Chapter Summaries

The Jia Ma Empire prepared to defend Black Mountain against the advancing three-nation allied army, relying on Yun Shan and Medusa to face its strongest experts. After a month of reinforcements and defensive preparations, the allied army appeared on the horizon.

• Yan Luotian dismissed concerns about the enemy’s Dou Zong experts, while Xiao Yi Xian said she would face Medusa if she joined the battle.
• At Black Mountain Fortress, Xiao Ding explained the defensive plan to Nalan Jie, Yun Shan, and Medusa, concentrating the decisive fight at Yixiantian.
• Yao Ye ordered most troops to reinforce the Black Mountain Range and asked Yun Shan and Medusa to defend the Jia Ma Empire.
• Yao Ye promised to withdraw the garrisons from Misty Cloud Mountain and the Snake-Person Tribe if they won, and both headmasters pledged their support.
• After a month of preparations, the three-nation allied army appeared across the plain before Black Mountain.

The Three Nations Alliance challenged the Jia Ma Alliance to a generals’ duel at Black Mountain Fortress, but the Jia Ma fighters’ strength and coordination quickly turned the opening battle against them. After the allied Dou Huangs were driven back and Yan Luotian was forced to intervene, Yun Shan drew his sword to face him.

• Yan Luotian challenged Queen Medusa to cooperate with the Three Nations Alliance, but she answered by blasting him back with a seven-colored beam.
• Hai Bodong attacked a Golden Goose Sect Dou Huang, and Jia Bilie joined the ensuing fight against a Mulan Valley Dou Emperor who had ambushed him.
• Jia Xingtian and the Nether Sea Demon Python entered the battle, while Yan Luotian noted that the Jia Ma Alliance had tied down many of its Dou Huangs elsewhere.
• Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, the Nether Sea Demon Python, and Jia Bilie combined their attacks to trap the opposing Dou Huangs in an ice storm and fire wall.
• Yan Luotian blocked the ice storm and fought off Yun Shan’s Great Wind Hand Seal, but the clash battered the Three Nations Alliance’s troops.
• Yun Shan drew a longsword and declared that he and Yan Luotian would fight next.

Yun Shan fought Yan Luotian while Medusa battled the Three Elders of Mulan and then Xiao Yi Xian during the allied armies’ first major clash. The combatants disengaged and the three kingdoms’ army retreated, while Yun Zimo set out from Jiuling City for the Jia Ma Empire.

• Yun Shan trapped Yan Luotian in a wind-blade storm, then used Nine Steps of Cloud Heaven to fight him inside a mirage.
• Yun Shan and Yan Luotian exchanged attacks at close range and across the sky, while Jia Xingtian and Yao Ye discussed the origins of Yun Shan’s technique.
• Medusa drove off the Three Elders of Mulan, then Xiao Yi Xian arrived and fought her with a withered wood staff.
• The Three Elders of Mulan joined Yan Luotian against Yun Shan, while Dou Emperors from the three kingdoms blocked Hai Bodong and the others from helping.
• Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian exchanged poisonous and snake-based attacks before both sides disengaged and the allied army retreated several dozen li.
• Yun Zimo finished handling matters in Jiuling City and set out for the Jia Ma Empire.

After the He Clan betrayed Jia Ma and North Mountain fell, Medusa rushed to the Snake-Person Holy City and found her people massacred. She retaliated against the invaders, clashed with Xiao Yi Xian over He Zhang, and left the frontier’s war unresolved as news of another rebellion reached the army.

• A messenger told Nalan Jie and Xiao Ding that the He Clan had defected and North Mountain had fallen, while Medusa rushed away to aid her people.
• Yun Yun ordered the allied army to press its attacks, hoping to lure out Jia Ma’s hidden forces.
• Medusa reached the Snake-Person Holy City, killed the invading humans, buried the dead, and ordered Hei Du to lead the survivors to their new lands.
• Medusa pursued He Zhang, but Xiao Yi Xian killed him first, prompting a two-day battle between the two women.
• Yao Ye had captured defectors brought to the temple, where their bodies were made into sculptures, and news arrived that Princess Yao Yue had executed rebels from the Hao Clan.

Yun Zimo returned to the Jia Ma Empire and helped plan a decisive battle to draw out Iron Protector, with Xiao Yan volunteering as bait. The battle began, and Xiao Yan revealed himself as a powerful Dou Zong, intercepting the Three Elders of Mulan.

• Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian discussed the mounting casualties, Medusa’s battles with Xiao Yi Xian, and the need to keep the coalition army from suspecting their identities.
• Yun Zimo arrived at Black Mountain Fortress, where Medusa and Yun Shan explained that Iron Protector was the main obstacle to defeating Yan Luotian and the Three Elders of Mulan.
• Xiao Yan volunteered to lure Iron Protector out, and the group agreed to use him as the first part of an encirclement plan.
• After confirming Iron Protector was still watching, Yun Zimo and the others challenged the allied army to a decisive battle, and Yan Luotian accepted.
• Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian began fighting while Yun Shan faced Yan Luotian, and the Three Elders of Mulan moved to attack Yun Shan.
• Xiao Yan intercepted the Three Elders of Mulan with his Heavy Black Ruler, revealing an overwhelming aura that showed he was another Dou Zong.

Xiao Yan fought the Three Elders of Mulan while maintaining a temporary Dou Zong aura, then used his apparent weakness to lure Iron Protector into revealing himself. Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian helped capture the enemy leaders, and the Jia Ma Empire’s army took control of the allied forces.

• Xiao Yan used the Bone Chilling Flame and Heavy Black Ruler to fight off the Three Elders of Mulan and countered their beast techniques.
• Xiao Yan’s Dou Zong aura suddenly faded, leaving him surrounded and apparently near defeat as Iron Protector emerged to attack.
• Xiao Yan revealed the trap and pursued Iron Protector, while Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian blocked his escape.
• Xiao Yan sealed Iron Protector’s soul in a fire crystal, while Medusa captured Yan Luotian and Xiao Yi Xian poisoned the Three Elders of Mulan into submission.
• Lin Xiuya and Zi Yan subdued the allied army’s fighters, and the Jia Ma Empire’s forces took control of the battlefield.

Yun Zimo brought rare Dou Technique scrolls to Gu He for study, then joined Xiao Yan and the alliance elders to assess the threat posed by Soul Hall. The meeting ended with Yun Zimo presenting news about Myriad Scorpion Mountain for the alliance to consider.

• Yun Zimo placed the Heavenly Goose Nine-Row Wings and three beast-bone Dou Technique scrolls in Gu He's care for the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, and Gu He agreed to study them despite doubting he could replicate them.
• Gu He reported that Xiao Yan had earned enough merit to exchange for an earth-class Dou Technique, and Yun Zimo chose not to interfere with Xiao Yan's growth.
• Xiao Yan convened the alliance elders and presented information about Soul Hall gathered from Protector Wu and Iron Protector.
• Yun Zimo urged the elders to strengthen the alliance before Soul Hall attacked, and his words lifted their spirits.
• Yun Zimo showed the elders an image of Myriad Scorpion Mountain and asked how they should respond.

After learning that the Myriad Scorpion Sect planned to target Butterfly Medical Valley, Xiao Yi Xian gathered the Jia Ma Alliance’s experts and prepared to strike first. The group reached Butterfly Medical Valley and planned a surprise attack on Myriad Scorpion Mountain, where they learned that Xie Biyan had become a three-star Dou Zong.

• Xiao Yi Xian ordered an attack on the Myriad Scorpion Sect in half a month, and the Jia Ma Alliance assembled two Dou Zong and eighteen Dou Emperors for the campaign.
• The alliance members entered the Chu Yun Empire disguised as merchants, while Yun Yun and Nalan Jie went to the imperial palace to keep the Imperial Family from interfering.
• Xiao Yi Xian led the others into Butterfly Medical Valley, where Yun Zimo and Yun Shan paid respects to Old Woman Heaven Poison before joining the war council.
• Xiao Yi Xian proposed a surprise attack on Myriad Scorpion Mountain, and Jia Xingtian learned that Xie Biyan had advanced to three-star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yi Xian showed the group a map of the Chu Yun Empire and pointed out Myriad Scorpion Mountain in the Heavenly Scorpion Mountain Range.

Butterfly Medical Valley and its allies gathered at Heavenly Scorpion Ravine to launch a decisive assault on the Myriad Scorpion Sect. After Yun Zimo arranged a two-sided attack, the forces reached the sect’s Poison Cloud Formation, where Xiao Yi Xian’s opening strike forced Xie Shan to appear.

• Yun Xia summoned Butterfly Medical Valley’s thirteen branch hall masters to Heavenly Scorpion Ravine, where Ren Ying and the other leaders gathered with Xiao Yi Xian and the Jia Ma group.
• Xiao Yi Xian placed Yun Zimo in charge of the battle, and he silenced the doubting hall masters before assigning Lin Xiuya and ten Dou Wangs to ambush the Myriad Scorpion Sect from the rear mountain.
• Zi Yan stormed through the Myriad Scorpion Sect’s camp and reached the poisonous fog around its mountain stronghold, where she waited for Yun Zimo and the other forces.
• Butterfly Medical Valley’s divisions advanced to surround Myriad Scorpion Mountain as the Myriad Scorpion Sect withdrew behind its Poison Cloud Formation.
• Xiao Yi Xian struck the Poison Cloud Formation with a giant palm seal, prompting Xie Shan to emerge and confront her.

Xiao Yi Xian confronted Myriad Scorpion Sect at Myriad Scorpion Mountain, where Xie Biyan revealed his strength and three Butterfly Medical Valley hall masters exposed themselves as traitors. With Jia Ma Squad ready for the ambush, the fighting spread into a full assault on the sect.

• Xiao Yi Xian struck at Myriad Scorpion Mountain, forcing Xie Biyan to emerge and reveal his peak four-star Dou Zong strength.
• Wu Ya and Xie Shan joined three traitorous hall masters to summon the Five Poison Holy Beasts, but Yun Zimo's sword pinned the monster down.
• Feng She, Nangong Han, and Ni Zhu revealed their Myriad Scorpion Sect allegiance, and Jia Ma Squad attacked them, with Zi Yan striking Ni Zhu.
• Xie Biyan intervened to protect Xie Shan's group and exchanged close-range staff blows with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Yun Zimo ordered the allied forces to attack as Lin Xiuya and the others infiltrated the sect, beginning the decisive battle.

Yun Zimo and his allies battled Xie Biyan’s forces across the mountain, while Yun Zimo’s cloud and wind clones pursued their enemies. The fight left Yun Qingfeng dead and Xie Shan caught beneath Yun Yue’s devastating palm technique.

• Xiao Yi Xian traded fierce blows with Xie Biyan as Yun Zimo’s clones chased Wu Ya and Xie Shan.
• Yun Yue bound Wu Ya with mist and smashed him into a mountain peak, killing him.
• Zi Yan crippled Ni Zhu and punched Nangong Han into the ground while the allies held their advantage.
• A Four-Winged Heavenly Demon Scorpion emerged from the mountain stream, and Yun Qingfeng fell to its claw.
• Yun Zimo pursued the wounded Lin Xiuya as Zi Yan fought the scorpion and Yun Yue confronted Xie Shan.
• Yun Yue struck Xie Shan with a massive cloud palm after a soul sword briefly pinned him in the air.

Xiao Yan and the allied Dou Zong lured Xie Biyan into a mountain ambush, where Xiao Yan’s fire lotuses and the others’ attacks overwhelmed him. The battlefield was left devastated, and Xie Biyan was found barely alive at its center.

• Queen Medusa, Yun Shan, and Xiao Yi Xian cornered Xie Biyan after he pursued Lin Xiuya, but he broke through and fled as they chased him toward the mountains.
• Xiao Yan ambushed Xie Biyan with a Buddha Fury Fire Lotus, but Xie Biyan survived by transforming into the Blood Demon Scorpion Emperor.
• Xiao Yan prepared a stronger fire lotus while the others fought to hold Xie Biyan back, and Xie Biyan charged at him in an attempt to escape.
• Xiao Yan used a two-and-a-half-colored Buddha Fury Fire Lotus as the three Dou Zong struck Xie Biyan with powerful techniques, triggering a massive explosion.
• The group searched the ruined battlefield and found Xie Biyan’s scorpion body buried at its center, with only a faint trace of life remaining.

Xiao Yan was struck by Xie Biyan’s Demon Poison Mark after Xie Biyan turned his life essence into a final attack. Xiao Yan defeated Xie Biyan’s soul inside his sea of consciousness with four Heavenly Flames, but the mutated mark remained dangerous, so the group headed to Butterfly Medical Valley to suppress it.

• Xiao Yi Xian tested Xie Biyan’s apparent corpse with Calamity Poison Blood, but he feigned death and prepared to self-destruct.
• Xie Biyan’s body became a dried corpse as a black Demon Poison Mark shot out, bypassed the group’s defenses, and entered Xiao Yan’s brow.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan to let the mark in, and Xiao Yan faced Xie Biyan’s soul inside his sea of consciousness.
• Xiao Yan used four Heavenly Flames and his soul power to destroy Xie Biyan’s soul and subdue the black mark.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned that the mutated Demon Poison Mark still needed to be suppressed and refined, so everyone decided to take Xiao Yan to Butterfly Medical Valley.

Butterfly Medical Valley destroyed the Myriad Scorpion Sect and secured its position in the Chu Yun Empire, while Yun Zimo and Xiao Yi Xian helped Xiao Yan suppress and refine the Demon Poison Mark. Xiao Yan emerged from seven days of seclusion with the mark sealed and his strength at three-star Dou Emperor.

• Ren Ying reported that Butterfly Medical Valley had eliminated the Myriad Scorpion Sect’s remaining holdouts, and the Jia Ma Squad withdrew after leaving a garrison behind.
• Yun Yun and Nalan Jie met the Chu Yun Emperor, and Butterfly Medical Valley was named the state sect while distinguishing sect affairs from the court’s secular rule.
• Yun Zimo brought Xiao Yan to Xiao Yi Xian, who used a poison-filled pool to help suppress the Demon Poison Mark as Yun Zimo prepared medicinal ingredients.
• Yao Lao offered Yun Zimo a Starfall Pavilion Seal Box, but Yun Zimo declined to visit the pavilion for now and chose to travel elsewhere.
• After seven days, Xiao Yan sealed the Demon Poison Mark with a three-colored flame and revealed that he had reached three-star Dou Emperor.

Xiao Yan declined help with the Demon Poison Mark while Yun Zimo set out to handle threats to the alliance and hinted that the captured Soul Hall protectors could be useful. Medusa planned to seek a breakthrough in the Central Plains, and Yun Zimo began testing what the weakened Iron Protector and Wu Ying might do for their captors.

• Xiao Yi Xian warned Xiao Yan that the Demon Poison Mark was dangerous, but he refused Yao Lao’s offer to ask old friends for help.
• Yun Zimo asked Xiao Yan to keep Wu Ying and Iron Protector alive, saying they might secure years of peace, then flew away with Xiao Yan.
• Medusa told Yun Shan she would seek a chance to break through to Dou Zun in the Snake-Person Tribe’s ancestral land in the Central Plains, while Yun Shan pledged to support her and the alliance.
• At the Jia Ma Alliance elder seat, Xiao Yan stopped Wu Ying and Iron Protector from escaping their jade bottles with invisible flames.
• Yun Zimo asked the captive protectors about their plans, and Iron Protector asked what Yun Zimo wanted him to do.

Yun Zimo persuaded Iron Protector to cooperate by offering him a path to freedom from the Soul Hall, then used Origin Sword Force to bind him. With Tie Yi now under his command, Yun Zimo planned to travel south and prepare a false death report for Xuan Protector before a replacement arrived.

• Yun Zimo sealed Wu Ying back into the jade bottle and asked Iron Protector whether he wanted to become a Soul Hall elder and gain freedom.
• Iron Protector revealed the Soul Lock and Soul Tablet that bound him to the Soul Hall, while Yun Zimo questioned whether becoming an elder could truly free him.
• Yun Zimo and Yao Lao used Origin Sword Force to brand Iron Protector's soul, and Iron Protector pledged his obedience as Tie Yi.
• Tie Yi said the sword mark had quieted his thoughts, and Yun Zimo ordered him to travel south and prepare Xuan Protector's death report before a new Heaven-rank protector arrived.
• Yun Zimo returned the Bone Flame Ring to Xiao Yan and said it would soon be time to set out.

After nearly a month in seclusion, Yun Zimo prepared to leave the Misty Cloud Sect with Yun Yun in search of a breakthrough opportunity. They arranged for Nalan Yanran to serve as acting sect master under Yun Shan’s guidance and said their farewells before Yun Zimo visited Xiao Yan.

• Yun Yun told Yun Zimo she wanted Nalan Yanran to manage the sect so she could travel south with him.
• Yun Shan agreed that Nalan Yanran could serve as acting sect master, with him assisting her, and accepted Yun Zimo and Yun Yun’s seals.
• Yun Zimo gave Yun Leng his Jia Ma Alliance development plan and left the mountain with Yun Yun to bid farewell to others.
• Yun Zimo visited Xiao Yan, reminisced with him about their first meeting, and gave him a jade bottle to restore some of Elder Yao’s soul power.

Yun Zimo prepared to leave the Jia Ma Empire for the Central Plains, saying farewell to his friends and giving them help and advice. After he departed with Yun Yun, Zi Yan set out to pursue her own goal, while Lin Xiuya drew his sword to deal with parasites in the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Yun Zimo gave Yao Lao soul-restoring supplies and discussed Xiao Yi Xian’s approaching danger and the treasures needed to resolve the Woe Poison Body.
• Yun Zimo left Lin Xiuya behind to roam freely, then accepted a Soul-Warming Storage Ring from Gu He before saying farewell.
• Yun Zimo warned Medusa about the Central Plains, suggested she take the name Cai Lin, and gave her information pointing to a possible snake-people ancestral land in the Nine Nether Deep Underworld.
• Yun Zimo comforted Zi Yan, who gave him a tracking mark, then wrote letters to Xiao Yi Xian and Ren Xia and departed south with Yun Yun.
• Zi Yan left Misty Cloud Mountain to pursue her own goal, while Lin Xiuya drew Qingling and identified himself as a tenth-generation disciple of the Punishment Hall.

Yun Zimo and Yun Yun traveled south and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, who joined them despite the lethal danger of her Woe Poison Body. Later, Yun Zimo operated as chief protector of the Soul Hall Northwest Branch and prepared for the cautious Protector Zhi’s arrival as a strange figure neared Heaven Burial Ravine.

• Yun Zimo declined to visit Jiuling City, believing Ren Xia could lead Jiuling Palace without him.
• Yun Zimo and Yun Yun met Xiao Yi Xian on a Blue Eagle, and the two women revealed they had become close friends.
• Xiao Yi Xian showed that she had reached four-star Dou Zong, and Yun Zimo worried that her Woe Poison Body was growing stronger despite its seal.
• The three travelers and the Blue Eagle set off south together toward the Great West Continent.
• At the Soul Hall Northwest Branch, Yun Zimo reviewed the reports and learned that Protector Zhi was expected soon after traveling for more than half a year.
• A concealed figure moving through a forest near Heaven Burial Ravine said he was almost there.

Yun Zimo, Yun Yun, and Xiao Yi Xian met Protector Zhi at Heaven Burial Mountain Ravine, where his attempt to combine a sickle and hammer produced a mysterious phenomenon that shocked Yun Zimo. Days later, Protector Zhi attacked the trio, but after sensing something in Yun Zimo’s will, he let them go and wondered whether they came from the same path or trade.

• Yun Zimo and the others waited with Tie Yi at the ravine until Protector Zhi arrived and inspected them, recognizing that they possessed physical bodies.
• Protector Zhi attempted to combine a black sickle and hammer, causing a strange energy disturbance before he dismissed everyone to ponder the result.
• Yun Zimo, Yun Yun, and Xiao Yi Xian left the ravine, but Protector Zhi later intercepted them with a clone while his true body remained in the hall.
• Protector Zhi revealed his overwhelming strength, seriously injuring Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun and knocking Yun Zimo unconscious.
• Protector Zhi sensed something unusual in Yun Zimo’s will, released the trio, and returned to the hall wondering whether Yun Zimo was from the same path or trade as him.