Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze decided to refine pills publicly in Heaven Alliance City to reward those who helped unify the Black-Corner Region and attract Alchemists to the Heaven Alliance. As he began refining before a packed crowd, Yao Lao recognized that Xiao Ze's alchemy was likely as strong as his own, and Xiao Yan resolved to work harder.

• Xiao Ze proposed a public pill-refining ceremony instead of waiting for the newly recruited experts to recuperate, and Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa supported the plan.
• Xiao Ze announced that he would refine pills in Heaven Alliance City's central square, drawing eager crowds and Alchemists; Xiao Yan rushed over from Jia Nan City to watch.
• Xiao Ze arrived at the square with Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin, praised the members who had contributed during the war, and began refining pills before the crowd.
• Xiao Yan watched Xiao Ze's smooth alchemy, and Yao Lao told him that Xiao Ze's skill was likely no inferior to his own.
• Xiao Yan resolved to work harder at alchemy, and Yao Lao encouraged him to keep pursuing his goal.

Xiao Ze refined pills to reward Heaven Alliance members for their contributions in the previous battle, inspiring the crowd to join the alliance’s campaign against the Misty Cloud Sect remnants. As the chapter ended, the alliance prepared for another hard battle, while Yao Lao and Xiao Yan wondered about the origin of Xiao Ze’s golden flame.

• Xiao Ze rapidly refined a Dou Ling Pill and awarded it, along with a cultivation method, to Gao Ping for his service in battle.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao how Xiao Ze refined pills so quickly and kept their energy and medicinal properties from escaping, and Yao Lao recognized Xiao Ze’s golden flame as an unknown Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Ze spent the day refining pills and gave a Dou Zong Breaking Pill to the final person waiting for a reward.
• Xiao Ze urged the Heaven Alliance to prepare to eliminate the Misty Cloud Sect remnants scattered across other empires, and the crowd answered with cries of support.

Xiao Ze sent Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin to hunt down the Misty Cloud Sect remnants while he recruited alchemists and prepared pills for the Heaven Alliance. The alliance advanced through the surrounding empires, and Xiao Ze ended the chapter worried by Yun Shan’s disappearance and Soul Hall’s silence as he focused on cultivating.

• Xiao Ze tasked Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin with leading forces to eliminate the Misty Cloud Sect remnants in the surrounding empires.
• Xiao Ze accepted the alchemists who applied to join the Heaven Alliance after witnessing his public alchemy demonstration.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin led the reorganized forces out of Heaven Alliance City and accepted the submission of empires that agreed to help search for the remnants.
• Xiao Ze spent several days refining pills in public, arranged them on a golden rack, and protected the display with a spatial barrier.
• Xiao Ze contacted the three women and learned their campaign was progressing well, but he remained concerned that Yun Shan was missing and Soul Hall had not reacted to the deaths of two Venerates.

Xiao Yan declined Xiao Ze’s offer to become a guest elder and prepared to travel to the Central Plains with Yao Lao. After Xiao Ze saw them off, he learned that people from the Heavenly Snake Mansion had come to find Qing Lin and went to her location to investigate.

• Xiao Yan visited Xiao Ze and refused to join the Heaven Alliance, saying he wanted to travel alone and seek training in the Central Plains.
• Xiao Ze warned Xiao Yan about the dangers there, and Yao Lao emerged from Xiao Yan’s Storage Ring to introduce himself and recount his conflict with the Soul Hall.
• Yao Lao gave Xiao Ze his alchemical insights in gratitude for Xiao Ze killing Han Feng and cleansing his sect.
• Xiao Ze saw Xiao Yan and Yao Lao off toward Horizon City and considered building a spatial wormhole to the Central Plains.
• Qing Lin informed Xiao Ze that people from the Heavenly Snake Mansion had come looking for her, so Xiao Ze left a Heavenly Demon Phoenix Puppet behind and traveled through a spatial rift to her location.

Qing Lin confronted the Heavenly Snake Mansion, which offered to make her its leader in exchange for protecting it and sharing its cultivation secrets. Xiao Ze rejected the arrangement, but the Mansion’s elders ultimately submitted to the Heaven Alliance, leaving its legacy under the Alliance’s control.

• Qing Lin destroyed a blood-colored figure with spatial power and asked the Heavenly Snake Mansion elders why they had come to see her.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion’s silver-haired elder offered to make Qing Lin its leader and share its secret arts for cultivating the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Ze emerged through a spatial rift, dismissed the Mansion’s offer, and demanded that it join the Heaven Alliance instead.
• The elder said the Mansion feared losing its inheritance and acknowledged that it would eventually have to submit as the Heaven Alliance expanded.
• The silver-haired elder led the Heavenly Snake Mansion in submitting to the Heaven Alliance, and Xiao Ze welcomed its members into the Alliance.

Xiao Ze learned why the weakened Heavenly Snake Mansion had submitted to the Heaven Alliance and heard Lu Xin explain the dangers and opportunities of the Sect Convention. Xiao Ze agreed to consider participating in the conference, which would be held in the Heavenly Snake Empire in three months.

• Lu Xin explained that the Heavenly Snake Mansion had declined after Heavenly Snake Venerable disappeared, leaving it vulnerable to the central region's rival forces.
• Xiao Ze realized Lu Xin had submitted partly to secure the Heavenly Snake Mansion's survival and protection through the Heaven Alliance.
• Xiao Ze ordered the Heavenly Snake Mansion to help find and eliminate the Misty Cloud Sect's remnants.
• Lu Xin warned that the Northwest Continent's top forces distrusted the Heaven Alliance and might unite against it if their interests were threatened.
• Lu Xin described the Sect Convention as a contest for control of the Northwest and said the next one would take place in the Heavenly Snake Empire in three months.
• Xiao Ze expressed interest in attending the Sect Convention, and Lu Xin offered to recommend the Heaven Alliance.

Xiao Ze brought Qing Lin to the Heavenly Snake Sacred Mountain ahead of the Sect Convention, where several Dou Venerate experts had already gathered. As Xiao Ze and Xiao Yi Xian cultivated and Qing Lin sought powerful snake-type beasts, Medusa arrived and encountered Lei Qiao of the Thunderclap Sect, who intended to compete for dominance of the Northwest.

• Xiao Ze told Lu Xin to arrange the Heaven Alliance's participation in the Sect Convention without publicizing Heavenly Snake Mansion's submission.
• Xiao Ze and Qing Lin reached the Heavenly Snake Sacred Mountain, where Qing Lin sensed at least three Dou Venerate auras gathered before the convention began.
• Xiao Ze set up a concealed spatial barrier, and Xiao Yi Xian arrived; she agreed to cultivate with him using her Woeful Poison Power.
• Qing Lin decided to seek out powerful snake-type magical beasts on the mountain while Xiao Ze and Xiao Yi Xian cultivated.
• Medusa arrived two days later and met Lei Qiao, who introduced herself as a member of the Thunderclap Sect and declared her sect would contend for the title of Northwest overlord.

As the sect assembly approached, Qing Lin and Medusa worried that Xiao Ze would not emerge from seclusion in time. Xiao Ze broke through to seven-star Dou Venerate just as Shi Tian pressured Lu Xin, then arrived at Heavenly Snake Sacred Peak and introduced himself to the assembled Venerates.

• Qing Lin and Medusa discussed representing the Heaven Alliance if Xiao Ze did not leave seclusion before the sect assembly.
• Xiao Ze and Xiao Yi Xian exchanged Woeful Poison Power as he gathered the energy needed to break through.
• Shi Tian challenged Lu Xin for delaying the sect assembly, and the other Venerates watched as Lu Xin invoked Heavenly Snake's authority.
• Shi Tian released his pressure against Lu Xin, but Xiao Ze's breakthrough aura swept in from a distant valley and dispersed it.
• Xiao Ze appeared through space, greeted the assembled Venerates, and identified himself as the Heaven Alliance leader.

Xiao Ze arrived at the Sect Convention and asserted that the Heaven Alliance would seek to become the Northwest Continent’s dominant force. After the Thunderclap Sect’s Lei Qiao challenged him, Xiao Ze defeated him overwhelmingly, leaving the other experts stunned.

• Xiao Ze arrived at Heavenly Snake Sacred Peak with the aura of a seven-star Dou Venerate and was welcomed by Lu Xin.
• Shi Tian challenged Xiao Ze’s right to attend the Sect Convention, but Xiao Ze revealed that he was born in the Jia Ma Empire, and Lu Xin confirmed the Heaven Alliance was eligible to participate.
• Xiao Ze declared that the Heaven Alliance intended to become the Northwest Continent’s dominant force and invited any faction with objections to speak up.
• Lei Qiao of the Thunderclap Sect challenged Xiao Ze for the position of Northwest overlord, and the two exchanged blows.
• Xiao Ze sent Lei Qiao crashing through Heavenly Snake Sacred Peak, leaving him in a crater after a crushing defeat.

Xiao Ze forced the Northwest Continent's factions to recognize the Heaven Alliance as their overlord and commit to hunting practitioners of the Soul-Devouring Body-Swallowing Secret Technique. He secured their public cooperation, but Yun Shan remained difficult to find.

• Xiao Ze defeated Lei Qiao with one strike, then challenged Shi Tian over his opposition to the Heaven Alliance.
• Shi Tian withdrew his objections and recognized the Heaven Alliance as the Northwest Continent's overlord to avoid fighting Xiao Ze.
• The other faction leaders followed Shi Tian and pledged to cooperate with the Heaven Alliance.
• Xiao Ze ordered the factions to hunt practitioners of the Soul-Devouring Body-Swallowing Secret Technique and restrain their subordinates from learning it.
• Lei Qiao recovered, thanked Xiao Ze for sparing her, and pledged the Thunderclap Sect's support.
• Xiao Ze welcomed the factions' cooperation but recognized that finding Yun Shan in the mountains and forests would be difficult.

After Xiao Ze humiliated Shi Tian, the Lion Underworld Sect master grew interested in the Soul-Devouring Body-Swallowing Secret Technique and ordered Old Ke to investigate its practitioners. Old Ke warned Yun Shan, who decided to meet Shi Tian and try to turn him against Xiao Ze.

• Shi Tian returned to the Lion Underworld Sect, killed his servants, and ordered Old Ke to capture practitioners of the Soul-Devouring Body-Swallowing Secret Technique.
• Old Ke secretly visited Yun Shan and told him that Shi Tian wanted to investigate the secret technique.
• Yun Shan recognized Old Ke as a useful pawn and proposed meeting Shi Tian, hoping their shared hostility toward Xiao Ze could make them allies.
• Yun Shan revealed that his strength had increased and set out with Old Ke to meet Shi Tian, ordering him to remain by Shi Tian's side and gather intelligence.

Yun Shan recruited Shi Tian to the Soul-Devouring Body-Swallowing Secret Technique by presenting it as a way to resist Xiao Ze’s Heaven Alliance. Shi Tian embraced the technique and ordered the Lion Underworld Sect to cultivate it, leaving the sect poised to join Yun Shan’s cause.

• Yun Shan sent Old Ke out and reflected on how the secret technique had raised him to the Dou Venerate realm while filling him with magical beasts’ savage instincts.
• Shi Tian waited in the Lion Underworld Sect’s hall and threatened to blind Old Ke’s remaining eye if he returned without useful news.
• Old Ke brought Yun Shan before Shi Tian, who recognized the one-star Dou Venerate and demanded to know why he had come.
• Yun Shan warned Shi Tian that the Heaven Alliance threatened the Northwest Continent and offered him the Soul-Devouring Body-Swallowing Secret Technique.
• Shi Tian read the technique, dismissed Xiao Ze’s warnings about it, and ordered the Lion Underworld Sect to cultivate it so they could crush the Heaven Alliance.

Shi Tian forced the Lion Underworld Sect to cultivate the Soul-Devouring Body-Swallowing Secret Technique, secretly growing its strength until it overwhelmed the central Northwest Continent. After Xiao Yi Xian warned Xiao Ze that the sect was advancing on the Heaven Alliance, Xiao Ze ordered his forces to prepare for battle and wondered whether Soul Hall was involved.

• Shi Tian, with Yun Shan's help, forced the Lion Underworld Sect's members to cultivate the Soul-Devouring Body-Swallowing Secret Technique, killing resisters for its power.
• Shi Tian secretly devoured people across the sect's vast territory and reached the peak of the six-star Dou Venerate realm.
• After the Lion Underworld Sect massacred a city, other factions tried to stop it but were driven back, and the sect absorbed several powerful groups.
• Xiao Ze returned to Heaven Alliance headquarters and spent several months handling the allegiance of newly joined empires.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Ze that the Lion Underworld Sect had grown powerful in secret and was driving Lu Xin and other factions toward the Heaven Alliance.
• Xiao Ze ordered the Heaven Alliance's leaders to prepare for the Lion Underworld Sect's attack and wondered whether Soul Hall had intervened.

The Heavenly Snake Mansion, Thunderclap Sect, and other factions fled through the Impassable Mountain Range as the Lion Underworld Sect pursued them. Shi Tian ordered a full-scale assault, and Lu Xin called on the refugees to fight to the death.

• Lu Xin and Lei Qiao learned that the Lion Underworld Sect was still pursuing their people through the Impassable Mountain Range and agreed to avoid provoking a full attack while waiting for Xiao Ze.
• Shi Tian prepared to crush the fleeing factions, but Yun Shan warned that they were near Heaven Alliance territory and Xiao Ze might hold him back.
• Shi Tian ordered the Lion Underworld Sect to slaughter the fleeing factions, and its members charged into the Impassable Mountain Range.
• Lu Xin sensed the assault and urged everyone to take up arms and resist rather than become man-eating monsters.

Lu Xin led the allied forces in a desperate stand against the Lion Underworld Sect while Shi Tian attacked the faction leaders. Xiao Ze arrived just as Shi Tian tried to kill Lu Xin, crushed the Lion Underworld Sect’s fighters, and struck Shi Tian apart.

• Lu Xin ordered the allied forces to stop fleeing and charge the Lion Underworld Sect, whose crimson Dou Qi devastated the forest and inflicted heavy casualties.
• Shi Tian confronted Lu Xin, Lei Qiao, and the other faction leaders, then struck Lei Qiao with a blood-red palm and injured the leaders with its aftershock.
• Shi Tian tried to turn the leaders against Xiao Ze, but Lu Xin defended Xiao Ze and rejected Shi Tian’s attempt to sow discord.
• Shi Tian restrained the leaders with his control over space and seized Lu Xin by the neck, but Xiao Ze arrived before he could kill him.
• Xiao Ze expanded the Illusion Sea Domain and crushed the Lion Underworld Sect fighters on the battlefield.
• Xiao Ze shattered Shi Tian’s blood-red barrier with a punch and blew Shi Tian apart, sending his fragments into the Lion Underworld Sect experts behind him.

Xiao Ze killed Yun Shan, Shi Tian, and the Lion Underworld Sect’s remaining Dou Venerate experts, then helped the allied army defeat the sect’s survivors. Afterward, Lu Xin asked for Heavenly Snake Mansion to join the Heaven Alliance, prompting the other faction leaders to consider doing the same.

• Xiao Ze shattered Yun Shan and the surviving Lion Underworld Sect Dou Venerates with a punch, suppressing Yun Shan’s attempt to self-destruct.
• The allied army hailed Xiao Ze, and he ordered them to avenge their companions while his Illusion Sea Domain weakened the Lion Underworld Sect survivors.
• Xiao Ze explained that the Heaven Alliance’s forces were still on their way and gave the injured Lei Qiao a seventh-tier healing pill.
• Lu Xin asked Xiao Ze to let Heavenly Snake Mansion join the Heaven Alliance, and the other faction leaders began considering joining as well.

Xiao Ze united the Northwest Continent’s surviving factions and their disciples under the Heaven Alliance, making it the region’s dominant force. With the alliance’s rule established, he learned that the Pill Tower’s Three Presidents wanted him to return.

• Lu Xin, Lei Qiao, and the other faction leaders asked to join the Heaven Alliance, and Xiao Ze welcomed them.
• After the Lion Underworld Sect’s survivors were killed, Xiao Ze invited the allied army to join the Heaven Alliance, and they enthusiastically accepted.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin merged the new members with their force and led them toward the Northwest Continent’s central region.
• Within half a year, the Heaven Alliance brought the Northwest Continent’s factions under its rule and became its overlord.
• At the Heaven Alliance headquarters, Qing Lin gave Xiao Ze a message saying the Pill Tower’s Three Presidents wanted him to return.

Xiao Ze learned that the Pill Tower’s Three Presidents wanted him to preside over the upcoming Alchemist Conference, signaling that he was expected to become the future Pill Tower President. As he prepared to return to the Central Plains, he continued expanding his Origin Tree, believing that this was the path that would eventually let him break through to Dou Saint.

• Xiao Ze read the Three Presidents’ message and learned that they wanted him to preside over the Alchemist Conference, which would begin in a little over a year.
• Xiao Ze told Qing Lin that he would not compete in the conference because his alchemy skills had reached the peak of eighth-tier, and she supported their return to the Central Plains.
• Xiao Ze asked Qing Lin to arrange the Heaven Alliance’s affairs and planned to depart after Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian returned.
• Xiao Ze sensed that his cultivation had reached the peak of nine-star Dou Venerate and realized that expanding the Origin Tree’s diameter brought him closer to becoming a Dou Saint.
• Xiao Ze resolved to keep expanding the Origin Tree and swallowed a medicinal pill.

Xiao Ze prepared to leave the Northwest Continent for the Central Plains and entrusted the Heaven Alliance and Xiao Clan with safeguards for his absence. After saying farewell to his family and allies, he reunited with three women outside Jia Nan City and set off.

• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li agreed to hold a banquet for Xiao Ze and assured him that the Xiao Clan could protect itself.
• Xiao Ze asked Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to keep his departure secret and let the clan believe the banquet was simply a celebration.
• Xiao Ze entrusted Lu Xin with managing the Heaven Alliance and warned him to destroy any Soul Hall forces that infiltrated its territory.
• Xiao Ze gave Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li jade pendants for contacting him, along with two Five-Star Dou Venerate-level puppets for the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Ze met the three women outside Jia Nan City, and they departed for the Central Plains.

Xiao Ze demonstrated the Lightning Body, a powerful Dou Skill he had developed by combining his abilities and controlling its duplicates with golden tree roots. When he discovered a Soul Hall Heavenly Venerable pursuing Venerable Skyfire, he intervened and killed the pursuer, leaving Venerable Skyfire astonished.

• Xiao Ze explained how his Lightning Body could create coordinated duplicates from his Dou Qi and grow stronger as his lightning control improved.
• Xiao Ze spotted a five-star Dou Venerate chasing a peak three-star Dou Venerate and recognized the pursuer as a Soul Hall member.
• Xiao Ze sent a Lightning Body through a spatial rift to intervene in the pursuit.
• The Soul Hall Heavenly Venerable sensed the Lightning Body and tried to identify himself, but Xiao Ze's silver lightning destroyed him.
• The Lightning Body collected the Heavenly Venerable's belongings and returned through the rift, while Venerable Skyfire watched in astonishment.