Chapter Summaries

Key events

• Subduing Tiger Arhat reveals his middle-grade authority, Tiger Crouch, whose force makes everyone in its territory fall to the ground and prevents them from rising above him.
• Chu Tiange withstands the suppression well enough to try to advance, but the Arhat casually strikes him down and sends him flying.
• As the chaos grows, Chen Changeng urges Feng Linxi to leave. Feng hesitates, wanting to rescue a motionless girl he recognizes as a junior from the Sky-Patrol Bureau.
• Before Feng can act, an attacker hurls the Arhat’s own Subduing Tiger Seal Ring at him, then bursts through the earth and charges upward despite the authority.
• The Arhat meets the white-clad attacker with a powerful punch, confident in his Buddhist Sect-honed body. Instead, the clash badly injures him: he spits golden blood, and his followers cry out in alarm.

Character developments and interactions

• Chu Tiange shows courage and persistence, but the Arhat’s authority and strength overwhelm his attempt to fight.
• Feng Linxi reveals concern for the girl, putting her safety ahead of an immediate escape. Chen Changeng teases him about their relationship; Feng insists she is simply a junior.
• Subduing Tiger Arhat is initially composed and dismissive, regarding the cultivators below as resources for refining the World-Crossing Blood Lotus. His confidence falters when his own Dao Armament is turned against him and the attacker withstands his punch.
• The white-clad attacker is not identified, but their audacious assault shifts the confrontation dramatically.

Significant themes

• Authority and hierarchy: The Arhat’s power embodies heaven-sanctioned dominance, forcing others to submit.
• Defiance against overwhelming power: The attacker’s rise through Tiger Crouch challenges the apparent inevitability of the Arhat’s authority.
• Compassion amid chaos: Feng’s decision to seek the girl contrasts with the Arhat’s view of the crowd as expendable material.

1. Key plot points and events

• Jiang Yuechu reaches the battle in the sky above the Pond Waters and attacks Subduing Tiger Arhat, who is blocking Chu Tiange’s way to the Nine-Colored Bodhi.
• Despite the Arhat invoking his authority, Jiang remains unaffected and lands a powerful blow, shocking everyone. She then attacks again, summoning black mist that forms an armored tiger.
• Subduing Tiger, furious and humiliated, counters with his own tiger manifestation and a devastating punch.
• Above them, Dragon-Subduing Arhat continues to overpower Cloth Bag Arhat in a two-on-one fight. Their clash tears open the sky toward the Void Sea.
• River-Crossing Arhat intervenes, dousing the fighters with rain and warning that their battle could open a passage into the Void Sea. He also reveals that someone below is moving against the Treasure Lotus and Subduing Tiger may not be able to stop them.
• Dragon-Subduing refuses to pause the fight and declares that none of the other Arhats will refine the Blood Lotus—not even if a Bodhisattva arrives.

2. Character developments

• Jiang Yuechu shows extraordinary combat ability, a Dao Armament, and an apparent capacity to resist Subduing Tiger’s authority. Though confused by the unfolding events, she acts decisively to help Chu Tiange.
• Subduing Tiger Arhat shifts from confidence to shock, then anger, after Jiang overcomes him and appears to challenge his reputation.
• Dragon-Subduing Arhat reveals a powerful, uncompromising stance: he is willing to keep fighting despite the danger and intends to prevent the others from obtaining the Blood Lotus.
• River-Crossing Arhat takes a pragmatic, protective role, trying to stop the fight before it causes catastrophic damage.
• Feng Linxi quietly recognizes Jiang’s unusual identity and abilities but withholds an explanation from Chen Changeng.
• Chen Changeng becomes intensely interested in recruiting or learning about Jiang, while puzzled that someone so powerful has gone unnoticed.

3. Significant themes

• Hidden power and identity: Jiang’s strength and resistance to authority make her a mystery even to experienced figures.
• Pride and rivalry: Subduing Tiger’s wounded pride fuels his counterattack, while the Arhats’ personal conflict escalates beyond control.
• Power versus responsibility: The Arhats’ immense battle threatens to tear open the sky, forcing River-Crossing to intervene.
• Conflict over sacred treasures: The struggle over the Nine-Colored Bodhi, Treasure Lotus, and Blood Lotus drives the characters’ actions.

4. Character interactions

• Jiang ignores Subduing Tiger’s authority and attacks him without discussion, while he responds by invoking his own tiger power.
• Feng Linxi deflects Chen Changeng’s questions, promising an explanation later.
• River-Crossing urges Dragon-Subduing and Cloth Bag to stop fighting and focus on the danger below.
• Cloth Bag briefly considers a truce, but Dragon-Subduing rejects it and openly threatens to deny the others the Blood Lotus.

Plot points and events

• Subduing Tiger Arhat struggles to understand how Jiang Yuechu can withstand his strongest physical attacks. Her calm endurance makes him doubt the power of his hard-won Arhat Fruition.
• Jiang Yuechu’s black mist forms a Black Tiger and a golden-armored Roc. Their arrival breaks the stalemate, forcing Subduing Tiger to retreat to the Treasure Lotus and call for the Buddhist Sect to form an array.
• Dozens of Buddhist Sect fighters, including more than twenty Venerables, surround Jiang Yuechu. She remains composed and spots several demons among them.
• Jiang Yuechu attacks first, killing a myriad-forms-realm demon with one blow. The ease of the kill horrifies the array’s defenders, since such a demon should normally survive while its Myriad-Forms Heaven and Earth remained intact.
• She decides she can use her Divine Ability only a few more times and plans to kill additional demons to recover strength before seizing the treasure and escaping.
• As she moves to attack again, River-Crossing Arhat intervenes. He summons a vast, inverted river across the sky and brings down an enormous water-shaped palm strike.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiang Yuechu remains focused and fearless, revealing overwhelming power even while apparently weakened. She treats the demons as targets and calculates how to conserve her remaining ability.
• Subduing Tiger Arhat shifts from confidence to confusion and fear after failing to overpower her; he retreats and calls for reinforcements.
• The Buddhist Sect’s fighters move from stunned disbelief to coordinated action, but Jiang Yuechu’s composure and sudden killing unsettle them.
• The demons are frightened by Jiang Yuechu, with one desperately hoping its fallen companion will get back up.
• River-Crossing Arhat enters as a serious new threat, attacking Jiang Yuechu from above with a large-scale technique.

Significant themes

• The limits of status and reputation: Even a prestigious Arhat Fruition cannot guarantee superiority against an extraordinary opponent.
• Power and fear: Jiang Yuechu’s calmness contrasts with the panic she inspires in both the Buddhist Sect and the demons.
• Strategic survival: Despite her strength, she must manage finite resources and seek a way to escape with the treasure.

Key plot points

• River-Crossing Arhat attacks Jiang Yuechu with a devastating Riverwater Hand Seal, intending to defeat her and regain control of the chaotic gathering.
• Before the strike lands, Chen Changeng of the Heavenly Court appears. His Spirit Script Ghost Token shatters the attack and exposes River-Crossing’s identity.
• Chen Changeng draws River-Crossing away, enveloping them both with the token and removing them from the scene.
• Several gray-robed figures move toward Jiang Yuechu. Feng Linxi, her superior in the Heavenly Court’s Sky-Patrol Bureau, urges her to flee before River-Crossing returns.
• Jiang Yuechu refuses to leave, saying she still has something to do. When Feng Linxi follows her gaze, he reacts with alarm.

Character developments and interactions

• River-Crossing Arhat is furious at the Buddhist Sect’s failures and resolves to take matters into his own hands. His confidence falters when Chen Changeng overwhelms his attack and reveals he knows who he is.
• Chen Changeng intervenes with confidence and humor, mocking River-Crossing while disguising his true intentions. He takes the Arhat away under the pretext of a private conversation.
• Jiang Yuechu remains composed and determined despite facing a Supreme Capital expert. Even with a chance to escape, she prioritizes her unfinished objective.
• Feng Linxi reveals himself as Jiang Yuechu’s Heavenly Court superior. Concerned for her safety, he urges her to withdraw, but she declines.

Significant themes

• Institutional incompetence and responsibility: River-Crossing blames the Buddhist Sect’s disorder on members at every level, then takes action himself.
• Duty versus survival: Jiang Yuechu refuses to abandon her mission despite the danger.
• Political rivalry and hidden agendas: The Heavenly Court’s intervention signals its opposition to the Buddhist Sect, though Chen Changeng’s precise purpose remains unclear.
• Composure under pressure: Jiang Yuechu and Chen Changeng remain self-possessed amid escalating danger.

Plot points and events

• Jiang Yuechu clarifies that she wants the Nine-Colored Bodhi, not the Buddhist Sect’s Eight-Treasure Merit Lotus. Feng Linxi had feared she intended to steal the sect’s most sacred treasure.
• The Subduing Tiger Arhat, unable to stop her and anxious to protect the Lotus, offers the Bodhi in exchange for her leaving. He warns that taking the Lotus would be useless without the Buddhist Sect’s secret cultivation method—and would make her a target of the entire sect.
• Jiang agrees. To preserve appearances before the watching disciples, they stage another fight: she charges toward the Lotus platform while he pursues her as if trying to stop her.
• At the platform, Jiang admits she does not know what the Bodhi looks like. When she nearly disturbs the Lotus while searching, the Arhat genuinely panics, retrieves the nine-colored fruit himself, and slips it into her hand.
• The Arhat stages an injury, and Jiang escapes with the Bodhi. Feng Linxi and the Sky-Patrolling Guards leave with her.
• The Arhat tells his followers that he failed to protect the Bodhi while saving the Lotus. They comfort him, accepting the explanation—though a thin onlooker suspects the Arhat has an ulterior motive.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiang Yuechu shows boldness but also pragmatism: she abandons any risk of provoking the whole Buddhist Sect and accepts a negotiated solution. Her confidence is undercut comically by her not knowing what she came to retrieve.
• Subduing Tiger Arhat shifts from alarm and defensiveness to calculated cooperation. He protects the Lotus, helps Jiang obtain the Bodhi, and convincingly performs a public defeat to preserve his dignity and conceal their arrangement.
• Feng Linxi is relieved that Jiang is not targeting the Lotus. Though he finds the encounter suspicious, he ultimately helps her depart.
• The Buddhist followers mistake the staged escape for a genuine attack and later rally around their Arhat.
• The observant onlooker recognizes Jiang and begins questioning the Arhat’s true intentions.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism over pride: Both Jiang and the Arhat choose compromise to avoid a much larger conflict.
• Appearance versus reality: Their staged battle fools the crowd, while the Arhat’s apparent injury conceals a successful secret exchange.
• Power and political consequences: The Lotus’s value lies not only in its power but in the Buddhist Sect’s exclusive knowledge and authority surrounding it.
• Comic misunderstanding: Jiang’s ignorance of the Bodhi’s appearance nearly derails an otherwise carefully arranged plan.

Plot and events

After the battle, Buddhist Sect members clear the bloodied grounds around the Eight-Treasure Merit Pool. A White Jade Lotus Platform arrives, its passage freezing the clouds and signaling the Bodhisattva’s anger.
Inside the hall, the three Arhats presiding over the failed Gratitude Assembly sit in tense silence. Subduing Tiger Arhat privately believes he can escape blame: he presents himself as a loyal defender of the sect’s treasures and expects Lu Yue, the wounded Buddha Son, to take the fall for rashly pursuing credit. River-Crossing Arhat calls out Subduing Tiger’s exaggerated display of injury, but acknowledges that the female cultivator who fought him was exceptionally powerful.
Cloth Bag Arhat accuses Dragon-Subduing Arhat of causing the disaster by switching sides during the battle. Dragon-Subduing answers with contempt, and the two nearly fight again. The Bodhisattva’s arrival abruptly silences them. She rebukes the Arhats: the World-Crossing Blood Lotus was not formed, the Nine-Colored Bodhi was stolen, and Heavenly Court agents escaped unharmed.

Character developments and interactions

• Subduing Tiger Arhat tries to protect his reputation by acting injured and shifting blame onto Lu Yue. River-Crossing sees through the performance, though Subduing Tiger insists his opponent was a rare talent.
• Lu Yue stands humiliated and injured, seemingly positioned to serve as a scapegoat for the failed defense.
• Cloth Bag and Dragon-Subduing Arhats remain openly hostile, with accusations over Dragon-Subduing’s conduct nearly reigniting their fight.
• River-Crossing Arhat acts as a weary mediator, while also challenging Subduing Tiger’s self-serving account.
• The Bodhisattva arrives as an imposing authority and begins holding the three Arhats accountable.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes blame-shifting and political self-preservation within the sect, as the Arhats maneuver to avoid responsibility. It also highlights the limits of rank and authority: the female cultivator’s uncanny abilities unsettled even powerful figures, while the Bodhisattva’s arrival instantly halts their quarrel.

Key events

• Cloth Bag Arhat blames Dragon-Subduing for the Gratitude Assembly’s failure, claiming his intervention disrupted the effort to complete the World-Crossing Blood Lotus and allowed the Heavenly Court’s forces to take the Nine-Colored Bodhi. River-Crossing silently supports his account.
• Dragon-Subduing admits he defied the Bodhisattva’s decree, offering no defense.
• The Bodhisattva rules that he acted from compassion and remained true to his Dao, since the Blood Lotus threatened countless living beings. She also rebukes Cloth Bag and River-Crossing for failing to restrain one Arhat despite their combined strength.
• Dragon-Subduing receives a hundred years of secluded reflection. Cloth Bag and River-Crossing each lose a hundred years of incense-fire merit for their failure and the loss of the treasure.
• Privately, the Bodhisattva tells the two Arhats she understands their grievance and summons them to meet her at midnight in West Creek Commandery, promising an explanation.

Character developments and interactions

• Dragon-Subduing remains calm and accepts both responsibility and punishment, suggesting steadfastness in his convictions.
• Cloth Bag tries to shift blame and press for Dragon-Subduing’s punishment, but the Bodhisattva turns the accusation back on him. He obeys outwardly while seething inwardly.
• River-Crossing stays silent during the accusation and visibly struggles with resentment when punished.
• The Bodhisattva shows clear public support for Dragon-Subduing while holding the other two accountable. Her private invitation suggests the harsher-looking judgment may have a deeper purpose.
• Subduing Tiger, listening from the crowd, realizes Dragon-Subduing’s intervention explains why the Arhats failed to contain the crisis.

Significant themes

• Loyalty to principle versus obedience: Dragon-Subduing breaks orders to protect living beings, and the Bodhisattva recognizes the moral basis of his choice.
• Justice, favoritism, and resentment: The unequal punishments appear unfair to Cloth Bag and River-Crossing, fueling their sense that their service has been undervalued.
• Public judgment and private understanding: The Bodhisattva’s formal ruling is severe, but her confidential invitation hints that her motives—and the full accounting—remain to be revealed.

Plot points and events

• After surviving the turmoil near the Eight-Treasure Merit Pool, Jiang Yuechu and her companions reach the frontier of He Province alongside two Sky-Patrol Bureau commandants, Feng Linxi and Chen Changeng.
• Feng tells Jiang he hopes Qingwei Heaven will eventually give her the protection she deserves. Jiang, misunderstanding his sympathy, calmly says she is used to her situation.
• Feng reveals Jiang’s identity to Chen. Chen recognizes her as the Sky-Patrolling Guard involved in a dangerous incident concerning the Gold Mother and is visibly wary. Feng and Chen then part from Jiang’s group.
• On the journey to Crouching Ox Ridge, Gao Wen asks Qiu Yinong why Jiang received such deference from the commandants. Qiu refuses to explain, saying Jiang’s karma is too serious to discuss.
• The group returns to find their master, Qin Zhisui, still mentally lost. He Bi admits he has repeatedly knocked him unconscious to control his madness, sometimes hitting him too hard. After Gao Wen angrily confronts him, Chu Tiange defends He Bi, who had been caring for Qin alone.
• Chu produces the Nine-Colored Bodhi, obtained on the dangerous expedition, and proposes giving it to Qin to see whether it can help.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiang Yuechu remains composed and unresentful, despite being misunderstood as someone suffering an unfair fate. Her significance is clear from the commandants’ escort and Chen’s alarm at her name, but her companions keep her circumstances private.
• Feng Linxi shows sympathy and concern for Jiang, while Chen Changeng reacts with fear and caution, worrying that association with her could bring trouble.
• Qiu Yinong protects Jiang’s privacy by refusing Gao Wen’s questions; Gao is curious but ultimately backs off.
• Chu Tiange remains focused on his master’s recovery and shows compassion toward He Bi, recognizing the burden of caring for Qin alone.
• He Bi is embarrassed but defensive about his rough treatment of Qin, while Gao Wen responds with anger and disbelief. Their argument is eased by Chu.

Significant themes

• Secrecy and dangerous karma: Jiang’s reputation and circumstances are weighty, but others avoid discussing them openly.
• Loyalty and responsibility: The companions risked much to obtain the Bodhi and remain devoted to their ailing master.
• Powerlessness and hope: Qin’s condition has shown little improvement, making the Nine-Colored Bodhi a tentative source of hope.
• Care under strain: He Bi’s crude attempts to manage Qin’s illness reveal both the difficulty of caregiving and the tension it creates among the disciples.

Plot points and events

• Chu Tiange gives Qin Zhisui the Nine-Colored Bodhi. It melts into a wisp of light, and Qin slowly wakes with much of his madness gone.
• Qin recognizes Qiu Yinong and He Bi, bringing relief and laughter to his gathered disciples.
• Chu Tiange credits Jiang Yuechu for securing the Bodhi. He recounts how she helped the group survive the Buddhist Sect’s Gratitude Assembly, withstand the Subduing Tiger Arhat, and take the treasure from powerful Buddhist experts.
• Qin is astonished that Jiang risked so much for him, since he had only casually taught her a cultivation method. Jiang brushes off the question, saying she “just happened to lend a hand.” Qin accepts her explanation with a laugh.

Character development and interactions

• Chu Tiange’s anxiety eases when his master awakens; his usual composure gives way to a heartfelt smile.
• Qin’s restored clarity lets him recognize his disciples and reflect on the loyalty that brought them to his aid.
• Qiu Yinong is moved to tears, while He Bi reacts with exuberant relief and is playfully scolded by Gao Wen.
• Jiang remains modest and dismissive of her own sacrifice. Qin regards her generosity as strikingly sincere, especially given the dangers she faced for someone with whom she had little formal connection.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and gratitude: The disciples risk everything to save their teacher, while Jiang helps despite having no obligation to do so.
• Sincerity amid a treacherous world: Qin contrasts Jiang’s unclaimed kindness with the deceit and rivalry common among cultivators.
• Recovery and renewal: The Bodhi’s apparent success restores not only Qin’s lucidity but also hope and warmth to the group.

Key plot points and events

• Qin Zhisui regains his clarity and speaks with his disciples, who are relieved to see him recovering. Exhausted, he asks everyone to leave him to rest.
• Jiang Yuechu prepares to depart, focused on strengthening herself and wary of relying on Qin Zhisui’s protection against the Heavenly Court.
• Chu Tiange thanks her for saving his master and offers her Cloudstride Crossing, an earth-grade immortal movement art. He admits it came from Qin Zhisui, though passing it on may violate the usual rules.
• Jiang accepts the jade slip. Chu explains that the art is useful for both travel and combat, and that he has reached major attainment after centuries of practice.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiang Yuechu remains independent and practical. She briefly hopes Qin Zhisui might reward her for saving him, but puts that aside while he is still weak. She welcomes the movement art because it addresses a gap in her abilities.
• Chu Tiange shows gratitude and loyalty by sharing a valuable art, despite uncertainty about whether he has permission. His modest claim that his aptitude is poor draws Jiang’s blunt response that he should work harder.
• Qin Zhisui is lucid and warm with his disciples, but still too exhausted to do more than rest.
• The disciples’ relief and careful attention show their deep concern for their master. Chu’s exchange with Jiang shifts their relationship toward mutual trust and indebtedness.

Significant themes

• Independence and self-reliance: Jiang refuses to depend on another person’s promise for her safety and resolves to grow stronger.
• Gratitude and obligation: Chu repays Jiang’s lifesaving help with a significant gift.
• Cultivation and humility: The chapter contrasts Chu’s years of effort with Jiang’s unusually high standards and formidable talent.

Plot points and events

• Yan Rong presents the Peaceful Money House’s six-month accounts to the Golden Mother Empress at Kunlun. The accounts show a surplus of 1.7 million gui of merit, but Yan Rong is troubled because the house was recently tricked out of 10,000 gui by two demons.
• The Empress immediately notices the shortfall. Yan Rong confesses that the money house’s investigators could not trace the culprits and accepts responsibility for failing to report the incident sooner.
• The Empress examines the Pill-Measuring Ruler, which preserves reliable records of those tested at the money house. It confirms that the two demons had extraordinary cultivation histories: one reached the cinnabar flow realm after 3,200 years, the other after only 100.
• Yan Rong reveals a second anomaly: shortly before the demons arrived, a wandering void sea realm cultivator tested the ruler. The ruler recorded the cultivator’s bone age as just nineteen.
• The Empress verifies the record herself. Rather than celebrating the discovery, she suspects deception or a deliberate plot, since such a prodigy seems impossible.

Character developments and interactions

• Yan Rong begins anxious and tries to conceal the loss, but the Empress’s observation forces her to confess fully. She is fearful of punishment yet diligent, having investigated the incident and preserved the ruler for examination.
• The Golden Mother Empress is initially quiet and unreadable, then becomes alert and suspicious as the evidence emerges. She relies on the ruler’s records but questions what they might mean.
• Their interaction emphasizes the Empress’s perceptiveness and authority, as well as Yan Rong’s deference and growing unease.

Significant themes

• Authority and accountability: Even a relatively small loss becomes serious because it concerns the Empress’s own institution.
• The limits of the believable: Records indicate astonishingly talented beings, but the Empress doubts that the evidence reflects reality.
• Deception and hidden schemes: The apparent prodigies may be genuine, or their records may have been manipulated to conceal a larger plan.

The Woyun Dragon King told Ao Jing and Ao Shen that their long-lost second aunt had contacted him, revealing that she had become a Bodhisattva in the Buddhist Sect. The princes’ hope that she might return to strengthen the Dragon Palace faded when they learned of her status.

• The Woyun Dragon King humbly ended a communication spell while Ao Jing and Ao Shen wondered who had put him under pressure.
• Ao Jing revealed that he had reached the myriad-forms heaven middle realm, and both princes insisted they were ready to share their father’s burdens.
• The Woyun Dragon King reminded his sons of their missing second aunt, a prodigy who had vanished after the Buddhist Sect intervened.
• The Woyun Dragon King revealed that his sister had contacted him and was still alive.
• Ao Shen and Ao Jing hoped their second aunt would return, but the Woyun Dragon King said they would have to address her as Bodhisattva.

The Woyun Dragon King told Ao Jing and Ao Shen that their second aunt, a Buddhist Bodhisattva, had ordered them to gather living beings, but he feared the request was tied to a blood sacrifice. He also tasked them with secretly searching for someone using the Primordial Origin Heavenly Tome, while Ao Yu continued trying to meet Grotto Lord Black Mountain at Azure Firmament Grotto.

• The Woyun Dragon King explained that his second aunt had protected the Woyun Dragon Palace and asked them to secretly gather as many living beings as possible.
• Ao Shen offered to handle the gathering, but the Woyun Dragon King hesitated because he suspected it might support the Buddhist Sect's blood sacrifice.
• The Woyun Dragon King gave Ao Jing and Ao Shen the Primordial Origin Heavenly Tome's aura and ordered them to find the person connected to it, then notify the Peaceful Money House without acting.
• Ao Yu visited Azure Firmament Grotto for the seventeenth time that month and learned that Grotto Lord Black Mountain was still in seclusion.

Ao Yu visited the Azure Firmament Grotto to negotiate for the return of the Four Seas Divine Radiance, but Jiang Yuechu rejected her offer. When Ao Yu tried to chase after Jiang Yuechu, she was effortlessly thrown back, revealing how far Jiang Yuechu’s strength exceeded her own.

• Ao Yu asked the Great Tang guards to announce her arrival so she could speak with the Azure Firmament Cave Master.
• Jiang Yuechu appeared and told Ao Yu she could handle ordinary matters for the Azure Firmament Grotto.
• Ao Yu offered cultivation methods, immortal arts, mystic-grade Dao Armaments, and treasures in exchange for the Four Seas Divine Radiance, but Jiang Yuechu refused.
• Jiang Yuechu turned to leave and told the guards to see Ao Yu out.
• Ao Yu chased after Jiang Yuechu, but Jiang Yuechu knocked her back to her starting place with a single move.
• Ao Yu realized Jiang Yuechu had advanced into Myriad-Forms Heaven and possessed strength far beyond her own.

Ao Yu persuaded Jiang Yuechu to help her retrieve an Earth-Grade Dao Armament and its matching immortal art from a Great Demon. As they traveled, Ao Yu revealed that their target was the West Sea Dragon King’s youngest son, who had secretly allied with rival Dragon Kings to compete for his father’s place in the Immortal Ranks.

• Ao Yu suspected Jiang Yuechu was the true Azure Firmament Cave Master, but Jiang Yuechu denied it and demanded another Earth-Grade Dao Armament.
• Ao Yu offered to lead Jiang Yuechu to an Earth-Grade Dao Armament and its matching immortal art, and Jiang Yuechu agreed to join her.
• Ao Yu transformed into a white dragon and explained that Woyun Dragon Palace belonged to the White Dragon Lineage, which acknowledged the West Sea Dragon King as sovereign.
• Ao Yu clarified that their target was the West Sea Dragon King’s youngest son, not the king himself.
• Ao Yu explained that the young dragon prince had secretly allied with forces under other Dragon Kings to seize his father’s place in the Immortal Ranks.

Ao Yu and Jiang Yuechu went to the Outer Lands to take an Earth-Grade Dao Armament from Ao Yu’s exiled cousin, but they arrived as the West Sea’s second prince was torturing him. The chapter ended with the second prince trying to kill his chained younger brother in the ruined water manor.

• Ao Yu told Jiang Yuechu that her former cousin had been stripped of his title and exiled after involving outsiders in the White Dragon Lineage’s succession struggle.
• Ao Yu explained that her cousin possessed an Earth-Grade Dao Armament and planned to take it while Jiang Yuechu watched for his escape.
• Ao Yu and Jiang Yuechu reached the water manor, where Ao Yu disguised herself and went down to investigate.
• The West Sea’s second prince accused his chained younger brother of secretly contacting their father’s trusted generals and said he would kill him.
• The second prince stabbed the frail man with an ice blade, but the man’s Myriad-Forms Heaven aura emerged, and the prince continued attacking him.

Ao Yu witnessed Ao Shun murdering Ao Yu and was captured after trying to escape with Old Toad. As Ao Shun prepared to unmask her, black mist sealed the area and a tiger's roar erupted behind him.

• Ao Yu hid and watched Ao Shun stab Ao Yu, suspecting the second prince had framed and silenced his cousin.
• Ao Yu and Old Toad were captured by Dragon Palace guards after a frog startled her as she tried to flee.
• Old Toad warned Ao Shun not to harm his prince, and Ao Shun ordered both captives killed.
• Ao Yu struck at Ao Shun and attempted to escape, but he kicked her down and identified her as a kinswoman of the Woyun Dragon Palace.
• Ao Shun grabbed Ao Yu and began to tear at her face, but black mist suddenly enclosed the area and a tiger's roar sounded beside him.

Jiang Yuechu rescued Ao Yu and attacked Ao Shun, but his extreme-cold powers slowed and badly injured her. Golden Scale then joined the fight and struck Ao Shun, leaving him horrified when his ice failed to stop the Buddhist Sect Venerable.

• Jiang Yuechu surprised Ao Shun with a powerful blow and sent him flying while rescuing Ao Yu.
• Jiang Yuechu pursued Ao Shun, who transformed into his White Dragon form and trapped her in extreme cold and ice.
• Ao Shun continued attacking Jiang Yuechu, believing his freezing powers would wear her down.
• Golden Scale struck Ao Shun from behind with a powerful claw, breaking his bones and drawing blood.
• Ao Shun unleashed another Ice Dragon at Golden Scale, but it failed to stop him as he charged forward.

Jiang Yuechu recovered from the West Sea Second Crown Prince’s Extreme Cold technique and, with Venerable Golden Scale keeping him busy, overwhelmed him using the Subduing Tiger Seal Ring and a fierce attack. Meanwhile, Ao Yu resolved to fight the two Dragon Palace guards left in the underwater residence and charged at them.

• Golden Thread Ancestor explained that the white dragon’s Extreme Cold technique slowed thoughts and froze the body, then helped Jiang Yuechu regain control of herself.
• Jiang Yuechu struck the Second Crown Prince of the West Sea Dragon Palace before he could use Frost Dragon again and suppressed him with the Subduing Tiger Seal Ring.
• The Dragon Palace guards arrived, saw their prince badly injured, and the guard captain ordered an attack to rescue him.
• Ao Yu considered fleeing but chose to stay and help Jiang Yuechu, while her Older Cousin lay close to death.
• Ao Yu transformed into her dragon form and charged at the two guards, declaring that she would fight them.