Chapter Summaries

Xiao Long questioned Yun Yun about the Soul Hall, but she knew nothing about it, so he decided to go to the Central Continent instead. After Xiao Long left, Gu He arrived and Yun Yun rebuked him for addressing her too familiarly.

• Xiao Long asked Yun Yun where the Soul Hall was, but she had never heard of it.
• Xiao Long teased Yun Yun, then spared her and decided to seek another route to the Central Continent.
• Xiao Long left the Misty Cloud Sect and passed Gu He at the entrance without speaking to him.
• Gu He saw Xiao Long leave through the air and inferred that a Dou Zong had been alone with Yun Yun.
• Gu He entered the main hall and called Yun Yun “Yun'er,” prompting her to insist that he call her Sect Master.

Yun Yun rejected Gu He’s attempts to win her over, explaining that their strength and feelings made them unsuited for each other. Gu He suspected she had chosen Xiao Long and accused her of improper relations with him, leaving Yun Yun furious and ready to end their friendship.

• Gu He tried to persuade Yun Yun to accept him by promising to refine a Sect Breaking Pill and support her cultivation.
• Yun Yun firmly rejected Gu He, saying they were not suited for each other.
• Gu He asked whether Yun Yun had chosen a Dou Zong powerhouse, and Yun Yun panicked because she thought he meant Xiao Long.
• Yun Yun refused to discuss her relationship with Xiao Long and warned Gu He against making insinuations.
• Gu He accused Yun Yun of lashing out because he had guessed correctly, and she became furious.

Xiao Long weighed whether to spend his Exchange Points on a Soul Gathering Pool to restore the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint, but learned the recovery would take three years. He chose to save for a Space Shuttle and accelerate his collection of medicinal ingredients, while remaining puzzled by the Soul Hall’s disappearance.

• Yun Yun drew her sword against Gu He, who left after accusing her of misjudging him.
• Xiao Long considered using his Exchange Points to obtain a Soul Gathering Pool and restore the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint.
• The Exchange System said the saint would need three years to recover his peak soul strength, and speeding up the process cost more points than Xiao Long could afford.
• Xiao Long decided to save one hundred thousand Exchange Points for a Space Shuttle and focus on gathering medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Long said he had searched the Chuyun Empire for Protector Tie without finding him and wondered where the Soul Hall’s people had gone.

Xiao Long went to the Tian Xin Empire to publicize the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court and draw powerful forces to investigate it. He arrived at the Heavenly Snake Mansion seeking its Mansion Lord, but Qing Lin was not there.

• Xiao Long chose to travel to the Tian Xin Empire and brought one Two-star Dou Saint battle saint with him.
• Xiao Long spread word in Tianguang City that the Shi Ming Sect's Third Elder had been killed after trying to seize the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court's treasures, and he revealed the Space Wormhole's location.
• Xiao Long headed to the Heavenly Snake Mansion, hoping its influence would encourage others to enter the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court.
• Xiao Long killed creatures that provoked him as he crossed the Heavenly Snake Mansion's valley and encountered many powerful snakes.
• A giant snake at the eighth-rank Dou Zun level asked Xiao Long why he had come, and Xiao Long said he wanted to meet the Mansion Lord.
• Xiao Long sensed that Qing Lin was absent from the Heavenly Snake Mansion and addressed the giant snake in a cold tone.

Xiao Long learned the location of a Soul Hall branch from the Heavenly Snake Mansion and went there to attack it. He found the branch packed with powerful fighters, who immediately moved to kill him.

• Xiao Long told the enormous black snake about the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court, and it agreed to help.
• Xiao Long asked where the Soul Hall branch in the Tian Xin Empire was, and the snake revealed it was thirty thousand li east in a secluded valley.
• The enormous black snake decided to report Xiao Long's visit to the Mansion Lord after he left.
• Xiao Long found the hidden branch hall and charged through its gates.
• A Nine-star Dou Ancestor ordered more than a hundred Dou Zongs to attack Xiao Long.

Xiao Long stormed a Soul Hall branch and slaughtered its Protectors with miniature Furious Sky Incinerations. Two Six-star Dou Venerates intervened, but Xiao Long countered the Black-clothed Venerate’s Boundless Darkness with Flame True Body and prepared to strike.

• Xiao Long ignored the Protectors’ attacks and fired miniature Furious Sky Incinerations at them.
• The fireballs killed more than half the Soul Hall Protectors before the two branch Dou Venerates stepped in.
• The two Six-star Dou Venerates blocked Xiao Long’s attacks and shielded the surviving Protectors.
• The Black-clothed Venerate cast Boundless Darkness, spreading black mist that blocked Soul Power perception.
• Xiao Long activated Flame True Body and declared the two Dou Venerates trash.

Xiao Long defeated the Black-clothed Venerate and White-clothed Venerate with his Heavenly Flames and demanded information about other Soul Hall branch halls. When the Black-clothed Venerate refused to talk, Xiao Long killed them both and prevented their souls from escaping.

• Xiao Long burned through the Black-clothed Venerate's Boundless Darkness and mocked him.
• The Black-clothed Venerate and White-clothed Venerate joined forces with Black and White Impermanence, but Xiao Long overwhelmed them with Furious Sky Incineration.
• The Black-clothed Venerate recognized Fentian Valley's Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire among Xiao Long's Heavenly Flames and asked if he came from Fentian Valley.
• Xiao Long demanded the locations of other Soul Hall branch halls and threatened the White-clothed Venerate, but the Black-clothed Venerate refused to answer.
• Xiao Long punched both Venerates to death and stopped their souls from escaping.

Xiao Long raided a Soul Hall branch, freed its captive souls, and took its Soul Origin back to the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court. After refining it, he advanced his Soul Power to the late stage of the Spirit Realm and considered raiding more branches.

• Xiao Long collected more than a hundred Storage Rings and found tens of thousands of souls and a large mass of Soul Origin in the Soul Hall branch.
• Xiao Long burned through the chains, freed the captive souls, and told the lingering resentful thoughts that he had avenged them.
• Xiao Long returned to the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court and began secluded cultivation with the Soul Origin.
• The black giant snake from the Heavenly Snake Mansion brought people to the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court, helping its business and reputation grow in the Tian Xin Empire.
• Xiao Long refined the entire mass of Soul Origin and reached the late stage of the Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Long decided that plundering more Soul Hall branches could help him advance, but Black and White Venerates refused to share information.

Xiao Long tried to make the captured Dou Zongs reveal the locations of other Soul Hall branches, but they refused, so he turned them into Demonic Puppets. After destroying a second Soul Hall branch, he expected Soul Hall to investigate the powerful forces in the northwest corner of the Dou Qi Continent.

• Xiao Long questioned the captured Dou Zongs about other Soul Hall branches and offered stronger Physical Bodies in exchange for their cooperation.
• When the Dou Zongs stayed silent, Xiao Long used their bodies, Demon Cores, and souls to create more than a hundred Demonic Puppets.
• Xiao Long decided to expand the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court's forces because it lacked enough manpower to govern its territories.
• Xiao Long destroyed a second Soul Hall branch in the northwest corner, after the Two-star Dou Saint Great Heavenly Venerate had died in the earlier attack.
• Soul Hall was expected to investigate the northwest corner's forces and identify who had destroyed its branches.

Xiao Long abandoned his business-first plan and began strengthening his allies to expand their power before Soul Hall could target Nine Heavens Heavenly Court. He distributed Dou Zong puppets to several leaders and worried about recovering the Exchange Points he had spent.

• Xiao Long summoned Yao Ye and offered to help the Jia Ma Empire become the dominant power in the Northwest Region.
• Yao Ye agreed to lead the Jia Ma Empire in following Xiao Long after he threatened to support the Snake People Tribe instead.
• Xiao Long gave Yao Ye twenty Dou Zong puppets for Jia Xingtian and instructed her to gather medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Long prepared three more rings, each containing twenty Dou Zong puppets, for Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and Hai Bodong.
• Xiao Long worried about recovering the Exchange Points he had spent and considered using guerrilla tactics if Soul Hall attacked.

Hun Tiandi reprimanded Hun Miesheng over the destruction of another Soul Hall branch and gave him one month to identify the attackers, sending ten Dou Saints to help. Hun Miesheng dispatched Soul Hall’s Heavenly Venerates to investigate the northwest, where they began examining the destroyed branch and considering nearby forces as suspects.

• Hun Tiandi confronted Hun Miesheng at Soul Hall headquarters and demanded that he find the enemy within one month.
• Hun Tiandi promised ten Soul Clan Dou Saints to assist Hun Miesheng, then left.
• Hun Miesheng ordered every Heavenly Venerate in Soul Hall to head to the northwest and find those attacking the branch halls.
• Soul Hall’s Great Heavenly Venerate and other experts examined the ruined branch hall in the Tian Xin Empire and discussed whether Heavenly Snake Mansion was involved.
• The Seventh Heavenly Venerate volunteered to question Shi Tian of Shi Ming Sect as the group split up to investigate.

The Great Heavenly Venerate blamed the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court for the destruction of a Soul Hall branch and led ten Dou Zuns there to investigate. On arrival, he seized Liu Fei and demanded to see whoever was in charge.

• The Soul Hall Dou Zuns gathered intelligence and identified the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court as the prime suspect in the branch's destruction.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate decided to take ten Dou Zuns to the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court while the others continued searching for clues.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate led his group through the Space Wormhole and arrived at the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court three days later.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate grabbed Liu Fei and demanded that the person in charge come out.

Xiao Long confronted the Soul Hall members after the Great Heavenly Venerate injured Liu Fei, while pretending not to recognize their faction. The Grand Heavenly Venerate offered Xiao Long a place in the Soul Hall, leaving Xiao Long to decide how to respond.

• Xiao Long arrived and questioned the Great Heavenly Venerate after realizing the attackers were likely from the Soul Hall.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate threw Liu Fei to the ground, and Xiao Long ordered his people to carry her away for treatment.
• Xiao Long asked who the Great Heavenly Venerate was and why he had injured someone from the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court.
• The Grand Heavenly Venerate identified himself as the Soul Hall Grand Heavenly Venerate, and Xiao Long pretended to fear the Soul Hall.
• The Grand Heavenly Venerate praised Xiao Long's strength and invited him to become a Heavenly Venerate.

Xiao Long confronted the Soul Hall envoys, revealed the surviving members of the branch he had destroyed, and left them to fight his forces. He then returned to Doushuai Palace, where Liu Fei’s former Instructor begged him to save the unconscious Liu Fei.

• The Great Heavenly Venerate and Seventh Heavenly Venerate demanded that Xiao Long go to Soul Hall and surrender the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court’s treasures.
• Xiao Long refused and summoned Saint Tian Yi, Saint Gu You, the Black and White Venerates, two Dou Zuns, and dozens of Dou Zongs who had belonged to Soul Hall.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate realized Xiao Long had destroyed their branch, and Xiao Long left the Soul Hall group to be attacked.
• Xiao Long destroyed the Space Wormhole connecting the Tian Xin Empire to the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court and planned to eliminate the remaining wormholes later.
• Xiao Long returned to Doushuai Palace, where Liu Fei’s former Instructor pleaded with him to save Liu Fei, and he went to examine her.

After Liu Fei was treated and the battlefield was cleared, Xiao Long sensed that the Space Wormhole he had built to the Snake People Tribe had been destroyed and rushed there. He found Medusa, newly advanced to One-star Dou Venerate, facing Shi Tian, a Four-star Dou Venerate who had come to recruit her.

• Xiao Long gave Instructor medicinal plasters to treat Liu Fei’s wounds and cleared the battlefield of corpses.
• Xiao Long sensed that his Space Wormhole leading to the Snake People Tribe had been destroyed and hurried there, fearing Medusa was in danger.
• Shi Tian, the Four-star Dou Venerate and Sect Master of the Shi Ming Sect, confronted Medusa beneath the desert after noticing her breakthrough.
• Medusa, wounded and with an unstable aura after reaching One-star Dou Venerate, refused to yield and threatened to perish together with Shi Tian.

Xiao Long arrived to rescue Medusa from Shi Tian and gave her a healing pill before confronting him. After Shi Tian threatened them both, Xiao Long launched Furious Sky Incineration against him.

• Shi Tian tried to force Medusa to become his wife after destroying her escape route, but she refused him.
• Xiao Long appeared and attacked Shi Tian with a fireball, while Medusa showed relief at his arrival.
• Medusa called Xiao Long her master and maid, then took his healing pill and returned to the Snake People Tribe to recover.
• Shi Tian insulted Medusa and threatened to kill Xiao Long and punish her.
• Xiao Long unleashed Furious Sky Incineration on Shi Tian without holding back.

After killing Shi Tian, Xiao Long prevented the Green Lotus Core Flame’s volcanic site from erupting and went to check on the recovering Medusa. Medusa offered herself to him, but he paused when he smelled blood on her and waited for her to bathe.

• Xiao Long killed Shi Tian and stopped the volcano from erupting, preventing a disaster in the Tagor Desert.
• Xiao Long went to Medusa’s bedchamber and waited while she recovered from her injuries.
• Medusa sat on Xiao Long’s lap and sincerely offered herself to him.
• Xiao Long stopped when he smelled blood on Medusa, and she went to take a bath.

Xiao Long tended to Medusa after she was injured, reassuring her that he did not despise her and refusing to take advantage of her while she healed. Medusa insisted he stay by her side and give her medicine, leaving Xiao Long to indulge her demands.

• Xiao Long told Medusa to rest and recover before they became intimate, despite her willingness.
• Medusa asked whether Xiao Long despised her and said she sensed his hatred of the Snake People Tribe.
• Xiao Long explained that his hostility was directed at male Snake People and teased Medusa until she smiled.
• Medusa made Xiao Long promise to stay and protect her until her injuries healed.
• Medusa asked Xiao Long for healing pills, and he gave her another eighth-grade healing pill.

After Medusa recovered, Xiao Long approached her to fulfill his promise, but the system warned him that the Nuwa Stone protecting Xiao Xun'er was close to shattering. Xiao Long realized she was in grave danger and stopped before becoming intimate with Medusa.

• Medusa refined the Eighth-grade Pill’s medicinal power, healed her injuries, and stabilized her cultivation at One-star Dou Venerate.
• Medusa invited Xiao Long to join her, and he began kissing and caressing her.
• As Xiao Long prepared to proceed, the system warned that the imitation Nuwa Stone was on the verge of shattering.
• The system explained that the artifact had endured attacks from several Dou Saints and numerous Dou Zuns, destroying eighty percent of its spirituality.
• Xiao Long realized Xiao Xun'er was in extreme danger despite having returned home to her Nine-star Dou Saint father.

Xiao Long left Medusa to find Xiao Xun'er after learning that the Nuwa Stone protecting her was nearly depleted. He realized he might not reach Xun'er in time and asked the system for help locating her.

• Xiao Long learned that Gold Iron Beast and Xiao Xun'er were in danger as the Nuwa Stone neared destruction.
• Xiao Long dressed to leave, but Medusa clung to him and begged him not to go.
• Xiao Long promised Medusa he would return, then tore open space and departed, leaving her weeping.
• Xiao Long realized he had little time to find Xiao Xun'er across the Dou Qi Continent and asked the system for help.