Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan and his allies chased down Protector Wu after he escaped their first attack, then captured him through a coordinated ambush. Protector Wu was left sealed and weakened, while Lin Yuan planned to question him rather than kill him.

• Lin Yuan ordered Medusa to finish off Protector Wu, but Protector Wu faked a self-destruct and fled while Ling Ying shielded Elder Yao.
• Lin Yuan used his soul imprint and the Sky Dome Network to direct Qing Lin and Zi Yan to intercept Protector Wu in the fourteenth area.
• Zi Yan and Qing Lin stopped Protector Wu, pierced his black mist, and trapped him inside Qing Lin’s formation barrier.
• Qing Lin’s Illusionary Pupil delayed Protector Wu, allowing her and Zi Yan to strike him before Lin Yuan and Medusa arrived.
• Lin Yuan stunned Protector Wu with Eight Heavenly Dragon Sounds: Tremor, and Medusa and Lin Yuan battered and sealed him with their attacks.
• Medusa weakened Protector Wu until his soul body was exposed, and Lin Yuan said he intended to keep him alive for questioning.

Lin Yuan captured Protector Wu and returned to his companions after the battle, while Elder Yao began telling Xiao Yan the truth about the Hall of Souls and the Xiao Clan. With the Three-Year Agreement behind them, Lin Yuan and his companions headed back to Jia Ma Holy City to celebrate.

• Lin Yuan burned Protector Wu's soul with the Fallen Heart Flame Sub-Flame, sealed him in a black soul box, and planned to interrogate him about the Hall of Souls.
• Elder Yao and Ling Ying reunited with Xiao Yan, and Elder Yao gave him intelligence about the threat to the Xiao Clan before explaining the Hall of Souls and his own past.
• Lin Yuan dispelled his secret technique, sealed the remaining pill energy inside himself, and recovered from the technique's side effects with Medusa's help.
• Qinglin ended the Beast Spirit Gathering Array, and Medusa praised her for wielding Dou Zong-level combat strength through her formation.
• Lin Yuan rewarded Zi Yan with ten meals and led the group back to Jia Ma Holy City for a celebration banquet.

After a night with Medusa, Lin Yuan broke through from the late five-star stage to Six-Star Dou Huang and headed to meet Elder Yao and Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan restrained his anger over the Hall of Souls and his father’s capture, while Lin Yuan arrived boasting of his breakthrough before Elder Yao had said a word.

• Lin Yuan gave Medusa a soul imprint that would let him sense her location if she called for help.
• Lin Yuan began cultivating after their conversation and broke through to Six-Star Dou Huang with Medusa protecting him with a space barrier.
• Xiao Yan advanced to Four-Star Great Dou Master, then stopped himself from forcing another breakthrough and promised Elder Yao not to act impulsively.
• Elder Yao reassured Xiao Yan that defeating the Hall of Souls and rescuing Xiao Zhan would take time, then decided to meet Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan and Medusa arrived at the cave, where Lin Yuan immediately announced his breakthrough and left Elder Yao confused.

Lin Yuan received Elder Yao’s Tomb of Misfortune scroll and discussed how the Poison Pill Method might be improved with the Nether Poison Flame. He dropped his Tian Shu alias, revealed his identity as a Jia Nan Academy elder, and confirmed that he had used the Life Devouring Pill to reach Dou Wang three years earlier.

• Lin Yuan showed Elder Yao Protector Wu’s Soul Ring and received the Tomb of Misfortune scroll as their agreed reward.
• Lin Yuan proposed using the Nether Poison Flame as a vessel for the Woeful Poison Body’s poison, and Elder Yao explained compatibility and life-force problems that the method would need to address.
• Elder Yao shared his research on the Poison Pill Method with Lin Yuan, who gained new insights into how it could be perfected.
• Lin Yuan noticed Xiao Yan’s cultivation increase and learned that Xiao Yan regarded him as a worthy rival for the Pill Convention Agreement eight years later.
• Elder Yao asked Lin Yuan to reveal his identity, and Lin Yuan dropped the Tian Shu alias and presented his Jia Nan Academy envoy token.
• Xiao Yan recognized Lin Yuan’s name from Xiao Yu, and Lin Yuan confirmed that he had used the Life Devouring Pill three years earlier to advance from Da Dou Shi to Dou Wang.

Lin Yuan negotiated with Elder Yao and Xiao Yan to help preserve the Xiao Family from the Hall of Souls through a plan of dispersal, feigned destruction, and relocation. In exchange, Elder Yao taught Lin Yuan the Soul Profound Seal, and Lin Yuan left for Jia Ma Holy City to begin organizing the plan.

• Elder Yao explained that the Life Devouring Pill could raise someone to Dou Wang but was not worth its cost and shortened lifespan.
• Elder Yao asked Lin Yuan to protect the Xiao Family, and Lin Yuan agreed instead to help preserve some of its members while warning he could not guarantee success.
• Lin Yuan proposed scattering the Xiao Family, staging attacks that appeared to annihilate its core members, and relocating survivors to a Gu Clan-protected area in the Black Corner Region; Xiao Yan accepted the plan.
• Elder Yao taught Lin Yuan the Earth Tier Low Level soul technique Soul Profound Seal, and Lin Yuan supplied Elder Yao with herbs for Soul Nourishing Saliva.
• Ling Ying bought pills from Lin Yuan on credit, while Lin Yuan asked Elder Yao to seek more Bodhi Transformation Saliva.
• Lin Yuan departed with Medusa for Jia Ma Holy City to mobilize people, and he urged Xiao Yan to enroll at Jia Nan Academy soon.

Lin Yuan helped Xiao Yan and Elder Yao arrange the Xiao Clan’s escape, traded his Fire Lotus Dou Skill for formation knowledge, and weighed how to use his ties to them for future deals. He planned to exploit Jia Xingtian’s meeting request before leaving the Jia Ma Empire, while Medusa returned to oversee the Snake People Race’s migration.

• Elder Yao and Xiao Yan agreed to move the Xiao Clan to the Black Corner Region and have Ling Ying conceal its members from the Hall of Souls.
• Lin Yuan told Elder Yao that he had created the Fallen Heart Flame Sub-Flame himself and warned that Jia Nan Academy could protect its inheritance flame.
• Lin Yuan traded his Fire Lotus Dou Skill to Elder Yao for a set of formations, then considered how Xiao Yan’s connections could preserve valuable trade channels.
• Lin Yuan revealed that Protector Wu had survived and planned to meet Jia Xingtian, plunder the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s resources, and leave the empire.
• Medusa departed to manage the Snake People Race’s migration and asked Lin Yuan to attend its ceremony in half a month.

Lin Yuan ordered Mitel Tengshan to carry out a secret plan involving the Xiao Family, learned the Soul Origin Palm, and prepared to meet Jia Xingtian. When Jia Xingtian arrived, Lin Yuan demanded a battle for the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s accumulated wealth and launched the first strike.

• Lin Yuan assigned Mitel Tengshan to finalize a secret plan concerning the Xiao Family and sent Hai Bodong to arrange a meeting with Jia Xingtian.
• Lin Yuan studied the Soul Profound Seal, practiced the Soul Origin Palm, and mastered its first form by evening.
• Mitel Tengshan presented his completed plan, and a figure flew toward Wu Tan City to carry it out.
• Hai Bodong sparred with Jia Xingtian, then told him to meet Lin Yuan at the Mitel Family’s back mountain.
• Lin Yuan told Jia Xingtian that their battle would decide the fate of the Jia Ma Imperial Family and its accumulated wealth, then vanished to attack.

Lin Yuan defeated Jia Xingtian, forced him to accept a soul restriction, and recruited the Jia Ma Imperial Family as his Tian Shu Affiliate. After giving Jia Xingtian a life-extending pill and ordering him to gather the imperial family’s treasures, Lin Yuan waited for Zi Yan to join them.

• Lin Yuan caught Jia Xingtian by surprise, then ordered him to prove his value by fighting; after defeating him five times, Lin Yuan spared him and set a soul restriction.
• Lin Yuan gave Jia Xingtian an Azure Nether Longevity Pill and the Tian Shu Star Affiliate regulations, and Jia Xingtian pledged the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s loyalty.
• Lin Yuan appointed the Jia Ma Imperial Family as his Tian Shu Affiliate and told Jia Xingtian to prepare the imperial family’s accumulated treasures.
• Lin Yuan gave Jia Xingtian a healing pill and waited for Zi Yan, who rushed over eager to hunt for treasure.
• Lin Yuan caught Zi Yan and redirected her momentum into the ground, cracking the bluestone as Zi Yan wondered whether Qing Lin had taught her incorrectly.

Lin Yuan and Zi Yan scavenged the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s hidden treasuries, then Lin Yuan refined a Primordial Bone Molding Pill to heal their guardian beast, the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon. He rewarded Yaoyue with alchemy notes and set out with Jia Xingtian to treat the beast, promising Zi Yan it could serve as her sparring partner afterward.

• Lin Yuan, Zi Yan, and Jia Xingtian flew to the Imperial City, where Zi Yan sensed the treasures hidden beneath Jia Xingtian’s garden.
• Lin Yuan and Zi Yan swept through the imperial family’s underground treasuries, gaining a vast store of medicinal ingredients and treasures.
• Lin Yuan promised to heal the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon and invited Yaoyue to observe him refining a Primordial Bone Molding Pill.
• Lin Yuan successfully refined the pill, gave it to Jia Xingtian, and presented Yaoyue with his alchemy notes after she praised his technique.
• Lin Yuan and the others flew to the lake where the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon lived, and Lin Yuan promised Zi Yan she could spar with it after its injuries were healed.

Lin Yuan healed the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon and arranged for it to spar with Zi Yan, whose ancient bloodline pressure intimidated the beast. Jia Xingtian briefed Yaoyue and Yaoye on the imperial family’s new ties to the Seven-Star Organization, then entrusted Yaoye with the Shadow Guard and Seven-Star affairs.

• Lin Yuan summoned the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon and used his bloodline pressure to briefly subdue it, but Zi Yan’s stronger pressure made the beast yield to her.
• Lin Yuan healed the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon with a Primordial Bone Molding Pill, and it recovered its strength.
• Lin Yuan assigned the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon to help Zi Yan train for the next half month, then left with her.
• Jia Xingtian told Yaoyue and Yaoye about the imperial family’s defeat, losses, rewards, and new obligations to the Seven-Star Organization.
• Yaoye argued that serving the Star Lord offered the imperial family a chance to gain better resources and cultivation opportunities, and Jia Xingtian put her in charge of the Shadow Guard and Seven-Star affairs.

Lin Yuan plundered the Cloud Mist Sect’s treasure vault while leaving supplies in return, then destroyed evidence of his involvement in the Xiao Family Ancient Jade Incident and refined Profound Origin Pills. He captured and interrogated Protector Wu about the Soul Palace, and the chapter ended with Lin Yuan demanding the Soul Palace techniques Wu knew.

• Lin Yuan and Zi Yan took useful treasures from the Cloud Mist Sect vault, left Qi Methods, pills, and Dou Techniques as compensation, and destroyed an Image Stone on a cloud peak.
• Lin Yuan refined two Profound Origin Pills, while Xiao Yan ordered the Xiao Family to begin relocating from Wu Tan City.
• Lin Yuan trapped Protector Wu’s escaping soul with the Fallen Heart Flame and tortured him into submission.
• Lin Yuan placed a complex soul restriction on Protector Wu and demanded information about the Soul Palace’s branch halls.
• After Wu resisted revealing the branch halls, Lin Yuan asked him to hand over Soul Palace techniques, including Nine Forest Hundred Soul Devour and the Myriad Soul Devouring Array.

Lin Yuan forced Protector Wu to surrender the Hall of Souls' secret arts, then spent several days preparing his allies and arranging the Xiao Clan's relocation. After entrusting Jia Ma affairs to Hai Bodong and Mitel Tengshan, Lin Yuan left the empire with Qing Lin and Zi Yan for the Tagor Great Desert.

• Lin Yuan threatened Protector Wu with the heart flame and Soul Nourishing Saliva until Protector Wu handed over the Hall of Souls' secret arts.
• Lin Yuan gave Qing Lin a Profound Origin Pill, learned that she and Little Cai could form an equal partnership through the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and checked Zi Yan's training against the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon.
• Lin Yuan spent seven days cultivating and preparing, accepted Yaoye as the Jia Ma Imperial Family's representative for Seven Stars, and heard Mitel Tengshan report that the Xiao Clan's relocation was proceeding smoothly.
• Lin Yuan gave Mitel Tengshan an Emperor Reaching Pill and instructed Hai Bodong to oversee the Tian Shu Affiliate's Jia Ma Branch and preserve the Misty Cloud Sect's inheritance.
• Zi Yan defeated the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon, gave it a Primordial Bone Molding Pill, and left for the Mittel Family.
• Lin Yuan departed the Jia Ma Empire with Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Little Cai, heading toward the Tagor Great Desert.

Lin Yuan returned to the Snake People Holy City and agreed to help Queen Medusa settle disputes over the tribes’ new territories. After testing how the Sea Heart Flame’s Flame Mantra harmonized Heavenly Flames, he learned the Great Commander Li Han intended to challenge him.

• Lin Yuan met Queen Medusa and offered to use his authority and strength to help resolve the Snake People tribes’ dispute over territory in the Emerald Ring Mountain Range.
• Queen Medusa warned Lin Yuan that the Great Commander Li Han was hostile toward him and asked him to handle the elders without using force unless necessary.
• Lin Yuan synchronized information with the Sea Heart Flame and used it to combine the Sea Heart Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame into an azure-blue fire lotus.
• Queen Medusa announced Lin Yuan’s return at the meeting and defended his status as the Snake People Race’s Fifth Elder when Li Han questioned his absence.
• Yue Mei warned Li Han not to provoke Lin Yuan, but Li Han decided to test Lin Yuan’s abilities himself.

Lin Yuan and Queen Medusa affirmed their relationship before the Great Elder and Fourth Elder, who discussed their marriage, Princess Xiaocai, and the Snake People Race’s nourishment secret technique. The next morning, Lin Yuan accepted the commander’s challenge, and Queen Medusa agreed to witness their battle as they flew into the sky.

• Queen Medusa brought the Great Elder and Fourth Elder through the barrier to meet Lin Yuan, who finished refining a sixth-grade pill before openly declaring his relationship with Medusa.
• The Great Elder asked to delay the marriage until the Snake People Race had migrated, accepted Lin Yuan’s firm stance on Princess Xiaocai, and learned he had gathered most ingredients for the Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill.
• After the elders left, Lin Yuan and Queen Medusa spent the night together in the Alchemy Hall.
• The next morning, Lin Yuan and Medusa encountered the commander, who accused Lin Yuan of misleading the queen and agreed to fight him over three demands from the victor.
• Lin Yuan asked Queen Medusa to witness and enforce their agreement, then flew into the sky and called the commander to follow.

Lin Yuan defeated the Bald Commander, secured his support in the Snake People meeting, and spent two days preparing pills for his plan to create a Soul Clone. In Chu Yun, Yan Li pledged the Alchemist Guild to Xiao Yi Xian on Lin Yuan’s orders, while Lin Yuan finished his preparations and left the Soul Clone plan ready to begin.

• Lin Yuan defeated the Bald Commander and made him agree to serve as Zi Yan’s sparring partner and support Lin Yuan’s proposal at the Snake People meeting.
• Lin Yuan helped complete the Snake People tribes’ territory proposal, then planned to use Hall of Souls methods and medicinal pills to create a Soul Clone capable of carrying the Sea Heart Flame.
• Yan Li met Xiao Yi Xian and pledged the Chu Yun Alchemist Guild to the Poison Sect, explaining that Lin Yuan had sent him and describing his orders and training.
• Xiao Yi Xian accepted Yan Li’s allegiance and agreed to help him gain control of the Alchemist Guild by eliminating those who would obstruct him.
• Lin Yuan completed four Sixth-Grade pills after two days of refining, preparing to attempt a simplified version of Elder Yao.

Queen Medusa announced the Snake People Race’s migration to the Emerald Ring Mountain Range, and Lin Yuan gave her the personal name Xiyue before she led the migration toward the Mulan Empire. Half a month later, Lin Yuan advanced to late Six-Star, tempered his soul, and began preparing to temper his soul clone.

• Lin Yuan followed Queen Medusa to the ancestral ceremony, where she declared that the Snake People Race would leave the desert for the Emerald Ring Mountain Range in the Mulan Empire.
• Queen Medusa told Lin Yuan she would leave the next day to lead the new territory’s development, and Lin Yuan gave her the name Xiyue after they settled it through a battle.
• At dawn, Queen Medusa led the Snake People Race’s migration toward the Mulan Empire, while Lin Yuan traveled with Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Little Cai to rendezvous with her.
• Half a month later, Lin Yuan reached late Six-Star cultivation in a valley and swallowed the Purple Extreme Soul Origin Pill to temper his soul.
• Lin Yuan used Soul Origin Palm to strike a mountain with force comparable to an ordinary Dou Sect attack, then swallowed the Spirit Ascension Pill and entered the Clear Mind State to begin tempering his soul clone.

Lin Yuan created a Blood Mark Soul Shadow by refining a Soul Clone with captured souls, then tempered away its Ferocious Aura with the Fallen Heart Flame Sub-Flame. After confirming that the resulting Blood Soul could absorb spiritual energy through the Heavenly Heart Soul Technique, he began testing whether it could possess him.

• Lin Yuan used the Spirit Ascension Pill to form a Blood Mark Soul Shadow, then fed it nearly a hundred captured souls and infused it with his soul power until its strength approached that of a Four-Star Dou Sect.
• Lin Yuan found that the Blood Mark Soul Shadow's Ferocious Aura disrupted the Heavenly Heart Soul Technique, so he spent three days refining the aura with the Fallen Heart Flame Sub-Flame.
• Lin Yuan named the purified soul the Blood Soul and confirmed that it could absorb spiritual energy through the Heavenly Heart Soul Technique.
• Lin Yuan and the Blood Soul pressed their palms together, and the Blood Soul flowed into his body as a vast soul power while a powerful aura erupted around him.

Lin Yuan refined the Sea Heart Flame, used its energy to reach late Seven-Star Dou Huang, and placed the flame within his Blood Soul clone. After returning to the Snake People settlement, he gave Medusa three copies of the Three Beast Desolation Art and prepared to leave for the Chu Yun Empire, entrusting Qing Lin and Little Cai to her.

• Lin Yuan tested the Blood Soul’s abilities and concluded that it worked best as a separate combat partner using Soul Palace techniques.
• Lin Yuan swallowed a Heavenly Heart Meridian Protecting Pill and spent three days refining the Sea Heart Flame with the modified Fire Swallowing Secret Technique.
• Lin Yuan reached late Seven-Star Dou Huang, failed to make the Green Lotus Core Flame and Sea Heart Flame coexist inside his body, and stored the Sea Heart Flame in his Blood Soul clone.
• Lin Yuan returned to the Emerald Ring Mountain Range, where Medusa explained that she had chosen to settle in the Mulan Empire’s Magical Beast Mountain Range rather than fight its humans.
• Lin Yuan gave Medusa three Three Beast Desolation Art scrolls and said he planned to travel to the Chu Yun Empire to visit a friend and prepare for an approaching battle.
• Lin Yuan decided to take Zi Yan with him and leave Qing Lin and Little Cai with Medusa.

Lin Yuan prepared to leave for the Chu Yun Empire while Qinglin began her breakthrough into Dou Emperor and Little Cai continued evolving. He departed with Zi Yan, leaving Queen Medusa to protect the clan and care for them until they could return.

• Zi Yan defeated the bald Snake People commander and claimed the reward Lin Yuan had promised her.
• Lin Yuan refused Qinglin’s request to travel with him because she was on the verge of a breakthrough; she gave him gifts and an image stone for Xiao Yi Xian, then kissed him before entering seclusion with an Emperor Reaching Pill.
• Lin Yuan confirmed Little Cai’s evolution was progressing safely after she consumed a Beast King Blood Tempering Pill, while Qinglin’s breakthrough began and Queen Medusa concealed the valley with space barriers.
• Lin Yuan and Queen Medusa arranged for her to care for Qinglin and Little Cai, exchanged marks to summon one another in an emergency, and said goodbye before he left for the Chu Yun Empire with Zi Yan.
• After watching them depart, Queen Medusa examined Lin Yuan’s storage ring and found a scroll of the Three Luminaries Seal Technique.

Lin Yuan and Zi Yan reached the Chu Yun Empire, where Lin Yuan confirmed Xiao Yi Xian had subdued the Nether Poison Flame and summoned her with the Green Lotus Core Flame. Xiao Yi Xian reunited with him on a mountain peak, and their friendly test of strength ended with her confessing that her completed poison body was consuming her life before Lin Yuan teased her again.

• Lin Yuan and Zi Yan traveled to the Chu Yun Empire, gathering medicinal ingredients as they went, and headed toward Heavenly Poison City.
• Lin Yuan learned at One Poison Study that Xiao Yi Xian had subdued the Nether Poison Flame and decided to meet her that night.
• Lin Yuan released the Green Lotus Core Flame from a mountain peak, and Xiao Yi Xian sensed it and left the Poison Sect headquarters to find him.
• Lin Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian exchanged palms to test each other's strength, then reunited and discussed how far they had progressed.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Yuan that her poison body had reached completion and left her little time to live, but Lin Yuan mocked her gloomy words and made her furious.