Chapter Summaries

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui investigated the Deep Pool and the Abyss, discovering a hidden passage linked to a scheme involving Dragon-Trapping Valley and the Death Spirit Masters. They found captured people and awakened living dead beneath the ice, and the chapter ended as Qian Wanyu’s back was infected and someone seemed to have discovered them.

• Toothless endured the Deep Pool’s pressure and disappeared into its depths, while Qian Wanyu concluded that the phantom guarded Dragon Clan remains and might be a Spirit Saint.
• After Dongfang Minghui awoke, she and Qian Wanyu searched the Abyss and found a whirlpool in the black pool; they entered it together and discovered a passage beneath the water.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui found skeletons that rose under corpse control, then uncovered people from the Thousand Family, Mo Family, and Nangong Household sealed within the ice walls.
• Dongfang Minghui accidentally alerted a living dead person embedded in the ice, which infected Qian Wanyu’s back with black mist; as they prepared to retreat, someone seemed to be behind them.

A hidden person awakened inside the cracked wall, their eyes flashing crimson. They told Seventh Sister that they could no longer leave.

• A crack split the wall.
• The person hidden inside the wall opened their eyes, which flashed crimson.
• The person told Seventh Sister that they could not leave, even if they wanted to.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu fought their way into a hidden facility beneath Dragon-Trapping Valley, where they discovered Living Dead experiments and a man with Meng Yixiao’s face who was possessed and escaped. After Little Lecher was mysteriously barred from Dongfang Minghui’s Soul Sea, they found an array of ice coffins and tried to disrupt it, but the chamber began shaking.

• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu defeated weapon-merging Living Dead, fell through a trapped ice floor, and escaped the sedative-filled cages below.
• They ambushed guards outside a hidden cave and found chained captives and an unconscious man being prepared to become a Living Dead.
• Dongfang Minghui recognized the chained man as Meng Yixiao, but he broke free, attacked them, and fled after a possession changed his eyes and demeanor.
• Dongfang Minghui fell asleep, heard a mysterious call, and discovered that an emerald-and-gold force prevented Little Lecher from entering her Soul Sea.
• The three explored hidden passages and found fifteen ice coffins containing skeletons marked with black patterns; Qian Wanyu identified their arrangement as a resurrection formation and directed them to rearrange it.
• After they changed seven coffins to turn the Gathering Array into a Soul-Scattering Array, the temperature plunged and the chamber began shaking violently.

The ice coffin’s lid moved violently before flying open and hurling all three people away. The chapter ended with the coffin opened.

• The three people looked down as the ice coffin’s lid began to move.
• The lid moved more violently than before.
• The ice coffin’s lid flew up and blasted all three people away.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui explored an ice world filled with prisoners and skeletal experiments, then returned to Dragon-Trapping Valley to find intruders attacking the Nine Dragons Cave. After one intruder self-detonated, the Dragon-Trapping Seal was weakened, and the group began investigating the valley’s time loops while Dongfang Minghui restored it; the Seal later promised it could share its memories once fully nourished.

• Qian Wanyu, Dongfang Minghui, and Little Lecher fought a conscious skeleton in the ice caverns, destroyed the other skeletons, and escaped by jumping through the mist into the black pool.
• Qing Mo told Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui that seven days had passed in Dragon-Trapping Valley while they had spent less than a day in the ice world, and that intruders had entered the Nine Dragons Cave.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui captured an injured intruder who revealed that Meng Ruo Yu and Qian Wanyu’s eldest brother had been taken by his lord, but the Soul-Urging Technique made him self-detonate before he could identify the mastermind.
• The Dragon-Trapping Seal contained the explosion but exhausted its spiritual power, so Dongfang Minghui nourished it while Qian Wanyu and Qing Mo studied the time loops and Memory Fragments.
• A month later, the Dragon-Trapping Seal told Dongfang Minghui it could share its memories with Qian Wanyu once it had recovered, and asked for Little Sprout as well as more spiritual power.

Dongfang Minghui retrieved a century of Dragon-Trapping Valley memories for Qian Wanyu, who uncovered repeating cycles and spent three years trying to solve the valley’s temporal mysteries. As the loop reset, Qian Wanyu planted the Soul-Urging Technique in Dongfang Minghui so she could remember to save Mo Ce, and the chapter ended with Qian Wanyu revealing Mo Ce’s Elf Clan heritage and his parents’ story.

• Dongfang Minghui used the Dragon-Trapping Seal to extract the Dragon-Trapping Valley’s past memories from the Deep Pool and gave them to Qian Wanyu.
• Qian Wanyu studied the memories and found that the valley’s history contained gaps, repeated events, and a hundred-year cycle that renewed living things and places.
• After three years of calculations, Dongfang Minghui and Little Lecher fought through the awakened magic beasts, while Qian Wanyu and Qing Mo preserved their research before the memories began disappearing.
• Qian Wanyu asked the Dragon-Trapping Seal to create a memory, then had her plant the Soul-Urging Technique in Dongfang Minghui so she could remember to find and save Mo Ce after the loop reset.
• After the reset, Dongfang Minghui’s Soul-Urging Technique made her cry and cling to Mo Ce whenever she mentioned him, and Qian Wanyu kept them apart while Qing Mo explained the danger.
• Qian Wanyu told Mo Ce that Cheng Song was his biological father, that his mother belonged to the Elf Clan, and that his father’s Handwritten Journal contained the truth about his origins.

Dongfang Minghui, Qian Wanyu, and Mo Ce entered the chamber beyond the stone door, where the Dragon-Trapping Seal led Dongfang Minghui toward the Deep Pool. They discovered that time and memories had gone missing in the valley, found Toothless grown and fighting a powerful phantom, and ended with Qian Wanyu taking the Dragon-Trapping Seal to see the Memory Mirror while Dongfang Minghui kept training against the phantom.

• Dongfang Minghui opened the stone door with the Dragon-Trapping Seal, and Qian Wanyu and Mo Ce followed her inside while nine chained dragons attacked.
• Dongfang Minghui forced the door open and subdued the dragons with the Dragon-Trapping Seal's markings, then collapsed after the three entered the chamber.
• Dongfang Minghui repeatedly wandered toward the Deep Pool, and Qian Wanyu and Qing Mo realized that they and others might have lost memories and time.
• Dongfang Minghui found Toothless beneath the Deep Pool, where Toothless had grown greatly and fought a powerful phantom for three days and nights.
• Qian Wanyu tested herself against the phantom while Dongfang Minghui repeatedly approached him to train, and Little Lecher caught the Dragon-Trapping Seal.
• Qian Wanyu confronted the Dragon-Trapping Seal, which denied stealing their memories and offered to show them the Memory Mirror while Dongfang Minghui remained with the phantom.

Qian Wanyu and Qing Mo pieced together that Dragon-Trapping Valley followed a cycle of time and rebirth, while Dongfang Minghui and Little Lecher advanced after the seal inside her opened. Mo Ce traded information about Cheng Feng’s covert network and plans for a place traveling with them, and the chapter ended as the Dragon-Trapping Seal sensed danger outside the stone door and fled into the Deep Pool.

• Qian Wanyu studied the Memory Mirror’s fragments and worked out that Dragon-Trapping Valley’s history followed a cycle tied to a treasure and a tree’s rebirth.
• Little Lecher found a glowing stone inside one of the nine dragon mouths, and removing it tilted the stone doorway until it was returned.
• Dongfang Minghui and Little Lecher advanced as the sealing power inside Dongfang Minghui poured out, though Little Lecher remained resentful about the experience.
• Dongfang Minghui asked Mo Ce about finding his mother and the Elf Clan, and Mo Ce offered a roster of Cheng Feng’s infiltrators and revealed her plan to turn Dark-Type Spirit Masters into Death Spirit Masters.
• Qian Wanyu connected reincarnation with the missing memories, refined a spiritual-power arrow, and called the arrow the hope of life.
• The Dragon-Trapping Seal refused to open the stone door because it sensed danger outside, and it fled into the Deep Pool after the door shook and a dragon roared.

Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu secretly arranged a trip to Japan that reunited Tong Yao with her mother and Charlie, where Tong Yao discovered her mother was pregnant and engaged. The family settled in at a hot spring hotel, and Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu ended the chapter alone in their private pool, growing intimate.

• Tong Yao finished her comic work and met Qian Wanyu and Qian Le Le at the café before they went shopping for New Year supplies.
• Tong Yao told Qian Wanyu she wanted to surprise her mother, and Qian Wanyu said she would handle her mother's affairs.
• Qian Wanyu took Tong Yao and Qian Le Le to Japan, where they met Mother Tong and Charlie at a hot spring hotel.
• Tong Yao learned that Mother Tong was pregnant and that Charlie had proposed, and she said she would discuss the marriage with Qian Wanyu.
• Mother Tong took Qian Le Le for the night, and Tong Yao and Qian Wanyu went to a private hot spring pool, where their teasing turned intimate.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui confronted an impostor using Jing Kewei’s body, who entered the Deep Pool and possessed Mo Ce. As Mo Ce fought for control of his body, Qian Wanyu challenged the phantom guarding the pool’s third checkpoint, while Dongfang Minghui’s intense grief over Mo Ce left her questioning her own feelings.

• The Dragon-Trapping Seal revealed that the intruder’s aura resembled someone from the group that had trapped it twenty years ago, and Qian Wanyu connected that group to Meng Ruo Yu.
• Jing Kewei entered through the stone doors, froze the Deep Pool, and attacked Qian Wanyu, Mo Ce, and Dongfang Minghui with ice infused with death aura.
• The Dragon-Trapping Seal shut the stone doors to trap Jing Kewei inside, while Dongfang Minghui used a Fire Lotus Seed to melt the ice and clear the black mist.
• Qian Wanyu exposed Jing Kewei’s attempt to seize Dongfang Minghui, but his Soul Form escaped into Mo Ce’s body and descended into the Deep Pool.
• Dongfang Minghui urged Mo Ce to resist by reminding him of his mother, while Qian Wanyu fought the phantom guarding the Deep Pool’s third checkpoint.
• As black mist spread across Mo Ce’s face, Dongfang Minghui cried out that she would be heartbroken if he died.

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Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu discovered that the man occupying Mo Ce’s body was Wenren Liangzhi, a century-old soul seeking the Holy Medicine to revive his dead wife. After Mo Ce briefly regained control, he passed out, leaving Qian Wanyu considering a Soul Search to uncover more.

• Dongfang Minghui feared Mo Ce had been consumed by Fake Jing Kewei, while Qian Wanyu tested his identity as the phantom elder’s crushing pressure overwhelmed them.
• Toothless arrived and fought the phantom, while Mo Ce attacked and revealed knowledge of a hidden treasure in the Dragon-Trapping Valley.
• Qian Wanyu recognized that Mo Ce’s body held Wenren Liangzhi, who had changed bodies for a century while searching for the Holy Medicine.
• Wenren Liangzhi attacked Qian Wanyu, but Toothless’s flames and Qian Wanyu’s taunts about his dead wife let Mo Ce regain control briefly.
• Mo Ce pleaded to be killed, then alternated between himself and Wenren Liangzhi before passing out, and Qian Wanyu considered using Soul Search.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui investigated the Deep Pool, learned more about the Dragon-Trapping Seal, and challenged the phantoms guarding the Dragon Clan’s hidden grounds. Qian Wanyu gained insight into the Phantom Doppelganger Art while Toothless continued fighting, and the chapter left Little Lecher weighing Wenren Liangzhi’s offer of information about the Holy Medicine.

• Toothless repeatedly fought the phantom in the Deep Pool, while Qian Wanyu realized Toothless was trying to force him to retreat and tested the phantom’s defenses herself.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui discovered that Mo Ce had taken the Dragon-Trapping Seal, then stopped Wenren Liangzhi from removing it from the stone door with help from the Heavenly Sound Helmet and Little Sprout.
• The Dragon-Trapping Seal admitted that people had tried to capture it every twenty to thirty years, and Qian Wanyu arranged for it to accompany Dongfang Minghui while Little Lecher guarded Mo Ce in exchange for a high-grade spirit medicine.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui tried to enter the Dragon Clan’s hidden grounds and were confronted by ten phantoms; Qian Wanyu learned the Phantom Doppelganger Art while fighting seven of them.
• Mo Ce woke bound on the shore, and Wenren Liangzhi offered Little Lecher half of any Holy Medicine he found, along with other information, in exchange for being released.

Little Lecher uncovered the Holy Medicine beneath the withered tree while Qian Wanyu fought Wenren Liangzhi, and Dongfang Minghui climbed down to see it for herself. As Dongfang Minghui approached the glowing plant, the hollow began shaking violently.

• Little Lecher escaped Wenren Liangzhi's attack and found vitality beneath the withered tree, where Wenren Liangzhi confronted it.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui reached Little Lecher, and Little Lecher revealed that the Holy Medicine lay under the tree.
• Dongfang Minghui protected Little Lecher from Wenren Liangzhi's black mist, while Qian Wanyu kept Wenren Liangzhi occupied in battle.
• Little Lecher discovered a luminous flower deep beneath the tree but claimed it had found nothing, so Dongfang Minghui climbed down to investigate.
• Dongfang Minghui found the Holy Medicine, and the ground began shaking violently as she approached it.

Dragon-Trapping Valley collapsed as Dongfang Minghui became entangled with a Holy Medicine, while Qian Wanyu struggled to reach her. Dongfang Minghui woke afterward injured and separated from her companions, with Little Lecher weak and the Dragon-Trapping Seal and Little Sprout missing.

• Dongfang Minghui touched a petal of the Holy Medicine, which began draining her life force as their spiritual powers clashed.
• Qian Wanyu and Little Lecher failed to separate Dongfang Minghui from the Holy Medicine, and Qian Wanyu suspected the valley’s rearrangement was connected to reincarnation.
• As Dragon-Trapping Valley collapsed, Toothless entered the Dragon Clan Hidden Grounds and found a towering skeleton whose aura felt familiar.
• Qian Wanyu connected her spiritual power with Dongfang Minghui’s, but falling rocks separated them as Dongfang Minghui tried to save the Holy Medicine.
• Dongfang Minghui woke on a grassy slope with both arms apparently broken and learned from Little Lecher that Little Sprout, the Dragon-Trapping Seal, and her companions were missing.
• A chubby little girl repeatedly brought Dongfang Minghui water, then poured some over her head while she cultivated.

After the collapse of Dragon-Trapping Valley, Dongfang Minghui recovered with help from a mysterious child while trying to find Qian Wanyu and the others. Wenren Liangzhi revealed himself as Mo Ce’s dominant personality and attacked, but Little Chubby escaped with Toothless, who awakened and reunited with Dongfang Minghui as the group waited for their companions.

• Dongfang Minghui met the injured Mo Ce, but she and Little Lecher suspected Wenren Liangzhi was controlling him; a mysterious child called Little Fatty stayed with them.
• Dongfang Minghui and Mo Ce searched the ruins, where Little Fatty found Toothless buried beneath a dragon skeleton and carried it away from Wenren Liangzhi.
• Wenren Liangzhi threatened Dongfang Minghui and Toothless while demanding the Holy Medicine, but Little Chubby fled with Toothless as Dongfang Minghui and Little Lecher escaped using sand and a decoy vine.
• Toothless woke, called Dongfang Minghui Mother, and carried Little Chubby; Dongfang Minghui decided to wait nearby for Qian Wanyu and the others.

Dongfang Minghui and her companions survived a scorpion swarm, and she entered Toothless’s Dragon Clan Hidden Grounds before returning to the desert. After Little Chubby led her to a distant water source, Dongfang Minghui was stunned by what she found there.

• Black scorpions surrounded Dongfang Minghui and Little Lecher, but Little Chubby ate them and Toothless’s forehead gem transported Dongfang Minghui into the Dragon Clan Hidden Grounds.
• Dongfang Minghui found Toothless cultivating there, learned the dragon’s consciousness had entered its own world, and returned outside after Toothless called her Mother.
• Little Chubby brought back water and an injured Beast Tribe man, whom Dongfang Minghui treated; he later left but returned with a pack of White Wolves, and Toothless killed them.
• Toothless explained that the gem allowed entry to the Dragon Clan Hidden Grounds, while Dongfang Minghui warned her not to let others touch it or enter.
• At dawn, Dongfang Minghui followed Little Chubby for nearly two hours to the place where she fetched water, then stared in disbelief at what she saw.

Dongfang Minghui escaped the collapsing Dragon-Trapping Valley with Toothless and Little Fatty, while Qian Wanyu found the Holy Medicine and learned that Ninth Sister had already been carried out. After reuniting, the sisters suspected Little Fatty was Little Sprout, but she gave no clear answer before biting Little Lecher’s vines.

• Little Lecher disturbed a Formation Stone, causing the Nine Dragons pool and surrounding ground to sink, and Toothless flew Dongfang Minghui and Little Fatty to safety.
• Qian Wanyu escaped the rubble, met the Holy Medicine in human form, and learned that the pool beneath the Abyss was another route out and that Ninth Sister had already left the valley.
• Dongfang Minghui cared for the feverish Beast Tribe man, Mairon, who explained that he had been separated from a Nangong Household caravan headed for Dalai City.
• Qian Wanyu reunited with Dongfang Minghui and concluded that Little Fatty might be Little Sprout, who had disappeared during the Dragon-Trapping Valley’s collapse.
• Dongfang Minghui offered Little Fatty a spirit medicine to test the theory, but Little Fatty ate it without answering and then bit Little Lecher’s vines.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu reached Fish-Dragon Town, fought the Beast-Shifters that hunted people at night, and reunited with Qian Ziyan and Mu Sheng. After Qian Ziyan privately asked Qian Wanyu about Lü Xing, Mu Sheng asked Dongfang Minghui whether something had happened to him.

• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu traveled with Mairon toward Dalai City and discussed Toothless's Dragon Clan Hidden Grounds and their uncertainty about whether Little Fatty was Little Sprout.
• The group reached Fish-Dragon Town and discovered that its residents stayed indoors at night because deranged Beast-Shifters attacked in the dark.
• Qian Wanyu, Dongfang Minghui, Toothless, and Little Fatty fought off the Beast-Shifters and captured one, while Mairon pleaded for its life.
• Qian Ziyan and Mu Sheng arrived after hearing Toothless's roar, and the group learned that Qian Ziyan had recovered his memories and come to find Qian Wanyu and her mother.
• Qian Wanyu questioned the captured Beast-Shifter but found no useful memories, then Qian Ziyan privately asked her about Lü Xing.
• Mu Sheng told Dongfang Minghui that Situ and Bai Rou planned to formalize their engagement, then asked whether something had happened to Lü Xing.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu investigated the Beast-Shifters attacking Fish-Dragon Town, captured two of them, and tested one in sunlight. The Beast-Shifter spontaneously combusted, leaving behind ashes and something glittering that Dongfang Minghui collected.

• Dongfang Minghui, Qian Wanyu, Mu Sheng, and Qian Ziyan discovered that their bound Beast-Shifter had escaped, then captured another after it wounded Dongfang Minghui.
• Qian Wanyu and Qian Ziyan released a captive Beast-Shifter to track it, while Qian Wanyu rescued Mairon from an attack in the next room.
• Dongfang Minghui treated Mairon and secretly gave him sleeping medicine as the group waited for the Beast-Shifters to leave.
• Dongfang Minghui and Mu Sheng suspended a captive Beast-Shifter outside in the midday sun, but it suddenly burst into blue-tinged flames.
• Dongfang Minghui collected a glittering remnant from the ashes and paid the innkeeper five spirit stones after the fire alarmed the town.