Chapter Summaries

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi fled after sensing the Dragon Race approaching the Eastern Water-Wood Ancestral Vein, but Yinglong pursued them and called for them to stay. Remembering the terrifying significance of those words from his past life, Qing Xuan accelerated their escape while Qing Yi remained confused.

• Qing Xuan told Qing Yi to leave as the Dragon Race's Great Luo pressure approached the Eastern Water-Wood Ancestral Vein.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi concealed their auras and fled in the opposite direction from the Dragon Race.
• Qiuniu and Yinglong saw the pair escaping, and Yinglong ordered the Dragon Race to catch them.
• Yinglong used his wind and water laws to drive the dragon boat after Qing Xuan and Qing Yi.
• Yinglong called, "Fellow Daoists, please stay!" and Qing Xuan, alarmed by the words' future reputation, sped up their escape.

Qiuniu offered Qing Xuan and Qing Yi the Dragon Race’s resources and support in exchange for joining them. Qing Xuan and Qing Yi had not yet answered when the chapter ended.

• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi fled from Yinglong’s call until he overtook them with the Golden Dragon Boat.
• Qing Xuan made up an excuse for running, and Qiuniu introduced himself and Yinglong before exchanging greetings with Qing Xuan and Qing Yi.
• Qiuniu asked whether Qing Xuan and Qing Yi had restored the Ancestral Vein, and Qing Xuan explained how they had repaired it while claiming no special credit.
• Qiuniu thanked them for helping the eastern aquatic races and invited them to join the Dragon Race, offering cultivation grounds, resources, Fate Aura, and a chance to discuss the Dao with Ancestor Dragon.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi rejected the Dragon Race’s invitation after learning it was preparing for future conflict with the Phoenix Clan and Qilin Tribe. They departed for the eastern horizon, leaving Qiuniu and Yinglong puzzled over why the two had seemed eager to avoid them from the start.

• Qing Xuan questioned Qiuniu about the Dragon Race’s recruitment efforts, and Qiuniu admitted the clan was preparing for growing tensions among the three clans.
• Qing Xuan refused to bind his and Qing Yi’s Fate Aura to the Dragon Race or join its future struggles.
• Yinglong warned Qing Xuan that he was turning down a rare opportunity, but Qing Xuan stood by his decision.
• Qiuniu accepted their choice, and Qing Xuan and Qing Yi departed on their azure lotus.
• Qiuniu asked Yinglong why the two had seemed to avoid them, and Yinglong confirmed that they had.

Qing Xuan explained to Qing Yi why he avoided Yinglong and the Dragon Race, warning that the three races were headed for a destructive struggle and that they should stay out of it. On Blue Star, researchers compared Yinglong with Douluo Continent dragons and concluded that the Primordial Dragon Race was an organized but still primitive power.

• Qing Xuan admitted to Qing Yi that he fled to avoid becoming entangled with the Dragon Race and its coming conflict with the Phoenix Clan and Qilin Race.
• Qing Xuan told Qing Yi that “Fellow Daoist, Please Stay” was a vicious curse and urged her to beat up anyone who used it on them.
• Researchers at the Unknown Plane Research Center compared Yinglong’s image with dragon records from Douluo Continent and debated whether he was a true dragon.
• Li He assessed Yinglong as a likely independent dragon branch with a long-bodied, winged-serpent form, and Shen Qinghe approved the tentative classification.
• Shen Qinghe told the researchers that the Dragon Race had rulers, territory, and an organized effort to recruit powerful beings and compete for dominion.

Blue Star observers criticized Qing Xuan for rejecting the Dragon Race, while officials shifted their first-contact plans toward the Dragon Race and downgraded him as a cooperation target. The story left Qing Xuan unaware that Blue Star had formally begun preparing to approach the Dragon Race instead.

• Students and instructors at Linjiang Advanced Transcendent Academy criticized Qing Xuan for refusing the Dragon Race, while Zhou Ruolan said he had abandoned the protection a major force could provide.
• Su Qingxue felt Qing Xuan's choice was regrettable and considered whether their future together would be viable if he kept avoiding powerful allies.
• Researchers at the Unknown Plane Research Center decided the Dragon Race was a better long-term contact target than Qing Xuan and added it to Blue Star's first-contact sequence.
• Shen Qinghe approved requests for dragon-related archives and prioritized dragon- and water-type Martial Souls and Soul Beast researchers for future passage personnel.
• Blue Star's archives assessed Qing Xuan as risk-averse and removed him from consideration as a primary cooperation target for now.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi followed a mysterious source to an ancient battlefield beneath the North Sea, where they found a devastating spear mark left by the Godslayer Spear. As they approached the source of the Chaos aura, a Dragon Race Great Luo confronted them and demanded an explanation for entering the sealed battlefield.

• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi descended into the North Sea after the source within Qing Xuan responded to an aura below.
• They found an ancient battlefield littered with dragon bones and Fierce Beast remains, along with a vast fissure Qing Yi recognized as a spear mark.
• Qing Xuan identified the mark as a wound left by the Godslayer Spear, while Qing Yi absorbed a strand of its spear intent into an azure lotus.
• Qing Xuan tested the mark with his world and saw its mountains and rivers revert to an undifferentiated gray, revealing that the forces within them had not been destroyed.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi prepared to enter the fissure, but concealed Dragon Race seals awakened around them and froze time throughout the Ruined Realm.
• A crimson-gold dragon eye appeared beyond the Ruined Realm, and its owner demanded that Qing Xuan and Qing Yi explain why they had entered the sealed North Sea Ancient Battlefield.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi confronted an ancient Dragon Race True Spirit sustained by the Ruined Realm’s formation. They discovered that it could repeatedly rebuild its dragon body from the battlefield’s power, leaving them facing an apparently immortal opponent.

• Qing Yi sensed that the scarlet-gold dragon eye had no life force, and Qing Xuan deduced that it belonged to a True Spirit surviving through the seal.
• Qing Xuan unfolded his world and awakened the River of Time, revealing the True Spirit’s attack across countless possible futures.
• Qing Xuan drew the dragon claws from every future into one attack and endured it with the Twelve-Petal Creation Azure Lotus.
• Qing Yi shattered the dragon eye with her Creation Great Dao, but Dark-Gold Dragon Runes reformed it into a larger dragon phantom.
• Qing Yi struck the phantom’s sweeping tail and damaged its body, but the Ruined Realm’s formation restored it, revealing that the battlefield sustained its near-immortality.

Qing Xuan entered the spear scar and reversed the Dragon Race Great Luo’s Calamity-Transferring Formation, sending the Godslayer Spear’s killing intent back to its original target. As Qing Yi struck down the Dragon phantom, Qing Xuan awakened the Chaos Restriction and drew the Chaos Pearl Fragment one inch toward himself.

• Qing Xuan deduced the formation’s power circulation and asked Qing Yi to force the Dragon phantom to re-form while he entered the spear scar’s depths.
• Qing Yi unleashed her Creation Great Dao and shattered the Dragon phantom, allowing Qing Xuan to pass through the seals to the formation core.
• The Dragon Race Great Luo reversed the formation and sent the Godslayer Spear’s killing intent through Qing Xuan’s reflections across past, present, and future, trying to transfer his calamity onto Qing Xuan’s Dao Fruit.
• Qing Xuan used the Dark-Gold Dragon Runes reflected in his world to reverse the formation’s power flow and send the killing intent back toward the Dragon Race True Spirit.
• Qing Yi seized the opening to destroy the re-formed Dragon phantom, while Qing Xuan revealed his Chaos Origin and awakened the Chaos Restriction.
• The Chaos Pearl Fragment detached from its position and moved one inch toward Qing Xuan, prompting the Dragon Race True Spirit to question their shared origin.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi fought a Dragon Race Great Luo who sought to seize their origins and use the Chaos Pearl Fragment to escape the Ruined Realm. After Qing Yi repeatedly shattered his reconstructed body, he gathered the battlefield’s power for one final attack, and Qing Xuan declared they would kill him.

• The Dragon Race Great Luo revealed that Qing Xuan’s origin could open the Chaos Restriction and that Qing Yi’s origin could rebuild his Dao body, then demanded they submit.
• Qing Xuan attacked, but the Great Luo drew on the Ruined Realm to reconstruct his body and launch a Space-Time-spanning strike.
• Qing Yi struck the Great Luo with the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner’s protection, shattering his dragon horns, scales, and head.
• The Great Luo repeatedly rebuilt his body with the Ancient Battlefield’s power while Qing Xuan sensed the Chaos Pearl Fragment and shielded Qing Yi through his World Dao.
• The Great Luo gathered the battlefield’s power into a final attack that threatened to swallow every version of Qing Xuan and Qing Yi across Space-Time.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi joined their Great Daos to anchor the threatened possibilities within their world, and Qing Xuan told the Great Luo to die.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi destroyed the Dragon Race Great Luo and recovered the Chaos Pearl Fragment, which greatly strengthened Qing Xuan. The fragment revealed twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls in the East Sea, and Qing Xuan sensed their connection to the Chaos Pearl.

• Qing Xuan expanded his world inside the Dragon Race Great Luo while Qing Yi reached the dragon’s core and exposed its final trace of True Spirit.
• Qing Xuan unleashed the Godslayer Spear’s killing intent, and Qing Yi stripped away the Dragon Race Great Luo’s remaining power, erasing him completely.
• The Chaos Pearl Fragment returned to Qing Xuan, and he absorbed it through their shared Chaos Origin, advancing his cultivation and expanding his world into Chaos.
• Qing Xuan sensed twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls in the East Sea and told Qing Yi that the fragment had revealed them to him.

At Soul Hall Academy, Hu Liena and Shen Qinghe discussed the Research Center’s plan to contact the Dragon Race after Qing Xuan killed a Dragon Race Great Luo. Hu Liena agreed to pursue cooperation with the Dragon Race while keeping Qing Xuan as a passage anchor, and Shen Qinghe asked what Soul Hall would do if Qing Xuan and the Dragon Race became outright enemies.

• Hu Liena reviewed Su Qingxue’s application for the Primordial World Adaptation Plan and considered Soul Hall’s request to provide personnel with water, ice, and Dragon-type Martial Souls.
• The Firmament showed Qing Xuan and Qing Yi alive in the collapsing North Sea Ancient Battlefield after a Dragon Race Great Luo vanished, threatening that Ancestor Dragon and the Dragon Race would seek revenge.
• Hu Liena noted that Qing Xuan had refused the Dragon Race’s recruitment, killed a Dragon Race Great Luo, and was heading toward the East Sea.
• Shen Qinghe argued that the defeated Great Luo’s threat might not represent the entire Dragon Race and that Blue Star had not yet learned enough about the Primordial World to judge Qing Xuan’s chances.
• Hu Liena agreed that Soul Hall would contact the Dragon Race and retain Qing Xuan as a passage anchor, and Shen Qinghe asked what would happen if Qing Xuan and the Dragon Race became completely hostile.

Su Qingxue faced a difficult choice as Spirit Hall prepared to cooperate with the Dragon Race while Qing Xuan traveled toward the East Sea. Qing Xuan and Qing Yi found the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, subdued them, and Qing Xuan offered the set to Qing Yi.

• Hu Liena recommended the Dragon Race as Spirit Hall’s primary contact, and Spirit Hall placed Su Qingxue and the Golden Generation in the second-stage adaptation sequence.
• Su Qingxue worried that she might have to choose between Spirit Hall’s alliance with the Dragon Race and Qing Xuan, who could oppose the race.
• After several thousand years of travel, Qing Xuan and Qing Yi reached the East Sea and followed their senses to a concealed underwater formation.
• The twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls attacked Qing Xuan, but Qing Yi used the Creation Great Dao to separate their power and let Qing Xuan claim them.
• Qing Xuan presented the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to Qing Yi, who looked at him in confusion without accepting them.

Qing Xuan gave Qing Yi the Sea-Calming Pearls before they encountered Qiuniu in the East Sea. After explaining the North Sea conflict and declining Qiuniu’s renewed invitation to join the Dragon Race, Qing Xuan learned that Qiuniu believed the path beyond Great Luo had been severed.

• Qing Xuan gave Qing Yi the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, and they left the Sea Eye.
• Qiuniu met Qing Xuan and Qing Yi in the East Sea, and they beat him before sitting down to talk.
• Qing Xuan told Qiuniu how a Dragon Race Great Luo had tried to devour their Dao Fruits and how Qing Yi had destroyed his remaining Dao Fruit.
• Qiuniu said he would report the matter to Ancestor Dragon and invited Qing Xuan and Qing Yi to become guest elders of the Dragon Race, but Qing Xuan refused.
• Qiuniu said he understood why Qing Xuan viewed the Dragon Race differently and explained that there was no other path because the way beyond Great Luo had been severed.

Qiuniu explained to Qing Xuan and Qing Yi that Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and First Qilin sought to break beyond Great Luo by drawing on their peoples’ Fate Aura, a path that drove the three races toward conflict. Qing Xuan suspected Luohou was secretly inflaming the clashes, while Qiuniu departed still confident the Dragon Race would prevail.

• Qiuniu told Qing Xuan that the road beyond Great Luo had no known precedent, so Ancestor Dragon sought to advance by borrowing the Dragon Race’s Fate Aura and the authority of the Four Seas.
• Qiuniu explained that Yuanfeng and First Qilin pursued similar paths by gathering the avian races and beasts, making expansion and competition for Fate Aura inevitable.
• Qing Yi observed that the leaders’ Great Dao had become bound to their peoples, while Qiuniu said the growing karma left the Dragon Race no choice but to seek victory.
• Qiuniu described how border disputes had escalated into bloodshed among the three races, and Qing Xuan suspected someone was using Calamity Aura to stoke the hatred.
• Qing Xuan kept his suspicion of Luohou to himself, and Qiuniu left after reaffirming his belief that the Dragon Race would win.

Blue Star’s researchers analyzed what Qiuniu revealed about the Primordial World and concluded that its powerful beings lacked a mature cultivation civilization. They saw Douluo Continent’s accumulated knowledge as leverage for future contact, while the Primordial World remained a vast store of treasures and opportunity.

• After Qiuniu invited Qing Xuan and Qing Yi to become Dragon Race guest elders despite learning about the North Sea events, Blue Star’s researchers considered him a possible first contact.
• The Plane Research Group concluded that the Primordial World was an extremely high-energy nascent plane, but its unstable laws meant its displayed phenomena could not be directly compared with Douluo Continent combat power.
• The researchers determined that Great Luo was the Primordial World’s known peak and that its Innate Divine Beings relied on personal foundations and innate Great Dao rather than a mature cultivation system.
• Zhou Ruolan reasoned that Ancestor Dragon and the other supreme beings were gambling with their races’ futures because their civilization lacked a proven path beyond Great Luo.
• The strategic department saw Blue Star’s complete cultivation system as bargaining power for future contact with the Primordial World.
• Hu Liena argued that Blue Star’s broader advantage included its academies, sects, Soul Guidance Technology, and research into Soul Beast bloodlines and Martial Soul Evolution.

Shen Qinghe organized Blue Star's cultivation knowledge for future contact with the Primordial World. Centuries later, Qing Xuan and Qing Yi discovered that Luohou's Twelfth-Rank World-Destroying Black Lotus had been feeding on clan conflict in the East Sea, and they moved to stop it.

• Shen Qinghe ordered a cultivation-system translation group to compile materials and invite academies and sects with ties to Douluo Continent.
• Hu Liena offered Soul Hall Academy's lower-level teaching materials and Martial Soul Evolution cases, while Shen Qinghe maintained the Dragon Race as Blue Star's first contact.
• After Qiuniu left, Qing Yi refined the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, and she and Qing Xuan detected an abnormal East Sea Water Vein.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi found Dragon Race aquatic creatures and Phoenix Clan affiliates dead near a Sea Eye, with black veins drawing their death aura into an unbloomed lotus.
• Qing Xuan recognized Luohou's World-Destroying Black Lotus and realized it had magnified the clans' killing intent and sent the resulting power westward.
• The Black Lotus unfurled and began destroying the battlefield's traces, so Qing Yi divided the Sea Eye into isolated waters while Qing Xuan prepared to sever the Water Veins.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi destroyed a Black Lotus seal and followed Luohou’s demonic seals west, planning to preserve some Earth Veins and earn Heavenly Dao Merit. Their search led them to Longevity Mountain, where they revealed themselves to its master and a visiting Daoist.

• Qing Yi used her Creation Great Dao and the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to destroy the Black Lotus, while Qing Xuan sealed its remaining lotus heart.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi discovered that the demonic seals connected the three-clan battlefields to the western Earth Veins, and decided to investigate their routes and prepare to preserve some Earth Veins.
• Qing Xuan explained that their efforts could earn Heavenly Dao Merit, but they needed the Earth Book to locate the Earth Veins safely, so he chose to seek out Zhen Yuanzi at Longevity Mountain.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi traveled west along the demonic seals for several thousand years, recording their connections to the surrounding Earth Veins while concealing their auras.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi found Longevity Mountain and revealed their auras outside its formation; the master emerged alongside a red-robed Daoist visiting Wuzhuang Temple.

Qing Xuan and Qing Yi showed Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun how Luohou’s Black Lotus Demon Marks connected the western Earth Veins and could carry destructive power across the Primordial World. Zhen Yuanzi agreed to accompany them and use his knowledge of the Earth Veins, while Hong Yun remained at Longevity Mountain.

• Qing Xuan revealed the sealed Black Lotus Core to Zhen Yuanzi and explained that their plan could preserve a sliver of hope for the western lands and earn Heavenly Dao Merit.
• At Wuzhuang Temple, Zhen Yuanzi touched the Black Lotus Core with a strand of the Earth Book’s aura, revealing a demonic pattern that linked battlefield energy to the western Earth Veins.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi contained and destroyed the exposed pattern, while the Earth Book recorded its route and revealed the danger of Luohou sending destructive power through connected Earth Veins.
• Qing Xuan explained that the group could not sever every Black Lotus Demon Mark without alerting Luohou, and Zhen Yuanzi agreed to travel with Qing Xuan and Qing Yi rather than lend them his natal Earth Book.
• Zhen Yuanzi told Hong Yun to stay at Longevity Mountain and be ready to receive the Earth Book if the others encountered trouble.

Qing Xuan, Qing Yi, and Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book to hide contingencies in the western Earth Veins, preserving a chance for damaged mountains and rivers to recover. They returned to Wuzhuang Temple with no merit bestowed, waiting for Luohou to activate the Earth Veins.

• Qing Xuan examined Luohou’s demonic seals with Zhen Yuanzi and chose to preserve a hidden branch vein rather than risk damaging the main Earth Veins.
• Qing Xuan created a tiny hidden world in the branch vein, and Qing Yi placed an azure seed inside it to awaken if the Earth Veins broke.
• When demonic roots reached toward the new world, Qing Yi erased their chance to spread, and Qing Xuan concealed the world from Luohou.
• Qing Xuan decided they would work only in the western periphery, and the three spent two Epoch Cycles placing hidden contingencies in critical branch veins.
• Nearly ten thousand years later, Hong Yun asked about their merit, and Qing Xuan explained it would come only if Luohou activated the western Earth Veins.

After returning to Buzhou Mountain, Qing Xuan discovered the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler and glimpsed the Chaos beyond his World Dao. He and Qing Yi then emerged from seclusion and decided to seek a lasting Daoist sanctuary while keeping Buzhou Mountain as their ancestral court.

• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi left Longevity Mountain with Ginseng Fruits from Hong Yun and returned to Buzhou Mountain.
• Qing Xuan sensed a hidden creation trace, and he and Qing Yi followed it to a stone wall deep within the mountain.
• Qing Xuan touched the trace, awakening the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler, which measured his world and revealed the Chaos beyond its boundaries.
• Qing Xuan recognized that his world was born from Chaos and remained the foundation of his Dao, while Qing Yi urged him to let it grow.
• Qing Xuan and Qing Yi cultivated together in seclusion for an Epoch Cycle, then decided to find a proper Daoist sanctuary beyond their ancestral court at Buzhou Mountain.