Chapter Summaries

After Zi Yan destroyed Feng Qing'er's ancestral soul and claimed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, Ning Luo's group ventured deeper into the ruins. In the Pill Hall, they discovered a highly intelligent Eighth-Grade Pill in beast form, and Ning Luo tried to lure it with medicinal pills.

• Zi Yan crushed Feng Qing'er's Golden Phoenix ancestral soul, forcing Feng Qing'er and the black-robed elder to flee.
• Zi Yan sealed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit inside her body, and Ning Luo's group left the forest to search the ruins for greater treasures.
• Ning Luo's group entered the Pill Hall and used antidote pills to protect themselves from poisonous air while searching its lower floors.
• On the third floor, Ning Luo recognized a snow-white little beast as an Eighth-Grade Pill that had endured eight-colored Pill Lightning.
• Ning Luo warned the group not to chase the pill and began enticing it with Fourth- and Sixth-Grade Pills.

Ning Luo fought the masked woman who tried to seize the Pill Beast and discovered that she was Qing Lin, his long-lost maidservant. After recognizing him, Qing Lin reunited with Ning Luo and insisted on continuing to call him Young Master Ning Luo.

• Ning Luo fed the picky Pill Beast sixth-tier pills and offered it his Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill.
• A masked black-clad figure seized the Pill Beast, and Ning Luo attacked her while Zi Yan recognized her as the person who had attacked her before.
• The black-clad figure summoned Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan experts and used strange soul arts against Ning Luo.
• Ning Luo shattered the figure's demonic eye and knocked off her Ghost God Mask, revealing Qing Lin and her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Ning Luo reminded Qing Lin of their past in the Jia Ma Empire, Tager Great Desert, and Desert Iron Mercenary Group, and Qing Lin recognized him as Young Master Ning Luo.
• Ning Luo welcomed Qing Lin back and asked her to call him Big Brother Ning Luo, but Qing Lin said she wanted to keep calling him Young Master Ning Luo.

Ning Luo reunited with Qing Lin, learned that she carried a supposedly incurable poison, and promised to help her after they left the ruins. Guided by Qing Lin to the main hall, Ning Luo's group found ten sealed treasures, a Dou Saint's remains, and a ring of powerful puppets as the seal weakened.

• Ning Luo asked Qing Lin about her time with the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and she explained that she had fled after the elders tried to arrange her marriage.
• Qing Lin revealed that she wanted the Pill Beast's blood to cure her Emperor Python Heart-Eating Poison, and Ning Luo promised to seek a cure after they left the ruins.
• Qing Lin explained that she had attacked Zi Yan because she mistook her for a member of the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan, while Xiao Yi Xian concealed the Pill Beast's medicinal aura.
• Qing Lin led Ning Luo and the others to the main hall using a rough map she had found in the ruins.
• Ning Luo's group discovered ten sealed light spheres, a Dou Saint's remains, and more than a dozen puppet-like figures that appeared to be Dou Zun experts.
• Tang Zhen told Ning Luo that the weakening seal would soon dissipate and that only one of the ten treasures was likely a genuine Heaven Tier Combat Skill.

Ning Luo and Tang Zhen waited for the seals on ten scrolls to vanish, wary of the awakening puppets and the rival experts gathering in the hall. When the scrolls flew free and the puppets awakened, a chaotic battle erupted, and Ning Luo held back his allies as Tang Zhen asked him to identify the Heaven Tier Combat Skill.

• Ning Luo could not sense which scroll held the Heaven Tier Combat Skill, and Tang Zhen warned that the puppets might awaken when the seal vanished.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking arrived with one arm missing and threatened Ning Luo, who deterred him by summoning three Heavenly Flames.
• Ning Luo warned his allies that the seal was about to disappear, and ten scrolls shot out as the stone puppets opened their eyes.
• Experts fought desperately for the flying scrolls while the awakened puppets spread a killing aura through the hall.
• Ning Luo stopped Zi Yan from joining the scramble, and Tang Zhen asked whether he could identify the Heaven Tier Combat Skill.

Ning Luo joined the scramble for the Dou Sheng ruins’ treasures, defeated Chen Tiannan with the Heavenly Demon Puppet, and sensed danger when Soul Hall approached the Dou Sheng skeleton. After Old Ghost Star-Picking’s blood touched the skeleton, it began to stir, and he ordered everyone to retreat.

• Human puppets erupted into the hall and attacked the experts, forcing Ning Luo and the other factions to join the battle for the scrolls.
• Ning Luo targeted a crimson scroll and worked with the Heavenly Demon Puppet to kill Chen Tiannan, the Xuanming Sect’s sect leader.
• Ning Luo noticed Soul Hall’s interest in the Dou Sheng skeleton and urged his companions to retreat.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking reached for the skeleton, but spatial spikes cut his palm and his blood fell onto it.
• Sensing a surge of life force from the skeleton, Old Ghost Star-Picking shouted for the Soul Hall experts to retreat.

Ning Luo and the other experts fought the awakened Dou Sheng Skeleton, while Ning Luo discovered that its ribs bore the real Heaven Tier Combat Skill. As the skeleton began unleashing the Great Heaven Creation Palm, Ning Luo warned Xiao Yi Xian and the others to retreat.

• The Dou Sheng Skeleton unleashed a roar that killed several Soul Hall experts, and Old Ghost Star-Picking warned the survivors that fleeing would not save them.
• The blood-colored skeleton emerged and attacked Old Ghost Star-Picking, prompting Ning Luo, Xiao Yi Xian, Tang Zhen, and the other experts to surround it.
• Ning Luo struck a rib and uncovered writing that he recognized as the Heaven Tier Combat Skill, realizing the ten scrolls had been decoys and Old Ghost Star-Picking knew the secret.
• The experts bombarded the skeleton until its red coloring faded and it suddenly stopped moving.
• Ning Luo sensed danger and told Xiao Yi Xian and the others to leave; the skeleton then invoked the Great Heaven Creation Palm.

Ning Luo escaped the Dou Saint skeleton’s deadly Heaven Tier combat skill, then joined the struggle for the skeleton as Old Ghost Star-Picking and several powerful experts fought over it. Ning Luo claimed three ribs, but the skeleton broke apart under their combined force, leaving the fight over its remains unresolved.

• The Dou Saint skeleton unleashed a black ring of light that annihilated fleeing figures, but Ning Luo escaped the hall by using attacks and a Soul Clone to propel himself outside.
• Ning Luo reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and the others, then watched Old Ghost Star-Picking seize the skeleton before Ning Luo struck him with his ruler.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking, Huang Xuan, and Venerable Bing He attacked the skeleton, and their combined force severed the arm it held.
• Ning Luo broke off three ribs and stored them in his Ring of Holding, prompting Old Ghost Star-Picking, Huang Xuan, and Venerable Bing He to attack him.
• Tang Zhen joined the struggle, and the four Dou Zun experts pulled until the Dou Saint skeleton shattered; Old Ghost Star-Picking looked down at the skull in his hand as someone urged the others to seize the remains.

Ning Luo seized Dou Saint bones as Old Ghost Star-Picking and Huang Xuan joined forces against him and his allies. The great battle began, with Ning Luo confronting Old Ghost Star-Picking, who attacked him with Soul Chain, Soul Lock.

• Ning Luo grabbed a Dou Saint bone arm and drew more bone fragments toward himself, prompting Old Ghost Star-Picking to demand the bones.
• Huang Xuan offered to help Old Ghost Star-Picking capture Ning Luo in exchange for an item, and Old Ghost Star-Picking accepted.
• Huang Xuan and Old Ghost Star-Picking prepared to attack Ning Luo's group, while Tang Zhen defended Ning Luo and faced Venerable Bing He.
• Ning Luo assigned the Heavenly Demon Puppet to fight Huang Xuan, took Old Ghost Star-Picking as his opponent, and left the remaining experts to his allies.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking unleashed black chains that wrapped around Ning Luo and began pulling at his soul.

Ning Luo fought Old Ghost Star-Picking with his four-seal Emperor Seal Art and Heavenly Flames, but two five-star Dou Venerates from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan arrived and joined the battle. He attacked them with a fire lotus, which they contained inside their Demon Phoenix Bell as it began to crack.

• Old Ghost Star-Picking trapped Ning Luo in his Myriad Star Hand, and Ning Luo countered with four combined seals of the Emperor Seal Art.
• Ning Luo and Old Ghost Star-Picking traded blows, and Ning Luo used the Three Thousand Burning Flame and his bone wings to keep fighting.
• Ning Luo began fusing three Heavenly Flames into a fire lotus, forcing Old Ghost Star-Picking to rush at him.
• Two five-star Dou Venerates from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan arrived and accused Ning Luo of violating their clan's taboos by bearing their bone wings and Demon Phoenix Blood Essence.
• Ning Luo sent his fire lotus toward the two elders and detonated it, but they summoned a Demon Phoenix Bell that contained the blast and developed cracks.

Hei Qing of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan rescued Ning Luo and his companions from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, allowing them to leave with the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. Afterward, Hei Qing thanked Ning Luo for looking after Zi Yan and insisted that she return to the clan with him, but she refused.

• Huang Xuan and two Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elders attacked Zi Yan to seize the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, but Hei Qing arrived and stopped them.
• Hei Qing opened a spatial rift and led Ning Luo, Zi Yan, and the others away, warning the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan not to provoke his clan.
• Huang Xuan withdrew toward the corridor, while Old Ghost Star-Picking vowed to destroy Ning Luo and Starfall Pavilion before leaving the ruins.
• Hei Qing told Ning Luo that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan appreciated his care of Zi Yan and would repay him, then said she had to return with him.
• Zi Yan protested that she would not go back to the clan because she found it boring.

Ning Luo returned to Starfall Pavilion and treated Qing Lin for the Emperor Python Heart-Eating Poison, using a medicinal pool to stabilize her Dou Zun strength. As the treatment neared completion, her mysterious nine-headed snake tattoo stirred and her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils appeared.

• Hei Qing persuaded Zi Yan to return and complete her inheritance before seeking out Ning Luo and the others.
• Ning Luo left the Beast Domain with his group after sending word to Mu Qingluan and the others, while Venerable Wind discussed Yao Lao's possible recovery and Soul Hall's connection to the ancient Soul Clan.
• After resting at Starfall Pavilion, Ning Luo devised a way to detoxify Qing Lin and prepared a medicinal pool for her.
• Qing Lin entered the pool to absorb its medicinal power, and a strange nine-headed snake tattoo appeared on her back, triggering a violent impulse in Ning Luo.
• As Qing Lin's treatment neared completion, the cave shook and her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils appeared in the mist.

Ning Luo learned that Qing Lin had awakened an Ancient Heavenly Serpent soul and that Yao Lao’s origin soul energy had recovered, allowing them to prepare to refine Yao Lao’s body. While studying three sealed ribs, Ning Luo received the inheritance of the Great Heaven Creation Palm and began learning its energy circulation.

• Qing Lin told Ning Luo that the nine-headed serpent was an Ancient Heavenly Serpent soul, and she had reached one-star Dou Zun after clearing the toxins from her body.
• Ning Luo left with Qing Lin after confirming her condition had been resolved and went to see Yao Lao.
• Yao Lao told Ning Luo that the Gold-Grade Soul Infant Fruit had restored his origin soul energy to its peak, though several materials were still needed to refine his body.
• Ning Luo used the Three Thousand Lotus Heart Flame to burn the sealed ribs, entered a memory space, and learned that the Great Heaven Creation Palm required palms tempered by Golden Spirit Saliva.
• Ning Luo memorized the combat skill’s energy circulation route as the phantom demonstrated the palm’s destructive power.

Ning Luo used the Sage of Creation’s inheritance to awaken the Great Heaven Creation Palm, then continued refining a body for Yao Lao with rare materials and a Dou Saint’s arm. While Yao Lao remained unconscious, Ning Luo examined his Ancient Map fragments and began extracting marrow from Dou Saint bone fragments.

• The Sage of Creation’s image vanished after telling Ning Luo its name, and Ning Luo awakened with a dark golden glow in his right palm.
• Ning Luo activated the Great Heaven Creation Palm and discovered that it consumed his Dou Qi to form a powerful black light.
• Ning Luo coated the skeleton for Yao Lao’s body with blue-red blood, attached a Dou Saint’s arm, and used the Three Thousand Lotus Heart Flame to fuse flesh and skin onto it.
• The Nine Heavens Venerable gathered shadowy figures and ordered them to destroy Starfall Pavilion, capture Ning Luo, and seize Yao Chen.
• Ning Luo found Yao Lao still unconscious, reviewed his three Ancient Map fragments linked to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and heated Dou Saint bone fragments to reach the marrow inside.

After refining the marrow gel and advancing to two-star strength, Ning Luo emerged to find Soul Hall attacking Starfall Pavilion. As the battle began, Ning Luo confronted Old Ghost Star-Picking while Qing Lin drew Venerable Bai away with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

• Ning Luo consumed three marrow gel pellets, refined their energy for three days, and broke through to the two-star level.
• Ning Luo sensed Soul Hall's threat and learned that Yao Lao still needed more time to complete his fusion.
• Venerable Wind revealed the Starfall Grand Formation, while Old Ghost Star-Picking and the Black and White Venerables attacked it.
• Ning Luo summoned eleven puppets and prepared for battle as Old Ghost Star-Picking ordered Soul Hall's forces to massacre Starfall Pavilion.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking charged at Ning Luo, and Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to evade Venerable Bai and lead him away.

Ning Luo fought Old Ghost Star-Picking in the Star Realm and used the Great Heaven Creation Palm to overwhelm him. As Old Ghost Star-Picking faced death, a blue figure called Lord Nine Heavens Venerable intervened and pulled him away, leaving the Soul Hall’s hidden expert revealed.

• Ning Luo and Old Ghost Star-Picking clashed while Venerable Bai, Qing Lin, Venerable Wind, Xiao Yi Xian, and others fought Soul Hall forces across the Star Realm.
• Ning Luo gathered dark golden Dou Qi in his palm and unleashed the Great Heaven Creation Palm against Old Ghost Star-Picking’s Star Shattering Slash.
• The black ring of light overwhelmed Old Ghost Star-Picking and began swallowing him despite the blue figure’s rain barrier.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking cried out to Lord Nine Heavens Venerable for help as the ring reached him.
• The blue figure grabbed the badly wounded Old Ghost Star-Picking and retreated, acknowledging the power of Ning Luo’s Heaven Tier Combat Skill.

Ning Luo was overwhelmed by Nine Heavens Venerable until Yao Chen returned with his strength restored and pledged to follow his master’s lead. As Yao Chen battled the Soul Hall, Eighth Heavenly Venerable Qiu Di arrived to join Nine Heavens Venerable against him.

• Nine Heavens Venerable easily wounded Ning Luo and tried to take him away, but Yao Chen appeared and stopped him.
• Yao Chen bowed to Ning Luo, pledged his loyalty, and was told to deal with Nine Heavens Venerable.
• Yao Chen shattered Nine Heavens Venerable’s water-beast attack, while a spatial strike sent Black and White Venerables crashing into the forest.
• Nine Heavens Venerable opened a spatial rift with a jade slip, and Eighth Heavenly Venerable Qiu Di emerged to support him.
• Ning Luo examined the destructive water-filled raindrops as Yao Chen calmly stood amid them, breaking any that came within a hundred feet.

Yao Lao revealed that he had become a Half-Saint, repelled the Soul Hall’s attack, and raised Starfall Pavilion’s standing across the Central Plains. Afterward, Ning Luo recovered and discussed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with Yao Lao, who told him an acquaintance had come looking for him.

• Nine Heavens Venerable and Eighth Heavenly Venerable combined their powers to launch the Rain Erodes the Firmament attack at Yao Lao.
• Yao Lao stopped the ice ball and revealed that he had advanced to the Half-Saint level, then crushed it with his strength.
• Nine Heavens Venerable and Eighth Heavenly Venerable tried to flee, but Yao Lao struck them and closed their spatial rift as they escaped injured.
• Yao Lao ordered Venerable Wind to clean up after the battle, and Starfall Pavilion’s prestige rose throughout the Central Plains.
• Ning Luo recovered his Dou Qi and told Yao Lao he had found no more Ancient Maps of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Yao Lao offered to help search for the maps and told Ning Luo that an acquaintance had come to Starfall Pavilion looking for him.

Nalan Yanran told Ning Luo that Yun Yun was endangered by the Flower Sect’s acting master and the Demonic Flower Evil Lord, and that a contest in half a month would decide her fate. Ning Luo set out with Nalan Yanran and Qing Lin, refined the Bone Spirit Cold Flame during the journey, and reached the Flower Sect’s hidden domain.

• Nalan Yanran explained that Yun Yun had inherited Granny Hua’s seal, angering the acting sect master, who had arranged a contest in half a month.
• Ning Luo agreed to help Yun Yun and traveled toward the Flower Sect with Nalan Yanran and Qing Lin.
• Ning Luo refined the resistance within the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, causing its flames to appear in his eyes before they faded.
• Ning Luo, Nalan Yanran, and Qing Lin reached the Flower Sect’s concealed mountain range three days later.
• Nalan Yanran opened the spatial barrier with a petal-shaped object, and the trio entered the Flower Sect’s fragrant, energy-rich hidden domain.

Ning Luo arrived at the Flower Sect to support Yun Yun and challenged Hua Jin’s claim to the sect leadership, setting the terms of the contest. As Hua Jin and Demonic Flower Evil Lord attacked, Ning Luo summoned his puppets and began fighting back, while Demonic Flower Evil Lord launched a spatial attack at him.

• Nalan Yanran led Ning Luo and Qing Lin through a flower-covered mountain formation toward the bell-ringing contest.
• Yun Yun appeared before Hua Jin and refused to name a companion, but Ning Luo arrived and stood beside her.
• Ning Luo demanded that the contest restore Yun Yun as Flower Sect Master if Hua Jin lost, and Hua Jin accepted the challenge.
• Demonic Flower Evil Lord attacked Ning Luo, who evaded him with his bone wings and summoned eleven puppets to form a formation.
• Hua Jin attacked Yun Yun, but a golden puppet intercepted her before she could reach Yun Yun.
• Demonic Flower Evil Lord unleashed Great Wind Split, sending spatial fissures toward Ning Luo.

Ning Luo defeated Demonic Flower Evil Lord with his fire lotus and helped Yun Yun secure the Flower Sect's sect master position. He offered the Flower Sect an alliance with Starfall Pavilion as Demonic Flower Evil Lord departed.

• Ning Luo unleashed his fire lotus against Demonic Flower Evil Lord's giant Dou Qi construct and destroyed it, leaving Demonic Flower Evil Lord injured.
• Ning Luo presented the four Heavenly Flames, and Hua Jin conceded the sect master contest.
• Yun Yun accepted the Sect Master Jade Token and agreed to serve as sect master temporarily.
• Ning Luo offered Starfall Pavilion as a future ally, and the Grand Elder confirmed Yun Yun as sect master.
• Demonic Flower Evil Lord departed the Flower Sect after the Grand Elder dismissed his objection.