Recaps

Liu Bai returned from the Douluo World to Holy Pill City, reuniting with Xiao Yi Xian and learning how much she and Qing Lin had advanced during his absence. The chapter left him astonished by Qing Lin’s strength as a Five-Star Dou Venerate who controlled seventeen Tier-Eight snake-type magical beasts.

• Liu Bai told Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong that he was leaving the Douluo World and promised to return after handling matters elsewhere.
• Liu Bai used the Shuttle Gate to return to Holy Pill City, where Xiao Yi Xian welcomed him back and embraced him.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Liu Bai that she had advanced to Late Half-Saint after using the poisons from Ice River Valley.
• Qing Lin appeared in the courtyard, reunited with Liu Bai, and revealed that she had become a Five-Star Dou Venerate who controlled seventeen Tier-Eight snake-type magical beasts.

Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin traveled to the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe to find and rescue Yao Ming, whose support could help them take control of the tribe. They reached the entrance to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, where Yao Ming was sealed, and prepared to descend.

• After Qing Lin reached Five-Star Dou Venerate, Liu Bai decided their group was strong enough to begin planning a move against the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe and said they needed to find Yao Ming.
• Qing Lin revealed that five of the snake-type Magical Beasts she controlled came from the tribe and retained their memories, giving Liu Bai a way to infiltrate its territory.
• Liu Bai told Zi Yan he would take her to the Ancient Void Dragon clan after their current task, then left with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin for the tribe's headquarters.
• Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian sensed powerful experts throughout the Dark Snake Earth Vein but concealed their auras and traveled toward the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• The group reached the abyss believed to hold Yao Ming, and Liu Bai summoned the Nether Prison Black Phoenix Flame to shield himself from the freezing energy before descending.

Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin descended into the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and found the imprisoned Yao Ming. Liu Bai offered to free him and let him take revenge on Yao Xiao Tian, leaving Yao Ming consumed by hatred for his betrayer.

• Xiao Yi Xian shielded Liu Bai and Qing Lin as they descended through the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to drive away a swarm of Yellow Spring Snake Guards.
• The three reached the bottom and found Yao Ming bound by chains.
• Liu Bai approached Yao Ming cautiously and told him he could save him and help him take revenge on Yao Xiao Tian.
• Yao Ming described how Yao Xiao Tian had ambushed him, stolen his position as clan chief, and sealed him underground.

Liu Bai persuaded Yao Ming to accept Qing Lin’s control in exchange for a chance to take revenge on Yao Xiao Tian. After Qing Lin enslaved him, Liu Bai tried to break the chains binding him by attacking the source of their frigid power with a four-colored Fire Lotus.

• Liu Bai offered Yao Ming a chance to escape and seek revenge on Yao Xiao Tian if he submitted to Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Yao Ming agreed, and Qing Lin spent several hours controlling him while Liu Bai supported her.
• Yao Ming became Qing Lin’s servant, and the control helped stabilize his injuries.
• Liu Bai followed one of the chains to a black mountain that was the source of its frigid power.
• Liu Bai formed a Fire Lotus from four Heavenly Flames and sent it toward the mountain where it joined the chain.

Liu Bai freed Yao Ming from his chains, and Yao Ming pledged himself to Qing Lin, who received the Nine Serene Scepter and authority over the tribe. The group emerged to confront Yao Xiao Tian, where Yao Ming accused him of seizing the clan leadership and imprisoning him.

• Liu Bai destroyed the black orbs anchoring Yao Ming's chains and freed him from the mountainside.
• Yao Ming pledged his life to Qing Lin, and Liu Bai gave Qing Lin the Nine Serene Scepter, making her the tribe's new master.
• Yao Ming used spatial power to take Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin out of the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Yao Ming and the others appeared above the Dark Snake Earth Vein, where Yao Xiao Tian and the tribe's experts gathered to face them.
• Yao Ming confronted Yao Xiao Tian and accused him of stealing the clan leadership and imprisoning him, while Yao Xiao Tian denied the charges.

Yao Ming defeated Yao Xiao Tian and the Great Elder after accusing them of betraying him and neglecting the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe. At Liu Bai’s request, he kept both Dou Saints alive, leaving Qing Lin with them as Liu Bai departed and awaited word that the clan had been brought under control.

• Yao Ming revealed his Late-Stage Two-Star Dou Saint strength and condemned Yao Xiao Tian for sealing him away and failing to cultivate the clan’s experts.
• Yao Ming overwhelmed Yao Xiao Tian in a series of palm strikes, then sealed him and handed him to Qing Lin after Liu Bai told him to leave Yao Xiao Tian alive.
• Yao Ming confronted the Great Elder, who had conspired with Yao Xiao Tian, and beat him down when he tried to flee and then self-destruct.
• Liu Bai again ordered Yao Ming to keep his defeated enemy alive, and Yao Ming sealed the Great Elder and gave him to Qing Lin.
• Liu Bai left the clan’s affairs to Yao Ming and asked him to report back once everything was settled.

Liu Bai learned the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe’s strength and planned to place its clansmen under Qing Lin’s control so she could grow stronger. Qing Lin pledged to protect him as the tribe gathered its people.

• Liu Bai summoned Xiao Yi Xian away and left Yao Ming to handle the tribe’s affairs.
• Yao Ming reported that the tribe had three Dou Saints, six Half-Saints, 863 Dou Venerates, and more than 3,700 Dou Zongs, with its scattered clansmen expected to return within half a month.
• Liu Bai explained that Qing Lin was extracting the Dou Qi of Yao Xiao Tian and the Great Elder and would seek to bring the whole tribe under her control.
• Liu Bai promised Yao Ming future advancement if he remained loyal, and Yao Ming accepted.
• Qing Lin told Liu Bai she wanted to protect him in return for all he had done for her, and Liu Bai embraced her.

Qing Lin took control of the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe by using her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils on its members, with Yao Ming bringing them to her. After two months, the whole tribe was under her control, and she had risen to the peak of Eight-Star Dou Venerate.

• Yao Ming began bringing the tribe’s experts to Qing Lin, starting with a Half-Saint elder whom he restrained and she made her servant.
• Over the next two months, Qing Lin controlled all six Half-Saints, 863 Dou Venerates, and more than 3,700 Dou Zongs.
• Qing Lin controlled the tribe’s final expert, a young Dou Zong, completing her takeover of its middle and upper ranks.
• Qing Lin’s pupils fed her threads of her servants’ Dou Qi, raising her cultivation from Five-Star Dou Venerate to the peak of Eight-Star Dou Venerate.
• Qing Lin told Liu Bai she had succeeded, and he praised her as Yao Ming considered the tribe’s uncertain new future.

Liu Bai used the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe to search for Heavenly Flames and poison resources for Xiao Yi Xian, while he refined pills from the clan’s abundant medicinal stores. As Four-Colored Pill Lightning struck another batch of pills, the chapter left Liu Bai facing the lightning in the pill-refining chamber.

• Liu Bai sent Yao Xiao Tian and the Great Elder to search the Beast Domain for two Heavenly Flames.
• Liu Bai ordered Qing Lin to mobilize the tribe to gather poisons, poisonous herbs, and poison-element pill formulas for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Qing Lin dispatched servants throughout the Beast Domain, while Liu Bai urged Xiao Yi Xian to focus on cultivating.
• Liu Bai began refining pills with the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe’s vast medicinal stores and repeatedly produced Tier 8 pills that triggered Pill Lightning.
• Four-Colored Pill Lightning descended toward the pill-refining chamber, and Liu Bai watched as a golden figure shot into the sky.

Liu Bai refined a Tier 8 pill and spent months cultivating while Qing Lin rapidly advanced to Half-Saint. With Liu Bai nearing Dou Venerate, Yao Xiao Tian presented the Mystic Yellow Flame as the opportunity for his breakthrough.

• Bing Hezi shattered and absorbed the lightning for Liu Bai’s four-colored Tier 8 pill, then grew stronger.
• Liu Bai stored the pill, reviewed his stockpile of pills, and cultivated for half a year using the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe’s resources.
• Qing Lin broke through from Five-Star Dou Venerate to Half-Saint, and Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others congratulated her.
• Liu Bai reached the peak of Nine-Star Dou Zong, one step from Dou Venerate, while Xiao Yi Xian remained a Late Half-Saint.
• Yao Xiao Tian presented the Mystic Yellow Flame, which Liu Bai had sent him to find, as the opportunity for his breakthrough.

Liu Bai absorbed the Mystic Yellow Flame and used its power and a Venerate-Breaking Pill to attempt a breakthrough from Dou Zong to Dou Venerate. A year passed as Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin guarded his seclusion, while Zi Yan waited and the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe continued searching for the Dou Saint Space.

• Liu Bai asked Zi Yan about the bloodline pull she had felt and learned she had been dreaming of strange places.
• Liu Bai told Yao Ming to keep searching for the Dou Saint Space and entrusted Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan with the area while he entered seclusion.
• Liu Bai absorbed the Mystic Yellow Flame, which fused with his Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame under the Fire God Godhead's suppression.
• Liu Bai swallowed a Tier 8 Venerate-Breaking Pill and used the combined energy to repeatedly strike the barrier between Dou Zong and Dou Venerate.
• A year passed as Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin guarded Liu Bai's cultivation chamber, Zi Yan waited for him, and Yao Ming and Yao Xiao Tian continued the tribe's search.

Liu Bai broke through to Dou Venerate, drawing Tribulation Lightning that Bing Hezi absorbed until it reached Nine-Star Dou Venerate. After reuniting with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, he learned that Qing Lin had reached Half-Saint Peak and that the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe had found a Ten Thousand Year Poison Pool.

• Dark clouds gathered over the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe's main hall as Liu Bai prepared to break through to Dou Venerate.
• Liu Bai emerged from his chamber and suspected that his Fire God Godhead had drawn the Tribulation Lightning.
• Liu Bai sent Bing Hezi into the clouds, where it absorbed the lightning and advanced to Nine-Star Dou Venerate.
• Qing Lin told Liu Bai that she had reached Half-Saint Peak, while Xiao Yi Xian said she remained short of Dou Saint.
• Qing Lin told Liu Bai that the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe had found a Ten Thousand Year Poison Pool in the far western region of the Beast Domain.

Liu Bai learned that the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe had located a Dou Saint Space that would be ready in half a month, and took Xiao Yi Xian to the Ten Thousand Year Poison Pool so she could cultivate. Xiao Yi Xian entered the pool to absorb its poison, while Liu Bai left with Qing Lin and Zi Yan to handle other matters before the expedition.

• Qing Lin told Liu Bai that the Ten Thousand Year Poison Pool could help Xiao Yi Xian break through to Dou Saint.
• Yao Ming reported that the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe had found the Dou Saint Space in a rift in the eastern Beast Domain and expected it to stabilize in half a month.
• Liu Bai ordered Yao Ming to keep the Dou Saint Space secret from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan, intending to obtain the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit for Zi Yan.
• Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan traveled to the Ten Thousand Year Poison Pool in the western Beast Domain.
• Xiao Yi Xian plunged into the Poison Pool to cultivate, and Liu Bai left with Qing Lin and Zi Yan because her seclusion would take time.

Liu Bai led the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe into an ancient Dou Saint Space to search for the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit. Zi Yan sensed a summons from the depths of an Ancient Forest, and Liu Bai followed her there with his companions.

• Liu Bai and his group reached the spatial rift, and Yao Ming, Yao Xiao Tian, and the Great Elder opened the entrance to the Dou Saint Space.
• Liu Bai ordered Yao Xiao Tian and the others to search the space for treasures, especially the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Liu Bai asked Zi Yan to sense her bloodline, and she detected a summons nearby.
• Liu Bai had Yao Ming open a passage toward the source, then entered the Ancient Forest with Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Zi Yan headed deeper into the forest, and Liu Bai and the others followed.

Liu Bai and his companions found the Soul Infant Demon Tree and followed Zi Yan’s bloodline instincts to a hidden Beast Spirit Barrier, where they discovered the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit. Liu Bai sealed the fruit inside Zi Yan for her clan’s elders to help her absorb.

• Yao Ming collected the fruit from the Soul Infant Demon Tree while Zi Yan sensed a call from deeper in the forest.
• Zi Yan led the group to a hidden Beast Spirit Barrier, which Yao Ming opened with his Dou Saint strength.
• The group crossed the barrier and found an ancient altar surrounded by the skeletons of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heaven Phoenix.
• Liu Bai identified the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit growing on the altar and guided Zi Yan in picking it with bloodied hands.
• The fruit transformed into gold-and-purple liquid and entered Zi Yan’s body, where Liu Bai sealed it for her elders to help her absorb.

After securing the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, Liu Bai returned with Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Yao Ming to the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe, where Qing Lin cultivated with the tribe’s full support. More than two years later, she broke through to One-Star Dou Saint and promised Liu Bai she could protect him better.

• Liu Bai ordered Qing Lin to have the tribe collect the treasures and resources from the Dou Saint Space, then returned with the others to the tribe’s territory.
• Qing Lin entered a guarded cultivation chamber while the tribe directed its cultivation energy toward helping her overcome her bottleneck; Liu Bai secluded himself to practice pill refining.
• Over six months, Liu Bai advanced to refining high-grade Tier 8 Pills that produced Six-Colored Pill Lightning.
• After another year, Qing Lin’s aura erupted from the chamber and she broke through to Dou Saint, evolving the power of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Qing Lin appeared before Liu Bai as a One-Star Dou Saint, hugged his arm, and said she could protect him better.

After Qing Lin broke through to the Dou Saint realm, Liu Bai prepared to take Zi Yan to Dragon Island and brought most of the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe along inside Qing Lin’s pupils. They reached Dragon Island’s vicinity, where a wary purple-haired man confronted them before they could determine which island they had found.

• Qing Lin accepted responsibility for protecting Liu Bai, and Yao Ming, Yao Xiao Tian, and the Great Elder congratulated her on reaching the Dou Saint realm.
• Liu Bai had Qing Lin use her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to bring the tribe’s experts with them, leaving Yao Ming and one Half-Saint elder behind to guard the tribe.
• Liu Bai, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Yao Ming traveled through the spatial turbulence, with Zi Yan guiding them by sensing her royal bloodline’s call.
• After they found Dragon Island, Liu Bai had Qing Lin conceal Zi Yan’s aura while they approached to identify which island it was.
• A burly purple-haired man emerged from a spatial crack, challenged the group, and realized Yao Ming and one of the women were Dou Saints.

Liu Bai arrived at East Dragon Island and told its elders that the old Dragon Emperor was alive but trapped in another space. He left the elders eager for details but stopped them from focusing on the Dragon Emperor, saying that was not why he had come.

• Hei Qing recognized that Yao Ming was a powerful Dou Saint and learned Liu Bai had news of the old Dragon Emperor.
• Hei Qing summoned Zhu Li, who welcomed Liu Bai and his companions onto Dragon Island.
• Liu Bai told Zhu Li that the Dragon Emperor was alive but trapped in a separate space.
• Qingshan and Qingmu appeared and rejoiced at the news, then asked Liu Bai to take them to the Dragon Emperor.
• Liu Bai said the Two-Star Dou Saints could not help free the Dragon Emperor and declared that he had come to discuss something else.

Liu Bai revealed that Zi Yan was the daughter of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s previous Dragon Emperor and carried the Dragon Emperor Bloodline. He also announced that she possessed a sealed Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, leaving the Three Great Elders convinced that she could become the clan’s new Supreme Dragon Emperor.

• Liu Bai asked Qing Lin to remove the concealment around Zi Yan, revealing her powerful Dragon Emperor Bloodline to the Three Great Elders.
• Zhu Li, Qingshan, and Qingmu recognized Zi Yan as the Dragon Emperor’s daughter and bowed to her as their princess.
• Zi Yan told the elders that she had grown up at Jia Nan Academy and that Liu Bai had taken care of her.
• Liu Bai revealed that Zi Yan carried a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit sealed inside her body and said the elders could help her refine it on Dragon Island.
• The Three Great Elders celebrated Zi Yan’s return and pledged that East Dragon Island would repay Liu Bai for his help.

Zi Yan prepared to absorb the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and promised to become strong enough to protect Liu Bai. After settling in at Dragon Island, Liu Bai began refining an Ancient Void Dragon skeleton to absorb its bloodline through his Blood Night Martial Soul.

• Qingshan explained that a formation could help Zi Yan absorb the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and likely reach the Dou Saint realm.
• Zi Yan thanked Liu Bai, joked with him, and left with Qingmu to begin absorbing the fruit.
• Zhu Li offered Liu Bai, Qing Lin, and Yao Ming a residence and access to the Ancient Void Dragon clan’s medicinal ingredients.
• Liu Bai asked Qing Lin to seal and guard the palace while he cultivated, and Yao Ming took watch outside.
• Liu Bai summoned the compressed Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heaven Phoenix skeletons, then used Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame to begin refining the dragon skeleton.

Liu Bai refined the Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heaven Phoenix skeletons into bloodline essences and absorbed both through his Blood Martial Soul. He reached Nine-Star Dou Venerate and discovered that their bloodlines had fused into a new power within him.

• Liu Bai used the Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame to refine the Ancient Void Dragon skeleton into golden bloodline essence, then refined the Ancient Heaven Phoenix skeleton into purple essence.
• Liu Bai sent the golden essence into his body with his Blood Martial Soul and absorbed it over a year, rising from One-Star to Five-Star Dou Venerate.
• Liu Bai absorbed the purple Ancient Heaven Phoenix essence over another half year, reaching Nine-Star Dou Venerate.
• Liu Bai sensed that the two supreme magical beast bloodlines had fused perfectly within him into a new bloodline power.

After emerging from seclusion as a Nine-Star Dou Venerate with Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heaven Phoenix bloodlines, Liu Bai visited Zhu Li to request preserved human bodies for reviving a friend and refining puppets. Zhu Li produced ten bodies, including three Half-Saints and seven Dou Venerates, for Liu Bai to take.

• Liu Bai tested his new bloodlines and found that his cultivation speed and combat power had increased dramatically.
• Qing Lin and Yao Ming greeted Liu Bai as he left seclusion, and Liu Bai asked about Zi Yan, who was still absorbing the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Liu Bai traveled through East Dragon Island to meet Third Elder Zhu Li and asked whether the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had preserved human bodies.
• Zhu Li retrieved ten preserved bodies—three Half-Saints and seven Dou Venerates—and offered them to Liu Bai.

Liu Bai prepared to revive Venerable Skyfire by choosing a powerful corpse, then sent Yao Ming to capture Soul Hall powerhouses for his puppet-making plans. The chapter left Venerable Skyfire awaiting the body-forging process as Yao Ming departed for the Central Plains.

• Zhu Li gave Liu Bai ten preserved corpses and agreed to let him use the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe's Void Lightning Pool later.
• Liu Bai returned to his residence and told Venerable Skyfire that he would forge him a body and revive him.
• Liu Bai selected a Ninth Transformation Dou Venerate Peak corpse for Venerable Skyfire, who gratefully accepted it.
• Liu Bai ordered Yao Ming to capture the souls of nine Soul Hall powerhouses and, if convenient, bring back their bodies.
• Yao Ming agreed to act discreetly and left Dragon Island for the Central Plains.

Liu Bai used a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill and Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame to restore Venerable Skyfire in the body of a Ninth Transformation Dou Venerate Peak. After hours of painful fusion and regrowth, Yao Tianhuo came back to life, leaving Liu Bai exhausted but relieved that the resurrection had succeeded.

• Liu Bai opened the ice coffin and prepared the Ninth Transformation Dou Venerate Peak's corpse for Venerable Skyfire's resurrection.
• Liu Bai applied cyan-and-red blood to the corpse and refined it with Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame for a day.
• Liu Bai completed the body's initial refinement and warned Venerable Skyfire that the fusion would be crucial.
• Venerable Skyfire entered the corpse, and Liu Bai gave it the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill to restore its flesh.
• Liu Bai tempered the newly formed flesh with Flame as it repeatedly burned away and regrew over nearly ten hours.
• Yao Tianhuo regained a complete body and began breathing steadily, confirming that Liu Bai's revival attempt had succeeded.

Venerable Skyfire awakened in his new body, while Liu Bai observed Qing Lin’s rapid cultivation. Meanwhile, Yao Ming continued destroying Soul Hall branches and collecting its experts and Soul Origin for Liu Bai.

• Venerable Skyfire awakened after half a month and discovered his new body had reached Five-Transformation Dou Venerate Peak.
• Venerable Skyfire thanked Liu Bai, then went outside to experience sunlight and wind for the first time in hundreds of years.
• Liu Bai observed Qing Lin’s progress to Mid-Stage One-Star Dou Saint and considered the effects of her drawing Dou Qi from the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Tribe.
• Yao Ming reported that he had collected the souls and bodies of thirty-two Soul Hall experts and a vast mass of Soul Origin from destroyed branch halls.
• Yao Ming resolved to keep following Liu Bai’s orders and avoid provoking Soul Hall’s Hall Master.