran and Dugu Yan gathered rare spiritual plants while Gu Linyuan and Zhu Zhuqing followed an unusual aura to a rune-covered stone gate.
• Gu Linyuan identified the gate as the entrance to the Dragon Clan’s cemetery and opened it with the Power of Destruction.
• Gu Linyuan led the women through a passage into an underground chamber filled with Dragon Clan skeletons.
• Gu Linyuan said Dragon Valley hid the reason for the Dragon Clan’s decline and blamed the Dragon God chiefly, with the God Realm second.

Gu Linyuan used his Life Domain to awaken the Dragon Souls in the Dragon Tomb, and their energy began transforming his body and bloodline. As the souls continued their baptism, he felt his Soul Power surging and his physique evolving toward a fusion of humanity's potential and the Dragon Clan's strength.

• Gu Linyuan mourned the fallen Dragon Clan and released his Life Domain across the Dragon Tomb.
• The Life Domain awakened the Dragon Souls, which gathered around Gu Linyuan and responded to his primordial life aura.
• The Dragon Souls poured energy into Gu Linyuan, and his body began changing despite his inability to stop the process.
• The energy reshaped Gu Linyuan's meridians, bones, and blood, transforming his physique and rapidly increasing his Soul Power.

Gu Linyuan realized that his Half-Human Half-Dragon Body could combine humanity’s adaptability with the Dragon Clan’s strength, and Dragon Soul energy began transforming him and the three women. Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell Spirit Cat started evolving into a powerful Dragon Cat.

• Gu Linyuan concluded that cultivating his Half-Human Half-Dragon Body could give him a path to surpass the Dragon God.
• Dragon Soul energy covered Gu Linyuan’s arms in pale-gold scales and caused small dragon horns to grow on his head.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Dugu Yan were shocked by Gu Linyuan’s transformation, and he explained that Dragon Souls were changing his body.
• Gu Linyuan noticed Dragon Soul energy flowing into the three women and urged them to release their Martial Souls and circulate their Soul Power.
• Zhu Zhuqing summoned her Hell Spirit Cat, which absorbed the energy, gained dragon traits, and began evolving into a Dragon Cat.

In the Dragon Tomb, the Dragon Souls' energy transformed Meng Yiran, Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Gu Linyuan. Meng Yiran and Dugu Yan completed their Martial Soul evolutions, while Zhu Zhuqing also finished evolving, leaving all three women with stronger Dragon Clan powers.

• Meng Yiran's Serpent Cane began transforming into a Dragon Cane as the Dragon Souls' energy surged into her.
• Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphorous Serpent grew horns and claws as it evolved toward a Jade Phosphorous Dragon.
• Gu Linyuan watched the women change and felt the Dragon Souls' energy strengthen and transform his body and Soul Power.
• Meng Yiran completed her evolution into a Dragon Cane with a spiritual True Dragon presence.
• Dugu Yan completed her evolution into a Jade Phosphorous Dragon and celebrated the change for her family.
• Zhu Zhuqing completed her evolution, and Gu Linyuan praised all three women.

Gu Linyuan revealed that absorbing Dragon Clan energy had transformed his body into a powerful golden dragon, while leaving him able to switch between human and dragon forms. He suspected the change came from the Source of Life within him, though its cause remained uncertain.

• Meng Yiran, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing asked Gu Linyuan how he had changed after their Martial Soul evolutions.
• Gu Linyuan's body transformed completely into a pale golden Eastern divine dragon over ten meters long.
• The Dragon Souls in the Dragon Tomb turned toward Gu Linyuan and trembled in reverence.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Dugu Yan were astonished to see Gu Linyuan become a dragon.
• Gu Linyuan explained that he now possessed human and dragon life forms and could switch between them.
• Gu Linyuan suspected that the Source of Life within him had caused the transformation after he absorbed Dragon Clan energy.

Gu Linyuan revealed that the Dragon Souls had transformed him into a human-dragon who could freely switch forms, while Meng Yiran, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing reacted to their gains from Dragon Valley. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan envying Zhu Zhuqing’s figure as the two teased and wrestled.

• Gu Linyuan explained that the Dragon Clan had changed his life essence and demonstrated his return from dragon form to human form.
• Meng Yiran touched Gu Linyuan’s cheek, then praised his dragon form and accepted his reassurance that he remained himself.
• Gu Linyuan considered how Dragon Valley had evolved Meng Yiran and Dugu Yan’s Martial Souls and predicted their figures would develop further.
• Dugu Yan teased Zhu Zhuqing about her Dragon Cat Martial Soul and joked that she might become even more voluptuous.
• Zhu Zhuqing rushed at Dugu Yan, who apologized and privately envied Zhu Zhuqing’s figure.

Gu Linyuan described his new dragon abilities after transforming with the Dragon Souls in the Dragon Tomb. Watching from the void, Gu Yuena recognized his unprecedented human-dragon potential and resolved to strengthen her relationship with him.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked Gu Linyuan whether becoming both human and dragon gave him the Dragon Clan's abilities, and he explained his enhanced defense and Dragon Might.
• Gu Yuena observed from the void and recalled arranging for Gu Linyuan and the women to enter Dragon Valley so she could win his favor and seek support for the Dragon Clan.
• Gu Yuena was shocked when Gu Linyuan's Life Domain awakened the Dragon Souls and they willingly entered his body, transforming him into a human-dragon life form.
• Gu Yuena concluded that Gu Linyuan's potential might rival the Dragon God and resolved to maintain a good relationship with him.
• Gu Linyuan glanced toward Gu Yuena's hiding place and smiled knowingly.

Gu Linyuan entered a silvery-white space to meet Gu Yuena, the Silver Dragon King, while Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Meng Yiran waited behind. After Gu Yuena tested him with her authority, Gu Linyuan provoked her by declaring that the Dragon Clan had already fallen.

• Gu Linyuan asked Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Meng Yiran to wait while he went to meet Gu Yuena.
• Gu Linyuan entered a silvery-white space and saw Gu Yuena, whose Dragon Clan aura filled the realm.
• Gu Yuena asked whether Gu Linyuan was the child of God of Life and Destruction and pressed him with her power.
• Gu Linyuan resisted Gu Yuena's pressure with his Dragon Clan bloodline, surprising her.
• Gu Yuena demanded that Gu Linyuan kneel, but he said she was weaker than his parents and that the Dragon Clan had already fallen.

Gu Linyuan challenged the Silver Dragon King’s pride and teased her by giving her the name Gu Yuena and asking her to be his older sister. He denied that she was the threat he had come to eliminate and hinted at a future enemy who would overturn the God Realm, leaving Gu Yuena curious about why the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life had a child.

• Gu Linyuan told Gu Yuena that the Dragon Clan had declined and that she was the one seeking his help, provoking her anger.
• Gu Yuena asked why he called her Gu Yuena, and Gu Linyuan admitted he had chosen the name because he liked it.
• Gu Linyuan asked Gu Yuena to be his older sister and called her Sister Nana, easing some of her hostility.
• Gu Yuena asked whether his parents had sent him to find her, and Gu Linyuan said he was following his own path and needed to erase another threat in the lower realm.
• Gu Linyuan said a future person would overturn the God Realm and become the universe’s sole winner, but Gu Yuena doubted his claim.
• Gu Linyuan asked why the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life had a child, prompting Gu Yuena to consider how their opposing divine powers could have allowed his birth.

Gu Linyuan explained that a future Space-Time Turbulence allowed the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life to conceive him and sent him back to the present. Gu Yuena understood why he came from the future and then asked him to explain the threat that would overturn the God Realm.

• Gu Linyuan told Gu Yuena that a massive future Space-Time Turbulence would force his parents to spend much of their origin Divine Power saving the God Realm.
• Gu Linyuan explained that his parents’ weakened powers eased their mutual rejection, allowing them to draw close and conceive him.
• Gu Yuena realized that Gu Linyuan came from the future and wondered what his future self would do under the name Gu Yuena.
• Gu Linyuan said the God of Destruction used the turbulence’s disrupted time and space to send him to the past shortly after his birth.
• Gu Yuena set aside her hostility toward Gu Linyuan and asked what future threat would overturn the God Realm.

Gu Linyuan told Gu Yuena how Tang San would use political schemes and human godhood inheritances to take control of the God Realm. Gu Yuena dismissed Tang San as weak and grew excited at the thought of storming the future God Realm and reclaiming the Dragon God’s power.

• Gu Linyuan explained that the Space-Time Turbulence had forced his parents to defend the God Realm instead of confronting Tang San, whom he suspected of arranging the crisis.
• Gu Linyuan warned Gu Yuena that Tang San would gain both the Sea God and Asura God godhoods, win over the God Realm’s factions, and become its true ruler.
• Gu Yuena expressed disbelief that Tang San could outmaneuver the God Kings and criticized the gods for letting a human control the God Realm.
• Gu Linyuan cautioned Gu Yuena not to underestimate Tang San, but she insisted that even a God King could not threaten her as the Silver Dragon King.
• Gu Yuena speculated that she would storm the weakened future God Realm, suppress Tang San, devour the Golden Dragon King, and become the Dragon God again.

Gu Linyuan told Gu Yuena that her future would bring neither the Dragon Clan’s revival nor revenge against Tang San, but marriage to Tang San’s son, Tang Wulin, and a son named Tang Xuanyu. Gu Yuena was horrified and furious as she realized Gu Linyuan was telling the truth.

• Gu Yuena excitedly asked Gu Linyuan whether her future self had defeated Tang San, devoured the Golden Dragon King, and revived the Dragon Clan.
• Gu Linyuan questioned Gu Yuena’s confidence and warned that she would fare worse than the Five Supreme Gods.
• Gu Linyuan revealed that Gu Yuena would become Tang San’s daughter-in-law and fall deeply in love with Tang Wulin.
• Gu Linyuan told Gu Yuena that she would give up revenge and Dragon Clan dignity for Tang Wulin, and bear him a son named Tang Xuanyu.
• Gu Yuena attacked Gu Linyuan in disbelief, then broke down as she sensed that he was telling the truth.

Gu Linyuan explained how Gu Yuena would lose her memories and fall in love with Tang Wulin, leaving her shaken and newly distrustful of her own judgment. He proposed cooperating with her while insisting Tang San had to remain alive for now.

• Gu Linyuan told Gu Yuena that she would lose her memories, meet Tang Wulin while believing herself an ordinary woman, and fall in love with him.
• Gu Linyuan explained that the Golden Dragon King would transfer his Dragon Core to Tang Wulin before dying, prompting Gu Yuena to seek him out and become caught in Tang San’s plans.
• Gu Yuena accepted the future as plausible and concluded that Gu Linyuan had been sent back to warn the others and prevent those events.
• Gu Yuena vowed to kill Tang San, but Gu Linyuan refused to let her act because Tang San was useful to him.
• Gu Linyuan proposed cooperating, and Gu Yuena watched him warily while admitting to herself that she had been naive.

Gu Linyuan persuaded Gu Yuena that the God Realm would only change its stance toward the Dragon Clan if someone arose who could rival the Dragon God. Gu Yuena agreed to help him cultivate in exchange for his promise to help her become the Dragon God, then revealed the Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone.

• Gu Linyuan explained to Gu Yuena that the God Realm feared the Dragon Clan's power and would not release her while she could reunite with the Golden Dragon King.
• Gu Linyuan proposed that Gu Yuena nurture him until he became powerful enough to rule the God Realm and help resolve the Golden Dragon King's threat.
• Gu Yuena considered Gu Linyuan's potential and agreed to help him cultivate if he promised to help her become the Dragon God.
• Gu Yuena summoned and presented Gu Linyuan with the Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone.

Gu Linyuan absorbed the sealed Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone, which resonated with his Eight Spider Lances and formed a Life Core. He reached rank forty-eight and gained the foundation of the Dragon Clan, while Gu Yuena reminded him to keep his promise.

• Gu Yuena sealed away ninety-nine percent of the Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone's power and gave it to Gu Linyuan.
• Gu Linyuan thanked Gu Yuena and promised not to deceive her before absorbing the torso bone.
• The Power of the Earth strengthened Gu Linyuan's bones and transformed his Eight Spider Lances as they resonated with the torso bone.
• The two Soul Bones merged into a Life Core, and Gu Linyuan's cultivation rose to rank forty-eight.
• Gu Yuena said Gu Linyuan's body now had the foundation of the Dragon Clan and urged him to keep his promise.

Gu Linyuan left Gu Yuena and returned from Dragon Valley to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he told Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Dugu Yan about the Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone he had fused with. After revealing its four powerful soul skills and his level forty-eight cultivation, he set off with the three women for Heaven Dou City.

• Gu Yuena sent Gu Linyuan back to the Star Dou Great Forest and told him he could enter the Core Area safely if he returned to hunt Soul Rings.
• Gu Linyuan reunited with Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Dugu Yan and revealed that he had obtained and fused with the Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone.
• Gu Linyuan explained that the Million-Year Soul Bone had raised his cultivation to level forty-eight and granted him four soul skills: Mountain Body, Earth Pulse, Dragon Scale Armor, and Mountain Dragon Roar.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Dugu Yan reacted with amazement to Gu Linyuan's new defensive, control, perception, and offensive abilities.
• Gu Linyuan and the three women headed back to Heaven Dou City, with Gu Linyuan close to reaching the Spirit King level.