Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying confronted Blood River Heavenly Venerate, who had come to capture Xiao Tian and seek Yao Chen. Xiao Tian revealed an overwhelming gap in their strength, killed Blood River, and left with the scene erased.

• Blood River Heavenly Venerate searched the land for Xiao Tian, who appeared with Xiao Huiying and identified him as a Soul Hall Four Heavenly Venerate.
• Blood River threatened to take Xiao Tian’s bloodline and Free and Unfettered Hall, then capture Xiao Yan and Yao Chen.
• Xiao Tian mocked Blood River’s First Transition Dou Zun strength, prompting Blood River to attack with a giant blood-colored palm.
• Xiao Tian appeared behind Blood River, froze him in place, and crushed his head, destroying his soul as well.
• Xiao Tian erased Blood River’s corpse and the surrounding scent of blood, while a silver figure wiped his clean palm.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying watched the factions gather at the Skeleton Mountain Range, where the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan eventually gave up its attempt to monopolize the Ancient Ruins. As the ruins neared opening, Xiao Tian spotted Xiao Yan among Burning Flame Valley’s group and observed that many powerful factions there were hostile to him.

• Xiao Tian brought Xiao Huiying to the Skeleton Mountain Range and watched the Nine Nether Earth Pythons face off against people seeking the Ancient Ruins.
• The Nine Nether Earth Python Clan abandoned its blockade after powerful factions arrived, though it kept the best position near the ruins.
• As the opening approached, factions including the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Burning Flame Valley, and Soul Hall gathered, and Xiao Tian spotted Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran with Burning Flame Valley.
• Xiao Tian sensed that Xiao Yan had reached Dou Zun and refined the Child Fire and Yao Lao’s Bone Chilling Flame, while Nalan Yanran had reached Seven Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan wondered why Free and Unfettered Hall had not appeared, and Yao Lao suggested Xiao Tian might have come personally and could have advanced to Half-Saint.

Xiao Yan and the others waited as the Dou Sheng Ruins opened, and the entrance’s deadly traps killed many who rushed inside. The major factions held back, leaving the crowd in chaos before the lava-filled passage.

• Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying discussed the factions surrounding Xiao Yan and focused on finding the Origin Fruit for Zi Yan.
• The spatial seal shattered, and a burst of Space Power swept through the Bone Sea, killing many who charged toward it.
• A massive hall emerged from the void, and Xiao Huiying and Xiao Tian watched as its stone doors opened.
• A Wind Attribute Dou Zong rushed into the dark passage, prompting a crowd to follow while the major factions stayed back.
• The passage erupted with lava and blue pillars of fire, killing some entrants as the crush of people forced others inside.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying entered the Dou Sheng ruins and bypassed the endless Fire Passage by plunging through its magma route. They reached a plaza guarded by ten silver Puppets, which Xiao Tian chose to leave for later explorers.

• After several Dou Ancestors passed through the Fire Passage, the major factions began entering, while Xiao Yan and Tang Zhen parted ways.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying entered the Fire Passage and identified the real route as a path beneath the magma.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying sank through the magma and reached the stone passage below, leaving the other entrants to search the misleading route.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying reached a plaza and found ten silver Earth Demon Puppet-like guards before a heavy stone door.
• Xiao Tian declined to subdue the Puppets and left them for the people who came later.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying entered the relic and found an ancient forest filled with rare medicinal herbs. As other factions gathered outside, they began exploring the herb vault before anyone else could reach it.

• Xiao Tian branded the ten sleeping Earth Demon Puppets and gained control of them, opening the stone gate into a vast hall.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying passed through the gate, and Xiao Tian closed it behind them.
• Xiao Yan and the other factions arrived at the plaza, recognized the puppets, and waited for someone else to deal with them.
• Xiao Tian followed the stronger medicinal scent through the relic while Xiao Huiying scouted ahead.
• Xiao Huiying pushed open an ancient stone gate and revealed a forest of rare, long-aged medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Tian agreed with Xiao Huiying that they should harvest the forest quickly before the others arrived.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying uprooted the Ancient Forest and moved it into the Free and Unfettered World, preserving its medicinal herbs and magical beasts. Xiao Yi Xian and the other women began clearing the forest while leaving its central area unexplored for now.

• Xiao Huiying used her dragon form to cow the forest's magical beasts and suggested recruiting them as Hall Guardian Beasts.
• Xiao Huiying sent word to the women inside the Free and Unfettered World to prepare to receive the forest.
• Xiao Tian activated his Thunder God Body, reached Two-Star Dou Sheng, and used a Space Vortex to lift the Ancient Forest out of the ruins.
• Xiao Yi Xian and the other women helped receive the forest inside the Free and Unfettered World.
• Xiao Yi Xian divided the women into pairs to clear the forest, warning them to stay out of the central area.

After Xiao Tian stored the island and recovered his strength, he and Xiao Huiying left to loot another area. At the plaza, Xiao Yan obtained ten Earth Demon Puppets after Yao Lao recognized Xiao Tian’s influence on them.

• Xiao Tian used a Rank 8 Pill and his cultivation method to recover after storing the island, then left with Xiao Huiying for their next stop.
• Ten Earth Demon Puppets formed a battle formation and beat the gray-robed One-Star Dou Zun before he broke free and escaped.
• Xiao Yan realized the formation let the Puppets contend with a Two-Star Dou Zun and resolved to obtain them.
• The Puppets suddenly charged at Xiao Yan, then fell inert just before reaching him.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that the Puppets’ brands had disappeared, and Xiao Yan stored them while imprinting his own soul brand.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao concluded that Xiao Tian had controlled the Puppets and left them behind because he did not want them.

After the ruins opened, Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying entered the Pill Hall ahead of the other factions and searched its floors for valuable pills. They collected mostly lower-grade pills and prescriptions, then reached the third floor, where Xiao Huiying appeared disappointed by what she had found.

• The stone gate opened, and the factions rushed into the ruins while Xiao Yan followed after thanking Burning Flame Valley.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying reached the Pill Hall, burned away its poisonous pill fragrance, and sealed the entrance behind them.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying split up to collect the first floor’s mostly Fourth and Fifth Grade Pills and preserved medicinal herbs.
• They swept the second floor for Sixth Grade Pills and Ancient Pill Prescriptions, which Xiao Tian planned to use to attract alchemists to his faction.
• Xiao Tian led Xiao Huiying to the third floor, where she returned to him looking disappointed after finding nothing valuable.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying found and captured a transformed Rank 8 Pill Beast in the Dou Sheng Ruins. Elsewhere, Feng Qing'er and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan discovered a deep pit and inferred that someone had removed an entire medicinal herb plot.

• Xiao Tian told Xiao Huiying that the ruins held something close to a Rank 9 Pill, then spotted a white beast darting into an alchemy room.
• Xiao Tian identified the cute beast as a Rank 8 Pill that had survived Nine-Colored Heavenly Lightning, and he and Xiao Huiying sealed the room to catch it.
• The Pill Beast panicked and fainted when Xiao Tian grabbed it, and Xiao Huiying teased him about raising it before catching the beast herself.
• Xiao Tian left traces of cold aura as he and Xiao Huiying departed with the unconscious Pill Beast.
• Feng Qing'er and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan examined a huge pit, and the black-robed old man concluded someone had taken away the entire medicinal herb plot.

Xiao Yan and the other factions found the Pill Hall emptied, and Xiao Yan planted evidence that the Soul Hall had taken its contents. At the ruins’ central hall, the Soul Hall faced suspicion from the gathered factions as they all confronted the Dou Sheng’s remains and the treasures around it.

• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan left a pill-storage area stripped bare, and later arrivals blamed the Soul Hall for the missing medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Yan entered the Pill Hall with Nalan Yanran and Heavenly Flame Venerable, found it empty, and sensed traces that suggested the Soul Hall had been there.
• Xiao Yan falsely identified the traces as Soul Hall Aura, turning the other cultivators against the Soul Hall before he left with Nalan Yanran and Heavenly Flame Venerable.
• Xiao Yan, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Burning Flame Valley, the Soul Hall, and other factions gathered in the central hall around ten light clusters and a jade-white skeleton.
• A Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elder accused the Soul Hall of taking the ruins’ treasures, and a black-robed Soul Hall leader denied the charge.

A medicinal herb fell from Black Heavenly Venerate’s robe, exposing the Soul Hall’s theft and forcing White Heavenly Venerate to bargain for the group’s place in the Main Hall. Xiao Yan then focused on the Dou Sheng Skeleton, while Yao Lao warned him that the Soul Hall might be targeting it.

• A Cloud Neon Purple Ganoderma fell from Black Heavenly Venerate’s robe, and Tang Zhen mocked him for claiming he would not lie.
• Black Heavenly Venerate insisted someone had framed him, but the previous Elder of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Xiao Yan challenged his excuse as the crowd denounced him.
• White Heavenly Venerate offered to give up the scrolls and help fight the Puppets after the Seal disappeared, and the other factions agreed to let the Soul Hall group stay.
• Yao Feng taunted Black Heavenly Venerate, who held back from retaliating.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao whether the Dou Sheng Skeleton could help restore him to the Dou Sheng realm, and Yao Lao warned that the skeleton might contain hidden measures and that the Soul Hall seemed to want it.

Xiao Tian arrived at the Main Hall with Xiao Huiying riding a Sky Swallowing Python and reunited with Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran. As the factions watched him warily, the Soul Hall’s Black and White Heavenly Venerate planned to capture him and use him to pressure Free and Unfettered Hall.

• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao whether he could identify the Heaven Rank Dou Skill scrolls, but Yao Lao said the seals prevented him from sensing them.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying entered the Main Hall atop a Sky Swallowing Python, drawing the crowd’s attention.
• Xiao Yan welcomed Xiao Tian and Xiao Huiying, and Xiao Tian praised Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran while warning Nalan Yanran not to rush her refinement.
• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Tian to the people from Burning Flame Valley, while the other factions recognized the Free and Unfettered Hall Master and regarded him with caution.
• Black Heavenly Venerate and White Heavenly Venerate discussed capturing Xiao Tian and coercing Free and Unfettered Hall into submitting.

Xiao Tian and the others waited for the Dou Sheng Seal to vanish so they could learn what the ten hidden scrolls contained. When the scrolls emerged, awakened Dou Zun Puppets turned the hall into a massacre, while Xiao Tian told Xiao Yan to wait for the chaos before acting.

• Tang Huo'er met Xiao Tian, who shamelessly embraced his reputation as the strongest King of Soft Rice.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Tian which scroll contained the Heaven Rank Dou Skill, and Xiao Tian hinted that Xiao Yan should look to the Dou Sheng Skeleton for clues.
• Xiao Tian declined to fight for the scrolls and advised Xiao Yan to wait until the hall grew chaotic.
• The Seal vanished, the ten scrolls flew out, and the gathered factions rushed to seize them.
• The stone Puppets awakened and attacked nearby cultivators, killing many and spreading panic throughout the hall.

Xiao Yan and the other factions fought the Ancient Human Puppets while competing for treasures in the Main Hall, as Xiao Tian stayed back with Nalan Yanran, Tang Huo'er, and the others. Xiao Yan claimed a fiery-red scroll and redirected a Puppet toward Ice River Valley, while Xiao Tian secretly interfered with Soul Hall’s movement toward the Dou Sheng Skeleton.

• Xiao Tian explained that the blood-covered Puppets were intelligent Ancient Human Puppets, and he agreed to protect Nalan Yanran and Tang Huo'er while others fought.
• After Xiao Yan called out Soul Hall for refusing to fight, Black White Heavenly Venerate led Soul Hall members against four Puppets, and the factions began battling over the light clusters.
• Xiao Yan charged for a fiery-red scroll while Xiao Tian stayed behind with the others, who ate Crimson Flame Spirit Fruits and watched the battle.
• Xiao Yan used Eight Extremities Collapse to defeat a One-Star Dou Zun and seized the scroll, then he and Heavenly Flame Venerable knocked a Human Puppet into Ice River Valley’s fighters.
• Xiao Tian noticed Black White Heavenly Venerate secretly approaching the Dou Sheng Skeleton and sent an obscure aura toward Soul Hall’s battle circle.

Xiao Tian secretly helped the Human Puppets overwhelm Soul Hall’s fighters while the factions fought over the scrolls. Black White Heavenly Venerate rushed to claim the Dou Sheng Skeleton, but an unseen spatial attack struck as Black Heavenly Venerate reached for it.

• Xiao Tian secretly interfered as the Human Puppet killed Soul Hall Protectors, then the Puppet’s sudden attack sent one Venerable Elder flying.
• Xiao Tian’s protective shield absorbed Black White Heavenly Venerate’s palm strikes, allowing the Human Puppets to punch both men away.
• Xiao Yan obtained a second scroll, bringing the number claimed to eight, while Xiao Tian arranged for Black White Heavenly Venerate to land near the Dou Sheng Skeleton.
• Xiao Yan noticed the skeleton’s finger move and moved with Heavenly Flame Venerable toward Xiao Tian.
• Black White Heavenly Venerate rushed to seize the skeleton, but spatial spikes pierced Black Heavenly Venerate’s palm and an invisible cutting force struck his wrist.

Black Heavenly Venerate’s blood awakened the Dou Sheng Skeleton, whose roar devastated the Main Hall and killed many people. The surviving factions agreed to join forces against it as the skeleton began to move again.

• Black Heavenly Venerate lost half his hand when he reached for the Dou Sheng Skeleton, and his blood caused the skeleton to stir.
• White Heavenly Venerate dragged Black Heavenly Venerate away as the skeleton awakened and released a sound wave that killed many people in the Main Hall.
• Xiao Yan and Heavenly Flame Venerable reached Xiao Tian’s side, where the Sky Swallowing Python shattered the weakened sound wave.
• Yao Feng blamed Black Heavenly Venerate for the deaths, and Xiao Yan accused him of awakening the skeleton.
• Huang Xuan demanded that Soul Hall lead the attack, and White Heavenly Venerate agreed to cooperate with the other factions.
• A sound of twisting bones came from the blood mist, silencing the survivors as they stared at the Dou Sheng Skeleton.

A blood-red Dou Sheng Skeleton emerged and overwhelmed the Soul Hall fighters, prompting the gathered groups to join the battle. Xiao Tian stayed behind to confront a Human Puppet, hiding himself in smoke while watching the skeleton.

• A Blood Skeleton emerged from the blood mist and declared that the ruin trespassers would die.
• Xiao Yan and the others challenged Black White Heavenly Venerate to fight the skeleton, and the Soul Hall members attacked it.
• The skeleton crushed the Soul Hall members' Dou Qi attack and wounded all four when they tried to defend themselves.
• Black Heavenly Venerate urged the surrounding fighters to join the attack, while the groups assigned others to hold off the Human Puppets.
• Xiao Tian told Xiao Huiying and the others to stay put, then sent a Human Puppet flying and concealed himself in smoke.
• Tang Huo'er asked Xiao Huiying about Xiao Tian's strength, but Xiao Huiying said she might learn more later.

Xiao Tian watched the Dou Sheng Skeleton unleash its Heaven Rank Dou Skill, used the ensuing chaos to claim the skeleton, and secretly eliminated the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan and Ice River Valley pursuers. After the Main Hall collapsed, he reappeared before Tang Huo'er, who angrily denied calling him Master.

• Xiao Tian warned Xiao Huiying to leave the Main Hall with the Sky Swallowing Python as the Dou Sheng Skeleton prepared its attack.
• The skeleton used the Heaven Creation Palm, spreading annihilating black rings of light through the hall and forcing Xiao Yan, Tang Zhen, and the other factions to flee.
• Xiao Tian seized the exhausted skeleton and secretly pulled the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan and Ice River Valley into the destructive rings, killing them.
• The Main Hall collapsed after the rings stopped at the plaza, and Tang Huo'er worried that Xiao Tian had not escaped.
• Xiao Tian appeared behind Tang Huo'er, tapped her leg to stop her kick, and teased her about calling him Master.
• Tang Huo'er blushed and denied calling Xiao Tian Master, insisting that she had only been asking Xiao Huiying and had kicked him because he appeared behind her.

After the Main Hall vanished, Black and White Heavenly Venerate tried to seize the crowd’s souls, summoning reinforcements to overwhelm the gathered factions. White Heavenly Venerate’s attack killed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s leading youth and several Dou Zong, and Huang Xuan charged into battle as he urged the others to fight.

• Tang Huo'er angrily confronted Xiao Tian after he mocked her strength and told her to wash her feet.
• The crowd found the Main Hall gone and the Dou Sheng Skeleton missing, while Black and White Heavenly Venerate realized their mission had failed.
• Black Heavenly Venerate announced that the Soul Hall would take the crowd’s souls, and White Heavenly Venerate summoned nearly ten Dou Zun reinforcements with a crushed Jade Slip.
• White Heavenly Venerate attacked the white-haired Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan youth with his Soul Banner, killing him and blasting the nearby Dou Zong to pieces.
• Huang Xuan charged White Heavenly Venerate and called on the crowd to help, while the two began fighting.

Xiao Tian intervened in the battle against the Soul Hall after one of its Venerable Elders provoked him, revealing overwhelming Half-Saint strength. He pinned the fighters to the ground and confronted Black Heavenly Venerate, who feared Xiao Tian could read his thoughts.

• Black Heavenly Venerate ordered the Soul Hall Venerable Elders to attack while White Heavenly Venerate battled Huang Xuan and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• A Soul Hall Venerable Elder demanded Xiao Tian hand over his Sky Swallowing Python, and Xiao Tian erased the elder's soul with a glance.
• White Heavenly Venerate sent the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's rescuers flying and threatened to imprison the survivors in the Soul Banner.
• Xiao Tian unleashed his pressure across the square, crushing the Soul Hall forces and other fighters to the ground while leaving Burning Flame Valley and Xiao Yan's group untouched.
• White Heavenly Venerate recognized Xiao Tian as a Half-Saint, and Xiao Tian approached Black Heavenly Venerate and asked whether he had been cursing him.