Chapter Summaries

Xiao Han escaped a spatial gate badly injured, but the Mysterious Soul Jade helped him control the Blood Soul Source Crystal’s backlash. Hiding in a natural illusion array, he faced the Blood-Eyed Demon Ape and attacked it with the newly acquired Soul-Devouring Pearl.

• Xiao Han emerged in unfamiliar mountains with severe injuries, and the Mysterious Soul Jade transformed the Blood Soul Source Crystal’s leaking essence into gentler soul power.
• The system announced that Xiao Han’s Illusion-Breaking Spirit Eyes had evolved into Void-Piercing Divine Eyes and awarded him a Soul-Devouring Pearl.
• As demonic beasts converged on the crystal’s aura, Xiao Han used his new true vision to find and enter a natural illusion array beneath a rock face.
• The Blood-Eyed Demon Ape smashed through the array and blocked Xiao Han’s way to a cavern containing an ancient teleportation array.
• Xiao Han used Soul Intimidation to stagger the ape, then struck it between the brows with the Soul-Devouring Pearl.

Xiao Han killed the Blood-Eyed Demon Ape, then spent seven days refining the Blood Soul Source Crystal into a Soul Origin Treasure Jade. His soul and cultivation advanced, but inspecting an ancient teleportation formation revealed sinister runes bearing the Blood Fiend Hall’s aura.

• Xiao Han weakened the Blood-Eyed Demon Ape with the Soul-Devouring Pearl and killed it by combining the intents of his two Martial Souls.
• Xiao Han stopped the demon core from detonating, extracted it, and sealed the cavern with concealment and defensive formations.
• Xiao Han refined the Blood Soul Source Crystal with help from the Mysterious Soul Jade and his Martial Souls, enduring a painful clash of energies.
• After seven days, Xiao Han formed a Soul Origin Treasure Jade, raised his soul realm close to the Martial King realm, expanded his Eternal Night Void Realm, and advanced to the sixth level of the Martial Master Realm.
• Xiao Han examined the abandoned ancient teleportation formation and found hidden runes that matched the Blood Fiend Hall’s cultivation art, raising fears that its elder could track him.

After receiving Mentor Lin Qingxia’s distress signal, Xiao Han chose the safer route back to the Dragon Nation and tested his newly strengthened soul abilities while traveling through the Savage Wilderness Mountain Range. He discovered and infiltrated a Blood Fiend Hall outpost, silently incapacitating its guards.

• Xiao Han received an emergency plea from Mentor Lin Qingxia and chose to abandon the ancient teleportation array, receiving a concealment talisman and a Nine Revolutions Life-Restoring Pill.
• Xiao Han drew in nearby demon beasts and used Divine Soul Storm to shatter a Ghost Soul Demon Wolf’s soul attack before killing it with Annihilation Divine Fist.
• Xiao Han traveled toward the edge of the Savage Wilderness Mountain Range, using Void-Piercing Divine Eyes to avoid dangerous beasts and gather demon cores and materials.
• Xiao Han detected a concealed Blood Fiend Hall outpost in a mountain hollow and slipped inside.
• Xiao Han moved through the outpost undetected and silently knocked out its guards.

Xiao Han studied the Blood Fiend Hall’s incomplete Blood Escape Ten Thousand Miles technique while hiding in the Savage Wilderness Mountain Range. After seeing Lin Qingxia under attack at the Imperial Capital Academy and detecting a tracking mark, he used an improvised escape technique to flee as a Blood Fiend Hall vice hall master arrived.

• Xiao Han studied Blood Escape Ten Thousand Miles and adapted its spatial principles to his movement technique.
• Lin Qingxia’s bronze token showed her surrounded and wounded by black-clad attackers at the Imperial Capital Academy, including one using a similar escape technique.
• A blood-colored tracking mark activated beneath Xiao Han, and he sensed a pursuer far stronger than the purple-robed grand elder.
• Xiao Han used an Advanced Concealment Talisman and detonated talismans and beast cores to cover his escape.
• Xiao Han forced open a blood-colored rift with his improvised Void Blood Shadow Escape and fled, injuring himself in the process.
• A Blood Fiend Hall vice hall master reached the devastated site and sensed faint traces of Xiao Han’s escape.

Xiao Han escaped the blood-robed old monster by luring him into the Lost-Trace Death Domain, then headed toward the Dragon Nation while trying to reach Mentor Lin Qingxia. After slipping into Blackstone City, he acquired intelligence and a discreet route to the Imperial Capital, with Lin Qingxia still held captive at a blood altar.

• Xiao Han entered a hidden spatial rift at the edge of the Lost-Trace Death Domain after leaving a false trail, and the blood-robed old monster followed it into the deadly region.
• Xiao Han emerged injured but alive, recovered enough to travel, and saw a projection of Lin Qingxia bound to a blood-colored altar as she tried to touch one of its runic nodes.
• Xiao Han used his shadow abilities to evade Blood Fiend Hall search squads and Dragon Nation border patrols while heading for the border.
• Xiao Han slipped into Blackstone City, changed his appearance, and contacted an underground liaison using a token taken from a Blood Fiend Hall outpost.
• Xiao Han paid for current intelligence about the Imperial Capital Academy and obtained an electronic map showing a discreet, fast route to the Imperial Capital.

Xiao Han learned that Blood Fiend Hall had seized parts of the Imperial Capital Academy and trapped Lin Qingxia in a Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation beneath the Dragon-Locking Well. After meeting Su Linglong and learning the Blood Young Master planned to use Lin Qingxia’s martial soul for a ritual, Xiao Han infiltrated the academy and confronted Zhao Wuji and three assassins near the forbidden ground.

• Xiao Han received an encrypted report that Wang Daoming had betrayed the academy, Lin Qingxia was missing, and the Blood Young Master was leading the operation.
• Xiao Han traveled to the Imperial Capital by an illegal underground maglev train and sent Su Linglong their secret coded message.
• Su Linglong told Xiao Han that Lin Qingxia was imprisoned at the Dragon-Locking Well and that the Blood Young Master intended to use her Extreme Ice Phoenix Martial Soul in a ritual.
• Xiao Han put on a stealth suit and used Void Walking to infiltrate the heavily guarded Imperial Capital Academy.
• Xiao Han spotted Zhao Wuji and three Blood Fiend Hall assassins guarding the route to the Dragon-Locking Well, then erupted from the shadows above them.

Xiao Han killed Zhao Wuji and the Blood Fiend Hall assassins, then entered the Dragon-Locking Well to rescue Lin Qingxia from a blood sacrifice. The Blood Young Master revealed that Lin Qingxia was bait in a trap meant to seize Xiao Han’s source crystals, and Xiao Han launched an attack against him.

• Xiao Han used his divine soul storm to incapacitate Zhao Wuji and the Blood Fiend Hall assassins, killed them, and searched Zhao Wuji’s memories.
• Xiao Han learned that Lin Qingxia’s Extreme Ice Phoenix essence was being drained for a Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation, then used Su Linglong’s Restriction-Breaking Jade Talisman to enter the Dragon-Locking Well.
• Xiao Han fought through the well’s traps and guards and found Lin Qingxia bound to a white-bone altar while the Blood Young Master and four Martial King Realm elders oversaw the ritual.
• The Blood Young Master spotted Xiao Han and revealed that he had used Lin Qingxia as bait to lure him in and claim his Primordial Shadow Source Crystal and Blood Soul Source Crystal.
• Xiao Han confronted the Blood Young Master and attacked him with Annihilation Divine Fist and Green Lotus Sword Song.

Xiao Han chose to draw on the Dragon Vein and devour the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation’s defiled death qi, while Lin Qingxia burned her Martial Soul’s origin to weaken the ritual and buy him time. As Xiao Han began to gain the Dragon Vein’s power and recover, Blood Young Master attacked him with a blood-forged spear.

• Blood Young Master and four Martial King elders overwhelmed Xiao Han’s attacks with their Blood Fiend Domains and Blood Prison Senluo Martial Soul, forcing him back.
• Lin Qingxia burned the origin of her Extreme Ice Phoenix Martial Soul and struck the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation, briefly weakening it and easing the pressure on Xiao Han.
• Xiao Han chose the dangerous option of drawing on the Dragon Vein with his Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul while his Eternal Night Void Emperor Martial Soul devoured the formation’s death qi.
• The Dragon Vein roared and shook the Dragon-Locking Well as Xiao Han endured the backlash and began absorbing golden dragon qi and Void Origin fragments.
• Su Linglong’s battle outside drew one Martial King elder away from the altar, and Xiao Han’s injuries began healing as his aura grew stronger.
• Blood Young Master formed a blood-red spear and thrust it at Xiao Han’s forehead, just as the dragon qi and Void Origin within Xiao Han erupted.

Xiao Han broke through to the Seventh Level of the Martial Master Realm and turned back two Martial Kings, but the Blood Young Master sacrificed a blood-red heart crystal to raise his strength to the peak of the Late Stage of the Martial King Realm. As Lin Qingxia gave up her Phoenix True Flame to aid Xiao Han, the Blood Young Master unleashed a life-burning spear attack.

• Xiao Han broke through to the Seventh Level of the Martial Master Realm and used dragon-vein power and his Eternal Night Void Realm to confront the Blood Young Master’s forces.
• Xiao Han injured one Early Stage Martial King with a punch and shattered another’s saber attack with his golden dragon image.
• The Blood Young Master swallowed a blood-red heart crystal and surged to the peak of the Late Stage of the Martial King Realm.
• Lin Qingxia sent her Phoenix True Flame into Xiao Han’s Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul, causing his dragon, phoenix, chaos, and void powers to resonate.
• The Blood Young Master launched his Myriad Souls Devouring God Spear, burning through his gained power and part of his life origin.

Xiao Han destroyed the blood sacrifice formation, rescued Lin Qingxia, and escaped the Dragon-Locking Well with help from Su Linglong, but Blood Young Master revealed that a citywide Gu formation had been activated. As the Imperial Capital Academy rose up against the Blood Fiend Hall, Xiao Han was weakened by the fading dragon-vein power and the Blood Soul Curse Mark.

• Xiao Han’s Chaos Emperor Dragon Night Phoenix Flame Finger shattered the blood sacrifice formation and freed Lin Qingxia, and he carried her out of the Dragon-Locking Well.
• Su Linglong and two Su Family elders blocked Blood Young Master and three Martial King elders at the well’s exit, allowing Xiao Han to hand Lin Qingxia to Su Linglong.
• Blood Young Master crushed a jade pendant and revealed that the Blood Spirit Ten Thousand Gu Insect Formation had activated throughout the Imperial Capital and Academy.
• Xiao Han saw the formation’s blood-red threads spread beneath the city, while the dragon vein’s fortune faded and his Blood Soul Curse Mark flared with pain.
• Academy instructors and students attacked the Blood Fiend Hall’s formation nodes, and Blood Young Master fired a blood arrow at an instructor.

Xiao Han activated Heroic Soul Resonance and lured Blood Young Master away from Su Linglong and the dying Lin Qingxia so he could destroy the Blood Fiend Hall's formation nodes. As the Imperial Capital erupted into chaos, Xiao Han destroyed another nexus while nearing the enemy's deadly encirclement.

• Xiao Han accepted the system's Imperial Capital Guardian mission and summoned the heroic wills of the city's martyrs, enduring the backlash to his soul.
• Xiao Han taunted Blood Young Master with the source crystals and fled toward the Blood Fiend Hall's forces, drawing Blood Young Master and his followers after him.
• Su Linglong and the two Su Family elders stayed behind to protect Lin Qingxia and attack the formation's key points.
• The Dragon Nation military, the Martial Artist Association, and other Imperial Capital forces deployed as the city became a battlefield.
• Xiao Han evaded his pursuers, destroyed Blood Fiend Hall formation nodes, and moved closer to their encirclement.

Xiao Han reached the Blood Spirit Ten Thousand Gu Insect Formation’s core beneath the Imperial Capital plaza, where the Blood Fiend Hall deputy hall master and his forces confronted him. Choosing to sacrifice his soul rather than abandon the city, Xiao Han unleashed a devastating attack on the blood-pool altar as the deputy hall master moved to stop him.

• Xiao Han destroyed formation hubs while enduring the Blood Soul Curse Mark and pursued the core beneath the Imperial Capital’s central plaza.
• Su Linglong entrusted the weakened Lin Qingxia to Su Family elders and led their elites toward Xiao Han, but Blood Fiend Hall assassins ambushed them and wounded her.
• Xiao Han fought through the Blood Fiend Hall forces at the core, even as the deputy hall master and Blood Young Master pressed their attack.
• The God-Level Choice system offered Xiao Han the choice to sacrifice his soul to destroy the formation or flee and leave the Imperial Capital to ruin; Xiao Han chose sacrifice.
• Xiao Han burned the remaining heroic soul wills and part of his soul origin to reach the Pseudo-Martial Emperor Realm and fire Chaos Return to the Ruins at the blood-pool altar.
• The Blood Fiend Hall deputy hall master sensed the attack could kill him and unleashed a towering pillar of blood to meet it.

Xiao Han’s strike destroyed the Blood Fiend Hall’s formation, but he fell into a spatial rift and drifted through the void as his powers and curse mark violently mutated. While the Imperial Capital mourned him and Su Linglong vowed to find him, a seven-colored cocoon carried him into a living secret realm containing a [World Tree Heart Fragment].

• Xiao Han shattered the blood pool altar and formation core, crippling the Blood Fiend Hall and allowing the Imperial Capital’s defenders to counterattack.
• A spatial rift swallowed Xiao Han as he fell, and Su Linglong found only the shattered void where he had vanished.
• Blood Wuya escaped the Imperial Capital using Forbidden Blood Escape and swore revenge on Xiao Han, the Su Family, and Dragon Nation.
• Lin Qingxia learned that Xiao Han had fallen into a spatial rift, while Su Linglong took charge of Su Family affairs and vowed to find him.
• Dragon Nation honored Xiao Han with a monument and secretly ordered an exhaustive search for him.
• A seven-colored cocoon carried Xiao Han into a life-filled secret realm, where a [World Tree Heart Fragment] pulsed with vitality.

Xiao Han recovered from his near-fatal ordeal in the wilderness, and his Twin Martial Soul mutated as his cultivation rose to the early Eighth Level of the Martial Master Realm. After awakening, he defeated a First Level Martial Emperor Realm Wilderness Poison Dragon Lizard, while a mysterious observer took interest in him and his World Tree Heart Fragment.

• The World Tree Heart Fragment restored Xiao Han, his Twin Martial Soul mutated, and his cultivation advanced to the early Eighth Level of the Martial Master Realm.
• Xiao Han woke in a primordial forest, received the system skill [Void Marker], and sensed a Martial Emperor Realm demonic beast approaching.
• A mysterious person watching from a distant mountain peak took interest in Xiao Han, his World Tree Heart Fragment, and his mutated Twin Martial Soul.
• Xiao Han used [Space Imprisonment], Shadow Soul Domain, and the Chaos Green Lotus to fight the Wilderness Poison Dragon Lizard.
• Xiao Han infused his Chaos Annihilation Fist with refined Blood Soul Curse Mark power and repeatedly struck the beast's head until he killed it.

Xiao Han found a hidden tribe in the Land of Forgetfulness and learned that purifying its Spring of Life could earn him a way back to Blue Star. He chose to enter the spring and destroy the source of its corruption, then received a Guardian Sprout from the high priestess.

• Xiao Han tracked spatial fluctuations through a forest and discovered a hidden valley where tribal warriors surrounded him.
• Xiao Han subdued the warriors without harming them, and the high priestess invited him into the tribe's temple.
• The high priestess explained that the tribe guarded the World Tree Remnant Root and that its Spring of Life had been tainted by Void Demonic Qi.
• The high priestess told Xiao Han that purifying the spring would let her activate the tribe's ancient teleportation array to send him back to Blue Star.
• Xiao Han chose to enter the spring alone and destroy the sealed Void Evil Demon Remnant Soul Clone, and the high priestess gave him a Guardian Sprout to aid him.

Xiao Han fought his way through the Spring of Life and reached the Void Evil Demon's sealed remnant soul, resisting its offer and soul attack. As the demon struck back with its chains, Xiao Han used his Martial Souls, Void Marker, and Guardian Sprout to keep fighting.

• Xiao Han dove into the Spring of Life, using Eternal Night Devouring and the Chaos Green Lotus to endure its demonic energy as he descended toward the core.
• Xiao Han defeated three Martial Emperor Realm Third Level demonic guards with an Annihilation Divine Fist and reached the sealed remnant soul clone of the Void Evil Demon.
• The Void Evil Demon tempted Xiao Han with immortality and power, but Xiao Han refused and resisted its soul attack with Shadow Soul Explosion.
• The Chaos Green Lotus's nascent Life Grafting ability empowered the Guardian Sprout, which grew into a barrier that shielded Xiao Han from the demonic creatures and corrosive energy.
• The Void Evil Demon's chains attacked Xiao Han from every direction, and he dodged them within the life barrier using Void Marker.

Xiao Han risked his life reverse-fusing the Chaos Green Lotus's purification with the Eternal Night Void Emperor's devouring, creating the Chaos Nether Lotus prototype and destroying the Void Evil Demon's remnant soul clone. The World Tree's Gift then healed and empowered him, and his Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul completed a deep evolution with new and enhanced abilities.

• Xiao Han endured the Void Evil Demon's relentless chains until the system suggested he try reverse-fusing his twin Martial Souls' powers.
• Xiao Han repeatedly forced the Chaos Green Lotus's purifying light and the Eternal Night Void Emperor's Shadow Vortex together, suffering severe backlash before creating the Chaos Nether Lotus prototype.
• Xiao Han struck the Void Evil Demon's remnant soul clone with the prototype, purifying and devouring it as the spring's demonic corruption receded.
• The World Tree Heart Fragment and Guardian Sprout released life essence that restored Xiao Han and activated the World Tree's Gift.
• Xiao Han's Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul evolved, gaining Myriad Trees Spring Forth and enhanced Space Imprisonment and Life Grafting abilities.

After purifying the Spring of Life, Xiao Han gained the Voidwalker title and the tribe’s Guardian Totem. The high priestess revealed that an extraterrestrial being’s finger was sealed beneath the World Tree’s remnant root, and as the seal began to fail, Xiao Han faced the system’s three choices for what to do next.

• Xiao Han emerged from the Spring of Life after transforming his Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul and gaining the Myriad Trees Spring Forth divine skill and the Voidwalker title.
• The high priestess and tribespeople rejoiced that Xiao Han had purified the sacred spring, and the high priestess gave him the Guardian Totem.
• The high priestess led Xiao Han to the World Tree’s remnant root and revealed that it sealed one finger of an extraterrestrial being beneath the Forgotten Land.
• The remnant root began trembling as the seal weakened, and the high priestess warned that the ancient teleportation array was close to destruction.
• The system presented Xiao Han with three choices: escape, help the tribe reinforce the seal, or hide and wait for the danger to pass.

Xiao Han used his Chaos Green Lotus ability and the tribe’s faith to hold back the black phantom finger long enough to escape through the teleportation array. He arrived in a ruined, unfamiliar place and discovered that the finger had secretly marked his left ankle.

• Xiao Han chose to stay and use Myriad Trees Spring Forth to regrow the World Tree’s roots as the black phantom finger rose beneath the temple.
• The high priestess and tribespeople offered their totem power, while ancestral heroic spirits and emerald chains tried to restrain the finger.
• The high priestess gave Xiao Han a Guide Stone and an incomplete teleportation incantation, and Xiao Han left her lotus seeds before entering the array.
• Xiao Han activated the teleportation array, unaware that a wisp of black qi had slipped into his left ankle.
• Xiao Han landed in a scorched, lifeless ruin and found a strange black ring-shaped mark on his ankle.

Xiao Han chose to feign weakness and fight through Xue Tu’s Blood Fiend Hall ambush, but a tracking mark drained his power and left him injured. A mutated demonic beast then erupted from the ruins and attacked the Blood Fiend Hall, prompting Xue Tu to turn his axe on it.

• Xue Tu and his Blood Fiend Hall elites surrounded Xiao Han and demanded his source crystals and the black tracking mark on his ankle.
• Xiao Han selected the system’s option to play along, then used his Martial Souls and techniques to kill several Grandmasters and badly wound a Martial King.
• The black mark drained Xiao Han’s spiritual energy and soul power, allowing Xue Tu to strike him and leave him injured.
• Xiao Han used the Soul Origin Treasure Jade and World Tree Heart Fragment to resist the mark and stabilize his injuries.
• A powerful mutated demonic beast appeared from the ruins and crushed several Blood Fiend Hall members, disrupting Xue Tu’s attack.
• Xue Tu abandoned his assault on Xiao Han and swung his great axe at the demonic beast.