Chapter Summaries

Xu Huxiao overpowered Lei Dao in close combat, then endured Lei Dao’s amplified Sixfold Killing Character Slash without injury. Lei Dao lost his composure as Xu Huxiao dismissed his strength and prepared to face his fury.

• Xu Huxiao pinned Lei Dao’s saber, pulled him close, and sent him flying with Divine Dragon Wags Its Tail.
• Gui Mei, Xiao Kong, Lin Mengmeng, and Gale watched in shock as Xu Huxiao took control of the duel.
• Lei Dao activated his third, fifth, and sixth Soul Skills and unleashed his Sixfold Killing Character Slash at Xu Huxiao.
• Xu Huxiao’s regenerating Force Shield and Shadow Counter-Spike Light Armor absorbed the attack, leaving him unharmed.
• Xu Huxiao told Lei Dao that he did not seem very strong, and Lei Dao erupted in rage.

Xu Huxiao overwhelmed Lei Dao with relentless palm strikes, then defeated his desperate final attacks and killed him. He left Lei Dao's allies with a warning that they would soon meet the same fate.

• Xu Huxiao countered Lei Dao's Sixfold Killing Character Slash with Purple Light Bullets, then battered him with repeated Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
• Lei Dao unleashed his Asura Heavenly Saber Formation to break Xu Huxiao's assault, then summoned his Lightning Saber Spirit for a final strike.
• Xu Huxiao caught the Lightning Saber Spirit between his palms and shattered it with Diamond Shock.
• Xu Huxiao restrained Lei Dao with Little Golden Dragon and pierced him with Flying Dragon in the Sky.
• Xu Huxiao taunted Lei Dao about his dead allies, and Lei Dao's blade and body exploded as he died.

After defeating Lei Dao and ending the battle in Sand City, Xu Huxiao assessed his strength and concluded that few opponents could threaten him. As the survivors departed, Purple Scorpion arrived and teased Gui Mei, leaving Xu Huxiao to hear her request for compensation.

• Xu Huxiao reviewed his abilities after killing Lei Dao and decided he could escape even most Peak Douluos, though he remained uncertain about facing a level ninety-nine Extreme Douluo.
• Qingshan, Lilith, and Rain Swift escorted the unconscious Xie Yue, Bao Jingjing, and Yun Ji away, while Gui Mei ordered Gale to conceal his identity and leave the aftermath to him.
• Purple Scorpion approached Gui Mei in Sand City and laughed at his Ghost Child form, prompting Lin Mengmeng and Xiao Kong to leave discreetly.
• Gui Mei stopped Xu Huxiao from leaving and introduced him to Purple Scorpion, who examined them and said Xu Huxiao's thanks would require more than words.
• Gui Mei angrily objected to Purple Scorpion demanding compensation, but she teased him until he hid behind Xu Huxiao and offered to satisfy her request.
• Xu Huxiao thanked Purple Scorpion and promised to do his utmost to fulfill any request his family could manage.

Xu Huxiao discovered that Purple Scorpion Douluo and Gui Mei had a painful romantic history, and their confrontation revealed why Gui Mei had ended their relationship. It left Xu Huxiao trapped between them as both silently grieved over their love and separation.

• Xu Huxiao used the Eye of Omniscience and learned that Purple Scorpion Douluo, Zi Xing, still loved Gui Mei and remembered their past.
• Zi Xing asked Xu Huxiao to acknowledge her as his godmother, but Gui Mei objected because Xu Huxiao already had him as a godfather.
• Zi Xing challenged Gui Mei to repeat that his heart had never changed, and he finally admitted that he remembered her confession from fifteen years earlier.
• Gui Mei apologized, while Zi Xing wept and accused him of abandoning her despite her willingness to accept his Living Dead body.
• Xu Huxiao remained frozen between them, then used the Eye of Omniscience to read their thoughts and learned Gui Mei had left her to spare her from his uncertain future.

Xu Huxiao forced Gui Mei and Zi Xing to confront their feelings, then left them alone together. Zi Xing and Gui Mei reconciled and promised to stay together, but they began to worry when Xu Huxiao did not return.

• Xu Huxiao agreed to acknowledge Zi Xing as his godmother, bound her and Gui Mei's hands together, and urged them to reconcile.
• Xu Huxiao left Sand City and found Lin Mengmeng and Xiao Kong secretly watching Gui Mei and Zi Xing through a gemstone projection.
• Zi Xing asked about Gui Mei's restored body and cultivation, then gave him a complete Torso Soul Bone.
• Zi Xing removed her veil and asked A-Gui to be together; Gui Mei agreed, and they reunited as Little Star and A-Gui.
• Zi Xing put Gui Mei down after embracing him, and they wondered why Xu Huxiao had not returned.

Xu Huxiao reunited with Gui Mei and Zi Xing, received Soul Bones, and discussed the failed ambush by Shadow Dragon Hall. After Gui Mei and Xu Huxiao agreed not to act hastily against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Lin Mengmeng proposed a plan to expose and isolate it before launching a campaign to destroy it.

• Xu Huxiao returned to Sand City with Lin Mengmeng and Xiao Kong, who narrowly avoided revealing that they had overheard Gui Mei and Zi Xing reconcile.
• Gui Mei learned that an Immortal Herb might restore his body and gave Xu Huxiao two Soul Bones; Xu took Borba’s Azure Right Leg Soul Bone and returned the crimson Torso Soul Bone for Gui Mei to absorb.
• Xu Huxiao demonstrated that he could not fuse with Soul Bones, while privately relying on their energy to complete his cultivation.
• Gui Mei explained that Shadow Dragon Hall’s surviving attackers, She Long and the mortally wounded Yu Yuanying, were difficult to punish, and he and Xu Huxiao agreed to delay action against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Lin Mengmeng proposed exposing the clan’s ties to Shadow Dragon Hall, turning its branches against one another, and building public support for destroying it and executing Yu Yuanzhen.

Lin Mengmeng and Gui Mei agreed to use evidence of the assassination to extort compensation from the Tiandou and Star Luo imperial families while investigating the Shadow Dragon Hall and its ties to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Xu Huxiao revealed a possible eighth Soul Ring for Lin Mengmeng and claimed he could locate the elusive Mandrake Flower, leaving the group poised to hunt it in the Death Desert.

• Xu Huxiao assigned Lin Mengmeng to lead the Dragon-Slaying Plan, and Gui Mei gave him tokens and backing to demand compensation from both empires for the attempted assassination.
• Lin Mengmeng and Xiao Kong agreed to negotiate with the imperial families and investigate the Shadow Dragon Hall while Xu Huxiao ended his training and planned to break through in the Maitexier Duchy.
• Xu Huxiao told Lin Mengmeng that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was searching for the hundred-thousand-year Yanhuang Evil Dragon.
• Xu Huxiao showed Lin Mengmeng a Soul Beast catalog identifying the Mandrake Flower as a promising eighth Soul Ring, but Lin Mengmeng explained that its True Illusions made its hidden true body nearly impossible to find.
• Xu Huxiao said he had a way to locate the Mandrake Flower's true body.

Xu Huxiao explained how he could locate the Other Shore Flower and learned the conditions for obtaining its Soul Ring. After Gui Mei and Zi Xing agreed to prove their love, the group entered the Death Desert flower sea, where Xu Huxiao exposed Zi Xing as the Mandrake Flower in disguise.

• Xu Huxiao said he could use the Eye of Omniscience to find the Other Shore Flower's true body among its living illusions, and Lin Mengmeng explained the curse that governed its Soul Ring.
• Zi Xing recounted the legend of Manzhu and Shahua and said a couple's blood could awaken the Other Shore Flower's Soul Ring only if their love was true.
• Xu Huxiao recognized that Gui Mei and Zi Xing met the conditions, and Gui Mei eagerly agreed to let their love be tested.
• At one in the morning, the Other Shore Flower sea appeared in the Death Desert, and Zi Xing persuaded the group to listen to its song before taking action.
• Ten seconds later, Xu Huxiao revealed that Zi Xing was actually an eighty-five-thousand-year-old Mandrake Flower using True Illusion to deceive them.

Xu Huxiao and the others exposed the Other Shore Flower’s True Illusion and coordinated an attack on the Soul Beast. Lin Mengmeng trapped its true body inside an amber dome, leaving the group poised to capture it.

• Gui Mei used his domain to break the illusion of Zi Xing, then awakened the real Zi Xing from the Other Shore Flower’s spell.
• Xu Huxiao proposed a plan: he would locate the Other Shore Flower from the sky while Gui Mei restricted it and Lin Mengmeng waited for an opening.
• Xu Huxiao used the Eye of Omniscience to find the Other Shore Flower’s true body and relayed its position through Lin Mengmeng’s gemstones.
• Gui Mei and his ghost shadows fought through the flower sea, keeping the Other Shore Flower from escaping as Xu Huxiao called out its changing locations.
• Lin Mengmeng revealed herself within Gui Mei’s domain and used Great Binding: Amber House to seal the Other Shore Flower inside a dome.

Lin Mengmeng, Gui Mei, Zi Xing, and Xu Huxiao coordinated to trap the Other Shore Flower, using their domains and attacks to drive it into a prepared Amber House. Xu Huxiao crushed the trapped monster and captured its true body, then asked Zi Xing and Gui Mei to verify it.

• Lin Mengmeng prepared five Great Binding: Amber House traps using gems created with Echoes of the Past.
• Gui Mei and Zi Xing used their abilities, with Xu Huxiao tracking the Other Shore Flower, to pressure it and guide its movements toward the traps.
• Lin Mengmeng's Amber House trapped the Other Shore Flower, which gathered its Floral-Scent Demon Soldiers into a tentacled monster and tried to break free.
• Xu Huxiao fused the power of his three Soul Rings into a massive Golden Dragon Palm and crushed the monster, scattering its petals.
• Xu Huxiao captured the deep-blue Other Shore Flower and knocked it unconscious with Shocking a Hundred Miles.
• Xu Huxiao told Zi Xing and Gui Mei that they could verify the capture.

Lin Mengmeng absorbed the Other Shore Flower’s Soul Ring and gained the Other Shore Illusion Realm while Xu Huxiao learned that the flower might be part of an ancient, dormant mother body. After preparing for his breakthrough, Xu Huxiao left the Death Desert with Ghost Dad, Qingshan, and Lilith to travel to the Maitexier Duchy.

• Gui Mei and Zi Xing each offered blood to the Other Shore Flower, transforming it into a rose-red bloom, and Lin Mengmeng began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• The remaining sea of Other Shore Flowers gathered into a ball of ink and vanished underground, while Zi Xing and Xu Huxiao discussed the possibility of a dormant mother body and the flower’s Life Return ability.
• At dawn, Lin Mengmeng completed his absorption and gained the domain skill Other Shore Illusion Realm.
• Xu Huxiao absorbed the energy of Borba’s Right Leg Soul Bone, kept Shi Nian’s Soul Bone in storage, and gave Yun Ji a Blue Demon Armor Puppet to study and possibly replicate.
• Xu Huxiao departed for the Maitexier Duchy with Ghost Dad, Qingshan, and Lilith, leaving Gale’s group under Zi Xing and Rain Swift’s protection.

After Grand Duke Hua Qianhong died, his sons struggled to secure control of the Maitexier Duchy. Hua Jinlin learned that his imprisoned sister, Princess Yuerong, had escaped, while General Hu Meng forced his way toward the Second Prince with urgent news.

• The chapter described the Maitexier Duchy's harsh terrain, serpent-worshipping culture, and strained relationship with the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Grand Duke Hua Qianhong suddenly died a month earlier, sparking a succession struggle in the duchy.
• Hua Jinlin learned that Princess Yuerong had escaped Sin Dragon Cliff and ordered General Xiao Ying to find her within a day or face execution.
• Hua Jinlin ordered his guards to take him to newly captured slaves so he could vent his anger through violence.
• General Hu Meng shoved past the Second Prince's guards and eunuchs, insisting that he needed to report urgent business immediately.

Hua Juncheng ordered a hunt for Princess Yuerong so he could seize the Golden Tree Heart and strengthen his claim to the duchy. At Azure Cloud Manor, Doctor Dong stabilized Yuerong only temporarily, while Ouyang Xiaoyu kept the princess hidden and prepared her family to remain on alert.

• Hua Juncheng learned that the Golden Tree Heart remained inside Princess Yuerong and ordered Hu Meng to join the search for her.
• Hua Juncheng recruited the Taihu Black Tortoise Shi Family and planned to call on the Qingcheng Mountain Meng Family to secure the Golden Tree Heart.
• Doctor Dong told Ouyang Xiaoyu that she could ease Yuerong’s suffering but could not cure the Killing-Baleful Turbid Qi threatening her life.
• Huo Wu asked about Yuerong, and Ouyang Xiaoyu said the princess had improved temporarily but was still unstable.
• Ouyang Xiaoyu ordered Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang to stay at Azure Cloud Manor, cultivate, and await her arrangements before returning to Fire Dragon Fortress.
• After sending her children away and assigning guards to watch over Yuerong, Ouyang Xiaoyu went to the study, exhausted.

Ouyang Xiaoyu arranged to move the unconscious Hua Yuerong to Fire Dragon Fortress while the princess remained in a fragile state between life and death. Five days later, Xu Huxiao entered the Maitexier Duchy with his group, ready to seek resources for his breakthrough into the Martial Dao Qi Intent Realm.

• Ouyang Xiaoyu ordered Yingchun to prepare a concealed evacuation route and Yingxia to monitor the two princes while they waited up to ten days to move Hua Yuerong.
• Ouyang Xiaoyu sent Huo Zhenkong a secret letter asking him to prepare for their arrival at Fire Dragon Fortress, then lamented the princess's plight and the duchy's betrayal.
• Hua Yuerong remained unconscious as the Killing-Baleful Turbid Qi threatened the Golden Tree Heart, and she dreamed of past moments with Xu Huxiao while recalling her torment on Sin Dragon Cliff.
• Five days after leaving the Death Desert, Xu Huxiao's group entered the Maitexier Duchy, and he finished refining Borba's Azure Right Leg Soul Bone.
• Xu Huxiao planned to visit the Spirit Hall Main Hall in the capital to obtain resources and protection for his Martial Dao Qi Intent Realm breakthrough.

Xu Huxiao and his companions camped in the Bashu wilderness on their way to Maitexier City, where Lilith teased him and Qingshan traded barbs with her. As Xu Huxiao cultivated in his Floating Tent, Gui Mei sensed a powerful dragon might that drove away insects and snakes across the surrounding forest.

• Lilith suggested they camp for the night, and Xu Huxiao set up four Floating Tents before Qingshan went hunting.
• Xu Huxiao prepared grilled python and spotted doves, while Gui Mei teased him about Bao Jingjing and Lilith flirted with him until he fled to cultivate.
• Qingshan called Lilith an old cow eating tender grass, and Gui Mei silenced their argument to avoid disturbing Xu Huxiao.
• Gui Mei sensed that Xu Huxiao's cultivation had frightened away insects and snakes within five hundred meters.
• Gui Mei concluded that Xu Huxiao's Self-Created Soul Skill was producing dragon might strong enough to command draconic creatures.

Lilith endured the stimulating Dragon Might from Xu Huxiao, while he examined how his Martial Dao cultivation had created a powerful, controllable Bloodline Dragon Might. When his Soulmate Stone reacted and revealed that Hua Yuerong was in trouble, Xu Huxiao left to investigate before dawn.

• Lilith felt Xu Huxiao's Dragon Might suppress and stimulate her Medusa Martial Soul, and she welcomed its faint aid to her evolution.
• Xu Huxiao deduced that his Bloodline Dragon Might arose from his Three Qi-Blood Flowers and Divine Intent Seed, and that he could precisely control its area and suppressive power.
• Xu Huxiao's Soulmate Stone began flashing and pulling toward the front left while he meditated.
• Xu Huxiao scanned the stone and learned that the owner of its paired stone, Hua Yuerong, was in trouble.
• Xu Huxiao told Ghost Dad he would return before dawn, then vanished to investigate and rescue Hua Yuerong.

Ouyang Xiaoyu led a secret escape toward Fire Dragon Fortress with the unconscious Hua Yuerong, but she realized their route might be a trap and split the group, disguising Huo Wu as the princess. The carriages were intercepted and surrounded before they could reach safety.

• Ouyang Xiaoyu grew suspicious when the route to Fire Dragon Fortress appeared unguarded, reasoning that Huo Kuang's presence should have alerted the enemy to their plans.
• Ouyang Xiaoyu split the group, sending Yingxia and several Shadow Guards with Hua Yuerong along a backup route while she continued along the original route with Yingchun, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang.
• Ouyang Xiaoyu had Huo Wu change into Hua Yuerong's white dress and cover her face and hair to serve as a decoy.
• Huo Wu felt a hard object sewn into the dress's lining pressing painfully against her, but Ouyang Xiaoyu ordered her to endure it and lie down.
• A piercing bird cry sounded, and an unseen group ordered the carriage to stop and everyone to surrender, declaring them surrounded.

Ouyang Xiaoyu’s escape with Princess Yuerong was intercepted by Spirit Hall, Huo Kuang, and the second prince’s men, and she realized Yingchun had betrayed the group. Huo Kuang claimed Yingchun had chosen him freely, while Ying Seventeen attacked him and was hurled toward a cliff.

• Xiao Ying and Wang Xiang’s forces stopped the carriage, while Huo Kuang arrived with Fire Dragon Fortress troops and Shi Zhong’s men watched from a nearby cliff.
• Huo Kuang told Ouyang Xiaoyu that her escape plan had been exposed and that the princess’s other carriage was also being intercepted.
• Ouyang Xiaoyu recognized that Yingchun had leaked their route and asked why she had betrayed her.
• Huo Kuang pulled Yingchun into his arms and argued that she had followed her own desires rather than betrayed Ouyang Xiaoyu.
• Ying Seventeen called Huo Kuang a liar and attacked him with Shadow Assassination, but he struck her with his dragon arm and sent her flying toward the cliff.

Xu Huxiao rescued Ying Seventeen from the cliff and reached the carriage, where the Soulmate Stone indicated Princess Yuerong was inside. Huo Kuang refused to let him approach, and Xu Huxiao vanished in a burst of speed to confront him.

• Ouyang Xiaoyu tried to save Ying Seventeen after Huo Kuang knocked her off the cliff, but Fire Dragon Fortress disciples blocked her and besieged her.
• Xu Huxiao rose from below the cliff carrying the unconscious Ying Seventeen, and Ouyang Xiaoyu took her back and thanked him for saving her.
• The Soulmate Stone led Xu Huxiao to the carriage, and he called for Princess Yuerong, but received no answer.
• Xu Huxiao approached the carriage as the Fire Dragon Fortress disciples instinctively retreated from his dragon aura.
• Huo Kuang challenged Xu Huxiao and warned him to leave, but Xu Huxiao's white Soul Ring burst and he vanished from sight.

Xu Huxiao attacked Huo Kuang, then seized Huo Wu and discovered she carried Hua Yuerong’s Soulmate Stone. He demanded to know where Hua Yuerong was, but after Huo Wu refused, he revealed his immense power to the surrounding Soul Masters.

• Xu Huxiao struck Huo Kuang before he could defend himself, sending him and the Fire Dragon Fortress disciples sprawling.
• Xu Huxiao found Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang inside the carriage, subdued the siblings, and pulled Hua Yuerong’s Soulmate Stone from Huo Wu’s clothing.
• Huo Wu refused to reveal Hua Yuerong’s whereabouts, so Xu Huxiao silenced and immobilized her before releasing her to Huo Wushuang.
• Xu Huxiao manifested his three Soul Rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and unleashed Soul Sage-level pressure and overwhelming Dragon Might.
• Huo Kuang and the gathered Soul Masters were shocked, while weaker Soul Masters fainted beneath Xu Huxiao’s Dragon Might.