Recaps

Xiao Yao traveled to Longyin Peak to seek entry into the Dragon Lord’s sect, accompanied as far as the mountain by Nangong Jinghe. After Yang Lingrui’s aura frightened her, she recovered and urged Nangong Jinghe to reconcile with her Martial Uncle Luo Qianchou.

• Luo Qianchou welcomed Yang Lingrui to Chengzuo Peak and said he hoped to discuss the insights he had gained from Yang Lingrui’s Dao exposition.
• Yang Lingrui’s killing intent overwhelmed Xiao Yao until he put on a pale mask, then he apologized and gently reassured her.
• Yang Lingqing praised Xiao Yao and asked Nangong Jinghe to escort her to Longyin Peak in the Fifth Layer Heaven.
• Nangong Jinghe brought Xiao Yao to the foot of Longyin Peak and told her to climb the rest of the way alone.
• Xiao Yao returned to Nangong Jinghe and asked him to get along with her Martial Uncle, prompting him to laugh and shake his head.

Xiao Yao climbed Longyin Peak to seek the Vaulting Dragon Lord as her master and reached the first trial, where Lin Qiao tested her physical foundation. After Lin Qiao explained that the earthen wall demanded more than raw strength, Xiao Yao studied it carefully before attempting to pass.

• Xiao Yao absorbed the true dragon aura on Longyin Peak through her Innate Purple-Gold Dragon Body.
• Xiao Yao reached a towering earthen wall blocking the mountain path and recognized it as the test for taking a master.
• Xiao Yao greeted Lin Qiao, whom she identified as Fairy Dust Shadow, and charmed her with praise.
• Lin Qiao explained that Xiao Yao had to get over the wall and advised her to focus on mastering and applying her strength.
• Lin Qiao transformed into an earthen statue and merged with the wall, while Xiao Yao examined its base instead of jumping over it.

Xiao Yao broke through Chen Huai'an's earthen wall trial and continued climbing Longyin Peak, where a strange fog concealed the next obstacle. Lin Qiao wondered how Chen Huai'an had hidden it from Xiao Yao's sharp senses as she tried different ways to navigate the mist.

• Xiao Yao used carefully timed stones and leaps to climb above the earthen wall, then punched through layers of earth and escaped its detection range.
• Lin Qiao praised Xiao Yao, and Chen Huai'an said he looked forward to seeing how she would handle his maze trial.
• Xiao Yao landed safely on Longyin Peak, watched the earthen wall collapse, and continued up the mountain.
• Xiao Yao entered thick fog, realized she had been through the area before, and tried marking the stone steps and circling through the forest.
• Lin Qiao asked Chen Huai'an how he had kept Xiao Yao's sharp sensing talent from detecting the hidden danger in the fog.

Xiao Yao passed Chen Huai'an and Lin Qiao's mist trial and received their advice before continuing toward the summit to meet her prospective master, Dragon Lord. At the peak, she sensed his dragon breath descending and spotted an enormous black Dragon Shadow in the clouds.

• Xiao Yao used her innate dragon body to blow apart the mountain mist and find the path through it.
• Xiao Yao greeted Lin Qiao and Chen Huai'an, then explained that she should not rely too heavily on her innate perception.
• Chen Huai'an advised Xiao Yao to resist flattery, stay true to herself, and act with caution around people who might envy or harm her.
• Lin Qiao and Chen Huai'an told Xiao Yao she had passed their trials and that Dragon Lord was waiting at the summit.
• Xiao Yao reached the peak, sensed dragon breath descending from the sky, and saw a huge black Dragon Shadow coiling in the clouds.

Fifteen years after Xiao Yao became Yang Yuanhong’s disciple, the Canglan Continent enjoyed a period of peace and the Yang Clan rebuilt its strength. The chapter left the clan with five True Intent Realm cultivators and five newly advanced Spiritual Connection Realm cultivators.

• Xiao Yao became Yang Yuanhong’s disciple, and the Central Region accepted the Yang Clan as a new top-tier Righteous Path power.
• Canglan Continent’s fortunes began to change subtly, forming the first embryonic shape of the domain’s gates and thresholds.
• The Righteous Path and the demonic cultivators under Bai Di maintained peace for fifteen years while recovering from the Great Strife War.
• The Yang Clan restored its population and sent young cultivators to explore opportunities in the Central Region, while also selecting Northwest talents to travel there.
• Xue Qingluan, Yun Xiwu, and Chen Huaien reached the True Intent Realm, while Yang Yuanliu, Yang Yuanwen, Yang Yuanling, Yang Yuanzhao, and Yang Yuanfei entered the Spiritual Connection Realm.

Cultivators from across Canglan Continent traveled to the Far North after the Yang Clan revealed that the legendary Kunxu Secret Realm might still exist. Chen Yang knew the rumor was true, though Xu Cang had already taken its immortal art inheritance, and the expedition still promised other treasures and lost inheritances.

• The Yang Clan's report of the Kunxu Secret Realm prompted Central Region forces to send cultivators north to investigate.
• The arriving forces also brought younger disciples to train in the Far North's harsh terrain and fight its Demon Beasts.
• The Yang Clan dispatched its family immortal vessel to the northern snowfields.
• Chen Yang knew from Xu Cang that the secret realm was where the Divine Path Stele stood and that Xu Cang had already collected its immortal art inheritance.
• The expedition's searchers were still expected to find other opportunities, treasures, artifacts, and lost Daoist Inheritances within the secret realm.

A wounded wolf demon was stalked by four Demon Beasts hoping to devour it, but its desperate ambush killed one Snow Fox before the others attacked. After a three-hour battle, the remaining three killed the wolf demon, though they suffered heavy injuries.

• Four Demon Beasts followed the wounded wolf demon until it collapsed in a valley.
• Two Snow Foxes, a Snow Domain White Bear, and a White-Feathered Cold Crow surrounded the wolf demon and prepared to attack.
• The wolf demon suddenly sprang up, killed one Snow Fox, and began eating it to regain strength.
• The surviving Snow Fox, White-Feathered Cold Crow, and Snow Domain White Bear attacked the wolf demon together.
• After three hours, the three Demon Beasts killed the wolf demon, but the Cold Crow lost a wing and the others were badly wounded.

Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang fought an Ice-Armored Crystal Scorpion while Chen Yang reflected on their Innate Dao-Union Physiques and the risks of their experimental cultivation path. As the scorpion prepared to detonate its essence core, Yang Xuanlang began a counterattack.

• The badly wounded Ice-Armored Crystal Scorpion tried to burrow away, then gathered its remaining strength to detonate its essence core and take the three cultivators with it.
• Yang Xuanqing spotted the scorpion's move and called on her younger brother, Yang Xuanlang, to handle it.
• Chen Yang recalled how Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang had cultivated the Union of Immortals and Gods since childhood, using their special bloodlines to combine immortal techniques with divine power.
• Chen Yang recognized that the siblings' new cultivation path could hold great potential but might lead to future bottlenecks, and he had arranged for Liuli and Yan Ming to help them return to the immortal Dao if needed.
• Yang Xuanlang gathered spiritual light in his palm and sliced open a cut as the scorpion prepared to explode.

Yang Xuanzhou rose to prominence as a top-tier cultivator, earning a place on Lingxiao Dao Academy's Heavenly Talent Ranking and displaying his beast-spirit art. Chen Yang's main consciousness was nearing awakening, while Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang continued their cultivation at a slower pace.

• Yang Xuanzhou mastered Dongfang Yingcai's unique Dao art in a year, refined it, and won first place at a gathering of newly initiated disciples from the Northwest.
• At twelve, Yang Xuanzhou joined Lingxiao Dao Academy's Heavenly Talent Ranking as its youngest cultivator, and before turning fourteen he reached Late Qi Gathering.
• Chen Yang estimated that Yang Xuanzhou's talent matched Xiao Yao's and anticipated his main consciousness awakening soon, which could let him create more Spirit Pearls.
• Yang Xuanzhou used his Dharma disk and Azure Jade Dragon Body to capture an Ice-Armored Crystal Scorpion and gain a new beast-spirit manifestation.
• Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang asked Yang Xuanzhou to show them his latest gain, while the two continued cultivating at the Sixth Level of Qi Gathering.

Yang Xuanzhou strengthened his Spirit Puppet Beast-Taming Technique by refining a Core Formation Realm scorpion tail stinger, then considered what abilities he still needed. He planned to take his younger siblings deeper into the northern snowfields to hunt powerful Demon Beasts.

• Yang Xuanzhou assessed the four Core Formation Realm beast-spirit manifestations in his Dharma Disc and was pleased with the scorpion tail stinger's offensive power.
• Yang Xuanzhou recalled how Xiao Yao had repeatedly beaten him during two months of secluded training, curbing his arrogance.
• Yang Xuanzhou decided he still needed Core Formation Realm manifestations for escape and concealment, since his current Mouse Path and Butterfly Shadow were too weak.
• Yang Xuanzhou looked toward the northern snowfields and resolved to hunt Demon Beasts there while honing his Dao arts.

Yang Xuanzhou and his siblings entered the inner snowfields, hoping to find a powerful demon beast for him to refine into his Dharma disk. Secretly followed by Shenwu and Yin Er, they spotted a three-sided battle and stopped to assess it from afar.

• Yang Xuanzhou led Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang out of the valley and warned them to be cautious in the inner snowfields.
• Shenwu and Yin Er revealed they were secretly protecting the three, though they would intervene only if a Spiritual Connection-level threat appeared.
• Shenwu and Yin Er detected a battle between two groups of human cultivators and a Three-Eyed Snow Marten at the Essence Condensation Ninth Layer.
• Yang Xuanzhou sensed the battle with his Eagle-Eye Dharma Form and considered capturing the demon beast to strengthen his Dharma disk.
• Yang Xuanzhou, Yang Xuanqing, and Yang Xuanlang agreed to observe the fight before deciding whether to intervene, then reached a low mountain overlooking the distant battle.

Yang Xuanzhou recognized an injured cultivator as a member of the Sun Clan and decided to help him during the fight against a Three-Eyed Snow Ferret. He gave the cultivator a healing pill and revealed his connection to the Northwest Yang Clan, leaving the Sun Clan cultivator reassured as the battle continued.

• Yang Xuanzhou and Yang Xuanqing confirmed that the injured cultivator bore the emblem of the Sun Clan of Yanlai City.
• Yang Xuanzhou concluded that the cultivator was likely training alone and saw that the Three-Eyed Snow Ferret was overpowering the fighters.
• Yang Xuanzhou told Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang to remain concealed, then entered the battle to aid the injured cultivator and steady the others.
• Yang Xuanzhou offered the Sun Clan cultivator a healing pill and said that his father had known the clan.
• The Sun Clan cultivator guessed Yang Xuanzhou was from the Northwest Yang Clan, accepted the pill, and felt its medicine heal his wounds and damage to his Mind and Spirit Sea of Consciousness.

Yang Xuanzhou joined the four Core Formation Cultivators fighting the Three-Eyed Snow Ferret and helped turn the battle against the beast. As the gray-robed cultivator activated a formation, the wounded ferret charged through a weak point in the encirclement to escape.

• Sun Changfeng spoke to Yang Xuanzhou about his ordinary talent and his resolve to keep cultivating.
• Yang Xuanzhou rushed into the battle and used his ritual disc to make the Three-Eyed Snow Ferret dodge into the cultivators’ encirclement.
• Yang Xuanzhou shielded the four Core Formation Cultivators with a tortoise-shell manifestation and attacked the beast’s openings with a tail-spike manifestation.
• The gray-robed cultivator gave Yang Xuanzhou formation implements, and Yang Xuanzhou and Sun Changfeng quickly set up the formation.
• The gray-robed cultivator activated the formation, and the Three-Eyed Snow Ferret charged through a weak point in the encirclement to escape.

After Yang Xuanzhou’s group claimed the leading credit for subduing the Demon Beast, Sun Changfeng defended their demand and the injured cultivators confirmed their earlier aid. The gray-robed Mystic Beast Sect cultivator recognized the group as members of the Northwest Yang Clan and, remembering an old humiliation at Ziyun Mountain, responded with cold sarcasm.

• Sun Changfeng argued that Yang Xuanzhou, Yang Xuanqing, and Yang Xuanlang deserved the foremost credit for defeating the Demon Beast and had not demanded its demon core.
• The two injured cultivators told the gray-robed cultivator that Yang Xuanzhou and Sun Changfeng had given them medicinal pills.
• The gray-robed cultivator deduced that the three young cultivators belonged to the Northwest Yang Clan.
• The gray-robed cultivator recalled how the Mystic Beast Sect had missed its chance to meet the Yang Clan at Ziyun Mountain and had later turned to Lingxiao Dao Academy.
• The gray-robed cultivator coldly acknowledged Yang Xuanzhou’s group as the famed Northwest Yang Clan.

Yang Xuanzhou killed the Three-Eyed Snow Ferret and divided its remains among the cultivators present. After he and his companions continued north, the Mystic Beast Sect cultivators decided not to follow them.

• Yang Xuanzhou blocked the Three-Eyed Snow Ferret's ambush with a tortoiseshell formed from his spiritual power, then strangled it with a tiger tail.
• Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang collected the beast's heart, half its soul, and one-third of its flesh and blood as Yang Xuanzhou exposed the gray-robed cultivator's sabotage.
• Yang Xuanzhou gave Sun Changfeng his requested share and let the other cultivators divide the remaining spoils.
• Two Rogue Cultivators took flesh, blood, and refining materials, then left before the others.
• Yang Xuanzhou, Yang Xuanqing, Yang Xuanlang, and Sun Changfeng departed north, and the gray-robed cultivator warned his junior not to follow them.

While traveling through the snowy mountains, Yang Xuanzhou and his siblings detected a spatial disturbance and traced it to a tiny crack leading into another space. They suspected it marked an entrance to the Kunxu Secret Realm, though they had not yet found the opening.

• Yang Xuanzhou and his companions cautiously crossed the northern mountains, avoiding Demon Beasts and formations laid by local factions.
• On the tenth day, Yang Xuanzhou's Eagle-Eye Dharma Form detected a faint disturbance in space.
• Yang Xuanlang used his divine power of fortune to locate the disturbance to the northeast and sensed vast fortune beyond a tiny spatial crack.
• Yang Xuanqing proposed that the space was the Kunxu Secret Realm, and Yang Xuanzhou agreed that his father and Second Granduncle may have activated its main entrance.

Yang Xuanzhou and Sun Changfeng followed spatial fluctuations to a mountain basin, where they found traces of rival cultivators and a source of unusually dense spiritual energy. They encountered three cultivators at a collapsed pit and identified themselves as members of the Sun Clan.

• Yang Xuanzhou and Shenwu recognized Sun Changfeng's loyalty and discussed how a friendship between him and Yang Xuanzhou could strengthen ties between their clans.
• After three days of travel, Yang Xuanzhou and the others reached the basin and discovered evidence that at least three groups of human cultivators had fought there.
• Yang Xuanzhou had the two younger members of his group conceal themselves while he and Sun Changfeng entered the basin to investigate.
• Yang Xuanzhou and Sun Changfeng followed the spiritual energy to a collapsed pit and were confronted by three cultivators.
• Sun Changfeng introduced himself and Yang Xuanzhou as members of the Sun Clan, and the three cultivators became more welcoming.

Yang Xuanzhou sensed a powerful tremor approaching the mineral vein and tried to warn the cultivators underground, but Duan Weijie and the other Central Region cultivators doubted him. He subdued the three Core Formation Cultivators and plunged into the deep pit to reach the cultivators below.

• Yang Xuanzhou warned Duan Weijie and the other two that a disaster was approaching and urged them to summon the cultivators underground.
• Sun Changfeng backed Yang Xuanzhou, but Duan Weijie and the others questioned his warning and suspected their motives.
• Yang Xuanzhou sent a Thought Transmission to his younger siblings and rushed toward the deep pit despite Duan Weijie trying to stop him.
• Yang Xuanzhou used his azure dragon manifestation, tiger's tail, spider silk, and Gravity Spell to subdue the three Core Formation Cultivators.
• Yang Xuanzhou left the restrained cultivators with Sun Changfeng and plunged into the deep pit in his Azure Jade Dragon Body.

Yang Xuanzhou rescued eight cultivators from the underground mine during a devastating Spatial Shock, though he and several of the rescued were injured. As the survivors regrouped, a five-colored radiance erupted from an eastern snow mountain, signaling a new development.

• Sun Changfeng and three Core Formation Cultivators saw the basin devastated by the Spatial Shock and feared for those trapped underground.
• Yang Xuanzhou emerged with all eight mine cultivators, carrying them out of the tremor's core in his true dragon form.
• Sun Changfeng replenished Yang Xuanzhou's spiritual energy, and the rescued cultivators thanked him for saving their lives.
• Yang Xuanzhou reflected that the rescue had tested his strength and tempered his Innate Dragon Body.
• A snow mountain east of the basin shook, and a dense five-colored radiance shot into the sky.

Yang Xuanzhou and the cultivators he had gathered held the front of the Secret Realm entrance until powerful members of the Xuanyuan Clan and Meishan arrived. After Yang revealed he was the Northwest Yang Clan’s Azure Dragon Young Master, the Meishan cultivator softened his stance and asked how many people could enter.

• Yang Xuanzhou and the groups he had saved remained at the front of the cave as other cultivators arrived but could not dislodge them.
• On the ninth day, two Spiritual Connection Realm cultivators arrived with followers from the Xuanyuan Clan and Meishan.
• The Meishan sword cultivator threatened the gathered Core Formation Cultivators and demanded they give up the foremost position.
• Yang Xuanzhou stepped forward, asserted that his group had arrived first, and introduced himself as a member of the Northwest Yang Clan.
• The Xuanyuan Clan cultivator recognized Yang as the Azure Dragon Young Master, and the Meishan cultivator asked how many people the entrance could accommodate.

Yang Xuanzhou faced a Meishan sword cultivator alone in the cave while Sun Changfeng and the others waited outside. Sun Changfeng offered to give up his Secret Realm slot if talks failed, and Yang Xuanzhou decided he was a worthwhile ally to cultivate.

• Yang Xuanzhou told Sun Changfeng to lead Duan Weijie and the other Core Formation Cultivators outside while he negotiated with the Meishan sword cultivator.
• Sun Changfeng worried about Yang Xuanzhou's safety but left after Yang Xuanzhou reassured him that the dispute concerned only entry order and the number of Secret Realm participants.
• Sun Changfeng privately offered to surrender his own Secret Realm slot so Yang Xuanzhou would not provoke the two great powers over one extra person.
• Yang Xuanzhou recognized Sun Changfeng's concern and judged him a capable talent worth cultivating as part of his own network in the central region.

Yang Xuanzhou used the Black Dragon Scale to withstand a Spiritual Connection sword cultivator’s attack and reinforce the Secret Realm entrance, leaving the Meishan cultivator shaken by the treasure’s power. The sword cultivator prepared to test the scale again with his reserved killing move.

• The Meishan sword cultivator’s attack sent his nine Core Formation Realm companions flying from the cave, while the Xuanyuan Clan cultivators held their ground under protection.
• Yang Xuanzhou used the Black Dragon Scale’s spatial power to block the attack and reinforce the mountain, leaving the Secret Realm entrance undamaged.
• The Meishan sword cultivator realized Yang Xuanzhou carried a treasure whose power rivaled a magical treasure.
• The chapter explained that the Black Dragon Scale could only be activated by Yang Xuanzhou and would lose its power after five uses.
• Yang Xuanzhou apologized for not controlling the scale’s strength, and the Meishan sword cultivator prepared to attack again with his reserved sword technique.

Yang Xuanzhou watched a Meishan sword cultivator defeat a Xuanyuan Clan cultivator with the Uncaused Sword Intent of the Meishan Sword Ancestor. After the Xuanyuan Clan yielded a slot, the Meishan cultivator challenged Yang Xuanzhou and threatened to take his slot as well.

• The Xuanyuan Clan cultivator challenged the Meishan sword cultivator, and the two fought in the sky.
• Yang Xuanzhou caught the defeated Xuanyuan Clan cultivator as he fell and recognized the opponent's Uncaused Sword Intent.
• The Xuanyuan Clan cultivator thanked Yang Xuanzhou and said the strange Sword Intent had disrupted his true essence.
• The Meishan sword cultivator dismissed the Xuanyuan Clan cultivator and attacked him again when he defended Yang Xuanzhou.
• Yang Xuanzhou confronted the Meishan sword cultivator, who insisted that the victor should take all and challenged him over his slot.

Yang Xuanzhou and the other cultivators lost their chance to enter the Kunxu Secret Realm when a Snow Clan True Intent cultivator claimed every quota. Before Yang Xuanzhou left to seek another entrance, the woman recognized him as Yang Yuanhong’s son and asked him to call her Aunt Xue.

• A Snow Clan True Intent cultivator arrived, dispersed the cave restrictions, and let her clan enter the Secret Realm entrance area.
• The Snow Clan cultivator claimed every entry quota and rebuked the Meishan sword cultivator for refusing to challenge her.
• The Xuanyuan Clan cultivator failed to persuade her to grant an exception, and Yang Xuanzhou prepared to leave with his younger siblings.
• The Snow Clan cultivator stopped Yang Xuanzhou, recognized him as Yang Yuanhong’s son, and told him to call her Aunt Xue.
• Yang Xuanzhou addressed her as Aunt Xue and recalled his father’s journey to the Dragon Transformation Pool.

Yang Xuanzhou and Xue Nuan prepared a group of Snow Clan cultivators to enter the Kunxu Secret Realm, with Xue Nuan placing Yang in command if they were separated. At midnight on the seventh day, the cave began to pulse faintly, signaling a change at the entrance.

• The Meishan cultivators left the area after their Spiritual Connection elder agreed to depart.
• Yang Xuanzhou and five others returned to the cave, where Xue Nuan confirmed that the entrance could admit only nineteen people.
• Xue Nuan selected twelve talented young Snow Clan cultivators and warned them that entering the realm could scatter them across different locations.
• Xue Nuan introduced Yang Xuanzhou as the Yang Clan's youngest ranked prodigy, and the Snow Clan cultivators greeted him.
• Xue Nuan instructed the group to follow Yang Xuanzhou if they became separated from her.
• At midnight on the seventh day, cultivators waiting outside felt a faint pulse from the mountain cave.