Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua and Dragon Vein Xiao Hua defeated and devoured a South Sea giant dragon, then gathered dragon crystals in the valley. The Diecui Relic Realm began transforming, forcing Xiao Hua to rush onward before the upheaval overtook him.

• Xiao Hua pinned the South Sea giant dragon and battered it while Dragon Vein Xiao Hua absorbed its Dragon Breath and dragon qi.
• The South Sea giant dragon summoned its Dragon Pearl, but Dragon Vein Xiao Hua swallowed it and overwhelmed the dragon’s attack.
• Xiao Hua killed the South Sea giant dragon, pulled out its tendon, and let Dragon Vein Xiao Hua devour its essence blood and spirit.
• Xiao Hua collected the dragon crystals and gathered the valley’s huge rocks, while he and his incarnations discussed Dragon Vein Xiao Hua’s path of cultivation.
• When eerie winds signaled the relic realm’s transformation, Dragon Vein Xiao Hua returned to Xiao Hua’s body, and Xiao Hua hurried toward the valley’s end as the realm fell into chaos.

Xiao Hua and Ao Man were caught in the Diecui Relic Realm’s violent transformations and nearly swallowed by a fissure in its dangerous spatial boundary. After the realm settled, Ao Man thanked Xiao Hua for rescuing him and offered him a Dragon Pearl.

• Xiao Hua realized the Relic Realm’s transformations might reveal a connection to the Dragon Realm, then was thrown into a mountain range by the storms.
• A giant dragon crashed into Xiao Hua’s mountain, and a fissure opened that began pulling them into a thin spatial layer.
• Xiao Hua anchored himself with the As-You-Wish Staff and grabbed the dragon’s tail, struggling to hold him back from the fissure.
• The Relic Realm flipped again, shifting Xiao Hua and the dragon away as the fissure closed, and the realm eventually calmed.
• The dragon introduced himself as Ao Man, thanked Xiao Hua for saving him, and offered him a Dragon Pearl in repayment.

Xiao Hua turned Ao Man’s attempt to steal his bloodline against him, then spent ten days capturing dragons who tried to devour his Dragon Vein Dharma Body. After Ao Sheng rescued him from a larger group of pursuers, Xiao Hua joined him in hunting dragons from the Four Seas Dragon Palace.

• Ao Man offered Xiao Hua a Dragon Pearl, then secretly tried to use it to make a small dragon attack Xiao Hua’s Dragon Vein Dharma Body.
• Xiao Hua absorbed Ao Man’s Dragon Qi, defeated him, and stored his crippled dragon body in his space.
• Xiao Hua spent ten days collecting giant rocks and capturing twelve dragons who attacked him.
• Ao Sheng arrived with dozens of dragons pursuing him, grabbed Xiao Hua, and carried him away on his back.
• Ao Sheng revealed that he wanted to teach the Four Seas Dragon Palace dragons a lesson and take their Dragon Pearls, and Xiao Hua agreed to help.
• Beside a cliff, Xiao Hua struck a giant dragon down while Ao Sheng charged in and was knocked aside by its tail.

Xiao Hua used Dragon Vein Xiao Hua to learn the Pseudo-Celestial Script Art and activate the incomplete Dragon Yu, which guided them toward their destination. On the way, Dragon Vein Xiao Hua was badly injured by a powerful silver-white dragon and called for Xiao Hua to emerge.

• Xiao Hua devoured a giant dragon’s bloodline, while Ao Sheng took its Dragon Core and urged Xiao Hua to keep hunting dragons.
• Ao Sheng gave Xiao Hua a shell inscription explaining how to activate Dragon Yu and revealed the Clan Elders’ arrangement for him to seek it.
• Xiao Hua had Dragon Vein Xiao Hua swallow and learn the Pseudo-Celestial Script Art, then spent several days studying it in a hidden valley.
• Dragon Vein Xiao Hua used the art to gather Dragon Script and restore Dragon Yu’s missing portion, which formed a temporary phantom that flew in a direction.
• Xiao Hua and Ao Sheng followed the phantom’s direction, but a silver-white dragon ambushed and severely wounded Dragon Vein Xiao Hua.
• Dragon Vein Xiao Hua fled the silver-white dragon’s attacks and called for Xiao Hua to come out.

Xiao Hua and Ao Sheng escaped Ao Qin, a violent dragon who attacked them, then discovered twelve slain dragons in a grove. Their wounds and missing dragon cores led Xiao Hua and Ao Sheng to suspect the Baleful Intent race was responsible, connecting the deaths to the earlier murders aboard the Dragon Ship.

• Xiao Hua and Ao Sheng arrived to rescue Dragon Vein Xiao Hua, but Ao Qin attacked them after accusing Ao Sheng of colluding with a human.
• Xiao Hua and Ao Sheng used their abilities to escape Ao Qin, who then vanished after sensing something nearby.
• Ao Sheng spotted twelve dragon corpses in a grove, and he and Xiao Hua found that their dragon cores had been taken.
• Xiao Hua identified the fatal wounds as marks from dragon claws and recalled the murders aboard the Dragon Ship.
• Ao Sheng said rumors linked Dragon Python's case to the Baleful Intent race and suspected the race had killed the dragons.

Xiao Hua and Ao Sheng followed Dragon Fertility to a seemingly endless sea inside the Diecui Relic Realm, where Xiao Hua discovered that the sea was an illusion created by Ao Jiao’s soul using Dragon Island’s forbidden Lihentian Art. Xiao Hua recognized they would need to break the illusion and began explaining to Ao Sheng that true training came from facing the mortal world.

• Xiao Hua harvested giant trees for his thunder boat, then summoned Dragon Vein Xiao Hua to locate the incomplete Dragon Fertility.
• Ao Sheng carried Xiao Hua to a golden sea where the Dragon Fertility’s dragon-shaped figure disappeared beneath the water.
• Xiao Hua spotted a dragon face in the sea and warned Ao Sheng that the waters were an illusion trapping them.
• Xiao Hua opened the Eye of Delusion Breaking and saw a colossal dragon beneath them, with a small third horn identifying it as Ao Jiao.
• Ao Sheng recognized the illusion as Lihentian Art and explained that Ao Jiao had used the forbidden technique to survive as a soul, drawing on the blood essence of lost dragons.
• Xiao Hua dismissed Ao Sheng’s claims of training and said that true experience came from navigating the dangers and complexities of the mortal world.

Xiao Hua and Ao Sheng tried to find a weakness in Ao Jiao’s Lihentian illusion, but Ao Jiao attacked them with seawater and soul techniques. Xiao Hua repelled most of the assault, yet Ao Jiao emerged as a massive emerald-water dragon head whose presence left him shaken.

• Xiao Hua realized the Dragon Cleansing Pool’s body-reshaping method was unknown, while Ao Sheng admitted the Dragon Palace elders had never explained how it worked.
• Xiao Hua decided that he and Ao Sheng should fly in opposite directions to test Ao Jiao’s response, warning Ao Sheng not to let seawater touch his body.
• Ao Jiao split his attack between them, sending a rising wave after Ao Sheng and surrounding Xiao Hua with seawater and dragon-patterned soul threads.
• Xiao Hua used the Lightning and Thunder Technique and his newly comprehended soul threads to destroy most of Ao Jiao’s assault and clear the crimson strands from his body.
• Ao Jiao roared in pain and emerged from the sea as an enormous emerald-water dragon head, filling Xiao Hua with helplessness.

Ao Jiao trapped Ao Sheng and Xiao Hua in his Lihentian, forcing them to fight with their strongest abilities. As Ao Jiao faced attacks from Xiao Hua, Little White Dragon, and Dragon Vein Xiao Hua, he summoned an even more powerful dragon head.

• Ao Sheng drew out a drop of golden dragon blood that formed True Blood Bright Armor, but Ao Jiao’s water dragons trapped him and twisted the armor as Ao Sheng struggled toward Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua used the Cloud-Gathering and Rain-Making Technique to melt Ao Jiao’s seawater dragon head, but Ao Jiao dispelled the rain and broke the technique.
• Xiao Hua sent a soul sword into Ao Jiao’s divided soul, destroying part of it before the remaining soul began counterattacking.
• Xiao Hua pulled Little White Dragon from his mysterious dark clouds, and Little White Dragon attacked Ao Jiao’s divided soul while Xiao Hua retrieved the soul sword.
• Ao Jiao recognized Little White Dragon’s Fire Dragon Soul, and Xiao Hua sent Dragon Vein Xiao Hua to attack as well.
• Ao Jiao summoned a larger, more powerful dragon head with a crimson horn and gathered Dragon Qi around it.

Xiao Hua struggled to protect Ao Sheng and his allies from Ao Jiao’s seemingly endless divided souls in Lihentian. After Ao Sheng used the Purple Dragon Crown to escape immediate danger and swore a Dragon Oath to keep Xiao Hua’s secret, Xiao Hua unleashed a silver beam from his Eye of Delusion Breaking into the sea.

• Xiao Hua and his divided forms fought Ao Jiao’s souls, while Ao Jiao kept producing more and trapping Ao Sheng, Little White Dragon, and Dragon Vein Xiao Hua.
• Ao Sheng summoned the Purple Dragon Crown, which destroyed the souls binding him and healed his wounds, but he turned back to try to rescue Xiao Hua.
• Ao Sheng’s dragon robe could not shield Xiao Hua, so Xiao Hua asked him whether Lihentian had a flaw and said he could find Ao Jiao’s true soul.
• Ao Sheng swore before the Dragon Ancestor never to reveal what he saw, and Xiao Hua warned him to retreat while he prepared a powerful technique.
• As Ao Jiao’s water dragons bound Xiao Hua, he sent a silvery-white beam from his Eye of Delusion Breaking into the sea, creating a rapidly spreading silver vortex.

Xiao Hua unleashed his Demon God form and fought Ao Jiao’s many soul fragments throughout Lihentian. After the battle lasted dozens of days, Xiao Hua devoured Ao Jiao and emerged exhausted, warning Ao Sheng that using his demonic technique stripped away his emotions and might eventually make him kill without distinction.

• Xiao Hua’s Eye of Delusion Breaking pinned Ao Jiao’s soul, but Ao Jiao resisted until Xiao Hua transformed into Demon God Xiao Hua and spread demonic power across Lihentian.
• Ao Jiao used purple qi to escape the pillar’s restraint and split his soul into countless fragments, but Xiao Hua’s demonic blade, demon heads, Soul Cultivator Xiao Hua, Little White Dragon, and Dragon Vein Xiao Hua attacked them.
• Demon God Xiao Hua trapped one half of Ao Jiao’s main soul in the Blood Drop Cave Heaven as the demonic dragon devoured the other half, and the battle continued for dozens of days.
• The demonic dragon returned to Xiao Hua, the demonic qi receded, and Xiao Hua collapsed before waking and standing again.
• Xiao Hua told Ao Sheng that each use of his Demonic Path secret technique stripped away some of his emotions and could eventually turn him into a beast that might kill Ao Sheng.

Xiao Hua and Ao Sheng uncovered the hidden Dragon Yu and negotiated over their competing goals in the Diecui Relic Realm. After Ao Sheng left to search for Shener Abyss, Xiao Hua secluded himself and examined the Dragon Yu’s mysterious rune.

• Xiao Hua and Ao Sheng collected the boulders, then discussed the Crystal Dragon Script and learned that Ao Ye had separated it from the Dragon Yu.
• Xiao Hua directed Ao Sheng to use the Soaring Dragon Technique, revealing Ao Jiao’s remnant soul and the concealed Dragon Yu, which Xiao Hua took into his space.
• Ao Sheng warned Xiao Hua that Dragon Island expected the Dragon Yu and Crystal Dragon Script, while Xiao Hua asked about the relic realm’s faster flow of time.
• Xiao Hua agreed to stay and cultivate while Ao Sheng searched for Shener Abyss and promised to return if he found it.
• Xiao Hua hid in a small cave and examined the fused Dragon Yu, whose rune unleashed powerful dragon might before Jade Slip Xiao Hua sealed it away.

Jade Slip Xiao Hua unlocked the Dragon Essence’s complete Dragon Transformation Art and Dragon Language Heavenly Arts, then passed the missing inheritance to Little White Dragon and Dragon Vein Xiao Hua. After a landscape shift in the Diecui Relic Realm, Xiao Hua met the wounded Ao Fengping, helped him recover, and heard that Ao Fengping had something to tell him.

• Jade Slip Xiao Hua used dragon blood to reveal the Dragon Essence’s complete Dragon Transformation Art and Dragon Language Heavenly Arts, and learned that the art was needed to shape a body in the Dragon Cleansing Pool.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua passed the complete Dragon Transformation Art to Little White Dragon, who began comprehending it, and told Dragon Vein Xiao Hua to study the inheritance as well.
• Xiao Hua left his secluded cave when the Diecui Relic Realm’s scenery shifted again and a wounded Ao Fengping crashed into the nearby mountain range.
• Ao Fengping recognized Xiao Hua and explained that a Dragon Clan member had ambushed him; Xiao Hua offered to stand guard while Ao Fengping healed.
• After Ao Fengping recovered and changed his armor, he told Xiao Hua that he had something to say.

Xiao Hua agreed to accompany Ao Fengping toward Shener Abyss after learning that the Dragon descendant knew a secret route and trading for Confucian techniques. They reached a hidden gathering place, where Ao Fengping introduced Xiao Hua to three wary human cultivators.

• Ao Fengping urged Xiao Hua to leave his mountain refuge, help human cultivators, and ally with Dragon descendants, then offered to guide him to a secret place.
• After Ao Fengping named Shener Abyss, Xiao Hua traded for a jade pupil containing Confucian techniques he could use as a dual Daoist and Confucian cultivator.
• Xiao Hua and Ao Fengping traveled for more than ten days, during which Xiao Hua defeated and captured numerous dragons while Ao Fengping grew alarmed.
• Ao Fengping led Xiao Hua to a valley near Shener Abyss, received a signal that changed their plans, and brought him to a fruit grove among ruined walls.
• Ao Fengping introduced Xiao Hua to three human cultivators, and one rebuked him for bringing a stranger to their gathering.

Xiao Hua confronted Ao Yuzhong and Ao Yunqing when they tried to stop him from leaving, but Ao Moyun’s arrival eased the conflict. She then revealed that Shener Abyss might contain an Ancient Golden Core suited to Xiao Hua, leaving him interested in the opportunity.

• Xiao Hua rejected the cultivators’ attempt to keep him in the valley and broke through Ao Yunqing and Ao Yuzhong’s combined attacks.
• Ao Yuzhong and Ao Yunqing revealed their Dragon Blood Dharma Bodies, but Ao Moyun arrived and ordered them to stand down.
• Ao Moyun explained that she had trained on Dragon Island to enter the Diecui Relic Realm for the sake of Shener Abyss.
• Ao Moyun showed Xiao Hua the Dragon Core Fruits, and Xiao Hua uprooted more than half the trees to test whether they could survive outside the soil.
• Ao Moyun told Xiao Hua that Shener Abyss might contain an Ancient Golden Core suitable for his cultivation, and he asked how she had learned of it.

Xiao Hua learned that the golden cores near Shener Abyss might be dragon-refined pills, but he tried to avoid choosing between Ao Sheng and Ao Moyun’s Long Clan. Unable to leave the mist-shrouded region, he returned to Shener Abyss and witnessed the two forces clash over a Long Clan relic.

• Ao Moyun argued that the golden cores could have been refined by dragons or Daoist cultivators, but Xiao Hua refused to take them because he did not want to side with Ao Sheng or the Long Clan.
• Ao Moyun sent Ao Yuzhong and Ao Fengping toward Shener Abyss after the mountain range emerged from the mist, while Xiao Hua discovered an invisible barrier blocking his escape.
• Xiao Hua returned to Shener Abyss, concealed himself, and saw Ao Sheng’s Dragon Island force confronting Ao Tao and the Long Clan descendants.
• Ao Sheng ordered his dragons to kill Ao Tao’s group and break the restriction, while Ao Tao rallied the Long Clan to fight for their clan’s relic and future.

Xiao Hua watched Ao Zhan reveal himself as the Dragon Clan’s leader and turn the battle against Dragon Island, while Ao Moyun sacrificed herself to poison Xiao Hua and activate the Shener Abyss restriction. Ao Zhan gained control of the battlefield and demanded that Ao Sheng surrender the treasure within the abyss.

• Ao Tao and the dragons fighting him were wounded as their blood and flesh fed the restriction, while Dragon Island’s forces attacked Ao Moyun and her allies.
• Ao Zhan appeared, captured Ao Sheng, and identified himself as the Dragon Clan’s leader, prompting Ao Tao to escape.
• Ao Moyun sacrificed herself to poison Xiao Hua and make the dragon-shaped restriction clear; Xiao Hua secretly gathered her soul with Netherworld Primordial Force.
• Ao Zhan defeated his opponent and shifted the battle in the Dragon Clan’s favor, while Xiao Hua refrained from intervening.
• Ao Zhan told Ao Sheng he would spare his life if he ordered the others to stop and surrendered his blood essence, but insisted on taking what lay within Shener Abyss.

Ao Zhan confronted Ao Sheng over the Crystal Dragon Script, but the Dragon Island Great Elder revealed that he had possessed Ao Sheng’s body and nearly killed Ao Zhan. Xiao Hua intervened and persuaded the Great Elder to speak privately with Ao Zhan, leaving the surrounding factions waiting to learn what would happen.

• Ao Sheng rejected Ao Zhan’s demand to surrender, and Ao Zhan began counting down before attacking him.
• Ao Sheng’s body transformed as the Great Elder’s Primordial Spirit emerged, and he immobilized Ao Zhan while explaining the Dragon Island bloodline ability that let him lodge in Ao Sheng.
• Ao Zhan broke through the Great Elder’s control long enough to wound Ao Sheng’s body, but the Great Elder bound him with lightning and prepared to kill him.
• Xiao Hua asked the Great Elder to spare Ao Zhan, arguing that Ao Zhan had shown mercy to Ao Sheng and that the Da Clan’s feud might be based on misunderstandings.
• The Great Elder agreed to hear Ao Zhan out and enclosed them in dragon qi so they could discuss the Da Clan’s secrets privately, while the others waited.

After the Great Elder reconciled with Ao Zhan, he entrusted Xiao Hua with helping Holy Dragon Ao find the Crystal Dragon Script and left the Dragon Clan’s future in Ao Zhan’s hands. Ao Zhan explained that the true Dragon Cleansing Pool was inside the Diecui Relic Realm, while the Great Elder did not know its location, and the group prepared to seek the Crystal Dragon Script.

• The Great Elder ordered the Dragon Island Dragon Clan to follow Holy Dragon Ao, asked Xiao Hua to help recover the Crystal Dragon Script, and departed.
• Holy Dragon Ao admitted he did not know where the Dragon Cleansing Pool was, and Ao Zhan directed his dragons to rest before searching for the Crystal Dragon Script.
• Ao Zhan said the Long Clan had earned partial pardon but still needed to produce a Great Sage of the Demon Race to return to the Ten Clans of Dragon Island.
• Ao Zhan told Xiao Hua how Ao Qin’s theft of Dragon Yu and the Crystal Dragon Script had changed the Long Clan’s fate, and Xiao Hua urged him to rebuild the clan.
• Ao Zhan explained that the Dragon Cleansing Pool outside the Diecui Relic Realm was false and that the true pool lay within it, where Dragon Cleansing Liquid reshaped dragon bodies.
• Ao Zhan said the Great Elder did not know the true pool’s location because otherwise he would already have found Shener Abyss.

Ao Zhan explained Shener Abyss’s connection to the Dragon Realm and revealed that a failed Dragon Pill might lie within it. After the dragons gave up their essence blood to break the restriction, Xiao Hua used Blood Replenishing Pills to win their interest and tried to bargain with Ao Sheng for the Dragon Cleansing Pool’s location.

• Ao Zhan told Xiao Hua that Shener Abyss had once connected the Diecui Relic Realm to the Dragon Realm, and that finding it had required the Long Clan Patriarch’s help.
• Xiao Hua learned that Ao Zhan’s Dragon Pouch described a possible failed Dragon Pill in Shener Abyss, while Ao Zhan warned that the Dragon Clan might return to the Four Seas only through dangerous spatial veins.
• Ao Sheng and the other dragons released their essence blood to break the Black Dragon restriction, which began spinning into a massive vortex.
• Xiao Hua offered Ao Sheng Blood Replenishing Pills; Ao Sheng ate a bottle, recovered some blood energy, and the other dragons asked for pills too.
• Xiao Hua gave the dragons more pills and promoted the Luoyi Merchant Alliance, then offered to make more for Ao Sheng if he revealed the Dragon Cleansing Pool’s location.

Xiao Hua, Ao Sheng, Ao Zhan, and Ao Tao entered Shener Abyss after the Butterfly Transformation Technique opened the restriction and released a flood of Dragon Spiritual Energy. At the place where the Crystal Dragon Script was hidden, Ao Zhan suddenly decided to retrieve it himself instead of letting Ao Tao do so.

• Ao Sheng complained that Xiao Hua had given him inferior pills, and Xiao Hua handed him another jade bottle.
• Ao Zhan used Ao Qin's Butterfly Transformation Technique to open the restriction, releasing Dragon Spiritual Energy that forced the humans and most dragons to retreat.
• Ao Tao remained with Ao Zhan, Ao Sheng, and Xiao Hua, then wore worn black armor that reacted powerfully to the Dragon Spiritual Energy.
• Ao Zhan led the group into Shener Abyss, where they avoided or endured the dangerous Dragon Spiritual Energy vortices.
• Ao Tao found the hiding place of the Crystal Dragon Script and began digging into the stone wall, but Ao Zhan stopped him and said he would retrieve it himself.