Chapter Summaries

Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan grew closer in the pavilion and spent the night together in his room. The next morning, Qing Xuan woke before him and dressed while recalling what had happened.

• Xiao Qing embraced Qing Xuan by the pavilion pool, and they kissed as she admitted she felt peaceful with him.
• Cao Ying lost focus while refining a Tier 7 Heart Clearing Pill, then completed it successfully with Qing Lin's help and went to submit it to Old Yao.
• Xiao Qing carried Qing Xuan to his bedroom, set up a soul barrier, and gently helped her adjust to their intimacy.
• The next morning, Qing Xuan woke beside Xiao Qing, remembered the previous night, and quietly put on her clothes.

Qing Xuan and Xiao Qing grew closer after spending the night together, while Old Yao and Wind Venerable discussed the complications Xiao Qing might face when Xun'er returned. Xiao Qing then decided he could not wait to grow stronger through normal cultivation and planned to obtain Soul Origin from Soul Hall.

• Qing Xuan wondered whether she and Xiao Qing could have a child, and Xiao Qing teased her as he combed her hair.
• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan left their room together, and Xiao Qing told her there was no need to hide their relationship.
• Old Yao and Wind Venerable discussed Qing Xuan's suitability for Xiao Qing and the trouble Xun'er might feel when she returned.
• Xiao Qing studied a map of the Central Plains and worried that his cultivation would take too long to reach Nine-Star Dou Saint before Hun Tiandi's plans advanced.
• Xiao Qing decided to target Soul Hall's accumulated Soul Origin to speed up his soul cultivation, and Qing Xuan brought him calming tea as he explained his urgency.

Xiao Qing planned a covert raid on the Soul Hall’s major branches to seize their Soul Origin while Old Yao led the Heavenly Court Allied Forces against the Heavenly Underworld Sect as a diversion. With Qing Xuan joining the raid, the allies finalized their preparations, and Xiao Qing made his farewells before asking her if she was nervous.

• Xiao Qing told Qing Xuan that the Soul Clan posed a growing threat and that he needed Soul Origin to advance his soul realm.
• Xiao Qing explained to Old Yao that the Soul Hall was refining and stockpiling Soul Origin, then proposed splitting their forces to raid its branches and attack the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• Xiao Qing and the allied leaders agreed that Old Yao would lead the public assault while Xiao Qing secretly targeted three major branches; Qing Xuan volunteered to accompany him.
• Yin Yu shared intelligence on seven Soul Hall branches, and Xiao Qing set the operation for seven days later while assigning the allies their roles.
• Xiao Qing gave Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin instructions before leaving the Medicine Garden, then found Qing Xuan preparing for their mission and asked if she was nervous.

Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan began their assault on the Soul Hall’s branches, destroying three and collecting their Soul Origin. They then set out for another branch at the bottom of Nether Abyss.

• Qing Xuan admitted she felt uneasy about attacking the Soul Hall, and Xiao Qing gave her an array disk that could conceal her from most soul detection.
• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan arrived at the Soul Hall branch on Dead Silence Plain, where Xiao Qing crushed the hall and its defenses with spatial power.
• Qing Xuan freed the captured souls, and Xiao Qing killed the protectors and collected the branch’s Soul Origin.
• At Ghost Cry Ridge, Xiao Qing collapsed the mountain containing the second branch and collected another mass of Soul Origin.
• At Dark Soul Swamp, Xiao Qing lifted the island branch from the swamp, compressed it into dust, and collected the third mass of Soul Origin.
• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan moved on toward the Soul Hall branch at the bottom of Nether Abyss.

Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan destroyed the Soul Hall branch at Howling Wind Ravine and freed captured soul bodies before heading to the Burial Soul Mountain Range. There, the Great Heavenly Venerable appeared and attacked Xiao Qing, only to discover that Xiao Qing was a Dou Saint.

• Xiao Qing collected the fourth Soul Origin cluster after destroying a Soul Hall Branch, then took Qing Xuan to Howling Wind Ravine.
• Qing Xuan defeated the branch’s one-eyed Nine-Star Dou Zun leader and the other guardians while Xiao Qing recovered the fifth Soul Origin cluster.
• Qing Xuan freed several captured soul bodies, and she and Xiao Qing left for the Burial Soul Mountain Range.
• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan found the final Soul Hall Branch protected by a mountain array, where the Great Heavenly Venerable appeared.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable attacked Xiao Qing with a giant black hand, but Xiao Qing shattered it with a word and revealed himself as a Dou Saint.

Xiao Qing defeated Great Heavenly Venerable, destroyed the Soul Hall’s seven Northwest Region branches, and collected all seven Soul Origin clusters before escaping with Qing Xuan. He began refining the Soul Origin in a hidden Small World as the Vice Hall Master issued a kill order and warned the Clan Leader about his growing strength.

• Xiao Qing incapacitated Great Heavenly Venerable with Spatial Law and Late Heaven Realm soul power, then carried him away unconscious.
• Xiao Qing crushed the Soul Hall Branch at Burial Soul Mountain Range, collected the seventh Soul Origin cluster, and stored Great Heavenly Venerable’s body for refining a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan escaped through a spatial rift, and the Vice Hall Master arrived to find the mountain flattened and the branch destroyed.
• The Vice Hall Master issued a Soul Hall kill order against Xiao Qing and reported his breakthrough and strength to the Clan Leader.
• Xiao Qing opened a temporary Small World and began refining the seven Soul Origin clusters, burning away their lingering memories with the Flame of Life and Creation.
• As Xiao Qing absorbed the Soul Origin, his soul power surged and silvery-white patterns appeared around him, prompting Qing Xuan to recall that Soul Transformation marked the peak of the Heaven Realm.

Xiao Qing reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection while refining the gathered origins, then sensed a change at the Heavenly Underworld Sect battlefield. Fire Cloud Ancestor destroyed the sect, but Soul Hall never arrived, leaving Old Yao and Wind Venerable concerned that it had a larger plan.

• Xiao Qing refined the seventh cluster of origin, formed a Soul Avatar, and reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
• Xiao Qing sensed a spatial signal from the Star Realm and learned that something had changed at the Heavenly Underworld Sect battlefield.
• Fire Cloud Ancestor shattered the sect’s protective array, killed its two Half-Saint ancestors, and reduced its core buildings to ruins while preserving key resources.
• Hua Yu and Yin Yu oversaw the allied forces’ search of the ruins and noted that Soul Hall had not intervened.
• Old Yao asked Wind Venerable whether Xiao Qing had sent news, then warned that Soul Hall’s absence was abnormal and might signal a greater scheme.

Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan were confronted by Soul Hall Master Hun Miesheng after Xiao Qing destroyed seven branch halls and took their Soul Origin. Hun Miesheng demanded Xiao Qing’s treasure and submission, leaving Xiao Qing to decide how to respond.

• Fire Cloud Ancestor and Old Yao learned that Soul Hall had not appeared, then saw the Vice Hall Master arrive and block their way.
• At Soul Hall’s Tiangang Hall, Hun Miesheng examined the destruction of seven branch halls and decided to capture Xiao Qing alive.
• Xiao Qing told Qing Xuan that he had refined seven clusters of Soul Origin and planned to return to the Star Realm.
• Hun Miesheng tore open the space before Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan, halting the Spatial Turbulence around them.
• Hun Miesheng offered Xiao Qing the position of Vice Hall Master if he handed over his opportunity and submitted to Soul Hall.

Xiao Qing fought Hun Miesheng in the void, using his fused laws and flames to withstand and wound the Five-Star Dou Saint. As Hun Miesheng prepared a full-power attack, Xiao Qing began fusing the Heavenly Emperor Sword with his three laws, leaving the outcome of the battle unresolved.

• Xiao Qing combined the Laws of Fire, Space, and Life to reach the peak of the Four-Star Dou Saint realm and briefly matched Hun Miesheng’s Five-Star Dou Saint strike.
• Xiao Qing and Hun Miesheng exchanged dozens of attacks, and both suffered serious injuries.
• Hun Miesheng unleashed the Nihility Devouring Flame, but Xiao Qing’s crimson-gold flames suppressed it.
• Xiao Qing joined his crimson-gold and emerald-green flames into a Fire Dragon that shattered Hun Miesheng’s nine barriers and worsened his wounds.
• Hun Miesheng began forming seals for a full-power strike as Xiao Qing fused the Heavenly Emperor Sword with the powers of his three laws.

Xiao Qing nearly killed Hun Miesheng with a sword strike, but Hun Tiandi intervened and tried to seize him before Gu Yuan drove him off. Gu Yuan saved Xiao Qing, treated his injuries, and learned that Xiao Qing had created a powerful but costly secret technique.

• Xiao Qing struck Hun Miesheng with his sword, reducing his strength to the initial stage of Three-Star Dou Saint and setting his vitality and cultivation to slowly disappear.
• Hun Tiandi sent a giant hand to crush and capture Xiao Qing, but Gu Yuan intervened and stopped it.
• Hun Tiandi seized the wounded Hun Miesheng and withdrew after Gu Yuan challenged him for attacking a junior.
• Gu Yuan healed Xiao Qing and confirmed that Hun Tiandi had intended to take him to the Soul Clan's headquarters.
• Xiao Qing explained that his special physique let him combine several powers in a temporary combat technique, and Gu Yuan warned him about its cost.

After Gu Yuan rescued Xiao Qing from Hun Tiandi, he warned Xiao Qing that the Soul Clan would target him and urged him to grow stronger. In the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi spared the wounded Hun Miesheng but began recalling events from a thousand years earlier involving the Xiao Clan.

• Gu Yuan told Xiao Qing that Xun'er was safe in the Ancient Clan and warned him to beware of the Soul Clan’s schemes.
• Xiao Qing vowed to remember Hun Tiandi’s attack and one day return it before Gu Yuan escorted him away through a spatial rift.
• Hun Tiandi berated Hun Miesheng for failing to defeat Xiao Qing, then let him leave with a warning not to fail again.
• Hun Miesheng left the Soul Holy Hall badly wounded and weakened, grateful that Hun Tiandi had spared his life.
• Hun Tiandi returned to his seat and began recalling the Xiao Clan and events from a thousand years earlier.

Hun Tiandi recalled how Xiao Xuan’s failed attempt to save the Xiao Clan had ended with the clan’s destruction and the Soul Clan stealing its bloodline essence. Seeing Xiao Qing as Xiao Xuan’s successor and a threat to the Soul Clan’s plans, Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame plotted to infiltrate Xiao Qing’s Heavenly Court and kill him without provoking an all-out war with the Ancient Clan.

• Hun Tiandi remembered Xiao Xuan’s attempt to reach the Dou Emperor realm, the disaster that followed, and the Soul Clan’s assault that exterminated the Xiao Clan.
• Hun Tiandi recalled how the Soul Clan had used Nihility Devouring Flame to steal bloodlines from other ancient races and strengthen its own bloodline.
• Hun Tiandi decided Xiao Qing had to die because he shared Xiao Xuan’s talent, courage, and willingness to risk himself for others.
• Nihility Devouring Flame warned Hun Tiandi that Xiao Qing carried an unknown, extremely high-status power and urged him to eliminate Xiao Qing before he grew stronger.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame agreed to infiltrate Xiao Qing’s Heavenly Court and strike when he was vulnerable, avoiding war with the Ancient Clan.

The Heavenly Court Allied Forces looted the ruins of the Heavenly Underworld Sect while Old Yao and Fire Cloud Ancestor fought the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master in the sky. The Vice Hall Master sensed a far more powerful clash near Xiao Qing and Hun Miesheng, then turned his vicious gaze back on his opponents.

• Yin Yu watched the allied forces loot the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s ruins and told a disciple that those who resisted had been killed.
• Old Yao and Fire Cloud Ancestor battled the stronger Vice Hall Master, who taunted Old Yao and urged him to join the Soul Hall.
• Old Yao adapted to his reconstructed body and repeatedly shielded Fire Cloud Ancestor from the Vice Hall Master’s attacks.
• The Vice Hall Master offered Old Yao a place in the Soul Hall and warned that the Soul Clan would make the Dou Qi World kneel, but Old Yao rejected him.
• The Vice Hall Master sensed an extraordinary clash near Xiao Qing and Hun Miesheng, then turned viciously toward Old Yao and Fire Cloud Ancestor.

Xiao Qing returned to the ruins with Gu Yuan after escaping Hun Miesheng and surviving Hun Tiandi’s attack. Gu Yuan departed to prepare the Ancient Clan for the Soul Clan’s response, while Xiao Qing explained the events to Old Yao and the injured Fire Cloud Ancestor, who realized Hun Tiandi had marked him for elimination.

• The Vice Hall Master used the Blood Soul Secret Technique and Ghost Palm to drive back Old Yao and Fire Cloud Ancestor, then fled through a spatial crack toward the northwest.
• Xiao Qing and Gu Yuan arrived at the ruins, where Old Yao and Fire Cloud Ancestor greeted Gu Yuan as the Ancient Clan Head.
• Gu Yuan invited Old Yao to visit the Ancient Realm, then left to prepare the Ancient Clan and warned Xiao Qing that the Soul Clan would not let the matter rest.
• Xiao Qing recounted how Hun Miesheng pursued him after he refined the Soul Origin and how Gu Yuan blocked Hun Tiandi’s attack.
• Old Yao and Fire Cloud Ancestor learned that Xiao Qing had heavily injured Hun Miesheng and concluded that Hun Tiandi had targeted him for elimination.

After defeating the Heavenly Underworld Sect, Xiao Qing returned to the Star Realm and learned that its records hinted at ruins connected to the Tunling Clan. He ordered the Heavenly Court to keep the discovery secret and lie low while he planned to cultivate until he reached Five-Star Dou Saint; the chapter then began a five-month time skip into the Star Realm’s peaceful routine.

• Xiao Qing explained that Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan, both Nine-Star Dou Saints, had exchanged a distant attack, then returned to the Star Realm with his companions.
• Cao Ying presented the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s resource inventory and records mentioning ruins and the Tunling Clan, prompting Xiao Qing to order everyone present to keep the information confidential.
• Fire Cloud Ancestor, Hua Yu, Yin Yu, and Wind Venerable reported the battlefield cleanup, transferred resources, and stable conditions in the Star Realm.
• Xiao Qing ordered the Heavenly Court to keep a low profile until he reached Five-Star Dou Saint or the Soul Clan became occupied, and he decided to enter seclusion to grow stronger.
• Five months passed peacefully in the Star Realm, where the chapter opened on a reinforced training ground in the morning sunlight.

Xiao Qing visited the Star Realm’s training ground and checked on the Xiao Family’s progress, then discussed discipline, family members, and the Soul Clan with Xiao Zhan. He later met Xiao Yi Xian in the Medicine Garden, where she showed him the completed Tier 6 Poison Heart Pill.

• Xiao Qing corrected Xiao Mei’s sword technique and watched the Xiao Family disciples train, then left three Tier 4 Bone Tempering Pills for the hardworking Xiao Feng.
• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Qing how Xiao Bai and Xiao Jing had been punished for breaking rules and boasting about their family connections.
• Xiao Zhan reported the cultivation and careers of Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yan, and Xiao Qing told him that Xiao Yan should delay traveling because the outside world was unsettled.
• Xiao Qing admitted that only a few factions on the continent could stand against the Soul Clan, but reassured Xiao Zhan that he knew what he was doing.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Qing she had become a One-Star Dou Zun and completed a Tier 6 Poison Heart Pill, which he examined.

Xiao Qing learned that Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils were beginning to awaken, while Zi Yan continued absorbing the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit. Worried about Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan, Xiao Qing entered seclusion to break through to Three-Star Dou Saint by devouring the Heavenly Court’s accumulated resources.

• Xiao Yi Xian showed Xiao Qing a top-grade intermediate sixth-grade pill, and he praised her precise control of its toxicity and heat.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Qing that Qing Lin’s eyes sometimes turned emerald green, and Xiao Qing confirmed her unusual vision and growing power came from her awakening Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Qing sensed that Zi Yan’s Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit refinement was nearing completion and left her secluded cultivation undisturbed.
• Xiao Qing told Qing that Hun Tiandi’s threat required him to grow stronger, then said he would enter seclusion for a breakthrough.
• Three days later, Xiao Qing began devouring medicinal pills and rare herbs in the Star Realm, reaching the limit of Two-Star Dou Saint as the quiet room’s space began to distort.

Xiao Qing broke through to Three-Star Dou Saint and arranged cultivation plans for Qing Xuan and Qing Lin. Saint Qingling awakened and revealed the Nine Nether Yellow Spring held her clan’s hidden inheritance, leaving Qing Xuan embarrassed when Saint Qingling realized she was no longer a virgin.

• Xiao Qing broke through from peak Two-Star Dou Saint to early-stage Three-Star Dou Saint and judged that he still had a long way to go before challenging Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Qing told Qing Xuan that he planned to find powerful snake-type magical beasts for Qing Lin and take Qing Xuan to the Nine Nether Yellow Spring to cultivate.
• The mark on Qing Xuan’s hand awakened, and Saint Qingling’s remnant soul appeared and expressed shock at Xiao Qing’s Three-Star Dou Saint cultivation and Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul.
• Saint Qingling revealed that a hidden Small World at the bottom of the Nine Nether Yellow Spring contained the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python clan’s remains and complete inheritance.
• Saint Qingling recounted how hidden forces and branches of Ancient Emperor Clans attacked her clan to obtain its bloodline, and how a friend from the Nine Nether Deepworld Python Clan helped her hide the clan’s inheritance.
• Saint Qingling noticed Qing Xuan was no longer a virgin, leaving Qing Xuan embarrassed as Saint Qingling understood Xiao Qing was involved.

Xiao Qing escorted Qing Xuan to the Nine Nether Yellow Spring so she could enter Saint Qingling’s Small World and receive its inheritance. After Qing Xuan and Saint Qingling vanished into the array, Xiao Qing guarded the entrance and followed a faint life aura across the dark lakebed.

• Saint Qingling explained that the Yellow Spring’s cold waters were dangerous and that its entrance would admit only someone with Qing Xuan’s Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python bloodline.
• Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan traveled through the Beast Domain to the Nine Nether Deepworld Python territory and secretly descended into the Yellow Spring.
• Saint Qingling guided them to an underwater Teleportation Array, where she warned Xiao Qing that he could not enter the Small World.
• Qing Xuan entered the array with Saint Qingling after Xiao Qing kissed her goodbye, and both disappeared into the Small World.
• Xiao Qing placed a spatial barrier around the entrance, then headed across the lakebed toward a faint trace of life aura.

Xiao Qing freed Yao Ming, the former leader of the Nine Nether Deepworld Python Clan, after taking his Soul Origin and making him acknowledge Xiao Qing as his master. Yao Xiaotian and the First Elder arrived, and Xiao Qing met Yao Xiaotian’s attack with a sword aura.

• Xiao Qing found Yao Ming bound by rune-covered chains beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Spring and learned that Yao Xiaotian and the First Elder had imprisoned him.
• Xiao Qing demanded Yao Ming’s service and a trace of his Soul Origin in exchange for freeing him, and Yao Ming agreed.
• Xiao Qing used the Heavenly Emperor Sword to break the four chains, then gave Yao Ming Eight-Rank Qi-Recovery Pills.
• Yao Xiaotian and the First Elder arrived, and Yao Ming confronted his younger brother after centuries of imprisonment.
• Yao Xiaotian attacked Xiao Qing with a giant energy python, and Xiao Qing sent a condensed sword aura to meet it.