Chapter Summaries

After Nalan Yanran reported that the Soul Hall had captured Yun Yun, Heavenly Fire Venerate, and the others, Xiao Ling prepared to rescue them. He uncovered that the Soul Clan had engineered the ambush as a trap specifically to lure him out, and set out to learn more before acting.

• Nalan Yanran told Xiao Ling that Soul Hall experts ambushed her mission team in Black Wind Canyon, captured Yun Yun and Heavenly Fire Venerate, and let her escape to seek help.
• Xiao Ling promised to rescue Yun Yun, sent Qing Lin to care for Nalan Yanran, and went to tell Feng Xian about the ambush.
• Xiao Ling rejected Feng Xian's offer to summon Yao Chen and decided to take Qing Lin and Xian'er with him, while Feng Xian arranged Starfall Pavilion's defenses.
• Xiao Ling used the Myriad Soul Banner to question his hidden soul slaves and learned that Soul Clan Dou Venerates had secretly directed the operation.
• Xiao Ling's agents confirmed that the Soul Clan had chosen Heavenly Fire Venerate as bait, intending to exploit Xiao Ling's bond with him and lure Xiao Ling into a trap.

Xiao Ling sent Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to raid weakened Soul Hall branch halls while he went alone to rescue Heavenly Fire Venerate at Falling Soul Cliff. There, he met Old Ghost Di Mo, who had infiltrated the Soul Hall force, and began sealing the area with a Space Barrier before attacking Earth Fiend Hall.

• Xiao Ling learned the Soul Clan had assembled an ambush under Gu You and decided to rescue Heavenly Fire Venerate while striking back at its branch halls.
• Xiao Ling gave Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin three Sky Demon Puppets, talismans, and orders to raid the weakened branch halls and meet him at Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin departed with Rayquaza, and Xiao Ling opened a Space Rift and traveled to Falling Soul Cliff.
• At Earth Fiend Hall, Old Ghost Di Mo killed Blood Fiend Venerate and revealed that he served Xiao Ling before welcoming his master.
• Xiao Ling ordered Old Ghost Di Mo to guard the perimeter, then used his Destiny Talisman Seal to spread a Space Barrier over Falling Soul Cliff.

Xiao Ling infiltrated Earth Fiend Hall to rescue Heavenly Fire Venerate and the captured members of Starfall Pavilion before confronting Soul Hall’s ambush. He appeared in the underground chamber and seized Blood River Heavenly Venerate, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Xiao Ling sealed Falling Soul Cliff with a spatial barrier, sensed Heavenly Fire Venerate and Soul Hall’s forces inside Earth Fiend Hall, and concealed his presence to infiltrate the hall.
• Blood River Heavenly Venerate taunted the captive Heavenly Fire Venerate and Starfall Pavilion members, boasting that Gu You Saint and the Soul Hall forces would kill Xiao Ling.
• Xiao Ling appeared in the Secret Chamber, startling Blood River Heavenly Venerate and giving the captives hope.
• Blood River Heavenly Venerate attacked with a blood-colored palm strike, but Xiao Ling stopped and shattered it with a flick of his finger.
• Blood River Heavenly Venerate unleashed Blood Sea Overflows and tried to call for Gu You Saint, but Xiao Ling tore through the blood sea and seized him by the throat before he could shout.

Xiao Ling killed Blood River Heavenly Venerate, freed the Starfall Pavilion prisoners, and sent them through a Space Passage to safety while choosing to remain in Earth Fiend Hall. Yun Yun stayed behind to ask whether Nalan Yanran had escaped safely.

• Xiao Ling revealed his Dou Saint strength, killed Blood River Heavenly Venerate, and seized his Soul Body.
• Xiao Ling broke the Soul Locks and freed Heavenly Fire Venerate, Yun Yun, and the Starfall Pavilion members, then promised compensation for two disciples who had died.
• Xiao Ling created a spatial barrier and opened a Space Passage for the rescued group to leave Falling Soul Cliff.
• Heavenly Fire Venerate and Yun Yun urged Xiao Ling to leave with them because a high-level Half-Saint was waiting, but Xiao Ling insisted on staying to confront the Soul Hall.
• Heavenly Fire Venerate and the other Starfall Pavilion members departed through the passage, while Yun Yun remained to ask Xiao Ling about Nalan Yanran.

Xiao Ling sent Yun Yun back to Starfall Pavilion, then summoned ten peak Dou Venerates from the Myriad Soul Banner and attacked Earth Fiend Hall. He confronted Bone You Saint and dozens of Soul Hall experts, who launched an attack against him.

• Xiao Ling reassured Yun Yun, and she left through the Space Passage for Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Ling summoned ten peak Dou Venerates from the Myriad Soul Banner and prepared to replenish it with Soul Bodies from Earth Fiend Hall.
• Xiao Ling blasted open the underground Secret Chamber doors, injuring two Soul Hall guards and alerting the forces inside.
• Bone You Saint and the Soul Hall elites gathered as Xiao Ling emerged from the dust and challenged them.
• Xiao Ling dismissed Bone You Saint's Half-Saint pressure and declared that he could crush the Soul Hall group.
• Bone You Saint ordered the Soul Hall Venerable Elders to capture Xiao Ling, dead or alive.

Xiao Ling revealed himself as a Dou Saint, defeated Bone You Saint, and captured his Soul Body in the Myriad Soul Banner. After ordering his Banner Slaves to kill the Soul Hall forces, he entered the Earth Fiend Hall’s hidden secret realm and found countless imprisoned origin souls.

• Xiao Ling shattered the Soul Hall elders’ soul chains and revealed his Dou Saint aura, leaving Bone You Saint shocked and terrified.
• Xiao Ling struck down Bone You Saint, extracted his origin soul, and sealed it inside the Myriad Soul Banner.
• Xiao Ling ordered his ten high-level Banner Slaves to kill the Soul Hall elders and Guardians, then walked deeper into the ruins.
• Xiao Ling broke through a hidden Space Barrier and entered the Earth Fiend Hall’s secret storage hall, where imprisoned origin souls pleaded for help.

Xiao Ling seized the Soul Origin from the Earth Fiend Hall and had the Spirit of the Ancestor Stone purify its accumulated resentment. He gathered the tortured souls into his Myriad Soul Banner, then spent the following day destroying Soul Hall branches across the Central Plains and plundering their Soul Origins.

• Xiao Ling broke the chains around the Soul Origin and sent it to the Ancestral Stone Space for the Spirit of the Ancestor Stone to purify.
• Xiao Ling offered the freed soul spheres a choice between joining his Myriad Soul Banner to seek revenge on Soul Hall or dissipating into heaven and earth.
• The soul spheres chose to enter the Myriad Soul Banner, and Xiao Ling gathered them all into it.
• Xiao Ling left the cleared Earth Fiend Hall and traveled across the Central Plains, destroying Soul Hall branches and taking their resources and Soul Origins.
• After a day of raiding, Xiao Ling had collected substantial Soul Origin and more than a hundred thousand Soul Bodies in his banner.

After destroying Soul Hall’s branch halls, Xiao Ling returned to Starfall Pavilion and improved his Spiritual Power by refining Soul Origin. Advised to strengthen his dou qi, he planned a journey to the Nine Nether Nether Python Clan to claim its inheritance, help Qing Lin, and bring Medusa to the ancient Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python inheritance.

• Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin reunited after their operation and set off for Starfall Pavilion, while the Grand Heavenly Venerate found no clues at the ruined branch hall.
• Hun Miesheng learned that more than ten Soul Hall branch halls had been destroyed and ordered his subordinates to investigate Xiao Ling and attack him if they found an opportunity.
• Xiao Ling refined Soul Origin, improving his Spiritual Power, and the Spirit of the Ancestor Stone urged him to focus on strengthening his dou qi cultivation.
• Xiao Ling decided to seek the Yellow Springs Demon Saint Inheritance in Nine Nether Nether Python Clan territory and planned to help Qing Lin overcome her bottleneck by subduing the clan.
• Xiao Ling remembered that Medusa could claim the ancient Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python inheritance and resolved to return to the Northwest Continent with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.

Xiao Ling met with Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and Ya Fei at Starfall Pavilion, promised to arrange protection for Ya Fei, and invited the three women to travel with him to the Northwest Continent. After they accepted, he reaffirmed his devotion to Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.

• Xiao Ling joined Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and Ya Fei in the moonlit pavilion and discussed Soul Hall's threat.
• Xiao Ling promised to request a Dou Venerate-class puppet to protect Ya Fei while she managed Starfall Pavilion's businesses.
• Xiao Ling invited Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and Ya Fei to return with him to the Northwest Continent, and they agreed to depart the next day.
• Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran left to prepare for the journey and gather gifts for their relatives and friends.
• Xiao Yi Xian teased Xiao Ling about the women's feelings for him, and he said he would let matters develop naturally while promising that she and Qing Lin would remain most important to him.

Xiao Ling gathered his companions at Starfall Pavilion to depart for the Northwest Continent, while Xiao Yan and Mu Qing Luan sparred and Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran confronted memories of Xiao Yan’s rise. Xiao Ling opened a Space Passage and led the group away, leaving Mu Qing Luan behind at the pavilion.

• Xiao Yan and Mu Qing Luan finished a controlled spar at Ling Yue Peak as Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and Ya Fei arrived and watched.
• Ya Fei recognized Xiao Yan as a Dou Venerate, and Nalan Yanran recalled their former engagement and felt unsettled by his achievements.
• Xiao Ling arrived with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, and Mu Qing Luan clung to him and pleaded for him to stay at Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Ling opened a Space Passage to the Northwest Continent and told Mu Qing Luan he would return soon.
• Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and Ya Fei entered the passage, which vanished after they departed.

Xiao Ling and his companions traveled through a Space Passage toward the Jia Ma Empire, while Jia Xing Tian sought Hai Bodong’s help in connecting the royal family to Xiao Ling. The chapter ended as a powerful spatial disturbance appeared above Jia Ma Holy City and its leaders braced for the arrival.

• Xiao Ling enlarged a Space Ship, brought his companions aboard, and piloted it through the Space Passage toward the Northwest Continent.
• Jia Xing Tian asked Hai Bodong about Ya Fei’s life in the Central Plains and requested an introduction to Xiao Ling for Yao Yue and Yao Ye.
• Hai Bodong explained that Xiao Ling had become a Dou Venerate and the Central Plains’ foremost Alchemist, and he declined to speak on the royal family’s behalf.
• Jia Xing Tian worried about the royal family’s standing beside the Xiao Family and hoped Yao Yue might become closer to Xiao Yan.
• A spatial disturbance spread across the sky above Jia Ma Holy City, drawing Hai Bodong, Jia Xing Tian, Fama, the clan leaders, and Xiao Zhan’s group to watch it.
• The spatial fluctuations intensified and gathered over the city, leaving its defenders on guard against the approaching visitor.

Xiao Ling and Xiao Yan arrived in Jia Ma Holy City aboard a powerful Space Ship, startling the city’s leaders and residents. Xiao Zhan recognized his son, reunited with him, and thanked Xiao Ling for protecting the Xiao Family and Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Ling opened a vast Space Rift and brought a silver Space Ship from the Central Plains into the sky above Jia Ma Holy City.
• Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian identified the vessel as an extraordinary Central Plains Space Ship, while the Clan Leaders looked to Xiao Zhan and recalled Xiao Ling and Xiao Yan’s influence.
• Xiao Zhan sensed Xiao Yan aboard the ship, flew toward it with Xiao Family retainers, and announced that Xiao Ling had returned with him.
• Xiao Yan greeted Xiao Zhan, and father and son embraced after years apart as Hai Bodong, Jia Xing Tian, and the others waited nearby.
• Xiao Zhan asked after Xiao Yan and thanked Xiao Ling for supporting him and the Xiao Family, and Xiao Ling said that helping his cousin was his duty.

Xiao Ling returned to Jia Ma Holy City, where the empire’s leaders and the Xiao Family welcomed him and his companions. After inviting the leaders to a Xiao Family banquet and giving Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran time to return to the Misty Cloud Sect, he offered pills as prizes for the clan, leaving the gathered family members and city residents astonished.

• Xiao Ling shrank his Space Ship and stored it before greeting Hai Bodong, Jia Xing Tian, and the others from the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Ling invited the empire’s leaders to the Xiao Family banquet, while Ya Fei reunited with Hai Bodong and Yun Yun left with Nalan Yanran for the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin returned to the Xiao Family Residence, where Xiao Zhan, Xiao Yan, Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and the clan members welcomed them.
• Xiao Ling told the clan to celebrate together and offered five Seventh-grade Pills and twenty Sixth-grade Pills as banquet prizes, stunning the Xiao Family and onlookers.

Xiao Ling returned to the Xiao Family Residence and reminisced with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin about their earlier days. As the Xiao Family prepared a banquet in his honor, the Jia Ma Empire’s imperial family and other powerful factions set out to visit, hoping to pay their respects and build ties.

• Xiao Ling entered his carefully maintained courtyard with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, where they recalled their past and Qing Lin reunited with the weak snakes she had left there.
• News of Xiao Ling’s return spread throughout Jia Ma Holy City, prompting powerful families to prepare lavish gifts and seek the Xiao Family’s favor.
• The Xiao Family decorated its residence for a grand banquet, while Xiao Ling left questions of political alliances to Xiao Zhan.
• Jia Xing Tian led an imperial procession with Yao Ye and Yao Yue toward the Xiao Family Residence to honor Xiao Ling.
• Yao Yue asked Yao Ye about Xiao Ling’s accomplishments and resolved to seek Xiao Yan’s alchemy guidance at the banquet.
• Nobles and prominent clans across Jia Ma Holy City sent grand processions toward the Xiao Family Residence.

The Xiao Family hosted a banquet celebrating Xiao Ling and Xiao Yan’s return, drawing the Jia Ma Empire’s powerful factions and the Misty Cloud Sect closer to the family. Xiao Ling and Xiao Yan arrived through a Space Rift and shared stories and cultivation knowledge from the Central Plains, leaving Fama newly inspired in Alchemy Art.

• Xiao Zhan welcomed the Misty Cloud Sect delegation, and Yun Shan presented the Xiao Family with a gift to renew ties between the two groups.
• Yun Shan, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran joined the assembled guests as Xiao Zhan began the banquet.
• Xiao Ling and Xiao Yan appeared by opening a Space Rift in the hall and greeted the gathered guests.
• Xiao Ling and Xiao Yan took their places beside Xiao Zhan at the main table and answered the guests’ questions about the Central Plains.
• Fama received guidance on Alchemy Art from Xiao Ling and Xiao Yan and gained new insight into advancing his skills.

At a banquet in the Xiao Residence, Xiao Ling proposed an alliance uniting Jia Ma Empire’s major factions to strengthen the empire against outside threats. The royal family reluctantly agreed, the Heaven and Earth Alliance was declared established, and Yun Shan rose to speak.

• Xiao Ling proposed an alliance with an alliance leader and an Elder Council, prompting Jia Xing Tian to recognize the threat to the royal family’s authority.
• Xiao Zhan, Hai Bodong, Yun Yun, Fama, Nalan Jie, the Mu Family leader, and other faction leaders voiced their support for Xiao Ling’s proposal.
• Jia Xing Tian agreed to join the alliance after Xiao Ling pressed him for the royal family’s position.
• Xiao Ling named the newly established alliance the Heaven and Earth Alliance, and the faction leaders welcomed its creation.
• Yun Shan rose and addressed the gathering, acknowledging Xiao Ling as the alliance’s initiator.

Xiao Ling became the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s leader, arranged for the Jia Ma imperial family to provide its headquarters site, and promised alliance members access to his stored resources through contribution points. The chapter ended in the Snake People Race’s sacred city, where Queen Medusa tenderly cared for her young daughter beside a seven-colored snake.

• Yun Shan proposed Xiao Ling as Alliance Leader, and Xiao Ling accepted the position and named those present alliance elders.
• Xiao Ling asked Jia Xing Tian to have the imperial family provide land in Jia Ma Holy City for the alliance headquarters, and Jia Xing Tian agreed.
• Xiao Ling offered to put medicinal pills, cultivation techniques, and combat skills into the alliance treasury for members to obtain with contribution points, including credit for the imperial family’s service.
• Xiao Ling ended the alliance discussion and invited everyone to enjoy the welcoming banquet for him and Xiao Yan.
• At the Medusa Temple, Queen Medusa held and soothed her young daughter while a seven-colored snake rested nearby.

Xiao Ling arrived at the Snake People Sacred City and found Medusa hurt that he had visited the Jia Ma Imperial Capital before coming to see her and their daughter. After he apologized and comforted her, they reunited affectionately and he gazed at their sleeping child.

• Hua She'er reported that Xiao Ling had returned to the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, and Medusa hid her hurt while holding their daughter.
• Xiao Ling overheard Medusa and Hua She'er lamenting his delay, then entered the bedchamber after Hua She'er left.
• Medusa mistook Xiao Ling's concealed presence for a threat until he revealed himself and asked to come in.
• Xiao Ling apologized and coaxed Medusa, who eventually embraced him and admitted she could only go along with him.
• Xiao Ling looked at his sleeping daughter as Medusa proudly asked whether she was beautiful.

Xiao Ling reunited with Medusa and met their newborn daughter, whom he named Xiao Xi'er, while learning that the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python had been born alongside her. He promised to seal the two powerful infants' Dou Qi after dawn, then revealed that he had returned to take Medusa to a hidden inheritance that could greatly increase her strength.

• Xiao Ling apologized to Medusa for missing their daughter's early years and tenderly met the sleeping child, who grasped his finger.
• Xiao Ling named their daughter Xiao Xi'er, and Medusa approved of the name.
• The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python woke, flew to Xiao Ling, and Medusa explained that it had been born alongside Xiao Xi'er and shared a special bloodline connection with her.
• Xiao Ling asked the snake to protect Xiao Xi'er and decided to seal both infants' Dou Qi after dawn because their strength was too great for them to control.
• Xiao Ling told Medusa he had discovered a sealed Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python inheritance in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and urged her to claim it.

Xiao Ling and Medusa reunited in the palace, and he spent the night with her before meeting their daughter Xiao Xi'er the next morning. The chapter ended with Xiao Xi'er recognizing him as her father and beginning to grow comfortable in his arms.

• Xiao Ling told Medusa that the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python inheritance awaited her in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, while keeping its full power secret.
• Xiao Ling and Medusa left their sleeping children in the main hall and spent the night together in a side hall.
• Medusa woke Xiao Ling before dawn and reminded him to care for Xiao Xi'er and the Little Sky Swallowing Python.
• Xiao Ling and Medusa returned to the main hall, where the Little Sky Swallowing Python greeted Xiao Ling and Xiao Xi'er woke up.
• Xiao Xi'er called Xiao Ling “Daddy,” and he gathered her into his arms as she cautiously touched his face and smiled.