Chapter Summaries

As the Silver Dragon’s Frost-Heaven Fingers closed in, Gu Yu risked his life to unleash his newly comprehended sixth-layer blade domain. His flaming lion shattered one Frost-Heaven Finger, but successive attacks began freezing the domain before the Angry Lion Saber could form.

• Gu Yu warned Xu Taiping that True Essence could not resist the freezing power and asked permission to attempt his dangerous strike.
• Xu Taiping agreed, and Gu Yu manifested his Divine-Human Variant Bone body and opened his sixth-layer blade domain.
• The first Frost-Heaven Finger pierced the fire prison, but Gu Yu merged into its flames and summoned a giant flaming lion that shattered it.
• Further Frost-Heaven Fingers encased the blade domain in ice and began freezing it from the outside inward.
• Xu Taiping explained that Gu Yu was waiting for the Angry Lion Saber to condense, while another Frost-Heaven Finger accelerated the freezing.

Xu Taiping, Gu Yu, and their companion resisted the silver dragon’s Frost-Heaven Finger inside a thick dome of ice. Their repeated explosions and blazing firelight cracked the ice and left the dragon domain trembling as the silver dragon took notice of Gu Yu’s blade domain.

• The silver dragon froze Gu Yu’s blade domain and threatened to turn Xu Taiping and the others into ice sculptures.
• The dragon repeatedly sent Frost-Heaven Fingers into the ice dome, sealing away the group’s firelight and explosions while the spectators feared they had been defeated.
• The silver dragon dismissed the fight as dull after the dome concealed all signs of resistance.
• Xu Taiping and the others forced firelight and explosions through the hundred-zhang-thick ice dome, prompting cheers from the spectators.
• Their increasingly rapid explosions cracked the dome, and the silver dragon remarked that Gu Yu’s blade domain was interesting.

Gu Yu unleashed his bone-fusion power to expand his Blade Domain, but the silver dragon answered with a full-force frost-heaven attack. As the enormous icy finger descended, Gu Yu's fire lion wielded the Angry Lion Saber to strike back with Raging Lion Shatters Heaven.

• Gu Yu's Blade Domain shattered the ice dome and expanded across several thousand zhang of the Dragon Domain.
• Xiahou Qingyuan recognized that Gu Yu had fused his flesh, bones, qi, and blood into the Blade Domain using his Divine-Human Variant Bone.
• The silver dragon gathered the frost flowers above the Blade Domain and pressed it down with an enormous icy finger.
• Gu Yu's fire lion woke, roared, and shattered the ice covering the Blade Domain.
• The fire lion bit down on the Angry Lion Saber and slashed upward at the icy finger as Gu Yu shouted, "Raging Lion Shatters Heaven!!"

Gu Yu shattered the dragon domain’s frozen sky with his Angry Lion Saber, weakening its restraints and paving the way for Xu Taiping’s fight with the demon dragon. As Dongfang Yuejian began her move, she summoned Ancient God Xingtian to counter the silver dragon.

• Gu Yu unleashed the Angry Lion Saber, breaking the frozen sky canopy and weakening the dragon domain’s restrictions by at least seventy percent.
• Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian to prepare to act, and Longyuan caught the exhausted Gu Yu as he fell.
• Xuanzhi gave Gu Yu some of his vitality to revive him, and Xu Taiping gave him a Yaoguang and called him a fellow cultivator.
• The silver dragon challenged Xu Taiping to a one-on-one fist fight, but Xu Taiping said it was not yet time.
• Dongfang Yuejian appeared above the silver dragon and wrote with her rune brush, prompting him to hurl a silver spear at her.
• Dongfang Yuejian summoned Ancient God Xingtian, who caught the spear and hurled it back, destroying the silver dragon’s hand and arm.

Dongfang Yuejian summoned an Xingtian phantom with her greatly enhanced power of One Stroke Opens Heaven, but Silver Dragon countered its attacks with true dragon borrowing momentum power. The phantom began freezing under Silver Dragon’s strikes, leaving the spectators worried that Dongfang Yuejian’s technique would be broken.

• The spectators at the Profound Elixir Palace marveled at Dongfang Yuejian’s powerful Xingtian summoning and attributed its improvement to opportunities in the Immortal Burial Ruins.
• The Xingtian phantom crashed into the collapsing Dragon Domain and attacked Silver Dragon with its giant axe.
• Silver Dragon deflected the axe and froze the Xingtian phantom’s waist with a spear strike.
• Xiahou You recognized Silver Dragon’s ability as true dragon borrowing momentum power, and Xiahou Qingyuan agreed.
• Silver Dragon used the force of the phantom’s attacks to knock its axe aside and freeze its thigh, while Duan Xiaoyu feared Dongfang Yuejian’s power would be broken.
• The Xingtian phantom raised its axe and brought it down at Silver Dragon again.

Dongfang Yuejian used the Eye-Dotting Art to empower the Xingtian phantom, which broke the silver dragon’s spear force and shattered his dragon domain. After catching the exhausted Yuejian in the Immortal Burial Ruins, Xu Taiping left her with Xuanzhi and prepared to continue alone.

• The silver dragon froze the Xingtian phantom’s leg and drove his enormous spear down toward its head.
• Dongfang Yuejian dotted the phantom’s right eye with Spring and Autumn, entering its body and filling it with scarlet qi and blood power.
• The empowered Xingtian phantom blocked the spear, broke free of the ice, and pressed the silver dragon with its axe.
• The silver dragon’s surging spear force overwhelmed his own body, blew apart his arm, and caused his dragon domain to collapse.
• Xu Taiping caught the exhausted Dongfang Yuejian, gave her a Yaoguang Fruit, and entrusted her to Xuanzhi.

Xu Taiping confronted Ao Yan after the Demon Dragon absorbed the Dragon Domain’s remaining power and restored most of his strength. Xu Taiping matched Ao Yan’s true dragon divine being body, and the chapter ended as he prepared to unleash his true essence and divine essence.

• Dongfang Yuejian warned Xu Taiping that Ao Yan would recover much of his fighting strength by absorbing the Dragon Domain’s remaining power, and Xu Taiping reassured her before approaching him.
• Ao Yan absorbed the surrounding spiritual power, restored his body, and grew into a towering true dragon divine being with a long saber.
• Ao Yan attacked Xu Taiping with blade qi, but Xu Taiping split the attack with a pillar of lightning-and-fire blade qi.
• Xu Taiping revealed his Eight Demon-Sealing Swords and expanded his aura across Ten Thousand Islands Lake, then grew his true dragon divine being body to over six hundred zhang tall.
• Ao Yan released more of his strength, and their auras collided, raising a vast wall of water between them.
• Xu Taiping realized he needed to fully circulate his true essence and divine essence to awaken his body’s unique divine power.

As Xu Taiping’s aura struggles against demon dragon Ao Yan’s, golden light and dragon script reveal that Xu Taiping has awakened true dragon power. His aura surges and begins driving the towering wall of water back toward Ao Yan, leaving the spectators cheering and Zhu Huai identifying his physique as the ultimate realm true dragon divine being body.

• Xiahou Qingyuan predicts that Xu Taiping will struggle to defeat Ao Yan, whose true dragon power remains despite his broken dragon domain.
• Xu Taiping’s aura stops the wall of water Ao Yan is pushing toward him, but Ao Yan’s aura soon threatens to force it forward again.
• Golden light appears around Xu Taiping, prompting Chu Xiaoxiao to wonder whether his physique has gained true dragon power.
• Dragon script appears on Xu Taiping’s right arm, and his aura surges severalfold, driving the wall of water toward Ao Yan.
• Zhu Huai declares that Xu Taiping has reached the ultimate realm of the true dragon divine being body and awakened legendary true dragon divine being power.

Xu Taiping fought Ao Yan while his Origin Beginning Clone comprehended true dragon divine being power. The clone emerged from the Black Iron Coffin with the same power as Xu Taiping, leaving Xiahou Qingyuan to realize Xu Taiping had learned the complete Shangqing Clone Art.

• Ao Yan attacked Xu Taiping, who drew the Water-Cutting Blade and met his strike with Burning Blade.
• Ao Yan used mountain spirit power to press Xu Taiping into the lakebed while frost began eroding his blade and freezing his aura.
• Xu Taiping said he was not alone, and the observers realized his Origin Beginning Clone was comprehending true dragon divine being power.
• Ao Yan unleashed his full strength, but Xu Taiping revealed that he had only just begun.
• The Black Iron Coffin opened, and Xu Taiping's Origin Beginning Clone emerged with a true dragon divine being body.
• Xiahou Qingyuan recognized that Xu Taiping had learned the complete Shangqing Clone Art.

Xiahou Qingyuan and Zhu Huai recognized Xu Taiping’s clone as a possible primordial chaos clone when it began condensing earthly fire against Ao Yan. Xu Taiping and his clone broke Ao Yan’s saber and damaged his fist guards, and the chapter ended as Xu Taiping gathered all his power to unleash Ultimate Realm, Burning Blade.

• Xiahou Qingyuan explained that the Shangqing Clone Art could create a clone equal to its true body, and Zhu Huai said Xu Taiping’s primordial chaos clone was unlike any he had seen.
• Xu Taiping’s clone began fusing three kinds of true fire into earthly fire, prompting Ao Yan to retreat from the threat.
• Xu Taiping pursued Ao Yan and used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to switch places with his clone, whose Earthly Fire Sword pierced Ao Yan’s blade force and shattered his saber.
• Ao Yan blocked Xu Taiping’s next attack with the Mountain Spirit Shield, then used his Silver Fist Guards to punch Xu Taiping backward.
• Xu Taiping and his clone exchanged places again and struck Ao Yan with earthly fire, cracking his fist guards.
• Xu Taiping drew on all his true essence, qi and blood, and divine essence power to prepare Ultimate Realm, Burning Blade.

Xu Taiping trapped Ao Yan in an erupting mountain of blade flame, but Ao Yan used golden armor imbued with the combat strength of past Dragon Emperors to break free and counterattack. Xu Taiping switched places with his Primordial Chaos Clone, which met Ao Yan’s descending strike with a thirty-percent-purity Earth Fire Burning the Heavens Finger.

• Xu Taiping unleashed his ultimate-realm Burning Blade Style, shattered Ao Yan’s mountain-spirit tower, and engulfed him in a mountain of blade flame.
• Jiang Cuicui, Zhu Huai, Xiahou You, and Xiahou Qingyuan assessed the devastating power of Xu Taiping’s slash as Ao Yan’s frost protection began to melt.
• Ao Yan revealed golden battle armor containing a tenth of each Dragon Emperor’s combat strength, summoned his Father Emperor’s dragon qi, and broke free of the burning mountain.
• Ao Yan drew a Dragon Divine Weapon and slashed at Xu Taiping with mountain spirit power and frost heaven power.
• Xu Taiping switched places with his Primordial Chaos Clone, which launched a thirty-percent-purity Earth Fire Burning the Heavens Finger that formed a golden crow and collided with Ao Yan’s blade shadow.

Ao Yan burned the Dragon Clan’s remaining fortune to boost his combat strength and overwhelmed Xu Taiping’s attacks. After Ao Yan shattered Xu Taiping’s No-Blade Form, Xu Taiping prepared to wager his life by using the Life-and-Death Seal.

• Ao Yan burned the Dragon Clan’s fortune, forming golden rings of combat strength behind him.
• Ao Yan attacked Xu Taiping, and Xu Taiping’s Primordial Clone blocked the punch at the cost of severe injuries.
• Xu Taiping used one of his last two wisps of Dao Essence to unleash the Demon-Slaying Blade’s Ultimate Realm, No Blade.
• Ao Yan tore through Xu Taiping’s No-Blade Form without being injured.
• Xu Taiping manifested the Life-and-Death Seal and declared that he would wager his life against Ao Yan’s wager of the Dragon Clan’s fortune.

Xu Taiping used the Life-and-Death Seal to burn his and his Primordial Clone’s lifespan, gaining enough strength to match Dragon Emperor Ao Yan’s punch. Both fighters then spent even more power, and their next clash erupted around Ten Thousand Islands Lake.

• Xu Taiping drew one jiazi of lifespan from himself and his Primordial Clone, but gained less than a ten percent increase in combat strength.
• After Ao Yan badly wounded the Primordial Clone, Xu Taiping burned six hundred years of lifespan from each of them and sent the clone into the Demon-Suppressing Coffin.
• Xu Taiping’s Heaven-Supporting Form summoned six illusory deities that withstood Ao Yan’s punch, prompting Ao Yan to use another stream of divine seal power.
• Xu Taiping’s flaming fist and Ao Yan’s empowered fist shattered against each other in a draw.
• Xu Taiping chose to spend another six hundred years of lifespan, while Ao Yan activated another stream of divine seal power, and their next clash shook the area around Ten Thousand Islands Lake.

Xu Taiping and Dragon Emperor Ao Yan continued raising their battle power as they traded punches, with Ao Yan gaining the upper hand through the second Divine Seal before Xu Taiping surged back and began suppressing him. The spectators wondered what Xu Taiping was sacrificing for his increasing strength, and Xiahou You asked whether he was using special means to exchange something for battle power.

• Xu Taiping and Dragon Emperor Ao Yan exchanged blows as their battle power rose, and Ao Yan’s second Divine Seal strengthened his fist force until it began overwhelming Xu Taiping’s Heavenly Wrath Style.
• Ao Yan landed two powerful punches that shattered six of Xu Taiping’s twelve Divine Manifestations, leaving Xu Taiping increasingly unable to do more than defend.
• A seal-shaped pattern lit beneath Xu Taiping, his battle power surged, and his Divine Manifestations increased from six to sixteen as he reversed Ao Yan’s attack.
• Xu Taiping began suppressing Ao Yan, while Zhang Moyan wondered what was fueling Xu Taiping’s rise in battle power.
• Xiahou Qingyuan suggested that Xu Taiping must be exchanging something for power, and Xiahou You asked if he was using special means to do so.

As Xu Taiping and Dragon Emperor Ao Yan raised the stakes of their battle, Spring Rain Pavilion realized they were wagering their lives and their clans’ fortunes. Ao Yan began to suppress Xu Taiping’s fist force, and the chapter ended with Xu Taiping’s black hair turning silver as he drew on the Heaven-Flipping Seal again.

• Xiahou Qingyuan suspected Xu Taiping was using the Heaven-Flipping Seal’s Life-and-Death Seal to turn his lifespan into combat strength.
• Jiang Cuicui doubted Xu Taiping possessed the Heaven-Flipping Seal, but Xiahou Qingyuan reminded everyone that Xu Taiping had received Yundaozi’s complete legacy.
• Ao Yan recognized that Xu Taiping was trading his lifespan for power and challenged him to see whether Xu’s life or the Dragon Clan’s fortune would run out first.
• Ao Yan enveloped himself in the final surge of divine seal power and suppressed Xu Taiping’s fist force with a succession of punches.
• Xu Taiping declared that he would stake his life as Ao Yan staked the Dragon Clan’s fortune, and his black hair turned silver as the seal pattern beneath him lit up again.

Xu Taiping pushed the Heaven-Flipping Seal’s life-and-death power to its limit as he fought Dragon Emperor Ao Yan at Ten Thousand Islands Lake. When a familiar yet unfamiliar sensation offered to guide his punch, Xu Taiping trusted it, and the world trembled in response.

• Xu Taiping and Dragon Emperor Ao Yan clashed, and Ao Yan’s power broke through the Divine Seal before he drove Xu Taiping back with a series of punches.
• Xu Taiping used the seal’s power and the Heaven-Touching Stance to match Ao Yan’s fist, then raised his combat power further despite the lifespan it consumed.
• Xu Taiping merged his divine manifestation into his true dragon body and used the ultimate Heaven-Touching Stance to knock Ao Yan and his fist force backward.
• A familiar yet unfamiliar sensation returned to Xu Taiping and seemed to offer to teach him a more powerful punch.
• Xu Taiping unclenched his fist and trusted the sensation, causing his qi, blood, and true essence to circulate along a strange route as heaven and earth shuddered.

Xu Taiping’s fighting strength continued to rise as he combined multiple forms of the Heaven-Shaking Fist to withstand Dragon Emperor Ao Yan. He countered Ao Yan’s relentless barrage with thirty-six divine manifestations, and their battle continued amid thunderous collisions.

• Duan Xiaoyu, Chu Xiaoxiao, and the others feared Xu Taiping had lost focus or exhausted his lifespan, but his fighting strength erupted into tangible flames.
• Xu Taiping used the Heaven-Supporting Form to block Dragon Emperor Ao Yan’s punch and merged with its divine manifestation like armor.
• Xu Taiping summoned another manifestation with the Heaven-Touching Stance and broke through Ao Yan’s next punch, shattering one of his two manifestations.
• Ao Yan unleashed dozens of golden fist shadows through rifts in the void, eventually shattering Xu Taiping’s Heaven-Supporting manifestation.
• Xu Taiping used the Heavenly Wrath Style to summon thirty-six wrathful divine manifestations, which joined him in striking back at Ao Yan’s fist shadows.

Xu Taiping and Dragon Emperor Ao Yan wagered their lifespan and the Dragon Clan’s fortune in an escalating fistfight, until Xu Taiping broke Ao Yan’s fist force and forced him to retreat into ice. Ao Yan then challenged Xu Taiping to abandon their powers and fight as ordinary flesh-and-blood bodies, and both prepared to continue.

• Xu Taiping matched Ao Yan’s use of the Dragon Clan’s fortune by draining his own lifespan through the Heaven-Flipping Seal.
• Xu Taiping’s fist force overwhelmed Ao Yan’s combat power, and his blows smashed Ao Yan down toward the ground.
• Ao Yan used the Frost Heaven Seal to encase himself and the surrounding area in ice.
• Ao Yan proposed that they abandon their powers and true dragon forms to fight with ordinary bodies, and Xu Taiping accepted.
• Xu Taiping and Ao Yan transformed into flesh-and-blood bodies and challenged each other to fight to their last breath and drop of blood.

Xu Taiping and Dragon Emperor Ao Yan fought using only their flesh, blood, and qi and blood power. After trading brutal blows, Xu Taiping ended the chapter by crashing into Ao Yan and knocking him to the ground.

• Xu Taiping struck first and landed several heavy punches, driving Ao Yan backward.
• Xu Taiping unleashed three hundred and sixty consecutive punches, then broke through Ao Yan's guarded arms with his accumulated fist force.
• Ao Yan gathered his qi and blood power in his chest and prepared to counterattack, but Xu Taiping headbutted him and pinned him down with his knees.
• Ao Yan kicked Xu Taiping away and launched a sweeping kick that sent him flying.
• Xu Taiping poured his remaining qi and blood power into his legs and struck Ao Yan with Savage Ox Collision, knocking him to the ground.

Xu Taiping defeated Dragon Emperor Ao Yan in a brutal contest of flesh and blood, though Ao Yan hinted that their fates had been decided long before the fight. As Ao Yan lay dying in his true dragon form, he asked Xu Taiping for a taste of his homeland’s wine.

• Xu Taiping kept pounding Dragon Emperor Ao Yan while Ao Yan tore at his organs, until Ao Yan admitted defeat and begged him to stop.
• Ao Yan said he had already lost when he burned through the Dragon Clan’s fortune to strengthen himself, and explained that the Dragon Clan’s and Human Race’s outcomes had been decided long ago.
• Ao Yan lost his human form and revealed his scarred true dragon body, while the spectators celebrated Xu Taiping’s victory and expected the Dragon Clan’s fortune to return to Shangqing.
• Ao Yan asked Xu Taiping for wine, saying he wanted to taste the wine of his homeland before he died.