Chapter Summaries

Chen Guan returned from the Beast Region with the Great Elder and four captured Dou Venerates, then learned that Qing Lin had advanced to Three-Star Dou Venerate. Yaoyue told him that an unnamed, exceptionally imposing young woman had appeared at the Pill Tower and was looking for him.

• Chen Guan and Zi Yan escaped the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan's territory, and the Great Elder later joined them with four captured Dou Venerates.
• Chen Guan returned to Qingce Manor and learned that Qing Lin had emerged from seclusion as a Three-Star Dou Venerate.
• Yaoyue visited Chen Guan and said she had brought a message from her sister about his long silence at home.
• Yaoyue told Chen Guan that an unnamed beautiful woman had appeared at the Pill Tower, evaded detection by its elders, and asked for him.

Gu Xun'er visited the Pill Tower to ask Chen Guan about powerful puppets that had attacked the Spirit Clan, amid suspicions that the Soul Clan was behind them. Chen Guan suspected the Soul Clan had learned from Old Man Mu Gu, but concluded it had not gained the means to create an army or threaten the Dou Saint balance.

• Chen Guan met Gu Xun'er in the Pill Tower reception hall after Yaoyue left him to attend alone.
• Gu Xun'er explained that more than a hundred powerful puppets had attacked the Spirit Clan Minor World, causing heavy losses before the Spirit Clan destroyed them.
• Gu Xun'er said the Eight Clans suspected the Soul Clan and asked whether Chen Guan knew who could create such puppets or possessed a related inheritance.
• Chen Guan suspected the Soul Clan had studied Old Man Mu Gu after discovering his unusual modifications.
• Chen Guan reasoned that the Soul Clan might improve its Dou Venerate-level strength but could not use the technique to build an army or increase its Dou Saint power.

Chen Guan examined Gu Xun’er's puppet remains and explained that his own puppets followed a different path, leaving her unable to get his help with her original request. After she privately asked him to search the Northwestern Region for the last of eight jade fragments tied to the Ancient Clan’s former clan head, Chen Guan accepted her reward and learned that the figure was Tou She Ancient God.

• Gu Xun'er showed Chen Guan a Soul Clan puppet remnant, and he demonstrated that his own puppets were made by a different method.
• Gu Xun'er thanked Chen Guan and left the Pill Tower, while Xuan Kongzi judged her strength to be above Dou Zun and possibly comparable to Chen Guan's.
• After nightfall, Gu Xun'er privately asked Chen Guan to help the Ancient Clan search the Northwestern Region for a missing item and offered him a storage ring of valuable rewards.
• Chen Guan accepted the request to keep the Ancient Clan from stirring up trouble in the region, and Gu Xun'er revealed the item was the final jade fragment needed to open eight inheritances.
• Gu Xun'er said the fragments belonged to the Ancient Clan's former clan head, and Chen Guan realized that the chapter's account identified Tou She Ancient God as that clan head.

Gu Xun'er asked Chen Guan to arrange a secret search for the Tou She Ancient God Jade, while he knew the search would come to nothing. Qing Lin returned with a major breakthrough after subduing a Mutated Ancient Heavenly Serpent, and she delivered a message from Nalan Yanran to Chen Guan.

• Gu Xun'er asked Chen Guan to have the Heavenly Alliance search discreetly for jade fragments, and Chen Guan agreed to send word to Yaoye.
• Chen Guan wrote Yaoye a letter emphasizing secrecy and effort, then had Yaoyue arrange its delivery.
• After half a month without advancing beyond the peak of Five Star Dou Venerate, Chen Guan learned that Qing Lin had returned at the Four-Star Dou Venerate realm.
• Qing Lin showed everyone her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and summoned the phantom of a nine-headed Mutated Ancient Heavenly Serpent.
• Qing Lin explained that she had found an Ancient Heavenly Serpent's skeleton, subdued its violent Soul Body, and gained strength from the encounter.
• Qing Lin told Chen Guan that she had met Nalan Yanran in the Flower Sect Territory, and Nalan Yanran had asked her to deliver something to him.

Chen Guan traveled to the Flower Sect after learning that Yun Yun had inherited Granny Hua’s power and was being challenged over the sect leader’s token. Nalan Yanran explained how Yun Yun had earned Granny Hua’s trust and stood up to the Acting Sect Master, and Chen Guan prepared to help her resolve the dispute.

• Qing Lin showed Chen Guan Yun Yun’s identity token, prompting him to travel alone to the Flower Sect while Zi Yan stayed behind.
• Chen Guan reached the Flower Sect’s hidden territory, crushed Yun Yun’s jade slip, and waited for someone to receive him.
• Nalan Yanran welcomed Chen Guan and explained that Yun Yun had joined the Flower Sect as a Guest Elder while she lived there with her.
• Nalan Yanran recounted how Yun Yun cared for Granny Hua, who sealed her lifelong Dou Qi into Yun Yun and named her the next sect leader.
• The Acting Sect Master demanded Yun Yun surrender the sect leader’s token, but Yun Yun refused and accepted a wager to compete for it.

Chen Guan entered the Flower Sect with Nalan Yanran and reunited with Yun Yun before her duel against Hua Jin and the Demonic Flower Evil Lord. Yun Yun worried that the Heavenly Underworld Sect would retaliate, but Chen Guan revealed he had already killed its Young Sect Master and Old Sect Master.

• Nalan Yanran led Chen Guan through the Flower Sect’s spatial barrier and across its dangerous Sea of Flowers.
• Nalan Yanran brought Chen Guan to Yun Yun’s mountain, then left the two of them alone.
• Chen Guan reunited with Yun Yun, examined her cultivation, and comforted her about Granny Hua’s death.
• Yun Yun told Chen Guan that Hua Jin was a Four-Star Dou Venerate and her companion, the Demonic Flower Evil Lord, was a Six-Star Dou Venerate from the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• Chen Guan revealed that he had killed the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s Young Sect Master and Old Sect Master, leaving Yun Yun stunned.

Chen Guan and Yun Yun faced Hua Jin and the Demonic Flower Evil Lord in a duel over leadership of the Flower Sect. Yun Yun was declared the winner after Chen Guan overwhelmed both opponents, but he killed the Evil Lord despite the duel having ended.

• Chen Guan loosened the seal on Yun Yun's Dou Qi, then went with her to the Flower Sect's challenge.
• Hua Jin and the Demonic Flower Evil Lord attacked Yun Yun and Chen Guan, but Chen Guan effortlessly neutralized the Evil Lord's spatial attack and punched Hua Jin, disfiguring her.
• The Demonic Flower Evil Lord recognized Chen Guan and surrendered, prompting a Flower Sect elder to declare Yun Yun the sect leader.
• Chen Guan dismissed the rules and killed the surrendered Demonic Flower Evil Lord with a single punch.

Chen Guan killed the Demonic Flower Evil Lord, and the Flower Sect made Yun Yun its new Sect Leader. Afterward, Yun Yun and Chen Guan discussed their plans before he left for Dragon Island.

• Chen Guan killed the defeated Demonic Flower Evil Lord and took responsibility for the resulting conflict with the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• The Flower Sect's Great Elder appointed Yun Yun as Sect Leader, and the disciples accepted her authority.
• Yun Yun's inauguration ceremony took place the next day, completing Chen Guan's objective in the Flower Sect.
• Chen Guan declined Yun Yun's offer to accompany him to Dragon Island and urged her to absorb Granny Hua's Dou Qi while he prepared to leave.
• Yun Yun asked Chen Guan to take Nalan Yanran to Qingce Manor, but he said he would leave Yanran pills and Dou Techniques before departing.
• Chen Guan and Yun Yun spent the night together and discussed her plans for seclusion and his upcoming journey.

Chen Guan led Zi Yan and a powerful group of allies to Dragon Island to help her face the other three islands, while the Sound Valley Master warned him of a possible impending move by Soul Hall. After learning the islands would converge within a month, Zi Yan ordered Dragon Island to prepare for a decisive battle.

• Chen Guan gathered Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Venerable Skyfire, Old Monster You Du, three Little Pill Tower elders, and the Sound Valley Master before departing for Dragon Island.
• The Sound Valley Master showed Chen Guan a letter from Gu You warning her to close Sound Valley, leading them to suspect Soul Hall was preparing a major move.
• Zi Yan guided the group to Dragon Island, where Zhu Li welcomed the visitors and thanked them for their help.
• Zhu Li estimated the other three islands would meet Dragon Island within ten days to a month.
• Zi Yan ordered the Dragon Armor Army to stay alert, summoned the available elders, and activated the island's grand formation for the coming decisive battle.

Chen Guan entered the Void Thunder Pool to cultivate and strengthen his puppets before the Four Islands Gathering. Protected by his Heavenly Flames, he settled in a concentrated area of lightning and began absorbing its dense energy as his aura neared a breakthrough.

• Hei Qing brought Chen Guan through the Void Space to the Void Thunder Pool and agreed to stand guard while he cultivated.
• Chen Guan entered the silver lake of lightning with his body wrapped in Heavenly Flames, which neutralized the bolts striking him.
• Chen Guan moved about three hundred zhang into the pool, stopped short of a dangerous presence in its depths, and chose a suitable place to cultivate.
• Chen Guan sent over ten puppets into a concentrated area of lightning, where their auras rapidly grew stronger.
• Chen Guan circulated the Flame Mantra and absorbed the dense World Energy, causing his aura to fluctuate as he approached a breakthrough.

Chen Guan cultivated in the Void Thunder Pool, advancing to Six-Star Dou Venerate and Heaven Realm Middle Stage while his puppets transformed into Heavenly Demon Puppets. He tested the strongest puppet, then encountered an elderly powerhouse fleeing a swarm of black lightning.

• Chen Guan absorbed the thunder pool’s energy, broke through to Six-Star Dou Venerate, and tempered his Spiritual Power until it reached Heaven Realm Middle Stage.
• After ten days, Chen Guan emerged from cultivation with greatly increased strength and lightning-infused Spiritual Power.
• Chen Guan discovered that the lightning had transformed his Earth Demon Puppets into Heavenly Demon Puppets, including one powerful enough to threaten even him.
• Chen Guan tested the strongest puppet’s iron fist against his Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor and judged that it could deal with a dozen or so Old Monster You Dus.
• An invisible gale cleared a path through the thunder pool, and an elderly man burst out while fleeing more than ten bolts of pitch-black lightning.
• The old man mocked Chen Guan for being a Six-Star Dou Venerate before asking him for help.

Chen Guan encountered Dean Mang in the Void Thunder Pool and persuaded him to help against a powerful enemy attacking Chen Guan’s friends. The two flew out of the pool to intervene in the battle.

• Chen Guan used a puppet to absorb the black lightning chasing Dean Mang, and Mang warned him about intelligent lightning creatures in the pool.
• Dean Mang tried to persuade Chen Guan to lend him the puppet to explore the depths, but Chen Guan refused.
• Chen Guan showed Mang his Jia Nan Academy Fire Crystal Card, and Mang recognized him as the student Su Qian had mentioned.
• Chen Guan told Mang that a powerful enemy was causing him trouble, and Mang offered to protect him as one of the academy’s own.
• Battle fluctuations came from outside the Void Thunder Pool, so Chen Guan asked Mang to help his friends, and they flew toward the fight.

Xia Ao and Man Yan led the West and South Dragon Islands’ elite forces to seize Zi Yan, but East Dragon Island revealed its hidden allies and overwhelmed the invaders. The chapter ended with Xia Ao and Man Yan trapped as the ambush closed around them.

• Xia Ao and Man Yan arrived outside East Dragon Island and demanded that Qi You surrender Zi Yan.
• Qi You and Zhu Li refused, and Xia Ao ordered the Dragon Armor Army to attack while Man Yan sent in the Barbarian Dragon Army.
• Zi Yan led a counterattack backed by powerful allies, and East Dragon Island’s forces rapidly decimated the invading troops.
• Xia Ao and Man Yan tried to flee, but Hei Qing, Dean Mang, Qi You, Zhu Li, and the other experts blocked their escape.
• Xia Ao and Man Yan realized that East Dragon Island had planned the attack as a trap.

Zi Yan executed Xia Ao and Man Yan after defeating the Three Islands’ vanguard, then prepared East Dragon Island for the coming decisive battle. She revealed a plan to use the Dragon Subduing Array to block the Three Dragon Kings’ retreat and said Chen Guan would help her confront them.

• Zi Yan killed the captured Xia Ao and Man Yan, then ordered the Dragon Armor Army to clear the battlefield and prepare for the Three Islands’ army.
• Qi You and Zhu Li urged Zi Yan to mobilize East Dragon Island’s forces and protect herself, and Zi Yan assured them she had a safe fallback plan.
• Zi Yan told Chen Guan and the others that her strength and Dragon Emperor Legacies gave her confidence against the three Dragon Kings, but she could not guarantee she could keep them there.
• Zi Yan revealed the Dragon Subduing Array and proposed making the Great Elder its core while gathering the Dragon Armor Army’s strength to cut off the Three Dragon Islands’ retreat.
• Zi Yan said she and Chen Guan would handle the three Dragon Kings, then reassured Xiao Yi Xian that Chen Guan’s help would not put him at risk.

Zi Yan explained a modified Ancient Void Dragon forbidden art that could unite her and Chen Guan’s consciousness, Spiritual Power, and Dou Qi, then tried to fuse with him. After repeated failures, she suspected they were not being open enough and ordered him to take off his clothes.

• Zi Yan sealed the hall and told Chen Guan about an Ancient Void Dragon forbidden art that could strengthen her by consuming a clansman.
• Zi Yan explained that the Old Dragon Emperor had modified the art so she and Chen Guan could merge their consciousness, Spiritual Power, and Dou Qi without either of them being consumed.
• Chen Guan agreed to trust Zi Yan, and she took him to the volcano where they had refined the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit to attempt the fusion.
• Their Spiritual Power fusion repeatedly failed, and Zi Yan had to stop when her energy was depleted.
• Zi Yan decided they had not been frank and open with each other, took off her clothes, and told Chen Guan to do the same.

As the Three Islands' forces arrived to begin the decisive battle, Zi Yan emerged with Chen Guan and asserted her authority as Dragon Emperor. After the Three Dragon Kings rejected her offer to surrender, Chen Guan stepped forward and revealed that he had reached Three-Star Dou Saint.

• The Great Elder and Second Elder joined Dragon Island's preparations while Zi Yan and Chen Guan remained inside the volcano.
• The Three Islands' armies arrived, and Zi Yan emerged with Chen Guan as Dragon Island's loyalists welcomed her as their Dragon Emperor.
• Zi Yan ordered the forces to follow the Little Pill Tower Great Elder and led them outside the island to face the Three Dragon Kings.
• Zi Yan released her bloodline pressure and offered the Three Islands' soldiers one final chance to return, but the Dragon Kings forced them to stand their ground.
• The North Dragon King mocked Zi Yan and challenged her to fight all three Dragon Kings, so Zi Yan sat on a throne and declared Chen Guan would defeat them.
• Chen Guan stepped forward and revealed an aura that rose to Three-Star Dou Saint, stunning both armies.

Chen Guan borrowed Zi Yan’s power through the Old Dragon Emperor’s Secret Technique and fought the West, South, and North Dragon Kings to keep them from disrupting the battle elsewhere. He trapped them with his flames and attacks, then found a way to pierce an Ancient Void Dragon’s defenses as the fight continued.

• Chen Guan reached Dou Saint strength with the Secret Technique and challenged the three Dragon Kings while Zi Yan watched from outside the formation.
• The West Dragon King attacked Chen Guan, and their clash shook the Void Turbulence and forced nearby fighters to retreat.
• The three Dragon Kings attacked together, but Chen Guan used Great Heaven Creation Palm and Fire Separation Burning Heaven to trap them in a fiery millstone.
• The Dragon Kings transformed into their True Forms and endured Chen Guan’s black hole and Heavenly Flames with their powerful scales and control of the void.
• Chen Guan summoned a dark gold spear and shattered scales on a Dragon King’s claw, demonstrating that the Dragon Emperor’s methods could harm them.

Chen Guan fought the North, West, and South Dragon Kings, then used Xiao Huohuo’s Destructive Fire Lotus to badly injure them. The Dragon Kings fled toward Zi Yan, believing they had escaped his blockade, while Chen Guan remained confident that their move was part of his plan.

• The North Dragon King ordered the West and South Dragon Kings to attack Chen Guan together after realizing the Dragon Slaying Spear could injure them.
• Chen Guan used the spear to make the North and West Dragon Kings evade, then struck the South Dragon King and fought off his enraged assault.
• The North and West Dragon Kings joined the South Dragon King in pressing Chen Guan, gradually limiting his chances to counterattack.
• Chen Guan combined four Heavenly Flames into a Destructive Fire Lotus and hurled it at the three Dragon Kings, severely injuring the West and South Dragon Kings.
• The Dragon Kings fled toward Zi Yan, and the South Dragon King revealed that their apparent recklessness had helped them break past Chen Guan.
• Chen Guan did not pursue and sneered, believing the Dragon Kings’ escape was part of his plan.

Zi Yan revealed that she could summon the Dragon Slaying Sword and used it to overwhelm the Three Dragon Kings, while the Dragon Armor Army trapped them in the Dragon Subduing Grand Formation. After killing the South Dragon King at the cost of her life force, she prepared to continue against the surviving kings with Chen Guan’s support.

• Zi Yan rose with the Dragon Slaying Sword and severed the South Dragon King’s claw, revealing her authority as the true Dragon Emperor.
• The Dragon Slaying Sword’s bloodline pressure drove warriors from the Three Islands to kneel and submit as the Three Dragon Kings tried to flee.
• Zi Yan’s sword gravely wounded all three kings, and East Dragon Island’s Dragon Armor Army formed the Dragon Subduing Grand Formation to block their escape.
• Chen Guan recognized that the Dragon Slaying Sword was consuming Zi Yan’s life force, but he trusted that he could replenish it afterward.
• The South Dragon King’s Dragon Emperor Bell failed to stop Zi Yan, who struck him to ashes and then turned toward the surviving North Dragon King and West Dragon King.

Zi Yan killed the North, South, and West Dragon Kings with the Dragon Slaying Sword, securing the defeat of the rebellion but suffering a severe loss of Life Force. Chen Guan supported her as the elders began handling the defeated forces, and he returned with Zi Yan to the Dragon Hall to focus on restoring her Life Force.

• Zi Yan killed the West Dragon King with the Dragon Slaying Sword, despite coughing up blood and losing some of her purple hair to silver.
• Zi Yan ignored the North Dragon King's pleas to submit and killed him with a final strike that pushed the sword to its limit.
• Chen Guan arrived to support the weakened Zi Yan as Xuan Mo and the others realized the three Dragon Kings were dead and the battle was over.
• Chen Guan reassured the Great Elder and Second Elder that Zi Yan's lost Life Force could be replenished, and Zhu Li and Qi You explained his alchemy credentials.
• Zi Yan entrusted the elders with handling the Three Islands' defeated warriors, who mostly accepted their punishment without resistance.
• Chen Guan and the others returned to the Dragon Hall to focus on replenishing Zi Yan's Life Force.