Recaps

Little Fairy Doctor refined a four-colored seventh-rank Python Fetus Pill, and Wind Venerable destroyed its pill tribulation before it could threaten Nalan Ye. After Elder Qi accepted the pill as compensation, Nalan Ye asked him to escort him and Little Fairy Doctor out of Starfall Pavilion’s small space, and Elder Qi agreed.

• Little Fairy Doctor completed the Python Fetus Pill, and Nalan Ye prepared to face its pill tribulation.
• Wind Venerable scattered the tribulation cloud with a single palm strike, and Little Fairy Doctor presented the four-colored pill to Nalan Ye.
• Zi Yan asked to eat the pill, but Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor refused and explained it was compensation for Elder Qi.
• Elder Qi and Mu Qingluan arrived, and Elder Qi praised Little Fairy Doctor’s alchemy after seeing that her pill surpassed his own three-colored version.
• Nalan Ye asked Elder Qi to take him and Little Fairy Doctor out of Starfall Pavilion’s small space, and Elder Qi agreed.

Nalan Ye traveled with Little Fairy Doctor, Zi Yan, and Mu Qingluan to Heavenly Star City, where he planned to contact Wu Protector and build their relationship for future cooperation. He discovered a Hall of Souls outpost disguised as a small medical clinic.

• Elder Qi opened a Space Gate with an Ancient Jade Token, and the group left Starfall Pavilion to head for Heavenly Star City.
• Elder Qi parted ways with Nalan Ye and the others to deliver the Python Fetus Pill to his friend.
• On the journey, Nalan Ye reflected on persuading Wu Protector to help rescue Yao Lao and eventually turn against the Hall of Souls.
• The group entered Heavenly Star City and explored its streets while Nalan Ye searched for a Hall of Souls outpost.
• Nalan Ye used Soul Vision to recognize the Hall of Souls symbol on a small medical clinic's signboard.

Nalan Ye visited a Hall of Souls outpost in Heavenly Star City and sent Wu Protector a coded message before traveling toward Starfall Pavilion with Little Fairy Doctor, Mu Qingluan, and Zi Yan. When robbers followed and demanded their Rings of Holding, Nalan Ye prepared to test his newly learned Soul Burst on them.

• Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor entered Magpie Clinic, where Nalan Ye used the Hall of Souls code phrase to meet its middle-aged attendant.
• Nalan Ye pressured the attendant with his Dou Zong aura and told him to report that the person Wu Protector was seeking had left Canaan Academy, adding the clue Wutan City.
• Nalan Ye left the clinic without explaining his business to Little Fairy Doctor, then spent the day sightseeing and shopping with her, Mu Qingluan, and Zi Yan.
• After the group left Heavenly Star City, Mu Qingluan noticed several figures following them through the mountain forests.
• Sima Hu and his companions confronted the group and demanded their Rings of Holding, while Nalan Ye welcomed the chance to test Soul Burst.

Ye stopped Sima Hu and his bandits from robbing the group, then used his new soul technique to leave Sima Hu confused and speaking nonsense. He took Sima Hu back to Starfall Pavilion to serve out his crimes and to observe the technique’s lasting effects.

• Sima Hu and his companions tried to rob Ye, Mu Qingluan, Little Fairy Doctor, and the others, but Ye revealed his Dou Zong strength and killed the fleeing bandits with lightning.
• Ye caught Sima Hu and planted a Soul Seed in his soul, knocking him unconscious.
• After waking, Sima Hu mistook himself for Ye and then concluded that he and Ye were both Sima Hu.
• Ye agreed to spare Sima Hu and bring him to Starfall Pavilion, where Zi Yan could keep him in line and Ye could study the Soul Seed’s effects.
• Qiu Yin carried Sima Hu as the group returned to Starfall Pavilion without further trouble.

Shen Tian arrived in the Nalan Empire to bring Xiao Yan to Starfall Pavilion, but learned that Xiao Yan was away at Canaan Academy and decided to investigate before leaving. Nalan Jie distributed Nalan Ye’s letters and gifts, while Yun Yun read a reassuring message from Nalan Ye and was amused by his formal address.

• Shen Tian reached the Nalan Imperial Palace, explained that Starfall Pavilion wanted Xiao Yan, and learned that Xiao Yan was cultivating at Canaan Academy.
• Shen Tian gave Nalan Jie Nalan Ye’s family letters and said he would stay in Nalan City to investigate Xiao Yan and Nalan Ye.
• Nalan Jie found letters and gifts for many people and invited the recipients to the palace.
• Yun Yun received her letter and gift from Nalan Jie, then returned to Yun Lan Mountain.
• Yun Yun read Nalan Ye’s letter, learned he was safe and had sent her cultivation gifts, and smiled at his formal greeting.

Shen Tian learned that Xiao Yan had left Canaan Academy for the Central Plains to rescue Yao Lao, so he followed his trail. At the West Underworld Human Hall, Wu Hall Master received a message about Wutan City and concluded that Nalan Ye was the person he had been seeking.

• Shen Tian confirmed in Nalan City that Xiao Yan had once been seen fighting a Hall of Souls powerhouse and left carrying the empire's letters and gifts.
• Su Qian told Shen Tian that Xiao Yan had secretly departed for the Central Plains half a month earlier to rescue his teacher.
• Su Qian explained that Xiao Yan had fought for Canaan Academy for three years and killed a Dou Zong, earning a statue in the academy plaza.
• Shen Tian set off toward the Central Plains to try to catch up with Xiao Yan.
• Wu Hall Master received a message mentioning Canaan Academy and Wutan City, then identified Nalan Ye as the person he had been looking for.

Nalan Ye learned that Shen Tian had failed to find Xiao Yan, who had already traveled from the Northwest Territory to the Central Plains. Nalan Ye planned to seek Xiao Yan at the upcoming Pill Gathering and left Starfall Pavilion to look for him and discuss rescuing Yao Lao.

• Nalan Ye observed that the Soul Seed in Sima Hu’s soul kept growing until Zi Yan accidentally punched Sima Hu to death.
• Mu Qingluan told Nalan Ye that Shen Tian had returned from the Nalan Empire, but Xiao Yan had not come with him.
• Shen Tian explained to Wind Venerable and Nalan Ye that he had searched the Nalan Empire and Canaan Academy, then pursued Xiao Yan into the Central Plains without catching him.
• Nalan Ye reasoned that Xiao Yan would attend the Pill Gathering, where they could find him and discuss rescuing Yao Lao.
• Nalan Ye thanked Wind Venerable for sheltering him and announced that he would leave Starfall Pavilion for the Pill Gathering.

Nalan Ye left Starfall Pavilion with Little Fairy Doctor, Zi Yan, Qiu Yin, and Qiu Si to search for Xiao Yan, while Wind Venerable learned that Nalan Ye had a fiancée and worried about Mu Qingluan’s feelings. In Heavenly Star City, Nalan Ye received a letter revealing that Wu Protector had become Hall Master of the Human Hall, and he decided to visit the West Underworld Human Hall.

• Mu Qingluan bid farewell to Nalan Ye, but Wind Venerable interrupted them and urged Nalan Ye to leave; Shen Tian then told Wind Venerable that Nalan Ye had a fiancée named Xiao Meier.
• Wind Venerable warned Mu Qingluan that Nalan Ye had a fiancée and seemed close to Little Fairy Doctor and Zi Yan, leaving Mu Qingluan troubled by the news.
• Nalan Ye departed Starfall Pavilion with Little Fairy Doctor, Zi Yan, Qiu Yin, and Qiu Si, and the group flew toward Heavenly Star City on their way to find Xiao Yan.
• At the Golden Sparrow Pavilion, Nalan Ye went alone to the Magpie Clinic to ask about Wu Protector and received a letter from Wu Hall Master instead.
• Nalan Ye learned that Wu Protector had risen to become Hall Master of the Human Hall and decided to visit the West Underworld Human Hall in the Central State Western Region.

Nalan Ye and his companions left Heavenly Star City aboard a Space Ship, taking a long route across the Central Plains before the Pill Gathering. During the journey, he read letters from the Nalan Empire and reflected on his family and friends’ news.

• After dinner, Nalan Ye proposed traveling through the Central State Western and Central Regions, and Zi Yan’s group agreed despite Qiu Yin’s complaints.
• Nalan Ye’s group paid to use Heavenly Star City’s space wormhole, boarded Mu Qingluan’s Space Ship, and assigned Qiu Yin the first piloting shift.
• Nalan Ye discovered nearly a thousand letters and a mountain of gifts from the Nalan Empire, then found the personal letters Nalan Jie had sorted for him.
• Nalan Ye read the Nalan Family’s reminders to stay safe and thought about their shorter lifespans and his ambition to become a Dou God.
• Nalan Ye read Xiao Meier’s report on the First Affiliated Academy, found Xiao Yu’s letter confusing, and was displeased that Yun Yun had sent only a short note and tea.

Nalan Ye and his companions traveled toward the Central State Western Region, crossing a barren stretch without Space Wormholes and entering a desert. They encountered a camel caravan led by Heng Wu, whose young associate Qi Er argued with Nalan Ye before Heng Wu moved the caravan downwind, and the group settled in for dinner.

• Little Fairy Doctor admitted she felt lonely after seeing Nalan Ye receive many letters, and he reassured her that he was her friend.
• Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor read flattering letters together as their group traveled through the Central Plains Southern Region.
• Nalan Ye studied the map and learned that the group would need to fly roughly ten thousand li across a region without Space Wormholes.
• The travelers reached a vast desert and stopped beside a dune at dusk to camp and prepare dinner.
• Zi Yan spotted a camel caravan approaching, and its leader Heng Wu asked to camp near the group.
• Nalan Ye complained that the camels stank, Qi Er angrily challenged him, and Heng Wu apologized and moved the caravan downwind.

Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor followed the tracks of Heng Qi, who had been abducted from the caravan, and found him in an underground cave. They rescued him from a group of red-haired women, and Heng Qi broke down crying afterward.

• Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor woke to news that Heng Qi had been taken, and Qiu Yin reported that the abductors had headed southwest.
• Heng Wu chose to wait until daybreak to pursue the kidnappers, but Little Fairy Doctor persuaded Nalan Ye and the others to follow the tracks immediately.
• Nalan Ye detected human auras beneath a mound and led the group into an underground cave, where they heard suggestive cries.
• Little Fairy Doctor knocked out the cave's occupants with powder, and the group found several naked red-haired women and Heng Qi.
• Nalan Ye woke Heng Qi, who cried and said that he had been raped.

Nalan Ye traveled to Fallen Bird City and secretly went to the Fallen Bird Mountain Range to meet Wu Protector at the West Underworld Human Hall. He became lost in the poisonous miasma until Old Crow appeared and greeted him.

• Nalan Ye and his companions crossed the desert after escaping the red-haired cannibals, then traveled by Space Wormholes to Fallen Bird City.
• Nalan Ye arranged rooms at an inn and told Zi Yan he had come to the Western Region to train and look around.
• The next morning, Nalan Ye disguised himself in a black cloak and left Fallen Bird City alone to find the West Underworld Human Hall.
• Nalan Ye flew into the Fallen Bird Mountain Range, where its miasma blocked his vision and Soul Power.
• Old Crow emerged from the miasma and told Nalan Ye that he had finally arrived.

Nalan Ye reunited with Wu Hall Master at the West Underworld Human Hall and explained that a remnant soul of the Snake-People Queen had helped him reach Dou Zong. The meeting was interrupted when several powerful figures barged into the hall to meet the unexpected guest.

• Nalan Ye and Wu Hall Master laughed over their past and confirmed that Wu Hall Master had killed Yun Shan.
• Wu Hall Master led Nalan Ye into the West Underworld Human Hall and explained that gray insects in the miasma served as scouts.
• Wu Hall Master asked how Nalan Ye had advanced from Da Dou Shi to Dou Zong, and Nalan Ye denied that the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower concealed a secret.
• Nalan Ye claimed that the Snake-People Queen's remnant soul had turned on him beneath the tower, but he had tampered with it and gained most of the energy when it broke through to Dou Zong.
• Several powerful visitors entered without being announced and asked Wu Hall Master to introduce his guest.

A veiled Na watched Wu Hall Master clash with vice hall master Kang Sha, whose protectors outnumbered Wu Hall Master’s supporters. When Wu Hall Master began to reveal Na’s identity, Na interrupted him with a sudden song, leaving Kang Sha and the others wary and confused.

• Kang Sha barged into the great hall with three protectors and demanded that Na remove his cloak, claiming he had come to protect Wu Hall Master.
• Wu Hall Master confronted Kang Sha, but Kang Sha’s three protectors backed their vice hall master while only one Dou Zong supported Wu Hall Master.
• Kang Sha accused Wu Hall Master of bringing an outsider into the West Underworld Hall and exposing its location.
• Wu Hall Master began to call Na his disciple and reveal his name, but Na suddenly sang, startling everyone and prompting Kang Sha to circulate his Dou Qi warily.

A masked Magpie Protector defied Kang Sha and avoided a martial duel with Li Qing, who challenged him to a Pill Battle instead. Magpie Protector accepted and set the rules for a contest to refine a Seventh-Rank Python Fetus Pill, leaving Wu Hall Master concerned about the match.

• Magpie Protector concealed his identity and taunted Kang Sha, prompting the Hall Master to stop the Protectors from attacking.
• Kang Sha signaled his disciple Li Qing to challenge Magpie Protector to a duel, while pretending to reprimand him.
• Magpie Protector refused the martial challenge by pointing out that Li Qing was stronger, frustrating Li Qing and Kang Sha.
• Li Qing proposed a Pill Battle, and Magpie Protector accepted despite Wu Hall Master's warnings.
• Magpie Protector proposed that they each refine a Seventh-Rank Python Fetus Pill from one set of ingredients, with the first to fail losing and the better-quality pill winning if both succeeded.
• Li Qing agreed to Magpie Protector's rules with confidence.

The narrator and Li Qing began a Pill Battle to refine Python Fetus Pills, and the narrator traded a spare snake-beast core for Kang Sha’s superior tiger core before the contest. As they started refining, the narrator revealed a silver-white exotic flame, surprising Li Qing and the others.

• The narrator offered Li Qing a seventh-order snake magic core, then traded it with Kang Sha for a seventh-order Ten Thousand Lightning Tiger core.
• The hall’s Dou Zong gathered ingredients, and Li Qing and the narrator each received enough to attempt one Python Fetus Pill.
• Li Qing showed off his Sunken Mountain Cauldron, while the narrator introduced his Little Fairy Doctor Cauldron and praised the Hall of Souls’ mission.
• Li Qing began refining, and the narrator summoned a silver-white exotic flame that startled Li Qing and left Kang Sha wondering how a lightning-attributed cultivator could wield one.

The narrator used memories of Little Fairy Doctor’s instruction and the human world kindling flame to refine the Python Fetus Pill’s ingredients, then carefully tamed the seventh order magic core. Li Qing also succeeded at refining his magic core, leaving the pill battle unresolved.

• The narrator recalled Little Fairy Doctor’s guidance and extracted the medicinal essence from the pill’s ingredients over three days.
• Kang Sha pointed out that Li Qing had begun refining his magic core four hours earlier, while Wu Hall Master warned that rushing could cause it to explode.
• The narrator placed the seventh order magic core in the Little Fairy Doctor Cauldron and slowly burned through its crystal shell.
• The narrator suppressed and purified the magic core’s violent energy, successfully completing the difficult step.
• The narrator looked over and saw that Li Qing had also succeeded in refining his magic core.

The narrator and Li Qing competed to refine a seventh-rank Python Fetus Pill, and Li Qing finished first and began facing its pill tribulation. The narrator continued his pill fusion and told Wu Hall Master that the contest was not necessarily decided, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• The narrator recalled Little Fairy Doctor's pill-fusion technique and used his Domain of the Dao to merge the medicinal essences in his cauldron.
• Li Qing completed a seventh-rank Python Fetus Pill, triggering a three-colored pill tribulation above the West Underworld Human Hall.
• Li Qing left the great hall to face the tribulation while Wu Hall Master saw that the narrator's pill fusion remained unfinished.
• Wu Hall Master explained that he was reluctant to ask the Hall of Souls to deal with Kang Sha because it might make him seem incompetent.
• The narrator asked Wu Hall Master whether he wanted to gain the upper hand over Kang Sha and said the contest was not necessarily decided.

Magpie Protector completed a Python Fetus Pill whose tribulation appeared to show four colors, challenging Li Qing’s claim that his own pill had already won. As the pill’s quality mysteriously rose after refinement, Magpie Protector noticed human aura flowing into it.

• Li Qing returned from weathering his pill tribulation and claimed victory, while Kang Sha mocked Wu Hall Master for disputing the result.
• Magpie Protector reminded them that the pill battle was decided by quality, then said he could refine a four-colored Python Fetus Pill.
• Magpie Protector completed his pill, and the gathered energy formed a tribulation cloud that Li Qing initially counted as three-colored.
• Wu Hall Master spotted a faint red tinge in the cloud and argued with Li Qing and Kang Sha that the tribulation was four-colored.
• Magpie Protector saw human aura flowing into the finished pill and realized something was wrong.

Magpie Protector used human aura to raise the Python Fetus Pill to seven-grade four-colored quality, then had Wu Hall Master disperse its pill tribulation. Kang Sha disputed the result, but Magpie Protector argued that the contest had already ended when the pill tribulation descended, leaving the victory claim unresolved.

• Magpie Protector drew human aura from the West Underworld Human Hall and his Rings of Holding into the Python Fetus Pill, raising its tribulation to four colors.
• Li Qing and Kang Sha expected Magpie Protector to die beneath the four-colored pill tribulation, but Magpie Protector called on Wu Hall Master to destroy it.
• Wu Hall Master scattered the tribulation, and Magpie Protector revealed his seven-grade four-colored pill while Li Qing accused him of cheating.
• Kang Sha argued Wu Hall Master’s intervention invalidated the contest, while Wu Hall Master said Magpie Protector had won by refining the higher-quality pill.
• Magpie Protector argued that the pill battle ended when the pill tribulation descended and declared that his four-colored pill beat Li Qing’s three-colored pill.

After the Pill Battle ended, Wu Hall Master asked Nalan Ye to become his disciple, but Nalan Ye questioned his ambitions and revealed his own goal: becoming a Dou God. Wu Hall Master dismissed the dream as impossible, while Nalan Ye insisted he would have to try to find out.

• The Pill Battle ended after two pill tribulations appeared and dispersed, and Nalan Ye complained to Wu Hall Master about Kang Sha refusing to admit defeat.
• Wu Hall Master asked Nalan Ye why he had stopped calling him teacher, then praised Nalan Ye’s achievements and asked him to become his disciple.
• Nalan Ye asked Wu Hall Master about his ambitions, and Wu Hall Master said he wanted to cultivate to Dou Sheng and rise higher in the Hall of Souls.
• Nalan Ye declared that he intended to become the first Dou God since Tou She Ancient God, and Wu Hall Master called the goal impossible.
• Nalan Ye argued that past failures did not prove he could not succeed and said he would never know unless he tried.

Nalan Ye asked Wu Hall Master where the Hall of Souls was holding Yao Chen so he could help Xiao Yan find his teacher. Wu Hall Master revealed Yao Chen was imprisoned at the Hall of Dead Souls, but refused to provide details about its defenses.

• Nalan Ye told Wu Hall Master he aspired to become a Dou God, and Wu Hall Master admitted he had once shared that ambition before settling for less.
• Nalan Ye asked where Yao Chen was being held, explaining that Xiao Yan had asked him to find out.
• Wu Hall Master initially refused to reveal the Hall of Souls' secret, but Nalan Ye won him over with a theatrical account of his dangerous journey.
• Wu Hall Master said Yao Chen was imprisoned in the Hall of Dead Souls, an Earth Grade Branch Hall in the Mountain Range of Dead Souls, guarded by a Venerable and three Great Protectors.
• Nalan Ye asked Wu Hall Master for a map and details about the branch hall's formations and sentries, but Wu Hall Master claimed he did not know.

Nalan Ye learned that Yao Lao was imprisoned in a Hall of Souls branch hall and returned to Fallen Bird City after five days away. He told Little Fairy Doctor where Yao Lao was, but she realized he had concealed how he found out.

• Wu Hall Master saw Nalan Ye off and wished him caution, while privately considering whether to use him against Kang Sha.
• Wu Hall Master decided Yao Chen was not his responsibility if someone rescued him from the Hall of Dead Souls.
• Nalan Ye left the Fallen Bird Mountain Range and returned to the inn in Fallen Bird City after a five-day absence.
• Little Fairy Doctor waited anxiously in Nalan Ye's room, worried about his unexplained disappearance.
• Nalan Ye told Little Fairy Doctor that Yao Lao was imprisoned in a Hall of Souls branch hall in the northern Central State Central Region, and she recognized that he had not told her how he learned this.

Nalan Ye told Little Fairy Doctor that he had connections to the Hall of Souls and explained how he had learned where Yao Lao was imprisoned. She accepted his secret without judging him, and the chapter ended with them alone together in their inn room.

• Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor discussed going to Ye City to look for Xiao Yan and rescue Yao Lao.
• Little Fairy Doctor admitted she was unhappy because Nalan Ye had recently been hiding something from her.
• Nalan Ye revealed that he had made a friend in the Hall of Souls and had spent the past few days asking him for information about Yao Lao.
• Little Fairy Doctor accepted Nalan Ye's connection to the Hall of Souls and agreed to keep it their secret.
• Nalan Ye drew Little Fairy Doctor close, and a Soul Barrier sealed their room from outside view and sound.

Zi Yan returned to the inn and interrupted Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor after they had secretly spent time together, then left them alone. Nalan Ye swallowed a Python Fetus Pill and began strengthening his body as ancient, snake-scale-like runes appeared on his skin.

• Zi Yan explored Fallen Bird City with Qiu Yin and Qiu Si before returning to the inn to look for Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor.
• Nalan Ye tried to stop Zi Yan from entering his room, but she broke through his Soul Barrier and found him and Little Fairy Doctor sitting together.
• Nalan Ye told Zi Yan that he and Little Fairy Doctor had been discussing something secret, and Zi Yan drank from his cup before leaving with her guardians.
• Little Fairy Doctor left with Zi Yan, while Nalan Ye stayed behind and decided to cultivate.
• Nalan Ye swallowed a Python Fetus Pill and directed its scorching medicinal power into his muscles, expelling impurities as snake-scale-like runes appeared on his skin.