Chapter Summaries

Xiao Zhen took command of the Ancient Void Dragon forces as the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Soul Hall attacked their territory. The battle turned into a chaotic struggle in the void, while Chiyu secretly escaped back to the Jia Ma Empire.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered Hun Miesheng to seize the Ancient Void Dragons’ souls and bloodlines, then target the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Zhen encouraged Zi Yan and took command of the Ancient Void Dragon forces while she continued improving her strength.
• Xiao Zhen led reinforcements to the outer defense line after scouts detected the approaching enemy and fighting began.
• Huang Tian called on Hun Miesheng to commit Soul Hall’s forces when the Heaven Demon Phoenix army failed to break through.
• Xiao Zhen entered the battlefield disguised as an Ancient Void Dragon and restrained his aura to the level of a five-star Dou Sheng.
• Chiyu used the Chat Group’s traversal function to leave the battlefield and return to the Jia Ma Empire.

The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Soul Hall alliance battled the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, while Xiao Zhen joined the fight after Huang Tian attacked an elder. Zi Yan emerged from seclusion to aid her clan, and Xiao Zhen exposed hidden Soul Clan reinforcements, making Huang Tian suspect Soul Hall planned to betray the Phoenix Clan.

• Huang Tian watched the allied forces clash with the Ancient Void Dragons as Soul Hall members consumed the souls of fallen fighters, prompting him to ask Hun Miesheng to restrain them.
• Huang Tian ambushed Elder Lieshan, but Xiao Zhen used spatial power to save him and then faced Huang Tian on the battlefield.
• Zi Yan emerged from seclusion at the late stage of four-star Dou Sheng, and Huang Tian resolved to seize the Dragon-Phoenix origin within her.
• Hun Miesheng joined Huang Tian in confronting Zi Yan, while Xiao Zhen forced three hidden figures, including Old Ghost Hunmo, out of the void.
• Huang Tian recognized Old Ghost Hunmo and realized Hun Miesheng might be plotting against the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan as well.

Xiao Zhen’s warning about the former Dragon Emperor split the Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s alliance, and Huang Tian ordered his forces to flee. The Ancient Void Dragon experts watched the ensuing pursuit and slaughter while gathering their fallen.

• Hun Xuzi emerged and asked Huang Tian to fulfill a request, while Huang Tian struggled under the Soul Clan’s pressure.
• Xiao Zhen warned the Soul Clan that the former Dragon Emperor might retaliate and revealed his own seven-star Dou Sheng strength.
• Hun Xuzi attacked Huang Tian, who ordered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to scatter and escape.
• Hun Xuzi pursued one of the fleeing elders as the Soul Hall resumed its slaughter.
• The Ancient Void Dragon experts gathered their fallen and watched the fighting from the sidelines.

Xiao Zhen dealt with the aftermath of the Ancient Void Dragon clan’s battle while Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered an investigation into the clan’s previous Dragon Emperor. Meanwhile, Gao Yao returned to his world, and Miyano Shiho invited Chat Group members to help investigate the temporal disorder in Japan.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered Hun Xuzi to place people inside the Ancient Void Dragon clan and discover whether its previous Dragon Emperor was alive.
• Xiao Zhen returned to the Xiao Clan, gave Chiyu bloodlines extracted from Sky Demon Phoenix remains, and learned that the Soul Hall was harvesting souls near the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Zhen visited The Myth world, where Gao Yao returned home after meeting Qin Shi Huang and reunited with Gao Lan.
• Gao Yao sent a 1,000-Points red packet, and Chat Group members congratulated him on returning.
• Miyano Shiho explained that time had fallen into disorder in Japan after a high school student witnessed a transaction and was given APTX4869.
• Hiratsuka Shizuka, Shirori, Honjou Nia, Kurumi Tokisaki, and Zi Yan volunteered to visit and help Miyano Shiho investigate her mission.

Nia was injured while investigating the temporal disorder in Miyano Shiho’s world, prompting Kurumi to summon Xiao Zhen for help. When Gin and Vodka confronted them in the laboratory, Xiao Zhen caught Vodka’s bullet and offered Shiho the chance to change her sister’s fate.

• Zi Yan left the laboratory to explore, while Kurumi sensed severe temporal oppression across the island nation.
• Nia used Rasiel to investigate the disorder, was overwhelmed by what she saw, and fainted after suffering a backlash.
• Kurumi contacted Xiao Zhen, who arrived with Xingchen and Xingyu and checked Nia’s condition.
• Gin and Vodka barged into the laboratory and demanded to know why strangers were there.
• Vodka fired at Xiao Zhen, who caught the bullet with two fingers.
• Xiao Zhen asked Shiho whether she wanted him to eliminate Gin and Vodka and possibly change her sister’s fate, as the two men tried to flee.

Xiao Zhen discovered that tens of millions of resentful souls had sealed the island nation’s time and space, and agreed to help Miyano Shiho investigate by seeking out the child-sized Kudo Shinichi. The chapter ended as Xiao Zhen and two children arrived at a villa where a murder had occurred, startling the people inside.

• Xiao Zhen altered Gin and Vodka’s memories, making them loyal to Miyano Shiho, and strengthened their bodies at the cost of their lifespans.
• Nia woke and reported that a terrifying space filled with negative energy was connected to the temporal distortion.
• Xiao Zhen identified the space as the work of tens of millions of resentful Spirit Masters whose influence caused people to overlook the island nation’s frozen time.
• Miyano Shiho asked Xiao Zhen for help, and he agreed to investigate Kudo Shinichi, who had turned into a child.
• At a secluded villa after a murder and the destruction of its suspension bridge, Xiao Zhen and two children arrived as the residents feared another visitor had come.

Xiao Zhen and his group confronted Takahashi Ryoichi and exposed his disguise, while Miyano Shiho revealed that they knew Conan was Kudo Shinichi. The chapter left Conan exposed before Mouri Ran, whose anger grew as Miyano Shiho called out his selfish reasons for hiding in her home.

• Xiao Zhen told the villa’s occupants that his group was investigating another space, while Miyano Shiho explained they were seeking someone who had taken her experimental drug.
• Takahashi Ryoichi tried to blame the group for the bandaged-man murders, but Xiao Zhen blew apart his clothes and exposed the padding that made him look fat.
• Xiao Zhen’s killing intent terrified Conan, and Kurumi restrained Mouri Ran while Miyano Shiho asked Conan whether he was Edogawa Conan or Kudo Shinichi.
• Conan admitted his identity and asked Miyano Shiho to spare the others, and she promised they would be safe if they cooperated.
• Mouri Ran demanded to know why Conan had hidden the truth, and Miyano Shiho accused him of staying in her home partly to keep Ran from falling for someone else.

Xiao Zhen explored the Resentful Soul Space with Kudo Shinichi and explained how the Grim Reaper's Aura and the gathered spirits threatened Japan. He refused to save the country without a reason, then showed Kudo Shinichi how resentful souls attacked a former war participant.

• Xiao Zhen examined Kudo Shinichi and found that his Grim Reaper's Aura was linked to resentment and the Resentful Soul Space.
• Xiao Zhen entered the space with Kudo Shinichi's soul and explained the strange murders and the danger facing Japan.
• Kudo Shinichi begged Xiao Zhen to save his country, but Xiao Zhen refused, citing the victims' deaths and his own compatriots.
• A newly arrived old man's soul called for Amaterasu Ōmikami and claimed he deserved to go to Yasukuni Shrine.
• A young resentful soul and others tore apart the old man's soul while Kudo Shinichi watched.

Xiao Zhen reached the Imperial Seal at the heart of the Resentful Soul Space and confronted its powerful Ghost Daoist guardian, who explained the island nation's time distortion and the space's influence on its people. After Kudo Shinichi failed to persuade the Ghost Daoist to stop his revenge, Xiao Zhen captured him to uncover the space's history.

• Xiao Zhen entered the core vortex and found a dark red jade seal guarded by a Ghost Daoist whose strength rivaled a Dou Zun.
• The Ghost Daoist admitted that he and the resentful souls had sealed off the island nation, causing its time distortion, and demanded that Xiao Zhen leave.
• Kudo Shinichi tried to reason with the Ghost Daoist, who revealed that the space influenced islanders and had given Kudo the Calamity Constitution.
• The Ghost Daoist offered to stop targeting the island nation if Kudo persuaded one hundred resentful souls, but Kudo refused to risk leaving Xiao Zhen's protection.
• Xiao Zhen demanded details about the space's creation and past, then overpowered and captured the Ghost Daoist to learn what had happened.

Xiao Zhen examined Luo Wenshan’s memories and learned how the mutated Imperial Seal came to hold millions of Resentful Souls. After securing Luo Wenshan’s promise to keep them under control, Xiao Zhen left the villa with his children, while Kudo Shinichi faced Mouri Ran’s anger.

• Luo Wenshan recalled resisting the Japanese invaders, dying while saving Luo Yang, and fusing with the Imperial Seal, which he used to gather Resentful Souls for revenge.
• Xiao Zhen learned that Luo Wenshan had delayed destroying the island nation to keep its tens of millions of Resentful Souls from becoming an uncontrolled calamity.
• Xiao Zhen showed Luo Wenshan a memory of destroying another island nation and urged him to keep the Resentful Souls under control; Luo Wenshan promised to give him the Imperial Seal if he ever lost control.
• Xiao Zhen completed his mission and left the Resentful Soul Space, while Kudo Shinichi gradually forgot what had happened there.
• Xiao Zhen took his two children and vanished from the villa after the rain stopped and police surrounded it.
• Mouri Ran punched Kudo Shinichi and demanded an explanation.

Xiao Zhen learned how Luo Wenshan used the Imperial Seal to gather and restrain millions of resentful souls seeking revenge on the island nation. After leaving the Resentful Soul Space, Xiao Zhen warned his companions that the souls might become uncontrollable, while a mysterious new Kaito Kid notice appeared.

• Xiao Zhen examined Luo Wenshan's memories and learned how the Imperial Seal absorbed his spiritual power and gathered resentful souls to avenge the island nation's wartime atrocities.
• Xiao Zhen showed Luo Wenshan a memory of a young man triggering a volcano and earthquake in another world, then warned him to keep the resentful souls under control; Luo Wenshan promised to give Xiao Zhen the Imperial Seal if he ever lost control.
• Xiao Zhen returned to the villa, where Kudo Shinichi forgot the Resentful Soul Space, and Xiao Zhen left with his two children as police surrounded the building.
• Back at the Black Organization's base, Xiao Zhen explained the danger to the others, and he later discovered that only island nation souls were drawn into the Resentful Soul Space and that Koizumi Akako was a Witch.
• Kuroba Kaito found a new Kaito Kid notice that appeared to imitate his own, and wondered who was trying to frame him.

Xiao Zhen used a clone to lure Kuroba Kaito out at the museum and expose him as Kaito Kid. Kuroba was captured after a projection revealed the phantom thief’s history, while Nakamori Aoko was left confused about what she had witnessed.

• Xiao Zhen’s clone appeared as Kaito Kid at the museum, prompting the real Kuroba Kaito to reveal himself on a nearby rooftop.
• Kuroba Kaito escaped the arriving police on his glider while Xiao Zhen’s clone surrendered to Inspector Nakamori and claimed to be his nephew Kaito.
• Xiao Zhen’s clone used mental influence to convince Nakamori that he had only impersonated Kaito Kid to help with the capture.
• Xiao Zhen’s clone contacted Kuroba Kaito and made him see an apparent kiss between Nakamori Aoko and another man, causing his glider to break apart.
• A bald man confronted Kuroba Kaito, and a projection showed an old butler exposing the phantom thief’s history and the connection between two generations.
• Kuroba Kaito collapsed and was handcuffed, while Xiao Zhen withdrew his clone and Nakamori Aoko wondered who had been with her on the rooftop.

After Ash won his final Pokémon tournament, Xiao Zhen returned with his family to the Dou Qi Continent, where Ash's romantic entanglements shocked their relatives. Xiao Zhen then met Xiao Yan at the Pill Tower and found that he, too, had attracted multiple girls.

• Xiao Zhen watched Ash compete in the tournament and used hypnosis to send Goh home, ordering him never to see Ash again.
• Ash defeated his final opponent and won the tournament, then returned to Pallet Town with his family before they all went back to the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Lin and his wife were surprised by the girls surrounding Ash, while the family blamed Xiao Zhen for his son's romantic luck.
• Xiao Zhen left Ash a handbook and fled to the Central Plains, where he encountered Xiao Yan, who had reached the Dou Zong realm and was accompanied by two girls.
• Xiao Zhen compared Xiao Yan's behavior with his elder brother's complaints about the men in their family being scoundrels.

After reaching seven-star Dou Sheng, Xiao Zhen learned that the Shi Clan had been destroyed and helped expose the Soul Clan’s plans, prompting the Ancient Clans to form an alliance. The Xiao Clan joined the coalition with the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, while Gu Xun'er was sent to negotiate with Xiao Zhen and the Xiao Clan’s hidden strength remained secret.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Zhen that the Shi Clan had been wiped out and that traces of Gu Clan Dou Techniques had been found at its former territory.
• The Pill Tower exposed the Soul Clan’s underground formations, and the Lei, Flame, Yao, and Spirit Clans confirmed the Soul Clan’s involvement in a dangerous scheme.
• Xiao Zhen and Xiao Chen met the four patriarchs, and Xiao Zhen revealed his seven-star Dou Sheng aura and the Dragon Emperor Token to bring the Xiao Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan into their alliance.
• The alliance’s formation spread across the continent, while Gu Yuan denied the Gu Clan’s involvement in the Shi Clan’s destruction and sent Gu Xun'er to negotiate with Xiao Zhen.
• The Xiao Clan began openly receiving Central Plains guests, but Xiao Zhen concealed the identity of its mysterious seven-star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Zhen gained the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation opportunity while the Spirit Clan disappeared and the Soul and Ancient Clans went to war. The chapter ended with Gu Yuan refusing Soul Heavenly Emperor’s demand for the Tou She Ancient God Jade after Xun’er was captured.

• Xiao Zhen cleared the malicious will from the Bodhi Ancient Tree and received a Bodhi Heart, Bodhi Seeds, and the Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation opportunity.
• The Spirit Clan vanished, prompting Yao Dan to gather the Yao Clan’s forces and send young disciples to the Pill Tower for safety.
• Xiao Zhen revealed that Nihility Devouring Flame could consume Dou Di Bloodlines, and the Ancient Clan attacked Soul Hall outposts.
• The Soul Clan defeated the Ancient Clan, leaving Gu Yuan and his forces badly weakened.
• Xiao Zhen learned that the Soul Clan had captured Xun’er and demanded two pieces of the Tou She Ancient God Jade, while Gu Yuan refused to surrender them.

Gu Yuan faced a choice between surrendering the Tou She Ancient God Jade and saving Xun'er, while Xiao Zhen looked for a Dou Sheng body to revive Xiao Xuan. At Myriad Souls Cliff, Gu Yuan rescued Xun'er as Soul Heavenly Emperor seized the last two pieces of the Ancient Jade, and Xiao Zhen took a Soul Clan expert’s body amid the battle.

• Gu Yuan learned that the Soul Clan had revealed overwhelming strength and that Xun'er would be killed unless he surrendered the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• The Lei, Flame, and Yao clans reported that their Ancient Jade pieces had been stolen, while Xiao Zhen decided to seek a Dou Sheng body for Xiao Xuan’s revival.
• At Myriad Souls Cliff, Soul Heavenly Emperor threatened Xun'er, and Gu Yuan secretly ordered the allied Dou Sheng experts to keep the Soul Clan from escaping.
• Gu Yuan gave up the Ancient Jade to rescue Xun'er, while Soul Heavenly Emperor endured attacks from two clan chiefs and claimed the final pieces.
• Xiao Zhen used Yellow Spring Heavenly Wrath and follow-up attacks to kill a three-star Soul Clan Dou Sheng and secure his body as the alliance pursued the retreating Soul Clan.

Xiao Zhen resurrected Xiao Xuan while the Soul Clan remained hidden, but the discovery of Tou She Ancient God's cave dwelling drew the factions into a final battle. Xiao Xuan arrived on the battlefield alive, confronting Soul Heavenly Emperor.

• Xiao Zhen found Xiao Xuan's soul in the Tian Tomb and brought him back to the Xiao Clan to begin the resurrection ritual.
• Xiao Xuan fused with a Soul Clan Dou Sheng's body as Xiao Chen guarded the courtyard and Xiao Zhen used Heavenly Flames to refine it.
• Zi Yan's forces killed a Soul Clan Dou Sheng in the Black Corner Region, but he sent a message revealing the location of Tou She Ancient God's cave dwelling.
• Zi Yan evacuated Jia Nan Academy and alerted the alliance, prompting Gu Yuan and other factions to gather at the cave dwelling.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor and Gu Yuan led their forces into battle, where Nihility Devouring Flame fought the alliance's experts.
• Xiao Xuan appeared with two other Dou Shengs, and Soul Heavenly Emperor recognized that he had returned to life.

Xiao Xuan joined the battle against the Soul Clan as Soul Heavenly Emperor used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to open the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling. Zhu Kun escaped from the cave dwelling and joined Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan in confronting Soul Heavenly Emperor, who pressed on toward the gate.

• Xiao Xuan arrived at the battlefield and agreed to fight Nihility Devouring Flame, while warning Gu Yuan that they would settle their past dispute after the battle.
• Xiao Zhen revealed his identity and fought two Eight-Star Dou Sheng elders as the battle between the Soul Clan and the other forces intensified.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor summoned an image of Tou She Ancient God and used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to call forth the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling.
• Zhu Kun escaped from the cave dwelling, reunited with Zi Yan, and told the Ancient Void Dragon Clan elders to call him the Old Dragon Emperor.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor charged toward the cave's gate while Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun joined forces against him and Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame and four elders summoned the Gate of Silence to hold back the three Nine-Star Dou Shengs while Soul Heavenly Emperor tried to open the gate.

Soul Heavenly Emperor opened the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling, where he encountered the Emperor-grade Embryonic Pill and was thrown back outside. The rival Dou Shengs gathered to seize the pill, and Xiao Zhen hoped to keep everyone from obtaining it so he could pursue his own path to the Dou Di Realm.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor opened the cave dwelling with the Tou She Ancient God Jade as the Soul Clan and the alliance fought fiercely outside.
• Xiao Xuan and the other two broke free from the Soul Clan's formation, and Soul Heavenly Emperor was hurled out of the cave dwelling.
• The multicolored-haired old man revealed himself as the Emperor-grade Embryonic Pill, and Nihility Devouring Flame exposed his identity to the gathered Dou Shengs.
• Gu Yuan, Xiao Xuan, Zhu Kun, Soul Heavenly Emperor, and Nihility Devouring Flame attacked the pill, which reminded Nihility Devouring Flame of an old promise to rescue it.
• Nihility Devouring Flame urged Soul Heavenly Emperor to attack, while Xiao Zhen watched the battle and hoped no one would obtain the pill.

Xiao Zhen threw the Tou She Ancient God Jade into spatial turbulence to break the standoff with the Emperor-grade Embryonic Pill, and the factions withdrew rather than risk a battle. At the banquet celebrating Zhu Kun’s freedom, Xiao Xuan pursued repayment for the Xiao Clan while Zi Yan intervened to save Xiao Zhen from her angry father.

• Nihility Devouring Flame urged Soul Heavenly Emperor to give him the Tou She Ancient God Jade, but Xiao Zhen intercepted it as Xiao Xuan and Zhu Kun defended him.
• The Emperor-grade Embryonic Pill recognized the jade as Tou She Ancient God's Pill Transformation Ring, so Xiao Zhen hurled it into spatial turbulence before anyone could seize it.
• Zhu Kun, Xiao Xuan, and Xiao Zhen withdrew, and the other Ancient Clan leaders also abandoned their attack after Yao Dan warned that the Emperor-grade Embryonic Pill could exploit a fight against the Soul Clan.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor returned to the Black Corner Region, while the Emperor-grade Embryonic Pill went back to the cave dwelling to protect Tou She Ancient God's inheritance.
• Zhu Kun returned to Ancient Dragon Island for a banquet, where Xiao Xuan demanded the Xiao Clan's seized assets and Gu Yuan promised repayment within ten years.
• Zhu Kun confronted Xiao Zhen over his many wives, and Zi Yan accepted 200,000 Points to mediate and calm her father.