Chapter Summaries

Lin Qingyun refined the ingredients for the Heavenly Soul Meridian Pill, overcoming the difficulty of processing its Ten Thousand Year Cold Jade Marrow before beginning the pill’s fusion. Outside the quiet chamber, Princess Cangyue and Murong Fu sensed the growing power within as the refining continued.

• Lin Qingyun used Chaotic Fire and his powerful Soul Power to refine the pill’s ordinary ingredients into powders and liquids.
• He carefully refined the Ten Thousand Year Cold Jade Marrow with a different flame, then fused it with the other ingredients into a paste-like mass.
• Princess Cangyue waited outside the quiet chamber for nearly three days, sensing its alternating heat, cold, and violent fluctuations.
• Murong Fu arrived and briefly sensed a terrifying power that suppressed his soul, but confirmed that Murong Bo’s aura remained steady and seemed close to awakening.
• Murong Fu sensed the gathering energy in the sky came from the quiet chamber, suspected Lin Qingyun was refining a pill, and waited nearby.
• Another three days passed as Lin Qingyun continued refining the Heavenly Soul Meridian Pill.

Murong Bo emerged from his long suppression with his cultivation restored, while Lin Qingyun completed a Rank 8 Pill in the imperial city. The pill drew two-colored pill lightning, leaving the watching crowd stunned by the young alchemist’s achievement.

• Thunderclouds gathered over the imperial city as Murong Bo’s powerful heartbeat announced his recovery.
• Murong Bo burst out of the secluded room, destroyed the Earth Core Crystal, and returned to the peak as hundreds of experts congratulated him.
• Murong Bo scolded Murong Fu for neglecting Princess Cangyue, then Murong Fu ordered the experts to activate the imperial city’s great formation.
• Lin Qingyun opened the Medicine Cauldron, releasing a massive pillar of flame and the energy of a Rank 8 Pill.
• Two-colored pill lightning formed above the city, and the crowd realized that the young Lin Qingyun had refined the rare pill.

Lin Qingyun discovered that the Rank 8 Heavenly Soul Meridian Pill could still be improved and began attempting to raise its spirituality while Five-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning gathered overhead. Murong Bo stopped before leaving the City Protection Array and silenced the crowd to give Lin Qingyun a quiet environment.

• The thunderclouds gained crimson, gold, and purple light, forming Five-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning that alarmed the imperial city.
• Murong Bo realized the danger of offending Lin Qingyun, then headed toward the sky because the City Protection Array might not withstand the lightning.
• Lin Qingyun stopped Murong Bo from crossing beyond the City Protection Array as he examined the formed pill and decided its spirituality could be improved.
• Lin Qingyun used his practiced method to attempt Spirit Ascension, alarming onlookers who feared he would destroy the Rank 8 Pill.
• Murong Bo suppressed the surrounding noise so Lin Qingyun could continue his attempt in silence.

Lin Qingyun used the Life-Giving Method to restore the pill, provoking a terrifying seven-colored lightning tribulation over the imperial city. After the first bolt struck, he neutralized its power and faced the next bolt alone.

• Lin Qingyun gathered spirit from heaven and earth and forced it back into the pill, restoring its smooth surface and spiritual vitality.
• The thunderclouds transformed into seven colors, and Murong Bo and the imperial alchemist recognized the extraordinary feat as the Life-Giving Method.
• As the tribulation threatened the imperial city, experts fled while Murong Bo rose to help protect his homeland.
• The first bolt struck the City Protection Array, and Lin Qingyun appeared to absorb the resulting power before it could destroy the city.
• Lin Qingyun faced the second bolt as it descended, gathering blood and qi and preparing to break it.

Lin Qingyun split the sky with a punch, drawing powerful figures from across the Northwest Region toward the Cangyun Empire. After asking Murong Bo for a quiet room, Lin Qingyun left, while Murong Bo sensed that several formidable visitors were approaching.

• Lin Qingyun's punch shattered the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning and tore open the sky, sending destructive waves across the region.
• A sword-wielding old man emerged from secluded cultivation and headed for the Cangyun Empire after sensing the force behind the rupture.
• A veiled woman and her petite disciple opened a Space Channel to seek out the person who had torn the sky open.
• An old man rose from a stone coffin in a ravine, took a second coffin chained beneath it, and set out to reunite with Long'er after declaring that the prophecy had come true.
• Murong Bo watched the damage from the imperial palace as Lin Qingyun apologized for losing control and asked to borrow a quiet room.
• After Lin Qingyun left, Murong Bo sensed several powerful auras approaching and realized that others had come to investigate.

Murong Bo tried to keep visitors away from Lin Qingyun after a powerful pill refinement and a sky-shattering strike drew their attention to the imperial palace. Sky Eagle Saint arrived seeking the expert responsible, and Lin Qingyun invited him inside, leaving Murong Bo to escort the Half-Saint into the palace.

• Dongmen Chuixue and Heavenly Serpent arrived at the ruined imperial city and inferred that an expert had refined an extraordinary pill and shattered the firmament.
• Murong Bo claimed the senior had already left and urged the visitors to go, while Heavenly Serpent's young disciple searched for her young master's familiar aura without finding him.
• Heavenly Serpent and her disciple departed, and Dongmen Chuixue left after Murong Bo ordered him away.
• Sky Eagle Saint appeared carrying a Stone Coffin and told Murong Bo he had not come to avenge his dead mount, but wanted to meet the expert in the palace.
• Sky Eagle Saint insisted he would wait outside until the expert appeared, but Lin Qingyun invited him in, and Murong Bo escorted him toward the palace.

Lin Qingyun met an old man who believed a prophecy marked him as the one who could save his wife. He opened the Stone Coffin to reveal the sleeping Rong'er, whose beauty confirmed an old rumor.

• The old man asked Lin Qingyun to help his wife and explained that a prophecy and Lin Qingyun’s abilities had convinced him to seek him out.
• Lin Qingyun agreed to do his best and asked to inspect the Stone Coffin.
• The old man opened the coffin, unleashing a wave of freezing cold that briefly encased everyone in ice.
• Lin Qingyun broke free with Black Flame and saw Rong'er lying peacefully inside the coffin.
• Murong Bo recognized her as That Blooming Beauty, confirming the rumor.

Lin Qingyun learned that Sky Eagle Saint’s wife had been poisoned by a powerful force tied to the forbidden area, and agreed to enter it to find the poison’s source. After Murong Fu reported that Lin Qingyun’s companions were heading there too, Lin Qingyun and Sky Eagle Saint set out for the forbidden area and reached its outskirts.

• Lin Qingyun diagnosed Rong'er with soul and body poison, but said he had only a ten-to-twenty-percent chance of saving her and described two possible treatments.
• Sky Eagle Saint revealed that he and his wife had entered the forbidden area, where a supreme force and a strange fragrance had poisoned her, and said the site had once been the Heaven Poison Sect, a Dou Di-level power.
• Lin Qingyun agreed to enter the forbidden area the next morning, and Sky Eagle Saint offered to guide him to its hidden entrance.
• Murong Fu reported that Lin Qingyun’s missing companions had been found and were traveling toward the forbidden area, whose poisonous mist would soon thin enough for Dou Wang-level experts to enter.
• Lin Qingyun and Sky Eagle Saint traveled north through Space Wormholes and arrived near the forbidden area.

Lin Qingyun entered Poison Village during the season when the forbidden area's poisonous mist thinned, and reunited with Murong Yanlan as she returned his Storage Rings. After Huang Huifeng warned that an expedition had nearly been wiped out on the outskirts, Lin Qingyun considered the dangers of pursuing his search into the depths.

• Lin Qingyun arrived in Poison Village and accepted his Storage Rings back from Murong Yanlan.
• Murong Yanlan introduced herself by name and joined Lin Qingyun's party at an inn while they waited for the poisonous mist to thin.
• Huang Huifeng returned and reported that a group entering the forbidden area had nearly been wiped out, including a Dou Zun.
• Huang Huifeng urged Murong Yanlan not to venture into the depths, and Lin Qingyun agreed that she should heed his warning.
• Murong Yanlan turned to Senior Tianying and asked how confident he was about entering the depths while Lin Qingyun weighed the danger of the Dou Di sect's remnants.

Lin Qingyun and his companions waited as thousands of cultivators charged into the Poisonous Mist-filled forbidden area, then entered with Sky Eagle Saint. They left the outer boundary behind and prepared to travel together before splitting up in the inner region.

• Lin Qingyun surveyed the immense poisoned wasteland and ancient forest, while Murong Yanlan and Sky Eagle Saint discussed its dangers.
• Thousands of cultivators charged into the forbidden area, and Lin Qingyun’s group waited about fifteen minutes before setting out.
• Lin Qingyun gave Murong Yanlan pills to resist the Poisonous Mist and asked her to look after his friends in the outer region.
• Sky Eagle Saint twisted space and brought the group across the boundary into the dim forbidden area.
• Lin Qingyun noticed that chaotic space and traces of ancient power slowed their movement, then increased his speed as Sky Eagle Saint followed.

Lin Qingyun’s group ventured deeper into the forbidden area, where deadly Poisonous Insects disguised as mist were killing even Dou Zun experts. After rescuing the guards and protecting everyone with his Chaotic Fire, Lin Qingyun sensed a Heavenly Flame ahead.

• Lin Qingyun noticed that the gray poisonous fog contained tiny Poisonous Insects, and the group found people dying from exposure as they continued onward.
• A poisoned Dou Zun expert’s corpse fell before the group, and Huang Huifeng said the deadly conditions were worse than when he had visited the previous year.
• Lin Qingyun identified the mist as Poisonous Insects and used Black Flame to purge them from the four guards and Murong Yanlan.
• Lin Qingyun created a protective cloud of flame that drove the insects away, then led the group forward at a slower pace.
• Lin Qingyun sensed a faint fluctuation ahead and learned from the Chaotic Fire that a Heavenly Flame was there.

A Heavenly Tier Soul Hall Protector captured and devoured the Soul Body of a middle-aged Dou Zun, growing stronger as he planned to reconstruct his body. Meanwhile, Lin Qingyun’s group escaped the Poisonous Mist and reached the mountain ranges at the heart of the forbidden area.

• A middle-aged Soul Body left his charred corpse behind, but a Heavenly Tier Soul Hall Protector ambushed and dragged him back.
• The middle-aged man used the Great Sumeru Mountain Seal against the Soul Hall Protector, whose Soul Devour skill swallowed the attack and trapped him with chains.
• The Soul Hall Protector devoured the middle-aged man’s power and said he would recast his body and grow stronger.
• Lin Qingyun and his group continued through the Poisonous Mist, avoiding powerful magical beasts and the aftermath of battles that had killed many human experts.
• Lin Qingyun’s group emerged from the Poisonous Mist and saw the vast mountain ranges of the true forbidden area ahead.

Lin Qingyun parted ways with Huang Huifeng and gave Murong Yanlan a jade talisman after predicting danger for her in the treasury. He then followed Sky Eagle Saint through the ancient beast territories to a hidden mountain, where they opened a gap in its ancient formation.

• Huang Huifeng showed Lin Qingyun the distant treasury and explained that he was scouting ahead for powerful factions.
• Lin Qingyun gave Murong Yanlan a jade talisman containing his Three Moves of Power, warning that she might face life-threatening danger inside the treasury.
• Lin Qingyun and Sky Eagle Saint left Huang Huifeng's group and crossed the ancient region, protected from its magical beasts by the pressure of Lin Qingyun's True Dragon Blood.
• Lin Qingyun sensed that the hidden Heavenly Flame possessed intelligence comparable to a human's.
• Sky Eagle Saint revealed a gap in the damaged ancient formation around an ordinary-looking mountain, exposing the hidden peak and its ancient aura.

Lin Qingyun and Sky Eagle Saint entered the ruins of an ancient sect and reached its sword-filled great hall, where they discovered the sect’s dead masters. As they approached the Space Channel, the blue-robed figure on the high seat seemed to blink, leaving Lin Qingyun on guard.

• Sky Eagle Saint described the ancient sect’s former glory and the sudden catastrophe that had destroyed it.
• Lin Qingyun and Sky Eagle Saint crossed the formation and climbed toward the mountaintop, where their ability to fly and use spatial power was sealed.
• Lin Qingyun felt growing disgust toward an ominous aura around the great hall, while Sky Eagle Saint warned him not to touch anything inside.
• Sky Eagle Saint opened the bronze gate, and Lin Qingyun cleared away the rotten air to reveal a hall protected by a powerful sword array and filled with ancient skeletons.
• Sky Eagle Saint pointed out the Space Channel behind the master’s seat, and Lin Qingyun noticed the blue-robed figure’s dark eyes seem to blink.

Lin Qingyun discovered that the Ancient Fighting Saint had died after severing a finger from a Dou Di-level attacker, and his Chaotic Fire destroyed the remnant. He and Sky Eagle Saint used an ancient formation to leave the hall, while another group of young cultivators pressed through a poisoned passage toward a treasure vault.

• Lin Qingyun sensed the danger in the hall and realized the Ancient Fighting Saint had been killed by a destructive finger strike after cutting off the attacker’s finger.
• Lin Qingyun’s Chaotic Fire consumed the severed finger, and he concealed what had happened from Sky Eagle Saint.
• Sky Eagle Saint activated the Green Lotus Jade Sculpture’s ancient formation, and he and Lin Qingyun entered its spatial vortex.
• In a dim passage, the purple-clothed young woman and the red-clothed girl bickered over their connection to the young woman’s elder brother until the green-clothed young woman calmed them.
• The group followed the green-clothed young woman’s scroll toward the treasure vault, but the red-clothed girl detected poison and warned everyone to take precautions.
• After taking Bewildering Clarity Wind Pills and tightening their formation, the group approached a passage filled with black fog.

Zi Yi, Qinglin, and the Qingyun Sect group fought their way through Senluo Gate’s corpse-filled passage, where a jade pendant summoned a powerful figure who destroyed the strongest corpses. They entered a vast valley filled with treasures, unaware that the gate had closed behind them and was waiting for another group.

• Zi Yi led the group deeper into the poisonous passage despite having traveled far beyond the distance marked on Qinglin’s map.
• The group fought swarms of corpses and collected energy cores before Zi Yi ordered the Qingyun Sect members to form the Primordial Spirit-Hosting Array against the stronger corpses.
• Several Dou Zong corpses overwhelmed the group, but the red-clad girl threw a jade pendant that summoned a figure who pinned down and destroyed them.
• Qinglin, Zi Yi, and the Purple Clothes girl recognized the summoned figure as Young Master, Brother, and Master before the light faded and the pendant returned to the red-clad girl.
• The group passed through a light door into a valley filled with Natural Treasures, bookshelves, weapons, and Magic Cores, while Zi Yi warned them of danger.
• The gate silently closed behind the group, and the plaque bearing the name Senluo Gate awaited the next visitors.

Lin Qingyun entered an ancient space and followed an invitation through the Ancient Bronze Gate, where he encountered the remnant presence of the Ancient Dou Di Heaven Poison God and the Purple Nether Poison Flame. As the Purple Nether Poison Flame revealed its Half-Emperor Realm strength, Lin Qingyun also sensed danger connected to Murong Yanlan’s jade pendant.

• Sky Eagle Saint recognized that the desolate ancient space was not where he and his wife had appeared before, then vanished as a mysterious force descended on Lin Qingyun.
• Lin Qingyun blocked the force with the Immortal True Dragon Bell, detected the intelligent Heavenly Flame’s aura, and identified it as the Purple Nether Poison Flame.
• Lin Qingyun seized the unconscious Sky Eagle Saint and followed the ancient path through the opening Ancient Bronze Gate.
• Inside the palace, Lin Qingyun saw thirty-three Merit Golden Lotuses and the towering Stone Statue of the Ancient Dou Di, Heaven Poison God.
• The Purple Nether Poison Flame appeared before Lin Qingyun, and Lin Qingyun sensed that it had reached the Half-Emperor Realm.

Lin Qingyun used the Chaotic Fire to subdue the Purple Nether Poison Flame and make it locate Murong Yanlan and the others. After rescuing them and placing them on Merit Lotus Platforms, he asked the Purple Nether Poison Flame to tell him everything it knew.

• Lin Qingyun’s Chaotic Fire frightened the Purple Nether Poison Flame, and Lin Qingyun teased it until it agreed to help him.
• The Purple Nether Poison Flame found Murong Yanlan and the others trapped in Senluo Gate, where a giant was pursuing them.
• A seven-colored giant hand destroyed the pursuing giant, swept up Murong Yanlan and the others, and brought them back unconscious.
• Lin Qingyun placed the group on Merit Lotus Platforms, which began helping them cultivate.
• Lin Qingyun asked the Purple Nether Poison Flame for everything it knew about ancient secrets and Dou Di inheritance.

Lin Qingyun questioned the Purple Nether Poison Flame about the beings who had crossed into the Dou Qi Continent, and the flame recounted the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan’s invasion. The story left off as the Purple Nether Poison Flame began describing its master’s final battle against the Sword Demon.

• Lin Qingyun offered the Purple Nether Poison Flame wine, then asked what kind of creature had broken through the boundary into their world.
• The Purple Nether Poison Flame explained that the Upper Realm had been invaded by the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan, which destroyed a powerful sect and killed several Dou Di who had come to help.
• The Purple Nether Poison Flame said the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan sent a royal clan to the Dou Qi Continent, after which the continent declined and its Will of Heaven and Earth sealed itself away.
• Lin Qingyun asked whether the Heaven Poison God had fought in the final battle and what had happened.
• The Purple Nether Poison Flame said the Heaven Poison God, a Nine Star Dou Di, had fought the Heavenly Devil Emperor known as the Sword Demon, then began cursing him.

Lin Qingyun learned from Purple Nether Poison Flame about a hidden Dou Di inheritance that required a person born with the Calamity Poison Body. After Lin Qingyun revealed that Xiao Yi Xian had one, Purple Nether Poison Flame opened a passage to the Jia Ma Empire, where a vast sea of purple flames appeared above the capital.

• Purple Nether Poison Flame told Lin Qingyun that the vanished Eastern Region might hold clues to an ancient sealed world and described powerful Heavenly Flames there.
• Purple Nether Poison Flame revealed that the ruin contained a Dou Di inheritance and that Gu Yuan, Hun Tiandi, and Xiao Xuan had once entered but been driven out by his Sect Protecting Grand Formation.
• Lin Qingyun sensed a powerful figure within the Stone Statue and learned that only someone born with the Calamity Poison Body could inherit its power.
• Lin Qingyun told Purple Nether Poison Flame that his wife, Xiao Yi Xian, had the Calamity Poison Body, and Purple Nether Poison Flame eagerly opened a passage to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Lin Qingyun crossed through the passage as a cold purple sea of flames spread across the sky above the Jia Ma Empire, alarming the women in the manor.