Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu, Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Hai Bodong visited the ruined Heavenly Snake Mansion and discovered that Lin Guannan had risen to the Dou Venerable realm by draining his elders’ life force. Lin Guannan challenged Xiao Yu, who overpowered him and began crippling him again.

• Xiao Yu agreed to take Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to inspect the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and Hai Bodong joined them.
• Lin Guannan drained an elder’s life force and dou qi, revealing that he had reached the Dou Venerable realm.
• Xiao Yu and his companions arrived at the Heavenly Snake Mansion and found it in ruins, while Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Hai Bodong discussed the mansion’s links to the attacks on the Underworld.
• Lin Guannan confronted Xiao Yu and vowed to kill him, but Xiao Yu trapped him in midair with his control over space.
• Xiao Yu collapsed space around Lin Guannan, opened bloody gashes across his body, and began draining his dou qi.

Xiao Yu uncovered Lin Guannan’s crimes, destroyed the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and brought Green Man and Elder Qing into the Underworld. He then discovered that the Soul Hall had abducted Xiao Zhan and began using the Star Seeking Technique to find him.

• Xiao Yu read Lin Guannan’s memories, learned that he had sold Lin Qingge to the Soul Hall and devoured his mansion’s disciples, then crippled him and left him an idiot.
• Xiao Yu told the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s elders to leave and invited Green Man and Elder Qing to join the Underworld; Green Man revealed that Lin Guannan had killed White Fang.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Ding looted the mansion’s treasury and headed for the Black Corner Region, while Xiao Li secretly returned to kill Lin Guannan.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Ding realized that the Soul Hall still sought the Xiao Clan’s jade piece and rushed to Xiao Zhan’s secluded cave, where they found his absence and the Soul Hall’s aura.
• Xiao Yu concluded that the Soul Hall had abducted Xiao Zhan and began using the Star Seeking Technique to locate him.

Xiao Yu used the Star Seeking Technique to trace Xiao Zhan to the Central Plains and locate the Soul Hall members who had visited the cave. He led his companions to their hideout, where he killed three Half-Saints and captured their souls for questioning.

• Xiao Yu discovered that Xiao Zhan had left for the Central Plains and that Soul Hall members had arrived at the cave afterward.
• Xiao Yu tracked the three Soul Hall members to an abyss in the Ten Thousand Mountains and led Xiao Ding, Hai Bodong, and the Thousand Hundred Elders there.
• Xiao Yu struck the abyss with a punch, forcing three Soul Hall Half-Saints to emerge.
• Xiao Yu immobilized and strangled the three Half-Saints, then captured their souls to interrogate them about the Soul Hall.

Xiao Yu defeated three Half-Saint experts, then led Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, Hai Bodong, and most of the Underworld toward the Central Plains. After borrowing Tianya City's Space Wormhole, the group arrived at the Wind Thunder Mountain Range, where Xiao Ding and Xiao Li saw how much the Underworld had grown.

• Xiao Yu reassured Xiao Ding after defeating the Soul Hall experts, while Hai Bodong and the Thousand Hundred Elders resolved to become stronger.
• Xiao Yu left pills for Jia Nan Academy, and he and the others prepared to travel to the Central Plains through Tianya City.
• The Luo Family mistook the approaching Underworld forces for an attack until Luo Xiaoyao recognized Xiao Yu, who asked to use the Space Wormhole.
• Xiao Yu gave the Luo Family's ancestor a bottle of pills, and the Underworld members departed for the Central Plains in several batches.
• Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, Hai Bodong, and the others reached the Wind Thunder Mountain Range and were astonished by the Underworld's growth under Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yu traveled to the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range and asked the Gold Devouring Rat Clan to search for his missing father, Xiao Zhan. After returning, he reunited with Ya Fei, and she teased him about his relationships with the other women.

• Xiao Yu used the Star Seeking Technique and learned that Xiao Zhan had gone to the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yu reassured Xiao Ding and Xiao Li that he would ask the Gold Devouring Rat Clan to search for their father while Xiao Yi Xian, Cai Die, Qing Lin, and the others settled the Underworld people in the Phoenix Perch Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yu visited Jin Shi, revealed that he had become a Dou Saint, and asked him to find Xiao Zhan.
• Jin Shi sent out Xiao Zhan's portrait and ordered the Gold Devouring Rat Clan to search for him at any cost.
• Xiao Yu returned to the Wind Thunder Mountain Range, where Ya Fei welcomed him and they went to the back of the hall together.
• Ya Fei teased Xiao Yu about his other sisters, and he said he planned to visit Yun Yun that night.

Xiao Yu agreed to help Ya Fei organize a grand Underworld auction and set out to invite major factions. At Fenyang Valley, Tang Huo'er eagerly greeted him after he arrived to visit Tang Zhen.

• Ya Fei told Xiao Yu she wanted to hold an Underworld auction in the Northern Region, and he promised to support her.
• Xiao Yu proposed inviting Sound Valley, Fenyang Valley, and two other pavilions of the Four Pavilions, while leaving out the Pill Tower.
• Ya Fei decided to host the auction herself and began preparing for it as Xiao Yu left to invite the factions.
• After three days of travel, Xiao Yu arrived at Fenyang Valley and announced his visit to Tang Zhen.
• Tang Huo'er urged Tang Zhen to welcome Xiao Yu, and the two flew out to meet him.

Xiao Yu visited Fenyang Valley to invite it to the Underworld’s upcoming auction and propose an alliance against Soul Hall. He claimed Sound Valley, Starfall Pavilion, and Myriad Sword Pavilion had already allied with the Underworld, leaving Tang Zhen to consider whether Fenyang Valley would join.

• Tang Zhen was shocked to learn that Xiao Yu had reached the Dou Saint realm and welcomed him into Fenyang Valley.
• Xiao Yu invited Fenyang Valley to the Underworld’s auction, promising Earth-tier fire techniques, Grade Eight Pills, and other valuable items; Tang Zhen agreed to attend.
• Xiao Yu proposed an alliance between the Underworld and Fenyang Valley to oppose Soul Hall, but Tang Zhen questioned why his valley should get involved.
• Xiao Yu warned that Soul Hall was gathering Soul Power and had the Soul Clan’s backing, then said Sound Valley had already allied with the Underworld.
• Xiao Yu claimed Starfall Pavilion and Myriad Sword Pavilion had also joined the alliance, leaving Fenyang Valley as the only remaining major faction to approach.

Xiao Yu sought alliances with Fenyang Valley and Sound Valley against the Soul Hall before heading to the Pill Domain to visit Xiao Yan. Meanwhile, a mysterious young man appeared at the Underworld’s Wind Thunder Tower and asked whether Xiao Yu was there.

• Tang Zhen hesitated to ally Fenyang Valley with the Underworld and said he would consult Ancestor Huoyun before giving Xiao Yu an answer at the auction in three months.
• Tang Huo'er argued that the Pill Tower might support Xiao Yu because of his Pill Gathering victory and the Tower’s rivalry with the Soul Hall, so Tang Zhen took her to meet their ancestor.
• Xiao Yu visited Sound Valley, learned Yin Ning’s people had found their cultivation technique, and invited them to attend the Underworld auction and establish an alliance.
• Xiao Yu headed for the Pill Domain, hoping to check on Xiao Yan’s progress absorbing the Three Thousand Burning Flame and gauge the Pill Tower’s willingness to ally.
• A young man in coarse linen reached the top of the Wind Thunder Tower, where Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, Cai Die, and Heavenly Flame Venerate confronted him; he asked if Xiao Yu was there.

A mysterious boy calling himself Ancestor arrived at the Underworld and recognized Xiao Yi Xian, Cai Die, Yun Yun, and Heavenly Flame Venerate. Little Xiao Nian befriended his green ox, and Ancestor revealed to Zi Yan that her father Zhu Kun might still be alive but trapped.

• Ancestor introduced himself to Xiao Yi Xian and recognized her Poison Pill constitution and the unusual beings around her.
• Ancestor questioned Heavenly Flame Venerate about his rebirth and the Soul Clan, then Yun Yun explained Xiao Yu had made his body.
• Yun Yun shattered her jade token to summon Xiao Yu, who tore through space toward the Northern Region.
• Little Xiao Nian approached Ancestor's green ox, overcame its attempt to repel her with her Phoenix aura, and asked to care for it.
• Ancestor recognized Zi Yan as Ancient Void Dragon royalty and said her father Zhu Kun might be trapped rather than dead.

The Danta Ancestor met Xiao Yu in the Underworld, revealed his concern about the Soul Clan, and agreed to seek an alliance with the Pill Tower. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame with two other Heavenly Flames and emerged from the Star Domain as a Dou Zun.

• Xiao Yu returned to the Underworld and attacked the youth after mistakenly thinking he had taken Little Xiao Nian hostage.
• Yun Yun identified the youth as the Danta Ancestor, and Xiao Yu welcomed him into the main hall.
• The Danta Ancestor told Xiao Yu that the Soul Clan was making secret moves and proposed an alliance with the Pill Tower.
• The Danta Ancestor and Xiao Yu discussed alchemy before traveling together to the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Yan subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame and merged it with the Sea Heart Flame and Fallen Heart Flame, naming the result the Three Thousand Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan's breakthrough to Dou Zun alerted the Pill Tower's Three Giants, who flew toward the Star Domain.

Xiao Yan emerged from the Star Domain with Three Thousand Burning Flame under control, but learned that Yao Chen’s soul was deteriorating and needed rare treasures to recover. Meanwhile, the Pill Tower’s Three Giants were summoned to the Small Pill Tower, where they learned the Ancestor had returned.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the Star Domain as Three Thousand Burning Flame withdrew into his palm, and the Pill Tower’s Three Giants recognized his improved strength.
• Xuan Yi and Tian Lei Zi explained that Yao Chen had lost Origin Soul Qi and might remain asleep unless it was restored.
• Xuan Yi told Xiao Yan that the Soul Infant Fruit and Spirit Dragon Heavenly Ganoderma could restore Yao Chen’s Origin Soul Qi, though neither was known to be available.
• The Great Elder summoned Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi to the Small Pill Tower and announced that the Ancestor had returned.
• The Great Elder and the other elders met the Danta Ancestor, who recognized Xiao Mo as a Dou Saint.

The Danta Ancestor warned the Small Pill Tower elders that the Soul Hall was targeting the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and that the Central Plains would soon descend into chaos. Xiao Yu revealed that he had founded the Underworld and proposed cooperation with the Pill Tower, leaving the Great Elder concerned that the Soul Hall might attack them.

• The Danta Ancestor reunited with Xiao Mo and praised the elders for rebuilding the Pill Tower.
• The Ancestor said the Soul Hall was pursuing Heavenly Flames, then identified the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as its target and explained the Demon Flame Space's signs of appearing.
• The Ancestor warned that the Soul Clan had great ambitions and urged the Pill Tower to prepare for turmoil.
• The Ancestor praised Xiao Yu's talent and asked him to explain why they had come; Xiao Yu said he wanted the Pill Tower to cooperate with the Underworld, which he had founded.
• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi recognized Xiao Yu as the Underworld's mysterious Mansion Lord and recalled the Underworld's rise and conflict with the Wind Thunder Pavilion.
• The Ancestor called the Underworld a reliable ally, and the Great Elder asked whether the Soul Hall would attack the Pill Tower.

Xiao Yu secured the Pill Tower’s agreement to discuss an alliance at an auction in three months, then learned that his father had left the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range and headed northwest. His search revealed that his father was safe but missing, while unusual activity in the northern stars signaled a treasure.

• The Pill Tower elders unanimously approved Xiao Yu’s proposal to discuss cooperation at the Underworld auction with several major factions.
• Xiao Yu met Xiao Yan in Sacred Pill City, revealed that he had reached the Dou Saint realm, and told him there was news of their father.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan learned from Jin Shi that their father had left the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range and traveled northwest.
• Xiao Yu suspected their father might have gone to the Demon Fire Plain, and showed Xiao Yan a fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map.
• Xiao Yu used the Star Seeking Technique to search for his father, found that he had changed direction and vanished, and confirmed through the Tou She Ancient God Jade that he was still safe.
• As Xiao Yu withdrew the Star Seeking Technique, the stars in the far north of the Northern Region became unusually active, indicating a treasure.

Xiao Yu found the remains of an Ancient Heavenly Snake and destroyed its lingering aura, then brought Qing Lin to the valley so she could use the snake’s power to advance her cultivation. At the chapter’s end, he prepared an array around the skeleton to suppress the Ancient Heavenly Snake’s soul.

• Xiao Yu discovered a nine-headed Ancient Heavenly Snake remnant in a northern valley and destroyed it with his soul power.
• Xiao Yu promised Qing Lin he would help her cultivate, then noticed that the Ancient Teng Snake tattoo on her arm had fallen dormant.
• The next day, Xiao Yu took Qing Lin to the valley, where the Ancient Heavenly Snake’s presence awakened the tattoo.
• Xiao Yu led Qing Lin into the valley and found the Ancient Heavenly Snake’s skeleton atop a boulder.
• Xiao Yu told Qing Lin to wait, then set up a Four Symbols Guarding Array around the skeleton to suppress the Ancient Heavenly Snake’s soul.

Xiao Yu used the Four Symbols Guarding Array to suppress the souls of an Ancient Heavenly Snake and an Ancient Teng Snake so Qing Lin could absorb their energy. After a month of preparation, Qing Lin broke through to the Three-star Dou Zun realm and celebrated with Xiao Yu.

• Xiao Yu summoned the Ancient Heavenly Snake’s soul from its bones and trapped it in the Four Symbols Guarding Array.
• Xiao Yu told Qing Lin to absorb the Ancient Heavenly Snake, and she drew its soul into her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• The Ancient Teng Snake’s soul emerged, and Qing Lin absorbed it as well, but the two Dou Zun-level souls clashed and strained her.
• Xiao Yu sat behind Qing Lin and helped stabilize the chaotic energy as she spent a month absorbing the beasts’ energy and building her foundation.
• Qing Lin broke through to the Dou Zun realm, suppressed her rising cultivation, and stabilized at Three-star Dou Zun.
• Qing Lin embraced Xiao Yu and said she could help him now, while he told her he only wanted her to be safe and well.

Xiao Yu returned from the valley with Qing Lin, prepared for the Underworld auction, and welcomed powerful guests to the Wind Thunder Mountain Range. The chapter left off as Ancestor Huoyun learned Xiao Yu was an eighth-tier Alchemy Grandmaster and hoped he could treat his hidden injuries.

• Xiao Yu and Qing Lin returned to the Wind Thunder Mountain Range after a month in the valley.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Yu to refine pills so she could grow stronger and defeat Bai Xiaoxiao, and he promised to take her somewhere after the auction.
• As the Underworld auction approached, visitors discussed the Underworld's strength and Xiao Yi Xian's cured Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yu welcomed Venerable Wind and Venerable Sword, who arrived with members of Starfall Pavilion and Myriad Sword Pavilion.
• Ancestor Huoyun arrived with Fenyang Valley, and Xiao Yu noticed his hidden injuries and offered to examine them.
• Tang Zhen told Ancestor Huoyun that Xiao Yu was an eighth-tier Alchemy Grandmaster, prompting Huoyun to ask why he had not been told sooner.

Xiao Yu gathered the Pill Tower, Fenyang Valley, Sound Valley, and other major factions to establish an alliance against the Soul Hall and its affiliates. The chapter ended with the Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s formation shaking the Central Plains.

• The Pill Tower and Sound Valley arrived at Xiao Yu’s invitation, surprising Ancestor Huoyun and the Great Elder with Sound Valley’s strength.
• Xiao Yu led the factions to the auction, where the Pill Tower’s leaders recognized the Heavenly Jade Primordial Fruit as a treasure from their medicinal treasury, and Xiao Yu offered to buy it back for them.
• Xiao Yu brought the faction leaders together and proposed an alliance against the Soul Hall and its affiliated forces, including the Nether River Sect.
• The factions agreed to make Xiao Yu the alliance leader, appointed representatives from Fenyang Valley, Sound Valley, and the Pill Tower as deputy leaders, and named the alliance the Heavenly Mansion Alliance.
• The Heavenly Mansion Alliance was officially established, shocking the Central Plains and alarming the Soul Hall, Heavenly Nether Sect, and Flower Sect.

Hun Miesheng learned that the Xiao Clan’s bloodline had revived, while Nihility Devouring Flame confronted Xiao Yu about it and warned that their cooperation depended on Xiao Yu growing stronger before Hun Tiandi emerged from seclusion. Xiao Yu then prepared to visit the Ancient Clan to settle matters with Xun Er.

• A Soul Hall subordinate reported to Hun Miesheng that Xiao Yu had founded the Underworld, reached the Dou Sheng realm, and seemed to have restored the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di bloodline.
• After the alliance members departed, Nihility Devouring Flame met Xiao Yu atop the Wind Thunder Tower and said Hun Miesheng had asked him about the Xiao Clan’s bloodline.
• Nihility Devouring Flame told Xiao Yu that Hun Miesheng was recovering and occupied with the demon flame, but warned that their cooperation would end if Xiao Yu was not strong enough when Hun Tiandi emerged in two years.
• Xiao Yu returned to his room, then told Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Xiao Yan that he would leave to visit the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Li teased Xiao Yu about visiting Xun Er while he already had Yun Yun and the others.

Xiao Yu traveled alone to the Ancient Clan’s territory and learned that its Grand Competition offered outsiders a chance to join the clan. He entered Ancient Saint City with eight other competitors and was taken to the hall where the first round of testing would begin.

• Xiao Yu reached Gu Yan City, where tavern patrons told him about the Ancient Clan’s once-every-three-years Grand Competition and its entry requirements.
• Xiao Yu decided to enter the competition and traveled to Ancient Saint City, the event’s venue.
• Xiao Yu arrived at Ancient Stone Plaza with eight other candidates, three peak Dou Zongs and five One-star Dou Zuns, and concealed most of his strength.
• Xiao Yu and the other candidates walked toward Ancient Saint City, withstanding the pressure of its Dou Di construction as the others recognized him as a threat.
• The Black Annihilation Army admitted the nine candidates, and Ancient Clan members escorted them to the administrative hall for the first round of testing.

Xiao Yu entered the Ancient Clan to ask for Gu Xun Er’s hand in marriage, revealing his Dou Sheng strength and confronting elders who insulted him. Gu Yuan agreed to consider their relationship but set two requirements, leaving the second one undisclosed.

• Xiao Yu’s strength triggered the Ancient Clan’s alarm at the identity test, and Gu Nan Hai escorted him into the Gu Realm after he explained that he had come to ask for Gu Xun Er’s hand in marriage.
• Xiao Yu slapped Gu Qian after the elder mocked the Xiao Clan, and Gu Yuan arrived and punished Gu Qian with a year at Reflection Cliff.
• Gu Yuan invited Xiao Yu into the Ancient Hall, where Gu Xu objected to Xun Er marrying outside the clan.
• Gu Yuan said Xiao Yu could pursue Xun Er if he met two requirements, first earning the younger generation’s acceptance; Xiao Yu claimed none of them could challenge him.