Chapter Summaries

Yun Yun and the Misty Cloud Sect prepared for the sect tournament, while a mysterious alchemist’s Sixth-grade Pill startled the empire’s leading experts. After Gu He judged the unseen alchemist to be at least Seventh-grade, Yun Yun did not realize that the alchemist was already heading toward the sect with Medusa.

• Yun Yun confirmed that the Life and Death Realm was ready and warned the Misty Cloud Sect not to lose the tournament or surrender control of the Gate of Life and Death.
• Gu He said he had refined pills that could boost a Dou Wang’s strength by more than fifty percent and expected them to help the sect win.
• Yun Yun and the others sensed a powerful pill-forming aura near the Jia Ma Empire’s capital and saw an emerald pillar of light rise into the sky.
• Yun Yun and Gu He reached the source and met Jia Xingtian and Fama, who reported that the mysterious pill maker had already left.
• Gu He judged the unknown alchemist’s skills far superior to his own, estimating that they were at least a Seventh-grade Alchemist.
• Yun Yun assumed the mysterious alchemist would have no interest in the Misty Cloud Sect, unaware that the alchemist was traveling there with Medusa.

Gu Fang gave Medusa the Spirit Fusion Pill as they prepared for the Misty Cloud Sect, where he suspected Yun Shan and a hidden Hall of Souls figure might pose a threat. Medusa fused with the Sky Swallowing Python’s body and soul, emerging in a fully humanoid form with her power restored.

• Gu Fang and Medusa surveyed the Misty Cloud Sect and discussed the elite Jia Ma army stationed to guard against it.
• Gu Fang warned that Yun Shan might have reached the Dou Zong realm and that another Dou Zong from the Hall of Souls could be concealed within the sect.
• Gu Fang gave Medusa the Spirit Fusion Pill, and she swallowed it eagerly.
• Medusa’s soul fused completely with the Sky Swallowing Python’s body, allowing her to unleash her peak strength.
• Medusa’s snake tail transformed into legs as her body and the hatchling’s soul changed through their fusion.

Medusa completed her fusion with the Sky Swallowing Python’s soul and gained formidable strength and its innate abilities. Gu Fang climbed the Heaven-Reaching Stone Stairway toward the Misty Cloud Sect’s recruitment, focused on the Death Soul Flower and wary of approaching figures.

• Medusa completed her Spirit Fusion and said she could defeat a three-star or five-star Dou Zong and hold off two early-stage Dou Zongs.
• Medusa thanked Gu Fang and explained that the fusion had preserved the Sky Swallowing Python’s innate abilities, which she might have lost by fusing slowly.
• Gu Fang climbed the Heaven-Reaching Stone Stairway among groups seeking places in the Misty Cloud Sect’s disciple recruitment.
• Gu Fang stopped and watched two enormous objects rush toward the crowd, with figures standing atop them.

Gu Fang arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect’s recruitment trial as the Sky Goose Sect and Mulan Valley came to attend the sect tournament. He entered the trial grounds after revealing a strength of at least Nine-star Fighter Peak, leaving Nalan Yanran shaken by the unknown rival.

• Gu Fang saw the warships of the Sky Goose Sect and Mulan Valley approaching the Misty Cloud Sect and recognized why they had come.
• Gu Fang reached the sect entrance and joined the recruitment tests, which required participants to meet specific age and Dou Qi standards.
• Nalan Yanran tested as a Two-star Fighter and drew praise from the crowd.
• Gu Fang passed the age test, then entered the trial grounds before his strength result appeared.
• The elder saw all nine stars light on the compass, revealing Gu Fang’s strength as at least Nine-star Fighter Peak and shocking the crowd.
• Nalan Yanran worried that Gu Fang could threaten her standing as the Sect Master’s successor, while Gu Fang continued into the trial grounds.

News of Gu Fang’s exceptional strength reached the Misty Cloud Sect, prompting Sect Master Yun Yun to consider recruiting him personally. Before she could leave the main hall, Yan Fenghua of the Sky Goose Sect arrived, and Yun Yun noted that he had recently reached the Dou Emperor realm.

• Gu Fang’s test results spread through the trial grounds and reached the Misty Cloud Sect’s main hall.
• Yun Fu confirmed to Yun Yun that Gu Fang was fourteen or fifteen and at least a Nine-star Fighter.
• Yun Yun ordered the sect to find Gu Fang, treat him well, and offer him the highest level of resources if possible.
• Yun Yun decided to visit Gu Fang herself, but Yan Fenghua entered the main hall before she could leave.
• The Misty Cloud Sect elders recognized Yan Fenghua and reacted with fear because he had once wounded a Dou Emperor and escaped.
• Yun Yun asked whether Yan Fenghua was leading the Sky Goose Sect’s team and remarked that he had recently become a Dou Emperor.

At the Misty Cloud Sect, Yan Fenghua clashed with the three Mulan Valley brothers, and Yun Yun stopped the fight before either side could damage the hall. After warning both groups to enter the Life and Death Realm or leave, Yun Yun ordered her people to proceed carefully and flew off to find the “little genius.”

• Yun Yun welcomed the three Mulan Valley brothers, who mocked Yan Fenghua and provoked him into attacking.
• Yan Fenghua struck at the Mulan Valley brothers, who combined their strength with the Three Beast Savage Art and met his blow.
• Yun Yun contained the clash’s destructive aftermath and held wind blades to the combatants’ throats when they tried to continue fighting.
• Yun Yun ordered Mulan Valley and Sky Goose Sect to enter the Life and Death Realm within a quarter of an hour or face her wrath.
• Yun Yun told her sect members to proceed carefully and flew to the sect entry trial ground to find the “little genius.”

Gu Fang entered the trial grounds and rejected Nalan Yanran’s attempt to get acquainted, then confronted her when she demanded he stop. As Nalan Yanran and nearby participants prepared to challenge him, Gu Fang unleashed his Dou Qi.

• Gu Fang surveyed the barren trial grounds and sensed a sealing barrier separating the area from the sect tournament region.
• Nalan Yanran introduced herself and asked Gu Fang to get acquainted, but Gu Fang refused and walked away.
• Nalan Yanran angrily called after Gu Fang and challenged him to fight after he criticized her arrogance.
• Gu Fang read the trial rules, which awarded points for strength, combat victories, and collecting treasures, techniques, and Dou Skills.
• Nearby participants eyed Gu Fang as a potential target, and Gu Fang stamped the ground and sent Dou Qi surging toward them.

Gu Fang effortlessly defeated Nalan Yanran and the other would-be attackers, then left as the Misty Cloud Sect’s sect grand competition drew near. Jia Xingtian and Miter Tengshan discussed why the competition was being held in the Life and Death Realm, where participants might gain access to the dangerous Gate of Life and Death.

• Gu Fang used condensed Dou Qi blades to defeat Nalan Yanran and badly wound everyone who had tried to attack him.
• Gu Fang dismissed Nalan Yanran’s threat of future revenge and flew away using his Blazing Fire Wings.
• Jia Xingtian monitored the arrivals at the Misty Cloud Sect’s back mountain as the sect grand competition approached.
• Miter Tengshan asked Jia Xingtian why the competition was being held in the Jia Ma Empire and entrusted to junior fighters.
• Jia Xingtian explained that the competition was taking place in the Life and Death Realm, and Miter Tengshan realized that participants could have a chance to enter the Gate of Life and Death.

During the sect tournament, Vulture Protector secretly arranged with Mulan Ruohu and Yan Fenghua to target Yun Yun and prepare for the destruction of the Misty Cloud Sect. He left with plans to lie low while reporting another task to the Hall of Souls.

• As sect representatives entered the tournament passage, Mulan Ruohu and Yan Fenghua slipped away and met on a cliff.
• Vulture Protector appeared and took the Jade Cauldrons containing many human and Magical Beast souls.
• Vulture Protector gave Mulan Ruohu and Yan Fenghua a jade disc that could track Yun Yun, telling them not to scatter her soul.
• Vulture Protector told them Yun Shan would reach Dou Zong within three years and instructed their sects to join forces against the Misty Cloud Sect afterward.
• After they left, Vulture Protector planned to engineer a battle in which Yun Shan and the rival sect leaders would die, then vanished to lie low and report an unfinished investigation task.

Gu Fang raced toward the Misty Cloud Sect's sealed boundary, while Yun Yun pursued him after learning of his extraordinary strength. Yun Yun arrived too late to stop him and watched in shock as he broke the supposedly foolproof seal.

• After Gu Fang left the recruitment test, Nalan Yanran vowed to repay the humiliation, and the supervising elder sent word about Gu Fang's abilities.
• Gu Fang flew toward the boundary and reasoned that the Misty Cloud Sect's strongest figures were unlikely to interfere.
• Yun Yun questioned the supervising elder, learned Gu Fang was heading toward the sect competition, and decided to find and recruit him.
• Yun Yun gave medicinal pills for Nalan Yanran to the elder and flew after Gu Fang, while Nalan Yanran recovered in the forest and continued to curse him.
• Yun Yun followed Gu Fang's lingering Dou Qi traces and saw a crimson flash as the seal broke, leaving her stunned.

Gu Fang entered the sect competition area after Queen Medusa broke through its seal and stumbled into a fight between Yun Yi, Mulan Ruohu, and Yan Fenghua. The chapter ended with the two fighters turning their murderous attention toward Gu Fang.

• Queen Medusa broke open the seal for Gu Fang, then warned him she would not help again unless his life was in danger.
• Yun Yi accused Mulan Ruohu and the others of ambushing him, then crushed the Concentric Worm he had forced Mulan Ruohu to swallow.
• Mulan Ruohu revealed he had removed the worm and joined forces with Yan Fenghua to attack Yun Yi.
• Yan Fenghua smashed Yun Yi's wound, sending him crashing into the seal boundary.
• Gu Fang stepped through the broken seal as Yun Yi fell at his feet, and Yan Fenghua and Mulan Ruohu locked their soul auras onto him.

Gu Fang tried to leave after discovering the soul-locked men, but Mulan Ruohu attacked him, forcing him to fight back and defeat the Peak Dou King. Yan Fenghua then ambushed Gu Fang and ordered the surviving Mulan Sect members to attack, intent on keeping the location secret and claiming Gu Fang’s treasures.

• Gu Fang spread his Blazing Origin Wings and tried to fly away, but Mulan Ruohu attacked him with borrowed Dou Emperor strength.
• Gu Fang used his wings and a wall of flame to evade Mulan Ruohu, then struck from behind with the Blood Fiend Origin Halberd.
• Gu Fang shattered Mulan Ruohu’s defenses and smashed him into the ground with a halberd blow.
• Gu Fang used Blazing Flame Inch Move to dodge Yan Fenghua’s golden attack and challenged him.
• Yan Fenghua admitted Gu Fang had defeated Mulan Ruohu, then ordered the two remaining Mulan Sect members to attack and prevent the news from spreading.

Gu Fang fled from Yan Fenghua and the two Mulan Valley fighters, then turned to confront Yan Fenghua with repeated powerful Dou Skills. Yan Fenghua’s strength and Dou Qi began to falter as Gu Fang pressed the attack.

• Gu Fang realized Yan Fenghua and the two Mulan Valley fighters intended to kill him and take his treasures, and he suspected their sects had a deeper connection than a trial alliance.
• Gu Fang flew away to separate Yan Fenghua from the Mulan Valley fighters, but Yan Fenghua’s speed kept him close behind.
• When the Mulan Valley fighters fell far enough behind, Gu Fang spun around and unleashed his Earth Rank High Level Blazing Blood Luo Yang Kill.
• Yan Fenghua countered with his Earth Rank Mid Level Sky Goose Wind Break Strike, but Gu Fang’s attack pushed him slightly at a disadvantage.
• Gu Fang repeatedly attacked with Earth Rank High Level Dou Skills, leaving Yan Fenghua shocked and nearly out of Dou Qi before he could change tactics.

Gu Fang defeated Yan Fenghua by breaking through the Sky Goose Blood Shatter with the Life Slaughtering Seal, then killed the two Mulan Valley fighters. After sensing someone’s arrival, he called out to Sect Master Yun Yun.

• Yan Fenghua prepared a desperate attack while Gu Fang formed a powerful Battle Skill that drew on the power of heaven and earth.
• Yan Fenghua unleashed Sky Goose Blood Shatter, trapping Gu Fang inside a blood-red barrier that blocked access to outside energy.
• Gu Fang broke through the barrier with the Life Slaughtering Seal and crushed the exhausted Yan Fenghua.
• Gu Fang killed the two Mulan Valley fighters after they begged him to spare them.
• Gu Fang sensed someone nearby and called out to Sect Master Yun Yun.

Gu Fang fought Yun Yun after she confronted him in the Misty Cloud Sect trial grounds, where she tried to imprison him rather than risk angering Sound Valley. He escaped her wind prison and invoked Queen Medusa, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Yun Yun appeared before Gu Fang and questioned why he had entered the sect’s trial grounds, while recognizing his extraordinary strength.
• Gu Fang claimed he had only acted in self-defense, then attacked Yun Yun’s wind seals and tried to flee.
• Yun Yun trapped Gu Fang in her Advanced Profound Rank Wind Prison, believing his strength was no match for hers.
• Gu Fang shattered the prison and burst out in a multicolored figure, calling out Queen Medusa’s name.

Gu Fang and Queen Medusa confronted Yun Yun in the Misty Cloud Sect’s Life and Death Realm, where Medusa overwhelmed the sect master and forced her to guide them toward the Gate of Life and Death. As Gu Fang carried the wounded Yun Yun away, Vulture Protector headed for the Life and Death Realm to collect the souls of fallen fighters.

• Yun Yun was shocked to find Queen Medusa beside Gu Fang, and Medusa ordered her to leave the Life and Death Realm or die.
• Yun Yun attacked Medusa with Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill, but Medusa destroyed the attack with one sweep of her tail and left Yun Yun gravely wounded.
• Gu Fang covered Yun Yun with a black robe, spared her, and demanded that she take him to the Gate of Life and Death.
• Yun Yun told Gu Fang that his token could open the gate and pointed him toward it, but Gu Fang carried her along as he flew there.
• Yun Yi recovered at the passage entrance and wondered who Gu Fang was and why Medusa served him.
• Vulture Protector learned that Yun Yi’s soul was missing and flew toward the Life and Death Realm to collect the souls of the dead.

Gu Fang encountered a greedy Dou Wang while carrying Yun Yun, then broke the Blood Fiend Origin Halberd’s first seal to increase his strength. After gaining power comparable to a Peak Dou Emperor, he left Yun Yun astonished as they approached the challenges of the Life and Death Realm.

• Gu Fang warned a Dou Wang who tried to steal his Flying Battle Skill, stripped him with a sudden attack, and killed him when the man begged for mercy.
• Gu Fang asked Medusa to guard him and keep Yun Yun nearby while he tried to break the Blood Fiend Origin Halberd’s seal.
• After an hour of concentrating, Gu Fang shattered the seal and advanced from one-star Dou Ling to peak two-star Dou Ling.
• Gu Fang formed crimson wings with the halberd’s power and split apart a hill with a blood-colored strike.
• Yun Yun watched Gu Fang’s attack and realized his strength had risen from Peak Dou Wang battle prowess to power comparable to a Peak Dou Emperor.

Gu Fang tested the power and speed granted by the Blood Fiend Origin Halberd and its merged wings as he traveled with Yun Yun and Queen Medusa toward the Gate of Life and Death. While Vulture Protector sensed an unfamiliar Dou Zong aura and set out to kill its owner, Gu Fang entered the gate with his companions.

• Gu Fang merged the Blood Fiend Origin Halberd's blood wings with his Blazing Origin Fire Wings and discovered that their combined speed rivaled a Dou Zong's.
• Queen Medusa judged Gu Fang's speed to be on par with hers without spatial power, while Yun Yun and Queen Medusa wondered at the secrets behind his strength and equipment.
• Gu Fang continued toward the Gate of Life and Death with Yun Yun and Queen Medusa, unaware that Vulture Protector had sensed an unfamiliar Dou Zong aura and decided to hunt its owner.
• Vulture Protector followed the strange aura, hoping to kill its owner and earn a valuable soul.
• Yun Yun opened the Gate of Life and Death, and Gu Fang entered with her and Queen Medusa.

Gu Fang, Yun Yun, and Medusa entered a small world and found themselves tracked through an ancient forest by unfamiliar creatures. Gu Fang realized the trees were revealing their location and connected his soul to them, leaving the group ready to turn the hunt against their pursuers.

• Gu Fang led Yun Yun and Medusa through the Gate of Life and Death, suspecting they had entered a small world inhabited by cultivators.
• The three emerged in an ancient forest, where Gu Fang sensed the trees' hostility and several unfamiliar creatures approaching.
• Gu Fang and Yun Yun tried to evade the creatures, but their pursuers followed every change of direction and nearly surrounded them.
• Medusa suggested the creatures might detect them through something besides their auras, and Yun Yun remarked that it felt as if eyes were watching them.
• Gu Fang realized the trees were acting as the creatures' eyes, and Yun Yun confirmed their connection by touching a trunk.
• Yun Yun prepared to disguise them with crushed leaves, but Gu Fang said his soul had connected with the trees and that he would now hunt their pursuers.

Gu Fang and Yun Yun ambushed and captured three Cang Luo Stone Apes in the Gate of Life and Death, then fled to a cave. After identifying the creatures and sharing their language with Yun Yun, Gu Fang suddenly glimpsed images of his former world.

• Gu Fang and Yun Yun hid in a tree and planned to capture three approaching Initial Stage Dou Ling creatures alive.
• Gu Fang used his soul power to let Yun Yun understand the creatures as they discussed the Chain Heart Thorn, their clan chief, and the outsiders.
• Gu Fang knocked one creature unconscious, and Yun Yun seized the other two before they could signal for help.
• Gu Fang and Yun Yun escaped to a cave, where Gu Fang identified the captives as Cang Luo Stone Apes and explained how he had shared their language with Yun Yun.
• Gu Fang suddenly saw familiar sights from his former world.