Chapter Summaries

After breaking through to five-star Dou Venerate, Xiao Ze went to the Pill Tower’s Star Region to help seal the rampaging Three Thousand Starry Sky Burning Flame. He calmed the flame and led the experts in sealing it, leaving the Pill Tower’s people grateful and impressed.

• Xiao Ze emerged from seclusion after reaching five-star Dou Venerate and learned from Qing Lin that the Three Thousand Burning Flame had gone berserk in the Star Region.
• Xiao Ze hurried to the Star Region, where Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and Tian Leizi welcomed his help with the prolonged sealing effort.
• Xiao Ze entered the Star Region and used his Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to halt the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s movements.
• Xiao Ze took charge of the sealing operation, and the gathered experts followed his instructions as they sealed the violet-black dragon into slumber.
• The experts thanked Xiao Ze and gathered around him to make his acquaintance after the Three Thousand Burning Flame was suppressed.

After sealing the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Xiao Ze and the others returned from the Star Region, where the Three Presidents rewarded the mission team. News that Elder Lei was in danger in the southern Pill Region sent Xiao Ze, Qing Lin, and Tian Leizi to investigate, while Xiao Ze suspected the Soul Hall was using its attacks to conceal preparations for a Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array.

• Xiao Ze confirmed that the Three Thousand Burning Flame remained sealed and left the Star Region with the others.
• The Three Presidents welcomed the returning group and promised rewards for their work sealing the flame.
• Tian Leizi revealed that Elder Lei had sent an urgent message from the southern Pill Region, and Xiao Ze, Qing Lin, and Tian Leizi set out to investigate.
• Xiao Ze deduced that the Soul Hall might be provoking the Pill Tower to secretly deploy the Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array in the Pill Region.
• Xiao Ze decided to wait for a chance to locate and dismantle the array before it was activated.

Xiao Ze and President Tian Leizi rescued Elder Lei from Azure Sea Old Monster, who was hunting him in the Pill Region. Xiao Ze killed Azure Sea Old Monster before he could send a warning, then reflected on how much stronger he had become.

• Azure Sea Old Monster pursued the wounded Elder Lei and struck him into a mountain, leaving him unable to defend himself.
• Tian Leizi arrived and blocked Azure Sea Old Monster’s attack, shielding Elder Lei from the energy shockwave.
• Tian Leizi overpowered Azure Sea Old Monster in their clash and blasted him away.
• Xiao Ze appeared behind Azure Sea Old Monster, struck him with Great Vast Sea Palm, and killed him with a punch before he could send a message.
• Xiao Ze noted that he could now kill an enemy of Azure Sea Old Monster’s level with a palm strike and a follow-up punch.

After Elder Lei explained how Soul Hall ambushed him near Heavenly Fire City, Xiao Ze suspected the Soul Hall was secretly establishing a Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array in the Pill Region. He persuaded the Pill Tower’s leaders to take a firm stance, recruit allies, and prepare to fight Soul Hall.

• Elder Lei told Xiao Ze that Azure Sea Heavenly Venerable had ambushed and gravely wounded him near Heavenly Fire City.
• Xiao Ze suspected Soul Hall was setting up a Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array and planned to investigate Heavenly Fire City.
• Xiao Ze took Azure Sea Heavenly Venerable’s Storage Ring and found water-attribute techniques and secret arts useful to him.
• Tian Leizi urged the Pill Tower to gather Central Plains experts, but Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi worried they lacked the Little Pill Tower’s support.
• Xiao Ze argued that Soul Hall’s far-reaching plans would make it reluctant to divert forces into an all-out war with the Pill Tower.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi agreed to recruit allies, confront Soul Hall’s infiltration, and adopt a firm stance.

The Pill Tower invited Central Plains experts and allied factions to support it, raising fears of an all-out war with Soul Hall. At a Soul Hall meeting, Fifth Heavenly Venerable steered the others toward a limited clash while avoiding a dangerous attempt to place an array beneath Holy Pill City.

• The Three Presidents moved against Soul Hall and informed the Little Pill Tower, while the Pill Tower invited experts and friendly factions across the Central Plains.
• Soul Hall’s upper echelon gathered at Heaven Hall to discuss the Pill Tower’s response to its actions.
• Fifth Heavenly Venerable argued that a full war would require higher-ranking Heavenly Venerables to face the Pill Tower’s leaders and the Little Pill Tower.
• Fifth Heavenly Venerable proposed a minor battle and said Soul Hall’s existing arrays in the Pill Region should satisfy the Hall Master’s orders.
• Sixth Heavenly Venerable left after Fifth Heavenly Venerable suggested he place an array beneath Holy Pill City, and the others realized he had used the dispute to avoid the clash.

The Pill Tower mobilized its forces to hunt Soul Hall infiltration teams across the Pill Region, and Xiao Ze joined the campaign with Qing Lin and Medusa. After arriving in Heavenly Fire City, Xiao Ze exposed and killed a hidden Soul Hall Protector, then prepared to continue the slaughter.

• The Three Presidents ordered Pill Tower experts to hunt Soul Hall teams and demanded that factions and cultivators report any sightings in exchange for rewards.
• Pill Tower elders and invited experts ambushed Soul Hall infiltration teams, inflicting heavy losses and shocking factions across the Central Plains.
• Xiao Ze, Qing Lin, and Medusa traveled through the Pill Region, killing any Soul Hall teams they found for double merit.
• Xiao Ze led his group to Heavenly Fire City to investigate Elder Lei's earlier attack and respond to reports of a nearby Soul Hall team.
• Xiao Ze sent a droplet of Illusion Sea fused with Nether Water toward a hidden Soul Hall Protector, whose attack failed before the droplet destroyed his soul body.

Xiao Ze used the Nether Illusion Sea to wipe out the Soul Hall Protectors hidden in Heavenly Fire City, then discovered a concealed Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array beneath the city. He left with Qing Lin and Medusa and realized Soul Hall might be preparing to slaughter the city’s inhabitants.

• Xiao Ze sent black water droplets after the hidden Soul Hall Protectors, killing them despite their attempts to flee.
• Xiao Ze gathered the Protectors’ remains and left Heavenly Fire City with Qing Lin and Medusa.
• Outside the city, Xiao Ze used his Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to detect a concealed formation beneath Heavenly Fire City.
• Qing Lin confirmed the presence of a massive blood-red array beneath the city.
• Xiao Ze identified it as the Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array, which could turn living creatures into pulp and extract their energy.

Xiao Ze decided to keep the Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array secret so the Pill Tower would not be pushed into an uncontrolled war with the Soul Hall, and planned to locate the arrays before they could be activated. Meanwhile, the Black and White Heavenly Venerables led Soul Hall forces toward Ye City to attack Elder Sheng’s group and harvest the city’s souls.

• Xiao Ze explained to Medusa and Qing Lin why they should keep the Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array secret and search for its locations across the Pill Region.
• Qing Lin agreed to investigate concealed arrays with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, while Medusa tried and failed to sense the array.
• Xiao Ze marked Heavenly Fire City on his map and said the group would head to Ye City to join Elder Sheng as they continued hunting Soul Hall forces.
• The Black and White Heavenly Venerables arrived at a mountain range and learned that the Pill Tower’s pursuit had reduced their forces and that Elder Sheng was in nearby Ye City.
• The Black Heavenly Venerable ordered the Soul Hall forces to attack Ye City, kill its inhabitants, and try to withdraw from the Pill Region.

Xiao Ze arrived in Ye City with Qing Lin and Medusa to meet Elder Sheng, while the Ye Family hoped his influence might improve their declining fortunes. Qing Lin sensed powerful enemies approaching, and Xiao Ze ordered everyone to prepare for battle as the Black and White Heavenly Venerables appeared outside the city.

• Elder Sheng told Ye Zhong he was staying in Ye City to meet another Pill Tower elder, and Ye Zhong hoped the visitor might help the Ye Family.
• Xiao Ze, Qing Lin, and Medusa emerged from the Ye Family's damaged spatial wormhole, and Xiao Ze resolved to have it properly maintained.
• Xiao Ze met Elder Sheng at the Ye Family gates, and Ye Zhong eagerly invited him and his companions inside.
• Qing Lin sensed two approaching energy signatures as powerful as Xiao Ze's, and Xiao Ze ordered the gathered experts to prepare for battle.
• The Black and White Heavenly Venerables appeared outside Ye City.

Xiao Ze confronted Soul Hall’s attack on Ye City and unleashed the Heaven-tier Dou Skill World-Extinguishing Torrent through a golden tree root. The Black and White Heavenly Venerables escaped its reach, but the Endless River phantom trapped and devoured Soul Hall’s elders and Protectors.

• Black Heavenly Venerable announced that Soul Hall would destroy Ye City, and Xiao Ze appeared with the Pill Tower experts to oppose them.
• Xiao Ze assessed the six-star Dou Venerates Black and White Heavenly Venerable and prepared to test World-Extinguishing Torrent using a golden tree root.
• Black Heavenly Venerable’s spatial power failed to stop the root, and his Dou Qi destroyed the soul phantom that emerged from it.
• A droplet of water summoned a phantom of the Endless River, prompting White Heavenly Venerable to warn the others and flee with Black Heavenly Venerable.
• The Endless River phantom dragged in Soul Hall’s elders and Protectors, while the people of Ye City watched in shock.

Xiao Ze’s Illusionary River overwhelmed the Soul Hall forces in Ye City, but Black and White Heavenly Venerables escaped its reach. He pursued them, killed Black Heavenly Venerable with his physical strength, and drove White Heavenly Venerable into a spatial rift.

• Xiao Ze’s Illusionary River dragged away the Soul Hall experts who failed to escape, while Black and White Heavenly Venerables dodged it.
• Xiao Ze charged after Black and White Heavenly Venerables and used the Illusion Sea Domain to stall their escape.
• Black and White Heavenly Venerables clashed with Xiao Ze’s Great Vast Sea Palm and assumed he could no longer use the Illusionary River.
• Black Heavenly Venerable attacked Xiao Ze with the Great Soul-Rending Claw, but Xiao Ze crushed his hand and killed him with a series of blows.
• White Heavenly Venerable fled into a spatial rift rather than face Xiao Ze.

Xiao Ze defeated the Soul Hall’s attack on Ye City, killing Black Heavenly Venerate while White Heavenly Venerate fled, then returned to the Pill Tower with Elder Sheng to report the threat. The Three Presidents ordered preparations for an alliance, but discovered Soul Hall forces had vanished from the Pill Region, leaving their intentions uncertain.

• Xiao Ze collected Black Heavenly Venerate’s belongings and discussed the Soul Hall’s formidable force with Elder Sheng, agreeing to report the attack and urge an alliance.
• Ye City’s people cheered Xiao Ze after seeing Black Heavenly Venerate’s corpse, while Xiao Ze recovered a droplet and a golden tree root left by the dissipating Illusionary River.
• Xiao Ze and Elder Sheng returned to the Pill Tower and told the Three Presidents that Soul Hall had sent two Heavenly Venerates to Ye City.
• Xuan Kongzi ordered preparations for an alliance and sent people to investigate other attacks, but the Pill Tower found no trace of Soul Hall forces elsewhere in the Pill Region.
• The Three Presidents considered that Soul Hall might have withdrawn and praised Xiao Ze for helping the Pill Tower weather the crisis.

After Xiao Ze’s victories at Ye City made him famous across the Central Plains, other factions sought closer ties with Pill Tower while Soul Hall planned to target him. Xun Er used the Ancient Clan’s influence to restrain Soul Hall and warned Xiao Ze to stay within Pill Tower’s territory.

• News of Xiao Ze killing Soul Hall’s Six-Star Heavenly Venerable spread across the Central Plains, earning him the title of the younger generation’s leading figure.
• Tang Huo’er and Tang Zhen reacted with astonishment to Xiao Ze’s strength and progress, while factions sought alliances with Pill Tower.
• The Third Heavenly Venerable ordered Soul Hall to focus on collecting souls and wait for an opportunity to kill Xiao Ze, then suspected the Ancient Clan had ties to Pill Tower.
• Xun Er learned that the Ancient Clan’s pressure had stopped Soul Hall from targeting Pill Tower, but worried Soul Hall would still seek revenge against Xiao Ze.
• Xun Er used the Golden Sapling to contact Xiao Ze and urged him to remain within Pill Tower’s territory.

After learning that the Misty Cloud Sect had rapidly conquered territory in the Northwest Continent and threatened the Black-Corner Region, Xiao Ze decided to return with Medusa and Qing Lin. The trio set out through a spatial wormhole, while the Northwest Continent remained in turmoil.

• Xuan Kongzi informed Xiao Ze that the Misty Cloud Sect had swept through neighboring empires and was eyeing the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Ze told Xuan Kongzi he would return to protect his clan and Jia Nan Academy, and Xuan Kongzi gave him a Space Jade Slip to summon reinforcements.
• Xiao Ze told Medusa and Qing Lin about the Misty Cloud Sect's advance, and Medusa asked to return to learn what had happened to the Snake-People Empire.
• Xiao Ze, Medusa, and Qing Lin prepared quickly, concealed their auras beneath black cloaks, and left Holy Pill City through a spatial wormhole to the Northwest Continent.
• The journey through the spatial wormhole was expected to take nearly two months, and the three cultivated along the way as the Misty Cloud Sect's rise unsettled the Northwest Continent.

Xiao Yan returned to the Black-Corner Region amid the Misty Cloud Sect’s expansion, hoping to recruit Jia Nan Academy into the resistance alliance. Near the academy, he witnessed a masked woman subdue two Dou Zong experts and turn her attention toward him.

• Xiao Yan recalled how he had devoured the Fallen Heart Flame, returned to the Jia Ma Empire, and taken the Green Lotus Core Flame before becoming involved in the Anti-Misty Cloud Sect Alliance.
• Xiao Yan headed for Jia Nan Academy to replenish the Inner Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame and seek its support against the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan sensed a battle near the academy, and Yao Lao warned him that both combatants were stronger than he was.
• Xiao Yan secretly approached the battle and saw a cloaked woman wearing a ghostly mask arrive by warping space.
• The masked woman spread purple-gray mist over the two Dou Zong experts, making them scream in agony, then turned her gaze toward Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yi Xian revealed herself to Xiao Yan after killing two Dou Zong experts, then escorted him to Jia Nan Academy to seek an alliance against the Misty Cloud Sect. Su Qian agreed to join forces, while Xiao Yi Xian remained tied to the growing conflict between Dark Academy and Han Feng’s Black Alliance.

• Xiao Yan nearly tried to flee Xiao Yi Xian’s energy-thread net, but she recognized him, removed her mask, and released him.
• Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Yi Xian served as Vice Dean of Jia Nan Academy’s Dark Academy, which Xiao Ze had proposed to counter threats to the academy.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian he had come to discuss an alliance against the Misty Cloud Sect, and she agreed to take him to meet Su Qian.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that she had killed two Dou Zong experts after their feud over a valuable auction-house treasure left them vulnerable.
• Su Qian agreed to join forces with the Anti-Misty Cloud Sect Alliance, while Xiao Yi Xian recalled that Han Feng’s Black Alliance was battling Dark Academy across the Black-Corner Region.

Soul Hall supported Yun Shan’s expansion of the Misty Cloud Sect and its blood-soaked cultivation, while Yun Shan planned to consume the entire Northwest Continent. Xiao Ze and his two companions arrived from the Central Plains and headed for the Black-Corner Region to seek information about the upheaval and the Snake-People Empire.

• Two Soul Hall elders discussed Yun Shan’s gains, their plans to harvest souls through war, and the Soul-Devouring Body-Consumption Secret Art.
• Misty Cloud Sect members cultivated the secret art at their expanding front line, drawing strength from bloody energy and soul power.
• Yun Shan crushed a lax elder to powder, warned the others to fulfill their duties in the Black-Corner Region, and left the hall.
• Yun Shan considered joining forces with the Black Alliance, then resolved to grow strong enough to devour the Northwest Continent and even the Soul Hall Elders.
• Xiao Ze and his two companions arrived at Horizon City and hurried toward the Black-Corner Region to seek intelligence from Jia Nan Academy.

Xiao Yi Xian prepared the Dark Academy to receive the Anti-Misty Cloud Sect Alliance, but a spy revealed her plans to Han Feng, who launched an attack on the Dark Alliance headquarters. Xiao Yi Xian led her forces onto a plain to face the Black Alliance.

• Xiao Yan told Su Qian and Xiao Yi Xian that he had arranged to communicate with the Anti-Misty Cloud Sect Alliance through their Soul Seals, and Xiao Yi Xian volunteered to coordinate its arrival at the Dark Academy.
• Xiao Yi Xian summoned the Dark Academy's consecrators and elders, assigned their duties, and then returned to her secret chamber to cultivate.
• A Dark Academy subordinate sent Xiao Yi Xian's orders to Han Feng, who decided to exploit the alliance's preparations and attack its headquarters.
• Xiao Yi Xian learned that the Black Alliance was marching on the headquarters and ordered her forces to prepare for battle.
• Xiao Yi Xian led her experts onto a plain, where the Black Alliance's forces recognized her Ghost God Mask and feared her.

Xiao Yi Xian faced Han Feng and his Black Alliance forces, but Xiao Ze arrived with Qing Lin and Medusa just as battle was about to begin. Xiao Ze reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and annihilated Han Feng and the Black Alliance, leaving the Dark Alliance stunned by his power.

• Han Feng tried to sow distrust among Xiao Yi Xian's Dark Alliance, but Xiao Yi Xian reaffirmed her trust in her people and accused Han Feng of betraying his mentor.
• Han Feng ordered the Black Alliance experts to prepare to fight the weakened Dark Alliance.
• Xiao Ze appeared on the battlefield with Qing Lin and Medusa, recognized Han Feng as an old enemy, and used the Illusion Sea Domain to restrain the Black Alliance.
• Xiao Ze embraced Xiao Yi Xian, who removed her Ghost God Mask and welcomed him back after their long separation.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Ze that the Black Alliance members deserved to die, and Xiao Ze killed them all, including Han Feng, with his Woeful Poison Power.

Xiao Ze returned to Jia Nan City, rescued Xiao Yi Xian from the Black Alliance attack, and reunited with the Xiao Clan. The chapter left Xiao Ze back among his family, with Xiao Yan also recently returned and the threat of the Misty Cloud Sect still unresolved.

• Xiao Ze effortlessly defeated the Black Alliance experts and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, who explained how the conflict began.
• Xiao Ze urged Xiao Yi Xian to investigate the Dark Academy’s recruits and learned that Xiao Yan had joined the Anti-Misty Cloud Sect Alliance and visited the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Ze comforted Xiao Yi Xian and returned with her, Qing Lin, and Medusa to the Xiao Clan residence in Jia Nan City.
• Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li welcomed Xiao Ze home and told him that Xiao Yan had returned a few days earlier.
• Xiao Ze saw how the Xiao Clan had grown stronger with help from Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yan.