Chapter Summaries

Wu Yan collected valuable treasures, then traveled to Maple City and killed Han Feng to remove a powerful threat before entering secluded cultivation. He left with Han Feng’s frozen Sea Heart Flame and erased his traces, leaving the Medicine Emperor’s death undiscovered.

• Wu Yan collected the treasury’s valuable items, including a fiery-red Tier 7 Magic Core and ice-attributed resources.
• Wu Yan decided to eliminate Han Feng because the alchemist could gather powerful Dou Emperor allies and disrupt his plans.
• Han Feng sensed Wu Yan’s approach in Maple City, but Wu Yan’s ice-blue vines pierced him before he could react.
• Wu Yan froze Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame, sealed his energy, and killed both his body and soul.
• Wu Yan reinforced the Seals around the Sea Heart Flame, took Han Feng’s Nether Sea Storage Ring, and departed without leaving traces.

Wu Yan set out with Medusa Queen and Yun Yun to destroy the Golden Goose Sect, while their allies divided the spoils from Demon Flame Valley and prepared to mobilize in the Jia Ma Empire. The Golden Goose Sect was annihilated by Wu Yan’s freezing mist, including its leader Yan Luotian.

• Teng Shan reported that Misty Cloud Sect and the Serpent-Human Tribe had each received ten percent of the spoils from Demon Flame Valley.
• Hai Bodong and the Serpent-Human Tribe's Great Elder stayed to guard Demon Flame Valley, while Wu Yan traveled north with Medusa Queen and Yun Yun.
• Yun Yun explained that Golden Goose Sect leader Yan Luotian was a peak Dou Emperor known for his speed and that his sect was locked in a bitter rivalry with the Falling Goose Empire's Imperial Clan.
• Wu Yan used freezing mist to engulf the Golden Goose Sect and kill its disciples, elders, and Yan Luotian.

Wu Yan and the two women looted the Golden Goose Sect’s treasury after destroying the Falling Goose Empire’s ruling powers, then returned to the Jia Ma Empire to let their allies claim the spoils. Back at his manor, Wu Yan used a Tier 7 Magic Core in the Little Blue Bottle and wondered what new ability its Energy Liquid might grant.

• Yun Yun and Medusa Queen recognized that Wu Yan had been holding back until he used his ice-blue vines, but neither voiced the thought.
• Wu Yan found the Golden Goose Sect’s treasury and invited Yun Yun and Medusa Queen to take resources while he collected Magic Cores and valuable ingredients.
• Wu Yan left the capital after slaughtering its people, having eliminated the Golden Goose Sect and the Imperial Clan of the Falling Goose Empire.
• Yun Yun and Medusa Queen returned to mobilize their people and occupy the Falling Goose Empire, while Wu Yan informed Teng Shan and went back to his manor.
• Wu Yan put a Tier 7 fire-attribute Magic Core into the Little Blue Bottle and considered whether its Energy Liquid would bring a qualitative change, as Tier 7 beasts gained the ability to transform between human and beast forms.

Wu Yan discovered that advancing to Tier 7 had improved his talent for spatial abilities, then returned to cultivation while the Mittel Clan expanded. Six months later, Peace City had become a prosperous, million-person city, and visiting factions were reminded of the force behind it when Earth Fiend Old Ghost’s Seven-Star Dou Zong status was revealed.

• Wu Yan sensed that the Tier 7 Energy Liquid had increased his control over Spatial Power, then decided to focus on his stats and resumed cultivation.
• The Mittel Clan expanded as its strength deterred rivals, and Peace City grew into an orderly neutral city in the Black-Corner Region.
• Less than half a year after opening, Peace City’s permanent population surpassed one million despite covert attempts to undermine it.
• Six months after the city opened, prominent factions arrived to congratulate its leaders and pay their respects.
• Mo Tianxing warned Mo Ya never to provoke anyone from Peace City after seeing that Earth Fiend Old Ghost had been identified as a Seven-Star Dou Zong.
• Mo Tianxing looked up and saw two figures appear in the sky, recognizing Earth Fiend Old Ghost and marveling that someone had crushed the veteran in a single move.

Cao Yuan and Cao Ping arrived in the Jia Ma Empire and reunited with Wu Yan, whose strength had reached Nine-Star Dou Zong after he killed Earth Fiend Old Ghost. Cao Yuan praised Wu Yan for helping Cao Ping grow and offered the Cao Clan’s backing, leaving their alliance poised to deepen.

• Cao Yuan and Cao Ping arrived in Mittel City through a spatial passage after hearing that Wu Yan controlled Peace City.
• Wu Yan welcomed Cao Ping and Cao Yuan at his manor, admitted he had killed Earth Fiend Old Ghost, and revealed he was a Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Wu Yan noticed Cao Ping had reached Dou Emperor and likely advanced to tier seven as an alchemist, while Cao Ping marveled at Wu Yan’s power.
• Cao Yuan recounted how Wu Yan had humbled Cao Ping years earlier and praised him for helping his grandson overcome his arrogance.
• Cao Yuan offered Wu Yan tier-eight pills and promised that the Cao Clan would refine ten more as its first investment in him.

Wu Yan accepted Cao Yuan’s pills and agreed to reach 7-Star Dou Zun before turning thirty in exchange for the Cao Clan’s Eighth-Rank Alchemy Grandmasters supporting him for thirty years. After Cao Yuan and Cao Ping departed, Wu Yan inspected the pills and found several Imperial Extreme Pills and Sect-Breaking Pills.

• Wu Yan accepted a Storage Ring containing more than a hundred sixth- and seventh-rank pills from Cao Yuan.
• Cao Yuan offered to have the Cao Clan’s Eighth-Rank Alchemy Grandmasters support Wu Yan for thirty years if he reached 7-Star Dou Zun before age thirty.
• Wu Yan asked what would happen if he failed to reach a higher realm after receiving the support, and Cao Yuan assured him the Cao Clan would not force him or offend him.
• Wu Yan agreed to the arrangement, and Cao Yuan sealed it with three claps of their palms.
• Cao Yuan and Cao Ping left after speaking with Wu Yan, and Cao Yuan resolved to provide the promised ten eighth-rank pills sooner.
• Wu Yan examined the Storage Ring and found several Imperial Extreme Pills and Sect-Breaking Pills among the high-tier pills.

After learning that the Heavenly Serpent Mansion had warned the Mittel Clan over its city massacres, Wu Yan confronted the mansion and forced its master to compensate him. He left with resources and the mansion’s promise to protect the Mittel Clan.

• Wu Yan counted the pills he had gathered and gave Ya Fei four Imperial Extreme Pills and three Sect-Breaking Pills to distribute.
• Ya Fei told Wu Yan that the Heavenly Serpent Mansion had warned the Mittel Clan against massacring cities, and Wu Yan destroyed the letter in anger.
• Wu Yan went to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion and froze its people in white mist, demanding that its mansion master appear.
• Wu Yan rebuked the mansion master for issuing him a warning and demanded three Earth Tier techniques with ice, water, and wind attributes.
• The mansion master agreed and declared the Mittel Clan a precious friend under the Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s protection, and Wu Yan departed with the promised resources.

Teng Shan briefed Mittel’s experts on the empire’s stability, and Wu Yan arrived to announce that the Heavenly Serpent Mansion would not oppose them and would allow trade routes through its territory. As Mittel’s allies celebrated their growing influence, the Medusa Queen worried that the Serpent-Human Tribe might become dispensable to Wu Yan.

• Teng Shan reported that Peace City and the Mittel Empire had stabilized, while remnants of the old regime posed little threat.
• Wu Yan arrived at the meeting and told Teng Shan that the Heavenly Serpent Mansion had agreed not to interfere and would permit Mittel to open trade routes through its territory.
• Wu Yan invited the assembled experts to speak with him after their meeting, then vanished from the palace.
• Gu He and Fa Ma described the Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s strength, and the others marveled that Wu Yan had made it yield.
• The Medusa Queen privately worried that Wu Yan’s growing power would leave the Serpent-Human Tribe with little value to him.

Medusa Queen worried that the Serpent-Human Tribe would lose its value as the Mittel Clan grew, but Wu Yan gave her a seventh-tier pill and urged his allies to keep advancing. On his journey back to the Jia Ma Empire, Wu Yan hunted magical beasts and sensed a peculiar aura after emerging from the void.

• Medusa Queen considered awakening her ancient bloodline to protect the Serpent-Human Tribe, but decided to wait while their cooperation with the Mittel Clan continued.
• Wu Yan showed the elders a low-grade seventh-tier Instant Qi Pill, then gave it to Medusa Queen as encouragement to break through to Dou Zong.
• Wu Yan announced that he would enter seclusion to pursue Dou Zun and urged everyone to cultivate so they would not fall behind him.
• Wu Yan hunted magical beasts in an unfamiliar part of the Magical Beast Mountains and obtained twenty-six fifth-tier and seven sixth-tier Magic Cores.
• After emerging from the void on his way back to the Jia Ma Empire, Wu Yan sensed a peculiar aura.

Wu Yan found Xiao Yi Xian unconscious in a hut and intervened to keep her Woeful Poison Body from harming those around her. After talking with her through the night, he carried her into the sky, leaving her feeling cherished for the first time.

• Wu Yan discovered Xiao Yi Xian unconscious in a remote hut and recognized her Woeful Poison Body.
• Wu Yan sealed part of Xiao Yi Xian’s poison in an icy-blue bracelet, absorbed the poisonous mist, and restored her with life energy.
• Wu Yan explained the Woeful Poison Body’s dangers, gave Xiao Yi Xian instructions for using the bracelet, and offered her a Mittel Clan token.
• Xiao Yi Xian questioned Wu Yan about why he had helped her, and he stayed to talk with her beside a bonfire through the night.
• Wu Yan carried Xiao Yi Xian into the sky, and she felt cherished for the first time.

Wu Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, money, and a Mittel Clan Patriarch's Token before she chose to continue traveling and treating people on her own. After returning, he told Ya Fei about Xiao Yi Xian's Woeful Poison Body, and Ya Fei learned that Wu Yan could not yet control it completely.

• Xiao Yi Xian chose to keep traveling alone, studying medicine and saving people to atone for those who died near her.
• Wu Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, a Storage Ring filled with wealth, and a Mittel Clan Patriarch's Token, while warning her not to slaughter people wantonly.
• Wu Yan returned and gave Ya Fei the gold coins and gold cards he had collected, which she counted as seventy million gold coins.
• Wu Yan asked Ya Fei to keep an eye out for Xiao Yi Xian and help her if needed, then explained the dangers of the Woeful Poison Body.
• Ya Fei asked whether the Woeful Poison Body could be controlled, and Wu Yan said he could not do it yet but might be able to in the future.

After reuniting with Ya Fei and reflecting on desire, Wu Yan received a letter from Gu Xun'er and traveled through the void to meet her. Gu Xun'er praised his recent conquests and suggested the Gu Clan would value him, while Wu Yan questioned whether he would leave the Mittel Clan.

• Wu Yan spent several days with Ya Fei, then reflected on how to distinguish satisfying his desires from being controlled by them.
• Wu Yan and Ya Fei added a warm-based swimming pool to their manor and rested in it.
• Ling Ying delivered Gu Xun'er's letter, and Wu Yan left Ya Fei a note before taking Ling Ying through the void to meet Gu Xun'er.
• Wu Yan and Gu Xun'er discussed his recent conquests of the Serpent-Human Tribe, Demon Flame Valley, and the Falling Goose Empire.
• Gu Xun'er said the Gu Clan would nurture Wu Yan as a core member, and Wu Yan asked whether she thought he would leave the Mittel Clan.

Wu Yan and Gu Xun'er discussed their ambitions, cultivation, and the support the Gu Clan had offered him. Wu Yan explained that talent alone could not protect a person, prompting Gu Xun'er to reconsider how geniuses survived in a world ruled by strength.

• Wu Yan told Gu Xun'er he wanted to raise the Mittel Clan to the continent's peak, and she encouraged him.
• Wu Yan and Gu Xun'er compared their cultivation, with Gu Xun'er guessing that he was near the peak of the Dou Zong realm.
• Wu Yan reflected on Gu Xun'er's status, talent, and potential, and recognized how valuable her support and protection were to him.
• Gu Xun'er said the Gu Clan elders had invested in Wu Yan because of his exceptional talent and that she would have persuaded her father to help him regardless.
• Wu Yan warned Gu Xun'er that geniuses needed restraint because powerful people could eliminate them before they became strong.
• Gu Xun'er reconsidered her assumptions about genius and power, and Wu Yan reassured her that she deserved the protection she had received.

Gu Xun'er gave Wu Yan three eighth-grade four-colored medicinal pills and a high-grade Earth Tier Dou Technique, warning him that using it would mark him as tied to the Gu Clan. After Wu Yan entered seclusion, the Jia Ma Empire’s Imperial Clan faction grew increasingly envious as the Mittel Clan and its allies profited from conquering another empire and operating Peace City.

• Gu Xun'er gave Wu Yan additional investment and cautioned him that using the Emperor's Seal Technique would identify him with the Gu Clan.
• Wu Yan said he would use the technique cautiously and joked that his past opponents had been too weak to require one.
• Wu Yan gave Gu Xun'er a life-energy sphere, and she reflected on the Dou Qi Continent before her guards noticed a change in her presence.
• After resting for half a month, Wu Yan instructed Ya Fei, placed six copied Earth Tier cultivation methods and Dou Techniques in the clan's Scripture Pavilion, and entered seclusion.
• As the year ended, the Imperial Clan faction grew jealous of the Mittel Clan and its allies for profiting from their conquest and from Peace City.

Jia Xing Tian accepted that the Imperial Clan had been shut out of Mittel’s growing alliance and influence, while the Jia Ma Empire’s people celebrated the improved peace. At the Xiao Clan’s year-end gathering, Xiao Yan was acclaimed as a future clan chief, but Gu Xun’er grew disillusioned with his arrogance and worried that his enemies might kill him before he matured.

• Jia Xing Tian rejected Yaoye’s idea of a marriage alliance, concluding that Mittel no longer needed the Imperial Clan or its offerings.
• The Jia Ma Empire’s people welcomed the peace after Mittel and its allies conquered the Falling Goose Empire.
• Xiao Yan reached one-star Dou Zhe after rebuilding his cultivation, and the Xiao Clan acclaimed him as its prospective young clan chief.
• Xiao Yan asked Gu Xun’er whether he had offended her, and she reassured him before he left.
• Gu Xun’er judged Xiao Yan arrogant and worried that his public displays might prompt his enemies to join forces against him.

Wu Yue arrived at the Xiao Clan with Nalan Yanran and demanded that Xiao Yan’s marriage contract with Nalan Yanran be annulled because her brother, Wu Yan, wanted Nalan Yanran. The dispute escalated when Wu Yue declared that Gu Xun’er was also Wu Yan’s beloved, leaving the Xiao Clan to speculate about gaining ties to the Mittel Clan.

• Wu Yue told Xiao Yan’s father that Nalan Yanran’s marriage contract with Xiao Yan was annulled because Wu Yan had taken an interest in her.
• Xiao Yan objected, but Wu Yue mocked the Xiao Clan’s weakness and warned him about the consequences of angering her brother.
• Xiao Yan challenged Wu Yue’s claim that she spoke for Wu Yan, and she showed ice-blue bracelets that she said were gifts from him to her and Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan grabbed Gu Xun’er’s wrist and demanded to know whether she was also Wu Yan’s beloved; Wu Yue said that Gu Xun’er was her little sister-in-law.
• The Xiao Clan members whispered about benefiting from a connection to the Mittel Clan, and an elder silenced them while Gu Xun’er calmly indicated that she was not offended.

Wu Yue reconciled with Gu Xun'er after confronting Xiao Yan and Deacon Ge Ye, then returned to the Mittel Clan, where Ya Fei gave her and Nalan Yanran Earth Tier treasures from Wu Yan. The chapter ended with Ya Fei bringing more items Wu Yan had left to the Mittel Clan’s main hall and asking where Medusa Queen was.

• Gu Xun'er shook off Xiao Yan and left, while Wu Yue warned him and told Deacon Ge Ye to remain with the Xiao Clan.
• Wu Yue apologized to Gu Xun'er, introduced herself and Nalan Yanran, and gave Gu Xun'er a token for conveniences in Mittel Clan business.
• Wu Yue and Nalan Yanran joined Ya Fei at the pool and learned that Wu Yan was in seclusion attempting to reach Dou Zun.
• Ya Fei gave Wu Yue two Earth Tier scrolls from Wu Yan and asked her to have Sect Leader Yun study them before teaching the girls.
• Ya Fei brought two bone-white scrolls and two jade bottles to the Mittel Clan’s main hall and asked where Medusa Queen was.

Hai Bodong and Teng Shan examined the Earth Tier inheritances and pills Xiao Yan had left behind, while Nalan Jie came to confront Nalan Yanran over her broken engagement. Wu Yue claimed she had orchestrated the breakup because she loved Nalan Yanran, and Ya Fei persuaded Nalan Jie to visit the Xiao Clan and mend relations.

• Ya Fei told Hai Bodong and Teng Shan that Xiao Yan had given him two Earth Tier scrolls, an Imperial Extreme Pill, and a Sect-Breaking Pill.
• Hai Bodong sensed Nalan Jie approaching Mittel City and welcomed him inside.
• Nalan Jie told Teng Shan that Nalan Yanran had broken off her engagement, then confronted her when Ya Fei brought her to meet him.
• Nalan Yanran argued that she had never been asked for her opinion, but Wu Yue stepped in and claimed she had caused the breakup because she wanted to be with Nalan Yanran.
• Ya Fei sent Nalan Yanran and Wu Yue away, then advised Nalan Jie to bring wine and cultivation gifts to the Xiao Clan to repair the relationship.
• Nalan Jie accepted Ya Fei's advice and left, while Teng Shan wondered why he had blamed his granddaughter and planned to offer her to the Xiao Clan despite rarely contacting them.

After Wu Yan broke through to Dou Zun, the Little Blue Bottle gained the ability to condense spiritual energy into Spirit Liquid, allowing him to cultivate his soul. Wu Yan reached the Spirit Realm and met Cao Yuan, who offered to teach him a soul cultivation technique.

• Wu Yue teased Nalan Yanran at the pool, then asked Ya Fei for a secret formula the next day.
• Wu Yan discovered the Little Blue Bottle’s new ability to condense spiritual energy into Spirit Liquid and tested it.
• Wu Yan drank Spirit Liquid and forcefully broke through to the Spirit Realm, causing a brilliant disturbance across Mittel City and the surrounding area.
• Hai Bodong and others suspected Wu Yan had caused the disturbance, while Wu Yan remained in seclusion for more than half a month.
• Cao Yuan arrived through a spatial passage, recognized that Wu Yan’s soul power had reached the Spirit Realm, and offered to teach him a soul cultivation technique.

Wu Yan revealed that he had reached the Dou Zun realm, received resources and soul-cultivation guidance from Cao Yuan, and began cultivating with a new technique. After Wu Yue confessed that she had broken off an engagement with the Xiao Clan, Wu Yan dismissed her with a warning to treat Xun'er respectfully.

• Cao Yuan discovered Wu Yan had already reached Dou Zun and gave him ten eighth-grade pills and a soul cultivation technique.
• Wu Yan mastered the technique with Cao Yuan's guidance, drained the Little Blue Bottle, and continued cultivating before emerging to assess his new realm.
• Ya Fei told Wu Yan that the Medusa Queen had left to search for Heavenly Flames, and Wu Yan offered to lend her the Sea Heart Flame.
• Wu Yue confessed that she and Nalan Yanran had gone to the Xiao Clan to break off an engagement, and Wu Yan told her to learn from the mistake and respect Xun'er.
• Wu Yan dismissed Wu Yue and warned her not to call other women his sister-in-law, while Ya Fei pushed the girl away playfully.