Chapter Summaries

Ning Xiaochuan reached Dragon Transformation City with the Red Little Dragon and encountered powerful locals who wanted to buy or take the little dragon. When Mo Chaolong attacked him for refusing, Ning Xiaochuan stopped the sword qi and warned him, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Ning Xiaochuan arrived in the Qing Meng Domain and learned that Mu Teng Forest was home to most of the dragon race’s true dragons.
• Shi Jin Gan tried to buy the Red Little Dragon, but Ning Xiaochuan refused and the little dragon repeatedly splashed wine in Shi Jin Gan’s face.
• Miss Nie of the Heavenly Sound Sect also offered to buy the Red Little Dragon, but Ning Xiaochuan refused and prepared to leave.
• Mo Chaolong blocked Ning Xiaochuan and attacked with his sword after Ning Xiaochuan ignored his demand to hand over the little dragon.
• Ning Xiaochuan stopped Mo Chaolong’s sword qi with a vortex of profound qi and warned him not to cause further trouble, while onlookers urged Ning Xiaochuan to back down.

Ning Xiaochuan refused to sell Little Red and defeated Mo Chaolong, then stood up to Zhang Linxi and Wang Daoyi when they tried to force him to give the dragon to Miss Nie. The Enchantress of the Demon Sect intervened against Zhang Linxi, and the chapter ended as Young Master Ye and Young Lady Nie arrived.

• Shi Jin Gan offered to buy Little Red, but Ning Xiaochuan refused to sell it.
• Mo Chaolong attacked Ning Xiaochuan, who suppressed him with a palm and sent him crashing through the wine shop wall.
• Zhang Linxi and Wang Daoyi demanded that Ning Xiaochuan sell Little Red to Miss Nie, but he refused and prepared to resist them.
• The Enchantress of the Demon Sect froze Zhang Linxi with her Profound Yin True Qi and repelled his attack with the Profound Yin Divine Palm.
• Young Master Ye and Young Lady Nie arrived, and Zhang Linxi urged them to subdue the Enchantress of the Demon Sect.

Ning Xiaochuan refused to sell Little Red despite Ye Nantian offering a High-Grade Profound Stone and a sword manual, and Ye Nantian revealed that the creature was a young Divine Dragon. The Little King of the Divine Dragon King's Mansion challenged Ye Nantian to fight Ning Xiaochuan, wagering his Divine Dragon Golden Crown, while Ye Nantian considered the bet.

• Nie Lanzhi asked her sister, Nie Lanxin, to help her buy Little Red, and Ye Nantian offered Ning Xiaochuan a High-Grade Profound Stone for the creature.
• Ning Xiaochuan refused Ye Nantian's offers, including a sword manual, because Ye Nantian could not tell him where to find the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace.
• Ye Nantian identified Little Red as a young Divine Dragon, stirring greed among the martial artists gathered at the wine shop.
• The Little King of the Divine Dragon King's Mansion arrived and defended Ning Xiaochuan, saying the Imperial Court could protect the Divine Dragon Cub.
• The Little King proposed that Ye Nantian fight Ning Xiaochuan and wagered his Divine Dragon Golden Crown if Ye Nantian lost.
• Ning Xiaochuan questioned the Little King's wager, while Ye Nantian weighed the chance to win the Divine Dragon Cub.

Ning Xiaochuan left a confrontation over the Red Little Dragon after Yu Qing stopped Ye Nantian from demanding it. At Yu Qing’s residence, they discussed the political threat posed by the sects and the empire’s weakening position, then Yu Qing revealed his intention to disrupt the One Yuan Sect and Heavenly Sound Sect’s marriage alliance.

• Ye Nantian offered a High-Grade Profound Stone, a sword-art manual, and his Purple Cloud Flying Sword for a wager, but Yu Qing demanded that he wager Nie Lanxin instead.
• Nie Lanxin threatened to join Ye Nantian against Yu Qing, who warned that the court’s princes and noble sons would unite against them.
• Ning Xiaochuan left with the Red Little Dragon, and Shi Jin Gan and Yu Qing followed him to a quiet residence in Dragon Transformation City.
• Yu Qing told Ning Xiaochuan that Ye Nantian was a disciple of the Sword Saint, Yuwen Luo, and they discussed the threat of the sects’ marriage alliance, the Demon Sect, and the empire’s enemies.
• Yu Qing said the princely and noble houses should unite and prevent the One Yuan Sect and Heavenly Sound Sect from sealing their alliance through marriage, while joking that he still wanted Nie Lanxin.

Ning Xiaochuan left Dragon Transformation City with Duanmu Ling'er to find the Demon Sect Saintess and Xiao Ling'er in Mu Teng Forest, but Mo Chaolong and the Mo Family ambushed them outside the city. Ning Xiaochuan and Duanmu Ling'er killed several attackers, while two Mo Family elders fled.

• Ning Xiaochuan sensed Duanmu Ling'er hiding in his residence, learned that the Holy Maiden and Xiao Ling'er were in Mu Teng Forest, and hurried there with her.
• A group of martial experts ambushed Ning Xiaochuan and Duanmu Ling'er as they left Dragon Transformation City, but Ning Xiaochuan deflected their attacks.
• Mo Chaolong revealed that he had anticipated Ning Xiaochuan would leave the city because of the Divine Dragon Cub, and a Mo Family elder threatened Duanmu Ling'er with slavery.
• Duanmu Ling'er killed the elder with her Profound Yin Divine Palm, and Mo Chaolong recognized her as the Demon Sect enchantress.
• Ning Xiaochuan ordered an attack, killed Mo Chaolong and another Mo Family elder, and watched as the two remaining elders fled in opposite directions.

Ning Xiaochuan and Duanmu Ling'er killed the Mo Family pursuers, then learned that the young geniuses gathering in Mu Teng Forest had come to the Dragon King's thousandth-birthday celebration to seek a pact with the dragons. After a perilous journey toward Dragon Valley, Ning Xiaochuan killed a White Demon Spider and began refining its blood qi.

• Ning Xiaochuan killed a Mo Family elder with Burning Sky with Scorching Sun, then smashed another elder's dragon-elephant form with a single punch while Duanmu Ling'er blocked his escape.
• Mo Lingyun, Ye Nantian, and Nie Lanxin arrived at the battlefield; Ye Nantian deduced that Ning Xiaochuan had fought there and identified him as the Imperial City's foremost genius.
• Duanmu Ling'er told Ning Xiaochuan that the young geniuses had come to celebrate the Dragon King's thousandth birthday and compete for the dragons' favor and a new pact.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Duanmu Ling'er traveled through Mu Teng Forest toward Dragon Valley, surviving dangerous encounters along the way.
• Ning Xiaochuan killed a White Demon Spider, absorbed its blood qi with the demonic sword, and began refining it into cultivation and the World Extinction Divine Monument.

Ning Xiaochuan fought to stop Duanmu Ling'er after the Blood Devouring Demon Art overwhelmed her, then lost her trail in Mu Teng Forest. He encountered the wounded Nie Lanzhi fleeing a soldier from the Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion, who considered killing Ning Xiaochuan despite learning he was a Little Marquis.

• Ning Xiaochuan finished refining the White Demon Spider's blood qi as Duanmu Ling'er questioned his cultivation and challenged him to compare their arts.
• Duanmu Ling'er attacked Ning Xiaochuan under the Blood Devouring Demon Art's influence, and he absorbed her demonic cloud with the Demon Sword before she broke his seal and fled.
• Ning Xiaochuan chased Duanmu Ling'er through the forest, killed a Golden-Haired Three-Eyed Bear, and eventually lost her trail.
• Nie Lanzhi, gravely wounded, stumbled out of the forest while fleeing a brute from the Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion.
• Ning Xiaochuan confronted the brute, and Nie Lanzhi revealed that he was a Little Marquis; the brute weighed killing him in the deserted forest.

Ning Xiaochuan killed the half-man, half-beast brute and rescued the wounded Nie Lanzhi, treating her beast-poison infection. After she changed clothes, he asked why the Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion had been pursuing her and where her companions were.

• Ning Xiaochuan caught the brute's arm, and the Demon Sword drained him into bone dust.
• Ning Xiaochuan refined the brute's blood qi but failed to break through to the eighth level of the Worldly Detachment Realm.
• Ning Xiaochuan found Nie Lanzhi wounded and poisoned, then absorbed the beast poison and helped heal her.
• Nie Lanzhi recovered her clarity, changed into a clean dress while Ning Xiaochuan turned away, and felt ashamed of her earlier behavior.
• Ning Xiaochuan asked Nie Lanzhi why the Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion had pursued her and where the others were.

Ning Xiaochuan followed Nie Lanzhi to search for her sister, Nie Lanxin, after the Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion ambushed their group. He found Nie Lanxin fighting seventeen attackers with her Fairy Sword Servant divine power, but she was poisoned and fell after an Azure Divine Bird shattered her Holy Light Wings.

• Nie Lanzhi told Ning Xiaochuan that the Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion had attacked her group and asked him to rescue Nie Lanxin and Ye Nantian, so he agreed to follow her.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Nie Lanzhi reached the ambush site and found Mo Lingyun, Zhang Linxi, Wang Daoyi, and many other martial artists dead; Nie Lanxin and Ye Nantian were missing.
• Ning Xiaochuan found a trail of battle and pursued it with Nie Lanzhi, locating Nie Lanxin as she used Fairy Sword Servant to fight seventeen Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion experts.
• A commander shattered Nie Lanxin's zither with a God-Shooting Crossbow, and she spread her Holy Light Wings to flee while enduring several kinds of beast venom.
• An Azure Divine Bird emerged from the clouds and shattered Nie Lanxin's Holy Light Wings with a lightning-wreathed claw, sending her wounded body falling from the sky.

Ning Xiaochuan rescued Nie Lanxin and Nie Lanzhi from the Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion, then fled with them into the forest. When beast poison drove Nie Lanxin into a violent frenzy, he trapped her in an Azure Ancient Tower, but she began battering her way out.

• Ning Xiaochuan caught Nie Lanxin before she hit the ground and defeated the Hundred-Banner Commander with a single palm strike.
• Ning Xiaochuan turned the God-Shooting Crossbow bolts back on the Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion and escaped with the Nie Sisters while fighting off the Azure Divine Bird.
• The middle-aged man in Azure Armor identified Ning Xiaochuan and ordered the God-Slaying Battalion to pursue and kill him.
• After half a day of flight, Ning Xiaochuan stopped in a secluded forest, where beast poison overcame Nie Lanxin and made her attack him.
• Ning Xiaochuan fought Nie Lanxin with his Martial Dao Divine Powers, then used the Azure Ancient Tower to imprison her.
• Nie Lanxin struck the inside of the tower until its Fifth-Grade Profound Weapon body began to warp and expand.

Ning Xiaochuan suppressed Nie Lanxin after her power erupted, then tried to purge the beast poison from her with the Yin Yang Bright Flame. The treatment triggered Nie Lanxin’s Nether Moon Heart Palace and the beast poison weakened Ning Xiaochuan’s will, leaving the story with him responding when she pounced on him.

• Nie Lanxin broke free from the ancient tower and attacked Ning Xiaochuan, but he pinned her beneath the World Extinction Divine Monument until she fainted.
• Ning Xiaochuan, Nie Lanzhi, and the unconscious Nie Lanxin escaped the Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion and reached a remote mountain cave.
• Ning Xiaochuan diagnosed beast poison in Nie Lanxin’s Martial Heart Palace and began treating her with the Yin Yang Bright Flame while Nie Lanzhi guarded the entrance with the Red Little Dragon.
• Nie Lanxin’s brow absorbed the flame’s Yin Qi, revealing her Nether Moon Heart Palace and causing the bright flame to explode; Ning Xiaochuan protected himself with the Demon Sword.
• Nie Lanxin woke, removed her clothes, and pounced on Ning Xiaochuan, whose will had been weakened by the beast poison he had absorbed while saving Nie Lanzhi.

The Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion tried to seize Ning Xiaochuan on a false charge, but Yu Qing forced them to withdraw. The three reached Dragon Valley for the Dragon King’s birthday and encountered the Nie Sisters among the guests.

• Wei Tu She surrounded Ning Xiaochuan with the Mystic Beast God-Slaying Battalion and ordered him to come to the Imperial City’s Heaven Prison.
• Ning Xiaochuan challenged Wei Tu She to provide evidence, and Yu Qing backed him by invoking his imperial status and denying any contact with the Heavenly Sound Sect.
• Wei Tu She withdrew his forces rather than risk a confrontation with Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Qing.
• Ning Xiaochuan, Yu Qing, and Shi Jin Gan traveled to Dragon Valley and were admitted by the Dragon Son and Dragon Daughter.
• Shi Jin Gan explained the dragon clan’s different species and said the Dragon Son and Dragon Daughter belonged to the flood dragon clan.
• Ning Xiaochuan and his companions saw the Nie Sisters by a lake, where Nie Lanzhi hesitated to approach him because of their factions.

Ning Xiaochuan attended the Dragon King’s birthday gathering in Dragon Valley, where Yu Qing provoked Nie Lanxin about her upcoming wedding to Ye Nantian. The Demon Sect Saintess also arrived, and Yu Qing revealed that Ye Nantian’s cultivation had surged to a level that overwhelmed him.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Qing watched Nie Lanxin at the Holy Lake, while Yu Qing warned that Jin Du might attack Ning if he learned about him and Nie Lanxin.
• Yu Qing congratulated Nie Lanxin on her coming wedding and implied that Ning Xiaochuan wanted an invitation, drawing an icy response from her.
• Ye Nantian arrived and confirmed that he would marry Nie Lanxin, then invited Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Qing to the wedding.
• The Demon Sect Saintess arrived with the Six Demonic Paths, and Duanmu Ling'er glared at Ning Xiaochuan while he wondered where Xiao Ling'er was.
• Yu Qing told Ning Xiaochuan that Ye Nantian had likely reached the Earth Venerable Realm and had easily defeated him in a battle of minds.

Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Qing met Cloud Marquis at Dragon Valley, where tensions over the imperial court’s authority briefly flared before the assembled human and mystic beast elites gathered for the Dragon King’s birthday banquet. The banquet began with the Dragon Daughter announcing that the Dragon King would personally appear.

• Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Qing discussed the powerful young martial artists expected to attend the Dragon King’s birthday banquet.
• Cloud Marquis arrived and ordered Yu Qing and Ning Xiaochuan to follow his command, but Yu Qing refused, prompting Ji Hanxing to point her spear at Ning Xiaochuan.
• Yu Qing fought Ji Hanxing, and the two proved evenly matched before Ning Xiaochuan persuaded Yu Qing to stop and avoid dividing the imperial court’s forces.
• More human martial artists and twenty-seven human-form mystic beasts gathered by the lakeshore, including heirs from powerful clans and territories.
• The Dragon Son and Dragon Daughter appeared above the lake, and the Dragon Daughter announced that the birthday banquet had begun and the Dragon King would meet the guests in person.

At the dragon gathering, Mystic Beast Cubs attacked the Demon Sect and devoured its young martial artists while the other factions stood by. Ning Xiaochuan intervened to protect Duanmu Ling'er, striking the Dragonhawk Cub and drawing blood.

• A Four-Winged Soaring Serpent Cub and a Dragonhawk Cub attacked Duanmu Ling'er after the guests argued over humans and Mystic Beasts eating one another, but the Demon Sect Saintess froze both with two finger strikes.
• An Eighth-Grade Mystic Beast Cub challenged the Demon Sect Saintess, while seven other Mystic Beast Cubs joined the battle against her.
• The Dragonhawk Cub attacked the Demon Sect martial artists, swallowed two of them, and forced Duanmu Ling'er and her companions back as the other factions and the Dragon Son and Dragon Daughter watched without intervening.
• Yu Qing warned Ning Xiaochuan that acting could provoke the Mystic Beast Kings, but Ning Xiaochuan used Rainbow Shift to rush to Duanmu Linger's aid.
• After the Dragonhawk Cub knocked away Duanmu Linger's Life-Stealing Scimitar and wounded her neck, Ning Xiaochuan caught the weapon and slashed through the cub's scales, drawing blood.

Ning Xiaochuan defended the Demon Sect at the Dragon King's Birthday Banquet and fought the Dragonhawk Cub and Golden Lion Beast, wounding both with his Stars and Moon Same Sky technique. The White Fox Cub then challenged Cloud Marquis and demanded that he execute Ning Xiaochuan, leaving Ning Xiaochuan facing a new threat.

• Ning Xiaochuan returned the Life-Stealing Scimitar to Duanmu Ling'er and confronted the Dragonhawk Cub for attacking people at the banquet.
• The Dragonhawk Cub transformed into a giant dragonhawk and attacked Ning Xiaochuan with Azure Embers, but Ning Xiaochuan countered with lightning.
• A Golden Lion Beast joined the fight, and the two Mystic Beast Cubs attacked Ning Xiaochuan with their Innate Divine Powers.
• Ning Xiaochuan used Stars and Moon Same Sky to wound the Dragonhawk Cub and cut off part of the Golden Lion Beast's tail.
• A white-haired White Fox Cub challenged Cloud Marquis, who recognized him as a descendant of Lord White Fox of Heaven-Cleaving Desolate Ridge.
• The White Fox Cub ordered Cloud Marquis to execute Ning Xiaochuan, prompting the gathered martial artists to look on.

Cloud Marquis tried to use the White Fox Young Master’s threat against Ning Xiaochuan to implicate the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, but Ning Xiaochuan refused to back down and fought the White Fox Young Master. After the White Fox Young Master overpowered his Heart Nourishing True Cauldron, Ning Xiaochuan merged with Little Red and prepared to continue the battle in Divine Dragon Armor.

• Cloud Marquis revealed Ning Xiaochuan’s identity and urged the White Fox Young Master to punish him, while Ning Xiaochuan rejected the demand to kill himself.
• The White Fox Young Master attacked Nie Lanzhi, and Ning Xiaochuan deflected the sword qi before fighting back with the Heart Nourishing True Cauldron.
• The White Fox Young Master unleashed his Innate Divine Power and sent the Heart Nourishing True Cauldron crashing into a cliff.
• Ning Xiaochuan woke Little Red and merged with the Red Little Dragon, forming crimson Divine Dragon Armor and a Dragon Claw Battle Sword.
• Ning Xiaochuan challenged the White Fox Young Master to continue fighting as the onlookers recognized Little Red as a Divine Dragon Cub.

Ning Xiaochuan battled the White Fox Young Master as the Demon Sect Saintess arrived and helped pressure him. The Dragon King's Spiritual Wisdom revealed that the Heavenly Emperor had left treasures for the coming great era, which could be found in the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace.

• The White Fox Young Master attacked Ning Xiaochuan over the Divine Dragon Cub, and they exchanged deadly blows that damaged Dragon Valley.
• The Demon Sect Saintess defeated seven Mystic Beast Cubs, descended to the Holy Lake, and warned the White Fox Young Master that the Demon Emperor had mastered the ninth level of the Blood Devouring Demon Art.
• Ning Xiaochuan and the Demon Sect Saintess pressed the White Fox Young Master together, while Cloud Marquis noticed their auras were unusually compatible.
• The Dragon King's Spiritual Wisdom appeared above the waterfall, and the Dragon Son, Dragon Daughter, and White Fox Young Master paid their respects.
• The Dragon King revealed that the Heavenly Emperor had foretold a great era for their generation and left behind treasures that could raise martial talent.
• The Dragon King said the treasures awaited the destined in the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace, confirming that the legendary palace existed.

Ning Xiaochuan watched Xue Lingxu open the gateway to the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace and entered the teleportation formation with the Red Little Dragon. They arrived in a barren, hostile world, where Ning Xiaochuan discovered a five-hundred-year-old Three-Leaf Vitality Grass.

• The Dragon King explained that a descendant of the Heavenly Emperor could open a gateway to the Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace by spilling blood into the Holy Lake, and Ning Xiaochuan suspected the lake was the Cold Star Lake.
• Xue Lingxu emerged from a mirror in the sky, spilled her blood into the Holy Lake, and activated a formation that revealed the distant Heavenly Emperor Divine Palace.
• Cloud Marquis and other powerful martial artists entered the one-person-at-a-time formation, followed by the Demon Sect Saintess and Ning Xiaochuan.
• The formation rejected the Red Little Dragon, but Ning Xiaochuan pulled it inside, and they were teleported to a barren world with crushing gravity and thin air.
• The Red Little Dragon pointed Ning Xiaochuan toward a direction, and after traveling for half a day, he found a Three-Leaf Vitality Grass that he identified as a Half-Rare Medicine.

Ning Xiaochuan refined a Stone Beast and used a Yuan Life Pearl to strengthen his blood qi, then fled as Little Red provoked a horde of Stone Beasts. He escaped into the sky, but the world’s pressure limited how high he could fly, and the beasts kept pelting him with boulders.

• Ning Xiaochuan captured a Stone Beast and refined it together with the Two-Headed Stone Beast, while he picked the Three-Leaf Vitality Grass and stored its Yuan Life Pearl.
• Ning Xiaochuan refined the Yuan Life Pearl into a Yuan Life Pill and swallowed it, raising his blood qi to the level of One Blood Transforms into Five Tigers.
• Little Red rode the Two-Headed Stone Beast and led several dozen Stone Beasts toward Ning Xiaochuan, who took an eight-hundred-year Yuan Life Pearl from Little Red and traded it a dragon eye.
• Ning Xiaochuan fought off a Stone Beast and refined a Stone Bird into the Two-Headed Stone Beast, then flew away from the pursuing horde.
• Ning Xiaochuan discovered that an unknown force prevented him from flying above the clouds, while Stone Beasts hurled enormous boulders at him.