Chapter Summaries

Flowing Cloud broke through to an Emperor Realm soul and used a Ninth-grade Profound Pill to advance from Peak Four-star Dou Sheng to Five-star Dou Sheng. He began consolidating his new cultivation as his aura continued to rise.

• Flowing Cloud's Soul Body appeared over the Tian Niu Realm, astonishing Heavenly Bull, Huang Tian, and the Yellow Springs Demon Saint.
• Flowing Cloud tested his Emperor Realm soul by destroying a distant stone mountain and sensing across the Tian Niu Realm.
• Flowing Cloud returned to his body and entered seclusion to pursue his next cultivation breakthrough.
• Flowing Cloud consumed a Ninth-grade Profound Pill and used his Natal Divine Flame to refine its medicinal power.
• Flowing Cloud advanced to Five-star Dou Sheng, and the pill's remaining energy continued to strengthen his cultivation.

Hun Xuan told Flowing Cloud that the Soul Clan’s attack on Ice River Valley revealed two hidden Peak Four-star Dou Sheng experts, explaining why the valley had been able to plunder factions across the Central Plains without further interference. Flowing Cloud concluded that the ancient valley might still conceal an even stronger expert, perhaps one comparable to the Blazing Flame Ancestor.

• Hun Xuan reported that the Hall of Souls had first pressured Ice River Valley through Bing Kuang, then sent two Three-star Dou Sheng Soul Clan elders to punish the valley for breaking their agreement.
• Hun Xuan explained that Bing Kuang and Ice River Valley’s Half-Saints retreated into Blackwater Cold Lake, where two hidden Peak Four-star Dou Sheng experts emerged and attacked the Soul Clan elders.
• One Soul Clan elder was gravely wounded and detonated his soul to help the other escape and carry news of Ice River Valley’s hidden experts to the Soul Realm.
• Flowing Cloud reasoned that the Soul Clan avoided retaliating because sending stronger experts would draw the attention of the other ancient clans and constrain its secret plans.
• Flowing Cloud suspected that Ice River Valley still possessed an ancient expert of extraordinary strength, possibly comparable to the Blazing Flame Ancestor.

Flowing Cloud brought more than three hundred newly advanced Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan Dou Shengs to the Tian Niu Realm to expand its territory, stunning its residents and the Yellow Springs Demon Saint. He left the clan’s Half-Saints behind under orders to remain in their ancestral grounds, while the realm gained a formidable new force.

• Flowing Cloud told Hun Xuan to recover and report only information learned naturally, then considered Ice River Valley’s hidden strength and the Tian Niu Realm’s growth.
• Flowing Cloud entered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s ancestral grounds through the Void Gate and gathered its newly advanced Dou Shengs and the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes.
• Flowing Cloud ordered Phoenix, Kun Huang, and Ying Huang to lead the Dou Shengs to the Tian Niu Realm, while the clan’s Half-Saints stayed behind.
• Flowing Cloud brought the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan Dou Shengs through the Void Gate in batches to help expand the Tian Niu Realm.
• The realm’s residents, Huang Tian, and Heavenly Bull were astonished by the arrivals, while the Yellow Springs Demon Saint realized Flowing Cloud could challenge the Ancient Emperor Clans.

Flowing Cloud learned that Hun Miesheng had recovered and was moving to seize the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s territories, hoping to draw its forces out from under their powerful formations. After Chu Donghai and his companions summoned Flowing Cloud with a spatial Jade Slip, they prepared to confront the Hall of Souls.

• Flowing Cloud ordered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts to expand the Tian Niu Realm and capture anyone trying to open a passage into it.
• Blood River reported that Hun Miesheng had recovered from his injuries, publicly promised not to attack Jia Nan Academy, and turned his attention to the Heaven and Earth Alliance.
• Hun Miesheng planned to annex the alliance’s territories outside its headquarters and force its members away from their formations.
• Flowing Cloud used a spatial Jade Slip to join Chu Donghai, Hai Bodong, Qu Ming, and the Heavenly Fire Venerable after they settled their grudge with Liu Wanli.
• Flowing Cloud confirmed that the Hall of Souls was targeting the alliance’s forces outside Bone Melting City, and Hai Bodong vowed to teach it a lesson.

Flowing Cloud prepared the Heaven and Earth Alliance to face the Hall of Souls, distributing powerful pills to strengthen its known fighters while keeping the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s forces out of sight. After Hai Bodong began refining a Ninth-grade Profound Pill, Flowing Cloud’s true body also completed his seclusion and reached the Late Five-star Dou Sheng level.

• Flowing Cloud told Hai Bodong and the others that the Hall of Souls planned to attack the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s forces, and they vowed to fight back.
• Flowing Cloud brought them to the Tian Niu Realm, where they saw the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s three Phoenixes and more than three hundred and forty Dou Sheng experts.
• Flowing Cloud said the newcomers would not join the coming battle and instructed Hai Bodong and the others to protect the alliance’s members.
• Flowing Cloud gave Hai Bodong a Ninth-grade Profound Pill, distributed Ninth-grade Treasure Pills to the others, and sent Heavenly Fire to deliver two more to Duan San and Mo Jiu.
• Hai Bodong used the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art and the cold pills in his acupoints to safely refine the Ninth-grade Profound Pill.
• Flowing Cloud’s true body finished refining a Ninth-grade Profound Pill and reached the Late Five-star Dou Sheng level.

After reaching Peak Five-star Dou Sheng, Flowing Cloud arranged an auction featuring three Ninth-grade Treasure Pills while preparing for the Hall of Souls' attack. Several allies completed breakthroughs, and Flowing Cloud deployed them to defend the Heaven and Earth Alliance's bases as the war approached.

• Flowing Cloud's Ninth-grade Profound Pill raised him to Peak Five-star Dou Sheng, and he sent his avatar to arrange an auction of three Ninth-grade Treasure Pills.
• Fu Fan warned Flowing Cloud that the Hall of Souls was gathering forces to attack the Northern Region, but Flowing Cloud told him to proceed with the auction without worry.
• Hai Bodong, Chu Donghai, Qu Ming, Heavenly Fire Saint, Duan San, and Mo Jiu completed their cultivation breakthroughs in the Tian Niu Realm.
• Flowing Cloud assessed their new cultivation levels and brought the six out of the Tian Niu Realm.
• After learning the Hall of Souls planned to attack several cities at once, Flowing Cloud assigned Hai Bodong to defend a base alone and split the others into two groups.

The Hall of Souls launched simultaneous attacks on several cities, and its vanguard reached Tianxuan City before the alliance’s reinforcements. The Ice Saint appeared and annihilated the attackers, leaving Tianxuan City safe.

• Flowing Cloud learned how the Hall of Souls had deployed its forces and assigned Hai Bodong, Chu Donghai, Duan San, Qu Ming, the Heavenly Fire Saint, and Mo Jiu to guard different cities.
• Po Tianzun and the Hall of Souls vanguard arrived at Tianxuan City and prepared to kill its defenders.
• Po Tianzun attacked a Tianxuan City Dou Zun, but a mysterious white-haired elder froze and shattered the attackers’ strikes.
• The white-haired elder revealed his power by turning Po Tianzun and the other Hall of Souls members into ice sculptures and destroying them.
• Situ Tianxuan and Xu Fan greeted the elder as the Grand Elder, and Tianxuan City’s experts learned that he was one of the alliance’s Grand Elders.

Hai Bodong left Tianxuan City to destroy a Hall of Souls vanguard force, while the city’s leaders identified him as a Two-star Dou Sheng and worried about the danger he faced. He reached the vanguard army and attacked its Third Heavenly Venerable with a Black Ice Spear as the troops prepared to fight.

• Hai Bodong told Tianxuan City’s defenders that the alliance army would arrive in one day and that he would destroy a Hall of Souls vanguard force alone.
• Situ Tianxuan and Xu Fan confirmed that Hai Bodong was the Ice Saint and said he had the cultivation of a Two-star Dou Sheng.
• The Hall of Souls’ army of tens of thousands advanced under the Third Heavenly Venerable and Fourth Heavenly Venerable Blood River, while Blood River refused to celebrate before the battle began.
• The Third Heavenly Venerable sensed an approaching attack, stopped the army, and prepared for battle.
• A thirty-foot Black Ice Spear flew toward the Third Heavenly Venerable, who tried to intercept it with a black chain as the troops launched attacks.

Hai Bodong killed Third Heavenly Venerable with a Black Ice Spear and froze nearly five thousand Soul Clan experts. Blood River summoned three Soul Clan Dou Sheng reinforcements, who attacked Hai Bodong after dismissing his threat.

• Hai Bodong’s Black Ice Spear shattered Third Heavenly Venerable’s chain, pierced his chest, and froze him along with nearly five thousand Soul Clan troops.
• Blood River seized two Spatial Jade Slips from Third Heavenly Venerable’s Storage Ring and crushed them on Flowing Cloud’s orders to summon reinforcements.
• Three Soul Clan Dou Sheng experts emerged from spatial rifts, including the Two-star Dou Sheng woman called Sister Dian.
• Sister Dian and Hun He identified Hai Bodong as the Ice Saint, while one of the old men urged caution about his abilities.
• Hai Bodong challenged the three Soul Clan experts, and Sister Dian launched a mass of black mist filled with souls as the other two followed it toward him.

Hai Bodong revealed his Peak Four-star Dou Sheng strength and destroyed the Soul Clan force with the Yellow Springs Cold Pill. The battlefield fell silent, and Fourth Heavenly Venerable Blood River was killed to keep the Hall of Souls from suspecting a traitor.

• Hai Bodong froze Hun Xi and Hun He inside the old woman's black mist, killing them instantly.
• Hai Bodong revealed his Peak Four-star Dou Sheng aura and advanced on the old woman as the Soul Clan troops panicked.
• Blood River ordered the Hall of Souls army to attack Hai Bodong, while the old woman threatened him with her forces.
• Hai Bodong shattered nearly a thousand nearby Soul Clan experts with an invisible ripple, then blocked the old woman's chains with an ice-blue orb.
• Hai Bodong detonated the Yellow Springs Cold Pill, freezing everyone within forty miles and wiping out the old woman, Blood River, and the entire Hall of Souls force.

After the Hall of Souls lost Hun Dian, Hun Xi, Hun He, and tens of thousands of troops, Hun Miesheng warned the forces gathered at the border and summoned Soul Clan reinforcements. The news left Hun Tian and Hun Li Nan seriously concerned about the Heaven and Earth Alliance.

• Hun Miesheng found that the Soul Tablets of Hun Dian, Hun Xi, Hun He, and the other fallen troops had gone dim, then projected an avatar to the border between the Northern Region and the Central Region.
• The Fifth Heavenly Venerable, Seventh Heavenly Venerable, and six High-level Dou Zuns greeted Hun Miesheng, who told them that the armies of the Third Heavenly Venerable and Fourth Heavenly Venerable Blood River had been wiped out.
• At Hun Miesheng's order, the Fifth Heavenly Venerable and Seventh Heavenly Venerable crushed their Spatial Jade Slips and summoned Hun Tian and Hun Li Nan, two One-star Dou Sheng elders.
• Hun Tian and Hun Li Nan questioned why Hun Miesheng had called them before the final battle, and Hun Miesheng revealed that Hun Dian, Hun Xi, Hun He, and tens of thousands of Soul Hall troops had perished.
• Hun Miesheng warned Hun Tian and Hun Li Nan not to act rashly against powerful enemies, then departed; Hun Li Nan told Hun Tian that the report was likely true.

Hun Miesheng investigated the Hall of Souls’ losses and blamed Ice River Valley after discovering a frozen battlefield, but Hai Bodong froze his Soul Avatar before it could report back. Hai Bodong reunited with the Tianxuan City experts and sent them to collect the spoils from the destroyed army.

• Hun Tian and Hun Li Nan agreed that the Heaven and Earth Alliance posed a serious threat to the Hall of Souls.
• Hun Miesheng instructed the Hall of Souls’ third army to take precautions, then traveled to the battlefield where Hun Dian and the others had fallen.
• Hun Miesheng found the frozen remains of Hall of Souls experts and concluded that Ice River Valley had destroyed the force.
• Hai Bodong froze Hun Miesheng’s Soul Avatar, then melted the battlefield’s ice and left with its cold power.
• Hun Miesheng learned what his avatar had witnessed and vowed to destroy Ice River Valley.
• Hai Bodong met Situ Tianxuan, Xu Fan, and the other Tianxuan City experts, telling them to collect the spoils from the destroyed Hall of Souls army.

Hai Bodong sent Situ Tianxuan and the Tianxuan City experts to collect the spoils from the Hall of Souls army he had destroyed. After they returned with the vast haul, the Heaven and Earth Alliance reinforcements were astonished by its scale.

• Hai Bodong told Situ Tianxuan that he had wiped out a nearby Hall of Souls army and directed him to collect its spoils.
• Situ Tianxuan and the Tianxuan City experts found a vast battlefield of remains and began collecting Storage Rings and other treasures.
• The experts discovered spoils belonging to nearly ten thousand Dou Zong experts and hundreds of Dou Zun experts, confirming Hai Bodong's claim.
• Situ Tianxuan led the group back to Tianxuan City after they had plundered nearly all the battlefield's treasures.
• The Heaven and Earth Alliance reinforcements, including thirty Dou Zun experts, arrived and were stunned when the Tianxuan City group displayed its spoils.

Lin Feng and the reinforcements arrived in Tianxuan City to find that Ice Saint had already destroyed the Hall of Souls army. After inspecting the captured Storage Rings, Lin Feng concluded that the Grand Elder had killed five Half-Saints, and the reinforcements entered the city to await new orders.

• Situ Tianxuan and Xu Fan told the reinforcements that Ice Saint had defeated the Hall of Souls army and they had collected its spoils.
• Lin Feng arrived, identified himself as the reinforcement commander, and examined the Storage Rings that Tianxuan City’s experts had gathered.
• Lin Feng broke the imprint on one Storage Ring and determined that its former owner had likely been a Seven-star Dou Zun.
• Lin Feng and five elders removed imprints from eleven more rings but could not break those on the final five, which they believed belonged to Half-Saint experts.
• Lin Feng concluded that the Grand Elder had killed five Hall of Souls Saints and ordered the reinforcements to enter Tianxuan City and await new orders.

Hun Miesheng escalated the Hall of Souls' infiltration of the Northern Region after reporting his suspicions about Ice River Valley. Xiao Xun'er learned that Xiao Yan had left Jia Nan Academy and heard how the Heaven and Earth Alliance's feud with the Hall of Souls had nearly brought disaster to the academy.

• Hun Miesheng reported his suspicion that Ice River Valley had interfered during the Hall of Souls' attack, then received new orders to send more troops toward the Northern Region.
• The Hall of Souls' forces split into small units and infiltrated the Northern Region.
• Xiao Xun'er finished cultivating on a mist-covered mountain and summoned Elder Ling, who told her Xiao Yan had left Jia Nan Academy for the Central Plains.
• Ling Ying told Xiao Xun'er that Jia Nan Academy had nearly been destroyed and that its calamity was connected to the Heaven and Earth Alliance's leader, Yun Liu, having once been an Inner Court Elder there.
• Ling Ying recounted how the Heaven and Earth Alliance's formation had killed Hall of Souls experts, blocked Gu You's attack, and prompted the Pill Tower to persuade the Hall of Souls to withdraw.

Ling Ying told Xiao Xun'er how the Hall of Souls attacked Jia Nan Academy after the Heaven and Earth Alliance destroyed ten of its branches. The academy suffered losses before Ancient Void Dragon Clan experts defeated the attackers, and the Heaven and Earth Alliance Leader helped restore the bodies of those whose souls had been captured.

• Ling Ying explained that the Hall of Souls targeted Jia Nan Academy after learning its leader had once been an academy elder.
• Two One-star Dou Sheng from the Hall of Souls broke Jia Nan Academy's spatial seal, but a Three-star Dou Sheng from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan intervened.
• The Hall of Souls summoned Hun Miesheng, who destroyed the Ancient Void Dragon expert's attempt to call for help while two attackers captured souls inside the academy.
• Five Ancient Void Dragon Clan experts emerged from the damaged Space Passage, forcing Hun Miesheng to flee and killing the two One-star Dou Sheng.
• Ling Ying told Xiao Xun'er that Jia Nan Academy and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan sought the Heaven and Earth Alliance Leader's help, and the captured elders and students regained physical bodies.

Xiao Xun'er learned that the Hall of Souls had declared war on the Heaven and Earth Alliance and decided to travel to the Central Plains to check on Xiao Yan. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan headed toward Starfall Pavilion to avoid the fighting, but he discovered that a city had been destroyed and its people burned alive.

• Xiao Xun'er decided to visit the Central Plains despite Ling Ying warning that the clan elders might object.
• Xiao Yan listened to reports of the Hall of Souls deploying a huge army against the Heaven and Earth Alliance and set out from Jifeng City toward Starfall Pavilion with Old Yao.
• Old Yao sensed thousands of Hall of Souls members passing nearby, and Xiao Yan hid until their presence faded.
• Xiao Yan saw smoke rising from Jifeng City after the Hall of Souls unit passed, then continued on his journey.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao reached another city and found it reduced to ruins, with its hundreds of thousands of inhabitants killed in a great fire.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao investigated a trail of cities destroyed by massacres and concluded that the Hall of Souls might be exploiting its war with the Heaven and Earth Alliance to collect souls on a massive scale. At an inn in a city untouched by the slaughter, Xiao Yan heard conflicting reports about the war and the destruction of cities caught in its path.

• Xiao Yan entered a city where hundreds of thousands of people had been killed, and Old Yao estimated the massacre had happened less than a day earlier.
• Old Yao warned Xiao Yan against going to Jifeng City, and Xiao Yan continued deeper into the Central Region, finding three more cities that had been massacred and burned.
• Xiao Yan proposed that the Hall of Souls was using the war with the Heaven and Earth Alliance to conceal mass soul capture, and Old Yao agreed the theory made sense.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao crossed a vast mountain range and reached a city where people were still alive.
• Xiao Yan entered a busy inn and heard people discuss the Hall of Souls advancing in the Northern Region, the Heaven and Earth Alliance breaking into the Central Region, and cities being caught in the war.

Xiao Yan learned that the Hall of Souls had massacred Jifeng City and framed the Heaven and Earth Alliance, so he began spreading the truth. At Kuilong Fortress, Hai Bodong returned with evidence that the Hall of Souls had massacred dozens of cities and blamed the alliance.

• Xiao Yan heard that Jifeng City had been massacred three days earlier and realized the Hall of Souls had committed the killings while framing the Heaven and Earth Alliance.
• Old Yao urged Xiao Yan to expose the Hall of Souls' scheme, and Xiao Yan disguised himself and spread the news on his way to Starfall Pavilion.
• Public opinion gradually turned against the Hall of Souls, though people remained too afraid to openly oppose it.
• At Kuilong Fortress, Qu Ming and Duan San discussed the Hall of Souls' evasive tactics with Mo Jiu while they awaited Hai Bodong's investigation.
• Hai Bodong returned and told Qu Ming, Duan San, and Mo Jiu that the Hall of Souls had massacred dozens of Central Region cities and blamed the Heaven and Earth Alliance.

After learning that the Hall of Souls had massacred cities and blamed the Heaven and Earth Alliance, Flowing Cloud launched a counterattack and asked the Ancient Void Dragon Clan to join the war. He sent the North Dragon King and twenty-four Dou Sheng experts into the sealed region to kill Hall of Souls forces.

• Hai Bodong reported the Hall of Souls' massacres to Qu Ming, Duan San, and Mo Jiu, and Hai Bodong ordered them to attack Hall of Souls members without restraint.
• After Hai Bodong returned to Kuilong Fortress, the Heaven and Earth Alliance's Grand Elders launched an offensive, and both sides suffered heavy casualties as the Hall of Souls targeted the alliance's forces in major cities.
• Flowing Cloud learned that the Hall of Souls had slaughtered cities to collect souls and frame the Heaven and Earth Alliance, so he left the Tian Niu Realm and went to Dragon Island.
• Flowing Cloud told Zi Yan about the massacres and asked the Ancient Void Dragon Clan to help defeat the Hall of Souls; Zi Yan agreed.
• Flowing Cloud led the North Dragon King and twenty-four Dou Sheng experts through the Void Gate into the sealed region and ordered them to kill every Hall of Souls member they encountered.