Chapter Summaries

Chu Zhou subdued the Yin-Yang Origin Flame by resonating with its rules, strengthening his soul and control of space. After returning to Hanging Dead Island, he discovered An Tianying and An Tianyue trapped in a Spatial Rift under attack by Purple Cloud Blood Venerable and Yellow Springs Venerable.

• Chu Zhou perceived the balance of the Yin-Yang Origin Flame and used a secret technique to merge his soul imprints with its circulation.
• The Yin-Yang Origin Flame entered Chu Zhou’s soul, forming a bond with him and tempering his soul and body.
• Chu Zhou left the Yin-Yang Origin Space and returned to Hanging Dead Island.
• Chu Zhou found An Tianying and An Tianyue hiding in a Spatial Rift behind a weakening defensive barrier.
• Purple Cloud Blood Venerable attacked the barrier with soul chains while Yellow Springs Venerable struck it with powerful punches.

Chu Zhou returned to Hanging Dead Island and protected An Tianying and An Tianyue from Purple Cloud Old Ghost and Yellow Springs Venerable. He used the Yin-Yang Twin Flames to wound both Three-Star Dou Zun, leaving them stunned by his power.

• Purple Cloud Old Ghost and Yellow Springs Venerable tried to break An Tianying and An Tianyue's barrier, coveting An Tianyue's physique and inheritance.
• Chu Zhou appeared, reinforced the barrier, and restored An Tianying and An Tianyue's strength.
• Chu Zhou revealed the Yin-Yang Twin Flames, drawing the two Dou Zun's greed and confirming the source of the changes in the Yin-Yang Life and Death Abyss.
• Chu Zhou unleashed the Yin-Yang Twin Flames: Revolving Seal against both opponents.
• The flaming disc destroyed Purple Cloud Old Ghost's soul-lock net and shattered Yellow Springs Venerable's hand seal, injuring them both.

Chu Zhou tested the Yin-Yang Twin Flames against Purple Cloud Old Ghost and Yellow Springs Venerable, defeating both Three-Star Dou Zun and claiming their souls and body. He returned to An Tianying and An Tianyue, who stared at him in awe.

• Chu Zhou unleashed the yin fire as a giant flaming whale, which overwhelmed the defenses of Purple Cloud Old Ghost and Yellow Springs Venerable.
• Purple Cloud Old Ghost and Yellow Springs Venerable fled, but Chu Zhou used spatial techniques to catch and kill Purple Cloud Old Ghost, refining his soul into energy.
• Chu Zhou caught Yellow Springs Venerable, destroyed his attack with the Yin-Yang Twin Flames, and used Soul Suppression to defeat him.
• Chu Zhou stored Yellow Springs Venerable's body in his microcosm and refined his soul into a Heavenly Heart Spirit Pearl.
• Chu Zhou returned to An Tianying and An Tianyue, and An Tianyue praised his power.

After killing the two powerful enemies in the Two Principles Life-and-Death Abyss, Chu Zhou took An Tianying and An Tianyue to the Thousand-Zhang Ice Valley to revive Lin Xue'er. Meanwhile, the deaths of Purple Cloud Old Ghost and the Yellow Springs Venerable triggered panic and emergency measures among their factions, and Chu Zhou began restoring Lin Xue'er with a rare pill.

• Chu Zhou opened a spatial passage to the Thousand-Zhang Ice Valley, and An Tianying and An Tianyue followed him there; the Hanging Dead Island collapsed after they left.
• The Qinglong Protector discovered that Purple Cloud Old Ghost's soul lamp had gone out and sent an emergency report to a higher-ranking Soul Hall Heavenly Venerable.
• The Yellow Springs Pavilion learned that the Yellow Springs Venerable's soul tablet had shattered, and the Great Elder ordered the news concealed while placing the sect on high alert.
• Chu Zhou used the Mystic Yellow Azure Flame to guide the Seven-Orifice Nether-Piercing Venerable Pill's energy through the ice and into Lin Xue'er, restoring color and vitality to her body.
• Chu Zhou frowned when an unexpected change occurred during Lin Xue'er's treatment.

Chu Zhou traveled toward the Central Plains with his companions, detouring to the Heavenly Snake Empire to seek Qing Lin’s inheritance. In Boulder City, Feng Qing'er told him that Empress Hui Tianshuang had fallen into a coma and that anyone who cured her could claim an item from the Imperial Treasure Vault.

• Chu Zhou healed the seal fused to Lin Xue'er’s soul, and she was expected to awaken within three days.
• Chu Zhou departed for the Central Plains with An Tianyue and agreed to let Feng Qing'er guide the group.
• After Lin Xue'er awoke, Chu Zhou and his companions boarded Feng Qing'er's Phoenix-Thunder Spirit Boat and headed for the Heavenly Snake Empire to find Qing Lin’s inheritance.
• The group reached Boulder City, where the women went to explore while Chu Zhou returned to Blue Star to collect resources from Secret Realms.
• Feng Qing'er told Chu Zhou that Empress Hui Tianshuang had been comatose for two months and that the Imperial Family offered a Treasure Vault item to anyone who could cure her.

Chu Zhou drew attention to himself by refining a peak Grade Seven Venerate Peak Pill on a nearby mountain, hoping the Heavenly Snake Imperial Family would invite him to the palace so he could investigate the first Empress's legacy. After the pill survived its lightning tribulation and tried to escape, Chu Zhou used his Ancient Void Dragon divine soul to activate the Great Void Technique.

• Chu Zhou learned that the unconscious Empress had a chaotic, weakened soul and dissipating Dou Qi, and decided to wait outside the imperial capital while refining pills.
• Chu Zhou began refining a Venerate Peak Pill, which could raise a Dou Zun expert's cultivation by one star, on a nearby mountain.
• Over ten days, the pill's refining phenomena drew cultivators and hidden Dou Zong experts to watch the mountain.
• Chu Zhou's Variant Demon Puppet absorbed all eight bolts of pill lightning, including the final azure streak.
• The Venerate Peak Pill developed rudimentary spirituality and tried to flee into the void, so Chu Zhou activated the Great Void Technique: Reverse Flow with his Ancient Void Dragon divine soul.

Chu Zhou captured a fleeing Venerate Peak Pill and accepted Red Brows’s invitation to examine the comatose Empress of the Heavenly Snake Empire. He arrived at Heavenly Snake Sacred City and was brought to Hui Tianshuang’s bedchamber, where he saw her lying unconscious.

• Chu Zhou used spatial laws to capture the Venerate Peak Pill and retrieved the Myriad Beast Cauldron and Variant Demon Puppet.
• Red Brows recognized Chu Zhou as an eighth-rank alchemist and invited him to the imperial capital to examine the Empress.
• Chu Zhou agreed to examine the Empress, and his group traveled with Red Brows to Heavenly Snake Sacred City.
• Venerable Qing Yun welcomed Chu Zhou and Feng Qing'er, then led them through the palace to the Empress’s bedchamber.
• Chu Zhou saw Hui Tianshuang lying unconscious on a phoenix bed.

Chu Zhou discovered that Hui Tianshuang’s consciousness had been imprisoned inside her own sea of consciousness by a Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake inheritance. He found her trapped within that realm and helped her regain some clarity, leaving her wary but able to hear his explanation.

• Venerable Qing Yun told Chu Zhou that Hui Tianshuang had been unconscious for over half a month, with no apparent injury or illness.
• Chu Zhou examined Hui Tianshuang and identified a Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake phantom sealing her consciousness as part of a bloodline inheritance.
• Chu Zhou used his Ancient Void Dragon divine soul to pass through the phantom’s barrier and find Hui Tianshuang’s consciousness trapped in a confined world.
• Hui Tianshuang mistook Chu Zhou for her captor and became agitated after enduring prolonged isolation.
• Chu Zhou soothed Hui Tianshuang’s unstable consciousness with his soul power and Heavenly Flames, then introduced himself and explained how he had entered her sea of consciousness.

Hui Tianshuang learned that her uncle Hui Jiuyin had trapped her in the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake seal to steal the throne. She chose Chu Zhou’s slower method of devouring the seal to escape and reach Dou Zun, but he demanded that she become his woman if they succeeded.

• Hui Tianshuang recovered memories of Hui Jiuyin giving her a ring that triggered the seal and trapped her consciousness for months.
• She explained that the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake Soul Curse was not a willing inheritance and accused Hui Jiuyin of plotting against her.
• Chu Zhou offered to shatter the seal by force or guide her in devouring its origin power, which could help her break through to Dou Zun without alerting Hui Jiuyin.
• Hui Tianshuang chose Chu Zhou’s second method to strengthen herself and protect the Heavenly Snake Empire.
• Chu Zhou told her the method required their souls and consciousnesses to merge closely, then insisted she must become his woman if they succeeded.

Hui Tianshuang chose Chu Zhou’s second method, agreeing to become his Dao Companion in exchange for his help breaking the curse and advancing to Dou Zun, while insisting that she remain empress and govern the Heavenly Snake Empire. Chu Zhou arranged for the palace to believe she was undergoing an ancestral inheritance breakthrough, then returned to her bedside to begin the treatment.

• Hui Tianshuang weighed Chu Zhou’s two options and chose the second, while asking to remain in the Imperial Capital as empress until a successor emerged.
• Chu Zhou accepted Hui Tianshuang’s condition, then withdrew from her consciousness to explain the situation to Venerable Qing Yun.
• Chu Zhou told Venerable Qing Yun that the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake Soul Curse had trapped Hui Tianshuang in an inheritance trial and that he could help her advance to Dou Zun.
• Chu Zhou instructed Venerable Qing Yun to conceal the curse and announce that Hui Tianshuang had entered an ancient inheritance state to seek a breakthrough.
• Venerable Qing Yun sealed off the empress’s bedchamber and spread the approved explanation through the palace, with covert support from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Mang Tianchi.
• With the arrangements complete, Chu Zhou returned to Hui Tianshuang’s bedside and prepared to begin the treatment.

Chu Zhou helped Hui Tianshuang tame the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake Origin Curse Seal and break through to Dou Zun, while Hui Jiuyin continued plotting to seize the throne. The chapter ended with Chu Zhou and Hui Tianshuang both reaching Peak One-Star Dou Zun.

• Chu Zhou used his Heavenly Realm Soul to guide Hui Tianshuang as she regained control of her consciousness and began refining the Nine-Headed Heavenly Snake Origin Curse Seal.
• Hui Jiuyin revealed that he had planted the curse seal to trap Hui Tianshuang, then ordered his subordinate to monitor the palace and Chu Zhou.
• Over three months, Meng Ziwei and the Yin-Yang Demon Ape helped China seize resources and territory while devastating rival nations, as the Heavenly Demon Phoenix acted on the Dou Qi Continent.
• After two more months of refining the Origin power with Chu Zhou's help, Hui Tianshuang regained her strength and prepared to break through.
• Chu Zhou took a Zun Extreme Pill, and he and Hui Tianshuang both broke through to Peak One-Star Dou Zun.

Chu Zhou and Hui Tianshuang broke through to Dou Zun together in the Demonic Flame Space, and Hui Tianshuang accepted him as her husband and Dao Companion. They returned to the Empress's Bedchamber, where Venerable Qing Yun learned of Hui Tianshuang's success as they prepared to settle accounts with Hui Jiuyin.

• Chu Zhou took Hui Tianshuang into the Demonic Flame Space, where they used his Venerate Peak Pill and her Ancient Heavenly Snake's Origin to begin breaking through together.
• After half a month, Chu Zhou and Hui Tianshuang shattered their cultivation barriers and each reached Peak One-Star Dou Zun.
• Hui Tianshuang thanked Chu Zhou and accepted him as her husband and Dao Companion, then agreed that they would confront Hui Jiuyin.
• Chu Zhou gave Hui Tianshuang imperial robes, and they returned together to the Empress's Bedchamber.
• Venerable Qing Yun saw Hui Tianshuang's transformation, learned she had reached Dou Zun and become Chu Zhou's wife, and welcomed the news.

Hui Tianshuang recovered from her seclusion as a Dou Zun and prepared to expose Hui Jiuyin’s rebellion at a grand court assembly. Chu Zhou helped Cai Ling and Qing Lin obtain inheritances from the imperial Secret Vault, while Hui Jiuyin ordered his allies to launch a coup at the assembly.

• Hui Tianshuang learned that Hui Jiuyin had gathered officials, generals, and prominent families to support a bid for power, so she ordered a grand court assembly for the next morning.
• Hui Tianshuang agreed to support Chu Zhou’s search of the imperial Secret Vault and led him into its ninth-level Secret Realm.
• Chu Zhou brought Cai Ling and Qing Lin into the Secret Realm, where Cai Ling received a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python life-bound scale and Qing Lin obtained a soul inheritance crystal for the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• News of Hui Tianshuang’s breakthrough reached Hui Jiuyin, who suspected Chu Zhou had helped her and ordered his allies to move their coup forward to the court assembly.

Hui Tianshuang confronted Hui Jiuyin’s treasonous coup in the Heavenly Snake Holy Hall, but Hui Jiuyin arrived with support from the Heavenly Snake Mansion. As Hui Tianshuang prepared to use the Heavenly Snake Seal against him, Hui Jiuyin summoned another ally.

• Hui Tianshuang opened court by accusing the absent Hui Jiuyin of treason, and her ministers demanded his arrest.
• Hui Jiuyin entered the hall, attacked the Minister of Personnel, and declared his intention to purge the court and seize power.
• Venerable Qing Yun blocked Hui Jiuyin’s attack, but he revealed his Two-Star Dou Zun strength and challenged Hui Tianshuang’s rule.
• Venerable Hei Man appeared and confronted Venerable Qing Yun, declaring the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s support for Hui Jiuyin.
• Hui Tianshuang produced the Heavenly Snake Seal and vowed to defeat Hui Jiuyin, who then called on Venerable Soul Nightmare to appear.

Empress Hui Tianshuang faced a coup backed by Hui Jiuyin, the Hall of Souls, and Great General Bai Qitian, who betrayed her and demanded that she marry him. After a third of the court sided with the rebels, she called on her hidden husband to wipe them out.

• Venerable Soul Nightmare emerged and tried to capture Hui Tianshuang for the Hall of Souls.
• Hui Tianshuang summoned Bai Qitian, but he sided with Hui Jiuyin and offered to spare her if she abdicated and married him.
• Bai Qitian claimed the alliance would benefit the empire, while Hui Tianshuang accused him of betraying her and the late emperor’s trust.
• Hui Tianshuang invited officials to join Hui Jiuyin’s rebellion, and roughly a third of the middle- and high-ranking officials stepped forward.
• Hui Tianshuang raised the Heavenly Snake Seal, addressed a seemingly empty space as her husband, and asked him to wipe out the traitors.

Chu Zhou appeared in the Heavenly Snake Holy Hall after Hui Tianshuang called him her husband, then revealed overwhelming power by killing Bai Qitian with one strike. He turned toward Hui Jiuyin, Venerable Hei Man, and Venerable Soul Nightmare, choosing Soul Nightmare as his next target.

• Hui Tianshuang called Chu Zhou her husband, and Chu Zhou appeared in the hall, confronting Bai Qitian over coveting her.
• Venerable Soul Nightmare attacked Chu Zhou with a soul-power chain, but Chu Zhou erased the strike with Space Annihilation.
• Chu Zhou used his Great Void Technique to reach Bai Qitian and killed him with azure flame sword intent, devouring his soul and storing his body.
• The officials and the remaining opponents trembled after Bai Qitian's death, and Chu Zhou declared that he would kill Venerable Soul Nightmare first.

Chu Zhou defeated the four Dou Zun who had rebelled against Hui Tianshuang and helped her regain control of the Heavenly Snake Holy Hall. He then left to destroy the Heavenly Snake Mansion, while Hui Tianshuang stayed behind to restore order.

• Venerable Soul Nightmare, Hui Jiuyin, and Venerable Hei Man attacked Chu Zhou together, but he stopped their techniques with one sword strike and killed Soul Nightmare and Venerable Hei Man.
• Chu Zhou caught the fleeing Hui Jiuyin and brought him before Hui Tianshuang, who sealed him inside the Heavenly Snake Seal.
• Hui Tianshuang ordered Venerable Qing Yun and the Heavenly Snake Shadow Guards to arrest the rebel officials and take them to the Heavenly Snake Death Prison.
• Chu Zhou told Hui Tianshuang he would uproot the Heavenly Snake Mansion, then vanished through a spatial rift using the Great Void Technique, Star-Shifting.

Chu Zhou destroyed the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s leaders and followed a hidden energy trace beneath its headquarters, where he discovered the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame guarded by two serpent maidens. The women confronted him in the Heritage Holy Hall, demanding to know who he was and how he had entered.

• Kui Sha and Fu Ling decided to seek peace with the Heavenly Snake Empire after learning that Hei Man and the other conspirators had died.
• Chu Zhou appeared in the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s council hall, revealed his identity, and burned Kui Sha, Fu Ling, and the hall to ruins with the Mystic Yellow Azure Flame.
• Chu Zhou detected a faint energy fluctuation and traveled to a concealed valley behind the mansion’s main peak.
• Chu Zhou found a pool of Nine Nether Yellow Springs Water and descended through it into an ancient bronze hall.
• Chu Zhou recognized the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, which two Eighth-Tier pythons were guarding.
• The pythons transformed into two serpent maidens, and the fiery maiden demanded to know how Chu Zhou had entered the Heritage Holy Hall.

Chu Zhou accepted Chi Lian and Qing Luo’s service, refined the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, and freed the sisters from their enslavement. He then planted the flame atop Kunlun, where it began summoning spiritually aware beasts and creatures.

• Chu Zhou introduced himself as the Heavenly Snake Empire’s Empress’s husband and told Chi Lian and Qing Luo that he had destroyed the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s upper ranks.
• Chi Lian and Qing Luo explained that the Heavenly Snake Mansion had imprisoned and tortured them for centuries, and they asked Chu Zhou to free them in exchange for their service.
• Chu Zhou accepted the sisters’ request and subdued the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame with his Mystic Yellow Azure Flame.
• Chu Zhou used the flame’s connection to remove the sisters’ remaining shackles and sent them into his Demonic Flame Space.
• Chu Zhou traveled to Kunlun, planted the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame on a spiritually rich summit, and infused it with a strand of his Ancient Void Dragon divine soul.
• The Myriad Beast Spirit Flame merged with Kunlun’s dragon vein spiritual energy and sent out a summons that stirred beasts and spiritual creatures.

After Chu Zhou triggered a worldwide spirit-beast catastrophe against every nation outside Huaxia, he returned to the Dou Qi Continent and used a powerful Fire Bead to strengthen Feng Qing'er's bloodline. Feng Qing'er gained a faint trace of Ancient Heavenly Phoenix power and kissed Chu Zhou as thanks before he left.

• Chu Zhou placed the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame on the Kunlun altar, causing spirit beasts around the world outside Huaxia to rampage toward human settlements.
• Chu Zhou returned to the Dou Qi Continent, stored the bronze inheritance hall, and went to the Heavenly Snake Empire's capital.
• Chu Zhou visited Feng Qing'er and used the Mystic Yellow Azure Flame to refine the Nine-Star Dou Zun Flame Lizardman's Fire Bead for her.
• Feng Qing'er endured the Fire Bead's energy as it purified her power, weakened her cultivation bottleneck, and briefly awakened a trace of Ancient Heavenly Phoenix bloodline.
• Feng Qing'er kissed Chu Zhou on the cheek as an extra gift of thanks, and Chu Zhou left after teasing her about giving him one every month.