Chapter Summaries

Ye Changge brought Shi Hao and Xiao Yan to the Chu Yun Empire for a Dou Zun Ruins expedition, where disciples under twenty-five would compete for an inheritance. As the major factions gathered in Chu Yun City, Ye Emperor Hall’s arrival drew recognition from the crowd.

• Shi Hao revealed that he had reached five-star Dou Ling, teasing his junior brother about how quickly he cultivated.
• Old Demon Dimu sent Wang Teng and twenty talented Demon Flame Valley disciples to the ruins, ordering elders to protect them from outside.
• Ye Changge told Shi Hao and Xiao Yan they would enter without life-saving trump cards so they could gain combat experience, while he waited outside.
• Ye Changge, Shi Hao, and Xiao Yan arrived in Chu Yun City aboard the Green Lotus Warship as factions gathered for the ruins opening.
• Onlookers recognized the green lotus emblems on their robes as Ye Emperor Hall, the faction that had recently dominated the Jia Ma Empire.

Medusa sought permission to enter the Dou Zun Secret Realm, hoping to find Form Transformation Grass and awaken her bloodline, while Ye Changge discovered that she was his third destined disciple. He approached her outside the royal palace and offered to resolve her bloodline problem in exchange for joining Ye Emperor Hall, but Medusa rejected him.

• Medusa persuaded the Serpent People's Grand Elders to let her enter the Dou Zun Secret Realm alone, explaining that her bloodline had begun to stir after she found an Earth Fire Green Lotus Seed and met a remnant soul in a ring.
• The assembled powers agreed that the secret realm's treasures would go to whoever could claim them and that no faction could seek revenge for disciples killed inside.
• Ye Changge discovered through Medusa's personal panel that she possessed an incompletely awakened Seven-Colored Devouring Sky Python bloodline and had found the damaged soul of an Ancient Nine-Colored Devouring Sky Python.
• Ye Changge left Shi Hao and Xiao Yan to explore the city and followed Medusa outside the royal palace, where she confronted him and readied herself to fight.
• Ye Changge offered to take Medusa as his disciple and promised to secure the Serpent People's future and fully resolve her bloodline issue, but Medusa challenged his claim that Ye Emperor Hall could surpass her people.

Ye Changge recruited Medusa into the Ye Emperor Hall after revealing that the ring held Liu Ruyan, a remnant soul of an Ancient Nine-Colored Devouring Sky Python. Later, Medusa, Shi Hao, and Xiao Yan entered the Dou Zun Secret Realm, where Liu Ruyan helped them uncover a hidden pill chamber and they found carved words on a stone table.

• Ye Changge identified the remnant soul in Medusa’s ring as an Ancient Nine-Colored Devouring Sky Python and persuaded Medusa to join the Ye Emperor Hall.
• The system revealed Liu Ruyan’s history and rewarded Ye Changge with summoning cards, sect facilities, a cultivation technique, and a Nine-Colored Devouring Sky Python corpse.
• Ye Changge introduced Medusa to Shi Hao and Xiao Yan as their senior sister and sent the three into the Dou Zun Secret Realm.
• Medusa followed Liu Ruyan’s guidance to a hidden formation, which Liu Ruyan broke by temporarily taking control of Medusa’s body.
• Medusa, Shi Hao, and Xiao Yan found numerous high-grade pills in the chamber, then Shi Hao called them over to inspect words carved into a stone table.

Shi Hao, Xiao Yan, and Medusa broke into Panlong Mansion’s formation and claimed its medicinal pills before hearing of a rumored Dou Zun legacy that had lured many disciples to a dangerous palace ruin. Wang Teng, Shi Yuan, and Mu Qing'er arrived as factions gathered outside, while no one who entered the ruins had returned.

• Shi Hao and the others learned that Dan Chen had created the formation to protect Panlong Mansion’s legacy from the Hall of Souls, and Medusa found three Soul-Soothing Sacred Pills and used them to strengthen Liu Ruyan’s soul.
• Medusa, Shi Hao, and Xiao Yan divided the recovered medicinal pills, with each intending to contribute them to the sect, then left the palace.
• Wang Teng gave his junior brothers technique manuals, while disciples from several factions heard that a Dou Zun legacy had appeared in the eastern ruins and hurried there.
• Shi Hao, Xiao Yan, and Medusa suspected the reported legacy was a trap, but they joined the crowds outside the palace and learned that people had entered without returning.
• Wang Teng declared that Demon Flame Valley would claim the legacy, and Shi Yuan and Mu Qing'er arrived to challenge his confidence.

Shi Hao, Xiao Yan, and the sect disciples were ambushed by wraith-possessed false dead men inside the Dou Zun Ruins and fought a devastating battle to survive. After the survivors regrouped, darkness swallowed the secret realm, leaving them facing a new danger.

• Disciples who ran toward apparent senior brothers and sisters were slaughtered when the figures revealed themselves as wraith-possessed false dead men.
• Medusa warned Shi Hao and Xiao Yan to retreat, but false dead men blocked the escape route and attacked the fleeing sect disciples from both sides.
• Shi Hao and Xiao Yan fought fiercely, while fallen disciples rose again as false dead men and the survivors suffered heavy losses.
• Wang Teng, Mu Qing'er, and Shi Yuan used their masters' life-saving attacks to destroy thousands of false dead men and help clear the remaining attackers.
• The survivors mourned their losses, and Xiao Yan and Shi Hao praised their battle before darkness swallowed the red clouds and dimmed the secret realm.

Liu Ruyan borrowed Xiao Yan’s Green Lotus Core Flame and killed the Dou Zun Realm Blood River Venerable, saving the secret-realm disciples. After they escaped, Ye Changge considered preparing for Yao Chen’s resurrection so Ye Emperor Hall could obtain an alchemist.

• Blood River Venerable appeared and attacked the exhausted disciples, while Liu Ruyan entered Medusa’s sea of consciousness and asked Xiao Yan to lend her his Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Liu Ruyan pierced Blood River Venerable’s palm, unleashed Green Lotus Nine Palaces, and destroyed him with the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Liu Ruyan returned control of the flame to Xiao Yan, and the disciples searched the secret realm until its exit opened.
• The disciples emerged outside Chu Yun Imperial City and told the elders that undead had nearly killed them before a powerful woman intervened.
• Shi Hao told Ye Changge about their Eighth-grade Medicinal Pill and battle with the Hall of Souls undead, prompting Ye Changge to consider arranging Yao Chen’s resurrection.

Ye Changge returned to the Ye Emperor Hall, reviewed its expansion, and made Shi Hao, Xiao Yan, and Medusa official direct disciples. He gave Medusa a complete Nine-Colored Devouring Sky Python bloodline and a matching cultivation art, then asked her to leave her ring behind as the group departed.

• Ye Changge heard Shi Hao and the others’ account of the secret realm and told Ye Bai and Ye Long to accelerate Green Lotus City’s construction and prepare for sect recruitment.
• Liu Ruyan tried to probe the Ye Emperor Hall with her divine sense, but a powerful presence crushed it and warned her not to offend the sect again.
• Shi Hao, Xiao Yan, and Medusa handed the medicinal pills they had obtained in the secret realm to Ye Bai.
• Ye Changge gave the three azure Sect Tokens and made Shi Hao, Xiao Yan, and Medusa official direct disciples after they passed the secret realm trial.
• Ye Changge bestowed the Nine-Colored Devouring Sky Python bloodline and Nine Nether Devouring Heaven Art on Medusa, who swore that the Serpent People would become an affiliated force of the Ye Emperor Hall.
• Ye Changge told Medusa to leave her ring behind and noted that Yue Mei was waiting outside, then Medusa left with Shi Hao and Xiao Yan.

Ye Changge bound Liu Ruyan to Ye Emperor Hall for ten thousand years and rebuilt her body, then used five summoning cards to strengthen the sect. With recruitment approaching, he announced that Ye Emperor Hall would enter the world and recruit disciples in three days.

• Ye Changge offered Liu Ruyan a reconstructed body in exchange for ten thousand years of free service, and she signed the contract.
• Ye Changge used a Nine-Colored Devouring Sky Python corpse and a Bone-Generating Blood-Melding Pill to restore Liu Ruyan, who became an Inner Sect Elder.
• Ye Changge used five Silver Summoning Cards, drawing Ye Tian, Ye Feng, Ye Xin, Ye Wudao, and Ye Hai as elders.
• Liu Ruyan saw the newly arrived elders and wondered about Ye Emperor Hall's origins, while Shi Hao explained that its experts were returning from duties and training.
• Ye Changge convened the sect's leaders and announced that Ye Emperor Hall would conduct recruitment and enter the world in three days.

Ye Changge announced that Ye Emperor Hall would recruit disciples across the northwest, drawing tens of thousands of hopefuls to the Jia Ma Empire. Bi Bidong and Tang San also set out for the sect, and the chapter ended as the recruitment began before a vast crowd.

• Ye Changge declared that Ye Emperor Hall would expand its reach across the northwest and begin recruiting disciples in three days.
• Aspiring disciples and even small sect masters rushed toward Ye Emperor Hall, hoping to gain a place in the empire's supreme sect.
• Bi Bidong defeated a fourth-tier Magical Beast, learned about the recruitment, and headed for Ye Emperor Hall to seek protection and investigate Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to adapt to the higher plane and join Ye Emperor Hall, and Tang San agreed to go.
• Xiao Zhan told the Xiao Family about the recruitment, prompting its young members to prepare to enter the main sect.
• After three days, more than ten thousand people gathered at Ye Emperor Hall's mountain gates as its ten-day recruitment began.

Ye Emperor Hall began its disciple recruitment assembly with the Illusionary Heavenly Ladder, a trial that tested each candidate’s character and resolve. The first wave was quickly eliminated, with even the farthest-reaching candidate managing only four steps.

• Five Outer Sect Elders maintained order at Ye Emperor Hall’s mountain gate as Shi Hao and Elder Ye Bai emerged to begin the assembly.
• Elder Ye Bai welcomed the candidates and introduced Shi Hao, who explained that those who passed the first assessment would become Utility Disciples even if they failed the second.
• Elder Ye Bai revealed the hundred-li Illusionary Heavenly Ladder, which created individual illusions and pressure based on each candidate’s cultivation.
• Elder Ye Bai announced the assessment, and candidates entered the stairway in batches as those who failed were teleported back down.
• The first batch of tens of thousands failed, with the farthest candidate reaching only four steps before returning to the ground.

Bi Bidong and Tang San competed on the Ye Emperor Hall’s Illusionary Heavenly Ladder, while the elders eliminated failed candidates and punished one who insulted the sect. Tang San reached the summit first, and Bi Bidong followed after spotting him.

• Many candidates failed the Heavenly Stairway, and Ye Cheng killed a man who insulted the Ye Emperor Hall before warning the crowd not to repeat it.
• Bi Bidong climbed past three hundred steps with ease, shattering the illusions as she recalled Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang whether to reveal his strength, then decided to impress the sect and raced up the stairway.
• Tang San reached the summit first, introduced himself to Elder Ye Bai, and learned he would continue to the second trial.
• Bi Bidong climbed more than eight hundred steps, reached the summit, and recognized Tang San.

Ye Bai welcomed the survivors of the Heavenly Stairway into Ye Emperor Hall and began the talent test with the Emperor Dao Bell. Tang San rang it seven times, and Ye Bai declared he had the potential to become a Dou Zong, leaving Tang San asking what rank of disciple he would receive.

• Ye Bai explained that those who passed the first trial became Utility Disciples and could rise through the rankings to become Outer or Inner Disciples.
• The new disciples entered Ye Emperor Hall and were astonished by its dense spiritual energy and grand grounds, while Bi Bidong, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang were particularly shocked.
• Ye Bai introduced the Emperor Dao Bell, explaining that four chimes were needed to pass the talent test and become an Outer Disciple.
• The bell test eliminated many candidates; some passed with four chimes, one achieved five, and Jini Taimi failed after producing only three and a half.
• Tang San struck the Emperor Dao Bell seven times, astounding the crowd, and Ye Bai declared that he had the potential to become a Dou Zong.
• Tang San asked Ye Bai what kind of disciple someone with seven chimes would become.

Bi Bidong struck eight chimes at Ye Emperor Hall’s recruitment, and the sect finished selecting its new disciples. After Shi Hao and Xiao Yan departed to gain experience, Ye Changge welcomed the recruits and prepared for his disciples’ future growth.

• Bi Bidong struck eight chimes on the Emperor Dao Bell, surpassing Tang San’s seven and revealing her extraordinary potential.
• Ye Emperor Hall completed its recruitment, selecting two thousand disciples, including six hundred Outer Disciples and one thousand four hundred Utility Disciples.
• The system rewarded Ye Changge with the Emperor Ye Scripture, Emperor Ye Thunderclap Palm, and Emperor Ye Purgatory Array.
• Shi Hao and Xiao Yan told Ye Changge they would leave to gain experience, collected supplies from Elder Ye Bai, and set out for the Central Continent.
• Elder Ye Bai distributed bound identity tokens that could store contribution points to the six hundred new Outer Disciples.

Ye Changge issued Ye Emperor Hall’s Sect Rules and bestowed Emperor-tier foundational techniques before the disciples began trials in the newly opened Trial Tower. Kininase cleared ten floors, while Bi Bidong and Tang San rapidly advanced to the eighteenth floor.

• Ye Changge’s five Sect Rules were distributed, and the disciples received Sect Tokens that could store contribution points.
• Ye Bai sent the Emperor Ye Scripture and Emperor Ye Thunderclap Palm into the disciples’ minds, explaining that both were Emperor-tier exclusive techniques.
• After the disciples cultivated for more than ten days, the elders permitted them to enter the Trial Tower.
• Kininase entered first, cleared ten floors, and took the top spot on the Trial Rankings.
• Bi Bidong and Tang San entered the tower and defeated their opponents with single blows, reaching the eighteenth floor as the watching disciples reacted in shock.

Bi Bidong and Tang San reached the Trial Tower’s twenty-first floor, where illusions tested their deepest obsessions. Bi Bidong overcame her hatred of Yu Xiaogang and advanced, while Tang San remained captivated by the illusion of Xiao Wu.

• Ye Long said he expected Bi Bidong and Tang San to clear many floors, and Ye Bai predicted they would enter the inner sect.
• Bi Bidong encountered an illusion of Yu Xiaogang on the twenty-first floor and fought it as her anger strengthened the illusion.
• Tang San met an illusion of Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang called to him from outside the tower to remind him that she was not real.
• Bi Bidong calmed herself, used Emperor Ye Thunderclap Palm to shatter the Yu Xiaogang illusion, and reached the twenty-second floor.
• Tang San confessed how much he missed Xiao Wu and embraced her, while the illusion secretly drew a dagger behind his back.

Tang San escaped an illusion on the Trial Tower’s twenty-first floor, while Bi Bidong reached a higher floor and claimed the top trial rank. As Ye Emperor Hall’s new disciple rankings spurred fierce competition and factions formed, Mu Yun'er challenged Lei Zhan at the Training Ground.

• Xiao Wu’s illusion stabbed Tang San, but he recognized her as a fake, broke through the twenty-first floor, and continued climbing the tower.
• Bi Bidong and Tang San emerged from the Trial Tower, with Bi Bidong reaching floor 30 and Tang San floor 27; Tang San then headed to the cultivation rooms.
• Ye Changge launched the Outer Disciple and Utility Disciple rankings, inspiring the disciples to compete and cultivate harder.
• Thunder Class grew under Li Yiyuan’s recruitment efforts and became the leading Outer Disciple faction, while Mu Yun'er's Wood Class pursued it.
• Lei Zhan gathered Thunder Class to defend its standing, then learned that Mu Yun'er had challenged him and went to the Training Ground.

Mu Yun'er challenged Lei Zhan at Ye Emperor Hall's outer sect training ground and lost after he outmaneuvered her, though he showed mercy. Meanwhile, a massive beast tide overwhelmed the defenses at Black Stone Fortress, where City Lord Wang Ming warned the defenders that the city might fall within a day.

• Mu Yun'er challenged Lei Zhan to settle the result of their previous ranking battle, and the two peak Da Dou Shi fighters clashed before their disciples.
• Lei Zhan baited Mu Yun'er into an opening and knocked her down with Emperor Ye Thunderclap Palm, then helped her up and told her he had stopped short of hurting her.
• A beast tide launched attacks against the borders of the Four Great Empires, and thousands of magical beasts converged on Black Stone Fortress.
• City Lord Wang Ming told the defenders that Black Stone Fortress could hold out for at most another day and urged them to keep fighting until reinforcements arrived.
• A fifth-tier magical beast bit Wang Ming's arm, but he killed it and ordered his people back to the walls as panic and desertion spread through the city.

Ye Changge ordered Ye Cheng and Ye Yue to lead the Ye Emperor Hall’s Outer Disciples to Black Stone Fortress to fight a beast tide threatening the Jia Ma Empire. The disciples gathered and departed aboard the Green Lotus Warship, eager to earn contribution points.

• Ye Changge received news from Ye Bai that a beast tide had erupted near Black Stone Fortress and spread across the Jia Ma Empire.
• The system issued Ye Changge a mission to send elders and disciples to stop the beast tide and spread the Ye Emperor Hall’s prestige.
• Ye Changge ordered Ye Cheng and Ye Yue to lead all Outer Disciples to Black Stone Fortress, and he created contribution-point rewards for killing magical beasts.
• Outer Disciples, including Lei Zhan, Mu Yun'er, Bi Bidong, and Tang San, responded to the mission and assembled at the outer sect plaza.
• Ye Cheng and Ye Yue addressed the disciples, then led them aboard the Green Lotus Warship toward Black Stone Fortress.

Black Stone Fortress was nearly overrun by an overwhelming beast tide when Ye Emperor Hall arrived aboard the Green Lotus Warship. Ye Yue destroyed sixth-rank magical beasts with ease and ordered Wang Ming’s defenders to retreat and help the sect’s disciples finish the battle.

• Wang Ming and the last defenders leaped from the walls to fight the beast tide as Black Stone Fortress faced destruction.
• A winged sixth-rank magical beast attacked Wang Ming, but a shockwave from the arriving Green Lotus Warship blasted it to dust.
• The Green Lotus Warship bombarded the beast tide, while Ye Yue ordered Ye Emperor Hall’s disciples to attack.
• Ye Yue shredded a sixth-rank magical beast with a Wind Blade and told Wang Ming to retreat to Black Stone Fortress and assist the sect’s disciples.

Ye Changge received his mission rewards, summoned the late-stage One-Star Dou Saint Ye Xie, and advanced to Seven-Star Dou Venerate. Ye Xie took charge of the Law Enforcement Hall as the returning outer sect disciples arrived at the Qingyun Sect.

• Ye Changge used a Silver Summoning Card and summoned Ye Xie, the Ye Emperor Hall’s late-stage One-Star Dou Saint Law Enforcement Elder.
• Ye Changge explored the Lottery Shop, received no reward from his First Draw Card, then drew and used a Dou Venerate cultivation advancement card to reach Seven-Star Dou Venerate.
• Ye Xie descended upon the Ye Emperor Hall and introduced himself to the sect’s Utility Disciples.
• Ye Changge placed Ye Xie in command of the Law Enforcement Hall.
• The Green Lotus Warship returned to the Qingyun Sect, where Utility Disciples watched the outer sect members arrive and Jini Taimi regretted missing the chance to join them.