Chapter Summaries

Shen Wu Yin played joyful zither music after taking the Echo Pill, while Xiao Han listened beneath the moon and reminisced about Xiao Xueqin and Medusa. An undetected old man followed the aroma of Xiao Han’s Osmanthus Wine and somehow drank away the entire jar, leaving Xiao Han stunned.

• Shen Wu Yin played the zither in the lakeside pavilion, celebrating her newfound ability to speak.
• Xiao Han listened to Shen Wu Yin’s music and thought of Xiao Xueqin, Medusa, and the Divine Ice he hoped to find.
• Xiao Han opened a jar of Osmanthus Wine and enjoyed it beneath the moon while listening to the zither.
• A ragged old man tracked the wine’s aroma into the Sound Hall and approached Xiao Han without being detected.
• Xiao Han found his wine jar missing and heard an old man beside him praising the wine.

Xiao Han met a mysterious old man who drank his Osmanthus Wine, then vanished after offering him advice about accepting losses. The next day, Sound Hall announced that Hall Master Mo Yin would appoint a new commander-in-chief of the Divine Sound Army in two days, leaving everyone wondering who had been chosen.

• A ragged old man took Xiao Han's Osmanthus Wine, and Xiao Han held back his anger when the man returned a jar he had licked clean.
• Xiao Han realized the old man was no ordinary person and asked him to offer something in return for the wine.
• The old man advised Xiao Han not to fixate on rewards or losses, and Xiao Han respectfully thanked him and gave his name.
• The old man praised Xiao Han, then gradually turned illusory and disappeared, leaving his laughter on the palace roof.
• The next morning, Sound Hall learned that Mo Yin would personally confer the seal and title of commander-in-chief of the Divine Sound Army in two days.

Mo Yin appointed Xiao Han as commander of the Divine Sound Army, shocking Yin Hall and provoking widespread protests. When Qin Yin and the gathered crowd challenged his appointment, Xiao Han answered by inviting them to fight.

• Mo Yuxuan worried that Mo Yin would not appoint her commander, while Huang Wenhao warned her not to set her hopes too high.
• Xiao Han played chess with Shen Wu Yin as they discussed the upcoming appointment.
• At the ceremony on Commander Mountain, Mo Yin named Xiao Han the new commander, disappointing Mo Yuxuan and angering Qin Yin.
• Qin Yin and members of the Divine Sound Army and Yin Hall declared they were not convinced Xiao Han deserved the position.
• Xiao Han stopped Mo Yin from responding, stepped forward, and challenged his opponents to fight.

Xiao Han challenged the Sound Hall’s dissatisfied forces to fight him for the commander-in-chief position, and Mo Yuxuan answered the challenge. After countering her attacks with Thunder Divine Ice and speed, Xiao Han placed his Crystal Long Sword at her neck and declared that she had lost.

• Xiao Han told the Sound Hall crowd to challenge him if they rejected his appointment as commander-in-chief.
• Mo Yuxuan stepped forward and challenged Xiao Han on behalf of the Divine Sound Army.
• Mo Yuxuan attacked with a fire dragon spear shadow, which Xiao Han froze and shattered with Thunder Divine Ice.
• Mo Yuxuan unleashed Fire Dragon Spear Rain and struck what appeared to be Xiao Han, but the target vanished as an afterimage.
• Xiao Han appeared behind Mo Yuxuan with his Crystal Long Sword at her neck and told her she had lost.

Xiao Han defeated Mo Yuxuan and won the Divine Sound Army’s commandership. That night, he accepted Mo Yin’s invitation to her palace, where he was told she was bathing.

• Xiao Han defeated Mo Yuxuan and withdrew his sword, while she admitted she had lost.
• Xiao Han challenged the crowd to defeat him, but no one stepped forward and the soldiers acclaimed him as Commander Xiao.
• Xiao Han asked Mo Yin about the opportunity she had promised to help him break through, and she invited him to a celebratory banquet that night.
• Xiao Han arrived at Mo Yin’s palace and followed a maid to an elegant room, where she told him the Hall Master was bathing inside.

Xiao Han learned that becoming a Demon Sect commander qualified him to enter the magic pool and use its Spiritual Liquid to help break through. Five days later, he arrived at the pool with Liu Feng and Cheng Shuyao, where the three commanders gathered amid mutual disdain.

• Mo Yin told Xiao Han that the Demon Sect's magic pool produced rare Spiritual Liquid that could help him break through, and that only the three commanders could enter it each year.
• Xiao Han learned that the magic pool would open in five days and thanked Mo Yin for making his commander appointment possible.
• Mo Yin tried to persuade Xiao Han to stay with her for the night, but he fled her room.
• On the day the pool opened, a woman used a Black Token to escort Xiao Han through the Demon Sect's guarded inner grounds.
• Xiao Han reached the magic pool's mountain entrance and met Liu Feng and Cheng Shuyao, the other two commanders, whose disdainful looks made the gathering tense.

Xiao Han entered the Demon Pool and used his Yin Fish to seize all its precious spiritual liquid from Liu Feng and Cheng Shuyao. After a hidden powerhouse drove the two away, Xiao Han began refining the liquid for his breakthrough and left the pool’s mysterious depths to investigate later.

• Xiao Han entered the Demon Pool with Liu Feng and Cheng Shuyao and sensed that the Thunder Divine Ice in his body stirred toward something beneath it.
• Liu Feng and Cheng Shuyao diverted the spiritual liquid from Xiao Han’s side of the pool, dismissing him as too weak to share it.
• Xiao Han summoned his Yin Fish, which drained all the spiritual liquid from the pool, including what Liu Feng and Cheng Shuyao had already absorbed.
• Liu Feng and Cheng Shuyao demanded that Xiao Han return the liquid, but a hidden voice threatened them and forced them to leave.
• Xiao Han resumed cultivating and decided to investigate beneath the Demon Pool after breaking through to Dou Zong.

After a month of cultivation, Xiao Han broke through to Dou Zong and investigated the bottom of the magic pool. There he found a woman in a Crystal Coffin, who opened her eyes and told him he was the one who was dead.

• Xiao Han absorbed the spiritual liquid in the magic pool for a month and broke through to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Han tested his new ability to distort space, then decided to investigate what lay beneath the pool.
• Xiao Han descended to the pool’s bottom and found a glowing Crystal Coffin resting on a Stone Platform.
• Xiao Han saw a beautiful, cold woman inside the coffin and reached toward her nose to check whether she was breathing.
• The woman opened her eyes, fixed her gaze on Xiao Han, and told him, “You're the one who's dead!”

Xiao Han encountered a powerful woman at the bottom of the Demon Pool, who seized the Thunder Divine Ice from him. Injured and unable to stop her, he left her with an angry threat to capture her if he ever became stronger.

• Xiao Han found the woman awake inside the Crystal Coffin and mistook her for a ghost, but she threw him against a wall and insisted she was human.
• The woman asked Xiao Han who he was, and he explained that he was the new commander of Sound Hall's Divine Sound Army.
• As Xiao Han tried to leave, the woman demanded his Divine Ice and used her power to bring him back when he attempted to flee.
• The woman pulled the Thunder Divine Ice from Xiao Han and severed his connection to it, causing him to spit blood and suffer a severe injury.
• Xiao Han glared at the woman and vowed to capture her and make her warm his bed if he ever surpassed her strength.

Xiao Han’s Thunder Divine Ice went berserk after the woman severed his connection to it, and it nearly killed her. Xiao Han saved her, reclaimed the divine ice, and ended the chapter carrying the badly injured woman while threatening to deal with her.

• The woman attacked Xiao Han, but the Thunder Divine Ice erupted into a world of thunder and ice after losing its master.
• The woman tried to seize the divine ice, but it froze her and struck her with lightning, leaving her gravely wounded.
• As the divine ice prepared to kill the woman, Xiao Han stepped in front of her and ordered it to stop.
• The Thunder Divine Ice obeyed Xiao Han, calmed down, and allowed him to restore their connection and take it back into his body.
• Xiao Han freed the woman from the ice, lifted her into his arms, and threatened her while she watched him with a complicated expression.

Xiao Han confronted the injured woman after she stole his Thunder Divine Ice, but discovered that Karmic Fire Divine Ice was tormenting her. He used his Divine Ice to suppress it and placed her in the Crystal Coffin, where he waited for her to wake and reveal clues about Karmic Fire Divine Ice.

• Xiao Han threatened the weakened woman over her theft of his Thunder Divine Ice, and she swore not to trouble him if he saved her.
• The woman's body erupted with alternating flames and icy power, and Xiao Han recognized the flames as Karmic Fire Divine Ice.
• The woman begged Xiao Han to save her, and he used Thunder Divine Ice to suppress the residual Karmic Fire Divine Ice Power.
• The woman asked Xiao Han to place her in the Crystal Coffin, where she fainted from her injuries and exhaustion.
• Xiao Han fed the woman healing pills and waited beside the Crystal Coffin for her to wake and share clues about Karmic Fire Divine Ice.

Leng Hanshuang awakened in the Crystal Coffin and Xiao Han offered to remove the Karmic Fire Divine Ice power in exchange for her serving as his bodyguard for three years and helping him seize the Divine Ice. She reluctantly agreed, then attacked him in anger, leaving them scuffling at the bottom of the pool.

• Leng Hanshuang awakened and threatened Xiao Han with her sword, but lowered it after he reminded her of her oath and that he had saved her.
• Xiao Han teased Leng Hanshuang about her recovery, and she called him shameless before he lectured her about repaying kindness.
• Xiao Han explained that the Karmic Fire Divine Ice power remained in Leng Hanshuang and offered to remove it if she served as his bodyguard for three years and helped him seize the Divine Ice.
• Leng Hanshuang refused at first, but Xiao Han started to leave, so she called him back and agreed because she needed his help.
• Leng Hanshuang warned Xiao Han that she could no longer control her hands, then attacked him as he cried for help.

After escaping the Demon Pool, Xiao Han returned to find the Divine Sound Army being humiliated by the Divine Heaven Army and Divine Dream Army. He headed to the Training Ground, leaving Mo Yin furious after he refused to follow her.

• Xiao Han left the Demon Pool after agreeing with Leng Hanshuang to remove the Divine Ice Power from her body in exchange for her serving as his bodyguard for three years and helping him seize the Divine Ice.
• Shen Wu Yin told Xiao Han that the Divine Heaven Army and Divine Dream Army had been provoking and humiliating the Divine Sound Army while he was away.
• Mo Yin appeared, ordered Shen Wu Yin to leave Xiao Han’s service, and stormed off when Xiao Han objected and refused to chase after her.
• Xiao Han took Shen Wu Yin to the Training Ground, where Deng Yun and Yang Fan mocked the surrounded Divine Sound Army and challenged them to spar.

Xiao Han arrived after Deng Yun and Yang Fan spent more than a month taunting the Divine Sound Army, then challenged them both to a fight for control of their cities. The chapter ended with the twenty Authority Tokens from each side floating in the air as the duel was about to begin.

• Deng Yun and Yang Fan mocked the Divine Sound Army and called it the Divine Turtle Army, stirring up resentment toward its absent commander-in-chief, Xiao Han.
• Xiao Han appeared, insulted Deng Yun and Yang Fan in return, and accepted their challenge to fight.
• Xiao Han proposed that Deng Yun and Yang Fan each wager ten cities, while he wagered twenty cities of Sound Hall if he lost.
• Mo Yuxuan handed Xiao Han twenty Authority Tokens, and Deng Yun and Yang Fan prepared tokens for ten cities apiece.
• Xiao Han invited the two men to attack, saying, “Two turtle bastards, please!”

Xiao Han defeated Deng Yun and Yang Fan, winning twenty cities for the Sound Hall and earning the Divine Sound Army’s support. After their commanders were reprimanded, Liu Feng and Cheng Shuyao went to Xiao Han’s palace to demand the cities back, and Liu Feng shouted for him to come out.

• Xiao Han captured Yang Fan’s neck and broke through his phantom movement technique, then defeated Deng Yun’s lightning attacks with Purple Lightning.
• Xiao Han taunted the defeated commanders and announced that their armies had gifted the Sound Hall twenty cities; Mo Yuxuan accepted the city command tokens.
• Deng Yun and Yang Fan fainted from anger and were carried away with their soldiers, while the Divine Sound Army cheered for Xiao Han.
• Liu Feng angrily struck Deng Yun for losing ten cities, then decided to go to the Sound Hall to reclaim them.
• Liu Feng and Cheng Shuyao arrived outside Xiao Han’s palace with Deng Yun and Yang Fan, and Liu Feng shouted, “Xiao Han, get out!”

Xiao Han refused to return the twenty cities he had won from Heaven Hall and Dream Hall, provoking a confrontation with Liu Feng, Cheng Shuyao, and Meng Qianhun. Wine Saint ended the dispute and declared that the cities belonged to Sound Hall unless the other halls won them back at the Three Hall Martial Competition, which Xiao Han asked Mo Yin about as the chapter ended.

• Liu Feng and Cheng Shuyao demanded that Xiao Han return their halls' ten cities, but Xiao Han refused and rejected Liu Feng's attempt to force him into another wager.
• Mo Yin stopped Liu Feng from attacking Xiao Han, and Meng Qianhun arrived to accuse Xiao Han of unfairly winning Dream Hall's cities.
• Xiao Han countered Meng Qianhun's accusation by pointing out that two Half-step Dou Zuns had lost to a one-star Dou Zong.
• Mo Yin and Meng Qianhun prepared to fight until Wine Saint appeared and ordered them to stop.
• Wine Saint ruled that the twenty cities belonged to Sound Hall and said Heaven Hall and Dream Hall could seek their return by performing well at the Three Hall Martial Competition.
• After Meng Qianhun, Liu Feng, and Cheng Shuyao left, Xiao Han asked Mo Yin what the Three Hall Martial Competition was.

Xiao Han learned that Sound Hall had always placed last in the Three Hall Martial Competition and gave Mo Yuxuan and Huang Wenhao Magic Pool Spiritual Liquid to help them prepare. With the competition a month away, he looked at the moon and thought of Xue Qin and the others he had left behind.

• Mo Yin explained the Three Hall Martial Competition to Xiao Han and said Sound Hall had come in last every year; Xiao Han promised that would change and nearly kissed her before abruptly leaving.
• Xiao Han summoned Mo Yuxuan and Huang Wenhao, commented on their closeness, and gave each a bottle of compressed Magic Pool Spiritual Liquid to help them break through to Dou Zun.
• Mo Yuxuan and Huang Wenhao thanked Xiao Han and left to cultivate for the upcoming competition.
• As the competition drew closer, members of the Demon Sect's Three Halls trained, while ordinary members anticipated a chance to impress the sect's leaders and become dark horses.
• Xiao Han gazed at the full moon from a peak and wondered how Xue Qin and the others were doing.

Xiao Han teased Leng Hanshuang on a moonlit mountain peak while helping her keep her Karmic Fire Divine Ice Power under control. Leng Hanshuang briefly smiled at his taunts, then lost her temper when he tried to touch her, leaving Xiao Han to deny that he had done anything wrong.

• Leng Hanshuang appeared beside Xiao Han on the mountain peak, and he teased her about being cold and unable to marry.
• Xiao Han claimed his teasing was meant to temper Leng Hanshuang's heart against karmic fire backlash, then offered her two pieces of advice.
• Leng Hanshuang smiled when Xiao Han told her to smile, but her expression grew dangerous as he prepared to touch her.
• Leng Hanshuang immobilized Xiao Han's hands and erupted in anger, calling him shameless.
• Xiao Han withdrew his hands and pretended to praise Leng Hanshuang's composure, then acted innocent when she called him the most shameless person she had ever met.

Xiao Han cleared the Karmic Fire Divine Ice Power from Leng Hanshuang, but the karmic fire transferred into his body and ignited whenever he had wicked thoughts. After Leng Hanshuang recovered, Xiao Han flew away while burning, leaving her amused.

• Xiao Han used his Thunder Divine Ice to remove the Karmic Fire Divine Ice Power from Leng Hanshuang.
• Karmic fire entered Xiao Han and flared across his body when he had lustful thoughts.
• Leng Hanshuang felt her lingering aftereffects disappear and stood up, refreshed.
• Leng Hanshuang saw Xiao Han burning beneath his Purple Lightning armor and learned he had drawn the karmic fire into himself.
• Xiao Han told Leng Hanshuang to leave him alone, then flew away as a giant fireball while she laughed.

After a month in seclusion to control the karmic fire affecting him, Xiao Han led Sound Hall to the Three Hall Martial Competition. When the Demon Sect’s Sect Leader appeared, Xiao Han refused to kneel and tried to excuse himself by saying he was too handsome.

• Xiao Han secluded himself for a month after the karmic fire made his emotions and desires difficult to control.
• Xiao Han rallied the Divine Sound Army before Sound Hall joined Dream Hall and Heaven Hall at the Central Plaza for the Three Hall Martial Competition.
• Xiao Han observed Heaven Hall Master Qin Tian, Dream Hall Master Meng Qianhun, and the Demon Sect’s Wine Saint, Book Saint, and Zither Saint as they assembled for the competition.
• The Sect Leader appeared, and everyone knelt except Xiao Han; Mo Yin and the Wine Saint pleaded for her to forgive him.
• Xiao Han sat down and told the Sect Leader, “I’m this handsome. Can we skip the kneeling and worshiping?”