Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and the others fought and defeated a Peak Dou Zong Rock Armored Giant Rhinoceros in the Misty Forest by exploiting its weaker abdominal armor and working together. After Zi Yan arrived and revealed that her dragon might had helped suppress the beast, the group rested before continuing deeper into the forest.

• The Rock Armored Giant Rhinoceros attacked the group with stone spikes and began charging a powerful Earth Attribute Dou Qi cannon.
• Qing Lin disrupted the beast's aim with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, Yan Ran gave the fighters Earth Breaking Pills, and Xiong Zhan charged in but could not penetrate its armor.
• Xiao Yi Xian spotted that the rhinoceros's abdominal armor was weaker, so Xiao Yan, Heavenly Flame Venerable, and Xiong Zhan coordinated attacks while Qing Lin kept disrupting the beast.
• Xiao Yan broke the rhinoceros's abdominal armor with Three Thousand Burning Flame, and the group widened the wound until his flame spear pierced its heart and killed it.
• Zi Yan arrived with the Purple Gold Winged Lion King, and the group realized her dragon might had helped weaken the rhinoceros during the fight.
• Xiao Yan ordered everyone to rest and recover before continuing through the Misty Forest, with the Jade-Eyed Poisonous Python scouting ahead.

Xiao Yan and the group followed the bronze fragment to an ancient altar, where touching a Nine-Headed Serpent Statue released the aura of an Ancient Heavenly Serpent. Qing Lin connected with its soul using her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and Jade Serpent bloodline, and the spirit entered her body as a source of power.

• Xiao Yan led the group deeper into the Misty Forest as the bronze fragment's pull grew stronger, with Qing Lin's Jade-Eyed Poisonous Python scouting ahead.
• The bronze fragment opened a clearing and guided Xiao Yan to a ruined altar bearing an intact Nine-Headed Serpent Statue.
• Xiao Yan touched the statue, releasing a terrifying aura that Qing Lin identified as belonging to an Ancient Heavenly Serpent sealed within it.
• Qing Lin proposed a pact and used her bloodline and Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to connect with the serpent's soul despite its violent resistance.
• Qing Lin shared her memories with the Ancient Heavenly Serpent, and its soul emerged from the statue and entered her body.
• Qing Lin's eyes turned deep red as the Ancient Heavenly Serpent named itself Heavenly Serpent and declared that it would become her power while she became its vessel.

Qing Lin bonded with the Ancient Heavenly Serpent, and Xiao Yan’s group retrieved an Ancient Serpent Seal fragment from the collapsing altar. They camped in a cave for the night, while a faint golden light deeper in the Misty Forest continued to guide them toward the Ancient Serpent Hall.

• Qing Lin stabilized after the Heavenly Serpent accepted her as its vessel, and it revealed that it could lend her its powers without interfering with her consciousness.
• Qing Lin sensed an Ancient Serpent Seal fragment inside the Nine-Headed Serpent Statue, and Xiao Yan retrieved it before the altar collapsed.
• Qing Lin explained that the group needed three bronze pieces and two Serpent Seal fragments to open the Ancient Serpent Hall, and that they still needed two of each.
• Xiao Yan led the group to a natural cave identified by the Heavenly Serpent, where they ate, rested, and kept watch through the night.
• Qing Lin practiced combining her Jade Snake bloodline with the Heavenly Serpent’s Soul Power as a golden light deep in the fog resonated with the bronze piece and the fragment.

Xiao Yan and his companions found the second and third bronze fragments, which fused into a Bronze Talisman mapping the Ancient Serpent Hall. After fighting off the Netherworld Poisonous Flood Dragon, they learned that the remaining Serpent Seal Fragment was on Black Wind Mountain, guarded by powerful beasts and ancient formations.

• Qing Lin led the group to a ruined altar, where Xiao Yan uncovered the second bronze fragment and fused it with the first to reveal a map pointing toward the swamp.
• The group entered the swamp in search of the third fragment, but retreated when Qing Lin warned that the Netherworld Poisonous Flood Dragon was approaching.
• The Netherworld Poisonous Flood Dragon attacked near the swamp's edge, and Qing Lin wounded it with the Heavenly Serpent's poison while Xiao Yan struck its eye, allowing the group to escape.
• Xiao Yan and the group reached the swamp island and retrieved the third bronze fragment, which fused with the others into a Bronze Talisman depicting the Ancient Serpent Hall.
• Qing Lin revealed that the other Serpent Seal Fragment was on Black Wind Mountain, where a Dou Zun-level Black Wind Demonic Lion guarded the summit cave.
• Xiao Yan decided that the group would leave the swamp, camp safely, and head for Black Wind Mountain at dawn.

Xiao Yan and his companions fought their way up Black Wind Mountain to claim the Serpent Seal Fragment guarded by the Black Wind Demonic Lion. After defeating it and joining the fragment with the other one, they obtained the complete Serpent Seal and a map to the Ancient Serpent Hall, and prepared to travel to Myriad Serpent Valley.

• Xiao Yan led the group through a battle against more than forty Black Wind Wolves, while Qing Lin restrained their leader with Heavenly Serpent's poison and Xiao Yan killed it with a talisman-powered slash.
• Xiao Yi Xian treated Xiong Zhan's poisoned wound, and Qing Lin took a Concentrating Spirit Pill to recover her Soul Power before the group continued uphill.
• Xiao Yan and his companions entered Black Wind Cave and fought the Black Wind Demonic Lion, which injured Xiong Zhan and the Purple Gold Winged Lion King before Qing Lin's Ancient Heavenly Serpent held it back.
• Xiao Yan pierced the Black Wind Demonic Lion's horn with the Ancient Evil-Breaking Spear, and the group finished the weakened beast with combined attacks.
• Xiao Yan collected the final Serpent Seal Fragment and joined it with the other fragment, forming the complete Serpent Seal and revealing a map to the Ancient Serpent Hall's entrance in Myriad Serpent Valley.
• Xiao Yan told the group to recover in the stone chamber before setting out for Myriad Serpent Valley.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered Myriad Serpent Valley and fought off disciplined swarms of Poison-Scaled Snakes. Xiao Yan used the Bronze Talisman and Serpent Seal to repel the snakes, and the group advanced toward the valley’s core, where a powerful snake leader seemed to be waiting.

• Xiao Yan followed the resonance of the Bronze Talisman and Serpent Seal west, while Qing Lin found a safe path around a large snake nest.
• At the edge of Myriad Serpent Valley, Xiao Yan ordered the group to stay together and prepare for venomous snakes.
• Xiong Zhan, Xiao Yan, Yan Ran, and Qing Lin fought back waves of Poison-Scaled Snakes as Qing Lin noticed their coordinated attacks.
• Xiao Yan combined the Bronze Talisman and Serpent Seal to create a barrier whose Serpent Awe forced the snakes to retreat.
• The group followed Qing Lin’s light trails through the forest, avoiding hidden nests as they neared the core and heard a huge creature moving ahead.

Xiao Yan and his companions fought the Dou Zun-level Black Scaled Snake King in Myriad Serpent Valley until Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and the Heavenly Serpent soul to subdue it. With the Snake King now leading them, the group set out for the Ancient Serpent Hall entrance.

• The Black Scaled Snake King attacked the group, knocking Xiong Zhan aside and spraying Bone Corroding Soul Devouring Poison, which Xiao Yi Xian countered with herbs and detoxification pills.
• Xiao Yan used the Earth Covering Seal and Heaven Burning Art to evade the Snake King and scorch its scales, while Xiong Zhan, Yan Ran, and the Purple Gold Winged Lion King failed to break its defenses.
• Xiao Yan urged Qing Lin to use her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and she unleashed the power of the Heavenly Serpent soul to hold the Snake King under bloodline pressure.
• Qing Lin persuaded the Snake King to submit and serve as guardian of the Ancient Serpent Hall, and it lowered its head in acknowledgment.
• Xiao Yi Xian helped Qing Lin recover, and the Snake King led the group through the forest toward the Ancient Serpent Hall entrance.

Xiao Yan and his companions opened the Ancient Serpent Hall by activating its ancient arrays with the Bronze Talisman, Serpent Seal, and Snake King's bloodline power. They entered the main chamber, where a welcoming ritual accepted them, and continued searching for the hall's core secrets.

• The group reached the Myriad Serpent Spirit Suppressing Array, and Qing Lin learned from the Snake King that the Bronze Talisman and Serpent Seal had to be placed in the platform's grooves.
• Xiao Yan activated the array with the two tokens, revealing the cave entrance, and the Snake King joined their power to break the Serpent Spirit Barrier.
• Xiao Yan led the group down the illuminated passage, where they examined carvings depicting the Ancient Serpent Tribe's civilization and history.
• Xiao Yan used the Bronze Talisman and Serpent Seal to open the palace gates, and the group entered the Ancient Serpent Hall's main chamber.
• Xiao Yan placed the Serpent Seal in the groove beneath the snake statue, activating the hall's light formation; Qing Lin said the Snake King recognized it as a welcoming ritual.
• Xiao Yan urged the group to explore further, and Zi Yan hurried toward a passage behind the hall as the others continued searching for its core chamber.

Qing Lin received the Ancient Serpent Tribe’s inheritance, restoring her Heavenly Serpent soul and rising to the peak of Ninth Star Dou Zong. With new powers over serpents, she prepared to join Xiao Yan and the others in exploring the core of the Ancient Serpent Hall.

• The inheritance enveloped Qing Lin in a jade-gold cocoon and repaired the crack in her Heavenly Serpent soul.
• The inheritance fully restored Qing Lin’s soul, awakened its Ancient Heavenly Serpent Soul Imprint, and let her sense and command serpents through their souls.
• Qing Lin absorbed the palace’s energy and advanced from Dou Zong Three-Star to the peak of Ninth Star Dou Zong.
• Qing Lin demonstrated the Ancient Heavenly Serpent’s Ice Seal Serpent Breath and confirmed she could forcibly control snakes at the Dou Zun level.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin turned their attention toward the stone door leading to the Ancient Serpent Hall’s core.

Xiao Yan and his companions prepared at the Pill Tower for a dangerous mission to rescue Elder Yao from the Soul Hall. After summoning Venerable Feng and assigning everyone their roles, they set off for Soul Devouring Valley, where the rescue battle was about to begin.

• Xiao Yan completed preparations for the rescue, including strengthening three Dou Zun Puppets, while Qing Lin demonstrated her improved Ice Seal Serpent Breath and the others readied their weapons and supplies.
• Xiao Yan crushed Venerable Feng's Communication Jade Pendant and explained the Soul Devouring Array, the Soul Hall Branch Hall's defenders, and the rescue plan to the group.
• Xiao Yan assigned Venerable Feng and himself to restrain the Soul Hall elder, while the others were tasked with holding off the three Dou Zun Protectors and their guards.
• Xiao Yi Xian distributed Clear Soul Pills, Qing Lin stored the Snake King in her Jade Pendant, and Venerable Feng carried the group away from the Pill Tower in a wind sphere.
• As the group raced toward Soul Devouring Valley, Qing Lin, Heavenly Flame Venerable, and Venerable Feng reassured Xiao Yan that they would rescue Elder Yao.

Xiao Yan and his allies attacked the Soul Hall Branch Hall in Soul Devouring Valley so he could rescue Elder Yao. Xiao Yan freed Elder Yao and escaped the hall, but Venerable Elder pursued him as the group continued fighting outside.

• Xiao Yi Xian used Clear Soul Powder to weaken the valley’s formation, while Heavenly Flame Venerable and the others engaged the Soul Hall defenders.
• Venerable Feng confronted Venerable Elder, and the allies struggled against the three Soul Hall Protectors as Xiao Yan spotted an opening at the Branch Hall entrance.
• Xiao Yan fought through the Soul Hall envoys, broke into the Branch Hall, and found Elder Yao bound to a pillar by Soul Chains.
• Xiao Yan used his fused Heavenly Flames to melt the chains, freed Elder Yao, and evaded Venerable Elder’s attacks while carrying him out.
• Venerable Feng and the others kept battling the protectors as Xiao Yan rushed toward them with Elder Yao, while Venerable Elder pursued.

Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin fought Star-Picking Old Ghost in Soul Devouring Valley after Xiao Yan secured Elder Yao’s soul. Star-Picking Old Ghost overwhelmed their combined attacks with Boundless Soul Sea, leaving the three badly injured and struggling against his superior strength.

• Xiao Yan placed Elder Yao’s soul in a ring protected by Soul-Warming Grass and challenged Star-Picking Old Ghost over Soul Hall’s crimes.
• Xiao Yan attacked Star-Picking Old Ghost with a Heavenly Flame saber, but Star-Picking Old Ghost repelled him and sent him flying.
• Zi Yan broke through to the Dou Zun realm and struck Star-Picking Old Ghost with dragon force, but his barrier turned the attack back and wounded her.
• Qing Lin unleashed the Ancient Heavenly Serpent’s power, but Star-Picking Old Ghost shattered its defense, injured her, and sent the Snake King crashing down.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin combined their powers for an attack, but Star-Picking Old Ghost summoned Boundless Soul Sea and began devouring their strength.

Xiao Yan burned his life force to hold off Star-Picking Old Ghost while Zi Yan and Qing Lin fought to protect him. He unleashed a Five-Colored Fire Lotus that destroyed Star-Picking Old Ghost, then collapsed badly wounded as the flames consumed his enemy.

• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Flame Three Profound Transformations to raise his strength, while Zi Yan and Qing Lin struggled to resist Star-Picking Old Ghost's Soul Qi.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost struck Zi Yan and Qing Lin unconscious, then attacked Xiao Yan with the Blood Soul Star-Picking Hand.
• Xiao Yan completed the Five-Colored Fire Lotus as Star-Picking Old Ghost's giant hand shattered his shoulder and flooded his body with Soul Qi.
• Xiao Yan hurled the Five-Colored Fire Lotus at Star-Picking Old Ghost, and it erupted into a pillar of fire that consumed the old ghost, his Soul Staff, and the surrounding Soul Qi.
• The blast threw Xiao Yan to the ground, where he watched Star-Picking Old Ghost vanish in the flames and remained conscious despite his severe injuries.

After Xiao Yan was left unconscious and gravely injured, Star-Picking Old Ghost summoned Black Venerable and White Venerable to help seize him. Xiao Yi Xian and the others escaped Soul Devouring Valley through Venerable Feng’s space crack, and the chapter ended with them stranded in a forest while Xiao Yan remained barely alive.

• Star-Picking Old Ghost summoned Black Venerable and White Venerable, who joined him in closing in on Xiao Yan and his weakened companions.
• Xiao Yi Xian shielded Xiao Yan from Star-Picking Old Ghost’s attack, while Venerable Feng opened a space crack for their escape.
• Zi Yan used her remaining strength to stabilize and widen the crack as Xiao Yan’s two Dou Zun Puppets appeared and self-destructed, blasting the three Soul Hall Venerables away.
• Xiao Yi Xian carried Xiao Yan through the crack, followed by Qing Lin, Heavenly Flame Venerable, Zi Yan, and Venerable Feng.
• The group landed in a dense forest, where Xiao Yi Xian held Xiao Yan and urged him to survive.

Xiao Yan’s companions learned that Star Domain power was needed to heal his severe injuries, then brought him to Starfall Pavilion’s forbidden ground. There, a celestial meteorite began nourishing him as his friends stood guard and waited for him to wake.

• Elder Yao examined Xiao Yan and said the Three Thousand Burning Flame and Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill had stabilized him, but he needed Star Domain power to recover fully.
• Venerable Feng recalled a meteorite in Starfall Pavilion’s forbidden ground and opened a stable Space passage for the group.
• Xiao Yi Xian carried Xiao Yan through the passage to Starfall Pavilion, followed by Qing Lin, Zi Yan, Elder Yao, Heavenly Flame Venerable, and Venerable Feng.
• Xiao Yi Xian laid Xiao Yan on the stone bed beside the meteorite, and its Star Domain power joined with the Three Thousand Burning Flame to drive back the Soul Qi.
• Venerable Feng activated the forbidden ground’s protective formation, while Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Heavenly Flame Venerable stayed nearby to guard Xiao Yan.

After a year recovering in Starfall Pavilion’s restricted area, Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Zun First Star and reunited with his worried friends. He left the chapter ready to confront Soul Hall over its injuries to him and Elder Yao.

• Elder Yao and Qing Lin sensed Xiao Yan’s aura growing stronger and realized he was approaching the Dou Zun breakthrough.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Venerable Feng, Heavenly Flame Venerable, and Qing Lin waited anxiously as Xiao Yan’s breakthrough shook Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the restricted area after clearing the Soul Qi from his body, healing his injuries, and reaching Dou Zun First Star.
• Xiao Yan demonstrated his new Power of Space, then reassured Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian and thanked everyone for protecting him.
• Xiao Yan said he would collect the debt Soul Hall owed him and Elder Yao.

Xiao Yan learned that a Soul Sound Fruit in a newly revealed Ancient Ruin could repair the cracks in Elder Yao’s Soul Origin, making body reconstruction possible. After preparing for three days, Xiao Yan and his companions departed for the Western Region to seek the fruit and confront the dangers awaiting them.

• Xiao Yan told Elder Yao he had an eighty percent chance of reconstructing his body if they could find medicine to repair his Soul Origin.
• Venerable Feng revealed that ripe Soul Sound Fruits had been found in an Ancient Ruin in the Western Region, and Elder Yao warned that many factions and deadly threats would pursue them.
• Xiao Yan recruited Xiao Yi Xian, Heavenly Flame Venerable, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Xiong Zhan for the expedition, and assigned each of them preparations for the journey.
• Over the next three days, Xiao Yi Xian made pills, Heavenly Flame Venerable strengthened his soul body, Qing Lin trained snakes, Zi Yan practiced with the Dragon Staff, and Xiong Zhan honed his combat skills.
• Xiao Yan and his companions gathered at Starfall Pavilion’s mountain gate and flew toward the Western Region.

Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion’s camp and found that Wind Thunder Pavilion had seized its main tent, injured its disciples, and damaged its belongings. He drove Venerable Lei and his allies out with the help of his companions, reclaimed the tent, and prepared to continue the journey to the Ancient Ruin for the Soul Sound Fruit.

• Xiao Yan learned that Wind Thunder Pavilion had taken Starfall Pavilion’s main tent, hurt its disciples, and damaged its Alchemy Furnace.
• Xiao Yan struck down two Wind Thunder Pavilion disciples and seized Fei Tian’s wrist when the elder attacked him, then threw Fei Tian into the tent.
• Xiao Yan confronted Venerable Lei, who threatened him with the backing of the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan.
• The Earth Tiger Clan and Silver Moon Wolf Clan elders challenged Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yi Xian, Heavenly Flame Venerable, Qing Lin, and Xiong Zhan joined him and revealed Starfall Pavilion’s strength.
• Venerable Lei and the affiliated elders withdrew with their disciples, and Xiao Yan reclaimed the tent and ordered his people to clean up before traveling to the Ancient Ruin.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Ancient Fire Path, discovered an ancient Spatial Teleportation Array, and crossed it into a life-filled secret realm. They identified the Soul Sound Fruit as their goal and prepared to explore the forest cautiously, where powerful magical beasts lurked.

• Xiao Yan chose the Ancient Fire Path, and the group entered it after taking precautions against the heat and its active runes.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable identified a Nine Revolutions Flame Array, while Qing Lin sensed hidden movement and a strange life aura beyond the passage.
• Xiao Yan and Heavenly Flame Venerable discovered an ancient Spatial Teleportation Array, and Zi Yan sensed Vast Ancient Dragon Clan aura on the other side.
• Xiao Yan led the group through the vortex into a dense forest, where Zi Yan sensed dragon aura and Xiao Yi Xian found rare medicinal plants.
• Xiao Yan identified the forest as the Life Secret Realm and suspected the Soul Sound Fruit grew deeper within, while Qing Lin spotted powerful magical beasts.
• Xiao Yan told everyone to recover their Dou Qi and advance carefully toward the Soul Sound Fruit.

Xiao Yan's group found a grove of ripe Soul Sound Fruits guarded by an injured Black Scaled Ink Tiger. After healing the beast and harvesting the fruits, they continued deeper into the forest to investigate a growing dragon clan aura and search for more treasures.

• Qing Lin guided Xiao Yan's group through the forest, where Xiao Yi Xian identified medicinal flowers and Heavenly Flame Venerable sensed signs of an ancient spiritual vein.
• Xiao Yan discovered top-grade Soul Sound Fruits in a clearing, but an injured Black Scaled Ink Tiger rose to guard them.
• Zi Yan subdued the Black Scaled Ink Tiger with her Vast Ancient Dragon pressure and explained that it had been protecting the fruits from other beasts.
• Xiao Yan gave the Black Scaled Ink Tiger a Form Transformation Pill, and the grateful beast recovered and left the clearing.
• Xiao Yan carefully harvested all three Soul Sound Fruits as the stone platform's protective restriction faded.
• Xiao Yan's group decided to explore deeper into the forest for dragon clan treasures, following Zi Yan toward the strengthening aura.