Chapter Summaries

Xiao Heng looted the Shi Clan’s Treasure Pavilion, pill repository, and medicinal storehouse while the Soul Clan overwhelmed the Stone Realm. After the stone giant begged him to help the Shi Clan at the rear mountain, Xiao Heng changed course as the dying guardian charged the black-robed young man in a final attack.

• The stone giant fought the black-robed young man but was steadily overwhelmed as the Shi Clan suffered heavy losses.
• Xiao Heng and Little Grass broke into the Treasure Pavilion, where Xiao Heng collected its treasures and a mysterious transparent coffin.
• Xiao Heng emptied the pill repository and medicinal storehouse, taking vast quantities of pills and medicinal ingredients, including Ninth-grade Pills.
• Little Grass warned Xiao Heng that the stone giant was about to fall, and Xiao Heng hurried toward the realm barrier, learning that Little Grass could only recover his soul after death.
• The dying stone giant silently asked Xiao Heng to help his clan at the rear mountain, and Xiao Heng turned back toward the battlefield.
• The stone giant charged the black-robed young man as the Soul Clan’s creatures devoured him, and an explosion followed.

Xiao Heng rescued twenty-three Shi Clan children during the Soul Clan’s destruction of the Stone Realm, then tried to escape the Soul Clan blockade. Hun Fa struck him into the depths of the void, and the Soul Clan believed he had been destroyed.

• Xiao Heng killed a Soul Clan Half Saint and took twenty-three Shi Clan children from the dying Shi Clan elder before the elder was killed by a Soul Clan Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Heng hid the children in the Little Grass Space and reflected on saving them as an exchange for his own objective.
• The Soul Clan finished massacring the Shi Clan and began clearing the battlefield as Xiao Heng slipped through the Stone Realm barrier.
• A Soul Clan Half Saint exposed Xiao Heng near the blockade, and Hun Fa struck him with a giant palm that sent him into the depths of the void.
• The Soul Clan members assumed Xiao Heng had been shredded by space, and Hun Fa accepted a scrap of cloth as evidence.

After escaping a Dou Sheng’s attack, Xiao Heng realized a drop of blood from his cloak had exposed him and retreated to heal. In the Stone Realm, Nihility Devouring Flame discovered the Shi Clan’s treasures were missing and ordered a search while wondering who had taken them.

• Xiao Heng survived the attack, treated his wounds, and traced his exposure to blood that had fallen on his cloak when he killed a Half Saint.
• Little Grass warned Xiao Heng to stay cautious, and Xiao Heng accepted the lesson before erasing his traces and fleeing far from the Stone Realm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame learned that the Stone Realm’s cultivation methods, treasures, pills, and herbs had vanished, and rejected the claim that the Shi Clan had taken them.
• Hun Fa told Nihility Devouring Flame that he had killed the escaping intruder, while Xiao Heng secretly made a cave to heal.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered the Soul Clan to search the Stone Realm and the Shi Clan’s territory, then vowed to discover who had emptied the pavilion.

Xiao Heng rescued the surviving Shi Clan children and sought help from the Bai Clan while bringing them toward Starfall Pavilion. Bai Xi set out to meet him, and she arrived at the inn where Xiao Heng was eating with the children.

• Xiao Heng released the Shi Clan children, told Shi Yi that their clan had been destroyed, and persuaded them to eat.
• Xiao Heng arranged milk for the infants, then contacted the Bai Clan and considered taking the children to the Bai Realm.
• The Second Elder received Xiao Heng’s message, and Bai Xi volunteered to travel to him.
• Over the next few days, Xiao Heng cared for the children as they gradually grew less fearful and traveled toward Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Heng stopped at an inn to feed the children, and a white-haired woman in a brown dress approached his table.

Xiao Heng arranged for Bai Xi to take the surviving Shi Clan children to her clan and told her that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Shi Clan. After Bai Xi embraced him as payment before leaving, Xiao Heng returned to Starfall Pavilion, where his companions had been waiting for him.

• Bai Xi joined Xiao Heng and the children for a meal, then heard his account of their situation and the Shi Clan's destruction.
• Bai Xi agreed to take the children to her clan, where the clan elders would decide their arrangements and ensure they grew up safely.
• After discussing the Shi Clan and Soul Clan, Bai Xi left with the children through a Space Passage while Xiao Heng chose to return to Starfall Pavilion.
• Bai Xi told Xiao Heng that Xiao Yi would soon emerge from seclusion, then embraced him and called it payment before departing.
• Xiao Heng returned to Starfall Pavilion and headed to meet Old Yao and the others before reviewing what he had gained on his trip.

After returning safely, Xiao Heng awkwardly appeased Medusa and then entered the Little Grass Space to inspect the Shi Clan’s vast stores of treasures. He finished sorting the spoils and realized they could supply him and Starfall Pavilion with cultivation resources for a long time.

• Xiao Heng returned to Xiao Yi Xian, then hurried upstairs to placate Medusa after she gave him an icy look.
• Xiao Heng kissed Medusa, escaped to his room, and entered the Little Grass Space while the two women went about their own business.
• Xiao Heng and Little Grass sorted the Shi Clan’s treasures, including thousands of Earth Tier techniques and skills, Heaven Tier items, and an Emperor-tier combat skill Xiao Heng could not cultivate.
• Xiao Heng divided up the pills and medicinal ingredients with Little Grass, storing most of them and planting the living ingredients in the Little Grass Space.
• Xiao Heng concluded that the Shi Clan’s resources could support his cultivation for years and could eventually raise Starfall Pavilion to rival the Pill Tower.

Xiao Heng and Little Grass sorted the treasure vault’s contents and discussed how the coffin, Six Absolutes Tree, and Bodhi Heart could help Xiao Heng break through to Dou Sheng. Xiao Heng chose to use the tree and give the Bodhi Seed to Xiao Yan, while Little Grass offered to modify the coffin to help Xiao Heng gain insight.

• Xiao Heng learned that the mysterious coffin might once have held a Dou Di and that Little Grass could modify it to help him break through to Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Heng and Little Grass finished sorting the treasures, and Little Grass revealed that Xiao Heng’s planted tree had reached Six Absolutes.
• Little Grass explained that the Six Absolutes Tree could rival the Bodhi Heart, while the Bodhi Heart would improve mental state and comprehension and the tree would provide greater power.
• Xiao Heng decided to return the Bodhi Seed to Xiao Yan and rely on the Six Absolutes Tree for his breakthrough.
• Little Grass said he would modify the coffin so Xiao Heng could experience ten thousand years in a dream and gain insight, and Xiao Heng excitedly thanked him.

Xiao Heng received an incomplete combat-skill framework from Little Grass and chose to continue developing his own path. After returning the Bodhi Seed to Xiao Yan, he joined Xiao Yan and their companions in rushing toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s appearance in the Barbaric Ancient Region.

• Little Grass gave Xiao Heng an incomplete combat-skill framework and told him to rely on himself to develop his cultivation method and skills.
• Xiao Heng left Little Grass Space, returned the Bodhi Seed to Xiao Yan, and resumed his peaceful life at Starfall Pavilion.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree appeared in the northeast corner of Central Continent, drawing countless cultivators toward it.
• Xiao Heng, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, Qing Lin, and a Nine Star Dou Zun elder set out from Starfall Pavilion for the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan discussed their combat skills as the group increased its speed toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan’s group entered the Barbaric Ancient Region with thousands of other treasure seekers, despite reports that an earlier expedition had been wiped out. Deep in the forest, Xiao Yi Xian discovered that the deadly poison they had mistaken for fog was actually insects.

• Xiao Yan told the group that more than a dozen Dou Zun experts had died in the first expedition, and Xiao Heng proposed entering with the crowd the next day.
• Thousands of people gathered outside the forest, and Xiao Heng’s group waited before following them inside.
• The group traveled through the dark forest, finding dead travelers and using Xiao Heng’s High-grade Seventh-Rank Detoxification Pills when Xiao Yi Xian sensed poison approaching.
• As poison spread through the forest, many weaker experts screamed and a Dou Zun named Bai Jin died from it.
• Xiao Yi Xian examined the poison and told Xiao Heng that it was made of insects, not fog.

Xiao Heng’s group crossed the poisonous ravine and entered the Barbaric Ancient Region, where powerful Demonic Beasts made travel dangerous. After Elder Wang Yun reported that the Tianming Sect was discussing how to deal with the Flower Sect, Xiao Heng decided to intervene.

• Xiao Yi Xian explained that the poison fog consisted of tiny poisonous insects, and Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan helped purge them from the group.
• The group crossed the ravine into the Barbaric Ancient Region and killed several Seventh-Rank Demonic Beasts that attacked them.
• Xiao Yan chose to travel on the ground after seeing other travelers attacked, and the group continued through repeated Demonic Beast assaults.
• Xiao Heng’s group rested while Elder Wang Yun scouted ahead, then discussed the dangers and their hopes of finding a Bodhi Heart.
• Elder Wang Yun reported that the Tianming Sect seemed to be planning to deal with the Flower Sect, and Xiao Heng led the group to investigate.

Xiao Heng arrived as the Flower Sect was being overwhelmed by the Tianming Sect and used two Heavenly Rank Combat Skills to destroy the attackers. After killing Liu Cang, he reunited with Yun Yun and embraced her, leaving the Flower Sect safe and the Tianming Sect's forces wiped out.

• Xiao Heng reached the battlefield and saw Yun Yun and the Flower Sect fighting the Tianming Sect, whose Vice Sect Master had wounded Yun Yun.
• Xiao Heng and the arriving Starfall Pavilion experts surrounded the Tianming Sect after Xiao Heng declared the Flower Sect their ally.
• Xiao Heng unleashed two Heavenly Rank Combat Skills, killing nearly all of the Tianming Sect experts and devastating the forest.
• Liu Cang tried to seize Nalan Yanran to escape, but Xiao Heng intercepted him and cut his throat.
• Yun Yun ran to Xiao Heng to check on him, and he pulled her into an embrace as Elder Wang Yun praised his strength.

Xiao Heng reunited with Yun Yun after rescuing the Flower Sect from Tianming Sect, then urged the injured group to turn back because the search for the Bodhi Heart would grow more dangerous. The Flower Sect decided that the elder would lead most of the disciples home while Yun Yun stayed with two elders to continue onward with Xiao Heng.

• Xiao Heng embraced Yun Yun, gave the injured Flower Sect members pills, and reunited with her after the group treated their wounds.
• Xiao Heng noticed the tense reactions of Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa as he stood with Yun Yun, then distracted Qing Lin with fruit until the awkward moment passed.
• A Flower Sect elder thanked Xiao Heng for the rescue and explained that the group had been traveling for nearly five days before Tianming Sect ambushed them.
• The elder told Xiao Heng that the parties were heading toward the Ancient Domain Platform, a temporarily safe remnant site near the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Heng advised Yun Yun to return with the Flower Sect because the route ahead was too dangerous for most of its members.
• The elder proposed leading the injured disciples home while Yun Yun continued with two elders, and Xiao Heng agreed.

Xiao Heng’s group chose to pursue the Ancient Sky Demon Python after Xiao Yan revealed that its blood pool could aid his cultivation and Qing Lin hoped to control the beast. They reached the python’s mountain, where Yun Yun warned that its powerful followers made a cautious approach necessary.

• Yun Yun sent most of the injured Flower Sect members back and continued toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree with Xiao Heng’s group.
• Xiao Yan asked to seek out the Ancient Sky Demon Python for its blood pool, and Xiao Heng agreed to capture it as a potential pet for Qing Lin.
• Qing Lin said she could control snake-type Magical Beasts below the Half Saint level, and the group rested before departing.
• Xiao Heng identified a passing group from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and reassured the others that its Half Saint member posed no concern.
• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan privately recalled how Soul Hall and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had been turned against each other, while Xiao Heng considered taking a Half Saint’s blood essence.
• Yun Yun led the group to the Ancient Sky Demon Python’s mountain and warned them that its strong followers had previously driven the Flower Sect back.

Xiao Heng overpowered the Ancient Sky Demon Python, allowing Qing Lin to subdue it with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. The group followed the python to its blood pool, where Xiao Yan entered to temper his body while Xiao Heng declined.

• Xiao Heng charged the Ancient Sky Demon Python and held back its fangs, then hurled it into a mountainside and battered it into submission.
• Xiao Heng held the python in place while Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to tame it, then gave it a pill.
• Qing Lin named the python Little Black and ordered it to lead the group to its blood pool.
• Little Black guided the group to a cave containing a thirty-meter-wide pool of blood, bones, and medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Heng refused to enter the blood pool because its energy was too mixed and would do little for his already powerful body, while Xiao Yan jumped in.

Xiao Yan broke through to Nine Star Dou Zun, and Xiao Heng’s group traveled to the Ancient Domain Platform to await the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After they arrived, a woman from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan challenged them, and Medusa fought back as the Gu Clan watched.

• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion as a golden giant and broke through to Nine Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Heng’s group rode the Ancient Sky Demon Python toward the Ancient Domain Platform, with Magical Beasts avoiding them along the way.
• The group reached the crowded platform, where Xiao Heng led them toward the central stone platform while calming Medusa and the other women.
• A woman from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan ordered Xiao Heng’s group to leave, citing their connection to Feng Qing’er’s death.
• Medusa confronted the woman and knocked away her silk-ribbon attack, while Gu Zhen and Gu Qingyang watched and decided to wait before intervening.

Medusa defeated a Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan woman, but a clan man intervened and Xiao Heng halted the ensuing confrontation to protect his plans. Xiao Heng reunited with Xun Er and went to meet Bai Yang, while the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan ordered its two fighters to return for punishment.

• Medusa destroyed the Heaven Demon Phoenix woman's bloodline technique and nearly devoured her before a Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan man blasted apart the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Xiao Heng supported Medusa, threatened the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and then accepted a middle-aged clan member's offer to end the dispute.
• Gu Hua welcomed Xiao Heng's group, and Xun Er greeted Xiao Yan warmly.
• Bai Yang called to Xiao Heng, who told Xiao Yan he would go meet his friend.
• A Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elder ordered the woman and the seven-colored-eyed youth to return and accept punishment.

Xiao Heng reunited with Bai Yang and met Bai Clan elder Bai Mo and Sound Valley master Aunt Qing before joining forces with the Ancient Clan at the Bodhi Ancient Tree gathering. Xun Er revealed that a powerful Beast Tide blocked the way to the tree and pointed out the Soul Clan youth organizing a coalition, whose aura reminded Xiao Heng of Lord Void.

• Bai Yang told Xiao Heng that the Bai Clan had taken in the children he entrusted to them and introduced him to Bai Mo and Aunt Qing.
• Aunt Qing welcomed Xiao Heng warmly, praised him, and teased him about the women close to him.
• Xiao Heng returned to the Ancient Clan group and agreed with Gu Hua and Gu Zhen that their sides should cooperate to pursue the Bodhi Heart.
• Xun Er told Xiao Heng and the others that a massive Beast Tide guarded the Bodhi Ancient Tree and that previous attempts to break through had failed.
• Xun Er identified the black-haired Soul Clan youth who had proposed a temporary alliance, and Xiao Heng sensed an aura like Lord Void's.

Hun Yu proposed a temporary alliance to cross the Beast Tide and reach the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and the gathered factions agreed. Xiao Heng’s group joined the march into the Barbaric Ancient Region, where they finally saw the enormous Beast Tide ahead.

• Xun Er identified Hun Yu as a dangerous Soul Clan talent with a God-grade Bloodline, and Xiao Heng warned his companions to be cautious around him.
• Hun Yu urged the gathered factions to unite temporarily against the Beast Tide, and Jiu Feng and the other factions agreed.
• Xun Er warned that fewer than one in ten people might survive the crossing, and Xiao Heng’s group prepared to stay together.
• Hun Yu and Jiu Feng led the assembled forces into the Barbaric Ancient Region, while Xiao Heng’s group followed among the main force.
• After more than ten minutes of travel, the group reached a vast plain covered by countless ferocious beasts.

Xiao Heng and the other cultivators fought their way through the Beast Tide toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree as Hun Yu’s group abandoned the weaker fighters. With most of the alliance dead and the survivors facing a final stretch of powerful beasts, Xiao Heng led his companions forward.

• Hun Yu organized the cultivators into an assault on the Beast Tide, with his Soul Clan members taking the lead.
• Xiao Heng fought through increasingly powerful beasts as the group advanced and eighth-tier beasts joined the battle.
• Hun Yu ordered the Soul Clan members to retreat through the group, leaving weaker cultivators at the front to face the beasts.
• Xiao Heng gathered Medusa and his companions as the force dwindled from more than ten thousand to about a thousand.
• Hun Yu and the strongest survivors surged ahead, while the main force was overwhelmed and killed by the Beast Tide.
• Xiao Heng led his group into the final stretch, carving a passage through beasts whose strength exceeded five-star Dou Zun.

Xiao Heng, Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and the surviving factions escaped the Beast Tide and reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree. As the groups prepared to approach it, Hun Yu warned that the tree had killed a Half Saint, and Xiao Heng saw a violent gray aura around it with his Third Eye.

• Xiao Heng and the others broke through the Beast Tide, while fewer than one in ten travelers survived.
• The surviving groups spotted the Bodhi Ancient Tree and hurried across the plain toward it.
• Xiao Heng and the others stopped near the tree and found Hun Yu's group waiting at a distance.
• Hun Yu revealed that a Soul Clan Half Saint had disappeared after encountering the Bodhi Ancient Tree and was presumed dead.
• Xiao Heng opened his Third Eye as the groups approached and saw a violent gray layer covering the tree.