Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales entered the Spatial Trade Fair after obtaining a Nine-Colored Raw Stone for Queen Medusa. The fair began with Old Man Baoshan presenting Heavenly Demon Phoenix Wings in exchange for a Grade 8 Pill that could summon Four-Colored Pill Thunder.

• Xiao Ze stored the Nine-Colored Raw Stone and said he would give it to Medusa after she emerged from seclusion.
• Xiao Ze, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales presented the Alchemist Tower’s invitation, received concealing cloaks, and entered the Ancient Treasure Pavilion.
• Xiao Ze noticed Third Brother and Old Ya among the attendees but chose not to approach them.
• Old Man Baoshan appeared and began the Spatial Trade Fair, presenting Heavenly Demon Phoenix Wings for bids.
• Old Man Baoshan announced that the owner wanted a Grade 8 Pill capable of summoning Four-Colored Pill Thunder in exchange for the wings.

Xiao Ze and his companions attended the Spatial Trade Fair, where they exchanged for rare treasures and learned that the legendary Bodhi Ancient Tree would soon appear. The chapter left the hall stunned by the announcement.

• A cloaked bidder exchanged a jade bottle for the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Wings after the hall remained silent for several minutes.
• Several people offered items for the Vajra Glazed Body, and its owner traded the Dou Skill to a black-robed bidder for a pale blue scroll.
• Xiao Ze bought Xiao Yi Xian a Heavenly Nether Poison Compendium, Azure Scales a Spiritual Power cultivation secret art, and several precious Heavenly Treasures and Earthly Materials.
• Xiao Ze exchanged a Grade 8 Pill with Seven-Colored Pill Thunder for the Yin-Yang Profound Void Heart.
• After the remnant map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was auctioned, Old Man Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would appear in the near future.

Old Man Baoshan revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the perilous Ancient Desolate Region, drawing the gathered experts’ attention. Xiao Ze decided to go there to assess the ancient tree and see whether it was worth using one of his remaining Subordinate Binding slots.

• Old Man Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared, and the gathered experts reacted with shock at its power and treasures.
• Old Man Baoshan named the Ancient Desolate Region on the northeastern border of the Central Plains as the tree’s location.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales recognized the region’s danger, where poisonous miasma and powerful Ferocious Beasts threatened even Peak Dou Venerate experts.
• Azure Scales asked Xiao Ze whether they should investigate, and Xiao Ze weighed the risks against the chance to bind the Bodhi Ancient Tree as a subordinate.
• Xiao Ze agreed to travel to the Ancient Desolate Region and see what feedback the Bodhi Ancient Tree could provide.

After the Spatial Trade Fair, Xiao Ze asked Old Man Baoshan to help find rare ingredients for refining the Holy Heart Glazed Pill. Treasure Appraisal Mountain and two other sects gathered ninety percent of what he needed, while hostile cultivators began plotting to ambush him.

• Old Man Baoshan explained that the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s appearance would cause phenomena within a month, giving the fair’s attendees time to prepare for its arrival in the Ancient Desolate Region.
• Xiao Ze noticed hostile gazes after the trade fair and asked Old Man Baoshan whether Treasure Appraisal Mountain could exchange rare treasures for high-grade pills.
• Old Man Baoshan led Xiao Ze and the other two to a reception hall without revealing their identities, and Xiao Ze listed the ingredients needed for the Holy Heart Glazed Pill.
• Old Man Baoshan contacted the Earth Travel Sect and Empty Profound Gate, and the three sects gathered ninety percent of Xiao Ze’s requested ingredients.
• Several attendees mistook Xiao Ze’s departure with Old Man Baoshan for a show of weakness and left to prepare an ambush.

Xiao Ze completed his trade with Old Man Baoshan and left the Spatial Trade Fair with Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales. Outside, they found the three demons of the Cloud Rain Sect lying in ambush, and Xiao Ze and Xiao Yi Xian captured them with poison.

• Xiao Ze exchanged high-grade pills with Old Man Baoshan for medicinal ingredients, and the two agreed to cooperate again.
• Xiao Ze left the Ancient Treasure Pavilion with Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales, then sensed ambushers outside the fair.
• Xiao Ze led the group toward the strongest ambush and found Heavenly Scorpion, Earth Scorpion, and Human Scorpion waiting for them.
• Human Scorpion attacked Xiao Yi Xian, who trapped him in poisonous mist.
• Xiao Ze injected all three demons with Calamity Poison Power, leaving them screaming in agony.

Xiao Ze tortured and defeated the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts, took their accumulated resources, and left them trapped in lightning prisons. He returned to the Alchemist Tower, where the newly founded Pill Alliance prepared to counter the Soul Hall while both sides avoided deploying Dou Saints.

• Xiao Ze bound the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts with Thunder Power, broke the Soul Imprints on their storage rings, and gave the rings to Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales to sort.
• Heavenly Scorpion refused to regret his crimes, so Xiao Ze sent Soul-corroding Calamity Poison Power into the three fiends and imprisoned them in lightning prisons.
• Nearby experts discovered the tortured fiends, recognized Xiao Ze's handiwork, and left without interfering.
• Xiao Ze and his companions returned to the Alchemist Tower with the fiends' wealth and the Heaven Tier Dou Skill they had bought at the Spatial Trade Fair.
• The Pill Alliance's four factions finalized their alliance and built Space Wormholes between their headquarters to support one another against the Soul Hall.
• The Pill Alliance began retaliating against the Soul Hall's Protectors and Venerates, while both sides refrained from deploying Dou Saint-level forces.

Xiao Ze empowered Queen Medusa’s breakthrough into a Nine-Colored Sky-Devouring Python before returning to the Alchemist Tower. As news of the Bodhi Ancient Tree stirred the Central Plains and the Pill Alliance was established under Yao Chen, Xiao Ze departed for the Ancient Desolate Region with Azure Scales.

• Xiao Ze entered the Nine Serene Yellow Springs and used his Seven-Colored Sky-Devouring Python bloodline aura to calm the remnant souls guarding Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Ze infused the Nine-Colored Raw Stone with Bloodline Power and sent it into Queen Medusa, strengthening her breakthrough as she slept.
• News of the Bodhi Ancient Tree spread across the Central Plains, drawing powerful experts and prompting the Pill Alliance and the Soul Hall to prepare for its appearance.
• The Pill Alliance named Yao Chen its Alliance Leader, while Xiao Ze remained unconcerned because the alliance would help restrain the Soul Hall and protect the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Ze and Azure Scales left the Alchemist Tower for the Ancient Desolate Region.

Xiao Ze, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales arrived at Ancient Desolate Town as cultivators gathered to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After witnessing a huge group enter the dangerous Primeval Forest, Xiao Ze waited for the crowd to thin before leading his companions inside.

• Xiao Ze, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales discussed the dangers of the Ancient Desolate Region and Xun'er's earlier entry with the Ancient Clan team.
• Xiao Ze's group reached Ancient Desolate Town and found that independent cultivators were gathering there while major factions entered the region from other directions.
• Xiao Ze learned that several cultivators had recently vanished after entering the Primeval Forest, and he saw many others assemble to enter together.
• Xiao Ze and his companions followed the crowd to the colossal trees at the forest's edge, where the cultivators began their march into the Ancient Desolate Region.
• Xiao Ze waited until the crowd had thinned, then led Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales into the Primeval Forest.

Xiao Ze, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales crossed the poisonous-insect-infested Primeval Forest, where countless cultivators died, and reached the Vast Mountain Range. Guided by the Origin Tree Root Xun'er carried, Xiao Ze led them toward her, but a foul wind greeted them as they entered the mountains.

• Xiao Ze protected himself, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales with curtains of lightning that destroyed the invisible poisonous insects as they traveled through the Primeval Forest.
• The group found a dead Dou Venerate and took his storage ring before pressing on through the poisonous mist.
• Xiao Ze estimated that more than eighty percent of the cultivators who entered the forest had perished by the time they escaped it.
• Xiao Ze explained that powerful, savage Ferocious Beasts inhabited the Vast Mountain Range beyond the poisonous Natural Chasm.
• Xiao Ze sensed Xun'er's direction through the Origin Tree Root and led Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales across the chasm, where a foul wind rushed at them.

Xiao Ze, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales traveled through the Ancient Desolate Region, where they witnessed its brutal survival rules and a battle against an Ancient Heavenly Demon Python. After Azure Scales subdued the python, she revealed its clan’s Heavenly Demon Blood Pool, and Xiao Ze decided they would inspect it.

• Xiao Ze sent an injured black tiger crashing into a boulder, then left it alive and continued deeper into the Ancient Desolate Region with Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales observed that the Ancient Desolate Region’s Ferocious Beasts survived by hiding their weakness from enemies.
• Xiao Ze’s group saw two aged Peak Dou Venerates lose to a Five-Revolving Peak Dou Venerate Ancient Heavenly Demon Python and flee.
• Xiao Ze told Azure Scales to handle the python, and she subdued it with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Azure Scales learned that the python’s clan possessed a Heavenly Demon Blood Pool, and Xiao Ze decided to go see it with her and Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Ze, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales visited the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python’s Blood Pool, where Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales absorbed its energy while Xiao Ze found it too weak to benefit him. The group then rode toward the Ancient Region Platform, putting away the Python as they neared their destination.

• The Ancient Heavenly Demon Python led Xiao Ze, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales through its bone-strewn cave to the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool.
• Xiao Ze tested the Blood Pool’s energy, found it barely useful to him, and let Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales absorb it instead.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Azure Scales cultivated in the Blood Pool while Xiao Ze raised an Energy Barrier around them and waited.
• After the Blood Pool’s energy was depleted, Xiao Ze set out with the others for the Ancient Region Platform on the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python.
• Xiao Ze avoided other cultivators who tried to approach the group, then had Azure Scales put away the Python as they neared the Ancient Region Platform.

Xiao Ze, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales arrived at the Ancient Region Platform, where they reunited with Xun'er and Gu Qingyang. Xun'er explained that Hun Yu was organizing an alliance to attack the Beast Tide, while Xiao Yan's team might be drawn into it, and she asked whether to warn him.

• Xiao Ze's group reached the Ancient Region Platform and observed that its cultivators bore fresh signs of fighting the Beast Tide.
• Xiao Ze and his companions entered the Ancient Clan camp, where Gu Qingyang greeted Xiao Ze and Xun'er happily embraced him.
• Xun'er told Xiao Ze that Hun Yu had proposed an alliance to break through the Beast Tide, but the Ancient Clan had refused to join.
• Xun'er said Xiao Yan's team was stationed in the platform's Center Region and asked whether she should have someone warn him about Hun Yu's planned attack.

Xiao Ze warned Xiao Yan that Hun Yu planned to use the alliance to break through the Beast Tide, but Xiao Yan chose to stay with the other cultivators. Hun Yu and Jiu Feng rallied the factions into an alliance, leaving Xiao Ze to watch as Hun Yu gained the support he needed.

• Xiao Ze told Xun'er he would warn Xiao Yan about Hun Yu and decided to let the alliance test the Beast Tide first.
• Xiao Ze contacted Xiao Yan through the Tree of Origin and urged him to travel with the Ancient Clan, but Xiao Yan declined.
• Xiao Ze observed Hun Yu assure the gathered cultivators that the alliance would have no hierarchy or exploitation.
• Jiu Feng announced that the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Tribe would join the alliance, encouraging the wavering cultivators to follow.
• The cultivators finalized the alliance, and Xiao Ze recognized that Hun Yu and Jiu Feng had drawn them into serving as stepping stones through the Beast Tide.

Xiao Ze, Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales secretly watched Hun Yu lead an alliance into the Beast Tide, where the factions hoped to exploit one another. As the party suffered mounting casualties, Xiao Ze decided he would have to enter the depths of the Ancient Desolate Region himself.

• Xiao Ze left the camp to scout the alliance's assault, and Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales followed him while Gu Qingyang and the other Ancient Clan commanders stayed behind.
• Xiao Ze spotted the immense Ferocious Beast army beyond the mountains and warned that the alliance would likely fail to break through.
• Xiao Ze and the three women descended unseen to watch Hun Yu lead the alliance into the Beast Tide, where the outer beasts were quickly killed.
• Xiao Ze realized the factions were using each other to reach the depths, then decided he would have to make his own way there to investigate the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• As the alliance pushed deeper, stronger Ferocious Beasts overwhelmed the formation, and the party suffered severe casualties.

Xiao Ze watched the alliance collapse under the Beast Tide as the Soul Clan and other groups abandoned it, then cleared a path for the Ancient Clan with his Origin Emperor Flame. He reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree and discovered it possessed a dark gold Talent called Ancient Wisdom.

• Xiao Ze told Xun'er that the Ancient Clan could begin charging through the Beast Tide.
• A powerful Ferocious Beast broke through the alliance's defenses, and Hun Yu's Soul Clan fled toward the depths as the remaining groups followed.
• Xiao Ze descended into the Beast Tide and killed a Peak Dou Venerate Ferocious Beast, causing nearby beasts to fall in succession.
• Xiao Ze beckoned the Ancient Clan members to follow him toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Ze saw the Bodhi Ancient Tree's panel reveal its dark gold Ancient Wisdom Talent.

Xiao Ze bound the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Ancient Wisdom talent and sensed the tree watching him, then led Xun’er and the Ancient Clan toward it. Hun Yu and Jiu Feng saw the Ancient Clan had gained the lead with a Dou Saint’s help, so they summoned Dou Saints of their own to compete for the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s opportunity.

• Xiao Ze bound the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Ancient Wisdom talent, though it had not yet improved enough to trigger feedback.
• Xiao Ze sensed the Bodhi Ancient Tree watching him and suspected the Origin Emperor Flame had caught its attention.
• Xiao Ze led Xun’er and the Ancient Clan onward toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree while the Beast Tide continued fighting.
• Hun Yu saw that the Ancient Clan had reached the depths first and realized a Dou Saint was leading them.
• Hun Yu and Jiu Feng agreed to join forces and summoned Dou Saint experts from their clans.

Xiao Ze’s group, the Soul Clan, and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Tribe gathered before the Bodhi Ancient Tree, each bringing powerful experts to compete for its opportunity. The tree produced five Half-Saint puppets, including one made from a Soul Clan member recorded as missing.

• Demon Phoenix and Elder Hun Shan emerged from the Space Channel, and Jiu Feng explained the situation to them.
• Xiao Ze’s group approached the Bodhi Ancient Tree and sensed the oppression of the negative emotions lingering around it.
• Demon Phoenix and Hun Shan arrived with their clans, and Xun'er rejected Demon Phoenix’s claim that the Ancient Clan had broken the rules by bringing Dou Saints.
• Demon Phoenix agreed that each group would compete for the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s opportunity based on its own abilities.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree produced five Half-Saint figures, and Demon Phoenix identified them as puppets with no life force or souls.
• Hun Shan recognized one puppet as a missing Half-Saint recorded by the Soul Clan.

Xiao Ze’s group and the Soul Clan and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Tribe agreed to divide the five Half-Saint puppets blocking their path to the Bodhi Ancient Tree. While Hun Shan and Demon Phoenix fought separately, they planned to eliminate Xun’er and the other two Dou Saints before joining forces against Xiao Ze, who kept watch to prevent anyone from summoning reinforcements.

• Hun Shan revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had refined five Half-Saint experts into puppets, alarming the cultivators present.
• Demon Phoenix proposed that each side take on puppets according to the number of Saints they had, and Xiao Ze agreed to let Xun’er and two allies fight three of them.
• Hun Shan and Demon Phoenix drew one puppet each away, while Xiao Ze monitored the Soul Clan and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Tribe to stop them from using Space Jade Slips.
• Demon Phoenix and Hun Shan secretly discussed attacking first, with Hun Shan planning to defeat Xun’er and her allies before joining Demon Phoenix against Xiao Ze.
• Hun Shan destroyed his Half-Saint puppet and told Demon Phoenix to prepare to act.

Xiao Ze intervened in the Ancient Desolate Region battle, saving Xun'er and the others from a Soul Clan attack and joining the fight against Hun Shan. As battles spread beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Xiao Ze and Hun Shan clashed with powerful techniques.

• Xiao Yan recognized Xiao Ze’s golden Origin Emperor Flame as it blocked Demon Phoenix’s attack on the Ancient Clan members.
• Xiao Ze shattered Hun Shan’s mountain of gathered Soul Bodies, rescued Xun’er and the others, and ordered them to hold Demon Phoenix and watch the enemy’s movements.
• Xun’er, Azure Scales, and Xiao Yi Xian joined forces against Demon Phoenix while Gu Qingyang led the Ancient Clan members against the Soul Clan and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Tribe.
• Xiao Ze confronted Hun Shan and unleashed repeated Emperor’s Seal Techniques, burning through Hun Shan’s Soul Bodies and damaging his massive black palm seal.

Xiao Ze overwhelmed Hun Shan with his Heavenly Flame, powerful Dou Skills, and formidable Dou Saint body while the Demon Phoenix considered retreating from the fight against Xun'er and the other two women. Hun Shan realized the Soul Clan had underestimated Xiao Ze, but by then he could no longer escape.

• Xiao Ze's Origin Emperor Flame and repeated Emperor's Seal Techniques forced Hun Shan to lose nearly thirty percent of the Soul Bodies in his robes.
• The Demon Phoenix saw that Xun'er and the other two women were difficult to defeat and began considering retreat, but Hun Shan unleashed the Myriad Souls Heaven-Splitting Claw to break Xiao Ze's attacks.
• Xiao Ze closed in on Hun Shan and struck him with the Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm, weakening him despite Hun Shan tearing apart the finger attack.
• Hun Shan welcomed close combat, but Xiao Ze's golden punch met his claw and they exchanged more than a hundred blows.
• Hun Shan found himself at a disadvantage and realized the Soul Clan should have sent Lord Hun Sheng to eliminate Xiao Ze, but it was too late.