Chapter Summaries

Yue Wen anticipated the Second Generation Anti-Yue Alliance’s ambush and used his Sealing Dao Rhythm to force a close-combat battle. He and Xing'er overwhelmed the attackers, then chased the surviving Immortal Sect Heavenly Prodigies as they fled.

• Yue Wen had Qi Dian detect the ambush, and the River City Team took their planned positions as the Anti-Yue Alliance attacked.
• Yue Wen sealed ranged Supernatural Powers and knocked Shi Miaozhen down with a redirected strike, while Xing'er defeated Xu Lingchan and sent Swordsman A flying.
• Yue Wen used his swordsmanship to wound Dongfang Jianqi, cut Swordsman C's throat, and cripple Swordsman B.
• Xing'er struck Shen Yaoguang away and joined Yue Wen as the remaining attackers lost heart and retreated.
• Yue Wen and Xing'er pursued the fleeing Immortal Sect Heavenly Prodigies.

As Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er crushed the Anti-Yue Alliance’s ambush, Meng Yuheng and Lin Youqing discovered a hidden Dao Rhythm in Rock Dragon City. Its eruption swept through the city with dragon shadows, revealing that the tournament had entered its true test.

• Meng Yuheng explained to Lin Youqing that staying out of the ambush would preserve their strength and benefit the Azurefall Profound Gate whichever side won.
• Perfected One Qinghua praised Meng Yuheng’s strategy, while Perfected One Nagiko challenged his confidence that the River City Team would lose its lead.
• Yue Wen used a false body to mislead the attackers, then he and Zhao Xing'er overwhelmed the Anti-Yue Alliance and injured or eliminated several opponents.
• Venerables discussed Yue Wen’s martial skill and Dao comprehension, while Zhao Shizhe considered sending Zhao Xing'er to join the Azurefall Profound Gate.
• Meng Yuheng resonated with a hidden Dao Rhythm beside Lin Youqing, triggering a citywide ripple that filled Rock Dragon City with dragon shadows.
• Perfected One Delong revealed that the anomaly was part of the tournament’s design and marked the competitors’ entry into the real Rock Dragon City.

Yue Wen and Xing'er drove off the injured Anti-Yue Alliance, but a Spiritual Power storm transformed Rock Dragon City into a Nightmare Realm. As dragon apparitions attacked the scattered teams, Yue Wen was separated from his companions and trapped in a coffin that began consuming his strength.

• Yue Wen and Xing'er returned to Qi Dian and Liu Yuanjun after the Anti-Yue Alliance fled, and Yue Wen urged the team to keep moving before their enemies recovered.
• A Spiritual Power storm changed Rock Dragon City into a dark, icy Nightmare Realm filled with Yin Qi and dragon cries, catching the River City Team and Meng Yuheng and Lin Youqing in different places.
• Meng Yuheng hid with Lin Youqing from the Nightmare Wraith Creatures, then realized the ground was rising around them and forming a dragon's head that swallowed them.
• Dragon claws attacked the River City Team, so Yue Wen used Combined Supernatural Powers to try to escape the maze while Liu Yuanjun opened a Spatial Rift.
• The rift sent Yue Wen alone into a sealed underground coffin, where a cold energy began draining his Qi, blood, and Spiritual Power.

Trapped in a yin earth coffin in Rock Dragon City, Yue Wen used Da Long’s pointers to understand the Dao rhythm of containment, gained insight into earth poison, and escaped. Outside, the spectators watched his breakthrough and discussed how his extraordinary fortune aided his comprehension.

• Yue Wen realized that yin earth containment absorbed and diverted his power rather than sealing it, after Da Long sold him a few pointers for a hundred Evil-Suppressing Money.
• Yue Wen comprehended the earth poison Dao rhythm and learned to permeate the yin earth with his spiritual power instead of trying to break through by force.
• Yue Wen pushed open his coffin and thanked Da Long, who offered to refund him fifty.
• Perfected One Delong explained that contestants trapped in the coffins had about two hours before the yin earth refined them and that escaping would qualify them to enter Rock Dragon City.
• Perfected One Nagiko, Venerable Xuanting, and Venerable Yuezun reacted to Yue Wen’s insight, while Venerable Chongwu agreed that Yue Wen’s fortune helped draw Dao rhythms to him.

Sword Immortal Chen, the monk, and the youth discussed the Dragon Gate Tournament’s focus on combat ability and praised Yue Wen’s fortune and potential. After escaping his grave, Yue Wen exposed a Clay Effigy disguised as Qi Dian, but was swallowed by the black hair of a Zhao Xing’er impostor just as the real Xing’er appeared.

• Sword Immortal Chen arrived and described killing a Demon King while hunting the Rainbow Faction’s Blue Throne.
• The three observers discussed the tournament’s combat-focused selection and admired Yue Wen’s comprehension, fortune, and Sword Cultivator potential.
• Yue Wen escaped his coffin, destroyed a Lantern Monster, and found contestants’ names on graves throughout the cemetery.
• Yue Wen smashed a Clay Effigy disguised as Qi Dian, then opened Xing’er’s grave and freed the figure inside.
• The real Xing’er ran toward Yue Wen, revealing that the Zhao Xing’er he had rescued was an impostor whose hair engulfed him.

Yue Wen and Xing'er defeated nightmare wraiths and reunited with Qi Dian in Ao Hui's nightmare realm, where they gathered fragments of ancient magical artifacts. Yue Wen discovered that a sharp, broken blade came from an invading demon, and his blood began transforming into a tiny dragon-shaped phantom.

• Yue Wen used Divine Light Art to burn and destroy a phantom Zhao Xing'er, then collected the scale lang silk artifact fragment.
• Xing'er reunited with Yue Wen, and they exposed a disguised Qi Dian before realizing the real Qi Dian had escaped his coffin and joined them.
• Yue Wen, Xing'er, and Qi Dian cleared a graveyard of nightmare wraith creatures and collected magical artifact fragments.
• Da Long identified a broken bronze sword tip as a demon-forged weapon stained with the blood of a high-realm True Dragon, and Yue Wen decided to keep it.
• A drop of Yue Wen's blood bubbled and released its spirituality, forming a tiny dragon-shaped phantom.

Yue Wen and Meng Yuheng met in the Nightmare Realm and cautiously parted ways after defeating a skeletal dragon. Yue Wen devised a scheme to trick other teams with a powerful-looking creature that contained almost no dragon qi, while Dongfang Jianqi later spotted nine dragons pulling a coffin.

• Yue Wen discovered that his dragon-qi-rich blood could become a Nightmare Wraith Creature under his control, then set out with Xing'er and Qi Dian to look for Liu Yuanjun.
• Meng Yuheng and Lin Youqing destroyed a skeletal dragon and met Yue Wen; the two men politely refused the dragon’s artifact fragment while retreating from each other.
• Meng Yuheng led Lin Youqing away, wary of Yue Wen’s possible ambush, and resolved to stay safe while collecting potent fragments.
• Yue Wen explained his plan to fool other teams with a creature whose spirituality seemed powerful despite its negligible dragon qi, then used Xing'er’s blood, a little of his own, and soil in a coffin to set his scheme in motion.
• Dongfang Jianqi, alone after losing his teammates, saw nine enormous black-and-gold dragons pulling a coffin through the sky and imagined the dragon qi it might contain.

Yue Wen’s River City Team attacked the Anti-Yue Alliance over the coffin carried by Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, but agreed to withdraw in exchange for a promise of mutual nonaggression. The alliance opened the coffin to find spiritually potent scorched earth, while Yue Wen watched from hiding and revealed that they had fallen for his trick.

• Meng Yuheng and Lin Youqing followed Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin and found Shi Miaozhen and Dongfang Jianqi confronting each other over it.
• Meng Youjun joined them, and the factions agreed to share the coffin’s contents before Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian arrived and attacked.
• Shi Miaozhen destroyed the nine dragon phantoms and Meng Yuheng caught the falling coffin, while Yue Wen was driven back by Dongfang Jianqi’s sword strike.
• Yue Wen offered to yield the coffin if the others agreed not to attack the River City Team, and Meng Yuheng, Dongfang Jianqi, and Meng Youjun accepted the gentleman’s agreement.
• Shi Miaozhen opened the coffin and found scorched earth with powerful spirituality inside.
• Yue Wen watched the alliance through a hidden Shadow Talisman and said they had fallen for his trick.

Yue Wen tricked the Anti-Yue Alliance into believing a coffin of black soil contained ancient Dragon Qi, while secretly planning to recover the Magical Artifact fragments they discarded. The Azurefall Profound Gate filled its backpacks with the soil and left confident it had secured first place.

• Yue Wen explained how he had staged the nine dragon-shaped Nightmare Wraith Creatures and faked a fight so the Anti-Yue Alliance would trust the coffin and claim its contents.
• Yue Wen told Xing'er and Qi Dian that he would wait for the alliance to discard its Magical Artifact fragments, then collect them.
• The spectators condemned Yue Wen's scheme, while Venerable Xuanting praised it as a lesson for the Immortal Sect prodigies.
• Lin Youqing, Meng Yuheng, Meng Youjun, and Dongfang Jianqi mistook the scorched black soil for ancient remains containing Dragon Qi and divided it among themselves.
• Dongfang Jianqi and Meng Youjun left with backpacks of soil, and Shi Miaozhen, Lin Youqing, and Meng Yuheng filled the Azurefall Profound Gate's remaining backpacks.
• Shi Miaozhen declared that the Azurefall Profound Gate would claim first place after leaving the Nightmare Realm and having its Dragon Qi measured.

Yue Wen and his companions escaped Rock Dragon City after the dragon-head gate trapped them in a distorted passage, while the other teams faced different attacks based on what they carried. Outside, Shi Miaozhen began preparing to compare the teams’ Dragon Qi-rich hauls, and Meng Yuheng suspected that Yue Wen’s interception might have benefited him.

• Yue Wen’s group recovered buried Magical Artifact fragments, then headed for the city gate with their backpacks full of the best fragments they had found.
• The dragon-head gate let the Azurefall Profound Gate members and Dongfang Jianqi pass, but attacked Fang Qingyuan and Meng Youjun as they tried to leave.
• Fang Qingyuan used earthen walls to block the stone waves while Meng Youjun escaped, and the gate then erupted into a far greater upheaval with Yue Wen’s group still inside.
• Yue Wen realized the gate had trapped them in a Qiankun Formation, sent Xing'er and Qi Dian ahead without their backpacks, then used a Shadow Talisman to teleport out carrying all three bags.
• Shi Miaozhen prepared to measure the teams’ hauls, while Meng Yuheng worried that Yue Wen’s dramatic escape meant the competition’s results might not be what they seemed.

Yue Wen’s team widened its lead after using discarded magical artifact fragments to gain far more Dragon Qi than the other teams, prompting the three rival sects to plan a direct attack on the final day. As the teams entered the last day of competition, the organizers revealed that the Ancient Rock Dragon King’s Secret Realm had appeared inside Rock Dragon City and debated suspending the event.

• Shi Miaozhen and the other competitors poured black soil into the stone pillars, but it produced almost no Dragon Qi, while Fang Qingyuan’s magical artifact fragments sent her pillar’s light soaring.
• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian gained enormous amounts of Dragon Qi from the magical artifact fragments they had collected, putting the River City Team far ahead and leaving the other sects furious.
• The three rival sects formed an alliance and agreed to enter Rock Dragon City first on the final day, block the gate, and attack the River City Team together.
• Yue Wen told Liu Yuanjun that the River City Team could wait outside the city rather than enter and confront the blockade.
• The organizers summoned Perfected One Delong and revealed that the Ancient Rock Dragon King’s Secret Realm had appeared inside Rock Dragon City, prompting them to consider suspending the competition.

Representatives agreed to continue the competition after a new secret realm appeared in Rock Dragon City. The rival teams discovered fire-rich Dragon Crystal and began plotting around it, while Yue Wen remained outside and influenced their plans from afar.

• The organizers and sect representatives debated the new secret realm and agreed to let the competition continue because they could not safely close it or settle the results fairly.
• Shi Miaozhen and the other teams entered a volcanic secret realm, defeated a stone giant, and found a blue crystal that Xu Lingchan identified as Fire Crystal Ore.
• Meng Yuheng suspected the Heavenly Nether Earth Mother Cult was concealing the ore’s Dragon Qi and persuaded Shi Miaozhen’s group to explore for more.
• The Heavenly Nether Earth Mother Cult’s team revealed that the ore was Fire Dragon Crystal, which contained more Dragon Qi than the previous day’s Magical Artifact fragments, and agreed to hide its value.
• Dongfang Jianqi led his team to follow the Heavenly Nether Earth Mother Cult and considered ambushing them, saying Yue Wen had taught him that a sword could be drawn from behind someone’s back.

As the Rock Dragon Secret Realm descended over Rock Dragon City, Yue Wen and the River City Team were dragged into a cavern by a stone dragon claiming to serve the Rock Dragon King. Yue Wen exposed the creature as a Stone Demon, then suspected it was deceiving them about the treasure vault it offered.

• Perfected One Nagiko argued that the tournament should be stopped, but Venerable Yuezun persuaded her to wait and suggested Yue Wen might be connected to the secret realm's arrival.
• Yue Wen, Qi Dian, Xing'er, and Liu Yuanjun played cards outside Rock Dragon City until a living rock dragon emerged from the gate and swallowed them.
• The four contestants were transported to a magma-filled cavern, where a stone dragon claimed to be the Rock Dragon King and identified Yue Wen as the destined recipient of buried treasures.
• Yue Wen exposed the dragon as a Stone Demon impersonating a True Dragon, and it admitted it had been raised by the Rock Dragon King.
• The Stone Demon opened a passage to the supposed treasure vault and invited Yue Wen and his friends inside, prompting Yue Wen to ask whether its master knew it had betrayed him.

Yue Wen exposed the Stone Dragon’s scheme, defeated it by targeting the blue crystals beneath its armor, and opened the Rock Dragon Clan’s Treasure Vault. The chapter ended with the group discovering two lines of Human Race writing that mentioned the Southern Dynasty.

• Da Long identified the cavern as the Stone Dragon’s trap, and Yue Wen accused the Stone Dragon of plotting to steal the Rock Dragon King’s treasures.
• The Stone Dragon attacked Yue Wen’s group, but Yue Wen found its weak points and directed Xing’er to smash the blue crystals beneath its armor.
• Yue Wen killed the Stone Dragon with Dragon King’s Edict: Dragonflame Slash, and the group collected the fire dragon crystals from its remains.
• Yue Wen used his blood and the Rock Dragon Seal to open the hidden Treasure Vault gate.
• Xing’er and Qi Dian spotted Human Race writing inside the vault, and Liu Yuanjun read a reference to the Southern Dynasty.

Yue Wen found the Rock Dragon Clan’s Treasure Vault completely emptied by Gu Nanchao, then met the Rock Dragon King’s Remnant Thought inside. After accepting one of three daunting quests in exchange for the Earth Dragon Pearl, Yue Wen left with Dragon Qi and a possible path toward finding the ancient Dragon Clan.

• Yue Wen, Xing'er, Qi Dian, and Liu Yuanjun discovered that Gu Nanchao had stolen every treasure from the Treasure Vault and left his signature message behind.
• The vault doors shut, and the Rock Dragon King’s True Dragon apparition appeared, cutting off outside observation and infusing Yue Wen’s companions with Dragon Qi.
• The Rock Dragon King recognized Yue Wen’s connection to Ao Ye through the Azure Dragon Pearl and offered his Earth Dragon Pearl if Yue Wen fulfilled one of three conditions.
• The Rock Dragon King asked Yue Wen to avenge his clan by killing Yang Bailao, recover its stolen treasures by capturing Gu Nanchao, or find the ancient Dragon Clan and bring them home.
• Yue Wen accepted the conditions without a deadline, received the Rock Dragon King’s remaining Dragon Qi, and Da Long said he might one day allow Yue Wen to serve as a close retainer if he found the Dragon Clan.

Yue Wen and his teammates woke in the first cavern with their cultivation greatly advanced, while the other tournament teams gathered crystals and fought increasingly clever Stone Demons. The three teams entered the volcano together and opened the stone doors, where a tall, handsome figure emerged from the shadows and flames.

• Yue Wen and his teammates woke in the first cavern, discovered the Treasure Vault had vanished, and found that Ao Hui's dragon qi had raised their cultivation while leaving them exhausted.
• Yue Wen kept the Earth Dragon Pearl hidden in his qi sea and led the team in recovering before they left the cavern.
• Dongfang Jianqi's team, the Heavenly Nether Earth Mother Cult, and the third team hunted Stone Demons, collected their blue crystals, and learned to exploit the crystals' exposed gaps.
• The three teams reached the volcano summit, admitted they had all been collecting crystals, and agreed to cooperate against the strongest creature inside.
• Meng Youjun traced the Stone Demons' soulfire to the cavern beneath the volcano, and Dongfang Jianqi opened its stone doors.
• A tall, young, handsome figure emerged from the shadows and flowing flames beyond the doors.

The River City Team was swallowed into the Rock Dragon Secret Realm, where Yue Wen saw through a trap, killed the Stone Dragon, and gained purer Fire Dragon Crystals and a cultivation boost. When the other three teams gathered to eliminate them, Yue Wen welcomed the challenge, leaving them wary of his next trick.

• Perfected One Qinghua hoped the Secret Realm's traps would cost the River City Team its score, but Yue Wen detected the Stone Dragon's deception and led his team to kill it.
• The River City Team harvested purer Fire Dragon Crystals and received a cultivation increase from the Treasure Vault, prompting Perfected One Qinghua to complain that the match was unfair.
• Yue Wen woke in the Mountain Grotto and found contestants from the other three teams gathered outside, astonished that the River City Team had appeared there.
• Meng Yuheng proposed that the teams join forces to eliminate the River City Team, whose crystal haul could secure first place.
• Yue Wen accepted the challenge without fear, making the other teams wonder what trick he had prepared.

Yue Wen’s River City Team ambushed its pursuers while fleeing the volcanic tunnel, killing three Immortal Sect heavenly prodigies but suffering injuries and remaining badly outnumbered. As they tried to escape through the crater, Shi Miaozhen blocked their way with her Moon Disc.

• Yue Wen sent the Thunderfire Golden Jet into the tunnel, then used Zhao Xing'er to ambush the first pursuers; Xing'er killed Shen Yaoguang and Meng Yuheng.
• Yue Wen ordered Xing'er to retreat, and Liu Yuanjun used the Light-Fixing Pearl to hold back the Immortal Sect group’s attack while the team continued fleeing.
• Yue Wen ambushed the pursuers from underground and killed Sword Cultivator A, then forced his way out of Xu Lingchan’s earth trap.
• Yue Wen healed his sword wounds as the River City Team activated their combined supernatural powers and flew toward the crater’s exit.
• Shi Miaozhen swung her Moon Disc down over the crater, threatening to knock the escaping team back into the waiting Immortal Sect heavenly prodigies.

Shi Miaozhen ambushed River City Team at the crater, but Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er broke through her Moon Disc and Lin Youqing’s vine formation. After emerging, Yue Wen used a giant empowered doppelganger to crush the seven Immortal Sect disciples below, leaving the Anti-Yue Alliance pinned beneath him.

• Shi Miaozhen struck at River City Team with her Great Moon, but Zhao Xing'er met it with the Sword-Thunder Spike while Yue Wen sealed Shi Miaozhen’s Dharma Form power.
• Zhao Xing'er broke through Shi Miaozhen’s sword qi and sent her flying with a hammer blow.
• Lin Youqing’s Green Vine formation blocked the group’s ascent, but Yue Wen severed the vines with the Giant Gate Sword Art and led River City Team out of the crater.
• Yue Wen turned back and dropped an empowered doppelganger into the crater, layering it with supernatural powers and Dao rhythms.
• The Immortal Sect disciples failed to stop the falling golden Yue Wen, which crashed down and pinned all seven beneath it.

Yue Wen eliminated most of the opposing contestants with a crushing golden-body and star-bombardment attack, then accepted Dongfang Jianqi’s challenge to a decisive sword clash. Yue Wen survived the collision while Dongfang Jianqi vanished, leaving Yue Wen to challenge anyone else who dared to face him.

• Yue Wen’s enormous golden body pinned and poisoned the contestants beneath it, while Xing’er’s golden phantoms bombarded the crater and eliminated those who could not escape.
• Shi Miaozhen persuaded Lin Youqing to retreat, while Dongfang Jianqi charged at Yue Wen to fight despite risking his team’s results.
• Dongfang Jianqi unleashed his Sword of Heaven, and Yue Wen answered by combining his Three-Eyed Divine Dragon Dharma Form with the Azure-Purple Dragon-Pattern Sword.
• The two sword attacks collided and unleashed a massive spiritual-power field that swallowed both fighters.
• The light receded to reveal Dongfang Jianqi gone and Yue Wen badly mutilated but alive; Yue Wen called out, “Who else?”