Chapter Summaries

Nalan Ye and his companions waited in Horizon City while the Luo family’s Space Wormhole was repaired, then prepared to leave the Northwest Territory for the Central Plains. The group passed through the wormhole, beginning a journey that Nalan Ye believed might keep him away for years.

• Nalan Ye declined to repair the broken Space Wormhole himself, and Qing Yue arranged for the group to wait one day before Long Xi helped fix it.
• Long Xi repaired the Space Wormhole and received a generous reward from the Luo family.
• Qing Yue decided the group would depart the following morning, and they traveled across Horizon City to the wormhole plaza.
• A Luo family Dou Emperor recognized Long Xi and waived the group’s usage fee after noticing their formidable companions.
• Nalan Ye, Little Fairy Doctor, and Qing Lin entered the Space Wormhole with the group, leaving the Northwest Territory for the Central Plains.

A sinister Dou Zong destroyed Horizon City's Space Wormhole after Long Xi and Qing Yue entered it, unleashing a Space Storm inside the passage. Wang Ping and the others faced the oncoming spatial destruction as the Heavenly Flame Venerable rushed to shield them.

• A sinister middle-aged Dou Zong disguised himself as a traveler, then destroyed the Luo Family's Space Wormhole and fled as Luo Cheng and other Luo Family experts pursued him.
• Wang Ping, the Little Fairy Doctor, Cai Lin, Qing Yue, the Heavenly Flame Venerable, and the others entered the Space Channel and began flying toward the Central Plains.
• The Heavenly Flame Venerable explained that they could fly through the channel, while Qing Yue took Qing Lin to stay with the Heavenly Snake Mansion group.
• Wang Ping noticed the channel collapsing behind them as power from outer space poured in and recognized the danger as a Space Storm caused by the wormhole's destruction.
• The Heavenly Flame Venerable rushed toward Wang Ping, the Little Fairy Doctor, and Cai Lin, forming a sturdy spatial barrier as Wang Ping prepared to protect the group too.

After a spatial channel collapsed, Xiao Yan survived with devastating injuries and was rescued by a caravan in the Northern Desolate Desert. He mistook the young woman who saved him for Han Xue, and the caravan’s guards suspected him of being a Han Clan assassin.

• A caravan found Xiao Yan near death in the desert and rescued him at the young woman’s request, though a guard accidentally pulled out and replaced his intestines.
• Xiao Yan woke in the carriage, remembered the spatial channel’s collapse, and realized his body had suffered severe injuries while his soul remained relatively unharmed.
• Hong Chong told Xiao Yan that the caravan had found him in the Northern Desolate Desert and warned that only expensive Healing Pills could save him.
• The young woman visited Xiao Yan, and he confidently called her Han Xue and claimed to know her sister Han Yue.
• Hong Chong and the guards accused Xiao Yan of being a Han Clan assassin and raised their weapons, but the young woman ordered them to stop.
• The young woman argued that Xiao Yan’s injuries were too severe for him to be an assassin, while Hong Chong insisted his wounds were a trick and pointed out that Xiao Yan had lain down.

After surviving a space storm, the injured narrator traveled with Hong Zhuer and her guards toward Heavenly North City, where he began considering how to use the Hong Clan's ties to the Wind and Lightning Pavilion. He spent the night healing in the carriage, leaving his next move undecided.

• Hong Zhuer introduced herself as a member of the Hong Clan, and the narrator recognized the clan's connection to Hong Chen and the Wind and Lightning Pavilion.
• The narrator claimed to be Ye Lao Na, a Canaan Academy student who knew Han Yue, and Hong Zhuer persuaded Hong Chong's guards to stand down and gave him a Third Grade Healing Pill.
• The narrator asked Hong Zhuer to stitch his wound, and she cleaned and sewed it despite her fear and inexperience.
• Hong Chong ordered the narrator to stay in the carriage while the caravan camped, and the narrator swallowed a Sixth Grade Healing Pill refined by Gu He.
• The narrator considered helping either the Han Clan or the Hong Clan and planned to use the Hong Clan to gain access to the Wind and Lightning Pavilion's Lightning Attribute Dou Skills.

Ye recovered enough to travel with the Hong Clan convoy and used a chest of gold coins to earn the guards’ respect. At Ten Thousand Snake Gorge, Demon Snake Xia Mang ambushed the convoy, and Ye waited for the chance to intervene.

• Ye cleaned up, thanked the guards with a chest of gold coins, and explained to Hong Zhuer why he rewarded them.
• Ye confirmed the convoy would pass through Ten Thousand Snake Gorge and learned it would reach the gorge that afternoon.
• Hong Chong warned the guards to spread snake-repelling powder and proceed cautiously as the convoy entered the gorge.
• Demon Snake Xia Mang ambushed the convoy with giant snakes and a swarm of venomous snakes.
• Hong Chong and the guards recognized Xia Mang as he hovered above them, while Ye prepared to step in.

A caravan carrying Hong Zhuer escaped Xia Mang in Ten Thousand Snake Gorge, only to be ambushed by the Han Family’s Han Dong. As Han Dong attacked Hong Zhuer, Young Master Ye intervened and drove him back.

• Xia Mang fled Ten Thousand Snake Gorge after Hong Zhuer claimed the protection of the Han Family and Wind and Lightning Pavilion.
• Hong Chong explained that the caravan had taken the gorge to avoid Xia Mang, and the journey toward Tian Bei City continued without major trouble.
• Han Dong and his men ambushed the caravan with volleys of arrows, killing and wounding Hong Family guards.
• Hong Zhuer confronted Han Dong, who demanded that she come with him, and she fought him despite the gap between their cultivation levels.
• Young Master Ye dispersed Han Dong’s attack with his soul power and told him to retreat.

Ye saved Hong Zhuer and the Hong Clan convoy by using human qi to disrupt the Han Clan fighters’ Dou Qi, then defeated Han Dong. Hong Zhuer invited Ye to stay at her home while his injuries healed, giving him a chance to learn more about the Hong Clan and the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s Dou Skills.

• Han Dong ordered the Han Clan fighters to attack the convoy after Ye refused to withdraw.
• Ye used “Heaven and Earth have Righteous Qi” to contaminate the attackers’ Dou Qi, causing them to suffer backlash and fall.
• Han Dong called Ye a Poison Master and charged at him, but Ye disrupted his Dou Qi and made him collapse.
• Hong Zhuer thanked Ye for protecting her and invited him to her home.
• Ye accepted Hong Zhuer’s invitation, intending to stay with the Hong Clan while he recovered.

Ye helped Hong Zhuer escape the Han Family and brought the Hong convoy safely to Heavenly North City. At the Hong Residence, Hong Li summoned the elders and invited Ye to the Council Hall after testing his knowledge of Canaan Academy and hearing how the Han Family had threatened his daughter.

• Ye ordered Hong Chong to kill thirteen Han Family Dou Spirits in retribution for the Hong Family Guards killed in the ambush.
• Han Dong begged Ye for an antidote, and Ye gave him a jar of clear water while claiming he needed to drink it and disperse his Dou Qi.
• Hong Zhuer pointed out Heavenly North City, invited Ye to her home, and brought him with the convoy to the Hong Residence.
• Hong Zhuer told her father, Hong Li, that the Han Family had tried to capture her, and Hong Li ordered the elders and Elder Shen Yun summoned.
• Hong Li questioned Ye about Canaan Academy, and Ye answered his traps before warning Hong Zhuer that Hu Jia liked beautiful girls like her.
• Hong Li called Hong Zhuer and Ye to accompany him to the Council Hall.

Ye Lao Na attended the Hong Clan council as Hong Chen proposed a duel with the Han Clan, then offered to persuade Han Yue to marry Hong Chen and ease the conflict. He left for the Han Clan with a plan to take control of both clans and the Wind and Lightning Pavilion.

• Hong Li told the Hong Clan elders that Han Dong had attacked Hong Zhuer, and the elders called for action against the Han Clan.
• Shen Yun declined to advise the Hong Clan, while Hong Chen proposed a duel in three days and demanded that Han Yue and Han Xue marry him if he won.
• Ye Lao Na revealed that he knew Han Yue and offered to persuade her to marry Hong Chen voluntarily, and Hong Li accepted his proposal.
• Hong Chen reminded Ye Lao Na to bring Han Xue too, and Ye Lao Na left the Hong Residence for the Han Clan with a plan to claim control of the clans and the Wind and Lightning Pavilion.

Ye Lao Na visited the Han family and told Han Yue about the Hong Clan’s planned duel, offering two ways to protect her family. He proposed that she marry Hong Chen and use her beauty to influence him, but Han Yue reacted with anger.

• Ye Lao Na entered the Han residence, where Han Dong recognized him as the Poison Master who had thwarted the Han family’s plans and killed thirteen Dou Ling experts.
• Han Dong tried to attack Ye Lao Na, but Han Chi stopped him after Ye Lao Na claimed to be an envoy of the Hong Clan.
• Han Yue confirmed that she knew Ye Lao Na and took him to her courtyard to speak privately.
• Ye Lao Na told Han Yue that the Hong Clan planned a duel with Hong Chen and would demand that Han Yue and Han Xue marry him if the Han family lost.
• Ye Lao Na offered to help Han Yue win the duel with his poison, then argued that victory alone would not resolve the conflict.
• Ye Lao Na advised Han Yue to marry Hong Chen and use her beauty to influence him, prompting her to shout at him.

Ye pushed Han Yue to choose whether to marry Hong Chen to protect the Han Family, but she resolved to face him in a duel and refused to let Han Xue marry him. Ye arranged for Hong Li to search for Qing Lin and received a Sixth Grade Healing Pill, while wondering whether Hong Li would threaten Han Yue’s plans.

• Ye told Han Yue that she could protect the Han Family by marrying Hong Chen or by defeating him in a public duel, and she chose to fight him without involving Han Xue.
• Ye left the Han Family Residence and decided to ask Hong Li to help locate Qing Lin, whose fate after the Space Storm remained unclear to him.
• Ye told Hong Li that Han Yue had refused marriage and would duel Hong Chen at Heaven Stone Platform in three days.
• Hong Chen objected to Han Yue’s condition and insisted that he wanted to marry both Han Yue and Han Xue, but Hong Li stopped him.
• Ye gave Hong Li a portrait of Qing Lin and asked him to search for her, then accepted a Sixth Grade Healing Pill from Hong Li.

The Hong and Han Clans gathered at the Heaven Stone Platform for their duel, with Han Yue facing Hong Chen over the Han Clan’s future and her marriage. Han Yue defended herself against Hong Chen’s relentless lightning-claw assault, but his superior cultivation began to pressure her.

• Crowds gathered at the Heaven Stone Platform as the Hong and Han Clans arrived for their duel.
• The narrator gave Hong Zhuer a sugar figure while the Hong Clan waited for the Han Clan.
• Han Yue exchanged a silent greeting with the narrator before Hong Li and Han Chi traded taunts.
• Hong Chen challenged Han Yue and attacked her with lightning, then used the Wind and Lightning Claw.
• Han Yue blocked Hong Chen’s attacks with her sword, then formed a sword barrier as his assault grew faster and more forceful.

Han Yue’s duel with Hong Chen ended when Ye secretly disrupted Hong Chen’s Dou Qi, leaving him vulnerable to her killing strike. After Han Yue killed him, the Hong Clan and Wind and Lightning Pavilion turned against her, and she stood by her decision as they threatened retaliation.

• Hong Chen overwhelmed Han Yue with his Heavenly Lightning Hammer, and Ye secretly sent human aura into Hong Chen to interfere with his Dou Qi.
• Hong Chen’s attempt to use Annihilation Lightning Hammer failed, causing his Dou Qi to turn chaotic and leaving him collapsed and badly injured.
• Han Yue charged at the helpless Hong Chen and killed him with her Icy Cold Snow Sword, despite Shen Yun’s attempt to stop her.
• Hong Zhuer grieved and blamed Han Yue, while Hong Li vowed to destroy the Han Clan.
• Han Yue told the approaching Hong Clan members that the duel had been fought on the Heaven Stone Platform, where life and death were decided by fate.

Han Yue killed Hong Chen in a duel, and Shen Yun refused to let the Wind and Lightning Pavilion intervene. The Hong Clan still demanded Han Yue’s life, threatening war with the weaker Han Clan.

• Han Chi tried to defend Han Yue’s killing of Hong Chen as an accidental death in a duel, while Hong Li accused the Han Clan of murdering his son.
• Hong Li invoked Hong Chen’s status as a Wind and Lightning North Pavilion inner disciple to pressure Shen Yun into taking revenge.
• Shen Yun declared that Hong Chen had died in a duel and that the Wind and Lightning Pavilion would not intervene.
• The narrator reasoned that Shen Yun had protected the pavilion’s reputation and his own standing by treating the death as a private duel.
• Hong Li threatened war unless the Han Clan surrendered Han Yue to pay for his son’s death.

After Hong Chen’s death, Hong Li launched an all-out attack on the Han Clan, forcing them to retreat into their fortified residence. Ye Gege refused to join either side but secretly returned to Heavenly North City as Hong Li prepared to break the Han Clan’s defenses.

• Hong Li rejected Han Chi’s appeal and ordered the Hong Clan elders to destroy the Han Family, beginning a large-scale battle at the Heaven Stone Platform.
• Hong Zhuer tried to join the fighting and begged Ye Gege to avenge her brother, while Han Yue’s words made Hong Li suspect Ye Gege would support the Han Clan.
• Ye Gege claimed neutrality, flew out of Heavenly North City, then quietly circled back.
• The Han Clan retreated to its residence after suffering losses, where thousands of fighters and military weapons stopped the Hong Clan’s advance.
• Hong Li refused to summon the Hong Clan ancestor and led the elders toward the Han Family Residence to attack its defenses from the ground.

Hong Li’s Hong Clan attacked the Han Family, but pill-fueled defenders inflicted costly losses and forced the first assault to withdraw. The battle resumed with both sides deploying elite fighters and enhancement pills, while Heavenly North City descended into chaos and looting; the narrator continued weighing how to obtain the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s Dou Techniques.

• Hong Li led Hong Clan Elders into the Han Residence, where Han Chi and the Han Family Elders fought to stop their advance.
• Han Family Dou Ling used Breaking Cauldron Pills to kill Hong Kun and a Hong Clan two-star Dou Huang, forcing Hong Li to retreat.
• The narrator considered seeking Feng Qing’er, ambushing Shen Yun, or abandoning the pursuit of the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s Dou Techniques.
• The Hong Clan’s northern army arrived and began a second attack, while fighting and looting spread through Heavenly North City.
• Both families sent pill-enhanced elites into close combat, where fighters used pills and desperate techniques to kill opponents above their cultivation level.

The narrator disguised himself to loot the Hong Clan Auction House, but Hong Xiaotian arrived and struck him down. The chapter ended with the narrator apparently dead as Hong Xiaotian headed toward the Han Clan.

• As the Han and Hong clans’ elders displayed powerful pills before their battle, the narrator left the pavilion and searched their Auction Houses for valuables.
• The narrator found the Han Clan Auction House emptied, then joined Wu Mu’s Two Heads Mountain Mercenary Group in attacking the guarded Hong Clan Auction House.
• The narrator used Thunder Instant to knock away a Hong Clan Dou Wang elder, then looted the building and found a large piece of Thunderstone.
• Hong Xiaotian arrived, killed Wu Mu with one punch, and slaughtered many of the mercenaries before confronting the narrator at the sixth-floor window.
• The narrator pretended to be gravely injured by Hong Xiaotian’s punch, and Hong Xiaotian left to head toward the Han Clan.

After surviving Hong Xiaotian’s punch, the narrator left the auction house and watched the battle at the Han Residence, where the Han family’s desperate use of amplification pills turned the tide against the Hong elders. As Hong Xiaotian arrived to crush the Han family, its elders unleashed an Asura Corpse Pill, while the narrator headed to the undefended Hong Residence to loot its treasury.

• The narrator woke after Hong Xiaotian left, knocked Hong Chi unconscious, and walked out of the Hong Clan Auction House.
• At the Han Residence, Han family elders used multiple amplification pills to overpower the more hesitant Hong family elders.
• Hong Xiaotian arrived and dismissed Han Chi’s appeal to their families’ history, while Han Yue was badly wounded fighting two Hong elders.
• An elderly Han family Dou Huang swallowed the Asura Corpse Pill and transformed into a terrifying Asura Corpse.
• The narrator decided to raid the undefended Hong Residence and take its treasury while the Hong family fought at the Han Residence.

The Left Supervisor infiltrated the Hong Family Treasury and discovered Shen Yun fighting deeper inside, then prepared an ambush at a sealed metal gate. When Shen Yun broke the gate open, the Left Supervisor stabbed him through the crack and blasted the gate apart with a follow-up attack.

• The Left Supervisor slipped into the Hong Family’s underground treasury while its guards remained unaware.
• He found a succession of sealed gates and sensed Shen Yun fighting beyond a gate that blocked soul power.
• The Left Supervisor decided to let Shen Yun retrieve the treasury’s treasures, then ambush him as he returned.
• He coated a longsword with Little Fairy Doctor’s poison and waited for Shen Yun to break through the gate.
• When the gate cracked, the Left Supervisor stabbed Shen Yun through the opening and used Lightning Fire Thunder Chariot to shatter the gate, sending metal fragments at him.

The narrator ambushed and killed Shen Yun, a Wind and Lightning Pavilion elder, in the Hong Family Underground Treasury, then captured his soul. Shen Yun offered the Secret of Becoming a Saint in exchange for his release, leaving the narrator astonished by the possibility of reaching Dou Sheng.

• The narrator attacked Shen Yun in the treasury passageway, but Shen Yun used Three Thousand Lightning to evade his lightning-based assault.
• The narrator disrupted Shen Yun's technique with Red Dust Rolling and beat him to death while he was unable to move.
• Shen Yun's injured soul emerged from his corpse and threatened the narrator with the Wind and Lightning Pavilion's revenge.
• The narrator trapped Shen Yun's soul in a treasure bottle and subdued it with lightning.
• Shen Yun offered to reveal the Secret of Becoming a Saint if the narrator released him, and the narrator reacted with astonishment.