Chapter Summaries

After spending a night with Ya Fei and Medusa Queen, Wu Yan left an eighth-tier pill for Medusa Queen and entered seclusion to cultivate. Two and a half months later, he planned to create a vast permanent space based on Ya Fei’s design, with room for the Serpent-Human Tribe.

• Cao Yuan and Cao Ping left Mittel City with Gu He and a Spatial Jade Slip linking Mittel City to Cao City.
• Wu Yue complained that Ya Fei and Nalan Yanran had taken the horses he had left for her and her Senior Sister, so Wu Yan gave them horses.
• After a night with Ya Fei and Medusa Queen, Wu Yan realized Medusa Queen had been a virgin and left her an eighth-tier pill before entering cultivation seclusion.
• Ya Fei and Medusa Queen read Wu Yan’s note and considered what their shared space should look like.
• Two and a half months later, Wu Yan approved Ya Fei’s design and said he could create a permanent space as large as the Jia Ma Empire.
• Wu Yan offered the Serpent-Human Tribe an area in the new space, delighting Medusa Queen.

Wu Yan created an enormous independent space with separate habitats for the Mittel Family, the Serpent-Human Tribe, and his companions. After showing Yun Yun, Medusa, and Ya Fei around, he drew Yun Yun into his embrace and told her she would have to become his woman to live there.

• Wu Yan used his Battle Saint powers to create a vast, furnished independent space near Mittel City, with mountains, rivers, and other landscapes.
• Wu Yan returned to the manor and congratulated Yun Yun on breaking through to the Dou Zong realm.
• Wu Yan brought Yun Yun, Medusa, and Ya Fei into the space and showed them the Mittel Clan's plain and the Serpent-Human Tribe's wetland habitat.
• Wu Yan showed the women his private central region, and Yun Yun agreed to stay there with him.
• Wu Yan embraced Yun Yun, kissed her, and told her that she had to become his woman if she wanted to live there.

Wu Yan told his three sisters about the two women who might join their family and showed them the vast, energy-rich space he controlled. He planned to develop the Mittel Clan by adapting the Gu Clan’s institutions, then left its day-to-day affairs to his subordinates and focused on cultivation.

• Wu Yan told his three sisters that Gu Xun'er and another woman might become their younger sisters through marriage alliances.
• Wu Yan showed the three women the space, whose regions covered nearly the area of an empire and held far denser natural energy than the outside world.
• Wu Yan moved the Ice Tower containing the Falling Heart Flame into the space while its occupants continued cultivating, unaware of the relocation.
• Wu Yan decided to model the Mittel Clan’s development on the Gu Clan’s systems, reasoning that his authority as its founder would let him reform institutions more freely than Gu Yuan could.
• Wu Yan delegated the space’s arrangements to his subordinates and focused on cultivation because his current strength was still limited.

After Wu Yan advanced to Battle Saint and established a refuge for the Mittel Clan, the clan invited Northwestern Continent factions to a gathering. Wu Yan appeared before them and announced that he would readjust the continent’s structure, leaving Teng Shan to explain the details.

• Teng Shan told the Mittel elders that Wu Yan had opened a safe independent space for noncombatant clansmen, and the clan began relocating there.
• Wu Yan left a spatial gate connected to Mittel City and entered closed-door cultivation while the Serpent-Human Tribe handled its own relocation matters.
• Rumors spread that Wu Yan had become a Battle Saint, and the Mittel Clan invited factions with resident Dou Zong experts to a gathering.
• Invited factions entered the Mittel Clan’s independent space, admired its thriving settlement, and assembled at Mittel Square.
• Wu Yan appeared on the throne, warned the gathered experts against provoking him, and announced that he would readjust the Northwestern Continent’s structure before handing the specifics to Teng Shan.

Mittel Clan established that the Northwestern Continent’s powers would surrender fifty percent of their resources every ten years, while Wu Yan assessed the younger generation and considered improving Ya Fei’s cultivation. The chapter ended with Medusa quietly troubled by disagreements among her subordinate leaders.

• Teng Shan explained that Mittel Clan would not seize territories but demanded fifty percent of each power’s resources every ten years, and the gathered leaders accepted the terms.
• Wu Yan judged Wu Yue, Nalan Yanran, and Qing Lin’s cultivation and sent the three girls off to play.
• Wu Yan praised Wu Yue and Nalan Yanran’s progress, then teased Ya Fei about cultivating; she said she preferred spending time with him.
• Wu Yan recalled that his secluded cultivation had raised his soul strength to Heaven Realm Great Perfection and shortened the Little Blue Bottle’s Spirit Liquid production time to one day.
• Wu Yan noticed Medusa was distracted, and she admitted there were minor disagreements among her subordinate leaders.

Nalan Yanran weighed how to approach her teacher, while Teng Shan enforced the Mittel Clan’s tribute agreement and announced the Clan Leader’s plans. The chapter ended with Teng Shan demanding that the Serpent-Human Tribe prove its loyalty or pay tribute.

• Nalan Yanran admitted to Wu Yue that something troubled her and decided to probe her teacher’s attitude first.
• Teng Shan finalized tribute shares with the Northwestern Continent’s factions and privately agreed to give an elderly figure thirty percent.
• The factions publicized the Plaza Agreement and spread news that the Mittel Clan had a Battle Saint, framing their tribute as protection money.
• Teng Shan told the Mittel Clan elders that the Clan Leader would openly claim authority over the Northwestern Continent and hold an auction in Mittel City one year later, featuring a treasure related to advancing to Battle Saint.
• Teng Shan visited the Serpent-Human Tribe and demanded fifty percent tribute unless its members could prove they were loyal subjects of the Queen, the Clan Leader’s wife.

Wu Yan discussed medicinal pills and an upcoming auction with Cao Ping before leaving the Cao Clan to hunt for ninth-rank magical beasts. He entered the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s territory, intending to exploit his knowledge of its weak leadership.

• Cao Ping told Wu Yan that the Cao Clan’s ancestors could not refine ninth-rank pills, while Wu Yan explained that eighth-rank pills still aided his cultivation.
• Wu Yan told Cao Ping that the Mittel Clan would auction a treasure related to advancing to a Battle Saint in a year.
• Wu Yan decided against risking the Bodhi Ancient Tree opportunity and considered obtaining ninth-tier magic cores in the Beast Region instead.
• Wu Yan sneaked into the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s territory and recalled that its three ninth-rank members included a foolish two-star Battle Saint who had been betrayed and imprisoned.

Wu Yan descended into the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs to free Yao Ming, the former chief of the Nine Netherworld Python Clan, and seize the resources beneath the clan’s territory. After tricking Yao Ming into swallowing a hostile ice sphere and killing him, Wu Yan continued downward toward an enormous Yellow Springs Blood Crystal.

• Wu Yan entered the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs, reasoning that he could take its treasures without alerting the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s experts.
• Wu Yan found Yao Ming shackled beneath the lake and pretended to doubt his claim that he was the clan’s chief.
• Wu Yan made Yao Ming swallow an ice sphere filled with hostile powers, which gravely weakened him.
• Wu Yan mocked Yao Ming for trusting a stranger, killed him, and preserved his Ninth-Rank Magical Beast body and core.
• Wu Yan continued descending through the Yellow Springs and spotted an enormous Yellow Springs Blood Crystal.

Wu Yan collected the Yellow Springs Blood Crystal and found a nest of Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python remains before setting a trap for Yao Xiaotian and the Nine Netherworld Python Clan. The clan’s experts were transported to another world, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Wu Yan stored the Yellow Springs Blood Crystal in the Little Blue Bottle and searched the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs for a nest of Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python remains, leaving a mark and an ice-blue crystal there.
• Wu Yan concealed his aura, left an energy clone to ascend, and slipped into the void to make arrangements.
• Yao Xiaotian confronted the apparent Wu Yan, identified himself as clan leader, and summoned the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s experts to avenge Yao Ming.
• Yao Xiaotian ordered more than a hundred Dou Zun experts to form the Myriad Snake Formation and surround Wu Yan’s energy clone.
• Wu Yan’s clone recited a verse amid intense ice-blue radiance, and the assembled experts found themselves transported to another world instead of witnessing an explosion.

Wu Yan defeated the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s guards and looted their treasuries before reaching the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance monument. He sent a soul avatar inside to claim the inheritance and prepared to take the monument with him.

• Wu Yan’s ice beasts overwhelmed the Nine Netherworld Python Clan experts, who formed a grand formation and tried to break out of the frozen space.
• Icy-blue vines pierced Yao Xiaotian and the First Elder as they launched their full-strength attacks, killing them and freezing more than a hundred Dou Zun experts.
• Wu Yan dismissed the temporary space, collected the clan members as specimens, and looted the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s treasuries.
• Wu Yan reached the clan’s back mountain and identified the monument’s Yellow Springs Finger, Yellow Springs Palm, and Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath inheritances.
• Wu Yan sent a soul avatar into the monument to obtain its inheritance while he checked the altar’s warning formations.

Wu Yan returned to the Ice Realm with Yellow Springs Demon Saint's treasures, helped Ya Fei cultivate with Energy Liquid, and then entered seclusion to absorb his spoils. Meanwhile, the Mittel Clan prepared for an auction drawing the continent's attention, and Cao Yuan offered the Cao Clan's help.

• Wu Yan returned to the Ice Realm with Yellow Springs Demon Saint's essence blood and inheritance, and found that Teng Shan had moved the Serpent-Human Tribe into his spatial realm.
• Wu Yan gave Ya Fei red Energy Liquid to improve her aptitude, stayed beside her as she cultivated, and spent the following half month with her.
• Wu Yan catalogued his treasures and consumed Yellow Springs Blood Crystal Source and Yellow Springs Demon Saint's essence blood to raise his cultivation.
• News of the Mittel Auction spread across the continent, and Teng Shan led the Mittel Clan's preparations with Skyfire Venerable's help.
• Cao Yuan offered Teng Shan the Cao Clan's assistance with the auction, and Teng Shan accepted.

After leaving seclusion, Wu Yan reunited with Ya Fei and Gu Xun'er, who explained why the Gu Clan and other Ancient Races were interested in his auction. Gu Xun'er also warned him about unrest among the Nine Netherworld Python Clan in the Beast Region.

• With the Cao Clan's help, the Mittel Clan organized preparations for the auction, and the Gu Clan arrived ahead of schedule.
• After emerging from seclusion, Wu Yan found Ya Fei and Gu Xun'er together and asked Xun'er how she had settled in.
• Gu Xun'er explained that the auction attracted the Ancient Races because its treasure offered an opportunity to advance to Battle Saint, and said she had come to keep other clans' women from pursuing Wu Yan.
• Ya Fei told Wu Yan that people were calling the Mittel Clan the Northwestern Continent's Supreme Emperor, and he said he did not care about the title.
• Gu Xun'er reported that the Nine Netherworld Python Clan had fallen into chaos without its upper ranks intervening, and she and Wu Yan discussed the Warcraft Clan's strength.

Wu Yan checked on the Cao Clan and learned that Cao Ping was improving, while Gu He was asked to introduce Xuan Kongzi and the other Pill Tower presidents to Lord Yan ahead of the Mittel Clan auction. At Starfall Pavilion, Yao Chen prepared to seek help refining the ninth-grade pills he owed and told Xiao Yan to invite Mu Qingluan to the auction.

• Wu Yan met Elder Tong Xuan and Cao Yuan, who reported that Cao Ping was diligently cultivating and nearing a breakthrough in soul power.
• At the Pill Tower, Xuan Kongzi asked Gu He to accompany the presidents to the Mittel Clan auction and introduce them to Lord Yan.
• Xuan Kongzi offered to take Gu He as a registered disciple after the meeting, and explained that the Pill Tower could not compete with the ancient clans for the auction treasure.
• Xiao Yan asked why Yao Chen planned to attend the auction, and Yao Chen explained that he needed help producing the five ninth-grade pills he owed.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that the ninth-grade pill's Black Demon Lightning would require help from a Battle Saint and ordered him to ask Mu Qingluan to come along.

While waiting for the auction in Mittel City, Wu Yan considered creating a cultivation method suited to his mutated Dou Qi and used a ninth-tier Magic Core to strengthen his control over the energy of heaven and earth. He then appeared in a Battle Saint-created space where Cao Ping was guiding three young people, and warned him that their journey without a Dou Zun escort was risky.

• Wu Yan reflected on the scarcity of high-tier Magic Cores and drank Spirit Liquid mixed with a ninth-tier Magic Core, gaining an independent ×2 multiplier to his authority over the energy of heaven and earth.
• Wu Yan assessed his slow progress in soul power and Dou Qi and decided he wanted to create a cultivation method tailored to himself.
• Wu Yan concluded that the Soul Clan would make no major moves for several years and that the Spirit Clan's destruction was still far off.
• Cao Ping showed three youngsters the dense energy in a space independent from the Dou Qi Continent and explained why the family valued it.
• Wu Yan appeared beside Cao Ping, cautioned him about bringing the three youngsters without a Dou Zun escort, and heard Cao Ping say he expected to reach eighth-grade alchemist status within three years.

Wu Yan received the Cao Clan’s young geniuses, rejected the Pill Tower’s offer to make him an honorary elder, and watched as Cao Ying confronted the Ye Clan over a broken engagement. The Ye Clan’s First Elder refused to accept the dissolution, determined to keep the protection of a Battle Saint.

• Wu Yan praised the Cao Clan’s three young geniuses and warned them not to become arrogant or impatient.
• Gu Xun'er watched Ya Fei and other women enter Wu Yan’s room, frustrated that she could not join them before reaching Battle Saint.
• Wu Yan refused requests for meetings from people who falsely claimed to know him, then met Xuan Kongzi and declined the Pill Tower’s honorary elder position after rejecting its offer of one ninth-tier medicinal pill every three years.
• Wu Yan checked on Gu He and then secretly followed Cao Ying and the other Cao Clan geniuses when he noticed their dispute with the Ye Clan.
• Cao Ying told the Ye Clan to accept the broken engagement or face a letter of repudiation from Cao Dan, while the Ye Clan’s First Elder refused to give up the protection of a Battle Saint.

The Cao Clan broke its marriage agreement with the declining Ye Clan, confident in its ties to a Battle Saint, while Cao Ying wondered whether her clan might someday fall into the same decline. Wu Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, who asked to stay by his side.

• The Cao Clan told the Ye Clan it was ending the marriage agreement, and the Ye Clan's First Elder refused to accept the decision.
• Cao Ying considered whether the Cao Clan could eventually decline like the Ye Clan, despite its promising younger generations.
• Xuan Kongzi sensed an old acquaintance after returning to Mittel City and went to investigate alone.
• Wu Yan met Xiao Yi Xian and teased her for never using the token he had given her.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Wu Yan to let her remain by his side because she feared losing more family and being alone.

Xiao Yi Xian joined Wu Yan’s family, while the auction in Mittel City began under the shadow of the Soul Hall’s arrival. After a display of overwhelming power and the first item’s revealing provenance, Gu You grew afraid that Mittel’s lord might kill him.

• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to stay with Wu Yan, and Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and Gu Xun'er welcomed her into the family.
• Delegations from the Ancient Races gathered in Mittel City as the auction approached.
• The Soul Hall arrived, and Elder Tong Xuan told its members not to disturb the gathering.
• Gu You challenged Tong Xuan, but an overwhelming aura smashed him and the Soul Hall experts into the ground.
• Mittel’s auction began with the Azure Cloud Sword, which Gu You recognized as spoils from the destroyed Azure Cloud Sect.
• Gu You realized Mittel’s lord might have destroyed the sect and began considering how to escape.

At the auction, Cao Yuan explained that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had been cursed after fighting alongside a Dou Di and that the next lot could awaken its consciousness and help remove the curse. He left the treasure itself unnamed as the bidders awaited the starting price.

• The auction reached its second-to-last lot, and Cao Yuan took the stage to explain its importance.
• Cao Yuan revealed that the lot was connected to the Bodhi Ancient Tree and the chance to obtain a Bodhi Heart, prompting the ancient clans and Gu You to consider bidding.
• Cao Yuan recounted how the Bodhi Ancient Tree had helped a Dou Di kill another Dou Di and was cursed by the defeated expert, leaving it in a chaotic state.
• Cao Yuan said the treasure could briefly awaken the tree and, with a Heavenly Flame, help it remove the curse and potentially offer the winner a chance to comprehend the Dao beneath it.
• Cao Yuan withheld the treasure’s identity and left the bidders waiting to hear its starting price.

After the auction revealed that the Dou Qi Continent might lack whatever was needed to produce a Dou Di, factions competed secretly for a treasure that could help create a Battle Saint. Yao Chen and Xuan Kongzi began refining a Ninth-Rank Medicinal Pill with Wu Yan’s help, but an unknown figure suddenly appeared and plunged Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan’s world into darkness.

• Cao Yuan announced that bidders had thirty days to submit offers for the Battle Saint-related treasure, then shared the Yellow Springs Great Saint’s claim that the world was missing something needed to become a Dou Di.
• Gu You decided to report both the revelation and the treasure to the Soul Hall Master, while factions left the Mittel Clan to prepare secret bids.
• Yao Chen abandoned hope of winning the treasure and, with Xuan Kongzi and Xiao Yan, asked Wu Yan to help them refine a Ninth-Rank Medicinal Pill.
• Yao Chen and Xuan Kongzi’s first attempt to refine the pill failed, while Xiao Yan watched and Mu Qingluan stood beside him in eager anticipation.
• A figure silently appeared before Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan, and their vision blurred as darkness swallowed the world.

Wu Yan considered the ancient clans’ bids for his treasure but rejected them after finding none suitable for his cultivation. After gaining strength from several Ninth-Grade pills, he told Yao Chen he would trade the treasure for three more.

• Wu Yan refined and consumed the Black Demon Lightning, then fed a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill to the Little Blue Bottle and steadily strengthened over the following days.
• Teng Shan presented the ancient clans’ bids, and Wu Yan weighed the Yao Clan’s healing pill against the Gu Clan’s cultivation methods and battle skills.
• Wu Yan learned that the Yao Clan’s Ninth-Grade pill only healed Battle Saint injuries, so he declared the treasure unsold.
• Rumors spread for months about the failed auction while Wu Yan hosted guests and obtained four more Ninth-Grade Treasure Pills.
• After Yao Chen asked about the unsold treasure, Wu Yan offered it in exchange for three more Ninth-Grade pills.