Chapter Summaries

Eldest Princess Zi Ning’s body was destroyed by the Five-Colored Lightning Tribulation, leaving her spirit exposed to another strike. The Old Purple Sky Dragon King intervened to shield her, and his own body was destroyed as he continued to protect her with his spirit.

• The Five-Colored Lightning Tribulation shattered Zi Ning’s defenses and body, leaving only her fragile spirit.
• Zi Yuner watched Zi Ning’s body perish and wept for her aunt, despite their conflict.
• The lightning continued gathering for another strike, and Zi Ning accepted that she could not escape her fate.
• The Old Purple Sky Dragon King appeared before Zi Ning’s spirit and said he would repay what he owed her.
• The fourth lightning pillar struck the Old Purple Sky Dragon King, destroying his body while his dragon-shaped spirit remained to shield Zi Ning.

The Old Purple Sky Dragon King used Zi Ning’s blood essence to restore her body, then died as she advanced to the peak of the Three Flowers Realm. Lin Shisan comforted Zi Yuner and confirmed that the Dragon King had expected this outcome.

• The dying Purple Sky Dragon King told Zi Ning why he had imprisoned her and revealed that he had kept a drop of her blood essence to rebuild her body.
• Zi Yuner found the jade talisman containing Zi Ning’s blood essence in the brocade pouch and showed it to Zi Ning.
• The blood essence and the Dragon King’s fading spirit restored Zi Ning’s physical body as Nine-Colored Radiance appeared over the Dragon Palace.
• Zi Ning advanced to the peak of the Three Flowers Realm, and the Purple Sky Dragon King’s spirit body shattered and disappeared.
• Lin Shisan comforted the sobbing Zi Yuner, who asked whether her father had known he would die; Lin Shisan said he had expected it.

After the Purple Sky Dragon King’s death, Zi Ning promised to remain and help Zi Yuner rule the Dragon Palace. Lin Shisan followed the king’s letter to a secret chamber, found Bai Youyou, and told her he had already chosen to stay with her while keeping his promise to Zi Yuner.

• Zi Ning read the Purple Sky Dragon King’s letter and vowed to stay beside Zi Yuner and help her govern the Dragon Palace.
• Lin Shisan gave Zi Yuner the letter bearing the succession seal, then read his own letter and learned to search a secret chamber for Bai Youyou.
• Lin Shisan followed the hidden directions and found Bai Youyou waiting on a Cold Jade Platform; they reunited in tears.
• Bai Youyou worried over Lin Shisan’s injury, and he explained that the Purple Sky Dragon King had fallen after sacrificing himself at the Dragon Vein Core.
• Bai Youyou asked whether Lin Shisan had chosen between her and Zi Yuner, and Lin Shisan said he had made his choice long ago.

Zi Ning consolidated her authority in the Purple Sky Dragon Palace, while Lin Shisan and Bai Youyou prepared to leave. At Wish-Repayment Ridge, they honored the Purple Sky Dragon King’s connection to Bai Youyou’s great-grandmother and activated the Mobile Teleportation Formation.

• Zi Ning ordered the Three Grand Attendants to guard the Dragon Vein Core in turns and questioned Dragon Palace leaders, causing her opponents to back down.
• Zi Yuner reflected on how Zi Ning had eased the burden of ruling and gave Lin Shisan three Dragon Scale Fruits for the journey.
• Bai Youyou and Lin Shisan left the Stone Chamber, and Zi Yuner said goodbye to them beneath the covered walkway.
• Lin Shisan found the Purple Sky Dragon King’s seashell for Liu Niang beneath the dead coral tree and returned it to its hiding place after Bai Youyou explained its history.
• Lin Shisan activated the Cave-Heaven Magnetic Mountain, revealing the complete Mobile Teleportation Formation, which Bai Youyou recognized as the Purple Sky Dragon King’s dowry for Zi Yuner.

Lin Shisan tried to escape through the Teleportation Array with Bai Youyou, but Zi Ning attacked and wounded Zi Yuner. The three fled through the distorted passage, while Zi Ning’s final strike injured them before the array closed and the Little Black Cauldron began devouring her spiritual power.

• Lin Shisan activated the Teleportation Array on Magnetic Mountain and prepared to leave with Bai Youyou.
• Zi Ning arrived with her Whirlwind Blade, and Zi Yuner was wounded while warning Lin Shisan to escape.
• Zi Ning suppressed the array, but Lin Shisan left it to bring Zi Yuner back and pulled both women toward the passage.
• Zi Ning severed the pillar of light, and Lin Shisan used the Little Black Cauldron to block her next strike as the passage twisted.
• The array transported Lin Shisan, Zi Yuner, and Bai Youyou, but Zi Ning’s dragon-claw phantom injured all three before the light closed.
• The Little Black Cauldron activated its Devouring Divine Ability and absorbed Zi Ning’s spiritual power, leaving her astonished by its ability.

Zi Yuner asked Zi Ning to lower her cultivation so she could leave the Dragon Palace and find Lin Shisan, while Zi Ning took temporary control of the Dragon King position. Lin Shisan, Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner were stranded in a sealed wilderness after Zi Ning’s attack and began surviving together while searching for a way out.

• Zi Yuner gave Zi Ning the Dragon King's Succession Scroll and asked her to reduce her cultivation so she could leave the Dragon Palace without triggering the bloodline curse.
• Zi Ning lowered Zi Yuner's cultivation to the early Sky Soaring Realm, then privately told her something before she left.
• Zi Ning assumed the Dragon King position and told the elders and attendants that her enthronement ceremony would take place after the Dragon Palace's affairs were settled.
• Lin Shisan, Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner were teleported into a sealed wilderness, where Bai Youyou treated their injuries and they found shelter beneath a cliff.
• Lin Shisan discovered that the barrier had sealed Magnetic Mountain's formation core, and the three began searching for food while waiting for a way out.

Lin Shisan, Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner spent another day living together in the isolated Secret Realm, where a mysterious pool sustained their cultivation. As the barrier overhead continued to thin, Lin Shisan believed they might soon escape, though Magnetic Mountain’s teleportation array remained inactive.

• Lin Shisan tested Magnetic Mountain with Dragon Breath, but it still failed to respond.
• Bai Youyou woke Zi Yuner and joined Lin Shisan by the stream to catch and roast fish.
• The three shared their meal and noticed that the barrier overhead had grown thinner, with golden light filtering through.
• Lin Shisan said they might escape within a few days, while Bai Youyou wondered if another Secret Realm lay beyond the barrier.
• Zi Yuner rested her head on Lin Shisan’s shoulder as they sat beneath the tree.

Lin Shisan, Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner discovered that the Little Black Cauldron could open a hidden passage in the cliff and traveled through it to the Ancient Lightning Pool. There, they found Xiao Han alive and undergoing a transformation, and Lin Shisan faced his old enemy again.

• Bai Youyou and Zi Yuner rested beside Lin Shisan as he noticed a strange patch of rock on the cliff.
• Lin Shisan’s Little Black Cauldron reacted to the cliff, revealing matching markings and opening a golden teleportation passage.
• Lin Shisan, Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner entered the passage and arrived at the Ancient Lightning Pool.
• Lin Shisan recognized Xiao Han sitting unharmed at the center of the Thunder Sea, despite having devoured him with the Starry Sky Vortex.
• Xiao Han emerged from the Thunder Sea with a reconstructed body, and Lin Shisan stepped forward to shield Bai Youyou and Zi Yuner.

Lin Shisan fought Xiao Han at the Ancient Lightning Pool and discovered that a fragment of Ning Jiuyou’s divine sense had restored and inhabited Xiao Han’s body. As Xiao Han’s power grew unstable, Lin Shisan continued testing his abilities under pressure.

• Xiao Han revealed that the Thunder Pool had awakened his dormant Thunder Seed and challenged Lin Shisan, while Bai Youyou persuaded Zi Yuner to let Lin Shisan fight first.
• Xiao Han attacked with lightning needles and three Thunder Python Strangulation pythons, but Lin Shisan countered with the Seven Star Step, Taiji Seal, Dragon Scale Phantom, and Hornless Dragon True Spirit.
• Lin Shisan recognized Ning Jiuyou’s aura within Xiao Han, and Bai Youyou and Zi Yuner confirmed the presence of demonic qi and an outside force parasitizing him.
• Lin Shisan deduced that Ning Jiuyou’s divine-sense fragment had rebuilt Xiao Han’s shattered body and intended to use him as a vessel, provoking Xiao Han into a furious lightning assault.
• Lin Shisan used Xiao Han’s attacks to test his Yellow Dragon Third Layer and refine his techniques as Xiao Han struggled to suppress the unstable fragment within him.

Ning Jiuyou took over Xiao Han’s body and fought Lin Shisan at the edge of the Thunder Pool, steadily increasing his strength. The chapter ended with Lin Shisan using the Hornless Dragon True Spirit’s scale armor to brace for Ning Jiuyou’s second giant-claw attack.

• Ning Jiuyou emerged through Xiao Han’s body, devoured Xiao Han’s remaining consciousness, and transformed as his cultivation rose to Yellow Dragon third layer.
• Lin Shisan traded attacks with Ning Jiuyou, breaking his dark gray energy ball and striking him with a Taiji Seal.
• Ning Jiuyou reached Yellow Dragon fourth layer and attacked with corrosive tentacles, but Lin Shisan escaped their grasp and blocked a blade strike with a scale shield.
• Angered by Lin Shisan’s taunts, Ning Jiuyou stopped suppressing Xiao Han’s Thunder Seed and rose to Yellow Dragon fifth layer.
• Ning Jiuyou attacked Lin Shisan with enormous dark gray claws, and Lin Shisan formed scale armor to withstand the second strike.

Lin Shisan used Ning Jiuyou’s escalating attacks to sharpen his fighting ability and endured a strike from Ning at the Yellow Dragon sixth layer. Ning drained lightning from the Thunder Pool to reach the eighth layer, but Zi Yuner revealed her mid-stage Sky Soaring strength, destroyed Xiao Han’s body, and left Ning Jiuyou’s remnant soul alive at Shisan’s request.

• Bai Youyou told Zi Yuner that Lin Shisan was using Ning Jiuyou as a whetstone while secretly improving his responses.
• Lin Shisan blocked Ning Jiuyou’s sixth-layer attack head-on and taunted him for falling short.
• Ning Jiuyou used the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art to absorb Thunder Pool lightning and force his cultivation up to the Yellow Dragon eighth layer.
• Zi Yuner casually shattered Ning Jiuyou’s attack, then approached him and revealed her mid-stage Sky Soaring cultivation.
• Zi Yuner destroyed Xiao Han’s body with a slap, leaving Ning Jiuyou’s remnant soul intact because Lin Shisan had chosen to spare it.
• Bai Youyou told Ning Jiuyou that he had served as a whetstone for Lin Shisan and pointed out that Zi Yuner was the one who could truly kill him.

Lin Shisan used the Little Black Cauldron to devour Ning Jiuyou’s self-detonating remnant soul and discovered it had purified the energy into spirit liquid. The group then found the Xiao Household’s hidden Teleportation Array and prepared to use it to return toward the Danyang Sect.

• Ning Jiuyou tried to take Zi Yuner, Bai Youyou, and Lin Shisan down with him by detonating his remnant soul.
• Zi Yuner bound the explosion inside a wall of light while Lin Shisan summoned the Little Black Cauldron to devour Ning Jiuyou’s demonic qi, lightning, and remnant soul.
• The Little Black Cauldron changed in appearance and condensed a drop of pure spirit liquid, which Lin Shisan sealed away for his injured master, Poison Lady Feng Xian'er.
• Zi Yuner, Bai Youyou, and Lin Shisan found a hidden Teleportation Array beneath the scorched edge of the Thunder Pool and learned it had been built by the Xiao Household with help from the Nine Nether Demon Sect.
• Lin Shisan activated the array and sensed its destination lay toward the Danyang Sect, so the three prepared to return home.

Lin Shisan, Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner arrived at the Xiao Household Ancestral Mausoleum, where Zi Yuner overwhelmed the household’s elders. The Xiao Household offered Lin Shisan treasures and spirit veins, then vowed to withdraw from outside affairs as the trio headed home.

• Lin Shisan and the two women emerged from the Teleportation Array in the Xiao Household Ancestral Mausoleum and were confronted by Xiao Cheng'en and his men.
• Zi Yuner’s pressure subdued the Xiao Household members, but Xiao Dingyuan emerged and resisted her briefly before conceding.
• Xiao Cheng'en gave Lin Shisan the Azure Frost Blade, deeds to two spirit veins, spirit pills, spirit medicine, and other treasures.
• Bai Youyou accepted the gifts on Lin Shisan’s behalf, and the three left the mausoleum and restored their true appearances.
• Xiao Dingyuan ordered the Xiao Household to remain within the ancestral mausoleum for a hundred years and avoid outside affairs.
• Lin Shisan and the two women walked toward home, and Bai Youyou said his master would be glad to see him.

Ning Jiuying reported that Lin Shisan had destroyed his remnant soul, while Aunt Mei warned him not to act rashly or approach Feng Xian'er. After three years of waiting at the Danyang Sect gates, Long Yan'er finally saw Lin Shisan return with two companions, and he recognized her as she wept.

• Ning Jiuying told Aunt Mei that Lin Shisan had destroyed his remnant soul and Xiao Han's body, and that the Little Black Cauldron had swallowed the explosion without damage.
• Aunt Mei called Lin Shisan extraordinary, ordered Ning Jiuying to recover and avoid rash action, and warned him to stay clear of Feng Xian'er.
• On Cold Moon Peak, Long Yan'er told Feng Xian'er she was going to wait at the sect gates for Lin Shisan, as she had every day for three years.
• Long Yan'er reached the gates and waited on her familiar stone while mist obscured the mountain road.
• Long Yan'er saw Lin Shisan approaching with two companions, began to cry, and Lin Shisan recognized her as he stopped before the gates.

Lin Shisan returned to Cold Moon Peak after three years and reunited with Long Yan'er and Feng Xian'er, who chased him through the Bamboo Grove before accepting the Spring Water of Renewal he brought for her. He introduced his wives, Zi Yuner and Bai Youyou, to Feng Xian'er over a hot pot, and Feng Xian'er noticed Zi Yuner’s unusual frost-covered vegetables.

• Long Yan'er cried with joy when Lin Shisan returned and told him Feng Xian'er had threatened to pour away his share of Deer Whip Soup.
• Lin Shisan reached the Bamboo Hut, where Feng Xian'er scolded him and chased him through the Bamboo Grove as he dodged with the Seven Star Step.
• Lin Shisan gave Feng Xian'er a jade bottle of Spring Water of Renewal, and she invited him and his two wives inside.
• Zi Yuner and Bai Youyou introduced themselves to Feng Xian'er, who welcomed them and prepared a meal with Lin Shisan.
• Bai Youyou and Zi Yuner served meat and vegetables at the hot pot, and Feng Xian'er noticed that Zi Yuner’s vegetables had formed a protective layer of frost.

Feng Xian'er discovered that Lin Shisan and the two girls were hiding the truth about his return, then used a jade bottle to heal her old injuries and underwent a Sky Soaring Realm tribulation. After reaching Early Sky Soaring, she turned away the visitors who gathered at Cold Moon Peak.

• Lin Shisan told Feng Xian'er a carefully edited account of his three years away while Zi Yuner and Bai Youyou helped conceal the truth.
• Feng Xian'er revealed that she knew the three had been lying, then absorbed the spiritual power from a jade bottle and began recovering her cultivation.
• Feng Xian'er endured the tribulation's lightning and advanced from Yellow Dragon fifth stage to Early Sky Soaring as the Danyang Sect and several households watched.
• Feng Xian'er told Lin Shisan she had only undergone her tribulation because last night's wine had gone to her head, then greeted Bai Ziyin and the other visitors.
• Feng Xian'er accepted Bai Ziyin's gift, postponed bringing Lin Shisan to pay respects to the sect master, and closed the mountain gate on the gathered guests.

Lin Shisan agreed to compete for Danyang Sect's vacant Saint Child position and faced Ling Sheng at the Martial Arts Arena. After dodging Ling Sheng's opening attacks, Lin Shisan countered with Taotie Fist, which swallowed his opponent's palm force.

• Feng Xian'er accepted Bai Ziyin's request for Lin Shisan to compete for Saint Child, and Lin Shisan agreed to enter the contest.
• Two days later, Lin Shisan arrived at the Martial Arts Arena, where Bai Ziyin named Ling Sheng, Xiao Ling, and Lin Shisan as candidates.
• Ling Sheng volunteered to fight first and attacked Lin Shisan with the Ling Household's Mountain-Splitting Palm.
• Lin Shisan dodged several strikes, then used Taotie Fist to absorb Ling Sheng's palm force.

Lin Shisan defeated Ling Sheng and Xiao Ling, securing the position of Danyang Sect's Thirty-Seventh Generation Saint Child. The Xiao Household then challenged him to draw the legendary sword Zhu Xie, and he went with the gathered clans and elders to the sect's Back Mountain to try.

• Lin Shisan overwhelmed Ling Sheng with Taotie Fist and defeated him after Ling Sheng used the Ling Household secret art Silver Armor Breaks the Army.
• Lin Shisan fought Xiao Ling with the Spirit Thunder Sword, then used Little Nine's flames to break Xiao Ling's Throat-Sealing Sword and win the second match.
• Bai Ziyin declared Lin Shisan the Danyang Sect's Thirty-Seventh Generation Saint Child after his two victories.
• A middle-aged man from the Xiao Household asked Lin Shisan to prove his appointment by drawing Zhu Xie, the sect's legendary immortal sword.
• Lin Shisan agreed, and members of the Xiao, Ling, Gu, and Chu Households followed the elders into the forbidden grounds of the Back Mountain.

Lin Shisan entered the sealed chamber to test whether he could approach the Evil-Exorcising Sword, but its killing intent struck him down. After deciding to try again, he used the Nine Yang Wheel-Transferring Cultivation Manual to refine the sword intent, and the killing aura around him began to thin.

• Bai Ziyin warned Lin Shisan that the Evil-Exorcising Sword could damage his meridians or destroy his cultivation, but Lin Shisan chose to try.
• Lin Shisan entered the chamber and approached the sword until its killing intent blasted him into the wall, leaving him injured.
• Bai Youyou checked Lin Shisan's meridians while Zi Yuner guarded him, and Feng Xian'er urged him to leave.
• Lin Shisan insisted on trying again and began circulating the Nine Yang Wheel-Transferring Cultivation Manual near the sword.
• Lin Shisan used the manual to refine the killing intent, causing the dark red aura around him to grow thinner and more docile.

Lin Shisan awakened and drew the Evil-Exorcising Sword, restoring the Danyang Sect’s formations and appearing to its members as the Fortune Golden Dragon filled the sky. Bai Ziyin named him the Thirty-Seventh Generation Saint Child, and the chapter ended with news of his feat spreading beyond the sect.

• Little Nine awakened the Evil-Exorcising Sword, and Lin Shisan absorbed its ancient sword intent through the Nine Yang Wheel-Transferring Cultivation Manual.
• Lin Shisan drew the sword, releasing a crimson-gold pillar and a Fortune Golden Dragon as the Danyang Sect’s Spirit-Gathering Grand Formation and sect-protecting Grand Formation recovered.
• Bai Ziyin declared Lin Shisan the Danyang Sect’s Thirty-Seventh Generation Saint Child, and the Chu, Gu, Ling, and Xiao Households bowed and paid their respects.
• Feng Xian'er gave Lin Shisan medicine for his burned arm and ordered him to enter seclusion for a month while the others dispersed.
• Lin Shisan left the Back Mountain with Bai Youyou and Zi Yuner as word of his achievement spread to the Immortal Alliance’s other sects and beyond.