Chapter Summaries

Lin Shisan used the Little Black Cauldron to extract much of the death energy from the Purple Sky Dragon King's restriction, but the roots remained. After the Dragon King showed interest in the cauldron, Lin Shisan hid it and pretended to suffer a backlash, leaving the Dragon King’s treatment unfinished.

• Lin Shisan sensed that Mo Jiao had planted a vitality-devouring restriction inside the Purple Sky Dragon King and began stripping it away with the Little Black Cauldron.
• Lin Shisan extracted most of the restriction’s death energy, easing the Purple Sky Dragon King’s breathing, but warned that its roots remained.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King questioned Lin Shisan about the Little Black Cauldron and kept watching it with interest.
• Lin Shisan hid the cauldron and used Mo Jiao’s lingering aura to make himself appear to suffer a backlash.
• Bai Youyou supported Lin Shisan as he claimed the remaining restriction would require several more attempts to remove safely.

The Purple Sky Dragon King ordered the Dragon Scale Guards to test Lin Shisan, while Eldest Princess Zi Ning warned him that the former king would keep trying to kill him. Zi Ning offered Lin Shisan a marriage to Zi Yuner and a Dragon Lord’s position for protection, but he refused, leaving Bai Youyou to invite the exhausted Zi Yuner to drink until dawn.

• The Purple Sky Dragon King told the Dragon Scale Guards commander to test Lin Shisan secretly, and Lin Shisan told Bai Youyou he was gambling that the old king feared death more than he did.
• Zi Yuner took Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou to meet Eldest Princess Zi Ning, explaining that Mo Jiao had left secret orders for a patrol unit that she could not control.
• Zi Ning said she had stopped the patrol guards for the night and warned Lin Shisan that the Purple Sky Dragon King would continue to target him.
• Zi Ning offered to make Lin Shisan Zi Yuner’s Dragon Lord and husband, promising him status and protection while escorting Bai Youyou safely out of the Dragon Palace.
• Lin Shisan refused the offer and said he would stay only to treat the Purple Sky Dragon King, not to marry Zi Yuner or take a Dragon Palace position.
• Zi Yuner admitted that her father still controlled the Dragon Palace’s true authority, and Bai Youyou took her by the hand and proposed they drink until dawn.

Lin Shisan woke beside Zi Yuner after a drunken night and learned that Bai Youyou had left the Dragon Palace. As Zi Yuner promised to protect him and let him choose where to live, Lin Shisan was left holding Bai Youyou’s letter and pendant.

• Lin Shisan woke naked beside Zi Yuner and struggled to piece together his blurred memories of the night he, Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner had all been drinking.
• Zi Yuner told Lin Shisan they had done everything together willingly and gave him the letter Bai Youyou had left before dawn.
• Lin Shisan read Bai Youyou’s letter, in which she said she was returning to the Netherworld Palace, would visit his master, and was willing to step aside for him and Zi Yuner.
• Zi Yuner passed on Bai Youyou’s message that she would look after Long Yan'er and return if Lin Shisan ever mistreated Zi Yuner.
• Zi Yuner said she would not stop Lin Shisan from returning to land, but first she would secure real power and protect him from her royal father.
• Zi Yuner left for the day and asked Lin Shisan to wait for her to return for lunch, while he held Bai Youyou’s silver chain and scale pendant.

Zi Yuner sought Zi Gang’s help to stop her father from attacking Lin Shisan, warning that Lin was now her promised Dragon Lord and the only one who could remove the restriction inside him. Zi Gang agreed to oppose an attack until the former Dragon King recovered, while Lin Shisan received gifts from his future father-in-law and recognized the Cave-Heaven Magnetic Mountain’s powerful dragon spirit.

• Zi Yuner brought the Dragon Heart Jade to Dragon Snow Mountain and asked Zi Gang to persuade her father not to attack Lin Shisan.
• Zi Gang agreed that the Dragon Palace must protect its reputation and promised Dragon Snow Mountain would not support an attack while the former Dragon King recovered, though his private guards might still act.
• The Dragon Scale Guard commander delivered Lin Shisan jade bottles, the Cave-Heaven Magnetic Mountain, and a jade talisman granting him access to the former Dragon King’s bedchamber.
• Lin Shisan called himself the former Dragon King’s son-in-law, promised to treat him, and warned the commander about a hidden rat.
• After the commander left, Lin Shisan summoned the Cave-Heaven Magnetic Mountain and sensed its rich dragon spirit.

Lin Shisan used the grotto-heaven Magnetic Mountain to break through to the ninth meridian opening, advancing his Hornless Dragon True Spirit and three-star Dao Seed. Meanwhile, Bai Youyou returned to Zi Tianya's Prince's Residence through a collapsing Teleportation Array, but Black Wind's remnant soul perished and she lost consciousness.

• Lin Shisan cultivated with the grotto-heaven Magnetic Mountain, which drew spiritual energy toward him as the Hornless Dragon True Spirit devoured it.
• Lin Shisan broke through the barrier to his ninth meridian, becoming a Half-Step Great Expert.
• The Hornless Dragon True Spirit advanced, and its power raised Lin Shisan's Dao Seed to three stars.
• Bai Youyou activated the Teleportation Array a second time, forcing a return journey despite its instability and her injury.
• Black Wind's remnant soul shattered and vanished during the teleportation, telling Bai Youyou he was content to have been remembered.
• Bai Youyou emerged in the rear garden of Zi Tianya's Prince's Residence, collapsed on the paving stones, and sank into unconsciousness.

After Lin Shisan advanced to the ninth level, the Wordless Fragmentary Sutra revealed a few faint strokes linked to the dragon spirit within him. Zi Yuner protected him from political threats and offered to help him cultivate at Dragon Spirit Lake, leaving him considering another breakthrough.

• Zi Yuner visited Lin Shisan, confirmed his breakthrough, and offered to move him to safer quarters in the Dragon King Hall.
• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner visited Zi Ning, who prompted him to open the Wordless Fragmentary Sutra and watched new markings appear on its pages.
• Zi Ning explained that the scripture was connected to Lin Shisan's dragon spirit and revealed that Zi Yuner had sought the Grand Supreme Elder's help to protect him.
• Zi Ning warned Lin Shisan to advance cautiously and told him Zi Yuner had fallen for him and gone farther than he realized.
• Zi Yuner offered to help Lin Shisan gain access to Dragon Spirit Lake and explained that she had also asked the Grand Supreme Elder to restrain her father's private guards and delay dragon-vein access arrangements.

Lin Shisan treated the Purple Sky Dragon King’s Gu Poison and discovered that the old king’s life was still steadily fading. The Dragon King revealed his guilt over his daughter Zi Yuner’s lonely childhood and planned to retreat to Dragonback Mountain after securing her future.

• Lin Shisan used the Little Black Cauldron to draw more residual Gu Poison from the Purple Sky Dragon King, but sensed that the king’s life force was fundamentally depleted.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King told Lin Shisan that he had feared leaving Zi Yuner alone on the Dragon Throne without someone she could rely on.
• The Dragon King recounted bringing a human healer back to the palace, where she died amid resentment over their political marriage, leaving three-year-old Zi Yuner distant from him.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King explained that he killed Zi Tianya to clear Zi Yuner’s path and intended to choose someone reliable to protect her.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King said he would withdraw to remote Dragonback Mountain and spend his remaining days there without interfering in Zi Yuner’s life.

Lin Shisan learned that the Purple Sky Dragon King had risked his remaining life to test and secure a future for Zi Yuner, hoping Lin Shisan would protect her after he was gone. As Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner walked together, she explained that Dragonback Mountain was tied to an ancient legend of a father becoming a ridge to shield his son.

• The Purple Sky Dragon King told Lin Shisan that his attacks and schemes were meant to expose hidden threats and make Zi Yuner stronger, and that he wanted Lin Shisan to remain at her side after his death.
• Lin Shisan asked whether he could visit the Purple Sky Dragon King at Dragonback Mountain, and the king welcomed him as family.
• Lin Shisan left the bedchamber and walked with Zi Yuner, then asked what Dragonback Mountain was like.
• Zi Yuner recalled seeing her father at the mountain as a child and explained that he had said he could see the end of the sea from there.
• Zi Yuner told Lin Shisan the legend of Wish-Repayment Ridge, where an old dragon became a mountain to protect his son from heavenly punishment.
• Lin Shisan understood that the Purple Sky Dragon King had chosen Dragonback Mountain as his own final refuge, and Zi Yuner said she would let him go there if he wished.

Bai Youyou faced the Purple Sky Dragon King in the rear garden and tried to persuade him that killing her would damage Yun'er’s chances of winning Lin Shisan’s heart. He rejected her argument and unleashed an attack that crushed her cultivation and forced her to her knee.

• The Purple Sky Dragon King struck Bai Youyou down and said she should not have returned, while she insisted she only wanted to know whether Lin Shisan was well.
• Bai Youyou warned that killing her would leave Lin Shisan with lasting guilt, but the Purple Sky Dragon King accused her of trying to interfere in Yun'er’s relationship with him.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King formed a net of spiritual light and advanced as Bai Youyou tried to counter with her own spiritual power, which he easily destroyed.
• Bai Youyou awakened her last vitality and asked to die standing so Lin Shisan would know she had not disgraced him.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King unleashed a pillar of purple light that crushed Bai Youyou’s spiritual power, reduced her cultivation, and forced her onto one knee as her wound reopened.

Lin Shisan searched Zi Tianya's Prince's Residence for Bai Youyou but found no trace of her, and his unease remained. After he left, the Purple Sky Dragon King killed the commander of the Dragon Scale Guards for arranging the rain that had erased the garden's evidence.

• Lin Shisan felt a painful foreboding about Bai Youyou and hurried to Zi Tianya's Prince's Residence.
• Lin Shisan searched the rain-soaked rear garden but found no trace of Bai Youyou or evidence of what had happened.
• Lin Shisan questioned the Purple Sky Dragon King, who dismissed his concerns and told him to change out of his wet clothes.
• The commander of the Dragon Scale Guards admitted that he had arranged the rain to wash away every trace in the garden.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King killed the commander instantly to silence him.

Lin Shisan spent forty days sitting in stillness at the place where Bai Youyou had left a private mark, gradually cultivating the Dragon Breath Art and reaching the Yellow Dragon Realm. His breakthrough manifested as a Fortune Golden Dragon above the Dragon Palace, fulfilling the Purple Sky Dragon King's requirement for Zi Yuner's path into the Three Flowers Realm.

• Lin Shisan remained kneeling in the rear garden, studying signs that someone had disturbed a flagstone and finding silver powder on the nearby artificial mountain.
• Lin Shisan let the Dragon Breath Art circulate naturally, and over the following days his Taiji Wheel turned, his dragon true spirit awakened, and his dragon breath qi began flowing through his body.
• Lin Shisan discovered Bai Youyou's private mark on a flagstone and understood that she had visited and left willingly.
• Lin Shisan continued cultivating until the Taiji Wheel accelerated and his dragon breath qi nourished his bones, flesh, and meridians.
• Lin Shisan reached the Yellow Dragon Realm on the fortieth day, summoning a radiant Fortune Golden Dragon that illuminated the Purple Sky Dragon Palace.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King watched Lin Shisan's breakthrough with relief, while Eldest Princess Zi Ning asked whether he had waited forty days.

After breaking through to the Yellow Dragon Realm, Lin Shisan told the Purple Sky Dragon King he would remain as Dragon Lord if his three conditions were met. He chose to pursue his own future with Zi Yuner, leaving for the Dragon Vein Core before planning to visit her Bedchamber.

• Zi Yuner welcomed Lin Shisan after his breakthrough, and they went together to meet the Purple Sky Dragon King.
• Lin Shisan agreed to remain in the Dragon Palace as Dragon Lord if he received full access to the Dragon Vein Core, a discreet search for Bai Youyou, and a promise that the king would never tell Zi Yuner about the heavy rain.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King agreed to all three conditions and promised to consult the Grand Elders about the Dragon Vein Core.
• Lin Shisan told Zi Yuner he would choose his own direction, and she said she would choose with him.
• Lin Shisan held Zi Yuner's hand and said he would visit her Bedchamber after returning from the Dragon Vein and stabilizing his Yellow Dragon Dao Fruit; Zi Yuner blushed and nodded.

Lin Shisan used the dragon vein core to awaken twenty-three rune fragments in the Wordless Fragmentary Sutra, confirming that a sealed presence lay deeper within it. He then went with Zi Yuner to Wish-Repayment Ridge and told the Purple Sky Dragon King that he needed to return to the core.

• Zi Yuner opened the hidden entrance to the dragon vein and waited outside while Lin Shisan entered.
• Lin Shisan reached the dragon vein core and used its spiritual power to activate the Wordless Fragmentary Sutra.
• The hornless dragon true spirit helped Lin Shisan awaken twenty-three runes, while the dragon vein core strengthened his Yellow Dragon Realm foundation.
• Lin Shisan sensed a sealed presence behind a door deep within the sutra, but the runes stopped appearing before it opened.
• Lin Shisan found no sign of Bai Youyou in the dragon vein core and returned to Zi Yuner.
• Lin Shisan asked Zi Yuner to accompany him to Wish-Repayment Ridge, where he told the Purple Sky Dragon King that he needed to return to the dragon vein core.

Lin Shisan learned that Bai Youyou had left the Dragon Palace, and the Purple Sky Dragon King pressed him to marry Zi Yuner soon. Bai Youyou woke from her injuries and revealed that her Grand Grandmaster was a Human Race woman named Liu, stirring the Dragon King's memories of his long-lost wife.

• The Purple Sky Dragon King told Lin Shisan that Bai Youyou had left the Dragon Palace, then warned him to stop letting his heart stray from Zi Yuner.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King proposed arranging Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner's wedding after the month ended, and Zi Yuner silently agreed.
• Bai Youyou woke in the secret chamber and found that Dragon Breath Power had helped heal her injuries.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King asked Bai Youyou where she had learned A Thought, Flowers Bloom, and she said her Grand Grandmaster had taught it through her lineage.
• Bai Youyou described her Grand Grandmaster Liu as a Human Race woman who had waited for a Dragonfolk, and the Purple Sky Dragon King remembered his wife after five hundred years.

Bai Youyou asked the Purple Sky Dragon King about her great-grandmaster’s lost love, while Lin Shisan discovered that the Cave-Heaven Magnetic Mountain concealed a portable Teleportation Array. Lin Shisan continued cultivating as he planned to investigate where the array led, and Bai Youyou waited for her injuries to heal.

• Bai Youyou told the Purple Sky Dragon King that her great-grandmaster had asked whether the person she loved had ever regretted leaving, and the Dragon King withdrew in grief.
• Bai Youyou recalled why she had come to the Dragon Palace and began recovering with the dragon breath the Purple Sky Dragon King had given her.
• Lin Shisan examined the Cave-Heaven Magnetic Mountain and discovered a dormant miniature Teleportation Array connected to the Dragon Palace’s array system.
• Lin Shisan stopped probing the fragile array and planned to study it again when the Dragon Vein’s tide peaked in three days.
• Bai Youyou thought of Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner, then felt a sudden loneliness while watching the Old Purple Sky Dragon King.

Lin Shisan sensed Eldest Princess Zi Ning watching him through the Dragon Vein Core and concealed the Magnetic Mountain, while Zi Ning revealed her plan to use his dragon spirit as a catalyst to awaken the Core’s power and fuse it with her own. She ordered her guard to keep tracking him, convinced she could reclaim the power without killing him, as Zi Yuner waited for Lin Shisan to return.

• Lin Shisan noticed Zi Ning’s deep blue dragon-spirit aura reaching the Magnetic Mountain and hid its light behind the Wordless Fragmentary Sutra.
• Zi Ning watched Lin Shisan through a Recording Image Stone until his awareness disrupted the image and caused the stone wall’s patterns to flare.
• Zi Ning told herself she would reclaim Lin Shisan’s dragon spirit and use him to remove the obstacles to ruling the Purple Sky Dragon Palace.
• After Lin Shisan left the Dragon Vein Core, Zi Yuner waited for him outside the coral reef.
• A Dragon Scale Guard reported Lin Shisan’s actions to Zi Ning, who ordered continued surveillance and said the Old Dragon King had little time left.
• Zi Ning recalled that Lin Shisan was the catalyst needed to awaken the ancient power in the Dragon Vein Core and fuse the two dragon spirits, then thought of Zi Yuner waiting for him.

Zi Ning drained the Purple Sky Dragon King’s vitality to draw out the Dragon Pearl, while Lin Shisan told Zi Yuner he planned to leave through Magnetic Mountain’s Teleportation Array to find Hu Niu and Bai Youyou before returning. The chapter ended with Zi Yuner asking what would happen if the array sent him somewhere too far away to come back.

• Zi Ning confronted the Purple Sky Dragon King and revealed she wanted the Dragon Pearl to reach the ancient power within the dragon vein core and take control of the Purple Sky Dragon Palace.
• The Purple Sky Dragon King admitted he had anticipated Zi Ning’s plans and used Lin Shisan’s appointment as Dragon Lord to watch and draw her out.
• Zi Ning used copied restriction runes to drain the Purple Sky Dragon King’s vitality temporarily and began extracting the Dragon Pearl.
• Lin Shisan told Zi Yuner he had discovered the Teleportation Array hidden in Magnetic Mountain and planned to leave the next morning to find Hu Niu and Bai Youyou.
• Zi Yuner accepted that Lin Shisan intended to return as her Dragon Lord, then asked what he would do if the array sent him too far away to return.

Lin Shisan prepared to leave through the Dragon Vein Core’s Teleportation Array, but Eldest Princess Zi Ning appeared and demanded that he surrender the Dragon Spirit. Zi Ning restrained Zi Yuner and began counting down, leaving Lin Shisan facing the threat of losing the Dragon Spirit or watching Zi Yuner suffer.

• Zi Yuner gave Lin Shisan three Dragon Scale Fruits and urged him to return to the Dragon Palace after settling his debts.
• Lin Shisan activated the Teleportation Array at Magnetic Mountain as Zi Yuner watched from the entrance.
• Eldest Princess Zi Ning struck Magnetic Mountain, disrupted the array, and demanded that Lin Shisan hand over the Dragon Spirit.
• Zi Ning blocked Zi Yuner from reaching Lin Shisan, then threatened to kill them if he refused to surrender the Dragon Spirit.
• Zi Ning began a three-breath countdown while Zi Yuner urged Lin Shisan to escape through the Teleportation Array and leave her behind.

Lin Shisan surrendered the Dragon Spirit to Zi Ning, but she still tried to kill him. Zi Yuner burned her essence blood to free him and send him through the Teleportation Array, while Zi Ning struck at the array to stop his escape.

• Lin Shisan gave Zi Ning the Dragon Spirit, causing his cultivation to fall from the Yellow Dragon Realm to Ninth Meridian Opening.
• Zi Ning declared that she no longer needed Zi Yuner and sent a deep blue strike toward Lin Shisan.
• Zi Yuner burned her essence blood, broke Zi Ning's barrier, and shielded Lin Shisan from the strike.
• Zi Yuner reignited the Teleportation Array and sent Lin Shisan into its pillar of light, telling him to find his wives and remember her as his wife.
• Zi Ning attacked the Teleportation Array with a Hateful Strike, shattering its golden light around Lin Shisan as he was being pulled outward.

Lin Shisan survived Zi Ning’s destruction of the Teleportation Array and revealed that the hornless dragon true spirit inside him had been waiting to devour the dragon spirit she took. As the power restored his strength and raised his cultivation to the Yellow Dragon Realm, golden and five-colored lightning tribulations struck, catching both him and Zi Ning.

• Zi Ning destroyed the Teleportation Array and left Lin Shisan badly wounded in the rubble while Zi Yuner pleaded for his life.
• Lin Shisan asked Zi Ning about her lost human lover, and she described Jiang Lan, whom she had sheltered and waited for over two hundred years.
• The hornless dragon true spirit inside Lin Shisan devoured Zi Ning’s dragon spirit and sent its power into his body, healing him and advancing him to the Yellow Dragon Realm.
• A golden lightning tribulation struck Lin Shisan, and a stronger five-colored Five Qi Realm tribulation descended on Zi Ning as well.