Chapter Summaries

After spending half a month with Han Yue and Han Xue at the Flower Sect, Xiao Ling departed with Mu Qingluan for Starfall Pavilion. On the way, he sensed a Hall of Souls ambush and prepared to protect Mu Qingluan and counterattack.

• Han Xue and Han Yue tested their newly rebuilt seal and found they could control its Dou Qi freely, while Xiao Ling helped Han Yue handle Flower Sect affairs and declined an invitation to become a Guest Elder.
• Xiao Ling stayed at the Flower Sect for half a month, then gave Han Yue and Han Xue a box of high-grade pills before leaving with Mu Qingluan through the Space Passage.
• Han Yue and Han Xue watched Xiao Ling depart and resolved to cultivate so they could help him when they met again.
• While Xiao Ling and Mu Qingluan rode Rayquaza away from the Flower Sect, Mu Qingluan confronted Xiao Ling about neglecting her, and he reassured her until she smiled again.
• Xiao Ling sensed Hall of Souls members waiting in ambush along their route and promised Mu Qingluan he would keep her safe, while preparing to use the Myriad Soul Banner against them.

Xiao Ling and Mu Qingluan flew into a Hall of Souls ambush, where Xiao Ling confronted four Heavenly Venerables. He revealed strength at the peak of Nine-star Dou Zun and attacked, forcing the ambushers to abandon their original plan and call for reinforcements.

• Hall of Souls members led by Eight Heavenly Venerable prepared to ambush Xiao Ling and warned each other to restrain Rayquaza so he could not escape.
• Xiao Ling reassured Mu Qingluan as Rayquaza carried them through the lifeless mountain range toward the waiting ambushers.
• Rayquaza's beam struck the hidden barrier, revealing Eight Heavenly Venerable, Nine Heavenly Venerable, and the Black and White Heavenly Venerables.
• Xiao Ling mocked the four Hall of Souls members, then unleashed an aura they recognized as at least peak Nine-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Ling summoned nine enormous fire dragons and sent them charging at the four Heavenly Venerables.
• Eight Heavenly Venerable ordered himself and Nine Heavenly Venerable to hold Xiao Ling off while the Black and White Heavenly Venerables sent word to the Hall of Souls' master.

Black and White Heavenly Venerables tried to flee while Eight Heavenly Venerable and Nine Heavenly Venerable attacked Xiao Ling with a combined technique. Xiao Ling trapped them with a spatial barrier and used the Heavenly Tier Dou Technique Great Creation Palm to swallow their attack, leaving the halo advancing toward them.

• Black and White Heavenly Venerables fled to report Xiao Ling's strength to the Hall of Souls, but Xiao Ling's spatial barrier stopped them.
• Nine Heavenly Venerable formed a corrosive rain sphere, and Eight Heavenly Venerable froze it into a giant ice ball for their combined attack.
• Eight Heavenly Venerable and Nine Heavenly Venerable launched Rain Erosion Sky at Xiao Ling while Mu Qingluan and Rayquaza retreated from the attack's pressure.
• Xiao Ling revealed that Yao Chen was alive, then sealed the area with a spatial barrier that trapped Black and White Heavenly Venerables.
• Xiao Ling unleashed Great Creation Palm, and its black halo swallowed the ice ball without an explosion.
• Eight Heavenly Venerable and Nine Heavenly Venerable recognized Xiao Ling's Heavenly Tier Dou Technique and retreated from the advancing halo.

Xiao Ling overwhelmed the Eight Heavenly Venerable and Nine Heavenly Venerable, who burned their origins and unleashed a Hall of Souls forbidden technique to escape. He killed them with his puppets and captured their souls in the Myriad Soul Banner, intending to use them as Banner Slaves to infiltrate the Hall of Souls.

• The Eight Heavenly Venerable and Nine Heavenly Venerable used Myriad Ghosts Devour Heaven to slow Xiao Ling's Great Creation Palm, burning their origins in the process.
• Xiao Ling weakened his attack and decided to spare the two Venerables so he could turn them into Banner Slaves and exploit their rank within the Hall of Souls.
• After the ghostly hand and black halo destroyed each other, the Eight Heavenly Venerable offered compensation while the Nine Heavenly Venerable threatened Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Ling rejected their pleas and threats, then had two dark golden puppets pierce their chests and kill them.
• Xiao Ling seized the Venerables' escaping soul bodies with the Power of Space and absorbed them into the Myriad Soul Banner.

Xiao Ling defeated the Hall of Souls pursuers, collected their bodies and souls, and comforted Mu Qingluan after revealing his cultivation had surpassed Nine-star Dou Zun. The scene then shifted to Qing Lin, who had bound the soul of an Ancient Heavenly Serpent but had not fully subdued it.

• Xiao Ling stored the Myriad Soul Banner and the corpses of the Eight Heavenly Venerable and Nine Heavenly Venerable for later use.
• The Heavenly Demon Puppet brought Xiao Ling the Black and White Heavenly Venerables, and Xiao Ling killed them, collected their souls, and stored their bodies.
• Mu Qingluan reunited with Xiao Ling and learned he had surpassed Nine-star Dou Zun by compressing his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Ling reassured Mu Qingluan that he would never leave her behind, and she fell asleep in his arms as they departed on Rayquaza.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Yi Xian that her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils had bound the Ancient Heavenly Serpent's soul, though she had not fully subdued it.

Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin escaped the Ancient Heavenly Serpent Ruins with a dangerous soul bound within Qing Lin and set off for Starfall Pavilion to seek help. Xiao Ling and Mu Qingluan also returned to the pavilion, where Xiao Ling reunited with Yao Chen and Feng Xian and revealed that he had placed informants inside the Hall of Souls.

• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin left the ruins after Qing Lin suppressed the Ancient Heavenly Serpent Soul Body, which she could not yet fully control.
• Qing Lin summoned an Eighth-tier Nine Nether Netherworld Python, and she and Xiao Yi Xian rode it toward Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Ling and Mu Qingluan returned to the Heavenly Star Mountain Range aboard Rayquaza, entered the Star Realm, and went to the main hall.
• Mu Qingluan greeted Feng Xian and Yao Chen affectionately before Xiao Ling discussed his journey to the Flower Sect and Han Yue's new position as its leader.
• Xiao Ling told Yao Chen and Feng Xian that he had dealt with an ambush by the Hall of Souls' Heavenly Venerables and had arranged for four Banner Slaves to return as informants.

Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin returned to Starfall Pavilion, where Qing Lin revealed that the Ancient Heavenly Serpent's remnant soul had entered her body. Xiao Ling began examining her in a cultivation chamber and discovered a strange pattern on her back.

• Xiao Ling and Yao Chen sensed Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin approaching Starfall Pavilion, and the women reunited with them in the main hall.
• Qing Lin explained that she had subdued many Serpentine Magical Beasts in the ruins but had also absorbed the Ancient Heavenly Serpent's remnant soul.
• Yao Chen asked Xiao Ling to find a permanent solution, and Xiao Ling agreed to examine Qing Lin and remove the danger.
• Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin left for Lingyue Peak, where Xiao Ling prioritized examining Qing Lin while Xiao Yi Xian went to rest.
• Xiao Ling asked Qing Lin about the soul's effects, then had her remove her outer robe; he froze when he saw a pattern on her back.

Xiao Ling discovered that the soul remnant inside Qing Lin was likely that of the Ancient Nine-headed Heavenly Serpent King and sealed it after suppressing its violent resistance. Qing Lin’s power settled, and she prepared to attend to Xiao Ling after he helped her.

• Xiao Ling repelled the serpent remnant’s attack and stopped Qing Lin from continuing her cultivation while it was restless.
• Xiao Ling questioned Qing Lin about the Ancient Heavenly Serpent Ruins and concluded that the nine-headed remnant belonged to the Ancient Nine-headed Heavenly Serpent King.
• Xiao Ling explained the remnant’s potential benefits and dangers, then assured Qing Lin he would help her assimilate it.
• Xiao Ling formed a suppression seal while Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to help stabilize it, and they subdued the serpent soul.
• Qing Lin confirmed that the seal had calmed the remnant, and Xiao Ling told her to absorb its strength gradually.
• Qing Lin offered to attend to the exhausted Xiao Ling, and he accepted.

Zhu Li visited Xiao Ling to explain that Zi Yan was struggling to absorb the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and needed a high-tier Heavenly Demon Phoenix Magic Core. Xiao Ling promised to find one, and the chapter left him watching as Zhu Li took on the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning from Xiao Ling’s completed pill.

• Zhu Li arrived at Xiao Ling’s mountain platform through a spatial passage and nearly disrupted his pill refining.
• Zhu Li explained that Zi Yan risked energy overload while absorbing the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and needed a Magic Core from a beast with Ancient Heavenly Phoenix bloodline, preferably an eighth-tier or higher Heavenly Demon Phoenix.
• Xiao Ling said he had no suitable Magic Core available but promised to find one for Zi Yan, and Zhu Li pledged future assistance from Ancient Dragon Island.
• Xiao Ling’s pill released a pillar of energy that summoned Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, and Zhu Li transformed into his Primordial Void Dragon form to face it.

After helping Zhu Li overcome the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, Xiao Ling learned that Zi Yan needed a Heavenly Demon Phoenix Magic Core of at least the eighth tier. He decided to obtain one from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and considered asking Feng Qing'er for help, despite his unease about targeting her clan.

• Xiao Ling refined a Grade 8 pill, and Zhu Li repelled its Nine-Colored Pill Lightning before praising the pill and agreeing that Ancient Dragon Island would seek Xiao Ling's help with future alchemy.
• Yao Chen summoned Xiao Ling, who explained Zi Yan's difficulty absorbing the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and her need for a high-grade Heavenly Demon Phoenix Magic Core.
• Yao Chen warned Xiao Ling that such a core was scarce and that confronting the powerful Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan carried great risk, but promised to protect him if needed.
• Xiao Ling returned home and saw Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian sparring before retreating to plan how to acquire a core.
• Xiao Ling sensed Feng Qing'er's jade slip and considered using her position in the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to help him obtain a core from her clansmen, resolving to proceed for Zi Yan's sake.

Xiao Ling sought Feng Qing'er’s help in finding an eighth-tier Heaven Demon Phoenix Magic Core for Zi Yan, while discussing the danger with Xiao Yi Xian. Feng Qing'er replied with a possible source: the guarded Phoenix Mausoleum, and offered to guide Xiao Ling inside.

• Xiao Ling read Feng Qing'er’s update about her cultivation and sent her a message asking for help locating a high-tier Heaven Demon Phoenix Magic Core.
• Xiao Yi Xian visited Xiao Ling, and he told her about Zi Yan’s difficulty absorbing the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and the need for a Magic Core.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Xiao Ling about the risks of approaching the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and offered to accompany him if he needed help.
• The next morning, Xiao Ling received Feng Qing'er’s reply and learned that the Phoenix Mausoleum held the buried Magic Cores of the clan’s dead.
• Feng Qing'er offered to act as an insider, guide Xiao Ling into the clan’s territory, and share the mausoleum’s layout and guard patrols.

Xiao Ling exchanged plans with Feng Qing'er for entering the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and spent time with Xiao Yi Xian before departing for the clan’s territory. He reached the arranged meeting place and spotted Feng Qing'er waiting below.

• Xiao Ling sent Feng Qing'er a message requesting information about the Phoenix Tomb, and she replied with the clan’s coordinates and a plan to bring him inside using her bloodline.
• Xiao Ling and Feng Qing'er exchanged detailed rendezvous and security information through their jade slips throughout the morning.
• Xiao Yi Xian brought Xiao Ling tea and pastries, asked whether Feng Qing'er could be trusted, and accepted his assurance that she would not betray him.
• Xiao Ling and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to spend time together before his departure, then headed to the Medicine Garden so he could prepare poisonous herbs for her cultivation.
• Xiao Ling traveled to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory and descended toward the arranged meeting place, where he saw Feng Qing'er waiting.

Xiao Ling reunited with Feng Qing'er, rested with her, and learned the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s defenses and layout. They reached the clan’s guarded territory, where Xiao Ling concealed himself from patrolling spirit birds, and Feng Qing'er brought him to the statues that opened the Space Passage.

• Xiao Ling reunited with Feng Qing'er, who embraced him and asked him to rest before they began their plan to enter the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• During their two days in the courtyard, Feng Qing'er explained what she had learned about the clan’s guards, grounds, and Phoenix Tomb, while Xiao Ling planned their approach.
• Xiao Ling and Feng Qing'er entered the Burning Thunder Wasteland outside the clan’s territory, where Xiao Ling used Illusory Dream Spirit Shadow to keep the patrolling spirit birds from detecting him.
• Feng Qing'er led Xiao Ling toward the Space Passage during a guard shift change and explained that the two Heaven Demon Phoenix statues were sacred objects and the medium for opening it.

Feng Qing'er opened a Space Passage into the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan territory and entered with Xiao Ling. At the clan’s guarded outpost, the guards recognized Feng Qing'er and let her pass without an inspection, while Xiao Ling’s arrival remained unseen.

• Feng Qing'er used her bloodline power to open a Space Passage between the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Stone Statues, then warned Xiao Ling to proceed cautiously.
• Feng Qing'er entered the passage first, and Xiao Ling followed her through the shifting spatial corridor toward its white exit.
• Feng Qing'er and Xiao Ling emerged into the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan territory, a secluded realm of dense energy, floating islands, and Heavenly Demon Phoenixes.
• The guards at the outpost noticed the passage opening, and their captain ordered First Squad to remain alert during the shift handover.
• The guards recognized Feng Qing'er, greeted her respectfully, and agreed not to inspect her with the clan formation.

Xiao Ling secretly followed Feng Qing'er into Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan territory and reached her secluded island without being detected. He revealed that he had planted a Taixu Ancient Dragon Scale to draw the clan’s attention away from the Phoenix Mausoleum, and the pair waited for the clan to react.

• Xiao Ling used the Illusory Dream Spirit Shadow and the Power of Space to slip past the guards and follow Feng Qing'er toward the clan’s core region.
• Feng Qing'er maintained her usual demeanor as she passed clan members and returned to her floating island, while Xiao Ling concealed himself from onlookers.
• Xiao Ling inspected the island, found no signs of surveillance, and revealed himself to Feng Qing'er.
• Xiao Ling told Feng Qing'er that he had left a Taixu Ancient Dragon Scale in a mountain range opposite the Phoenix Mausoleum to provoke a clan-wide search and weaken its guards.
• Feng Qing'er and Xiao Ling agreed to wait for the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to discover the scale and decide their next move.

While Xiao Ling and Feng Qing'er shared a quiet evening in the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory, several clansmen discovered a purple scale that carried the aura of an Ancient Void Dragon. An elder identified it and rushed to alert the clan’s leaders, leaving the clan’s upper ranks in turmoil.

• Xiao Ling reassured Feng Qing'er about the clansmen seeking her favor, then invited her to help him cook dinner.
• Xiao Ling and Feng Qing'er prepared and shared a meal, then spent the night together beneath the stars.
• Several Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan members exploring a remote ravine found a purple scale that stirred fear and disgust in their bloodlines.
• The clansmen carried the scale to an elder, who recognized it as belonging to an Ancient Void Dragon and felt its immense pressure.
• The elder sealed the scale in a jade box and hurried to inform the clan’s leaders, setting off unrest among the upper ranks.

After the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan discovered a Vast Ancient Dragon Scale, Huang Tian ordered an extensive search and left to investigate the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan. Xiao Ling recognized that the clan’s diverted attention created an opening, kissed Feng Qing'er goodbye, and set off for the Phoenix Mausoleum.

• Huang Tian and the clan elders judged that the scale had likely been deliberately planted, then ordered elite forces to search the surrounding territory for hidden threats.
• Huang Tian dismissed the likelihood of a Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan infiltration and decided to visit the divided Dragon Islands to investigate and exploit their internal conflicts.
• Huang Tian told Phoenix to monitor the clan and the scale before flying into the void toward the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Ling and Feng Qing'er discussed the clanwide search, and Xiao Ling concluded that the diverted vigilance would make it easier to infiltrate the Phoenix Mausoleum.
• Feng Qing'er urged Xiao Ling to protect himself and said she would die with him if anything happened to him.
• Xiao Ling reassured Feng Qing'er, kissed her, and silently departed for the Phoenix Mausoleum.

Xiao Ling reached the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s hidden Phoenix Mausoleum and found its entrance concealed behind a powerful spatial barrier. With the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone’s help, he revealed the hidden space and prepared to break through it.

• Feng Qing'er watched Xiao Ling depart for the Phoenix Mausoleum in the northernmost part of the clan’s territory.
• Xiao Ling used Feng Qing'er's map to reach the lifeless mountain region where the mausoleum was hidden.
• Xiao Ling detected an abnormality in space and confirmed the Phoenix Mausoleum lay behind a concealed spatial barrier.
• Xiao Ling rejected using Feng Qing'er's bloodline power to open the barrier because it would expose her to danger.
• The Spirit of the Ancestral Stone revealed the hidden space and told Xiao Ling to use his Power of Space to open it.

Xiao Ling forced open the space barrier to the Phoenix Mausoleum and crossed the dangerous spatial turbulence with the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone’s help. He arrived in the apparently unguarded mausoleum and headed toward its gate to find his target.

• Xiao Ling used his Power of Space and Destiny Talisman to attack the barrier, while the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone concealed the disturbance.
• Xiao Ling shattered the space barrier and entered the Space Rift as the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone returned to the Ancestral Stone.
• Xiao Ling shielded himself from the spatial turbulence and forced his way toward the space containing the Phoenix Mausoleum.
• Xiao Ling emerged above the mausoleum plaza and found the vast grounds silent, with no living auras nearby.
• Xiao Ling gathered his senses, then transformed into a streak of light and flew toward the mausoleum gate.

Xiao Ling searched the Phoenix Mausoleum for a ninth-tier Heaven Demon Phoenix Magic Core to help Zi Yan cultivate. He found the tomb of an expert comparable to a Three-star Dou Sheng, and, with the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone delaying the tomb’s restrictions, entered it through a Space Rift.

• Xiao Ling passed through the tomb gate and used the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone’s help to evade the mausoleum’s restrictions as he headed deeper.
• Xiao Ling found an imposing altar and identified its occupant as a ninth-tier Heaven Demon Phoenix whose peak strength had rivaled a human Three-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Ling asked the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone to delay the tomb’s warning restriction while he entered the burial space.
• Xiao Ling opened a Space Rift and leaped through it.