Chapter Summaries

After Xun Er learned that Xiao Xue was Xiao Se’s daughter from another world, the three agreed to keep her origins and Chewed Wine secret. Xiao Se gave Xun Er a Face-Preserving Pill, drawing the attention of the Ancient Clan’s alchemist Gu Dan, who examined the pill and was recognized by Xun Er.

• Xun Er accepted Xiao Se and Xiao Xue’s cover story about Xiao Xue’s origins and agreed to keep the truth secret.
• Xiao Se gave Xun Er a Face-Preserving Pill that would preserve her youthful appearance.
• A powerful slovenly old man arrived, drawn by the pill’s fragrance, and Xiao Se offered him several Face-Preserving Pills.
• Xun Er recognized the old man as Gu Dan, the Ancient Clan’s renowned alchemist.
• Gu Dan asked what Gu Yuan had said about him, and Xun Er replied that her father praised his alchemy and disregard for trivial conventions.

Xiao Se learned how Gu Dan had once taught his late master Podocarpus and why Gu Dan arranged the Alchemist Grand Meeting to protect and temper him. Gu Dan recognized Xiao Se’s potential and gave him the final Purification Lotus Demon Fire remnant map, his alchemical memories, and a Ring full of spiritual herbs before departing.

• Xiao Se showed Gu Dan Podocarpus’s letter, and Gu Dan explained how he had briefly taught Podocarpus and later discovered his death.
• Gu Dan revealed that he had arranged the Alchemist Grand Meeting and the Breakthrough Sect Pill formula to protect and temper Xiao Se.
• Gu Dan gave Xiao Se the final Purification Lotus Demon Fire remnant map, which Xiao Se recognized as the missing piece.
• Gu Dan transferred his alchemical insights into Xiao Se’s mind and gave him a Ring filled with spiritual herbs and pill formulas.
• Gu Dan left through a spatial rift, and Xun Er suggested that he expected Xiao Se to repay his generous gifts by helping him advance in the future.

Xiao Se negotiated with Gu Yuan for access to the Heavenly Tomb, promising peace between the Xiao and Ancient Clans and the Ancient Clan’s protection. Gu Yuan agreed to let Xiao Se, Xiao Xue, and Xun Er enter in a week, while Zhu Kun publicly warned the Ancient Clan not to harm Xiao Se.

• Gu Yuan learned that Gu Dan was Xiao Se’s grandmaster and remarked on the valuable Ring Xiao Se had received.
• Xun Er introduced Xiao Xue, and Gu Yuan praised her talent before asking Xiao Se to treat Xun Er well.
• Xiao Se asked Gu Yuan to send him, Xiao Xue, and Xun Er into the Heavenly Tomb to meet Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul.
• Xiao Se promised that the Xiao and Ancient Clans would never invade one another if the Ancient Clan returned the Xiao Clan’s stolen techniques, and he pledged to protect the Ancient Clan; Gu Yuan accepted.
• Xiao Se arranged to enter the Heavenly Tomb in a week, and Zhu Kun warned the Ancient Clan that Xiao Se was under his protection.
• Xiao Se gave Zhu Kun three Eighth Grade Pills for Zi Yan, and Zhu Kun agreed to deliver them.

Xiao Se asked Zhu Kun about a secret technique that could improve the aptitude of his unborn child with Gu Yue Na, then discussed family and bloodline risks with Gu Yuan while refining pills. After seven days, Xiao Se set out for the Heavenly Tomb with Xiao Xue and Xun Er.

• Xiao Se asked Zhu Kun whether the Void Ancient Dragon clan could use a secret technique to improve his unborn child's aptitude, and Zhu Kun told him to bring Gu Yue Na to Ancient Dragon Island for an assessment.
• After Zhu Kun left, Xun Er asked Xiao Se to introduce her to Gu Yue Na, and Xiao Se sent her to spend time with Xiao Xue while he refined pills.
• Xiao Se told Gu Yuan that he had confirmed relationships with twelve women and fifteen in total, then learned that Xun Er's mother had died after giving birth because of the power of Xun Er's Dou Di bloodline.
• Xiao Se worried that children with powerful bloodlines could endanger their mothers and said he wanted his wives to bear children before he became a Dou Di; Gu Yuan warned him not to have a child with Xun Er before she became a Dou Sheng.
• For seven days, Xiao Se refined peak eighth-tier pills in the Ancient World, impressing the Ancient Clan's alchemists and earning their respect.
• On the seventh day, Xiao Se took Xiao Xue and Xun Er with him as Gu Yuan escorted them toward the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Se, Xiao Xue, and Xun Er grew stronger while hunting energy bodies in the Heavenly Tomb, then encountered Xiao Xuan on the third level. Xiao Xuan led them to an ancient stone stele in the Tomb’s depths to discuss something with them.

• Xiao Se used Angel's Roar to help Xun Er advance to six-star Dou Zun on the first level, while he and Xiao Xue reached nine-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Se, Xiao Xue, and Xun Er hunted energy bodies on the second level, reaching peak nine-revolution Dou Zun, peak nine-revolution Dou Zun, and one-revolution Dou Zun respectively.
• Xiao Se revealed his trump cards to intimidate a group of Dou Sheng-level energy bodies on the third level.
• Xiao Xuan appeared, recognized Xiao Se and Xiao Xue as Xiao Clan descendants, and learned that Xiao Xue was Xiao Se's daughter and Xun Er was his woman.
• Xiao Xuan led Xiao Se, Xiao Xue, and Xun Er to an ancient stone stele in the deepest part of the Heavenly Tomb and entered it with them.

Xiao Se and Xiao Xue met Xiao Xuan inside the tombstone’s internal space, where he learned how the Xiao Clan had been nearly destroyed and decided to pass on his legacy. Xiao Xuan removed the restriction from the Nine Revolutions Fire Dragon Art and taught Xiao Xue the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Secrets, while the remaining two matters he had planned were still to come.

• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Se about the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Se explained that the Soul Clan had destroyed it, leaving only a handful of survivors.
• Xiao Se told Xiao Xuan that Xiao Yan had joined the Soul Clan, and Xiao Xuan condemned him as a traitor.
• Xiao Xuan announced that he would teach Xiao Se and Xiao Xue the Heavenly Flame Three Transformations, pass his bloodline power to Xiao Se, and reveal a third matter later.
• Xiao Se explained that his cultivation technique had reached Heaven Rank after devouring five Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Xuan praised his talent.
• Xiao Se asked Xiao Xuan to remove the restriction on the Nine Revolutions Fire Dragon Art, and Xiao Xuan warned him to keep it hidden until he was strong enough.
• Xiao Xuan sent Xiao Xue the teachings of the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Secrets, a high-level Heaven Rank cultivation method.

Xiao Se and his companions grew stronger in the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Xuan sacrificed himself to destroy its soul and leave Xiao Se its Soul Origin. After refining it, Xiao Se emerged with Emperor Realm Soul Power, and Gu Yuan returned the Ancient Clan’s possessions to him.

• Xiao Xuan taught Xiao Se and Xiao Xue the Heavenly Flame Three Transformations, then passed his bloodline power to Xiao Se as Xiao Xue and Xun Er entered seclusion.
• Xiao Se led Xiao Xue and Xun Er in hunting Dou Sheng energy bodies, helping Xiao Xue reach the Two-Star Dou Sheng Peak and Xun Er advance to the high-level Half Saint realm while he reached the middle stage of Two-Star Dou Sheng.
• The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb confronted Xiao Xuan over the hunt, and Xiao Xuan sacrificed himself to destroy it, leaving its Soul Origin for Xiao Se.
• Xiao Se stored the Soul Origin and entered Xiao Xuan's Tomb Mansion with Xiao Xue and Xun Er; after three years inside the Heavenly Tomb, he refined it and gained Emperor Realm Soul Power.
• Xiao Se, Xiao Xue, and Xun Er emerged as Dou Shengs, and Gu Yuan returned the Ancient Clan’s former Xiao Clan possessions to Xiao Se after Gu Dan had secured the elders’ agreement.

Xiao Se reconciled the Xiao Clan with the Ancient Clan and brought Long Kui out of hiding, promising to resurrect her. As he began preparing the ritual, he asked Long Kui and Hong Kui whether they wanted separate bodies or to remain joined in one body.

• Xiao Se promised that the Xiao Clan and Ancient Clan would no longer be enemies and that he would protect the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Se asked Gu Yuan for a secluded place to resurrect the soul hidden in his arm tattoo, and Xun Er led him and Xiao Xue to her cultivation chamber.
• Xiao Se released Long Kui, and the two reunited after years apart while he promised to give her a body.
• Xun Er apologized to Long Kui for having Ling Ying watch Xiao Se, and Xiao Se comforted her and urged her to let the past go.
• Xiao Se called Hong Kui out and presented her and Long Kui with the choice of receiving separate bodies or remaining together in one body.

Xiao Se revived Long Kui in a body forged from rare materials, then left the Ancient Clan after warning Gu Yuan about the Soul Clan’s array. He discovered Bi Bi Dong and his family were under threat at the Flower Sect, where he killed the Soul Clan Half Saint and the two people who had brought him there.

• Xiao Se revived Long Kui after a month of forging her body, and her aura reached the level of a Six-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Se and Xiao Xue left the Ancient Clan with Long Kui while Xun Er stayed behind to subdue the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.
• Xiao Se warned Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan had planted the Soul Devouring Life Extinction Array throughout Central State.
• Xiao Se discovered Bi Bi Dong protecting Yun Yun and her child at the Flower Sect while a Soul Hall Half Saint and two other attackers threatened them.
• Xiao Se killed the Soul Hall Half Saint, then extracted the souls of Hua Jin and the Evil Flower Monarch and killed them.

Xiao Se reunited with Yun Yun and his son A Si, helped Granny Hua complete her transfer of Dou Qi, and set out to punish the sects that had targeted his family. After defeating Heaven Nether Sect and Cloud Rain Sect, he left protection for the rescued women and Falling Star Pavilion.

• Xiao Se entered the cave and reunited with Nalan Yanran, Yun Yun, and A Si, who recognized him as his father and asked him to avenge his mother.
• Nalan Yanran told Xiao Se that Granny Hua had been transferring her Dou Qi to Yun Yun for two hours, and Xiao Se offered Granny Hua a way to preserve her soul and reunite with Yao Chen.
• Xiao Se gave Nalan Yanran a mid-level Heaven Rank wind-attribute cultivation method and instructed Xiao Xue to protect Yun Yun and A Si while he went to Heaven Nether Sect with Bi Bi Dong and Long Kui.
• Xiao Se left a spatial barrier at the cave entrance and went with Bi Bi Dong and Long Kui to destroy Heaven Nether Sect's leaders and the three old devils of Cloud Rain Sect.
• Xiao Se sent Cloud Rain Sect's rescued female disciples to Falling Star Pavilion, arranged for Wind Venerable to take over Heaven Nether Sect, and left a Half Saint puppet to protect Falling Star Pavilion.

Xiao Se returned to the Flower Sect, reassured Yun Yun, and learned that Granny Hua’s soul had recovered. He then brought everyone to the Pill Tower to help Yao Chen, where Yao Chen noticed A Si’s exceptional Soul Power and seriously asked whether Xiao Se meant for him to become his disciple.

• Xiao Se comforted Bi Bi Dong about refining the mixed Dou Qi in seclusion and promised to purify it with Heavenly Flame so she could finish within half a year.
• Xiao Se reunited with Yun Yun at the Flower Sect, and Granny Hua emerged from the Ring with her soul restored by the Soul Poppy Fruit.
• Xiao Se refused Granny Hua’s request to make Yun Yun the Flower Sect’s sect master and told Granny Hua to protect the sect herself.
• Xiao Se teleported his companions to the Pill Tower, where the experts were shocked to learn he had advanced to Dou Saint.
• Xuan Yi led Xiao Se and the others to Yao Chen, and Xiao Se admitted he had taken the Burning Art from Yao Chen’s Ring.
• Yao Chen recognized A Si’s powerful Soul Power and asked Xiao Se whether he truly intended for the child to become his disciple.

Xiao Se reunited Yao Chen with Hua Yu, arranged for Yao Chen to teach A Si, and supplied bodies and resources to restore his allies and strengthen Bi Bi Dong. Three months later, Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin returned with Xiao Yan and the Myriad Beast Soul Flame, and Xiao Yan came face to face with Yao Chen.

• Xiao Se brought Hua Yu's soul to Yao Chen, gave him a Soul Poppy Fruit, and had A Si greet him as his future teacher.
• Xiao Se gave Yao Chen the bodies of a Dou Sheng and a Dou Zun, then prepared resources for Bi Bi Dong to cultivate toward Dou Sheng.
• Over the next three months, Yao Chen and Granny Hua regained bodies, Yun Yun and Xiao Xue entered seclusion, and Xiao Se accepted Cao Ying as a nominal disciple.
• Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin returned from the Beast Domain as Half Saints, bringing Xiao Yan and the Myriad Beast Soul Flame.
• Yao Chen returned with the Bone Chilling Flame, and he and Xiao Yan met with hatred.

Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin brought Xiao Yan and the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire to Xiao Se, who waited for Yao Lao to arrive. After accepting Yao Lao’s Bone Chilling Flame, Xiao Se learned that Long Kui had regained a powerful body and said he would refine the flames before returning to the Gama Empire.

• Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin brought bound Xiao Yan and the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire back to Xiao Se’s residence.
• Xiao Se decided to wait for Yao Lao before deciding how to deal with Xiao Yan, and Cao Ying announced Yao Lao’s arrival.
• Yao Lao presented Xiao Se with the Bone Chilling Flame, and Xiao Se left him alone with Xiao Yan.
• Long Kui told Little Fairy Doctor that Xiao Se had restored her body, leaving her at the middle phase of a six-star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Se asked Long Kui to watch A Si while he refined the Bone Spirit Cold Fire and the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire before returning to the Gama Empire.

After returning from seclusion as a Three-Star Dou Sheng, Xiao Se resumed leadership of the Sea Alliance and reunited with his family. He met his infant daughter Xiao Cai, whose unusual bloodline had made her grow rapidly and be born with Dou Zun strength, and held her for the first time.

• Xiao Se left Nalan Yanran to guard A Si and returned to the Sea King Pavilion with Long Kui, Little Fairy Doctor, and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Se offered the Fire Dragon King, Heavenly Fire Venerable, and Ice Dragon King new bodies; he refined Half Saint bodies for the first two, while Ice Dragon King declined a male body.
• Xiao Se returned to the Gama Empire, welcomed old acquaintances, and gave them pills, including an Eighth Grade Pill to Hai Bo Dong.
• Xiao Se met Medusa and their daughter Xiao Cai, who had been born with initial Dou Zun cultivation and grown rapidly because of her bloodline.
• Xiao Cai called Xiao Se Daddy, and Medusa told him that the girl still needed a formal name.

Xiao Se reunited with Xiao Cai, learned Xiao Yu was waiting at Canaan Academy, and convinced Gu Yue Na to let him pursue a way to make her the Dragon God. He revived the Soul Beasts, then took revenge on Tang San by forcing him, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Yan into a magically confined life as union apes.

• Xiao Cai revealed herself as the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and Queen Medusa explained how she had survived as their daughter's Accompanying Soul.
• Xiao Se found Xiao Yu teaching at Canaan Academy and learned she had chosen to wait for him there until his travels were over.
• Xiao Se told Gu Yue Na he would seize the Golden Dragon King so she could become the Dragon God, and she agreed after he argued against sacrificing herself.
• Xiao Se resurrected the Soul Beasts in his Soul Rings, while Snow Empress and Ice Empress refused resurrection; he also revived Xiao Wu, who attacked him to avenge her Third Brother.
• Xiao Se turned Xiao Wu and Xiao Yan into union apes, confined them with Tang San, and used drugs and illusions to make the three live together and raise a family.

Two years after leaving Soul Land, Xiao Se returned as a Three-Star Dou Sheng to prepare to move the world to the Dou Qi Continent and replace its soul-power cultivation system with Dou Qi. He left Hu Lie Na to organize the Spirit Empire’s preparations and departed for the God Realm, intending to bring Zhu Zhuqing back on his return.

• Xiao Se returned to Soul Land with Ning Rongrong and explained his plan to make it a space within the Dou Qi Continent, where Soul Masters and Soul Beasts could cultivate without the old soul-ring system.
• Ning Rongrong flew home after Xiao Se said the gate to the Dou Qi Continent would be set up in Spirit Hall City.
• Xiao Se appeared at the Spirit Empire’s imperial palace, where Hu Lie Na embraced him and learned he had reached Three-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Se gave Hu Lie Na scrolls on Dou Qi cultivation and low-grade techniques, and instructed her to prepare the Spirit Empire and establish Dou Qi Towers across the land.
• Xiao Se said he would retrieve something from the God Realm and bring Zhu Zhuqing back, then vanished.

Xiao Se subdued the Seagod and Asura God, transformed Soul Land Star into a Dou Qi cultivation world, and gave Gu Yue Na the Golden Dragon King's origin. The chapter left Yu Xiaogang forced to swallow a strange liquid in his cell as Xiao Se prepared Gu Yue Na to become the new Dragon God.

• The Seagod and Asura God discussed their chosen successors before Xiao Se appeared and revealed his overwhelming power.
• Xiao Se accused the Asura God and Seagod of manipulating events in Soul Land, then fused their divine souls into Zimu River Water and sent it to Yu Xiaogang's cell, where Yu Xiaogang swallowed it.
• Xiao Se refined the Golden Dragon King into origin energy for Gu Yue Na and sealed the God Realm so its inhabitants could enter but not leave.
• Xiao Se brought Little Kitten back from Seagod Island, enclosed Soul Land Star in a separate space, and introduced Dou Qi cultivation across the world.
• Xiao Se reunited with Gu Yue Na, told her that the sacrificed Soul Beasts had been revived and returned to the forest, and gave her the Golden Dragon King's origin to refine.

Xiao Se traveled through the Beast Domain with Medusa, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Long Kui to obtain the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s treasures and prepare for their evolutions. After Medusa entered seclusion in the Nine Nether Yellow Spring, Xiao Se left to search for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit ruins.

• Xiao Se defeated the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s remnant soul, claimed his Dou Skills and Essence Blood, and rescued Yao Ming, helping him reclaim leadership of the Nine Nether Earth Nether Python Race.
• Xiao Se gave Medusa the Nine-Colored Crystal Stone and Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s Essence Blood to aid her evolution and advancement to Dou Saint.
• Medusa kissed Xiao Se, told him she would no longer oppose him and Die, then transformed into a Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and entered the Nine Nether Yellow Spring.
• Xiao Se created a protective Space Barrier around the Nine Nether Yellow Spring and left with Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Long Kui to search for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit ruins.
• After Xiao Se departed, Medusa opened her eyes deep in the Nine Nether Yellow Spring and looked toward its depths.

Xiao Se led Zi Yan, Long Kui, and Qing Lin into an ancient ruin in the Skeleton Mountain Range and collected its valuable resources, including the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. Back on Ancient Dragon Island, Zi Yan began her bloodline evolution, Qing Lin prepared to break through to Dou Sheng, and Xiao Se reached the peak of Four Star Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Se opened the ancient ruin’s spatial seal, and Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Long Kui followed him inside.
• Xiao Se gathered the ruin’s treasures, including Dou Sheng skeletons, Heaven Rank Dou Skills, and the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Xiao Se returned to Ancient Dragon Island and gave the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit to Zhu Kun, who took Zi Yan into seclusion to evolve her bloodline.
• Xiao Se planned for Qing Lin to enter seclusion and break through to Dou Sheng after absorbing the Nine Nether Earth Nether Pythons.
• Xiao Se subdued the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning and refined a Tribulation Pill, then used it and the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s Essence Blood to master the final layer of Fire God’s Wrath and advance to peak Four Star Dou Sheng.

Over the year, Xiao Se helped unite forces against the Soul Clan, expanded the Sea Alliance, and gathered his loved ones before joining Xun Er to subdue two Heavenly Flames. Xun Er returned pregnant with twins, and Xiao Se arranged with Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun to enter Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion and pursue Dou Di, agreeing to marry Zi Yan as well.

• Gu Yuan exposed the Soul Clan's Soul Devouring Life Extinction Arrays, and Central State's factions destroyed them, prompting Hun Tiandi to attack the Ancient Clan before Zhu Kun forced him to retreat.
• Xiao Se strengthened the Sea Alliance, brought Li Hanyi, Huaizhu, Dongfang Qinlan, and the Tushan sisters to his world, and arranged divine positions for his loved ones.
• Xiao Se took Xun Er to the Demonic Flame Space, subdued the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame, and freed Xiao Chen from his control as a Fire Slave.
• After a year in the Demonic Flame Space, Xiao Se reached Eight Star Dou Sheng, Xun Er reached Five Star Dou Sheng, and they emerged with Xun Er pregnant with twins.
• Xiao Se brought Xun Er to the Ancient Clan and told Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun about the disappearance of the Dou Di before proposing that they help him obtain the Source of the Emperor.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun agreed to help Xiao Se enter Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, and Xiao Se agreed to marry Zhu Kun's daughter, Zi Yan, if she was willing.