Chapter Summaries

Soul Lock used the clan’s Vajra Secret Technique and fought Chen Mo as the Soul Clan and Pillar Tower forces clashed across Holy Pill City. Chen Mo fused five flames into a Fire Lotus and sent it toward Soul Lock, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Qi You and Xiong Zhan decided to leave the battlefield, but Zi Yan wanted to watch longer, so they took her away as other factions’ spies withdrew.
• Soul Lock grew nearly a hundred zhang tall and stomped at Chen Mo while Soul Gang ordered the Soul Hall members to attack Hanyuan and the others.
• Chen Mo abandoned his sword and punched through Soul Lock’s palm, but their next clash sent both fighters flying and left Chen Mo bloodied.
• Chen Mo fused Fallen Heart Flame, Black and White Twin Flames, Wind Fury Dragon Flame, Bone Chilling Flame, and Thunder Fire into a Fire Lotus and launched it at Soul Lock.
• Gu You warned Soul Lock to dodge as the distant spectators stared at Chen Mo’s five fused flames.

Chen Mo’s Destruction Fire Lotus devastated the battlefield and left Soul Lock near death, but Soul Gang’s attempt to summon reinforcements failed because Chen Mo had sealed space. As Soul Hall’s forces fled, Soul Gang warned that Lingyan Pavilion was in Soul Hall’s hands, forcing Chen Mo to pause his pursuit when a new attacker emerged.

• Soul Lock unleashed Myriad Soul Life-Claiming to swallow Chen Mo’s Destruction Fire Lotus, but the collision unleashed a storm that injured both sides and left Soul Lock barely alive.
• Soul Lock crushed a jade slip to summon the Soul Clan, but Chen Mo’s spatial seal prevented a rift from opening, and Chen Mo struck Soul Lock with a Heavenly Emperor Mysterious Thunder Seal.
• Soul Gang called for retreat and tried to escape with Soul Lock while the Heavenly Venerates withdrew with Gu You and the other wounded fighters.
• Chen Mo and Hanyuan’s group pursued the retreating Soul Hall forces, but flames and a Dragon’s Roar interrupted them.
• Soul Gang used a foundation-damaging secret technique to flee and warned Chen Mo that Soul Hall held Lingyan Pavilion at a base outside the Central Continent.
• Chen Mo turned toward the attacker who had brought the flames as it appeared before the group.

After the Soul Hall fled, the Three Thousand Burning Flame turned on the badly wounded Pillar Tower fighters, while Chen Mo recovered nearby and waited for a chance to subdue it. As Hanyuan faced the flame, an unidentified figure surged in to intercept its attack.

• The Soul Hall suffered heavy casualties and fled Soul Lock, leaving Pillar Tower's surviving fighters gravely wounded and facing the escaped Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Hanyuan told Xuan Kongzi and the others to escape while he held the flame back, but it attacked them as Chen Mo quietly recovered and prepared to act.
• Cao Ying and Tang Zhen watched anxiously while Zheng Tian and others waited for an opportunity to exploit the chaos.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame struck Xuan Kongzi and the others with purple-black flames and its dragon tail, sending them flying before turning its attack on Hanyuan.
• Hanyuan attacked the flame, which answered with a pillar of fire; a figure wrapped in firelight and flickering lightning rushed in to intercept it.

Chen Mo fought Three Thousand Burning Flame on two fronts, using his Soul Power to enter its soul world and seize its Dragon Seal while holding off its flames. As he gained the upper hand, onlookers and rival factions considered intervening, and Three Thousand Burning Flame struggled to shake him off.

• Three Thousand Burning Flame attacked Chen Mo, but he blocked its flames with the Fallen Heart Flame and sent a tiny figure of Soul Power into its dragon head to seek the Dragon Seal.
• Chen Mo split his focus between resisting Three Thousand Burning Flame's attacks and fighting it inside its soul world, where he bound the fire dragon with black chains.
• Dan Chen told Cao Ying that Chen Mo was fighting a soul battle to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame, and warned her to watch for hidden enemies; Cao Ying alerted the Cao Family elders.
• Chen Xian urged the Xuanming Sect to notify the Heavenly Underworld Sect, while Tang Zhen decided to contact the ancestor.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame sensed its power weakening as the tiny figure grew stronger, but it could not throw Chen Mo's figure from its body.

Chen Mo defeated the Three Thousand Burning Flame in a soul battle, but the Heavenly Underworld Sect and the Lower Three Sects attacked as he prepared to claim it. Old Ancestor Huoyun appeared and struck Old Demon Tianming, forcing the attackers to retreat.

• Yun Yun and the others guarded Chen Mo and the Three Thousand Burning Flame while they fought in their souls, and Chen Mo seized the dragon seal that manifested the flame's origin.
• Chen Mo opened his eyes as the Three Thousand Burning Flame shrank to a tiny dragon, and hidden attackers rushed in to seize it and assault Chen Mo's allies.
• A Half-Saint in a dark-golden robe sent Yun Yun, Medusa, Cao Ying, and Tang Zhen flying, while Chen Mo deployed his three chess pieces against attackers behind him.
• Old Demon Tianming lunged for the Three Thousand Burning Flame, but a silver dragon-shaped flame struck him and Old Ancestor Huoyun emerged.
• Tianmingzi crushed a spatial jade slip and ordered the attackers to retreat after recognizing Old Ancestor Huoyun.

Chen Mo defeated the Heavenly Underworld Sect and the Lower Three Sects after the Spatial Rift failed to appear, claimed Three Thousand Burning Flame, and captured Old Demon Tianming and Tianmingzi. With the Pillar Tower beginning to rebuild Holy Pill City, Hanyuan learned that Chen Mo was the man Ye Yiren loved.

• Tianmingzi discovered the Spatial Rift was sealed, while Chen Xian was revealed to have fled before the others could find him.
• Old Demon Tianming offered the Heavenly Underworld Sect's surrender, but Chen Mo declared the sect no longer needed to exist and reclaimed Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun stopped Old Demon Tianming's attack, and Chen Mo pulled out his soul before consuming the energy from his exploding body.
• Chen Mo captured Tianmingzi and extracted his soul, while Tang Zhen, Hanyuan, and the others rounded up the remaining elders and accepted the lower-ranked survivors' surrender.
• Zheng Tian, Yao Jianyan, and the other schemers quietly left as Hanyuan ordered the Pillar Tower to treat the wounded and rebuild Holy Pill City.
• Hanyuan reflected on Chen Mo's achievements and recalled that Ye Yiren had told him Chen Mo was the man she loved.

After winning the Pill Gathering, Chen Mo declined a place on the Lesser Pill Tower's Elder Council and proposed an alliance between Lingyan Pavilion and the Pillar Tower against the Soul Hall. At an overnight council meeting, he warned that the Soul Hall had targeted his people in the Northwestern Region and began considering other factions to recruit.

• Cao Ying embraced Chen Mo, and he thanked Old Ancestor Huoyun for helping them.
• Hanyuan offered Chen Mo a place on the Lesser Pill Tower's Elder Council, but Chen Mo declined and proposed that Lingyan Pavilion ally with the Pillar Tower against the Soul Hall.
• Hanyuan agreed in principle, gave Chen Mo an ancient soul cultivation method as his Pill Gathering prize, and brought the group back to the Pillar Tower.
• Hanyuan convened the Elder Council, where Chen Mo warned that the Soul Hall had likely captured people in the Northwestern Region to pressure him over Soul Lock.
• Chen Mo reassured Yun Yun and Medusa that Soul Lock's capture would deter the Soul Hall, then proposed recruiting factions harmed by the Soul Hall's atrocities.

While Chen Mo recovered in seclusion, the Soul Hall captured Jia Xingtian, Nalan Jie, and other Lingyan Pavilion leaders to lure him to the Soul Realm. Yun Yun kept the news from him for the moment, while allies and relatives considered their responses.

• Old Ancestor Huoyun and Ye Yiren sent letters seeking allies after the news of Chen Mo's victory spread across Central Continent, while Chen Mo entered seclusion to heal and strengthen his forces.
• The Heavenly Underworld Sect and the Lower Three Sects were gradually absorbed by rival factions, and Gu Yuan ordered that Xun'er not be disturbed during her bloodline merger.
• Yun Yun learned that Old Man Zhaixing and six others had captured Lingyan Pavilion's leaders in the Lingyan Empire and demanded that Chen Mo come to the Soul Realm.
• Medusa confirmed that the Snake People Tribe had not been captured, and Yun Yun decided not to interrupt Chen Mo's recovery with the news.
• Nalan Yanran and Yaoye anxiously discussed their captured grandfathers, and Mu Qianqian suggested they go to the Pillar Tower.
• The Flower Sect's elders debated Lingyan Pavilion's alliance request, and one left the decision to Sect Master Hua Yao.

Hua Yao and Old Ancestor Huoyun secured allies for Lingyan Pavilion’s fight against Soul Hall, and the Pillar Tower formed an intelligence department while Chen Mo recuperated and cultivated. After half a year, the alliance learned of an Ancient Relic containing a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Chen Mo’s voice called for them to join the contest for it.

• Hua Yao persuaded the Flower Sect’s Supreme Elders to ally with Lingyan Pavilion against Soul Hall.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun’s two friends, the Male and Female Killers, agreed to join the alliance, and the allies planned to announce it after Chen Mo finished seclusion.
• Yun Yun proposed creating an intelligence department to locate Soul Hall strongholds, and the others approved.
• Chen Mo refined the Sea Heart Flame and Three Thousand Burning Flame, reached the peak of the Dou Emperor realm, and spent half a year recovering and cultivating.
• A Pillar Tower scout reported that an Ancient Relic in the Beast Region contained a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, prompting the elders to debate whether to pursue it.
• Chen Mo’s voice declared that the alliance should participate in the struggle for the fruit.

Chen Mo learned that an Ancient Relic in the Beast Region might contain a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and decided to investigate alone, despite Yun Yun and the elders’ concerns. Before leaving, he removed the Soul Handprint from Ye Yiren and destroyed the skull embedded in her body, though she collapsed after the procedure.

• Yun Yun reunited with Chen Mo, and Hanyuan and Old Ancestor Huoyun told him about the Ancient Relic and its possible Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Chen Mo decided to go to the relic alone to seek the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and a possible alliance with the Ancient Void Dragon clan; he revealed that he had reached the Dou Zong realm.
• Chen Mo spent the evening with Yun Yun and planned to leave the next day.
• Chen Mo went to Ye Yiren’s room and used the Three Thousand Burning Flame and his soul power to remove her Soul Handprint.
• Chen Mo destroyed the skull at Ye Yiren’s Shenque point, and Ye Yiren vomited black blood before collapsing into his arms.

Chen Mo walked with Ye Yiren through the ruins of Holy Pill City after her sealed cultivation began recovering, and encouraged her to explore interests beyond the zither. He held her hand and asked whether she had ever thought about falling in love.

• Ye Yiren confirmed that the blocked feeling in her chest had disappeared and her battle qi was flowing smoothly again.
• Chen Mo invited Ye Yiren to walk with him, and she agreed to go with him through the ruined city.
• Chen Mo played the Phoenix Feather Skirt Dance score on Mo Yi while Ye Yiren performed the dance.
• Chen Mo asked Ye Yiren what she enjoyed besides the zither, but she could think of nothing else.
• Chen Mo questioned Ye Yiren about love and learned that she often thought of her master, while she became flustered and tried to return.
• Chen Mo intertwined his fingers with Ye Yiren’s, pulled her into his arms, and asked whether she had ever thought about falling in love.

Chen Mo and Ye Yiren shared a kiss, and he pressed her to begin a relationship despite Sound Valley's rule against love. Cao Ying and Dan Chen caught the pair together, then fled when Chen Mo noticed them, while Ye Yiren left the question of their relationship unresolved.

• Cao Ying and Dan Chen discussed falling in love and Cao Ying admitted she wanted to bear Chen Mo a child.
• Cao Ying led Dan Chen on a stroll, and they spotted Chen Mo embracing and kissing Ye Yiren in an alley.
• Chen Mo caught Cao Ying and Dan Chen watching, and the two women ran away.
• Chen Mo asked Ye Yiren to have a relationship with him, but she cited Sound Valley's rule and denied liking him.
• Chen Mo declared Ye Yiren his woman without her agreement, and she called him foolish before he pulled her in for another kiss.

Chen Mo set out for the Beast Region in disguise while Gu Xun'er emerged from seclusion with the strength of a Seven-Star Dou Venerate and became the Gu Clan's chief. Chen Mo entered the Beast Bone Mountain Range, where factions had gathered to explore Ancient Ruins rumored to contain a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Yun Yun and the other women disguised Chen Mo before he left for the Beast Region, and Yun Yun gave him a map and warned him to be careful.
• Gu Xun'er completed her fusion with the Dou Emperor Bloodline, deliberately suppressed her cultivation at Seven-Star Dou Venerate, and asked Gu Yuan to honor his promise.
• Gu Yuan told Gu Xun'er that Chen Mo had reached Four Star Dou Saint, won the Pill Gathering, and gained powerful allies, then made her the Gu Clan's chief.
• Word of the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit in the Beast Bone Mountain Range drew magical beast clans and human experts to the Ancient Ruins.
• Chen Mo paid the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe's entrance fee of thirty thousand Gold Coins and entered the Beast Bone Mountain Range.

Chen Mo entered the Ancient Ruins after its seal disappeared and made his way through the palace’s fire passage and magma mechanism. He reached a plaza before a Stone Gate and claimed ten ownerless Earth Demon Puppets by marking them with his soul power.

• Chen Mo heard that the Ruins’ weakened seal barred ordinary Dou Venerables, while powerful factions prevented others from entering before it vanished.
• Four days later, the seal dissipated, and Chen Mo entered the Ancient Ruins with the crowd, then raced ahead of the Dou Venerables into the crimson palace.
• Chen Mo crossed the fire passage using Three Thousand Burning Flame and plunged into the magma to find the hidden route onward.
• Chen Mo emerged in a stone passage and reached a plaza where ten Earth Demon Puppets stood before a Stone Gate.
• Chen Mo branded the ten ownerless Earth Demon Puppets with his soul marks and stored them in his Storage Ring.

Chen Mo looted a vast medicinal forest inside the Dou Saint Ruins, then annihilated the Earth Profound Sect group that tried to rob him. Zi Yan sensed something familiar about the disguised Chen Mo as he headed deeper into the forest.

• Chen Mo entered a vast inner hall and slipped into a corridor before the other Ruins explorers arrived.
• Chen Mo harvested rare herbs throughout a medicinal forest, uprooting the Soul Infant Demonic Tree and killing the Heaven-Piercing Flood Dragon guarding it.
• A gray-robed two-star Dou Venerable from the Earth Profound Sect demanded Chen Mo's Storage Ring and attacked him.
• Chen Mo used the Thousand Thunder Art to destroy the old man and the disciples surrounding him, then continued deeper into the forest.
• Zi Yan told Xiong Zhan and Qi You that Chen Mo's retreating figure seemed familiar, though neither recognized him.

Zi Yan discovered the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit inside a Beast Spirit Barrier and began collecting it, but Jiu Feng and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan arrived to claim it. Faced with their superior strength, Zi Yan invoked a bloodline covenant to summon an ancestral soul.

• Zi Yan sensed a bloodline-related force in the medicinal forest and led Xiong Zhan and Qi You to a Beast Spirit Barrier bearing the auras of both the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Zi Yan used her golden blood to open the barrier, and Chen Mo slipped inside after them.
• At the altar, Zi Yan, Xiong Zhan, and Qi You found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit growing on a small sapling, and Zi Yan began the process of collecting it.
• Jiu Feng and five Dou Venerables from the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan entered the barrier and demanded that Zi Yan's group leave the altar.
• Zi Yan warned that the fruit could let the phoenixes evolve into a supreme beast, then used her blood to draw a rune and summoned the ancestral soul.

Chen Mo appeared at the altar and drove back Jiu Feng and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s forces, though Jiu Feng escaped through the Beast Spirit Barrier. After Zi Yan recognized Chen Mo, she suddenly grew pale as her purple glow faded.

• Jiu Feng used the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Ancestral Soul to engage Zi Yan’s Ancient Dragon Ancestral Soul while Qi You threatened to destroy the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Jiu Feng threatened to have Zi Yan sold to a brothel, forcing Qi You to slow down and then agree to let the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan leave with the fruit intact.
• Chen Mo appeared and struck Jiu Feng’s five companions with lightning, then attacked Jiu Feng as the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan retreated.
• Jiu Feng used a jade slip to escape through a crack in the Beast Spirit Barrier, while Chen Mo’s soul power destroyed the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Ancestral Soul and the five Dou Venerables fled.
• Zi Yan recognized Chen Mo, who explained that he had secretly followed them into the ruins, but she suddenly turned pale as her purple glow faded.

Chen Mo secured Zi Yan’s support for an alliance between the Ancient Void Dragon clan and Lingyan Pavilion by helping her obtain the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, which she needed to become Dragon Emperor. The group entered the Pill Hall in search of treasures, where Chen Mo chased a Pill Beast, only for a mysterious black figure to reach for it first.

• Chen Mo proposed an alliance against the Soul Hall, and Xiong Zhan agreed before Zi Yan went to ask Qi You.
• Qi You explained that Zi Yan could unite Ancient Dragon Island by consuming the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and becoming Dragon Emperor, and Chen Mo agreed to help her claim the fruit.
• Zi Yan picked the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and sealed it within her body, then the group left the Beast Spirit Barrier and headed for another passage.
• Chen Mo led the group to the Pill Hall, where they took Antidote Pills after he detected poison in the air.
• Chen Mo pursued a fleeing Pill Beast through the hall and reached to grab it, but a slender black figure suddenly appeared and reached for it too.

Chen Mo stopped a group of Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe members from escaping with the Pill Beast and discovered that their mysterious leader was Qing Lin. After reuniting, Qing Lin explained that she had been hunted across the Central Continent and came to the Ancient Ruins seeking a cure for her poison.

• A wounded woman used her Jade-Green Eye of Three-Flowered Pupil to control members of the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe as they attacked Chen Mo and tried to seize the Pill Beast.
• Chen Mo defeated the attackers and captured the woman, then recognized her as Qing Lin.
• Chen Mo gave Qing Lin a healing pill and revealed that he was Brother Mo, prompting her to recognize him.
• Qing Lin told Chen Mo that she had been hunted after entering the tribe's territory, had matured her Jade-Green Eye, and had been poisoned with Emperor Python Heart Devouring Poison.
• Qing Lin said she had come to the Ancient Ruins seeking the blood of a pill capable of taking beast form to cure her poison.

Chen Mo and his companions reached the ancient hall, where powerful factions gathered around ten sealed light spheres containing one genuine scroll. As a Soul Clan group arrived, Chen Mo recognized Gu Xun'er and remained ready for the dangers ahead.

• Chen Mo gave Qing Lin the Pill Beast to suppress her poison, and she stored the defeated Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe experts inside her Jade-Green Eye of Three-Flowered Pupil.
• Qing Lin used her map to lead Chen Mo, Zi Yan, and the others to the main hall, where Chen Mo sensed five Dou Saints and spotted Gu Xun'er among the Gu Clan members.
• The group entered the hall and saw a Dou Saint skeleton beneath ten light spheres, while the gathered factions waited rather than risk breaking the seals.
• Chen Mo moved his companions near the entrance and spread his soul perception across the hall as more experts arrived.
• A Soul Clan group entered, led by a late five-star Dou Saint and a young man in a black-and-red robe, who noticed Gu Xun'er.