Chapter Summaries

Chen Huang passed the fourth-tier alchemist qualification, and Xiao Yi Xian began cultivating with the Calamity Poison Body, quickly reaching the third stage of Dou Qi. The group then entered the dangerous Black Corner Region, where Xiao Yi Xian saw the brutality of life among its lawless inhabitants.

• Chen Huang refined four Red Heart Qi Nourishing Pills, passed the qualification examination, and received his fourth-tier alchemist badge.
• Chen Huang enhanced Xiao Yi Xian’s cultivation method with the Chat Group’s deduction function before she drank poison and began cultivating.
• Xiao Yi Xian transformed the poison into Poison Attribute Dou Qi and reached the third stage of Dou Qi, prompting Chen Huang to tell Old Yao the news.
• Chen Huang, Xiao Shan, and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to the Black Corner Region, where Chen Huang recalled Han Feng and Old Yao’s plans for Xiao Yan.
• The group saw corpses hanging from trees and people being killed in the streets, while Xiao Shan warned Xiao Yi Xian that violence and death were part of the life she had chosen.

Chen Huang, Xiao Shan, and Xiao Yi Xian searched a Black Corner Region market for bargains, and Chen Huang bought a fragment of a Heavenly Grade Dou Technique and an eye-enhancing technique. After finding few other valuable items, they headed toward the city auction house and considered stealing from it because they lacked money.

• Chen Huang identified a third-tier Magic Core accessory as nearly worthless and helped Xiao Shan bargain the price down to three thousand Gold Coins.
• Chen Huang used the purchase to obtain a fragment of a Heavenly Grade Dou Technique and a Yellow Grade Mid-tier eye technique, then explained their potential to Xiao Shan and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Chen Huang, Xiao Shan, and Xiao Yi Xian continued searching the market, finding bargains through Chen Huang's knowledge, Xiao Shan's instincts, and Xiao Yi Xian's expertise in pill formulas and herbs.
• The three located the city's auction house, and Chen Huang and Xiao Shan discussed robbing it while Xiao Yi Xian asked whether they should wear masks.

Chen Huang, Xiao Shan, and Xiao Yi Xian attended an auction where Chen Huang discovered Soul Hall members and learned that local factions were gathering. After Xiao Yi Xian wanted to help a captured Snake Woman, Chen Huang won her at auction for six hundred thousand gold coin, leaving Xiao Yi Xian unsure what to do with her.

• Chen Huang used Phantom Camouflage to conceal the group, then searched the black-clad men’s memories and identified them as Soul Hall members connected to Han Feng.
• Chen Huang explained the Soul Clan’s power and the Soul Hall’s habit of hunting strong souls, especially alchemists’ souls.
• The Blood Sect and Earth Flame Sect entered the auction house, adding to the tension before the Eight Fan Gate auction began.
• When Xiao Yi Xian asked how they could help the captured Snake Woman, Chen Huang explained that freeing or returning her would not keep her safe, while taking her in could bring danger.
• Chen Huang bid up to six hundred thousand gold coin for the Snake Woman, then told Xiao Yi Xian that she could decide what to do with her.
• The next auction item was a bottle of pills that increased the chance of breaking through to Dou Ling, and bidding heated up.

Chen Huang and Xiao Shan bid aggressively on Dou Techniques, cultivation methods, pills, formulas, and an unknown map, while provoking the Blood Sect’s Fan Bing. The auction continued, and the Eight Fan Gate’s staff believed Xiao Shan had paid even though Chen Huang had manipulated them into thinking so.

• Chen Huang dismissed an expensive sword as poorly forged, then Xiao Shan won the Gale Palm Dou Technique for 1.2 million Gold Coins after outbidding the Blood Sect and Earth Flame Sect.
• Xiao Shan bought an ancient map for three million one hundred and ten thousand Gold Coins, angering Fan Bing, who threatened to rob them and sell her as a slave.
• Chen Huang told Xiao Shan that Fan Bing had threatened her, and Xiao Shan decided to deal with him personally.
• Xiao Shan bought the later pills, pill formulas, Dou Techniques, and cultivation methods while other bidders focused on the items she ignored.
• Chen Huang planted mental suggestions in selected staff members, making them believe he had already paid for the purchases.

Chen Huang and his companions rescued the Snake Woman, and Xiao Yi Xian welcomed her as a partner named Aopeiya. After dealing with the Blood Sect and searching the Black Corner Region for useful ingredients, Chen Huang led the group across a dangerous sea toward the island marked on the mysterious map.

• Xiao Yi Xian freed the Snake Woman from her cage and invited her to follow them.
• Xiao Shan killed Fan Bing and the Blood Sect members who confronted the group outside the auction house, and Chen Huang took their valuables.
• Aopeiya told Xiao Yi Xian she wanted to become stronger and stay with her, so Xiao Yi Xian accepted her as a partner.
• Chen Huang considered ways to improve Aopeiya’s bloodline while studying the auctioned items and the mysterious map.
• Chen Huang traveled with Xiao Yi Xian and Aopeiya over stormy waters and attacking sea beasts toward the island marked on the map.

Chen Huang explored an underwater palace and discovered the remains of the Water Dragon Great Sage, along with his Sea Heart Flame and other treasures. He took the Great Sage’s possessions and coffin, intending to revive him so he could obtain his Heavenly Grade cultivation method and Dou Technique.

• Chen Huang found a fissure beneath the island’s lake and forced open the doors of an underwater palace.
• Chen Huang read murals recounting the Water Dragon Great Sage’s unusual birth, rise to fame, and flight to the palace after enemies wounded him.
• Chen Huang found the Water Dragon Great Sage’s remains in a crystal coffin, with treasures and an azure Heavenly Flame nearby.
• Chen Huang identified the flame as a Sea Heart Flame and learned that the Great Sage’s soul remained asleep in his storage ring.
• Chen Huang took the Great Sage’s storage ring and coffin, planning to revive him and claim his cultivation method and Dou Technique.

Chen Huang acquired the Sea Heart Flame and traveled with Xiao Shan and the others through a Space Wormhole to Middle Continent. After arriving in the city of the Luo Family, he set his sights on the Pill Tower and asked the Chat Group to arrange a Pokémon-world vacation.

• Xiao Shan examined the island's ash-covered soil, and Chen Huang returned with the Sea Heart Flame and treasures from the Water Dragon Great Sage's residence.
• Chen Huang used a Flying Thunder God mark to bring the group back to the mainland, then flew with them to Tianya City.
• Chen Huang studied Tianya City's Space Wormhole for several days before paying for a second-grade Space Ship and traveling with the others for more than twenty days.
• The group arrived safely in a prosperous Middle Continent city, and Chen Huang decided to buy a map and fly to the Pill Tower.
• Chen Huang asked the Chat Group to arrange a Pokémon-world vacation, and the Chat Group agreed.

Chen Huang led his group to Fallen God Ravine to obtain the Scorpion Poison Dragon Beast’s core and essence blood. Xiao Shan subdued the beast, and Chen Huang delivered the final blow while preserving its core.

• Chen Huang bought a map and set out with Xiao Shan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Aopeiya for Fallen God Ravine in the Pill Region.
• After flying for several days, Xiao Shan asked a merchant caravan for directions, and the group found the ravine.
• Chen Huang used an Aromatic Silk Beauty to suppress the poison, which attracted a horde of Magical Beasts.
• The Scorpion Poison Dragon Beast emerged and claimed the treasure, but Xiao Shan bound and battered it with her Blue Silver Emperor abilities.
• Chen Huang used his Mental Power to finish off the weakened Scorpion Poison Dragon Beast without letting Xiao Shan destroy its magical core.

Chen Huang and his companions searched Sacred Pill City for ingredients to revive people and refine Xiao Yi Xian’s Poison Pill, then met Dan Zhouzi, an eighth-grade Pill Tower elder who offered ingredients and a lead on Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva. Chen Huang agreed to prove he could refine a seventh-grade pill in Dan Zhouzi’s alchemy room, where he began making a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill.

• Chen Huang claimed the Scorpion Poison Dragon Beast’s corpse and Essence Blood after the beast’s other magical beasts fled, while Xiao Yi Xian was pleased to obtain a Poison Pill ingredient.
• At a market stall, Dan Zhouzi recognized Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body and Aopeiya’s identity, then traded three sets of Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill ingredients for Chen Huang’s Water Vein Spirit Pill and offered to introduce him to someone with Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva.
• Dan Zhouzi revealed he was an eighth-grade alchemist and challenged Chen Huang to refine a seventh-grade pill, promising to arrange his certification and return the Water Vein Spirit Pills if he succeeded.
• Dan Zhouzi led Chen Huang and the others to his private alchemy room, where Chen Huang examined the Magic Array, set his cauldron in place, and began refining the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill using the Chat Group’s alchemy function.

Chen Huang refined peak eighth-tier Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pills, traded pills for Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and alchemy formulas, and earned an eighth-tier alchemist badge. After leaving Sacred Pill City, he helped Xiao Yi Xian condense the poison in her Calamity Poison Body into a Poison Pill, eliminating the danger it posed.

• Chen Huang used two Shadow Clones to process ingredients and refined six Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pills, then used the Spirit Ascension Secret Method to raise them to peak eighth tier.
• Chen Huang absorbed the Five-Colored Pill Lightning with his third Martial Soul, and Dan Zhouzi and Xuan Kongzi confirmed the pills’ quality.
• Chen Huang traded two pills to Xuan Kongzi for Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and exchanged the remaining four with Dan Zhouzi for over two hundred pill formulas.
• Chen Huang received his eighth-tier alchemist badge and spent several days collecting formulas and ingredients before his group left Sacred Pill City.
• Chen Huang helped Xiao Yi Xian condense the poison in her body into a Poison Pill, ending the threat of her Calamity Poison Body.

Chen Huang helped Old Yao regain a body using a Titled Douluo corpse, then resurrected Jiang Han, the Sea Dragon Great Sage, in exchange for his cultivation techniques. Jiang Han agreed to postpone his revenge against the Soul Clan and travel with Old Yao, while Chen Huang prepared to leave Dou Qi Continent.

• Chen Huang removed Xiao Yi Xian's seal after her Poison Pill contained her poisonous Dou Qi, then agreed to livestream Old Yao's body-refining process for the Chat Group.
• Chen Huang took Old Yao to a secluded courtyard and used Fire Dragon King's Fire, a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, and Scorpion Poison Dragon Beast essence blood to fuse his soul with a Titled Douluo corpse.
• After two days, Old Yao awoke with the corpse's Blood Fiend Demonic Bear Martial Soul and nine Spirit Rings; he later converted his Soul Power into Dou Qi and reached Half Saint strength.
• Chen Huang used Impure World Reincarnation to temporarily revive Sea Dragon Great Sage, who identified himself as Jiang Han and gave Chen Huang his Heavenly Grade cultivation technique and Dou Technique in exchange for true resurrection.
• Jiang Han resolved to seek revenge on Hun Sheng Tian, Hun Yuan Tian, and the Soul Clan, but Old Yao and Chen Huang urged him to wait; Jiang Han agreed to travel with Old Yao and help gather resources.
• Chen Huang gave Old Yao seeds of Sea Heart Flame and Fire Dragon King's Fire, asked him to look after Xiao Yi Xian and Aopeiya, and prepared to return home.

Chen Huang established a Space Channel to Penglai Continent, began building a medicinal garden and academy there, and developed Douluo-style pills for cultivation and Martial Soul improvement. As the empires resumed fighting, he gathered herbs and started testing attribute-awakening pills, then turned his research toward latent bloodlines and Martial Soul mutations.

• Chen Huang completed a Space Channel between Qingyun Academy and the New World, which he and Yang Chan named Penglai Continent, and assigned Dugu Bo to oversee its future campus.
• Chen Huang established medicinal fields on Penglai Continent and accelerated the growth of herbs from the Dou Qi Continent and Douluo Dalu.
• As the two empires resumed their war, Chen Huang encouraged farming and livestock raising in Fasnuo Province so its villagers could profit from rising demand.
• Chen Huang asked Dugu Bo and Chrysanthemum Du to help source herbs, then sent Reanimated Titled Douluo to gather them and built a pill-refining room at Qingyun Academy.
• Using the Chat Group's deduction function, Chen Huang developed basic pills and devised attribute-specific pills that could awaken special attributes in some ordinary Martial Souls.
• After testing the pills with Little Grass Corporation employees, Chen Huang began researching pills that could draw out latent bloodlines and strengthen Martial Souls.

Chen Huang completed the first batch of artificial soul spirits and gave Xiao Shan a Hundred Thousand Year Vajra Baboon Soul Spirit, which she successfully absorbed. Back at Qingyun Academy, he learned that Luo Ying and Hong Gang had reached level ten and planned to test whether they could absorb soul spirits.

• Chen Huang used his Magic Array to fuse captured Soul Beasts’ souls with their Spirit Rings and raise the resulting soul spirits to the hundred-year level.
• Chen Huang gave Xiao Shan a Hundred Thousand Year Vajra Baboon Soul Spirit, which she absorbed into her Clear Sky Hammer and used to gain an orange Spirit Ring with two soul skills.
• Chen Huang surveyed Qingyun Academy’s growing student body and learned that Luo Ying and Hong Gang remained its top elite-class students.
• Ye Lingling told Chen Huang that Luo Ying and Hong Gang had both reached level ten Soul Power, and Chen Huang offered them soul spirits after testing their suitability.
• Ye Lingling went to bring Luo Ying and Hong Gang to Chen Huang, while he watched Luo Ying studying alone and considered how she might fit in better with older students.

Chen Huang completed Thor’s trials, received Thor’s Godhead, and promised to preserve the Thunderclap Nether Vine for Thor’s reincarnation. After returning to Qingyun Academy, he began fusing the Godhead and learned that Qing Zizai was preparing to travel to D City.

• Chen Huang condensed the Lightning Domain, passed Thor’s third through eighth trials, and formed a full-body Spirit Bone armor set.
• Thor gave Chen Huang his Godhead and asked him to turn the Thunderclap Nether Vine into a Spirit Soul for his reincarnation; Chen Huang agreed and did so.
• Chen Huang and Yu Xiaogang parted ways after discussing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s recovery and Yu Xiaogang’s arranged marriage to a woman from the Gongyang Family.
• Chen Huang returned to Qingyun Academy, watched Xiao Shan spar with Zhu Qing, and began fusing Thor’s Godhead with the other Godheads he possessed.
• Qing Zizai told the Chat Group that he had finished his college entrance exams and was preparing to go to D City.

Qing Zizai traveled to D City to find the Armor Hero summoners and used newspaper reports to track Ability Beast activity. After an Ability Beast appeared, he protected civilians and met Li Xin Nan, the Flame Dragon Armor summoner, but Li Xin Nan was teleported away to another emergency before Qing Zizai could explain his mission.

• Qing Zizai left for D City after Old Qing warned him to avoid fighting Ability Beasts and wait for the Armor Heroes.
• Qing Zizai bought newspapers and a map, marked Ability Beast sightings, and spent the night in a park before heading to a likely activity area.
• A shop owner gave Qing Zizai food and tried to help him locate Happy Dumpling Restaurant, but an Ability Beast attack interrupted them.
• Qing Zizai evacuated civilians and fought a dog-like Ability Beast while the shop owner rescued a child.
• Li Xin Nan arrived as the Flame Dragon Armor, defeated the Ability Beast, and was teleported to another attack before Qing Zizai could speak with him.

Chen Huang helped Qing Zizai investigate the appearance of weak Ability Beasts, find the Earth Shadow Stone, and awaken the Earth Tiger Bloodline. They traveled to Hope City’s Demon Suppressing Tower, where they discovered that Lufa’s clothing and soul were gone, leaving Lufa’s whereabouts unknown.

• Chen Huang traveled to Qing Zizai’s world, bought phones and a laptop, and proposed investigating the Ability Beast mutations and searching for the Earth Shadow Stone.
• Chen Huang and Qing Zizai searched newsstands near construction sites until Chen Huang persuaded an elderly owner to give Qing Zizai the Earth Shadow Stone in exchange for a Gold Nugget.
• Qing Zizai uploaded the Earth Shadow Stone, exchanged for the Earth Tiger Bloodline, and successfully summoned the Earth Tiger Armor.
• Chen Huang flew Qing Zizai to Hope City, where they found the Demon Suppressing Tower’s entrance chain cut and discovered that Lufa’s clothing and soul had disappeared.
• Chen Huang searched the tower for the Gengnu Vajra Pestle and told Qing Zizai to contact his father so the Secret Cultivators could help track any released Nether Demons.

Chen Huang and Qing Zizai recovered the Gengnu Vajra Pestle in Hope City and warned Li Xin Nan that escalating Ability Beast attacks and the possible revival of Lufa’s Nether Demons could threaten his piano competition. Li Xin Nan remained torn between his duty as the Flame Dragon Armor summoner and his dream, while Qing Zizai encouraged him that he could fulfill both.

• Qing Zizai told Old Qing that the garment sealing Lufa was gone, and Old Qing said he would notify the Secret Cultivators.
• Chen Huang found the Gengnu Vajra Pestle beneath the Demon Suppressing Tower, and Qing Zizai copied and uploaded the tower before they returned to D City.
• Chen Huang and Qing Zizai heard Li Xin Nan practicing at the Happy Dumpling Restaurant and discussed his anxiety about balancing his piano competition with his duties as an Armor Hero.
• Qing Zizai examined Li Xin Nan’s memories through Intent Energy and told him his Intent Energy was unusually strong.
• Chen Huang warned Li Xin Nan that the Shadow Realm’s Ability Beasts could grow stronger and that Lufa and the Nether Demons might revive, worsening Li Xin Nan’s conflict.
• Qing Zizai encouraged Li Xin Nan that he could protect people as an Armor Hero and still succeed in his competition.

Chen Huang pushed Li Xin Nan to reconsider his priorities, then began training Qing Zizai to master the Earth Tiger Armor. Meanwhile, Lufa recruited Zhang Tiedan and sent Bayobi to gather negative energy, as Yang Huanying’s family learned that the Nether Demons had returned and began seeking Armor Summoners.

• Chen Huang demonstrated how Li Xin Nan’s piano playing conveyed lightning and killing intent, then left with Qing Zizai after telling Li Xin Nan that was what his playing currently felt like.
• Chen Huang urged Qing Zizai to prepare for future threats and dragged him into the wilderness the next morning to train with the Earth Tiger Armor by turning over rocky ground.
• Chen Huang made Qing Zizai clear the stones he had left behind, then fed him Soul Beast meat after the exhausting training.
• Lufa rewarded Zhang Tiedan by making him more handsome and ordered him to find a short-tempered girl who could not look people directly in the eye.
• Lufa revived Bayobi and sent him to collect negative energy; Bayobi’s first mission led to a major bank robbery that night.
• Yang Huanying’s grandmother told her and her mother that Lufa had escaped the Demon Suppressing Tower and that they needed to find and train suitable Armor Summoners.

Chen Huang found and equipped the Asura Armor, then learned that a Nether Demon named Bayobi had attacked a Hope City bank. As ERP investigated the Demon Beast Man, Elder Shenshan identified it as a Nether Demon, leaving the Armor Heroes facing a new kind of threat.

• Bayobi robbed Hope Bank, killed four guards, and escaped underground while the authorities classified him as a Demon Beast Man.
• Chen Huang found the Asura Armor Summoner in a river, summoned the Asura Armor, and judged that its strongest-aura requirement made it a poor fit for him.
• Chen Huang returned to Qing Zizai, then discovered reports of the bank attack and suspected that Lufa had begun making moves.
• Meizhen showed Dongshan the surveillance footage and explained why Bayobi’s intelligence, combat skills, and earth-burrowing ability set him apart from Ability Beasts.
• Dongshan entered the virtual combat room and asked Elder Shenshan about the monster, and Elder Shenshan identified it as a Nether Demon.

Dongshan investigated the Nether Demons’ attack on Hope Bank and confronted Bayobi when he returned to rob it. Qing Zizai joined the battle as the Earth Tiger Armor’s summoner, but Bayobi escaped, and Dongshan met Qing Zizai and Chen Huang afterward.

• Dongshan learned from Elder Shenshan that the Nether Demons were twenty-five in number and that three other armors were destined to fight them.
• Dongshan returned to Hope City to investigate Hope Bank and waited there for the Nether Demons to reappear.
• Bayobi returned to rob the bank, and Dongshan transformed into the Wind Eagle Armor to fight him.
• Qing Zizai arrived with Chen Huang, transformed into the Earth Tiger Armor, and helped Dongshan drive Bayobi off, but Bayobi escaped underground.
• Dongshan introduced himself to Qing Zizai, learned he was the Earth Tiger Armor’s summoner, and invited him and Chen Huang to join ERP; they declined for now.