Chapter Summaries

Flowing Cloud and Heavenly Bull battled Huang Tian, who struggled against Flowing Cloud’s immense durability and the threat of their combined strength. After Flowing Cloud moved away and Huang Tian agreed to face Heavenly Bull alone, Heavenly Bull’s crimson radiance expanded to ten thousand zhang, stirring fear in Huang Tian.

• Heavenly Bull transformed and charged Huang Tian, forcing Huang Tian to split his attention between him and Flowing Cloud.
• Huang Tian traded heavy blows with Flowing Cloud, whose wounds revealed the limits of his Divine Elephant Hegemony Body but failed to slow him significantly.
• Flowing Cloud swallowed a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill to heal his wounds, shocking Huang Tian, then declared that they had come to make Huang Tian submit.
• Huang Tian agreed to continue fighting rather than retreat and leave his clansmen exposed.
• Flowing Cloud moved more than thirty li away as Heavenly Bull’s aura surged and his crimson light expanded to ten thousand zhang, frightening Huang Tian.

Flowing Cloud defeated Huang Tian with Heavenly Bull’s colossal form and planted a Puppet Seed in his unconscious soul. After Flowing Cloud healed Huang Tian with a Ninth-grade Profound Pill, Huang Tian awakened and greeted him as Master.

• Heavenly Bull expanded to one hundred and fifty thousand zhang, shocking Huang Tian and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Flowing Cloud slowed Huang Tian’s attempted escape with Soul Annihilation Spear, and Heavenly Bull pierced him with a horn, leaving him gravely wounded and unconscious.
• Flowing Cloud led the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan away and planted a Puppet Seed in Huang Tian’s soul.
• Heavenly Bull withdrew his horn and held Huang Tian’s body aloft while Flowing Cloud gave him a Ninth-grade Profound Pill.
• Huang Tian recovered, awakened, and greeted Flowing Cloud as Master.

Flowing Cloud brought Huang Tian to the Tian Niu Realm, then sent a clone toward the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan while preparing Huang Tian with a powerful technique and resources. Meanwhile, the Blood Fiend Luo Tian Array trapped the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master and Saints Hunxuan and Hunming, and a giant blood-red sword continued toward them after surviving their attacks.

• Flowing Cloud ordered Huang Tian to cultivate in the Tian Niu Realm and copy his cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, then took Huang Tian and Heavenly Bull there through a Void Gate.
• Flowing Cloud sent a clone and the Void Burrowing Beast back to the Beast Domain to target the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan, while his main body taught Huang Tian Divine Elephant Hegemony Body and supplied him with resources.
• Flowing Cloud learned through the Blood Fiend Luo Tian Array that the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master had arrived near Bone Melting City with Saints Hunxuan and Hunming, both Peak Four-star Dou Shengs.
• The Soul Hall Vice Hall Master and the two saints tried to break the spatial barrier and search for the array foundation, but their attacks failed to uncover or damage it.
• The Blood Fiend Luo Tian Array formed a giant blood-colored sword that withstood the three men's combined attacks and pressed on toward them.

Flowing Cloud killed Saint Hunming and the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master with the Blood Fiend Sword, then spared Hun Xuan to turn him into a controlled agent. After planting a Puppet Seed in Hun Xuan, Flowing Cloud sent him back to the Soul Clan with orders and learned from his memories that he had dealings with Hun Miesheng, Nihility Devouring Flame, and Hun Tiandi.

• The Blood Fiend Sword pierced Saint Hunming and the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master, killing both Soul Clan Dou Sheng experts.
• Flowing Cloud weakened the sword so Hun Xuan survived with grave injuries, intending to use him as a hidden agent.
• Flowing Cloud's avatar arrived at the Heaven and Earth Alliance's main hall and shattered Hun Xuan's counterattack with a blood-colored sword.
• Flowing Cloud wounded Hun Xuan in body and soul, then planted a Puppet Seed in his mind using the Ancient Puppet Seed Technique.
• Flowing Cloud released Hun Xuan from the Blood Fiend Luo Tian Array with orders to return to the Soul Clan, and learned about his dealings with Hun Miesheng, Nihility Devouring Flame, and Hun Tiandi.

Flowing Cloud learned the locations of the Soul Clan’s secret formation bases but chose to control their guards rather than destroy them. He then entered the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan’s underground stronghold and confronted its leaders, declaring that he would subdue the clan and make them his slaves.

• Flowing Cloud used Hun Xuan’s memories to learn about the Soul Clan’s formation bases and decided not to destroy them, since doing so might draw Hun Tiandi out of the Soul Realm.
• Flowing Cloud returned to the Beast Domain and bypassed the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan’s defenses to reach its underground territory.
• Flowing Cloud traveled unseen to the clan’s palace, where Yao Tianxiao and leaders of several Snake-People Tribes were gathered.
• After the palace shook, the clan’s Great Elder went outside and found Flowing Cloud transformed into a giant nearly two hundred zhang tall.
• Flowing Cloud told the Great Elder he intended to subdue the clan and make its members his slaves, and Yao Tianxiao appeared and reacted with shock.

Yao Xiaotian and the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan attacked the giant, but his immense strength easily overcame their techniques. The clan formed the Coiled Serpent Great Formation, and its colossal serpent swallowed the giant as the battle continued inside its closing jaws.

• Yao Xiaotian ordered the Great Elder to capture the giant, then joined him in attacking when the elder demanded they fight together.
• The giant shattered Yao Xiaotian’s frigid palm and Yellow Springs Finger with physical strikes, while his energy scattered the Great Elder’s poisonous attack.
• Yao Tianxiao ordered the clan elders and Snake-People Tribe chiefs to form the Coiled Serpent Great Formation after their attacks failed.
• The formation conjured a colossal serpent, which lunged at the giant and swallowed him; inside its mouth, the giant braced against a fang as the jaws closed and its tongue lashed toward him.

Flowing Cloud broke the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan’s formation and pursued its leaders after they fled their ancestral grounds. He let the wounded Great Elder escape and headed back underground to deal with the captured Yao Ming.

• Flowing Cloud escaped the giant snake formation with Formless Fire, causing the formation to collapse and leaving over a hundred Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan experts injured.
• Yao Tianxiao and the Great Elder ordered the clan to evacuate, abandoning the experts who were sustaining the formation.
• Flowing Cloud pursued the fleeing leaders through the void and caught up with the Great Elder in an underground ravine.
• The Great Elder used Demon Snake Heaven Explosion to abandon his body and hide his Magical Beast Core in one of the energy snakes, then escaped into the ravine.
• Flowing Cloud decided not to pursue Yao Tianxiao and returned deeper underground to deal with the captured Yao Ming.

Flowing Cloud brought Hai Bodong to the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring so he could cultivate with its powerful frigid energy, then descended into the lake to rescue someone trapped below. As Hai Bodong began cultivating, Flowing Cloud encountered a swarm of strange black snakes in the depths.

• Flowing Cloud recognized that the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring's frigid energy could benefit Hai Bodong's cultivation and returned to the Tian Niu Realm to fetch him.
• Flowing Cloud took Hai Bodong to the sacred pool, where Hai Bodong tested its icy waters and agreed that the energy could help him reach the One-star Dou Sheng realm or higher.
• Flowing Cloud told Hai Bodong someone had been imprisoned beneath the pool, then plunged into the lake to retrieve him.
• Hai Bodong sat beside the pool and cultivated with the Yellow Springs Ascension Art, absorbing the frigid energy until his body entered a state of suspended death.
• Flowing Cloud descended deeper into the lake, protected himself with Dou Qi and Falling Heart Flame, and encountered a mass of strange black snakes that attacked with water arrows.

Flowing Cloud reached the bottom of the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring and found Yao Ming imprisoned and drained by four enormous chains. He freed Yao Ming in exchange for ten years of service, and Yao Ming promised to help him conquer the continent after reclaiming his clan.

• Flowing Cloud endured the black snakes' icy water arrows and reached the glowing sandy bottom of the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring.
• Flowing Cloud heard Yao Ming's plea for help, uncovered him from the sludge, and learned that the four chains were draining his Dou Qi.
• Flowing Cloud offered to free Yao Ming in exchange for ten years of service, and Yao Ming accepted.
• Flowing Cloud crushed the chains, ending their drain on Yao Ming and allowing him to escape.
• Yao Ming thanked Flowing Cloud, promised to kill Yao Tianxiao and lead the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan into battle, then swallowed Flowing Cloud's medicinal pills.

Yao Ming recovered his strength and told Flowing Cloud how Yao Tianxiao had poisoned and imprisoned him, but learned that Yao Tianxiao had fled with members of the clan. After Flowing Cloud brought Yao Ming back to the surface, they witnessed Hai Bodong emerge from suspended-death cultivation at First-turn Peak Dou Zun, and Yao Ming insisted on taking revenge himself.

• Yao Ming recounted how Yao Tianxiao poisoned him, defeated him, and sealed him at the bottom of the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring, where he eventually reached Two-star Dou Sheng.
• Flowing Cloud told Yao Ming that Yao Tianxiao had fled the Meditation Serpent Earth Vein with many members of the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan.
• Flowing Cloud and Yao Ming returned to the surface, where Yao Ming saw Hai Bodong absorbing frigid energy while in suspended death.
• Hai Bodong awakened at First-turn Peak Dou Zun, and Flowing Cloud introduced him to Yao Ming as the former Clan Chief of the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan.
• Hai Bodong offered to help Yao Ming take revenge, but Yao Ming insisted on killing Yao Tianxiao himself; Hai Bodong agreed to back him up.

Flowing Cloud left Hai Bodong to cultivate in the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring while Yao Ming went to gather the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan. Yao Ming revealed himself to the abandoned clan experts and presented the long-lost Nine Netherworld Nether Staff, leaving them to recognize it as the clan chief’s token.

• Flowing Cloud told Hai Bodong that the Yellow Spring reached a deeper underground layer, gave him a Spatial Jade Slip, and set up a formation to protect his cultivation.
• After Flowing Cloud departed, Hai Bodong descended one hundred meters into the lake and entered a suspended death state to complete his second transformation.
• Yao Tianxiao learned that Yao Ming’s seal had been broken and ordered the Snake-People to continue evacuating the Meditation Serpent Earth Vein.
• Yao Ming reached the ruined royal hall, where nearly a hundred injured clan experts had been abandoned, and revealed that he was alive.
• Yao Ming showed the experts the Nine Netherworld Nether Staff, and they recognized it as the clan chief’s token.

Yao Ming reclaimed leadership of the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan after revealing that Yao Tianxiao had betrayed and imprisoned him. He confronted Yao Tianxiao at a migrating tribe and began overpowering him in battle.

• Yao Ming showed the elders the Nine Nether Scepter and convinced them that Yao Tianxiao had ambushed and imprisoned him.
• The elders accepted Yao Ming as clan chief, and he ordered them to recall the clansmen and return to their ancestral land.
• Yao Ming learned Yao Tianxiao had not escaped the Meditation Serpent Earth Vein and waited at a tribe that had not yet received the evacuation order.
• Yao Tianxiao arrived to order the tribe to evacuate, but Yao Ming and several elders confronted him.
• Yao Ming revealed that he had reached the Two-star Dou Sheng realm and told the elders not to interfere in his fight with Yao Tianxiao.
• Yao Ming attacked Yao Tianxiao and quickly suppressed him with his superior cultivation and relentless fighting style.

Yao Ming reclaimed control of the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan by killing Yao Tianxiao, while the Soul Clan retreated and secretly relocated its forces. As the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s auction approached in Bone Melting City, Flowing Cloud prepared rare treasures for sale and assigned Qu Ming and Chu Donghai to guard the auction platform.

• Yao Ming defeated Yao Tianxiao, killed him, and ordered the clan’s withdrawn members to return for an assembly in seven days.
• Hun Xuan returned to the Soul Realm and convinced the Soul Clan that the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s formation could withstand a Five-star Dou Sheng, prompting the clan to secretly move its Soul Hall Branches and endure in silence.
• After more than ten peaceful days, Bone Melting City filled with cultivators and traders ahead of the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s auction.
• Flowing Cloud confirmed that he would auction rare treasures, including a Heaven-tier Mid-grade Soul Attack Combat Skill, the Soul Infant Fruit, the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Flowing Cloud told Qu Ming and Chu Donghai to guard opposite sides of the auction platform because powerful Dou Sheng experts were expected to attend.

Flowing Cloud prepared Qu Ming and Chu Donghai to protect the auction, then went to the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring to check on Hai Bodong. He found Hai Bodong awakening from a perilous cultivation session as a Two-star Dou Sheng, and Hai Bodong admitted that his greed had nearly killed him.

• Flowing Cloud assigned the One-star Dou Shengs Qu Ming and Chu Donghai to guard the auction platform and noted the breakthroughs among his allies and his own advancement to Two-star Dou Sheng.
• Flowing Cloud traveled to the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring to find Hai Bodong, who had vanished from the array’s monitoring range.
• Flowing Cloud descended past the dead black monster snakes and found Hai Bodong’s lifeless-looking body beneath a massive vortex absorbing frigid energy.
• After four more hours, the vortex dissipated, Hai Bodong’s heartbeat returned, and he awoke as a Two-star Dou Sheng.
• Hai Bodong greeted Flowing Cloud and said that his reckless cultivation had nearly left him unable to wake up.

Hai Bodong mastered the Yellow Springs Ascension Art and learned that its suspended-death state could preserve his lifespan as his strength grew. After Yao Ming took control of his clan, he offered Flowing Cloud a reward: access to the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet, which held the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance and essence blood.

• Hai Bodong told Flowing Cloud that he had mastered the Yellow Springs Ascension Art and would stabilize his rapidly increased cultivation before seeking more cold energy.
• Flowing Cloud assigned Hai Bodong to guard the Heaven and Earth Alliance auction with Qu Ming and Chu Donghai.
• Flowing Cloud and Hai Bodong met Yao Ming at the shore of the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring after Yao Ming reported that Yao Tianxiao was dead and he had become clan chief.
• Yao Ming offered Flowing Cloud an additional reward and revealed that the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet held the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s teachings and essence blood.
• Yao Ming described the tablet’s Yellow Springs combat skills, including the Heavenly Tier High Grade sonic skill Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, and asked whether Flowing Cloud was tempted.

Yao Ming revealed that the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet concealed the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Essence Blood, and asked Flowing Cloud to open it with his Heaven Realm Soul. The three reached the tablet, where Yao Ming showed Flowing Cloud the ancient relic and its carved techniques.

• Yao Ming explained that a remnant soul inside the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet guarded the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and that only a Heaven Realm soul could enter.
• Flowing Cloud confirmed that his Soul Realm had reached the Heaven Realm, and Yao Ming eagerly led him and Hai Bodong to the tablet.
• Yao Ming discovered that Hai Bodong had advanced from Peak Dou Zun to two-star Dou Sheng in less than twenty days and praised his achievement.
• Yao Ming led Flowing Cloud and Hai Bodong to an ancient altar, where he revealed the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet and its hidden treasures.

Flowing Cloud sent a Soul Projection into the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet to face the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant power. He withstood the tablet’s defenses and destroyed the Yellow Springs Finger as he advanced into the hidden space.

• Yao Ming asked Flowing Cloud to retrieve the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and the Demon Saint’s Essence Blood from the stone tablet.
• Flowing Cloud projected his soul into the tablet while his physical body remained outside, surprising Yao Ming and Hai Bodong.
• Flowing Cloud learned that Yao Ming had resumed contact with other factions after regaining control of the Nine Nether Earth Blind Python Clan.
• Inside the tablet’s hidden space, Flowing Cloud advanced through lightning that shattered before reaching him.
• Flowing Cloud countered the Yellow Springs Finger with a spear of Soul Power and destroyed it.

Flowing Cloud faced the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant soul and endured his Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, proving his soul attacks were stronger because his fused flame protected him. The Demon Saint honored his promise by giving Flowing Cloud the cultivation methods he sought.

• Flowing Cloud shattered the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s giant palm and challenged him to appear.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint appeared on a throne and promised to give Flowing Cloud what he sought if he survived one strike of Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• The Demon Saint unleashed Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath as Flowing Cloud countered with his fused flame and Soul Annihilation Spear.
• Flowing Cloud’s spear pierced the sound waves and nearly reached the Demon Saint, while the azure-blue flames left Flowing Cloud’s Soul Projection almost unharmed.
• The Demon Saint acknowledged Flowing Cloud’s victory and sent him a Soul Wave containing complete cultivation methods, which Flowing Cloud began absorbing.

Flowing Cloud obtained Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s three Dou Techniques and offered to revive him, explaining that a lack of Origin Qi prevented him from becoming a Dou Emperor. Yellow Springs Demon Saint accepted Flowing Cloud’s offer to take him somewhere he could recover, leaving them ready to depart together.

• Flowing Cloud obtained Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, Yellow Springs Finger, and Yellow Springs Palm from Yellow Springs Demon Saint.
• Flowing Cloud explained that Origin Qi was required to become a Dou Emperor and that Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion might contain it.
• Flowing Cloud offered to revive Yellow Springs Demon Saint and promised he could regain his peak strength within three years.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint accepted Flowing Cloud’s offer and agreed to accompany him.
• Flowing Cloud told Yellow Springs Demon Saint to keep his essence blood and said he would take the stone tablet when he left.

Flowing Cloud took Yellow Springs Demon Saint and the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet to the Myriad Demon Hall, where he arranged for the remnant soul to recover. He then traveled with Hai Bodong to the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s auction, where eight Dou Sheng experts had gathered and the event began.

• Flowing Cloud told Yao Ming he could revive Yellow Springs Demon Saint, gave him a Spatial Jade Slip, and took the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet away.
• Flowing Cloud brought Yellow Springs Demon Saint to the Myriad Demon Hall and gave him Soul Nurturing Ancient Tree leaves to help restore his soul.
• Flowing Cloud and Hai Bodong used the Void Gate to reach the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s main hall in the Northern Region.
• Nearly two hundred thousand cultivators gathered for the auction near Bone Melting City, including eight Dou Sheng experts.
• Flowing Cloud, Hai Bodong, Qu Ming, Chu Donghai, and Duan San appeared on the auction platform, and Flowing Cloud welcomed the attendees.