Chapter Summaries

Han Feng reunited Yao Chen with Feng Xian and revealed the betrayal and ambush that had left Yao Chen a remnant soul. He set plans to hunt Gu You and investigate Soul Hall while seeking a Dou Sheng skeleton for Yao Chen, then returned to cultivating because he still lacked the strength to challenge the major powers.

• Han Feng calmed Yao Chen’s concerns and traveled from Sacred City to Falling Star Pavilion to tell Feng Xian that Yao Chen was alive.
• Feng Xian rushed with Han Feng to Sacred City and reunited with Yao Chen, whose body had been destroyed and whose soul had survived.
• Han Feng explained Gu You’s betrayal and Soul Hall’s ambush, and Feng Xian swore to help avenge Yao Chen.
• Han Feng asked Feng Xian to locate Gu You and track Soul Hall’s Dou Sheng experts, and said Yao Chen needed a Dou Sheng skeleton to rebuild his body.
• After leaving the reunited friends together, Han Feng reflected on Falling Star Pavilion’s lack of strength and resumed cultivating to advance beyond Three-Star Dou Saint.

Han Feng advanced to the mid-stage of the Three-Star Dou Saint realm, then planned cultivation paths for Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, and Yaoxin with Yao Chen. After learning the Poison Core Method’s requirements, Han Feng decided to take Yaoxin to the Cloud Empire to seek a substitute for a seventh-tier Heaven-Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s magical core.

• Han Feng broke through to the mid-stage of the Three-Star Dou Saint realm.
• Han Feng and Yao Chen planned for Xiao Yan to use Beast Flames to build Dou Qi while cultivating with the Profound Heavy Ruler, and for Qing Lin to seek the Heavenly Serpent Palace’s inherited technique once she reached the Dou Practitioner realm.
• Yao Chen explained that Yaoxin’s Calamity Poison Body could be treated with the Poison Core Method, which required three Heavenly Flames, a seventh-tier Heaven-Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s magical core, and Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva.
• Han Feng revealed that he could provide Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, and his Nine Yang True Flame to help create Yaoxin’s Poison Pill.
• Han Feng decided to take Yaoxin to the Cloud Empire to look for a suitable substitute for the magical core, leaving Yao Chen to oversee the Sacred City and the others’ cultivation.

Han Feng took Yaoxin to the Cloud Empire’s Myriad Scorpions City and then led her into Soulbreak Poison Marsh, seeking a treasure to replace the Heaven-Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s magic core. They reached Myriad Poison Lakeheart, where Han Feng sensed a late seventh-tier Blackscale Poison Flood Dragon lurking beneath the lake.

• Han Feng explained that the Cloud Empire’s poisonous aura could nourish Yaoxin’s Calamity Poison Body and said they would search Soulbreak Poison Marsh for a compatible treasure.
• When three mercenaries threatened Han Feng and Yaoxin in Myriad Scorpions City, Han Feng killed them instantly with crimson flames.
• Han Feng carried Yaoxin west on a Dou Qi flying boat, and they entered Soulbreak Poison Marsh, where Yaoxin’s poison body thrived.
• As they crossed the Corrosive Poison Mire, Han Feng killed a fourth-tier Blackwater Profound Snake with a wisp of golden Yang Fire.
• Han Feng and Yaoxin reached Myriad Poison Lakeheart, and Han Feng sensed a late seventh-tier Blackscale Poison Flood Dragon in the depths.

Han Feng subdued the poison wyrm Ao Li in Ten Thousand Poisons Lake, then learned of a hidden ruin containing a treasure suited to Yaoxin’s Calamity Poison Body. The group reached the concealed barrier, which Han Feng detected with careful probing, and prepared to investigate the ruin.

• Han Feng’s Saint aura forced Ao Li from Ten Thousand Poisons Lake, and he immobilized the wyrm and demanded its magic core.
• Ao Li recognized Yaoxin’s Calamity Poison Body and offered to guide Han Feng to a hidden ruin with primordial poison qi instead of surrendering his impure core.
• Han Feng placed a soul mark on Ao Li and agreed to spare him if he served as Yaoxin’s guardian for twenty years.
• Ao Li led Han Feng and Yaoxin through the poison lake, while Han Feng protected Yaoxin with a golden barrier.
• At the lakebed, Ao Li revealed the ruin’s location, and Han Feng detected the cleverly concealed barrier with his soul power.

Han Feng broke the barrier to the Profound Nether Poison Venerable’s hidden cave and claimed the Profound Nether Poison Pearl after confirming it held no remnant soul. He secured the pearl for Yaoxin’s future cultivation, then led her and Ao Li back toward the lake’s surface.

• Ao Li explained that he had discovered the barrier by accidentally ramming it and had spent a hundred years striking it to obtain Primordial Poison Qi.
• Han Feng split and shattered the barrier with a single sweep of the Green Lotus Sword, revealing the cave and its stone stele.
• Han Feng read that the Profound Nether Poison Venerable had sealed his life’s poison power and insights into the Profound Nether Poison Pearl before dying after a failed attempt to enter the Saint Realm.
• The pearl flew toward Yaoxin, but Han Feng blocked it with a wall of flame and drew it to himself.
• Han Feng used Red Lotus Karmic Fire to examine and subdue the pearl, then sealed it away for a future absorption plan with his teacher.
• Han Feng collected the stele and led Yaoxin toward the surface as Ao Li hurried after them.

Han Feng returned to Sacred City with Yaoxin and the newly loyal Ao Li, then showed Yao Chen the Profound Nether Poison Pearl as a way to resolve Yaoxin’s Calamity Poison Body. He promised to help her condense a Poison Pill in three days, leaving Yaoxin overwhelmed with hope and emotion.

• Han Feng brought Yaoxin and Ao Li out of Death Marsh and traveled with them to Sacred City.
• Han Feng assigned Ao Li to serve as Yaoxin’s protector and had Mo Shan arrange a residence for him near the spirit beast garden.
• Han Feng took Yaoxin to Soul-Gathering Hall and gave Yao Chen the Profound Nether Poison Pearl.
• Yao Chen recognized the pearl as a Nine-Transformation Battle Venerable’s source crystallization and a supreme foundation for Yaoxin’s Poison Pill.
• Han Feng told Yaoxin to prepare for three days and promised to help her condense her Poison Pill at Starwatch Tower.
• Yaoxin nodded through her tears and hurried out of Soul-Gathering Hall.

Yaoxin underwent the Calamity Poison Body’s eruption and, with Han Feng and Yao Chen’s help, formed a Poison Pill that stabilized her poison and raised her cultivation to Nine-Star Dou Spirit. That night, Xiao Yan visited Han Feng and asked to talk.

• Yaoxin memorized the Profound Nether Poison Scripture and prepared herself for the treatment.
• Han Feng and Yao Chen used three flames to gather Yaoxin’s erupting poison qi in her dantian and anchor it with the Profound Nether Poison Pearl.
• Yao Chen refined Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva, and Yaoxin circulated the Profound Nether Poison Scripture to balance life force with poison and condense a Poison Pill.
• The Poison Pearl released its sealed origin power, raising Yaoxin to Nine-Star Dou Spirit before the power returned to the pill and stabilized her cultivation.
• Xiao Yan entered Han Feng’s room that night and said he wanted to talk.

Xiao Yan told Han Feng about vivid dreams in which he endured hardship, fought Han Feng, and killed him, leaving him troubled by a sense that this had been his destined path. Han Feng explained why he had rejected the Flame Mantra and realized the dreams were the Heavenly Dao’s way of tempering Xiao Yan, then returned to cultivation.

• Xiao Yan told Han Feng that he had repeatedly dreamed of killing him and described a life of hardship, cultivation, and conflict that ended in their battle over the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan said the dream made him feel that its bloody path was how things were supposed to happen, and Han Feng asked whether it truly had to be that way.
• Xiao Yan asked why Han Feng had not cultivated the Flame Mantra, and Han Feng explained that starting over to pursue its uncertain potential would have been an unreasonable risk for a Dou Emperor who already had a Heaven Grade method.
• Han Feng suggested that the dream had matured Xiao Yan, then offered to arrange the same kind of harsh cultivation for him; Xiao Yan fled, claiming he still had physical training to finish.
• Han Feng recognized that the Heavenly Dao had used the dreams to temper Xiao Yan, the world’s chosen one, and resumed cultivating.

After a year of cultivation in Sacred City, Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, Xun'er, and Yaoxin all made major progress while Han Feng advanced to the late Three-Star Dou Saint stage. Han Feng and Yao Chen decided to take Qing Lin to Heavenly Serpent Palace so she could receive the complete inheritance of her Three-Flower Jade Serpent Eyes, while the Palace Mistress there mysteriously sneezed.

• Xiao Yan trained under the Profound Heavy Ruler and advanced into the Dou Master realm.
• Qing Lin awakened her Three-Flower Jade Serpent Eyes and entered the Dou Practitioner realm, while Xun'er also improved her cultivation.
• Yaoxin controlled her Calamity Poison Body, rose from a Nine-Star Dou Spirit to a Dou Wang, and Han Feng reached the late Three-Star Dou Saint stage.
• Han Feng and Yao Chen agreed that Qing Lin should go to Heavenly Serpent Palace to obtain the complete inheritance of her eyes.
• The Palace Mistress of Heavenly Serpent Palace sneezed and wondered who was talking about her.

Han Feng brought Qing Lin to the Heavenly Serpent Palace so she could obtain its complete Three-Flower Jade Serpent Eyes inheritance. The palace agreed to make Qing Lin its Saintess and provide her with resources, but only after Han Feng compelled it to become an affiliated sect of the Falling Star Pavilion; they then set out for the inheritance grounds.

• Qing Lin's Three-Flower Jade Serpent Eyes resonated with the Heavenly Serpent Mountains, and Han Feng explained the inheritance she could gain at the Heavenly Serpent Palace.
• Han Feng introduced himself at the palace gates, and the Palace Master welcomed him after learning he was the Lord of the Sacred City.
• Qing Lin revealed her Three-Flower Jade Serpent Eyes, prompting the Palace Master and elders to recognize them and ask Han Feng to leave her with the sect.
• Han Feng intimidated the Palace Master, and the elders summoned former Palace Master Bai Su, who proposed copying the inheritance in exchange for making Qing Lin the Saintess.
• Han Feng agreed to Qing Lin's appointment as Saintess on the condition that the Heavenly Serpent Palace submit to the Falling Star Pavilion, and Bai Su accepted.
• Bai Su led Han Feng and Qing Lin toward the inheritance grounds.

Han Feng reassured Bai Su that the Falling Star Pavilion would protect the Heavenly Serpent Palace without interfering in its affairs, and she accepted an alliance built around Qing Lin’s safety. At the Inheritance Hall, Bai Su revealed the origins of Qing Lin’s Three-Flower Jade Serpent Eyes and led them toward the sect’s inheritance site.

• Han Feng told Bai Su that he sought an alliance with the Heavenly Serpent Palace, would protect it from outside threats, and would not force its disciples into service.
• Han Feng explained that his main concern was giving Qing Lin a secure identity and backing, and Bai Su’s fear and resentment eased.
• Bai Su agreed to share the secrets of the Three-Flower Jade Serpent Eyes and brought Han Feng and Qing Lin to the Inheritance Hall.
• Bai Su revealed that the eyes were a rare bloodline inherited by mixed descendants of humans and the serpent people, and that the Heavenly Serpent Palace had been founded to nurture their bearers.
• Bai Su described the Jade-Eyed Serpent-Commanding Heart Scripture and the Serpent-Calming Pool, then invited Han Feng and Qing Lin to the place of inheritance.

Bai Su guided Qing Lin through the first stage of her Heavenly Serpent Palace inheritance in the Serpent-Calming Pool, strengthening her Three-Flower Jade Serpent Eyes and teaching her serpent-control techniques. After half a month of rapid cultivation, Qing Lin reached eight-star Dou Master and mastered a fourth-tier magical beast, and Han Feng prepared to take her away.

• Bai Su brought Han Feng and Qing Lin into the Serpent-Calming Pool and began Qing Lin's inheritance with a medicinal treatment to stabilize her eye technique.
• Bai Su used the Serpent-Calming Formation to nourish Qing Lin's eyes with serpent-attributed energy and passed down the Jade-Eyed Serpent-Commanding Heart Scripture.
• Qing Lin learned Azure-Eyed Serpent Binding and formed soul bonds with increasingly powerful snakes as her eye technique and cultivation advanced.
• After half a month, Qing Lin reached eight-star Dou Master and easily commanded a fourth-tier Black Jade Earth Dragon.
• Han Feng thanked Bai Su and said he would take Qing Lin back with him.

Qing Lin said goodbye to Bai Su, who gave her the remaining inheritance of the Three-Flower Jade Serpent Eyes and explained its powers and dangers. Han Feng agreed to let the Heavenly Serpent Palace's Grand Elder guide Qing Lin, then led her through the newly completed spatial wormhole back to Sacred City.

• Qing Lin tearfully embraced Bai Su and thanked her for caring for her during the fifteen days at the Heavenly Serpent Palace.
• Bai Su gave Qing Lin a jade slip containing the second realm's cultivation art and explained the Devouring Force Secret Art, its risks, and the legendary third realm.
• Bai Su asked Han Feng to allow the palace's Grand Elder to accompany Qing Lin, and Han Feng agreed.
• Bai Su told them that the spatial wormhole connecting the palace to their destination was complete, and Qing Lin promised to return to visit her.
• Han Feng led Qing Lin and the Grand Elder through the spatial wormhole, and Qing Lin arrived back in Sacred City.

Han Feng welcomed Qing Lin back to Sacred City and learned that Gu You, now known as Bone You, was the Soul Hall's Second Heavenly Venerable. After discovering Bone You would soon visit the Soulfall Abyss, Han Feng set out to confront him and repay the debt for Yao Chen.

• Han Feng sent Qing Lin to cultivate with the Heavenly Serpent Palace's Grand Elder and promised her thirty sixth-tier serpent magical beasts for her Saintess Guard once she mastered her technique.
• Qing Lin toured Sacred City with the Grand Elder and reunited with Xiao Yan, Yaoxin, and Xun'er at the training ground.
• Han Feng met Feng Xian at the Soul-Gathering Hall and received intelligence identifying Gu You as Bone You, the Soul Hall's Second Heavenly Venerable.
• Feng Xian told Han Feng that Bone You was heading to the Soulfall Abyss and would arrive in three days.
• Han Feng left Sacred City's affairs to Feng Xian and Mo Shan, then crossed through a spatial rift to pursue Bone You.

Han Feng ambushed Gu You and the Soul Hall’s Third Heavenly Venerable at Soulfall Abyss, killing them and capturing their souls. After finding a Teleportation Jade Talisman among their belongings, he crushed it to summon the Great Heavenly Venerable as a stronger source of bones for reconstructing Yao Chen’s body.

• Han Feng waited at Soulfall Abyss and identified Gu You and the Soul Hall’s Third Heavenly Venerable as they arrived.
• Han Feng froze the surrounding space and killed both Half-Saints with Sword Two: Twin-Yin-Yang Coexistent Twin Lotus.
• Han Feng captured their escaping souls in a jade bottle sealed with Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Han Feng recognized Gu You, who realized Han Feng had become a Dou Sheng, and planned to refine him into a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Han Feng found a Teleportation Jade Talisman in Gu You’s storage ring and crushed it to summon the Great Heavenly Venerable.

Han Feng killed the Great Heavenly Venerable of the Soul Hall and forced him and the other captured souls to reveal the Soul Hall’s goal in Soulfall Abyss. Learning that a Soul Crystal Grotto held vast Soul Essence, Han Feng leaped into the abyss to claim it for his teacher.

• The Great Heavenly Venerable emerged from a spatial wormhole, found Bone You and Wu Yan missing, and attacked Han Feng.
• Han Feng destroyed the Great Heavenly Venerable’s body with his sword techniques, captured his fleeing soul, and sealed it with the souls of Bone You and the Third Heavenly Venerable.
• Han Feng tortured the three souls with Red Lotus Karmic Fire until the Third Heavenly Venerable and Bone You revealed that the Soul Hall sought Soul Essence in a Soul Crystal Grotto.
• Han Feng decided the Soul Essence could restore his teacher’s soul to its peak and stored the Great Heavenly Venerable’s corpse in his Storage Ring.
• Han Feng jumped into Soulfall Abyss to claim the Soul Essence.

Han Feng reached the Soul Crystal Grotto in Soulfall Abyss, purified its Soul Crystals with Red Lotus Karmic Fire, and brought their Soul Essence back for Yao Chen. After revealing that he had killed the Soul Hall’s three Heavenly Venerables, he warned Feng Xian to prepare Falling Star Pavilion for retaliation and began preparing to refine Bone You and Third Heavenly Venerable’s bodies into Heavenly Demon Puppets.

• Han Feng forced Third Heavenly Venerable to guide him through Soulfall Abyss to the Soul Crystal Grotto, then returned the battered soul to the Soul-Sealing Jade Bottle.
• Han Feng used Red Lotus Karmic Fire to burn away the Soul Crystals’ hidden vicious wills and collected tens of thousands of purified Soul Origin Crystals.
• Han Feng surveyed Xiao Yan, Yaoxin, and Qing Lin in Sacred City, then gave Feng Xian a jade box of Soul Essence for Yao Chen.
• Han Feng told Feng Xian that he had killed the Soul Hall’s Great, Second, and Third Heavenly Venerables, and gave him two Sword Talismans to protect Falling Star Pavilion.
• Han Feng summoned Bone You and Third Heavenly Venerable’s Half-Saint bodies and prepared to refine them into Heavenly Demon Puppets.

Han Feng arranged for Yao Chen to take Xiao Yan, Yaoxin, Qing Lin, and Xun'er to the Tagor Great Desert to seek the Green Lotus Core Flame while he traveled to Holy Pill City for rare pill ingredients. After securing a guardian for the Sacred City, Han Feng set off through a spatial passage.

• Han Feng completed two Half-Saint Heavenly Demon Puppets from the bodies of Soul Hall's two great Venerables.
• Han Feng told Yao Chen that Xiao Yan needed a Heavenly Flame to advance the Flame Mantra and proposed a search for the Green Lotus Core Flame in the Tagor Great Desert.
• Yao Chen agreed to lead Xiao Yan, Yaoxin, and Qing Lin on the journey, with Mo Shan and the Heavenly Serpent Palace's Grand Elder providing protection.
• Han Feng explained that he planned to seek ingredients in Holy Pill City for Yao Chen's body-restoration pill and Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pills for Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, and Yaoxin.
• Xun'er asked to join the expedition, and Yao Chen agreed; Han Feng arranged for Iron Sword Venerable to guard the Sacred City before leaving for Holy Pill City.

Han Feng visited the Pill Tower to seek rare ingredients for the Heavenly Soul Saint-Melding Pill and reunited Xuan Yi with the news that Yao Chen was alive. The Pill Tower directed him to its Alchemist Exchange, where he hoped to find the ingredients he still lacked.

• Han Feng bought medicinal herbs across Holy Pill City, gathered most of the supplementary ingredients for the Heavenly Soul Saint-Melding Pill, and headed to the Pill Tower for the rare main ingredients.
• Han Feng surprised Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and Tian Leizi, then told Xuan Yi that Yao Chen was alive and safe in his Sacred City.
• Han Feng teased Xuan Yi about forcing Yao Chen into marriage, and she blushed and scolded him.
• Han Feng told the three Pill Tower giants that he needed five rare ingredients to refine the ninth-tier Heavenly Soul Saint-Melding Pill, and they offered to help him find them.
• Xuan Yi told Han Feng that the Alchemist Exchange would take place the next day, and he went there with a Pill Tower elder.

Han Feng entered the Pill Tower trading fair with his eighth-tier alchemist badge and found the Myriad Souls Crystal Marrow he needed to rebuild Yao Chen's body. He arranged for Sun Miao to gather four more rare herbs in exchange for eighth-tier pills and a complete pill formula, then continued toward the third floor.

• Han Feng showed his eighth-tier alchemist badge to the guards and entered the Pill Tower trading fair.
• Han Feng inspected the first and second floors but found none of the ingredients he sought until he spotted the Myriad Souls Crystal Marrow in Sun Miao's display case.
• Han Feng told Sun Miao that the crystal marrow was not enough to trade for an eighth-tier pill formula, but offered him a deal to gather four named herbs.
• Han Feng gave Sun Miao a communication jade slip and an eighth-tier pill as a deposit, then took the Myriad Souls Crystal Marrow.
• Sun Miao opened the jade bottle, saw the eighth-tier pill, and wept with excitement as Han Feng headed for the third floor.