Chapter Summaries

The Dragon-Sealing Lock at Prisoner Dragon Ridge activated after resonating with a dragon spirit of the same lineage as the imprisoned princess. As the Purple Sky Dragon King began investigating, Zi Tianya worried the disturbance could expose his own involvement and saw an opportunity to use the princess’s predicament.

• The Dragon Scale Guards and three Grand Elders arrived at Prisoner Dragon Ridge after the Dragon-Sealing Lock surged with power.
• Zi Gang determined that an internal resonance had activated the restrictions and suspected an outside source shared the imprisoned princess’s dragon-spirit lineage.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King ordered an investigation, noticed footprints leading toward the Princess's Residence, and asked whether Yun'er had left that night.
• Zi Tianya learned that the princess had gone out and later claimed she had discovered and reported the disturbance first.
• Zi Tianya decided to wait for the investigation to pressure his niece, then help her when she could no longer manage alone.

While Zi Yuner faced questioning in the main hall over the Prisoner Dragon Ridge disturbance, Lin Shisan cultivated in the Princess’s Residence and advanced his Dao Seed from one star to two. He strengthened his Divine Sense and Chaos Space, then waited as the inquiry continued ahead of the Dragon Saliva Festival.

• Zi Tianya planned to use the Prisoner Dragon Ridge disturbance and Zi Yuner’s secret actions to undermine her before the Four Seas Dragon Clan and claim the Dragon King Position.
• Lin Shisan heard the Dragon Bell and worried about Zi Yuner, but decided that raising his cultivation was the only way he could help.
• The blue energy within Lin Shisan’s Hornless Dragon True Spirit accelerated his Taiji Wheel and formed a second Star Pattern, advancing his Dao Seed to two stars.
• Lin Shisan’s Divine Sense expanded, his body grew stronger, and he found that his connection to the Little Black Cauldron and Chaos Space had improved.
• Lin Shisan heard the Dragon King, a Grand Elder, and another voice speaking in the main hall, suspected Zi Tianya was present, and awaited the inquiry’s outcome before the prince consort ceremony.

Bai Youyou repaired the Underground River Teleportation Array and left for a one-way journey after bidding farewell to the sleeping residents of Little Fishing Village. In the Purple Sky Dragon Palace, Lin Shisan advanced to the seventh stage of Meridian Opening, while Zi Yuner returned injured just before an assassin’s dagger flew at her.

• Bai Youyou completed the Teleportation Array after three days and two nights of work, despite her exhaustion and the Python Demon's warning that it had energy for only one trip.
• Bai Youyou watched over the Old Zhou Household from outside, listened to Little Stone dream about catching Dragon Crabs with Lin Shisan, then returned to the Blackwater River without looking back.
• Bai Youyou activated the repaired array and disappeared in a burst of purple light.
• Lin Shisan broke through to the seventh stage of Meridian Opening while cultivating the Nine Heavens True Dragon Art.
• Zi Yuner returned to Lin Shisan's courtyard with a shoulder wound and said the incident at Prisoner Dragon Ridge had been suppressed.
• A black dagger flew through the courtyard gate, missed Zi Yuner's ear, and lodged in the wooden door.

Lin Shisan stopped three masked attackers from planting evidence in the inner room and killed them with the Taiji Seal. As Dragon Scale Guards rushed toward the courtyard, Zi Yuner told him to move the bodies inside and said she would handle the rest.

• Three masked attackers entered the courtyard, targeting Zi Yuner, Lin Shisan, and the inner room to frame them for the disturbance at Prisoner Dragon Ridge.
• Lin Shisan struck down the attacker heading for the inner room with the Taiji Seal.
• Lin Shisan used the Chaos Space to slow Zi Yuner’s opponent and killed him with another Taiji Seal strike.
• Lin Shisan cornered and killed the final attacker with a blow to the chest.
• Zi Yuner asked what combat skill Lin Shisan had used, and he named the Taiji Seal.
• As Dragon Scale Guards hurried toward the courtyard, Zi Yuner told Lin Shisan to drag the bodies inside and said she would handle everything.

At the Dragon Saliva Festival, the Purple Sky Dragon King announced that Zi Yuner would become Dao Companions with Lin Shisan and named him prince consort. Zi Tianya and three Grand Elders challenged the decision and called for Lin Shisan’s death, while a stern-faced Second Elder stepped forward, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner dressed in ceremonial robes and went to the altar before the Four Seas Dragon Clan and the Purple Sky Dragon Palace.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King announced Zi Yuner’s union with Lin Shisan and declared that Lin Shisan would become prince consort.
• Zi Tianya objected, questioning Lin Shisan’s origins and the Dragon Spirit aura the king said he possessed.
• Zi Gang and two other Grand Elders backed Zi Tianya’s challenge, and the Third Elder of the Restriction Hall demanded that Lin Shisan be killed and his Dragon Spirit taken.
• Zi Yuner gripped her sword while Lin Shisan remained composed on the altar.
• The stern-faced Second Elder stepped forward, told the Third Elder he was being too hasty, and studied Lin Shisan.

Zi Ning emerged from her imprisonment and accused the Purple Sky Dragon King of fearing her claim to the Dragon Palace’s power. She revealed that Lin Shisan carried the dragon spirit that had split from her, then declared she would take it and reclaim the throne.

• The Second Elder began drawing out Lin Shisan’s dragon spirit aura to test its compatibility with the Dragon Palace’s dragon vein.
• Zi Ning emerged from a hidden doorway beneath the Altar, shocking the Purple Sky Dragon King, Zi Yuner, and the assembled envoys.
• Zi Ning told the Purple Sky Dragon King that he had imprisoned her for 272 years because he feared her power and access to the dragon vein core.
• Zi Ning revealed that Lin Shisan’s dragon spirit had split from her and explained that she had secretly guided Zi Yuner to bring him to Prisoner Dragon Ridge.
• Zi Ning declared that she would strip Lin Shisan’s dragon spirit, merge it with her own, control the Palace’s core restriction, and take the Purple Sky Dragon King’s seat.

Eldest Princess Zi Ning confronted the Purple Sky Dragon King over her imprisonment and demanded the return of what she was owed, while claiming Lin Shisan’s Dragon Spirit as hers. Zi Yuner defended Lin Shisan, and Zi Ning ended the chapter declaring that the Dragon Palace would either belong to her or be destroyed.

• Zi Ning revealed that years spent imprisoned had let her carve the Dragon-Sealing Lock’s core runes into her bones, and challenged the Purple Sky Dragon King over why he had feared her.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King declared that anyone who harmed Lin Shisan would die, while Zi Ning recalled his promise that imprisoning her had been for her own good.
• Zi Ning said Lin Shisan’s Dragon Spirit had passed through many masters and offered to remove it and his Karmic Fire while sparing his life; Lin Shisan refused, saying the Spirit had become part of him.
• Zi Yuner stepped in front of Lin Shisan and vowed to fight Zi Ning rather than let her destroy his Dao Foundation, and Lin Shisan stood beside her.
• Zi Ning rejected the Purple Sky Dragon King’s attempt to mention the man she had loved and demanded that the Dragon Palace return what she was owed or be destroyed.

Zi Tianya proposed that the Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning settle their conflict on the Dragon Palace’s Life-and-Death Platform, and they began their life-or-death duel. After the Purple Sky Dragon King gained the upper hand, Zi Ning prepared a powerful strike with a brief signal from Zi Tianya.

• Zi Tianya persuaded the three Grand Elders to open the Life-and-Death Platform, and the Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning agreed to fight there.
• Zi Yuner watched from the crowd with Lin Shisan as Zi Ning and the Purple Sky Dragon King faced off on the platform.
• Zi Ning accused her elder brother of imprisoning her out of fear that she would take his throne, while he said he had acted to protect her from sacrificing her life for a mortal.
• Zi Ning attacked with her purple wings, but the Purple Sky Dragon King shattered her ice and struck her shield, injuring her and killing several Dragon Scale Guards with the shock wave.
• Zi Ning exchanged a brief glance with Zi Tianya, then spread her wing as the Life-and-Death Platform’s runes blazed and a pillar of light pierced the Dragon Palace’s barrier.

Zi Ning and the Purple Sky Dragon King fought to a standstill before Zi Tianya interrupted their battle and revealed that he had captured Bai Youyou. Lin Shisan recognized his wife, stunned that she had returned after being teleported away.

• Zi Ning wounded the Purple Sky Dragon King with a powerful strike, nearly exhausting her strength.
• Zi Tianya secretly arranged for Bai Youyou, who had been captured after teleporting to his residence, to be held in a side hall.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning clashed with their lineage techniques until Zi Ning declared that she had finished her strike, and he stopped fighting.
• Zi Tianya stepped forward, crushed a Jade Talisman, and had Bai Youyou brought into view beside the Life-and-Death Platform.
• Lin Shisan recognized Bai Youyou and wondered how she had returned when he believed she had been sent back to Little Fishing Village.

Lin Shisan handed the Hornless Dragon True Spirit to Zi Tianya to secure Bai Youyou’s release, but secretly used it to drain Zi Tianya’s power. Zi Yuner struck while Zi Tianya was vulnerable, and the Dragon Spirit returned to Lin Shisan as his strength recovered.

• Zi Tianya swore on his Dragon Clan bloodline that he would release Bai Youyou if Lin Shisan surrendered the Dragon Spirit, and Lin Shisan agreed.
• The Second Elder secretly reinforced the Life-and-Death Platform’s barrier, trapping the Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning inside for a quarter of an hour.
• Lin Shisan drew the Hornless Dragon True Spirit from his body, and Zi Tianya seized it and began devouring its power.
• The Dragon Spirit secretly absorbed Zi Tianya’s dragon breath and sent the power back to Lin Shisan through their connection.
• Zi Yuner stabbed Zi Tianya through the back and activated a Spirit-Locking Seal, stopping his Spiritual Power.
• The Dragon Spirit swallowed Zi Tianya’s remaining dragon breath, returned to Lin Shisan, and restored his strength.

Zi Yuner revealed how she and Lin Shisan uncovered Zi Tianya’s coup, while the Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning reconciled after learning the truth about their long separation. Zi Tianya was captured, but his taunts about the Dragon King Position and the forbidden land left the succession unresolved.

• Zi Yuner explained that a Python Demon’s surviving soul had exposed Zi Tianya’s secret plans, and that the Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning had known about them before their fight on the Life-and-Death Platform.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King and Zi Ning emerged reconciled, and he told her he had imprisoned her on Prisoner Dragon Ridge to protect her from Zi Tianya.
• Zi Tianya accused the Purple Sky Dragon King of coveting the throne and warned that Zi Yuner could not secure the Dragon King Position.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King seized Zi Tianya and threatened to kill him, but hesitated when Zi Tianya taunted him about failing to enter the forbidden land’s center.
• Mo Jiao knocked Zi Tianya unconscious, ordered the guards to seize his followers, and said he had raided Zi Tianya’s Dragon Residence.

Lin Shisan advanced from the Sixth to the Eighth Stage of Meridian Opening after the Purple Sky Dragon Palace barrier approved him, then Zi Ning removed the Heartlock that Xue Yaotian had planted in him. The Purple Sky Dragon King offered Lin Shisan a Dragon Clan Identity if he agreed to stay in the Dragon Palace.

• The Hornless Dragon True Spirit returned Dragon Breath Qi to Lin Shisan, and the Dragon Palace barrier's golden light helped him advance two stages to the Eighth Stage of Meridian Opening.
• The Heartlock activated and began eroding Lin Shisan's Divine Sense, leaving him in agony as Zi Yuner and the Purple Sky Dragon King prepared to intervene.
• Zi Ning pressed her palm to Lin Shisan's forehead and extracted the Heartlock, exhausting herself and causing Xue Yaotian to suffer a backlash at Jade Maiden Peak.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King praised Lin Shisan for separating and recovering his Dragon Spirit and offered him a Dragon Clan Identity if he stayed in the Dragon Palace.

Lin Shisan refused the Purple Sky Dragon King’s offer of Dragon Clan Identity so he could return to land, but accepted a Dragon Scale Token from Zi Yuner. As he and Bai Youyou left the Dragon Palace early, a Merfolk maid delivered him a Jade Box from the Eldest Princess, which he was told to open after leaving.

• Lin Shisan thanked the Purple Sky Dragon King but declined to stay in the Dragon Palace, and the king let him leave while reserving his Dragon Clan Identity for him.
• Zi Yuner gave Lin Shisan a Dragon Scale Token and said he need not come say goodbye before departing; Bai Youyou teased him about upsetting the princess and spoke with him about their relationship.
• Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou left the Dragon Saliva Festival gathering early, joking about how he would explain their marriage to his master and Feng Xian'er.
• A Merfolk maid caught up with Lin Shisan and delivered a sealed Jade Box from the Eldest Princess, instructing him to open it only after leaving the Dragon Palace.

Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou decided to stay another day in the Dragon Palace so Bai Youyou could explore it, and her curiosity brought out a softer side of her. As they browsed the palace and a merfolk market, Lin Shisan reflected on her unhappy childhood and his own happier one.

• Bai Youyou accused Lin Shisan of collecting romantic debts, then stopped to admire moon-white coral in the Dragon Palace corridor.
• Bai Youyou asked to stay another day and explore the Dragon Palace, and Lin Shisan readily agreed.
• Bai Youyou excitedly examined the Dragon Palace’s dragon carvings while Lin Shisan followed and listened.
• Bai Youyou visited an elderly merfolk woman’s stall, learned about coral beads, and bought pink and pale blue ones.
• Bai Youyou told Lin Shisan she had been unable to browse markets when her master was with her, prompting him to think of her difficult childhood and his father, Lin Qinghan.

Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou explored the Purple Sky Dragon Palace before using the Dragon Scale Token to enter its Library Pavilion. Guided by his hornless dragon true spirit, Lin Shisan found a blank scroll, and Eldest Princess Zi Ning revealed that it had been returned to its rightful owner.

• Bai Youyou enjoyed playing with little merfolk and listening to Wind-Chime Coral as she reflected on how far she had come from her sheltered childhood.
• Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou decided to visit the Library Pavilion and entered after the old man recognized Lin Shisan's Dragon Scale Token.
• Lin Shisan followed the hornless dragon true spirit's pull to a worn, unmarked scroll in a dim corner of the pavilion.
• Lin Shisan opened the scroll and found its pages entirely blank, then stored the Wordless Fragmentary Sutra in his Storage Ring.
• Eldest Princess Zi Ning arrived, and Lin Shisan asked about the scroll; Zi Ning said it had been left by its previous owner and returned to its rightful owner.

Eldest Princess Zi Ning brought Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou to a hidden chamber to study the Wordless Fragmentary Sutra, which she said shared an origin with Lin Shisan’s Hornless Dragon True Spirit. As Lin Shisan began to sense faint patterns in the sutra, Zi Ning waited outside, wondering whether he would succeed where another man had once tried.

• Zi Ning led Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou through a secluded passage to a chamber filled with spiritual energy and gave Lin Shisan ten days to study the sutra.
• Zi Ning invited Bai Youyou to remain and cultivate in the chamber while Lin Shisan studied.
• Lin Shisan awakened the Hornless Dragon True Spirit and sensed faint silver patterns on the sutra’s otherwise blank pages, but could not decipher them.
• After struggling for hours, Lin Shisan tried letting the Dragon Spirit perceive the sutra directly, making the patterns slightly clearer.
• Zi Ning waited outside the chamber and sensed the sutra’s aura faintly mingling with the Dragon Spirit’s, recalling a man who had once opened the fragmentary sutra.

Lin Shisan failed to comprehend the Wordless Fragmentary Sutra after ten days, while Bai Youyou broke through to the Yellow Dragon Realm. They left the Dragon Palace to avoid Zi Yuner’s coronation, but the Teleportation Array began to behave strangely as they activated it.

• Eldest Princess Zi Ning and the Purple Sky Dragon King waited outside the Stone Chamber while Lin Shisan tried to awaken a response from the Wordless Fragmentary Sutra.
• Bai Youyou woke after reaching the Yellow Dragon Realm, having advanced from ninth meridian opening during her time in the Stone Chamber.
• Lin Shisan left the Stone Chamber empty-handed, and Zi Ning told him to keep the Wordless Fragmentary Sutra and invited him to Zi Yuner’s coronation.
• Lin Shisan declined the invitation and asked to leave immediately, so Zi Ning arranged the Teleportation Array in the eastern Side Hall.
• Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou activated the array, but Lin Shisan felt an unusual tremor and sensed that the teleportation was going wrong.

Lin Shisan, Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner were trapped in a sealed chamber by Mo Jiao, who revealed his revenge plot against the Purple Sky Dragon Palace and exposed them to Yin-Yang Union Powder. The chapter ended with Mo Jiao threatening Bai Youyou’s life while Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner faced a four-hour deadline.

• Lin Shisan woke in a sealed bridal chamber with restrained Bai Youyou and Zi Yuner, and learned Bai Youyou’s chain was linked to the chamber’s restrictions.
• Mo Jiao appeared in the ceiling’s luminous pearl and revealed that Zi Tianya was his son, born from a past relationship with Zi Yuner’s great-grandmother.
• Mo Jiao said Zi Yuner’s father had only days to live and planned to disqualify her from becoming Dragon King by projecting images of her with Lin Shisan.
• Lin Shisan failed to break through the chamber’s Dragon-Sealing Restrictions and realized that Yin-Yang Union Powder was entering his body and Zi Yuner’s.
• Mo Jiao explained that he sought to plunge the Purple Sky Dragon Palace into chaos and use a child of Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner as a pawn.
• Mo Jiao gave Lin Shisan four hours and threatened to strangle Bai Youyou if he did not get the result he wanted.

Lin Shisan pretended to succumb to the Yin-Yang Union Powder while the Little Black Cauldron slowly purified him, waiting for Mo Jiao to lower his guard. After Zi Yuner lured Mo Jiao into the chamber, Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner freed Bai Youyou and destroyed Mo Jiao, leaving him dead with his soul obliterated.

• Lin Shisan secretly used the Little Black Cauldron to purify the drug while pretending it had overcome him, and Zi Yuner and Bai Youyou played along.
• Zi Yuner urged Mo Jiao to come into the chamber and see the moment for himself, prompting his true body to descend.
• Lin Shisan activated Chaos Space as Mo Jiao landed, slowing him while Zi Yuner cut the silver chain binding Bai Youyou with the Golden Rune Dagger.
• Lin Shisan struck Mo Jiao with the Little Black Cauldron, fracturing his body and drawing his fragments and Divine Sense into the cauldron.

Lin Shisan used Mo Jiao’s memories to find the Purple Sky Dragon King, who was trapped and dying in the Dragon Palace’s earth vein. With Zi Yuner hoping the Little Black Cauldron could remove the poison consuming her father, Lin Shisan agreed to try, though he warned that success and the cost were uncertain.

• Mo Jiao’s Divine Sense fragments showed Lin Shisan that Mo Jiao had sealed the Purple Sky Dragon King away from spiritual energy, leaving him near death.
• Lin Shisan led Zi Yuner and Bai Youyou through a hidden passage to the chamber deep in the earth vein.
• Zi Yuner reunited with her dying father, and the Purple Sky Dragon King learned that Mo Jiao had been killed by Lin Shisan’s Little Black Cauldron.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King gave Zi Yuner advice about ruling the Dragon Palace and visiting her Third Aunt.
• Zi Yuner silently asked Lin Shisan to use the Little Black Cauldron to remove her father’s poison, and Lin Shisan agreed to try with no guarantee of success or safety.