Chapter Summaries

Ji Dong and Lan Bao'er cautiously assessed three strangers who killed a Nether Yin Demon Wolf, then confirmed they belonged to the Light Five Elements Continent. The strangers revealed formidable cultivation, and Xu Xingyu asked them for directions to the nearest military camp.

• Ji Dong and Lan Bao'er watched the three strangers warily after they killed the Nether Yin Demon Wolf.
• Ji Dong judged that the strangers probably meant them no harm and asked to see their Yin Yang Crowns to verify their identities.
• Xu Xingyu, Gu Qiuxi, and Ya Lin'er revealed golden-sheened crowns, but Ji Dong and Lan Bao'er were stunned to see crowns bearing six, six, and seven stars.
• Ji Dong introduced himself and Lan Bao'er, while Xu Xingyu apologized for taking their prey and asked where the nearest military camp was.

Ji Dong invited Xu Xingyu and his companions to travel with him to the eighth layer, hoping to observe them and find his senior brother Fu Rui. Xu Xingyu accepted to study Ji Dong’s Hong Lian Mark and find a way into the Earth Core World, while Ya Lin'er grew suspicious of his motives but chose to trust him.

• Ji Dong invited Xu Xingyu and his group to the eighth layer, explaining that he hoped to reach his senior brother Fu Rui and avoid bringing strangers to the wounded and logistics personnel at the third-layer camp.
• Xu Xingyu accepted the invitation, though he cared nothing for the war and had already been healing Ya Lin'er with the Light Element; he intended to analyze Ji Dong's Hong Lian Mark with his Spiritual Power and the Star Soul Pearl.
• Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi concealed their origins and explained that a fight with a ninth-tier Ren Water magical beast had caused the meteor-like impact on the seventh layer.
• Ji Dong and Lan Bao'er accepted most of the story, though Ji Dong suspected it was incomplete, and the group continued toward the eighth layer.
• Ya Lin'er noticed that Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi seemed unfamiliar with the world and suspected they had sought Ji Dong for something, but she kept silent because she trusted them.

Xu Xingyu, Gu Qiuxi, Ji Dong, and Lan Bao'er observed one another's fighting abilities as they traveled toward the Light Five Elements Legion's camp. At the boundary between the seventh and eighth levels, a ninth-tier Mist Earth Swamp Dragon ambushed them, and Lan Bao'er identified it in fear.

• Xu Xingyu watched Ji Dong and Lan Bao'er fight magical beasts, noting Ji Dong's preference for close combat and Lan Bao'er's ranged attacks and healing.
• Ji Dong observed Gu Qiuxi's formidable strength and gold-red flames, which suppressed his Ultimate Twin Fires, and grew wary of her and Xu Xingyu's mysterious abilities.
• The group reached the boundary between the seventh and eighth levels and spotted the Light Five Elements Legion's camp in the distance.
• A huge creature burst from the earth and attacked, but Xu Xingyu shielded all five companions in a sphere of air and dodged its strikes.
• Lan Bao'er recognized the creature as a ninth-tier Mist Earth Swamp Dragon and trembled with fear.

Lan Bao'er explained the Mist Earth Swamp Dragon’s brutal history as the ninth-rank beast targeted Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi for their dragon bloodlines. Xu Xingyu launched Ji Dong, Lan Bao'er, and Ya Lin'er toward the military camp to summon help, then prepared to fight the beast alone.

• Lan Bao'er told Ji Dong that Mist Earth Swamp Dragons were thought extinct and described how their devouring nature had led to their own clan’s destruction.
• Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi realized the Mist Earth Swamp Dragon was likely drawn to their powerful dragon bloodlines, and the beast fixed its greedy gaze on them.
• Xu Xingyu countered the beast’s water-and-earth tornado with a wind tornado and warned that the ninth-rank opponent was too dangerous to face without help.
• Xu Xingyu enclosed Ji Dong, Lan Bao'er, and Ya Lin'er in an air sphere and hurled them toward the military camp to get help.
• After the beast dodged the airborne sphere, Xu Xingyu stayed behind, determined to fight without revealing his full strength.

Gu Qiuxi fought the Mist Earth Swamp Dragon to demonstrate the power she had gained in Dragon Valley, while Xu Xingyu watched rather than intervening. After dodging its attacks and forcing it to take her seriously, she seized its moment of preparation and pierced its body with the Golden Dragon Spear.

• Gu Qiuxi transformed with her Golden Dragon King's powers and challenged the Mist Earth Swamp Dragon while Xu Xingyu took a supporting role.
• Gu Qiuxi met the dragon's claw with her own, damaging its claw despite being driven back several steps.
• The Mist Earth Swamp Dragon attacked with a torrent of water-and-earth dragon breath, but Gu Qiuxi used her inherited skills and wings to evade it.
• Xu Xingyu chose not to intervene as Gu Qiuxi and the Mist Earth Swamp Dragon fought to a stalemate.
• The Mist Earth Swamp Dragon began gathering water and earth elements for a powerful attack, so Gu Qiuxi struck first and drove her flaming Golden Dragon Spear into its body.

Gu Qiuxi battled the Mist Earth Swamp Dragon, overcame its Swamp Vortex Devouring with Blood Dragon Transformation, and destroyed it with Golden Dragon Suppresses Hell Kill. Xu Xingyu praised her for controlling the Golden Dragon King's Power of Ruin, recognizing that she had become a formidable fighter who no longer needed his constant protection.

• Gu Qiuxi pierced the Mist Earth Swamp Dragon with the Golden Dragon Spear, but Xu Xingyu warned her that the battle was not over.
• The Mist Earth Swamp Dragon trapped Gu Qiuxi in its Swamp Vortex Devouring and began draining her Magic Power.
• Gu Qiuxi identified the vortex's weakness and transformed her Bloodline Power with Blood Dragon Transformation.
• Gu Qiuxi used Golden Dragon Suppresses Hell Kill to break through the vortex and tear the Mist Earth Swamp Dragon apart.
• Xu Xingyu praised Gu Qiuxi for keeping control of the Power of Ruin and recognized her strength.

Ji Dong arrived after Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi had killed the ninth-tier Mist Earth Swamp Dragon, and grew wary of their hidden strength after Lie Yan reacted to them with panic. He brought them to the Light Five Elements Continent's camp, where they found the battle on the eighth layer of Sacred and Evil Island had erupted into chaos.

• Ji Dong and members of the Yin-Yang School reached the Mist Earth Swamp Dragon's corpse and found Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi unharmed.
• Xu Xingyu said Gu Qiuxi had done most of the work, prompting Ji Dong to suspect they had concealed their true strength.
• Lie Yan spoke through the Hong Lian Mark and panicked at the sight of Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi, then fell silent when Ji Dong tried to question her.
• Ji Dong's group helped process the dragon's corpse, and he invited Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi to the Light Five Elements Continent's military camp.
• Ji Dong led Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi to the eighth layer, where they found light and dark mages fighting fiercely and eight light mages confronting a flame-and-lightning-wreathed Tyrant Dragon.

Ji Dong returned to find the Light and Dark armies locked in a chaotic battle and prepared to help his senior brother, but Xu Xingyu offered to help him conserve his Magic Power. Ji Dong explained how the Light Saints’ attack on the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon had triggered the fighting, and the chapter ended by contrasting the Light Saints’ entitled upbringing with the Dark Saints’ brutal training.

• Ji Dong ordered the Yin-Yang School members to support the Light army while he went to help his senior brother, but Xu Xingyu stopped him and warned that rushing into battle would drain his Magic Power.
• Xu Xingyu asked whether the battle had begun with the fighting at the basin’s center, and Ji Dong explained that the ninth-rank Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon had been pursuing Fu Rui while the armies held back.
• Ji Dong said the Light Heavenly Stem Saints attacked the dragon to seize its treasure, prompting it to attack indiscriminately and convincing the Dark army to join the fighting.
• Ji Dong privately condemned the Light Saints’ selfishness and arrogance and contrasted them with the Dark Saints, who were selected through a deadly Crystal Crown trial and trained to put their continent first.

Ji Dong, Xu Xingyu, and Gu Qiuxi crossed the battlefield in Xu Xingyu’s controlled air sphere to reach the fight against the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon. They saw the Light Heavenly Stem Saints holding the dragon back with incomplete formations, and Ji Dong explained that the missing fire formations prevented them from completing the full Five Elements Yin-Yang Formation.

• Xu Xingyu said he had a way to stop the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon but could not guarantee the survival of the Light Heavenly Stem Saints, and Ji Dong asked him to spare the Jia Wood Saint if possible.
• Ji Dong promised to get his senior brother Fu Rui and his friend out of Xu Xingyu’s attack range while Xu Xingyu dealt with the dragon.
• Xu Xingyu steered an air sphere across the battlefield, avoiding obstacles and selectively crashing into enemies as Ji Dong and Gu Qiuxi rode with him.
• The trio reached the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon and saw eight Light Heavenly Stem Saints using formations to suppress it.
• Xu Xingyu judged that the Saints’ incomplete large formation would fail from exhaustion or be broken by the dragon, and Ji Dong explained that the missing Bing Fire and Ding Fire Formations prevented a complete Five Elements Yin-Yang Formation.

Ji Dong intervened as the Light Heavenly Stem Saints struggled against the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon, then demonstrated how the missing Bing-Ding Twin Fires could complete their formation. He formed the complete Five Elements Yin-Yang Realm and prepared Xu Xingyu to deliver the final blow.

• Ji Dong told Xu Xingyu to keep fighting the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon while he went to help the Saints.
• Ji Dong reached Yao Xianshu and summoned Huo'er, whose appearance astonished and angered the other Saints.
• Ji Dong criticized the Saints’ use of the Five Elements Yin-Yang Realm and told Yao Xianshu to coordinate with him.
• Ji Dong activated the Bing-Ding Twin Fire Magic Array, which drew together the other magic arrays and formed the complete Five Elements Yin-Yang Realm.
• Ji Dong told Xu Xingyu that he would hold down the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon and leave the final blow to him.

Ji Dong completed the Five Elements Yin-Yang Realm by drawing the Light Heavenly Stem Saints’ formations into his own, allowing Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi to attack the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon. Xu Xingyu spared the dragon’s life after piercing it with a powerful wind spear.

• Ji Dong’s formation drew on Yao Xianshu’s willingly opened Jia Wood Formation, completing the Five Elements Yin-Yang Realm as the others refrained from rejecting the fusion.
• Xu Xingyu brought Gu Qiuxi above the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon and prepared to hold it off while she delivered the final blow.
• Gu Qiuxi merged with the golden dragon and used the Golden Dragon Roar to shatter the dragon’s approaching Thousand Thunder Flash.
• Xu Xingyu unleashed Wind-Space Rending Rift Hurricane, stripping the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon of its thorns and cutting its body with wind blades.
• Xu Xingyu revealed a powerful dragon bloodline, declared he would spare the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon, and drove a wind spear through it.

Xu Xingyu killed the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon, then gave Ji Dong the Thunder Hell Battle Axe and a nine-colored dragon scale before leaving the battlefield with Gu Qiuxi. The Light and Dark armies restored order and resumed watching each other as the war continued.

• Xu Xingyu's attack destroyed the Five Elements Yin-Yang Realm and injured seven Light Heavenly Stem Saints, while Ji Dong, Huo'er, and Yao Xianshu escaped the blast.
• The Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon vanished, leaving behind its ninth-tier crystal core and the Thunder Hell Battle Axe, which Xu Xingyu claimed for himself at first.
• Fu Rui reorganized the Light army after Ji Dong called out to him, and the Dark army's leaders also restored their troops to order.
• Xu Xingyu handed Ji Dong the Thunder Hell Battle Axe and a nine-colored dragon scale, asking him to look after Ya Lin'er and contact him if urgent matters arose.
• Lie Yan recognized the scale as possibly belonging to the Dragon God, and Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi departed the battlefield.

Ji Dong used the Thunder Hell Battle Axe Xu Xingyu gave him to strengthen Fu Rui against Li Yonghao while the battle between light and darkness continued. Deep in the Earth Core World, Lie Yan worried about Xu Xingyu’s connection to the Divine Realm and wondered why he had approached Ji Dong, recognizing the scale he left as linked to the Dragon Clan’s revered nine-colored dragon.

• Ji Dong gave the Thunder Hell Battle Axe to Fu Rui, who used its power to drive Li Yonghao back.
• Ji Dong watched the battle between light and darkness resume after Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi left.
• Lie Yan watched events through the Hong Lian Mark and feared Xu Xingyu might expose her to the Divine Realm.
• Lie Yan questioned why Xu Xingyu had discovered the mark but neither reported nor contacted her.
• Lie Yan recognized the nine-colored dragon scale as connected to the dragon depicted in the Dragon Clan’s mural.

Xu Xingyu told Gu Qiuxi that he had secretly saved the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon and explained why he wanted a future magical beast partner focused on escape and survival. Their conversation was interrupted by a frightened little white pig with a chrysanthemum pattern, which called itself a Saint Pig.

• Xu Xingyu explained that he and Gu Qiuxi had left the battlefield because they should not interfere too much in another world.
• Xu Xingyu revealed that he had faked the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon’s death, removed the Thunder Hell Battle Axe, and placed the recovering beast in the Star Soul Pearl’s small world.
• Xu Xingyu told Gu Qiuxi that he did not intend to make the Thorn Thunder Fire Dragon his partner and would prefer a loyal beast with space or speed abilities.
• Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi took fighting stances after a voice suddenly spoke despite their Spiritual Power detecting no one nearby.
• A trembling little white pig with a chrysanthemum pattern appeared and told Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi not to attack it.

Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi confronted Chrysanthemum Pig, who revealed he was a Saint Beast from the Divine Realm. Xu Xingyu exposed the pig’s past and displayed his nine-colored Dragon Transformation, leaving Chrysanthemum Pig convinced he was in danger.

• Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi questioned Chrysanthemum Pig about how he had gone undetected and recognized the divine presence of Gu Qiuxi’s spear.
• Chrysanthemum Pig said he was a tenth-rank magical beast and reacted with shock when Gu Qiuxi revealed her powerful Dragon Clan bloodline.
• Xu Xingyu explained that Chrysanthemum Pig was a wood-attribute Saint Beast, one of five demigod-level beasts summoned from the Divine Realm.
• Chrysanthemum Pig defended his support abilities after Gu Qiuxi called him useless, but Xu Xingyu revealed that he and his brothers had lost their divine positions after stealing and eating the Dragon God’s treasures.
• Xu Xingyu began his nine-colored Dragon Transformation, and Chrysanthemum Pig feared that he was about to be punished.

Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi reached the center of the Five Sacred Mountains, where Xu Xingyu planned to use Myriad Tribulations Thunder Hell to awaken the sleeping saber spirit within Abyss. They left Chrysanthemum Pig behind after he begged for mercy and hurried away.

• Chrysanthemum Pig sensed Xu Xingyu's power, clung to his thigh, and begged him not to turn him into roast suckling pig.
• Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi dismissed Chrysanthemum Pig, who left after realizing he could not trick Xu Xingyu into a contract.
• Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi continued to the Five Sacred Mountains and reached the center of Myriad Tribulations Thunder Hell.
• Xu Xingyu summoned Abyss and explained that he planned to absorb only a small portion of the thunder power.
• Xu Xingyu revealed that he wanted to use the thunder power to awaken the sleeping consciousness of the Thundering Hell Vine.

Xu Xingyu took control of Myriad Tribulations Thunder Hell and used its lightning to awaken the Thundering Hell Vine’s consciousness within Abyss. The Thundering Hell Vine joined him in commanding the thunder hell, and their bond deepened into a shared power.

• Xu Xingyu told Gu Qiuxi to guard him from a distance, then approached the main control array of Myriad Tribulations Thunder Hell.
• Xu Xingyu used the Dragon God's Power and his Divine Sense to connect with the Core Array and bring the thunder hell under his control.
• Xu Xingyu recalled the Light and Dark Heavenly Stem Saints’ sacrifice and assured an unknown presence that he would not destroy Sacred and Evil Island.
• Xu Xingyu channeled the thunder hell’s lightning into Abyss to awaken the dormant consciousness of the Thundering Hell Vine.
• The Thundering Hell Vine awakened, communicated with Xu Xingyu, and joined him in controlling Myriad Tribulations Thunder Hell.

Xu Xingyu discovered that Abyss could take human form and pledged herself to him as his blade spirit. The Dragon God Trial then ordered Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi to travel to the Three Harmonies Mountain Range and restore the Dragon Clan’s faith in the Dragon God.

• Abyss transformed into a human warrior, introduced herself to Xu Xingyu, and vowed to cut down his enemies before returning to sword form.
• Xu Xingyu spoke with Gu Qiuxi after she had guarded him for two or three hours.
• The third Dragon God Trial instructed Xu Xingyu to leave Sacred and Evil Island for the Three Harmonies Mountain Range.
• Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi discussed the challenge of restoring the local Dragon Clan’s faith in the fallen Dragon God.

Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi went to investigate a wail and found Yao Xianshu grieving after Chrysanthemum Pig tricked him into a contract. Ji Dong explained that the Light and Dark armies had stopped fighting because the Myriad Tribulations Thunder Hell was becoming unstable, while Xu Xingyu concealed his likely role in the disturbance.

• Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi decided to keep Ya Lin'er with them and planned to find a map to the Three Harmonies Mountain Range after the war.
• A mournful wail drew Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi to Ji Dong's group, where Yao Xianshu was crying before Chrysanthemum Pig.
• Ji Dong told Xu Xingyu that Chrysanthemum Pig had tricked Yao Xianshu into a Magic Beast Contract and a Life Sharing Contract.
• Ji Dong explained that both armies had halted their battle and evacuated because the Myriad Tribulations Thunder Hell had begun to destabilize.
• Xu Xingyu suspected his efforts to perfect the Abyss had caused the disturbance, concealed that possibility, and redirected the group’s attention to Chrysanthemum Pig as a sacred beast.

Xu Xingyu, Gu Qiuxi, and Ya Lin'er joined Ji Dong's group to investigate the disturbance on Sacred and Evil Island, but they found no clues before the Light army won the Sacred and Evil War. As they traveled through the Light Passage toward the Light Five Elements Continent, a flash of red lotus light transported them to the Earth Core World instead.

• Ya Lin'er told Xu Xingyu that she had recovered and explained that she had fought for the Light army, becoming one of the battlefield's most formidable killers.
• Ji Dong and the others invited Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi to investigate the disturbance in Myriad Tribulations Thunder Hell, and Ya Lin'er joined them.
• The group found no clues in Sacred and Evil Island's depths and returned to the Light army as the Sacred and Evil Heavenly Scales declared the Light side victorious.
• Xu Xingyu, Gu Qiuxi, and Ya Lin'er entered the Light Passage with the returning Light army, relying on their Light Attributes to pass its protective barrier.
• A flash of red lotus light appeared near the passage's end and sent Xu Xingyu and the others to the Earth Core World.