Arc 12The Dragon-Trapping Valley

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu uncover Dragon-Trapping Valley’s looping history, Meng Ruo Yu’s betrayal, and the forces seeking the valley’s treasures. After Mo Ce becomes host to Wenren Liangzhi, Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui press toward the Dragon Clan’s hidden grounds while Wenren bargains with Little Lecher.

  • Dongfang Minghui followed the Dragon-Trapping Seal into Dragon-Trapping Valley, where Qian Wanyu and Mo Ce battled through the Phantom Stairway and fell into the abyss.
  • Dongfang Minghui watched memories of Qian Mama’s battle with Meng Ruo Yu, while Qian Wanyu recognized that Jing Kewei was an impostor and searched for the valley’s center.
  • Qian Wanyu found Dongfang Minghui trapped in a Water Shield, and the Dragon-Trapping Seal revealed that they had arrived seventeen years in the past and that Meng Ruo Yu was developing the Corpse-Control Technique beneath the Abyss.
  • Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu confronted Meng Ruo Yu and Qian Ziyan, then escaped through a time jump before investigating the Deep Pool and finding a hidden chamber filled with captives and Living Dead.
  • The pair discovered Meng Yixiao and a resurrection formation in the ice caverns, escaped after fighting a conscious skeleton, and learned that time passed differently inside the ice world.
  • Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu studied the valley’s repeating memories and hundred-year cycle, then used the Dragon-Trapping Seal and a Soul-Urging Technique to preserve clues across the reset, including Mo Ce’s origins.
  • After the cycle reset, Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui continued investigating the Deep Pool, where Toothless fought a powerful phantom and Qian Wanyu identified the cycle’s connection to a treasure and a tree’s rebirth.
  • Jing Kewei attacked the group and escaped into Mo Ce’s body, but Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui discovered that Wenren Liangzhi had possessed him while searching for the Holy Medicine.
  • Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui stopped Wenren Liangzhi from taking the Dragon-Trapping Seal, then set out toward the Dragon Clan’s hidden grounds as Wenren offered Little Lecher a share of the Holy Medicine in exchange for his release.
Chapters 308–338 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 308Stirring Up Trouble (2)

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.

Ch. 309Taking the Blame (1)

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.

Ch. 310Taking the Blame (2)

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.

Ch. 311Rules (1)

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.

Ch. 313The mirror (1)

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.

Ch. 314The Lens (2)

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!"

Ch. 315The Key (1)

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.

Ch. 317Shattered (1)

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.

Ch. 318Shattered (2)

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.

Ch. 319Bluffing (1)

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.

Ch. 321Hidden pain (1)

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.

Ch. 322Hidden Troubles (2)

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.

Ch. 323Phantom

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.

Ch. 324Possession (1)

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.

Ch. 325Body possession (2)

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.

Ch. 326Ice Coffin (1)

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.

Ch. 327Ice coffin (2)

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.

Ch. 328Self-detonation

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.

Ch. 329Suggestion

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.

Ch. 330Lost (1)

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.

Ch. 332Madwoman

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.

Ch. 333Extra eleven (1)

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.

Ch. 335The Struggle (1)

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.

Ch. 337Holy Medicine

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.

Ch. 338Digging a Pit

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.
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