Chapter Summaries

At the Central Square tournament, Ye and his companions faced a fifty-nine-person free-for-all, where only eight contestants would advance. As the arena erupted into chaos, Ye confronted Wang Chen after the Yellow Springs Pavilion disciple launched a lethal attack.

• Ye recognized Han Xue, Han Yue’s younger sister, among the contestants and reflected on the Han Clan’s destruction three years earlier.
• Wind Venerable started the free-for-all, and an initial attack triggered battles across the arena.
• Ye, Mu Qingluan, Zi Yan, Feng Qing’er, Tang Ying, and Wang Chen stayed apart from the surrounding melee; Zi Yan attacked Feng Qing’er, and Mu Qingluan challenged Tang Ying.
• Wang Chen ambushed Ye with daggers aimed at his neck and heart, but Ye countered with Lightning Fire Thunder Chariot and forced him back.
• Sword Venerable and the other Venerables reacted to Ye’s strength, while Yellow Spring Venerable looked displeased at Wang Chen’s disadvantage.

Nalan Ye fought Wang Chen while Zi Yan and Feng Qing'er’s battle revealed that they were an Ancient Void Dragon and a Heaven Demon Phoenix, natural enemies. The matches remained unresolved as the Venerables watched the unexpected clashes.

• Wang Chen attacked Nalan Ye with twin daggers, but Nalan Ye blocked every strike with the Nine-Section Copper Mace and broke his Great Serpent Bite technique with Serpent Coil.
• Sword Venerable and Yellow Spring Venerable argued over Wang Chen’s chances against Nalan Ye.
• Tang Ying and Mu Qingluan fought evenly, with neither gaining the advantage.
• Feng Qing’er recognized Zi Yan’s Extinction Divine Light and realized she was an Ancient Void Dragon.
• Zi Yan and Feng Qing’er traded insults and fought with their fists, while the Venerables discussed their identities and their clans’ rivalry.

I fought Wang Chen as he used increasingly dangerous Yellow Springs Pavilion techniques during the Four Directions Pavilion Tournament. After I repelled his Yellow Springs Corpse Arm, Wang Chen began forming another sinister technique, but Yellow Spring Venerable ordered him to stop.

• The battles between Tang Ying, Mu Qingluan, Zi Yan, and Feng Qing'er injured and endangered other contestants on the arena.
• Wang Chen used the Yellow Springs Blood Art to raise his cultivation from Two Star Dou Zong to Three Star Dou Zong and attacked me with the Bone-Corroding Round Dagger Dance.
• I defended myself with the Six Harmonies Wandering Body Ruler technique and my Nine-Section Copper Mace, blocking Wang Chen's daggers.
• Wang Chen unleashed the Yellow Springs Corpse Arm, but I blocked his punch and sent him flying back, leaving a little girl and her grandfather stunned.
• Wang Chen began forming another forbidden technique, but Yellow Spring Venerable shouted at him to stop and return.

After Wang Chen lost to the narrator, the tournament continued as Zi Yan fought Feng Qing'er and Han Xue was cornered by a stronger opponent. The narrator pulled Han Xue into his arms to shield her from a Flame Giant Wolf, leaving her urgently warning him to dodge.

• Wang Chen returned to Yellow Spring Venerable in disgrace after losing, while the other Venerables reacted to Yellow Springs Pavilion's early elimination.
• The narrator watched Zi Yan and Feng Qing'er brawl as Mu Qingluan and Tang Ying fought nearby.
• A Red-Clothed Man drove Han Xue to the arena's edge and wounded her with his blade.
• Han Xue used Bone-Piercing Ice, but the Red-Clothed Man's Fire Wolf Devours Heaven overwhelmed her defenses.
• The narrator appeared behind Han Xue, pulled her into his arms, and shielded her from the Flame Giant Wolf as she shouted for him to dodge.

Liu Ming saved Han Xue from the Red-Clothed Man at the tournament and invented an identity to conceal his real name. Han Xue accepted his help while secretly consulting her sister Han Yue’s remnant soul, and the chapter ended with Han Yue warning her not to bargain with him.

• Liu Ming blocked the Flame Giant Wolf’s attack and knocked the Red-Clothed Man off the arena.
• Liu Ming introduced himself to Han Xue as Huo Qian Liu Ming, a supposed Canaan Academy classmate of her sister Han Yue.
• Han Yue revealed that her remnant soul had survived her apparent death and now resided within Han Xue, and she urged her sister to keep Liu Ming close while learning his intentions.
• Liu Ming and Han Xue remained on the arena as the other contestants avoided him and gradually dwindled in number.
• Han Xue tried to draw Liu Ming toward the Clear Wind Bright Moon Pill, prompting Han Yue to warn her not to make deals with a tiger.

Han Xue tried to persuade Huo Qian Liu Ming to give her a Clear Wind Bright Moon Pill to save Han Yue’s remnant soul, but he agreed to help without accepting her advances. At the tournament, he joined Mu Qingluan against Tang Ying, and Tang Ying prepared to face them both.

• Han Xue decided to use her charm to obtain the Clear Wind Bright Moon Pill, which could save Han Yue’s gravely injured remnant soul.
• Huo Qian Liu Ming understood Han Xue’s request and promised to help for Han Yue’s sake, leaving Han Xue confused about his identity.
• Sword Venerable objected when Huo Qian Liu Ming approached Tang Ying, but Wind Venerable defended the tournament’s grand melee rules.
• Huo Qian Liu Ming persuaded Mu Qingluan to set aside her scruples and join him in eliminating Tang Ying.
• Tang Ying mistook Huo Qian Liu Ming for a hidden Starfall Pavilion disciple and accepted the challenge from both opponents.

Feng Qing’er’s allies worked together to eliminate Tang Ying, and Feng Qing’er then moved to confront Feng Qing’er’s fellow Wind and Lightning Pavilion contender. The tournament’s outcome looked increasingly certain as Feng Qing’er’s opponents prepared to face her three against one.

• The narrator and Mu Qingluan attacked Tang Ying together, overwhelming him with mace strikes and Azure Wind Blades.
• Mu Qingluan formed a tornado of wind blades, and Tang Ying used a powerful sword strike to destroy it, leaving him exhausted.
• The narrator distracted Tang Ying and knocked him out of the arena with a mace strike.
• Sword Venerable comforted Tang Ying, while Tang Ying asked the narrator’s honorable name and vowed to seek his guidance again.
• The narrator and Mu Qingluan headed toward Zi Yan and Feng Qing’er, prompting Thunder Venerable to worry that Feng Qing’er would face three opponents.

Ye Wentian helped Mu Qingluan and Zi Yan persuade Feng Qing'er to concede, securing Starfall Pavilion's advantage in the tournament. After eliminating three more contestants, he advanced with seven others to the next round.

• Wind Venerable hid Ye Wentian's identity from Tang Ying, who concluded that Starfall Pavilion was concealing a genius.
• Ye Wentian, Mu Qingluan, and Zi Yan surrounded Feng Qing'er, and Zi Yan threatened to eat her.
• Ye Wentian argued that Feng Qing'er should concede rather than face three opponents, and she returned to the high platform.
• Thunder Venerable and Yellow Spring Venerable complained about the outcome, while Wind Venerable suggested changing the tournament rules next time.
• Ye Wentian knocked three contestants off the arena, and Wind Venerable announced that the eight remaining contestants had advanced.
• Han Xue was surprised and excited that she had reached the second round.

Ye helped Mu Qingluan win the Four Directions Pavilion Tournament by conceding the final, then gave the champion’s Seventh-Rank Clear Wind Bright Moon Pill to Han Xue to save her sister. Han Xue offered him a Dou Technique in return and left the square.

• Wind Venerable assigned the contestants to groups, and Ye, Mu Qingluan, and Zi Yan advanced while Han Xue lost her match.
• Zi Yan conceded to Ye after he promised to take her out for a meal, and Mu Qingluan defeated the Eight Star Dou Huang to reach the final.
• Mu Qingluan offered to concede to Ye, but he persuaded her to accept the championship and asked only for the Clear Wind Bright Moon Pill.
• Wind Venerable declared Mu Qingluan the champion and presented her with the prize, which Ye accepted from her and gave to Han Xue.
• Han Xue thanked Ye for the Seventh-Rank Pill and offered him a black iron tablet containing a Dou Technique before leaving the square.

Nalan Ye, Little Fairy Doctor, Zi Yan, and Mu Qingluan returned with Wind Venerable to Starfall Pavilion, whose hidden sect lay within a spatial formation in the Heavenly Star Mountain Range. Starfall Pavilion celebrated its victory in the Four Directions Pavilion Tournament, while Kong Fang grew hostile toward Nalan Ye over his closeness with Mu Qingluan.

• Wind Venerable worried about Yao Chen’s capture, and Nalan Ye reassured him that the Hall of Souls would want Yao Chen alive before joking about how they might try to win him over.
• The group found Starfall Pavilion’s entrance hidden in a small space, and Wind Venerable opened its Space Gate with an ancient jade piece.
• Zi Yan identified the spatial anomaly, and the party entered Starfall Pavilion’s scenic mountain domain.
• Kong Fang greeted Wind Venerable and learned that Starfall Pavilion had won first place in the Four Directions Pavilion Tournament.
• Kong Fang saw Mu Qingluan holding Nalan Ye’s arm and declared that the outsider deserved to die.

After Starfall Pavilion won the tournament, Wind Venerable arranged to bring Xiao Yan to the pavilion and search for Yao Chen. The narrator sent letters and gifts to his family in the Nalan Empire, while Wind Venerable planned to seek the Pill Tower’s help in locating Yao Chen.

• Wind Venerable visited the Guest Courtyard, asked the narrator for a letter to help Starfall Pavilion bring Xiao Yan from the Nalan Empire, and agreed to deliver the narrator’s family letters and gifts.
• The narrator wrote more than ten letters and prepared gifts for Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran, and other relatives and friends with Little Fairy Doctor’s help.
• Wind Venerable said he would send people to retrieve Xiao Yan while others searched for Yao Chen, and the narrator urged him to enlist the Pill Tower’s help.
• Wind Venerable decided to visit the Pill Tower and gather Yao Chen’s former allies, then questioned why Mu Qingluan had not gone to rest.

Nalan Ye faced Kong Fang, who challenged him out of jealousy over Mu Qingluan, and easily turned the fight in his favor. The chapter ended with Kong Fang screaming after Nalan Ye landed a punch to his kidney.

• Nalan Ye complained as Mu Qingluan left with Wind Venerable, then worried that Zi Yan might cause trouble around Starfall Pavilion.
• Kong Fang arrived to challenge Nalan Ye and accused him of being unworthy of Mu Qingluan.
• Nalan Ye tried to explain that defeating him would not make Mu Qingluan fall for Kong Fang, but Kong Fang threatened to break his legs.
• Kong Fang attacked with three beams of sword light, and Nalan Ye shattered them with a single finger.
• Nalan Ye used lightning to get past Kong Fang's sword and punched him in the kidney.

Nalan Ye defeated Kong Fang, who had mistaken Nalan Ye’s tournament concession to Mu Qingluan for a genuine loss. The Little Fairy Doctor sent Kong Fang away, and Nalan Ye spent a quiet evening with her before finding that Starfall Pavilion made no move against him the next day.

• Kong Fang attacked Nalan Ye, but Nalan Ye overwhelmed him with Lightning Fire Thunder Chariot and left him shocked by the difference in their strength.
• Nalan Ye realized Kong Fang had believed he was weaker than Mu Qingluan because he had not learned that Nalan Ye conceded at the tournament.
• The Little Fairy Doctor calmed Kong Fang, treated his injury, and escorted him away while suggesting he might win Mu Qingluan’s favor with good food.
• The Little Fairy Doctor returned to Nalan Ye, and they ate dinner together while Zi Yan, Qiu Yin, and Qiu Si were away.
• Nalan Ye worried that Starfall Pavilion might retaliate, but no one came to challenge him the next day.

Nalan Ye and the others found Zi Yan refining a stolen Seventh-Rank Python Fetus Pill, prompting Elder Qi to demand punishment. Little Fairy Doctor offered to refine a replacement, and Elder Qi agreed to spare Zi Yan if she succeeded.

• Mu Qingluan visited Nalan Ye, and she and Little Fairy Doctor competed over him while they went to search for the missing Zi Yan.
• Mu Qingluan gathered Starfall Pavilion disciples, who found Zi Yan cultivating in a forest with Qiu Yin and Qiu Si.
• Little Fairy Doctor realized Zi Yan had swallowed a Seventh-Rank Pill, and Qiu Yin and Qiu Si's answers revealed that they had stolen it.
• Elder Qi arrived furious and demanded that Zi Yan be punished for stealing his Python Fetus Pill.
• Little Fairy Doctor offered a Seventh-Order magic core and promised to refine a replacement; after she revealed she was a Two-Star Dou Zong, Elder Qi agreed to spare Zi Yan if she delivered a new pill.

After Zi Yan’s theft at Starfall Pavilion, the narrator arranged for Little Fairy Doctor to refine a Python Fetus Pill and examined the Dou Technique Han Xue had given him. He discovered that Soul Burst could grow a seed in an enemy’s soul and eventually produce a Soul Fruit, then decided to cultivate it despite its sinister nature.

• The narrator scolded Zi Yan for stealing from Starfall Pavilion, but she argued that her spatial powers would let them escape its pocket dimension.
• The narrator asked Little Fairy Doctor to refine a Python Fetus Pill, and she agreed while resenting the possibility of Mu Qingluan helping gather ingredients.
• The narrator inspected the black iron sheet Han Xue had given him and learned it contained the soul-type Dou Technique Soul Burst.
• The narrator discovered Soul Burst’s three stages, including one that could produce a Soul Fruit by absorbing another person’s soul power.
• The narrator weighed whether to learn the technique, then resolved to cultivate it and use it against bad people.

Little Fairy Doctor refined a four-colored Seventh-Rank Python Fetus Pill, and Wind Venerable destroyed its Pill Tribulation before it could descend. After Elder Qi accepted the pill, Nalan Ye asked him to take 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 shattered the Tribulation Cloud with an azure palm strike, preventing the tribulation from descending.
• Little Fairy Doctor gave Nalan Ye the four-colored pill, but she and Nalan Ye refused Zi Yan's request to eat it because it was meant to compensate Elder Qi.
• Elder Qi examined the pill and acknowledged that Little Fairy Doctor's alchemy surpassed his own, while Mu Qingluan reacted with frustration.
• Nalan Ye asked Elder Qi to take him and Little Fairy Doctor along when he left the small space, and Elder Qi agreed.

Nalan Ye took Little Fairy Doctor, Zi Yan, and Mu Qingluan to Heavenly Star City, intending to contact Wu Protector through a Hall of Souls outpost and eventually persuade him to switch sides. He found the outpost disguised as a small medical clinic.

• Elder Qi opened a Space Gate with an Ancient Jade Token, and the group traveled from Starfall Pavilion to the Heavenly Star Mountain Range.
• Elder Qi parted ways with Nalan Ye and flew southwest to meet his friend, while Nalan Ye led the others toward Heavenly Star City.
• Nalan Ye reflected on his plan to build a relationship with Wu Protector and eventually recruit him against the Hall of Souls.
• The group entered Heavenly Star City and explored its streets as Nalan Ye searched for a Hall of Souls outpost.
• Nalan Ye used Soul Vision to spot the outpost's symbol on the signboard of a small medical clinic.

Nalan Ye visited a Hall of Souls stronghold in Heavenly Star City and sent a coded message to Wu Protector before leaving for Starfall Pavilion with his companions. On the road, a band of robbers led by Sima Hu surrounded them, giving Nalan Ye a chance to test his newly learned Soul Burst.

• Nalan Ye used a coded exchange at Magpie Clinic to contact the Hall of Souls and told its attendant to pass a message to Wu Protector about Canaan Academy and Wutan City.
• Nalan Ye left the clinic with Little Fairy Doctor and joined Mu Qingluan and Zi Yan for shopping and a meal in Heavenly Star City.
• Nalan Ye and his companions set out for Starfall Pavilion after sunset, but Mu Qingluan noticed several people following them.
• Sima Hu and his men surrounded the group outside the city and demanded their Rings of Holding.
• Nalan Ye stopped Zi Yan from handling the robbers and welcomed them as test subjects for his beginner-level Soul Burst.

Ye subdued Sima Hu and tested his newly learned Soul Burst, leaving the robber confused and babbling. Ye spared him and had him taken to the Starfall Pavilion so Zi Yan could keep him occupied while Ye observed the technique’s effects.

• Sima Hu and his group blocked Ye and Mu Qingluan on the road, but Ye revealed his Dou Zong strength and killed the fleeing robbers with lightning.
• Ye caught Sima Hu and planted a Soul Seed in his soul, causing him to faint.
• Ye woke Sima Hu with a slap and tested the Soul Seed, leaving Sima Hu confused about whether he was himself or Ye.
• Little Fairy Doctor recognized that Ye had used a soul-type Dou Technique, while Mu Qingluan and Zi Yan reacted to Sima Hu’s strange behavior.
• Ye decided to spare Sima Hu and bring him to the Starfall Pavilion, where Qiu Yin carried him back under Zi Yan’s orders.

Shen Tian arrived in the Nalan Empire to bring Xiao Yan to Starfall Pavilion, but learned that Xiao Yan was away cultivating at Canaan Academy. As Shen Tian investigated, Nalan Jie distributed Nalan Ye’s letters and gifts, including a message to Yun Yun that left her smiling.

• Shen Tian reached the Nalan Imperial Palace with his disciples and told Nalan Jie that Starfall Pavilion wanted Xiao Yan to come cultivate there.
• Nalan Jie explained that Xiao Yan had been cultivating at Canaan Academy, and Shen Tian decided to investigate Xiao Yan and Nalan Ye in Nalan City.
• Shen Tian gave Nalan Jie Nalan Ye’s letters and gifts and said he would stay for a few days while Nalan Jie invited the recipients to the palace.
• Nalan Jie distributed letters and gifts to the women gathered in the hall, including Yun Yun, who returned to Yun Lan Mountain to read Nalan Ye’s letter.
• Yun Yun read that Nalan Ye was safe, received his gifts and cultivation advice, and smiled at his address to her as “Senior Yun.”