Chapter Summaries

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.

Ao E broke out of an ambush and awakened his bloodline, but Yu Tunzhou overwhelmed him and killed Ao Chen before the Dragon Gate abruptly withdrew Ao E from the trial. Yu Tunzhou then pursued Ji Zhaoxuan, whose companions betrayed and silenced him, and confronted him about Great Yan’s succession plans.

• Ao E led his companions into battle against the warriors surrounding them, killed several enemies, and fought the Lion King and three others.
• When one opponent fled, Ao E’s bloodline memory awakened and he routed the remaining fighters, but Yu Tunzhou descended and beat him into the ground.
• Ao Chen shielded Ao E from Yu Tunzhou’s punches and was killed, while the Dragon Gate suddenly withdrew Ao E from the trial before he could finish saying he would withdraw.
• Yu Tunzhou learned that Yinglong had taken greater notice of him, then resumed his pursuit of Ji Zhaoxuan to question him about the powers behind the Dragon Gate.
• Xiao Yanzhi and Tantai Mingyu attacked Ji Zhaoxuan, temporarily silenced him, and withdrew; Yu Tunzhou knocked Jiang Fengyang aside and demanded to know whether Great Yan planned to replace its crown prince.

Yu Tunzhou tested whether a powerful being protected Ji Zhaoxuan, then continued through the Dragon Gate Contest as his companions withdrew from the blood rain. By the fifteenth blood rain, he encountered An Ruyu and decided to follow her after mistaking her decision to leave him alone for a suspicious plot.

• Yu Tunzhou struck at Ji Zhaoxuan, who escaped with his second edict in a beam of rainbow light, leaving Yu Tunzhou to worry about powerful beings interfering in the contest.
• Yu Tunzhou reunited with Lin Yueheng, but they could not find Dharma Master Jiese or Dharma Master Miedu before they later rejoined Ao Xiyu and Nishang.
• Deng Canglan discussed how people judged good and evil with Jin Buxi and Zhang Buyu, then said the stage was nearing its end and he might not reach its true secret.
• An Ruyu drove off a group of martial artists who recognized her high ranking, then studied the two suns in the sky.
• As the blood rains intensified, Ao Xiyu, Nishang, and Lin Yueheng withdrew one by one, leaving Yu Tunzhou to travel alone toward the divine mountain.
• Yu Tunzhou met An Ruyu during the fifteenth blood rain; when she walked away without approaching him, he suspected a scheme and decided to follow her.

Yu Tunzhou questioned An Ruyu about the powers seeking treasures in the Dragon Gate and learned that the Incense-Smelling Cult had been ordered to claim several hidden legacies. He continued through the blood-rain trial, reached the peak of the second stage of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art, and discovered a wounded scarlet dragon coiled around the divine mountain.

• Yu Tunzhou confronted An Ruyu, who said the Incense-Smelling Cult sought the Dragon Race’s water fortune and divine weapons, treasures hidden by great powers, and anything left behind by the Human Emperor.
• An Ruyu suggested that a member of the Twelve Mothers belonged to the Supreme Purity Lineage and asked Yu Tunzhou to join her against the other powers at the end of the trial before leaving.
• Yu Tunzhou continued through the blood rains, encountered Niu Tuntian and later Feng Yanleng and Kong Ling, and pressed on alone as the trial grew harsher.
• By the thirtieth blood rain, Yu Tunzhou’s Eight-Nine Mysterious Art had reached the peak of its second stage, and his Indestructible Golden Light had grown exceptionally strong.
• During the thirty-first blood rain, Yu Tunzhou pursued mysterious footsteps, found an ancient Dragon Race skeleton, and emerged near the divine mountain at dawn.
• Yu Tunzhou saw a huge, wounded scarlet dragon coiled around the mountain, recognized its black blood as the source of the black mist, and heard Huntian identify it as Torch Dragon.

Yu Tunzhou studied Torch Dragon’s wounds and scales, gaining insight into how to build his Inner Heaven and Earth and choosing to enter the Dao through Taiji before returning toward Wuji. As the intensified blood rain and black mist forced the other challengers from the trial, Yu Tunzhou’s completed Taiji Diagram dissolved the power of eternal stillness around him.

• Yu Tunzhou and Huntian identified the black wounds on Torch Dragon as a power of eternal stillness that could erase existence, and Yu Tunzhou glimpsed a complete world within one of Torch Dragon’s scales.
• Yu Tunzhou realized he could begin forming his Inner Heaven and Earth by turning his acupoints into grotto-heavens, with his breath and internal Qi circulation serving as Qi veins.
• Yu Tunzhou chose to develop his Dao Embryo through Taiji first and then follow the path back toward Wuji; his Dao Embryo began unfolding the Five Innate Grand Stages.
• The intensified thirty-first blood rain overwhelmed Niu Tuntian’s bloodline manifestation and Huang Tian’s Nine Yang Divine Meridians, forcing both to leave the trial; Kong Ling, Feng Yanleng, and An Ruyu also withdrew.
• As black mist swept toward Yu Tunzhou while he remained immersed in his insight, a living Taiji Diagram appeared around him and dissolved the blood rain and the power of eternal stillness.

Torch Dragon awakened and halted Yu Tunzhou’s Dao Path evolution, then asked him to help the Dragon Race uncover the hidden culprit behind its decline. After Yu Tunzhou agreed and recommended Ao Xiyu, the Dragon Gate rankings placed her first because she had gained the favor of a Daoist School Heavenly Venerable, leaving her bewildered.

• Torch Dragon awakened, stopped Yu Tunzhou’s sudden enlightenment, and promised the trial participants a chance to refine or reconsider their Dao Paths.
• Torch Dragon recognized Yu Tunzhou as Xuandu, learned that he had not known of the old agreement with the Dragon Race, and asked him to help expose the culprit manipulating the Dragon Gate.
• Yu Tunzhou agreed to assist the Dragon Race, recommended Ao Xiyu as a promising dragon, and learned that the next trial would test Dao Paths before the Dragon Gate Contest began.
• The Dragon Gate rankings placed Ao Xiyu first, moving Ao E to third and prompting him to demand an explanation.
• The Ancestral Dragon’s remnant soul explained that Ao Xiyu ranked first because she had gained the favor of a Daoist School Heavenly Venerable, leaving Ao Xiyu confused about who it meant.