Chapter Summaries

Lu Bu and his companions attacked an Ancient Sky Demon Python to secure its blood pool, while Xiao Yan secretly followed and watched Qing Lin subdue the beast. Lu Bu refined the blood pool’s violent energy so Queen Medusa and Qing Lin could use it, leaving Xiao Yan lamenting that his Dou Di bloodline had not made him stronger than Lu Bu’s companions.

• Lu Bu led Queen Medusa, Qing Lin, Yao Zi, Yao Rong, and the others to an Ancient Sky Demon Python’s mountain and confronted the peak fifth-revolution beast.
• Queen Medusa battered the python while Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, aided by their bloodline pressure, to bring it under control.
• Xiao Yan and the elders of Starfall Pavilion watched from hiding as Qing Lin subdued the python, and Xiao Yan questioned the value of his Dou Di bloodline.
• Lu Bu revealed that the group had come for the python’s blood pool and used the Ancestral Talisman to create Devouring Membranes for Queen Medusa and Qing Lin.
• Queen Medusa and Qing Lin entered the blood pool as the Devouring Membranes purified its energy for their body tempering.

Lu Bu and his companions left the Sky Demon Blood Pool for the Ancient Domain Stage, where they reunited with Gu Qingyang and Xiao Yan as factions gathered to approach the Bodhi Ancient Tree. Xiao Yan warned them that the tree could turn people into puppets, including at least five Half-Saint-level guards, information Lu Bu said came from a special source.

• Queen Medusa emerged from the blood pool, and Qing Lin broke through to the eighth star of Dou Zun.
• Lu Bu and the women rode the Ancient Sky Demon Python to the Ancient Domain Stage, startling the gathered factions and drawing hostile looks from Jiufeng, Huang Yang, and Huang Xin.
• Lu Bu greeted Gu Qingyang's group, including Xiao Xun'er, and Gu Yao awkwardly greeted all of Lu Bu's companions as his sisters-in-law.
• Gu Qingyang explained that magical beasts blocked the route to the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Xiao Yan arrived with the Starfall Pavilion and Flower Sect groups.
• Xiao Yan warned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree could refine people into puppets and had at least five Half-Saint-level puppets guarding it, citing Lu Bu as his source.

Lu Bu and the others assessed the rival clans gathered near the Bodhi Ancient Tree and learned that a vast, deadly beast tide blocked the way. Qing Lin discovered the tide stretched three thousand zhang and spotted the enormous tree beyond it, while Lu Bu confidently promised he had a plan to reach the Bodhi Heart.

• The Ancient Clan members doubted Lu Bu's warning about Half-Saints, while Lu Bu's group eyed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and considered their old grudge.
• Xiao Yan and the Ancient Clan discussed Hun Shui, Hun Mo, and the Yao Clan's Yao Ling, then Gu Yao explained that earlier attempts to cross the beast tide had failed and injured Gu Xing.
• Xiao Yan learned that the beast tide had stopped both the Ancient Clan and Hun Clan and stretched beyond the several hundred zhang they had explored.
• Qing Lin used her special eyes to scout north, suffered a brief shock to her soul, and reported that the beast tide was three thousand zhang wide and that the Bodhi Ancient Tree towered thousands of zhang into the sky.
• Lu Bu caught Qing Lin, reassured her, and said he had a plan to obtain the Bodhi Heart.

Lu Bu warned the assembled factions that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had powerful Half-Saint puppets, disrupting Hun Mo’s plan to use weaker cultivators as cannon fodder. Hun Mo was forced to lead an assault on the beast tide, while Lu Bu set out protected by Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian.

• Lu Bu’s soul power drove away onlookers, and Hun Mo’s group discussed his strength and considered recruiting the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan against the Ancient Clan.
• Hun Mo proposed that the assembled factions unite to break through the beast tide, and Jiufeng, Yao Ling, and the other factions agreed.
• Lu Bu revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had at least five Half-Saint-level puppets and confirmed that a Hun Clan ancestor had vanished there, persuading weaker cultivators to stay behind.
• Lu Bu urged Hun Mo to lead the assault, and the factions pressured Hun Mo into taking the front position before two or three hundred Dou Zuns followed him toward the beast tide.
• Lu Bu set out with the women as Qing Lin summoned the Ancient Sky Demon Python and Xiao Yi Xian opened her Heavenly Nether Poison Realm, leaving Lu Bu safely atop the Python amid envious remarks.

Lu Bu’s group advanced through the beast tide using Xiao Yi Xian’s poison realm, while Hun Mo secretly manipulated the vicious beasts to divert them toward Lu Bu. Lu Bu identified the black mist behind the attacks and used his newly learned Nightmare Sky Mist to turn the tide against the Hun Clan.

• Hun Mo led the factions into the vicious beast tide, where Dou Zuns fought through waves of increasingly powerful beasts.
• Lu Bu’s group advanced more safely as the Ancient Sky Demon Python attacked and Xiao Yi Xian’s poison realm dissolved beasts that touched it.
• Hun Shui and Hun Mo watched Lu Bu’s group, while Hun Mo secretly spread black mist to redirect vicious beasts away from the Hun Clan and toward Lu Bu.
• Lu Bu noticed the uneven attacks, captured a wisp of black mist, and deduced that it was influencing the beasts’ minds.
• Lu Bu sent milky-white mist into the herd, easing the pressure on his group and sending the redirected beasts charging toward the Hun Clan.

Lu Bu and the others crossed the beast tide and reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s protective light, while the survivors gathered and prepared to approach it. Qing Lin discovered a vast layer of gray Qi resembling humanity’s negative emotions wrapped around the tree.

• Hun Mo realized he could no longer control the beasts attacking the Hun Clan, and Hun Shui and the Third Venerable led their group through the tide at heavy cost.
• Lu Bu gave out Grade 8 pill-beasts, and Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin followed his lead as they charged toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Medusa revealed her Nine-Revolutions Dou Zun strength and cut a path through the beasts, while Lu Bu used his flames to clear the way behind the women.
• Lu Bu’s group reached the area protected by the tree’s green light, and the surviving Hun Clan, Ancient Clan, and Yao Clan members arrived after crossing the beast tide.
• The groups began moving cautiously toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Qing Lin told Lu Bu that enormous amounts of gray Qi resembling negative emotions covered it.

Lu Bu led the survivors to the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where three apparent Bodhi Hearts drew them into a fight against five Half-Saint puppets. As the battle began, Lu Bu and the women in his group used powerful Ancient Clan techniques, leaving the Ancient Clan members questioning how widely he had shared their skills.

• After the beast tide ended, Lu Bu rode ahead on an Ancient Sky Demon Python, and the exhausted Dou Zuns followed despite their complaints.
• Lu Bu sensed the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s cold, negative energy as three apparent Bodhi Hearts formed and attracted the gathered factions.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree released five Half-Saint puppets, and Hun Mo assigned the factions to face them in groups.
• Hun Mo attacked a puppet, the other puppets charged, and the factions joined the battle.
• Lu Bu, Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin struck a puppet with Ancient Clan techniques, prompting Gu Yao and Gu Qingyang to question Lu Bu about sharing their skills.

Lu Bu and the others fought off the Half-Saint puppets, then followed the remaining factions toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree and were drawn into its illusion. Lu Bu entered a vision of a luxurious palace, where he encountered Huo Ling, the Flame Clan's Supreme Elder.

• Xiao Xun'er and the Ancient Clan members attacked a Half-Saint puppet, and Gu Hua was injured before Lu Bu's group struck it with a powerful sword attack.
• Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin worked together to cripple and destroy their Half-Saint puppet, then rested while Lu Bu stood guard.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Yao Clan suffered heavy losses fighting their puppets, while the Ancient Clan and Hun Clan also sustained injuries.
• Lu Bu led his group toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and nearly a hundred people followed despite grumbling.
• Pillars of light appeared as the group entered the tree's shade, and everyone was transported into an illusion that suppressed their memories.
• Lu Bu recovered his memories with the help of the Nightmare Sky Mist, entered a halo, and met Huo Ling, whom he recognized as the Flame Clan's Supreme Elder, the Fire Spirit Fairy.

Lu Bu escaped the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s dangerous illusion and helped its benevolent personality purge the evil aura left by a Dou Di. The others emerged from their illusions, but Lu Bu was missing.

• Fire Spirit and Yao Ling approached Lu Bu in his illusion, but the Bodhi Seed shattered the scene and brought him to the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s inner space.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Lu Bu how a black-robed Dou Di’s death had left it wounded and infected with negative emotions, then asked him to cleanse its evil personality.
• Lu Bu refined more than forty Bodhi Seeds with the Earth Formation, releasing their pure energy into the tree and driving out its black aura.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusions collapsed, and Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and the others returned to the real world.
• Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin compared their strange illusions before Xiao Yan noticed that Lu Bu was nowhere to be found.

Lu Bu emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree after removing its corrupting influence and gaining a moment of enlightenment, while the Bodhi Hearts disappeared. Hun Mo and the Soul Hall Third Heavenly Venerate attacked him, but Lu Bu’s allies and Heavenly Demon Puppet stopped them, leaving Medusa ready to fight the Hun Clan.

• Xiao Yan and the others speculated about Lu Bu’s fate, while Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin trusted that he would survive.
• Inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Lu Bu saw that its corruption had vanished and learned that his companions were safe; the tree then drew him into its trunk for a moment of enlightenment.
• The Bodhi Hearts disappeared, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree pushed Lu Bu back outside on an emerald cushion, prompting Gu Yao to explain the tree’s three treasures and the potential of its enlightenment.
• Hun Mo ordered an attack on Lu Bu, while Hun Shui and the other Hun Clan members moved against Medusa, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Lu Bu’s Heavenly Demon Puppet intervened, and Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin repelled the Hun Clan’s attacks.
• Medusa declared that the Hun Clan’s five members would not escape, as the confrontation escalated into a fight.

Queen Medusa, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian fought the Hun Clan, while the Ancient Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan weighed whether to intervene. Xiao Yi Xian killed two Hun Clan Dou Zuns with poisonous insects, but the Yao Clan activated a Forbidden Pill Formation, and the battle remained unresolved as the barrier around Lu Bu began to ripple.

• Queen Medusa, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian attacked the five Hun Clan members, while the Heavenly Demon Puppet fought the Soul Hall Third Heavenly Venerate.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Qingyang held back the Ancient Clan forces, while Jiufeng prepared the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to attack the women once they weakened.
• Xiao Yi Xian used mist-like poisonous insects to kill the Hun Clan's Four-Revolutions and Two-Revolutions Dou Zuns.
• Jiufeng launched a surprise attack on Xiao Yi Xian, but Gu Yao drove him back, and Xiao Yan challenged the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Yao Rang activated the Forbidden Pill Formation, suppressing the spirituality of Queen Medusa and the others' Grade 8 Pills.
• Jiufeng revealed Queen Medusa's soul weakness to Hun Mo, while the barrier before Lu Bu beneath the Bodhi Tree began to ripple.

Lu Bu emerged from a month beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree after experiencing countless reincarnations, while the waiting crowd nearly attacked him out of greed. He learned that the tree had cleansed the three women of a Dou Di’s negative emotions and rewarded him with Bodhi Seeds, and he promised to help restore its strength.

• Xiao Yi Xian killed Hun Duan and Hun Jian, then joined Medusa against Hun Mo as the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s barrier began to solidify around Lu Bu.
• The Hun Clan survivors withdrew into the crowd, while Qing Lin guarded Lu Bu and the women rested as the crowd waited for days beneath the tree.
• A rumor that Lu Bu was refining the Bodhi Heart stirred the crowd, but Medusa warned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had once killed a Dou Di and deterred an attack.
• After another week, the crowd grew restless, but the barrier faded and Lu Bu emerged, revealing that he had experienced countless reincarnations beneath the tree.
• Lu Bu asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to remove a Dou Di’s negative emotions from Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin, and the tree cleansed them and gave him more than twenty Bodhi Seeds.
• Lu Bu thanked the Bodhi Ancient Tree and promised to refine pills for it and help restore its strength.

Lu Bu claimed the Bodhi Seeds and used the Nightmare Sky Mist to trap his opponents in illusions, turning them against one another. Xiao Xun'er recognized the mist as the Pure Lotus Demon Sage’s inheritance, and Lu Bu confirmed her suspicion.

• The crowd rushed for the twenty-four Bodhi Seeds, but Lu Bu summoned them to himself and gave six to the Ancient Clan members and Xiao Yan.
• Hun Mo, Jiufeng, and Yao Rang demanded the remaining seeds, while Hua Yu withdrew the Flower Sect in gratitude for Lu Bu’s kindness.
• Lu Bu refused to surrender the seeds, and the Hun Clan, Yao Clan, and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan prepared to attack alongside the other experts.
• Jiufeng tried to stab Lu Bu but instead pierced Hun Mo, then realized he had been trapped in an illusion.
• The Nightmare Sky Mist drove the gathered experts into a bloody battle as Lu Bu’s allies watched; Xiao Xun'er identified it as the Pure Lotus Demon Sage’s inheritance, and Lu Bu confirmed she was right.

Lu Bu and the Ancient Clan survived the massacre caused by the Nightmare Sky Mist, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree disappeared after bidding them farewell. After Lu Bu dealt with the remaining enemies and sent a warning to the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan, Gu Qingyang’s group returned to the Ancient Clan and encountered its chief.

• Xiao Xun'er explained how the Nightmare Sky Mist trapped people in illusions and how it could become deadly when combined with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree vanished in a pillar of light, and Lu Bu decided to return to the Alchemy Tower with Medusa and Qing Lin.
• Yao Ling escaped the blood-red mist, but Medusa sealed the area; as the other survivors emerged, Lu Bu let the Ancient Clan attack them.
• Lu Bu killed the Yao Clan survivors, spared Yao Ling, and ordered Jiufeng to tell Huang Tian that he and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan would visit.
• Gu Qingyang and the others returned to the Ancient Clan and planned to ask the elders about the lingering negative emotions of a Dou Di.
• The Ancient Clan Chief appeared and asked Gu Qingyang’s group what had happened.

Gu Yuan questioned Gu Qingyang and the others about Lu Bu and the Bodhi treasures, while Lu Bu raced Xiao Yan to Starfall Pavilion and traded a Bodhi Seed to Yao Chen for a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill formula. Gu Yuan suspected Lu Bu had gained the Pure Lotus Demon Sage’s inheritance and considered testing him and the Ancient Dragon Clan.

• Gu Yuan brought Gu Qingyang, Gu Hua, Gu Yao, and the others to a cabin in the Ancient Realm, removed a trace of gray mist from Gu Yao, and asked them to recount their journey with Lu Bu.
• Xiao Yan raced Lu Bu on magical beasts, but Lu Bu used his pressure and a Grade 8 Pill to overtake him; Xiao Yan learned that Lu Bu and his companions had Bodhi Hearts.
• Lu Bu and Xiao Yan arrived at Starfall Pavilion, where Yao Chen discovered Lu Bu had reached the Nine-Revolutions Dou Zun realm.
• Lu Bu gave Yao Chen a Bodhi Seed in exchange for help finding the Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill formula and said he would collect it after reaching Dou Sheng.
• Gu Qingyang and Gu Hua speculated that Lu Bu might have obtained the Pure Lotus Demon Sage’s inheritance, and Gu Yuan watched them leave while considering testing Lu Bu and the Ancient Dragon Clan.

Hun Xi learned that Lu Bu had killed Hun Clan geniuses and vowed to destroy him, while Lu Bu returned to Sacred Pill City with the Bodhi Heart and gave one to Yun Yun. Xuan Kongzi arrived to meet Lu Bu after learning that his cultivation and alchemy had reached the Nine-Revolutions Dou Zun level.

• Hun Zhe told Hun Xi and Hun Qian that Hun Mo and other Hun Clan geniuses had died at the hands of the Ancient Clan and Lu Bu, and Hun Xi resolved to kill Lu Bu.
• Hun Zhe revealed that Lu Bu had also killed Hun Miao and Hun Yong after leaving the Heaven Tomb, and that the Yao Clan had lost all its Primordial Desolate Region members except Yao Ling.
• Xuan Kongzi told Cao Ying that Lu Bu had reached Nine-Revolutions Dou Zun and was likely his equal in alchemy.
• Lu Bu returned to the estate with his companions, and Yun Yun discovered that Xiao Yi Xian had a Bodhi Heart.
• Lu Bu produced another Bodhi Heart and placed it in Yun Yun, who welcomed his liberties as Xiao Yi Xian protested.
• Xuan Kongzi arrived with Cao Ying to visit Lu Bu.

Lu Bu met Xuan Kongzi and gave him, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi Bodhi Seeds before Hun Xi arrived at Sacred Pill City to capture him. The Pill Tower and other Dou Sheng experts prepared to oppose Hun Xi, but Lu Bu crushed a jade slip and summoned someone through a spatial rift.

• Xuan Kongzi asked how Lu Bu had advanced to Nine-Revolutions Dou Zun, and Lu Bu said he had comprehended beneath the Bodhi Tree.
• Lu Bu gave Xuan Kongzi three Bodhi Seeds for himself, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi.
• Hun Xi attacked Lu Bu’s estate, but Elder Lin and six other members of the Lesser Pill Tower appeared and blocked his strike.
• Elder Lin and Xuan Kongzi chose to protect Lu Bu, while the Lesser Pill Tower’s Second Elder offered a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill to recruit allies against Hun Xi.
• Several Dou Sheng experts, including one from the Thunder Clan, gathered, but Lu Bu told them to leave Hun Xi to him and crushed a jade slip as a spatial rift opened beside him.

Lu Bu summoned Zhu Huo to protect him from Hun Xi, a Soul Clan Dou Sheng, and Zhu Huo defeated Hun Xi with help from the powerful Ancient Void Dragon Zhu Xiu. As Zhu Huo prepared to cripple Hun Xi for questioning, Hun Xi called for Lord Hun Jing, whose presence began to emerge through spatial rifts.

• Hun Xi attacked Lu Bu, but Zhu Huo emerged from a spatial rift and swallowed the strike with his mastery of space.
• Zhu Xiu arrived, revealed his Late Three-star Dou Sheng strength as an Ancient Void Dragon, and pressured Hun Xi alongside Zhu Huo.
• Hun Xi fought Zhu Huo but was overwhelmed, transformed into a blood-red giant frog, and was battered into a crater.
• Lu Bu ordered Zhu Huo to cripple Hun Xi without killing him so he could question him, while Xiao Yan and Yao Chen suspected someone had betrayed Lu Bu.
• Zhu Huo pinned Hun Xi and prepared to cripple him, but Hun Xi cried out to Lord Hun Jing as a blood-red eyeball opened within the spatial rifts.

Lu Bu refused Hun Jing’s demand to release Hun Xi, and the Ancient Void Dragon clan backed him against the Soul Clan Demon Saint. After Zhu Xiu drove off Hun Jing and Zhu Huo crippled Hun Xi, Lu Bu questioned his captive about how the Soul Clan had found him.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen resisted the baleful aura from Hun Jing’s blood-red eye and recognized him as one of the Soul Clan Four Demon Saints.
• Hun Jing demanded that Lu Bu release Hun Xi, but Lu Bu refused and declared that Hun Jing was not powerful enough to take his captive.
• Lu Bu ordered Zhu Huo to cripple Hun Xi, and Zhu Xiu shielded them from Hun Jing’s blood-red attacks.
• Gu Yuan wondered whether the Ancient Void Dragon clan had a Nine-star Dou Sheng after witnessing Zhu Xiu overpower Hun Jing’s projection.
• Zhu Huo crippled Hun Xi, Zhu Xiu shattered Hun Jing’s blood-red eye, and Lu Bu demanded to know how the Soul Clan had found him.

Lu Bu defeated Hun Xi, uncovered the Yao Clan’s role in feeding the Soul Clan information, and took his women to Dragon Island to prepare for their advancement. The chapter ended with Zi Yan reuniting with them as Dragon Emperor, then dropping her dignified act when Medusa and Qing Lin teased her.

• Lu Bu questioned Hun Xi about why the Soul Clan had targeted him, and Hun Xi revealed that the Yao Clan had supplied information about Lu Bu and the Bodhi Seeds.
• Zhu Xiu captured Yao Wan Gui and his companion, while Lu Bu extracted Hun Xi’s soul, sealed it in a jade bottle, and burned his body.
• Lu Bu told Xuan Kongzi that he was the Ancient Dragon Clan leader’s husband and asked the Pill Tower for Bodhi Pill ingredients, which Xuan Kongzi agreed to provide.
• Lu Bu and the four women traveled with Zhu Xiu and Zhu Huo to Dragon Island, carrying thirty sets of ingredients and seeking a safe place to refine pills and grow stronger.
• Lu Bu met Hei Qing on Dragon Island and promised to help him reach the Half-Saint realm after refining pills.
• Zi Yan arrived as Dragon Emperor, but Medusa and Qing Lin pinched her cheeks and teased her about her appearance until Xiao Yi Xian scolded them.