Chapter Summaries

Xu Kun found Twisted Treant Maokai and let it ambush Hao Jian and Su Xiaoxiao, hoping the crisis would reveal their true feelings and give Su Xiaoxiao a chance to prove herself. As Hao Jian neared death protecting her, Su Xiaoxiao awakened her bloodline and transformed into her Succubus True Form.

• Xu Kun used Shen-bao's senses and his Fiery Eyes of Truth to find Maokai hidden in distorted space, then recorded the boss's details.
• Xu Kun led Shen-bao away and allowed Maokai to target Hao Jian and Su Xiaoxiao, while Yang Yao and the others watched from a distance.
• Maokai's explosive seeds poisoned Hao Jian, and its thorny vines trapped and wounded him as he shielded Su Xiaoxiao.
• Xu Kun stopped Yang Yao from intervening, explaining that he wanted Su Xiaoxiao to fight back and protect Hao Jian herself.
• As Hao Jian fainted, Su Xiaoxiao erupted in red light that drove back the vines and announced her bloodline awakening as a Succubus True Form.

Su Xiaoxiao awakened her Blood Moon Succubus bloodline and fought Twisted Treant Maokai while protecting the unconscious Hao Jian. After Maokai captured her, Hao Jian broke free and killed him, then carried Su Xiaoxiao away.

• Su Xiaoxiao transformed into a Blood Moon Succubus, escaped Maokai's vines, and entrusted the unconscious Hao Jian to Xu Kun.
• Su Xiaoxiao attacked Maokai, but he used his skills to wound her and trap her in a giant wooden hand.
• Hao Jian recovered enough to reach Su Xiaoxiao, and her bloodthirsty aura began to fade when she saw him.
• Hao Jian activated Burn the Boats, cut Su Xiaoxiao free, and caught her as she fell.
• Hao Jian destroyed Maokai with the Rongjin Sunset Blade and carried Su Xiaoxiao away.

After Su Xiaoxiao fell unconscious from using Succubus True Form, Xu Kun told Hao Jian about her Blood Moon Succubus heritage and the dangers their relationship could bring. Xu Kun found Fusang Wood among the Twisted Treant Maokai’s drops, but commotion behind him interrupted him before he could decide whether to use it.

• Hao Jian carried the unconscious Su Xiaoxiao back to the group, and Xu Kun explained that Succubus True Form left her in a deathlike state for five minutes.
• Xu Kun revealed Su Xiaoxiao’s Blood Moon Succubus bloodline and warned Hao Jian about her painful past, uncertain future, and the Succubus Race potentially taking her away.
• Hao Jian vowed to protect Su Xiaoxiao and face her hardships and dangers alongside her.
• Xu Kun collected Maokai’s drops, including two SS-tier skill books, Myriad Transformations and Nature’s Grasp, which he intended for Su Xiaoxiao.
• Xu Kun discovered that the SSS-tier Fusang Wood could summon the Fusang Tree’s projection and open the Eternal Divine Tree’s final trial, then heard someone behind him cry out, “No, don’t come over...”

Su Xiaoxiao resisted Hao Jian’s confession, fearing that her Blood Moon Succubus Bloodline would bring him suffering and that the Succubus Race would persecute her. Xu Kun and the others revealed their identities and pledged their support, helping the couple reunite; Su Xiaoxiao then began explaining her origins.

• Hao Jian confessed his love and asked Su Xiaoxiao to face the future with him, but she refused because of her bloodline, her coming persecution, and her desire to seek justice alone.
• Su Xiaoxiao kissed Hao Jian goodbye and prepared to leave the Eternal Divine Tree Secret Realm, but Xu Kun returned and introduced himself and the team members by their real names and IDs.
• Xu Kun declared that Su Xiaoxiao’s troubles were the team’s troubles and asked whether she loved Hao Jian; Su Xiaoxiao accepted, and she and Hao Jian embraced and confessed their feelings.
• Su Xiaoxiao worried that her mixed blood made her unworthy of Hao Jian, so Sikong Ting, Yang Yao, and Xu Kun explained their own mixed or nonhuman origins and affirmed her place among the Human Race.
• Su Xiaoxiao said she considered herself part of the Human Race but was ashamed of her succubus bloodline, then began telling the team about her origins.

Su Xiaoxiao recounted how the Succubus Race plundered human women during the Martial Zenith Era and described her mother’s enslavement after she was captured as a child. She revealed that her mother awakened a dual-element talent, became a celebrated attraction, and was bought at auction by a Succubus prince whom Su Xiaoxiao must call her father.

• Su Xiaoxiao explained that the Succubus Race raided humanity for captives to address its population decline, sorting and exploiting the people it seized.
• Su Xiaoxiao said her mother was captured at thirteen after witnessing her family’s slaughter, then spent five years enduring addictive pills and brutal conditioning.
• Su Xiaoxiao explained that her mother stayed with the Succubus Race rather than escape because she wanted to leave her daughter a chance to survive.
• Su Xiaoxiao revealed that her mother awakened a dual-element talent and was promoted as a premier attraction by the brothel that had trained her.
• Su Xiaoxiao said a prince of the Succubus Race won her mother’s first-night auction, making him her father.

Su Xiaoxiao told Xu Kun and the others how her mother protected her from the Blood Moon Lineage, escaped with her, and died trying to save her. She explained that Aunt Qingyi rescued her and left her a token to identify Qingyi’s son, and Xu Kun recognized something about it.

• Xu Kun questioned Su Xiaoxiao about her age, and she explained that her mother had concealed her growth to keep the Blood Moon Lineage from discovering her.
• Su Xiaoxiao recounted how her mother fled the Succubus Race, raised her among a small race, and died protecting her when Su Xiaoxiao was five.
• Aunt Qingyi rescued Su Xiaoxiao, buried her mother, arranged for adoptive parents, and left her a token meant to identify her son.
• Su Xiaoxiao told Hao Jian she hoped to repay Aunt Qingyi’s son, and Hao Jian promised to help her.
• Xu Kun went blank and asked Su Xiaoxiao to show him the token.

Xu Kun and Su Xiaoxiao discovered that their matching jade pendants linked Xu Kun to his mother, Mu Qingxuan, and revealed his Phoenix heritage. Xu Kun welcomed Su Xiaoxiao as his younger sister, promised to avenge her family, and showered her with gifts as she joined his team.

• Su Xiaoxiao gave Xu Kun her crescent-shaped jade pendant, and he merged it with his childhood pendant to create the Luan-Phoenix Harmony, awaken more of his Divine Phoenix Bloodline, and gain Phoenix Flight to the Ninth Heaven.
• Xu Kun realized that his mother, Mu Qingxuan, was Kite God and wondered whether his absent father was a powerful dragon, while his companions gave him space to process the revelation.
• Xu Kun confirmed his connection to Su Xiaoxiao's Aunt Qingyi, and he and Su Xiaoxiao agreed to treat each other as siblings despite Hao Jian's protests.
• Xu Kun promised to avenge the Succubus Race's harm to Su Xiaoxiao and arranged for Yang Yao to bring her to live with the group in Jiangnan Base City.
• Xu Kun gave Su Xiaoxiao the Yaoshan Casket Zither, two SS-tier skill books, Divine Tree Spring, and Wood Attribute Essences, while Yang Yao and Zhan Rourou gave her equipment.
• Su Xiaoxiao called Shen-bao her little sister-in-law, and Shen-bao gave her the Azure Sea Tide Song.

Shen-bao gave Su Xiaoxiao an Inheritance Stone containing the devastating secret art Azure Sea Tide Song, and Xu Kun supplied a rare divine flute so she could learn it. Su Xiaoxiao resolved to use the art for both healing and revenge, but Shen-bao warned that adapting it to both wind and wood power might overwhelm her soul.

• Shen-bao explained that the Inheritance Stone held Azure Sea Tide Song, a secret art whose original soul-powered performance had annihilated all life across more than a hundred thousand square kilometers, and urged Su Xiaoxiao to accept it for revenge against the Succubus Race.
• Shen-bao told Su Xiaoxiao that wind power could widen the song's range while wood power might transform it into a healing art, and advised her to use a flute.
• Xu Kun gave Su Xiaoxiao a low-grade divine flute, Xia Bamboo Nine Sections, crafted by the legendary flute maker Ling Lun.
• Su Xiaoxiao embraced Xu Kun gratefully, then reassured Hao Jian that she had chosen him and joked with him about his shortcomings.
• Su Xiaoxiao asked whether she could carry Azure Sea Tide Song with both wind and wood power, and Shen-bao warned that attempting both might strain her soul beyond its limits.

Su Xiaoxiao chose to risk soul damage to combine two attributes while inheriting Azure Sea Tide Song, and she began absorbing the Inheritance Stone. As she remained in meditation, Xu Kun shared his divine artifacts with the group and gave Hao Jian the Guardian's Shackle; Yang Yao then asked about the Fusang Wood, which Xu Kun planned to use after Su Xiaoxiao finished inheriting.

• Shen-bao explained that using two attributes to modify Azure Sea Tide Song would demand enormous soul power and risk damaging Su Xiaoxiao's soul if she failed.
• Hao Jian urged Su Xiaoxiao to avoid the risk, but Xu Kun encouraged her to try, and she decided to grow stronger so she could fight the Succubus Race.
• Su Xiaoxiao sat down and began absorbing the Inheritance Stone as Shen-bao warned that the time required would depend on her soul power.
• Xu Kun spread out his divine artifacts for the group to choose from, and Sikong Ting, Yang Yao, Zhan Rourou, and Shen-bao selected items.
• Xu Kun gave Hao Jian the mid-grade divine artifact necklace Guardian's Shackle, whose abilities could strengthen him as a tank and improve his mobility.
• Yang Yao asked Xu Kun whether he had found Fusang Wood, and Xu Kun said he would summon the Fusang Divine Tree's projection after Su Xiaoxiao finished inheriting the secret art.

Su Xiaoxiao perfected the Azure Sea Tide Song into an SSS-tier skill by joining its power of death with the vitality of life. The team climbed toward the Eternal Divine Tree’s true challenge, where Xu Kun discovered that its Wind and Wood Golden Crow guardians were soulless constructs and sensed a stronger will above them.

• Su Xiaoxiao mastered the SSS-tier Azure Sea Tide Song, which could become a song of slaughter or a song of life according to her feelings.
• Xu Kun used the Fusang Wood to summon a rainbow bridge and led the team toward the true challenge at the Eternal Divine Tree.
• Thor recognized the Wind Golden Crow Haiji and Wood Golden Crow Mulin, but explained that their souls had been destroyed and their forms were created by the Haotian Pagoda’s rules.
• Xu Kun identified Haiji and Mulin as SS-tier bosses and learned that they had once served Odin before Loki killed them.
• Thor warned Xu Kun that a more powerful entity with a soul was watching from above the tree, just as the rest of the team arrived.

Xu Kun, Hao Jian, Sikong Ting, and Su Xiaoxiao coordinated their attacks against the two Golden Crow bosses on the Fusang Divine Tree. After Su Xiaoxiao’s Azure Sea Tide Song weakened the enemies and strengthened her allies, Hao Jian and Sikong Ting pinned them down so Xu Kun could finish them.

• Hao Jian used his earth wall and control abilities to confront the two Golden Crows, but Wood Golden Crow Mulin rooted him while Wind Golden Crow Haiji unleashed Storm Feather Blade.
• Sikong Ting activated Wind-Thunder True Body and used his lightning skills to batter the bosses as Su Xiaoxiao began playing Azure Sea Tide Song.
• Su Xiaoxiao’s flute first slowed the battle, then surged into a powerful melody that gathered the Wind Power, strengthened Sikong Ting and Hao Jian, and slammed the bosses with a giant wind palm.
• When Su Xiaoxiao faltered and stopped playing, Hao Jian drew the bosses’ attacks onto himself while Sikong Ting trapped them in Myriad Thunder Prison Pull.
• Sikong Ting flung the weakened bosses to Xu Kun, who killed them with Nine Thunder Annihilation.

Xu Kun and his team defeated the Wind Golden Crow - Haiji and Wood Golden Crow - Mulin, gaining two SS-tier pet eggs and valuable loot. Hao Jian and Sikong Ting each took an egg, while Xu Kun learned Haiji’s Storm Feather Blade skill.

• Xu Kun’s team defeated Haiji and Mulin and reached the secret realm’s experience limit.
• Xu Kun’s Heaven’s Blessing advanced the bosses’ S-tier pet eggs into SS-tier Wind Golden Crow and Wood Golden Crow eggs.
• Hao Jian and Sikong Ting initially returned the eggs because they could not afford to hatch them, but Xu Kun promised to provide the materials.
• Yang Yao assigned the Wind Golden Crow Egg to Hao Jian and the Wood Golden Crow Egg to Sikong Ting, matching their abilities and needs.
• Xu Kun looted the bosses, distributed the remaining materials, and learned the SS-tier Storm Feather Blade skill.

Xu Kun and his team climbed to the peak of the Eternal Divine Tree, where he hoped to uncover the truth about his mother, Mu Qingxuan. A mysterious voice welcomed them into the Phoenix Tree Shrine.

• Thor praised Xu Kun's team, and Xu Kun asked to be taken to the being atop the Divine Tree.
• Xu Kun told Yang Yao he suspected Mu Qingxuan had a hidden identity connected to the Kite God and that the answer might lie at the peak.
• Xu Kun tied the team together with the Dragon Binding Cord and warned them to retreat immediately if they faced danger.
• Xu Kun led everyone up through the Divine Tree until an unseen force carried them before the Phoenix Tree Shrine.
• The team received notice that they had entered the Eternal Divine Tree's SSS-tier peak, and the shrine's bronze gate opened as a voice invited them inside.

Xu Kun entered the Phoenix Tree Shrine and learned from Jumang that his mother was Mu Qingxuan, the Azure Phoenix and one of the Five Phoenixes. The revelation left the group speculating about Xu Kun’s family and status, while Zhan Rourou worried whether his mother would approve of her.

• Xu Kun led his companions through the Bronze Gate, where Jumang welcomed him warmly and revealed that she had been close to his mother, Little Qing.
• Jumang identified herself in the Myriad Races Bestiary as the God of Spring and explained how the Golden Crow Race destroyed her body and soul before the Azure Phoenix restored her divine soul.
• Jumang revealed that the Azure Phoenix had reincarnated as Mu Qingxuan, also known as Kite, and was Xu Kun’s mother.
• Su Xiaoxiao recognized Mu Qingxuan as the Kite God who had once saved her, while Zhan Rourou fretted that Xu Kun’s mother might not accept her.
• Hao Jian speculated that Xu Kun was the Phoenix Race’s little Crown Prince and invented a story about his parents, prompting Yang Yao, Zhan Rourou, and Su Xiaoxiao to punish him for insulting Xu Kun’s mother.

Goumang revealed that she had remained in the Phoenix Tree Shrine to honor Xu Kun’s mother and pass on her legacy, but she possessed Su Xiaoxiao’s body to escape her confinement. Xu Kun and his companions fought to free Xiaoxiao, and Sikong Ting launched a thunder attack against Goumang.

• Goumang returned the Myriad Races Bestiary to Xu Kun, who finally called her Auntie and believed she was his mother’s friend.
• Goumang explained that she could not leave the Phoenix Tree Shrine without vanishing, and that she had stayed to fulfill a promise to Xu Kun’s mother.
• Goumang recognized Su Xiaoxiao as the successor meant to inherit her duties, then merged her divine remnant into Xiaoxiao’s body.
• Xu Kun objected as Goumang declared she would control Xiaoxiao’s body, and Goumang trapped him behind a wall of wind.
• Hao Jian, Zhan Rourou, and Yang Yao attacked Goumang, but she overpowered them and injured them.
• Sikong Ting unleashed Heavenly Punishment Thunder, and Goumang showed a trace of alarm.

Goumang absorbed Sikong Ting’s lightning and nearly took complete control of Su Xiaoxiao’s body, but Shen-bao’s Soul Abyss let Su Xiaoxiao fight back. Goumang regained control by threatening Hao Jian, then turned to confront Xu Kun.

• Sikong Ting struck Goumang with the Wind-Thunder Golden Cudgel, but she absorbed the lightning, strengthened her remnant soul, and left him collapsed.
• Shen-bao used Mirage: Soul Abyss to force Su Xiaoxiao and Goumang to relive their deepest pain, then fainted from the effort.
• Su Xiaoxiao transformed into a Blood Moon Succubus and wrested control of half her body while Thor attacked Goumang.
• Goumang used Spring Ends, Flowers Wither to nearly destroy Thor, then threatened Hao Jian until Su Xiaoxiao stopped resisting in exchange for his safety.
• Goumang approached Xu Kun and asked him to obey, while Xu Kun challenged her and defended his mother.

Xu Kun tried to stop Goumang from taking over Su Xiaoxiao's body, but she used their shared body to make him hesitate. He lured Goumang into his soul and trapped her with Six Ding Divine Fire, beginning a desperate soul battle.

• Goumang continued transforming Su Xiaoxiao's body and warned Xu Kun that attacks would injure Su Xiaoxiao rather than drive her out.
• Xu Kun used a Barrier-Breaking Golden Needle, Extreme Ice Imprisonment, and Celestial Fire Divine Body, but Goumang resisted and threatened to destroy Su Xiaoxiao's soul.
• Xu Kun knelt and begged Goumang to spare Su Xiaoxiao, then held Chengying to his neck and threatened to kill himself if she refused.
• Goumang tried to enter Xu Kun's soul and put him to sleep, but Xu Kun drew her into his soul depths and struck her with Six Ding Divine Fire.
• Xu Kun sealed Goumang inside a space formed by Six Ding Divine Fire and declared that she would not leave.

Xu Kun’s soul duel with Goumang turned against him as her Wind of All Things and Wood Elemental Energy overwhelmed his Six Ding Divine Fire. His friends and Su Xiaoxiao sacrificed themselves to protect him, but Goumang transformed their soul bodies and Xu Kun into wood, leaving the battle silent.

• Goumang used the Wind of All Things and Wood Elemental Energy to turn Xu Kun’s Six Ding Divine Fire into nourishment and overpower him.
• Yang Yao and Sikong Ting entered Xu Kun’s soul to help, and Sikong Ting shattered Goumang’s palm strike.
• Hao Jian defended the others, endured Goumang’s attacks, and was transformed into wood by her Wood Elemental Energy.
• Xu Kun charged Goumang with his remaining divine fire, while the others burned their souls to unleash their strongest attacks; Goumang turned their attacks into wood.
• Su Xiaoxiao fused her soul with Goumang’s divine soul to protect Xu Kun, but Goumang transformed Xu Kun into wood as well.

Goumang sacrificed her divine soul to pass Wind of All Things and Wood Elemental Energy to Su Xiaoxiao, whose soul endured the inheritance and awakened as the Spring Wood God. The blessing restored the others’ souls and returned them to their bodies, leaving them alive and wondering what had happened.

• Goumang warned Thor to stay obediently by her nephew and used the Kongtong Seal’s life force to stabilize Shen-bao’s weakened soul.
• Goumang and Shen-bao discussed Shen-bao’s desire to bear a child with Goumang’s nephew, and Goumang promised he would not disappoint her.
• Goumang sacrificed her divine soul so Su Xiaoxiao could absorb Wind of All Things and Wood Elemental Energy and inherit her divine power.
• Su Xiaoxiao’s soul-body repeatedly collapsed and renewed itself until she absorbed both divine treasures and a divine mark appeared on her brow.
• Su Xiaoxiao’s blessing restored the souls of those turned into wood, strengthened Shen-bao and Thor, and sent everyone’s souls back into their bodies.
• The children awoke and asked whether they had survived.

Xu Kun and the others learned that Goumang had tested them before giving Su Xiaoxiao her inheritance, and Goumang’s remnant soul prepared to disappear. After Xu Kun proposed to Yang Yao with a divine ring, Goumang revealed that Azure Luan had left Xu Kun another treasure, but claiming it meant surviving a final trial as the shrine collapsed.

• Shen-bao explained that Goumang had tested the group and that Su Xiaoxiao was receiving her inheritance, while Xu Kun discovered the Kongtong Seal Fragment Goumang had used to preserve her soul.
• Goumang told Xu Kun that Su Xiaoxiao was a worthy inheritor, entrusted her to Hao Jian, and encouraged Yang Yao to support Xu Kun on his path.
• Xu Kun asked Goumang to witness his marriage to Yang Yao, proposed with the Jade Dew Ring, and placed it on her finger beside his Golden Wind.
• As Goumang’s soul faded, she revealed that Azure Luan had left Xu Kun a treasure atop the divine tree and made her remaining strength the final obstacle to reaching it.
• The Phoenix Tree Shrine collapsed, the Eternal Divine Tree surged upward, and its crushing pressure sent Xu Kun and the others falling from the clouds.