Chapter Summaries

Ning Su escorted Dan Chen home, reunited with Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, and traveled with them to the Barbaric Ancient Region as crowds gathered for the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After the entrance barrier vanished, the four entered the region, where its ancient, savage aura greeted them.

• Ning Su escorted Dan Chen to the Dan Family, and Dan Chen hugged him before saying she would wait for his return.
• Ning Su met Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, and the four set out for the Barbaric Ancient Region amid crowds drawn by the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Ning Su's group reached Savage Town and found it packed with visitors waiting for the Bodhi Ancient Tree to open.
• Ning Su's group went to the entrance of the Barbaric Ancient Region as the barrier began to dissipate.
• The crowd rushed into the region when the barrier vanished, and Ning Su's group followed after most people had entered.

Ning Su and his companions entered the Barbaric Ancient Region, survived its poisonous miasma, and traveled deeper while avoiding danger. Guided by a Bodhi Seed, they reached a mountain where a group was fighting a powerful mutated Ancient Sky Demon Python.

• Ning Su led the group into the forest, and Xiao Yi Xian detected poisonous miasma ahead.
• Ning Su gave Medusa and Qing Lin Detox Pills, and the group crossed the miasma as poisoned travelers died around them.
• Ning Su led everyone around a vast ravine and used his and Medusa’s Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python bloodline auras to scare off attacking Magical Beasts.
• Ning Su used the Bodhi Seed to follow the general direction of the Bodhi Ancient Tree until a huge mountain blocked their path.
• Ning Su and his companions saw more than a dozen people battling a peak Eighth-Order mutated Ancient Sky Demon Python.

Ning Su and his companions watched an Ancient Sky Demon Python kill humans who had tried to seize its Sky Demon Blood Pool, then used Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control the beast. They found the pool and Ning Su purified its energy so Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin could use it.

• A group of humans attacked the peak eighth-rank Ancient Sky Demon Python in hopes of taking its Sky Demon Blood Pool, but the beast devoured them all.
• Ning Su and his companions approached after the fight, and Qing Lin controlled the Ancient Sky Demon Python with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Ning Su had the Ancient Sky Demon Python lead them to its nest, where they found the Sky Demon Blood Pool.
• Ning Su used the Great Void Flame to remove harmful impurities and soften the pool’s energy for Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin began soaking in the purified Sky Demon Blood Pool.

After Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin advanced, Ning Su's group rode the Ancient Sky Demon Python to the Ancient Domain Platform to search for the Bodhi Ancient Tree. They arrived to find the gathering dominated by major factions and Dou Saints, including the Ancient Clan, Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Soul Clan.

• Xiao Yi Xian reached Intermediate Half-Saint and Qing Lin reached Initial Half-Saint after absorbing the Sky Demon Blood Pool's energy.
• Ning Su's group rode the Ancient Sky Demon Python toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree, shocking people and Magical Beasts along the way.
• The group arrived at the Ancient Domain Platform, where Qing Lin stored the python in her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Onlookers recognized Ning Su as the Changle Sect's Sect Master and discussed his achievements as he led the women onto the platform.
• Ning Su recognized Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, Feng Qing'er, and Nine Phoenix among the gathered factions, and sensed powerful Dou Saints from the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan.

Ning Su met the factions gathered at the Ancient Domain Platform to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree, including Xiao Yan’s group, the Soul Clan, and the Flame Clan. He provoked Hun Mie Sheng into a challenge, then left the encounter with Huo Zhi on friendly terms as the factions prepared to pursue the tree.

• Ning Su recognized Feng Qing'er and Nine Phoenix, then traded taunts with Gu Xun’er and Xiao Yan over their past clashes and the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Hun Yu introduced himself on behalf of the Soul Clan, but Ning Su dismissed him and identified the disguised Hun Mie Sheng as the Hall Master of the Soul Hall.
• Ning Su challenged Hun Mie Sheng to fight immediately, and Hun Yu intervened, warning that conflict would only benefit other factions.
• Ning Su said he would not mind fighting the Soul Clan, making the other factions wary of provoking him.
• Huo Zhi introduced herself as a member of the Flame Clan and proposed exchanging knowledge about Heavenly Flames, and Ning Su responded amicably.

Ning Su and the other factions allied to break through the Beast Tide blocking the way to the Bodhi Ancient Tree. The major forces slipped away after drawing the beasts’ attention, and Ning Su’s group followed them while the people left behind were overwhelmed.

• A Flame Clan elder proposed an alliance to break through the Beast Tide, and Gu Xun'er, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, the Soul Clan, Ning Su, and others agreed.
• The allied forces advanced across the plain and met a massive Beast Tide that even the Dou Saints found daunting.
• The leading factions fought through the beasts while the people behind them followed, believing they could reach the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Soul Clan, Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and other major factions left the front once their main force had entered the Beast Tide, and Medusa warned Ning Su that they had escaped.
• Ning Su and his companions broke out after the leading factions, while the Beast Tide tore apart the formation of those left behind.

Ning Su and the others escaped the Beast Tide and reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where they learned that past seekers had vanished after approaching it. When someone finally stepped forward, the tree summoned five puppets, each a Five-Star Dou Saint, leaving Ning Su to wonder whether their strength matched the cultivation of the gathered groups.

• Ning Su and the others escaped the valley as the Magical Beasts refused to cross its boundary, then hurried toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree alongside the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan.
• The groups reached the tree and saw its pulsing Bodhi Heart, one of its three legendary treasures, but no one dared approach it.
• Elder Huo Lie warned that ancient records described seekers, including Dou Saints, vanishing after trying to claim the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s opportunity.
• After more than half an hour, someone stepped forward, prompting the Bodhi Ancient Tree to lower five long-dead figures that it had turned into puppets.
• The five puppets revealed themselves as Five-Star Dou Saints, and Ning Su wondered whether the tree had chosen their strength according to the gathered groups’ cultivation.

Ning Su and the other factions fought together to destroy the five Five-Star Dou Sheng puppets guarding the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After resting, they cautiously approached the tree, where the Bodhi Heart beat inside its trunk.

• Hun Mie Sheng proposed that the five factions cooperate, with each group taking on one puppet, and Ning Su agreed to join the fight.
• Ning Su, Medusa, and Xiao Yi Xian defeated their puppet, while the Soul Clan, Flame Clan, Ancient Clan, and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan also destroyed theirs.
• The group rested briefly, then advanced cautiously to the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Bodhi Heart thumped inside the tree's massive trunk.

Ning Su escaped the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion with the help of a Bodhi Seed and reached the tree’s true form, where he learned how a Dou Emperor’s negative emotions had corrupted it. The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed him how to use its seeds to remove them, while the others remained trapped in their own illusions.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree enveloped Ning Su and the others in light, trapping Ning Su in an illusion where he slaughtered the Soul Clan.
• A Bodhi Seed in Ning Su’s Storage Ring restored his clarity and let him break out of the illusion.
• Ning Su reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s true form and saw that Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Xiao Yan, Hun Mie Sheng, and the others were still trapped.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Ning Su how a black-clad Dou Emperor had been defeated and how the emperor’s negative emotions had entered its body.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Ning Su more than a dozen Bodhi Seeds and demonstrated how to refine them to disperse the negative emotions.

Ning Su refined the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s seeds until he purified the Dou Emperor’s negative emotions, then asked the tree to free his companions and grant them a fortuitous opportunity. As Ning Su and the others received the opportunity inside the tree, Hun Mie Sheng, Nine Phoenix, and the rest were left waiting, unable to leave without the tree’s permission.

• Ning Su refined more than thirty Bodhi Seeds with the Great Void Flame, purifying the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s remaining negative emotions.
• Ning Su asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to release Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others from its illusion, and the tree freed them.
• Ning Su explained that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had fought a Dou Emperor and asked it to grant all four of them a fortuitous opportunity.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree agreed, enveloped Ning Su and the three women in life-filled light, and began giving them an opportunity.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree released the other people from the illusion, and Xiao Yan and the others realized what had happened.
• Hun Mie Sheng and Nine Phoenix saw Ning Su and the others receiving the tree’s inheritance and had to wait because they could not escape or challenge the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

After completing the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s inheritance, Ning Su and the three women returned to the Barbaric Ancient Region stronger and with a Bodhi Heart for Ning Su. Ning Su claimed all the Bodhi Seeds, and the assembled clans prepared to attack him when he refused to share.

• After a month in the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s trials, Ning Su and the others finished their inheritance, with Ning Su reaching late Five-Star Dou Sheng and Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin improving their cultivation.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree released more than twenty Bodhi Seeds before vanishing underground to sleep for ten thousand years.
• Ning Su used the Bodhi Heart to draw every Bodhi Seed to himself and collect them.
• Hun Mie Sheng demanded that Ning Su share the seeds and warned that the Soul Clan, Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Ancient Clan could outnumber him.
• Ning Su summoned the Great Void Flame as a Fire Python and challenged anyone who wanted the seeds to take them by force.
• Hun Mie Sheng and the other clans began preparing to attack Ning Su.

Ning Su fought Hun Mie Sheng while Medusa and two other women battled the Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. As the Ancient Clan prepared to intervene and the Flame Clan watched, a powerful Beast Tide charged toward everyone.

• The Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan attacked Ning Su, while Medusa and the other two women engaged their forces.
• Ning Su overpowered Hun Mie Sheng, and the Ancient Clan and Flame Clan chose to wait for an opening before acting.
• Gu Xun'er urged the Ancient Clan to strike before Ning Su defeated Hun Mie Sheng.
• A Beast Tide surged into the area after the Bodhi Ancient Tree's pressure disappeared, and several of its beasts had reached the ninth tier.

A massive Beast Tide containing Ninth-Order Magical Beasts forced the factions fighting over the Bodhi Seeds to retreat. Ning Su stayed behind to draw the beasts away, while Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin headed for the exit.

• Independent cultivators fled as the Beast Tide approached, and Huo Lie urged his group to retreat without waiting for the Bodhi Seeds.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan withdrew first, freeing Medusa and the other women to threaten the Soul Clan; Hun Mie Sheng then led his people away, and the other factions retreated as well.
• Ning Su's group fled from the Beast Tide, but the beasts pursued them with long-range attacks that Ning Su blocked.
• Ning Su stayed behind to lure the Beast Tide away while Medusa took Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin toward the exit.
• Ning Su changed direction and led the Beast Tide deeper into the Barbaric Ancient Region.

Ning Su escaped the Beast Tide and found Huo Zhi being overwhelmed by Magical Beasts in the Barbaric Ancient Region. After saving her, he learned she had been separated from the Flame Clan, and the wind blew away her veil, revealing her face.

• Ning Su used several spatial jumps to escape the Beast Tide and flew through a dangerous black desert toward the exit of the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• Ning Su found Huo Zhi surrounded by eighth-tier Magical Beasts as she fought them with the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame.
• A peak eighth-tier Magical Beast broke through Huo Zhi's defense and injured her, leaving her vulnerable to the pack.
• Ning Su rushed in, carried Huo Zhi to safety, and burned the pursuing Magical Beasts to ashes with the Great Void Flame.
• Huo Zhi told Ning Su that a Beast Tide had separated her from the Flame Clan, then lost her veil to a gust of wind that revealed her face.

Ning Su saved Huo Zhi from successive attacks as the Beast Tide drove them through the Barbaric Ancient Region. Their escape ended when a powerful Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor appeared, and Ning Su prepared to face it while Huo Zhi sought a chance to flee.

• Huo Zhi thanked Ning Su for saving her and tried to leave, but Ning Su pulled her back just before an attack struck.
• Ning Su evaded the Magical Beasts while Huo Zhi struggled against the stronger attackers, so he grabbed her hand and led her through the Beast Tides.
• Ning Su stopped when he sensed danger, and the pursuing beasts retreated as a giant crimson Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor emerged from spatial cracks.
• Huo Zhi identified the serpent as a genuine ancient overlord with power comparable to a six- or seven-star Dou Saint.
• Ning Su shielded Huo Zhi and told her to hide and escape while he held off the Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor.

Ning Su confronted the Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor, who revealed an ancient grudge against the Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python Clan and attacked him. Their battle left Ning Su trapped in a secret technique designed to counter his clan, and neither his flames nor his devouring ability could break free.

• Ning Su told Huo Zhi to escape while he faced the Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor.
• The Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor recounted how the Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python Clan had nearly wiped out its clan and vowed to kill Ning Su as the last surviving bloodline.
• Ning Su transformed into a Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python and clashed with the Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor as Huo Zhi fled.
• Ning Su swallowed the Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor's Black Obsidian attack, surprising his opponent with his clan's devouring ability.
• The Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor trapped Ning Su in the Seven Star Array, a technique crafted to counter his clan, and Ning Su failed to escape with either Great Void Flame or Infinite Devour.

Ning Su battled the Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor, whose barrier and superior strength pushed him to the brink. With Huo Zhi’s help, Ning Su tricked the emperor into lowering its guard and killed it, then took Huo Zhi away while she lay gravely injured.

• Ning Su’s Great Void Flame failed to break the Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor’s barrier, but he escaped and struck the emperor with the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Ning Su and the Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor exchanged attacks, and the emperor’s Divine Annihilation Light overwhelmed Ning Su’s Great Void Finger and wounded him.
• Huo Zhi attacked the emperor with Karma Fire Hell and shielded Ning Su from its tail, leaving her severely injured.
• Ning Su used a hidden streak of flame to pierce the Divine Winged Black Serpent Emperor’s head and kill it.
• Ning Su devoured the emperor’s Magic Core and carried the gravely injured Huo Zhi away.

Ning Su escaped the Beast Tide with the injured Huo Zhi and sheltered with her in a cave while they recovered. After they left the Barbaric Ancient Region, Huo Zhi and Ning Su parted ways.

• Ning Su carried the wounded Huo Zhi through a canyon, evaded the pursuing Magical Beasts, and escaped through a Space Gate.
• Ning Su found a cave near the edge of the Barbaric Ancient Region, killed its occupant, and gave Huo Zhi a healing pill.
• Ning Su and Huo Zhi rested in the cave, where Huo Zhi recovered enough to remove her veil and eat with him.
• Ning Su and Huo Zhi spent several days recovering, then flew out of the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• Huo Zhi said farewell to Ning Su, and they went their separate ways.

After leaving the Barbaric Ancient Region through a different exit, Ning Su contacted Medusa and learned she was still in Savage Town. He stopped in Dan City to bring Dan Chen back to the Changle Sect, where they shared her first kiss, leaving their journey home marked by new intimacy.

• Ning Su contacted Medusa, discovered he had exited the Barbaric Ancient Region near a different city, and told her group to return without him.
• Ning Su learned he was near Sacred Pill City and decided to stop in Dan City to pick up Dan Chen.
• Dan Feng welcomed Ning Su and asked him to let Dan Chen continue cultivating at the Changle Sect, and Ning Su agreed to take her with him.
• While flying back toward the Changle Sect, Ning Su praised Dan Chen, held her hand, and drew her into his embrace.
• Ning Su gently kissed Dan Chen, who nervously experienced her first kiss.

Ning Su returned to Changle Sect with Dan Chen and gave Bodhi Pills to Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin to strengthen their cultivation. After confirming Dan Chen had regained control of her Soul Power, he asked whether she wanted to stay at the sect, and she agreed.

• Ning Su returned to Changle Sect with Dan Chen, where Medusa and the other disciples welcomed them.
• Ning Su gave Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin five Bodhi Pills each and urged them to cultivate.
• Dan Chen told Ning Su that her Soul Art training had restored her control over Soul Power.
• Ning Su gave Dan Chen several Dou Skills and asked whether she wanted to return home or remain at Changle Sect.
• Ning Su held Dan Chen and asked if she was willing to stay, and she softly agreed.