Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian killed Black Heavenly Venerate and began executing Soul Hall’s Venerable Elders by counting them off, while the gathered forces watched in terror. He accidentally killed one person who was not from Soul Hall, causing people across the continent to avoid wearing cloaks afterward.

• Xiao Tian revealed himself as a Half-Saint, shocking Tang Huo'er and the people in the square.
• Xiao Tian erased Black Heavenly Venerate’s soul and destroyed his corpse with spatial power.
• Xiao Tian started roll call and killed Soul Hall’s Venerable Elders one by one, ignoring their pleas.
• Xiao Tian realized he had miscounted and accidentally killed someone who was not from Soul Hall.
• People across the continent later avoided wearing cloaks after hearing about Xiao Tian’s mistake.

Xiao Tian killed White Heavenly Venerate and forced the survivors in the plaza to surrender treasures in exchange for their lives. He brought his companions back to Free and Unfettered World, where they were stunned by how much it had changed.

• Xiao Tian killed White Heavenly Venerate after revealing that Blood River Heavenly Venerate had already died by his hand.
• Xiao Tian demanded one treasure from each person in the plaza, and the survivors offered up their belongings before he sent them away.
• Xiao Huiying teased Tang Huo'er about being attracted to Xiao Tian, and Tang Huo'er denied it in embarrassment.
• Xiao Yan envied Xiao Tian's haul, and Xiao Tian scolded him for calling the deal robbery.
• Xiao Tian agreed to let Tang Huo'er stay, then transported the group into Free and Unfettered World, leaving them shocked by its changed appearance.

Xiao Tian returned to the transformed Free and Unfettered World, reunited with his family, and learned how the women had organized the Hall’s new headquarters. Meanwhile, Xuan Yi instructed a mysterious woman in refining rank 8 pills at the Pill Tower.

• Xiao Tian saw the prosperous Free and Unfettered City and the floating sect grounds centered on World Mountain, then headed to Sky Palace.
• Ya Fei welcomed Xiao Tian, and he embraced the other women and reunited with Xiao Meng, Xiao Ling, and Xiao Ze while Tang Huo'er watched.
• Han Yue explained that Free and Unfettered Hall’s suspended headquarters had four areas, with Xiao Tian’s Sky Palace at its center.
• Medusa revealed that she had absorbed the Heaven and Earth Spirit Void Holy Liquid and was close to breaking through to Dou Sheng, prompting the other women to worry about Xiao Tian’s promised reward.
• At the Pill Tower, Xuan Yi explained the key points of refining rank 8 pills to a mysterious woman in a black-and-blue dress.

Cao Ying learned from Xuan Yi and resolved not to give up on the man Xuan Yi loved. After leaving the palace, Xiao Tian saw Xiao Ling and Xiao Meng training Xiao Ze, then went to a palace in the Free and Unfettered Hall.

• Xuan Yi finished advising Cao Ying on alchemy, and Cao Ying praised the new techniques and asked whether she could seek further guidance.
• Cao Ying asked Xuan Yi about her partner, then left after Xuan Yi gently refused to elaborate.
• Cao Ying returned to her room, recalled their conversation, and vowed not to give up; she also planned to discipline her younger brother after her secluded cultivation.
• Xiao Tian came out of the palace after a day and two nights and saw Xiao Ling and Xiao Meng training Xiao Ze, whose cultivation and Myriad Poison Thunder Prison Hegemon Body were described.
• Xiao Ling and Xiao Meng took Xiao Ze out to play after Xiao Tian disappeared, while Xiao Tian arrived at a palace in the core area of the Free and Unfettered Hall.

Xiao Tian gave Xiao Yan a Dou Sheng skeleton and the Heaven Rank Dou Skill Great Heaven Creation Palm, hoping Xiao Yan would study it for Free and Unfettered Hall. Three days later, Xuan Yi confronted Xiao Tian about his relationship with Ying Er.

• Xiao Tian visited Xiao Yan and gave him the Dou Sheng skeleton, explaining that it could help revive Xiao Yan's teacher.
• Xiao Tian revealed the Great Heaven Creation Palm recorded on the skeleton's ribs and gave it to Xiao Yan to study and possibly pass down.
• Xiao Yan accepted the treasures and promised to research the Dou Skill's special cultivation requirements for Free and Unfettered Hall.
• Nalan Yanran returned, learned where the skeleton came from, and told Xiao Yan that their family owed Xiao Tian too much.
• Three days later, Xuan Yi questioned Xiao Tian about what had happened between him and Ying Er in the Secret Realm.

While Xiao Yan competed in the Five Great Families’ assessment, the Free and Unfettered Hall destroyed Ice River Valley and rose to dominance. A black-clad woman recognized Xiao Yan’s soul techniques as those once given to her by Xiao Tian and rushed toward him.

• Medusa led the Free and Unfettered Hall’s army to destroy Ice River Valley and seize its territory and resources, making the Hall the strongest faction on the surface.
• The Ye Family hired Xiao Yan for the Five Great Families’ assessment with treasured prescriptions, goods, and information about an earthly flame.
• At the assessment, Xiao Yan recorded a soul value of 1533, while the Black Skirt Woman watched, suspecting he was Xiao Tian’s twin younger brother.
• Xiao Yan used the Taiyin Soul Refining Art and Soul Shattering Palm to seize more than 120 Soul Testing Beads at once.
• Recognizing Xiao Yan’s technique and dou technique as ones Xiao Tian had given her, the Black Skirt Woman shot toward him.

Cao Ying recognized the soul techniques Xiao Yan used and pressed him for news of his brother, Xiao Tian. After tricking Xiao Yan into revealing that Xiao Tian was with Xuan Yi, she hurried toward the Pill Tower’s upper echelon, while Xiao Yan sent his brother an urgent warning.

• Cao Ying recognized Xiao Yan’s Taiyin Soul Refining Art and Soul Shattering Palm and confirmed that he was Xiao Tian’s younger brother.
• Xiao Yan told Cao Ying that he had come to Saint Pill City alone and did not know whether Xiao Tian was there, but assured her that Xiao Tian was doing well.
• Cao Ying asked whether Xiao Tian was with Xuan Yi, and Xiao Yan’s startled reaction confirmed her suspicion.
• Cao Ying thanked Xiao Yan and left for the Pill Tower’s upper echelon as Elder Sheng resumed the assessment.
• Xiao Yan sent Xiao Tian an urgent message, and Xiao Tian read it while Xuan Yi was helping him clean up.

Xiao Tian left Xuan Yi after agreeing to participate in the Pill Gathering, then Queen Medusa gave birth to a daughter with extraordinary talent in the Free and Unfettered World. The chapter left the family celebrating the newborn, whose birth summoned a terrifying heavenly phenomenon.

• Xiao Tian agreed to take part in the Pill Gathering and joked to Xuan Yi that he would kill everyone in the Pill Realm except the Pill Tower's people.
• Xiao Tian left Xuan Yi's room after sensing Cao Ying approaching, and Cao Ying arrived shortly afterward and asked Xuan Yi to talk.
• Five days later, Queen Medusa gave birth to a baby girl in Sky Palace, and a nine-colored python amid purple-gold thunder appeared in the darkened sky.
• Xiao Tian gave Queen Medusa a pill, shared his life force with her, and held their daughter, who grabbed his finger.
• Queen Medusa said their daughter had been born with Dou Zun strength, and Yun Yun teased her about the baby's dramatic arrival.

Xiao Tian and Queen Medusa welcomed their daughter Xiao Wan, while the Nine-Colored Magical Beast Egg in World Mountain hatched into a Little Snake. The Little Snake joined Xiao Wan in the palace, where the family discovered that the two seemed to share a special bond.

• Queen Medusa asked Xiao Tian to name their daughter, and he named her Xiao Wan.
• A Nine-Colored Little Snake hatched from the egg in World Mountain, ate its shell, and sensed Xiao Tian nearby.
• The Little Snake passed through World Mountain's Space Barrier and appeared before Xiao Tian, who recognized its aura and realized the egg had hatched.
• The Little Snake rubbed against Xiao Wan and coiled around her wrist, and Xiao Tian and Medusa suspected the two shared a companion-like relationship.
• Xiao Ling, Xiao Meng, and Xiao Ze came to meet their new sister, then played with Xiao Wan and the Little Snake.

Xiao Tian disrupted Chen Xian’s scheme against Xiao Yan by secretly injuring him with Guishui Thunder. Chen Xian’s rescuers brought him to Hao You Jin, who revealed that he had died despite their timely arrival.

• After leaving the Free and Unfettered World for the Pill Gathering, Xiao Tian watched Mu Gu Lao Ren reject Chen Xian’s attempt to enlist Soul Hall against the Free and Unfettered Hall.
• Xiao Tian secretly placed Guishui Thunder’s cold yin power inside Chen Xian and left, causing Chen Xian’s injuries to resist healing.
• A Xuan Ming Sect elder carried Chen Xian to Hao You Jin, a Seven Rank Alchemist, and demanded treatment.
• Hao You Jin examined Chen Xian’s damaged organs, severed meridians, and fading Dou Qi vortex, then treated him.
• Hao You Jin told the Xuan Ming Sect elder that Chen Xian was dead.

Xiao Tian prepared to participate in the Pill Gathering while Xuan Yi arranged for Xiao Yi Xian and the others to watch. At the venue, Ye Zhong explained the competition’s trials to Xiao Yan, who learned that contestants would first cross the Illusion Realm and then gather herbs in the Pill Realm.

• Xuan Yi helped Xiao Tian prepare for the Pill Gathering and said he could claim the championship if he wanted, as long as Soul Hall did not win.
• Xuan Yi said she had arranged the best viewing seats for Xiao Yi Xian and the others, while Xiao Tian left them in her care.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the crowded Pill Gathering venue with the Ye Family, while Yao Lao stayed in the Free and Unfettered World.
• Ye Zhong explained that contestants had to pass the Illusion Realm Trial before earning entry to the Pill Realm.
• Ye Zhong told Xiao Yan that contestants in the Pill Realm had to collect the herbs on their assigned lists and exchange them for a Space Stone to leave and enter the final round.

Xuan Kongzi opened the Pill Gathering and announced its dangerous trials and coveted rewards. Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, and Xiao Tianyi entered the first trial, Soul Illusion, as the crowd anticipated a fierce contest.

• Xuan Kongzi explained that the Pill Realm allowed contestants to kill one another and that the final round would be pill refining on floating platforms.
• Xiao Tianyi appeared alongside Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tianleizi, surprising Xiao Yan and drawing the attention of Ye Zhong, Cao Ying, Cao Dan, and the gathered factions.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that the champion would qualify as a candidate for a Pill Tower giant and receive a Soul Cultivation Method and a Soul Dou Technique.
• Xuan Kongzi began the first trial, Soul Illusion, and the contestants, including Xiao Yan and Cao Ying, rushed into the Twisted Space.
• Xiao Tianyi joined the trial after Xuan Kongzi warned him not to damage the Illusion Space, while spectators discussed his Rank 8 alchemist status.

Xiao Tian crossed the Pill Tower’s Illusion Space, brushed aside lifelike visions of people he cared about, and watched Cao Ying overcome an illusion of him. He entered the Pill Realm with an unusually easy medicinal-herb task list, while a thin man in black appeared at the rest point after he left.

• Xiao Tian entered the Illusion Space and used his Soul Power to find a route through its shifting passages.
• Xiao Tian shattered illusions of Xun Er, Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Medusa, then saw Cao Ying reject an illusion of him and resolve her feelings.
• Xiao Tian exited the Illusion Space in under twenty minutes and received a herb list, a Pill Realm map, and a Space Stone from Elder Mu.
• Xiao Tian noticed that his three assigned herbs were unusually simple, and Elder Mu claimed the prescriptions were chosen at random before opening the passage for him.
• Xiao Tian entered the Pill Realm, and a thin man dressed in black appeared at the rest point after he departed.

Xiao Tian entered the Pill Realm and found Zi Yan at the center of the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range, where she had been eating and collecting rare medicinal herbs. The chapter ended with Zi Yan rushing into his arms and reproaching him for taking so long to come get her.

• Xiao Yan cleared the Illusion Realm Trial, received a list of medicinal herbs, and entered the passage after realizing Xiao Tian had gone ahead.
• Xiao Tian entered the Pill Realm in the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range and headed toward its central peak after confirming the location on his map.
• Zi Yan ate and sorted through the hall’s rare medicinal herbs while a burly man lamented her waste and threatened plans to take more herbs away.
• Zi Yan called Xiao Tian a big jerk and liar for arriving late, then recognized him and leaped into his arms.

Xiao Tian reunited with Zi Yan on Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range and comforted her with a medicinal pill as she complained about her studies and duties in the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. Zi Yan introduced him to Xiong Zhan, then kissed Xiao Tian while declaring they were the closest in all the world.

• Xiao Tian appeared beside Zi Yan, apologized for keeping her waiting, and promised to take her home for a gift.
• Xiao Tian praised the medicinal herb Zi Yan had gathered, and she playfully threatened to cover his palace and bed with ugly herbs if he was late again.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Tian she had escaped from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan because she disliked studying and being prepared to become Dragon Emperor.
• Zi Yan introduced Xiong Zhan as the boss of Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range, and Xiao Tian gave her a medicinal pill.
• Zi Yan praised Xiao Tian as the closest person in all the world and kissed him.

Xiao Tian and Zi Yan arranged for Xiong Zhan and his followers to leave the Ancient Ruins with them when the Pill Realm ended. After Xiong Zhan left to make preparations, Zi Yan asked Xiao Tian whether she had done well.

• Zi Yan shared medicinal pellets with Xiao Tian and explained that Xiong Zhan had become a powerful Dou Zun who could bring many followers with him.
• Zi Yan told Xiong Zhan that Xiao Tian could safely take him and his followers out of the ruins, and Xiao Tian agreed they could leave together when the Pill Realm ended.
• Zi Yan promised Xiong Zhan one or two suitable medicinal pills from Xiao Tian and hinted that he could take the medicinal herbs in the square.
• Xiong Zhan generously offered the herbs, thanked Xiao Tian and Zi Yan, and left to arrange for his followers to depart.
• Zi Yan sat on Xiao Tian's lap and asked how she had done, and Xiao Tian affectionately praised her in his thoughts.

Xiao Tian told Zhu Li that Zi Yan would stay with him and offered opportunities that could help unite the Ancient Void Dragon Clan; Zhu Li agreed to remain in the Free and Unfettered World. After gathering the medicinal herbs he needed, Xiao Tian took Zi Yan down the mountain to explore, and they spotted a crowd below.

• Xiao Tian thanked Zhu Li for protecting Zi Yan and said she would stay with him while he pursued two opportunities that could help unite the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Zhu Li agreed to let Zi Yan remain with Xiao Tian and accepted his offer to stay temporarily in the Free and Unfettered World.
• Xiao Tian put away his Long Halberd, reassured Zhu Li that he would protect Zi Yan, and brought Zhu Li into the Free and Unfettered World.
• Xiao Tian returned to Zi Yan, found the medicinal herbs he needed, and then took her away from the mountain peak to explore.
• Xiao Tian and Zi Yan noticed a large group below the mountain and decided to watch from the shadows.

Xiao Tian and Zi Yan watched Song Qing rally nearly a hundred alchemists into attacking the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range, unaware that its ruler, Xiong Zhan, had already reached the eighth stage. Cao Ying rejected Song Qing’s advances and joined the assault for the herbs and the chance to find Xiao Tian, leaving the battle underway.

• Xiao Tian and Zi Yan watched the gathered alchemists, and Zi Yan teased Xiao Tian about his interest in Cao Ying.
• Song Qing claimed a powerful beast guarded the mountain’s collected herbs and persuaded the alchemists to join forces against it.
• Xiao Tian and Zi Yan noted that the alchemists had failed to investigate properly and underestimated Xiong Zhan’s strength.
• Song Qing offered to protect Cao Ying, but she rejected his advances and asked him to address her as Cao Ying or Junior Sister Cao Ying.
• Song Qing urged the alchemists to punish the beast, and they charged into the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range as battle began.

Xiao Tian and Zi Yan watched Xiong Zhan ambush the alchemists climbing the mountain, forcing Song Qing’s group to flee or be eliminated. As Xiong Zhan pursued the survivors, Song Qing abandoned Cao Ying and escaped with a burst of enhanced speed.

• Zi Yan suspected Xiao Tian wanted to rescue Cao Ying, but Xiao Tian denied it and carried Zi Yan toward the battle.
• Song Qing noticed the mountain was unnaturally quiet, then Xiong Zhan and countless Magical Beasts surrounded the alchemists in a clearing.
• Xiong Zhan attacked the group with an energy palm, and the alchemists barely broke it, with the shockwave killing nearly ten Dou Emperor-level alchemists.
• Song Qing ordered a retreat as Xiong Zhan sent the Magical Beasts after the fleeing alchemists, killing or forcing many to use their Space Stones.
• Xiong Zhan pursued the survivors and smashed a Dou Ancestor to pieces, prompting others to teleport away.
• Song Qing swallowed a blood-red medicinal pill, unleashed stronger Dou Qi, and fled, leaving Cao Ying behind.

Cao Ying escaped Xiong Zhan’s pursuit, only to be intercepted by Hun Dan of the Soul Hall at the edge of the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range. After he easily dispelled her soul attack, she summoned her Blood Fiend Flame to fight back.

• Xiong Zhan left Cao Ying unharmed and pursued Song Qing, allowing Cao Ying to flee.
• Xiao Tian sent Zi Yan to collect Storage Rings and treasures from the battlefield, then went in search of someone.
• Cao Ying encountered the black-robed Soul Hall member Hun Dan, who identified himself as the newly appointed Nine Heavenly Venerate.
• Cao Ying attacked Hun Dan with a soul palm, but he dispelled it with a single finger.
• Cao Ying summoned the Blood Fiend Flame and formed a fire phoenix to attack Hun Dan.