Chapter Summaries

Gu Fei left the banquet without responding to Xun'er’s attempt to win him back, while she vowed to pursue him regardless. Back at the mountain peak, he learned that Zhuo Li wanted to take Zi Yan to Ancient Dragon Island to claim the Dragon Emperor position, and warned that returning now could put her in grave danger.

• Gu Fei left the banquet, leaving Xun'er devastated, and she vowed to win him back despite Gu Yuan reminding her that Gu Fei had a wife.
• Gu Fei returned to the mountain peak, where Xiao Xianle welcomed him and Zi Yan arrived with medicinal herbs and spirit fruits for him to turn into sweet pills.
• Zhuo Li told Gu Fei that Zi Yan had entered the Dou Saint realm and that he intended to take her to Ancient Dragon Island to inherit the Dragon Emperor position.
• Gu Fei urged Zhuo Li to wait until Zi Yan grew stronger and warned that the Three Great Dragon Kings could endanger her if she returned before the Ancient Dragon Clan was prepared.

Gu Fei kept Zi Yan’s royal bloodline safe while she cultivated, and he advanced alongside his family as Cai’er’s long pregnancy neared its end. Cai’er gave birth to a daughter already at the Dou Zong level, leaving the family astonished.

• Gu Fei advised Zhuo Li to return to East Dragon Island and stabilize the situation without revealing Zi Yan’s circumstances, and Zhuo Li agreed.
• Zi Yan accepted her responsibility as Dragon Emperor and stayed in the Gu Realm to cultivate.
• After a year, Gu Fei completed the Fourth Revolution, Zi Yan reached Four-Star Dou Saint, and Cai’er’s pregnancy advanced toward delivery.
• Cai’er gave birth to a daughter, and Gu Fei gave the weakened queen a medicinal pill to restore her vitality.
• Heavenly Flame Honored One and the Lion King discovered that Cai’er’s newborn daughter had been born a Dou Zong.

Cai'er gave birth to Gu Wushuang, and Zi Yan coaxed Xiao Xianle into calling her Auntie as she hoped to become part of Gu Fei’s family. Elsewhere, Xiao Yan learned that the Pill Tower’s Three Thousand Burning Flame had already been claimed, while Gu Fei decided to seek Soul Origin from Soul Hall and enlisted Zi Yan’s help.

• Cai'er gave birth to a boy, and Gu Fei named him Gu Wushuang after sensing the child carried the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python’s aura.
• Gu Fei refined a pill for Wushuang, and Eight-Colored Pill Lightning descended when he finished.
• Zi Yan offered Xiao Xianle a Spirit Fruit in exchange for calling her Auntie, and Gu Fei overheard her coaxing the child.
• At Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Yan vowed to find a Heavenly Flame for Yao Lao, but Feng Xian told him that the Pill Tower’s Three Thousand Burning Flame had already been refined by someone else.
• After failing to refine a Ninth-Grade Pill because his soul power was insufficient, Gu Fei decided to target Soul Hall for Soul Origin and sought Zi Yan’s help.

Gu Fei enlisted Zi Yan to help him raid the Soul Hall’s Human Hall and seize its stored Soul Origin. They secretly left the Gu Realm and reached the Burial Corpse Mountain Range, where Zi Yan sealed off the area before they entered the stronghold.

• Zi Yan grew embarrassed when Gu Fei arrived, then accepted his Sugar Pills and agreed to help with his secret plan.
• Gu Fei told Zi Yan that he intended to raid the Human Hall and take its Soul Origin to strengthen his soul.
• Gu Fei and Zi Yan announced that they were entering seclusion and left the Gu Realm without informing the other members of the Gu Clan.
• Gu Fei and Zi Yan arrived at the Burial Corpse Mountain Range, and Zi Yan created a spatial barrier around the area.
• Gu Fei and Zi Yan entered the depths of the mountain range in black robes to attack the Human Hall.

Gu Fei and Zi Yan invaded the Soul Hall, where Zi Yan killed the Second Heavenly Venerate Gu You and confronted the Great Heavenly Venerate while Gu Fei attacked the other Soul Hall experts. The Great Heavenly Venerate’s threat was met with Zi Yan’s disdain for the Soul Hall’s backing.

• Gu Fei and Zi Yan entered the Soul Hall’s territory, and Gu Fei crushed the black mist figures that attacked them.
• The Second Heavenly Venerate summoned more than a dozen Dou Venerates, but Gu Fei’s Great Heaven Creation Palm devoured seven or eight of them.
• Gu You attacked Gu Fei, but Zi Yan killed the Half-Saint with one palm, shattering his Ten Thousand Souls Bone Armor.
• The Soul Hall Great Heavenly Venerate emerged and attacked Gu Fei with black chains, but Space Turbulence shattered them.
• The Soul Hall Vice Hall Master questioned Zi Yan about her identity and the forces backing the Soul Hall, and Zi Yan dismissed the threat, saying the Void Ancient Dragon Clan had not feared even the Soul Clan.

Zi Yan and Gu Fei destroyed the Soul Hall stronghold, freed its imprisoned souls, and took the Soul Origin gathered from a million victims. They left before reinforcements arrived, while a Soul Hall figure discovered the devastation and feared the punishment awaiting him.

• Zi Yan blocked the Hall of Souls Great Heavenly Venerate from summoning reinforcements and killed him in fewer than three moves.
• Gu Fei and Zi Yan slaughtered the Soul Hall members at the stronghold, and Gu Fei freed the tens of thousands of souls chained beneath the great hall.
• Gu Fei excavated the Soul Origin orb, recognized the resentment within it, and promised to avenge the souls whose essence had been taken.
• Gu Fei collected the orb, and Zi Yan opened a Space Passage so they could leave the ruins.
• About two hours later, a black shadow arrived and discovered the lost Soul Origin and freed prisoners, fearing severe punishment from the clan.

After Soul Hall’s Human Hall was destroyed, suspicion fell on Pill Tower, while Yao Lao reunited with the tower’s leaders and explained how Han Feng betrayed him. The group discussed finding Gu Fei to help Yao Lao regain a body, with Feng Xian offering the Bone Chilling Flame as payment.

• News of Soul Hall’s Human Hall being destroyed spread across the Central Plains, and many factions suspected Pill Tower was responsible.
• Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi discussed the rumors and sensed a familiar aura as Xiao Yan and Wind Venerable arrived.
• Yao Lao emerged from Xiao Yan’s Storage Ring and told the Pill Tower leaders that Han Feng had betrayed him, with Mu Gu helping him.
• Xuan Kongzi explained that Mu Gu had died after trying to seize the Heavenly Flames of a young man from the Gu Clan, whom Yao Lao recognized as Gu Fei.
• Yao Lao said he needed someone with multiple Heavenly Flames to refine a body, and Feng Xian offered the Bone Chilling Flame to seek Gu Fei’s help.

Gu Fei refined the Soul Origin taken from the Soul Hall’s Human Hall and absorbed it in Void Space while Zi Yan guarded him. After more than four months, he reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection and emerged with soul power strong enough to challenge a Two-Star Dou Saint.

• Gu Yuan and Gu Lie learned that Gu Fei had likely destroyed the Soul Hall’s Human Hall, but they dismissed the incident and showed no concern about the Soul Clan.
• Gu Fei and Zi Yan entered Void Space, where Gu Fei refined the Soul Origin sphere with his Heavenly Flames and removed the hidden black qi.
• Gu Fei began absorbing the purified Soul Origin while Zi Yan stayed to guard him.
• After more than four months, Gu Fei absorbed the entire sphere, and the resulting soul ripples astonished Zi Yan.
• Gu Fei opened his eyes with Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul power and sensed everything within a thousand li.

Gu Fei returned to the Gu Realm after half a year of secluded cultivation, reunited with his family, and continued refining Ninth-Grade Treasure Pills. More than a year later, as his young children played in the air, a strange fluctuation from his retreat made them fall, and profound dark clouds gathered overhead.

• Gu Fei returned to the Gu Realm with Zi Yan, who asked him to owe her a reward but did not reveal what she wanted.
• Gu Fei reunited with Xiao Xianle, Xiao Yi Xian, Cai'er, and his young son Wushuang, who called him Daddy.
• Gu Fei spent time with his family while continuing to refine Ninth-Grade Treasure Pills with his Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul power.
• After more than a year, two-year-old Wushuang flew with Xiao Xianle, while Xun'er watched them from the sky.
• A strange fluctuation from Gu Fei's retreat made the children lose control and fall, but Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er caught them.
• Zi Yan suspected Gu Fei was about to succeed, and immense dark clouds gathered over the Mountain Peak as the children watched in fear.

Gu Fei refined a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill, drawing the Gu Clan’s attention as the Black Demon Lightning Tribulation gathered overhead. He chose to face the lightning himself and survived its strike, refining the weakened energy with his Heavenly Flames.

• Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan Elders watched the Black Demon Lightning form above Gu Fei’s Mountain Peak, while Xun'er and other young clan members arrived to witness it.
• Xiao Yi Xian worried about Gu Fei as the black clouds opened, and Cai'er reassured her that Zi Yan and the Gu Clan Elders could protect him.
• Gu Fei asked the Gu Clan Dou Saint Elders not to intervene, then flew up to face the lightning and unleashed several Heaven Rank Dou Skills.
• When his Dou Skills failed to disperse the bolt, Gu Fei struck the Black Demon Lightning with his fist, and the collision shattered the surrounding space.
• The lightning ravaged Gu Fei’s body, but his Heavenly Flames gradually refined its remaining power and fed it back into his flesh, astonishing the watching Elders.

Gu Fei survived the Black Demon Lightning and subdued the Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill, earning congratulations from the Gu Clan Elders and his family. Xun'er also congratulated him despite their estrangement, leaving the gathered crowd in an awkward silence.

• After the Energy Storm faded, Gu Fei reflected on the danger of the Black Demon Lightning and how his body and Heavenly Flames had let him withstand it.
• When the Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill tried to escape, Gu Fei pursued it, fought its beast form, and watched it transform into his own likeness.
• Gu Fei sealed the pill and reduced it to an emerald-green pill, then accepted congratulations from the Gu Clan Elders.
• Cai'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and the others congratulated Gu Fei, while Xiao Wushuang mistook the pill's copy for him.
• Xun'er stepped forward and congratulated Gu Fei, drawing the crowd's attention and making the atmosphere awkward.

At the Gu Clan celebration, Gu Fei ignored Xun’er and received Gu Dao’s praise before preparing to use a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill to break through from Nine-Star Dou Zun Peak. After refining and swallowing the pill, he began absorbing its immense energy in seclusion, with his advance to Half-Saint still uncertain.

• Xun’er arrived to congratulate Gu Fei, but he gave her an indifferent glance and ignored her while she wondered whether she still mattered to him.
• Gu Dao arrived and praised Gu Fei, discouraging the Gu Clan elders from asking him to refine pills.
• After the guests left, Gu Fei arranged for Cai’er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan to care for the children while he entered seclusion.
• Gu Fei refined several pills to neutralize the Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill’s effects, then swallowed them together and began refining its energy with his Heavenly Flames.

After emerging from a year of seclusion as an Advanced Half-Saint, Gu Fei reunited with his family and planned a trip to the Beast Domain to help Zi Yan and Cai'er grow stronger. He invited Cai'er to join him and Zi Yan, promising an opportunity meant for her as well.

• Xiao Xianle and Wushuang waited outside Gu Fei's cave, and Gu Fei emerged after refining the Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill and advancing to the Advanced Half-Saint realm.
• Gu Fei reunited with his children and welcomed Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Cai'er, Qing Lin, and the others, noting that Cai'er had reached Four-Star Dou Venerate while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin had become One-Star Dou Venerates.
• Half a month later, Zi Yan told Gu Fei she wanted to return to Dragon Island, and he asked her to wait while he sought a way to help her reach the late Four-Star Dou Saint realm.
• Gu Fei planned to visit the Nine Serene Earth Python Clan's Yellow Springs Stone Tablet to obtain Demon Saint Essence Blood and learn the Yellow Springs Sky Wrath.
• Gu Fei invited Cai'er to accompany him and Zi Yan to the Beast Domain, telling her that an opportunity there could help her advance rapidly.

Gu Fei, Zi Yan, and Medusa Queen secretly entered the Nine Serene Earth Python Clan’s underground headquarters to reach the Nine Serene Yellow Springs. They arrived at the sacred pool, where Gu Fei felt its frigid power seeping into his body.

• Gu Fei told Cai'er that he planned to take her to the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, and Zi Yan agreed to join them.
• Gu Fei, Zi Yan, and Medusa Queen left discreetly and traveled for more than ten days to the Nine Serene Earth Abyss.
• Zi Yan used spatial power to slip the group past the guards and into the Nine Serene Earth Python Clan’s underground territory.
• The trio reached the Nether Serpent Earth Vein and secretly approached the ravine containing the Nine Serene Yellow Springs.
• Gu Fei, Zi Yan, and Cai'er descended through the frigid winds and arrived beside the enormous yellow lake.

Gu Fei descended into the Nine Serene Yellow Springs and discovered Yao Ming, the former Nine Serene Earth Python Clan chief, imprisoned beneath the lake. Gu Fei shattered the seal and freed him, while Yao Xiaotian sensed that the seal had broken.

• Gu Fei entered the Nine Serene Yellow Springs alone, fought off swarms of strange snakes, and reached the lakebed.
• Gu Fei uncovered Yao Ming, who begged for rescue and promised to make the Nine Serene Earth Python Clan acknowledge Gu Fei as its master.
• Yao Ming explained that Yao Xiaotian had betrayed him and seized his position, and Gu Fei agreed to help him escape while leaving the struggle for the chief's position to him.
• Yao Ming told Gu Fei to destroy the Yellow Springs Yin Stone, and Gu Fei shattered it, allowing Yao Ming to break free of his chains.
• Yao Xiaotian sensed that the seal beneath the Yellow Springs had broken.

Gu Fei and Yao Ming escaped the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, where Zi Yan defeated Yao Xiaotian after he threatened her and Cai'er. Yao Ming confronted his brother, but the Nine Serene Earth Python Clan's experts arrived before he could settle their feud.

• Yao Ming escaped his seal with Gu Fei and used strange cries to drive away the black snakes in the Yellow Springs.
• Yao Xiaotian arrived at the lake and threatened Zi Yan and Cai'er, but Zi Yan struck him into a deep pit.
• Gu Fei and Yao Ming surfaced, and Yao Ming recognized the wounded Yao Xiaotian and confronted him over his centuries of suffering.
• Yao Xiaotian begged Yao Ming for mercy and blamed the Great Elder, while Yao Ming prepared to punish him.
• Tianxiao Clan Head and the Nine Serene Earth Python Clan's experts arrived and demanded that Yao Ming release their Clan Head.

Yao Ming reclaimed leadership of the Nine Serene Earth Python Clan after exposing Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder’s betrayal, then gave Gu Fei a Yellow Springs Blood Crystal. He agreed to take Gu Fei to see the clan’s Yellow Springs Stone Tablet.

• Yao Ming revealed himself as the former clan head, and the elders recognized him through his aura and the Nine Serene Nether Staff.
• Yao Ming fought the Great Elder and killed Yao Xiaotian, extracting the black orb that contained his spirit.
• The wounded Great Elder fled, and Yao Ming ordered the clan to seal off the Ming Serpent Earth Veins while he took control.
• Yao Ming thanked Gu Fei, who explained that he had come to obtain a Yellow Springs Blood Crystal, and Yao Ming gave him one.
• Gu Fei asked to see the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet, and Yao Ming agreed to take him there.

Gu Fei entered the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet to obtain Yellow Springs Sky Wrath and the Yellow Springs Demon Saint Essence Blood. After defeating the tablet’s initial attacks, he faced the Demon Saint’s remnant soul, which unleashed Yellow Springs Sky Wrath and left him confronting a collapsing world.

• Yao Ming told Gu Fei that the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet held the Demon Saint’s essence blood in addition to its three Dou Techniques.
• Gu Fei, Zi Yan, and Cai'er reached the altar, where Gu Fei sat before the tablet and sent his soul inside while Zi Yan guarded him.
• Gu Fei neutralized the tablet’s Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm attacks and called for the Yellow Springs Demon Saint to appear.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint emerged and demanded that Gu Fei defeat him before claiming Yellow Springs Sky Wrath and the essence blood.
• Gu Fei fought the Demon Saint’s barrage of palms with Heavenly Flames, but the Demon Saint began using Yellow Springs Sky Wrath, causing the space to collapse.

Gu Fei endured Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Yellow Springs Sky Wrath and received the Demon Saint’s techniques and essence blood before the remnant soul disappeared. Back in the Nine Serene Earth Python Clan, Gu Fei planned to help Cai'er temper her body in the Nine Serene Yellow Springs.

• Yellow Springs Demon Saint attacked Gu Fei with Yellow Springs Sky Wrath, but Gu Fei survived and impressed him.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint passed Gu Fei the cultivation methods for Yellow Springs Sky Wrath, Yellow Springs Finger, and Yellow Springs Palm, along with his Demon Saint Essence Blood, then dissipated.
• Gu Fei returned from the stone tablet, where Yao Ming was injured trying to receive the information from the newly appeared mouth-shaped mark.
• Gu Fei gave Yao Ming a drop of Demon Saint Essence Blood, and Yao Ming said it would help him attempt to reach the Three-Star Dou Saint realm.
• Gu Fei told Yao Ming that he and Cai'er would stay with the clan and use the Nine Serene Yellow Springs to help Cai'er temper her body.

Gu Fei helped Cai'er and Zi Yan cultivate with the Nine Serene Yellow Springs and Yellow Springs Demon Saint Essence Blood, then spent a year refining the remaining essence. In the Gu Realm, Xun'er learned that the Yao Clan had sent an envoy with two young people and wondered whether they had come to propose marriage again.

• Gu Fei gave Cai'er medicinal pills and let her enter the Nine Serene Yellow Springs to cultivate while absorbing its chilling energy.
• Gu Fei gave Zi Yan half of the remaining Yellow Springs Demon Saint Essence Blood, and she sealed off the area to refine it.
• Gu Fei swallowed the rest of the essence blood and used Heavenly Flames to tame and absorb its violent energy over the following year.
• The Yao Clan sent Elder Yao Wangui, Yao Tian, and Yao Ling to visit the Gu Realm, where Gu Nanhai welcomed them.
• Xun'er heard of the visit and suspected the Yao Clan might be arranging another marriage proposal, then asked about the young woman they had brought.