Chapter Summaries

Xiao Mo defeated the Chu Yun Empire’s forces, took control of its remaining territory, and established the Chu Kingdom as a hereditary kingdom friendly with the Jia Ma Empire. After Wuchang City surrendered and the territory was unified, Wang Miaojun asked whether Xiao Mo could finally break through to nine-star Dou Emperor.

• Xiao Mo routed the Chu Yun Empire’s remaining Death Warriors, secured Heavenly God Pass, and returned to the King of Chu’s Purple Extreme Palace.
• Yao Xuanchen offered Xiao Mo the title of Western Chu Heavenly King, but Xiao Mo requested to be made hereditary King of Chu and promised to remain friendly with the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun he would campaign to capture the last stronghold, Wuchang City, and she agreed to go with him.
• Xiao Mo marched on Wuchang City with five hundred thousand soldiers, but its lord surrendered after five days rather than risk a losing battle.
• Xiao Mo occupied the remaining cities and towns, reviewed the Chu Kingdom’s administration, and began issuing new policies.
• Wang Miaojun asked Xiao Mo whether he could now break through to nine-star Dou Emperor.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun settled into their new life in the Chu Kingdom, while Xiao Mo tried and failed to advance from peak Eight-Star Dou Emperor to Nine-Star Dou Emperor. The chapter left them contentedly looking ahead to a happy future together in their own territory.

• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun that reaching Nine-Star Dou Emperor would require at least three supreme-grade Purple Spirit Pills, and they spoke about their new home and future together.
• Xiao Mo refined three Purple Spirit Pills and consumed them one after another, but he remained at peak Eight-Star Dou Emperor.
• Wang Miaojun comforted Xiao Mo after his failed breakthrough, and the two fell asleep together in the Purple Extremity Palace.
• After spending more than ten days in the Chu Kingdom, Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun discussed their relationship and the future, with Xiao Mo promising her the happiest life under heaven.

After resting in the Chu Kingdom for nineteen days, Xiao Mo prepared to return to the Heavenly Mansion Immortal Domain in search of a breakthrough to Nine-Star Dou Emperor. He and Wang Miaojun set out knowing the journey could keep them from ever returning, but renewed their promise to reach the Central Plains Continent together.

• Xiao Mo rested with Wang Miaojun in the Purple Extremity Palace while Zhu Chengzhi and ten Divine Strategy Commanders handled the Chu Kingdom’s administration.
• After nineteen days of rest, Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun that they would go to the Heavenly Mansion Immortal Domain to seek a chance to advance his cultivation.
• Xiao Mo refined the Six-Hundred-Thousand-Year Seven-Colored Flower into a pill and absorbed it, but remained at Peak Eight-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Mo prepared thirty Dou Emperor Talismans and learned the first three seals of the Emperor Seal Art: the Mountain Splitting Seal, the Vast Sea Seal, and the Origin Returning Seal.
• Xiao Mo warned Wang Miaojun that their journey might prevent them from returning, and she affirmed that she would stay by his side and keep their promise to reach the Central Plains Continent together.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered the Heavenly Mansion Immortal Domain to seek power, despite the danger, and encountered Han Tian, the former sect master of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect. After Han Tian overwhelmed them in battle, he warned Xiao Mo that the secret realm’s depths held Dou Zong experts and could be impossible to escape.

• Xiao Mo asked Wang Miaojun to journey with him to the Heavenly Mansion Immortal Domain, and she agreed to face the danger at his side.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered the secret realm and headed straight for its depths despite a warning to turn back.
• Han Tian revealed that he had been the Ten Thousand Swords Sect’s sect master and was a Peak Dou Emperor who intended to use them as new bodies.
• Xiao Mo used a Dou Zong Talisman and fought Han Tian while Wang Miaojun supported him, but they were forced to retreat toward the hall’s entrance.
• Han Tian told Xiao Mo that ancient sects had perished in internal war and warned that Dou Zong experts waited deeper in the secret realm.

Xiao Mo defeated Han Tian after an eight-hour battle and entered the Heavenly Mansion Immortal Domain's Central Core Area with Wang Miaojun. They discovered a vast world with far greater energy than the Dou Qi Continent, and Xiao Mo urged Wang Miaojun to press on.

• Xiao Mo used three Dou Zong Talismans to fight Han Tian for eight hours, leaving Han Tian mortally wounded.
• Han Tian warned Xiao Mo not to enter the core area, but Xiao Mo acknowledged his concern and killed him.
• Xiao Mo dismissed the talismans’ power, returned to peak Eight-Star Dou Emperor, and convinced Wang Miaojun to enter the Central Core Area with him.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun found a world containing cities, towns, sects, and energy concentrations three times those of the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Mo gave Wang Miaojun twenty Dou Zong Talismans and urged her not to give up before they gained enough rewards.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun joined the Profound Heaven Bright Moon Sect, where Immortal Crystals paid for cultivation and daily expenses. Xiao Mo spent his starting crystals to break through to nine-star Dou Emperor, then proposed earning more at the Mission Plaza.

• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun saw the Profound Heaven Bright Moon Sect recruiting disciples and decided to join.
• An enforcement elder accepted them, explained the sect’s Immortal Crystal economy, and gave each of them 2,000 starting points.
• Xiao Mo reassured the uneasy Wang Miaojun that they should persevere and remain in the sect.
• Xiao Mo spent all 2,000 of his Immortal Crystals cultivating and broke through to nine-star Dou Emperor.
• Wang Miaojun warned Xiao Mo that their housing and meals cost Immortal Crystals, so Xiao Mo suggested seeking work at the Mission Plaza.

After breaking through to Nine-Star Dou Emperor, Xiao Mo took Wang Miaojun to accept a mission to hunt a Rank Nine Magical Beast for Immortal Crystals. They entered the Profound Heaven Bright Moon Sect’s Magical Beast Mountain Range, where Xiao Mo used an Instant-Kill Talisman on a beast they encountered.

• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun about his breakthrough and proposed they earn Immortal Crystals by completing a mission.
• At the mission plaza, Xiao Mo persuaded Wang Miaojun to accept a hunt for a Rank Nine Magical Beast despite her concerns about the danger.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun registered for the mission and headed to the sect’s Magical Beast Mountain Range with a Dou Zong Talisman and Instant-Kill Talismans.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun spotted a Rank Nine Magical Beast at peak Six-Star Dou Emperor, and Xiao Mo used an Instant-Kill Talisman against it.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun hunted three rank nine magical beasts in the Profound Heaven Bright Moon Sect’s Back Mountain and returned to submit their mission. An Enforcement Elder verified their trophies and prepared their reward, leaving them about to receive Immortal Crystals.

• Xiao Mo persuaded Wang Miaojun to continue hunting for a premium-grade mission instead of returning after killing one rank nine magical beast.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun found a pair of rank nine Lion Kings, and they used Dou Zong Talismans to raise their strength to peak Dou Zong.
• Xiao Mo killed the female Lion King with the Emperor Seal Art, and Wang Miaojun killed the enraged male Lion King by piercing his heart.
• Xiao Mo stored both carcasses, and he and Wang Miaojun escaped before more than a dozen rank nine magical beasts reached the battle site.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun returned to the Profound Heaven Bright Moon Sect and presented all three rank nine magical beast carcasses for mission verification.
• The Enforcement Elder confirmed the carcasses and magic cores were genuine and offered Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun an Immortal Crystal Card.

After selling three magical beast carcasses for 160,000 Immortal Crystals, Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun cultivated in the Gathering Spirit Formation, where she advanced to eight-star Dou Emperor and they stabilized their cultivation. After recovering, Xiao Mo explained that the True Spirit Continent was dangerously unstable and that they should eventually return to the Chu Kingdom, though he wanted to stay longer to gain benefits.

• Xiao Mo sold three magical beast carcasses for 160,000 Immortal Crystals and took Wang Miaojun to cultivate in the Gathering Spirit Formation.
• Wang Miaojun broke through to eight-star Dou Emperor, while Xiao Mo said he had reached nine-star Dou Emperor, and they cultivated for seventeen days to stabilize their levels.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun slept for three days, then washed and walked through the Profound Heaven Bright Moon Sect.
• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun that the True Spirit Continent's excessive energy made it unstable and that they could die if they ran out of Immortal Crystals.
• Xiao Mo said they should stay longer to reap benefits before returning to the Chu Kingdom, and Wang Miaojun observed that he had become a powerful, self-reliant man.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun returned to Bright Moon City after their dangerous journey and agreed to rest before setting out again. They spent the next day together in the King of Chu's palace, where Xiao Mo remained determined to grow stronger and Wang Miaojun promised to stay by his side.

• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun used the Teleportation Spirit Array to return to Bright Moon City, and Xiao Mo recorded their coordinates.
• Wang Miaojun admitted she feared returning to the dangerous world, but Xiao Mo urged her to persevere, and she agreed to follow his lead after a few days of rest.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun spent the night together in the King of Chu's Purple Extremity Palace.
• The next day, Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun relaxed, ate a large meal, and discussed his cultivation and when they would return to the Profound Heaven Bright Moon Sect.
• Xiao Mo held Wang Miaojun and said he wanted to stay beside her forever.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun returned to the Profound Heaven Bright Moon Sect, cultivated, and decided to explore a newly opened Heavenly Earth Spirit Land. They ignored the wealth at its entrance and reached a palace deep inside.

• Wang Miaojun comforted Xiao Mo and agreed they could take their time before returning to the True Spirit Continent.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun returned to the Profound Heaven Bright Moon Sect and cultivated in the Gathering Spirit Formation for more than ten days.
• Xiao Mo asked Wang Miaojun to explore an approaching Heavenly Earth Spirit Land, and she agreed.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered the spirit land and passed up the gold and treasures that other cultivators fought over.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun reached a palace in the depths of the spirit land and decided to go inside.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered a hidden realm, defeated the shadow guarding it, and escaped after discovering that its treasures were poisoned and most visitors had died. They left wary of the True Spirit Continent and its deadly secrets.

• Wang Miaojun and Xiao Mo found a hidden realm entrance in the palace garden and entered, only for the door behind them to shut.
• A shadow warned them to leave, then attacked; Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun used Dou Zong Talismans to reach Six-Star Dou Zong and fought back.
• Xiao Mo froze space and time with a talisman and pierced the shadow's heart, defeating the Peak Dou Emperor-level guardian.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun left the realm and discovered that the treasure at its entrance was poisoned and that the visitors who touched it had died.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun escaped the secret realm, saw more than a dozen corpses, and agreed that the True Spirit world was dangerous.

After leaving the secret realm, Xiao Mo reflected on the people who had died there and decided to risk a journey into the Magical Beast Mountain Range to seek a breakthrough. He and Wang Miaojun entered the range and slipped past a Rank Nine Magical Beast, continuing toward a dangerous new world rich in Dou Qi and spiritual energy.

• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun he would choose a life with his family over the near-impossible gamble taken by the people who died in the secret realm, though their bodies left him deeply changed.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun returned to the Profound Heaven Bright Moon Sect, where she warned him not to risk ending up like the dead gamblers.
• Xiao Mo persuaded Wang Miaojun to join him in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and they agreed to leave the next day.
• Xiao Mo prepared twenty-five Dou Zong Talismans, then he and Wang Miaojun ventured into the range and used Invisibility Talismans to pass a Rank Nine Magical Beast.
• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun they were heading toward a new world with richer Dou Qi and spiritual energy, though danger remained.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered a dangerous Secret Realm to seek a chance to advance beyond Dou Emperor, then joined the Black Flame Alliance to establish themselves. After the alliance issued a mission to retrieve an item from Fallen God Ravine, Xiao Mo approached its leader.

• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun that they had to risk everything in the Secret Realm, and she agreed to face the danger with him.
• The pair entered the Secret Realm, reached a city, and decided to join a sect to learn about the unfamiliar world.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun joined the Black Flame Alliance, met its cultivation requirement, and used its Gathering Spirit Formation.
• After they had spent more than ten days in the alliance, its leader issued a mission for nine-star Dou Emperors to retrieve an item from Fallen God Ravine, where Level Ten Magical Beasts dwelled.
• With few willing to accept the dangerous mission, Xiao Mo took the initiative to seek out the alliance leader.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun retrieved the Black Flame Alliance’s Tracker from Fallen God Ravine but were trapped after entering a strange, snow-covered world. Han Qiuling told them that Fallen God Ravine connected two worlds that could not be crossed back out of.

• Xiao Mo accepted Wang Hong’s mission to retrieve the Black Flame Alliance’s Tracker from Fallen God Ravine and set out with Wang Miaojun.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun fought an energy entity, found the Tracker, and used Dou Zong Talismans to defeat the Peak Dou Emperor-level entities blocking their way.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun found a passage out of Fallen God Ravine but emerged in a snow-covered world with a castle and no apparent escape.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered the castle, where an attendant brought them to Han Qiuling.
• Han Qiuling told Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun that Fallen God Ravine connected two worlds and that anyone who entered could never leave.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun discovered that they were trapped in a sealed space within Fallen God Ravine, but Han Qiuling revealed a dangerous route through five unknown worlds that might lead them home. As they considered their options, Wang Miaojun realized that she had bound herself to the system attached to the precious sword.

• Xiao Mo failed to use the Teleportation Spirit Array to return to the Chu Kingdom, confirming that the route out was sealed.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun settled into Han Qiuling’s castle and learned that she had lived in the space for as long as she could remember.
• Han Qiuling told Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun that the Secret Spirit Space connected to five unknown worlds, including one that might lead outside Fallen God Ravine, and gave them plaques to contact her.
• Xiao Mo decided that he and Wang Miaojun should eventually explore the dangerous spaces and seek a way back to the Black Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Mo showed Wang Miaojun the precious sword and its black scabbard, and Wang Miaojun said she had bound herself to the system attached to the sword.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun rested in Han Qiuling’s castle and learned that she had once been a One-Star Dou Sheng who could send them back to the True Spirit Continent. Han Qiuling agreed to help if Xiao Mo could replenish the cost, then offered to teach them and urged them to take greater risks as cultivators.

• Wang Miaojun bound a system and exchanged for a Heaven Tier cultivation method and two Heaven Tier Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun agreed to rest in the castle before exploring the five spacetime realms and seeking a way back to the True Spirit Continent; Wang Miaojun promised to stay by Xiao Mo despite his willingness to take risks.
• After ten days of rest, Han Qiuling invited Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun to drink and revealed she had once been a One-Star Dou Sheng from the True Spirit Continent.
• Han Qiuling said she could send them home, but the effort would consume much of her remaining lifespan; Xiao Mo offered to use his system to restore what she expended, and she agreed.
• Han Qiuling criticized Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun for lacking courage, then offered to teach them and said the harm from sending them away could be remedied.

Han Qiuling gave Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun the choice to leave or stay in the alternate dimension and cultivate toward Dou Zong, and both chose to stay. She led them into a high-dimensional plane, where they seized a city and built an army before launching an assault on another city.

• Han Qiuling offered to help Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun advance to Dou Zong if they stayed, and Xiao Mo chose to remain despite Wang Miaojun urging him to leave.
• Wang Miaojun agreed to stay with Xiao Mo, and Han Qiuling prepared pills before taking them into the first spacetime region the next morning.
• Han Qiuling brought Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun to a high-dimensional plane with far greater spiritual energy than the Dou Qi Continent and proposed capturing a city as their base.
• Han Qiuling and her companions seized a city, killed its resisting defenders and city lord, took control, and plundered a wealthy merchant to rebuild the army.
• Han Qiuling assembled an army of twenty thousand and led it to attack a second city after only a day of rest.

Han Qiuling took Haotian City with a force of 150,000 and crushed a 300,000-strong army, then prepared to conquer the ten surrounding cities. She left Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun in the city while urging Xiao Mo to take risks on the path to cultivation.

• Han Qiuling gave Xiao Mo ninety million spirit stones to recruit troops, and Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun raised an army of 150,000.
• Han Qiuling told Xiao Mo she intended to seize the entire realm and warned him that cautious cultivation would keep him from becoming a Dou Sheng.
• Han Qiuling led the 150,000 elite troops against a 300,000-strong army outside Haotian City, killed its senior officers, and routed it, leaving only 20,000 survivors.
• Han Qiuling told Xiao Mo to use a Supreme Dou Huang Pill to reach Peak Dou Emperor, then left for five days.
• Han Qiuling returned and set out to conquer the ten surrounding cities with 100,000 troops, leaving 50,000 to defend Haotian City with Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun.

Han Qiuling expanded her holdings into ten cities and organized them into the Qi Kingdom with Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun. Xiao Mo swallowed a Ninth-Rank Supreme Dou Huang Pill and broke through to Peak Dou Emperor, though the pill still held pure energy.

• Han Qiuling left Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun with fifty thousand troops, then returned three months later after taking ten cities and named their realm the Qi Kingdom.
• Han Qiuling gave Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun Prince of Qi tokens and ordered them to manage the cities and recruit troops as she planned to conquer the Han Dynasty.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun organized the ten cities and Haotian City, recruiting five hundred thousand troops before returning to Han Qiuling.
• Han Qiuling assembled another three hundred thousand elite troops and planned an enthronement ceremony, while Xiao Mo asked to reach Peak Dou Emperor first.
• Han Qiuling gave Xiao Mo a Ninth-Rank Supreme Dou Huang Pill, and Xiao Mo absorbed its energy and broke through to Peak Dou Emperor.