Chapter Summaries

Chen Yang prepared the Yang Clan for a confrontation in the Immortal Abode Secret Realm, where the forces backing the Upper Cultivator were expected to intervene. The story then shifted to the Far North, describing its leading powers and the rise of the Snow Clan’s Xue Nuan.

• Chen Yang planned to spend the next four years preparing the Yang Clan’s young cultivators and arranging safeguards for the Immortal Capture Operation.
• Chen Yang expected Xuanyuan Jun to secretly support the four Treading-Void Split Souls, making the coming battle in the Immortal Abode Secret Realm especially fierce.
• The chapter established that Chen Yang and Xuanyuan Jun were both sensing a hidden threat, though neither knew of the other, and that their first confrontation would come in four years.
• After the Kunxu Secret Realm closed, the Central Region’s Snow Domain returned to quiet, with the Myriad Sword Sect remaining the Far North’s strongest power under Dugu Fuchun.
• Xue Nuan of the Northern Snow Clan attained true intent and became the clan’s youngest Path Enlightenment Realm patriarch, though the clan ranked third in the Far North.

Lingxiao Dao Academy sent Ye Chenfeng and a group of investigators to the North Land Azure Dragon Clan to investigate an ancient tomb and assess the clan amid renewed efforts to negotiate with the Western spiritual beasts. On the journey, Ye Chenfeng and Yang Yuanhong recalled their first meeting at Yanlai Hunting Ground.

• Western spiritual beast juniors increasingly left their clan grounds after Zhuang Xuanji’s departure, while their elders hoped to reopen negotiations with Lingxiao Dao Academy.
• Dark Underworld Venerable postponed talks with the Western spiritual beasts because of the New Heaven Project, then assigned Ye Chenfeng to visit the North Land Azure Dragon Clan and investigate secrets tied to the upper realm.
• Chen Yang sent Yang Yuanhong, Chen Huai'an, Xiao Yao, Shenwu, and three Yang Clan cultivators to accompany Ye Chenfeng.
• Ye Chenfeng and the group arrived at a snowy peak in the north, where Ye Chenfeng asked Yang Yuanhong if he remembered how they first met.
• Yang Yuanhong recalled Ye Chenfeng’s arrival at Yanlai Hunting Ground and thanked him for a spiritual fruit that had helped him attain the True Intent realm.

Xiao Yao secured Chen Huai'an's promise to spar seriously with her after they returned, and recalled how she had long sought a worthy fight against her mysterious martial uncle. As the group arrived in the snowy mountains, a cultivator from the Azure Dragon Clan appeared and greeted them.

• Xiao Yao made Chen Huai'an promise to spar properly with her when they returned.
• Xiao Yao remembered how Chen Huai'an had repeatedly held back during their past spars and how she had finally made him promise to fight seriously once he reached the Mid-Spiritual Connection Realm.
• An Azure Dragon Clan cultivator named Cang Shuo descended through the spatial boundary and introduced himself to the group.
• Shenwu noticed that Cang Shuo's human transformation was imperfect and reflected that transformation would be necessary for traveling Azure Waves without attracting trouble.

Cang Shuo revealed that the Azure Dragon Clan had gained an Immortal Treasure and two dream-borne Dao arts during the Upper Realm cultivator’s descent, prompting Ye Chenfeng and Yang Yuanhong to enter the clan grounds. The clan’s cultivators awaited their arrival, divided over the Northwest Yang Clan’s status.

• Cang Shuo confirmed to Yang Yuanhong that the Azure Dragon Clan’s ancestor had discovered an Immortal Treasure and that two younger cultivators had received Dao arts in dreams.
• Cang Shuo explained that the Immortal Treasure and dream teachings had helped several Profound Mystery ancestors advance their Dao paths, and Ye Chenfeng agreed to enter the clan grounds.
• Cang Shuo opened a spatial passage with a dragon-bone artifact, and Ye Chenfeng carried him, Yang Yuanhong, and the others through it.
• More than twenty Azure Dragon Clan True Intent Realm cultivators gathered at the teleportation formation, with some questioning why Yang Yuanhong and the younger guests had come.
• The gathered clan members looked down on the Northwest Yang Clan despite its influence, while two Spiritual Connection Realm youths stood out among more than three hundred younger descendants.

Ye Chenfeng and the Yang Clan arrived at the Azure Dragon Clan Lands and received markedly different welcomes. The Azure Dragon Clan honored Ye Chenfeng but withheld recognition and respect from Yang Yuanhong, whose group understood the clan’s long-standing submission to strength.

• Cang Shuo, Ye Chenfeng, and their group appeared before the Azure Dragon Clan cultivators, who bowed to Ye Chenfeng as the Absolute Void Sword Immortal.
• Ye Chenfeng accepted the Azure Dragon Clan’s formal greeting and told them to rise.
• The Azure Dragon Clan’s leaders gave Yang Yuanhong a restrained greeting, while the other cultivators treated him and his younger companions with little respect and refused to call him Dragon Lord.
• Yang Yuanhong and his companions returned the greeting without taking offense, having learned that the spirit beast clans respected only overwhelming force.
• The narration explained that Zhuang Xuanji had repeatedly beaten the western spirit beast Old Ancestors until they submitted to the Lingxiao Dao Academy and sealed off their realms.

Chen Huai'an challenged the Azure Dragon Clan’s lax cultivation and defeated two of its young cultivators with a mysterious water art. Cang Yu and Cang Xun watched as the pair were trapped and forced to reveal their original Azure Dragon forms.

• Chen Huai'an insulted the Azure Dragon Clan’s cultivation standards, provoking two young cultivators to attack him.
• Cang Yu and Cang Xun decided to watch the fight rather than intervene.
• Chen Huai'an used swirling water curtains to drain the force from the attackers’ punches and weaken their bodies.
• Chen Huai'an raised a massive wave that trapped both cultivators in a water prison.
• Cang Yu and Cang Xun sensed that Chen Huai'an’s water art had a living quality, while the tightening pressure forced the two captives to abandon their transformed forms.

Cang Yu and Cang Xun, convinced by the immortal dream, became obsessed with taking the Northwest Yang Clan’s Immortal Treasures while unknowingly suffering harm from the dream’s techniques. Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao followed them, weighing whether they could still be turned back, as the group reached a dangerous lightning storm on the way to a secluded place.

• Cang Yu and Cang Xun returned the Dao technique from their dream to the Azure Dragon Clan, where it helped the clan’s ancestors and strengthened their belief in the immortal.
• The dream’s influence altered Cang Yu and Cang Xun’s priorities, making them covet the Yang Clan’s Immortal Treasures and overlook the danger to their clan.
• Cang Yu and Cang Xun unknowingly lost vitality whenever they cultivated or circulated the so-called immortal art.
• Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao followed the two geniuses and considered helping them if they could still be brought back from their obsession.
• Cang Xun led the group to the Land of Falling Lightning, explaining that they could cross it to reach a secluded treasure ground or take a longer detour.

Cang Yu and Cang Xun discussed their plans to obtain the Yang Clan's Immortal Treasure, while Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao entered the lightning storm region. Xiao Yao emerged unharmed, and Shenwu asked the Azure Dragon Clan cultivators to take him to another place to rest.

• Cang Yu and Cang Xun discussed how Chen Huai'an's Innate Dragon Body might connect him to the Northwest's peak cultivator and planned to pursue the Yang Clan's Immortal Treasure after that cultivator ascended.
• Chen Huai'an called Xiao Yao into the lightning storm region after demonstrating his own ability to withstand its lightning.
• Xiao Yao flew into the storm without circulating her true essence and was struck by three bolts of lightning.
• The Azure Dragon Clan cultivators were astonished when Xiao Yao remained unharmed and speculated that she was a body cultivator.
• Shenwu declined to enter the storm and asked the Azure Dragon Clan cultivators to take him to the other place they had prepared.

Shenwu trapped Azure Dragon Clan cultivators inside the Great Urn Daoist Ground and brought the four guards who tried to intervene into it as well. He entered in person and told them he only wanted more people to talk with.

• Shenwu used his Daoist arts to bring several young Azure Dragon cultivators into the Great Urn Daoist Ground.
• The four True Person-level guards failed to open the Daoist Ground and decided to report the incident and wait for Cang Yu and Cang Xun.
• The guards discovered their communication artifacts could not transmit messages, and Shenwu appeared above them.
• Shenwu swiftly pressed the four guards into the Daoist Ground, then confirmed no Azure Dragon Clan cultivators remained outside.
• Shenwu's true body appeared inside the Daoist Ground, surprising the four guards, and he said he had brought them there to talk.

Shenwu showed the Azure Dragon Clan evidence that the supposed immortal relics came from the same source as their treasures, then warned them that the arts could bring ruin. He began explaining the Immortal Arts Calamity with a cover story that blamed the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord and his Soul-Returning Calamity.

• Shenwu presented two relics whose aura and cultivation lineage matched the Azure Dragon Clan's treasures and teachings.
• The Azure Dragon Clan elders examined the relics and asked how they had been found; Shenwu said one came from the Danyuan Secret Realm and the other from a subordinate sect's recruitment ceremony.
• Shenwu explained that the relics' finders had visited the Far North when the Kunxu Secret Realm opened and later discovered hidden places after the calamity.
• Shenwu revealed that the alchemy cultivator had died, while the young cultivator who received the manual had suffered severe mental damage from its corrupt art.
• The Azure Dragon Clan elders asked Shenwu to explain the danger, and he began a fabricated account tracing the Immortal Arts Calamity to the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord's Soul-Returning Calamity.

Shenwu convinced the Azure Dragon Clan cultivators that the Immortal Treasures and wicked arts came from a dangerous ancient cultivator consciousness, concealing the New Heaven Grand Plan. The clan learned that its ancestors and prodigies were in danger, and Shenwu reassured them that the ancestors might be saved while Cang Yu and Cang Xun’s fate remained uncertain.

• Shenwu explained the origins and dangers of the Immortal Treasures and wicked arts, and the Azure Dragon Clan cultivators believed him.
• The oldest Azure Dragon Clan cultivator admitted that Cang Yu and Cang Xun had lured Shenwu and the other Yang Clan cultivators into the Great Urn Daoist Ground, while other Yang Clan cultivators accompanied them into altered perilous places.
• Shenwu said Yang Yuanhong and the Absolute Void Sword Immortal could protect the Azure Dragon Clan’s ancestors, and he described Yang Yuanhong’s treasure for dispelling ancient cultivator consciousness.
• The Azure Dragon Clan cultivators thanked Shenwu and asked whether Cang Yu and Cang Xun could be saved.
• Shenwu said the Yang Clan’s Young Master and Young Lady would try to save Cang Yu and Cang Xun, but their lives and Dao paths depended on fate.

Chen Huai'an tried to warn Cang Yu that the dream teachings he trusted were suspicious, but Cang Yu dismissed him and demanded that he submit. Chen Huai'an then revealed overwhelming power and attacked, leaving Cang Yu shocked by his hidden strength.

• Cang Yu assumed his Azure Dragon true form and told Chen Huai'an that his clan's immortal teachings surpassed the Yang Clan's relics, offering to spare him if he submitted.
• Chen Huai'an questioned whether Cang Yu had noticed anything strange about the dream and the person who taught him.
• Cang Yu dismissed Chen Huai'an as a Spirit Communion Lower Cultivator and insisted that his clan had verified the immortal arts.
• Chen Huai'an said Cang Yu had misunderstood the meaning of Lower Cultivator and unleashed a storm of wind and rain.
• Cang Yu recognized that Chen Huai'an had concealed strength worthy of the Golden Roll's front page, but continued casting Dao arts.

Cang Yu recognized Chen Huai'an's connection to the powerful lineage behind the Yang Clan and became more determined to seize its Immortal Treasure. Chen Huai'an overwhelmed him with a renewed attack, leaving Cang Yu trapped and struggling to breathe.

• Cang Yu saw Chen Huai'an's true dragon form and concluded that he was connected to the northwest peak cultivator behind the Yang Clan.
• Cang Yu reasoned that the Yang Clan's rise depended on an Immortal Treasure and resolved to obtain it to help him withstand future tribulations.
• Cang Yu sensed an Immortal Treasure's aura from Chen Huai'an and decided that the dragon body was bolstered by its power.
• Chen Huai'an summoned storms and three dragon-body incarnations to seal off Cang Yu's escape routes.
• Chen Huai'an's attack suppressed Cang Yu's spiritual essence and left him unable to move, gradually suffocating.

Chen Huai'an was trapped by Cang Yu's Heaven-and-Earth Refining Formation as Cang Yu used an evil immortal art fueled by his lifespan and vitality. Chen Huai'an questioned whether the art would consume Cang Yu before he attained the Dao, but the flames suppressed Cang Yu's doubts, and Cang Yu prepared to kill him.

• Cang Yu drew Chen Huai'an toward the crimson sun and bound his dragon body with earthen chains linked to the depths of the earth.
• Cang Yu revealed that his evil art fueled the crimson flames with his lifespan and vitality, then urged Chen Huai'an to surrender.
• Chen Huai'an challenged Cang Yu to consider whether the art would consume his life before he attained the Dao.
• Chen Yang sensed Cang Yu still had some independent consciousness and instructed Chen Huai'an to spare his life.
• The evil flames suppressed Cang Yu's doubts, and he raged that Chen Huai'an would die before merging into countless phantoms throughout the small world.

Chen Huai'an’s terrifying dharma body caused Cang Yu to faint, and the chapter explained how Chen Huai'an’s blood-soaked Dao fate differed from Xiao Yao’s fortune-filled path. Chen Yang had abandoned the orthodox True Martial Imperishable Glazed Body for Chen Huai'an and created a harsh cultivation method to help him repay his karmic debts.

• Cang Yu saw Chen Huai'an’s resentment-filled dharma body and fainted from the spiritual shock.
• The chapter contrasted Xiao Yao’s fate, which let her gather the Changlan Continent’s blessings, with Chen Huai'an’s fate, burdened by the blood debts of the Eastern Wilderness.
• Chen Yang learned from Xu Cang that Chen Huai'an would face calamities if he cultivated the True Martial Imperishable Glazed Body without first dissolving his karmic debts through suffering.
• Chen Yang consulted the Azure Waves deities Blood Sun, Wu Chang, and Liuli, then created the Thousand Grievances, Ten Thousand Sins, Corpse-Bone Aspect for Chen Huai'an.

Chen Yang had forged a painful Harmonization Dao divine ability for Chen Huai'an to protect his path to ascension and free him from inherited karmic burdens. After Chen Huai'an overcame the technique’s effects and extracted a sinister fire from Cang Yu, he reported that Cang Yu had received a fire Dao method from the Sea Pavilion True Lord; Chen Yang confirmed that Cang Xun had received a powerful metal Dao method.

• Chen Yang reflected that Chen Huai'an needed the painful <Thousand Grievances, Ten Thousand Sins, Corpse-Bone Aspect> to dispel resentful influences and preserve his chance to ascend.
• Chen Huai'an dispelled his Dharma body, extracted a sinister fire from the unconscious Cang Yu, and suppressed it.
• Chen Huai'an examined the sinister fire and deduced that the Sea Pavilion True Lord had used a fire Dao method to influence Cang Yu through the Five Elements.
• Chen Huai'an sent his findings to Chen Yang, who praised his deduction and confirmed that Cang Xun had received a fierce metal Dao method.
• Chen Huai'an felt reassured after learning that Xiao Yao was safe.

Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao exploited the Azure Dragon Clan’s distraction to infiltrate a hidden site and set out to clear the clan grounds of threats tied to the evil art. Meanwhile, the clan’s cultivators witnessed Yang Lingrui overpower four Mystic Insight Venerables with a single verdict and were left afraid to oppose him.

• Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao swiftly infiltrated an ancient tower and eliminated the hidden threat of the evil art without alerting its guards.
• Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao split up to search for and destroy the remaining hidden threats while the Azure Dragon Clan’s defenses were weakened.
• Azure Dragon Clan cultivators gathered outside the Forbidden Ground’s formation and spotted their ancestors facing the Absolute Void Sword Immortal, the Vaulting Dragon Lord, and a masked white-robed figure.
• The clan cultivators identified the masked figure as Yang Lingrui, the Azure Waves Arbiter, but were baffled by how he had entered the Forbidden Ground unnoticed.
• Yang Lingrui’s verdict stripped four Azure Dragon Clan Mystic Insight Venerables of their powers and unraveled their arts, leaving the clan’s True Intent Cultivators too intimidated to act.

After Yang Lingrui’s decree stripped the evil art from the four Azure Dragon Ancestors, its backlash badly wounded them but also purged most of its poison, saving their Dao paths and the Azure Dragon Clan. Enraged and unaware of the danger the art posed, the ancestors turned against the Yang Clan, and Ye Chenfeng revealed a treasure that left the Azure Dragon cultivators trembling.

• The evil art’s backlash injured the four Azure Dragon Ancestors and caused their cultivation to regress, while expelling most of its lingering poison.
• Ye Chenfeng stood between the furious ancestors and Yang Lingrui’s soul body, asking them to hear him out.
• The Azure Dragon Ancestors accused Ye Chenfeng and the Yang Clan of betraying their trust, and demanded that Yang Lingrui and the Yang Clan cultivators remain and pay for their actions.
• Ye Chenfeng brought out a treasure box and placed it before Yang Lingrui’s soul body.
• Yang Lingrui’s soul body resonated with the box and opened it, making every Azure Dragon cultivator in the Forbidden Ground tremble at the revealed object’s aura.

Yang Lingrui and Ye Chenfeng used the Slaughter Dao True Mystery to make the four Azure Dragon ancestors back down by reminding them of their past defeat and confinement by Zhuang Xuanji. The chapter then revealed the risks and trust required for Yang Lingrui to hide within Yang Yuanhong’s sea of consciousness.

• Ye Chenfeng warned the four Azure Dragon ancestors as Yang Lingrui strengthened his connection to the Slaughter Dao True Mystery.
• The ancestors recalled how Zhuang Xuanji had subdued them and how their clan had been confined for centuries.
• The four ancestors withdrew their True Mysteries, and Yang Lingrui told Yang Yuanhong to withdraw his true essence.
• Yang Lingrui’s presence was revealed to have been hidden inside Yang Yuanhong’s sea of consciousness so the clan could not detect him.
• The chapter explained that hosting another person’s soul exposed Yang Yuanhong to mental harm and revealed his deepest secrets.

After Daozhen Xuan's intervention, Ye Chenfeng and Yang Lingrui explained how the Azure Dragon Clan's supposed Immortal Treasures and immortal arts were harming their cultivators. The clan discovered the danger, apologized to Yang Lingrui, and the confrontation ended with mutual respect.

• The Azure Dragon Clan's Great Venerable agreed to hold off on attacking the Yang Clan but demanded an explanation from Ye Chenfeng and Yang Lingrui.
• Ye Chenfeng promised the Azure Dragon Clan a satisfactory answer, and Yang Lingrui recounted Shenwu's account of the evil arts.
• Yang Lingrui guided the Azure Dragon Clan's patriarchs and higher-ups in examining themselves, revealing that the Immortal Treasures were damaging their souls and shortening their lifespans.
• The Azure Dragon Clan's Great Venerable apologized to Yang Lingrui as the Fate Official and acknowledged the power of his Sever Karma decree.
• The remaining patriarchs and cultivators apologized and thanked Yang Lingrui, who said the resolved misunderstanding had helped them avoid disaster.