Ch. 650Things were going too smoothly for me

Yue Wen used Dao Source Profound Crystal powder to cultivate, comprehended the Yin Water Dao Rhythm of Penetration, and learned that his good fortune came with dangers tied to his standing as the Human Race’s foremost Heavenly Prodigy. He bought the Forging Realm Chapter of the True Dragon Method, then triggered a mysterious song from the Demon-Suppressing Ancient Painting.

  • Yue Wen swallowed Dao Source Profound Crystal powder, made rapid cultivation progress, and comprehended the Dao Rhythm of Penetration in the Great Dao of Yin Water.
  • Yue Wen worried that his recent string of good fortune concealed danger, and Da Long explained how heaven-and-earth fortune favored the strongest genius while attracting threats and challenges.
  • Yue Wen resolved to defend his position in the upcoming Four Seas Dragon Palace competition and bought the Forging Realm Chapter of the True Dragon Method from Da Long for fifteen ninety-nine.
  • Yue Wen tested the Dao Rhythm of Penetration on Magical Artifacts and the Demon-Suppressing Ancient Painting, piercing the painting’s formations and triggering a song about the Demon-Expelling Melody.

Ch. 651Jiang Mingyue

Yue Wen entered Jiang Mingyue’s ancient painting through his own Dao rhythm and gained demon-slaying power, then cultivated to the peak of the Appearance Realm. As the Dragon Hall election and the investigation into the Demon Race continued, he went to meet Thousand-Scale General Gong Yao.

  • Yue Wen experienced Jiang Mingyue’s creation of the Demon-Expelling Melody and learned how she preserved it in a painting with her soulflame.
  • Yue Wen comprehended a wisp of demon-slaying power, then secluded himself and used Dao Source Profound Crystal powder to cultivate, reaching the Appearance Realm peak in under a month.
  • Ao Lizhi and Hong Baixi campaigned for Ao Libai’s vacant Council seat, each seeking support from their respective factions.
  • Ao Libai’s interrogation revealed that he had taken bribes from a Demon Race agent and that the Demon Race planned to abduct Jiang Hongxiu in the Celestial Phenomenon Realm.
  • Yue Wen visited a smithing compound and asked to see Thousand-Scale General Gong Yao.

Ch. 652What did it mean to be a Living Immortal's disciple?

Yue Wen commissioned a Frostcloud Sword Formation from Gong Yao and learned that the Dragon Hall treated him with deference because the Azurefall Profound Gate had intervened for him. He received an offer of free cultivation resources, while six Southern Sea Dragon Hall prodigies endured lava training to prepare to defeat him.

  • Yue Wen harvested the mature Sword-Leaf Frostcloud Grass and delivered food to the merfolk grandfather and grandson in Immortal Dew Valley.
  • After Ao Ligun said he owed Gong Yao money, Yue Wen went to Gong Yao’s workshop and asked her to refine a Frostcloud Sword Formation from his 108 leaves.
  • Gong Yao warmly welcomed Yue Wen and agreed to make the formation for free, explaining that he could collect it in a few days.
  • Jiang Hongxiu told Yue Wen that the Dragon Hall feared provoking him because Venerable Yuezun had arrested Ao Libai after his attempt to have Yue Wen assassinated.
  • Ao Weilian offered Yue Wen ten Dragonheart Soul-Soothing Fruits for free and access to Elder Ao Yuanren’s Plantation.
  • Six prodigies in the Southern Sea Dragon Hall endured a lava pool as their trainer urged them to keep striving to defeat Yue Wen.

Ch. 653What Did She Add to It?

Meng Yuheng goaded his fellow cultivators into enduring Dragon Flame Valley, but Dongfang Jianqi discovered he was protected from the flames and the others attacked him. Meanwhile, Yue Wen received an extravagantly upgraded Frostcloud Sword Formation from Gong Yao and wondered what she wanted from him.

  • Xie Ping, Shen Yaoguang, and Yu Xiaobao each tried to leave Dragon Flame Valley, but Meng Yuheng stirred their pride and loyalty until they returned to enduring the heat.
  • Dongfang Jianqi discovered that silk protected Meng Yuheng from the dragon flames, and Xie Ping, Shen Yaoguang, and Yu Xiaobao lunged at him in anger.
  • Jiang Hongxiu delivered Gong Yao’s one-hundred-and-eight-blade Frostcloud Sword Formation to Yue Wen, who deployed it and saw its power.
  • Jiang Hongxiu explained that Gong Yao had added heaven-fallen violet spirit gold and heaven-void dipper qi, materials worth many times the sword formation itself.
  • Yue Wen worried about the reason for Gong Yao’s lavish gift and wondered whether she had taken a liking to his good looks.

Ch. 654The rules of the Celestial Phenomenon Realm

Yue Wen and the East Sea Dragon Hall apprentices learned the rules and dangers of the upcoming Celestial Phenomenon Realm contest. In the Demon Realm, a king learned that three rival demons had been selected to hunt humans there and heard how they were being trained to cooperate.

  • Yue Wen continued consolidating his cultivation and gathered a dozen strands of Demon-Slaying Power before the Celestial Phenomenon Realm opened.
  • Ao Yuanren took over as instructor and explained the Celestial Phenomenon Realm's inhabitants, cultivation limits, fruit contest, and dangers to the apprentices.
  • Ao Yuanren warned that the other Dragon Halls might target the East Sea Dragon Hall because Yue Wen had made enemies, and urged the apprentices to prioritize returning safely.
  • In Emperor Star City, a woman reported to the Blue Throne that Leng Que, Lin Kuangdao, and Golden Vulture Lady would hunt humans in the Celestial Phenomenon Realm.
  • The woman explained that the Golden Throne was building unity among the three demons by having them study, fight, and plunder humans together.

Ch. 655Having Yue Wen around really put them at ease [single update]

Yue Wen and the other Dragon Hall apprentices gathered in the Southern Sea and entered the Celestial Phenomenon Realm for a contest to collect Celestial Phenomenon Fruits. After meeting the realm’s lord and their guide, Xiao Peng, the group began their trial, while Ao Yuanren told the other elders that Yue Wen’s presence put them at ease.

  • Yue Wen reunited with Meng Yuheng at the Southern Sea Dragon Hall as the East, Southern, and Northern Sea groups gathered.
  • Liang Baitong tried to approach Jiang Hongxiu, but Xing'er threatened him with her Silver Staff before he went to greet the Northern Sea group.
  • Xue Hanyang and Wu Jiguang declared that they had come to seek revenge, while the Famous Sword Middle School disciples described their grueling training in the Western Sea.
  • The Southern Sea elder activated the teleportation formation before the apprentices were ready, sending them into the snowy Celestial Phenomenon Realm.
  • The Celestial Phenomenon Kingdom Lord welcomed the human geniuses, introduced Fish Chancellor, and assigned Xiao Peng and his white treasure elephant to guide the East Sea team.
  • After the apprentices departed, Ao Yuanren reassured the Southern Sea elder that Yue Wen’s presence made him feel at ease.

Ch. 656Let Them Feel Our Enthusiasm

The Four Seas Dragon Palace teams climbed Appearance Cliff Mountain to search for Celestial Phenomenon Fruit, with Yue Wen and Meng Yuheng planning traps for their rivals. At the summit, three demons revealed they had entered the mountain to hunt the contestants and planned to ambush them by the fruit that night.

  • Xiao Peng explained that ripe Celestial Phenomenon Fruit would reveal images of their Dharma Forms under the full moon, but would not fall until daybreak.
  • Yue Wen proposed setting traps near the fruit so rival contestants would suffer while searching for it.
  • Meng Yuheng told the Southern Sea team that he had prepared extra traps, and the group agreed to focus on winning the fruit.
  • Leng Que learned from a bird that the Four Seas Dragon Palace teams were climbing the mountain in separate groups.
  • Golden Vulture Lady urged Leng Que and Lin Kuangdao to wait for nightfall and ambush the contestants beside the Celestial Phenomenon Fruit.

Ch. 657Each showed their abilities

Shi Miaozhen’s Northern Sea Dragon Hall team planted eight explosive fake Celestial Phenomenon Fruits on Appearance Cliff Mountain while the Western Sea team prepared Meng Youjun to attack the other contestants. At the summit, the three Demon Race assassins activated their Demon Forms and began their hunt.

  • Lin Youqing grafted a fake fruit onto a pine, and Shi Miaozhen infused it with moonlight essence to create an explosive trap for approaching contestants.
  • Shi Miaozhen’s team discussed their deceptive tactics and set out to plant all eight fake fruits before searching for the real ones.
  • Meng Youjun and the other Western Sea contestants formed an array that used their combined power to create his golden Divine Body, which he took up the mountain to attack rival teams.
  • Meng Youjun used his supernatural powers to locate more than a dozen glowing fruit images, then headed up the mountain to find contestants instead of collecting fruit.
  • Leng Que, Lin Kuangdao, and Golden Vulture Lady summoned and merged with their Demon Forms before beginning their hunt.

Ch. 658The hunting hour

The East and Southern Sea Dragon Hall teams planted traps around ripe Celestial Phenomenon Fruits while the Northern Sea team waited for their plan to work. Three demons triggered the traps, and the chapter ended as a second trap struck them with Heavenly Thunder.

  • Yue Wen planted Three Talents Heaven-Shaking Thunder around a palace-shaped fruit, while Meng Yuheng set a blade-and-talisman trap around another fruit.
  • Yue Wen and Meng Yuheng each prepared more traps after their teams found additional ripe fruits, and Yue Wen warned his team that the unusually frequent discoveries seemed deliberate.
  • Shi Miaozhen's Northern Sea team watched from a secluded peak after Lin Youqing marked the real ripe fruits and reported that their decoys had likely caught others.
  • Leng Que, Lin Kuangdao, and Golden Vulture Lady approached a palace-shaped fruit, triggering Yue Wen's trap and leaving Lin Kuangdao and Golden Vulture Lady wounded by iron spikes.
  • The three demons found another ripe fruit and landed far from it, but their arrival triggered a trap and dozens of bolts of Heavenly Thunder struck the ground.

Ch. 659The Demon Race's Tale of Woe

Leng Que, Golden Vulture Lady, and Lin Kuangdao were battered by traps while hunting Dragon Hall apprentices, and the traps forced them to split up. Leng Que finally detected a human with a powerful golden aura and charged toward him, intent on killing him.

  • Lin Kuangdao triggered a moonlight trap disguised as a Celestial Phenomenon Fruit and was left too injured to continue hunting.
  • Leng Que and Golden Vulture Lady left Lin Kuangdao to recover and continued through the forest, wary of more traps.
  • Golden Vulture Lady was cut by poisoned silver threads and concealed herself to suppress the poison, leaving Leng Que to hunt alone.
  • Leng Que sensed a golden-lit human with a powerful aura and flew toward him, determined to kill him.

Ch. 660Brother Yue, Run!

Leng Que attacked Meng Youjun on Appearance Cliff Mountain and overwhelmed his Sixth Realm Divine Body. Yue Wen rushed in despite Meng Youjun’s warning and killed Leng Que with the Brass Little Sword empowered by Demon-Slaying Power.

  • Leng Que encountered Meng Youjun and attacked him, while Meng Youjun’s Great Dream Immortalization Art failed against Leng Que’s Soul Dao Demon Seal.
  • Leng Que defeated Meng Youjun’s Divine Body with his spiritual power and Evil King Bead, leaving Meng Youjun badly cracked and ready to detonate himself.
  • Yue Wen heard Qi Dian identify a demonic scent and flew toward the battle, ignoring Meng Youjun’s warning to run.
  • Leng Que abandoned Meng Youjun and attacked Yue Wen with the Evil King Bead, expecting to kill the human Dragon Gate Champion.
  • Yue Wen poured three strands of Demon-Slaying Power into the Brass Little Sword and struck Leng Que down, purifying his Demon Form and scattering his remains.

Ch. 661They should be experiencing fear right now

Blue Throne arranged for demon geniuses to assassinate human cultivators in the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, but Yue Wen swiftly killed Leng Que and led his team to hunt the remaining demons. The injured Golden Vulture Lady fled in terror as Yue Wen and his companions pursued her.

  • Blue Throne told Purple Throne that he had sent three demon geniuses into the Celestial Phenomenon Realm to hunt human geniuses, including Zhu Sanqing’s disciple.
  • Yue Wen killed Leng Que with one strike, looted his Storage Artifact, and warned Meng Youjun to alert the other teams about demon assassins.
  • Yue Wen, Qi Dian, Zhao Xing'er, and their companions formed their Combined Supernatural Powers and followed a demonic scent across the mountain.
  • Golden Vulture Lady recognized Leng Que’s bones and realized Yue Wen had killed him, then fled when the human team approached.
  • Yue Wen and Xing'er taunted the fleeing Golden Vulture Lady as they pursued her, leaving her terrified and pleading for help.

Ch. 662You're a surprisingly nice demon, huh?

Yue Wen and his team caught up with Golden Vulture Lady, who led them to Lin Kuangdao, and killed both demons in a brief fight. After collecting their rewards, they heard Meng Youjun and the other Dragon Hall teams rushing to help.

  • Meng Youjun went to alert the other teams while Yue Wen pursued the wounded Golden Vulture Lady, who fled toward Lin Kuangdao's hiding place.
  • Golden Vulture Lady plunged into Lin Kuangdao's mist and convinced him that she had brought human prey, then urged him to fight alongside her.
  • Lin Kuangdao and Golden Vulture Lady attacked Yue Wen's team, but Yue Wen empowered Zhao Xing'er with Demon-Slaying Power, and she flattened Lin Kuangdao with one hammer blow.
  • Yue Wen resisted Golden Vulture Lady's illusion and killed her with the Giant Gate Sword Art, then searched the battlefield for the demons' Storage Artifacts and broke down Lin Kuangdao's remains.
  • Qi Dian, Liu Yuanjun, Jiang Hongxiu, and Xing'er questioned the power Yue Wen had used, and Yue Wen called it his burning sense of justice.
  • Meng Youjun arrived with the other three Dragon Hall teams, shouting that they had come to help.

Ch. 663How Careless

Yue Wen and the other Dragon Hall apprentices ended their contest after killing demons and retrieved the traps they had left on Appearance Cliff Mountain. They found their Teleportation Formation destroyed and were blocked from leaving by purple-qi-enhanced Appearance Clan soldiers, leaving them stranded as Xiao Peng failed to challenge the falcon leader.

  • Yue Wen told the gathered apprentices that he and his allies had killed three demons, and they agreed to end the contest and report the danger.
  • The eastern, southern, and northern Dragon Hall groups returned to collect their valuable traps and fake Celestial Phenomenon Fruit, revealing that each had carelessly left them behind.
  • The groups reached the Teleportation Formation and discovered its patterns had been destroyed, while the Western Sea group waited nearby.
  • Yue Wen and the others tried to leave Appearance Cliff Mountain, but a squad of Appearance Clan soldiers blocked the path under the chancellor's orders.
  • Xiao Peng fused with his elephant partner and claimed his authority as the kingdom lord's disciple, then backed down and apologized when the purple-qi falcon overwhelmed him.

Ch. 664Rebellion

The Appearance Clan rebelled in the Celestial Phenomenon Kingdom’s capital, while Yue Wen and the others broke free of a formation on Appearance Cliff Mountain and learned the rebellion was backed by the White Demon Cult. The chapter left the capital in chaos and the captured falcon questioning whether the Demon Race had deceived it.

  • The Lion-Headed Appearance Clan member seized control of the palace, imprisoned the Celestial Phenomenon Kingdom Lord, and killed Appearance Clan members who tried to escape with their human partners.
  • The Lion-Headed Appearance Clan member urged the rebels to treat humans as enemies as fighting spread throughout the royal capital.
  • Yue Wen, Meng Yuheng, and the others attacked the Light Curtain, and Dongfang Jianqi shattered it with a sword strike.
  • Yue Wen threatened to dissolve and devour a captured falcon Appearance Clan member, which then revealed that the Fish Chancellor had ordered the formation and promised the Appearance Clan freedom with power from the Demon Realm.
  • Jiang Hongxiu identified the mark on the falcon as the White Demon Cult’s Demon Seed Seal, which amplified its viciousness and could turn it into a puppet.
  • Yue Wen challenged the falcon’s belief that the Demon Race had come to bring freedom, leaving it stunned.

Ch. 665It had to be an act, right?

Yue Wen disguised himself as a demon, infiltrated the Fish Chancellor’s residence, and captured the rebel leader while uncovering the Demon Race’s plans. He learned that a force of a hundred demons would soon arrive, and the group prepared to confront them before they could retake the capital.

  • Yue Wen persuaded the group to target the rebellion’s ringleaders and infiltrate the Fish Chancellor’s residence rather than wait for reinforcements or attack the capital outright.
  • Yue Wen disguised himself as a demon and used a Demon Race Spy’s Insignia to gain an audience with the Fish Chancellor.
  • Yue Wen convinced the Fish Chancellor that the Purple Throne could offer him greater rewards, then learned that the Blue Throne planned to bring a hundred demons through a teleportation formation west of the capital.
  • Yue Wen gave the Fish Chancellor Consciousness Sea Rippling Liquid, knocked him unconscious, and carried him out without being detected.
  • Yue Wen returned with the captured Fish Chancellor and told the group they had to defeat the arriving demonic army before they could retake the capital.

Ch. 666The final expedition

Yue Wen killed the demon spy guarding the Celestial Phenomenon Realm’s teleportation formation and organized the human prodigies to trap the invading army. As the demons prepared to depart, their arrogant general led them toward the very ambush Yue Wen had prepared.

  • Yue Wen tricked Demon Spy 167 into turning around, killed him, and took his badge and storage artifact.
  • Yue Wen told the gathered Dragon Halls’ prodigies to prepare an ambush instead of hiding from the incoming demon army.
  • Shen Yaoguang, Lin Youqing, Xu Lingchan, Fang Qingyuan, and the others began building an illusionary trapping array and placing their trap artifacts around the teleportation formation.
  • In the Demon Realm, white demon soldiers discussed their families and plans for life after their overseas assignment.
  • The demon general boasted that he had arranged to lead the expedition to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, then ordered his soldiers to set off.

Ch. 667Tonight, we are all Yue Wen

Yue Wen led Pan Wushan and the demon army into a forest ambush prepared by the human cultivators, who overwhelmed the demons with traps, illusions, and coordinated attacks. As the surviving demons were routed, Pan Wushan swallowed a Demon Form Pill and summoned a powerful sixth-realm demon form.

  • Yue Wen welcomed Pan Wushan and his troops to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, then led them toward the capital while warning that Human Realm cultivators could threaten them.
  • Yue Wen teleported away as hidden traps detonated throughout the forest, killing many demons and throwing the rest into chaos.
  • The Western Sea Dragon Palace's Great Dream Immortalization Art restrained the survivors while Yue Wen and the human geniuses attacked them.
  • Pan Wushan rallied nearby white demons into a defensive formation, but Yue Wen disabled it and Xing'er shattered its barrier with the Sword-Thunder Spike.
  • Pan Wushan swallowed a Demon Form Pill and summoned a towering black mountain as his sixth-realm demon form.

Ch. 668Who was the demon? [Single update]

Yue Wen and the human geniuses defeated Pan Wushan, who offered intelligence about the White Wolf Army and a Dao Source Profound Crystal Mine in exchange for his life. After Pan Wushan escaped, Yue Wen tracked him down and killed him with the help of a poisoned Phantom Spirit Demon Snake.

  • Yue Wen shattered Pan Wushan's demonic peak form, and Pan Wushan begged for his life by offering intelligence and treasure.
  • Pan Wushan revealed that the White Wolf Army had invaded the Black Sand Realm to seize a Dao Source Profound Crystal Mine, and Yue Wen agreed to keep him alive for further questioning.
  • While the human geniuses looted the battlefield, Pan Wushan used a hidden pill to teleport away and fled to a secluded cave.
  • Yue Wen tracked Pan Wushan using the yin metal Dao rhythm he had secretly planted on him, while a Phantom Spirit Demon Snake poisoned the escaped commander.
  • Yue Wen defeated the weakened Pan Wushan with the Brass Greatsword, and Pan Wushan died.

Ch. 669What do you mean, you killed them all?

Yue Wen collected a huge reward for killing Pan Wushan, then returned with the human geniuses and reported their victories to the Dragon Hall. After the rebellion was put down, the Celestial Phenomenon Kingdom Lord honored the rescuers with Celestial Phenomenon Fruits and gave Yue Wen a Supreme Celestial Phenomenon Fruit and a Golden Radio.

  • Yue Wen killed Pan Wushan, gained over seven hundred pieces of Evil-Suppressing Money, and concealed the traces of Little Black Snake's feeding.
  • Yue Wen led the human geniuses back to the Teleportation Formation, where Hao Luoxiao learned that they had killed the demon geniuses and wiped out the demon garrison.
  • The Dragon Hall repaired the formation and sent a force that captured the rebels, freed the Celestial Phenomenon Kingdom Lord, and quelled the rebellion.
  • The kingdom lord held a banquet and awarded each human genius a Celestial Phenomenon Fruit.
  • The kingdom lord presented Yue Wen with the Supreme Celestial Phenomenon Fruit and his personal Golden Radio.
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