Chapter Summaries

Kurumi searched the giant serpent’s frozen body and entered its sea of consciousness, but the mindscape shattered before she could recover more than an incomplete memory. After the serpent dissolved into starlight despite Spatial Lockdown, Kurumi salvaged its head and blood, then returned to investigate the cracked ground where it had vanished; she descended into a ravine while leaving Gu Feng behind.

• Kurumi searched the giant serpent’s body and found only medicinal energy in its stomach, then tried to extract memories from its frozen sea of consciousness.
• The sea of consciousness collapsed, and Kurumi captured an incomplete memory before the serpent’s body began dissolving into starlight.
• Kurumi and Gu Feng attempted to lock down the space, but the starlight escaped; Kurumi stored the serpent’s head and collected its blood.
• Kurumi recovered a fragment showing an Earth office worker bitten by a king cobra, then returned to the serpent’s fall site to search the cracked ground.
• Kurumi located a ravine, stored Little Seven-colored in a jade bottle, and descended while ordering Gu Feng to stay above.

Kurumi found a golden chest dropped by a magical beast Reincarnator and discovered potions that could grant Void-related powers and a rare serpent bloodline. The items’ repeated connection to serpents left her suspecting that an unseen force was guiding events.

• Kurumi found a golden chest wedged among rocks in the Bone Mountain Range and realized that a magical beast Reincarnator had entered the plane.
• Kurumi opened the chest and examined a replica of the Cause of the Void, which could connect a user’s soul to the Void but might destroy those who failed.
• Kurumi considered using the potion to gain power over the Void, then put it away because its success rate was uncertain.
• Kurumi examined a drop of Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline and recognized that several recent chest rewards had been related to serpents.
• Kurumi suspected that an invisible hand was controlling the pattern behind the rewards.

Kurumi reasoned that the Battle Through the Heavens plane’s consciousness had gathered fortune around Xiao Yan to make him a Dou Di who could replenish the continent, and she worried that interfering with his fate could trigger the plane’s defenses. As she considered investigating Xiao Yi Xian and helping Little Seven-colored after her Beast Domain duty ended, a vicious cold wind surged toward her.

• Kurumi concluded that the plane consciousness had chosen Xiao Yan and arranged his fortune so he could become a Dou Di and restore energy to the continent.
• Kurumi decided not to experiment on Xiao Yan, fearing the plane consciousness might treat her as a threat and use its rules to kill her.
• Kurumi planned to visit the Pill Tower after her duty suppressing the Beast Domain ended, help Little Seven-colored refine a body, and observe Xiao Yi Xian’s altered fortune.
• Kurumi read the effects and side effects of the third injection from her golden chest.
• A violent cold wind carrying a trace of viciousness swept toward Kurumi as she prepared to summon the fourth bottle.

Kurumi followed a strange aura into the depths of the rift, where an ice-blue magical beast attacked her with ice crystals, freezing echoes, and Netherworld Malevolent Qi. After exhausting the beast through repeated Heavenly Flame attacks, she faced a colossal ice pillar inside a storm and began gathering four Heavenly Flames in her palm.

• Kurumi purged her growing anxiety with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and followed the yin energy deeper into the rift.
• Kurumi found the yin energy replaced by a brutal aura and continued downward despite being unable to scan the depths with her spiritual power.
• An ice-blue magical beast attacked Kurumi with ice crystals and a phoenix cry, but she blocked its assaults with Heavenly Flames and counterattacked with flaming spears.
• Kurumi endured repeated ice and Netherworld Malevolent Qi attacks until the beast's cries and assaults weakened as its Dou Qi ran low.
• Kurumi discovered a gigantic ice pillar in the eye of a Netherworld Malevolent Qi storm and began combining four Heavenly Flames in her palm as the pillar prepared to launch.

Kurumi fused four Heavenly Flames into a spear and used it to break through an enormous ice pillar, but the resulting backlash swept her into the rift’s depths. There she found a bloodied Ice Phoenix bound by strange black chains, apparently lacking self-awareness.

• Kurumi abandoned her attempt to imitate the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus and fused the four Heavenly Flames around the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame into a spear.
• Kurumi launched the spear into the incoming ice-pillar bolt, piercing it and shattering the pillar as the Netherworld Malevolent Qi vortex erupted toward the rift’s top.
• The resulting ice storm engulfed Kurumi and froze parts of the surrounding ravines, forcing Gu Feng to order the Black Annihilation Army to retreat.
• Kurumi survived the blast, healed herself with her Divine Bloodline and Heavenly Flames, and changed into a silver robe from the Gu Clan’s direct lineage.
• Kurumi flew deeper into the rift and found a bloodied Ice Phoenix restrained by black chains, with the Sea Heart Flame absorbing its bloodline.

Kurumi hypnotized the despondent Ice Phoenix, healed her external wound, and spent weeks deciphering the chains that bound her. Kurumi finally destroyed the chains, freeing the Ice Phoenix from her confinement beneath the Black Annihilation Army encampment.

• Kurumi entered the Ice Phoenix’s sea of consciousness and used her hypnosis device to subdue her.
• Kurumi ordered the Ice Phoenix to take a healing pill and use her Dou Qi, allowing her to heal the wound on her right wing.
• Kurumi tried and failed to break the chains from the cliff wall, then had the Ice Phoenix transform into human form to examine them.
• Kurumi spent more than half a month studying the chain patterns while a Venerable from the Elder Council briefly investigated her.
• Kurumi marked tens of thousands of patterns and destroyed both chains with Soul Needles, freeing the Ice Phoenix.

Kurumi discovered and subdued the Nine Nether Wind Flame in the Bone Mountain Range rift, absorbing it to strengthen the Flame Mantra and advance to Four-star Dou Zun. After stabilizing her realm, she ordered the still-dazed Ice Phoenix to follow her.

• Kurumi followed Ice Phoenix deeper into the rift after sensing powerful yin energy and suspected another Heavenly Flame was hidden there.
• Kurumi identified the black gale as the Nine Nether Wind Flame and subdued it with her Heavenly Flames.
• Kurumi absorbed the Nine Nether Wind Flame, and the Flame Mantra’s breakthrough raised her realm to peak Three-star Dou Zun.
• Kurumi resolved to keep growing stronger and broke through to Four-star Dou Zun while absorbing Netherworld Malevolent Qi.
• After more than ten days, Kurumi stabilized her realm at middle-stage Four-star Dou Zun and told Ice Phoenix to follow her.

Kurumi chased Zi Yan through spatial rifts after the girl refused to patrol, then ordered her to cultivate in seclusion and break through to Dou Zong. Meanwhile, Lin Lin arrived at the Beast Domain encampment after recovering from his injuries and training with Gu Zhen.

• Zi Yan refused Kurumi’s order to patrol and tried to escape through a spatial rift, but Kurumi followed her into the rift.
• Kurumi pursued Zi Yan across the Bone Mountain Range and the Beast Domain, finally catching her after several rounds of their chase.
• Kurumi told Zi Yan to spend the next few months in seclusion and try to reach Dou Zong, and Zi Yan revealed that Lin Lin had come to the encampment.
• Zi Yan claimed that Kurumi and Xun'er should call her big sister by age, then continued fleeing as Kurumi chased her through space.
• After recovering from the loss of his physical body, Lin Lin trained with Gu Zhen and led his team to the Beast Domain encampment.

Kurumi supervised Zi Yan’s cultivation and reformed the Black Annihilation Army’s resource allocations, winning the soldiers’ support despite angering the Elder Council. After dealing with a Nine Nether Underworld Python Venerable and returning to cultivation, Kurumi saw Zi Yan emerge two months later amid a dragon’s roar that made the surrounding magical beasts submit.

• Kurumi sealed Zi Yan’s cultivation cave with formations and began redistributing resources for the Black Annihilation Army stationed in the Beast Domain.
• Gu Feng sent Kurumi’s revised allocation document to the Elder Council, which approved it despite its anger, prompting more soldiers to volunteer for Beast Domain duty.
• A high-level Dou Zun from the Nine Nether Underworld Python clan visited Kurumi to ask about a beast Reincarnator and offered gifts for the creature’s remaining head, but Kurumi refused.
• Kurumi handed military affairs back to Gu Feng and resumed cultivation while Zi Yan continued her seclusion.
• Two months later, Zi Yan emerged from seclusion as purple qi gathered and her dragon’s roar made the magical beasts within ten thousand li submit.

As the Beast Domain garrison term ended, Kurumi prepared to return to the clan with Zi Yan and Ice Phoenix. Gu Qingyang took over as commander and warned Kurumi that Gu Yao had joined the Elder Council while she was away.

• Kurumi allowed Zi Yan to search the Beast Domain for the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan, with an elite Dou Zong squad assigned to escort her.
• On the final day of the garrison term, Zi Yan returned from another fruitless search, and a Black Annihilation Army vessel arrived to take Kurumi and the others back.
• Kurumi discovered that Gu Qingyang was the new garrison commander and handed him the core of the Black Annihilation Blood Spirit Array.
• Gu Qingyang privately told Kurumi that Gu Yao had joined the Elder Council and that the council had become more active during her absence.
• Kurumi returned to the vessel with Ice Phoenix and Zi Yan as Gu Qingyang took command and the ship departed for the clan.

Kurumi comforted Zi Yan aboard the Black Annihilation transport vessel as it traveled through the Beast Domain, while the Gu Clan’s affairs continued around Gu Xun’er. In the Northwest Continent, Xiao Yan faced a horde of living corpses and sent Xiao Ning to seek Xun’er’s help, leaving himself to flee alone.

• Kurumi reassured Zi Yan that she could find the Ancient Void Dragons once she grew stronger, then agreed to give her half sweet pills and half high-grade spiritual herbs.
• Gu Yao and Gu Xing competed for the final Commander position, while Gu Zhen joined the expedition to the fallen region under a Saint’s orders.
• Gu Xun’er’s repaired foundation led Dou Shengs to pressure the Elder Council, and her allocated resources rose to nearly match Gu Mo’er’s.
• In the Northwest Continent, Xiao Yan told Xiao Ning to go to Jia Nan Academy and find Xun’er, then hurled her away from the living corpses.
• Xiao Yan fled deeper into the mountain range as Yao Lao remained asleep after their earlier battles, and he wondered whether he could escape again.

Xun'er waited at the Black Annihilation Army garrison for her sister Kurumi to return, eager to reunite after a year apart. When Kurumi arrived with Zi Yan and an unfamiliar Ice Phoenix, Xun'er hurried to greet her while warily eyeing the woman.

• Xun'er traveled to the garrison early, thinking about her reunion with Kurumi and how much her cultivation and bloodline had advanced.
• Gu Xing greeted Xun'er and told her that the transport vessel carrying the Second Commander would arrive that afternoon.
• The transport vessel landed, and soldiers from the Beast Domain garrison disembarked in formation.
• Xun'er spotted Kurumi descending with Zi Yan, a high-level Dou Zong, and an unfamiliar woman with icy-blue wings.
• Xun'er rushed to Kurumi, pinched Zi Yan's cheek, and greeted her sister while ignoring the Ice Phoenix.

Kurumi introduced Xun'er to Ice Phoenix, and Xun'er asked for the powerful magical beast to become her bodyguard. Their reunion was interrupted by news that the Black Annihilation Army was being sent to the Northwest Continent over the Deathly Aura Tablet, and Xun'er insisted she wanted to go with Kurumi.

• Kurumi introduced Ice Phoenix to Xun'er and explained that she had an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix bloodline, muddled consciousness, and High-level Dou Zun strength.
• Xun'er asked Kurumi to let Ice Phoenix stay by her side, and Kurumi agreed to make her Xun'er's bodyguard.
• Gu Xing revealed that the Elder Council had ordered most of the Black Annihilation Army to the Northwest Continent because of the Deathly Aura Tablet and that other forces were also mobilizing.
• Kurumi suspected Negative Energy had spread across the Northwest Continent and warned Xun'er that the situation was too dangerous for her to join the expedition.
• Xun'er told Kurumi she wanted to go with her and argued that if she were as strong as Kurumi, no one would stop her.

Xun'er broke through to the Dou Zun realm at the Black Annihilation Army Training Ground, drawing in huge amounts of energy while Kurumi and Ice Phoenix protected her. After she emerged, Kurumi congratulated her and commented that she was too thin, prompting Xun'er to misunderstand and promise to work hard.

• Xun'er surged toward a breakthrough, and Kurumi and Gu Xing secured the area as the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Tome helped her absorb ambient energy.
• Kurumi and Ice Phoenix gathered energy from across the Gu Realm, while the Black Annihilation Army obeyed Gu Xing's ban on cultivation.
• An enforcement team captain arrived to investigate, but Gu Xing stopped him from approaching Xun'er and allowed him to record the scene from outside.
• Xun'er completed her breakthrough and emerged as a one-star Dou Zun, her Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and Divine Bloodline making those nearby avert their eyes.
• Xun'er hugged Kurumi, who said she was too thin; Xun'er took the remark as dissatisfaction with her figure and promised to work hard.

Kurumi prepared to lead the Gu Clan’s response to the Negative Energy crisis in the Northwest Continent, while earning resources and strengthening her Divine Bloodline. After learning that most of the region had fallen to the dead, she arrived with Xun’er and her companions at the Black Annihilation Army encampment.

• Kurumi accepted the Blood Jade Token appointing her to command and arranged for a Ninth-grade Alchemist to refine a body for the enormous snake head.
• Kurumi found the Negative Buff Unsealing Talisman and continued earning deposits from Deathly Aura Tablet reservations while refining her bloodline.
• Kurumi learned that the dead had taken over eighty percent of the Northwest Continent and enslaved powerful Dou Zuns and magical beasts with Negative Energy.
• Kurumi prepared for the journey, summoned Lin Bai and the Lin brothers, and agreed to let Xun’er accompany her.
• Kurumi flew west with her companions aboard the White Jade Flying Boat and reached the Northwest Continent, where Gu Hua guided them to the Black Annihilation Army encampment.

Xiao Yan acquired the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame and fled through the undead-ravaged Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Ning, whose condition worsened from Negative Energy. Meanwhile, Plague watched Xiao Yan and plotted to enlist Yaorao, while Kurumi waited with the Black Annihilation Army for news from the Chu Yun Empire.

• Xiao Yan subdued the fifteenth-ranked Turtle Spirit Earth Flame, then traveled with Xiao Ning through the forests toward the Black Corner Region as undead hordes overran the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yan saw black-armored soldiers riding flying horses toward the Chu Yun Empire, but chose to keep moving with Xiao Ning.
• A week later, Xiao Yan burned Negative Energy from an undead beast but found that he could not stop it from corroding Xiao Ning, so he carried him toward Jia Nan Academy in hopes that Xun'er could save him.
• Plague observed Xiao Yan from the sky and spoke with Yaorao, dismissing warnings about the powerful figures investigating the soul pearls and the Deathly Aura Tablet.
• Kurumi arrived at the garrison, gave Gu Mo the Blood Jade Token, and waited for news from the Chu Yun Empire while considering the Reincarnator's potential rewards.

Huo Zhi left the Yan Clan camp and encountered Xiao Yan, while Kurumi considered how his fortune might turn Huo Zhi into a female lead. The ancient clans organized a supposed rescue mission into the Northwest Continent, and Kurumi led her squad through the Magical Beast Mountain Range toward the Tagor Desert.

• Huo Zhi argued with Huo Xuan about Gu Mo'er and Huo Ao, then left the Yan Clan camp and spotted Xiao Yan in the distance.
• Kurumi observed Huo Zhi and Xiao Yan, speculating that Xiao Yan's fortune could make Huo Zhi his future wife.
• Xun'er told Kurumi that the Yan Clan had persuaded several clans to organize a mission to rescue survivors in the Northwest Continent.
• Kurumi suspected the clans planned to use the rescue mission as an excuse to plunder soul pearls and Deathly Aura Tablets, and reviewed her powerful squad's lineup.
• Kurumi split her force into two groups, sent Lin Bai through the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and continued toward the Tagor Desert.

Medusa and Yun Shan struggled to preserve their uneasy alliance while the Snake People capital endured an undead siege. When powerful undead beasts launched an organized assault and breached the city wall, the defenders faced an imminent invasion.

• Medusa rejected Yun Shan's request for the Snake People to help search for supplies, while both leaders kept their fragile alliance because each needed the other's strength.
• A Dou Zong-level undead Heavenly Poison Scorpion attacked the capital, and Medusa and Yun Shan joined forces to fight it.
• The Heavenly Poison Scorpion battered the reinforced walls as earth-element cultivators worked to keep the bunkers standing.
• A Heavenly Thunder Cloud-Winged Tiger arrived with a broader assault, prompting Medusa and Yun Shan to mobilize the Snake People and human defenders.
• The organized undead beast tide overwhelmed the defenses, collapsed part of the city wall, and charged into the capital.

Medusa’s forces struggled to hold the Snake People capital against an undead beast horde, but a sudden attack left Medusa vulnerable. A warm current awakened the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, which killed the Heavenly Poison Demon Scorpion as Xun'er, Zi Yan, and Kurumi arrived nearby.

• Undead magical beasts broke through the city walls while Yun Yun and the defenders fought, and Yun Shan urged Medusa to retreat.
• Medusa began evacuating the tribe members, but the Heavenly Poison Demon Scorpion attacked her as Nalan Yanran searched for her master.
• A wave of drowsiness overcame Medusa, and she compressed her Dou Qi in preparation to self-destruct rather than become undead.
• A warm current revived the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, which coiled around the Heavenly Poison Demon Scorpion and dissolved it with corrosive fluid.
• Xun'er and Zi Yan watched from a hundred li away as Kurumi judged the Heaven Burning Transformation to have reached major mastery.

Kurumi and her companions arrived after the flaming spears destroyed the undead magical beasts, and the Snake People survivors learned how powerful their rescuers were. As Medusa slept and the group prepared to search for the Deathly Aura Tablet, Nalan Yanran recognized Gu Mo'er and her sister as the women she had met at the Xiao family.

• The White Jade Flying Boat arrived, and black-armored Dou Emperor soldiers collected the soul pearls while Yun Shan approached Kurumi to thank her.
• Yun Shan followed Kurumi and her companions to the Snake People capital, where the soldiers sorted the soul pearls and presented them to Kurumi.
• Kurumi called to Little Seven-colored, and its soul body left the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python to hide in her sleeve.
• Elderly Snake People women greeted Ice Phoenix and sensed the danger of her presence, but Kurumi restored their composure and asked them to prepare rooms until Medusa woke.
• Kurumi kept Yun Shan with the group because they needed his information to find the Deathly Aura Tablet.
• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun that Gu Mo'er and her sister were the women she had met at the Xiao family when she went to annul her engagement.