Chapter Summaries

Thunder Venerable wounded Wang Ping in their battle above Heaven One City while Cai Lin worried and Nalan Ye remained unresponsive. Elsewhere, Nalan Ye helped Heaven Flame Venerable protect the Jade Well Earth Horse Pill from a Three-Colored Pill Tribulation, leaving him battered but stronger.

• Thunder Venerable cut through Wang Ping’s defenses with Illusory Lightning Cliff and wounded his hand with Wind and Lightning Claw.
• Cai Lin called for Nalan Ye’s help through the Soul World, but he did not respond as she watched Wang Ping continue fighting.
• Nalan Ye decided not to intervene for Qing Lin’s senior siblings and waited with her for Heaven Flame Venerable to finish refining the Jade Well Earth Horse Pill.
• Heaven Flame Venerable emerged with the pill as tribulation clouds gathered over Peaceful City, and Nalan Ye drove away three local experts who approached.
• Heaven Flame Venerable told Nalan Ye to block the Pill Tribulation, and Nalan Ye destroyed its first two bolts while finding that the lightning strengthened his body.
• Nalan Ye shattered the final bolt of the Three-Colored Pill Tribulation but suffered severe burns and wounds, and Heaven Flame Venerable offered him medicine.

The narrator recovered from the pill tribulation and joined Heavenly Flame Venerable, Qing Lin, Little Fairy Doctor, and Black Water Profound Yin in a dangerous attempt to reach Heaven One City. After Thunder Venerable repeatedly destroyed their Space Wormholes, they arrived near the city and flew toward the battle.

• The narrator swallowed Heavenly Flame Venerable’s three-colored Jade Well Earth Horse Pill, which detoxified him and began healing his wounds.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable decided to travel to Heaven One City through a Space Wormhole opened with Wang Ping, and Cai Lin arranged the connection.
• The narrator, Qing Lin, Little Fairy Doctor, Black Water Profound Yin, and Heavenly Flame Venerable entered the wormhole as Thunder Venerable attacked Wang Ping and disrupted their route.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable brought the group out of the collapsing wormhole and repeatedly opened new ones despite Thunder Venerable destroying them.
• The group reached a point a hundred li southeast of Heaven One City and flew toward the brightly lit city as the narrator called out to Cai Lin.

Nalan Ye reunited with Cai Lin and Qing Lin in Above Heaven One City and revealed that he had advanced to Three Star Dou Zong. As Thunder Venerable demanded the return of stolen Wind and Lightning North Pavilion treasures and the surrender of Nalan Ye, Qing Lin, and Black Water Profound Yin, Nalan Ye offered Qing Yue Heaven Rank techniques to win her support.

• Nalan Ye reunited with Cai Lin and showed her and the others that he had reached Three Star Dou Zong.
• Fei Tian accused Nalan Ye, Qing Lin, and Black Water Profound Yin of raiding the Wind and Lightning North Pavilion and stealing its treasures and techniques.
• Yao TianHuo revealed his identity to Thunder Venerable and proposed settling the dispute without a deadly fight.
• Thunder Venerable demanded that Nalan Ye, Qing Lin, and Black Water Profound Yin be handed over and the stolen items returned; Qing Yue refused to surrender Qing Lin, while Long Xi offered to give up Nalan Ye and Black Water Profound Yin.
• Nalan Ye gave Qing Yue several handwritten Heaven Rank cultivation methods and Dou Techniques as a token of appreciation.

After negotiations with Thunder Venerable collapsed, Wang Ping and his allies fought the Wind and Lightning Pavilion forces, whose Three Thousand Thunderous Illusory Bodies multiplied the opponents. Cai Lin merged her soul power with Nalan Ye, boosting his combat strength, and he confronted Fei Tian before using multiple afterimages to confuse him.

• Wang Ping gave Qing Yue a sheet of cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, prompting Thunder Venerable to attack after recognizing them as Wind and Lightning Pavilion techniques.
• Thunder Venerable created a fully mastered Thunderous Illusory Body, and he and Heavenly Flame Venerable fought while Wang Ping faced the clone.
• Fei Tian and a Three Star Dou Zong created their own Thunderous Illusory Bodies, increasing the enemy forces and prompting Wang Ping to assign opponents among the group.
• Cai Lin poured her soul power into Nalan Ye, raising his cultivation to Four Star Dou Zong, and Nalan Ye used Thunder God Descent to reach Five Star Dou Zong combat strength.
• Nalan Ye attacked Fei Tian with Illusory Lightning Cliff, but Fei Tian countered and saw through Nalan Ye's Three Thousand Lightning Movements.
• Nalan Ye combined Three Thousand Lightning Movements with Boundless Human Sea, sending out numerous speaking afterimages to confuse Fei Tian.

The narrator and Cai Lin teamed up against Fei Tian, using phantom movements, close combat, and a lightning strike to badly injure him. As the narrator struggled with the pain of his broken bones, Cai Lin began forming the Devouring Heaven Python’s ultimate attack to swallow Fei Tian.

• The narrator used Three Thousand Lightning Movement and Boundless Human Sea to create phantoms, confusing Fei Tian while the lightning serpents destroyed several of them.
• The narrator attacked Fei Tian from behind with Wind and Lightning Claw, then Cai Lin took control and broke the narrator’s arm while trading punches with Fei Tian.
• Cai Lin overwhelmed Fei Tian in close combat, while the narrator used Red Dust Rolling to disrupt Fei Tian’s Dou Qi and struck him with Thunder Startles the World.
• Cai Lin returned control to the narrator, who endured intense pain and used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to keep Fei Tian occupied.
• Cai Lin summoned the Devouring Heaven Python phantom, which formed a black hole in its mouth and began pulling Fei Tian toward it.

Cai Lin and the narrator exiled Fei Tian’s true body into the deeper void after they could not kill him, leaving his clone behind to fight. The narrator then rescued Little Fairy Doctor and battled a Three Star Dou Zong, ending with a lightning strike that froze his opponent in place.

• Cai Lin’s Devouring Heaven Python phantom swallowed Fei Tian, but he attacked from inside and began to break free.
• The narrator proposed exiling Fei Tian, and Cai Lin opened a spatial crack and sent the phantom and Fei Tian into the deeper void.
• Fei Tian’s clone insisted his true body would return and attacked, while Qing Yue intercepted him.
• The narrator saw Little Fairy Doctor in danger, blocked a Three Star Dou Zong’s punch, and checked that she was unharmed.
• The narrator fought the Three Star Dou Zong in a fierce exchange that badly injured both of them.
• The narrator struck with Illusory Lightning Cliff, and the Three Star Dou Zong’s horrified expression froze.

Heavenly Flame Venerable used Fallen Heart Flame to expose Thunder Venerable’s weakness and force his retreat, turning the battle for Heaven One City in the allies’ favor. The fighting ended with Thunder Venerable escaped, his forces defeated, and Wang Ping reflecting on the weakness of the Three Thousand Thunderous Illusory Body.

• Heavenly Flame Venerable revealed Fallen Heart Flame, frightening Thunder Venerable and disrupting the Crimson Fire Sea.
• Thunder Venerable opened a Space Wormhole and fled, while Heavenly Flame Venerable destroyed it before Yang Feng could follow.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable and Wang Ping destroyed Thunder Venerable’s avatar with Fallen Heart Flame, and the allied fighters defeated the remaining Wind and Lightning Pavilion forces.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable burned Fei Tian’s avatar and killed Yang Feng, then killed the Four Star Dou Zong with one punch.
• Wang Ping regretted that he had not recognized the Three Thousand Thunderous Illusory Body’s weakness sooner, since he could cultivate the technique himself.

After defeating the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s forces in Heaven One City, Yan Xiao’s group collected the fallen enemies’ possessions and escaped before Ice River Valley could intervene. Nearly ten days later, they reached Rock City at the edge of Central State and prepared to travel into the Beast Region toward the Snake-People Tribe’s ancestral land, where Cai Lin hoped to seek vengeance.

• Heavenly Flame Venerable and Wang Ping advised against pursuing the uninjured Thunder Venerable, and the group left him alive.
• Yan Xiao accused Bai Xiaobai of betraying them, but their companions sensed that Bai Xiaobai was telling the truth, and Yan Xiao took the fallen Wind and Lightning Pavilion members’ Rings of Holding.
• Yan Xiao’s group escaped Heaven One City at dawn and traveled for nearly ten days without Ice River Valley catching up.
• In Rock City, Cai Lin explained that the group would have to fly from there into the Beast Region, so Yan Xiao arranged for them to rest and buy supplies for three days.
• Yan Xiao asked Heavenly Flame Venerable who had destroyed the Snake-People Tribe, as he realized their enemies were powerful enough to defeat a tribe that had once possessed a Dou Sheng.

Nalan Ye and his companions crossed a dangerous battlefield and reached Qingmao Mountain, where Cai Lin used the Inheritance King Seal to open the Snake-People Ancestral Land. The entrance opened but began absorbing Earth Qi, creating a disturbance that could alert people across the region.

• Nalan Ye triggered a Sky Restriction Formation over the battlefield ruins, fell toward the ground, and fought off bolts from an ancient ballista before returning to Black Water Profound Yin's back.
• Nalan Ye practiced the Three Thousand Thunderous Illusory Body during the journey and, two days later, produced an afterimage that spoke and bowed to him.
• Cai Lin and Nalan Ye arrived at Qingmao Mountain, where Cai Lin recalled the desert and her lost chance to lead her people out of it.
• Wang Ping gave Cai Lin the Inheritance King Seal, and she used it to open a pitch-black entrance to the Snake-People Ancestral Land.
• The entrance fell to the ground and began absorbing Earth Qi, causing a disturbance detectable from far away.

The Snake-People Ancestral Land reopened and uncontrollably drained Earth Qi, drawing the attention of nearby Magical Beasts. When Wang Ping and Heavenly Flame Venerable led two groups inside, spatial displacement separated the narrator from Cai Lin and the others, leaving him trapped on an ancient battlefield.

• Cai Lin failed to control the ancestral land, and Heavenly Flame Venerable and Wang Ping could not conceal its Earth Qi disturbance.
• The group split into two teams and entered the unstable passage, but a spatial force separated the narrator from Heavenly Flame Venerable, Little Fairy Doctor, and Cai Lin.
• The narrator found himself on a barren battlefield filled with bones, ruined weapons, and defensive ballistae, and Cai Lin did not answer his calls.
• The narrator discovered that distorted space trapped him and that using spatial force triggered lightning attacks, so he endured the strikes while trying to create an exit.
• A damaged Dou Zong-level puppet attacked the narrator, who caught its mace and battered it into a crippled state.

Nalan Ye escaped the Crimson Salt Grinder and reunited with Cai Lin, who explained that the Snake-People Ancestral Land’s passage remained open to invading Magical Beasts. She sent him to refine two control halls while she went to secure two others, leaving them to meet at the King's Hall.

• Magical Beast families gathered outside the passage, and Mu Qingluan clashed with Dian Jingkong over his clan’s vassalage to the Nine Nether Earth Hell Python Clan.
• After the passage stabilized, Magical Beasts rushed into the Snake-People Ancestral Land, including Mu Qingluan and Dian Jingkong.
• Nalan Ye destroyed the weakened puppet in the Crimson Salt Grinder, escaped its trap, and reached a bone-covered plaza where his soul connection with Cai Lin returned.
• Cai Lin identified the trap as the Crimson Salt Grinder, which had once killed four Dou Zongs and 29,512 people, and told Nalan Ye that he could not have survived if its power had not greatly diminished.
• Cai Lin explained that the King's Hall, Pill Hall, Arms Hall, Battle Hall, and Law Hall controlled the ancestral land’s restrictions, then assigned Nalan Ye to the Pill Hall and Arms Hall while she went to the Law Hall and Battle Hall.

Nalan Ye flew through the desolate Snake-People Ancestral Land and encountered Mu Qingluan fighting Dian Jingkong over a Soul Infant Fruit. After Mu Qingluan called him her Second Senior Brother, Nalan Ye faced Dian Jingkong, who attacked them in anger.

• Nalan Ye followed Cai Lin’s map toward an Armory Hall and saw that the Small World was barren and lifeless.
• Dian Jingkong and Mu Qingluan arrived at a plaza, found a Soul Infant Fruit, and fought over it as other Magical Beasts tried to seize the fruit.
• Dian Jingkong struck Mu Qingluan into Nalan Ye, and she attacked him before realizing he was human and he realized she was a Magical Beast.
• Nalan Ye recognized Mu Qingluan and claimed ties to Venerable Yao and Starfall Pavilion, leading her to call him Second Senior Brother.
• Dian Jingkong transformed into a giant python and attacked, while Nalan Ye stepped forward to face the stronger Five Star Dou Zong.

Lin Dong and Mu Qingluan pursued Dian Jingkong after it stole the Soul Infant Fruit, and Lin Dong wounded the python while vowing to make a meal of it. Their chase brought them to an ancient palace, where the Azure Wind Fish King joined Dian Jingkong against Mu Qingluan.

• Lin Dong used Thunder God Descent and Serpent Coil to injure Dian Jingkong, who fled after swallowing the Soul Infant Fruit tree.
• Lin Dong pursued Dian Jingkong with Mu Qingluan and cut a large piece of flesh from its body with Illusory Lightning Cliff.
• Lin Dong collected the severed snake meat and joked with Cai Lin about cooking Dian Ce Python soup.
• Dian Jingkong flew toward a gathering of Magical Beasts near an ancient palace, where the Vajra Wolf King and Azure Wind Fish King were waiting.
• The Azure Wind Fish King recognized Mu Qingluan as her clan’s enemy and agreed to help Dian Jingkong kill her.
• Mu Qingluan warned the Azure Wind Fish King to retreat or be eaten.

Mu Qingluan fought the Azure Wind Fish King until Ye saved her, then led her into the Arms Hall to escape Dian Jingkong and his allies. Ye revealed that the palace was his home and planned to take control of its dangers, while Dian Jingkong ordered the others to pursue them and forced more Magical Beasts inside.

• The Azure Wind Fish King attacked Mu Qingluan with a storm of water-blade projectiles, and her defense eventually broke.
• Ye intervened, shattered the incoming projectiles with his Wind and Lightning Claw, and drew the Azure Wind Fish King's attention.
• Dian Jingkong pressured the Vajra Wolf King to join him, and the two kings attacked Ye as a group.
• Mu Qingluan offered to stay behind so Ye could escape, but Ye reassured her and led her toward the Arms Hall, saying it was his home.
• The Vajra Wolf King warned that the Arms Hall was deadly, but Dian Jingkong and the Azure Wind Fish King decided to pursue Ye and Mu Qingluan and use them to scout its dangers.
• Dian Jingkong drove the Rank 5 and Rank 6 Magical Beasts into the Arms Hall, and the palace swallowed the group.

Ye and Mu Qingluan crossed the Weapon Hall’s ruined defenses while Dian Jingkong pursued them, and Ye secretly controlled its restriction formations with Cai Lin’s guidance. At the broken Black Tower, Ye began refining the central control hub as Dian Jingkong’s diminished force surrounded them, unaware that Ye had turned the Weapon Hall against them.

• Cai Lin showed Ye a map of the Weapon Hall and guided him toward its Main Hall while Dian Jingkong, the Vajra Wolf King, and the Azure Wind Fish King led Magical Beasts after him and Mu Qingluan.
• Ye used Cai Lin’s instructions to pass through the first gate tower safely, then activated its restriction formation against Dian Jingkong and wounded him with its beams.
• Dian Jingkong sent Magical Beasts ahead to scout another route, while Ye and Mu Qingluan continued deeper into the Weapon Hall past crossbow carriages, lightning formations, and damaged puppets that Ye controlled.
• Mu Qingluan questioned Ye about his knowledge of the Weapon Hall, and Cai Lin urged him to reach the Black Tower beyond the final gate tower.
• Ye used Cai Lin’s method to begin refining the ruined Black Tower as Dian Jingkong and the surviving Magical Beasts caught up and surrounded him and Mu Qingluan.
• Ye told Dian Jingkong that he, not Dian Jingkong, had surrounded the others.

Ye refined the damaged Black Tower's restrictions and activated the Eight Vicious, Eight Extremes, Eight Desolations Grand Array, turning the battle against Dian Jingkong and his companions. The Golden Tooth Dragon Centipede phantom overwhelmed the Vajra Wolf King as Ye struck Dian Jingkong and sent him flying again.

• Dian Jingkong ordered the Azure Wind Fish King and Vajra Wolf King to attack Ye and Mu Qingluan.
• Ye completed his refinement of the Black Tower's restrictions just as the Vajra Wolf King's attack reached him.
• Ye activated the Eight Vicious, Eight Extremes, Eight Desolations Grand Array, summoning a powerful Golden Tooth Dragon Centipede phantom.
• Ye commanded the centipede phantom to coil around and stab the Vajra Wolf King, who transformed into a giant wolf and fought back.
• Dian Jingkong charged at Ye, but Ye punched him and sent him flying again.

Ye defeated Dian Jingkong and used his control over the Weapon Hall’s restrictions and puppets to trap him. He killed Dian Jingkong as retribution for the Snake-People massacred a thousand years earlier, while vowing to settle the remaining score with the Nine Nether Earth Hell Python Clan.

• Ye defeated Dian Jingkong with a single punch, shocking the Azure Wind Fish King, Mu Qingluan, and the surrounding Magical Beasts.
• Dian Jingkong ordered the Magical Beasts to attack, but Ye shielded himself and Mu Qingluan with a Weapon Hall restriction and killed thirteen attackers with the Thirty-Six Saint Crystal Blazing Light Grand Array.
• Dian Jingkong tried to flee, but Ye summoned the Weapon Hall’s damaged puppets, which surrounded and wounded him.
• Ye told Dian Jingkong that he would pay for the Snake-People killed by the Nine Nether Earth Hell Python Clan and struck him down with the Nine-Section Copper Mace.

Nalan Ye killed the invading magical beasts in the Arms Hall, claimed the Soul Infant Fruit, and then searched the hall’s surveillance formations for Little Fairy Doctor. He found her cornered by a stranger demanding pills.

• Nalan Ye used the Arms Hall’s traps and formations to kill the fleeing magical beasts, while his puppets helped defeat the Azure Wind Fish King and Vajra Wolf King.
• Nalan Ye let Mu Qingluan decide the Azure Wind Fish King’s fate, and Mu Qingluan chose to kill her.
• Nalan Ye collected the beasts’ corpses and found the Soul Infant Fruit on Dian Jingkong; Mu Qingluan urged him to keep it.
• Cai Lin told Nalan Ye to head to the Pill Hall so he could help seal the passage to the Snake-People Ancestral Land.
• Nalan Ye used the Arms Hall’s surveillance formations to find Little Fairy Doctor, who was confronted by a stranger demanding pills or threatening death.

Little Fairy Doctor searched the desolate Snake-People Ancestral Land for Nalan Ye, found a Poison Pill Beast, and was attacked by Qiu Yin, who wanted to seize it. She drank the beast’s poisonous blood to raise her strength, and the chapter ended with Qiu Yin’s body rotting after Little Fairy Doctor’s blood splashed onto him.

• Little Fairy Doctor found a snow-white Pill Beast among the ruins and realized it was a Poison Pill Beast.
• Qiu Yin appeared, demanded the Pill Beast, and chased Little Fairy Doctor when she refused to hand it over.
• As Qiu Yin caught up and struck her, Little Fairy Doctor drank the Poison Pill Beast’s blood, enduring the poison as her cultivation rose from One Star Dou Zong to Two-Star Dou Zong.
• Qiu Yin hit Little Fairy Doctor again, but her poisonous blood splashed onto him and caused his skin to swell and rot.

Little Fairy Doctor fought Qiu Yin with her Calamity Poison Body, while Nalan Ye rushed to rescue her and brought several puppets. Just as he arrived and thought they had surrounded Qiu Yin, Little Fairy Doctor suddenly attacked him, apparently overtaken by her out-of-control Calamity Poison Body.

• Little Fairy Doctor poisoned Qiu Yin, whose wounds festered, but he cut away the rotten flesh and counterattacked with a powerful Dou Qi serpent and a punch.
• Little Fairy Doctor caught Qiu Yin’s punch as gray mist spread around her and her aura surged into a chaotic state.
• Nalan Ye spotted Little Fairy Doctor through the damaged formation and hurried toward her with Mu Qingluan, promising to kill anyone who harmed her.
• Nalan Ye descended onto Qiu Yin’s shoulder, knocking him to the ground, then released several puppets to surround him.
• Little Fairy Doctor abruptly charged at Nalan Ye and struck at him, leaving him suspecting that her Calamity Poison Body had gone out of control again.