Chapter Summaries

Yao Lao interrogated Mu Gu about their past and their teacher, using their old rivalry to provoke him into revealing what Yao Lao had forgotten. The chapter left Yao Lao stunned after Mu Gu revealed their teacher’s name was Han Shanshan.

• Yao Lao questioned Mu Gu about their shared history as fellow disciples and their time studying alchemy at the Danta.
• Mu Gu admitted he joined the Soul Hall because he resented Yao Lao for receiving their teacher’s favor.
• Yao Lao provoked Mu Gu by displaying the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and accusing him of sullying their teacher’s name.
• Mu Gu revealed that their teacher was named Han Shanshan, and Yao Lao froze at the name.

Yao Lao learned that his lost teacher was named Han Shanshan and gathered memories of her from Mu Gu before killing him. After Tian Huangzi’s group departed with Xiao Yi Xian, Yao Lao offered Xiao Yan the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and Xiao Yan hesitated until Yao Lao revealed he had another reason for the gift.

• Yao Lao provoked Mu Gu into recounting his memories of Han Shanshan, helping Yao Lao form an impression of his forgotten teacher.
• Yao Lao declared their grudges settled and erased Mu Gu without pain.
• Tian Huangzi and his group left Starfall Pavilion after a farewell gathering, taking Xiao Yi Xian back to the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.
• Yao Lao offered Xiao Yan the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, but Xiao Yan refused because he already had four Heavenly Flames.
• Yao Lao demonstrated that his Dou Sheng flames surpassed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and explained how the flame could strengthen Xiao Yan and the Flame Mantra.
• Yao Lao said he had another purpose for giving Xiao Yan the flame and asked him to help his teacher.

Xiao Yan accepted Yao Lao’s Bone Spirit Cold Flame so he could use the Flame Mantra to investigate how Yao Lao had subdued it and recover his lost memories. After refining the flame, Xiao Yan witnessed Yao Lao’s near-fatal struggle and learned that a woman had sacrificed herself to save him, but he did not discover who she was.

• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that he suspected the Bone Spirit Cold Flame was connected to his lost memories and asked him to investigate how he had subdued it.
• Xiao Yan accepted the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and absorbed and refined it, advancing the Flame Mantra to Low-Tier Heaven Rank and reaching Eight-Star Dou Venerable.
• Xiao Yan used the Flame Mantra to experience the Bone Spirit Cold Flame’s past, including Yao Lao’s effort to subdue it.
• Xiao Yan saw that Yao Lao had nearly died and that a woman had sacrificed herself to save him.
• Xiao Yan wondered who the woman was.

After refining the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, Xiao Yan told Yao Lao the painful truth about how he had lost his memories, strengthening Yao Lao’s resolve to recover them. Yao Lao identified the woman who sacrificed herself as his teacher, Han Shanshan, making her Xiao Yan’s grandmaster.

• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion as an Eight-Star Dou Venerable after absorbing and refining the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Yao Lao noticed Xiao Yan’s unease and asked whether he had used the Flame Mantra to witness how the Bone Spirit Cold Flame had been subdued.
• After Yao Lao begged him to tell the truth, Xiao Yan recounted what he had seen, and Yao Lao wept despite being unable to remember the events.
• Yao Lao said the painful account made him more determined to recover his own memories, and Xiao Yan offered to help.
• Xiao Yan suggested the Bone Spirit Cold Flame might hold the key to recovering the woman’s true spirit, and Yao Lao guessed that she was his teacher, Han Shanshan.

After Xiao Yan learned that Han Shanshan’s true spirit might remain inside the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, Yao Lao urged him to grow strong enough to revive her and sent him toward ancient ruins in the Beast Region. Meanwhile, Xiao Lin’s repeated attempts to comprehend “Supreme” drew his consciousness into the Space of Nihility.

• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao that Han Shanshan’s true spirit might still exist within the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, though he could not yet recover it.
• Yao Lao resolved to help Xiao Yan reach Dou Emperor and beyond, and Xiao Yan agreed to keep improving his strength.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that ancient ruins in the Beast Region, once a Dou Sheng Expert’s territory, were about to open, and Xiao Yan prepared to explore them.
• Human and magical beast factions began gathering in the Beast Region as the ruins’ opening approached.
• Xiao Lin continued activating the Supreme Nine Heavens Yingyuan Formation to comprehend “Supreme” until his consciousness was pulled into the Space of Nihility.

Xiao Lin’s consciousness entered the Space of Nihility through the Supreme Nine Heavens Yingyuan Formation, and he realized that he had fully comprehended “Supreme.” He found the Plane’s Embryo and, believing he was qualified to refine it, approached the source of a power that could make him a Plane Master.

• Xiao Lin’s consciousness was pulled into the Space of Nihility, and he deduced that the Supreme Nine Heavens Yingyuan Formation had caused it.
• Xiao Lin explored the spaceless, timeless void until a shifting halo appeared before him.
• Xiao Lin recognized the halo as the Plane’s Embryo and understood that comprehending “Supreme” meant contacting it outright, not progressing gradually.
• Xiao Lin recalled that refining the Plane’s Embryo could make him a Plane Master able to wield the power of the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Lin approached the Plane’s Embryo, convinced that he was qualified to refine it.

Xiao Lin reached the Plane's Embryo but was refused permission to refine it because the Dou Qi Continent faced no threat of invasion or collapse. Before leaving, he received an offer to visit a place where he could obtain Origin Qi and pursue becoming a Dou Emperor.

• The Plane's Embryo rejected Xiao Lin's attempt to refine it, explaining that it only chose a refiner when outsiders threatened the world's survival.
• Xiao Lin learned that Shi Lingdao had borrowed the Plane's Embryo's power through the Supreme Nine Heavens Yingyuan Formation to destroy the Rakshasa Heart Demon Emperor's body.
• Xiao Lin lamented that the continent's safety made refining its Plane's Embryo impossible and prepared to leave the Space of Nihility.
• The Plane's Embryo sent Xiao Lin another message, offering him a trip to a place where he could obtain Origin Qi.

The Plane's Embryo offered to send Xiao Lin's soul to the Greater World for three days so he could obtain Origin Qi, protecting him from the dangers of ascending in the flesh. Xiao Lin accepted and passed through the barrier between the worlds, leaving his soul on the way to the Greater World.

• Xiao Lin considered that the Plane's Embryo could help him obtain a third strand of Origin Qi by sending him to the Greater World.
• The Plane's Embryo told Xiao Lin it would transport his soul for three days and lend it power equal to his full Emperor Realm Soul.
• After learning the journey would be safe and temporary, Xiao Lin agreed to the reward.
• The Plane's Embryo's power entered Xiao Lin, and his soul emerged from his body.
• Xiao Lin's soul traveled through a black hole to the barrier between the worlds and crossed it with the Plane's Embryo's power.

Eight young Sovereigns joined forces to break the Six Desires Palace Secret Realm’s defenses, allowing the gathered explorers to rush inside. Deep within the realm, Xiao Lin awoke as a Soul Body, confused about where the Plane's Embryo had sent him.

• After three days of waiting, Chi Yan and the other young Sovereigns agreed to break the Six Desires Palace Secret Realm’s defenses together.
• Du Qianqian proposed an oath against anyone who held back, and Wu Du and the others agreed and swore it.
• Wu Du, Chi Yan, Feng Xiao, Shen Yun, Qin Baichuan, Du Qianqian, Wen Bufan, and the black-robed person attacked the defenses and shattered them.
• The gathered explorers surged into the Six Desires Palace Secret Realm.
• Deep within the Secret Realm, Xiao Lin awoke as a Soul Body and wondered where the Plane's Embryo had sent him.

After arriving in the Greater World as a soul, Xiao Lin found himself inside a suspended coffin in the ruined hall of the Six Desires Palace Secret Realm. He hid there when Wen Bufan and Wu Du entered and began fighting, leaving him to watch their battle from inside the coffin.

• Xiao Lin used his Emperor Realm Soul Power to explore the darkness and realized he was inside a coffin suspended in a ruined hall.
• Xiao Lin guessed the hall was deep within a Secret Realm and decided to leave the coffin, but a commotion outside made him stay hidden.
• Wen Bufan and Wu Du, rival clan prodigies and Fourth Grade Sovereigns, fought their way into the hall after exploring the Six Desires Palace Secret Realm.
• Wen Bufan and Wu Du exchanged blows and taunts while Xiao Lin watched their fierce battle from inside the coffin.

Wen Bufan and Wu Du clashed with their Supreme Dharma Bodies, while Xiao Lin watched and compared their strength with the Dou Qi Continent's cultivation system. The fight revealed that both clans had come to the Six Desires Palace Secret Realm over the Soul Suppressing Coffin, and Xiao Lin estimated the two men were about as strong as Four-Star Dou Shengs.

• Wu Du attacked with his Nether Luo Dharma Body, but Wen Bufan used his Black Ice Dharma Body and Six Realms Ice Seal to freeze the incoming energy.
• Wen Bufan accused Wu Du and the Wu Clan of hypocrisy, while Wu Du hinted that he had come to the secret realm specifically to deal with Wen Bufan.
• The Wen Clan sought the Soul Suppressing Coffin in the hall, and the Wu Clan had followed them there; neither clan knew it had become Xiao Lin's teleportation point.
• Xiao Lin observed the battle, judged Wen Bufan and Wu Du to be roughly equal to Four-Star Dou Shengs, and sought to identify their Greater World cultivation realm.

Wen Bufan and Wu Du fought fiercely over the Soul Suppressing Coffin while Xiao Lin remained hidden inside it. After their clash broke the chains holding the coffin aloft, Wen Bufan seized it and fled, leaving Wu Du behind.

• Wen Bufan and Wu Du unleashed their Supreme Dharma Bodies and fought at full strength in the ruined hall.
• Wen Bufan summoned a Destruction Ice Spear, and Wu Du countered with the Nether Luo Dharma Body’s Asura Slash.
• Their attacks snapped the four chains suspending the Soul Suppressing Coffin, which fell to the ground and began releasing a devouring shadow.
• Wen Bufan rushed over, lifted the Soul Suppressing Coffin onto his shoulder, and stopped the shadow from spreading.
• Wen Bufan mocked Wu Du and ran off with the coffin while Wu Du remained occupied with the Destruction Ice Spear.

Wen Bufan escaped with the Soul Suppressing Coffin after tricking Wu Du, but the coffin’s activation prevented him from storing it away. Wu Du and his black-robed hired helper caught up with him near the exit of the Six Desires Palace Secret Realm, forcing Wen Bufan to prepare to fight.

• Wen Bufan fled with the Soul Suppressing Coffin while the Destruction Ice Spear kept Wu Du occupied, and Xiao Lin admired his clever escape.
• Wu Du destroyed the hall in anger, then joined the black-robed helper he had summoned to pursue Wen Bufan.
• Wen Bufan realized the activated coffin could not be stored in his mustard seed bracelet and hurried toward the realm’s exit with it on his shoulder.
• The black-robed man shot a Flying Feather Arrow at Wen Bufan, slowing him enough for Wu Du and the helper to catch up.
• Wu Du taunted Wen Bufan as he and the black-robed man closed in, and Wen Bufan chose to fight rather than keep running.

Wen Bufan fought Wu Du and a mysterious black-robed man while holding the Soul Suppressing Coffin, hoping to bring it back for his ill younger sister. As his strength ran low and defeat seemed inevitable, an unknown voice offered him help.

• Wu Du and the black-robed man attacked Wen Bufan together, but he used the Azure Mist Ice Phoenix to counter them.
• Wen Bufan summoned his Black Ice Dharma Body and fought both opponents, while they tried to wear down his strength.
• Wen Bufan unleashed the Eight Directions Ice Domain, but Wu Du and the black-robed man evaded or blocked it.
• Wen Bufan’s Spiritual Energy fell below a fifth of its peak, but he refused to surrender the coffin because his younger sister needed it.
• An unknown voice asked Wen Bufan whether he needed help, startling him into searching his surroundings.

Wen Bufan discovered that Xiao Lin’s soul was speaking from inside the Soul Suppressing Coffin he was carrying. Xiao Lin offered to lend him power against Wu Du and the black-robed man in exchange for information about the Greater World over the next three days.

• Wen Bufan heard a mysterious voice and searched for its source, briefly making Wu Du and the black-robed man fear that someone else was nearby.
• Xiao Lin revealed that he was inside the Soul Suppressing Coffin, frightening Wen Bufan, who insisted that he had to take the coffin back.
• Wen Bufan cautiously listened as Xiao Lin proposed a deal and asked to learn about the Greater World as it was now.
• Xiao Lin offered to lend Wen Bufan his power to fight his pursuers in exchange for answers over the next three days.

Wen Bufan accepted Xiao Lin’s offer to lend him strength in exchange for answering questions, then faced Wu Du and Yu Che, who revealed he belonged to the Yu Clan. Xiao Lin raised Wen Bufan’s power to Seventh Grade Sovereign, leaving him confident he could defeat both attackers and keep them there.

• Wen Bufan agreed to answer Xiao Lin’s questions after Xiao Lin helped him defeat Wu Du and the black-robed figure.
• Wu Du summoned his Shadow Demon Wolf essence and urged Yu Che to join him in attacking Wen Bufan.
• Yu Che revealed his identity as a member of the Yu Clan and said he had accepted Wu Du’s offer despite the clans having no feud.
• Wen Bufan called on Xiao Lin, who sent Soul Power into his body and raised his strength to Seventh Grade Sovereign.
• Wen Bufan declared that his new strength would let him turn the tables and keep Wu Du and Yu Che there.

Wen Bufan used the power he had borrowed from Xiao Lin to reach Seventh Grade Sovereign strength and defeat Wu Du and Yu Che. After they fled, Wen Bufan fused the Azure Mist Ice Phoenix with his Black Ice Dharma Body and killed them with Destruction Ice Phoenixes.

• Wen Bufan’s sudden Seventh Grade Sovereign presence sent Wu Du and Yu Che crashing into the ground.
• Wu Du accused Wen Bufan of borrowing outside power, and Wen Bufan declared that he would kill him.
• Wu Du fled without warning Yu Che, who ran in a different direction to improve his chance of escape.
• Wen Bufan fused the Azure Mist Ice Phoenix’s essence soul with his Black Ice Dharma Body and summoned two Destruction Ice Phoenixes.
• The Destruction Ice Phoenixes overwhelmed Wu Du and Yu Che’s defenses, freezing them before Wen Bufan shattered the frozen expanse.

After Wen Bufan killed Wu Du and Yu Che, Xiao Lin questioned him about the Greater World while he recovered from the borrowed power. Xiao Lin learned about the world’s stalemate with the Extraterrestrial Evil Race and the rough comparison between Dou Qi Continent and Greater World cultivation levels.

• Wen Bufan collected Wu Du and Yu Che’s storage bracelets and left the battlefield, then rested in a secluded forest because borrowing Xiao Lin’s power had left him weak.
• Wen Bufan inventoried his spoils, and Xiao Lin emerged from the Soul Suppressing Coffin as a Soul Body.
• Wen Bufan recognized Xiao Lin as the senior who had lent him power and agreed to answer his questions.
• Xiao Lin asked Wen Bufan about the Greater World, learning that the Greater World and the Extraterrestrial Evil Race had long been locked in a stalemate, with spiritual formations helping hold back the invaders.
• Xiao Lin learned that a ninth grade sovereign was roughly equivalent to a Nine-Star Dou Saint, while a Dou Emperor was a Quasi-Earthly Sovereign.

After learning about the Greater World, Xiao Lin agreed to accompany Wen Bufan to the Wen Clan in exchange for a method that would convert his Dou Qi into Spiritual Energy. Wen Bufan stored the Soul Suppressing Coffin, and Xiao Lin entered his body as they set off for the clan.

• Xiao Lin told Wen Bufan that their debt was repaid and tried to leave, but Wen Bufan urged him to join the Wen Clan and offered help restoring his body.
• Wen Bufan explained that the Wen Clan had several Earthly Sovereigns, prompting Xiao Lin to ask for a method to convert power from a Lower Plane into Spiritual Energy.
• Wen Bufan agreed to obtain the method and invited Xiao Lin to the Wen Clan.
• Xiao Lin dismissed Wen Bufan's question about the Soul Suppressing Coffin, and Wen Bufan stored it in his storage bracelet.
• Xiao Lin entered Wen Bufan's body, and the two headed to the Wen Clan.

Wen Bufan brought Xiao Lin to the Wen Clan, where Xiao Lin learned about the Greater World and the clan’s place in it. After Wen Bufan reported his victory, Wen Xu noticed the Soul Body accompanying him and decided to monitor it rather than interfere.

• Wen Bufan brought Xiao Lin to the vast Wen Clan territory and explained the Greater World’s hierarchy of factions and continents.
• Wen Bufan reported to Wen Ming that he had killed Wu Du and Yu Che, concealing Xiao Lin’s involvement.
• Wen Ming praised Wen Bufan and said the clan would reward him for his victory.
• Wen Xu told Wen Ming that he had sensed a Soul Body inside Wen Bufan and believed it had helped him win.
• Wen Xu decided to let the Soul Body remain with Wen Bufan while Wen Ming kept it under watch.