Chapter Summaries

Bai Ge used the Three-Flower Pupils of the Jade Snake to control Luo Jia, then healed her near-fatal injuries with the Nine Spirit Begonia. Faced with the choice between serving him freely or being confined in the pupils’ space, Luo Jia agreed to submit.

• Bai Ge activated the Three-Flower Pupils of the Jade Snake and marked Luo Jia, gaining control over her and the ability to place her in the pupils’ space.
• Bai Ge briefly stored Luo Jia in the space, released her, and healed her with the Nine Spirit Begonia.
• Luo Jia awoke healed and confronted Bai Ge, who demonstrated that she could no longer control her own body.
• Bai Ge explained that Luo Jia could submit and remain free or refuse and be confined in the pupils’ space.
• Luo Jia chose to submit to Bai Ge, and he accepted her decision.

After returning to Jia Nan Academy, Bai Ge visited Xiao Yu in the Outer Academy and asked her to help test whether the Xiao Family possessed a dormant Dou Di Bloodline. Xiao Yu agreed, unaware that Bai Ge’s method of enhancing it might be strange.

• After acquiring Three Thousand Lightning Movement and a Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse in Black Seal City, Bai Ge returned to Jia Nan Academy and went to find Xiao Yu.
• Bai Ge met Xiao Yu near her residence, and she invited him home to talk.
• Xiao Yu prepared dinner and Rose Fruit Wine for Bai Ge before asking why he had returned.
• Bai Ge told Xiao Yu that a treasure had revealed a possible Dou Di Bloodline in the Xiao Family and asked to test it on her.
• Xiao Yu agreed to the test, and Bai Ge warned her that the enhancement process might be strange.

Bai Ge used the Perfect Symbiote to examine and optimize Xiao Yu, discovering that her dormant Dou Di Bloodline genes required Origin Qi and could not be activated. After improving her physical fitness and cultivation talent, he sent her back to the Inner Academy.

• Xiao Yu asked Bai Ge how to cooperate, and he lifted her with tendrils of the Perfect Symbiote before enclosing her in a breathing black cocoon.
• Bai Ge examined Xiao Yu's genes and concluded that her dormant Dou Di Bloodline required Origin Qi to activate.
• Bai Ge optimized Xiao Yu's appearance, physical fitness, and cultivation talent, then withdrew the Perfect Symbiote.
• Xiao Yu questioned Bai Ge's claim about her Dou Di Bloodline, and he let the matter drop.
• Bai Ge chatted with Xiao Yu, said goodbye, and prepared to return to the Inner Academy.

After leaving seclusion in the underground Magma World, Bai Ge visited Xiao Xun'er and asked to use the Perfect Symbiote to examine her bloodline. Xiao Xun'er agreed, and Bai Ge wrapped her in a cocoon as the symbiote began revealing her genes.

• Bai Ge left the underground Magma World after a little over three months in seclusion and went to see Xiao Xun'er.
• Bai Ge showed Xiao Xun'er the Perfect Symbiote and claimed it could activate dormant bloodlines after he found it in an ancient corpse's storage ring.
• Xiao Xun'er trusted Bai Ge and agreed to let him test the treasure on her.
• Bai Ge used the Perfect Symbiote to bind Xiao Xun'er and suspend her in the air, then covered her in a black cocoon.
• The Perfect Symbiote began penetrating Xiao Xun'er's body, and Bai Ge saw the genetic data in her cells.

Bai Ge examined Xiao Xun'er's activated Dou Di Bloodline and discovered that copied bloodlines required Origin Qi to function, which he could not yet obtain. After improving her ordinary genes, he spent the following month cultivating and developing a new fire formation, then noticed Xiao Xun'er acting unusually attached to him.

• Bai Ge compared Xiao Xun'er's Ancient Clan bloodline with the dormant Xiao Family bloodline and found that the copied bloodline lacked the Origin Qi needed to function.
• Bai Ge optimized Xiao Xun'er's ordinary genes, then invited her to eat with Qing Lin and Zi Yan.
• Over the next month, Bai Ge advanced to five-star Dou Zun and developed the Eight Trigrams Blazing Fire Formation to accommodate his eight Heavenly Flames.
• Bai Ge planned to rest before cultivating Three Thousand Lightning Movement and studying its Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body form.
• During his rest, Bai Ge noticed Xiao Xun'er staring at him with reluctance and attachment, and wondered whether something was about to happen.

Bai Ge cultivated Three Thousand Lightning Movement in the Inner Academy’s Back Mountain, summoning a storm to release and absorb the scroll’s Wind Thunder Power. He began practicing the movement skill and planned to advance from Lightning Flash toward its highest realm, Three Thousand Thunders.

• Bai Ge went to a cliff in the Back Mountain to cultivate Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Bai Ge used the Seven Kill Sword and Divine Sword Controlling Thunder True Art to summon a storm and release the Wind Thunder Power sealed in the scroll.
• Bai Ge absorbed and refined the Wind Thunder Power, then memorized the skill’s eight Dou Qi circulation routes.
• Bai Ge circulated Dou Qi through his feet and used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to flash from the cliff to a tree and race through the forest.
• Bai Ge recognized that he had reached the Lightning Flash level and expected his control and Divine Soul to help him advance toward Lightning Instant and Three Thousand Thunders.

Bai Ge advanced his Three Thousand Lightning Movement training and discovered the Ancient Clan's Black Annihilation Army approaching the Inner Academy. He returned to find Xiao Xun'er waiting to say goodbye, and promised he would find her wherever she went.

• Bai Ge trained Three Thousand Lightning Movement from Lightning Flash to Lightning Instant in half a day.
• Bai Ge sensed the approaching Black Annihilation Army and recognized that the Ancient Clan had arrived early to escort Xiao Xun'er home.
• Bai Ge returned to the Inner Academy and found Xiao Xun'er waiting in his courtyard.
• Xiao Xun'er told Bai Ge she was leaving to return to the Ancient Clan, and he comforted her instead of blaming her.
• Bai Ge promised Xiao Xun'er that he would find her even if she went to the other end of the continent or another world.

Xiao Xun'er prepared to leave with the Ancient Clan, and Bai Ge insisted on seeing her off despite her warnings. As they waited for the Black Annihilation Army to arrive, Bai Ge teased her with a joke about living off a woman, while Ling Quan grew jealous at their closeness.

• Xiao Xun'er tearfully said goodbye to Bai Ge, and he promised they would meet again and insisted on accompanying her.
• Xiao Xun'er warned Bai Ge that her clan's escort had bad tempers, but he agreed to go with her.
• Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er left the Inner Academy and watched the Black Annihilation Army approach on Four-winged Unicorn Horses.
• Bai Ge teased Xiao Xun'er about being a wealthy young lady and joked that his bad teeth meant he had to live off a woman, making her blush.
• Ling Quan saw Xiao Xun'er laughing with Bai Ge, became jealous, and ordered the Black Annihilation Army to speed up.

Ling Quan arrived with the Black Annihilation Army to bring Xiao Xun'er back to the Ancient Clan ahead of schedule, citing concern over her safety. After Ling Quan repeatedly insulted Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er warned him not to threaten the Xiao Family, Bai Ge stopped them as they prepared to leave.

• Xiao Xun'er and Bai Ge saw Ling Quan arrive with the Four-winged Unicorn Horses, and Ling Quan knelt to order Xiao Xun'er to return to the clan.
• Ling Quan said the Clan Leader had advanced Xiao Xun'er's return because she had risked herself for Bai Ge, and Xiao Xun'er rejected his account.
• Ling Quan disparaged Bai Ge and the Xiao Family, while Xiao Xun'er angrily defended Bai Ge and warned the clan not to target him or the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Xun'er yielded to Ling Quan's order, but Bai Ge stopped him as he was about to leave.
• Ling Quan warned Bai Ge not to obstruct the mission, and Xiao Xun'er angrily told Ling Quan not to go too far.

Bai Ge challenged Ling Quan’s contempt by attacking the Ancient Clan’s reliance on its Dou Di Bloodline, then agreed to face him despite Xiao Xun’er’s concern. Ling Quan launched a sudden attack, and the chapter ended as he charged at Bai Ge.

• Ling Quan revealed that he and Xiao Xun’er belonged to the powerful Ancient Clan, and belittled Bai Ge and the Xiao Family.
• Bai Ge criticized the Ancient Clan for relying on inherited Dou Di Bloodline and declared that he would create a Dou Di clan himself.
• Enraged, Ling Quan challenged Bai Ge to fight, while Xiao Xun’er pleaded with them to stop.
• Bai Ge reassured Xiao Xun’er and dismissed Ling Quan’s strength, prompting Ling Quan to attack him at high speed.

Bai Ge defeated Ling Quan in their aerial fight, forcing a gray-robed Dou Venerate to intervene and catch the falling Ancient Clan deputy commander. Bai Ge challenged the old man over his unequal intervention, and the chapter ended with him laughing at the Ancient Clan’s conditions for recognizing him and approving his marriage to Xun Er.

• Bai Ge evaded Ling Quan’s attack, revealed his Dou Qi Wings, and pursued him into the sky.
• Bai Ge used the Heavenly Demon Force Field to pull Ling Quan back and struck through his Dou Qi Armor with Eight-Colored Glazed Fire.
• A gray-robed Dou Venerate caught the blood-spitting Ling Quan and asked Bai Ge to let the grudge go.
• Bai Ge questioned whether the old man would have intervened as quickly if Ling Quan had been winning, and the old man admitted he would not have.
• The gray-robed old man warned Bai Ge against provoking the Ancient Clan and said he might earn its recognition and marry Miss Xun Er if he became a Dou Venerate and Ninth-Rank Alchemist.
• Bai Ge laughed at the Ancient Clan’s pragmatism.

Bai Ge revealed that he was a Dou Zun and fought the gray-robed Ancient Clan elder to vent his anger. After defeating him with Gravity Sword, Bai Ge promised Xiao Xun'er he would establish himself in the Central Continent before asking the Ancient Clan for her hand, then departed.

• Bai Ge told the gray-robed elder that he was unhappy with the Ancient Clan's treatment of him and revealed his Dou Zun strength.
• Bai Ge apologized to Xiao Xun'er for concealing his power, and Xiao Xun'er said she believed him.
• Bai Ge used Gravity Sword to cut through the elder's Sky Shattering Fist and slam him and Ling Quan into the forest.
• Bai Ge promised Xiao Xun'er he would go to the Central Continent and later ask the Ancient Clan for her hand in marriage.
• The wounded elder resolved to have the Ancient Clan investigate Bai Ge as Bai Ge flew away.

After leaving Jia Nan Academy and entering seclusion at the Bai Di Sect, Bai Ge broke through to six-star Dou Zun. Yun Shan then called him out because the Anti-Jia Ma Alliance had invaded the Jia Ma Empire and three mysterious peak Dou Zongs had turned the war against it.

• Bai Ge bid farewell to Xiao Xun'er, Qing Lin, and Su Qian, then left Jia Nan Academy after hunting Flame Lizardmen in the underground Magma World.
• Bai Ge returned to the Bai Di Sect and entered genuine seclusion, leaving Qing Lin and the Bai Men disciples at Jia Nan Academy.
• During his secluded cultivation, Bai Ge used Fire Spirit Pills to break through to six-star Dou Zun.
• Yun Shan and Nalan Yanran summoned Bai Ge early from seclusion and told him that eight neighboring empires had formed the Anti-Jia Ma Alliance and invaded.
• The Jia Ma Empire initially gained an advantage through its Dou Emperors and Dou Zongs, but three black-robed peak Dou Zongs reversed the battle.
• Qing Lin used the Seven-Headed Fire Spirit Snake to restrain the enemy experts, but the Jia Ma Empire continued to suffer defeats, prompting Yun Shan to ask Bai Ge for help.

Bai Ge went with Yun Shan and Nalan Yanran to inspect the battle between the Jia Ma Empire and the Anti-Jia Ma Alliance, where the empire’s soldiers were retreating and powerful fighters clashed near the mountains. After seeing that Nalan Yanran had joined the lower-level battle and learning Qing Lin was fighting farther inside, Bai Ge headed toward the high-end battlefield.

• Bai Ge considered why three mysterious Black Robe Dou Zongs had entered the war late, then ordered Yun Shan to take him to the battlefield.
• Bai Ge brought Yun Shan and Nalan Yanran above the battlefield, where the Anti-Jia Ma Alliance’s larger army was forcing the Jia Ma Empire’s soldiers to retreat.
• Bai Ge decided not to attack the mixed armies below, and Nalan Yanran drew the Fine Wind Sword and descended to fight.
• Yun Shan led Bai Ge to the high-end battlefield, where Dou Kings, Dou Emperors, and Dou Zongs fought across the forests and snow-capped peaks.
• Bai Ge asked where Qing Lin was, and Yun Shan said she was fighting farther within because her Seven-Headed Fire Spirit Snake could not distinguish friend from foe.

Bai Ge learned that Luo Jia could not use her Fusion Secret Technique again for nearly three months and flew to Qing Lin’s battlefield. Qing Lin and the Seven-Headed Fire Spirit Snake trapped three black-robed Dou Zongs, and Bai Ge discovered that the figures beneath their damaged robes were black mist.

• Yun Shan told Bai Ge that Luo Jia had already used her Fusion Secret Technique and needed three months to recover before using it again.
• Bai Ge flew to Qing Lin’s battlefield, where the Seven-Headed Fire Spirit Snake had devastated the forest and trapped three black-robed Dou Zongs.
• Qing Lin used the Six-Winged Cicada Sound Snake to stop the three Dou Zongs from escaping while the Seven-Headed Fire Spirit Snake attacked them with lava.
• Qing Lin coordinated a sonic attack with a lava wave that struck the three Dou Zongs and drove them into a lava field.
• The three Dou Zongs emerged with their black robes corroded, and Bai Ge saw that their bodies were masses of black mist and suspected they were from Soul Hall.

Qing Lin trapped three Black Robe Dou Zongs with lava walls, but they consumed strange souls and fused into a single being whose power reached the Dou Zun realm. The chapter left Qing Lin facing the fused enemy.

• Qing Lin saw that the three Black Robe Dou Zongs were bodies of black mist, and they claimed they had once been human.
• The Black Robe Dou Zongs attacked Qing Lin with chains of black mist, but the Six-Winged Cicada Sound Snake dodged them.
• Qing Lin used the Three-Flower Pupils of the Jade Snake to command the Seven-Headed Fire Spirit Snake and raise four lava walls that trapped the attackers.
• The three Black Robe Dou Zongs swallowed masses of black mist containing tortured faces, and their auras rose close to the Dou Zun realm.
• The three Black Robe Dou Zongs fused into a towering black mist humanoid with six scarlet eyes and Dou Zun-level power.

Qing Lin and the Six-Winged Cicada Sound Snake fought the fused Soul Hall Dou Zun, but its spatial control overwhelmed their attacks. Just as it immobilized Qing Lin and reached for her, its soul body exploded, and a mysterious white-clad figure began drawing in the black mist.

• The three Black Robe Dou Zongs fused into a Soul Hall Dou Zun, which threatened to take Qing Lin's soul.
• Qing Lin summoned the Seven-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, but the Soul Hall Dou Zun blocked its lava pillars and battered it with a Mountain Suppressing Palm.
• Qing Lin rode the Six-Winged Cicada Sound Snake into battle, and its sonic attack briefly tore apart the Soul Hall Dou Zun's soul body before it reassembled.
• The Soul Hall Dou Zun imprisoned Qing Lin and the Six-Winged Cicada Sound Snake in space and reached to seize her.
• The Soul Hall Dou Zun's soul body suddenly exploded, and a white-clad figure drew the resulting black mist into its raised hand.

Bai Ge rescued Qing Lin from Soul Hall and arrived at the battlefield, where his overwhelming power defeated and captured the Anti-Jia Ma Alliance’s experts. He offered the prisoners a choice between submitting to him or dying, while warning that their sects and relatives would suffer if they refused.

• Bai Ge appeared after using Spirit Seizing and General Dispatching to seize the Soul Hall Dou Zun’s soul, and Qing Lin told him she was unharmed.
• Bai Ge took Qing Lin to the battlefield and used his Gravity Domain to slam the Anti-Jia Ma Alliance’s Dou Zongs into the ground.
• Bai Ge used his Heavenly Demon Force Field to capture the enemy Dou Huangs and Dou Zongs, while the Jia Ma Empire’s experts greeted him.
• Bai Ge declared that the Jia Ma Empire would absorb the enemy nations and offered the captives submission under a Soul Mark or death.
• Bai Ge warned that prisoners who refused would have their sects abolished and their relatives executed.

Bai Ge forced the captured Anti-Jia Ma Alliance experts to choose between submission and death. After killing Yan Shan and Hai Wuya for claiming they would rather die, he asked the others to choose, and the Heavenly Poison Elder began offering a dramatic confession.

• Bai Ge held the Anti-Jia Ma Alliance experts suspended in the air and demanded that they submit or die.
• Yan Shan and Hai Wuya pretended to reject submission, hoping to yield later without losing face.
• Bai Ge took their declarations at face value and killed both with Sword Qi.
• Bai Ge asked the remaining captives whether they would submit or choose death, calling himself kind.
• The Heavenly Poison Elder confessed that the alliance had started the war and bowed to Bai Ge in gratitude for giving them a chance to redeem themselves.

The Heavenly Poison Elder persuaded Bai Ge to accept the Anti-Jia Ma Alliance experts’ surrender by framing their invasion as a sin they could atone for. Bai Ge planted Soul Marks in the former enemies and sent them to stop the fighting.

• The Heavenly Poison Elder presented the Anti-Jia Ma Alliance as the aggressors and described surrender as a chance to repent, while flattering Bai Ge.
• The other Anti-Jia Ma Alliance experts followed the Heavenly Poison Elder, weeping and declaring their remorse and intent to atone.
• Bai Ge planted Soul Marks in each expert to punish or destroy them if they betrayed him.
• Bai Ge released the experts and ordered them to go to the battlefield and stop the war.
• The Anti-Jia Ma Alliance experts agreed and blushed at Bai Ge’s reminder that their sins were costing soldiers’ lives.