Chapter Summaries

While Nalan Ye finished refining his new physical body, Qi Yu of Xia Valley arrived to investigate Mu Lan Valley’s deaths, and Xiao Yan confronted him with support from Nalan Ye’s fearsome reputation. Nalan Ye’s body was successfully formed, but his soul had not yet fully fused with it, so Heavenly Flame Venerable used Nether Bloom Liquid to help.

• Qi Yu arrived at the Nalan Empire and demanded that someone answer for the deaths connected to Mu Lan Valley while Nalan Ye continued refining his body.
• Hai Bodong stepped in to delay Qi Yu and questioned Xiao Yan about the clash with Mu Lan Valley; Xiao Yan said the Mulan experts had attacked after coveting the magical beast’s corpse.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Heavenly Flame Venerable, Little Fairy Doctor, and Nalan Ye had been with him, frightening the gathered guests with reminders of Nalan Ye’s power.
• Hai Bodong and the other guests backed away from the prospect of opposing Nalan Ye, and Xiao Yan prepared to fight Qi Yu.
• Nalan Ye completed his physical body, discovered he could barely control it, and received drops of Nether Bloom Liquid from Heavenly Flame Venerable to hasten the fusion of soul and body.

Xiao Yan fought the Xia Valley attackers at his wedding, using the Lapis Lazuli Sea Heart Flame to overpower the Green Robe Dou Huang and free himself from a vine prison. When Qi Yu intervened, his Dou Zong technique crushed Xiao Yan into a crater, leaving his fate uncertain.

• The Green Robe Dou Huang and five others attacked the New Xiao Family Residence, and Xiao Yan charged the Green Robe Dou Huang with his Mystic Heavy Ruler.
• Xiao Yan burned the Green Robe Dou Huang’s fist and vines with the Lapis Lazuli Sea Heart Flame, but the Dou Huang trapped him inside a mass of reinforced vines.
• Nalan Yanran came to Xiao Yan’s defense, but the Green Robe Dou Huang knocked her down and declared that Xiao Yan had to die.
• Xiao Yan broke free by exploding the vine ball and prepared to kill the Green Robe Dou Huang after seeing Nalan Yanran injured.
• Qi Yu struck Xiao Yan with a giant energy finger that pierced his flames and crushed him into a crater despite his attempt to resist.

Xiao Yan broke through from Nine Star Dou Ling to One Star Dou Wang after Qi Yu crushed him beneath an energy finger, then fought back as Qi Yu tried to capture him for his part in the Mu Lan Valley elders’ deaths. Qi Yu restrained Xiao Yan and prepared to kill him, but an unknown attacker struck the killing blow aside and challenged him.

• Qi Yu’s energy finger badly injured Xiao Yan, while Nalan Yanran’s attack rebounded and Hai Bodong’s group faced pressure from Xia Valley to reveal the murderers’ whereabouts.
• Xiao Yan laughed as he broke through to One Star Dou Wang, shattered Qi Yu’s energy finger, and checked that Nalan Yanran was safe.
• Qi Yu identified Xiao Yan as one of the people involved in the Mu Lan Valley elders’ deaths and attacked him with green vines.
• Xiao Yan’s flames burned some vines, but Qi Yu overwhelmed him, bound him in the air, and sent a vine toward his brow to kill him.
• An unseen attacker struck aside Qi Yu’s vine, and a calm voice declared that Qi Yu was running wild in the Nalan Empire.

Nalan Ye confronted Qi Yu outside Nalan City and triggered a Dou Zong tribulation while fighting him in the sky. As the tribulation intensified, both men had to stop attacking each other and endure the lightning.

• Nalan Ye challenged Qi Yu to fight beyond Nalan City, then carried him three thousand zhang into the air to avoid damaging the land.
• Nalan Ye released his cultivation and Human Great Dao aura, summoning Dou Zong Tribulation Clouds that shocked Qi Yu.
• Qi Yu attacked Nalan Ye, and they exchanged punches before the first bolts of tribulation lightning struck them both.
• Nalan Ye dodged Qi Yu's wooden spikes, suffered a cut to his palm, and countered with Lightning Fire Thunder Chariot.
• Hai Bodong, Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran, and Yun Yun watched the battle from below as the tribulation grew to Dou Zong strength.
• Nalan Ye and Qi Yu stopped attacking and struggled against the increasingly powerful lightning, while Qi Yu resented being caught in a tribulation that was not his.

The narrator used the human auras gathered in Nalan City to conceal himself from the Heavenly Tribulation, leaving Qi Yu to face it alone. After a Four Star Dou Zong lightning bolt struck Qi Yu, he fell toward the earth as the Tribulation Cloud dispersed, and his fate remained uncertain.

• The narrator used Human Great Dao Dou Skill, Boundless Human Sea, to gather and compress the auras of Nalan City's residents into armor that hid his presence from the Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Tribulation Cloud stopped targeting the narrator and concentrated its lightning on Qi Yu, while the narrator flew out of its range and watched.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable observed the narrator's method, and six members of Xia Valley flew up to help Qi Yu before he warned them away.
• A Four Star Dou Zong bolt struck Qi Yu despite his defenses, blasting him backward and leaving him falling unconscious or dead as the Tribulation Cloud dispersed.

After surviving the heavenly tribulation, Ye joined the Nalan Empire’s forces in attacking the Xia Valley invaders and nearly killed Green Robe Dou Huang. Cai Lin suddenly appeared and stopped his final blow, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ye confirmed his refined body had survived the heavenly tribulation, while Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran recovered from their wedding-day injuries and thanked him for saving them.
• Green Robe Dou Huang ordered the Xia Valley group to retreat with the unconscious Qi Yu, but the Nalan Empire’s fighters blocked their escape.
• Ye joined the battle, shattered Green Robe Dou Huang’s wooden thorn with his fist, and injured his hand.
• Ye used lightning to break through Green Robe Dou Huang’s vine armor and sent him tumbling toward the ground.
• Ye pursued Green Robe Dou Huang and swung to kill him, but Cai Lin appeared and caught his fist with her hand.

Cai Lin stopped the narrator from killing Qi Yu and revealed that Xia Valley served the powerful Heavenly Snake Mansion, which had a Dou Sheng. After offering to mediate the dispute, she asked the narrator to follow her to the Central Plains, leaving him uneasy about her purpose.

• Cai Lin blocked the narrator's strike against Qi Yu and explained that she had followed Xia Valley's group after sensing a Dou Zong aura.
• The Green Robe Dou Huang revealed that Xia Valley was a subordinate sect of the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Cai Lin disclosed that the Heavenly Snake Mansion had a Dou Sheng, making the narrator hesitate to kill the unconscious Qi Yu.
• The narrator asked Heavenly Flame Venerable to capture the Xia Valley group alive, then followed Cai Lin into a nearby mountain forest.
• Cai Lin offered to speak to the Heavenly Snake Mansion on the narrator's behalf because her tribe had old ties with it.
• Cai Lin asked the narrator to follow her to the Central Plains.

Nalan Ye learned that Cai Lin needed the Snake-People Tribe’s ancestral treasure and asked him to help retrieve it from the Central Plains, where Heavenly Snake Mansion held the required Inheritance King Seal. After Cai Lin returned to Nalan City as his guest, Nalan Ye ensured Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s wedding continued, and the newlyweds entered the bridal chamber.

• Cai Lin told Nalan Ye that opening the Snake-People Ancestral Land required her Medusa Bloodline and the Inheritance King Seal held by Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Nalan Ye agreed to consider joining Cai Lin’s journey and asked her to stay in Nalan City while he sought Heavenly Flame Venerable’s advice.
• Cai Lin and Nalan Ye returned to Nalan City, where Nalan Ye announced that Cai Lin was an honored guest and ordered the wedding to resume.
• Nalan Ye persuaded Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran not to postpone their wedding despite the battle’s destruction and casualties.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran completed the Joint Cup Ceremony and entered the bridal chamber.

On Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s wedding night, a Heavenly Tribulation interrupted them, and Nalan Ye discovered that the tribulation he had evaded during the day had returned as heavenly punishment. After surviving its final lightning strike, Nalan Ye lay badly injured but confirmed that the tribulation had ended.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran nervously sat together in their bridal chamber until a Heavenly Tribulation appeared over Nalan City.
• Nalan Ye realized that his earlier use of Boundless Human Sea had only delayed his tribulation, so he flew outside the city with Heavenly Flame Venerable and Cai Lin.
• The tribulation cloud grew stronger because heaven and earth punished Nalan Ye for deceiving the Heavenly Tribulation during the day.
• Nalan Ye countered the early lightning strikes, while Heavenly Flame Venerable watched with growing excitement about exploring the world after forming a physical body.
• Nalan Ye’s Lightning Fire Thunder Chariot failed to stop the final strike, which severely injured him before the clouds dispersed.

After recovering from the Heavenly Tribulation, Nalan Ye discussed the Snake-People Ancestral Land with Heavenly Flame Venerable and agreed to pursue it. Heavenly Flame Venerable explained that the sealed Small World had likely become a lifeless land, leaving Nalan Ye curious about what awaited inside.

• Xiao Meier worried that Nalan Ye was dying, but he reassured her that he was only tired and hungry.
• Nalan Ye told Xiao Meier that Heavenly Flame Venerable had refined his new body from powerful materials, then went to discuss the Snake-People Ancestral Land.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable agreed to investigate the ancestral land and said Dou Shengs could not act lightly, though he did not explain why.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable explained that Small Worlds depended on Earth Qi from the Great World and that the Snake-People had relocated to avoid exposing their refuge to enemies.
• Nalan Ye realized the sealed ancestral land had gone without Earth Qi for over a thousand years and had likely become lifeless.

The narrator and Heavenly Flame Venerable agreed to accompany Cai Lin to the Snake-People Ancestral Land, where she revealed the Amethyst Saint Pool and explained the reach of Heavenly Snake Mansion. The narrator remained wary of the risks and concluded that the expedition required careful planning.

• The narrator questioned Cai Lin about the ancestral land’s treasures and negotiated for a share before she revealed the Amethyst Saint Pool’s power to aid those facing tribulation.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable became eager to see the pool, while Cai Lin offered the narrator one use of it; the narrator accepted and considered bringing his allies along.
• Cai Lin explained that Heavenly Snake Mansion controlled the Mang Dynasty, the Four Seasons Dynasty, and nearly twenty surrounding nations through subordinate states and sects.
• Cai Lin said Heavenly Snake Mansion had made an alliance pact with the Black-Corner Region that kept it from interfering in the Gamma and Chuyun Empires, and the narrator decided the matter needed long-term deliberation.

Nalan Ye decided to delay Xia Valley’s people while the Nalan Empire’s allies grew stronger, and he tried to win Qi Yu’s cooperation by treating his injuries and claiming the Three Elders of Mulan had attacked first. Qi Yu remained wary and resolved to escape Nalan Residence and return to the Da Xia Dynasty.

• Nalan Ye visited the captured Xia Valley group and used his Dou Zong aura to silence the Green Robe Dou Huang.
• Nalan Ye gave the injured Qi Yu a fifth-tier healing pill and helped him refine it, and Qi Yu accepted despite his followers’ warnings.
• Nalan Ye blamed the Three Elders of Mulan for the conflict and asked Qi Yu to investigate and clear his name.
• Nalan Ye ordered the Xia Valley group to stay and care for Qi Yu while he delayed their return to buy time for his allies to grow stronger.
• Qi Yu learned that Nalan Ye, Heavenly Flame Venerable, and the Snake-People Queen were all Dou Zong powerhouses and decided he had to escape to the Da Xia Dynasty.

After basking in the sun, the narrator’s comprehension of the Human Great Dao improved, and he discussed his cultivation and plans with Cai Lin. Cai Lin set a one-year deadline for their journey to the Snake-People Ancestral Land, then explained how he could use his Dao Domain to strengthen Human Great Dao Dou Skills, leaving him planning to create several techniques.

• The narrator meditated in the sunlight and found that his comprehension of the Great Dao had increased from one portion and one-tenth to one portion and four-tenths.
• Cai Lin told the narrator that her Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline had returned to two portions and four-tenths, surpassing his progress.
• The narrator and Cai Lin argued over when to leave for the Snake-People Ancestral Land, and Cai Lin insisted they depart within one year.
• Cai Lin asked about the narrator’s Boundless Human Sea Dou Skill, and he revealed that he had comprehended the Human Great Dao.
• Cai Lin warned that his Lightning Attribute Dou Qi did not receive his Dao Domain’s amplification and advised him to convert it when using Human Great Dao Dou Skills.
• Cai Lin urged the narrator to create his own Human Great Dao Dou Skills, and he realized he needed techniques for offense, defense, and short-range movement.

Nalan Ye struggled to create a Human Great Dao Dou Skill until Xiao Yan demonstrated his Six Harmonies Roaming Body Ruler. After enduring its full force without injury, Nalan Ye left Xiao Yan determined to surpass him someday.

• Nalan Ye left the Dou Skills Pavilion to attend the banquet celebrating Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan’s return to the palace after their wedding.
• Nalan Ye toasted Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan, then joined them for a walk through a garden of Starlight Roses.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had created the Six Harmonies Roaming Body Ruler and offered to demonstrate it to help Nalan Ye with his cultivation problem.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the ruler’s increasingly powerful airwaves at Nalan Ye, who stood unharmed without using Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan admitted that he was currently inferior to Nalan Ye but vowed to surpass him one day.

Ye Er studied how to develop a Human Great Dao Dou Skill by borrowing the human aura of Nalan City. He killed one death-row prisoner by accident, then struggled to make the aura pierce and mix with another prisoner’s Dou Qi.

• After Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran left, Ye Er returned to the Dou Skills Pavilion and realized that his Human Great Dao could borrow power from humans rather than imitate nature.
• Ye Er formed his Human Dao Domain over Nalan City and conceived ways to use its impure human aura to disrupt other Dou Zhes’ cultivation and Dou Qi.
• Ye Er summoned death-row prisoners to test his new technique, and his first attempt pierced a bald prisoner with human-aura threads and killed him.
• Ye Er cautiously tested the technique on a burly Dou Master, managing to send human aura into his body without killing him, but it could not pierce his bones or merge with his Dou Qi.

Ye struggled to discover what Human Qi was and how to combine it with Dou Qi. Little Fairy Doctor visited after reaching Nine-Star Dou Huang, and she recognized his problem as related to the poison path.

• Ye examined his body and soul with Human Dao Insight but found no source for Human Qi.
• An attendant announced that the Poison Sect Master had arrived, and Ye went to greet Little Fairy Doctor.
• Ye and Little Fairy Doctor compared their cultivation, then he recounted his recent adventures in the Black-Corner Region.
• Little Fairy Doctor said that using Human Qi to contaminate Dou Qi was simply the poison path, which she knew well.

Nalan Ye used the Human Dao Domain to create Red Dust Rolling, a Dou Skill that made human aura contaminate Dou Qi and natural energy. After testing its limits and discovering a way to cleanse contaminated Dou Qi, he left with Little Fairy Doctor to celebrate.

• Little Fairy Doctor suggested refining human aura and targeting it at the soul, but Nalan Ye’s experiments failed and one prisoner’s soul collapsed.
• Nalan Ye used his Dao Domain to match human aura’s fluctuations to a prisoner’s Dou Qi, allowing the aura to merge and disrupt it when he withdrew control.
• Nalan Ye expelled the contaminated Dou Qi and restored clean Dou Qi, confirming the effect could be countered by replenishing it.
• Nalan Ye named the new technique Red Dust Rolling and tested it on other prisoners, confirming it could contaminate their Dou Qi.
• Nalan Ye failed to contaminate souls but succeeded in fusing human aura with natural energy, then invited Little Fairy Doctor to dinner as night fell.

Nalan Ye and Cai Lin argued over whether Little Fairy Doctor could join their trip to the Snake-People Ancestral Land, but their dispute was interrupted when Xia Valley sent Zhao Shizhe to investigate Qi Yu’s disappearance. Nalan Ye welcomed Zhao Shizhe into the pavilion and questioned him while concealing what had happened to Qi Yu.

• Nalan Ye told Little Fairy Doctor about the Snake-People Ancestral Land and Heavenly Snake Mansion, and Little Fairy Doctor worried that her poison might not work on a Dou Sheng.
• Cai Lin arrived and insisted that only she, Nalan Ye, and Heavenly Flame Venerable should enter the Snake-People Ancestral Land, while Nalan Ye argued that Little Fairy Doctor should come too.
• Little Fairy Doctor decided she would go to the Snake-People Ancestral Land after Nalan Ye claimed he might die without her.
• Zhao Shizhe of Xia Valley arrived in Nalan City seeking Supreme Elder Qi Yu, whose lack of contact had alarmed the sect.
• Nalan Ye introduced himself as the Nalan Empire’s Left Supervisor, invited Zhao Shizhe into the pavilion, and asked why he had come.

Nalan Ye tried to delay Xia Valley and the Heavenly Snake Mansion while Little Fairy Doctor prepared to advance to Dou Zong. Cai Lin used the Mind Control technique to bind Zhao Shizhe, and Nalan Ye sent him to mislead Xia Valley and draw its people into the Nalan Empire.

• Nalan Ye learned that Zhao Shizhe had arrived from Xia Valley and arranged for him to bathe before meeting Qi Yu.
• Nalan Ye asked Little Fairy Doctor to cultivate with high-grade poison pills so she could advance to Dou Zong sooner.
• Cai Lin revealed that she knew the Mind Control technique, then used it to subdue Zhao Shizhe despite the strain it caused her.
• Zhao Shizhe awoke and addressed Cai Lin as his Master, while Nalan Ye gave him pills to heal and maintain control over him.
• Nalan Ye instructed Zhao Shizhe to send Xia Valley a false report blaming the Three Elders of Mulan and to summon those involved to the Nalan Empire for questioning.

Nalan Ye killed Gong Wei after revealing that Xia Gu’s Supreme Elder Qiyu was dead, then used poisoned food to restrain the Mulan Empire delegation. Back at Nalan Residence, Cai Lin asked him to arrange for Gu He to refine a Sixth-Rank Pill, and Nalan Ye set off to see the alchemist.

• Gong Wei arrived in Nalan City with Zhao Shizhe and the Mulan Empire experts, unaware that Nalan Ye had already defeated Qiyu.
• Nalan Ye revealed himself in Gong Wei’s room, and Zhao Shizhe’s respectful greeting confirmed that Qiyu was dead and Zhao Shizhe served Nalan Ye.
• Gong Wei begged Nalan Ye for mercy, but he choked her while questioning her failure to warn him about Qiyu’s attack.
• Nalan Ye left the inn the next morning, having poisoned the delegation’s banquet to restrain the Mulan Empire experts and preserve a chance to mislead Xia Gu.
• Cai Lin told Nalan Ye she wanted Gu He to refine a Sixth-Rank Pill, and Nalan Ye headed to Gu He’s courtyard to discuss pill refinement.