Chapter Summaries

After Dou Saint-level Ancient Ruins emerged in the Beast Region, Ning Su accepted Yao Ming's invitation to explore them alongside members of the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan. The group set off with Yao Ming's son and two elders, leaving Yao Ming behind at the clan.

• Ning Su and Medusa teased each other before the chapter shifted to news of newly emerged Dou Saint-level Ancient Ruins.
• Ning Su told Medusa and the others that Yao Ming had invited them to explore the Ruins with the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, and they agreed to go.
• Ning Su's group traveled from the Pill Tower to the Beast Region and met Yao Ming at the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan.
• Yao Ming explained that he could not accompany them, offered the clan's intelligence about the Ruins, and asked Ning Su to bring his clansmen along; Ning Su agreed to cooperate.
• The next morning, Yao Ming introduced his son, Yao Feng, and two elders, then entrusted them to Ning Su's care as the group set out for the Ruins.

Ning Su and the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan arrived at the Skeleton Mountain Range, where a Dou Saint’s Ancient Ruins were about to open. Ning Su learned which major forces had come and prepared to face them inside the Ruins.

• Ning Su and his group traveled safely into the Beast Region and reached the Skeleton Mountain Range, where the Ancient Ruins had attracted many powerful visitors.
• Yao Feng told Ning Su that the Ruins might contain a Heavenly Tier Fighting Skill, and Ning Su replied that they would discuss it only if someone could obtain one.
• The crowd recognized Yao Feng and Ning Su, discussing Yao Ming’s return as clan chief and Ning Su’s Pill Gathering victory and role in the clan’s internal conflict.
• Ning Su’s group settled at the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan’s camp, and Yao Feng identified the Wind Lightning Pavilion, Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Soul Hall as rival forces.
• Yao Feng explained that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s intervention had prevented the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan from sealing off the Ruins, and Ning Su said they would deal with the rival forces if they met inside.

Ning Su learned that major factions were gathering at the Skeleton Mountain Range, then reunited with Zi Yan, who arrived with Hei Qing to investigate the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit rumored to lie in the Ruins. When the seal finally broke, the eager crowd rushed in and was torn apart by a spatial storm.

• Yao Feng told Ning Su that the Wind Lightning Pavilion, Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Starfall Pavilion, Soul Hall, and nearby Magical Beast clans were gathering around the Ruins.
• Zi Yan arrived with Hei Qing, explaining that she had the elders’ permission to come and that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan sought the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Ning Su introduced Zi Yan and Hei Qing to Yao Feng, then agreed that their groups would enter the Ruins together.
• After three days, the seal weakened and shattered, prompting the crowd to charge toward the entrance.
• A spatial storm erupted from the entrance and swallowed the leading entrants, tearing many of them apart.

Ning Su and his companions crossed the deadly approach to the Dou Saint Ruins and met several familiar factions outside its crimson palace. When the stone door opened, eager explorers rushed inside despite the dangers.

• Ning Su and his companions waited for the Spatial Storm to subside, then crossed a field of bones to reach the palace.
• Ning Su spotted Xiao Yan of Starfall Pavilion, and the two exchanged looks without approaching each other.
• Ning Su saw Feng Qing'er, Venerable Lei, and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, while Soul Hall remained out of sight.
• Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er greeted Ning Su, congratulated him on winning the Pill Gathering, and chatted with his group.
• A stone door rose before the crowd, and impatient explorers rushed into the palace as Zi Yan complained about their recklessness.

Ning Su and his companions crossed a deadly fiery passageway by finding its hidden exit beneath the lava, then defeated the puppets guarding a stone gate. They entered a grand hall with branching passages and began searching for treasures.

• People rushing into the fiery passageway were incinerated, and the survivors used Dou Qi to withstand the flames, though many still died.
• Ning Su protected his companions with the Great Void Flame and led them through the passageway, identifying the true exit beneath a lava pool.
• Ning Su and his companions descended through the lava into another passageway and continued toward the Ruins' treasures.
• The group reached a plaza guarded by ten Earth Demon Puppets, which Ning Su burned to ashes with the Great Void Flame.
• The stone gate opened, and Ning Su led the group into an empty grand hall with branching passages, where Zi Yan sensed treasures and they began searching.

Ning Su and his companions explored the Dou Saint Ruins, collecting a vast medicinal herb forest before finding a Soul Infant Demonic Tree guarded by a Magical Beast. After Ning Su killed the guardian, the Starfall Pavilion faction led by Xiao Yan and a group from Soul Hall appeared as he prepared to collect the fruits.

• Ning Su opened a stone door and discovered a vast forest of medicinal herbs, which the group gathered and stored in his independent space.
• The group continued through the Ancient Forest, where Ning Su sensed that other powerful factions had entered through separate entrances.
• Zi Yan led the group to a lake and a Soul Infant Demonic Tree, whose fruits could restore the soul's origin and increase Soul Power.
• Ning Su killed the Magical Beast guarding the tree with a casual strike.
• As Ning Su prepared to collect the Soul Infant Fruits, Xiao Yan's Starfall Pavilion faction and a group from Soul Hall emerged.

Ning Su claimed the Soul Infant Fruits after deterring Xiao Yan and the Soul Hall, then led his group deeper into the Ruins. They followed a powerful ancient bloodline aura toward a mysterious area filled with Magical Beast roars.

• Qiu Di, the Soul Hall's Eight Heavenly Venerate, confronted Xiao Yan and threatened to capture him for the Soul Hall.
• Ning Su reached the Soul Infant Demonic Tree and warned Qiu Di that even Hun Mie Sheng might not be able to take the fruits from him.
• Xiao Yan decided not to challenge Ning Su and instead watched the Soul Hall members.
• Ning Su harvested both Soul Infant Fruits and left with his companions, while Starfall Pavilion and the Soul Hall headed in other directions.
• Zi Yan sensed an ancient bloodline aura ahead, and the group followed it through an area where Magical Beasts gathered and fled from them.
• Ning Su and his companions arrived at a peculiar area.

Ning Su, Zi Yan, and their companions discovered a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit inside a Beast Spirit Barrier tied to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan arrived to claim it, and Phoenix, a Late-stage Two-star Dou Sheng, confronted them.

• Zi Yan sensed a hidden Beast Spirit Barrier, and Hei Qing opened it with his Ancient Void Dragon Clan bloodline.
• The group crossed a barren plain and found an altar bearing a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Hei Qing explained that the fruit formed from the life force of an Ancient Void Dragon and a Heaven Demon Phoenix and could greatly increase their clansmen's cultivation.
• Members of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan entered the barrier, recognized the fruit, and demanded that Ning Su's group hand it over.
• Ning Su refused, and Phoenix stepped forward as Hei Qing identified her as one of the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes and a Late-stage Two-star Dou Sheng.

Phoenix, a Three Heavenly Demon Phoenix and Late-stage Two-star Dou Sheng, led an attack on Zi Yan and her companions to seize the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and kill the Ancient Void Dragon royal bloodline. Ning Su revealed his Four-Star Dou Sheng strength and overwhelmed Phoenix, who summoned an ancestral soul as the battle continued.

• Hei Qing recognized Phoenix as one of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes, and Phoenix identified Zi Yan as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s royal bloodline.
• Phoenix ordered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Wind Lightning Pavilion fighters to attack and targeted Zi Yan.
• Ning Su intercepted Phoenix and revealed he was a Dou Saint, then fought her after rejecting her offer of friendship.
• Ning Su overpowered Phoenix with the Yellow Springs Finger, shattered her Demon Phoenix Sacred Elephant, and revealed his cultivation exceeded hers.
• Phoenix bit her finger and dropped blood essence onto the enormous Sky Demon Phoenix carcass, calling forth its ancestral soul.

Phoenix and Zi Yan awakened their ancestors’ remnant souls to fight, but Ning Su defeated Phoenix’s Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Sacred Elephant and devoured its power. After Phoenix and her allies fled, Zi Yan claimed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and the group left.

• Phoenix used her blood essence to awaken the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Remnant Soul, while Zi Yan merged with the Primordial Void Dragon Remnant Soul.
• Ning Su revealed his Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python form and challenged Phoenix, then fought her Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Sacred Elephant with the Great Void Flame.
• Zi Yan joined the battle and bit the Demon Phoenix Sacred Elephant’s wing, giving Ning Su time to strike Phoenix with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• Ning Su and Zi Yan tore off the Sacred Elephant’s wings, and Ning Su swallowed the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Remnant Soul Power, leaving Phoenix injured by the backlash.
• Phoenix ordered Feng Qing'er and the others to flee, and Ning Su told Zi Yan to take the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Zi Yan sealed the fruit inside her body, and the group left the Altar.

Ning Su explored the Pill Hall, where he captured a rare Pill Beast that proved to be a Rank Eight elixir, then led his group deeper into the Ruins. They reached the main hall and found the Dou Saint owner’s skeleton surrounded by scrolls that held the Ruins’ greatest treasures.

• Ning Su’s group bypassed the looted first floor of the Pill Hall and searched its poison-filled upper floors, finding Rank Seven Elixirs and ancient pill formulas on the third floor.
• A snow-white Pill Beast appeared, and Ning Su used his control over space to catch it before it could escape.
• Ning Su transformed the Pill Beast into a golden elixir that had survived Nine-colored Pill Lightning but had not reached Rank Nine, then put it away.
• After exploring further, Ning Su and the others reached the Bronze Hall and saw the Dou Saint’s skeleton seated on a Stone Throne, with scroll-filled clusters of light floating before it.
• Nearly every faction and expert had gathered in the main hall around the Ruins’ treasures.

Ning Su led his group into the main hall of the Ruins, where Heavenly Tier Fighting Skill scrolls and a Dou Sheng skeleton awaited. After claiming the skeleton and suppressing its remnant consciousness, he drove most of the hall’s contenders away by revealing that he was a living Dou Sheng, leaving three major factions behind.

• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, the Soul Hall, and Xiao Yan’s Starfall Pavilion arrived at the main hall, where Ning Su’s group was already waiting.
• When the seal lifted, the scrolls scattered and guardian puppets attacked, so Ning Su sent his allies to collect scrolls while he went for the Dou Sheng skeleton.
• Ning Su erased the remnant Dou Sheng consciousness in the skeleton, causing the guardian puppets to collapse, and stored the skeleton in his spatial storage.
• Phoenix and the Soul Hall objected, but Ning Su declared that he was a living Dou Sheng and challenged anyone to oppose him.
• Most contenders backed down, leaving the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, the Starfall Pavilion, and the Soul Hall in the hall.

Ning Su defeated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Soul Hall when they joined forces to seize the Ruins’ treasures, while Xiao Yan’s group watched and then withdrew. Ning Su left with the treasures and returned to the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, where Yao Ming welcomed him and Yao Feng praised his strength.

• Phoenix and Qiu Di joined forces to attack Ning Su, while Xiao Yan decided to wait for an opportunity and retreat if either side gained the upper hand.
• Ning Su repelled Phoenix and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s fighters, then drove back the Soul Hall with his Great Void Flame.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Soul Hall retreated, and Xiao Yan’s group left after realizing they could not profit from the fight.
• Ning Su told Medusa and the others that the Heavenly Tier Fighting Skill was recorded on the Dou Sheng skeleton, then led them out of the Ruins with their treasures.
• Yao Ming welcomed Ning Su and his group back to the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, and Yao Feng excitedly recounted how Ning Su had beaten Phoenix’s forces twice.

Ning Su distributed the Ancient Ruins’ treasures among his allies, then cultivated the Soul Infant Fruit and began inheriting a Heavenly Tier Fighting Skill. His soul reached Heavenly Realm Peak, and the memory inheritance revealed the Great Heaven Creation Palm’s name and requirements.

• Ning Su gave the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit to Zi Yan, a Soul Infant Fruit to Yao Ming, and other treasures and Dou Sheng skeletons to the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Zi Yan and Hei Qing returned to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan with the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit after Phoenix of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had targeted Zi Yan.
• Ning Su refined his Soul Infant Fruit and raised his soul realm to Heavenly Realm Peak, though he could not reach the Emperor Realm Soul.
• Ning Su burned the three ribs recording the Heavenly Tier Fighting Skill, and their golden liquid entered his palm and drew his consciousness into a memory inheritance.
• The Saint of Creation identified the skill as the Low-tier Heavenly Grade Great Heaven Creation Palm and explained that it required palms tempered by Golden Spirit Saliva to avoid backlash.

Ning Su and his allies recovered from their gains in the Ancient Ruins, and Yao Ming told them about a hidden Snake Tomb containing the souls of ancient snake ancestors. Ning Su, Yao Ming, and a small party reached its sealed entrance and began using their bloodlines to open it.

• Ning Su mastered the Low-tier Heavenly Grade Fighting Skill Great Heaven Creation Palm, while Yao Ming, two Nine Netherworld Underworld Python elders, Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin benefited from the Ancient Ruins' treasures.
• Yao Ming thanked Ning Su for his help and revealed that the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan had discovered a Snake Tomb containing the souls of ancient snake ancestors.
• Ning Su agreed to explore the tomb, and he and Yao Ming set out with Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and a few of Yao Ming's subordinates.
• Yao Ming led the group to a hidden valley and explained that the tomb's sealed stone door required matching bloodlines to open.
• Ning Su and Yao Ming pressed their palms to the stone door and poured their bloodline powers into it.

Ning Su bypassed the Snake Tomb’s sealed door by creating a Space Gate just as Medusa and Yao Ming opened it with their bloodlines. The group entered the tomb and explored its halls, reaching a vast palace filled with carvings of ancient snake species.

• Yao Ming and Ning Su failed to open the stone door because they lacked the Ancient Heavenly Snake bloodline.
• Medusa and Yao Ming reopened a narrow crack in the door, allowing Ning Su to create a Space Gate through it.
• Ning Su led the group into the Snake Tomb, where Moonlight Stones illuminated a passage lined with python carvings.
• The group found a grand hall containing lifelike statues of a Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python and an Ancient Heavenly Snake.
• Yao Ming and the others continued through passages displaying many living and extinct snake species, then reached a towering palace.

Ning Su and Medusa entered the Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python inheritance realm, while Qing Lin discovered that her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils could let her enter the Ancient Heavenly Snake realm. At the realm’s altar, the remnant soul of the Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python Clan’s final patriarch offered its last inheritance to Ning Su and Medusa.

• Ning Su, Yao Ming, and Medusa tested the three passageways and found that each required its corresponding bloodline, leaving the Ancient Heavenly Snake entrance inaccessible to them.
• As Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin waited, Qing Lin worried that she could not help Ning Su, and Xiao Yi Xian reassured her.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to overcome the Ancient Heavenly Snake realm’s Bloodline Seal and entered the secret realm.
• Ning Su and Medusa reached an altar in the Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python realm and met the remnant soul of its final patriarch.
• The Old Patriarch explained that his clan had dwindled to extinction and offered Ning Su and Medusa its final inheritance.

Ning Su and Medusa absorbed the Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python Clan's inheritance and broke through to new cultivation levels. Qing Lin emerged from the Ancient Heavenly Snake's secret realm with its soul, but its resistance had left her unconscious and her soul badly damaged.

• Ning Su and Medusa absorbed the Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python Clan's inheritance, advancing to Five-Star Dou Saint and Dou Saint respectively.
• Ning Su and Medusa left the secret realm and learned that Yao Ming and two elders had also advanced after receiving their clan's inheritance.
• Ning Su discovered that Qing Lin had entered the Ancient Heavenly Snake's secret realm using her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, despite lacking the clan's bloodline.
• Qing Lin emerged the next day and told Ning Su she had succeeded before fainting into his arms.
• Ning Su found that Qing Lin's soul was severely damaged and that the Nine-Headed Ancient Heavenly Snake's soul was suppressing it after entering her body.

After Qing Lin recovered enough to travel, Ning Su and his companions left the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and returned to the Jia Ma Empire. Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin joined him, and the group entered the empire after a swift journey from the Central Continent.

• Qing Lin woke with an injured soul, and Ning Su gave her a Soul Replenishing Pill and promised to take her to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan after she recovered.
• Ning Su and Medusa discussed Qing Lin’s drive to grow stronger, then Medusa said she wanted to return home to the Snake-People Race in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Ning Su agreed to return after Qing Lin healed, and Medusa suggested they continue the Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python bloodline.
• Ning Su asked Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin whether they wanted to go, and both agreed to join the trip.
• Ning Su and his companions said farewell to Yao Ming, traveled through the void, and entered the Jia Ma Empire in less than three days.

Ning Su, Medusa, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian returned to the Jia Ma Empire, where the Snake-People Race welcomed Medusa and Ning Su with a celebration. After Ning Su helped strengthen the tribe, Xiao Yi Xian asked him to accompany her to a place she wanted to revisit.

• Medusa, Ning Su, and their companions returned to the Snake-People Race, where the people and Four Great Elders greeted them joyfully.
• Medusa reunited with the Eight Snake-People Leaders at a banquet and revealed that she had reached One-Star Dou Saint.
• Ning Su donated pills, cultivation methods, Dou skills, and rare treasures to the Snake-People treasury, helping the Four Great Elders reach Dou Zong and the leaders reach Peak Dou Huang.
• Medusa inspected the tribe's progress while Ning Su noticed that Xiao Yi Xian struggled to feel at home among the Snake-People.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Ning Su she wanted to revisit a place, and he agreed to go with her.