Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze oversaw the Heaven Alliance’s rapid unification of the Black Corner Region and its transformation into a thriving stronghold. After learning that nearby empires were exploiting the Misty Cloud Sect remnants’ attacks, he ordered the alliance to intervene by force and eliminate the remnants who used the Soul Devouring Body Technique.

• Xiao Ze decided the Heaven Alliance would unify the Black Corner Region and establish its headquarters there, relying on Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Azure Scales to handle hidden forces.
• The Heaven Alliance conquered the Black Corner Region within a month, and Maple City became Heaven Alliance City as refugees and cultivators drove its rapid expansion.
• Xiao Ze planned to connect Heaven Alliance City with Jia Nan City by cutting a passage through the mountains, and the Great Elder agreed.
• Azure Scales reported that neighboring empires refused the Heaven Alliance’s help, while Xiao Yi Xian brought intelligence showing that local generals were exploiting the crisis and refugees were fleeing into the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Ze considered his future obligations on the Central Plains and concluded he had time to deal with the Northwest Continent before the Dou Saint Ruins opened.
• Xiao Ze ordered the Heaven Alliance to force its way into the neighboring empires and kill the Misty Cloud Sect remnants who cultivated the Soul Devouring Body Technique.

Xiao Ze organized a public alchemy ceremony in Heaven Alliance City to reward members who had served during the unification of the Black Corner Region and attract more alchemists to the alliance. As Xiao Ze refined pills before a packed crowd, Old Ya judged his alchemy to be no weaker than his own, and Xiao Yan resolved to work harder.

• Xiao Ze proposed publicly refining pills and rewarding meritorious Heaven Alliance members instead of waiting for the alliance to recuperate.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Azure Scales agreed and arranged the event, drawing eager crowds and alchemists to Heaven Alliance City.
• Xiao Yan traveled from Jia Nan City to watch Xiao Ze refine pills.
• Xiao Ze addressed the gathered Heaven Alliance members, then began refining pills in the Spirit Nurturing Cauldron as the crowd cheered the alliance.
• Old Ya told Xiao Yan that Xiao Ze's alchemy was no weaker than his own, prompting Xiao Yan to renew his determination to improve.

Xiao Ze refined pills to reward Heaven Alliance members for their contributions in battle, while Xiao Yan and Old Ya examined the mysterious golden flame. He ended the day by urging the alliance to destroy the Misty Cloud Sect remnants scattered across other empires, promising further rewards for victory.

• Xiao Ze refined a Dou Spirit Pill and awarded it to Gao Ping for his service in the previous battle.
• Xiao Yan and Old Ya discussed Xiao Ze’s pill-refining speed and concluded that his golden flame was an unknown Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Ze spent the day refining pills and gave a Sect Breaking Pill to the final person waiting for a reward.
• Xiao Ze called on the Heaven Alliance to kill the Misty Cloud Sect remnants in other empires and promised rewards according to merit.
• The recipients and spectators cheered, and many people were inspired to join the Heaven Alliance.

Xiao Ze strengthened the Heaven Alliance by recruiting alchemists, refining and publicly displaying high-grade pills, and sending Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Azure Scales to eliminate the Misty Cloud Sect’s remaining forces. The alliance’s campaigns advanced rapidly, but Yun Shan remained missing and Soul Hall’s silence left Xiao Ze wary as he focused on increasing his strength.

• Xiao Ze sent Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Azure Scales to lead three groups against the Misty Cloud Sect’s remaining forces while he stayed in Heaven Alliance City.
• After Xiao Ze’s public alchemy demonstration, numerous alchemists applied to join the Heaven Alliance, and he accepted them.
• The three women’s forces swept through the surrounding empires, and several empires submitted to the Heaven Alliance and helped search for the Misty Cloud Sect remnants.
• Xiao Ze spent several days refining pills in public, then arranged them on a golden rack protected by a Space Barrier in the city square.
• Xiao Ze contacted the three women and learned their campaign was progressing well, but he remained concerned that Yun Shan was missing and Soul Hall had not reacted.
• Xiao Ze resolved to increase his cultivation quickly with Xiao Yi Xian’s help and the hundredfold Calamity Poison Body.

Xiao Yan visited Xiao Ze before leaving for the Central Plains, where he introduced his teacher, Yao Chen, to his younger brother. After seeing them off, Xiao Ze learned that the Heavenly Snake Mansion had contacted Azure Scales and went to find her.

• Xiao Yan declined Xiao Ze's invitation to join Heaven Alliance as a Guest Elder and said he planned to travel to the Central Plains.
• Xiao Ze warned Xiao Yan about the dangers there, and Yao Chen emerged from Xiao Yan's storage ring and introduced himself.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen told Xiao Ze how the Soul Hall had harmed Yao Chen, and Yao Chen praised Xiao Yan as his disciple.
• Xiao Ze saw Xiao Yan and Yao Chen off, then received Yao Chen's alchemy insights on a jade slip.
• Azure Scales told Xiao Ze through the Golden Sapling that people from the Heavenly Snake Mansion had come looking for her, so Xiao Ze left to meet her.

Azure Scales defeated a blood-red figure, then turned down Heavenly Snake Mansion’s offer to make her its leader. Xiao Ze insisted that the faction join the Heaven Alliance instead, and Heavenly Snake Mansion ultimately agreed to submit.

• Azure Scales used Spatial Power to shred the blood-red figure, then asked Heavenly Snake Mansion’s elders why they had approached her.
• The silver-haired elder offered to make Azure Scales the one steering Heavenly Snake Mansion and share its techniques for cultivating the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Ze emerged from a spatial rift and rejected the offer, demanding that Heavenly Snake Mansion merge into the Heaven Alliance.
• After Xiao Ze refused to negotiate, the elder accepted that Heavenly Snake Mansion’s heritage could not be preserved independently and declared its submission to the Heaven Alliance.
• Xiao Ze welcomed Heavenly Snake Mansion into the alliance and told its members to follow the alliance’s rules.

Xiao Ze learned that the Heavenly Snake Mansion had submitted to the Heaven Alliance because its Dou Zun, Heavenly Snake Venerate, had disappeared and the faction feared being swallowed by rival powers. Green Heart warned Xiao Ze that the Northwest Continent’s top factions distrusted the Heaven Alliance and proposed using the upcoming Sect Assembly to secure influence.

• Green Heart explained that the Heavenly Snake Mansion had declined since Heavenly Snake Venerate disappeared, leaving it vulnerable to the central region’s rival factions.
• Xiao Ze realized that the Heaven Alliance’s expansion had pushed Green Heart to submit, and he ordered the Heavenly Snake Mansion to help eliminate the Misty Cloud Sect’s remnants.
• Green Heart revealed that the Northwest Continent’s top powers suspected the Heaven Alliance of using the Misty Cloud Sect as an excuse to expand and might unite against it.
• Green Heart explained that winning the Sect Assembly could establish the Heaven Alliance as the Northwest’s overlord and give it grounds to bring other factions under its command.
• Xiao Ze agreed that he was interested in the Sect Assembly, and Green Heart said the Heavenly Snake Mansion would recommend the Heaven Alliance for the event, which would take place in the Heavenly Snake Empire three months later.

Xiao Ze and Azure Scales arrived at Heavenly Snake Sacred Mountain ahead of the Sect Assembly, where several Dou Zuns had already gathered. Xiao Yi Xian joined them to cultivate with Xiao Ze, while Queen Medusa met Lei Qiao and continued on to her friends; Lei Qiao resolved that the Thunder Sect would contend for dominance.

• Xiao Ze told Green Heart to prepare for the Sect Assembly and keep Heavenly Snake Mansion's submission to the Heaven Alliance secret.
• Xiao Ze and Azure Scales reached Heavenly Snake Sacred Mountain, where Azure Scales sensed at least three Dou Zun auras near Heavenly Snake Sacred Peak.
• Xiao Yi Xian arrived, and she and Xiao Ze began cultivating together while Azure Scales set out to hunt powerful snake-type magical beasts.
• Queen Medusa arrived two days later and declined to give Lei Qiao her name before leaving to meet her friends.
• Lei Qiao watched the Dou Zuns gathered at Heavenly Snake Sacred Peak and vowed that the Thunder Sect would compete for the Northwest's hegemon position.

Xiao Ze cultivated with Xiao Yi Xian in seclusion while Queen Medusa and Azure Scales worried about representing the Heaven Alliance at the Sect Assembly without him. As Shi Tian pressured Green Heart to begin the gathering, Xiao Ze completed his breakthrough and arrived at the Heavenly Snake Sacred Peak.

• Queen Medusa and Azure Scales discussed the approaching Sect Assembly and worried that Xiao Ze might not emerge from seclusion in time.
• Xiao Ze and Xiao Yi Xian exchanged Calamity Poison Power, supplying energy for Xiao Ze's breakthrough from peak Six Star Dou Venerate.
• Shi Tian challenged Green Heart over presiding in Heavenly Snake's absence and demanded that the Sect Assembly begin.
• Green Heart tried to delay the assembly, but Shi Tian unleashed his pressure against him.
• Xiao Ze's aura erupted from the valley, dispelled Shi Tian's pressure, and he appeared before the gathered Venerates as the Alliance Leader of the Heaven Alliance.

Xiao Ze arrived at the Sect Assembly and declared that the Heaven Alliance would seek dominance over the Northwest Continent. After Lei Qiao challenged him on behalf of the Thunder Sect, Xiao Ze defeated her with overwhelming force, leaving the assembled factions cowed.

• Xiao Ze arrived at Heavenly Snake Sacred Peak, where Green Heart welcomed him and Shi Tian questioned his right to attend the Sect Assembly.
• Xiao Ze mocked Shi Tian’s claim that he came from the Central Plains and revealed that he was born in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Green Heart affirmed that the Heaven Alliance qualified to participate, and Xiao Ze announced that it intended to become the Northwest Continent’s dominant force.
• Lei Qiao stepped forward to challenge Xiao Ze on behalf of the Thunder Sect and attacked with her lightning secret art.
• Xiao Ze sent Lei Qiao crashing through Heavenly Snake Sacred Peak, leaving her in a deep pit as the assembled Dou Venerates recognized his domination.

After Xiao Ze defeated Lei Qiao with one strike, Shi Tian and the other Northwest factions accepted the Heaven Alliance as the region’s overlord. Xiao Ze secured their promises to hunt down practitioners of the Soul Devouring Body Technique, but Yun Shan remained difficult to find.

• Xiao Ze defeated Lei Qiao with a single strike, leaving the assembled experts stunned by his strength.
• Shi Tian abandoned his opposition and recognized the Heaven Alliance as the Northwest Continent’s overlord to avoid fighting Xiao Ze.
• The other faction leaders followed Shi Tian and pledged to cooperate with the Heaven Alliance.
• Xiao Ze ordered the factions to search for practitioners of the Soul Devouring Body Technique and restrain their own members from using it.
• Lei Qiao recovered, thanked Xiao Ze for sparing him, and pledged the Thunder Sect’s cooperation.
• Xiao Ze concluded that the factions’ cooperation would help eradicate the technique, though Yun Shan would be difficult to locate.

After Xiao Ze humiliated Shi Tian at the Sect Assembly, the Lion Underworld Sect master ordered Elder Ke to hunt practitioners of the Soul Devouring Body Technique. Elder Ke warned Yun Shan, who decided to meet Shi Tian and try to turn him against Xiao Ze, while keeping Elder Ke as his informant.

• Shi Tian returned to the Lion Underworld Sect, vented his anger, and killed the servants who witnessed his outburst, sparing only Elder Ke.
• Shi Tian ordered Elder Ke to find and arrest practitioners of the Soul Devouring Body Technique, unaware that Elder Ke practiced it himself.
• Elder Ke went to Yun Shan's hidden cave and told him that Shi Tian was investigating the technique and resented Xiao Ze for humiliating him.
• Yun Shan decided to meet Shi Tian, reasoning that Xiao Ze's treatment of him might make the sect master a potential ally.
• Elder Ke agreed to take Yun Shan to Shi Tian, and Yun Shan told him to remain at the sect and gather intelligence.
• Yun Shan revealed that his strength had increased, concealed his blood aura with a black cloak, and set out to meet Shi Tian.

Yun Shan approached Shi Tian with the Soul Devouring Body Technique, hoping to ally with him against Xiao Ze’s Heaven Alliance. Shi Tian embraced the technique and ordered the Lion Underworld Sect to cultivate it, intending to crush the Heaven Alliance.

• Elder Ke left Yun Shan’s cave, while Yun Shan reflected on how devouring a Magical Beast clan had made him a One Star Dou Venerate and filled him with brutal intent.
• Shi Tian waited impatiently for Elder Ke and threatened to blind him again if he returned without good news.
• Elder Ke brought Yun Shan to Shi Tian, who was surprised to learn that Yun Shan himself cultivated the Soul Devouring Body Technique.
• Yun Shan warned that the Heaven Alliance threatened the Lion Underworld Sect and offered Shi Tian the technique as a path to greater strength.
• After reading the scroll, Shi Tian praised the technique and declared that the Lion Underworld Sect would cultivate it and crush the Heaven Alliance.

Shi Tian forced the Lion Underworld Sect to cultivate the Soul Devouring Body Technique, secretly slaughtering millions and overwhelming the Northwest Continent’s factions. After learning the sect was advancing toward the Heaven Alliance, Xiao Ze ordered his forces to prepare for battle and wondered whether the Soul Hall was involved.

• Shi Tian made the Lion Underworld Sect cultivate the Soul Devouring Body Technique, turning dissenting elders and members into blood food and reaching the peak of Six Star Dou Venerate.
• The Lion Underworld Sect secretly slaughtered living beings in its territory, then defeated the factions that tried to stop it and devoured several prominent sects.
• After returning to the Heaven Alliance, Xiao Ze learned from Xiao Yi Xian that the Lion Underworld Sect had overwhelmed the central Northwest Continent and was driving Green Heart and other factions toward the alliance.
• Xiao Ze ordered the Heaven Alliance’s leaders to assemble and prepare for the Lion Underworld Sect’s arrival, while wondering whether the Soul Hall had intervened.

Green Heart and Lei Qiao led their fleeing factions through the Horizontal Mountain Range while the Lion Underworld Sect pursued them. Shi Tian ordered an all-out assault, and Green Heart rallied everyone to fight as the chapter ended with their desperate resistance beginning.

• Green Heart warned Lei Qiao that attacking the pursuing Lion Underworld Sect would invite a full assault, so they agreed to hold out for Xiao Ze's aid.
• Shi Tian dismissed Yun Shan's warning about the Heaven Alliance and Xiao Ze, then ordered the Lion Underworld Sect to kill the fleeing factions.
• Green Heart and Lei Qiao sensed the Lion Underworld Sect's forces advancing through the Horizontal Mountain Range.
• Green Heart urged the fleeing factions to take up their weapons and fight rather than be devoured.

The allied forces fought the Lion Underworld Sect in the Horizontal Mountain Range as Shi Tian attacked their leaders and tried to turn them against Xiao Ze. Xiao Ze arrived just as Shi Tian was about to kill Green Heart and swiftly annihilated Shi Tian and many Lion Underworld Sect members.

• At Green Heart’s command, the allied forces emerged from the forest and attacked the Lion Underworld Sect, halting its bloody advance despite suffering heavy casualties.
• Shi Tian confronted Green Heart, Lei Qiao, and the other leaders, then struck Lei Qiao with a blood-red palm and injured the faction leaders with the aftershock.
• Shi Tian tried to blame Xiao Ze for the allied forces’ plight, but Green Heart and the other leaders rejected his attempt to sow discord.
• Shi Tian restrained the leaders with his control over space and gripped Green Heart’s neck, but Xiao Ze arrived and expanded the Illusionary Sea Domain, crushing Lion Underworld Sect members across the battlefield.
• Xiao Ze punched Shi Tian, shattered his blood-red barrier, and reduced him to fragments that tore through the Lion Underworld Sect experts behind him.

Xiao Ze killed Yun Shan, Shi Tian, and the Lion Underworld Sect’s remaining Dou Venerate experts, then helped the allied army defeat the sect’s survivors. As the central-region factions considered how to rebuild, Green Heart asked to bring the Heavenly Snake Mansion into the Heaven Alliance.

• Xiao Ze killed Yun Shan with a single punch, destroying the surrounding Lion Underworld Sect Dou Venerates as well.
• The allied army cheered Xiao Ze, and he ordered them to avenge their fallen companions while his Illusionary Sea Domain weakened the Lion Underworld Sect’s survivors.
• The faction leaders thanked Xiao Ze, who explained that he had rushed ahead of the Heaven Alliance’s forces to save them.
• Xiao Ze gave the injured Lei Qiao a Seventh-Grade Healing Pill.
• Green Heart asked Xiao Ze to let the Heavenly Snake Mansion join the Heaven Alliance, prompting the other faction leaders to consider joining too.

After defeating the Lion Underworld Sect, Xiao Ze welcomed the Northwest Continent’s factions and their forces into the Heaven Alliance, which rapidly expanded to rule the region. With the continent beginning to recover, Xiao Ze received a message from the Alchemist Tower asking him to return.

• Green Heart, Lei Qiao, and the other faction leaders asked to join the Heaven Alliance, and Xiao Ze welcomed them.
• After the allied forces killed the remaining Lion Underworld Sect members, Xiao Ze invited their fighters to join the Heaven Alliance, and they accepted.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Azure Scales arrived and helped lead the enlarged alliance into the central region, where they saw the devastation left by the Lion Underworld Sect.
• The Heaven Alliance expanded to control the Northwest Continent, with its influence covering ninety percent of the region, while the remaining factions submitted.
• Azure Scales gave Xiao Ze a message from the Alchemist Tower, and he learned that its three presidents wanted him to return.

Xiao Ze learned that the Alchemist Tower's three presidents wanted him to preside over the upcoming Pill Gathering, and he prepared to travel to the Central Plains after arranging the Heaven Alliance's affairs. Meanwhile, he found a path toward reaching the Dou Saint realm by continuing to expand the Tree of Origin.

• Xiao Ze read a confidential scroll from the Alchemist Tower and learned that the three presidents wanted him to preside over the Pill Gathering.
• Xiao Ze told Azure Scales that he would return to the Central Plains once Queen Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian came back and the Heaven Alliance's affairs were arranged.
• Xiao Ze reflected that his cultivation had reached the Nine Star Dou Venerate Peak but that he still faced the difficult threshold of becoming a Dou Saint.
• Xiao Ze realized that expanding the Tree of Origin's diameter could serve as his own Nine Revolutions to Sainthood Method and bring him closer to entering the Saint Realm.
• Xiao Ze took a pill and continued cultivating by expanding the Tree of Origin.

Xiao Ze prepared to leave the Northwest Continent for the Central Plains, entrusting the Heaven Alliance and the Xiao Family to trusted relatives and allies. After arranging their protection and warning them about the Soul Hall, he met three women outside Jia Nan City and set off.

• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li asked Xiao Ze about his plans, and he confirmed that the Alchemist Tower had summoned him back to the Central Plains.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li arranged a farewell banquet, while Xiao Ze asked them to keep his departure secret from the clan.
• Xiao Ze met Green Heart and entrusted him with managing the Heaven Alliance, warning him to destroy any Soul Hall infiltrators.
• Xiao Ze gave Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li jade pendants for contacting him, along with two Five Star Dou Venerate-level puppets to protect the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Ze met three women outside Jia Nan City and departed with them for the Central Plains.