Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ling and Xun'er explored Heart Chain City during the Lantern Festival and chose a Green Lotus Lantern that symbolized enduring love. Mo Ji interrupted their purchase and showed an improper interest in Xun'er, but left after Xiao Ling refused to sell him the lantern.

• Xiao Ling and Xun'er arrived in Heart Chain City and strolled through the Lantern Festival, drawing attention from the crowds.
• Xiao Ling and Xun'er entered an elderly woman's lantern shop and found a Green Lotus Lantern that Xun'er liked.
• The elderly woman explained that the Green Lotus Lantern symbolized pure, eternal love, and Xiao Ling accepted it as a gift for Xun'er.
• Mo Ji entered the shop and offered one hundred thousand Gold Coins for the lantern, but Xiao Ling refused to give it up.
• Mo Ji hinted that he wanted to become friends with Xun'er, then left the shop after Xiao Ling rejected his offer.

Xiao Ling and Xun Er spent the Lantern Festival together in Heart Chain City, while Xiao Ling intercepted a tracking mark Mo Ji had sent after Xun Er and planned to deal with him later. After sharing wishes, watching fireworks, and kissing by Love Heart River, they remained together as an illusory man appeared above them.

• Mo Ji sent a black tracking mark toward Xun Er, but Xiao Ling caught it with his Soul Power and absorbed it so he could use it to find Mo Ji.
• Xiao Ling told Xun Er and the Gu Clan Dou Zun Experts he would handle Mo Ji himself, and Xun Er agreed to let him carry out his plan.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er left the lantern shop with their Green Lotus Lantern and wandered through the Lantern Festival to Love Heart River.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er wrote wishes on lanterns and released them into the sky, each wishing for strength, happiness, and a life together.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er watched the fireworks, kissed, and shared their happiness at the festival.
• As Xiao Ling and Xun Er embraced beneath the fireworks, an illusory man in an ancient robe appeared silently in the void above them.

During the Lantern Festival, Xiao Ling and Xun Er climbed the Heart Wave Ancient Wood and discovered an essence fruit that could help Xiao Ling break through to Dou Zun. The Ancient Tree Spirit appeared and, recognizing their strength, said he would not make them undergo his planned trials, leaving Xiao Ling to ask whether he would give him the fruit and offer his help in return.

• Gu Yuan secretly watched Xiao Ling and Xun Er at the festival and judged Xiao Ling worthy of Xun Er.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er enjoyed the Lantern Festival before deciding to climb the Heart Wave Ancient Wood in search of its rumored opportunity.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er reached the tree’s crown, where Xiao Ling used Soul Perception to find a violet essence fruit on a thick branch.
• Xiao Ling identified the fruit as a powerful, nonviolent source of energy that could help him advance from Nine-Star Dou Zong to Dou Zun.
• The Ancient Tree Spirit appeared and explained that he had planned trials but would not impose them because Xiao Ling and Xun Er carried powers dangerous to plant-type magical beasts.
• Xiao Ling asked whether the Ancient Tree Spirit would give him the fruit and offered to help the spirit in return.

Xiao Ling accepted the Heart Wave Ancient Wood spirit’s fruit in exchange for caring for its rare seed. He and Xun Er went to confront Mo Ji of the Heaven Nether Sect, and Xiao Ling vowed to make him suffer for targeting them to devour their flesh and blood.

• Xun Er explained the Heart Wave Ancient Tree seed’s rarity and its mature ability to probe cultivators’ emotions, and Xiao Ling promised to nurture it.
• The old tree spirit gave Xiao Ling the fruit containing the seed, and Xiao Ling secured it in a jade box inside his Storage Ring.
• The old tree spirit sensed a High-level Dou Zong approaching, and Xiao Ling recognized him as Mo Ji and went with Xun Er to meet him.
• Mo Ji arrived and revealed that he intended to devour Xiao Ling and Xun Er’s flesh and blood to increase his cultivation.
• Xiao Ling dismissed Mo Ji’s Heaven Nether Sect identity and, angered by his motive, prepared to punish him with the Godfall Weapon.

Mo Ji attacked Xiao Ling out of jealousy and sought to devour his flesh and blood, but Xiao Ling countered his techniques and revealed overwhelming strength. The chapter ended with Mo Ji realizing Xiao Ling was a Nine-Star Dou Zong.

• Mo Ji raged at Xiao Ling for mentioning Yi Chen and launched a surprise attack with his Blood Shadow Demonic Claw.
• Xiao Ling pierced Mo Ji’s palm with his spear, then detonated its embedded tip into fragments that tore through Mo Ji’s hand.
• Mo Ji used Blood Burst to try to draw out Xiao Ling’s blood, but Xiao Ling neutralized the technique with his life-filled energy.
• Xun Er recognized Mo Ji’s Blood Condensing Great Method as he sacrificed his blood to increase his strength, while Xiao Ling reassured her.
• Mo Ji attacked Xiao Ling’s apparent body, but it was an afterimage; Xiao Ling struck him from behind with a golden-flamed fist and sent him crashing into the tree’s protective barrier.
• Mo Ji recovered and sensed Xiao Ling’s fully revealed cultivation, realizing his opponent was a Nine-Star Dou Zong.

Mo Ji's jealousy drove him to attack Xiao Ling, but Xiao Ling defeated him in a head-on clash while Xun Er and two Gu Clan Dou Zuns shielded the celebration from the battle. Xiao Ling and Xun Er approached the badly injured Mo Ji, who remained furious but restrained himself.

• Consumed by jealousy, Mo Ji formed a blood halberd and attacked Xiao Ling with the Seven Kill Halberd Technique, but Xiao Ling dodged and caught the weapon between two fingers.
• Mo Ji abandoned the halberd and used the Heaven Nether Asura Hand, while Xiao Ling summoned the Great Desolate Sky Imprisoning Hand and met his strike directly.
• The collision devastated the surrounding trees, so Xun Er called on Elder Lin and Elder Yuan to help conceal the battle and protect the people near the Heart Wave Ancient Wood.
• Mo Ji was thrown from the clash, bloodied and disheveled, while Xiao Ling emerged nearly unhurt; Xun Er laughed at his messy hair, and the two exchanged greetings with the Gu Clan elders.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er approached Mo Ji, and Xiao Ling mocked him as Mo Ji struggled to contain his anger and weakness.

Xiao Ling killed Mo Ji, captured his escaping soul, and took his body and Storage Ring, while learning Mo Ji claimed to know the location of a relic. Afterward, Xun Er asked whether her clan had agreed to Xiao Ling’s proposed transaction involving the Xiao Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, leaving Xiao Ling awaiting news that could help complete the materials needed to revive Yao Chen.

• Xiao Ling and Xun Er dismissed Mo Ji’s threats and offers, and Xiao Ling killed him after he tried to bargain with information about a relic.
• Mo Ji abandoned most of his Soul Power and tried to escape, but Xiao Ling caught the remaining trace and sealed it in a jade bottle with the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Ling collected Mo Ji’s Storage Ring and body, intending to use the body as a Heavenly Demon Puppet and later refine the soul into a puppet.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er shared a lighthearted moment before Xun Er asked about the transaction involving the Xiao Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade.
• Xiao Ling asked whether Xun Er’s clan had agreed to the transaction, hoping it would provide the remaining materials needed to revive Yao Chen.

Xun Er gave Xiao Ling the Gu Clan’s materials for creating a new body for Yao Chen, along with rare treasures and the complete Emperor Seal Art. She revealed the Dou Sheng remains belonged to Hun Clan enemies and hinted that Gu Yuan would reward Xiao Ling if he reached Dou Sheng before fifty, while Gu Yuan secretly considered returning the Xiao Clan’s inherited resources to him.

• Xun Er presented Xiao Ling with a Storage Ring containing two Dou Sheng Bodies, rare beast blood essence, medicinal herbs, and the final three seals of the Emperor Seal Art.
• Xiao Ling examined the gifts, thanked Xun Er, and asked about the origins of the Dou Sheng Bodies.
• Xun Er explained that the bodies belonged to Hun Clan Dou Shengs defeated by the Xiao and Gu Clans, one a Three-Star Initial Dou Sheng and the other a Two-Star Intermediate Dou Sheng.
• Xun Er told Xiao Ling that Gu Yuan would give him something extraordinary if he became a Dou Sheng before the age of fifty.
• Xun Er revealed that the Hun Clan’s purge of the Xiao Clan had left its resources in Gu Yuan’s hands, and Gu Yuan planned to return them if Xiao Ling proved capable of restoring the clan.

Xiao Ling and Xun Er returned to the Gu Clan’s luxurious residence in Heart Chain City, where Gu Qingyang and Gu Yao confronted them. As Xiao Ling tried to take Xun Er inside to rest, Gu Yao suddenly reached for his shoulder, prompting Xiao Ling to counter with his Soul Power.

• Xiao Ling promised Xun Er he would meet Gu Yuan’s standard and become a Dou Sheng before the age of fifty.
• Xun Er led Xiao Ling to the Gu Clan’s courtyard, where the guards and other clansmen reacted with surprise and suspicion at seeing them holding hands.
• Gu Qingyang and Gu Yao waited outside Xun Er’s pavilion and told her the elders wanted her to return to the clan soon.
• Gu Qingyang greeted Xiao Ling warmly, but Xiao Ling said he and Xun Er needed to rest and started toward the pavilion with her.
• Gu Yao reached for Xiao Ling’s shoulder, and Xiao Ling used his Soul Power to block the attack.

Xiao Ling easily repelled Gu Yao’s Soul Power attack, but Gu Yao prepared to strike again until Xun Er intervened and punished him. Gu Yao returned to the Ancient Clan after challenging Xiao Ling to a future full-strength battle, while Xiao Ling and Xun Er exchanged teasing words.

• Xiao Ling’s Soul Power overwhelmed Gu Yao’s, sending him flying and revealing the strength of Xiao Ling’s soul.
• Gu Yao prepared another attack, but Xun Er struck him with her Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and warned him to stop.
• Gu Qingyang calmed the confrontation, and Xun Er let Xiao Ling decide how she should respond before ordering Gu Yao to return to the Ancient Clan, serve three years of increased duties, lose half his merit points, and undergo a month of confinement.
• Xun Er warned Gu Qingyang to take responsibility for his subordinates, then summoned Elder Yuan to escort Gu Yao back to the Ancient Clan.
• Gu Yao challenged Xiao Ling to a full-strength battle the next time they met, and Xiao Ling confidently accepted before Gu Yao left through a Space Passage.
• Xiao Ling joked about Xun Er’s admirers, and Xun Er teased him to cultivate harder if he wanted to marry her.

Xiao Ling and Xun Er shared an intimate evening while Elder Lin worried outside her room and sent a message to the Gu Clan. Afterward, Xiao Ling began investigating the Storage Ring he had taken from Mo Ji.

• Xun Er encouraged Xiao Ling to prove his strength to the Gu Clan elders, and the two entered her room together.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er bathed and talked before returning to bed, where Xun Er offered to help him while preserving her purity.
• Elder Lin failed to get past the Heavenly Demon Puppet and sent a message urging the Gu Clan to bring Xun Er back.
• After Xun Er returned to the bathroom, Xiao Ling examined Mo Ji's Storage Ring and erased the Soul Imprint protecting it.

Xiao Ling searched Mo Ji’s Storage Ring and found a map to the Ancient Heavenly Serpent Ruins, which he hoped could help Qing Lin grow stronger. Later, he refined a Rank 7 Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill for Xun Er and protected it from Pill Lightning with an Earthly Demon Puppet.

• Xiao Ling examined the Blood Evil Art and Heaven Nether Asura Hand from Mo Ji’s Storage Ring, then collected the other treasures he found.
• Xiao Ling discovered Xuan Ying’s letter and map to the Ancient Heavenly Serpent Ruins, and planned to investigate the ruins for Qing Lin once he had more information and strength.
• Xiao Ling and Xun Er shared a quiet night together before he began refining the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill for her.
• Xiao Ling completed the pill, and an Earthly Demon Puppet absorbed the Pill Lightning that descended upon it.
• Xiao Ling caught the pill when it tried to flee and sealed it inside a jade bottle.

Xun Er returned to the Ancient Realm after saying goodbye to Xiao Ling, who then headed back to Ye City. At the Ye Family, Yao Chen and Yao Tianhuo noted Xiao Yi Xian’s breakthrough to Five-star Dou Zun, and she asked why Xiao Ling was absent.

• Xun Er accepted the Gu Clan’s order to return, and she and Xiao Ling promised to meet again at the Pill Gathering.
• Elder Lin opened a spatial gateway, and Xun Er, Gu Qingyang, and the Gu Clan guards departed for the Ancient Realm.
• Xiao Ling comforted Rayquaza, then rode it back toward Ye City.
• Yao Chen and Yao Tianhuo discussed their cultivation and recognized Xiao Yi Xian’s aura as she emerged from seclusion at Five-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yi Xian greeted Yao Chen and Yao Tianhuo, then asked why she could not sense Xiao Ling in the Ye Family.

Xiao Ling returned to the Ye Family after a week away and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian while she was refining pills. He kept the details of his trip private but revealed that he had found materials for Elder Yao’s new body, leaving Elder Yao eager to learn what they were.

• Xiao Yi Xian worried that Xiao Ling had not returned, while Elder Yao and Yao Tianhuo reassured her and encouraged her to focus on alchemy.
• Elder Yao taught Xiao Yi Xian to refine a Purple Flame Pill, and she struggled with the Rank 3 recipe.
• Xiao Ling returned to the Ye Family and used his Soul Power to calm the unstable medicinal essences in Xiao Yi Xian’s cauldron.
• Xiao Yi Xian embraced Xiao Ling, showed him the Purple Flame Pill, and asked him to guide her in alchemy as she continued to improve.
• Elder Yao and Yao Tianhuo asked Xiao Ling about his trip, but he kept its details private and announced that he had found materials for Elder Yao’s new body.

Xiao Ling and his companions traveled to Starfall Pavilion and entered its hidden Star Realm with Yao Chen’s guidance. After the pavilion’s disciples initially treated them as intruders, Mu Qingluan recognized Xiao Ling and agreed to lead the group to meet her master, Feng Xian.

• Xiao Ling rested with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, then set out for Starfall Pavilion the next morning with his companions through the Ye Family’s Space Wormhole.
• Xiao Ling’s group traveled for many days to the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, where Yao Chen used an ancient jade stone to open the hidden entrance to Starfall Pavilion’s Star Realm.
• Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Yao Tianhuo followed Yao Chen into the Star Realm and explored the pavilion’s secluded headquarters.
• Mu Qingluan and the patrolling disciples confronted the newcomers, but a guard recognized Xiao Ling as a renowned Eighth-grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Ling showed Mu Qingluan his alchemist badge and explained that he wished to speak with Feng Xian, so Mu Qingluan apologized and led the group toward her master.

Xiao Ling and his companions visited Wind Venerable at Starfall Pavilion, where Xiao Ling revealed that Yao Chen was alive and brought him face-to-face with his old friend. The reunion left Wind Venerable overjoyed, and Mu Qingluan recognized Yao Chen as Starfall Pavilion’s true pavilion master.

• Mu Qingluan guided Xiao Ling and his companions to Wind Venerable’s residence and went inside to announce their arrival.
• Xiao Ling and his companions met Gu Ling, known as Wind Venerable, and chatted with him before Xiao Ling raised the matter of some good news.
• Yao Chen emerged from the ring on Heavenly Fire Venerable’s finger, stunning Wind Venerable with the sight of his long-lost friend.
• Wind Venerable recovered from his shock, welcomed Yao Chen back, and told Mu Qingluan to greet Starfall Pavilion’s true pavilion master.
• Mu Qingluan bowed to Yao Chen, who teased Wind Venerable for making him awkward in front of the younger generation.

Xiao Ling and Yao Chen arrived at Starfall Pavilion, where Yao Chen’s relationship with Xiao Ling and Xiao Yi Xian was affirmed and Qing Lin’s rare eyes were revealed under a promise of secrecy. After the group settled in and Xiao Ling prepared to help Yao Chen regain a body, they entered a hidden chamber, where Xiao Ling began adding protective formations and brought out a stone coffin.

• Wind Venerable welcomed Yao Chen and learned that Xiao Ling had developed his alchemy largely on his own, while Xiao Ling and Xiao Yi Xian bowed to Yao Chen and called him their master in their hearts.
• Yao Chen introduced Qing Lin as his true disciple and revealed her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, asking Wind Venerable and Mu Qingluan to keep the secret from the dangerous Serpentine Magical Beast clans.
• Yao Chen announced that Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Yao Tianhuo would join Starfall Pavilion, and Wind Venerable welcomed Yao Tianhuo and agreed to arrange positions and accommodations.
• Xiao Ling asked Wind Venerable for a secret chamber so they could refine a new body for Yao Chen, and Mu Qingluan led Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin away to choose residences.
• Wind Venerable brought Xiao Ling and Yao Chen through a Space Passage to a hidden chamber, where Xiao Ling set up layered formations and dropped a stone coffin that released a terrifying pressure.

Xiao Ling revealed that the stone coffin held a Three-star Dou Sheng Body and prepared it for Yao Chen’s resurrection using rare materials. After tempering the body for nearly half a month, Xiao Ling began the fusion, which continued as the new flesh repeatedly burned away and regenerated.

• Wind Venerable and Yao Chen sensed Saintly might from the stone coffin, and Xiao Ling confirmed it contained a Three-star Dou Sheng Body intended for Yao Chen.
• Xiao Ling showed Yao Chen a Rank 8 Nine-Colored Bone Regenerating Blood Melting Pill and Ninth-tier Magical Beast essence blood, which he had obtained through a fair trade.
• Wind Venerable left to find a place for Yao Tianhuo to cultivate and promised to guard the secret chamber.
• Xiao Ling opened the coffin, placed the Dou Sheng Body on a stone platform, and drove a wisp of Yao Chen’s soul into it.
• Xiao Ling used the Ninth-tier Magical Beast essence blood and his Exotic Flame to temper the body for nearly half a month, then Yao Chen swallowed the pill and entered it.
• Xiao Ling burned the body with his Exotic Flame as the pill’s power regenerated its flesh, beginning the repeated process needed to fuse Yao Chen with his new body.

Xiao Ling completed the refinement of a new body for Elder Yao, leaving only the final merging before his resurrection, while Soul Hall’s Old Ghost Xing Zhai ordered Xiao Ling’s pursuit to continue. Xiao Ling emerged from seclusion and joined Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin at their mountain residence to prepare for cultivation toward the Dou Zun Realm.

• Xiao Ling used flames for nearly a week to refine Elder Yao’s new body, then left the final merging to Elder Yao.
• A Soul Hall Protector reported that Xiao Ling had vanished near the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, and Old Ghost Xing Zhai ordered him to keep monitoring Xiao Ling before deciding to act personally.
• Xiao Ling emerged from the secret chamber after more than a month, and Wind Venerable learned that Elder Yao’s body had been successfully refined.
• Xiao Ling asked Wind Venerable to arrange a place for secluded cultivation so he could pursue a breakthrough to the Dou Zun Realm.
• Wind Venerable brought Xiao Ling to the mountain where Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin lived, and Xiao Yi Xian welcomed him.
• Qing Lin rushed into Xiao Ling’s arms and told him she had missed him, while Xiao Yi Xian watched them with an intrigued smile.

Xiao Ling reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin at Starfall Pavilion and told them he would soon enter seclusion to pursue a breakthrough to Dou Zun. As the three went to explore the pavilion, Mu Qingluan showed the disciples Xiao Ling’s portrait, unaware that he had arrived behind her.

• Xiao Yi Xian noticed Qing Lin had grown more affectionate toward Xiao Ling and privately accepted that their relationship had changed.
• Xiao Ling told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin he planned to enter seclusion for a long time, then invited them to tour Starfall Pavilion with him.
• Xiao Yi Xian opened a Space Passage, and Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin stepped through together.
• Mu Qingluan reassured curious disciples that Xiao Ling had truly joined Starfall Pavilion, then showed them his portrait and praised his appearance.
• Xiao Ling appeared behind Mu Qingluan, touched her head, and offered to refine whatever pills she wanted.