Chapter Summaries

Long Xiao discovered that Dao Slayer had matured after swallowing the Dragon-Holding Essence and could appear as a woman, leading Medusa and Bai Ling'er to mistake their reunion for an affair. After explaining the sword spirit’s nature and power, Long Xiao left with Bai Ling'er to wash and cultivate.

• Long Xiao woke to find an unfamiliar woman embracing him and learned she was Dao Slayer, who had matured after swallowing the Dragon-Holding Essence.
• Medusa, Bai Ling'er, and Xiao Yi Xian entered and misunderstood the scene, but Long Xiao explained Dao Slayer was his sword spirit.
• Dao Slayer changed back into her sword form when Long Xiao ordered her to, and he explained the incantation that controlled her.
• Long Xiao told Medusa and Bai Ling'er that Dao Slayer could eventually sever any Great Dao but risked deadly backlash if drawn before he reached the saint realm.
• Medusa told Long Xiao to discipline Dao Slayer and put her away during cultivation, and Bai Ling'er invited him to the Spirit Pool to wash.

Gu Xiu arrived in the Central Plains to seek the Evil Keyboard Immortal’s techniques and take control of the world’s impending crisis, while Chu Yuxuan and Xia Yun Yun searched for Long Xiao and prepared to confront Nine Nether. Three days later, Long Xiao traveled toward the Central Plains with four companions, where Bai Ling'er introduced him to a novel by a famous literary master.

• Gu Xiu entered the Central Plains with Ancient Demon and announced his intention to obtain the Evil Keyboard Immortal’s techniques and take over the situation.
• Fei Tian interrogated Xiao Huohuo and Curly, but Chu Yuxuan and Xia Yun Yun ordered him to send the captives to the East Pavilion as honored guests.
• Chu Yuxuan and Xia Yun Yun discussed their search for Nine Nether and looked forward to reuniting with Long Xiao and Ling'er.
• Long Xiao traveled toward the Central Plains aboard a Flying Boat with Medusa, Bai Ling'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Dao Slayer.
• Medusa took Long Xiao’s novel, and Bai Ling'er recognized it as a work by the Literary Sage Heavenly Palace’s Neither Black nor White.

Long Xiao's prank in the Spirit Pool angered Medusa, who trapped him in an illusion of a ruined Dou* Continent and a catastrophic war. He woke with fragments of the vision and clung to Medusa, then the group reached the Central Plains.

• Long Xiao turned the Spirit Pool into a hotpot, tasted the water, and accidentally told Medusa he had made stewed snake soup.
• Medusa transformed into a Nine-Colored Giant Serpent, but Long Xiao sealed her with a talisman before she could attack him.
• Medusa used Abyssal Gaze to trap Long Xiao in an illusion where the Dou* Continent lay in ruins and she died in his arms.
• In the illusion, Hun Tiandi faced three Nine Nether Dou Di experts while Long Xiao and his companions were gravely wounded inside an array.
• Long Xiao awoke with only fragments of the vision, embraced Medusa, and the group reached the Central Plains three days later.

Long Xiao’s group reached the Northern Region by mistake, then attacked the Wind Thunder Pavilion to greet Chu Yuxuan. The chapter ended with Chu Yuxuan rushing out in fury while Xia Yun Yun remained in his room.

• Long Xiao discovered that Dao Slayer had led the group to the Northern Region and spanked her while lecturing her about respecting him as head of the household.
• Bai Ling'er suggested visiting the Wind Thunder Pavilion, and Long Xiao agreed before spotting a snake demon named Xia Mang blocking their way.
• Dao Slayer killed Xia Mang with a Sword Ray, and Xiao Yi Xian took his body to use as medicine.
• Dao Slayer claimed she could easily defeat five opponents as strong as Long Xiao, prompting him to grumble while acknowledging her strength.
• Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er combined golden flames and wind to attack Thunder Mountain, where Xiao Huohuo and Curly recognized the familiar aura.
• Chu Yuxuan charged out and angrily cursed Long Xiao for arriving while he was with Xia Yun Yun.

Long Xiao and Chu Yuxuan battled in Thunder Mountain’s formation, then Bai Ling'er and Xia Yun Yun joined the fight and revealed their divine bodies. The clash continued after Long Xiao broke Xia Yun Yun’s blinding technique, with no victor yet.

• Long Xiao raised a Battlefield Formation over Thunder Mountain and began fighting Chu Yuxuan while Medusa protected the people below.
• Long Xiao and Chu Yuxuan revealed their divine bodies and exchanged attacks without either gaining the advantage.
• Bai Ling'er joined the battle and pressured Chu Yuxuan with her speed, prompting him to call Xia Yun Yun for help.
• Xia Yun Yun revealed her myriad laws light body and blinded everyone with Ten Directions Radiance.
• Xia Yun Yun attacked Long Xiao from behind, but he blocked her palm and then used Extinction Immortal Eye to break her technique and restore everyone’s sight.

Long Xiao, Bai Ling'er, Chu Yuxuan, and Xia Yun Yun fought with increasingly powerful techniques until Xia Yun Yun used the Light Sword Casket to defeat Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er. After the battle, the friends reunited, and Long Xiao and Chu Yuxuan secretly discussed visiting a brothel while Medusa listened from above.

• Xia Yun Yun, Bai Ling'er, Chu Yuxuan, and Long Xiao gathered light, wind, lightning, and flame energy to prepare their attacks.
• Long Xiao and Chu Yuxuan created Fire and Thunder Lotuses, whose collision filled the battlefield with a powerful explosion.
• Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er teamed up to strike Chu Yuxuan with Dragon Phoenix Heaven's Lament, sending him crashing into Thunder Mountain.
• Xia Yun Yun opened the Light Sword Casket and used three Light Swords to defeat Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er.
• Xia Yun Yun embraced Bai Ling'er, while Chu Yuxuan praised Long Xiao's strength and suggested they visit a brothel.
• Long Xiao and Chu Yuxuan switched to coded speech to discuss their plans, unaware that Medusa could hear them from the Flying Boat.

Long Xiao reunited with Chu Yuxuan and gathered his companions for a feast, where they discussed the coming threat from the Nine Nether forces and their plans to defend the Dou Continent. The celebration ended with Long Xiao tricking Bai Ling'er and Medusa into sharing his room, where Medusa punished his suggestive teasing.

• Chu Yuxuan reunited with Long Xiao, learned how Long Xiao had taken over the Wind Thunder Pavilion, and met Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others.
• Xia Yun Yun accepted Bai Ling'er's relationship with Shasha and offered to show Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian around.
• At the feast, Long Xiao and his companions discussed the Nine Nether threat, and Xiao Huohuo and Curly vowed to help protect their homeland.
• Long Xiao gave Curly a bottle of essence blood from a powerful lioness, while Xiao Yi Xian decided to help with the dangerous situation.
• Long Xiao tricked Bai Ling'er and Medusa into returning to his room, then asked them to massage him.
• Long Xiao teased Medusa by offering her something tasty, and she twisted his thigh in response.

Long Xiao succumbed to the Undead Blood Curse and attacked Bai Ling'er and Medusa, who let him drink her blood to keep him alive. In the Heaven Realm, Long Jian learned the curse could only be undone by the Undead Clan’s holy maiden, who offered a temporary remedy before ending their bond.

• A silver-haired woman in the Undead Abyss briefly awoke with blood-red eyes before falling back into a coma.
• Long Xiao’s curse mark activated, driving him to demand blood and attack Bai Ling'er and Medusa.
• Medusa sent Bai Ling'er away and let Long Xiao drain her blood, urging him to hold on for their unborn child.
• Long Jian spoke with the Undead Clan’s holy maiden, who revealed that Long Xiao had triggered the Undead Blood Curse.
• The holy maiden told Long Jian that the Upper Chapter of the Clear-Speech Heart Mantra could suppress the curse temporarily, then walked deeper into the formation.

After Long Xiao recovered from the Curse Seal’s outburst, the Life Goddess descended at the Wind Thunder Pavilion and summoned him, apparently to address his condition. Her arrival left his companions bewildered, and he vanished with her before anyone could ask questions.

• Long Xiao regained his senses, healed Medusa with Water of Life, and reassured her and Bai Ling'er after the Curse Seal attack.
• Long Xiao promised Medusa and Bai Ling'er a grand wedding when they returned to the Heaven Realm, though he remained concerned the Curse Seal might flare up again.
• A spatial storm opened above the Wind Thunder Pavilion, and the Life Goddess appeared in the form of a green-robed woman.
• Long Xiao, Chu Yuxuan, Bai Ling'er, Xia Yun Yun, Medusa, Xiao Huohuo, Curly, and the Pavilion’s residents knelt before the Goddess.
• The Life Goddess told Long Xiao that she had come for him, then vanished with him before the others could question them.
• Bai Ling'er identified the visitor as the Life Goddess, an elder of the Heaven Clan who had cared for them when they were young.

The Life Goddess explained that Long Xiao’s Undead Blood Curse came from the Flower of the Undead and gave him a Life Mark to prevent it from flaring up. She also revealed his father’s history with the Undead Clan, leaving Long Xiao wondering whether the silver-haired woman in the Crystal Coffin belonged to them.

• Long Xiao woke in the Life Goddess’s small world, where she reassured him about his abilities but said she had not removed his curse seal.
• The Life Goddess explained that the Undead Blood Curse originated with the Flower of the Undead and placed a Life Mark inside Long Xiao to keep the curse from flaring up.
• Long Xiao told the Life Goddess how he had acquired the curse, and she said he shared his father’s karmic bond with the Undead Clan.
• The Life Goddess recounted how Long Xiao’s father fell in love with the Undead Clan’s Saintess, how the clan invaded the Heaven Realm, and how the relationship ended amid war and political conflict.
• Long Xiao wondered whether the people imprisoned beneath the God-Suppressing Tower and the silver-haired woman in the Crystal Coffin were members of the Undead Clan.

The Life Goddess gave Long Xiao a Leaf of Life before leaving, and Long Xiao later summoned Xiao Huohuo to explain the crude method for restoring Yao Lao’s body. The chapter ended after Xiao Huohuo described the procedure to Long Xiao.

• The Life Goddess gave Long Xiao a Leaf of Life that allowed him to control the space within it, then vanished into his body.
• Long Xiao returned to the Wind Thunder Pavilion and told Chu Yuxuan that the Goddess had granted him another opportunity.
• Xiao Huohuo reflected on his longing for Xun'er and learned from Yao Lao that restoring his body required a Dou Zong corpse, three heavenly flames, and the essence blood of a seventh-rank magical beast.
• Xiao Huohuo arrived for breakfast, ate a steamed bun Bai Ling'er had made for Long Xiao, and felt its powerful effects overwhelm him.
• Long Xiao asked Xiao Huohuo about the crude method for restoring Yao Lao, and Xiao Huohuo explained the procedure.

Long Xiao used rare treasures and a secret method to help Yao Lao begin refining a body, then learned Medusa was experiencing a yearly bout of heat caused by an imperfection in her soul fusion. Just as he prepared to stay with her, Bai Ling'er summoned him to receive visitors from the Pill Tower.

• Long Xiao brought out the Golden Light Wandering Dragon Cauldron and rare medicinal treasures, then told Yao Lao to enter the medicinal broth and absorb their energy.
• Yao Lao endured the painful process as Long Xiao sealed the cauldron and left him to gather energy inside.
• Long Xiao tried to comfort Medusa, but she pushed him away and told him to leave.
• Long Xiao used the Extinction Immortal Eye and consulted the Encyclopedia, learning that Medusa's soul fusion caused her to go into heat for half a day each year.
• Bai Ling'er told Long Xiao that Song Qing and another Pill Tower visitor had arrived, and Long Xiao left to receive them when he heard a tall, gorgeous woman was with them.

Long Xiao humiliated Song Qing and impressed Cao Ying with his alchemy, then had Song Qing imprisoned at the Wind Thunder Pavilion. He reconciled with Medusa and spent seven days and seven nights with her.

• Long Xiao dismissed Song Qing’s status and slapped him for staring at Bai Ling'er, then demonstrated Cauldronless Alchemy by refining a Peak Seventh-Tier Pill.
• Cao Ying accepted Long Xiao’s Jade Pendant and wind-thunder energy, while Song Qing urged her to leave.
• Long Xiao ordered Song Qing detained so the Pill Tower would have to ransom him, and Thunder Venerable took him to the Prison.
• Long Xiao kissed Bai Ling'er, then went to Medusa and comforted her after she threw a pillow at him.
• Long Xiao sent Dao Slayer to guard the door and spent seven days and seven nights with Medusa.

Long Xiao recovered from his exhausting days with Medusa and Bai Ling'er as Yao Lao emerged from the Golden Light Wandering Dragon Cauldron reborn in a powerful Yao Ling body. Yao Lao celebrated his return and learned that his new physique made him a prized target, while the group teased him about his many romantic partners.

• After seven days and nights with Medusa, Long Xiao rested while Dao Slayer and Bai Ling'er tended to him, then he sent Dao Slayer away to be alone with Bai Ling'er.
• Yao Lao absorbed the cauldron's medicinal ingredients, formed a body, and emerged as a one-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Huohuo praised his teacher, and Yao Lao thanked Long Xiao for giving him a new lease on life.
• Long Xiao explained that Yao Lao had a king-quality Yao Ling body whose blood and body could be used as medicine, and that it could evolve into an emperor body with a woeful poison body.
• Yao Lao boasted about returning as the continent's number one Alchemist and lamented the fate of his many beauties, prompting the others to compare their romantic lives and tease him.

Long Xiao planned to gather the Central Region’s factions while Wu Ying took control of nearly all the Soul Hall’s branch halls. At the Wind Thunder Pavilion, Long Xiao received Pill Tower Elder Qiu Ling and Cao Ying, whose misunderstanding of his intentions ended in an argument.

• Long Xiao told Chu Yuxuan he planned to establish a faction in the Central Region and unite the ancient clans, then contacted Wu Ying, who reported controlling every Soul Hall branch hall and its Heavenly Venerates except those at the main hall.
• Long Xiao ordered Wu Ying to gather his followers in the Central Plains and wait for instructions after Wu Ying admitted he had failed to capture Nine Nether’s group.
• Cao Ying told Qiu Ling that Song Qing had abused his name and been detained by the Wind Thunder Pavilion, so Qiu Ling decided to bring gifts and apologize.
• Xuan Kongzi appeared at the Pill Tower and warned Qiu Ling that the Wind Thunder Pavilion had become powerful, then Qiu Ling and Cao Ying visited the pavilion the next morning.
• Long Xiao told Qiu Ling he had a matter to discuss with the Pill Tower, but Qiu Ling assumed he meant to claim Cao Ying; Cao Ying said she was willing, and Long Xiao rebuked them for the misunderstanding.

Long Xiao forced the Pill Tower to grant the Wind Thunder Pavilion a large plot of land in Sacred Pill City by revealing Medusa’s power as the Nine-Colored Empress. Meanwhile, Gu Xiu prepared the Nine Nether army in the Xiao Realm and chose the Soul Clan as its first target.

• Long Xiao demanded a plot of land in Sacred Pill City, and Xuan Kongzi agreed after Long Xiao revealed his strength.
• Medusa demonstrated her Dou Di Space, convincing Xuan Kongzi, Qiu Ling, and Cao Ying to keep her identity secret and follow Long Xiao’s instructions.
• Long Xiao showed Medusa a Ninth Grade Golden Pill and said he planned to use it to stir conflict among the continent’s powers.
• In the Xiao Realm, Gu Xiu learned that thirty-one saint realm powerhouses had arrived and decided to wait for more troops before acting.
• Gu Xiu agreed to attack the Soul Clan, explaining that he disliked the name Hun Tiandi.

Heavenly World opened in Sacred Pill City, drawing the five great families and the Pill Tower’s three Presidents. Long Xiao welcomed the guests and began the ceremony with a dance by Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Bai Ling'er, and Xia Yun Yun, leaving the crowd spellbound.

• Xuan Kongzi confirmed that the five great families had been invited to Heavenly World’s opening, and he set out with Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi.
• Xiao Huohuo and Curly welcomed the arriving guests, including the five great families and the three Pill Tower Presidents.
• Xiao Huohuo led the guests inside, where Xuan Kongzi warned everyone to keep their youngsters from causing trouble.
• Long Xiao introduced himself as Heavenly World’s owner and began the opening ceremony.
• Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Bai Ling'er, and Xia Yun Yun performed a dance that captivated the guests.

Long Xiao introduced Heavenly World's facilities and revealed a Ninth Grade Golden Pill, announcing that he would auction it in seven days. The announcement left the guests stunned and poised to spread news that could shake the Central Plains and the Dou Continent.

• After the dance, Long Xiao embraced Medusa and Bai Ling'er and declared that the four great beauties belonged to him.
• Long Xiao described Heavenly World's banquet hall, private rooms, entertainment area, auction hall, and accommodations.
• Medusa opened a sealed box and revealed a Ninth Grade Golden Pill whose aura shocked the guests, including Xuan Kongzi and his companions.
• Long Xiao asked the guests to spread word that he would auction the pill at Heavenly World in seven days.

The Heavenly Underworld Old Demon tried to claim Long Xiao’s Ninth Grade Golden Pill, but Yao Chen returned and revealed strength that stunned the Pill Tower and its guests. The chapter left Yao Chen facing the Old Demon after rescuing Xuan Yi.

• The Heavenly Underworld Old Demon arrived with the Heavenly Underworld Sect and demanded Long Xiao hand over the Ninth Grade Golden Pill.
• Long Xiao refused, and the Old Demon attacked him despite the Pill Tower’s silence.
• Xuan Yi intervened but was injured and sent flying by the Old Demon.
• Yao Chen appeared, caught Xuan Yi, and challenged the Old Demon over their past grievances.
• Yao Chen effortlessly broke the Old Demon’s attack, leaving the onlookers shocked by his apparent strength as the Medicine Saint.

Yao Chen returned and confronted the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon, but the battle revealed that the Heavenly Underworld Sect had colluded with Nine Nether. Long Xiao identified the attackers as people from Dead Soul Hell, and the banquet ended with Long Xiao warning that other Central Plains factions might also have been infiltrated.

• Yao Chen attacked the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon with the bone spirit cold flame and sent him crashing to the floor.
• The Heavenly Underworld Old Demon begged a disguised Nine Nether disciple for help, but the disciple kicked him away and fought Long Xiao and Yao Chen.
• Medusa pinned the Nine Nether powerhouse and subdued guests who had been controlled into attempting to detonate themselves.
• Long Xiao identified the attackers as people from Dead Soul Hell and warned Bai Ling'er and Xia Yun Yun that other factions might have been infiltrated.
• Long Xiao ended the banquet, told Xuan Kongzi that he would explain everything in seven days, and asked the guests to spread word of the auction.