Chapter Summaries

Luo Yue left the Fire Domain after killing the last surviving demon in her formation and accepted Kong Teng’s invitation to the Peacock King’s birthday banquet after the Nether Flood Dragon Queen told her to go. She arrived at the Peacock King’s hidden Daoist grounds and was left among a hall full of demon and human guests.

• Luo Yue opened her formation, found the trapped demons reduced to ashes except for one survivor, and killed him when he spoke up.
• Luo Yue teased Yan Ruyu, said farewell, and departed the Fire Domain with the dragon marrow Crow Daoist had given her.
• Kong Teng invited Luo Yue to the Peacock King’s birthday banquet, and Luo Yue questioned whether the invitation concealed danger.
• The Nether Flood Dragon Queen told Luo Yue to attend because there was an opportunity for her, so Luo Yue accepted Kong Teng’s invitation.
• Kong Teng led Luo Yue into the Peacock King’s secluded microcosm and settled her in a palace hall with other guests.

Luo Yue attended the Demon King's birthday feast, where Jiang Huairen and Tu Fei told her about the dangerous Savage Desolate Antiquity Domain and its treasures. Realizing it was the opportunity the Nether Flood Dragon Queen had meant, she considered its value while still wondering why she and the two humans had been invited.

• Luo Yue sat at the feast with the Little Flood Dragon and ate and drank while the other guests largely ignored her.
• Jiang Huairen and Tu Fei approached Luo Yue, and she stopped Tu Fei from reaching for her food before giving them the alias Han Li of Yellow Maple Valley.
• Jiang Huairen sensed Luo Yue's unusually powerful bloodline, while Luo Yue claimed her master was Li Feiyu.
• Jiang Huairen and Tu Fei explained that the Savage Desolate Antiquity Domain opened every two hundred years, admitted only cultivators below the immortal platform secret realm, and offered great rewards alongside deadly dangers.
• Luo Yue connected the domain to the opportunity the Nether Flood Dragon Queen had mentioned and asked why Jiang Huairen and Tu Fei were at the banquet.
• Tu Fei said he had come with Jiang Huairen, who had come with his grandfather Jiang Yi; Jiang Yi had come with the Azure Flood Dragon King, leaving Luo Yue puzzled about the chain of invitations.

Luo Yue sat in the Peacock King's Demon King Hall as the Golden-Winged Little Peng King challenged her, then subdued him with one hand while barely moving. Her strength was recognized by the young demons, and in the sanctuary, Jiang Yi asked whether she was the current Lord of Cangming Island.

• Tu Fei, Jiang Huairen, the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King, and Kong Xuan'er discussed ancient realms and secrets of the Eastern Wasteland with Luo Yue.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King entered the hall, and Jiang Huairen and Kong Xuan'er explained his reputation and fighting record.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King sensed Luo Yue's power, challenged her, and attacked after she dismissed him.
• Luo Yue pinned the Golden-Winged Little Peng King face-down into the floor with one hand while continuing to sit and eat.
• The young demons recognized Luo Yue as the person who had triggered the Four Extremes Heavenly Tribulation in the Fire Domain.
• Jiang Yi asked the black-clad woman if Luo Yue was this generation's Lord of Cangming Island, and the woman nodded after looking at Luo Yue and the sleeping Little Ming Flood Dragon.

At the Peacock King's birthday gathering, Luo Yue subdued the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, who vowed to challenge her again once he caught up. Yan Ruyu arrived, and the younger guests discussed the coming Savage Desolate Antiquity Domain gathering and the newly emerging special physiques, while their debate over cultivation ended with the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King urging them to keep advancing.

• The Azure Flood Dragon King teased the Golden-Winged Old Peng King about his descendant's defeat, and the Peacock King called the guests to toast his birthday.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King rose after Luo Yue subdued him, vowed to catch up and challenge her at the same realm, then withdrew to drink alone.
• Tu Fei called the Golden-Winged Little Peng King a birdman, prompting Jiang Huairen to warn him and nearly starting a fight between them.
• Yan Ruyu arrived, ignored Luo Yue's teasing claim that she was her disciple, and joined Kong Xuan'er.
• The guests discussed the upcoming Savage Desolate Antiquity Domain gathering and rumors of emerging special physiques among demons and humans.
• Tu Fei and other guests questioned whether cultivation could lead to immortality, and the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King urged them to press onward.

At the demon kings’ birthday banquet, Luo Yue rejected the imperial road and declared she would forge her own path to immortality by savoring and mastering mortal life. After the Nether Flood Dragon Queen told her the Savage Desolate Antiquity Domain would open in three days, Luo Yue visited a village wedding, where the ordinary family’s happiness deepened her reflections on the mortal world.

• The Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King and other guests made passionate toasts, and Tu Fei asked Luo Yue whether she would compete on the imperial road.
• Luo Yue declared that she would not follow the old imperial road and vowed to become an immortal within the mortal world on her own terms.
• The Nether Flood Dragon Queen told the Peacock King and Azure Flood Dragon King that Luo Yue had chosen her path, then informed Luo Yue that the Savage Desolate Antiquity Domain would open in three days.
• Luo Yue decided to enter the domain but first traveled to a town in the Yan Kingdom to attend a stranger’s wedding and drink ordinary rice wine.
• Luo Yue watched the Jiang family celebrate the newlyweds, reflected on the joys of mortal life, and slipped away after wishing the household well.

Luo Yue wandered through Yan City and nearly triggered her Dragon Transformation tribulation while contemplating mortal life, but she suppressed it before it could harm the townspeople. She then encountered a hungry little girl named Nannan, who asked her to buy a bun.

• Luo Yue visited Yanxia Cave Heaven, told its sect master to protect the newlyweds Ziya and Xiuqin, and left him a piece of Variant Source.
• Luo Yue wandered through the Yan Kingdom as an ordinary mortal and gained insight while observing everyday life.
• Luo Yue’s Dragon Transformation tribulation began to gather in a crowded city, but she concealed its target and stopped its descent.
• Luo Yue realized she was in Yan City near the Desolate Forbidden Zone and mused about making a future Heavenly Emperor pick Sacred Fruits for her.
• Nannan tugged at Luo Yue’s trouser leg and timidly asked her to buy a bun because she was hungry.

Luo Yue comforted Xiao Nannan before leaving Yan Capital and joining the demon kings and their heirs at the entrance to the Savage Desolate Antiquity Domain. As the group waited for the altar to open, Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen showed her a fragmentary map, which she took after pointing out its dangerous flaws.

• Luo Yue bought Xiao Nannan food and spent a happy day with her, then quietly left Yan Capital despite the girl's plea to stay together.
• Luo Yue returned to Qixia Mountain Daoist Grounds, where the Nether Flood Dragon Queen gave her the recovered Little Ming Flood Dragon and led her to the Domain Gate.
• The Peacock King and the other demon kings transported their group into the Savage Desolate Antiquity Domain, where they gathered on the altar terrace among many unfamiliar demon kings and their heirs.
• Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen approached Luo Yue with a fragmentary map and proposed joining forces to find treasures in the ancient domain.
• Luo Yue identified hidden dangers in the map's supposed safe routes, mocked the two youths, and took the map for herself.

Luo Yue and her allies defended the human entrants against demon kings who threatened to hunt them inside the Savage Desolate Antiquity Domain. While waiting for the gates to open, Luo Yue recognized a powerful youth called the Wolf God and suspected he was her son Wang Teng.

• Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen accepted Jade Talismans from Luo Yue and agreed to share information with her.
• An old vulture-like demon king objected to the many human entrants, but Ming You struck him and the Peacock King, Azure Flood Dragon King, Jiang Yi, Tu Tian, and Sky Wolf King upheld the right of humans to enter.
• The old demon king warned that humans would be hunted, while the gathering revealed powerful young demons and old dragon transformation demons who could escort them inside.
• The Nether Flood Dragon Queen said she had sent no Dao Protectors with her daughter, and Luo Yue accepted two Forbidden Artifacts from her own protectors.
• Luo Yue noticed a restrained youth beside the Sky Wolf King, and Jiang Huairen told her the youth called himself the Wolf God and had defeated older experts.
• Luo Yue heard the title Wolf God and wondered if he was her son Wang Teng.

Luo Yue clashed Divine Sense with Wang Teng and deduced that he had not yet obtained Nine Secrets: Qian. After learning that Cangshan possessed an ancient map linked to the Nine Secrets, she watched Wang Teng’s companions turn against her as the altar prepared to open.

• Luo Yue and Wang Teng’s spiritual wills collided, briefly annihilating a patch of space, and Luo Yue judged her Primordial Spirit to be stronger.
• Luo Yue asked Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen about the Nine Secrets, but they mistook the name for wine-related talk.
• The Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King secretly told Luo Yue that Cangshan had an ancient map suspected to be connected to the Nine Secrets.
• Several demons discussed hunting Luo Yue in the ancient domain, but Wang Teng declared that she was his prey and that they were not qualified to pursue her.
• Cangshan reminded the demons of their mission as the altar’s Dao patterns accelerated, while Luo Yue considered using her reserved heavenly tribulation.

Luo Yue entered the Savage Desolate Antiquity Domain, killed a dragon transformation-level Desolate Antiquity Divine Tiger, and cooked its meat and bones with dragon marrow. The soup strengthened Luo Yue and raised Little Ming to the second heaven of the four extremes secret realm, and Luo Yue considered visiting Feathered Immortal Valley to help Little Ming develop further.

• Luo Yue entered the Savage Desolate Antiquity Domain after the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, Wang Teng, and the other prodigies.
• Luo Yue fought and killed a Desolate Antiquity Divine Tiger with her bare hands, then collected its meat and bones.
• Luo Yue made Dragon Marrow Tiger Bone Soup and shared it with Little Ming, using nearly half a jar of dragon marrow.
• The soup strengthened Luo Yue and helped Little Ming break through to the second heaven of the four extremes secret realm.
• Luo Yue considered visiting Feathered Immortal Valley and thought about having Ye Fan find fruit so Little Ming could eat the Demon God Flower.

Luo Yue and Little Ming battled the Earth Dragon and the ancient beasts drawn by the scent of their soup, using its medicinal power to recover from devastating injuries. After killing the Earth Dragon and driving off the survivors, Luo Yue fashioned weapons from its remains and continued through the Great Wilderness with Little Ming.

• The scent of Luo Yue’s Dragon Marrow and Tiger Bone Soup drew an Earth Dragon and other ancient beasts, and Little Ming revealed its true form to fight them.
• Luo Yue charged the Earth Dragon head-on and endured its attacks, healing with the soup’s medicinal power as she honed her Four Extremes Secret Realm.
• Little Ming fought the surrounding beasts, while Luo Yue battered the Earth Dragon through a brutal battle that lasted until sunset.
• Luo Yue killed the Earth Dragon with a final punch, and the remaining beasts fled from her and Little Ming.
• Luo Yue made a bow, dragon-tooth arrows, and a dragon-bone spear from the Earth Dragon’s remains, then shot down an Ancient Golden Peng for dinner.
• After eating, Luo Yue set out on foot through the Great Wilderness with her weapons and Little Ming on her shoulder.

Luo Yue emerged from the Great Wilderness after a month of brutal training and used her strengthened Little Ming Flood Dragon to defeat Bai Li when he ambushed Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen. As Luo Yue killed Bai Li, a furious roar sounded from hundreds of li away, leaving the source of the new threat unknown.

• Luo Yue named her developing body-tempering scripture the [Eight-Nine Mystical Art] and continued through the wilderness with Little Ming, who had reached the third heaven of the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
• Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen fled toward Luo Yue while Bai Li and his Demon Race followers pursued them for a treasure.
• Bai Li attacked Luo Yue, but Little Ming expanded into a powerful flood dragon and smashed him into a distant mountain with his tail.
• Bai Li rose and tried to flee, but Luo Yue extended her bone spear and killed him, destroying both his spirit and body.
• A furious roar sounded from hundreds of li away, and Luo Yue looked to Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen for an explanation.

Luo Yue confronted the Immortal Platform toad spirit who had ambushed Tu Fei, Jiang Huairen, and their companions. She unleashed her long-suppressed Dragon Transformation tribulation and used it to attack the fleeing toad, leaving him crushed beneath her thunder pagoda as the lightning sea closed in.

• Tu Fei told Luo Yue that Bai Li and a newly promoted Immortal Platform toad spirit had ambushed their group, leaving Kong Xuan'er critically wounded and destroying her Jade Talisman.
• Luo Yue kicked Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen out of danger, then sent Little Ming Flood Dragon after the young demons who had pursued them.
• Luo Yue broke through into the Dragon Transformation secret realm and summoned an immense heavenly tribulation as the toad spirit charged toward her.
• Luo Yue chased the fleeing toad spirit and used Heavenly Dipper Thunder Control to form the Thunder Prison Immortal-Suppressing Pagoda from the tribulation lightning.
• The toad spirit revealed his giant true form and launched a demonic pearl, but Luo Yue's thunder pagoda struck him as the sea of lightning followed.

Luo Yue killed the newly ascended Immortal Platform Old Demon by trapping him in her Dragon Transformation tribulation, completing the first transformation of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm. After Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen saw her true appearance and drew another beating, she sensed a powerful rival racing toward her from the horizon.

• Luo Yue used her lightning tower and tribulation fire to suppress the Old Demon, then battered him until his body and treasure bead exploded beneath the lightning.
• Luo Yue absorbed the remaining tribulation lightning and completed the first transformation of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.
• Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen gaped at Luo Yue's revealed beauty, praised her as Tough Sister, and were kicked into the trees for it.
• Luo Yue sensed the powerful figure who had also survived a Dragon Transformation tribulation approaching from thousands of miles away and prepared to face him.

Wang Teng arrived and fought Luo Yue, but her three Visions, Dao insights, and overwhelming strength turned the battle against him. The chapter left Luo Yue striking Wang Teng with the Crimson Peak Spear as distant spectators watched in terror.

• Wang Teng attacked Luo Yue with his Heaven-Rending Sword Aura, but her three overlapping Visions slowed and consumed most of its power before she shattered it with her bone spear.
• Wang Teng broke Luo Yue's bone spear with his palm and sent Little Ming Flood Dragon crashing into a mountain, but Luo Yue summoned the Crimson Peak Spear and met his Golden Divine Sword in battle.
• Wang Teng summoned his Heavenly Emperor Vision, but Luo Yue's Mortal World Scroll disrupted his Dao heart until he used Nine Secrets: Qian to tear through it.
• Luo Yue formed the Yin-Yang Dao Diagram from the Solar Hengyu Diagram and Taiyin Guanghan Diagram, grinding away Wang Teng's arm and destroying his Vision.
• Luo Yue struck Wang Teng's sword with the Crimson Peak Spear, unleashing a shock wave across nearly a thousand miles that battered Tu Fei, Jiang Huairen, and nearby trial participants.

Luo Yue decisively defeated Wang Teng, breaking his attacks and crippling his Primordial Spirit with her Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword fused with the Little Ming Flood Dragon. As she tried to take Nine Secrets: Qian, an unknown voice intervened.

• Wang Teng summoned the Chaotic Ancient Era War Chariot, but Luo Yue smashed back its attack and countered his imperial arts.
• Wang Teng used Nine Secrets: Qian to attack Luo Yue's Primordial Spirit, but her Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword and the Little Ming Flood Dragon destroyed his sword light.
• The Primordial Spirit backlash grievously damaged Wang Teng, and Luo Yue demanded he hand over Nine Secrets: Qian in exchange for his life.
• When Wang Teng refused and Luo Yue reached to plunder the secret art, someone shouted from afar to stop her.

Luo Yue revealed her true identity as Jiang Yue, seized the divine wood containing Nine Secrets: Qian, and killed Wang Teng’s Dao Protector while Wang Teng escaped with an Emperor Talisman. After the other onlookers fled, Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen approached her and reminded her that the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King and Kong Xuan were trapped in the Dragon Cave.

• Wang Teng’s Dao Protector blocked Luo Yue’s sword, so she summoned a second heavenly tribulation and attacked them both.
• The Dao Protector burned his essence blood to hold off Luo Yue while Wang Teng used an Emperor Talisman to escape; Luo Yue named herself Jiang Yue and took the divine wood containing Nine Secrets: Qian.
• Luo Yue abandoned her attempt to catch Wang Teng and killed his wounded Dao Protector beneath the heavenly tribulation.
• The nearby trial participants fled after witnessing Luo Yue’s power, and Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen rushed over to praise her and claim kinship.
• Luo Yue asked about the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King, and Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen told her that he and Kong Xuan were trapped in the Dragon Cave with Cangshan, Yan Ling, and their allies.

Luo Yue followed Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen to Azure Dragon River, where she rescued the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King and Kong Xuan'er from Cangshan, Yan Ling, and the other demons. After taking the Ancient Beast-Skin Map, she surveyed White Tiger Ridge and Azure Dragon River and discovered that someone had tampered with the terrain.

• Tu Fei and Jiang Huairen led Luo Yue to Azure Dragon River and told her that the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King and Kong Xuan'er were trapped in a Dragon Cave.
• Luo Yue found Cangshan holding the Ancient Beast-Skin Map and demanded that he hand it over.
• Yan Ling and a snake demon attacked Luo Yue, but the Little Ming Flood Dragon swallowed their flames and poison, and Luo Yue killed the demons.
• Luo Yue freed the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King and Kong Xuan'er, gave them healing pills, and refused their offer of dragon marrow.
• Luo Yue examined the map, then surveyed White Tiger Ridge and Azure Dragon River from the sky and sensed that someone had altered the terrain.

Luo Yue discovered that a sinister force had trapped the dragon and tiger earth veins at White Tiger Ridge and sensed an unseen presence watching her. After exposing and driving off a resentful shadow, she pursued it toward the ridge’s main peak.

• Luo Yue examined the trapped dragon and tiger forces, then tore apart the Ancient Beast-Skin Map when it revealed an ominous cage and drew a hostile gaze.
• Luo Yue blasted apart a distant peak with the Crimson Peak Spear, alerting the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King, Kong Xuan’er, Tu Fei, and the others.
• Luo Yue formed the Reversed Five Elements Grand Formation around the group, while the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King brought out the damaged Demon Saint Dragon Pearl.
• Luo Yue unleashed her Divine Spirit Pure Land, forcing a concealed shadow formed from resentment and baleful qi to appear.
• The shadow escaped into White Tiger Ridge after Luo Yue struck at it, and Luo Yue went after it with the Little Ming Flood Dragon while the others stayed behind.

Luo Yue entered a hidden underground palace beneath White Tiger Ridge and discovered a dao palace deity, reduced to a living lung, sealed inside a stone coffin. After the deity attacked her with fiendish qi and resentful spirits, it began to break free, and Luo Yue prepared the Immortal Shield and Heaven-Mending Stone against a sudden strike.

• Luo Yue found a corrupted entrance inside the tiger den and told the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King, Kong Xuan'er, and the others to guard it while she went inside alone.
• Luo Yue tore open a spatial rift and entered an ancient underground palace, where she sensed a lung breathing inside a chained stone coffin.
• Luo Yue mocked the deity in the coffin, and it retaliated by unleashing fiendish needles and blood-formed ghostly claws.
• Luo Yue purified the ghostly claws and used her Taiji Yin-Yang Dao Diagram to deflect the fiendish needles without being harmed.
• The deity began breaking its chains as a powerful aura awakened, then a swath of white immortal light slashed toward Luo Yue, who activated the Immortal Shield and Heaven-Mending Stone.