Chapter Summaries

Ye Lao Na combined ten Earth Demon Puppets into a Heavenly Demon Puppet with Venerable-level combat strength, turning the battle against Thunder Venerable’s forces. When the puppet’s connection faltered because the main body was disrupted by the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, Ye Lao Na ordered everyone to retreat to the Medicine Garden.

• Ye Lao Na revealed a golden Heavenly Demon Puppet formed from ten Earth Demon Puppets, whose aura rivaled Thunder Venerable’s avatar.
• Xiao Yan, Luo Zhen, Tang Wu, and the allied elders celebrated the puppet’s strength as Thunder Venerable and the Profound Nether Sect’s forces grew wary and began retreating.
• Ye Lao Na advanced on Thunder Venerable while the allied elders pressed forward, believing victory was near.
• The puppet and the other demon puppets suddenly shuddered as Ye Lao Na’s connection to the main body nearly broke.
• Ye Lao Na realized the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix had disrupted the main body, concealed the problem from Xiao Yan, and ordered everyone to head for the Medicine Garden.

Nalan Ye fought the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix’s lingering soul in the Soul Battlefield, defeated it, and discovered an inherited Dou Skill among its memories. He woke to Zi Yan calling him and immediately worried that the Soul Seed might have been affected.

• Nalan Ye was drawn into an ancient forest in the Soul Battlefield, where the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix attacked him.
• Nalan Ye threw a Big Iron Ball at the phoenix, but it survived the explosion and attacked again.
• Nalan Ye struck the wounded phoenix with lightning and a Thunder Dragon, destroying it.
• Nalan Ye absorbed the phoenix’s fading flames and found an inheritance Dou Skill in its memories.
• Nalan Ye woke beside Zi Yan and worried that too much time had passed and something had happened to the Soul Seed.

Nalan Ye redirected the retreating alliance into the Medicine Garden and used the Heavenly Demon Puppet to hold off Thunder Venerable. When Huang Xuan demanded the puppets and treasures, Qiu Yin stepped forward and struck him down, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• Nalan Ye checked that the Soul Fruit remained unharmed, took control of the Lightning Phantom Body, and led the retreating group toward the Medicine Garden.
• Nalan Ye asked Zi Yan to use the power left by the Ancient Void Dragon’s remains, and she eagerly agreed to punish their enemies.
• Huang Xuan crushed a Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan Request for Aid Token and urged Thunder Venerable to catch the retreating group before reinforcements arrived.
• Thunder Venerable attacked the alliance with lightning in the Medicine Garden, but the Heavenly Demon Puppet struck him back with a powerful punch.
• After Huang Xuan demanded Nalan Ye’s puppets and treasures, Qiu Yin challenged him and blasted him backward with a punch.

Zi Yan used the Ancient Void Dragon’s residual power to crush the Profound Nether Sect elders and help corner Thunder Venerable’s avatar. As Zi Yan, Tang Wu, and the Heavenly Demon Puppet closed in, an unknown figure arrived and destroyed the Fallen Heart Flame dragon.

• Chen Xian led the Profound Nether Sect around the battlefield to attack Nalan Ye and seize the Netherwyrm Cricket.
• Zi Yan appeared to protect Nalan Ye and used spatial power to crush six Profound Nether Sect elders.
• The Profound Nether Sect’s Eight Star Dou Zong rescued Chen Xian and fled the Medicine Garden.
• Nalan Ye urged Zi Yan to ignore the fleeing pair and help kill Thunder Venerable’s avatar.
• Zi Yan blocked Thunder Venerable’s escape, and she, Tang Wu, and the Heavenly Demon Puppet surrounded him.
• An unknown figure entered the Medicine Garden and tore apart Tang Wu’s Fallen Heart Flame dragon with one strike.

Huang Yan arrived to support Feng Qing’er, but the Hall of Souls’ Seventh Heavenly Venerate also entered the Medicine Garden, intending to kill Xiao Yan and the others under the Vice Hall Master’s orders. After reluctantly agreeing to fight, he suddenly attacked Luo Zhen.

• Huang Yan appeared, repelled the Heavenly Demon Puppet, and learned from Huang Xuan that Ye Lao Na possessed valuable treasures.
• The Hall of Souls group arrived, and the elders recognized that its leader was a Venerable.
• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate identified himself to Huang Yan, who claimed the Medicine Garden for the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate first tried to leave and search for a Dou Sheng opportunity, but a Great Protector reminded him of the Vice Hall Master’s orders.
• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate reluctantly agreed to fight, then appeared before Luo Zhen and struck at him with his right palm.

The Seventh Heavenly Venerate overwhelmed Luo Zhen, and Ye Lao Na’s alliance was forced into battle against the Hall of Souls, Wind and Lightning Pavilion, and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan in the Medicine Garden. The fight left Ye Lao Na’s side under mounting pressure as enemies surrounded them and the Venerate-level clashes threatened the area.

• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate shattered Luo Zhen’s defensive barrier and sent him flying with a single palm strike.
• Ye Lao Na assigned the Heavenly Demon Puppet to Huang Yan, Zi Yan to the Seventh Heavenly Venerate, and Tang Wu to Thunder Venerable, urging the alliance to hold on.
• Zi Yan attacked the Seventh Heavenly Venerate with her Dragon Emperor Fist, and he countered with the Myriad Manifestation Soul Hand.
• Huang Yan evaded the Heavenly Demon Puppet and led the Wind and Lightning Pavilion and Heaven Demon Phoenix fighters against Tang Wu’s group, while Thunder Venerable intercepted the puppet.
• Qiu Yin fought Huang Xuan, Luo Zhen engaged Chang Jie and two Fei Tians, and Feng Qing'er struck Qiu Si as the battle spread across the Medicine Garden.
• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate’s six Dou Zong fighters joined the melee and drove Ye Lao Na’s group into greater danger.

Nalan Ye finished cultivating the Soul Fruit and arrived on the battlefield, where his appearance lifted the alliance’s morale. After confronting Huang Yan with a powerful combined Dou Skill, he redirected his next attack toward Thunder Venerable’s avatar.

• Nalan Ye plucked the fully grown Soul Fruit and swallowed it while flying toward the battlefield.
• Huang Yan knocked Tang Wu down and prepared to attack her as the other Burning Flame Valley Elders could not reach her.
• Nalan Ye arrived, and the Great Love Alliance and its allies cheered as he faced Huang Yan.
• Huang Yan dismissed Nalan Ye as a mere Six Star Dou Zong and attacked him with a fiery Heaven Demon Phoenix.
• Nalan Ye gathered Dou Qi from Great Love Alliance experts and blasted Huang Yan’s attack with a nine-colored energy beam.
• Nalan Ye then aimed another energy beam at Thunder Venerable’s avatar.

Ye defeated Thunder Venerable’s clone by coordinating the Heavenly Demon Puppet, an energy beam, and Fallen Heart Flame, then used God Slaying Thorn to stagger Huang Yan. With Huang Yan occupied by the puppet, Ye turned his attention to Chang Jie, Fei Tian, Huang Xuan, Feng Qing'er, and the others.

• Ye and the Heavenly Demon Puppet cornered Thunder Venerable’s clone, and Ye struck him with an energy beam and a second wisp of Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Heavenly Demon Puppet continued attacking until Thunder Venerable’s burning clone exploded into specks of light, stunning the Wind and Lightning Pavilion and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members and cheering the Great Love Alliance.
• Huang Yan charged at Ye, but Ye struck him with God Slaying Thorn, using his strengthened soul force to halt the attack and leave Huang Yan in pain.
• The Heavenly Demon Puppet blocked Huang Yan and fought him, giving Ye a chance to turn toward Chang Jie, Fei Tian, Huang Xuan, Feng Qing'er, and the others.
• Huang Xuan panicked and ranted at Ye for resisting him, and Ye answered, “Heaven and Earth have Righteous Qi!”

Nalan Ye spared Huang Xuan after Feng Qing'er warned him that killing a Heavenly Demon Phoenix would bring a Dou Sheng's vengeance, then turned his attack on Chang Jie. He killed Chang Jie and sealed his soul, while Fei Tian fled the Medicine Garden fearing the Wind and Lightning Pavilion could not survive a feud with Nalan Ye.

• Nalan Ye's Venerate-level energy pillar shattered Huang Xuan's attack, but Feng Qing'er's Seven-Colored Heavenly Demon Phoenix intercepted it and saved him.
• Feng Qing'er warned Nalan Ye that killing a Heavenly Demon Phoenix would draw a Dou Sheng's revenge, and Nalan Ye chose to spare Huang Xuan.
• Nalan Ye gathered the five Poison Sect Elders' power and sent a nine-colored energy pillar at Chang Jie as Luo Zhen blocked his escape.
• Chang Jie survived the pillar's explosion, but Nalan Ye smashed his head, extracted his soul, and sealed it in a jade bottle.
• Fei Tian left the Medicine Garden with the Wind and Lightning Pavilion members and resolved to urge his Venerate not to make an enemy of Nalan Ye.

Nalan Ye and the Great Love Alliance drove back the Wind and Lightning Pavilion and attacked the Hall of Souls forces, while Zi Yan fought the Seventh Heavenly Venerate. After Nalan Ye’s soul attacks helped bring down two Hall of Souls members, the Seventh Heavenly Venerate ordered a retreat and fled toward the Medicine Garden’s entrance, intent on finding an Opportunity to advance to Dou Sheng.

• The Wind and Lightning Pavilion members fled, and Nalan Ye swallowed three seventh-rank pills to recover from his injuries.
• Nalan Ye called on the Great Love Alliance to attack the Hall of Souls members while Zi Yan continued fighting the Seventh Heavenly Venerate.
• Nalan Ye killed a Four Star Dou Zong Hall of Souls Protector with a soul attack, then wounded a Five Star Dou Zong so two Starfall Pavilion Elders could finish him.
• The remaining four Hall of Souls members retreated toward the Seventh Heavenly Venerate, who forced Zi Yan back and fled toward the Medicine Garden’s entrance.
• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate told his confidant to follow him in searching for an Opportunity to advance to Dou Sheng.

Nalan Ye’s alliance drove the attackers from the Medicine Garden, but Zi Yan collapsed after the Ancestor Soul’s power ended. The badly wounded survivors sheltered in a Stone Chamber to recover, while Nalan Ye sensed that he was close to breaking through.

• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate fled after Nalan Ye defeated the attackers, and Zi Yan collapsed from the strain of using the Ancestor Soul.
• Nalan Ye fed Zi Yan Three Seventh-Rank Pills, and she recovered enough to boast about injuring the Seventh Heavenly Venerate.
• The Heavenly Demon Puppet struck Huang Yan, and Huang Yan fled with Feng Qing'er, Huang Xuan, and the others after Nalan Ye approached.
• Nalan Ye stopped Xiao Yan and the others from pursuing the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and led the alliance out of the Medicine Garden.
• The group hid in a searched Stone Chamber, where Nalan Ye counted two dead and many wounded before ordering everyone to heal.
• Nalan Ye set the Earth Demon Puppets to guard the door and sat down to heal as he sensed an impending breakthrough.

While Nalan Ye struggled to understand how to break through to the Heavenly Realm in the Ancient Ruins, the women at Starfall Pavilion waited anxiously for news. Mu Qingluan followed his orders to make life difficult for Zhou Chuan, whose attempts to defend his standing had ended in repeated humiliation.

• Nalan Ye reached the peak of the Spirit Realm but found that the Soul Fruit could not push his soul power into the Heavenly Realm, and he pondered what the realm required.
• At Starfall Pavilion, Mu Qingluan and Tang Huo'er worried about Nalan Ye, while Little Fairy Doctor said she believed he would be fine.
• Mu Qingluan left to carry out Nalan Ye's orders to suppress Zhou Chuan at Starfall Pavilion.
• Zhou Chuan recalled being beaten in a duel by Starfall Pavilion disciples and then losing a Pill Battle when his furnace exploded.

After Zhou Chuan’s pill furnace exploded during a contest, he was mocked by Starfall Pavilion disciples and received little sympathy from Yao Lao. Resentful and feeling unwelcome, he left the pavilion and wandered into the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, still longing for Tang Huo'er without knowing she was nearby.

• Mu Qingluan secretly altered Zhou Chuan’s ingredients, causing his furnace to explode during his Pill Battle with Senior Brother Meng.
• Zhou Chuan complained to Yao Lao, who told him to cultivate and regain his dignity himself before leaving him a medicinal tome.
• Zhou Chuan cursed Yao Lao, threw down the tome, and wrecked the flowers and grass in the courtyard as disciples mocked him.
• Zhou Chuan angrily demanded that the duty manager open the Star Gate, then left Starfall Pavilion for the mountains.
• Zhou Chuan wandered through the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, thinking of Tang Huo'er and Nalan Ye without realizing Tang Huo'er was staying at Starfall Pavilion.

Zhou Chuan was nearly killed by a pack of white-eyed wolves before the Black Shadow Man rescued him and offered him a chance to gain power. After receiving cultivation materials and a secret meeting place, Zhou Chuan wondered whether Yao Chen really possessed the Flame Mantra.

• Zhou Chuan encountered the White-Eyed Wolf King and its pack, then fought them off until their combined attacks broke his Fire Shield.
• The Black Shadow Man killed the White-Eyed Wolf King with a gray strike, driving the remaining wolves away and saving Zhou Chuan.
• The Black Shadow Man asked Zhou Chuan whether he craved power, and Zhou Chuan admitted he wanted strength to retaliate against those who had bullied him.
• The Black Shadow Man gave Zhou Chuan a Ring of Holding containing an Earth Rank High Grade fire cultivation method, two Dou Skill Scrolls, and medicinal pills.
• The Black Shadow Man mentioned Yao Chen's Flame Mantra and told Zhou Chuan to seek him at a natural Stone Cave seven li southeast.
• Zhou Chuan clutched the ring and wondered whether Yao Chen truly possessed the Flame Mantra.

In the Ancient Ruins, the narrator theorized that Dao aura could protect a soul outside the body and used Boundless Human Sea to cover the rest of his soul. After consuming the last piece of the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix's Soul Fruit, he confirmed that his soul power could grow and called his breakthrough the Pseudo-Heaven Realm.

• The narrator observed that Human Great Dao aura covered more than sixty percent of his soul and wondered whether a Heaven Realm soul coexisted with heaven and earth.
• He tested extending his soul outside his body and found that Dao aura protected the covered portion from weakening.
• The narrator used Boundless Human Sea to gather Human Aura and cover his entire soul alongside the Dao aura.
• He stepped out of his body without discomfort, though he realized he still needed his body to sustain Boundless Human Sea.
• The narrator swallowed the remaining Ancient Heavenly Phoenix's Soul Fruit, felt his soul power increase, and declared that he had reached the Pseudo-Heaven Realm.

After recovering in the stone chamber, Nalan Ye led his allies through the Ancient Ruins to gather minor treasures. When a massive disturbance signaled that the seal on the Central Hall was lifting, he rushed toward it with the other factions and arrived at a vast central plaza.

• Luo Zhen, Xiao Yan, Tang Wu, and the others noticed that Nalan Ye seemed different after he secretly broke through his soul, but he joked that he had become more handsome.
• Nalan Ye asked the recovered group to continue exploring, and the others showed that they had fully committed themselves to following him.
• Nalan Ye led the group through the passages with ten Earth Demon Puppets scouting ahead, and they collected treasures while brushing aside weaker factions.
• A violent disturbance shook the Ancient Ruins, and Nalan Ye recognized it as a sign that the seal on the Central Hall was about to lift.
• Nalan Ye rushed toward the disturbance with his group and reached a vast plaza connected to twelve large passages and thirty-six Small Channels.

Nalan Ye and the others waited with rival factions for the Bronze Ancient Hall’s energy barrier to fail. When it vanished, Nalan Ye prepared to enter first, but a black shadow suddenly raced toward the palace gates.

• Nalan Ye ignored the crowd’s greed and led Xiao Yan, Luo Zhen, and the others to the front of the plaza.
• Nalan Ye encountered Feng Qing’er and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, the Seventh Heavenly Venerate of the Hall of Souls, and Tian Shuangzi of Ice River Valley.
• Nalan Ye warned that attacking Tian Shuangzi could provoke the Hall of Souls and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and revealed his suspicion that Tian Shuangzi had reached Nine Star Dou Zong.
• The Bronze Ancient Hall’s energy barrier broke apart after half an hour, but the gathered factions hesitated to enter.
• As Nalan Ye prepared to lead his people inside, a black shadow shot toward the palace gates.

The Seventh Heavenly Venerate opened the Bronze Ancient Hall, releasing twelve glowing scrolls that triggered a deadly fight among the gathered experts. Nalan Ye recognized the scrolls as bait and waited, but after several Dou Zong experts slipped into the hall and died screaming, more than ten figures emerged from behind its gates.

• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate rushed to the Bronze Ancient Hall and opened its gates, prompting the crowd to charge after him.
• Twelve glowing balls of light shot from the hall, and the experts fought fiercely over the scrolls they contained.
• Nalan Ye warned his group that the scrolls were bait and led them away from the battle.
• Several people used the chaos to sneak into the Bronze Ancient Hall, but their screams soon stopped.
• More than ten figures walked out from behind the gates of the Bronze Ancient Hall.

Nalan Ye used the battle against the Ancient Human Puppets to enter the Bronze Ancient Hall and discover Dou Sheng remains, which concealed an Opportunity to advance to Dou Sheng. After rival experts chased him into the hall, he escaped with three ribs from the remains, and a huge roar soon shook the hall as half of it collapsed.

• More than a dozen Ancient Human Puppets emerged from the Bronze Ancient Hall and attacked the factions fighting over the glowing Scrolls.
• Nalan Ye slipped into the emptied hall and found a skeleton whose Dou Sheng remains concealed an Opportunity to advance to Dou Sheng.
• Feng Qing’er, Huang Xuan, Huang Yan, the Seventh Heavenly Venerate, and other experts entered the hall and converged on the remains.
• Nalan Ye snapped off three ribs, kicked the rest of the remains deeper into the hall, and escaped through a Side Hall while the experts fought over them.
• Nalan Ye regrouped with Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Luo Zhen, and Tang Wu and led them away from the Bronze Ancient Hall.
• A world-shaking roar erupted inside the hall, causing half of it to collapse.

The Dou Sheng Remains awakened and unleashed a devastating roar that destroyed much of the Bronze Ancient Hall and killed or injured many fighters. Nalan Ye's Heavenly Demon Puppet shielded Feng Qing'er, leaving her wondering whether he liked her.

• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate sensed vitality in the Dou Sheng Remains and fled, but Huang Yan and the others kept fighting over it.
• The Dou Sheng skeleton awakened and released a roar that blasted Huang Yan and Tian Shuangzi's group, destroying half of the Bronze Ancient Hall.
• Feng Qing'er fled toward the plaza, but a bronze pillar struck her and the sound waves caught up to her.
• Nalan Ye sent his Heavenly Demon Puppet to protect Feng Qing'er from the sound waves.
• Feng Qing'er wondered whether Nalan Ye liked her, while Xiao Yan, Luo Zhen, Tang Wu, and the others praised Nalan Ye for anticipating the danger.