Chapter Summaries

Ye Tian led the Heavenly Court Organization into the Black Corner Region, hiring on as bodyguards for Duo Ma’s caravan so his inexperienced followers could grow through dangerous trials. After setting out for Black-Seal City and declaring his intention to bring order to the region, Ye Tian’s group encountered an approaching disturbance on the plains.

• Xiao Yan persuaded Duo Ma to take the group to Black-Seal City, while Ye Tian explained that he wanted his followers to gain experience through hardship.
• Ye Tian privately told Medusa that Black-Seal City was his first target, and she agreed to follow his plans.
• Ye Tian’s group bought carriages, joined Duo Ma’s caravan, and left town as two locals sent word to Wolf Head Village about the newcomers.
• During a rest by a river, Duo Ma described the Black Corner Region’s powerful factions, and Yao Chen reacted angrily to Han Feng’s name without explaining why to Xiao Yan.
• Ye Tian proclaimed that the Heavenly Court would bring peace to the Black Corner Region, inspiring his followers, as dust and hoofbeats approached across the plains.

Ye Tian’s Elite Squad ambushed and wiped out the Black Bandits, using the battle as practical training while protecting the caravan. The squad suffered no deaths, and its members collected the bandits’ money and horses.

• Duo Ma warned Ye Tian that the Black Bandits were vicious criminals, and Ye Tian ordered his group to prepare for battle.
• Ye Tian discovered that the bandits lacked Dou Wang fighters and told the Elite Squad to conceal its strength, lure them closer, and spare their horses.
• Xiao Yan killed a bandit with one blow, and the Elite Squad attacked as the bandits realized their opponents were stronger than expected.
• Yun Lei, Yun Sheng, and Yun Sha blocked the bandits’ escape while Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yan killed the three leaders.
• The Elite Squad wiped out the remaining bandits, with no deaths and fifty-six injuries, then looted the money and horses.

After defeating Black Bandits, Ye Tian welcomed Old Man Duo Ma into the Heavenly Court and revealed his plan to seize Black-Seal City as its first base. A Black Storm tested the group on the journey, and they killed a Soul Hall Soul Emissary before the skies cleared.

• Ye Tian rejected Yun Lei, Yun Sheng, and Yun Sha’s offer to return to town, then agreed with Xiao Yan to create a Law Enforcement Team to hunt Black Bandits, assigning its formation to Yao Ye, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li.
• Duo Ma gave Ye Tian a detailed map and joined the Heavenly Court; Ye Tian announced that he intended to take Black-Seal City and gave Duo Ma the group’s secret contact password.
• Ye Tian led the caravan toward Black-Seal City, where the group tied the horses together and braced themselves against a Black Storm while Ye Tian let the younger members gain experience.
• A Soul Hall Soul Emissary appeared in the lingering Black Mist while pursuing a red Soul Body, and Ye Tian, Hai Bodong, Yun Yun, and Yao Chen attacked him.
• Hai Bodong, Yun Yun, Yao Chen, and Ye Tian killed the Soul Emissary, but the pursued Soul Body dissipated; then the Black Storm cleared and sunlight returned.

Xiao Yan reached Black-Seal City with his companions, cleared Laifu Inn to make it their base, and offered the Earth-tier Mid-grade Mad Gold Art for auction. Meanwhile, Li Sheng and his group entered the city and drew the attention of Four Sects Gate, while the Soul Hall continued searching for Yao Chen.

• Xiao Yan and his companions arrived near Black-Seal City, entered ahead of the caravan, and booked Laifu Inn for seven days after driving out its other guests.
• Xiao Yan met Elder Qing of the Heavenly Snake Mansion, recognized her connection to Qing Lin, and persuaded her to leave without starting a conflict.
• Xiao Yan brought the Mad Gold Art to the Auction House and asked to auction the Earth-tier Mid-grade Cultivation Method, prompting the staff to seek Sect Master Yuan Yi's approval.
• Zong Dan split the caravan into smaller groups to escort its horses and goods through the city gates, then reunited with Li Sheng at the inn.
• Li Sheng presented the Mad Gold Art and a Broken Li Sheng at the Auction House, and Yuan Yi invited him and his companions to Four Sects Gate headquarters.
• The Soul Hall Protector sensed the Bone Spirit Cold Fire's lingering aura and searched for Yao Chen, while Yao Chen warned Zong Dan to keep his identity hidden.

Ye Tian used the Dou Ancestor Pill and earth-tier cultivation technique as bait to lure the Eight Sects Gate into attacking his group at Laifu Inn. The Heavenly Court forces defeated the attackers, killed Sect Master Qi Family, and captured the surviving Dou Kings, leaving the Eight Sects Gate ready to fall.

• Ye Tian and his companions realized the Eight Sects Gate was following them, so they pretended not to notice and prepared an ambush at Laifu Inn.
• Sect Master Qi Family ordered an attack, and several hundred White-robed People surrounded the inn while Yun Yun and other Dou Kings joined the assault.
• Zong Dan illuminated the area with Moonlight Stones and assigned Yun Yun, Hai Bodong, Ye Tian, Ya Fei, Xiao Yi Xian, Yuan Yi, and the others to meet the enemy forces.
• Hai Bodong and Ye Tian defeated Yun Yun and the opposing Dou Kings, while Ya Fei, Yuan Yi, and the others routed the Eight Sects Gate troops.
• Zong Dan subdued three Dou Kings with Soul Locking Curses, and Qi Family was killed; all three hundred attackers were wiped out, with no Heavenly Court deaths and seventy injuries.

Ye Tian destroyed Eight Sects Gate, took control of its headquarters, and renamed Four Sects Gate Heavenly Gate while organizing the new administration of the city. He and his companions moved to take over the Auction House and promised its staff that the auction would proceed as scheduled.

• Ye Tian's group burned the defeated enemies' bodies and left for Eight Sects Gate Headquarters, while Ya Fei and the Great Healer Immortal rewarded the Laifu Inn staff.
• Ye Tian captured Eight Sects Gate's remaining disciples, renamed Four Sects Gate Heavenly Gate, and invited its people to stay or leave; those who submitted received ten thousand Gold Coins each.
• Ye Tian assigned Hai Bodong and Yun Yun to handle Heavenly Gate's internal affairs and ordered Yao Ye, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li to form a Law Enforcement Team for the city.
• Ye Tian, Ya Fei, and the Great Healer Immortal went to the Auction House, where its staff pledged loyalty after Ye Tian displayed his Eighth-Grade Alchemist badge and promised rewards for good work.
• Ye Tian assured the Auction House staff that the auction would proceed in two days with valuable methods, pills, and Sect Breaking Pills, drawing Elder Qing's interest.

Feng San took control of the auction house and established rules for honest business in Heavenly City while preparing a major auction. He examined the Yin Yang Black Corner Region and Three Thousand Lightning Movement, then left the auction house’s operations to Xiao Yi Xian and Ya Fei.

• Feng San learned that Medicine Emperor Ling Dan had consigned the Yin Yang Black Corner Region for auction and instructed Manager Hu to follow the original terms while keeping its origins secret.
• Feng San examined the pill and the auction items, copied Three Thousand Lightning Movement onto scrolls, and began cultivating it.
• Feng San ordered the Auction House renamed the Heavenly Court Auction House and announced new rules, including reduced fees and a ban on auctioning young girls.
• Ya Fei and Xiao Yi Xian took over the Auction House’s operations as Feng San prepared an auction featuring pills and cultivation methods to attract powerful buyers.
• Xiao Yi Xian released Big Li from her cage, and Ya Fei offered to take the girl in as a maid.

News of the Heavenly Gate’s rise and Xiao Yan’s high-grade pill auction drew powerful factions toward Heavenly City, while Han Feng and Yao Chen confronted the painful history of Yao Chen’s betrayal by Zong Dan. Xiao Yan examined Han Feng’s Flame Mantra and could not upgrade it, and Jia Nan Academy’s Hu Gan prepared to travel to Heavenly City to support Xiao Yan and bring him back.

• After hearing that the Heavenly Gate had destroyed the Eight Sects Gate and was auctioning valuable pills, Han Feng hurried toward Heavenly City to recover his Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill.
• Hu Gan learned that Xiao Yan had taken over White Seal City and was holding an auction, then agreed to lead Jia Nan Academy’s group to Heavenly City.
• When Xiao Yan mentioned Zong Dan and the Yin Yang Dragon Profound Pill, Yao Chen became furious and told Xiao Yan and Han Feng how Zong Dan had betrayed him for his heavenly flame and cultivation method.
• Yao Chen gave Xiao Yan and Han Feng the Yin Yang Black Corner Pill’s recipe and method, explaining that he had once refined two and that one had helped Feng Xian reach Dou Zun.
• Han Feng asked Xiao Yan to examine the Flame Mantra, but Xiao Yan could not upgrade it and warned that advancing it by devouring heavenly flames would remain extremely dangerous.
• King Wind brought pills for the auction, and Xiao Yan set starting bids for them as Hu Gan prepared to take the academy’s group to Heavenly City.

As powerful guests gathered in Heavenly City for the Heavenly Gate Auction House’s upcoming auction, Xiao Yan and Ye Tian prepared the city and arranged for the Heavenly Court Disciples to learn Three Thousand Lightning Movement. Han Feng arrived to request a Sect Breaking Pill, bringing Yao Chen face to face with the traitorous disciple he once wanted to kill; Xiao Yan restrained him, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Xiao Yan explained that he had copied Three Thousand Lightning Movement and would let the Heavenly Court Disciples cultivate it for free, while Yao Chen warned them not to reveal the Wind Thunder Pavilion technique.
• Xiao Yan and Ye Tian enforced rules for visitors as powerful factions and Jia Nan Academy’s group arrived in Heavenly City.
• Xiao Yan met the masked seller of Three Thousand Lightning Movement, agreed to obtain three sets of Spirit Herbs for him, and learned that his Fragmented Map pointed to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Brother Ye asked Ya Fei to raise the auction price of the Fragmented Map and Earth Core Fire Ganoderma, while Xiao Yan prepared to buy them for cultivation opportunities.
• Han Feng arrived and requested a Sect Breaking Pill in exchange for three sets of Spirit Herbs, while Yao Chen recognized his former disciple and urged Xiao Yan not to intervene in their grudge.

Jia Nan Academy’s group arrived at Heavenly Gate, where Xiao Yan arranged a warm reception and proposed cooperation against the White Bandits. Hu Gan agreed to make Hai Bodong, Yun Yun, and Medusa honorary academy elders, and the chapter left the academy’s Law Enforcement Team eager to meet Heavenly Court’s fighters.

• Ye Tian and Xiao Yan welcomed Hu Gan, Ruo Lin, Huo De, Hu Jia, and the academy’s students as their Griffon Beasts arrived over Heavenly City.
• Hu Gan brought the academy group to Heavenly Gate headquarters, where Hai Bodong, Yun Yun, Ya Fei, Great Healer Immortal, and the others received them.
• Xiao Yan introduced Medusa, whose Seven-star Dou Ancestor strength astonished the academy group, and proposed that she, Hai Bodong, and Yun Yun become honorary elders.
• Hu Gan accepted the proposal, agreed the elders could remain in Heavenly City, and asked Xiao Yan to arrange a Sect Breaking Pill to help him advance to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan and Ruo Lin described their Law Enforcement Team’s victory over more than three hundred White Bandits, prompting Huo De and the academy team to ask to see Heavenly Court’s fighters.

Xiao Yan and Jia Nan Academy agreed to cooperate, and he offered the academy’s Law Enforcement Team a chance to join Heavenly Gate and cultivate an Earth Tier movement technique. As the chapter ended, Ye Tian prepared to welcome Xiao Yan at the academy, where Ye Tian would face arranged Dou King opponents before entering the Inner Academy.

• Hu Gan explained that Ye Tian would challenge Dou King opponents to satisfy the academy’s selection procedures, and Ye Tian revealed he was a Six-Star Dou King.
• Xiao Yan invited Jia Nan Academy’s Law Enforcement Team to cooperate with Heavenly Gate and offered its members the Eight Thousand Thunder Movement technique.
• Li Lang passed the Six Thousand Thunder Movement technique to Ye Tian, who was grateful for Xiao Yan’s generosity.
• Hu Gan explained Big Girl’s mysterious origins and strength, then urged Hu Jia to join Heavenly Gate with the Law Enforcement Team.
• Xiao Yu, Xue Ni, and the Law Enforcement Team members agreed to join Heavenly Gate, while Xiao Yan’s companions returned with members of the Xiao family and Yao Ye’s group.

Ye Tian and Heavenly Gate hosted a crowded auction, where rival factions bid on pills, maps, and other treasures. Ruolin obtained the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma, while the auction’s most valuable items promised a violent struggle beyond Heavenly City.

• Ye Tian deployed Yao Ye, Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Jia Nan Academy’s Law Enforcement Team to maintain order as the major factions arrived.
• The auction opened with ordinary goods, then sold a Fragmented Map to the Blood Sect after Ruolin stopped bidding at Teacher’s warning.
• The auctioneer sold high-grade pills, including a Dou Ling Pill for three million Gold Coins, and bidders drove the price of Eight-Pattern Xiao Xun'er to 1.8 million.
• Ruolin bought the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma and left the guest seats with Qing Ling Dan.
• Ling Dan warned Ruolin that powerful factions, including the Blood Sect’s sect master, were waiting around Heavenly City to seize the auction’s prized items.
• Ruolin planned to attack Long Shi and leave quickly, while Fan Ling restrained his anger toward the Red-Clad Woman.

The Heavenly Court Auction House sold several valuable treasures, including the Lightning Bat Sky Wings, the Mad Gold Art, and Eight Thousand Thunder Movement, as rival factions drove up the bids. The Huang Ji Pill went to Lu Fengshi, who arranged a cultivation room for Ye Tian, while Fan Ling and the others expelled cultivators who tried to seize the auction’s goods.

• Xiao Yan won the Lightning Bat Sky Wings after bidding against Fan Ling and Elder Qing of the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• The Mad Lion Gang won the Mad Gold Art for ten million Gold Coins, then left the auction house.
• Ye Tian won Eight Thousand Thunder Movement for ten million, prompting Fan Ling, Hai Bodong, and Zong Dan to drive off cultivators who tried to steal the treasures.
• Lu Fengshi obtained the Huang Ji Pill, and Zong Dan escorted Ye Tian to a cultivation room so he could take it.
• Ye Tian asked Zong Dan to reserve a Po Su Mei from Lu Fengshi, offering to meet whatever conditions he named.

Ye Tian auctioned the Sect Breaking Pill and the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill, which Xiao Xun'er bought for Xiao Yan. After the auction, Han Feng tried to enlist Xiao Xun'er's backing, but she rejected and insulted him, leaving him furious as he departed.

• Ye Tian traded the Sect Breaking Pill to the black-robed seller of the Three Thousand Lightning Movement for magic cores, Spirit Herbs, and a Dou Technique.
• Ye Tian auctioned the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill after explaining its chance to help someone rise after near-fatal destruction, and Xiao Xun'er bought it for fifteen million Gold Coins.
• Xiao Yan left in disguise to pursue the Heavenly Flames Fragmented Map, while Ye Tian stopped Xiao Xun'er from following and Ling Ying agreed to watch over Xiao Yan.
• Ye Tian warned Xiao Xun'er that Han Feng had betrayed Venerable Yao, and she refused Han Feng's request for help and called him unqualified.
• Han Feng questioned Ye Tian about his background, but Hai Bodong warned him off; Han Feng left the Auction House and angrily vented outside the city.

Ye Tian negotiated with Su Mei and Elder Qing of the Heavenly Snake Mansion over pills, and Su Mei proposed an alliance between the Rakshasa Gate and Heavenly Gate. After Queen Medusa urged her to join outright, Su Mei agreed to bring the Rakshasa Gate into Heavenly Gate and recognize Ye Tian as its master.

• Hai Bodong flew to the outskirts of Heavenly City to watch for trouble among the factions fighting over auction prizes.
• Ye Tian offered Elder Qing a list of ingredients for pills and explained that an Emperor Breaking Pill could help a peak Dou King reach the Dou Emperor realm; Elder Qing gave him one million gold coins in thanks.
• Su Mei told Ye Tian that the Black Alliance, the Blood Sect, and Fan Ling posed threats to the Rakshasa Gate, then proposed an alliance with Heavenly Gate.
• Queen Medusa appeared and urged Su Mei to join Heavenly Gate directly, warning that the Rakshasa Gate might otherwise be lost amid the coming conflicts.
• Su Mei agreed to have the Rakshasa Gate join Heavenly Gate and recognize Ye Tian as its master.

Ye Tian prepared the Heavenly Gate for his departure to Jia Nan Academy by recruiting Su Mei’s Rakshasa Gate and teaching his allies the Critical Strike Secret Technique. He then used Lightning Punishment to help Xiao Yan and the others cultivate Three Thousand Lightning Movement, leaving the group training on a mountain outside Heavenly City.

• Ye Tian accepted Su Mei’s offer to bring the entire Rakshasa Gate into the Heavenly Court, warning that her subordinates would have to obey his rules.
• Ye Tian taught Medusa, Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yi Xian the Critical Strike Secret Technique and agreed that Medusa would accompany him to Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan told Ye Tian how he had killed Fan Ling and recovered Three Thousand Lightning Movement and Lightning Bat Sky Wings from the battlefield.
• Ye Tian used Lightning Punishment and wind power to help Xiao Yan master the beginner level of Three Thousand Lightning Movement, then shared its cultivation method with the others.
• Ye Tian took the group to a windy mountaintop, where they endured five days of Lightning Punishment training and Xiao Ding and the others reached the beginner level; Xiao Yan asked Ye Tian to intensify the lightning and ended up with scorched, shortened hair.

Ye Tian used Lightning Punishment to help several Heavenly Court disciples break through, while Hu Gan reached the Half-step Dou Ancestor realm after repeated strikes. Hu Gan and Xiao Yan proposed making Ye Tian a Lightning Instructor at Jia Nan Academy, but Xiao Yi Xian arrived with news that Su Mei and the Rakshasa Gate had come to meet them.

• Xiao Li and Xiao Ding volunteered for Ye Tian's Lightning Punishment and broke through to Da Dou Shi, followed by Yao Ye and eight young people.
• Ye Tian ordered Xiao Li, Xiao Ding, and Yao Ye to lead the Heavenly Court disciples back to Heavenly City after their training.
• Hu Gan said Lightning Punishment had awakened his potential and brought him to the Half-step Dou Ancestor realm, then urged Ye Tian to train Outer Academy disciples as a teacher.
• Hu Gan suggested the title Lightning Instructor, and Ye Tian accepted the idea of teaching at Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yi Xian arrived and told Ye Tian that Su Mei and the people from the Rakshasa Gate had come.

Ye Tian brought the Rakshasa Gate under Heavenly Gate and tested its deputy sect master, Lian Yue, in a spar. After Lian Yue conceded, the Rakshasa Gate members welcomed their new allegiance and began meeting Heavenly Gate’s people.

• Ye Tian explained that Su Mei had agreed to join Heavenly Gate, while Xiao Yan vowed to eventually deal with Han Feng and the Black Alliance.
• At Heavenly Gate’s headquarters, Xiao Yi Xian explained that Su Mei had dismissed the Rakshasa Gate’s weaker members, leaving a little over a hundred elites.
• Su Mei introduced Ye Tian to the Rakshasa Gate members, and Lian Yue challenged him to a spar.
• Ye Tian split Lian Yue’s Nine Layered Surging Waves with his flaming blade, then froze her Water Arrow with an Ice Shield.
• Lian Yue conceded, and Ye Tian asked Xiao Yan and the others to welcome the Rakshasa Gate members into Heavenly Gate.

Ye Tian prepared to leave for Jia Nan Academy, entrusting Heavenly City to Hai Bodong and giving him the Critical Strike Secret Technique. Before departing, Ye Tian went with Xiao Yi Xian and the others to Thousand Medicine Workshop, where Medusa began considering how the powerful neutral business might benefit Heavenly Gate.

• Ye Tian told Hai Bodong to manage Heavenly City and keep Su Mei's people in line while he attended Jia Nan Academy.
• Hu Gan announced plans to appoint the Ice Emperor, Yun Yun, and Medusa as academy elders and Ye Tian as Lightning Instructor, and said his granddaughter would travel with Ye Tian.
• Ye Tian taught Hai Bodong the Critical Strike Secret Technique, which could briefly increase his strength tenfold.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed that she had reached Nine-star Dou Spirit and shared an affectionate farewell with Ye Tian before taking him shopping.
• Su Mei explained that Yao Keqing's Thousand Medicine Workshop was a powerful neutral business, and Lian Yue called it a fat prize for Heavenly Gate.
• Medusa led Ye Tian and the others toward Thousand Medicine Workshop.

Ye Tian sought to secure Thousand Medicine Workshop as a business partner rather than seize it, and Steward Liu agreed to cooperate with Heavenly Gate. The partnership was established, and Steward Liu sent two subordinates to inform Yao Keqing in Black Emperor City.

• Ye Tian brought Su Mei and the women to Thousand Medicine Workshop to propose cooperation and buy Spirit Herbs.
• Steward Liu recognized Su Mei as Rakshasa Gate’s sect master and learned that Rakshasa Gate had submitted to Heavenly Gate.
• Ye Tian clarified that he wanted a partnership, and Steward Liu agreed after weighing Heavenly Gate’s growing influence.
• Ye Tian and Steward Liu negotiated an agreement covering herb supply, safe transport, pill refining, and sales, then settled on a discounted purchase of Spirit Herbs.
• Ye Tian offered Heavenly Gate disciples a thirty percent discount and left the workshop with the herbs.
• Steward Liu told two subordinates to travel to Black Emperor City and inform Yao Keqing about the proposal.