Chapter Summaries

At Ao Jing’s banquet, he ordered the dragon ship into the sea and staged Ao Xuan’s apparent injury to test the guests for suspicious behavior. After the ship repeatedly struck reefs, Ao Jing reviewed the dragon generals’ reports and considered how to draw the suspected spies into his trap.

• Yong tried to make Xiao Hua drink, but Chong intervened and shared wine with him.
• Ao Jing ordered the dragon ship into the sea, struck Ao Xuan, and had him taken away after Ao Jiu persuaded him to avoid putting Ao Xuan in a cage.
• Xiao Hua suspected Ao Jing and Ao Xuan had staged the injury to deceive Dongtian River’s sea clans.
• The dragon ship descended beneath the waves, struck reefs repeatedly, and Ao Jing continued the banquet as if nothing were wrong.
• After the guests left, Ao Jing questioned the dragon generals about suspicious demons and concluded that the staged injury had not drawn the suspected spies into the trap.
• Ao Jiu warned Ao Jing that the reefs could damage the ship’s formations and advised flying again after the banquet.

Ao Jing explained his plan to use Dongtian River’s princess as bait while admitting that rival forces in Feather Spirit Bay had thwarted his search. Aboard the dragon ship, Xiao Hua studied the Crimson Infant Technique, chose to prioritize ordinary Daoist cultivation, and refined Underworld Breaking Pills in his space, where Xiao Guo unexpectedly spoke to him.

• Ao Jing dismissed Ao Jiu’s concerns about the dragon ship and declared that he would use Dongtian River’s little princess as bait to destroy its remaining dragons.
• Ao Jiu reported that he had not found Jiang Sheng, and Ao Jing explained that powerful rivals and infiltrators made it difficult to locate the Confucian cultivator or Dongtian River.
• Ao Jing helped Ao Jiu and the other dragon generals rise, then urged his trusted subordinates to risk their lives for him.
• Xiao Hua studied the Crimson Infant Technique, corrected the cultivation of his Scattered Infants, and decided to focus on Daoist cultivation through his physical body.
• Xiao Hua refined Underworld Breaking Pills in his space while Xiao Guo delivered herbs and Xiao Hua reflected on the sparse life there.
• Xiao Guo spoke to Jade Slip Xiao Hua and timidly offered to refine pills for him.

Xiao Hua discovered that Xiao Guo could refine pills with his rare Wood Fire and began teaching him pill formulas. When Xiao Hua emerged from seclusion, he found the dragon ship had been attacked and watched Ao Jing execute captured Dongtian River Sea Clan members, leaving Xiao Hua to plan how to rescue Xiao Yun himself.

• Xiao Guo revealed his innate ability to produce Wood Fire, and Jade Slip Xiao Hua taught him pill-refining techniques.
• Xiao Guo successfully refined a Wutuodan and several other pills, but failed to make a Foundation Establishment Pill because he had not cultivated.
• Xiao Hua left his quiet chamber after the dragon ship shook and found the deck damaged and stained with blood.
• Yong accused Xiao Hua of seeming suspicious, while Ao Xuan summoned the guests to witness Ao Jing’s announcement.
• Ao Jing identified captured infiltrators as Dongtian River rebels and ordered them executed by slicing them to death.
• Xiao Hua concluded that Dongtian River’s forces had been crushed and planned to find the Dragon Pouch holding Xiao Yun and escape.

Xiao Hua watched Ao Jing and waited for him to reveal the Dragon Pouch, but a staged Dongtian River attack drew him into a trap. He escaped the hall with a female dragon as fighting erupted around the dragon ship, while Ao Jing revealed that he had never been drunk.

• Ao Jing announced that the damaged dragon ship was stranded and hosted a banquet, where Xiao Hua watched for a chance to take the Dragon Pouch.
• As the demons drank, Ao Jing handed the Dragon Pouch to Ao Xuan, but the chrysalis interrupted Xiao Hua as he prepared to seize it.
• Chong transformed into a female dragon and led Dongtian River fighters in an attack, knocking the Dragon Pouch from Ao Xuan's grasp.
• Xiao Hua tried to take the Dragon Pouch, but the female dragon struck at him and the pouch unleashed an explosion; the chrysalis transformed into a matching dragon and shielded him from the blast.
• The false female dragon's poisonous tail struck Xiao Hua, but he escaped the hall with the real female dragon while the sea generals let them pass.
• Ao Jing followed without any sign of drunkenness as battles broke out around the dragon ship, and the female dragon transformed back into a woman beside Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua and Jiang Xia uncovered Ao Jing’s trap aboard the dragon ship, but learned that Ao Shi had taken Jiang Hong away. After revealing himself as Daoist Xiao Hua, he turned to attack Ao Jing and broke through the demon formation before Ao Xuan confronted him.

• Jiang Xia explained that Ao Jing had trapped the Dongtian River forces, and Xiao Hua deduced how Ao Jing had used a false Dragon Pouch and disguise to lure them into a trap.
• Ao Jing revealed that Ao Shi had taken Jiang Hong from Feather Spirit Bay, while the battle aboard the dragon ship intensified.
• Xiao Hua disclosed that he was a human cultivator named Daoist Xiao Hua and secretly proposed that he and Jiang Xia escape to join Jiang Tian.
• Xiao Hua instead broke through Ao Jing’s demon-cloud formation with his Golden Body and lightning, then used the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors to cut apart the pillars of starlight and moonlight.
• Ao Xuan charged in to protect Ao Jing and thrust her spear at Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua fought through the dragon generals and captured Ao Jiu, who had been disguised as Ao Jing, but the real Ao Jing ordered the dragons to attack. As Jiang Xia joined the battle, she broke through the dragon ship’s demon formations and sent Ao Xuan and the other generals flying.

• Xiao Hua defeated Ao Xuan and several dragon generals with his As-You-Wish Staff and sword light, then reached Ao Jing.
• Ao Jing used a Dragon Pendant to summon a refined dragon, but Xiao Hua’s dragon body swallowed it, and Xiao Hua captured Ao Jing’s apparent form.
• Xiao Hua revealed that his captive was Ao Jiu, while the real Ao Jing declared he would not yield and ordered the dragon generals to kill.
• Xiao Hua tortured Ao Jiu as Ao Xuan and the other dragon generals attacked, and Jiang Xia fought them with her dragon form.
• Jiang Xia covered herself in silver light, shattered the dragon ship’s demon formations, and knocked Ao Xuan and the other generals backward.

Xiao Hua confronted Ao Jian aboard the North Sea Dragon Palace’s dragon ship, using his many cultivation forms and techniques to break the ship’s demon array. As the ship cracked and flooded, Xiao Hua escaped into the water with the Water Evasion Technique.

• Xiao Hua threatened to strip Ao Jiu’s dragon sinew and hide, provoking Ao Jing.
• Ao Jian appeared and freed Ao Jiu from Xiao Hua’s grasp, then attacked Xiao Hua with his Dragon Breath and dragon might.
• Xiao Hua fought back with Dragon Vein Xiao Hua, Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua, his magic treasures, and the Formless Nascent Soul’s Leiting technique.
• Jiang Xia tried to help Xiao Hua, but Ao Jian wounded her dragon tail and continued attacking.
• Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua’s sword strike split the demon array and cracked the dragon ship, letting North Sea water flood inside.
• Xiao Hua withdrew Dragon Vein Xiao Hua and fled into the water using the Water Evasion Technique.

Xiao Hua fought Ao Jian aboard the dragon ship until Jiang Tian intervened, while a Crimson Fury swept the vessel toward the seabed. The ship’s formation collapsed and the battle fell into chaos as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Hua broke through Ao Jian’s Dragon Pearl and endured a powerful strike from Ao Jian’s dragon-scale boulder.
• Jiang Tian appeared, blocked Ao Jian’s attack, and wounded him with a sword strike while Jiang Xia went below deck to help Jiang Jian and the others.
• Jiang Tian urged Xiao Hua to help kill Ao Jian, and Xiao Hua challenged Ao Jian’s claims that the North Sea Dragon Palace had planned the Dongtian River’s attack.
• Ao Jian explained that he had hidden beneath the dragon ship by chance, then the Crimson Fury struck and dragged the spinning ship toward the seabed.

Xiao Hua and Jiang Tian battled Ao Jian, but Ao Jian unleashed Crimson Fury and tore apart the Dragon Boat’s demon formation. Xiao Hua escaped the destruction by switching to the Fire Evasion Technique, though the forces of Crimson Fury left him fleeing erratically across the North Sea.

• Xiao Hua discovered that his Big Dipper Divine Fist could damage Ao Jian’s Dragon Pearl and smashed the pearl into two pieces with his Divine Thought Hammer.
• Xiao Hua and Jiang Tian wounded Ao Jian, who retaliated with a devastating dragon roar and unleashed his Dragon Horns against them.
• Xiao Hua struck the demon formation with his Divine Thought Hammer and Heaven and Earth Sword, tearing it open as Ao Jian’s horn pierced his right armpit.
• Crimson Fury engulfed the Dragon Boat, and Xiao Hua rescued Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua before realizing that Water Evasion could not carry him away.
• Xiao Hua used Fire Evasion to flee the fire-aspected Crimson Fury, escaping Ao Jian’s attack and moving away from the Dragon Boat despite being dragged off course.

Xiao Hua endured the Crimson Fury for several months, while Bodhi Xiao Hua’s insight helped Jade Slip Xiao Hua improve his pill refining and cultivation. After the storm ended, Xiao Hua emerged in a beautiful stretch of the North Sea, then discovered strange halos surrounding the sea and realized he did not know where he was.

• Xiao Hua survived the Crimson Fury by drifting with its winds and resisting its corrosive force with his demon body.
• Bodhi Xiao Hua gained insight into the relationship between the physical body and Spirit Division, allowing Jade Slip Xiao Hua to refine genuine Underworld Breaking Pills.
• The Crimson Fury stopped, and Jade Slip Xiao Hua finished refining several thousand Underworld Breaking Pills before returning to Xiao Hua’s body.
• Xiao Hua awoke on a tranquil seabed, admired the fish and coral, and considered what might have happened to Ao Jian, Ao Jing, Jiang Tian, Jiang Xia, and Xiao Yun.
• Xiao Hua decided to explain matters to Liu Yi and find his way back to Cangxian Continent, but found strange rings of light surrounding the sea when he emerged.

Xiao Hua and Jiang Rui identified their location as the inner sea of Chunche Forbidden Sea and tried to escape before its dangers fully recovered. They reached a route toward the edge, but a sudden force threw them toward a deadly vortex, leaving Xiao Hua to use the Lightning and Thunder Technique to shield them.

• Jiang Rui recognized the sea as Chunche Forbidden Sea, and he and Xiao Hua abandoned their search for Ao Shi to flee.
• Xiao Hua and Jiang Rui traveled through the sea for three days until a vortex nearly pulled Jiang Rui in, but Xiao Hua rescued him with Sleeve Universe.
• Jiang Rui recognized a route toward the inner edge of the forbidden sea and led Xiao Hua through the vortices and distorted space.
• As they entered the light and shadows between two vortices, a force shoved Xiao Hua toward a distant vortex and threw Jiang Rui off balance.
• Xiao Hua used the Lightning and Thunder Technique and Three Corpse Yin Thunder to open a patch of dim green space around them.

Xiao Hua exposed Ao Shi, defeated him, and killed him with the Spirit Severing Primordial Light. The soul technique triggered a violent upheaval in the Chunche Forbidden Sea, which dragged Xiao Hua into a realm of green seal-script characters and left him struggling to survive.

• Xiao Hua explained how Jiang Xia's account, Ao Shi's strength, his knowledge of the Dragon Pouch, and the sea chart revealed that he had impersonated Jiang Rui.
• Ao Shi admitted he carried a Dragon Pouch, threatened Xiao Hua and Jiang Hong, then transformed into a dragon and attacked.
• Xiao Hua restrained Ao Shi with the Three Corpse Yin Thunder and used the Spirit Severing Primordial Light to kill him.
• Xiao Hua stored the Giant Dragon Corpses as the Chunche Forbidden Sea's vortices tore space open and pulled him inside.
• Xiao Hua endured the sea's crushing force by activating his Supreme Sacred Bloodline and Celestial Body Infusion Technique, while realizing his lightning-infused soul threads had shielded him from soul attacks.
• The green seal-script characters stopped, contracted, and split, filling the space around Xiao Hua like flickering stars.

Xiao Hua recovered from his injuries in the submerged Soul Cultivator ruins and discovered a surviving green seal-script character that revealed the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique. He could not yet use the technique, but he realized it might let him create teleportation passages to marked locations without Teleportation Arrays.

• Xiao Hua stopped green-robed Xiao Hua from exploring the ruins alone, checked that Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua was recovering, and spent a hundred days repairing his body.
• Xiao Hua found that an immense repulsive force prevented him from escaping the abyss, so he used the Soul Cultivators' Flying Technique to explore the buried ruins.
• Xiao Hua examined ruined halls on several mountain peaks and found a glowing green seal-script character in the hall beside the central stone pillar.
• Xiao Hua activated the character with his soul threads and watched it form a teleportation passage before it returned to the stone wall.
• Xiao Hua comprehended the character as the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique, but realized his Soul Cultivator realm was too weak to use it yet.

Xiao Hua explored the bone halls beneath the sea, collected the twelve soul artifacts within them, and discovered that their power strengthened Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua and Little White in Soul Knot Heaven. At the final pillar, he found a crystal containing a second copy of his crystal skull thumb ring, but could not break or move it, leaving green-robed Xiao Hua to suggest trying blood refinement.

• Xiao Hua entered a bone hall dedicated to Great God Tianwu and found that its enormous bone sphere could be moved only with soul threads.
• After Little White urged him to take the sphere into Soul Knot Heaven, Xiao Hua used Soul Bridge to bring it through the mysterious dark clouds, where it became a statue of Great God Tianwu.
• Xiao Hua collected the bone spheres from all twelve halls, and their green light strengthened Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua while bringing strange insights to Jade Slip Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua reached the much taller final pillar and found a diamond-shaped crystal containing a thumb ring identical to the one given to him by the Witch King of Million Meng Mountain.
• Xiao Hua failed for more than a month to move or damage the crystal, and green-robed Xiao Hua suggested that he try using his blood.

Xiao Hua used his essence blood to retrieve a second crystal skull thumb ring, then escaped the Soul Cultivator ruins through a dangerous teleportation passage and found his way out of the Chunche Forbidden Sea. On a nearby island, he recovered Jiang Hong from Ao Shi’s hidden Dragon Pouch and showed her dragon form to Liu Yi, who recognized her as Xiao Yun and admired her beauty.

• Xiao Hua used a drop of essence blood to draw the crystal skull thumb ring from the crystal and wondered whether he was destined to return to Xiaoyu Continent and meet the shaman king.
• Xiao Hua left the Soul Cultivator ruins through a damaged teleportation passage, using the Great Universe Shifting Token to steady the space around him.
• Xiao Hua navigated the Chunche Forbidden Sea with the North Sea Dragon Palace sea chart and escaped to the open sea.
• Xiao Hua landed on an island, found Ao Shi’s Dragon Pouch hidden in his tail, and discovered Jiang Hong bound inside in her dragon form.
• Xiao Hua brought Liu Yi out of his space, and Liu Yi recognized Jiang Hong as Xiao Yun and said her true body was beautiful.

Xiao Hua rescued Jiang Hong from the North Sea Dragon Palace and left Liu Yi to care for her, but soon lost his way near the Chunche Forbidden Sea. There he found Ao Zhantian fighting a Water Rhino and joined the battle, leaving the beast battered by his magic treasures.

• Xiao Hua told Liu Yi that Jiang Hong had been rescued but remained bound by the North Sea Dragon Palace’s demon arts, and Liu Yi accepted that he might not awaken Xiao Yun yet.
• Xiao Hua placed Liu Yi and Jiang Hong in his space, then flew away with the Dragon Pouch and lost his direction near the Chunche Forbidden Sea.
• Xiao Hua spotted Ao Zhantian badly wounded and used lightning to sever a tentacle before it could strike him from behind.
• A Water Rhino emerged from the sea and attacked Xiao Hua, who countered with the Sea-Overturning Seal and Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors.
• The Water Rhino used its head tumor to knock the Sea-Overturning Seal aside, but Xiao Hua’s attack still slammed it into the sea and left Ao Zhantian astonished.

Xiao Hua rescued Ao Zhantian from the Water Rhino and helped him obtain the Xiting Bao needed to pass the North Sea Dragon Palace selection. The two set off for the designated Dragon Island training site, while Xiao Hua’s consciousness entered his space and found Green-robed Xiao Hua had piled up a mountain of bones and treasures.

• Xiao Hua trapped the Water Rhino, cut off its Xiting Bao for Ao Zhantian, and gave the wounded beast a Rejuvenation Pill before releasing it.
• Ao Zhantian explained that the Water Rhino had killed several members of his selection group and that the Chunche Forbidden Sea had separated or carried off the others.
• Ao Zhantian confirmed that Xiao Hua could accompany him to Dragon Island because he had already submitted Xiao Hua’s place without recording his name.
• Xiao Hua and Ao Zhantian boarded a flying boat and set out for the site where they would await the Dragon Island Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Hua entered his space and saw that Green-robed Xiao Hua had dumped out underwater treasures and an enormous pile of bones.

Xiao Hua discussed the treasures and sect matters in his space, including the growing mysteries around Dai Er, the seven-colored conch, and Shang Hua Ming. After giving Ao Zhantian powerful healing pills during their flight, Xiao Hua left him impressed by his pill-refining skill as they continued toward Dragon Island.

• Green-robed Xiao Hua gathered magical treasures and white bones from the Soul Cultivator ruins and said he would sort useful items for the Creation Sect.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua and green-robed Xiao Hua discussed the sect’s early development, Xiao Guo’s pill-refining progress, and the changes in Dai Er and the seven-colored conch.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua connected the conch and a mysterious divine statue to the suspicious origins of Shang Hua Ming, while the two Xiao Hua agreed that Xiao Hua needed to raise his cultivation and eventually enter seclusion.
• Xiao Hua left his space and gave Ao Zhantian a pill to treat his injuries while they traveled by flying boat through the clouds.
• Ao Zhantian took the pill, recovered his breath, praised its quality, and gladly accepted several more pills from Xiao Hua for the dangerous Dragon Island training.

Xiao Hua accompanied Ao Zhantian through the North Sea toward Dragon Island, where Ao Zhantian hoped to grow strong enough to escape the Immortal Palace’s control. They met the Dragon Island Envoy and boarded the Dragon Ship, leaving Xiao Hua’s purpose for going to Dragon Island undisclosed.

• Ao Zhantian explained that Dragon Island would test entrants’ strength and bloodline purity before assigning them to training grounds, while Xiao Hua said he had his own reasons for going there.
• Ao Zhantian suspected Xiao Hua was using Dragon Island to evade the Immortal Palace, and Xiao Hua assured him that his business there would not cause trouble for him.
• Xiao Hua helped Ao Zhantian’s damaged flying boat survive more than ten days of North Sea storms and dangerous sea beasts until they reached a sea reef.
• Ao Zhantian described how his travels had revealed ever-wider worlds and said he hoped Dragon Island training would help him break free of Confucian control.
• After traveling farther underwater, Ao Zhantian presented his Xiting Bao to the Dragon Island Envoy, who confirmed his selection and ordered him and Xiao Hua to board the Dragon Ship before another storm arrived.

Xiao Hua and Ao Zhantian settled into the Dragon Ship and spent more than half a year traveling toward Dragon Island, where Xiao Hua cultivated and watched Ao Zhantian make connections with other cultivators. The Dragon Envoy’s furious voice then exposed everyone aboard to a strange scene of multicolored clouds and a gigantic dragon, leaving the passengers gathered in confusion.

• The Dragon Envoy gave Ao Zhantian a jade token for a tower and warned that fighting aboard the Dragon Ship was forbidden.
• Ao Zhantian and Xiao Hua explored their quarters, and Ao Zhantian planned to befriend other human cultivators while Xiao Hua cultivated in seclusion.
• The Dragon Ship set off, and Xiao Hua spent more than half a year cultivating, advancing his Leiting technique while considering how his Daoist cultivation and Crimson Infant Technique affected each other.
• Ao Qiran and Ao Moran visited Ao Zhantian just as the Dragon Envoy’s angry voice sounded and the Dragon Ship’s restrictions vanished.
• Xiao Hua went outside with the others and saw thousands of humans and Demon Race creatures beneath multicolored clouds, where a gigantic radiant dragon coiled.