Chapter Summaries

Cangzhou told Xu Taiping that the Dragon-Trapping Tower could lead to the Ancestral Dragon's Legacy, but reaching it required the Azure Dragon Seven Lodges Treasury and a breakthrough to the Dao Integration Realm. He also warned Xu Taiping that a star chart was a trap for summoning a Heaven-Outside Evil God, then suggested a way Xu Taiping might kill it.

• Xu Taiping deduced that a Dragon-Slaying Stele connected to the Ancestral Dragon's Legacy was hidden in the secret realm, and Cangzhou confirmed the Dragon-Trapping Tower could reach it.
• Cangzhou explained that unlocking the sealed Dragon-Slaying Stele required rare sacrificial offerings and that Xu Taiping needed to reach the Dao Integration Realm before venturing to the Azure Dragon Seven Lodges Treasury.
• Xu Taiping promised to visit the treasury after settling his affairs and becoming strong enough, easing Cangzhou's concerns.
• Cangzhou warned Xu Taiping not to pursue a star chart leading to a Star Lord's cave abode, explaining that a Heaven-Outside Evil God had occupied the real abode and planned to use the chart to descend into the Lower Realm.
• Cangzhou learned that Xu Taiping had inherited the Life-Taking Blade and suggested he could kill the evil god shortly after its descent if he transformed his true dragon body into a true dragon divine being body.

Xu Taiping and his companions faced Ningchan Cave pursuers as Dragon Emperor Cangzhou used Yangxian City's protection formation to hold them back. Cangzhou freed the Human Sovereign Sword from its Dragon Clan restriction, and Xu Taiping tried to release the Human Race souls inside, but they resisted him.

• Huangbo of Ningchan Cave attacked Blade Emperor Yang Ben, who fought to keep him at bay as Xu Taiping and his companions realized more pursuers were coming.
• Qingshi, Thousand Threads, and Lü Hu arrived, and Cangzhou activated Yangxian City's City-Protection Grand Formation to drive them back temporarily.
• Cangzhou removed the Dragon Clan runes from the Human Sovereign Sword, freeing it from its bloodline restriction and releasing the souls within from their seal.
• Xu Taiping accepted the sword and chose to free the imprisoned Human Race martyrs rather than use them as a weapon.
• When Xu Taiping tried to shatter the sword, the souls within resisted and knocked his hand away, leaving him to wonder whether their hatred of the Dragon Clan kept them from leaving.

The divine souls within the Human Sovereign Sword asked Xu Taiping to carry them through the Human Race’s calamities, and he accepted as the sword returned to his hand. He then approached the Human Sovereign’s sealed spear, while cultivators watching through spirit mirrors recognized the sword and saw him move toward the chains binding the spear.

• The Golden Birds formed from the Human Sovereign Sword’s divine souls asked Xu Taiping to carry them and help wash away the Dragon Clan’s ancient humiliation, and he bowed in acceptance.
• The Golden Birds returned to the sword, which fell from the sky; Xu Taiping caught it with his Dragon Whale Physique and praised its overwhelming power.
• The sealed Human Sovereign’s spear trembled, and Xu Taiping carried the sword toward it despite Dongfang Yuejian’s concern and Xuanzhi’s warning about the Dragon Clan seal.
• Dragon Emperor Cangzhou watched Xu Taiping climb onto the platform, while cultivators in the Old Dragon Court resumed watching through spirit mirrors.
• An elder identified the Human Sovereign Sword, and Xu Taiping bowed to the spear before walking toward one of the chains that sealed it.

Xu Taiping used the Human Sovereign Sword to sever the chains sealing the Human Sovereign's spear, enduring the Dragon Clan's thunder restrictions. His final technique cut through most of the remaining chains, but the thunder backlash struck him.

• Xu Taiping endured a bolt of thunder and severed the first chain binding the Human Sovereign's spear.
• Xu Hu and other cultivators watching in the First-Rank Pavilion praised Xu Taiping for trying to retrieve the spear.
• Xu Taiping endured another thunderbolt and severed a second chain, making the spear ring with force before the remaining restrictions suppressed it.
• Xu Taiping raised the Human Sovereign Sword and used Human Sovereign Remove Armor to sever most of the remaining chains in one strike.
• The watching cultivators celebrated when only three chains remained, then saw Xu Taiping face a terrifying thunder backlash.

Xu Taiping endured the Dragon Clan’s thunder and was recognized by the Shangqing Realm cultivators as the True Martial Sword Champion. Despite concerns that further strikes could ruin his body, he continued trying to sever the remaining iron chains binding the Human Sovereign Spear.

• Xu Taiping used Overlord’s Breath to withstand a barrage of thunder, leaving him badly charred and coughing blood.
• Xu Taiping summoned the Human Sovereign Sword again, and Xiahou You identified him as the champion of the last True Martial Sword Champion Assembly.
• Xu Hu and the cultivators in the First-Rank Pavilion’s teahouse recognized Xu Taiping and praised his return to Yangxian City.
• Cultivators warned that Xu Taiping’s injuries could worsen with at least three more thunder blasts, while the Dragon Clan’s chains would return if not severed all at once.
• Xu Taiping refused to stop and sent the Human Sovereign Sword crashing toward the stone platform to sever the remaining chains.

Xu Taiping endured the Dragon Clan’s lightning backlash after severing one iron chain, while Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi fought off attackers who tried to disrupt him. The attackers’ purple-robed leader revealed Ningchan Cave’s Mysterious Jade Wall, and Xu Taiping still faced the final two chains.

• Xu Taiping cut one iron chain and used the Bull Demon Phantom to withstand the lightning backlash, drawing cheers from the watching cultivators.
• An enormous fireball flew toward the stone platform, and Dongfang Yuejian dispersed it with her rune brush before a burly giant struck her and charged at Xu Taiping.
• A golden alms bowl’s Buddha phantom shielded Xu Taiping from the giant’s blow, then shattered and knocked the giant back.
• A purple-robed Daoist hurled flames at Xu Taiping, but Master Xuanzhi blocked them with his Wrathful-Eyed Vajra Dharma Aspect and charged the Daoist.
• The purple-robed Daoist stopped Xuanzhi’s charge with a nearly transparent, five-colored wall, which the spectators identified as Ningchan Cave’s Mysterious Jade Wall.

As Xu Taiping fought in the Old Dragon Court, cultivators in the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse learned that Ningchan Cave was pursuing him and Dongfang Yuejian. Four youths from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven asked how to reach Yangxian City so they could aid their benefactor, and the teahouse cultivators offered them teleportation scrolls and joined them.

• Cultivators in the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse condemned Ningchan Cave for hunting Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian, but Li Yu of Penglai Mountain warned them against insulting Upper Realm powers.
• Four young cultivators carrying wooden cases asked for the fastest route from the Old Dragon Court to Yangxian City.
• Li Yu warned the youths that Ningchan Cave could block their path to the Upper Realm and punish their sects, but the youths declared they sought to drive the Nine Abysses Demon Cultivators from their homeland.
• The youths revealed they came from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven and said they would risk their lives to repay Xu Taiping for his kindness.
• Cultivators offered the four youths Teleportation Scrolls, and Xu Hu and others volunteered to accompany them to Yangxian City.
• Li Yu watched Xu Taiping in the Spirit Mirror and said he would remember him.

Xu Taiping continued trying to free the Human Sovereign spear as Ningchan Cave’s cultivators overwhelmed his allies and Huangbo moved to kill him. Just as Huangbo struck, four wooden boxes fell from the sky and four youths shouted that Taiping was their benefactor.

• Purple-Robed Elder Lu summoned demonic beasts and sent flying swords toward Dongfang Yuejian, allowing Huangbo to fatally wound her and smash her into a ruined tower.
• Xu Taiping severed another chain sealing the Human Sovereign spear while Huangbo broke Master Xuanzhi’s protective bowl and prepared to strike him.
• Mu Zhixing condemned Ningchan Cave through the Mountain-Viewing Realm, but Purple-Robed Elder Lu ordered Huangbo to kill Xu Taiping.
• Huangbo struck at Xu Taiping as four rifts opened overhead and four wooden boxes fell toward the ground.
• Four youths shouted, “Do not harm our benefactor Taiping!”

Four mechanical puppets piloted by the Song brothers arrived to protect Xu Taiping from Huangbo and declared that harming their benefactor meant opposing Mysterious Wasteland Heaven. As Huangbo threatened the realm and observers doubted its leaders would risk war for Xu Taiping, Gongshu Bai, city lord of Thousand Mechanisms City, called to command the brothers.

• Four wooden cases fell from the sky, transformed into mechanical divine generals, and attacked Huangbo, knocking him off the stone platform.
• The Four Song Brothers—Song Sheng, Song Xing, Song Ren, and Song Yi—declared that they had come from Thousand Mechanisms City to guard Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping felt moved by the young cultivators’ support, while Master Xuanzhi praised the good fruit of past deeds.
• Purple-Robed Elder Lu and Huangbo dismissed the brothers, and Huangbo threatened Mysterious Wasteland Heaven with Ningchan Cave’s wrath.
• Cultivators debated whether Mysterious Wasteland Heaven would risk offending Ningchan Cave for Xu Taiping, and Li Yu argued that its city lords would prioritize the realm’s safety.
• Gongshu Bai, city lord of Thousand Mechanisms City, called Song Sheng, Song Xing, Song Ren, and Song Yi through the Spirit Mirror and ordered them to hear his command.

Gongshu Bai and Mysterious Wasteland Heaven’s eighteen city lords declared their support for Xu Taiping and threatened war against Ningchan Cave if he was harmed. Their resolve strengthened Xu Taiping’s Dao heart, allowing him to sever the final chain sealing the Human Sovereign Spear, which waited for him to draw it.

• Gongshu Bai ordered the four Song brothers to protect Xu Taiping and declared that Mysterious Wasteland Heaven would treat Ningchan Cave cultivators as enemies if they harmed him.
• Purple-Robed Elder Lu threatened Thousand Mechanisms City, but Gongshu Bai and the other city lords announced that Mysterious Wasteland Heaven would wage an unending war against Ningchan Cave.
• Li Yu asked for a Moonshadow Stone recording of what Xu Taiping had done in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.
• Xu Taiping’s Dao heart expanded, his divine soul power surged, and his wounds began healing as his control over his power improved.
• Xu Taiping sent the Human Sovereign Sword crashing into the final chain and severed it, breaking the Dragon Clan’s seal on the Human Sovereign Spear.
• The Human Sovereign Spear released a powerful aura but remained embedded in the platform, prompting a spectator to call for Xu Taiping to draw it.

Xu Taiping recovered enough to see that the Human Sovereign Spear had broken its seal, while Ningchan Cave’s forces continued to overwhelm his allies. As Xu Taiping raced to draw the spear, Dongfang Yuejian was poisoned and left exposed to Huangbo’s attack.

• Xu Taiping recovered his senses and saw the Human Sovereign Spear had shattered its seal and scattered the thunderclouds.
• Xu Taiping spotted Xuanzhi, Dongfang Yuejian, the Song Family brothers, and Yang Ben fighting Ningchan Cave’s Lu, Huangbo, Qingshi, Lü Hu, and Thousand Threads.
• Dongfang Yuejian urged Xu Taiping to draw the spear, and he struggled toward it despite his wounds.
• Qingshi’s sword shadow blasted apart Xuanzhi’s Vajra Dharma Aspect’s arms, while Lu’s poisonous vine struck Dongfang Yuejian.
• Dongfang Yuejian cut through the vine and tried to purge its poison, but Lu ordered Huangbo to kill her.
• Huangbo broke through the battle and swung his fist at Dongfang Yuejian’s head.

Xu Taiping drew the Human Sovereign Spear despite lethal lightning, gaining the vitality he needed to save Dongfang Yuejian. After blocking Huangbo’s attack and transforming into his Raging Dragon Physique, he struck Huangbo and vowed to keep him alive through every punch Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi had endured.

• Master Xuanzhi used a Buddhist art to bear the injuries of Dongfang Yuejian as Huangbo attacked her, while Elder Lu prepared his Earthfire City Incineration technique.
• Xu Taiping sensed the vitality within the Human Sovereign Spear and chose to draw it, even as the dragons’ thunder struck him and stripped away much of his flesh.
• Xu Taiping pulled the spear free, and streams of spiritual power began flowing from it into his body.
• When Huangbo’s next punch overwhelmed Master Xuanzhi’s protection, Xu Taiping appeared in Dongfang Yuejian’s place and blocked the blow, diverting its force into the ground.
• Xu Taiping transformed into a three-zhang-tall Raging Dragon Physique and punched through Huangbo’s chest, then promised not to let him die quickly.

Xu Taiping’s rage-driven clone defeated Huangbo, then faced a Fierce Beast released from Ningchan Cave’s Demon-Suppressing Prison. The chapter ended with Xu Taiping destroying the beast and shattering half the prison gates with a single punch.

• Xu Taiping severed his connection to the Origin Beginning Clone, letting rage drive it to the Ultimate Realm, and the clone killed Huangbo with a punch.
• Qingshi opened the Demon-Suppressing Prison gates and dragged the exhausted Master Xuanzhi in front of them to force Xu Taiping to fight the beast inside.
• As a Fierce Beast charged at Xuanzhi, Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to exchange places with him.
• Xu Taiping unleashed Mountain-Setting, Third Stage, and combined his Fist Shadows into the punch called Ants Shake the Tree.
• Xu Taiping’s punch turned the Fierce Beast into blood mist and shattered half of the black iron gates.

Xu Taiping defeated Qingshi and Huangbo, then forced Ningchan Cave’s Lü Hu and Thousand Threads to release the four youths from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven. With Xuanzhi and Miss Dongfang rescued, he prepared to lead them toward Wilderness.

• Qingshi withdrew the Demon-Suppressing Prison gate and attacked Xu Taiping with a phantom flying sword, but Xu Taiping’s Evil-Origin Clone used Huangbo to destroy the attack and struck off Qingshi’s head.
• Lü Hu charged at Xu Taiping, but he crushed Huangbo’s head and threatened Qingshi until she stopped; Huangbo then attacked with his Primordial Spirit, and Xu Taiping’s roar destroyed Huangbo and his bonded divine weapon.
• Cultivators watching through Spirit Mirrors marveled at Xu Taiping’s strength and recalled his feats in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, while Li Yu learned that Xu Taiping had once been a mortal bone.
• After tribulation lightning scattered Huangbo’s soul, Xu Taiping threatened to crush Qingshi’s head unless Lü Hu ordered Thousand Threads to release the four brothers from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven.
• Thousand Threads recalled his puppets, and Xu Taiping told the four brothers they could leave, planning to take Xuanzhi and Miss Dongfang toward the entrance to Wilderness.

Xu Taiping was immobilized by Qingshi of Ningchan Cave as Purple-Robed Elder Lu unleashed Ningchan Cave's Earthfire City Incineration Technique across Yangxian City. A hooded woman intervened and helped Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi escape, then faced Elder Lu's attack.

• The Four Song Brothers left Yangxian City after agreeing to meet Xu Taiping in Thousand Mechanisms City.
• Qingshi of Ningchan Cave used a Body-Fixing Formula to immobilize Xu Taiping, then was struck by tribulation lightning as Lü Hu rushed toward them.
• Thousand Threads blocked Lü Hu while Purple-Robed Elder Lu unleashed Ningchan Cave's Earthfire City Incineration Technique, spreading lava and flames through Yangxian City.
• Xu Taiping urged Dongfang Yuejian to take Master Xuanzhi and escape, and a hooded woman appeared and drove the lava back underground.
• The hooded woman gave Dongfang Yuejian a talisman that sent her and Master Xuanzhi away in blue smoke, but the earthflames erupted again.
• Elder Lu attacked the hooded woman with a fireball that split into thousands of fiery arrows, and she formed a seal and said, "Break!"

Xiahou You of Jade Balance Mountain arrived in Yangxian City and protected Xu Taiping from Purple-Robed Elder Lu’s devastating fire attacks. She revealed that they had met before at the Mysterious Wasteland Tower and thanked Xu Taiping for saving her there.

• Purple-Robed Elder Lu unleashed a Divine Manifestation that flooded much of Yangxian City with waves of fire and summoned flame giants to attack Xu Taiping and the woman.
• The woman used an ice-blue ring to hold back the flames and the Immortal Hong Feather to make the giants’ flaming boulders float away.
• Viewers recognized the Hong Feather as a treasure of Jade Balance Mountain, and Li Yu wondered why someone from the mountain had come to save Xu Taiping.
• The woman ignored Elder Lu’s demand and introduced herself to Xu Taiping as Xiahou You of Jade Balance Mountain, whom he had saved at the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.

Xiahou You rescued Xu Taiping from Ningchan Cave’s attack in Yangxian City, using the Immortal Hong Feather and Bamboo Umbrella to drive back the Flame Giants and freeze the city. After Xu Taiping escaped, her borrowed aura faded, and Elder Lu realized she had deceived him.

• Xiahou You repelled the Flame Giants’ weapons with the Immortal Hong Feather and tore apart the Spirit-Calming Formation Talisman trapping Xu Taiping.
• Xiahou You gave Xu Taiping a talisman to reunite with Miss Dongfang and Master Xuanzhi, then refused his offer to help because his presence kept her from unleashing her strength.
• Xiahou You used the Bamboo Umbrella to release a tremendous aura, froze Yangxian City, and declared that she would protect Xu Taiping from Ningchan Cave.
• Xiahou Qingyuan told Spirit Mirror viewers that Xiahou You had intervened to repay Xu Taiping for rescuing her in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.
• Xu Taiping activated the talisman and vanished, while Xiahou You’s borrowed aura and the freezing effect faded.
• Elder Lu realized Xiahou You had deceived him and angrily accused her of it.

Xiahou You learned that Ningchan Cave’s Mr. Xunqi was in the Wilderness and hurried to obtain a high-grade Flood Dragon Token so she could reach Xu Taiping first. In the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse, Li Yu of Penglai revealed that Xunqi had attained Dao Integration and had a physique that barely qualified for the Great Sage Realm.

• Xiahou You escaped Elder Lu’s flames after Xu Taiping and his companions fled into the Wilderness, beyond pursuit without a high-grade Flood Dragon Token.
• Elder Lu revealed that Ningchan Cave’s Mr. Xunqi was in the Wilderness and sent him a message using a Jade Slip containing a Divine Soul Mark.
• Xiahou You rushed toward the Old Dragon Court, asked her elder brother for a high-grade Flood Dragon Token, and opened the Green Bamboo Umbrella to speed into the Wilderness.
• Cultivators in the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse asked Li Yu of Penglai about Mr. Xunqi, and Li Yu called him a rabid dog kept by Ningchan Cave.
• Li Yu told the teahouse that Xunqi had attained Dao Integration a hundred years earlier and that his physique barely qualified for the Great Sage Realm.

Li Yu of Penglai warned cultivators that Xunqi could unleash terrifying power in the Wilderness, prompting them to seek Flood Dragon Tokens. At the Wilderness entrance, Xu Taiping used Earth Fruit Seeds to restore Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi, and learned how Dongfang’s One Stroke Opens Heaven ability worked.

• Li Yu of Penglai explained that Xunqi could attack at full strength a few times and that the Wilderness barely restrained true intent and divine intent, then vanished from the teahouse.
• Cultivators in the teahouse rushed to buy Flood Dragon Tokens after realizing something momentous was about to happen in Wilderness Heaven.
• Xu Taiping arrived at the Wilderness entrance and gave Earth Fruit Seeds to Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi to restore their divine soul power.
• Dongfang Yuejian recovered her strength and used One Stroke Opens Heaven to create spirit spring water that helped restore Master Xuanzhi.
• Dongfang Yuejian told Xu Taiping that even Immortal Grade pills and spirit fruits could not quickly replenish the divine soul power she needed to use her ability.

Xu Taiping gave Dongfang Yuejian Lotus Seeds to help restore her Divine Soul Power, then received Dragon Emperor Cangzhou’s advice about breaking through to the true dragon Divine Being realm. Dragon Emperor Cangzhou also explained that Xu Taiping could transform through his Flame Emperor Body Tempering, leaving Xu Taiping with new possibilities to explore as he prepared for the Wilderness.

• Xu Taiping gave Dongfang Yuejian twelve Lotus Seeds, and she promised to help him during their journey into the Wilderness.
• Dongfang Yuejian treated Master Xuanzhi’s injuries with her Rune Brush, steadying his breathing.
• Dragon Emperor Cangzhou advised Xu Taiping to rely only on Pure Martial Artist methods in a life-and-death fight to temper his qi and blood and possibly break through his physical barrier.
• Xu Taiping promised to honor his agreement to visit the Upper Realm and open the Dragon Ancestor Treasury with Dragon Emperor Cangzhou.
• Before disappearing, Dragon Emperor Cangzhou told Xu Taiping that the Ultimate Realm stages of Flame Emperor Body Tempering could transform under extreme rage and grant Bloodline Power akin to Dragon Breath.