Chapter Summaries

Yun Wuya trapped Lei Qing with an illusion that ignited a fire within him, and Lei Qing destroyed his divided soul before the Ancient Thunder Seal returned to the Thunder Roc Clan. Meanwhile, Jiang Chen studied the Ninefold Ascension to Sainthood Method and refined his True Dragon Transformation.

• Lei Qing realized Yun Wuya had used an illusion to lead him into a fire prison, then praised Yun Wuya’s ability and recognized that it could be approaching a Dao art.
• Lei Qing detonated his divided soul, shattering the Great Void and weakening the Formless Sumeru Shield.
• Lei Qing’s true body reclaimed the Ancient Thunder Seal, and Yun Wuya concluded that the Thunder Roc Clan would restore it before Azure Firmament Mountain emerged into the world.
• Yun Wuya vanished as the cloud waterfall and sea of fire faded, while Jiang Chen studied the Ninefold Ascension to Sainthood Method and considered its two paths of cultivation.
• Jiang Chen used his new insights to transform into a true dragon and continued perfecting his True Dragon Transformation.

After Yun Wuya devastated the Western Region’s Demon Race clans, Silver Feather arrived to reassure the surviving Demon Kings and recruit them into the Dark Feather Cult. The four accepted the contract and received cultivation resources, formally becoming Feather Envoys.

• Yun Wuya killed the Sand Lizard Demon King and destroyed the Sand Lizard Clan, leaving four Demon Kings hiding in the Sand Sea.
• Sharp Fang and the other Demon Kings feared the Thunder Roc Clan had abandoned them, and the Myriad Scorpion Demon King suggested retreating deeper into the Sand Sea.
• Silver Feather arrived and said the Dark Feather Cult had lured Yun Wuya away, then invited the four Demon Kings to join the cult as Feather Envoys.
• The Myriad Scorpion Demon King signed the divine contract first, followed by Sharp Fang, Poison Dove, and Mountain Driller.
• Silver Feather welcomed the four into the Dark Feather Cult and gave them bottles of third-rank medicinal pills.

Jiang Chen refined his True Dragon Transformation and strengthened his Dao foundation, then witnessed the Purple Lightning Sword become a true treasure artifact. The sword gained the Nine-Heavens Thunder-Drawing Restriction and returned to Jiang Chen with its power and ability to sense malice enhanced.

• Jiang Chen found that refining the Ninefold Ascension to Sainthood Method had naturally merged his dragon bloodlines, reduced the cost of his True Dragon Transformation, and let him cultivate the Cloud-Mountain Overturning-Sea Seal.
• Jiang Chen saw that his Primordial Unity Dao Foundation had grown stronger and planned to use the Sand Sea’s ghosts to nourish his divine soul and aid his future breakthrough.
• Jiang Chen recognized that the storm gathering over Lark-Grasping Mountain signaled the Purple Lightning Sword’s birth, while Rat Prodigy drove the Gold-Fusing Treasure Furnace to its limit.
• The Purple Lightning Sword emerged and absorbed heavenly lightning as the Nine-Heavens Thunder-Drawing Restriction formed, completing its transformation into a middle-grade treasure artifact.
• Jiang Chen examined the sword and learned that it could borrow heaven-and-earth lightning and sense malice with greater clarity.

Jiang Chen used an ownerless Yin Soil and its supposed third-rank inheritance as bait, then captured and devoured powerful ghosts who slipped inside. Elsewhere, the Cold Fire Ghost King and Yin Fiend Ghost King considered the Demon Race’s offer to ally against the Impermanence Sect and agreed they needed to involve Earth Spirit.

• Jiang Chen spread rumors about the Yin Soil, drawing ambitious ghosts to its third layer.
• A three-eyed ghost entered the Yin Soil, only to be trapped and devoured by Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen later captured and refined another second-rank peak ghost while leaving the other arrivals alone for now.
• The Cold Fire Ghost King and Yin Fiend Ghost King discussed joining the Demon Race against the Impermanence Sect and agreed to bring Earth Spirit into the matter.

Bai Cangzi discovered the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace and entered it, hoping to claim the damaged artifact and obtain the Yellow Heaven Sect’s inheritance. He began exploring the empty palace to prepare for refining it.

• Bai Cangzi dismissed Cold Flame and Yin Fiend’s plans, intending to let their conflict distract others from him.
• Bai Cangzi sensed the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace and watched it manifest from a sea of Yin clouds.
• Bai Cangzi recalled how he had once been captured by the palace, escaped when it fell into the Western Region, and learned that the Ninefold Passage to the Netherworld Art came from it.
• Bai Cangzi used the Yellow Heaven Qi to cross the palace’s restriction and enter without encountering resistance.
• Bai Cangzi created several figures with his divine ability and began exploring the palace to prepare to refine it.

The Hundred Ghosts Alliance settled in the three levels of Yin Soil and began studying a third-rank ghost inheritance, but Jiang Chen trapped and devoured the ghosts there. Meanwhile, Bai Cangzi failed to locate the core of the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace and began planning a blood sacrifice to seize its power.

• The ten second-rank perfected ghosts formed the Hundred Ghosts Alliance and jointly studied the third-rank ghost cultivator inheritance.
• Jiang Chen spread mist across the three levels of Yin Soil and used the Soul-Calming Hall, heavenly lightning, and his true dragon body to suppress and devour the ghosts.
• Jiang Chen discovered that many of the ghosts he devoured retained fragments of their memories from life and had better-than-usual aptitude.
• Bai Cangzi found that he could control only the outer portions of the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace, while its silent spirituality concealed its core authority.
• Bai Cangzi decided to awaken the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace with a blood sacrifice of Demon Kings and human Purple Mansions.
• Bai Cangzi used a military talisman to consider gathering the remaining Yellow Heaven Strongmen and luring suitable offerings into the palace.

Bai Cangzi created a half-real ruin tied to the Cloud-Turning Bird Clan to lure Western Region Demon Kings and Purple Mansion cultivators into a trap. Illusory Dream True Person and the Impermanence Sect moved to contest the ruin, leaving Cloud-Grasping City under orders to advance the front line.

• Bai Cangzi made a ruin appear in the Sand Sea, filled it with genuine treasures, and planned to blood-sacrifice the beings drawn to it.
• Illusory Dream True Person learned of the Cloud-Turning Bird Ruins and considered its treasures and strategic location valuable.
• After receiving messages from other Purple Mansion cultivators, Illusory Dream True Person ordered the Impermanence Sect to advance its front line toward the ruin.
• The Impermanence Sect's immortal cities began pressuring the Demon Race, and Cloud-Grasping City received the order as well.

After absorbing ghosts and their inheritances, Jiang Chen’s Primordial Unity Dao Foundation evolved, bringing his essence, qi, and spirit to the Dao Foundation limit. He decided to complete the True Disciple Trial to obtain a suitable earthly treasure, then received a message about a Cloud-Turning Bird clan relic and an earthly treasure.

• Jiang Chen used the Purple Lightning Sword to draw heavenly lightning, dispelling yin energy while tempering his true dragon body.
• Jiang Chen realized that the many inheritances he had absorbed had caused his Primordial Unity qi to show a new bearing, though it had not yet formed True Intent of Change.
• Jiang Chen judged that his Dao foundation, physical constitution, and soul had reached the limit needed to attempt a breakthrough into the Purple Mansion realm, with only a suitable earthly treasure missing.
• Jiang Chen decided to accelerate the True Disciple Trial by developing the Sand Sea of the Western Region through Cloud-Grasping City.
• Du Zhong entered the Dao Foundation realm with the Earth-Lung True Flame Scripture, while Red Jade established her Dao foundation with Taoyao’s help and the Thousand Vine Spirit-Binding Scripture.
• Jiang Chen received a streak of spiritual light and identified it as information about a Cloud-Turning Bird clan relic and an earthly treasure.

Jiang Chen prepared to enter the Cloud-Turning Bird ruins, where an Earth Treasure could help Mist Flood Dragon advance to Purple Mansion and the conflict could aid his True Disciple Trial. He refined a soul-attacking treasure lamp from a Yin vein and Cold Moon Foxfire, then began tempering it with part of his own soul.

• Jiang Chen studied reports on the Cloud-Turning Bird ruins and considered the Earth Treasure, the Starlight Spiritwood, and the powerful forces likely to compete for them.
• Jiang Chen decided to visit the ruins and prepare killing moves that could wound Purple Mansion cultivators and help him complete his True Disciple Trial.
• Jiang Chen examined the Purple Lightning Sword, which had grown sharper after drawing in Metal Star's radiance and Killing Intent.
• Jiang Chen seized a third-rank Yin vein and refined it into a black glazed lamp using water-and-fire artifact-refining methods.
• Jiang Chen combined the lamp with Cold Moon Foxfire and added a portion of his own soul, causing the icy blue flame to swell as its mysteries emerged.

Jiang Chen completed the Lunar Godslayer Lamp, a soul technique with two powerful attacks, and traveled to Arc Hill as the Cloud-Turning Bird Ruins approached opening. There, he joined the Impermanence Sect’s Purple Mansion cultivators to discuss the Demon Race and ghost kings gathering to contest the ruins.

• Jiang Chen formed the Lunar Godslayer Lamp and explained how its Silver Fox Howls at the Moon and Moonshade Annihilating Soul Ray could attack and destroy souls.
• Jiang Chen transformed into a true dragon, entered the Great Void, and emerged at Arc Hill, where cultivators had gathered for the ruins.
• Feng Yu True Person reported that all four demon kings had arrived and that two ghost kings had likely allied with them.
• Illusory Dream True Person and the other Purple Mansion cultivators sensed Jiang Chen’s arrival and recognized his unusual true dragon aura.
• Jiang Chen greeted the elders, and Illusory Dream True Person invited him into the palace to hear their discussion.

The Cloud-Turning Bird Ruins emerged, and human cultivators, demons, and ghosts entered to seek their treasures. Jiang Chen set out to find an earth treasure that could help the Mist Flood Dragon open a Purple Mansion, while a hidden shadow spread through the ruins.

• The Myriad Scorpion Demon King learned that Bai Cangzi had entered seclusion, then led the Demon Kings and Ghost Kings toward the newly emerged ruins as the Impermanence Sect prepared to enter.
• Human cultivators and demons broke through the ruins’ outer restriction and scattered inside to search for treasures.
• Feng Yu True Person pointed Jiang Chen toward the likely location of an earth treasure, and Illusory Dream True Person gave him a Dharma seal to summon her if he faced danger.
• Jiang Chen decided to obtain an earth treasure for the Mist Flood Dragon and flew toward the indicated location.
• The three races discovered increasingly valuable treasures, and their fighting intensified as they anticipated the Cloud-Turning Bird clan’s inheritance.
• A dense shadow spread unnoticed through the ruins.

Jiang Chen tracked an earth treasure to a misty lake and identified it as Cloudwater Azure, an ideal match for the Mist Flood Dragon Dao Foundation. As he forced the treasure into the open, the Cold Fire Ghost King ambushed him, and Jiang Chen reached for Cloudwater Azure despite being engulfed by ghostfire.

• Jiang Chen ignored other treasures and followed the lingering aura of an earth treasure to a three-hundred-li misty marsh.
• Jiang Chen devoured the marsh’s mist, spotted an azure light, and recognized it as Cloudwater Azure suited to the Mist Flood Dragon Dao Foundation.
• Jiang Chen cleared the lake of mist and used his divine sense and dragon claw to force Cloudwater Azure out of hiding.
• The Cold Fire Ghost King appeared, identified Jiang Chen as an Impermanence Sect cultivator, and attacked to seize the treasure.
• Jiang Chen shielded his soul with the Soul-Calming Hall and reached for Cloudwater Azure as the Cold Fire Ghost King’s ghostfire swallowed his true dragon body.

Jiang Chen used the Purple Lightning Sword and Heavenly Thunder True Intent to overwhelm Cold Fire Ghost King, then struck his damaged ghost body with the Lunar Godslayer Lamp. He killed the Ghost King with a final sword attack.

• Jiang Chen emerged unharmed from Cold Fire Ghost King's ghostfire and used Nine Heavens Thunder Invocation to break free of the flames.
• Jiang Chen's lightning-enhanced sword strike shattered Cold Fire Ghost King's command tablet and tore apart his body.
• Cold Fire Ghost King reassembled and offered to abandon the earth treasure, but Jiang Chen chose to kill him.
• Jiang Chen used the Lunar Godslayer Lamp to assault Cold Fire Ghost King's soul, then cut his ghost body into fine dust with countless sword lights.

Jiang Chen killed the Cold Fire Ghost King and collected the earthly treasure Cloudwater Azure before leaving the lake. Meanwhile, the Impermanence Sect and Demon Race fought over the Cloud-Turning Bird Clan’s inheritance hall, where a hidden attacker wounded Illusory Dream and a disguised figure struck the Scorpion Demon King.

• Jiang Chen gathered the Cold Fire Ghost King’s remnants and possessions, collected Cloudwater Azure, and vanished as the battle’s commotion threatened to draw attention.
• Fengyu True Person told the Scorpion Demon King that his allies were occupied, while the Impermanence Sect’s three Purple Mansion True Persons faced the Scorpion and Poison Dove Demon Kings over the inheritance hall.
• The Scorpion Demon King and Poison Dove Demon King attacked Illusory Dream True Person and her allies, but a silver streak from the Scorpion Demon King’s shadow pierced Illusory Dream’s treasure body.
• The Scorpion Demon King revealed that Silver Feather Demon King of the Dark Feather Cult had joined the fight and unleashed his strongest attack against Illusory Dream.
• As the Scorpion Demon King’s mana ran low, he recognized that the figure before him was not truly Flying Sand True Person; the disguised attacker used Dragon-Elephant Great Strength to crush his body.

Xiang Long True Person and Illusory Dream True Person killed the Myriad Scorpion Demon King, but the Inheritance Sacred Hall proved empty and a powerful formation sealed the relic. As the darkness spread, Jiang Chen discovered and captured a Purple Mansion treasure artifact containing a Demon King's remnant thought.

• Xiang Long True Person attacked the wounded Myriad Scorpion Demon King while Illusory Dream True Person held off Silver Feather Demon King.
• The Myriad Scorpion Demon King unleashed Myriad Insects Devouring the Heart, sacrificing himself to let Silver Feather Demon King and Poison Dove Demon King escape.
• Illusory Dream True Person, Xiang Long True Person, and Feng Yu True Person entered the Inheritance Sacred Hall and found it empty and decayed.
• Illusory Dream True Person recognized that something was wrong and tried to flee, but a powerful yin-attributed formation sealed the relic.
• Jiang Chen sensed a concealed wild treasure artifact, killed the golden-armored demon insect guarding it, and captured the Azure Wood Treasure Cauldron.

Jiang Chen learned that the Scorpion Demon King had hidden the Myriad Insects Treasure Cauldron and its clan inheritance in the Azure Wood Treasure Cauldron, then discovered that a dusky yellow sun was draining power and vitality from everyone trapped in the ruins. Illusory Dream recognized the sun’s effects as part of a sacrificial ritual, leaving the cultivators and demon kings in grave danger.

• Jiang Chen swallowed the Scorpion Demon King's remnant thought and learned why he had sent away the Myriad Insects Treasure Cauldron, which contained the Twin-Tailed Scorpion Clan's inheritance.
• Jiang Chen put away the cauldron and headed to join the Impermanence Sect cultivators, wary of the black curtain sealing the ruins.
• A dusky yellow sun appeared behind the curtain and began draining the power and vitality of living beings throughout the secret realm.
• Jiang Chen suspected the ritual's power was connected to the force behind Baleful Ghost and realized the Demon Race had not caused the changes.
• Illusory Dream identified the sun's effects as an unknown sacrificial ritual that drained power, lifespan, and even the soul, while noting that earlier treasure fights had left its targets wounded.

Bai Cangzi’s Treasure-Bewitching Curse trapped the cultivators in the ruins and fueled his attempt to claim the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace. As their strength and lifespan drained away, Illusory Dream True Person gathered the Impermanence Sect’s Purple Mansions to attempt a breakout with the Grand Void Origin-Splitting Awl.

• Bai Cangzi observed that the Treasure-Bewitching Curse had ensnared the cultivators and strengthened his sacrificial ritual.
• Bai Cangzi began using the ritual to refine the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace and planned to find its core and become its master.
• Xiang Long True Person warned the others that the ritual was draining their strength and would eventually kill them.
• Illusory Dream True Person determined that breaking the seal required the power of a Great True Person, but revealed her Grand Void Origin-Splitting Awl as a possible alternative.
• The Purple Mansions agreed to risk activating the awl together, and Illusory Dream True Person taught them a secret art to combine their strength.

Illusory Dream True Person led the Impermanence Sect and the Demon Kings in an attempt to break the seal with the Grand Void Origin-Splitting Awl, but the blood-colored sun restored it and cursed those who attacked. As the group faced certain death, Jiang Chen’s divine thought arrived and asked whether reaching the Purple Mansion realm would let him help.

• Illusory Dream True Person called on the Demon Kings and Yin Fiend Ghost King to cooperate with the Impermanence Sect in breaking the seal.
• Illusory Dream True Person used Formless Revolving Wheel to unleash the Grand Void Origin-Splitting Awl, and the group struck the seal together.
• The blood-colored moon fixed the seal in place and sent cursed blood lights against the attackers, badly injuring Yin Fiend Ghost King and draining their lifespans.
• Illusory Dream True Person said Jiang Chen could not wield Formless Revolving Wheel because he had not reached the Purple Mansion realm or condensed a treasure body.
• Jiang Chen sent a divine thought asking whether he could help if he achieved the Purple Mansion realm.

Jiang Chen proposed forging a True Dragon Treasure Body to gain the strength needed to break the seal, and Illusory Dream True Person agreed to support his risky plan. The Purple Mansion cultivators gathered breakthrough treasures for him, while Xiang Long True Person gave up his lineage’s last drop of true dragon essence blood.

• Jiang Chen asked whether reaching the Purple Mansion Realm could let him break the seal, and Illusory Dream True Person warned that the breakthrough could not be rushed and he lacked a suitable earthly treasure.
• Jiang Chen revealed Cloudwater Azure and said the Heavenly Dipper True Form could help him forge a True Dragon Treasure Body with Purple Mansion battle strength.
• Illusory Dream True Person warned that Jiang Chen’s Dao Foundation might not withstand the borrowed power, but changed her mind after he chose to risk death rather than wait.
• Jiang Chen said he needed ten days to forge the True Dragon Treasure Body, and Illusory Dream True Person judged that too long as the seal repaired itself and the other captives weakened.
• The Purple Mansion cultivators gave Jiang Chen several treasures to aid his transformation, and Illusory Dream True Person asked Xiang Long True Person for his lineage’s dragon essence blood.
• Xiang Long True Person gave Jiang Chen the lineage’s final drop of true dragon essence blood and its secret refining art, offering to help him use it.

Jiang Chen refined true dragon essence blood and began the final changes needed to attempt Dragon Transformation, while the Impermanence Sect’s Purple Mansions relied on him to escape their crisis. Bai Cangzi believed their resistance had failed and continued refining the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace.

• Bai Cangzi dismissed the danger in the ruins and focused on refining the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace.
• The Impermanence Sect’s Purple Mansions gathered spirit stones and spirit jade to create a temporary cultivation environment for Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen refined the true dragon essence blood, awakening a natural dragon nature in the Mist Flood Dragon and setting his bloodline on the path to Dragon Transformation.
• Xiang Long True Person recognized Jiang Chen’s growing dragon might and reconsidered his chances of transforming into a true dragon.
• Illusory Dream True Person praised Jiang Chen’s powerful divine soul and pure yuan qi.