Chapter Summaries

Yang Shan prepared for Demon Flame Valley and Mysterious Eagle Sect’s assault on Bloodshed Alliance while weighing the danger posed by their strongest leaders. When Su Mei asked him to defend the Spirit Stone Mine, he tried to leave rather than face the legendary experts.

• Xiao Aotian proposed that he and Yi Qingyang seize Bloodshed Alliance’s mine while Yang Shan took Mysterious Eagle Sect’s, but Yang Shan refused to fight Old Man Ying Shan.
• Bloodshed Alliance issued high-reward missions offering Spirit Crystals and low-tier Earth-class Dou Skills, and Yang Shan headed to Black Seal City to inspect the rewards.
• Yang Shan sent Chao Bafang and Zhu Tianpeng to deliver the tiger cubs to Black Moon Ridge and told them to return to Black Emperor Sect to prepare for trouble.
• Yang Shan reached Black Seal City, waited for the coming assault, and decided to leave the defense to Hun Dan rather than reveal Cheng E again.
• Su Mei asked Yang Shan to help defend Bloodshed Alliance’s Spirit Stone Mine from Demon Flame Valley and Mysterious Eagle Sect, but Yang Shan announced his farewell and objected when she reminded him he was an elder.

Yang Shan negotiated rewards from the Bloodshed Alliance in exchange for defending it, then arranged paid “civilized duels” with rival guild leaders. He attacked Demon Flame Valley’s advance camp to earn experience and Contribution Points, but a powerful flame attack rose behind him as he prepared to finish the survivors.

• Su Mei persuaded Yang Shan to stay with the Bloodshed Alliance by promising him priority access to useful Seventh Order Variant Spirit Crystals, a sixth-order Thunder Spirit Crystal, and two sixth-order Foundation Spiritual Objects.
• Yang Shan agreed to help the Bloodshed Alliance at White Stone Mountain and made paid agreements with Yi Qingyang and Xiao Aotian to spare their members during future battles.
• Yang Shan met Jin Shankao, Ye Suifeng, Yu Feifei, and Mei Yangyang, then led them toward Demon Flame Valley’s advance camp to gather experience and Contribution Points.
• Yang Shan bombarded Demon Flame Valley’s camp with repeated Overloads while the Ink Iron Marshal fought Fourth Elder Xie Zhen.
• As Yang Shan prepared another Overload against the surviving players, a surge of heat rose behind him and an attacker shouted, “Witness my Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler!”

Yang Shan thwarted Xiao Aotian’s surprise attack, then faced Yi Qingyang and his newly mastered formation of nine hundred and ninety-nine flying swords. Yi Qingyang’s sword formation held against Yang Shan’s first attacks, but soul damage weakened his control as Yang Shan began wearing it down with repeated Overloads.

• Xiao Aotian ambushed Yang Shan with Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, but Yang Shan used the Extraterrestrial Ghoul Lightning’s instant Strange Speed trait to strike him and escape the attack.
• Yang Shan suspected Xiao Aotian had brought a formation and began bombarding the camp, but Xiao Aotian called for Dandruff Bro to help.
• Yi Qingyang arrived with nine hundred and ninety-nine flying swords and challenged Yang Shan to defeat him.
• Yi Qingyang sent a hundred swords after Yang Shan, then used the rest to form a protective sword aura against Yang Shan’s Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls.
• Yang Shan recognized that the sound attack had injured Yi Qingyang’s soul and weakened his sword control, so he began attacking the formation with repeated Overloads.
• Yi Qingyang desperately called to Xiao Aotian over the voice channel, saying he could not hold out much longer.

Yang Shan faced Xiao Aotian and Yi Qingyang as they combined their guild members’ strength to challenge him, but he dominated their attacks and found a way to defeat them. He ambushed Yi Qingyang with twenty beast phantoms and claimed the 50,000 bounty, leaving the fight poised for its outcome.

• Xiao Aotian revealed the Hundred Blazing Flames Body, powered by 120 Heaven Flame Alliance members, while Yi Qingyang summoned a thousand swords using the strength of 99 Shu Xian Lou members.
• Yang Shan summoned the Ink Iron Marshal to attack the surrounding Players, then fought Xiao Aotian directly and repeatedly slashed his flaming body.
• Yi Qingyang launched Thousand Swords Manifest Dragon, and Xiao Aotian backed it up by firing Ruler Qi at Yang Shan’s predicted flight paths.
• Yang Shan used Strange Speed and Three Thousand Thunder Movement to evade both attacks and appear behind Yi Qingyang.
• Yang Shan sent twenty beast phantoms at the defenseless Yi Qingyang and said he would collect the 50,000 bounty.

Yang Shan defeated Xiao Aotian after countering his redirected Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, but their fight was interrupted by Old Man Ying Shan, a Four Star Dou Zong who ambushed Yang Shan. Yi Qingyang flew in to help Yang Shan escape and insisted he had not planned the attack.

• Yang Shan accepted payment from Yi Qingyang after defeating him, then agreed to fight Xiao Aotian.
• Xiao Aotian unleashed the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler and used Suction Palm and Fire Blowing Palm to steer its path toward Yang Shan.
• Yang Shan interrupted Xiao Aotian with an Overload and Thunder Guiding Lock, causing the Ruler Qi to crash into a mountain; Xiao Aotian then conceded.
• Yang Shan praised Xiao Aotian's technique and combat skill, then resumed harvesting Contribution Points.
• Old Man Ying Shan ambushed Yang Shan with eagle-claw attacks and attempted to trap him with Eagle Cage Imprisonment.
• Yi Qingyang flew toward Yang Shan, saying he had not known about the ambush and had come to cover his escape.

Yang Shan faced an ambush by Old Man Ying Shan, who used powerful soul techniques and trapped him with soul chains. Yang Shan broke free with Dark Soul Mist, but Old Man Ying Shan and his four subordinates were suddenly swept up by a powerful wind attack from an unknown woman who called Yang Shan her boss.

• Yi Qingyang tried to intervene, but Yang Shan stopped him and told him to stand aside.
• Xiao Aotian attempted to challenge Old Man Ying Shan, then ran out of energy and fell, leaving Yi Qingyang to catch him.
• Old Man Ying Shan revealed that someone had paid him to kill Yang Shan and offered to switch sides for a sufficient reward.
• Yang Shan struck Old Man Ying Shan with Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls, but Old Man Ying Shan defended himself with his soul power and restrained Yang Shan with soul chains.
• Yang Shan used Overload as cover to unleash Dark Soul Mist and corrode the soul chains, while four late-stage Dou Emperors arrived to support Old Man Ying Shan.
• A fierce wind engulfed Old Man Ying Shan and his four subordinates, and an unknown woman cried out from above the clouds, asking who dared attack her boss.

Su Yitang returned from the Central Plains and joined Yang Shan in the battle against Old Man Ying Shan and his men. She defeated Ying Shan’s four Dou Huang subordinates with her Azure Valley Netherwind and rushed to help Yang Shan, who was still fighting Ying Shan.

• Su Yitang descended before Yang Shan, and her Strange Wind enveloped the sky as they greeted each other.
• Old Man Ying Shan attacked, but Yang Shan and Su Yitang escaped together, with her wind enhancing his speed.
• Yang Shan held Ying Shan back while Su Yitang flew after the four late-stage Dou Huangs and boosted Yang Shan with her Wind Harp.
• Su Yitang used Connecting Cloud Tune to trap and defeat all four Dou Huangs, then collected their drops.
• Su Yitang flew toward Yang Shan to help him continue fighting Old Man Ying Shan.

Su Yitang returned to help Yang Shan defeat four Dou Emperors, and the two escaped after Yang Shan realized Old Man Ying Shan was only a Soul clone. They reunited with Su Mei in Black Seal City, while Yang Shan grew more determined to break through to Dou Zong.

• Su Yitang killed four late-stage Dou Emperors with Azure Valley Netherwind, impressing Yi Qingyang and Xiao Aotian.
• Yang Shan noticed Old Man Ying Shan's face turn illusory and warned Su Yitang to flee with him.
• Yi Qingyang recognized Su Yitang's feelings for Yang Shan as they flew away, while Ye Suifeng and the others escaped and gathered Ink Iron Marshal.
• Yang Shan explained to Su Yitang that Old Man Ying Shan had sent a Soul clone, which offered no rewards when defeated.
• Yang Shan and Su Yitang visited Su Mei in Black Seal City, and Yang Shan arranged to receive the items he had requested.

Su Yitang’s spectacular return sparked a forum debate over whether she could surpass Xiao Aotian, while Yang Shan completed his Supreme Foundation and began a difficult Dou Zong breakthrough trial. The trial placed him in a secluded valley, where a graceful woman greeted him as someone she had missed.

• Su Yitang’s attack on four Mysterious Eagle Sect Dou Emperors went viral, raising her rankings and prompting players to debate her strength against Xiao Aotian.
• Xiao Aotian dismissed the online baiting, sent Li Batian to respond diplomatically, and left to handle a task he believed would keep Su Yitang in third place.
• Su Yitang told Yang Shan she had obtained three Essence Spirit Crystals and agreed to gather Bafang and Tianpeng for a raid on Spirit Stone Mines.
• Yang Shan absorbed rare treasures during secluded cultivation and broke through the limits of his foundation, gaining a Supreme Foundation.
• Yang Shan used a Perfect Break Sect Pill and one point of Good Fortune to begin the Heart Demon Trial for Dou Zong, accepting the risk of its exceptional difficulty.
• The trial transported Yang Shan to a picturesque valley, where a woman on a distant stone platform told him she had missed him.

Yang Shan met Xiao Xun'er in the Heart Demon Trial and discovered that her combat abilities far exceeded his despite them sharing the same cultivation level. He fought back using his blade techniques and Strange Lightning, but Xiao Xun'er prepared to use her high-grade Earth-tier Emperor Seal Dou Technique.

• Yang Shan reunited with Xiao Xun'er in a special dream, and they reminisced before preparing to fight as part of his trial to break through to Dou Zong.
• Yang Shan checked their combat panels and found Xiao Xun'er's Seven-Color Attack and Dou Qi Intensity far surpassed his own.
• Xiao Xun'er revealed her Golden Emperor Burning Flame, while Yang Shan's Sea Heart Flame emerged and his Strange Lightning joined the fight.
• Yang Shan learned that Xiao Xun'er's Strange Flame had been suppressed, then used his precise blade techniques to gain a temporary advantage while avoiding her trap.
• Xiao Xun'er stopped fighting at close range and announced that she would use the high-grade Earth-tier Emperor Seal Dou Technique.

Yang Shan fought Xiao Xun'er in the Heart Demon Trial, using speed and stealth to counter her overwhelming Dou Skills. He hid beneath the waterfall to wait for her Dou Qi to run low, but Xiao Xun'er found him.

• Xiao Xun'er used Mountain Splitting Seal, and Yang Shan dodged it with Three Thousand Thunder Movement.
• Yang Shan activated Strange Speed and Boundless Sea to overwhelm Xiao Xun'er with rapid attacks, but she protected herself with the Quasi-Heaven Rank Rock Flame Demon Suppression Bell.
• Yang Shan threw a Thunderfire Overload and hid beneath the waterfall, withdrawing Sea Heart Flame to conceal himself while he waited for Xiao Xun'er's Dou Qi to drain.
• A platypus, Spirit Deer, and Spirit Sparrow helped Xiao Xun'er locate Yang Shan, and she found him beneath the waterfall.

Yang Shan passed Xiao Xun'er's Heart Demon Trial and accepted her challenge to clash Dou Techniques head-on. His newly mastered combination of Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls, Sea Heart Flame, and Extraterrestrial Ghoul Lightning overwhelmed her Overturning Earth Seal, and he carried her away from the blast as she praised him.

• Xiao Xun'er used her Spirit Language Art and nearby animals to find Yang Shan, then talked with him about the simple lives of small animals and villagers.
• Xiao Xun'er invited Yang Shan to block her Overturning Earth Seal in a direct clash, promising him a Dou Technique if he performed well.
• Yang Shan learned that he had passed the Heart Demon Trial and accepted the challenge, preparing a powerful move that consumed most of his Dou Qi and Soul Strength.
• Xiao Xun'er unleashed the Overturning Earth Seal while Yang Shan's magical beast phantoms fired Sea Heart Flame and Extraterrestrial Ghoul Lightning, triggering a massive explosion.
• Yang Shan carried Xiao Xun'er away from the blast as it vaporized the waterfall and dried the riverbed, and she praised him.

Yang Shan and Xiao Xun'er reunited in his Heart Demon Trial dream, where she taught him a powerful restriction technique and arranged for them to meet again. As the dream ended, Xiao Xun'er awoke in the Ancient Realm and saw her father watching her.

• Yang Shan and Xiao Xun'er shared food and discussed his lightning-and-fire technique and her cultivation.
• Xiao Xun'er taught Yang Shan the perfected Earth Rank Middle-Level Dou Technique Imprisoning Spirit True Skill and suggested they explore the Sealing Spirit Saint's cave abode together.
• Xiao Xun'er arranged to meet Yang Shan at the summit of the second mountain north of the Spirit Sealing Cave Abode if they had not met before it opened again.
• Xiao Xun'er said farewell as the dream ended, and Yang Shan watched until she vanished.
• Xiao Xun'er awoke in the Ancient Realm, saw a man in hemp clothing nearby, and called him Father.

Xiao Xun'er broke through to Dou Zun and received Gu Yuan’s permission to train in the Central Plains, while Yang Shan emerged from the Heart Demon Trial as the first player to reach Dou Zong with a Supreme Foundation. Yang Shan studied the new realm’s suppression rules and found a flood of messages from Xiao Aotian.

• Gu Yuan congratulated Xiao Xun'er on reaching Dou Zun and agreed that she could continue training in the Central Plains.
• Xiao Xun'er gave Gu Yuan a handmade jade belt hook, and he promised to support her while concealing her friendship with a junior from the clan elders.
• Yang Shan completed the Heart Demon Trial, reached One Star Dou Zong with a Supreme Foundation, and received the title “Number One Dou Zong Under Heaven” through a global announcement.
• Yang Shan allocated his new attributes, improved his combat stats with Extraterrestrial Ghoul Lightning, and learned that each Dou Zong star added 5% realm suppression.
• Yang Shan checked his messages and found that Xiao Aotian had sent him more than thirty complaints and congratulations about not being told of the breakthrough.

Yang Shan learned that Xiao Aotian had earned the title Flame Heavenly King, then accidentally interrupted his triumphant livestream by breaking through to Dou Zong. As Yang Shan considered how to raise his potential and strengthen his abilities, Su Yitang arrived with a Seventh Order Essence Spirit Crystal.

• Yang Shan watched Xiao Aotian's livestream, where Xiao Aotian praised Su Yitang and Yang Shan while declaring that he would become the strongest player.
• Yang Shan's Global Announcement that he had reached Dou Zong cut off Xiao Aotian's speech, and viewers turned Xiao Aotian's stunned reaction into forum memes.
• Xiao Aotian called Yang Shan, complained about his rapid breakthrough, and explained that he had gained the Gold Silver Duo as subordinates and earned a Heaven Ranking place.
• Yang Shan realized his potential remained capped at Nine Star Dou Huang and planned to find a Seventh Order Potential Spiritual Object to strengthen his abilities.
• Su Yitang visited Yang Shan and presented him with a Seventh Order Essence Spirit Crystal as a congratulatory gift.

Yang Shan refined a Seventh Order Essence Spirit Crystal, reached One Star Dou Zong, and rushed to defend White Stone Mountain from Demon Flame Valley and Mysterious Eagle Sect. He destroyed what appeared to be Old Man Ying Shan with an overwhelming attack, but realized it was only a Soul Clone and demanded that Demon Flame Valley’s Great Elders reveal where the real Old Man Ying Shan was.

• Su Yitang gave Yang Shan an Essence Spirit Crystal as a congratulatory gift, and Yang Shan promised to keep carrying her after refining it.
• Yang Shan refined the crystal, raised his Extremely Fast Potential to One Star Dou Zong, and flew to White Stone Mountain after Su Yitang reported another attack.
• Su Yitang used two clones to hold off Demon Flame Valley’s three Great Elders while the Bloodshed Alliance and allied guilds fought Mysterious Eagle Sect.
• Yang Shan saved Yu Feifei from a Six Star Dou Huang and sent the Ink Iron Marshal to help Su Yitang.
• Yang Shan bound Old Man Ying Shan with lightning chains and blasted him with an Overload attack, but received no kill notification and concluded he had destroyed only a Soul Clone.
• Yang Shan confronted Demon Flame Valley’s Great Elders and demanded that they reveal the location of Old Man Ying Shan’s true body.

Yang Shan extorted rare spiritual resources from Demon Flame Valley’s three elders, then arranged foundation-enhancing crystals for Su Yitang, Chao Bafang, and Zhu Tianpeng. After they prepared to join him, he planned to hunt down Han Feng, suspecting him of hiring Old Man Ying Shan to attack.

• Fang Yan mistook Yang Shan’s search for Old Man Ying Shan as a demand for ransom and offered Demon Flame Valley’s resources to spare the elders.
• Yang Shan pressured Fang Yan into handing over three sixth-order Essence Spirit Crystals and a sixth-order Fire Spirit Crystal, and the three elders fled after paying.
• Yang Shan traded the Fire Spirit Crystal for Xiao Aotian’s Mysterious Wind Spirit Grass and gave the grass to Su Yitang.
• Su Yitang obtained an extra sixth-order Essence Spirit Crystal, and Yang Shan gave four crystals to Chao Bafang and Zhu Tianpeng as company benefits.
• Yang Shan suspected Han Feng had hired Old Man Ying Shan and decided to investigate the Mysterious Eagle Sect while bringing his fighters along to gain experience.

Yang Shan gathered Su Yitang, Chao Bafang, and Zhu Tianpeng for a secret operation and confronted Old Man Ying Shan at Mysterious Eagle Sect. After Yang Shan destroyed Ying Shan’s residence, the Five Star Dou Zong emerged and challenged him.

• Yu Feifei took photos with Yang Shan, then introduced him to Huangfu Qiangwei, a Meteor Association member and fan who had considered whether she could assassinate him.
• Su Yitang, Chao Bafang, and Zhu Tianpeng arrived, and Yang Shan left with them for a confidential company operation despite Yu Feifei’s offers to pay to join.
• Yang Shan told Yi Qingyang he would spare Old Man Ying Shan, then flew with his companions to Mysterious Eagle Mountain and confronted Mysterious Eagle Sect.
• Yang Shan dismissed Fourth Elder Tao Ta with his Dou Zong pressure and called out Old Man Ying Shan, blasting the sect’s mountaintop residence with Overload.
• Old Man Ying Shan emerged unharmed, released his Five Star Dou Zong aura, and challenged Yang Shan to fight.

Yang Shan battled Old Man Ying Shan at the Mysterious Eagle Sect, using Overload, close-combat skill, and a coordinated attack with Su Yitang to overpower the Five Star Dou Zong. Old Man Ying Shan escaped the wind attack and demanded that Yang Shan stop pushing him, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Yang Shan boosted his stats with Extraterrestrial Ghoul Lightning and repeatedly used Overload, forcing Old Man Ying Shan to dodge as he closed in.
• Old Man Ying Shan blocked Yang Shan's Blood Roar Blade and counterattacked, but Yang Shan parried the strike, bound him with Thunder Guiding Lock, and battered his Vitality Shield with Frenzy Chop Style.
• Old Man Ying Shan broke the lightning chains, while Su Yitang unleashed the gathered Overload aftershocks in a Heaven and Earth Oddities Aggregate.
• Su Yitang's attack struck Old Man Ying Shan, who then broke free from Azure Valley Netherwind and angrily called for a proper talk with Yang Shan.

Yang Shan used the Four Desolations Remnant Formation and an overloaded Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls to defeat Old Man Ying Shan despite his secret technique. He sealed Old Man Ying Shan’s Dou Qi and held him at blade point, demanding a reason to spare his life.

• Old Man Ying Shan activated a secret technique that raised his level to Seven-Star Dou Zong and launched Nine Heavens Mysterious Eagle Descent at Yang Shan.
• Yang Shan, Su Yitang, Chao Bafang, and Zhu Tianpeng formed the Four Desolations Remnant Formation, which withstood Old Man Ying Shan’s attack.
• Old Man Ying Shan broke the formation with his Dou Skills, but Yang Shan retaliated with an overloaded Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls infused with Sea Heart Flame and Extraterrestrial Ghoul Lightning.
• Yang Shan struck Old Man Ying Shan with the Spirit Locking Seal, disabling his Dou Qi, then held the Blood Roar Blade to his throat.
• Old Man Ying Shan begged Yang Shan to spare him and offered treasures in exchange for his life.