Chapter Summaries

Liu Ling successfully refined a Fifth-Grade Pill and broke through to become a Fifth-Grade Alchemist while Queen Medusa fought Xiao Jin above Stone Desert City. As Mo Bass and Kui Xing approached his courtyard to reach Yue Mei, Liu Ling faced two Dou Wang experts alone.

• Liu Ling struggled to condense a golden pill embryo in the Crimson Snake Cauldron as Yue Mei watched and worried about his attempt.
• Liu Ling completed the pill’s refinement and reached the rank of Fifth-Grade Alchemist.
• Queen Medusa arrived above Stone Desert City and clashed with Xiao Jin, while Yue Mei chose not to interrupt Liu Ling’s pill refinement.
• Mo Bass and Kui Xing sensed Yue Mei in Liu Ling’s courtyard and flew toward it.
• Liu Ling celebrated his breakthrough, then saw Mo Bass and Kui Xing approaching as two Dou Wang experts.

Liu Ling took Yue Mei hostage when Mo Bass and Kui Xing arrived to rescue her. He negotiated their departure from Stone Desert City, leaving Yue Mei in his custody while the battle between Queen Medusa and Xiao Jin continued overhead.

• Liu Ling restrained Yue Mei and used her as a hostage because he could not fight Mo Bass and Kui Xing.
• Mo Bass and Kui Xing arrived and stopped when Liu Ling threatened to kill Yue Mei.
• Liu Ling pressured Yue Mei to make her people withdraw, and she agreed to negotiate.
• Yue Mei ordered Mo Bass and Kui Xing to swear not to attack Stone Desert City, and they agreed, excepting Liu Ling.
• Mo Bass and Kui Xing left Stone Desert City, while Queen Medusa continued forcing Xiao Jin back in the sky.

Liu Ling sent Yue Mei out of Stone Desert City, then tried to escape Queen Medusa with Xiao Jin. As Medusa unleashed a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, Liu Ling crushed the Void Jade Talisman, alerting Gu He far away.

• Liu Ling carried Yue Mei to Stone Desert City's gate and sent her to join Mo Bass and Kui Xing outside.
• Xiao Jin arrived and carried Liu Ling away, but Queen Medusa intercepted them and proved too powerful for Xiao Jin to defeat.
• Liu Ling decided to summon his master, Gu He, by crushing the jade talisman around his neck.
• Queen Medusa formed a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and sent it toward Liu Ling and Xiao Jin.
• Liu Ling crushed the Void Jade Talisman, and Gu He opened his eyes in a valley behind Jia Nan Academy.

Gu He’s projected phantom appeared after Liu Ling summoned him, rescued Liu Ling and Xiao Jin from Queen Medusa, and trapped her in a spatial prison. Gu He praised Liu Ling for completing his training but allowed him to stay longer, then thanked Xiao Jin for protecting him.

• The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python swallowed Xiao Jin’s golden energy and charged at Xiao Jin and Liu Ling.
• Gu He’s phantom emerged from twisted space, destroying the python and frightening Queen Medusa.
• Queen Medusa fled, but Gu He sealed her inside a spatial prison and stopped her escape.
• Liu Ling told Gu He he had reached the Dou Ling realm, become a Fifth-Grade Alchemist, and led Stone Desert City’s strongest mercenary regiment.
• Gu He invited Liu Ling to return to the sect, but Liu Ling asked to stay longer, and Gu He agreed.
• Gu He praised Xiao Jin for secretly protecting Liu Ling.

Gu He confined Queen Medusa after his projection subdued her, then returned to Jia Nan Academy, where he empowered Han Yue and obtained the Heaven-tier movement technique Void Thunder God Flash. He began extracting the technique from the system as Han Yue worried that the Wind Thunder Pavilion would object to her learning Three Thousand Lightning Movement.

• Liu Ling explained that Queen Medusa had come after Xiao Jin captured Yue Mei during the Snake People Tribe's attack on Stone Desert City.
• Gu He left his projection to guard Queen Medusa until his true body arrived, then returned from seclusion to Jia Nan Academy with his cultivation at the peak of the Five-star Dou Zun level.
• Gu He praised the courtyard Zi Yan and Han Yue had restored, then empowered Han Yue from Two-star to Six-star Dou King.
• Gu He taught Han Yue Three Thousand Lightning Movement, and the system rewarded him with the Heaven-tier low-grade technique Void Thunder God Flash.
• Han Yue recognized Three Thousand Lightning Movement as the Wind Thunder Pavilion's secret technique, and Gu He told her to use it only when necessary.
• Gu He began extracting Void Thunder God Flash from the system, and the silver sphere of light entered his body.

Gu He absorbed the Void Thunder God Flash and learned of its powerful abilities, then gifted Han Yue a Purple Demon Vulture egg and received a Nine Nether Sparrow egg from the system. The chapter ended with Zi Yan awkwardly praising Gu He after he teased her for compliments.

• Gu He absorbed the silver orb, mastered the Void Thunder God Flash, and demonstrated thunderous power that astonished Zi Yan and Han Yue.
• Gu He gave Han Yue a Purple Demon Vulture egg, and the system rewarded him with a Nine Nether Sparrow egg.
• Gu He explained the egg's origins and potential, then gave Han Yue Companion Amethyst Crystal Source to help it hatch.
• Gu He prompted Zi Yan to praise him, and she called him virtuous, highly respected, pure, and spotless.

Gu He gave Zi Yan a cultivation transfer that advanced her to Seven-star Dou Emperor, then learned she wanted more pressure to motivate her training. He set out training missions for Zi Yan and Han Yue and began with Han Yue’s assignment to travel to the Central Plains.

• Zi Yan asked Gu He for a reward, and Gu He transferred cultivation to her until her body could no longer absorb it.
• The system returned twenty-seven years of cultivation to Gu He after he granted Zi Yan ten days of cultivation.
• Zi Yan told Gu He she felt too comfortable and wanted pressure, so he promised her a task with a reward for completing it.
• Gu He said Zi Yan and Han Yue no longer needed to stay at Jia Nan Academy and called Han Yue over for her assignment.
• Gu He instructed Han Yue to travel to the Central Plains, reach Dou Emperor as soon as possible, make the finals of the next Four Directions Pavilion Tournament, and perfect the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Zi Yan realized Han Yue would leave Jia Nan Academy and travel to the Central Plains alone.

Gu He assigned Han Yue and Zi Yan difficult training tasks in the Central Plains and prepared them to leave Jia Nan Academy. After giving both disciples Void Jade Talismans and Storage Rings, he told Su Qian he would also leave the academy for up to two years.

• Gu He set Han Yue three goals: reach Dou Emperor, make the Four Pavilion Grand Competition finals, and perfect Three Thousand Lightning Movement; he promised to transfer cultivation to her three times before the competition.
• Gu He gave Han Yue a Void Jade Talisman that would let him track her and come to her aid, then gave Zi Yan one as well.
• Gu He tasked Zi Yan with reaching the seventh tier before Han Yue's Wind Thunder Pavilion competition and told both disciples to depart for the Central Plains that day.
• Han Yue and Zi Yan tearfully said farewell, and Gu He gave each of them a Storage Ring before leaving to see Su Qian.
• Gu He asked Su Qian to arrange flying magical beasts to take the two disciples to the nearest Space Wormhole and said he would be away for at most two years.

Gu He returned toward the Jia Ma Empire, strengthened his cultivation, and received a Bodhi Pill and the Demon Flame Sword from the system. Meanwhile, Xiao Yi Xian escaped Old Monster Liu by swimming through a poison-filled lake, where she discovered hundreds of thousands of corpses.

• Gu He flew back with the Black Scale Cold Flood Dragon and confirmed that the Nine Nether Sparrow egg would hatch in ten days.
• Gu He absorbed the returned cultivation from Zi Yan and Han Yue, gaining more than thirty years without breaking through his peak Five-star Dou Zun cultivation.
• Gu He selected a Po Zong Pill and the Ben Huo Sword for return, receiving a Bodhi Pill and the Ninth-Tier Demon Flame Sword.
• Gu He ordered the Black Scale Cold Flood Dragon to take him to Stone Desert City and began studying Void Thunder God Flash.
• Xiao Yi Xian fled Old Monster Liu and Ma Dayuan's group by diving into a poisonous lake, where she saw countless decaying corpses.
• Xiao Yi Xian reached shore after swimming underwater for nearly two hours and wondered who had thrown hundreds of thousands of people into the lake.

After recovering from the green lake, Xiao Yi Xian reached the barren mountains and discovered Liu Rulong confronting Hua An and the Demonic Poison Sect's Huang Dahai. As Liu Rulong and Hua An prepared to fight over access to the hidden Ancient Ruin City, Xiao Yi Xian secretly circled around them.

• Xiao Yi Xian flew across the barren mountains and hid after sensing a fight nearby.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized Huang Dahai beside Hua An, then saw Liu Rulong arrive with Ma Dayuan, Wang Jing, and other Myriad Poison Sect members.
• Liu Rulong questioned Hua An about how he had learned of the ruin, and Hua An claimed Liu Rulong's people had revealed it.
• Liu Rulong declared that only the Myriad Poison Sect could enter Ancient Ruin City, while Xiao Yi Xian quietly circled to the right.
• Hua An and Liu Rulong drew their Sixth-Grade weapons, then sent their followers away as they prepared to fight.

Xiao Yi Xian raced toward the ancient city while Liu Rulong and Hua An fought to stop each other. Hua An lost an arm to the Thousand-legged Cricket’s poison, and Xiao Yi Xian entered the deserted city ahead of her pursuers.

• Xiao Yi Xian spotted the enormous ancient city and rushed toward it while Liu Rulong ordered Ma Dayuan and the others to stop her.
• Hua An struck Liu Rulong as he was distracted, then held him back while Xiao Yi Xian flew toward the city and Huang Dahai followed the pursuing group.
• Liu Rulong poisoned Hua An with a Thousand-legged Cricket, and Hua An cut off his own left arm to prevent the venom from spreading.
• Liu Rulong flew toward the ancient city as Ma Dayuan and the others chased Xiao Yi Xian over its walls, but her gray gas forced them back.
• Xiao Yi Xian entered the silent, deserted city and wondered whether Green Water Lake’s hundreds of thousands of corpses had once lived there.

Xiao Yi Xian escaped Liu Rulong and his men, who turned their attention to searching an ancient city for treasures. They discovered a vast, mist-covered marsh beyond the city’s white walls, and Liu Rulong forced Ma Dayuan and the others to scout it first.

• Xiao Yi Xian easily repelled Ma Dayuan and five other Dou Wang experts, then vanished in a cloud of poisonous gray gas.
• Liu Rulong arrived, killed Wang Jing for failing to find Xiao Yi Xian, and accepted Ma Dayuan’s suggestion to search the ancient city for treasures.
• Liu Rulong led the group across the city and found towering white walls that he mistook for a royal palace.
• Xiao Yi Xian secretly followed the group on foot after hiding until they passed.
• Liu Rulong discovered a huge, mist-shrouded marsh beyond the white walls and ordered Ma Dayuan and the others to fly down and scout it.

Xiao Yi Xian discovered that the swamp’s poisonous gas strengthened her Calamity Poison Body, but Liu Rulong caught up and forced her to dive beneath the swamp. She escaped into the green water below, where her aura began to surge.

• Ma Dayuan and the others worried that Liu Rulong would kill them after their scouting mission, and they could only hope something would stop him.
• Xiao Yi Xian followed Liu Rulong into the swamp and absorbed its poisonous gas, breaking through by one star.
• Liu Rulong revealed that he knew Xiao Yi Xian had followed him and attacked so he could study her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian dove through the swamp’s muddy surface into the green water to escape Liu Rulong.
• Liu Rulong blasted the swamp but found no trace of Xiao Yi Xian and left, while her aura surged in the poisonous water below.

Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the swamp’s toxins and reached Six-star Dou King, but Liu Rulong tracked her down and attacked her underwater. Just as he moved to capture her, a mysterious Silver-haired little girl appeared and greeted Xiao Yi Xian as Sister Xian'er.

• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the swamp’s toxins and broke through to Six-star Dou King, disturbing the swamp and drawing Liu Rulong back.
• Liu Rulong entered the poisonous water and pursued Xiao Yi Xian, protecting himself with Dou Qi as the toxins corroded it.
• Liu Rulong attacked Xiao Yi Xian with a black crescent blade, but she countered with Netherworld Claw and escaped through the murky water.
• Liu Rulong closed in on the weakened Xiao Yi Xian, but a spatial fluctuation caused his black handprint to collapse.
• A Silver-haired little girl emerged from the spatial disturbance, then smiled at Xiao Yi Xian and greeted her as Sister Xian'er.

A silver-haired Void Beast revealed that Xiao Yi Xian’s master had sent her to protect Xiao Yi Xian, then killed Liu Rulong and offered to lead Xiao Yi Xian to the swamp’s center. As Ma Dayuan and his companions suspected the Netherworld Poison Fire lay ahead, a cheerful female voice addressed him from above.

• The silver-haired Void Beast explained that Xiao Yi Xian’s master had sent her to protect Xiao Yi Xian, and Liu Rulong realized the danger and tried to flee.
• The Void Beast crushed Liu Rulong into blood mist for repeatedly trying to kill Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian learned that the Void Beast was her master’s disciple and agreed to let her guide her toward the swamp’s center.
• Ma Dayuan and four companions noticed the increasing heat and speculated that the legendary Netherworld Poison Fire was in the swamp.
• A cheerful female voice above the group praised Ma Dayuan for knowing about the Netherworld Poison Fire.

Xiao Yi Xian and the Void Beast encountered the Netherworld Poison Fire, which emerged as a giant pale purple butterfly after a poisonous swamp vortex killed Ma Dayuan and his companions. The butterfly attacked them, and after the Void Beast struck its wing, it launched another attack using an unusual flight pattern.

• Xiao Yi Xian threatened Ma Dayuan and the others, and they fled from her.
• The swamp erupted with poisonous gas, and the Void Beast protected Xiao Yi Xian before carrying her away from the danger.
• A green-water vortex sucked in Ma Dayuan and his companions, killing them and drawing away the poisonous mist.
• The pale purple butterfly emerged from the vortex, and Xiao Yi Xian recognized it as the Netherworld Poison Fire.
• The Void Beast struck the butterfly's right wing, then Xiao Yi Xian warned her that its poison was deadly.
• The butterfly spiraled toward Xiao Yi Xian and the Void Beast again, prompting Xiao Yi Xian to wonder if it was using a movement Dou Technique.

While the Void Beast battled the Netherworld Poison Fire, Xiao Yi Xian discovered an underground cave and found the remnant soul of a Calamity Poison Body Saint. The old man stopped her from leaving and offered her his inheritance.

• The Void Beast teleported Xiao Yi Xian away from the Netherworld Poison Fire's attack and continued fighting the Purple Butterfly.
• Xiao Yi Xian found a hidden opening beneath the swamp and followed an invisible summons down an emerald staircase.
• Xiao Yi Xian entered a vast underground chamber and discovered a skeleton on a throne that called to her.
• A green-robed old man emerged from the skeleton, recognized Xiao Yi Xian as a Calamity Poison Body, and said he could pass on his legacy.
• The old man froze Xiao Yi Xian in place as she tried to leave and asked whether she wanted his inheritance.

Xiao Yi Xian met the Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint, who pressured her to accept his inheritance after she refused to become his disciple. When he attacked her for trying to reach her friend, the Void Beast broke through the seal to protect her but was badly injured.

• The Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint told Xiao Yi Xian that Xiao Xuan had defeated him in fewer than three moves and urged her to become his disciple.
• Xiao Yi Xian refused to take another master but reluctantly agreed to accept the Saint's inheritance.
• The Void Beast appeared outside the seal, and Xiao Yi Xian asked the Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint to let her friend in.
• Xiao Yi Xian grew suspicious of the Saint after he insisted she accept the inheritance before seeing the Void Beast.
• The Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint attacked Xiao Yi Xian, and the Void Beast broke through the seal to shield her but was sent flying and spat blood.

Xiao Yi Xian refused the Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint’s inheritance after discovering he intended to seize her body. She crushed Gu He’s purple jade talisman, bringing him to her and the Void Beast as the Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint’s attack was underway.

• The Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint injured the Void Beast and tried to persuade Xiao Yi Xian to accept his inheritance, but she refused.
• The Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint revealed that he planned to forcibly seize Xiao Yi Xian’s body and threatened the Void Beast’s life to make her cooperate.
• Xiao Yi Xian remembered Gu He’s promise that the purple jade talisman would summon him, then crushed it as the Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint attacked.
• The Void Beast tried to shield Xiao Yi Xian from the Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint’s black palm, but Gu He emerged through the distorted space and dispersed it.
• The Void Beast told Gu He that the Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint had tried to seize Xiao Yi Xian’s body, and Gu He glared at the remnant soul in fury.

Gu He defeated the Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint, captured his remnant soul, and devoured it to obtain his memories and techniques. He learned secrets about the Soul Clan, Xiao Xuan, and the Netherworld Poison Fire, along with poison methods he planned to teach Xiao Yi Xian after she returned.

• Gu He rejected the Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint's attempt to end the confrontation and struck him, weakening his remnant soul.
• Gu He used Soul Capture to pull the Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint into a Black Bead, astonishing Xiao Yi Xian and the Void Beast.
• The Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint mistook Gu He for a member of the Soul Clan, but Gu He revealed he was not and activated the Soul Devouring Art.
• Gu He devoured the Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint's remnant soul and absorbed his memories, learning about Hun Tiandi, Xiao Xuan, the Soul Clan, and the Netherworld Poison Fire.
• Gu He discovered the Heavenly Calamity Poison Saint's slaughter of nearly a million people and acquired his techniques, including poison-making methods he intended to teach Xiao Yi Xian.