Chapter Summaries

Wu Yong agreed to help Xiao Yan deal with the Misty Cloud Sect after hearing how the Soul Hall had targeted the Xiao Clan. Back in the valley, he tested his forgotten Wind and Cloud Transformation Secret Art and found it could boost him beyond Nine-Star Dou Zun to roughly the fourth transformation.

• Xiao Yan asked Wu Yong to stand guard while he sought revenge on the Misty Cloud Sect and explained how the Soul Hall had attacked the Xiao Clan for its Ancient Jade.
• Wu Yong agreed to join the action against the Misty Cloud Sect when Xiao Yan was ready, while Yao Chen offered to seek help refining eighth-tier medicinal pills in the Central Plains.
• Wu Yong returned to the valley and considered seeking a Heaven Tier Cultivation Method to accelerate his progress toward Dou Sheng.
• Wu Yong remembered his Wind and Cloud Transformation Secret Art and activated it, unleashing power roughly equal to the fourth transformation of Dou Zun.

Wu Yong tested how powerfully his Secret Art worked with the Son of Wind, then traveled to the Jia Ma Empire to observe Xiao Yan and Yao Chen’s battle against Yun Shan and the Soul Hall Protector. He intervened to stop Yun Yun from reaching her fallen teacher, subdued the Protector, and left Yao Chen owing him a Tier 8 Nine-Colored Pill.

• Wu Yong ended his Secret Art trial and decided to continue cultivating until he reached Nine-Star Dou Zun before visiting the Central Plains.
• After receiving word from Xiao Yan and his master, Wu Yong left Zi Yan in her cocoon and traveled through a Spatial Tunnel to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Wu Yong watched Xiao Yan defeat Yun Shan and stopped Yun Yun from reaching her teacher’s fallen body.
• Wu Yong struck Wu Protector with spatial force and took the Soul Bag, allowing Yao Chen to capture the weakened Protector.
• Wu Yong halted the Misty Cloud Sect’s fighting, returned Xiao Yan and Yun Yun to their companions, and reminded Yao Chen to pay him with a Tier 8 Nine-Colored Pill.

Wu Yong took control of the defeated Misty Cloud Sect and decided to claim Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, while Yao Chen warned him about their beauty. As both women knelt before him, Wu Yong reflected on the danger his own loved ones would face if he were ever powerless, and Yao Chen recognized his unusually resolute disposition.

• Yao Chen said he would interrogate the captured Soul Hall Protector and confirmed that Xiao Yan was out of danger.
• Wu Yong asked what would happen to the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yao Chen offered him Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran.
• Yun Yun knelt before Wu Yong and begged him to preserve an inheritance for the sect.
• Nalan Yanran emerged from seclusion as a Dou Wang, but Wu Yong subdued her with his soul force and made her kneel beside Yun Yun.
• Wu Yong reflected on how the weak could lose their loved ones to stronger people, and Yao Chen was startled by the change in his disposition.

Wu Yong forced Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to submit, then took them to a remote valley near the sea. As the pair began adapting to their captivity, Wu Yong grew wary of becoming weak and restricted where they could go.

• Wu Yong killed a Misty Cloud Sect disciple who challenged him, then threatened Yun Yun with the destruction of the Poison Scorpion Sect until she and Nalan Yanran submitted to him.
• Wu Yong gave Wu Protector's Soul Bag to Yao Chen, who stored Wu Protector's and Yun Shan's souls inside and froze Yun Shan's body.
• Wu Yong stopped near the Snake-Person Race's Holy City to leave Spatial Coordinates, then brought Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to a remote valley and limited their movements.
• Wu Yong marked Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran with his soul power, released Nalan Yanran from control, and left the valley after warning them about its boundaries.
• Yun Yun explained their situation to Nalan Yanran, and the two accepted that they had no choice but to cultivate and carved out a cave near the sea.

Wu Yong returned with a master-disciple pair from the Misty Cloud Sect and discussed the Snake-Person Race’s future with Medusa. He sent Medusa to offer her people a choice between settling peacefully by the sea or following him into a dangerous future.

• Wu Yong told Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa that his trip had gone smoothly and that he had brought back two people from the Misty Cloud Sect as playthings.
• Medusa suggested relocating the Snake-Person Race to the seaside, and Wu Yong offered them a choice between a peaceful settlement with their debts settled or risking their destruction by following him.
• Medusa agreed to notify her people, and Wu Yong opened a Spatial Tunnel for her to reach their Holy City.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked whether Wu Yong would cultivate the Misty Cloud Sect master-disciple pair like Medusa, and he explained that he saw them mainly as playthings and negative examples.

Medusa gathered the Snake-Person Race's leaders and told them they could either follow her powerful Master or relocate and sever their ties with her. She gave them half an hour to decide, while privately longing to return to Wu Yong.

• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to help Wu Yong train his disciples so they could play together.
• Medusa returned to the Snake-Person Holy City and summoned the Snake-Person Race's upper echelon.
• Medusa subjected the gathered leaders to her pressure before inviting them into the queen's palace.
• Medusa gave the leaders a map and told them to find a new settlement away from the coast.
• Medusa offered the Snake-Person Race a choice between following her Master and risking the race's destruction, or relocating and ending their ties with her.
• Two elders questioned whether Medusa truly meant to abandon the race, and Medusa gave them half an hour to choose.

The Snake-Person Race chose to follow Medusa and relocate through a permanent Space Wormhole to a coastal settlement established by Wu Yong. Three months later, Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun discovered that their pale cyan marks were increasing their cultivation speed, and Yun Yun wondered whether Wu Yong had planned it.

• Yin Shi persuaded the Snake-Person Race’s leaders that following Medusa was safer than trying to remain uninvolved, and the leaders swore allegiance to her.
• A permanent Spatial Tunnel appeared in the Snake-Person Race’s Holy City, and two elders, Yin Shi, and Yue Mei traveled through it to inspect the destination.
• The scouts emerged at a warm, humid coast, where Medusa introduced Wu Yong and Little Fairy and told the Snake-Person Race to respect them.
• Wu Yong left a Communication Crystal and departed with Little Fairy, while Medusa explained the settlement to the scouts before returning to cultivation.
• Over the next three months, the Snake-Person Race undertook a large-scale relocation, while Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun discovered their pale cyan marks increased their cultivation speed.
• Yun Yun questioned whether Wu Yong had anticipated the marks’ effect.

Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran accepted their situation and went to thank Master, while Medusa teased them. After emerging from seclusion, Wu Yong began tempering his soul power against endless ocean waves, aiming to reach the Heavenly Realm.

• Yun Yun explained to Nalan Yanran that Lord knew about their marks and that resisting would endanger their families.
• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran decided to accept their circumstances and went to find Master.
• Queen Medusa teased the pair and told them to serve Master and Madam wholeheartedly, prompting them to flee the valley.
• Wu Yong emerged from seclusion two months later and used his soul power to cancel out the waves at the seashore.
• Wu Yong planned to restore his soul power with medicine made by reversing the polarity of Little Fairy's soul-harming poison, then repeat the process to advance toward the Heavenly Realm.

Wu Yong continued tempering his soul while Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan discussed visiting the Central Plains after reaching Dou Zun. Instead, the two women traveled to the Jia Ma Empire capital to shop, where they discovered a pill shop run by the Xiao Clan.

• Wu Yong drew the white trait [As If Hearing Immortal Music] and resumed cultivating with Sea Tide.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Yi Xian about traveling to the Central Plains to find her kin, and Xiao Yi Xian said they should wait until she or Medusa reached Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Zi Yan she was a Nine-Star Dou Zong and expected to reach Dou Zun within a year, though her cultivation might slow afterward.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan decided to visit the Jia Ma Empire capital for a change of scenery and arrived there in under an hour.
• Zi Yan checked whether they had money, and Xiao Yi Xian showed her Wu Yong's Storage Rings before they began shopping along the prosperous street.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan entered a pill shop, where a clerk introduced it as the Jia Clan Pill Shop, the best in the Jia Ma Empire.

Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan robbed Mo Yan Valley and returned with a trove of treasures for Wu Yong. Half a year later, Wu Yong appeared above the Heavenly Snake Mansion and demanded its submission or destruction.

• Zi Yan suggested robbing someone in the Black-Corner Region, and Xiao Yi Xian agreed that the two of them were strong enough to go without Wu Yong.
• Several days later, Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan returned with the treasures they had taken from Mo Yan Valley and told Wu Yong how they defeated Old Demon Di Mo.
• Wu Yong examined the haul, including rare cultivation techniques, a seventh-tier Magic Core, and a Heavenly Demon Puppet, while Zi Yan claimed credit for the success.
• After another half year, Wu Yong reached Nine-Star Dou Zun in Dou Qi cultivation and the Heavenly Realm in soul cultivation, then tore open space and left the coast.
• Wu Yong appeared above the Heavenly Snake Mansion, restrained its gathered experts with spatial force, and demanded that they submit and hand over their possessions or die.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion's master pleaded for his people, but Wu Yong repeated his demand for their submission.

Wu Yong seized Qing Lin and the Heavenly Snake Mansion's possessions, then took Qing Lin and the mansion master on a campaign against the Northwest Continent's super factions. After defeating the Dou Zuns there, he returned to his valley and realized that his Golden trait boosted his combat power as well as his cultivation.

• Wu Yong took the Heavenly Snake Mansion's treasures and claimed Qing Lin, whose Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils could not affect him.
• Wu Yong brought Qing Lin and the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master through a Space Wormhole and asked where to find nearby factions led by Dou Zuns.
• Over the next half month, Wu Yong defeated the Northwest Continent's super factions and stripped them of their resources, while Qing Lin and the mansion master accompanied him.
• Wu Yong returned to his valley and realized that [Son of Wind] let him wield the energy of heaven and earth to greatly increase his combat strength.
• Wu Yong reflected on the power of his Golden trait and wondered what a second one might allow him to do.

Wu Yong left the West Coast and traveled alone to the Central Plains, where he reunited with Han Yue in Tianbei City. After learning the Hong Clan was pressuring Han Yue’s family, he took her to confront the Hong Clan and subdued its old ancestor.

• Wu Yong told Xiao Yi Xian he would travel alone to the Central Plains, then set out using Han Yue’s crystal as his coordinates.
• In Tianbei City, Han Yue began her broadcast before Wu Yong contacted her and told her to come receive him.
• Wu Yong appeared through a tear in space, and Han Yue learned he had reached Dou Zun; she told him the Hong Clan was pressuring her family over a marriage alliance.
• Wu Yong took Han Yue to the Hong Clan and crushed its members beneath his pressure, forcing its old ancestor, Hong Tianxiao, to the ground.
• Wu Yong asked Hong Tianxiao whether he knew Han Yue, and Han Yue stood beside Wu Yong as the old ancestor acknowledged her.

Wu Yong resolved the Hong Clan’s conflict with the Han Clan, then brought Han Yue to the Wind Lightning Pavilion to confront Lei Zunzhe. As the Han Clan received the Hong Clan’s submission, Wu Yong was struck head-on by Lei Zunzhe’s strongest lightning attack.

• Wu Yong forced the Hong Clan to submit to the Han Clan and promised Han Yue he would consider her family’s position.
• Wu Yong took Han Yue to the Wind Lightning North Pavilion, subdued Fei Tian and its members, then headed for the Wind Lightning Pavilion headquarters.
• Hong Tianxiao led the Hong Clan to the Han Clan’s gates and explained to Han Chi that a Dou Zun had protected Han Yue and spared their clan.
• Lei Zunzhe sensed Wu Yong’s arrival, ordered the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s protective array activated, then attacked him with Violent Thunder Burst.
• Wu Yong was struck by Lei Zunzhe’s lightning attack, and dazzling bolts filled the space where he stood.

Wu Yong defeated Lei Zunzhe and forced the Wind Lightning Pavilion to hand over the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body. Back at the Han Clan, he gave Han Yue cultivation scrolls, and her family questioned her about her connection to a powerful figure.

• Wu Yong shattered the Wind Lightning Pavilion's Sect Protecting Array, defeated Lei Zunzhe, and demanded a copy of the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body.
• Lei Zunzhe surrendered the technique and other treasured possessions, then resolved to find the Wind Lightning Pavilion a powerful backer.
• Han Yue returned home to find the Han Clan celebrating and brought Wu Yong to a quiet courtyard.
• Wu Yong gave Han Yue two ice-blue scrolls containing an Earth Tier mid-level cultivation method and Dou Techniques, calling them Xiao Yi Xian's spoils of war.
• Han Yue's father, younger sister, and other clan leaders questioned her about the great person she knew, so she led them to the main hall to explain.

Wu Yong mastered a powerful Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body and took Han Yue with him to confront the Four Directions Pavilion. After defeating and looting the pavilion leaders, he left Feng Zunzhe beaten but alive at Star Meteor Pavilion.

• Wu Yong cultivated Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body to Mastery in half a month, creating a clone with two-thirds of his strength.
• Wu Yong told Han Yue to prepare for their trip to Yellow Spring and arrived there with Lei Zunzhe.
• Wu Yong defeated Yellow Spring Zunzhe and plundered Yellow Spring Pavilion, then later looted Ten Thousand Sword Pavilion as well.
• Wu Yong confronted Feng Zunzhe at Star Meteor Pavilion and used Han Feng’s Storage Ring to explain their supposed grievance.
• Wu Yong quickly defeated Feng Zunzhe, who stopped resisting rather than make a futile sacrifice over resources.

Wu Yong challenged and defeated Ice River Valley and Burning Flame Valley, taking the former’s treasures and asking the latter for wind-attributed Heaven Tier techniques. The chapter left Wu Yong entering Burning Flame Valley with Tang Zhen, while the other observers suspected Tang wanted to recruit him through his daughter.

• Wu Yong led Feng Zunzhe and the other pavilion masters to Ice River Valley, where he challenged Bing He and the entire valley.
• Wu Yong overwhelmed Ice River Valley’s defenders, severely injured them, and took the valley’s accumulated treasures.
• Bing He recovered and followed Wu Yong’s progress as he headed to Burning Flame Valley.
• Wu Yong defeated Tang Zhen even after Tang used Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, and Tang offered to discuss what Wu Yong wanted.
• Wu Yong asked for Burning Flame Valley’s wind-attributed Heaven Tier cultivation methods or Dou Skills, and Tang led him inside as the observers speculated that he hoped to recruit Wu Yong through his daughter.

After defeating Tang Zhen, Wu Yong received Burning Flame Valley’s promised cultivation method and Dou Techniques, then met Fire Cloud Ancestor at Tang Zhen’s invitation. Fire Cloud Ancestor was impressed by Wu Yong’s strength and soul force, while Tang Huo’er’s lively conversation with Wu Yong left Tang Zhen suspecting she was growing close to him.

• Tang Zhen invited Wu Yong to stay after his defeat and nudged Tang Huo’er to spend time talking with him.
• Tang Huo’er asked Wu Yong how much strength he had used to defeat Tang Zhen.
• Tang Zhen told Fire Cloud Ancestor about Wu Yong, and the ancestor asked to meet the young genius.
• Tang Zhen gave Wu Yong a Wind Attribute cultivation method and two Dou Techniques as his spoils of battle.
• Tang Zhen brought Wu Yong to meet Fire Cloud Ancestor, who praised his strength and marveled at his powerful soul force.
• Wu Yong modestly credited his victory over Tang Zhen to their difference in realm.

Wu Yong declined Fire Cloud Ancestor’s offer to join the Burning Flame Valley and set out to challenge the Tianming Sect. He neutralized its Dou Zun experts’ attacks and launched the Fengxuan Seal, leaving the sect’s fighters facing a Heaven-Tier-level technique.

• Fire Cloud Ancestor warned Wu Yong that the Soul Hall could kill him, but Wu Yong said he planned to visit the other factions.
• Wu Yong chose the Tianming Sect as his next target, and Tang Zhen and his daughter joined the group heading there.
• Wu Yong sent the Tianming Sect a challenge letter demanding that its Dou Zun experts fight him or surrender half its resources.
• Wu Yong asked Tang Zhen and the others to protect Han Yue if trouble arose.
• The Tianming Sect’s Dou Zun experts attacked Wu Yong, but he dispelled their attacks with azure wind blades.
• Wu Yong formed the Fengxuan Seal, whose power made the Tianming Sect’s experts realize they faced a Heaven-Tier Dou Technique.

Wu Yong repeatedly attacked the Tianming Sect with silent Heaven-Tier Dou Techniques, then used a Secret Art to raise his strength and fought Tianming Old Demon. He drained the energy of heaven and earth around them and defeated the Half-Saint, who remained down as spectators watched.

• Wu Yong launched consecutive concealed Fengxuan Seals, overwhelming the Tianming Sect experts until Tianming Old Demon appeared and destroyed one attack.
• Wu Yong activated a Secret Art that raised his aura from peak Nine-Star Dou Zun to peak Eight-Turn Dou Zun, then struck Tianming Old Demon with another Fengxuan Seal.
• Wu Yong combined Qianfeng Lie with repeated Fengxuan Seals, forcing Tianming Old Demon into a prolonged defensive struggle.
• Tianming Old Demon realized Wu Yong was drawing away the surrounding energy of heaven and earth, leaving him unable to sustain the fight.
• Wu Yong exhausted Tianming Old Demon's Dou Qi and beat him to the ground; despite the spectators' calls, Tianming Old Demon did not get back up.

Wu Yong arrived at Danta after suppressing Tianming Old Demon and winning the Central Plains forces’ submission, prompting the Three Great Heads to weigh whether they could resist him. After Wu Yong demonstrated his strength and accepted their welcome, he left Danta and prepared to return home to cultivate.

• Xuan Kongzi told Xuan Yi and Tian Lei Zi that Wu Yong had a Heavenly Realm soul and had defeated Tianming Old Demon, leaving the Three Great Heads unsure how to handle his arrival.
• The Three Great Heads reasoned that Wu Yong would respect Danta because a Dou Sheng oversaw it and decided they could deal with him through their mutual interests.
• Wu Yong appeared above Shengdan City and attacked Danta with a cyan hand seal, which the assembled Danta experts blocked only with difficulty.
• Xuan Kongzi praised Wu Yong, who asked to come inside for tea, and the Three Great Heads welcomed him with relief.
• Wu Yong briefly met with Danta’s leaders, then left the Central Plains to return home and continue cultivating.