Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan swallowed ten drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood and transformed into the Azure Ming King Body to use his Heavenly Flames to melt Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix crystal layer. The elders guarded him as the crystal began to release energy into Zi Yan, while the essence blood replenished Xiao Yan and transformed his body and soul.

• Xiao Yan swallowed ten drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood and unleashed the Azure Ming King Body, creating a towering pillar of energy that drew the Ancient Void Dragons’ attention.
• Xiao Yan placed Zi Yan inside the Great Ming King’s heart and told Zhu Huo and the other elders he would enter a dormant state while refining her Dragon Phoenix crystal layer.
• Zhu Huo agreed to guard Xiao Yan, while Zhu Li refused to leave and entrusted the clan’s affairs to Qi You.
• After three days of burning, the Azure Sky Flame melted the first drop of purple-gold liquid from Zi Yan’s crystal layer, and her aura rose across a minor level.
• As the refining continued, the ten drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood released energy that replenished Xiao Yan and transformed his body and the Great Ming King’s Soul Origin.

After a month of using the Azure Sky Flame to free Zi Yan from the Dragon Phoenix Crystal Layer, Xiao Yan watched her awaken as a mature Dragon Emperor and reunite with him. Zi Yan transferred Dragon Phoenix Power to Xiao Yan, but his suggestive questions provoked her and left him facing her killing intent.

• After a month of effort, Xiao Yan awoke as the Great Ming King and watched the Dragon Phoenix Crystal Layer shatter around Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan awakened in her mature form, called Xiao Yan her brother, and rushed into his embrace.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had spent a month melting the crystal layer, and Zi Yan kissed his forehead before clarifying that she meant to share Dragon Phoenix Power.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Dragon Phoenix Power around his heart and apologized for misunderstanding Zi Yan's gift.
• When Xiao Yan asked why Zi Yan had chosen kissing to transfer the power, Zi Yan unleashed a towering killing intent.

Zi Yan fully activated her Dragon Emperor Bloodline and entered the mature stage, prompting the Ancient Void Dragon Clan elders to recognize her as their new emperor. After sharing a playful exchange with Xiao Yan, she prepared to enter seclusion again and told him to leave Ancient Dragon Island if he had other matters.

• Zi Yan knocked Xiao Yan away and transferred a strand of Dragon Phoenix Power to him with her fist.
• Zi Yan unfurled her Heavenly Phoenix Wings, and the Three Elders of Zhu Huo recognized her Bloodline as proof that she could claim the Dragon Emperor's throne.
• The elders' barrier concealed Zi Yan's aura, but its pressure made Hei Qing kneel and welcome the Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan admired Zi Yan's transformed appearance, and she teased him while straightening his collar.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan she would enter deep seclusion and come find him afterward, and Xiao Yan agreed to let her go.

After Zi Yan left, Xiao Yan used her Dragon Phoenix Power to awaken the Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor, then traveled with Hei Qing to the Void Lightning Pool to strengthen his puppets and cultivate. He began absorbing the pool’s lightning power in an attempt to break through to Four-Star Dou Zun, leaving Hei Qing stunned by the scale of his cultivation.

• Zi Yan hugged Xiao Yan goodbye and left, entrusting Zhu Huo and the other elders with looking after him.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan found that the Ancient Dragon Essence Blood had raised his cultivation to Three-Star Peak Dou Zun and used Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix Power to activate the Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor.
• Hei Qing mistook Xiao Yan’s test of the armor’s defense for self-harm, then took him to the Void Lightning Pool after Xiao Yan asked for a place to cultivate with lightning.
• Xiao Yan released his Heaven Demon Puppet and ten Earth Demon Puppets into the pool so they could absorb its lightning power.
• Xiao Yan drew nearly half the pool’s lightning power toward himself and began cultivating for a breakthrough to Four-Star Dou Zun, while Hei Qing retreated in alarm.

After three months in the Void Lightning Pool, Xiao Yan broke through to Four-Star Peak Dou Zun and returned toward Ancient Dragon Island with Hei Qing. They spotted forces from the Three Dragon Islands heading toward the island, so Xiao Yan used a Space Jade Slip to teleport them to Zhu Huo, who learned that Xia Ao, Man Yan, and Qing Yan had arrived with their armies.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the rampaging Void Lightning Pool and told Hei Qing that his breakthrough had triggered its backlash.
• Hei Qing carried Xiao Yan toward Ancient Dragon Island, but Xiao Yan sensed danger and had Hei Qing hide as Three Dragon Islands forces passed by.
• Hei Qing identified the passing forces as the Dragon Armor Army, Savage Dragon Army, and Azure Dragon Army, and Xiao Yan sensed a Half-Saint and two peak Dou Zuns among them.
• Xiao Yan crushed Zhu Huo's Space Jade Slip and teleported himself and Hei Qing to Ancient Dragon Island.
• Hei Qing warned Zhu Huo that the Three Dragon Islands had gathered to attack, and Zhu Huo identified their commanders as Xia Ao, Man Yan, and Qing Yan.

Zhu Huo ordered Hei Qing to ring the Dragon Emperor Hall bell after the Three Dragon Islands sent forces to test Ancient Dragon Island. Zhu Li and Qi You prepared to confront them outside the island while Zhu Huo kept the clan’s restored strength and Zi Yan’s Dragon Emperor Bloodline secret.

• Zhu Huo told Hei Qing to sound the alarm and instructed the clan to appear weak while showing enough strength to deter the Three Dragon Islands.
• Hei Qing rang the bell three times, and Ancient Dragons gathered in formation across the island.
• Zhu Li and Qi You received orders to drive away Xia Ao, Man Yan, and Qing Yan’s forces without letting them onto the island or revealing the clan’s true situation.
• Zhu You appeared and urged Zhu Huo to let him fight, but Zhu Huo reminded him to follow His Majesty’s orders and conceal Zi Yan’s return.
• Zhu Huo told Zhu You that Zi Yan was fusing with the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and could reach the Dou Sheng realm when she next awakened.
• Zhu Huo showed the gathered elders a projection of Zhu Li, Qi You, and the Black Dragon Army waiting outside Ancient Dragon Island.

Zhu Li rejected the Three Islands’ demand to inspect Ancient Dragon Island and led the Black Dragon Army into battle against their allied forces. As the armies clashed, Zhu Li attacked Qing Yan, leaving the Half-Saint furious.

• Zhu Qing explained that the Black Dragon Army had rebuilt its strength after the rebellion, while Zhu You remained silent.
• Qing Yan, Man Yan, and Xia Ao arrived with the allied forces of North, West, and South Dragon Islands and demanded to inspect Ancient Dragon Island.
• Zhu Li refused the Three Islands’ demand, and he assigned Qi You to face Man Yan and Bai Xian to hold back Xia Ao.
• Zhu Li and the Black Dragon Army charged the allied forces, and the Black Dragon Army held its own despite being outnumbered.
• Zhu Li’s energy attack narrowly missed Qing Yan and struck a North Dragon Island Dou Zun, prompting Qing Yan to angrily accuse Zhu Li of a sneak attack.

Zhu Li revealed that he had advanced beyond Dou Zun and overwhelmed Qing Yan, who retaliated with the Azure Dragon Heaven-Rending Claw. Zhu Li answered with the Ancient Dragon Technique: Dragon Slaying Platform, summoning a vast sea of Ancient Dragon blood and leaving the battlefield’s dragons furious and stunned.

• Zhu Li knocked Qing Yan back with a single punch and revealed that he had long since surpassed Dou Zun.
• Qing Yan realized Zhu Li had reached Half-Saint and sensed that East Dragon Island had taken an unexpected path.
• Zhu Li pursued Qing Yan with a hand that followed him through the void, prompting Qing Yan to unleash the Azure Dragon Heaven-Rending Claw.
• Qing Yan sent the enormous green Dragon Claw tearing through the void toward Zhu Li.
• Zhu Li invoked the Ancient Dragon Technique: Dragon Slaying Platform and summoned a vast torrent of Ancient Dragon blood, shocking the dragons across the battlefield.

Zhu Li revealed the Ancient Dragon Technique Dragon Slaying Platform and used it to judge Qing Yan for betraying the Ancient Dragon Clan. As Zhu You learned that he might obtain an Ancient Dragon Technique from the restored Dragon Emperors, Zhu Li sentenced Qing Yan to execution, though the chapter ended before the sentence was carried out.

• Zhu Li awakened the Dragon Slaying Platform, an Ancient Dragon Technique inherited by his lineage for judging sinful dragons.
• Zhu Qing explained to Zhu You that Half-Saints could awaken Ancient Dragon Techniques carried in their bloodlines, and Zhu Huo encouraged Zhu You to earn one from the Dragon Emperors.
• Qing Yan doubted that Zhu Li could use the supposedly lost Dragon Slaying Platform, but Zhu Li summoned its shadowy figure and revealed himself within it.
• Zhu Li shattered Qing Yan's Azure Dragon Heaven-Rending Claw with a wave of his sleeve and trapped Qing Yan on the Dragon Slaying Platform.
• Zhu Li declared Qing Yan guilty of betraying the clan and sentenced him to execution.

Zhu Li defeated Qing Yan in a duel, and Qing Yan withdrew the Azure Dragon Army from the battlefield. Xiao Yan realized Zhu Huo had secretly helped Zhu Li, while Qi You pressed Man Yan to withdraw from the fight above Ancient Dragon Island.

• Zhu Li's Dragon Slaying Platform struck Qing Yan with a severe wound, forcing Qing Yan to admit defeat and order the Azure Dragon Army back to North Dragon Island.
• The Black Dragon Army let the Azure Dragon Army withdraw, and Zhu Huo explained that he had secretly helped Zhu Li and spared Qing Yan because the clan could not afford further losses.
• Xiao Yan deduced that Zhu Huo had intervened, and Zhu Huo confirmed that elders with lesser crimes should be won over rather than killed.
• Qi You overwhelmed Man Yan in battle and urged him to withdraw, but Man Yan refused to admit defeat.
• Qing Yan's order for the Azure Dragon Army to return reached Man Yan, leaving him speechless.

Bai Xian held off Xia Ao until the Three Islands Allied Forces withdrew, ending the invasion of Ancient Dragon Island. Xiao Yan returned to Star Fall Pavilion, where Yao Lao told him that Yun Yun was at the Flower Sect and that he should visit soon.

• Man Yan ordered the Savage Dragon Army to return to South Dragon Island, and Qi You let them leave.
• Bai Xian defended against Xia Ao despite being outmatched, and Xia Ao withdrew his Dragon Armor Army after learning Bai Xian's name.
• Qi You caught the exhausted Bai Xian as the Three Islands Allied Forces departed and Ancient Dragon Island celebrated its victory.
• Xiao Yan left Ancient Dragon Island and returned to Star Fall Pavilion, where Yao Lao noted his rise to Four-Star Peak Dou Zun.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that Yun Yun had come to the Central Plains and was staying at the Flower Sect.

Yao Lao explained how Yun Yun became Hua Yu’s chosen successor to lead the Flower Sect and why Hua Jin tried to seize her sealed cultivation. He arranged for Xiao Yan to go to the sect and settle his long-unresolved relationship with Yun Yun.

• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that Hua Yu’s legs had been crippled by the Heavenly Underworld Old Monster and that Hua Qing and Hua Hua had failed to avenge her.
• Yao Lao explained that Hua Yu had withdrawn from the sect, leaving Hua Jin as acting Sect Leader until Yun Yun became Hua Yu’s chosen successor.
• Hua Jin demanded Yun Yun’s Sect Leader Jade Token and then tried to take the cultivation sealed inside her, so Yun Yun appealed to the Flower Sect’s Supreme Elders.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Hua Qing would support Yun Yun, and Yao Lao said Hua Qing considered Yun Yun her future daughter-in-law and wanted her to lead the sect.
• Yao Lao revealed that he had stopped Hua Qing from resolving the dispute so Xiao Yan could go to the Flower Sect and settle things with Yun Yun.

Xiao Yan traveled to the Flower Sect, where Hua Qing told him that Yun Yun’s sect master appointment would be settled at an assembly in seven days. He reunited with Yun Yun and teased her, leaving her flustered as he followed her into the pavilion.

• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that Nalan Yanran was with Yun Yun, and Xiao Yan decided to leave for the Flower Sect the next morning.
• Xiao Yan and Venerable Skyfire arrived at the Flower Sect through a spatial passage, and a sect elder led Xiao Yan to Hua Qing.
• Xiao Yan asked Hua Qing why Yao Lao had not killed Old Ghost Tianming, and Hua Qing said she would handle him herself after reaching the Advanced Half-Saint realm.
• Hua Qing told Xiao Yan that Yun Yun’s position as sect master would be decided at an assembly in seven days and directed him to find her.
• Xiao Yan found Yun Yun watering flowers, teased her by asking whether he should call her Madam, and followed her into the pavilion when she tried to leave.

Xiao Yan reunited with Yun Yun at the Flower Sect and learned how she had become entangled in its leadership dispute. After urging her to reclaim the Sect Leader Jade Token and position at the assembly in seven days, he hinted that she might no longer lead the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Yan and Yun Yun reunited at the Flower Sect, where he revealed that he had come after hearing she was in trouble.
• Xiao Yan explained that Fairy Qing was his teacher Yao Chen's beloved, then teased Yun Yun when she blushed.
• Yun Yun told Xiao Yan how she had joined the Flower Sect and received Hua Yu's cultivation and Sect Leader Jade Token before Hua Yu died.
• Xiao Yan urged Yun Yun to reclaim her token and the Flower Sect leadership from Hua Jin at the assembly in seven days, but Yun Yun refused because she led the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan asked Yun Yun what if she were no longer the Misty Cloud Sect's current Sect Leader.

Xiao Yan summoned Yun Shan through a secret soul technique so Yun Shan could persuade Yun Yun to accept the Flower Sect Master position. Yun Shan dismissed Yun Yun as Misty Cloud Sect’s Sect Master while insisting she remain a disciple, leaving her to consider the benefits of leading the Flower Sect.

• Xiao Yan used an Azure Lotus mark to summon Yun Shan from the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Shan had been handling sect affairs.
• Yun Shan sent a thread of soul power through the mark and appeared before Xiao Yan and Yun Yun at the Flower Sect.
• Yun Shan greeted Yun Yun and told her he had come to strip her of the Misty Cloud Sect Sect Master position and take it back himself.
• Yun Shan urged Yun Yun to become Flower Sect Master, arguing that the role would strengthen the Misty Cloud Sect and connect it with Star Fall Pavilion.
• Yun Yun refused to give up her identity as a Misty Cloud Sect disciple, and Yun Shan explained how the Flower Sect could protect their home.

Yun Shan urged Yun Yun to marry Xiao Yan before his spirit vanished, and Xiao Yan pressed her to agree. Nalan Yanran returned, recognized the closeness between them, and teasingly confronted Yun Yun, leaving her too embarrassed to answer.

• Yun Shan told Yun Yun to entrust her future to Xiao Yan and, before disappearing, demanded that she be with him.
• Xiao Yan held Yun Yun's hand and asked when they would marry, and Yun Yun agreed conditionally before Nalan Yanran arrived.
• Nalan Yanran entered the hall, saw Xiao Yan, and blushed without answering his greeting.
• Nalan Yanran asked Yun Yun whether she had been having an affair with Xiao Yan, and Yun Yun lowered her head in silence.

Xiao Yan carried Yun Yun to a guest room, claiming he wanted to examine the Dou Qi Seal inside her body, while Nalan Yanran watched and teased them. In the Jia Ma Empire, Yun Shan awakened and reached Nine-Star Dou Zong after Xiao Yan triggered energy stored in his Green Lotus Imprint.

• Xiao Yan defended his relationship with Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran revealed she had known about them before going upstairs.
• Xiao Yan lifted Yun Yun and carried her toward a room, telling her he wanted to examine the Dou Qi Seal inside her body.
• Yun Yun directed Xiao Yan to the second room on the left, and he carried her inside while Nalan Yanran watched from the stairs before going upstairs.
• Yun Shan awakened in the Misty Cloud Sect and thanked My Lord for letting him see his disciple again.
• The Green Lotus Imprint released stored energy, raising Yun Shan from Eight-Star Dou Zong to Nine-Star Dou Zong, and he praised My Lord.

Xiao Yan used the Azure Sky Flame and Great Ming King to crack the Dou Qi Seal in Yun Yun’s body, accelerating her absorption of Granny Hua’s cultivation. Yun Yun began regulating the surging energy while Xiao Yan stayed beside her.

• Xiao Yan examined Yun Yun’s Dou Qi Seal and estimated that absorbing its energy naturally would take ten to twelve years.
• Yun Yun agreed to let Xiao Yan use the Azure Sky Flame to open the seal so she could absorb the energy faster and help him sooner.
• Xiao Yan sent the Azure Little Bird, Great Ming King, to peck at the seal until a crack formed and spread into a fissure.
• A torrent of energy burst from the seal and shattered Great Ming King’s tiny figure, while Yun Yun’s Dou Qi surged.
• Yun Yun formed cultivation seals to regulate the accelerated energy as Xiao Yan watched her.

Xiao Yan and Yun Yun spent the week growing closer, then faced the Flower Sect assembly, where Yun Yun’s inheritance from Hua Yu set off a dispute over the sect leadership. Hua Jin awaited the Supreme Elders’ decision, while the assembly was poised to determine the official sect leader.

• Nalan Yanran told Xiao Yan and Yun Yun not to be overly affectionate in front of her, then left for her room in frustration.
• Xiao Yan and Yun Yun stayed in the pavilion for six days before moving into Yun Yun’s bedroom together.
• Yun Yun tried to stop Xiao Yan from touching her on the eve of the Flower Sect assembly, but they continued their intimacy.
• Hua Yu had left Yun Yun her cultivation and the Sect Leader Jade Token, and Hua Jin demanded that Yun Yun surrender both the token and the Dou Qi Seal within her.
• Yun Yun brought the leadership dispute before the Flower Sect’s Supreme Elders, alerting Fairy Qing and Fairy Hua.
• Hua Jin waited at the assembly, regretting that her demands had drawn the Half-Saint elders into deciding who would become the official sect leader.

Hua Jin prepared to duel Yun Yun for control of the Flower Sect, confident that Yun Yun’s unstable cultivation would make her easy to defeat. Yun Yun arrived with Xiao Yan, whose presence and her newly stabilized Three-Star Dou Zun cultivation unsettled Hua Jin and enraged the Demon Flower Evil Lord.

• Hua Jin decided that a duel with Yun Yun would determine the Flower Sect’s true sect master and summoned the Demon Flower Evil Lord to support her.
• The Demon Flower Evil Lord agreed to help Hua Jin while secretly plotting to seize Yun Yun and her disciple.
• Hua Jin called for Yun Yun to appear, and Yun Yun arrived late with Xiao Yan holding her in midair.
• Yun Yun blamed Xiao Yan for their lateness after they had stayed up late together, while Xiao Yan teased her through voice transmission.
• The Demon Flower Evil Lord realized Yun Yun had a male companion and grew jealous, while Hua Jin discovered Yun Yun had reached Three-Star Dou Zun with a stable foundation and recognized Xiao Yan.