Chapter Summaries

After Ya Fei received the Cold Star inheritance, Chu Zhou breached the spatial barrier around the Yin Moon Heavenly Venerable’s inheritance grounds and found An Tianyue safely receiving her inheritance. He challenged Yin Moon Heavenly Venerable’s confidence in her successor, claiming his help could decide the thousand-year wager.

• The Starlight Goddess vanished with the Starry Sky Hall after telling Chu Zhou to care for Ya Fei, and Chu Zhou sent Ya Fei into the Demonic Flame Space to study her inheritance.
• Chu Zhou used the Sword-Controlling Art to pierce the spatial barrier and enter the Purple Moon, where he found An Tianyue absorbing Moonlight Power and advancing toward Peak Dou Emperor.
• Yin Moon Heavenly Venerable appeared and warned Chu Zhou to leave her inheritance grounds rather than give in to greed.
• Chu Zhou said he had entered to check An Tianyue’s safety and invoked Yin Moon Heavenly Venerable’s rivalry and inheritance wager with Cold Star Heavenly Venerable.
• Chu Zhou declared that he could help the Cold Star successor win and revealed that he had advanced from third-stage Dou Qi to Seven-Star Dou Zong in little over a year.

Chu Zhou gained Yin Moon Heavenly Venerable’s support and cultivated in the Moonlight Origin Passage, reaching Peak Nine-Star Dou Zong and an early-stage Heaven Realm soul. After absorbing the Sea of Moonlight, he received a Firmament Ledger reward that could transport people or objects between the Dou Qi Continent and the Blue Star World.

• Chu Zhou demonstrated that he could evade Yin Moon Heavenly Venerable’s attacks, and she agreed to provide him with Moonlight Power rather than risk damaging the ruins.
• Chu Zhou entered the Moonlight Origin Passage and cultivated there for two months while An Tianyue continued receiving the inheritance.
• Chu Zhou advanced to Peak Nine-Star Dou Zong and achieved an early-stage Heaven Realm soul.
• Chu Zhou absorbed the Sea of Moonlight into the Demonic Flame Space and briefly sensed two mysterious soul fluctuations deep within the ruins.
• The Firmament Ledger announced Chu Zhou as the first to reach the Heaven Realm soul realm and rewarded him with a Two-Way Cross-World Teleportation Array.

Chu Zhou’s Heavenly Realm Soul and two-way teleportation array stirred the Chosen Ones, while he continued refining Sixth-Grade Pills to earn a new Firmament Ledger reward. After receiving Divine Soul Condensation, he learned how the Great Thousand Method’s cultivation realms extended far beyond the Dou Qi Continent.

• The Firmament Ledger announced Chu Zhou’s Heavenly Realm Soul and rewarded him with a Two-Way Cross-World Teleportation Array, prompting an uproar in the World Chat Channel.
• Yanhuang’s Chosen Ones celebrated Chu Zhou’s achievement and discussed the strategic importance of his reward and the hardships facing Little Japan.
• Chu Zhou used his Heavenly Realm Soul and Myriad Beast Cauldron to refine Sixth-Grade Pills in batches.
• The Firmament Ledger certified Chu Zhou as the first to reach sixth-grade alchemy and rewarded him with three copies of Divine Soul Condensation.
• Chu Zhou reviewed the Great Thousand Method’s cultivation stages and recognized that Dou Di experts were only at the Supreme Realm in the Great Thousand World.

Chu Zhou considered how to cultivate the Divine Soul Realm and chose Zi Yan for a future Bloodline bond, then helped Xiao Yi Xian survive her Woeful Poison Body’s eruption and break through to Dou Zong. The chapter ended with Xiao Yi Xian embracing him and asking to become his woman.

• Chu Zhou studied the divine soul secret technique and decided Zi Yan was the best choice for a Bloodline bond because she could become a Dragon Phoenix.
• Chu Zhou sensed Xiao Yi Xian attempting to break through and discovered she was suppressing her Woeful Poison Body’s eruption to protect the Demonic Flame Space.
• Chu Zhou used his soul force and Mystic Yellow Azure Flame to control Xiao Yi Xian’s poison and guide the eruption into energy that strengthened her.
• Xiao Yi Xian broke through to One-Star Dou Zong as Chu Zhou contained the poisonous mist within the chamber.
• Xiao Yi Xian embraced Chu Zhou and asked him to let her become his woman.

After reassuring Xiao Yi Xian that he would find a way to save her from her woeful poison body, Chu Zhou established a bloodline link with Zi Yan to help her grow faster. The link awakened the medicinal energy she had accumulated, unleashing a powerful surge from her body.

• Chu Zhou comforted Xiao Yi Xian about her woeful poison body, and they spent an intimate night together.
• Chu Zhou found Zi Yan eyeing high-grade spirit medicines, and she asked him to help her grow up faster.
• Chu Zhou explained the divine soul bloodline-linking method, and Zi Yan agreed to link their bloodlines.
• Following a secret technique from the Firmament Ledger, Chu Zhou and Zi Yan fused drops of their blood essence and formed a bloodline connection.
• Zi Yan felt Chu Zhou's bloodline energy within her, and the medicinal power accumulated in her body surged forth.

Chu Zhou formed an embryonic Ancient Void Dragon Divine Soul and gained the Great Void Technique while Zi Yan began a month-long evolution. He then brought An Tianyue out of the Yin Moon Heavenly Venerable’s inheritance, where the dormant Heavenly Venerables recognized his extraordinary potential.

• Zi Yan transformed into an energy cocoon as her bloodline and cultivation began evolving, and Chu Zhou left her undisturbed behind a spatial barrier.
• Chu Zhou used the bloodline connection with Zi Yan to form an embryonic Ancient Void Dragon Divine Soul and acquired the Great Void Technique.
• Chu Zhou studied his new Divine Art until the Moonlight inheritance ended three days later.
• An Tianyue emerged from the inheritance, and Chu Zhou told her that her brother and mother were safe before using the Great Void Technique to take her to Yao Tianhuo and An Tianying.
• Yin Moon and Cold Star sensed Chu Zhou’s spatial traversal and discussed his abilities and his potential to become an emperor.

Chu Zhou reunited with An Tianying and An Tianyue, revealed that his soul had reached the Heaven Realm, and led them out of the ruins to seek help for their mother. After intercepting and killing a Heaven Spirit Clan expert who had hunted the siblings, Chu Zhou learned of An Lingfeng’s situation, while the expert’s final message reached a Venerable Elder in the Spirit Realm.

• Chu Zhou reunited An Tianying with An Tianyue and told Yao Tianhuo that his soul had broken through to the Heaven Realm.
• Chu Zhou opened a Spatial Portal, and the group left the ruins for the Chaotic Sky Sea to search for An Tianying and An Tianyue’s mother.
• Chu Zhou sensed a Heaven Spirit Clan Nine-Star Dou Zong spying on them, immobilized him, and pulled him through a Spatial Passage.
• The siblings recognized the captured expert as the man who had hunted them and gravely injured their mother, and Chu Zhou questioned him about An Lingfeng.
• Chu Zhou extracted information from the expert and attacked him with his mystic yellow azure flame; the expert died after sending a final message to his clan.
• A Venerable Elder in the Spirit Realm received the dying expert’s message that An Tianying and An Tianyue had defected to the Hun Clan and that a Hun Clan Nine-Star Dou Zong had killed him.

Chu Zhou brought An Tianying and An Tianyue to their mother, Lin Xue'er, and discovered she needed a Grade 8 Pill to recover. An Tianyue offered to become Chu Zhou’s Sword-Bearing Maid in exchange for his help, leaving him to decide whether to accept.

• Chu Zhou collected the Heaven Spirit Clan Nine-Star Dou Zong’s body and possessions, then used the forged Hun Clan aura to set a trap for the Hall of Souls.
• Yao Tianhuo opened a Spatial Passage and brought Chu Zhou, An Tianying, and An Tianyue to a hidden ice cavern in the eastern Black-Corner Region.
• An Tianying and An Tianyue found their mother, Lin Xue'er, frozen inside a profound ice pillar.
• Chu Zhou examined Lin Xue'er and determined that her damaged body, burned soul origin, and curse required a Grade 8 Pill to heal completely.
• An Tianyue offered to become Chu Zhou’s Sword-Bearing Maid if he would refine the pill for her mother.

Chu Zhou made An Tianyue his Sword-Bearing Maid and announced that he had become an eighth-tier alchemist, inviting commissions to obtain the rare ingredients he needed. As pill seekers began converging on the Black Emperor Sect, the first arrivals were unexpected guests from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

• Chu Zhou accepted An Tianyue's offer, made her his Sword-Bearing Maid, and promised to gather ingredients for the pill her mother needed.
• Chu Zhou returned to the Black Emperor Sect with An Tianyue, An Tianying, and Yao Tianhuo and told Mo Tianxing to announce his new rank and pill-refining terms.
• Chu Zhou listed the ingredients he needed and offered pill-refining opportunities to clients who provided suitable formulas, ingredients, or reliable information.
• Mo Tianxing spread the announcement throughout the Black-Corner Region and Northwest Continent, drawing experts and factions toward the Black Emperor Sect.
• The first pill seekers to arrive and cause a sensation were uninvited guests from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

Feng Qing'er arrived at the Black Emperor Sect seeking Chu Zhou, but she doubted he was an eighth-grade Alchemist. A surge of Pill Lightning revealed that Chu Zhou was refining a peak grade seven Void Nether Pill, and the lightning struck toward his protected chamber.

• Feng Qing'er and experts from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan arrived at the Black Emperor Sect and demanded to see Chu Zhou.
• Mo Tianxing said Chu Zhou was in secluded cultivation and corrected Feng Qing'er's claim that he was only a Sixth-grade Alchemist.
• Feng Qing'er questioned Nigeria, who insisted he had heard that Chu Zhou had only recently reached Sixth-grade Alchemist.
• A powerful soul fluctuation erupted from the sect's inner courtyard, stirring heaven and earth energy and forming blue Pill Lightning.
• Mo Tianxing explained that Chu Zhou was refining a peak grade seven Void Nether Pill for a secluded Nine-Star Dou Zong senior, and the Pill Lightning crashed toward the chamber.

Chu Zhou completed a peak seventh-grade Void Nether Pill, convincing Feng Qing'er that he was too powerful to antagonize casually. As she arrived to meet him, someone accused him of stealing the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan expert’s remains and demanded that he surrender them and beg for mercy.

• Chu Zhou absorbed and easily shattered the Void Nether Pill’s lightning tribulation, completing the pill as concealed experts marveled at his abilities.
• Feng Qing'er reconsidered her attitude toward Chu Zhou, while Nigeria realized the Blue Star Alliance’s plan to provoke the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan might fail.
• Feng Qing'er asked Mo Tianxing to arrange an audience with Chu Zhou, and he welcomed her group into the Black Emperor Sect.
• Chu Zhou handed a black-robed man the Void Nether Pill and advised him to take it somewhere safe to heal and attempt a breakthrough.
• As Mo Tianxing brought Feng Qing'er’s group to Chu Zhou’s manor, an unidentified speaker accused Chu Zhou of stealing the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s expert’s remains and demanded that he surrender them and beg forgiveness.

Chu Zhou exposed Nigeria’s attempt to turn Feng Qing’er against him, then sealed Nigeria’s cultivation and had him imprisoned. After clearing up the misunderstanding, Chu Zhou proposed working with Feng Qing’er to eliminate his enemies and offered to help purify her bloodline.

• Nigeria tried to provoke a conflict between Chu Zhou and Feng Qing’er, but Chu Zhou pinned him down and revealed his deception.
• Aunt Tiancai tried to kill Nigeria, but Chu Zhou stopped her and sealed Nigeria’s cultivation, leaving him unable to die by suicide.
• Chu Zhou ordered Mo Tianxing to imprison Nigeria and torment him without letting him die.
• Chu Zhou reassured Feng Qing’er, and she accepted that Nigeria had misled her and praised Chu Zhou’s handling of the matter.
• Chu Zhou invited Feng Qing’er to cooperate in killing his enemies and offered to purify her bloodline, astonishing her and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts.

Chu Zhou used the Mystic Yellow Azure Flame and a Fire Bead to purify Feng Qing'er’s Bloodline and awaken a trace of her Ancient Heavenly Phoenix heritage. He stopped before ancestral reversion could occur, claiming the process had drained him, and left Feng Qing'er eager for him to continue.

• Feng Qing'er accepted Chu Zhou’s offer to use the Mystic Yellow Azure Flame on her, despite Feng Tiancai warning her of the danger.
• Chu Zhou examined Feng Qing'er’s Bloodline and found that its ancient source had run dry, preventing her from achieving ancestral reversion through purification alone.
• Chu Zhou purified Feng Qing'er’s Bloodline and secretly added a Fire Bead’s energy, stirring the dormant Ancient Heavenly Phoenix phantom within her.
• Feng Qing'er felt a surge of warmth and vitality, then asked Chu Zhou to continue when he withdrew the flame.
• Chu Zhou claimed that the treatment had exhausted him and would require time to recover, intending to make the process seem difficult and valuable.

Chu Zhou persuaded Feng Qing'er to cooperate with him by purifying her Bloodline and promising further benefits. He gave the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan information on hostile Otherworlders to hunt, setting a quota for their deaths.

• Chu Zhou explained that he could strengthen Feng Qing'er's Bloodline about once a month, and Feng Qing'er agreed to work with him.
• Feng Yuyuan examined Feng Qing'er and confirmed she had awakened a trace of the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix's origin power.
• Chu Zhou returned to Blue Star and asked Qin Zhengguo to compile portraits and locations of the top thousand hostile Chosen Ones on the Dou Qi Continent.
• Qin Zhengguo mobilized the bureau to gather the requested intelligence, and Chu Zhou returned to the Black Emperor Sect with the materials.
• Chu Zhou gave Feng Qing'er the portraits and information, promised monthly Bloodline tempering and priority alchemy services, and asked the clan to ensure at least a hundred targets died three times each per month.
• Feng Qing'er promised to mobilize the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and her connections in the Wind Lightning Pavilion and Central Plains to carry out the hunts.

Chu Zhou used the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to hunt Otherworlders allied against him, while the rabbit nation supplied him with intelligence and resources. After gathering the ingredients for a Seven-Aperture Soul-Connecting Pill, he began refining it and drew four-colored Pill Lightning, leaving the gathered experts stunned by his near-Dou Zun puppet.

• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan issued wanted notices for the Otherworlders, and its allies hunted them, costing many elites lives and pushing some to plead for mercy.
• Chu Zhou ignored the Otherworlders’ complaints as the rabbit nation supplied him with intelligence and Secret Realm resources that helped him and Meng Ziwei, Xiao Yi Xian, and the other women grow stronger.
• After a month, Chu Zhou gathered the ingredients for a Grade 8 Seven-Aperture Soul-Connecting Pill and began refining it near the Black Emperor Sect.
• Chu Zhou refined the pill for seven days, and four-colored Pill Lightning gathered over the alchemy hall.
• As the lightning struck, Chu Zhou summoned an ink-black humanoid puppet whose aura was nearly that of a Dou Zun.

Chu Zhou completed his first Grade 8 pill, using its four-colored pill lightning to advance his Variant Demon Puppet to Dou Zun. He learned the Yin-Yang Twin Flames and Yin-Yang Mystic Soul Fruit would soon appear at the Two Principles Life-and-Death Abyss, then returned to Feng Qing'er to continue her bloodline transformation.

• Chu Zhou's Variant Demon Puppet absorbed the four-colored pill lightning, reached One-Star Dou Zun strength, and seized the Seven-Aperture Soul-Connecting Pill.
• Chu Zhou completed his first Grade 8 pill and told An Tianyue he would awaken Lin Xue'er the next day.
• An Tianyue urged Chu Zhou to go to the Two Principles Life-and-Death Abyss, where the Yin-Yang Twin Flames and Yin-Yang Mystic Soul Fruit were expected to emerge.
• Chu Zhou agreed to go after finishing his transaction with Feng Qing'er, then returned to her guest courtyard.
• Chu Zhou used the Mystic Yellow Azure Flame and a higher-quality Fire Bead to continue Feng Qing'er's second bloodline transformation.

Chu Zhou used a Fire Bead and heavenly flames to temper Feng Qing’er’s bloodline, allowing her to briefly sense the dormant Ancient Heavenly Phoenix imprint. He left to save someone with a pill, while Feng Qing’er remained at the Black Emperor Sect awaiting his return.

• Chu Zhou used mystic yellow azure flames to refine the Fire Bead and replenish Feng Qing’er’s bloodline Origin.
• Feng Qing’er endured an hour of intense heat as Chu Zhou explained that the process was awakening her bloodline’s deeper potential.
• Feng Qing’er sensed the dormant Ancient Heavenly Phoenix imprint, and Chu Zhou told her it would fade again in a few days.
• Feng Qing’er thanked Chu Zhou and offered help, but he declined and said he was leaving to save someone with a pill.
• Chu Zhou used the Great Void Technique to depart, telling Feng Qing’er to wait at the Black Emperor Sect.

Chu Zhou brought An Tianying and his sister through the Two Principles Life-and-Death Abyss to the Hanging Dead Island, where the Yin-Yang Mystic Soul Fruit was nearing ripeness. After detecting three peak seventh-tier magical beasts and a sleeping early eighth-tier beast, he went alone to confront one of them.

• Chu Zhou used the Great Void Technique to take An Tianying and his sister to the outskirts of the Two Principles Life-and-Death Abyss.
• An Tianying guided Chu Zhou through the unstable Yin-Yang Astral Wind Belt along a shifting path to safety.
• Chu Zhou and his companions reached the Hanging Dead Island, where An Tianying spotted the Yin-Yang Twin Flames.
• Chu Zhou sensed three peak seventh-tier magical beasts and an early eighth-tier magical beast on the island, but refused An Tianying's suggestion to summon Yao Tianhuo.
• Chu Zhou told An Tianying and his sister to wait, then appeared near a Shadow Demon Scorpion hiding in a spatial rift.

Chu Zhou silently captured three seventh-rank magical beasts on the floating island before confronting the early eighth-rank Yin-Yang Demon Ape. He overwhelmed the ape with a soul attack, leaving its fate unresolved as its consciousness began to scatter.

• Chu Zhou used his Heavenly Realm Soul and Azure Flame Sword Intent to subdue the Shadow Demon Scorpion and store it in the Demonic Flame Space.
• Chu Zhou appeared in a swamp, imprisoned the Jade-Scaled Poison Flood Dragon's soul with Sword Intent, and stored it in his microcosm.
• Chu Zhou used the Mystic Yellow Azure Flame's origin aura to put the Lava Dragon Lizard to sleep and took it away.
• Chu Zhou confronted the Yin-Yang Demon Ape, evaded its attacks through teleportation, and struck its consciousness with Soul Suppression.
• Chu Zhou formed soul runes and unleashed the Great Void Dragon Seal as the Yin-Yang Demon Ape's consciousness began to scatter.

Chu Zhou sealed and stored the Yin-Yang Demon Ape, then waited for the Yin-Yang Mystic Soul Fruit to ripen and harvested it. The fruit’s ripening revealed the Yin-Yang Twin Flames’ location, and Chu Zhou entered the strange space that contained them.

• Chu Zhou used the Great Void Dragon Seal to seal the Yin-Yang Demon Ape’s soul and stored the beast in his microcosm.
• Chu Zhou summoned An Tianying and An Tianyue, then settled on a secluded mountain to recover while monitoring the island.
• After about twelve hours, the Yin-Yang Mystic Soul Fruit ripened, and Chu Zhou collected the fruit and its vine in his Demonic Flame Space.
• Chu Zhou sensed a spatial fluctuation linked to the Yin-Yang Twin Flames and told An Tianyue to wait outside with her brother.
• Chu Zhou used the Great Void Technique to enter the space containing the Yin-Yang Twin Flames and the universe’s yin-yang Origin.