Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhuoxue revealed himself as a dragon while shielding Sang Ying and the Ten Thousand Daos Born disciples from the Limitless Sect’s attacks. Sect Master Wu and the other sects demanded that Jiang Zhuoxue remain in the Black Tortoise Realm and be killed, leaving Sang Ying and her allies facing a hostile crowd.

• Jiang Zhuoxue used his dragon tail to repel the attacks, sending the Limitless Sect elders’ own strikes back at them and revealing himself as a dragon.
• Jiang Zhuoxue apologized to Sang Ying for the danger his presence had brought, but Sang Ying reassured him that the attackers were to blame.
• Ji Fucang confronted Sect Master Wu and threatened to seek justice from Ten Thousand Daos Born for the attack on its disciples.
• Sect Master Wu apologized for the attack but insisted that Jiang Zhuoxue remain in the Black Tortoise Realm, then urged the other sects to help capture him.
• The mighty cultivators from nearly every sect called for Jiang Zhuoxue’s death, while the crowd fell silent at the threat against the dragon who had protected them.

Sang Ying negotiated with Sect Master Wu to secure a safe departure for the Immortal Spirit Realm cultivators while refusing to surrender Jiang Zhuoxue. Sect Master Wu agreed but declared that Sang Ying’s life-saving favor to the Black Tortoise Realm was wiped clean.

• Sect Master Wu threatened Ji Fucang and the Immortal Spirit Realm cultivators, demanding that they leave Jiang Zhuoxue behind.
• Sang Ying refused to abandon Jiang Zhuoxue and urged Ji Fucang to take the other disciples and leave without her.
• Ji Fucang agreed to Sang Ying’s plan, and she invoked her role in saving the Black Tortoise Realm to demand safe passage for the others.
• Sang Ying warned that refusing her request could bring inner demons, prompting the Black Tortoise Realm cultivators to reject Sect Master Wu’s plan to detain the visitors.
• Sect Master Wu agreed to let the Immortal Spirit Realm cultivators leave but declared Sang Ying’s favor wiped clean, and Sang Ying accepted.

Sang Ying watched the flying boat leave, but several companions jumped back to stay with her, while Jiang Zhuoxue surrendered himself to the Limitless Sect to spare them. At the Limitless Sect’s guest courtyard, Sang Ying promised to find a way to free everyone, but her friends insisted on staying, and she revealed that Jimo Qing was her elder brother.

• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue watched the flying boat enter the temporary passage, but Hai Tingzhou, Lan Fusheng, Jimo Qing, his brother, Ji Fucang, and others leaped off to stay with Sang Ying.
• The pink-dressed female cultivator and the departing disciples vowed to report the Limitless Sect’s actions to their elders when they returned to the Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Jiang Zhuoxue offered to go with the Limitless Sect, and Sect Master Wu had him bound with black iron chains while inviting Sang Ying and the others to stay as guests.
• At the guest courtyard, Hai Tingzhou and Ji Fucang reinforced an isolation array, and Sang Ying said she would find a chance to get everyone out.
• Fang Chi and Jimo Qing declared that they would stay with Sang Ying, and Sang Ying clarified that Jimo Qing was her elder brother.

Sang Ying's companions refused to abandon her, while a Limitless Sect disciple secretly sent forbidden information to two people. After learning that Sang Ying and Ji Fucang had been detained along with the black dragon, Luo Li and Fu Shuangjiang headed toward the Limitless Sect.

• Sang Ying explained her lasting bond with the Jimo Household, and Ji Fucang and the others insisted they would stay with her and return together.
• A Limitless Sect disciple remembered Sang Ying saving him and, feeling indebted, used a communication talisman to send two people information his master had forbidden him to share.
• Luo Li learned that the Limitless Sect had captured the black dragon and detained Sang Ying and Ji Fucang.
• Luo Li ordered his flying boat back toward the Limitless Sect, and another flying boat departed Sword Frost Cliff for the same destination.

Jiang Zhuoxue was imprisoned by Sect Master Wu and the Limitless Sect, while two old acquaintances stole a treasure in the Hidden Nether Realm. Summoned by their master to the Black Tortoise Realm, they set off for the Limitless Sect, where their identities could be recognized by Sang Ying.

• Sect Master Wu secured Jiang Zhuoxue in the dungeon and ordered the guards to watch him closely, while Jiang Zhuoxue opened his eyes and revealed starlight in them.
• Jing He joined the Mara Gate after presenting a corpse as puppet material, secretly resolving to make the sect suffer.
• Two masked and lively companions infiltrated a sect in the Hidden Nether Realm and escaped with its secret treasure.
• After changing their appearances and resting, the two men saw a star chart in their eyes and realized their master was summoning them to the Limitless Sect.
• The men paid extra for passage to the Black Tortoise Realm, and the lively one introduced himself to the boat owner as Si Jing.

After Jiang Zhuoxue was captured, Sang Ying and her companions planned how to protect themselves and rescue him from the Limitless Sect. They decided to seek allies among Sword Frost Cliff and the Star-Forging Sect, whose unexpected return suggested someone inside the sect was secretly helping them.

• Jimo Qing asked Sang Ying what she would do if rescuing Jiang Zhuoxue required a fight to the death, and she weighed gaining overwhelming power against trading a valuable treasure for him.
• Sang Ying reassured the group that Jiang Zhuoxue might be able to protect himself, and said they should prepare for Sect Master Wu to use them as hostages.
• Sang Ying proposed joining forces with Sword Frost Cliff and the Star-Forging Sect, and Ji Fucang supported her plan to build alliances and exploit divisions among Sect Master Wu’s allies.
• Jimo Xuan urged the group to let their enemies turn against one another, and they agreed to continue plotting together.
• Sang Ying received Fu Shuangjiang’s message that he and Sect Master Ji were bringing Sword Frost Cliff’s disciples back, while the Star-Forging Sect was also on its way.
• Jimo Xuan said the returning sects could help them even though they had not sent a message, and the group concluded that someone in the Limitless Sect had secretly passed along the news.

Fu Shuangjiang and the Star-Forging Sect arrived with Sword Frost Cliff to challenge the Limitless Sect over Sang Ying and the others. Sect Master Wu agreed to treat them as honored guests with freedom to come and go and expenses paid, and Sang Ying planned to take full advantage of his promise.

• Fu Shuangjiang worried about Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue as the two sects flew to the Limitless Sect.
• Sect Master Wu confronted Sect Master Ji and Luo Li, who accused him of capturing Sang Ying and imprisoning her companions.
• Luo Li demanded that Sang Ying and the others be brought out and asked whether they had stayed at the Limitless Sect willingly.
• Dong Fuzhu and Hai Tingzhou revealed that the group had been kept from leaving the courtyard, while Sang Ying pretended to take the blame for the trouble.
• Sect Master Wu agreed that Sang Ying and her companions could move freely and have the Limitless Sect pay for their purchases, and Sang Ying smiled at him.

Sang Ying and her companions visited the town market with Limitless Sect disciples and, at Fu Shuangjiang’s urging, went on a lavish shopping spree in the west market. The disciples were left to arrange payment for 570,000 high-grade Spirit Stones, while one of them noticed that Sang Ying seemed different from before.

• Sang Ying and her companions explored the east market with Fu Shuangjiang and the Limitless Sect disciples, buying only a few inexpensive items.
• Fu Shuangjiang suggested they visit the west market, and Dong Fuzhu urged him to take the group to its most expensive shops despite the disciples’ objections.
• Jimo Xuan, Ji Fucang, Bai Kejin, Lan Fusheng, and Dong Fuzhu selected costly goods at the largest shop, including a sword, a whip, a robe, a zither, and dresses.
• The Limitless Sect disciples signed for the bill of 570,000 high-grade Spirit Stones and arranged for the shop to deliver the goods to their sect.
• After returning to the group, one disciple wondered why Sang Ying seemed different from before, but Jimo Qing’s calls interrupted his thoughts.

Ji Fucang and the others used a puppet of Sang Ying to distract the Limitless Sect disciples while the real Sang Ying secretly set up a Teleportation Array outside Crane Islet City. After returning to the sect, they heard Sect Master Wu promise his allies that the evil dragon would be dead within three days.

• Fu Shuangjiang led Ji Fucang and the others through the west market while Ji Fucang used a puppet of Sang Ying to conceal their plan from the watching disciples.
• Sang Ying set up a Teleportation Array, a concealment array, and other arrays in a cave outside Crane Islet City, then returned to the city.
• Sang Ying and the others secretly switched her back with the puppet and noticed two unfamiliar passersby, one of whom was Si Jing.
• The group returned to the Limitless Sect, where the outer sect steward paid the west market merchants for their costly purchases.
• Sect Master Wu reassured his allies that he had a plan and vowed that the evil dragon would be dead within three days.

After Jiang Zhuoxue was accused of massacring the people of Peach Blossom Village, Sang Ying and her allies rushed to inspect the victims and defend him. Sect Master Wu announced that the sects had confirmed Jiang Zhuoxue’s guilt and would execute him in two days.

• News spread that Jiang Zhuoxue had escaped the Limitless Sect dungeon and allegedly killed the people of Peach Blossom Village before being recaptured.
• Sang Ying, Fu Shuangjiang, Ji Fucang, and others went to the mountain gate to examine the victims and seek evidence that Jiang Zhuoxue had been framed.
• The surviving villager confronted Sang Ying for defending Jiang Zhuoxue and uncovered the burned bodies of his parents.
• A Limitless Sect disciple drew his sword against the villager, but Sang Ying knocked the weapon away.
• Sect Master Wu announced that Jiang Zhuoxue had killed four hundred villagers and declared that he would be beheaded in two days.

Sect Master Wu used an Image-Retaining Stone to convince the crowd that Jiang Zhuoxue had massacred Peach Blossom Village and had been defeated by the Limitless Sect. After Sang Ying and her companions withdrew to discuss what they had seen, Sang Ying revealed that the black dragon in the images had been a transformed flood dragon, not Jiang Zhuoxue.

• Sect Master Wu displayed images that appeared to show Jiang Zhuoxue setting Peach Blossom Village ablaze and then losing a fight against the Limitless Sect’s experts.
• A grieving young man accused Sang Ying and her companions of defending a murderer, while they insisted Jiang Zhuoxue would not harm innocents.
• Sang Ying stopped Dong Fuzhu from confronting the young man and led her companions away to discuss the evidence in private.
• Sang Ying told the group that the black dragon in the images was a transformed flood dragon, and pointed out that its easily shed scales and disregarded blood exposed it as a fake.

Sect Master Wu celebrated the black dragon’s capture and claimed most of its treasures for the Limitless Sect, while revealing Xuan Lin’s origins as a flood dragon raised by the sect. Xuan Lin watched the other sect leaders’ resentment grow and concluded that they might destroy the Limitless Sect without his help.

• Sect Master Wu’s guests praised his scheme to capture Jiang Zhuoxue, then asked about the man who had impersonated him.
• Sect Master Wu introduced Xuan Lin as a flood dragon and explained how the Limitless Sect had raised him for ten thousand years in hopes of creating a true dragon.
• A guest asked how the black dragon’s body would be divided, and the sect leaders waited for Sect Master Wu’s decision.
• Sect Master Wu claimed half the dragon’s blood, its two largest teeth, a third of its meat, the Dragon Pearl, and the scales as compensation for the Limitless Sect.
• The other sect leaders hid their anger behind smiles, while Xuan Lin watched and thought they might bring about the Limitless Sect’s destruction themselves.

The Limitless Sect prepared and began its Dragon-Slaying Assembly, where Jiang Zhuoxue was to be executed before a crowd eager to profit from the dragon. As Sect Master Wu opened the event, a cultivator who claimed his invitation had been stolen was turned away at the mountain gate.

• Sword Frost Cliff disciples defended Sang Ying and the Immortal Spirit Realm against rumors, and their senior sister rebuked the Rogue Cultivators who mocked them.
• The Limitless Sect built an execution platform and decorated the sect grounds for the Dragon-Slaying Assembly.
• Guests gathered as Xuan Lin watched their greed, while Sect Master Wu displayed the meteoric-iron blade meant to kill Jiang Zhuoxue.
• Limitless Sect disciples rejected a cultivator who said someone at the banquet had stolen his invitation and drove him away.
• Sect Master Wu announced that the Dragon-Slaying Assembly had officially begun.

Jiang Zhuoxue was chained to the Dragon-Slaying Platform as Sect Master Wu prepared to execute him and collect his blood. Sang Ying stepped forward, claiming she wanted to dissolve her contract with Jiang Zhuoxue, and Sect Master Wu allowed her to approach.

• Limitless Sect disciples chained Jiang Zhuoxue to the Dragon-Slaying Platform while Sect Master Wu assured the gathered cultivators that his blood would be collected beneath it.
• Ji Fucang and Jimo Qing reviewed the rescue plan, telling Sang Ying to free Jiang Zhuoxue while the others caused a disturbance and then escaped through the Teleportation Array.
• Sang Ying and her companions affirmed their commitment to the rescue, and she thanked them for helping her and Jiang Zhuoxue.
• Sect Master Wu addressed the crowd and prepared to order Jiang Zhuoxue's execution.
• Sang Ying interrupted, claiming she wanted to dissolve her contract with Jiang Zhuoxue because he was evil, and Sect Master Wu let her approach the platform.

Sang Ying pretended to quarrel with Jiang Zhuoxue while her companions prepared to help, then revealed the Dragon Abyss Sword to free him from his chains. Sect Master Wu attacked her, and their clash sent him flying while Sang Ying crashed into a pillar, leaving the blade above Jiang Zhuoxue teetering.

• Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue staged a bitter argument to buy time while Dong Fuzhu and Lan Fusheng moved through the crowd unnoticed.
• Sect Master Wu urged Sang Ying to sever her pact with Jiang Zhuoxue, and she asked to use her sword to do it.
• Sang Ying revealed the Dragon Abyss Sword, which the cultivators recognized as a divine artifact, and struck twice to break Jiang Zhuoxue's hand chains.
• Sect Master Wu attacked Sang Ying, and she met his palm strike with the Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Sang Ying's second slash sent Sect Master Wu flying dozens of miles, but she crashed into a pillar, making the blade above Jiang Zhuoxue teeter.

Sang Ying freed Jiang Zhuoxue as Sect Master Ji fought Sect Master Wu, but the gathered experts closed in before she could escape. Si Jing and his masked companion opened a passage to the past, and Jiang Zhuoxue sent Sang Ying through it to discover who he had been.

• Sang Ying and her allies detonated Sword Qi orbs to immobilize the cultivators on the Dragon-Slaying Platform, while Sword Frost Cliff and the Star-Forging Sect attacked those who had escaped.
• Sect Master Ji blocked Sect Master Wu and revealed that Sang Ying had dispelled the Demon Beasts' resentment and saved the Black Tortoise Realm.
• Sang Ying cut Jiang Zhuoxue free and shattered the great blade, but Ji Fucang, Jimo Qing, and Fang Chi could not reach them because they were surrounded.
• Si Jing and his masked companion opened a dark blue passage using treasures from various small worlds as the great experts rushed toward the platform.
• Jiang Zhuoxue told Sang Ying to discover his past and save who he had been, then sent her through the passage to the world of ten thousand years ago.

Sang Ying awoke in a mass grave in the Hidden Nether Realm and struggled to adapt to its impure Spiritual Qi. After learning the local date, she realized she had been sent ten thousand years into the past, to the era in which Jiang Zhuoxue had suffered.

• Sang Ying regained consciousness among corpses and identified the place as a mass grave.
• Sang Ying recognized the realm as the Hidden Nether Realm, where cultivators followed the Dao of death because the Spiritual Qi was impure.
• A red-eyed black crow followed Sang Ying from the mass grave and perched stubbornly on her shoulder.
• Sang Ying reached a town and asked a stallholder how the realm counted the years.
• The stallholder told Sang Ying it was the three hundredth year of Tianyu, revealing she had traveled ten thousand years into the past.

The mutilated young black dragon escaped his dungeon cell in Corpse Soul City, freeing the other prisoners and setting the city lord’s manor ablaze. The city lord sealed the city and ordered a search, while the dragon remained hidden in the alleys.

• The guards watched over the black dragon, who was barely alive after his captors had taken nearly everything from him.
• When the guards entered the cell and found no movement, the dragon killed them with his scarred tail and absorbed blood from their bodies.
• The young dragon freed the dungeon’s prisoners, while an unknown person set fire to the city lord’s manor.
• The city lord discovered the dragon was gone and ordered Corpse Soul City sealed and searched.
• After guards searched a house and moved on, the black dragon emerged from a dark alley, listened, and vanished again.

Sang Ying rescued the blind, injured youth from the guards pursuing him through Corpse Soul City and brought him to her rented residence. He denied being Jiang Zhuoxue but accepted her tea and wound medicine, while Sang Ying quietly watched over him.

• The youth fled through Corpse Soul City as guards chased him, but a hidden hand pulled him into an alley and helped him escape.
• Sang Ying hid the youth in her courtyard after the guards searched it and told him, "I finally found you, Jiang Zhuoxue."
• The youth insisted he was not Jiang Zhuoxue and refused to give Sang Ying his name, thinking of himself as number 342 of the Black Dragon Clan.
• Sang Ying offered him shelter, tea, and wound medicine, then left him alone in the room.
• The youth drank the tea and took the medicine, while Sang Ying watched through a crack in her door.

Sang Ying tried to persuade the badly injured Jiang Zhuoxue to wash in spiritual water and accept her help, while he remained wary of her intentions. As she considered how to heal him and escape the Hidden Nether Realm, Green Vine emerged from her Storage Bag, and Sang Ying decided to show it what its master used to look like.

• Sang Ying prepared spiritual water and urged Jiang Zhuoxue to clean his wounds, but he refused because he did not trust her.
• Sang Ying explained that she wanted to help him recover and left him alone; Jiang Zhuoxue eventually entered the tub and immersed himself in the spiritual water.
• Sang Ying reasoned that Jiang Zhuoxue would need to leave the Hidden Nether Realm to find skilled medical care and searched her Storage Bag for supplies.
• Green Vine sprang out of Sang Ying's Storage Bag, and she recognized it as a clone that had followed Cang Lian.
• After hearing Jiang Zhuoxue bathing, Sang Ying decided to let Green Vine see what its master used to look like.