Chapter Summaries

After Zi Yan secured the loyalty of East Dragon Island’s elders, Flowing Cloud returned to the Tian Niu Realm and learned that Huang Tian had awakened the Ancient Dragon Phoenix Bloodline. He then visited the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s ancestral land, where the three controlled leaders had grown stronger and Phoenix had also awakened the bloodline.

• Zi Yan accepted four Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits and told Qing Shan and Zhu Li to refine the remaining fruits for their cultivation.
• Flowing Cloud returned to the Tian Niu Realm, where he learned Huang Tian had reached Peak Six-star Dou Sheng and awakened the Ancient Dragon Phoenix Bloodline.
• Flowing Cloud praised Huang Tian, prepared to develop an academy in the Tian Niu Realm, and urged Heavenly Bull to resume training.
• Flowing Cloud traveled to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s ancestral land and summoned the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes.
• Phoenix, Kun Huang, and Ying Huang arrived with nearly a hundred clan members, and Flowing Cloud saw that Phoenix had awakened the Ancient Dragon Phoenix Bloodline.

Phoenix reported that nearly everyone who refined the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit succeeded, producing ninety-nine powerful Saints and giving her the Ancient Dragon Phoenix Bloodline. Flowing Cloud then brought in the rest of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Dou Zun-level members and secretly used the talent test as a way to plant Puppet Seeds in them.

• Phoenix told Flowing Cloud that fifty members had become One-star Dou Shengs, forty-nine had reached the Advanced Half-Saint level, and she alone had awakened the Ancient Dragon Phoenix Bloodline.
• Flowing Cloud ordered Phoenix to gather every remaining Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan member at the Dou Zun level or above.
• Phoenix returned with 533 clan members, and Flowing Cloud instructed Kun Huang and Ying Huang to present a supposed ancestral inheritance opportunity as a talent test.
• Kun Huang and Ying Huang told the gathered members that exceptional talent could earn them the power of their ancestors, prompting eager volunteers to line up.
• Flowing Cloud had the Saints subdue each entrant and secretly planted a Puppet Seed in them, controlling all the selected clan members over the course of a day.

Flowing Cloud brought the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Dou Zun and Dou Sheng experts under his control, gave them Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits, and sent fifty One-star Dou Shengs to expand the Tian Niu Realm. As they began opening space, the Heavenly Fire Saint broke through to Dou Sheng, drawing his companions to congratulate him.

• Flowing Cloud distributed Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits to the controlled Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts and ordered the clan to remain inside its territory.
• The Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes took the Half-Saints and Dou Zuns to refine their fruits, while Flowing Cloud brought fifty One-star Dou Shengs to the Tian Niu Realm.
• Flowing Cloud ordered the fifty experts to open up space, and Chu Donghai and Qu Ming marveled at their strength.
• Hai Bodong noticed a breakthrough in the valley where the Heavenly Fire Saint was staying and hurried there with Qu Ming, Chu Donghai, Mo Jiu, and Duan San.
• The Heavenly Fire Saint emerged after breaking through to One-star Dou Sheng and asked his companions why they had come.

Flowing Cloud warned the Heaven and Earth Alliance that the Soul Clan behind the Hall of Souls was far stronger than it appeared, then sent Chu Donghai and his allies to the Central Region so Chu Donghai could pursue revenge. Back in the Tian Niu Realm, Flowing Cloud checked on the Yellow Springs Demon Saint, whose remnant soul had recovered but remained far from its former strength.

• Heavenly Fire Venerable, Chu Donghai, and Qu Ming discussed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's new Dou Sheng experts and the Tian Niu Realm's expected expansion.
• Flowing Cloud told the alliance members that the Soul Clan posed a greater threat than the Hall of Souls and said they could travel beyond the Tian Niu Realm or stay and cultivate.
• Chu Donghai chose to leave for the Central Region to seek revenge, and Qu Ming, Duan San, Yao Tianhuo, and Hai Bodong volunteered to accompany him.
• Flowing Cloud gave Chu Donghai and Hai Bodong two Spatial Jade Slips and used the Void Burrowing Beast to send their group to a Void Gate in the Central Region.
• Flowing Cloud returned to the Tian Niu Realm and learned that the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's soul had recovered considerably but was still less than one percent of its former state.

Flowing Cloud gave Yellow Springs Demon Saint a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill and promised him a chance to extend his life, then returned to Bone Melting City to investigate Ice River Valley’s recent attack. The chapter left Flowing Cloud without answers about whether the Hall of Souls had reacted to the destruction of Heavenly Nether Sect.

• Flowing Cloud gave Yellow Springs Demon Saint a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill, which strengthened the remnant soul but was quickly absorbed.
• Flowing Cloud promised Yellow Springs Demon Saint a chance to break through within three years after recovering to his peak.
• Flowing Cloud left the Tian Niu Realm and summoned Fu Fan, Lin Feng, and other elders at the Heaven and Earth Alliance headquarters.
• Fu Fan reported that Ice River Valley’s three newly revealed Dou Sheng experts had destroyed Heavenly Nether Sect and looted its resources.
• Flowing Cloud questioned the Soul Hall Heavenly Venerables he controlled, but none of them, including Blood River, knew anything useful about the Hall of Souls’ response.

Flowing Cloud investigated Ice River Valley’s destruction of the Heavenly Nether Sect and discovered a Nether Flame Fragment Map among the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s auction treasures. After assembling all three ancient maps and burning them with his flames, he revealed the prophecy of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s descent, but the method for dealing with it remained hidden.

• Flowing Cloud ordered Hun Xuan to investigate the Soul Clan’s involvement in Ice River Valley’s destruction of the Heavenly Nether Sect.
• Fu Fan showed Flowing Cloud the treasures gathered for the next auction, including a Nether Flame Fragment Map purchased from a Six-star Dou Zun cultivator.
• Flowing Cloud rewarded Fu Fan with an Eighth-grade medicinal pill that had endured Six-Colored Pill Lightning and left preparations for the auction in his hands.
• Flowing Cloud gathered the three ancient maps, assembled them, and burned them with his flames until their hidden lines emerged as ancient words.
• Flowing Cloud read the prophecy that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would descend during the Heaven and Earth Tides and recalled that the map held a method left by the Nether Flame Saint for dealing with it.

Flowing Cloud obtained the Nether Flame Saint’s remnant image from the Ancient Map, then cultivated in the Tian Niu Realm until his avatar reached the peak of Three-star Dou Sheng. He traveled to West Dragon Island and learned that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit had greatly strengthened its inhabitants.

• Flowing Cloud touched the Ancient Map and drew the demonic lotus pattern into his brow, obtaining the Nether Flame Saint’s remnant image before returning to the Tian Niu Realm.
• Flowing Cloud consumed a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill and cultivated until his avatar advanced from late Two-star Dou Sheng to the peak of Three-star Dou Sheng.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant soul sensed Flowing Cloud’s breakthrough and praised his rapid progress and supply of Ninth-grade pills.
• Flowing Cloud traveled through the Void Space to West Dragon Island and secretly summoned the West Dragon King outside its barrier.
• The West Dragon King reported that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit had raised him to early Five-star Dou Sheng and helped several other islanders advance; Flowing Cloud was surprised by the results.

Flowing Cloud reviewed the West and South Dragon Islands’ gains from refining Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits and gave each king another eight hundred fruits, along with orders to prepare for the Four Dragon Islands’ reunification. He then headed to North Dragon Island to assess its progress and bring its four great elders under his control.

• The West Dragon King reported that several West Dragon Island experts had advanced to Two-star Dou Sheng, and Flowing Cloud praised their progress.
• Flowing Cloud gave the West Dragon King eight hundred Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits and ordered him to distribute them, cooperate with East Dragon Island’s reunification efforts, and restrict his clansmen’s movements.
• The South Dragon King reported that he had reached Early Five-star Dou Sheng and awakened the Ancient Dragon Phoenix Bloodline, while his elders and clansmen had also advanced.
• Flowing Cloud gave the South Dragon King eight hundred Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits and ordered him to cooperate with reunification, keep his clansmen from leaving Void Space, and report anything unusual.
• Flowing Cloud traveled toward North Dragon Island, where the North Dragon King and four peak Two-star Dou Sheng great elders were waiting for him.

Flowing Cloud met with the North Dragon King and his four elders, then gave the North Dragon King eight hundred Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits and instructions for North Dragon Island. The North Dragon King agreed to submit to East Dragon Island’s new Dragon Emperor and keep his clansmen from leaving Void Space.

• Flowing Cloud and the Heavenly Bull helped the North Dragon King swiftly capture and seal the cultivation of North Dragon Island’s four great elders.
• The North Dragon King called Flowing Cloud his master, and Flowing Cloud stopped him from torturing two of the elders.
• The North Dragon King reported that the previous Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits had raised his cultivation to Mid Five-star Dou Sheng and awakened his Ancient Dragon Phoenix Bloodline, while the other clansmen had reached One-star Dou Sheng or higher.
• Flowing Cloud produced eight hundred Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits and ordered the North Dragon King to distribute them among his clansmen according to their strength.
• Flowing Cloud instructed the North Dragon King to submit unconditionally when East Dragon Island’s new Dragon Emperor sent envoys and to prevent any clansman from leaving Void Space without permission; the North Dragon King agreed.

Flowing Cloud deceived the four great elders of North Dragon Island into accepting his Ancient Puppet Seed Technique by making them believe he was only planting Soul Power marks. The elders realized the truth and resisted, but Flowing Cloud suppressed them as the Puppet Seeds began taking root in their souls.

• The four elders believed the North Dragon King had accepted Flowing Cloud’s offer to protect the clan, and they pleaded with the two men to spare them.
• The North Dragon King told the elders that Flowing Cloud would plant Soul Power marks in their souls, and they agreed without resistance.
• Flowing Cloud began using the Ancient Puppet Seed Technique while the elders cooperated, believing he was planting the promised marks.
• The elders sensed their consciousness slipping away and realized Flowing Cloud was reading their memories and trying to control them.
• The elders struggled to stop Flowing Cloud, but he used the consciousness he had seized to suppress their resistance as the Puppet Seeds’ transparent threads spread through their souls.

Flowing Cloud took control of North Dragon Island’s four great elders and returned to the Tian Niu Realm to cultivate. Meanwhile, Zi Yan oversaw the reunion of the Four Dragon Islands and accepted the three Dragon Kings’ submission, leaving the Ancient Void Dragon Clan united under her rule.

• Flowing Cloud’s Puppet Seeds took control of North Dragon Island’s four great elders, and he ordered the North Dragon King to return with his men.
• Flowing Cloud returned with Heavenly Bull to the Tian Niu Realm and resumed secluded cultivation.
• Zi Yan and East Dragon Island’s elders learned that the other three Dragon Kings had agreed to submit and began moving their islands toward East Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan and the elders saw that the approaching islands carried more than two thousand Dou Shengs, including three Dragon Kings who had reached Five-star Dou Sheng.
• The three Dragon Kings and their clansmen bowed to Zi Yan, and she welcomed their submission and ordered everyone to rise.

Zi Yan reunited the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and learned that Flowing Cloud had empowered the other islands with Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits. Meanwhile, the Hall of Souls discovered that Yun Liu had been an Elder of Jia Nan Academy, and its new Heavenly Venerables breached the academy’s barrier, leaving Qian Mu and Bai Lie fearing a devastating attack.

• Zi Yan appointed the three Dragon Kings as Grand Elders and named nearly two thousand five hundred Dou Sheng clan members as Elders.
• The three Dragon Kings revealed that a mysterious young man had given them Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits in exchange for their submission and the Dragon Islands’ unification, and Zi Yan realized Flowing Cloud was responsible.
• After Yun Liu’s former position at Jia Nan Academy became known, the Hall of Souls sent its new Great Heavenly Venerable and Second Heavenly Venerable to seize information about him.
• The two Heavenly Venerables shattered Jia Nan Academy’s spatial barrier and demanded that Qian Mu confirm Yun Liu had been an academy Elder.
• Qian Mu and Bai Lie recognized the attackers as Hall of Souls experts and feared the academy could not withstand them before Su Qian returned with reinforcements.

Zi Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy as Dragon Emperor and found the Hall of Souls preparing to seize people there. She confronted Hun Miesheng, the Hall of Souls’ Hall Master, and vowed to protect the academy, leaving the sides facing off.

• Zi Yan emerged through a spatial fissure above Jia Nan Academy, and Qian Mu and Bai Lie recognized the overwhelming dragon’s might.
• The Hall of Souls’ Great Heavenly Venerable and Second Heavenly Venerable mistook Zi Yan for a Heaven and Earth Alliance reinforcement, so the Great Heavenly Venerable crushed a spatial Jade Slip to summon their Hall Master.
• Hun Miesheng arrived, and the two Heavenly Venerables reported that Zi Yan was there to rescue Jia Nan Academy.
• Hun Miesheng asked Zi Yan whether she had come to stop him from taking people from the academy, and Zi Yan said she would not let him harm anyone there.
• Zi Yan identified Hun Miesheng, while Qian Mu and Bai Lie wondered whether she might be the former student Zi Yan they remembered.

Hun Miesheng tried to stop Zi Yan from summoning help while the Soul Hall Grand Heavenly Venerable and Second Heavenly Venerable attacked Jia Nan Academy. As the academy members suffered, five towering figures emerged from the damaged spatial passage.

• Hun Miesheng warned Zi Yan not to interfere and used his pressure to injure Jia Nan Academy students and force Qian Mu and Bai Lie to the ground.
• Zi Yan crushed a spatial Jade Slip to summon help, but Hun Miesheng tried to close the passage before anyone could arrive.
• Zi Yan evaded Hun Miesheng's strike with her golden Heaven Phoenix Wings, revealing her Ancient Dragon Phoenix Bloodline and making him abandon his attack on her directly.
• Hun Miesheng ordered the Soul Hall Grand Heavenly Venerable and Second Heavenly Venerable to extract the souls of Jia Nan Academy's elders and students while he kept Zi Yan at bay.
• A pair of dragon claws tore open the compressed spatial crack, and five towering figures emerged from the passage.

The North Dragon King and the four Great Elders arrived to aid Zi Yan, turning the battle at Jia Nan Academy against Hun Miesheng and the Hall of Souls. After Hun Miesheng revealed his hidden strength, the North Dragon King continued the fight while following Flowing Cloud’s plan to give him a chance to escape.

• The North Dragon King and four Great Elders emerged from the damaged Space Passage and greeted Zi Yan as the Dragon Emperor.
• The North Dragon King ordered the four Great Elders to attack the Soul Hall Grand Heavenly Venerable and the Second Heavenly Venerable, then engaged Hun Miesheng.
• The four Great Elders and Zi Yan overwhelmed the two Heavenly Venerables, killed them, and prevented their souls from escaping.
• Zi Yan and the Great Elders moved to surround Hun Miesheng as the North Dragon King gained the upper hand.
• Hun Miesheng used a hand seal to reveal his concealed cultivation and raise his aura to the Early Five-star Dou Sheng level.
• The North Dragon King recognized Hun Miesheng’s hidden strength and remembered Flowing Cloud’s instruction to give him an opportunity to escape.

Zi Yan and the North Dragon King fought Hun Miesheng after he revealed his hidden Five-star Dou Sheng cultivation, but he escaped by sacrificing his soul's arms to conceal his retreat. Zi Yan then turned to the devastated Jia Nan Academy, where many victims' souls had been captured in soul bags now in her possession.

• Hun Miesheng revealed his Early Five-star Dou Sheng cultivation, and Zi Yan ordered the North Dragon King and four elders to attack him.
• The North Dragon King cleaved Hun Miesheng's black sphere of souls and wounded him with a blood sword.
• Hun Miesheng unleashed the Soul Burial Technique, using the black mist to hide a spatial fissure and escape.
• Zi Yan stopped the North Dragon King from pursuing Hun Miesheng and went to Jia Nan Academy.
• Zi Yan found that nearly a quarter of Jia Nan Academy's people had been injured or killed, and she recovered the soul bags containing many captured souls.

Zi Yan recovered the captured souls after the Hall of Souls devastated Jia Nan Academy, and Flowing Cloud’s projection arrived to arrange help for the injured and the academy’s defenses. He left Zi Yan to handle matters while the academy prepared to send bodiless souls to the Heaven and Earth Alliance.

• Qian Mu and Bai Lie thanked Zi Yan, who returned the captured souls and promised to help restore those who had lost their bodies.
• Zi Yan asked about Su Qian and learned that he had gone to the Heaven and Earth Alliance to seek help.
• Flowing Cloud appeared through a projection and apologized for arriving after Jia Nan Academy had suffered a calamity.
• Flowing Cloud agreed to provide bodies and medicinal pills for the displaced souls and asked Jia Nan Academy to seek help from the Pill Tower.
• Flowing Cloud promised that the Heaven and Earth Alliance would set up a protective formation at Jia Nan Academy, then vanished and left Zi Yan in charge.

Zi Yan arranged for the souls of Jia Nan Academy’s fallen to be taken to Flowing Cloud and left the North Dragon King behind to protect the academy. Five days later, she arrived at the Heaven and Earth Alliance and hurried toward Flowing Cloud.

• Zi Yan asked Qian Mu and Bai Lie to count the casualties, then received the souls of 170 people whose bodies had been destroyed; 230 others had died.
• Zi Yan asked the North Dragon King to guard Jia Nan Academy while it was rebuilt, then traveled with a North Dragon Island elder to Bone Melting City.
• Hun Miesheng, badly wounded by the North Dragon King, crushed a jade tube to summon a mysterious figure, who ordered him to return to the Soul Realm and warned him about controlling the Demon Flame.
• Five days later, Zi Yan reached the Heaven and Earth Alliance; Flowing Cloud opened the energy wall, and Zi Yan rushed inside to greet the Great Elder.

Flowing Cloud revived the Jia Nan Academy elders and students who had lost their bodies, then returned with them to the academy. He began setting up a Star Array to protect Jia Nan Academy from another attack by the Hall of Souls.

• Zi Yan gave Flowing Cloud the soul pouch containing the Jia Nan Academy elders' and students' souls, and he promised to save them all.
• After alchemists from the Pill Tower arrived, Flowing Cloud used Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pills and prepared bodies to revive everyone over nearly five days.
• Flowing Cloud offered to accompany Su Qian and Zi Yan to Jia Nan Academy and install a protective formation there.
• Four days later, Flowing Cloud, Zi Yan, Su Qian, and the others returned to Jia Nan Academy, where Qian Mu and Bai Lie welcomed the revived elders and students.
• Flowing Cloud began setting up the Star Array, whose power could grow according to the energy put into it.

Flowing Cloud fortified Jia Nan Academy with Star Arrays and a powerful hidden formation, while Zi Yan arranged for Dragon Island experts to guard it. After returning to the Tian Niu Realm, Flowing Cloud sensed his original body's soul transforming, and a sovereign-like aura began spreading from the crystal in the Myriad Monster Palace.

• Flowing Cloud gave Su Qian three layers of Star Arrays and explained that their strength depended on the power supplied to them.
• Zi Yan promised to station four One-star Dou Shengs and one Two-star Dou Sheng from Dragon Island at Jia Nan Academy.
• Flowing Cloud departed after secretly establishing a vast Blood Fiend Luo Tian Array capable of killing Five-star Dou Sheng experts.
• Zi Yan left for Dragon Island and ordered the North Dragon King to remain at Jia Nan Academy until reinforcements arrived.
• Su Qian activated the Star Array, raising three enormous transparent barriers around Jia Nan Academy and the surrounding forests.
• Flowing Cloud returned to the Tian Niu Realm, where his original body's soul stirred the Myriad Monster Palace and unleashed an overwhelming aura that made nearly all living beings prostrate themselves.