Chapter Summaries

Ji Yuan joined Long Liuli’s branch of the Horned Dragon Clan, collected his rewards, and revealed to her that Yan Chixiao wielded the Dragon-Slaying Great Dao. Meanwhile, the Phoenix Clan investigated a disturbance involving its clansmen and concluded that Feng Jiuxiao was likely an impostor.

• Long Liuli welcomed Ji Yuan, Long Yun, and Long Fei into her branch and arranged extra Purple Spirit Stones among their clan rewards.
• Ji Yuan and his siblings received True Dragon Blood Essence, cultivation resources, and permission to choose a residence and receive their inheritance.
• At Long Liuli’s Cave Abode, Ji Yuan told her that Yan Chixiao had cultivated the Dragon-Slaying Great Dao and that the Dragon Race had sent three Void Refinement Stage True Dragons to hunt the human cultivators.
• Feng Yidao reported that a human cultivator had seized the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye and impersonated the Purple-Eyed Clan, and that the Azure Luan Clan had traded Fountain of Life with him.
• Feng Yidao told the Phoenix Clan elders that Feng Jiuxiao had been involved in the matter and was likely an impostor.

Ji Yuan entered the Horned Dragon Clan’s Inheritance Land, where the Clan Spirit discovered his Gold-Burning Bone divine ability and elevated him to a first-ranked Divine Ability Seed alongside Long Liuli. After receiving the clan’s recognition, resources, and a home on Three Dragons Island, Ji Yuan decided to upgrade the Dragon Pool somewhere secluded outside the clan.

• Long Liuli led Ji Yuan, Long Yun, and Long Fei into the cloud sea, where they began receiving the Horned Dragon Clan’s inheritance.
• The Clan Spirit sensed Ji Yuan’s powerful Dragon Qi, discovered his Gold-Burning Bone divine ability, and questioned how he had obtained it.
• Ji Yuan told the Clan Spirit that he learned Gold-Burning Bone from a petrified Dragon Egg, and the Clan Spirit named him a Divine Ability Seed destined for the Body Integration Realm.
• The Clan Spirit concealed Ji Yuan’s divine ability and instructed him to reach the Spirit Transformation Peak Stage before the Kun Ruins opened.
• Long Liuli explained that the Clan Spirit was formed from the consciousnesses of deceased Horned Dragon ancestors, and the Third Clan Elder confirmed Ji Yuan’s new status.
• Ji Yuan settled on Three Dragons Island with Long Yun and Long Fei, accepted the clan’s gifts and compensation, and chose to upgrade the Dragon Pool in seclusion outside the clan.

Ji Yuan upgraded the [Fish Pond] into the [Dragon Pool] in secret from his cave abode on Dragon Roaming Mountain, while its dragon qi helped Dong Qian break through to the Spirit Transformation Late Stage. The upgrade’s powerful aura escaped the cave’s formation and drew the attention of the city’s Void Refinement experts, including Long Liuli.

• Ji Yuan gave Long Yun and Long Fei two drops of true dragon blood essence, then left the Horned Dragon Clan for Northern Dragon City with them and Long Liuli.
• Ji Yuan rented a cave abode at Dragon Roaming Mountain, sent Long Yun and Long Fei back to Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, and entered the [Cave Abode] there as a speck of dust.
• Ji Yuan brought Dong Qian to the [Fish Pond] and told her to cultivate while he began the upgrade using spirit stones, five elemental demon cores, a flood dragon corpse, and true dragon blood essence.
• The [Fish Pond] became the [Dragon Pool], causing water beasts to evolve and giving Long Fei and Long Yun a chance to strengthen their bloodlines; Ji Yuan also refined a drop of true dragon blood essence.
• Dong Qian broke through to the Spirit Transformation Late Stage, while dragon qi from the upgrading [Dragon Pool] leaked through the cave abode’s formation and startled Dragon Roaming Mountain’s Void Refinement experts.
• Long Liuli recognized that the powerful dragon qi came from Ji Yuan’s cave abode and wondered whether he would soon surpass her.

After settling among the Horned Dragon Clan, Ji Yuan built trust with its members while learning about Great Daos and Laws. When the Clan Spirit urged him to consider the Force Great Dao, Ji Yuan chose to continue traveling the Demon God Continent rather than decide on a path immediately.

• Ji Yuan recovered from refining True Dragon Blood Essence, while Long Fei and Long Yun gained benefits but did not become True Dragons, and Dong Qian advanced to the Spirit Transformation Late Stage.
• Ji Yuan discussed his plans with Dong Qian and spent a month cultivating on Dragon Roaming Mountain before returning to Three Dragons Island with Long Liuli.
• Ji Yuan examined the Level Seven Dragon Pool’s upgrade requirements and found that he needed a Sixth-Tier True Dragon corpse and other rare materials.
• Over the next year, Ji Yuan befriended the Horned Dragon Clan and questioned its Void Refinement Cultivators about comprehending Great Daos and Laws.
• The Clan Spirit explained that Gold-Burning Bone could help Ji Yuan pursue the Force Great Dao, but Ji Yuan declared that he wanted to continue traveling the Demon God Continent.

Qing Meng recapped a productive August, celebrated the audiobook’s success, and promised steady updates in September. The author ended by asking readers for monthly tickets and wishing them good health and wealth.

• Qing Meng said Qidian had removed the monthly-ticket bonus-story feature before Qing Meng could try it.
• Qing Meng reported writing every day in August, including while traveling in Fujian, and using up the chapter stockpile.
• Qing Meng announced that the book’s audiobook had performed well on Ximalaya and welcomed listeners who had followed it over.
• Qing Meng said September updates should be reliable and hoped to work up to writing ten thousand words a day.
• Qing Meng asked readers to send monthly tickets and wished them good health and wealth.

Ji Yuan gained the Clan Spirit’s permission to leave the Horned Dragon Clan, provided Long Liuli accompanied him, and set out with her and Dong Qian toward the Qilin Clan. Meanwhile, Jiang Jun and his companions planned to travel to Demon East, while Long Qie questioned the Horned Dragon Clan about Long Fei and Long Yun.

• Ji Yuan persuaded the Clan Spirit that he needed to venture outside to grow stronger, and the Clan Spirit agreed but required him to take Long Liuli along and gave them protective dragon scales.
• Ji Yuan and Long Liuli left Ten Thousand Dragons Lake, met Dong Qian in Northern Dragon City, and prepared to travel to the Qilin Clan before continuing south.
• Long Qie arrived at the Horned Dragon Clan’s reception hall and asked whether Long Chuan had returned and where Long Fei and Long Yun were.
• Ji Yuan, Long Liuli, and Dong Qian reached Southern Dragon City and learned they would wait five days for a teleportation formation to Divine Deer City.
• Jiang Jun, Dugu Yan, Dugu Qing, and Yan Chixiao agreed to travel to Demon East rather than risk going to Demon West, where the Kun Ruins might be located.
• Jiang Jun’s family directed him to take the same five-day teleportation formation to Divine Deer City.

In Southern Dragon City, Ao Zhun’s forces tried to identify the four humans hiding among the city’s enormous population, while Ji Yuan and his companions prepared to leave for Demon East. As the Teleportation Formation activated, Qing Ling detected the fugitives and Ao Zhun unleashed a thunder attack on the departing group.

• Ao Zhun ordered Qing Ling and Ao Guang to search for the four humans, learned that the Star-Gathering Disc had been taken to Demon God Mountain, and focused surveillance on the city’s upcoming teleportations.
• Ji Yuan, Dong Qian, and Long Liuli stayed hidden for five days; Long Liuli told Ji Yuan that a battle between Lei Pojun and a Flood Dragon cultivator had left Southern Dragon City without its stationed Body Integration Cultivator.
• Jiang Jun’s group debated how to escape after Dugu Qing sensed that flying out of the city meant certain death and that teleportation offered their only chance of survival.
• Ji Yuan spotted Dugu Qing and Dugu Yan in the harbor, recognized Jiang Jun and Yan Chixiao on the formation, and moved Dong Qian and Long Liuli away from them.
• Qing Ling detected the humans as the formation activated, and Ao Zhun tore open the Void and sent bolts of purple divine lightning sweeping across the Teleportation Formation.

Ji Yuan escaped the collapsing teleportation passage, but he and his companions were scattered across the Void before he emerged in a secret realm with Dong Qian and Dugu Qing. After Ji Yuan changed into Feng Jiuxiao, a Soul Lamp bearing Long Chuan’s name went out, and the Third Elder reported his apparent death to the Clan Spirit.

• Ao Zhun destroyed the Teleportation Formation, and lightning shattered the passage as Ji Yuan, Long Liuli, and Dong Qian fled into the Void.
• Jiang Jun escaped with Dugu Yan and two others, but Dugu Qing was swept away; an old woman calmed Dugu Yan as they disappeared into the darkness.
• Ji Yuan and Dong Qian found a spatial rift, but a Void current carried Long Liuli away, while Dugu Qing emerged unconscious alongside them in a volcanic region.
• Ji Yuan changed from Long Chuan into Feng Jiuxiao, and he and Dong Qian discovered that they had entered a Secret Realm with Dugu Qing.
• Dugu Qing recognized Ji Yuan and pointed out a route through the Secret Realm, so the three flew in that direction.
• A Soul Lamp bearing Long Chuan’s name went out in the Horned Dragon Ancestral Land, and the Third Elder told the Clan Spirit that Long Chuan had died.

Ji Yuan reached the lava lake, seized the Nine-Tower Soul-Calming Bell from the demons besieging Ying Ning, and prepared to protect her when they turned on him. Dong Qian and Dugu Qing arrived at his side, leaving the three demons facing the combined group.

• The third clan elder learned that the True Dragon Clan had destroyed a teleportation formation in Southern Dragon City while Long Chuan and Long Liuli were aboard, and he ordered the news kept secret while he checked Long Liuli's Soul Lamp.
• Ji Yuan sensed Ying Ning fighting three Spirit Transformation Peak Stage demons and watched her lose another tail while they tried to take her Nine-Tower Soul-Calming Bell.
• The Howling Moon Sky Wolf took the bell and placed it under restrictions as the three demons resumed attacking Ying Ning.
• Ji Yuan rushed to the lava lake, broke the restrictions, claimed the bell, and absorbed it into his Sea of Consciousness.
• The three demons backed down after recognizing Ji Yuan as Feng Jiuxiao, but they prepared to attack when he refused to let them kill Ying Ning.
• Dong Qian and Dugu Qing arrived beside Ji Yuan and warned the demons not to harm him.

Ji Yuan, Dong Qian, and Dugu Qing escaped the floating-island realm and headed toward an undersea secret realm to investigate why Ji Yuan’s cultivation techniques had eluded his students. Meanwhile, Ying Ning vowed revenge, and the Horned Dragon Clan’s elders suspected the Dragon Race had targeted their prodigies; the chapter ended with Dugu Qing searching for the secret realm’s entrance.

• Ji Yuan let the three great demons flee, spared Ying Ning, and led Dong Qian and Dugu Qing through the lava lake to the floating island’s surface.
• Ji Yuan and Dong Qian revealed their Sacred Race auras, drove away the watching Demon Beasts, and learned that they had emerged in the Southern Demonlands.
• Dong Qian sensed the direction of the Qilin Ancestral Land, while Dugu Qing sensed that Dugu Yan was in the same direction; Ji Yuan then chose to investigate Dong Qian’s nearby undersea secret realm first.
• Ying Ning left the floating-island area and swore to destroy the Mountain-Shifting Ape, Winged Sky-Soaring Tiger, and Howling Moon Sky Wolf tribes after reaching Void Refinement.
• The Horned Dragon Clan’s Third Elder and Clan Spirit discussed Long Chuan’s disappearance, suspected the Dragon Race was weakening their clan, and agreed that his death could not be ignored.
• Ji Yuan, Dong Qian, and Dugu Qing reached the bottom of the sea trench, found no entrance, and Ji Yuan asked Dugu Qing to search for it.

Ji Yuan, Dong Qian, and Dugu Qing met the remnant soul of the Demon Master, Bai Ze, in Water-Town Villa and learned the origins and limits of the Demon-Transforming Art. Bai Ze revealed an opportunity awaiting them in the Kun Ruins and identified the Purple-Eyed Clan’s ancestor as the weakest Mahayana Cultivator before they departed.

• Dugu Qing sensed a powerful senior in the seabed, and the white-haired man appeared and brought the group to Water-Town Villa.
• Bai Ze explained that the Demon-Transforming Art consisted of two arts he had created, that only five people could cultivate it, and that the other three likely received it through a descendant of the Barbarian God.
• Bai Ze confirmed that the art had no hidden dangers and learned from Ji Yuan that an immortal had improved it.
• Bai Ze told Ji Yuan, Dong Qian, and Dugu Qing about the Kun Ruins Celestial Palace, where chosen Spirit Transformation cultivators could comprehend the Laws of the Great Dao and advance to Void Refinement.
• Bai Ze revealed that the Purple-Eyed Clan’s Mahayana ancestor was the weakest Mahayana Cultivator in the Human Realm, then named himself the Demon Master, Bai Ze.

Ji Yuan and Dong Qian traveled to the Qilin Clan Ancestral Land, where the elders welcomed Dong Qian as a lost clanswoman. Ji Yuan revealed that he and Dong Qian were Dao companions, leaving the elders stunned by the prospect of a Qilin-Phoenix marriage alliance.

• Bai Ze told Ji Yuan to spend more time with Dugu Qing and said she could help him face the Immortal Ascension Tribulation; Ji Yuan, Dong Qian, and Dugu Qing then discussed entering the Kun Ruins and their separate plans.
• Dugu Qing said she and her companions sought something connected to the Martial God Tower, then left to find her elder sister; Ji Yuan and Dong Qian set out for the Qilin Clan.
• Ji Yuan and Dong Qian reached White Deer City, and Bai Hua escorted them to White Deer Mountain, where Lu Xiangrui met them and led them into the Qilin Clan Ancestral Land.
• The Qilin Clan's three elders welcomed Dong Qian home and invited her and Ji Yuan into their palace.
• Ji Yuan told the elders that Dong Qian was his Dao companion, and the elders were astonished at the prospect of a Qilin-Phoenix marriage alliance.

Ji Yuan and Dong Qian secured the Qilin elders’ approval for their relationship and were welcomed into the Qilin Clan, though the elders discovered that powerful forces concealed both of their pasts. At the welcoming banquet, Ji Yuan met Lu Tianming, the clan’s leading Spirit Transformation cultivator, who declared that women only slowed his sword-drawing.

• Ji Yuan and Dong Qian told the Qilin elders that they had pledged themselves to one another, and the elders agreed to consider a marriage alliance if the Phoenix Clan approved.
• Dong Qian recounted her origins in the Endless Sea, and the elders accepted her as a returned clanswoman and promised to protect her.
• The Qilin Clan gathered to meet Dong Qian, and Lu Xiangrui led her and Ji Yuan to choose a Cave Abode before inviting them to the welcoming banquet.
• The Qilin elders failed to divine Dong Qian’s past or Feng Jiuxiao’s fate, glimpsed the name Star-Gazing Tower, and decided to let the couple’s relationship proceed.
• At the lakeside banquet, Ji Yuan met Lu Tianya and learned that Lu Tianming was the Qilin Clan’s leading Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Lu Tianming rebuffed a woman in white who praised Dong Qian as his match, saying women slowed his sword-drawing and threatening to kill her if she tried to use him.

Ji Yuan explored the Qilin Clan’s cultivation grounds and pushed through Divine Passage Valley until he reached the limit of his Spirit Transformation-stage Divine Soul, strengthening the Nine-Tower Soul-Calming Bell along the way. He then entered Hidden Mist Mountain, where the Ghost Envoy identified a hidden Dao Armament as the Heaven-Piercing Creation Diagram.

• After the welcome banquet, Ji Yuan and Dong Qian studied the Qilin Clan’s Creation Secret together, and three days later Dong Qian went alone to the Founders' Hall.
• Lu Tianya guided Ji Yuan around White Deer Mountain and explained the Medicine-Washing Pool, Divine Passage Valley, and Hidden Mist Mountain.
• Ji Yuan entered Divine Passage Valley, where its increasing pressure tempered his Divine Soul and fused the Soul-Calming Bell’s power into the Nine-Tower Soul-Calming Bell.
• After five days, Ji Yuan reached the Void Refinement boundary stele, found he could not advance farther, and returned with his Divine Soul at the peak of the Spirit Transformation Stage.
• Lu Tianya led Ji Yuan into Hidden Mist Mountain and gave him a scroll token to protect him from its illusions.
• As Ji Yuan ventured into the mist, the Ghost Envoy recognized the Dao Armament there as the Heaven-Piercing Creation Diagram.

Ji Yuan explored Hidden Mist Mountain, where Dream Butterfly helped him navigate its illusion realms and break through to the Fifth Tier. After spending nine months in a dream life that brought him to sudden enlightenment, he attained the Luminous State of Mind and learned the five recognized realms of mental cultivation.

• Lu Tianya judged Ji Yuan's Divine Soul to be near Void Refinement and told the Qilin Clan's Third Elder to pursue a marriage alliance with the Phoenix Clan through Dong Qian.
• Ji Yuan learned that the damaged Heaven-Piercing Creation Diagram was a powerful Dao Armament used by the Qilin Clan to create illusion realms, then released Dream Butterfly to help him through Hidden Mist Mountain.
• Dream Butterfly broke through to the Fifth Tier, gathered several illusion-related heavenly treasures, and began cultivating again while Ji Yuan tried to interact with the surrounding illusion realms.
• Ji Yuan fell unconscious and lived a long dream as a martial artist who rose from a fisher family's son to a sword master, eventually dying after battling a High Immortal.
• Dream Butterfly revealed that she had shaped the dream and its proficiency panel to help Ji Yuan, and Ji Yuan accepted the dream life as part of himself and attained the Luminous State of Mind.
• The Ghost Envoy explained that states of mind had five realms: Purity, Clarity, Seeing One's Nature, Guarding the One, and Guizhen.

Ji Yuan emerged from a decades-long dream with his state of mind at Clarity, then cultivated at the Medicine-Washing Pool and awakened the Lung-Metal Flood Dragon, bringing him close to completing the Five Viscera Furnace Realm. He decided to return to the Phoenix Clan ahead of the Kunxu Secret Realm, and Lu Xiangrui offered to guide him through Demon God Mountain.

• Ji Yuan learned from the Ghost Envoy how the Clarity state of mind supported cultivation, resisted Heart Demons, and could aid his path toward Void Refinement.
• Ji Yuan left Hidden Mist Mountain, reunited with Lu Tianya, and heard how Lu Tianya's cousin had lost his identity in a century-long dream and later died beneath the Great Dao Lightning Tribulation.
• Lu Tianya brought Ji Yuan to the Medicine-Washing Pool, where Lu Xiu tried to seduce him before he entered the second pool to cultivate.
• Ji Yuan refined the pool's medicinal power and, with the aid of Gold-Burning Bone, awakened the Lung-Metal Flood Dragon and broke through to four awakened viscera.
• After learning that a year had passed, Ji Yuan left the pool, evaded Lu Xiu, and told Lu Xiangrui he planned to return to the Phoenix Clan before the Kunxu Secret Realm opened.
• Lu Xiangrui agreed to guide Ji Yuan through Demon God Mountain after saying the Qilin Clan's elders were away.

Ji Yuan returned to the Phoenix Clan under the name Feng Jiuxiao after traveling through Demon God Mountain, where the Phoenix elders and clansmen had already been investigating the supposed impostor. He loudly announced his return and was warmly received by the Second Elder, leaving Feng Yu and the others bewildered.

• Feng Yidao argued that Feng Jiuxiao was connected to Feng Yudao’s death and vowed to search the other regions if the Phoenix Clan found no news within three months.
• Ji Yuan traveled with Lu Xiangrui through Demon God Mountain and saw the sacred mountain before reaching the Phoenix Clan’s territory.
• Feng Zhaojie recognized Ji Yuan as the long-sought Feng Jiuxiao and escorted him to the Phoenix Clan’s Teleportation Formation.
• Feng Yu and Feng Zhuer accompanied Ji Yuan back to Phoenix Divine Mountain, where he told them he had spent years with the Qilin Clan’s elders.
• Ji Yuan shouted that he had finally returned, drawing the Phoenix Clan’s Second and Third Elders to him.
• The Second Elder welcomed Ji Yuan and patted his shoulder while Feng Yu wondered why the reunion was not going as expected.

Ji Yuan proved to the Phoenix Clan that he was Feng Jiuxiao and announced that the Qilin Clan sought a marriage alliance through him and his Dao companion. As the elders postponed their decision, Feng Xian guided Ji Yuan around the Ancestral Land and brought him to a Cave Abode bearing a hostile inscription.

• The Phoenix Clan elders confirmed Feng Jiuxiao’s identity, and Feng Yidao apologized for suspecting him before the elders questioned him in the Founders’ Hall.
• Ji Yuan revealed that his Dao companion belonged to the Qilin Clan and said the Qilin Clan wanted a marriage alliance with the Phoenix Clan through their relationship.
• The elders deferred the marriage decision until they could consult the Grand Elder and the Ancestor, then gave Ji Yuan tokens and told him to settle into the clan.
• Feng Xian guided Ji Yuan through the Ancestral Land, explaining the Phoenix Nest inheritance, Fallen Phoenix Mountain’s bloodline purification, and the clan’s cultivation prospects.
• Feng Xian led Ji Yuan to a Cave Abode, where Ji Yuan found the words “Damn Partridge Whistle, hit!” written on the entrance wall.

Ji Yuan settled into Feng Xi’s former cave and learned that his master, Partridge Whistle, had killed the Phoenix elder. The Phoenix elders approved Ji Yuan’s entry into Fallen Phoenix Mountain, where he arrived at the Phoenix Nest and encountered the ice phoenix Senior Xue.

• Feng Xian told Ji Yuan that Partridge Whistle had defeated Feng Xi, an Integration Realm phoenix, and left him to die after luring him away from the clan.
• Ji Yuan explored Feng Xi’s cave, discovered his Space Dao cultivation insights, and resolved to study them after leaving Fallen Phoenix Mountain.
• The Phoenix elders discussed an alliance with the Qilin Clan, failed to divine Feng Jiuxiao’s origins, and agreed to let him enter Fallen Phoenix Mountain.
• At the welcome banquet, Feng Kunshan challenged Ji Yuan to spar, but Ji Yuan declined; Feng Yu then reacted with surprise when Ji Yuan quoted Heavenly Pivot.
• Feng Xian brought Ji Yuan to the Phoenix Nest, where he saw phoenix eggs in a magma pool and met the ice-blue-haired Senior Xue.

Ji Yuan received the Phoenix Clan’s inheritance, gained Bing Xue’s favor, and arranged for his companions to search for Kunpeng Remnant Maps. After entering Fallen Phoenix Mountain, he heard someone ask whether he had met Bai Ze.

• Ji Yuan met Bing Xue in the Phoenix Nest, received the Phoenix Nirvana Art and other inheritance, and learned the Phoenix Clan’s cultivation methods and Dao insights.
• Ji Yuan mastered the Fire Phoenix Void Escape, asked Bing Xue for help, and received a Bing Xue Jade Pendant from her.
• Feng Xian told Ji Yuan that the Third Elder had secured him permission to enter Fallen Phoenix Mountain and use the clan’s other cultivation sites.
• Ji Yuan sent Long Fei, Long Yun, Mei Zhuang, and Jin Peng out to gain experience and search for Kunpeng Remnant Maps, while Dream Butterfly stayed behind to help him.
• Ji Yuan entered Fallen Phoenix Mountain, where a voice asked him whether he had met Bai Ze.