Chapter Summaries

Su Yun received the complete Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes from Tang Zhen and began helping him refine a Fire Bodhi Pill for Tang Huo'er. As Tang Zhen worked, Su Yun considered the growing threat from the Soul Clan and how he might buy time to prepare for it.

• Su Yun agreed to keep participating in the Five Great Clans Assessment as Ye Xinlan's fiancé, and Ye Zhong returned.
• Tang Zhen brought Su Yun the complete Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes and asked him to refine the Fire Bodhi Pill.
• Su Yun followed Tang Zhen into the courtyard, where Tang Zhen brought out the Mountain Melting Cauldron and the pill ingredients.
• Tang Zhen used the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Flame to refine the ingredients while Su Yun studied the Fire Bodhi Pill's Pill Fusion technique.
• Su Yun assessed Tang Zhen's strength and considered delaying Gui Li's attack while planning for the Soul Clan's eventual threat.

Su Yun refined a Fire Bodhi Pill for Tang Zhen and received Burning Flame Valley’s Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes in return. He used the system to begin fusing the technique, learning that the process required one Seventh Tier and one Eighth Tier Energy Crystal Block.

• Su Yun took over refining the medicinal ingredients and concealed his true Dou Venerate cultivation by presenting himself as a Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Su Yun used the Heavenly Demon Puppet to withstand the pill lightning, then handed the completed Fire Bodhi Pill to Tang Zhen.
• Tang Zhen gave Su Yun the secret technique scroll for the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes as thanks for saving Huo'er.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate told Su Yun that Qing Lin had reached the peak of Dou Zong and sensed a breakthrough to Dou Venerate.
• Su Yun found the scroll difficult to comprehend and asked the system to fuse the technique, which required one Seventh Tier and one Eighth Tier Energy Crystal Block.

Su Yun fused the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes, then absorbed and refined the Heavenly Cold Qi to break through to Four-Star Early Dou Venerate. He considered developing ice-fire techniques and weapons, while Xiao Yi Xian returned from her inheritance site.

• Su Yun fused the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes and found that its three transformations raised his cultivation to Four-Star Early Dou Venerate.
• Su Yun entered the icy pool with an Ice Melting Profound Pill and used his Five-Colored Flames and Fennel Cold Art to absorb the Heavenly Cold Qi.
• Su Yun spent more than half a month refining the Heavenly Cold Qi, then used its energy to attack his realm barrier.
• Xiao Yi Xian returned from the Poisonous Body of Misfortune inheritance site and asked Hai Bodong where Su Yun was.
• After a month, Su Yun broke through to Four-Star Early Dou Venerate and judged that the Heavenly Cold Qi could rival a Peak Six-Star Dou Venerate in battle.
• Su Yun considered creating an ice-attribute identity but decided to focus on developing ice-fire techniques and a dual-attribute magic core longsword.

Su Yun fused ice- and fire-based Dou Techniques into powerful new variants, then began adapting the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes with ice. He left off as the system presented fusion options for an ice-based cultivation-amplifying secret art.

• Su Yun fused Extreme Cold Sword and Flowing Flame Dragon Slash into Flaming Ice Dragon Slash, then mastered it and tested its power.
• Su Yun created ice-fire variants of several familiar Dou Techniques, including Ice Sun Emperor Sword and Flaming Cold Severing Rainbow.
• Su Yun considered searching Old Ghost Picking Stars's memories for Soul Hall branch locations and wondered how Xian'er had progressed.
• Su Yun weighed the cost of making an ice-fire Eighth Tier Magic Core Weapon and decided to create only the first ice-based change for now.
• Su Yun asked the system to fuse Ice Palm with the first change of the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes, and it offered a plan for an ice-based cultivation-amplifying secret art.

Su Yun refined Heavenly Cold Qi, gained a new cultivation-boosting technique, and fused two magic-core swords into Frost Sun. After Xiao Yi Xian returned, the two spent five days together, and Su Yun noticed her strength had reached Six-Revolving Dou Venerate, leaving him eager to learn what had happened on her trip.

• Su Yun named his secret technique Spirit Ice Three Mysterious Changes and used Heavenly Cold Qi to raise his cultivation from Four-Star to Six-Star Dou Venerate.
• Su Yun fused two Eighth Tier One-Star Magic Core Longswords into Frost Sun, an Ice-Fire Magic Core Longsword.
• Su Yun left the System Space and found Xiao Yi Xian had returned, whereupon she grabbed him and pulled him into the room.
• Five days later, Su Yun noticed Xiao Yi Xian had reached Six-Revolving Dou Venerate and decided to ask her about it after she rested.

Su Yun learned how Xiao Yi Xian’s Poisonous Body of Misfortune and Netherworld Poison Flame had raised her cultivation and battle power, while Qing Lin broke through to One-Star Dou Venerate. Three days later, Su Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin arrived in the Beast Region to capture Eighth Tier snake Magical Beasts, though Su Yun planned to take care of something first.

• Xiao Yi Xian explained that fusing the Netherworld Poison Flame with the Poisonous Body of Misfortune had raised her cultivation to Six-Revolving Dou Venerate and greatly increased her battle power.
• Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian sensed Qing Lin’s breakthrough, then welcomed her as she emerged from the Cultivation Chamber at One-Star Dou Venerate with Cai Lin.
• Qing Lin asked Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian to help her capture Eighth Tier snake Magical Beasts, and Su Yun agreed to take them to the Beast Region.
• Three days later, Su Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin traveled to the Beast Region using Space Coordinates and arrived near the Nine Netherworld Python’s habitat.
• Su Yun told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin that he would take care of something before they headed to the Nine Netherworld Python’s habitat.

Su Yun subdued Frost Sun, an Eighth Tier one-star magic core weapon, and then traveled with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s underground entrance. Qing Lin found two hidden Dou Venerate guards, and Xiao Yi Xian began sealing their space so they could be captured.

• Frost Sun broke free after Su Yun summoned it, but he restrained it with Dou Qi, flame, and cold qi.
• Su Yun entered Frost Sun’s spiritual space, subdued its white fox form, and made the weapon acknowledge him as its master.
• Su Yun explained magic core weapon grades to Xiao Yi Xian, and the three set out for the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s habitat.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to locate a hidden Three-Star Dou Venerate and Four-Star Dou Venerate in a valley.
• Su Yun asked Xiao Yi Xian to seal the space around the two guards so they could subdue them.

Su Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin captured two Nine Netherworld Python guards and used Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to learn how to enter the clan’s underground headquarters. Su Yun ordered the controlled guards to lure the elders out, and one returned claiming that an invading expert had killed his companion.

• Xiao Yi Xian sealed and suppressed two Nine Netherworld Python guards, allowing Qing Lin to control them with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Qing Lin forced a Four-Star Dou Venerate to reveal the underground entrance and the Space Barrier protecting it.
• Su Yun decided to draw the Nine Netherworld Python elders away rather than enter their headquarters directly, and instructed Qing Lin to plant orders in the guards.
• A controlled Three-Star Dou Venerate returned to the Nether Snake Earth Vein with injuries and told the elders that an invader had attacked the clan.
• The Three-Star Dou Venerate claimed his companion had self-destructed to help him escape, while concealing his fear from the gathered elders.

Su Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin ambushed the Nine Netherworld Python clan and captured several powerful members for Qing Lin to control. After deciding not to risk facing a Half-Saint, they waited for the clan to send investigators, and two powerful twin elders set out to search for them.

• Qing Lin reported that four Nine Netherworld Pythons, led by a Two-Revolving Dou Venerate, had gone to capture the supposed intruder.
• Xiao Yi Xian trapped the four in a Space Cage and paralyzed them with poisonous fog, allowing Qing Lin to control and collect them along with an injured Three-Star Dou Venerate.
• Su Yun decided they would wait for a stronger investigator but retreat if a Half-Saint appeared, since a battle at that level could alert the clan's Dou Sheng experts.
• Ten days later, the Second Elder sent out two Seven-Turn Dou Venerate twin elders, whose combined strength approached that of an Eight-Turn Dou Venerate.

Su Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin captured two Seven-Turn Dou Venerates in the Beast Region, then headed for a Soul Hall branch palace in the Central Plains. They arrived prepared to confront the Third Heavenly Venerate and the other Soul Hall Venerates stationed there.

• Qing Lin spotted two Seven-Turn Dou Venerates leaving the valley, and Xiao Yi Xian transformed her aura to Half-Saint level before going to intercept them.
• Xiao Yi Xian overwhelmed and captured the two men, then Qing Lin used the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control them.
• Su Yun ended their Beast Region expedition and led Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin back to the Central Plains.
• Su Yun explained that the Soul Hall branch palace in the Xuantian Mountain Range was guarded by the Nine-Turn Peak Dou Venerate Third Heavenly Venerate and nearly ten other Venerates.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin said they were ready to help Su Yun deal with the Soul Hall branch palace.

Su Yun and his allies attacked the Hall of Souls branch hall in the Xuantian Mountain Range after Qing Lin scouted its defenses. The Third Heavenly Venerate used a forbidden technique to force a breakthrough to Half-Saint as Xiao Yi Xian reached the same realm.

• Su Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin arrived at the Xuantian Mountain Range and learned from Qing Lin that the branch hall's strongest fighter was a Nine-Turn Peak Dou Venerate.
• Qing Lin summoned nine controlled snake-type Dou Venerates, and Su Yun's group joined forces to break the Space Barrier around the branch hall.
• The Third Heavenly Venerate warned the attackers to leave, but Su Yun refused, and both sides charged into battle.
• Xiao Yi Xian used Spirit Cloud Transformation and opened her Poisonous Body of Misfortune, raising her strength to Half-Saint.
• The Third Heavenly Venerate activated Spirit Devouring Qi Severance to force his own breakthrough to Half-Saint, sacrificing his cultivation foundation.

Xiao Yi Xian overwhelmed Third Heavenly Venerate while Qing Lin’s nine controlled Dou Zun slaughtered the Soul Hall forces. As Third Heavenly Venerate faced defeat, he resolved to send word to his clan about the threat Su Yun’s group posed.

• Third Heavenly Venerate revealed that he had forcefully reached the Half-Saint realm, but Xiao Yi Xian attacked and injured him with her Netherworld Poison Flame.
• Third Heavenly Venerate recognized Xiao Yi Xian as the woman who had controlled the Poisonous Body of Misfortune and realized Su Yun’s group had come for revenge.
• Qing Lin led nine controlled Dou Zun in a massacre, and Su Yun instructed her to preserve the Soul Hall members’ bodies and souls.
• Xiao Yi Xian continued suppressing Third Heavenly Venerate and prepared her Poison Killing Ghost Palm as his strength dwindled.
• Third Heavenly Venerate decided he had to pass news of Xiao Yi Xian’s rapid growth back to his clan.

Su Yun and his allies defeated Soul Hall’s forces after Qing Lin destroyed Third Heavenly Venerate’s attempt to send a warning to the Soul Clan. Xiao Yi Xian suffered the aftereffects of Spirit Cloud Transformation, and Qing Lin finished gathering the surviving Soul Bodies for Su Yun.

• Third Heavenly Venerate used Soul Spirit Guidance to try to send news of Su Yun back to the Soul Clan, but Qing Lin destroyed the message with her Heaven Realm Soul and Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Su Yun’s Poison Killing Ghost Palm struck Third Heavenly Venerate and reduced him to ash.
• Su Yun caught the weakened Xiao Yi Xian, recognized that Spirit Cloud Transformation had caused severe aftereffects, and gave her a medicinal pill.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that she had wanted to help Su Yun and agreed not to push herself like that again.
• Qing Lin counted the casualties, detained the fleeing Soul Bodies, and reported that everyone except Third Heavenly Venerate had been accounted for.

Su Yun and Qing Lin cleared a Soul Hall branch of its imprisoned souls and Soul Origin, then returned to Holy Pill City so Su Yun could treat Xiao Yi Xian. He began refining a high-grade pill using a formula left by the Snake Saint, while reflecting on techniques and memories tied to the final remnant map.

• Qing Lin absorbed the branch hall’s wronged souls and Soul Origin into a Soul Jar, and Su Yun stored it before she destroyed the hall.
• Su Yun abandoned plans to attack two more Northern Region branch halls because Xiao Yi Xian needed rest and he had collected enough Soul Origin.
• The three returned to Holy Pill City, where Su Yun settled Xiao Yi Xian into bed and promised to refine a pill to ease her condition.
• Su Yun considered the Snake Saint’s lost knowledge, the final remnant map, and the limits of the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes and Xiao Yi Xian’s Spirit Cloud Transformation.
• Qing Lin raised a Soul Barrier around the courtyard as Su Yun began refining an Eighth Grade High-Level pill with five-colored Heavenly Flames.

Su Yun refined an Eighth Grade Seven-Colored Pill, drawing the attention of Holy Pill City and the Pill Tower, while its thunder tribulation strengthened the Heavenly Demon Puppet. He used the pill to treat Xiao Yi Xian, who was recovering from the aftereffects of attacking the Soul Hall.

• A Seven-Colored Thundercloud appeared over Su Yun's residence, shocking Holy Pill City and prompting Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi to discuss his talent and Xiao Yan's progress.
• Su Yun had Qing Lin remove the Soul Barrier, then sent the Heavenly Demon Puppet to endure the pill's thunder tribulation, raising it to Five-Star Peak Dou Venerate.
• When the Eighth Grade Seven-Colored Pill tried to flee as a pink rabbit, Setting Sun surrounded it with sword shadows and forced it back into pill form.
• Su Yun had Hai Bodong turn away visitors, then went inside and found Xiao Yi Xian still pale from the aftereffects of attacking the Soul Hall.
• Su Yun fed Xiao Yi Xian the new pill and used Five-Colored Flames to refine its medicinal strength inside her body.

Su Yun refined Soul Origin from the Soul Jar and risked a breakthrough from Spirit Realm Consummation to a Heaven Realm Soul. After a difficult half-month, he succeeded and emerged from the Cultivation Chamber to Qing Lin's congratulations.

• Su Yun treated Xiao Yi Xian with a pill that eased her condition, then tucked her in to rest.
• Su Yun released the Soul Jar's seal and spent more than half a day refining its trapped souls into Soul Origin.
• After a day preparing, Su Yun used the Soul Origin and the Soul Art to begin breaking through to a Heaven Realm Soul.
• Qing Lin watched over Su Yun for half a month and worried that a failed breakthrough could shatter his soul.
• Su Yun broke through successfully, relying on ample Soul Origin and the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint's memories, then spent three days consolidating his realm.
• Su Yun left the Cultivation Chamber, and Qing Lin congratulated him.

The author reflected on the book’s half-year progress, declining earnings, and difficulty maintaining a high update rate, then explained the reasoning behind the story’s Soul Power rankings. The author thanked readers and promised to finish the book.

• The author noted that the book had reached nearly nine hundred thousand words in six months and admitted that earnings had fallen.
• The author described struggling to keep up a ten-thousand-word daily update pace during summer vacation, eventually settling back to four thousand words a day.
• The author explained that the original work gave few clear comparisons between Soul Power and Dou Qi realms, so the fanfiction had to infer a scale.
• The author cited Medicine Elder’s soul being stronger than at his peak, his battle with Protector Wu, and his later revival as a Ninth Grade Alchemist to support placing Early Heaven Realm at Dou Zong level.
• The author invited readers to raise evidence-based questions and promised to keep writing until the book was finished.

Su Yun offered Hai Bodong a chance to refine Heavenly Cold Qi and prepared him for the dangerous process. Hai Bodong survived and gained stronger Dou Qi and combat strength, while Su Yun reflected on the approaching Pill Gathering and the events ahead.

• Su Yun summoned Hai Bodong and offered him leftover Heavenly Cold Qi to improve his aptitude.
• Seven days later, Su Yun and Heavenly Flame Venerate warned Hai Bodong about the risks and gave him an Ice Melting Profound Pill before he began refining the Heavenly Cold Qi.
• Hai Bodong endured the process for half a month and successfully refined the Heavenly Cold Qi, strengthening his Dou Qi and combat ability.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate took the wounded Hai Bodong away to recover, while Su Yun reflected that Hai Bodong would have to continue his own path.
• Su Yun considered that less than two years remained until the Pill Gathering, as major events and the Soul Clan's thousand-year plan drew closer.

Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian discussed their ambitions before resuming cultivation, and Su Yun found that his cultivation had settled faster than expected. He went to the Ye Family to retrieve the Sun Fire Altar and discovered a cache of Earth Core Beads as Yang Fire surged from the earth eye.

• Xiao Yi Xian asked Su Yun about the Emperor Realm and suggested they might someday return to the Northwest Continent and live quietly, but Su Yun said they needed overwhelming strength first.
• After five days together, Su Yun found that the Heavenly Cold Qi had helped his cultivation settle in only three months, so he began considering how to obtain the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Flame.
• Three months later, with roughly a year remaining until the Pill Gathering, Su Yun went to the Ye Family to claim the Sun Fire Altar they had promised him.
• Su Yun reached into the altar's earth eye and pulled out dozens of Earth Core Beads, worth more than a dozen Eighth Tier Magic Cores.
• White Yang Fire surged from the earth eye after Su Yun removed the Earth Core Beads, and he assessed the fire energy.

Su Yun absorbed the Sun Fire, advanced his cultivation, and spent the months before the Pill Gathering training and refining pills. As the Pill Gathering approached, the Pill Tower prepared for possible trouble from Soul Hall, while Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian connected with Su Ruoxi through Soul Communication.

• Su Yun refined the Sun Fire for three days, advanced to Four-Star Mid Dou Venerate, and told Ye Zhong to find him at the Five Great Clans Grand Competition.
• Su Yun returned to Holy Pill City, cultivated, refined pills for wealthy visitors, and eventually reached Four-Star Peak Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yan refined a Seventh-Grade Peak Pill as Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and Tian Leizi discussed his prospects and reports of Soul Hall's recent violence.
• Xuan Kongzi warned the other Pill Tower leaders that Soul Hall might cause trouble during the Pill Gathering, and they agreed to prepare.
• Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian received Su Ruoxi's Soul Communication together, and Xiao Yi Xian delightedly called herself Ruoxi's mother.