Chapter Summaries

Qi Dian nearly defeated Wu Jiguang with a lightning trap before conceding, leaving the River City Team and Taiji Eight Desolations Sect tied two bouts apiece. Yue Wen then faced Wu Jiguang in the deciding match, where Wu vowed to defend his sect’s glory and Yue reminded him that he was the challenger.

• Qi Dian trapped Wu Jiguang inside the Earth King Pill and flooded it with Heavenly Thunder, badly burning him before Wu broke free.
• Qi Dian conceded as Wu prepared to strike, then returned to his teammates pleased that his attack had worked and been recorded.
• The spectators and elders discussed Qi Dian’s diligence and potential, while the first four bouts were confirmed to have ended in a two-two tie.
• Yue Wen entered the arena for the final bout, disappointing Perfected One Qinghua’s hope that the River City Team had chosen someone else as captain.
• Wu Jiguang returned after treatment and challenged Yue Wen, who said he would win and reminded Wu that he was now the challenger.

Yue Wen unsettled Wu Jiguang by fighting without his usual tricks, then broke Wu Jiguang’s Dharma Form and forced him to use the Unfixed Golden Light. As the golden light nearly struck Yue Wen, he turned to counter it with the Void Kun Bracelet.

• Yue Wen and Wu Jiguang began their match with a fierce clash between their Dharma Forms, and Yue Wen damaged Wu Jiguang’s Giant Spirit Dharma Form with a tail strike.
• Wu Jiguang grew distracted by expecting Yue Wen’s tricks, allowing Yue Wen to pierce his defenses with a Flying Sword and then shatter his Dharma Form in another collision.
• Perfected One Qinghua suspected Wu Jiguang was throwing the match, while Perfected One Feiguang and Perfected One Nagiko recognized that Yue Wen’s straightforward attacks were unsettling him.
• Yue Wen’s psychological tactic worked as planned, but Wu Jiguang regained his focus and unleashed his Unfixed Golden Light at Yue Wen.
• Yue Wen dodged the pursuing golden light with Shadow Talismans, then turned and brought out the Void Kun Bracelet.

Yue Wen defeated Wu Jiguang in the captain’s match by countering his artifacts and supernatural powers before overwhelming him in close combat. His victory secured the River City Team’s upset, and the chapter ended with two powerful observers discussing Yue Wen’s future and his place at Azurefall Profound Gate.

• Yue Wen used the Void Kun Bracelet to strip Wu Jiguang’s Unfixed Golden Light of its divine-sense connection and confiscated it.
• Yue Wen sealed Wu Jiguang’s Golden Light Supernatural Powers, then used the Xun Thunder Sword to close in and engage him in a fistfight.
• Yue Wen’s stronger physique let him overpower Wu Jiguang, and he struck Wu’s qi sea and Dantian before suppressing his supernatural arts again.
• Yue Wen knocked Wu Jiguang unconscious, while Xue Hanyang filmed the fight from below the arena.
• Perfected One Nagiko called Yue Wen the miracle behind the River City Team’s victory, and Venerable Yuezun received congratulations on taking him as her final disciple.
• A youth from Azurefall Profound Gate and a monk from Cicada-Chiming Ancient Temple discussed Yue Wen’s potential, while the youth warned the monk not to try to recruit him.

Yue Wen led the River City Team to defeat the Taiji Eight Desolations Sect, while the other quarterfinals determined the remaining semifinalists. The four teams received the right to enter the Four Seas Dragon Palace, and the Dragonkin woman gave each contestant a scale that could block a fatal attack and teleport them to safety.

• Yue Wen defeated Wu Jiguang, eliminating the Taiji Eight Desolations Sect and leaving Li Shouzhong and Xu Xiuer devastated while Xue Hanyang mocked Wu.
• Perfected One Nagiko claimed the Ancient Times Mountain God Statue from Perfected One Qinghua after their bet, and Qinghua vowed to abandon gambling.
• Dongfang Jianqi defeated Yu Xiaobao in the captains’ bout, advancing Famous Sword Middle School over the Dragon Capital Team.
• The Heavenly Nether Earth Mother Cult defeated the Five Suns Team three to one and secured the last semifinal spot.
• The four semifinalist teams gathered for an award ceremony, where a Dragonkin woman explained the Ancient Dragon Ruins selection process and gave each contestant a golden scale that could prevent a fatal blow and teleport them away.

After the competition, the Azurefall Profound Gate founder and the Red Ape discussed the danger of the Great Nightmare Wasteland Village, where the Red Ape’s true body stood guard. Back at the Sky Island, Yue Wen met Ao Weilian of the East Sea Dragon Hall, who hinted that Yue Wen’s desire to find his parents would shape his choice of Dragon Hall.

• The Azurefall Profound Gate founder and the Red Ape discussed the destruction of the Buddha Flame Grand Formation and the awakened Nightmare Wraith Creature in the Great Nightmare Wasteland Village.
• The Red Ape said he would avoid a campaign into the village for now and search for whoever had destroyed the formation, while the founder agreed to help if needed.
• The River City Team read the praise for their victory, including acclaim for Yue Wen and Qi Dian’s upset win over Wu Jiguang.
• Perfected One Nagiko brought Yue Wen to meet Ao Weilian, the East Sea Hall Master’s son, who had arrived after watching Yue Wen compete.
• Ao Weilian asked whether Yue Wen had promised to join another Dragon Hall and suggested that Yue Wen’s wish to find his parents was the reason he had waited to approach him.

Ao Weilian explained that Yue Wen’s parents had been abducted while recruited to translate an ancient text, and that a high-ranking mole in the East Sea Dragon Hall had helped steal the text. Yue Wen agreed to join the East Sea and help expose the mole, securing a chance to bring his teammates if they rank well—or all three if he wins the Dragon Gate Tournament.

• Ao Weilian told Yue Wen that the East Sea Dragon Hall had secretly recruited Yue Teng and Xu Qingwen to translate an ancient text written partly in the Nine Li script.
• Ao Weilian revealed that Yue Wen’s parents and the text had vanished in a coordinated operation, and the Dragon Hall suspected a high-ranking mole with Demon Race ties.
• Yue Wen agreed to join the East Sea Dragon Hall and help uncover the mole, asking for competitive cultivation terms and the chance to bring his teammates.
• Ao Weilian promised to prioritize Yue Wen’s teammates if they ranked highly, and to accept all three unconditionally if Yue Wen took first place in the Dragon Gate Tournament.

After the River City Team celebrated their Top Four Dragon Gate Tournament finish and received substantial rewards, Zhao Xing'er reunited with her father and accepted an apology from her Third Uncle. Zhao Shizhe then offered the team four Black Gold Treasure Fruits as a reward, each of which could strengthen a random part of the body to sixth-realm dharma-body toughness.

• Perfected One Nagiko told Yue Wen that the team had received cash rewards and lifetime access cards to the Jiangcheng City and Northern Sky Treasure Vaults.
• Yue Wen and his teammates celebrated their victory with River City, then declined an invitation to a banquet hosted by Lin Youqing.
• Xing'er invited the River City Team to dine with her father, Zhao Shizhe, in the City of Ten Thousand Immortals.
• Zhao Shitao apologized to Xing'er for his past prejudice, and she agreed to forgive him as long as he and her Eldest Uncle left her alone.
• Zhao Shizhe presented the team with four Black Gold Treasure Fruits, which could each randomly strengthen a body part to sixth-realm dharma-body toughness.

Yue Wen and his companions ate Black Gold Treasure Fruits, and Yue Wen received the rare heart enhancement that greatly increased his strength. After Zhao's Family and Qi Dian's family forgave his debts, he visited Immortal Dew Valley and persuaded the Little Wood Demons to help cultivate the newly cleared land.

• Zhao's Father gave four Black Gold Treasure Fruits to Xing'er, Yue Wen, Liu Yuanjun, and Qi Dian, who each ate one and discovered which part of their bodies had been strengthened.
• Yue Wen found that the fruit had strengthened his heart, an exceptionally rare enhancement that amplified his qi, blood, and physical strength.
• Zhao's Father and Qi Dian told Yue Wen their families would forgive the money he had borrowed, lifting his debt burden.
• Yue Wen visited Immortal Dew Valley, saw the cleared planting area, and planned to buy spirit plant seeds for it.
• Yue Wen told the Little Wood Demons that expanded planting could help him afford spirit liquid, and they eagerly agreed to tend the spirit plants.

Yue Wen bought two True Dragon martial arts techniques from Da Long and prepared to shop for seeds at the Hundred Realms Hall. The chapter left him meeting a shopping guide and stating what he wanted.

• Yue Wen asked Da Long for close-combat techniques and watched demonstrations of Ancestral Dragon Bumping Fists, Dragon God Sword-Wielding Technique, and Lone Dragon Whirlwind Tail.
• Yue Wen tried growing a tail with his growth Dao rhythm, and Da Long explained that it could grow stronger if he nourished it over time.
• Yue Wen pressured Da Long into praising his character, then bought Ancestral Dragon Bumping Fists and Dragon God Sword-Wielding Technique for 1,298 Evil-Suppressing Money.
• After receiving prize money from Jiangcheng City the next day, Yue Wen concealed his identity and visited the Hundred Realms Hall in the City of Ten Thousand Immortals.
• A shopping guide approached Yue Wen, and he told her that he wanted seeds.

Yue Wen visited Hundred Realms Hall to buy spirit plant seeds and learned about several valuable varieties that Immortal Dew Valley could grow quickly. He decided to buy every type the saleswoman had shown him, including seeds for making Dao-Enlightening Heavenly Fragrance.

• Yue Wen asked to see spirit plant seeds that matured within a hundred years and set a budget of about two hundred thousand talisman currency.
• The saleswoman showed him century hollow lotus seeds, which Yue Wen considered profitable but planned to grow mostly for his own use to avoid exposing Immortal Dew Valley.
• Yue Wen learned that seven-heart dragon-returning eye seeds needed dragon qi, a resource Immortal Dew Valley had in abundance.
• The saleswoman introduced sword-leaf frostcloud grass, nine-leaf heavenly fragrance grass, and illuminating Dao flowers, explaining their uses and cultivation benefits.
• Yue Wen decided to buy every seed variety the saleswoman had shown him.

Yue Wen invested his tournament prize money in spirit plant seeds and organized the Wood Demons Squad to cultivate them while he studied powerful True Dragon techniques. Liu Yuanjun successfully condensed a Dharma Form with a domain ability, and Yue Wen ended by confidently asserting that the River City Team’s bonds would help them win the Dragon Gate Tournament.

• Yue Wen bought large quantities of spirit plant seeds and spirit liquid, then assigned the Wood Demons Squad to plant and tend them in Immortal Dew Valley.
• Yue Wen spent his days studying Ancestral Dragon Bumping Fists and the Dragon God Sword-Wielding Technique while supervising the plantation.
• Liu Yuanjun condensed a golden lamp Dharma Form whose light let him cast arts instantly within its domain.
• Liu Yuanjun named his Dharma Form the Six Ding Six Jia Nine Palaces Stellar Radiance Mystic Gold Unrivaled Lotus Jade Firmament Celestial Pavilion Lamp.
• Perfected One Nagiko asked whether Yue Wen was confident about winning the Dragon Gate Tournament, and Yue Wen said the River City Team’s bonds would carry them through.

The competitors entered Rock Dragon City for a three-day contest to retrieve objects carrying Dragon Qi, while Yue Wen asked Da Long for help identifying the ancient ruins. Da Long recognized the city as Ao Hui’s, but was shaken by what he saw, as Perfected One Nagiko invited Perfected One Qinghua to wager on the competition.

• The competitors read the rules for retrieving Dragon Qi-bearing objects from Rock Dragon City while evading the Void Realm Dao Lord’s Remnant Thought.
• The four teams arrived outside the ancient city, discussed possible tactics, and began entering to explore.
• Yue Wen stayed behind to consult Da Long, who explained the limits of his ability to observe the city through Dao Rhythm.
• Yue Wen offered Da Long five hundred Evil-Suppressing Money to help him win, and Da Long used a Shadow Talisman to view the scene around him.
• Da Long recognized Rock Dragon City as the city Ao Hui had built and reacted with surprise and sorrow.
• Perfected One Nagiko asked the silent Perfected One Qinghua to make a wager.

Perfected One Nagiko proposed wagering the right to inherit the Yang Earth Great Dao on Yue Wen's Dragon Gate Tournament result, leaving Perfected One Qinghua to consider the gamble. Meanwhile, the River City Team explored Rock Dragon City, and Da Long revealed that the map's supposed residences and execution grounds had been a beast pen and a young-dragon playground.

• Perfected One Nagiko challenged Perfected One Qinghua to withdraw from the Great Dao succession contest if Yue Wen failed to take first place, while Qinghua hesitated and the venerables allowed them to decide.
• The River City Team entered Rock Dragon City and found a huge, ancient settlement filled with rocky structures and glowing stone spheres.
• Da Long told Yue Wen that the supposed residential district had housed mutant beasts and that its glowing spheres were aged beast dung, so Yue Wen led the team deeper into the city.
• The team reached stone pillars marked with scales and blood, which Liu Yuanjun identified as an ancient execution ground according to the map.
• Da Long corrected the map, explaining that the pillars had been a playground where young dragons climbed, played, and shed their scales.

Yue Wen and the River City Team explored Rock Dragon City while Da Long corrected the Dragonkin scholars’ mistaken ideas about the ruins. The team found ancient battle banners infused with dragon qi, while Perfected One Qinghua accepted Perfected One Nagiko’s wager, believing Yue Wen’s cautious strategy would fail.

• Yue Wen’s team passed the Execution Grounds and Seclusion Grounds, where Da Long revealed that the supposed cultivation area had been a toilet drained by an ancient river.
• Da Long explained that the supposed planting grounds had been a place where adult dragons gathered to enjoy Dragon Catnip, and that the tattered battle banners had been used to intensify their qi and blood.
• Yue Wen chose the battle banners as the team’s first target because they contained the most concentrated dragon qi.
• Perfected One Feiguang questioned why the River City Team kept advancing without searching, while Perfected One Nagiko trusted Yue Wen’s confidence.
• Perfected One Qinghua decided Yue Wen’s team was playing too safely and accepted Nagiko’s wager, convinced he could win the Yang Earth Great Dao.

Yue Wen and the River City Team explored Rock Dragon City and found Ao Hui’s final message hidden in Dragon Script, revealing how a fallen immortal destroyed the Rock Dragon Clan. Yue Wen connected the account to the Dragon-Elephant Kingdom and the Whale-Swallowing Demon Sea, then asked Da Long where the Dragon Clan had gone; Da Long said they had left to take care of a few things.

• Xing'er touched the tattered cloth on the flagpole, triggering Rock Dragon City’s Remnant Thought, and quickly let go to stop its attack.
• The River City Team searched farther into the city and discovered the ruined Dragon King Palace, where they found signs of a fierce battle and dried blood on the throne.
• Yue Wen read Ao Hui’s final words in Dragon Script, learning that Yang Bailao, the Lord of the Dragon-Elephant Kingdom, had led demons to destroy the Rock Dragon Clan and steal their corpses.
• Yue Wen memorized the Rock Dragon Seal and connected Ao Hui’s fate to Ao Ye’s death and the dragon corpse found in the Whale-Swallowing Demon Sea.
• Yue Wen asked Da Long where the Dragon Clan had gone after leaving the Human Realm, and Da Long replied that they had gone out to take care of a few things.

Yue Wen learned that Ao Hui had hidden the Rock Dragon Clan’s treasures in a vault the Dragonkin could not open, and decided to leave it undiscovered during the tournament. When River City’s team took the tattered battle flags, a resentful Dragon King spirit attacked, forcing them to unveil their fifth-generation Combined Supernatural Powers and break through its dragon-claw prison.

• Da Long explained that the Dragonkin could not decipher Dragon Script or open Ao Hui’s hidden Treasure Vault, so Yue Wen decided to return for it after the tournament.
• Yue Wen’s team found nothing in the ruined palace and returned to the Planting Ground to collect its eight tattered battle flags.
• As the four members stripped the flags from the poles, Rock Dragon City’s resentful spirit summoned a dragon claw and attacked them.
• Yue Wen led the team in forming their fifth-generation Thunderfire Golden Jet, with Liu Yuanjun’s Golden Lamp Domain strengthening their defenses and speed.
• The spirit surrounded the team with thousands of dragon claws, but Xing’er became a golden giant and smashed a path through them with the Golden Star Sword, shocking the spectators.

Yue Wen’s River City Team escaped the Remnant Thought’s underground trap and raced toward the city gate in their upgraded Thunderfire Golden Jet, astonishing the spectators and rival teams. As the Heavenly Nether Earth Mother Cult blocked their path with a rock wall, Yue Wen ordered Liu Yuanjun to open a Spatial Rift.

• Yue Wen directed Xing’er to drill the Combined Supernatural Powers out of the earth before the Remnant Thought could bury them.
• The River City Team sped past the Azurefall Profound Gate disciples, who marveled at the team’s speed and perfectly balanced Combined Supernatural Powers.
• Dongfang Jianqi saw Yue Wen’s team pass and chose not to interfere, deciding to preserve goodwill for possible future cooperation.
• The Thunderfire Golden Jet raced past the Famous Sword Middle School team and reached the Residential Area, where the Heavenly Nether Earth Mother Cult prepared to intercept it.
• Xu Lingchan activated a Formation that raised a thick rock wall in front of the jet, prompting Yue Wen to order Liu Yuanjun to open a Spatial Rift.

The River City Team escaped Rock Dragon City and devastated the Heavenly Nether Earth Mother Cult’s ambush with their upgraded Combined Supernatural Powers. At the Dragon Qi measurement pillars, the other teams’ offerings produced modest results, while the River City Team’s ragged Battle Banner scraps sent its pillar’s light soaring past a hundred meters.

• Liu Yuanjun’s Golden Lamp Dharma Form let the River City Team open a spatial rift, jump past a barrier, and unleash Yue Wen’s Star-Splitting Shadow-Sweeping Art on their pursuers.
• Yue Wen’s bombardment eliminated Fang Qingyuan and Xie Ping, while Xu Lingchan and Meng Youjun survived and escaped underground.
• The River City Team and the other competitors regrouped outside Rock Dragon City, where Yue Wen greeted Fang Qingyuan and Xie Ping before the teams measured their collected Dragon Qi.
• Shi Miaozhen’s team contributed sand, Dongfang Jianqi’s dragon scales raised his pillar’s light above six meters, and Xu Lingchan and Meng Youjun shared their Gemstones equally with their two teammates.
• Yue Wen dropped scraps of the River City Team’s Battle Banner into the groove, and its pillar’s light surged past a hundred meters, stunning the other teams.

Yue Wen’s cloth strips produced an overwhelming lead in the Dragon Gate Tournament, prompting the other teams to prepare a joint effort against him. The chapter ended with the Second Generation Anti-Yue Alliance agreeing to blockade Rock Dragon City’s gate and prevent River City from gaining more dragon qi.

• Yue Wen’s dragon-qi pillar rose nearly two hundred meters, while Xing'er, Liu Yuanjun, and Qi Dian also raised pillars with their cloth strips.
• Meng Yuheng told Yue Wen that Azurefall Profound Gate would still compete for first place, and the two exchanged a courteous handshake despite being rivals.
• Perfected One Qinghua predicted that the other teams would seek Magical Artifact fragments and target River City the next day.
• Shen Yaoguang gathered the other three teams in a soundproof Formation, where Xu Lingchan and Shi Miaozhen supported forming an alliance against Yue Wen.
• Meng Yuheng proposed that the teams search Rock Dragon City while guarding its gate, using Spring and Autumn Silkworm silk attached to Yue Wen to track and avoid him.
• The gathered disciples formed the Second Generation Anti-Yue Alliance and shouted their resolve to defeat Yue Wen.

Yue Wen overheard the Anti-Yue Alliance’s plans and entered Rock Dragon City with his team, while Meng Yuheng secretly used the eavesdropping to feed him false information and prepare an ambush. The alliance attacked the River City Team inside the prison, but Yue Wen’s sealing Dao Rhythm exposed their trap, and he struck back from above.

• Yue Wen used the yin metal Dao Rhythm hidden on Meng Yuheng’s robe to eavesdrop on the Anti-Yue Alliance and reassured his team that they could avoid the planned blockade.
• Yue Wen and his teammates entered Rock Dragon City ahead of the other teams and searched an enormous building that Da Long revealed had once been a casino.
• Meng Yuheng’s allies gathered outside the prison and revealed that their talk of blocking the city gates had been staged to deceive Yue Wen.
• Meng Youjun weakened the River City Team’s perception with the Great Dream Immortal Ascension Method, and the Anti-Yue Alliance launched coordinated attacks on all four teammates.
• Yue Wen’s sealing Dao Rhythm prohibited ranged supernatural powers, revealing that the figure they had targeted was a decoy, and Yue Wen attacked them from overhead.