Recaps

Nalan Ye and his companions waited in Horizon City while the Space Wormhole was repaired, then set out for the Central Plains. The group entered the wormhole, leaving the Northwest Territory behind as the Luo Clan Dou Emperor wondered about their origins.

• Nalan Ye learned that the Space Wormhole had broken and agreed with Qing Yue to wait in the city rather than risk exposing the group.
• When the wormhole remained broken the next day, Qing Yue sent Long Xi to help repair it, and Long Xi returned after securing a generous payment from the Luo Clan.
• The group left Horizon City on their third day and reached the Space Wormhole, where a Luo Clan Dou Emperor recognized Long Xi and waived their travel fee.
• Nalan Ye said farewell to the Northwest Territory, then entered the wormhole with the Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin as the rest of the group followed.
• The Luo Clan Dou Emperor speculated about the travelers’ identities, then returned to his pavilion to enjoy tea and guard the wormhole.

A sinister Dou Zong destroyed Horizon City's newly repaired space wormhole, trapping Nalan Ye and his companions in a space channel as they traveled toward the Central Plains. A space storm tore through the passage, and Heavenly Flame Venerable and Wang Ping rushed to protect the group.

• A middle-aged Dou Zong disguised himself as a traveler and destroyed the Luo Clan's space wormhole, then fled as Luo Cheng and the clan's fighters pursued him.
• Nalan Ye and the others entered the space channel and learned from Heavenly Flame Venerable that they would have to fly through it without a working Space Ship.
• Qing Yue took Qing Lin to the Heavenly Snake Mansion's group while Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor flew at the rear.
• Nalan Ye noticed the spatial barriers behind the group shattering as a space storm poured into the passage.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable realized the storm had been caused by Horizon City's destroyed wormhole and formed a barrier to protect Nalan Ye, Cai Lin, and Little Fairy Doctor, while Wang Ping also acted to shield the group.

After surviving the collapse of a Space Channel, the severely wounded narrator woke in a caravan near Heavenly North City and realized the young woman who had saved him was not Han Xue. When he mentioned Han Yue, the caravan guards suspected him of being a Han Clan assassin, and he lay down as they argued over whether to kill him.

• A caravan found the narrator nearly dead in the Northern Desolate Desert and rescued him at the young lady’s order, despite Hong Chong believing he would not survive.
• The narrator woke in the carriage, recalled the Space Channel collapse, and discovered his Ring of Holding was still on his finger.
• Hong Chong introduced the young lady, and the narrator mistook her for Han Xue after recognizing the familiar circumstances of Xiao Yan’s arrival in the Central Plains.
• The narrator mentioned Han Yue, prompting Hong Chong and the guards to accuse him of being a Han Clan assassin and prepare to kill him.
• The young lady stopped the guards and challenged their suspicions, but Hong Chong insisted the narrator’s wounds were a deliberate ruse; the narrator lay down to rest.

After a Space Storm left Ye Lao Na severely wounded, he met Hong Zhuer of the Hong Clan and let her help stitch his injuries. As he recovered in the caravan overnight, he considered using the Hong Clan’s conflict with the Han Clan to obtain Lightning techniques from the Wind and Lightning Pavilion.

• Ye Lao Na gave Hong Zhuer a false name and claimed he had studied at Canaan Academy, convincing her he was no assassin.
• Hong Zhuer gave Ye Lao Na a Third Grade Healing Pill and helped stitch his gaping wound after he asked her to.
• Hong Chong warned Ye Lao Na to stay in the carriage while the caravan camped for the night.
• Ye Lao Na took a Sixth Grade Healing Pill made by Gu He and began treating his injuries.
• Ye Lao Na considered whether to help the Hong Clan or Han Clan, then decided the Hong Clan might help him acquire techniques from the Wind and Lightning Pavilion.

After recovering enough to travel, Ye won the Hong Clan caravan’s respect by rewarding its guards with gold coins and learned they would pass through Ten Thousand Snake Gorge. The caravan entered the gorge and was ambushed by Demon Snake Xia Mang, leaving Ye ready to step in.

• Ye emerged from the carriage, gave Hong Chong a box of gold coins, and earned the guards’ respect.
• Hong Zhuer shared breakfast with Ye, who confirmed that the caravan would pass through Ten Thousand Snake Gorge.
• Hong Chong led the caravan into the gorge, ordering the guards to stay alert and scatter snake-repelling powder.
• Giant snakes and swarms of venomous snakes blocked the caravan’s path, and Demon Snake Xia Mang appeared above them.
• Hong Chong and the guards recognized Xia Mang, while Ye anticipated a chance to defeat him.

Ye watched Xia Mang flee after Hong Zhuer invoked the Han Family and Wind and Lightning Pavilion, then continued with the caravan toward Heavenly North City. When Han Dong ambushed the Hong Clan caravan and nearly captured Hong Zhuer, Ye intervened and left Han Dong staggered back.

• Hong Zhuer revealed her ties to the Han Family and Hong Chen, so Xia Mang abandoned his attack and fled Ten Thousand Snake Gorge.
• Hong Chong explained that the caravan had tried to pass through the gorge quietly to protect Hong Zhuer, and the journey continued toward Heavenly North City.
• Han Dong and his men ambushed the Hong Clan caravan with volleys of arrows, killing and wounding guards.
• Hong Zhuer confronted Han Dong, refused to go with him, and was knocked back when she tried to fight him.
• Ye stepped in, dispelled Han Dong's attack with Soul Power, and asked him to withdraw.

Ye used his hidden Human Aura technique to disable Han Dong and the Han Clan’s attackers, then accepted Hong Zhuer’s invitation to stay with her family while recovering. He planned to investigate the situation and seek the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s Dou Techniques.

• Ye warned Han Dong to leave, but Han Dong ordered his men to attack the convoy.
• Ye released Human Aura that contaminated the Han Clan fighters’ Dou Qi, causing them to suffer backlash and collapse.
• Han Dong accused Ye of being a Poison Master and charged at him, but Ye disrupted his Dou Qi and knocked him down.
• Hong Zhuer thanked Ye for saving her and invited him to her home, and Ye accepted so he could recover and investigate the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s techniques.

After Ye helped Hong Zhuer escape the Han Clan, he brought her back to Heavenly North City, where her father Hong Li questioned him about Canaan Academy. Ye impressed Hong Li with his answers and warned Hong Zhuer that Hu Jia liked pretty girls, before Hong Li summoned them to the Council Hall.

• Ye ordered Hong Chong to kill thirteen Han Clan members in retaliation for the Hong Family Guards who had died, then spared Han Dong.
• Han Dong begged Ye for an antidote, and Ye gave him a jar of plain water, claiming it would cure the poison if he drank it and dispersed his Dou Qi.
• The caravan reached Heavenly North City, and Hong Zhuer invited Ye to the Hong Residence.
• Hong Zhuer told her father, Hong Li, how the Han Clan had tried to capture her, prompting him to summon the Elders and Elder Shen Yun.
• Hong Li questioned Ye about Canaan Academy, and Ye claimed to rank in the top ten of its Strong Ranking List.
• Ye warned Hong Zhuer that Hu Jia liked girls like her, startling her, before Hong Li led them toward the Council Hall.

Ye Lao Na attended the Hong Clan council as Hong Chen proposed a duel with the Han Clan and demanded to marry both Han Yue and Han Xue if he won. Ye offered to persuade Han Yue to marry Hong Chen, but left for the Han Clan with a plan to gain control of both clans and the Wind and Lightning Pavilion.

• Hong Li convened the Hong Clan elders to discuss Han Dong's attack on Hong Zhuer, while Shen Yun declined to dictate how the clan should handle the matter.
• Hong Chen proposed dueling a Han Clan fighter in three days, with the Hong Clan agreeing not to trouble the Han Clan for ten years if he lost and demanding Han Yue and Han Xue as wives if he won.
• Ye Lao Na offered to persuade Han Yue to marry Hong Chen willingly, and Hong Li agreed to let him try.
• Hong Chen reminded Ye to secure Han Xue as well, and Ye left the Hong Residence for the Han Clan with a plan to take control of the clans and the Wind and Lightning Pavilion.

Ye Lao Na entered the Han Clan residence and told Han Yue that the Hong Clan planned to force a duel, with her and Han Xue promised to Hong Chen if the Han Clan lost. He offered two plans, leaving Han Yue shocked when his second proposal was that she marry Hong Chen and use her beauty to tame him.

• Ye Lao Na visited the Han Clan claiming to be Han Yue's schoolmate, but Han Dong recognized him as the Poison Master who had ruined the clan's business and killed thirteen Dou Ling.
• Han Yue confirmed that she knew Ye Lao Na, while Han Chi halted Han Dong and the elders when Ye Lao Na claimed to represent the Hong Clan.
• Ye Lao Na asked to speak privately with Han Yue, and she took him to her courtyard for tea.
• Ye Lao Na explained the Hong Clan's proposed duel and said Han Yue and Han Xue would have to marry Hong Chen if the Han Clan lost.
• Ye Lao Na offered to use his poison to help Han Yue win the duel, then argued that victory would not end the Han Clan's vulnerability.
• Ye Lao Na told Han Yue to marry Hong Chen willingly and use her beauty to tame him into a groveling dog.

The Left Envoy urged Han Yue to protect the Han Clan by defeating Hong Chen and deciding for herself whether to marry him, then arranged for the Hong Clan to search for Qing Lin. As the duel at the Heaven Stone Platform approached, Hong Chen insisted he wanted both Han sisters, while the Left Envoy wondered whether Hong Li might obstruct Han Yue.

• The Left Envoy told Han Yue that she could preserve the Han Clan by defeating Hong Chen in their duel and urged her to make her own choice afterward.
• Han Yue resolved to fight alone and keep Han Xue from marrying Hong Chen.
• The Left Envoy told Hong Li that Han Yue had refused the marriage arrangement and asked him to find Qing Lin; Hong Li agreed and gave him a Sixth Grade Healing Pill.
• Hong Chen angrily objected when the Left Envoy said Han Xue would not marry him, declaring that he wanted both sisters.
• The Left Envoy accepted Hong Li's pill and left the study, suspecting that Hong Li could pose a threat to Han Yue.

A duel between the Hong Clan and the Han Clan began on the Heaven Stone Platform, with Han Yue fighting Hong Chen to decide whether she would be forced to marry him. Han Yue held off Hong Chen’s stronger attacks with her sword, but the fight was still underway.

• The narrator watched from the Hong Clan’s terrace as crowds gathered and the Han Clan arrived with Han Yue.
• Hong Li and Han Chi exchanged taunts before Hong Chen and Han Yue entered the platform.
• Hong Chen attacked with lightning and his Wind and Lightning Claw, while Han Yue countered with her Snow Jade Long Sword.
• Han Yue blocked Hong Chen’s rapid claw attacks by forming a Sword Enclosure as the pressure mounted.

Han Yue killed Hong Chen after Ye secretly disrupted his Dou Qi, turning their duel into a deadly conflict between the Han Clan, the Hong Clan, and the Wind and Lightning Pavilion. The chapter ended with Hong Li threatening to annihilate the Han Clan while Han Yue stood by her actions.

• Han Yue and Hong Chen fought fiercely until Hong Chen brought out the Heavenly Lightning Hammer and began overpowering her.
• Han Yue prepared her ultimate Dou Technique, and Ye secretly sent human aura into Hong Chen to sabotage his Dou Qi.
• Hong Chen’s Annihilation Lightning Hammer failed, causing his Dou Qi to turn chaotic and leaving him collapsed and badly injured.
• Han Yue ignored Shen Yun’s attempt to stop her and beheaded Hong Chen, declaring that she would not marry him.
• Hong Zhuer wept and Hong Li led the Hong Clan elders onto the platform, threatening to destroy the Han Clan; Han Yue answered that life and death were left to fate in a duel.

After Han Yue killed Hong Chen in their duel, Han Chi tried to protect her from the furious Hong Clan and the Wind and Lightning Pavilion. Shen Yun declared that the Pavilion would not intervene, but Hong Li still threatened war unless Han Yue paid with her life.

• Han Chi shielded Han Yue and argued that Hong Chen’s death was an accidental consequence of a duel, while Hong Li demanded revenge.
• Hong Li invoked Hong Chen’s status as a North Pavilion inner disciple to pressure Shen Yun into taking the Hong Clan’s side.
• Shen Yun ruled that Hong Chen had died in a duel and that the Wind and Lightning Pavilion would not intervene.
• The narrator suspected Shen Yun’s decision protected both the Pavilion’s reputation and Shen Yun himself, and wondered whether Han Yue had anticipated it.
• Hong Li threatened war against the Han Clan unless Han Yue atoned for Hong Chen’s death with her life.

After Hong Chen’s death, Hong Li led the Hong Clan into war against the Han Clan, driving its elders back to the fortified Han Residence. Ye Gege withdrew from the fight but secretly returned to Heavenly North City, while Hong Li prepared a ground assault on the Han Clan’s defenses.

• Hong Li rejected Han Chi’s defense of Han Yue and ordered the Hong Clan elders to destroy the Han Family, beginning a battle at the Heaven Stone Platform.
• Hong Zhuer tried to join the fight and begged Ye Gege to kill Han Yue, while Han Yue’s remark about no longer needing to marry Hong Chen made Hong Li suspect Ye Gege would support the Han Clan.
• Ye Gege said he would help neither side, flew out of Heavenly North City, then secretly returned.
• As the Hong Clan drove the Han Clan back toward the Han Residence, the Han Clan’s weapons and several thousand Dou Zhe halted the pursuing elders with a barrage.
• Hong Li refused to summon the Hong Clan ancestor and ordered his elders to land and attack the Han Clan Battle Formation from the ground.

Hong and Han Clans fought a devastating battle for Heavenly North City, where the Han Clan’s desperate use of Breaking Cauldron Pills forced Hong Li’s first assault to retreat. As a second, more brutal offensive began and the city descended into chaos, the narrator reconsidered how to obtain the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s Dou Techniques.

• Hong Li led nearly twenty Hong Clan Elders into the Han Residence, but Han Chi and the Han Family Elders intercepted them.
• A Han Clan Dou Ling used a Breaking Cauldron Pill to kill Hong Kun by self-detonating, and four more sacrificed themselves to kill a Hong Clan Two-Star Dou Emperor.
• Hong Li withdrew his surviving elders, while the narrator watched the battle and weighed pursuing Feng Qing'er, ambushing Shen Yun, or abandoning the task.
• The Hong Clan army arrived and began a second assault with siege weapons as looters ransacked Heavenly North City.
• Both clans sent pill-enhanced elite troops into close combat, and the narrator observed that the battle had become deadly for fighters of every rank.

The narrator left the Han and Hong clans’ battle to loot the Hong Clan auction house under a black robe, but Hong Xiaotian caught him and struck him down. The chapter ended with the narrator apparently unconscious and Hong Xiaotian heading toward the Han Clan.

• The narrator left the attic and found the Han Clan auction house already stripped of its valuable goods, then went to the Hong Clan auction house.
• Wu Mu recruited the narrator to help raid the Hong Clan auction house, and the narrator punched its Dou Wang guard aside and looted its upper floors.
• The narrator found a large piece of thunderstone on the sixth floor and considered having it made into a weapon.
• Hong Xiaotian arrived, killed Wu Mu with a punch, and killed or injured most of his mercenaries before confronting the narrator.
• The narrator claimed he had mistaken the Hong Clan auction house for the Han Clan’s, but Hong Xiaotian punched him through the building and left him apparently unconscious.

After surviving Hong Xiaotian’s punch, I left the Hong Clan Auction House and watched the battle at the Han Residence, where the Han Clan’s elders used enhancement pills to fight back. As the Hong Clan ancestor arrived and the Han Clan revealed its Asura Corpse Pill, I slipped away to loot the undefended Hong Residence.

• I woke after Hong Chi tried to take my Ring of Holding, knocked him unconscious, and left the Hong Clan Auction House.
• The Han Clan elders gained an advantage by taking multiple enhancement pills, while Hong Li called for Hong Xiaotian to join the battle.
• Hong Xiaotian arrived above the Han Residence and rejected Han Chi’s appeal to their clans’ former friendship.
• The aged Han Clan Dou Emperor swallowed the Asura Corpse Pill and transformed into a zombie.
• I decided to take advantage of the Hong Clan’s absence and hurried to loot its residence.

The narrator infiltrated the Hong Clan’s underground treasury and discovered Shen Yun fighting beyond a Soul-blocking metal gate. He ambushed Shen Yun as the gate broke, stabbing him with a poisoned sword and blasting the gate apart, leaving the two Dou Zong powerhouses face-to-face.

• The narrator slipped past the Hong Family Guards and entered the Hong Clan’s underground treasury through its open main door.
• He descended through several metal gates and sensed a powerful Dou Zong aura beyond one gate, which he recognized as Shen Yun’s.
• The narrator decided to wait for Shen Yun to return with treasures, then prepared a sword coated in the Little Fairy Doctor’s poison.
• When Shen Yun’s blows cracked the gate, the narrator sensed him through the opening and thrust his sword through it, stabbing him.
• The narrator used Lightning Fire Thunder Chariot to shatter the weakened gate, sending its fragments flying into Shen Yun.

The narrator defeated Shen Yun, a Wind and Lightning Pavilion elder, in the Hong Family Underground Treasury and captured his soul. While searching Shen Yun’s Ring of Holding, the narrator learned that he claimed to know the secret of becoming a Dou Sheng.

• The narrator fought Shen Yun in the passageway and used Red Dust Rolling to disrupt his Three Thousand Lightning Movements.
• The narrator beat Shen Yun to death with repeated attacks, then confronted the injured soul that emerged from his corpse.
• Shen Yun threatened the narrator with the Wind and Lightning Pavilion and offered to let them go their separate ways.
• The narrator trapped Shen Yun’s soul in a Treasure Bottle and shocked it with lightning until it stopped resisting.
• As the narrator searched Shen Yun’s Ring of Holding, Shen Yun offered to reveal the secret of becoming a saint, leaving the narrator astonished.

The narrator forced Shen Yun to reveal that the Secret of Becoming a Saint lay deeper in the Hong Clan’s underground passage, where a Dou Sheng Relic was guarded by four powerful puppets. After reaching the golden gate, the narrator prepared to face them and questioned how the Han Clan had ever matched the Hong Clan’s strength.

• The narrator threatened to destroy Shen Yun’s soul until Shen Yun revealed that the Secret of Becoming a Saint was deeper in the passage.
• The narrator sensed a decaying Dou Sheng-level aura and realized the Hong Clan’s vault held a Dou Sheng Relic.
• Shen Yun explained that four peak nine-star Dou Huang puppets guarded the depths and could combine their strength to reach the level of a two-star Dou Zong.
• The narrator cautiously passed through the passage and reached a golden gate, with Shen Yun excitedly imagining the power the relic could bring.
• The narrator stored Shen Yun’s bottle and found four brass-skinned puppets standing before the golden gate, then reconsidered the Han Clan’s strength beside the Hong Clan’s.

The narrator destroyed the puppets guarding a Dou Sheng Relic and broke into an underground hall containing an ancient bronze coffin. The discovery triggered a towering pillar of light and the Great Bliss Saint's announcement, revealing the inheritance to Heavenly North City.

• The narrator fought four brass puppets but failed to locate their energy cores.
• The four puppets linked their energy to strengthen one into a verdigris puppet, which broke the narrator's spear and wounded his shoulder.
• The narrator used Red Dust Rolling and Thousands Pointing Fingers to gather Dou Qi from Dou Zhe aboveground while avoiding the Hong Residence.
• The narrator blasted the verdigris puppet into the golden gate, shattering both and exposing an underground hall.
• The narrator detected a Dou Sheng aura emanating from an ancient bronze coffin at the hall's center.
• The hall's restrictions released a pillar of light, and the Great Bliss Saint's voice announced the opening of his inheritance throughout Heavenly North City.

A sudden Dou Sheng Inheritance announcement drew attention to the Hong Clan’s underground treasury, where Shen Yun had entered. After opening the coffin, he discovered the inheritance was a Hong Clan trap and was bitten by a deadly silver snake with incurable venom.

• A pillar of light and the Great Bliss Saint’s announcement interrupted the fighting between the Hong Clan and Han Clan, but Hong Xiaotian ordered the Hong Clan to keep attacking.
• Shen Yun hurried through the underground hall toward an ancient Bronze Coffin before Hong Xiaotian or other Dou Zong powerhouses arrived.
• A slender silver snake sprang from the coffin and bit Shen Yun, whose Detoxification Pills and Dou Qi failed to stop its venom.
• Shen Yun showed the snake to Shen Yun’s soul in the precious flask, and Shen Yun recognized the snake and declared its venom incurable.
• Shen Yun opened the coffin fully and found only two bones, then learned that the supposed inheritance was a trap constructed by the Hong Clan.

The narrator discovered that the Hong Clan had lured him into an underground trap with a false Dou Sheng treasure, and a Silver Urine Snake poisoned his right arm. Unable to break through the exit gates, he began digging toward an underground river while Hong Xiaotian destroyed the Han Clan’s Asura Corpse and noticed the narrator had vanished.

• Shen Yun explained that the Bronze Coffin had amplified the Dou Sheng remains’ aura to lure intruders deeper into the Hong Clan’s trap.
• Shen Yun identified the snake as a Silver Urine Snake and said only the gallbladder of its matching male sibling, a Golden Snake, could cure the venom.
• The narrator blasted Shen Yun, stored him in his Ring of Holding, and failed to break through the passage’s black gate.
• The narrator broke through the metal wall, found an underground river three li away, and began digging toward it as the venom spread.
• The narrator planted a poison-pill restriction in the tunnel and continued digging, vowing to return to Heavenly North City.
• Hong Xiaotian killed the Han Clan’s Seventh Order Asura Corpse with Hundred Wood Azure Swords, then noticed the narrator had disappeared.

Shen Yun fled through the Hong Clan’s underground tunnels while Hong Xiaotian pursued him, mistaking him for the Wind and Lightning North Pavilion Elder. Shen Yun escaped into the Underground River Passage, but Hong Xiaotian followed close behind as Shen Yun sped through the water.

• Hong Xiaotian sensed Shen Yun underground and dug toward the Underground River Passage to intercept him.
• Shen Yun realized Hong Xiaotian would reach the river first and prepared to use his Dou Skills despite the worsening Golden Silver Urine Snake venom.
• Hong Xiaotian attacked through the soil with roots and a green spear, while Shen Yun countered with Thousands Pointing Fingers.
• Shen Yun used Thunder Instant to slip past Hong Xiaotian and plunge into the Underground River Passage.
• Hong Xiaotian pursued above the water as Shen Yun sped through the river, uncertain where it would lead.