Chapter Summaries

Hu Su doubted Xiao Bai’s strength and argued with Aisi over whether he could help Aililan’s people. That night, Aililan visited Xiao Bai’s tent and tried to seduce him, while he remained unmoved.

• Hu Su questioned whether Xiao Bai was reliable, and Aisi defended the Queen’s decision to trust him.
• Hu Su suggested that Aililan recruit more Dou Emperors, while Aisi challenged him to test Xiao Bai himself.
• Aililan ended their argument and told Hu Su and Aisi to leave the matter to her.
• Aililan entered Xiao Bai’s tent at night and called to him, and he calmly asked why she had come.
• Aililan approached Xiao Bai seductively and offered to keep him company, but he watched her without reacting.

Aililan tried to seduce Xiao Bai and use Red Sleeve Fragrance to persuade him to teach her his battle skills. She revealed that her ambitions to rule the Barbarians had grown, but her cultivation had stalled, and she believed Xiao Bai could provide the techniques she needed to secure the throne.

• Aililan lunged at Xiao Bai after he let his protective barrier collapse, but Xiao Bai trapped her in a sphere of light.
• Aililan promised to stop messing around, and Xiao Bai released her from the sphere.
• Aililan used Red Sleeve Fragrance and asked Xiao Bai to teach her all his battle skills, but he showed no reaction to the scent.
• Aililan recalled that she had united the Cat Race and expanded her influence among the Barbarians, but her ambition outgrew her strength and her cultivation had slowed.
• Aililan decided that Xiao Bai's appearance offered her a chance to obtain stronger techniques and secure the throne of Queen of the Barbarians.

Aililan revealed that she had drugged Xiao Bai and sought his secret technique, offering him a choice between surrendering it or ruling the Cat Race and Southern Border alongside her. Xiao Bai resisted Red Sleeve Fragrance with his Heavenly Flame and called on Aililan to return to his side as white light filled the tent.

• Aililan explained that she had summoned Xiao Bai to take what she wanted and admitted she feared losing the power she had gained as Queen of the Cat Race.
• Aililan said her forces surrounded the tent and Red Sleeve Fragrance had weakened Xiao Bai, then offered to let him leave if he surrendered his secret technique or stay and rule beside her.
• Aililan transformed and demanded Xiao Bai choose, while he suppressed Red Sleeve Fragrance with his Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Bai called Aililan Xiao Zhao and told her to come back to his side as white light spread from him through the tent.

Xiao Bai used his mysterious light to turn Aililan’s army into devoted believers, then accepted her plea for punishment by taking her royal tent for the night. As he tried to sleep, a messenger from the Dark Department arrived at a lord’s residence with urgent business.

• Xiao Bai enveloped Aililan’s camp in white light, leaving the Barbarian guards devoted to him when they awoke.
• Aililan knelt before Xiao Bai, admitted her remorse, and begged him to punish her.
• Xiao Bai declared that he would take Aililan’s royal tent for the night and went inside to sleep.
• Aililan ordered the warriors to guard the camp, then stood watch outside the tent as Xiao Bai rested.
• A black-robed messenger showed a golden Dark Department token and was admitted to see his lord.

The Dark Department reported to the Fox Race’s Wise One that a mysterious white light in Roland Forest had driven several agents mad, and she suspected Aililan. Meanwhile, Xiao Bai woke in Aililan’s camp, accepted her preferred name for herself, and gave Wang Bo a chance to redeem himself by helping Xiao Zhao become king of the Barbarians.

• A Dark Department spy told the Wise One that a white light had risen over Roland Forest and left several agents crazed and kneeling toward its source.
• The Wise One suspected Aililan of using another method to control people’s minds and wondered what hidden methods the Cat Race queen still had.
• Xiao Bai woke in Aililan’s army and told her he preferred to call her Xiao Zhao, which she readily accepted.
• Wang Bo knelt before Xiao Bai and begged to be punished for his failure.
• Xiao Bai offered Wang Bo a chance to redeem himself by helping Xiao Zhao become king of the Barbarians in the coming war, and Wang Bo agreed.

As war broke out between Aililan and the Old Royal Court, Aililan assigned Xiao Bai to subdue the Court’s experts while she led her own forces. She sent Miliya, a winged girl familiar with the Southern Border, to guide him as he set out alone.

• Aililan and the Old Royal Court resumed their war, and Aililan organized her forces while Xiao Bai chose not to interfere in her command.
• Aililan proposed dividing the experts above Dou Emperor level into two groups, with herself and Xiao Bai leading separate attacks.
• Xiao Bai said he needed only a guide, and Aililan chose Miliya for her knowledge of the Southern Border and its experts.
• Miliya met Xiao Bai, who touched her wings as she shyly insisted they were real and demonstrated that they could flap.

Xiao Bai defeated the Wolf Race ancestor in his secret chamber and forced him to become a Guardian of the Bright Cult named Lang Qi. He then brought Miliya out of a spatial rift to lead the way.

• The Wolf Race ancestor sensed an intruder, but Xiao Bai dodged his attacks and casually teased him.
• The ancestor combined with his azure wolf through Wolf Soul Possession, becoming a powerful werewolf.
• Xiao Bai overwhelmed the werewolf with his aura and made him submit as a Guardian of the Bright Cult.
• The ancestor identified himself as Lang Qi and pledged allegiance to Xiao Bai.
• Xiao Bai opened a spatial rift and brought Miliya into the chamber to lead the way.

Aililan’s war against the Tiger Race Royal Court turned back in its favor as defections and battlefield losses weakened Huli’s rule. After Huli mistreated his frail son Huhu, Huhu left vowing to master his hidden power and return to kill him.

• Aililan gained ground as Xiao Bai helped its forces grow stronger, while Barbarians facing their ancestors faltered and some clans began planning to defect.
• Huli demanded that the clan leaders identify traitors and the Cult Master, and ordered them to kill anyone who betrayed the Royal Court.
• After the meeting, Huli went alone to an ancient well hidden in the garden and knocked aside the boulder covering it.
• Huli found his son Huhu hiding behind the boulder, choked him, and threw him to the ground before ordering him to leave.
• Huhu left in despair and vowed to master his power, return, and kill Huli.

Huli visited Luoli in her underground chamber and traded the promise of bringing her child back for the secret art, the Myriad Souls Array. After Huli ordered his subordinates to find Huhu, a small black-clad figure escaped the city, vowing revenge on the royal court.

• Huli entered Luoli's hidden chamber and told her that her child was still alive.
• Huli offered to bring Luoli's child back in exchange for the Myriad Souls Array, and Luoli agreed to reveal the art once he brought the child to her.
• Luoli resolved to regain her lost life force when her child returned and vowed that her enemies would kneel before her.
• Huli returned to the royal court and ordered his subordinates to summon Huhu, but they discovered Huhu was missing.
• A small black-clad figure hid from the palace patrols, then escaped the city while vowing to destroy the royal court.

Miliya delivered news of the Cult Master's growing support to Aililan before returning to Xiao Bai, who recruited powerful fighters to prevent Aililan's forces from being worn down. After gaining four Dou Zun warriors, Xiao Bai headed for the main battlefield.

• Miliya reported that the Cult Master had gathered powerful figures for Aililan, then used Xiao Bai's jade token to return through a spatial rift.
• Xiao Bai sent Miliya to take a ten-year-old prince of the Royal Court back to camp and considered the unusual power awakening within him.
• Xiao Bai decided to recruit eccentric powerful figures in the Southern Region to strengthen Aililan's side in the war of attrition.
• Xiao Bai subdued a saber-wielding Dou Zun, renamed him Zhan Yi, and had him lead the way to another killer whom Xiao Bai recruited as Zhan Er.
• Xiao Bai gathered four more Dou Zun warriors and ordered them to head to the main battlefield.

Xiao Bai helped Aililan defeat Huli and unify the Southern Region, then found Luoli and learned about the Ghost Race’s connection to the Soul Clan. The chapter left him questioning Luoli about the Soul Clan after she revealed that the two races had once been one.

• Xiao Bai brought four renowned figures to Aililan, and the final battle for the Southern Region began.
• Xiao Bai engaged Huli while Aililan sent the four Heavenly Kings into battle, overwhelming the Royal Court’s forces.
• Huli’s subordinates surrendered, and Xiao Bai killed Huli before the four Dou Zuns defeated the remaining Royal Court fighters.
• Aililan became the sole queen of the Southern Region while Xiao Bai explored an underground space and found Luoli.
• Luoli told Xiao Bai that she belonged to the Ghost Race and that the Ghost Race and Soul Clan had once been one before splitting over their cultivation methods.

Xiao Bai visited the Extreme Northern Lands, where Mo Mo’s team had successfully developed the Atomic Bomb, and took their twenty bombs for the Bright Cult. Meanwhile, Ice River Valley gathered the Four Directions Pavilion to discuss attacking the Bright Cult and taking the Calamity Poison Body.

• Xiao Bai traveled to the Extreme Northern Lands with four warriors and met Mo Mo, the head researcher.
• Mo Mo demonstrated the Atomic Bomb, whose blast melted the frozen land and proved even more powerful than a Hydrogen Bomb.
• Mo Mo told Xiao Bai that the team had made twenty Atomic Bombs, and Xiao Bai took them away to strengthen and use.
• The chapter described how the Bright Cult had made the Black Corner Region peaceful and sheltered fugitives, making it a target for hostile factions.
• Ice River Valley invited the Four Directions Pavilion to join an attack on the Bright Cult and seize the Calamity Poison Body.

Xiao Bai prepared the Bright Cult to face the allied army and ordered attacks against its members and their headquarters. After the army and several major factions were destroyed, Yao Chen visited Xiao Bai to learn what had happened to Wind Venerable.

• Xiao Bai introduced Zhan Yi, Zhan Er, Zhan San, and Zhan Si as the Bright Cult’s new protectors, all of them Dou Zuns.
• Xiao Bai ordered Zhan Yi to attack the allied army and assigned the other protectors to destroy the Wind Thunder Pavilion, Yellow Springs Pavilion, and Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion; he also named the Starfall Pavilion as a target if its members joined the army.
• The Xiao Family sent Xiao Bai a letter offering help, and Xiao Bai replied that they need not worry because he had everything arranged.
• The allied army was almost completely wiped out, and Ice River Valley and the headquarters of the Four Directions Pavilion were reduced to scorched earth; the Starfall Pavilion was also destroyed after joining the allied army.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan visited Xiao Bai, and Yao Chen asked about Wind Venerable, whose body had not been found at the ruined Starfall Pavilion headquarters.

Xiao Bai offered Yao Chen and Xiao Yan a place in the Bright Cult while holding Feng Xian and other faction leaders captive. Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Feng Xian joined, and Xiao Bai told Xiao Yan he needed to grow stronger quickly.

• Xiao Bai took Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian to a plaza where faction leaders, including Feng Xian, were bound to pillars.
• Yao Chen asked Xiao Bai to release Feng Xian, and Xiao Bai offered to spare him in exchange for compensation or Yao Chen joining the Bright Cult.
• Xiao Bai invited Xiao Yan to join and help oppose the Soul Hall and Soul Clan, and Xiao Yan accepted so he could pursue his father’s rescue.
• Yao Chen joined the Bright Cult to save Feng Xian, and Feng Xian also chose to join after Yao Chen was freed.
• Xiao Bai took Xiao Yan aside and told him his strength was inadequate and that he needed to advance quickly.

Xiao Bai gave Xiao Yan a clue to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and urged him to grow strong enough to rescue his father from the Soul Clan. A year later, Xiao Yan became a Dou Zun and prepared to visit the Ancient Clan, where Xiao Xun'er was being forced to marry, with Atomic Bombs as wedding gifts.

• Xiao Bai gave Xiao Yan two map fragments pointing to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Xiao Yan joined them with his own fragment.
• Xiao Bai explained the Soul Clan's power and told Xiao Yan he would need to reach Dou Sheng to have a chance of rescuing his father.
• Xiao Bai said he was helping Xiao Yan because he wanted immortality, and he tasked Xiao Yan with strengthening himself and helping revive Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan left with Yao Chen and Feng Xian, while Xiao Bai and Xiao Yi Xian discussed keeping powerful captives alive to use as cannon fodder.
• Over the next year, Xiao Yan became a Dou Zun as the Bright Cult strengthened, and Yao Chen began the process of reviving into a new body.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Bai that the Ancient Clan had summoned him and that he planned to bring Atomic Bombs to Xiao Xun'er's wedding; Xiao Bai gave him ten.

Xiao Bai told Xiao Yi Xian that Xiao Yan had gone to the Ancient Clan to reclaim his wife, then arranged for a Soul Clan plant to destroy an Ancient Clan city with two Hydrogen Bombs. A survivor blamed the Soul Clan, while Xiao Bai and Xiao Yi Xian left no evidence connecting them to the attack.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Ancient Clan's headquarters, where its people insulted him until he fought his way into the Ancient Realm.
• Xiao Bai offered to help Xiao Yan by attacking the Ancient Clan, and Xiao Yi Xian warned that making another enemy would be dangerous.
• Xiao Bai sent a disguised Soul Clan member with two Hydrogen Bombs and moved himself and Xiao Yi Xian to safety.
• The Soul Clan member detonated the bombs, obliterating a city and causing the Ancient Realm to tremble.
• A badly injured survivor heard the agent blame the Soul Clan and swore revenge on it.

The Ancient Clan learned that the Soul Clan had attacked its outpost using a weapon tied to the Bright Cult, so it sent envoys to demand answers. When the envoys provoked Xiao Bai at the Bright Cult, he killed Gu Xing and faced Tong Xuan.

• Two Ancient Clan immortals found the ruins of their outpost and heard the dying Gula blame the Soul Clan for the attack before he died.
• The immortals told Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan had attacked to delay the Ancient Clan and had used an item seemingly from the Bright Cult.
• Gu Yuan sent one group to investigate the Soul Clan's plans and another to question the Bright Cult about the weapon.
• A Bright Cult messenger told Xiao Bai that Ancient Clan visitors had injured several members, including Hai Bodong and Yun Shan, and demanded to see him.
• Gu Xing provoked Xiao Bai in the Bright Cult's main hall, and Xiao Bai killed him with a flash of light.
• Tong Xuan demanded that Xiao Bai kneel and kill himself, and Xiao Bai appeared before him and struck with his palm.

After Xiao Bai’s forces killed Tong Xuan, Gu Xing, and their companions, Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan prepared to retaliate against the Bright Cult. Xiao Bai then warned Xiao Yan that he would destroy the Ancient Realm with a Star Annihilation Cannon unless Gu Yuan handed over the fragment of Tou She Ancient God, leaving Xiao Yan to decide what to do.

• A surviving Black Smoke Army soldier reported that Xiao Bai had killed Tong Xuan, Gu Xing, and the others, and delivered his warning to the Ancient Clan.
• The Great Elder erupted in anger and wanted to attack the Bright Cult, but Gu Yuan stopped him from acting personally because high-level Dou Sheng were forbidden to intervene.
• The Ancient Realm shook again as Xiao Bai caused trouble there, and he told Xiao Yan that the Bright Cult no longer feared the Ancient Clan or the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Bai ordered Xiao Yan to demand the fragment of Tou She Ancient God from Gu Yuan within one day, threatening to destroy the Ancient Realm with a mini hydrogen bomb if the Ancient Clan refused.
• Xiao Bai told Xiao Yan that the weapon was the Star Annihilation Cannon, and Xiao Yan opened his door after realizing he had to act.

Xiao Yan warned the Ancient Clan that Xiao Bai would destroy the Ancient Realm unless they surrendered the Tou She Ancient God key fragment and released Xun Er and Xiao Yan. Gu Yuan refused and ordered an attack on the Bright Cult, while Xiao Bai’s warship prepared to fire.

• Xiao Yan entered the Ancient Clan council hall and revealed that the Bright Cult had caused the explosions as a warning.
• Xiao Yan relayed Xiao Bai’s demand for the Tou She Ancient God key fragment and warned that the Star Annihilation Cannon could destroy the Ancient Realm within a day.
• Gu Yuan refused to surrender the fragment, trusting the Ancient Realm’s defenses and his hope of becoming a Dou Di.
• A surviving Black Smoke Army soldier appeared and caused an explosion outside the council hall; Gu Yuan ordered Xiao Yan imprisoned and the Bright Cult’s people captured and executed.
• The Great Elder volunteered to lead the Ancient Clan’s experts against the Bright Cult, while Xiao Bai’s warship finished preparing to fire.

A second sun destroyed the Ancient and Soul Clans, leaving the Bright Cult dominant across the continent. Xiao Bai gathered the Origin Qi needed to become a Dou Di and planned to wait for his children to be born before pursuing a future with his family.

• A blazing second sun appeared, and Xiao Bai annihilated the Ancient and Soul Clans as Gu Yuan stayed behind to protect the Ancient Realm while Xiao Yan took Gu Xun'er away.
• The Bright Cult established churches across the continent, took control of the Great Ming Empire, and forced the magical beast races to submit.
• A year later, Xiao Bai visited the Monster Mountain Range with pregnant Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa, then went to Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Xiao Bai trapped Zhu Kun, absorbed Tou She Ancient God's pill and the statue's Origin Qi into the Strengthening Cauldron, and destroyed the cave mansion.
• Xiao Bai forced Zhu Kun to submit by threatening his daughter and revealing that he had destroyed the Ancient and Soul Clans.
• Xiao Bai sent Zhu Kun to the Great Ming Empire and decided to wait for his children to be born before pursuing a way to bring his family into a new world.