Chapter Summaries

After the Poison Array Method helped Xiao Yi Xian control her Calamity Poison Body and reach the nine-star Dou Emperor level, Lin Mu persuaded her to return with him to the Jia Ma Empire and establish a force there. With the Poison Sect disciples prepared to go along, Lin Mu, Xiao Yi Xian, and their companions left the Cloud Empire for the Jia Ma Empire.

• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the poisonous mist and reached the nine-star Dou Emperor level, while Lin Mu fainted after seeing her suspended above the pool.
• Lin Mu woke in Xiao Yi Xian's arms, and they discussed the Poison Array Method and her breakthrough.
• Lin Mu proposed establishing a force in the Jia Ma Empire and persuaded Xiao Yi Xian to bring the Poison Sect with her.
• Gu He thanked Lin Mu for saving him, and Lin Mu arranged for the Poison Sect disciples to stay temporarily at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yi Xian distributed the Poison Sect's wealth to members staying behind, then she and Lin Mu led the others toward the Jia Ma Empire.

Yun Yun returned safely to the Misty Cloud Sect, and Lin Mu discussed his plans for the Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Yi Xian and Fa Ma. Jia Xing Tian then summoned Lin Mu to explain the Empire War and its perilous Ancient Battlefield, leaving Lin Mu to hear why the four empires’ contest mattered.

• Yun Yun returned to the Misty Cloud Sect, reunited with Nalan Yanran, and arranged rooms for the exhausted Poison Sect members.
• Xiao Yi Xian said she might visit Qingshan Town, while Lin Mu planned to settle matters in the Jia Ma Empire before heading to the Middle Continent.
• Lin Mu reassured Fa Ma that Gu He and Yun Yun had returned safely, then revealed he was considering establishing a powerful faction in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Fa Ma brought Lin Mu to meet Jia Xing Tian, who explained that the Empire War was a contest among four empires held in an Ancient Battlefield.
• Jia Xing Tian warned Lin Mu that the Ancient Battlefield replayed scenes in cycles and was dangerous enough to threaten even Dou Emperor experts.

Lin Mu learned that the Ancient Battlefield would open in three days and received a system mission to find a Reincarnation Fragment there. He agreed to help Jia Xing Tian protect the Jia Ma Empire’s people and set out with Xiao Yi Xian, while Yun Yun stayed behind.

• Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma told Lin Mu that the Ancient Battlefield opened every few years, lasted thirty days, and had once released creatures resembling demonic creatures.
• Lin Mu received a special mission to find an ancient Reincarnation Fragment in the Ancient Battlefield, with Hundred Solutions of Spirit Engraver Array Diagrams as the reward.
• Lin Mu agreed to enter the battlefield and protect members of Jia Xing Tian’s imperial family, though he left his conditions for later.
• Yun Yun explained that the agreement between the four empires barred her from entering, and she promised to look after the Poison Sect while Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian were away.
• Three days later, Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian arrived outside the imperial palace, where Jia Xing Tian was shocked to learn Xiao Yi Xian had reached nine-star Dou Emperor.

Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian traveled with Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma to the Ancient Battlefield, where Lin Mu killed Li Hu and his followers after they harassed Xiao Yi Xian. When the spatial rift opened, Lin Mu entered with Xiao Yi Xian but landed alone inside the battlefield.

• Lin Mu, Xiao Yi Xian, Jia Xing Tian, and Fa Ma set out for the Ancient Battlefield with several Dou Wang experts.
• At the gathering site, Li Hu tried to recruit Xiao Yi Xian, and Lin Mu killed him and his followers when they persisted.
• Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma reported that the three great empires had provoked the Jia Ma Empire.
• The Ancient Battlefield's entrance opened, and Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian entered the distorted space.
• Lin Mu landed inside the battlefield without Xiao Yi Xian and reassured himself that she could handle the separation.

Lin Mu explored the strange Ancient Battlefield, discovered a Demonic Shadow, and destroyed it with the Chaos Green Lotus Flame. As day abruptly turned to night, he headed for a crimson-lit mountain, where Xiao Yi Xian was also making her way.

• Lin Mu sensed that people entering the Ancient Battlefield had been separated and found that time and the landscape behaved unnaturally.
• Lin Mu spotted an eerie Demonic Shadow, which turned three cultivators into bones.
• Lin Mu burned the Demonic Shadow with the Chaos Green Lotus Flame and suspected it belonged to the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• The sky changed from day to night without warning, and Lin Mu decided to head toward the mountain beneath a crimson pillar of light.
• Xiao Yi Xian, bloodstained after a battle, also hurried toward the mountain.

Lin Mu discovered that the Ancient Battlefield was the site where a Dou Saint had sealed powerful Demonic creatures, and learned that three Jade Pieces could open its final passage. After Xiao Yi Xian brought him a Jade Piece, they set out to deal with the Demonic Shadow guarding it.

• Lin Mu followed the crowd into a gorge rumored to contain an Ancient Divine Treasure and entered a chamber filled with passages.
• Lin Mu touched a skeleton on a throne, triggering an apparition that warned him never to break the seal and said three Jade Pieces could open the final passage.
• Lin Mu realized the battlefield was the grave of a Dou Saint who had sealed Demonic creatures, then continued searching for the Reincarnation Fragment while destroying Demonic Shadows with his flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian emerged from a passage carrying a milky-white Jade Piece and told Lin Mu a powerful Demonic Shadow had appeared when she took it.
• Lin Mu explained the apparition's warning, and he and Xiao Yi Xian recognized that the Jade Piece was tied to the greatest treasure and that its guardian had to be stopped.

Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian encountered a powerful Demonic Shadow that identified humans as livestock and revealed ties to the Outer Realm Evil Clan. Lin Mu pursued it from the gorge and launched a powerful attack, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Three Dou Emperor cultivators approached Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian, but a Demonic Shadow killed them in a dark storm.
• Lin Mu attacked the Demonic Shadow with the Chaos Green Lotus Flame and Lightning Bracelet while Xiao Yi Xian used her Netherworld Poison Array to counter its Demonic Qi.
• The Demonic Shadow revealed that its race treated the Dou Qi Continent as a breeding ground and spoke of its Master awakening; Lin Mu identified it as part of the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• The Demonic Shadow fled through the gorge and killed people in its path, while Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian pursued it.
• Lin Mu surrounded the Demonic Shadow with Chaos Green Lotus Flame and unleashed Six Paths, Green Lotus Incinerating Heaven.

Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian fought the Demonic Shadow, but it destroyed itself before revealing which branch of the Outer Realm Evil Clan it belonged to. Afterward, Lin Mu guessed that the sealed demon had altered the secret realm’s entry restrictions to attract useful blood food, leaving them worried about how strong it had become.

• The Demonic Shadow attacked Lin Mu with a vast green lotus flame phantom, and Xiao Yi Xian sent the Medicine Puppet King to help him.
• Lin Mu and the Medicine Puppet King crippled the Demonic Shadow, and Lin Mu burned it with Chaos Green Lotus Flame while demanding answers.
• The Demonic Shadow refused to reveal its origins, then self-destructed after warning that the world would become its clan’s blood food.
• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian continued toward the deepest mountain and later discussed why the battlefield admitted only people between Dou Ling and Dou Zong.
• Lin Mu concluded that the sealed demon had tampered with the restrictions to obtain blood food and feared it had recovered much of its strength.
• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian decided to search the ruins for the remaining Jade Pieces without delay.

Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian discovered that the strange region reset each day, though its ancient ruins did not reappear where they had been before. After rescuing Ma Baoguo from the ruins, they followed him into a dangerous space where the Jade Piece began to resonate, and Lin Mu found another glowing piece deeper inside.

• Xiao Yi Xian recognized a wolf that had been killed the previous day, and Lin Mu concluded that things in the region reappeared in a daily cycle.
• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian searched the gorge for the ancient ruins but found they had disappeared.
• Ma Baoguo asked Lin Mu to rescue the royal guard members trapped in strange ruins, and Lin Mu brought him and Xiao Yi Xian inside using the Six Paths Samsara Art.
• Lin Mu, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ma Baoguo encountered Demonic Shadows, and Lin Mu fought through them with the Lightning Bracelet and Azure Flame Sword.
• The Jade Piece grew hot in Xiao Yi Xian's hand, and Lin Mu charged into a new space where he spotted another glowing Jade Piece.

Lin Mu obtained the Jade Piece after witnessing a vision of the ancient war, where demonic creatures slaughtered the continent’s experts and enslaved humanity. He left with Xiao Yi Xian and the others, then continued deeper into the Ancient Battlefield while still troubled by what he had seen.

• Xiao Yi Xian went with Ma Baoguo to rescue the royal brothers, leaving Lin Mu to retrieve the Jade Piece.
• The Jade Piece sent a ray into Lin Mu’s brow, leaving him unresponsive as Xiao Yi Xian tried to wake him.
• Lin Mu witnessed the ancient war in a vision and saw demonic creatures overwhelm and kill countless Dou Saint experts.
• Lin Mu resolved to destroy the demonic creatures, took the Jade Piece, and found that it was still missing one piece.
• Lin Mu recovered, thanked Xiao Yi Xian for worrying about him, and led Ma Baoguo’s group away from the Demonic Shadows.
• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian continued deeper into the Ancient Battlefield, and Xiao Yi Xian asked about his troubled expression.

Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian searched the Ancient Battlefield for the final Jade Piece and discovered that the dead Demonic creatures kept reviving. After Lin Mu defeated the Golden Goose Sect and obtained the piece, the pair reached the mountain at the battlefield’s center, where an enormous ancient stone gate awaited them.

• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian searched the battlefield for several days, found no Jade Piece, and endured the daily revival of slain Demonic creatures.
• A group of Dou Emperors from the Golden Goose Sect confronted Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian, demanding their Jade Pieces.
• Lin Mu used the Chaos Green Flame Array and the Hand of the Heavens to defeat the Golden Goose Sect members, then killed their surviving leader.
• Lin Mu found the final Jade Piece, and the three pieces merged into a new token.
• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian reached the central mountain and found a gigantic ancient stone gate.

Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian entered the hidden space beyond the stone gate, where a Star-eyed man revealed the truth about the invasion ten thousand years ago. The chapter ended with them learning that the plane’s Dou Emperors had sacrificed themselves to seal the rift and stop the Sky Demon Clan.

• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian joined the others in attacking the stone gate, opened a passage, and entered the blood-colored space.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s token merged into a stone stele, revealing a spatial entrance that Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian entered under the protection of the Six Paths Samsara Method.
• Lin Mu questioned the Star-eyed man about the ancient invasion, and the man identified the invaders as the Sky Demon Clan, led by the Sky Demon Venerable.
• The Star-eyed man explained that the Dou Emperors had given their lives to seal the plane rift and had joined forces to seal the Sky Demon Venerable.

Lin Mu learned that the sealed Demonic creature was still alive and gathering strength, and agreed to help the Star-eyed man kill it before it escaped. The Star-eyed man prepared to merge his remnant soul and power with Lin Mu, while revealing that a Reincarnation Fragment lay deep within the seal.

• The Star-eyed man learned that the sealed space now admitted only humans between the Dou Ling and Dou Zong realms, and warned that the Demonic creature was still absorbing human flesh and blood.
• Lin Mu explained that the Dou Qi Continent had run out of origin energy, that Tou She Ancient God had been its last Dou Emperor, and that only a handful of nine-star Dou Saints remained.
• The Star-eyed man revealed that the sealed Demonic creature had weakened to the Dou Venerate level and asked Lin Mu to help kill it, offering to merge his remnant soul and power into Lin Mu.
• The Star-eyed man identified the Reincarnation Fragment in the seal as one of Sky Demon Venerable's seven fragments and said it lay in the deepest part of the seal.
• Lin Mu agreed to face the Demonic creature, reassured Xiao Yi Xian, and prepared to enter the deepest part of the seal with the Star-eyed man's help.

Lin Mu accepted the Star-eyed man's power to fight Blood Soul, temporarily reaching the Dou Venerate realm. He clashed with Blood Soul using Chaos Green Lotus Flame and Reincarnation, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Lin Mu learned that defeating Blood Soul would earn him the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• The Star-eyed man broke the sealing formation and revealed Blood Soul, who boasted that he would devour everyone once he escaped.
• The Star-eyed man sacrificed himself and merged his remaining power into Lin Mu, raising Lin Mu to the Dou Venerate realm.
• Blood Soul attacked Lin Mu, who countered with his palm and unleashed Chaos Green Lotus Flame.
• Lin Mu's green lotus collided with Blood Soul's Demon Spirit Break, and the two continued battling with their flames.
• Lin Mu seized an opening and invoked Reincarnation against Blood Soul.

Lin Mu fought Blood Soul in a fierce battle, using reincarnation power, the Hand of the Heavens, and the Kun Peng Method to wound him. As the battle threatened the surrounding space, Xiao Yi Xian left after the Star-eyed man promised to protect Lin Mu, and Lin Mu unleashed his full Chaos Green Lotus Flame against Blood Soul.

• Lin Mu struck Blood Soul's arm with the power of reincarnation, then drove him back with the Hand of the Heavens and the Kun Peng Method.
• Lin Mu shattered Blood Soul's weakened arm and pursued him at extreme speed, while Blood Soul struggled to regenerate it.
• Xiao Yi Xian was threatened by blood-red aura, and the Star-eyed man urged her to leave while promising to protect Lin Mu.
• Xiao Yi Xian left the space after asking the Star-eyed man to keep Lin Mu safe.
• Lin Mu and Blood Soul continued their grueling fight, and Lin Mu unleashed Six Paths, Green Lotus Incinerating Heaven to burn away Blood Soul's Demonic Qi.

Lin Mu fought Blood Soul in the collapsing space and used his strongest Yin Yang attack to weaken him enough for the Star-eyed man to trigger the seal. After sealing Blood Soul, Lin Mu infused the seal with Chaos Green Lotus Flame, leaving Blood Soul trapped and his soul burning.

• The Star-eyed man told Lin Mu that residual Power of Seal could restrain the weakened Blood Soul, and Lin Mu continued fighting him while the space grew fragile.
• Lin Mu opened his second Small World and unleashed Yin Yang Demon Breaker, piercing Blood Soul with a ray of Yin Yang light.
• The Star-eyed man triggered the Power of Seal as Lin Mu rushed Blood Soul and trapped him with Seal Runes.
• Lin Mu used spears infused with Yin Yang Power to pin Blood Soul to the runes and complete the seal.
• Lin Mu fused Chaos Green Lotus Flame into the seal, causing Blood Soul to scream as the flame began burning his soul.

After defeating the demon, Lin Mu received the Reincarnation Fragment and the Star-eyed man’s warning about the Demonic creatures and the Dou Qi Continent’s sealed rift. Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian cultivated with the Star-eyed man’s remaining energy; he departed as starlight, while Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Dou Zong and left the remaining power for Lin Mu.

• Lin Mu defeated the demon with the Star-eyed man’s help, returned to Dou Emperor level, and received the Reincarnation Fragment along with a warning to grow stronger before the dimensional rift reopened.
• The Star-eyed man brought Lin Mu to Xiao Yi Xian, then offered them his remaining Dou Qi energy to aid their cultivation.
• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian began cultivating, and Lin Mu received the Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hundred Solutions of Spirit Engraver Array Diagrams as mission rewards.
• The Star-eyed man recognized the Nihility Devouring Flame and Lin Mu’s unusual abilities before dispersing into starlight.
• Lin Mu sensed his strength nearing a breakthrough to Dou Zong, while Xiao Yi Xian advanced to Dou Zong and saved the remaining energy for him.

Lin Mu emerged from cultivation as an eight-star Dou Emperor, with strange Star Pupils resembling those of the Star-eyed man, and he and Xiao Yi Xian left the Ancient Battlefield. Outside, Yan Luo Tian of the Golden Goose Sect confronted Lin Mu over the deaths of his sect members, and Lin Mu attacked him.

• Xiao Yi Xian waited for Lin Mu as the Ancient Battlefield neared closure, and Lin Mu broke through to eight-star Dou Emperor with newly changed eyes.
• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian paid their respects to the vanished Star-eyed man and left the space, where they met Ye Ling'er near the exit.
• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian reunited with Jia Xing Tian and the others, and Fa Ma and Jia Xing Tian reacted to their increased strength, including Xiao Yi Xian's Dou Zong realm.
• Yan Luo Tian confronted Lin Mu on behalf of the Golden Goose Sect, and Lin Mu admitted killing its members.
• Lin Mu suddenly appeared beside Yan Luo Tian and attacked, prompting Yan Luo Tian to retreat and unleash sword Qi.

Lin Mu overwhelmed Yan Luo Tian in battle, pursued him after he fled, and killed him with the Chaos Green Lotus Flame. Lin Mu then returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Yi Xian and the others, where they decided to rest and visit the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Lin Mu used his speed, Lightning Bracelet, and Chaos Green Lotus Flame to overpower Yan Luo Tian while the onlookers watched in disbelief.
• Yan Luo Tian fled, but Lin Mu caught up and tore off one of his wings with the Kun Peng Method.
• Yan Luo Tian begged for his life, but Lin Mu burned him with the Chaos Green Lotus Flame and killed him.
• Lin Mu returned to Xiao Yi Xian, Jia Xing Tian, and the others, then left with them as the Golden Goose Sect members cowered.
• Back in the Jia Ma Empire, Lin Mu suggested resting, and Xiao Yi Xian proposed returning to the Misty Cloud Sect to check on the Poison Sect.

Lin Mu returned to the Misty Cloud Sect with Xiao Yi Xian, where Yun Yun told him Yun Shan wanted to see him. As Lin Mu investigated the strange energy gathering in his pupils and discussed the Poison Sect with Xiao Yi Xian, she began explaining how she and Yun Yun had grown close, revealing that Yun Yun had asked her to accompany Lin Mu to the Ancient Battlefield.

• Lin Mu and Xiao Yi Xian arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Leng recognized them and Yun Yun welcomed them.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked after the Poison Sect members, then went to see them while Yun Yun told Lin Mu that Yun Shan wished to meet him the next day.
• Lin Mu examined the strange energy in his pupils and reflected on the ancient battle against Sky Demon Venerable and the danger posed by the Reincarnation Fragment.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Mu that the Poison Sect members were well and that she and Yun Yun had spoken privately before the Ancient Battlefield trip.
• Xiao Yi Xian began recounting how Yun Yun had asked her to accompany Lin Mu to the Ancient Battlefield, despite his considerable strength.