Chapter Summaries

Luo Yuan grew alarmed by Eastern Wilderness’s unpredictable campaign and set out to act, while the Third Prince recognized that his elder brother’s war was being driven by a manipulative female cultivator. Convinced Eastern Wilderness faced ruin, Yuchi Lian sought help from the ancestor buried in a barren tomb.

• Luo Yuan decided to leave his cave residence after judging that Eastern Wilderness’s leaders might act irrationally, and his Junior Brother followed him.
• The Third Prince ordered his forces to capture and confine First Prince’s ordinary soldiers instead of killing them, suspecting the bloodshed served a larger purpose.
• The Third Prince reflected on his former closeness with the First Prince and blamed the female cultivator who had influenced him for Eastern Wilderness’s impending downfall.
• After using the imperial lineage’s divination art, the Third Prince concluded that the First Prince had reached the end of his fate and resolved to decide Eastern Wilderness’s future himself.
• Yuchi Lian went to the ancestor’s tomb, knelt before the stele, and begged the ancestor to leave his coffin and save Eastern Wilderness.

The Eastern Wasteland’s enemies blocked its armies from harvesting blood Qi in several theaters, while the First Prince refused to end the costly war despite mounting internal dissent. The red-robed female cultivator then set out with her unborn child to meet the crown prince and obtain his essence blood.

• After Yang Lingqing’s warning revealed the Eastern Wasteland’s blood Qi scheme, the barbarians and Tiger Chasing Dynasty began evacuating border residents and preparing strategic withdrawals.
• Jia Huarai, Huo Yuan, and three barbarian high priests sealed routes that had carried blood Qi from Tiger Chasing and the Barbarian Lands toward the Eastern Wasteland.
• As fighting with Yunchu Dynasty intensified and blood Qi flowed toward the Eastern Wasteland, a white-haired Old Minister begged the First Prince to end the war.
• The First Prince threatened the Old Minister, who stabbed himself and died; the court later praised the First Prince after hearing reports of battlefield victories.
• The red-robed female cultivator left her hidden realm and told Yuan'er she would take the child to meet his crown prince uncle and obtain his essence blood.

The First Prince received the National Preceptor’s decree and led six Spiritual Connection True Persons north to seize the mountain-blood aura. The red-robed female cultivator descended on the northwest battlefield, annihilating the forces there as the Third Prince ordered an evacuation and watched most of his cultivators perish.

• The First Prince received a dark crimson decree, summoned six Spiritual Connection True Persons, and set out to retrieve the mountain-blood aura for the Eastern Wasteland Dragon Son.
• The First Prince’s golden Dragon Shadow appeared over the imperial city, prompting its residents to kneel and pray.
• A Spiritual Connection True Person under the Third Prince tried to capture the First Prince’s forces, but the red-robed female cultivator arrived and erased him with her Red Ribbon.
• The red-robed female cultivator killed the surrendered soldiers and the remaining fanatics, absorbing their blood aura.
• The Third Prince ordered his forces to retreat, but the red-robed female cultivator killed more than eighty percent of the cultivators and annihilated the mortal troops.
• A surviving Spiritual Connection True Person reported that the remaining Life Tablets had shattered, and the Third Prince told him to leave.

The Third Prince sent his loyal ministers away and carried the Eastern Wilderness Old Ancestor’s coffin to confront Meng Xiaoxiao. After he heard a bloodline-bound plea from the fetus in her belly, the Old Ancestor possessed him and trapped Meng Xiaoxiao, declaring that she would die for using the Eastern Wilderness lineage as a stepping stone.

• The Third Prince used the Imperial Seal of the State to send the Spiritual Connection True Person and other loyal ministers hundreds of miles away.
• The Third Prince carried the Old Ancestor’s coffin east, where Meng Xiaoxiao appeared and questioned why he had not killed her before.
• The Third Prince noticed Meng Xiaoxiao’s swollen belly and heard the fetus call him “Third Uncle” for help.
• The Third Prince erupted in rage, and the Eastern Wilderness Old Ancestor descended into his body, raising his cultivation to the True Intent Triple Layer.
• Meng Xiaoxiao silenced the fetus with a dark-red technique, and the Old Ancestor trapped her in a spatial prison made of mirrors.
• The Old Ancestor condemned Meng Xiaoxiao for using his descendants to advance her cultivation and told her to meet her death.

Meng Xiaoxiao fought the Eastern Wilderness patriarch inside a spatial cage, broke through to the True Intent Fourth Layer, and believed she had taken the princes’ essence blood. She discovered the patriarch had tricked her and pursued the Third Prince’s body, but a sword strike freed it and Tiger Chasing Grand Preceptor Huo Yuan blocked her.

• Meng Xiaoxiao used Red Ribbons and the Sorrowful Phoenix Sings at Dusk technique to resist the Eastern Wilderness patriarch’s spatial cage and attacks.
• Meng Xiaoxiao formed a Blood Phoenix Robe from her grievances and attacked the patriarch with Phoenix Fire Chant, while he secretly contacted the fetus in her womb.
• The patriarch disrupted Meng Xiaoxiao through the fetus and entered her sea of consciousness, so she refined her nearly completed phoenix cry technique into power and advanced to the True Intent Fourth Layer.
• Meng Xiaoxiao defeated the patriarch’s remnant thought, crushed the Third Prince’s body, and swallowed what she thought was its essence blood, but realized she had been tricked with the patriarch’s desiccated corpse.
• Meng Xiaoxiao pursued the escaping Third Prince’s body, but a sword strike pierced her Red Ribbons and Tiger Chasing Grand Preceptor Huo Yuan appeared to block her.

Huo Yuan and Jia Huarai confronted Meng Xiaoxiao to stop her from taking the Third Prince’s vital blood, triggering a devastating battle between three True Intent Cultivators. As spatial destruction spread across the Northwest, an old True Person evacuated three Spiritual Connection cultivators and warned that the calamity could expand for hundreds of miles.

• Huo Yuan summoned the Dragon Slaying Secret Technique, and Jia Huarai joined him to block Meng Xiaoxiao.
• Meng Xiaoxiao refused to retreat, and the three True Intent Cultivators vanished into a deadly battle that destroyed mountains and ravaged the land.
• The spatial aftershocks began spreading westward from the battlefield, threatening the distant rear lines.
• Three Spiritual Connection cultivators worried about the Third Prince, but an old True Person arrived and rushed them southwest to escape.
• The three saw mountains disappear without warning, and the old True Person identified the cause as spatial Daoist Magic and warned that its reach could grow to a thousand miles.

Meng Xiaoxiao battled Huo Yuan and Jia Huarai, whose spatial techniques let them challenge her despite her higher cultivation. As Huo Yuan’s saber became trapped in her pocket of space, a spectral glimmer appeared on its blade, leaving Meng Xiaoxiao facing an unseen threat.

• An old True Person led three companions toward Befeng City as spatial aftershocks spread across the region, destroying villages and towns.
• Meng Xiaoxiao attacked Jia Huarai with phoenix fire, but he used Return the Void to Me to make his body intangible.
• Huo Yuan struck at Meng Xiaoxiao with the Dragon Slaying Great Saber while Jia Huarai concealed himself using his spatial technique.
• Meng Xiaoxiao trapped Huo Yuan’s saber in a compressing pocket of space and searched unsuccessfully for Jia Huarai.
• A pale, spectral glimmer flashed across the blade of Huo Yuan’s trapped saber.

Meng Xiaoxiao fought Huo Yuan and Jia Huarai over the Third Prince’s essence blood, then retreated when their combined attacks made the fight too costly. As Huo Yuan and Jia Huarai returned with the weakened prince, Yuchi Yao confronted Chuyun Pavilion and hinted that its patriarch would be unable to intervene.

• Meng Xiaoxiao used her phoenix cry technique to block Jia Huarai’s sword strike, then offered to let Huo Yuan take the Third Prince if she could have his essence blood.
• Huo Yuan refused, and Meng Xiaoxiao decided to retreat rather than risk further losses while she waited for the First Prince’s forces to advance.
• Meng Xiaoxiao escaped with a Phoenix Feather and the golden cicada shedding its shell technique; Jia Huarai vomited blood after she departed.
• Huo Yuan told Jia Huarai that the emperor had contacted the Yang Clan for help against the East Desolate Dynasty, and they began returning to the Tiger Chasing Dynasty with the weakened Third Prince.
• Yuchi Yao demanded that Chuyun Pavilion hand over people from its outer sects and provide ten Direct Disciples as compensation.
• Yuchi Yao produced a dark-red token and declared that Chuyun Pavilion’s patriarch would not be able to help it.

Yuchi Yao used a blood-red token to unleash a resentful blood shadow against Chuyun Pavilion, disrupting the sect’s defenses and drawing its True Intent ancestor into a struggle. With the ancestor occupied, Yuchi Yao ordered the six Eastern Wilderness True Persons to seize Chuyun Pavilion’s blood qi.

• The blood shadow overwhelmed Chuyun Pavilion’s weaker cultivators with resentment, and a True Person who attacked it was dragged into an illusion before the ancestor rescued him.
• The ancestor sensed the blood shadow, recognized what had created it, and became entangled in its attack before he could imprison Yuchi Yao and the six Eastern Wilderness True Persons.
• Yuchi Yao told Chuyun Pavilion’s cultivators that their ancestor could no longer protect them, while the blood shadow plunged into their grand formation and began to make it collapse.
• Yuchi Yao said he had first intended to demand ten Direct Disciples but now wanted Chuyun Pavilion’s abundant blood qi, and the six True Persons accepted his order.

The Eastern Wilderness attacked Chuyun Pavilion, overwhelming its defenders with blood-absorbing techniques while the mountain formation collapsed. Luo Yuan emerged from seclusion with half his body transformed into azure bone and joined the battle, but Yuchi Yao absorbed the four True Persons’ blood qi and became a monstrous demon.

• The six Eastern Wilderness True Persons used red patterns to absorb spells and created lethal Red Ribbons as they pressed Chuyun Pavilion’s defenders.
• When the mountain formation shattered, outside sect cultivators fled, while two Eastern Wilderness True Persons broke into the mountain and fought their way toward Luo Yuan’s cave.
• One True Person incarnation killed the Pavilion Master’s second disciple, but Luo Yuan emerged from his cave and destroyed the incarnation with his cloud-filled power.
• The Chuyun Pavilion Grand Elder and the remaining cultivators sacrificed themselves in a cloud-based attack, while Yuchi Yao used the deep crimson decree to devour their blood qi and overpower them.
• Luo Yuan returned with the two intruding True Persons captured, then fought Yuchi Yao and the remaining Eastern Wilderness forces alongside the surviving Chuyun Pavilion cultivators.
• Yuchi Yao released a powerful blood suction that absorbed the four red-patterned True Persons’ blood qi, transforming him into a terrifying many-limbed demon.

Luo Yuan and the Chuyun Pavilion cultivators fought Yuchi Yao, using the Cloud Dissipation art to restrain him while he burned through their clouds with bloodfire. As Yuchi Yao threatened the sect, its survivors held back his flames while Luo Yuan continued refining the Chuyun Duster at the cost of his life.

• Luo Yuan called on the Chuyun Pavilion Master and the surviving cultivators to help him defeat Yuchi Yao, then dissolved into a vast cloud mass with their aid.
• Yuchi Yao charged into the clouds, but Luo Yuan bound his limbs and began tearing at his body with the Cloud Dissipation art.
• Yuchi Yao used his Emperor's Qi to break free and unleashed bloodfire that burned away much of the cloud mass.
• Luo Yuan accepted the Chuyun Duster's aid and continued refining the treasure, knowing that doing so would cost him his life.
• Yuchi Yao escaped the clouds and aimed his dragon-breath fire at Chuyun Pavilion's mountain gates.
• The Pavilion's surviving cultivators transformed into clouds to shield the sect, delaying the flames while Luo Yuan refined the Chuyun Duster.

Luo Yuan fought Yuchi Yao to protect Chuyun Pavilion, but his body failed after Meng Xiaoxiao used the fortune of her unborn child to strengthen Yuchi Yao. As Yuchi Yao prepared to attack the sect, Luo Yuan lost consciousness, just as a black shadow arrived from the eastern horizon.

• Luo Yuan bound Yuchi Yao with the Chuyun Duster and battered him, while the weapon’s fusion with Luo Yuan’s body caused his bones to crack.
• Yuchi Yao, unable to break the stalemate, asked Meng Xiaoxiao for help through the dark-red decree.
• Meng Xiaoxiao used Yuan'er’s essence blood to lend Yuchi Yao the fortune of their unborn child, restoring his strength.
• Luo Yuan’s azure-bone body shattered before he could unleash his final attack, and Yuchi Yao broke free and began gathering dragon-breath bloodfire.
• Luo Yuan fell from the sky, unable to warn Chuyun Pavilion, as a black shadow leaped onto the clouds from the east.

Yang Yuanhong arrived at Chuyun Pavilion as a black dragon, stopped Yuchi Yao’s attack, and saved the sect. After Yang Yuanhong introduced himself as the Northwest Yang Clan’s Vaulting Dragon Lord, the Chuyun Pavilion Ancestor learned that he had come to repay Luo Yuan’s past kindness.

• Yuchi Yao tried to unleash dragonfire on Chuyun Pavilion, but discovered that an unknown force was draining the blood vitality he had gathered.
• Yang Yuanhong appeared in the sky as a black dragon and seized Yuchi Yao, crushing his body and erasing half of his Primordial Spirit as the crimson decree activated.
• Meng Xiaoxiao learned that Yuchi Yao had been gravely injured, then crushed a crimson-patterned skull to unleash the blood shadow against Chuyun Pavilion’s cultivators.
• Yang Yuanhong stopped the blood shadow, and the Chuyun Pavilion Ancestor emerged from the grotto-heaven to thank him for saving the sect.
• Yang Yuanhong transformed into a young cultivator and explained that he had come to repay Luo Yuan’s past favor, then introduced himself as the Northwest Yang Clan’s Vaulting Dragon Lord.

Yang Yuanhong rescued Chuyun Pavilion from the Eastern Wasteland forces and left to protect the Third Prince’s territory. Meng Xiaoxiao examined Yuchi Yao’s memories, identified Yang Yuanhong as a dangerous Dragon-attributed cultivator, and suspected the Central Region’s righteous sects had begun intervening.

• Duan Yun thanked Yang Yuanhong for saving Chuyun Pavilion and gave him a token promising the sect’s help.
• Yang Yuanhong and Duan Yun confirmed that Luo Yuan would survive and that Chuyun Pavilion could reconstruct his shattered body.
• Yang Yuanhong left Chuyun Pavilion and headed southwest to stop the Eastern Wasteland forces from harvesting blood qi in the Third Prince’s territory.
• Meng Xiaoxiao retrieved Yuchi Yao’s decree and searched the memories in his remaining Primordial Spirit.
• Meng Xiaoxiao saw Yang Yuanhong’s Black Dragon Variant Body and concluded that the Central Region’s righteous great sects had noticed the Northwest and begun to act.

Meng Xiaoxiao assessed the setbacks to her blood qi scheme and ordered Yuchi Yao to make the court suffer as she pursued other ways to make up the shortfall. Meanwhile, the western powers united to contain the Eastern Wilderness and met in Wanghai City, where Yang Yuanliu questioned the assumed purpose of the blood qi war.

• Meng Xiaoxiao reasoned that Central Region informants had detected the Eastern Wilderness’ scheme, but believed she still had time to make other arrangements.
• Meng Xiaoxiao helped merge Yuchi Yao’s Primordial Spirit into a new body, then asked him to order the court to endure hardship.
• Yang Lingrui, Xing Jiuli, and Tao Yuan helped the Yunchu Dynasty drive the Eastern Wilderness army beyond its borders, and a Yunchu patriarch sealed the border.
• Representatives of the western powers gathered in Wanghai City and agreed to pressure the Eastern Desolation Dynasty to end the war, disperse the blood qi, and pay compensation.
• Yang Yuanliu questioned the group’s assumption that the war was meant to benefit Meng Xiaoxiao’s unborn child, and Jia Huarai asked her to explain her thoughts.

Yang Yuanliu presented Chen Yang’s theory that Meng Xiaoxiao had abandoned the Eastern Wilderness Dynasty and was pursuing a secret objective. True Man Huolong concluded that she was using her own body as a pill furnace and the child in her womb as the pill, leaving the gathered cultivators horrified.

• Yang Yuanliu explained Chen Yang’s suspicion that Meng Xiaoxiao’s actions served a personal scheme rather than the Eastern Wilderness Dynasty.
• The Pavilion Master of Chuyun Pavilion and other cultivators agreed that Meng Xiaoxiao might have treated the dynasty as an abandoned pawn.
• Jia Huarai led a detailed review that lasted until noon the next day and uncovered further suspicious details.
• True Man Huolong proposed that Meng Xiaoxiao sought imperial blood and blood qi as alchemical ingredients to provoke a celestial phenomenon for pill formation.
• True Man Huolong declared that there was no Eastern Wasteland Dragon Son because Meng Xiaoxiao was refining the pill, using her body as the furnace and her unborn child as the pill.

After Yang Lingrui and Yang Yuanhong found the Eastern Wilderness increasingly deserted, Meng Xiaoxiao activated the national guardian grand formation, confirming she was proceeding with her dangerous human-pill refinement. Jia Huarai and the other three True Intent Cultivators resolved to break into the formation and stop her from harvesting the people’s blood essence.

• Jia Huarai secured the Yang Clan’s support, invited True Intent Cultivators from the Yunchu Dynasty and Chuyun Pavilion, and sent news of the calamity toward the Central Region.
• The Eastern Desolation Dynasty withdrew its forces, while Yang Lingrui and Yang Yuanhong found empty towns, abandoned positions, and vanished armies deep in the Eastern Wilderness.
• On the fifteenth day after their entry, Meng Xiaoxiao activated the national guardian grand formation, shaking the heavens and earth.
• Jia Huarai concluded that Meng Xiaoxiao was risking everything to refine a human pill and had raised the formation to prevent outside interference.
• Duan Yun and Huo Yuan argued that Meng Xiaoxiao might massacre the people for blood essence, persuading the Yunchu ancestor to join them.
• The four True Intent Cultivators agreed to search for a weakness in the formation and break inside.

Yang Lingrui and Yang Yuanhong raced into the Eastern Wilderness, rescuing fleeing cultivators and defeating Meng Xiaoxiao’s blood-powered forces on their way to the imperial palace. They reached the emperor, but an irresistible force bound them before they could seize him.

• Chen Yang guided Yang Lingrui and Yang Yuanhong toward the Eastern Wilderness imperial city while preparing to use his True God Authority.
• Yang Lingrui and Yang Yuanhong rescued dozens of cultivators fleeing the emperor’s purge and helped erase Meng Xiaoxiao’s marks from them.
• Outside the imperial city, Yang Lingrui killed most of the blood-powered cultivators with a wind axe, and Yang Yuanhong crushed their monstrous leader.
• Yang Lingrui and Yang Yuanhong charged into the imperial palace and found the emperor confused and reclining on his throne.
• As the pair prepared to seize the emperor while preserving his life, an inescapable binding force descended upon them.

Meng Xiaoxiao gathered blood qi from across the Dynasty and began the Fetal Refining Method, but the Lightning Tribulation struck after Yuchi Yao’s vital blood mysteriously disappeared. Though she survived the calamity, she was stopped just as she prepared to continue by an unknown white-clad cultivator.

• Meng Xiaoxiao trapped Yang Lingrui and Yang Yuanhong in her Child-Rearing Palace and planned to use their blood qi as a medicinal catalyst.
• Meng Xiaoxiao killed Yuchi Yao, extracted his vital blood, and gathered blood qi drifting throughout the Dynasty.
• Meng Xiaoxiao began the Fetal Refining Method, and the tribulation of slaying her master canceled three Lightning Tribulations.
• Meng Xiaoxiao discovered that Yuchi Yao’s vital blood was gone, then endured the Lightning Tribulation without the expected tribulation of killing her husband.
• Meng Xiaoxiao charged into the thunderclouds and survived, but an unknown white-clad cultivator appeared and told her to stop and turn back.

Chen Yang stopped Meng Xiaoxiao from refining her unborn child and revealed that Yuchi Yao had willingly supported her, prompting her to abandon her plans and reconcile with him. After Meng Xiaoxiao and Yuchi Yao died peacefully of old age, the Yang Clan and the western powers divided Eastern Wilderness’s spoils, while Chen Yang gave the child a new name and future as Chen Huai'an.

• Chen Yang saved Yuchi Yao and concealed the child’s blood qi, then learned that Yuchi Yao had knowingly sacrificed his life, Dao Path, and kingdom to help Meng Xiaoxiao pursue her Dao.
• Moved by Yuchi Yao’s devotion, Meng Xiaoxiao freed Yang Lingrui and Yang Yuanhong, gave birth to her son Yuan'er, apologized to him, and asked to witness the manifestation of Zhen Xuan.
• Chen Yang showed Meng Xiaoxiao the manifestation she wished to see, and she gave him her True Dragon Breath before returning with Yuchi Yao to the imperial palace.
• Chen Yang used the Time Erosion Divine Art to let Meng Xiaoxiao and Yuchi Yao grow old together and die, after which Huo Yuan and the other cultivators entered the imperial palace.
• Yang Lingrui and Yang Yuanhong explained Meng Xiaoxiao’s defeat to the western powers, then negotiated the division of Eastern Wilderness’s territory, treasures, and resources.
• Chen Yang named Meng Xiaoxiao’s son Chen Huai'an, giving the child a new surname and a chance to begin a peaceful life.