Chapter Summaries

Li Chenfeng followed the Myriad Worlds Gate’s instruction to fly into space, where the gate appeared and suppressed the Heavenly Emperor's Will. After learning he would soon be forcibly returned and the gate would be unable to travel between worlds for a long time, he returned to the Dead Swamp and told Bi Yao and Lu Xueqi he would be gone for several years.

• Li Chenfeng fought the deity from atop a Heavenly Flames dragon, but the Heaven-Opening Axe destroyed the dragon and left him with a severe wound.
• The Myriad Worlds Gate told Li Chenfeng to fly as high as he could, so he escaped into the starry sky while dodging the deity’s axe swings.
• A colossal bronze gate appeared in space and suppressed the Heavenly Emperor's Will, then vanished with it.
• The Myriad Worlds Gate warned Li Chenfeng that he would be forcibly returned after one shichen and that it would be unable to activate for a long time.
• Li Chenfeng returned to the Dead Swamp and told Bi Yao and Lu Xueqi that he was leaving, possibly for seven or eight years or as long as ten.

Li Chenfeng restored the giant tree in the Dead Swamp and left powerful safeguards for both the righteous and demonic paths. He also entrusted Burning Incense Valley with a low-profile role, leaving the factions equipped to resist one another without destroying the world.

• Li Chenfeng restored the giant tree and left the Five Volumes of Heavenly Books in the Heavenly Emperor's Treasury, opening it to cultivators once every ten years.
• Li Chenfeng made the Black Water Mysterious Snake the treasury's guardian and warned Bi Yao about the dangers of the Four Spirits Blood Formation.
• Li Chenfeng gave Bi Yao a spirit mark and the Five-Element True Spirit Formation, while recreating Kui Niu's body.
• Li Chenfeng gave Lu Xueqi an immortal mark to control the Zhu Xian Sword and activate the Immortal Executioner Sword Formation without suffering its backlash.
• Li Chenfeng gave Yan Hong a fire mark to control the Mysterious Fire Mirror and the Eight Desolations Fire Dragon, and told her Burning Incense Valley should remain low-profile.
• Li Xun realized that Yan Hong was likely to become Burning Incense Valley's future valley master.

Li Chenfeng said farewell to the women in the Dead Swamp, left Xiao Bai with a technique derived from the Five Volumes of Heavenly Books, and returned to Jia Nan Academy. Back in his room, he considered the Yellow Bird’s transformation and planned to use the Heavenly Books to advance his soul cultivation.

• Li Chenfeng gave Xiao Bai a technique to teach the fortune-telling girl from Dawang Village and predicted Xiao Bai might become a demon immortal.
• The Myriad Worlds Gate took Li Chenfeng away, while the Black Water Mysterious Snake realized the Yellow Bird had vanished with him.
• Li Chenfeng returned to his room at the Inner Academy of Jia Nan Academy and noticed that time had shifted between the worlds.
• Li Chenfeng considered the Yellow Bird’s transformation after consuming a Spirit Herb and stored a stone that could transform the Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey.
• Li Chenfeng kept the Blood-Eater Bead for himself and examined the Soul-Absorbing Black Rod as a weapon against souls.
• Li Chenfeng resolved to master the Five Volumes of Heavenly Books to cultivate his soul and advance toward becoming an Eighth-Tier or Ninth-grade Alchemist.

Li Chenfeng used the Soul Secret Technique from the Heavenly Book, enduring a dangerous surge in Soul Force before his soul began absorbing Soul Origin spiritual energy. The resulting disturbance swept across the Inner Academy, and a Fifth-grade Alchemist sensed it and looked toward Li Chenfeng’s dormitory.

• Li Chenfeng activated the Soul Secret Technique, and strange purple incantations covered his body as his Soul Force rapidly increased.
• Li Chenfeng’s soul grew so powerful that his consciousness was overwhelmed by a violent explosion-like sensation, but he persevered until the pain eased.
• Li Chenfeng realized his Soul Force had multiplied but had not yet reached the Spiritual State.
• Li Chenfeng’s incantations drew Soul Origin spiritual energy into his soul, and a powerful ripple spread throughout the Inner Academy.
• Students, teachers, and elders reacted to the turbulent energy of heaven and earth, while a Fifth-grade Alchemist at the Alchemist Department fixed his gaze on Li Chenfeng’s dormitory.

Li Chenfeng absorbed spiritual energy in seclusion for nearly ten days as his Soul Force transformed. Zi Yan waited outside his courtyard, and the chapter ended with Li Chenfeng's breakthrough blasting open the roof and releasing a tremendous wave of Soul Force.

• Li Chenfeng's Soul Force gathered and pulsed as spiritual energy poured into it, seeming to nurture something within.
• Nearly ten days passed, and Great Elder Su Qian warned the Inner Academy not to disturb Li Chenfeng's seclusion.
• Zi Yan waited outside Li Chenfeng's courtyard, complained about bitter herbs, and argued with an academy elder who offered to refine them.
• A powerful explosion tore through the room's ceiling as Li Chenfeng's vast Soul Force swept across the area.
• The academy elder realized Li Chenfeng had broken through and wondered whether he might emerge at the peak of Sixth-grade or even as a Seventh-grade Alchemist.

Li Chenfeng’s Soul Force broke through to the Spiritual State, and its pressure alarmed Jia Nan Academy’s hidden guardians, Qian Mu and Bai Lie. After they suppressed the pressure, Li Chenfeng realized his soul had become a powerful weapon and expected to reach the Dou Emperor realm within a week.

• Li Chenfeng’s surging Soul Force spread across Jia Nan Academy and the Black-Corner Region, leaving weaker people dizzy and trembling.
• Su Qian prepared to stop Li Chenfeng, but Qian Mu and Bai Lie appeared and suppressed the Soul Force before it could harm the Inner Academy.
• Qian Mu praised Li Chenfeng’s Spiritual State soul, while Bai Lie reprimanded Su Qian for failing to prevent the danger.
• Su Qian complained about managing the academy alone, but Qian Mu and Bai Lie declined to visit Li Chenfeng and vanished.
• Li Chenfeng sensed the danger of the guardians’ intervention, then concluded that his Spiritual State Soul Force and stored energy could soon make him a formidable Dou Emperor.

Li Chenfeng prepared to refine a Yin-Yang Life-Soul Pill for Hai Bodong before returning to the Jia Ma Empire. Zi Yan brought a pile of rare herbs to his room, and Elder Huo asked to watch Li Chenfeng refine pills after realizing his extraordinary abilities.

• Li Chenfeng decided to return to the Jia Ma Empire and planned to refine a Yin-Yang Life-Soul Pill for Hai Bodong.
• Zi Yan and Elder Huo knocked on Li Chenfeng's door, and he gave Zi Yan a medicinal pill to soothe her anger.
• Zi Yan poured out a collection of rare herbs, and Elder Huo mistakenly suspected that she had stolen them from the academy's repository.
• Li Chenfeng offered to refine Zi Yan's herbs within two days, astonishing Elder Huo.
• Elder Huo guessed that Li Chenfeng had a Heavenly Flame and asked to observe him refining pills.

Li Chenfeng began refining the Seventh-grade Yin-Yang Life-Soul Pill at the Alchemist Department’s plaza, with Elder Huo and a crowd of students watching. After spending several days extracting its many ingredients, he prepared to begin the crucial next stage of refinement.

• Elder Huo recognized Li Chenfeng’s Myriad Beast Cauldron and suggested using the Alchemist Department’s plaza for the pill refinement.
• Li Chenfeng agreed to let alchemy students observe, and three days later he arrived at the crowded plaza with Elder Huo.
• Li Chenfeng summoned the Myriad Beast Cauldron and ignited its flames before bringing out the ingredients for the Yin-Yang Life-Soul Pill.
• Li Chenfeng began extracting the ingredients, starting with the Soul-Returning Demon Fruit, and continued for several days as the gathered observers watched.
• Elder Huo was stunned by Li Chenfeng’s Soul Force and precision as Li Chenfeng prepared to begin the most crucial stage of the refinement.

Li Chenfeng completed a black-and-white medicinal pill and summoned powerful silver Pill Lightning, astonishing the Inner Academy with signs that he had refined a Seventh-grade High-level pill. As the clouds gathered, Su Qian mobilized the academy’s elders and students while preparing to help Li Chenfeng face the lightning.

• Li Chenfeng finished nurturing the pill, transforming its rough embryo into a smooth, thumb-sized black-and-white pill.
• Dark clouds and silver lightning gathered over the Inner Academy as the pill took shape, and Elder Huo recognized the sign of a Seventh-grade High-level Medicinal Pill.
• Su Qian ordered the Inner Academy elders to activate the grand formation and told the students to return to their dormitories.
• Su Qian warned Elder Huo that Li Chenfeng’s Pill Lightning seemed stronger than one he had seen before and might be difficult for Li Chenfeng to withstand alone.
• Su Qian resolved to watch Li Chenfeng closely and intervene if necessary, while regretting that the Thousand and Hundred Elders were absent.

Li Chenfeng battled the Pill Lightning striking his medicinal pill, using powerful Dou Techniques and fire dragons to withstand the storm. As the lightning consumed his energy, he broke through from a three-star Dou Wang to a Dou Emperor.

• Li Chenfeng blocked the first Pill Lightning bolt with the Radiant Seal, then destroyed a second, stronger bolt with another seal.
• Li Chenfeng used the Glazed Golden Body Art against the next bolt, but the lightning broke through and burned his chest.
• Li Chenfeng faced a barrage of lightning with blue flames and fire dragons formed by Raging Dragon Commands Thunder.
• Li Chenfeng endured dozens of lightning bolts as his aura rose, then broke through from a three-star Dou Wang to a Dou Emperor, leaving Su Qian stunned.

Li Chenfeng struggled to withstand the Pill Lightning unleashed by the Yin-Yang Life-Soul Pill until Yellow Bird emerged and intercepted a strike. Weakened and unable to call on the Myriad Worlds Gate, Li Chenfeng faced an even stronger bolt and ordered Yellow Bird to stop it.

• Li Chenfeng broke through to Dou Emperor but gradually faltered against the Pill Lightning.
• Li Chenfeng summoned Yellow Bird from a spatial wormhole, and Su Qian recognized the newcomer as a Tier 7 Magical Beast.
• Yellow Bird unleashed gales that shattered the latest lightning strike, while Li Chenfeng collapsed onto the stone platform, exhausted and paralyzed by lightning power.
• Li Chenfeng examined the Yin-Yang Life-Soul Pill and realized his Spiritual State Soul Force had raised it to peak Seventh-grade.
• A more powerful silver bolt descended toward Li Chenfeng, and he shouted for Yellow Bird to intercept it.

Li Chenfeng survived the Pill Lightning with Yellow Bird’s help and completed his breakthrough to Two-Star Dou Emperor. After the academy elders and students left, Zi Yan suggested eating Yellow Bird so she could grow up immediately.

• Yellow Bird clashed with the Pill Lightning until the storm weakened, allowing Li Chenfeng to store the Yin-Yang Life-Soul Pill.
• Li Chenfeng sensed that he had broken through to Two-Star Dou Emperor, while Great Elder Su Qian and Elder Huo congratulated him.
• Li Chenfeng told Elder Huo that his Yin-Yang Life-Soul Pill had unexpectedly risen to peak seventh grade, leaving the alchemist dispirited.
• Su Qian reminded Li Chenfeng to report major plans, and Zi Yan cleared the crowd before Li Chenfeng carried her back to his dormitory.
• Zi Yan asked Li Chenfeng to let her eat Yellow Bird because she believed it would make her grow up immediately.

Li Chenfeng teased Blood Dance about her cultivation and learned she wanted to leave with him for the Jia Ma Empire. He accepted her as a companion and showed her the Blood-Eater Bead, a dangerous treasure that could nourish her Blood Attribute cultivation.

• Zi Yan argued with Yellow Bird after he mocked her, and Li Chenfeng calmed her down with sweets.
• Blood Dance visited Li Chenfeng and said the Inner Academy was talking about his pill and Tier 7 Magical Beast companion.
• Blood Dance told Li Chenfeng she had reached Four-star Dou Wang and that the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower had purified her Dou Qi and ended its backlash.
• Li Chenfeng said he planned to return to the Jia Ma Empire, and Blood Dance asked to accompany him; he accepted her as his companion.
• Li Chenfeng showed Blood Dance the Blood-Eater Bead and explained that it could convert absorbed vital blood into energy for its master.

Queen Medusa explained why Hai Bodong had been invited to support Misty Cloud Sect at the Northwest Region's Sect Conference, while Butterfly worried about his safety. Ten days earlier, Li Chenfeng prepared to return to the Jia Ma Empire with Blood Dance, and Zi Yan asked him for a gift that could make her grow up; the chapter left him planning to depart in three days.

• Queen Medusa told Butterfly that Hai Bodong had returned to the Jia Ma Empire to lend his strength to Misty Cloud Sect at the Sect Conference.
• Queen Medusa explained that Misty Cloud Sect's standing could affect the Jia Ma Empire's reputation and security, reassuring Butterfly that the fighting was not expected to be fatal.
• A strange sandstorm approached the Snake People's Holy City, and a Tier 7 Magical Beast's shriek made Queen Medusa and Butterfly tremble.
• Ten days earlier, Zi Yan asked to travel with Li Chenfeng and demanded a powerful gift that could make her grow up immediately.
• Li Chenfeng promised Zi Yan a gift later, while Blood Dance wondered whether he truly possessed something that could help her grow.
• Li Chenfeng told Blood Dance he planned to leave in three days to settle his family, meet old friends, and fulfill his promises.

Li Chenfeng returned to the Snake People’s Holy City with Butterfly, Zi Yan, Blood Dance, and Yellow Bird, whose arrival caused a panic. After the misunderstanding was cleared up, Butterfly scolded Li Chenfeng for not using the Seven-Colored Snake Scale she had given him.

• Li Chenfeng and his companions crossed the Black-Corner Region on Yellow Bird and reached the Tagore Desert, where the bird stirred up a sandstorm.
• Queen Medusa mistook Yellow Bird’s screech for an attack and prepared to defend the Snake People, while Butterfly insisted on fighting beside her.
• Li Chenfeng arrived and revealed that Yellow Bird had caused the commotion, then blamed the bird for the misunderstanding.
• In the queen’s palace, Butterfly scolded Li Chenfeng for failing to use the Seven-Colored Snake Scale, while Queen Medusa went to reassure her people.
• Blood Dance watched Li Chenfeng being scolded, and Zi Yan curiously examined Butterfly’s snake tail.

Li Chenfeng told Queen Medusa that he had come to fulfill his promise to help Butterfly recover from the effects of fusing with the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake. He revealed that he had already prepared a peak seventh-grade Yin-Yang Life-Soul Pill, leaving Queen Medusa shocked by his abilities and considering what his help could mean for the Snake People.

• Queen Medusa challenged Li Chenfeng over the commotion he had caused among the Snake People, and he explained that he had come to fulfill a promise to Hai Bodong.
• Li Chenfeng reminded Butterfly of their departure three years earlier and explained that he had promised to cure the aftereffects of her fusion with the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake.
• Queen Medusa rose in shock when Li Chenfeng said he could cure Butterfly, while Butterfly reacted with happiness and called him Uncle.
• Li Chenfeng produced a Yin-Yang Life-Soul Pill and identified it as a peak seventh-grade pill capable of resolving Butterfly's aftereffects.
• Queen Medusa questioned whether the pill could truly cure Butterfly, and Butterfly said she trusted Li Chenfeng and that he was fulfilling Uncle's request.

Li Chenfeng discussed restoring Medicine Elder to a body and protecting the Nalan Family from Soul Hall. Medicine Elder advised him to build a powerful force in the Northwest Region, leaving Li Chenfeng to consider how to safeguard his clan.

• Queen Medusa ordered the Snake People's elders to open the temple and activate its formation so butterfly could refine the medicinal pill, while Hua She'er escorted Li Chenfeng to his residence.
• Medicine Elder appeared to Li Chenfeng and teased him about the Snake People before reflecting on his disciple's rapid growth.
• Li Chenfeng told Medicine Elder he hoped to master Eighth-grade pill refining and make the Bone-Melting Blood-Fusion Pill to restore his teacher.
• Medicine Elder warned that Soul Hall might already be watching the Nalan Family because of Li Chenfeng's past conflict with them.
• Medicine Elder advised Li Chenfeng to gather followers and establish a major force to protect the Nalan Family, then visit Starfall Pavilion in Zhongzhou with him.

Li Chenfeng waited to learn whether the snake woman's transformation and Queen Medusa's decision would bring the Snake People under his influence. After months of guarding the sacred hall, Medusa and the gathered Snake People watched the cocoon break open amid a crimson pillar of light and a thunderous roar.

• Li Chenfeng told Blood Dance he was waiting for the snake woman's transformation and Queen Medusa's final choice.
• Queen Medusa guarded the sacred hall for a month as the cocoon drew in vast amounts of energy and formed a huge vortex over the Holy City.
• After another three months, the vortex poured its energy into the cocoon, which darkened and developed glowing runes.
• The cocoon cracked and radiated brilliant crimson light, drawing Queen Medusa and the Snake People's experts, including the eight tribe leaders, to the sacred hall.
• The cocoon shattered as a crimson pillar of light shot into the sky and a thunderous roar rang out.

Li Chenfeng discussed the Snake People’s future with Queen Medusa after Snake Woman Butterfly advanced to Dou Zong. He refused to fight against the Jia Ma Empire on their behalf and urged Medusa to seek a foothold in the Black-Corner Region, though he warned that the Snake People still lacked the strength to survive there.

• A Three-Headed Fire Spirit Snake appeared over the Snake People, and Li Chenfeng realized Snake Woman Butterfly had reached Dou Zong.
• Li Chenfeng reassured Blood Dance that the sisters would not fight over the throne and wondered what Queen Medusa would do next.
• After nearly five months among the Snake People, Li Chenfeng told Queen Medusa he would intervene if they went to war with the Jia Ma Empire because of his Nalan Family’s ties to it.
• Queen Medusa said her people needed fertile land beyond the Tagore Desert.
• Li Chenfeng proposed that the Snake People settle in the Black-Corner Region and warned that they needed more strength to survive there.

Li Chenfeng accompanied Queen Medusa to the Holy Lake and prepared the Green Lotus Core Flame and Ice Spirit Cold Spring for her evolution. Medusa began the dangerous process with Li Chenfeng confident he could protect her life, though its success remained up to her.

• Butterfly warned Li Chenfeng not to touch the poisoned Holy Lake, while Queen Medusa demanded that he keep his promises.
• Queen Medusa summoned a giant snake to carry her and Li Chenfeng across the lake to the island.
• Queen Medusa showed Li Chenfeng the Ice Spirit Cold Spring and asked how likely he was to help her evolve.
• Li Chenfeng placed his Earthfire Green Lotus in the cold spring and set the Green Lotus Core Flame above it.
• Li Chenfeng explained that the cold spring could protect Medusa's life during the Heavenly Flame refinement, but that completing her evolution depended on her.