Chapter Summaries

Qing Yue fled Lion Underworld Sect with the unconscious Qing Lin after the sect attacked Heavenly Serpent Mansion, but her injuries and soul-burning left her near death. Chen Cheng and Yun Yun arrived as the pursuers cornered her, and Yun Yun agreed to take Qing Lin away.

• Qing Yue escaped Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s ambush with Qing Lin while three Lion Underworld Sect Dou Zong pursued them.
• Chen Cheng spotted the chase from his Three-Eyed Golden Eagle, and Yun Yun recognized Qing Yue.
• Qing Yue ran out of strength, fell, and briefly frightened her attackers with a final burst of strength before collapsing.
• The three Dou Zong moved to seize Qing Lin, but an unseen force sent them flying as Chen Cheng’s group arrived.
• Yun Yun helped Qing Yue and offered her a medicinal pill, but Qing Yue refused and asked Yun Yun to take Qing Lin away.
• Yun Yun agreed to protect Qing Lin.

Chen Cheng killed three Lion Underworld Sect elders while Qing Yue sacrificed her life to pass her cultivation to Yun Yun, who rose to Five-Star Dou Zong. The Lion Underworld Sect’s master failed to identify the killer, while Qing Xuan vowed to destroy the sect in revenge for Qing Yue.

• Chen Cheng used the Star Absorbing Great Art to drain and kill three Dou Zong, and the Howling Celestial Hound took their Storage Rings.
• Qing Yue sacrificed herself to transfer her cultivation to Yun Yun and asked her to protect Qing Lin.
• Yun Yun grieved for Qing Yue, reached Five-Star Dou Zong, and received Qing Yue’s Storage Ring as a keepsake from Chen Cheng.
• The Lion Underworld Sect’s master arrived too late to identify the killer and left with the three elders’ bodies.
• Qing Xuan learned that Qing Yue had died and ordered the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to prepare to exterminate the Lion Underworld Sect.

Yao Lao awakened and helped Xiao Yan advance, but the Soul Hall attacked the Xiao Family in pursuit of the Tou She Ancient God Jade and captured Yao Lao. Ling Ying rescued the gravely wounded Xiao Yan and brought him to Xun'er, who vowed to destroy the Soul Hall after learning he might never cultivate again.

• Yao Lao awakened and praised Xiao Yan for reaching the Seventh Stage Dou Qi, promising to help him defeat Nalan Yanran and reach the pinnacle of the world.
• With Yao Lao's aid, Xiao Yan advanced to Dou Zhi Li Rank 8 and vowed to repay Nalan Yanran for her humiliation.
• Protector Wu and the Soul Hall attacked the Xiao Family, killed over seventy percent of its clansmen while searching for the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and fought Xiao Yan and Yao Lao.
• Ling Ying intervened but was badly injured, so Yao Lao suppressed Protector Wu long enough for Ling Ying to carry Xiao Yan away; Protector Wu then captured Yao Lao before fleeing from approaching experts.
• Ling Ying took five days to reach Xun'er, whose divine doctor said Xiao Yan's meridians and dantian were destroyed and that he might never cultivate again.
• Xun'er erupted with killing intent and vowed to destroy the Soul Hall for what it had done to Xiao Yan.

Chen Cheng investigated the Xiao Family massacre in Wutan City, identified the Soul Hall as responsible, and ordered Fa Hai to hunt down its members across the Tianshu Empire. He left Xiao Yu with her surviving relatives and visited Murong Zhi and Ya Fei before heading back toward Anyang City.

• Lin Zhanxiang sealed Wutan City after the Xiao Family was attacked, and the Great Elder told him how the family had been nearly wiped out.
• Chen Cheng arrived with Xiao Yu, Bai Suzhen, Fa Hai, and Howling Celestial Hound, and promised the Great Elder he would answer for the attack.
• Chen Cheng sensed the Soul Hall's aura and ordered Howling Celestial Hound and Fa Hai to locate and eliminate its members in the empire.
• Chen Cheng had Fa Hai release Iron Protector from the Purple Golden Bowl and used the Fallen Heart Flame to force him to reveal information about the Soul Hall and its followers.
• Chen Cheng left Xiao Yu in Wutan City with her relatives and visited Murong Zhi and Ya Fei at Precious Jade Workshop.
• Chen Cheng ended his visit and headed back toward Anyang City.

Chen Cheng strengthened the Chen Family and set out for the Central Plains, arriving at Horizon City with his companions. The Luo Family first mistook his group for an opportunity to hunt a Magical Beast, then invited them to land after realizing their strength.

• Chen Cheng oversaw the Chen Family’s growth, arranged new weapons and cultivation projects, and prepared to leave for the Central Plains.
• Chen Cheng sent elite soldiers to the Black-Corner Region, recalled Han Feng, and accepted Hai Bodong’s map of spatial teleportation routes.
• Chen Cheng traveled through the teleportation formation toward Horizon City, where the Three-Eyed Golden Eagle drew the attention of the Luo Family.
• The Luo Family’s experts flew up to capture the supposed Sixth Order Magical Beast, then noticed Chen Cheng’s formidable companions and nervously offered them hospitality.

Chen Cheng and his companions traveled through a spatial wormhole to Blood Mausoleum City, where they encountered a Wang Family guard harassing the women in their group. After Chen Cheng restrained the guard, Wang Quan approached to apologize, leaving Chen Cheng holding the guard’s twisted arm as he assessed Wang Quan.

• Chen Cheng led his companions through the Luo Family’s spatial wormhole toward Blood Mausoleum City, and Nezha dealt with a spatial storm along the way.
• After the group reached Blood Mausoleum City, Chen Cheng sent Three-Eyed Golden Eagle to arrange lodging and took the others sightseeing.
• A Wang Family guard invited Yan Lingji, Yun Yun, and Xiao Yi Xian to meet his young master, then tried to touch Nezha when the women refused.
• Chen Cheng seized and twisted the guard’s arm, while the guard invoked the Yellow Spring Venerable and his family’s ties to the Yellow Spring Pavilion.
• Wang Quan realized Chen Cheng’s group was far stronger than he had assumed and approached with an apology, identifying himself as the guard’s master and Wang Chen’s younger brother.

Chen Cheng ordered Nezha and Sun Wukong to beat Wang Quan and his guards despite Wang Quan invoking his ties to the Yellow Spring Venerable. As Chen Cheng went to eat sweets with Yan Lingji, Yun Yun, and Xiao Yi Xian, Three-Eyes joined the beating and was told to leave Wang Quan alive for questioning.

• Chen Cheng snapped a Dou Ling guard's arm after Wang Quan's men harassed Yan Lingji and the other women.
• Wang Quan bowed and hid his anger, hoping his connection to the Yellow Spring Pavilion would keep Chen Cheng from retaliating.
• Chen Cheng told Nezha and Sun Wukong to beat Wang Quan and his guards, then left with the women for a dessert shop.
• Nezha and Sun Wukong knocked down Wang Quan and the guards and beat them while the crowd celebrated.
• A bystander ran to alert the Wang Family, and Three-Eyes returned, joined the beating, and kept Wang Quan alive for Chen Cheng to question.

Chen Cheng and his companions confronted the Wang Family after Nezha and the others beat Wang Quan’s men, and the Three-Eyed Golden Eagle defeated Wang Chen in one strike. Yellow Spring Venerable attacked Three-Eyes, so Chen Cheng and the others flew to intervene, leaving Wang Quan to fear that his family had provoked a far stronger force.

• Nezha and the others dragged six beaten men to the dessert shop while Chen Cheng and the women continued eating inside.
• Yellow Spring Venerable arrived with his followers after learning that Wang Quan had been beaten, and Chen Cheng led his companions outside.
• Wang Chen attacked the Three-Eyed Golden Eagle with a blood-colored saber, but Three-Eyes struck him a hundred kilometers away and left him severely injured.
• Yellow Spring Venerable attacked Three-Eyes to avenge Wang Chen, and Chen Cheng decided to join the battle.
• Wang Quan watched Chen Cheng and five companions fly after Yellow Spring Venerable and feared that his family could not withstand them.

Chen Cheng and his companions rescued the Three-Eyed Golden Eagle from Yellow Spring Venerable, who had tried to capture it as a mount. After Yellow Spring Venerable gave Chen Cheng a map of the Central Plains, Chen Cheng offered to spare his life if he could withstand one move.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Eagle evaded Yellow Spring Venerable until its strength waned, then shattered his spatial seal with its Death Ray.
• Nezha struck Yellow Spring Venerable with the Universe Ring, badly injuring him, and Chen Cheng's group gathered around the rescued eagle.
• Yellow Spring Venerable realized Chen Cheng's group greatly outmatched him and denied plotting to seize Chen Cheng's companions when Yan Lingji called out his thoughts.
• Chen Cheng asked Yellow Spring Venerable for a complete map of the Central Plains, and Yellow Spring Venerable handed over a terrain stone that revealed the map through soul power.
• After receiving the terrain stone, Chen Cheng offered to spare Yellow Spring Venerable if he survived one move, and Yellow Spring Venerable accepted confidently.

Chen Cheng killed Yellow Spring Venerable by draining his Dou Qi, captured his soul, and sent Sun Wukong to take over Yellow Spring Pavilion. After refining Yellow Spring Venerable’s energy and soul in seclusion, Chen Cheng emerged as a late Six-Star Dou Zun and considered how far he would go to gain more power.

• Yellow Spring Venerable agreed to withstand one move, but Chen Cheng used the Star Absorbing Great Art to drain him dry and kill him.
• Chen Cheng captured Yellow Spring Venerable’s soul in a jade bottle, took his Storage Ring, and ordered Sun Wukong to seize Yellow Spring Pavilion.
• Chen Cheng returned to Blood Mausoleum City and entered seclusion, leaving Nezha to guard him while the others went out.
• Chen Cheng spent seven days refining Yellow Spring Venerable’s energy and three more refining his soul, reaching late Six-Star Dou Zun.
• Chen Cheng considered draining the leaders of three other factions for their energy, then questioned how lightly he was beginning to regard human life.

Chen Cheng used a summoning chance while Yun Yun, Yan Lingji, and Xiao Yi Xian were pursued by five Dou Zong after Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body drew their attention. The women lured their pursuers into Fallen God Stream and began fighting them within Xiao Yi Xian’s poison array.

• Chen Cheng gathered ingredients for more Seventh Grade Pills and one Eighth Grade Pill, then used a summoning chance.
• Five Dou Zong pursued Yun Yun, Yan Lingji, and Xiao Yi Xian, seeking to bring Xiao Yi Xian to their valley master.
• The three women entered Fallen God Stream, where Xiao Yi Xian formed a poison array that suppressed their pursuers while protecting the women.
• Yun Yun took on the Nine-Star Dou Zong, while Yan Lingji and Xiao Yi Xian confronted the other four pursuers.
• Yan Lingji used the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame to raise her cultivation to Six-Star Dou Zong and attacked the Three Star Dou Zong.
• Yun Yun grew furious at the Nine-Star Dou Zong’s advances and attacked him with her sword and a poison-laced whirlwind.

The three women fought Ice River Valley experts in Fallen God Stream, where Yan Lingji’s powerful Heavenly Flame attack killed another Dou Zong. As the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast watched and considered retreating, a young man in black and a youth in lotus treasure armor appeared beside him and asked for the three beasts’ Rank 7 Magic Cores.

• The Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast and his two Rank 7 subordinates secretly watched the battle, and he became fixated on Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body.
• Yun Yun fought a Nine-Star Dou Zong evenly while Xiao Yi Xian and Yan Lingji gained the upper hand against Ice River Valley’s other experts.
• Yan Lingji killed Elder Bing Zhan with an Earth Rank Advanced Heavenly Flame Splitting Earth Skill, and Xiao Yi Xian killed Elder Bing Chun with a hidden poisonous needle.
• Xiao Yi Xian held off two Six-Star Dou Zong while Yan Lingji charged her final technique, then Yan Lingji burned one of the opponents to ash with a compressed Heavenly Flame attack.
• A young man in black and a youth in lotus treasure armor appeared beside the watching beasts, and the young man asked the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast and his subordinates for their Rank 7 Magic Cores.

Chen Cheng and Nezha captured three magical beasts while Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yan Lingji defeated Ice River Valley’s attackers. Chen Cheng trapped the fleeing Nine-Star Dou Zong in a spatial seal until he collapsed, then prepared to leave with his companions to find Wukong.

• Nezha used the Universe Ring to capture three fleeing magical beasts, and Chen Cheng ordered him to deal with them for their monster cores.
• Yan Lingji and Xiao Yi Xian helped Yun Yun defeat Ice River Valley’s forces; Yan Lingji fainted from exhaustion, and the Nine-Star Dou Zong escaped through a spatial wormhole.
• Chen Cheng reunited with Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian, gave Yan Lingji a medicinal pill, and revealed that he had sealed the surrounding space.
• The Nine-Star Dou Zong repeatedly emerged from wormholes in the same place until exhaustion left him unable to move.
• Nezha collected the beasts’ materials, the fallen Dou Zong’s belongings, and their fleeing soul bodies; Chen Cheng ordered him to bind the captured Nine-Star Dou Zong before they went to find Wukong.

After taking over Yellow Spring Pavilion, Sun Wukong gave its resources to Chen Cheng, who prepared to attack Ice River Valley and refined four demon puppets from its elders. As Qin Yan Yang refined a pill at the pavilion, repeated bursts of pill lightning made him suspect that Sun Wukong had recruited three Tier-7 Alchemists.

• Sun Wukong handed Yellow Spring Pavilion’s treasures to Chen Cheng, who ordered him and Nezha to organize an attack on Ice River Valley after he emerged from seclusion.
• Chen Cheng refined four puppets from Dou Venerable corpses and Ice River Valley elders’ souls, planning to strengthen them into Heavenly Demon Puppets with thunder.
• Qin Yan Yang worked for three days to refine a Creation Life Pill while two Dou Zong elders waited to help him resist its pill lightning.
• Qin Yan Yang and the elders spotted two distant bursts of pill lightning and assumed that two other Tier-7 Alchemists had refined pills.
• The elders resisted Qin Yan Yang’s pill lightning, then another burst appeared in the distance, leading Qin Yan Yang to conclude Sun Wukong had recruited three Tier-7 Alchemists.

Chen Cheng refined pills in Yellow Spring Pavilion, culminating in a pill that drew Seven-Colored Pill Lightning and astonished Qin Yan Yang. The lightning strengthened four Heavenly Demon Puppets to Dou Venerable-level combat strength.

• Chen Cheng stopped refining Seventh Grade Pills for the night after drawing ten rounds of Pill Lightning, while Yellow Spring Pavilion's disciples grew confident in their new master and prepared to attack Ice River Valley.
• The next morning, Qin Yan Yang witnessed more than twenty rounds of Pill Lightning and suspected that a supreme alchemist was working in the back mountain.
• Chen Cheng refined an eighth grade pill, and Qin Yan Yang recognized its Five-Colored Pill Lightning as a sign of a rare master alchemist.
• Chen Cheng added Spirit Nurturing Dust to improve the pill, turning the lightning six-colored and then seven-colored as Qin Yan Yang watched in shock.
• Chen Cheng ordered four Heavenly Demon Puppets to endure the Seven-Colored Pill Lightning, and they absorbed it, gaining combat strength ranging from Four-Star to Seven-Star Dou Venerable.

After refining a pill that advanced him to Nine-Star Dou Zun, Chen Cheng led Yellow Spring Pavilion’s army to attack Ice River Valley for revenge. The army reached the valley headquarters, where Chen Cheng demanded to see the valley master so he could borrow something.

• Chen Cheng captured the seven-colored rabbit Pill Beast, then gave Xiao Yi Xian a poison pill that raised her cultivation to Eight-Star Dou Zong.
• Chen Cheng swallowed his eighth-grade pill and endured a day and night of pain as his cultivation rose from Six-Star to Nine-Star Dou Zun.
• Chen Cheng traveled with Yellow Spring Pavilion’s army to Ice River Valley, where their arrival alarmed the valley’s guards.
• A Yellow Spring Pavilion Dou Zong attacked the Ice River Valley guards, killing more than a dozen disciples as the army advanced toward headquarters.
• He Gu and six other Ice River Valley Dou Zong confronted Chen Cheng, who said he wanted to borrow something and asked them to call out the valley master.

Chen Cheng and Sun Wukong confronted Ice River Valley, and Chen Cheng effortlessly incapacitated its forces with a soul attack. As Tian Shuangzi’s icy spectacle continued, Chen Cheng shielded Yellow Spring Pavilion’s troops and turned the snowfall into thousands of falling ice blocks, leaving Ice River Valley’s disciples in danger.

• Chen Cheng struck He Gu and Ice River Valley’s forces with a soul attack, sending their experts crashing to the ground.
• Chen Cheng ordered a Yellow Spring Pavilion Dou Zong to summon Ice River Venerable, and the group waited for Ice River Valley’s Great Elder, Tian Shuangzi.
• Tian Shuangzi’s arrival brought a fierce snowstorm and crushing cold, so Chen Cheng expanded his shield to protect Yellow Spring Pavilion’s ten thousand disciples.
• Chen Cheng used his Ice Attribute energy to form thousands of massive ice blocks, which began falling toward the Ice River Valley disciples.

Chen Cheng sent the Heavenly Demon Puppet to fight Tian Shuangzi, who was overwhelmed and badly injured while Ice River Valley waited in vain for its Valley Master. Tian Shuangzi fled through a spatial wormhole with his young disciple, abandoning the other Ice River Valley disciples and killing a Dou Emperor who tried to follow.

• Chen Cheng summoned the Heavenly Demon Puppet, which quickly overpowered Tian Shuangzi despite his Ice Attribute attacks.
• Yellow Spring Pavilion’s disciples celebrated their strength, while Ice River Valley’s disciples panicked over Tian Shuangzi’s defeat and their missing Valley Master.
• Chen Cheng considered capturing Ice River Valley’s Valley Master to obtain the Acquired Calamity Poison Body for Chen Yuan or Chen Ye.
• The Heavenly Demon Puppet battered Tian Shuangzi into a mountain, leaving him severely injured.
• Tian Shuangzi opened a spatial wormhole and took his young female disciple, then killed a Dou Emperor who tried to enter after them.

Chen Cheng captured Tian Shuangzi after stopping his escape and agreed to spare his disciple in exchange for information about a Dou Sheng cave abode. After learning the girl was Xue Qianlan and claiming her as his disciple, Chen Cheng obtained Tian Shuangzi’s records and a sword carrying Ice River Valley Master Bing He’s aura, then killed Tian Shuangzi.

• Chen Cheng pulled Tian Shuangzi and his disciple from a spatial wormhole and confined them, while the Yellow Spring Pavilion elders watched in shock.
• Tian Shuangzi offered the location and investigation records of a Dou Sheng cave abode in exchange for Xue Qianlan’s life, and Chen Cheng gave her a poison pill to ensure her obedience.
• Tian Shuangzi erased Xue Qianlan’s memories and entrusted her to Chen Cheng, who declared her his disciple and warned the others to keep her identity secret.
• Tian Shuangzi gave Chen Cheng his Storage Ring, including Xue Qianlan’s Ice Attribute cultivation method and records about the Dou Sheng remains, and revealed that the Ling Han Sword carried Bing He’s aura.
• Chen Cheng took the Ling Han Sword and killed Tian Shuangzi with the Star Absorbing Great Art.

After Yellow Spring Pavilion captured Ice River Valley, Chen Cheng returned with the unconscious Xue Qianlan and learned that the Ice Venerable had fled to Soul Hall for protection. He introduced Xue Qianlan to his companions as his disciple and hinted that Yun Yun might have an opportunity at Flower Sect.

• Sun Wukong ordered Yellow Spring Pavilion's disciples to capture Ice River Valley's survivors and loot the sect after Tian Shuangzi's death.
• The Ice Venerable joined Soul Hall under Star Plucking Old Ghost's protection and agreed to help guard an important prisoner.
• Chen Cheng returned to Yellow Spring Mountain Range carrying Xue Qianlan, and Yan Lingji, Yun Yun, and Xiao Yi Xian questioned him about her.
• Chen Cheng explained that Xue Qianlan's memories had been erased, and Yun Yun took her in as a disciple and arranged for her care.
• Chen Cheng told Xiao Yi Xian that the Ice Venerable had escaped, then suggested Yun Yun might pursue an opportunity at Flower Sect.