Recaps

Xiao Qing and Yao Chen searched the Jia Ma Empire for signs of the Soul Hall Guardian Wu Protector, then Xiao Qing found a Space Lock hidden in the Misty Cloud Sect. The chapter left him investigating the ancient gate concealed within it.

• Xiao Qing told Yao Chen that a Soul Envoy was headed for the Jia Ma Empire, and Yao Chen agreed to help investigate for the price of soul-restoring pills.
• Yao Chen returned to the Bone Flame Ring and told Xiao Yan to cultivate while he was away, then Xiao Qing left the Xiao Household with the ring.
• Half a month later, Xiao Qing and Yao Chen reached the Misty Cloud Sect and found no sign of Wu Protector.
• As Xiao Qing prepared to leave after surveying the sect, he sensed a Space Lock and discovered an ancient black-and-white gate surrounded by cyan whirlwinds.

Xiao Qing and Yao Chen broke the weakened Space Lock around the Misty Cloud Sect’s Life-and-Death Gate and discovered that its entrance led to a secret ground with its own one-person restriction. Xiao Qing entered, while Yun Yun arrived afterward and mistakenly believed an energy fluctuation had dispersed the Spatial Power.

• Yao Chen detected the Space Lock and concealed Xiao Qing as they traveled unnoticed to the Life-and-Death Gate.
• Yao Chen shattered the worn-down Space Lock, revealing a cyan energy screen that allowed only one person to enter at a time.
• Yao Chen determined that the gate predated the Space Lock and that the secret ground itself imposed the entry restriction.
• Xiao Qing entered the cyan screen, which vanished behind him.
• Yun Yun arrived, saw that the Spatial Power had dissipated, and decided to tell Yun Shan after he left seclusion.

Xiao Qing entered the Misty Cloud Sect’s vast Secret Realm, where Yao Chen explained that its Astral Wind was a weakened restriction created by a Dou Zun expert. After Xiao Qing defeated an aged figure who attacked him with a sword beam, the figure vanished and left behind a glowing green crystal.

• Xiao Qing arrived in the energy-rich Secret Realm and surveyed its surroundings with Yao Chen.
• Xiao Qing flew deeper into the realm as the Astral Wind followed and repeatedly dissolved against the Life Spirit Flame.
• Yao Chen examined a strand of Astral Wind and concluded that a Misty Cloud Sect Dou Zun had created it to attack intruders without a designated technique.
• An aged figure in white appeared below Xiao Qing and launched an Astral Wind-wrapped sword beam at him.
• Xiao Qing shattered the attack with a palm strike, which engulfed the aged figure and left a large crater.
• Xiao Qing used his soul power to retrieve a glowing, thumb-sized green crystal from the crater.

Xiao Qing discovered that the Life-and-Death Gate’s Secret Realm turned the dead into mindless energy bodies whose crystals could strengthen him. After confirming Yao Chen could resist the realm’s erosion and that Xiao Qing had time before it expelled him, he began hunting the former Misty Cloud Sect leaders and claimed two Energy Cores.

• Xiao Qing guessed that the diamond-shaped crystal came from an energy body formed in the Secret Realm and decided to hunt the former Misty Cloud Sect leaders.
• Yao Chen sensed that the Secret Realm was assimilating him but said he could resist its erosion as long as he conserved his soul power.
• Yao Chen estimated that the realm would take about two years to expel Xiao Qing and said Xiao Qing could remain unless he advanced to Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Qing flew through the mist and encountered two mindless figures in moon-white robes, who attacked him with coordinated sword strikes.
• Xiao Qing destroyed the figures with a crystalline palm imprint, collected their two Energy Cores, and flew onward.

After breaking through to Eight-Star Dou Wang, Xiao Qing used a Dou Ling Pill to continue cultivating in the Secret Realm, where Yun Potian appeared and attacked him. Yao Chen stopped the attack, and Yun Potian offered his hidden Storage Ring as compensation while Xiao Qing remained focused on cultivation.

• Xiao Qing absorbed Energy Cores from the Misty Cloud Sect’s past sect masters and broke through to Eight-Star Dou Wang.
• Xiao Qing swallowed a Dou Ling Pill and began refining its medicinal power to pursue a breakthrough to the Dou Emperor realm.
• Yun Potian arrived, sensed the past sect masters’ auras in Xiao Qing, and attacked him with an azure palm seal.
• Yao Chen appeared, dispelled Yun Potian’s attack, and challenged him to fight instead.
• Yun Potian introduced himself, apologized, and offered his hidden Storage Ring as compensation.
• Yao Chen told Yun Potian that Xiao Qing would decide what happened after he finished cultivating.

Xiao Qing finished cultivating in the Secret Realm and refused Yun Potian’s offer of his Storage Ring after Yun Potian attacked him. Yao Chen killed Yun Potian and gave Xiao Qing his Dou Zun-level Energy Core, while Xiao Qing later searched the Secret Realm for the ring.

• After two days of cultivation, Xiao Qing emerged as a Nine-Star Dou Wang and learned from Yao Chen how Yun Potian had stayed alive.
• Yun Potian offered Xiao Qing the contents of his Storage Ring, but Xiao Qing refused after Yun Potian attacked him and tried to flee.
• Yao Chen scattered Yun Potian’s attack, pursued him, and returned with his Dou Zun-level Energy Core.
• Xiao Qing stored the Energy Core for a future breakthrough and flew deeper into the Secret Realm as its repulsive force against him grew stronger.
• Two months later, Xiao Qing searched the last remaining area for Yun Potian’s Storage Ring while Yao Chen wondered whether Yun Potian had lied or hidden it too well.

Xiao Qing and Yao Chen uncovered Yun Potian’s hidden refuge and found his Storage Ring in a secluded stone chamber. Xiao Qing claimed the chamber’s treasures and discovered that most of the stored techniques did not suit him.

• Yao Chen detected a hidden spatial illusion and broke through the barrier concealing a mountain range.
• Xiao Qing and Yao Chen entered the hidden space, found a cave behind a waterfall, and removed its spatial seal.
• Xiao Qing opened a stone chamber containing a medicinal-herb cushion, a seal, a longsword, and Yun Potian’s Advanced Storage Ring.
• Xiao Qing examined the Storage Ring’s rare medicinal herbs and ancient scrolls, keeping a Low Earth Class dual cultivation method for himself.
• Xiao Qing found that most of the scrolls’ wind-attributed techniques were useless to him, though they also contained several pill formulas.

Xiao Qing activated the black-and-white seal with his blood, and its reincarnation aura drew him into a vision where he lived as Xiao Yan. He awakened in the stone chamber with a connection to the seal, though he remained unsure what had happened.

• Xiao Qing examined the black-and-white seal, and Yao Chen sensed that it could absorb soul bodies like Yun Potian.
• Following Yao Chen’s advice, Xiao Qing dripped blood onto the seal, which erupted with light and began pulling at his soul.
• Yao Chen retreated into the Bone Flame Ring as the seal’s power overwhelmed Xiao Qing and sent Yao Chen to sleep.
• Xiao Qing awakened in a vision as Xiao Yan, then met Yao Chen, who offered to train him as an alchemist.
• Xiao Qing recognized the ring on his hand and remembered the seal before his vision ended and he awoke in the stone chamber.

Xiao Qing broke through to Dou Emperor and emerged from the Life-and-Death Gate, only for Yao Chen to reveal his betrayal and kill him to seize his treasures. After Xiao Qing was blasted apart, color returned to his world and the scene began to change.

• Xiao Qing established a connection with the seal, then began breaking through to Dou Emperor using a cyan Energy Core.
• A spatial vortex swallowed Xiao Qing, and energy fluctuations at the Misty Cloud Sect’s Life-and-Death Gate drew Yun Yun and the elders.
• Xiao Qing emerged from the Life-and-Death Gate, ignored Yun Leng’s questions, and vanished before the elders could stop him.
• Outside Misty Cloud Mountain, Xiao Qing examined the seal, but Yao Chen trapped him with a soul barrier and revealed he wanted the Life Spirit Flame and the seal.
• Yao Chen struck Xiao Qing with a finger imprint, leaving only the green flame and black-and-white seal behind; after an unknown time, color returned to Xiao Qing’s world.

Xiao Qing subdued the Life-and-Death Seal, gaining the ability to control his access to the Secret Realm, then broke through to the Dou Emperor realm. He emerged from the Life-and-Death Gate at the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Yun and several elders were waiting.

• Xiao Qing learned that the Life-and-Death Seal could enslave soul bodies and grant him authority to enter and leave the Secret Realm.
• Xiao Qing fused the seal into his soul and took a three-foot-long sword from the stone chamber.
• Yao Chen emerged from the Bone Flame Ring, and Xiao Qing confirmed that he had subdued the seal.
• Xiao Qing began breaking through to the Dou Emperor realm using a Dou Emperor-level Energy Core.
• Xiao Qing emerged from the Life-and-Death Gate at the Misty Cloud Sect, while Yun Yun and several elders waited outside.

Xiao Qing returned to the Jia Ma Empire and learned that Medusa had led an invasion of its border. After parting with Yao Chen, he questioned Hai Bo Dong and discovered that Medusa’s actions were connected to him.

• Xiao Qing left Misty Cloud Sect Mountain as the Life-and-Death Gate’s light screen vanished, and Yun Yun dismissed the elders without revealing her suspicions.
• Xiao Qing heard that Medusa had led the Snake-People Tribe in an invasion and that the Royal Family’s Guardian had been seriously injured.
• Xiao Qing parted from Yao Chen in the Imperial Capital, and Yao Chen warned him to watch for Soul Hall Guardians before heading to the Xiao Household.
• Xiao Qing went to the Mittel Auction House and asked Hai Bo Dong about Medusa’s invasion.
• Hai Bo Dong explained the invasion’s circumstances, and Xiao Qing realized it was connected to him.

Xiao Qing learned how the Green Lotus Core Flame had sparked a war between the Snake-People Tribe and the Jia Ma Empire, then rewarded Hai Bo Dong with a Sect-Breaking Pill for protecting the Xiao Household. He returned to the valley to find Zi Yan on the verge of advancing and handed her a bottle of pills.

• Hai Bo Dong told Xiao Qing that Medusa had ended the invasion after Jia Xing Tian ceded border cities and swore the Jia Ma Empire had never possessed a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Qing gave Hai Bo Dong a Sixth Grade Sect-Breaking Pill and asked him to continue protecting the Xiao Household while he was away.
• In the Magic Beast Mountain Range, Zi Yan told Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian that her listless state meant she was about to advance, though she had run out of pills.
• Xiao Qing arrived at the valley, and Zi Yan scolded him for staying away more than three months and demanded Dou Ling Pills.
• Xiao Qing gave Zi Yan a bottle of pills and asked whether she was about to advance.

Xiao Qing returned with cultivation techniques for Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian and prepared to take the three girls into the secret realm within the Life-and-Death Gate. He opened the realm’s entrance with the ancient Seal and invited them inside.

• Zi Yan confirmed that she had been waiting for Xiao Qing’s return so she could advance, and he promised to refine more pills for her.
• Xiao Qing praised Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian for their cultivation progress and gave them Intermediate Earth Tier techniques suited to their attributes.
• Xiao Qing told Zi Yan not to take the Dou Ling Pill yet and revealed the ancient Seal, whose aura briefly caused Xiao Yi Xian to lose consciousness.
• Xiao Qing used the Seal to open a black-and-white light curtain, explained that its aura had overwhelmed Xiao Yi Xian, and invited the girls to enter the secret realm.

Xiao Qing brought Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian to the safe mountain range where Yun Potian had hidden his Storage Ring, and they built cabins beside a waterfall. Zi Yan began advancing with an Energy Core and a Dou Ling Pill, while Xiao Qing checked his system panel and saw that he had one draw remaining.

• Xiao Qing and the others emerged from the spatial vortex in the Astral Wind-free area around Yun Potian's mountain range.
• Xiao Qing, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian built four wooden cabins beside the waterfall.
• Xiao Qing gave Zi Yan an Energy Core and told her to use it with the Dou Ling Pill for her advancement.
• Zi Yan swallowed the pill and began absorbing the Energy Core's power inside a massive purple Light Cocoon.
• Xiao Qing told Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian to stay within the mountain range's outer perimeter, then checked his panel and saw one draw remaining.

Xiao Qing drew the Space Ancestral Symbol and entered its space to undergo the trial required to refine it. As he faced attacks made of pure Spatial Power, Zi Yan’s cocoon began gathering more energy outside, while Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian watched over her.

• Xiao Qing used his new Lottery Panel draw and obtained the Space Ancestral Symbol.
• Xiao Qing materialized the symbol, told Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian he was entering seclusion, and learned that he had to pass its trial.
• Xiao Qing entered the silver vortex and found himself unable to use his Dou Qi or soul power inside the symbol’s space.
• Zi Yan’s purple Light Cocoon gathered a greatly increased flow of energy, and Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian moved away while keeping watch over her.
• Xiao Qing blocked a Spatial Blade with his scaled palm, grabbed it, and noticed more Spatial Blades ahead.

Xiao Qing comprehended the true essence of space and refined the Space Ancestral Symbol. He reached Six-Star Dou Huang and gained powerful spatial abilities before preparing to leave the silvery-white world.

• Xiao Qing endured the Spatial Blades and meditated among them until he comprehended the true essence of space.
• Xiao Qing revealed the Ancestral Symbol Spirit and joined it with himself, then refined the Space Ancestral Symbol.
• Xiao Qing advanced his soul realm to Peak Mortal Realm and broke through to Six-Star Dou Huang.
• Xiao Qing tested his new powers by teleporting, creating Spatial Blades, and swallowing them with twisted space.
• Xiao Qing judged that he could now defeat a low-level Dou Zong and escape powerful opponents, then vanished to leave the silvery-white world.

After half a year in seclusion, Xiao Qing emerged and helped Zi Yan’s Light Cocoon absorb powerful medicinal energy as she advanced. The cocoon broke open, revealing Zi Yan transformed into a mature human form.

• Xiao Qing left seclusion, cleaned his room, and used rare medicinal herbs refined with the Life Spirit Flame to nourish Zi Yan’s Light Cocoon.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Qing that half a year had passed; she had reached the One-Star Da Dou Shi realm, while Qing Lin had reached the Six-Star Battle Master realm.
• Xiao Qing revealed that refining the Space Ancestral Symbol had raised his soul realm to the Early Spirit Realm.
• The mountain range shook as Zi Yan’s cocoon absorbed the medicinal liquid, cracked, and burst open beneath a pillar of purple light.
• Zi Yan emerged naked in a mature human form, and Xiao Qing gave Qing Lin a robe to take to her.

After Zi Yan changed back into a little girl, Xiao Qing explained that her powerful bloodline kept her in the Juvenile Period until she reached Dou Zun or higher. He reassured her and began refining pills for the group before they left.

• Zi Yan shrank back into her small form, and she and Xiao Yi Xian wondered why she had not grown up after reaching Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Qing explained that Zi Yan was still in the Juvenile Period because her cultivation was too low, and said her bloodline might require Dou Zun or higher for her to enter the Maturity Period.
• Zi Yan asked whether a Transformation Pill could make her grow up, but Xiao Qing said even an Eighth-Grade pill would not work.
• Xiao Qing comforted Zi Yan, then said he would refine pills for the group before they left.
• Xiao Qing set out his cauldron and herbs and began refining pills as Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian watched.

Xiao Qing, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian left the Secret Realm and traveled to the Tagor Desert so Xiao Qing could capture high-level snakes for Qing Lin and seek Medusa. They arrived at a Snake-People fortress, where the guards raised an alarm and called for Commander Mobasi.

• Xiao Qing and the others emerged from the Secret Realm, and the black-and-white passage vanished behind them.
• Xiao Qing decided they would travel and catch high-level snakes for Qing Lin, so he and Zi Yan flew with Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian toward the desert.
• Xiao Qing explained that they were heading to the Snake-People Tribe to collect a pet and find snakes for Qing Lin.
• The group reached a large Snake-People fortress, and its guards spotted them approaching.
• The snake-people raised the alarm and hurried to inform Commander Mobasi.

Xiao Qing and Zi Yan reached the Ink Snake Tribe, where Commander Mobasi tried to stop them. Xiao Qing defeated Mobasi with one strike, leaving the Snake-People guards terrified and Mobasi’s fate unclear.

• The Snake-People guards cheered when Mobasi appeared to block Xiao Qing and Zi Yan from reaching the city.
• Xiao Qing dismissed Mobasi’s pressure and asked Qing Lin whether she wanted to control him, but Qing Lin objected that he looked ugly before agreeing to take him.
• Mobasi hid his anger and stalled for reinforcements while Zi Yan mocked the Snake-People’s appearance.
• Xiao Qing vanished with Qing Lin, reappeared in front of Mobasi, and struck him with a spatial palm.
• Mobasi crashed into the ground, and the guards stared in terror, unsure whether their commander had survived.

Xiao Qing helped Qing Lin control the defeated Mobasi, then returned to Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian, who questioned his mastery of Spatial Power and rapid cultivation. He attributed his spatial ability to Zi Yan’s bloodline and his advancement to the Energy Core, leaving his true source of power concealed.

• Xiao Qing seized the badly wounded Mobasi and asked Qing Lin to try controlling him.
• Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils nearly controlled Mobasi, and Xiao Qing’s soul-enhanced shout left him vulnerable to her power.
• Qing Lin successfully controlled Mobasi and stored him inside her pupils, saying she could control another snake of the same rank.
• Xiao Qing carried Qing Lin back to Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian, who asked how he had mastered Spatial Power and reached Six-Star Dou Huang.
• Xiao Qing credited his Spatial Power to Zi Yan’s bloodline and his cultivation growth to the Energy Core, while keeping the Space Ancestral Symbol secret.

Xiao Qing left the Ink Snake Tribe with Qing Lin and Zi Yan after capturing Mobasi, promising to share energy cores with Zi Yan. When the Snake-People Tribe commanders arrived, they learned that Xiao Qing had used the power of space and concluded he was a Dou Zong, leaving them worried that he might retaliate.

• Zi Yan asked Xiao Qing for more energy cores, and he agreed to share them after the operation.
• Xiao Qing flew away from the Ink Snake Tribe with Qing Lin, while Zi Yan followed him.
• Yue Mei and the other commanders arrived and questioned the guards about Mobasi's disappearance.
• A guard described how Xiao Qing had suppressed and captured Mobasi, prompting the commanders to recognize him as a Dou Zong.
• The commanders withdrew the guards and worried that Xiao Qing might hold the Snake-People Tribe responsible for Mobasi's offense.

Xiao Qing brought Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian to the Snake-People Holy City, where Medusa confronted them. The chapter ended with Medusa dismissing Xiao Qing’s group as no match for her.

• Yue Mei and the other commanders decided to report Mobasi’s capture to the Snake-People Holy City, and Yue Mei stayed behind in the Ink Snake Tribe.
• Xiao Qing and his companions approached the Snake-People Holy City, ignoring the guards’ warning to turn back.
• The city guards fired poisoned arrows, but Xiao Qing stopped them with spiritual pressure and flew into the city with Zi Yan.
• Medusa appeared and halted the intruders, while the Snake-People celebrated their queen’s arrival.
• Medusa recognized Xiao Qing as a Six-Star Dou Huang and Zi Yan as a sixth-tier magical beast, then mocked them as incapable of defeating her.

Xiao Qing defeated Queen Medusa and captured her, explaining that he had come for her Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline. As he reunited with Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian above the Holy City, four elders rose to confront him.

• Xiao Qing battled Medusa in the clouds, overpowering her attacks and injuring her.
• Medusa recognized Xiao Qing as the Dou Wang who had taken the Heavenly Flame, and Xiao Qing knocked her unconscious and covered her with a robe.
• Xiao Qing descended with Medusa and told Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian that he wanted her because of her ancient magical beast bloodline and potential to evolve.
• The Snake-People Holy City erupted in alarm when its people saw Medusa captured.
• Four elders flew out from a bamboo grove and headed toward Xiao Qing and the others.

Xiao Qing defeated and captured the four Snake-People Elders who demanded Medusa’s release, then used his soul power to put the people of the Snake-People Holy City to sleep. The city was left silent, and Qing Lin was reassured that its inhabitants were unharmed.

• The four Elders confronted Xiao Qing and demanded that he release Medusa, threatening him and his companions.
• Xiao Qing bound the Elders with Spatial Power and pierced them with Spatial Blades, leaving them unconscious but alive.
• Xiao Qing caught the falling Elders with a giant hand of Spatial Power, while the Snake-People in the city feared their tribe was doomed.
• Xiao Qing spread his soul power through the city and put the Snake-People to sleep because they were too noisy.
• Qing Lin worried about the sleeping inhabitants, and Xiao Qing told her that they were fine.