Chapter Summaries

Ao Ying raged over being ordered to patrol the seas, while Ao Bai and Ao Shun urged him to endure and build his position. The chapter left Ao Ying considering how his patrol near the place where the Dragon King vanished might help him claim the West Sea Dragon Seat.

• Ao Ying narrowly spared a dragon general with his tail, smashing a reef instead.
• Ao Bai reminded Ao Ying that the Dragon Palace's orders required him to patrol despite his anger.
• Ao Ying explained that he had lost influence after the Diecui Relic Realm and complained that the Dragon Island Envoy favored his rivals.
• Ao Bai urged Ao Ying to endure the setback and noted that he was building ties with Ao Xiang to counter the Dragon Island Envoy.
• Ao Shun pointed out that Ao Ying's patrol near the Dragon King's disappearance could offer a chance to gain real power and pursue the Dragon Seat.

Ao Ying led his forces to Lingbo Reef, where memories of his youth gave way to a sudden ambush by sea clans. The Dragon Clan became trapped by corrosive threads and an ice-sealed sea.

• Ao Ying identified Lingbo Reef and recalled how the Western Sea Patrol Envoy had once rescued him and Ao Yue from sea lion beasts there.
• Ao Ying smashed a reef and flew deeper into the cluster as Ao Shun, Ao Bai, the Dragon Clan, and thousands of sea clans followed cautiously.
• Ao Ying sensed something wrong in the waves, but a formation erupted across Lingbo Reef, trapping the area in knots of Primordial Qi and spreading dragon patterns over the sea.
• Ao Shun realized the sea clans had laid an ambush, and Ao Bai ordered the Dragon Clan to protect Ao Ying.
• The Dragon Clan tore at the light knots, releasing multicolored threads that corroded their scales, while dragons diving toward the sea found it frozen into unbreakable ice.

Ao Yue ambushed Ao Ying in the West Sea with Dragon Trapping Shuttles and a formation, revealing his plan to kill his younger brother over the West Sea Dragon Seat. Ao Ying recognized Ao Yue and confronted him about his alliance with Ao Beng, then recalled their past during the Dragon Palace crisis.

• Ao Ying's dragons and sea creatures were trapped and frozen by the formation while Dragon Trapping Shuttles wounded Ao Ying.
• Ao Ying attacked the reef, forcing the hidden ambusher to reveal himself as Second Crown Prince Ao Yue.
• Ao Ying accused Ao Yue of plotting against him, and Ao Yue admitted he intended to kill him during the Calamity of Strange Insects.
• Ao Ying explained that he and Ao Beng had both refused to yield the West Sea Dragon Seat, and he realized Ao Yue had colluded with Ao Beng.
• Ao Yue said Ao Ying's refusal had sealed his fate, and Ao Ying asked whether Ao Yue remembered what he had said when Xiao Hua forced their father to open the Dragon Palace.

Ao Yue trapped Ao Ying in a Dragon Formation and attacked him with Bone Slaying Silk, but Ao Ying unleashed the Crimson Marquis Seal and turned the battle around. Jing Qing, the young master of the Sage River Dragon race, then struck Ao Ying with a Dragon Piercing Cone, while Ao Yue revealed he had anticipated the seal; another unforeseen change began.

• Ao Ying attacked Ao Yue, but Ao Yue revealed that he was using a Dragon Formation and Bone Slaying Silk to ensnare him.
• Ao Ying activated the Crimson Marquis Seal, burning away the formation’s threads and melting Lingbo Reef as Ao Yue tried to escape.
• A flaming Dragon Piercing Cone stabbed Ao Ying, draining his dragon aura and extinguishing the Crimson Marquis Seal’s flames.
• Jing Qing emerged from beneath the melted ice and declared that his position as the West Sea Dragon Palace’s consort had brought him into the fight.
• Ao Ying cursed Jing Qing and Ao Xuan, while Ao Yue said he had known the Crimson Marquis Seal was in Ao Ying’s hands; another change then arose.

Ao Xuan’s ambush killed Ao Yue and trapped Ao Ying with a genuine Dragon Piercing Cone, exposing her plan to claim the West Sea Dragon Seat with Jing Qing. As Sage River’s forces attacked, Jiang Hong appeared and confronted Ao Xuan.

• Ao Xuan revealed herself and Ao Ying explained that she had come to support him, leaving Ao Yue to realize he had been lured into an ambush.
• Ao Yue died after accusing Ao Ying of being a fool, while Ao Ying tried to remove the Dragon Piercing Cone from his body.
• The cone proved genuine and pinned Ao Ying to a reef; Ao Xuan explained that the Sage River Dragon Piercing Cones were a male-and-female pair.
• Ao Xuan declared that Ao Ying’s oath had become poison when the West Sea Dragon Seat was at stake, and Jing Qing claimed the brothers had died fighting an ambush by the Dongtian River Dragon race.
• As the Sage River forces attacked the West Sea forces, Jiang Hong appeared and challenged Ao Xuan’s attempt to blame her.

Jiang Hong and Ao Zhan confronted Ao Xuan and Jing Qing at Lingbo Reef, exposing their crimes and fighting them. Xiao Hua arrived with Princess Zixia, and his Mahayana pressure halted the battle as the dragons bowed to him.

• Jiang Hong forced Ao Xuan to admit she was the little loach, then questioned her about the leak to the North Sea Dragon Palace; Ao Xuan blamed Ao Ying, who died from the Dragon Piercing Cone.
• Ao Zhan arrived and accused Ao Xuan of plotting against her younger brothers and informing the North Sea Dragon Palace, then fought Jing Qing while Jiang Hong attacked Ao Xuan.
• Ao Xuan offered to help Jiang Hong seize the West Sea Dragon Palace throne and kill Ao Zhan, but Jiang Hong rejected her and struck Ao Xuan and Jing Qing.
• Jiang Hong summoned the Dongtian River dragons and ordered them to kill the opposing dragons, but Xiao Hua arrived with Princess Zixia aboard the Heavenly Steed Flying Carriage.
• Xiao Hua's Mahayana pressure subdued the dragons, and Jiang Hong, Ao Zhan, Ao Xuan, Jing Qing, and the gathered sea creatures bowed to him; Jiang Hong also greeted Princess Zixia.

Xiao Hua reunited with Jiang Hong in the West Sea, redirected her plans toward helping the Creation Sect establish influence there, and ordered the dragons to fight the World-Ending Mayflies. After the three-day battle, they continued to the West Sea Dragon Palace, where Dragon Island’s representative Ao Xu and East Sea’s Ao Xiang welcomed Xiao Hua.

• Jiang Hong explained that she had brought the Dongtian River Dragon race to the West Sea and offered to show Xiao Hua her plans for a Creation Sect base.
• Xiao Hua praised Jiang Hong for resisting Ao Xuan’s instigation, spared the Sage River dragons, and ordered Ao Xuan and Jing Qing escorted to the West Sea Dragon Palace.
• Xiao Hua revealed the World-Ending Mayflies as the greater threat and ordered Jiang Hong, Ao Xuan, and Jing Qing’s dragons to attack them.
• The dragons fought the mayflies for three days and nights, and Xiao Hua killed the last monster before urging them to unite against the larger crisis.
• Xiao Hua’s group reached the West Sea Dragon Palace, where secondary elder Ao Xu explained Dragon Island’s officials and East Sea Ao Xiang greeted Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua visited the West Sea Dragon Palace and revealed that Ao Ying and Ao Yue had been killed at Lingbo Reef, prompting an inquiry into the conflict. Ao Xu ordered the accused imprisoned and prepared a transmission passage for Xiao Hua to travel to Dragon Island.

• Xiao Hua greeted Ao Xiang and Ao Beng, then entered the West Sea Dragon Palace with Ao Xu and took the honored seat while wearing the Crimson Dragon Crown.
• Xiao Hua announced that Jiang Hong should bring Ao Xuan and Jing Qing into the hall under guard and present Ao Ying's and Ao Yue's corpses.
• Ao Beng mourned his brothers and sent a dragon general to summon the other Crown Princes, while Ao Xu and Ao Xiang agreed to oversee the inquiry.
• Ao Shun, Ao Bai, and Ao Yue's subordinates recounted the events at Lingbo Reef, and Ao Xuan admitted plotting with Ao Ying to kill Ao Yue.
• Jing Qing defended the Sage River's presence in the West Sea, and Ao Xu ordered Ao Xuan, Jing Qing, and the other accused imprisoned pending Dragon Island's decision.
• Ao Xu asked Xiao Hua to convey his opinion to the elders, then arranged a transmission passage for Xiao Hua's journey to Dragon Island.

Xiao Hua decided that Creation Sect would send Jiang Hong to guard the West Sea Dragon Palace and report threats to the sect. As Ao Xu prepared to arrange the journey to Dragon Island, True Person arrived, and Xiao Hua explained the decision to him.

• Xiao Hua argued that the unstable West Sea Dragon Palace endangered Creation Sect disciples and said the sect would take responsibility for securing its rear area.
• Xiao Hua appointed Jiang Hong to guard the West Sea Dragon Palace, and Jiang Hong told Ao Xiang that the decision was Creation Sect’s to make.
• Ao Xu agreed to relay the arrangement to Dragon Island and the East Sea Dragon Palace while explaining that the teleportation passage required approval.
• True Person arrived at the West Sea Dragon Palace, and his powerful Dragon might overwhelmed the gathered Dragons until Xiao Hua asked him to restrain it.
• True Person took the seat of honor, and Xiao Hua recounted the events that led him to send Jiang Hong to guard the palace.

Xiao Hua and True Person traveled from the West Sea Dragon Palace toward Dragon Island, where the dragons received them. Aboard the Dragon Ship, Xiao Hua told True Person that reaching the other realms required breaking an Immortal Realm grand formation, and True Person offered the Pangu Axe to help.

• Ao Xu gave True Person a Dragon Pouch containing a Blessed Land, and Jiang Hong left to assess it for the Creation Sect.
• Ao Xu activated the teleportation passage, and True Person and Xiao Hua traveled through it to a staging point near Dragon Island.
• The waiting dragons mistook True Person for Dragon Master Xiao until he withdrew his dragon might, then invited both visitors aboard the Dragon Ship.
• Xiao Hua and True Person boarded the Dragon Ship, which carried them toward Dragon Island while the two discussed events since Xiao Hua left the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range.
• Xiao Hua explained that an Immortal Realm grand formation separated the Four Great Continents, and True Person offered to split it with his Pangu Axe.

Xiao Hua and True Person discussed the World-Ending Mayflies and the danger they posed to the Three Great Continents, then arrived at Dragon Island, where the Nine Great Elders welcomed them. The chapter ended with Ao Jia asking whether True Person had come to take charge of the Dragon Palace.

• Xiao Hua and True Person considered how to find and break the immortal formation, and Xiao Hua insisted he had to seek a way to protect the Three Great Continents from the World-Ending Mayflies.
• True Person warned Xiao Hua that the mayflies’ destruction of reincarnation could change the Heaven and Earth Laws and make ascension impossible.
• A dragon announced that Dragon Island was near, and Xiao Hua and True Person left the Dragon Ship to meet the Nine Great Elders.
• True Person concealed his dragon might after Xiao Hua noticed that it was aggravating Ao Jia’s lingering injuries.
• Ao Jia and the other elders welcomed True Person and Xiao Hua, and Ao Jia praised their rise to power before asking if True Person meant to lead the Dragon Palace.

Xiao Hua warned Dragon Island’s elders that the World-Ending Mayflies could destroy all life across the Three Great Continents and the Three Rivers and Four Seas, and explained what would be needed to stop them. The elders had no records of the immortal formation, leaving Xiao Hua to seek answers elsewhere.

• Ao Jia and the elders mistook Xiao Hua’s visit for a dispute over Dragon Island, but Xiao Hua clarified that he had come to discuss the World-Ending Mayflies.
• Xiao Hua warned the elders that the Mayflies threatened every living being, prompting Ao Jia to invite him and True Person into the Dragon Palace.
• True Person declined a Dragon Pillar seat, and Xiao Hua supported restoring the Long Clan and giving Ao Zhan a nominal post that could lead to a place as Tenth Elder.
• Ao Jia proposed appointing Ao Zhan Supreme Commander of the Four Seas to lead the Long Clan against the Mayflies, and True Person supported the proposal.
• Xiao Hua explained the Mayflies’ origins, the immortal formation, and the need to connect the Four Great Continents and bring Xiaoyu Continent’s Exotic True Qi.
• Ao Jia said Dragon Island had no records of the immortal formation, while Xiao Hua urged the elders not to underestimate the Mayflies’ threat.

Xiao Hua learned that Dragon Island had no records about immortal formations and agreed to send True Person into the True Dragon Hall with Long Yu. He negotiated for Ao Zhan’s future place as the Tenth Elder, then stayed behind as Ao Jia began revealing what he had learned about the Dragon Clan members whose memories had been erased.

• Ao Jia confirmed Dragon Island had no records of immortal formations, while acknowledging that the Western Sea might conceal something and that Dragon Clan members had vanished there.
• The Elders proposed that True Person enter the unexamined True Dragon Hall using his Eleventh Clan bloodline and Long Yu as a token.
• Xiao Hua agreed to the plan and asked that Ao Zhan become the Tenth Elder; Ao Jia promised Ao Zhan could earn the position after the world-ending war if he gained merit and met the strength requirement.
• True Person agreed to enter the True Dragon Hall, and Ao Yi led the other Elders away to prepare its opening.
• Ao Jia thanked Xiao Hua for the Dragon Cleansing Liquid, explained why he had allowed Ao Sheng to rescue him, and began privately sharing what he had learned about the Dragon Clan members with erased memories.

Ao Jia discussed the dragons’ possible origins, abnormal transmission passages, and his suspicions about Xiao Hua and the True Person before revealing the True Dragon Hall. The True Person entered the hall with Dragon Yu, while Ao Sheng’s body was barred but his illusory dragon projection slipped inside.

• Ao Jia suggested the dragons might have come from the Great Sacred Hall and said World-Ending Mayflies had affected the Four Seas’ transmission passages, though the ruined Dragon Island passages could not be repaired.
• Ao Jia questioned whether the True Person was Xiao Hua’s incarnation, and Xiao Hua explained that the True Person and Xiao Bai had once been dragon souls coexisting within him before gaining bodies.
• Ao Jia led Xiao Hua and the True Person to the True Dragon Hall, where the elders waited, and Xiao Hua released the sleeping Ao Sheng from the Kunlun Mirror.
• Ao Sheng’s appearance triggered a powerful response across Dragon Island, and both Ao Sheng and the True Person sensed a summons from inside the hall.
• The True Person took Dragon Yu and entered the True Dragon Hall, but Ao Sheng’s body was blocked while his illusory dragon projection passed inside.

True Person entered the True Dragon Hall, learned the truth from its dragon image, and had most of his memories sealed until he grew stronger. He left with Xiao Hua for Thunder Sound Temple by way of the North Sea Dragon Palace, while Ao Jia prepared the Dragon Palace for the coming war.

• Ao Sheng and Ao Jia could not enter the True Dragon Hall at first, but True Person crossed into its inner realm and met a dragon image resembling Ao Sheng and the Dragon God Venerable.
• The dragon image revealed that True Person was too weak to act, sealed most of his memories, and told him to cultivate until he returned from the Myriad Dragon Abyss stronger.
• Ao Sheng entered the hall after its formation weakened, and dragon patterns awakened his Dragon God illusory projection as he fell asleep to cultivate.
• True Person told Ao Jia that Ao Sheng could reach the ninth grade of Yuan Force, then agreed to accompany Xiao Hua to Thunder Sound Temple to seek information about immortal formations.
• Ao Jia warned Xiao Hua about the dangers at Thunder Sound Temple, and Xiao Hua chose to go first to the North Sea Dragon Palace and notify the Golden-Winged Great Peng and the Heaven-Defying Thunder Phoenix.
• After Xiao Hua and True Person departed, Ao Jia ordered the elders to return to the Dragon Palace and prepare for the unavoidable war against the World-Ending Mayflies.

Xiao Hua and True Person left Dragon Island after learning that the True Dragon Hall held secrets tied to the Dragon God Venerable’s reincarnation, then sought information about the Immortal Array separating the Four Great Continents. The Great Sacred Hall had no records, so Xiao Hua prepared to continue to Thunder Sound Temple.

• Ao Yi and the others returned to the Dragon Ship to prepare for disaster while Xiao Hua and True Person hurried from the North Sea Dragon Palace toward the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons.
• True Person told Xiao Hua that the True Dragon Hall was a contingency for the Dragon God Venerable’s reincarnation, but its deeper secrets remained sealed until he ascended to the Dragon Realm.
• Xiao Hua and True Person concluded that the World-Ending Mayflies and the Immortal Array threatened the Three Great Continents, and Xiao Hua decided to seek records at Thunder Sound Temple.
• Xiao Hua brought Princess Zixia to Biqingyu and explained that Dragon Island held no information about the Immortal Array.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng and Feng Wu confirmed that the Great Sacred Hall had no records of the array, and Xiao Hua set out to search Thunder Sound Temple.

Feng Wu secretly set out to investigate the depths of the Great Sacred Hall as Xiao Hua brought Princess Zixia to the Pure Land and visited Little Linglong Temple. Xiao Hua began urging Maitreya Buddha World Honored One to unite the Buddhist factions against the World-Ending Mayflies, revealing that the insects came from the upper realm.

• Feng Wu decided to enter the dangerous depths of the Great Sacred Hall without telling Xiao Hua, while the Golden-Winged Great Peng agreed to oversee the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons.
• Xiao Hua brought Princess Zixia to the Pure Land near Great Snow Mountain and sent her into his space before flying to Little Linglong Temple.
• Xiao Hua met Maitreya Buddha World Honored One and Namo Great Practice Samantabhadra Bodhisattva at the temple’s Buddhist-light-filled dao field.
• Maitreya Buddha World Honored One confronted Xiao Hua over his concealed Buddhist identity and his conduct in Changsheng Town.
• Xiao Hua explained that he had come as Guanyin Bodhisattva to discuss the World-Ending Mayflies and warned that they had come from the upper realm.

Xiao Hua and Maitreya Buddha World Honored One traveled to Thunder Sound Temple to seek a way to destroy the World-Ending Mayflies, and the Buddhist assembly welcomed Xiao Hua as Guanyin Bodhisattva returned to her position. As Xiao Hua prepared to enter the Lotus Cleansing Pool and form a golden body, Maitreya Buddha World Honored One was startled by Xiao Hua’s existing physical body.

• Xiao Hua told Maitreya Buddha World Honored One that the Mayflies might have come from above the Immortal Realm and asked for help finding a way to destroy them.
• Maitreya Buddha World Honored One agreed to accompany Xiao Hua to Thunder Sound Temple, while Namo Great Practice Samantabhadra Bodhisattva stayed behind to discuss countermeasures.
• Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One and Rāgaratna Tathagata led the Buddhist assembly in welcoming Xiao Hua and Maitreya Buddha World Honored One to Thunder Sound Temple.
• Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One announced Guanyin Bodhisattva’s return, and the Pure Land’s faith power entered Xiao Hua’s body.
• Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One directed Xiao Hua to the Lotus Cleansing Pool to form a golden body, but Maitreya Buddha World Honored One noticed Xiao Hua already had a physical body.

Xiao Hua cleanses himself in the Lotus Cleansing Pool and manifests as a female Guanyin Bodhisattva, helping repair the Buddhist Sect’s public image and ease its grievance over Changsheng Town. After the ceremony, Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One begins questioning him about the temple’s Buddha light showing signs of revival.

• Rāgaratna Tathagata invites Xiao Hua to cleanse away the dust of his past life in the Lotus Cleansing Pool.
• Faith power and emerald water pour into Xiao Hua, strengthening the crystalline divine spark hidden behind his head as radiances repeatedly appear and vanish.
• Xiao Hua leaves the pool with a Nine-Ranked Lotus Platform and steps into Guanyin’s phantom, causing a female Bodhisattva image to appear throughout the Pure Land.
• Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One thanks Xiao Hua for separating Guanyin’s image from his Daoist appearance, and Xiao Hua explains that he meant to remedy his mistake in Changsheng Town.
• After the Buddhist disciples depart, Xiao Hua says he has three urgent questions, and Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One asks why the temple’s withered Buddha light began to revive when Xiao Hua arrived.

The Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One explained to Xiao Hua how Buddhist faith creates karmic weight that can threaten a Buddha’s golden body. He revealed that the karma of the Three Great Continents had been altered and had grown beyond what he could bear, leaving the cause of the change unresolved.

• Xiao Hua asked why half of the Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One’s Buddha light had vanished when Ananda killed Yuan Tongtian, and the Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One sealed the space to discuss the matter.
• Maitreya Buddha World Honored One and Rāgaratna Tathagata urged Xiao Hua to listen, explaining that the hidden circumstances could shake the foundations of the Buddhist Sect.
• The Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One explained that Buddhist faith came from believers whose karma Buddhist practitioners accepted, and that this karma formed Buddhist kingdoms on their golden bodies.
• The Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One said that karma and backlash increased a Buddhist kingdom’s weight until a practitioner’s golden body might collapse.
• The Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One revealed that imprisoning Yuan Tongtian and his death at Ananda’s hands intensified karma involving Xiao Hua, causing the World Honored One’s golden body to collapse.
• The Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One said he discovered that the karma of the Three Great Continents had been greatly altered and exceeded what his golden body could bear.