Recaps

While fleeing with Yun Yun and Heavenly Flame Venerable, I used the Time-Space Floating Ice to outrun most of the pursuing experts, only to be intercepted by the Dou Zong Old Man Ying Shan. The nine remaining Dou Emperors recognized him and cursed him, leaving the group trapped between powerful enemies.

• I warned Yun Yun to stay close and told Heavenly Flame Venerable to hide his full strength as we flew north through the pursuing crowd.
• I, Heavenly Flame Venerable, and Yun Yun defeated four Dou Wangs who ambushed us, then continued fleeing as the pursuers fell behind.
• I sensed danger ahead and changed course toward the Tiao Zhi Empire, but Old Man Ying Shan appeared in the sky and blocked our way.
• Old Man Ying Shan demanded that we hand over the Time-Space Floating Ice and threatened to spare our lives if we complied.
• The nine pursuing Dou Emperors recognized Old Man Ying Shan as the infamous former Black Ranking expert and began insulting him.

Ying Shan, Mo Tianxing, and Su Qian confronted the narrator and Heavenly Flame Venerable over the Time-Space Floating Ice, but the narrator persuaded Su Qian to join their side by revealing his identity and offering the remaining ice. The four Dou Zong prepared to fight, leaving the narrator and Yun Yun retreating from the battlefield.

• The narrator called for any hidden Dou Zong, and Heavenly Flame Venerable exposed the Masked Man and another figure hiding nearby.
• The narrator recognized the Masked Man as Mo Tianxing and identified the other newcomer as Su Qian, who admitted he wanted the Time-Space Floating Ice as spoils.
• The narrator hinted that he was the person who had escaped the Canaan Inner Courtyard, and Su Qian recognized his aura and agreed to help in exchange for the remaining Time-Space Floating Ice.
• Mo Tianxing rejected Su Qian's objection and prepared to fight, while Ying Shan, Su Qian, and Heavenly Flame Venerable unleashed their Dou Qi alongside him.
• The narrator suppressed his urge to advance to Dou Zong, led Yun Yun away from the four combatants, and watched the nine Dou Emperors flee.

Fang Yan and the other Demon Flame Valley elders used their Transformation Fire to join Mo Tianxing and Old Man Ying Shan in surrounding Heavenly Flame Venerable and Su Qian. Heavenly Flame Venerable took on the attackers, leaving Su Qian to hold off Mo Tianxing as the battle began.

• Fang Yan planned to seize the Time-Space Floating Ice, but the narrator warned the four Dou Zong about the nearby Dou Huang, forcing them to turn their attention toward the nine pursuers.
• Fang Yan ordered the Demon Flame Valley Second Elder and Third Elder to combine their flames into the Transformation Fire, then persuaded Mo Tianxing and Old Man Ying Shan to attack Heavenly Flame Venerable and Su Qian together.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable dismissed the Transformation Fire as a crude imitation and trapped Fang Yan's firebird with a net of fire.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable told Su Qian to occupy Mo Tianxing while he dealt with Old Man Ying Shan and Fang Yan, then planned to take on Mo Tianxing.
• Su Qian recognized that Heavenly Flame Venerable's presence resembled that of Canaan Academy's guardians and suspected he was a seven-star Dou Zong or stronger.

Fang Yan, Old Man Ying Shan, and two Demon Flame Valley elders joined forces against the Heavenly Flame Venerable, creating and empowering a massive Starry Sky Fire Phoenix. The Heavenly Flame Venerable nullified its first barrage of fire feathers while Su Qian and Mo Tianxing continued fighting elsewhere in the sky.

• Su Qian and Mo Tianxing fought evenly as Fang Yan's firebird was trapped and destroyed by the Heavenly Flame Venerable, injuring Fang Yan slightly.
• Old Man Ying Shan ambushed the Heavenly Flame Venerable from behind, but his hand was badly burned when it struck the Venerable's crimson flames.
• Fang Yan and the two Demon Flame Valley elders combined their transformation fire to form a Starry Sky Fire Phoenix modeled after a Heavenly Demon Phoenix.
• Old Man Ying Shan fed wind energy into the phoenix, increasing its size and power until Fang Yan warned that it was nearing their control limit.
• Fang Yan and the two elders sent the phoenix's fire feathers at the Heavenly Flame Venerable, whose crimson fireball extinguished them all.

Fang Yan and the Demon Flame Valley elders empowered their Starry Sky Fire Phoenix with blood essence, but Heavenly Flame Venerable trapped it in his crimson sea of flames and fought off Old Man Ying Shan’s Blade Storm. As Ying Shan prepared a hidden technique, the narrator sensed danger and fled with Yun Yun, then spotted Ying Shan’s figure amid the dust.

• Fang Yan and the two elders fed their blood essence into the Starry Sky Fire Phoenix, turning it blood-red and sending it diving at Heavenly Flame Venerable.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable engulfed the phoenix in a crimson sea of flames, while Old Man Ying Shan attacked with an azure sword that shattered into a Blade Storm.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable’s flames trapped and burned both attacks, weakening the phoenix until Fang Yan tried to recall it.
• Fang Yan and the elders redirected the phoenix into a desperate counterattack as Old Man Ying Shan began preparing a hidden technique.
• The narrator sensed danger, shouted for Yun Yun to retreat, and spotted Old Man Ying Shan’s figure through the dust.

The narrator and Yun Yun escaped Old Man Ying Shan by tricking him with decoy Rings of Holding, then reached the Heavenly Flame Venerable as he burned Ying Shan. The narrator challenged Fang Yan and his companions and asked Mo Tianxing whether he would keep fighting; Mo Tianxing chose to withdraw.

• Old Man Ying Shan ambushed the narrator and Yun Yun, demanding the Time-Space Floating Ice, so the narrator threw him a decoy Ring of Holding and fled toward the Heavenly Flame Venerable.
• The narrator threw a second decoy ring to stall Ying Shan, who realized he had been tricked and continued pursuing them.
• The Heavenly Flame Venerable engulfed Ying Shan in a sea of fire, while Fang Yan and his two companions blamed Ying Shan and asked for their Starry Sky Fire Phoenix to be released.
• The narrator refused to let Fang Yan and his companions leave and warned them that he could call on two Dou Zong fighters.
• The narrator asked Mo Tianxing whether he still intended to fight, and Mo Tianxing stopped fighting Su Qian and departed.

Su Qian and the Heavenly Flame Venerable killed Fang Yan and Old Man Ying Shan, while two Demon Flame Valley elders escaped. Nalan Ye took Old Man Ying Shan’s corpse and belongings, then headed back to the Nalan Empire with Yun Yun and the Heavenly Flame Venerable, giving Yun Yun the belongings to help her advance.

• Fang Yan launched a desperate attack on Su Qian as the Demon Flame Valley Second and Third Elders fled in separate directions.
• Su Qian killed Fang Yan, and the Heavenly Flame Venerable killed Old Man Ying Shan and gave his corpse to Nalan Ye.
• Nalan Ye declined to pursue the fleeing elders, handed Su Qian the remaining Time-Space Floating Ice, and left with Yun Yun and the Heavenly Flame Venerable.
• Nalan Ye searched Old Man Ying Shan’s belongings and offered them to Yun Yun, who initially refused before accepting them as his promised assistance.

On Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s wedding day, Xiao Yan worried that marrying her would complicate his promise to reunite with Xun Er, while the narrator and Yun Yun watched the procession arrive at the palace. After the wedding rites began, Xiao Yan told Yun Yun he forgave her for breaking off his childhood engagement, then led Nalan Yanran out of the side hall.

• Xiao Yan fretted to Yao Lao that marrying Nalan Yanran would make it harder to face Xun Er when he found her.
• Xiao Li summoned Xiao Yan to dress for the wedding, and Xiao Yan’s procession traveled to the Nalan Imperial Palace.
• The narrator and Yun Yun watched Xiao Yan arrive, and the narrator joined the Nalan family as they prepared to receive him.
• Xiao Yan offered incense at the Nalan Family’s Ancestral Temple, where Nalan Su asked him to treat Yanran well.
• Yun Yun asked Xiao Yan not to hold her past actions against Yanran, and Xiao Yan said he forgave her.
• Xiao Yan and the veiled Nalan Yanran left the side hall together.

After Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s wedding, the narrator visited Heavenly Flame Venerable, who had prepared Old Man Ying Shan’s skeleton as a physical body for the narrator. The narrator began fusing his soul with it, enduring the painful process of growing and burning away flesh as the chapter left the new body still taking shape.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran left the Ancestral Temple together after their wedding, while Yun Yun stayed behind, worried about Yanran’s marriage.
• The narrator and Yun Yun returned to the Nalan Residence and found Heavenly Flame Venerable ready to show the body he had refined.
• The narrator recognized Old Man Ying Shan’s skeleton and agreed to use the Life Bone Blood Fusion Pill to fuse his soul with it.
• The pill’s power grew flesh over the skeleton, and Heavenly Flame Venerable repeatedly burned away the poorly fused tissue.
• The narrator’s soul began bonding with the newly grown muscles, tendons, and meridians as a raw human outline slowly formed.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s wedding was interrupted by Qi Yu and Xia Valley, who came to investigate the deaths of Mu Lan Valley’s Three Elders. Xiao Yan refused to surrender those responsible, and Xia Valley’s men moved to seize him.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran completed their wedding rituals until a tremendous pressure descended over the New Xiao Family Residence.
• Qi Yu, Grand Elder of Xia Valley, demanded that the Nalan Empire send someone to answer for the deaths of Mu Lan Valley’s Three Elders.
• Xiao Yan comforted Nalan Yanran, then confronted the seven Xia Valley experts alongside Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• A Green Robe Dou Huang accused the Nalan Empire of killing the Three Elders and threatened to destroy the nation unless the four murderers were handed over.
• Xiao Yan said the Three Elders had attacked first and mocked the Xia Valley experts, prompting the Green Robe Dou Huang to order his men to seize him.

While Nalan Ye completed the refinement of his new body, Qi Yu of Xia Valley confronted the guests at Xiao Yan’s wedding over the deaths in Mu Lan Valley. Xiao Yan invoked Nalan Ye’s authority to stop the guests from turning against him, while Nalan Ye remained unable to move as Heavenly Flame Venerable used Nether Bloom Liquid to help his soul fuse with his body.

• Qi Yu arrived at the Nalan Empire to investigate the deaths in Mu Lan Valley, but Heavenly Flame Venerable told Nalan Ye to stay focused on refining his body.
• At the New Xiao Family Residence, Hai Bodong tried to calm Qi Yu and asked Xiao Yan to explain what had happened in the Mulan Empire.
• Xiao Yan said the Three Elders of Mulan and others had tried to seize a Magical Beast’s corpse, and he identified Heavenly Flame Venerable, the Poison Sect Master, Little Fairy Doctor, and Nalan Ye as his companions.
• When Hai Bodong and the other guests seemed ready to hand over the killers, Xiao Yan warned them about Nalan Ye’s power; the guests backed down, and Hai Bodong moved behind Xiao Yan as he challenged Qi Yu.
• Nalan Ye finished refining his body but found he could barely move or speak because his soul had not fully fused with it.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable poured Nether Bloom Liquid onto Nalan Ye’s brow to speed the fusion of his soul and body.

Xiao Yan fought the Xia Valley attackers at his wedding and used the Lapis Lazuli Sea Heart Flame to overpower the Green Robe Dou Huang. After the Green Robe Dou Huang injured Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yan tried to kill him, but Qi Yu struck Xiao Yan down with a giant finger of condensed Heaven and Earth Energy.

• The Green Robe Dou Huang led five others into the New Xiao Family Residence, and Xiao Yan confronted him with the Mystic Heavy Ruler.
• Xiao Yan burned the Green Robe Dou Huang's fist with the Lapis Lazuli Sea Heart Flame and destroyed his azure vines, but the Green Robe Dou Huang trapped him in a ball of vines.
• Nalan Yanran rushed to help Xiao Yan, was thrown aside by the Green Robe Dou Huang, and declared that she would protect her husband.
• Xiao Yan burst free from the vines and gathered the Lapis Lazuli Sea Heart Flame into a fireball, threatening to kill the Green Robe Dou Huang for injuring Nalan Yanran.
• Qi Yu formed a massive energy finger and crushed Xiao Yan into a pit despite Xiao Yan resisting with Eight Extremities Collapse.

Xiao Yan broke through from Nine-Star Dou Ling to One-Star Dou Wang while pinned beneath Qi Yu's energy finger, then fought Qi Yu but was captured and nearly killed. An unseen voice intervened to save him and challenged Qi Yu for causing trouble in the Nalan Empire.

• Nalan Yanran attacked the Green Robe Dou Huang to protect Xiao Yan, but his technique threw her aside, and the Xia Valley party demanded information about the four murderers.
• Xiao Yan broke through to One-Star Dou Wang, shattered Qi Yu's energy finger, and rose to protect Nalan Yanran.
• Qi Yu identified Xiao Yan as one of the four murderers and attacked him with green vines, overpowering his flames and preventing him from using the Rage Fire Lotus.
• Qi Yu bound Xiao Yan in the air and sent a vine toward his forehead, but an unseen force struck the vine aside and a voice warned Qi Yu against causing trouble in the Nalan Empire.

Nalan Ye confronted Qi Yu and drew him away from Nalan City before revealing that he was undergoing a Dou Zong breakthrough. Their fight unfolded amid his heavenly tribulation, which grew strong enough to force both men to focus on surviving it.

• Nalan Ye challenged Qi Yu outside Nalan City and led him high above the ground to avoid damaging the city and surrounding land.
• Nalan Ye released his suppressed cultivation and Dao rhyme, summoning a Dou Zong tribulation that surprised Qi Yu.
• Nalan Ye and Qi Yu exchanged punches, then fought with Dou Techniques as the early thunderbolts struck them.
• Hai Bodong, Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran, and Yun Yun watched the battle from below, while Xiao Yan remained badly injured from Qi Yu's earlier attack.
• As the tribulation intensified toward Dou Zong strength, Nalan Ye and Qi Yu stopped attacking each other and struggled against the thunder.

I used the Boundless Human Sea Dou Skill to conceal my aura from the heavenly tribulation, leaving Qi Yu to face the increasingly powerful lightning alone. After the final four-star Dou Zong bolt struck him, the tribulation cloud dispersed, and Qi Yu fell motionlessly, his fate uncertain.

• I drew over a million people’s auras from Nalan City and compressed them into armor that hid me from the heavenly tribulation.
• The tribulation stopped targeting me and focused its lightning on Qi Yu, while I flew away and watched from a distance.
• Qi Yu’s six subordinates tried to approach, but he warned them not to interfere with the heavenly tribulation.
• A four-star Dou Zong bolt struck Qi Yu and sent him falling motionlessly as the tribulation cloud dispersed.

After surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, Ye joined the Nalan Empire’s forces in fighting the Xia Valley attackers and tested the strength of his newly refined body. Just as he was about to kill the Green Robe Dou Huang, Cai Lin appeared and stopped his punch.

• Ye confirmed that his body had been successfully refined, while the Heavenly Flame Venerable examined it and the Xia Valley group tried to retreat with the unconscious Qi Yu.
• Ye ordered the Nalan Empire’s fighters to kill the Xia Valley attackers and charged the Green Robe Dou Huang to test his new body.
• The Green Robe Dou Huang blocked Ye’s punch with a wooden stake, injuring Ye’s fist, then protected himself with layers of Green Vine Armor.
• Ye used Lightning Fire Thunder Chariot to shock the Green Robe Dou Huang, breaking down his armor and sending him falling.
• Ye pursued the Green Robe Dou Huang and prepared to kill him, but Cai Lin intervened and stopped Ye’s fist with her hand.

After discovering that Xia Valley was a vassal of the Heavenly Snake Mansion, which had a Dou Sheng, the narrator feared that killing Qi Yu would bring disaster on everyone. Cai Lin offered to seek the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s help, but asked the narrator to come with her to the Central Plains.

• Cai Lin stopped the narrator from striking Qi Yu and the Green Robe Dou Huang, then revealed that the Heavenly Snake Mansion had a Dou Sheng.
• The narrator told the Heavenly Flame Venerable to capture the Xia Valley party alive and followed Cai Lin to a secluded mountain forest.
• Cai Lin explained that the Snake-People Tribe had old ties with the Heavenly Snake Mansion and could plead for the matter to be dropped.
• The narrator questioned whether the Shared Life and Death Secret Technique would protect him from a Dou Sheng, then offered to repay Cai Lin’s favor.
• Cai Lin asked the narrator to come with her to the Central Plains.

Cai Lin revealed that the Snake-People Tribe’s ancestral treasure could only be opened with her Medusa Bloodline and an Inheritance King Seal held by the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and Nalan Ye agreed to consider accompanying her to the Central Plains. After returning to Nalan City, he resumed Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s wedding, which ended with the newlyweds entering the bridal chamber.

• Cai Lin explained that the Snake-People Tribe’s ancestral land contained a great treasure and that the Heavenly Snake Mansion held the Inheritance King Seal needed to open it.
• Nalan Ye suspected the Heavenly Snake Mansion might betray Cai Lin after the ancestral land opened and agreed to consider traveling with her to the Central Plains.
• Cai Lin and Nalan Ye returned to Nalan City, where the Heavenly Flame Venerable had captured the Xia Valley Seven and sealed their cultivation.
• Nalan Ye introduced Cai Lin as an honored guest and ordered the wedding to continue despite the battle’s damage to the Xiao Residence.
• Nalan Ye persuaded Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran not to postpone the wedding, and the couple completed the Joint Cup Ceremony.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran entered the bridal chamber as the guests celebrated.

During Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s wedding night, another heavenly tribulation descended, revealing that Nalan Ye’s earlier attempt to evade it had only delayed his breakthrough. Nalan Ye survived the renewed, mutated tribulation but was badly injured by its final bolt as the clouds finally dispersed.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran left their bridal chamber when a powerful pressure and tribulation clouds appeared over Nalan City.
• Nalan Ye realized the heavenly tribulation had locked onto him again after his Boundless Human Sea technique temporarily fooled it during the day.
• Nalan Ye flew beyond the city with the Heavenly Flame Venerable and Cai Lin, but the tribulation clouds followed and grew stronger as heavenly punishment for his earlier evasion.
• Nalan Ye countered the first lightning bolt and endured the following strikes while the Heavenly Flame Venerable watched with fascination and Cai Lin observed from nearby.
• Nalan Ye used Lightning Fire Thunder Chariot against the final bolt, but it struck through his defenses and left him severely wounded.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, and Nalan Ye laughed with relief that the heavenly tribulation had ended.

After recovering from his tribulation, Nalan Ye discussed the Snake-People Ancestral Land with the Heavenly Flame Venerable and learned why the Snake-People remnants had abandoned their Small World. They concluded that it had been sealed for over a thousand years and was now a lifeless land, leaving Nalan Ye curious about what awaited them there.

• Xiao Meier rushed to Nalan Ye's bedside in alarm, and he reassured her that he was only sleepy and hungry.
• Nalan Ye joked with Xiao Meier over breakfast about how he had refined his new body.
• Nalan Ye told the Heavenly Flame Venerable what Cai Lin had revealed about the Snake-People Ancestral Land, and the Venerable agreed they could pursue it.
• The Heavenly Flame Venerable explained that Small Worlds depended on Earth Qi from the Great World and had to open their gateways to replenish it.
• Nalan Ye realized that the Snake-People had likely fled because opening their Small World's gateway would expose them to their enemies, and he concluded that the sealed ancestral land had become lifeless.

Cai Lin offered access to the Amethyst Saint Pool to secure help for an expedition to the Snake-People Ancestral Land. Her account of the Heavenly Snake Mansion's extensive power left the narrator reconsidering the expedition's risks.

• The narrator and Heavenly Flame Venerable decided to accompany Cai Lin to the Snake-People Ancestral Land, then summoned her to discuss the risks and rewards.
• Cai Lin revealed that the Amethyst Saint Pool could weaken Heavenly Tribulations and heal injuries, attracting Heavenly Flame Venerable with its usefulness during a Dou Sheng Tribulation.
• Cai Lin offered the narrator one use of the reusable pool, while he privately planned to bring allies to compete for other treasures.
• The narrator recognized that his intended allies needed time to strengthen themselves or recover their bodies before the expedition.
• Cai Lin explained that the Heavenly Snake Mansion controlled nearly twenty countries through the Mang Dynasty, the Four Seasons Dynasty, and subordinate sects.
• Cai Lin described an ancient pact that excluded the narrator's territory from both the Heavenly Snake Mansion's and the Black-Corner Region's expansion, and the narrator called for careful consideration of the expedition.

Nalan Ye treated the captive Qi Yu and blamed the conflict on the Three Elders of Mulan to delay Xia Valley while the Nalan Empire's fighters grew stronger. Qi Yu remained suspicious and resolved to escape and return to the Da Xia Dynasty.

• Nalan Ye decided to buy time for the Nalan Empire after discussing its situation with Heavenly Flame Venerable and Cai Lin.
• Nalan Ye visited the seven captive Xia Valley members and used his Dou Zong aura to silence the Green Robe Dou Huang.
• Nalan Ye gave Qi Yu a fifth-rank healing pill and helped him refine it with Dou Qi.
• Nalan Ye blamed the Three Elders of Mulan for attacking first and persuaded Qi Yu to promise an investigation while keeping the party under house arrest.
• Nalan Ye postponed visiting the Snake-People Ancestral Land and hoped to delay Xia Valley for half a year or longer.
• Qi Yu recognized the threat posed by the Nalan Empire's three Dou Zong powerhouses and decided he needed to escape to the Da Xia Dynasty.

The narrator deepened his comprehension of the Human Great Dao and agreed to leave for the Snake-People Ancestral Land with Cai Lin in one year. Cai Lin explained the mismatch between his lightning attribute Dou Qi and his Dao domain, prompting him to consider creating five Human Great Dao Dou Skills.

• The narrator regained awareness after sunbathing and discovered that his Great Dao comprehension had increased from eleven to fourteen percent.
• Cai Lin revealed that her bloodline had returned twenty-four percent toward the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's ancestral source.
• Cai Lin rejected the narrator's proposed two-year delay and secured his agreement to depart for the Snake-People Ancestral Land in one year.
• The narrator identified Boundless Human Sea as his own creation and told Cai Lin that he had comprehended the Human Great Dao.
• Cai Lin explained that his lightning attribute Dou Qi could not receive his Dao domain's amplification and advised him to create compatible Dou Skills.
• The narrator concluded that he needed to develop three offensive techniques, one defensive technique, and one short-range movement technique.

Nalan Ye struggled to find inspiration for his own Human Great Dao Dou Skills, then watched Xiao Yan demonstrate a technique he had created. Xiao Yan’s Six Harmonies Roaming Body Ruler could not harm Nalan Ye, but he vowed he would eventually surpass him.

• Nalan Ye left the Dou Skills Pavilion after learning that Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan had returned to the Imperial Palace for a family banquet.
• At the banquet, Nalan Ye toasted Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan and wished them a long marriage and a child.
• Nalan Ye, Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yan admired the palace’s starlight roses, and Xiao Yan recognized them as ingredients used in alchemy.
• Nalan Ye told Xiao Yan he was having trouble creating a Dou Technique, so Xiao Yan demonstrated his Six Harmonies Roaming Body Ruler.
• Nalan Ye stood in the path of Xiao Yan’s increasingly powerful attacks without using Dou Qi, and the attacks failed to injure him.
• Xiao Yan admitted that he currently fell short of Nalan Ye but declared that he would surpass him one day.

After realizing his Human Great Dao Dou Skill could borrow power from people, Ye developed a Human Dao Domain and began testing a technique that used human aura against cultivators. His first test killed a prisoner, while a second showed that human aura would not merge with Dou Qi, leaving him searching for a solution.

• After returning to the Dou Skills Pavilion, Ye realized that Dou Techniques could borrow power from people rather than the natural world.
• Ye climbed the Imperial Palace and used the million people in Nalan City to form his Human Dao Domain, whose radius revealed that he had comprehended a little over fourteen percent of the Human Great Dao.
• Ye considered using chaotic human aura to weaken cultivators or contaminate their Dou Qi, then requested death-row prisoners to test the idea.
• Ye gathered human aura around a prisoner and formed a pierce seal, accidentally killing him.
• Ye carefully tested the technique on a burly Dou Master prisoner and found that human aura could enter his body but remained separate from his Dou Qi.