Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan freed Yao Ming from his chains, helped him recover, and brought him to confront Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder at the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan. Yao Ming appeared before the clan leaders, who were shocked to see him alive.

• Xiao Yan crushed the four chains binding Yao Ming, concealed the disturbance with his Heaven Realm soul, and gave him an Eighth-Grade pill to recover.
• Xiao Yan told Medusa he planned to help Yao Ming reclaim the clan leadership and bring the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan under their control.
• After half a day, Yao Ming recovered to the early Two-Star Dou Sheng stage and led Xiao Yan and Medusa toward the clan's palace.
• Xiao Yan, Medusa, and Yao Ming appeared before Yao Xiaotian, the Great Elder, and the clan's assembled upper echelon.
• The clan's elders recognized Yao Ming as their former leader, and Yao Xiaotian crushed his cup and demanded to know how Yao Ming had escaped.

Yao Ming exposed Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder for imprisoning him and reclaimed the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan's support. Yao Xiaotian lost the elders and Dark Serpent Guards, leaving him and the Great Elder cornered as Yao Ming condemned his indecision.

• Yao Ming revealed himself as a Two-Star Dou Sheng, and senior elders recognized his aura as genuine.
• Yao Ming told the elders that Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder had attacked him and imprisoned him in the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring.
• Yao Xiaotian called in the Dark Serpent Guards and ordered them to capture Yao Ming.
• Yao Ming displayed the Nine Serenity Underworld Staff, and the Dark Serpent Guards switched their allegiance to him.
• Yao Ming taunted Yao Xiaotian for failing to act before his supporters turned against him.

Xiao Yan intervened in the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan’s succession conflict, stopping the Great Elder from helping Yao Xiaotian and overwhelming him with his Eight Extremities Collapse and Bone Chilling Flame. The Great Elder was left scrambling to extinguish the Heavenly Flame as the battle in the hall continued.

• The Great Elder urged his allies to attack Yao Ming’s loyalists, and fighting broke out across the hall.
• Yao Ming charged Yao Xiaotian, while Xiao Yan emerged from the void and blocked the Great Elder from intervening.
• Xiao Yan struck the Great Elder with thirty-two layers of hidden force from his Eight Extremities Collapse, sending him crashing through the hall.
• Xiao Yan unleashed sixty-four layers of hidden force, forcing the Great Elder to transform into a small snake and flee the resulting crater.
• The Great Elder attacked Xiao Yan with his Withered Leaf Great Poison Palm, but Xiao Yan countered with Condensing Fire Finger and burned his hands with the Bone Chilling Flame.

Xiao Yan killed the Great Elder after distracting him, then destroyed his disguised soul when it tried to escape. Meanwhile, Yao Ming defeated and devoured Yao Xiaotian, forcing the remaining rebels to surrender.

• Xiao Yan distracted the Great Elder, and a lightning clone pierced his chest and destroyed his vitality.
• Xiao Yan caught the Great Elder's soul disguised as a small black snake and crushed it.
• Medusa explained her strength against the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan, and she and Xiao Yan watched Yao Ming's fight.
• Yao Ming transformed into a giant black snake, crushed Yao Xiaotian's bones, and devoured him.
• Yao Ming threatened to eat the resisting elders, and Yao Xiaotian's followers laid down their weapons and surrendered.

Xiao Yan helped Yao Ming restore control of the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan and discussed Cai Lin’s cultivation and the clan’s inheritances. Yao Ming offered Xiao Yan the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s techniques, while Xiao Yan promised to seek Ancient Heavenly Snake Essence Blood to help strengthen the clan.

• Yao Ming transformed back into human form, ordered Elder Ming and Elder Liu to purge the traitors, and led Xiao Yan and Medusa to a quiet courtyard.
• After three days of purging the clan, Yao Ming returned with his strength restored, and Xiao Yan explained that Cai Lin wanted to cultivate in the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring and that he sought Yellow Spring Blood Essence.
• Yao Ming offered Cai Lin protection in the sacred ground and gave Xiao Yan more than ten pieces of Yellow Spring Blood Essence that he had stored in his stomach.
• Yao Ming explained the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s four Heaven-Tier Dou Techniques and invited Xiao Yan to challenge the remnant soul guarding the inheritance and Yellow Spring Heaven Rage.
• Xiao Yan promised to ask the Ancient Dragon Clan’s Dragon Emperor for the Ancient Heavenly Snake Essence Blood held on North Dragon Island, delighting Yao Ming.

Xiao Yan entered the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet to face the Yellow Spring Demon Saint's inheritance trials, using Wolf Spirit to smash through the saint's attacks. The Yellow Spring Demon Saint examined Wolf Spirit after it defeated his Yellow Spring Palm, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Xiao Yan ordered Yao Ming to take him to the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet and entered it while Yao Ming and Medusa guarded him.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint attacked Xiao Yan with Yellow Spring Finger, but Wolf Spirit shattered it and destroyed a second attack with its tail.
• Xiao Yan mocked the Yellow Spring Demon Saint and sent Wolf Spirit to break through a barrage of Yellow Spring Palms.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint examined Wolf Spirit, which bristled and took an attacking stance under his gaze.

Xiao Yan survived Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s soul-shaking attack by escaping inside the Eternal Azure Heaven Lotus, then won the trial and received the Demon Saint’s inheritance, insights, and Essence Blood. Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s remnant soul faded away, and Xiao Yan left as the ancient space collapsed, unable to revive him.

• Yellow Spring Demon Saint unleashed Yellow Spring Heaven Rage, and its sonic shockwave swallowed Xiao Yan in darkness.
• Xiao Yan emerged unharmed from the Eternal Azure Heaven Lotus and declared that Yellow Spring Demon Saint had lost the trial.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint accepted defeat and gave Xiao Yan his inheritance, insights, and Essence Blood.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint reflected on failing to reach Dou Di before his remnant soul vanished.
• Xiao Yan bowed farewell and left, knowing he could not revive Yellow Spring Demon Saint, as the ancient space collapsed.

After obtaining Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s inheritance, Xiao Yan absorbed his Essence Blood and broke through to the Mid-Stage Two-Star Dou Sheng realm. He then led Medusa to the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring, where he revealed that a Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python nest and inheritance lay beneath it.

• Xiao Yan returned from the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet with Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s inheritance and decided to keep the Essence Blood for himself.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the inheritance’s insights into four Heaven-Tier Dou Techniques, then swallowed Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s Essence Blood to cultivate.
• After half a month, Xiao Yan emerged from cultivation as a Mid-Stage Two-Star Dou Sheng, astonishing Yao Ming, Medusa, and the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan’s experts.
• Xiao Yan told Medusa to take a Bodhi Great Restoration Pill and search beneath the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring for a suspected Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python nest and its inheritance.
• Yao Ming and Medusa reacted with shock and excitement when Xiao Yan revealed the hidden nest.

Medusa left Xiao Yan to seek the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python inheritance at the bottom of the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring, hoping to reach Dou Sheng and evolve into a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python. Xiao Yan then reassured Yao Ming that he meant to introduce him to Xiao Qing, and returned to await Feng Qing’er’s intelligence from the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.

• Xiao Yan suggested Yao Ming replace his blood with that of the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python clan to inherit their power, but Yao Ming refused.
• Medusa ordered Yao Ming away, kissed Xiao Yan goodbye, then transformed into a giant Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and dove into the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring to seek her clan’s inheritance.
• Yao Ming returned after Medusa disappeared, and Xiao Yan teased him by saying he would send him to meet an Ancient Heavenly Snake; Yao Ming panicked and begged to be spared.
• Xiao Yan clarified that Yao Ming would meet Xiao Qing, then agreed to return while Yao Ming arranged protection for Medusa at the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring.
• Xiao Yan waited for news from Feng Qing’er, who had become the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s Young Clan Leader and advanced to Dou Sheng after refining a Bodhi Pill.

Xiao Yan learned that the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan would send the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes to join the battle against Ancient Dragon Island, so he waited in the Void Space to intercept them. When the clan's forces arrived and revealed their plan to capture the Dragon Emperor and dominate the Beast World, Xiao Yan attacked Kunhuang and severely injured him.

• Xiao Yan learned from Feng Qing'er that the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan would send the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes and other experts to the Void Space in three days.
• Xiao Yan refused Yao Ming's offer to help and left him to guard the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring.
• Xiao Yan hid in a spatial current along the route the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's forces would take.
• Fenghuang and the other elders declared their plan to help the Three Dragon Kings capture the Dragon Emperor, then eliminate them and dominate the Beast World.
• Xiao Yan appeared before the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's group, and when Kunhuang challenged him, Xiao Yan struck and severely injured him with one punch.
• Kunhuang recognized Xiao Yan as a Two-Star Dou Sheng and reacted in terror.

Xiao Yan fought the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes and overwhelmed them with his strength and techniques. He left Kunhuang unconscious and Yinghuang stripped of his cultivation as Fenghuang’s attack continued.

• Xiao Yan revealed that he was a late Two-Star Dou Sheng and identified himself, while Fenghuang threatened him with the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s Five-Star Dou Sheng leader, Huang Tian.
• Xiao Yan attacked Fenghuang, then abruptly turned toward the injured Kunhuang and struck him with a Five-Colored Fire Lotus after Kunhuang tried to swallow him.
• The exploding Fire Lotus devastated Kunhuang’s attack, killed two Eight-Star Dou Zuns nearby, and left Kunhuang unconscious.
• Fenghuang and Yinghuang attacked Xiao Yan together, and Xiao Yan used the Yellow Spring Great Seal to knock Yinghuang from his true form and seal away his cultivation.

Xiao Yan defeated the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan reinforcements and arrived at Ancient Dragon Island, where Zi Yan prepared to unite the Ancient Dragon Clan. The Three Dragon Kings remained her targets, and Zi Yan revealed that she had advanced to the Late Four-Star Dou Sheng stage.

• Xiao Yan shattered Fenghuang’s Black Phoenix Saint Image, injured her, and drove the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan fighters away without killing them.
• Xiao Yan crushed a Space Jade Slip and teleported to the Dragon Emperor Hall on Ancient Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yan met Great Elder Zhu Huo, the elders, Zi Yan, and Ancestor Xiao Xuan, who had come to watch over the Battle of the Four Islands without interfering unless necessary.
• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan that he had dealt with the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan experts recruited by the Three Dragon Kings.
• Zi Yan declared that the Three Dragon Kings had to die, and Zhu Huo and the other five great elders pledged their obedience to her.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan that refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit had advanced her cultivation to the Late Four-Star Dou Sheng stage.

Xiao Yan learned that Ancient Dragon Island had gained several Dou Sheng experts and waited with Zi Yan for the Three Dragon Islands to attack. When their forces arrived, Ancient Dragon Island revealed ten hidden Half-Saint elders, and both sides launched into battle.

• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan that Zhu Li and Qi You had also entered the Dou Sheng realm, while Zhu Huo said the Dragon Emperor would face the Three Dragon Kings.
• Three days later, Xiao Xuan showed Xiao Yan the assembled forces of the Three Dragon Islands surrounding Ancient Dragon Island.
• Hei Qing taunted Huo Zhan and revealed that he had reached the middle phase of the Half-Saint realm.
• Qian Xuan demanded that Bai Xian surrender, but Bai Xian revealed ten Half-Saint elders who had returned to support Ancient Dragon Island.
• Huo Zhan and the other commanders ordered their forces to attack, and Qian Xuan led the Savage Dragon Army into battle.

The Ancient Dragon Army held off the Three Islands Allied Forces, but the invaders’ Half-Saint commanders eventually summoned three Dou Sheng experts to break through Ancient Dragon Island’s defenses. The three experts prepared to attack together, while the Three Dragon Kings watched from behind.

• Bai Xian led the Ancient Dragon Army against the Three Islands Allied Forces, while Hei Qing fought Huo Zhan to a standstill.
• Xiao Yan learned that Bai Xian and Hei Qing had reached the Half-Saint realm, and Zhu Huo explained that the first clash was meant to test each side’s elite forces.
• After eight attacks failed to breach Ancient Dragon Island’s defenses, Huo Zhan and the other island commanders summoned their Dou Sheng experts.
• Xuan Mo scolded Huo Zhan for failing to break through, but Zhu Mu confirmed that Ancient Dragon Island had gained many powerful Half-Saint experts.
• Lie Shan urged Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu to join forces and break through the defenses, and the three Dou Sheng experts agreed to attack together.

Zhu Huo and the Ancient Dragon Island forces confronted the Three Islands Allied Forces, revealing that their reinforcements had been defeated and that the enemy was outnumbered. After the Golden Dragon Bone Horn sounded, the Ancient Dragon Army launched a devastating counterattack, leaving the allied forces on the verge of defeat.

• Zhu Huo and four other Dou Sheng experts appeared above Ancient Dragon Island, surprising Xuan Mo, Zhu Mu, and Lie Shan with their numbers.
• Zhu Huo revealed that the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan reinforcements had already been dealt with, then assigned Zhu Li, Qi You, Zhu You, and Zhu Qing to fight the three enemy leaders.
• Zhu Huo ordered Bai Xian to sound the Golden Dragon Bone Horn, which stirred the Ancient Dragon Army's battle intent and alarmed Huo Zhan and Qian Xuan.
• The Ancient Dragon Army charged into the Three Islands Allied Forces, forcing them to retreat as Huo Zhan concluded that the battle was lost.

Xiao Xuan sent the Three Rebel Dragon Kings away from Dragon Emperor Hall so Zi Yan could fight them as a training exercise. The three kings emerged in Void Space, shaken by Xiao Xuan’s overwhelming power, as Zi Yan headed to confront them.

• After Bai Xian sounded the Golden Dragon Bone Horn, Zi Yan explained its origins to Xiao Yan, and Xiao Xuan sensed three intruders approaching Dragon Emperor Hall.
• Xiao Xuan froze the Three Rebel Dragon Kings, sent them into Void Space, and ordered a patrolling elder to stand down.
• Xiao Xuan told Zi Yan to face the three kings as training, then showed Xiao Yan the fight through a shifting view of the void.
• The Three Dragon Kings emerged in Void Space, and the North Dragon King concluded that the person who sent them there was at least a Seven-Star Dou Sheng.

Zi Yan confronted the Three Dragon Kings after revealing her identity as Zhu Kun’s direct daughter and the Dragon Emperor of Ancient Dragon Island. She fought them with the Dragon God Spear Technique, and the chapter ended with the North Dragon King transforming and reaching for her chest.

• The Three Dragon Kings considered retreating after sensing a Seven-Star Dou Sheng, but Zi Yan appeared and ordered them to die as rebels.
• The North Dragon King and the others decided to fight Zi Yan, hoping to seize her and escape, then mocked Zhu Kun’s disappearance.
• Zi Yan struck the North Dragon King with her spear, revealing the strength of her Four-Star Dou Sheng cultivation and Dragon Phoenix Body.
• The Three Dragon Kings joined forces against Zi Yan, who attacked with the Dragon God Spear Technique and its Ten Thousand Dragons Return to Heaven move.
• The North Dragon King transformed into a half-human, half-dragon form and lunged at Zi Yan with a giant Dragon Claw.

Zi Yan fought the Three Dragon Kings and shattered their Dragon Emperor Bell, then threatened to summon the Dragon-Slaying Sword. The North Dragon King mocked her, arguing she was too weak and would need ten minutes to prepare.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan watched Zi Yan battle the Three Dragon Kings, and Xiao Xuan explained that Zhu Kun had asked him not to intervene so she could be tested.
• Zi Yan unleashed Dragon Emperor's Reign at the North Dragon King, forcing him to call the West Dragon King and South Dragon King back from their attempted escape.
• The Three Dragon Kings sacrificed their Essence Blood to form the Dragon Emperor Bell, which withstood Zi Yan's attack before cracking and exploding.
• Zi Yan condemned the kings for defiling the Dragon Emperor's power and declared that she would kill them with the Dragon-Slaying Sword.
• The North Dragon King mocked Zi Yan, claiming she lacked the strength to summon the sword and would need ten minutes to prepare.

Xiao Yan arrived to help Zi Yan summon the Dragon-Slaying Sword, then fought the Three Dragon Kings to buy her time. As Zi Yan continued gathering power, Xiao Yan and the dragons clashed in a fierce battle watched by Xiao Xuan.

• Zi Yan sensed Xiao Yan through their Dragon Seal and asked him to help hold off the Three Dragon Kings while she summoned the Dragon-Slaying Sword.
• Xiao Yan told the North Dragon King that he had driven away the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan reinforcements, then revealed his Clan Mark and raised his strength to Three-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan struck the Three Dragon Kings with Yellow Spring Heaven Rage, injuring them with its soul-attacking shockwave.
• Xiao Yan transformed into a Golden Giant and exchanged blows with the North Dragon King, while the West Dragon King and South Dragon King joined the fight in their Ancient Dragon forms.
• Xiao Xuan watched the battle through images in Dragon Emperor Hall and wondered why Xiao Yan was so enthusiastic about a trial that had not been meant for him.

After Xiao Yan exhausted his Dou Qi fighting the Three Dragon Kings, Zi Yan used the Dragon-Slaying Sword to kill the South and West Dragon Kings. The North Dragon King tried to flee, but Xiao Yan and his allies surrounded him and cut off every route.

• Xiao Yan’s clan mark expired, so he swallowed medicinal pills and unleashed a barrage of Heaven-Tier Dou Skills against the Three Dragon Kings until he ran out of Dou Qi.
• Zi Yan arrived with the Dragon-Slaying Sword and killed the South Dragon King with one swing.
• The West Dragon King tried to escape, but a mysterious woman pierced and killed him with the golden sword.
• The North Dragon King fled through the Void Space, but an Invisible Giant Wolf, four other beasts, and another Xiao Yan blocked his escape routes.
• The North Dragon King tried to turn back and fight Zi Yan, but Xiao Yan and allies from the other six directions surrounded him.