Chapter Summaries

Lei Ying ordered Lei Ming to secretly force Ling Yuan out of the Demon Lightning Pool to protect its Black Demon Lightning reserves. Ling Yuan was expelled after a year and a half, and he grew suspicious of Lei Ming’s explanation, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Lei Ying checked that Lei Dong was not in mortal danger, then ordered Lei Ming to discreetly remove Ling Yuan from the pool.
• Lei Ming used the formation to expel Ling Yuan while he was absorbing Black Demon Lightning, then erased the observation screens.
• Ling Yuan found himself outside the entrance and discovered an invisible barrier prevented him from returning.
• Lei Ming claimed the pool had expelled Ling Yuan through its normal time-based rejection and said each person could enter only once.
• Ling Yuan questioned how Lei Ming knew he had refined Black Demon Lightning, and Lei Ming claimed he had inferred it from the lingering aura.

Ling Yuan returned from the Demon Lightning Pool to reunite with his pregnant wife, Zi Yan, and discovered that they were expecting twins. As he promised to stay by her side, he learned how much the Ancient Void Dragon and Ling Clans had grown in strength and considered how they might challenge the weakened Soul Clan.

• Ling Yuan suspected the Lei Clan had forced him out of the Demon Lightning Pool and summoned his eldest uncle to escort him home, wary of threats from the Gu and Soul Clans.
• Ling Yuan returned to the Ling Realm and found Zi Yan heavily pregnant; he confirmed that she was carrying twins and sensed their lively movements.
• Ling Yuan and Zi Yan spent the night together, discussed their children and future, and he promised not to leave her again.
• Zi Yan told Ling Yuan that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had gained several Dou Sheng experts after Zhu Kun destroyed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Ling Yuan learned that Ling Mie and Ling Ruo had also advanced, bringing the combined strength of the Ling and Ancient Void Dragon Clans above the Gu Clan's and closer to the weakened Soul Clan's.

Ling Yuan received the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva from Ling Yi, who reported being attacked by two Nine-Star Dou Venerates in the Northwest Continent. Ling Yuan ordered a secret investigation and refined the saliva into a Bodhi Seed, leaving the Three Bodhi Treasures within reach once the Bodhi Ancient Tree appeared.

• Ling Yi presented Ling Yuan with the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and a Demon Fire Fragment Map, and Ling Yuan rewarded him with Eighth-Grade Pills.
• Ling Yi reported that two Nine-Star Dou Venerates attacked him while he seized the saliva from the Black Emperor Sect, then abruptly retreated.
• Ling Yuan suspected the attackers were connected to the Gu Clan or Soul Clan and ordered Ling Jia to investigate their identities and motives in the Northwest Continent.
• Ling Yuan used the Three Thousand Burning Flame to refine the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva into a Bodhi Seed.

Ling Yuan exposed the Soul Clan’s covert soul harvesting and helped prompt the Dou God Clans to guard the outer continents, while continuing to cultivate, refine puppets, and care for pregnant Zi Yan. After Zi Yan sent him out of their bedchamber, Ling Yuan went for a walk and unexpectedly arrived at Qing Lin’s residence.

• Ling Jia returned from the Northwest Continent without finding the two Nine-Star Dou Zuns but reported that factions across the remote continents were destroying one another in conflicts.
• Ling Yuan suspected the Soul Clan was provoking wars to harvest souls for Nihility Devouring Flame and sent a secret letter to Yao Tian.
• The Yao Clan publicized the Soul Clan’s scheme, prompting the five Dou God Clans to send experts across the continents to search for Soul Clan members.
• Ling Yuan reached the early Ban Sheng realm and completed a One-Star Dou Sheng Yao Xiaotian puppet, while Ling Mie decided to cultivate toward Eight-Star Dou Sheng.
• Zi Yan teased Ling Yuan before throwing him out of the bedchamber, and his walk unexpectedly led him to Qing Lin’s residence.

Ling Yuan accepted Qing Lin’s invitation and began a relationship with her. Five months later, Yao Ming summoned him to the Nine Serene Yellow Spring, where Medusa’s evolution caused a massive upheaval and a nine-colored pillar of light.

• Qing Lin invited Ling Yuan into her room, and he embraced her after she finished massaging him; she confessed that she liked him and became his woman.
• Five months passed, during which Zi Yan’s twins developed quickly and Ling Yuan advanced to the intermediate half-saint level.
• Yao Ming urgently summoned Ling Yuan after the Nine Serene Yellow Spring began churning violently.
• Ling Yuan arrived at the spring and saw a nine-colored pillar of light rise as Medusa’s evolution neared completion.
• Ling Yuan watched the pillar with anticipation, wondering what realm Medusa would reach.

Medusa emerged from seclusion as a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and reunited with Ling Yuan, revealing that she had reached Late-Stage Four-Star Dou Sheng. She agreed to refine the remaining Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python remnant souls to grow stronger, and Ling Yuan arranged for the Snake-People Clan to move into the Ling Realm.

• Yao Ming witnessed Medusa's Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python form, and Ling Yuan sent him away before she transformed back into a woman.
• Medusa tried to startle Ling Yuan, but he drew her close and teased her before asking about her strength.
• Medusa told Ling Yuan that she had reached Late-Stage Four-Star Dou Sheng after finding the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python inheritance beneath the Nine Serene Yellow Spring.
• Ling Yuan urged Medusa to refine the remnant souls rather than preserve them for Snake-People Clan newborns, and she agreed to prioritize becoming stronger for him.
• Ling Yuan arranged for the Snake-People Clan to move into the Ling Realm.

Yan Jin attacked Little Danta to capture the Danta Ancestor and use his Mystic Pill form to break through to Nine-Star Dou Sheng. Gu Yuan and Lei Ying arrived as the Danta Ancestor sought Gu Yuan’s protection, leaving the clans divided over whether Yan Jin should be allowed to take the pill.

• Yan Jin sent a Four-Star Dou Sheng elder to attack Little Danta, forcing its Great Elder to summon the Danta Ancestor.
• Yan Jin ambushed and severely wounded the Danta Ancestor, who invoked the Dou God Clan Alliance Pact to demand protection.
• Lei Ying and Gu Yuan arrived, and the Danta Ancestor offered to submit to the Gu Clan if Gu Yuan saved him.
• Yan Jin persuaded Lei Ying to side with the Yan Clan, dividing the battlefield between the Yan and Lei Clans and the Gu Clan.
• Gu Yuan defended the pact and promised to restrain the Soul Clan, while Yan Jin argued that the Danta Ancestor’s Mystic Pill would help him reach Nine-Star Dou Sheng and protect the continent.

Zhu Kun seized the Ninth-Grade Profound Pill from the Danta Ancestor after interrupting Gu Yuan and Yan Jin's negotiations, then fought Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying when they tried to stop him. He unleashed two supreme techniques, and the three clan leaders answered with their strongest attacks.

• Yan Jin offered Gu Yuan resources to secure the Mystic Pill, while Gu Yuan weighed whether to protect the Danta Ancestor and risk offending the other clans.
• Zhu Kun appeared and struck at the Danta Ancestor; Gu Yuan intercepted him, and the clash left the Danta Ancestor transformed into a pill that Zhu Kun snatched.
• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying confronted Zhu Kun, who refused to return the pill and accepted their challenge.
• Zhu Kun fought all three clan leaders at once, shrugging off their attacks and forcing them to evade his powerful blows.
• Zhu Kun unleashed Dragon Emperor Claw and Dragon Emperor Dimensional, while Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin countered with their clans' strongest Dou Techniques.

Zhu Kun overwhelmed Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin in battle, but returned to Zi Yan when she summoned him. He gave her the Ninth-Grade Profound Pill and agreed to be more cautious while Ling Yuan remained wary of Hun Tiandi.

• Zhu Kun's clash with Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin devastated the surrounding land, while Zhu Kun emerged unharmed and the other three were injured.
• Zhu Kun prepared to attack again and threatened Yan Jin, but Zi Yan's summons made him end the battle and fly back.
• Ling Yuan had asked Zi Yan to summon Zhu Kun because he feared Hun Tiandi would exploit a drawn-out fight or attack while Zhu Kun was away.
• Zhu Kun presented Zi Yan with the Ninth-Grade Profound Pill and said she could refine it after the child was born.
• Zi Yan warned Zhu Kun to be careful of Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi, and Zhu Kun promised to take more care.

Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame ambushed the Yan Realm, killing Fire Spirit Fairy and more than a dozen Yan Clan Dou Sheng elders before escaping. As the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans united against the growing threat, Yao Tian privately asked Ling Yuan whether the rumors of an alliance with the Soul Clan were true, leaving Ling Yuan wary of the Yao Clan’s intentions.

• Gu Yuan sensed Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame approaching the Yan Realm, and he, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin rushed back to defend it.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame shattered the Yan Clan’s summoned ancestral phantom and killed Fire Spirit Fairy and more than a dozen wounded elders before the clan leaders could stop them.
• Hun Tiandi claimed Zhu Kun had secretly cooperated with him, then escaped with Nihility Devouring Flame to the Soul Realm.
• The Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans agreed to unite and relocate together, and they also sought an alliance with the Yao Clan.
• Yao Tian privately asked Ling Yuan whether the Ling Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan had allied with the Soul Clan, offering Yao Clan support if Ling Yuan would confirm the rumors.

Ling Yuan reassured Yao Tian that the Ling Clan had not allied with the Soul Clan, then threatened the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans as tensions mounted. Yan Jin proposed that Zhu Kun raid the Soul Realm to prove his innocence, and the clans decided to approach Ling Yuan to persuade him.

• Ling Yuan convinced Yao Tian that the Ling Clan had no reason to cooperate with the Soul Clan, and Yao Tian left reassured that the Yao Clan would remain neutral.
• The Ling Clan blamed Yan Jin for the Yan Clan’s losses, while Zhu Kun threatened to attack the Ancient Realm, Yan Realm, and Lei Realm if the clans kept provoking him.
• The Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans joined their small worlds and gathered to discuss the danger of the Ling Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Gu Dao and Gu Xian cautioned that the Soul Clan might be sowing discord, while Yan Jin demanded action over the deaths of Yan Clan elders.
• Yan Jin proposed that Zhu Kun launch a solo sneak attack on the Soul Realm, and a Yan Clan elder suggested asking Ling Yuan to persuade him.
• Gu Yuan agreed that the clans would try to find a breakthrough through Ling Yuan.

Ling Yuan managed the Ling Clan’s affairs while the major clans maneuvered for advantage, and he rejected their attempts to manipulate Zhu Kun into attacking the Soul Clan. He proposed that Gu Yuan lead the assault instead, leaving the continent’s three-way standoff intact.

• Gu Yuan resented Yan Jin for helping create the crisis and worried that the Gu Clan might not endure until Gu Xun'er matured.
• Ling Yuan shouldered the Ling Clan’s affairs while Ling Mie and the Great Elder entered seclusion, and Zi Yan stayed beside him as she awaited the birth of their twins.
• Ling Yuan ignored Hun Tiandi’s message urging the Ling Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan to cooperate with the Soul Clan against the other Dou God Clans.
• Ling Yuan rejected the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans’ request for Zhu Kun to attack the Soul Clan and demanded that Gu Yuan enter the Soul Realm first to restrain Hun Tiandi.
• Gu Yuan refused to accept Ling Yuan’s condition, and the three-way balance among the major factions continued without anyone making the first move.

Ling Yuan devoted himself to raising his strength and gave Ling Mie most of his Demon Saint Essence Blood to help him reach Eight-Star Dou Sheng. After Cao Ying returned from the Yao Clan, Ling Yuan praised her alchemy progress and arranged for her to prepare to revive Yao Chen.

• Ling Yuan abandoned his attempt to forge a puppet from the Dragon King's body and focused on cultivation, while Medusa stabilized her realm to avoid being barred from the Heavenly Tomb.
• Two months later, Ling Yuan reached High-Tier Ban Sheng, then gave Ling Mie most of his Demon Saint Essence Blood and asked him to emerge in time for his grandson's birth.
• Ling Mie promised to break through within three months and absorbed the blood essence with his eight clones to try to reach Eight-Star Dou Sheng.
• Cao Ying returned from more than two years of study in the Yao Clan as a Two-Star Dou Venerate and reported that she could refine Eighth-Grade Pills that drew seven-colored pill lightning.
• Ling Yuan learned Cao Ying had refined the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill and said he would prepare the body and blood essence needed to revive Yao Chen.

Ling Yuan prepared a Late-Stage One-Star Dou Sheng body and Ancient Void Dragon essence blood to revive Yao Chen and help him reach Dou Sheng. With Ling Yuan assisting Cao Ying in burning the body, the materials fused, and Yao Chen prepared for the revival.

• Ling Yuan decided to use Soul Hall's Great Heavenly Venerable's body and Ninth-Tier Peak Ancient Void Dragon essence blood for Yao Chen's revival.
• Cao Ying brought Yao Chen to the secret chamber, where Ling Yuan revealed the Dou Sheng body and sealed jade bottle.
• Cao Ying recognized the body as a Dou Sheng's and the golden blood as Ancient Void Dragon essence blood, leaving Yao Chen overwhelmed with gratitude.
• Yao Chen pledged his life and service to Ling Yuan, who told him to repay the favor by reaching Dou Sheng and becoming a Ninth-Grade Alchemist.
• Cao Ying poured the essence blood over the body and tried to burn it with her Heavenly Flames, but Ling Yuan had to add his violet-black Heavenly Flame.
• The body softened as its essence blood and flesh fused, and Cao Ying told Yao Chen to get ready.

Cao Ying helped resurrect Yao Chen in a Dou Sheng body, while Ling Yuan prepared to support her cultivation and refused Zi Yan’s offer of a precious Mystic Pill. After two and a half months, Yao Chen reached the Dou Sheng Realm and set out to become a Ninth-Grade Alchemist so Ling Yuan could restore his parents’ names to the Yao Clan genealogy.

• Cao Ying and Ling Yuan finished refining Yao Chen’s Dou Sheng body, and Yao Chen used the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill to regenerate his flesh and enter it.
• Ling Yuan gave Cao Ying the Bone Chilling Flame to refine, but declined to cultivate with her and went to keep Zi Yan company.
• Zi Yan offered Ling Yuan her Ninth-Grade Profound Pill, but he refused and told her to keep it for herself.
• Yao Chen spent two and a half months merging with his body and broke through to One-Star Dou Sheng Early-stage.
• Ling Yuan told Yao Chen to reach Ninth-Grade Alchemist so he could restore Yao Chen’s parents’ names to the Yao Clan genealogy, and Yao Chen began training in the Alchemy Room.

Ling Mie broke through to Eight-Star Dou Sheng, but the excitement was cut short when Zi Yan went into labor. Ling Yuan and the others gathered anxiously outside as the delivery began, ending the chapter with a newborn’s cry.

• Cao Ying fused with the Bone Chilling Flame, rose to Four-Star Dou Venerate, and learned that Ling Yuan possessed the Life Flame.
• Ling Yuan stayed by the heavily pregnant Zi Yan, answering her questions and protecting her rest while she waited for the twins.
• Ling Mie emerged from seclusion after breaking through to Eight-Star Dou Sheng, crediting the Demon Saint Essence Blood Ling Yuan had given him.
• Zi Yan sensed the tremor from Ling Mie's breakthrough, went into labor, and summoned Ling Yuan with the Communication Jade Slip.
• Ling Yuan, Mother Ling, Zhu Kun, and the others waited anxiously outside as the midwives assisted Zi Yan, then heard a newborn cry from inside.

Ling Yuan and Zi Yan welcomed fraternal twins, whose birth sparked a seven-colored heavenly phenomenon across the Ling Realm. After confirming Zi Yan was safe, Ling Yuan brought the newborns to her, and she curiously examined them.

• The twins were born safely, and their cries eased the anxious Ling Yuan and the waiting family.
• Seven-colored auspicious clouds spread across the Ling Realm, prompting the clanspeople to speculate that the newborns had extraordinary bloodlines.
• The midwife announced that the twins were an elder sister and younger brother and that Zi Yan and the children were all safe.
• Ling Yuan went to Zi Yan first, comforted her, and agreed that they would not have more children.
• Ling Yuan brought the twins inside, and Zi Yan examined and gently poked their soft, plump faces.

Ling Yuan and Zi Yan named their newborn twins Ling Long and Ling Yao, whose extraordinary birth drew celebration and attention from across the continent. While the Ling Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan celebrated their rising fortunes, Hun Tiandi focused instead on the threat posed by Ling Mie's breakthrough to Eight-Star Dou Sheng.

• Ling Yuan named his daughter Ling Long and his son Ling Yao after Zi Yan rejected the idea of naming their daughter Ling Yan.
• Zhu Kun and Ling Mie ordered celebrations and rewards across the Ling Realm and Dragon Island to mark the twins' birth.
• Zi Yan recovered quickly, while Ling Yuan and Zi Yan learned to care for the babies with help from Mother Ling.
• The Yao Clan sent lavish congratulatory gifts, and the Gu Clan and Lei Clan offered brief congratulations; the Yan Clan and Soul Clan sent none.
• Yao Dan viewed the twins' birth as further proof of the Ling Clan's rising power and hoped the Yao Clan would benefit from its alliance.
• Hun Tiandi dismissed the newborns as future rather than present threats and worried instead about Ling Mie's rise to Eight-Star Dou Sheng.

Ling Yuan refined the last of his Demon Saint Essence Blood and broke through to Dou Sheng, while his soul advanced to the Heavenly State Late-stage. At home, Ling Long and Ling Yao began forming their first words, and both called Ling Yuan “Papa.”

• Ling Yuan spent four months refining his remaining Demon Saint Essence Blood while caring for Ling Long and Ling Yao with Zi Yan.
• Ling Yuan absorbed the last two drops, broke through to One-Star Dou Sheng, and advanced his soul to the Heavenly State Late-stage.
• Zi Yan taught four-month-old Ling Long and Ling Yao to say “Mama,” and both made their first unclear sounds.
• Ling Yuan held the children and taught them to say “Papa,” and both repeated the word, delighting him and surprising Zi Yan.

Ling Yuan discussed Zi Yan’s cultivation and planned to use the Heavenly Tomb to target Xiao Xuan’s energy body. He then began refining Dou Sheng puppets and completed a Three-Star Dou Sheng Puppet from the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master’s body.

• Ling Yuan advised Zi Yan to wait until she reached Five-Star Dou Sheng before refining the Mystic Pill and told her she could enter the Heavenly Tomb as a member of the Ling Clan.
• Ling Yuan considered using the Heavenly Tomb’s extra cultivation time, his avatars, and his allies to seize Xiao Xuan’s energy body.
• The Ling Clan concealed Ling Yuan’s breakthrough to Dou Sheng while Ling Yuan prepared to refine his remaining Dou Sheng bodies into puppets.
• Ling Yuan used the Three Thousand Burning Flame to refine the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master’s body over four days and completed a Three-Star Dou Sheng Puppet.
• Ling Yuan tested the puppet in combat, judged that it could display Early-Stage Three-Star Dou Sheng strength, and prepared to refine the three Dragon Kings next.