Chapter Summaries

Zi Yan revealed her pregnancy to Ling Yuan, bringing joy to him and the Ling Clan. The news reached the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, where Zhu Kun celebrated and ordered a continent-wide search for treasures to support the pregnancy.

• Zi Yan told Ling Yuan she was pregnant, and he checked that the fetus was healthy before promising to stay by her side.
• Ling Mie and Mother Ling spread the news, and the Ling Clan celebrated by rewarding its clansmen.
• Elder Qingshan told Zhu Kun that Zi Yan was pregnant, and Zhu Kun ordered rewards and a search for pregnancy-nourishing treasures.
• Zhu Kun roared with joy, disrupting Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi, while the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's search stirred the Dou God Clans again.

Ling Yuan and Zi Yan prepared the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s secret art to nourish their unborn child and chose a human-style live birth over laying an energy egg. As Zi Yan’s pregnancy began, Ling Yuan focused on protecting the fetus while she struggled with being unable to be intimate with him.

• Ling Yuan and Zi Yan prepared the ingredients for the clan’s finest fetal-nourishing secret art, using the Purple-Gold Dragon-Nurturing Ginseng Ling Yuan had obtained at the Space Trade Fair.
• Ling Yuan explained the choice between laying an energy egg that could take hundreds or thousands of years to hatch and giving birth directly in about five or six years.
• Ling Yuan chose direct birth, and Zi Yan agreed to follow his decision.
• That night, Zi Yan grew clingy and touched Ling Yuan beneath the blankets, but he stopped her and urged her to rest for the fetus’s safety.
• Zi Yan complained that pregnancy kept her from being intimate with Ling Yuan, and he kissed her to comfort her.

Yao Dan agreed to refine a Dragon Pregnancy Pill for Zi Yan after Ling Mie and Zhu Kun visited the Yao Clan. He successfully completed it, and the two left with the pill and a promise of Zhu Kun’s support for the Yao Clan.

• Yao Dan finished refining a pill for the Yao Clan’s elders and learned that Ling Mie and Zhu Kun had arrived to visit.
• Ling Mie told Yao Dan that his daughter, Zi Yan, was pregnant, and asked him to refine a Dragon Pregnancy Pill using the supplied ingredients and formula.
• Yao Dan examined the formula, agreed to refine the pill, and accepted the payment Ling Mie offered.
• Ling Mie and Zhu Kun stayed for five days while Yao Dan prepared himself and successfully refined the Dragon Pregnancy Pill.
• Ling Mie and Zhu Kun thanked Yao Dan and departed with the pill, while Zhu Kun promised to help the Yao Clan if it faced trouble.

Ling Yuan and Zi Yan set out for the Yao Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony after Yao Dan invited the Ling Clan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. At the Yao Realm, Ling Yuan spotted Lei Dong and Gu Xun’er among the other clans’ guests, while Lei Dong arrived eager to challenge him again.

• Zi Yan took the Dragon Pregnancy Pill refined by Yao Dan, and it improved her health and strengthened the aura of life in her womb.
• After the Yao Clan invited the Ling Clan to its coming-of-age ceremony, Ling Mie assigned Ling Yuan to attend, and Zi Yan decided to accompany him.
• The Ancient Void Dragon Clan asked to attend with Zi Yan, and the Yao Clan welcomed them.
• A month later, Ling Yuan and Zi Yan traveled to the Yao Realm together, with Ling Yuan walking beside Zi Yan instead of riding on her Dragon-Phoenix form.
• At the Yao Realm’s boundary, Ling Yuan recognized Lei Dong and Gu Xun’er among the guests; Lei Dong had come hoping to spar with Ling Yuan, while Ling Yuan wondered how Xiao Yan was doing.

At the Yao Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony, Ling Yuan learned from Gu Xun'er that Xiao Yan had become an eight-star Dou Wang and a fifth-tier Alchemist, then returned Xiao Yan’s mother’s black ring. After entering the Yao Realm, Ling Yuan saw Yao Tian personally welcoming him to build ties between their clans.

• Lei Dong challenged Ling Yuan to another spar after the Yao Clan’s ceremony, and Ling Yuan reminded him that he had two chances left.
• Gu Xun'er congratulated Ling Yuan and Zi Yan, thanked Ling Yuan for helping Xiao Yan, and gave him five eighth-tier pills.
• Gu Xun'er told Ling Yuan about Xiao Yan’s cultivation and alchemy, and Ling Yuan returned the black ring Xiao Yan’s mother had left him.
• A Yao Clan Elder escorted the guests into the Yao Realm and explained that the coming-of-age ceremony would take place the next day.
• Yao Tian personally received Ling Yuan and praised his chance of attaining a God-Grade Bloodline.

Ling Yuan and Yao Tian strengthened ties between the Ling and Yao Clans, then Ling Yuan met Yao Ling and attended the Yao Clan’s coming-of-age bloodline ceremony. As the tests began, Ling Yuan reflected on the Divine Grade bloodline he planned to reveal next year.

• Ling Yuan and Yao Tian discussed the Yao Clan’s desire to ally with the Ling Clan against the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans.
• Ling Yuan explained the Yao Clan’s situation to Zi Yan, and they agreed to rest before the ceremony.
• Yao Tian introduced his younger sister Yao Ling, whose soul had reached Spirit Realm Great Perfection; she sensed Ling Yuan’s superior soul power and postponed challenging him.
• Yao Tian led Ling Yuan and Zi Yan to the ceremony, where Ling Yuan considered the Divine Grade bloodline he would reveal next year.
• A Yao Clan Elder began testing the younger generation, and most participants displayed fifth- or sixth-grade bloodlines, with only one reaching the eighth grade.

Ling Yuan attended the Yao Clan's dull coming-of-age ceremony with Zi Yan, then left with Lei Dong for a spar. Ling Yuan overwhelmed Lei Dong's attacks and beat him until he surrendered, leaving him stunned and dejected.

• Ling Yuan and Zi Yan watched the Yao Clan's coming-of-age ceremony, and Yao Ling arranged to spar with Ling Yuan after reaching the Heavenly Realm Soul.
• Lei Dong confronted Ling Yuan for agreeing to spar with Yao Ling without demanding a price, and Ling Yuan teased him before they headed to a secluded valley.
• Ling Yuan suppressed his cultivation to Three-Star Dou Zun while Lei Dong boasted about his lightning-tempered body and challenged him to a test of physical strength.
• Lei Dong's punch barely marked Ling Yuan's Dragon-Phoenix Ancient Armor, and Ling Yuan sent Lei Dong flying with a single physical blow.
• Ling Yuan beat Lei Dong until he surrendered, and Lei Dong left in a daze after losing his confidence.

Ling Yuan and Zi Yan detected Hun Miesheng at a remote Soul Hall branch hall and avoided confronting him. After returning to the Ling Clan, Ling Yuan told Ling Mie about the encounter and suspected the Soul Clan was plotting something, while Hun Miesheng continued hiding a key component of the Soul-Devouring Absolute Life Formation.

• Ling Yuan and Zi Yan wandered through the Southwestern Central Plains, gathering herbs and enjoying their outing before noticing a powerful aura near a Soul Hall Branch Hall.
• Zi Yan sensed an expert stronger than herself inside, and Ling Yuan suspected the presence of Hun Miesheng, so they took a detour to avoid him.
• Hun Miesheng concealed a core component of the Soul-Devouring Absolute Life Formation and wondered whether the passing Dou Sheng might have detected it.
• Ling Yuan returned to the Ling Clan and told Ling Mie that he had encountered Hun Miesheng, while confirming that he and Zi Yan were safe.
• Ling Yuan warned that Hun Miesheng's presence at the remote branch hall seemed abnormal and suggested the Soul Clan was planning something major.

Ling Yuan and Ling Mie attacked a Soul Hall branch hall after confirming Hun Miesheng had left, but the sole survivor knew little about his visit. The father and son prepared to search the branch hall themselves.

• Ling Yuan and Ling Mie approached the branch hall after Ling Mie confirmed Hun Miesheng was gone and a Seven-Star Dou Zun was its strongest resident.
• Ling Mie sealed the branch hall and killed its occupants with the Samsara Sonic Wave Technique, sparing one Honored Elder for questioning.
• The Honored Elder tried to summon help with a communication jade slip, but Ling Mie's spatial barrier blocked the transmission.
• Ling Yuan questioned the Honored Elder, who confirmed Hun Miesheng had visited seven or eight days earlier and ordered everyone to collect souls, but claimed not to know more.
• Ling Yuan killed the Honored Elder after determining he had no useful information, and he and Ling Mie decided to search the branch hall themselves.

Ling Yuan and Ling Mie uncovered two hidden cores of the Soul-Devouring Absolute Life Formation while destroying Soul Hall branch halls. As news of fifteen massacred branches spread and people blamed Danta, Hun Miesheng learned that two of the formation cores had been found and dismantled.

• Ling Yuan urged Ling Mie to search other branch halls after their first search revealed no clues, and they cleared the hall and erased their traces.
• Ling Yuan and Ling Mie killed Soul Hall workers and searched three more branch halls before finding unusual fluctuations beneath the fourth.
• Ling Mie uncovered a black box containing a formation core, and Ling Yuan identified it as part of the Soul-Devouring Absolute Life Formation.
• Ling Yuan and Ling Mie searched more than a dozen branch halls over the following days and found only two cores, while news spread that fifteen branches had been wiped out.
• People across the Central Plains suspected Danta was responsible because of its longstanding feud with Soul Hall.
• Hun Miesheng learned that two hidden formation cores had been discovered and dismantled, and considered the loss more serious than losing half of Soul Hall's experts.

Hun Miesheng feared that the destruction of two formation nodes would expose the Soul-Devouring Absolute Life Formation, while Ling Yuan decided to redirect the danger toward the Gu Clan using Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan prepared to refine a Beast Flame and break through, but lost consciousness as a spatial crack opened in his room.

• Hun Miesheng recalled that a Four-Star Dou Sheng may have detected the hidden formation node, then anxiously delayed reporting the loss to his clan chief.
• Ling Yuan decided that revealing the formation would not help and instead planned to use Xiao Yan to provoke conflict between the Soul Clan and the Gu Clan.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the Xiao Clan’s destruction, his missing father, and his need to grow stronger with the Flame Devouring Art and Emperor Seal Mantra.
• Xiao Yan began refining a fifth-tier Beast Flame to advance to Nine-Star Dou Wang, but suddenly lost consciousness.
• A spatial crack appeared and grew inside Xiao Yan’s stone room.

Ling Yuan copied the Gu Clan’s Emperor Seal Technique from Xiao Yan so he could frame the Gu Clan for attacks on Soul Hall branch halls. After learning its first two seals, he returned to the Central Plains and began destroying branch halls himself, leaving Zi Yan hidden as he prepared to fight a One-Revolution Dou Venerate.

• Ling Yuan and Zi Yan knocked out Xiao Yan and copied the Emperor Seal Technique from his Storage Ring, then returned the scroll without leaving a trace.
• Ling Yuan also inspected Xiao Yan’s Flame Devouring Art and noted that he had no Heavenly Flame.
• Ling Yuan studied the Emperor Seal Technique in seclusion and learned its first two seals in two days.
• Ling Yuan returned to the Central Plains with Zi Yan and wiped out a Soul Hall branch hall guarded by a Seven-Star Dou Zun.
• Ling Yuan chose another branch hall guarded by a One-Revolution Dou Venerate and hid Zi Yan so he could attack it himself.

Ling Yuan disguised himself as a Gu Clan member while attacking a Soul Hall branch, then escaped after making its Honored Elder believe he had used the Gu Clan’s Emperor Seal Technique. The Soul Hall Earth Hall Vice Hall Master arrived afterward and learned that the attacker had fled in a particular direction.

• Ling Yuan attacked the Soul Hall branch and fought its Honored Elder, pretending to be evenly matched while concealing his strength.
• When the Honored Elder summoned the Vice Hall Master, Ling Yuan claimed he had exhausted his Dou Qi destroying another branch and tried to flee.
• Ling Yuan used the Sea-Turning Seal, leading Leng Jie to identify him as a Gu Clan member, then called for Zi Yan and escaped.
• The Earth Hall Vice Hall Master arrived at the ruined branch, and Leng Jie reported that the Gu Clan attacker had fled while injured.
• The Vice Hall Master asked which way Ling Yuan had gone, and Leng Jie pointed him in the direction of the escape.

After the Gu Clan mistook Ling Yuan’s actions for its own, it decided to join the other Dou God Clans in destroying the Soul Hall and killing Hun Miesheng. Ling Yuan welcomed the plan, and the five clans began preparing a coordinated attack on the Soul Hall’s three main halls.

• Hun Miesheng failed to find Ling Yuan and Zi Yan after they escaped, and the destruction of the Soul Hall branches was blamed on the Gu Clan.
• Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan elders confirmed they had not attacked the branches, then learned Hun Miesheng was staying in the Heaven Hall and had advanced to Five-Star Dou Sheng.
• The Gu Clan contacted the other Dou God Clans to propose killing Hun Miesheng and wiping out the Soul Hall branches, citing vengeance for the Shi Clan.
• Zi Yan returned to the Ling Clan and entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough, while Ling Yuan visited Xiao Yi Xian and promised to take her to the Poison Miasma Land.
• Ling Yuan learned of the Gu Clan’s plan and supported it, hoping the attack would destroy the Soul-Devouring Absolute Life Formation’s cores.
• The Gu, Yan, Lei, Yao, and Ling Clans agreed to secretly dispatch Dou Sheng experts to attack the Soul Hall’s Heaven, Earth, and Human Halls and kill Hun Miesheng.

The Dou God Clans ambushed Hun Miesheng at Heaven Hall, captured him, and killed him after the Soul Clan refused to rescue him. Discovering the Soul-Devouring Absolute Life Formation in his storage ring, the clans agreed to destroy Soul Hall branches across the continent, while the Ling Clan claimed several corpses.

• Gu Xing and four other Dou Sheng surrounded Heaven Hall, and Hun Miesheng crushed a Communication Jade Slip to summon the Soul Clan.
• The five Dou Sheng defeated Hun Miesheng and held him captive, but Hun Tiandi did not come to save him.
• Hun Miesheng refused to reveal the Soul Clan’s secrets, and the Dou Sheng killed him after waiting an hour.
• The Ling Clan’s Second Elder claimed the corpses of Hun Miesheng, the Vice Hall Master, and the Great Heavenly Venerable.
• The Dou God Clans found the Soul-Devouring Absolute Life Formation’s core in Hun Miesheng’s storage ring and resolved to destroy Soul Hall branch halls across the continent.
• The Ling Clan sent dozens of squads to wipe out Soul Hall and seize Soul Origin.

Hun Tiandi abandoned Hun Miesheng and planned for the Soul Clan to rebuild its formation in remote regions. Ling Yuan counted the ten Dou Sheng bodies the Ling Clan had acquired and began studying puppet refinement, ending as he started making a Five-Star Dou Emperor puppet.

• Hun Tiandi ignored Hun Miesheng’s distress signal after realizing Gu Yuan had set a trap, while Nihility Devouring Flame vowed to target the Ling Clan and Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi told Nihility Devouring Flame to heal and planned to gather blood and souls outside the Central Plains while the Soul Clan rebuilt its formation.
• Ling Yuan counted the Ling Clan’s ten Dou Sheng bodies and began studying the puppet-refining technique left by Old Demon Di Mo.
• Ling Yuan prepared a Five-Star Dou Emperor’s body and Magic Core, fused them with flames, and injected a collected soul to begin refining a puppet.

Ling Yuan refined three puppets from Dou Emperor bodies and then took Xiao Yi Xian to a poisonous region in the Extreme North. As they arrived at the Poison Miasma Land, Ling Yuan sensed something with his soul power.

• Ling Yuan refined a puppet from a Five-Star Dou Emperor body and found it could fight with the strength of a Two-to-Three-Star Dou Emperor.
• Ling Yuan refined two more puppets, made from Seven-Star and Eight-Star Dou Emperor bodies, as he improved his technique.
• Ling Yuan took Xiao Yi Xian to the Poison Miasma Land, where her Woe Poison Body reacted eagerly to the poisonous fog.
• Ling Yuan offered to make the Poison Miasma Land Xiao Yi Xian's private cultivation ground, but she declined, saying the Ling Realm suited her better.
• Ling Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian exchanged affectionate teasing at the edge of the miasma before Ling Yuan sensed something and spread his soul power outward.

Ling Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian encountered Bing He, the Ice River Valley master, in the Poison Miasma Land, where he had come seeking poison and a rumored Heavenly Flame. After Bing He left, Ling Yuan sensed a poisonous Heavenly Flame deep within the miasma and told Xiao Yi Xian it might help her overcome the Woe Poison Body.

• Ling Yuan sensed Bing He approaching and identified him as a Six-Star Dou Venerate.
• Bing He recognized Xiao Yi Xian's Innate Woe Poison Body and, fearing Ling Yuan's strength, introduced himself and explained that he had supplied her Heavenly Poison Pill.
• Xiao Yi Xian thanked Bing He, then revealed that Ling Yuan was the Ling Clan's Young Clan Leader, prompting Bing He to offer more thanks and flattery.
• Ling Yuan let Bing He leave, then used his Heavenly Realm Soul to probe the Poison Miasma Land and sensed a toxic Heavenly Flame near its center.
• Ling Yuan told Xiao Yi Xian that the Heavenly Flame might help free her from the Woe Poison Body's troubles and improve her poison arts.

Ling Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian found the Nether Poison Flame, which could potentially help control her Woe Poison Body, but discovered that a Six-Revolution Dou Venerate was using it to lure and kill poison masters. The man trapped them in poisonous mist and attacked, and Ling Yuan unleashed the Samsara Sonic Wave Technique against him.

• Ling Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian entered the poison miasma and found the Nether Poison Flame at its center.
• Ling Yuan stopped Xiao Yi Xian from approaching the flame and sensed that its living owner was hiding nearby.
• Ling Yuan struck the concealed man with a soul attack, forcing him to emerge as a Six-Revolution Dou Venerate.
• Ling Yuan accused the man of luring poison masters to their deaths and using their poisonous blood to advance his cultivation.
• The man admitted his scheme, targeted Xiao Yi Xian for her Innate Woe Poison Body, and trapped them inside a poisonous barrier.
• Ling Yuan unleashed the Samsara Sonic Wave Technique, tearing through the poisonous mist and destroying the surrounding ground and trees.

Ling Yuan killed Elder Shennong’s grandson with two soul attacks, but Elder Shennong arrived and attacked him in retaliation. Ling Mie intervened to protect Ling Yuan, who then urged his father to kill Elder Shennong.

• Ling Yuan used two Samsara Sonic Wave Techniques to kill the Six-Revolution Dou Venerate and claimed the Nether Poison Flame.
• Elder Shennong arrived, found his grandson dead, and attacked Ling Yuan with a powerful burst of green Dou Qi.
• Ling Mie appeared and blocked Elder Shennong’s attack, then checked whether Ling Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian were unharmed.
• Ling Yuan revealed that he had summoned Ling Mie for help and told his father to kill Elder Shennong.