Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze returned to Jia Nan City, rescued Xiao Yi Xian from the Black Alliance, and reunited with the Xiao Family. He learned that Xiao Yan had also returned and was active against the Misty Cloud Sect, while the family welcomed Xiao Ze home.

• Xiao Ze defeated the Black Alliance experts and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, then urged her to investigate how the enemies had infiltrated the Dark Alliance.
• Xiao Yi Xian introduced Xiao Ze as the Dark Alliance’s founder, and its members respectfully greeted him.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Ze that Xiao Yan had returned to form an alliance with Jia Nan Academy and had gone to replenish the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Ze comforted Xiao Yi Xian, and the two women traveling with them watched their reunion with envy and understanding.
• Xiao Ze returned to the Xiao Family residence, where Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li welcomed him and celebrated the family’s growth.

Xiao Ze reunited with his family and promised to help Xiao Yi Xian control the Calamity Poison Body. After revealing his Five Star Dou Venerate cultivation to Xiao Yan, he inspired his Third Brother to seek his own future in the Central Plains once the Misty Cloud Sect matter was settled.

• Xiao Ze gave Xiao Zhan and the others pills for the Xiao Family and agreed to stay for a celebratory feast.
• Xiao Zhan privately asked Xiao Ze which woman he favored and what he planned to do about Xun'er, but Xiao Ze avoided answering.
• Xiao Ze promised Xiao Yi Xian that he could condense her Calamity Poison Power, eliminate the Calamity Poison Body's danger, and greatly increase her strength.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Family, and Xiao Ze recognized that he had reached Peak Dou Emperor at age twenty-two.
• Xiao Yan asked about Xiao Ze's cultivation, and Xiao Ze revealed that he was a Five Star Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yan resolved to go to the Central Plains and make his mark there after settling the matter with the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Ze learned that the Misty Cloud Sect had expanded across the Northwest Continent with the backing of the Soul Hall and was using a technique to devour others and grow stronger. He set out with Queen Medusa to investigate the Snake People Empire, while Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales prepared the Dark Alliance to resist the sect.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Ze that the Misty Cloud Sect had conquered neighboring empires, while the Snake People Empire had been spared because of its harsh desert location.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Misty Cloud Sect used a secret technique to devour others and was aided by black-mist figures whom Azure Scales suspected were from the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Ze explained the Soul Hall's broad influence and agreed to accompany Queen Medusa to the Snake People Empire, leaving Azure Scales to guard the Dark Alliance.
• Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa traveled through a Space Channel toward the Snake People Empire, while Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales organized a response to the Misty Cloud Sect's expansion.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales planned to use the conflict to consolidate control over the Black Corner Region as they awaited news of Xiao Ze's mission.

Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa arrived at the Snake People Divine Hall as Yun Tu and Misty Cloud Sect experts attacked the Snake People. Queen Medusa severed Yun Tu’s arm, and Xiao Ze restrained the other attackers.

• Xiao Ze comforted Queen Medusa as they traveled through the Space Channel, while she worried about her people.
• The four Snake People elders discussed how Misty Cloud Sect experts had been abducting their people and lamented Queen Medusa’s absence.
• Yun Tu ordered the Misty Cloud Sect experts to capture the Snake People, then defeated the four elders’ combined attack and prepared to kill the Great Elder.
• Queen Medusa arrived and cut off Yun Tu’s right arm with a strike of seven-colored energy.
• Xiao Ze spread the Illusionary Sea Domain to restrain the Misty Cloud Sect experts attacking the fleeing Snake People.

Queen Medusa returned to the Snake People Race, killed Yun Tu, and joined Xiao Ze in punishing the Misty Cloud Sect experts and learning about their secret technique. After arranging for the Snake People to recover, she and Xiao Ze set out for the Misty Cloud Sect to seek revenge.

• Queen Medusa apologized to the Snake People Race for arriving late, gave the elders medicinal pills, and killed Yun Tu as he tried to escape.
• Xiao Ze questioned the restrained Misty Cloud Sect experts and learned that their Soul Devouring Body Swallowing Technique made them crave devouring living beings.
• Xiao Ze confirmed that red eyes marked practitioners of the technique, then killed the Misty Cloud Sect experts he had questioned.
• Queen Medusa issued orders for the four elders to settle and protect the Snake People Race, whose members welcomed her return.
• Queen Medusa and Xiao Ze set off for the Misty Cloud Sect, where they planned to avenge the Snake People Race.

Yun Yun learned that even Aunt Yun had cultivated the Soul Devouring Body Technique and reaffirmed that she would never use it. Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa attacked the Misty Cloud Sect, but Xiao Ze discovered that Yun Shan was absent, leaving Queen Medusa to destroy the sect’s headquarters.

• Yun Yun confronted Aunt Yun about cultivating the Soul Devouring Body Technique, and Aunt Yun said she had done so because she was trapped at Dou King Peak and faced oppression within the sect.
• Yun Yun rejected the technique and told Aunt Yun to leave, resolving never to cultivate it even if it cost her life.
• Queen Medusa arrived with Xiao Ze and challenged Yun Shan, drawing out blood-eyed Misty Cloud Sect experts who mistook them for prey.
• Queen Medusa revealed her Dou Venerate strength and killed the attacking Dou Zong experts with a single sword strike.
• Xiao Ze searched the sect with his Soul Power and found that Yun Shan was not there.
• Queen Medusa began cutting down the sect’s blood-eyed cultivators, while Xiao Ze asked her to spare those who had not cultivated the technique.

Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa attacked the Misty Cloud Sect and learned that Yun Shan had likely gone to the Black Corner Region. They freed Yun Yun and tasked her with judging the sect members who had not cultivated the Soul Devouring Body Technique.

• Queen Medusa slaughtered the Misty Cloud Sect experts who had cultivated the Soul Devouring Body Technique while Xiao Ze's Illusionary Sea Domain prevented them from escaping.
• Xiao Ze questioned the remaining disciples, and a white-haired woman revealed that Yun Shan had likely gone to the Black Corner Region.
• The white-haired woman told Xiao Ze that Yun Yun had been imprisoned in the rear mountain, so he brought her and Queen Medusa there.
• Xiao Ze found Yun Yun beside Nalan Yanran, who was nearing a breakthrough, and asked Yun Yun to investigate and punish sect members who had harmed innocents.
• Xiao Ze freed Yun Yun and left the remaining disciples for her to assess, explaining to Queen Medusa that they needed to screen them rather than kill them all.

Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa destroyed the Misty Cloud Sect’s remaining forces while Yun Yun dealt with its disciples and survivors. As resistance spread through the sect’s territory, Xiao Ze helped the innocent leave before he and Queen Medusa planned to return to the Snake People Divine Hall and then the Black Corner Region.

• Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa entered the Misty Cloud Sect’s secret vault, where Xiao Ze claimed its stockpile of medicinal treasures.
• Fa Ma confirmed that a Dou Zun-level expert had attacked the Misty Cloud Sect, then ordered the Alchemist Guild’s forces to strike its stationed personnel in the Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Ze collected the sect’s remaining treasures and returned to find Yun Yun had subdued its headquarters, with many disciples dead.
• Xiao Ze told Yun Yun to take the survivors away before resistance against the Misty Cloud Sect spread, and she agreed.
• Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa left for the Snake People Divine Hall, intending to head to the Black Corner Region afterward.

Xiao Ze revisited the Illusionary Sea Spirit Realm, then left a Heavenly Demon Phoenix Puppet with the Snake People Empire before returning with Queen Medusa to the Black Corner Region. There, Yun Shan discovered that the Misty Cloud Sect headquarters had likely fallen.

• Xiao Ze entered the Illusionary Sea Spirit Realm by drawing Water Attribute energy into its seal, but found that the Boundless Sea Saint's Soul Body had disappeared.
• Queen Medusa said the Snake People Empire's affairs were in hand and vowed to avenge her people, and Xiao Ze left a Heavenly Demon Phoenix Puppet to watch over the empire.
• Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa set out for the Black Corner Region as the Misty Cloud Sect's forces pressed their expansion war under Yun Shan's command.
• Yun Shan received a report that the Misty Cloud Sect's forces were sweeping aside every stronghold, then found a shattered Soul Tablet among many others.
• Yun Shan concluded that the Misty Cloud Sect headquarters had likely been destroyed.

After learning that the Misty Cloud Sect headquarters had been destroyed, Yun Shan killed a subordinate who knew the secret and ordered his forces to seize the Black Corner Region. At Qingduan Mountain Range, Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales led the Dark Alliance against the Misty Cloud Sect and Soul Hall forces, but no Dou Venerate-level experts appeared.

• Yun Shan saw that the Soul Tablets of his headquarters personnel had shattered and concluded that a powerful enemy had destroyed the sect headquarters.
• Yun Shan killed the blood-haired man to keep the destruction of headquarters secret, then ordered his forces to swallow the Black Corner Region while claiming he was nearing a breakthrough.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales watched the Misty Cloud Sect's blood-red forces advance on Qingduan Mountain Range and prepared the Dark Alliance to defend it.
• Xiao Yi Xian's warning began the battle, and Azure Scales summoned serpent-type magical beasts while the Dark Alliance met the Misty Cloud Sect's experts.
• Azure Scales searched the surrounding area and found no Dou Venerate-level experts, leaving her to wonder whether Soul Hall expected the Misty Cloud Sect to conquer the Black Corner Region alone.

Azure Scales fought two Soul Hall Venerates who sought to capture her for her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. She used the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake’s power to defeat them and bring the Misty Cloud Sect’s battle to an end.

• Two Soul Hall Venerates arrived and recognized Azure Scales’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, then agreed to capture her.
• The white-bearded elder attacked Azure Scales with Myriad Soul Calamity while the balding elder tried to restrain her.
• Azure Scales summoned the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake, whose blood-baleful sound waves shattered the elder’s attack and overwhelmed both Venerates.
• Azure Scales struck the fleeing Soul Hall Venerates into the Misty Cloud Sect’s ranks, killing many members and leaving the elders in craters.
• The remaining Misty Cloud Sect experts laid down their weapons, and the battle gradually ended.

After the Dark Alliance defeated the Misty Cloud Sect, Xiao Ze arrived and helped decide the fate of the captives, but Yun Shan had already escaped. Yun Shan planned to spread the Soul Devouring Body Technique throughout the Northwest Continent to sow chaos and evade pursuit.

• Xiao Yi Xian ordered the surrendered Misty Cloud Sect members taken into custody after Azure Scales defeated the two Soul Hall Venerates.
• Xiao Ze arrived with Queen Medusa, reunited with Azure Scales, and ordered the deaths of captives who had cultivated the Soul Devouring Body Technique or slaughtered innocents.
• Xiao Ze and the others learned from the captives that Yun Shan had directed the Misty Cloud Sect’s campaign before disappearing into seclusion ahead of the decisive battle.
• Xiao Yi Xian organized a counterattack and offered a bounty for Yun Shan, while Xiao Ze concluded that Yun Shan had likely fled after learning the sect headquarters was destroyed.
• Yun Shan watched the Black Corner Region from outside it and decided to spread the Soul Devouring Body Technique across the Northwest Continent to create trouble and hide from his pursuers.

Xiao Ze reunited with Ya Fei and the Anti-Cloud Mist Sect Alliance, then ordered the alliance to disband and help clear out the Misty Cloud Sect’s remnants. He returned to the Inner Academy, where Su Qian and Hu Gan welcomed him and learned that he had become an Eighth Grade Alchemist.

• Xiao Ze and Xiao Yi Xian arrived at the Anti-Cloud Mist Sect Alliance’s headquarters, where Xiao Yan and Ya Fei greeted them.
• Ya Fei embraced Xiao Ze, and he reassured her that the Misty Cloud Sect had paid for its actions.
• Xiao Ze told the alliance’s senior members to disband and return to their countries to deal with the Misty Cloud Sect’s remaining members, and they agreed.
• Xiao Yi Xian coordinated the alliance’s arrangements while Xiao Ze and the others hurried back to the Inner Academy.
• Su Qian and Hu Gan welcomed Xiao Ze, who said he had achieved a little among Eighth Grade Alchemists.

Xiao Ze returned to Jia Nan Academy, where the elders welcomed him as both a Dou Venerable and an Alchemy Grandmaster. He then prepared to treat Xiao Yi Xian's Calamity Poison Body, promising to take responsibility for her before they entered a cave to begin the procedure.

• Su Qian and Hu Gan praised Xiao Ze's alchemy achievements and welcomed him back to Jia Nan Academy.
• Hu Gan told the Inner Academy students that Xiao Ze and his companions were once famous students who had become elders, prompting the students to recognize Xiao Ze.
• Xiao Ze told Xiao Yi Xian that he could gather the Calamity Poison Power throughout her body into a Calamity Rune, a process that required touching her entire body.
• Xiao Ze promised to take responsibility for Xiao Yi Xian, and she agreed to let him treat her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian arranged Dark Academy's tasks, then Xiao Ze and the others gathered in the Endless Deep Mountains.
• Xiao Ze asked Azure Scales and Queen Medusa to guard the area, then entered a cave with Xiao Yi Xian to begin sorting out her Calamity Poison Body.

Xiao Ze began sorting out Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body in a concealed cave, using his origin essence blood to protect her and suppress her poison. He successfully gathered the poison from one of her arms and transferred it into the rune on her forehead, bringing her immediate relief as the treatment continued.

• Xiao Ze prepared the cave and asked Xiao Yi Xian to change into a thin black gauze dress for the procedure.
• Xiao Ze condensed his origin essence blood into a rune on Xiao Yi Xian’s forehead to protect her Soul Power and suppress her Calamity Poison Power.
• Xiao Ze carefully gathered the Calamity Poison Power from Xiao Yi Xian’s palm and arm, sealing the treated area to prevent the poison from flowing back.
• Xiao Ze transferred the gathered poison into the rune, and Xiao Yi Xian felt an overwhelming sense of relief.

Xiao Ze completed the process of controlling Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body, allowing her to break through to Dou Venerate while he advanced to Six Star Dou Venerate. They left the cave together after learning that Yun Shan was spreading the Soul Devouring Body Technique.

• A scar-faced woman reported that Yun Shan had fled beyond the Black Corner Region and was openly spreading the Soul Devouring Body Technique.
• Azure Scales ordered the Dark Alliance to intensify the extermination of its practitioners and warn nearby empires and factions.
• Xiao Ze completed the final step of stabilizing Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body by sending the condensed Calamity Poison Power into her forehead’s Calamity Rune.
• Xiao Yi Xian used the surge of Dou Qi to break through to Dou Venerate, while Xiao Ze reached Six Star Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Ze promised to refine Heavenly Spirit Pills for Xiao Yi Xian, and they left the cave together.

After Xiao Yi Xian became a Dou Zun, she and Xiao Ze discussed the threat posed by cultivators of the Soul Devouring Body Technique and the limits of the Dark Alliance. Xiao Ze then asked Su Qian for help establishing a new faction, the Heaven Alliance, to deal with the remnants of the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Yi Xian emerged from the cave as a Dou Zun and thanked Xiao Ze for helping her sort out her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Xiao Ze, Azure Scales, and Queen Medusa that the surrounding empires could not be trusted to confront cultivators of the Soul Devouring Body Technique.
• Xiao Ze explained that the Dark Alliance could not operate beyond the Black Corner Region without risking conflict and overstepping its purpose as a branch of Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yi Xian proposed that Xiao Ze establish a new faction, and he agreed to try persuading Su Qian to support it.
• Su Qian refused to authorize the Dark Alliance's expansion but agreed to consider other assistance, and Xiao Ze named his new faction the Heaven Alliance.

Xiao Ze secured the Dark Academy as the foundation of his Heaven Alliance and supplied Su Qian with cultivation pills. The chapter left Su Qian holding two Condensing Venerate Pills to help recruit powerful elders and protect the Xiao Family.

• Su Qian offered the Dark Academy to Xiao Ze’s Heaven Alliance, explaining that the academy no longer needed it for its own security.
• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to the arrangement, and Su Qian told her to bring back the elders managing the Dark Academy.
• Xiao Ze gave Su Qian several high-grade cultivation pills after Su Qian asked for help advancing his strength.
• Su Qian offered to persuade secluded academy elders to support the Heaven Alliance and watch over the Xiao Family if Xiao Ze provided Condensing Venerate Pills.
• Xiao Ze gave Su Qian two Condensing Venerate Pills, astonishing him with their Grade 8 quality.

Xiao Ze brought two Condensing Venerate Pills to Elders Qian and Bai in exchange for their help protecting the Xiao Family. After accepting the pills, the elders returned to seclusion, while the Great Elder considered naming Hu Gan as his successor.

• The Great Elder led Xiao Ze and his companions to the Library Pavilion, but Elders Qian and Bai did not answer his call.
• Xiao Ze released his Six Star Dou Venerate aura, prompting Elders Qian and Bai to appear and recognize him as a former academy student.
• The Great Elder explained that Xiao Ze wanted the elders to protect the Xiao Family, and Xiao Ze offered them two Condensing Venerate Pills.
• Elders Qian and Bai accepted the pills and promised to spare no effort if Xiao Ze needed them in the future.
• The elders returned to seclusion, and the Great Elder asked Xiao Ze to become the Inner Academy's Great Elder before suggesting Hu Gan as his successor.

Xiao Ze took command of the Dark Academy and reorganized it as the Heaven Alliance, rewarding the departing elders and securing the Black Corner Region experts’ allegiance with promises of fair treatment and high-grade pills. He entrusted the alliance’s administration to Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Azure Scales, who focused on consolidating their forces and locating the Misty Cloud Sect remnants, especially Yun Shan.

• Xiao Ze showed the Inner Academy elders the Great Elder’s writ assigning the Dark Academy to him, then gave them pills in thanks for their past service before they departed.
• Xiao Ze told the Black Corner Region experts that the Dark Alliance had become the Heaven Alliance and offered to let dissatisfied members leave; they pledged to stay and obey its rules.
• Xiao Ze revealed that he was an Eighth Grade Alchemist, prompting the experts to eagerly offer their loyalty in hopes of receiving pills.
• Xiao Ze warned the experts to fulfill their duties and entrusted the alliance’s affairs to Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Azure Scales.
• Xiao Yi Xian and the others decided to unite the Black Corner Region forces, strengthen the Heaven Alliance’s intelligence network, and search for the Misty Cloud Sect remnants, particularly Yun Shan.