Chapter Summaries

The Hall of Souls Vice Hall Master trapped seven Ancient Void Dragons in his Nether Domain and injured them after breaking their joint defense. As he prepared to claim their souls, the Three Great Dragon Kings appeared and surrounded him, threatening the stability of his domain.

• The seven Ancient Void Dragons broke the Vice Hall Master's Soul Binding Chains and charged him again.
• The Vice Hall Master unleashed his Nether Domain, suppressing the dragons and attacking them with seven Nether Ghost Hands.
• The dragons joined forces to form a barrier, but the ghostly hands shattered it and sent them crashing down with severe injuries.
• The Vice Hall Master claimed the dragons were powerless before him and threatened to use their Dragon Souls to replace his losses.
• Zhu Xu, Zhu Jin, and Zhu You appeared around the Vice Hall Master, and their Dragon Might destabilized his domain.

The Three Great Dragon Kings cornered and badly wounded the Hall of Souls Vice Hall Master while Lin Ming watched. The Vice Hall Master burned his Soul Origin to escape their layered barriers, but his fate remained uncertain as he broke through the second one.

• North Dragon King Zhu Xu, West Dragon King Zhu Jin, and South Dragon King Zhu You surrounded the Hall of Souls Vice Hall Master and launched a coordinated attack.
• The Hall of Souls Vice Hall Master defended himself with the Nether Ghost Wall and Ten Thousand Souls Body Protection, but the Dragon Kings’ attacks broke through and wounded him.
• Lin Ming urged the Dragon Kings to finish the fight quickly, and the Vice Hall Master’s attempt to attack him was stopped by their intensified assault.
• North Dragon King Zhu Xu struck the Vice Hall Master, who spat blood and threatened that the Hun Clan would take revenge.
• The Vice Hall Master transformed into black mist and burned his Soul Origin to pierce the first Space Barrier, then broke through a second barrier as his form grew faint.

The Three Great Dragon Kings captured the Hall of Souls Vice Hall Master after his escape failed, while South Dragon King Zhu You sealed and captured the Great Heavenly Venerate. Lin Ming received both prisoners as the Soul Hall's Human Hall was completely wiped out.

• The Hall of Souls Vice Hall Master fled into North Dragon King Zhu Xu's third Space Barrier, which blocked his escape and left him too weakened to fight back.
• Zhu Xu sealed the Vice Hall Master in a Purple-Gold Cocoon and handed him to Lin Ming.
• Realizing the Great Heavenly Venerate was still alive in the pit, South Dragon King Zhu You sealed him with the Nether Dragon Seal and brought him to Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming held both captured leaders as the Human Hall's remaining core forces were confirmed destroyed.

Lin Ming entered the Human Hall and discovered more than a million imprisoned souls whose Soul Origin had been harvested by the Soul Hall. He arranged to protect the souls and vowed to use the gathered Soul Origin to destroy the Soul Hall, as the cluster began answering his oath.

• Lin Ming and the Ancient Dragon Clan entered the Human Hall and found countless Soul Bodies suspended from Black Chains.
• Lin Ming ordered the Dragon Clan to collect and safeguard the souls, explaining that releasing them now would leave them vulnerable to recapture and expose the group to the Hun Clan.
• Great Elder Qing Mu and the other Dragon Kings gathered the Soul Bodies into spatial storage.
• Lin Ming followed the chains underground and found the vast Soul Origin Light Cluster refined from the imprisoned souls.
• Lin Ming vowed to destroy the Soul Hall and promised the souls he would carry their strength and hatred into his revenge.
• The Soul Origin Light Cluster brightened and sent its chaotic emotional imprints toward Lin Ming.

After Lin Ming destroyed Soul Hall’s Human Hall and more than a dozen Branch Halls, the loss shook Middle Continent’s factions and left them searching for the force behind the attack. Soul Hall Master Hun Miesheng prepared to report the disaster as uncertainty and fear spread across the continent.

• Lin Ming accepted the Soul Origin Light Cluster’s hatred and desire for revenge, sealed it in a Jade Box, and stored it in his Inner World.
• Lin Ming and the Ancient Dragon Clan experts looted Human Hall, then the Three Great Dragon Kings annihilated the hall and its mountain range before the group departed.
• A month later, Hun Miesheng learned that Human Hall, Vice Hall Master Hun Yan, its Soul Origins, and more than a dozen Branch Halls had vanished, and he considered reporting the attack to the clan.
• Xuan Kongzi, Tian Lei Zi, and Xuan Yi discussed the destruction at Pill Tower, suspected a targeted purge, and ordered increased caution and investigation.
• Feng Xian and Venerable Yao discussed Soul Hall’s losses, while other factions strengthened their defenses and rumors spread that a powerful mystery force had emerged.

After leading the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s attacks on Soul Hall, Lin Ming gathered the captured Soul Origin and set the Four Great Dragon Islands on course to unite. He entered the Void Dragon Hall to refine the Soul Origin in seclusion.

• The Ancient Dragon Clan squads returned to East Dragon Island and presented Lin Ming with Soul Origin seized from more than ten Soul Hall branch halls.
• Lin Ming praised the clan members for their contributions and said he would support them with Zi Yan once she emerged from seclusion.
• Lin Ming proposed merging the Four Great Dragon Islands into one Ancient Dragon Island, and the Three Great Dragon Kings agreed and began moving their islands toward East Dragon Island.
• Elder Qing Mu led Lin Ming to the Void Dragon Hall and promised to guard it while he underwent seclusion.
• Lin Ming entered the hall, brought out the Soul Origin from the Human Hall and the branch halls, and began refining it with Dark Purple flames.

Lin Ming purified the Soul Hall’s gathered soul origins and began absorbing them to strengthen his soul. As his soul power rapidly grew inside the sealed Void Dragon Hall, Elder Qing Mu sensed an alarming transformation from outside.

• Lin Ming combined the soul origin light clusters and used the New Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame to refine them.
• The flame exposed and destroyed hidden Soul Hall imprints and curses concealed within the soul origins.
• After two days and two nights, Lin Ming completed the purification and withdrew his flame.
• Lin Ming manifested his soul body and began absorbing the crystal-clear soul origin, which gradually made his soul body more tangible.
• As Lin Ming absorbed the vast reserve, powerful soul ripples spread beyond the hall, and Elder Qing Mu sensed the rising pressure.

As Lin Ming refined the Vast Soul Origin in seclusion, his growing Soul Pressure spread across Ancient Dragon Island and began tempering the Ancient Dragon Clan’s souls. The clan turned the pressure into a cultivation opportunity, and even the Three Great Dragon Kings joined in while Lin Ming remained unaware, nearing perfection in his Soul Essence.

• Lin Ming’s Soul Pressure expanded from the Void Dragon Hall until it covered the core region of East Dragon Island, making it difficult for the Ancient Dragon Clan to fly or move freely.
• Zhu Jin, Zhu Xu, and Zhu You sensed the power of Lin Ming’s pressure, while some clan members chose to endure it instead of avoiding the area.
• Hei Qing broke through to the Nine-Star Dou Venerate realm after cultivating under the pressure, and others found their Soul Power and spatial perception improving.
• Ancient Dragon Clan members discovered that traces of Soul Origin sometimes drifted through the pressure, prompting thousands from all four dragon islands to gather and cultivate near the Void Dragon Hall.
• After witnessing an elder’s Soul Realm begin to loosen, Zhu Jin, Zhu Xu, and Zhu You joined the clan-wide soul tempering.
• Lin Ming remained unaware of the cultivation frenzy outside as his Soul Essence made its final advance toward perfection.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er left the Heaven Tomb after three years inside, and Xiao Xuan entrusted Xiao Yan with the Xiao Clan’s future. Outside, the Ancient Clan learned that Hun Ya and Hun Li had died, while Xiao Yan’s return as a Seven-Star Dou Venerate stunned the gathered elders.

• Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Yan the Ancient Insect Emperor Robe and urged him to carry the Xiao Clan’s future before Xiao Yan and Xun Er were pulled out of the Heaven Tomb.
• The Ancient Clan gathered at the Heaven Tomb’s exit as members of several clans emerged, including the corpses of Hun Ya and Hun Li.
• Huo Xuan and Gu Zhen suspected that Xiao Yan and Xun Er had killed Hun Ya and Hun Li after ruling out other possibilities.
• Gu Qingyang and three others emerged, then Xiao Yan and Xun Er appeared hand in hand.
• The Ancient Clan elders sensed Xiao Yan’s Seven-Star Dou Venerate cultivation and reacted with shock at his rapid advancement.

After Xiao Yan reached Seven-Star Dou Venerate, Hun Lin and Hun Jun arrived to retrieve Hun Ya and Hun Li’s bodies and accused the Ancient Clan of killing them. Xun’er revealed that the two had attacked her in the Heaven Tomb, forcing the Hun Clan elders to retreat while Elder Tong Xuan worried over mounting threats across the continent.

• Hun Lin and Hun Jun arrived and found Hun Ya and Hun Li dead, then blamed the Ancient Clan for their deaths.
• Xiao Yan mocked the elders’ accusations, and Xun’er said Hun Ya and Hun Li had ambushed her and her group in the Heaven Tomb.
• The Ancient Clan turned against Hun Lin and Hun Jun, who denied Xun’er’s claim and threatened Xiao Yan and the Ancient Clan before fleeing with the bodies.
• Elder Tong Xuan welcomed the returning youths and reflected on the destruction of the Soul Hall’s Human Hall and the Ling Clan’s sudden isolation.
• Elder Tong Xuan arranged for the group to return to the Ancient Clan’s core region, expecting Xiao Yan’s rise to stir excitement within the clan.

After nearly half a year of secluded cultivation in the Void Dragon Hall, Lin Ming absorbed the last of the Soul Origin and broke through to Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection. His vast new Soul Power spread through Ancient Dragon Island and the surrounding Void Space, where ancient beings began to notice his probing.

• Lin Ming’s soul pressure vanished, and the Three Great Dragon Kings and the Ancient Dragon Clan’s elders sensed a far greater power gathering inside the hall.
• Lin Ming’s crystalline Soul Body devoured the remaining Soul Origin, triggering a massive Soul Fluctuation and dark clouds and lightning over Ancient Dragon Island.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings and the elders recognized Lin Ming’s breakthrough and were shocked by the scale of his Soul Power.
• Lin Ming perceived the thoughts and emotions of the people across Ancient Dragon Island with his newly transformed senses.
• Lin Ming expanded his Soul Fluctuation thousands of miles through Void Space, detecting hidden beings and drawing warning and scrutiny from ancient souls in Deadly Lands.

After his soul reached Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection, Lin Ming broke through to Nine-Star Dou Venerate and explored his Inner World, which had expanded to more than Nine Thousand Zhang. He left his consciousness immersed in the world’s mysteries before turning his attention to the Soul Bodies he had secured from the Soul Hall.

• Lin Ming withdrew his Soul Power after sensing warnings from ancient beings, then used his perfected soul to break through to peak Nine-Star Dou Venerate.
• Lin Ming opened his eyes after half a year of seclusion and assessed his greatly increased strength.
• The Dragon Kings and Elder Qing Mu waited outside the Void Dragon Hall for Lin Ming, unaware that his consciousness had entered his Inner World.
• Lin Ming discovered that his Inner World had grown to more than Nine Thousand Zhang and studied its Five Elements laws and expanding boundaries.
• Lin Ming inspected the protected area in his Inner World where he had placed the Soul Bodies collected by the Ancient Dragon Clan.

Lin Ming confronted the imprisoned Hun Yan and exposed the Hun Clan’s hidden history, methods, and ultimate ambition, leaving Hun Yan and the Great Heavenly Venerate terrified by how much he knew. The chapter ended with the Hun Clan’s thousand-year plan seemingly laid bare before Lin Ming.

• Lin Ming surveyed the sealed prisoners in his inner world, where Hun Yan cursed him and threatened him with the Hun Clan’s power.
• Lin Ming challenged Hun Yan’s boast that the Hun Clan had destroyed the Xiao Clan, pointing out that it had attacked only after Xiao Xuan was gravely wounded and that Hun Tiandi had then needed a thousand years to recover.
• Lin Ming revealed that Nihility Devouring Flame helped the Hun Clan sustain its bloodline by devouring other clans’ bloodlines and that the Soul Hall gathered souls to strengthen the Flame’s Soul Essence.
• Lin Ming exposed the Hun Clan’s destruction of the Ling Clan and its effort to obtain the Ling Clan’s fragment of the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Lin Ming stated that Hun Tiandi planned to gather all eight jade fragments, open Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion, obtain the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, and become a Dou Di.
• Hun Yan fell silent in fear, while the Great Heavenly Venerate trembled as he realized Lin Ming had uncovered the Hun Clan’s secret plans.

Lin Ming refined the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Remains in his Inner World, destroying the lingering Remnant Soul and extracting three valuable treasures. With the remains processed, he turned back to the captured Hun Yan and the Great Heavenly Venerate to deal with them.

• Lin Ming decided to leave the Ancient Void Dragon Remains untouched and return them to the Ancient Dragon Clan, but chose to refine the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Remains.
• Lin Ming used World Origin Fire and the Five Elements Roulette to erase the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix's Remnant Soul.
• Lin Ming refined the skeleton into Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Essence Blood, an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Magic Core, and Dou Saint Bone Marrow.
• Lin Ming sealed the Essence Blood and bone marrow in Jade Boxes, then turned his attention to Hun Yan and the Great Heavenly Venerate.

Lin Ming used his Inner World to suppress Hun Yan and the Great Heavenly Venerate, then refined their soul and body into components for a powerful puppet. With the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Magic Core ready, he prepared to fuse all three using the Ancient Human Puppet Secret Art.

• Lin Ming brought the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Magic Core over Hun Yan and the Great Heavenly Venerate and prepared to turn them into an advanced puppet.
• Lin Ming lifted the seals binding Hun Yan and the Great Heavenly Venerate, and they immediately attacked him.
• Lin Ming used the power of his Inner World to crush their attacks and immobilize them with World Shackles.
• Lin Ming burned the Great Heavenly Venerate with World Origin Fire, purifying his body into a Two-Star Dou Saint puppet shell.
• Lin Ming stripped Hun Yan's personal memories and will from his soul while preserving its combat knowledge and instincts, leaving a Soul Core ready for the next stage.

Lin Ming fused Hun Yan’s and Great Heavenly Venerate’s souls to create a powerful core for his puppet, uncovering extensive secrets about the Hall of Souls and the Hun Clan in the process. With the intelligence recorded and the soul core stabilized, he prepared to combine it with the refined body and Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Magic Core.

• Lin Ming decided to fuse Hun Yan’s and Great Heavenly Venerate’s souls into a puppet core despite their violent rejection of each other.
• Lin Ming used World Origin Fire and his world’s power to force the souls together and strip away their individual imprints.
• The fusion exposed detailed information about the Hall of Souls, the Hun Clan, their strongholds, and the Soul Realm to Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming sorted the intelligence into more than twenty Spirit Jade Slips.
• Lin Ming completed the fused Soul Core, which reached the Early Stage Four-Star Dou Saint soul level and remained bound to obey him.
• Lin Ming turned to the next step: combining the Soul Core, the refined puppet shell, and the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Magic Core.

Lin Ming fused a refined body, a dark silver soul core, and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Magic Core to create the Soul Puppet. He tested its inherited abilities, and it destroyed opponents up to the late stage of Two-Star Dou Saint with ease.

• Lin Ming inscribed Energy Circuits into Great Heavenly Venerate's refined body and placed the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Magic Core in its core.
• Lin Ming fused the purified soul origin formed from Hun Yan and Great Heavenly Venerate into the body, awakening the Soul Puppet.
• Lin Ming named the creation Soul Puppet, which knelt and vowed to obey its Master's command.
• Lin Ming tested Soul Puppet against simulated opponents, and it destroyed a Half Sage with a punch and a One-Star Dou Saint with Ghost Soul Blade.
• Soul Puppet used Nether Hand to annihilate a simulated late-stage Two-Star Dou Saint, and Lin Ming was pleased with the results.

After more than half a year in seclusion, Lin Ming completed the Soul Puppet, advanced his soul to Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection, and reached Nine-Star Dou Venerate. He emerged from the Void Dragon Hall and asked the Ancient Dragon Clan leaders about the turmoil caused by the destruction of Soul Hall's Human Hall.

• Lin Ming completed the Soul Puppet, whose combined strength reached at least Half-Step Four-Star Dou Saint, and confirmed its absolute obedience.
• Lin Ming reviewed his gains from secluded cultivation, including his improved soul, Nine-Star Dou Venerate strength, expanded Inner World, and valuable spoils from the Ancient Ruins.
• Lin Ming ended his nearly seven-month seclusion, and his aura shook the Void Dragon Hall as its doors opened.
• Elder Qing Mu and the Three Great Dragon Kings greeted Lin Ming and recognized his remarkable advancement.
• Lin Ming reassured the Dragon Kings that the united Ancient Dragon Clan would prosper if they supported one another.
• Lin Ming asked what had happened outside during his seclusion, noting that the destruction of Soul Hall's Human Hall must have caused a stir.

Lin Ming revealed to the Ancient Dragon Clan that the Hun Clan had sealed the Spirit Realm as part of a long-planned extermination war to steal the Spirit Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragment and devour its Dou Di Bloodline. The clan’s leaders were left reeling as Lin Ming exposed the Hun Clan’s ambition to gather the Ancient God Jade and help Hun Tiandi reach the Dou Di Realm.

• Elder Qing Mu gave Lin Ming a Jade Slip summarizing the past half year, including the destruction of the Hall of Souls’ Human Hall and the Spirit Realm’s sudden closure.
• Lin Ming rejected the claim that the Spirit Clan had sealed itself away voluntarily and revealed that the Hun Clan had invaded the Spirit Realm.
• Lin Ming explained that the Hun Clan sought to devour the Ancient Races’ Dou Di Bloodlines, collect the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and obtain the Dou Di inheritance for Hun Tiandi.
• Lin Ming disclosed that Nihility Devouring Flame had inherited the Tunling Clan’s ability to plunder bloodlines and had helped sustain the Hun Clan’s Divine Bloodline.
• Lin Ming said the Hun Clan had orchestrated the Xiao Clan’s destruction to seize its bloodline and was now attacking the Spirit Clan to take its Jade Fragment and bloodline.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings, Elder Qing Mu, and the gathered Ancient Dragon Clan experts were stunned by Lin Ming’s revelations.

Lin Ming revealed the Hun Clan’s bloodline-devouring conspiracy to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and organized preparations to oppose it. The clan secretly spread the warning across Middle Continent and began building an escape route to Lin Ming’s homeland as the coming conflict drew near.

• Lin Ming explained that he had uncovered the Hun Clan’s plans by searching the souls of Hun Yan and a Great Heavenly Venerate, and warned that Hun Tiandi’s rise to the Emperor Realm would threaten every other race.
• Lin Ming ordered the assembled elders and Dragon Kings to secretly spread news of the Hun Clan’s bloodline theft, its invasion of the Spirit Realm, and the possible destruction of the Ling Clan.
• The Dou Sheng experts agreed to release the information through remote markets while concealing the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s involvement.
• Lin Ming ordered the clan to open a stable Space Passage from the Five Elements Sect’s station to the Jia Ma Empire so core personnel and resources could be evacuated if needed.
• West Dragon King Zhu Jin led several elders toward the Five Elements Sect to construct the passage, while Lin Ming watched from Ancient Dragon Island and prepared for the storm ahead.