Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan was trapped by the Black-Robed Person and fought back despite the overwhelming difference in their strength. After the Black-Robed Person unleashed Ten Thousand Soul Kill, Xiao Yan withdrew his defenses and charged at the ghostly fiend storm with the remnants of pale-white flame.

• The Black-Robed Person surrounded Xiao Yan with wind walls, stopping his escape and demanding the Heavenly Flames and Medusa.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Heavy Black Ruler and faced the Black-Robed Person, who attacked with the Yin Soul Technique and Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan's ruler struck the Black-Robed Person's ice spear, and the collision cracked the floor.
• The Black-Robed Person unleashed Ten Thousand Soul Kill, sending a destructive storm of ghostly fiends toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan planted his ruler beside him, let his defenses fall, and charged at the ghostly fiend storm with pale-white flame rising from his palm.

Xiao Yan was badly injured and left stranded in the Tagor Desert after the Black-Robed Person realized he had been a decoy and went after Ning Luo. Ning Luo reached a secluded cave in the mountains and prepared it before attempting to devour the Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan charged into the Black-Robed Person’s storm but was defeated, and Yao Lao retreated into the Ring of Holding after suffering a severe blow.
• The Black-Robed Person discovered Xiao Yan carried neither the Heavenly Flames nor Medusa, then broke all four of Xiao Yan’s limbs and left to pursue Ning Luo.
• A Desert He Yuan approached the helpless Xiao Yan as he lay alone in the desert.
• Ning Luo flew to a mountain range and chose a secluded cave halfway up a cliff as a place to cultivate.
• Ning Luo inspected the cave, cleared away Magical Beast droppings, sealed most of its entrance, and sat before the Green Lotus Seat.

Ning Luo began devouring the untamed Green Lotus Core Flame after preparing the Blood Lotus Pill, Ice Spirit Cold Spring, and Green Lotus Seat. He drew the gigantic, blazing flame close and braced himself to enter it, with the devouring still underway.

• Ning Luo prepared the Blood Lotus Pill, Ice Spirit Cold Spring, and Green Lotus Seat before separating the seat from the wild Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Ning Luo swallowed the Blood Lotus Pill, whose energy formed a protective blood-colored layer over his body.
• Ning Luo used suction to draw the swelling Green Lotus Core Flame toward him while spreading Soul Power to contain its scorching heat.
• Ning Luo sat cross-legged on the lotus seat and formed an azure barrier as residual heat began melting the blood-colored armor.
• Ning Luo steadied himself before the enormous flame, preparing to rush into it as the devouring began.

Ning Luo retrieved the Green Lotus Core Flame’s flame seed and swallowed it despite the danger. As he focused his consciousness inside his body, the Azure Flame rampaged through his meridians and bone-white flames rose to defend him.

• Ning Luo thrust his arm into the Green Lotus Core Flame, enduring the heat as the Blood Lotus Pill’s medicinal power repeatedly repaired his melting protective layer.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame ran wild, expanding the cavern and cracking its walls as Ning Luo continued searching through the blaze.
• Ning Luo found the Green Lotus Core Flame’s flame seed and pulled it from the blaze, causing the enormous Azure Flame to shrink into it.
• After struggling with his fear, Ning Luo tossed the flame seed into his mouth and endured the scorching pain as it entered his body.
• Ning Luo’s consciousness entered his body and saw tiny Azure Flames rampaging through his meridians, while bone-white flames appeared to protect him.

Ning Luo endured the Green Lotus Core Flame’s destructive heat and slowly gathered the scattered flames by guiding them through the Fire Control Art. After the flame was refined, it began repairing and strengthening his damaged meridians, bones, and muscles.

• The Azure Flames ravaged Ning Luo’s meridians as the Blood Lotus Pill’s protective power faded.
• Ning Luo drank from the jade bottle, and the Ice Spirit Cold Spring cooled his body and shielded his meridians.
• Ning Luo used his consciousness to guide one strand of Green Lotus Core Flame, drawing the scattered flames together into azure magma.
• Ning Luo spent nearly all his liquid purple Dou Qi to guide the magma through the Fire Control Art’s final circulation route, refining the flame and calming its destructive heat.
• While Ning Luo drifted in an exhausted stupor, the Green Lotus Core Flame circulated on its own and released magma that restored and strengthened his meridians, bones, and muscles.

The Green Lotus Core Flame repaired Ning Luo’s body and filled his Qi Cyclone with green liquid energy before approaching the mysterious gray point at its center. When Ning Luo’s soul awakened and struck at the flame, it touched the point and was swallowed into Naling, completing the final step of its refinement.

• The Green Lotus Core Flame healed and strengthened Ning Luo’s body, then took over his depleted Qi Cyclone.
• The flame produced green energy until the Qi Cyclone held one hundred drops of liquid energy.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame examined the mysterious gray point at the Qi Cyclone’s center but hesitated to touch it.
• Ning Luo’s soul awakened, noticed the flame near the gray point, and struck it with his spiritual force.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame was knocked into the gray point and swallowed by its suction force, completing its containment within Naling.

Ning Luo completed his refinement of the Green Lotus Core Flame, advanced to Dou Ling, and demonstrated his new power. A Soul Clan expert confronted him and trapped him in a devastating lightning attack as Gu He and the Snake People Tribe arrived to watch.

• Ning Luo used the Green Lotus Core Flame to smash through a cliff and recognized that his two Heavenly Flames let him use the Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus.
• Ning Luo and the others returned to the stone forest, where the Black-Robed Person caught up and demanded the Green Lotus Core Flame and Queen Medusa.
• Ning Luo told the Soul Clan expert that he had absorbed the flame and that Medusa was his, provoking the expert to attack.
• The Black-Robed Person unleashed a storm of lightning and enclosed Ning Luo in a lightning cage while Ning Luo chose to test his strength rather than immediately use the Soul Seizing Technique.
• Gu He and the Snake People Tribe arrived as the lightning engulfed Ning Luo, and the onlookers feared he would not survive.

Ning Luo endured the Black-Robed Person’s lightning attacks and turned the tribulation against him, then revealed himself as he defeated and killed the Soul Clan Dou Emperor. The witnesses were left stunned that a Dou Ling had slain a Dou Emperor.

• Ning Luo walked unharmed through the lightning tribulation, provoking the Black-Robed Person to unleash a Soul Divine Bell formed from lightning and Soul Power.
• Ning Luo shattered the Soul Divine Bell with his bare hands and used his divine sword to summon an even greater lightning tribulation against the Black-Robed Person.
• The Black-Robed Person was badly burned and blasted through the tribulation as Ning Luo emerged, prompting Yue Mei and Gu He to recognize him.
• Ning Luo fused the Green Lotus Core Flame and Bone Spirit Cold Flame into an Azure-White Fire Lotus, pierced the Soul Clan expert, and bound him with the Soul Seizing Technique.
• Ning Luo severed the Black-Robed Person’s head, leaving the witnesses shocked that a Dou Ling had killed a Dou Emperor.

After defeating their pursuers, Ning Luo and Hai Bodong traveled to Salt City and infiltrated the Mo Family’s headquarters. They discovered that the Mo Family had captured Qing Lin for her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, leaving Ning Luo poised to confront them.

• Feng Li, Gu He, and the Snake People Tribe retreated rather than fight Ning Luo.
• Ning Luo met Hai Bodong and told him they were heading to Salt City.
• Ning Luo learned that the Mo Family was celebrating Grand Elder Mo Cheng’s birthday and that the Misty Cloud Sect had sent guests.
• Ning Luo and Hai Bodong slipped past the Mo Family’s guards and entered its central hall.
• Mo Lin told Mo Cheng that the Mo Family had captured a girl with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Mo Cheng planned to mature and exploit Qing Lin’s eyes so the Mo Family could challenge Yun Yun and stop paying tribute to the Misty Cloud Sect.

Ning Luo learned that the Mo Family planned to take Qing Lin’s eyes and wipe out the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and the Sand Mercenary Group to conceal her secret. He decided the Mo Family had to be destroyed, while the family’s celebration drew powerful guests, including Salt City’s Lord Bo Er and Ye Family head Ye Cong.

• Ning Luo overheard the old man order the Desert Iron Mercenary Group eliminated, the Sand Mercenary Group secretly wiped out, and Qing Lin’s eyes transplanted after the celebration.
• Ning Luo recognized Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and learned she had been captured; a system message identified her as a new Goddess.
• Hai Dongbo asked about Ning Luo’s ties to the Misty Cloud Sect, and Ning Luo left with him and vowed to destroy the Mo Family.
• Mo Cheng welcomed Salt City’s Lord Bo Er to the Mo Family celebration, concealing his hostility toward the official.
• Ye Cong arrived to congratulate Mo Cheng, followed by leaders from across the northeastern provinces.

Ning Luo and Hai Bodong watched Mo Cheng propose the Mo Alliance before Ning Luo confronted him at the banquet. Mo Cheng ordered his experts to kill Ning Luo, and the fight had not yet begun.

• Ning Luo and Hai Bodong observed Mo Cheng hosting a banquet and discussed what to do about the Mo Family.
• Mo Cheng proposed forming the Mo Alliance, and several factions agreed to join while he appointed himself its leader.
• Ning Luo stepped forward and questioned whether Mo Cheng intended to break away from the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Ning Luo insulted the Mo Family as a dog of the Misty Cloud Sect and announced that he had come to wreck the banquet.
• Mo Cheng summoned the Mo Family experts and ordered them to kill Ning Luo.

Ning Luo revealed his Azure Flames and overwhelmed the Mo Family in its own hall after exposing its plans to leave the Misty Cloud Sect. He crippled Mo Cheng and burned the Mo Family fighters who attacked him, leaving the hall terrified as he asked whether Mo Cheng understood.

• Ning Luo used Azure Flames to melt the blades aimed at him and burn several Mo Family experts to ash.
• Ning Luo challenged Mo Cheng over the Mo Family’s plans to abandon the Misty Cloud Sect, then knocked him down with a single blow.
• Ning Luo identified himself as a direct disciple of the Misty Cloud Sect and seized Mo Cheng by the neck.
• Ning Luo severed Mo Cheng’s right arm with his flame-coated hand.
• Mo Cheng ordered the Mo Family disciples to attack, and Ning Luo burned those who came within five meters of him.

Ning Luo killed Mo Cheng after the Mo Family elder transformed into a beastlike berserker, then demanded that the family bring Qing Lin to him. Qing Lin arrived unharmed, and Ning Luo called her over.

• Mo Cheng begged Ning Luo for mercy, but Ning Luo confronted him about the beastly effects of his Magical Beast limb transplant.
• Mo Cheng attacked Ning Luo with overwhelming force, but Ning Luo froze him in azure flames until his body shattered to ashes.
• Ning Luo ordered Mo Lan to hand over Qing Lin within five minutes, while Hai Bodong watched from a beam.
• Mo Lan hurriedly sent for Qing Lin, and the girl arrived unharmed on the backs of three Mo Family disciples.
• A system message announced a sign-in opportunity for interacting with Qing Lin, and Ning Luo called her over; she walked up to him.

Ning Luo took Qing Lin in as his maid, but a Green-Robed Woman attacked and tried to claim her for her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. Ning Luo and Hai Bodong confronted the intruder, and Ning Luo struck her as she attempted to escape through the roof.

• Mo Lan brought Qing Lin to Ning Luo, who named her his maid and promised that no one would bully her again.
• A Green-Robed Woman trapped Ning Luo in a wooden cage and rushed toward Qing Lin, but Ning Luo freed himself and Hai Bodong blocked the hall's exit with ice.
• The Green-Robed Woman identified Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and refused to hand her over to Ning Luo.
• Ning Luo and Hai Bodong attacked the Green-Robed Woman with Azure Flame and ice spikes, while she defended herself with wooden barriers and thorned energy whips.
• Ning Luo broke through the Green-Robed Woman's defenses and brought his foot down on her shoulder as she tried to break through the roof.

Ning Luo and Hai Bodong battled the Green-Robed Woman, but she broke through their defenses and fled into the sky. Ning Luo and Hai Bodong pursued her above Salt City as the clash of their powerful auras stirred the city into turmoil.

• Ning Luo struck the Green-Robed Woman, but she absorbed the force and counterattacked with a pillar of green energy.
• The Green-Robed Woman revealed her superior strength, broke through Hai Bodong's ice shield, and escaped through the hall's shattered roof.
• Ning Luo unfolded his Purple Cloud Wings and pursued the Green-Robed Woman, with Hai Bodong following behind.
• The three Dou Emperor auras passed over Salt City, alarming residents and drawing excited onlookers onto the rooftops.
• Hai Bodong gathered and controlled the surrounding energy as he chased the Green-Robed Woman and Ning Luo.

Ning Luo and Hai Bodong fought the Green-Robed Woman to keep her from taking Qing Lin, while Ning Luo declared Qing Lin was his maid and would not be surrendered. The woman summoned an Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor to aid her.

• Ning Luo attacked the Green-Robed Woman, and she broke through his wall of flame with a giant fist of vines.
• Ning Luo used the Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus to strike the Green-Robed Woman down, then stood with Hai Bodong as she demanded Qing Lin.
• Ning Luo refused to give up Qing Lin, surprising the girl, and prepared to attack alongside Hai Bodong.
• The Green-Robed Woman whistled for help, and an Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor flew in from the forest.
• Hai Bodong identified the beast, and Ning Luo recalled that it was a powerful serpent evolved through gaining eight wings.

The Green-Robed Woman joined forces with White Fang to seize Qing Lin, whose Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils they confirmed, and clashed with Ning Luo and Hai Bodong. The battle continued as Hai Bodong attacked the Green-Robed Woman and Ning Luo repelled White Fang’s strike, leaving the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor driven back by Ning Luo’s Heavenly Beast Taming Art.

• White Fang arrived to help the Green-Robed Woman and confirmed that Qing Lin possessed the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• The Green-Robed Woman and White Fang discussed Ning Luo’s Heavenly Flame and Queen Medusa before Ning Luo declared that Medusa was his woman and Qing Lin his maid.
• White Fang attacked Ning Luo with his tail, but Ning Luo dodged the blow and stopped his pursuit.
• Hai Bodong summoned a massive ice-blade storm and sent it toward the Green-Robed Woman.
• White Fang formed a black-flame serpent and launched it at Ning Luo, who used the Heavenly Beast Taming Art to meet the attack and send White Fang retreating.

Ning Luo overwhelmed the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor and combined two Heavenly Flames into a volatile fireball. He imprisoned the fleeing serpent as the fireball struck and unleashed a devastating explosion.

• Ning Luo used the Heavenly Beast Taming Art and struck the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, sending its enormous body flying.
• Ning Luo revealed green and white Heavenly Flames, shocking Hai Bodong and terrifying the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor.
• Ning Luo brought the two flames together and compressed their violent energy while Hai Bodong and the serpent retreated.
• Ning Luo calmed the flames with the Fire Control Art and formed a small fireball that flew toward the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor.
• Ning Luo's pressure trapped the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, and the fireball detonated in a massive explosion that shattered a distant mountain.

Ning Luo’s devastating attack badly wounded the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, and the arrival of Yun Yun and Elder Jia forced the snakefolk to flee. Ning Luo reunited with his Master, chose to continue training before the Three-Year Agreement, and stayed with Qing Lin as night fell.

• Ning Luo’s green fire attack tore through the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor’s scales and wings, leaving the Sixth-Tier Magical Beast severely wounded.
• Yun Yun and Elder Jia arrived at the battlefield, and Green Man and White Fang fled rather than face the two Dou Emperors.
• Ning Luo told Yun Yun he would keep training instead of returning to the Misty Cloud Sect before the Three-Year Agreement, and she accepted his decision.
• Ning Luo told Yun Yun that he had killed Mo Cheng, and she approved of his actions.
• Ning Luo invited Qing Lin to follow him as his maid, then later found Yun Yun drinking alone on a rooftop.

Ning Luo and Yun Yun reunited, shared a night together, and Yun Yun returned to the Misty Cloud Sect the next day. Ning Luo then cultivated in Salt City, using the Earth Fire Lotus Seed to heal his injuries, but its scorching energy kept circulating after his body recovered.

• Ning Luo and Yun Yun drank together on a rooftop, and Ning Luo kissed her before they spent the night together.
• Yun Yun left the next day to oversee the Misty Cloud Sect, while Ning Luo and Hai Dongbo settled in Salt City.
• Ning Luo used medicinal liquid to nourish his body and gradually repair his shattered meridians, with the Sky Swallowing Python nearby.
• Ning Luo cultivated on the Green Lotus and directed the Earth Fire Lotus Seed's energy through the Fire Control Art, replenishing his vortex with azure liquid energy.
• Ning Luo's injuries healed completely, but the Earth Fire Lotus Seed's scorching energy continued circulating through his meridians.