Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya learned that Fairy Cang had discovered Zhang Hong was hidden inside his armor and explained how conspicuous the treasure made her. Fairy Cang offered the Yellow Ridge Gate’s Secret Realm Necklace as a solution, and Li Xiaoya watched her demonstrate that it could hold a living person.

• Fairy Cang explained that Li Xiaoya’s story and his protectiveness toward the puppet had revealed Zhang Hong’s identity.
• Fairy Cang warned Li Xiaoya that Zhang Hong’s aura-less armor would attract suspicion and make her vulnerable to powerful cultivators.
• Fairy Cang offered a spirit treasure with a secret realm space that could safely conceal living beings.
• Huang Huatian brought out the Secret Realm Necklace and used it to draw Fairy Cang inside.
• Fairy Cang spoke from within the necklace, confirming that the treasure could contain her.

Li Xiaoya agreed to fight for Yellow Ridge Gate at the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly, then joined Huang Huatian and Fairy Cang in hiding his participation from their rivals. Hongyu failed to track him and returned to an underwater city to report intelligence to Hao Ling.

• Huang Huatian and Fairy Cang discussed giving Li Xiaoya the Secret Realm Necklace in exchange for his promise to place in the top three at the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly.
• Li Xiaoya considered the necklace and Zhang Hong’s armored body, then left the Yellow Territory Market District while carrying her physical body.
• Li Xiaoya evaded Hongyu and met Huang Huatian and Fairy Cang, who took him to a secret Yellow Ridge Gate location to conceal him until the assembly.
• Hongyu failed to find Li Xiaoya, then traveled to an underwater city and presented his jade plaque to its guards.
• Hongyu asked the guards to take him to Senior Hao Ling so he could report important intelligence.

After hiding at a secret Yellow Ridge Gate branch, Li Xiaoya strengthened his body with life flowers and spent months refining Earth Demon Dragon essence blood. He left the valley carrying Zhang Hong, intent on secretly pursuing his next plans.

• Hao Ling learned from Hongyu that Li Xiaoya had slain the Earth Demon Dragon and decided to wait until after the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly before pursuing him.
• Li Xiaoya spent a month strengthening his body and bloodline with ten life flowers before beginning to refine the dragon’s essence blood.
• Over more than half a year, Li Xiaoya refined ten drops of essence blood, greatly increasing his strength, but stopped when the dragon’s violent aura began to overwhelm his own blood.
• Li Xiaoya decided to leave the secret valley and eventually feed the Earth Demon Dragon eggs’ souls to the Fire Dragon Sword, while keeping Zhang Hong with him.
• When the guards tried to stop him, Li Xiaoya flew away and disguised himself as a horned Demon Race cultivator, carrying Zhang Hong in an iron barrel.

Li Xiaoya traveled to a remote valley in the Yade Territory and fed Dragon Eggs to the Fire Dragon Sword in an attempt to upgrade it. The sword's transformation awakened the Dragon Ancestor, who sensed a sealed threat had returned and sent four dragon cultivators to find it.

• Li Xiaoya disguised himself as a Demon Race cultivator, visited a small market, and bought materials and Demon Race cultivation and alchemy items.
• Huang Huatian learned Li Xiaoya had left, while Fairy Cang trusted that he would return as promised.
• Li Xiaoya crossed into the Yade Territory, concealed a valley, and pierced Dragon Eggs with the Fire Dragon Sword to strengthen it.
• The Fire Dragon Sword absorbed two Dragon Eggs, changed its runes to pale purple, and unleashed a vast dragon-shaped burst of five-colored light.
• The Dragon Ancestor awoke, sensed that a sealed entity had returned with more than a tenth of its power, and ordered four dragon cultivators to locate and kill whoever wielded it.

The Dragon Ancestor rewarded Hong Yan’s son, Huo Yang, and ordered the dragons to search the Ancient Demon and East Xia Continents for a mysterious object. Meanwhile, Li Xiaoya’s Fire Dragon Sword advanced dramatically, leaving him weakened and wary as he planned to reach the East Xia Continent.

• The Dragon Ancestor gave Hong Yan a five-colored dragon-shaped liquid for Huo Yang after praising him for recovering a dragon soul and reaching the middle Great Void stage.
• Hong Yan and the other dragons agreed to use their vassals, spies, and a bounty mission to search for the mysterious object on the Ancient Demon or East Xia Continent.
• After Li Xiaoya plunged the Fire Dragon Sword into the final dragon egg, it transformed and unleashed a strike that carved a vast trench and tore open a huge spatial rift.
• The Fire Dragon Sword consumed most of Li Xiaoya’s magic power and all of his divine sense, so he fled to a hidden cave and began recovering.
• Li Xiaoya concluded that the sword was too dangerous to use often and resolved to find a way to reach the East Xia Continent while the dragons’ search for the object began.

Li Xiaoya recovered from upgrading the Fire Dragon Sword and traveled with the Yellow Ridge Gate to the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly, where the sect faced a challenge from Hao Ling’s Azure Lake Gate. When Hongyu appeared among the assembly’s travelers, Li Xiaoya captured him after an attempted attack.

• Huang Huatian and Fairy Cang worried about Li Xiaoya’s month-long absence until a messenger reported that he had returned safely.
• Fairy Cang and Huang Huatian discussed Hao Ling’s sons and the threat the Azure Lake Gate posed to the Yellow Ridge Gate’s standing at the Immortal Assembly.
• Li Xiaoya learned how the assemblies awarded racial inheritance and determined that the Yellow Ridge Gate was at risk of losing its position as the territory’s managing sect.
• After several months of recovery, Li Xiaoya joined the Yellow Ridge Gate delegation aboard a flying boat bound for the assembly venue.
• Hongyu recognized Li Xiaoya and panicked after realizing he had wrongly reported that Li Xiaoya had left; when a Yellow Ridge Gate cultivator attacked him, Li Xiaoya bound him with the Immortal-Binding Rope.

The Yellow Ridge Gate exposed Hongyu as Hao Ling’s spy and replaced him with Li Xiaoya as its Immortal Assembly representative. The party arrived at the contest site, where the Azure Lake Gate and Hao Ling appeared as the rivals gathered.

• Lao De and Huang Huatian accused Hongyu of serving Hao Ling, and Li Xiaoya restrained him and handed him over to the Yellow Ridge Gate.
• Huang Huatian announced that Li Xiaoya would represent the Yellow Ridge Gate, while the invited cultivators agreed to keep his identity secret.
• The party reached the Heavenly Demon Race’s mountain venue, where Huang Huatian learned that Tang Ju'er would preside over the contests.
• The Azure Lake Gate arrived on a giant blue monster fish, and Huang Huatian recognized Hao Ling among its leaders.

Hao Ling provoked the Yellow Ridge Gate before Tang Ju'er opened the Immortal Assembly Secret Realm. Inside, the teams prepared for the contest, and Hao Ling mocked the Yellow Ridge Gate for sending Li Xiaoya into the elimination rounds.

• Hao Ling offered to pay the Yellow Ridge Gate's allies twice as much, and Fairy Cang challenged him to match their offer of Earth Demon Dragon essence blood.
• Hao Ling mocked the Yellow Ridge Gate's claim about killing a Heaven-and-Earth realm Earth Demon Dragon, but Fairy Cang turned his taunt against him before Tang Ju'er stopped the argument.
• Tang Ju'er opened the secret realm with a gray token, and the cultivators entered after he announced the assembly rules.
• Li Xiaoya saw that nearly three hundred cultivators had gathered and learned that Huang Huatian, Fairy Cang, and another cultivator would take the Yellow Ridge Gate's direct-entry slot.
• Hao Ling sneered at the Yellow Ridge Gate's team selection and called three formidable cultivators forward.

Li Xiaoya’s team drew the Azure Lake Three Immortals as its first opponents in the Immortal Assembly, prompting Hao Ling to scheme against him. The teams entered the arena, but after the opponents demanded a team battle and Li Xiaoya chose individual duels, the officiator called for lots to decide the format.

• Tang Ju'er announced that the remaining seventy-two teams would draw lots to compete for eighteen spots, and the teams drew their numbers using the Fighting Immortal Diagram.
• Jade Fairy’s team drew number one and was matched against team four, Hao Ling’s three sons, the Azure Lake Three Immortals.
• Li Xiaoya removed his veil, revealing his Bull-Head Race appearance, and the cultivators recognized him as the one rumored to have helped kill the Earth Demon Dragon.
• Hao Ling ordered his sons to kill Li Xiaoya and his teammates, then offered Li Xiaoya three times the Yellow Ridge Gate’s reward to lose; Li Xiaoya agreed while demanding sixty drops of Earth Demon Dragon essence blood.
• The Azure Lake Three Immortals chose a team battle, but Li Xiaoya chose individual duels and entered a smaller circle with Jade Fairy and Lao De.
• When the teams disagreed over the match format, the officiating Heavenly Demon Race cultivator ordered them to draw lots.

Li Xiaoya chose a team battle against the Azure Lake Three Immortals, then used the Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram to break through their combined attack. The first exchange ended without either side gaining an advantage.

• Li Xiaoya won the draw to choose the battle format and selected a team battle, surprising the cultivators and the Azure Lake Three Immortals.
• Li Xiaoya told Jade Fairy and Lao De to defend while he handled the main attack, and the referee began the battle.
• The Azure Lake Three Immortals combined their powers and sent a massive wave of blue-violet energy at Li Xiaoya and his companions.
• Jade Fairy formed a jade mountain and Lao De summoned monstrous pythons to counter the waves while Li Xiaoya unleashed a golden Earth Demon Dragon claw.
• Li Xiaoya's punch pierced the combined attack, but the Azure Lake Three Immortals joined forces again and shattered his dragon claw as Jade Fairy and Lao De's attacks blocked the remaining waves.

Li Xiaoya fought the Azure Lake Three Immortals in the Immortal Assembly secret realm and overwhelmed their combined attacks with his golden Earth Demon Dragon powers. He blasted the three brothers apart and chased after them, leaving the fight’s outcome imminent.

• Li Xiaoya summoned golden dragon claws and battered the Azure Lake Three Immortals’ strange-fish projections and joined shield with countless golden blades.
• The Azure Lake Three Immortals’ three-pronged spears grew larger and struck at Li Xiaoya, but his Earth Demon Dragon projection knocked them thousands of feet away.
• Tang Ju'er, Fairy Cang, Huang Huatian, and Hao Ling reacted with shock as they recognized the Earth Demon Dragon projection and its power.
• The Azure Lake Three Immortals boosted their strength and sent three enormous strange-fish projections against Li Xiaoya’s golden Earth Demon Dragon.
• Li Xiaoya’s Earth Demon Dragon smashed the three projections, blasted the Azure Lake Three Immortals in different directions, and he pursued them.

Li Xiaoya defeated the Azure Lake Three Immortals and helped the Yellow Ridge Gate place four teams in the top twenty at the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly. After the assembly ended, Tang Ju'er called Li Xiaoya and Huang Huatian over to discuss something, leaving Li Xiaoya’s departure uncertain.

• Li Xiaoya stopped short of killing the unconscious Azure Lake Three Immortals, while Tang Ju'er prevented Hao Ling from interfering with the match.
• Li Xiaoya watched the other teams compete as the assembly progressed, and the Yellow Ridge Gate advanced four teams into the top twenty.
• Li Xiaoya's team defeated its opponents, then conceded the final match to Huang Huatian's team, giving the Yellow Ridge Gate first place and third place.
• After the assembly concluded and Tang Ju'er distributed reward tokens, he called Li Xiaoya and Huang Huatian over.

After the Immortal Assembly, Tang Ju'er recruited Li Xiaoya as an inner clan disciple of the Heavenly Demon Race. Li Xiaoya accepted because the race could help him reach the East Xia Continent and obtain the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill for Zhang Hong, and Tang Ju'er then turned to Huang Huatian.

• Tang Ju'er kept Li Xiaoya and Huang Huatian behind after the other cultivators left, then praised Huang Huatian's victory and questioned Li Xiaoya about his origins and abilities.
• Li Xiaoya claimed to be a rogue cultivator with inheritances from ruins, while concealing his true background and considering the Heavenly Demon Race as a route to the East Xia Continent.
• Tang Ju'er offered Li Xiaoya a place as an inner clan disciple, but Li Xiaoya hesitated and explained that he urgently needed the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill to save Zhang Hong.
• Tang Ju'er said the pill came from the Purple Vitality Gate on the East Xia Continent and offered access to the Heavenly Demon Race's teleportation formation or help obtaining it through contribution points.
• Li Xiaoya accepted Tang Ju'er's offer, and Tang Ju'er congratulated him before turning to discuss Huang Huatian's affairs.

Li Xiaoya emerged from the Immortal Assembly Secret Realm and was accepted as an Inner Clan Disciple of the Heavenly Demon Race, leaving Hao Ling and the Azure Lake Gate behind. As Li Xiaoya traveled toward the Heavenly Demon Race’s headquarters with Tang Ju'er, High Person Qianshan prepared to ascend in the Human Realm.

• Li Xiaoya and Huang Huatian emerged from the secret realm with Tang Ju'er and two other Heavenly Demon Race cultivators.
• Hao Ling tried to approach Li Xiaoya, but Tang Ju'er announced that Li Xiaoya would become an Inner Clan Disciple, prompting Hao Ling and the Azure Lake Gate cultivators to leave.
• Tang Ju'er advised Fairy Cang to refine the Yellow Ridge Gate’s Earth Demon Dragon essence blood before undergoing the racial inheritance.
• Li Xiaoya left with Tang Ju'er, claimed to be from the Bull-Demon Race, and kept his human origins and other secrets hidden as Tang Ju'er tested him.
• High Person Qianshan prepared to ascend on the Enchanted Mountain Range summit while Dong Santong and other cultivators watched; Qianshan formed hand seals and green light began to blaze around him.

Li Xiaoya arrived with Tang Ju'er at Star Tower City, where he explored the markets while waiting to use the Heavenly Demon Race's Super Teleportation Formation. Tang Ju'er secretly arranged for Li Xiaoya to meet the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones, then led him away under that ancestor's authority.

• Tang Ju'er brought Li Xiaoya to Star Tower City and arranged a cave abode while they waited for other envoys to gather.
• Li Xiaoya browsed the city's markets, discovered that the Star Tower market required race contribution points, and searched outside for materials and treasures.
• Tang Ju'er showed the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones a recording of Li Xiaoya's battle, and the ancestor ordered Tang Ju'er to bring Li Xiaoya to him directly.
• Tang Ju'er warned Li Xiaoya to speak little, then presented him to Jiu Hai and the other cultivators as someone wanted by the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones.
• Jiu Hai activated the Super Teleportation Formation, sending Li Xiaoya toward the Heavenly Demon Race.

Li Xiaoya and Tang Ju'er traveled through the vast Heavenly Demon Alliance headquarters to meet the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones, a Mighty One Stage cultivator. They reached the Ancestor, leaving Li Xiaoya anxious that his hidden bloodline might be exposed.

• Tang Ju'er warned Li Xiaoya that the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones was a Mighty One Stage cultivator and reassured him that the meeting was a good thing.
• At the Heavenly Demon Alliance gate, Tang Ju'er presented the Ancestor's token, and a guard gave Li Xiaoya an identity pearl.
• Tang Ju'er led Li Xiaoya deeper into the alliance, where they met Qian Lan, a late Heaven-and-Earth Stage cultivator and the Ancestor's disciple.
• Qian Lan brought Tang Ju'er and Li Xiaoya to a lake, where the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones sat surrounded by grayish-white light.
• Li Xiaoya greeted the Ancestor respectfully while wondering why such a powerful cultivator wanted to meet him.

The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones discovered Li Xiaoya’s human traits and tested his strength with a fraction of his power. Impressed by Li Xiaoya’s resistance, he made him an Inner Clan Disciple with Legacy Disciple treatment and entrusted him to Qian Lan, while the promised task remained unrevealed.

• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones sent Qian Lan and Tang Ju'er away and questioned Li Xiaoya about being human.
• Li Xiaoya claimed he was half human and half Bull-Demon, and the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones accepted the explanation provisionally.
• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones attacked Li Xiaoya, who used his Earth Demon Dragon power, Purple-Gold Heavenly Gang Armor, and a final strike to break the gray fist.
• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones praised Li Xiaoya for withstanding a strike containing one-thousandth of his magic power and mentioned an important task for him.
• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones appointed Li Xiaoya an Inner Clan Disciple with Legacy Disciple treatment and told Qian Lan to take charge of him.

Li Xiaoya received inner clan disciple status with benefits equal to those of a legacy disciple after the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones saw him withstand part of his divine ability. Qian Lan took him to her cave abode to learn how to conceal his foreign-race aura, and he began studying the rules and rewards for inner clan disciples.

• The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones gave Li Xiaoya a purple token and ordered Qian Lan to make arrangements for him, while privately concluding that Li Xiaoya might help with a certain matter.
• Qian Lan sent Tang Ju'er to see the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones, then explained to Li Xiaoya that he was an inner clan disciple receiving legacy-disciple treatment.
• Qian Lan brought Li Xiaoya to her cave abode, gave him scrolls about concealing his aura and inner clan disciple rules, and told him to master the art before leaving.
• Li Xiaoya cleaned and warded the shabby cave assigned to him, then read about disciple benefits, contribution rewards, rankings, and obligations.

Li Xiaoya learned that the Beast Qi-Concealment Art was incomplete and that he could obtain its remaining levels with race contribution points. Qian Lan escorted him to the Heavenly Demon Alliance’s Inheritance Secret Realm, where a guide recognized him as a legacy disciple.

• High Person Qianshan arrived in the Thirty-Three Star Realm and was summoned away by a Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivator.
• Qian Lan examined Li Xiaoya and recognized that he had mastered the first level of the Beast Qi-Concealment Art.
• Li Xiaoya learned that the art had four levels and that he would need race contribution points to obtain the complete method.
• Qian Lan explained that inner clan disciples had to answer the race’s summons, but told Li Xiaoya to focus on cultivating and repaying the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones.
• Qian Lan escorted Li Xiaoya to the Inheritance Secret Realm and advised him to undergo the inheritance bloodline process first.
• A white-robed cultivator welcomed Li Xiaoya, recognized his blue badge as belonging to a legacy disciple, and offered to show him around.

High Person Qianshan met Dao Virtue Heavenly Lord, who recognized his merit and asked him about Li Xiaoya. Meanwhile, Li Xiaoya traveled through the Heavenly Demon Race’s Inheritance Secret Realm toward the Racial Inheritance Grounds, where a threatening aura caught his attention.

• Dao Virtue Heavenly Lord told High Person Qianshan he would become an Inner Clan Disciple upon reaching the Great Void Stage, then asked him to recount everything about Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya flew toward the Racial Inheritance Grounds with an Inheritance Token and reflected on his temporary Legacy Disciple status and the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones’ plans for him.
• Li Xiaoya observed that cultivators in the Inheritance Secret Realm usually traveled alone and learned that deadly combat was allowed only in designated treasure areas and ranking contests.
• Li Xiaoya reached a snowy mountain range surrounded by blue-light pagodas and recognized the ancient trees used to build structures at the Heavenly Demon Alliance.
• A white-robed guard confirmed Li Xiaoya was a Legacy Disciple, and Li Xiaoya sensed a threatening aura nearby.