Chapter Summaries

Lu Yunxiao visited Cloud Gate’s side hall, where he learned Nalan Yanran was helping Ya Fei and encouraged Little Star and Qing Lin to prepare to support Cloud Gate. He offered Thunder Mountain to Xiao Yu so the Xiao Clan could relocate and rebuild there.

• Lu Yunxiao found Zi Yan bored in the side hall and learned she had reached Six-Star Dou Sheng.
• Qing Yanjing told Lu Yunxiao that Ya Fei had invited Nalan Yanran to help at the Treasury Hall, and that Yanran wanted to contribute rather than be a vase.
• Lu Yunxiao encouraged Little Star and Qing Lin to learn from Qing Yanjing and help Cloud Gate in the future.
• Lu Yunxiao asked Xiao Yu about Xiao Xuan’s plan to reestablish the Xiao Clan in Central Continent.
• Lu Yunxiao offered Thunder Mountain, the former site of the Wind Lightning Pavilion, as a place for the Xiao Clan to settle, and Xiao Yu accepted gratefully.

Lu Yunxiao told Qing Yanjing that he had reached the early Eight-Star Dou Sheng stage with Ethereal Spirit Gold and planned to leave Cloud Gate to seek True Spirit Gold in the Boundless Chaotic Sea. Zi Yan persuaded him to take her along, and he agreed to depart in three days, expecting the trip to last at least two months.

• Lu Yunxiao reassured Xiao Yu that the Xiao Clan belonged to Cloud Gate and said they were friends.
• Lu Yunxiao told Qing Yanjing that Ethereal Spirit Gold had helped him reach the early Eight-Star Dou Sheng stage.
• Lu Yunxiao announced that he planned to leave Cloud Gate for the Boundless Chaotic Sea to seek True Spirit Gold.
• Zi Yan pleaded to join Lu Yunxiao, and Qing Yanjing encouraged him to take her along.
• Lu Yunxiao agreed to leave with Zi Yan in three days and said the trip would take at least two months.

Lu Yunxiao entrusted the sealed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to Huang Ling'er for Gu Xun'er and assigned the revived Purifying Demonic Saint roles in Cloud Gate. After spending three days with Qing Yanjing and the others, he traveled with Zi Yan to the dangerous Chaotic Sea, where they prepared to explore its mysteries.

• Lu Yunxiao gave Huang Ling'er the sealed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and instructed her to deliver it to Gu Xun'er and wait for her to emerge from seclusion.
• Lu Yunxiao told Qing Yanjing that the revived Purifying Demonic Saint had become Cloud Gate's new Half-Emperor and assigned him posts as Grand Elder and Guest Elder.
• Lu Yunxiao left the hall with Zi Yan after telling Qing Yanjing to handle Cloud Gate's affairs.
• After spending three days at Cloud Gate, Lu Yunxiao traveled with Zi Yan to the Chaotic Sea.
• Zi Yan sensed that the Chaotic Sea held dangers capable of threatening her, while Lu Yunxiao wondered whether it concealed treasures or Dou Di ruins.

Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan entered the Chaotic Sea in search of True Spirit Gold, where strange rules suppressed senses and the sea teemed with savage magical beasts. After Lu Yunxiao killed another powerful beast, they followed the map deeper toward the gold.

• Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan entered the Chaotic Sea, where its mist and hidden rules severely restricted perception.
• Lu Yunxiao used his abilities and a map to navigate northeast through the mist.
• Lu Yunxiao killed a Three-Star Dou Sheng Grey Nightmare Demon Shark with a palm strike, and Zi Yan collected its Ninth-Grade Monster Core.
• Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan discussed the Chaotic Sea’s numerous savage beasts and how its rules suppressed their intelligence and prevented them from escaping.
• Zi Yan checked the map, and Lu Yunxiao continued with her toward the marked location of the True Spirit Gold.

Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan encountered a massive Beast Tide in the Chaotic Sea, but Lu Yunxiao destroyed it with his control over the rules and the sea. Afterward, he captured a rare Nine-Yin Demonic Python and realized it could help Qing Lin rapidly improve her strength.

• Lu Yunxiao dispersed the white mist and revealed a Beast Tide of millions of Magical Beasts, frightening Zi Yan.
• Lu Yunxiao summoned a colossal tsunami and used it to scatter the Beast Tide, killing or crippling nearly all the beasts.
• Lu Yunxiao sensed something in the blood-red sea and pulled out a gigantic Nine-Yin Demonic Python.
• Lu Yunxiao told Zi Yan that the rare beast could help Qing Lin rapidly improve her strength.

Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan traveled to a remote part of the Chaotic Sea, following the map and the True Spirit Divine Iron’s signal to the seafloor. They discovered an enormous Spatial Barrier at the signal’s destination.

• Lu Yunxiao sealed the Seven-Star Dou Sheng Nine-Yin Demonic Python and two ninth-rank Heavenly Yin Bone Pythons in his Inner World for Qing Lin.
• Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan reached the mapped stretch of calm sea and concluded that their destination lay beneath the surface.
• Lu Yunxiao used True Spirit Divine Iron to sense True Spirit Gold and led Zi Yan down through immense depths of seawater.
• Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan reached the lifeless seabed and followed the iron’s growing signal farther along the ocean floor.
• Lu Yunxiao stopped at the destination and revealed an enormous Spatial Barrier with a point of his finger.

Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan entered a Spatial Barrier beneath the Chaotic Sea and found the place where the True Spirit Gold was kept, guarded by the Ancient Sky Whale Emperor. After learning that the second of three trials required them to defeat it, they faced the choice of proceeding against a powerful opponent.

• Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan crossed the Spatial Barrier and discovered a Ring Sea with a grand hall on its central island.
• Lu Yunxiao identified the True Spirit Gold, then dispelled the sound-wave attack of a giant beast that emerged from the water.
• Lu Yunxiao recognized the beast as the Ancient Sky Whale Emperor, a Peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng guarding the site.
• The Ancient Sky Whale Emperor warned Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan to leave, explaining that only worthy challengers could claim the True Spirit Gold.
• The Ancient Sky Whale Emperor revealed that the first trial was finding the seabed Spatial Barrier and the second was defeating it, warning that the battle would be deadly.

Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan accepted the Ancient Sky Whale Emperor’s trial, and Lu Yunxiao defeated it with his Cloud Sea technique. After the Emperor granted them passage and warned them about the Divine Sense guarding the Ancient Hall, they reached the hall’s entrance and read its plaque: True Spirit Hall.

• Zi Yan declared that she and Lu Yunxiao would accept the Ancient Sky Whale Emperor’s trial, and Lu Yunxiao agreed.
• The Ancient Sky Whale Emperor attacked with a devastating sound wave, and Lu Yunxiao countered with a Cloud Sea that overwhelmed it.
• The Ancient Sky Whale Emperor acknowledged Lu Yunxiao’s strength, declared that he had passed the second trial, and warned him about the Divine Sense within the Ancient Hall.
• Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan crossed the Ring Sea and reached the island’s enormous ancient hall.
• Lu Yunxiao looked at the golden plaque above the entrance and read the name True Spirit Hall.

Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan entered the True Spirit Hall and explored its chambers, discovering a Puppet Chamber filled with an enormous force of ancient puppets. They found more than ten thousand Dou Zun Peak Heavenly Demon Puppets and nine powerful puppets atop stone platforms, including an Ancient Void Dragon stronger than Zi Yan.

• Lu Yunxiao warned Zi Yan that the plaque’s characters carried the soul-piercing aura of True Spirit Gold, then opened the hall’s sealed entrance.
• Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan entered the True Spirit Hall and agreed to gather its treasures before heading to the main hall.
• Lu Yunxiao broke the restriction on the Puppet Chamber, revealing nine stone platforms surrounded by more than ten thousand Heavenly Demon Puppets.
• Zi Yan recognized the puppets as Dou Zun Peak Heavenly Demon Puppets and marveled at the strength of ancient times.
• Zi Yan identified several powerful puppets on the platforms, including an Ancient Void Dragon whose aura suggested it had reached Eight-Star Dou Sheng.

Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan discovered nine powerful Dou Sheng puppets in the Ancient Hall, including one made from a Soul Clan member. Lu Yunxiao subdued them and began imprinting them as his own, securing a major addition to Cloud Gate’s strength.

• Zi Yan grew angry at seeing an Ancient Heavenly Serpent turned into a puppet, while Lu Yunxiao identified the nine ancient beast puppets and the central Nine-Star Dou Sheng puppet as a former Soul Clan member.
• Lu Yunxiao explained that Great Saint Golden Spirit, the Ancient Hall’s former master and the first owner of True Spirit Gold, may have held a grudge against the Soul Clan.
• Lu Yunxiao placed Soul Imprints on the lower-ranked puppets, then awakened the nine Dou Sheng puppets with his Soul Power.
• The Soul Clan puppet ordered the other eight to attack Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan, but Lu Yunxiao dispersed their attacks and bound all nine with the power of the Heaven and Earth Rules.
• Lu Yunxiao decided the puppets would strengthen Cloud Gate and began replacing their original imprints with his own Soul Imprints.

Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan explored the ancient halls, collecting treasures and discovering an advanced Puppet Refining Technique before entering a Pill Chamber. There, Lu Yunxiao recognized the central cauldron as likely belonging to the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.

• Lu Yunxiao claimed nine obedient Sacred Spirit Puppets and stored them in his Inner World.
• Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan searched the Ancient Chambers, gathering treasures and taking an enormous Ancient Spirit Herb Forest.
• Lu Yunxiao found a Puppet Refining Technique that described powerful puppet types and rejected its bloody methods for creating demonic puppets.
• Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan entered the Pill Chamber, where they found rows of restricted Jade Bottles and a massive black alchemy cauldron.
• Lu Yunxiao sensed that the black cauldron resembled the Purple Abyss Cauldron and suspected it was on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.

Lu Yunxiao opened the mysterious black cauldron and captured the Ninth-Grade Golden Core that emerged in human form. He offered her a choice between serving him as a Pill Attendant or being transformed back into a pill for Zi Yan to consume, and she chose neither, leaving him to begin the Pill Transformation Divine Art.

• Lu Yunxiao suspected the black cauldron was the legendary Black Underworld Cauldron, while Zi Yan collected the medicinal pills from the stone platforms.
• Lu Yunxiao broke the cauldron’s restriction, releasing a golden divine dragon that he dragged back into the Ancient Chamber.
• The dragon transformed into a beautiful woman and attacked Lu Yunxiao and Zi Yan, but Lu Yunxiao caught and restrained her.
• Lu Yunxiao recognized the woman as a Ninth-Grade Golden Core and explained that humans had refined her to be consumed.
• Lu Yunxiao offered the woman a chance to serve as his Pill Attendant or be returned to pill form for Zi Yan to consume; she demanded freedom, and he began forming the Pill Transformation Divine Art.

Lu Yunxiao forced the transformed Ninth-Grade Golden Core to become his Pill Attendant, binding her with a Soul Seal and naming her Nishang. With Nishang following them, he and Zi Yan left the Ancient Chamber and continued plundering the ruins, eventually reaching its center.

• Lu Yunxiao threatened to use the Pill Transformation Divine Art, and the beautiful woman agreed to become his Pill Attendant rather than be eaten by Zi Yan.
• Lu Yunxiao placed a Soul Seal on the woman, warning that betrayal would erase her intelligence and return her to a lifeless pill.
• Lu Yunxiao named the woman Nishang and promised that good service could earn her freedom and access to medicinal pills.
• Lu Yunxiao put away the Black Underworld Cauldron and left the Ancient Chamber with Zi Yan and Nishang.
• Lu Yunxiao swept up treasures as the group traveled through the ruins, and they eventually reached its center.

Lu Yunxiao, Zi Yan, and Nishang entered the Golden Spirit Emperor’s hall, where Zi Yan discovered that Ancient Void Dragons and Ancient Heavenly Phoenixes had been made into decorations. They found the Emperor Monarch’s statue, learned about his past, and Lu Yunxiao left the group with his knowledge of where the Golden Spirit Emperor had gone.

• Lu Yunxiao led Zi Yan and Nishang into the immense golden hall.
• Zi Yan recognized the dragons and phoenixes coiled around the pillars as the preserved bodies of Ancient Void Dragons and Ancient Heavenly Phoenixes, and grew furious.
• Lu Yunxiao took Zi Yan’s hand and promised to help her teach the hall’s master a lesson.
• The three approached a colossal statue, and Lu Yunxiao shielded Zi Yan and Nishang from its overwhelming pressure.
• Nishang identified the statue as the Golden Spirit Emperor, explaining that he had been a Lone Walker with no descendants and had later left the Dou Qi Continent.
• Lu Yunxiao realized that the Golden Spirit Emperor had gone to the Great Thousand World and might have fallen in the invasion by the Evil Race from Beyond the Domain.

Lu Yunxiao examined the Golden Spirit Emperor’s inheritance and spoke with the lingering soul fragment hidden in the statue. The Golden Spirit Emperor began explaining the three treasures, but the third trial and the central sword’s identity remained unrevealed.

• Lu Yunxiao inspected the three light orbs and called on the Golden Spirit Emperor to reveal himself.
• When the statue did not respond, Lu Yunxiao attacked it, prompting a phantom to emerge from the sword-shaped mark between its brows.
• Lu Yunxiao asked about the third trial and the Dou Qi Continent’s past Dou Di, and the Golden Spirit Emperor explained that he knew little about their fate beyond the continent.
• The Golden Spirit Emperor identified the left orb as his cultivation insights and inheritance, then named the right orb’s contents as Seven-Colored Divine Marrow.

Lu Yunxiao learned that the Golden Spirit Emperor had left behind Seven-Colored Divine Marrow and True Spirit Gold, treasures that could greatly strengthen their inheritor. The Golden Spirit Emperor challenged Lu Yunxiao to defeat his projection, and Lu Yunxiao accepted.

• The Golden Spirit Emperor explained that Seven-Colored Divine Marrow could transform potential and help those below the Dou Di realm, and that he had saved it for his inheritor.
• Lu Yunxiao considered how the marrow could improve the future prospects of his women, especially those with limited potential.
• The Golden Spirit Emperor revealed that True Spirit Gold was the purpose of Lu Yunxiao's journey and described its immense power and growth potential.
• The Golden Spirit Emperor announced that Lu Yunxiao had to defeat his projection to claim the three treasures.
• Lu Yunxiao accepted the challenge, and the Golden Spirit Emperor told him to make his move.

Lu Yunxiao sent his Soul Clone to fight the Golden Spirit Emperor’s phantom for the right to claim True Spirit Gold. After defeating the Emperor’s final attack, Lu Yunxiao won the third trial and secured the treasure.

• Lu Yunxiao summoned his Soul Clone to face the Golden Spirit Emperor’s phantom instead of fighting with his full strength.
• The two phantoms clashed, and the Golden Spirit Emperor recognized Lu Yunxiao’s Soul Clone as a formidable opponent.
• The Golden Spirit Emperor unleashed a True Spirit Gold attack, but Lu Yunxiao’s Soul Clone crushed it with a sword strike.
• The Golden Spirit Emperor conceded defeat and declared that Lu Yunxiao had passed the third trial.
• The Golden Spirit Emperor awarded True Spirit Gold to Lu Yunxiao.

After the Golden Spirit Emperor passed on his legacy, Lu Yunxiao claimed the treasures and divided the Seven-Colored Divine Marrow among those with the greatest chance of reaching higher realms. He and Zi Yan began refining their treasures under Nishang’s watch, leaving themselves vulnerable as Nishang weighed whether to attack.

• The Golden Spirit Emperor vanished after entrusting the continent’s future to Lu Yunxiao, who accepted his inheritance and paid his respects.
• Lu Yunxiao opened the three Light Orbs and took the jade slip and Seven-Colored Divine Marrow from the stone platform.
• Lu Yunxiao gave Zi Yan one portion of the Seven-Colored Divine Marrow, explaining that it could help her reach beyond the Heavenly Sovereign realm.
• Lu Yunxiao drew out the True Spirit Gold and asked Nishang to guard him and Zi Yan while they refined their treasures.
• Zi Yan swallowed the Divine Marrow and Lu Yunxiao began refining the True Spirit Gold, while Nishang considered attacking them in their defenseless state.

A mysterious Black Shadow learned that members of the Fiend Demon Clan had been killed and prepared to investigate the Dou Qi Continent. At Cloud Gate, Qing Yanjing and the others struggled to explain the disappearance of thousands of Dou Zun experts and hoped Lu Yunxiao would return to confront the threat.

• A month after Nishang chose to stand guard beside Lu Yunxiao, a Black Shadow concluded that two members of his clan were dead and said he would explore the continent.
• The Black Shadow revealed that his injuries from the Space-Time Storm had healed and vowed that nothing could stop his clan's descent.
• At Cloud Gate, Qing Yanjing, Huang Ling'er, and Nalan Yanran discussed more than a hundred incidents in which thousands of Dou Zun experts had vanished across the continent.
• Qing Yanjing suspected surviving Evil Race from Beyond the Domain were behind the disappearances, while Cloud Gate's investigations had uncovered no clues.
• Ya Fei and the others said Lu Yunxiao could handle the culprit, and Qing Yanjing hoped he would return soon.

Qing Yanjing organized Cloud Gate and its allies to protect the continent and coordinate against the hidden mastermind while Lu Yunxiao was away. After escaping a coordinated attack, the Black Shadow headed for the Western Continent to gather the remaining Blood Fiend Aura.

• Qing Yanjing ordered Cloud Gate to prepare communications, protect its forces, and contact the Gu Clan and other Ancient Clans.
• Ya Fei agreed to coordinate joint operations with the Gu Clan, while Qing Lin and Nalan Yanran were sent to alert the Nine Nether Deep Ground Python Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Qing Yanjing asked Nalan Yanran to have Senior Xiao Xuan guard Queen Medusa and asked Huang Ling'er to watch over the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• The Black Shadow fled after Dong Wushang, the Purifying Demonic Saint, the Lord of Devouring, Huang Ling'er, and Gu Yuan attacked him together.
• The Black Shadow abandoned plans to strike Central Continent and headed toward the Western Continent to collect the remaining Blood Fiend Aura.