Chapter Summaries

Gu Xun'er tried to force Zi Yan to surrender Lu Yuan’s contact method by explaining the danger her capture posed to the Void Ancient Dragon Clan, but Zi Yan refused to yield. Gu Xun'er ordered her forces to subdue Zi Yan and her guard, then unleashed a Forbidden Technique that raised her power to Dou Zong.

• Zi Yan countered Gu Xun'er's taunts by arguing that her strength and lack of an awakened bloodline made her unsuitable for Lu Yuan.
• Gu Xun'er revealed that Zi Yan was surrounded by the Black Submerging Army and warned that the Gu Clan could use her as leverage against her father and the Void Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Zi Yan rejected the pressure, declaring that she would pursue what she wanted regardless of the cost to her clan.
• Gu Xun'er, unwilling to kill or seriously injure Zi Yan because of Lu Yuan, ordered her forces to capture Zi Yan and her guard.
• Gu Xun'er activated a Forbidden Technique, rapidly raising her strength to Dou Zong so she could suppress Zi Yan.

Zi Yan and Gu Xun'er fought after Zi Yan punched Gu Xun'er, while their guards clashed around them and Canaan Academy struggled to evacuate its students. The battle left the academy damaged, and Lu Yuan remained unaware that his outdated orders had helped cause the misunderstanding.

• Zi Yan struck Gu Xun'er first, and Gu Xun'er retaliated with a Golden Flame whip before fleeing outside to avoid a direct fight.
• Zi Yan and Gu Xun'er fought while the Void Ancient Dragon Clan Half-Saint engaged the Black Submerging Army, whose members hesitated to support Gu Xun'er.
• The experts' battle shook Canaan Academy, damaged several peaks, and frightened students inside the Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower.
• Su Qian and Hu Qian organized an evacuation and accepted that the academy could not interfere with the two young ladies' fight.
• The Pharmacy Elder mourned the damage to the Medicine Repository, while Lu Yuan remained unaware that Gu Xun'er had not received his redeployment order.

Gu Xun'er trapped Zi Yan beneath a formation after their brutal fight, while Lu Yuan learned that Zi Yan was not with the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and realized Gu Xun'er was behind the trouble. After using the Eye of Fate to discover what had happened, Lu Yuan arrived near Jia Nan Academy and prepared to deal with the situation himself.

• The chapter explained that the North Dragon King and Lu Yuan had not sensed Zi Yan and Gu Xun'er's fight because Jia Nan Academy lay hundreds of thousands of li away and neither had kept detection abilities active.
• Zi Yan and Gu Xun'er continued their close-range battle, leaving both badly injured, until Gu Xun'er used a Gu Clan Signal Flare to summon a formation that restrained Zi Yan.
• Gu Xun'er stopped her Forbidden Technique and sat down to recover while Zi Yan remained trapped beneath the formation.
• The North Dragon King told Lu Yuan that Zi Yan was not with him and that the Gu Clan's Black Submerging Army had been frightened off.
• Lu Yuan realized Gu Xun'er had likely used a diversion, activated the Eye of Fate to learn what had happened, and teleported to Peaceful Town near Jia Nan Academy's Outer Academy.

Gu Xun'er held Zi Yan and a Void Ancient Dragon Half-Saint captive while demanding Lu Yuan's contact information, but Lu Yuan arrived and agreed to speak with her after she released them. The chapter ended with Gu Xun'er inviting Lu Yuan to talk privately, hinting that he had come to settle matters between them.

• Gu Xun'er explained that she planned to use Zi Yan's capture to make the Void Ancient Dragon commander help her find Lu Yuan, while Zi Yan blamed Gu Xun'er for the situation.
• Zi Yan argued that Lu Yuan trusted the Void Ancient Dragon Clan more than the Gu Clan and refused to give Gu Xun'er his contact information, but Gu Xun'er said she wanted an answer and closure regardless.
• Lu Yuan emerged from the Tuo She Ancient Emperor Space, and Zi Yan called out to him while complaining that Gu Xun'er had bullied her.
• Gu Xun'er withdrew the formation after Lu Yuan asked her to release Zi Yan and the female Half-Saint so they could resolve the dispute through conversation.
• Lu Yuan healed Zi Yan's burns and wounds, then refused to treat Gu Xun'er's facial injury and told her he had changed after learning from a good teacher.
• Gu Xun'er invited Lu Yuan to speak somewhere private and said someone would compensate for the damage.

Lu Yuan and Gu Xun'er met privately so they could apologize and discuss their past misunderstandings, while Canaan Academy dealt with the aftermath of the Inner Academy battle and a magical beast riot. Gu Xun'er admitted her own mistakes and waited to hear what Lu Yuan wanted to say.

• Lu Yuan invited Gu Xun'er to talk and brought Zi Yan along, while the Gu Clan and Void Ancient Dragon Clan fighters followed at a distance.
• The Black Submerging Army's Two-Star Dou Sheng ordered his men to clear the formations around Canaan Academy and avoid giving Lu Yuan cause to complain.
• Lu Yuan apologized to Gu Xun'er for pressuring her and making things difficult for her in the past.
• The chapter described how the Inner Academy battle drove magical beasts into the Outer Academy and shocked students who witnessed Gu Xun'er fighting Zi Yan.
• Xiao Ning yielded his courtyard to Lu Yuan, Gu Xun'er, and Zi Yan so they could speak without outsiders.
• Gu Xun'er admitted she had mishandled her past interactions with Lu Yuan and Xiao Yan, then told Lu Yuan she was ready to accept his decision.

Lu Yuan accepted Gu Xun’er's offer to continue their cooperation and tried to find a way to compensate her, but she proposed having a child with him. After he rejected the idea and affirmed his relationship with Zi Yan, Gu Xun'er left, and a female Half-Saint took Zi Yan away to see the Clan Leader while calling Lu Yuan a scumbag.

• Lu Yuan agreed to continue cooperating with Gu Xun'er, offered to compensate her losses, and proposed that they become friends.
• Gu Xun'er suggested having a child with Lu Yuan to cement their friendship, and Zi Yan tried to punch her before Lu Yuan stopped her.
• Lu Yuan declined Gu Xun'er's proposal, explaining that he already had a girlfriend and wanted to consider his partner's feelings.
• Zi Yan proudly identified herself as Lu Yuan's girlfriend, and Lu Yuan revealed that she was his disciple, Yun Yun's student.
• Gu Xun'er patted Zi Yan's head and left, then a female Half-Saint took Zi Yan away to see the Clan Leader and called Lu Yuan a scumbag.
• Lu Yuan left Canaan Academy to check the Alchemist Convention results while people continued rebuilding the Inner Academy.

At the Alchemist Convention, Lu Yuan prepared Yun Yun to leave the Yun Lan Sect and pursue a wider world in Central State, while Queen Medusa’s rise to Dou Zong made the Gama Empire abandon its planned invasion of the Tagor Desert. After Xiao Yan won the competition, Lu Yuan gave Yun Yun a Wind and Thunder Pavilion token, kissed her, and vanished from the venue.

• Yun Shan and the Gama Empire’s leaders watched the convention while reconsidering their plans to invade the Tagor Desert after Queen Medusa became a Dou Zong.
• Nalan Jie watched Yan Xiao, whom he knew was Xiao Yan, perform well, while Nalan Yanran focused on him from nearby.
• Yun Yun told Lu Yuan she wanted to go to Central State and see a greater world.
• Lu Yuan gave Yun Yun a token identifying her as a Close Disciple of the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, leaving Yun Shan to manage the Yun Lan Sect.
• After Xiao Yan won the Alchemist Convention, Lu Yuan kissed Yun Yun and disappeared from the grounds.

Lu Yuan returned to the Wind and Thunder Pavilion with the Poison Pill to help Little Fairy Doctor resolve her Woeful Poison Body. With the Pavilion’s elders gathered to protect her, he brought her to the Back Mountain to begin the breakthrough.

• Lu Yuan left Yun Yun in the Northwest Continent and returned to the Central Plains, while Yun Yun went back to the Yun Lan Sect.
• While Lu Yuan was away, Little Fairy Doctor’s constitution erupted several times, and Wind and Thunder Pavilion alchemists helped suppress it; Qing Lin also drew attention but kept her Azure Serpent Three Flower Pupils hidden.
• Lu Yuan arrived at the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, reassured Feng Qing Er and the elders, and shared some alchemy knowledge while concealing the part involving three Heavenly Flames.
• Lu Yuan gave Little Fairy Doctor the Poison Pill, explained the breakthrough process, and led her to the Back Mountain, where Thunder Venerable, Feng Qing Er, and the elders assembled a protective formation.
• Lu Yuan wished Little Fairy Doctor success as he watched Azure Heaven above the purple clouds.

Xiao Yi Xian overcame her Woeful Poison Body and chose to remain with Lu Yuan, who agreed to let her leave whenever she wished. Feng Qing Er then invited Lu Yuan to explore a newly discovered Dou Sheng Remains in the Beast Realm, and he agreed, suspecting it contained the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• The World Consciousness secretly improved Xiao Yi Xian’s chances, allowing her to fuse the Poison Pill, cure her Woeful Poison Body, and advance to Nine-Star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yi Xian embraced Lu Yuan after her breakthrough, then politely kept the elders seeking her favor at a distance.
• Lu Yuan suggested Xiao Yi Xian grow independently, but she said she wanted to keep following him; he agreed she could stay while retaining the freedom to leave.
• Feng Qing Er told Lu Yuan that several Warcraft clans were sending core members to explore a Dou Sheng Remains and invited him to join her.
• Lu Yuan agreed to depart with Feng Qing Er the next morning and wondered whether the ruins held the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

The Beast Race and the Eight Great Ancient Clans negotiated access to the newly surfaced Dou Sheng Remains, which they designated as a training ground for cultivators below the Half-Saint level. Feng Qing Er gave Lu Yuan one of her entry slots, and the chapter ended with him preparing to enter alongside her while keeping the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit’s destined owner, Zi Yan, in mind.

• The Nine Netherworld Python Clan found it could not claim the nearby Dou Sheng Remains alone and called on the other Beast Race powers for support.
• Zhu Kun appeared and demonstrated his strength, discouraging the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and prompting the Eight Great Ancient Clans to negotiate entry for their younger cultivators.
• Zhu Kun and the other powers set the ruins aside as a training ground, allowing cultivators from Dou Wang to Nine Revolutions Dou Zun to enter while excluding Half-Saints and stronger experts.
• Feng Qing Er distributed three entry slots, giving one each to Lu Yuan, Thunder Venerable, and a reclusive Dou Zun at the Wind and Thunder Pavilion.
• Lu Yuan planned to enter with Feng Qing Er, while deciding that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit should go to Zi Yan rather than Zhu Kun.

Lu Yuan and Feng Qing Er traveled by public Spatial Spaceship toward the Beast Realm, where they would enter the Dou Saint Remains. During the journey, they discussed the feud between the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and the Heavenly Swan Clan, and learned that they would explore the ruins separately from Feng Qing Er’s clan team.

• Lu Yuan and Feng Qing Er chose a public Spatial Spaceship to reach the Beast Realm, joining numerous cultivators bound for the Dou Saint Remains.
• Feng Qing Er rejected several Dou Emperors who tried to approach her, then returned to their cabin and spoke with Lu Yuan over tea.
• Lu Yuan reviewed the information about the ruins and asked Feng Qing Er about the conflict between the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and the Heavenly Swan Clan.
• Feng Qing Er explained that her clan’s expansion to counter the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had created lasting blood feuds with races that resisted them.
• Feng Qing Er estimated that about fifteen thousand people would enter the ruins and said she and Lu Yuan would explore separately from her clan’s team.

Feng Qing Er and Lu Yuan arrived in a Beast Race city near the Dou Sheng Remains, where Jiu Feng welcomed them and explained the rival clans’ young fighters and the site’s dangers. After learning that the elders had ordered the juniors to investigate the ruins without help, Feng Qing Er led the group out to inspect the site themselves.

• Feng Qing Er and Lu Yuan disembarked at a Beast Race city, where Jiu Feng introduced himself to Lu Yuan and welcomed the pair.
• Jiu Feng described the powerful clan leaders gathered nearby and the young contenders, including Hun Feng, Zi Yan, and Lei Dong.
• Jiu Feng reported that no one had found the entrance to the Dou Sheng Remains and that a dangerous Magma Lake lay at the site.
• Feng Qing Er learned that the clans’ elders had forbidden their juniors from seeking help, treating the search as a test.
• Feng Qing Er decided to inspect the ruins, and the group left the city and flew toward the site.

At the Magma Pool, Lu Yuan proposed that the apparent maze concealed an entrance beneath the magma, and a Death Guard confirmed a spatial barrier led to an inner space. After the Gu Clan learned the secret too, Jiu Feng chose to spread the information and let others enter first while the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan waited for an opportunity.

• Feng Qing Er and Jiu Feng found that the evenly distributed fire poison and severe Dou Qi drain made the Magma Pool passageways impossible to explore by brute force.
• Lu Yuan suggested the true entrance might lie beneath the Magma Pool and proposed sending a Death Guard to investigate before risking the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's members.
• Jiu Feng sent a Death Guard into the magma, while Gu Xun'er ordered a Gu Clan Dou Zong to follow and learn the secret as well.
• The Death Guard reported that a spatial barrier separated the magma from an inner space, which Dou Zong experts could enter without breaking a formation.
• Jiu Feng grew angry that the Gu Clan had learned the secret, but Lu Yuan advised letting others enter first so the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan could avoid becoming a target and exploit the ensuing conflict.
• Jiu Feng ordered the Death Guard to spread the information and draw others into the trial while scouting the way ahead.

Lu Yuan and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan entered the Dou Sheng Remains, where ten peak Dou Zong Earthly Demon Puppets guarded the next passage. While the crowd hesitated over the puppets, Lu Yuan proposed that he and Feng Qing Er try to claim them, leaving their plan poised to begin.

• Jiu Feng and the others entered the Magma Pool and reached an arena where the passage ahead was blocked by darkness.
• Ten peak Dou Zong Earthly Demon Puppets emerged, prompting the cultivators to retreat and speculate that the ruins held an inheritance for refining puppets.
• Lu Yuan told Jiu Feng to act freely, then disappeared into the crowd with Feng Qing Er.
• Lu Yuan gave Feng Qing Er masks and black robes and proposed that they split the ten puppets between them, betting that their soul imprints had faded.

Lu Yuan and Feng Qing Er seized control of ten Earth Demon Puppets, then escaped into the enormous Small World before the other cultivators could stop them. After reuniting and dividing the puppets, they headed toward the great hall to explore further.

• Feng Qing Er doubted Lu Yuan’s plan, but agreed to help him take the ten Earth Demon Puppets.
• Feng Qing Er subdued the puppets while Lu Yuan placed Soul Imprints on them and sent them scattering through the passage.
• Jiu Feng recognized Feng Qing Er but stopped his clansmen from revealing her identity, and no cultivators pursued the pair.
• After half an hour, Feng Qing Er reunited with Lu Yuan and took four puppets, while Lu Yuan kept the rest.
• Feng Qing Er let Lu Yuan decide what to do next, and he led them toward the great hall in the Small World.

Lu Yuan and Feng Qing Er crossed the Dou Sheng Remains while avoiding conflict and eventually reached its enormous main hall, where countless passages branched through a hollowed-out mountain range. There they met Gu Xun'er, who recognized Lu Yuan beneath his disguise but soon departed, leaving Lu Yuan and Feng Qing Er to choose their route onward.

• Lu Yuan and Feng Qing Er passed Yao Clan members and several sect teams, including Starfall Pavilion, as they traveled toward the main hall.
• Lu Yuan and Feng Qing Er reached the vast main hall and learned that the Ancient Clan and other early arrivals had already entered its passages.
• Lu Yuan relied on his inherited treasure-seeking instinct to choose a direction, and Feng Qing Er followed without questioning him.
• Gu Xun'er arrived with a powerful Ancient Clan entourage, and Feng Qing Er recognized her as the clan leader's daughter and a possessor of a God-Rank Bloodline.
• Lu Yuan asked Gu Xun'er about Hun Feng, and she said the Soul Clan group had entered after delaying the Ancient Clan with a fight.
• Lu Yuan and Gu Xun'er exchanged brief farewells, and Gu Xun'er led her group away while Lu Yuan and Feng Qing Er remained.

Lu Yuan led Feng Qing Er deeper into the Dou Sheng Remains to find a Soul Infant Fruit and pursue the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. After exposing and capturing a Soul Infant Fruit hidden behind an illusion, he turned his attention toward the Blood Pool, where a Soaring Jiao rested.

• Lu Yuan explained that he befriended Feng Qing Er for who she was, then led her deeper into the ruins while pursuing the Soul Infant Fruit and Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Zi Yan followed at a distance, while the Gu Clan trailed Lu Yuan and the Soul Clan monitored the Gu Clan.
• Lu Yuan brought Feng Qing Er to a forest near a corpse-filled Blood Pool and warned her that something was wrong.
• Feng Qing Er discovered that the Lu Yuan beside her was an illusion, but Lu Yuan broke it with a thunderous clash and captured the Soul Infant Fruit.
• Lu Yuan stored the Soul Infant Fruit in his pocket and looked toward the Blood Pool, making the Soaring Jiao within feel uneasy.

Lu Yuan subdued the Dou Zun-level Soaring Jiao while disguising his strength as a Dou Emperor, astonishing Feng Qing Er. As Zi Yan and Gu Xun'er’s groups approached, Feng Qing Er tried to flee with Lu Yuan, but a spatial rift pulled her away and brought her face-to-face with a battle between dragons and phoenixes.

• Zi Yan learned that Lu Yuan was fighting a Dragon Blood Breed, while Gu Xun'er inferred that he had discovered an opportunity for Zi Yan through the Eye of Fate.
• Lu Yuan blocked the Soaring Jiao’s attacks and wounded it with his blade, leaving Feng Qing Er stunned by his apparent Dou Emperor strength.
• Lu Yuan offered Feng Qing Er the subdued Soaring Jiao, but she refused because riding a Dragon Blood Breed could provoke the Void Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Lu Yuan noticed Zi Yan’s group and Gu Xun'er approaching, and Feng Qing Er fired a Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan signal flare before trying to escape with him.
• A spatial rift pulled Feng Qing Er away, and she found herself facing a battle between dragons and phoenixes.

Feng Qing Er discovered a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and tried to claim it as Void Ancient Dragons fought over it. She awakened the dead Ancient Sky Phoenix’s soul while Lu Yuan protected her and secretly helped Zi Yan awaken the Void Ancient Dragon’s ancestor soul.

• Feng Qing Er recognized the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and resolved to keep it from outsiders and use it herself.
• Zi Yan and Lu Yuan entered with the Void Ancient Dragons, whose greed for the fruit led them to ignore Zi Yan’s orders and fight among themselves.
• Lu Yuan doused Feng Qing Er with cold water and urged her to awaken the Ancient Sky Phoenix’s soul to stop the attackers.
• Feng Qing Er used her pure Ancient Sky Phoenix bloodline to awaken the ancestor soul, which suppressed the Void Ancient Dragons.
• Lu Yuan stopped several Void Ancient Dragons from reaching the ritual, while Zi Yan secretly began awakening the Void Ancient Dragon’s ancestor soul behind him.

Lu Yuan and Feng Qing Er fought the Void Ancient Dragons over the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, while Lu Yuan concealed his alliance with Zi Yan. After Lu Yuan revealed a costly time-freezing slash that killed a charging Dou Zong, the Void Ancient Dragons hesitated and many fled, while Lu Yuan secretly restored the life force he had spent.

• Feng Qing Er continued fighting the Void Ancient Dragons, unaware that Lu Yuan and Zi Yan were working together, while Zi Yan's Death Guards restrained their own kin.
• More than a dozen Void Ancient Dragon Dou Zuns revealed their true forms and attacked Feng Qing Er, forcing her to spend essence blood to strengthen the Ancient Sky Phoenix remnant soul.
• Feng Qing Er's enhanced attack burned several Dou Zongs near the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Lu Yuan warned off a charging Void Ancient Dragon Dou Zong.
• Lu Yuan used a devastating slash that froze time and space, turning the Dou Zong to ash and leaving his hair silver-white.
• The Void Ancient Dragons stopped advancing, and many began to flee as Lu Yuan urged Feng Qing Er to continue fighting.
• Lu Yuan secretly returned the life force he had spent to his body while keeping his hair white.