Chapter Summaries

Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun engaged the Earth Underworld Sect’s leaders while Xiao Jin and his allies faced the sect’s Dou Zong fighters. After Zi Yan revealed a transformed form and Xiao Jin unleashed his flame techniques, Xiao Jin attacked the assembled enemies with a powerful Burning Sea Seal.

• Medusa attacked Yi Nanfeng, forcing him into a defensive struggle, while Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun fought the other two Dou Zun.
• Xiao Jin assigned Qing Lin to support the battlefield and protect Zi Yan, then sent Zi Yan to fight a Four-Star Dou Ancestor.
• Zi Yan transformed into a purple-gold-robed figure and quickly sent her Dou Zong opponent flying with a powerful physical attack.
• Xiao Jin used the Glazed Flame Refining Art to raise his strength to Nine-Star Dou Ancestor, and the Earth Underworld Sect fighters hesitated to approach him.
• Xiao Jin formed a flame-wreathed Burning Sea Seal and brought the massive attack down on the Earth Underworld Sect fighters.

Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and Medusa fought Yi Nanfeng and the Earth Underworld Sect in Tianya City, killing two of his Dou Zun subordinates. Surrounded and facing defeat, Yi Nanfeng began to self-destruct.

• Xiao Yi Xian trapped an Earth Underworld Sect Dou Zun in poisonous fog, while Qing Lin used the Seven-Winged Purple Gold Snake to stop Yi Nanfeng from reaching her.
• Yun Yun overwhelmed the other Dou Zun with her speed and swordsmanship, then killed him.
• Xiao Yi Xian's poison reduced her opponent to bones, and Medusa revealed her identity to Yi Nanfeng.
• Yi Nanfeng realized the three women could defeat him and began to self-destruct, intending to take them with him.

Xiao Jin and the three women wiped out the Earth Underworld Sect’s attackers, leaving one Dou Ancestor alive long enough to deliver a warning to the Heavenly Underworld Sect. After Luo Cheng agreed to provide access to the Space Wormhole, Xiao Jin’s recovery was interrupted by Zi Yan teasing him and drawing the women’s suspicious stares.

• Xiao Jin contained Yi Nanfeng’s self-detonation, captured his soul in a bottle, and challenged the remaining Dou Ancestors.
• Xiao Jin killed three more Dou Ancestors while Medusa and the other women had already defeated the rest of their opponents.
• When his Glazed Flame Refining Art wore off, Xiao Jin spared the last Dou Ancestor’s soul but destroyed his body and sent him away with a warning for the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• Xiao Jin recovered with Qi Cultivation Pills and asked Luo Cheng to arrange access to the Space Wormhole, which Luo Cheng promptly agreed to do.
• Zi Yan teased Xiao Jin about watching her fight, prompting three icy gazes from behind him.

Xiao Jin and his companions traveled through the Space Wormhole aboard a level-nine Space Ship and reached the Central Plains. They landed near Tianbei City, where Xiao Jin explained how to read a map to Yun Yun.

• Zi Yan explored the level-nine Space Ship while Medusa powered it through the Space Wormhole.
• After five days, the group reached the exit, and Xiao Jin retrieved the shrunken ship after they landed.
• Xiao Jin identified their location near Tianbei City on the map and explained its markings to Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yi Xian wondered to Medusa whether Yun Yun was crafting a ditzy beauty persona, and Medusa sighed.

Xiao Jin and his companions traveled toward Tianbei City, intending to let Qing Lin hone her combat skills against the snake beast Xia Mang in Ten Thousand Snake Gorge. They found the gorge’s snakes dead and met Yin Lingyu, a young man whom Xiao Jin could not sense with his Emperor Realm Soul.

• Zi Yan joked that Xiao Jin had to take responsibility for making her belly big, then blushed after Qing Lin explained the words’ meaning.
• Xiao Jin planned for Qing Lin to fight Xia Mang so she could gain combat experience, and reassured her that the group would protect her.
• The group reached Ten Thousand Snake Gorge and found signs of a battle and many dead snake-type magical beasts.
• Xiao Jin sensed that the attacker could evade his Emperor Realm Soul and hurried toward the battlefield to investigate.
• Xiao Jin and his companions encountered an elegant young man who introduced himself as Yin Lingyu.

Xiao Jin met Yin Lingyu after the latter fought Xia Mang’s serpent beasts, and the two cautiously probed each other’s strength and affiliations. Xiao Jin sent Medusa and Qing Lin to find Xia Mang while he stayed behind and identified Yin Lingyu as a genius from Sound Valley.

• Xiao Jin and Medusa recognized that Yin Lingyu’s pleasant voice carried a concealed Sound Wave Dou Technique, so Xiao Jin approached him cautiously.
• Yin Lingyu explained that Xia Mang had left scapegoats behind and escaped, and Xiao Jin used his Emperor Realm Soul to locate the serpent beast hiding in a cave northeast of them.
• Xiao Jin sent Qing Lin to confront Xia Mang, and Medusa went with her after sensing that Yin Lingyu was unusual.
• Yin Lingyu recognized Medusa’s evolution and Qing Lin’s special pupils, while Xiao Jin recognized Yin Lingyu as a member of Sound Valley.
• Xiao Jin and Yin Lingyu continued smiling as they tested each other’s identities and intentions, while Zi Yan felt uneasy watching them.

Xiao Jin tested Yin Lingyu and discovered he was a member of Sound Valley, a powerful but nearly empty force. Yin Lingyu explained that his aging teacher was Sound Valley’s only other member and that he hoped Xiao Jin might one day help extend her life.

• Xiao Jin mentioned Sound Valley to test Yin Lingyu, whose brief reaction exposed his identity.
• Yin Lingyu admitted he belonged to Sound Valley and said the valley had very few members.
• Yin Lingyu revealed that before he joined, his teacher had been Sound Valley’s only member.
• Yin Lingyu explained that his elderly teacher had withdrawn from worldly affairs and that her death could leave him unable to preserve Sound Valley’s standing.
• Yin Lingyu befriended Xiao Jin because he believed Xiao Jin’s talent as an Alchemist might someday help prolong his teacher’s life.

Xiao Jin learned why Sound Valley was at risk of losing its standing and why Yin Lingyu had come to Ten Thousand Snake Gorge. Hoping to gain Xiao Jin’s help for his teacher, Yin Lingyu revealed that the Sound Valley Master had founded the valley over a past connection with a Pill Tower senior and still searched for someone.

• Yin Lingyu told Xiao Jin that the Sound Valley Master was a late-stage Three-Star Dou Sheng with at most twenty years left, putting Sound Valley’s influence at risk.
• Yin Lingyu explained that he had come to Ten Thousand Snake Gorge to defend the Gold-Devouring Rat clan after Xia Mang killed several of its members.
• Xiao Jin admitted he was an Alchemist who could refine Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pills that drew Five-Colored Pill Lightning, and Yin Lingyu realized his talent might help extend his teacher’s life.
• Yin Lingyu reassured Xiao Jin that Sound Valley had no real grudge against the Pill Tower and said his teacher had once had a past with one of its seniors.
• Yin Lingyu revealed that his teacher founded Sound Valley about nine hundred years ago and still traveled the continent each year searching for someone.

Xiao Jin agreed to investigate the identity of the Pill Tower senior whom Yin Lingyu’s teacher had remembered for nearly a thousand years. Yin Lingyu gave Xiao Jin a clue and a Sound Valley Token, and Xiao Jin promised to report back at Starfall Pavilion or visit Sound Valley.

• Xiao Jin wondered whether the Sound Valley Master’s long remembrance of a Pill Tower senior came from hatred or love, and Yin Lingyu said his teacher’s feelings seemed profound.
• Yin Lingyu explained that he had seen a portrait in his teacher’s study but could not access it, then offered a jade pendant said to have belonged to the senior.
• Xiao Jin learned that the pendant could hide Yin Lingyu from an Emperor Realm Soul’s perception, but told him to keep it and said he would investigate through his Pill Tower teacher.
• Yin Lingyu gave Xiao Jin a map to Sound Valley and said he planned to attend the Four Pavilions Assembly at Starfall Pavilion in half a year.
• Xiao Jin promised to meet Yin Lingyu at Starfall Pavilion if he found information, or visit Sound Valley later, and accepted Yin Lingyu’s Token and map of the valley’s subordinate forces.

After Qing Lin and Medusa returned with Xia Mang’s head, Yin Lingyu traded a protective dress for it and departed. The group learned Yin Lingyu was a woman and continued toward Tianbei City, while Xiao Jin considered how to teach Zi Yan a lesson.

• Qing Lin and Medusa brought back Xia Mang’s head, which Yin Lingyu accepted as proof for the Gold-Devouring Rat clan and repaid with a dress that could withstand ten attacks from a Peak Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Jin handed the protective dress to Qing Lin and parted ways with Yin Lingyu so the group could continue toward Saint Pill City.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Jin that Yin Lingyu was a woman, and Xiao Jin explained that he had recognized her but had chosen not to expose her identity.
• Xiao Jin said he wanted to investigate Yin Lingyu’s connection to a senior from the Pill Tower and reassured Xiao Yi Xian that he was not pursuing her.
• The group flew toward Tianbei City, while Xiao Jin began planning a lesson for Zi Yan.

Xiao Jin reached Tianbei City and learned that the Han Clan’s Space Wormhole could take him to Saint Pill City, but the Hong Clan was pressuring people not to use it. He went to the Han Clan’s manor to investigate, where a guard asked him to leave unless he had business there.

• Xiao Jin and his companions arrived in Tianbei City and settled into an inn.
• Xiao Jin learned that the city had two Space Wormholes: the Han Clan’s led to Saint Pill City, while the Hong Clan’s led to the Wind Lightning Mountain Range.
• A waiter warned Xiao Jin that the Hong Clan had threatened anyone who used the Han Clan’s Space Wormhole, backed by the Wind Lightning Pavilion.
• Xiao Jin dismissed the threat and headed to the Han Clan’s manor in the southern part of the city.
• A Han Clan guard approached Xiao Jin at the manor gate and asked him to leave if he had no business there.

Xiao Jin went to the Han Clan to borrow its Space Wormhole despite the threat from the Hong Clan and the Wind Lightning Pavilion. After two Hong Clan elders attacked him, he killed them both with his Heaven Demon Puppet and offered to handle the conflict with the Hong Clan.

• Xiao Jin told the Han Clan guards he wanted to borrow their Space Wormhole, and they warned him that the Hong Clan might attack him.
• Hong Mu and Hong Lie arrived and threatened Xiao Jin, while Han Chi and the Han Clan elders gathered but hesitated to fight.
• Han Chi declared that Xiao Jin was under the Han Clan's protection, but Hong Lie attacked him anyway.
• Xiao Jin sent out his Heaven Demon Puppet, which crushed Hong Lie's head and then killed Hong Mu.
• Xiao Jin asked Han Chi to send the two corpses to the Hong Clan and said he would handle the conflict between the Hong Clan and the Han Clan.

Xiao Jin arrived at the Han Clan to secure access to its Space Wormhole and killed Hong Mu and Hong Lie after they threatened to cause trouble. He reunited with Han Yue, who explained his reputation to her stunned father, Han Chi, as the clan considered the danger posed by the Wind Lightning Pavilion.

• Xiao Jin told Han Chi that he had attacked the Hong Clan to remove a threat before using the Han Clan's Space Wormhole, and he dismissed the Wind Lightning Pavilion as no danger to him.
• Han Yue arrived and recognized Xiao Jin, who asked why she had returned to Tianbei City and learned that she had come during the academy's break to check on her clan.
• Xiao Jin asked Han Yue to explain the Han Clan's situation, and she invited him inside while he asked her to call him by his name.
• Han Chi yielded the main seat to Xiao Jin, and Han Yue explained that Xiao Jin had killed Black-Corner Region experts, including Han Feng, and could now surpass Dou Zong.
• Han Yue revealed that Xiao Jin had been able to refine Seventh-Grade Medicinal Pills when he first joined the Inner Academy, leaving Han Chi even more astonished.

Xiao Jin heard Han Chi’s account of the Hong Clan and the Wind Lightning North Pavilion’s growing pressure on the Han Clan, then judged their experts to be no great threat. He left Han Chi and Han Yue stunned by asking whether the Wind Lightning Pavilion had sent even a single Dou Zun.

• Han Chi explained that the Hong Clan had used its ties to the Wind Lightning North Pavilion to pressure the Han Clan and drive away visitors to its Space Wormhole.
• Han Chi recounted that the Han Clan had suffered losses in a clash with the Hong Clan after the Three Thousand Lightning Movement was used.
• Xiao Jin asked about the enemy forces, and Han Chi named Fei Tian as an Eight-Star Dou Ancestor with several Dou Zongs and Dou Emperors supporting him.
• Han Chi said the Hong Clan’s hidden ancestor was a Four-Star Dou Ancestor, and Xiao Jin asked whether the Wind Lightning Pavilion had sent even one Dou Zun.

Xiao Jin learned that the Hong Clan was backed by Wind Lightning North Pavilion and promised Han Chi that he would eliminate the Hong Clan and later eradicate Wind Lightning Pavilion. Han Chi agreed to prepare the Han Clan for battle, while Xiao Jin gathered his companions and assigned them their roles for the next day’s attack.

• Xiao Jin told Han Chi that the Han Clan should prepare to destroy the Hong Clan after learning that Wind Lightning North Pavilion had sent an Eight-Star Dou Ancestor.
• Xiao Jin revealed that three Dou Zun were among his companions and promised to eliminate Wind Lightning Pavilion at the Four Pavilions Assembly, asking Han Chi to keep the news secret for three months.
• Han Chi agreed to follow Xiao Jin’s plan and told Han Yue to alert the clan’s Dou Wang experts while he sought out her great-grandfather.
• Back at the inn, Xiao Jin explained Wind Lightning Pavilion’s strength and its ties to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, then said he wanted to weaken it for Zi Yan’s sake.
• Xiao Jin assigned Zi Yan and Qing Lin to handle the Dou Emperors, told his Dou Zun companions to watch the Dou Ancestors, and claimed Fei Tian for himself.

Han Yue warned Han Xue not to pursue Xiao Jin and kept her from joining the operation against the Hong Clan. The next morning, Xiao Jin led the Han Clan toward the Hong Clan, intending to kill everyone there, while Han Fei realized Xiao Jin’s group included three Dou Zuns.

• Han Xue asked Han Yue whether Xiao Jin was strong and admitted she wanted to see him, but Han Yue told her to give up because his companions were far beyond their reach.
• Han Xue asked to join the attack on the Hong Clan, but Han Yue refused because only Dou Wangs and above could participate and their great-grandfather might be needed in battle.
• Han Chi waited for Xiao Jin outside the inn, then asked how he planned to deal with the Hong Clan; Xiao Jin said they would go there and kill them all.
• Han Fei assessed Xiao Jin as at least a Two-Star Dou Zong and identified two of his young companions as Dou Emperors.
• Han Fei told Han Chi that he could not see through the three women’s cultivation and believed they were all Dou Zuns.

Xiao Jin led the Han Clan to attack the Hong Clan and used two Heaven Demon Puppets to slaughter its defenders. After destroying the manor gate, he confronted Fei Tian and Hong Tianxiao, who appeared with reinforcements.

• Xiao Jin arrived at the Hong Manor with Han Chi and the Han Clan, and told the merchant caravans they could use the Han Clan's Space Wormhole the next day.
• A Hong Clan elder challenged Xiao Jin, and one of his Heaven Demon Puppets crushed the elder's head.
• Xiao Jin ordered the Heaven Demon Puppets to leave no survivors, and they killed more than a dozen Hong Clan elders as the caravans fled.
• Xiao Jin blasted the Hong Manor's gate apart and led Han Chi and the others inside.
• More than a hundred people surrounded Xiao Jin, who called out Fei Tian and Hong Tianxiao; Fei Tian appeared calmly while Hong Tianxiao glared at Xiao Jin in fury.

Xiao Jin confronted Fei Tian after Medusa sealed the surrounding space, then fought the Wind Lightning North Pavilion master while the Hong Clan realized Fei Tian would abandon them to save himself. The battle began with Fei Tian attacking with lightning and Xiao Jin defending with Pink Flame armor.

• Xiao Jin mocked Fei Tian’s hypocrisy and told his companions to watch the others while he handled the pavilion master.
• Medusa sealed the space, leaving Fei Tian and the others unable to move, and Xiao Jin challenged Fei Tian to a fight.
• Fei Tian refused to risk himself for the Hong Clan, leaving Hong Tianxiao despairing over the clan’s fate.
• Fei Tian attacked Xiao Jin with bolts of lightning, but Xiao Jin’s Pink Flame armor absorbed them.
• Fei Tian recognized Xiao Jin’s Heavenly Flames and vanished from sight to continue the battle.

Xiao Jin pursued Fei Tian after the Wind Lightning Pavilion master fled, then confronted him over the Pavilion’s history of oppression. Fei Tian chose to fight, revealing the strength of his lightning techniques as Xiao Jin prepared to test his own limits.

• Xiao Jin used soul perception to track Fei Tian’s escape and told Medusa to let Zi Yan and Qing Lin gain experience while she watched over them.
• Xiao Jin used Calamity Fire Flash to catch up with Fei Tian and block his path.
• Fei Tian asked why Xiao Jin opposed Wind Lightning Pavilion, and Xiao Jin challenged him over the Pavilion’s abuses against others.
• Fei Tian refused to surrender and summoned lightning, forming a spear from his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Jin recognized Fei Tian as his strongest opponent yet and welcomed the chance to test his combat strength.

Xiao Jin overwhelmed Fei Tian after Fei Tian summoned his Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies, then raised his strength with secret arts and attacked with a giant flaming palm. Meanwhile, Zi Yan battled the Wind Lightning Pavilion fighters until Medusa killed the last two Wind Cloud Lightning Thunder elders, leaving Zi Yan exhausted.

• Xiao Jin clashed with Fei Tian and weakened his lightning spear with Heavenly Flame energy.
• Fei Tian summoned a Six-Star Dou Ancestor clone using Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies, but Xiao Jin revealed secret arts that raised his strength to Nine-Star Dou Ancestor.
• Xiao Jin summoned a giant flaming palm and trapped Fei Tian beneath its attack.
• Zi Yan defeated two of the four Wind Cloud Lightning Thunder elders but collapsed from exhaustion.
• Medusa used Spatial Power to crush the two remaining Wind Cloud Lightning Thunder elders.