Chapter Summaries

Yang Shan arranged for Jin Shankao and Yu Feifei to support Su Yitang in Sound Valley while he prepared to refine an Eighth Grade Fire Bodhi Pill for Huo'er. After Tang Zhen supplied the formula and ingredients, Yang Shan began refining as the Flame Clan prodigies watched, leaving Huo Zhi to wonder whether he was really a centuries-old expert in disguise.

• Yang Shan learned that Sound Valley and the Nether Sect were nearing a clash over an inheritance realm, then arranged for Jin Shankao and Yu Feifei to help Su Yitang secure an opportunity if Ji Fengchun fell.
• Tang Zhen presented Yang Shan with the Fire Bodhi Pill formula, and Yang Shan recognized its potential value for players seeking to refine Beast Flames.
• Yang Shan completed five simulated refinements, then prepared to make the pill with Tang Zhen's Shan Rong Cauldron and assistance.
• Tang Zhen twice failed to decompose the ingredients, so Yang Shan took over the refinement himself while the Flame Clan prodigies watched.
• Huo Ran speculated that Yang Shan was a seven- or eight-hundred-year-old expert pretending to be young, and Huo Zhi admitted the idea seemed somewhat reasonable.

Yang Shan refined a Three-Colored Fire Bodhi Pill after nearly triggering an explosion, then collected Tang Huo'er’s gift: a Quasi-Saint Weapon cloak she had designed for him. Tang Huo’er’s favorability toward Yang Shan rose to 69 as he accepted the cloak and agreed to wear it.

• Yang Shan’s first attempt at refining the Fire Bodhi Pill nearly exploded when he injected too much Soul Strength, so Tang Zhen, Huo Zhi, and Yang Shan used their three Heavenly Flames to burn the pill embryo into slag.
• Yang Shan carefully refined the pill again, succeeded in Spirit Injection, and completed a Three-Colored Fire Bodhi Pill.
• Yang Shan sent his Thunder Phantom Body to disperse the Pill Lightning while Tang Zhen praised his successful refinement and directed him to collect his reward from Tang Huo’er.
• Tang Huo’er gave Yang Shan a deep crimson cloak she had designed and had the Flame Clan’s Ninth Grade artificer make.
• Yang Shan teased Tang Huo’er about the gift before telling her he liked it, and her favorability increased by five points to 69.

Yang Shan accepted Tang Huo'er's Monarch Saint Cloak and gave her the Three Thousand Thunder Movement inheritance before leaving Burning Flame Valley to repay a debt of love at the Flower Sect. He reached the sect's hidden entrance, where its gatekeepers challenged him and True Disciple Hua Jin arrived.

• Tang Huo'er presented Yang Shan with the Monarch Saint Cloak, and he gave her the Three Thousand Thunder Movement inheritance in return.
• After Tang Huo'er fell asleep from drinking, Yang Shan told Tang Zhen he was leaving for the Flower Sect and could not promise to marry Tang Huo'er.
• Tang Huo'er revealed she had been pretending to sleep, and Tang Zhen urged her to cure her hidden ailment, cultivate, and pursue Yang Shan.
• Yang Shan traveled to the Flower Sect's concealed headquarters, followed his token through its maze formations, and reached the mountain entrance.
• Two Flower Sect disciples challenged Yang Shan, then True Disciple Hua Jin emerged from a spatial rift.

Yang Shan reunited with Yun Yun at the Flower Sect, where she fought Hua Jin after Yang Shan said Hua Jin wanted his body. The three elders intervened, accepted Yang Shan’s evidence of Hua Jin’s harassment, and publicly denied her claim to be the sect’s future leader, leaving Hua Jin furious and plotting against him.

• Yang Shan’s pressure revealed that he had reached Two Star Dou Zun, and he called for Yun Yun at the Flower Sect entrance.
• Yun Yun arrived and attacked Hua Jin after Yang Shan said she wanted his body, then declared him the man she loved.
• The three Flower Sect elders stopped the fight and questioned Yang Shan and Hua Jin about what had happened.
• Yang Shan showed an Image Retaining Pearl recording of Hua Jin flirting with him, and the elders apologized for her conduct.
• Plum Elder dismissed Hua Jin’s claim to be the future Sect Leader, while Hua Jin developed murderous intent toward Yang Shan.

Yang Shan reunited with Yun Yun at the Flower Sect, learned that Hua Jin had tried to hire the Soul Sweeping Tower to kill her, and then presented a token from Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s founder to the sect’s elders. The token brought the Flower Sect’s hidden Grand Elders, Qing Xiao and Hua Ze, before him, but neither recognized the old connection he claimed Chen Zhanghao had sent him to find.

• Yang Shan asked Yun Yun to show him around the Flower Sect, teased her about disappearing, and accepted a meal as her apology.
• Yun Yun and Yang Shan shared their experiences, and she explained that she had joined the Flower Sect to gain power for the sake of Hua Yu and Yang Shan.
• Yang Shan told Yun Yun that Hua Jin had tried to hire the Soul Sweeping Tower to kill her, and explained how Mister E had redirected the job to protect her.
• After their meal, Yang Shan presented the elders with a token from Chen Zhanghao and said he had come to deliver a message to an old acquaintance.
• The elders verified the token and summoned Qing Xiao and Hua Ze, but Azure Fairy said neither Grand Elder knew of an old connection with Chen Zhanghao.

Yang Shan used the Flower Grace Token to request the Flower Sect’s concealment and illusion arts, and the Green-Hua Two Immortals let him enter Flourishing Flower Valley after he swore not to pass on what he learned. Inside, he met the Flourishing Flower Fairy, the Flower Sect’s hidden founder and a Myriad Illusion Divine Flower, who was responsible for the legacy he sought.

• Azure Fairy explained that the Flower Grace Token allowed its bearer to make one request of the Flower Sect, and Yang Shan asked to learn its concealment and illusion arts.
• Splendor Fairy ordered Yun Yun to prepare to become Acting Sect Leader and promised that she and Azure Fairy would help her master Hua Yu’s legacy.
• Yang Shan swore a Heavenly Oath and followed the Green-Hua Two Immortals into Flourishing Flower Valley, while Yun Yun vowed to grow strong enough to fight beside him.
• The Green-Hua Two Immortals explained that entrants had to comprehend their own concealment and illusion arts in the secret realm, where Yang Shan sensed that his Heaven and Earth Oddities were afraid.
• A flower transformed into a woman, introduced herself as Flourishing Flower Fairy, and revealed that she was the Myriad Illusion Divine Flower and the source of the Flower Sect’s legacy.

Yang Shan presented the Flower Grace Token to Flourishing Flower Fairy and discovered that Yu Fairy, the Flower Sect’s second-generation Sect Leader, had once loved Chen Zhanghao. He spun a tale about Zhanghao’s hardships and enduring feelings for Yu Fairy, leaving her eager to learn why he had refused to reclaim his bloodline.

• Flourishing Flower Fairy summoned Yu Fairy after Yang Shan presented the Flower Grace Token, and Yu Fairy recognized the token she had bestowed.
• Yang Shan checked Yu Fairy’s status and learned she had loved Chen Zhanghao, who had fled after telling her he could not control his fate.
• Yang Shan called Yu Fairy his Grand Ancestral Mother and claimed he knew why Zhanghao had left her, then used Apricot Blossom Wine to begin his account.
• Yang Shan told Yu Fairy that Zhanghao had been born into the Thunder Clan with a Seventh Grade Bloodline, suffered oppression, and drained away his bloodline before making his name in the Central Plains.
• Yang Shan claimed Zhanghao had refused the Thunder Clan’s demands to reclaim his Dou Di Bloodline because doing so would force him to continue his lineage, and Yu Fairy anxiously asked why he had made that choice.

Yang Shan reassured Yu Fairy about Lei Zhanghao, then Flourishing Flower Fairy began guiding him in illusion arts using his Heaven and Earth Oddities. Yang Shan cleared two stages of an illusion trial, but the third stage raised the challenge to 1,100 tigers.

• Yu Fairy concealed her emotional reaction with illusion arts and asked Yang Shan where Lei Zhanghao was; Yang Shan explained that he had returned to the Thunder Clan and still needed time.
• Flourishing Flower Fairy warned that Yu Fairy had at most fifty years to live without reaching Dou Sheng, and Yang Shan promised to report the matter to Lei Zhanghao.
• Yu Fairy left to cultivate, and Flourishing Flower Fairy recognized Yang Shan’s Sea Heart Flame and Extraterrestrial Ghoul Lightning as ideal foundations for illusion and concealment arts.
• Flourishing Flower Fairy guided Yang Shan into an Insight Secret Realm, where he identified and killed the real tiger among ten illusions, then cleared a second stage with one hundred tigers.
• Yang Shan killed five real tigers among one hundred, but mistakenly defeated one illusion; the third stage then presented 1,100 tigers and required him to kill twenty real ones.

Yang Shan comforted an exhausted Su Yitang, then learned that Break-Dignity Realm had become a high-stakes contest for Eight-Colored Spirit Flowers. After the Big Shot Squad entered the realm and scattered across its enormous map, Yang Shan resumed the Myriad Illusion Divine Flower’s trial, encouraged by the promise of increasingly powerful illusion techniques.

• Su Yitang gave Yang Shan freshly squeezed green lemon juice, and he pretended it had cured his dizziness to spare her feelings before helping her fall asleep.
• Yang Shan read about Break-Dignity Realm, where players and NPCs competed for Eight-Colored Spirit Flowers that could unlock additional Dou Zun slots.
• Chao Bafang and Zhu Tianpeng organized top players into the Big Shot Squad, but the realm scattered them at random; Yang Shan warned them not to act recklessly.
• Cute Girl Customer Service 007 told Yang Shan that passing his trial would earn him an Earth Rank High Grade illusion technique, followed by Quasi-Heaven Rank and Heaven Rank rewards for later trials.
• Yang Shan canceled the trial’s pause and continued searching among thousands of Silver Armor Profound Tigers for the real ones.

Chao Bafang survived a pack of Shadow Demon Wolves with Zhu Tianpeng’s help, and the pair joined up with the married players Fusheng and Ruomeng. Their reunion was interrupted when the Seventh Grade Bloodline prodigy Chao Bafang had fled from caught up to them.

• Chao Bafang used Yue Xuan Sand and his halberd to kill a Blazing Fire Spirit Lion, then fled when eight hundred Shadow Demon Wolves surrounded him.
• Chao Bafang prepared to record his last stand, but Zhu Tianpeng arrived with a flood and combined Ten Thousand Jun Sinking Water with Yue Xuan Sand to crush the wolf pack.
• Fusheng and Ruomeng joined Chao Bafang and Zhu Tianpeng, and the two bros gathered the battlefield’s drops using their Heaven and Earth Oddities.
• Chao Bafang told Zhu Tianpeng that a prodigy from the Nine Netherworld Python Clan had nearly poisoned him to death.
• Zhu Tianpeng spotted the approaching prodigy, and Chao Bafang urged everyone to run.

Yang Shan completed the Flourishing Flower Fairy’s grueling illusion trial and comprehended the low Heaven Rank Dou Skill Sea Abyss Illusion Arts. A global announcement rewarded him as the first Player to create a Heaven Rank Dou Skill, while the Flourishing Flower Fairy marveled at his achievement.

• Players crowded the Break-Dignity Realm, where competition for Eight-Colored Spirit Flowers drove them to form groups and factions.
• Yang Shan continued his difficult trial in a rainforest, searching for one last camouflaged magical beast after finding 119 of the 120 targets required.
• Yang Shan’s Apricot Blossom Wine landed on a Woodboring Moth disguised as deadwood, revealing it and completing the trial.
• The system awarded Yang Shan the low Heaven Rank illusion Dou Skill Sea Abyss Illusion Arts, which required Sea Heart Flame, powerful Soul Strength, and high Comprehension.
• The Flourishing Flower Fairy praised Yang Shan for achieving what many future Dou Di had not managed in their youth, while Yang Shan credited his hard work.
• A global announcement named Yang Shan the first Player to create a Heaven Rank Dou Skill and granted him stat and attribute rewards.

After Yang Shan’s Global Announcement that he had created a Heaven Rank Dou Skill, Xiao Aotian regained his resolve and completed Heavenly Flame Venerable’s revival. Yang Shan then entered Flourishing Flower Fairy’s Hidden Law trial, where he faced a koi-identification challenge.

• Xiao Aotian learned from Heavenly Flame Venerable that a Heaven Rank Dou Skill was extraordinarily rare, then recovered from his discouragement after Heavenly Flame Venerable encouraged him.
• Xiao Aotian finished refining Heavenly Flame Venerable’s new body, and Heavenly Flame Venerable promised to stay by his side for ten years.
• Xiao Aotian asked Yang Shan how he had comprehended a Heaven Rank Dou Skill, and Yang Shan showed him his comprehension score of 179.
• Yang Shan discussed the upcoming Hidden Law Trial with Su Yitang, warning her to help Ba Fang and Lao Zhu retreat safely after the Break-Dignity Realm event.
• Flourishing Flower Fairy sent Yang Shan into the Hidden Law trial after he gave her Apricot Blossom Wine, and the first stage asked him to identify the only female koi among ten fish.

Yang Shan completed the Heaven Rank Ghoul Stealth Art and rushed to the Soul Sweeping Mountain Range after learning that a powerful Soul Devouring Wolf was attacking the Soul Sweeping Branch Hall. He reunited with Protector Wu and set out with him and Hun Dan to confront the wolf while Zhaixing Heavenly Venerate recovered.

• Yang Shan completed the Heaven Rank Ghoul Stealth Art, and the Flourishing Flower Fairy praised his mastery of concealment arts.
• The Break-Dignity Realm event ended, and Yang Shan decided that Su Yitang should help Sound Valley secure a medium-sized spirit vein while the other Dou Zun Players pursued their assigned opportunities.
• Yang Shan learned that a concealed Soul Devouring Wolf stronger than Old Ghost Zhaixing had been attacking Soul Sweeping Tower and killing dozens of people in each raid.
• Yang Shan left for the Soul Sweeping Mountain Range after discovering that Wind and Thunder Pavilion's senior figures were all unavailable, and he summoned Protector Wu for help.
• Yang Shan met Hun Dan at the Soul Sweeping Branch Hall and learned that Zhaixing Heavenly Venerate had been injured by the wolf.
• Yang Shan, Protector Wu, and Hun Dan headed out to draw the Soul Devouring Wolf away and confront it.

Yang Shan, Hun Dan, and Wu Ying drove off a powerful Soul Devouring Wolf whose secret technique resembled an inheritance clue Yang Shan had been seeking. Back at the Soul Sweeping Branch Hall, Hun Xian and Old Mu Bone pressured Old Ghost Zhaixing to abandon Hun Dan, and an angry visitor arrived as the dispute continued.

• Yang Shan appraised the Soul Devouring Wolf and joined Hun Dan and Wu Ying in battling it, using his stronger soul power to suppress it.
• The Soul Devouring Wolf unleashed eleven soul phantoms and a devastating howl, then vanished after the three men exhausted much of their Dark Soul Mist.
• Yang Shan recognized a resemblance between the wolf’s secret technique and Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls, renewing his suspicion that the inheritance’s next opportunity lay somewhere in the Soul Sweeping Mountain Range.
• Hun Dan received news that his brother had arrived, and Yang Shan ordered Wu Ying to investigate spies while he and Hun Dan returned to the branch hall.
• Hun Xian and Old Mu Bone urged Old Ghost Zhaixing to leave Hun Dan, but Zhaixing refused because he believed the Soul Sweeping Tower offered his best chance at advancement.
• An unseen arrival complained about the arguing in the reception hall and demanded to know who was barking.

Hun Dan used Yang Shan’s recording of Hun Xian’s attack to force him to abandon his claim on the Soul Devouring Wolf, then negotiated a deal over Venerable Yao’s mission. Yang Shan received valuable cultivation resources and arranged to meet Gu You, who appeared before him after he logged back in.

• Hun Dan provoked Hun Xian into striking him, and Yang Shan recorded the attack for use against him.
• Hun Dan threatened to report Hun Xian to Gu You and presented the recording as evidence, forcing Hun Xian to negotiate instead.
• Yang Shan learned that Soul Clan prodigies were competing for the mission to capture Venerable Yao, and Hun Dan agreed to help Hun Xian secure it in exchange for resources.
• Hun Dan distributed cultivation resources to Yang Shan, Old Ghost Zhaixing, and Wu Ying after Hun Xian left.
• Yang Shan asked Hun Dan to arrange a meeting with Gu You, then saw Gu You waiting for him when he logged back in.

Yang Shan met with Second Heavenly Venerate Gu You to discuss Soul Hall’s conflict with Venerable Yao and the risks of capturing him. Gu You considered making amends by handing over those involved in the old operation, then offered Yang Shan powerful rewards to serve Soul Hall and planned to use the Yao Clan in resolving the dispute.

• Yang Shan told Gu You that Venerable Yao’s connections made the conflict with Soul Hall especially dangerous and urged him to locate Venerable Yao or hand over Old Mu Bone and everyone involved in the operation against him.
• Gu You said Soul Hall had also sent four Elders to assist Old Mu Bone and would consider how to resolve the matter after returning.
• Yang Shan’s system warned him that his intervention had greatly changed the still-unbegun “Revival of Venerable Yao” storyline, and he asked Gu You to notify him of Soul Hall’s decision.
• Gu You praised Yang Shan’s honesty and potential, offered him Soul Hall’s soul essence and Heaven Rank inheritances, and told him to build ties with Blade Sovereign and Mystic Wrath Thunder Saint.
• After Yang Shan left, Gu You explained to Mo Yu why Soul Hall needed to recruit and cultivate talent, then ordered him to warn Old Eight that they would have to make concessions to Venerable Yao.
• Gu You decided Soul Hall could use the Yao Clan to settle its enmity with Yao Chen.

Yang Shan and his companions defeated the Soul Devouring Wolf, but collecting its soul triggered a clue to the follow-up opportunity for "Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls." He entered a secret realm, where the Yellow Spring Demon Saint appeared and revealed that Yang Shan had obtained the inheritance trial of the Ten Thousand Souls Ancient Emperor.

• Yang Shan led Hun Dan, Old Ghost Zhaixing, and Wu Ying into the fog-covered valley, where the Soul Devouring Wolf ambushed them and repeatedly attacked as they retreated.
• Yang Shan taunted the Soul Devouring Wolf into emerging, then restrained it with Dark Soul Mist while Old Ghost Zhaixing, Wu Ying, and Hun Dan wounded it and drained its blood.
• The group killed the Soul Devouring Wolf, and Old Ghost Zhaixing, Hun Dan, and Wu Ying took most of the kill contribution as Yang Shan struggled to deal enough damage.
• As Yang Shan tried to capture the wolf's soul, a system notice offered him a chance to enter a special secret realm, and he accepted.
• Yang Shan appeared before a pack of Soul Devouring Wolves and met the Yellow Spring Demon Saint, who said Yang Shan had obtained the inheritance trial of the Ten Thousand Souls Ancient Emperor.
• Yang Shan challenged the Yellow Spring Demon Saint's judgment of his abilities, and the Saint fell silent.

Yang Shan proved his unusual abilities to Yellow Spring Demon Saint and Ten Thousand Souls Ancient Emperor, earning recognition as the inheritor best suited to receive the ancient emperor's inheritance. Yellow Spring accepted Yang Shan's talent and apologized, while Ten Thousand Souls prepared to continue testing him.

• Yellow Spring Demon Saint challenged Yang Shan's qualifications, but Yang Shan demonstrated his alchemy, transformations, techniques, and ability to cultivate three Heaven and Earth Oddities.
• Ten Thousand Souls Ancient Emperor appeared and explained that Yellow Spring had stayed behind to keep his remnant soul company, though Yellow Spring still doubted Yang Shan's weak Soul Strength.
• Yang Shan revealed that he had cultivated his soul through Pure Soul Energy, and Ten Thousand Souls identified it as a method created by his disciple Hun Ming, founder of the Soul Clan.
• Yang Shan displayed Supreme Void Power, and Ten Thousand Souls recognized him as the inheritor he had awaited because he had refined a Void Divine Fruit at the Dou Zong Peak.
• Ten Thousand Souls compared Yang Shan's comprehension with Yellow Spring's past achievements, and Yellow Spring conceded that Yang Shan was exceptionally talented and apologized for offending him.

Yang Shan gained the Ten Thousand Souls Ancient Emperor’s recognition but learned he could not claim the inheritance until his soul reached the Heaven Realm. After the Path to Contention for Dignity filled all eighty-eight Dou Zun slots, the system activated the major storyline about finding and helping Yao Chen.

• The Ten Thousand Souls Ancient Emperor recognized Yang Shan as a potential inheritor and told him to return to Fallen Soul Valley once his soul reached the Heaven Realm.
• Yang Shan awoke to find Hun Dan had mistaken his stopped breathing for death and Wu Ying had offered to become his gravekeeper.
• Yang Shan told Hun Dan about the hidden inheritance and proposed using the information to make a deal with Blade Sovereign.
• Yang Shan learned that his companions had gained opportunities of their own, while players across the Central Plains struggled to advance to Dou Zun during the Heart Demon Trial.
• Yang Shan took Soul Hall missions, explored the Soul Sweeping Mountain Range, and reached Three-Star Dou Zun as the server’s Dou Zun slots filled.
• The system announced that Yao Chen had returned to the Central Plains and launched the Venerable Yao’s Resurrection storyline, calling on players to find and assist him.

Yang Shan joined the search for Venerable Yao but left when Hun Dan summoned him to Soul Sweeping Branch Hall. There, Second Heavenly Venerate Gu You arrived to inspect Soul Sweeping Tower and assign Cheng E an important task.

• Yang Shan and the other players searched the Northern Region and Southern Domain for Venerable Yao while following the event rules that limited NPC involvement.
• The players compared search results, joked over their communications, and agreed that the search came down to luck.
• Hun Dan told Yang Shan that Gu You would visit Soul Sweeping Branch Hall, so Yang Shan left the search in Su Yitang's hands and headed there.
• Little Yao Xi teased Su Yitang about kissing Yang Shan and said she thought he was a very nice person.
• Five days later, Gu You arrived at Soul Sweeping Branch Hall, where Hun Dan, Yang Shan, Old Ghost Zhaixing, and Wu Ying greeted him.
• Gu You announced that he had come to inspect Soul Sweeping Tower and send Cheng E on an important task.