Chapter Summaries

After advancing to Seven-Star Dou Emperor, Chu Zhou went to Jia Nan Academy to inspect the mature Fallen Heart Flame and arrange a trade for its juvenile flame. There, he met Zi Yan and claimed he knew her true identity and could restore her original form.

• Chu Zhou absorbed three Emperor's Extreme Pills, advancing from Seven-Star Dou Wang to Seven-Star Dou Emperor and strengthening his physique and Mystic Yellow Azure Flame.
• Chu Zhou planned to retrieve the Fallen Heart Flame juvenile flame and resurrect the Heavenly Fire Venerable, then gathered ingredients for a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill from Yuan Yi.
• Chu Zhou and Cai Ling met Su Qian at Peace Town, and Su Qian agreed to let Chu Zhou inspect the mature Fallen Heart Flame before the academy finalized their trade.
• At the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower, Zi Yan rushed to hug Cai Ling and remarked that she smelled good.
• Chu Zhou recognized Zi Yan as a nonhuman magical beast and told Su Qian and Zi Yan that he knew her kind and could restore her true form.

Chu Zhou revealed that Zi Yan was an Ancient Void Dragon and persuaded her to leave Jia Nan Academy with him. He then entered the sealed chamber of the Fallen Heart Flame by passing through its barrier with spatial power, leaving Su Qian stunned.

• Su Qian guessed that Zi Yan belonged to the Nine Netherworld Python Clan and then the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, before Chu Zhou confirmed she was an Ancient Void Dragon.
• Chu Zhou explained that Zi Yan had transformed after eating transformation grass and offered to help her regain her true form; she agreed to travel with him and search for her clan.
• Su Qian accepted Zi Yan's choice and led Chu Zhou, Zi Yan, and Cai Ling to the Fallen Heart Flame beneath the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower.
• Chu Zhou sensed the Fallen Heart Flame and said he could enter its sealed chamber without undoing the seal.
• Chu Zhou used spatial power to pass through the barrier, astonishing Su Qian, who realized Chu Zhou was only a Seven-Star Dou Huang.

Chu Zhou entered the Lava World, found Yao Tianhuo, and secured the Heavenly Fire Venerable’s agreement to serve him for ten years in exchange for resurrection. After storing Yao Tianhuo and the young Fallen Heart Flame, Chu Zhou encountered three Flame Lizardmen and chose to fight them for their Fire Beads.

• Su Qian, Cai Ling, and Zi Yan reacted with shock to Chu Zhou’s rapid rise to Seven-Star Dou Huang.
• Chu Zhou entered the Lava World, traced the Fallen Heart Flame’s Origin aura, and located Yao Tianhuo’s remains.
• Chu Zhou offered to resurrect Yao Tianhuo in exchange for ten years of service, and Yao Tianhuo accepted the soul contract.
• Chu Zhou stored Yao Tianhuo’s remains and the young Fallen Heart Flame before heading back toward the surface.
• Three Dou Emperor-level Flame Lizardmen confronted Chu Zhou in the magma, and he decided to capture them for their Fire Beads.
• The Flame Lizardmen attacked Chu Zhou with coordinated bone-spear thrusts as he calmly raised his right hand.

Chu Zhou returned from the Lava World with a young fallen heart flame and offered to trade it to Jia Nan Academy for the mature flame. The Inner Academy elders gathered to inspect the young flame and consider the trade, leaving the decision to their discussion and vote.

• Chu Zhou killed three Flame Lizardmen, purified their Fire Beads, and found that absorbing them greatly accelerated his cultivation.
• Chu Zhou decided to leave the Lava World and first complete his deal with Jia Nan Academy, then gather resources to revive Yao Tianhuo.
• Chu Zhou returned to the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower, told Su Qian he was ready to discuss the deal, and brought the group to a protected meeting room.
• Chu Zhou revealed the young fallen heart flame, shocking Su Qian, Cai Ling, and Zi Yan.
• Su Qian summoned the Inner Academy elders, who confirmed the flame was genuine and praised its potential as a safer replacement for the academy's mature flame.

Chu Zhou traded a young fallen heart flame to Jia Nan Academy for the mature flame, then subdued it and received the Ten Thousand Flames Catalog as a reward. After refining pills for Su Qian, he prepared to leave for the Black Emperor Sect, but Qin Zhengguo called with urgent news.

• Su Qian reassured the elders that Chu Zhou could enter the seal without undoing it, and Jia Nan Academy approved the exchange.
• Chu Zhou passed through the seal and subdued the mature fallen heart flame with his mystic yellow azure flame over seven days.
• The Firmament Ledger rewarded Chu Zhou with three Ten Thousand Flames Catalogs, and recording the fallen heart flame raised his cultivation to Peak Nine-Star Dou Emperor.
• Chu Zhou refined a Supreme Extreme Pill for Su Qian and prepared to travel with Cai Ling to the Black Emperor Sect.
• After returning to Blue Star to receive supplies, Chu Zhou answered Qin Zhengguo's call about a major incident.

Chu Zhou rushed to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain after foreign forces damaged its Secret Realm, threatening to unleash two Jade Snow Ice Dragons and a catastrophic avalanche. He used his Blue-Yellow Flame to stabilize the mountain, and the dragons recognized him with fear.

• Qin Zhengguo told Chu Zhou that foreign forces had damaged the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Secret Realm, risking an avalanche and volcanic eruptions, and Chu Zhou agreed to help for half the resources the Extraordinary Bureau had obtained.
• The Extraordinary Bureau announced that hostile foreign forces had caused the spatial anomalies and named the nations involved.
• The Secret Realm shattered, releasing the Jade Snow Ice Dragons as an avalanche began, while the foreign attackers fought Huaguo forces and fled toward their evacuation point.
• Chu Zhou arrived as a Blue-Yellow Flame and used gathered spiritual energy to stabilize the mountain and halt the impending avalanche.
• The Jade Snow Ice Dragons sensed Chu Zhou's terrifying presence and looked at him with fear.

Chu Zhou saved Jade Dragon Snow Mountain by capturing the two Snow and Ice Jade Dragons and killing the foreign attackers, then reported the outcome to Qin Zhengguo. An emergency conference of the allied countries debated how to respond before learning that Chu Zhou had appeared at Mount Fuji in the Eastern Islands.

• Chu Zhou stopped the avalanche, captured the two Snow and Ice Jade Dragons, and killed the foreign cultivators fleeing toward helicopters.
• Chu Zhou told Qin Zhengguo that the crisis was resolved and asked the Otherworlder Bureau to prepare his promised compensation before disappearing from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
• Officials from the Multinational Alliance watched footage of Chu Zhou's actions and argued over whether Huaguo would retaliate.
• An intelligence officer announced that Chu Zhou had left Huaguo and appeared at Mount Fuji, alarming Little Japan's representative.

Chu Zhou discovered a concealed Sixth Tier secret realm beneath Mount Fuji, destroyed the Japanese defenses, and forced his way inside. Japan’s leaders, unable to stop him, planned to rally other countries against Huaguo and Chu Zhou.

• Japanese leaders panicked when they learned Chu Zhou had arrived at Mount Fuji and ordered their forces to deploy.
• Chu Zhou detected a Sixth Tier secret realm beneath Mount Fuji and decided to claim it.
• Japanese soldiers and cultivators confronted Chu Zhou, but his Mystic Yellow Flame-Forging Palm destroyed their defenses and exposed the secret realm entrance.
• Chu Zhou used his flaming sword to crack the spatial barrier and entered the secret realm.
• Japan’s leaders debated their response and chose to release footage of the attack and seek international condemnation and sanctions against Huaguo.

After defending Huaguo against international accusations, Chu Zhou discovered a yin-yang pool in the Mount Fuji Secret Realm and cultivated there for three months. As the realm’s entrance opened, ten foreign Dou Wang experts arrived, believing Chu Zhou was dead and preparing to explore it.

• The Eastern Islands condemned Chu Zhou, but Huaguo released footage of foreign forces attacking Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and declared that Chu Zhou had acted in self-defense.
• Chu Zhou surveyed the Mount Fuji Secret Realm, found treasures across its ice and lava regions, and discovered a pool of intertwined yin and yang energies in the abyss.
• Chu Zhou cultivated in the pool, returned briefly to the Demonic Flame Space to tell Cai Ling and the other women he was going into seclusion, then resumed cultivating in the Secret Realm.
• Three months later, Xiao Yan enrolled at Jia Nan Academy after refining the Green Lotus Core Flame, hoping to grow stronger and find a way to awaken Yao Chen.
• Ten Dou Wang experts from foreign countries gathered outside the Mount Fuji Secret Realm, boasting that Chu Zhou was dead and vowing to find his remains.
• A spatial storm formed and the entrance to the Mount Fuji Secret Realm opened.

Chu Zhou helped the Second, Third, and Fourth Elders begin their Bloodline evolution, drawing neighboring powers to the Snake-People Holy City as they prepared to attack. When Cai Ling confronted the Mulan Three Elders, Chu Zhou intervened against Yan Luotian, and the chapter ended as Protector Tie sent soul chains after Chu Zhou’s flame sword.

• Chu Zhou healed the four elders and used the Mystic Yellow Azure Flame to help the Second, Third, and Fourth Elders begin their Bloodline evolution, triggering their Dou Zong tribulations.
• Jia Xingtian, Fa Ma, Yun Yun, Yan Luotian, the Mulan Three Elders, Protector Wu, and Protector Tie gathered near the Tagor Desert as Protector Wu urged Yan Luotian and the Mulan Three Elders to attack the Snake-People Tribe.
• Cai Ling attacked the Mulan Three Elders, who combined their power with the Three Beasts Savage Art to meet her strike.
• Yan Luotian prepared to attack Cai Ling, but Chu Zhou emerged from a Spatial Rift and wounded him with a Sword Qi strike.
• Chu Zhou formed a flame sword with the Mystic Yellow Azure Flame and pursued Yan Luotian with a strike too fast for him to track.
• Protector Tie sent soul-chain tentacles toward Chu Zhou’s flame sword as Protector Wu and Protector Tie prepared to intervene.

Chu Zhou killed Yan Luotian and confronted Hall of Souls Protectors Wu and Tie, overwhelming them with his Heavenly Flame, sword intent, and Spirit Realm soul. As he pressed his attack, he recognized that Protector Wu’s strength depended on his soul and that the protectors’ bodies were abnormal.

• Protector Wu and Protector Tie planned to aid Yan Luotian and the Mulan elders, then attack the Snake-People leaders and Cai Ling.
• Chu Zhou used the Three-Part Origin-Returning Sword to kill Yan Luotian and take his body into the Demonic Flame Space.
• Chu Zhou confronted Protector Wu and Protector Tie, then struck Protector Tie with the Mystic Yellow Flame-Forging Palm and damaged his fists and soul.
• Protector Wu attacked Chu Zhou with soul chains and a Soul-Eroding Thorn, but Chu Zhou evaded the chains and dissolved the soul attack with his Soul Barrier.
• Chu Zhou’s Azure Slashing Sword Aura broke through Protector Wu’s defenses, weakened him, and led Chu Zhou to conclude that Hall of Souls protectors relied on their souls and had abnormal bodies.

Chu Zhou shattered the Soul Hall Protectors’ combined technique and prevented their escape, while Xie Biyan backed down rather than risk provoking him and Cai Ling. Protector Wu sacrificed Protector Tie to flee, then threatened Yun Yun with Yun Shan’s life, but Chu Zhou revealed that Yun Shan had accepted the Hall of Souls’ help to become a Dou Zong and was now under its control.

• Protector Wu and Protector Tie combined their soul powers to unleash Netherworld Ghost Prison, but Chu Zhou countered it with Sword Qi Purgatory and shattered the technique.
• Chu Zhou’s hidden Soul Flame Web trapped the Protectors’ escape, and his soul attack grievously wounded them.
• Protector Wu offered Xie Biyan a Supreme Extreme Pill to help them escape, but Chu Zhou and Cai Ling threatened the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, so Xie Biyan refused to intervene and fled.
• Protector Wu struck Protector Tie and used the resulting explosion to buy himself time to escape.
• Protector Wu threatened Yun Yun by claiming that Yun Shan would die unless she stopped Chu Zhou, and Chu Zhou revealed that Yun Shan had accepted the Hall of Souls’ method to become a Dou Zong, leaving his soul under their control.

Chu Zhou revealed that the Hall of Souls had tampered with Yun Shan’s soul, and Yun Yun helped him capture Protector Wu rather than submit to the protector’s threat. Chu Zhou explained three ways to save Yun Shan, leaving Yun Yun to weigh their different costs and effects.

• Chu Zhou captured Protector Tie and told Yun Yun that the Hall of Souls had planted a soul restriction in Yun Shan and would alter his temperament after his breakthrough.
• Protector Wu threatened to destroy Yun Shan’s soul unless Yun Yun stopped Chu Zhou, but Yun Yun turned her sword on Protector Wu and helped Chu Zhou defeat him.
• Chu Zhou sealed Protector Wu and drew him into his Demonic Flame Space, while Yun Yun explained that she had chosen the Misty Cloud Sect’s survival and believed Chu Zhou might save her teacher.
• Yun Yun asked Chu Zhou to help Yun Shan, and Chu Zhou offered to remove the soul tampering with heavenly flame, a sixth-grade Soul-Cleansing Pill, or a grade seven Soul-Controlling Pill, each with different consequences and costs.

Yun Yun agreed to let Chu Zhou enter the Misty Cloud Sect’s Gate of Life and Death in exchange for his help cleansing Yun Shan’s soul of the Hall of Souls’ influence. Meanwhile, the Snake-People Tribe began its campaign against the weakened Mulan Empire, and Yun Yun reached Yun Shan’s secluded chamber with urgent news.

• Chu Zhou proposed that Yun Yun grant him access to the Gate of Life and Death as compensation, and she accepted the deal for a Soul Mastery Pill.
• Chu Zhou told Yun Yun to gather the pill ingredients and said he would visit the Misty Cloud Sect in three days.
• Chu Zhou and Cai Ling agreed to destroy the Mulan Empire and secure new territory for the Snake-People Tribe.
• Cai Ling ordered the four elders to lead two forces into the Mulan Empire, while she coordinated support and Chu Zhou remained in the Holy City.
• Yun Yun returned to the Misty Cloud Sect and called out to Yun Shan at his secluded chamber; he answered and asked what had alarmed her.

Yun Yun told Yun Shan that the Hall of Souls had corrupted his mind and bound his life, and that Chu Zhou could help him recover. Yun Shan chose Chu Zhou’s third remedy and backed Yun Yun’s effort to gather its rare ingredients, leaving the elders stunned when he appeared before them as a Dou Zong.

• Yun Yun told Yun Shan that Chu Zhou had killed two Hall of Souls protectors and warned that their method of helping Yun Shan reach Dou Zong had planted a controlling mark and was eroding his mind.
• Yun Shan accepted Chu Zhou’s third method, agreed to meet his conditions, and decided to seek the Soul-Controlling Pill’s ingredients.
• Yun Yun ordered the Misty Cloud Sect’s elders to gather the rare ingredients, offering the sect’s treasures and resources in exchange.
• Yun Leng and other conservative elders challenged Yun Yun’s order, citing its cost and the danger of exposing the sect’s reserves.
• Yun Shan appeared in the council hall and silenced the dispute with his Dou Zong pressure, shocking the elders with his return from seclusion.

Yun Shan secured support and rare ingredients for a Soul-Controlling Pill while the Snake-People Tribe rapidly conquered the Mulan Empire and Chu Zhou’s influence grew. Chu Zhou arrived at the Mittel Family and reunited with Ya Fei, who rushed into his arms and reproached him for staying away so long.

• Yun Shan dissolved the Misty Cloud Sect’s Elder Council and ordered its elders to obey Yun Yun while he sought ingredients for a Soul-Controlling Pill.
• Jia Xingtian, Fa Ma, and Hai Bodong each gave Yun Shan a rare ingredient for the pill.
• The Snake-People Tribe invaded the weakened Mulan Empire, and the powers of the southwestern Northwest Continent avoided confronting its forces.
• The Chosen Ones praised Chu Zhou in the Firmament Ledger’s chat channel as news spread of his role in the Snake-People Tribe’s rise.
• Chu Zhou secretly entered the Mittel Family and woke Ya Fei, who embraced him and complained that he had not visited or sent her a message.

Chu Zhou reunited with Ya Fei and decided to take her with him to the Central Plains, then awakened five Cold Moon heavenly meridians in her. The resulting phenomenon covered Jia Ma Holy City, drawing the attention of its powerful figures while Hai Bodong kept the Mittel Family from approaching her bedroom.

• Chu Zhou returned to Ya Fei and told her he would soon leave the Northwest Continent for the Central Plains.
• Chu Zhou asked Ya Fei to come with him, and she accepted after learning he intended to keep her by his side.
• Chu Zhou explained that his other companions had exceptional talents and used the Firmament Ledger to give Ya Fei five heavenly meridians suited to her nature.
• Ya Fei awakened the Cold Moon Attribute as five cold moons formed within her, and a vast surge of moonlight and icy power erupted from her body.
• Five enormous cold moons appeared above the Mittel Family and startled Jia Xingtian, Fa Ma, and Yun Shan, while Hai Bodong stopped the family from approaching Ya Fei's bedroom.

Chu Zhou used the Firmament Ledger’s reward to give Ya Fei five cold moon heavenly meridians, raising her cultivation to Nine-Star Great Dou Master and transforming her bearing. After introducing her as his Dao Companion, he left with her and the Misty Cloud Sect leaders to discuss trading for a Seventh-Rank Magic Core.

• Chu Zhou guided the moonlight and heaven and earth energy into Ya Fei, awakening her five cold moon heavenly meridians and raising her from Nine-Star Dou Zhe to Nine-Star Great Dou Master.
• Ya Fei emerged with a transformed appearance and new power, and Chu Zhou reassured her that her talent made her a peerless genius.
• Mittel Tengshan, Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, Fa Ma, and Mu Chen witnessed Ya Fei’s change, while Mu Chen decided to send Mu Zhan away from the Imperial Capital to avoid offending Chu Zhou.
• Chu Zhou introduced Ya Fei as his Dao Companion, and Yun Shan and Yun Yun arrived to congratulate her and discuss the ingredients for Yun Shan’s pills.
• Chu Zhou offered Yun Shan a fire-attribute Seventh-Rank Magic Core if the Misty Cloud Sect could not find one, then left with Ya Fei and the sect leaders for the Misty Cloud Sect.

Chu Zhou and Yun Yun entered the Gate of Life and Death after Chu Zhou agreed to give Yun Shan a seventh-tier fire attribute magic core if he found anything related to a Dou Zun. Inside, Chu Zhou sensed two layers beyond the six Yun Yun knew existed.

• Yun Shan tried to let Chu Zhou enter the Gate of Life and Death before settling their transaction, but Ya Fei called attention to the change in terms.
• Chu Zhou offered Yun Shan a seventh-tier fire attribute magic core if he gained anything related to a Dou Zun, and Yun Shan accepted.
• Yun Yun opened the portal with the White Jade Token and accompanied Chu Zhou into the secret realm; Chu Zhou brought Ya Fei into the Demonic Flame Space first.
• Chu Zhou sensed that the realm had eight layers, while Yun Yun explained that the Gate of Life and Death was known to have only six.
• Chu Zhou told Yun Yun he had sensed a Seventh Layer and an Eighth Layer, leaving her stunned.

Chu Zhou and Yun Yun reached the deepest part of the Sixth Layer of the Gate of Life and Death, where Chu Zhou used his Azure Flame sword intent to uncover and open the hidden entrance to the Seventh Layer. As they prepared to enter together, he took Yun Yun by the wrist, leaving her flustered and wondering about his intentions.

• Yun Yun explained the Misty Cloud Sect's conditions for reaching the Seventh Layer and revealed that the sect had never confirmed it existed.
• Chu Zhou and Yun Yun passed through the first five levels and reached the deepest part of the Sixth Layer, where they found no energy stele or visible entrance.
• Chu Zhou used his spirit realm soul power to discover a hidden spatial node and determined that sword intent could open it.
• Chu Zhou sent out his Azure Flame sword intent, revealing the portal to the Seventh Layer and astonishing Yun Yun.
• Chu Zhou took Yun Yun by the wrist and said they had to enter together, making her blush and speculate about his intentions.