Chapter Summaries

Wenlong discovered that Elder Wang’s family belonged to the scattered Dragon Family and began planning to restore its strength while starting his cultivation. Just as his cultivation surged, he hid a wounded old man from a black-robed pursuer, leaving Elder Wang fighting a hopeless battle against the attacker.

• Wenlong showed Elder Wang paper and his swordsmanship, revealing their connection to the Dragon Family through matching Lineage tokens.
• Elder Wang recounted how the Devil Race and other races had destroyed the Dragon Family, forcing its survivors to scatter and conceal their names.
• Wenlong vowed to rebuild the Dragon Family, planned a Paper Workshop, and told the Lineage to learn to read while keeping their identity secret.
• With Elder Wang’s help, Wenlong began cultivating and rapidly absorbed spiritual energy, but powerful fluctuations disrupted his progress.
• A gravely wounded old man asked Wenlong and Elder Wang for help, and Wenlong hid him as a black-robed pursuer arrived.
• Wenlong denied seeing the old man, and the black-robed man attacked; Elder Wang stepped in but was quickly overwhelmed.

Wenlong and Old Wang rescued Old Liu, a Dragon Family descendant whose clan was fleeing the Kai family, and brought his people to Wang Family Village. As Wenlong organized new workshops and village work, he resumed cultivation and reached the peak of the mortal realm.

• Wenlong struck the black-robed attacker with Shadowless Needles, allowing Old Wang to kill him, and the two found Spirit Stones, Spirit Coins, and medicinal pills on his body.
• Wenlong and Old Wang used a pill to save the gravely wounded Old Liu, who recognized Wenlong’s Black Sword as a sword belonging to his clan’s main family.
• Old Liu explained that the Kai family had attacked his Liu clan over a Talisman-Making Manual, so Old Wang arranged for the Liu clansmen to be brought to Wang Family Village.
• Wenlong asked Old Wang to build lime and Brick Kilns, then assigned the newly arrived clansmen to gather bamboo for paper and timber for boats.
• Wenlong learned the cultivation realms from Old Wang and Old Liu, resumed training, and reached the peak of the mortal realm.

Wenlong strengthened the village with new workshops, medical training, defenses, boats, and paper production before entering seclusion to break into the Dao realm. When bandits attacked during his breakthrough, the villagers held them off until Wenlong emerged with his cultivation complete and drove the bandits away.

• Wenlong gave medical books to young villagers, oversaw construction of kilns and a perimeter wall, and helped improve the village's medical care.
• Wenlong designed a sturdier boat, led villagers on a successful fishing trip through a storm, and guided them in producing high-quality paper.
• After the village defenses and workshops advanced, Wenlong entered seclusion and began drawing in vast amounts of spiritual energy as he attempted to enter the Dao realm.
• A large bandit force attacked to seize the village's boat and fine paper while Wenlong was at the crucial point of his breakthrough.
• The medical apprentices used herbal smoke bombs and the boatbuilders joined the defense, temporarily halting the bandits' assault.
• Wenlong broke through into the Dao realm, emerged with his longsword, and used Shadowless Step and the Shadowless Needle to rout the bandits.

Wenlong organized the village’s defenses and taught Elder Liu the secrets of Spirit Fire Talismans, though Elder Liu lacked the mental power to make them. After reaching the late stage of the Dao Realm, Wenlong led the elders to search for a place to make salt.

• Wenlong chose twenty-two youths for a special operations squad, established a village guard, and gave the villagers cultivation methods and crossbow plans.
• Wenlong asked Elder Liu for his talisman-drawing manual, deciphered its runes, and explained that it taught how to make Spirit Fire Talismans requiring mental power.
• Wenlong resumed cultivating but stalled at the late stage of the Dao Realm, deciding he would use the spirit stones he had found to attempt a breakthrough later.
• The elders sold paper and traded for horses and plow oxen, while the special operations squad began training under Wang Ying and Liu Fang.
• Wenlong invited Elder Wang and Elder Liu to search the shore for a suitable place to build salt pans.

Wenlong advanced to the late Lord Realm by absorbing Spirit Stones and Spirit Coins, then raided Kai Family Village under cover of night. He returned with the Kai's Smithy tools, treasures, grain, and cloth, while the village remained unaware of the theft.

• Wenlong told the elders to equip the clansmen with Repeating Crossbows, protect the paper, and prepare for his cultivation and future plans.
• Wenlong absorbed Spirit Stones and Spirit Coins, advancing from the Dao Realm to the late Lord Realm, but found his Mental Power lagging behind his newfound strength.
• Wenlong told Elder Wang and Elder Liu he would raid the Kai's Smithy, then rested for two days before setting out for Kai Family Village.
• Wenlong sneaked into Kai Family Village at night, gathered the Smithy's tools, and killed the Kai's strongest fighter with a Shadowless Needle.
• Wenlong located and emptied the Kai's Treasure Vault, noticed his space had doubled in size, and collected grain and cloth before riding away unnoticed.

After returning to Wang Family Village, Wenlong organized the clan’s growth and tried unsuccessfully to break through to the Sage realm. He then led the Special Operations Team and Village Guard to destroy a nearby bandit stronghold, returning with nearly a hundred prisoners and no losses.

• Wenlong told Elder Wang and Elder Liu that he had defeated the Kai family, avenged Liu’s clansmen, and brought back the Smithy and vast wealth.
• Wenlong ordered the elders to build a Treasure Vault, Grain Vault, and Smithy, then taught cultivation to the clansmen and chose Wang Hu for special guidance.
• Wang Family Village expanded its salt production, strengthened its guards, and sent most of its people to cultivate while Wenlong secluded himself with Spirit Stones.
• After more than ten days without reaching the Sage realm, Wenlong left seclusion and set out with the Special Operations Team and Village Guard to eliminate nearby threats.
• Wenlong led the attack on the bandit stronghold, killing those who resisted or fled and capturing nearly a hundred bandits.
• The team seized the bandits’ valuables and burned their stronghold before returning safely to Wang Family Village, where Elder Wang and Elder Liu welcomed them.

Wenlong eliminated the Kai clan’s remaining threats and traveled to the Death Forest to train, where he struggled against its demonic beasts. After a Demon-Hunting Leopard chased him for days, a little girl effortlessly struck it down, leaving Wenlong stunned by her strength.

• Wenlong handed the Black Tiger Mountain bandits over to Elder Wang and Elder Liu, then planned to eliminate the Kai clan’s experts before training in the Death Forest.
• Wenlong ambushed and killed his targets in Kai Village, gathered its wealth, and set out for the Death Forest after bidding farewell to Wang Village.
• Wenlong bought wilderness supplies at the market, ignored cultivators who mocked him, and entered the Death Forest’s outskirts to fight demonic beasts.
• Unable to defeat the beasts, Wenlong relied on Shadowless Step to escape and was pursued for days by a first-rank Demon-Hunting Leopard.
• Wenlong met a little girl while hiding in a tree and tried to warn her about the leopard, but she struck it down with one light blow.

Wenlong cooked for a powerful little girl who kept calling him “little miss,” then fled and fought a Demon Wolf before she rescued him from its pack. After she dragged him away and ate nearly all the roast Demon Deer, she told him that fresh demon beast meat contained spiritual energy and advised him to meditate and cultivate.

• Wenlong cooked Demon-Hunting Leopard meat for the little girl, who teased him by calling him “little miss” and ate her fill.
• Wenlong escaped with Shadow Step and later faced a level-two Demon Wolf, which wounded him and drove him against a tree.
• The little girl kicked the Demon Wolf away and killed it with a palm strike, then carried Wenlong out of the surrounding pack and away from its wolf king.
• The little girl returned with a Demon Deer, and Wenlong roasted it for her while she ate nearly all the meat.
• The little girl advised Wenlong to meditate and cultivate after eating fresh demon beast meat, but he found that only the piece he had bitten remained.

Liuliu taught Wenlong how to refine spiritual energy from demon beast meat, and he learned enough to break through to the sect level. After defeating a second-tier Fire Python, Wenlong returned to roast it for Liuliu.

• Liuliu taught Wenlong her secret method for absorbing spiritual energy from demon beast meat, and he began practicing after nearly suffering cultivation deviation.
• Wenlong gradually improved at refining the meat and prepared to attempt a breakthrough.
• Wenlong broke through to the sect level, releasing spiritual pressure that astonished Liuliu.
• At Liuliu's request, Wenlong used Shadow Step to find a second-tier Fire Python and killed it with a new move.
• Wenlong returned and roasted the Fire Python, while Liuliu eagerly praised its taste and ate the first pieces.

Wenlong and Liuliu ventured into the mountains, where Liuliu dealt effortlessly with robbers and demon beasts while they gathered spirit herbs and hunted for meat. Their progress halted when a powerful fourth-tier Thunder Eagle attacked, leaving Wenlong battered as the two struggled to fight it.

• Wenlong and Liuliu finished cultivating after eating Fire Python meat, then set off toward the mountains.
• Two Emperor Realm robbers blocked their path, and Liuliu crippled both of them while Wenlong took their storage pouches.
• Liuliu killed third-tier demon beasts as Wenlong gathered spirit herbs, and the pair hunted and barbecued their prey.
• A fourth-tier Thunder Eagle attacked, pierced Liuliu's wall of fire, and forced Wenlong and Liuliu into a fierce battle.
• Wenlong urged Liuliu to retreat, but she told him the Thunder Eagle could not kill him if he ran.

Wenlong and Liuliu trained in the outskirts, where Wenlong endured a Thunder Eagle’s attacks and the pair hunted demonic beasts to eat. After more than a month of progress, they encountered the Thunder Eagle again, this time with a fifth-tier demonic beast approaching.

• Liuliu intervened when the Thunder Eagle attacked Wenlong, and Wenlong drove it off with a stone as it tried to flee.
• Wenlong caught a Ground-running Chicken, and he and Liuliu ate the roast meat and soup before cultivating; Wenlong reached the sage realm mid-stage.
• Wenlong and Liuliu trained around the outskirts for over a month, collecting spirit herbs and beast bones while avoiding serious harm.
• Wenlong remained anxious about falling behind Liuliu in cultivation and planned to refine pills to help him break through the sage realm.
• While chasing another Ground-running Chicken, Wenlong and Liuliu saw the Thunder Eagle return and noticed a fifth-tier demonic beast rapidly approaching.

Liuliu left Wenlong with Little Thunder Eagle, who chose to stay with him in Wang Family Village after the other Thunder Eagles departed. Wenlong began refining Spirit-Attracting Pills and discovered that even his flawed first pill could dramatically boost cultivation.

• A powerful pressure forced the big Thunder Eagle to leave Little Thunder Eagle behind, and Liuliu gave the young eagle to Wenlong before departing for Central Province.
• Wenlong used his mental power to communicate with Little Thunder Eagle, and it carried him out of the Death Forest to Wang Family Village.
• The villagers prepared to fight when the big Thunder Eagle returned with a flock, but Little Thunder Eagle stayed after the flock withdrew, asking for grilled meat.
• Little Thunder Eagle broke Wenlong's door and took over his bed, so Wenlong spent the night reading an introductory pill-refining book.
• Wenlong chose to refine a Spirit-Attracting Pill, failed at first, then produced one low-quality pill and gave it to Little Thunder Eagle.
• The pill drew spiritual energy into Little Thunder Eagle and greatly increased its aura, leaving it eager for another.

Wenlong refined Qi-Attracting Pills, strengthened the Wang Family, and trained while sparring with the Thunder Eagle. After reaching the Late Emperor Realm, he set out for Central Province to seek support for his lineage, where mountain bandits attacked him.

• Wenlong refined more than thirty Qi-Attracting Pills, broke through to the Emperor Realm, and was beaten by the Thunder Eagle when he challenged it.
• Wenlong gave Elder Wang pills to distribute among the clansmen and to provide to the Thunder Eagle over time, then entered seclusion while the Wang Family and Liu clan steadily grew stronger.
• After emerging from seclusion at age fifteen in the Late Emperor Realm, Wenlong studied a Special Operations Team member's unusual move and trained in the Dragon Family's techniques while sparring with the Thunder Eagle.
• Wenlong told Elder Wang and Elder Liu that he would travel to Central Province to seek a path to strength and urged them to maintain the Special Operations Team's training.
• Wenlong packed Wang Family Village's salt, paper, laundry soap, and scented soap, then set off for Central Province on the Thunder Eagle.
• A band of mountain bandits surrounded Wenlong after he landed to rest, and he attacked them with Shadowless Step and Shadowless Needles.

Wenlong entered Central Province City and heard the tragic history of the Dragon Family before facing trouble with a spoiled young man and witnessing masked fighters intervene in two violent incidents. He continued exploring the chaotic city, questioning the Ten Great Houses' failure to keep order.

• Wenlong and the Thunder Eagle rested after Wenlong robbed a band of petty bandits, then continued their journey to Central Province City.
• Wenlong listened to a storyteller recount the Dragon Family's destruction and felt unsettled by the history.
• A spoiled young man confronted Wenlong, but a blue-robed young master of the Xie Family intervened and led him away.
• The young man later cornered Wenlong in an alley, where black-clad figures attacked the young man and his companions; Wenlong slipped away.
• Wenlong saw a young woman being overwhelmed by thugs, but black-clad figures arrived and killed several attackers before disappearing.
• Wenlong admired the masked figures' actions but questioned the Ten Great Houses' governance and the city's disorder.

Wenlong went to Liuliu’s poetry gathering, gained entry by sending her a note, and prepared to impress the scholars with his poems. After several scholars failed to satisfy the judges, Liuliu spotted Wenlong and decided to tease him.

• Wenlong read that Liuliu would host a poetry gathering at the Clear Tea Court and decided to attend with a poem of his own.
• Wenlong reached the Clear Tea Court but lacked an invitation, so he sent Liuliu a note reading “pretty sister” and was allowed inside.
• Wenlong saw Liuliu presenting herself as a poised literary prodigy and resolved to surprise everyone with his verses.
• Liuliu introduced precious paper and set loneliness as the theme for poems composed on the spot.
• Several scholars recited their poems, but the teachers rejected them, and Liuliu spotted Wenlong and decided to tease him.

Wenlong impressed the scholars at Clear Tea Court with three celebrated poems, then reunited with Liuliu at Aroma Pavilion and received Spirit Stones from her. Their meal was interrupted by a burly man demanding payment for chickens they had only joked about catching, and Liuliu warned him not to make a mistake.

• Liuliu invited Wenlong to compose a poem about solitude, and his verses and calligraphy won the crowd's acclaim and bids exceeding a thousand Spirit Stones.
• Wenlong recited poems about homesickness and spring, then left Clear Tea Court after Liuliu announced that his works would remain there for people to admire.
• A maid brought Wenlong to Aroma Pavilion, where Liuliu gave him a bag containing more than two thousand Spirit Stones and shared a feast with him.
• Wenlong and Liuliu reminisced about free-range chickens and discussed catching some, when a burly man barged in and demanded Spirit Stones for his family's chickens.
• Liuliu stood up to the burly man and warned him not to do anything he would regret, but he dismissed her and continued demanding payment.

Wenlong proposed founding the Huaxia Trading Company with Liuliu and secured the Liu Lineage’s partnership after revealing his identity. With the company’s plans underway, they organized an auction that drew merchants, Lineages, and powerful experts to Central Province.

• Wenlong left the restaurant’s private room with Liuliu as Seventh Uncle and Emperor Realm martial artists dealt with the burly man.
• Wenlong showed Liuliu his products and proposed forming the Huaxia Trading Company, offering her twenty percent of its profits and explaining his plans for workshops, stores, and Guards.
• Wenlong revealed his Lineage token to Liuliu, and she said she would consult her grandfather before agreeing to the partnership.
• Liuliu told Wenlong that her grandfather had agreed on the conditions that the workshops would not threaten other factions’ interests, the Liu Lineage would receive an additional five percent, and Wenlong would help resolve conflicts.
• Wenlong asked Liuliu to test a Qi-Attracting Pill and arranged with the Liu Lineage to provide an auction venue and help allocate product distributors.
• The Liu Lineage provided a venue, and Wenlong and Liuliu promoted an auction for ten days before merchants, Lineages, and powerful experts gathered in Central Province.

Wenlong turned the Huaxia Trading Company’s successful auction into a growing business, moved Wang Family Village to Dragon City, and oversaw the completion of its workshops. With the villagers settled and the city guarded, he began cultivating in hopes of breaking through to the Earth Realm.

• A bidder tested a Qi-Attracting Pill at the auction and broke through from the peak of the Emperor Realm to the Earth Realm, driving fierce bidding that pushed the final lot to thirty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Wenlong collected nearly a million Spirit Stones, appointed Liuliu vice president of the Huaxia Trading Company, and arranged for the Wang and Liu families to travel to Central Province.
• Wenlong led Wang Family Village toward Central Province, named the area near the Dragon Race’s former site Dragon City, and sent Liuliu to organize construction, recruitment, and city guards.
• After the villagers arrived, the workshops were completed and began operating, while the Special Operations Team and City Guards patrolled the city and protected the workshops.
• Wenlong entrusted village affairs to Elder Wang and Elder Liu and the trading company to Liuliu, then entered his cultivation room with a Qi-Attracting Pill and Spirit Stones to attempt a breakthrough to the Earth Realm.

After reaching the middle stage of the Earth Realm, Wenlong emerged from seclusion and arranged for the Huaxia Workshops to expand their products. While flying over the Dragon Race's former grounds, he encountered a powerful black-robed man who recognized his sword and Dragon Race Token, then wept over them.

• Wenlong advanced to the middle stage of the Earth Realm, then stopped cultivating and practiced with the Longsword and Shadowless Needle.
• Liuliu expanded the Huaxia Trading Company in Central Province City by recruiting her Lineage members and other staff.
• After three months in seclusion, Wenlong gave the craftsmen designs for a loom and new weapons, and ordered the elders to supervise production and guard the technology.
• Wenlong flew over the Dragon Race's former grounds on the Thunder Eagle, but a mysterious laugh froze them and drew them into a glowing mountain cave.
• A black-robed man revealed the Black Sword's brilliance, recognized Wenlong's ancestor Long Ying, and wept when the Dragon Race Token appeared.
• Wenlong asked whether the black-robed man was an ancestor of the Dragon Race, and the man raised his eerie green eyes.

Long Zhang revealed his history to Wenlong and gave him the Dragon-Taming Long Jian and its two dragon souls. After cultivating until all three thousand acupoints were connected, Wenlong left the cave determined to rebuild the Dragon Race.

• Long Zhang told Wenlong that he was Long Ying’s eighteenth uncle and explained how he had survived the Dragon Race’s destruction and his battles with the Devil Race.
• Long Zhang summoned the black and white dragon souls and made them Wenlong’s masters through the Dragon-Taming Long Jian.
• Long Zhang explained that longevity vine and blood snow lotus were needed to restore his body, then instructed Wenlong to open every meridian and acupoint.
• Wenlong connected all three thousand acupoints, bringing his cultivation close to the Heaven Realm, and received a manual for concealing his aura.
• Wenlong washed, rode the Thunder Eagle back, and learned that his dragon souls were both in the Divine Realm.
• Wenlong named the black dragon Little White and the white dragon Little Black, then resolved to rebuild the Dragon Race with their help.