Chapter Summaries

Xiao Jin and the three women crossed the Wild Wilderness, surviving poisonous insects and ancient Fierce Beasts as they searched for the Bodhi Ancient Tree. They encountered Nalan Yanran and the Flower Sect being pursued, and Xiao Jin sent North Dragon King to rescue them.

• Xiao Jin led Cai Lin, Xun Er, and Xiao Yi Xian into the forest after waiting for the first wave of cultivators to enter.
• Xiao Jin warned the women about the deadly poisonous insects as they crossed the poisonous mist and found many dead cultivators.
• Xiao Jin used a Bodhi Seed but could not sense the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then guided the group across the abyss while Dragon King Puppets guarded them from Fierce Beasts.
• Xiao Jin and the women left the forest without conflict with other groups, and Xiao Jin used Heavenly Flame to cleanse the Dragon King Puppets of blood and insects.
• Xiao Jin recognized Nalan Yanran among the Flower Sect group fleeing ancient Magical Beasts and ordered North Dragon King to kill their pursuers.

Xiao Jin rescued Nalan Yanran and the Flower Sect from Fierce Beasts in the Wild Wilderness, then agreed to travel with them. As the group prepared to move on, members of the Heavenly Underworld Sect appeared nearby and took notice of the women.

• A Flower Sect elder prepared to sacrifice herself so Nalan Yanran and the others could escape, but Xiao Jin crushed the Fierce Beasts with one punch.
• Xiao Jin scolded Nalan Yanran for entering the dangerous Wild Wilderness, then introduced himself to Elder Qing Hua as the Pill Tower's Young Tower Master.
• Xun Er urged Nalan Yanran to return to Yun Yun and speak honestly with her, easing her fear of facing her teacher.
• Elder Qing Hua explained that the Flower Sect had come seeking the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Xiao Jin agreed to let them travel with his group.
• A Heavenly Underworld Sect vice sect master arrived nearby and remarked on finding the Flower Sect and three beauties.

Xiao Jin and the others encountered Liu Cang and a group from the Heaven Underworld Sect, who threatened them and coveted the women with them. After the North Dragon King slaughtered the group, Xiao Jin decided they would wipe out the Heaven Underworld Sect and turned his attention to Nalan Yanran, where an idea began to form.

• Liu Cang and the Heaven Underworld Sect ambushed the group and threatened to abduct the women, but Xiao Jin refused to be intimidated.
• Xiao Jin ordered the North Dragon King to attack, and the Five-Star Dou Saint killed Liu Cang and the rest of the sect's group.
• Xiao Jin and Cai Lin agreed to wipe out the Heaven Underworld Sect after leaving the Wild Wilderness, and Xiao Jin planned to call Yun Yun to join them.
• Xiao Jin approached Nalan Yanran, who felt uneasy facing him, and spotted the returning North Dragon King as an idea came to him.

Xiao Jin gave Nalan Yanran the North Dragon King, a Five-Star Dou Saint puppet, to protect her before leading the group toward the Ancient Domain Platform. The group prepared to cross the Wild Wilderness, where an Ancient Heavenly Demon Python stood in their way.

• Xiao Jin reprimanded Nalan Yanran for her actions and assigned the North Dragon King to protect her, explaining how to command the puppet with a Soul Mark.
• Xiao Jin persuaded Nalan Yanran to accept the puppet by warning that he would tell Yun Yun what had happened if she refused.
• Nalan Yanran imprinted her Soul Mark on the North Dragon King and sensed Xiao Jin's soul aura within it.
• Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian teased Xiao Jin about giving Nalan Yanran the powerful puppet, while Cai Lin recalled that he had struck her abdomen when they first met.
• Elder Qing Hua told Xiao Jin that the group would reach the Ancient Domain Platform after traveling for a little over a day and warned that an Ancient Heavenly Demon Python guarded the route.
• Xiao Jin agreed to lead the group to the Ancient Domain Platform and deal with the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python.

Cai Lin explained the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python and its energy-rich Blood Pools, and Xiao Jin set out with Nalan Yanran to help her improve her cultivation. When the python attacked, Xiao Jin summoned a Flame Giant that tore it in half, leaving the group free to reach its Blood Pool.

• Cai Lin explained that Ancient Heavenly Demon Pythons stored energy in Blood Pools to nourish their offspring, and Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian suggested using one to help Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Jin agreed to purify the Blood Pool's energy and give it to Nalan Yanran so she could absorb it gradually.
• After the group reached a mist-shrouded mountain, Xiao Jin took Nalan Yanran inside to raise her cultivation.
• The Ancient Heavenly Demon Python attacked Xiao Jin with its tail, but Xiao Jin wounded it with a flick of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Jin summoned a Flame Giant, which struck the python and tore its body into an upper and lower half.

Xiao Jin brought Nalan Yanran to the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python’s Blood Pool and purified its violent energy so she could absorb it. Nalan Yanran endured the painful process as Xiao Jin sealed the energy inside her body and began releasing it gradually.

• Xiao Jin killed the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python with ease, leaving Nalan Yanran stunned by his strength.
• Xiao Jin led Nalan Yanran to the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool and said its energy could help her reach the Seven-Star Dou Zun Realm.
• Xiao Jin used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to refine the Blood Pool into a small, nearly transparent energy sphere.
• Nalan Yanran followed Xiao Jin’s instructions and endured the pain as the energy sphere entered her body.
• Xiao Jin formed a Sealing Array inside Nalan Yanran, allowing the energy to leak out gradually for her to absorb.

Xiao Jin and his companions left the Flower Sect behind and traveled to the Ancient Domain Platform, where they reunited with Gu Qingyang and the Ancient Clan’s group. Gu Qingyang explained that the Clan Leader had sent the juniors to investigate the Bodhi Ancient Tree and instructed them to follow Xiao Jin’s lead.

• Xiao Yi Xian teased Xiao Jin after he sealed energy inside Nalan Yanran, and Elder Qing Hua learned that the energy could help Nalan Yanran reach Seven-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Jin told Elder Qing Hua that he and his companions were heading to the Ancient Domain Platform, and she led the Flower Sect’s group away after inviting him to visit.
• Xiao Jin and the three women reached the Ancient Domain Platform, where Cai Lin released her Dou Saint aura to deter the watching crowds.
• Xiao Jin and Xun Er reunited with Gu Qingyang and met Elder Tongxuan and the other Ancient Clan members at the central stone platform.
• Gu Qingyang told Xiao Jin that the Ancient Clan had sent its juniors to inspect the situation and that the Clan Leader had ordered them to follow Xiao Jin’s lead.

Xiao Jin learned that the Fierce Beasts near the Ancient Domain Platform were growing restless and that both the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Soul Clan had sent people to the Wild Wilderness. After hearing of a possible Ninth-Rank Fierce Beast, he left to bring Zi Yan back while telling Xun Er and the others to stay put.

• Xiao Jin questioned Gu Qingyang about the forces in the Wild Wilderness and learned that the Fierce Beasts were unusually restless.
• Gu Qingyang revealed that Jiu Feng and other members of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had arrived, and explained that their bloodline might help suppress a Beast Tide.
• Gu Qingyang reported that Elder Tongxuan had found traces of a Ninth-Rank Fierce Beast, prompting Xiao Jin to decide to bring Zi Yan to the Ancient Domain Platform.
• Gu Qingyang told Xiao Jin that the Soul Clan had also sent Hun Chi and Hun Yu to the Wild Wilderness.
• Xiao Jin left the South Dragon King and West Dragon King with Xun Er and warned the group not to enter the Beast Tide or heed provocations from the Soul Clan or Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

Xiao Jin brought Zi Yan from Ancient Dragon Island to the Ancient Domain Platform, where her Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline could help with the strange Fierce Beasts near the Bodhi Ancient Tree. The group was met by an enormous beast tide charging toward the supposedly safe platform.

• Zi Yan finished refining the Bodhi Heart, reaching the middle stage of Six-Star Dou Saint and Heaven Realm Great Perfection Spiritual Power.
• Xiao Jin invited Zi Yan to join him in the Wild Wilderness, and she agreed after explaining that Zhu Kun had said it was time for her to seek opportunities elsewhere.
• Zi Yan opened a spatial passage that carried them to the Ancient Domain Platform far faster than Xiao Jin's passage would have.
• Xiao Jin introduced Zi Yan as the Ancient Void Dragon clan's newly appointed Dragon Emperor and said her Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline could suppress the beast tide.
• Before Xiao Jin could attack Jiu Feng and the other Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members, Fierce Beast howls announced a massive tide approaching the platform, including at least a hundred ninth-rank beasts.

Xiao Jin organized a defense against a massive beast tide surrounding the Ancient Domain Platform, then led his group into battle when the beasts attacked. Zi Yan’s Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline failed to deter them, while the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s aura made the beasts steer clear, leaving Xiao Jin puzzled by the difference.

• Xiao Jin warned the Ancient Clan that more than ten million Fierce Beasts, including at least a hundred ninth-tier beasts, were approaching and assigned everyone their positions.
• The beast tide surrounded the Ancient Domain Platform and burst from the forest, prompting Xiao Jin to tell Elder Tongxuan that they would have to fight or break through.
• Xiao Jin told his group to stay behind him and opened a path through the charging beasts with his Reincarnation Nirvana Flame.
• Zi Yan released her Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline to halt the beasts, but they soon recovered and attacked with even greater strength.
• Xiao Jin saw that the beasts avoided the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan after its members released their aura, while Jiu Feng easily killed the few that struck him.

Xiao Jin cut through the beast tide with the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame and unleashed an empowered Source Fire Divine Map as Eighth-Rank Magical Beasts overwhelmed the battlefield. After sensing that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Soul Clan had come to target him, he wondered what gave them confidence to set a trap.

• More survivors gathered behind Xiao Jin's group as he advanced through the beast tide, while the number of Fierce Beasts grew and Eighth-Rank Magical Beasts appeared.
• Xiao Jin strengthened the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame and formed the Source Fire Divine Map, linking its four Divine Beast Phantoms with the Emperor Flame.
• The Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise slaughtered the Fierce Beasts, while Xiao Jin replenished his Dou Qi with the Purifying Glazed Holy Scripture.
• Jiu Feng and Hun Yu privately voiced their hostility toward Xiao Jin and anticipated his death in the Wild Wilderness.
• Xiao Jin sensed their schemes with his Emperor Realm Soul and questioned why the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Soul Clan believed they could trap him.

Xiao Jin led the group through the beast tide and confronted an Ancient Heaven Phoenix, whose attack he repelled with his Heavenly Flames. As more ninth-rank Fierce Beasts approached, Zi Yan countered the Ancient Heaven Phoenix’s pressure, and Xiao Jin noticed a fleeting trace of clarity in its eyes.

• Fierce Beasts attacked the rear of Xiao Jin’s group, forcing the Ancient Clan cultivators to fight while Xiao Jin pressed ahead.
• Xiao Jin warned Gu Qingyang, Elder Tongxuan, and the others that a ninth-rank Fierce Beast was nearby and said he would clear their path.
• Xiao Jin and the group encountered an Ancient Heaven Phoenix, and Xiao Jin explained its ancient kinship with the Ancient Void Dragon.
• Xiao Jin’s Spiral Fire Cone was swept aside, but he shattered the Ancient Heaven Phoenix’s wind attack with Heavenly Flames and wounded its wings.
• Xiao Jin glimpsed a moment of clarity in the Ancient Heaven Phoenix’s eyes before its pressure bore down on the group, and Zi Yan used her bloodline power to disperse it.

Xiao Jin stored the Ancient Heaven Phoenix's corpse, then stayed behind to hold off a horde of ninth-rank Fierce Beasts while Cai Lin led the others onward. He battled the beasts alone and unleashed the Calamity Flame Dragon Emperor Spear, killing more than a thousand eighth-tier and thirty ninth-tier Fierce Beasts as even more enemies gathered.

• Xiao Jin killed the Ancient Heaven Phoenix and stored its corpse in his Storage Ring.
• Dozens of ninth-rank Fierce Beasts appeared overhead, and Xiao Jin ordered Cai Lin to lead the team onward while Zi Yan guarded the left side.
• Xiao Jin charged the horde alone with the Calamity Flame Dragon Emperor Spear as the human experts fled deeper into the Wild Wilderness.
• Xiao Jin fought through the beasts and sent his spear tearing through the horde, killing over a thousand eighth-tier Fierce Beasts and more than thirty ninth-tier Fierce Beasts.

Xiao Jin fought the controlled Fierce Beasts and suspected the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s evil half was behind their behavior. He unleashed the Burning Star Map, destroying most of the horde, while more than twenty ninth-rank Fierce Beasts remained.

• Xiao Jin sensed that something was controlling the Fierce Beasts and concluded that pain had only briefly freed the Ancient Heaven Phoenix from its influence.
• Xiao Jin detected an extremely evil aura about a hundred li away and suspected it belonged to the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s incomplete evil half.
• As the control urged the remaining Fierce Beasts to attack again, Xiao Jin replenished his Dou Qi by absorbing energy with the Nihility Devouring Flame and Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Jin cast the Burning Star Map, binding the Fierce Beasts with starry trajectories and raining Heavenly Flame stars down upon them.
• The Burning Star Map killed more than half the horde, leaving about twenty ninth-rank Fierce Beasts as Xiao Jin prepared to continue fighting.

Cai Lin, Xun Er, and the others escaped the beast tide while Xiao Jin stayed behind to fight, then reunited with him after he defeated the beasts. Suspecting the Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan were behind the attacks, Xiao Jin prepared to send Gu Qingyang and the Ancient Clan members away before the journey grew more dangerous.

• Cai Lin and the others broke through the beast tide and waited while the Ancient Clan members recovered their Dou Qi.
• Xiao Jin rejoined the group after killing the Fierce Beasts, then left with Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian to wash the blood from his clothes and body.
• Zi Yan described sensing a hostile aura, and Xiao Jin connected the strange attacks and controlled Ninth Rank Fierce Beasts to a possible alliance between the Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Jin warned Gu Qingyang that the road ahead would be more dangerous, and Gu Qingyang agreed that the Ancient Clan members should leave rather than hinder the group.
• Xiao Jin asked Zi Yan to use her abilities to send the Ancient Clan members away because spatial disruption prevented him from opening a passage.

Xiao Jin and the girls reached the corrupted Bodhi Ancient Tree and faced a host of powerful Dou Saint Puppets controlled by it. After surviving the puppets’ opening attack, Xiao Jin heard an unknown voice remark that his strength had exceeded expectations.

• Zi Yan opened a spatial passage that sent Gu Qingyang and the Ancient Clan’s people away, and Xiao Jin led the girls onward.
• Xiao Jin spotted the black-mist-wreathed Bodhi Ancient Tree and suspected Cang Yuan had split the original tree to remove its corruption.
• Xun Er explained that the girls had Dou Emperor marks that could protect them, though Cang Yuan would not return to save her.
• Xiao Jin and the girls reached the tree’s trunk and saw a black sphere resembling a Bodhi Heart.
• Zi Yan’s loud lip smack drew the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s attention, and a Seven-Star Dou Sheng Puppet attacked Xiao Jin, followed by dozens of other puppets.
• As Xiao Jin prepared to fight, an unknown voice said that even that attack could not kill him and that his strength had exceeded expectations.

Xiao Jin confronted Hun Yu, who revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree and the Soul Clan had joined forces to control him. Xiao Jin resisted the control and exposed that he had anticipated the trap, leaving Hun Yu's plan in ruins.

• Xiao Jin recognized Hun Yu and mocked his claim to be a nobody, while Hun Yu announced that Xiao Jin would die there.
• Hun Yu revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree could activate a hidden control technique implanted in Xiao Jin through the Ancient Heaven Phoenix blood.
• Hun Yu snapped his fingers, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree sent black mist over Xiao Jin, but Xiao Jin remained unaffected.
• Xiao Jin explained that he had detected and absorbed the hidden power, and had deliberately kept the blood on himself to lure the Soul Clan into revealing its method.
• Hun Yu admitted he had underestimated Xiao Jin, who blamed the Soul Clan's repeated failures on its arrogance.

Xiao Jin faced Hun Yu, Hun Sheng Tian, and Hun Yao as the Soul Clan tried to overwhelm him with its ancient experts and Dou Saint Puppets. After clashing with Hun Sheng Tian and Hun Yao, Xiao Jin brought out his soul body to even their numbers.

• Hun Yu summoned Hun Sheng Tian and Hun Yao through Spatial Turbulence using his bloodline as a beacon.
• Hun Yu revealed that dozens of Dou Saint Puppets would support the two ancestors, so Xiao Jin released two Dragon King Puppets and warned Xun Er and the others to stay safe.
• Xiao Jin attacked Hun Sheng Tian and Hun Yao with a destructive fire dragon, but their coordinated offense and defense made the clash end in mutual destruction.
• After several unsuccessful attacks, Xiao Jin summoned his soul body, turning the fight into two against two.

Xiao Jin and his soul body attacked Hun Sheng Tian and Hun Yao while Xun Er, Cai Lin, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian fought dozens of Dou Saint Puppets. Xiao Jin focused on draining Hun Sheng Tian’s Death Qi, wary that the eerie Bodhi Ancient Tree had yet to reveal its power.

• Xiao Jin and his soul body attacked Hun Sheng Tian from opposite sides, while Hun Yao dodged the spear and left Hun Sheng Tian’s back exposed.
• Hun Sheng Tian survived Xiao Jin’s spear wound by rapidly regenerating, though the process consumed his Death Qi.
• Xiao Jin realized Hun Sheng Tian’s regeneration depended on his limited Death Qi and began targeting his vital points to exhaust it.
• Xiao Jin’s soul body kept Hun Yao from joining Hun Sheng Tian as Xun Er, Cai Lin, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian battled dozens of Dou Saint Puppets.
• The four women held off the puppets, while Xiao Jin continued to conserve his strength because he feared the Bodhi Ancient Tree had not yet shown its power.

Xiao Jin and his allies were gaining the upper hand against Hun Sheng Tian and Hun Yao when Hun Yao opened the Gate of Dead Silence and Feng Qing’er emerged as a Nine-Star Dou Saint. Xiao Jin identified the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s secret role in her rise, but Zi Yan’s question about how they found the Ancient Heaven Phoenix’s remains was left unanswered.

• Hun Sheng Tian called on Hun Yao to stop holding back as both struggled against Xiao Jin and the Emperor Realm Soul body.
• Hun Yao opened the Gate of Dead Silence, and Feng Qing’er stepped out with several members of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan behind her.
• Feng Qing’er announced that she would kill Xiao Jin, while Xun Er and the other women joined him on the battlefield.
• Xiao Jin recognized Jiu Feng and realized the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had used a secret art to transplant an ancestor’s bones into Feng Qing’er.
• Xiao Jin explained to Zi Yan that the bones belonged to an Ancient Heaven Phoenix who had refined the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Zi Yan asked how the clan had found the remains.