Chapter Summaries

Xiao Jin helped Jia Xing Tian break through the Dou Emperor barrier, while the system repaired a loophole that would have let Xiao Jin pass its energy to others. Jia Xing Tian emerged as a Dou Zong and planned to prepare the imperial family to strike against the Misty Cloud Sect as Xiao Jin began his own breakthrough.

• In the imperial garden, Ya Fei and Yao Yue asked Xiao Yi Xian whether Xiao Jin had caused the Heaven and Earth Energy gathering over the Imperial Capital, and Xiao Yi Xian confirmed it.
• Jia Xing Tian swallowed the Sect-Breaking Pill and, with Xiao Jin's support, shattered the barrier between Dou Emperor and Dou Zong.
• Xiao Jin realized the system's energy infusion would continue until he truly reached two-star Dou Zong, but Linglong detected and repaired the loophole.
• Jia Xing Tian thanked Xiao Jin and left the secret chamber, where Yao Ye celebrated his breakthrough and discussed gathering imperial experts to wipe out the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Jin focused on completing his own breakthrough, while Jia Xing Tian wondered why Yao Ye was walking strangely.

Xiao Jin broke through to the two-star Dou Zong realm and celebrated with Jia Xing Tian and the imperial family in the palace. The next day, he left for the Monster Mountain Range with Xiao Yi Xian and Ya Fei while Yao Ye stayed behind to prepare the empire’s forces against the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Jin reached the two-star Dou Zong realm, and Jia Xing Tian congratulated him after his own breakthrough.
• Jia Xing Tian and Yao Yue persuaded Xiao Jin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ya Fei to stay overnight for a palace banquet.
• Yao Ye attended to Xiao Jin at dinner, and she and the two women grew more comfortable with one another.
• Yao Ye arranged for Xiao Jin and the two women to share a room for the night.
• Xiao Jin left for the Monster Mountain Range with Xiao Yi Xian and Ya Fei, while Yao Ye stayed to mobilize the empire’s experts against the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Jin began raising his strength while Soul Hall experts arrived in the Jia Ma Empire to avenge Wu Ying and harvest souls. Jia Xing Tian canceled the imperial family's planned attack on the Misty Cloud Sect and prepared for the worst, while Yun Yun's sect readied itself for battle.

• Xiao Jin set up a spatial barrier around the valley and used Linglong to reach the peak of the Dou Zong realm, creating another Heaven and Earth Energy vortex.
• Gan Da led twelve Dou Zong experts from the Soul Hall to the Imperial Capital and ordered them to visit the Misty Cloud Sect before harvesting souls.
• Jia Xing Tian sensed the Soul Hall experts and told Yao Ye to cancel the imperial family's operation against the Misty Cloud Sect, then ordered her to evacuate the imperial family's talented children.
• Yao Ye refused to flee and agreed to arrange for Yue'er to take the children away instead.
• Yun Yun told the Misty Cloud Sect that the imperial family was preparing to attack, and the disciples declared they were unafraid.

Gan Da attacked the Misty Cloud Sect, killing Yun Lei and overpowering the sect’s defenders despite Yun Yun’s desperate attempts to stop him. He seized Yun Yun by the neck while Gu He tried to protect her.

• Yun Yun rallied the Misty Cloud Sect’s disciples to defend their sect against the imperial army.
• Gan Da appeared and killed Yun Lei with a black chain, then captured Yun Lei’s soul in a strange lamp.
• Yun Yun attacked Gan Da with Extreme Wind: Falling Kill, but he effortlessly scattered her strike.
• Yun Yun led the sect in activating the Cloud Smoke Covering Sun Formation, but Gan Da shattered its combined attack and exhausted the defenders.
• Gu He caught Yun Yun as she fell, then tried to attack Gan Da with a firebird while Gan Da grabbed Yun Yun by the neck.

Gan Da threatened Yun Yun and Gu He while demanding to know who killed the Soul Hall’s Protector, and Yun Yun offered to tell him. At the Jia Ma Imperial Family, Yao Ye stayed beside Jia Xing Tian as Gan Da and two others arrived seeking Xiao Jin, only to learn that Xiao Jin had already left.

• Gu He offered Gan Da anything he wanted if he released Yun Yun, but Gan Da refused and demanded information about Wu Ying.
• Yun Yun warned Gu He about the Soul Hall, and Gu He revealed that he knew Gan Da’s force hunted powerful souls.
• Gan Da threatened Yun Yun and Gu He with a black chain, and Yun Yun shouted that she would tell him who killed the Soul Hall’s Protector.
• Yao Ye told Jia Xing Tian that Yue'er and her younger imperial brothers had safely left, then refused to flee because she believed Xiao Jin would return.
• Gan Da and two others appeared above the Imperial Capital and demanded that Xiao Jin and Jia Xing Tian come out.
• Jia Xing Tian confronted Gan Da and said Xiao Jin had already left, though he did not know where he was.

Gan Da killed Jia Xing Tian after Xiao Jin was nowhere to be found, then trapped the Imperial Capital and ordered twelve Soul Hall guardians to slaughter its people. The city was already more than half destroyed as the guardians gathered souls to make up for failing their mission.

• Gan Da pierced Jia Xing Tian's shoulder with a chain and dragged him close while Yun Yun and Gu He watched in despair.
• Jia Xing Tian tried to self-destruct and injure Gan Da, but Gan Da blasted him into a cloud of blood mist with his chains.
• Yao Ye collapsed in grief as the Imperial Capital's people realized their guardian had been killed.
• Gan Da used Spatial Lockdown to engulf the Imperial Capital in darkness and summoned twelve Soul Hall guardians to collect souls.
• The guardians attacked indiscriminately, destroying buildings and killing thousands as more than half the Imperial Capital was devastated.

After breaking through to Peak Second Turn Dou Venerate, Xiao Jin released an aura that shook the Monster Mountain Range and drew the attention of two eighth-rank magical beasts. He then discovered that his Imperial Flame had transformed into a baby flame spirit.

• Xiao Jin spent 190 million Breakthrough Points to reach Peak Second Turn Dou Venerate, and Linglong unlocked the full power of his Heavenly Grade High-level Cultivation Method.
• Xiao Jin's aura crushed the magical beasts and mercenaries throughout the Monster Mountain Range, while Xiao Yi Xian and Ya Fei remained unaffected.
• An eighth-rank Heavenly Poison Python and an eighth-rank Dragon Turtle sensed Xiao Jin's power, and the python transformed into a green-haired young man and left to hunt.
• Xiao Jin withdrew his aura, and frightened mercenaries vowed never to return to the Monster Mountain Range.
• Xiao Jin found that his Imperial Flame had vanished and a baby girl flame spirit had appeared in his dantian; she babbled in response to his question.

Xiao Jin named the flame-born baby girl Fire Spirit Child and brought her out of the cave, where Xiao Yi Xian and Ya Fei mistook her for his daughter. After Xiao Jin explained that she was not a child he had with another woman, both women warmed to Fire Spirit Child and Xiao Yi Xian asked to hold her.

• Xiao Jin named the baby girl Fire Spirit Child, and she happily accepted the name.
• Xiao Yi Xian reached six-star Dou Ling and made increasingly potent poison pills while Ya Fei and Ice Crystal raided herbs guarded by Magical Beasts.
• Ya Fei and Ice Crystal returned safely after tricking a sixth-tier Magical Beast into crashing into Xiao Jin's spatial barrier.
• Xiao Jin emerged from the cave carrying Fire Spirit Child, and Ya Fei and Xiao Yi Xian mistook her for his daughter with another woman.
• Xiao Jin denied having a child with anyone, and Ya Fei and Xiao Yi Xian admired Fire Spirit Child as Xiao Yi Xian asked to hold her.

Xiao Jin introduced Fire Spirit Child to Xiao Yi Xian and Ya Fei after she took human form, then agreed to return to the Jia Ma Empire’s Imperial Capital. Meanwhile, Mite'er Teng Shan and Hai Bo Dong prepared a desperate attempt to get members of the Mittel Family through a spatial barrier.

• Fire Spirit Child protected herself from Ya Fei with Imperial Flame until Xiao Jin calmed her, and she later returned to his dantian to sleep.
• Xiao Jin explained that Ling'er was a Heavenly Flame that had gained intelligence and taken human form, and promised the women they could hold her after she woke.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Ya Fei asked about Xiao Jin’s strength after his ten-day seclusion, but refused to guess when he offered a reward.
• Concerned about her family, Ya Fei agreed with Xiao Jin’s plan to return to the Imperial Capital, settle matters with Soul Hall, and pick up Yao Ye before traveling the continent.
• At Mite'er Auction House, a Dou Ling expert reported that the elite members of the clan were assembled, and Hai Bo Dong and Mite'er Teng Shan prepared to try to break the spatial barrier and send some of them out.

Hai Bo Dong and Mite'er Teng Shan led their people through the devastated Imperial Capital as Yao Ye faced a Soul Hall Protector in the palace. Xiao Jin returned through a tear in space, saved Yao Ye, and froze the fleeing Protector and everyone else in the city.

• Hai Bo Dong and Mite'er Teng Shan charged toward the Imperial Capital’s outskirts with children and clan members while the other great families prepared a desperate escape.
• After Jia Xing Tian’s death, Yao Ye stayed in the palace and tried to stop royal guards from looting the treasury.
• A Soul Hall Protector overpowered Yao Ye and prepared to tear her soul from her body.
• Xiao Jin emerged from a shattered opening in space with Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, and Ice Crystal, and the Protector recognized him as a Dou Zun expert.
• The Protector threw Yao Ye aside and tried to flee, but Xiao Jin froze the space across the Imperial Capital and stopped everyone from moving.
• Xiao Jin gathered the injured Yao Ye into his arms, and she wept as he apologized for leaving her behind.

After learning that Jia Xing Tian died defending the Imperial Capital, Xiao Jin captured the Soul Hall Protectors and declared war on the Soul Hall. Gan Da summoned a Venerable Elder through a Space Jade Slip, and an aged stranger in burial clothes appeared among the Nalan Family.

• Yao Ye told Xiao Jin that Jia Xing Tian had been killed by Soul Hall experts while protecting the Imperial Capital and the royal family.
• Xiao Jin flew above the devastated city and used Space Power to seize every Soul Hall Protector.
• Xiao Jin resolved to take revenge on the Soul Hall and loosened his suppression of Gan Da.
• Gan Da crushed a Space Jade Slip, opening a black hole and promising that the Soul Hall Venerable Elder would arrive.
• The families in the Imperial Capital watched the black hole anxiously as an old man in burial clothes stepped forward and questioned Na Lan Jie.

As the Imperial Capital’s survivors and the Nalan, Mu, and Mittel families waited under Xiao Jin’s spatial blockade, five Soul Hall Venerable Elders emerged from the black hole. They dismissed Gan Da’s failure to capture Xiao Jin and threatened to send the Protectors to the Soul Locking Hall.

• Nalan Tian blamed Xiao Jin for bringing disaster to the Imperial Capital, but Nalan Yanran defended him and Nalan Su apologized to the Grand Elder.
• Mu Long told Mu Chen that Xiao Jin had left the spatial blockade intact because he was confident and intended to prevent whoever was behind the black hole from escaping.
• Hai Bo Dong and Mite'er Teng Shan recalled how Xiao Jin had saved them from a Soul Hall Protector, then joined the survivors in waiting for the black hole to change.
• Five black-robed Soul Hall Venerable Elders emerged from the black hole and released a terrifying pressure over the Imperial Capital.
• Gan Da and the other Protectors knelt to the Venerable Elders, while Mu Gu and Qing Hai Venerate criticized Gan Da and threatened to send the Protectors to the Soul Locking Hall.

Xiao Jin faced five Soul Hall Dou Zuns in the ruined Jia Ma Imperial Capital after assuring them he had no ties to the Ancient Families. As Qing Hai Venerate attacked, Xiao Jin stood his ground, while the survivors and Yao Ye feared for his safety.

• Gan Da and the Soul Hall Protectors told the five Venerable Elders that Xiao Jin was a Dou Zun who had trapped them with his aura.
• Mu Gu and the other Venerable Elders eyed Xiao Jin greedily, and Xiao Jin said the five Dou Zuns would count as interest.
• Hai Bo Dong and Mite'er Teng Shan worried that Xiao Jin could not defeat the five Soul Hall Dou Zuns, while Nalan Tian blamed him for the Imperial Capital's peril.
• Yao Ye mourned her great-grandfather's death, and Xiao Yi Xian and Ya Fei comforted her and insisted Xiao Jin would win.
• Mu Gu tested Xiao Jin's background, and Xiao Jin assured the Soul Hall elders he was born and raised in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Qing Hai Venerate attacked Xiao Jin with a giant hand of black mist, but Xiao Jin did not dodge.

Xiao Jin confronted five Soul Hall Dou Zuns and shattered Qing Hai Venerate’s full-force attack with two fingers. After the five sealed space around him and unleashed their attacks, they believed they had killed him as the spatial black hole began to shrink.

• Xiao Jin blocked Qing Hai Venerate’s giant hand with two fingers, shocking the Soul Hall experts and delighting Hai Bo Dong and Mu Long.
• Mu Gu warned Qing Hai Venerate that Xiao Jin was unusual, and the five Soul Hall Dou Zuns surrounded Xiao Jin and jointly sealed space.
• Xiao Jin tested the seal, found he could not cut through it with five-star Dou Zun power, and smiled as the Soul Hall Dou Zuns mocked him.
• Qing Hai Venerate and the other four Soul Hall Dou Zuns unleashed their attacks together, while Gan Da expected Xiao Jin to die and Xiao Yi Xian reassured Yao Ye.
• The five attacks blasted apart the space where Xiao Jin stood and created a spatial black hole; the Soul Hall Dou Zuns celebrated, and Mu Gu regretted losing the chance to learn Xiao Jin’s secret.

Xiao Jin revealed that he had feigned weakness to lure the Soul Hall Dou Zuns into a trap, then overwhelmed them and captured Mu Gu. After Mu Gu's body vanished under Xiao Jin's multicolored Heavenly Flames, only his soul remained, and Xiao Jin vowed to destroy the Soul Hall.

• Xiao Jin emerged unharmed from the spatial black hole after the Soul Hall Dou Zuns' soul attacks failed to stop him.
• Mu Gu tried to collect Xiao Jin's motionless body, but Xiao Jin dragged him close and revealed that he had been pretending to be weak.
• Xiao Jin's pressure shattered the Soul Hall experts' attacks, forced the Dou Zuns to kneel, and crushed the Protectors to the ground.
• Xiao Jin told Mu Gu that he had killed the Soul Hall Protectors and refused the Dou Zuns' offer to end their feud.
• Xiao Jin pressed his multicolored Heavenly Flames against Mu Gu, making his body vanish and leaving only his soul.

Xiao Jin defeated the Soul Hall experts, burned Mu Gu’s body, and captured his soul. When Qing Hai Venerate self-destructed to attack him, Xiao Jin compressed the blast into a black sphere and swallowed it, leaving the remaining observers stunned.

• Xiao Jin burned the Soul Hall experts, and Mu Gu recognized the possibility that Xiao Jin had obtained Yao Chen’s inheritance before Xiao Jin trapped his soul in a jade bottle.
• Qing Hai Venerate begged Xiao Jin for mercy, then resolved to self-destruct and urged the other Soul Hall experts to escape.
• Xiao Jin approached Qing Hai while the Jia Ma Empire officials feared the blast would destroy them, and Nalan Yanran noticed that Xiao Jin remained calm.
• Qing Hai Venerate self-destructed, but Xiao Jin compressed the explosion into a black sphere and swallowed it.

Xiao Jin absorbed Qing Hai Venerate’s self-destruction, then defeated the remaining Soul Hall experts and collected their souls. The survivors returned to the ruins of the Imperial Capital as the city faced a long recovery.

• Xiao Jin swallowed the energy from Qing Hai Venerate’s self-destruction, and the survivors celebrated their escape.
• Mu Long told Mu Chen to befriend Xiao Jin, then had Mu Zhan dragged away to spar with two Mu Family experts.
• Xiao Jin decided the Soul Hall experts were not useful energy sources and began collecting their souls instead.
• Xiao Jin crushed one Soul Hall Dou Zun, captured his soul, and stopped the remaining experts from self-destructing.
• Xiao Jin destroyed the last two Soul Hall Venerable Elders, collected their Storage Rings and the Protectors’ souls, and took Gan Da into the imperial palace.
• The spatial seal vanished, and Hai Bo Dong, Mu Long, and Nalan Su led their families away from the ruined Imperial Capital.

Xiao Jin stopped Yao Ye from attacking Gan Da and had Fire Spirit Child seal the Soul Hall protector in a jade bottle where Heavenly Flames would torture him. He gave the bottle to Yao Ye and comforted her, and they pledged to stay together for life.

• Na Lan Su told Nalan Yanran to ask Xiao Jin to remove Na Lan Jie's poison, and she agreed to try the next morning.
• Yao Ye tried to attack Gan Da to avenge her great-grandfather, but Xiao Jin stopped her and explained that she was too injured to defeat him.
• Gan Da mocked Yao Ye and tried to provoke Xiao Jin into killing him, but Xiao Jin recognized the ploy.
• Xiao Jin had Fire Spirit Child seal Gan Da's soul in a jade bottle surrounded by Heavenly Flames and gave the bottle to Yao Ye.
• Yao Ye thanked Xiao Jin, and he told her that she was his woman; they pledged to spend their lives together.

Yun Yun returned to the Misty Cloud Sect with Gu He and warned its elders that a Dou Zun had appeared in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital. Seeing no way to protect the sect, she proposed disbanding it, but Yun Leng suggested that she and Nalan Yanran deliver the Storage Ring to Xiao Jin together.

• Yun Yun and Gu He fled back to the training grounds, where disciples celebrated their return and speculated about the imperial family’s fate.
• Yun Yun told the elders that Jia Xing Tian was dead and the imperial family had suffered heavy losses, prompting them to boast about the Misty Cloud Sect’s growing power.
• Yun Yun silenced the elders and revealed that a Dou Zun had appeared in the capital, possibly an expert from the force behind Xiao Jin.
• Yun Yun asked the elders for a way to save the sect, but they stayed silent, so she proposed disbanding the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Leng objected and proposed that Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran deliver the Storage Ring to Xiao Jin together.

Yun Leng and Yun Lei turned against Yun Yun, demanding that she and Nalan Yanran apologize to Xiao Jin and deliver the Storage Ring. Yun Yun was left injured and surrounded by disloyal elders, while Gu He secretly offered to help her escape.

• Yun Yun defeated Yun Leng, and Gu He examined the injured Yun Lei.
• Yun Lei suddenly attacked Yun Yun and Gu He, while Yun Leng broke free and wounded Yun Yun’s confidants.
• Yun Leng urged the elders and deacons to force Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to apologize to Xiao Jin, and they refused to defend Yun Yun.
• Yun Yun accused the elders of betraying her for power, then collapsed after her damaged dantian blocked her Dou Qi.
• Gu He secretly offered to use his Soul Power to open an escape route, but Yun Yun shook her head.