Chapter Summaries

Wei Yang restored Venerate You Hun with Fourth-Grade Soul Nurturing Liquid and demanded his Soul Techniques, Soul Devour and Soul Shock. Venerate You Hun transmitted them, but secretly slipped a strange seal into Wei Yang’s mind as the transfer ended.

• Wei Yang used Soul Nurturing Liquid to strengthen Venerate You Hun’s damaged Soul Body until he awakened.
• Venerate You Hun recovered enough to speak, and Wei Yang demanded his Soul Devour and Soul Shock techniques.
• Venerate You Hun said both techniques were Mysterious Grade High-Level and agreed to transmit them after Wei Yang dismissed their grade as low.
• Venerate You Hun passed the techniques into Wei Yang’s mind and secretly inserted a strange transparent seal with the final stream of information.

Wei Yang discovered and extracted Venerate You Ming’s Soul Control seal before it could take root in his soul. He rejected Venerate You Ming’s attempt to bargain and began burning his soul, leaving him screaming as Wei Yang kept him alive in agony.

• Venerate You Ming secretly planted a Soul Control seal in the information Wei Yang was absorbing, hoping to enslave him and reverse his defeat.
• Wei Yang opened his eyes, revealing he had noticed and extracted the seal with his Black Flame.
• Wei Yang questioned Venerate You Ming about Soul Control and learned he had not known Wei Yang’s Heavenly Flame protected his soul.
• Wei Yang decided Venerate You Ming had to pay for his actions and ignored his offer to reveal an Ancient Ruins location.
• Wei Yang burned Venerate You Ming’s soul while controlling the flame to cause pain without killing him.

Wei Yang tortured Venerate You Hun with the Black Sun Burning Heaven Flame until he agreed to reveal his soul-control technique in exchange for a quick death. After verifying and beginning to learn the technique, Wei Yang let the exhausted Venerate You Hun lose consciousness, leaving his promise of a quick death unresolved.

• Wei Yang burned Venerate You Hun’s soul for hours, ignoring his pleas, offers, and curses.
• Wei Yang offered to end the torture if Venerate You Hun shared the soul-control technique, and threatened to restore and burn him repeatedly if he refused.
• Venerate You Hun agreed to reveal the technique after Wei Yang promised to grant him a quick death.
• Wei Yang received the technique, confirmed it was genuine, and began studying the Earth Tier Low-Grade Soul Technique.
• Venerate You Hun fell unconscious while asking Wei Yang to make his death quick, and Wei Yang gave him no immediate answer.

Wei Yang planted a Soul Control Seal in Venerate You Hun, then studied the Soul Techniques he had obtained and helped Qing Lin refine two weakened treasures after she advanced to Dou Ling. Through months of cultivating the Nine Refinements Heavenly Soul, Wei Yang broke through into the Spirit Realm.

• Wei Yang successfully planted the Soul Control Seal throughout Venerate You Hun's Soul Origin and stored him away to let the seal take effect.
• Qing Lin advanced to Dou Ling, and Wei Yang helped her refine the Nine Nether Cold Qi and Azure Nether Flame into her innate treasures.
• Wei Yang taught Qing Lin and Xian'er the Nine Refinements Heavenly Soul method, then continued studying Soul Techniques while Qing Lin learned alchemy from Xian'er.
• After reaching the late stage of the Third Refinement, Wei Yang repeatedly tempered his soul until he broke through the barrier into the Spirit Realm.

Wei Yang broke through to the Spirit Realm Soul, unleashing Soul Power across Qingshan City before he regained control. Xian'er and Qing Lin joined him in the secret chamber and celebrated his achievement.

• Wei Yang's uncontrolled Soul Power swept across Qingshan City, startling Xian'er and causing her to ruin the medicine she was refining.
• Xian'er recognized Wei Yang's Soul Power and hurried toward his secret chamber, while Qing Lin followed after being alerted by Single-Horn.
• Wei Yang's soul transformed into a Spirit Realm Soul as spiritual light flowed into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Wei Yang sensed Xian'er and Qing Lin outside, opened the chamber doors, and told them he had broken through.
• Xian'er and Qing Lin congratulated Wei Yang as he embraced them.

Wei Yang warned Xian'er and Qing Lin that Soul Hall might discover his Spirit Realm soul and planned for their group to stay low-key for three years before traveling to the Central Plains. In the secret chamber, he strengthened his control over the sleeping Venerate You Hun by fusing a new Soul Control Seal with the original.

• Wei Yang told Xian'er and Qing Lin that Soul Hall could target them if one of its Guardians discovered his soul, and ordered them to kill any such Guardian and escape immediately.
• Xian'er said she expected to reach Dou Zong within a year, while Qing Lin promised to reach Dou Zong within three years; Wei Yang cautioned Xian'er not to risk hidden cultivation problems.
• Wei Yang declared that their group would keep a low profile for three years and then head to the Central Plains, aiming to build enough strength to protect themselves.
• Wei Yang brought out the still-sleeping Venerate You Hun, whose soul had weakened after a month of suppression and torture.
• Wei Yang placed a Spirit Realm Soul Control Seal on Venerate You Hun and fused it with the existing seal to make his control more secure.

Wei Yang perfected his Soul Control Seal, made Venerate You Hun his obedient servant Ah Da, and learned that Ah Da had found ancient ruins hidden among asteroid clusters in the void. Ah Da began recounting how he had discovered them, leaving their location and contents still to be explored.

• Wei Yang tested his improved Soul Control Seal by waking Venerate You Hun, who knelt and greeted him as Master.
• Wei Yang renamed Venerate You Hun Ah Da and learned that he had been a Nine-star Peak Dou Venerate with a Peak Mid Spirit Realm soul.
• Wei Yang asked Ah Da about the Ancient Ruins, and Ah Da said he had found them by chance several hundred years earlier.
• Ah Da recounted how a Void Storm swept him into an unfamiliar, silent region filled with asteroid clusters protected from the storms by a mysterious force.
• Ah Da explored the clusters and found carved asteroids and collapsed buildings, realizing he had discovered ancient or primordial ruins.

Ah Da recounted how he discovered the Void Meteorite Ancient Ruins and gained powerful techniques there, including a Quasi-Heaven Tier art. Wei Yang gave the Cold Nether Art to Qing Lin and resolved to explore the ruins someday, reflecting on how his growing group had built the foundation for his future.

• Ah Da told Wei Yang that he had explored the Void Meteorite Ancient Ruins, found valuable techniques and herbs, and reached the Eight-star Dou Venerate realm before returning to the Dou Qi Continent.
• Ah Da explained that he had left markers to find the ruins again, and Wei Yang decided they would wait until one of them could fight at the Dou Saint level before attempting the journey.
• Ah Da transferred the Cold Nether Art and Cold Nether Palm to Wei Yang, who recognized that the icy yin-element techniques suited Qing Lin.
• Wei Yang promised to restore Ah Da's soul and eventually give him a new body, and Ah Da gratefully accepted his master's promise.
• Wei Yang summoned Qing Lin and taught her the Cold Nether Art, adding another member to the growing force he had assembled.

Wei Yang failed to open the mysterious Black Iron Scroll and locked it away before Ah Da returned with Xiao Yan’s Method for Refining a Body. Wei Yang discovered that the method required rare materials, including a powerful pill, and was unsure he could obtain them in time.

• Wei Yang exhausted his Soul Power trying to open the Black Iron Scroll, concluded it came from a realm beyond the Saint level, and sealed it in a jade box.
• Ah Da reported that he had found Xiao Yan, who recognized him and gave him the Method for Refining a Body in exchange for the spoils from a robbery.
• Ah Da told Wei Yang that Xiao Yan had gone to Jia Nan Academy and planned to visit him when he had time.
• Wei Yang read the body-refining method and found it required a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, the Essence Bloodline of a Seventh Tier Magical Beast, and a Dou Zong expert’s corpse.
• Wei Yang realized that obtaining the ingredients and refining the pill within three years would be difficult.

Over the year since arriving in the Black Corner Region, Wei Yang secretly supplied rare high-grade pills, ending Pill Emperor Han Feng’s monopoly. As Wei Yang waited anxiously, Qing Lin reported that Xian’er had likely succeeded in breaking through to Dou Zong.

• Wei Yang instructed Ah Da to secretly gather intelligence and pill ingredients, sell or trade pills, and kill Sha Qi if he proved disloyal.
• A rumor spread that a mysterious Sixth Grade Peak alchemy master had arrived, while high-grade pills supplied by a black-robed peak Dou Emperor sparked fierce competition and broke Han Feng’s dominance.
• Wei Yang reached Sixth Grade Peak in alchemy and refined two Emperor Extreme Pills and three Dou Spirit Pills, while Xian’er refined two Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pills.
• Wei Yang worried after Xian’er left with Single-Horn to break through to Dou Zong and stayed in seclusion for several days.
• Qing Lin told Wei Yang that Single-Horn had reported a Dou Zong-level aura from Xian’er’s secluded location, suggesting she had succeeded.
• Qing Lin shared that she had refined a peak second-grade pill, and Wei Yang praised her and embraced her.

Xian'er celebrated becoming a Dou Zong with Wei Yang, reflecting on how much her life had changed. Xiao Yan and his weakened second brother, Xiao Li, then visited Wei Yang in Qingshan City, where Xiao Yan was stunned to see a Dou Zun serving as Wei Yang’s attendant.

• Xian'er returned after successfully entering the Dou Zong realm and shared a tender moment with Wei Yang by the lotus pond.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Li arrived at Qingshan City, determined to grow stronger and rescue their father.
• Ah Da brought the Xiao brothers to meet Wei Yang at the City Lord's Mansion, where Wei Yang welcomed Xiao Li warmly.
• Ah Da served the brothers tea, and Xiao Yan and Elder Yao were astonished that a Dou Zun Spirit Realm Soul acted as Wei Yang's attendant.
• Xiao Yan reconsidered his image of Dou Zun powerhouses as he compared Ah Da's service to Wei Yang's imposing status.

Xiao Li told Wei Yang and Xiao Yan that the Xiao Family had been massacred by attackers including the Misty Cloud Sect and mysterious figures searching for something, while Xiao Zhan had disappeared. Xiao Yan swore revenge as the surviving clansmen were left in the Imperial Capital and the brothers faced uncertainty about their father’s fate.

• Wei Yang asked Xiao Yan and Xiao Li why they had come to the Black Corner Region, and Xiao Yan revealed that the Xiao Family had been nearly wiped out and Xiao Zhan was missing.
• Xiao Yan’s fury unleashed his one-star Dou Ling aura, but Xiao Li urged him to calm down before explaining what had happened.
• Xiao Li recounted that the Misty Cloud Sect and other attackers massacred the Xiao Family during a banquet held to welcome him and Xiao Ding home.
• Xiao Yan swore to destroy the Misty Cloud Sect, while Wei Yang identified Yun Shan as the likely force behind its involvement.
• Xiao Li described mysterious black shadows using chains to seize and search Xiao Family members, then explained that Jia Xingtian, Hai Bodong, Fama, and the Mittel Family helped the survivors escape to the Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Li confirmed that Xiao Zhan had vanished during the attack, leaving Xiao Yan grieving and uncertain whether his father was alive.

Xiao Yan brought Xiao Li to Qingshan City and asked Wei Yang to shelter him while he recovered. Xiao Yan explained that the Soul Hall had abducted his father while searching for a key, and he planned to grow stronger before taking revenge on the Misty Cloud Sect and Soul Hall with Wei Yang's help.

• Wei Yang agreed to let Xiao Li stay at the City Lord's Mansion and recover under Ah Da's guidance.
• Xiao Yan told Wei Yang he would wait until he was strong enough before seeking revenge on the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Soul Hall Guardians had attacked the Xiao Family and taken his father while searching for a key.
• Xiao Yan said his father was likely still alive, and that his eldest brother was hiding with the Xiao Family survivors in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Wei Yang promised to help Xiao Yan later and said he would deal with Yun Shan.
• Elder Yao appeared and praised Xiao Yan's maturity and Wei Yang's support.

After Xiao Li recovered and broke through to the Da Dou Shi level, Wei Yang returned to a quiet life with Xian'er and Qing Lin while watching for the coming eruption of Fallen Heart Flame. When a Heavenly Flame fluctuation spread from Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy, Wei Yang and the others prepared to act.

• Xiao Yan helped Xiao Li recover and used Earth Core Body Tempering Milk to help him break through to the Da Dou Shi level, though Xiao Li became grim and guarded.
• Xiao Yan left things for Xiao Li, spoke privately with Elder Yao and Wei Yang, then returned to the Inner Academy while Xiao Li stayed near Qingshan City with Sha Qi and the others.
• Nearly two months passed as Wei Yang spent his days cultivating and relaxing with Xian'er and Qing Lin, while keeping watch over Xiao Li from afar.
• Wei Yang told Xian'er and Qing Lin that Elder Yao had warned him Fallen Heart Flame beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower would soon erupt, and that Han Feng would likely come to seize it.
• Wei Yang instructed the two girls to keep a low profile and focus on Han Feng and his Heavenly Cauldron rather than intervening in the struggle over Fallen Heart Flame.
• A strange aura fluctuation spread from the direction of the Inner Academy, and Wei Yang immediately rose to his feet.

Wei Yang, Xian'er, and Qing Lin tracked the Fallen Heart Flame's fluctuation to the spatial barrier surrounding Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy and watched from hiding. At the bottom of the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower, an elder investigated a sound from the sealed pit and opened a passage through its energy barrier.

• Xian'er sensed the Fallen Heart Flame, and Wei Yang led her and Qing Lin toward the source.
• The three reached the Inner Academy's spatial barrier, where Wei Yang concealed them so they could watch unseen.
• The chapter showed the buried Heavenly Flame Refining Tower and the violent energy barrier sealing a deep pit at its base.
• An elderly man heard liquid flowing from the pit, approached the barrier, and tore open a passage through it.

Su Qian investigated Fallen Heart Flame’s increasingly active energy beneath Jia Nan Academy and watched the magma sea erupt as the flame emerged in the form of a gigantic fire python. The chapter left Su Qian facing the escaped Fallen Heart Flame as it unleashed a devastating soundwave.

• Su Qian entered the barrier above the magma pit and sensed that Fallen Heart Flame had become unusually active.
• Su Qian heard heartbeat-like sounds growing stronger and synchronized with his own heartbeat.
• Fallen Heart Flame’s energy surged severalfold, and Su Qian realized the seals might be in danger.
• The magma boiled and then surged as Fallen Heart Flame burst from its depths as a gigantic, nearly transparent fire python.
• Fallen Heart Flame raised its head and unleashed a powerful soundwave across the underground space.

Fallen Heart Flame erupted from beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower and began breaking through the Inner Academy’s seals, forcing the academy to evacuate students and gather its Elders. As Xiao Yan watched from a distance, Wind Fury Dragon Flame also stirred and nearly escaped Elder Yao’s control.

• Fallen Heart Flame recognized Su Qian and surged toward the tower’s opening, shattering his first energy barrier as he called the Elders and ordered students to evacuate.
• Xiao Yan fled with the students, watched the tower from a hill, and asked Elder Yao whether he should use the Jade Pendant to summon Brother Wei; Elder Yao told him to wait.
• Nearly twenty figures formed a formation above the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower, but the tower’s tip exploded and a pillar of magma erupted into the sky.
• Elder Yao told Xiao Yan that Wind Fury Dragon Flame had suddenly awakened and nearly escaped before he suppressed it.

Fallen Heart Flame broke free from the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower and battled Su Qian and the elders as they trapped it in the Thousand Layer Sealing Array. While the fight remained at a stalemate, Ah Da arrived and told Wei Yang that Han Feng had gathered several factions’ experts and was heading toward the Inner Academy.

• Fallen Heart Flame erupted from the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower, and Su Qian ordered eighteen elders to form the Thousand Layer Sealing Array around it.
• Fallen Heart Flame attacked the array, but Su Qian and the elders pushed it back and contained its invisible flames in a stalemate.
• Wei Yang and Xian'er watched from beyond the spatial energy barrier as nearly two hours passed.
• Ah Da arrived and reported that Han Feng had gathered experts from the Earth Flame Sect, Eight Gates, Blood Sect, and other factions to head for the Inner Academy.
• Wei Yang welcomed Ah Da and told him to stand behind him and watch the coming spectacle.

Xiao Yan waited for Wei Yang as the Inner Academy elders struggled to contain the Fallen Heart Flame, while reinforcements from the Outer Academy arrived. Outside the Spatial Barrier, Han Feng appeared with the Sea Heart Flame, and Wei Yang prepared to seize the treasures he coveted.

• Xiao Yan watched Su Qian and the elders weaken in their battle against the Invisible Fire Python and resolved to ask Wei Yang to help weaken the Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan’s Jade Pendant reacted, and Elder Yao confirmed that Wei Yang had arrived nearby.
• Elder Yao sensed experts approaching from the east, and Hu Gan arrived with Outer Academy elders to reinforce Su Qian and hold back the Invisible Fire Python.
• Wei Yang waited outside the Spatial Barrier for Han Feng and coveted the Myriad Beast Cauldron and the Sea Heart Flame.
• Han Feng arrived with Black Corner Region experts, sensed the energy within the barrier, and revealed the Sea Heart Flame.

Han Feng discovered that the Inner Academy concealed a Heavenly Flame and led Black Corner Region experts through a breach in its Spatial Barrier. After Su Qian sealed the rampaging Fallen Heart Flame, the intruders appeared above the academy, leaving Xiao Yan and the students facing a new threat.

• Han Feng sensed the Heavenly Flame within the Spatial Barrier, concealed his physical distress, and agreed to lead the gathered experts in breaking through it.
• Su Qian forced the Invisible Fire Python back into the shattered Heavenly Flame Refining Tower and sealed the tower as the students cheered.
• Elder Yao warned Xiao Yan that Fallen Heart Flame could recover in the Magma World and that other forces had become involved.
• A crack opened in the Inner Academy’s sky, and a group of powerful experts flew through it.
• Han Feng’s group entered the Inner Academy, and Han Feng taunted Su Qian about concealing the Heavenly Flame as Xiao Yan braced for trouble.