Recaps

The Dragon Clan’s army arrived at Morningstar City, where the ten thousand races had gathered to stop its advance. As the two forces prepared for the Morning Star Battle, a group of black-clad observers watched from the battlements and agreed not to interfere.

• The Dragon Clan marched on Morningstar City with a vast army of dragon beasts and true dragons.
• Situ Ming commanded the allied forces of the ten thousand races as they prepared to defend the city.
• The allied soldiers and dragon army faced each other across the battlefield, poised to fight.
• A green-haired girl and her black-haired companion watched the armies from the battlements, unseen by nearby soldiers.
• The green-haired girl told her group to observe the battle without interfering, and they agreed.

Azure Dragon tried to make the Allied Forces surrender before the battle, but their commander answered with a taunt. The armies then clashed across the ground and sky in a bloody battle.

• Azure Dragon flew before the armies and demanded that the myriad races surrender and become his subjects.
• The Allied Forces commander sent a red-haired man to reject Azure Dragon and mock him over the Dragon Crystals.
• Azure Dragon returned to the Dragon Beast army and ordered the million Dragon Beasts to attack.
• The Allied Forces engaged the advancing horde with spear lines, Steam Rifles, cavalry, Runic Archers, and Runic Cannons.
• Flying Dragons and Steam Airships fought overhead as True Dragons and the myriad races' powerhouses joined the battle.

The Allied Forces of the myriad races were routed after a year and three months of fighting, and the true dragons captured Morningstar City. Over the next ten years, the Dragon Clan conquered the southern kingdoms and brought the southern races under its rule.

• Heroes and powerful dragons rose to prominence as the war around Morningstar City dragged on and both sides suffered heavy losses.
• The Allied Forces of the myriad races collapsed when desertions spread, and their warriors and leaders retreated south.
• The true dragons captured Morningstar City, took its Dragon Crystal, and slaughtered the Morningstar Kingdom's Royal Family, including its king.
• The Dragon Clan continued its conquest of the southern kingdoms, while many members of the myriad races surrendered and became its servants.
• Ten years later, the true dragons destroyed the last southern kingdom, and the age of the Dragon Clan began.

After the True Dragons conquered the world, they outlawed and destroyed the Potion System’s methods and Sacred Relics, while the Holy City developed its own Holy Qi Method and Yuhuazi later founded Qi Refining. As the Winter Calamity covered the world, an immense being awoke beneath the Far North ocean, and Jiang Yang began to stir from his long seclusion atop Mount Tai.

• The True Dragons conquered the myriad races, established their rule, and made the cities of the South Nations their territories.
• The True Dragons banned the Potion System, suppressed resistance, and gathered and destroyed its cultivation methods and Sacred Relics.
• A genius created the Dragon Transformation Technique, which the Dragon Clan spread throughout the world, while Yuhua later founded the Qi Refining lineage.
• The Holy City’s people created the Holy Qi Method to defend themselves against the True Dragons, and it became the origin of the Battle Qi Method.
• A thousand years into True Dragon rule, the Winter Calamity covered the world and an immense being awakened beneath the Far North ocean.
• Atop Mount Tai, Jiang Yang began stirring from his thousands of years of seclusion as the golden flames over the region dissipated.

Jiang Yang condensed his exclusive Flame Law imprint, reached the Fifth Step, and gained the ability to perceive countless worlds through the Flame Law Sea. As he prepared to consolidate his cultivation, a Giant Beast awakened beneath the Far North ocean on Earth and wondered how long it had slept.

• Jiang Yang’s golden flames transformed the region of the Flame Law Sea as he mastered his Flame Law over thousands of years.
• Jiang Yang condensed his exclusive Flame Law imprint, broke through the final barrier of the Fourth Step, and reached the Fifth Step.
• A golden flame mark appeared on Jiang Yang’s forehead, connecting him to the Flame Law Sea and allowing him to perceive countless worlds.
• Jiang Yang decided to explore the worlds he could sense later and began consolidating his Fifth Step cultivation.
• A Giant Beast awakened in the icy ocean of Earth’s Far North, felt a repulsive force from the world, and asked how long it had been asleep.

Xuanming awoke after sleeping for hundreds of millions of years and cautiously surveyed the transformed world through the Law of ice. She discovered that Dragons now ruled the world and recognized them as her kin.

• Xuanming awoke in the Far North Arctic Ocean after her cultivation reached a critical point and drew her soul into the sea of the Law of ice.
• Xuanming sensed that her aura lingered in the world's ice and snow and worried that she would be exposed.
• Xuanming followed the veins of ice and snow with her divine sense and found draconic beasts carrying traces of her aura.
• Xuanming detected an aura at her own realm on Mount Tai and carefully avoided probing it further.
• Xuanming reached the lands ruled by true dragons and realized that the Dragon Clan, her kin, ruled the world.

After Xuanming awakened, the worldwide winter ended, and the True Dragons and Northern Territory Holy City remained wary of the unknown power behind it. More than a decade later, the Dragon King Council gathered to decide whether to contact the powerful being in the icy ocean of the Far North.

• Xuanming's emergence ended the snow that had fallen for thousands of years, and the power sheltering the True Dragons disappeared.
• The world thawed, but the True Dragons and Northern Territory Holy City feared the powerful being they believed had stopped the winter; some southerners began worshipping it.
• The True Dragons and the myriad races reclaimed their former lands as the world slowly recovered.
• More than a decade passed without the unknown being appearing, while the True Dragons considered using contact with it to challenge the gods protecting Northern Territory Holy City.
• Torch Dragon, Kong Xuan, and the other leaders convened the Dragon King Council to decide whether to approach the powerful existence in the Far North's icy ocean.

The Dragon Clan’s True Dragons decided to send Ao Tian to contact the unknown powerhouse in the Far North’s icy ocean. After Ao Tian spent ten years calling out, Xuanming finally appeared.

• Kong Xuan, Torch Dragon, Bahamut, and the other True Dragons discussed the unknown powerhouse and chose Ao Tian to approach them as a Dragon King.
• Ao Tian led several True Dragons to the icy ocean and called for the senior, but received no answer.
• The other True Dragons left one by one, while Ao Tian stayed and continued calling out for ten years.
• Xuanming, irritated by Ao Tian’s daily calls but recognizing him as a fellow Dragon Clan member, finally showed herself.

Xuanming emerged from the icy ocean in her colossal dragon form, overwhelming Yinglong Ao Tian with her presence. After Ao Tian respectfully praised her, Xuanming asked why he had come, and he recognized her as a Dragon King like winter itself.

• Xuanming rose from the Far North ocean, stirring up enormous waves and freezing winds.
• Yinglong Ao Tian was overwhelmed by Xuanming’s size and aura, which reminded him of the divine sword’s pressure outside the northern Holy City.
• Ao Tian bowed and showered Xuanming with respectful praise, leaving out the title of Dragon King he usually prized.
• Xuanming interrupted Ao Tian and asked what he had come to find her for.
• Ao Tian looked up at Xuanming’s fearsome dragon form and recognized her as a Dragon King like winter itself.

Xuanming refused Ao Tian’s request to become Dragon King but agreed to join the Dragon Clan as an ordinary dragon and explore the modern world. After transforming into a blue-haired girl, she set off with Ao Tian and asked him to tell her about the God.

• Ao Tian explained that the Dragon Clan ruled most of the world and asked Xuanming to become its Dragon King.
• Xuanming refused the throne but asked about the present age and learned that the Dragon Clan had thousands of True Dragons and countless Dragon Beasts.
• Xuanming agreed to join the Dragon Clan as an ordinary dragon, gave Ao Tian the name Constana, and told him not to spread news about her.
• Xuanming returned to the sea, transformed into a blue-haired girl, and rejoined the astonished Ao Tian.
• Xuanming agreed to travel with Ao Tian, offered to teach him the Transformation Art, and asked him to explain the story of the God.

Constana and Ao Tian traveled south as Ao Tian told her about Jiang Yang and the Dragon Clan's view of his power. They reached the Northern Territory's Holy City, where Constana wanted to explore its distinct culture rather than conquer it.

• Aulisel watched Ao Tian and Constana leave the Far North on Heimdall's satellite feed and wondered what Constana's arrival would mean while Jiang Yang remained in seclusion.
• Constana and Ao Tian flew south over the land as life returned after winter.
• Ao Tian told Constana that Jiang Yang had been the world's supreme being since the Silver Age and might be Haotian Shangdi at Mount Tai.
• Constana resolved to avoid the god at Mount Tai and live as an ordinary dragon.
• Ao Tian explained that the Northern Territory's Holy City was outside Dragon Clan rule and its people worshiped Haotian Shangdi.
• Constana asked Ao Tian to show her around the Holy City, interested in its local customs and scenery.

Constana and Ao Tian entered the Holy City's domain and explored the bustling city before visiting the Haotian Divine Temple. Ao Tian's confidence faded when he stood before the statue of Haotian Shangdi.

• Constana and Ao Tian traveled through the Holy City's flourishing countryside toward the city walls.
• Ao Tian admired the Platinum Wall and imagined making the Holy City his royal capital, while Constana judged its defenses crude.
• The pair entered the city and saw its steam and rune technology, as well as powerful residents who cultivated the Battle Qi Method.
• Constana and Ao Tian reached the Haotian Divine Temple and joined the worshippers inside.
• Ao Tian approached the statue of Haotian Shangdi, but his courage suddenly deserted him.

Ao Tian and Constana visited the Divine Temple, where Constana’s devout worship caught the attention of Divine Court Guard Mishang. Mishang invited her to join the guards, and Ao Tian mistakenly believed she had planned to infiltrate the Divine Court.

• Ao Tian followed the Believers in worship, while Constana knelt and prayed with striking devotion.
• A Divine Court Guard noticed Constana and decided she might make a suitable guard.
• A young Priest led Ao Tian and Constana to meet Mishang in a garden pavilion.
• Mishang asked Constana about her name and family, and she said she came from Xiaoli Village and had no parents.
• Mishang invited Constana to join the Divine Court Guards, and Ao Tian admired her supposed scheme to infiltrate the Divine Court.

Constana declined Mishang’s invitation to join the Divine Court and chose to travel south with Ao Tian. After several thousand years in seclusion, Jiang Yang awoke at Mount Tai and asked Yusheng how the world had changed.

• Constana refused Mishang’s invitation, saying she wanted to remain in the mortal world, and Mishang told her she could seek him out at Mount Tai later.
• Constana and Ao Tian left the Divine Temple, and she explained that she did not know Haotian and wanted to be cautious.
• Constana and Ao Tian decided to head south to the Dragon Kingdom so Ao Tian could become an ordinary dragon.
• Jiang Yang awoke from thousands of years of secluded cultivation at the summit of Mount Tai, and his aura alerted the Divine Court Guards.
• Yusheng led the guards in greeting Jiang Yang, who thanked them and asked Yusheng to tell him how the world had changed.

Constana became the Dragon Clan’s first emperor, though she preferred to keep a low profile and pursue her own cultivation. Meanwhile, Jiang Yang sensed that the Sixth Epoch’s mandate of heaven rejected survivors of the Fifth Epoch, explaining their restraints and some of the Divine Clan’s decline.

• Constana reluctantly accepted the True Dragons’ honor of making her emperor, while insisting she wanted an ordinary life and that the title was merely a name.
• The True Dragons proclaimed Constana the Emperor of Winter and Ice and Snow, and later generations called her the Blue Emperor or Ice Emperor.
• Constana visited the palace built for her only once, then kept a low profile and opened Kangna’s Many Treasures Shop in True Dragon City’s western district.
• After reaching the Fifth Step, Constana felt heaven and earth’s restraints and understood that joining the Dragon Clan helped ease them.
• On Mount Tai, Jiang Yang sensed that the Sixth Epoch’s mandate of heaven rejected survivors of the Fifth Epoch and connected it to the Divine Clan’s declining fertility and the earlier departure of the Angels and the Devil.

After reaching the fifth step, Jiang Yang learned that the Sixth Epoch’s destiny was rejecting him and preventing him from advancing further on Earth. He considered seeking cultivation elsewhere while remaining curious about Earth’s future and began searching the myriad worlds for a suitable place to grow stronger.

• Jiang Yang learned that the Sixth Epoch’s destiny had begun rejecting the Divine Clan after his breakthrough to the fifth step.
• Jiang Yang sensed that the Emperor-Rank Fifth Step was his limit on Earth and that he would need to seek his next breakthrough elsewhere.
• Jiang Yang told Yusheng to leave after hearing his report on events in the Mortal Realm.
• Jiang Yang considered traveling south to investigate the Dragon Clan’s rise.
• Jiang Yang linked himself to the Flame Law and searched outer space for a resource-rich but vulnerable world where he could cultivate.

Jiang Yang learned that the Dragon Clan’s emperor, Constana, was as powerful as he was, and agreed to travel south to meet her. As he set out, Constana sensed that something important was about to happen and added another layer of protection around her residence.

• Jiang Yang searched the flame law sea for a suitable world for a year, then stopped and guided the Divine Court Guards in their cultivation.
• Yusheng told Jiang Yang that the Dragon Clan had named the Ice Emperor its emperor and feared the Dragon Clan might attack the Northern Territory Holy City.
• Jiang Yang confirmed that the Dragon Clan’s emperor was in the same realm as him, but assured Yusheng that she posed little threat.
• Jiang Yang decided to travel south with Yusheng to meet the Dragon Clan emperor, Constana.
• Constana sensed that something important was about to happen and resolved to add another formation around her residence.

While traveling south with Yusheng, Jiang Yang contemplated how the Sixth Epoch’s first cycle of seasons might shape civilization and prepare it for the end-of-epoch calamity. He resolved to grow stronger, while a mysterious old man in an impossible realm briefly opened his eyes and murmured about heaven’s timing, earth’s advantage, and unity among people.

• Jiang Yang and Yusheng traveled south on foot as Jiang Yang observed the recovering world and reflected on the Bronze Age.
• Jiang Yang reasoned that the Sixth Epoch’s first seasonal cycle had skipped high summer and autumn, storing their abundance for a future age of enduring summer splendor.
• Jiang Yang considered whether that future prosperity could help Earth withstand the destructive calamity that had ended earlier epochs, though he sensed overwhelming terror when he imagined investigating its depths.
• Yusheng called to the motionless Jiang Yang, who dismissed his concern and continued walking with renewed determination to become stronger.
• In a distant, paradoxical realm, an old man seated on a gigantic white jade wheel briefly opened his eyes, smiled, and said, “Heaven’s timing, earth’s advantage, unity among people...”

Jiang Yang and Yusheng traveled south through lands filled with Dragon Beasts and reached the prosperous capital, True Dragon City. As a True Dragon’s procession entered the city, the two stood out by refusing to bow, catching the dragon’s attention.

• Jiang Yang learned from Yusheng that Dragon Beasts had flourished after the previous Winter Calamity and that some had become intelligent True Dragons.
• Jiang Yang saw villages and towns where beings of many races lived in low status, hoping to master the Dragon Transformation Method and join the Dragon Clan.
• Several months later, Jiang Yang and Yusheng arrived at True Dragon City, the expanding capital of the Dragon Kingdom.
• A Land Dragon pulled an iron-bodied carriage carrying a human-shaped True Dragon through the crowd as people of the myriad races bowed and moved aside.
• Jiang Yang and Yusheng remained standing upright by the roadside, and the True Dragon noticed them.

Jiang Yang and Yusheng entered a Dragon Clan city, where a Red Dragon named Angsaisis tried to punish them for not bowing. Jiang Yang spared him after sensing he had a destined role in the future Sixth Epoch, then took Yusheng to Kangna's Many Treasures Shop.

• Angsaisis ordered his driver to whip Jiang Yang and Yusheng for failing to bow before him.
• Yusheng seized the driver's whip and flung him onto the city wall.
• Angsaisis threatened Jiang Yang and Yusheng, but Jiang Yang's glance overwhelmed him and forced him to his knees.
• Dragon Clan Enforcers arrived, and Angsaisis concealed what had happened while they dealt with his driver.
• Jiang Yang told Yusheng that Angsaisis had a destined course of fate and led him to Kangna's Many Treasures Shop.

Jiang Yang and Yusheng visited Kangna's Shop in True Dragon City, where Jiang Yang met the mysterious dragon lady Constana. He examined a silver small sword and realized that Constana had moved it through a subtle manipulation of its natural trajectory.

• Jiang Yang and Yusheng walked through True Dragon City to a distinctive little shop on the western side.
• A girl named Constana welcomed them from behind the counter and told them each person could choose only one item.
• Jiang Yang asked to examine a silver small sword, and Constana sent it floating into his hand.
• Jiang Yang recognized that Constana had moved the sword without using power, by subtly altering its trajectory.

Jiang Yang traded an ice-type Devil Lord’s law heart for Constana’s flying sword and, impressed by their shared understanding of the Dao, decided to stay near her shop. The next morning, he greeted Kangna outside the shop as her new neighbor.

• Jiang Yang examined Constana’s silver flying sword, admired its unfamiliar runes, and watched her demonstrate its flight.
• Jiang Yang traded an ice-type Devil Lord’s law heart for the flying sword and spent the afternoon discussing cultivation and the world with Constana.
• Jiang Yang told Yusheng to find a house near Kangna’s Many Treasures Shop so he could stay and exchange insights with Constana.
• The next morning, Jiang Yang greeted Kangna outside her shop.

Jiang Yang visited Kangna again, and their daily discussions of the Dao grew comfortable as he settled in across from her shop. When Yuhua returned and gave Kangna a gift, he learned that Jiang Yang was a regular neighbor and felt threatened by his presence.

• Jiang Yang visited Kangna with snacks, and she reluctantly let him into her shop before enjoying the treats and asking him to bring more.
• Jiang Yang and Kangna discussed the Dao for hours, then discovered that he had rented a place diagonally across from her shop.
• Over the following dozen days, Jiang Yang visited Kangna daily and the two grew familiar.
• Yuhua returned from Ai Smoke City, gave Kangna a wooden dragon charm, and told her he had memorized the material she had given him.
• Kangna introduced Yuhua to Jiang Yang, who revealed that he lived across from her and would be seeing Yuhua often, leaving the boy alarmed.

Three years after the Winter Calamity, Jiang Yang watched Constana bargain with a Devil Clan merchant at her shop. He told Yuhua about the Dragon Clan emperor’s plan to recruit talented young people as Royal Guards, while Constana realized she had not known about it.

• A Devil Clan merchant bartered with Constana for a white jade ring that could withstand three full-power attacks from someone in the Profound Dragon Realm.
• After the merchant left, Constana complained about how difficult the Devil Clan merchants were to deal with, and Jiang Yang teased her.
• Yuhua praised Constana’s patience as he wiped the shop’s shelves.
• Jiang Yang told Yuhua that the Dragon Clan emperor was recruiting talented young people of any race to train as Royal Guards, with status equal to True Dragons.
• Constana was surprised that she, the emperor, had not heard about the recruitment.

Yuhua reflected on how Jiang Yang and Constana had helped him develop the Qi Refining Method, then agreed to enter an opportunity to test it. After he left to prepare, Jiang Yang revealed that he had arranged the opportunity on Constana’s behalf, prompting their familiar teasing.

• Yuhua recalled meeting Kangna and learning cultivation, then combining the Magic Potion Method and Immortal Clan Arts into the Qi Refining Method with Jiang Yang and Constana’s help.
• Jiang Yang encouraged Yuhua to test his method, and Constana supported him.
• Yuhua agreed to enter the opportunity starting the next day and hurried home to prepare.
• Jiang Yang told Constana he had arranged the opportunity after a young True Dragon mistook him for her and delivered a letter.
• Constana questioned Jiang Yang for making the decision for her, then accepted his explanation that Yuhua needed the opportunity.