Chapter Summaries

Ling Yuan visited the Cao Clan to recruit the young alchemy prodigy Cao Ying and discovered she was only twelve, with exceptional soul talent. After promising to personally train her and offering access to Heavenly Flames, he persuaded her to join the Ling Clan, where she hoped to become a Ninth-Grade Alchemist.

• Ling Yuan traveled with a Nine-Revolution Dou Venerate to the Cao Clan and was welcomed by Clan Head Cao Can.
• Cao Ying, Cao Can's twelve-year-old daughter, met Ling Yuan, who learned she had not yet joined Danta or begun training under Xuan Yi.
• Ling Yuan examined Cao Ying's soul and confirmed her exceptional talent in alchemy.
• Ling Yuan offered to take Cao Ying to the Ling Clan and train her personally toward becoming a Ninth-Grade Alchemist.
• Cao Ying questioned leaving her dream of joining Danta, but Ling Yuan's promises of abundant medicinal ingredients and Heavenly Flames convinced her to join the Ling Clan.

Ling Yuan brought Cao Ying to the Ling Clan and arranged for Yao Chen and the clan’s alchemists to teach her alchemy and the Burning Mantra. After showing her two Heavenly Flames, he persuaded her to switch techniques, and she chose to cultivate the Burning Mantra.

• Cao Can entrusted Cao Ying to Ling Yuan, who decided to train her while leaving the frail Dan Chen behind.
• Ling Yuan brought Cao Ying to the Ling Realm and summoned Yao Chen to guide her in alchemy and the Burning Mantra.
• Yao Chen assessed Cao Ying’s strong soul, agreed to teach her, and was promised a chance at revival if she succeeded.
• Ling Yuan arranged for Cao Ying to consult Yao Chen and the Ling Clan’s tier-eight alchemists, then offered her the Burning Mantra as an alternative to her High Earth Tier technique.
• Ling Yuan showed Cao Ying the Green Lotus Core Flame and Sea Heart Flame, and Cao Ying excitedly chose to switch to the Burning Mantra.

Ling Yuan arranged new paths for Xiao Yi Xian and watched over the Snake-People Clan’s relocation while Zi Yan underwent a dramatic transformation. The chapter ended with Zi Yan grown into a mature woman, proudly seeking Ling Yuan’s admiration.

• Ling Yuan’s Dou Zun subordinate arrived at the Snake-People Clan and prepared to escort them to the Central Plains.
• Qing Lin advanced to five-star Dou Zhe and learned to control weakened Dou Wang-level snake beasts, while Xiao Yi Xian reached the same realm.
• Ling Yuan gave Xiao Yi Xian methods for becoming a Poison Physician, restoring her sense of purpose and enthusiasm.
• Zi Yan emerged from her purple cocoon with Dou Emperor strength and a grown body.
• Zi Yan linked arms with Ling Yuan and asked whether she was prettier and more buxom than the others.

Ling Yuan and Zi Yan became lovers after Zi Yan used Yao Chen’s Source-Replenishing Pill to grow up, and Zi Yan later showed him her Ancient Void Dragon form. After riding with her across the Ling Realm, Ling Yuan decided to take Zi Yan to Dragon Island so she could cultivate faster and refine the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit before he released Zhu Kun.

• Zi Yan flirted with Ling Yuan, and the two became lovers after he guided her through their first intimate encounter.
• Zi Yan demonstrated that the Source-Replenishing Pill let her return to her Ancient Void Dragon form at will.
• Zi Yan carried Ling Yuan through the skies of the Ling Realm, showing impressive speed and an early ability to use spatial power.
• Ling Yuan decided to take Zi Yan to Dragon Island, where its inheritance and cultivation environment could help her grow stronger and refine the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit.

Ling Yuan reassured Zi Yan that he would help her find her clansmen and planned to seek a Dou Sheng elder to accompany them to Dragon Island. At the Ling Clan Great Hall, they met Ling Yuan’s mother, Ling Ruo, who warmly welcomed her son and recognized Zi Yan as his partner.

• Ling Yuan decided to give Zi Yan the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit rather than risk Zhu Kun claiming it.
• Zi Yan admitted she feared that seeking answers from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan would bring trouble to Ling Yuan, and he promised to help her anyway.
• Ling Yuan told Zi Yan he would ask the Great Elder for a Dou Sheng elder to accompany them to Dragon Island.
• Ling Ruo rushed to embrace Ling Yuan outside the Great Hall, leaving Zi Yan confused and jealous until she learned the woman was his mother.
• Ling Ruo noticed Ling Yuan and Zi Yan holding hands, praised Zi Yan’s beauty, and made the nervous Zi Yan feel as though she were meeting her mother-in-law.

Ling Yuan introduced Zi Yan to Mother Ling, who welcomed her and agreed to help her seek answers about her abandonment. The group traveled to the Beast Domain to find Dragon Island, but after discovering it had moved, they had Zi Yan release her Ancient Void Dragon aura in hopes of drawing her clansmen to them.

• Ling Yuan introduced Zi Yan as the woman he had chosen, and Mother Ling comforted her and welcomed her warmly.
• Zi Yan told Mother Ling that her parents had abandoned her, so Ling Yuan proposed visiting Dragon Island to ask her clansmen about her past.
• Mother Ling offered to accompany them, and the Great Elder assigned Elder Ling Yang to join Ling Yuan, Mother Ling, and Zi Yan.
• The four traveled to the Beast Domain and searched Void Space for Dragon Island, but found that it had moved from its former location.
• When Zi Yan could not sense her clansmen, Ling Yuan asked her to release her aura, and she transformed into her Ancient Void Dragon form.

Zi Yan released her Royal Bloodline aura to attract an Ancient Void Dragon, and the Mother Ling captured a South Dragon Island guard who came to investigate. The guard recognized Zi Yan’s exceptionally rich bloodline and revealed that he served as commander of the South Dragon Island guards.

• A Seven-Star Dou Zun Ancient Void Dragon sensed Zi Yan’s Royal Bloodline aura and headed toward it, hoping to earn merit for the South Dragon King.
• The Mother Ling sensed the approaching dragon and captured him before he could escape.
• The Mother Ling brought the captured Ancient Void Dragon back to Ling Yuan, who questioned him about his identity.
• The guard revealed that he came from South Dragon Island, served as commander of its guards, and had followed Zi Yan’s bloodline aura.

Ling Yuan brought Zi Yan to East Dragon Island so she could acknowledge her kin among the Ancient Void Dragons. After Qingshan questioned her about her father, Ling Yuan revealed that he had learned her father was called Zhu Kun.

• Ling Yuan tortured a South Dragon Island Dou Zun until he agreed to reveal the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's situation and guide the group to East Dragon Island.
• Ling Yuan, Mother Ling, Zi Yan, and the elders followed the Dou Zun through hidden spatial barriers to East Dragon Island, where Ling Yuan kept him from leaving.
• Qingshan, East Dragon Island's Great Elder, sensed Zi Yan's royal bloodline and hurried to meet the group.
• Ling Yuan introduced Zi Yan as his wife and said he had brought her to acknowledge her kin; Qingshan questioned her about her identity and father.
• Zi Yan insisted that she had no father, so Ling Yuan told Qingshan that her father was called Zhu Kun.

Qingshan confirmed that Zi Yan was Zhu Kun’s daughter and proposed that East Dragon Island make her the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s new Dragon Emperor. He explained that the clan’s former strength had vastly exceeded its current forces, leaving Ling Yuan and the others stunned.

• Qingshan identified Zi Yan as Zhu Kun’s daughter, and Zi Yan learned that the Dragon Emperor held a status equivalent to a clan leader.
• Qingshan welcomed Ling Yuan and the others into Dragon Island and revealed that Zhu Kun had been missing for many years.
• Qingshan said East Dragon Island intended to support Zi Yan as the new Dragon Emperor, while Ling Yuan questioned whether the island could protect her.
• Qingshan offered to recall the Dou Sheng elders searching the Void and said there were at least thirty, including three who might have reached Seven-Star Dou Sheng.
• Qingshan recalled that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan once had four Eight-Star Dou Sheng, at least eight Seven-Star Dou Sheng, and over a hundred Dou Sheng.

Qingshan explained how the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and Ancient Heaven Phoenix Clan destroyed each other in a devastating war, leaving the dragons severely weakened. He pleaded with Ling Yuan to leave Zi Yan on East Dragon Island to reunite and protect the divided clan, while Zi Yan left the choice to Ling Yuan.

• Qingshan recounted how the Ancient Heaven Phoenix Clan massacred seventy percent of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan on Dragon Island after Zhu Kun vanished and the clan's strongest experts went searching for him.
• Qingshan explained that the Ancient Void Dragons retaliated and annihilated the Ancient Heaven Phoenix Clan, but sacrificed many powerful experts to kill its Nine-Star Dou Sheng leader.
• Qingshan described how the Ancient Void Dragon Clan fell from over a hundred Dou Shengs to fewer than ten after the war, and said the clan had only partially recovered over tens of thousands of years.
• Ling Yuan reflected on the clan's decline, while Qingshan bowed and begged him to leave Zi Yan on East Dragon Island so its people could protect her and reunite the clan.
• Zi Yan left the decision to Ling Yuan, and Mother Ling and Ling Yang also deferred to him.

Ling Yuan agreed to leave Zi Yan with East Dragon Island only if Dragon Island was unified, then promised the Ling Clan would help her claim the Dragon Emperor’s throne. The Ling Clan prepared to send three Four-Star Dou Sheng, and Ling Yuan and Zi Yan left to gather reinforcements while Qingshan organized East Dragon Island’s response.

• Ling Yuan offered to leave Zi Yan with Qingshan on the condition that Dragon Island be unified, then pledged the Ling Clan’s help for Zi Yan’s sake.
• Mother Ling told Qingshan that the Ling Clan would send three Four-Star Dou Sheng to support East Dragon Island and help Zi Yan become Dragon Emperor.
• Qingshan explained that the Dragon Emperor’s daughter and the Ling Clan’s support would encourage clan members to back reunification, while Ling Yuan warned that the Three Great Dragon Kings might resist.
• Ling Yuan told Qingshan to notify the Three Great Dragon Kings that Zi Yan had been found without revealing the Ling Clan’s involvement, and Qingshan agreed to prepare East Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan asked to return with Ling Yuan, who reassured her that they would gather reinforcements and then return to East Dragon Island together.

Hun Tiandi ordered Nihility Devouring Flame to target the Ling Clan and other clans while he recovered, but the Soul Clan’s layered chain of command redirected its first Ancient Jade mission toward the fallen Xiao Clan. The task ultimately landed with Wu Ying, who set out for the Jia Ma Empire and considered using Yun Shan to help gather souls.

• Hun Tiandi told Nihility Devouring Flame to seize the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade and prepare attacks on the Ling Clan, Shi Clan, and Yao Clan while he recovered from his injuries.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered Hun Miesheng to gather more souls and obtain the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade, promising to help him advance to Six-Star Dou Sheng after the Ling Clan was destroyed.
• Hun Miesheng delegated the Xiao Clan mission to the Great Heavenly Venerable, who passed it to the Honored Elder overseeing the Northwest Continent.
• The Honored Elder ordered Wu Ying to seize the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade in the Jia Ma Empire without leaving traces.
• Wu Ying set out for the Jia Ma Empire and considered checking whether Yun Shan had advanced to Dou Zong so he could provoke a battle and collect souls.

Ling Yuan persuaded Zi Yan to become the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Emperor and secured the Ling Clan’s help to reunify Dragon Island. As their forces prepared to confront the Three Great Dragon Kings, the North Dragon King received news that the Dragon Emperor’s daughter had returned.

• Zi Yan accepted Ling Yuan’s encouragement to become Dragon Emperor so she could grow stronger and fight at his side.
• Ling Yuan told Great Elder Ling Xiao that Zi Yan was the Dragon Emperor’s daughter and persuaded him to send three Four-Star Dou Sheng elders to help unite Dragon Island.
• Qingshan informed the southern, western, and northern Dragon Islands that the Dragon Emperor’s daughter had returned, without revealing the Ling Clan’s involvement.
• Ling Yuan brought Mother Ling and the three elders to East Dragon Island, where they concealed their auras and prepared to ambush the Three Great Dragon Kings.
• The North Dragon King received East Dragon Island’s demand that he surrender after the Dragon Emperor’s daughter was found, and he wondered where she and the missing Dragon Emperor were.

The North, South, and West Dragon Kings met to decide how to respond after East Dragon Island announced it had found the Dragon Emperor’s daughter. At East Dragon Island, they confirmed Zi Yan’s Royal Bloodline but rejected her authority because she was only a Dou Emperor.

• The North Dragon King summoned the South Dragon King and West Dragon King to discuss the news and the danger of the Dragon Emperor returning.
• The three Dragon Kings agreed to visit East Dragon Island, submit if Zhu Kun had returned or Zi Yan was powerful enough, and otherwise consider attacking.
• The three Dragon Kings brought six powerful subordinates to East Dragon Island, but sensed no trace of Zhu Kun.
• The Dragon Kings saw Zi Yan’s authentic Royal Bloodline and learned from Qingshan that Zhu Kun was still missing and Ling Yuan had brought Zi Yan to the Central Plains.
• The South Dragon King challenged Zi Yan’s claim to leadership, arguing that a Dou Emperor was too weak to be their new Dragon Emperor.

The Three Great Dragon Kings rejected Zi Yan as Dragon Emperor and attacked her and Qingshan, but Ling Yuan and the others revealed themselves and launched a soul assault. Though the group trapped and injured the Dragon Kings, they broke through the encirclement and fled toward the outskirts of East Dragon Island.

• The South Dragon King, North Dragon King, and West Dragon King accused Zi Yan of being a fraud and charged at her and Qingshan.
• A hidden light curtain blocked the Dragon Kings’ attacks, and the three Ling Clan elders emerged to strike them with the Nether Sound Wave Technique.
• Ling Yuan ordered the elders to keep attacking the Dragon Kings’ souls while Mother Ling and Qingshan helped encircle them.
• The North Dragon King accused Qingshan of betraying his clan, and the Three Great Dragon Kings transformed into dragons and tried to escape.
• The Third Elder struck the fleeing Dragon Kings, but they forced their way through the defenders and fled toward East Dragon Island’s outskirts.

Zi Yan defeated the rebellion and reunited the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, while Ling Yuan prepared to return to the Ling Clan and enter its inheritance ground. He and Zi Yan parted with plans to strengthen themselves before meeting again in one or two years.

• The three Ling Clan elders pursued and subdued the Three Great Dragon Kings with soul attacks, and Qingshan executed them for treason on Zi Yan's order.
• The six Dou Shengs surrendered, and Zi Yan spared them on condition that they help unify Dragon Island.
• The Ancient Void Dragon Clan reunited its four island sections, and the Ling Clan elders returned home.
• Ling Yuan advised Zi Yan on ruling and told her to receive the clan inheritance while he returned to improve his soul.
• Ling Yuan learned from his mother that the Ling Clan inheritance ground had helped his parents advance to Spirit Realm Great Perfection.

After returning to the Ling Clan, Ling Yuan used his avatar’s Source Return to reach four-star Dou Zong, then arranged land and affiliated-clan status for Medusa’s Snake-People. As he prepared to enter the Ling Clan’s Spirit Domain in two days, he learned it could steadily raise his soul realm through combat and refinement.

• Ling Yuan completed his avatar’s Source Return after three days, breaking through to four-star Dou Zong while the avatar returned to Dou Zhe.
• Ling Yuan reunited Medusa with her Snake-People and arranged good land and second-tier affiliated-clan status for them.
• Ling Yuan gave Medusa a jade pendant allowing her to accompany her clansmen during their relocation.
• Ling Yuan learned that the Ling Clan’s Spirit Domain let members hunt and refine ancestral soul spirits to strengthen their souls, but could not raise their Dou Qi realms.
• Ling Yuan began consolidating his soul in preparation for entering the Spirit Domain in two days.

Ling Yuan entered the Ling Clan’s Spirit Domain and discovered that defeating Soul Spirits yielded Spirit Liquid that rapidly strengthened and stabilized his soul. After absorbing his first Spirit Liquid, he grew eager to explore deeper and hunt stronger Soul Spirits.

• Ling Yuan arranged matters for his companions and the clan before following Mother Ling to the inheritance grounds.
• Mother Ling activated the plaza’s black armor, sending Ling Yuan’s soul into the Spirit Domain.
• Ling Yuan explored the soul-filled domain and encountered a Soul Spirit with a late Mortal Realm soul.
• Ling Yuan killed the Soul Spirit with a soul attack and absorbed the Spirit Liquid it left behind.
• Ling Yuan endured the domain’s soul pressure, which stabilized his enhanced soul, and realized he could reach Spirit State Grand Perfection within a year or two.

Ling Yuan hunted Soul Spirits in the Spirit Domain and advanced to Spirit Realm Great Perfection, then discovered a force drawing other Great Perfection Soul Spirits toward the domain’s depths. He followed it to find what was gathering them.

• Ling Yuan hunted Soul Spirits and fused their Spirit Liquid, breaking through to Spirit Realm Middle Phase after three months and Spirit Realm Late Phase in his eighth month.
• Unable to find many Spirit Realm Great Perfection Soul Spirits, Ling Yuan chose to travel deeper into the Spirit Domain and hunted more than a dozen over the next four months.
• Ling Yuan broke through to Spirit Realm Great Perfection in his thirteenth month and consolidated his cultivation under the domain’s soul pressure.
• Ling Yuan felt a pulling force from the depths and saw it draw a Great Perfection Soul Spirit toward it, realizing that it explained why so few of them remained nearby.
• Ling Yuan followed the force, intercepting five or six Great Perfection Soul Spirits along the way, and continued deeper as the pull grew stronger.

Ling Yuan used the blue bead’s suction to gather and refine Soul Spirits, but after he angered it and escaped the Spirit Domain, the bead followed and knocked him unconscious. Ling Mie identified the bead as a possible treasure that could help Ling Yuan’s soul break through to the Emperor Realm.

• Ling Yuan snatched and refined more than forty Spirit Realm Great Perfection Soul Spirits drawn toward the blue bead over two and a half months.
• The blue bead suddenly attacked Ling Yuan, and he used his Black Armor to teleport out of the Spirit Domain, unknowingly bringing the bead with him.
• The bead struck Ling Yuan unconscious in the plaza despite Mother Ling’s attempt to destroy it.
• Ling Mie emerged from seclusion, stopped Mother Ling from attacking the bead, and said it was an enormous opportunity.
• Mother Ling recalled the previous Ling Clan Patriarch’s treasure and asked if the bead was the Soul Spirit Bead.