Chapter Summaries

Soul Hall's Zhaixing recognized Xiao Yan but refused to attack before the inheritance opened, while the ten sealed scrolls triggered a chaotic scramble. As the awakened Ancient Puppets slaughtered the crowd, one charged straight toward Xiao Yan's group.

• Zhaixing confirmed Xiao Yan's identity and decided not to attack him before the inheritance opened, despite Soul Hall's orders to capture him and Yao Chen.
• The ten light spheres released their scrolls, prompting the gathered experts, including the Heavenly Demon Phoenix and Soul Hall groups, to fight over them.
• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan the scrolls were decoys and sent Great Ming King to secretly retrieve one.
• The twelve Ancient Puppets awakened and began indiscriminately slaughtering the experts in the hall.
• A bandaged Ancient Puppet wielding a bloodstained spear charged toward Xiao Yan and his group.

Xiao Yan’s Fire God Arm wolf spirit devoured an Ancient Puppet, then Zi Yan kicked it for bumping into her. Meanwhile, the Great Ming King killed the Roaring Wolf Clan Leader, swallowed his scroll, and challenged the hall’s experts.

• Xiao Yan used Fire God Arm to unleash his azure Wolf Spirit, which swallowed the Ancient Puppet and spat out molten copper.
• The Wolf Spirit bumped into Zi Yan, who kicked it until it fled back into Xiao Yan’s body; Xiao Yan refused to help it.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Yan when the Great Ming King would return, and Xiao Yan sensed that it would be back shortly.
• The Great Ming King watched the Roaring Wolf Clan Leader seize a scroll and decided to attack him.
• The Great Ming King pierced and killed the Roaring Wolf Clan Leader, snatched the pale red scroll, swallowed it, and challenged the gathered experts.

The Great Ming King returned to Xiao Yan with an Earth-Tier Advanced Dou Technique scroll while the factions finished claiming the ten scrolls. Xiao Yan exposed Soul Hall’s attempt to approach the Saint Remains, turning the gathered experts against Zhaixing’s group and leaving them awkwardly stranded.

• The Great Ming King escaped a mob of experts and returned to Xiao Yan with the Earth Gale Flame scroll.
• Xiao Yan identified the scroll as an Earth-Tier Advanced fire-attributed Dou Technique and gave it to Zi Yan.
• Medusa noted that the ten scrolls had been claimed, and Xiao Yan warned that Soul Hall would move for the Saint Remains.
• Xiao Yi Xian spotted Zhaixing leading Soul Hall toward the central stone platform.
• Xiao Yan loudly accused Zhaixing of trying to steal the Dou Sheng’s bones, drawing the attention of the gathered experts.
• Zhaixing claimed Soul Hall only wanted to examine the remains, but the crowd’s contempt left his group in an awkward silence.

Xiao Yan secretly provoked the Soul Hall members into approaching the Dou Sheng remains, awakening the Jade White Skeleton and unleashing a devastating sonic attack. Zhaixing escaped, while the Soul Hall and Beast Domain experts suffered heavy casualties as Huang Xuan fled with Jiu Feng.

• Xiao Yan used his soul power to send the Soul Hall Beast Domain Branch Hall’s Vice Hall Master toward the Dou Sheng remains, then led Medusa and the others outside the hall.
• The Vice Hall Master reached for the Jade White Skeleton, which drained his blood and awakened as the Soul Hall and Beast Domain experts charged at each other.
• The Jade White Skeleton unleashed a sonic storm that killed the Soul Hall’s Beast Domain Branch Hall Master and many Soul Hall members; Zhaixing escaped using a forbidden technique.
• The sonic storm struck the charging Beast Domain experts, killing many and making Huang Xuan flee with Jiu Feng.
• The Clan Leaders of the Earth Tiger Clan and Silver Moon Wolf Clan died, and Jiu Feng feared the punishment awaiting him after losing them and the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit.

After the sonic storm devastated the hall, the survivors blamed Zhaixing and surrounded him for the Soul Hall's role in the disaster. As Zhaixing prepared to fight, a strange cracking sound began to approach.

• Huang Xuan and Jiu Feng escaped the sonic storm, and Feng Qing'er gave them pills.
• The storm killed more than half the experts in the hall, including the Soul Hall group aside from Zhaixing.
• Zhaixing discovered his men were dead and swore to find whoever had exposed them.
• The survivors surrounded Zhaixing, and Huang Xuan accused him of causing the deaths of the Beast Domain experts.
• Zhaixing failed to convince the crowd of his innocence and prepared to fight as a strange cracking sound rang out.

Zhaixing tried to rally the experts against the awakened Dou Sheng remains, but Xiao Yan turned the crowd against him and forced him to take the lead. Zhaixing fought the Blood-colored Skeleton’s blood mist with his Soul Devour technique, and their first clash ended in a seeming stalemate.

• The Blood-colored Skeleton emerged from the blood mist and declared that intruders into the ruins would die.
• Zhaixing urged the experts to unite against the awakened remains, but Xiao Yan stirred the crowd to target Zhaixing first.
• Huang Xuan and the other Five-Star Dou Zuns agreed to join forces only if Zhaixing led the attack.
• Zhaixing flew at the skeleton, while Xiao Yan warned the crowd to watch for him trying to escape with the Saint Remains.
• The Blood-colored Skeleton sent blood mist at Zhaixing, who countered with Soul Devour and destroyed the attacking portion of mist.

Zhaixing attacked the blood-colored skeleton but was badly injured when it revealed its strength. As the skeleton absorbed the blood mist and grew stronger, Huang Xuan and the others joined forces against it, ending with the Golden Lion Clan expert and Huang Xuan unleashing powerful techniques.

• Zhaixing used Zhaixing Hand against the blood-colored skeleton, which struck him through space and sent him flying with broken bones.
• Zhaixing warned Huang Xuan and Jiu Feng that the Saint Remains were absorbing the blood mist, and Huang Xuan agreed to act with the Golden Lion Clan expert.
• Zhaixing, Huang Xuan, the Golden Lion Clan expert, and two other Five-Star Dou Zuns attacked the skeleton together, gradually dimming its crimson color.
• The Golden Lion Clan expert transformed into a giant Golden lion and fired Lion King's Wrath from his third eye at the skeleton.
• Huang Xuan summoned the Demon Phoenix Saint Image, forming a vast black fenghuang phantom behind him.

Huang Xuan, Zhaixing, and three other Five-Star Dou Zuns combined their supreme attacks against the Blood-colored Skeleton, which answered with the Great Heaven Creation Palm. Their clash devastated the Inheritance Hall, leaving the Jade White Puppet intact beneath the stone platform and scattering the surviving fighters.

• Huang Xuan summoned the Black Phoenix phantom and fired a black beam at the Blood-colored Skeleton.
• Zhaixing, two Five-Star Dou Zuns, and the others unleashed five attacks that merged into an indescribable monster, while Xiao Yan used Azure Eyes to flee with Zi Yan and three companions.
• The Blood-colored Skeleton absorbed the hall’s blood mist, gathered its power into a black dot, and performed the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• The attacks collided in a blinding explosion, and the ensuing energy storm killed many experts and left fewer than one in ten of those who entered the hall alive.
• After the storm dispersed, the survivors saw vast spatial voids at the battlefield’s center, while the Jade White Puppet remained unharmed beneath the stone platform.

After the Jade White Skeleton lost its last vitality, Old Ghost Zhaixing tried to seize the Saint Remains, but Hei Qing abducted both him and the remains through a spatial passage. Xiao Yan led the Four Square Pavilions in pursuit, though Huang Xuan could find no trace of the route.

• Xiao Yan and the surviving experts returned to the great hall and discussed the Jade White Skeleton’s power.
• Old Ghost Zhaixing rushed toward the Saint Remains, evaded Huang Xuan and the other Golden Lion Clan experts with the Blood Escape Technique, and reached for the skeleton.
• Xiao Yan secretly summoned Hei Qing, who opened a spatial passage and pulled the Jade White Skeleton inside.
• Hei Qing seized Old Ghost Zhaixing and dragged him through the passage, which vanished before Huang Xuan could find any spatial coordinates.
• Xiao Yan denounced the Soul Hall’s theft and led the Four Square Pavilions’ experts through a spatial rift in pursuit, while other Dou Zun experts followed.

After failing to find the Soul Hall group, Huang Xuan and three other powerful magical beast experts rallied the survivors to retaliate against the Soul Hall’s Beast Domain Branch Hall. They left the Saint Ruins to prepare a coordinated assault in three days, while the ruins vanished back into the void.

• The Golden Lion Clan member and two Five-Star Dou Zuns searched the void but found no trace of the Soul Hall group, enraging the surviving magical beast experts.
• Huang Xuan proposed destroying the Soul Hall’s Beast Domain Branch Hall and demanding that the Soul Hall surrender Zhaixing and stop establishing branch halls in the Beast Domain.
• The three other leaders agreed, and the surviving clans pledged to join the attack.
• Huang Xuan set the assault for three days later at the Skeleton Mountain Range, while the Golden Lion Clan member promised to locate the branch hall within two days.
• Huang Xuan, Jiu Feng, and Feng Qing'er left to report to the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, and the other survivors departed the Saint Ruins.
• The Saint Ruins returned to silence and vanished into the void.

After leaving the ruins, Huang Xuan and the other Magical Beast clans destroyed the Soul Hall’s Beast Domain Branch Hall and forced the Soul Hall to surrender its influence there. Meanwhile, Hei Qing captured Old Ghost Zhaixing and carried him away to meet someone.

• Huang Xuan led Feng Qing'er, Jiu Feng, and the others away from the ruins, while Feng Qing'er kept her suspicions about Xiao Yan to herself.
• Three days later, Huang Xuan and the Magical Beast clans attacked the Soul Hall’s Beast Domain Branch Hall and destroyed it.
• The Soul Hall learned that Zhaixing had killed hundreds of Magical Beast experts and received the clans’ demand that it hand him over and leave the Beast Domain.
• Unable to find Zhaixing or challenge the united clans, the Soul Hall apologized, paid compensation, and agreed to withdraw from the Beast Domain.
• After leaving the ruins, Xiao Yan led the Four Square Pavilions’ experts in pursuit of the people who had stolen the Saint Remains, then headed to meet Hei Qing.
• Hei Qing captured Zhaixing in the spatial passage, struck him when he resisted, and carried him off to meet someone.

Xiao Yan recovered the Saint Remains, revealed his role in capturing Old Ghost Zhaixing, and killed him. As the group prepared to return to Star Fall Pavilion, Qing Lin appeared, fleeing a Five-Star Dou Zun from the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan.

• Hei Qing handed Xiao Yan the intact Saint Remains, and Xiao Yan said they were part of a major plan he could not yet explain to Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan told Old Ghost Zhaixing that he had exposed the Soul Hall expert’s scheme with help from someone in the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Yan stabbed Old Ghost Zhaixing with an azure flame sword and burned away his body and soul.
• Xiao Yan’s group spotted Qing Lin being chased by a Five-Star Dou Zun from the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan, and Xiao Yan chose to let her struggle a little longer.
• Qing Lin’s hunt for snake-type beasts had cost the clan more than a dozen Peak Dou Zongs and over twenty Dou Zun experts, so its elders surrounded her while she was in seclusion.
• After breaking through to the Dou Zun realm, Qing Lin found herself surrounded and fled before she could master her new power.

Qing Lin fled Elder Snake Tooth of the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan, who intended to capture her and take her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. Just as Snake Tooth attacked her after dismissing her ties to the Four Square Pavilions, a white-robed old man appeared and erased his strike.

• Qing Lin broke free from Snake Tooth’s Yellow Spring Great Hand with help from Snake Power, but Snake Power was struck apart by the attack.
• Snake Tooth caught up with Qing Lin and threatened to kill her unless she surrendered.
• Qing Lin invoked her status as an elder of the Four Square Pavilions and Xiao Yan’s sister, but Snake Tooth dismissed the threat.
• Snake Tooth fired a pitch-black energy pillar at Qing Lin as she closed her eyes and called for her brother.
• A white-robed old man appeared before Qing Lin and made Snake Tooth’s energy pillar vanish with a flick of his sleeve.

Xiao Yan arrived with powerful allies to rescue Qing Lin and confront Snake Tooth. After Qing Lin recounted Snake Tooth’s threats, Xiao Yan declared that the elder had to die, while Snake Tooth realized Hei Qing’s spatial power suggested a connection to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Venerable Skyfire appeared to protect Qing Lin, and Snake Tooth tried to flee before a powerful man’s punch sent him crashing back.
• Two more allies blocked Snake Tooth’s escape routes, and Venerable Skyfire and the others welcomed Xiao Yan as the Young Pavilion Master.
• Xiao Yan emerged from a spatial gate with a little girl, called Qing Lin to his side, and had her remove her Ghost God Mask.
• Snake Tooth identified himself as an elder of the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan and asked Xiao Yan to spare his life, but Qing Lin reminded Xiao Yan of the threats he had made.
• Xiao Yan refused to spare Snake Tooth, and Hei Qing trapped him with spatial energy.
• Snake Tooth suspected Hei Qing belonged to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, but Hei Qing denied it and identified himself as a Guest Elder of the Four Square Pavilions.

Qing Lin controlled Snake Tooth and made him slap himself before Xiao Yan's group returned to Star Fall Pavilion with Zi Yan. There, Zi Yan revealed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Zhu Huo realized her current strength might not be enough to safely fuse with it.

• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control the badly injured Snake Tooth after Hei Qing restrained him.
• Qing Lin ordered Snake Tooth to slap himself, then followed Xiao Yan's group back toward Star Fall Pavilion.
• Four days later, Xiao Yan returned to the pavilion with Zi Yan and presented their mission report to Yao Lao and Great Elder Zhu Huo.
• Zi Yan released the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit sealed inside her body, and Zhu Huo confirmed it was the legendary fruit.
• Xiao Yan warned that Zi Yan was only a One-Star Dou Zun, unlike the Dou Sheng ancestor who had fused with the fruit, so Zhu Huo considered seeking the Dragon Emperor's protection.

Xiao Yan prepared to use Saint Creation’s remains and rare resources to revive his ancestor Xiao Xuan, while Yao Lao agreed to attempt a Ninth-Grade Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan revealing he had also found ancient treasures to restore Xiao Xuan’s damaged Origin Soul Energy.

• Xiao Yan offered to help Zi Yan absorb the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit by melting any energy crystals with his Heavenly Flames, and Zhu Huo took Zi Yan and Hei Qing back to Ancient Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yan showed Yao Lao Saint Creation’s remains and explained that he wanted to enter the Heavenly Tomb and revive his ancestor Xiao Xuan.
• Yao Lao agreed to try refining a Ninth-Grade Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill using the Dragon Emperor’s Essence Blood and Xiao Yan’s remaining Spirit-Nurturing Dust.
• Yao Lao warned that Xiao Xuan’s damaged Origin Soul Energy had to be replenished before his soul could fuse with a new body.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Saint Creation’s cave abode contained multiple Soul Infant Fruits and Spirit Dragon Heavenly Ganoderma, treasures that could repair Origin Soul Energy.

Xiao Yan met with Feng Qing'er, who asked to obtain the Heavenly Phoenix Essence he had refined from the Heavenly Phoenix remains. He refused to accept her ordinary loyalty as payment, leaving her without a suitable offer.

• Yao Lao agreed to refine a Ninth-Rank Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, but Venerable Lei arrived at Star Fall Pavilion with Feng Qing'er.
• Venerable Lei recounted how he and Huang Quan fought the Black and White Heavenly Sovereigns and drove them back with the help of reinforcements arriving on the Soul Hall's side.
• Yao Lao sent Xiao Yan to speak privately with Feng Qing'er and urged him to accommodate her request if it was reasonable.
• Feng Qing'er asked Xiao Yan for the Heavenly Phoenix Essence so she could purify her bloodline and surpass Jiu Feng.
• Xiao Yan said he would consider an equal exchange, but rejected Feng Qing'er's offer of herself and her loyalty because she already owed loyalty to the Four Square Pavilions.

Xiao Yan saw Feng Qing'er and Venerable Lei off after giving Feng Qing'er Heavenly Phoenix Essence. When Medusa, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others all went into seclusion, Xiao Yan decided to cultivate too.

• Medusa confronted Xiao Yan about Feng Qing'er, then allowed him to go see the departing guests after teasing him with a kiss.
• Feng Qing'er hinted that Xiao Yan could visit her again, and he watched her and Venerable Lei leave with Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Chen he had given Feng Qing'er Heavenly Phoenix Essence from a Heavenly Phoenix corpse found in the Saint Ruins.
• Yao Chen advised Xiao Yan to keep his wives apart, so Xiao Yan left to confront Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yan that Qing Lin, Medusa, and she were all going into seclusion, and Xiao Yan decided to cultivate as well.

Xiao Yan broke through to Three-Star Dou Zun, endured the painful refinement of his hand to receive the Great Heaven Creation Palm inheritance, and began cultivating another technique. After three months, Hei Qing arrived with news that Zi Yan was trapped inside the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit’s power, so Xiao Yan set out for Ancient Dragon Island with Tian Huo and Hei Qing.

• Xiao Yan advanced to Three-Star Dou Zun and refined three ribs from the Saint Remains into Gold Spirit Saliva.
• Xiao Yan plunged his whole hand into the Gold Spirit Saliva, passed out from the pain, and learned the Great Heaven Creation Palm from Saint Creation in a Soul Illusion Realm.
• Xiao Yan nearly injured himself while trying to use the Great Heaven Creation Palm, then turned to studying the Earth Gale Flame.
• Hei Qing told Xiao Yan that Zi Yan had been completely wrapped in the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit’s power during her fusion.
• Yao Lao sent Tian Huo with Xiao Yan to represent the Four Square Pavilions, and the three left with Hei Qing for Ancient Dragon Island.

Xiao Yan arrived at Ancient Dragon Island and learned that the Orthodox Faction had reunited with Zi Yan’s Dragon Emperor’s Direct Lineage, greatly strengthening the clan. He checked on Zi Yan as she refined the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, then swallowed ten drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood at once, alarming the elders.

• Hei Qing told Xiao Yan that the Orthodox Faction had returned to Ancient Dragon Island after Zi Yan’s return and that the clan planned to confront the Three Islands after she reached Dou Sheng.
• Hei Qing led Xiao Yan and Venerable Skyfire to a secluded hall, where Zhu Huo introduced Second Elder Zhu Qing and Third Elder Zhu Li.
• Zhu Huo explained that Zi Yan had been refining the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and had become encased in violet-gold crystal the previous day.
• Xiao Yan sensed Zi Yan’s stable life signs and rising aura through their Dragon Seals, then accepted ten drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood from Zhu Huo.
• Xiao Yan swallowed all ten drops at once, causing Zhu Li and Zhu Qing to fear that the energy would kill him, while Zhu Huo told them to wait.