Chapter Summaries

Ling Li clashed with the Five Elders of Gold Devourer, demonstrating that he could tear through space but struggling against their coordinated attacks. Discovering that Lust suppressed Wrath’s destabilizing effects, he refused to retreat and unleashed his full strength as the fight escalated.

• Ling Li’s spatial attack collided with Jinfeng’s claw, unleashing a devastating shockwave that wiped out life across a hundred-li radius beyond Tianri Mountain’s protective barrier.
• Jinfeng, Jinlin, and Jinshan attacked Ling Li in turns, exploiting the Tianmu Mountain Range’s fog to obstruct his perception and wear him down.
• Ling Li realized that the incomplete Lust he had obtained from Zi Yan suppressed the restless emotions caused by Wrath.
• Jinhuo offered to welcome Ling Li and his companions as honored guests if he surrendered the Mysterious Flame, but Ling Li refused and threatened to destroy it rather than hand it over.
• Ling Li announced that he had not yet used his full strength and erupted in black-and-white flames that formed a towering pillar around him.

Ling Li turned the Energy Tide to his advantage and killed all five Gold Devouring Rat elders. He addressed the witnesses below, many of whom had noticed his connection to the Wind Thunder Pavilion and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

• The Yin Yang Twin Flames absorbed the Energy Tide, and Ling Li let its energy flood into his body despite the Five Elders of Gold Devourer expecting him to be overwhelmed.
• Ling Li burst from the flames and used Shadow Blood Flash with the Three Thousand Lightning Movement to ambush Jinshi, cutting off his left arm.
• Ling Li pursued Jinshi, pinned him with Dark Gravity, and killed him, absorbing his blood and claiming his Seventh-Tier Magic Core.
• Ling Li used his speed to kill the remaining four elders and collected their magic cores as their bodies turned to ash.
• Spectators below recognized Ling Li's movement technique and bone wings, and Ling Li asked them whether they had enjoyed the show.

Ling Li slaughtered the Gold Devouring Rat Clan and waited at Tianshan Platform while Zi Yan and Xia Mang used the Tianshan Blood Pool to advance. Zi Yan emerged as a Dou Zong and gave Ling Li a magical core that he recognized as belonging to a false ninth-tier Half-Saint.

• Ling Li left the Earth Demon Puppet to guard Zi Yan and hunted Seventh-Tier Demonic Beasts while the Tianshan Blood Pool remained open.
• After the pool faded, Ling Li killed the last two Gold Devouring Rats and watched the other participants leave in awe of his strength.
• Three days later, Zi Yan emerged as a Dou Zong and Xia Mang advanced from a Five-Star to a Seven-Star Dou Huang.
• Ling Li noticed Zi Yan's sadness, and she showed him a dark-red magical core from a false ninth-tier Half-Saint.
• Ling Li realized the magical core had likely sustained the Tianshan Blood Pool and could greatly increase his own strength.

Ling Li comforted Zi Yan after she admitted she feared being separated from him, and promised they would stay together. Zi Yan regained her cheerful mood, while Ling Li suspected that Ancient Dragon Island had sensed her Dragon Emperor Bloodline and would try to reclaim her.

• Ling Li postponed confronting Yellow Springs Pavilion and planned to travel through the Northern Region with Zi Yan and Xia Mang first.
• Zi Yan threw herself into Ling Li's arms, cried that she did not want to leave him, and asked him not to let them be separated.
• Ling Li promised to stay with Zi Yan and said they could flee if they could not defeat whoever threatened them.
• Zi Yan made Ling Li seal their promise with a pinky swear and thumbprint, then relaxed and resumed eating.
• Ling Li considered the Gu Clan, Soul Clan, Zhu Kun, and Ancient Dragon Island as possible threats, and suspected Ancient Dragon Island had sensed Zi Yan's breakthrough.

Zi Yan’s breakthrough awakened the Dragon Emperor Bloodline, prompting East Dragon Island to send Hei Qing to retrieve her while Ling Li worried about the Great Void Dragons’ intentions. The group reached Poisonous City on their way to Yellow Springs Pavilion, where Zi Yan spotted something interesting at a vendor’s stall.

• Zi Yan’s breakthrough to Dou Zong caused the crystal on Ancient Dragon Island to release the Dragon Emperor’s pressure.
• Zhu Huo gave Hei Qing the Dragon’s Eye and ordered him to bring Zi Yan back to East Dragon Island.
• Ling Li decided he needed greater strength to keep the Great Void Dragons from taking Zi Yan away.
• Ling Li, Zi Yan, and Xia Mang traveled through the Northern Region toward Yellow Springs Pavilion and arrived at Poisonous City.
• Zi Yan stopped eating Half-Beastman Jerky and pointed out something good at a stall.

Ling Li bought a rare Seven-Colored Raw Stone after spotting a hidden eighth-colored line, then learned it came from Yellow Springs River. He left with the river and Yellow Springs Pavilion in mind as possible sources of even rarer stones.

• Zi Yan spotted a Seven-Colored Raw Stone at a vendor’s stall, and Ling Li recognized that she wanted it for Medusa.
• Ling Li examined the stone and detected a faint eighth-colored line, realizing it might be an Eight-Colored Raw Stone.
• Ling Li paid the stall owner four Seventh-Tier Magic Cores for the stone, accepting the seller’s asking price of six Seventh-grade Pills.
• Ling Li asked where the stone had been found, and the stall owner said it came from downstream of Yellow Springs River.
• Ling Li left, thinking that Yellow Springs River and Yellow Springs Pavilion might hold more raw stones.

Ling Li and Zi Yan traced the Yellow Springs River’s poison to the Calamity Poison Maiden and suspected the river connected to Myriad Serpent Gorge. Ling Li, Zi Yan, and Xia Mang approached Yellow Springs Pavilion, where Ling Li killed a gate guard after confirming Wang Chen’s emblem belonged to the sect.

• Ling Li searched the Yellow Springs River for more colored raw stones but found none, then tested its water and fought off its frost and poison.
• Zi Yan identified the river’s water as the same as that in Myriad Serpent Gorge and explained that the Calamity Poison Maiden’s death had poisoned the river decades earlier.
• Ling Li decided to visit Yellow Springs Pavilion with Zi Yan and Xia Mang, intending to confront the sect openly.
• A group of Yellow Springs Pavilion guards confronted them, and Ling Li showed their leader Wang Chen’s emblem to confirm it belonged to the sect.
• After the Dou Huang guard confirmed the emblem’s ownership, Ling Li killed him with a claw strike.

Ling Li confronted Yellow Springs Venerable at Yellow Springs Pavilion over Wang Chen’s death, but Yellow Springs Venerable attacked him to seize his Mysterious Flame. Ling Li and Zi Yan avoided the attack with their coordinated abilities, leaving Yellow Springs Venerable convinced he could take their treasures.

• Ling Li killed the fleeing Yellow Springs Pavilion disciples and blocked Yellow Springs Venerable’s probing attack with his dark Mysterious Flame.
• Ling Li introduced himself and threw Wang Chen’s headless corpse before Yellow Springs Venerable, demanding an explanation for Wang Chen’s attack.
• Yellow Springs Venerable demanded Ling Li’s Mysterious Flame and launched a lethal strike, frightening Xia Mang with its spatial power.
• Ling Li tossed Xia Mang aside, and Zi Yan blocked Yellow Springs Venerable’s spatial crack with a purple barrier.
• Ling Li and Zi Yan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to evade Yellow Springs Venerable’s attack, and he mistook them for Wind Thunder Pavilion disciples.

Ling Li overwhelmed Yellow Springs Venerable in battle, while Zi Yan protected him from the spatial shockwaves. Yellow Springs Venerable tried to surrender and invoke the Nine Nether Nether Python clan, but Ling Li killed him and drained his body dry.

• Yellow Springs Venerable attacked Ling Li with Yellow Springs Tornado, filling the battlefield with poisoned river water and spatial fissures.
• Ling Li countered with a tornado of Golden Lightning and Yin Yang Twin Flames, blasting Yellow Springs Venerable back.
• Zi Yan raised a Spatial Barrier that effortlessly stopped the spatial shockwave, and Yellow Springs Venerable surrendered.
• Ling Li attacked again despite Yellow Springs Venerable's surrender, and Yellow Springs Venerable invoked the Nine Nether Nether Python clan and its Half-Saint elder Yao Han.
• Zi Yan dismissed the Nine Nether Nether Python clan as unworthy, and Ling Li plunged Dark Night into Yellow Springs Venerable's heart and drained him into a withered corpse.

Ling Li killed Yellow Springs Venerable and wiped out Yellow Springs Pavilion, sparing a Starfall Pavilion disciple who told him about the upcoming Four Pavilion Conference. He decided to attend the gathering at Starfall Pavilion, hoping Yao Chen would appear, when a pursuer's shout interrupted his thoughts.

• Ling Li stored Yellow Springs Venerable's ring and considered killing more Dou Zuns to strengthen Dark Night, but rejected slaughtering another pavilion just for its gains.
• Ling Li burned through Yellow Springs Pavilion's defensive barrier with Yin Flame, then killed its elders, deacons, and other members, leaving one Starfall Pavilion disciple alive.
• The surviving disciple told Ling Li that Starfall Pavilion would host the Four Pavilion Conference and that Wind Venerable had invited Yellow Springs Venerable.
• Ling Li let the disciple go and considered whether Yao Chen would risk attending the conference, then heard someone shout, "Little thief, where do you think you're running?!"

Ling Li and Zi Yan looted Yellow Springs Pavilion’s warehouse and discovered that its most valuable treasure was a badly abused Eighth-grade Pill Beast. After Ling Li drained the beast to improve Dark Night, the group fled, and nearby factions fought over the abandoned territory while the Nine Nether Nether Python clan never appeared.

• Ling Li and Zi Yan searched Yellow Springs Pavilion’s warehouse, where Ling Li found the Earth-class Dark Devouring Hand and an imprisoned lizard-like beast.
• Ling Li recognized the lizard as a ruined Eighth-grade Pill Beast whose blood Yellow Springs Venerable had repeatedly drained and contaminated.
• Ling Li killed the Pill Beast and drained its remaining blood into Dark Night, while Zi Yan refused to eat any of it.
• Ling Li’s group finished looting the warehouse and left quickly, wary that the Nine Nether Nether Python clan might retaliate.
• After the group departed, Ice River Valley and other nearby factions competed for Yellow Springs Pavilion’s territory, but the expected Nine Nether Nether Python clan members never appeared.

After leaving Yellow Springs Pavilion, Ling Li, Zi Yan, and Xia Mang traveled through Space Channels toward Starfall Pavilion in the southern Central Continent. They reached the final stretch of their two-month journey with Ling Li stronger in cultivation and spatial power.

• Ling Li and the others followed Yellow Springs River upstream but found neither its source nor the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s burial grounds.
• Ling Li chose a route to Starfall Pavilion and took the group to Black Flame City to use its Space Channel.
• Zi Yan tried to reassure Ling Li about traveling through the space wormhole, and Ling Li comforted her while Xia Mang operated the Space Ship.
• After two months in the Space Channel, Xia Mang announced that they were nearing the southern region of the Central Continent.
• Ling Li gave Xia Mang a recovery pill and revealed that absorbing the fake Ninth-Tier Magic Core had raised him to Fighting Sect Five Stars and improved his understanding of Spatial Power.
• Xia Mang suggested that they use another travel method on their return journey.

Ling Li, Xia Mang, and Zi Yan arrived in Starfall City and headed toward Starfall Pavilion in the Heavenly Star Mountain Range. Ling Li failed to find Yao Chen and considered using the Four Pavilions Gathering to assess the pavilion masters and pursue his ambitions.

• Ling Li woke Zi Yan as their Space Ship passed through the wormhole and brought the group safely to Starfall City.
• Xia Mang and Ling Li observed the city’s many beastmen and Half-Beastmen, who lived alongside humans and magical beasts under Starfall Pavilion’s strength.
• Ling Li searched for Yao Chen with his Soul Power but could not find him, suspecting Yao Chen was keeping out of sight because of the Dou Zuns gathered at Starfall Pavilion.
• Ling Li, Xia Mang, and Zi Yan joined the crowds heading toward the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, where Starfall Pavilion was located.
• Ling Li assessed the mountain range’s defenses and considered using the gathering to judge the other pavilion masters, hoping to find a path toward reaching the Dou Zun realm.

Ling Li, Zi Yan, and Xia Mang arrived at Starfall Pavilion for the Four Pavilions Gathering, but Ling Li declined the pavilion elder’s offer of special treatment and entered to look for someone. At the gate, Elder Dan recognized Ling Li as a likely Rank 7 Alchemist carrying a Mysterious Flame and began plotting to obtain it.

• Ling Li saw Starfall Pavilion’s crowded mountain gate, guarded by numerous powerful disciples and high-level Dou Zong elders.
• Zi Yan declined to compete, and Xia Mang said he was too old for the under-thirty gathering; Ling Li also chose not to participate.
• Elder Dan stopped Ling Li and offered to escort the group to a private room, but Ling Li declined and continued into the mountain with Zi Yan and Xia Mang.
• Elder Dan told Elder Tian that Ling Li was likely a Rank 7 Alchemist because nearby flames reacted to him and his medicinal scent suggested seventh-grade ingredients.
• Elder Tian and Elder Dan discussed the Mysterious Flame they believed Ling Li possessed, and Elder Dan revealed that he had already encountered another young Dou Zong with a Mysterious Flame.

Ling Li, Zi Yan, and Xia Mang entered Starfall Pavilion’s independent space and discovered it had formed around a massive fallen star rather than being built by a Dou Saint. At the crowded Four Pavilions Gathering venue, Ling Li saw Wind Venerable, Thunder Venerable, and Sword Venerable seated above the plaza, while Yellow Springs Venerable’s seat remained empty.

• A Starfall Pavilion disciple opened a spatial gateway with an ancient jade token, and Ling Li’s group followed him into the hidden space.
• Zi Yan explained that the space had formed from the fallen star’s power and was only city-sized, easing Ling Li’s concern that a Dou Saint guarded the pavilion.
• Ling Li examined the fallen star and considered devouring its unusual Spatial Power before heading with Zi Yan and Xia Mang to the gathering venue.
• Ling Li scanned the huge crowd for Yao Chen but found no trace of him, then took Zi Yan and Xia Mang to a high vantage point in a giant tree.
• Ling Li identified Wind Venerable, Thunder Venerable, and Sword Venerable seated above the plaza, with Yellow Springs Venerable’s seat empty.

Ling Li watched Starfall Pavilion’s spies while the Four Pavilions Gathering was delayed by Yellow Springs Venerable’s absence and tensions over the destruction of Wind Thunder North Pavilion. Wind Venerable eventually opened the competition, and one hundred participants entered the arena for the free-for-all.

• Ling Li sensed three Starfall Pavilion spies watching him and decided to deal with them and Starfall Pavilion later.
• Wind Venerable waited more than two hours for Yellow Springs Venerable, whose messenger had died and whose pavilion sent no representative.
• Sword Venerable and Thunder Venerable argued over the destruction of Wind Thunder North Pavilion and nearly left to investigate Yellow Springs Pavilion, but Wind Venerable persuaded them to stay.
• Wind Venerable sent one hundred participants, including Tang Ying and a woman in colorful robes, into the plaza as Starfall Pavilion experts set up a defensive formation.
• Wind Venerable rang the bronze bell, announced the free-for-all rules, and declared the Four Pavilions Gathering begun.

The melee stage of the Four Pavilions Gathering began, and Ling Li assessed the pavilion disciples while noticing Feng Qing’er’s unusual aura. His gaze drew the wrong conclusions from Xia Mang and irritated Zi Yan, who offered to capture Feng Qing’er for him.

• Wind Venerable explained that four of the eight places were effectively reserved for the Four Pavilions, leaving ninety-six contestants to fight for the remaining four.
• The contestants faced off in tense silence until one launched an attack and started a melee, igniting the crowd.
• Ling Li watched the arena and noted the killing intent of the red-haired Starfall Pavilion disciple and the hatred-driven Wind Thunder Pavilion woman, Feng Qing’er.
• Ling Li sensed that Feng Qing’er carried an aura resembling that of his bone wings, along with another presence that seemed to share his origins.
• Xia Mang mistook Ling Li’s attention toward Feng Qing’er for a peculiar preference, while Zi Yan angrily offered to catch the woman for him.

Ling Li watched the Four Pavilions Gathering selection dwindle to ten fighters and recognized Yao Chen hiding among them. When the other contestants drove Yao Chen into Feng Qing'er’s territory, he revealed a Pale White Flame to counter her Life Devouring Flame.

• Zi Yan stopped Ling Li from provoking Feng Qing'er, and Ling Li turned his attention to the brutal melee on the square.
• After a quarter of an hour, only ten of the original ninety-two contestants remained, and Ling Li recognized Yao Chen disguised as a white-haired young man in green robes.
• The nine contestants formed a ring around Yao Chen and pressured him toward the Four Pavilions fighters, hoping to force them to attack him.
• Tang Ying refused to intervene, so the nine drove Yao Chen into Feng Qing'er's territory, where her Life Devouring Flame threatened him.
• Yao Chen revealed his Pale White Flame and engulfed Feng Qing'er's encircling black flames.

Yao Chen revealed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, drawing the greed of the powerful figures at the arena. Wind Venerable tried to kill him and claim the flame, but Ling Li intervened and challenged Wind Venerable’s claim.

• Yao Chen unleashed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and Elder Dan recognized it as the flame ranked eleventh on the Flame Rankings.
• Wind Venerable attacked Yao Chen, claiming that he had stolen a treasure belonging to Starfall Pavilion.
• Yao Chen prepared to hide inside his Storage Ring and abandon the flame to escape Wind Venerable’s killing blow.
• Thunder Venerable rushed in to seize the flame, while Ling Li struck Wind Venerable’s attack aside with his blade.
• Ling Li challenged Wind Venerable to prove that the Bone Spirit Cold Flame belonged to Starfall Pavilion.

Ling Li and Yao Chen faced Wind Venerable’s accusation over the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, while Thunder Venerable and Sword Venerable intervened and recruited them. Ling Li chose Starfall Pavilion, leaving his reasons and the factions’ response to unfold.

• Wind Venerable continued attacking Ling Li and Yao Chen, insisting that Yao Chen had stolen Starfall Pavilion’s Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Thunder Venerable destroyed Wind Venerable’s wind cones and challenged his claim, while Sword Venerable watched Ling Li’s blade.
• Yao Chen said he had obtained the Bone Spirit Cold Flame in a frigid land in the continent’s north and nearly died fusing with it.
• Thunder Venerable invited Ling Li and Yao Chen to join Starfall Pavilion, Sword Venerable offered them a place in Myriad Sword Pavilion, and Wind Venerable also asked them to join Starfall Pavilion.
• Ling Li put away Dark Night, walked toward Wind Venerable, and announced that he chose Starfall Pavilion.