Chapter Summaries

Xiao Wujiu crossed the Fire Passage and summoned Zi Yan to join him in the ruin. He left her impressed by his overwhelming physical strength after crushing the Heavenly Demon Puppet.

• Xiao Wujiu used the Southern Bright Spirit Fire to dive through the magma and enter a new space beyond the Fire Passage.
• Xiao Wujiu opened the Crossing Gate, and Zi Yan rushed through, leaving Qing Xue and Cai Lin fighting a Great Completion Death Profound Realm magical beast.
• Xiao Wujiu led Zi Yan toward the ruin’s depths, where the Heavenly Demon Puppet Formation activated and summoned a Two-Star Dou Zun puppet.
• Xiao Wujiu studied the formation, recognized its connection to the Heavenly Demon Puppet Method, and memorized its principles.
• Xiao Wujiu struck the puppet and pinned it against the stone gate, leaving Zi Yan astonished by his inhuman strength.

Xiao Wujiu reassured Zi Yan that he would not send her away, then followed her through the ruin to a medicinal forest and the Beast Spirit Barrier protecting the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. Zi Yan opened the barrier with her golden blood mark, and they prepared to enter.

• Xiao Wujiu stored the undamaged Heavenly Demon Puppet and went with Zi Yan to investigate the stone door.
• Zi Yan feared Xiao Wujiu was sending her back to her clan because he no longer wanted her, and he comforted her by calling her his little follower.
• Xiao Wujiu followed Zi Yan through the ruin to a sealed chamber filled with rare medicinal herbs and sent Heavenly Demon Puppets to harvest them.
• Xiao Wujiu and Zi Yan reached the Beast Spirit Barrier at the center of the medicinal forest, where the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit was kept.
• Zi Yan used her golden blood mark to verify her identity and open the Beast Spirit Barrier.

Xiao Wujiu took Zi Yan into the Beast Spirit Barrier and showed her the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, explaining her Ancient Void Dragon royal bloodline and the clan's plight. He prepared to help her refine the fruit and sent her on a mission to retrieve a Primordial Dragon Bone, while he began refining a pill to aid her cultivation.

• Xiao Wujiu brought Zi Yan to the altar and showed her the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit growing between the remains of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heaven Phoenix.
• Xiao Wujiu explained Zi Yan's royal bloodline, her place as the future empress of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and what he had learned about her origins.
• Xiao Wujiu asked Zi Yan to visit the Dragon Clan in the Demon Region and bring back a Primordial Dragon Bone, and she agreed.
• Xiao Wujiu left Heavenly Demon Puppets and a passage between the worlds to protect Zi Yan while she absorbed the fruit.
• Zi Yan plucked the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Xiao Wujiu gathered ingredients and began refining a Grade Nine Treasure Pill with the Creation Cauldron.

Xiao Wujiu refined a Grade Nine Treasure Pill from rare ingredients and the residual ancestral souls of an Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heaven Phoenix. He suppressed the pill’s escape and gave it to Zi Yan, naming it the Dragon Phoenix Pill to help her absorb the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Xiao Wujiu gathered medicinal ingredients from both worlds and used the Creation Cauldron to refine them alongside the remains and ancestral souls of an Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heaven Phoenix.
• The Creation Cauldron fused the incompatible ingredients and souls into a golden-purple pill, drawing energy through a gateway to the Tianxuan Continent.
• Xiao Wujiu dispersed the forming Black Demon Lightning with the Thunder Ancestral Talisman, allowing the Grade Nine Treasure Pill to finish forming.
• The pill tried to escape, but Xiao Wujiu had the Creation Cauldron suppress it and bring it to him.
• Xiao Wujiu sealed the pill in a medicine box, named it the Dragon Phoenix Pill, and gave it to Zi Yan, who happily accepted it.

After preparing to take control of the Nine Nether Deep Underworld Python Clan, Xiao Wujiu killed an elder who confronted him in the Skeleton Mountain Range and used the elder’s memories to travel to the clan’s headquarters. He arrived with the Nine Nether Yellow Spring as his target.

• Xiao Wujiu contacted Cai Lin and Qing Lin, telling them to prepare to join his operation against the Nine Nether Deep Underworld Python Clan.
• Xiao Wujiu planned to build his strength by supporting Zi Yan’s advancement, subduing the Four Great Dragon Islands, and granting spirit to the Nine Profound Golden Lightning.
• A sinister elder and a Five-Star Dou Zun confronted Xiao Wujiu, accusing him of trespassing and demanding the treasure he had found.
• Xiao Wujiu revealed himself as a Saint, crushed the elder’s head, and seized his soul to learn the location of the Nine Nether Deep Underworld Python Clan.
• Xiao Wujiu killed the Five-Star Dou Zun with his flames, then used the elder’s memories to teleport to the clan’s headquarters and target the Nine Nether Yellow Spring.

Xiao Wujiu brought Cai Lin and Qing Lin to the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan’s headquarters to rescue Yao Ming and take control of the clan. He planned to make it Qing Lin’s support and help both women grow stronger, and led them toward the Nine Nether Yellow Spring.

• Xiao Wujiu summoned Cai Lin and Qing Lin through the Crossing Gate and reunited with them at the Nine Nether Abyss.
• Xiao Wujiu praised Qing Lin’s progress and embraced Cai Lin, whose cultivation had reached the Six-Turn Dou Zun realm.
• Xiao Wujiu explained his plan to help the women grow stronger, and Cai Lin and Qing Lin eagerly urged him to take them underground.
• Xiao Wujiu led Cai Lin and Qing Lin through the underground world to the Underworld Snake Earth Vein and the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan’s headquarters.
• Xiao Wujiu planned to rescue Yao Ming, then have Qing Lin control him, Yao Xiaotian, and the clan’s Half-Saint elders.
• Xiao Wujiu led Cai Lin and Qing Lin to the abyss containing the Nine Nether Yellow Spring, where he hoped they could claim the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s inheritance.

Xiao Wujiu descended into the Nine Nether Yellow Spring while Cai Lin and Qing Lin guarded the lakeside. He reached the glowing lakebed, suspected a dangerous Dou Di cave mansion lay deeper below, and decided to focus on his immediate task rather than investigate further.

• Xiao Wujiu left Cai Lin and Qing Lin at the lakeside with Heavenly Demon Puppets and Ghosts to protect them while he entered the Nine Nether Yellow Spring.
• Xiao Wujiu used the Sea Heart Flame and Ancestral Ice Talisman to withstand the lake’s heat and cold as he descended.
• Xiao Wujiu crushed a swarm of strange serpents that attacked him in the water.
• Xiao Wujiu reached a glowing stretch of sandy ground beneath the lake and considered whether a Dou Di cave mansion lay deeper below.
• Xiao Wujiu sensed danger in the depths and chose to handle his immediate task instead of investigating further.

Xiao Wujiu found Yao Ming imprisoned in the Nine Nether Yellow Spring and freed him after demanding his submission. Yao Ming agreed and pledged to serve him, while Xiao Wujiu took the Yellow Spring Blood Crystal and the four Yellow Spring Yin Stones; the chapter ended as a battle erupted above, and Yao Ming recognized Yao Xiaotian’s aura.

• Xiao Wujiu followed the chains through the Nine Nether Yellow Spring and found Yao Ming bound and weakened.
• Xiao Wujiu demanded that Yao Ming submit in exchange for his freedom and a chance to take revenge on Yao Xiaotian, and Yao Ming accepted.
• Yao Ming gave Xiao Wujiu his remaining Yellow Spring Blood Crystal, and Xiao Wujiu broke the chains and collected the four Yellow Spring Yin Stones.
• Yao Ming knelt before Xiao Wujiu and pledged to follow his commands.
• A battle began above the Nine Nether Yellow Spring, and Yao Ming recognized Yao Xiaotian’s aura.

Xiao Wujiu freed Yao Ming from the Nine Nether Yellow Spring and brought him face to face with Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder. After the Heavenly Demon Puppets weakened the two captives, Qing Lin began using her perfected Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to mark them.

• Xiao Wujiu gave Yao Ming recovery pills and reminded him that Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder would be handed over after their value had been drained.
• Xiao Wujiu emerged from the Nine Nether Yellow Spring with Yao Ming as Cai Lin and Qing Lin watched the Heavenly Demon Puppets suppress Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder.
• Xiao Wujiu asked Qing Lin to try to control the two captives, and Yao Ming was shocked to discover her fully developed Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Wujiu ordered the Heavenly Demon Puppets to subdue Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder, whose cultivation, bodies, and souls were sealed down to the Junior Half-Saint level.
• Xiao Wujiu told Qing Lin to mark the weakened captives, and her spiritual power briefly dazed even Yao Ming.

Xiao Wujiu used Qing Lin’s divine Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder, then assigned Yao Ming to serve him, Qing Lin, and Cai Lin. After arranging cultivation for Qing Lin and Cai Lin, he went with Yao Ming to the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s inheritance site.

• Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils marked Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder, controlling them without resistance.
• Yao Ming recognized Xiao Wujiu’s strength and accepted him as his master, then agreed to obey Qing Lin and Cai Lin as well.
• Xiao Wujiu arranged for Cai Lin to cultivate beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Spring and for Qing Lin to draw on the cultivation of two One-Star Dou Shengs before he raised their strength with pills.
• Cai Lin entered the Nine Nether Yellow Spring with Xiao Wujiu’s Pure Yuan Treasure, while he left Heavenly Demon Puppets behind and asked Yao Ming to lead him to the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet.
• Yao Ming reorganized the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan and brought Xiao Wujiu to the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s inheritance site.

Xiao Wujiu entered the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet to seek the Yellow Spring Demon Saint's inheritance and faced its first trial. The Demon Saint judged him worthy to continue but required him to prove his ability further.

• Yao Ming showed Xiao Wujiu the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet and explained that it held the Yellow Spring Heaven Rage cultivation method and the Demon Saint Essence Blood.
• Xiao Wujiu ordered Yao Ming to leave and keep others away, then sent his Soul Power into the stone tablet.
• The Yongzhen Array emerged and protected Xiao Wujiu as he advanced through the tablet's storm-filled space.
• Xiao Wujiu countered the Yellow Spring Finger with the Great Desolation Imprisoning Heaven Finger and crushed the trial attack.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint appeared, deemed Xiao Wujiu qualified to pursue his legacy, and demanded that he prove his ability further.

Xiao Wujiu accepted Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s test for the Yellow Spring Heaven Rage and Demon Saint Essence Blood, then broke through to the Great Rune Sect Realm under the pressure. He hurled a stabilized Frost Thunder Fire Lotus at the Demon Saint’s incoming attack, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Yellow Spring Demon Saint noticed Xiao Wujiu’s unusual soul, Heavenly Flames, and ancient auras, and agreed to test him for the inheritance he sought.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint unleashed Yellow Spring Heaven Rage, shattering the surrounding space with a colossal Demon Saint True Body.
• Xiao Wujiu summoned the Creation Cauldron and activated the Creation True Body, breaking through to the Great Rune Sect Realm.
• Xiao Wujiu combined six Heavenly Flames with the Thunder Ancestral Talisman’s power, then froze and stabilized the fire lotus with the Ice and Life and Death Ancestral Talismans.
• Xiao Wujiu threw the Frost Thunder Fire Lotus at Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s incoming Yellow Spring Heaven Rage.

Xiao Wujiu survived the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s ultimate soul technique and proved his worth by unleashing the Frost Thunder Fire Lotus. The Yellow Spring Demon Saint accepted him as his successor, learned his name, and prepared to pass on the inheritance before his remnant soul dissipated.

• Xiao Wujiu detonated the Frost Thunder Fire Lotus with the power of his talismans and Heavenly Flames, unleashing a devastating attack on the Yellow Spring Demon Saint.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint used the stone tablet’s contingency power to suppress the lotus and protect the Yellow Spring Space from destruction.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint was astonished to find Xiao Wujiu unharmed after enduring Yellow Spring Heaven Rage.
• Xiao Wujiu asked whether he qualified to inherit Yellow Spring Heaven Rage, and the Yellow Spring Demon Saint praised him as a monstrous genius.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint promised Xiao Wujiu the inheritance, asked his name, and heard him introduce himself as Xiao Wujiu.

Xiao Wujiu received the Yellow Spring Unique Skills and Demon Saint Essence Blood from the dying Yellow Spring Demon Saint, then returned from the ancient space having overcome his soul trial and strengthened his Rune Master realm. With the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan matter temporarily settled, he planned to consolidate his gains and seek the Ancient Heaven Snake's soul.

• Xiao Wujiu recognized that the world no longer allowed Dou Shengs to advance to Dou Di, and told the Yellow Spring Demon Saint that he would find a way forward regardless.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint passed Xiao Wujiu the information on the Yellow Spring Unique Skills and gave him his Demon Saint Essence Blood.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint called Xiao Wujiu his final friend, urged him onward, and faded away with the mountain and throne.
• Xiao Wujiu awoke on the altar, reflected on surviving the soul battle, and found that his Rune Master realm had advanced to the level of Dou Sheng experts.
• Xiao Wujiu resolved to consolidate his gains, wait for Zi Yan to assimilate hers, and send someone to the Spatial Auction to search for the Ancient Heaven Snake's soul.

Xiao Wujiu distributed Demon Saint Essence Blood, prepared a pill for Ya Fei, and returned to find Starfall Pavilion’s name engraved on the Life Gold. After deciding he would no longer tolerate interference from the Ancient Clan or Xiao Yan, he secluded himself in the spatial void and swallowed a supreme Grade Nine Treasure Pill to break through to Three-Star Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Wujiu left the Nine Nether Deep Underworld Python Clan cultivation techniques for future generations and gave Demon Saint Essence Blood to Cai Lin, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei.
• Xiao Wujiu refined two Grade Nine Treasure Pills and sent Ya Fei one along with spiritual treasures and a jade slip through the Gate of Transmigration.
• Xiao Wujiu returned to Xiao Yan’s coordinates and found the words “Starfall Pavilion” engraved on the Life Gold, then resolved to defend his boundaries against Xiao Yan and the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Wujiu established a temporary dwelling in the spatial void, activated the Yongzhen Array, and swallowed the supreme Grade Nine Treasure Pill to begin his breakthrough.

Xiao Wujiu absorbed a Grade Nine Treasure Pill and Demon Saint Essence Blood but stalled at the peak of Three-Star Dou Sheng until the Yongzhen Array detected the Yin Yang Dual Flame. After absorbing the Heavenly Flame, he broke through to Four-Star Dou Sheng and set his sights on Gu Nanhai.

• Xiao Wujiu absorbed the pill and Demon Saint Essence Blood, advancing from late Two-Star Dou Sheng to the peak of Three-Star Dou Sheng.
• The Yongzhen Array detected the Yin Yang Dual Flame in the void just as Xiao Wujiu's attempt to reach Four-Star Dou Sheng failed.
• Xiao Wujiu lured the Yin Yang Dual Flame into the Yongzhen Array and suppressed it with the Burning Mantra and Life and Death Ancestral Talisman.
• Xiao Wujiu absorbed the Yin Yang Dual Flame as his seventh Heavenly Flame and used its energy to break through to Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Wujiu declared that he would kill Gu Nanhai.

Gu Nanhai waited near Starfall Pavilion, convinced Xiao Wujiu would come, while Xiao Wujiu saw through the trap and let the sensing formation alert his pursuers. Xiao Wujiu seized and froze a Two-Star Dou Sheng, then confronted Gu Nanhai, who was still hiding in the void.

• Gu Nanhai was ordered to keep searching for Xiao Wujiu, with Gu Hun assigned to secretly back him up.
• Gu Nanhai reasoned that Xiao Wujiu had used Xiao Yan and the Ancient Clan’s search efforts to divide its forces, and he waited near Starfall Pavilion for him.
• Xiao Wujiu approached Starfall Pavilion, recognized Gu Nanhai’s crude sensing formations, and deliberately entered their alert range.
• Gu Nanhai detected Xiao Wujiu’s arrival and rushed off with an elder, intending to use him as bait while setting up a spatial barrier.
• Xiao Wujiu sensed the hidden Gu Nanhai and seized a Two-Star Dou Sheng, freezing the man’s Battle Qi before calling Gu Nanhai out of hiding.

Xiao Wujiu confronted Gu Nanhai inside a sealed space and revealed the power of his three Ancestral Talismans. After Xiao Wujiu’s Eye of Ancestral Talismans nearly killed Gu Nanhai, the battle’s energy escaped through the barrier’s opening.

• Gu Nanhai sealed the space around Xiao Wujiu and declared he would take him back to the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Wujiu revealed his Four-Star Dou Sheng strength and threatened to kill Gu Nanhai.
• Gu Nanhai attacked Xiao Wujiu with the five-seal Emperor Seal Art while trying to undo the spatial barrier and summon Elder Gu Xin.
• Xiao Wujiu opened the Eye of Ancestral Talismans and used Demon Slayer to erase Gu Nanhai’s attack.
• Gu Nanhai narrowly dodged the ray, severed his struck arm, and took medicinal pills to stabilize his injuries.
• The attack’s fluctuations spread outside through the opening in the spatial barrier.

Yao Chen and Xiao Yan investigated a Dou Sheng battle near Starfall Pavilion and discovered that Xiao Wujiu had defeated the Ancient Clan Elder Gu Nanhai. Xiao Wujiu reunited with them and revealed that he had also dealt with the Two-Star Dou Sheng who had been monitoring them.

• Yao Chen guided Xiao Yan's cultivation at Starfall Pavilion while keeping him cautious about a hidden follower.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan sensed a powerful Dou Sheng energy fluctuation and went to observe it from a distance.
• Xiao Wujiu broke through Gu Nanhai's defenses, shattered the spatial barrier, and seized the defeated Ancient Clan Elder.
• Xiao Wujiu noticed Yao Chen and Xiao Yan after the barrier broke and greeted them as they recognized him.
• Xiao Wujiu identified Gu Nanhai as a late Four-Star Dou Sheng responsible for capturing him and revealed that he had also defeated the Two-Star Dou Sheng monitoring Xiao Yan.

Xiao Wujiu confronted Xiao Yan over whether he would oppose or support his campaign against the Ancient Clan, recounting the Xiao Tribe’s destruction and demanding that Xiao Yan choose. He offered Xiao Yan two paths—resist him or cooperate—as the chapter ended before Xiao Yan answered.

• Xiao Wujiu asked Xiao Yan to choose a side in his conflict with the Ancient Clan and said Xiao Yan could not change his plans.
• Xiao Wujiu explained the Ancient Clan’s role in the Xiao Tribe’s fate, arguing that the clan had been left weak and later wiped out by the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Wujiu killed Gu Nanhai and told Xiao Yan that he intended to reduce the Ancient Clan to the Gu Family.
• Xiao Yan said Gu Xuner was innocent, and Xiao Wujiu crushed him with pressure and slapped him for speaking on behalf of the Xiao Tribe’s enemies.
• Xiao Wujiu gave Xiao Yan a choice between resisting him without bargaining or cooperating against the Ancient Clan.