Chapter Summaries

Lin Ke ordered the Dream-Eating Gecko to use the battlefield debris against Wang Rui's Dark Blue Spiders. The Gecko shattered the webbing trapping Lin Xuanyuan, who charged Wang Rui and knocked him out of the fight.

• Lin Xuanyuan broke through the Dark Blue Spider tide, but Wang Rui gathered the spiders into corrosive webs that bound him.
• Wang Rui sent more spiders toward Lin Ke and believed his swarm would wear Lin Ke down.
• Lin Ke told the Dream-Eating Gecko to turn the spiders' strength against them, and the Gecko gathered spider corpses, venom, and rubble into a giant hammer.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko smashed the webs with the hammer, freeing Lin Xuanyuan and crushing thousands of spiders.
• Lin Xuanyuan charged Wang Rui and broke his Spirit Power shield with a claw strike, sending him flying to the Arena's edge.

Wang Rui used a sinister Spirit Fusion technique to transform into a Nascent Soul Early Stage monster, forcing Lin Ke and his companions to fight together. As Lin Ke struck a potentially fatal blow, Wang Rui began to self-detonate and tried to drag him down with him.

• Wang Rui spat out his heart's blood essence and used Ten Thousand Spiders Devour the Heart... Spirit Fusion to merge with the Dark Blue Spiders.
• Wang Rui transformed into a monster with Nascent Soul Early Stage power, and Lin Ke ordered Lin Xuanyuan to hold him off.
• Wang Rui attacked Lin Ke with venomous fire, but the Dream-Eating Gecko disrupted him with Divine Mill while Lin Xuanyuan struck with Gold-Shattering Cry.
• Lin Xuanyuan shattered Wang Rui's legs and damaged his carapace, destabilizing the fusion, and Lin Ke rushed in to strike his head with Dragon-Elephant Force.
• Wang Rui began unleashing a destructive self-detonation and coiled his tentacles around Lin Ke, threatening to kill them both.

Lin Ke killed Wang Rui after stopping his attempted self-destruction, then accepted Leng Yue’s challenge on behalf of their rival sects. Their fight began with Leng Yue using the Jade Cold-Soul Art, and her moon-white finger strike targeted Lin Ke’s brow.

• Lin Ke used his Yang Pupils and Dragon-Elephant Force to divert Wang Rui’s gathering energy and prevent him from self-destructing.
• Lin Xuanyuan and the Dream-Eating Gecko crushed Wang Rui’s remaining consciousness, and Lin Ke burned his corpse with lightning.
• Leng Yue challenged Lin Ke to restore the Jade Great Radiance Church’s honor after his victory over Nan Shang, and Lin Ke agreed to fight without resting.
• Leng Yue unleashed the Jade Cold-Soul Art, spreading soul-chilling frost across the arena and slowing Lin Ke.
• Leng Yue merged into the icy mist and sent a condensed moon-white finger strike toward the spot between Lin Ke’s brows.

Lin Ke battled Leng Yue in the Arena, using his Yang Pupil and Dragon-Elephant Force to counter her illusions and cold attacks. Leng Yue’s carefully prepared Corporeal-Incorporeal Transformation caught him off guard, but he avoided her killing blow and ended the exchange with only a slight injury.

• Lin Ke and Leng Yue exchanged a powerful strike, and Leng Yue’s Jade Cold-Soul Art forced him to recognize her strength.
• Leng Yue used Moon Shadow Thousandfolds to surround Lin Ke with illusory bodies and attacks.
• Lin Ke activated his Yang Pupil and identified Leng Yue’s true body, but she switched places with a phantom to set a trap.
• Leng Yue attacked Lin Ke’s temple with her Moonlight Essence Condensed Blade as he committed to striking the phantom.
• Lin Ke redirected himself with Dragon-Elephant Force and blocked Leng Yue’s blade with his left hand, suffering a shallow wound while resisting her freezing energy.

Leng Yue escalated her duel with Lin Ke by unleashing her Guanghan Domain and a devastating frost attack, but Lin Ke countered with his dual domains and Flying Swords. The fight reached a stalemate until Leng Yue compressed the power of ice into her ultimate move, Nirvana Cold Star, leaving Lin Ke facing its lethal brilliance.

• Lin Ke recognized the strength of Leng Yue’s Corporeal-Incorporeal Transformation and met her challenge with renewed fighting spirit.
• Leng Yue unleashed Guanghan Domain, slowing Lin Ke and resisting his Dragon-Elephant Force, while he answered with his blood-and-vitality domain and Sword Domain.
• Leng Yue attacked with Moon-Congealed Frostglow, and Lin Ke’s Heavenly Net and Earthly Boundary, Ten Thousand Rivers Return to the Sea deflected and shattered the ice blades.
• As the clash became a stalemate and her strength waned, Leng Yue compressed the power of her domain into a brilliant point of ice and announced Nirvana Cold Star.

Lin Ke and Leng Yue traded powerful attacks in the arena, matching his sword techniques against her freezing power. Lin Ke trapped Leng Yue in his Sword Suppresses the Eight Directions formation, and she began forming a countering mudra.

• Leng Yue unleashed Nirvana Cold Star, and Lin Ke met it with Heavenly Net and Earthly Boundary, Sword Dao United, creating a massive explosion that damaged the arena barrier.
• Lin Ke and Leng Yue emerged from the clash with their auras unsettled, acknowledged each other's strength, and prepared for a more serious exchange.
• Leng Yue appeared above Lin Ke and attacked with Frost Finger Force, while his flying swords formed a defensive curtain and blocked her strikes.
• Lin Ke sent three swords at Leng Yue, and she deflected one with her finger, frosting its blade before he gathered his remaining swords.
• Lin Ke formed Sword Suppresses the Eight Directions and sealed Leng Yue within a vast sword formation, prompting her to form a mudra and cry, "Congeal!"

Leng Yue summoned a projection of the ancient Cold Realm and used its laws to overwhelm Lin Ke. As the realm’s attacks wounded and slowed him, Lin Ke struggled to survive against Leng Yue’s control of the frozen world.

• Leng Yue summoned the Cold Realm Projection, freezing Lin Ke’s sword formation and turning the arena into an ancient world of ice and snow.
• Leng Yue explained that her sect’s secret art used primordial soul power to summon the Cold Realm, then crushed Lin Ke with its laws and shattered his sword formation.
• Lin Ke used his Yang Pupil to search for weaknesses but found the realm’s energy seamlessly connected and Leng Yue fused with it.
• Howling Ape Old Ghost recognized Leng Yue’s power, while Yin Jue and the Imperial Sovereign of the Dali Domain praised her talent and potential.
• Leng Yue attacked Lin Ke with an ice-law spear that wounded him and froze the injury, then sent icicles, blizzards, and freezing blades at him from every direction.

Lin Ke used his spirit insects to recover from Leng Yue’s attacks, then fully unsealed the Dragon-Elephant Prison-Suppressing Force and renewed his sword domain. Howling Ape Old Ghost accused Hua Wujiang of letting Lin Ke steal the Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect’s secret technique, but Hua Wujiang denied the charge and challenged his evidence.

• Lin Ke summoned Lin Xuanyuan, the Dream-Eating Gecko, and the Clam Maiden, whose Ode to Life healed his wounds and replenished his strength.
• Leng Yue gathered the power of her world domain as Lin Ke raised his sword domain again.
• Lin Ke fully unsealed the Dragon-Elephant Prison-Suppressing Force, revealing a divine elephant phantom and immense physical strength.
• Howling Ape Old Ghost recognized Lin Ke’s body-tempering art as his sect’s lost secret technique and accused Hua Wujiang of allowing its theft.
• Hua Wujiang denied the accusation, saying Lin Ke had obtained the technique through his own fortuitous opportunity and questioning Howling Ape Old Ghost’s claim.

Lin Ke fought Leng Yue inside her Ice and Snow Ancient World, using his sword domain and dragon-elephant force to withstand her attacks. After Leng Yue unleashed Wind and Snow Burial, Lin Ke struck the glacier itself, shaking the cold realm and destabilizing it.

• Howling Ape Old Ghost accused the Golden Wing Sect of taking the Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect's techniques, but Hua Wujiang refused to concede and told him to uncover the truth.
• Lin Ke resisted Leng Yue's ice-sword assault with his sword domain while the Clam Maiden restored him and his allies.
• Leng Yue unleashed Wind and Snow Burial after realizing she could not defeat Lin Ke through attrition.
• Lin Ke condensed his sword domain, sent flying swords against Leng Yue, and advanced under their protection.
• Lin Ke struck the glacier with his Mountain-Moving and Sea-Overturning Method, cracking the arena and destabilizing Leng Yue's domain.

Lin Ke launched a coordinated counterattack that matched Leng Yue, but she sacrificed her Ice and Snow Ancient World in a devastating mutual-destruction technique. Yin Jue begged the Imperial Sovereign to stop the duel, but the rules barred intervention, leaving him to shout for Leng Yue to stop.

• Lin Ke used Lin Xuanyuan, the Dream-Eating Gecko, and his flying swords to disrupt Leng Yue and damage her control of the Ice and Snow Ancient World.
• Lin Ke and Leng Yue traded attacks at close range, neither gaining the upper hand.
• Leng Yue feared she would lose through attrition and unleashed World Annihilation, sacrificing her world domain and life essence to unleash destructive energy.
• Yin Jue asked the Imperial Sovereign of the Dali Domain to halt the duel, but the Imperial Sovereign said only a voluntary concession or defeat could end it.
• Yin Jue called to Leng Yue to stop before the attack cost her life.

Leng Yue unleashed World Annihilation in a desperate attempt to kill Lin Ke, but he survived by fully unleashing his Five-Colored Glazed Body, nine golden cores, and Yin-Yang Golden Core. The arena was left in ruins, Lin Ke was gravely wounded but alive, and Leng Yue had been annihilated.

• Leng Yue ignored Yin Jue and poured all her power into the cold realm, unleashing World Annihilation against Lin Ke.
• Lin Ke dismissed Lin Xuanyuan, the Clam Maiden, and the Dream-Eating Gecko, then fully activated his Five-Colored Glazed Body and all nine golden cores.
• Lin Ke's Yin-Yang Golden Core manifested an embryonic world and collided with Leng Yue's destructive storm, shattering the arena and tearing through space.
• The Imperial Sovereign of the Dali Domain stabilized the surrounding space while the spectators watched the storm subside.
• Lin Ke emerged alive but gravely injured, while Leng Yue had vanished with her aura, leaving only a fading trace of her cold Dao resonance.

Lin Ke survived World Annihilation, revealed nine golden cores, and demonstrated his mastery of the Five-Colored Glazed Body, shocking the spectators and enraging Howling Ape Old Ghost. The first stage of the Heavenly Prodigy Trial ended, and the hundred selected prodigies were transported out as the third stage was set to begin.

• After Leng Yue died and Lin Ke survived World Annihilation, the spectators were stunned by his nine golden cores and powerful body.
• Howling Ape Old Ghost recognized Lin Ke's Five-Colored Glazed Body and resolved to kill him before he could threaten the Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect.
• Yin Jue taunted Howling Ape Old Ghost about the technique, while True Lord Zheyu congratulated Hua Wujiang and praised Lin Ke.
• The Dali Domain's Imperial Sovereign announced that the hundred prodigies for the final trial had been selected and declared the start of the third stage.
• The Imperial Sovereign's teleportation power transported everyone out of the small world.

Lin Ke and the other Heavenly Pride Gathering participants arrived at the Four Symbols Sacred Spring, where the Imperial Sovereign explained that the lake held Dragon Qi capable of strengthening cultivation and aiding breakthroughs. He warned them that absorbing it would bring intense torment and could cause severe injury or death.

• Lin Ke and the participants appeared beside a vast azure lake surrounded by four dragon-shaped peaks and waterfalls of different Spirit Liquids.
• An Imperial Clan genius recognized the place as the legendary Four Symbols Sacred Spring, and the Imperial Clan participants expressed their excitement and reverence.
• The Imperial Sovereign explained that the sacred land had formed from the power of the Four Symbols True Dragons and that its lake contained a trace of Dragon Qi.
• The Imperial Sovereign described how Dragon Qi could temper bodies, improve comprehension, and help cultivators break through bottlenecks or advance realms.
• The Imperial Sovereign warned that the lake's pressure would intensify and Dragon Qi could torment cultivators, damage their foundations, or kill them.

The Imperial Sovereign of the Dali Domain explained the final trial, in which the prodigies competed to endure longest in the Four Symbols Sacred Spring for rewards and entry to the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm. Lin Ke entered the lake, discovered its dragon power resembled Lin Xuanyuan’s, and chose to recover before investigating the dangerous depths.

• The Imperial Sovereign of the Dali Domain warned the prodigies to leave the sacred spring if their strength began to fail, then announced that the thirty who endured longest would win rewards and qualify for the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm.
• The hundred remaining prodigies rushed into the lake, and Lin Ke stopped after descending a little over a dozen zhang to heal his wounds with spirit power and the Clam Maiden’s Ode to Life.
• Lin Ke asked Lin Xuanyuan about the lake’s dragon power, and Lin Xuanyuan said it shared the same source as the power in his body and might be connected to his origins.
• Lin Ke decided to restore his strength before exploring the lake, sensing a powerful and unfathomable force lurking beneath it.

Lin Ke used Lin Xuanyuan's help to filter and absorb the Sacred Spring's violent Dragon Power, strengthening his body while Lin Xuanyuan grew stronger as well. A powerful consciousness from the lake bottom struck the Heaven's Chosen, and Lin Ke dove deeper despite the danger.

• Lin Ke began refining the Sacred Spring's Dragon Power, but its violence caused him intense pain.
• Lin Ke asked Lin Xuanyuan for help, and Lin Xuanyuan shielded him so he could absorb the purer Dragon Power more safely.
• Lin Ke's Five-Colored Glazed Body grew stronger, while Lin Xuanyuan also drew in the refined Dragon Power and neared a breakthrough.
• A domineering consciousness erupted from the lake bottom, injuring some Heaven's Chosen and forcing them to retreat.
• Lin Ke protected his consciousness, then dove deeper into the lake and saw living creatures swimming nearby.

Lin Ke encountered a Nascent Soul Middle Stage giant fish in the lake and was helplessly swallowed by its spatial power. He awoke on a rune-covered platform in a vast darkness, facing a towering altar wrapped in a stone dragon.

• Lin Ke spotted a colossal horned fish approaching through the lake and sensed that it was at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• The giant fish pursued Lin Ke, then used a powerful suction force to freeze his movement and sever his control over spiritual energy.
• Lin Ke and the Dream-Eating Gecko failed to resist as the fish pulled Lin Ke into its maw.
• Lin Ke opened his eyes after an unknown time and found himself falling onto a faintly glowing stone platform surrounded by darkness.
• Lin Ke surveyed the platform and saw an ancient altar coiled by a lifelike stone dragon statue.

Lin Ke and the Dream-Eating Gecko discovered an ancient dragon pearl inside the giant fish, and Lin Xuanyuan sensed that it was calling to him. The pearl absorbed Lin Xuanyuan and transformed into a golden cocoon, leaving Lin Ke and the Dream-Eating Gecko outside the altar.

• Lin Ke found a dragon pearl on an altar inside the giant fish, its power purer and more ancient than the dragon power in Sacred Spring Lake.
• Lin Xuanyuan sensed the pearl calling to him and climbed onto the altar, while a barrier prevented Lin Ke and the Dream-Eating Gecko from following.
• Lin Ke concluded that the giant fish had lured them there for Lin Xuanyuan and waited as Lin Xuanyuan approached the pearl.
• The dragon pearl released a golden pillar of light around Lin Xuanyuan after an ancient sigh echoed through the space.
• The dragon pearl drew Lin Xuanyuan inside and transformed into a person-height golden cocoon.

Lin Ke and the Dream-Eating Gecko waited as Lin Xuanyuan underwent a mysterious transformation inside a golden cocoon. Meanwhile, Feng Jinyan received a special Fire Ore Source Crystal and began a covert operation, striking Wu Hao when they met in the lake.

• Lin Ke recognized that Lin Xuanyuan was undergoing a profound transformation and decided to wait with the Dream-Eating Gecko inside the giant fish.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko accepted that Lin Xuanyuan had claimed the fortuitous encounter, and the two waited quietly in the dark space.
• A Jade Great Radiance Church woman told Feng Jinyan that their plan had to proceed because they had lost three people and the Four Symbols Sacred Spring concealed events from outsiders.
• The woman gave Feng Jinyan a specially made Fire Ore Source Crystal to use against difficult adversaries, then vanished.
• Feng Jinyan encountered Wu Hao, who agreed to team up with him, and suddenly attacked when Wu Hao came within reach.

Feng Jinyan killed Wu Hao, who realized too late that his attacker was a Shu Frontier spy, as the spies began slaughtering Cloud Frontier’s chosen. Meanwhile, Lin Ke and the Dream-Eating Gecko felt the giant fish shudder while Lin Xuanyuan transformed, and Lin Ke went to investigate.

• Feng Jinyan ambushed Wu Hao, broke through his defenses, and mortally wounded him.
• Wu Hao identified Feng Jinyan as a Shu Frontier spy before dying, and Feng Jinyan erased the evidence and moved on to hunt other chosen.
• Shu Frontier spies began exterminating Cloud Frontier’s chosen in several regions.
• Lin Ke trained beside Lin Xuanyuan’s golden cocoon while the Dream-Eating Gecko admired its concentrated dragon power.
• The giant fish’s body trembled from an external disturbance, and Lin Ke headed outside with the Dream-Eating Gecko to investigate.

Lin Ke emerged from the Horned Giant Fish and found it fighting three swift, venomous water snakes. With the Clam Maiden’s help, he wounded one snake and turned the battle in the Giant Fish’s favor, leaving both sides poised to fight on.

• Lin Ke escaped the dark space inside the Horned Giant Fish and saw it battling three water snakes.
• Lin Ke decided to intervene to protect Lin Xuanyuan’s transformation and the treasures inside the Giant Fish.
• The Clam Maiden used Moon-Tide Draw to boost Lin Ke’s movement and slow the snakes.
• Lin Ke struck one snake’s tail and broke its bones, leaving the snake badly wounded.
• The Horned Giant Fish seized the opening to injure another snake, and it and Lin Ke charged the remaining opponents together.