Chapter Summaries

Flowing Cloud fought Zhu Kun inside the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, then revealed the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's fate and the current struggle over the Ancient Jade. Zhu Kun agreed to hear Flowing Cloud out, who asked him to side with him when the cave mansion opened.

• Zhu Kun's light seal struck Flowing Cloud, but Flowing Cloud endured the attack with his three-colored flame crystal and enormous body.
• Flowing Cloud stopped Zhu Kun's next attack by calling him by name and explaining that he recognized him as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's Old Dragon Emperor.
• Flowing Cloud told Zhu Kun that the clan had fractured into civil war before a royal-blooded woman became its new Dragon Emperor, and Zhu Kun realized she was his daughter.
• Zhu Kun asked Flowing Cloud to tell his daughter that he was alive, and Flowing Cloud agreed.
• Flowing Cloud explained that the Soul Clan had four pieces of Ancient Jade and that Nihility Devouring Flame had become a Nine Star Dou Sheng, while four other clans opposed the Soul Clan.
• Flowing Cloud asked Zhu Kun to stand on his side when the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion opened.

Flowing Cloud visited Zhu Kun in the Ancient Emperor Space and urged him to join his side when the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion opened, hinting at the strength of his forces. After leaving Zhu Kun trapped in the space, Flowing Cloud set up a Void Gate and returned to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where Su Qian welcomed him back.

• Flowing Cloud asked Zhu Kun to stand with him when the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion opened, and Zhu Kun questioned whether Flowing Cloud had the forces to oppose the Gu Clan and Soul Clan.
• Flowing Cloud claimed that his force could rival the Ancient Races and revealed that he was not yet thirty, leaving Zhu Kun shocked and doubtful.
• Flowing Cloud warned Zhu Kun to choose the right side, then left the Ancient Emperor Space without creating a Void Gate there.
• Zhu Kun repeatedly tried to break free from the space, but its barrier held him, and he cursed Tou She Ancient God.
• Flowing Cloud summoned the Void Burrowing Beast at the bottom of the Lava World, and the beast inscribed runes to establish a Void Gate.
• Flowing Cloud returned to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower through the lava passage, where Su Qian greeted him.

Flowing Cloud spoke with Su Qian about Jia Nan Academy and its talented students, then disguised himself as an ordinary student to approach Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yi Xian. After playfully agreeing to grant their wishes, he led the three women away from the academy while the students speculated about their relationship.

• Flowing Cloud told Su Qian he had taken a trip down memory lane and asked about Jia Nan Academy's promising students.
• Su Qian mentioned Xiao Yan's rise to One-star Dou Sheng, and Flowing Cloud recalled how he had helped Xiao Yan grow stronger.
• Flowing Cloud discussed his academy in the Tian Niu Realm with Su Qian, then avoided answering whether he would enroll at Jia Nan Academy as a student.
• Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yi Xian recognized Flowing Cloud in disguise when he approached them at Jia Nan Academy.
• Flowing Cloud agreed to grant the three women their playful wishes, including a wedding and another auction.
• Flowing Cloud led Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yi Xian out of the Inner Academy as the students watched and speculated about them.

Flowing Cloud brought Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and Ya Fei to Qingshan Town, where Xiao Yi Xian remembered her past. When she recognized Ling'er in danger from the Snake Nest Mercenary Group, Xiao Yi Xian intervened and killed Han Rui.

• Flowing Cloud left Jia Nan Academy with Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yi Xian and took them to Qingshan Town.
• The group arrived at the mountain where Flowing Cloud had once rescued Xiao Yi Xian, then entered the town.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Ya Fei and Yun Yun that Qingshan Town had a history of poor security and frequent violence.
• Han Rui and the Snake Nest Mercenary Group cornered members of the Blood Battle Mercenary Group and demanded Ling'er.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized Ling'er as a former patient and appeared in front of her, turning Han Rui into a cloud of blood mist.

Xiao Yi Xian rescued Ling'er and Kalan from the Snake Nest Mercenary Group and agreed to help the Blood Battle Mercenary Group. She gave Ling'er five powerful beads and a jade token, leaving them with a way to face the Snake Nest captain and call for help in a future emergency.

• Xiao Yi Xian appeared just as the Scarred Man was about to strike Ling'er and turned him into blood mist.
• Flowing Cloud stopped and killed the Snake Nest Mercenary Group members who fled, while Ling'er recognized Xiao Yi Xian.
• Kagan realized Xiao Yi Xian could help the Blood Battle Mercenary Group and knelt with Ling'er to plead for her aid.
• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to handle the matter and told Kagan and Ling'er to get up.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Ling'er five beads capable of killing a Dou Huang expert and a jade token she could crush to summon Xiao Yi Xian once.

Flowing Cloud and Xiao Yi Xian revisited the valley where they had pledged their love and built a new grass hut, bringing back memories of her past and Little Blue. The group settled in to share a meal while Flowing Cloud kept his hopes of reviving Little Blue to himself.

• Ling'er thanked Xiao Yi Xian and accepted her treasure before Xiao Yi Xian left with Flowing Cloud and the others.
• Xiao Yi Xian revisited the apothecary where she had once lived and worked, then agreed with Flowing Cloud to visit their old valley.
• Flowing Cloud and the others reached the hidden valley, where Xiao Yi Xian remembered the place she and Flowing Cloud had pledged their love.
• Flowing Cloud built a new grass hut while Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and the others prepared soup.
• Flowing Cloud remembered how Little Blue had been killed by poison cultivators and chose not to tell Xiao Yi Xian that he hoped to revive it someday.
• Xiao Yi Xian called Flowing Cloud over to taste the food.

Flowing Cloud spent time in a little valley with Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yi Xian, then left with them as hidden tensions stirred beneath the Mittel Continent. With Hun Sha’s deadline nearly up, Bing Fu went to the Yan Clan seeking Bing Ji’s help.

• Flowing Cloud cooked roast chicken for Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yi Xian after they teased him about their wild vegetable soup.
• Flowing Cloud and the three women spent the night in his grass hut, letting Xiao Yi Xian revisit a cherished memory, and left the valley the next morning.
• After taking his wives sightseeing, Flowing Cloud left the surface political tensions to grow as twelve of Hun Sha’s fifteen days passed.
• Bing Fu went to the Yan Clan with two Dou Sheng experts to find Bing Ji, who had reportedly helped the Yan Clan disrupt the Soul Clan’s plan.
• A powerful Yan Clan woman emerged to meet Bing Fu, matching his Late Seven-star Dou Sheng cultivation.

Bing Fu visited the Yan Clan to ask about Bing Ji, who had been missing for one or two years. Fairy Fire Spirit said the Yan Clan knew nothing of his whereabouts, leaving Bing Fu worried that Ice River Valley would have to fight the Soul Clan.

• Fairy Fire Spirit used the Soul Seduction Technique on Bing Fu, but he quickly dispelled it.
• Bing Fu asked Fairy Fire Spirit where Bing Ji was, explaining that the Soul Clan had issued Ice River Valley an ultimatum over Bing Ji helping the Yan Clan.
• Fairy Fire Spirit was surprised to learn Bing Ji had been missing for one or two years.
• Fairy Fire Spirit said Bing Ji had left after returning the Imperial Jade and insisted the Yan Clan knew nothing about where he had gone.
• Bing Fu left the matter unresolved, troubled that Ice River Valley might have to fight the Soul Clan.

Bing Fu gave up searching for Bing Ji after the Yan Clan claimed not to know where he was. Back in the Jia Ma Empire, Xiao Chen reflected on Flowing Cloud’s promise to protect the Xiao Clan and the support the clan continued to receive.

• Bing Fu accepted that he could not search the Yan Clan’s territory and left with the Ice River Valley group to look elsewhere for Bing Ji.
• Fairy Fire Spirit wondered why Bing Ji had behaved so differently while rescuing the Yan Clan, then left without pursuing the matter.
• Xiao Chen recalled Flowing Cloud’s promise to look after the Xiao Clan and thought about how Xiao Xuan’s actions had preserved a path for the clan.
• Xiao Chen considered the Xiao Clan’s safety in the Jia Ma Empire, where the Heaven and Earth Alliance protected them and the Gu Clan showed goodwill.
• Xiao Chen regretted that he still could not repay Flowing Cloud for the alliance’s continued help.

The Heaven and Earth Alliance announced a major auction featuring Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and a Ninth-grade Profound Pill, drawing attention from across the continent. As the Ancient Races prepared their delegations, Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er discussed whether Gu Yuan would allow her to attend.

• Xiao Chen decided to visit the Ancient Realm and seek Xiao Yan’s help with the funds needed for the auction.
• News spread that the Heaven and Earth Alliance would auction Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and a Ninth-grade Profound Pill, prompting experts to travel to the Mittel Northern Region.
• The Lightning Clan and Yan Clan dispatched elders and young members to attend the auction.
• Yao Dan barred the Yao Clan’s younger generation from attending because the clan could not protect its treasures.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Xun'er whether she planned to attend, and she said she would go if Gu Yuan approved.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er discussed attending the Heaven and Earth Alliance auction, and Xiao Chen encouraged them to go. Gu Yuan agreed to let Xun Er attend with Gu Dao and revealed that he also wanted to meet Flowing Cloud.

• Xiao Chen arrived at the training ground and confirmed that the Heaven and Earth Alliance had helped keep Xiao Yan’s relatives safe.
• Xiao Chen told Xiao Yan and Xun Er that he had come to the Ancient Realm for the Heaven and Earth Alliance auction and praised its safety.
• Xun Er and Xiao Yan went to the main hall to ask Gu Yuan if she could attend the auction.
• Gu Yuan agreed to let Xun Er go with Gu Dao and gave her instructions to use the Spatial Jade Slip if danger arose.
• Gu Yuan said he wanted to attend the auction himself to meet Flowing Cloud.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er received Gu Yuan’s approval to attend the Heaven and Earth Alliance auction, then prepared to depart with Xiao Chen. Xiao Yan promised to refine a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill on the way, giving them more leverage to bid on the auction’s coveted items.

• Xiao Yan and Xun Er understood Gu Yuan’s admiration for Flowing Cloud and received his approval to attend the auction.
• Xiao Chen welcomed Xiao Yan and Xun Er outside the hall and explained the value of attending the rare auction.
• Xiao Chen set off with Xiao Yan and urged him to refine pills on the road for use as bargaining chips.
• Xiao Yan promised Xiao Chen that he would refine a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill before the auction began.

Ice River Valley searched unsuccessfully for Bing Ji and waited for the Soul Clan to follow through on its threat, but no one came. Bing Fu then approved Bing Kuang’s plan to represent the valley at the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s upcoming auction.

• Bing Fu told Ice River Valley’s experts to stop searching for Bing Ji and wait to see whether the Soul Clan would come.
• Ice River Valley’s experts waited beneath the spatial rift all day, but no one from the Soul Clan appeared.
• Bing Kuang asked Bing Fu to let Ice River Valley attend the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s auction.
• Bing Fu agreed, and Bing Kuang left to prepare for the auction.

Xiao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Xun Er arrived in Bone Melting City ahead of the Heaven and Earth Alliance auction and sought lodging at the city’s most exclusive inn. After spotting four Soul Clan figures entering, Xiao Yan changed their plan and asked for two suites.

• Xiao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Xun Er entered the inn, where a Nine-star Dou Zun attendant explained that only Half-Saint-level experts and above could stay.
• Xiao Chen said the three of them would share one suite, and the attendant went to process their check-in.
• Xiao Yan noticed four black-robed Soul Clan figures arriving and alerted Xiao Chen and Xun Er.
• After the three expressed their hostility toward the Soul Clan, Xiao Yan returned to the counter and requested two suites instead.

Xiao Yan booked two rooms in Bone Melting City before Soul Wind and his Soul Clan companions mocked him and Xiao Chen. Xiao Yan left with Xun Er and Xiao Chen, while Soul Wind discovered that the last rooms had been taken.

• Xiao Yan changed his mind and booked two rooms for himself and Xiao Chen.
• Soul Wind and the other Black Robes insulted Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen, and Xun Er angrily answered them.
• Xiao Yan assessed Soul Wind's group and left with Xun Er, telling her to let Soul Wind keep barking.
• Soul Wind tried to check in, but the attendant told him Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen had booked the last two rooms.

Soul Wind’s group failed to secure rooms at the inn and settled elsewhere as Bone Melting City filled with auction visitors. Xiao Yan entered the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s Auction Realm with Xiao Chen and Xun Er, where he saw a vast, carefully constructed space filled with valuable treasures.

• Soul Wind complained that Xiao Yan’s group had booked two rooms, but the inn’s waiter refused to make another guest give up a room.
• Soul Wind and his group left for an ordinary inn after learning all thirty rooms had been booked by Half-Saints and Dou Sheng experts.
• As crowds gathered in Bone Melting City, Grand Elder Chu Donghai opened a Space Passage to the Auction Realm.
• More than four million people entered the Auction Realm within an hour, and the crowd continued to grow.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, and Xun Er entered the Auction Realm, where Xiao Yan saw artificial scenery and platforms displaying pills, Magical Beast Cores, Dou Techniques, and other treasures.

Xiao Yan and the others attended the Heaven and Earth Alliance auction, where elite representatives from the Ancient Races gathered to bid on rare treasures. Xiao Chen reunited with Fairy Fire Spirit, who suggested that a Ninth-grade Profound Pill could help him advance to Seven-star Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Yan observed the auction’s rare treasures and noted the powerful delegates from the Yan Clan, Lightning Clan, Gu Clan, and Soul Clan.
• Fairy Fire Spirit approached Xiao Chen and greeted him as an old friend.
• Xiao Chen and Fairy Fire Spirit recalled their acquaintance from a thousand years earlier and the Xiao Clan’s downfall.
• Fairy Fire Spirit told Xiao Chen that a Ninth-grade Profound Pill at the auction could help him break through to Seven-star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Xun Er entered the Heaven and Earth Alliance auction, where Fairy Fire Spirit offered the Yan Clan’s Ninth-grade Profound Pill to Xiao Chen if they won it. The auction began with Ya Fei making a mysterious entrance that astonished the audience.

• Fairy Fire Spirit told Xiao Chen that the Yan Clan could give him the Ninth-grade Profound Pill if they won it, but he fell silent.
• Xiao Chen led Xiao Yan and Xun Er into the auction venue, where most of the seats soon filled.
• An ancient bell rang, and the audience turned toward the central platform as the auction began.
• Ya Fei appeared on the platform without any visible spatial fluctuation, surprising even some Dou Sheng experts.
• Xiao Yan recognized Ya Fei as an old acquaintance from Wutan City and reflected on how much she had grown.

Ya Fei opened the Heaven and Earth Alliance auction by presenting a Star Luo Great Return Pill, a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill that could raise a Dou Sheng's cultivation. The pill drew the interest of the Ancient Races, Xiao Yan, and independent Dou Sheng experts, setting up a fierce bidding contest.

• Ya Fei welcomed the audience and announced that the auction would offer only twenty items.
• Ya Fei displayed a Star Luo Great Return Pill, which an elderly Pill Tower member recognized as a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill.
• Ya Fei explained that a One-star Dou Sheng who consumed the pill was guaranteed to reach Two-star Dou Sheng and might advance to Three-star Dou Sheng.
• Lei Dong, Gu Qingyang, the Yan Clan prodigies, Xiao Yan, and independent Dou Sheng experts coveted the pill.

Ya Fei opened the auction with a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill, and Soul Wind's bid of a Heaven-tier Intermediate Dou Technique went unanswered. The bidding remained open after Ya Fei called out the highest offer three times.

• Ya Fei announced that the Ninth-grade Treasure Pill had no starting price and invited bids.
• Wan Xi Shan offered a Heaven-tier beginner Dou Technique, and other bidders raised the price with additional techniques and an Eighth-grade medicinal pill.
• Chen offered three Heaven-tier beginner Dou Techniques and an Eighth-grade medicinal pill, then warned that he would withdraw if anyone bid higher.
• Soul Wind mocked Chen and bid a Heaven-tier Intermediate Dou Technique for the pill.
• Ya Fei repeated that Soul Wind held the highest bid, but no one raised the offer.