Chapter Summaries

The tournament organizers voted not to interfere after Yue Wen tamed the Azure Sky Azure Dragon Python, while the River City Team and Azurefall Profound Gate gained popularity. That night, six major factions allied against Yue Wen and planned to tame the next exotic beast, leaving their attempt set for the following night.

• Perfected One Delong reported that the organizers had voted five to four to let Yue Wen keep competing with the Azure Sky Azure Dragon Python.
• Perfected One Feiguang explained that the River City Team's popularity had surged and that the Azurefall Profound Gate had risen to first place in the support rankings.
• Xu Lingchan, Fang Qingyuan, and other Heavenly Prodigies gathered with representatives of four great immortal sects, Dragon Capital, and Sky Sea to discuss Yue Wen.
• Xu Lingchan proposed that the six factions try to tame the third exotic beast when it appeared the next night, then attack Ancient Wood Mountain whether they succeeded or failed.
• Xue Hanyang said he would watch Cloudflame Valley for the likely fire-attributed beast and try to tame it with his Immortal Body.

The Six Great Sects Alliance found the Netherfire Qilin Beast in a cave at Cloudflame Valley, where Xue Hanyang tried to subdue it and was killed. Yu Xiaobao fled from the beast and raced toward the others, cursing whoever had suggested it could be tamed.

• Meng Youjun divined that the next exotic beast was fire-attributed, and the Six Great Sects Alliance traveled to Cloudflame Valley.
• After the light curtain announced the Netherfire Qilin Beast’s sighting, Meng Youjun located it in a cave, and Xue Hanyang and Yu Xiaobao headed there.
• Xue Hanyang entered the cave, used the Nine Nether Divine Fire to signal goodwill, and demanded that the beast become his spirit pet.
• The Netherfire Qilin Beast attacked Xue Hanyang, who escaped the flames but was swallowed and killed when the beast pursued him.
• Yu Xiaobao fled from the Netherfire Qilin Beast despite invoking his Qilin Immortal Body, shouting for help as he ran toward the others.

Yue Wen persuaded the Ancient Wood Mountain compound to strike the six-faction alliance, then used the Azure Sky Azure Dragon Python and its magical artifacts to disrupt their siege of the Netherfire Qilin Beast. The chapter ended with the python badly wounding the beast and Yue Wen appearing through the poison mist to join the surprise attack.

• Yue Wen argued that the allied factions would target the compound regardless, so the group agreed to compete for the new mutant beast and catch them off guard.
• Meng Yuheng reported that the four other Great Immortal Sects had joined the Dragon Capital Team and the Sky Sea Team in an alliance.
• The six factions surrounded the Netherfire Qilin Beast in Cloudflame Valley and battered it until it neared death.
• Shi Miaozhen broke through the alliance's formation, and the Azure Sky Azure Dragon Python entered the valley amid poison mist.
• The python used the Sword-Thunder Spike to smash Liang Baitong's dharma form and the Light-Fixing Pearl to freeze the alliance's attacks.
• The python struck the weakened Netherfire Qilin Beast with its hammer, and Yue Wen emerged from the mist with his sword as the alliance realized he had launched the surprise attack.

Yue Wen slew the Netherfire Qilin Beast, earned a new magical artifact, and returned to Demon-Suppressing City to collect his rewards. With enemies watching Liu Yuanjun, the two made a plan that ended with Liu Yuanjun deliberately getting arrested.

• Yue Wen used Dragon King's Edict: Dragonflame Slash to kill the Netherfire Qilin Beast and retreated with the Azure Sky Azure Dragon Python as the Six Great Sects Alliance held back.
• The Light Curtain announced that Yue Wen had slain the third mutant beast and earned seventy strings of Demon-Suppressing Coins.
• Yue Wen slipped past watchers into Demon-Suppressing City and collected his reward, including the Kirin Pouch, which could summon ghost souls formed from Nine Nether Divine Fire.
• Yue Wen returned to Liu Yuanjun, who said the inn no longer felt safe and proposed going to jail to protect the team's assets.
• Liu Yuanjun was detained for harassing a male contestant and sentenced to spend a day tied up outside the government office.

Zhan Ying was captured while attempting to rob a lone contestant, and Yang Xiezi revealed his plan to join Yue Wen’s Park District with the bandits as a pledge of allegiance. In the Viewing Room, Azurefall Profound Gate elders argued over Yue Wen’s conduct as Perfected One Nagiko and Perfected One Qinghua wagered on whether the River City Team would reach the top sixteen.

• Zhan Ying left the Red Bamboo Forest determined to avoid prison and set up an ambush near a mission location.
• Zhan Ying attacked a young contestant with his puppet, but the contestant trapped him in black ice with a controlling supernatural power.
• Yang Xiezi and his teammates revealed that they had lured and captured three bandits to offer Yue Wen as their pledge of allegiance to join the Park District.
• Yang Xiezi explained that he wanted to join Yue Wen because Yue had become the secret realm’s center of attention.
• Perfected One Nagiko refused to confront the elders protesting outside the Viewing Room, while Perfected One Qinghua criticized Yue Wen and predicted the River City Team would be eliminated.
• Perfected One Nagiko wagered her Jade Marrow Dragonheart Lotus seeds against Perfected One Qinghua’s Southern Heaven Palace-Suppressing Grass on whether the River City Team would make the top sixteen, and Qinghua accepted.

Yue Wen welcomed Yang Xiezi and his team into Red Bamboo Forest, where they brought captured bandits to be fined and put to work. Meanwhile, the Six-Sect Alliance blamed Yue Wen for their failed attack and planned to raid his Park District if he went after the next mutant beast.

• Yue Wen returned to Red Bamboo Forest and agreed to discuss Yang Xiezi joining the Park District with the Azurefall Profound Gate.
• Yang Xiezi brought three frozen bandits to Red Bamboo Forest for reform through labor, and Lin Youqing recognized Zhan Ying as a repeat prisoner.
• Xu Lingchan told the Six-Sect Alliance to treat Yue Wen as a ruthless opponent as the tournament entered its more violent late stage.
• Meng Youjun proposed attacking the Park District if Yue Wen left to fight for the fourth mutant beast, and Ling Luochen supported the plan.
• Yu Xiaobao asked whether the alliance should accept another team's Demon-Suppressing Coins in exchange for compensation outside the secret realm, and the gathered Heavenly Prodigies denied that they would use such a deal.

Yue Wen suspected that Meng Youjun was watching him and used the chance to lure the Immortal Sect alliance into attacking the Red Bamboo Forest. As the alliance ran into the Azure Sky Azure Dragon Python and a barrage of attacks, Yue Wen, Xing'er, and Qi Dian continued toward the Vast Sea Heaven-Swallowing Fish.

• Yue Wen realized the contestants were being eliminated rapidly and considered how to strengthen River City Team's chances of reaching the Top Sixteen.
• Using the Insight Dao Rhythm, Yue Wen identified the watcher as likely Meng Youjun and suspected the alliance planned to raid the Red Bamboo Forest while he was away.
• After the Vast Sea Heaven-Swallowing Fish appeared near Misty Sky Lake, Meng Youjun saw Yue Wen heading toward it and led the alliance to attack the Red Bamboo Forest.
• Liang Baitong found the Azure Sky Azure Dragon Python hiding in the forest, and the alliance was caught between its poison mist and a barrage of attacks.
• Yue Wen, Xing'er, and Qi Dian maintained their mist disguise as they flew toward the Mutant Beast, trusting the defenses left at the plantation.

Yue Wen freed the Park District prisoners and used them to ambush the Six Great Sects Alliance alongside the Azurefall Profound Gate and the Azure Sky Azure Dragon Python. The alliance escaped after Dongfang Jianqi revealed the Sword of Heaven, but the Sky Sea Team was wiped out, and Yue Wen earned a reward for slaying the fourth mutant beast.

• Yue Wen promised the Park District prisoners their freedom and the spoils from any attackers they killed if they joined the defense.
• Zhan Ying led the freed prisoners in a surprise attack as poison mist, the Azurefall Profound Gate, and the Azure Sky Azure Dragon Python trapped the Six Great Sects Alliance in the Red Bamboo Forest.
• Dongfang Jianqi unleashed the Sword of Heaven to open an escape route, and Liang Baitong held off the Azurefall Profound Gate while the alliance fled.
• Shi Miaozhen and Lin Youqing discussed the political risks of eliminating too many rival sect contestants, while the alliance regrouped more than a hundred li away and learned the Sky Sea Team had been wiped out.
• Dongfang Jianqi saw a Light Curtain announcement that Yue Wen had slain the fourth mutant beast and earned eighty strings of Demon-Suppressing Coins.

Yue Wen killed the Vast Sea Heaven-Swallowing Fish after the contestants and hidden experts weakened it, securing another mutant-beast victory. The Heavenly Prodigies of the major sects realized they had only one chance left to stop him from claiming every kill and vowed to fight for their dignity.

• The Vast Sea Heaven-Swallowing Fish attacked the contestants gathered around Mist Mountain Lake, swallowing some and blasting the rest with a hurricane.
• A Netherfire Qilin Beast struck the fish, while hidden attacks and Yang Xiezi's Black Tortoise Dharma Form wounded it and froze the lake beneath it.
• Yue Wen advanced through the fish's final black storm and killed it with Dragon King's Edict: Dragonflame Slash, claiming the Evil-Suppressing Money and Demon-Suppressing Coins.
• The Heavenly Prodigies of the six major sects watched Yue Wen claim victories on both fronts and heard Yu Xiaobao warn that they had only one chance left.
• Xu Lingchan, Liang Baitong, and Wu Jiguang vowed that the next mutant beast would be their Battle for Dignity and that they would stop Yue Wen from taking another kill.

Yue Wen collected a defensive magical artifact and entered seclusion to attempt a cultivation breakthrough. When the Anti-Yue Alliance tracked down the Chaos Earth King Worm, Wu Jiguang tore it in two, only for both halves to regenerate and devour him.

• Yue Wen collected the Void Kun Bracelet and Demon-Suppressing Silver from the government office, then booked an inn room to cultivate with Qi Dian and Xing'er.
• After two days, the Chaos Earth King Worm appeared, and Meng Youjun located it beneath Spirit Abyss Marsh.
• The Anti-Yue Alliance gathered at the marsh and confirmed Yue Wen was still cultivating in Demon-Suppressing City.
• Xu Lingchan and Fang Qingyuan forced the Chaos Earth King Worm out of the ground, and the Heavenly Prodigies surrounded it.
• Wu Jiguang tore the Chaos Earth King Worm in two, but both halves regenerated and bit him in half before consuming him.

Yue Wen comprehended the Yin Wood Great Dao’s growth dao rhythm and bought a dragon earth-digging method after divining that the final mutant beast was underground. Outside the city, the Immortal Sect prodigies struggled to defeat the multiplying Chaos Earth King Earthworms while Meng Youjun kept watch on Yue Wen, who remained in the inn.

• Yue Wen broke through to the middle stage of the Appearance Realm and comprehended the Yin Wood Great Dao’s growth dao rhythm, gaining the ability to extend or multiply parts of his body.
• Yue Wen grew a motionless copy of himself, then used the insight dao rhythm to divine that the final mutant beast was underground and bought the Thick Earth Soaring Dragon Method from Da Long.
• The Chaos Earth King Earthworm split into three after the Immortal Sect prodigies attacked it, and Meng Youjun’s Great Dream Immortalization Art disrupted one beast’s mind without killing it.
• Liang Baitong used the Vajra Buddha Flame to burn one Chaos Earth King Earthworm, but it tore itself in half and escaped underground.
• Xu Lingchan asked about Yue Wen, and Meng Youjun confirmed that Yue Wen was still cultivating in the inn, leaving the Immortal Sect prodigies confident he would not interfere.

Yue Wen learned the Thick Earth Soaring Dragon Art and discovered that burning the Chaos Earth King Earthworm’s split-off segments earned him Evil-Suppressing Money. He relentlessly hunted the multiplying creature underground, while Xu Lingchan’s team searched in vain for the final kill.

• The Anti-Yue Alliance burned one Chaos Earth King Earthworm, then killed two more segments but received no kill announcement because other contestants were hunting them too.
• Xu Lingchan reasoned that the earthworm had split into many segments and ordered her team to search the secret realm and kill every one before the competition ended.
• Yue Wen tested the Thick Earth Soaring Dragon Art underground while Qi Dian and Xing'er went to pick up Liu Yuanjun from prison.
• Yue Wen found a Chaos Earth King Earthworm, cut it in two, and discovered that the Netherfire Qilin Beast could burn its segments to ash and earn him ten Evil-Suppressing Money coins each.
• Yue Wen marked one earthworm segment with a Shadow Talisman, then repeatedly split and burned unmarked segments, collecting hundreds of coins as he chased the creature through the secret realm.

Yue Wen relentlessly hunted the Chaos Earth King Earthworm, repeatedly cutting and burning its doppelgangers until he killed the fifth mutant beast. The announcement devastated the Anti-Yue Alliance, whose members realized Yue Wen had won despite their efforts to track and stop him.

• Yue Wen caught the weakened Chaos Earth King Earthworm, forced it to regenerate, and repeatedly fed and cut it while the Nine Nether Fire Qilin burned its doppelgangers for rewards.
• The Chaos Earth King Earthworm remained alive near dusk, while teams across the secret realm fought fiercely over Demon-Suppressing Coins and qualification.
• Xu Lingchan and the Anti-Yue Alliance searched for the earthworm as Meng Youjun sensed its terror but could not locate it.
• The announcement declared that Yue Wen had killed the fifth mutant beast and earned ninety strings of Demon-Suppressing Coins.
• The Anti-Yue Alliance learned Yue Wen was still in the inn and could not explain how he had killed the earthworm, leaving its members devastated by their defeat.

Yue Wen killed the Chaos Earth King Earthworm, secured River City Team’s enormous coin lead, and bought the Green Bamboo Dragonbone Fan. After distributing magical artifacts to his teammates, he waited for the tournament to end, and the announcement confirmed that the sixteen remaining teams had qualified and would be ranked by their Demon-Suppressing Coins.

• Yue Wen’s prolonged use of pills kept the Chaos Earth King Earthworm alive until its last doppelganger died, earning him the kill and its reward.
• Yue Wen calculated that River City Team had saved six hundred strings of Demon-Suppressing Coins, enough to secure first place.
• Yue Wen collected the Earth King Pill reward and spent three hundred strings to buy the Green Bamboo Dragonbone Fan from Master Fan.
• Yue Wen distributed magical artifacts to Xing'er, Qi Dian, and Liu Yuanjun, who accepted one after his teammates praised his loyalty.
• River City Team stayed in the city until an announcement declared that the sixteen remaining teams had qualified and would be ranked by their Demon-Suppressing Coins.

Yue Wen and the River City Team finished second in the secret-realm rankings and drew the Hetu Team, followed by a likely clash with the Taiji Eight Desolations Sect. After the competitors returned to Boundary-Suppressing Mountain, powerful observers around the world focused on Yue Wen, while Perfected One Nagiko shielded him from hostile scrutiny.

• The rankings placed River City second behind Azurefall Profound Gate, with Hetu fifteenth, Xinghai fourteenth, and Meijiang sixteenth.
• Yue Wen realized River City would face the Hetu Team and might then have to defeat the Taiji Eight Desolations Sect to reach the final-four Dragon Gate Tournament.
• The competitors left in the secret realm were transported to Boundary-Suppressing Mountain, where the Immortal Sect Heavenly Prodigies awkwardly avoided discussing their private arrangements for sharing Demon-Suppressing Coins.
• Yue Wen sensed countless powerful observers watching him, as viewers around the world focused on him after his performance in the tournament.
• Perfected One Nagiko appeared, blocked the hostile gazes, praised Yue Wen, and told him not to reveal that she had taught him his methods.

After Yue Wen led the River City Team to victory in the Secret Realm Tournament, Perfected One Nagiko promised to take him as her personal disciple and warned him about the dangers his fame might bring. Back at their lodging, Yue Wen discovered his sudden popularity and prepared to meet representatives from the Western Sea Dragon Palace, while Su Renxue and Ji Yang celebrated receiving his congratulatory replies.

• Perfected One Qinghua reprimanded Lin Youqing for enjoying the secret realm’s unscrupulous schemes, while Perfected One Nagiko openly celebrated Yue Wen’s success.
• Perfected One Nagiko told Yue Wen she would take him as her personal disciple, advised him to turn down recruitment offers through her, and warned him to be cautious.
• Yue Wen returned with the Azurefall Profound Gate and found that his tournament performance had drawn millions of new followers and a flood of messages.
• Perfected One Nagiko told Yue Wen that the Western Sea Dragon Palace had come to recruit him and instructed him not to answer them directly.
• Su Renxue and Ji Yang received personalized congratulatory replies from Yue Wen and each took pride in his message.

Ao Disha offered Yue Wen an early golden invitation to join the Western Sea Dragon Palace, but Yue Wen deferred his decision to Perfected One Nagiko. After Ao Disha left, he and Hao Tiansheng got into a loud argument outside the River City team's courtyard.

• Ao Disha praised Yue Wen's tournament performance and offered him a Western Sea Dragon Palace golden invitation, explaining the Dragon Halls' training and the Dao Source Contest.
• Yue Wen declined to accept the invitation immediately, saying he needed Perfected One Nagiko's approval because the River City Team was under her control.
• Perfected One Nagiko told Ao Disha that his time was up, and he left Yue Wen a gold business card while inviting Nagiko to discuss terms with the Western Sea.
• Ao Disha met Hao Tiansheng outside the courtyard, and the two Dragonkin traded insults until Azurefall Profound Gate elders separated them.

Yue Wen weighed lavish recruitment offers from the Southern and Northern Sea Dragon Halls while waiting for the East Sea Dragon Hall, which he suspected might be connected to his parents’ disappearance. The chapter ended with Perfected One Delong secretly teleporting into Yue Wen’s room to ask him to become his disciple.

• Hao Tiansheng offered Yue Wen cultivation resources, prize money, and magical artifacts to join the Southern Sea Dragon Hall, but Yue Wen said he needed to consult others.
• Gao Shenxue offered Yue Wen matching top-tier benefits and the chance to marry one of two Dragonkin widows and become a stepfather to their children, but he deferred the decision to Perfected One Nagiko.
• Perfected One Nagiko assured Perfected One Qinghua that Yue Wen would remain her disciple and demanded the Southern Heaven Palace-Suppressing Fruit she had won from him in a bet.
• Yue Wen wondered why the East Sea Dragon Hall had not come and considered whether it might be tied to his parents’ disappearance.
• Xing'er announced that she would begin condensing her Dharma Form, and Perfected One Nagiko promised the River City Supernatural Affairs Bureau would cover the materials.
• Perfected One Delong secretly teleported into Yue Wen’s room and asked him to become his disciple.

Yue Wen resisted Perfected One Delong’s effort to recruit him as a disciple and began examining the Green Bamboo Dragonbone Fan. Its Dragon Script revealed a farewell letter from Ao Xiang to Brother Ao Ye, describing the dragons’ migration and her belief that Ao Ye would return.

• Yue Wen told Perfected One Delong that he had promised Perfected One Nagiko he would become her Personal Disciple, and suggested the two decide who would teach him.
• Perfected One Delong urged Yue Wen to join his branch of the Azurefall Profound Gate, promised him guidance and future opportunities, then left through Yue Wen’s room without using the courtyard entrance.
• Yue Wen refined the Green Bamboo Dragonbone Fan and discovered that it produced a powerful vitality Dao rhythm that could heal injuries and counter poisons.
• Yue Wen noticed Dragon Script hidden in the fan’s landscape and used the Dragon Jie Induction Method to read a letter from Ao Xiang to Brother Ao Ye.
• Ao Xiang wrote that she had been mortally wounded while searching for Ao Ye, had chosen to remain in the Human Realm, and believed he was alive and would return to pass on the Golden Fire.

Yue Wen reflected on Ao Xiang’s final message and read the Human Realm’s hostile reactions to his actions, while the River City Team prepared for their next match. Zhao Xing’er reached the Appearance Realm, revealed a powerful humanoid tyrannosaur Dharma Form, and unlocked the Silver Staff’s third form, which transformed into silver wings.

• Yue Wen sensed Ao Xiang’s joy through the Green Bamboo Dragonbone Fan after telling her he would keep her company with Ao Ye’s Azure Dragon Pearl.
• Yue Wen read online comments that condemned him and doubted the River City Team could defeat the Hetu Team.
• An explosion and a pillar of light revealed that Zhao Xing’er had successfully condensed her Dharma Form.
• Zhao Xing’er manifested a humanoid tyrannosaur Dharma Form with divine fire and dragon armor abilities.
• Zhao Xing’er activated the Silver Staff’s newly unlocked third form, which became a pair of silver wings.