Recaps

Qin Yu tested his Soul Restraint Method on Yao Lao, who confirmed it could restrain an ordinary Dou Zong. Later, news spread that Qin Yu and three friends had destroyed the Evil Bone Sect in the Black-Corner Region.

• Qin Yu asked Yao Lao to let him test the Soul Restraint Method, and Yao Lao reluctantly agreed.
• Qin Yu bound Yao Lao with soul hook chains and refined his method while Xiao Yan watched.
• Yao Lao praised Qin Yu’s progress, then teased Xiao Yan about his slower learning and urged him to train harder.
• Yao Lao offered to teach Xiao Yan a movement technique, and Xiao Yan asked whether he could someday challenge Dou Zongs like Qin Yu.
• After Xiao Yan broke through to the Dou Ling realm, news spread that Qin Yu and three friends had wiped out the Evil Bone Sect.

Qin Yu tested his Soul Restraint Method on Yao Lao, who confirmed it could restrain ordinary Dou Zong. After Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion as a Dou Ling, news spread that Qin Yu and three friends had destroyed the Evil Bone Sect.

• Qin Yu asked Yao Lao to let him test his Soul Restraint Method and successfully bound Yao Lao without resistance.
• Yao Lao praised Qin Yu’s progress and teased Xiao Yan for learning more slowly before offering to teach him a movement Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yan asked why Qin Yu wanted to restrain Dou Zong souls, and Yao Lao guessed he had acquired a technique with special requirements.
• Xiao Yan later broke through to Dou Ling and emerged from seclusion.
• News circulated that Qin Yu and three friends had slaughtered the Evil Bone Sect in the Black-Corner Region.

Qin Yu began refining a Heavenly Demon Puppet from Earth Demon Old Ghost's corpse, a seventh-tier Fire Attribute magic core, and Bone Old Demon's soul. After ten days of work, a silver-white puppet emerged, leaving its power yet to be revealed.

• Su Qian visited Qin Yu after the Evil Bone Sect's destruction and heard that Qin Yu planned to wipe out the Feng Alliance after refining his puppet.
• Qin Yu told Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan that he would enter seclusion and asked them to stay away while he worked.
• Qin Yu prepared Earth Demon Old Ghost's corpse, a seventh-tier Fire Attribute magic core, and Bone Old Demon's soul in an isolated mountain hollow.
• Qin Yu refined the corpse with Heavenly Flames, infused it with the magic core, and forced Bone Old Demon's soul into the puppet despite its resistance.
• Qin Yu added special ores and metals during the refinement, and on the tenth day a silver-white humanoid puppet appeared before him.

After finishing the Earth Demon Puppet, Qin Yu returned to Jia Nan Academy and learned that Han Feng's Feng Alliance was preparing for war. Suspecting Han Feng had hidden backing, Qin Yu planned to disrupt the alliance by targeting Mo Ya, then left with Xiao Yi Xian's incapacitating poison and the puppet.

• Qin Yu completed the Earth Demon Puppet's master recognition, tested its strength, and stored it before returning to Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian told Qin Yu that Han Feng had expanded the Feng Alliance and clashed with the Academy, prompting Qin Yu to suspect that Han Feng had support from the Hall of Souls.
• Qin Yu learned that Mo Tianxing had remained in Black Emperor City and concluded that the Feng Alliance was still unstable and could be thrown into disarray by striking key members.
• Qin Yu asked Xiao Yi Xian for nonlethal poison potent enough to incapacitate a Dou Emperor, planning to use it against Mo Ya to provoke Mo Tianxing.
• Xiao Yi Xian supplied the poison, and Qin Yu left alone with the Earth Demon Puppet while Su Qian urged the Academy's students to stay cautious.

Qin Yu infiltrated Black Emperor City, found Mo Ya at the auction house, and poisoned and abducted him on the way back to the headquarters. Mo Tianxing waited for his son in the sect's main hall, and the chapter ended as the hidden guard captain returned with grave news.

• Qin Yu secretly set up weakening formations outside Black Emperor City before entering and going to Mo Ya's residence, but found it empty.
• A Black Emperor Sect elder revealed that Mo Ya had gone to the Black Emperor Auction House, where Qin Yu found him drinking and behaving lewdly with a woman.
• A guard summoned Mo Ya to the main hall at Mo Tianxing's order, and Mo Ya left the auction house for the headquarters.
• Xiao Yi Xian's poison took effect as Mo Ya walked through the city, and Qin Yu caught him, slung him over his shoulder, and vanished.
• Mo Tianxing sent Old Mo to retrieve Mo Ya, but the hidden guard captain soon returned to the hall on one knee with a grave expression.

Mo Tianxing learned that Mo Ya had disappeared and followed a threatening message to a meeting place, believing Jia Nan Academy had abducted his son to pressure him. Instead, Qin Yu’s Earth Demon Puppet ambushed him, and a suppressive array trapped him as he tried to flee.

• Mo Tianxing ordered the shadow guards to search for Mo Ya after learning the Young Sect Master had vanished.
• A shadow guard found a letter demanding that Mo Tianxing leave the city alone and not inform the Feng Alliance, or Mo Ya would be harmed.
• Mo Tianxing concluded that Jia Nan Academy had kidnapped Mo Ya to weaken the Feng Alliance and went alone to the designated location after making preparations.
• The Earth Demon Puppet attacked Mo Tianxing, overpowering his defenses and revealing that the meeting was an attempt to kill him, not negotiate.
• Mo Tianxing tried to escape toward Black Emperor City, but a suppressive array slowed him as the Earth Demon Puppet closed in.

Qin Yu defeated Mo Tianxing, captured his soul, and used the Earth Demon Puppet to eliminate the Black Emperor Sect reinforcements. After searching Mo Tianxing’s soul, Qin Yu discovered a seventh-tier magical beast core and raided the sect’s treasury.

• Mo Tianxing crushed his distress jade slip, summoning the Black Emperor Sect elders, while the Earth Demon Puppet overwhelmed him.
• Qin Yu appeared, rejected Mo Tianxing’s offer to surrender assets, and intensified the formation’s suppression.
• The Earth Demon Puppet intercepted the First Elder, Second Elder, and death warriors, killing many and driving the First Elder to flee.
• Qin Yu killed Mo Tianxing and confined his soul, then learned through soul-searching that the Black Emperor Sect possessed a seventh-tier magical beast core.
• Qin Yu caught up with and killed the First Elder, returned to Black Emperor City, and searched the sect treasury for its riches.

Qin Yu and the Jia Nan Academy group explored the Black Emperor Treasury after he eliminated Mo Tianxing and the Black Emperor Sect’s strongest fighters. They gathered the treasury’s treasures and prepared to leave before Han Feng could respond.

• Qin Yu pointed Zi Yan toward the spatially sealed treasures and waited while she retrieved them.
• Yun Yun asked about Mo Tianxing, and Qin Yu showed the group Mo Tianxing’s corpse and captured soul and confirmed that the Black Emperor Sect’s high-level Dou Emperors had been eliminated.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked whether her poison had helped kill Mo Ya, and Qin Yu reassured her about the shackles controlling her Woeful Poison Body.
• Zi Yan brought Qin Yu the treasures, slipped and dropped them, and Qin Yu picked up the seventh-rank Magic Core and noticed the Six Directions Wandering Body Ruler.
• Zi Yan called herself younger than Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian, prompting them to threaten her with a lesson in their Earth Tier Dou Technique.
• Qin Yu teased Su Qian about the academy’s share of the spoils, then warned the group that Han Feng likely knew what had happened and they should leave.

Qin Yu’s group emptied the Black Emperor Treasury and returned to the academy, while news of Mo Tianxing’s death sparked infighting in the Feng Alliance. Han Feng’s allies began withdrawing, and Protector Xuan urged him to prepare more souls for the Soul Hall.

• Qin Yu told Su Qian he could refine another puppet, though it would only reach Four-Star Dou Zong strength, and Zi Yan returned bruised after Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian scolded her.
• Qin Yu and his group finished emptying the Black Emperor Treasury and left Black Emperor City behind in chaos.
• Han Feng learned that Mo Tianxing was dead, and Feng Alliance members argued over seizing Black Emperor City’s assets.
• Han Feng warned the alliance that Jia Nan Academy was a major threat, but two faction leaders withdrew from the Feng Alliance after a heated dispute.
• Han Feng returned to his courtyard and raged about the alliance’s cowardice before Protector Xuan arrived.
• Protector Xuan accepted information about two departing Dou Emperors, called their souls appetizers, and told Han Feng to prepare the main course.

Qin Yu finished modifying his Human Demon Puppet and prepared to eliminate the Feng Alliance, while Yun Yun warned Zi Yan to rest before the coming battle. Qin Yu then planned to consult Yao Chen about an Earth Tier ruler technique.

• Yun Yun told Zi Yan that Qin Yu had finished the puppet and warned her to rest because they would soon attack the Feng Alliance.
• Qin Yu fitted blades, armor, and a lightning-core Formation to the Human Demon Puppet, then tested its attacks.
• Qin Yu contacted Yun Yun through their Qilin Mark and said he still needed to make preparations before taking down the Feng Alliance.
• Qin Yu took out the Six Directions Wandering Body Ruler scroll and decided to ask Yao Chen whether he had anything useful.

Qin Yu traded the Six Directions Wandering Body Ruler to Yao Chen for a Soul Art and a Sea Demon Heartstone, then left Xiao Yan curious about where his techniques came from. After a week of uneasy calm between Jia Nan Academy and the Feng Alliance, news of the Gold and Silver Elders’ deaths warned Han Feng that a dangerous group had arrived.

• Qin Yu offered Yao Chen the Six Directions Wandering Body Ruler and asked for something to strengthen his soul power.
• Yao Chen gave Qin Yu a Soul Art scroll and a Sea Demon Heartstone, while Xiao Yan eagerly studied the Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yan asked Qin Yu about the origins of his techniques, but Qin Yu refused to explain and left as a woman arrived to meet Xiao Yan.
• Qin Yu set aside the Heartstone until the Feng Alliance conflict was resolved, while Jia Nan Academy’s elders prepared and Han Feng recruited allies.
• A week later, Han Feng learned that the Gold and Silver Elders had been killed near Feng City, and Protector Xuan warned him that the attackers were formidable.

Qin Yu and his allies fought Han Feng, Protector Xuan, Elder Yingshan, and Su Qian’s opponents outside Feng City. After Qin Yu’s two Heavenly Flames overwhelmed Han Feng’s attack, Protector Xuan saved him from the first Qilin, but Qin Yu summoned a second one and left them facing a dire choice.

• The Earth Demon Puppet attacked Han Feng while Elder Yingshan and Su Qian were held up by the Human Demon Puppet and ten Hall of Souls Soul Envoys.
• Protector Xuan battled the Earth Demon Puppet while Han Feng struggled against Qin Yu’s secret-technique-enhanced strength.
• Han Feng summoned the Sea Heart Illusory Beast, and Qin Yu answered with a Qilin formed from the Volcanic Rock Flame and the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Han Feng recognized Qin Yu’s two Heavenly Flames and asked about his connection to Yao Chen, but Qin Yu’s Qilin shattered the Sea Heart Illusory Beast and charged at him.
• Protector Xuan blocked the first Qilin, but Qin Yu formed a second one and asked how they would deal with it.

Qin Yu defeated Han Feng and Protector Xuan with his Heavenly Flames, puppets, and Chaos Formation. Protector Xuan’s body was destroyed, but Qin Yu caught his escaping soul, leaving both enemies in his grasp.

• Qin Yu’s second Heavenly Flame Qilin overwhelmed Han Feng, and Protector Xuan used Han Feng as a shield before capturing his soul with a Soul Chain.
• Protector Xuan fled with Han Feng’s soul, but the Earth Demon Puppet and Human Demon Puppet blocked his way after the Earth Demon Puppet killed the Ten Soul Envoys.
• Qin Yu activated his Chaos Formation, disrupting Protector Xuan’s Dou Qi and dispersing his black mist form.
• The Earth Demon Puppet and Human Demon Puppet battered Protector Xuan until his body was destroyed.
• Qin Yu caught Protector Xuan’s escaping soul with hooked chains before it could leave the Chaos Formation.

Qin Yu and Su Qian finished defeating the Feng Alliance and gathered its treasures, leaving Jia Nan Academy’s enemies in the Black-Corner Region badly weakened. After returning to the academy, Qin Yu planned to attempt refining a Seventh-Rank Pill once everyone had rested.

• Qin Yu captured Han Feng’s soul in a Container after tightening the hooked chains, while Su Qian brought back the defeated Elder Yingshan alive.
• Qin Yu and Su Qian agreed the academy would rest after returning, and Qin Yu mentioned expanding its grounds before attempting to refine a Seventh-Rank Pill.
• Qin Yu and the others raided Feng City’s treasury, where Yun Yun obtained a rare Sixth-Rank Pill and Xiao Yi Xian acquired an Earth Tier poison-attribute Dou Technique.
• Qin Yu let Zi Yan choose what she wanted from Han Feng’s Storage Ring, and she asked to join the next battle and treasure raid.

Qin Yu learned that the academy’s borders had expanded, then watched Xiao Xun'er leave with Ling Quan before heading to a barren mountain to attempt his first Seventh-Rank Pill. He prepared the Heaven Suppressing Cauldron and two demon puppets to face the Pill Lightning.

• Yun Yun took the Cloud-Clear Heavenly Wind Pill after pushing Qin Yu out of her room.
• Qin Yu asked Su Qian about the academy’s borders and learned that the Black-Corner Region’s factions had kept their distance.
• Qin Yu found Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er confronting Ling Quan, then watched Ling Quan take Xiao Xun'er away from the academy.
• Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to return to cultivating, and Xiao Yan headed back to the academy.
• Qin Yu set up the Heaven Suppressing Cauldron and his Earth Demon Puppet and Human Demon Puppet to refine his first Seventh-Rank Pill.

Qin Yu refined the Orchid Green Pill, a Seventh-Rank Mid-Level pill whose completion drew Pill Lightning that his two puppets endured. After refining several more pills over the following days, he attracted the academy's attention, and Su Qian planned to speak with him.

• Qin Yu completed the Orchid Green Pill while the Earth Demon Puppet and Human Demon Puppet absorbed the Pill Lightning.
• Yao Chen brought Xiao Yan to watch and explained that Pill Lightning accompanied the formation of mid-tier seventh-grade pills.
• Qin Yu noticed that the Human Demon Puppet absorbed the lightning better and that its body had begun to develop a silver gleam.
• Qin Yu refined three more mid-tier seventh-grade pills over the next several days, repeatedly drawing Pill Lightning.
• Su Qian told the academy to keep students away from Qin Yu and decided to speak with him after his current pill was finished.

Qin Yu agreed to refine a Seventh-Rank Pill in public so the students of Jia Nan Academy could watch, and the academy prepared for the crowds and Pill Lightning. As he began refining the Green Pine Pill, Zi Yan also asked him to help break a Seal hiding a possible treasure.

• Su Qian asked Qin Yu to let the students watch him refine a pill, and Qin Yu agreed on the condition that the academy provide the ingredients.
• The academy announced Qin Yu's public Seventh-Rank Pill refining session, prompting students—including Lin Xiuyan and Lin Yan—to gather and elders to prepare for Pill Lightning.
• Qin Yu searched the medicinal herb repository for ingredients while Zi Yan asked him to help break a Seal at a place she had found while treasure hunting.
• Zi Yan brought Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian to watch Qin Yu refine pills; Yun Yun neared the Dou Zong threshold, while Xiao Yi Xian reached Seven-Star Dou Emperor and mastered an Earth Tier poison-attribute Dou Technique.
• A week later, Qin Yu began refining the Green Pine Pill before a vast crowd at Jia Nan Academy's largest plaza.

Qin Yu completed the Green Pine Pill and used its Pill Lightning to evolve his Human Demon Puppet into the silver-white Thunder Puppet. After spending time with Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian, he began taking the pills he had prepared to strengthen himself.

• Qin Yu refined a Green Pine Pill while Lin Xiuyan, Lin Yan, and Xiao Yan watched, and Xiao Yan observed his technique for Yao Chen.
• Qin Yu sent his Human Demon Puppet into the Pill Lightning, where it absorbed the lightning and transformed into the Thunder Puppet as the Green Pine Pill was completed.
• Qin Yu visited Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian, gave Xiao Yi Xian an Emperor's Extreme Pill, and told them he planned to visit a treasure site with Zi Yan.
• Qin Yu embraced Yun Yun, and their teasing turned increasingly explicit until Xiao Yi Xian fled in embarrassment.
• Several days later, Yun Yun came out of her room with Qin Yu looking rosy and weak, and Qin Yu began taking the Green Pine Pill and another Seventh-Rank Pill after resting at home.

After discovering that the Sea Demon Heartstone triggered Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame, Qin Yu stripped the flame seed from Han Feng and decided to devour it while refining the heartstone. He entered seclusion after informing Yun Yun, leaving Zi Yan furious that he had broken their treasure-hunting promise.

• After taking the Green Pine Pill, Qin Yu sensed his soul power had reached the late stage of the Mortal Realm and learned to cultivate it with Yao Chen’s Soul Art.
• When Qin Yu brought out the Sea Demon Heartstone, it reacted with Han Feng’s imprisoned soul, drawing out wisps of the Sea Heart Flame.
• Qin Yu used the heartstone and his own power to strip the Sea Heart Flame seed from Han Feng, then imprisoned Han Feng again.
• After deciding to devour the weakened Sea Heart Flame and refine the Sea Demon Heartstone, Qin Yu sent Yun Yun a message that he was entering seclusion.
• After Yun Yun told Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, Zi Yan complained that Qin Yu had broken his promise to go treasure hunting with her.

After three months in seclusion, Qin Yu broke through to the Dou Zong realm and received three powerful golden traits. He chose Emperor Hong Violet Qi, refined its power with the help of three Heavenly Flames, and emerged stronger, with his cultivation nearing two-star Dou Zong.

• Qin Yu used the Sea Heart Flame and Sea Demon Heartstone to break through to Dou Zong, while Su Qian sensed the disturbance and came to investigate.
• Qin Yu received three golden trait options: Heavenly Spirit Surge, Emperor Hong Violet Qi, and Yin-Yang Severance.
• Qin Yu chose Emperor Hong Violet Qi and was nearly torn apart when its power surged through him.
• Qin Yu used the Volcanic Rock Flame, Green Lotus Core Flame, and Sea Heart Flame to refine the violet qi, strengthening his body and cultivation.
• Qin Yu found that the violet qi would not respond again, then noticed that his acquaintances had gathered nearby.

After breaking through to Dou Zong, Qin Yu reunited with his companions and learned that the Inner Academy was quiet and Qing Lin had sent letters from the Jia Ma Empire. He planned to help Zi Yan inspect the Seal before preparing to head to the Central Plains in search of the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast.

• Qin Yu's companions marveled at his rapid breakthrough, while Zi Yan complained that he had left her waiting for three months after promising to help with the Seal.
• Qin Yu asked about the Inner Academy and learned that the Strong List tournament had ended, with Xiao Yan using two Earth Tier Dou Techniques against Liu Qing.
• Qin Yu decided he could leave for the Central Plains after accompanying Zi Yan to the Seal, and he named the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast as his main target there.
• Xiao Yi Xian showed Qin Yu and Yun Yun letters from Qing Lin describing her cultivation progress and how much she missed them.
• Zi Yan caught Qin Yu, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun reading Qing Lin's letters, then blushed and left after Xiao Yi Xian teased her.
• Qin Yu was left alone after Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian walked away, and he decided to settle Zi Yan's matter first.

Qin Yu and Zi Yan found and broke a sealed cave in the Black-Corner Region, revealing a Heavenly Demon Phoenix mummy that stirred Zi Yan’s hostility. After Qin Yu destroyed the mummy and let Zi Yan tear it apart, the group prepared to travel to the Central Plains, while Yun Yun hoped to visit her sect.

• Zi Yan led Qin Yu to a hidden cave, where he used fused Heavenly Flames to smash open the sealed stone door.
• Qin Yu found an eighth-rank Heavenly Demon Phoenix mummy behind the door, and Zi Yan felt a strong urge to destroy it.
• Qin Yu took the mummy back to the Inner Academy, where Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun questioned him about Zi Yan’s sudden silence.
• Several days later, Qin Yu burned the mummy before Zi Yan and let her tear it apart, then gave her most of the items recovered from it.
• Qin Yu and the others began preparing to travel to the Central Plains, and Yun Yun wanted to visit her sect and learn whether Nalan Yanran had emerged from the Life-and-Death Gate.

Qin Yu learned that the Sky Serpent Mansion was trying to take Qing Lin, so he and his companions rushed back to the Jia Ma Empire. As the Sky Serpent Mansion Master moved to seize her by force, an unknown silver figure arrived and knocked him away with one punch.

• Qin Yu set aside his stalled efforts to refine Emperor Hong Violet Qi, made more Qilin Blood Pills for Xiao Yu, and gave Zi Yan a few.
• Qin Yu learned that Hai Bo Dong had escaped the Sky Serpent Mansion's Dou Emperor elders with Qing Lin and taken her to the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Shan and Yun Yun defended her.
• The Sky Serpent Mansion sent its Two-Star Dou Zong Master to Misty Cloud Mountain, and he demanded that Yun Yun hand over Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Qin Yu and his companions hurried back to the Jia Ma Empire while the Sky Serpent Mansion Master prepared to take Qing Lin by force.
• A silver figure struck the Sky Serpent Mansion Master with one punch, sending him crashing through boulders as his followers stared in shock.

Qin Yu arrived at Misty Cloud Sect and used his two puppets to overpower Tian She and Sky Serpent Mansion’s forces. He forced Tian She to agree to compensation and hand over everything the mansion knew about Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils so Qin Yu could guide her cultivation.

• Qin Yu’s Earth Puppet and Thunder Puppet defeated Sky Serpent Mansion’s fighters and threw the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor at Tian She’s group.
• Tian She begged the puppets to stop, and Zi Yan taunted him before Qin Yu took over the negotiations.
• Qin Yu gave Tian She a list of rare items as compensation and ordered him and the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor to remain as hostages while two elders returned to fetch them.
• Tian She asked to discuss Qing Lin, and Qin Yu demanded all of Sky Serpent Mansion’s knowledge about the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, promising to guide her cultivation himself.
• Tian She agreed to hand over the information, believing Qin Yu would eventually need Sky Serpent Mansion’s help.

Qin Yu reunited with Qing Lin and reassured her after she blamed herself for the trouble caused by her eyes. When Sky Serpent Mansion's people returned with their former Manor Lord Nether Serpent, he arrived to ensure they could leave safely.

• The Misty Cloud Sect kept Tian She under guard with Earth Puppet and Thunder Puppet while its disciples watched the well-behaved Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor.
• Qin Yu reunited with Qing Lin, comforted her, and gave Hai Bo Dong a Profound Ice Freezing Pill for his help protecting her.
• Qing Lin asked Qin Yu for a pill so she could grow stronger, but he warned her against relying on pills and said another way might be possible after Sky Serpent Mansion's people returned.
• Yun Shan grew more confident after Qin Yu returned with two Six-Star Dou Zong puppets, though he knew they would leave with Qin Yu.
• Nether Serpent, Sky Serpent Mansion's former Manor Lord and a Seven-Star Dou Zong, accompanied the returning elders to ensure their people could leave safely, then asked whether Qin Yu truly had two Six-Star Dou Zong puppets.