Chapter Summaries

Murong Huai tested his fourth Soul Skill, Monarch's Sword Slash, and gained an External Soul Bone from the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. At the Worship Hall, he asked Murong Chayue to teach him the Murong Clan's Dragon Body Secret Technique, and his grandfather explained its demanding training requirements.

• Murong Huai unleashed Monarch's Sword Slash, which devastated a forest, but said he could use it only twice with his current Soul Power.
• Murong Huai demonstrated the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's External Soul Bone, and Murong Fuhai praised the success of their trip before they returned to Spirit City.
• Five days later, Murong Huai visited Murong Chayue at the Worship Hall and reported reaching level forty-five and obtaining an External Soul Bone.
• Murong Huai asked Murong Chayue to teach him the Dragon Body Secret Technique, and Murong Chayue explained that it repeatedly tears down and rebuilds the body to strengthen its meridians and vital blood.

Murong Chayue took Murong Huai across the Cangwu Desert to the Dragon Spine Mountain Range to teach him the Dragon Body Secret Technique, which could grant a powerful physique and a five-hundred-year lifespan. They reached the range’s central building, where a giant dragon recognized Murong Chayue and pointedly ignored him.

• Murong Chayue explained the Dragon Body Secret Technique and its benefits, then summoned Jinlun, Haiyun, to guard the Worship Hall during their trip.
• Murong Chayue flew west with Murong Huai and warned him to stay close while they crossed the dangerous Cangwu Desert.
• Murong Chayue exposed a Ten-Thousand-Year Sand Phosphorus Demon hiding in a dune and saved Murong Huai from a concealed Bone-Spike Sand Wolf.
• Murong Chayue and Murong Huai crossed the desert and reached the Dragon Spine Mountain Range, where only about a hundred dragon-type Soul Beasts lived, all at least ten thousand years old.
• Murong Chayue used a black orb to lead Murong Huai safely through the mountain range to a red-and-black building guarded by a giant blue-white dragon.
• The giant dragon ignored Murong Chayue, who responded with an insult.

Murong Chayue brought Murong Huai to meet Wind Dragon, a 160,000-year-old Hurricane Holy Dragon, and then led him into a hall in the Dragon Spine Mountain Range. After Murong Huai resisted the lingering soul of the Divine Dragon that had fallen there, he entered a vast inner world and saw a black-robed figure waiting in a pavilion.

• Murong Chayue and Wind Dragon argued over their history, including the poisonous and laxative fruits Murong Chayue had fed him.
• Murong Chayue introduced Wind Dragon to Murong Huai, who politely greeted him before steering the pair back to their business.
• Murong Huai was overwhelmed by the gaze of a dragon-head sculpture, but Heavenly Condemnation erased its interference and identified it as the lingering soul of a dead true dragon.
• Murong Chayue explained that the Dragon Spine Mountain Range was where a genuine Divine Dragon had fallen, then led Murong Huai into the great hall.
• Murong Huai entered the hall’s vast inner world and saw a black-robed person with a Five-Clawed Black Dragon embroidered on his robe sitting in a pavilion.

Murong Huai met his previously unknown great-grandfather, Murong Zhige, who explained how his remnant army became the Murong Clan’s Black Flame Army and why the family joined Spirit Hall. Murong Zhige began telling Huai about the ruins where he had settled, but had not yet explained what the place was.

• Murong Chayue told Murong Huai to kneel to Murong Zhige, revealing that the man was Huai’s great-grandfather.
• Murong Zhige scolded Murong Chayue for never telling Huai about him, then took Huai to explore the place while Chayue drank from a teapot filled with liquor.
• Murong Zhige told Huai that he had commanded the Xili Empire’s army as Murong Tianyou, and that the surviving thirty thousand soldiers became the Black Flame Army.
• Murong Zhige explained that Spirit Hall’s Pope Qian Pocheng rescued his trapped troops, and that he later passed his military knowledge and command of the Black Flame Army to Murong Chayue.
• Murong Zhige said he had discovered the ruins when he was young and settled there after handing over the army, then began to answer Huai’s question about what the place was.

Murong Zhige recounted how he had discovered the Dragon Fall Secret Realm after escaping powerful Soul Beasts in the Cangwu Desert. A hundred years earlier, he encountered a mysterious man inside and was forced to unleash his strongest attacks, which left the man completely unharmed.

• Murong Zhige explained that the Dragon Fall Secret Realm had formed from the soul of a true dragon, while the Dragon Spine Mountain Range had formed from its body.
• A hundred years earlier, Murong Zhige accidentally entered the secret realm while fleeing Soul Beasts and heard a voice remark that a human had arrived after tens of thousands of years.
• The mysterious man appeared in a dark-red, lava-filled space and told Murong Zhige to attack him with his strongest power.
• Murong Zhige's Sixth Soul Skill failed to affect the man, who claimed that fewer than five people in the Divine Realm could injure him.
• Murong Zhige used his Martial Soul Avatar and Eighth Soul Skill to attack the man, but the man emerged completely unharmed, leaving Murong Zhige stunned.

Murong Zhige recounted how the Mountain Dragon King trapped him in the Dragon Fall Secret Realm and offered him the Nine Great Dragon Kings’ secret arts in exchange for learning one. Murong Huai learned that Murong Zhige had chosen the incomplete Dragon Body Secret Technique and was now a Level 99 Limit Douluo with demigod-level strength.

• The Mountain Dragon King told Murong Zhige about the ancient war between the God Race and the Divine Beast Clan, and how he escaped with the Nine Great Dragon Kings’ remaining souls.
• The Mountain Dragon King offered Murong Zhige a choice of secret arts, promising that his divine power would heal him and restore his cultivation.
• Murong Zhige chose the Dragon Body Secret Technique, the simplest of the nine hundred and ninety-nine arts, and later taught Murong Huai about its stages.
• Murong Zhige revealed that he had reached the third stage of the technique and was a Level 99 Limit Douluo with demigod-level strength.
• Murong Huai was astonished and delighted to learn that his great-grandfather was the continent’s only Limit Douluo.

Murong Huai learned that Murong Zhige had spent decades guarding the Mountain Dragon King's resting place without knowing Spirit Ring ages could increase, and Murong Zhige decided to demand benefits. Murong Zhige then revealed the Dragon Spine Mountain Range sheltered many powerful dragon Soul Beasts from tribulations.

• Murong Zhige told Murong Huai that the Mountain Dragon King had given him authority over the Dragon Spine Mountain Range after he cultivated the Dragon Body Secret Art and became a Titled Douluo.
• Murong Huai explained that divine trials could increase Spirit Ring ages, prompting Murong Zhige to realize he had been guarding a dragon's grave and decide to ask the Mountain Dragon King for benefits.
• Murong Zhige and Murong Huai returned to the pavilion and found Murong Chayue drunk from a jug of Dragon Crystal Dew.
• Murong Zhige told Murong Huai that the range held 154 Soul Beasts, including several dragons over a hundred thousand years old and three Ferocious Beasts over 200,000 years old.
• Murong Zhige explained that the Mountain Dragon King's energy barrier protected the dragon Soul Beasts from tribulations as long as they remained in the range.

Murong Zhige persuaded the Mountain Dragon King to grant power to his descendants, then introduced him to Murong Huai. Inside Murong Huai’s Sea of Consciousness, the Mountain Dragon King encountered Heavenly Condemnation, who revealed himself as Austin Griffin, the God of Heavenly Condemnation.

• Murong Huai sampled Murong Chayue’s wine and passed out beside him.
• Murong Zhige complained to the Mountain Dragon King until he agreed to increase the strength of Murong Zhige’s son and great-grandson.
• Murong Zhige and the Mountain Dragon King returned to the pavilion and woke Murong Huai and Murong Chayue from their drunkenness.
• The Mountain Dragon King sensed something unusual about Murong Huai and entered his Sea of Consciousness.
• Heavenly Condemnation appeared before the Mountain Dragon King and identified himself as Austin Griffin, the God of Heavenly Condemnation.

The Mountain Dragon King discovered that Murong Huai had been the source of a powerful force he sensed three years earlier and offered to teach him the Nine Great Dragon Kings’ techniques. After empowering Murong Chayue and Murong Zhige, he promised to help Murong Huai ascend to the Divine Realm, but Murong Huai questioned his true motive.

• Heavenly Condemnation expelled the Mountain Dragon King’s consciousness from Murong Huai’s Sea of Consciousness and warned him not to probe it again.
• The Mountain Dragon King recognized the power he had sensed three years earlier, and his release of the group from his restraints prompted him to celebrate finding its source.
• The Mountain Dragon King upgraded Murong Chayue’s Spirit Rings and raised his cultivation to Level 98, then upgraded Murong Zhige’s Spirit Rings and gave him a bead to upgrade his father’s rings.
• The Mountain Dragon King offered to personally guide Murong Huai after learning his Second Martial Soul had produced the power he sought.
• Murong Huai asked the Mountain Dragon King to explain his true purpose for choosing a human as his successor.

Murong Huai learned why the Mountain Dragon King had chosen him: the Dragon Kings wanted him to secure a place for Soul Beasts and the Divine Beast Clan in the Divine Realm, rather than pursue revenge. After Murong Huai agreed on the condition that he would stop the Dragon God if it led the clan into another war, the Mountain Dragon King awakened the other surviving Dragon Kings.

• Murong Huai questioned the Mountain Dragon King's purpose, and Murong Zhige warned that he would not allow anything that endangered his great-grandson.
• The Mountain Dragon King brought Murong Huai, Murong Zhige, and Murong Chayue to the Nine Great Coiled Dragon Pillars and explained that two Dragon Kings' remnant souls were missing.
• Murong Huai suggested the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well might be where the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King had gone.
• The Mountain Dragon King explained that he had once hoped to find the Silver Dragon King, rescue the Golden Dragon King, revive the Dragon God, and take revenge on the God Race.
• The Mountain Dragon King proposed that Murong Huai inherit the Dragon Kings' legacies and lift the restriction preventing Soul Beasts from becoming gods; Murong Huai agreed but promised to stop the Dragon God if it started another war.
• The Mountain Dragon King awakened six other Dragon Kings, who appeared and asked why he had summoned them.

Murong Huai secured the Nine Great Dragon Kings’ support for restoring the Divine Beast Clan by binding them to his conditions with a Heavenly Condemnation Blood Oath. He then traveled with Murong Zhige and Murong Chayue to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to find the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, and he and Murong Zhige entered the spring.

• Murong Huai required the Nine Great Dragon Kings to sign a blood oath promising not to start another war, to obey him, and to never harm the Murong Clan or his friends.
• The Dragon Kings signed the oath, and the Mountain Dragon King warned them that a terrifying entity guarded Murong Huai’s Sea of Consciousness.
• The Emerald Dragon King opened a passage to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and gave Murong Huai a gemstone to prove his identity and return.
• Murong Huai, Murong Zhige, and Murong Chayue arrived at the well, where Magic Ox recognized Murong Chayue and escorted the guards away.
• Murong Zhige created a protective barrier and entered the spring with Murong Huai while Murong Chayue remained at the edge.

Murong Huai and Murong Zhige found the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remnant souls beneath the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and took them away. After Murong Chayue returned to Spirit Hall with gifts from Murong Zhige, Murong Huai and Murong Zhige left through a spatial rift.

• Murong Huai and Murong Zhige reached the bottom of the well and discovered the enormous corpses of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings.
• Murong Huai used the Emerald Dragon King’s pearl to awaken the Dragon Kings’ remnant souls and told them the other seven Dragon Kings were with him.
• Murong Zhige captured the two remnant souls in their pearls and sealed them away before Murong Huai could explain further.
• Murong Chayue met Murong Huai and Murong Zhige outside the well, then accepted a pearl and Spirit Bones from Murong Zhige to distribute among his family and Fu Hai.
• Murong Huai opened a spatial rift with the Emerald Dragon King’s pearl, and he and Murong Zhige departed.

The Nine Great Dragon Kings accepted the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ agreement and prepared to teach Murong Huai their strongest techniques. After discovering his existing attributes, they chose light, space, and time as his first areas of training, with physical cultivation to follow.

• The Fire Dragon King objected to the agreement, but the Mountain Dragon King, Water Dragon King, and Wind Dragon King argued that the Divine Beast Clan could not safely challenge the God Race, so the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings signed the Heavenly Condemnation contract.
• The Mountain Dragon King showed Murong Huai the Nine Great Dragon Kings’ secret techniques and explained how their combined powers might surpass even the Dragon God’s achievements.
• Murong Huai described his martial souls and the attributes he had awakened, and the Light Dragon King recognized his Angel Clan sword technique as a link to holy light.
• The Time Dragon King sensed temporal power in Murong Huai’s Heavenly Eye of Watching Ripples and explained that mastering it might let him glimpse future events.
• Murong Huai chose to begin with space, light, and time, so the Mountain Dragon King assigned the Light, Emerald, and Time Dragon Kings to teach him first.

Murong Huai learned the basics of Holy Light Prayer from the Light Dragon King and continued cultivating it in the Dragon Fall Secret Realm. As Murong Huai grew stronger, the Light Dragon King believed he might be the chance for the Divine Beast Clan to rise again.

• The Light Dragon King taught Murong Huai how to communicate with the power of light, and Murong Huai broke through a barrier after two hours of practice.
• The Light Dragon King demonstrated Holy Light Prayer's attack, defense, and healing uses, and Murong Huai copied its light blade, ground strike, and shield.
• The Light Dragon King taught Murong Huai the five forms and mantra of Holy Light Prayer, then Murong Huai cultivated the technique day and night in the Dragon Fall Secret Realm.
• Murong Huai grew more adept at using light for attacks, defense, and healing, and his Angel Sword Technique improved until his sword heart shone clear.
• The Light Dragon King watched Murong Huai's progress and told the Dragon God that Murong Huai might be the Divine Beast Clan's chance to rise again.

Murong Huai began learning the Emerald Dragon King's innate secret art, Space-Leaping Fracture, and struggled to grasp its spatial intent. The Emerald Dragon King left him to train, warning that mastery could let him evade anyone below god level and eventually create his own world.

• The Emerald Dragon King tested Murong Huai's spatial abilities, then dispelled his Sword Domain Empty Realm and called his techniques crude.
• The Emerald Dragon King demonstrated Space-Leaping Fracture and explained that it guided space through intent rather than attacking through form.
• Murong Huai briefly formed silver light at his fingertips, but the Emerald Dragon King rebuked him for focusing on form instead of intent.
• Murong Huai tried to control the elusive silver marks and learned from the Emerald Dragon King that the art was about breaking through obstacles and learning how to exist in space.
• The Emerald Dragon King encouraged Murong Huai to train, then vanished as Murong Huai continued practicing among the flowing silver marks.

The Time Dragon King taught Murong Huai the principles and dangers of Time-Frozen Myriad Transformations, showing him how frozen time could take different forms. Murong Huai began cultivating the art, though he had yet to comprehend its deepest meaning.

• The Time Dragon King warned Murong Huai that using time could cost lifespan and cause harm, but Murong Huai insisted on learning.
• The Time Dragon King demonstrated how time could be frozen and reversed, making Murong Huai age before restoring him to normal.
• Murong Huai shaped points of light into a blade and shield, then created a Flower of Time, while the Time Dragon King explained the power’s connection to intent and creation.
• The Time Dragon King warned Murong Huai that changing the future could impose cause and effect and shorten his lifespan.
• Murong Huai sat down to cultivate Time-Frozen Myriad Transformations, still unable to grasp the fundamental rhythm of time.

Three years after beginning his training with the Dragon Kings, Murong Huai prepared to leave the Dragon Spine Mountain Range and faced the Wind Dragon in a final test. The battle left Murong Huai under heavy pressure as he unleashed his fourth Soul Skill.

• Murong Huai chased and provoked the Wind Dragon, who angrily complained about being bullied by three generations of the Murong family and about Murong Huai nearly sterilizing him.
• Murong Huai apologized and explained that he was leaving soon, then told the Wind Dragon that his masters had required him to last two incense sticks in a fight.
• Murong Huai reflected on three years of training with the Dragon Kings and revealed that he had mastered the basics of three source techniques and reached level sixty Soul Power.
• Murong Huai lit an incense stick and attacked the Wind Dragon with sword intent, but the Wind Dragon easily countered and knocked Murong Huai back.
• Murong Huai defended himself with his second Soul Skill and dodged the Wind Dragon's energy blast, then used his fourth Soul Skill as the Wind Dragon began to overwhelm him.

Murong Huai fought the Wind Dragon, using his domains and sword techniques but struggling to break through its defenses. After finally drawing blood with his Dark Gold Terror Claw, he saw weaknesses in the Wind Dragon’s next attack and prepared to counter it.

• Murong Huai attacked with his sword and Sword Domain Empty Realm, but the Wind Dragon repelled his golden swords with a hurricane.
• Murong Huai emerged behind the Wind Dragon and struck its rear with Holy Radiance Judgment, prompting the dragon to curse him and retaliate with its tail.
• The Wind Dragon activated Hurricane Domain, shattered Murong Huai’s hiding space, and dragged him toward the storm’s eye.
• Murong Huai met the Wind Dragon’s claw with Sky-Tearing Claw, was blasted back, and managed to draw blood from its claw.
• With half an incense stick’s time remaining, Murong Huai used his Heavenly Eye of Watching Ripples to spot weaknesses in the Wind Dragon’s dragon phantom and began preparing his Fifth Soul Skill.

Murong Huai defeated Wind Dragon’s phantom in a timed trial with his Star River Tilting Sword Sea and Angel Sword Technique, then entered the Dragon Fall Secret Realm. The Nine Great Dragon Kings praised his progress and explained how their arts could strengthen his body and abilities as he continued training.

• Murong Huai unleashed Star River Tilting Sword Sea and fought Wind Dragon’s Cyan Giant Dragon Phantom with a vast torrent of sword intent.
• Murong Huai gathered the swords into his blade and cleaved the phantom dragon in two with the Angel Sword Technique’s Ninth Form, winning just as the two sticks of incense burned down.
• Wind Dragon congratulated Murong Huai, who teased him about going easy before heading to the Dragon Fall Secret Realm.
• Murong Huai met Murong Zhige at the entrance, and they entered the secret realm together.
• The Nine Great Dragon Kings praised Murong Huai’s progress and discussed his training in Rock Domain God, spatial abilities, light, and time.

Murong Huai absorbed an eighty-six-thousand-year-old Void Shuttle Shadow Dragon as his Sixth Spirit Ring and promised to revive it after becoming a god. He left the Dragon Fall Secret Realm with the Wind Dragon, who was assigned to protect him, and flew toward the edge of the Dragon Spine Mountain Range.

• The Mountain Dragon King told Murong Huai he could leave after he absorbed his Sixth Spirit Ring, and the Emerald Dragon King summoned the Void Shuttle Shadow Dragon as his target.
• The Void Shuttle Shadow Dragon sacrificed itself to become Murong Huai’s Sixth Spirit Ring, raising his Soul Power to level sixty-two and advancing his Rock-Solid Domain God cultivation.
• Murong Huai promised the Emerald Dragon King he would revive the Shadow Dragon after becoming a god.
• The Mountain Dragon King and Wind Dragon King arranged for the Wind Dragon to leave with Murong Huai and protect him, giving it divine power to conceal its Soul Beast aura after its hundred-thousand-year tribulation.
• Murong Huai said farewell to the Nine Great Dragon Kings and left the Dragon Fall Secret Realm with the Wind Dragon, heading toward the outskirts of the Dragon Spine Mountain Range.