Chapter Summaries

After losing to Sang Ying, Xuan Jingshan learned that his clan had also failed to stop the White Dragon Tribe and ordered his father to attack while its strongest members were away. Sang Ying arranged a match with Jin Le'er, then learned the Black Dragon Clan was preparing to strike the White Dragon Tribe as she and her allies focused on Jialan City.

• Xuan Jingshan learned that only a few of his clansmen had beaten the White Dragon Tribe and sent orders to his father to attack while its young and able-bodied members were away.
• Jin Le'er challenged Sang Ying to a match, and Sang Ying accepted and set a time with her.
• Jin Man told Sang Ying that he and Hong Yan had bet on her to defeat Xuan Jingshan, and Sang Ying considered winning over the Red Dragon Clan.
• Madam Lanxin and Bai Shou told Sang Ying that the Black Dragon Clan was preparing a direct attack on the White Dragon Tribe.
• Sang Ying said the White Dragon Tribe could handle the attack and warned that she could target the Black Dragon Clan's younger generation if needed.

After the Black Dragon Clan’s ambush on the White Dragon Tribe failed disastrously, Patriarch Xuan Hetian faced the loss of hundreds of warriors and accepted that he could not risk another attack. A former devil ally then appeared in the camp and demanded the Black Dragon Clan’s Dragon Pearl as payment for their old deal.

• A wounded Black Dragon Clan warrior reported that the White Dragon Tribe had kept its forces at Lianheng Mountain and ambushed their attackers, leaving more than five hundred dead.
• Xuan Han urged Patriarch Xuan to attack again, but Xuan Hetian refused and dismissed the others to consider their defeat.
• Xuan Hetian heard a voice behind a screen and discovered a puppet-like White Dragon Tribe warrior controlled by a red thread.
• The devil ally reminded Xuan Hetian of their past deal and said the payment had been insufficient.
• Black mist trapped Xuan Hetian, and the devil demanded the Black Dragon Clan’s Dragon Pearl.

After winning the grand competition, Sang Ying entered the Azure Dragon Clan's treasury to choose a treasure. She passed over the riches on the first level and headed deeper, while the treasury's treasures whispered about a formidable sword hidden at the bottom.

• Madam Lanxin celebrated Sang Ying's advancement to the finals, and Sang Ying promised to win first place and bring her a treasure.
• Sang Ying defeated her opponents, and Hong Yan admitted defeat before their final match began, making Sang Ying the competition's champion.
• Madam Lanxin dressed Sang Ying in a water-blue gown, while Xuan Jingshan watched her and questioned his decision to break their engagement.
• The Azure Dragon Clan's steward warned the ten finalists that the treasures had spiritual awareness and must not be taken against their will.
• Sang Ying entered the treasury, ignored the treasures on the first level, and went up to the second level as the treasures whispered about a sword in the depths.

Sang Ying claimed the dragon-patterned longsword hidden in the Azure Dragon Clan’s vault, and its awakening shook the vault and startled the clan. Patriarch Qing learned from the previous patriarch that the sword had chosen a master and that an unkillable Devil Creature was eroding the barrier at the Gods and Devils Battlefield.

• Sang Ying followed a strange humming to the vault’s twentieth level, where she found a longsword embedded in a crimson boulder.
• After the sword cut her hand and her blood fell on it, Sang Ying gripped the hilt and endured its violent Sword Qi until it fell quiet.
• Sang Ying pulled the dragon-patterned longsword free, unleashing a powerful current of air that shook the vault and forced those outside to retreat.
• Patriarch Qing hurried to the previous Azure Dragon Clan patriarch, who explained that the sword had acknowledged a master and that he believed the wielder was a worthy member of the Dragon Race.
• The previous patriarch told Patriarch Qing that a bodiless Devil Creature had eroded the barrier at the Gods and Devils Battlefield, creating the rift, and that it could not be killed.

Patriarch Qing learned that the Devil Creature, also called Heaven Swallower, had escaped its seal and that the sword’s new master might be the Dragon Race’s only hope. Meanwhile, Heaven Swallower used Patriarch Xuan’s clansmen as disposable bodies and prepared to pursue the Red Dragon Clan’s dragon bone.

• The old man told Patriarch Qing that the Devil Creature had escaped its broken seal and that only the sword’s master had historically been able to fight it.
• Patriarch Qing promised to invite the sword’s master to meet the old man and said he would put the Azure Dragon Clan under that person’s command if they could save the Dragon Race.
• Heaven Swallower abandoned a decaying body and possessed a young member of the Black Dragon Clan while Patriarch Xuan watched in fear.
• Patriarch Xuan recalled that he had released Heaven Swallower to attack the White Dragon Tribe and had helped conceal the deaths of Bai Yi and his three sons.
• After learning that the Black Dragon Clan’s Dragon Pearl was nearly absorbed, Patriarch Xuan identified the Red Dragon Clan’s dragon bone as the next relic, and Heaven Swallower ordered him to go there.

Sang Ying claimed the sword Dragon Abyss from the Azure Dragon Clan treasury and learned that the clan’s elders wanted to see it. An elder revealed that Dragon Abyss had slain dragons, and Sang Ying asked him to explain its history.

• Sang Ying cleaned the blood from the sword, learned its name was Dragon Abyss, and promised to protect it.
• Sang Ying left the treasury and reunited with Hong Yan, then joined the others in leaving the mountain.
• The steward told Sang Ying that Patriarch Qing wanted to see her, so she went to the patriarchal residence and changed into new clothes.
• Sang Ying met Patriarch Qing and a white-haired elder, who asked to inspect Dragon Abyss, but the sword resisted anyone else touching it.
• The elder told Sang Ying that Dragon Abyss had slain dragons, and she asked him to tell her more about the sword.

Sang Ying and the dragon tribes learned that Heaven Swallower had taken control of the Black Dragon Clan, prompting the dragons to unite and prepare for war. As forces set out to defend their territories, Hong Yan confronted his sister Hong Miao after she asked him to spare the Black Dragon Clan.

• The elder and Patriarch Qing asked Sang Ying to lead the dragons, but a steward reported that the Red Dragon Clan's dragon bones had vanished and the Black Dragon Clan was attacking the White Dragon Tribe with warriors who could not be killed or hurt.
• Sang Ying suspected the Black Dragon Clan's patriarch had broken the seal, and the elder declared that Heaven Swallower had turned the Black Dragon Clan into puppets.
• The elder revealed Heaven Swallower's return to the dragons, rallied them to fight together, and kept Sang Ying's leadership role secret.
• Sang Ying split her more than four hundred people into groups to support Patriarch Bai and defend against the Black Dragon Clan, and she agreed to let Madam Lanxin join her.
• Hong Yan learned that a young visitor from the Black Dragon Clan had transformed into black mist and devoured the Red Dragon Clan's dragon bones, then prepared to fight the invaders.
• Hong Miao asked Hong Yan not to hurt the Black Dragon Clan, and Hong Yan reacted coldly to her request.

Hong Yan confronted Hong Miao over her defense of Xuan Jingshan, while the Dragon Clans prepared to join the battle against the Devil Creature. At Jialan City, Sang Ying discovered that cutting the invisible threads controlling the black-armored monsters could stop them, giving the Dragon Race a way to turn the battle.

• Hong Yan rejected Hong Miao's plea to go easy on the controlled Black Dragons and said he would ask their father to break her engagement to Xuan Jingshan.
• Xuan Jingshan told Hong Miao he had no time for marriage and would have ended their engagement because of the calamity facing his clan.
• Jin Le'er took command of the Golden Dragon Clan's force, while the Azure Dragon Clan's young master left for battle with Law Artifacts from Patriarch Qing.
• Sang Ying and Hong Yan met the black-armored monsters outside Jialan City, where ordinary attacks failed and Dragon Race warriors began to fall.
• Dragon Abyss cut the air above two monsters, revealing that invisible red threads controlled them; Sang Ying told the others to use spiritual power to see and sever the threads.

Heaven Swallower revealed that the attack on Jialan City was meant to distract the Dragon Race, then killed Patriarch Xuan and led the Devil Creatures to overrun the Gods and Devils Battlefield. As the Dragon Race struggled against the invasion, Qing Zhou discovered that sealing Heaven Swallower required the soul of someone born with an all-Yang fate—and the only person matching the timing was Sang Ying.

• Heaven Swallower told Patriarch Xuan that Jialan City had only been a distraction, then killed him after Patriarch Xuan protested that his son had been promised protection.
• Sang Ying suspected the attack on Jialan City was meant to delay the Dragon Race, and she and Hong Yan hurried to the patriarch's residence.
• Patriarch Qing told them that Devil Creatures had poured from new rifts and the Gods and Devils Battlefield had fallen, so the Dragon Race rushed to the front.
• The Dragon Race fought for days as the Devil Creatures overwhelmed the battlefield and Devil Qi began corrupting their ancestral land.
• Qing Zhou found the Devil-Sealing Formation and explained that its anchor had to be the soul of someone born at a Yang hour and Yang quarter-hour.
• Qing Zhou calculated that the only matching birth time in ten thousand years was five hundred years earlier, when Sang Ying was born.

Sang Ying donned the Heaven-Sealing Battle Armor and chose to sacrifice herself to lure Heaven Swallower into a formation, hoping to save the Dragon Race. As the trap was prepared, Heaven Swallower appeared wearing silver-white armor and a face resembling Sang Ying’s, and Old Patriarch Bai identified him as the devil rather than Bai Yi.

• Sang Ying put on the Heaven-Sealing Battle Armor and reassured Madam Lanxin that she had chosen to sacrifice herself.
• Old Patriarch Bai asked how the Azure Dragon Clan planned to draw Heaven Swallower out, and Sang Ying explained that Patriarch Qing would announce they had found a way to kill him.
• Sang Ying told Old Patriarch Bai that she wanted the Dragon Race to survive and accepted that Heaven Swallower would die with her.
• Qing Zhou gave Sang Ying a pill made from dragon horn that would increase her cultivation tenfold for six hours.
• Sang Ying sensed Heaven Swallower approaching, and a figure in silver-white armor emerged from the black mist.
• Patriarch Qing mistook the figure for Bai Yi, but Old Patriarch Bai declared that it was Heaven Swallower.

Sang Ying used the Dragon Abyss Sword to fight Heaven Swallower while the Dragon Race sealed the rifts and prepared the formation. She drove Heaven Swallower into the activated formation, and both were pulled into a black hole before Sang Ying awoke beneath an orange-yellow lamp.

• Sang Ying took Jin Le'er's pill, gained immense strength, and charged at Heaven Swallower with the Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Sang Ying wounded Heaven Swallower and cut down many Devil Creatures while Qing Zhou organized the Dragon Race to seal the rifts.
• Hong Miao tried to flee the battlefield, was killed by Devil Creatures, and Su Fuyun awoke in a dark tunnel in another spacetime.
• Heaven Swallower abandoned Bai Yi's body, but Sang Ying caught Bai Yi and pursued the black mist toward the formation.
• Sang Ying forced Heaven Swallower into the activated formation, and the black hole it created pulled them both inside.
• Sang Ying regained consciousness with an orange-yellow lamp glowing before her.

Sang Ying, Fang Chi, and Hai Tingzhou woke in a stone chamber and concluded they had experienced an illusion showing memories of Bai Qinglong and others. After Hai Tingzhou deciphered murals about a sea creature and a fisherman, Fang Chi touched a dragon-like figure and the three vanished; Hai Pingge and Su Fuyun then entered the chamber.

• Sang Ying woke beside Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou, and Hai Tingzhou suggested that their shared experiences had been an illusion showing other people's memories.
• Sang Ying revealed that she had been Bai Qinglong, prompting Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou to react with excitement.
• Hai Tingzhou cleaned the chamber's murals and explained their story of a wounded creature rescued by a fisherman, which repaid him and promised him something before dying.
• Sang Ying wondered if the creature was a dragon, and Fang Chi touched its image, causing all three to vanish from the chamber.
• Hai Pingge entered with Su Fuyun, who followed him after losing her Beast Ring during their escape from the Nascent Soul Cultivators.

Sang Ying encountered Bai Qinglong in the stone chamber and learned the truth of her past, including her sacrifice to save her people and how she founded Haizhou City. Bai Qinglong revealed that she had created the secret realm to pass something on, and Sang Ying saw the Dragon Abyss Sword on a pillar.

• Sang Ying explored the chamber after the mural's spatial array separated her from Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou, who each faced a dangerous trial.
• Sang Ying recognized the horned woman emerging from the mist as Bai Qinglong, whose memories she had lived through in an illusion.
• Bai Qinglong told Sang Ying that she had loved Bai Shou but was forced into a marriage alliance with Xuan Jingshan, while the Black Dragon Clan gradually took over the White Dragon Tribe.
• Bai Qinglong explained that Bai Shou died protecting her as they fled the Devil Creatures, after which she returned and sacrificed herself to the array.
• Bai Qinglong survived with a ruined body, reached the Twin Orchid Realm, taught a fisherman surnamed Hai to cultivate, and founded Haizhou City with him.
• Bai Qinglong revealed that she had transformed herself into Gleaming Gold Island and created its secret realm, then showed Sang Ying the Dragon Abyss Sword.

Bai Qinglong entrusted Sang Ying with returning the Dragon Pearl and Dragon Abyss Sword to the Dragon Race, and Sang Ying swore to fulfill the request. Bai Qinglong also revealed where the token for Hai Tingzhou’s claim to Haizhou City was hidden before her remnant soul vanished, leaving Sang Ying to escape as the underground palace began to collapse.

• Bai Qinglong explained how she had brought the Dragon Abyss Sword to the Twin Orchid Realm and gave it to Sang Ying, asking her to return the sword and Dragon Pearl to the Dragon Race.
• Sang Ying agreed, swore a Heart Demon Oath, and learned about a teleportation formation in the Endless Sea and possible clues in Central Province.
• Bai Qinglong told Sang Ying that a golden fish spear could make a descendant of the fisherman the heir to Haizhou City, and revealed it was in Hai Tingzhou’s chamber.
• Bai Qinglong’s remnant soul vanished after saying she wanted to make her own choices in another life.
• Sang Ying retrieved a storage ring containing the Dragon Pearl and dragon treasures, stowed the Dragon Abyss Sword, and escaped as the underground palace shook and collapsed.

Sang Ying found Hai Tingzhou in the underground palace and learned that Fang Chi had been trapped in a cocoon by light-seeking insects. She used her sword technique to freeze the entire tunnel, leaving Hai Tingzhou amazed by the strength of his new friend.

• Sang Ying hurried through the collapsing underground palace toward the second exit, unable to reach Fang Chi or Hai Tingzhou by transmission talisman.
• Sang Ying ambushed Hai Tingzhou in a dark tunnel, then learned that Fang Chi was trapped in a cocoon surrounded by silk-spinning insects attracted to light.
• Sang Ying proposed freezing the entire tunnel with Sword Qi so they could free Fang Chi and escape before the insects broke through the ice.
• Hai Tingzhou chose to trust Sang Ying, and the two planned how to cut Fang Chi out of the cocoon.
• Sang Ying used Obscure the Sun and Cover the Heavens to freeze the tunnel, leaving Hai Tingzhou convinced he had made an amazing friend.

Zhou Heng'an endured his father’s swordsmanship punishment for giving Su Fuyun Spirit Crystals, while Gu Huaiwei confronted the sect master over Sang Ying and the guilt surrounding her father’s death. The sect master left after warning Gu Huaiwei that Sang Ying might resent his neglect, and Gu Huaiwei remained devoted to giving Su Fuyun whatever she wanted.

• Peak Master Zhou made Zhou Heng'an practice basic sword moves with his spiritual power sealed because he had given Su Fuyun a box of Spirit Crystals.
• Zhou Heng'an argued that helping Su Fuyun had benefited the Flowing Light Sword Sect, but Peak Master Zhou ordered him to keep practicing.
• The sect master visited Gu Huaiwei and demanded to know why he had not asked after Sang Ying.
• Gu Huaiwei accused the sect master of sending Sang Zheng and his wife into danger and taking advantage of Sang Zheng’s death to secure his own position.
• The sect master warned Gu Huaiwei that Sang Ying might resent him for treating her harshly, then left Crimson Snow Peak.
• Gu Huaiwei froze the tea cups and resolved that he would give Su Fuyun anything she wanted.

After escaping the underground palace’s collapse, Sang Ying, Hai Tingzhou, and Fang Chi planned to spend their remaining time on Gleaming Gold Island training against Demon Beasts. In the ruins, Su Fuyun asked the voice in her jade pendant whether its Cultivation Method could take Hai Pingge’s cultivation for her.

• Sang Ying, Hai Tingzhou, and Fang Chi escaped through a secret passage and hid in a forest cave, where Hai Tingzhou set up a protective formation.
• Hai Tingzhou showed Sang Ying and Fang Chi a golden trident marked with the Hai household’s name, and Sang Ying explained that it would make him the next head of the Hai Household.
• Sang Ying proposed that the three spend the remaining forty days on Gleaming Gold Island fighting Demon Beasts and using spiritual herbs to train, and Hai Tingzhou and Fang Chi agreed.
• Hai Pingge crawled out from the underground palace ruins after taking a pill, while Su Fuyun watched him with hatred and recalled his attempt to use her to shield himself from a boulder.
• Su Fuyun asked the aged voice in her jade pendant whether its Cultivation Method could transfer Hai Pingge’s cultivation to her, and the voice said it could if she agreed.

Sang Ying, Fang Chi, and Hai Tingzhou defeated a sixth-tier purple python, which chose Hai Tingzhou as its partner after Sang Ying and Fang Chi rejected it. Meanwhile, Su Fuyun led a group after them by claiming Sang Ying had taken a treasure from the underground palace.

• Sang Ying pinned the purple python with her sword while Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou helped defeat it, and it transformed into a small snake and begged for mercy.
• The three agreed to spare the snake, which tried to choose Sang Ying and Fang Chi before Hai Tingzhou accepted it as his beast partner through an equal contract.
• Sang Ying, Fang Chi, and Hai Tingzhou headed back to their cave to celebrate their new companion.
• Su Fuyun told her captors that Sang Ying had taken a treasure from the underground palace and was traveling with a direct descendant of the Hai Household.
• The group's leader believed Su Fuyun and ordered everyone to pursue Sang Ying and her companions.

Sang Ying, Fang Chi, and Hai Tingzhou were sharing a meal in their cave when Third Young Master Zhao arrived with an armed group demanding something Sang Ying had supposedly taken. The group brought Su Fuyun forward, who revealed she had led them to Sang Ying.

• Sang Ying cooked a Steel-Fang Pig while Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou waited eagerly, and the little snake joined them for the meal.
• Sang Ying and Fang Chi sensed several powerful people approaching, while Hai Tingzhou set up a defensive formation.
• A group blasted open the cave entrance and demanded to know which of them was Sang Ying.
• Fang Chi denied that they knew Sang Ying or had taken anything from Third Young Master Zhao.
• Third Young Master Zhao's group brought in the captured Su Fuyun, who greeted Sang Ying and admitted she had brought Zhao to find her.

Sang Ying and her companions faced Zhao San’s demand to search their Storage Bags after Su Fuyun accused Sang Ying of taking a divine artifact from the underground palace. When Zhao San ordered his men to rob them, they fought back, and Sang Ying had Gu Shu seize him.

• Hai Tingzhou questioned Su Fuyun about his missing second brother, but she denied knowing where Hai Pingge was.
• Su Fuyun claimed Sang Ying had taken a divine artifact, and Third Young Master Zhao demanded to search Sang Ying’s Storage Bag.
• Hai Tingzhou and Fang Chi challenged Zhao San’s demand, but he ordered his guards to take all three of their Storage Bags.
• Hai Tingzhou formed a barrier while his little snake grew large and shielded Sang Ying and her companions from the attackers.
• As Zhao San’s guards attacked the snake, Sang Ying called for Gu Shu, who restrained Zhao San and held a sword to his neck.