Chapter Summaries

The Pill Tower Ancestor appeared to face Hun Qianmo and the Soul Clan forces alongside Xiao Ming and Zi Yan. Although Xiao Ming suggested Zi Yan fight Hun Qianmo, the Ancestor insisted he would not lose, and the confrontation began.

• Hun Qianmo appeared beside the Hall of Souls Master and threatened Zi Yan, demanding that she stay out of the Soul Clan’s affairs.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor arrived riding an Azure Ox, surprising the gathered experts with his youthful appearance and ancient voice.
• The Pill Tower Great Elder welcomed the Ancestor, who recognized Xiao Ming and marveled at how much his strength had grown.
• Hun Qianmo revealed the Soul Clan Leader’s interest in the Ancestor’s Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill body, and the Ancestor challenged him to fight.
• Xiao Ming asked the Ancestor to let Zi Yan handle Hun Qianmo, but the Ancestor said he would not lose and told everyone to be careful.

The Pill Tower Ancestor and Hun Qianmo began fighting inside a Chaos Space while Zi Yan challenged the Black-Browed Elder. Zi Yan gained the upper hand, and Xiao Ming turned to Hun Miesheng to invite him to fight.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor created a Chaos Space, and he and Hun Qianmo entered it to battle as spectators watched.
• Zi Yan challenged the Black-Browed Elder, and Hun Miesheng urged him to target her soul.
• The Black-Browed Elder attacked Zi Yan, but her spear shattered his bone chains and cut a lock of his hair.
• Xiao Ming saw Zi Yan gaining the advantage and asked Hun Miesheng if he would fight.

Xiao Ming faced Hun Miesheng, the Hall of Souls Master, in the decisive battle and countered his soul attack. Hun Miesheng revealed the Gate of Silence, but Xiao Ming recognized its danger and stayed on guard as their fight continued.

• Hun Miesheng confronted Xiao Ming and admitted that Xiao Ming’s rapid growth had made him the Hall of Souls’ greatest threat.
• Hun Miesheng attacked with Ten Thousand Souls Worship, and Xiao Ming countered with Yellow Springs Heaven's Wrath, destroying the phantom souls around him.
• Hun Miesheng summoned the Gate of Silence, a deadly space that could devour and erode even powerful Dou Sheng Experts.
• Hun Miesheng said he had borrowed the Gate of Silence from an elder and believed it could kill Xiao Ming.
• Xiao Ming recognized the Gate of Silence as a threat but remained alert, preventing Hun Miesheng from catching him off guard.

Hun Qianmo and the Pill Tower Ancestor fought to a draw while Zi Yan defeated Black-Browed Elder and destroyed his soul. Hun Miesheng attacked Xiao Ming with the Gate of Silence, but Xiao Ming escaped and killed him, leaving Hun Qianmo facing the aftermath.

• Hun Qianmo and the Pill Tower Ancestor emerged from their spatial battle and declared the result a draw.
• Zi Yan pierced Black-Browed Elder with her spear, survived his self-destruction, and destroyed his fleeing soul.
• Hun Miesheng attacked Xiao Ming with the Gate of Silence, but Xiao Ming evaded the gate’s beam.
• Xiao Ming appeared behind Hun Miesheng and killed him despite Hun Qianmo’s attempt to seal the space.

Xiao Ming killed Hun Miesheng, seized the Gate of Silence, and used a Soul Clone to thwart Hun Qianmo. As Xiao Ming prepared to take the gate, Hun Yuantian, an Eight Star Dou Sheng, appeared and demanded it back.

• Xiao Ming struck Hun Qianmo back, extracted Hun Miesheng's soul, and destroyed it with gray flames.
• Xiao Ming absorbed the Nihility Devouring Flame Subflame, and Ling swallowed it.
• Xiao Ming used a concealed Soul Clone atop the Gate of Silence to stop Hun Qianmo from taking the gate.
• Xiao Ming evaded Hun Qianmo, reunited with his Soul Body, and prepared to put away the Gate of Silence.
• Hun Yuantian appeared before Xiao Ming, identified himself as an Eight Star Dou Sheng, and demanded the Gate of Silence.

Xiao Ming refused to return the Gate of Silence, prompting Hun Yuantian to attack him. Zhu Zhen intervened under Zi Yan’s orders, forcing the Soul Clan to retreat while keeping the Gate of Silence in Xiao Ming’s hands.

• Hun Yuantian attacked Xiao Ming after he refused to surrender the Gate of Silence.
• Zhu Zhen appeared and blocked Hun Yuantian, then revealed he served Zi Yan, the Dragon Emperor of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Zi Yan told Hun Yuantian to leave, and Zhu Zhen seized the Gate of Silence so Hun Yuantian could not reclaim it.
• Hun Yuantian threatened Xiao Ming and withdrew with the Hall of Souls experts.
• Xiao Ming thanked Zhu Zhen, who gave him the Gate of Silence to refine.

After Heavenly Court celebrated its victory over the Hall of Souls, Xiao Ming imposed strict discipline and reformed the growing organization as new members flocked to join. Xuan Kongzi then told Xiao Ming that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the dangerous Desolate Ancient Region, leaving the decision to send people there unresolved.

• Heavenly Court celebrated its victory for nearly half a month, while its leaders prepared for attacks from resentful old factions.
• Xiao Ming ordered Heavenly Court members not to abuse their new power and threatened expulsion or the loss of cultivation for serious violations.
• Experts who had long resented the Hall of Souls joined Heavenly Court, and Xiao Ming tightened recruitment and reformed its structure.
• Xuan Kongzi told Xiao Ming that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would emerge in the Desolate Ancient Region and asked whether Heavenly Court should send people there.
• Xuan Kongzi explained that the region was a deadly forbidden land filled with poison miasma and powerful ancient Ferocious Beasts.

Xiao Ming prepared to visit the Desolate Ancient Region for the Bodhi Ancient Tree, bringing Zi Yan and Qing Lin while Medusa and the newly pregnant Xiao Yi Xian stayed behind. The group reached crowded Desolate Town, where countless cultivators had gathered despite the region’s deadly dangers.

• Xiao Ming agreed to send Alliance members to the Desolate Ancient Region and invited his companions to join his own journey for the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation.
• Medusa chose to stay home with Wannian Yue'er, while Zi Yan and Qing Lin agreed to go; Xiao Yi Xian revealed that she was pregnant and stayed behind.
• Xiao Ming spent half a month refining pills for Xiao Yi Xian before leaving with Zi Yan and Qing Lin as news of the Bodhi Ancient Tree spread across the Central Plains.
• The group arrived in Desolate Town and explored its crowded streets, where cultivators and merchants had gathered in hopes of reaching the Desolate Ancient Region.
• Xiao Ming learned that several groups of Dou Zuns had already died, yet the influx of people seeking the Bodhi Ancient Tree continued.

Xiao Ming, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin entered the Desolate Ancient Region and used a Bodhi Seed to find a direction toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree. They continued into the region after easily defeating attacking Ferocious Beasts, while a group of travelers suspected Xiao Ming had passed them.

• Xiao Ming bought rare Magic Cores and medicinal herbs in Desolate Town before leaving with Zi Yan and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Ming warned the two girls to stay close, and the three entered the Desolate Ancient Region.
• The trio crossed a poisonous-insect barrier that could threaten Dou Zuns and reached the Heavenly Abyss at the edge of the region’s deeper mountain range.
• Xiao Ming sensed a general direction toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree with the Bodhi Seed, and the three crossed the abyss.
• Several Ferocious Beasts attacked the trio, but Xiao Ming, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin killed them instantly.
• A group of people arrived afterward and debated whether the man they had seen was Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin reached the Ancient Domain Platform and pushed through the Ferocious Beast Tide into the Desolate Ancient Region’s depths. They found the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while Xiao Ming wondered why he had sensed no Dou Sheng experts accompanying the Ancient Races.

• Xiao Ming and his companions traveled toward the Ancient Domain Platform, passing other factions and spotting the Heavenly Court group without joining them.
• At the platform, Xiao Ming noticed that the Ancient Races’ groups appeared to lack Dou Sheng bodyguards, but he set the mystery aside and flew toward the Ancient Domain Depths.
• Xiao Ming, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin tore through the enormous Ferocious Beast Tide and reached an empty plain beyond it.
• The three saw the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Zi Yan wondered whether it could be eaten like the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Qing Lin praised the tree’s peaceful aura, and Xiao Ming warned Zi Yan that the Bodhi Ancient Tree might attack them if provoked.

Xiao Ming, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan approached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where Qing Lin destroyed five Half-Saint puppets before the tree pulled them into its trunk. Xiao Ming recognized and rejected an illusion of the day he transmigrated, then found himself in a green space before a miniature version of the tree.

• Xiao Ming and the others neared the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Qing Lin noticed sinister gray qi hidden in its life-filled aura.
• Xiao Ming spotted the Bodhi Heart and thought it could help Elder Huo break through to Dou Sheng.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sent five Half-Saint puppets against them, and Qing Lin destroyed them with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Ming warned Qing Lin and Zi Yan to hold fast to their Original Heart as they approached the tree.
• A pillar of light stripped the trio of their Dou Qi and pulled them into the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Ming experienced an illusion of his hometown on July 5th, rejected it, and awoke in a green space before a miniature Bodhi Ancient Tree.

Xiao Ming learned that an ancient Dou Di’s resentment had tainted the Bodhi Ancient Tree and watched it demonstrate how purified Bodhi Seeds could lessen the chill. The tree offered Xiao Ming more than twenty rare Bodhi Seeds, leaving him considering whether to use its power to help his Small Tree Sapling grow or persuade the mature tree to accompany him.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Xiao Ming images of Qing Lin and Zi Yan trapped in illusions, then revealed a black-clothed Dou Di battling it and dying in a clash that destroyed their surroundings.
• Xiao Ming learned that the black-clothed Dou Di’s resentment had entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree, leaving it without complete intelligence and tainting its Clear Qi with a concealed chill.
• Xiao Ming asked whether the Bodhi Ancient Tree wanted his help, and it demonstrated that refining a Bodhi Seed produced Clear Qi that could reduce the chill.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree presented Xiao Ming with more than twenty exceptionally pure Bodhi Seeds, and he considered whether it could help his Small Tree Sapling grow or come with him.

Xiao Ming refined Bodhi Seeds into Clear Qi to purge the Grudge from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while the tree replenished his Dou Qi and expanded his capacity until his cultivation reached the Five Star Dou Sheng Peak. After the Grudge was fully cleared, the tree freed Qing Lin and Zi Yan from its illusion, leaving them reunited with Xiao Ming.

• Xiao Ming refined Bodhi Seeds into Clear Qi, which entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree and began driving out its Grudge.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree repeatedly supplied Xiao Ming with pure energy, restoring and expanding his Dou Qi as he refined more seeds.
• Xiao Ming refined the remaining Bodhi Seeds, reaching the Five Star Dou Sheng Peak as the final traces of Grudge vanished from the tree.
• The purified Bodhi Ancient Tree touched Xiao Ming and released Qing Lin and Zi Yan from the illusion that had trapped them.
• Xiao Ming reassured Qing Lin and Zi Yan that the Bodhi Ancient Tree no longer held them any malice.

Xiao Ming accepted a Bodhi Heart from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then joked his way into receiving five more. The tree pulled Xiao Ming, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan into his Reincarnation, while news of the tree's sagehood spread beyond the Desolate Ancient Region and drew crowds toward it.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree offered Xiao Ming a Bodhi Heart, which he stored away after thanking it.
• Xiao Ming asked the tree for ten or eight more Bodhi Hearts, and it gave him five emerald radiances.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree tapped Xiao Ming into unconsciousness, then pulled Qing Lin and Zi Yan into his Reincarnation as well.
• The tree drew the three into its trunk and settled Xiao Ming on a branch-woven mat with Qing Lin and Zi Yan in his arms.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree's pure Clear Qi spread across the Desolate Ancient Region, prompting people to rush toward the Ancient Domain Platform.

Gu Xun'er worried about the missing Elder Gu Yun while Hun Feng and Hun Yu led the gathered experts through the deadly beast tide toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree. As the survivors raced toward the tree, its golden light pulled them into an illusion.

• Gu Xun'er told Gu Qing Yang she feared something had happened to Elder Gu Yun, while Hun Yu reported that the Soul Clan could not contact Elder Hun Mo.
• Hun Yu proposed that the gathered clans join forces to cross the beast tide, and the experts formed an arrow-shaped formation with the Soul Clan at its front.
• Hun Yu and Hun Feng led the formation into the beast tide, but the Soul Clan withdrew toward the rear as others were pushed forward and killed.
• Hun Feng and the survivors, including the Ancient Clan, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and the Heavenly Court, broke through the beast tide and saw the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The survivors rushed toward the tree, and when someone approached within ten zhang, its golden light enveloped everyone and drew them into an illusion.

After a month inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion realm, Xiao Ming emerged as an Early Six Star Dou Sheng and a top alchemist, while Zi Yan and Qing Lin also improved. He asked the tree to release the other visitors, including members of the Soul Clan, who found Xiao Ming waiting for them.

• Xiao Ming completed the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation trial and advanced from the Five Star Dou Sheng Peak to the Early Six Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Ming realized the trials had greatly improved his alchemy, and Zi Yan and Qing Lin awoke with their own gains.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sent Xiao Ming, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin outside, then showed them visions of the other visitors trapped in its illusion realm.
• Xiao Ming asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to release the visitors, and it sent Gu Xun’er, Hun Yu, and the others into the space around the tree.
• Heavenly Court members rejoiced at seeing their Alliance Leader, while Hun Feng, Hun Yu, and the Soul Clan members grew alarmed at finding Xiao Ming there.

Xiao Ming arrived at the Bodhi Ancient Tree, killed Hun Feng and the other Soul Clan members through Qing Lin, and secured the Bodhi Seeds it released. He shared some seeds with the Heavenly Court members, while the other cultivators were left wishing they had joined his faction.

• Gu Xun'er and Gu Qing Yang recognized Xiao Ming's immense strength, and the gathered cultivators respectfully greeted him.
• Xiao Ming identified Hun Feng and Hun Yu as potential threats, then ordered them to die; Qing Lin erased them and their companions when they tried to self-destruct.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree released more than thirty Bodhi Seeds, and Xiao Ming gathered them all before the other cultivators could seize any.
• Xiao Ming thanked Pu Bodhi, gave several Bodhi Seeds to the Heavenly Court members, and promised to place three more in the Merit Pavilion.
• The Heavenly Court members divided the seeds and compensated those who received none, while the other cultivators regretted not joining the faction.

Xiao Ming killed the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts after they questioned him about the Bodhi Seeds, then sent everyone out of the Tree Spirit Space when they failed to obtain any. Gu Xun'er contacted the Ancient Clan over Elder Gu Yun’s disappearance, and a white-clad figure emerged from a spatial passage.

• A member of an unknown team asked Xiao Ming how the Bodhi Ancient Tree granted Bodhi Seeds, and a Heavenly Court expert identified the questioners as the Cloud Rain Sect Old Ancestor and the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts.
• Xiao Ming erased the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts with a palm strike, then told the others that the Bodhi Ancient Tree granted seeds only of its own accord and could not be defeated by force.
• The gathered teams tried and failed to obtain Bodhi Seeds from the tree, and Xiao Ming sent them out of the Tree Spirit Space.
• Gu Qing Yang asked whether Xiao Ming had sensed anything about the missing Ancient Clan senior, Elder Gu Yun, but Xiao Ming said he had not.
• After the group returned beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Gu Qing Yang urged Gu Xun'er to notify their clan, and she crushed a Spatial Jade Slip.
• A pitch-black spatial passage opened, and a white-clad figure stepped out amid spreading saintly might.

Elder Tong Xuan arrived after Gu Xun'er summoned him and learned that Elder Gu Yun had disappeared. As Xiao Ming watched from the Tree Spirit Space, the Bodhi Ancient Tree's Evil Tree Spirit attacked Elder Tong Xuan, while the Bodhi Ancient Tree explained how it had driven the spirit out but remained entangled by Dou Di Resentful Energy.

• Elder Tong Xuan emerged from the spatial passage, and Gu Xun'er explained that Elder Gu Yun had vanished a month earlier.
• Elder Tong Xuan praised Xiao Ming for helping Gu Xun'er escape the Bodhi Ancient Tree's illusion and reflected on the Ancient Clan's decision not to antagonize him.
• A black-robed figure carrying Gu Yun's aura emerged from a new spatial passage and attacked Elder Tong Xuan, starting a fierce battle.
• Inside the Tree Spirit Space, Xiao Ming showed the Bodhi Ancient Tree his sapling and asked whether the attacking figure was the Evil Tree Spirit.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree explained that Xiao Ming's sapling had drawn its Good and Evil Tree Spirits out early, allowing the Good Tree Spirit to drive the Evil Tree Spirit away, though Dou Di Resentful Energy still entangled it.

Xiao Ming lured the Evil Tree Spirit out with the Bodhi Ancient Tree Sapling while Elder Tong Xuan fought it in the outside world. The restored Bodhi Ancient Tree captured the Evil Tree Spirit, leaving Elder Tong Xuan defeated but alive.

• Xiao Ming used the Bodhi Ancient Tree Sapling to lure out the Evil Tree Spirit, and the restored Bodhi Ancient Tree agreed to help.
• Elder Tong Xuan fought the Strange Figure while Gu Xun'er and the others watched from a distance.
• The Strange Figure unleashed a burst of power, shattered Elder Tong Xuan's shield, and beat him into near unconsciousness.
• Xiao Ming declined to intervene, saying the fight was the Bodhi Ancient Tree's family matter.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree unleashed its power, destroyed the Strange Figure's body, and dragged the revealed Evil Tree Spirit back with its vines.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree restored the damaged space, leaving Elder Tong Xuan on the ground.