Chapter Summaries

Qian Wanyu suspected the net held more than small fish and used her spiritual power to fling it upward. The chapter ended with a gleaming golden object flying out of the net.

• Qian Wanyu told Ninth Sister to step back.
• Qian Wanyu braced herself and gathered her spiritual power.
• Qian Wanyu stamped her foot and hurled the net upward.
• A gleaming golden object shot into the air.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu caught a golden fish that Long County Village revered as its guardian, then learned it was a pseudo-dragon capable of taking human form. After Toothless emerged from seclusion, the fish returned to steal grilled food, and Toothless caught it by the lake.

• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu caught a heavy golden fish, which the villagers recognized as their guardian and released back into the lake with a ritual.
• Qian Wanyu learned from Qing Mo that the golden fish was a pseudo-dragon that could take human form, while Sister-in-law Hua secretly stole their grilled fish.
• Toothless emerged from seclusion, and Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu grilled fish with the Hua couple before deciding to remain in the village a little longer.
• The pseudo-dragon crept out of the lake at night to steal grilled fish, but Toothless chased it into the water and pinned it down after bringing it ashore.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu captured Long County Village’s Pseudo-Dragon village chief and learned that the village lay behind a barrier connected to the Dragon Clan. He led them to the grave of a Dragon Clan lord whose sealed spiritual power had left the ground blackened like the aftermath of Black Herb, raising suspicions about a connection to the Elf Clan’s past.

• Toothless forced the golden Pseudo-Dragon to transform, but the villagers’ arrival let him escape; Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu then followed Sister-in-law Hua and Brother Hua Yi to the village chief’s home.
• Toothless uncovered a hidden passage beneath the village chief’s storeroom, and Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu followed its current to the lake.
• Qian Wanyu waited by the passage until the Pseudo-Dragon returned, and Toothless caught him; the village chief revealed that Long County Village was protected by the Dragon Clan and that a Dragon-Eye Fruit had let him enter and take human form.
• The village chief said a Dragon Clan lord had guided him into the village, and he led Dongfang Minghui, Qian Wanyu, and Toothless to the lord’s grave in the Forbidden Grounds.
• The village chief explained that the lord had died from Black Herb-like corruption after sealing his spiritual power in a stone; Qian Wanyu suspected the Dragon Clan’s barrier might be connected to the Elf Clan’s past.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu learned that the Pseudo-Dragon had hidden Dragon Clan relics, including a portrait resembling Toothless and a map, and he asked to join them in search of the Dragon Clan. When Qian Wanyu found a route out of Long County Village by recreating the starry sky from their arrival, the path vanished again, and Toothless swallowed the Pseudo-Dragon.

• Toothless collected the Pseudo-Dragon’s treasures, and Dongfang Minghui learned that an iron fragment among them had been left by the Dragon Clan Elder.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui secretly opened the Pseudo-Dragon’s metal box, found a portrait matching Toothless and a worn map possibly leading to Dragon Valley, and confronted him about the relics.
• The Pseudo-Dragon revealed he had been trapped in Long County Village for over fifty years and asked to join them to seek a Dragon-Eye Fruit that might change his half-human, half-Pseudo-Dragon form.
• Qian Wanyu discovered that the village’s shifting formation blocked their exit and spent days tracing its paths until she recreated the starry sky from the night they arrived and found a route out.
• Qian Wanyu sat in meditation as the path disappeared, while Toothless swallowed the Pseudo-Dragon; Dongfang Minghui made Toothless spit out the tiny golden creature, who asked for water.

Dongfang Minghui tried to revive the limp little golden Pseudo-Dragon by giving it water and spirit liquid. She threatened to feed it to Toothless if it did not wake up, and Toothless eagerly perked up.

• Dongfang Minghui poured water over the limp little golden Pseudo-Dragon.
• She hurriedly fed it spirit liquid when it kept opening and closing its mouth.
• Dongfang Minghui threatened to feed it to Toothless if it did not wake up.
• Toothless's listless expression vanished and its eyes lit up.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu fought off an Azure Mist Sect ambush while Qian Wanyu advanced, then continued toward the Beast Tribe settlement. Mo Ce, who appeared to be Cheng Song’s long-lost son, followed them and later clashed with Jing Kewei.

• Dongfang Minghui took the dying Little Golden Pseudo-Dragon to a stream, but an Azure Mist Sect group found her after cutting Little Lecher’s vine and set blood scabies mites on her.
• Dongfang Minghui escaped the insects and returned to Qian Wanyu, where she, Toothless, Little White Ball, and Little Lecher fought the attackers; Mo Ce appeared and killed an Azure Mist Sect disciple.
• Qian Wanyu’s advancement unleashed lightning that killed most of the Azure Mist Sect group, while Dongfang Minghui poisoned the survivors and Little Lecher stopped their escape.
• After Qian Wanyu finished advancing, Dongfang Minghui treated Toothless and Little White Ball, and the two women traveled to Shichuan Town before setting out toward the Beast Tribe settlement.
• Qian Wanyu gave the Little Golden Pseudo-Dragon a water-filled jar, then she and Dongfang Minghui concealed themselves as Mo Ce arrived and followed their trail.
• On a remote path, Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu found Mo Ce fighting Jing Kewei; after Qian Wanyu intervened, Dongfang Minghui learned Mo Ce’s name.

Dongfang Minghui traveled toward the Beast Tribe's settlements with Qian Wanyu, Jing Kewei, and Mo Ce while growing suspicious of Jing Kewei's intentions and hearing about the war against the Cass Tribe. After Qian Wanyu left to cultivate in a thunderstorm and returned, the group set out again, but the Dragon-Trapping Seal on Dongfang Minghui's palm began acting up.

• Qian Wanyu reunited with Jing Kewei and met Mo Ce, who insisted on following Dongfang Minghui as they headed toward the Beast Tribe's settlements.
• Jing Kewei warned that the Beast Tribe's settlements were embroiled in war, and Mo Ce said the Cyril and Hilaris Tribes had attacked the Cass Tribe.
• The group sheltered in a cave during a storm, where Qian Wanyu left to cultivate in the lightning and Mo Ce and Jing Kewei later went outside while Dongfang Minghui slept.
• Dongfang Minghui and Mo Ce stayed wary of Jing Kewei during their half-month wait, and Qian Wanyu returned after the weather cleared.
• As they resumed their journey, Qian Wanyu told Dongfang Minghui she knew Jing Kewei had approached her during the storm, and the Dragon-Trapping Seal on Dongfang Minghui's palm began glowing and spinning.

She endured pain as the trapped dragon’s terrain began to change, comparing her earlier maps and drawing anything unfamiliar. Mo Ce noticed her pale face and asked what was wrong.

• She hurriedly took out her terrain maps of the trapped dragon and marked their order.
• She drew any terrain she had never seen before.
• Mo Ce noticed that she was pale, sweating, and clutching her hand, and asked what was wrong.

Dongfang Minghui’s Dragon-Trapping Seal repeatedly took control of her at night, leading Qian Wanyu and their companions toward the Dragon-Trapping Valley while she remembered nothing. After escaping Flame Sparrows and crossing a magnetic sandstorm, the group fell into an abyss, where Dongfang Minghui found a fiery-red egg and woke with an injured arm.

• Dongfang Minghui hid her drawings of the Dragon-Trapping Seal’s terrain-like markings, and Qian Wanyu suspected Jing Kewei after he showed suspicious knowledge of Beast Tribe defenses.
• At night, the Dragon-Trapping Seal took control of Dongfang Minghui, who left Baoning Town and injured two beastfolk guards while Qian Wanyu followed her.
• Dongfang Minghui led Qian Wanyu, Mo Ce, and Jing Kewei through the night, surviving a swarm of Flame Sparrows before reaching a cavern that Qian Wanyu suspected was the Dragon-Trapping Valley.
• The group followed Dongfang Minghui into a magnetic sandstorm, which swept them into a pit above a bottomless abyss.
• Dongfang Minghui freed her trapped arm and found a fiery-red egg; Little Lecher’s vines hauled Qian Wanyu and Mo Ce out of the abyss, and Qian Wanyu noticed Dongfang Minghui’s dislocated arm.

Seventh Sister’s face was injured, and she blamed the Dragon-Trapping Seal for the damage. The seal silently rejected her blame.

• Seventh Sister’s eye twitched and her lip split at the lightest touch.
• Seventh Sister offered to check Seventh Sister’s face.
• Seventh Sister wished she could chop off her hand and blamed the Dragon-Trapping Seal.
• The Dragon-Trapping Seal denied wanting to take the blame.

Dongfang Minghui, Qian Wanyu, and Mo Ce were trapped on a tiny platform above an abyss, where Dongfang Minghui’s nightly trance revealed a Phantom Stairway into the Dragon-Trapping Valley. As Qian Wanyu and Mo Ce fought undead on the descending path, they triggered the abyss’s rules, and the staircase shattered beneath them.

• Qian Wanyu questioned Mo Ce about Cheng Feng, the Blood Baleful Alliance, and why he followed them before giving him the necklace tied to his origins.
• Dongfang Minghui feared they were in the Dragon-Trapping Valley, purified spirit liquid for a withered tree, and fell asleep as darkness came.
• Dongfang Minghui’s black-eyed trance revealed the Phantom Stairway, and Qian Wanyu and Mo Ce followed her down into the abyss.
• Qian Wanyu and Mo Ce fought Four-Limbed Monsters and undead giants while the staircase vanished behind them; Qian Wanyu’s five spiritual elements shocked Mo Ce.
• Qian Wanyu destroyed an undead giant, triggering the abyss’s rules, and the blinding light engulfed the group as the staircase shattered and they fell.

Dongfang Minghui was guided by the Dragon-Trapping Seal through a maze of hanging corpses and ancient dragon murals to a pool that revealed Qian Wanyu’s struggles elsewhere in Dragon-Trapping Valley. After Minghui disturbed the pool, it trapped her in a Water Shield amid fragments of recorded memories, and she tried to reach one before nightfall.

• Dongfang Minghui woke among hanging corpses and Living Dead, then the Dragon-Trapping Seal took control of her and led her down stairs to a chamber with dragon murals and an ancient stone door.
• The Dragon-Trapping Seal opened the door, and Dongfang Minghui entered a chamber with a deep pool whose surface showed Qian Wanyu fighting Emerald Kun Beasts in a spatial formation.
• Qian Wanyu defeated the Emerald Kun Beasts, studied the terrain maps, concluded the Dragon-Trapping Seal might be trying to close Dragon-Trapping Valley, and set out to find Dongfang Minghui.
• After the Dragon-Trapping Seal released her, Dongfang Minghui tried to use the pool as a mirror to find Qian Wanyu, but diving into it caused the pool to trap her in a rigid Water Shield.
• The pool broke into fragments showing memories from hundreds of years, and Dongfang Minghui began using Spiritual Power to push herself closer to a fragment before nightfall.

Dongfang Minghui urged the Water Shield forward until the icy lens touched her nose, triggering memories of battles from Dragon-Trapping Valley twenty years earlier. She relived the dangers and familiar faces as the scenes continued.

• Dongfang Minghui released her spiritual power and slowly pushed the Water Shield forward.
• The icy lens brushed Dongfang Minghui's nose and showed her scenes of battle.
• Dongfang Minghui recognized familiar people and recalled the events of Dragon-Trapping Valley from twenty years earlier.
• Dongfang Minghui heard the warning, "Qian Mama, watch out!"

Dongfang Minghui witnessed Qian Mama’s memory of Meng Ruo Yu attacking her over the Dragon-Trapping Seal and began to suspect he had betrayed the Longlife Tribe. Meanwhile, Qian Wanyu exposed the impostor using Jing Kewei’s body and followed him toward the center of Dragon-Trapping Valley, where Mo Ce joined them; the impostor led them to nine cave entrances and demanded the Seal.

• Dongfang Minghui watched Qian Mama fight Meng Ruo Yu for the Dragon-Trapping Seal, noticed his death aura, and started connecting his past plant affinity to the betrayal of the Longlife Tribe.
• Qian Wanyu recognized that the supposed Jing Kewei was an impostor, negotiated for him to guide her to the center of Dragon-Trapping Valley, and suspected he resembled Meng Yixiao.
• The impostor led Qian Wanyu to Mo Ce, who was badly wounded and infected by black mist, and Qian Wanyu treated his injuries while agreeing to take him along.
• Qian Wanyu secretly used medicinal liquid to slow the black mist’s spread in Mo Ce’s body as they continued toward the valley’s center.
• At daybreak, the impostor brought Qian Wanyu and Mo Ce to nine cave entrances and demanded to know where the Dragon-Trapping Seal was.

Qian Wanyu and Mo Ce battled the puppet guards and animated dragons while searching for the Dragon-Trapping Seal, then escaped through a hidden door into a pool where Qian Wanyu found Dongfang Minghui trapped. As Qian Wanyu tried to free her by shattering Memory Fragments, the space warped and the Dragon-Trapping Seal flared painfully in her hand.

• Qian Wanyu and Mo Ce entered the caves, defeated the puppet guards, and found the cave where nine chained dragons came alive.
• Qian Wanyu distracted the dragons with Formation Stones and fashioned a key from black obsidian soil, while Mo Ce took a dragon's blow protecting her.
• Qian Wanyu used lightning from her Water-Thunder Whip to open the hidden door, but Mo Ce bled to death after they escaped inside.
• Qian Wanyu discovered Dongfang Minghui trapped beneath a pool inside a Water Shield and found that the depths held an enormous pair of black eyes.
• Qian Wanyu returned to Dongfang Minghui and shattered the surrounding Memory Fragments; after her whip struck the space three times, the pool warped and the Dragon-Trapping Seal flared painfully.

Qian Wanyu stopped when the Water Shield began to crack, but the deep pool itself was warping and causing the damage. Dongfang Minghui, overtaken by a strange force, declared that she would punish the humans who damaged the memory space as the pool shattered.

• Qian Wanyu heard a cry and stopped whipping the Water Shield.
• Qian Wanyu saw that the deep pool and the figure before her were twisting out of shape.
• Red light from Qian Wanyu's hand illuminated the pool as fiery-red patterns replaced Dongfang Minghui's eyes.
• Dongfang Minghui spoke unfamiliar words and threatened to make the humans suffer through a cycle of memories.
• The entire deep pool shattered.

Qian Wanyu recovered the memories the Dragon-Trapping Seal had hidden and learned that she and Dongfang Minghui had traveled seventeen years into the past. After discovering that Meng Ruo Yu was hiding beneath the Abyss and developing the Corpse-Control Technique, they questioned the Dragon-Trapping Seal about his past, while its account revealed that Qian Mama had sealed Dragon-Trapping Valley to contain the danger.

• Qian Wanyu used death aura to force the Dragon-Trapping Seal to confess that it had hidden her memories, and it returned the memory fragment under a coerced oath.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui learned from the Dragon-Trapping Seal that they had arrived in Dragon-Trapping Valley seventeen years in the past.
• Dongfang Minghui told Qian Wanyu that she suspected Meng Ruo Yu had betrayed the Longlife Tribe and become a Death Spirit Master, while Qing Mo explained how someone might become one through a path of death.
• Little Lecher revealed that Meng Ruo Yu was in Dragon-Trapping Valley, developing the Corpse-Control Technique beneath the Abyss, and the Dragon-Trapping Seal confirmed his location.
• The Dragon-Trapping Seal recounted how people carrying Death Aura had established a base beneath the Abyss, and how Qian Mama later sealed Dragon-Trapping Valley after she and Meng Ruo Yu fought.
• The Dragon-Trapping Seal revealed that it had begun scheming to use Dongfang Minghui after Dragon-Trapping Valley recovered from its injuries.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu reached the Blood Pool, where they encountered Qian Ziyan, Meng Ruo Yu, and the living dead. As the group fought to save Qian Ziyan and confront Meng Ruo Yu, the Dragon-Trapping Seal warned that they had little time to return and could not take anyone from the valley.

• The group followed the Dragon-Trapping Seal through the Emerald Kun Beasts’ empty cave, and Dongfang Minghui learned that Mo Ce had died.
• At the Abyss bend, the Dragon-Trapping Seal explained where it had been discovered, then agreed to follow Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu after it could not enter Love Entwined.
• Little Lecher found a blood-filled pool and human bones below; the group was attacked by living dead, and Toothless’s dragon roar drew attention from beneath the Abyss.
• Qian Wanyu found Qian Ziyan emerging from the Blood Pool and fought him while Dongfang Minghui confronted Meng Ruo Yu and exposed his Dream Family’s betrayal of the Longlife Tribe.
• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu switched opponents so Qian Wanyu could fight Meng Ruo Yu while Dongfang Minghui tried to restore Qian Ziyan’s senses; Toothless’s flames engulfed Meng Ruo Yu.
• The Dragon-Trapping Seal warned Dongfang Minghui that the group had less than half an incense stick to return and could not take Qian Ziyan out of the valley.

Minghui learned that less than half an incense stick of time remained, and turned to urge Seventh Sister to prepare. She was startled by what she saw.

• Minghui shuddered as a silver needle pierced her meridian and drew blood.
• Minghui asked the Dragon-Trapping Seal how much time remained.
• The Dragon-Trapping Seal said they had less than half an incense stick's worth of time.
• Minghui turned to hurry Seventh Sister along, then froze in shock at the sight before her.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui traveled through Dragon-Trapping Valley’s past, reached the Deep Pool, and encountered a powerful phantom guarding its depths. Dongfang Minghui entered enlightenment while Toothless, Qian Wanyu, and Little Lecher were overwhelmed by the phantom, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Qian Wanyu rescued Dongfang Minghui from Qian Ziyan and escaped with the group to a point three years in the past, where they planned to investigate Dragon-Trapping Valley’s Deep Pool.
• Dongfang Minghui discovered the Child Immortal Body was gone, and the Dragon-Trapping Seal led the group to Nine Dragons Cave, where Toothless briefly met the nine dragons before returning to her.
• Qian Wanyu and Toothless descended toward the Deep Pool while Dongfang Minghui stayed behind, but Dongfang Minghui followed them after sensing danger and found an enormous Dragon Clan skeleton.
• Dongfang Minghui struggled against the Deep Pool’s pressure, began bleeding, and entered enlightenment as Little Lecher went to check on Qian Wanyu and Toothless.
• A powerful phantom ambushed Little Lecher, then effortlessly defeated Toothless and drove Qian Wanyu to concede defeat, while Toothless repeatedly charged back into the fight.