Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chen returned to the Jia Ma Empire to prepare for his wedding, while Flowing Cloud’s powerful Heaven and Earth Alliance kept the Mittel Continent calm. The chapter ended with the alliance’s elders discussing the Soul Clan’s withdrawal and the Hall of Souls’ decline.

• Xiao Chen left the Ancient Realm for the Xiao Clan in the Jia Ma Empire to prepare for his wedding, and Xiao Yan went with him while Xun Er stayed behind.
• Fairy Fire Spirit married Xiao Chen, making the Xiao Clan’s remaining capable members the envy of others.
• Flowing Cloud’s six Grand Elders grew stronger with the Ninth-grade Profound Pills, with Hai Bodong reaching Peak Five-star Dou Sheng.
• Hai Bodong and the other elders discussed the continent’s calm and whether the Soul Clan would make another move.
• The elders noted that the Soul Clan had withdrawn its forces and the Hall of Souls had abandoned its former soul-plundering activities.

Hai Bodong and the others discussed why the continent had settled into a fragile peace and how Flowing Cloud’s arrangements had protected the Ancient Races. They speculated that Hun Tiandi might use the Longevity Tree Heart to wait a thousand years for Soul Wind to reach Nine Star Dou Sheng.

• Hai Bodong explained that Flowing Cloud had protected the Xiao Clan and helped preserve the Ancient Jades of the Yan Clan and Lightning Clan.
• Hai Bodong and Qu Ming noted that the Soul Clan had only four Ancient Jades and risked a costly war if it tried to seize the remaining ones.
• Hai Bodong predicted that peace would last for a while, but that a future conflict would plunge the continent into chaos.
• Duan San suggested that Hun Tiandi might use the Longevity Tree Heart to plan for another thousand years.
• Purple Demonic Vulture agreed that the Soul Clan could dominate the other Ancient Races if Soul Wind reached Nine Star Dou Sheng.

Flowing Cloud entered the depths of the Void Lightning Pool and found an immense quantity of Black Demon Lightning. He absorbed its power, though it barely affected his already formidable body, and drew more bolts toward himself.

• Flowing Cloud entered the Void Lightning Pool, whose lightning bolts recoiled from his presence.
• Flowing Cloud reached the pool’s depths and discovered vast clusters of Black Demon Lightning.
• Flowing Cloud stepped into the black lightning and absorbed a bolt when it struck his arm.
• Black Demon Lightning seeped into Flowing Cloud’s body, but its effects were negligible.
• Flowing Cloud pulled more than a dozen bolts of Black Demon Lightning toward himself.

Flowing Cloud absorbed Black Demon Lightning in the Void Lightning Pool until it no longer tempered his body, then sensed a far greater pressure in the pool’s depths. He approached the source and found a gigantic golden lightning dragon coiled at the center of the lightning sea.

• Flowing Cloud swallowed more than a dozen Black Demon Lightning bolts and absorbed the pure energy they released.
• Flowing Cloud continued devouring Black Demon Lightning from the Void Lightning Pool, whose bolts vanished into a vortex around him.
• After the lightning stopped providing tempering, Flowing Cloud’s body had gained a strange black, armor-like sheen that he made disappear with a thought.
• Flowing Cloud sensed a powerful pressure in the depths of the pool and approached it.
• Flowing Cloud found a gigantic golden lightning dragon coiled in the sea of lightning.

Flowing Cloud recognized the golden lightning dragon as the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and pressed deeper into the lightning pool despite the Black Demon Lightning's assault. The dragon awakened and struck at him with a massive bolt of golden lightning.

• Flowing Cloud identified the golden dragon as Nine Profound Golden Lightning, a phenomenon produced by refining a Ninth-grade Golden Elixir.
• Flowing Cloud considered whether the lightning could help him break through to Seven-star Dou Sheng.
• Black Demon Lightning surged toward Flowing Cloud, but he endured its attacks and advanced farther into the lightning pool.
• The golden lightning dragon opened its eyes, revealing an aura comparable to a Seven-star Dou Sheng.
• The dragon fired a hundred-zhang bolt of golden lightning at Flowing Cloud.

Flowing Cloud absorbed the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and refined its energy to strengthen his Dou Qi and body. He swallowed the remaining lightning to temper his inner organs, while a pained roar suddenly came from the Golden Lightning Dragon.

• Flowing Cloud used his Merged Exotic Flame to withstand the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and began absorbing its energy.
• Flowing Cloud refined the lightning into pure Dou Qi, increasing his strength and tempering his body.
• Flowing Cloud swallowed the remaining golden lightning to strengthen his vulnerable organs.
• The Golden Lightning Dragon erupted with lightning and let out a pained roar, frightening the surrounding Black Demon Lightning away.

Flowing Cloud watched the Nine Profound Golden Lightning gather intelligence and suffer a devastating backlash that repeatedly shattered the spirit forming in its dragon eyes. The Black Demon Lightning rushed into its body and weakened the explosions, leaving its attempt to gain intelligence unresolved.

• Flowing Cloud realized that his arrival might have prompted the Nine Profound Golden Lightning to gather intelligence, a process that left it extremely vulnerable.
• The Nine Profound Golden Lightning endured violent internal explosions as traces of spirit appeared in its dragon eyes.
• The backlash grew stronger and blasted away much of the spirit, leading Flowing Cloud to doubt that it would successfully gain intelligence.
• The surrounding Black Demon Lightning surged into the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, gradually weakening the explosions within it.

Flowing Cloud watched Nine Profound Golden Lightning’s attempt to gather spirituality falter as destructive backlash overwhelmed it and the Black Demon Lightning could no longer help. He intervened by drawing some of its power out, leaving its fate in his hands.

• The Black Demon Lightning bolts threw themselves against Nine Profound Golden Lightning to suppress the explosions as its spiritual aura grew denser.
• Flowing Cloud realized the backlash was intensifying and that Nine Profound Golden Lightning’s spiritual gathering was about to fail.
• The Black Demon Lightning stopped charging and circled the weakened dragon, whimpering as Flowing Cloud approached.
• Flowing Cloud transformed into a hundred-zhang giant, told Nine Profound Golden Lightning to separate some of its power, and pulled golden lightning from its body.
• Flowing Cloud gathered the extracted lightning into a hundred-zhang dragon and gripped it in his hand.

Flowing Cloud devoured the Nine Profound Golden Lightning to strengthen his body and advance to Seven-star Dou Sheng, then gave the weakened lightning intelligence. He left the Void Lightning Pool as the newly sentient dragon watched him go.

• Flowing Cloud swallowed the Golden Lightning Dragon, absorbing its energy and breaking through to Seven-star Dou Sheng.
• Flowing Cloud continued extracting and devouring the Nine Profound Golden Lightning's power until it shrank to around ten zhang long.
• Flowing Cloud gathered spiritual energy and placed it inside the weakened Nine Profound Golden Lightning, granting it intelligence without backlash.
• Flowing Cloud told the Nine Profound Golden Lightning it was now the only one of its kind with intelligence, then departed across the Void Lightning Pool.
• The newly sentient Nine Profound Golden Lightning watched Flowing Cloud leave and engraved his image in its heart.

Flowing Cloud spoke with the Yellow Springs Demon Saint about his recovery and gave him a Ninth-grade Profound Pill to restore his Soul Power. Confident in his own strength, Flowing Cloud no longer feared the Demon Saint returning to his former peak.

• Flowing Cloud halted the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's expansion of the Tian Niu Realm after it grew larger than a dozen Northwest Continents.
• The Soul Nurturing Ancient Tree gradually restored the Tian Niu Realm's time flow to a ratio of one to ten.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint told Flowing Cloud that his Soul Power had recovered to roughly the Four-star Dou Sheng level but needed a great treasure to progress further.
• Flowing Cloud gave Yellow Springs Demon Saint a Ninth-grade Profound Pill, which the Demon Saint said could help him recover toward Nine Star Dou Sheng and eventually form a new body.
• Flowing Cloud kept the source of his pills secret and trusted that his Seven-star Dou Sheng strength would let him control the Demon Saint if necessary.

Flowing Cloud traveled to the forbidden Eastern Region of the Tian Niu Realm to create a second clone with Lightning Attribute Dou Qi. He refined rare lightning treasures into its body and rapidly raised the clone's cultivation to Nine-star Dou Zun.

• After leaving the Myriad Monster Palace, Flowing Cloud arrived in the Eastern Region of the Tian Niu Realm to begin cultivating his second and third clones.
• Flowing Cloud used his Life Fire and Soul Power to refine precious materials for the second clone, choosing Lightning Attribute Dou Qi.
• The lightning materials formed a clone that began at One-star Dou Zun.
• Flowing Cloud transferred cultivation from his true body while consuming pills to prevent his realm from falling.
• The clone's cultivation quickly rose to Nine-star Dou Zun.

Flowing Cloud completed the Nine Revolutions for his Lightning Attribute Dou Qi clone, bringing it to the peak of Nine-turn Dou Zun. He began gathering a separate soul for the clone, leaving its soul phantom growing as he replenished his own Soul Power.

• Flowing Cloud prepared to refine his second clone into a Dou Sheng, a process he expected to take less than a month.
• Flowing Cloud used several Ninth-grade Treasure Pills to replenish the clone’s Dou Qi through repeated compression and condensation.
• After nine days, Flowing Cloud’s Lightning Attribute Dou Qi clone completed the Nine Revolutions and reached the Nine-turn Peak Dou Zun level.
• Flowing Cloud formed a hundred-zhang soul phantom and began transferring Soul Power to create a soul for the clone.
• Flowing Cloud consumed Soul Power-restoring pills and treasures to keep his own soul phantom at its original size while the clone’s soul grew.

Flowing Cloud’s second clone’s soul grew beyond the Spirit Realm and reached completion. Flowing Cloud then prepared to use a powerful Soul Light Cluster, leaving the clone’s soul poised for a possible advance to the Heaven Realm.

• Flowing Cloud’s second clone’s soul phantom grew to dozens of zhang tall and surpassed the Spirit Realm.
• The clone’s soul advanced through the middle and late stages of the Spirit Realm to Spirit Realm completion.
• Flowing Cloud took out the Soul Light Cluster that the Soul Clan had traded alongside other treasures for the Longevity Tree Heart.
• Flowing Cloud’s Soul Light Cluster was powerful enough to potentially raise an ordinary person’s soul to the Heaven Realm.

Flowing Cloud used his main body's soul to temper his second clone and feed it Soul Origin until it reached the Heaven Realm. The clone had only reached the realm's initial stage, so Flowing Cloud continued the process.

• Flowing Cloud used his main body's soul to temper the second clone while replenishing its Soul Power from the Soul Light Cluster.
• After several days, the clone's soul reached the peak of the Spirit Realm.
• On the twentieth day, the clone's soul successfully entered the Heaven Realm.
• Flowing Cloud judged the clone's initial Heaven Realm stage insufficient and continued tempering it.

Flowing Cloud finished refining his second clone’s soul and fused it with the body, triggering its breakthrough to One-star Dou Sheng. He intended to keep refining the clone until it reached Mid-tier Dou Sheng and ultimately create a clone for every attribute.

• Flowing Cloud’s second clone’s Soul Realm rose to the late Heaven Realm after a month of refinement.
• Flowing Cloud guided the clone’s soul back into its body, where soul and flesh fused without mishap.
• The fused clone absorbed Lightning Attribute energy and began its Saint Transformation.
• After a month, the clone stabilized at One-star Dou Sheng, and Flowing Cloud aimed to raise it to Mid-tier Dou Sheng.

Flowing Cloud strengthened his lightning-attributed clone with treasures until it reached Two-star Dou Sheng, then brought it to the Void Lightning Pool to cultivate with natural lightning. There, he reunited with the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, which had quickly recovered to Dou Sheng strength and still regarded him warmly.

• Flowing Cloud explained that his clone could advance rapidly because it had already overcome the bottleneck of entering sainthood and was linked to his main body.
• Flowing Cloud refined a large trove of treasures with his Life Fire to further strengthen the clone.
• After the clone reached Two-star Dou Sheng, Flowing Cloud summoned the Void Burrowing Beast and traveled with it to the Void Lightning Pool.
• The Black Demon Lightning fled when Flowing Cloud and his powerful clone arrived.
• The Nine Profound Golden Lightning came to Flowing Cloud and circled him, and he praised how quickly it had recovered to Dou Sheng strength.

Flowing Cloud used Nine Profound Golden Lightning to draw Black Demon Lightning into his Lightning Attribute avatar, rapidly strengthening its body and cultivation. The avatar reached Four-star Dou Sheng and developed mutated Lightning Attribute Dou Qi, while the Black Demon Lightnings continued surging toward it.

• Flowing Cloud decided to leave the savage lightning dragon within his body for his Lightning Attribute avatar, but first had the avatar absorb Black Demon Lightning.
• Flowing Cloud drew Black Demon Lightning into the avatar one bolt at a time, and the avatar's injuries quickly healed as its strength grew.
• After the avatar broke through to Three-star Dou Sheng, Flowing Cloud drove ten Black Demon Lightnings toward it at a time, strengthening its body and mutating its Lightning Attribute Dou Qi.
• Nine Profound Golden Lightning understood Flowing Cloud's plan and summoned large quantities of Black Demon Lightning to help nourish the avatar.
• The avatar reached Four-star Dou Sheng as a vortex drew in dense Black Demon Lightning, which it endured with ease.

Flowing Cloud's second clone endured the Black Demon Lightning in the lightning pool and absorbed it to strengthen his body and cultivation. After breaking through to Five-star Dou Sheng, the clone found that the lightning's effects were beginning to weaken.

• Flowing Cloud's second clone provoked the lightning pool, drawing a barrage of Black Demon Lightning that struck with the force of Dou Sheng attacks.
• Flowing Cloud's clone adapted to the assault and sat cross-legged as the lightning repeatedly hit and vanished into his body.
• Flowing Cloud sensed the Black Demon Lightning turning into pure energy that flowed through the clone's meridians, muscles, and organs.
• Flowing Cloud's second clone absorbed enough lightning to break through to Five-star Dou Sheng, though the lightning soon had less effect on him.

Flowing Cloud found that the Black Demon Lightning could no longer strengthen his Five-star Dou Sheng lightning clone, so he summoned the extracted Nine Profound Golden Lightning to forge a second clone. He began using his immense soul power to seize and refine the Golden Lightning Dragon, leaving its fate in his hands.

• Flowing Cloud determined that the Black Demon Lightning could no longer increase or temper his lightning clone.
• Flowing Cloud summoned the extracted Nine Profound Golden Lightning, which formed a Golden Lightning Dragon and drove the Black Demon Lightning away.
• The sentient Nine Profound Golden Lightning watched its former power, now far stronger than itself, without regret.
• Flowing Cloud declared that he would use the Golden Lightning Dragon to forge a second clone.
• Flowing Cloud manifested a colossal soul phantom and reached for the Golden Lightning Dragon, whose body reacted with terror.

Flowing Cloud crushed a Nine Profound Golden Lightning into Golden liquid and fed one drop to his second avatar. The avatar began digesting it while Flowing Cloud held the remaining drops in reserve.

• The Golden Lightning Dragon unleashed huge golden lightning spheres, but Flowing Cloud's soul hand seized and crushed it.
• The Golden Lightning Dragon became Golden liquid, while the spirit-awakened Nine Profound Golden Lightning watched without daring to approach.
• Flowing Cloud flicked one drop of Golden liquid into his second avatar, sending it flying before the liquid merged into its body.
• Flowing Cloud told the avatar to digest the drop slowly, and the avatar sat down as the immense energy nearly overwhelmed its body.