Chapter Summaries

Yi Meng told Feng Yang how her uncle Ge Li murdered her father and asked him to help her take revenge and regain control of the Miao Frontier. She offered the Miao Frontier’s support if Feng Yang moved against the Star Luo Empire.

• Yi Meng insisted on riding in Feng Yang’s carriage as his wife, and Feng Yang allowed her to board.
• Feng Yang pressed Yi Meng to explain why she had sought him out, warning that he would not make a detour to the Miao Frontier without knowing her reason.
• Yi Meng revealed that Ge Li had attacked and killed her father, and she vowed to avenge him.
• Yi Meng explained that she had sought help at Spirit Hall, then pursued Feng Yang after hearing he was heading south.
• Yi Meng said Ge Li had allied with other Star Luo Empire city lords to overturn the world and offered Miao Frontier support for Feng Yang if he helped her defeat Ge Li.

Feng Yang accompanied Yi Meng into the Miao Frontier, where she challenged Ge Li and learned that many of her father's former followers had turned against her. Feng Yang overwhelmed Ge Li's forces and protected Yi Meng from a Gu Worm, leaving Ge Li frightened and Yi Meng's bid to rule the Miao Frontier underway.

• After twelve days, Ge Li met Fei Xin in Antonio City to discuss their covert cooperation and the stolen Poison Repelling Pearl.
• Yi Meng's group reached the depths of Ten Thousand Poisons Cave, and Feng Yang urged her to call Ge Li out instead of sneaking around.
• Yi Meng cursed Ge Li outside the stockade, but Huo Zi and Shui Zi attacked her and knocked her back into Feng Yang's arms.
• Ge Li ordered his Soul Masters to seize Yi Meng, and Feng Yang killed a Level 61 Soul Master with his Blue Flame before declaring he would make Yi Meng ruler of the Miao Frontier.
• Ge Li sent an invisible Gu Worm toward Feng Yang, but the Blue Flame burned it away, and Yi Meng mocked Ge Li for failing to poison her husband.

Feng Yang helped Yi Meng seize control of the Miao Frontier, then left with Bibi Dong to continue traveling south. They entered Dragon Flame Province, where the City of Slaughter was located in the Great Wilderness of the Far West.

• Feng Yang ordered the Miao Frontier Soul Masters to capture Ge Li, and Yi Meng had him tortured into a dried corpse.
• Yi Meng became ruler of the Miao Frontier, and Feng Yang left after promising to visit her again.
• Feng Yang and his companions avoided Tang Xiao’s force by spending a month in the Miao Frontier and then crossing into Antonio City.
• Feng Yang’s group found no news of Tang San or Master Yu Xiaogang in Antonio City and continued south.
• Feng Yang and his companions entered Dragon Flame Province, which contained the Great Wilderness of the Far West and the City of Slaughter.

Feng Yang’s group stopped at an inn on the way south and learned that the abandoned Shashaqiu City in the July Fire Desert had recently experienced rainfall. Feng Yang decided to investigate the desert, where the group struggled with the heat and thirst, while Mu Lan’s reluctance to return home hinted at a hidden motive.

• The group crossed the blood-red Dragon Blood River, and Mu Lan explained that it was linked to the City of Slaughter and its deaths.
• At a wilderness inn, Feng Yang heard that rain had fallen in the July Fire Desert and learned from Mu Lan that Shashaqiu City had been largely abandoned after years of drought.
• Feng Yang chose to visit the desert before continuing toward the Great Wilderness of the Far West, despite Mu Lan’s attempts to change their route and her wish to return to her hometown.
• Hu Liena told Feng Yang she suspected Mu Lan was hiding something, and Feng Yang said he was not concerned about her schemes.
• The group entered the desert on foot after abandoning their carriage and horses, and Yan soon complained that he was exhausted and desperately thirsty.

Feng Yang and his companions crossed the July Fire Desert, witnessed a mysterious dragon-like creature in the storm clouds, and reached Shashaqiu City. A merchant warned them that everyone entering the city had vanished, leaving the group facing a dangerous mystery.

• Yan paid Mu Lan one Gold Soul Coin for a sip of water as they continued through the desert.
• White mist and dark storm clouds appeared, and Feng Yang carried the group into the sky, where they glimpsed a huge purple creature resembling a Divine Dragon.
• Rain poured over the desert, and Feng Yang searched the clouds for the creature before flying the group toward Shashaqiu City.
• Bibi Dong complained that they had walked instead of flying, and Feng Yang teased her and Hu Liena as they descended into the city.
• A merchant at the city entrance warned Feng Yang and the others that people had been disappearing inside Shashaqiu City for two years, including his four friends.

Feng Yang and his companions entered Shashaqiu City, where a Soul Power barrier trapped everyone inside and the ghost of the dead City Lord haunted the streets. Yan attacked the barrier, but his flames rebounded before Feng Yang blocked them with Blue Flame.

• A terrified man told Feng Yang's group that people who entered Shashaqiu City never came back out, and that his four friends had vanished inside.
• Feng Yang sensed powerful Soul Power covering the city and led his companions through the gates, with Bibi Dong following after Hu Liena mentioned Yu Xiaogang might be inside.
• Inside the city, the group found few people and learned from a woman that the dead City Lord's ghost had raised a barrier after the residents disturbed his grave.
• Yan tried to cross the gates and found himself returned inside, then ignored the woman's warning and attacked the barrier with his fifth soul skill.
• Yan's flames rebounded from the barrier, and Feng Yang used his shaped Blue Flame to shield the group.

Feng Yang and his companions discovered that Shashaqiu City's barrier could not be broken without killing its trapped residents, so they decided to investigate before acting. That night, Hu Liena visited Feng Yang, while Bibi Dong was startled by her own unexpected reaction to the sounds from the neighboring room.

• Feng Yang blocked the falling sea of fire, but the barrier redirected Soul Power and killed a passerby, revealing that breaking it could destroy the city.
• Feng Yang explained that the barrier could rebound and shatter attacks, and the group chose to explore Shashaqiu City instead of risking the residents' lives.
• The group heard residents describe the city's history, its lack of supplies, and the return of the dead lord's ghost before settling into an inn.
• Hu Liena visited Feng Yang and worried that they might never escape, and he teased her before teaching her how to sweat.
• Shuang Luo and Mu Lan eavesdropped from their rooms, while Bibi Dong felt an unfamiliar stir and wondered why she had become strange.

Feng Yang and Hu Liena joined the others to search for the City Lord’s soul in Shashaqiu City. As the group ventured into the thickening fog, Bibi Dong privately questioned Hu Liena about being with Feng Yang and appeared to long for the same experience.

• Feng Yang teased Hu Liena as they dressed, then went downstairs with her to meet Bibi Dong, Shuang Luo, Mu Lan, Yan, and Ghost.
• The innkeeper warned the group that seeking the City Lord’s soul might provoke it, but gave them a map when they decided to go anyway.
• The group set out at night through the cold, eerie streets, where the fog grew thicker and the others voiced their unease.
• Bibi Dong walked beside Hu Liena and asked what it felt like to sleep with Feng Yang; Hu Liena shyly described the experience, stirring Bibi Dong’s longing.
• Feng Yang stopped ahead and told everyone to stay close so they would not get separated in the thickening fog.

Feng Yang and his companions fought through swarms of ghostly Soul Beasts near the City Lord's Manor and discovered that killing them rapidly increased their Soul Power. They reached the manor’s steps with several members having gained multiple levels, just as a heavy voice warned them that trespassers would die.

• Feng Yang’s group was surrounded by eerie Soul Beasts, but Yan, Hu Liena, and Shuang Luo quickly defeated the creatures attacking them.
• Hu Liena, Shuang Luo, and Yan each gained multiple levels after the battle, and Feng Yang realized the Soul Beasts acted like experience babies.
• The group advanced toward the City Lord’s Manor, killing more Soul Beasts and leveling up along the way.
• Mu Lan revealed her Nether Flower Snake martial soul and joined the fighting, rising to Level 49.
• Feng Yang’s group reached the top step of the City Lord’s Manor, where a heavy voice threatened to kill anyone who trespassed.

Feng Yang and his companions confronted the dead City Lord of Shashaqiu, who summoned a giant sandworm and tried to kill them. After Bibi Dong condemned his plan to destroy the city, she revealed her Rank 99 strength and killed him, leaving his summon to dissolve.

• The City Lord of Shashaqiu summoned a hundred-meter sandworm, and Yan, Hu Liena, Shuang Luo, and their fourth companion attacked it while Feng Yang and Bibi Dong watched.
• Feng Yang accused the City Lord of sealing the city and condemning its people to die because they had failed to honor him.
• Bibi Dong rebuked the City Lord for abandoning his duty and seeking revenge on the city's people.
• The City Lord recognized Bibi Dong as a Rank 99 Douluo, but she pierced him repeatedly with her Blood Sucking Spider Thorn.
• The sandworm dissolved into green liquid after the City Lord died, stunning Yan, Hu Liena, and the others.

Feng Yang and Bibi Dong confronted the God of Summoning, who had taken over the fat City Lord and tried to claim Bibi Dong as a vessel. Feng Yang drove the god from the city and ended its confinement, then shared a quiet moment with Bibi Dong.

• The fat City Lord revived under the God of Summoning’s control, and Feng Yang learned the god had resurrected and manipulated the City Lord of Shashaqiu City.
• The God of Summoning tried to seize Bibi Dong as a vessel, but Feng Yang stepped in and unleashed his nine powerful Soul Rings.
• Feng Yang battled the God of Summoning, ignited its borrowed body with Blue Flame, and forced it to escape as black mist.
• The God of Summoning vanished, lifting the confinement over Shashaqiu City, and Feng Yang’s companions gathered around him.
• Bibi Dong thanked Feng Yang for saving her, and he remarked that she seemed free of her former burdens.

After Feng Yang saved Shashaqiu City, Mu Lan asked him to investigate the darkness haunting her hometown, and he agreed to take the group there. As they flew onward, Bibi Dong said she had let go of her past, but a dragon head appeared amid the storm clouds.

• The people of Shashaqiu City thanked Feng Yang and promised to build a statue in his honor.
• Mu Lan told Feng Yang she had met the City Lord three years earlier and that he had sought the Shen Nong Ding before dying.
• Mu Lan revealed that black mist had covered her hometown for ten years, and Feng Yang agreed to visit it.
• Feng Yang asked whether Bibi Dong still wanted to find Yu Xiaogang, and she said she had let go of her obsession with him.
• Dark clouds gathered around the group, and they saw a dragon head through the storm.

Feng Yang and his companions followed Mu Lan to her hometown, Zeyun Village, to investigate the God of Summoning and cut off his influence. The village was shrouded in deadly black mist, and Mu Lan reunited with her younger sister and the villagers before learning that Brother Ke had died trying to leave.

• The Divine Dragon told Feng Yang it could only bring rain to Shashaqiu City and urged him to sever the God of Summoning's roots in Zeyun Village.
• Mu Lan revealed that Zeyun Village was her hometown, and Feng Yang led the group there through the Great Wilderness of the Far West.
• The group entered the black-mist-covered village, where Mu Lan warned them that staying too long would kill them.
• Mu Lan reunited with her younger sister Mu Tong and introduced Feng Yang and the others to the villagers.
• Mu Lan learned that Brother Ke had tried to leave the village but collapsed and died, and the villagers asked whether she had found a cure.

Mu Lan told Feng Yang and his companions how the black mist had trapped the villagers in a state where they no longer aged or needed food, and Feng Yang realized their souls had been separated from their bodies. He offered Soul Stabilizing Grass as a possible cure, and Mu Tong volunteered to try it.

• Mu Lan explained that an earthquake had opened a fissure, releasing black mist that darkened the village and caused anyone who left after staying too long to die.
• Mu Lan revealed that Mu Tong was fifteen or sixteen despite looking five or six, and that the villagers had stopped aging and eating or drinking.
• Feng Yang realized the villagers had undergone Soul Ejection and warned Mu Lan that her soul seemed close to leaving her body.
• Feng Yang offered Soul Stabilizing Grass, hoping it could return the villagers' souls to their bodies and let them survive without the mist.
• Mu Tong told Mu Lan she wanted to try the cure because she was tired of living in the dark.

Feng Yang used Soul Stabilizing Immortal Grass to reunite Mu Tong’s soul with her body, allowing her to leave Zeyun Village. Mu Lan and Mu Tong offered to serve him, while Feng Yang decided the village’s fate required destroying the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and its black-mist rift, though he hoped to save any villagers he could.

• Mu Tong agreed to try the Soul Stabilizing Immortal Grass, and Feng Yang watched her soul merge with her body.
• Feng Yang carried Mu Tong out of Zeyun Village, where she confirmed she felt no discomfort and Mu Lan embraced her in relief.
• Mu Lan and Mu Tong offered themselves to Feng Yang, who accepted them as maids for the time being.
• Feng Yang told Mu Lan that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast guarded the rift releasing black mist and that defeating it would kill the villagers in Zeyun Village.
• Feng Yang decided they would destroy the Soul Beast to prevent further divine calamities, while promising to save any villagers he could.

Feng Yang traveled back to Huaxia City with Mu Lan and Mu Tong to look for more immortal herbs, while Mu Lan confessed that she had once planned to lure him into a deadly black mist for payment from Yu Tianxin. He gave her a chance to prove her loyalty, then reached Huaxia City, where guards mistook him for an impostor until someone recognized him.

• Feng Yang agreed to take Mu Lan and Mu Tong with him to the Heaven Dou Empire, while Bibi Dong stayed behind with Yan, Shuang Luo, and Hu Liena.
• During the journey, Mu Lan confessed that Yu Tianxin had paid her to lure Feng Yang into the black mist near her hometown.
• Mu Lan offered to kill Yu Tianxin to prove her loyalty, and Feng Yang agreed to give her a chance.
• Feng Yang, Mu Lan, and Mu Tong traveled through Antonio City, the Catastrophe Mountain Range, and Hadrian City before arriving at Huaxia City.
• A guard mistook Feng Yang for one of several recent impostors and ordered his arrest, but another person recognized him as the City Lord.

Feng Yang returned to the city, where Soul Masters and citizens welcomed him as their City Lord. He reunited with his disciples and learned about their progress, then went with Zhu Zhuqing to the Vice City Lord's Residence while Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo accompanied him.

• A soldier reported Feng Yang's return, and more than a hundred Soul Masters gathered to kneel and greet him as City Lord.
• Feng Yang reunited with Xiao Wu, Huo Wu, Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Meng Yiran, who told him about their Inscribed Soul Skill progress.
• Feng Yang asked Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling about their progress and learned from Dugu Bo that his poison could be eradicated in about half a year.
• Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo told Feng Yang that his palace would be ready in ten days, and Feng Yang reassured Chrysanthemum Douluo that the former Pope was doing well.
• Feng Yang went to the Vice City Lord's Residence with Zhu Zhuqing, Ghost Douluo, and Chrysanthemum Douluo, while Zhu Zhuqing dismissed the other Soul Masters and drew jealous looks from the other girls.

Feng Yang returned to Huaxia City, praised Zhu Zhuqing’s governance, and decided to prepare for war against the Star Luo Empire. He then set out to visit Dugu Bo’s Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for Soul Stabilizing Grass, with Dugu Bo pledging loyalty to Huaxia’s cause.

• Zhu Zhuqing told Feng Yang that Huaxia City remained stable and that its businesses and Spirit Hall benefits continued, though the Star Luo Empire had destroyed their businesses and begun mobilizing troops.
• Zhu Zhuqing reported that Huaxia City was preparing for war after Star Luo forces crossed the border, and Feng Yang declared his intention to wage war against the empire.
• Feng Yang ordered Spirit Hall Soul Masters to be registered, offered battlefield volunteers triple monthly pay, and told Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo to prepare food and notify the former Elder Hall members.
• Xiao Wu, Huo Wu, and the other girls crowded around Feng Yang as he prepared to leave, and he asked Dugu Bo whether the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well held any Soul Stabilizing Grass.
• Dugu Bo agreed that Feng Yang could take any immortal grass he found and said he would support Huaxia against the Star Luo Empire.

Feng Yang traveled with Dugu Bo, Mu Lan, and Mu Tong to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to search for Soul Stabilizing Grass, while revealing his plans and concerns about becoming a god. After they found the grass, Mu Lan confronted Feng Yang over his distant introduction and kissed him.

• Feng Yang told Dugu Bo he could become a god at any time, but said he needed to arrange matters for his disciples before ascending.
• Feng Yang introduced Mu Tong and Mu Lan to Dugu Bo, then recounted his recent experiences as they traveled to Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo led the group to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Mu Tong identified Soul Stabilizing Grass and Dugu Bo admitted he had mistaken it for weeds and pulled some up before.
• Feng Yang sent everyone to search the Yin Yang Well for more Soul Stabilizing Grass, and Mu Lan followed him to ask whether he was angry with her.
• Mu Lan said she would have preferred Feng Yang to call her his bedchamber maid, then kissed him and placed his hand on her chest.

After collecting Soul Stabilizing Grasses in Sunset Forest, Feng Yang left Dugu Bo and the others outside Heaven Dou City and secretly visited Qian Renxue in the Eastern Palace. They reunited intimately, and Qian Renxue revealed she had not poisoned Xue Ye and was waiting to inherit the empire.

• Feng Yang and his companions collected twenty-six Soul Stabilizing Grasses, and Dugu Bo reassured the disappointed Mu Lan.
• Dugu Bo urged Feng Yang to visit Dugu Yan and joked about wanting a great-grandchild, and Feng Yang decided to begin with Qian Renxue.
• Feng Yang arranged for Dugu Bo, Mu Tong, and Mu Lan to wait outside Heaven Dou City, then flew into the Eastern Palace garden.
• Qian Renxue recognized the golden bead Feng Yang sent and hurried to meet him, embracing him in the back garden.
• Feng Yang kissed Qian Renxue and carried her toward her bedroom, saying he wanted them to make a child.
• Qian Renxue told Feng Yang she had not poisoned Xue Ye and already held authority to govern the empire as Crown Prince.