Chapter Summaries

The Three Grand Elders questioned Dragon Martial Uncle’s plan while Sun Haotian and the Fire Dragon Palace forces battled the Heavenly Dao Sect at the palace headquarters. Liu Xian'er and the others held off the attackers until the Fire Dragon Cannons were destroyed from within, revealing that someone had infiltrated the Dragon Palace.

• The Three Grand Elders worried that Dragon Martial Uncle’s plan could leave the Fire Dragon Palace vulnerable, but decided to wait in the mountains and withdraw if things went badly.
• Old Dragon Head flew across the Heavenly Spirit Kingdom border, wondering why the cultivators he had been tracking had turned back.
• Sun Haotian’s True Dragon Violet Flame Saber forced the injured Heavenly Venerable Daoling onto the defensive, while Liu Xian'er’s ice walls protected Murong Qi, Zhang Bingmei, and Li Mother.
• A Fire Dragon Palace elder blasted part of Liu Xian'er's ice wall with a divine ability, prompting the surrounding cultivators to prepare their own powerful attacks.
• The Fire Dragon Cannon fired at the defenders and tore a large hole in the ice wall, but dozens of cannons inside the red castle exploded before they could fire again.
• The Fire Dragon Palace cultivators realized someone had entered the Dragon Palace when a scream came from inside the castle.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong infiltrated Fire Dragon Palace to destroy its Fire Dragon Cannons and kill its cultivators while Heavenly Venerable Daoling and Liu Xian'er’s group held off the defenders. The Emergency Battle Bell summoned reinforcements as the attackers took shelter behind Li Mother’s formation, which remained under heavy bombardment.

• Sun Haotian noticed the defenders were failing to stop Liu Xian'er’s group, but Heavenly Venerable Daoling interrupted his orders and kept him occupied in their duel.
• Li Mother activated the Five-Colored Light Curtain, and Liu Xian'er helped Murong Qi and Zhang Bingmei reach its protection as enemy attacks shattered the ice walls around them.
• Nine peals of the Emergency Battle Bell alerted Fire Dragon Palace’s secluded cultivators while Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong destroyed a Fire Dragon Cannon and attacked palace cultivators inside the red castle.
• The chapter explained that Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong had secretly infiltrated the palace, planted Explosive Talismans on its cannons, and were conserving Li Xiaoya’s God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave for stronger enemies.
• The defenders continued attacking Li Mother’s formation as she and Liu Xian'er recovered and Murong Qi and Zhang Bingmei reinforced it; then escaping lights arrived from the red castle and its surroundings.

Elder Xi discovered that the Five-Colored Light Barrier absorbed magic attacks, so Fire Dragon Palace’s elders switched to physical strikes while sending four elders to stop Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong. As the battle at Fire Dragon Palace continued, Elder Ma, Elder Wang, and Fairy Qingxia led Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators toward Qingyang Kingdom, where Fairy Qingxia felt an ominous premonition.

• Elder Xi realized that the Five-Colored Light Barrier absorbed magic power and ordered the Fire Dragon Palace cultivators to attack it with physical blows instead.
• Li Mother weakened the barrier’s physical attacks with her Formation Flags while Liu Xian'er recovered and Murong Qi and Zhang Bingmei replenished the formation.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong attacked the Fire Dragon Cannons and their operators from outside the red Castle, forcing Elder Xi to send four elders after them.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong evaded the four elders with their Wing Ancient Treasures and continued attacking the Castle’s cannons and cultivators.
• Elder Ma and Elder Wang led Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators toward Demon Ghost Cliff to avenge their destroyed branches, while Fairy Qingxia remained troubled by a bad premonition.

The Heavenly Dao Sect’s elders investigated the deaths of four Nascent Soul cultivators and the destruction of their branches, while Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong continued their assault on Fire Dragon Palace. The chapter ended with Liu Xian'er recovering most of her magic power and leaving the failing barrier to join the fight.

• Fairy Qingxia and Elder Wang decided to investigate the attacks personally, and Elder Ma insisted on accompanying them.
• The Three Grand Elders of the Heavenly Dao Sect flew toward Qingyang Kingdom and discussed whether Fire Dragon Palace or the Hehuan Cult was responsible.
• Li Xiaoya killed two Nascent Soul Realm cultivators with his golden blades, while Dong Santong killed another fleeing cultivator.
• Two more Nascent Soul Realm cultivators fled Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong and attacked Liu Xian'er and the others behind the Five-Colored Light Barrier.
• Li Mother, Murong Qi, and Zhang Bingmei nearly exhausted themselves holding the barrier as it began to fail.
• Liu Xian'er recovered seventy or eighty percent of her magic power and flew outside the barrier.

Liu Xian'er used her Ren-Kui Water Sphere to withstand and counter the Fire Dragon Palace elders' attacks, trapping them in a dangerous encirclement. As Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong finished destroying the Fire Dragon Cannons, Li Xiaoya noticed Liu Xian'er's situation and rushed to help her.

• Liu Xian'er blocked the elders' treasures and spells with her Ren-Kui Water Sphere, freezing their attacks while teleporting to evade them.
• Elder Xi urged the cultivators to attack Liu Xian'er directly, but she dodged their beams and the elders recognized her as the Heavenly Dao Sect's heavenly immortal root genius.
• Liu Xian'er unleashed columns of water from the sphere, injuring and freezing several Golden Core Stage Cultivators and forcing the elders to scatter.
• Sun Haotian and Heavenly Venerable Daoling continued their fierce stalemate as the Fire Dragon Palace suffered heavy losses.
• After another Fire Dragon Cannon was destroyed, Li Xiaoya saw Liu Xian'er under pressure and called Dong Santong to help her.

Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong joined Liu Xian'er in holding off Fire Dragon Palace’s cultivators, while Li Xiaoya pursued a familiar black-robed cultivator. He discovered that Qin Xian had delayed the Emergency Battle Bell and claimed to be an undercover agent, leaving Li Xiaoya asking for proof.

• Li Xiaoya flew toward the red Castle after sensing a familiar aura, while Dong Santong attacked the cultivators surrounding Liu Xian'er with White-Light Clones and a powerful ambush.
• Dong Santong and Liu Xian'er drove the Fire Dragon Palace cultivators into a stalemate, forcing their enemies to group together and leaving the Five-Colored Light Barrier under continued attack.
• Li Mother, Murong Qi, and Zhang Bingmei worried about Li Xiaoya’s disappearance, while Murong Qi suggested he had discovered something.
• Li Xiaoya caught the fleeing black-robed cultivator and recognized him as Qin Xian, then accused him of defecting to Fire Dragon Palace.
• Qin Xian said he was an undercover agent who had refused Sun Haotian’s order to ring the Emergency Battle Bell, and Li Xiaoya realized the delay had helped them establish the formation.

Li Xiaoya learned that Fire Dragon Palace's Three Grand Elders had attacked the Heavenly Dao Sect's Demon Ghost Cliff branch, while Old Dragon Head searched for him. Qin Xian guided Li Xiaoya toward the secluded Sun Xings, and Qin Xian's urgent warning redirected Fairy Qingxia's party away from an ambush; Li Xiaoya ended at Fire Dragon Palace's spirit stone storehouse.

• Li Xiaoya spared Qin Xian, who revealed that Fire Dragon Palace's Three Grand Elders and several elders had raided the Heavenly Dao Sect's Demon Ghost Cliff branch, while Old Dragon Head hunted Li Xiaoya in the Red Dragon Kingdom.
• Qin Xian told Li Xiaoya that Black Skeleton was still missing and the two Sun Xings were in seclusion, then led him through the Red Castle toward them.
• Li Xiaoya hurried through the castle with Qin Xian's directions, killing cultivators in his path as he tried to finish his mission before Old Dragon Head returned.
• Fairy Qingxia's party received Qin Xian's urgent message about the raid and planned ambush, so Elder Wang turned them back toward the Heavenly Dao Sect instead of continuing toward the border.
• Li Xiaoya arrived at Fire Dragon Palace's black metal spirit stone storehouse with the bodies of its guards scattered nearby.

Li Xiaoya and Qin Xian broke into Fire Dragon Palace’s Spirit Stone Treasury, where Li Xiaoya smashed through the reinforced gate and began taking its enormous stores of spirit stones. When Sun Xing’s voice revealed that enemies had arrived, Li Xiaoya sent Qin Xian back to the Heavenly Dao Sect with the stolen spirit stones and rushed toward the entrance.

• Li Xiaoya ignored Qin Xian’s warning and repeatedly struck the treasury gate with the Fire Dragon Sword until he opened a hole through it.
• Li Xiaoya and Qin Xian entered the treasury and began filling Storage Pouches with its tens of billions of spirit stones.
• Sun Haotian used a Purple Jade Token to distract Heavenly Venerable Daoling and escape his fiery-thread attack, while the token’s destruction alerted Old Dragon Head.
• Two men both called Sun Xing discovered their Purple Jade Tokens had shattered, heard the Emergency Battle Bell, and flew out of their sealed chamber.
• After hearing Sun Xing shout outside the treasury, Li Xiaoya ordered Qin Xian to take the filled Storage Pouches back to the Heavenly Dao Sect and rushed toward the entrance.

Li Xiaoya escaped the Castle and rushed to aid Dong Santong and Liu Xian'er, who were under attack by Sun Xing and Sun Xing. Dong Santong interrupted the pair as they prepared a powerful technique, giving Li Xiaoya time to unleash the God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave.

• Qin Xian gathered the Storage Pouches full of spirit stones and quietly left the Cave Abode as explosions shook the Castle.
• Li Xiaoya burst from the Castle, killed several cultivators in his path, and flew toward Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong.
• Sun Xing and Sun Xing drove Dong Santong back with blue-violet flames while Liu Xian'er used a drop of blue liquid to restore her magic power and hold off the elders.
• Sun Xing and Sun Xing blasted Dong Santong away, but Li Xiaoya arrived and attacked them with two golden-red beams.
• Li Xiaoya and Sun Xing and Sun Xing began preparing their finishing techniques, but Dong Santong struck their joined hands with a white beam.
• Li Xiaoya brought his hands together and launched a golden-red sphere at Sun Xing and Sun Xing.

Li Xiaoya killed Sun Xing and Sun Xing with the God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave, then returned to the battlefield and killed Elder Xi while Fire Dragon Palace crumbled around them. As Li Xiaoya flew to help Heavenly Venerable Daoling and his companions prepared to withdraw, Old Dragon Head arrived at Fire Dragon Palace.

• Li Xiaoya unleashed the God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave, and the resulting explosions apparently killed Sun Xing and Sun Xing while devastating Fire Dragon Palace.
• Sun Haotian discovered that his grandsons' Lifebound Primordial Spirit Lamps were extinguished and charged Heavenly Venerable Daoling, who fought back with the Taiyi Fire God Sword.
• Li Xiaoya returned carrying Dong Santong and killed Elder Xi with a series of Golden Light Fists before ordering Dong Santong to protect the others and withdraw.
• Dong Santong told Li Mother, Liu Xian'er, and Murong Qi that Sun Xing and Sun Xing were dead, and Murong Qi urged them to leave without waiting for Li Xiaoya.
• Old Dragon Head arrived in his demon-beast form, surveyed the destruction, and exerted a powerful pressure over Fire Dragon Palace.

Old Dragon Head returned to the battle and overwhelmed Li Xiaoya, Heavenly Venerable Daoling, Liu Xian'er, and the others with his Spirit Communion Stage power. Li Xiaoya rejoined the fight with the Fire Dragon Sword and managed to wound Old Dragon Head's hand slightly, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Old Dragon Head interrupted Li Xiaoya and Heavenly Venerable Daoling's attack, and Sun Haotian realized the Jade Plaque had led to Xing and Xing's deaths.
• Old Dragon Head struck Li Xiaoya and Heavenly Venerable Daoling with flaming fists, then blasted through Liu Xian'er’s water sphere and drove her into the ground.
• Old Dragon Head shattered the Five-Colored Light Barrier and its backup barriers, leaving Li Mother, Dong Santong, and two others exposed.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling emerged from the Red Castle and fought Old Dragon Head, but was wounded and driven downward by a flaming blade.
• Li Xiaoya returned with the Fire Dragon Sword and met Old Dragon Head's fist head-on, knocking his hand back and leaving a fine cut before being hurled away.

Li Xiaoya and Heavenly Venerable Daoling struggled against Old Dragon Head while the rest of their group faced defeat against Sun Haotian and the Fire Dragon Palace elders. As Daoling drew Old Dragon Head’s attention, Li Xiaoya prepared the Immortal-Binding Rope, and silver runes suddenly trapped their enemy.

• Old Dragon Head repeatedly struck Li Xiaoya, whose Fire Dragon Sword absorbed some of the demon beast’s magic power with each clash.
• Sun Haotian and the elders broke the remaining barrier, forcing Dong Santong, Liu Xian'er, Li Mother, Murong Qi, and Zhang Bingmei into desperate battles.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling returned to the fight and helped distract Old Dragon Head, while Li Xiaoya realized the Fire Dragon Sword might let him turn the battle around.
• Li Xiaoya secretly took out the Immortal-Binding Rope as Daoling attacked Old Dragon Head with the Taiyi Fire God Sword.
• Old Dragon Head deflected Daoling’s sword beams and appeared behind him to strike, when silver runes suddenly formed around him.

Li Xiaoya failed to kill Old Dragon Head, who badly wounded him before Qianshan arrived and forced the battle to a halt. Old Dragon Head and Qianshan began negotiating over the fate of the seven Heavenly Dao Sect members and the survival of Fire Dragon Palace.

• Li Xiaoya bound Old Dragon Head with the Immortal-Binding Rope and stabbed him, but Old Dragon Head dispersed into flames and struck Li Xiaoya into a crater.
• Old Dragon Head nearly attacked Heavenly Venerable Daoling, but Qianshan appeared and clashed with him in midair.
• Qianshan proposed a temporary halt after seeing Li Xiaoya and the other Heavenly Dao Sect members close to defeat, and Old Dragon Head ordered both sides to stop fighting.
• Old Dragon Head challenged Qianshan over Fire Dragon Palace's losses, while Qianshan offered a dismissive apology and dared him to kill the injured juniors.
• Old Dragon Head threatened Li Xiaoya to test Qianshan, then demanded that Qianshan choose between saving seven youngsters and preventing Fire Dragon Palace's destruction.

Old Dragon Head and High Person Qianshan sealed a thousand-year nonaggression pact between the Fire Dragon Palace and the Heavenly Dao Sect, ending the battle. In the Elders' Hall, Old Dragon Head rebuked the Fire Dragon Palace elders for their failures, and Sun Haotian suddenly realized the Emergency Battle Bell had been rung too late and called out Ye Xian.

• Old Dragon Head demanded that the Heavenly Dao Sect refrain from attacking the Fire Dragon Palace for one thousand years, and High Person Qianshan agreed.
• Old Dragon Head and High Person Qianshan sealed their oath with a heavenly tribulation pact, whose jade disk was destroyed by a crimson thunderbolt.
• Old Dragon Head ordered Sun Haotian to summon the elders, then flew to the Red Castle while High Person Qianshan took the injured Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators away.
• The Fire Dragon Palace elders protested letting the Heavenly Dao Sect leave, and Old Dragon Head silenced them and blamed their failures for the losses.
• An elder pointed out that the Emergency Battle Bell had been rung too late, and Sun Haotian realized the problem and shouted Ye Xian's name.

High Person Qianshan treated Li Xiaoya and the others after their clash with Old Dragon Head, while Xiao Zhi’s miraculous fruit helped Li Xiaoya recover. Li Xiaoya learned that the Heavenly Dao Sect and Fire Dragon Palace had agreed not to wage war for a thousand years, then asked why Old Dragon Head, a demon beast, was in the palace.

• High Person Qianshan used Xiao Zhi’s red fruit and his own magic to heal Li Xiaoya’s shattered bones, while the others recovered nearby.
• Xiao Zhi drank an emerald elixir, fell asleep, and flew into High Person Qianshan’s sleeve.
• Li Xiaoya woke, thanked High Person Qianshan, and received his own Fire Dragon Sword and Immortal-Binding Rope back.
• High Person Qianshan told Li Xiaoya that Old Dragon Head had made a Heavenly Tribulation Pact with the Heavenly Dao Sect to avoid war for a thousand years.
• High Person Qianshan admitted that neither he nor Old Dragon Head had ever defeated the other, and Zhang Bingmei awoke and greeted him.
• Li Xiaoya asked High Person Qianshan why Old Dragon Head, a demon beast, was in the Fire Dragon Palace.

High Person Qianshan told Li Xiaoya and Zhang Bingmei how Old Dragon Head’s parents secretly destroyed the Four Symbols Gate, stole its resources, and engineered a war to secure the Fire Dragon Palace’s rise. After the group swore a new thousand-year heavenly tribulation pact with the palace, Heavenly Venerable Daoling wondered whether Old Dragon Head had deliberately let them weaken it.

• High Person Qianshan recounted how the Fire Dragon Gate once flourished before the Demonic Path invaded and a war between the Righteous and Demonic Paths consumed the Great Illusion Continent.
• Old Dragon Head’s parents revealed themselves as powerful Fire Dragon Demon Beasts, brokered a ceasefire, and secured the Fire Dragon Palace’s place among the Twelve Great Sects and three thousand years of protection.
• High Person Qianshan revealed that the two Demon Beasts had killed the Four Symbols Gate’s Spirit Communion Stage cultivator, lured the Six Demonic Sects into attacking its ruins, and taken its resources and techniques for the Fire Dragon Palace.
• High Person Qianshan explained that Old Dragon Head’s parents had plotted the war to give their son time and resources to grow, while the Heavenly Dao Sect could not act against the palace because of the pact and lack of proof.
• Li Xiaoya wondered whether a new thousand-year pact had given the Fire Dragon Palace another chance, and High Person Qianshan said it had been necessary to secure their survival.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling opened his eyes and wondered whether Old Dragon Head had deliberately allowed them to reduce the Fire Dragon Palace to its weakened state.

After returning to the Heavenly Dao Sect, Li Xiaoya and his companions faced an Elder Council meeting where High Person Qianshan revealed their victory over the Fire Dragon Palace and the thousand-year pact. The council rewarded them and agreed to keep the matter quiet, while High Person Qianshan took Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er to investigate Zhang Hong’s heart demon.

• High Person Qianshan explained that the Fire Dragon Palace’s Old Dragon Head had agreed to a thousand-year heavenly tribulation pact, and Zhang Bingmei went to help Zhang Facai dismantle his Teleportation Formation.
• High Person Qianshan brought the injured group back to the Heavenly Dao Sect on a Green Leaf Flying Boat, while the Fire Dragon Palace’s Three Grand Elders abandoned their plan to attack the sect and returned to their palace.
• At the Elder Council, Elder Ma demanded punishment for Heavenly Venerable Daoling and Li Xiaoya, but High Person Qianshan rebuked him and recounted the group’s accomplishments against the Fire Dragon Palace.
• High Person Qianshan announced that the sect would reward the group, halve those rewards because of the losses at the Qingyang Kingdom branch, compensate the fallen cultivators’ lineages, and enforce the thousand-year pact.
• High Person Qianshan dismissed the elders and assigned Elder Wang the rewards and branch affairs, then agreed to take Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er to examine Zhang Hong’s heart demon.

High Person Qianshan examined Zhang Hong and explained that her heart demon could likely be dispelled, though her chance of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm remained uncertain. Meanwhile, Qin Xian returned secretly to the Heavenly Dao Sect to report after leaving the Fire Dragon Palace, then emerged in a different appearance.

• High Person Qianshan examined Zhang Hong and said there was an eighty or ninety percent chance of dispelling her heart demon, while her advancement depended on her own fortune.
• High Person Qianshan told Liu Xian'er to bring the gathered materials to his cave abode so he could prepare a supplementary medicinal concoction, and he urged Li Xiaoya to avoid rushing.
• Liu Xian'er left to visit her master and fetch the materials, while Li Xiaoya thanked her and comforted himself beside Zhang Hong's ice block.
• Qin Xian passed Heavenly Dao Sect patrols by giving the Blue-Robed Cultivator a correct password, then entered a concealed opening on a mountain near the Divine Path Mountain Range.
• After several hours inside, Qin Xian emerged wearing blue robes and black trousers and flew toward Divine Path Mountain.

After the Fire Dragon Palace battle, the Heavenly Dao Sect gained prestige while the weakened Fire Dragon Palace shut its gates. Li Xiaoya reunited with Qin Xian, who returned the spirit stones he had carried away and hinted that he needed help.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect's victory over the Fire Dragon Palace was gradually confirmed, raising the sect's standing while the Fire Dragon Palace repaired its losses and went into seclusion.
• High Person Qianshan rewarded Li Xiaoya and the other six participants, and Li Xiaoya divided the spirit stones from the Fire Dragon Palace among his companions, including Zhang Facai.
• Li Xiaoya worried about Qin Xian, who had helped them undercover and had not returned with the others.
• Li Xiaoya found Qin Xian back at the little house near the cliff and learned he had returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect three days earlier.
• Qin Xian gave Li Xiaoya more than a dozen Storage Pouches of spirit stones and admitted he had a favor to ask.

Qin Xian asked Li Xiaoya to accept him as a disciple, and Li Xiaoya took him on as a registered disciple and gave him Fire Dragon Palace cultivation manuals. After receiving a message that the supplementary elixirs were ready, Li Xiaoya hurried to Rainbow Rosy Peak, where High Person Qianshan had already begun helping Zhang Hong dispel her heart demon.

• Qin Xian knelt before Li Xiaoya and asked to become his disciple, explaining that he had never formally taken another master.
• Li Xiaoya accepted Qin Xian as a registered disciple and told him to follow the Heavenly Dao Sect’s rules.
• Li Xiaoya gave Qin Xian jade slips containing Fire Dragon Palace flame methods and cultivation insights, and Qin Xian handed over his bundle of spirit stones.
• High Person Qianshan sent word that the supplementary elixirs were ready and that he would help Zhang Hong dispel her heart demon.
• Li Xiaoya flew to Rainbow Rosy Peak and found Liu Xian'er waiting outside the Sealed Chamber while High Person Qianshan helped Zhang Hong inside.