Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan entered the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower at night, planning to exploit reduced security to carry out a dangerous mission. After reaching the lowest floor and waiting in a training room, he prepared to begin with Medicine Elder’s support.

• Xiao Yan decided to enter the tower after learning that the First Elder and many guards had left.
• Medicine Elder supported Xiao Yan and promised to protect him as long as he remained alive.
• Xiao Yan passed the dozing guard at the entrance by claiming he had come to train for the approaching competition.
• Xiao Yan descended to the lowest floor, where rising heat and red mist filled the space.
• Xiao Yan entered a training room, waited until night deepened, then emerged while its sign still showed that he was training and told Medicine Elder to begin.

Xiao Yan infiltrated the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower with Medicine Elder’s help and tried to reach and seize the Fallen Heart Flame. He opened a path toward it but retreated when he realized the flame was too powerful and Jia Nan Academy’s experts were closing in.

• Medicine Elder concealed Xiao Yan as he descended past the guards and reached the black hole, where Xiao Yan knocked out its gray-robed guardian.
• Medicine Elder burned through the energy film covering the hole, and Xiao Yan entered as the tower’s elders sounded the alarm.
• Xiao Yan used Lin Qingyun’s Formation Disk to open a passage through the sealing barrier and saw the Fallen Heart Flame inside a massive Flame Python.
• The Fallen Heart Flame’s influence nearly overwhelmed Xiao Yan, but he resisted it with the Mysterious Yellow Flame and recognized he could not subdue it.
• Xiao Yan stopped powering the Formation Disk and began retreating as a white-haired man in black robes arrived and called for him to stay.

Xiao Yan abandoned his attempt to seize the Fallen Heart Flame and escaped the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower while Medicine Elder controlled his body. A mysterious black-robed Soul Body, calling himself the Venerable One, helped cover his escape, but the tower began shaking as the beast beneath it stirred.

• Medicine Elder took control of Xiao Yan's body, and he fled toward the tower's upper levels while masked and cloaked.
• First Elder Su Qian and the Inner Courtyard elders surrounded the disguised Xiao Yan, while a powerful black-robed Soul Body appeared.
• Su Qian tried to contact the academy's elders and Lin Qingyun, but learned that Lin Qingyun's brother was in secluded cultivation and could not be disturbed.
• The black-robed man claimed to be the Venerable One and drove back the elders, giving Xiao Yan an opening to escape into space.
• After Xiao Yan fled, the black-robed man vanished, and the tower shook as Su Qian realized the beast beneath it had moved.
• Outside the tower, a black-clothed youth thanked Brother Yun as the gathered crowd watched the tower tremble.

Lin Qingyun received Ultra Instinct and the Nine Prison Tower after completing the Jia Nan Academy check-in, then tested his new ability against the Heavenly Flame Venerable One. He planned to enter secluded cultivation and left his disciples in Yao Lao’s care.

• The newcomer told Lin Qingyun that the young man was safe and had a Soul Body.
• Lin Qingyun completed the Jia Nan Academy check-in and received Ultra Instinct and the Nine Prison Tower, with Heavenly Serpent Mansion set as his next location in one year.
• Lin Qingyun gained a state that let him sense his surroundings through Heaven and Earth Energy and effortlessly stop the Heavenly Flame Venerable One’s spear.
• Lin Qingyun explained that Ultra Instinct relied on natural conditioned reflexes, though he could not yet respond instinctively to Fighting Skills.
• Lin Qingyun said he would enter secluded cultivation and asked Yao Lao to guide his disciples, then picked up the sleeping Zi Yan.

After nearly a year of seclusion, Lin Qingyun absorbed an immense amount of Heaven and Earth Energy and emerged with power that could affect the heavens and earth. He flew away to fulfill an old agreement and challenge two opponents to fight.

• For nearly a year, the Heavenly Flame Venerable One taught Wu Hao and the other young people while Zi Yan waited for Lin Qingyun to leave seclusion.
• A vast surge of Heaven and Earth Energy gathered around Lin Qingyun's room, and the Heavenly Flame Venerable One urged Wu Hao and the others to cultivate amid the opportunity.
• Lin Qingyun absorbed the energy until the vortex weakened, then his room burst apart under the pressure of his breakthrough.
• The Heavenly Flame Venerable One protected the onlookers as Lin Qingyun emerged and revealed an aura so powerful that it made the Heavenly Flame Venerable One fear he could kill a Dou Zong with a thought.
• Lin Qingyun flew into the distance and declared that he had come to fulfill their past agreement, challenging two people to fight; Inner Courtyard students rushed after him.

Lin Qingyun arrived at Jia Nan Academy’s Scripture Repository to fulfill his agreement with Old Qian and Old Bai, then fought the two near- Dou Zun elders with his extraordinary physical strength. As the battle escalated and threatened the repository, the three prepared to decide the outcome with one final move.

• Lin Qingyun met Old Qian and Old Bai at the Scripture Repository, and the two acknowledged his immense strength.
• Lin Qingyun launched a surprise attack, and Old Qian and Old Bai countered together with eagle and tiger attacks that disrupted space.
• From afar, Su Qian and the other Jia Nan Academy elders watched anxiously as the battle damaged the surrounding peaks and exposed the Scripture Repository.
• Lin Qingyun caught and absorbed the force of a mountain-sized palm print, revealing that he had resisted the attacks with his body rather than Dou Qi.
• Old Qian and Old Bai recognized Lin Qingyun’s formidable physique and unleashed their combined power, declaring that their next move would decide victory or defeat.

Lin Qingyun prepared to leave Jia Nan Academy for the Northwest Region with Zi Yi, Zi Yan, Heavenly Flame Venerable One, and a group of Evergreen Gate disciples. After learning about Xiao Yan’s fate and seeing Medusa Queen’s egg nearing hatching, he gathered the volunteers and warned them of the dangers ahead.

• Lin Qingyun survived Old Qian and Old Bai’s Divine Punishment, then returned to the courtyard and ordered Evergreen Gate to prepare to leave.
• Lin Qingyun asked Zi Yi to gather the disciples, while Zi Yi confirmed she had trained a successor to take over the local gate.
• Lin Qingyun reunited with Zi Yan and asked her to pack, then thanked Heavenly Flame Venerable One for guiding the students.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable One told Lin Qingyun that four Evergreen Gate students had made the Heavenly Ranking top ten and that Xiao Yan had entered the magma Underground World with the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Lin Qingyun saw that Medusa Queen’s Seven-Colored Giant Egg was close to hatching, then left a letter and token before Zi Yi brought thirteen young disciples to meet him.
• Lin Qingyun warned the thirteen disciples that the journey would be dangerous, and a goshawk appeared after he clapped his hands.

As Lin Qingyun left Jia Nan Academy, Great Void Young Master and You asked him to honor his promise and treat the powers threatening Great Void Young Master. Lin Qingyun’s seal suppressed them for three years, but Great Void Young Master secured his help for their next meeting; Lin Qingyun then watched the sunset with Zi Yi as the goshawk carried them toward the Northwest Region.

• Lin Qingyun met Great Void Young Master and You on the goshawk and acknowledged that he had forgotten his promise to help.
• Lin Qingyun explained that Chaotic power was suppressing the opposing forces within Great Void Young Master, then formed a seal to try to contain them.
• You threatened Lin Qingyun if Great Void Young Master was harmed, while Great Void Young Master endured the painful treatment.
• Lin Qingyun’s Great Seal merged successfully, leaving a Rune that would suppress the forces for three years, and he declared that they were even.
• Great Void Young Master asked Lin Qingyun for future help and arranged for Lin Qingyun to owe him a favor; You then took him away.
• Lin Qingyun spoke with Zi Yi as they watched the sunset, then noticed the group had lit a bonfire on the goshawk’s back and addressed the bird.

Lin Qingyun crossed into the Northwest Region and sent his companions off with Yao Tianhuo to train in the desert for three months. After they departed, he set out alone toward a dangerous area marked on Yao Tianhuo’s map.

• Lin Qingyun crossed the snowy mountain range into the scorching Northwest Region and dropped his companions from the eagle to give them a flying experience.
• Lin Qingyun introduced Yao Tianhuo as the group’s instructor for the next three months and told Zi Yan to follow him.
• Lin Qingyun gave Zi Yi Yao Lao’s Storage Ring and instructed Yao Tianhuo to lead the group toward the City of the Setting Sun.
• Zi Yi, Zi Yan, and the others left with Yao Tianhuo to begin their desert trial, while Lin Qingyun wished for them to survive.
• Lin Qingyun studied a map marking a dangerous area in the desert and set off alone to investigate it.

Lin Qingyun crossed a blood-red desert filled with the remains of powerful creatures and reached a strange ancient city where people still lived. After entering the city, he suspected it had been cut off from the world by a disaster.

• Lin Qingyun crossed the deadly sandstorm and found that the red sand was diluted blood.
• Lin Qingyun used his Soul Power to uncover countless bones beneath the sand, all facing the same direction.
• Lin Qingyun passed a vast forest of ancient beast bones and found a blood-colored lake whose Demonic Sound hurt his soul.
• Lin Qingyun followed a fresh wooden walkway and discovered an ancient city below the cliffs, connected by an iron cableway.
• Lin Qingyun entered the city through space and saw red-robed residents, concluding that a disaster had cut the city off from the world.

Lin Qingyun explored an ancient city and learned that it was a scene from antiquity preserved by the Wind Emperor’s power over space and time. After discovering that the city’s wine contained dangerous ancient blood, he realized the reflected civilization was tied to the disaster that had reshaped the Dou Qi Continent.

• Lin Qingyun entered Yunfu Inn and asked the waiter for directions, learning that the inn stood in the Hundred Thousand Mountains near Wind Emperor City.
• Lin Qingyun heard the name Wind Emperor and recalled a mighty figure whose power suggested he had been a Dou Di.
• Lin Qingyun drank the inn’s wine, and a strange drop of blood inside him spread red lines across his body until his Chaotic Fire contained it.
• Lin Qingyun overheard people describe extraterrestrial Demons, massacred cities, and a great war that had devastated the Dou Qi Continent.
• Lin Qingyun realized the Wind Emperor had used space and time to preserve a reflection of antiquity, leaving the city as a surviving symbol of its last civilization.

Lin Qingyun traced a drop of blood to an enormous underground source beneath the ruined ancient city and discovered a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Embryo tainted by countless Remnant Souls. He realized the embryo still retained a trace of pure spirituality, leaving him hopeful about what he had found.

• Lin Qingyun used the drop of blood to see through the city's illusion and followed blood-colored rivers beneath its streets.
• Lin Qingyun identified the rivers as the gathered blood of ancient dead beings, which had given birth to a chaotic, eerie spirit.
• Lin Qingyun destroyed the Remnant Souls barring his way and burned through the ground to reach the vast Underground World.
• Lin Qingyun found a crimson crystal pillar containing a beating heart, the source of the Blood Mist and the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Embryo.
• Lin Qingyun sensed that the embryo still possessed a trace of spirituality and realized it was not entirely an eerie thing.

Lin Qingyun entered the Blood Mist to feed on the Remnant Souls and use their Soul Fragments to strengthen himself. After absorbing an ancient expert’s memories, he deliberately made himself appear to suffer backlash, drawing the strongest Remnant Souls into the open.

• Lin Qingyun advanced through the Blood Mist, suppressing its strange power with his Chaotic Fire as the Remnant Souls retreated in fear.
• Lin Qingyun crushed an old Sword Cultivator’s Remnant Soul and drew its Soul Fragments into his Tianque Acupoint, where the Chaos Grinding Mill removed its lingering spirituality.
• Lin Qingyun absorbed the old expert’s Soul Power and memories, gaining ancient cultivation methods and Fighting Skills and learning about the Era of Emperors Coexisting.
• Lin Qingyun turned his attention to a dozen powerful Remnant Souls, who waited for him to suffer backlash before claiming his body.
• Lin Qingyun made himself appear to lose control, and the powerful Remnant Souls began moving in to seize him.

Lin Qingyun defeated and absorbed the Remnant Souls in the Blood Mist, gaining their memories and breaking through to Six-Star Dou Huang. He entered the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Embryo’s consciousness space and faced the figure he identified as the Ancient Emperor, the Wind Emperor, or the evil that remained of him.

• Lin Qingyun unleashed a blood-red sword that erased the Remnant Souls’ attacks, then destroyed the yellow-robed old man and gathered the souls’ fragments.
• Lin Qingyun swallowed the Remnant Souls’ orbs, absorbing their memories, dou qi, and Soul Power, and reached peak Spiritual Realm Soul Power and Six-Star Dou Huang.
• Lin Qingyun found the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Embryo’s beating heart within the crystal pillar and used a drop of blood as he approached it.
• Lin Qingyun’s Soul Power drew him into the Spiritual Embryo’s consciousness space, where he met a figure seated on a blood-red throne.
• Lin Qingyun summoned his own throne and addressed the figure as the Ancient Emperor, the Wind Emperor, or the evil that remained of him.

Lin Qingyun exposed and destroyed the false Wind Emperor, then found the benevolent spirit within the seven-colored fruit. The sealed heart revived outside the crystal wall, releasing ancient blood qi that Lin Qingyun and a seven-colored egg began to absorb as the lake above cracked.

• Lin Qingyun recognized the Wind Emperor as an impostor and revealed that it was a malevolent spirit formed from the failed remnant soul and the strangeness of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Embryo.
• The false Wind Emperor tried to devour Lin Qingyun, but Lin Qingyun burned it away with Chaotic Fire and annihilated the consciousness space.
• Lin Qingyun found the benevolent spirit in the seven-colored fruit and sent the drop of blood into it, triggering a burst of seven-colored light.
• Outside the crystal wall, the heart revived and released immense, ancient blood qi, which Lin Qingyun sensed could bring his physical body a major breakthrough.
• A seven-colored egg emerged from Lin Qingyun's Storage Ring and greedily absorbed the blood qi as the lake above cracked.

Lin Qingyun trained at the bottom of the Blood Sea, using its pressure and blood energy to strengthen his body and push past its limits. As the Blood Sea dwindled, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Embryo and Seven-Colored Giant Egg changed, and Lin Qingyun emerged amid a terrifying roar and mechanical sounds from within his body.

• Lin Qingyun and the Seven-Colored Giant Egg devoured the Blood Sea while the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Embryo evolved and began to turn jade-colored.
• Lin Qingyun sank to the Blood Sea’s bottom, concealed his Dou Qi, and used the pressure to strengthen his flesh and blood.
• Lin Qingyun repeatedly exercised under the Blood Mud’s pressure, changing postures every fifteen minutes to keep pushing his body beyond its limits.
• The Seven-Colored Giant Egg stopped absorbing power and cracked, while the Blood Sea dwindled and a white cocoon appeared in the Underground World.
• Lin Qingyun opened his eyes, roared, lifted the Blood Sea, and walked out as mechanical collision sounds rang from within his body.

Lin Qingyun completed a dangerous bodily rebirth and broke through his physical limiter, reaching a level where he could fight a Dou Saint. As he recovered, the Seven-Colored Giant Egg hatched, revealing that its occupant had transformed into a flood dragon.

• Lin Qingyun rebuilt his body from the inside out with Chaotic Fire, but hit a bottleneck because the True Blood of the Primordial Ancestral Dragon remained fused within him.
• Lin Qingyun removed the True Blood of the Primordial Ancestral Dragon from his body and placed its two drops beneath the skin on his back, where they formed a dragon totem.
• Lin Qingyun broke through his limiter, discovered that his physical strength would double each day, and unleashed a punch that opened the Underground World to sunlight.
• Lin Qingyun sensed the Seven-Colored Giant Egg hatching and recognized the awakening soul inside as a familiar, powerful presence.
• The Seven-Colored Giant Egg burst open, and Lin Qingyun concluded from the roar and emerging figure that its occupant had transformed into a flood dragon.

The Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python evolved into a Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Flood Dragon, then transformed into Medusa Queen. Medusa Queen thanked Lin Qingyun for her revival but vowed to kill him someday before leaving, while Lin Qingyun sensed a mysterious bloodline connection between them.

• The Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python evolved into a massive Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Flood Dragon and transformed into a beautiful woman.
• Medusa Queen surveyed the unfamiliar world and confronted Lin Qingyun, recalling how he had controlled and taken her away.
• Medusa Queen thanked Lin Qingyun for helping her revive, surprising him and making him wary.
• Lin Qingyun sensed a bloodline connection to Medusa Queen that he believed came from the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python merging with his blood.
• Medusa Queen vowed to remember Lin Qingyun and kill him someday, then disappeared into the void.
• Lin Qingyun reacted to her departure by saying he would go find her.

Lin Qingyun left the Underground World after protecting the Ancient City and crossed the storm into a vast desert. As he found several towns emptied by a mysterious creature, an unidentified object suddenly appeared before him.

• Lin Qingyun gave up trying to control the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Embryo, gathered Heaven and Earth Energy, and left a protective light barrier around the Ancient City.
• Medusa Queen watched Lin Qingyun leave, then departed as the Cocoon of Light darkened and a tender voice called him father.
• After ten days in the storm, Lin Qingyun studied his map and continued across the desert toward the Black Desert.
• Lin Qingyun found an empty small town, discovered signs of battle and a strange creature’s shell fragment, and concluded its residents had been abducted.
• Lin Qingyun encountered similar deserted towns over the following days, then saw an unidentified object appear from the distant horizon.

Lin Qingyun boarded Fang Mu’s aircraft in the desert and learned from Fang Kun that the Sand Clan, a human-eating race sealed five hundred years earlier, might have returned. Fang Kun’s account of the white-robed, white-haired Heavenly Flame Venerable One who sealed them left Lin Qingyun realizing the expert was someone he knew.

• Lin Qingyun accepted Fang Mu’s offer of a ride and introduced himself aboard the aircraft.
• Lin Qingyun told Fang Mu and Fang Kun that people had vanished from desert towns, leaving sand behind.
• Fang Kun suspected the Sand Clan had returned and urged Fang Mu to deliver their shipment and leave the desert quickly.
• Fang Kun explained that a Dou Zun expert had sealed the Sand Clan five hundred years ago after slaying its emperor.
• Fang Kun described the expert as a white-haired man in white robes who wielded Heavenly Flames, and Lin Qingyun recognized him as Heavenly Flame Venerable One.