Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya and his allies killed Black Dragon, the last of three Dragon Race spies, but the Hell Crown only sealed the dragons’ demon cores, leaving Li Xiaoya short of fifth-rank merit. As the group fled and concealed themselves, Li Xiaoya explained the crown’s powers and resolved to keep the Fire Dragon Sword hidden because the Dragon Race was searching for it.

• Dong Santong, Di Long Yunyi, Ailishan, and Qiong Nanqi trapped Black Dragon, and Li Xiaoya used the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff to kill him while the Hell Crown captured his demon core.
• Di Long Yunyi sent Black Dragon’s corpse to Li Xiaoya, and the group flew hundreds of miles away before Dong Santong made them invisible.
• Ailishan asked Li Xiaoya about the Hell Crown, and he confirmed it was the Hell King’s treasure and credited the Heavenly Thunder Beast with defeating Hell King Wugui.
• Li Xiaoya told his companions that the Hell Crown could immobilize cultivators and extract demon cores, but the sealed dragon cores earned him only half the merit reward.
• Li Xiaoya kept the dragon cores intact because he planned to let the Fire Dragon Sword absorb them, while avoiding using the sword after learning that the Dragon Race was searching for it.

Li Xiaoya and his group left the Dragon Race camp after deciding to keep the Fire Dragon Sword hidden, while the Dragon Marshal identified Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong in recorded footage and ordered forces to hunt them. Elsewhere, a powerful horned cultivator returned to the Demon Star Realm, whose roar shook the land, as a grand procession drawn by nine black dragons approached him.

• Li Xiaoya decided not to use the Fire Dragon Sword unless necessary and planned to save the Dragon Race demon cores and corpses for later.
• The Dragon Marshal watched images of Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong attacking the Dragon Race spies and ordered three groups and their inside agents to track them down.
• The Dragon Marshal revealed that he had once seized the Dragon Soul from Li Xiaoya and anticipated taking another great prize from him.
• A horned cultivator emerged into the Demon Star Realm and roared, shattering the surrounding sky and ground.
• Nine enormous black dragons pulled a bone carriage toward the returning cultivator while hundreds of black-armored cultivators escorted it.

Prince Modong returned to the Devil Race court as a mighty one stage cultivator, carrying news of a vast supply of demon-sediment stone and plotting to seize the throne and destroy the humans of the Thirty-Three Star Realm. Meanwhile, Li Xiaoya and his companions escaped an Earth-Venerable King Beast, but their injuries and encounter left them in trouble.

• Prince Modong returned to court, where Demon Elder and the Devil Race cultivators welcomed him as a prince.
• Prince Modong told Demon Elder that he had reached the mighty one stage but needed to stabilize his cultivation, and he revealed demon-sediment stone as the source of his advancement.
• Prince Modong learned that his eldest brother had won over powerful clan members, including the Four Black Grievance Elders, and ordered Demon Elder to keep the demon-sediment stone secret.
• After Demon Elder left, Prince Modong vowed to wipe out the humans of the Thirty-Three Star Realm once he inherited the throne.
• Li Xiaoya and his companions fled a gigantic Earth-Venerable King Beast and escaped aboard the Skyvault Skiff, though Ailishan, Di Long Yunyi, and Qiong Nanqi were badly injured.
• Li Xiaoya told Dong Santong that the beast was a mighty one stage elder demon beast and said their situation was now troublesome.

After the Special Group was badly injured by the Earth-Venerable King Beast in ancient ruins, Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong recovered while traveling back toward the Human Race camp. The Dragon Marshal learned their likely route and dispatched his forces to ambush them.

• Li Xiaoya’s group completed several years of missions, then entered unexplored ruins and found treasures.
• The Earth-Venerable King Beast attacked the group, injuring Ailishan and forcing Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong to hold it off as Li Xiaoya’s tower blasted apart the ruins.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong used elixirs to recover their magic power while the group flew back aboard the Skyvault Skiff.
• The Dragon Marshal learned that Li Xiaoya’s group had not returned and deduced they would travel through the Windspirit Continent or Ten Thousand Mountains Continent.
• The Dragon Marshal ordered ten dragon squads to ambush the group on the Windspirit Continent and led the remaining forces toward the Ten Thousand Mountains Continent.

Li Xiaoya and his companions survived an Insect Race hunt and hid until it ended, then resumed their journey toward the Human Race camp. They unknowingly approached a Dragon Race ambush, where fleeing Human Race cultivators spotted their flying boat and headed toward it.

• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong fought off over a hundred Insect Race Great Void Stage cultivators and more than a dozen Heaven-and-Earth Realm Great Cultivators, killing over a dozen enemies and one Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivator before escaping aboard the Skyvault Skiff.
• Li Xiaoya's group concealed themselves in a cavern beneath a floating landmass and waited more than ten days for the Insect Race hunt to end.
• The Insect Race's merit rose from fourth place to second, while the Human Race fell to fourth place and the Demon Race ranked third.
• Li Xiaoya and his companions flew toward the Human Race camp, unaware that Dragon Race cultivators were ambushing Human Race squads near the Windspirit Continent and the Ten Thousand Mountains Continent.
• Five Human Race cultivators fled nearly twenty pursuing Dragon Race dragons and flew toward Li Xiaoya's approaching silver flying boat after spotting it.

Li Xiaoya used the Skyvault Skiff’s spirit cannons to halt the Dragon Race cultivators pursuing his Human Race allies, then joined Dong Santong in attacking them. The Dragon Race cultivators resisted the Five-Element Heavenly Venerable Heaven-Shaking Tower, but Dong Santong’s strike wounded many of them, allowing Li Xiaoya to intensify the tower’s crushing assault.

• The Skyvault Skiff fired its spirit cannons at the pursuing Dragon Race cultivators, giving the Human Race group time to reach the ship.
• Li Xiaoya recognized Hai Kuliuyin and Dong Liuzu among the injured group and told them to board while he and Dong Santong went to fight.
• Dong Santong blinded the Dragon Race cultivators with the Moonlight Crescent Saber as Li Xiaoya summoned the Five-Element Heavenly Venerable Heaven-Shaking Tower.
• The Dragon Race cultivators combined their treasures to resist the tower, causing Li Xiaoya to suffer a backlash.
• Dong Santong’s phantom Moonlight Crescent Sabers pierced the defenses and injured nearly half the Dragon Race cultivators, though the attack left him weakened.
• Li Xiaoya seized the opening and drove the Five-Element Heavenly Venerable Heaven-Shaking Tower downward in a renewed assault.

Li Xiaoya empowered the Five-Element Heavenly Venerable Heaven-Shaking Tower to capture six Dragon Race cultivators, but the remaining dragons resisted and prepared to attack. He and Dong Santong fled aboard the Skyvault Skiff as more Dragon Race reinforcements approached, leaving the captured dragons behind.

• Li Xiaoya strengthened the Five-Element Heavenly Venerable Heaven-Shaking Tower with his essence blood, and it pulled six Dragon Race cultivators inside while the rest linked together to resist.
• Li Xiaoya recalled the tower and imprisoned the six captured dragons in its pagoda as the remaining Dragon Race cultivators prepared to attack.
• Dong Santong blinded the dragons with white spheres of light while Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong fled toward the Skyvault Skiff, pursued by the survivors.
• The Skyvault Skiff fired red beams to hold off the pursuing dragons, and Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong boarded before the vessel sped away.

Li Xiaoya and his companions escaped the Dragon Race pursuit by pooling their magic power to boost the Skyvault Skiff, then hid inside a sealed cavern within a giant floating rock. The Dragon Marshal failed to find them, and the rescued cultivators thanked Li Xiaoya as Dong Santong asked how he knew them.

• Li Xiaoya had the group pour their magic power into the Skyvault Skiff’s formation, and the vessel accelerated away from the pursuing Dragon Race cultivators.
• The Dragon Marshal arrived too late to catch the skiff and searched in vain, while the pursuing Dragon Race cultivators eventually lost track of both the fugitives and their marshal.
• After flying nearly a million miles, Li Xiaoya put away the skiff and used Earth Escape to hide everyone inside a cavern concealed within a huge floating boulder.
• Dong Liuzu, Hai Kuliuyin, and the other survivors thanked Li Xiaoya for saving them and explained that two members of their group had been killed.
• Dong Santong asked Li Xiaoya whether he knew the rescued cultivators.

Li Xiaoya reunited with Hai Kuliuyin and Dong Liuzu after helping their group escape a Dragon Race ambush, and the survivors recovered while discussing the Dragon Race’s search for something. Dong Santong suspected Li Xiaoya was their target, and elsewhere the Lord Dragon Marshal learned that Li Xiaoya had captured six dragons.

• Li Xiaoya introduced Dong Santong and met Hai Kuliuyin, Dong Liuzu, and their companions after rescuing them from Dragon Race cultivators.
• Hai Kuliuyin and Dong Liuzu explained that their groups had joined forces after suffering losses, and that they had reached merit level six as the Twenty-First Group.
• Li Xiaoya told Hai Kuliuyin and Dong Liuzu that he had reached the Sixteenth Layer of the Hell Tower, then urged everyone to heal their injuries.
• Dong Santong privately asked Li Xiaoya whether the Dragon Race was looking for him, and Li Xiaoya told him to keep the possibility secret.
• The Lord Dragon Marshal arrived and questioned the Dragon Race cultivators, who reported that Li Xiaoya had rescued the Human Race group and captured six dragons.

The Dragon Marshal ordered the Dragon Race cultivators to retreat while he secretly headed back toward the Windspirit Continent to pursue Li Xiaoya. Qianyu Taizu reached the deserted passage with human reinforcements and sent Patriarch Yaoyue and Patriarch Zisha to hunt the dragons, suspecting that they were targeting Li Xiaoya.

• The Dragon Marshal ordered the Dragon Race cultivators to retreat to their secret camp and said they would have to capture Li Xiaoya to rescue their captured brethren.
• After the others left, the Dragon Marshal transformed into a human-sized form and flew toward the Windspirit Continent.
• Qianyu Taizu led human forces through the Ten Thousand Mountains Continent, but found no Dragon Race cultivators at the Windspirit Continent.
• Qianyu Taizu reported heavy human losses, and Patriarch Zisha proposed hunting the dragons.
• Patriarch Yaoyue joined Patriarch Zisha, and the two left with more than a hundred cultivators each while Qianyu Taizu guarded the passage.
• Qianyu Taizu worried that the Dragon Race was targeting Li Xiaoya and questioned why his master had sent him to the Race Battlefield.

Li Xiaoya and his companions recovered in hiding for more than a year while he strengthened his body and studied his treasures. After they decided to return to the Human Race Alliance's Main Base, a massive surge of red light struck the Skyvault Skiff as it left Windspirit Continent, and Li Xiaoya recognized its ominous aura.

• The Human Race retaliated against the Insect Race and Dragon Race, shifting the Race Battlefield rankings and making encounters between the Great Races more violent.
• Li Xiaoya kept his injured companions hidden in a cavern while he and Dong Santong recovered, then spent more than a year cultivating and refining demon beast essence blood.
• Li Xiaoya improved his physical strength and became more proficient with the Five-Element Heavenly Venerable Heaven-Shaking Tower and the Hell Crown.
• Li Xiaoya and his companions agreed to return to the Human Race Alliance's Main Base because their injuries had improved, their missions were nearing their deadlines, and Liu Xian'er needed a place to advance.
• A dazzling surge of red light struck the Skyvault Skiff after it crossed beyond Windspirit Continent, and Li Xiaoya recognized its aura and reacted with alarm.

Old Dragon Head ambushed Li Xiaoya’s Skyvault Skiff, forcing Li Xiaoya to fight him in the void. After recognizing each other, Old Dragon Head said he had something to explain, leaving Li Xiaoya waiting to hear what it was.

• Old Dragon Head struck the Skyvault Skiff with his enormous claw, shattering its barrier and badly damaging the vessel.
• Li Xiaoya emerged from the skiff and exchanged powerful attacks with Old Dragon Head, but was ultimately blasted away.
• Li Xiaoya used the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor to halt himself before crashing into a boulder.
• Li Xiaoya recognized Old Dragon Head, who revealed that he had reached the mid-Mighty One Stage.
• Old Dragon Head said he wanted to discuss something with Li Xiaoya and first needed to explain something.

Li Xiaoya confronted Yan Longzi, who demanded the Fire Dragon Sword and revealed the Dragon Race’s claim to it. While Li Xiaoya stalled him, the Skyvault Skiff repaired itself and began to flee, but Yan Longzi attacked it before it could escape.

• Yan Longzi identified himself as the Dragon Race’s Dragon Marshal and claimed the Dragon Soul Li Xiaoya had taken from Treasure Mountain belonged to the Dragon Race.
• Yan Longzi demanded that Li Xiaoya hand over the Fire Dragon Sword, but Li Xiaoya denied having it and said he had sold it.
• Li Xiaoya stalled Yan Longzi while the damaged Skyvault Skiff repaired itself and the injured cultivators gathered aboard to escape.
• Yan Longzi realized Li Xiaoya had been buying time and rushed toward the Skyvault Skiff as it began to activate.
• Yan Longzi lashed the Skyvault Skiff with a blade of red light, cleaving through the air toward the fleeing vessel.

Li Xiaoya fought Yan Longzi to protect the Skyvault Skiff as Yan Longzi trapped the fleeing vessel and prepared a devastating strike. Li Xiaoya transformed into a Bloodthirsty Gorilla and used Bloodthirst to meet Yan Longzi’s Dragon-Horn Bone Blade, but the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff began to crack under the impact.

• Li Xiaoya blocked Yan Longzi’s red light blade, was hurled through a floating boulder, and recovered with the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor.
• While Li Xiaoya fought him, Yan Longzi used runes to halt the Skyvault Flying Boat, and Ailishan and the others poured their magic power into forcing it forward.
• Li Xiaoya transformed into a thirty-thousand-foot Bloodthirsty Gorilla to shield the Skyvault Skiff as Yan Longzi launched his Dragon-Horn Bone Blade.
• Li Xiaoya activated Bloodthirst, doubling his power despite its cost to his lifespan and cultivation, and swung the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff against the descending blade.
• The weapons collided with devastating force, and a crack split across the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff.

Li Xiaoya fought Yan Longzi and was badly wounded after Yan Longzi’s high-grade Heaven-Opening Treasure shattered the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff. As Li Xiaoya recovered, Yan Longzi unexpectedly offered to trade his Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash for the Fire Dragon Sword, leaving Li Xiaoya stunned.

• Li Xiaoya used the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff to block Yan Longzi’s dragon-horn bone saber, but Yan Longzi poured dragon blood into the saber and overwhelmed him.
• The saber cleaved the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff in two, and Li Xiaoya caught the blade between his palms before it slashed a vast wound across his chest.
• Li Xiaoya flung the saber away and healed his superficial wound, while Yan Longzi recalled the weapon and praised Li Xiaoya’s strength.
• Li Xiaoya judged that Yan Longzi’s cultivation, physique, and treasure gave him a severe advantage, then swallowed pills to recover some magic power.
• Yan Longzi revealed that his weapon was a high-grade Heaven-Opening Treasure and offered to trade it for Li Xiaoya’s Fire Dragon Sword.

Li Xiaoya bargained with Yan Longzi for the Skyvault Skiff’s safety, but Yan Longzi tried to seize the vessel and kill him with the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash. Li Xiaoya sent the skiff flying and survived the blow with the Immortal Dao Chain, while his further plan remained unrevealed.

• Yan Longzi demanded the Fire Dragon Sword and threatened Li Xiaoya and the Human Race allies aboard the trapped Skyvault Skiff.
• Li Xiaoya pretended he could retrieve the sword from the Human Race Alliance Main Camp, but Yan Longzi pulled the skiff toward himself to take its passengers hostage.
• Li Xiaoya caught the Skyvault Skiff and hurled it several hundred miles away as Yan Longzi launched the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash at him.
• Li Xiaoya gambled that the Immortal Dao Chain would stop the slash, and its white barrier protected him as the impact blasted him into the distance.
• Yan Longzi recognized the Immortal Dao Chain, while Li Xiaoya reflected that he had risked himself rather than abandon Dong Santong and the others.

Li Xiaoya used the Immortal Dao Chain to survive Yan Longzi’s attack, then fled while the Skyvault Skiff escaped with the others aboard. As Yan Longzi closed in, Li Xiaoya transformed into a Heavenly Feather Roc, but Yan Longzi launched the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash at him.

• Li Xiaoya blocked Yan Longzi’s Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash with the Immortal Dao Chain, frustrating Yan Longzi’s plan to make him draw the Fire Dragon Sword.
• Li Xiaoya used his Storm Gold-Light Wings to flee, while the Skyvault Skiff sped away with its passengers pouring magic power into it.
• Dong Santong left the Skyvault Skiff under concealment to help Li Xiaoya, while Ailishan and the others stayed aboard to avoid burdening him.
• Yan Longzi pursued Li Xiaoya and steadily closed the distance, prompting Li Xiaoya to transform from a Bloodthirsty Gorilla into a Heavenly Feather Roc.
• Yan Longzi unleashed the ten-thousand-zhang Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash toward Li Xiaoya’s Heavenly Feather Roc form.

Li Xiaoya transformed into a Heavenly Feather Roc and used its time-shift teleportation to escape Yan Longzi’s attack, then led him on a high-speed chase. The two reached a vast cluster of floating rocks, where Li Xiaoya plunged in with Yan Longzi close behind.

• Li Xiaoya used the Roc’s time-shift teleportation to evade Yan Longzi’s Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash and flee hundreds of li away.
• Li Xiaoya flew faster than Yan Longzi at first, but Yan Longzi boosted his speed and threatened Li Xiaoya’s family and master as he pursued him.
• Li Xiaoya ignored Yan Longzi’s threats, then used bursts of red flame and sharp turns to widen the gap again while circling through the void.
• Dong Santong left the Skyvault Skiff to help Li Xiaoya, but his wings revealed him and he lost track of both pursuers.
• Li Xiaoya flew into a vast cluster of floating rocks with Yan Longzi following close behind.

Li Xiaoya used flying rocks to delay Yan Longzi, then concealed himself inside a small rock with Earth Escape and the Invisibility Cloak. Yan Longzi realized Li Xiaoya was hiding in a rock and began destroying the nearby stones, but still had not found him.

• Li Xiaoya struck huge rocks toward Yan Longzi to create distance, while Yan Longzi shattered them and pursued with the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash.
• Li Xiaoya sent a barrage of rocks at Yan Longzi, then vanished amid the fragments and explosions.
• Yan Longzi searched the surrounding void with his divine sense and Five-Colored Spiritual Light but could not detect Li Xiaoya.
• After smashing a nearby rock, Yan Longzi realized Li Xiaoya was hiding inside one and began blasting the floating rocks around him.
• Li Xiaoya remained compressed inside a small rock, concealed by Earth Escape and the Invisibility Cloak, while Yan Longzi searched and destroyed the nearby stones without finding him.

Li Xiaoya escaped Yan Longzi’s search by hiding in a small rock and drifting away, but Yan Longzi began summoning the Ten Thousand Dragons Altar to search for him. The altar grew as Li Xiaoya sensed the danger and tried to put more distance between them.

• Yan Longzi pulverized rocks across hundreds of li but failed to find Li Xiaoya, who was concealed inside a small rock.
• The rock carrying Li Xiaoya drifted away while Yan Longzi continued searching and destroying boulders.
• Yan Longzi decided to use the Ten Thousand Dragons Altar, despite knowing it would cost him a minor realm of cultivation.
• Li Xiaoya felt the danger from the altar’s gathering power but dared not expose himself by using his divine sense.
• Yan Longzi’s altar expanded as spiritual qi and the power of laws surged into it, and dragons began circling above it.