Chapter Summaries

Blue Ice trapped the Sea Flood Dragon in the Water-Mist Gang Formation while Li Xiaoya reached the submerged heavenly starstone island and cut off a large piece. A ninth-rank Whale-Swallowing Beast arrived, recognized Li Xiaoya’s theft, and attacked him for the stone.

• Blue Ice strengthened the Water-Mist Gang Formation as Dong Santong sent a Voice Transmission Talisman to Li Xiaoya and recovered from his injuries.
• Li Xiaoya found the island submerged beneath the rising tide and cut a large piece of heavenly starstone free with the Fire Dragon Sword.
• A huge creature attacked Li Xiaoya with poisonous liquid, but he dodged it with his Heavenly Feather Wings and recognized the Whale-Swallowing Beast.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast landed on the island, questioned Li Xiaoya about the Sea Flood Dragon, and realized he had accomplices who lured it away.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast demanded the heavenly starstone Li Xiaoya had taken, then swept its tail at him.

Li Xiaoya fought the Whale-Swallowing Beast, countering its poison and venomous attacks with his Heavenly Feather Wings and Fire Dragon Sword. Trapped in corrosive black qi, he launched Fire Dragon Spits Pearl at the beast.

• The Whale-Swallowing Beast struck Li Xiaoya with a poisoned tail attack, but he used Instant Movement to evade most of the poison and blasted the rest away with golden light.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast attacked with black arrows, and Li Xiaoya burned them away with the Fire Dragon Sword.
• Li Xiaoya crushed a liquid monster with Divine Dragon Claw, then used Divine Dragon Sweep to destroy hundreds more.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast filled the air around Li Xiaoya with corrosive black qi, trapping him and draining his magic power.
• Li Xiaoya unleashed Fire Dragon Spits Pearl, blasting a hole through the black smoke and sending the fireball toward the Whale-Swallowing Beast.

Li Xiaoya and the Whale-Swallowing Beast joined forces against the Sea Flood Dragon after its inner-core technique destroyed the Water-Mist Gang Formation. Their first clash sent Blue Ice crying out amid an enormous collision, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Sea Flood Dragon broke the Water-Mist Gang Formation with an inner-core explosion, and Blue Ice and Dong Santong fled toward Li Xiaoya.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast proposed splitting the heavenly starstone, and Li Xiaoya agreed to team up against the Sea Flood Dragon.
• The Sea Flood Dragon pursued Blue Ice and Dong Santong with its inner core, but Li Xiaoya slowed it with three Fire Dragon Spits Pearl attacks.
• The Sea Flood Dragon enlarged its inner core and sent it crashing toward the exhausted cultivators, while the Whale-Swallowing Beast countered with his own black inner core.
• The two inner cores collided in a blast of black and blue energy, and Blue Ice cried out amid the explosions.

Li Xiaoya and his allies fought the Sea Flood Dragon while its inner core battled the Whale-Swallowing Beast’s. Li Xiaoya struck the Sea Flood Dragon’s core away, allowing the Whale-Swallowing Beast to knock the dragon into the sea, but the group prepared to attack again because it might survive.

• Li Xiaoya rescued Blue Ice from the astral wind, and she demanded that he let go before he pinched her and she called him a lecher.
• Dong Santong attacked the Sea Flood Dragon with his Moonlight Crescent Saber, but its Ice Armor withstood the blows.
• Li Xiaoya used the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff to strike the Sea Flood Dragon’s inner core and send it flying.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast drove its own inner core into the Sea Flood Dragon, knocking it into the sea and enveloping it in black vapor.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast urged Li Xiaoya and the others to use their strongest spells before the Sea Flood Dragon recovered.

Li Xiaoya and his allies nearly killed the Sea Flood Dragon with a coordinated assault, but the gravely wounded monster survived and tried to unleash the Great Dragon Explosion Technique. Li Xiaoya bound and stabbed him with the Fire Dragon Sword, which absorbed a tiny blue dragon from his forehead as the Sea Flood Dragon began to self-destruct.

• The Whale-Swallowing Beast, Li Xiaoya, Blue Ice, and Dong Santong combined their attacks against the Sea Flood Dragon, who survived by transforming and escaping into the sea.
• The wounded Sea Flood Dragon began chanting the Great Dragon Explosion Technique, and Li Xiaoya used the Immortal-Binding Rope to bind him and seal his mouth.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast's inner core knocked the Sea Flood Dragon's core away, but the Whale-Swallowing Beast withdrew to protect himself as the enemy's core flew back.
• Li Xiaoya reached the bound Sea Flood Dragon and pierced his forehead with the Fire Dragon Sword, triggering a surge of red and golden light as the monster started to swell.
• A tiny blue dragon emerged from the Sea Flood Dragon's split forehead and was sucked into the Fire Dragon Sword, which began shining with dazzling light.

Li Xiaoya claimed the Sea Flood Dragon’s inner core and negotiated with the Whale-Swallowing Beast over their agreement to divide the heavenly starstone. He offered the beast most of his share in exchange for taking him and his companions back to the continent, and the beast asked if he meant to give up all of it.

• The Fire Dragon Sword absorbed the Sea Flood Dragon’s flesh and nascent soul, broke through its grade limit, and became a supreme-grade ancient treasure.
• Li Xiaoya recovered the Sea Flood Dragon’s inner core and stored it alongside the dragon’s hide and bones.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast reminded Li Xiaoya that their agreement gave each of them half of the heavenly starstone.
• Li Xiaoya insisted that the Sea Flood Dragon’s inner core belonged to him, backing his claim with the Fire Dragon Sword and Immortal-Binding Rope.
• Li Xiaoya offered the Whale-Swallowing Beast most of his share of the heavenly starstone if he took Li Xiaoya, Dong Santong, and Blue Ice back to the continent.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast asked whether Li Xiaoya meant to give him all of the heavenly starstone in exchange for the journey.

Li Xiaoya struck a bargain with the Whale-Swallowing Beast, trading the Sea Flood Dragon’s hide and skeleton for safe passage back to the Great Illusion Continent and permission to take Heavenly Starstone. After discovering that the Fire Dragon Sword had become powerful enough to cut the stone, he loaded it into the group’s storage items before the beast carried them away.

• Li Xiaoya agreed to give the Whale-Swallowing Beast the Sea Flood Dragon’s hide and skeleton in exchange for passage and some Heavenly Starstone.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast accepted the remains in memory of its child and agreed to take Li Xiaoya, Blue Ice, and Dong Santong back to the Great Illusion Continent.
• Li Xiaoya warned Blue Ice and Dong Santong to watch the Whale-Swallowing Beast while he tested the Fire Dragon Sword on the Heavenly Starstone.
• Li Xiaoya discovered that the sword could cut several feet into the stone and harvested a massive piece, astonishing the Whale-Swallowing Beast.
• Li Xiaoya filled his own, Blue Ice’s, and Dong Santong’s storage items with Heavenly Starstone, and the Whale-Swallowing Beast carried them away.

Li Xiaoya reunited with Li Mother after defeating the Sea Flood Dragon, then traveled with her, Blue Ice, and Dong Santong on the Whale-Swallowing Beast toward the Great Illusion Continent. After crossing several demon-beast territories, their journey halted when the Whale-Swallowing Beast encountered an enemy.

• Li Mother worried over the violent sea until the Phoenix Bells signaled that Li Xiaoya and his companions were safe, and the Whale-Swallowing Beast brought Li Xiaoya to her.
• Li Xiaoya reunited with Li Mother and told her they had defeated the Sea Flood Dragon and were returning to the Great Illusion Continent.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast explained that a meteor had destroyed an island more than a thousand years earlier, killing the Sea Flood Dragon's parents and leaving behind the heavenly starstone.
• The Whale-Swallowing Beast negotiated passage through Old Shark's territory while Blue Ice concealed the group, and they continued through the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea.
• After traveling for seven or eight days, the Whale-Swallowing Beast stopped and said it had encountered an enemy as a dark silhouette emerged from the sea.

Li Xiaoya and the Whale-Swallowing Beast joined forces to kill a Bloodthirsty Whale, and Li Xiaoya claimed its inner core. After the Whale-Swallowing Beast carried Li Xiaoya, Dong Santong, Blue Ice, and Li Mother to the edge of the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea, they continued toward the Great Illusion Continent and spotted a ship.

• A ninth-rank Bloodthirsty Whale surfaced and confronted the Whale-Swallowing Beast, who said its son had killed the whale’s son.
• Li Xiaoya agreed to help fight the Bloodthirsty Whale in exchange for its inner core, while the Whale-Swallowing Beast claimed its flesh and blood.
• Li Xiaoya and the Whale-Swallowing Beast defeated the Bloodthirsty Whale, and Li Xiaoya bound it with the Immortal-Binding Rope before the Whale-Swallowing Beast swallowed its body.
• After carrying the group through the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Sea, the Whale-Swallowing Beast left them at the Hurricane Sea and returned to human form.
• Li Xiaoya told Dong Santong that they had no need to attack the Whale-Swallowing Beast because it could guard the heavenly starstone for them.
• Li Xiaoya and the others flew beyond the Hurricane Sea, and Dong Santong spotted a ship ahead.

Li Xiaoya and his companions reached the Great Illusion Continent, where Blue Ice parted ways with them and Li Xiaoya set out for the Heavenly Dao Sect with Li Mother and Dong Santong. Heavenly Venerable Daoling summoned people back to Divine Path Mountain, while Li Xiaoya and his companions arrived within sight of land and discussed his past and his partner.

• Li Xiaoya and his companions confirmed that the ship was headed toward the Great Illusion Continent and traveled on until they reached a cultivators’ market city.
• Blue Ice declined to collect the ten million spirit stones Li Xiaoya owed her, arranged to visit him at the Heavenly Dao Sect, and flew away after saying farewell.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling recognized Li Xiaoya’s Golden Core cultivation as evidence that he was the person he had been seeking, then sent Voice Transmission Talismans summoning people to Divine Path Mountain.
• Li Xiaoya, Li Mother, and Dong Santong flew toward the Great Illusion Continent and celebrated when land appeared on the horizon.
• Dong Santong told Li Mother about Li Xiaoya’s past qi deviation over Liu Xian’er, while Li Xiaoya thought of Liu Xian’er and his dual cultivation partner, Zhang Hong, before chasing Dong Santong.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect with Li Xiaoya’s mother after crossing the Heavenly Spirit Church’s territory. They reached Divine Path Mountain and flew toward Heavenly Capital Peak, where a familiar cultivator came to meet them.

• Li Xiaoya told Dong Santong they were in the Heavenly Spirit Kingdom and shared news that Zhang Hong had reached the Golden Core Stage, while Sun Xing and Jin Zhan had also advanced.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong traveled through the Heavenly Spirit Church’s territory, stopping to punish wrongdoers before entering the Heavenly Dao Sect’s domain.
• The patrol recognized Li Xiaoya, issued his mother a Temporary Identity Token, and let them enter Divine Path Mountain.
• Li Xiaoya remembered that Dong Santong was now cultivating under Heavenly Venerable Daoling and agreed they would be glad to see their Golden Core Stage progress.
• A familiar cultivator flew toward Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong from Heavenly Capital Peak, and they hurried to meet him.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect and reunited with Zhang Facai and Heavenly Venerable Daoling. Heavenly Venerable Daoling could not remove the seals on Li Mother’s cultivation and divine sense, so he planned to take them to see the Old Patriarch the next day; Li Xiaoya settled in for the night, postponing his visit to Zhang Hong.

• Zhang Facai greeted Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong, then escorted them and Li Mother to Heavenly Venerable Daoling’s cave abode.
• Li Xiaoya introduced Li Mother and asked Heavenly Venerable Daoling to remove the seals on her cultivation and divine sense.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling said he could not undo the seals and planned to ask the sect’s Ancestor for help the next day.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong recounted their years away, including their journey to the Origin Continent, while Zhang Facai and Heavenly Venerable Daoling listened.
• Zhang Facai joked with the returning disciples and gladly accepted refined heavenly starstone from Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya wondered whether Zhang Hong was on the mountain, then decided to visit her the next day and began meditating.

Heavenly Venerable Daoling brought Li Xiaoya, Dong Santong, and Li Mother to meet High Person Qianshan, who praised the two young cultivators and began treating Li Mother’s restrictions. After expelling a black skull of qi from her, High Person Qianshan left Li Mother unconscious in Li Xiaoya’s arms.

• Heavenly Venerable Daoling led Li Xiaoya, Dong Santong, and Li Mother to High Person Qianshan’s cave abode, where Xiao Zhi ushered them inside.
• Xiao Zhi collected a medicinal reward from High Person Qianshan and fell asleep on the grass.
• High Person Qianshan praised Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong as rare Golden Core Stage geniuses and listened to Li Xiaoya’s request concerning Li Mother.
• High Person Qianshan gave Li Mother a Soul-Congealing Pill, then used green light to draw pitch-black qi from her head.
• The black qi formed a skull before dissipating, and Li Mother fainted as Li Xiaoya rushed to catch her.

High Person Qianshan restored Li Mother's sealed abilities and offered Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong the use of his cave abode while he took Xiao Zhi away for a long journey. He privately revealed that Li Mother's arrival had altered Li Xiaoya's fate and might bring trouble to the Heavenly Dao Sect, then gave Heavenly Venerable Daoling further instructions.

• High Person Qianshan removed Li Mother's restrictions, and she regained consciousness with her magic power restored.
• High Person Qianshan invited Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong to cultivate in his cave abode while he took Xiao Zhi away for at least a hundred years.
• Li Xiaoya gave Li Mother medicinal pills, while she worried that the sect's attention toward him and Dong Santong might conceal ulterior motives.
• High Person Qianshan told Heavenly Venerable Daoling that Li Mother's arrival had changed Li Xiaoya's fate and could bring consequences unfavorable to the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• High Person Qianshan began giving Heavenly Venerable Daoling instructions for after his departure.

High Person Qianshan lectured Li Xiaoya and the others on the Dao, then arranged for Li Mother to stay at Rainbow Rosy Peak. Li Xiaoya searched for his absent loved ones around Heavenly Dao Sect, while Li Mother met Liu Xian'er and resolved to help her son win her over.

• High Person Qianshan gave the group a detailed Dao lecture and answered their cultivation questions, then said he would bring Xiao Zhi out of his cave abode in a few days.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling took Li Mother to Rainbow Rosy Peak to stay as a guest elder, while Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong headed elsewhere.
• Li Xiaoya learned from Liu Yulan that Zhang Hong had spent years searching for him, and Liu Yulan agreed to contact her with news of his return.
• Dongfang Yi challenged Li Xiaoya to spar after seeing proof that he had killed a Nascent Soul cultivator, but Li Xiaoya's Heavenly Feather Wings overwhelmed him and Li Xiaoya refused to trade them.
• Li Xiaoya found Second Senior Brother and Little White absent from the cave abode and worried about their long absence.
• Li Mother recognized Liu Xian'er as the stunning cultivator escorting her to her cave abode and decided to help her son win Liu Xian'er over.

Li Xiaoya visited Rainbow Rosy Peak to see his mother before entering seclusion and unexpectedly encountered Liu Xian'er. The chapter ended with Liu Xian'er interrupting Ling Shuang to ask Li Xiaoya why he would not greet her after so many years apart.

• News spread that Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong had returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect as Golden Core Stage cultivators and were being given special cultivation accommodations.
• Li Xiaoya flew to Rainbow Rosy Peak to visit his mother and met a young disciple who mistook him for an unknown senior.
• Fairy Qingxia welcomed Li Xiaoya and asked Ling Shuang to take him to see his mother.
• Ling Shuang told Li Xiaoya that his mother was staying near Liu Xian'er, who had been asked to guide her.
• Li Xiaoya recognized Liu Xian'er when she appeared, and she interrupted Ling Shuang to ask why he would not greet her.

Li Xiaoya reunited with Liu Xian'er, who led him to Li Mother's cave abode before returning to her own. He visited his mother, promised to rescue his father only when strong enough, and heard her warn him to stay wary of the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er reunited, teased each other about his fame and cultivation, and discussed sparring together another time.
• Liu Xian'er took Li Xiaoya to Li Mother's cave abode and pointed out her nearby home before flying away.
• Li Xiaoya visited Li Mother, who said she was comfortable in her new cave abode and asked why he had not brought his Dual Cultivation Partner to meet her.
• Li Xiaoya promised Li Mother he would rescue his father only after gaining enough strength, and told her he would cultivate in Grandmaster Thousand Mountains' cave abode.
• Li Mother questioned why the Heavenly Dao Sect was investing so much in Li Xiaoya and warned him not to let down his guard.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong took charge of High Person Qianshan's cave abode after he departed, and began testing its Dueling Formation. Elsewhere, Black Skeleton learned that Li Xiaoya was a disciple of the Heavenly Dao Sect and set out for the sect.

• Li Xiaoya left Li Mother's cave abode determined to cultivate harder so he could rescue his father and avenge his family.
• High Person Qianshan summoned Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong, gave them instructions and jade slips, then departed with Xiao Zhi.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong explored the areas they could access in High Person Qianshan's cave abode and entered its Dueling Formation to spar.
• Black Skeleton used tiny skulls to extract memories from cultivators at a small sect and discovered that Li Xiaoya belonged to the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Black Skeleton headed toward the Heavenly Dao Sect in the Liang Kingdom, wondering whether Li Xiaoya had returned.

Li Xiaoya sold a piece of heavenly starstone at the Materials Pavilion to obtain spirit stones, sect contribution points, and materials for Second Better’s projects and his own armor. After resuming cultivation in High Person Qianshan’s cave abode, he finally received news of Zhang Hong.

• Li Xiaoya learned that Second Better had failed to refine a puppet, then received a formula for Blazing Flame Armor and a list of materials to buy.
• Li Xiaoya sold Elder Lin a piece of heavenly starstone weighing tens of millions of jin, exchanging much of its enormous value for materials and asking Elder Lin to keep the sale secret.
• Li Xiaoya visited Liu Yulan to ask about Zhang Hong, but she had no news and promised to contact him when Zhang Hong returned.
• Li Xiaoya collected his materials and bought elixirs, then returned to High Person Qianshan’s cave abode to cultivate while Second Better prepared to refine his armor and the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon.
• Li Xiaoya planned to advance his Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art and Divine Flame Art, and he and Second Better continued investigating the Fire Dragon Sword’s ability to absorb Ancient Dragon bloodlines.
• After cultivating in High Person Qianshan’s cave abode for more than half a year, Li Xiaoya received news of Zhang Hong.

Li Xiaoya trained for six years while waiting for Zhang Hong, and he grew stronger through cultivation and sparring with Dong Santong. After receiving Zhang Hong’s message, he flew out to meet her and joyfully embraced her in the sky.

• Li Xiaoya reached the third layer of the Golden Core Stage but could not advance his Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art, while Dong Santong surpassed him in cultivation.
• High Person Qianshan intercepted Black Skeleton and warned him to stay out of the Liang Kingdom and away from Li Xiaoya, but Black Skeleton secretly remained intent on pursuing his plans.
• Six years later, Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong fought in the Dueling Formation, where Dong Santong used his Flash Fist to land the first hit and win.
• Li Xiaoya received a Voice Transmission Talisman carrying Zhang Hong’s promise to return soon and hurried out of High Person Qianshan’s cave abode.
• Li Xiaoya met Zhang Hong as she flew toward him, and the two embraced in midair.