Chapter Summaries

Xia Mo used the treasures from Fan Lao’s death to equip Xiao Yan, then seized the Blood Sect’s city and began building a new base there. He left the city’s administration and future settlement of the Snake People Tribe to Queen Medusa, and ended by organizing the Blood Sect’s spoils and visiting the Purple Essence Gold mine.

• Xiao Yan swallowed the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill and, following Old Yao’s advice, circulated his Dou Qi until he gained its thin Dragon Qi; Xia Mo gave him the Lion Tiger Shattering Gold Chant in exchange for the Three Thousand Lightning Movement scroll.
• Xiao Yan rode Xiao Lan back to the academy with Xiao Bai, while Xia Mo, Zi Yan, and Queen Medusa traveled to Twilight City and planned to move the Snake People Tribe there after Queen Medusa stabilized her strength.
• Xia Mo and Zi Yan killed the Blood Sect elder and its guards, and Xia Mo announced that Fan Lao was dead, claimed Twilight City, and laid down rules for its residents.
• Xia Mo forced Wang Jianshui and two other Dou Lings to quell the Blood Sect’s disorder, then rewarded them and assigned them work on mining, weapons, and a medicinal-herb trading caravan as he renamed the city Phoenix Dragon City.
• Queen Medusa proposed establishing the Phoenix Dragon Pavilion and a Snake People Sacred City nearby, while Xia Mo put her in charge of the city and sorted through the Blood Sect’s treasures with her and Zi Yan.
• Xia Mo found valuable supplies, including a medicine cauldron containing Sky Cold Iron, then took Elder Li to the Purple Essence Gold mine and retrieved Elder Qing’s remains.

Xiao Yan arrived at Jia Nan Academy after two years away and learned that Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian had become prominent students. Meanwhile, Xia Mo established Phoenix Dragon City, recruited new fighters to manage it, and prepared to return to the academy.

• Xia Mo renamed Twilight City Phoenix Dragon City, established the City Lord's Manor, and spread news of the city's new leadership and businesses.
• Xiao Yan reached Peace Town, proved his identity as an academy student, and received Huo De's permission to enter Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Yi Xian defeated Bai Shan during the Inner Academy Selection Competition before meeting Xiao Lan.
• Xia Mo established recruitment terms for Phoenix Dragon City, and the Yao brothers joined the City Lord's Manor as Dou King experts.
• Xia Mo put Wang Jianshui and the Yao brothers in charge of the city and prepared to return to Jia Nan Academy.

Xia Mo returned to Jia Nan Academy, reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and the others, and helped Xiao Yan discuss how Panmen could earn more Fire Energy. While searching the trading district for medicinal herbs, Xia Mo found a Cold Marrow Branch and traded a pill that cured Elder Feng’s Fire Poison for it, then went to find Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xia Mo brought Zi Yan back to the Inner Academy, visited Su Qian, and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and the Panmen members.
• Xiao Yan learned that Panmen had gained members but was running short of Fire Energy, and he proposed selling pills to support the faction.
• Xia Mo went to the trading district to buy medicinal herbs and discovered a Cold Marrow Branch at Elder Feng’s stall.
• Elder Feng attacked Xia Mo when he reached for the branch, but Xia Mo offered to refine a fifth-grade pill to cure Feng’s Fire Poison in exchange for it.
• Xia Mo refined an upgraded Ice Heart Pill and cured Elder Feng, who gave him the Cold Marrow Branch; Xia Mo then went to Panmen to find Xiao Yi Xian.

Xia Mo developed the Fifth-grade Green Lotus Pill and entered seclusion to advance, while Zi Yan cocooned after consuming many heavenly treasures. Their cultivation drew an enormous amount of energy, and after nearly a year the energy streams finally stopped; Xia Mo’s breakthrough had already triggered a mysterious pain and pulled his cocoon into an illusory world, leaving his consciousness temporarily gone.

• Xia Mo refined the Green Lotus Pill, completing his own Fifth-grade pill formula, and decided to enter seclusion as his strength neared a breakthrough.
• Zi Yan and Medusa’s repeated raids on magical beasts provoked a forest-wide pursuit, and Zi Yan later cocooned to advance after accumulating energy from the treasures she had eaten.
• Xia Mo transformed into a cocoon and began absorbing vast amounts of energy, while Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian watched over him and Zi Yan.
• Su Qian detected the energy vortex forming above Xia Mo’s courtyard and used Space Lockdown to conceal it and protect the Inner Academy.
• Nearly a year after Xia Mo and Zi Yan entered seclusion, the energy vortex poured its remaining power into their cocoons and then dissipated.
• Xia Mo revealed that he had reached the Fifth-tier months earlier, but a surge of pain around his sea of consciousness drew his soul and cocoon into an illusory world, leaving his consciousness temporarily gone.

Xia Mo absorbed Dragon Phoenix Sheng’s nine memory crystals, endured a dangerous merging of their memories, and completed a bodily reconstruction that brought him to the fifth-tier peak. He emerged from the cocoon with a far stronger body and Soul Power, while the final circumstances of Sheng’s death remained unknown.

• Xia Mo witnessed Dragon Phoenix Sheng’s past and received the Nirvana Scripture, learning that Sheng’s inheritance consisted of bloodline and memory inheritance.
• Xia Mo absorbed the purple-gold ice crystals one by one, forming a soul body and gaining Sheng’s memories, techniques, and knowledge of bodily reconstruction.
• As Sheng’s memories increasingly merged with his own, Xia Mo slowed his absorption to keep his identity clear and learned that the mark on his brow recorded completed reconstructions.
• Xia Mo entered a cocoon while absorbing the fifth crystal and nearly lost himself in Sheng’s memories, but eventually awakened and emerged from the cocoon.
• Xia Mo sensed that the giant cocoon in the courtyard contained a powerful life, discovered that his Dou Qi had reached the fifth-tier peak, and learned that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit held Sheng’s bloodline.

Xia Mo woke from seclusion and reunited with his friends before confronting Ling Quan, who had come with the Ancient Clan to retrieve Gu Xun'er. After Gu Xun'er left with the clan’s delegation, Xia Mo planned to leave the academy with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan.

• Xia Mo watched Zi Yan emerge from her cocoon, but the Form Transformation Grass’s power turned her back into a little girl, and Xiao Yi Xian later welcomed them both.
• Xia Mo learned that Xiao Yan had placed in the Strong Ranking competition, Hai Bodong had recovered to six-star Dou Emperor, and Xiao Yi Xian had reached Dou Wang; Old Yao then continued Xia Mo’s alchemy training.
• Ling Quan arrived with the Black Annihilation Army on orders to take Gu Xun’er back to her clan, insulted Xiao Yan and Xia Mo, and demanded to know about the Xiao Clan’s portion of a key.
• Xia Mo defeated Ling Quan in a brief fight, badly injuring him before letting the Black Annihilation Army carry him away.
• Gu Xun’er left with Ling Quan’s group after telling Xiao Yan not to approach her clan before reaching Dou Zong, and Xiao Yan vowed to grow strong enough to find her.
• Xia Mo told Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan that he planned to leave the academy with them and seek a way to control Xiao Yi Xian’s constitution.

The Falling Heart Flame broke free from the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and forced Su Qian and the Jia Nan Academy elders to fight to contain it. After the Inner and Outer Academy forces drove it back into the tower and resealed it, Xia Mo sensed approaching experts from the Black Corner Region.

• Xia Mo stayed at the academy while the Strong Ranking experts entered the tower for body tempering, and Su Qian sensed strange sounds rising from the magma below.
• The Formless Fire Python shattered the tower’s seals and erupted into the open, prompting Su Qian and the elders to trap it with the Thousand Layer Seal Array.
• The Formless Fire Python’s escape sent a powerful energy fluctuation across the region, and Xia Mo told Xiao Yan that his opportunity to obtain Falling Heart Flame had arrived.
• Hu Gan and Outer Academy reinforcements arrived to help maintain the energy net while Su Qian and the instructors prepared another sealing array.
• Su Qian struck the Formless Fire Python with a concentrated mass of Dou Qi, forced it back into the tower, and resealed the opening.
• Xia Mo sensed that a group of experts was approaching from the distance as the students cheered the resealing.

Han Feng led Black Corner Region forces into the Inner Academy to seize Falling Heart Flame, but the flame broke free and attacked both sides. Xiao Yan defeated Han Feng, while Xia Mo killed him and the empowered Falling Heart Flame remained loose as Su Qian ordered the elders to form another seal.

• Han Feng demanded that Su Qian hand over Falling Heart Flame, then attacked when Su Qian refused, and the Black Corner Region forces clashed with the Inner Academy elders.
• Xia Mo, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian secretly struck down wounded enemy fighters while the battle spread across the sky.
• Falling Heart Flame broke through its seal and attacked the invaders; Xiao Yan pierced its body and revealed its true flame form.
• Xiao Yan and Han Feng fought with their Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yan defeated Han Feng with a Buddha's Fury Lotus.
• Xia Mo seized Han Feng and killed him, while Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame devoured much of the energy from Xiao Yan's explosion and Falling Heart Flame absorbed the remainder.
• The Black Corner Region forces fled as Falling Heart Flame grew more powerful, and Su Qian ordered the elders to form another sealing array.

Xia Mo fought Protector Wang of the Soul Hall after the Soul Hall Protector tried to take Han Feng’s belongings, and he ultimately overpowered him with his Dragon Phoenix transformations. Protector Wang was left battered beneath Xia Mo’s relentless assault, with Xia Mo declaring that he would kill him.

• The Falling Heart Flame swallowed Xiao Yan, and the elders sealed the final level of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Field while Xia Mo remained confident that Xiao Yan would survive.
• Protector Wang appeared above the Inner Academy and attacked Xia Mo with a chain, claiming Han Feng’s belongings for the Soul Hall, but Xia Mo seized the chain and challenged him.
• Xia Mo and Protector Wang exchanged powerful attacks, and Xia Mo survived the Protector’s Soul Explosion inside the Dragon Phoenix Undying Bell before counterattacking in Dragon Phoenix armor.
• Xia Mo transformed both arms into dragon arms and battered Protector Wang with a relentless barrage of punches, driving him into the ground and leaving him struggling to survive.
• Xia Mo mocked the Soul Hall and told Protector Wang that he would not let him return to threaten him, then continued striking him and declared that he would die.

Xia Mo killed Protector Wang, returned to Phoenix Dragon City, and built up its power while securing the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and refining a Spirit Merging Pill for Queen Medusa. As Ya Fei’s pill auction drew a huge crowd, Queen Medusa awakened on the eve of the event.

• Xia Mo shattered Protector Wang’s defenses, seized him, and killed him with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Xia Mo found Xiao Yan refining the Falling Heart Flame, gave him the Sea Heart Flame, and left him to continue refining it.
• Xia Mo returned to Phoenix Dragon City, put Ya Fei in charge of the auction house, and later seized the Black Emperor Sect’s treasures, including the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva.
• Xia Mo took control of Maple City, defeated factions that challenged Phoenix Dragon City, and refined a Spirit Merging Pill for Queen Medusa.
• Queen Medusa used the Spirit Merging Pill to begin merging with the Heaven Swallowing Python, while Ya Fei prepared a pill auction that drew crowds from across the Black Corner Region.
• Queen Medusa woke up the day before the auction, just as Xia Mo had planned to attend and protect the event.

Xia Mo established Phoenix Dragon City's authority by confronting the Golden Silver Elders at its first pill auction, then arranged for the city to be watched over before preparing to leave the Black Corner Region. After training and visiting Su Qian, Xia Mo departed with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, while Queen Medusa began plans to relocate the Snake People Tribe.

• Ya Fei opened Phoenix Dragon City's pill auction, where Xia Mo challenged the Golden Silver Elders and Medusa's appearance forced them to back down.
• The auction succeeded, earning enough funds to secure Xia Mo's rare herbs and support Phoenix Dragon City; Xia Mo also refined a Meridian Cleansing Pill that helped Xiao Bai advance to the sixth tier.
• Xia Mo improved his control of his Dou Qi, practiced the Void Phoenix Heaven Step, and returned to the Inner Academy with Medusa, whom he named Cai Xi.
• Xia Mo told Su Qian he planned to travel and asked him to watch over Phoenix Dragon City; Su Qian agreed, and Xia Mo warned Medusa about powerful Black Corner Region factions as she planned to move the Snake People Tribe there.
• Queen Medusa left to prepare the Snake People Tribe's relocation, and Xia Mo departed Phoenix Dragon City with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan toward the region's border.

Xia Mo, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan entered the Chu Yun Empire and defeated Wu Ya to take control of Wu Tian Mansion, renaming it the Poison Sect. Xiao Yi Xian revealed a power that let her control Wu Ya, and the chapter ended as a Blue Eagle descended toward the sect’s manor.

• Xia Mo brought Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan into the Chu Yun Empire and decided to gather information and establish a sect there.
• Xia Mo confronted Wu Ya at Wu Tian Mansion, defeated him, and forced him to submit while Zi Yan overwhelmed the mansion’s elders.
• Xiao Yi Xian placed poisonous Dou Qi inside Wu Ya, who identified her as possessing an Innate Poison Body and accepted her control.
• Xia Mo renamed Wu Tian Mansion the Poison Sect, and Xiao Yi Xian and Xia Mo became its Vice Sect Masters as the faction consolidated power in the Eastern Province.
• A Blue Eagle appeared above the Poison Sect’s manor and swooped down toward it.

The Poison Sect faced a full-scale assault from the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, while Xia Mo uncovered Wu Ya’s treachery and intercepted the elders’ ambush on Xiao Yi Xian. The battle erupted across Tian Wu Mountain, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan swiftly killing two rebel Dou Emperor elders as Wu Ya looked on in terror.

• Xia Mo captured a centipede carrying Wu Ya’s message to the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect and warned Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan that traitors were preparing a surprise attack.
• The Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect launched its assault on Tian Wu Mountain, and Xiao Yi Xian confronted Xie Shan and Xie Bi Yan above Tian Wu City.
• Wu Ya and four elders betrayed the Poison Sect by attacking Xiao Yi Xian, but Xia Mo blocked their strike and killed two of the fleeing rebels despite Xie Bi Yan’s intervention.
• Xia Mo began fighting Xie Bi Yan as the two sects’ forces clashed, while Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan engaged the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect’s experts.
• Wu Ya and two surviving rebel elders attacked Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, who quickly killed the two elders and left Wu Ya stunned.

Xia Mo fought Xie Bi Yan to stop the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect from annexing the Poison Sect, eventually defeating him with a concealed Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame strike. Xie Bi Yan then used his final attack to poison Xia Mo with a Demonic Poison Spot, leaving Xiao Yi Xian unable to remove it and Zi Yan erupting with rage.

• Xia Mo used the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations and his Dragon Phoenix abilities to contend with Xie Bi Yan, who transformed with the Blood Soul Art and gained strength approaching a peak five-star Dou Zong.
• Xia Mo trapped Xie Bi Yan inside the Vast Prison Realm, where the two fought until Xia Mo pierced Xie Bi Yan's chest with a concealed Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Xia Mo and Xie Bi Yan emerged gravely wounded, and Xie Bi Yan unleashed a black streak that struck Xia Mo before he could evade it.
• Xiao Yi Xian found a Demonic Poison Spot spreading across Xia Mo's chest and explained that she could not remove one inflicted by a Dou Zong.
• Zi Yan's aura surged with fury as Xia Mo lay unconscious and Xie Bi Yan's poison threatened to destroy his meridians.

Xia Mo recovered from his near-fatal battle with Xie Bi Yan and learned that the Demonic Poison Spot had infected him. Xiao Yi Xian sealed the poison and Xia Mo refined one of its escaped strands to strengthen himself, leaving the poison contained for two years while he sought a permanent solution.

• Zi Yan tortured Xie Bi Yan for an antidote, but he claimed none existed, so she killed him before Xiao Yi Xian stopped her from slaughtering the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect remnants.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan took the unconscious Xia Mo to Tian Wu City, where he woke ten days later and discovered the Demonic Poison Spot on his chest.
• A week later, Xiao Yi Xian used the poison-filled pool and her poison-sealing method to contain the Demonic Poison Spot, while Xia Mo used his Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to refine an escaped strand and advance to peak three-star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that the seal should hold for two years, and Xia Mo reassured her and Zi Yan before they returned to their manor.

After returning to Phoenix Dragon City, Xia Mo reunited with Queen Medusa and Xiao Yan, learned that Soul Hall had captured Old Yao, and gave Xiao Yan Han Feng's soul and the Sea Heart Flame. Xia Mo then began refining Sect Breaking Pills to help Queen Medusa strengthen the Snake People Tribe, but the first pill's formation drew powerful experts to the City Lord's Manor.

• Over the year, Xia Mo completely refined the Demonic Poison Spot, reached the peak of the sixth tier, and returned to the Black Corner Region with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan.
• At Phoenix Dragon City, Xia Mo learned that Xiao Yan had established Xiao Gate and that Soul Hall had captured Old Yao; Xia Mo gave Xiao Yan Han Feng's soul and the Sea Heart Flame to refine.
• Xia Mo offered to make Sect Breaking Pills for Queen Medusa, and she and Ya Fei gathered the ingredients while Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan prepared to guard him.
• Xia Mo began refining a Sect Breaking Pill, and after a failed attempt, he successfully formed a pill prototype during his second try.
• The pill's energy surged through the City Lord's Manor and sent a pillar of light into the sky, drawing powerful experts who gathered outside as Queen Medusa went to deter them.

Xia Mo emerged after refining two Sect Breaking Pills, reunited with Su Qian and the Jia Nan Academy group, and arranged for one pill to be auctioned in Phoenix Dragon City. As the auction began, powerful factions gathered to compete for it, while the Blood Art and its matching Dou Technique sparked fierce bidding.

• Queen Medusa drove the Black Emperor Sect and other onlookers away from the City Lord's Residence while Xia Mo's pill finished forming, then let Su Qian and the Jia Nan Academy group enter.
• Xia Mo emerged after five days of refining and revealed that he had made two Sect Breaking Pills; he gave one to Queen Medusa and arranged for Ya Fei to announce his alchemy services.
• Xia Mo, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan met Su Qian and Hu Gan, and Xia Mo confirmed that he had advanced to Dou Emperor before learning they had come for the earth-grade auction.
• Fang Yan ordered the Magic Flame Valley to obtain the Sect Breaking Pill, while Mo Tianxing warned Mo Ya not to antagonize Phoenix Dragon City and encouraged his interest in Queen Medusa.
• Yao San opened the Phoenix Dragon auction, and bidders drove the price of the Purple Crystal Gold Armor to its capped price of eight hundred thousand gold coins.
• Yao San presented the Blood Art and its matching Great Blood Bodhi Devour, prompting bidders in the hall and VIP rooms to rapidly raise the price.

Phoenix Dragon City auctioned rare pills and the Sect Breaking Pill, drawing offers from powerful Black Corner Region factions. Xia Mo helped choose Mo Tianxing’s Eighth-tier Magical Beast Corpse as the winning exchange, and Yao San announced Mo Tianxing as the winner.

• The Blood Art and Great Blood Bodhi Devour sold to the Beast Taming Sect’s leader for thirteen million five hundred thousand gold coins, while the three Dou Ling Pills and an Azure Nether Longevity Pill also found buyers.
• Yao San revealed that Xia Mo had refined the auction’s pills, establishing him as a peak sixth-grade Alchemist and prompting factions to reconsider their ties with Phoenix Dragon City.
• Fang Yan offered Magic Flame Valley’s Flame Manipulation Art for the Azure Nether Longevity Pill, but its deadly drawback was exposed, and Old Man Black Willow bought the pill.
• Xiao Yi Xian presented the Sect Breaking Pill and used her Dou Zong aura to stop the crowd from turning unruly before the bidding process began behind a curtain.
• The factions offered rare treasures for the Sect Breaking Pill, including Hu Qiu’s Seventh-tier Demonic Core, Magic Flame Valley’s soul fusion method, and Mo Tianxing’s Eighth-tier Magical Beast Corpse.
• Xia Mo advised Phoenix Dragon City to choose Mo Tianxing’s offering and offered Hu Qiu pill refinement in exchange for ingredients, after which Yao San declared the Black Emperor Sect the winner.

Xia Mo sealed Xiao Yi Xian’s prematurely erupting Poison Body of Calamity with the Dragon Phoenix Blood Seal, but the strain left him poisoned and weakened. After she recovered and advanced, Xia Mo began refining a Heavenly Demon Puppet from Xie Bi Yan’s corpse and soul.

• After the auction, Xiao Yan took the giant magical beast corpse and later gave Xia Mo its Monster Core, blood, and bone spikes, while Zi Yan kept the spikes to make gauntlets.
• Xia Mo accepted pill-refining commissions, fulfilled his agreements with Elder Hu Qiu and Magic Flame Valley, and received the Heavenly Demon Puppet technique from Fang Yan.
• Zi Yan told Xia Mo that Xiao Yi Xian was in danger, and he entered the sealed courtyard to find her Poison Body of Calamity erupting.
• Xia Mo used his Dragon Phoenix blood to draw and activate a seal on Xiao Yi Xian, stopping the eruption; she absorbed the poison, advanced to five-star Dou Zong, and removed the poison from Xia Mo.
• After recovering for a week, Xia Mo studied the puppet technique and began refining Xie Bi Yan’s corpse, Monster Core, and soul into a Heavenly Demon Puppet.

Xia Mo completed an Earth Demon Puppet, broke through to Dou Zong after a prolonged cultivation, and began refining the seventh-rank Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill. The pill’s energies violently clashed inside the cauldron, and Xia Mo focused his Soul Power on understanding how to fuse them.

• Xia Mo used the brief moment of perfect compatibility to refine Xie Bi Yan’s corpse into a silver Earth Demon Puppet and bound it to himself with soul-infused blood.
• Xia Mo began breaking through to the seventh rank, endured a vision of a past life in which the Soul Clan killed him and Xiao Yi Xian, and spent forty-five days absorbing energy underground.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Zi Yan watched as a massive energy vortex formed above Xia Mo’s chamber, and Xia Mo emerged as a Dou Zong whose strength had reached the late stage of one-star Dou Zong.
• Xia Mo spent a week with the three women, then prepared to leave after attempting one final task: refining the seventh-rank Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill.
• Xia Mo extracted the pill’s main ingredients and combined them with the dragon-type Monster Core energies, but the mixture turned violent and repeatedly struck the cauldron.
• Xia Mo poured his Soul Power into the cauldron and used his purple-golden eyes to examine the conflict between the energies as the pill refinement continued.