Chapter Summaries

Northern Nether Dragon Kun underwent the Super Black God Lightning Tribulation to advance to the Earthly Sovereign realm, but after surviving eight waves, he was trapped and badly injured as the final strike gathered. Tai Cang resolved to take the final blow in his place, until Xiao Yan reminded everyone that he was still there.

• Northern Nether Dragon Kun swallowed the violet-gold blood and summoned his true form as the Super Black God Lightning Tribulation gathered overhead.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun fought through eight waves of Black God Lightning, suffering a deep wound when the sixth wave broke through his defenses.
• The ninth wave began gathering and locked Northern Nether Dragon Kun in place, leaving him unable to escape.
• Tai Cang decided to block the final strike for Northern Nether Dragon Kun, while Zhu Tian and the other elders feared for the academy's future.
• Xiao Yan asked whether everyone was ignoring him.

Xiao Yan dispersed the Super Black God Lightning Tribulation with power borrowed from his younger brother, allowing Northern Nether Dragon Kun to break through to the Earthly Sovereign realm. Northern Nether Dragon Kun then prepared to lead Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy against the Dragon Demon Palace, with Xiao Yan agreeing to join them.

• Tai Cang and the others asked Xiao Yan to help Northern Nether Dragon Kun survive his tribulation.
• Xiao Yan invoked the Thunder Emperor's decree and made the final Black Divine Lightning and thunderclouds disappear.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun received the tribulation's reward, healed, and advanced to the Earthly Sovereign realm.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun asked Xiao Yan to wait three days while he dealt with the Dragon Demon Palace, and Xiao Yan agreed to join the assault.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun ordered Tai Cang and the others to mobilize the Punishment Hall army, which set out for the Dragon Demon Palace through a teleportation spiritual array.

The Northern Heavens army surrounded the Dragon Demon Palace, whose leaders relied on an Ancient Spiritual Array to defend their headquarters. As the Black Dragon Sovereign prepared to resist, the White Dragon Sovereign questioned their ruthless methods but agreed to fight alongside the palace.

• The Northern Heavens army advanced to the Dragon Demon Palace's headquarters after the Northern Nether Dragon Kun entered the Earthly Sovereign realm.
• The Dragon Demon Palace's five Sovereign experts maintained the Ancient Spiritual Array while the Black Dragon Sovereign demanded to know how the Northern Nether Dragon Kun had advanced so quickly.
• The White Dragon Sovereign recalled how the Sacred Dragon Sect had abandoned its homeland during the Blood Evil Clan invasion and condemned the palace's oppression and forbidden practices.
• The Black Dragon Sovereign defended growing stronger by devouring others and argued that the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy was an enemy they could consume.
• The White Dragon Sovereign agreed to fight and help activate the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar if the Ancient Spiritual Array fell.

Xiao Yan joined Northern Nether Dragon Kun and the Northern Heavens army in attacking Dragon Demon Palace’s Ancient Spiritual Array. After Northern Nether’s punches pushed the array to its limit, Xiao Yan’s Buddha Fury Fire Lotus destroyed it, exposing the palace underground.

• Northern Nether Dragon Kun repeatedly punched Dragon Demon Palace’s Ancient Spiritual Array, but it absorbed his attacks while the Five Yellow Dragon Sovereigns supplied it with energy.
• Black Dragon Sovereign mocked Northern Nether Dragon Kun when the array held, and Tai Cang and Zhu Tian asked Xiao Yan for help.
• Xiao Yan explained that the array’s patterns had reached their limit and prepared a Buddha Fury Fire Lotus while Northern Nether continued attacking.
• Xiao Yan launched the Fire Lotus at the array, and Northern Nether Dragon Kun withdrew from the blast just in time.
• The Fire Lotus destroyed the Ancient Spiritual Array and exposed the underground palace, leaving its halls collapsed and the Northern Heavens army stunned.

The Dragon Demon Palace Sovereigns summoned the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar to face Northern Nether Dragon Kun, but White Dragon fled with the weapon and Xiao Yan pursued him. Xiao Yan sealed White Dragon’s cultivation and captured him along with the pillar, insisting White Dragon still had an important task to complete.

• Black Dragon and the other Sovereigns summoned the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar as Northern Nether Dragon Kun and the Northern Heavens experts approached.
• White Dragon tricked the others by transforming into a dragon, taking the pillar, and fleeing while Xiao Yan slipped away as well.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun attacked as Black Dragon and the other five Sovereigns escaped with Blood Escape, but a Sky-Covering Wing crushed them.
• Xiao Yan caught up with White Dragon, used the Green Lotus Seal to strip away his cultivation, and carried him and the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar away.

After the Dragon Demon Palace fell, Xiao Yan persuaded Northern Nether Dragon Kun and Tai Cang to spare White Dragon Sovereign and appoint him a Heaven Seat Elder, since he had never harmed the academy and still hoped to save his homeland. The academy accepted the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar, destroyed the Dragon Demon Palace, and Northern Nether Dragon Kun left to seek permission to use the Mirror of Judgment while Xiao Yan rested.

• Xiao Yan presented the captured White Dragon Sovereign to Northern Nether Dragon Kun, and White Dragon explained that he had fled to survive and save his homeland from the Blood Evil Clan.
• Tai Cang confirmed that White Dragon had never fought the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, so Xiao Yan proposed sparing him and making him a Heaven Seat Elder.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Green Lotus Seal kept White Dragon under control, and Northern Nether Dragon Kun agreed to let him join the academy; Xiao Yan removed the seal and restored White Dragon's cultivation.
• Xiao Yan gave the Great Sumeru Demon Pillar to Tai Cang on the condition that every generation of students could approach it and whoever could take it would become its master.
• The Northern Heavens army withdrew after destroying the Dragon Demon Palace and killing Black Dragon Sovereign and its other experts; White Dragon became a Heaven Seat Elder.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun went to the other four great academies to seek permission to use the Mirror of Judgment, while Xiao Yan rested at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.

Xiao Yan stabilized his Seventh Grade Peak Sovereign cultivation at Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and learned that Lin Dong had arrived in the Great Thousand World. Northern Nether Dragon Kun returned with the Mirror of Judgment, giving Xiao Yan a way to search for his scattered relatives and friends.

• Xiao Yan cultivated in the Level 8 Spirit Gathering Formation until Tai Cang warned him that his use of Nihility Devouring Flame was draining the academy's energy.
• Tai Cang told Xiao Yan that Lin Dong had severely injured the Immeasurable Old Ancestor, who then fled the Immeasurable Continent.
• Xiao Yan welcomed the news of Lin Dong's arrival and joked that they would see which of them reached the Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign realm first.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun returned and told Tai Cang and Xiao Yan that the other academies had agreed to let him take the Mirror of Judgment after Sheng Tian reluctantly consented.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun brought Xiao Yan to the Mirror of Judgment and handed him a bronze seal so he could use it to search for his scattered relatives and friends.

Xiao Yan used the Mirror of Judgment to search for his missing relatives and friends, uncovering clues that placed Xun'er in the Budu Ancient Clan, Cai Lin near the Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan, and Xiao Xuan at the Great Thousand Pavilion. He also identified likely destinations for Yao Chen and Xiao Jiu, though the chapter ended with Northern Nether Dragon Kun puzzled by the appearance of the long-lost Ancient Thunder Palace.

• Xiao Yan activated the Mirror of Judgment and discovered that Xun'er's trace was connected to the Ancestral Pagoda of the Budu Ancient Clan, whose power shattered the mirror's vision.
• Xiao Yan and Northern Nether Dragon Kun confirmed that the eleven missing people's soul auras were stable and growing stronger, and Northern Nether Dragon Kun described the Budu Ancient Clan's leadership.
• Xiao Yan found Cai Lin's trace linked to a Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and learned that the Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan ruled over snake-type spirit beasts.
• Xiao Yan discovered that Ancestor Xiao Xuan was likely at the Great Thousand Pavilion, where he might be fighting the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• Xiao Yan identified a lotus-marked medicinal pill as a clue that his teacher Yao Chen was in the Dan God Clan.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Jiu's trace connected to the Ancient Thunder Palace, leaving Northern Nether Dragon Kun wondering how the ancient relic had reappeared.

Xiao Yan used the Mirror of Judgment to locate his friends and family, then traveled to the Heaven-Swallowing Continent to find Cai Lin. After reaching Snake Spirit City, he activated the Fire Seal to contact her.

• Xiao Yan and Northern Nether Dragon Kun confirmed that Xiao Jiu, Zi Yan, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Yao Dan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin had found their own opportunities.
• Xiao Yan decided not to reunite with everyone yet and planned to establish the Endless Fire Territory once he regained the Heavenly Sovereign Realm to protect the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Yan refused Northern Nether Dragon Kun's offer to stay at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and chose to visit Cai Lin before Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan cultivated for half a month, broke through to the Eighth Grade Sovereign, and traveled to the Heaven-Swallowing Continent.
• Xiao Yan arrived in Snake Spirit City, checked into an inn, and activated the Fire Seal to contact Cai Lin.

Xiao Yan reunited with Medusa, who had become the Young Clan Leader of the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan after ascending to the Great Thousand World. She explained how the clan found and retrieved her, while Xiao Yan learned that its Great Elder was an Early Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.

• Medusa joyfully reunited with Xiao Yan, and he told her he already knew where their companions were.
• Liu Mei Er compensated the innkeeper for the damaged courtyard and followed Xiao Yan and Medusa to the clan’s city.
• Xiao Yan carried Medusa into a hall, and they spent the night together.
• The next day, Medusa explained that the clan’s Bloodline Sensing Spirit Array had detected her after the plane storm stranded her far from the Heaven-Swallowing Continent.
• Medusa said the Great Elder had brought her back, named her Young Clan Leader, and promised her the Clan Leader position when she reached the Heavenly Sovereign realm.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Great Elder was an Early Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.

Medusa brought Xiao Yan to meet the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan’s Great Elder, who tested Xiao Yan’s power and accepted their marriage. The Great Elder then assigned Medusa to lead the clan’s young geniuses into the Plain of Divine Beasts, and Medusa secured a place there for Xiao Yan.

• Medusa and Xiao Yan spent two days together before Liu Mei Er summoned them to meet the Great Elder.
• The Great Elder probed Xiao Yan’s strength, recognized his formidable power, and teased the couple about their marriage and producing a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python heir.
• The Great Elder announced that the Plain of Divine Beasts would open in one month and asked Medusa to lead the clan’s younger geniuses there to seek an inheritance.
• Medusa asked for Xiao Yan to join the expedition, and the Great Elder granted him one of the clan’s eight spots and said Wu Shuang would go as well.

Medusa explained the Plain of Divine Beasts and took Xiao Yan to the Sacred Mountain to enter it with the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan’s group. Before they set out, Bai Wushuang challenged Xiao Yan’s place beside Medusa, and Medusa drove her away by revealing her interest in women.

• Medusa told Xiao Yan that the Plain of Divine Beasts had been swallowed by a spatial black hole and was now used as a training ground by Spirit Beast World clans.
• Xiao Yan and Medusa cultivated in seclusion for a month, then traveled to the Sacred Mountain to join the other six clan members who had received slots.
• Xiao Yan recognized that the group included one Eighth Grade Sovereign and five Seventh Grade Sovereigns, and Medusa proudly welcomed him as family.
• Bai Wushuang claimed Xiao Yan was unworthy of Medusa, and Medusa warned her to stop pursuing her because she did not like women.
• Xiao Yan told the fleeing Bai Wushuang that he and Medusa were married and had three children, making her cry harder.

Medusa led Xiao Yan and the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan into the Void Space on their way to the Plain of Divine Beasts, where they gathered Blood Spirit Mud. Xiao Yan refined it into Blood Spirit Pills, and the chapter left Bai Wushuang collecting more mud after apologizing and asking him to make pills for her.

• The Great Elder opened a spatial passage and warned Medusa to secure the ancestor's inheritance while watching out for the Ancient Heaven Snake Clan.
• Medusa led Xiao Yan and the others through the passage into the Void Space and ordered them to search passing meteors for Blood Spirit Mud.
• Medusa explained that the mud would be more effective when refined, and Xiao Yan revealed his alchemy skill by making seven Blood Spirit Pills.
• Medusa told the group to leave the pills with Xiao Yan and keep collecting Blood Spirit Mud to refine for their journey.
• Bai Wushuang apologized to Xiao Yan and asked him to refine her mud, then left to gather more after he agreed.

Xiao Yan refined Blood Spirit Mud into pills while Medusa and the others gathered materials, then the group strengthened themselves on the meteor belt before entering the Plain of Divine Beasts. They arrived over the ruined ancient continent, where Xiao Yan and Bai Wushuang assessed the immense destruction left by the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.

• Medusa collected Blood Spirit Mud from shattered meteors and gave it to Xiao Yan, who joked that he had scolded Bai Wushuang for trying to steal his wife.
• After three days of refining pills, Medusa led the group to the meteor belt around the Plain of Divine Beasts and concealed them with the Wind Spirit Banner.
• Medusa gave everyone a bottle of Blood Spirit Pills and set a one-day limit for consuming them before they continued onward.
• Xiao Yan swallowed three Blood Spirit Pills, while the others refined theirs and gained substantial strength.
• Medusa led the group into the Plain of Divine Beasts, where they saw a vast palm-shaped crater and Xiao Yan judged its attacker to have been at least a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Bai Wushuang explained that the ancient Divine Beast Continent had been protected by numerous Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns and that several Heavenly Demon Emperors must have attacked it.

Medusa, Xiao Yan, and their companions traveled to Great Wilderness City to enter its Ancient Body-Refining Tower, where they met many powerful divine beast clans. As the tower opened, Medusa assigned Xiao Yan, Bai Wushuang, and herself to claim Reception Platforms, and the Heaven-Reaching Ape Clan immediately seized three.

• Medusa used a Spirit Map to choose the Ancient Body-Refining Tower in Great Wilderness City, and Xiao Yan sent out a Fire Seal to summon Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan sensed Xiao Yan's signal and redirected her group toward Great Wilderness City to see someone.
• Xiao Yan and Medusa's group arrived at the crowded ruins of Great Wilderness City, where they waited together for the tower to open.
• The tower opened and raised twenty Reception Stone Platforms, and Medusa ordered Xiao Yan, Bai Wushuang, and herself to occupy three while the others stayed back.
• A member of the Heaven-Reaching Ape Clan claimed three platforms and challenged the other clans to object.

As the super divine beast clans claimed all twenty Reception Platforms, Lei Zhang of the Thunder Crow Clan challenged Xiao Yan, mistaking him for an intruder. Medusa revealed that Xiao Yan had been brought by her clan and unleashed her murderous aura, drawing the crowd’s attention.

• Medusa and two companions claimed three adjacent Reception Platforms for the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Clan, prompting other super divine beast clans to claim the rest and fight over the spots.
• Lei Zhang, a Seventh Grade Peak Sovereign of the Thunder Crow Clan, decided to challenge a weaker opponent and left his companions behind.
• Lei Zhang found Xiao Yan, an Eighth Grade Sovereign, and accused him of sneaking into the Plain of Divine Beasts.
• Medusa told Lei Zhang that her clan had brought Xiao Yan, then threatened him and released a vast murderous aura that drew the attention of nearby experts.

The author described how the book’s readership and income had sharply declined after a hiatus, despite resuming frequent updates. He decided to keep writing but cut the remaining Great Ruler arc short, expecting the story to end in about 500,000 words.

• The author reported that daily new subscriptions had fallen from about 6,000 to just over 2,000 after he resumed updates.
• He explained that he had ignored his friend’s and editor’s advice to keep updating while he worked on a new outline, and regretted taking the hiatus.
• After reading harsh one-star reviews and seeing subscriptions continue to fall, he considered quitting but decided to finish the book.
• The author cut side plots from the Great Ruler arc and expected to conclude the story in roughly 500,000 words.

Medusa revealed her Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python bloodline and handed Lei Zhang over to Xiao Yan, who easily battered him across the Reception Platform. Lei Zhang emerged from the crater and attacked Xiao Yan with the Great Thunder Gathering Hand.

• Medusa manifested the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python phantom, terrifying Lei Zhang and the watching clan prodigies.
• Xiao Yan challenged Lei Zhang and agreed to wager the Reception Platform on the fight.
• Lei Zhang launched a surprise attack, but Xiao Yan evaded it and struck him with a barrage of blows.
• Xiao Yan sent Lei Zhang crashing into a crater, then said he had held back and that Lei Zhang was not seriously injured.
• Lei Zhang burst from the crater and attacked Xiao Yan with the Great Thunder Gathering Hand.

Xiao Yan defeated Lei Zhang after countering the Thunder Crow Clan genius’s lightning attack with his Thousand Shatter Thunder Maces. His decisive victory stunned the gathered clans and established him as a formidable fighter.

• Xiao Yan redirected Lei Zhang’s Great Thunder Gathering Hand into the ground, struck him in the chest, and criticized his control of lightning.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Thousand Shatter Thunder Maces and created a Single-Horned Thunder Beast that charged Lei Zhang.
• Lei Zhang unleashed the Thunder Crow Clan’s perfected divine art, the World-Extinguishing Thunder Seal, against the beast.
• The Single-Horned Thunder Beast shattered Lei Zhang’s seal and engulfed him in purple-black lightning, knocking him off the Reception Platform.
• The assembled clan geniuses reconsidered Xiao Yan, recognizing that he had easily crushed a Half-Step Eighth Grade Sovereign.

Xiao Yan defeated Lei Zhang as the True Dragon Clan arrived at Great Wilderness City to claim three Reception Platforms. Zi Yan led the newcomers, and Zhu Hua forced the Heaven-Swallowing Thunder Crow Clan to give up its platforms.

• Xiao Yan warned Lei Zhang not to stare at Medusa and emerged from the dissipating Spiritual Energy storm after defeating him.
• Zi Yan arrived with eight True Dragon Clan figures, and Medusa recognized her as the prodigy who had descended upon the True Dragon Clan from a Lower Plane.
• Zhu Hua announced that the True Dragon Clan wanted three Reception Platforms, while Lu Ting questioned why Zhu Hua obeyed Zi Yan.
• Zhu Hua passed over the other powerful clans and ordered the Heaven-Swallowing Thunder Crow Clan to surrender its three platforms.
• Lei Zhang approached Lei You, but Lei You blamed him for their misfortune and left Great Wilderness City with his clansmen.
• Zi Yan led Zhu Hua and Zhu Ming toward the three vacant Reception Platforms.