Chapter Summaries

The North Dragon King attacked the Hall of Souls army in the Luohan Mountain Range as it prepared to massacre Shan City. He killed all five thousand experts and seized the captured souls, leaving the Heaven and Earth Alliance with evidence of the Hall of Souls’ crimes.

• The Hall of Souls' Seventh Heavenly Venerable ordered his army to march on Shan City and capture its people.
• The North Dragon King appeared and crushed the mountain with a golden dragon claw, killing the Seventh Heavenly Venerable and most of the army.
• The North Dragon King trapped the survivors in folded space and killed them despite their pleas for mercy.
• The North Dragon King took the soul pouch and Storage Ring, along with the captured souls that could expose the Hall of Souls’ crimes.

The North Dragon King continued searching after defeating a Hall of Souls force, while the Hall of Souls completed its massacre of the Chaotic Star Sea and prepared to withdraw with millions of captured souls. Hai Bodong arrived to confront the army, but the Fifth Heavenly Venerable summoned Hun Tianyu, a powerful Soul Clan Dou Sheng, leaving the two sides facing off.

• The North Dragon King continued advancing and searching after dealing with the Hall of Souls force near the Luohan Mountain Range.
• The Hall of Souls army destroyed the Chaotic Star Gate and killed or captured the inhabitants of the Chaotic Star Sea Region.
• The Fifth Heavenly Venerable ordered nearly eight thousand troops to withdraw after claiming seven million souls.
• Hai Bodong appeared through a spatial crack and challenged the Hall of Souls army as it prepared to leave.
• The Fifth Heavenly Venerable used a Spatial Jade Slip to summon Hun Tianyu, who emerged and asked whether Hai Bodong was the Ice Saint of the Heaven and Earth Alliance.

Hai Bodong unleashed a Cold Pill that froze the island and killed the Hall of Souls experts, leaving Hun Tianyu badly injured. Hun Tianyu broke a Spatial Jade Slip to summon reinforcements as Hai Bodong prepared to detonate three more Cold Pills.

• Hun Tianyu dismissed Hai Bodong’s warning, and the Fifth Heavenly Venerable and the Hall of Souls experts mocked him.
• Hai Bodong detonated a Cold Pill, freezing the island and overwhelming Hun Tianyu and the Fifth Heavenly Venerable.
• Hai Bodong killed the Fifth Heavenly Venerable and took his soul pouch and Storage Ring.
• Hun Tianyu realized Hai Bodong was the one behind the earlier destruction of the Hall of Souls forces and broke a Spatial Jade Slip to summon reinforcements.
• Hai Bodong drew and detonated three more Cold Pills as a spatial rift began to form.

Hai Bodong detonated three Cold Pills, freezing the Soul Clan experts and the entire Chaotic Star Sea Region before leaving with nearly ten million captured souls. Seven thousand Hall of Souls troops approached Jinyu City, but their leader Hun Tian sensed danger and ordered a retreat as two Dou Sheng experts appeared.

• Hai Bodong froze Hun Tianyu and a Soul Clan Four-star Dou Sheng with the unleashed power of three Cold Pills.
• The frigid power spread across the Chaotic Star Sea Region, freezing the sea to its seabed.
• Hai Bodong inspected the seized soul pouches, found nearly ten million souls, and left the region.
• Hun Tian led more than seven thousand Hall of Souls troops toward Jinyu City.
• Hun Tian sensed a threat and ordered the troops to retreat, but two Dou Sheng experts appeared and declared it was too late.

Chu Donghai and Yao Tianhuo led a force from the Heaven and Earth Alliance into battle against Hun Tian’s Hall of Souls army on the plains. As they began to turn the fight around, Hun Tian summoned reinforcements, leaving the Grand Elders prepared to call on Hai Bodong if the danger grew.

• Hun Tian recognized Chu Donghai and Yao Tianhuo as powerful Dou Shengs and ordered nearly ten thousand Hall of Souls experts to attack them.
• Chu Donghai and Yao Tianhuo struggled to withstand the army’s combined assault until thirty Dou Zun reinforcements from the Heaven and Earth Alliance emerged through a spatial black hole.
• The reinforcements disrupted the Hall of Souls’ attack, allowing Chu Donghai and Yao Tianhuo to charge into the army and inflict heavy casualties.
• Hun Tian crushed a Spatial Jade Slip to summon Soul Clan reinforcements.
• Chu Donghai and Yao Tianhuo watched the spatial rift and agreed to notify Hai Bodong if too many reinforcements arrived.

When Hun Tian’s Spatial Jade Slip failed to summon reinforcements, the Heaven and Earth Alliance routed and slaughtered the Hall of Souls army. Hun Tian fled but was killed by the North Dragon King, and the search for the Hall of Souls forces continued after they found no souls on his corpse.

• Chu Donghai and Yao Tianhuo saw that Hun Tian’s spatial rift was closing without bringing reinforcements.
• The Hall of Souls army lost morale and fled, but Chu Donghai, Yao Tianhuo, and thirty Heaven and Earth Alliance Dou Zun experts slaughtered nearly ten thousand soldiers.
• Hun Tian escaped alone with the Soul Bag, and Chu Donghai pursued him while Yao Tianhuo continued searching nearby.
• The North Dragon King caught Hun Tian, tore off his right arm, and killed him with a punch that erased his soul.
• Chu Donghai and the North Dragon King found no Soul Bag or collected souls on Hun Tian’s body, then agreed to speed up their search.

The Heaven and Earth Alliance routed the Hall of Souls from the Northern Region and pursued its fleeing army into the Central Region, inflicting heavy losses. As rescued souls exposed the Hall of Souls’ massacres, the Central Plains accepted the Alliance as the victor, and the news reached the reclusive Ancient Emperor Clans.

• Flowing Cloud’s deployment of Ancient Void Dragon Clan experts helped the Heaven and Earth Alliance defeat the Hall of Souls across the Northern Region.
• Hun Miesheng ordered a retreat, but Soul Clan leaders blocked reinforcements from responding to Spatial Jade Slip summons.
• The Heaven and Earth Alliance and Ancient Void Dragon Clan pursued the retreating Hall of Souls army for ten thousand li before Flowing Cloud ordered them to stop.
• Hai Bodong and the other Grand Elders arranged tallies of casualties and spoils after the battle, which had killed more than a hundred thousand Hall of Souls experts and caused severe civilian losses.
• The Alliance released imprisoned souls, whose testimony exposed the Hall of Souls’ atrocities and persuaded the Central Plains that the Alliance had won honorably.
• News of the battle and the Hall of Souls’ crimes spread to the reclusive Ancient Emperor Clans.

Gu Yuan learned that the Hall of Souls had secretly massacred hundreds of millions and seized tens of millions of souls, raising fears that the Soul Clan was preparing to create another Emperor Realm soul expert. He ordered the Gu Clan to monitor the Soul Clan and to bring Xiao Xun'er back, while the other Ancient Emperor Clans also turned their attention to the threat.

• Gu Clan elders told Gu Yuan that the Hall of Souls had slaughtered hundreds of millions and seized tens of millions of souls during its conflict with the Heaven and Earth Alliance.
• Gu Yuan suspected the Soul Clan planned to use the souls to nurture another Emperor Realm soul expert and ordered the Gu Clan to watch its movements.
• An elder told Gu Yuan that Xiao Xun'er had left the Ancient Realm half a month earlier, and Gu Yuan ordered people to bring her back.
• The Yao Clan, Yan Clan, Lightning Clan, and other Ancient Emperor Clans began monitoring the Hall of Souls and the Soul Clan.
• The Hall of Souls grew more cautious after its defeat, while the Soul Clan closely watched the Heaven and Earth Alliance's alliance with more than twenty Ancient Void Dragon Dou Shengs.

After the Hall of Souls suffered heavy losses, Hun Miesheng was ordered to regroup and keep the Soul Clan’s strength hidden. Two Soul Clan elders searching Void Space for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan decided to seek help from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

• Hun Miesheng raged over the Soul Clan’s losses and obeyed orders to gather the Hall of Souls’ forces and lie low.
• Hun Miesheng appointed new Heavenly Venerables to lead the Nine Heavenly Venerables and the branch halls.
• The Soul Clan sent Hun Xia and Hun Xi to investigate the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, but the elders could not find its home in Void Space.
• Hun Xi proposed asking the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s enemy, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, for its location.
• Hun Xia agreed to Hun Xi’s plan to seek out the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

The Heaven and Earth Alliance strengthened its position after defeating the Hall of Souls and announced an auction that drew powerful factions toward the Northern Region. Meanwhile, Hun Xia and Hun Xi broke into the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory, where Half-Saints alerted Flowing Cloud.

• The Heaven and Earth Alliance distributed seized supplies to casualties’ families, rewarded survivors, and accepted more than thirty Dou Zun experts after screening them.
• The Heaven and Earth Alliance announced an auction of Three Thousand Yan Yan Fire, Falling Heart Flame, and treasures seized from the Hall of Souls, prompting powerful clans to send representatives and bidders.
• Hun Xia and Hun Xi discussed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s strength and flew toward its territory.
• Hun Xia and Hun Xi shattered the clan’s spatial seal with a joint attack, alarming the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members inside.
• The clan’s Half-Saint experts reported Hun Xia and Hun Xi’s intrusion to Flowing Cloud.

After Hun Xia and Hun Xi broke into the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory, Flowing Cloud learned of their arrival and went to find Huang Tian. Huang Tian appeared with the clan’s other powerful elders, ended the confrontation, and invited the two visitors inside to talk.

• Flowing Cloud learned from the Half-Saint experts that Hun Xia and Hun Xi had entered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory, then went to Huang Tian’s cultivation retreat.
• Hun Xia and Hun Xi were startled by the clan’s more than two hundred Half-Saints, and Hun Xi said they had come to meet Huang Tian.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan formed its Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Formation, summoning a giant phoenix with Early Five-star Dou Sheng strength.
• Hun Xi called for Huang Tian, who arrived with Phoenix, Kun Huang, and Ying Huang and revealed his Peak Six-star Dou Sheng cultivation.
• Huang Tian recognized Hun Xi, stopped the clan’s formation, and invited Hun Xia and Hun Xi inside to discuss their business.

Huang Tian lured Hun Xi and Hun Xia from the Soul Clan into the Tian Niu Realm, where Flowing Cloud and Heavenly Bull lay in wait. The ambush began with Huang Tian seizing Hun Xi, while Hun Xia discovered he could not escape and pleaded to speak.

• Hun Xi asked Huang Tian about the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Huang Tian claimed he knew where its members had cultivated in Void Space.
• Hun Xi told Huang Tian that the Soul Clan planned to target the Ancient Void Dragon Clan for helping the Heaven and Earth Alliance against the Hall of Souls.
• Huang Tian led Hun Xi and Hun Xia through a Void Gate into the Tian Niu Realm, where they found Flowing Cloud and Heavenly Bull.
• Flowing Cloud ordered an attack, and Huang Tian seized Hun Xi by the throat, badly wounding him.
• Hun Xia crushed a Spatial Jade Slip, found that the space was sealed, and called for everyone to wait so he could speak.

Flowing Cloud, Huang Tian, and Heavenly Bull defeated and captured Hun Xi and Hun Xia, two Peak Five-star Dou Sheng experts from the Soul Clan. Flowing Cloud used the Ancient Puppet Seed Technique to control both men and learned from their memories that the Nihility Devouring Flame held power within the Soul Clan comparable to Hun Tiandi’s.

• Heavenly Bull attacked Hun Xia while Flowing Cloud’s Soul Projection restrained him and wounded his soul with an Emperor Realm soul attack.
• Hun Xia and Hun Xi begged for mercy, but Huang Tian rejected Hun Xi’s plea to be spared.
• Flowing Cloud planted a Puppet Seed in Hun Xi’s soul, and Hun Xi bowed to him as his master.
• Flowing Cloud used the same technique on Hun Xia, whose injured soul offered even less resistance.
• Flowing Cloud read both men’s memories and learned that the Nihility Devouring Flame was highly influential within the Soul Clan because it could seize other clans’ Dou Di bloodlines.

Flowing Cloud reviewed Nihility Devouring Flame’s history and sent Hun Xi and Hun Xia into Void Space to gather intelligence while the Heaven and Earth Alliance Auction drew cultivators to Bone Melting City. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan reached Starfall Pavilion’s hidden entrance with Old Yao and entered its headquarters through the Starfall Grand Formation.

• Flowing Cloud recalled Nihility Devouring Flame’s power and past, then ordered Hun Xi and Hun Xia to search Void Space for intelligence.
• Huang Tian took Hun Xi and Hun Xia through a Void Gate, and Flowing Cloud resumed cultivation as the auction approached.
• News of the Heaven and Earth Alliance Auction spread across the continent, drawing major factions and independent cultivators toward Bone Melting City.
• Old Yao guided Xiao Yan to the Sky Star Mountain Range and revealed that Starfall Pavilion was hidden behind a naturally formed Starfall Grand Formation.
• Old Yao opened a spatial gate with hand seals, and he and Xiao Yan entered Starfall Pavilion’s true headquarters.

Venerable Yao and Xiao Yan reached the Starfall Pavilion, where Mu Qingluan recognized Yao as the missing Pavilion Master and told him Wind Venerable was expected back that day. Wind Venerable returned, reunited with Yao, and learned of his betrayal by Han Feng and the possibility of restoring his body with a Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pill.

• Venerable Yao led Xiao Yan through a spatial gate into the hidden Starfall Pavilion headquarters.
• Mu Qingluan welcomed Yao after Xiao Yan identified him, and explained that Wind Venerable had kept the Pavilion Master position vacant while searching for him.
• Wind Venerable returned and joyfully reunited with Yao, then noticed Yao had no physical body and a weakened soul.
• Yao told Wind Venerable and Mu Qingluan that Han Feng had betrayed him and colluded with the Hall of Souls, but Han Feng and Mu Gu had since been killed by other factions.
• Yao explained that the Heaven and Earth Alliance had used Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pills to restore souls at Jia Nan Academy, and Wind Venerable said Yao could seek a pill through his Pill Tower connections.

Old Yao returned to Starfall Pavilion and accepted the position of Pavilion Master, then joined Wind Venerable and Xiao Yan on the journey to the Heaven and Earth Alliance auction. The group reached Bone Melting City, where powerful figures from across the continent had gathered.

• Old Yao told Wind Venerable that he wanted to buy a Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pill from the Heaven and Earth Alliance, and Wind Venerable pledged Starfall Pavilion’s resources to help.
• Old Yao introduced Xiao Yan as his disciple, and Wind Venerable praised Xiao Yan’s potential.
• Wind Venerable announced Old Yao’s return as Starfall Pavilion’s Pavilion Master, and Old Yao accepted the position.
• Wind Venerable led Xiao Yan, Old Yao, and a group of Starfall Pavilion elders toward the Heaven and Earth Alliance auction the following day.
• After roughly a dozen days, the group reached Bone Melting City, where they entered through a gap in the energy barrier among crowds of powerful visitors.

Xiao Yan and the Starfall Pavilion arrived in Bone Melting City for the Heaven and Earth Alliance auction, while Hun Xia and Hun Xi secretly stalled their search for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. The auction began with experts from across the continent in attendance, and Xiao Yan spotted Xiao Xun'er before finding the Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pill.

• Xiao Yan, Old Yao, and Wind Venerable entered Bone Melting City, where crowds of experts gathered for the auction.
• Hun Xia and Hun Xi told a Soul Clan higher-up they could not locate the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, then went to the Beast Domain and stalled instead of investigating.
• The Heaven and Earth Alliance opened the auction plaza, drawing a vast crowd and distinguished guests that included Dou Sheng experts and representatives of Ancient Emperor Clans.
• Xiao Yan saw Xiao Xun'er among the distinguished guests and resolved to grow strong enough to join them.
• A Starfall Pavilion elder found the Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pill, and Xiao Yan's group gathered around its platform to prepare to bid.

Xiao Yan and Starfall Pavilion gathered to bid for the scarce Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pills, while Xiao Yan learned that Heaven and Earth Alliance’s Ice Saint Hai Bodong was likely the same person as the Ice Emperor he had known in the Jia Ma Empire. The chapter left Xiao Yan astonished by Hai Bodong’s rise from Dou Zong to Dou Sheng and reflecting on the Mittel Family’s ties to his past.

• Xiao Yan, Wind Venerable, and Old Yao learned that Heaven and Earth Alliance was auctioning two hundred Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pills and joined Starfall Pavilion at a stone platform.
• Xiao Yan heard that the pills were far too few for the many people seeking to restore souls harmed by the Hall of Souls.
• Wind Venerable sent Mu Qingluan and the other elders to check different platforms so Starfall Pavilion would not compete at only one location.
• Hai Bodong, Qu Ming, Chu Donghai, and Heavenly Fire Venerable arrived, and Wind Venerable identified Hai Bodong as Heaven and Earth Alliance’s Ice Saint.
• Xiao Yan connected Hai Bodong’s rapid rise from Dou Zong to Dou Sheng with the Ice Emperor of the Jia Ma Empire and recognized him as the same person.
• Old Yao remarked that the Mittel Family would benefit from Hai Bodong’s position, and Xiao Yan recalled the family’s support for his Xiao Clan through Flowing Cloud’s Cloud Alliance.

Duan San opened the auction by offering the Falling Heart Flame, which Elder Huo Wen of the Yan Clan won with a Heavenly Tier Primary Dou Technique scroll. Flowing Cloud received ten thousand portions of the flame through his system and kept the return secret as bidding continued on the next lot and other items.

• Duan San began the auction by presenting the Falling Heart Flame and inviting bids.
• Elder Huo Wen won the Falling Heart Flame with a Heavenly Tier Primary Dou Technique scroll and exchanged it with Duan San.
• Flowing Cloud received ten thousand portions of Falling Heart Flame from the system and decided not to reveal them.
• Duan San introduced a Heaven-tier Intermediate Dou Technique scroll, and bidders offered valuable pills for it.
• Flowing Cloud received system notifications granting him ten thousand Seventh-grade Pills and ten thousand Eighth-tier Demonic Core Weapons from other completed auctions.

Wind Venerable and Xiao Yan secured a Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pill after leaving a fiercely contested platform, while the VIP auction moved on to Three Thousand Burning Flame. The Yao Clan and Yan Clan representatives remained in competition for the Heavenly Flame.

• Duan San's auction notifications confirmed that buyers had claimed several treasures, and Wind Venerable and Xiao Yan abandoned a Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pill whose price had climbed too high.
• Wind Venerable led the Starfall Pavilion group to another platform and bid one Eighth-grade medicinal pill for its Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pill.
• A representative of the Gu Clan won a Heaven-tier Intermediate Dou Technique, while Flowing Cloud acquired another set of Supreme-level palm technique Dou Techniques.
• Duan San unveiled Three Thousand Burning Flame, ranked ninth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, and opened bidding without a starting price.
• Yao Tian offered one Ninth-grade Treasure Pill, leaving the Yao Clan and Yan Clan representatives as the only bidders still competing.
• Wind Venerable and Xiao Yan successfully purchased their Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pill at a small cost.