Chapter Summaries

Yue Wen waited at the Agency for an assassin, while the Six Pythons of Gray Mountain tracked a black-clad man they believed was Wen Yan. The assassin attacked Yue Wen, but the Six Pythons ambushed him instead, leaving everyone confused about his identity.

• Yue Wen told Perfected One Nagiko to wait for his signal before intervening and warned his companions to stay alert overnight.
• The Six Pythons of Gray Mountain followed a black-clad man from the Hu Family after Dai Muhun ordered them to confirm he was Wen Yan and kill him.
• The black-clad man broke into the Agency, claimed to belong to Flame Ghost Hall, and attacked Yue Wen with two puppets empowered by his Ten Thousand Thoughts Heartflame.
• Yue Wen suspected the assassin worked for the Hu Family and prepared to call Perfected One Nagiko for help.
• The Six Pythons of Gray Mountain mistook the assassin for Wen Yan and ambushed him with their serpent Dharma Forms, while Yue Wen and Qi Dian watched from behind Big White.
• The Six Pythons restrained the black-clad man and claimed they would not mistake Yue Wen for Wen Yan again, leaving Yue Wen bewildered about who they had actually caught.

Yue Wen survived a Hu Family assassin’s attack when the Six Pythons of Gray Mountain killed the man, mistaking him for Wen Yan, then tried to kidnap Yue Wen and Qi Dian. Elder Xu of the Pudu Sect paralyzed everyone with poisonous mist, but when the group’s mistaken assumptions about Wen Yan threatened to unravel, Yue Wen called for Perfected One Nagiko as a phantom mountain range descended.

• The Six Pythons of Gray Mountain killed the Hu Family assassin, believing he was Wen Yan, while Yue Wen recognized them as the likely killers of Mai Yaode.
• The eldest of the Six Pythons announced that they would take Yue Wen and Qi Dian because they wanted the same thing the assassin had sought from the Supernatural Affairs Bureau.
• Elder Xu entered the agency and immobilized Yue Wen, Qi Dian, and the Six Pythons with poisonous white mist.
• The Third of the Six Pythons claimed that Wen Yan was a Hu Family member who had lured them into killing the Pudu Sect’s steward disciple, surprising Elder Xu.
• Yue Wen called for Perfected One Nagiko, and a phantom mountain range descended from the sky.

Perfected One Nagiko took control of the Agency confrontation and persuaded the Pudu Sect to accept her account that Wen Yan belonged to the Hu Family. Guan Mingli used that story to conclude that the Hu Family was hiding an ancient secret realm, while the Six Pythons of Gray Mountain began confessing their connection to Dai Muhun.

• Perfected One Nagiko subdued the intruders, spoke privately with Yue Wen, and agreed to blame the Hu Family for the tangled events.
• Perfected One Nagiko told Elder Xu that the bureau suspected Wen Yan was a Hu Family member and took the demonic cultivators into custody.
• Elder Xu returned to the Pudu Sect research institute and told Guan Mingli that Wen Yan had plotted Mai Yaode's death on the Hu Family's behalf.
• Guan Mingli concluded that the Hu Family was concealing an ancient secret realm and decided the Pudu Sect would pursue it.
• During interrogation, the Six Pythons of Gray Mountain simultaneously named Budehaosi Grand Hotel when Perfected One Nagiko asked about Dai Muhun.

The Shuangling Body grew suspicious when the Six Pythons of Gray Mountain stopped responding, but the Youjing Body refused to leave the bathhouse. Perfected One Nagiko captured and beat the Youjing Body, who revealed that the Shuangling Body likely wanted Daoist Ye’s corpse.

• The Shuangling Body failed to get a reply from the Six Pythons of Gray Mountain and warned the Youjing Body to leave the hotel.
• The Youjing Body dismissed the warning and stayed at the bathhouse to continue donating.
• Perfected One Nagiko arrived, suppressed the Youjing Body’s powers, and subdued him after he took a customer hostage.
• Perfected One Nagiko interrogated the Youjing Body about the kidnapping in Xiongying City.
• The Youjing Body blamed the Shuangling Body for directing the Six Pythons and guessed that he wanted Daoist Ye’s corpse.

The Youjing Body confessed that his master, Immortal Lord Biyue, sought her reincarnated Shuangling Body and the secret to entering the Azure Dragon Burial Ground, which she believed was hidden in Daoist Ye’s corpse. When the Supernatural Affairs Bureau brought Yue Wen in to examine the mysterious corpse puppet, he realized its secret was concealed somewhere no outsider could find by searching its body.

• Perfected One Nagiko interrogated the Youjing Body, who revealed that Immortal Lord Biyue had sent him and his Shuangling Body to River City to find her reincarnated Dharma Body and Daoist Ye’s corpse.
• The Youjing Body explained that Biyue wanted to devour her other Dharma Bodies and believed Daoist Ye’s corpse held the way into the Azure Dragon Burial Ground.
• Perfected One Nagiko and Zhilan found no records or karmic connections for Daoist Ye, and they decided to ask Yue Wen for help.
• Yue Wen learned that Immortal Lord Biyue was the culprit behind the living-soul devourings and that her Shuangling Body had been Li Flying Rosy Clouds.
• After examining the corpse puppet and hearing that it had held only a peachwood sword and an Evil-Suppressing Bell, Yue Wen realized Daoist Ye had hidden the secret somewhere outsiders could never discover by searching his body.

Yue Wen discovered that Daoist Ye’s connected palm lines formed a Visualization Diagram that might open the Azure Dragon Burial Ground, then told Su Yun that Immortal Lord Biyue was behind the soul-devouring murders. Su Yun offered to teach him the Shapeshifting Art and began passing it on.

• Yue Wen joined Daoist Ye’s severed palm patterns and revealed a Visualization Diagram that Perfected One Nagiko believed could open a spatial barrier.
• Perfected One Nagiko promised Yue Wen a share of any gains from the Azure Dragon Burial Ground and started making a rubbing of the diagram.
• Yue Wen met Su Yun and told her that Immortal Lord Biyue had been devouring pure-souled women with help from the Soul Shepherd Sect.
• Su Yun recalled Immortal Lord Biyue’s past crimes and learned that Daoist Ye had taken her Taiguang Body to the Azure Dragon Burial Ground.
• Yue Wen warned Su Yun that Li Flying Rosy Clouds was the reincarnation of Immortal Lord Biyue’s Shuangling Body, and Su Yun offered to teach him the Shapeshifting Art.
• Su Yun touched Yue Wen’s forehead to begin teaching him the Shapeshifting Art.

Yue Wen mastered the Fox Immortal Art’s Shapeshifting Art and developed a stable second face while the Hu Family and Soul Shepherd Sect stayed quiet. In the City Heroes’ Battle semifinals, Yue Wen and Zhao Xing’er began a fierce, carefully planned fight for the captain’s position.

• Yue Wen entered the Visualization Diagram’s gray world, had a craftsman sculpt his face, and unconsciously mastered the Fox Immortal Art by reshaping his features.
• Yue Wen spent two days practicing the Shapeshifting Art and learned to maintain a stable, inconspicuous second face.
• The City Heroes’ Battle semifinals arrived, and Su Xun predicted that Yue Wen would easily defeat Zhao Xing’er in their Yue Family Cultivation Office matchup.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing’er exchanged friendly greetings before the match, then immediately used deceptive tactics and powerful attacks against each other.
• Yue Wen charged Zhao Xing’er with his sword as she swung her enormous flaming spear, and their clash sent shock waves into the arena barriers.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er fought a furious, increasingly close-quarters battle in the Arena, trading weapons, grapples, and threats about their boss-employee relationship. Yue Wen escaped Xing'er's scissor hold with a talisman technique, and they resumed their clash with flaming weapons and surging Sword Qi.

• Xing'er met Yue Wen's sword with her Silver Staff, and the two traded heavy blows while arguing about wages and who would lose a place at Qi Dian's table.
• Yue Wen shifted from blocking Xing'er's staff to close-range attacks, but Xing'er countered, and the pair became locked in a mutual head-and-neck scissor hold.
• The audience and commentators watched the stalemate as Yue Wen and Xing'er struggled, exchanged insults, and pretended to agree to release each other before refusing to let go.
• Yue Wen deactivated Dragon Emperor Heaven-Opening Force and used a fleeting-shadow talisman technique to escape Xing'er's hold and reappear elsewhere in the Arena.
• Yue Wen summoned his sword and attacked Xing'er, who retrieved her Silver Staff and formed a flaming saber; the two resumed their battle with renewed fury.

Yue Wen defeated Zhao Xing'er after a brutal battle, using the Divine Sword Thunder-Controlling Art to take them both down with him. As the next match began, Qi Dian declared he would fight to defend the Yue Family Cultivation Agency's honor.

• Xing'er fought Yue Wen evenly, drawing on her immortal vine and martial spirit red light to keep up with his reserves and recovery.
• Yue Wen tried to catch Xing'er with his Divine Sense Fist, but she anticipated the attack and feigned weakness to lure him in.
• Yue Wen charged into Xinger's counterattack, dragged her into the Heavenly Thunder Pillar, and escaped its bombardment with his shadow-movement talismans.
• Xing'er and Yue Wen both collapsed from their injuries, and the commentators praised Xing'er's strength despite her loss.
• Qi Dian and Liu Yuanjun entered the arena for the next match, and Qi Dian vowed to defend the Yue Family Cultivation Agency's honor.

Liu Yuanjun defeated Qi Dian in the semifinals, setting up a final against Yue Wen and earning praise for the strength of River City’s team. The next day, Hu Hanyi and Guan Mingli waited at the airport to meet a Supreme Eight Desolations Sect delegation led by the Dao Realm powerhouse Huo Yanshan.

• Liu Yuanjun broke through Qi Dian’s astral qi shield with Heaven-and-Earth Reversal, then used a spatial rift and Qi Dian’s own thunder to knock him out of the arena.
• Qi Dian recovered from the shock and joined Yue Wen and Xing'er in the infirmary, where they joked about his loss.
• The host announced that Yue Wen and Liu Yuanjun would face each other in the final, while Elder Su praised River City’s team and its prospects at the Four Seas Ascendant Dragon.
• Hu Hanyi and Guan Mingli waited at River City Airport to meet members of the Supreme Eight Desolations Sect, with Guan Mingli withholding what Elder Xu had learned about the Hu Family.
• Guan Mingli identified Huo Yanshan as a Dao Realm powerhouse, Master Muyang’s personal disciple, and master of Xuanlie Cave.

Huo Yanshan arrived in River City with disciples Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao to discuss the Azure Dragon Burial Ground with the Hu Family. While Huo Yanshan met Hu Hanyi privately, his disciples learned that Hu Yunting had been eliminated from the City Heroes' Battle and that an unaffiliated cultivator, Yue Wen, had defeated him.

• Huo Yanshan arrived with Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao, and Hu Hanyi welcomed them on behalf of the Hu Family.
• During the trip to the Hu Family Manor, Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao discussed seeking opportunities to advance their cultivation before the Ascendant Dragon Assembly.
• Huo Yanshan recognized Hu Yunting's peak Astral Realm cultivation, then went with Hu Hanyi to discuss serious business privately.
• Hu Yunting told Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao that he had not reached the semifinals of River City's City Heroes' Battle.
• Hu Yunting showed them the live final between Yue Wen and Liu Yuanjun, and revealed that Yue Wen had defeated him.
• Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao expressed disbelief that Hu Yunting had lost to a lower-realm unaffiliated cultivator and teased him about the loss.

Yue Wen won the City Heroes' Battle final when Liu Yuanjun deliberately avoided using his sect's secret art and surrendered after a single kick. Yue Wen became River City's new captain, then returned to cultivation and formed an azure seal that could only be activated by dragon breath.

• Li Flying Rosy Clouds warned Liu Yuanjun that Yue Wen could copy divine abilities and advised him not to use their sect's secret art.
• Liu Yuanjun transformed into a golden figure for the final, but Yue Wen kicked him off the stage and won with little effort.
• The host announced Yue Wen as River City's new captain, while Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao mocked Hu Yunting for describing the match as intense.
• Yue Wen invited Du Shuai to fight him, but Du Shuai quickly declined.
• Yue Wen returned to his agency, resumed cultivation, and formed an azure seal that required dragon breath to activate.

Yue Wen learned that the azure seal could let a true dragon’s kin enter its burial ground safely, and promised Da Long he would try to recover the dragon pearl if he had the chance. Meanwhile, Huo Yanshan and Hu Hanyi investigated the Azure Dragon Burial Ground and discussed Yue Wen, but Hu Hanyi refused to say his name in front of Huo Yanshan.

• Yue Wen learned from Da Long that the azure seal was a true dragon’s exclusive key and could only be activated with dragon breath.
• Da Long asked Yue Wen to bring the buried dragon’s pearl to the Dragon Clan Immortal Pool, and Yue Wen agreed to try if it was safe.
• Huo Yanshan told Hu Hanyi that River City’s secret realm was almost certainly an Azure Dragon Burial Ground, citing a true dragon limb found there.
• Hu Hanyi suggested that Huo Yanshan capture Yue Wen and seize the root carving, but Huo Yanshan rejected the attempt to use his sect against Yue Wen.
• Huo Yanshan ordered Hu Hanyi to trace where the dragon finger had been found, and Hu Hanyi revealed that the Fox Demon Lady had once entered the secret realm.
• When Huo Yanshan asked who had won the Demon Fox Amusement Park, Hu Hanyi said he did not dare speak that person’s name in front of him.

Yue Wen followed the Lotus Flower River upstream to Dragon Platform Mountain, suspecting the Azure Dragon Burial Ground lay near its source. He found the Supernatural Affairs Bureau searching the mountain and saw Lan Zhi and Fang Qingcang secretly enter Hidden Dragon Pool’s grounds.

• Yue Wen fused the dragon finger with the Incomplete Dragon Claw using the Azure Dragon Seal and decided to search for the Azure Dragon Burial Ground to fulfill his promise to Da Long.
• Yue Wen traced the dragon finger’s discovery site along the Lotus Flower River toward its source at Hidden Dragon Pool on Dragon Platform Mountain.
• Yue Wen used the Trace-Hiding Art to slip past Wang Shoucai and the Supernatural Affairs Bureau guards at the mountain’s sealed entrance.
• Yue Wen saw Lan Zhi and Fang Qingcang at Hidden Dragon Pool as they tried to enter the Sect’s grounds.
• Lan Zhi knocked out the young Hidden Dragon Pool disciple and dragged him aside so she and Fang Qingcang could search quietly.

Yue Wen searched Hidden Dragon Pool for the secret realm entrance and discovered two Supreme Eight Desolations Sect disciples tracking it with magical artifacts. When their compass led them toward a spatial rift, Yue Wen launched a surprise attack to stop them from finding it first.

• Yue Wen entered Hidden Dragon Pool under his Trace-Hiding Art and searched its misty depths for the secret realm entrance.
• Chen Xuanchao and Huang Qiuzi arrived with a Dragon-Seeking Needle and a Mystery-Probing Compass to locate dragon breath and spatial fluctuations.
• Chen Xuanchao's needle repeatedly pointed toward the hidden Yue Wen, but the pair followed Huang Qiuzi's compass toward a suspected spatial rift.
• Yue Wen crept up behind Chen Xuanchao and Huang Qiuzi, then dropped his concealment and attacked while claiming they had trespassed on Hidden Dragon Pool's restricted grounds.

Yue Wen ambushed two Taiji Eight Desolations Sect disciples and Lan Zhi and Fang Qingcang to take their tools for finding the Secret Realm, then followed the Mystery-Seeking Compass underwater. Meanwhile, Ji Yang learned that someone had knocked out the gatekeeping disciple and set out to protect Hidden Dragon Pool.

• Yue Wen used the Azure Dragon Claw to knock Huang Qiuzi unconscious, crushed Chen Xuanchao's Heavenly Fire Treasure Umbrella, and knocked him out as well.
• Yue Wen took Huang Qiuzi's Mystery-Seeking Compass, gave both disciples Knockout Pills, and followed the compass around the lake to an underwater location.
• Yue Wen ambushed Lan Zhi and Fang Qingcang, took Lan Zhi's Detection Instrument, gave them Knockout Pills, and hid them in the grass.
• Yue Wen entered the water and swam in the direction indicated by the Mystery-Seeking Compass.
• Ji Yang woke Junior Brother Zhang, heard that a stranger had knocked him out, and vowed to safeguard the peace of Hidden Dragon Pool.

Yue Wen discovered a dangerous light curtain leading to what might be a secret realm and tested it with his magical artifacts. Meanwhile, Ji Yang went to confront supposed intruders at Hidden Dragon Pool, only to encounter two unfamiliar and furious cultivators.

• Yue Wen used the White Jade Soul-Aspect Lion Heads to explore an underwater cavern and found a light curtain that seemed to lead into a secret realm.
• Yue Wen burned away the purple-scaled aquatic plants with the Brass Little Sword, then sent the Child Core through the light curtain and learned that the connection failed and danger awaited inside.
• Ji Yang led his junior brother into the mist, hoping to confront Lan Zhi and Fang Qingcang and restore his standing in Hidden Dragon Pool.
• Ji Yang boasted that he might have been the Breakout Tournament runner-up on sheer strength because he had lost only to Yue Wen.
• Ji Yang realized the two figures before him were unfamiliar cultivators, and the angry man urged his companion to beat up the Hidden Dragon Pool disciple.

Chen Xuanchao and Huang Qiuzi mistook Ji Yang for the disciple who had ambushed them, defeated him, and left Hidden Dragon Pool. Yue Wen entered the Azure Dragon Burial Ground, where hostile plants attacked him with wind, vines, explosions, and lightning.

• Chen Xuanchao and Huang Qiuzi discovered that their Mystic-Seeking Compass was missing and blamed the Hidden Dragon Pool disciple who had ambushed them.
• Chen Xuanchao and Huang Qiuzi attacked Ji Yang, mistaking his challenge for another assault, and overwhelmed him with their supernatural powers.
• Huang Qiuzi struck Ji Yang into a pool, and she and Chen Xuanchao left to find the Azure Dragon Burial Ground's entrance.
• Yue Wen entered the secret realm and dodged attacks from flowering plants and vines that yielded no Evil-Suppressing Money when cut down.
• Yue Wen escaped a pair of exploding flowers, a fruit-made enclosure, and a lightning strike, then noticed more plants turning toward him with killing intent.

Yue Wen fought his way through a forest of strange, aggressive plants and captured two conscious plant spirits. They led him deeper toward a palace and explained how the forest’s plants lived, leaving Yue Wen continuing his search through the secret realm.

• Yue Wen discovered that the Brass Little Sword reacted strongly to a fleeing Sun-Gathering Separation Flame Tree, then saw it combine its flames with a Raging Wind Azure Mystic Flower’s projectiles.
• Yue Wen bound the Raging Wind Azure Mystic Flower with Lightning Spirit Snake Bind and persuaded it and the Sun-Gathering Separation Flame Tree to cooperate.
• The two plant spirits told Yue Wen their species names, said a palace lay deeper in the forest, and explained that they had lived there since becoming conscious.
• The Raging Wind Azure Mystic Flower and Sun-Gathering Separation Flame Tree guided Yue Wen through the forest, where they identified its dangerous plants and showed him a Sun-Branch Immortal Dew Sunflower.
• The Raging Wind Azure Mystic Flower explained that the Sun-Branch Immortal Dew Sunflowers supplied the forest’s plants with spiritual dew and fled from outsiders because they could not fight.

Yue Wen explored a vine-covered palace in the Secret Realm and absorbed a deadly Azure Dragon’s lingering breath into the Azure Dragon Claw. Meanwhile, Lan Zhi and Fang Qingcang dealt with Ji Yang after he woke, then left him behind.

• The Three-Headed Flower Stalk led Yue Wen to a vine-covered palace and helped reveal its entrance.
• Yue Wen sent the Child Core into the Azure-Gold Great Hall, then climbed onto the throne and opened a chest.
• A manifestation of an Azure Dragon attacked Yue Wen, but it sensed the Azure Dragon Claw and merged into it, giving him the Void Realm Dao Lord’s killing intent.
• Yue Wen found a Game Coin bearing a Fox Smiley Face in the chest alongside the Dragon Breath.
• Ji Yang crawled ashore and complained about being attacked, but Lan Zhi struck him unconscious again.
• Fang Qingcang and Lan Zhi discussed the missing Detection Instrument and left Ji Yang lying in his sect’s territory.