Recaps

Yu Tunzhou effortlessly defeated Mo Tianxiong, continued teaching Feng Qingping, and declared his ambition to become invincible under heaven. Later, two External Scenery experts attacked the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple, and Yu Tunzhou used heavenly lightning to drive one away as Zuo Lan and other experts prepared to demand answers from the West Sea Dragon Palace.

• Yu Tunzhou defeated Mo Tianxiong in a single move, leaving the Western Frontier martial artists stunned by the gap between them.
• Yu Tunzhou taught Feng Qingping his fist technique and encouraged him to find an ambition; Yu Tunzhou said his own ambition was to be invincible under heaven.
• After learning of Yu Tunzhou's victory, Shi Shouling was ordered to abandon his challenge and go challenge Yang Che, while Su Wan learned that Yu Tunzhou had killed Sun Xiongman.
• An External Scenery expert attacked Yu Tunzhou at the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple, but Yu Tunzhou summoned heavenly lightning and forced the attacker to flee.
• Zuo Lan wounded the second attacker and joined Yu Tunzhou as the arriving External Scenery experts proposed pressuring the West Sea Dragon Palace for an explanation.

Yu Tunzhou learned that overseas dragons had attacked the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple, then watched the factions hunt one down and turn its corpse into a feast. After receiving a dragon pearl and preparing for the Eternal Dragon Gate, he left the temple and continued toward the Central Plains, where Shi Shouling promised to challenge him at the Gate.

• Zuo Lan told Yu Tunzhou that the temple attack was likely retaliation for the killing of a true dragon on the Northern Dark Sea battlefield, and he warned that someone in Far West City had aided the attackers.
• Ao Jiangjing denied that the West Sea Dragon Palace was responsible and ordered Ao Yunyan to help the human factions search for the overseas dragons.
• The factions hunted down one overseas dragon and brought its corpse to the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple, where Yu Tunzhou joined the whole-dragon feast and received the dragon pearl from Zuo Lan.
• Yu Tunzhou learned that the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple used dragon pearls to nourish the spirit, then decided to leave for the South Sea and the Eternal Dragon Gate.
• Yu Tunzhou trained across the Western Desert before parting from the External Scenery experts, and Shi Shouling said he would challenge him at the Eternal Dragon Gate.

Yu Tunzhou visited Qingping County to pay respects to Zhuang Yuan, where he uncovered a grave-robbing investigation tied to the Incense-Smelling Cult and defended Zhuang Yuan’s reputation with the Heavenly Yang Martial Arts School. After learning that the cult was searching for a sword and hearing of escalating clashes among the Dragon and Tiger Ranking’s top fighters, he left expecting a gathering storm.

• Yu Tunzhou caught Zhang Ping and two Beggar Sect members investigating an empty grave near Zhuang Yuan’s tomb, and learned they suspected followers of the Incense-Smelling Cult had attacked Elder Zhu Tianhe and stolen corpses.
• Yu Tunzhou confirmed that Zhuang Yuan’s remains were still in his grave, then paid respects at the Heavenly Yang Martial Arts School and reassured its master that Jin Xiongfei was dead and the Jin Household would not trouble them.
• Yu Tunzhou encouraged Zhuang Qingping to pursue his ambitions and told the school to invoke his name if anyone threatened it.
• Yu Tunzhou reported the matter to Wei Yang of the Gold-Wielding Guard and learned the Incense-Smelling Cult had searched Qingping County for an unidentified sword before leaving empty-handed.
• Wei Yang told Yu Tunzhou that Deng Canglan had killed Yao Liang, Wu Xuan had fought Lin Yueheng, Daoist Xuanfa had challenged Dharma Master Jiese, and Huang Tian was preparing to descend the mountain and challenge Yu Tunzhou.

Deng Canglan evaded Floating Hill Mountain’s pursuit while several young martial artists prepared for the Eternal Dragon Gate under the guidance of their sects and founding masters. An Ruyu received orders to bring Yu Tunzhou back alive and gained information about the Dragon Gate, leaving her confident she could confront him there.

• Deng Canglan considered targeting Wu Xuan but worried that eliminating him and An Ruyu would leave him isolated inside the Eternal Dragon Gate, then learned that people blamed his reputation on his master’s sect.
• Xie Linchuan awoke from three months of cultivation and received the founding master’s command to enter the Dragon Gate and sever the flow of waterborne fortune.
• Xuanfa arrived at Everlasting Spring Mountain, where Wolong instructed him to cultivate the Ancient Method, enter the Dragon Gate, and retrieve an item.
• Lin Yueheng told Zhao Jiangxue that he would defeat his opponent next time, while Huang Tian completed his divine meridians and formed a blazing sun domain.
• An Ruyu learned that the Old Mothers wanted Martial Ancestor Lu Daolin eliminated and sent her to investigate the Dragon Race’s plans at the Dragon Gate.
• The Earth Mother’s envoy ordered An Ruyu to capture Yu Tunzhou alive and promised her information to help her seize the initiative inside the Dragon Gate.

An Ruyu ordered Zhang Yan to locate Yu Tunzhou and ask about making him a divine emissary, while Feng Xu and representatives of the Star Palace and Jixia Academy finalized a politically charged Dragon and Tiger Ranking. Yu Tunzhou returned to the southeast and confronted Incense-Smelling Cult agents on a pleasure boat, where Zhang Yan tried to save himself by invoking the Azure Clouds Eternal Mother.

• An Ruyu told her maid to have Zhang Yan find Yu Tunzhou and learn whether he would serve as the Azure Clouds Eternal Mother's divine emissary.
• Feng Xu, Daoist Non-Contention, and Zhu Yan discussed rising young martial artists and drew up a new Dragon and Tiger Ranking to provoke competition before the Eternal Dragon Gate opened.
• Feng Xu secretly ordered his deputy to deliver Yu Tunzhou a warning that overseas forces would also attend the Eternal Dragon Gate.
• Jiang Haitao recognized Zhang Ying and alerted Jiang Sanniang that the Incense-Smelling Cult agents had boarded the pleasure boat, while Jiang Sanniang arranged to warn Yu Tunzhou.
• Zhang Yan and four other Incense-Smelling Cult agents recognized Wang Fujing and prepared to attack him, but stopped when Yu Tunzhou appeared behind him.
• Yu Tunzhou's presence pinned the five agents in place, and Zhang Yan pleaded for his life by telling him that the Azure Clouds Eternal Mother wanted him as her envoy; Yu Tunzhou asked about the Earth-Surging Mother.

Yu Tunzhou learned that six Old Mothers had awakened and heard Wang Fujing’s proposal to take charge of the Incense-Smelling Cult. As the Eternal Dragon Gate’s opening drew near, Wang Fujing warned him that all tribulations and myriad calamities began at the Dragon Gate.

• Yu Tunzhou restrained Zhang Yan and four Incense-Smelling Cult members, then struck three fleeing men with heavenly lightning while one escaped into the river.
• Wang Fujing revealed that he had once been an Incense-Smelling Cult divine envoy and invited Yu Tunzhou to lead the cult, offering Zhang Yan as a hidden pawn.
• Wang Fujing told Zhang Yan that his parents had been cult members who killed each other, and that Zhang Yan’s elder brother had been drawn into the Netherworld Branch; he also claimed he could bring the brother back.
• Yu Tunzhou knocked Zhang Yan unconscious and agreed to hear Wang Fujing out, while Wang Fujing explained why he had chosen Yu over other martial artists.
• Yu Tunzhou suppressed Zhang Ziyi’s challenge with his Fist Intent, then returned to hear Wang Fujing’s warning that all tribulations and myriad calamities began at the Dragon Gate.

Yu Tunzhou learned from Wang Fujing that the Eternal Dragon Gate was tied to the return of ancient Immortals and Gods, the Incense-Smelling Cult’s divisions, and a prophecy that Great Yan would fall within two years. After Wang Fujing proposed that Yu Tunzhou claim the throne as the Human Emperor’s successor, Yu Tunzhou left to meet the realm’s young talents and entered the Coming Dragon River, where Lord Hibernating Dragon recognized his rapid growth.

• Yu Tunzhou questioned Wang Fujing about the Eternal Dragon Gate and learned that the powers sought its secrets because the Human Race had no known returning Immortals or Gods.
• Wang Fujing warned that the Incense-Smelling Cult’s Old Mothers disagreed over the Dragon Gate, identified the Netherworld and Earth Surge branches as dangers, and revealed that Great Yan’s fate would be exhausted within two years.
• Wang Fujing urged Yu Tunzhou to use his ties to the Northern Dark Sea Faction and the Incense-Smelling Cult to claim the throne, but Yu Tunzhou rejected his assumptions and learned that An Ruyu had chosen him.
• Wang Fujing and Lu Yi departed, and Yu Tunzhou reflected that the Eternal Dragon Gate might be a turning point in conflicts involving returning Immortals and Gods.
• Yu Tunzhou resolved to seek more information from Commander-in-Chief Feng Xu and the South Sea Dragon Palace, then left the ship to travel downriver toward the Eternal Dragon Gate.
• Yu Tunzhou greeted Lord Hibernating Dragon as he strode across the Coming Dragon River, and Lord Hibernating Dragon was shocked by how much Yu Tunzhou had advanced in a little over a year.

At Sea City, Yu Tunzhou drew the attention of martial artists from across the region by defeating seven challengers with a single punch each. That night, a mysterious young woman approached him in the air and teased him by asking whether he liked her new dress.

• At a Nanhua Commandery teahouse, martial artists discussed the Dragon and Tiger Ranking and the fighters heading for the South Sea Dragon Palace, while An Zi and Lin Yueheng briefly sensed each other’s strength.
• Crown Prince Ji Zhaoxuan gathered Lin Yueheng, Heroine Bao, and other fighters, including representatives of the Xiao, Tantai, and Jiang Clans, and revealed that overseas races would enter the Eternal Dragon Gate too.
• Ji Zhaoxuan invited the assembled fighters to travel with him to Sea City, where he planned to disclose more about the Dragon Gate after gathering the South Sea martial artists.
• Yu Tunzhou arrived in Sea City and rented the top floor of Drunken Sea Tower, where he spoke with Daoist Qingshan about the Daoist lineage and an inheritance he had encountered with Feng Yanleng.
• Ren Buping challenged Yu Tunzhou, who defeated seven challengers in succession with one punch each and left the gathered martial artists unwilling to face him.
• That night, a young woman walked through the air toward Yu Tunzhou, imitated his stance, and asked whether he liked her new dress.

Yu Tunzhou learned from An Ruyu that the Xiao, Tantai, and Jiang Households had powerful ancient gods behind them and that Tantai Mingyu and her allies planned to target him in the Eternal Dragon Gate. After Huntian explained that the old Heavenly Court’s emperors were believed dead, Yu Tunzhou questioned who truly backed those households and considered dealing with his potential enemies before entering the Dragon Gate.

• Yu Tunzhou confronted An Ruyu, who said she had come to save him and warned that Tantai Mingyu, Xiao Yanzhi, and Jiang Fengyang could join forces against him in the Eternal Dragon Gate.
• An Ruyu revealed that the ancestors of the Xiao and Tantai Households inherited legacies from Great Emperor Ziwei and Great Emperor Gouchen, while the Jiang Household was suspected of ties to the Human Emperor.
• Yu Tunzhou pressed An Ruyu about who had approached her, but she escaped after hinting that Great Emperor Ziwei and Great Emperor Gouchen served someone greater; she suspected Uncle Wang and his companions had already sought Yu Tunzhou out.
• Yu Tunzhou told Huntian about the warning, and Huntian said the old Heavenly Court’s emperors were believed to have died or vanished after its collapse, while Supreme Emperor Haotian had led it under the Dao Venerable’s appointment.
• Yu Tunzhou concluded that the ancient Heavenly Court had six sovereigns and wondered who now backed the Xiao and Tantai Households; he and Huntian discussed the Dragon Gate, the Kunpeng’s divine weapon, and the danger of ancient powers.
• Yu Tunzhou decided that he should settle potential trouble from the Tantai and Xiao Households before entering the Dragon Gate, ideally if one of their warriors approached him first.

Ji Zhaoxuan arrived in Sea City and Yu Tunzhou challenged his party with overwhelming fist intent, prompting the crown prince to send Tantai Mingyu to curb him. Tantai’s Thunder Method backfired during their duel, leaving her defeated as Yu Tunzhou remained poised to enter the Dragon Gate.

• Ji Zhaoxuan entered Sea City with a large procession, but Yu Tunzhou’s fist intent stopped the party at the gates and drew attention from the city’s factions.
• After learning Yu Tunzhou had defeated ten challengers and reserved Drunken Sea Pavilion’s top floor on the Danyang Qian Household’s account, Ji Zhaoxuan invited Xiao Yanzhi and Tantai Mingyu to plan a response.
• Tantai Mingyu agreed to challenge Yu Tunzhou, while Xiao Yanzhi advised her to avoid a head-on clash and merely blunt his influence.
• Yu Tunzhou accepted Tantai Mingyu’s challenge and led her to fight above the sea, where she summoned the Heavenly Emperor’s Thunder-Commanding Incantation.
• When Tantai Mingyu commanded her lightning to fall, it broke free and struck her instead; Yu Tunzhou survived the storm and concluded that she would not make the trip to the Dragon Gate.

Yu Tunzhou learned that the Dragon Gate might conceal the world’s water fortune and that overseas clans were competing to enter it, while Ji Zhaoxuan arranged support for the injured Tantai Mingyu. As the factions entered the South Sea Dragon Palace, An Ruyu appeared, and Ji Zhaoxuan planned to recruit her against Yu Tunzhou.

• Tantai Mingyu’s Thunder Method backfired, leaving her gravely injured, and Xiao Yanzhi rescued her from the lightning.
• Huntian told Yu Tunzhou that the Dragon Gate might lead to the Guixu Sea Eye and conceal the Dragon Race’s measure of the world’s water fortune.
• Ji Zhaoxuan gave Xiao Yanzhi a jade decree to help restore Tantai Mingyu and ordered him to settle accounts with Yu Tunzhou inside the Dragon Gate.
• Feng Xu’s secret letter told Yu Tunzhou that overseas clans had driven the Dragon Gate’s opening, so Yu Tunzhou formed a temporary alliance with Dharma Master Jiese, Fairy Nishang, and Lin Yueheng.
• Yu Tunzhou and his allies entered the South Sea Dragon Palace, where An Ruyu appeared and Ji Zhaoxuan decided to approach her secretly.

Martial artists and overseas clans gathered ahead of the Dragon Gate's opening, while Yu Tunzhou sought information about its secrets and Huang Tian clashed with Xie Linxue. Peng Fen revealed that the Dragon Gate selected Dragon Race inheritors, and the overseas contenders prepared to deny its water fortune to the Central Plains.

• An Ruyu rejected Ji Zhaoxuan's overture by invoking Young Hero Guo.
• Yu Tunzhou arrived at the South Sea Dragon Palace with Huntian, whose presence frightened the old dragon king.
• Ao Xiyu warned Yu Tunzhou about Ao E, Kong Ling, and Peng Fei, but admitted that her clan knew little about the Dragon Gate.
• Huang Tian neutralized Xie Linxue's sword attack at the East Sea Dragon Palace before the presiding experts stopped their clash.
• Peng Fen compelled Ao E to accept a Human Race woman's Dragon Gate place because she had come from the Emperor Wa Palace.
• Peng Fen told Kong Ling that the Dragon Gate selected Dragon Race inheritors under criteria set by the Ancestral Dragon, and Kong Ling urged preparations for its opening the next day.

The Eternal Dragon Gate opened, drawing entrants into a vast sea where their bodies changed into aquatic creatures and survival depended on hunting and growth. As the contestants began their trials, Ao Jiu was swallowed by a colossal, confused creature masquerading as an island, while a little golden bird worried that Fellow Daoist Xuandu had fallen into Dao confusion.

• The four Dragon Gates opened, and the South Sea Dragon King sent the gathered Human Race and Dragon Race representatives inside.
• An ancient voice challenged the entrants to discover what made a true dragon, and Yu Tunzhou entered the boundless Primordial Spirit Sea as a great fish.
• Deng Canglan became an octopus, Dharma Master Jiese became a frog, Lin Yue became a swordfish, Daoist Xuanfa became a turtle, Xie Linchuan became a tiny fish, Ji Zhaoxuan became a flood dragon, and Huang Tian became a crab.
• Huang Tian discovered that eating native sea creatures strengthened his body and Primordial Spirit, while Ao Jiu began hunting and swimming toward an island.
• Ao Jiu chased another entrant toward the island as a golden Peng fled from it, sensing that the island was a living creature.
• The enormous creature opened its mouth and created a whirlpool that swallowed Ao Jiu and countless other creatures, then settled back into an island as a little golden bird worried that Fellow Daoist Xuandu had fallen into Dao confusion.

Huntian worked to awaken Yu Tunzhou from Dao Bewilderment after he became a gigantic fish, helping him recover his identity and question his purpose. As Yu Tunzhou began asking the Great Dao ancient questions, the Book of Changes opened to its third page and answered his first: the Dao Venerable had passed down the Dao.

• Huntian established a connection with Yu Tunzhou and influenced him to move, revealing his immense fish form and sending giant waves across the sea.
• Ao Kun identified Yu Tunzhou as a possible key to the Dragon Gate stage, while Peng Fei and Kong Ling followed and debated the meaning of the trial.
• Huntian repeatedly anchored Yu Tunzhou by reminding him that he was Yu Tunzhou, and Yu Tunzhou used the Pure Land to resist the chaos in his mind.
• Yu Tunzhou reflected on a meditating frog and a freely swimming swordfish, then traveled to the edge of the sea and wondered where freedom lay.
• Yu Tunzhou voiced ancient questions to the Great Dao, causing those nearby to fall into Dao Bewilderment as his scattered thoughts began to condense.
• The Book of Changes opened to its third page and answered Yu Tunzhou's first question: the Dao Venerable passed down the Dao.

Yu Tunzhou defied the Kunpeng’s will and completed his transformation from a fish into a Peng, choosing his own freedom over becoming the Kunpeng’s successor. He flew beyond the Dragon Gate trial, leaving the world beneath his wings.

• Yu Tunzhou resonated with the ancient Kun Fish’s defiant will and began transforming, breaking his spine and growing wings as the Heavenly Dao turned its gaze upon him.
• The trial compelled warriors and aquatic beasts to attack Yu Tunzhou, while Peng Fei rescued Huntian by swallowing his Primordial Spirit.
• The living Kunpeng descended its will and offered Yu Tunzhou a choice between becoming its adopted son and successor or dying.
• Yu Tunzhou rejected the offer, endured the Divine Intent’s backlash, and tore free of its restraints as his wings fully spread.
• Yu Tunzhou swept away the attacking beasts and warriors, then flew beyond the azure sky and broke free of the trial’s cage.

Yu Tunzhou broke the first trial’s world and reached the highest staircase, where the Dragon Gate began the physical Life-and-Death Trial. He learned the Ancestral Dragon had given him the Primordial Spirit Sea itself, and discovered it had become a living world within his Primordial Spirit Heaven and Earth.

• Yu Tunzhou regained his senses at the true Dragon Gate and realized his immense Dao body was a fleeting result of merging with the trial world.
• The Primordial Spirit Sea collapsed, and the challengers returned to the staircases, where Ao Kun received his first-trial evaluation and reward.
• The challengers saw Yu Tunzhou at the highest staircase and recognized the vast Kunpeng presence surrounding him.
• The Dragon Gate announced the second trial, forbidding Primordial Spirits and Divine Abilities and requiring challengers to rely on their physical bodies.
• The Ancestral Dragon told Yu Tunzhou he had taken the Primordial Spirit Sea’s most precious gift, and Yu Tunzhou found Little Black in his Primordial Spirit Heaven and Earth.
• Yu Tunzhou discovered that the sea within his Primordial Spirit Heaven and Earth now had wind, tides, and living creatures.

Yu Tunzhou discovered that his Primordial Spirit Heaven and Earth contained a sea filled with beasts that could be refined into Primordial Spirit power, then entered the Dragon Gate’s deadly second trial. After defending Ao Xiyu from an overseas ambush targeting the Dragon Race, he learned the dragons were needed to open hidden passages, and the chapter ended with Feng Yanleng appearing alongside the overseas forces.

• Yu Tunzhou and Huntian suspected that the sea in Yu Tunzhou’s Primordial Spirit Heaven and Earth was connected to the Sea of Spiritual Light, and Huntian agreed to watch over it during the contest.
• Yu Tunzhou, Huntian, and the other contestants entered the second trial, where their true bodies faced a scorching wasteland and could rely only on their flesh.
• The overseas forces attacked the Central Plains Dragon Race, and Yu Tunzhou defeated a Winged Tiger and an Iron-Backed Gray Ape while protecting Ao Xiyu and Liu Zhizhou.
• Ao Xiyu told Yu Tunzhou that dragon blood was needed to open gateways to shattered minor realms, explaining why the overseas forces had targeted the dragons.
• The ambush left fewer than a dozen Central Plains dragons alive, and the overseas leaders withdrew after their opening clash.
• The Central Plains contestants recognized Feng Yanleng, first on the Dragon and Tiger Ranking, standing with the overseas forces.

After Feng Yanleng joined the overseas forces, the Central Plains martial artists turned their attention to controlling the surviving dragons, while Yu Tunzhou gathered a trusted group and led them toward a safe realm. When night fell, an eerie black mist and unseen presence appeared around them, and approaching footsteps sounded in the darkness.

• Feng Yanleng left with the overseas forces, and the Central Plains martial artists began arguing over how to protect and use the few surviving members of the Dragon Race.
• Yu Tunzhou rejected Ji Zhaoxuan’s proposal to share the dragon women, threatened Great Yan’s crown prince, and left with Ao Xiyu and Liu Zhizhou.
• Dharma Master Jiese, Fairy Nishang, Yuan Mengzhou, and Lin Yueheng joined Yu Tunzhou, who set out toward the distant divine mountain and searched for a safe portal.
• Liu Zhizhou warned that danger would descend after nightfall, and she and Ao Xiyu found an oasis portal where the group took shelter as evening approached.
• After the sun set, black mist appeared, a blurry face surfaced behind Yu Tunzhou, and ancient lamps appeared overhead as disembodied footsteps drew near.

Yu Tunzhou and the others discovered that Qi and Blood could refine the black fog in the Dragon Gate’s night, though the growing sense that something watched them suggested a greater danger remained. After finding a blood-opened portal, they ambushed Ao Qinyun as he emerged with Dragon Essence, and he warned them that the remains of the Ancestral Dragon and the Primordial Phoenix lay beyond it.

• Yu Tunzhou used his Qi and Blood to disperse the black fog and discovered that refining it strengthened the body, while the others also felt something watching them.
• Huang Tian emerged from the black fog and urged Ao Zhen to refine it instead of hiding in the oasis.
• Ji Zhaoxuan ordered Xiao Yanzhi to locate Yu Tunzhou and resolved to kill him during the second trial.
• The group found the remains of Demon Race fighters, suspected that a hidden night creature had killed them, and waited outside a blood-opened portal.
• Ao Qinyun emerged from the portal carrying a pearl containing Dragon Essence, but Yu Tunzhou and the others subdued him and took it.
• Ao Qinyun revealed that the remains of the Ancestral Dragon and the Primordial Phoenix were also beyond the portal.

Yu Tunzhou learned that Ao Qinyun had obtained the Dragon Essence after a fight with Niu Tuntian's group, then used it to temper his body and break through to the second level of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art. The group entered the secret realm to investigate the dragon tomb, where a bolt of lightning struck near Yu Tunzhou and raised questions about the realm's rules.

• Ao Qinyun revealed that Niu Tuntian and more than ten overseas martial artists had discovered the secret realm and that a dragon tomb there held a dragon bone and a phoenix feather.
• Ao Qinyun described the overseas experts, including the powerful Kong Ling, and said Feng Yanleng had entered through the Demon Emperor Palace.
• After securing Ao Qinyun's promise to leave, Ao Xiyu took some of his dragon blood, and Liu Zhizhou and Ao Xiyu used the Dragon Essence to help the group temper their bodies.
• Yu Tunzhou absorbed the Dragon Essence and broke through to the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art Second Level, while the others also strengthened themselves.
• The group decided to enter the secret realm, and Ao Xiyu opened its gateway with dragon blood.
• A bolt of lightning struck near Yu Tunzhou as they entered, leading him to wonder whether the secret realm allowed Divine Abilities and use of the principles of the law.

Yu Tunzhou entered the Dragon Ascension Platform and defeated Xie Linxue in a contest of physical strength, then chose to continue challenging its opponents. He faced a horned, heavily built man whose powerful Qi and Blood promised the strong opponent he wanted.

• Yu Tunzhou and his companions explored the secret realm, found a gigantic dragon skeleton marked by Niu Tuntian, and discovered Yu Tunzhou could carve the bone almost as deeply as Niu Tuntian.
• Liu Zhizhou and Ao Xiyu activated a formation centered on dragon bone and phoenix feather, transporting Yu Tunzhou alone to the Dragon Ascension Platform.
• Yu Tunzhou recognized Xie Linxue of the Northern Plains Xie Household, who demanded that he end his friendship with Xie Linchuan; Yu Tunzhou refused.
• Xie Linxue attacked Yu Tunzhou with the Spirit Rhinoceros Sword, but Yu Tunzhou caught its blade and overwhelmed him with his strength.
• Xie Linxue conceded and was expelled from the arena, while Yu Tunzhou chose to continue and met a powerful horned man carrying a giant axe.

Yu Tunzhou fought Niu Tuntian in a grueling contest of physical strength and martial arts, ultimately outlasting the descendant of the Great Sage Who Pacifies Heaven. As blood rain fell over the Dragon Ascension Platform, Yu Tunzhou remained standing and wondered what the calamity was.

• Yu Tunzhou and Niu Tuntian began with a head-on clash, and Niu Tuntian recognized the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art of the Jade Void Lineage.
• Yu Tunzhou used Taijiquan to redirect Niu Tuntian’s attacks, then sent him crashing into a stone wall with Deflect, Parry and Punch.
• Niu Tuntian unleashed his Great Sage Bloodline and the punch Pacify Heaven and Shake Earth, but Yu Tunzhou met its force with Taijiquan and continued fighting.
• An Ruyu reflected on the Primeval Ancestral Dragon’s hopes as blood rain fell across the world, killing martial artists caught outside shelter.
• Yu Tunzhou and Niu Tuntian fought hundreds of exchanges until Yu Tunzhou drove Niu Tuntian into a wall and remained standing as the blood rain evaporated around him.

Yu Tunzhou and his companions endured the blood rain and searched for ways to strengthen their bodies, while Liu Zhizhou warned him to beware of the one behind the Ji Clan. On the sixth night, Ji Zhaoxuan and a joint force of Human Race and Demon Race martial artists surrounded Yu Tunzhou during a sneak attack.

• Yu Tunzhou withdrew from the arena after Niu Tuntian warned him to keep a low profile, and the arena voice announced that he had earned Yinglong's attention.
• Yu Tunzhou reunited with his companions, and they endured the blood rain by sheltering nowhere and relying on their Qi and Blood to resist it.
• Liu Zhizhou told Yu Tunzhou that Feng Yanleng had warned him to beware of the one behind the Ji Clan, then withdrew when her strength ran low.
• Yu Tunzhou's group found secret realms and strengthened Ao Xiyu, while Ji Zhaoxuan planned to join forces with the Demon Race to attack them.
• On the sixth night, Yu Tunzhou sent his companions to break through the encirclement and stayed behind as nine Demon Race warriors and seven Human Race martial artists led by Ji Zhaoxuan surrounded him.

Yu Tunzhou fought off a joint ambush led by Ao E and Ji Zhaoxuan, then forced his way through their encirclement and fled into the blood rain. Xiao Yanzhi revealed that he wanted Yu Tunzhou to disrupt Ji Zhaoxuan’s plans, but his injuries were real, and he warned Tantai Mingyu that Yu Tunzhou had become a grave threat.

• Ji Zhaoxuan reminded Ao E of their families’ alliance, then provoked him by revealing that Yu Tunzhou was connected to the Heavenly Peng Daoist Temple and had attended the whole-dragon feast.
• Ao E ordered the Demon Race martial artists to attack, while Xiao Yanzhi led Ji Zhaoxuan’s people in a simultaneous assault on Yu Tunzhou.
• Yu Tunzhou knocked down several attackers and exchanged blows with Ao E, who discovered that Yu Tunzhou’s physical strength rivaled the strongest members of the Demon Race.
• Xiao Yanzhi blocked Yu Tunzhou near Tantai Mingyu and was seriously injured; he secretly told her to let Yu Tunzhou escape because he could serve as a variable in the ambush.
• Yu Tunzhou broke through the encirclement and fled as Ao E and Ji Zhaoxuan pursued him, while Xiao Yanzhi warned Tantai Mingyu that Yu Tunzhou’s physique and Primordial Spirit could make him impossible to defeat later in the Dragon Gate.

Lin Yueheng and Dharma Master Jiese split from the others to search for Yu Tunzhou, but Jiese was confronted by Miedu while Lin Yueheng followed the tracks alone. Yu Tunzhou kept fighting off Ao E’s group in the blood rain, and as the chase dwindled, the pursuers realized they had become vulnerable to the same danger surrounding him.

• Lin Yueheng and Dharma Master Jiese turned back to find Yu Tunzhou, but lost his trail before Miedu confronted Jiese and delayed him while Lin Yueheng continued alone.
• Yu Tunzhou fought Ao E and the pursuing martial artists, enduring injuries with the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art while trying to wear down his enemies in the blood rain.
• Ao Chen persuaded Ao E that the Ji Clan of Great Yan should contribute to the hunt, and Jiang Fengyang attacked Yu Tunzhou with his black saber.
• Yu Tunzhou broke through the attackers’ encirclement with a powerful punch and escaped, then stopped and taunted the pursuers into continuing after him.
• As the chase depleted their Qi and Blood, several pursuers withdrew, while onlookers began considering whether to exploit the conflict.
• Ao E and the remaining pursuers heard their companions being attacked and realized they had fallen into a predicament like Yu Tunzhou’s.