Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping offered Ao Yan wine and prepared to end the age-old feud between humans and dragons, but the Heartless Demon Emperor attacked Ao Yan to steal the victory. Ao Yan revealed that he still had strength enough to destroy the demon, then asked Xu Taiping to finish him and serve as the Dragon Clan’s chosen final bearer.

• Xu Taiping offered Ao Yan a jug of wine, and Ao Yan asked him to strike off his head and end the feud between the Human Race and the Dragon Clan.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor suddenly attacked Ao Yan with a giant black claw while Xu Taiping prepared to draw his blade.
• Xu Taiping drew his blade and activated the Heaven-Flipping Seal as the Heartless Demon Emperor taunted him and the spectators feared for his life.
• Ao Yan revealed his remaining power, shattered the Heartless Demon Emperor’s attack, and crushed the demon’s body.
• Ao Yan told Xu Taiping that he had chosen him to lead the Dragon Clan to its end and urged him to cut off his head.

Dragon Emperor Ao Yan revealed that the Great Void Calamity had destroyed the Ancient Gods and the Dragon Clan, and warned Xu Taiping that the Human Race faced the same fate. He promised to help Xu Taiping uncover the truth after his death and asked him to swallow the Dragon Pearl he had left behind.

• Xu Taiping asked why Dragon Emperor Ao Yan had helped him, and Ao Yan told him to return to the place where they first met in the River of Light and Shadow.
• Ao Yan explained that he had once hated the Human Race but learned that both humans and dragons were pawns of hidden beings facing an approaching catastrophe.
• Xu Taiping named the Great Void Calamity, and Ao Yan isolated their conversation in a stretch of the River of Time so no one else could hear them.
• Ao Yan said the Ancient Gods and the Dragon Clan had both fallen to the Great Void Calamity and promised to reveal the truth after his death.
• Ao Yan asked Xu Taiping to swallow the Dragon Pearl containing several dozen strands of Dragon Emperor Divine Intent after cutting off his head.

Dragon Emperor Ao Yan revealed that the Ten Emperors Scripture could repair a fatal flaw in the cultivation of humans, ancient gods, and dragons, and entrusted Xu Taiping with the task of using it against the beings behind the Great Void Calamity. Back in the present, Xu Taiping beheaded Ao Yan and received his Dragon Pearl, then demanded that whoever was watching stop spectating.

• Ao Yan told Xu Taiping that swallowing his Dragon Pearl would let him draw the Dragon Emperors’ Dao Essence and explained that hidden beings behind the Great Void Calamity could easily destroy the strongest cultivators.
• Ao Yan revealed that the Dragon Clan had created the Ten Emperors Scripture to remedy a flaw shared by human, ancient god, and dragon cultivation, and that the scripture required Dao Essence from all three races.
• Ao Yan explained that the Dragon Clan had intended to pass the scripture and its knowledge to humanity, and asked Xu Taiping to carry out their revenge against the hidden beings.
• Ao Yan and Xu Taiping returned to their original time, where Ao Yan urged Xu Taiping to cut off his head and take the Dragon Pearl.
• Xu Taiping beheaded Ao Yan, received the Dragon Pearl, and solemnly told the unseen spectators to end their spectating.

After Xu Taiping won the Dragon-Slaying Assembly, Xiahou Qingyuan and Xiahou You learned they had to hurry to the Upper Realm to seek treasures at the reappeared Yaochi Sacred Land. In the Immortal Burial Ruins, Xu Taiping swallowed Dragon Emperor Ao Yan’s Dragon Pearl and received Ao Yan’s promised inheritance and a Dragon Divine Weapon yet to be revealed.

• The spectators celebrated Xu Taiping’s victory, while Xiahou Qingyuan wondered why Ao Yan had willingly let Xu Taiping behead him.
• Xiahou Qingyuan and Xiahou You discussed Xu Taiping’s likely ascent to the Upper Realm, then received word from Heavenly Lord Shihu to return to Yuheng and ascend with him.
• Heavenly Lord Shihu told Xiahou Qingyuan that Yaochi Sacred Land had reappeared and its seal might soon lift, prompting Xiahou Qingyuan and Xiahou You to prepare to leave.
• Xu Taiping swallowed Ao Yan’s Dragon Pearl, and Ao Yan’s voice revealed it contained three hundred Divine Soul Marks on dragon cultivation methods and a Dragon Divine Weapon.

After refining the Dragon Pearl, Xu Taiping gained the Dragon Vault armor and discovered a military treatise for countering human battle formations. The backlash from his battle with Ao Yan left him with only three to five years to live, and he urgently asked the Heaven-Flipping Seal how he could extend his lifespan.

• Xu Taiping refined the Dragon Pearl and received the Dragon Vault armor, which contained Ao Yan’s true dragon powers and the Dragon Vault and Heaven’s Jealousy divine powers.
• Xu Taiping stored Ao Yan’s body and discovered the military treatise Taoguang, written by Dragon Emperor Ao Wei to counter human military formations.
• Dongfang Yuejian approached Xu Taiping, but he collapsed as the backlash from using the Life-and-Death Seal drained his vitality and power.
• Xu Taiping used his last Yaoguang Fruit to stabilize himself, and the Heaven-Flipping Seal warned that he needed abundant spiritual energy to restore his physique.
• The Heaven-Flipping Seal told Xu Taiping that he had only three to five years left to live unless he advanced to Dao Integration or found life-prolonging pills or spirit fruits.

Xu Taiping learned that his secret art had left him only three to five years to live, and that rare pills and spirit fruits might buy him a few decades to seek a breakthrough to the Dao Integration Realm. After recovering in the Earth Vein Cave Abode, he told Dongfang Yuejian, Xuanzhi, and Gu Yu about his shortened lifespan and named the remedies he sought.

• Ancient Heavenly Venerable told Xu Taiping that the Su Spirit Pill, Purple Mansion Pill, Bixu Fruit, Red Sun Fruit, and Azure Void Fruit could extend a Heaven Shocking Realm cultivator's life, but only by thirty to forty years.
• Ancient Heavenly Venerable advised Xu Taiping to prepare for a breakthrough to the Dao Integration Realm and then vanished to sleep for at least ten years.
• Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian, Xuanzhi, and Gu Yu that he had recovered from his exhaustion and led them through the Dragon-Trapping Tower to the Earth Vein Cave Abode.
• After ten days of healing, Xu Taiping revealed that his secret art had consumed his lifespan and left him only three to five years to live.
• Dongfang Yuejian offered to search the Ancestor's notes for information on the remedies, and Xu Taiping named the five pills and spirit fruits he sought.

Xu Taiping learned that the Purple Mansion Pill and Azure Void Fruit would be difficult to obtain, but Dongfang Yuejian, the Profound Elixir Palace, and Venerable Jiaye might help find leads. After the group reported their recovery, the Ranking Spirit transported them to the place where they had first prepared to set out, so they could redeem their rewards.

• Dongfang Yuejian told Xu Taiping that the Purple Mansion Pill belonged to the powerful Ziyang Sect, while the Azure Void Fruit grew in the elusive Jade Pool Secret Realm, which had not appeared for thousands of years.
• Dongfang Yuejian offered to search for leads using the Dongfang Household's resources, Xu Taiping proposed asking the Profound Elixir Palace, and Master Xuanzhi suggested consulting Venerable Jiaye.
• Dongfang Yuejian told Xu Taiping that the other Dragon-Slaying Persons had left the Immortal Burial Ruins and that their team needed to report their recovery to the Ranking Spirit to redeem their rewards.
• Xu Taiping agreed, and Dongfang Yuejian sent a message through the Battle Merit Ledger before the group placed their hands on it.
• The Ranking Spirit transported Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, Gu Yu, and Master Xuanzhi to the gray expanse where they had chosen their Dragon Catchers and prepared to set out.

After the Dragon-Slaying Assembly, Jiang Xuanfeng explained how the Profound Elixir Palace would protect the Immortal Burial Ruins and announced the team’s rewards. The Dragon-Slaying Person and his companions entered the Chenglong Great Emperor’s treasury to choose treasures, with Xu Taiping receiving two choices.

• Jiang Xuanfeng congratulated Xu Taiping and his companions, then said the Profound Elixir Palace would protect the Immortal Burial Ruins and keep outside cultivators away for thirty to fifty years.
• Jiang Xuanfeng announced the Dongfang Clan’s team had earned 210,000 battle merit, material rewards, a Dao-Protector Opportunity for each person, and a clue to the Dragon-Slaying Stele.
• Xu Taiping asked about rewards for slaying the dragon, and Jiang Xuanfeng revealed that each participant could choose one treasure from the Chenglong Great Emperor Treasury.
• The secret realm transformed into a vast palace, where Jiang Xuanfeng showed the group pillars holding techniques, weapons, pills, and other treasures.
• Jiang Xuanfeng granted Xu Taiping two opportunities to choose a treasure and told everyone to make their selections before he announced the remaining rewards.
• Xu Taiping invited Dongfang Yuejian and the others to choose their treasures first.

Xu Taiping sought a pill to extend his lifespan in the Chenglong Great Emperor’s Treasury, but the Spirit Tea Bud Pill he obtained had no effect on cultivators above the Heaven Shocking Realm. He left the Treasury with his second selection opportunity unused and planned to meet Feng Tianxing.

• Jiang Xuanfeng warned Xu Taiping that extending his life would be difficult and urged him to meet Feng Tianxing, then learned Xu Taiping had only three to five years left to live.
• Dongfang Yuejian emerged with a Turtle Shell Ancient Talisman, and Xu Taiping advised her to keep it secret.
• Master Xuanzhi and Gu Yu returned from the Treasury without revealing what they had obtained.
• Xu Taiping entered the pillar containing Three Hundred Varieties of Immortal Pills and Wondrous Medicines and asked for a pill that could extend his lifespan.
• Xu Taiping caught a brocade box containing a Spirit Tea Bud Pill, learned it could not help cultivators above the Heaven Shocking Realm, and left without using his second selection opportunity.

Xu Taiping failed to find a pill that could extend his true body's life, then decided to inspect the treasury of ominous objects despite Jiang Xuanfeng's warnings. The chapter left him approaching the treasury while Jiang Xuanfeng hinted that the misfortunes surrounding its treasures were even stranger than he had revealed.

• Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian and Jiang Xuanfeng that the Spirit Tea Bud Pill could not extend the life of a cultivator above the Heaven Shocking Realm.
• Jiang Xuanfeng suggested the pill might extend Xu Taiping's Primordial Chaos Clone's lifespan, and Xu Taiping considered saving it for the clone he planned to leave in the Lower Realm.
• Xu Taiping chose to inspect the treasury marked "Ill omen" after Jiang Xuanfeng warned that its treasures had brought misfortune to previous cultivators.
• Xu Taiping asked the Lotus Eye to divine the danger, but it could not use its Divine Power and advised him to trust his strong intuition.
• Xu Taiping walked toward the treasury, and Jiang Xuanfeng told Dongfang Yuejian that the previous cultivators' misfortunes had been even more uncanny than he had described.

Jiang Xuanfeng warned Dongfang Yuejian and the others that an inauspicious treasure had transformed True Lord Huayang and his disciples, though Xuanzhi trusted Xu Taiping to hold fast to his true heart. In the Inauspicious Treasury, Xu Taiping called for a battle treasure and met a golden fist shadow, which he shattered with his ultimate-realm Heaven-Touching Stance.

• Jiang Xuanfeng recounted how True Lord Huayang chose an inauspicious sword-intent painting, suffered cultivation deviation, and later transformed himself and his sixteen disciples into women.
• Jiang Xuanfeng said True Lord Huayang and his disciples escaped into the chaos beyond the Upper Realm after overwhelming Luofu Grotto-Heaven's experts.
• Xuanzhi said True Lord Huayang had abandoned his true heart for strength but declared that Xu Taiping would resist the inauspicious object's temptation.
• Xu Taiping called for a treasure to aid him in battle in the Land of Chaos, and the treasury's objects rushed toward his hand.
• A golden fist shadow attacked Xu Taiping, who met it with the ultimate-realm Heaven-Touching Stance and shattered it.

Xu Taiping rejected the Golden Arm after it refused to acknowledge him as master and left the Treasury of ominous objects empty-handed. The arm then smashed at the Treasury’s seal from within, forcing Jiang Xuanfeng to activate a Jade Jue as it tried to break out.

• Xu Taiping overpowered the Golden Arm in a series of punches, but refused to take it when it would not acknowledge him as master.
• The Golden Arm changed its mind and agreed to acknowledge Xu Taiping, but Xu Taiping had already left the Treasury.
• Dongfang Yuejian and Jiang Xuanfeng questioned Xu Taiping about the treasure he had encountered, and Jiang Xuanfeng offered to show him other Treasuries.
• A succession of impacts from within the ominous-objects Treasury left fist-shaped marks on its pillar of light and opened a breach.
• Jiang Xuanfeng crushed a Jade Jue to make the breach contract, but the Golden Arm continued struggling to force its way out.

Xu Taiping learned that the golden arm had been trying to break the seal in order to reach him and was willing to acknowledge him as its master. The golden arm explained that Xu Taiping’s fist intent reminded it of its former lord, the Flame Emperor.

• Jiang Xuanfeng warned the golden arm that Great Emperor Zongyun would erase its sentience, but the arm continued pounding the treasury seal and demanded to see Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping confirmed that the golden arm was the treasure that had refused to acknowledge him, then told it he would not take it unless it accepted him as its master.
• The golden arm suddenly agreed to acknowledge Xu Taiping, offered to enter a soul contract, and tried to reassure him of its combat prowess.
• Xu Taiping asked why the golden arm was so fixated on him, and it said his fist intent resembled that of its lord, the Flame Emperor.

Xu Taiping hesitated to accept a golden arm that claimed to be the Flame Sovereign’s treasure, but Great Emperor Zongyun arrived and exposed the arm’s deception. Zongyun explained that it had been a tribal chief who became a corpse jiangshi, then forged himself into a weapon out of admiration for the Flame Sovereign.

• The golden arm claimed Xu Taiping’s fist intent reminded it of the Flame Sovereign, while Xu Taiping remained wary of its story.
• Zongyun burst into the minor world, struck the golden arm back into the sealing pillar, and restored the pillar with a seal.
• Zongyun told Xu Taiping and Jiang Xuanfeng that the arm had been a tribal chief slain by the Flame Sovereign and that the roster listed only certain inauspicious objects.
• Zongyun explained that the chief became a corpse jiangshi, grew to revere the Flame Sovereign, and forged himself into a golden arm to serve him.
• Dongfang Yuejian expressed disbelief at the chief’s devotion, and Gu Yu remarked that the treasury’s objects were inauspicious; Zongyun told him he was mistaken.

Great Emperor Zongyun explained the origins and risks of the objects of ill omen, including the Golden Severed Arm, and Xu Taiping decided to try wielding it. Zongyun released the arm from the Treasury, and it greeted Xu Taiping excitedly as its long-awaited lord.

• Great Emperor Zongyun explained that objects of ill omen had unknown origins or came from realms contaminated by Heaven-Outside Evil Gods, though Chenglong Great Emperor had sealed their ill-omened aura.
• Great Emperor Zongyun said the Golden Severed Arm might be contaminated after devouring objects of unknown origin, and the arm angrily denied it.
• Great Emperor Zongyun warned Xu Taiping that the arm could boost his combat power but had a strange, possibly dangerous artifact spirit.
• Xu Taiping decided to try the Golden Severed Arm, and Great Emperor Zongyun removed the Emperor Seal and pulled it from the Treasury.
• The Golden Severed Arm shouted, "My Lord, we finally meet again!"

Xu Taiping claimed the Golden Severed Arm, which became a fist gauntlet and rapidly awakened two stages of combat strength, then prepared to redeem his reward. Meanwhile, Yun Shiliu urgently sought Xu Taiping at the Profound Elixir Palace, warning Feng Tianxing that his only relative might soon be in danger.

• Xu Taiping accepted the Golden Severed Arm after asking for a treasure to strengthen his fist techniques before traveling to the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven.
• The Golden Severed Arm transformed into a gauntlet, and Xu Taiping's fist intent activated its first two stages of combat strength.
• Xu Taiping told the Golden Severed Arm to stop comparing him to the Flame Emperor and declared that he would take the treasure.
• Great Emperor Zongyun left Jiang Xuanfeng to oversee the group's exchange of battle merit for treasures.
• Yun Shiliu barged into the Profound Elixir Palace and asked Feng Tianxing to let her see Xu Taiping.
• Yun Shiliu warned Feng Tianxing that Xu Taiping's only relative might meet with disaster if they waited even half a day.

Xu Taiping spent his remaining battle merit on three chances for his group to enter and leave the Immortal Burial Ruins, then learned he could enter the Heaven-Ascending Platform to comprehend Divine Intent or True Intent. Before he could decide whether to ascend to the Land of Chaos in Outer Heaven, Ancestor Feng Tianxing urgently summoned him to Profound Heaven Hall.

• Xu Taiping could not redeem the Spirit Bone Stele, and Jiang Xuanfeng explained that taking the earth-vein jade platform would drain the Immortal Burial Ruins of spiritual energy.
• Jiang Xuanfeng offered to exchange Xu Taiping's sixty thousand battle merit for three chances each for the four companions to enter and leave the Immortal Burial Ruins, and they accepted.
• Jiang Xuanfeng revealed that Xu Taiping could enter the Heaven-Ascending Platform to comprehend Divine Intent or True Intent, potentially ascending to a star domain controlled by a major sect.
• Xu Taiping postponed deciding about ascension because he and his companions planned to visit Jiaye Temple in the Wilderness.
• After Ancestor Feng Tianxing urgently summoned him to Profound Heaven Hall, Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian to take his Dragon-Slaying Stele to Jiaye Temple if he did not return in time.

Yun Shiliu and Feng Tianxing tried to stop Nether Palace Ghost King Su Lian from taking Xu Chengling to the Upper Realm, but Su Lian threatened the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace with a massacre. The chapter left Xu Chengling’s fate hanging as Yun Shiliu faced Su Lian’s ultimatum.

• Yun Shiliu told Feng Tianxing that Su Lian planned to take Xu Chengling to the Upper Realm as a vessel to resurrect Zhu You.
• Yun Shiliu urged the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace elders to stop Su Lian and revealed that the Three Emperors Mirror had shown Xu Chengling the Three Emperors Diagram.
• Feng Tianxing sent a secret message to Jiang Xuanfeng, sacrificing some of his cultivation to seek help.
• Su Lian shattered Yun Shiliu’s Jade Slip and showed her an image of Three Sovereigns Dao Palace disciples suspended among corpses.
• Su Lian ordered Yun Shiliu to withdraw her people and remove the restrictions on Xu Chengling, or she would kill every disciple of the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace.

Su Lian tormented the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace captives while Yun Shiliu and Feng Tianxing watched the projected scene, waiting for help to arrive. Lü, Huang, and Elder Su attacked Su Lian, but she stopped Elder Su’s sword and tore the skin and a soul thread from his face.

• Su Lian pulled a pain-restraining soul thread from a captive and tortured him, enraging Yun Shiliu until Feng Tianxing suppressed her aura.
• Xu Chengling called out from the projection, begging his master to stop sending martial uncles to rescue him, and Feng Tianxing worried that his Dao heart might collapse.
• Elder Lü and Elder Huang struck Su Lian with a thunderous drum attack, shattering the true essence protecting her body.
• Elder Su attacked Su Lian with a giant sword phantom, but she stopped it with one hand and tore the skin and a five-colored soul thread from his face.

Feng Tianxing prepared to receive Xu Taiping and send him to True Martial Heaven while Su Lian fought the three elders. Su Lian revealed her Heavenly Thunder Variant Bone and overwhelmed the elders with Palm-Heart Thunder, leaving them trapped in a crumbling earthen barrier.

• Yun Shiliu questioned whether Elder Su could truly be defeated by pain, and Feng Tianxing received Jiang Xuanfeng's message that Xu Taiping was being sent out.
• Feng Tianxing opened the formation at Profound Heaven Hall, while Yun Shiliu explained how the Three Sovereigns Dao Palace could use the Three Emperors Mirror to send Xu Taiping to Zhenwu.
• Elder Lü endured having his arms broken and struck the phantom war drum, allowing Elder Su to unleash the extreme-law Thunder-Controlling Sword Art against Su Lian.
• Su Lian emerged unharmed, absorbed the elders' thunder attacks into Palm-Heart Thunder, and revealed her Heavenly Thunder Variant Bone.
• Su Lian blasted Elder Lü with Palm-Heart Thunder, and Elder Lü and Elder Huang shielded the three elders with layers of earth qi.
• Su Lian launched dozens of Palm-Heart Thunder spheres at the elders, rapidly breaking down their earthen defenses.