Chapter Summaries

Su Qingyun returned to Nine Li Mountain Valley and reunited with Su Qingyue and Su Cai'er, then discussed the Hall of Souls’ threat with his family and allies. He began to raise an important matter with Xiao Yan, leaving Xiao Yan anxious about what Su Qingyun would tell him.

• Su Qingyun appeared before Su Qingyue and Su Cai'er, gave them flowers, and embraced them after returning from the Gu Realm.
• Medusa, Yun Yun, and the others welcomed Su Qingyun, while Zi Yan became fascinated with him and told Xiao Yan she wanted him to be her father too.
• Su Qingyun invited Xiao Yan to join him and his family, and Zi Yan followed along while teasing Xiao Yan about her interest in Su Qingyun.
• Ling Ying revealed that the Ancient Clan’s gray-robed guards had escorted Su Qingyun to protect him from the Hall of Souls.
• Su Qingyun warned that the Hall of Souls might target his companions to force him to appear, then began to bring up an unresolved matter concerning Xiao Yan.

Su Qingyun revealed that the Xiao Clan had once been a powerful ancient family and was targeted by the Hall of Souls for its Tou She Ancient God Jade. Xiao Yan learned that his father and the Second Elder had been captured but were likely being kept alive, and he agreed to wait until he and Su Qingyun were strong enough to rescue them.

• Su Qingyun warned Xiao Yan that the Hall of Souls had attacked the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Yan feared for his family.
• Su Qingyun explained that the Xiao Clan descended from a once-mighty clan and possessed one of the eight pieces of Tou She Ancient God Jade sought by the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Yan defended Su Qingyun from blame and learned that Xiao Ding and Xiao Li had escaped with most of the clan, while his father and the Second Elder had been captured.
• Su Qingyun reassured Xiao Yan that the captives were likely being kept alive for information and might even receive medicines to strengthen them, though they would suffer torment.
• Su Qingyun said he had entrusted the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade to the Ancient Clan and urged Xiao Yan to keep its whereabouts secret until they could rescue the captives.

Queen Medusa and the others settled into the Gu Realm under the Ancient Clan’s protection, then questioned why the clan was so devoted to Su Qingyun. Xiao Yan’s attempt to hide ended with Zi Yan revealing his old romantic theories, leaving the women demanding explanations and their own couple names.

• Ling Ying guided Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Green Scales, Zi Yan, and the others to secluded courtyards in the Gu Realm and gave them Jade Talismans for protection.
• Queen Medusa thanked Ling Ying for the Ancient Clan’s help, but questioned him when he called Su Qingyun half a member of the clan and said they would be one family.
• Yun Yun wondered why an Ancient Clan expert had risked offending the Hall of Souls to protect Su Qingyun, and the women pressed Xiao Yan for what he knew.
• Xiao Yan tried to retreat to his room, but Zi Yan exposed his past comments about Su Qingyun’s romantic pairings and the Qing-Ran-Yun master-disciple pairing.
• Queen Medusa and Yun Yun demanded that Xiao Yan explain himself, while Xiao Yi Xian, Green Scales, and Zi Yan complained that they needed couple names too.

The Ancient Clan Three Immortals watched Medusa and the others arrive in the Gu Realm, and Gu Yuan reconsidered the value of protecting Su Qingyun’s loved ones. Seeing Su Qingyue and Su Cai'er, the three immortals raced to recruit them as disciples, but their approaches frightened the girls.

• The Ancient Clan Three Immortals praised Medusa and the other women and admired Su Qingyue and Su Cai'er while Gu Yuan voiced his unease about welcoming his son-in-law’s lovers and children.
• The immortals persuaded Gu Yuan that accepting Su Qingyun’s loved ones would strengthen the Ancient Clan’s ties to him and could benefit the clan in the future.
• Gu Qingxiao revealed he wanted to train promising young disciples, and Gu Dao and Gu Ming rushed toward the Small Courtyard to recruit the girls.
• Gu Ming approached Su Qingyue with promises of strength, while Gu Dao offered Su Cai'er a collection of powerful Dou Techniques.
• Su Qingyue punched Gu Ming and declared she was her dad’s little darling, while Su Cai'er backed away and cried to her mother about the strange old man.

Gu Dao, Gu Ming, and Gu Qingxiao offered apprenticeship gifts to Su Cai'er and Su Qingyue and let the girls choose their own masters. Su Cai'er chose Gu Dao’s Nine-Colored Immortal Robe Skirt, while Su Qingyue chose Gu Qingxiao’s Moon God Blades, leaving Gu Ming’s valuable Azure Sky Qi unchosen.

• Gu Dao and Gu Ming proposed taking Su Cai'er and Su Qingyue as disciples, while Gu Qingxiao turned his attention to Zi Yan, who refused to take a master.
• Yun Yun praised the Ancient Clan Three Immortals and suggested that the girls choose their teachers by selecting among their apprenticeship gifts.
• Gu Dao presented a protective Nine-Colored Immortal Robe Skirt, Gu Ming offered Azure Sky Qi, and Gu Qingxiao displayed a pair of Moon God Blades.
• Su Cai'er chose Gu Dao’s robe skirt, and Su Qingyue chose Gu Qingxiao’s Moon God Blades instead of Gu Ming’s Azure Sky Qi.

Su Qingyue and Su Cai'er received gifts and became disciples of Gu Qingxiao and Medusa, while Gu Ming lamented missing out. Ling Ying then revealed that Xun'er was pregnant, leaving Gu Yuan and the others stunned and delighted as they hurried to see her.

• Su Cai'er showed off her Nine-Colored Immortal Robe Skirt, and Su Qingyue tested her Moon God Blade while declaring she would protect her father.
• Gu Yuan arrived and learned that Su Qingyue and Su Cai'er were the daughters of Su Qingyun and had become disciples of the Ancient Clan Three Immortals.
• Gu Dao joked that Su Qingyun should have many more children, prompting Medusa, Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Green Scales to imagine having children with him.
• Ling Ying reported that Gu Yao and other young geniuses had surrounded Xun'er and were pressuring her.
• Ling Ying explained that a physician had discovered Xun'er's pregnancy, and Gu Yuan realized he was going to be a grandfather.
• Gu Yuan and the others hurried to see Xun'er, while Gu Ming celebrated that she was his disciple.

Gu Xun’er learned that she was carrying twins and happily accepted the news, while Gu Yao, Ling Quan, and other Gu Clan youths reacted with anger and demanded to know who had fathered the children. The chapter left them suspecting that the father was an outsider living on Three Immortals Mountain and threatening to confront him.

• Gu Tuo confirmed that Gu Xun’er was pregnant and estimated that she was carrying twins conceived about one month and twenty-five days earlier.
• Gu Xun’er celebrated the news, thinking that she had conceived Brother Qingyun’s children.
• Gu Yao, Ling Quan, and other young talents accused the children’s father of being a beast and urged Gu Tuo to abort the fetuses.
• Gu Xun’er slapped Ling Quan and Gu Yao, defended her children, and warned them not to judge her or the man she loved.
• Ling Quan, Gu Yao, and the other youths suspected that an outsider living on Three Immortals Mountain was the father and vowed to confront him.

Gu Xun’er’s pregnancy drew rumors from Gu Clan youths, who demanded to meet the hidden father. Gu Yuan and the Three Immortals confirmed the news and protected Xun’er, before Su Qingyun announced he would appear at her Coming-of-Age Ceremony in two years and face the clan’s young prodigies.

• Gu Yao, Ling Quan, and other Gu Clan youths questioned Gu Xun’er about her pregnancy and pressured her to reveal the father.
• Gu Yuan and the Three Immortals arrived, and Gu Tuo confirmed that Xun’er was pregnant.
• Gu Ming declared that Xun’er’s child would be his disciple and punished the youths for insulting her.
• Gu Ming and Gu Dao ordered the youths to leave and warned them against bothering Xun’er again.
• Su Qingyun spoke from beyond the sky, saying he would appear at Xun’er’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony in two years and accept challenges from the Gu Clan’s young prodigies.

Su Qingyun accepted a two-year challenge to become strong enough to face the Ancient Clan’s prodigies, prompting the Ancient Clan Three Immortals to promise to train him and find rare treasures. The chapter ended with the Three Immortals revealing powerful treasures they had kept, including the Soul-Nourishing Divine Wood.

• The Ancient Clan Three Immortals and Gu Xun'er worried that Su Qingyun had impulsively agreed to a two-year challenge against Gu Yao and other Ancient Clan talents.
• Old Ya told Xiao Yan that Su Qingyun could overcome opponents above his realm by mastering spatial power, and that his cultivation would draw in more Heaven and Earth Elemental Energy.
• Su Qingyun reassured Gu Xun'er, and the Ancient Clan Three Immortals promised to train him for two years while she focused on her pregnancy.
• The Three Immortals planned to help Su Qingyun break through to Dou Huang and search for Mysterious Water, Heavenly Flames, and Divine Thunder.
• Gu Dao presented his remaining Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder, Gu Qingxiao revealed Sea of Slaughter Blood Water, and Gu Ming brought out the Soul-Nourishing Divine Wood.

Su Qingyun absorbed the three rare treasures and broke through the Dou Huang Realm on Three Immortals Mountain, causing an extraordinary upheaval across the Gu Realm. Heaven and earth formed an Immortal Emperor Seat for him, and he sat upon it as Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan Three Immortals witnessed his astonishing advance.

• Su Qingyun’s breakthrough stirred the Gu Realm, while the ancient clan’s people mistook the commotion for a breakthrough by the Three Immortals.
• Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan Three Immortals arrived at Three Immortals Mountain and confirmed that Su Qingyun had absorbed the three rare treasures and broken through the Dou Huang Realm.
• Gu Ming grew anxious about Su Qingyun’s progress and urged the ancient clan’s young geniuses to train harder for the coming challenge.
• A radiant Immortal Emperor Seat formed above Three Immortals Mountain, and Su Qingyun walked to it and sat down.
• Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan Three Immortals watched in awe as Su Qingyun communicated with Heaven and Earth Elemental Energy from the Immortal King Seat.

After the birth of Xun'er's twin daughters, Su Qingyun advanced his cultivation and decided to gain practical experience by joining the Black Annihilation Army under the disguise of Xiao Yan. He arrived at the border camp, where Commander Gu Zheng warned him that rank and connections would not protect him from poor performance.

• Xun'er gave birth to twin girls, Su Chan'er and Su Ling'er, whose birth drew a divine-bloodline phenomenon and earned them precious jade pendants from Gu Ming.
• Su Qingyun absorbed the Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder and Sea of Slaughter Blood Water, reached eight-star Dou Emperor, and saw his soul realm approach the Heaven Realm.
• After the twins' hundred-day banquet, Su Qingyun put on the Rakshasa Ghost Mask and traveled to the Black Annihilation Army to gain combat experience.
• Commander Gu Zheng accepted Su Qingyun, disguised as Xiao Yan, into the army but warned that he would be expelled if he performed poorly.
• A troublesome Two-winged Unicorn tried to throw Su Qingyun off, but he subdued it with his strength and Blood Fiend Qi before following Gu Zheng.

Su Qingyun, posing as Xiao Yan, joined the Black Annihilation Army and learned about its eighteen increasingly difficult mountain passes. He arrived at the Tenth Battalion, where the soldiers distrusted his connections and Gu Hao revealed he was Gu Dao’s great-great grandson.

• Gu Zheng explained that the Eighteen Level Mountains tested increasingly powerful challengers and that no one had passed the Eighteenth Level in ten thousand years.
• Su Qingyun inferred the likely strength requirements for the mountain passes and grew eager to test himself against them.
• Gu Zheng brought Su Qingyun to the Tenth Battalion, then left to lead a rescue team while Gu Hao escorted him to his tent.
• Gu Hao warned Su Qingyun that the Black Annihilation Army despised recruits who entered through connections and said the soldiers had already taken notice of him.
• Gu Hao admitted he had also entered through connections, claimed he had beaten his detractors, and introduced himself as Gu Dao’s great-great grandson.

Su Qingyun entered the Black Annihilation Army and learned its demanding training routine before joining Gu Zheng’s force on a search-and-rescue mission in the Black Annihilation Mountain Range. The search was for the missing Deputy Commander Ling Quan and the main camp’s Asura Commander, who may have been attacked by powerful Magic Beasts.

• The Ancient Clan Three Immortals discussed Su Qingyun’s strength and Gu Yuan predicted he would eventually pass the Seventeenth Level of Black Annihilation Mountain.
• Gu Hao introduced Su Qingyun to the Black Annihilation Army’s grueling daily schedule and received several Seventh-Grade Pills from him.
• At dawn, Gu Zheng ordered most of the Tenth Battalion to enter the Black Annihilation Mountain Range and told Su Qingyun to accompany him.
• The soldiers explained that the missing Deputy Commander Ling Quan and Asura Commander had ventured into the depths seeking Eighth Tier Magic Beasts and resources to strengthen their cultivation.

Su Qingyun joined the Black Annihilation Army’s search for Ling Quan and Gu Yao, then stayed with Gu Hao at the battle-scarred valley while the main force continued ahead. When a soldier tried to remove a horn scale from the ruins, an Eighth Tier Earth Thunder Beast emerged from beneath the mountain.

• Gu Zheng warned Su Qingyun about the dangers of the search and left him with Gu Hao at the valley while the main force pressed deeper into Black Annihilation Mountain.
• Gu Hao questioned Su Qingyun about his connection to Xun'er and recounted how Gu Yuan had punished him for giving her spiritual medicine as a child.
• Gu Hao gave Su Qingyun a Spiritual Peach in return for the pill he had received from him the previous day.
• A Black Annihilation Army Dou Zong ordered Su Qingyun to retrieve a horn scale, but Su Qingyun refused and challenged his authority to issue a military order.
• The Dou Zong entered the ruins and tried to pull out the horn scale, triggering an earthquake as an Eighth Tier Earth Thunder Beast rose from beneath the mountain.

Su Qingyun reached Gu Zheng with news that Gu Hao’s squad was fighting an Eighth Tier Late Stage Earth Thunder Beast, but Ling Quan and Gu Yao revealed that a far stronger Rock Dragon King was pursuing them. As the Black Annihilation Army began to withdraw and rescue Gu Hao, the Rock Dragon King caught up and demanded its stolen treasures.

• Gu Hao held back the Earth Thunder Beast while Su Qingyun left to find Gu Zheng and request reinforcements.
• Su Qingyun found Gu Zheng, who learned that an Earth Thunder Beast had attacked Gu Hao’s squad.
• Black Annihilation Army soldiers brought the injured Ling Quan and Gu Yao to Gu Zheng, and they explained that they had stolen a Rock Dragon Flower and Earth Thunder Pearl from the Rock Dragon King.
• Gu Zheng ordered the army to retreat and reprimanded Ling Quan and Gu Yao for their recklessness.
• The Rock Dragon King roared through the mountains and demanded that the humans return its belongings.

Gu Zheng led the Black Annihilation Army against the Rock Dragon King after it trapped them in a spatial barrier, but the Eighth Tier Peak beast overwhelmed the Dou Zun experts. As Gu Zheng shielded his men from its reflected attacks, Su Qingyun flew back toward the battle despite being only a Dou Emperor.

• The Rock Dragon King sealed the area with a spatial barrier, and Gu Zheng ordered his Dou Zun experts to hold it back while the others retreated.
• Gu Zheng demanded that Gu Yao and Ling Quan surrender the Rock Dragon Flower and Earth Thunder Pearl, then took the treasures to negotiate with the Rock Dragon King.
• The Rock Dragon King refused to let the army leave, reclaimed the Rock Dragon Flower, and attacked Gu Zheng as the Black Annihilation Army formed up against it.
• The army targeted the Rock Dragon King's eyes and rear, but it sealed the space and reflected their attacks as lasers, injuring Gu Zheng as he protected his men.
• Su Qingyun turned back toward the Rock Dragon King, leaving the Black Annihilation Army members stunned that a Dou Emperor would return to face it.

Su Qingyun was captured by the Rock Dragon King after helping Gu Zheng escape, and Gu Zheng searched for him while the Black Annihilation Army regrouped. Just as Gu Qingyang presumed the newcomer was dead, a violent phenomenon erupted deep in the Black Annihilation Mountain Range around Su Qingyun.

• Su Qingyun used his Immortal Qi to open a spatial path that let the injured Gu Zheng escape the Rock Dragon King's barrier, but the beast seized Su Qingyun and fled underground with him.
• Gu Zheng ordered the others to retreat and search for help, then pursued the Rock Dragon King through the mountain tunnels to find Su Qingyun.
• Two days later, Gu Qingyang punished Gu Yao and Ling Quan for acting without orders, while Gu Zheng reported that Xiao Yan had been taken by the Rock Dragon King.
• Gu Qingyang ordered a military merit recorded for Xiao Yan, believing the Eighth Tier Peak beast had killed him, but a violent phenomenon shook the mountain range as enormous magical beasts gathered around a young man at its center.

After the Rock Dragon King brought Su Qingyun before a gathering of powerful Magical Beasts, they contracted with him and acknowledged him as their master, asking him to lead them against the Soul Clan. The contracts propelled Su Qingyun to five-star Dou Zong, and the Black Annihilation Army raised an emergency alarm after discovering the beasts.

• The Rock Dragon King revealed that many Black Annihilation Mountain Range Magical Beasts descended from the Stone Clan, Xiao Clan, Spirit Clan, and other families destroyed by the Soul Clan.
• The Rock Dragon King explained that it had fought the Earth Thunder Beast King because the two disagreed over whether to pursue revenge against the Soul Clan.
• The gathered Magical Beasts made contracts with Su Qingyun and asked him to take them to fight the Soul Clan someday.
• The contracts sent Su Qingyun through a rapid breakthrough to five-star Dou Zong, though his body remained unstable from the surging Dou Qi.
• Black Annihilation Army scouts discovered the powerful Magical Beasts, prompting the army to sound an emergency crisis alarm.

Su Qingyun emerged from the Black Annihilation Mountain Range alongside more than a dozen powerful magical beasts, leaving the Black Annihilation Army’s commanders stunned to learn that he was a Dou Huang recruit. After Su Qingyun had the beasts take human form, the commanders remained baffled by how he had subdued them.

• The Black Annihilation Army assembled its commanders after reports of multiple powerful magical beasts appeared in the Black Annihilation Mountain Range.
• The commanders saw a black-robed young man emerge from among the beasts, which followed him submissively.
• Gu Zheng told Gu Deng that the young man was Xiao Yan, a new recruit in the Tenth Battalion at the Dou Huang Realm.
• The commanders were astonished that a Dou Huang recruit had supposedly subdued the peak-tier beasts.
• Su Qingyun told the beasts to transform into human form, and the women among them privately recalled competing to kiss or taste him.

Su Qingyun established himself in the Black Annihilation Army as the masked “Xiao Yan,” becoming Deputy Commander of the Tenth Battalion and earning the nickname Magical Beast Commander. When the Black Annihilation Eighteen Layer Mountain Pass opened, the army charged inside to compete for the clan’s rewards.

• Su Qingyun returned to the Black Annihilation Army with more than a dozen Peak Tier Magical Beasts, and the Clan Head’s order kept him assigned to the Tenth Battalion under Gu Deng.
• Gu Deng merged the Tenth Battalion into his main camp and promoted Su Qingyun to Deputy Commander.
• Over the following five months, Su Qingyun reached Seven Star Dou Zong, defeated challenging Dou Zun experts, and earned the name Magical Beast Commander.
• Su Qingyun defeated Gu Hao and discovered that his Overlord Sacred Healing Body’s recovery came from Wood Element power that Su Qingyun’s Immortal Qi Rhyme could suppress.
• The Black Annihilation Army gathered at the Eighteen Layer Mountain Pass, where a commander announced rewards for the soldiers and battalions that reached the highest layers.
• The army sounded the war drums and charged into the Eighteen Layer Mountain Pass.