Chapter Summaries

Nalan Ye sent Wind Venerable and Yao Lao to seek alliances with the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion and Pill Tower while the Great Love Alliance recruited other Central Plains factions. After giving Tang Huo'er firefly iron, Nalan Ye returned with her to his residence, while Zhou Chuan plotted to alert the Hall of Souls and sabotage the alliance efforts.

• Yao Lao explained that the Small Pill Tower’s Eight-Rank Alchemists were too powerful to fight, and Cao Ying suggested winning the Pill Tower over through Alchemy.
• Nalan Ye settled for seeking an offensive and defensive alliance with the Pill Tower and ordered Cao Ying and Yao Lao to travel there with Xiao Yan.
• Wind Venerable headed to the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion, while elders and deacons went to recruit smaller Central Plains factions.
• Tang Huo'er complained that Nalan Ye had neglected her, and he gave her rare firefly iron before taking her back to his residence.
• Zhou Chuan blamed Nalan Ye for his heartbreak and decided to warn the Hall of Souls so it could intercept Gu Ling, Yao Chen, and Cao Ying.
• Zhou Chuan left the Star Realm Great Array that night and hid a note beneath a rock in a nearby cave.

Nalan Ye entered the Pill Tower valley and offered to help Old Monster Hou finish refining an Eighth-Tier Profound Pill that he could not safely condense. Nalan Ye used Human Dao Rhythm to unify the medicinal essences and began fusing them, but Old Monster Hou warned that he had not even read the pill recipe.

• Nalan Ye and Cao Ying entered the valley with Xuan Kongzi and the Pill Tower Three Giants following them.
• Nalan Ye identified Old Monster Hou’s stalled pill as an Eighth-Tier Profound Pill and explained that Old Monster Hou lacked the cultivation to finish refining it.
• Nalan Ye promised to compensate Old Monster Hou if the cauldron exploded, prompting Old Monster Hou to step aside and let him try.
• Nalan Ye imbued each cluster of Medicinal Essence with Human Dao Rhythm and began condensing the pill.
• Old Monster Hou protested that Nalan Ye had started without reading the pill recipe.

Nalan Ye refined the Fallen Leaves Return to the Root Pill while Old Monster Hou mistook his improvised method for a newly improved recipe from the Pill Tower Ancestor. The pill took shape and a pill tribulation began.

• Nalan Ye claimed he had received the eighth-tier recipe from an old beggar, and Old Monster Hou concluded the beggar had been the Pill Tower Ancestor.
• Old Monster Hou noticed Nalan Ye was using a different pill-forming sequence and decided the Ancestor had improved the recipe, then began taking notes.
• Nalan Ye warned Old Monster Hou that his method only suited a Second Level Dou Sheng, but Old Monster Hou kept recording it for future reference.
• Nalan Ye completed the withered-green pill, impressing Old Monster Hou, the Three Giants, and Cao Ying with his alchemy.
• Thunder sounded as the pill formed, and Nalan Ye recognized the arrival of a pill tribulation.

Nalan refined the Fallen Leaves Return to the Root Pill, an eighth-tier profound pill, and overcame its powerful pill tribulation. After seeing his alchemy skills, Old Monster Hou agreed to have the Pill Tower join the Great Love Alliance.

• Old Monster Hou warned that the pill tribulation would rival a Second Level Dou Sheng and called for the Great Elder, but Nalan offered to withstand it himself.
• Nalan destroyed the tribulation’s wood-attribute lightning with purple lightning, then countered its poison-attribute lightning with the Human World Kindling Flame and Dragon Emperor Sword.
• After the tribulation cloud dispersed, Nalan caught the Fallen Leaves Return to the Root Pill as it tried to escape the medicine cauldron.
• Old Monster Hou examined the pill, praised Nalan’s alchemy skills as possibly better than the Great Elder’s, and agreed that the Pill Tower would join the Great Love Alliance.

Nalan Ye brought the Pill Tower into the Great Love Alliance, while seven Dou Sheng from the Ancient, Yan, Lightning, and Stone Clans decided to target the Hall of Souls after failing to find the Soul Clan’s hidden world. They arrived at the Pill Tower seeking Nalan Ye, where their appearance was mistaken for an attack by the Hall of Souls.

• Old Monster Hou agreed to join the Great Love Alliance and brought Nalan Ye inside to discuss the Alchemy Dao.
• The seven Dou Sheng failed to locate the sealed entrance to the Soul Clan’s Small World and debated how to retaliate against the Soul Clan.
• Gu Xun suggested targeting the Soul Clan’s dependent faction, the Hall of Souls, and the group agreed to seek Nalan Ye’s help in finding it.
• The seven Dou Sheng appeared outside the Pill Tower, alarming its alchemists and prompting a messenger to warn Old Monster Hou.
• Nalan Ye asked how many Dou Sheng had arrived, while the Pill Tower’s Three Giants feared the Hall of Souls had come to attack them.

Nalan Ye emerged from the Small Pill Tower ready to confront the Hall of Souls, only to find seven Dou Sheng from the Ancient Eight Clans waiting for him. Their arrival bolstered his standing among the Pill Tower’s alchemists, and Gu Xun revealed they had come seeking help to target the Hall of Souls.

• Old Monster Hou praised Nalan Ye’s strength and said the Pill Tower’s Great Elder could join him if the Hall of Souls attacked.
• Nalan Ye brought out three Dou Sheng Puppets and loudly challenged the supposed attackers outside the Pill Tower.
• Nalan Ye recognized Gu Xun among the seven Ancient Eight Clans Dou Sheng, who had tracked him through the clan mark on his Nine Earths Thunder Lance.
• Old Monster Hou welcomed the seven inside, while Pill Tower alchemists debated the alliance and grew more impressed by Nalan Ye’s power.
• Gu Xun told Nalan Ye that the group wanted to make trouble for the Soul Clan but had come to the Central Plains to target the Hall of Souls because they could not find the Soul Clan.

Nalan persuaded Gu Xun and the other Ancient Clan Dou Sheng to join his efforts against the Hall of Souls, gathering them with Old Monster Hou in the Heavenly Flame Small World. As preparations for the coming battle began, Little Fairy Doctor grew jealous over Nalan’s reliance on Cai Lin, and Nalan went to find Cai Lin for help.

• Nalan promised Gu Xun and the six other Dou Sheng that he would gather information on the Hall of Souls and proposed sweeping away its branch halls if its Dou Sheng remained hidden.
• Nalan brought the seven Dou Sheng from the four ancient clans and Old Monster Hou through a Space Wormhole to the Heavenly Flame Small World, where the Heavenly Flame Saint greeted them.
• Nalan told the Heavenly Flame Saint that the Great Love Alliance would unite the continent against the Hall of Souls and celebrated the growing force gathered around him.
• Nalan told Little Fairy Doctor that the Pill Tower and the Ancient Clan Dou Sheng had joined the effort, then urged her to cultivate toward Dou Sheng while Cai Lin handled intelligence gathering.
• Little Fairy Doctor accused Nalan of favoring Cai Lin and went into seclusion, while Nalan worried about their relationship and then went to find Cai Lin.

After learning that Little Fairy Doctor needed potent poisons to approach Dou Sheng, Nalan sought advice from Old Monster Hou and traveled to the Corpse Burial Mountain Range. He entered the poisoned range and began gathering its mist to take back for Little Fairy Doctor to test.

• Cai Lin recognized Old Crow as a Hall of Souls protector, and Nalan asked her to keep their secret and contact him.
• Nalan considered obtaining Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s essence blood from the Nine Netherworld Python Clan to help Cai Lin evolve, but judged the clan too dangerous for now.
• Nalan asked Old Monster Hou about poisons for Little Fairy Doctor, and Old Monster Hou told him of a calamity poison body’s remains in the Corpse Burial Mountain Range.
• Nalan traveled secretly for ten days to the mountain range, whose poison mist covered a landscape of dead plants and scattered bones.
• Nalan entered the range and used his Dou Qi to gather its poison mist for Little Fairy Doctor to try.

The narrator searched the Corpse Burial Mountain Range for poisonous materials and discovered a hidden Hall of Souls branch hall. After its members threatened to seize his soul, he realized they did not know he was the Great Love Alliance’s leader and faced their attack.

• The narrator gathered gray mist and collected moss, beetles, and other unusual treasures from the Corpse Burial Mountain Range.
• He detected folded space in a valley and struck its barrier, causing a doorway to open.
• More than a dozen black-robed Dou Zong emerged and identified the hidden site as the Hall of Souls Corpse Burial Branch Hall.
• The branch hall’s leader ordered the narrator’s soul seized, and several Dou Zong surrounded him to prevent the location from being exposed.
• The narrator said the Great Love Alliance already knew the branch hall’s location, and several Soul-Seizing Iron Chains shot toward him.

Nalan Ye destroyed a Hall of Souls branch hall in the Corpse Burial Mountain Range, freeing its soul orbs and confronting Hun Qing. The chapter ended with Nalan Ye revealing three Dou Sheng Puppets to surround the Vice Hall Master.

• Nalan Ye burned the Hall of Souls Protectors guarding the branch hall and revealed his identity as the Great Love Alliance's Alliance Leader.
• Nalan Ye pursued and killed the fleeing Protectors, then forced his way through the spatial gateway into the branch hall.
• Nalan Ye saw the imprisoned soul orbs and attacked the branch hall with Heavenly Thunder Sky Dragon, collapsing its halls and killing its members.
• Hun Qing appeared and challenged Nalan Ye for attacking the branch hall.
• Nalan Ye summoned three Dou Sheng Puppets to join him in surrounding Hun Qing.

Nalan Ye cornered Hun Qing and overwhelmed him in battle, but Hun Qing activated the plaza’s soul-gathering array and absorbed the souls held there. His soul power surged to the brink of the Emperor Realm, leaving Nalan Ye facing a far more dangerous opponent.

• Nalan Ye used lightning and the Ancient Tree Puppets to stop Hun Qing from escaping and blasted him across the plaza.
• Hun Qing attacked with the Hundred Thousand Ghost Hand, but Nalan Ye cut apart the ghost hands and a puppet struck Hun Qing from behind.
• Nalan Ye watched for Hun Miesheng while taunting Hun Qing, who insisted the Hall of Souls’ Hall Master would not need to intervene.
• Hun Qing activated the rune-covered pillars, drawing the captive souls along the chains toward the plaza’s center.
• Hun Qing absorbed the gathered soul power until it nearly reached the Emperor Realm, then challenged Nalan Ye to fight him.

Nalan Ye battled Hun Qing after Hun Qing absorbed the chaotic Soul Power of the Corpse Burial Branch Hall and attacked in a madness-fueled charge. Nalan Ye endured the same soul-shattering power, then killed Hun Qing with the Dragon Emperor Sword.

• Hun Qing absorbed the Branch Hall’s mixed Soul Power and charged at Nalan Ye, determined to kill him despite the lingering consciousnesses driving him toward madness.
• Hun Qing overwhelmed the three Ancient Tree Puppets and pursued Nalan Ye into deeper layers of space, where their attacks collided.
• As Hun Qing’s Soul Power began piercing his defenses, Nalan Ye absorbed some of the scattered power and fought through the voices tormenting his mind.
• Nalan Ye advanced on Hun Qing, formed the Dragon Emperor Sword from his Ancient Void Dragon bloodline, and cleaved Hun Qing apart.

After killing Hun Qing, Nalan Ye learned that Hun Miesheng had placed a deadly curse on him. Nalan Ye used the human world kindling flame to burn away the curse and impurities in his soul, but the painful purification was still underway.

• Nalan Ye confirmed that Hun Qing had died, then discovered a black rune bearing a message from Hun Miesheng.
• Hun Miesheng threatened to come for Nalan Ye and avenge Hun Qing before the rune exploded and scattered black specks onto him.
• The specks revealed themselves as tiny runes that cursed and eroded Nalan Ye’s soul, worsening the impurities and lingering obsessions he had already absorbed.
• Nalan Ye swallowed seventh-rank soul-soothing pills and tried using human Dao rhythm, but it could not remove the curse quickly enough.
• Nalan Ye carefully applied the human world kindling flame to his own soul and discovered it could destroy the black runes, though the process caused unbearable pain.

Hun Qing absorbed the Corpse Burial branch hall’s accumulated Soul Power and launched a desperate attack on Nalan Ye, forcing Nalan Ye to absorb the chaotic power as well. Both men were tormented by lingering consciousnesses, but Nalan Ye held on long enough to kill Hun Qing with the Dragon Emperor Sword.

• Hun Qing absorbed the branch hall’s Soul Power and charged at Nalan Ye, whose Ancient Tree Puppets were overwhelmed by the attack.
• Nalan Ye retreated through space, then used the Human World Kindling Flame and Human Dao Domain to resist Hun Qing’s assault.
• As Hun Qing’s Soul Power threatened to overwhelm him, Nalan Ye began absorbing the power spilling around them.
• The remnant consciousnesses tormented Nalan Ye, but he briefly regained control and pushed back against Hun Qing.
• Nalan Ye formed the Dragon Emperor Sword with his Ancient Void Dragon bloodline and cleaved Hun Qing apart.

After purifying his soul and reaching Heaven Realm Great Perfection, Nalan Ye returned toward the Great Love Alliance and secretly saved Tang Ying’s group from Blood River Heavenly Venerate. He invited Tang Ying to join the alliance and promised he could become a Dou Sheng.

• Nalan Ye purified the stray thoughts and black runes from his soul, reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection, and left the ruined Hall of Souls branch hall.
• Tang Ying prepared to sacrifice himself so the remaining Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion members could escape the Hall of Souls and Yellow Springs Pavilion.
• Tang Ying charged Blood River Heavenly Venerate with a desperate sword strike, while Nalan Ye secretly immobilized the Venerable and let the blow kill him.
• Nalan Ye revealed his help to Tang Ying and invited him to follow the Great Love Alliance, promising he would become a Dou Sheng at the very least.

The Great Love Alliance struggled against the Hall of Souls while many of its strongest members were in secluded cultivation, so Cai Lin tried to secure more fighters. As the Central Plains descended into conflict, Tang Ying was ambushed by the Hall of Souls and the Yellow Springs Pavilion but stood defiant.

• The Hall of Souls and its allied forces attacked the Great Love Alliance while Wind Venerable, Yao Lao, Tang Zhen, Xiao Yan, Little Fairy Doctor, and other experts cultivated in seclusion.
• Cai Lin decided to call Qing Lin out of seclusion and ordered Feng Qing'er to tell Thunder Venerable to join the Great Love Alliance, threatening to announce the Wind and Lightning Pavilion's allegiance in ten days.
• Feng Qing'er left the Star Realm in anger and hurried toward the Wind and Lightning Pavilion, while Mu Qingluan said the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python and Thunder Venerable could help the alliance hold out.
• As fighting spread across the Central Plains, Tang Ying led the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion against the Hall of Souls until the Hall of Souls and the Yellow Springs Pavilion surrounded him in a city.
• Blood River Heavenly Venerate mocked Tang Ying's strength, but Tang Ying declared that the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion would remain proud even without his teacher.

The Alliance Leader returned to the Great Love Alliance and learned from Old Crow that the Hall of Souls was preparing an all-out attack. He suspected the assault was a diversion connected to the missing Dou Sheng and brought Cai Lin into the Heavenly Flame Small World.

• The Alliance Leader let Tang Ying lead nearby Great Love Alliance forces against the weakened Yellow Springs Pavilion while he hurried back to the Great Love Alliance.
• The Alliance Leader found Cai Lin working late and asked whether Old Crow had sent word.
• Cai Lin gave the Alliance Leader Old Crow’s coded message, which he decoded as a warning that the Hall of Souls had ordered a decisive battle against the Great Love Alliance.
• Cai Lin explained that the alliance was struggling because the Alliance Leader was absent and its other leaders were in seclusion.
• The Alliance Leader suspected the Hall of Souls’ attack was a diversion and took Cai Lin into the Heavenly Flame Small World.

Nalan concealed his suspicions that the Soul Clan had attacked the Ling Clan and might be targeting the Medicine Clan, then gathered the Dou Sheng to launch an assault on the Hall of Souls. He assigned targets across the Central Plains and sent Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu on separate missions, warning them that Zi Yan would hear of their success.

• Nalan suspected the Ling Clan had already fallen and the Medicine Clan might be under attack, but decided to keep the news to himself so Hun Tiandi could gather the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Nalan told the gathered Dou Sheng that the Hall of Souls was waging a decisive battle against the Great Love Alliance and urged them to attack the Hall of Souls instead of waiting defensively.
• Nalan described the Hall of Souls' branch halls and revealed a map marking seven Earth Grade Branch Halls, Ice River Valley, and the Nether Sect as targets.
• The Dou Sheng from the Ancient Four Clans chose four branch halls, and Nalan assigned the remaining branch halls to Old Monster Hou, Xuan Mo, and Zhu Mu.
• Nalan warned Xuan Mo and Zhu Mu that he would report their success to Zi Yan, and the two promised to carry out their missions.

Nalan mobilized the Great Love Alliance to strike the Hall of Souls and its allied factions, assigning forces to attack the Ice River Valley and Nether Sect while he led an expedition to the Nether Sect. The alliance’s armies set out across the Central Plains as Ye Lao Na remained behind to guard the Star Realm.

• Nalan gave the Heavenly Flame Saint and Tang San Ancient Tree Puppets and sent them to attack the Ice River Valley with Bing Ling as their target.
• Nalan gathered the Great Love Alliance’s forces in the Star Realm, rallied them, and divided them into nine divisions to attack the Hall of Souls’ branch halls and allied headquarters.
• Cai Lin questioned whether the scattered alliance forces could be defeated separately, and Nalan hinted that the Hall of Souls’ Dou Sheng had left the Central Plains.
• Nalan left Ye Lao Na and an Ancient Tree Puppet to guard the Great Love Alliance, then led Cai Lin and the remaining forces toward the Nether Sect’s headquarters.
• The alliance’s armies crossed the Central Plains, leaving minor factions to watch anxiously as the war’s outcome remained uncertain.

The Great Love Alliance launched a coordinated campaign against the Hall of Souls and its allies, with Nalan Ye leading the expedition to the Nether Sect. He left a puppet and a copy of himself to guard the alliance while Cai Lin accompanied him.

• Nalan Ye assigned Tang San and Heavenly Flame Saint to attack Ice River Valley with two ancient tree puppets, while he chose to lead the assault on the Nether Sect.
• Nalan Ye gathered the Great Love Alliance forces in the Star Realm and declared that they would destroy the Hall of Souls and its allied factions.
• He divided the army into nine divisions and sent them with Dou Sheng leaders to attack branch halls and enemy strongholds.
• Cai Lin worried that the scattered forces could be defeated piecemeal, and Nalan Ye hinted that the Hall of Souls’ Dou Sheng were no longer in the Central Plains.
• Cai Lin chose to accompany Nalan Ye to the Nether Sect, while he left Ye Lao Na and the last puppet to guard the Great Love Alliance.
• Nalan Ye and the remaining forces departed the Star Realm for the Nether Sect as the campaign shook the Central Plains.