Chapter Summaries

After the Dragon Realm Secret Realm began drifting toward the Dark Mist True Realm, the Great Elder assembled a rescue party and chose Lin Yi to accompany him. He privately tasked Lin Yi with finding the Second Generation Dragon God, delivering a warning, and seeking the opportunity hidden in the disaster.

• The Great Elder arrived at the Sacred Dragon Mountain Range as the elders debated whether the unstable Teleportation Array could still reach the drifting Dragon Realm Secret Realm.
• The Great Elder ordered a rescue mission, named Lin Yi among those entering the Secret Realm, and assigned the remaining elders to protect the returned students and clear Evil Creatures.
• Lin Yi reunited with Ling Shanshan, War-Heaven Dragon, Fu Dao, Chen Lin, and Rumba, then learned from Fu Dao that Ling Yunxiao and Gu Chengan were still trapped inside.
• The Great Elder privately told Lin Yi to find the Second Generation Dragon God and tell him to abandon his plan because circumstances had changed.
• The Great Elder told Lin Yi he could act alone and said that entering the Dark Mist Realm might offer a chance to greatly advance his Indestructible Body.

Lin Yi joined the Great Elder and the elders as they entered the Dragon Realm Secret Realm to rescue stranded New Students, but separated from them to investigate on his own. When powerful Emperor Realm Evil Creatures appeared, he transformed into a Nether Fiend Bull Viper and disguised himself as a Sea Patrol Yaksha.

• The Great Elder gave Lin Yi a True Realm Teleportation Talisman and said Zhou Huan had been stranded in the secret realm while searching for New Students.
• Lin Yi and the elders teleported into the Dragon Realm Secret Realm, where several elders departed on hidden tasks and Lin Yi went alone into the black mist.
• Lin Yi surveyed the devastated seas and killed a Nether Fiend Bull Viper, turning its remains into a Gold Grade Bull Viper Blood Essence Stone and recovering its Sea Crystal Flint.
• Several Emperor Realm Evil Creatures emerged from the black mist, and Lin Yi used Flesh and Blood Transformation to disguise himself as a Nether Fiend Bull Viper, then took out a trident Imperial Evil Artifact.

Lin Yi infiltrated a Nether Fiend Bull Viper horde and followed it into a battle against an army led by a Three-Eyed Black Octopus. After the Octopus retreated, the four Nether Fiend Bull Viper Emperor Evils began a mysterious ritual that filled the sea with thickening black mist.

• Lin Yi disguised himself as a Five-Star Nether Fiend Bull Viper, killed a minor leader who challenged him, and gained the dead leader’s followers.
• Lin Yi led the followers at the rear of the horde as the four Emperor Evils marched toward another large evil creature army.
• The two armies fought for half an hour while Lin Yi and his followers mostly avoided the battle and attacked only weaker enemies.
• The Three-Eyed Black Octopus devoured battlefield remains, then withdrew after reaching an agreement with the four Nether Fiend Bull Viper Emperor Evils.
• The four Emperor Evils took positions around the occupied sea region and began chanting, causing the black mist to surge and grow denser.

Lin Yi followed the Nether Fiend Bull Vipers across the Dark Bridge into the Dark Continent, where he learned the world’s laws suppressed Source Qi but left his Indestructible Vitality untouched. He secretly used his Martial Saint Avatar to hide his true body, learned the Vipers’ language, and reached their nest at a lava-lined Black Mountain.

• A black mist phantom opened the Dark Bridge, and the six-armed Emperor Realm Nether Fiend Bull Viper led its battered army toward the Evil Creatures’ lair.
• Lin Yi followed the Vipers into the Dark Continent and discovered that its strange laws suppressed his Source Qi while leaving his Indestructible Vitality unaffected.
• Lin Yi sent his Martial Saint Avatar onward with the army, hid in a mountain hollow, and used a Wishing Incense Altar to activate talents that helped him learn the Vipers’ language.
• Lin Yi rejoined the army and quickly learned enough of the Nether Fiend Bull Vipers’ speech to understand their basic conversations.
• The army reached the Vipers’ nest, a gigantic Black Mountain riddled with caves above crimson lava and crowned by a colossal snake statue.

Lin Yi infiltrated a Nether Fiend Bull Viper nest and discovered the creatures were mining and smelting Black Rock Gold, a rare material ideal for forging Indestructible Body artifacts. He settled into the Crimson Molten Cave and learned the Viper language while beginning to study their written markings.

• Lin Yi followed the battered army into the nest and saw Nether Fiend Bull Vipers laboring in organized teams to forge weapons.
• Lin Yi spotted Black Rock Gold being smelted and decided not to risk his disguise for a small amount, instead planning to learn where larger stores were kept.
• Lin Yi entered the Crimson Molten Cave with his followers and learned that they were to await assignments from the clan.
• Lin Yi had his underlings converse in their racial language and used their examples to master the spoken language and imitate its pronunciation.
• Lin Yi studied the twisted markings on the cave walls, gradually working out how the Vipers' writing related to their speech.

Lin Yi infiltrated Black Mountain’s smelting core, subdued an elderly Nether Fiend Bull Viper, and used a Demon Taming Spirit Seed to extract intelligence about the nest and its leader, Lord Six-Armed. As the old Bull Viper revealed the secrets, black qi began corrupting the Spirit Seed.

• Lin Yi slipped through the nest under a Qi Concealment and Invisibility Talisman and reached the furnaces and weapon-forging grounds.
• Lin Yi followed an elderly Nether Fiend Bull Viper carrying Black Rock Gold and finished weapons into a secluded passage, then knocked it unconscious.
• Lin Yi searched the old Bull Viper for a sensory mark and implanted a pale-red Demon Taming Spirit Seed, successfully bringing it under his control.
• Lin Yi questioned the old Bull Viper and learned that Lord Six-Armed ruled the hundred-odd Black Mountains, along with details of the nest and Black Rock Gold mining and transport.
• Lin Yi noticed black qi visibly staining the Spirit Seed as the old Bull Viper’s answers slowed.

Lin Yi killed the old Bull Viper Black Horn, took its form, and used its identity to travel toward the Nether Fiend Bull Vipers’ central treasury. He reached the Black Gold White Bone Hall and prepared to infiltrate its vault, with a backup plan to seize other leaders’ hidden Black Rock Gold.

• Lin Yi discovered that the corrupted Demon Taming Spirit Seed had killed the old Bull Viper and decided to impersonate it.
• Lin Yi transformed into the old Bull Viper and searched its pouch, finding three refined blocks of Black Rock Gold among its weapons and supplies.
• Lin Yi summoned Black Mountain’s five-star minor leaders, planted Spirit Seeds in several who knew Black Horn, and learned about its habits, status, and hidden gold before the seeds killed them.
• Lin Yi traveled through more than ten Black Mountains without being challenged because the Nether Fiend Bull Vipers recognized Black Horn’s authority as a territorial leader and Forge Master.
• Lin Yi reached the Black Gold White Bone Hall, where the race’s Black Rock Gold treasury lay, and considered robbing nearby leaders if the vault held little gold.

Lin Yi disguised as Black Horn entered the Black Gold White Bone Hall and looted its underground treasury. He left with its Black Rock Gold, Imperial Evil Artifacts, and valuable materials, while the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper remained away at Sunset Mountain.

• Lin Yi used Black Horn’s identity to make the treasury guards lead him to the underground vault.
• Lin Yi learned that the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper had gone to Sunset Mountain, suggesting the treasury held less Black Rock Gold than expected.
• Lin Yi opened the treasury with Black Horn’s token and dismissed the guards so he could inspect its contents alone.
• Lin Yi swept valuable spiritual materials, ores, and treasures into his Storage Space, estimating their value at three to four hundred thousand Void Crystal Coins.
• Lin Yi collected fourteen pieces of Black Rock Gold and examined five Imperial Evil Artifacts, which he could tame with his Artifact Master talent.

Lin Yi subdued five Imperial Evil Artifacts and discovered an ancient Nether Fiend Bull Viper inscription in the treasure vault. He deciphered it as the Nether Fiend Indestructible Body, an Emperor Realm method that could accelerate the condensation of his Star Core.

• Lin Yi used his Indestructible Vitality to subdue five Imperial Evil Artifacts and recognized their value.
• Lin Yi noticed ancient carvings on a stone wall and identified them as Nether Fiend Bull Viper tribal script.
• Lin Yi deciphered the carvings and discovered they described an Emperor Realm physical cultivation method.
• Lin Yi activated the inscription with his Indestructible Vitality and learned it was called the Nether Fiend Indestructible Body.
• Lin Yi realized the method could use Nether Fiend to nourish his Star Core and accelerate its condensation.

Lin Yi hid beneath Black Mountain as the Second Generation Dragon God defeated the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper and claimed its territory. Lord Extreme Wind confirmed the transfer and ordered the displaced clan to relocate elsewhere in his domain.

• Lin Yi concealed himself beneath Black Mountain while the Second Generation Dragon God confronted the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper and the other Emperor Realm evil creatures.
• The Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper charged the Second Generation Dragon God, who struck it down and sent it crashing into the burning mountainside.
• The Second Generation Dragon God demanded Black Mountain as its new territory, and the Spirit Devouring Crocodile warned that Lord Extreme Wind had assigned it to the Nether Fiend Bull Viper race.
• The Second Generation Dragon God claimed Lord Extreme Wind had permitted it to take Black Mountain, shocking the assembled evil creatures.
• Lord Extreme Wind ordered the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper to yield Black Mountain, promising the clan a new territory and resources as compensation.

Six-Arms left Lord Extreme Wind’s jurisdiction after the Second Generation Dragon God seized its territory, taking the disguised Lin Yi with it. As they fled toward the domain’s border, Lin Yi weighed his options while Six-Arms began asking about Black Horn’s age.

• Six-Arms asked Lord Extreme Wind to release it from the Extreme Wind Domain, and Lord Extreme Wind agreed.
• The Second Generation Dragon God dragged Lin Yi, disguised as Black Horn, from underground and threatened Six-Arms not to return to Black Mountain.
• Lin Yi convinced Six-Arms he had survived by being buried beneath the treasury, and Six-Arms took him and its recovered Imperial Evil Artifacts away.
• As they traveled toward the border, Lin Yi decided not to risk escaping while surrounded by powerful evil creatures.
• Six-Arms asked Lin Yi how old Black Horn was, and Lin Yi replied that he was over six thousand years old.

The Six-Armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper took Lin Yi to a secluded valley and revealed the Nether Fiend Bull Vipers' true origins and the Heavenly Serpent Blood Essence. Lin Yi learned the essence came from the extinct World-Destroying Heavenly Serpent, and the chapter left the Great Emperor fired up to use it to avenge his clan.

• The Six-Armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper told Lin Yi it would help him break through to the Emperor Realm and brought him to a secluded valley.
• The Six-Armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper revealed that the Nether Fiend Bull Vipers had once been ordinary Exotic Beasts from a broken minor realm.
• The Six-Armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper explained that it had found the Heavenly Serpent Blood Essence in an ancient ruin and identified it as an inheritance treasure of the World-Destroying Heavenly Serpent.
• Lin Yi recalled the World-Destroying Heavenly Serpent's terrifying reputation and encouraged the Great Emperor to use the inheritance to grow stronger and take revenge.
• The Six-Armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper regained its confidence, vowed to destroy Black Mountain and kill the Second Generation Dragon God, and praised Black Horn's eloquence.

Lin Yi pretended to try the Heavenly Serpent Blood Essence while secretly avoiding its dangerous inheritance, and the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper took him along despite his failure. They crossed into the Southern Heaven Domain, where Six-Arms explained the history and neutral rules of Southern Heaven City.

• Lin Yi inspected the Heavenly Serpent Blood Essence and learned its inheritance could mark him and erode his original bloodline.
• Six-Arms explained how it had used the inheritance to gain the Heavenly Serpent Moon Devouring Method and break through to the Emperor Realm.
• Lin Yi feigned an unsuccessful attempt, so Six-Arms reclaimed the stone, warned him to keep its existence secret, and promised to teach him the method later.
• Six-Arms led Lin Yi across the border from the Extreme Wind Domain into the Southern Heaven Domain.
• Six-Arms told Lin Yi that Southern Heaven City had been built by a human and was now a neutral settlement where residents of any race could live if they did not cause trouble.

Lin Yi entered Southern Heaven City with the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper and discovered that humans from Dark Mist City traded peacefully with Evil Creatures there. Inside the city, he identified a Blood Fiend Gathering Array that would corrupt ordinary humans, and wondered how the visiting humans protected themselves from it.

• Lin Yi saw orderly Evil Creatures and black-robed humans queuing for inspection at Southern Heaven City's gates, and learned from the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper that Dark Mist City's people traded resources with Evil Creatures.
• The Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper traded Black Rock Gold with the black-robed leader for a spatial pouch of flesh and blood, then promised Lin Yi a share.
• Lin Yi followed the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper into Southern Heaven City without being inspected, while the guards yielded to its Emperor Realm aura.
• Lin Yi sensed the Blood Fiend Gathering Array surrounding the city and realized his Emperor Realm Indestructible Body protected him from its corrupting power.
• Lin Yi wondered how the human visitors from Dark Mist City shielded themselves from the Blood Fiend Qi.

Lin Yi followed the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper through Southern Heaven City and learned that its thousand-year trade fair would begin in ten days. When he heard Chaos Particles might be auctioned there, he decided he had to obtain them to help him condense a Star Core.

• Lin Yi saw black-robed visitors from Dark Mist City enter Southern Heaven City in protective robes that blocked the Blood Fiend Qi, and their leader warned his followers not to damage them.
• Lin Yi followed the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper through the city’s orderly trading district and noticed rare Source Realm materials being sold cheaply.
• Lin Yi reached the Southern Heaven palace with Six-Arms and learned from the gatekeepers that the trade fair would begin after one cycle of Black Bamboo Days, or ten days.
• A gatekeeper said Imperial Evil Artifacts would appear at the fair and that Chaos Particles might also be auctioned.
• Lin Yi realized Chaos Particles could help him condense a Star Core and resolved to obtain them.

Lin Yi discovered that Six-Arms was trading for humans and disguised himself as a Dark Mist City cultivator to infiltrate Nightmare Sky Island’s delegation in Southern Heaven City. After controlling Zhao Kun, he learned the delegation’s mission and questioned whether its deacon was seeking Chaos Particles.

• Lin Yi reported that Nether Fiend was scarce and received a spatial pouch containing more than a hundred unconscious humans from Six-Arms.
• Lin Yi resolved to target the black-robed cultivators from Dark Mist City who sold humans to Evil Creatures, then left to gather information.
• Lin Yi transformed his appearance, disguised himself as a Dark Mist City cultivator, and bought scarce Spiritual Materials at the trading district.
• When Zhao Kun confronted him, Lin Yi lured him into an alley, knocked him unconscious, and planted a Demon Taming Spirit Seed in him.
• Zhao Kun revealed that he belonged to Nightmare Sky Island and had come to buy resources and attend the Millennium Auction, but did not know what his deacon sought there.
• Lin Yi asked Zhao Kun whether the deacon had come for Chaos Particles.

Lin Yi learned that a mysterious Supreme Body Diagram inheritance would be auctioned in Southern Heaven City and quietly investigated it while posing as Black Horn. When Zhao Kun reported that powerful factions had arrived to compete for the inheritance, Lin Yi decided he needed a way into the auction.

• Lin Yi learned from Zhao Kun that his lord was secretly interested in a Supreme Body Inheritance excavated near Southern Heaven City, and ordered Zhao Kun to uncover its details without exposing himself.
• Lin Yi handed Zhao Kun the Spiritual Materials he had purchased so Zhao Kun could return to his duties without raising suspicion.
• Lin Yi helped Six-armed procure supplies and investigate the Millennium Auction's featured Imperial Evil Artifacts while avoiding powerful Evil Creatures in the city.
• On the day before the auction, Zhao Kun told Lin Yi that two Sky Island factions and experts from three Emperor Alliances had arrived to pursue the Supreme Body Diagram inheritance.
• Lin Yi concluded that the inheritance must be exceptionally valuable and considered using Six-armed's wealth to gain access to the auction.

Emperor Realm evil creatures gathered in Southern Heaven City for its once-in-a-thousand-years auction, while the Six-Armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper hoped to bid on a rumored Imperial Evil Artifact Forging Method. The arrival of a larger-than-usual delegation from Dark Mist City stirred hostility, and concealed experts among the humans reacted to an Emperor Evil threatening to eat them.

• Bone Mist Old Woman and the Battle Heaven Azure Ape warned the Emperor Evils to keep order at the auction.
• The Six-Armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper recalled Black Horn's report about an inheritance of the Imperial Evil Artifact Forging Method and hoped to win it.
• The Spirit Devouring Crocodile met the Six-Armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper, and they exchanged barbs about its injuries and the nearby evil dragon.
• A larger-than-usual group from Dark Mist City entered, prompting a giant centipede Emperor Evil to declare that it wanted to eat the humans.
• The Battle Heaven Azure Ape rebuked the centipede, while concealed Emperor Realm experts among the humans whispered angrily about its threat.

Lin Yi disguised himself as Zhao Kun to infiltrate the Southern Heaven City Auction and assessed the Emperor Realm cultivators who might compete for the Supreme Body Inheritance. The auction began with the Dragon Bone Emperor Evil Saber, while the inheritance remained the final item.

• Dark Mist City’s Emperor Cultivators mocked Xun Taisheng and discussed joining forces to kill an Emperor Realm evil creature after the auction.
• Lin Yi observed the five Emperor Realm experts from Dark Mist City and considered how he could defeat or trap them.
• Xun Taisheng denied knowing the Supreme Body Inheritance’s details and said its origins and potential would only become clear after it was won.
• The Bone Mist Old Woman started the Millennium Auction of Southern Heaven City and announced that it featured seventy-two treasures, with the Supreme Body Inheritance as the final item.
• The Bone Mist Old Woman introduced the first lot, the Dragon Bone Emperor Evil Saber, as four Spirit Corpses carried it onto the platform.

At the Southern Heaven City Auction, the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper bid Black Rock Gold for the Dragon Bone Emperor Evil Saber but lost to an offer of living beings. Four Emperor Cultivators from Dark Mist City began plotting to attack it, while the auction moved on to an Emperor Pill bearing Five-Clawed Golden Dragon bloodline.

• The Dark Mist City Emperor Cultivators dismissed the corrupted Dragon Bone Emperor Evil Saber, then watched as Emperor Evils competed for it with living flesh and rare treasures.
• The Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper offered three chunks of Black Rock Gold, drawing the attention of the Dark Mist City cultivators.
• Four of the five Dark Mist City Emperor Cultivators agreed to target the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper after learning it had lost its protector, while the Kunpeng Emperor Alliance elder stayed out of the plan.
• Bone Mist Old Woman awarded the Dragon Bone Emperor Evil Saber to an Emperor Evil offering eight hundred Five-Star Living Beings, and the Battle Heaven Azure Ape completed the transaction.
• Bone Mist Old Woman presented an Emperor Pill from an evil creature with Five-Clawed Golden Dragon bloodline, and the Emperor Evils erupted into a fierce bidding contest.