Chapter Summaries

Lin Ze freed Medusa from the soul-affecting fragrance of the Extreme Emotion Soul-Bewitching Flower, and the two grew closer after sharing a kiss. They collected the flower, traveled safely through the Pill World, and left together with their relationship transformed.

• Lin Ze bound Medusa and used Soul Power to call her back to her senses after she lunged at him under the flower's influence.
• Medusa told Lin Ze she had found a fragrant red flower while searching for Heavenly Treasures, and Lin Ze identified it as the Extreme Emotion Soul-Bewitching Flower.
• Lin Ze kissed Medusa in retaliation for her earlier attack, and after she broke away, they agreed they were even.
• Medusa led Lin Ze to the valley where the flower grew, and Lin Ze dug it up with his Soul Power and stored it safely.
• Lin Ze and Medusa traveled together for several days, gathered Heavenly Treasures, and avoided challenging the Ancient Dragon Bear.
• Lin Ze and Medusa held hands and crushed their Space Stone together, leaving the Pill World.

After returning from the Pill World, Lin Ze broke through to Seven-Star Dou Zong and learned that the Hall of Souls planned to target Lin Wuyao. He then focused on how to deal with the Wind Lightning Pavilion, weighing whether to destroy it or seize its resources.

• Lin Ze and Medusa returned safely from the Pill World, and the Pill Hall deacon escorted them back to the Lin Family residence.
• Lin Ze cultivated for three days and broke through from Six-Star Dou Zong to Seven-Star Dou Zong.
• Lin Ze received intelligence that the Hall of Souls coveted Lin Wuyao and considered targeting him.
• Lin Ze judged Lin Wuyao safe for now and reasoned that the Death Soldiers’ resurrection abilities made them difficult to eliminate permanently.
• Lin Ze considered attacking the Wind Lightning Pavilion and debated whether to destroy it or take it over for its wealth and thunder-rich territory.

Lin Ze arranged for the Bronze Hall to infiltrate Central Plains factions and went to Shengdan City to meet Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan. He revealed Zi Yan’s Ancient Void Dragon heritage and gave Xiao Yi Xian a method to control her Woeful Poison Body, then planned to help Qing Lin find powerful Snake-type Magical Beasts.

• Lin Ze assigned the Bronze Hall to investigate factions and use Death Soldiers to gain influence over their leaders.
• Lin Ze learned through Mirror Spirit Trace that Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan were nearing Shengdan City and went to meet them.
• Lin Ze reunited with the three women at the Spatial Wormhole and brought them to the Lin Family courtyard.
• Lin Ze told Zi Yan that she was likely an Ancient Void Dragon and shared information about her exceptional bloodline.
• Lin Ze gave Xiao Yi Xian a method for constructing a Woeful Calamity Rune to control her Woeful Poison Qi, and she embraced him in gratitude.
• Lin Ze told Qing Lin that he would take her to search for powerful Snake-type Magical Beasts.

Lin Ze introduced Medusa to Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan, and the women began to grow closer. A few days later, he activated an Energy Pattern and prepared to use the Woeful Calamity Rune to control Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Calamity Poison Qi.

• Qing Lin received Lin Ze’s voice transmission and learned that he had arranged something for her.
• Medusa emerged wearing the Mortal World Artifact and met Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan, whom Lin Ze introduced as his friends from Jia Nan Academy.
• Zi Yan asked whether Medusa was a Magical Beast, and Medusa identified her Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline.
• Lin Ze left the women to choose their courtyards and told Xiao Yi Xian to master the Rune Construction Secret Technique.
• A few days later, Lin Ze activated the Energy Pattern in Xiao Yi Xian’s courtyard and prepared to use the Woeful Calamity Rune to contain her poison qi.

Xiao Yi Xian completed the Woeful Calamity Rune with Lin Ze’s help, gaining control of her Woeful Calamity Poison Qi and rising to the peak of Dou Emperor. Grateful that the threat to her life had been removed, she kissed Lin Ze, shocking Medusa, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan.

• Xiao Yi Xian opened her Na Ling space and began forming the Woeful Calamity Rune while Lin Ze lent his strength through the Energy Pattern to suppress the poison.
• Over three days, Xiao Yi Xian constructed thousands of patterns as Medusa, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan watched her condition stabilize.
• Xiao Yi Xian completed the rune, which bound her Woeful Calamity Poison Qi and could be detonated as a devastating last resort.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s strength rose from the early Dou Emperor stage to the peak of Dou Emperor, and Lin Ze withdrew his Dou Qi once her condition stabilized.
• Xiao Yi Xian embraced and kissed Lin Ze, while Medusa, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan watched in surprise.

Lin Ze arranged cultivation paths for Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin after addressing their personal requests. As Qing Lin trained with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, Zi Yan sensed her clan and left to return to them.

• Xiao Yi Xian fled to her room after kissing Lin Ze, while Qing Lin asked for a kiss and Zi Yan asked him for a Human-Shaping Pill.
• Lin Ze explained that the pill could cause complications because Zi Yan had not fully absorbed the Human-Shaping Grass, so Zi Yan decided to focus on reaching Dou Zong instead.
• Lin Ze assigned cultivation plans, giving Medusa and Zi Yan Resource Points and taking Qing Lin to control powerful snake-type Magical Beasts with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Lin Ze watched Qing Lin train atop a peak seventh-rank Mysterious Black Serpent and gave her secret techniques he had gathered from across the continent.
• Zi Yan told Lin Ze that she had sensed her people and was returning to her clan, and Lin Ze wished her well as she promised to surpass him.

While Qing Lin cultivated, Lin Ze reviewed his Death Soldiers, Golden Legend talents, and methods for advancing alchemists to Dou Zong Peak. He planned to have his three High-Tier Alchemist Death Soldiers develop a pill that could directly raise a Dou Zong’s cultivation by one star.

• Lin Ze sensed that Zi Yan had left Shengdan City and recalled her promise to surpass him when they met again.
• Lin Ze reviewed how his more than 90,000 Death Soldiers monitored the continent and noted that his sixteen Golden Legend Death Soldiers provided a 160% Cultivation Speed increase.
• Lin Ze considered the talents of his Golden Legend Death Soldiers, including the new Tier 8 Alchemist’s soul-cultivation method and body-tempering pill recipe.
• Lin Ze used Sect Origin Pills, shared cultivation, and his Resurrection and Inscription Functions to push a High-Tier Alchemist Death Soldier toward Dou Zong Peak, but stopped when he lacked enough pills.
• Lin Ze planned to have his three High-Tier Alchemist Death Soldiers develop a pill that could raise a Dou Zong’s cultivation by one star.

Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils fully matured, granting her an inner space for the Snake-type Magical Beasts she controlled, and Lin Ze took her to hunt more. In the Red Sand Ruins, Lin Ze battled the Blood Beast Sha after it attacked his Death Soldiers, shattered its body with the Golden Wind Void-Shattering Hand, and pursued it when it fled.

• Qing Lin awakened to the increased power of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and told Lin Ze she could store controlled Snake-type Magical Beasts in an independent space.
• Lin Ze praised Qing Lin, then led her to search for more High-Tier Snake-type Magical Beasts.
• Lin Ze learned that the Myriad-Life Two-Headed Snakes he had placed in the Red Sand Ruins had multiplied to several hundred thousand by feeding on the corrupted land, drawing the Blood Beast Sha out of hiding.
• Lin Ze took control of a Wind Attribute Death Soldier and dodged the Blood Beast Sha’s attacks before striking it with the Golden Wind Void-Shattering Hand.
• The Heaven Tier Dou Skill shattered the Blood Beast Sha’s body and destroyed the Death Soldier’s hand, but the scattered monster fled deeper into the ruins, and Lin Ze considered subduing it.

Lin Ze subdued the wounded Blood Beast Sha and learned its bones came from a Snake-type Magical Beast, prompting him to bring Qing Lin to test whether her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils could control it. They returned to the Red Sand Ruins, where Qing Lin saw Lin Ze's Myriad-Life Two-Headed Snakes and began considering how else she could help him.

• Lin Ze's Death Soldiers used Spatial Stabilization Devices and chains to capture the injured Blood Beast Sha, and he ordered them to try to tame it.
• Lin Ze found ancient bones in the ruins, and an appraiser Mirror Spirit identified them as belonging to a Snake-type Magical Beast.
• Lin Ze decided Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils might control the Blood Beast Sha and took her to Tiansha City.
• Lin Ze and Qing Lin used Jade Slips to enter the Red Sand Ruins, where Qing Lin saw the Myriad-Life Two-Headed Snakes feeding on the blood-red earth.
• Qing Lin wondered whether she could help Lin Ze further by doing something with the Myriad-Life Two-Headed Snakes.

Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control the weakened Blood Beast Sha and discovered she could influence the Myriad-Life Two-Headed Snakes. By the time she finished, tens of thousands of snakes had been marked with an instinct to grow and reproduce, which would spread through the population.

• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to reshape and partially control the Blood Beast Sha, forcing its snake-type component to take the lead.
• Lin Ze gave Qing Lin a pill to restore her mental energy and asked whether controlling the Blood Beast Sha posed any risks to her.
• Qing Lin proposed planting a mental influence in the Myriad-Life Two-Headed Snakes to encourage them to grow and multiply, and Lin Ze told her to try it.
• Qing Lin spent two hours marking tens of thousands of two-headed snakes, explaining that the influence would spread through the population on its own.
• Lin Ze realized the snakes would now instinctively pursue growth and reproduction, supporting a steady supply of Blood Beast Essence.

After Qing Lin asked for a kiss as her reward, Lin Ze returned with her to Danta while cultivating toward the Dou Zun Realm. Back in Shengdan City, he reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa and left Qing Lin determined to catch up with them in cultivation.

• Qing Lin asked Lin Ze for a kiss, and he kissed her before they set off for Danta after confirming the mental influence had taken root in the Myriad-Life Two-Headed Snakes.
• Lin Ze cultivated during the peaceful journey through the Spatial Wormhole and reached Nine-Star Dou Zong, while planning to use pills and the Cultivation Speed Buff to break through to Dou Zun.
• Lin Ze and Qing Lin returned to Shengdan City and found that Xiao Yi Xian had reached Dou Zong while Medusa had also progressed rapidly.
• Lin Ze took Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Medusa out to enjoy themselves, hoping to ease the awkwardness between the two women.
• Qing Lin resolved to work harder at cultivation after Xiao Yi Xian pointed out that she was the only Dou Emperor present.

As factions in Shengdan City sought to ally with Lin Wuyao, Lin Ze spent nearly three months cultivating in seclusion to break through to Dou Venerate. His companions waited anxiously, then felt his aura erupt and realized he had succeeded.

• The factions of Shengdan City pursued ties with Lin Wuyao, whose rapid progress in Alchemy had made him a prized ally for Danta's Five Great Families.
• Lin Ze cultivated in a secret chamber surrounded by Heavenly Treasures while Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Medusa waited nearby.
• The three women recalled their histories with Lin Ze as they worried about the risks of his breakthrough.
• Lin Ze released a powerful aura from his courtyard, and Xiao Yi Xian recognized that he had broken through to Dou Venerate.

Lin Ze broke through to Dou Venerate after three months of seclusion and learned that the Hall of Souls had killed some of his Death Soldiers. He ordered preparations to attack its branch in the Southwest Continent, while the Hall of Souls' black palace in Shifang Marsh received uninvited guests.

• Lin Ze broke through to Dou Venerate, tested his new Space Power, and found that the Bronze Mirror could now manifest 512 Death Soldiers each day.
• Lin Ze reviewed reports from his three months of seclusion and learned that the Hall of Souls had attacked a Death Soldier outpost in the Southwest Continent, killing some of his forces before they defeated the attackers.
• Lin Ze ordered the Mirror Spirit Death Soldiers to gather intelligence and prepare an assault on the Hall of Souls' branch in the Southwest Continent.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Medusa congratulated Lin Ze, and the four celebrated his breakthrough with a feast.
• Lin Ze's breakthrough went unnoticed in Shengdan City because the grand formation around the Lin Family courtyard concealed it.
• A group of uninvited guests arrived at the Hall of Souls' black palace deep in Shifang Marsh.

Lin Ze led more than a hundred Death Soldiers to attack a Hall of Souls branch in Shifang Marsh. After Water Soul Venerate confronted them, Lin Ze declared their intent to destroy the branch, and five Fire Attribute Death Soldiers charged forward.

• Lin Ze and the Death Soldiers traveled through Shifang Marsh aboard a bronze construct, killing a giant fish-like Magical Beast and concealing the battle’s disturbances.
• Lin Ze identified the concealed black palace as a Hall of Souls branch and sent the Death Soldiers to surround it.
• Water Soul Venerate emerged from the palace and questioned the attackers, alarmed by their numbers and apparent strength.
• Lin Ze said the Hall of Souls had killed people from his Bronze Hall and announced that they had come to destroy the branch.
• Five late-stage Dou Zong Fire Attribute Death Soldiers rushed at Water Soul Venerate using their combined battle skill.

Lin Ze and the Bronze Hall attacked a branch of the Hall of Souls, defeating its two Dou Zun leaders and wiping out the defenders. After the victory, Lin Ze’s preparations to conceal his identity were revealed, leaving the Bronze Hall ready to openly challenge the Hall of Souls.

• Lin Ze sent more Death Soldiers into the battle, turning the tide against the Water Soul Venerate and exposing the hidden Water Demon Venerate with a palm strike.
• Lin Ze revealed that he had reached Two-Star Dou Zun and attacked the Water Demon Venerate with Golden Wind Void-Shattering Hand.
• The Death Soldiers used Bronze Poison Pills to channel Lin Ze’s power at Dou Zun level, killing the Water Demon Venerate and the Water Soul Venerate.
• Lin Ze ordered the Death Soldiers to storm the branch hall, kill its Protectors and Soul Envoys, gather its spoils, and collect the imprisoned souls.
• Lin Ze sensed the bronze sheen in his Dou Qi and explained how the Death Soldiers’ Bronze Poison Pills and Bronze Masks concealed their power and identities.

Lin Ze looted the Soul Hall branch, collected its Soul Origin and resources, and transferred the entire structure into the Mirror World before erasing signs of the battle. When the Hall of Souls discovered the branch was gone, its headquarters ordered a full investigation and sent two Heavenly Venerates to the site.

• Lin Ze catalogued the branch's treasures, cultivation methods, combat skills, weapons, armor, and Energy Patterns to study the Hall of Souls' techniques and weaknesses.
• Lin Ze claimed the collected Soul Origin and ordered the Death Soldiers to dismantle the branch and transfer it into the Mirror World.
• Lin Ze used Heaven and Earth Energy to erase traces of the battle before leaving the area.
• More than ten days later, an Earth-level Protector found the branch missing and reported it to the Hall Master of another branch.
• Two Venerable Elders confirmed the disappearance and reported it to the Central Plains headquarters.
• The Hall Master ordered a thorough investigation and sent two Heavenly Venerates to the site.

The Black and White Heavenly Venerates investigated the vanished Hall of Souls branch at Shifang Marsh but found no clues. Lin Ze learned that the Hall of Souls had strengthened its defenses and judged that repeating the attack would be much harder without exposing the Bronze Hall.

• The Black and White Heavenly Venerates arrived at Shifang Marsh and asked the local Hall of Souls Venerable Elder about the missing branch.
• The Venerable Elder told them the attackers had erased every trace, leaving no signs of a battle or lingering aura.
• White Heavenly Venerate reasoned that the attackers might strike again if they wanted something from the branch, while the Venerable Elder reported that Southwest Continent branches had strengthened their defenses.
• White Heavenly Venerate ordered every branch to use a Mysterious Light Treasure Mirror to report unusual events, and Black Heavenly Venerate blamed the slain Venerable Elders for being careless.
• Lin Ze learned through the Mirror Spirit Trace that the Heavenly Venerates had found no clues and concluded that another quiet attack would be difficult without risking the Bronze Hall's connection to the mirrors.

Lin Ze refined Soul Origin, spent time with Xiao Yi Xian using the Extreme Emotion Soul-Bewitching Flower, and set a trap for Venerable Lei. Venerable Lei led Wind Lightning Pavilion elites to investigate the fabricated Ancient Ruins, unaware of the ambush awaiting him.

• Lin Ze shared some Soul Origin with his High-Tier Alchemist Death Soldiers and advanced his soul realm to the mid-stage of the Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Yi Xian visited Lin Ze to admire the Extreme Emotion Soul-Bewitching Flower, succumbed to its effects, and hurried away after coming to her senses in his arms.
• Lin Ze reflected on how Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Medusa visited him, then returned to cultivation.
• Lin Ze ordered his Death Soldiers to fabricate Ancient Ruins in the Wind Lightning Mountain Range to lure Venerable Lei into a trap.
• After a personal disciple reported finding the ruins, Venerable Lei sealed off the area and led Wind Lightning Pavilion elites there to claim its contents.

Lin Ze watched his Death Soldiers use a fabricated Ancient Ruins site to secure Lei Xingheng’s appointment as Young Pavilion Master of the Wind Lightning Pavilion. With Lei Xingheng positioned to take control, they prepared to remove Venerable Lei and seize the pavilion’s resources.

• Venerable Lei praised Lei Xingheng for discovering the Ancient Ruins and promised to appoint him Young Pavilion Master if the expedition strengthened the pavilion.
• Lin Ze observed through his Semi-control perspective and revealed that Lei Xingheng and dozens of others in the Wind Lightning Pavilion were his Death Soldiers, who had fabricated the ruins and Lei Xingheng’s opportunities.
• Inside the ruins, Venerable Lei found several Heavenly Treasures and appointed Lei Xingheng Young Pavilion Master.
• Mirror Spirit reported that the Death Soldiers had prepared three plans to deal with Venerable Lei, and that they would now send him into a Spatial Storm so Lei Xingheng could assume his authority.
• Lin Ze chose to take over the Wind Lightning Pavilion rather than destroy it, hoping to gain access to its valuable resources.

Lin Ze’s Death Soldiers lured the Wind Lightning Pavilion into fabricated Ancient Ruins with a false Heaven Tier inheritance. Venerable Lei entered the Inheritance Hall and vanished in a Spatial Storm.

• Lin Ze’s Death Soldiers concealed the pocket realm and stocked the ruins with Heavenly Treasures to bait Venerable Lei.
• Venerable Lei and the Wind Lightning Pavilion group explored the ruins, collecting treasures, including a lightning dagger that suited Venerable Lei.
• The group found a stele promising a Heaven Tier Dou Technique to anyone who passed the Inheritance Hall’s trial.
• A Wind Lightning Pavilion elder and then the other members, including Lei Xingheng, entered the hall and were expelled unharmed.
• Venerable Lei entered the hall to investigate, and a Spatial Storm swept him away.