Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ling secured the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva at the Black Emperor Sect auction, then left Black Emperor City with his companions despite knowing that powerful factions would pursue them. Outside the city, Fang Yan and a temporary alliance confronted them, setting the stage for a battle.

• Mo Tianxing selected Xiao Ling, under the name Mr. Tang San, as the winner of the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva auction and warned the other guests against causing trouble in Black Emperor City.
• Xiao Yan asked Elder Huo whether they should accompany Xiao Ling, but Elder Huo chose to observe from outside the city and let Xiao Ling handle the coming conflict.
• Xiao Ling exchanged the Sect Breaking Pill and Spirit Breath Preservation Pill for the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, then departed with his companions as Mo Tianxing secretly prepared to follow the action outside the city.
• On a dark mountaintop, Xiao Ling challenged the gathered experts to take the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, but none attacked until he began to leave.
• Fang Yan and Old Man Yingshan joined other experts in a temporary alliance, and Fang Yan appeared with Magic Flame Valley elders to block Xiao Ling's path.

Xiao Ling and his companions fought off a coalition of Dou Zong experts and greedy onlookers seeking the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva. After Xiao Ling and Zi Yan quickly defeated several opponents, Mo Tianxing appeared with the Black Emperor Sect, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Fang Yan, Old Man Yingshan, three other Dou Zong experts, and more than twenty Dou Wang and Dou Emperor experts surrounded Xiao Ling and his companions to seize the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva.
• Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Zi Yan launched their attacks against the gathered enemies, revealing that three of them were Dou Zong-level fighters and that Little Purple was a powerful magical beast.
• Xiao Ling crushed two Dou Zong experts, killed them, captured their souls, and took their Storage Rings and corpses.
• Medusa fought Old Man Yingshan evenly, Xiao Yi Xian gained a slight advantage against her opponent, and Zi Yan and Little Purple overwhelmed Fang Yan and the Black Horners' forces.
• Zi Yan badly injured Golden Horn with a single punch, then Silver Horn also lost to her as the fighting around them intensified.
• Fang Yan urged Mo Tianxing to join the battle, and Mo Tianxing appeared with the Black Emperor Sect's Dou Wang and Dou Huang experts.

Xiao Ling defeated the Five-star Dou Zong while Mo Tianxing and the others tried to flee, but Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Zi Yan intercepted them. Old Ghost Di Mo then arrived with Magic Flame Valley’s elites, and Xiao Ling revealed that he had already prepared a plan to deal with him.

• Mo Tianxing attacked Little Purple and Medusa to cover his escape, while Fang Yan and Old Man Yingshan fled with him and abandoned their Life Transformation Fire.
• Xiao Ling sent Xiao Yi Xian to help Medusa and Zi Yan intercept Mo Tianxing’s group, then killed the Five-star Dou Zong who had been left behind.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Zi Yan stopped Mo Tianxing’s group, and Xiao Ling turned his attention to Old Ghost Di Mo’s approaching force.
• Old Ghost Di Mo arrived with Magic Flame Valley’s elites, and Mo Tianxing and Fang Yan joined him while Fang Yan begged him to restore their lost strength.
• Elder Huo warned Xiao Ling that Old Ghost Di Mo was a powerful Dou Zong and offered his support, but Xiao Ling said he had already arranged a way to deal with him.

Xiao Ling confronted Old Ghost Di Mo over Magic Flame Valley’s attack and refused to surrender the Life Transformation Fire or Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva. He revealed a Heaven-grade Sky Demon Puppet, and as Old Ghost Di Mo fled, the puppet killed Old Man Yingshan and attacked the trapped survivors.

• Old Ghost Di Mo demanded the Life Transformation Fire and Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva as compensation for his injured elders, but Xiao Ling refused and stored the Life Transformation Fire away.
• Xiao Ling summoned a Heaven-grade Sky Demon Puppet, shocking Old Ghost Di Mo into apologizing and offering Fang Yan and the others as scapegoats.
• Xiao Ling ordered the puppet to attack Old Ghost Di Mo and his companions, and Old Ghost Di Mo shoved Old Man Yingshan into its path before fleeing.
• The puppet punched through Old Man Yingshan’s chest and killed him, while an icy barrier blocked the others from escaping.
• The puppet descended on Mo Tianxing and Fang Yan, who could not mount an effective defense.

Xiao Ling and the Sky Demon Puppet defeated Old Ghost Di Mo, who tried to escape with a final freezing attack and then a spatial technique. Xiao Ling exposed the escape, had Zi Yan drag him out, and killed him, leaving his body available for puppet refinement.

• Xiao Ling sent the Sky Demon Puppet after Old Ghost Di Mo, whose ice walls failed to stop its punch and left him gravely injured against a cliff.
• Xiao Ling ordered the puppet to finish Old Ghost Di Mo without damaging his body, but Old Ghost Di Mo burned his blood essence and unleashed Blood Cold Extreme Freeze Heaven.
• The Sky Demon Puppet shattered Old Ghost Di Mo's freezing attack, and the ensuing icy mist hid his escape into a spatial rift.
• Xiao Ling sensed Old Ghost Di Mo nearby and asked Zi Yan to find him; Zi Yan tore open the space and pulled out the severely wounded Dou Zong.
• Xiao Ling recognized Old Ghost Di Mo's Spatial Blood Escape Technique and killed him with a streak of Dou Qi through the heart.

After defeating Old Ghost Di Mo, Xiao Ling sent his companions back to Jia Nan Academy and stayed behind to gather the battlefield’s souls and bodies. He then flew to Black Emperor City to plunder the Black Corner Region’s resources before news of the fallen powers sparked chaos.

• Xiao Ling sealed Old Ghost Di Mo’s soul, claimed his ring and body, and told Elder Huo he could obtain a flame comparable to a Heavenly Flame through a secret art in Magic Flame Valley’s treasury.
• Xiao Ling sent Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Elder Huo back to Jia Nan Academy, declining Elder Huo’s suggestion that he establish a force in the Black Corner Region.
• After his companions departed, Xiao Ling used the Myriad Soul Banner to absorb the battlefield’s souls, including those of Mo Tianxing and Old Man Yingshan, and collected the bodies of the Dou Zong experts.
• Xiao Ling flew to Black Emperor City while it remained orderly, intending to seize its resources before news of the Black Emperor Sect’s leaders’ deaths brought chaos.

Xiao Ling looted the Black Corner Region’s factions before returning to Magic Flame Valley and ordering the Sky Demon Puppet to slaughter its members. He destroyed the valley’s defenses, sent Old Ghost Di Mo’s soul to gather the dead, and reached the treasury door, which he smashed open.

• Xiao Ling plundered the Black Emperor Sect’s auction house and headquarters, then raided other factions’ treasure vaults across the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Ling returned to Magic Flame Valley and ordered the Sky Demon Puppet to leave no one alive.
• Xiao Ling killed the Dou Emperor and Dou Wang elders with Skyfire Meteor as the puppet massacred the valley’s members.
• Xiao Ling uncovered Magic Flame Valley’s secret passage and sent Old Ghost Di Mo’s soul to collect the fallen members’ souls with the Myriad Soul Banner.
• Xiao Ling descended to the treasury and smashed through its black stone door.

Xiao Ling looted Old Ghost Di Mo’s treasure vault, obtained the True Flame Manipulation Art, and returned to Jia Nan Academy. He gave the art to Elder Huo and Xiao Yan, and Elder Huo was impressed by its ability to create an artificial Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Ling defeated the Dou Wang-class snake beast guarding the vault, then collected its scrolls, medicinal ingredients, and other treasures.
• Xiao Ling opened the protected boxes and took the Thunderbolt Appraisal, Startled Thunder Method, True Flame Manipulation Art, a seventh-tier Fire Attribute magical core, and a Sky Demon Puppet refinement method.
• Xiao Ling retrieved the Myriad Soul Banner from Old Ghost Di Mo and found that its capacity had grown to four hundred souls.
• Xiao Ling returned to Jia Nan Academy, visited Elder Huo’s courtyard, and presented the True Flame Manipulation Art to Elder Huo and Xiao Yan.
• Elder Huo read the True Flame Manipulation Art and praised its potential as an aid to alchemy.

Xiao Ling returned to his courtyard and discovered Zi Yan was on the verge of breaking through to the Dou Zong Realm. As he prepared to help her advance and planned his own cultivation retreat, he asked Qing Lin to have Little Purple provide a Beast Fire for his Life Transformation Fire.

• Xiao Ling returned to his courtyard, where Little Sky Swallowing Python greeted him, ate the pills he offered, and curled up to rest in his robe.
• Xiao Ling sensed Zi Yan’s intense energy fluctuations and found her flushed and overheated as she neared a breakthrough to the Dou Zong Realm.
• Xiao Ling carried Zi Yan from her room, and Xiao Yi Xian reassured Qing Lin that Zi Yan was at a critical advancement point.
• Xiao Ling told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin that he planned to enter seclusion and use the Demonic Poison Spot, Life Transformation Fire, and Sect Extreme Pill to reach the Nine-star Dou Zong Realm.
• Xiao Ling asked Qing Lin to obtain one of Little Purple’s Beast Fires, and Qing Lin brought Little Purple out to help him.

Xiao Ling helped Little Purple prepare for her breakthrough, then entered the Underground Magma World to cultivate and hunt Flame Lizardmen for their fire pearls. He detected a group of lizardmen, including several at the Dou Zong level, and prepared to attack them.

• Xiao Ling took Little Purple’s Beast Fire seed and gave Qing Lin recovery pills for Little Purple.
• Xiao Ling placed Zi Yan in a protected cultivation chamber, where she began breaking through to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Ling visited the Fallen Heart Flame at the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower and told Elder Liu he planned to cultivate in the magma world.
• Elder Liu opened the restriction, and Xiao Ling descended into the Underground Magma World.
• Xiao Ling entered the magma, searching for Flame Lizardmen and their fire pearls as he traveled deeper.
• Xiao Ling sensed a group of Flame Lizardmen, including Dou Zong-level targets, and decided to attack them.

Xiao Ling slaughtered many Flame Lizardmen in the magma world, collected their Fire Pearls, and escaped before three Dou Zun-level guards arrived. He found a hidden cave, prepared for secluded cultivation, and began refining the Life Transformation Fire with Fen Jue.

• Xiao Ling used Blazing Shadow Style and the Godfall Weapon to kill the Flame Lizardmen, including their Seven-star Dou Zong leader, and gathered hundreds of Fire Pearls.
• Xiao Ling fled upward with Three Thousand Lightning Movement before three Dou Zun-level Flame Lizardmen arrived and ordered the survivors to strengthen their patrols.
• Xiao Ling escaped the magma and carved a cultivation cave into a mountain wall, where he set out the Green Lotus Platform Seat and stationed the Sky Demon Puppet to guard him.
• Xiao Ling took the Life Transformation Fire from the System Space, swallowed it, and began refining its energy with Fen Jue.

Xiao Ling continued cultivating with the Life Transformation Fire while Zi Yan emerged from half a year of seclusion after reaching the Dou Zong Realm. She transformed into her true form, and Yao Chen identified her as an Ancient Void Dragon.

• Xiao Ling refined the Life Transformation Fire, strengthening his Dou Qi, Heavenly Flames, body, and Soul Power.
• Zi Yan’s cocoon erupted with energy, and Yao Chen and Yao Tianhuo recognized that she was nearing a breakthrough.
• Qing Lin chose to postpone her own breakthrough, while Xiao Yi Xian discussed her cultivation progress and Xiao Ling’s expected advancement.
• Zi Yan emerged from her cocoon in adult form, having broken through to the Dou Zong Realm, and found Xiao Ling was still absent.
• At Yao Chen’s urging, Zi Yan transformed into her powerful dragon form, and Yao Chen revealed that she was an Ancient Void Dragon.

Zi Yan learned that she was an Ancient Void Dragon and decided to search for her clan in the Central Plains with her friends. Xiao Ling emerged from seclusion as a Nine-star Dou Zong, drew a map to the Netherworld Poison Flame, and resolved to find it for Xiao Yi Xian.

• Yao Chen explained the power and rarity of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Zi Yan decided to find her clansmen after Xiao Ling emerged from seclusion.
• Zi Yan changed back into her little girl form and lamented that she could no longer use her mature appearance to charm Xiao Ling.
• After eight days of cultivation, Xiao Ling broke through to the Nine-star Dou Zong realm and tested his newly strengthened control over space.
• Xiao Ling used his three remaining draws, receiving twenty million gold coins and a Netherworld Poison Flame Map.
• Xiao Ling discovered the map led to Poison Mist Valley in the Northern Region of the Central Plains and resolved to obtain the flame for Xiao Yi Xian.
• The mapmaker, Mo Yun, warned that a seventh-tier Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion guarded the flame in Poison Mist Valley.

Xiao Ling returned to Jia Nan Academy, reunited with Zi Yan, and learned that she had reached the Dou Zong Realm and could transform into her Ancient Void Dragon form. While they watched a young alchemist refine a pill at the Supreme Freedom Gate, Zi Yan revealed that the woman had been asking about Xiao Ling, and he decided to meet her.

• Xiao Ling read Mo Yun's map notes about the Netherworld Poison Flame and considered seeking a Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion's Magic Core for Xiao Yi Xian before traveling to the Central Plains.
• Xiao Ling opened a Spatial Tunnel and returned to Jia Nan Academy, where he sensed Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin cultivating and discovered Zi Yan at the Supreme Freedom Gate.
• Xiao Ling reunited with Zi Yan and congratulated her on reaching the Dou Zong Realm; Zi Yan said she could switch between human and Magical Beast forms and had been identified as a member of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Ling promised Zi Yan that they would find her clansmen in the Central Plains and that he would stay by her side.
• Xiao Ling and Zi Yan watched a blue-clad young woman refine a Third Grade Spirit Breath Pill, and Zi Yan told Xiao Ling that the woman had been asking about him.
• After the woman successfully refined the pill, Xiao Ling decided to meet her and find out why she was looking for him.

Xiao Ling met Ye Xinlan, who asked him to help the declining Ye Family in the Pill Tower’s assessment and offered a treasured Dou Technique. He left the decision open until he visited the Ye Family, then gave her his Alchemist’s Handbook and invited her to study with him before he departed for Tianya City.

• Xiao Ling and Zi Yan appeared at Ye Xinlan’s pill-refining demonstration, and Xiao Ling praised her skills.
• Ye Xinlan explained that the Ye Family needed help in the Five Great Families’ assessment and offered Xiao Ling the Spirit Flame Pill Furnace Art.
• Xiao Ling declined to commit immediately but said he might visit the Ye Family in the Pill Region and discuss cooperation.
• Xiao Ling gave Ye Xinlan his Alchemist’s Handbook and offered to teach her alchemy before leaving for Tianya City.
• Xiao Ling asked Zi Yan to take Ye Xinlan to his courtyard, then departed ahead of them.

Xiao Ling prepared to leave Jia Nan Academy for the Central Plains, taught Ye Xinlan alchemy, and fed the Little Sky Swallowing Python pills that triggered Queen Medusa’s transformation. Queen Medusa asked about repairing her soul, and Xiao Ling promised to refine a Spirit Fusion Pill after they reached the Central Plains.

• Xiao Ling said farewell to the academy’s elders, shared resources with the Xiao Family members, and invited Xiao Yan to travel with him, but Xiao Yan chose to go alone after reaching Dou Wang.
• Xiao Ling demonstrated the Spirit Flame Pill Furnace Art and guided Ye Xinlan through pill refinement, sharing his advanced alchemy knowledge.
• Xiao Ling refined an eighth-tier Dream Fairy Fruit and gave two pills to the Little Sky Swallowing Python.
• The Little Sky Swallowing Python transformed into Queen Medusa, who discovered Xiao Ling had touched her chest and demanded to know whether he had found a way to repair her soul.
• Xiao Ling told Queen Medusa about Yao Chen’s Spirit Fusion Pill formula and said he would refine the pill after they reached the Central Plains.

Xiao Ling and his companions left Jia Nan Academy and traveled toward Tianya City to use its Space Wormhole to reach the Central Plains. As they approached the city, an arrogant yellow-robed elder blocked Little Purple and threatened to detain them, unaware of their strength.

• Xiao Ling and Xiao Yi Xian spent their last night at Jia Nan Academy together while Medusa, inside the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, watched uneasily.
• Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin said farewell to Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders, then departed on Little Purple for the Central Plains.
• Xiao Ling told the group that they would travel to Tianya City and cultivate during the flight, though he had no clear method for advancing from Nine-star Dou Zong to Dou Zun.
• After a day and two nights of travel, the group reached the Tianqing Mountain Range and approached Tianya City, where Little Purple's presence frightened other flying beasts.
• A yellow-robed elder rose from the city gate, accused the group of violating the airspace rules, and threatened to detain them while coveting Little Purple.
• Little Purple refused to stop and glared at the elder, preparing to teach him a lesson.

Xiao Ling retaliated against the Luo Family guards after they provoked his group in Tianya City, then accepted the Luo Family ancestor’s apology and compensation. He and his companions followed Luo Cheng to the Luo Family residence to select Magic Cores and receive a Space Ship for their journey.

• Xiao Ling sent the yellow-robed elder crashing into Tianya City's wall after noticing his greedy gaze toward Little Purple.
• Xiao Ling unleashed his aura against the guards, while Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Little Purple revealed their strength.
• Luo Cheng arrived, learned that his subordinates had provoked Xiao Ling's group, and offered five Seventh-tier Magic Cores and a Space Ship as compensation.
• Xiao Ling accepted the offer and arranged to exchange a Sixth-grade Pill for a Sixth-tier Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Ling and his companions selected Magic Cores and followed Luo Cheng to the Luo Family residence to wait for their items and Space Ship.

Xiao Ling exchanged a Spirit Dou Pill for a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core and a Space Ship, then led Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan through Tianya City's Space Wormhole toward the Central Plains. During the journey, he began preparing the Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse's wings for a Flying Dou Technique and suspected Zhu Kun had killed the beast.

• Luo Cheng gave Xiao Ling five Seventh-tier Magic Cores and a Space Ship, and Xiao Ling paid for the sixth-tier Magic Core with a Spirit Dou Pill.
• Xiao Ling and his companions entered the Space Wormhole, boarded the expanded Space Ship, and set off for the Central Plains with Zi Yan at the controls.
• Xiao Ling told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin he would refine the Heaven Demon Phoenix's wings during the month-long journey, then went to prepare the corpse.
• Xiao Ling inspected the Heaven Demon Phoenix's bone wings, found no trace of a remnant soul, and guessed Zhu Kun had killed the beast while investigating its whereabouts.

Xiao Ling processed the Sky Demon Phoenix mummy, extracting its Magic Core and other valuable materials before giving Zi Yan the Dragon Abyss Ethereal Gauntlets. After Zi Yan left to rejoin the others, Xiao Ling turned to refining a Flying Dou Technique from the Sky Demon Phoenix wings.

• Xiao Ling cut the Sky Demon Phoenix's skeletal wings from its corpse and began refining the mummy with Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Ling used the beast's blood and hide to draw out its energy, then obtained its Magic Core and ten claws.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Ling to make gauntlets from the claws, and he gave her the Dragon Abyss Ethereal Gauntlets instead.
• Zi Yan bonded with the gauntlets, tested their power, and left to play with Qing Lin and the others.
• Xiao Ling began refining a Flying Dou Technique from the Sky Demon Phoenix wings.