Chapter Summaries

Strange spatial fluctuations swept the crowd beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree into a small world, where they discovered five Dou Sheng-level puppets controlled by the tree. As the factions fled toward the spatial barrier, their attacks failed to break it, leaving them trapped with the approaching puppets.

• The narrator and the others were pulled into a misty small world centered on a gigantic Bodhi Ancient Tree, along with the other factions, while the Hall of Souls was nowhere to be seen.
• The narrator hid Xuan Mo and Tang San behind the senior experts and sent Wind Venerable to the front as the crowd argued over who had caused the upheaval.
• Ling Quan accused Yellow Spring Venerable and the Central Plains experts of disrupting Xun Er's cultivation, and their factions nearly came to blows.
• Xun Er warned that five approaching figures were puppets controlled by the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and the crowd realized all five were Dou Sheng.
• The narrator led the Great Love Alliance toward the spatial barrier, and Yellow Spring Venerable, Thunder Venerable, Ice Venerable, and Heavenly Underworld Old Demon struck it together but failed to damage it.

Xun Er and the others failed to break the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s spatial barrier, but Tang San began melting it with his fire Dou Qi. As five Dou Sheng puppets rushed toward them, Xun Er and Huo Zhi called for their clans’ elders to intervene while Nalan Ye prepared to hold the puppets back.

• Xun Er led the Ancient Eight Clans’ fighters in a combined attack on the spatial barrier, but the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s defenses nullified it.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er and called on Nalan Ye to prove the Great Love Alliance had a Dou Sheng; Nalan Ye introduced Tang San as Saint Tang San of Burning Flame Valley.
• Tang San attacked the barrier with flames, gradually melting its green defenses as the group saw a chance to escape.
• The five Dou Sheng puppets accelerated toward the group, and Huo Zhi asked Nalan Ye to use Thousands Pointing Fingers to hold them off.
• Xun Er proposed contacting the Ancient Eight Clans’ elders for help, and the group hurried to do so.

Nalan Ye used his newly advanced Dou Sheng strength to defeat the five Dou Sheng Puppets long enough to open an escape route, then stayed behind to kill Yellow Spring Venerable, Heavenly Underworld Old Demon, Ice Venerable, and their followers. The chapter ended with Thunder Venerable pleading that he was an undercover agent.

• Nalan Ye's Thousands Pointing Fingers was shattered by the five Dou Sheng Puppets, so he and Tang San broke open the spatial barrier to the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• Nalan Ye sent the Great Love Alliance, the Ancient Eight Clans, and Pill Tower through the Spatial Rift before blocking Yellow Spring Venerable and the others from escaping.
• Nalan Ye revealed his strength as a Dou Sheng and effortlessly defeated the attacks of Yellow Spring Venerable, Ice Venerable, Heavenly Underworld Old Demon, and Thunder Venerable.
• Nalan Ye killed Yellow Spring Venerable and Heavenly Underworld Old Demon by pulling out their souls, then struck down the fleeing Dou Zong elders with lightning.
• Nalan Ye killed Ice Venerable, leaving Thunder Venerable and a few Wind and Lightning Pavilion elders alive.
• Thunder Venerable trembled before Nalan Ye and claimed he was undercover.

The Hall of Souls ambushed the Pill Tower group at the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but Xun Er ordered the Ancient Clan to intervene after learning the Pill Tower was allied with the Great Love Alliance. The Hall of Souls retreated when the Ancient Clan turned the battle against them, leaving the two groups at the tree.

• Xuan Kongzi awoke as flames burned away the Hall of Souls' chains and discovered that Ten Thousand Swords Venerable's soul and many others were gone.
• Xuan Kongzi killed two Hall of Souls protectors and called on the Small Pill Tower's Dou Sheng ancestors for help while Saint Hun Qing ordered an attack.
• The Ancient Clan arrived, but Xun Er initially refused to help the Pill Tower until Xuan Yi said they were allies of the Great Love Alliance.
• Xun Er ordered the Ancient Clan to save the Pill Tower group, and its Venerables overwhelmed the Hall of Souls fighters.
• Saint Hun Qing ordered the Hall of Souls to retreat, and Ling Quan boasted about the Ancient Clan's strength.

Nalan Ye ambushed Hun Qing, resisted his soul illusion, and revealed himself as a Dou Sheng before confronting the Hall of Souls. The confrontation shifted again when Bing Ling and You Mingzi joined Hun Qing, but Nalan Ye claimed that reinforcements had arrived.

• Nalan Ye struck Hun Qing from behind, but Hun Qing trapped him in a soul illusion that Nalan Ye escaped with Human Dao rhythm and Human World Kindling Flame.
• Hun Qing demanded Nalan Ye's identity, and the Seventh Heavenly Venerate revealed that he was the Great Love Alliance's Alliance Leader, shocking the assembled fighters with his sudden rise to Dou Sheng.
• Nalan Ye and Tang San confronted Hun Qing, who warned that the Hall of Souls' plans would not be stopped by them.
• Bing Ling and You Mingzi emerged as additional Dou Sheng, then accused Tang San of killing their disciples and elders and threatened to kill him and Nalan Ye.
• Nalan Ye pointed into the distance and told Hun Qing that his reinforcements had arrived.

Nalan Ye tried to rally the Ancient Eight Clans’ Dou Sheng against the Hall of Souls, but the elders prioritized their own interests and the Bodhi Ancient Tree instead. As the clans moved away, Xun Er urged Xiao Yan to leave with them.

• Xuan Mo brought five Dou Sheng from the Ancient Eight Clans through space wormholes, turning the fight against Hun Qing and the Hall of Souls.
• Gu Xun and the other elders heard their juniors’ accounts, but hesitated to confront the Soul Clan after Hun Qing claimed the attack had been a misunderstanding.
• The Medicine Clan’s Dou Sheng demanded the Bodhi Ancient Tree and led his people toward it after Hun Qing yielded.
• Nalan Ye accused the clans of ignoring the Soul Clan’s threat, but the Lightning, Fire, and Stone Clans also headed for the tree rather than join the fight.
• Xun Er, unable to persuade Gu Xun to intervene, asked Xiao Yan to leave the dangerous area with her.

Hun Qing corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree, awakening its demonic nature and turning it against the five clans inside its small space. As the Great Love Alliance retreated, the tree’s branches struck the Stone Clan, leaving its members badly injured.

• Xun Er left with Gu Xun and the others after Gu Xun promised to help Nalan Ye once if he faced disaster.
• The members of the five clans entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s small space while the Great Love Alliance, the Pill Tower, and the Hall of Souls remained outside.
• Hun Qing cast a strange seal on the Bodhi Ancient Tree, causing its true body to emerge and black markings to spread across it.
• Hun Qing revealed that he had awakened the tree’s demonic nature to kill the five clans, and Nalan Ye ordered the Great Love Alliance to retreat.
• The corrupted tree attacked the clans inside its small space, and a huge branch smashed through the Stone Clan’s defenses and sent its members flying.

The Bodhi Ancient Tree trapped the five clans in illusions as they fled, while Hun Qing attacked the Great Love Alliance to stop anyone from approaching it. Xiao Yan succumbed to the tree’s illusions while trying to reach Xun Er, and the narrator rushed to save him before a streak of black light struck from behind.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree swept the five clans aside and sent an illusionary ripple through the fleeing crowd, leaving many Venerables motionless.
• Xuan Yi and Xuan Kongzi warned that those caught in the tree’s illusions might become its puppets, and Xiao Yan charged toward Xun Er despite the danger.
• Hun Qing ordered the Hall of Souls to attack the Great Love Alliance, then fought the narrator as Bing Ling and You Mingzi engaged Tang San and Xuan Mo.
• Xiao Yan resisted the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusions for a time but collapsed beside Xun Er after losing consciousness.
• The narrator broke away from Hun Qing and rushed toward Xiao Yan, but a streak of black light shot at the narrator from behind.

The narrator and Qiu Si fought Elder Heavenly Snake while their allies battled an ice dragon above the mountains. The narrator grievously wounded Heavenly Snake with a lightning technique, leaving him nearly cut in two.

• Onlookers recognized Elder Heavenly Snake of Ice River Valley and watched the Dou Zong battle above the mountains.
• The narrator used Illusory Lightning Cliff and Three Thousand Lightning Movements to attack Heavenly Snake alongside Qiu Si.
• The narrator shattered Heavenly Snake’s ice armor with Serpent Coil and struck his chest, but Heavenly Snake hit Qiu Si with his cane and split her forehead open.
• The narrator summoned Human World Kindling Flame, forcing Heavenly Snake to defend himself with his ice-attribute Dou Qi.
• Heavenly Snake thrust at the narrator with his cane, but the narrator’s Illusory Lightning Cliff cut the cane in two and slashed a deep wound across Heavenly Snake’s body.

Nalan Ye used the Human World Kindling Flame to burn the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but Hun Qing killed the Fire Clan Dou Sheng and the Medicine Clan Dou Sheng fled. Nalan Ye was left wounded and surrounded by the ancient tree and multiple Dou Sheng puppets.

• Nalan Ye burned the Bodhi Ancient Tree with the Human World Kindling Flame, stripping away its black mist and damaging its branches and leaves.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree attacked Nalan Ye and summoned five Dou Sheng puppets, so Gu Xun and the other Dou Sheng held the puppets back to give Nalan Ye a chance.
• Hun Qing killed the elderly Fire Clan Dou Sheng and captured her soul, shocking the others.
• Gu Xun, the Stone Clan Dou Sheng, and the Lightning Clan Dou Sheng contacted their clans for reinforcements, while the Medicine Clan Dou Sheng fled.
• Nalan Ye struck a puppet away but suffered a severe chest wound as two puppets moved to attack him alongside the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

Nalan Ye absorbed the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s spiritual essence through his Human Dao Domain, healing his wounds and growing stronger as the Human World Kindling Flame weakened the tree. After defeating a Dou Sheng Puppet, he attacked the tree, which began trying to escape underground, while Hun Qing charged toward him.

• Nalan Ye discovered that the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s spiritual essence healed his wound, then absorbed it through his Human Dao Domain and strengthened his Human Great Dao.
• Nalan Ye fought the two Dou Sheng Puppets while the Human World Kindling Flame burned the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and the tree’s spiritual essence healed his injuries.
• Nalan Ye blasted one Dou Sheng Puppet away and beheaded the other with the Dragon Emperor Sword, causing its body to crumble into ash.
• Nalan Ye severed the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s branches and refined the released spiritual essence as the tree shrank and began sinking underground to escape.
• Nalan Ye leaped after the escaping Bodhi Ancient Tree, but Hun Qing charged toward him.

Nalan Ye destroyed Hun Qing’s demonic blade, pursued the Bodhi Ancient Tree underground, and forced it to give up Bodhi Seeds and its Bodhi Heart. After swallowing the heart, Nalan Ye fought Hun Qing in a collapsing underground passage, where Hun Qing began to lose ground.

• Hun Qing attacked Nalan Ye with his demonic blade, but Nalan Ye caught it and burned away its runes with human world kindling flame.
• Nalan Ye followed the Bodhi Ancient Tree through its spatially twisted underground passage and hacked at it, refining the spiritual essence from its branches and leaves.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree spoke and offered Nalan Ye more than twenty Bodhi Seeds, then produced a Bodhi Heart that weakened it drastically.
• Hun Qing caught up and lunged for the Bodhi Heart, but Nalan Ye snatched it and swallowed it before Hun Qing could intervene.
• Nalan Ye absorbed the Bodhi Heart’s power and charged Hun Qing, and their battle tore apart the underground passage as Hun Qing gradually began to falter.

Nalan Ye drove Hun Qing and the Hall of Souls from the battlefield, then tried to take control of the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s three Dou Sheng puppets rather than destroy them. Using the Bodhi Heart to slip his Human Dao Rhythm into one puppet, he successfully changed its allegiance and began to claim it as his own.

• Nalan Ye wounded Hun Qing with the Dragon Emperor Sword, but Hun Qing escaped, and the Hall of Souls forces soon retreated as well.
• Nalan Ye sent Wind Venerable to check on the unconscious members of the five clans, Xun Er, and Xiao Yan, then decided to try controlling the three remaining puppets.
• Nalan Ye joined Tang San and Xuan Mo above the battlefield, where the surviving Dou Sheng of the Ancient, Lightning, and Stone Clans praised him for driving Hun Qing away.
• Nalan Ye discovered that the Bodhi Heart connected to the Ancient Tree Puppets and used its power to carry his Human Dao Rhythm into the puppet fighting the Stone Clan Dou Sheng.
• Nalan Ye changed the puppet’s aura and stopped it from attacking the Stone Clan Dou Sheng, then joked that he had told it he was its father.

Nalan Ye controlled three Ancient Tree Puppets but discovered they drained his Dou Qi, while the survivors learned that some of their companions had become puppets. As the clans prepared to leave, two Medicine Clan Dou Sheng arrived, including a Second Level Dou Sheng, and the others confronted Yao Tian for abandoning them.

• Nalan Ye used the Bodhi Heart to control three Ancient Tree Puppets, but they immediately drained all the Dou Qi from his body.
• Yao Lao reported that some unconscious survivors had dead souls and had likely been turned into puppets by the Bodhi Ancient Tree; the clans examined them and planned to take them home.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er woke, and Xiao Yan revealed that his cultivation had improved after gaining sudden enlightenment in the illusion.
• Little Fairy Doctor lamented that the Great Love Alliance had gained little from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while Nalan Ye privately considered using the Bodhi Seeds to strengthen his allies.
• Two Medicine Clan Dou Sheng arrived, including Yao Wangui, whose aura marked him as a Second Level Dou Sheng, and the gathered Dou Sheng confronted Yao Tian for fleeing the battle.

Yao Wangui arrived with Yao Tian after the Soul Clan had fled and demanded the Bodhi Ancient Tree and its Bodhi Heart from Nalan Ye. When Yao Tian attacked Nalan Ye, Nalan Ye swiftly defeated him, prompting Yao Wangui to threaten retaliation.

• Yao Tian returned with Second Level Dou Sheng Yao Wangui, while Gu Xun explained that Nalan Ye had driven Hun Qing and the Hall of Souls members away.
• Yao Wangui searched for the vanished Bodhi Ancient Tree, then accused Nalan Ye of possessing its Bodhi Heart and warned him not to ruin himself.
• Yao Tian insulted Nalan Ye and attacked him with a green Dou Qi whip, but Nalan Ye broke free of Yao Tian's flower technique and beat him into a crater.
• Nalan Ye taunted Yao Tian and looked toward Yao Wangui, who angrily threatened him for injuring an elder of the Medicine Clan.

Nalan Ye fought Yao Wangui, using the Bodhi Heart to strengthen his Human Great Dao and hold off Yao Wangui’s attack despite remaining a First Level Dou Sheng. Four Second Level Dou Shengs arrived, and after learning Huo Feng had died, the clans agreed to confront the Soul Clan.

• Gu Xun warned Nalan Ye that Yao Wangui’s Second Level Dou Sheng strength made him too dangerous to challenge, while the other Dou Shengs and Nalan Ye’s companions grew concerned.
• Yao Wangui fused his Wood Great Dao and Fire Great Dao into an attack, and Nalan Ye burned the Bodhi Heart to strengthen his Human Great Dao before countering with Great Thunder Heavenly Dragon.
• The Thunder Dragon and Yao Wangui’s attack exploded after a stalemate, leaving Yao Wangui unable to understand Nalan Ye’s unusual combat strength or decide whether to keep pursuing the Bodhi Heart.
• Four Second Level Dou Shengs arrived from the clans, and the Yan Clan elder learned from Huo Zhi that Huo Feng had fallen.
• The Yan Clan members demanded blood for blood, and the newly arrived Dou Shengs agreed to confront the Soul Clan over its actions.

Nalan Ye left the Barbaric Ancient Region with the Great Love Alliance after warning the four ancient clans not to underestimate the Soul Clan, though they dismissed his concerns. Back at the alliance, he learned that Ten Thousand Swords Venerable had been killed by the Hall of Souls, and Wind Venerable confronted the Pill Tower leaders over his death.

• The four ancient clans thanked Nalan Ye and departed, planning to unite and blockade the entrance to the Soul Clan's small world.
• Nalan Ye revealed that his strength was comparable to a Second Level Dou Sheng and worried that the Soul Clan had already begun its plans against the other ancient clans.
• Nalan Ye returned to the Great Love Alliance with its members and the Pill Tower leaders, Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi.
• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi told Wind Venerable that Ten Thousand Swords Venerable had been killed and his soul taken by the Hall of Souls.
• Wind Venerable blamed the Pill Tower leaders for entering the Barbaric Ancient Region early and demanded to know how Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion would survive without its sole Venerable.
• Xuan Kongzi offered for the Pill Tower to shelter Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion and provide pills to help it nurture a new Venerable.

As the Mist Storm closed in, Nalan Ye prepared to break through the Mist Barrier and let his allies into the Heavenly Tomb Center. Shi Potian and the Ling Clan sought his help, and Ling Lingyao offered a Bodhi Seed as payment.

• Yao Xingji accused Nalan Ye of causing the Mist Barrier, but Nalan Ye denied it, and the Three Clans Alliance remained trapped as the Mist Storm approached.
• Huo Xuan said his group could enter the Heavenly Tomb Center, while Nalan Ye prepared to act with ten Dou Zong powerhouses guarding him.
• Shi Potian blamed Yao Xingji for provoking their earlier conflict, claimed kinship with Nalan Ye through an ancient Xiao Clan ancestor, and won permission for himself and two Stone Clan members to join them.
• Ling Lingyao asked Nalan Ye to bring the three Ling Clan members inside, and Nalan Ye demanded valuable treasures as a toll.
• Ling Lingyao offered a Bodhi Seed, which Little Fairy Doctor explained could help someone achieve sudden enlightenment, and Nalan Ye wondered whether it was better than his own sudden enlightenment.

Nalan Ye distributed Bodhi Seeds to strengthen the Great Love Alliance and its allies, while Tang Ying pleaded with him to investigate whether the Hall of Souls had killed his teacher. The chapter left Nalan Ye promising to investigate Ten Thousand Swords Venerable’s fate and avenge him if necessary.

• Nalan Ye gave six Bodhi Seeds to Wind Venerable and the other two Venerables, who entered seclusion to try to advance to Dou Sheng.
• Nalan Ye rewarded the Elders for their work, sent them back to the Star Realm, and offered Bodhi Seeds to Xiao Yan, Mu Qingluan, Cai Lin, Little Fairy Doctor, and Qing Lin; Xiao Yan and Qing Lin accepted seeds and went into seclusion.
• Nalan Ye gave Tang Huo'er a Bodhi Seed when he visited her, then met Tang Ying as he collected his teacher Ten Thousand Swords Venerable’s body.
• Tang Ying refused Nalan Ye’s Bodhi Seed and begged him to rescue his teacher, whose soul the Hall of Souls had taken.
• Nalan Ye promised to investigate whether Ten Thousand Swords Venerable was still alive and to avenge him if he was dead.

Nalan visited the Great Love Alliance’s Pill Division, learned why the Pill Tower’s Dou Sheng ancestors had stayed out of the battle in the Barbaric Ancient Region, and traveled with Cao Ying, Xuan Kongzi, and Xuan Yi to the Pill Tower. They arrived to find the elders’ excitement at Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi’s return dampened by how few survivors had come back.

• Tang Huo'er watched Tang Ying and the others depart with the Ten Thousand Swords Venerable’s remains and resolved to cultivate harder against the Hall of Souls.
• Nalan inspected the Pill Division Cao Ying had established and asked Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi why the Pill Tower’s Dou Sheng ancestors had not gone to the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• Xuan Kongzi explained that the Pill Tower had four Dou Sheng ancestors, but the one overseeing affairs had apparently stayed behind to refine an Eighth-Tier Profound Pill.
• Nalan opened a space wormhole to the Pill Tower, and Cao Ying told him she wanted the Pill Tower to join the Great Love Alliance; he gave her a Bodhi Seed.
• Nalan, Cao Ying, Xuan Kongzi, and Xuan Yi arrived at the Pill Tower, where the elders’ joy faded when they saw how few of the expedition had returned.