Chapter Summaries

Liu Xi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan arrived in Zhongzhou and learned they were in Cape City, a prosperous city in the Northern Region. Liu Xi headed for the Cape Auction House to buy a map of Zhongzhou, where an annual auction was due to begin in a few days.

• Liu Xi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan left the Space Wormhole after Liu Xi spent twenty days cultivating the Flame-Playing Art.
• Liu Xi assessed the strength and strict order of the plaza’s law enforcers and crowds after arriving in Zhongzhou.
• Liu Xi hired Hong Yingjun to guide them and explain the area in exchange for Gold Coins.
• Hong Yingjun told Liu Xi that Cape City was in Zhongzhou’s Northern Region and that the Qin Family controlled much of its business.
• Liu Xi asked Hong Yingjun to take them to the Cape Auction House for a map covering all of Zhongzhou.
• Hong Yingjun mentioned that the Cape Auction House’s annual auction would begin in a few days and had featured an Earth Tier cultivation method the previous year.

Liu Xi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan visited the Cape Auction House to find a Zhongzhou map and a seventh-grade Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core or its whereabouts. After buying a map and four types of Beast Fire, Liu Xi received a VIP invitation to the grand auction in eight days, whose finale included an Earth Tier Dou Skill.

• Liu Xi and his companions entered the Cape Auction House through a side entrance after its guards recognized their formidable strength.
• Liu Xi asked the auction house for a detailed Zhongzhou map and a seventh-grade Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core or information about the beast, but the old man had no such core or information.
• Liu Xi requested a map and any available Beast Fire, and the auction house put them up for auction.
• Liu Xi bought the map and four types of Beast Fire for a total of one million four hundred and seventy thousand Gold Coins.
• The auction house gave Liu Xi a VIP card and invited him to its grand auction in eight days, and he said he would consider attending.

Liu Xi prepared to travel to Luoshen Ravine after the Cape City auction and spent eight days strengthening his Genesis Fire with Beast Fire. He arrived at the auction house with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan and took his Level Three VIP seats as the auction was about to begin.

• Liu Xi chose Luoshen Ravine as their next destination, believing it held a seventh-tier Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast, and decided they would leave after the auction.
• Liu Xi checked his remaining money and treasures, then fed nine types of Beast Fire to his Genesis Fire over eight days.
• Liu Xi brought Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan through the crowded entrance to the Cape Auction House, where a mercenary backed down under his Dou Emperor pressure.
• Liu Xi learned that Lin Family patriarch Xie Yuan and Su Family patriarch Su Bo were old rivals whose feud began over the Lin Family's Young Miss.
• Liu Xi presented his Level Three VIP card and followed a maid to his comfortable seats near the auction platform with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan.

Liu Xi attended the Cape Auction and bought a sword for Yun Yun before bidding on Snow Bone Ginseng, an essential ingredient for the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill. He secured the herb, bringing Yao Tianhuo's hoped-for revival closer.

• Liu Xi bought the Wind Chant sword for Yun Yun after the auctioneer opened the bidding.
• Xiao Yi Xian teased Liu Xi about buying a sword for Yun Yun, and he promised to buy whatever caught her eye next.
• The auctioneer presented Snow Bone Ginseng, and Liu Xi recognized it as one of the three main ingredients for the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill.
• Yao Tianhuo thanked Liu Xi and expressed hope that he would be revived.
• Xie Yuan and Su Bo competed for the Snow Bone Ginseng until Liu Xi bid two million, six hundred thousand gold coin.
• Xie Yuan and Su Bo stopped bidding, and Liu Xi won the Snow Bone Ginseng.

At the Cape Auction, Liu Xi won the Blazing Heaven Finger by offering two Imperial Pills and revealing that he was a Sixth-grade Alchemist. He left the auction satisfied with a Dou Skill that could make use of his Heavenly Flame as the final item was brought onstage.

• The white-haired auctioneer presented the Blazing Heaven Finger, an Earth Tier intermediate Fire Attribute Dou Skill that could rival a high-level skill when enhanced by special flames.
• Bidders drove the price to six and a half million Gold Coins, and Liu Xi offered two Imperial Pills to secure the Dou Skill.
• Xie Yuan asked whether Liu Xi was a Sixth-grade Alchemist, and Liu Xi confirmed it, prompting Su Bo and the other bidders to withdraw.
• The white-haired auctioneer awarded the Blazing Heaven Finger to VIP Number Eighty-Eight, and Xiao Yi Xian congratulated Liu Xi.
• The auctioneer brought the final item, a palm-sized cold jade bottle, onto the stage.

Liu Xi ignored the auction’s Sect Breaking Pill and collected the items he had won, while Xie Yuan and Su Bo fought over the pill. After Xiao Yi Xian revealed her Dou Zong aura to clear a path, Liu Xi rejected the Cape Auction House ancestor’s invitation and left.

• The auctioneer revealed the Sect Breaking Pill, and Liu Xi showed no interest as Xie Yuan and Su Bo bid against each other.
• Su Bo stopped bidding at seventeen million Gold Coins, and Xie Yuan won the Sect Breaking Pill after realizing Su Bo had driven up the price to deceive him.
• Xie Yuan and Su Bo tried to approach Liu Xi after the auction, but Xiao Yi Xian’s Dou Zong aura forced the crowd to retreat as Liu Xi left with her.
• A steward returned Liu Xi’s Wind Chant, Snow Bone Ginseng, and Blazing Heaven Finger after verifying his two Imperial Pills and deducting 3.8 million Gold Coins.
• Liu Xi refused the Qin Family ancestor’s invitation to dinner, and Xiao Yi Xian’s cold glare stopped the steward from pressing him further.

Liu Xi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan left Cape City for the Central Region, defeating the pursuers who tried to seize Liu Xi’s Earth Tier Dou Skill. After collecting Beast Fires and boarding a Space Ship in Tian Kui City, they continued their journey through the darkness.

• Liu Xi spotted the black-clad pursuers, and Xiao Yi Xian killed the seven who continued following them with her Thousand Illusion Poison Spring.
• Liu Xi praised Zi Yan’s control over space, then led the group southwest toward Tian Kui City.
• Liu Xi sensed Xie Yuan, Su Bo, and others fighting over a Sect Breaking Pill but chose not to intervene.
• After seven days of travel, Liu Xi reached Tian Kui City, collected three kinds of Beast Fire, ate with Zi Yan, and bought Xiao Yi Xian a bracelet.
• Liu Xi boarded a level-four Space Ship with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan and set off toward the Central Region.

Liu Xi opened the Blazing Heaven Finger scroll and was forced to experience the technique’s destructive power in an illusion before learning its principles. The scroll then transformed into fiery liquid that strengthened his index finger, leaving him able to use the technique without destroying its meridians.

• Liu Xi opened the Blazing Heaven Finger scroll and was transported into an illusion where the technique killed him with a single strike.
• Liu Xi awakened from the illusion, studied the scroll’s formulas, and understood the Blazing Heaven Finger.
• Liu Xi channeled Dou Qi and Green Flame into his index finger but found that the technique’s force would tear apart its tiny meridians.
• The scroll absorbed the destructive aura, transformed into fiery liquid, and entered Liu Xi’s finger to repeatedly tear apart and reconstruct its meridians.
• Liu Xi endured the strengthening process and emerged with an index finger as formidable as a divine weapon.

Liu Xi, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian arrived in the Central Region and stopped in Tianxie City before continuing toward Luoshen Ravine. Their brief rest turned dangerous when Zhang Erhe’s son tried to claim Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, confident that his father’s power protected him.

• Liu Xi explained that Luoshen Ravine lay near the center of the Central Region, and he promised Zi Yan a day to explore the city before they continued their journey.
• Liu Xi, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian noticed that the city’s residents watched them strangely and hurried to flee when a young man rode into the street.
• The white-robed young man leered at Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan and threatened to seize them, while Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan silently prepared to kill him.
• Elder Zhao and Elder Xu warned the young man that Liu Xi’s group seemed powerful, but he ordered them to capture the women and identified his father as Zhang Erhe, the Yuxian Sect’s sect master.

Liu Xi defeated the Yuxian Sect elders and confronted the Young Sect Master after he threatened Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan. He summoned his father, Zhang Erhe, whose terrifying aura erupted from Tianxie City.

• Elder Zhao and Elder Xu warned Liu Xi that the Young Sect Master was protected by Zhang Erhe, but Liu Xi attacked anyway.
• Liu Xi overpowered both elders, breaking one man's arm and kicking the other away.
• The Young Sect Master threatened Liu Xi and demanded that he hand over Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, so Liu Xi seized him and knocked him to the ground.
• Liu Xi accused the Young Sect Master and his father of evil deeds and challenged Zhang Erhe to come fight him.
• The Young Sect Master crushed a jade token, and Zhang Erhe roared from Tianxie City, demanding to know who had harmed his son.

Zhang Erhe arrived to defend his son and threatened Liu Xi, but Xiao Yi Xian revealed her Dou Zong strength and challenged him. Liu Xi flew up to join the fight while Zi Yan stayed behind and defeated the two elders, leaving the young sect master under her watch.

• Zhang Erhe arrived and, after leering at Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, demanded that Liu Xi offer them to him and become his son's guard.
• Liu Xi rejected Zhang Erhe's offer, and Zhang Erhe attacked him with five streams of force.
• Xiao Yi Xian intercepted Zhang Erhe's attack, revealed herself as a Dou Zong, and moved to fight him.
• Liu Xi ordered Zi Yan to guard the young sect master and the two elders, then flew into the sky to support Xiao Yi Xian.
• The young sect master ordered Elder Zhao and Elder Xu to capture Zi Yan, but Zi Yan broke their limbs and left them bloodied on the ground.

Liu Xi unleashed the Blazing Heaven Finger against Zhang Erhe while Xiao Yi Xian held the Tyrant Sect Master at bay. The attack badly wounded Zhang Erhe but failed to kill him, so Xiao Yi Xian pursued him as Liu Xi descended.

• Zhang Erhe revealed that his Gentle Township technique used the essence blood of 999 maidens and tried to capture Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that Zhang Erhe's attacks numbed and weakened her, then held him off while Liu Xi prepared a technique.
• Liu Xi unleashed the Blazing Heaven Finger, striking Zhang Erhe with a giant green-flamed finger and leaving him badly burned.
• Zhang Erhe fled, and Liu Xi sent Xiao Yi Xian after him while he descended toward the ground.

Liu Xi, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian killed Yuxian Sect's Sect Master Zhang Erhe and his son before heading to destroy the sect. They confronted the remaining elders and fighters, whose Great Elder Zhang Genzhuang offered half the sect's collection in exchange for mercy.

• Zi Yan told Liu Xi she wanted to stay by his side forever with Xiao Yi Xian, and Liu Xi embraced her affectionately.
• Xiao Yi Xian returned with Zhang Erhe's corpse, and Liu Xi stored it in his Storage Ring.
• Liu Xi burned Zhang Erhe's son and the two Yellow-robed Elders, then vowed to eradicate Yuxian Sect.
• Liu Xi's group arrived above Yuxian Sect as its remaining members gathered in the courtyard; the city's people celebrated Zhang Erhe and his son's deaths.
• Great Elder Zhang Genzhuang offered half the sect's collection to persuade Liu Xi to spare them, but Liu Xi remained intent on killing them.

Liu Xi and his companions confronted the Yuxian Sect, whose elders trapped them in the Yin Yang Chaotic Array. Liu Xi sent Ah Da to break the formation, and the attack devastated the sect, leaving only a few survivors.

• Liu Xi rejected Zhang Genzhuang's offer to retreat and told Xiao Yi Xian to attack the Yuxian Sect.
• Zhang Genzhuang ordered the elders, deacons, and disciples to form the Yin Yang Chaotic Array, which suppressed Dou Qi and stirred desire in those caught within it.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Liu Xi that the formation would gradually immobilize them, while Zi Yan offered to tear open space and escape with him.
• Liu Xi summoned Ah Da and ordered the Earth Demon Puppet to break the formation.
• Ah Da shattered the canopy with a powerful punch, killing most of the disciples and injuring the formation's elders and deacons.
• Ah Da continued punching until the formation collapsed completely, and nearly everyone in the Yuxian Sect was dead.

Liu Xi destroyed the remaining Yuxian Sect survivors and uncovered the sect’s hidden abuse chamber. He burned the victims’ bodies and began freeing the captive women, leaving them to reclaim their freedom.

• Liu Xi descended into the Core Courtyard, where Ah Da killed Zhang Genzhuang and the surviving elders and deacons.
• Liu Xi collected the Storage Rings and led Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan to Yuxian Pavilion.
• Liu Xi and his companions found a pit filled with the bodies of women abused by the Yuxian Sect, and Liu Xi burned the remains.
• Liu Xi broke into the rooms, freed the captive women, and told them they could take valuables and leave.

Liu Xi destroyed Yuxian Pavilion, sent its rescued victims away, and searched the Yuxian Sect’s underground treasure vault with Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian. He burned one predatory cultivation technique, set another aside, and became engrossed in a harmless paired cultivation manual.

• Liu Xi burned Yuxian Pavilion and told the rescued women to leave and start new lives.
• Liu Xi asked Zi Yan to locate the Yuxian Sect’s treasure vault, and she found it beneath the sect master’s main hall.
• Ah Da punched through the hall floor, allowing Liu Xi, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian to enter the underground chamber.
• Liu Xi destroyed the Gentle Township technique and put aside the Yuxian Yin Seizing Art after reading their descriptions.
• Liu Xi examined the Yin Yang Harmony Record and discovered it helped both partners cultivate without side effects.

After looting the ruined Yuxian Sect, Liu Xi, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian left Tianxie City to avoid attracting attention and headed toward the Pill Domain. Ice River Valley began investigating the sect’s destruction after they had already departed through Floating Moon City’s Space Wormhole.

• Liu Xi collected the Yuxian Sect’s treasures, including its questionable pills and medicines, and divided its herbs and spiritual fruits with Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Liu Xi let the mercenaries keep the sect’s remaining spoils, warned them to do decent things, and led his companions out of Tianxie City.
• Liu Xi explained that the group should leave Zhongzhou’s northwest region to avoid attention and trouble over their stolen haul.
• Liu Xi’s group traveled toward Floating Moon City, planning to use its Space Wormhole to reach the Pill Domain and Luoshen Ravine.
• Ice River Valley sent Bing Yuan to investigate Zhang Erhe’s death, and he found a dried grayish-black bloodstain after Liu Xi’s group had boarded the Space Wormhole.

Liu Xi, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian searched Luoshen Ravine for a seventh-tier Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast, following Xiao Yi Xian’s sense of powerful poisonous creatures. They found the beast at a stone fortress, where it coveted Xiao Yi Xian and challenged Liu Xi.

• Liu Xi led Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian from Lingyun City into Luoshen Ravine to find a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed many poisonous creatures, so Liu Xi told her to guide them toward powerful targets while he prepared Ah Da, his Seven Star Dou Zong Earth Demon Puppet.
• After a day of searching, Liu Xi and the others reached a white stone fortress after encountering two other seventh-tier magical beasts.
• The Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast emerged from the fortress, recognized Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body, and declared that he would make her bear his offspring.
• Liu Xi threatened the beast for coveting Xiao Yi Xian, while the beast dismissed him as a Dou Emperor and vowed to make him watch as it claimed her.

Liu Xi and his companions prepared to fight the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast and the Poison Beast army in Luoshen Ravine. After assigning roles, Liu Xi and Zi Yan moved to attack while Xiao Yi Xian and Yao Tianhuo went to hold off the army and its Dou Zong leaders.

• The Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast boasted to Xiao Yi Xian, and Liu Xi ordered Ah Da to attack it.
• Ah Da, the Earth Demon Puppet, clashed evenly with the beast before it summoned an enormous Poison Beast army, including two powerful Dou Zongs.
• Liu Xi asked Yao Tianhuo to restrain the two Dou Zongs and told Xiao Yi Xian to hold off the army while he and Ah Da fought the beast.
• Liu Xi realized Zi Yan could counter the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast and reassured Xiao Yi Xian that Zi Yan's help would make the hunt certain.
• The beast summoned the poison clouds toward itself, so Liu Xi warned Xiao Yi Xian and Yao Tianhuo to stop the army from joining it.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Yao Tianhuo departed to engage the Poison Beasts, and Liu Xi told Zi Yan to make their move.

Zi Yan revealed her Ancient Void Dragon might and weakened the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast, allowing the Earth Demon Puppet to batter it. The beast summoned a poison gas vortex as Liu Xi’s allies continued fighting its forces.

• The Earth Demon Puppet clashed with the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast while Zi Yan transformed into her adult form.
• Zi Yan summoned a massive Beast Soul whose roar froze the beast and suppressed its strength.
• The Earth Demon Puppet knocked the weakened beast down and repeatedly punched its face.
• The Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast threw the puppet away, then gathered poisonous clouds into a vortex.
• Yao Tianhuo held off the fat and thin Dou Zongs while Xiao Yi Xian killed the attacking Poison Beasts with Calamity Poison Gas.