Chapter Summaries

Zong Ya and the Blade Spirits attacked Jade Hall while Mo Qi Qi fought a centipede Dragon Cultivator, but Mo Qi Qi began gathering the formation’s power as a Fire Dragon Phantom emerged from the abyss. Cultivators across the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm sensed the upheaval, and Mo Tianji identified its location.

• Zong Ya coordinated the Blade Spirits and Imperial Clan female cultivators in an attack on Jade Hall, while the Blade Spirits confronted Mo Qi Qi and the cobra-like Dragon Cultivator.
• Mo Qi Qi fought the centipede Swimming Dragon, and Liu Mingqing’s Jade Hall disciples grew Jade Vines to block the Imperial Clan cultivators’ crossbows and arquebuses.
• Zong Ya burned the vines with her core flame, revealing her Life-Bound Cultivation Technique and turning the battle against Jade Hall.
• Mo Qi Qi unleashed artifacts and formation-powered Crystal Needles while gathering energy into a Formation Spirit Ball, and a Fire Dragon Phantom rose from the abyss as the island began sinking.
• Dongfang Yao and Shen Wei sensed the dragon might near Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, while the Imperial Clan and Illusionless Gu Sect stopped fighting in the Ten-Thousand Longevity Eternal Spring Garden.
• Mo Tianji sensed the surge from the Molten Reef Rocks and said he had located its source.

Lin Ke recognized that his repeated deaths and tragedies were part of a heart-demon illusion and began trying to break free, while the illusion continued to torment Zong Ya. The chapter left Lin Ke facing visions of Zong Ya and Nan Shang as Mo Qi Qi attacked Zong Ya in the illusion.

• Mo Qi Qi threw the formation orb, damaging the Floating Island and blinding those nearby before he stabilized the formation.
• Zong Ya crawled toward the Tower and shouted for Lin Ke to run and break free of his heart demon.
• Lin Ke recalled his repeated rebirths, realized the clear chain of karmic retribution meant he was trapped in an illusion, and remembered entering his heart demon while refining the Crimson Tendon-Tempering Pill.
• Lin Ke continued taking ice-attribute pills as Zong Ya and Nan Shang appeared and begged him for help.
• Mo Qi Qi beat Zong Ya and threatened to sell her, while Liu Mingqing urged him not to provoke conflict between their sects.

Lin Ke emerged from his room and retaliated against Mo Qi Qi for attacking Zong Ya, then fought Jade Hall’s disciples after they formed the Jade Great Radiance Formation. He cut apart their Jade Mantis, leaving Mo Qi Qi and the others stunned.

• Mo Qi Qi struck and threatened Zong Ya, but Lin Ke appeared and severed Mo Qi Qi’s left leg and both hands with the Windglow Spirit Dragon Saber.
• Liu Mingqing formed the Jade Great Radiance Formation, and Mo Qi Qi fled into the Jade Main Hall to shield himself behind its disciples.
• Mo Qi Qi discovered that Lin Ke had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and ordered Jade Hall to attack him.
• Lin Ke evaded Jade Hall’s attacks and damaged the Jade Main Hall with the Black Ice Falling Goose Slash.
• Liu Mingqing transformed the hall into a Jade Mantis, but Lin Ke used his saber and Golden Flying Sword to cut it apart.

Lin Ke defeated the Jade Great Radiance Church cultivators, rescued Zong Ya, and ordered his Blade Spirits and Black Ice Centipedes to punish Mo Qi Qi and Liu Mingqing. After treating their injuries, he told Zong Ya that the formation was broken, and she wondered whether he had truly overcome the church’s famed technique.

• Lin Ke killed the Jade Hall disciples while Mo Qi Qi and Liu Mingqing watched, then went to help Zong Ya.
• Lin Ke summoned twenty Blade Spirits and four Black Ice Centipedes, which overwhelmed Mo Qi Qi and Liu Mingqing and tied them to a dead tree.
• Inside the Tower, Lin Ke tended to his injuries and discovered that he had touched the Nascent Soul Middle Stage bottleneck.
• Lin Ke healed Zong Ya and assured her that the Jade Great Radiance Formation had been broken.
• Zong Ya saw the Blade Spirits tormenting Mo Qi Qi and asked Lin Ke whether he had truly broken the formation.

Lin Ke and Zong Ya hid in the Tower and used Mo Qi Qi and Liu Mingqing as bait while Mo Tianji’s karmic divination revealed a Divine-Grade Dragon Pearl in the abyss. Mo Tianji freed the captives and tried to recruit Mo Qi Qi to help him obtain the treasure, leaving his plan in motion.

• Lin Ke told Zong Ya to leave the Tower and hide so they could watch the newcomers through Mo Qi Qi and Liu Mingqing.
• Mo Tianji and the Cloud Ink Sect cultivators arrived, and Mo Tianji used karmic divination to glimpse a Dragon Pearl in a Treasure Casket at the bottom of the abyss.
• Mo Tianji concluded that the Dragon Pearl had recognized Mo Qi Qi and decided to maneuver him into helping retrieve it.
• Mo Qi Qi told Mo Tianji that Lin Ke had defeated their companions, tied them up, and was recovering from a spell that had raised his strength.
• Mo Tianji freed Mo Qi Qi and Liu Mingqing, concealed his own strength, and proposed that they join forces against Lin Ke.
• Mo Tianji told Mo Qi Qi that his karmic divination showed both a great calamity and a great blessing beneath the dragon source.

Mo Tianji tricked Mo Qi Qi into believing a Dragon Pearl beneath the abyss was destined for him, then warned that it needed to be purified. Lin Ke agreed to help break the formation but insisted on entering the Secret Realm and claiming the treasure by his own abilities, leaving Mo Qi Qi furious after Lin Ke slapped him again.

• Mo Tianji told Mo Qi Qi that a divine-grade Dragon Pearl lay beneath the abyss and that Mo Qi Qi would obtain it, then warned that refining it directly could cause cultivation deviation.
• Mo Tianji offered to purify the Dragon Pearl with the Cloud Ink Sect's Eternal Clear Wind Mantra, and Mo Qi Qi agreed before proposing they seek Lin Ke's help to break the formation.
• Lin Ke appeared and agreed to cooperate, but insisted that he also enter the Secret Realm and that the Dragon Pearl go to whoever earned it.
• Mo Qi Qi mocked Lin Ke's apparent weakened cultivation and claimed the Dragon Pearl as his own, while Lin Ke warned that the blade spirits belonged to him and threatened to take Mo Qi Qi as another.
• Mo Qi Qi threatened to enslave Lin Ke's senior sister, so Lin Ke struck him and knocked off his prosthetic leg; Mo Qi Qi retrieved it and challenged Lin Ke to a fight to the death.

Lin Ke revealed that he had broken through to the Nascent Soul middle stage and defeated Mo Qi Qi with his newly formed Black Ice Centipede formation. Mo Tianji was left stunned by Lin Ke’s extraordinary advancement, while Mo Qi Qi survived only as a crazed Nascent Soul in a prosthetic body.

• Mo Qi Qi blasted Lin Ke with his Spirit Artifacts, but Lin Ke absorbed their force and converted it into Witch Gu Qi.
• Lin Ke formed a new insect formation with twenty Black Ice Centipedes as Zong Ya urged him to escape with her.
• Mo Qi Qi attacked with his Supreme Yang Crystals, and Lin Ke revealed his stabilized Nascent Soul middle-stage cultivation, blocked the attack, and trapped Mo Qi Qi in the centipede formation.
• The centipedes unleashed their Black Ice Falling Goose Slashes, reducing Mo Qi Qi’s body to a skeleton, and Zong Ya celebrated Lin Ke’s breakthrough.
• Mo Qi Qi’s Nascent Soul entered an Origin tier mid-grade prosthetic body and raved in disbelief, while Mo Tianji was shocked that Lin Ke had reached the Nascent Soul middle stage in his early twenties.

Lin Ke, Mo Qi Qi, and Mo Tianji prepared to break the formation and enter the Dragon Pearl trial as the Floating Island began to face a time limit. Shi Yuan arrived, revealed himself as Shi You’s younger brother, and confronted Lin Ke.

• Lin Ke stopped Mo Qi Qi from resisting and asked him to help break the formation, while Mo Tianji explained that the Floating Island would fall into the abyss after three incense sticks.
• Mo Tianji explained the Dragon Pearl’s soul trial and its human-, earth-, and heaven-tier levels of acknowledgment.
• Shi Yuan broke through the barrier, entered the Floating Island, and introduced himself as Shi You’s younger brother.
• Shi Yuan pressed Lin Ke with his Nascent Soul Middle Stage aura, but Lin Ke pushed it back and ignored his provocation.
• Lin Ke gave Zong Ya the Golden Flying Sword and promised her he would return safely.

Lin Ke endured the Dragon Pearl’s fiery test, lost consciousness, and found himself living as a married man in a modern world. He suspected he had returned to his former life, but the chapter left him unsure whether the experience was real or an illusion.

• Mo Tianji explained that the number of Dragon Pearl roars would show its tier of recognition, while Mo Qi Qi and Shi Yuan fought their way through the Centipede Swarm.
• Lin Ke used two Black Ice Centipede eggs to pass the Centipedes, returned four eggs to the pool, and opened the Treasure Casket with the Insect Jade.
• Lin Ke touched the Dragon Pearl and endured flames that ravaged his body until his physical form vanished and his nascent soul appeared.
• Lin Ke found himself in a modern home with Nan Shang, who said she was his wife of seven years, and he accepted the memories of their life together.
• Lin Ke went to work, realized he had not had his morning Bad Luck Coffee, and recognized its familiar taste after taking a sip.

Lin Ke recognized that he was trapped in a Secret Realm illusion and refused its attempts to provoke him into anger. After realizing the illusion was targeting his sorest feelings, he passed the stage and watched the false world crumble.

• Lin Ke discovered that Nan Shang and his best friend were supposedly betraying him, then realized he had returned to the bathroom mirror and was reliving an illusion.
• Nan Shang touched Lin Ke's left hand, and its familiar clumsiness helped him recognize that he was inside the Secret Realm.
• Lin Ke resolved to uncover the illusion's purpose and refused to leave home, despite the doorbell, a faulty internet connection, and a hostile call from work.
• Lin Ke ordered takeout, but a cockroach in the food made Nan Shang say she was furious.
• Lin Ke realized the illusion was trying to provoke his anger, refused to take the bait, and watched Nan Shang and the illusion disappear.

Lin Ke endured the Dragon Pearl’s illusions and learned that his calm earned only human-tier recognition, then chose to challenge the Dragon Cultivator’s remnant soul for a chance at greater recognition. He left the chapter facing a potentially fatal battle for the Dragon Pearl.

• Mo Qi Qi proposed that Shi Yuan help him kill Lin Ke, and the two fought their way through the centipede swarm toward the Centipede King’s eggs.
• Shi Yuan reached the bottom of the abyss, touched the Dragon Pearl, and entered the Secret Realm, abandoning Mo Qi Qi to the swarm.
• Lin Ke passed the illusions without giving in to anger and received human-tier recognition from the Dragon Pearl.
• Lin Ke reasoned that the Dragon Pearl could make him more valuable to the powerful cultivators manipulating karmic retribution and resolved to claim it.
• The Dragon Cultivator warned Lin Ke that challenging him could destroy his divine sense, but Lin Ke accepted the trial and called for a battle.

Lin Ke battled the Dragon Cultivator, a powerful remnant soul, and repeatedly returned after being defeated, using each clash to strengthen his divine sense and refine his techniques. After decades of combat, Lin Ke devised a coordinated formation that astonished his opponent, though the Dragon Cultivator remained in the fight.

• The Dragon Cultivator explained that dragons arose when spirit insects reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, then attacked Lin Ke on a mountaintop.
• Lin Ke unleashed his artifacts, spirit insects, blade spirits, Lin Xuanyuan, and the Dream-Eating Gecko, but the Dragon Cultivator easily defeated them and grievously wounded his allies.
• Lin Ke realized that his divine sense and companions could return after being killed, while the Dragon Cultivator’s remnant soul would eventually be exhausted.
• Over decades of repeated battles, Lin Ke and his allies strengthened their divine sense and improved their coordination against the Dragon Cultivator.
• Lin Ke combined the Dream-Eating Gecko’s Nightmare, the Black Ice Falling Goose Slash, and the Seven Stars Gaze-Blazing Art into a formation that left the Dragon Cultivator astonished.

Lin Ke continued wearing down the Dragon Cultivator inside the Dragon Pearl illusion until Shi Yuan arrived and was swiftly killed. The Dragon Cultivator then began negotiating with Lin Ke about leaving the Dragon Pearl, while Lin Ke asked him to conceal their agreement from the outside world.

• Lin Ke kept attacking the Dragon Cultivator for decades, exhausting his divine soul until Shi Yuan entered the illusion and challenged Lin Ke over his brother's death.
• Lin Ke used the Seven Stars Dazzling Eyes Art to kill Shi Yuan, then immediately resumed attacking the Dragon Cultivator.
• The weakened Dragon Cultivator asked Lin Ke to pause and learned that Lin Ke's Niwan Palace could potentially house a divine soul.
• Lin Ke explained that Mo Qi Qi and the Jade Great Radiance Church might provide a refined body, then proposed an agreement with two conditions.
• Lin Ke asked the Dragon Cultivator to conceal their contract and the Dragon Pearl's acknowledgment of its master; the Dragon Cultivator agreed and asked to hear the second condition.

Lin Ke negotiated with the Dragon Cultivator to become his blade spirit and help train the golden dragon in exchange for an Artificial Body and spirit stones. Mo Qi Qi killed the Dragon Cultivator and claimed the chance to assign the Dragon Pearl’s ownership, but the pearl trapped Lin Ke as he charged at him.

• Lin Ke offered the Dragon Cultivator a partnership that would preserve his remnant soul, provide him an Artificial Body and spirit stones, and require him to train Lin Ke’s golden dragon.
• The Dragon Cultivator accepted Lin Ke’s terms, and Mo Qi Qi and Shi Yuan entered the Earth Tier trial as the pair finished their secret negotiations.
• Shi Yuan attacked Mo Qi Qi with the Ten Thousand Souls Heart-Devouring Curse, but Mo Qi Qi’s Formless Displacement Formation redirected the ghosts onto Shi Yuan.
• Mo Qi Qi approached the Dragon Cultivator, who began handing him the right to assign ownership of the Dragon Pearl, but Mo Qi Qi killed him before he could finish.
• Lin Ke and Shi Yuan revived and saw Mo Qi Qi claim the opportunity; Lin Ke flew at him, but red flames from the Dragon Pearl formed chains and trapped Lin Ke.

Mo Qi Qi believed he had seized the Dragon Pearl and forced Lin Ke and Shi Yuan to submit, but Lin Ke secretly remained in control and brought them out of the illusion realm. The Dragon Pearl’s recognition shook the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm, and observers realized someone had gained a Dragon Pearl with heaven-rank recognition.

• Mo Qi Qi claimed the Dragon Pearl, while Shi Yuan knelt, kowtowed, and called him godfather to beg for mercy.
• Mo Qi Qi agreed to spare Lin Ke if he helped break the formation, and threatened to take Song Ya as his concubine.
• Lin Ke secretly exchanged a glance with the centipede Dragon Cultivator and used his control of the Dragon Pearl to throw all three of them out of the illusion realm.
• The Dragon Pearl’s cries made spirit beasts and Spirit Insects across the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm prostrate themselves, while Dongfang Yao and Shen Wei debated who had gained its recognition.
• A crimson dragon phantom appeared over the abyss, and Mo Tianji divined that someone had earned heaven-rank recognition; an Imperial Clan cultivator hoped the person was a man who could serve her clan.

Lin Ke learned that his Myriad-Leak Body had earned him recognition beyond heaven rank from the Dragon Pearl, letting him wield its power without sacrificing lifespan. Aboveground, Mo Qi Qi and the sect cultivators mistook him for the pearl’s chosen, while elders outside the secret realm began to realize there had been four Dragon’s Roars.

• Fang Mengdie abandoned the hunt for Dragon-Blooded Demon Beasts and led the Dragon Clan’s female cultivators toward Lin Ke, hoping to recruit him.
• Mo Tianji’s counting beads shattered after the third Dragon’s Roar, and he explained that heaven-rank recognition could make its bearer a legendary saint or demon.
• Mo Qi Qi flew from the abyss, and the sect cultivators assumed he had gained the heaven-rank Dragon Pearl; he demanded Mo Tianji’s Storage Bag and treasures.
• The Dragon Cultivator told Lin Ke that his Myriad-Leak Body had awakened recognition beyond heaven rank, allowing him to use the Dragon Pearl without spending lifespan if he replenished it with supreme-grade spirit stones.
• Yin Yu, True Person Zheyu, and Hua Wujiang discussed the Dragon’s Roars outside the secret realm, and Hua Wujiang confirmed that he had sensed four.

Lin Ke retrieved the Dragon Pearl for Mo Qi Qi, who used it to threaten the gathered cultivators and demand their spirit stones. When a powerful Corpse Puppet emerged from the abyss, Lin Ke fled with Zong Ya toward the Black Armored Kun, revealing that Mo Qi Qi had not received heaven-tier recognition.

• Hua Wujiang told Yin Yu that a calamity tied to the Dragon Pearl was coming and that he was manipulating karmic retribution to protect Lin Ke.
• Mo Qi Qi sent Lin Ke into the abyss to retrieve the Dragon Pearl, and Lin Ke secretly kept the Treasure Casket before handing over the pearl.
• Mo Qi Qi demanded everyone's spirit stones and burned a Cloud Ink Sect disciple to ashes when he tried to hide his Storage Bag.
• A huge magma centipede and the Centipede King emerged from the abyss, and Mo Tianji and the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators fled as the barrier collapsed.
• Lin Ke took Zong Ya toward the Black Armored Kun, intending to have the Centipede Dragon Cultivator summon back the Dragon Pearl.
• Lin Ke told Zong Ya that the cultivator with heaven-tier recognition was not Mo Qi Qi.

Lin Ke hid with Zong Ya inside the Black Armored Kun and secretly tried to restore the centipede cultivator’s remnant soul. After bargaining with the cultivators who joined them, he sent Zong Ya away safely and returned to the Floating Island, where the centipede cultivator awakened.

• Lin Ke used the World-Altering Method to keep the Black Armored Kun’s jaws open, then hid inside it with Zong Ya and concealed the Dragon Pearl’s recognition from her.
• Lin Ke spent three Dawn Hui leaves to give the centipede cultivator’s remnant soul a body, then used the Purple Mansion Insect and Spirit Stones to feed it Spiritual Qi.
• Mo Tianji, Shi Yuan, and other cultivators entered the Black Armored Kun, and Lin Ke negotiated their help by threatening to make his Spirit Insects and Blade Spirits self-destruct.
• Lin Ke secured Zong Ya’s departure with the Black Armored Kun and returned to the Floating Island with the cultivators.
• As Mo Qi Qi fought the giant centipede, the centipede cultivator’s voice sounded in Lin Ke’s Niwan Palace and announced that he had awakened.

Lin Ke and Mo Qi Qi faced off after Mo Qi Qi claimed the Dragon Pearl, but Lin Ke plunged into the Abyss and Mo Qi Qi followed. Outside the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm, Hua Wujiang believed Lin Ke still had a chance to defeat or escape Mo Qi Qi, while Howling Ape Old Ghost manipulated events to make Shi Yuan pursue them.

• Lin Ke secretly commanded the magma centipede Corpse Puppet to stand and lie down, helping Mo Qi Qi believe it was under his control.
• Mo Qi Qi gave Mo Tianji spirit stones, dismissed the other cultivators, and ordered the magma centipede to attack Shi Yuan after rejecting his offered bell.
• Lin Ke sent the magma centipede after Shi Yuan, then plunged into the Abyss, and Mo Qi Qi followed him.
• Yin Yu failed to probe the Sea of Molten Rock, while Hua Wujiang concluded that Lin Ke’s descent into the Abyss meant he still had ways to deal with Mo Qi Qi.
• Howling Ape Old Ghost manipulated Shi Yuan into considering an ambush and reduced the erupting volcanoes along the cultivators’ route.
• Shi Yuan and the Illusionless Gu Sect disciples rode their bells toward the outskirts, and Shi Yuan began considering how to kill Mo Qi Qi and take the Dragon Pearl.

Mo Qi Qi mistook the stone sphere Lin Ke had made for the Dragon Pearl and reached the edge of the Sea of Molten Rock, where Shen Wei and Dongfang Yao ambushed him. As Shen Wei fell into the magma, Lin Ke rescued him inside the Little Purple Pearl's Barrier, complicating Lin Ke's plan to use Mo Qi Qi as a diversion.

• Mo Qi Qi woke on a reef in the Sea of Molten Rock and believed the stone sphere Lin Ke had made was the Dragon Pearl, while Lin Ke secretly followed beneath him.
• Mo Qi Qi reached the Illusory Heart Forest and began replenishing his Spiritual Qi as Shen Wei and Dongfang Yao appeared in masks and attacked him.
• Mo Qi Qi repelled the Spirit Insects, wounded Dongfang Yao, and pierced Shen Wei's wings and shoulder with Golden Projectiles.
• Shen Wei fell toward Lin Ke's hiding place, and Lin Ke detonated a Gathering Spirit Pellet to raise a surge of magma and conceal his intervention.
• Lin Ke drew Shen Wei into the Little Purple Pearl's Barrier as he fell into the Sea of Molten Rock.