Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin left Jia Nan Academy to pursue training, while Green Yi secretly sent protectors after them. Beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, Zi Yan used her essence blood and mysterious stored essence blood to accelerate Lin Ran’s recovery, awakening a powerful creature beneath the magma to her presence.

• Xiao Yi Xian chose to train in the Chuyun Empire, and Qing Lin set out for the Heavenly Snake Empire with Green Yi’s elder token from the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Green Yi summoned two black-robed figures and ordered them to protect Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin without revealing themselves except in a life-or-death situation.
• Zi Yan asked Cai Lin to seal the space around them, then offered her essence blood to help heal Lin Ran.
• Zi Yan’s essence blood stirred a huge creature beneath the magma, which recognized the aura as belonging to its child and raged against the ancient stone gate imprisoning it.
• Lin Ran’s Storage Ring produced a jade bottle of similar essence blood, which Zi Yan’s own essence blood absorbed before she guided the combined power into Lin Ran.
• Lin Ran’s condition improved, and Cai Lin left to search for soul-healing treasures while Zi Yan decided to give him more of her essence blood later.

After two years of recovery, Lin Ran awakened with a body transformed by Zi Yan’s essence blood and discovered how much she had sacrificed to save him. He comforted the exhausted Zi Yan, who was overjoyed to see him awake.

• Cai Lin and Yun Yun searched for soul-repairing treasures while Yao Chen refined them for Lin Ran, and Zi Yan secretly gave Lin Ran her essence blood.
• During Lin Ran’s long recovery, the Saint Rain Sect sponsored Jia Nan Academy’s Strong Ranking Tournament, while Xiao Yan trained in the Monster Beast Mountain Range and advanced to One-star Dou Ling.
• After wandering through darkness for two years, Lin Ran awakened in the green lotus and found that his body and meridians had been transformed, granting him Dragon Scale Armor.
• Lin Ran found Zi Yan unconscious and depleted in a cave, realized she had given him her essence blood, and revived her with his own blood.
• Lin Ran offered Zi Yan the corpse of a Dou Zun-level Sky Demon Phoenix to eat, and she recognized him and wept in his embrace.

Lin Ran awakened as a Five-Star Dou Zun with a strengthened Pure Yang Dragon Body, learned how his allies had protected him, and refined a powerful pill for Zi Yan. The pill lightning drew Green Yi, Yao Chen, Han Feng, and crowds of Black Corner Region experts, and Lin Ran left them stunned by destroying the Five-Colored Thunderclouds with one palm.

• Zi Yan told Lin Ran that Cai Lin, Yun Yun, Green Yi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin had been searching for treasures and handling affairs while he was unconscious.
• Lin Ran reflected on the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts’ plan to extract his origin and resolved to grow stronger before seeking revenge.
• Lin Ran summoned ingredients and used the Heavenly Scorpion Poison Dragon Beast’s Magic Core and his own blood essence to refine a Heavenly Spirit Dragon Blood Pill for Zi Yan.
• After seven days, the pill formed an eighth-rank pill lightning tribulation with Five-Colored Thunderclouds, drawing experts from across the Black Corner Region.
• Green Yi, Yao Chen, and Han Feng found Lin Ran and celebrated his awakening as he concealed Zi Yan after she swallowed the pill.
• Lin Ran demonstrated his strength by striking the Five-Colored Thunderclouds with the Great Sun Holy Yang Palm and blasting them apart.

After awakening, Lin Ran resumed treating Xun Er and discovered Zi Yan had begun evolving inside a cocoon. He then traveled to the Chuyun Empire, where he found Xiao Yi Xian’s awakened Calamity Poison Body facing a Dou Zong-level Corpse Soul Puppet.

• Lin Ran reunited with Cai Lin, Yun Yun, and Green Yi, then returned to Jia Nan Academy and used his Pure Yang Dou Qi to nourish Xun Er’s meridians.
• Lin Ran returned to his secluded chamber, where Zi Yan’s Heavenly Spirit Dragon Blood Pill had triggered her evolution inside a purple cocoon.
• Lin Ran examined the poisoned Soul Infant Demonic Tree and realized he needed another way to neutralize its poison without destroying it.
• Lin Ran traveled to the Chuyun Empire, followed the Saint Jade Token, and found Xiao Yi Xian in the poisonous woods with a Corpse Soul Puppet nearby.

Xiao Yi Xian fought Wu Tian Mansion after its members tried to capture her, using the battle to push beyond the peak Dou Wang realm. After killing a Dou Huang elder and facing Wu Ya’s blood-red centipede attack, she fully unleashed the Calamity Poison Body.

• Lin Ran watched Xiao Yi Xian fight while restraining the nearby Corpse Soul Puppet, recognizing that she intended to break through in battle.
• Xiao Yi Xian froze Wu Tian Mansion’s attackers with Ice Venerable Strength, but Wu Ya arrived and revealed his peak Dou Huang strength.
• Xiao Yi Xian charged Wu Ya and his elder, swallowed the elder’s poisonous dou qi, and killed him with a True Ice Prism Crystal.
• Wu Ya summoned a blood-red energy centipede that suppressed Xiao Yi Xian, but a strange symbol appeared on her forehead as her eyes turned deep purple and gray.
• Xiao Yi Xian completely unleashed the Calamity Poison Body.

Xiao Yi Xian unleashed her Calamity Poison Body to fight Wu Ya, whose attack was interrupted when Lin Ran awakened from his two-year coma and crushed him. Lin Ran reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, then began fully awakening her poison body so he could help her break through and condense a Poison Pill.

• Xiao Yi Xian unleashed her Calamity Poison Body and fought Wu Ya, contaminating the sealed space with poison as her breakthrough to Dou Huang began.
• Wu Ya tried to exploit Xiao Yi Xian's unstable breakthrough, but Lin Ran suddenly appeared and crushed him before he could react.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized Lin Ran, embraced him, and learned that he had awakened after being unconscious for two years.
• Lin Ran stabilized Xiao Yi Xian's breakthrough and revealed an eighth-tier Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core and Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva for condensing a Poison Pill.
• Lin Ran used his Pure Yang Dou Qi and Saint Gold Fallen Heart Flame to fully awaken Xiao Yi Xian's Calamity Poison Body, causing gray poisonous mist to erupt from her body.

Lin Ran used the Poison Pill Method to stabilize Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body and began condensing her poison into a Poison Pill. Meanwhile, Sky Scorpion and Human Scorpion learned Lin Ran had survived, and Blood River appeared to offer them help.

• Lin Ran gathered Xiao Yi Xian’s poison in her lower abdomen, placed the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s Magic Core there, and refined the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, obtaining a Bodhi Seed.
• Lin Ran used the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and his essence blood to restore Xiao Yi Xian’s vitality and neutralize the deathly aura in her poison.
• At Lin Ran’s urging, Xiao Yi Xian circulated her Dou Qi and compressed the Calamity Poison into the Magic Core, beginning to form her Poison Pill.
• Human Scorpion told Sky Scorpion that Lin Ran had survived and grown stronger, and offered to search for him on the Northwest Continent.
• Sky Scorpion refused to send Human Scorpion after Lin Ran, warning that the forces with Emperor Blood behind him made the pursuit dangerous.
• Blood River appeared in the hall and offered to handle the matters troubling Sky Scorpion.

After Xiao Yi Xian mastered her Calamity Poison Body, she helped Lin Ran save the Soul Infant Demonic Tree, then chose to remain in the Chuyun Empire to grow stronger and support him. Lin Ran returned to Saint Rain Sect and offered Yao Chen a Dou Zun skeleton, asking if he was ready to live another life.

• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the poisonous aura within her and broke through to five-star Dou Huang before reuniting with Lin Ran.
• Xiao Yi Xian devoured the poison on the Soul Infant Demonic Tree, advancing to six-star Dou Huang, and Lin Ran revived the tree with his pure yang essence blood.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked to stay in the Chuyun Empire so she could become strong enough to help Lin Ran, and he agreed before returning to the Black Corner Region three days later.
• Lin Ran had Green Yi arrange to plant the Soul Infant Demonic Tree and nourished Xun Er's meridians before visiting Yao Chen in Maple City.
• Lin Ran presented Yao Chen with a Dou Zun skeleton and asked whether he was prepared to live another life.

Lin Ran began forging a body for Yao Chen using a Dou Zun skeleton, rare medicinal materials, magical beast essence blood, and his own essence blood. As the body took shape and Yao Chen began fusing with it, three Heavenly Venerables appeared before the Soul Hall’s assembled forces.

• Lin Ran presented Yao Chen with a Five-Star Dou Zun skeleton and an Eight-Colored Pill Lightning Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill for his resurrection.
• Lin Ran infused the skeleton with eighth-tier magical beast essence blood and his Pure Yang Dragon Body essence blood, then tempered it with the Saint Gold Fallen Heart Flame.
• After nearly a day of refining, Yao Chen swallowed the pill and sent his soul into the skeleton as Lin Ran continued burning and regrowing its flesh.
• Lin Ran completed the body's formation after nearly ten more hours of tempering, leaving Yao Chen to finish fusing with it.
• Deep in a mountain range on the Northwest Continent, black figures welcomed three arriving Heavenly Venerables.

Lin Ran enlisted Elder Lin and Elder Han to help construct a Space Wormhole between the Black Corner Region and Starfall Pavilion while nourishing Xun Er so she could adapt to his strengthened power. At Starfall Pavilion, Mu Qingluan sought a Sect Breaking Pill, but strange ripples from a forbidden stone tower sent Feng Xian rushing toward it.

• Lin Ran finished nourishing Xun Er and asked to borrow Elder Lin and Elder Han to help build a Space Wormhole; she agreed.
• Lin Ran, Elder Lin, and Elder Han opened a roughly one-hundred-meter-wide wormhole entrance in Saint City, linking the Black Corner Region toward Starfall Pavilion.
• Mu Qingluan defeated the disciples training against her, revealed she had reached the barrier of Dou Zong, and requested a Sect Breaking Pill from Feng Xian.
• Feng Xian sensed repeated ripples from Starfall Pavilion's stone tower and rushed toward it, while Mu Qingluan recognized the tower's significance and touched the Silver Token at her waist.

Feng Xian discovered that Lin Ran was alive and began coordinating with him to open a Space Wormhole between Starfall Pavilion and the Northwest Continent. Before the passage was complete, the Soul Hall attacked Saint City, and Lin Ran emerged to face the invaders.

• Feng Xian detected Lin Ran’s spatial signal, summoned Starfall Pavilion’s elders, and ordered the mountain gates sealed while they helped construct the Space Wormhole.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost and Old Man Mu Gu led nearly a hundred Soul Hall members to Saint City and ordered them to slaughter its inhabitants.
• The Corpse Soul Puppet blocked the Soul Hall’s opening assault, while Lin Ran told the elders to keep working on the nearly completed passage and appeared above the city.
• Lin Ran revealed his peak Five-Star Dou Zun strength, restoring the Saint Rain Sect’s morale and shocking Star-Picking Old Ghost and Old Man Mu Gu.
• Lin Ran crushed a jade slip, causing Star-Picking Old Ghost to flee, then destroyed the attacking Soul Hall experts with a single palm.

Lin Ran overwhelmed Star-Picking Old Ghost with his instantly cast Heaven Tier Dou Technique, but Ninth Heavenly Venerable Mo Yu and Eighth Heavenly Venerable Qiu Di arrived to reinforce Soul Hall. The chapter left Lin Ran facing the prospect of another powerful enemy, Fourth Heavenly Venerable Blood River, joining the battle.

• Lin Ran drove Star-Picking Old Ghost back and unleashed the Great Sun Sacred Sun Palm without charging it.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost failed to escape the palm, and Mo Yu emerged to rescue him with a curtain of rain.
• Lin Ran's palm shattered Mo Yu's defenses, and Mo Yu used Star-Picking Old Ghost as a shield, leaving him dead.
• Lin Ran's attack badly wounded Mo Yu, while Soul Hall experts fled and Saint Rain Sect disciples cheered.
• Mo Yu summoned Eighth Heavenly Venerable Qiu Di, who revealed that Fourth Heavenly Venerable Blood River was also keeping watch.
• Lin Ran recognized the danger posed by the three Heavenly Venerables and grew wary of the coming fight.

Lin Ran fought Eighth Heavenly Venerable Qiu Di and Ninth Heavenly Venerable Mo Yu, revealing his Ancient Void Dragon bloodline and overwhelming strength. As the two Heavenly Venerates launched a combined attack, Lin Ran began using the Great Nirvana Technique, leaving Elder Lin and Elder Han wondering whether the Young Lady had taught it to him.

• Elder Lin and Elder Han recognized that Qiu Di and Mo Yu had come to confront Lin Ran, and suspected Soul Hall had learned of the Ancient Clan’s cooperation with him.
• Mo Yu and Qiu Di attacked Lin Ran together, but Lin Ran activated Sacred Origin Blood Burn and revealed the power of his Ancient Void Dragon bloodline.
• Lin Ran struck both Heavenly Venerates with enough force to stagger them, while Qiu Di realized Lin Ran’s strength came from the secret technique, his dragon essence blood, and his command of space.
• Mo Yu and Qiu Di combined their powers to form a massive ice sphere and hurled it at Lin Ran with their Rain Erosion Firmament technique.
• Lin Ran began a different Heaven Tier Dou Technique as his vitality vanished, and Elder Lin and Elder Han recognized the Great Nirvana Technique and wondered whether the Young Lady had taught it to him.

Lin Ran destroyed the Soul Hall’s ice sphere, killed the Ninth Heavenly Venerable, and nearly defeated Eighth Heavenly Venerable Qiu Di before Fourth Heavenly Venerable Blood River intervened. Lin Ran’s Pure Yang Dragon Blood resisted Blood River’s technique, and their close-range battle ended with Blood River unleashing the Great Blood Devouring Technique.

• Lin Ran used the Great Sun Nirvana Palm to destroy the ice sphere and fatally strike the Ninth Heavenly Venerable, while Qiu Di escaped by detonating his severed arm.
• Lin Ran struck Qiu Di with the three-fold Emperor Seal Art, but Fourth Heavenly Venerable Blood River appeared and rescued him.
• Blood River’s Blood Transformation Great Law failed to affect Lin Ran because his Pure Yang Dragon Blood suppressed it.
• Lin Ran met Blood River’s attack with the Great Void Dragon Fist and gained the upper hand in their ensuing close-range clashes.
• Blood River launched the Great Blood Devouring Technique against Lin Ran.

Blood River devoured the battlefield’s dead to strengthen himself and prepared to fight Lin Ran with Qiu Di sealing space. Lin Ran summoned five Heavenly Flames, leaving both sides stunned as the confrontation escalated.

• Blood River used the Great Blood Devouring Technique to absorb nearby victims and Mo Yu’s corpse, while Lin Ran stored Star-Picking Old Ghost’s body.
• Blood River’s strength surged toward the level of a Three-Revolution Dou Zun, and he ordered Qiu Di to suppress Lin Ran’s Power of Space.
• Lin Ran summoned three Heavenly Flames, then called the Sea Heart Flame from the Pill Hall and the Fallen Heart Flame from Jia Nan Academy.
• Elder Qian, Elder Bai, and Su Qian decided not to interfere, while Elder Qian revealed they had contacted the academy’s Headmaster.
• The Fallen Heart Flame joined Lin Ran’s other flames, revealing that he wielded five Heavenly Flames and shocking both the Soul Hall and Saint Rain Sect fighters.

Lin Ran defeated Fourth Heavenly Venerable Blood River with his five Heavenly Flames, captured his body, and wiped out the Soul Hall guardians. As the battle ended, his former third master, Human Scorpion, appeared and attacked him.

• Han Feng realized Lin Ran possessed five Heavenly Flames and reconsidered the power of bloodline cultivation.
• Lin Ran used the Five-Wheel Separation Fire Plate to overpower Blood River's Blood Fiend Heavenly Demon Palm.
• Blood River tried to flee, but Lin Ran struck him, burned him into a refined body, and stored him away while Qiu Di and Old Man Mu Gu escaped.
• Lin Ran ordered the Corpse Soul Puppets to kill the remaining Soul Hall guardians.
• Human Scorpion ambushed Lin Ran, revealed himself as Lin Ran's former third master, and attacked him with a frigid palm.

Lin Ran was overwhelmed by Human Scorpion until Yao Chen awakened and intervened, revealing that he had restored his strength and approached the Half-Saint threshold. Yao Chen defeated and captured Human Scorpion, while the experts of Saint Rain Sect realized the significance of his return.

• Human Scorpion struck Lin Ran aside and tried to take him away, but Yao Chen appeared and stopped him.
• Yao Chen told Lin Ran to leave Human Scorpion to him, then dismissed Human Scorpion's threats about Heavenly Scorpion and the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts.
• Yao Chen fought Human Scorpion, overwhelming him with a flaming giant hand and then blasting him into a crater with a fireball.
• Lin Ran restrained the battle's destructive aftermath, while Elder Han, Elder Lin, and other experts watched Yao Chen's return and considered its impact on Saint Rain Sect.
• Human Scorpion tried to flee, but Yao Chen sealed him in distorted space and revealed that Lin Ran's essence blood had helped him approach the Half-Saint threshold.

Yao Chen killed Human Scorpion after Saint Rain Sect repelled Soul Hall, then reunited with Feng Xian through the completed Space Wormhole. As Central Continent rallied around Yao Chen and Starfall Pavilion, Lin Ran returned to cultivation and began examining the spoils, including Human Scorpion’s corpse.

• Yao Chen crushed Human Scorpion, destroyed his attempt at a soul attack, and handed his corpse to Lin Ran.
• Lin Ran praised Yao Chen’s progress toward Half-Saint and urged him to focus on breaking through, then brought him to the completed Space Wormhole.
• Yao Chen reunited with Feng Xian at Saint Rain Sect, and Elder Lin argued that Human Scorpion’s death and the wormhole would make the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts more cautious while drawing Central Continent experts to Starfall Pavilion.
• News of Soul Hall’s defeat and Yao Chen’s return spread across Central Continent, bringing experts to Starfall Pavilion as Lin Ran stayed focused on cultivation.
• Lin Ran fed Zi Yan’s cocoon another drop of blood essence, then inspected Star-Picking Old Ghost’s corpse and Storage Ring before turning to Human Scorpion’s body.

Lin Ran looted Human Scorpion’s Storage Ring and used his remains, an eighth-rank Magic Core, and Star-Picking Old Ghost’s soul to refine a powerful Corpse Soul Puppet. He revealed its strength to Yao Chen and urged him to break through to Half-Saint, promising another surprise if he succeeded.

• Lin Ran found the Joyful Zen Blood Siphoning Curse among Human Scorpion’s treasures and realized it was the technique the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts had used on him.
• Lin Ran refined Human Scorpion’s body, installed an eighth-rank Magic Core, and used Star-Picking Old Ghost’s soul as the puppet’s spirit.
• Lin Ran spent three days adding supplementary materials until Human Scorpion’s Corpse Soul Puppet reached at least peak Dou Zun cultivation.
• Yao Chen arrived after sensing the puppet’s aura, and Lin Ran explained that he had refined it.
• Lin Ran told Yao Chen that the puppet was not enough to face their enemies and urged him to reach Half-Saint, promising him a huge surprise if he succeeded.

Lin Ran cultivated Heaven Tier Dou Techniques while Zi Yan completed her advancement and took on a mission to establish Space Wormholes. Xun Er told Lin Ran she would soon return to the Ancient Clan, but he refused to abandon his people and prepared for trouble from her clan.

• Lin Ran cultivated the Joyful Zen Asura Hand and began learning the other techniques Human Scorpion had left behind.
• Zi Yan emerged from her cocoon after advancing, briefly appeared as a grown woman, then changed back into a little girl and reunited with Lin Ran.
• Lin Ran asked Zi Yan to control his peak five-star Dou Venerate Corpse Soul Puppet as it created Space Wormholes linking the Snake People Empire and Yunlan Empire to the Black Corner Region.
• Lin Ran visited Xun Er, who told him her clan had ordered her to return from Jia Nan Academy because of the danger surrounding him.
• Xun Er invited Lin Ran to stay in the Ancient Realm for safety, but Lin Ran refused to leave the Saint Rain Sect and its people behind.
• Xun Er said clan members might come to teach Lin Ran a lesson, and Lin Ran warned that he might not control his strength if they caused trouble.