Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze recruited Jia Nan Academy graduates, said farewell to Xiao Yu and Xun Er, then led his forces against the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley. After demanding the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva from Mo Tianxing, he used Space Strangulation, revealing himself as a Dou Zun and leaving his enemies facing a deadly attack.

• Xiao Ze invited Jia Nan Academy graduates to join Xiao Sect and visited Xiao Yu before leaving the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Ze spent the night with Xun Er, then returned to Maple City and learned that the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley were gathering allies.
• Xiao Ze ordered Yuan Yi to assemble their forces and led nearly a hundred Dou Wang and stronger experts toward their enemies.
• Old Demon Earth and Mo Tianxing agreed to divide Maple City's profits, expecting their combined forces to defeat Xiao Ze.
• Xiao Ze tore open space to reach Black Emperor City, demanded the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva from Mo Tianxing, and unleashed Space Strangulation.
• Mo Tianxing and Old Demon Earth realized Xiao Ze was a Dou Zun as Space Rifts opened around them.

Xiao Ze crushed the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley rebellion, unified most of the Black-Corner Region under the Xiao Sect, and prepared to leave for the Central Plains. Xun Er returned to the Ancient Clan after Xiao Ze promised to find her within five years, while Xiao Yu stayed behind.

• Xiao Ze killed Mo Tianxing and Old Demon Earth with Space Strangulation, then ordered his forces to kill everyone above Dou Wang level.
• Yuan Yi led the assault on Black Emperor City, and after three days of fighting the rebels were wiped out while nearly ninety percent of the region's factions submitted to the Xiao Sect.
• Great Elder Su Qian congratulated Xiao Ze and promised to protect the Xiao Sect in his absence.
• Xun Er told Xiao Ze she was leaving to avoid bringing trouble to the Xiao Clan, and he promised to find her within five years.
• Ling Quan escorted Xun Er away from Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Yu wept as Xiao Ze prepared to leave.
• Xiao Ze departed for the Central Plains with Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and Qing Lin.

The Great Elder entrusted Zi Yan to Xiao Ze as he set out with her and the others for the Central Plains. In Tianya City, they learned its Space Wormhole was broken, and the Luo Clan invited Xiao Ze to meet their ancestor about helping repair it.

• The Great Elder asked Xiao Ze to take Zi Yan to the Central Plains, and Xiao Ze agreed.
• Xiao Ze explained the Central Plains’ major factions and the power of Dou Sheng Experts to Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and Qing Lin.
• The group reached Tianya City, where a Luo Clan elder told them flying was forbidden and said the city’s Space Wormhole was unusable.
• The elder asked Xiao Ze to help repair the Space Wormhole, then learned Xiao Ze was a Dou Zun and invited him to consult with the Luo Family Ancestor.
• Xiao Ze agreed to visit the Luo Clan, and the group arrived at its residence, where the ancestor was gathered with guards in a sealed-off Blackstone Square.

Xiao Ze repaired the Luo Clan’s Space Wormhole in exchange for a seventh-tier Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core, then traveled with his companions to Tianbei City in the Northern Region of the Central Plains. The group set out to find the Han Family using a letter from the Great Elder, and Xiao Ze wondered whether the Han sisters were there.

• Xiao Ze agreed to repair the Luo Clan’s Space Wormhole in exchange for a seventh-tier Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core to help revive Venerable Skyfire.
• Xiao Ze restored the Space Wormhole, and Luo Cheng gave him the promised Magic Core and hosted the group.
• Xiao Ze and his companions left the next morning and spent nearly a week traveling through the Space Wormhole to Tianbei City.
• After arriving in the Central Plains, Xiao Ze told the group that the Great Elder’s letter directed them to the Han Family in Tianbei City.
• Xiao Ze wondered whether the Han Family was home to the two sisters he had in mind.

Xiao Ze intervened when the Hong Family threatened the Han Family into marrying Han Xue and Han Yue to Hong Chen, and revealed his overwhelming Dou Zun strength. After he rescued the Han Family, he presented Su Qian’s letter of recommendation and asked to stay with them.

• Xiao Ze and his companions arrived at the Han Family manor and heard the Hong Family demand that Han Xue and Han Yue marry Hong Chen.
• Han Yue refused the demand, while Han Chi struggled to oppose the Hong Family because Hong Chen had joined the Wind Lightning North Pavilion.
• Xiao Ze entered the hall and tried to stop the dispute, but the Hong Family elder attacked him.
• Xiao Ze killed the Hong Family elder and wiped out the remaining Hong Family members with his Dou Zun power.
• Xiao Ze showed Han Yue Su Qian’s letter of recommendation and asked to stay with the Han Family, leaving her surprised to learn he was from the Xiao Clan and had come with Xun Er.

Xiao Ze reassured the Han Family that the Wind Lightning Pavilion would not deter him from protecting them after he killed the Hong Family elder. That night, Han Xue slipped into his room and sat beside him, blushing as he pointed out her flushed face.

• Han Chi welcomed Xiao Ze and his companions, and Han Yue thanked Xiao Ze for saving the Han Family.
• At the banquet, Han Chi worried that the Hong Family and Wind Lightning Pavilion would retaliate, but Xiao Ze assured him he was not afraid of them.
• Han Chi told Han Yue and Han Xue that they should try to win Xiao Ze's favor, and Han Xue worried about approaching him too soon.
• While Xiao Ze pondered how to gather materials for Venerable Skyfire's new body, Han Xue knocked on his door and entered his room.
• Xiao Ze invited Han Xue to sit beside him, then teased her about blushing.

Xiao Ze married Han Xue and received powerful rewards, then confronted the Hong Family when it attacked the Han Family estate. He stopped their assault and turned his attention to Hong Chen.

• Xiao Ze embraced Han Xue, kissed her, and asked her to marry him; she agreed, and he received Seven-Grade Alchemist talent, a Dou Sheng inheritance, and the Phoenix Soaring Sword technique.
• Hong Li learned that a Hong Family elder had disappeared at the Han Family estate and gathered his clan to seek revenge.
• Hong Li led the Hong Family to the Han estate and ordered its people to kill everyone, while Han Chi calmly faced them.
• Xiao Ze stopped the Hong Family's attack with an invisible force, then appeared with Han Xue and revealed that the Han Family was his father-in-law's family.
• Hong Li invoked the Wind Lightning North Pavilion, but Xiao Ze dismissed the threat and struck Hong Chen with a merciless finger strike.

Xiao Ze wiped out the Hong Family after its members attacked the Han Family, then celebrated with the Han Family and spent the night with Han Yue. The chapter ended with Han Yue in Xiao Ze’s arms.

• Xiao Ze killed Hong Chen and Hong Li, then defeated and killed the Hong Family ancestor, Hong Xiao.
• Xiao Ze hunted down the fleeing Hong Family members, leaving none of the attackers alive.
• Han Chi led the Han Family in attacking the ruined Hong estate and later held a banquet for Xiao Ze.
• Han Chi introduced his eldest daughter, Han Yue, to Xiao Ze, while Zi Yan and the others watched from the sidelines.
• Han Yue helped Xiao Ze to his guest room, where Xiao Ze revealed he was not drunk and embraced her.

After the Han Family destroyed the Hong Family, Wind Lightning North Pavilion Master Fei Tian led four elders to Tianbei City to seek revenge. Xiao Ze prepared to leave for the Central Region with his companions, but stayed behind when the pavilion arrived, and confronted Fei Tian as he threatened the Han Family.

• Elder Shen Yun learned the Han Family had destroyed the Hong Family and urged Fei Tian to take action.
• Fei Tian ordered Shen Yun to gather the pavilion's elders and led an attack on the Han Family.
• Xiao Ze told his companions that the Han Family's troubles were mostly resolved and planned to travel to the Central Region.
• When the Wind Lightning North Pavilion approached, Xiao Ze sent his companions ahead with a jade slip so they could summon him if they faced a Dou Zun.
• Fei Tian arrived above the Han Family with the Four Great Elders and used his pressure and gaze to subdue the family.
• Xiao Ze called Fei Tian an old dog and ordered him to stop glaring at Han Xue.

Xiao Ze killed Fei Tian and the Four Great Elders after they attacked him, then left Han Yue and Han Xue with a Spatial Jade Slip and headed for the Wind Lightning Pavilion. At Thunder Mountain, Xiao Yan arrived for the Four Pavilions Assembly.

• Xiao Ze crushed Fei Tian with spatial force and killed him after Fei Tian attacked.
• The Four Great Elders tried to flee, but Xiao Ze immobilized and killed them, then told them he would visit Venerable Thunder.
• Xiao Ze gave Han Yue and Han Xue a Spatial Jade Slip before tearing open space and departing.
• Xiao Ze traveled to the Wind Lightning East Pavilion, where the Four Pavilions Assembly was drawing crowds to Thunder Mountain.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Wind Lightning Mountain Range and looked down at the people gathering below.

Xiao Ze arrived at the Four Pavilions Assembly and challenged Venerable Thunder over the Wind Lightning North Pavilion’s repeated bullying and Fei Tian’s death. Venerable Thunder attacked him, but Xiao Ze easily gained the upper hand, leaving the other Venerables to consider whether to intervene.

• Xiao Yan reached Thunder Mountain to attend the Four Pavilions Assembly and visit Venerable Wind.
• The four Venerables arrived, and Venerable Thunder began the assembly when Fei Tian was absent.
• Xiao Ze appeared by tearing through space and announced that he had come to kill Venerable Thunder.
• Xiao Ze said he had killed Fei Tian and challenged Venerable Thunder over the Wind Lightning North Pavilion’s treatment of him.
• Venerable Thunder launched a furious lightning attack, but Xiao Ze countered with the Great Heaven Creation Palm and remained unharmed.
• The other three Venerables watched as Venerable Thunder was badly outmatched and weighed whether to help him.

Xiao Ze killed Venerable Thunder and slaughtered the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s Dou Zong experts, leaving the pavilion deserted. He spared the three other venerables, then brought Xiao Yan to Venerable Wind before leaving.

• Venerable Thunder called on the other three venerables for help, but they refused to intervene.
• Venerable Thunder fled with Three Thousand Lightning Movement, but Xiao Ze trapped and killed him with Space Strangulation.
• Xiao Ze stored Venerable Thunder’s corpse for Venerable Skyfire and killed the Wind Lightning Pavilion experts whose cultivation was above Dou Zong.
• Xiao Ze spared the pavilion’s weaker members, who fled, and assured the three remaining venerables that he had no feud with their pavilions.
• Xiao Ze pulled Xiao Yan from hiding, told him to speak to Venerable Wind about Yao Lao, and left through space.

After learning that Xiao Yi Xian and the others were threatened, Xiao Ze rushed to God-Falling Ravine and killed Ice River Valley's leading elder. He checked that Xiao Yi Xian was safe as the remaining Ice River Valley fighters faced him.

• News of Xiao Ze's destruction of Wind Lightning Pavilion spread, and he renamed its stronghold the Xiao Tribe.
• Xiao Ze received a Spatial Jade Slip and hurried to God-Falling Ravine, fearing Xiao Yi Xian and the others were in danger.
• Ice River Valley surrounded Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Yun Yun, Zi Yan, and Ye Xinlan after Xiao Yi Xian's Woe Poison Body was exposed.
• The leading elder attacked, and Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Yun Yun prepared to defend themselves rather than abandon one another.
• Xiao Ze appeared and killed the Six-Star Dou Zong elder with a single finger before asking Xiao Yi Xian if she was all right.

Xiao Ze rescued Xiao Yi Xian and the others by killing the Ice River Valley experts, then agreed to help Ye Xinlan with her family’s troubles. When they arrived at the Ye Family Manor, they found the Black Fire Sect demanding that the weakened family submit.

• Xiao Ze removed the Ice Venerable Force from Xiao Yi Xian and slaughtered the Ice River Valley group with spatial rifts after they attacked her.
• Xiao Ze thanked Ye Xinlan for helping obtain the seventh-grade Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast blood essence and agreed to accompany her to help the Ye Family.
• Xiao Ze and the others traveled with Ye Xinlan to Ye City and found the Ye Family Manor’s gates open and unguarded.
• Ye Zhong confronted Zhao Hei and Qin Mo as the Black Fire Sect elders demanded that the Ye Family submit to their sect.

Xiao Ze rescued the Ye Family from the Black Fire Sect and learned that the family risked losing its place among the Pill Tower’s Five Great Elder seats. He revealed that he was a seventh-grade alchemist, offering hope as the family faced its next assessment.

• Xiao Ze stepped forward when the Black Fire Sect threatened to destroy the Ye Family.
• Xiao Ze used his Dou Zun power to crush Zhao Hei, Qin Mo, and the rest of the Black Fire Sect group.
• Ye Zhong recognized Xiao Ze as the man who had killed Venerable Thunder, and Ye Xinlan said she had invited him to help the family.
• Ye Zhong explained that the Ye Family had failed the Pill Tower’s assessment twice and would lose its Elder seat and status among the Five Great Families if it failed again.
• Xiao Ze told Ye Zhong that he was a seventh-grade alchemist.

Xiao Ze agreed to be presented as the Ye Family’s prospective son-in-law, and Ye Xinlan accepted, while he prepared to refine the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill for Yao Tianhuo. As the pill neared completion, the Ice Valley Master learned that a Three-Star Dou Zun was with the Ye Family and remained determined to claim the Woe Poison Body.

• Xiao Ze reassured Ye Zhong that securing one of the Pill Region’s five elder seats was within his reach, and Ye Zhong proposed naming him the Ye Family’s prospective son-in-law.
• Ye Xinlan agreed to the arrangement, and Ye Zhong welcomed Xiao Ze into the family.
• Xiao Ze summoned Yao Tianhuo and began refining the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill, surprising Xin Lan with the powerful soul hidden within him.
• Elder Heavenly Snake reported that a Three-Star Dou Zun had killed Elder Xuan Bing, Bing Hua, and Bing Fu, and the Ice Valley Master learned the group was likely from the Ye Family.
• After two days of refining, Xiao Ze’s pill drew pill lightning over the Ye Family, attracting the attention of Ye City’s residents.

Xiao Ze began refining Venerable Thunder's corpse into a body for Venerable Skyfire, while Ice River Valley surrounded Ye City and demanded that the Ye Family hand over the Woe Poison Girl. The chapter ended with Venerable Ice arriving in person, placing the Ye Family in immediate danger.

• Xiao Ze completed the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill and began refining Venerable Thunder's corpse for Venerable Skyfire.
• Xiao Ze gave the pill to Venerable Skyfire, who entered the prepared body as Xiao Ze infused it with the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast's blood essence.
• Ice River Valley surrounded Ye City and demanded that the Ye Family surrender the Woe Poison Girl.
• Ye Zhong refused to betray Xiao Ze's friends, while the Ye Family realized Ice River Valley might be targeting someone in Xin Lan's group.
• Venerable Ice appeared above the Ye Family, intensifying the threat to Ye City.

Xiao Ze and his allies faced an overwhelming assault from Ice River Valley and Soul Hall as Venerable Ice and Venerable Qinghai joined forces against him. When their combined attacks threatened to crush him, Xiao Ze revealed the high-grade Heavenly Rank technique One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, creating three copies of himself.

• Venerable Ice confronted Xiao Yi Xian and the others, but Xiao Ze and Venerable Skyfire appeared after Elder Yao had been revived as a one-star Dou Zun.
• Venerable Qinghai and his Soul Hall forces emerged to join Venerable Ice, leaving Xiao Ze's side badly outnumbered.
• Tian Shuangzi agreed to fight Venerable Skyfire while Venerable Ice and Venerable Qinghai teamed up against Xiao Ze.
• Xiao Ze exchanged attacks with the two Dou Zun experts and used Heavenly Rank Dou Techniques without worrying about their enormous energy cost.
• Venerable Ice and Venerable Qinghai unleashed powerful techniques together, and Xiao Ze answered with One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, producing three fully corporeal copies that each used the Great Heaven Creation Palm.

Xiao Ze defeated Venerable Ice and Venerable Qinghai after they led an attack on Ye City, destroying Ice River Valley and its forces. He reassured Xiao Yi Xian and the Ye Family afterward, leaving the other forces in Central Plains warned against opposing him.

• Xiao Ze unleashed his clones’ strongest attacks, killing Tian Shuangzi and wiping out the Dou Zong experts caught in the blast.
• Venerable Ice tried to withdraw and blamed Venerable Qinghai, but Xiao Ze refused to let either of them escape.
• Xiao Ze overwhelmed Venerable Ice and Venerable Qinghai with repeated Heaven Rank Dou Techniques and killed them with the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Xiao Ze exterminated Venerable Ice’s army, destroying Ice River Valley and leaving Venerable Qinghai’s forces in ashes.
• Xiao Yi Xian and the others hurried to Xiao Ze, who reassured them that he was unharmed.
• Xiao Ze told Ye Zhong that Ice River Valley had come for him and said its destruction would warn the other forces in Central Plains.

Xiao Ze married Ye Xinlan, helped her become a seventh-grade alchemist, and strengthened the Ye Family with Ice River Valley’s spoils. When Cao Dan arrived to demand Xin Lan, Xiao Ze appeared with her and asked whether Cao Dan had an older sister named Cao Ying.

• Xiao Ze proposed to Ye Xinlan, and she accepted; the system rewarded him with Five-Star Dou Zun cultivation and a seventh-grade alchemist talent gift.
• Xiao Ze helped Xin Lan become a seventh-grade alchemist and told her to join him at Thunder Mountain after her Pill Tower examination.
• Ye Zhong led the Ye Family to claim Ice River Valley’s spoils, raising the family’s standing, while Xiao Ze built spatial tunnels between the locations.
• Cao Dan arrived with nearly a hundred Cao Family members and demanded that Ye Zhong bring Xin Lan out, dismissing the warning that her husband might object.
• Xiao Ze arrived with Xin Lan in his arms and asked Cao Dan whether he also had an older sister named Cao Ying.