Chapter Summaries

Xiao Mo and his companions explored a secret realm in a deserted ancient city, where they defeated a group of energy beings but avoided a dangerous Dou Zun-level domain. Han Qiuling led them to collect Origin Crystals, and they set off to search another cache.

• After resting in the Qi Kingdom, Xiao Mo, Han Qiuling, Lu Yixue, and Wang Miaojun entered a secret realm in the Gobi Desert.
• As white mist rose, Han Qiuling sensed approaching beings, and Lu Yixue warned that a dangerous domain deeper inside reached the Dou Zun level.
• Xiao Mo ordered the group to attack the energy beings they encountered, and they defeated more than a dozen Six-Star Dou Emperor-level foes.
• Han Qiuling forbade Xiao Mo from entering the Dou Zun-level domain and explained that Origin Crystals in the city could help them grow stronger.
• The group collected Origin Crystals from the City Lord's Residence, and Han Qiuling led them toward another place where many were stored.

After leaving the secret realm, Xiao Mo returned to the Chu Kingdom with Wang Miaojun and Lu Yixue, while Han Qiuling reassured him about his potential and explained the system’s Dou Di prediction. As Xiao Mo rested and enjoyed life at home, Wang Miaojun worried that their cultivation might eventually stall, and she began voicing her concerns to him.

• Xiao Mo declined to enter the dangerous domain and left the secret realm with Han Qiuling, Wang Miaojun, and Lu Yixue.
• Han Qiuling encouraged Xiao Mo, and the Strongest Best Brother System identified her as a Dou Di-level host and awarded Xiao Mo 30000 points.
• Xiao Mo returned to the Chu Kingdom with Wang Miaojun and Lu Yixue using the Teleportation Spirit Array after reaching peak one-star Dou Zong.
• Wang Miaojun worried that she, Xiao Mo, and Lu Yixue might eventually become stuck at Dou Zun, then fell asleep.
• Xiao Mo shared a meal and sweet wine with Wang Miaojun and Lu Yixue, and Lu Yixue went inside after becoming tipsy.
• Wang Miaojun told Xiao Mo that something had been worrying her.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun worried that their current cultivation methods would leave them stuck at peak Dou Zun, so they planned to seek Han Qiuling’s guidance. When Han Qiuling arrived, she gave Wang Miaojun pills to aid her breakthrough, and Wang Miaojun reached one-star Dou Zong.

• Wang Miaojun warned Xiao Mo that their cultivation methods might leave them unable to advance beyond peak Dou Zun, and Xiao Mo agreed they needed to address the problem at its roots.
• After resting in the King of Chu’s Purple Extremity Palace, Xiao Mo and Lu Yixue agreed to ask Han Qiuling for guidance when she arrived.
• Han Qiuling came to the Chu Kingdom with cultivation pills and told Xiao Mo she planned to raise Wang Miaojun to Dou Zong and Lu Yixue to peak Dou Emperor.
• Han Qiuling gave Wang Miaojun two ninth-rank supreme Dou Zong Pills and guarded her as she absorbed them.
• Wang Miaojun found her breakthrough opportunity with the second pill and advanced to one-star Dou Zong.

Han Qiuling helped Wang Miaojun become a One-Star Dou Zong and raised Lu Yixue to Peak Dou Emperor. Xiao Mo agreed to seek greater opportunities in a secret realm, and Han Qiuling later invited him and his two companions to an Ancient Secret Realm in an Alternate Dimension.

• Wang Miaojun broke through to One-Star Dou Zong after absorbing two Ninth-Rank Supreme Dou Zong Pills.
• Xiao Mo asked Han Qiuling for guidance, and she urged him to take risks rather than remain stuck at Peak Dou Zun.
• Han Qiuling gave Lu Yixue five Ninth-Rank Supreme Dou Huang Pills, and Lu Yixue reached Peak Dou Emperor.
• Lu Yixue told Xiao Mo about her breakthrough, and he said they would face the road ahead together.
• After a few days of rest, Han Qiuling invited Xiao Mo and his two girlfriends to an Ancient Secret Realm in an Alternate Dimension, leaving Xiao Mo afraid they might not return.

Xiao Mo followed Han Qiuling into a perilous Alternate Dimension to seek treasures that could help him advance. After winning two treasures, he reached a trapped chamber containing a tier-ten pill, and Han Qiuling insisted they find a way to obtain it.

• Xiao Mo agreed to accompany Han Qiuling into another Alternate Dimension, where a treasure trove drew hundreds of cultivators.
• Xiao Mo and his companions fought through the secret realm’s contenders and claimed the Ten-Thousand-Spirit Soul-Restoring Pill.
• Xiao Mo and the two women battled Ming Ziang for a Million-Year Seven-Colored Flower, and Han Qiuling killed him with one palm strike when Xiao Mo asked for help.
• Xiao Mo sensed a deadly trap before approaching a tier-ten pill, but Han Qiuling said they could not leave without trying to obtain it.

Xiao Mo and his companions escaped the collapsing secret realm with a tier-ten Snow Ginseng Pill and other treasures, then returned to the Qi Kingdom. Xiao Mo used the pill and the Ten Thousand Spirits Soul-Restoring Pill to break through to two-star Dou Zong, while Lu Yixue began absorbing the million-year-old seven-colored flower.

• Han Qiuling seized the tier-ten pill, triggering the secret realm's collapse, and Xiao Mo hid with the three women in the System Space as cultivators pursued them.
• After waiting five days, Xiao Mo and his companions emerged, evaded the cultivators with Han Qiuling's secret art, and eventually returned to the Qi Kingdom.
• Han Qiuling identified the tier-ten pill as the Snow Ginseng Pill and said it could help Xiao Mo reach two-star Dou Zong; she refined the seven-colored flower into five pills for Lu Yixue.
• Xiao Mo swallowed the Ten Thousand Spirits Soul-Restoring Pill and the Snow Ginseng Pill under Han Qiuling's guard and broke through to two-star Dou Zong.
• Wang Miaojun told Xiao Mo that Lu Yixue was absorbing the seven-colored flower and was close to reaching one-star Dou Zong.

Xiao Mo, Wang Miaojun, and Lu Yixue celebrated their breakthroughs to the Dou Zong Stage while resting in the Chu Kingdom. Han Qiuling confirmed that she had taken control of the Qi Kingdom and told Xiao Mo to consolidate his strength before their next move.

• Han Qiuling told Xiao Mo that Lu Yixue had broken through to One-Star Dou Zong, and Lu Yixue showed him her transformed Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and spirit wings.
• Han Qiuling said that the Qi Kingdom now belonged entirely to her and that the Han Dynasty was gone.
• Han Qiuling told Xiao Mo to rest and consolidate his strength after his breakthrough to Two-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Mo, Wang Miaojun, and Lu Yixue rested in the Chu Kingdom and spoke of reaching the Central Plains Continent together.
• Wang Miaojun embraced Xiao Mo as he promised not to forget those who had supported him, and Han Qiuling joined them in the courtyard.

Xiao Mo struggled with the difficulty of advancing beyond Dou Zong but reaffirmed his determination to reach the top. After resting in the Chu Kingdom, he prepared to enter the Gu Ling secret realm with Han Qiuling, while Lu Yixue encouraged him to pursue their goal of becoming Dou Zun experts together.

• Xiao Mo told Han Qiuling that he planned to rest because he did not know how to advance beyond two-star Dou Zong, and she explained how cultivation grew harder at higher ranks.
• Xiao Mo insisted that he would never give up, giving Han Qiuling hope and prompting her to rest in the Chu Kingdom for a few days.
• Wang Miaojun praised Xiao Mo's determination, and after more than ten days Han Qiuling returned and said the Gu Ling secret realm would open in five days.
• Xiao Mo drank alone in the courtyard until Lu Yixue joined him and spoke with him about sorrow, fate, and the limits of cultivation.
• Lu Yixue promised to stay by Xiao Mo's side and urged them to achieve their first goal of becoming Dou Zun experts.

After spending a tender night with Lu Yixue, Xiao Mo met Han Qiuling on the palace roof and learned more about the realms beyond Dou Di and the dangers ahead. With their journey to Gu Ling's Secret Realm only two days away, Xiao Mo committed himself to reaching Peak Dou Zun with Han Qiuling's help.

• Lu Yixue held Xiao Mo beneath the moonlight, and he agreed to sleep with her in the King of Chu Palace.
• Unable to sleep, Xiao Mo found Han Qiuling drinking on the palace roof and asked about her past as a Dou Di.
• Han Qiuling told Xiao Mo that the Great Thousand World lay beyond Dou Di and that cultivators faced a harsh, uncertain path.
• Han Qiuling warned Xiao Mo that reaching Peak Dou Zun would require extreme cultivation and that the Central Plains Continent held many dangerous rivals.
• Xiao Mo said he would give everything he had and asked Han Qiuling to help him reach Peak Dou Zun.

Xiao Mo and his companions entered the Gu Ling Secret Realm, survived a deadly sword attack thanks to Han Qiuling’s warning, and chose to press on. Inside the ancient sect, they faced a Four-Star Dou Zong expert, and their battle was still underway.

• Xiao Mo and Han Qiuling set out for the Gu Ling Secret Realm, where more than a hundred Peak Dou Emperors and over forty Dou Zong experts waited for it to open.
• When the realm opened, Han Qiuling warned Xiao Mo and the others not to enter the sect, and a golden sword killed nearly two hundred people who had gone in.
• After discovering they could still leave, Xiao Mo chose to continue, and Lu Yixue, Wang Miaojun, and Han Qiuling agreed to press on with him.
• In an empty great hall, Xiao Mo challenged a man in Daoist robes whom Han Qiuling identified as a Four-Star Dou Zong expert.
• Xiao Mo and his companions attacked the Four-Star Dou Zong, struggled under his superior strength, then gradually adapted to his attacks while Han Qiuling held back.

Xiao Mo and his companions entered the Water Spirit Sect, where Yun Shao offered to guide them to a dangerous mountain range to strengthen their cultivation. After weighing the risks, Xiao Mo chose to press on, but the group planned to discuss their preparations before entering.

• Lu Yixue unleashed the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and burned the Four-Star Dou Zong elder's soul to ashes.
• After resting, Xiao Mo and his companions entered another sect through a formation of light, where Yun Shao welcomed them into the Water Spirit Sect.
• Yun Shao brought Xiao Mo and his companions to a forbidden Magical Beast Mountain Range and warned them about its powerful beasts and the sect's Peak Dou Zun guards.
• Han Qiuling acknowledged the risks, and Xiao Mo decided they would set out in three days.
• Xiao Mo said he would press on, then told the group to return to their lodgings and discuss whether to enter the mountain range the next day.

Xiao Mo and the three women entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range and fought three Rank Nine Magical Beasts, which fused into a powerful Peak Dou Zong beast. After Xiao Mo killed it with Heaven-Tier techniques, the group escaped to the System Space, where he was left exhausted.

• Han Qiuling, Xiao Mo, Wang Miaojun, and Lu Yixue agreed to enter the Magical Beast Mountain Range after resting at the Water Spirit Sect.
• The four encountered three Rank Nine Magical Beasts near the central region and killed one, prompting the other two to fuse into a stronger beast.
• Xiao Mo and the women used Dou Zong Talismans to raise their cultivation, and Xiao Mo attacked the fused beast with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• Lu Yixue's attack failed against the beast's rings of light, but Xiao Mo killed it with the Azure Dragon Saint Art.
• Wang Miaojun stored the beast's body, and the four fled before more Rank Nine Magical Beasts arrived.
• The group reached a secluded spot and entered the System Space while Xiao Mo struggled with the strain of using two Heaven-Tier techniques.

Xiao Mo and the three women killed five Rank Nine Magical Beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and retreated to the System Space, where Han Qiuling refined their spoils into pills. After distributing the pills, Xiao Mo proposed confronting nearby Rank Ten Magical Beasts, though Han Qiuling warned she might not be able to protect them from a Dou Zun-level opponent.

• After resting for two days, Xiao Mo and the three women ventured deeper into the Magical Beast Mountain Range and ambushed five Rank Nine Magical Beasts.
• Xiao Mo, Lu Yixue, and Wang Miaojun killed all five beasts, then collected their bodies and magic cores and fled before more beasts arrived.
• Han Qiuling processed the eight Rank Nine Magical Beast bodies and cores in the System Space and refined five pills over more than ten days.
• Xiao Mo took one pill and gave Wang Miaojun and Lu Yixue two each, hoping they would break through to two-star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Mo proposed attacking Rank Ten Magical Beasts at a nearby gathering place, but Han Qiuling warned she might not be able to stop a Dou Zun-level beast.

Lu Yixue and Wang Miaojun used spirit pills to break through to two-star Dou Zong, and Xiao Mo agreed to rest before continuing their hunt for rank nine magical beasts. As they spent time in the System Space, Lu Yixue asked Xiao Mo to return with her to the Wild Magical Beast Mountain Range after their current business was finished.

• Wang Miaojun and Lu Yixue absorbed spirit pills in the System Space and broke through to two-star Dou Zong.
• Han Qiuling advised Xiao Mo to wait ten days before returning to hunt because the magical beasts would be on guard, and Xiao Mo agreed.
• Xiao Mo made a house with four bedrooms in the System Space and reflected on his past life on Blue Star before going to sleep.
• Wang Miaojun cooked a meal for Xiao Mo, Han Qiuling, and Lu Yixue, and Xiao Mo praised her cooking.
• Lu Yixue asked Xiao Mo to return with her to the Wild Magical Beast Mountain Range after their current business, and Xiao Mo agreed to visit her father.

Xiao Mo, Lu Yixue, and Wang Miaojun killed fifteen Rank Nine Magical Beasts and turned their remains into pills, but the pills did not help Xiao Mo break through to Three-Star Dou Zong. They rested in the system’s portable space, where Xiao Mo and Lu Yixue reaffirmed their hopes for the future.

• Xiao Mo, Lu Yixue, Wang Miaojun, and Han Qiuling set out to fight fifteen Rank Nine Magical Beasts after preparing Dou Zong Talismans.
• Xiao Mo, Lu Yixue, and Wang Miaojun used invisibility to launch a surprise attack, then fought the beasts until they killed all fifteen and collected their bodies and magic cores.
• Han Qiuling refined the remains into twelve cultivation pills, which Xiao Mo, Lu Yixue, and Wang Miaojun divided among themselves.
• Xiao Mo absorbed all four of his pills but felt no sign of a breakthrough, and Han Qiuling advised him to be patient.
• Xiao Mo and the others decided to rest in the system’s portable space while continuing to aim for Three-Star Dou Zong.
• Lu Yixue visited Xiao Mo at night, told him she felt no improvement from the pills, and listened as he reassured her about their future.

Xiao Mo, Wang Miaojun, and Lu Yixue battled a peak Rank Nine Magical Beast, using Dou Zong Talismans and Xiao Mo’s See-Through Talisman Paper to locate and destroy its hearts. After the beast restored its strength and attacked Wang Miaojun, she trapped it in a fire formation and urged Xiao Mo to finish it.

• Xiao Mo and the three women entered the beast’s territory and began a surprise attack, but a golden barrier blocked their strikes.
• Xiao Mo, Wang Miaojun, and Lu Yixue used Dou Zong Talismans and fought the beast until Xiao Mo shattered one heart with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, only for it to keep fighting.
• Lu Yixue realized the beast had multiple hearts, and Xiao Mo used See-Through Talisman Paper to locate all four before the group resumed the battle.
• Xiao Mo used the Azure Dragon Saint Art to shatter two more hearts, then destroyed the third with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• The beast restored its peak strength by producing three golden hearts and charged at Wang Miaojun, who trapped it in a fire formation and told Xiao Mo to kill it.

After killing a peak Rank Nine Magical Beast, Xiao Mo and the others rested in the system's portable space while Han Qiuling refined it into pills. Xiao Mo later exchanged a Heaven Tier cultivation art and Dou Technique for Wang Miaojun, who mastered both through the system.

• Xiao Mo killed a peak Rank Nine Magical Beast with four strikes of Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, and Wang Miaojun collected its torso and magic core.
• Xiao Mo and the others hid in the portable space while Han Qiuling spent over twenty-five days refining the beast into six rank ten cultivation pills.
• Xiao Mo, Wang Miaojun, and Lu Yixue absorbed the pills, which helped consolidate their cultivation but did not bring them to Three-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Mo agreed with Lu Yixue that they would hunt more peak Rank Nine Magical Beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Mo exchanged the Demon-Transforming Illusion Art and Azure Spirit Nine Transformations for Wang Miaojun, who immediately mastered them through the system.

Xiao Mo and the three women rested in the system's portable space, then hunted peak Rank Nine Magical Beasts to obtain materials for cultivation pills. After killing another beast and absorbing its pills, Xiao Mo found three more peak Rank Nine Magical Beasts and prepared to attack them.

• Xiao Mo and the three women absorbed pills in the system's portable space but failed to break through to Three-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Mo and the three women rested for fifteen days, then found and swiftly killed a peak Rank Nine Magical Beast before fleeing the bloodied area.
• Han Qiuling refined the beast into six cultivation pills, which Xiao Mo, Wang Miaojun, and Lu Yixue began absorbing.
• After resting for over ten days, Xiao Mo used the system's divine sense to locate three peak Rank Nine Magical Beasts.
• Xiao Mo, Wang Miaojun, and Lu Yixue prepared to launch a surprise attack, confident they could fight using their Dou Zong Talismans and abilities.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun and Lu Yixue killed three Peak Rank Nine Magical Beasts, then retreated to the system's portable space to recover. After resting, Xiao Mo heard Han Qiuling describe the Central Plains Continent's formidable cultivators and remind him of two principles for becoming a peerless expert.

• Xiao Mo, Wang Miaojun, and Lu Yixue battled three Peak Rank Nine Magical Beasts, and Xiao Mo killed two with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath before killing the last with the Azure Dragon Saint Art.
• The group collected the beasts' torsos and magic cores and escaped before more than a dozen Peak Rank Nine Magical Beasts arrived and vowed to capture the humans next time.
• Xiao Mo returned to the system's portable space, exhausted, and slept while Wang Miaojun, Lu Yixue, and Han Qiuling rested.
• After waking, Xiao Mo asked Han Qiuling about the Central Plains Continent, and she explained that even Two-Star Dou Zong experts were bottom-tier figures there.
• Han Qiuling reminded Xiao Mo that mastering the relationship between risk and reward and avoiding even the smallest error would help him become a peerless expert.

Xiao Mo and his companions prepared to attack a stronghold of ten peak Rank Nine Magical Beasts with Han Qiuling's help. They began their assault by killing one beast, alerting the others to the humans who had been hunting them.

• Han Qiuling told Xiao Mo to take risks, pay attention to details, and follow his own cultivation path, revealing that her former realm was Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign.
• Xiao Mo and his companions rested in the system's portable space for more than ten days, then found a stronghold of ten peak Rank Nine Magical Beasts.
• Wang Miaojun and Lu Yixue warned that attacking the stronghold was dangerous, so Xiao Mo asked Han Qiuling to help them.
• Han Qiuling gave Wang Miaojun and Lu Yixue twenty Dou Zong Talismans each and promised to support and protect the group.
• Xiao Mo, Wang Miaojun, and Lu Yixue used Dou Zong Talismans to reach Peak Dou Zong, then killed one peak Rank Nine Magical Beast in a simultaneous attack.
• A Rank Nine Magical Beast that had taken human form shouted that the attackers were the humans slaughtering Rank Nine Magical Beasts.