Chapter Summaries

Chu Zhou took Yun Yun through the Gate of Life and Death’s Spatial Passage to the Seventh Layer, where a powerful sword-intent trial suppressed her abilities. He guided her to a peak that bestowed Yun Potian’s core inheritance, while he realized the Seventh and Eighth Layers were connected.

• Chu Zhou explained that Yun Yun’s Misty Cloud Sect inheritance would let them pass safely through the Spatial Passage, and he led her into the Seventh Layer.
• Chu Zhou and Yun Yun arrived among countless sword peaks suspended above a sea of clouds, where the realm’s suppressive sword intent weakened Yun Yun’s Dou Qi and perception.
• Chu Zhou explained that only powerful spatial cultivation or tangible sword intent could overcome the pressure, then wondered why Yun Shan had never entered the realm.
• Chu Zhou carried Yun Yun by sword flight to a peak and placed her on its platform, activating an inheritance mark between her brows.
• The peak infused Yun Yun with pure wind energy and upgraded cultivation methods and combat skills, while Chu Zhou recognized a connection between the Seventh and Eighth Layers.

After Yun Yun received the Seventh Layer inheritance, she and Chu Zhou entered the Eighth Layer and met Yun Potian’s remnant. Yun Potian rejected Yun Yun as unworthy of his inheritance, then suggested she bear children with Chu Zhou so one of them might inherit it.

• When Yun Yun’s sword seal formed, Chu Zhou brought her through a spatial gateway to the Eighth Layer.
• Chu Zhou called for Yun Potian, who appeared from the clouds after a brief silence.
• Yun Potian praised Chu Zhou’s talent but condemned Yun Yun’s cultivation and called her rotten wood.
• Yun Potian refused to pass on his inheritance to either of them, saying Chu Zhou was unsuited to his path and Yun Yun lacked talent.
• Yun Potian suggested Chu Zhou and Yun Yun become a couple and have eight or ten children, and Chu Zhou agreed.

Chu Zhou used the Firmament Ledger to transform Yun Yun’s talent, making her his Dao Companion and preparing her to inherit Yun Potian’s legacy. Yun Potian accepted Yun Yun as his successor and began entrusting his full legacy to her.

• Yun Yun and Yun Potian misunderstood Chu Zhou’s remarks, so Chu Zhou explained that he intended to improve Yun Yun’s talent so she could inherit the legacy.
• Chu Zhou bestowed four Earth-Grade Spiritual Veins on Yun Yun, transforming her body, soul, cultivation potential, and affinity for wind and sword arts.
• Yun Yun reached peak nine-star Dou Emperor and manifested a Four-Pattern Wind Spirit Sword, astonishing Yun Potian.
• Yun Yun thanked Chu Zhou as her husband and swore loyalty to him, while Yun Potian expressed his gratitude and admiration.
• Yun Potian decided to entrust his entire legacy to Yun Yun and urged her to honor Chu Zhou’s kindness.

Yun Yun received Yun Potian’s inheritance over seven days and broke through to Three-Star Dou Zong, while Chu Zhou also advanced through cultivation. As Yun Potian’s remnant soul began to disappear, he revealed that he had once reached the peak of Nine-Star Dou Zun and spirit realm grand perfection.

• Yun Potian used the sword peak to pass his legacy to Yun Yun, whose four earth-grade spiritual veins absorbed and stored its power and knowledge.
• Chu Zhou protected Yun Yun in a Blue-Yellow Fire Lotus while she assimilated the inheritance for seven days.
• Yun Yun completed the initial assimilation, reached Three-Star Dou Zong, and developed a half-step spirit-realm soul; Chu Zhou also reached Three-Star Dou Zong and strengthened his soul and azure flame sword intent.
• Yun Yun thanked Yun Potian and pledged to lead the Misty Cloud Sect to greater glory as his remnant soul faded.
• Chu Zhou asked about Yun Potian’s strength and death, and Yun Potian revealed that he had reached peak Nine-Star Dou Zun, the threshold of the nine revolutions to sainthood, and spirit realm grand perfection.

Chu Zhou and Yun Yun learned that the Hall of Souls had killed Yun Potian, then watched his final act transform the Gate of Life and Death into a unified inheritance realm for the Misty Cloud Sect. They returned to the Seventh Layer as Yun Shan and visiting faction leaders waited outside the monument, unaware of what had happened.

• Yun Potian revealed that Hall of Souls Heavenly Venerates had ambushed him over a map fragment, forcing him to flee back to the Misty Cloud Sect and conceal his inheritance.
• Yun Yun vowed to avenge Yun Potian, but Chu Zhou described the overwhelming strength of the Hall of Souls and the Hun Clan; Yun Potian accepted that his successors should act within their means.
• Yun Potian's remnant soul dissipated, and the Eighth Layer collapsed, merging the Gate of Life and Death's inheritances into a single realm of ninety-nine peaks and trials.
• Yun Yun thanked Yun Potian for leaving the Misty Cloud Sect a lasting foundation, and she and Chu Zhou decided to leave and speak with Yun Shan.
• Yun Shan, Misty Cloud Sect members, and visiting leaders from Jia Ma Holy City gathered outside the monument, alarmed by the changes within the Gate of Life and Death.

After emerging from the Gate of Life and Death as a Three-Star Dou Zong, Yun Yun announced that she had become Chu Zhou’s Dao companion and would leave with him for the Central Plains. Chu Zhou began refining Soul-Controlling Pills at the Misty Cloud Sect, and after seven days the pill refinement summoned Pill Lightning.

• Yun Yun emerged from the Gate of Life and Death as a Three-Star Dou Zong and explained that Chu Zhou had helped her obtain Yun Potian’s inheritance.
• Yun Yun announced that she had become Chu Zhou’s Dao companion, and Yun Shan welcomed Chu Zhou as his son-in-law.
• Yun Shan gave Chu Zhou the ingredients for the Soul-Controlling Pill, and Chu Zhou began refining it in the Myriad Beast Cauldron using the Fire Bead and Mystic Yellow Azure Flame.
• Yun Yun gave Nalan Yanran a Wind Extreme Sword Seal and told her to seek Yun Shan’s guidance after Yun Yun left for the Central Plains with Chu Zhou.
• After seven days of refinement, Chu Zhou’s pill drew a vast storm of Pill Lightning above the Misty Cloud Sect.

Chu Zhou endured the grade seven pill’s lightning to cultivate the Awakening Thunder Art, while the completed Soul-Controlling Pill awakened and tried to escape. Yun Shan and Yun Yun moved to stop it, but the pill slipped through Yun Yun’s wind cage and fled toward the clouds.

• Chu Zhou used the Awakening Thunder Art to absorb the Pill Lightning, strengthening his body and gaining control over azure lightning.
• The final bolt of Pill Lightning struck a distant mountain, and Chu Zhou emerged wreathed in lightning as the Soul-Controlling Pill completed its formation.
• The Soul-Controlling Pill revealed a spark of awareness and shot toward the horizon.
• Yun Shan tried to intercept the escaping pill, and Yun Yun formed a wind cage with her Wind Spirit Sword Intent.
• The Soul-Controlling Pill dodged through a gap in Yun Yun’s wind cage and sped toward the clouds.

Chu Zhou captured the escaping Soul-Controlling Pill, helped Yun Shan recover, and left the Misty Cloud Sect with Yun Yun. He reunited Yun Yun with Cai Ling in the Snake-People Holy City and announced that they would travel to the Chu Yun Empire.

• Chu Zhou used Thunder Sound Step to catch the Soul-Controlling Pill and handed it to Yun Shan, completing their deal.
• Chu Zhou stayed at Misty Cloud Mountain for seven days and refined a Sect Breaking Pill and a healing pill for Jia Xingtian.
• Yun Shan emerged from seclusion cured of the Hall of Souls' mark and told Yun Yun she was free to leave with Chu Zhou for the Central Plains.
• Chu Zhou and Yun Yun said farewell to the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yun Shan declared that a new era for the sect had begun.
• Chu Zhou brought Yun Yun and Chu Xiao to the Snake-People Holy City, where Yun Yun greeted Cai Ling and Cai Ling welcomed her as family.
• Chu Zhou told Cai Ling and Yun Yun that he planned to travel to the Chu Yun Empire, and Cai Ling asked why.

Chu Zhou introduced Yun Yun to the women in his inner microcosm, then led Cai Ling and Yun Yun to attack Xie Biyan at the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect. The three Dou Zongs confronted Xie Biyan, and Chu Zhou concealed his true strength as the battle began.

• Chu Zhou explained that he planned to destroy the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect and seize its poison resources for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Chu Zhou brought Cai Ling and Yun Yun into his microcosm and introduced Yun Yun to Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, Ya Fei, and Meng Ziwei.
• Chu Zhou slipped through the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect's formation and located Xie Biyan in his cave abode.
• Chu Zhou, Cai Ling, and Yun Yun appeared before Xie Biyan and declared their intent to kill him.
• Yun Yun and Cai Ling attacked Xie Biyan while Chu Zhou rained azure sword aura on him and pretended to be an ordinary Three-Star Dou Zong.

Chu Zhou and Cai Ling and Yun Yun forced Xie Biyan to unleash his demon poisonous spot, which Xiao Yi Xian absorbed as nourishment for her woeful poison body. After destroying the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, Chu Zhou searched the Black-Corner Region for a dried magical beast corpse, intending to obtain the remains of a Heavenly Demon Phoenix.

• Chu Zhou, Cai Ling, and Yun Yun overwhelmed Xie Biyan, who transformed into a Four-Star Dou Zong and unleashed his demon poisonous spot in a final attack.
• Chu Zhou brought Xiao Yi Xian into the poisonous spot's path, and she absorbed its power before he placed her in the Microcosm to recover and advance toward Dou Zong.
• Chu Zhou killed Xie Biyan and joined Cai Ling and Yun Yun in wiping out the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect and seizing its resources.
• Chu Zhou returned to the Snake-People Holy City with Cai Ling and Yun Yun, then waited for the Snake-People Tribe to absorb the Mulan Empire's hidden assets as news of the sect's destruction spread.
• A month later, Chu Zhou asked Mo Tianxing to offer a grade seven pill for information about a dried seventh-rank magical beast corpse in the Black-Corner Region.
• Chu Zhou revealed to Yun Yun that the corpse was really a fallen eighth-rank Heavenly Demon Phoenix and began teaching her the Kun Character sword technique.

Chu Zhou spent months refining valuable pills for the Black Emperor Sect before a Dark Spirit Clan descendant brought him the desiccated corpse of an eighth-tier Heavenly Demon Phoenix. The chapter left An Tianying seeking a Moon Spirit Pill to treat his failing essence.

• Chu Zhou sent exhausted Yun Yun to rest in his inner microcosm, then spent a month refining rare pills for auction through the Black Emperor Sect.
• Chu Zhou’s pills brought the Black Emperor Sect wealth and renown while strengthening his supplies for the journey to the Central Plains.
• Mo Tianxing introduced An Tianying, a weakened One-Star Dou Zong and descendant of the Dark Spirit Clan, who had answered Chu Zhou’s bounty.
• An Tianying presented a desiccated Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse, and Chu Zhou recognized that its bone wings could improve his Azure Flame Cloud Wings.
• An Tianying requested a low seventh-grade Moon Spirit Pill to nourish his soul and repair injuries to his essence, offering its formula and his two sets of ingredients.

Chu Zhou agreed to refine a Moon Spirit Pill for An Tianying in exchange for the location of the Yin-Yang Twin Flames, then used a Heavenly Demon Phoenix’s remains to transform his Azure Flame Cloud Wings. He finished refining the wings and prepared to process the remaining skeleton so he could revive Yao Tianhuo.

• Chu Zhou examined the Moon Spirit Pill formula and agreed to refine the pill for An Tianying, who offered the location of the Yin-Yang Twin Flames as payment.
• Chu Zhou refined two high-quality Moon Spirit Pills, but An Tianying failed to arrive after three days to collect his pill.
• Chu Zhou refined Tang Yan’s dried corpse and found wind-and-lightning bone wings attached to the skeleton.
• Chu Zhou fused the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Bone Wings into his Azure Flame Cloud Wings, giving them wind-and-thunder patterns and enhancing their potential.
• Chu Zhou began refining the remaining skeleton to prepare blood essence for reviving Yao Tianhuo.

Chu Zhou learned that An Tianying’s failing soul and curse were tied to a feud within the Spirit Clan, and offered a Soul-Controlling Pill in exchange for valuable information. An Tianying revealed his father’s capture, his family’s flight, and the disappearance of his sister, but had not yet explained the ruins or the full circumstances of his latest escape.

• Chu Zhou collected five drops of eighth-tier demon phoenix blood essence and prepared to resurrect Yao Tianhuo, but Mo Tianxing announced An Tianying’s arrival.
• Chu Zhou examined An Tianying and warned that the Moon Spirit Pill would only halt his decline temporarily; he needed a Soul Restoration Pill to repair his soul origin.
• An Tianying gave Chu Zhou a scroll marking the yin-yang twin flames and offered information in exchange for a Soul-Controlling Pill.
• An Tianying explained that he belonged to the Spirit Clan and that his father, a peak Nine-Star Dou Zun, had been captured by Tian Lingshuang after she attacked his family.
• An Tianying said his mother was badly injured, his sister disappeared near some ruins, and a Heaven Spirit Clan Dou Zong’s pursuit had worsened his own injuries.

Chu Zhou revived Yao Tianhuo with a new body, and the grateful Three-Star Dou Zun pledged to follow him. They planned to explore a Dou Zun ruin with An Tianying and then search for the yin-yang twin flames.

• Chu Zhou gave An Tianying a Soul Restoration Pill in exchange for being taken to the Dou Zun ruin, while Yun Yun agreed to keep watch on him.
• Chu Zhou prepared Yao Tianhuo’s remains, Protector Wu’s corpse, demon phoenix blood essence, and a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill to rebuild Yao Tianhuo’s body.
• Chu Zhou used four Heavenly Flames to construct a body and fuse Yao Tianhuo’s soul with it over several days.
• Yao Tianhuo revived at the Three-Star Dou Zun level, thanked Chu Zhou, and pledged to serve him.
• Chu Zhou told Yao Tianhuo about An Tianying, the Heaven Spirit Clan pursuer, and the Dou Zun ruin, then planned to set out after An Tianying recovered.

An Tianying recovered, advanced to Two-Star Dou Zong, and led Chu Zhou and his companions to the Dou Zun ruins hidden in the Chaotic Sky Sea. Chu Zhou detected Saint Realm resonance in the sealed ruins, and after Yao Tianhuo failed to break through the barrier by force, Chu Zhou proposed entering the way An Tianying’s sister had.

• An Tianying healed from his injuries and broke through to Two-Star Dou Zong after taking Chu Zhou’s pills.
• An Tianying led Chu Zhou, Yun Yun, Cai Ling, and Yao Tianhuo to the storm-wracked island where his sister had been pulled into a beam of light.
• Chu Zhou detected subtle spatial fluctuations and Saint Realm resonance within the black clouds, suggesting the ruins belonged to an expert who had reached at least eight-revolution Dou Zun.
• Chu Zhou explained that the ruins’ barrier was exceptionally stable, while Yao Tianhuo confirmed that he could not break through it with his current strength.
• Chu Zhou told An Tianying that they would enter the ruins the same way his sister had.

Chu Zhou imitated the dark attribute energy in An Tianying’s blood to gain entry to the secret realm, then led An Tianying and Yao Tianhuo through a spatial passage. Inside, they found a vast, ruined world dominated by a Dark Purple Moon and a mysterious palace, and Chu Zhou headed toward the palace to explore its inheritance and origins.

• An Tianying revealed that his sister might have the Yin Moon Physique, a rare talent associated with the ruins’ selection.
• Chu Zhou studied An Tianying’s blood and used the Mystic Yellow Azure Flame and Bone Spirit Cold Flame to imitate its dark attribute energy.
• The ruins responded to Chu Zhou’s aura, opening a spatial passage that he entered with Yao Tianhuo and An Tianying after sending Cai Ling and Yun Yun into the Demonic Flame Space.
• Yao Tianhuo protected the group from spatial turbulence as they crossed the passage and emerged in a dark, deathly still void.
• Chu Zhou sensed a summons from the enormous Dark Purple Moon and identified the distant ruined palace as a likely source of the secret realm’s inheritance.
• Chu Zhou led the group toward the palace to investigate the ruins and search for records and treasures.

Chu Zhou, Yao Tianhuo, and An Tianying crossed an abyss guarded by Dou Zun-level energy beings, and Chu Zhou helped Yao Tianhuo survive the encounter. Yao Tianhuo and An Tianying stayed behind while Chu Zhou continued alone toward the ruined dark hall.

• Chu Zhou warned Yao Tianhuo and An Tianying about the unstable abyss as they flew across it.
• A Three-Star Dou Zun energy being emerged and fought Yao Tianhuo until Chu Zhou identified its core node and destroyed it with his sword intent.
• The abyss produced three stronger energy beings, and Chu Zhou used a spatial rift to bring Yao Tianhuo to safety.
• Yao Tianhuo and An Tianying agreed to wait by the abyss while Chu Zhou continued toward the ruined dark hall.

Chu Zhou entered the ruined palace and crossed its starry gateway, where he encountered the phantom of the Starlight Goddess. She recognized his resistance to her soul technique and revealed that she expected to lose to the Moon-Cold Heavenly Venerable over a girl with a yin moon physique.

• Chu Zhou used Bone Spirit Cold Flame's yin aura to pass through the dark energy and reach the ruined palace.
• Chu Zhou activated the star-patterned gateway with his flame and stepped into a vast cosmic space.
• The Starlight Goddess's phantom appeared and tried to charm Chu Zhou, but his flame, sword intent, and visualization technique restored his senses.
• Chu Zhou greeted the phantom and inferred that she was an energy construct or inheritance imprint rather than a complete remnant soul.
• The Starlight Goddess said Chu Zhou's physique was counterfeit and that she would lose to the Moon-Cold Heavenly Venerable, prompting him to suspect she meant An Tianyue.

Chu Zhou asked the Starlight Goddess to consider one of his Dao Companions for her Cold Star Inheritance, then brought Qing Lin and Ya Fei before her. The goddess chose Ya Fei to undertake the inheritance trial and asked Qing Lin whether she had heard of the Heavenly Snake Empire.

• Chu Zhou learned that An Tianyue had chosen the Yin Moon Inheritance over the Starlight Goddess's Cold Star Inheritance, and the goddess refused to pass her inheritance to Chu Zhou because his nature was incompatible.
• Chu Zhou summoned Qing Lin and Ya Fei into the Starry Sky Hall and introduced their abilities and constitutions to the Starlight Goddess.
• The Starlight Goddess recognized Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and Ya Fei's five-cold-moon constitution, judging both women exceptionally talented.
• The Starlight Goddess chose Ya Fei as the best match for the Cold Star Inheritance, and Ya Fei agreed to undertake its trial.
• The Starlight Goddess told Qing Lin that her innate eye technique could lead her down a better path and asked whether she had heard of the Heavenly Snake Empire.

The Starlight Goddess guided Qing Lin toward the Heavenly Serpent lineage and began passing the Cold Star Inheritance to Ya Fei. Chu Zhou used the leftover stellar power to advance his cultivation and bring his soul to the half-step Heaven Realm, then turned his attention to the still-available Yin Moon Heavenly Venerable inheritance.

• The Starlight Goddess told Qing Lin that the Heavenly Serpent lineage best suited her and that Chu Zhou could help her obtain its inheritance.
• The Starlight Goddess began Ya Fei's Cold Star Inheritance, while Chu Zhou absorbed excess stellar power to temper his body and soul.
• After three months, Ya Fei completed the inheritance and rose from Nine-Star Great Dou Master to One-Star Dou Zong.
• Chu Zhou advanced from Three-Star Dou Zong to Seven-Star Dou Zong, and his soul reached the half-step Heaven Realm.
• Chu Zhou concluded that the Yin Moon Heavenly Venerable's inheritance might still be within reach.