Chapter Summaries

The narrator debated using Soul Burst to strengthen his soul power and decided to use the captured souls of vicious people as its source. While interrogating the souls rescued from the Hall of Souls, he discovered that hundreds belonged to clans and sects across the Central Plains and saw a chance to recruit them into the Great Love Alliance.

• The narrator chose to cultivate Soul Burst, reasoning that he needed greater strength to protect Little Fairy Doctor from the Hall of Souls.
• He questioned Qin Yi, a Flower Sect disciple and six-star Dou Wang, then sealed her soul in a blue jade bottle for later.
• The narrator interrogated hundreds of souls from the Green Gourd, recorded 473 cooperative victims, and confined dozens of vicious souls in a Black Pottery Urn.
• He realized that the victims represented many Central Plains clans and sects and planned to unite them against the Hall of Souls through the Great Love Alliance.

The narrator practiced Soul Burst on soul bodies from the Black Pottery Urn, discovered how to turn a growing Soul Seed into a Soul Fruit, and gained a small increase in soul power. He looked forward to cultivating further with the urn’s remaining captives.

• The narrator planted a Soul Seed in a cursing Dou Emperor soul, but the seed grew uncontrollably and burst the soul body apart.
• The narrator studied the black iron plate and realized that changing his hand seals at a crucial point redirected the seed’s growth into forming a Soul Fruit.
• He planted a seed in a weaker Dou Ling soul body and successfully produced a milky-white Soul Fruit, which he swallowed.
• The Soul Fruit caused intense pleasure that nearly overwhelmed the narrator, but he regained control and found that his soul power had grown stronger.
• The narrator considered using the remaining Dou Wang and Dou Emperor soul bodies in the Black Pottery Urn to strengthen his soul further.

The narrator’s cultivation with Soul Fruits was challenged by a Six Star Dou Zong soul body, who accused him of hypocrisy and questioned his right to judge good and evil. After a Sudden Enlightenment, the narrator concluded that the strong made the laws, planted a Soul Seed in the old man, and turned him into a Soul Fruit.

• The narrator consumed more than twenty Soul Fruits and raised his soul power close to the late stage of the Spirit Realm.
• A Triangle-Eyed old man revealed that he had watched the narrator from inside the Black Pottery Urn and accused him of devouring souls while calling himself righteous.
• The old man argued that the narrator’s soul consumption was worse than his own murders, leaving the narrator shaken by questions about good and evil.
• The Triangle-Eyed old man waited for a chance to escape as the narrator entered Sudden Enlightenment and advanced to Six Star Dou Zong.
• The narrator decided that the strong determined laws and morality, then planted a Soul Seed in the old man and refined him into a Soul Fruit.

Luo Zhen agreed to join Wind Venerable and Yao Lao’s alliance against the Hall of Souls, though he objected when he learned its junior Nalan Ye was only a Five Star Dou Zong. After absorbing a Soul Fruit, Nalan Ye received a soul-strengthening pill from Mu Qingluan and offered it back to her.

• Luo Zhen visited Starfall Pavilion to confirm that Yao Lao had returned and heard Wind Venerable’s appeal to join their alliance against the Hall of Souls.
• Luo Zhen agreed to join the alliance but was shocked to learn that Nalan Ye, whom he was expected to follow, was a Five Star Dou Zong.
• Nalan Ye absorbed the Triangle Eyes elder’s Soul Fruit, felt his soul grow stronger, and estimated its strength at over 800.
• Mu Qingluan delivered a Seven Grade Five-Colored Pill that Little Fairy Doctor had made to strengthen Nalan Ye’s soul.
• Nalan Ye invited Mu Qingluan into the quiet room, stopped her from leaving, and offered her the pill instead.

Ye told Mu Qingluan that he no longer needed the Seven Grade Five-Colored Pill, despite Little Fairy Doctor having gone to great trouble to refine it. The chapter left Mu Qingluan bewildered as Ye explained the pill’s rarity and value.

• Mu Qingluan looked bewildered when Ye offered her the pill.
• Ye insisted that he did not need the Seven Grade Five-Colored Pill because he had the secret technique Soul Burst.
• Ye acknowledged that Little Fairy Doctor had gone to considerable trouble to refine the precious pill.

After leaving the meditation chamber with Mu Qingluan, Nalan Ye was summoned to meet Wind Venerable, Yao Lao, and Luo Zhen, an Eight Star Dou Zong. When Luo Zhen challenged him over his refusal to call him Senior, Nalan Ye proposed a full-strength fight with a higher stake: Luo Zhen would become a Deputy Alliance Chief if he lost.

• Nalan Ye and Mu Qingluan left the meditation chamber and toured Starfall Pavilion Main Peak, where she avoided telling other disciples why she was unusually happy.
• A disciple summoned Nalan Ye to Wind Venerable, and Mu Qingluan flew with him to the palace.
• Wind Venerable introduced Luo Zhen as an old friend and an Eight Star Dou Zong, but Nalan Ye addressed him as Brother Luo Zhen rather than Senior.
• Luo Zhen challenged Nalan Ye to withstand three moves, offering to join the Great Love Alliance if Nalan Ye succeeded and asking only for a respectful title if he failed.
• Nalan Ye rejected the limited wager and challenged Luo Zhen to a full-strength battle, offering him the post of Deputy Alliance Chief if Luo Zhen lost.
• Luo Zhen accepted the fight.

Nalan Ye agreed to fight Luo Zhen, an Eight Star Dou Zong, at Starfall Pavilion’s lake, confident after his recent cultivation. After Nalan Ye easily countered Luo Zhen’s opening attack, Luo Zhen used a technique that sent a clay ox beneath the lake, leaving its location unknown.

• Wind Venerable led Nalan Ye and Luo Zhen to a lake after failing to dissuade them from fighting at full strength.
• Mu Qingluan, Yao Lao, Zhou Chuan, Little Fairy Doctor, and many Starfall Pavilion Elders and disciples gathered to watch as Wind Venerable cleared the White Cranes from the lake.
• Luo Zhen attacked Nalan Ye with an earth spike, and Nalan Ye destroyed it with Lightning Fire Thunder Chariot.
• Luo Zhen formed a clay ox with Clay Ox Enters the Sea, and it vanished beneath the lake beyond Nalan Ye’s soul perception.

Nalan Ye challenged Luo Zhen and used his lightning movement and illusions to evade Luo Zhen’s hidden Little Mud Ox. Luo Zhen unleashed a meteor-like barrage of Earth Balls, forcing Nalan Ye to reveal himself and keep dodging while the Little Mud Ox remained concealed.

• Nalan Ye sensed that Luo Zhen’s Little Mud Ox was concealed in the mud beneath the lake, but could not locate it.
• Nalan Ye used Three Thousand Lightning Movement and Boundless Human Sea to create more than a dozen apparent copies of himself, confusing Luo Zhen.
• Luo Zhen unleashed July Meteor Fire, sending more than a hundred Earth Balls crashing into the lake and shattering Nalan Ye’s afterimages.
• Nalan Ye revealed his true body and used Illusory Lightning Cliff to cleave an incoming Earth Ball in half, then searched for the hidden Little Mud Ox.
• Luo Zhen directed the remaining Earth Balls at Nalan Ye, who dodged them with Three Thousand Lightning Movement as the Little Fairy Doctor watched with concern.

Nalan Ye endured Luo Zhen’s Earth Ball assault, then revealed his concealed Seven Star Dou Zong strength and turned the battle around. As Luo Zhen discovered that the apparent clone’s attack was a hidden soul technique, Nalan Ye launched Great Thunder Heavenly Dragon.

• Luo Zhen used more than a hundred Earth Balls to pressure Nalan Ye and force him into a dangerous position.
• Nalan Ye activated Thunder God Descent, destroyed several Earth Balls with lightning, and punched away two others despite injuring his hands.
• Luo Zhen sent a mud ox to attack Nalan Ye from behind, but Nalan Ye raised his aura to Seven Star Dou Zong and kicked the ox away.
• A figure resembling Nalan Ye sprang from the shore toward Luo Zhen, but Luo Zhen struck it with a shard of stone and watched it disperse.
• A Soul Seed merged into Luo Zhen and drained his soul power as he realized the apparent clone had attacked with a hidden soul technique.
• Nalan Ye shouted Great Thunder Heavenly Dragon.

After defeating Luo Zhen, Nalan Ye recruited him into the Great Love Alliance as a Vice Alliance Chief, assuring him that the role involved no administrative work. The gathering ended with news that an Ancient Ruins had been discovered in the Beast Region.

• Starfall Pavilion disciples discussed Nalan Ye’s victory and considered joining the Great Love Alliance.
• Yao Lao encouraged Zhou Chuan by telling him that he could reach the Dou Zong realm like Xiao Yan.
• At a gathering of Starfall Pavilion’s higher-ups, Nalan Ye invited the defeated Luo Zhen to join the Great Love Alliance.
• Luo Zhen accepted membership but rejected administrative duties, so Nalan Ye offered him a Vice Alliance Chief position that did not handle affairs.
• A Starfall Pavilion Elder announced that an Ancient Ruins had been discovered in the Beast Region.

An Ancient Ruins site in the Beast Region might contain the Soul Infant Fruit needed to restore Yao Lao, prompting Starfall Pavilion to plan an expedition. As Xiao Yan offered to go and Luo Zhen volunteered to lead the group, I ignored Zhou Chuan’s taunt and asked Xiao Yan whether the fruit was round.

• A Starfall Pavilion Elder reported that Ancient Ruins had appeared in the Skeleton Mountain Range and might contain a Soul Infant Fruit.
• Xiao Yan offered to retrieve the fruit for Yao Lao, but Yao Lao warned that the Beast Region and the Hall of Souls made the expedition dangerous.
• Luo Zhen volunteered to lead the expedition while Gu Ling stayed behind to guard Starfall Pavilion.
• Zhou Chuan mocked me for staying silent, and Little Fairy Doctor grew angry before I calmed her.
• I ignored Zhou Chuan and asked Xiao Yan whether the Soul Infant Fruit was round.

Nalan Ye revealed that he had a Soul Infant Fruit and gave it to Xiao Yan so Yao Lao could recover. Although the fruit meant they no longer needed it from the Ancient Ruins, Nalan Ye insisted they still had to go there for other treasures.

• Nalan Ye showed the Soul Infant Fruit to Xiao Yan and the Starfall Pavilion Elders, shocking them and angering Zhou Chuan.
• Green Luo defended Nalan Ye, and Xiao Yan ordered Zhou Chuan to stand down.
• Nalan Ye gave the Soul Infant Fruit to Xiao Yan after learning that Yao Lao needed it, and Xiao Yan thanked him.
• Wind Venerable asked whether anyone had told Nalan Ye about the search, and the others admitted they had not.
• Luo Zhen asked if they could skip the Ancient Ruins, but Nalan Ye said they still had to go because the ruins held other valuable treasures.

Nalan Ye persuaded Starfall Pavilion to send an expedition to the Ancient Ruins, and Xiao Yan, Mu Qingluan, Little Fairy Doctor, and Luo Zhen agreed to go. As Nalan Ye considered whether to trust Mu Qingluan with his secret connection to Wu Protector, he turned his attention to Green Luo over her earlier actions.

• Nalan Ye urged Starfall Pavilion’s experts to pursue the Ancient Ruins rather than let the Hall of Souls gain an advantage, and Wind Venerable scheduled the expedition for a few days later.
• Xiao Yan, Mu Qingluan, Luo Zhen, and several eager Elders agreed to join the expedition, while Xiao Yan gave the Soul Infant Fruit to Yao Lao to refine into a pill.
• Nalan Ye told Little Fairy Doctor that he had given her pill to Mu Qingluan, who was nearing a breakthrough from Three Star Dou Zong to Four Star Dou Zong.
• Nalan Ye asked Little Fairy Doctor whether Mu Qingluan could be trusted with the secret of their connection to Wu Protector, but Little Fairy Doctor worried that she might reveal it.
• Nalan Ye asked Green Luo whether he should praise her for what she had done, and Green Luo apologized for acting on her own initiative.

Nalan Ye made Green Luo apologize to Zhou Chuan to prevent conflict among their allies, then asked Mu Qingluan to secretly obstruct Zhou Chuan while he was away. Mu Qingluan hesitated over his proposed tactics.

• Zhou Chuan brooded over Yao Chen's limited alchemy lessons after Xiao Yan dismissed him from the discussion about refining the Soul Infant Fruit.
• Nalan Ye comforted Zhou Chuan and made Green Luo apologize for contradicting him, which caused Zhou Chuan to believe Nalan Ye was trying to appease him.
• Nalan Ye explained to Green Luo that they had to avoid infighting while the Hall of Souls remained their greatest enemy.
• Nalan Ye visited Mu Qingluan and told her he would try to keep Little Fairy Doctor at Starfall Pavilion during the trip to the Ancient Ruins.
• Nalan Ye asked Mu Qingluan to secretly make sure Zhou Chuan's plans failed, including by blocking his requests and provoking disciples to challenge him.
• Mu Qingluan questioned whether Nalan Ye's plan to suppress Zhou Chuan was appropriate.

Ye persuaded Mu Qingluan to suppress Zhou Chuan in secret, then convinced Little Fairy Doctor to remain at Starfall Pavilion and guard Heavenly Star City. Three days later, Starfall Pavilion and Burning Flame Valley finalized a joint expedition to the Ancient Ruins, and Ye gathered his own larger party as the first operation of the Great Love Alliance.

• Ye told Mu Qingluan that Zhou Chuan had insulted him and asked her to handle the matter confidentially; she promised to take responsibility and not expose him.
• Ye asked Little Fairy Doctor to stay at Starfall Pavilion and protect Heavenly Star City, and she agreed on the condition that he would not ask her to separate from him again.
• Three days later, Starfall Pavilion finalized its Ancient Ruins team, including Luo Zhen, Xiao Yan, and three Dou Zong elders.
• Tang Zhen brought Tang Huo'er and Burning Flame Valley elders to meet Wind Venerable and Yao Lao, and the two sects agreed to explore the ruins together.
• Tang Zhen refused to join the expedition and kept Tang Huo'er at Burning Flame Valley, sending five elders instead; Ye assembled nine members of his own group and left Green Luo behind to assist Little Fairy Doctor.

Nalan Ye led eighteen Dou Zong powerhouses from the Great Love Alliance toward the Ancient Ruins in the Beast Region. The group reached Skeleton Mountain Range, where they learned it marked the battlefield between two powerful magical beast clans, and Nalan Ye wondered where the ruins were located.

• Wind Venerable and Tang Zhen authorized Nalan Ye to command the exploration party, and the Burning Flame Valley Elders accepted his leadership after hearing he had defeated Luo Zhen.
• Nalan Ye met Tang Wu, an Eight Star Dou Zong from Burning Flame Valley, and learned she was Tang Zhen’s great-granddaughter.
• The nineteen explorers departed while Little Fairy Doctor, Mu Qingluan, and Tang Huo'er watched, and Zi Yan promised to bring back a gift.
• After several days of travel, the group passed Rock City and reached Skeleton Mountain Range, where Luo Zhen explained that it was the border and battlefield of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and the Nine Nether Earth Hell Python Clan.
• Xiao Yan remarked that the dead magical beasts’ cores could be used to refine pills, and Nalan Ye and Luo Zhen warned him not to say such things in the Beast Region.
• Nalan Ye asked where the Ancient Ruins lay within the vast mountain range.

The Alliance Chief rallied his allies after learning that the Wind and Lightning Pavilion had driven Hu Changqing from his mountain camp. Though the group feared Thunder Venerable, the Alliance Chief led them to confront him, hinting that he had dealt with him before.

• The Alliance Chief summoned Hu Changqing with a crushed jade token and demanded to know who had beaten him.
• He urged his allies to defend their people by force, stirring the group into a fierce chant.
• Hu Changqing explained that the Wind and Lightning Pavilion had seized his camp because it occupied a prime position near the Ancient Ruins.
• Hu Changqing revealed that Thunder Venerable had personally arrived with the Wind and Lightning Pavilion, frightening the assembled Dou Zongs.
• The Alliance Chief told everyone to follow him up the mountain to meet Thunder Venerable, saying he had dealt with him before.

Nalan Ye led the Great Love Alliance toward the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s camp near the Ancient Ruins, intending to challenge Thunder Venerable and strengthen his team’s cohesion. After confronting the Pavilion’s forces, he came face to face with Fei Tian and questioned whether he was still a pavilion master.

• Nalan Ye dismissed Luo Zhen’s suggestion to avoid the Wind and Lightning Pavilion and persuaded the group to follow him, while privately planning to use Thunder Venerable to unify the team.
• Hu Changqing warned the group that the Skeleton Mountain Range’s strange energy had harmed travelers, then led them toward the Ancient Ruins entrance.
• Nalan Ye’s group reached the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s camp, where he struck down a Pseudo Dou Zong who tried to drive them away.
• More than a hundred Wind and Lightning Pavilion members, including over a dozen Dou Zongs, gathered, while a Starfall Pavilion Elder criticized Nalan Ye for provoking them.
• Fei Tian appeared before the Pavilion’s forces, recognized Nalan Ye, and heard him ask whether he was still a pavilion master.

Nalan Ye confronted Fei Tian and the Wind and Lightning Pavilion, whose members attacked after Fei Tian recognized him. As the Thunder Venerable appeared and threatened Nalan Ye, Nalan Ye revealed that he had seen through him, claiming he was only a Lightning Phantom Body.

• Fei Tian recognized Nalan Ye and ordered over a hundred Wind and Lightning Pavilion members to attack.
• Nalan Ye held back Xiao Yan and Zi Yan and asked Luo Zhen and Tang Wu to draw out the Thunder Venerable.
• Luo Zhen and Tang Wu unleashed powerful Dou Techniques, but the Thunder Venerable emerged beneath the pavilion banner and dispersed both attacks.
• The Thunder Venerable threatened Nalan Ye, while Nalan Ye laughed and ignored the new North Pavilion Master's demand that he surrender.
• Nalan Ye told the Thunder Venerable that he was merely a Lightning Phantom Body and had no right to put on an act before him.

The narrator exposed Thunder Venerable as a Thunderous Illusory Body and used the Fallen Heart Flame to persuade him to leave the mountain. With the Wind and Lightning Pavilion gone, the narrator's group began setting up camp while spectators argued nearby.

• The narrator identified Thunder Venerable as a Thunderous Illusory Body, shocking the Wind and Lightning Pavilion members and revealing that the narrator had learned the same secret art from Fei Tian.
• The narrator asked Thunder Venerable to leave the mountain and displayed the Fallen Heart Flame, prompting Thunder Venerable to decide against fighting before the Ancient Ruins opened.
• Thunder Venerable withdrew with the Wind and Lightning Pavilion, whose members dismantled their tents and abandoned the mountain.
• Tang Wu, Luo Zhen, Xiao Yan, Hu Changqing, and the others marveled at Thunder Venerable's retreat while nearby spectators speculated about what had happened.
• Tiger Da Li mocked the rat clan, and a long-bearded old man from the clan challenged him before the narrator told everyone to set up camp.