Chapter Summaries

Yue Wen negotiated a plan to sell multiple category-exclusive sponsorships for the River City Team, and Perfected One Nagiko gave him a Jade Marrow Dragonheart Lotus seed. Ao Weisheng arrived with an urgent message: the Fox Demon who wielded the Great Dao of Illusion and Reality was still alive.

• Yue Wen persuaded Perfected One Nagiko to let the team sell separate exclusive sponsorships by category and display sponsors' names on their clothes.
• Perfected One Nagiko agreed to the sponsorship plan and gave Yue Wen a Jade Marrow Dragonheart Lotus seed to plant in Treasure Soil.
• Ao Weisheng arrived at Perfected One Nagiko's office and explained that his uncle Ao Lichen had sent him with urgent news.
• Ao Weisheng revealed that the Fox Demon who once wielded the Great Dao of Illusion and Reality had survived and deceived everyone.

Ao Weisheng told Perfected One Nagiko that the Fox Demon, believed to have been crushed beneath Kunyu Ridge, had survived and was still in River City, prompting the Dragon Hall and Azurefall Profound Gate to resume their search. After Ao Weisheng left, Nagiko explained to Yue Wen how the old suppression had helped Ao Yuanchi claim the Great Dao of Illusion and Reality and described how a cultivator’s Great Dao shaped their nature and conduct.

• Ao Weisheng reported that the Void Dragon King had discovered someone concealed River City’s secrets and that the Fox Demon who had challenged him for the Great Dao was still alive.
• Ao Weisheng said the Fox Demon was likely in River City and asked the Supernatural Affairs Bureau to help the Dragon Hall search for her.
• Perfected One Nagiko agreed to cooperate but rebuked Ao Weisheng when he invoked the Void Dragon King to intimidate her.
• After Ao Weisheng left, Nagiko told Yue Wen that Ao Yuanchi had enlisted Venerable Chongwu to suppress the Fox Demon before claiming the Great Dao of Illusion and Reality.
• Nagiko explained that cultivators’ Great Daos shaped their habits and warned Yue Wen not to trust Ao Yuanchi’s words.

Yue Wen learned the Dragon Might Perception Method from Da Long and discovered that someone had been watching River City, so he avoided contacting the Fox Demon Lady until the surveillance ended. He then traveled with City Hero to Luo River City, where hostile Divine Water Cult followers awaited them.

• Yue Wen worried that warning the Fox Demon Lady could expose his connection to her and jeopardize Perfected One Nagiko's mission, so he decided not to act rashly.
• Yue Wen asked Da Long whether a powerful observer could detect him and bought the Dragon Might Perception Method for nine ninety-eight.
• After studying the method, Yue Wen sensed a gaze watching him from above and stayed in cultivation rather than doing anything that might reveal his plans.
• Three days later, Yue Wen left River City with Xing'er, Qi Dian, and the team; the feeling of being watched disappeared once their Flying Boat left the city's Grand Formation.
• When the team arrived in Luo River City, Yue Wen sensed hostile attention, and Wang Shoucai explained that Divine Water Cult followers blamed them for defeating Liang Yan.

After escaping River City, Yue Wen and the Luo River Team arrived in Luo River City, where Divine Water Cult followers resented Yue Wen for Liang Yan’s earlier defeat. As the team settled in, Yue Wen reconsidered how to comprehend the Great Dao of Yang Metal and resolved to test his decisiveness in their next Elimination Tournament match.

• Yue Wen left River City with the Luo River Team and brushed off the hostile reception from Liang Yan’s supporters in the rain.
• Wang Shoucai explained the Divine Water Cult’s influence in Luo River City and warned the contestants about possible hotel traps and sabotage.
• The team settled into their hotel and continued cultivating, with Xing'er nearing the peak of the late Astral Realm and Yue Wen advancing toward the middle stage of the Appearance Realm.
• Yue Wen realized that his schemes and reluctance to fight head-on might hinder his comprehension of Yang Metal Dao Rhythm.
• Yue Wen decided to test his decisiveness in killing during the next Elimination Tournament match.

The River City Team inspected Luo River Team’s home arena and discovered a storm-lashed waterway that favored the Divine Water Cult’s Liang Yan. On match day, Yue Wen vowed to defeat the home team head-on, and the teams faced off amid a huge crowd and laughter at River City’s advertisement-covered uniforms.

• Wang Shoucai and Lan Zhi led the River City Team into the arena’s secret realm, where raging rain and violent currents surrounded two Fire Pools and underwater Demon Domain entrances.
• Yue Wen and the others realized the arena’s water conditions favored Liang Yan, but Yue Wen declared that the River City Team would beat Luo River Team on its own home ground.
• The host rallied the packed Luo River crowd as Gu Tianyu, Xu Baichen, Ning Xiaoyao, and Liang Yan entered to loud cheers.
• The River City Team appeared in uniforms covered with sponsor advertisements, prompting laughter from spectators and livestream viewers.
• Gu Tianyu taunted Yue Wen about cashing in before the tournament ended, and Yue Wen told Xing'er to insult him; Xing'er mocked Gu Tianyu’s hairstyle.

Yuan Ze tried to get Elder Su to wager on the match, and Elder Su accepted a bet involving an electric scooter. In the Secret Realm, the Luo River Team followed its think tank’s plan to counter Yue Wen’s tricks, leaving the teams poised for a rematch.

• Yuan Ze urged Elder Su to support River City so they could wager, but Elder Su declared he favored the Luo River Team at home.
• Yuan Ze revealed an electric scooter as the wager’s food, and Elder Su agreed that the loser would eat it.
• The Luo River think tank concluded that Yue Wen had beaten them by predicting their conventional tactics and designed a narrow, water-filled arena to restrict River City’s options.
• Gu Tianyu ordered Liang Yan into the water, where her water spirit abilities let her survey and control it.
• Ning Xiaoyao, Xu Baichen, and Gu Tianyu took ambush positions around the Fire Pool to guard against River City sneaking onto the island.

Yue Wen led the River City Team in a direct assault on the Luo River Team, and their coordinated opening attack eliminated captain Gu Tianyu within seconds. The Luo River Team’s remaining members arrived too late to save him and accused River City of fighting dishonorably.

• Yue Wen explained why the River City Team would attack head-on, then assigned Liu Yuanjun to flank the enemy while he, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian attacked together.
• Yue Wen spotted Gu Tianyu facing a rock on the island and opened with a probing sword strike as the River City Team rushed him.
• Zhao Xing'er shattered Gu Tianyu’s sword-qi defense, and Yue Wen broke the sword formed by Gu Tianyu’s man-and-sword unity.
• Yue Wen drove Gu Tianyu into the water and struck him with heavenly thunder, eliminating him before he could escape.
• Xu Baichen and Ning Xiaoyao arrived after Gu Tianyu’s elimination and complained that the River City Team was despicable.

Yue Wen’s River City Team eliminated Gu Tianyu and two more Luo River Team members through a frontal assault and Liu Yuanjun’s surprise attacks. With the remaining opponents retreating underwater, Yue Wen planned to rely on Qi Dian, who entered the water as the chapter ended.

• Yue Wen detected Ning Xiaoyao and Xu Baichen approaching, then attacked their barrier while Liu Yuanjun emerged from a spatial rift and wounded Ning Xiaoyao.
• Liu Yuanjun blocked Ning Xiaoyao’s escape, and the River City Team’s combined attack eliminated her as Xu Baichen escaped into the water.
• Yue Wen and his teammates regrouped and realized Xu Baichen and Liang Yan could use the underwater battlefield to collect the Starfire Stones.
• Yue Wen said Qi Dian was suited to underwater combat, while the commentators debated the Luo River Team’s chances.
• The commentators saw Qi Dian enter the water to confront the remaining Luo River Team members.

Yue Wen sent Qi Dian underwater to use their combined lightning powers against the Luo River Team. After Qi Dian and Yue Wen eliminated Xu Baichen with the Dian-Style Heavenly Thunder Lock, Liang Yan fled from Qi Dian’s terrifying pursuit.

• Yue Wen explained that Qi Dian would hold underwater opponents in place so the team could strike them with lightning, and Liu Yuanjun strengthened Qi Dian with a golden body.
• Yue Wen rode Qi Dian into the water, where Liang Yan attacked them with powerful torrents near a Demon Domain Entrance.
• Xu Baichen intervened, but Qi Dian grabbed him and joined Yue Wen in unleashing heavenly thunder until Xu Baichen was eliminated.
• Liang Yan tried to rescue Xu Baichen but could not approach through the lightning, leaving her alone against the River City Team.
• Yue Wen steered Qi Dian after Liang Yan while Qi Dian grinned and taunted her, frightening her into retreating.

The River City Team defeated the Luo River Team in the Elimination Tournament, with Yue Wen’s strength and tactics deciding the matches. After the victory, Yue Wen apologized to the defeated team, but Gu Tianyu praised his supposedly boundless cunning instead.

• Zhao Xing'er and Liu Yuanjun searched the Demon Domain for Starfire Stones while Yue Wen and Qi Dian kept Liang Yan occupied.
• The River City Team secured the victory, and Yuan Ze acknowledged that Yue Wen’s strength had overwhelmed the Luo River Team.
• The competitors left the secret realm, and Xing'er celebrated the team’s advance up Boundary-Suppressing Mountain.
• Liang Yan apologized to Gu Tianyu and the others, who accepted the defeat and admitted River City had outmatched them.
• Yue Wen apologized to the Luo River Team, but Gu Tianyu praised his cunning, leaving Yue Wen unable to explain that he had not planned the match that way.

Perfected One Feiguang used divination to trace the Fox Demon Lady and found clues suggesting she had a hidden master and was involved in a strange family drama. As the River City Team returned home after its historic victory, Yue Wen independently sensed Dao rhythm, but wondered whether it was really Yang Metal.

• Perfected One Nagiko watched the River City Team defeat Luo River City and told Perfected One Feiguang she planned to take Yue Wen as her personal disciple.
• Perfected One Feiguang divined with the Fox Demon Game Coins and saw the Fox Demon Lady entering a demon-filled mountain cavern obscured by blue mist.
• Perfected One Feiguang heard fragments suggesting the Fox Demon Lady had a master and was seeking someone she had wanted to find from the beginning, but the clues sounded like melodramatic romance and family drama.
• The River City Team left Luo River City for home, while Yuan Ze ate his old electric scooter on camera to fulfill his wager.
• Yue Wen tried to comprehend Yang Metal Dao rhythm aboard the flying boat and sensed a sharp, cold aura enter his consciousness sea.
• Yue Wen questioned whether the Dao rhythm he had sensed was actually Yang Metal.

Yue Wen comprehended the Yin Metal Insight Dao Rhythm, gaining a way to spy through metal objects and perform limited divination. After returning to River City and testing his new ability, he secretly divined his parents’ whereabouts and saw only a dark, endless seabed.

• Yue Wen recognized the wisp of Dao Rhythm as Yin Metal’s Insight Dao Rhythm and discovered it could serve as eyes and ears through metal objects or offer clues through divination.
• The Dragon Might Perception Method warned Yue Wen that River City was under surveillance again, which he suspected came from the Void Dragon King.
• Yue Wen and the others returned to a grand welcome ceremony, where Perfected One Nagiko jokingly claimed most of the credit and Xing'er teased Yue Wen.
• Back at the Agency, Yue Wen planted the Insight Dao Rhythm in an ear pick and received images and sounds from the living room from far away.
• Yue Wen entered the Black-Gold Great Hall and divined his parents’ whereabouts, seeing an immense, dark underwater scene with no other clues.

After divining that his missing parents might be held in the East Sea Dragon Hall, Yue Wen resolved to enter it through the Four Seas Ascendant Dragon Assembly. The next day, he went to help the Meow-Meow Cult, whose members had been beaten after invoking his name.

• Yue Wen connected the underwater vision, his parents’ research, and the clues about Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb to a possible faction in the East Sea Dragon Hall that had kidnapped his parents.
• Yue Wen paid Da Long five pieces of Evil-Suppressing Money to use the Black-Gold Great Hall.
• That night, Xing'er stole snacks from Big White’s hiding place while Big White and Qi Dian pretended to stay asleep.
• The Three Little Ones of the Meow-Meow Cult told Yue Wen that Black Meow had been captured while their Cult Leader was away, and Yue Wen agreed to help.
• Yue Wen met the injured White Meow and Orange Meow Girl outside City Seven, where White Meow explained that the monsters who beat them had done so after they mentioned Yue Wen’s name.

Yue Wen learned that the Black Tiger Gang had kidnapped Black Meow and used White Meow to investigate the Monster Club. He accompanied White Meow and Orange Meow back there, where he recognized the club’s lockers as a possible match for a key he had seized from Big Muntjac and Second Muntjac.

• White Meow and Orange Meow told Yue Wen that the Meow-Meow Cult Leader had left to explore a secret realm and had been missing for months.
• Black Meow boasted at the Monster Club that he knew Yue Wen, so several demons kidnapped him and demanded that Yue Wen meet them at an abandoned factory.
• Yue Wen agreed to rescue Black Meow, learned the kidnappers might belong to the Black Tiger Gang, and decided to gather information at the club.
• Yue Wen used Dao rhythm on White Meow’s headphones to watch and communicate with him as White Meow and Orange Meow entered the Monster Club.
• Yue Wen spotted the club’s storage lockers and suspected that key 58, taken from Big Muntjac and Second Muntjac, belonged to one of them.

Yue Wen followed White Meow and Orange Meow to rescue Black Meow from the Black Tiger Gang, whose boss had challenged him to appear. Yue Wen swiftly defeated Boss Black Tiger and suppressed the gang, only for the boss to declare himself Yue Wen's fan.

• White Meow learned that the Black Tiger Gang's boss was a Fifth Realm Great Demon and told Orange Meow they should seek stronger protection than the gang could offer.
• Yue Wen followed White Meow and Orange Meow in secret to the gang's abandoned factory, where they found Black Meow tied up and beaten.
• Boss Black Tiger appeared and demanded to meet Yue Wen, while Orange Meow warned him that Yue Wen was coming.
• Yue Wen dropped from above and struck Boss Black Tiger with a Mountain-Lifting kick, leaving him unable to resist.
• Yue Wen unleashed dragon might and made the other Tiger Demons fall to the ground.
• Boss Black Tiger looked up at Yue Wen and said he was his fan.

Yue Wen reconciled with Black Tiger, retrieved the Paozi Brothers’ belongings, and discovered a mysterious map pointing to Desolate Village Tomb No. 3. Two days later, he traveled with the River City Team to the City of Ten Thousand Immortals for the Secret Realm Tournament, still worrying about his debts.

• Black Tiger convinced Yue Wen that his gang had attacked the Three Little Ones because he was defending Yue Wen, and he explained his family’s Tiger Blood Wine business and his plans to sell legitimate liquor.
• Yue Wen made peace between Black Tiger and the Three Little Ones, who accepted his offer of a meal, and asked Black Tiger to look after them while he was away.
• Yue Wen had the Three Little Ones retrieve storage locker Number Fifty-Eight, then took them home and warned them to stay out of trouble and study.
• Yue Wen opened the Paozi Brothers’ bag, found nearly a million yuan, and solved a spirit-gold puzzle cube that revealed a map labeled Desolate Village Tomb No. 3.
• Perfected One Nagiko led the River City Team to the City of Ten Thousand Immortals for the Secret Realm Tournament, and Yue Wen wondered whether winning the championship would pay off his debts.

The River City team arrived in the City of Ten Thousand Immortals and was welcomed by Azurefall Profound Gate disciples Shen Yaoguang and Meng Yuheng. As Perfected One Nagiko took them to Sky Island, they learned that both disciples had avoided becoming chief disciple because they feared their senior sister Shi Miaozhen, who had condensed a Great Moon dharma form.

• Perfected One Nagiko showed the River City team the City of Ten Thousand Immortals and said she would take them to Azurefall Profound Gate’s Sky Island.
• Shen Yaoguang and Meng Yuheng met the team at the airport, where their fans mistook the visitors’ arrival for a chance to see the two disciples.
• Shen Yaoguang brought out a magical boat and flew Perfected One Nagiko and the River City team toward Sky Island.
• Meng Yuheng explained that he and Shen Yaoguang had avoided the chief disciple position because Shi Miaozhen would challenge whoever held it after her long seclusion.
• Meng Yuheng revealed that Shi Miaozhen had spent eight months condensing a Great Moon dharma form.

Yue Wen and the River City team arrived at the Azurefall Profound Gate’s Sky Island and learned the rules for the Secret Realm Tournament’s Battle of Demon-Suppressing City. As they prepared to compete, they debated whether to form alliances or face the other teams alone.

• Perfected One Nagiko introduced Perfected One Qinghua and Lin Youqing, then led Yue Wen and the River City team to their lodgings.
• Perfected One Nagiko asked about Shi Miaozhen and learned that she was cultivating in seclusion after making another breakthrough.
• Perfected One Nagiko summoned the team to hear Lan Zhi explain the Battle of Demon-Suppressing City’s rules and scoring system.
• Lan Zhi explained that teams could earn Demon-Suppressing Coins by completing missions and killing mutant beasts, while the sixteen highest-scoring teams would advance unless other teams were eliminated first.
• Lan Zhi warned that the team’s lack of connections made alliances difficult, and Xing'er argued that they should stand alone as fierce beasts.

Yue Wen and the River City team went out clubbing in the City of Ten Thousand Immortals with Zhao Xing'er’s friend Lin Xiaohuan, where they unexpectedly encountered Azurefall Profound Gate disciple Lin Youqing and Perfected One Qinghua. Qinghua asked them to keep his own nightclub visit secret from his disciple.

• Yue Wen discovered that Xing'er, Qi Dian, and Liu Yuanjun had been sightseeing instead of cultivating, then agreed to join them for a night out with Zhao Xing'er's friend.
• Lin Xiaohuan met the River City team and led them to a cultivator-only nightclub, where Qi Dian had to pay an entrance fee while the others entered free.
• The group encountered Lin Youqing dancing in traditional Han dress, and she asked them not to tell her master she was clubbing.
• Yue Wen and Lin Xiaohuan discussed Jinguan City's modest chances in the tournament and the difficulty of reaching the Top Sixteen.
• Yue Wen spotted Perfected One Qinghua at the nightclub with a woman, and Qinghua asked the group not to tell his disciple he had been there.

The River City Team traveled to Boundary-Suppressing Mountain to compete in the Secret Realm Tournament, where they joined the assembled teams and entered the Battle of Demon-Suppressing City. The tournament began with contestants arriving in the city, where they could take missions and earn demon-suppressing coins.

• The River City Team and Azurefall Profound Gate traveled to Boundary-Suppressing Mountain, where an identity-verification formation exposed and exploded a Demon Race spy.
• Perfected One Nagiko and Perfected One Qinghua sent their teams into the plaza with increasingly ambitious demands for tournament results.
• Xing'er eased Qi Dian's nerves by telling him that no one would praise or blame him for the outcome, and Liu Yuanjun felt less pressure as well.
• Yue Wen recognized contestants from other teams, including Yang Xiezi, Li Guantang, Li Luoci, Zhang Xiaofan, Lin Xiaohuan, the Dongfang brothers, and Liang Baitong.
• The tournament organizers transported all 105 teams into the Battle of Demon-Suppressing City, where contestants could accept missions and earn demon-suppressing coins.