Chapter Summaries

Xiao Qing killed two Heavenly Underworld Sect Dou Zuns who threatened the Flower Sect, then healed Hua Yu so completely that she regained her strength and glimpsed the Half-Saint barrier. The Flower Sect settled more firmly into the Heavenly Court, while its disciples celebrated Xiao Qing’s growing reputation.

• Qiu She and the Evil Monarch of the Demon Flower fled after learning Xiao Qing was nearby, but Xiao Qing trapped and crushed them with a Spatial Seal and a single hand.
• Qing Xuan returned to guard Xiao Qing as he finished using the Azure Jade Fox Flame and the Law of Life to restore Hua Yu’s body and source.
• Hua Yu awoke rejuvenated, regained her mobility and strength, and sensed the barrier to the Half-Saint realm; she pledged her loyalty to Xiao Qing and the Heavenly Court.
• Hua Jin and the elders arrived and celebrated Hua Yu’s recovery, while Hua Jin concealed her distress at losing her acting authority.
• Heavenly Court disciples discussed Xiao Qing’s victory over Qiu She and the Evil Monarch of the Demon Flower, and Cao Ying listened with pride.

Cao Ying resolved to grow stronger so she could help Xiao Qing, while Hua Yu recovered control of Flower Sect and bound it more closely to the Heavenly Court. After Xiao Qing killed two of the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s powerful figures, Tian Mingzi sought Soul Hall’s help to retaliate, as the Heavenly Court’s rise unsettled the Central Plains.

• Cao Ying worried that Xiao Qing’s growing reputation would draw enemies and resolved to improve her cultivation and alchemy so she could support him.
• Hua Yu resumed control of Flower Sect, credited the Heavenly Emperor with her recovery, and announced that the first three levels of the Hundred Flower Secret Realm would open to core disciples and above.
• Hua Yu declared Flower Sect would share the Heavenly Court’s fortunes, and the elders and disciples welcomed the secret realm’s opening and the sect’s deeper integration with the Heavenly Court.
• Elder Ming reported that Xiao Qing had killed Qiu She and the Evil Monarch of the Demon Flower, prompting Tian Mingzi to erupt in fury before rejecting a direct attack on the Heavenly Court.
• Tian Mingzi ordered Elder Ming to contact Soul Hall and discuss cooperation against the Heavenly Court and Xiao Qing, while other Central Plains forces took advantage of the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s losses.
• Inside a hidden Soul Hall Branch, black chains dragged screaming souls into the darkness.

Hun Miesheng ordered the Heavenly Underworld Sect to deliver one million living souls and tasked the Second Heavenly Venerable with targeting Xiao Qing. A year later, Xiao Qing moved the entire Xiao Family from Wutan City to the Star Realm, where they arrived safely in their new home.

• Hun Miesheng ordered the Heavenly Underworld Sect to provide one million living souls within a month and told the Second Heavenly Venerable to capture Xiao Qing if possible or force him to reveal his hidden abilities.
• Xiao Qing returned to Wutan City and told Xiao Zhan he would relocate the Xiao Family to the Star Realm in the Central Plains.
• Xiao Qing gathered the Xiao Family and used spatial power to lift their residence, grounds, and nearby woodland into a vortex, leaving a huge pit in Wutan City.
• Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, and Nalan Jie witnessed the relocation from afar and recognized that Xiao Qing and the Xiao Family had surpassed the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Qing brought the Xiao Family estate into a valley in the Star Realm, where the clan members discovered the region's rich natural energy and explored their new home.

Xiao Qing moved the Xiao Family into the Star Realm, then absorbed the origins of the Xuanhuang Flame and Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, strengthening his cultivation. When Gu Xun’er worried that Qing Xuan and other girls mattered more to him, he reassured her that she was the most important person in his life.

• Xiao Qing asked Old Yao, Wind Venerable, and Mu Qingluan to help the Xiao Family settle into the Star Realm, while Cao Ying prepared pills and cultivation techniques for them.
• Xiao Qing sensed the Xuanhuang Flame and Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, traveled there, and absorbed both flames’ origins.
• Xiao Qing fused the two flame origins into his Flame of Life and Creation, stabilizing his cultivation and advancing to the peak of the Intermediate Half-Saint realm.
• Xiao Qing returned to the Star Realm and saw that Mu Qingluan and the pavilion disciples had settled the Xiao Family.
• Gu Xun’er asked Xiao Qing about Qing Xuan and confessed that she felt inadequate beside her; Xiao Qing told her she was the most important person to him.

Gu Xun'er overcame her jealousy and focused on cultivation after Xiao Qing reassured her, while Cao Ying passed her pill-refining assessment and received a powerful Sub-Flame. The chapter left Cao Ying advancing rapidly as an alchemist and Gu Xun'er approaching the Dou Emperor realm with Xiao Qing’s guidance.

• Xiao Qing reassured Gu Xun'er that their childhood bond was irreplaceable, and she resolved to cultivate until she reached the Dou Saint realm.
• Cao Ying successfully refined a Tier 6 Advanced Emperor Ultimate Pill with a Pill Pattern and passed Xiao Qing’s assessment.
• Xiao Qing bestowed the Sub-Flame of Life and Creation on Cao Ying and helped her refine it into her body.
• Cao Ying used the Sub-Flame to improve her pill refining, finding that it made the process easier and raised her pills’ quality.
• Gu Xun'er focused on cultivating the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, drew close to the Dou Emperor realm, and followed Xiao Qing’s advice on controlling its power.

Gu Xun'er pushed herself to cultivate so she could keep pace with Xiao Qing, while Heavenly Court's leaders investigated the Heavenly Underworld Sect's strange retreat and suspected cooperation with the Soul Hall. The chapter ended with growing concern that a sinister force was watching Heavenly Court, as Gu Xun'er recovered from training with Xiao Yi Xian's elixir.

• Gu Xun'er cultivated with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and the Emperor Dou Bloodline, while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin trained nearby.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Gu Xun'er a Calming Meridian-Nourishing Elixir and urged her to balance effort with rest; Gu Xun'er admitted she did not want to fall behind.
• Wind Venerable reported that the Heavenly Underworld Sect had withdrawn its outposts and that a sinister aura had traveled from the Dead Soul Mountain Range to its stronghold.
• Xiao Qing ordered Wind Venerable and Venerable Skyfire to strengthen the Star Realm's defensive formation while Old Yao warned him not to underestimate the Soul Hall.
• Captain Li returned from a mission and reported that an unseen, cold presence had seemed to watch his team near the Heavenly Underworld Sect's territory.
• Gu Xun'er drank Xiao Yi Xian's elixir and felt the sluggishness in her meridians ease.

Qing Xuan emerged from seclusion at Nine-Star Dou Zun and met Gu Xun'er, whose presence stirred up tension between them. Xiao Qing later revealed that Xun'er's father was a late Nine-Star Dou Saint, shocking Qing Xuan.

• Xiao Yi Xian studied venoms, Qing Lin built bonds with snake-type magical beasts, Cao Ying advanced her alchemy, and Wind Venerable, Venerable Skyfire, and Old Yao pursued their respective preparations and breakthroughs.
• Qing Xuan emerged from seclusion with Nine-Star Dou Zun strength, and Xiao Qing told her that Xun'er and the others were living in the Star Realm.
• Qing Xuan and Gu Xun'er encountered each other in a garden and silently sized one another up, leaving Xun'er determined to grow stronger.
• Qing Xuan told Xiao Qing she did not take Xun'er seriously, but froze when he revealed that Xun'er's father was a late Nine-Star Dou Saint.

Xiao Qing tried to ease the tension between Gu Xun'er and Qing Xuan, and their relationship gradually shifted from hostility to cautious peace. He felt relieved by their progress, though he still worried about how far they were from the harmonious life he wanted.

• Qing Xuan was shaken by learning that Gu Xun'er was the daughter of a Late-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint, but she refused to surrender her pride.
• Xiao Qing brought Gu Xun'er and Qing Xuan together on a Star-Gazing Platform and urged them to coexist peacefully against their external enemies.
• Qing Xuan and Gu Xun'er exchanged polite remarks about cultivation, breaking their tense silence.
• Over the following days, the two women greeted each other and spoke briefly about herbs, flame control, and council business, settling into a cautious peace.
• Xiao Qing complained to Old Yao that managing their relationship was more exhausting than fighting the Soul Hall, and Old Yao advised him to be patient.
• Xiao Qing began teasing Old Yao about his own past as he suddenly remembered something.

Xiao Qing prepared to enter the Wild Ancient Domain with Qing Xuan, hoping to find the Bodhi Ancient Tree and break through his cultivation bottleneck. They reached a border town and began gathering information about the dangers ahead.

• Xiao Qing told Old Yao that an intuition drew him toward the Wild Ancient Domain, and Old Yao gave him maps and antidote pill formulas for the journey.
• Xiao Qing invited Qing Xuan to accompany him, gave her high-grade pills, and hinted that the opportunity might help her reach the Half-Saint realm.
• Xiao Qing asked Cao Ying to oversee the Medicine Garden and Alchemy Hall while he was away, then bid farewell to Cao Ying, Gu Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan traveled through a Spatial Passage, and Xiao Qing gave her a Miasma-Avoiding Bead he had refined.
• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan stopped at Ancient Wild Town, where a mercenary reported that the miasma in the Black Domain Forest had grown so thick it nearly corroded space.

Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan crossed the Wild Ancient Domain, where Xiao Qing traced its corruption to the lingering negative emotions of an ancient Dou Emperor and located the Bodhi Ancient Tree. They met a sapling incarnation of the tree, which was drawn to Xiao Qing’s Law of Life but suddenly recoiled in fear.

• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan heard reports of unrest in the Wild Ancient Domain and hidden Central Plains forces searching its depths, then entered the perilous forest.
• Qing Xuan killed attacking Venom-Saliva Pythons while Xiao Qing sensed the ancient Dou Emperor’s resentful negative energy seeping through the land.
• Xiao Qing identified the Bodhi Ancient Tree as the source of the opportunity he sought and led Qing Xuan deeper into the domain, using his life aura to draw it out.
• Xiao Qing sensed the tree’s hidden spatial location and followed its complex route through traps and hostile terrain.
• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan reached a lush woodland and met a curious sapling that Xiao Qing recognized as an incarnation of the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Qing showed the sapling his Law of Life, but after approaching the light eagerly, it suddenly recoiled in fear.

Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan followed the Bodhi Ancient Tree's avatar to its hidden true body and discovered that the negative emotions of a fallen Dou Emperor were overwhelming its benevolent spirit. The tree showed them a vision of the ancient battle that caused its affliction, leaving Xiao Qing poised to help it confront the corruption.

• Xiao Qing reassured the hesitant Little Sapling Avatar, and it touched the Law of Life in his palm before revealing the coordinates of the Bodhi Ancient Tree's true body.
• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan followed the avatar through a damaged underground world, fighting off creatures mutated by the fallen Dou Emperor's negative emotions.
• The pair reached the colossal Bodhi Ancient Tree and sensed its wise spirit struggling against destructive evil thoughts that had grown stronger over tens of thousands of years.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree accepted Xiao Qing's promise to help and drew his and Qing Xuan's consciousness into a vision of its past.
• In the vision, the Black-Clad Dou Di tried to seize the tree's Tree Spirit origin, but another Dou Emperor joined the tree to fight him, and the battle ended with the Black-Clad Dou Di's death.

Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan learned how the Dou Emperor’s curse had corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then purified all thirty-two tainted Bodhi Seeds with Xiao Qing’s Flame of Life and Creation. The tree recovered and invited them into its Wisdom Space to undergo Hundred Generations Reincarnation, which would take only about a month outside.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan how a dying Dou Emperor’s negative emotions had split its intelligence and tormented it for tens of thousands of years.
• Xiao Qing used his Flame of Life and Creation to purify the contaminated Bodhi Seeds, and the first restored seed sent pure energy back into the tree.
• The ancient tree provided Xiao Qing with a life-energy meditation cushion, helping him recover and break through to Advanced Half-Saint.
• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan worked together to purify all thirty-two Bodhi Seeds, removing the black qi and restoring the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree invited Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan to experience Hundred Generations Reincarnation in its Wisdom Space, where a hundred lives would take about a month outside.

After a month in the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Hundred Generations Reincarnation, Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan emerged with profound experience and broke through to Two-Star Dou Saint and Primary Half-Saint. The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Xiao Qing the Seed of Life and asked him to help revive its lost friend, then opened a passage for them to leave.

• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan experienced a hundred lives together, with Xiao Qing retaining his memories and Qing Xuan repeatedly finding her way back to him.
• When the reincarnation ended, Xiao Qing reached early Two-Star Dou Saint and Qing Xuan awakened her Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python bloodline and entered Primary Half-Saint.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Xiao Qing thirty-two Bodhi Seeds, a Bodhi Heart, and the Seed of Life left by its friend, the Ancient Tree of Life.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree explained that the Ancient Tree of Life had sacrificed itself against several Dou Emperors and asked Xiao Qing to help it return to the world.
• Xiao Qing promised to revive the Ancient Tree of Life, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree opened a safe Spatial Passage for him and Qing Xuan to leave.

Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan returned to the Star Realm after gaining extraordinary power, and Xiao Qing ordered his breakthrough kept secret. Meanwhile, reports of the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s mass slaughter spread across the Central Plains, and Sound Valley debated how to respond as the crisis grew.

• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan arrived in the Star Realm, where Old Yao and the gathered elders were astonished by Xiao Qing’s Two-Star Dou Saint cultivation and Qing Xuan’s Half-Saint realm.
• Xiao Qing told the elders that he had encountered a rare opportunity, summoned them to the Deliberation Hall, and ordered them to keep his breakthrough secret.
• Captain Zhang told patrons at the Wind and Rain Pavilion that Black Swamp City and nearby towns had been emptied of life, and that reports pointed to more than a million harvested souls.
• The rumors spread across the Central Plains, turning public opinion against the Heavenly Underworld Sect and strengthening the Heavenly Court Alliance’s standing as war seemed imminent.
• Sound Valley elders argued over whether to confront the Heavenly Underworld Sect, and the Valley Master declared that its slaughter of innocents had made it an enemy of the Central Plains.

Yin Yu joined the Heavenly Court’s alliance against the Heavenly Underworld Sect and Soul Hall, while Xiao Qing resolved to conceal his full strength. Gu Yuan visited Xiao Qing and Gu Xun’er, asking Xun’er to return to the Ancient Clan and challenging Xiao Qing over his relationship with both her and Qing Xuan.

• Yin Yu pledged Sound Valley’s cooperation after the Heavenly Court confirmed that the Heavenly Underworld Sect had slaughtered people and stripped their souls.
• Xiao Qing decided to rely on the Heavenly Court’s public forces against Soul Hall and reserve his own strength for a decisive moment.
• Gu Yuan appeared in Gu Xun’er’s courtyard, surprised to discover that Xiao Qing had become a Dou Saint before the age of twenty.
• Gu Yuan told Gu Xun’er she needed to return to the Ancient Clan for three to five years to awaken her God-Grade Bloodline, and she showed reluctance to leave Xiao Qing.
• Gu Yuan questioned Xiao Qing about his feelings for Gu Xun’er and his relationship with Qing Xuan, and Xiao Qing vowed not to fail Gu Xun’er or change his feelings.

Gu Yuan took Gu Xun'er back to the Ancient Clan for her bloodline awakening, promising Xiao Qing that he could marry her after she reached the Dou Saint realm and setting a three-year agreement. Xiao Qing told Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Cao Ying about Xun'er's departure, urged them to cultivate, and then spoke with Old Yao and Wind Venerable in the main hall.

• Gu Yuan accepted Xiao Qing as Gu Xun'er's future husband and told him to come to the Ancient Clan in three years, while warning him about internal opposition there.
• Gu Yuan took Gu Xun'er through a spatial rift, pledged that the Ancient Clan would restrain the Soul Clan, and left Xiao Qing alone.
• Xiao Qing told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin that Gu Xun'er had returned to the Ancient Clan for her inheritance ceremony and might be gone for three to five years.
• Cao Ying arrived with the Tier 7 Life Returning Pills she had refined; Xiao Qing praised them, promised her Spirit Condensing Dew, and assigned her three batches of Tier 7 pills each month.
• Xiao Qing instructed Xiao Yi Xian to plant seeds from the Wild Ancient Domain and nourish them with the Flame of Life Sub-Flame, then urged the three girls to cultivate before Xun'er's return.
• Xiao Qing spoke with Old Yao and Wind Venerable in a side hall of the main hall.

Xiao Qing took Zi Yan to a sealed ruin in the Beast Domain to find the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, which could transform her bloodline. Zi Yan opened the ancient altar’s barrier with her Ancient Void Dragon blood, revealing a way inside.

• Xiao Qing told Old Yao and the others he planned to take Zi Yan to the Beast Domain while they guarded the Heavenly Court against Soul Hall.
• Xiao Qing brought Zi Yan through a spatial passage and explained that the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit could transform her bloodline into a Sovereign Dragon-Phoenix bloodline.
• Xiao Qing concealed their auras with Spatial Law and led Zi Yan past the ruin’s restrictions without triggering its self-destruction formation.
• Inside the ruin, Zi Yan sensed the lingering auras of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heaven Phoenix and led Xiao Qing toward them.
• Xiao Qing dispelled an illusion to reveal an ancient altar, and Zi Yan used her blood to open a narrow entrance in its golden barrier.

Xiao Qing sealed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit inside Zi Yan and took the ancient ruins away as a miniature world. Meanwhile, Zhu Li arrived at the Star Realm seeking Zi Yan, whose imperial bloodline he hoped could reunite the divided Dragon Islands, and greeted Saint Yao.

• Xiao Qing removed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit from the altar and sealed its essence within Zi Yan, explaining that she would absorb it gradually as she grew stronger.
• Zi Yan thanked Xiao Qing and promised to protect him, then left the ruins with him.
• Xiao Qing suppressed the self-destruction restrictions around the Saint of Creation’s skeleton, recovered the Great Heaven Creation Palm, and compressed the palace and ancient forest into a crystal ball for Zi Yan.
• Heiqing brought Zhu Li, an elder of East Dragon Island, to the Star Realm and explained that Zi Yan possessed pure imperial blood and was cultivating under Xiao Qing.
• Zhu Li entered the Star Realm’s main hall and formally greeted Saint Yao, Wind Venerable, and Venerable Skyfire.

Xiao Qing discussed Zi Yan’s return to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan with Zhu Li and revealed that she would first refine the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit to gain the strength to claim the Dragon Emperor’s throne. Zhu Li agreed to keep the fruit’s existence secret and prepare East Dragon Island for her future return.

• Zhu Li arrived at the Star Realm to bring Zi Yan back to Ancient Dragon Island and asked her to inherit the Dragon Emperor’s position.
• Xiao Qing warned Zhu Li that the divided Dragon Islands and their powerful Dragon Kings would put Zi Yan in danger, and Zi Yan said she wanted to stay with Xiao Qing.
• Xiao Qing revealed that he had sealed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit within Zi Yan and planned to help her refine it into a Supreme Dragon-Phoenix bloodline.
• Zhu Li agreed to wait until Zi Yan had the strength to unite the Four Islands and pledged East Dragon Island’s support.
• Xiao Qing instructed Zhu Li to secretly gather East Dragon Island’s loyalists and conceal the fruit’s existence from the other islands and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

Xiao Qing arranged for Zi Yan to refine the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit in seclusion, while Zhu Li promised East Dragon Island would provide the treasures she needed. After sealing Zi Yan in a protected cave, Xiao Qing turned his attention to confronting the Soul Hall and the Soul Clan.

• Zhu Li agreed to gather heavenly materials and earthly treasures for Zi Yan, then left with Heiqing to prepare East Dragon Island.
• Xiao Qing reassured Zi Yan that refining the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit could make her a five-star Dou Saint, and Old Yao warned her to absorb its energy gradually.
• Xiao Qing took Zi Yan to the back mountain, where she told him she feared becoming Dragon Emperor would force her to leave the Star Realm; he promised she could choose where to live.
• Xiao Qing established protective barriers around a cave dwelling, and Zi Yan entered seclusion to refine the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• After Zi Yan's stone door closed, Xiao Qing reflected on the people around him growing stronger and fixed his attention on the Soul Hall and the Soul Clan.