Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ling emerged from two months of seclusion after breaking through to the Rune Sect realm, triggering the Wind Thunder Tribulation he had long suppressed. He used the calamity to strengthen his Sky Demon Puppets and absorb lightning into Spiritual Power, while the increasingly violent tribulation continued to rage overhead.

• Medusa, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian sensed Xiao Ling’s breakthrough, while Little Diao detected it from the Southern Domain and planned to bring him a congratulatory treasure.
• Xiao Ling awakened as a Rune Sect and tested his control over Space Power before noticing the accumulated Wind Thunder Tribulation gathering above him.
• Xiao Ling summoned three Sky Demon Puppets and sent them to meet the descending lightning, allowing them to absorb its power as they began transforming toward purple-gold.
• Xiao Ling activated the Destiny Spirit Talisman to devour the lightning that passed the puppets, refining it into Spiritual Power.
• The Wind Thunder Tribulation intensified, but Xiao Ling kept absorbing its lightning while the puppets continued to gain strength.

Xiao Ling survived the Wind Thunder Tribulation, and one of his Sky Demon Puppets advanced to a level capable of contending with a Half-Saint. After returning to Starfall Pavilion, he learned Qing Lin was attempting to break through to Dou Venerate, then headed to his palace, unaware Feng Qing'er was bathing there.

• The Sky Demon Puppet blocked the Wind Thunder Tribulation’s final strike, absorbed its power, and transformed into a purple-gold puppet with strength to contend with a Half-Saint.
• Xiao Ling stored the three Sky Demon Puppets and used his Destiny Spirit Talisman to return to Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Medusa.
• Xiao Ling learned Qing Lin had entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Venerate, then went to his palace to bathe.
• Feng Qing'er, who had been cleaning Xiao Ling’s room, decided to bathe in his bathroom while believing he was still in seclusion.
• Feng Qing'er heard footsteps approaching the bathroom and became alarmed that someone might discover her.

Xiao Ling confronted Feng Qing'er after finding her bathing in his bathroom, and she admitted that she wanted to be close to him despite her nervousness. The chapter ended with Xiao Ling kissing her as she accepted his affection.

• Feng Qing'er rose from the bath and discovered that Xiao Ling had entered the bathroom.
• Xiao Ling teased Feng Qing'er for bathing in his bathroom and suggested she make up for breaking his rules.
• Feng Qing'er confessed that she had long hoped to share an intimate relationship with Xiao Ling but felt inexperienced and flustered.
• Xiao Ling reassured Feng Qing'er that he would protect her, and she said she was content as long as she could stay by his side.
• Xiao Ling kissed Feng Qing'er and drew her closer as she trembled at their first kiss.

Xiao Ling and Feng Qing'er shared an intimate moment before he left her asleep in his bedroom. Meanwhile, Zi Yan went with Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa to the Medicinal Garden, and the chapter ended with the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone appearing before Xiao Ling.

• Xiao Ling and Feng Qing'er kissed and fell into the bath together, later falling asleep in his bed.
• Zi Yan complained that Xiao Ling had not refined pills for her and decided to seek pills from Yao Chen instead.
• Xiao Yi Xian offered to refine pills for Zi Yan and explained that she could make Seventh-grade Pills with her Nether Poison Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Medusa set off for the Medicinal Garden, where Zi Yan promised to show Medusa Snake Spirit Sacred Fruits.
• Xiao Ling left his bedroom after bathing, and the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone appeared and teased him about looking refreshed.

Xiao Ling discussed the limits of cultivation with the Spirit of the Ancestor Stone, then secretly trained in a sealed valley until Zi Yan found him. After giving her a pill and learning Qing Lin had emerged from seclusion as a Dou Venerate, Xiao Ling prepared to head with Zi Yan to the Beast Region, while an icy force froze the ruined valley behind them.

• Xiao Ling argued that he could reach the Divine Palace Realm even though the Spirit of the Ancestor Stone doubted anyone could advance beyond the Great Talisman Sect realm.
• Zi Yan discovered the hidden space Xiao Ling had sealed in the Sky Star Mountain Range and found him cultivating a flaming rune in a ruined valley.
• Xiao Ling gave Zi Yan Vast Sky Star Dust Powder, and she delightedly ate some and showered him with affection.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Ling she had come to report that Qing Lin had finished seclusion after breaking through to the Dou Venerate realm.
• Xiao Ling persuaded Zi Yan to go with him to the Beast Region, and they left the valley as a freezing aura covered it in ice.

After Qing Lin broke through to Dou Venerate, Xiao Ling and his companions traveled to Skeleton Mountain Range in search of Ancient Ruins, stopping briefly in Sacred Pill City to reunite with Cao Ying and Dan Chen. They arrived above the bone-filled range, where Zi Yan and Medusa doubted it could hold the ruins, and Xiao Ling suggested the landscape might have changed over time.

• Qing Lin emerged from secluded cultivation after reaching Dou Venerate, and Xiao Ling's group left Starfall Pavilion for the Beast Region.
• Xiao Ling stopped in Sacred Pill City to see Cao Ying and Dan Chen, who had both advanced to Talisman Masters, before continuing the journey.
• During the trip, Medusa warned Xiao Ling that Skeleton Mountain Range lay within the Nine Nether Nether Python Clan's territory and that Qing Lin might be a target because of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Ling said he would deal with any Nine Nether Nether Python Clan members they encountered and capture some pythons for Qing Lin to subdue.
• Xiao Ling's group reached Skeleton Mountain Range aboard Lie Kong Zuo and hovered above its vast sea of beast bones.
• Zi Yan and Medusa questioned whether the gloomy bone field could contain Ancient Ruins, and Xiao Ling suggested the area might once have been an ordinary mountain range.

Xiao Ling and the four women searched the Skeleton Mountain Range for the hidden Ancient Ruins while Lie Kong Zuo kept watch. After three days, Xiao Ling found the concealed space in a vast bone-filled basin, and Zi Yan began opening a passage into it.

• Xiao Ling teased Zi Yan, then ordered the group to search separately for spatial anomalies and regroup as soon as anyone found a clue.
• Xiao Ling sent Lie Kong Zuo to guard the Skeleton Mountain Range and continued searching while the others concealed their auras from passing cultivators and Magical Beasts.
• Three days later, Xiao Ling detected a hidden spatial fissure beneath the bone-filled basin and told Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Medusa, and Qing Lin that they had found the Ancient Ruins.
• Zi Yan examined the weakening hidden space and explained that it would emerge within months, then used her Space Power to reveal its illusory gateway.
• Zi Yan began working to open a gap in the gateway so Xiao Ling and the others could enter without drawing attention.

Zi Yan opened a Space Passage into the Ancient Ruins, and Xiao Ling’s group entered the crimson hall and faced its defenses. After Xiao Ling protected Medusa from a sudden flame attack, he realized the corridor was a camouflage layer and that the true entrance lay beneath the magma.

• Zi Yan used her Space Power to open a passage through the Heavenly Curtain, and Xiao Ling led the group inside before anyone else discovered the disturbance.
• Xiao Ling’s group crossed the passage, subdued a surge of chaotic Space Power, and arrived before a colossal crimson hall.
• The hall’s stone gate opened to reveal another Space Passage, and the group entered it to reach a dark corridor.
• Magma erupted from the corridor floor and blue flames shot from its walls, but Xiao Ling shielded Medusa and swallowed the attack with his Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Ling guided the group onward with floating flames and concluded that the corridor was a camouflage layer hiding the real entrance beneath the magma.

Xiao Ling led the group through the magma into the Dou Saint Relic, took control of the puppets guarding its entrance, and guided everyone into the main hall. He decided they would stay together and sent Zi Yan to locate the Medicinal Garden, which she found behind an ancient stone door.

• Xiao Ling shielded the group with a Flame Barrier and led them through the magma into a hidden passage beneath it.
• Xiao Ling erased the remaining soul imprints in ten Earth Demon Puppets, took control of them, and learned their combined attack method.
• Xiao Ling led the group through the opened stone door into the relic's vast hall and told everyone to stay together while exploring.
• Xiao Ling asked Zi Yan to sense the Medicinal Garden, and she found the passage leading to the strongest concentration of medicinal herbs.
• Zi Yan stopped before an ancient, moss-covered stone door and identified it as the entrance to the medicinal storehouse.

Xiao Ling and his companions opened an ancient stone door and discovered a vast forest of rare medicinal herbs, which they began harvesting while Qing Lin subdued ancient snake-type Magical Beasts. After Zi Yan sensed greater treasures deeper in the forest, Xiao Ling took her to seek the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and left Xiao Yi Xian to watch over Qing Lin and Medusa.

• Xiao Ling sent the Sky Demon Puppet to open the sealed stone door, revealing a flourishing forest of medicinal herbs.
• Zi Yan, Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Medusa gathered herbs, while Xiao Ling stored a vast harvest in his Portable Space.
• Qing Lin subdued an Eighth Rank snake-type Magical Beast with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils as Xiao Ling dealt with other attacking Magical Beasts.
• Zi Yan urged Xiao Ling to explore deeper after sensing more valuable treasures, and he agreed to search for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit first.
• Xiao Ling asked Xiao Yi Xian to protect Qing Lin and Medusa while he took Zi Yan deeper into the Ancient Forest.

Xiao Ling followed Zi Yan’s bloodline summons into a sealed sanctuary, where they discovered the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit formed from the deaths of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix. Zi Yan recognized the rare treasure as a means to evolve her bloodline, and Xiao Ling urged her to claim it.

• Xiao Ling left Xiao Yi Xian and the others under the Half-Saint Puppet’s protection and led Zi Yan deeper into the Ancient Medicine Forest.
• Zi Yan sensed a call from within her bloodline, and Xiao Ling flew with her toward its source.
• Zi Yan opened a Beast Spirit Shield with her golden blood, allowing them to enter a desolate space containing statues of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• Xiao Ling and Zi Yan found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit growing on an altar, and Zi Yan identified it as a legendary treasure capable of nurturing a Supreme Magical Beast.
• Xiao Ling encouraged Zi Yan to take the fruit so she could evolve her Ancient Void Dragon bloodline, and she agreed.

Zi Yan obtained the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Zhu Li emerged from hiding to escort her back to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. Xiao Ling insisted that Zhu Li take the fruit while Zi Yan stayed with him, but he refused to explain why, leaving the two men at an uneasy impasse.

• Zi Yan touched the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, which dissolved into golden-purple liquid and entered her body, leaving its pattern on her palm.
• Xiao Ling revealed that Zhu Li had been concealed nearby, and Zhu Li explained that he had followed Zi Yan to protect the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's only royal bloodline.
• Zhu Li urged Zi Yan to return with the fruit so the clan elders could plan how she would use it, while Xiao Ling said Zhu Li could take the fruit and Zi Yan should remain with him.
• Zhu Li challenged Xiao Ling's proposal with the pressure of his Half-Saint strength, but Xiao Ling's Black Hole absorbed it, and Zi Yan stepped between them to stop the confrontation.
• After Zhu Li agreed to hear Xiao Ling's reason, Xiao Ling again refused to disclose it and offered to let Zhu Li test his strength; Zhu Li reacted with displeasure and helplessness.

Xiao Ling let Zhu Li take the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit back to the Ancient Dragon Clan and urged him to keep its existence secret, while secretly marking it so he could retrieve it if needed. He planned to take Zi Yan to meet Zhu Kun and seek advice about the fruit; after collecting the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix remains and the fruit tree, Xiao Ling and Zi Yan set off to rejoin Xiao Yi Xian and the others in the ruins.

• Zhu Li agreed to let Zi Yan stay with Xiao Ling and took the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit back to the Ancient Dragon Clan, promising to tell only the First Elder and Second Elder.
• Xiao Ling reassured Zhu Li that he would protect Zi Yan and told him to conceal the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit from others.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Ling where he planned to take her, but Xiao Ling kept the destination secret while planning to bring her to Zhu Kun for guidance about the fruit.
• Xiao Ling revealed that he had secretly placed a Space Mark on the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit so he could sense it and retrieve it if necessary.
• Xiao Ling stored the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix remains in the System Space and uprooted the fruit tree before leaving with Zi Yan to rejoin Xiao Yi Xian and the others.

Xiao Ling and his companions finished harvesting the Ancient Forest’s medicinal herbs and poisonous materials, then followed Zi Yan’s treasure sense through the ruins. They found an ancient Pill Hall and prepared to explore its pills and lost recipes.

• Xiao Ling’s group gathered rare herbs and toxins throughout the Ancient Forest, defeating or subduing beasts that guarded them while Void Dragon struggled to keep other beasts away from the Skeleton Mountain Range.
• After the forest had been nearly stripped bare, Zi Yan sensed dense treasure in another direction and led Xiao Ling and the others into the ruins’ halls.
• The group explored several palaces but found no especially valuable treasures before reaching a hall marked “Pill Hall.”
• Medusa wondered whether the Pill Hall contained Ninth-grade Pills, and Xiao Ling said they were unlikely to be there, though he hoped to find pills and ancient Pill Recipes.
• Xiao Ling invited the group to enter and investigate the Pill Hall.

Xiao Ling and his companions searched the sealed Pill Hall, collecting its pills and recipes as they climbed through increasingly poisonous floors. On the third floor, they discovered a powerful Pill Beast, and Xiao Ling lured it into view with a Sixth-grade Pill.

• Xiao Ling led the group into the Pill Hall, where they gathered the first floor’s pills and ancient Pill Recipes.
• Xiao Yi Xian detected poison on the second floor, so Xiao Ling distributed Detoxification Pills before the group collected its higher-grade pills and scrolls.
• On the third floor, Zi Yan sensed the treasure she had been searching for, while Medusa spotted a white blur near a stone table.
• Xiao Ling deduced that the blur was likely a powerful Pill Beast and warned the group not to chase it recklessly.
• Xiao Ling placed a Sixth-grade Pill as bait, drawing out a small, snow-white beast that snatched and swallowed it.

Xiao Ling won the Nine-colored Pill Beast’s trust by feeding it pills and brought it along with the group. In the ruin’s study, he discovered valuable alchemical writings, including a Ninth-grade Pill Recipe, and believed they could help him refine Ninth-grade Pills after his Soul Realm reached the Heaven Realm.

• Xiao Ling fed the Nine-colored Pill Beast Sixth-grade Pills, then picked it up and persuaded it to accompany the group in exchange for food and occasional blood draws.
• Zi Yan, Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin fussed over the Pill Beast until it relaxed and chose to stay with them.
• Xiao Ling and the others collected the stored pills and entered the study on the floor above.
• Xiao Ling searched the wooden boxes and found ancient Pill Recipes, manuscripts, annotations, and a Ninth-grade treasure-pill recipe.
• Xiao Ling anticipated studying the writings and consulting Old Yao to prepare for refining Ninth-grade Pills once his Soul Realm reached the Heaven Realm.

Xiao Ling and his group plundered the ancient Dou Saint Relic and reached its core hall, where the Creation Saint’s skeleton and a dozen powerful Ancient Human Puppets awaited them. Xiao Ling organized the group to fight the puppets while Zi Yan collected the treasures, setting the stage for their battle.

• Xiao Ling and his group searched the relic’s halls, gathering treasures as they advanced toward the core main hall.
• The group found ten floating balls of light and the Creation Saint’s Dou Saint Skeleton, which Xiao Ling recognized as a chance to obtain Dou Saint Bone Marrow.
• Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian identified the figures around the stone seat as high-grade puppets, and Xiao Ling explained that they were Ancient Human Puppets capable of using Fighting Skills.
• Xiao Ling warned the group that they would need to fight the puppets and assigned himself and Xiao Yi Xian to lead, with Qing Lin and Medusa providing support.
• Xiao Ling gave Zi Yan the task of collecting the treasures in the balls of light while the others held off the puppets.

Xiao Ling and his companions broke into the hall, where the awakened Ancient Human Puppets attacked as ten Scrolls escaped from the light orbs. While the group fought to hold back the puppets, Zi Yan collected the orbs; the battle remained underway as Qing Lin directed her snake-type Magical Beasts against the remaining enemies.

• Xiao Ling used Space Power to shatter the barrier, triggering the light orbs and awakening the Ancient Human Puppets.
• Xiao Ling and Xiao Yi Xian charged the puppets, attacking with the Meteor God Weapon and Nether Poison Flame while Medusa and Qing Lin joined the battle.
• Zi Yan used Space Power to pursue and capture several light orbs as the Scrolls darted around the hall.
• Xiao Ling transformed the Meteor God Weapon into a blade of light and cleaved several puppets apart.
• Xiao Yi Xian summoned the Nine Nether Poison Flame Python, which burned and poisoned several puppets until they collapsed.
• Medusa decapitated a puppet with a red Dou Qi blade while Qing Lin commanded her two Eighth-order snake-type Magical Beasts to attack more fiercely.

Medusa and Qing Lin defeated the puppets, and Xiao Ling praised Qing Lin before Zi Yan returned with Scrolls. When the Dou Saint Skeleton began to awaken, Xiao Ling’s Sky Demon Puppet was caught and damaged by the skeleton’s spatial restrictions, so he prepared to send out a stronger puppet.

• Medusa and Qing Lin worked together to destroy the remaining puppets in the hall.
• Xiao Ling praised Qing Lin’s strength and cultivation, while Medusa struggled with envy over their closeness.
• Zi Yan returned with Scrolls, and Xiao Ling found Earth Tier Advanced techniques, secret arts, and a method for refining combat puppets among them.
• Xiao Yi Xian noticed the Dou Saint Skeleton stirring, and Xiao Ling sent a Sky Demon Puppet to interrupt its awakening.
• Spatial restrictions immobilized the puppet and shattered its right hand, prompting Xiao Ling to prepare a stronger Sky Demon Puppet.

Xiao Ling sent his Half-Saint Sky Demon Puppet to destroy the Dou Saint Skeleton, but the skeleton unleashed the Heaven Grade Great Creation Palm and erased the hall. Xiao Ling and the women survived, and the badly damaged puppet slowly responded to his command.

• Xiao Ling summoned his violet-gold Half-Saint Sky Demon Puppet and ordered it to attack the Dou Saint Skeleton before its will could awaken.
• The puppet shattered the spatial barrier, but the Dou Saint Skeleton triggered its hidden contingency and began preparing the Great Creation Palm.
• Xiao Ling used Space Power to carry Zi Yan, Medusa, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian outside the hall as the skeleton unleashed the attack.
• The Great Creation Palm formed a devouring black ring that erased the hall and left a massive pit, while the group escaped unharmed.
• Xiao Ling found the Sky Demon Puppet badly damaged and missing an arm, but it eventually moved and turned toward him.