Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan joined the bidding for five drops of essence blood from a possibly eighth-tier magical beast after Zi Yan sensed that she urgently needed it. The auction grew into a contest among powerful bidders, with Xiao Yan’s side still competing when the chapter ended.

• Xiao Yan reassured Zi Yan that he would win the mysterious item after she sensed it was important to her.
• Xue Ningyi revealed five drops of essence blood from an unknown magical beast, warned that a Dou Emperor could not absorb it, and opened bidding at ten million gold coins.
• Zi Yan insisted that the sealed essence blood would harm Xu Yingwu and the others, while Xiao Yan promised to obtain it for her.
• Private Room Two and Private Room Eleven raised the bids, and Xiao Yan’s Private Room Three offered gold coins plus six sixth-tier medicinal pills.
• Private Room Eight offered gold coins and two Earth-tier Dou Skills, and Lu Zhi sat up in Private Room One and decided to join the bidding.

Xiao Yan spent nearly all his wealth to win five drops of blood essence for Zi Yan, then watched several valuable treasures go to rival factions. Xue Ningyi introduced the auction’s final item as a treasure that could help its owner reach the Saint realm.

• VIP Room One raised its bid for the blood essence, but Xiao Yan countered with twenty million gold coins and twenty sixth-tier medicinal pills.
• Lu Zhi revealed that he had only been baiting Xu Chengzze, then withdrew, leaving Xiao Yan with the five drops of blood essence.
• Zi Yan accepted Xiao Yan’s demand that she gather medicinal herbs for him for a year, while Xiao Xun'er noted how important the blood essence was to her.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion bought an Earth-Tier Advanced Flight Dou Technique, the Heroes Alliance bought a Nine-Petal Star Spirit Sunflower, and the Mystic Pattern Sect secured a map suspected to lead to Dou Saint Ruins.
• Xue Ningyi announced that the final auction item could allow its owner to reach the Saint realm, stunning the auction hall.

At the Gold Alliance Chamber of Commerce auction, Xue Ningyi revealed the Emperor Essence Fruit, a treasure said to let its consumer overcome every bottleneck before Dou Sheng. Assassins attacked to seize it, but He Kui stopped them and revealed his Dou Zun cultivation.

• Xue Ningyi presented the Emperor Essence Fruit and claimed it could lead its consumer to Dou Sheng.
• Dozens of armed attackers used poisonous smoke to create chaos and rushed toward the auction platform, led by five Dou Zong.
• Xu Chengzze and Su Zhang remained calm, while Xue Ningyi showed no fear as the attackers reached her.
• The Gold Alliance Chamber of Commerce unleashed spears against the attackers, and a muscular man seized and killed their leader.
• The crowd recognized the muscular man as Slayer Hand He Kui, and Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that He Kui was a Dou Zun.

Xiao Yan witnessed the power of a Dou Zun and learned that the Emperor Essence Fruit came with a deadly cost. As factions continued bidding, Xu Yingwu rejected the fruit, and Xu Chengzze decided to make trouble for the other bidders.

• Xiao Yan vowed to become stronger after seeing a Dou Zun overpower the assassin leader He Kui.
• Xue Ningyi resumed the auction and announced that the Emperor Essence Fruit was said to benefit those under thirty.
• The Mystic Pattern Sect and Elephant Rhino Mountain made competing offers for the Emperor Essence Fruit.
• Xiao Xun'er warned Xiao Yan and the Xu family that the fruit shortened its user's lifespan to fifty years and capped them at the most ordinary level of Dou Saint.
• Xu Yingwu rejected the fruit, and Xu Chengzze decided to make things difficult for the other bidders.

Lu Zhi won the Emperor Essence Fruit with an extravagant bid, then challenged He Kui after admitting that he had used the auction house’s maids to practice the Bloodthirsty Pattern. He Kui struck him with the Ghostly Black Hand, and Lu Zhi emerged from the wreckage alive, thanking him for the guidance.

• Lu Zhi bid the Mystic Pattern Sect’s tribute, techniques, pills, and monster cores for the Emperor Essence Fruit, and Xue Ningyi declared him the winner.
• Lu Zhi told Xue Ningyi that he had used the Chamber of Commerce’s maids to practice the Bloodthirsty Pattern and offered compensation.
• He Kui confronted Lu Zhi, who challenged him to a fight despite the warnings of the onlookers and the four elders.
• He Kui said he would suppress his realm and struck Lu Zhi with the Ghostly Black Hand, blasting him through the wall of VIP room number one.
• Lu Zhi walked out of the dust injured but alive, as the bloody pattern at his lips consumed his blood, and thanked He Kui for the guidance.

After collecting the Echo Sect’s auction purchases, Xiao Yan confronted Lu Zhi and learned more about the Mystic Pattern Sect’s techniques. Lu Zhi left Xiao Yan with a challenge for the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly, and Xiao Yan resolved to strengthen himself before it.

• Xue Ningyi gave Xu Yingwu the Echo Sect’s auction items, and Xu Yingwu paid for them.
• He Kui suggested that more than one of the young people with Xu Yingwu could surpass Lu Zhi.
• Lu Chen accused Zi Yan’s group of taking the White Fragrant Berry and attacked Xiao Yan, who knocked him down with a single punch.
• Lu Zhi challenged Xiao Yan with the Hard Skin Pattern, forcing Xiao Yan back three steps before inviting him to surprise him at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly.
• Xu Yingwu explained that Lu Zhi knew seven Mystic Patterns, including one that could cause mental attacks.
• Xiao Yan examined the vital blood in his storage ring and decided to increase his strength before the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly.

Xiao Yan learned how the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly shaped the Northwest Region and negotiated for Qing Lin to participate. Yang Yue agreed, but demanded that Xiao Yan win first place to protect the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s standing.

• Xiao Yan trained with his Black Ruler in the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s courtyard, and Yang Yue praised his perseverance and discussed his recent clash with Lu Zhi.
• Yang Yue explained that a Dou Di had created the Ten Thousand Beasts Space, where young participants competed for points and the top ten could claim territory.
• Yang Yue told Xiao Yan that the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s past Assembly rankings had been poor and said the Saintess should be saved for the next competition.
• Xiao Yan asked to bring Qing Lin into the Assembly, and Yang Yue agreed because she had gained a flying Dou Technique.
• Yang Yue required Xiao Yan to take first place to secure the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s status, and Xiao Yan accepted.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er shared a private moment before Zi Yan’s breakthrough shook the Heavenly Snake Mansion. Zi Yan emerged as a four-star Dou Emperor, ready to join them at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly, and another aura appeared before she could challenge Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan embraced and kissed Xun Er in the courtyard, but a powerful aura interrupted them.
• A purple pillar of energy erupted from Zi Yan’s room as she broke through to the Dou Emperor realm.
• Yang Yue reassured the Heavenly Snake Mansion members who gathered in the air to investigate the disturbance.
• Zi Yan’s breakthrough aura rose to four-star Dou Emperor, then blasted her room and damaged nearby rooms as she emerged.
• Zi Yan briefly appeared as a tall woman before changing back into her childlike form, then promised to protect Xiao Yan and Xun Er at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly.
• Zi Yan challenged Xiao Yan to a fight, but another aura spread through the Heavenly Snake Mansion.

Xiao Yan and his companions met Yang Lingyan, the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s young master, after he broke through to the four-star Dou Huang realm. Yang Lingyan challenged them, but Zi Yan overwhelmed him with her strength and claimed victory.

• Yang Yue brought Xiao Yan and the others to meet his son Yang Lingyan, who had emerged from seclusion as a four-star Dou Huang.
• Yang Lingyan showed hostility toward Xiao Yan and insisted that the others follow his command at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly.
• Zi Yan challenged Yang Lingyan, and he agreed to fight all three companions at once.
• Zi Yan evaded Yang Lingyan’s attacks by controlling space, then let him lock onto her with the Demon Snake Blood-Devouring Strike.
• Zi Yan struck Yang Lingyan with a powerful punch, sent him flying, and declared herself the boss.

Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s young cultivators gathered at Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain for the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly, where the six great superpowers assembled. After receiving Location Jades and support from allies, Xiao Yan watched the Mystic Pattern Sect arrive as the gathering continued.

• Xiao Yan and his group followed the Heavenly Snake Mansion to the summit, where the Lion Underworld Sect and Heroes Alliance had already arrived.
• Yang Yue warned Xiao Yan’s group to target Shi Han and gave them five Location Jades to help them find one another inside the Ten Thousand Beasts Space.
• Xiao Yan teased Zi Yan about whether she would even get into the assembly, while Yang Yue worried about losing her strength.
• Xu Yingwu greeted Xiao Yan and suggested they work together against Lu Zhi inside the Ten Thousand Beasts Space.
• Su Zhang gave Xiao Yan a ring of pills and urged him to stay safe, promising to stand up for him if he returned.
• The Mystic Pattern Sect arrived at Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, drawing attention as the foremost power in the Northwest Region.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly began when the faction leaders combined their token fragments to open the Ten Thousand Beasts Space. Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Snake Mansion entered after Zi Yan unexpectedly broke through the barrier, leaving the other factions pondering what had happened.

• The Mystic Pattern Sect arrived on a Three-Headed Demon Falcon, and Xiao Yan felt uneasy about its leader, Lu Huangtian, after learning he cultivated the life-draining Life-Draining Pattern.
• The six faction leaders assembled ten Ten Thousand Beasts Token fragments, opening a gateway to the Ten Thousand Beasts Space, and Wan Baishan announced that the three-month assembly allowed killing without restrictions.
• Lu Zhi declared he would take first place and entered the space with a team of Mystic Pattern Sect experts, followed by the other major factions and the gathering participants.
• Zi Yan could not initially pass through the gateway, but her punch made it ripple and suck her inside; the barrier then rejected everyone else who tried to imitate her.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er entered hand in hand with the rest of the Heavenly Snake Mansion, while the faction leaders watched the gateway and wondered about Zi Yan's passage.

Xiao Yan entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Space, where the rules of the competition prevented him from contacting Yao Lao and separated him from Xiao Xun'er. He began hunting Magical Beasts and collecting herbs, while Lu Zhi raced toward the Dou Saint Ruins using a map bought by the Mystic Pattern Sect.

• The Ten Thousand Beasts Space separated Xiao Yan from Xiao Xun'er, and Xiao Yan found that he could sense Yao Lao in his ring but could not reach him.
• Xiao Yan checked the rankings, saw that his score was zero, and set out to hunt Magical Beasts to earn points.
• Xiao Yan killed a Mountain-Shaking Ape, gained twelve points, rose to ninth place, and took the Bloodflame Flower it had guarded.
• Xiao Yan headed west toward denser Dou Qi as competitors across the space hunted Magical Beasts and gathered herbs.
• Lu Zhi killed a Magical Beast, consulted a map to the Dou Saint Ruins that the Mystic Pattern Sect had bought, and flew toward the ruins.

Xiao Yan fought a seventh-tier Black Thunder Hound in the Ten Thousand Beasts Space and foiled an ambush by four competitors. After defeating the beast, he rose to third place in the rankings, gathered another rare herb, and confronted the attackers.

• Xiao Yan battled the Black Thunder Hound while four hidden competitors planned to ambush him and steal the herb it guarded.
• The one-star Dou Emperor and three Dou Kings attacked Xiao Yan and the beast, but Xiao Yan repelled the Dou Emperor with Mountain Opening Seal.
• The Black Thunder Hound survived the combined attacks and struck down the three Dou Kings with its Bone-Eroding Black Thunder.
• Xiao Yan caught up with the retreating Dou Emperor, then shattered the mortally wounded Black Thunder Hound and collected its herb.
• Xiao Yan checked the rankings, where his score of 5,532 placed him third behind Wan Qing and Xu Yingwu, and noted that Xiao Xun'er was eighth.
• Xiao Yan faced the four attackers, who were still recovering, and asked what they had to say.

Xiao Yan learned of a possible Dou Zun Inheritance Ruins from Wu Shuang and hurried to the Mist Poison Forest surrounding it. At the forest’s edge, he found the poison costly to burn through with the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame and remembered another possible solution.

• Xiao Yan defeated an ambush by Wu Shuang and the Frost Sect group, then accepted three herbs from Wu Shuang’s Storage Ring as compensation.
• Wu Shuang told Xiao Yan that the group had found a possible Inheritance Ruins beyond a poisonous forest and warned that people from the Lion Underworld Sect were heading there.
• Xiao Yan returned one herb to Wu Shuang in exchange for directions and traveled for half a day to reach the Mist Poison Forest.
• Xiao Yan tested the poison and used the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame to burn it, but found that doing so consumed too much Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan remembered that he had another way to deal with the poisonous miasma.

Xiao Yan used Yao Lao’s Bone Chilling Flame to pass through the poisonous miasma and reached a pool where Shi Han was overpowering Yang Lingyan. He intervened to block Shi Han’s attack, leaving the battle between them poised to begin.

• Xiao Yan used the Bone Chilling Flame to freeze the poisonous miasma and rejected three Dou Wang cultivators’ offer to join forces.
• Xiao Yan cleared a path through the miasma, and other cultivators followed him to a pool in a miasma-free area.
• Xiao Yan found Shi Han fighting Yang Lingyan while the Lion Underworld Sect’s followers ordered the newcomers to leave.
• Yang Lingyan urged the crowd to resist the Lion Underworld Sect’s claim over the Venerable’s inheritance, but Shi Han struck him into a crater.
• Xiao Yan blocked Shi Han’s attack on Yang Lingyan and challenged Shi Han’s threat to eliminate one of the top factions.

Xiao Yan protected the injured Yang Lingyan from Shi Han, but their confrontation was interrupted when Chu Qun arrived and offered to join forces. After Shi Han withdrew toward the pool, Xiao Yan and Yang Lingyan prepared to investigate what lay beneath the water.

• Xiao Yan stepped forward to defend Yang Lingyan, refused his offer to retreat, and gave him healing pills.
• Chu Qun arrived and proposed joining forces with Xiao Yan against Shi Han, prompting Shi Han to abandon his attempt to monopolize the opportunity.
• Shi Han led his followers toward the pool while Chu Qun and several others also went to investigate it.
• Yang Lingyan told Xiao Yan that Shi Han's subordinates had ambushed him and killed the people he had brought.
• Xiao Yan asked Yang Lingyan to accompany him beneath the pool, and Yang Lingyan agreed despite his injuries.

Xiao Yan and Yang Lingyan descended into the pool, where they discovered a patch of rare medicinal herbs that included the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine. As someone tried to claim the herbs, a giant Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad revealed itself at the pool bottom.

• Chu Qun told the gathered cultivators that the pool water weakened Dou Qi and prevented communication underwater.
• Xiao Yan and Yang Lingyan entered the pool and swam down with the other cultivators in search of an inheritance ruin.
• The cultivators found ten rare herbs, and Xiao Yan recognized the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine among them.
• Shi Han's men attacked the area around the herbs, but a blood-colored lion's head swallowed a cultivator who rushed toward them.
• As one of Shi Han's men approached the herbs, two enormous green eyes appeared and revealed an eighth-tier Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad.

Xiao Yan and the others were attacked by the Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad, while Shi Han betrayed them to make his escape. A mysterious voice urged Xiao Yan to dive deeper into the pool, and Yang Lingyan and Chu Qun followed him.

• Xiao Yan fled from the Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad, then used two Emperor Seal Art techniques and ice to blunt its water-arrow attack.
• Shi Han detonated a Dou Huang corpse near Xiao Yan and the others, blasting them back as he tried to escape alone.
• The Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad reappeared near the pool’s surface and struck Shi Han with its tongue, trapping him against the wall.
• Xiao Yan, Yang Lingyan, and Chu Qun hesitated between fleeing and waiting as the Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad attacked Shi Han.
• A mysterious voice told Xiao Yan to go downward, and he dove to the bottom of the pool with Yang Lingyan and Chu Qun following.

Xiao Yan, Chu Qun, and Yang Lingyan escaped the Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad after discovering a teleportation screen beneath the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine. They regrouped in the Ten Thousand Beasts Space, where Xiao Yan claimed the vine and shared the remaining herbs equally with his companions.

• Xiao Yan discovered a teleportation light screen beneath the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine at the pool bottom.
• The Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad attacked, and Xiao Yan and Chu Qun fought it while Yang Lingyan gathered the medicinal herbs.
• The Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad's tongue pierced Xiao Yan's overlapping seals, and the resulting explosion sent all three through the light screen.
• Xiao Yan, Chu Qun, and Yang Lingyan landed in a forest and confirmed that the toad had not followed them.
• Yang Lingyan revealed that he had collected nine types of medicinal herbs, and Xiao Yan claimed the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine before dividing the rest equally.

Xiao Yan learned about the Ten Thousand Beasts Space’s Small Markets and agreed to travel with Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan. While studying his battle with the Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad, he experimented with two Heavenly Flames and fused them into a flame lotus.

• Chu Qun asked Xiao Yan how he had discovered the teleportation screen, and Xiao Yan described the mysterious voice that had guided him.
• Yang Lingyan explained that Small Markets were held every ten days, and Xiao Yan agreed to search for one with Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan.
• After the three recovered, Xiao Yan reasoned that the Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad’s final explosion might have been caused by his Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan brought the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame and Bone Chilling Flame together, and the Flame Mantra enabled them to fuse into a blood-red and ghostly-white flame lotus.