Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ling won the Black Emperor Sect auction for the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and exchanged pills with Mo Tianxing to claim it. After leaving Black Emperor City, he faced the experts waiting outside, where Fang Yan and the forces of Magic Flame Valley blocked his path.

• Mo Tianxing selected Xiao Ling, announced as Mr. Tang San, as the winner of the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and warned the crowd against causing trouble in Black Emperor City.
• Xiao Yan asked Elder Huo whether they should accompany Xiao Ling, but Elder Huo chose to handle their auction business and watch the coming clash from outside the city.
• Xiao Ling exchanged the Sect Breaking Pill and Spirit Breath Vitality Pill with Mo Tianxing for the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, then departed with his companions.
• Mo Tianxing ordered Mo Ya to gather Black Emperor Sect members and prepare to follow the conflict outside the city in disguise.
• Xiao Ling and his companions faced the lurking experts on a mountain outside Black Emperor City, but the gathered Dou Zong experts hesitated to attack until Fang Yan and Magic Flame Valley blocked their way.

Xiao Ling and his companions were surrounded by Dou Zong experts and other cultivators seeking the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, so they launched a counterattack. After Xiao Ling killed two Dou Zong opponents and their battles gained the upper hand, Mo Tianxing finally appeared with the Black Emperor Sect, leaving the fight poised to escalate.

• Fang Yan, Old Man Yingshan, three other Dou Zong experts, and more than twenty Dou Wang and Dou Huang cultivators surrounded Xiao Ling’s group to seize the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva.
• Xiao Ling and his companions revealed their strength and attacked: Xiao Ling faced two Dou Zong experts, Xiao Yi Xian targeted a Five-star Dou Zong, Medusa fought Old Man Yingshan, and Zi Yan and Little Purple confronted Fang Yan’s side.
• Xiao Ling crushed the two Dou Zong opponents, killed them, captured their souls and bodies, and took their Storage Rings.
• Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian held their opponents, while Zi Yan and Little Purple gained the advantage; Zi Yan also grievously wounded Gold Horn and helped drive Silver Horn from the fight.
• Fang Yan called on Mo Tianxing to join the battle, and Mo Tianxing appeared with the Black Emperor Sect’s Dou Wang and Dou Huang experts.

Xiao Ling defeated the Five-Star Dou Zong and stopped Mo Tianxing, Fang Yan, and Old Man Yingshan from escaping, while Old Ghost Di Mo arrived with Magic Flame Valley’s forces. The battle paused as the sides regrouped, and Xiao Ling claimed he had already arranged a way to deal with Old Ghost Di Mo without fighting him personally.

• Mo Tianxing rejected Fang Yan and Old Man Yingshan’s attempt to recruit him, then attacked Little Purple and Medusa to cover his retreat.
• Fang Yan and Old Man Yingshan fled with Mo Tianxing, abandoning their Life-Transformation Fire and suffering severe losses to their cultivation.
• Xiao Ling sent Xiao Yi Xian to help intercept Mo Tianxing’s group and killed the Five-Star Dou Zong who had been left behind.
• Old Ghost Di Mo arrived with about twenty Magic Flame Valley experts, and Mo Tianxing’s group joined him.
• Elder Huo warned Xiao Ling about Old Ghost Di Mo’s strength, but Xiao Ling said he had a plan that would not require him to fight personally.

Xiao Ling confronted Old Ghost Di Mo over the injuries to Magic Flame Valley’s elders and refused to surrender the Life-Transformation Fire or Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva. After revealing a Heaven-grade Heavenly Demon Puppet, Xiao Ling ordered it to attack, leaving Old Ghost Di Mo fleeing and the others trapped.

• Old Ghost Di Mo demanded that Xiao Ling return the Life-Transformation Fire and Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, but Xiao Ling refused and stored the Life-Transformation Fire away.
• Old Ghost Di Mo attacked Xiao Ling, but a golden figure blocked his strike, and Xiao Ling revealed it was a Heaven-grade Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Old Ghost Di Mo recognized the puppet’s Dou Zun-level strength, apologized to Xiao Ling, and blamed Fang Yan and the others for the conflict.
• Xiao Ling ordered the Heavenly Demon Puppet to attack, and Old Ghost Di Mo shoved Old Man Yingshan into its path before fleeing.
• The Heavenly Demon Puppet killed Old Man Yingshan with one punch, while an ice barrier trapped Mo Tianxing, Fang Yan, and the others as the puppet attacked them.

Xiao Ling and the Heavenly Demon Puppet hunted down Old Ghost Di Mo, who used a desperate technique to escape the puppet’s final blow. Zi Yan pulled him from a spatial opening, and Xiao Ling killed him, leaving his body available for puppet refinement.

• The Heavenly Demon Puppet killed Old Man Yingshan and two other Dou Zong experts before pursuing Old Ghost Di Mo.
• The puppet battered Old Ghost Di Mo into a cliff, and Xiao Ling ordered it to preserve his body for refining another Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Old Ghost Di Mo burned his essence blood and unleashed Blood Cold Extreme Freeze Heaven, but the puppet dispersed the attack and struck him into a spatial escape.
• Xiao Ling sensed Old Ghost Di Mo’s disappearance, and Zi Yan tore open space to drag out his severely injured body.
• Xiao Ling explained that Old Ghost Di Mo had used the Space Blood Escape Technique, then pierced his heart with Dou Qi and killed him.

After defeating Old Ghost Di Mo, Xiao Ling collected his spoils and sent Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Elder Huo back to Jia Nan Academy while promising to seek a powerful flame for Elder Huo. He then harvested the battlefield’s souls and bodies before heading to Black Emperor City to loot its resources ahead of the coming chaos.

• Xiao Ling sealed Old Ghost Di Mo’s soul, collected his ring and body, and told Elder Huo that he could help him obtain a flame comparable to a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Ling sent Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Elder Huo back to Jia Nan Academy, declining Elder Huo’s suggestion that he establish a force in the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Ling used the Myriad Soul Banner to absorb the battlefield’s souls, including those of Mo Tianxing and Old Man Yingshan, and collected the Dou Zong Experts’ bodies.
• Xiao Ling flew to Black Emperor City while the Black Emperor Sect still maintained order, intending to loot the city before news of its leaders’ defeat sparked chaos.

Xiao Ling looted the Black Corner Region’s factions, then returned to Magic Flame Valley and ordered the Heavenly Demon Puppet to slaughter its members. After destroying the valley’s defenders, he uncovered its hidden Treasure Vault and broke through the entrance’s stone door.

• Xiao Ling raided the Black Emperor Sect’s auction house and headquarters, then looted other factions’ treasure vaults across the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Ling returned to Magic Flame Valley and sent the Heavenly Demon Puppet to kill everyone there, while his Heavenly Fire Meteor attack destroyed the elders and valley buildings.
• Xiao Ling revealed the hidden passage to Magic Flame Valley’s Treasure Vault, cleaned the blood from the Heavenly Demon Puppet, and recalled it to his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Ling summoned Old Ghost Di Mo’s soul and ordered it to gather the dead members’ souls with the Myriad Soul Banner.
• Xiao Ling descended through the passage, reached a heavy stone door, and shattered it to reveal the Treasure Vault beyond.

Xiao Ling looted Old Ghost Di Mo’s treasure vault, claimed the True · Flame Manipulation Art and other rare items, and returned to Jia Nan Academy. He gave the art to Elder Huo, who recognized its potential for alchemy and began considering its use.

• Xiao Ling defeated and stored the Dou Wang-level Serpentine Magical Beast, then emptied the treasure vault of its scrolls and medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Ling opened the four protected wooden boxes and took the Thunderbolt Appraisal, Startled Thunder Method, True · Flame Manipulation Art, Seventh-Rank Fire-Attribute Magic Core, and Heavenly Demon Puppet refinement method.
• Xiao Ling retrieved the enlarged Myriad Soul Banner and Old Ghost Di Mo’s soul, then headed for Jia Nan Academy, anticipating a breakthrough in cultivation.
• Xiao Ling passed through Peace Town and returned to the Inner Academy, where he visited Elder Huo and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Ling gave Elder Huo the True · Flame Manipulation Art, and Elder Huo read it and praised its potential to produce a powerful artificial Heavenly Flame for alchemy.

Xiao Ling returned to his courtyard, found Zi Yan nearing a breakthrough to Dou Zong, and carried her out to find a safe place for her advancement. He also planned his own seclusion to reach Nine-Star Dou Zong and asked Qing Lin to obtain Little Purple’s Beast Flame for refining a Life-Transformation Fire.

• Xiao Ling returned to his courtyard, fed Little Sky Swallowing Python medicinal pills, and found it curled up to sleep in his robe.
• Xiao Ling discovered Zi Yan was entering a breakthrough and carried her from her room as Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin came to support her.
• Xiao Ling told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin that he planned to cultivate in seclusion and use the Demonic Poison Spot, Life-Transformation Fire, and Sovereign Extreme Pill to advance toward Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Ling asked Qing Lin to have Little Purple provide Beast Flame, and Qing Lin summoned Little Purple and made the request.
• Little Purple reluctantly agreed to help Xiao Ling, despite having already supplied Beast Flame to Yao Tianhuo.

Xiao Ling helped Little Purple prepare for her breakthrough to Dou Zong, then entered seclusion in the underground Magma World to cultivate and seek Flame Lizardmen fire pearls. He detected a group of lizardmen, including several with Dou Zong-level strength, and prepared to target them.

• Little Purple gave Xiao Ling her Beast Flame, and he stored it while Qing Lin fed her healing pills and Xiao Ling provided pills to aid her recovery.
• Xiao Ling gave Xiao Yi Xian the True · Flame Manipulation Art scroll to pass to Heavenly Fire Venerable, then set up a protected Training Room for Zi Yan's breakthrough.
• Zi Yan formed a purple cocoon and began her breakthrough as Xiao Ling left for the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Xiao Ling visited the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame, spoke with Elder Liu, and entered the underground Magma World to cultivate.
• Xiao Ling descended into the magma seeking Flame Lizardmen fire pearls and detected a group whose strongest members were at the Dou Zong level.

Xiao Ling used the Burning Shadow Style to kill many Flame Lizardmen and collect their fire pearls before escaping the Magma World. He found a secluded cave, prepared for cultivation, and began refining the Life-Transformation Fire to improve his strength.

• Xiao Ling unleashed the Burning Shadow Style, killing the seven-star Dou Zong Flame Lizardman and many others before gathering hundreds of fire pearls.
• Xiao Ling fled the Flame Lizardmen’s territory before three Dou Zun-level Flame Lizardmen arrived and ordered the survivors to strengthen their patrols.
• Xiao Ling escaped the magma sea and chose a concealed mountain wall as a site for secluded cultivation.
• Xiao Ling made a cave, set the Heavenly Demon Puppet to guard him, and sat on the Green Lotus Platform.
• Xiao Ling swallowed the Life-Transformation Fire seized from Fang Yan and the other two, then began refining its energy with the Fen Jue.

After six months of cultivation, Zi Yan broke through to the Dou Zong realm and gained the ability to freely transform. She revealed her true form as an Ancient Void Dragon, learning that she belonged to one of the Dou Qi Continent’s strongest Magical Beast races.

• The energy cocoon in Zi Yan’s Training Room began to surge, and Yao Chen and Yao Tianhuo recognized that she was nearing a breakthrough.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin welcomed Zi Yan as she emerged from seclusion, having reached the Dou Zong realm and gained a mature human form.
• Yao Chen told Zi Yan that reaching the seventh-tier Magical Beast realm should let her freely control her transformations.
• Zi Yan transformed into a huge purple dragon, whose Dragon Might overwhelmed the Magical Beasts in the courtyard.
• Yao Chen identified Zi Yan’s true form as an Ancient Void Dragon, a powerful peak Magical Beast race.

Zi Yan learned that she was an Ancient Void Dragon and resolved to find her clan in the Central Plains, though her attempt to return to human form left her looking like a little girl again. After eight days of seclusion, Xiao Ling broke through to Nine-Star Dou Zong and drew a map to the Netherworld Poison Flame, which he planned to obtain for Xiao Yi Xian.

• Yao Chen explained the power of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Zi Yan decided to search for her family with Xiao Ling and the others.
• Zi Yan transformed back into her human form but discovered that she had returned to her little girl appearance.
• After eight days of cultivation in the Magma World, Xiao Ling broke through to Nine-Star Dou Zong and demonstrated his ability to open and close a Space Rift.
• Xiao Ling used his three draw attempts, receiving twenty million Gold Coins and the Netherworld Poison Flame Map.
• Xiao Ling studied the map and decided to seek the Netherworld Poison Flame in Poison Mist Valley for Xiao Yi Xian, learning that a seventh-tier Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion guarded it.

Xiao Ling returned to Jia Nan Academy, reunited with Zi Yan, and learned she had broken through to Dou Zong and was an Ancient Void Dragon. At the Supreme Freedom Gate, they watched a young alchemist finish refining a Spirit Breath Pill, and Xiao Ling agreed to meet her after Zi Yan said she had been looking for him.

• Xiao Ling studied Mo Yun's map, considered searching Poison Mist Valley for the Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion and its core, then traveled through a Space Passage to Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Ling found Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin cultivating, sensed that Zi Yan had reached Dou Zong, and went to the Supreme Freedom Gate to see her.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Ling that she could switch between human and magical beast forms and that Old Man Yao had identified her as an Ancient Void Dragon; Xiao Ling promised to help her find her clan and remain by her side.
• Xiao Ling and Zi Yan watched a young woman refine a Rank 3 Spirit Breath Pill, and Zi Yan revealed that the woman had been asking around for Xiao Ling.
• After the woman successfully refined the pill, Xiao Ling agreed to meet her and find out why she had been looking for him.

Xiao Ling met Ye Xinlan, who asked him to help the declining Ye Family in the Alchemist Tower's Five Great Families assessment and offered a family secret technique. He accepted the gift but left cooperation for a later discussion, then gave Ye Xinlan his Alchemist's Handbook and offered to teach her before departing for Tianya City.

• Xiao Ling appeared with Zi Yan at the plaza and praised Ye Xinlan's Alchemy Skills after she refined a pill.
• Ye Xinlan explained that she wanted Xiao Ling's help with the Ye Family's upcoming assessment and offered him the Spiritual Flame Pill Furnace Art.
• Xiao Ling said he would visit the Ye Family in the Pill Region and discuss cooperation later, then accepted the technique scroll.
• Xiao Ling gave Ye Xinlan his Alchemist's Handbook and invited her to study Alchemy with him that day.
• Xiao Ling left for his courtyard, and Zi Yan took Ye Xinlan after him.

Xiao Ling prepared to leave Jia Nan Academy for Zhongzhou, taught Ye Xinlan Alchemy, and refined pills for the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python. After the python ate the pills, Queen Medusa appeared, and Xiao Ling told her he would refine a Soul Fusion Pill for her after they reached Zhongzhou.

• Xiao Ling said farewell to Xiao Yan, who declined to travel to Zhongzhou with him and chose to go alone after reaching at least Dou Wang.
• Xiao Ling used the Spiritual Flame Pill Furnace Art and guided Ye Xinlan as she refined pills, sharing his Alchemy knowledge with her.
• Xiao Ling refined an eighth-tier Dream Immortal Fruit into pills and gave two to the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.
• The Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python transformed into Queen Medusa, who found Xiao Ling's hand on her chest and demanded to know whether he had found a way to repair her soul.
• Xiao Ling told Queen Medusa that Yao Chen had given him a Soul Fusion Pill recipe and promised to refine the pill after they settled in Zhongzhou.

Xiao Ling and his companions left the Inner Academy and traveled toward Tianya City to reach a Space Wormhole to the Central Plains. As they arrived, a yellow-robed old man blocked Little Purple in the air, unaware of her strength and preparing to exploit them.

• Xiao Ling and Xiao Yi Xian spent their last night at the Inner Academy together while Medusa watched from the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python's body.
• Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin said farewell to Su Qian and the elders, then departed on Little Purple for the Central Plains.
• Xiao Ling told the group they would travel through Tianya City’s Space Wormhole, and he cultivated during their journey while considering how to reach the Dou Zun Realm.
• After one day and two nights, the group reached Tianya City and flew toward it as Little Purple’s aura frightened nearby Flying Magical Beasts.
• A yellow-robed old man stopped the group for entering the city’s airspace and eyed Little Purple greedily, while Little Purple prepared to attack him.

Xiao Ling defended Little Purple from a greedy elder, then confronted the Luo Family guards until Luo Cheng arrived and apologized. The group accepted compensation and chose Magic Cores, including a backup core for Xiao Yi Xian, before following Luo Cheng to the Luo Family residence to await their supplies and Space Ship.

• Xiao Ling struck the yellow-robed elder with Soul Power after noticing his greedy gaze toward Little Purple, then warned the Tianya City guards that the group had acted in self-defense.
• Xiao Ling released his aura and knocked the guards down, while Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Little Purple joined him and revealed their formidable strength.
• Luo Cheng arrived, learned that his subordinates had provoked the conflict, apologized, and offered five Seventh Stage Magic Cores and a high-quality Space Ship as compensation.
• Xiao Yi Xian noticed a Sixth Rank Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core on the Luo Family list, and Xiao Ling arranged to exchange a Sixth-grade Pill for it as a backup for her Poison Pill.
• Xiao Ling and his companions selected Magic Cores and followed Luo Cheng to the Luo Family residence, where they waited for the Magic Cores and Space Ship to be prepared.

Xiao Ling traded a Dou Spirit Pill for a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Magic Core and a Space Ship, then took Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan through Tianya City's Space Wormhole toward the Central Plains. During the journey, he began preparing to refine the Heaven Demon Phoenix's wings and suspected Zhu Kun had killed the beast.

• Xiao Ling exchanged a Rank 6 Dou Spirit Pill with Luo Cheng for a Sixth Rank Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Magic Core and obtained five Seventh Stage Magic Cores and a Space Ship.
• Xiao Ling and his companions left the Luo estate and entered Tianya City's Space Wormhole for the Central Plains.
• Xiao Ling expanded the Space Ship and set it moving through the passage, then let Zi Yan take over its controls.
• Xiao Ling told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin he would spend the month-long journey refining the Heaven Demon Phoenix's wings into a Flying Dou Technique.
• Xiao Ling brought out the Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse and found no remnant soul, leading him to suspect Zhu Kun had killed it.

Xiao Ling refined the Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse aboard the Space Ship, recovering its Magic Core, claws, and wings. He gave Zi Yan the Dragon Abyss Ethereal Gauntlet, and after she left to find Qing Lin and the others, he began refining the wings into a Flying Dou Technique.

• Xiao Ling cut the Heavenly Demon Phoenix's bone wings from its corpse and began refining the remains with Fallen Heart Flame while Zi Yan watched.
• Xiao Ling used the corpse's blood to draw out its remaining energy, then refined the Magic Core and ten sharp claws from the hide.
• Xiao Ling stored the Seventh-tier Heavenly Demon Phoenix's Magic Core and gave Zi Yan the Dragon Abyss Ethereal Gauntlet.
• Zi Yan bonded with the gauntlets, tested them briefly, and left to find Qing Lin and the others.
• Xiao Ling turned back to the Heavenly Demon Phoenix wings and began refining a Flying Dou Technique.