Chapter Summaries

As Fei Tian’s avatar pursued them through the underground rivers, Xiao Yan and Qing Lin escaped with Black Water Profound Yin, but the pursuer caught up and forced Xiao Yan into a losing fight. Qing Lin sensed something calling from behind a hollow rock wall, and Black Water Profound Yin broke through it to reveal a vast, dark cave.

• Xiao Yan healed from his injuries while Black Water Profound Yin carried him and Qing Lin away from Fei Tian’s avatar.
• Qing Lin translated Black Water Profound Yin’s explanation that she could conceal their auras, and the group slipped through a narrow tributary before Xiao Yan sealed its entrance.
• Fei Tian’s avatar tracked them down, collapsed the underground passage, and resumed its pursuit despite their attempt to hide.
• Fei Tian’s avatar caught up and attacked while clinging to Black Water Profound Yin’s tail, and Xiao Yan struggled to defend himself as the avatar burned its energy to keep pace.
• Qing Lin sensed a hollow rock wall calling to her, and Black Water Profound Yin smashed through it to reveal a vast Great Earth Cave.

The narrator and Qing Lin faced Fei Tian’s avatar in the cavern, where Qing Lin’s hidden serpent spirit, Little Nine, defeated him in a Soul Battle. Little Nine returned to Qing Lin, Fei Tian’s avatar vanished, and Black Water Profound Yin emerged from the cavern.

• Qing Lin directed Black Water Profound Yin into the cavern while the narrator tried to stop Fei Tian’s avatar with Red Dust Rolling, but Fei Tian shattered the attack.
• Fei Tian’s Thunder Dragon struck the narrator and hurled him into the cavern, where Qing Lin summoned a nine-headed serpent phantom that destroyed the dragon.
• Fei Tian recognized the phantom as an Ancient Heavenly Serpent remnant, and Qing Lin called it Little Nine and sent it to fight him.
• Little Nine bypassed Fei Tian’s Thunder Dragon and entered his body, beginning a Soul Battle that ended with Fei Tian’s soul annihilated and his avatar dissolving.
• Black Water Profound Yin came out of the cavern in human form, and the narrator put a dress on her before Little Nine returned to Qing Lin.

After Fei Tian's avatar vanished, the narrator and Qing Lin explored the cavern and found the skeleton of a nine-headed Ancient Heavenly Serpent. Little Nine remained inside Qing Lin without obeying her, and the narrator uncovered scarlet spiritual liquid in the skeleton's tomb before deciding to absorb it himself.

• The narrator, Qing Lin, and Black Water Profound Yin went deeper into the cavern and discovered a huge nine-headed serpent skeleton atop a Scarlet Stone.
• The narrator suspected the stolen Wind and Lightning North Pavilion items had revealed their location, then used Boundless Human Sea to conceal the items, their Ring of Holding, and the group.
• Qing Lin said Little Nine had entered her body on its own and would not respond to her, prompting the narrator to fear it intended to possess her.
• Little Nine told Qing Lin that spiritual liquid lay inside the Scarlet Stone, and the narrator broke open the stone to reveal a pool of scarlet liquid that seemed to come from the serpent's blood.
• Despite worrying that Little Nine might be preparing Qing Lin for possession, the narrator jumped into the spiritual liquid to absorb it and strengthen his body.

Nalan Ye submerged himself in the scarlet spiritual liquid to heal and strengthen his body, but Little Nine’s lingering murderous intent invaded his soul and trapped him in a vision. As Xiao Yan and others taunted him in the illusion, Nalan Ye resisted the urge to kill before finally stepping toward Xiao Yan, who revealed himself as the Flame Emperor.

• Nalan Ye absorbed the scarlet spiritual liquid, which rapidly healed his wounds and strengthened his body while filling him with a sinister force.
• Nalan Ye realized that Little Nine’s lingering negative emotions were attacking his soul and resisted the liquid’s murderous intent and temptations.
• The force showed Nalan Ye visions of his family’s destruction and his confidantes being abused by Xiao Yan, while Hai Bodong, Anthony, and Nalan Jie denounced him as a tyrant.
• Xiao Yan and the others mocked Nalan Ye until he overcame his fear and took a step toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan revealed himself as the Flame Emperor, summoned multiple Exotic Flames, and challenged Nalan Ye as Nalan Ye advanced with killing intent.

Nalan Ye endured Xiao Yan’s Different Fires and Rage Fire Lotus in a vision driven by killing intent, then imagined killing him with a Big Iron Ball. The vision ended with Nalan Ye restored and repeatedly defeating Xiao Yan with fantastical weapons.

• Xiao Yan attacked Nalan Ye with six Different Fires, but Nalan Ye continued trying to kill him despite being burned nearly to a skeleton.
• Xiao Yan formed a six-colored Rage Fire Lotus and unleashed it, terrifying Nalan Ye with the destruction it caused around him.
• Nalan Ye struggled to understand how he could kill Xiao Yan, then threw a Big Iron Ball that exploded and apparently burned Xiao Yan to ash.
• Nalan Ye’s body returned to normal as imagined figures praised him and Xiao Yan knelt in defeat.
• Xiao Yan charged again, and Nalan Ye summoned an electromagnetic railgun, then a Planet Annihilation Cannon and an Antimatter Cannon.

After absorbing the crimson spiritual liquid, Nalan Ye lost his reason and attacked Qing Lin before Black Water Profound Yin knocked him unconscious and carried him toward the Beast Region. In a vision or soul world, he attacked Cai Lin as well, and she realized he might have suffered a cultivation deviation.

• Nalan Ye absorbed the last of the crimson spiritual liquid, causing the Scarlet Stone and the nine-headed snake skeleton to shatter.
• Nalan Ye acted as if he were playing a game with Qing Lin, but Black Water Profound Yin recognized that his eyes and spiritual light showed his mind was damaged.
• Qing Lin tried to treat Nalan Ye with Nourishing Soul pills, then sought help from Senior Sister Qing Yue and was forced to let Black Water Profound Yin knock him out.
• Black Water Profound Yin carried Qing Lin and the unconscious Nalan Ye through an underground river toward the Beast Region.
• Nalan Ye awoke in a wilderness, attacked Cai Lin in her Soul World, and she concluded that he might have suffered a cultivation deviation.

Within Cai Lin's Soul World, Cai Lin fought Nalan Ye, whose soul was corrupted by evil aura, and tried to cleanse it with an inherited secret technique. Meanwhile, Qing Lin carried Nalan Ye's physical body through an underground river and realized their journey to the Beast Region could take months.

• Cai Lin discovered that evil aura had muddled Nalan Ye's soul, and he attacked her with killing intent and crude sword strikes.
• Cai Lin subdued Nalan Ye in her Soul World, trapping him beneath waves of sand after he made a lewd remark.
• Cai Lin used the Great Evil Expulsion Incantation to drive out the evil aura, but its multicolored energy also corroded Nalan Ye's soul and risked weakening his cultivation.
• Qing Lin traveled through an underground river on the Black Water Mysterious Yin Snake with Nalan Ye's body and studied a map of Central State.
• Qing Lin learned that reaching the Beast Region could require crossing hundreds of thousands of li, while the snake estimated the trip would take one to two hundred days.

Qing Lin and Black Water Mysterious Yin Snake reached Lotus Flower City seeking a Space Wormhole to the Southern Region, while carrying the unconscious Nalan Ye. After the Yuan Family recognized them as wanted fugitives and attacked, Qing Lin ordered Little Black to fight the family’s Four Star Dou Zong Old Ancestor.

• Qing Lin surfaced with Black Water Mysterious Yin Snake and rescued a mercenary squad from a pack of Blue Ink Wolves, then learned that Lotus Flower City had a Space Wormhole to the Southern Region.
• Qing Lin flew to Lotus Flower City and paid 150,000 gold coins for tickets for herself, Black Water Mysterious Yin Snake, and Nalan Ye.
• A Yuan Family Dou Emperor recognized Qing Lin and Nalan Ye from a Wanted Poster, shut down the Space Wormhole, and attacked them.
• Black Water Mysterious Yin Snake knocked the Yuan Family Dou Emperor aside, then fled with Qing Lin and Nalan Ye as Yuan Family guards pursued them.
• The Yuan Family Old Ancestor, a Four Star Dou Zong, blocked their escape, and Qing Lin told Little Black to beat him up.

After waking from his killing-intent trance, Nalan Ye realized he had gained strength and reached a sudden enlightenment that freed him from his fear of Xiao Yan. His breakthrough began above Lotus Flower City as the Yuan Family Old Ancestor watched in alarm.

• Black Water Mysterious Yin transformed into her serpent form and battled the Yuan Family Old Ancestor, who wounded her with a gravity-enhanced earthen mountain.
• Nearly twenty Yuan Family Elders surrounded Qing Lin and the unconscious Nalan Ye while Black Armor Elder attacked Qing Lin.
• Qing Lin met Black Armor Elder’s punch to protect Nalan Ye, injuring her arm before he mocked her.
• A tear from Qing Lin landed on Nalan Ye’s face and helped rouse him after Cai Lin suppressed the killing intent in his mind.
• Nalan Ye recalled killing Xiao Yan repeatedly in his trance and declared that he would no longer fear him.
• Nalan Ye broke free of Qing Lin’s embrace, entered Sudden Enlightenment, and drew heaven and earth energy into himself as the Yuan Family Old Ancestor recognized his breakthrough.

The narrator slaughtered the Yuan Family Elders after reaching Dou Zong strength, then stopped when Feng Qing'er appeared and revealed that he had arrived in Wind and Lightning East Pavilion territory. The chapter left him facing Feng Qing'er, whose presence raised questions about why she was in Lotus Flower City.

• The narrator killed the Black Armor Elder with a punch and palm strike, then fought off the Yuan Family Elders’ coordinated attacks.
• The narrator survived the Elders’ Dou Techniques unharmed, converted their Three Steps Water Kingdom into a Thunder Kingdom, and killed the Yuan Family Great Elder and two other Dou Huang Elders.
• The narrator chased down and killed several more Yuan Family Elders while the Yuan Family Old Ancestor remained tied up by Black Water Profound Yin.
• The Yuan Family Old Ancestor demanded that Feng Qing'er intervene, and she emerged from a courtyard and flew into the air.
• The narrator and Qing Lin realized they did not know where Lotus Flower City was, and Feng Qing'er told them it was in Wind and Lightning East Pavilion territory.

After Qing Lin inadvertently brought Yan Xiao to Lotus Flower City in the Wind and Lightning East Pavilion’s territory, he challenged Feng Qing'er to a one-move duel, hoping to secure their escape. Feng Qing'er accepted and unleashed a powerful attack, leaving the outcome unresolved as her beam shot toward him.

• Yan Xiao realized that Qing Lin had led him and Feng Qing'er to Lotus Flower City, within the Wind and Lightning East Pavilion’s domain.
• Yan Xiao challenged Feng Qing'er to a duel, wagering that he would become her husband if he lost and promising to die if he won.
• Feng Qing'er countered with a wager that she would let Yan Xiao leave if he won and suppress him beneath Wind and Lightning Mountain if he lost.
• Yan Xiao boasted of his fabricated feats before the city’s spectators to provoke Feng Qing'er into accepting the duel.
• Feng Qing'er summoned a colorful phoenix through Blood Sacrifice, revealing power close to Fei Tian’s avatar.
• Feng Qing'er launched Wind Kill Finger at Yan Xiao as he called for her to fight.

Yan Xiao fought Feng Qing'er above Lotus Flower City, where their powerful attacks ended in a draw before Feng Qing'er used a bloodline technique to raise her strength. Facing her advantage, Yan Xiao sought help from Cai Lin through the Soul World and asked her to lend him strength.

• Yan Xiao gathered the Dou Qi of people in Lotus Flower City to create Thousands Pointing Fingers, which clashed evenly with Feng Qing'er's Wind Kill Finger.
• The Yuan Family Old Ancestor stopped fighting Black Water Profound Yin as Yan Xiao and Feng Qing'er proved their attacks could reach Five Star Dou Zong strength.
• Feng Qing'er used Bloodline Spirit Devour to absorb her phoenix and rise from Two-Star Dou Zong to Three-Star Dou Zong.
• Yan Xiao contacted Cai Lin in the Soul World, explained that the Wind and Lightning Pavilion was preventing him from reaching the Beast Region, and asked her to lend him strength.

Feng Qing'er unleashed her Heavenly Phoenix Saint Image against the narrator, whose soul began to purge its baleful murderous intent from the phantom’s fire. With Cai Lin taking control and summoning the Heaven Swallowing Python, the two ancient-beast powers clashed above Lotus Flower City, where Cai Lin began cutting off the energy sustaining Feng Qing’er’s flames.

• Feng Qing'er summoned the Heavenly Phoenix Saint Image, and its pure yang flames began melting the baleful murderous intent in the narrator’s soul.
• Feng Qing'er attacked with Burn the Heavens and Boil the Seas, forcing the narrator to draw on Cai Lin’s soul power.
• Cai Lin took control of the narrator’s body and summoned the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, whose suction pulled in the city’s energy and the incoming flames.
• Feng Qing'er redirected the Crimson Fire Sea into an explosive attack, and the narrator used Thunder Instant to evade it.
• Cai Lin created an energy vacuum around the Heaven Swallowing Python, weakening Feng Qing’er’s flames as the Yuan Family Old Ancestor watched the duel.

Cai Lin defeated Feng Qing'er by swallowing her Crimson Fire Sea and crushing her Heavenly Phoenix Bell, leaving Yan Xiao to confront her about their wager. Yan Xiao taunted Feng Qing'er by insisting that effort, not bloodline, made him strong, and she vowed to surpass him in the future.

• Cai Lin cut off the energy sustaining Feng Qing'er's Crimson Fire Sea and swallowed it with the Heaven Swallowing Python phantom.
• Feng Qing'er formed the Saintly Image Heavenly Phoenix Bell, but Cai Lin coiled the phantom around it and crushed it despite its powerful physical and soul-based attacks.
• Cai Lin redirected the bell's soul attack onto Yan Xiao, who suffered through the repeated sonic strikes until the bell shattered.
• Yan Xiao asked Cai Lin not to kill Feng Qing'er, then faced her after she recalled the phantom and warned him to hurry to the Beast Region.
• Yan Xiao tried to secure Feng Qing'er's acceptance of their wager by boasting that he had never lost, then claimed his effort would outpace her Heavenly Demon Phoenix bloodline.
• Feng Qing'er angrily vowed to grow stronger and defeat Yan Xiao, but could not refute him after losing their duel.

After defeating Feng Qing'er, Yan Xiao pressured her to honor their wager, then escaped Lotus Flower City with her, Qing Lin, and Black Water Profound Yin through the Space Wormhole. Wind and Lightning East Pavilion elders arrived after they had departed and pursued them into the passage.

• Yan Xiao reminded Feng Qing'er that losing their duel meant she had to become his wife, and she avoided answering by agreeing to let them leave.
• Feng Qing'er ordered the Yuan Family Old Ancestor to open Lotus Flower City's Space Wormhole, and Yan Xiao invited her to flee with him.
• Feng Qing'er, Qing Lin, Black Water Profound Yin, and Yan Xiao boarded her silver Space Ship and traveled toward Heaven One City.
• Yan Xiao stayed alert during the journey and contacted Cai Lin so he could borrow her strength if they encountered danger.
• Two Wind and Lightning East Pavilion elders arrived, learned that Feng Qing'er had left with Yan Xiao, and entered the Space Wormhole to pursue them.

The narrator and Feng Qing'er left the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s territory, but destroyed Heaven One City’s Space Wormhole and drew the Bai Family Old Ancestor’s attention. As they headed toward Flame Mountain to treat the narrator’s baleful aura, they spotted the old ancestor following them and decided to gather allies.

• Feng Qing'er and the narrator exited the Space Channel with Qing Lin and Black Water Profound Yin, then Feng Qing'er destroyed Heaven One City’s Space Wormhole.
• The Bai Family Old Ancestor confronted them, but fled after the narrator and Black Water Profound Yin revealed their Dou Zong strength.
• The narrator bought a map in Heaven One City and persuaded Feng Qing'er to help him remove the baleful aura in his soul.
• The group set out for Flame Mountain, but the narrator noticed the Bai Family Old Ancestor secretly following them and decided to gather allies.

The narrator reunited with Feng Qing'er and Qing Lin, then negotiated with Bai Xiaobai after destroying the Bai Clan’s Space Wormhole. After paying him to post a message in Heaven One City, the group reached Flame Mountain to regroup and recover.

• The narrator learned that Cai Lin, Heavenly Flame Venerable, and Little Fairy Doctor had reunited and were heading to Flame Mountain, while Wang Ping, Qing Yue, and Long Xi remained missing.
• The narrator confronted Bai Xiaobai, who demanded compensation for the destroyed Space Wormhole and bragged about his powerful acquaintances.
• The narrator bargained with Bai Xiaobai and paid him with goods from the Wind and Lightning North Pavilion, including the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• The narrator gave Bai Xiaobai a Silver Moon Spirit Mushroom to post a Desert Iron Mercenary Group flag in Heaven One City and direct anyone seeking him to wait there.
• The narrator led Feng Qing'er, Qing Lin, and the others on a long, winding flight to avoid being followed, and they arrived at Flame Mountain at dawn.

Nalan Ye reunited with Little Fairy Doctor, Cai Lin, and Heavenly Flame Venerable after returning to Flame Mountain, sharing his spoils and introducing his companions. Cai Lin accepted a Seven-Colored Primal Stone, and the group settled in together as Nalan Ye offered Heavenly Flame Venerable a gift.

• Little Fairy Doctor embraced Nalan Ye, while she and Cai Lin argued over how he had been injured and whether he had provoked the Wind and Lightning North Pavilion.
• Nalan Ye gave Little Fairy Doctor seven Rings of Holding filled with his gains and presented Cai Lin with a Seven-Colored Primal Stone that could help her advance.
• Cai Lin accepted the stone, and Nalan Ye introduced Feng Qing'er and Black Water Mysterious Yin to Little Fairy Doctor, Cai Lin, and Heavenly Flame Venerable.
• Cai Lin welcomed Qing Lin and promised to protect her, while Qing Lin reassured her that Nalan Ye had treated her well.
• Nalan Ye checked that Heavenly Flame Venerable's borrowed body would not be exposed and offered him a gift.

Nalan Ye reunited with the Central Plains Special Operations Team and offered Heavenly Flame Venerable two Dou Sheng bones, learning they could strengthen the body but finding a way to use them that he could accept. He arranged help for his injuries and poison, then revealed a rare Earth Horse that could be used for Little Fairy Doctor’s pill recipe.

• Nalan Ye gave Heavenly Flame Venerable two Dou Sheng Remains, and Feng Qing'er explained that their marrow could strengthen the body if consumed or made into soup.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable proposed attaching one bone to Nalan Ye’s missing right arm, while Feng Qing'er and Little Fairy Doctor agreed to help with his other lingering ailments.
• Little Fairy Doctor examined the Jade Well Earth Horse Pill recipe and said Earth Horses were believed extinct, prompting Nalan Ye to unveil a series of nested boxes.
• Nalan Ye finally opened the jade box and caught the tiny Earth Horse as it tried to escape.
• Little Fairy Doctor recognized the Earth Horse as an auspicious beast that could cure poisons, and Heavenly Flame Venerable praised Nalan Ye’s talent for finding unexpected treasures.

Nalan Ye and his companions searched Flame Mountain for a Seventh-Order Crimson Blood Flood Dragon to obtain its magic core. Heavenly Flame Venerable led Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor into the lava, where a dragon-like roar sounded from below.

• Nalan Ye learned that the Jade Well Earth Horse Pill needed a rare Crimson Blood Flood Dragon magic core, and Heavenly Flame Venerable said auctions were one possible source.
• Feng Qing'er claimed she knew a way to obtain the magic core, but Qing Lin reported that Black Water Profound Yin sensed a dangerous Seventh-Order beast inside Flame Mountain.
• Nalan Ye and the others flew to the volcanic crater, and Heavenly Flame Venerable judged that the beast might be a Crimson Blood Flood Dragon.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable, Nalan Ye, and Little Fairy Doctor descended into the lava while the others stayed near the crater.
• A deep, dragon-like roar came from the lava below them.