Chapter Summaries

Queen Medusa left Demon Cloud City for the Jia Ma Empire after learning that a mysterious faction was stirring up trouble against the Snake-People Tribe. At Cloudsplit Canyon, Heavenly Fire Venerable faced a Soul Hall expert as the surrounding empires joined the attack, leaving Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong badly outnumbered.

• Queen Medusa emerged from seclusion, heard of the threats against the Snake-People Tribe, and decided to go to the Jia Ma Empire while the elders guarded Demon Cloud City.
• Chen Xuan distributed Energy Crystals to the elders, and Gu He, Yue Mei, and the other leaders advanced before Chen Xuan departed for the Jia Ma Empire.
• After Chen Xuan left, hidden experts began a plan to kill Queen Medusa and destroy the Snake-People Tribe.
• At Cloudsplit Canyon, Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong assessed the enemy forces and warned that the Black-Robed Man and the Four-Star Dou Zong Poison Master posed the greatest threats.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable shattered the Black-Robed Man's Soul Chains and struck him with a flaming lion, but the man recovered and revealed that he belonged to Soul Hall.
• The Black-Robed Man ordered the enemy forces to attack together, and their combined forces surrounded Jia Xingtian, Hai Bodong, and Heavenly Fire Venerable.

Chen Xuan arrived to face the Soul Hall’s forces, defeated their allies, and offered Xiao Yi Xian a way to survive her Woeful Poison Body in exchange for her submission. As the Soul Hall’s Black-Robed Man called for help, a genuine Soul Hall Venerable appeared, threatening Chen Xuan and the others.

• Chen Xuan revealed Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body and froze her with spatial power, prompting the Soul Hall’s Black-Robed Man to recognize Chen Xuan’s near-Dou Zun strength.
• The Mulan Three Elders fled in different directions, but Chen Xuan pursued and killed all three with spatial power.
• Chen Xuan imprisoned Luo Yantian and handed him to Heavenly Fire Venerable as a potential body for his resurrection.
• Chen Xuan promised to cure Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body if she submitted, and she chose to join him.
• The Soul Hall’s Black-Robed Man summoned a Soul Hall Venerable, who arrived and took interest in Chen Xuan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Heavenly Fire Venerable.

Chen Xuan fought the newly arrived Ghost Spirit Old Man, a Soul Hall One-Star Dou Zun, but his attacks failed to overcome the vast gap in their strength. After healing from a devastating blow, Chen Xuan began forming the hand seals for the Eight Gates Technique, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Luo Yantian gloated when the Ghost Spirit Old Man arrived, while the Heavenly Fire Venerable explained that the Soul Hall expert was a One-Star Dou Zun and Chen Xuan was only half-step Dou Zun.
• Chen Xuan sent the Heavenly Fire Venerable, Jia Xingtian, Hai Bodong, and Xiao Yi Xian away before dodging the Ghost Spirit Old Man's spatial attack.
• Chen Xuan attacked with the fused Emperor Seal Art and Azure Dragon Break, but the Ghost Spirit Old Man shattered both and wounded him severely.
• Chen Xuan swallowed a Life-Restoring Pill and healed completely, then began forming seals for the Eight Gates Technique.

Chen Xuan faced the Soul Hall’s newly arrived Ghost Spirit Old Man, a One-Star Dou Zun, and was badly injured despite unleashing the Emperor Seal Art and other powerful attacks. After healing with a Life-Restoring Pill, Chen Xuan began forming the Eight Gates Technique’s hand seals, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Luo Yantian celebrated the Ghost Spirit Old Man’s arrival, while the Heavenly Fire Venerable explained that Chen Xuan was only half-step Dou Zun but might still have a chance against the newly advanced One-Star Dou Zun.
• Chen Xuan told Jia Xingtian, Hai Bodong, Xiao Yi Xian, and the Heavenly Fire Venerable to retreat before the Ghost Spirit Old Man attacked and shattered space with a strike Chen Xuan evaded.
• Chen Xuan fought the Ghost Spirit Old Man at close range, then combined the three seals of the Emperor Seal Art and followed with Azure Dragon Break, but both attacks failed against the Ghost Spirit Old Man’s gray palm.
• The Ghost Spirit Old Man’s palm struck Chen Xuan into the ground and left him badly wounded, but Chen Xuan swallowed a Life-Restoring Pill and quickly recovered.
• Chen Xuan began forming the hand seals of the Eight Gates Technique, prompting Hai Bodong to recognize the secret art.

Chen Xuan endured Ghost Spirit Old Man’s power-up to Peak Two-Star Dou Zun and blocked his attacks, then began unleashing a Heaven-Rank Dou Technique. The technique’s gathering power shattered the surrounding void and triggered a heaven-and-earth phenomenon, leaving the observers stunned.

• Ghost Spirit Old Man swallowed a Blood-Red Pill, recovered from his injuries, and used a secret technique to raise his strength to Peak Two-Star Dou Zun.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable warned Hai Bodong and Jia Xingtian to prepare to help Chen Xuan if she could not defeat Ghost Spirit Old Man.
• Ghost Spirit Old Man attacked Chen Xuan, but Chen Xuan blocked and canceled out his strike with her own energy.
• Ghost Spirit Old Man unleashed a dark storm with a powerful Dou Technique, while Chen Xuan summoned a black dragon with the Fangtian Painted Halberd.
• Hai Bodong urged the others to retreat as natural energy flooded toward Chen Xuan and the void began to shatter.
• Chen Xuan’s Heaven-Rank Dou Technique gathered power beneath dark clouds and lightning, producing a heaven-and-earth phenomenon.

Chen Xuan killed the Soul Hall's Ghost Spirit Old Man with a Heaven-Rank Dou Technique and stopped another Soul Hall expert from self-detonating, securing the Jia Ma Empire's victory. After leaving Jia Xingtian to handle the neighboring empires, Chen Xuan and the others departed for the Black-Corner Region, while Yun Shan accepted that the Misty Cloud Sect could no longer challenge Queen Medusa's power.

• Queen Medusa's Heaven-Rank Dou Technique overwhelmed the Ghost Spirit Old Man's Void Yin-Yang Palm and killed him with a single strike.
• Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, the Heavenly Fire Venerable, and Xiao Yi Xian surrounded the remaining Soul Hall Protector, who tried to kill them by self-detonating.
• Chen Xuan froze the surrounding space and sent the Soul Hall Protector's explosion into a spatial vortex, saving the others.
• Chen Xuan told Jia Xingtian to take charge of the neighboring empires, then set out with Jia Xingtian, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others for the Black-Corner Region after resting three days.
• Yun Shan handed control of the Misty Cloud Sect back to Yun Yun after learning that Queen Medusa had slain a Dou Zun expert.

Han Feng and the Soul Hall attacked Demon Cloud City while Queen Medusa was away, revealing a plot to capture Yao Chen. Little Scale severely wounded Han Feng, but the Gold Protector confronted Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, leaving them facing the Soul Hall without a clear escape.

• Han Feng confronted Great Elder Snake Ji and the Snake-People Tribe with Gu He, the Gold and Silver Elders, and other defenders as the Soul Hall's five Dou Zong experts emerged from black mist.
• Han Feng revealed that he had lured Queen Medusa away and claimed a powerful ally in the Jia Ma Empire would kill her, while the Soul Hall demanded that he help capture Yao Chen.
• Han Feng identified Xiao Yan and Yao Chen inside Demon Cloud City, and the Gold Protector assigned the Silver Protector to capture Yao Chen while planning to seize Little Scale.
• Little Scale struck Han Feng with a wave of her hand, hurling him into the mountains and revealing that she possessed strength around the Seven-Star Dou Zong realm.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan to escape while he held off the Gold and Silver Protectors, but the Gold Protector appeared above the city and declared that both master and disciple would be captured.

The Gold Protector captured Yao Chen and took him through a Spatial Vortex, while Yao Chen sent the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to Gu He for Xiao Yan. As Han Feng tried to use Eagle Mountain Elder and Mo Tianxing against the Snake-People Tribe, they turned on him instead, and a familiar voice declared him a villain anyone had the right to slay.

• Yao Chen held off the Gold Protector long enough for Xiao Yan to escape Demon Cloud City and led their fight outside the city.
• The Gold Protector restrained Yao Chen with Soul Chains and captured him, but Yao Chen sent the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to Gu He before vanishing into a Spatial Vortex.
• Han Feng summoned Eagle Mountain Elder and Mo Tianxing to help attack the Snake-People Tribe, but the two veteran Dou Zong experts struck and pinned him down instead.
• Mo Tianxing and Eagle Mountain Elder explained that they opposed Han Feng’s plan to use the Soul Hall to dominate the Black-Corner Region.
• A familiar voice agreed that Han Feng was a villain anyone had the right to slay, leaving everyone shocked.

Chen Xuan returned with Queen Medusa and the Snake-People Tribe learned she had survived a Soul Hall Dou Zun and was nearing a breakthrough of her own. Xiao Yan arrived too late to save Yao Lao but received the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and learned that Yao Lao’s soul imprint remained within it, leaving hope for his teacher’s rescue.

• Queen Medusa returned, and Chen Xuan revealed that she had overcome a Soul Hall Dou Zun; the Silver Protector and three Soul Hall experts tried to flee but Chen Xuan killed them with Space Strangulation.
• Chen Xuan spared Mo Tianxing and Eagle Mountain Elder for choosing not to attack the Snake-People Tribe, imprisoned Han Feng, and rewarded the two men with pills.
• Chen Xuan praised Little Scale for protecting the tribe and discussed refining bodies for her and Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• Gu He revealed that Venerable Yao had left the Bone Spirit Cold Flame for Xiao Yan, who arrived with Qian Mu, Bai Lie, and Su Qian after Yao Lao had been captured.
• Chen Xuan gave Xiao Yan the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and explained that Yao Lao’s soul imprint inside it meant there was still a way to save him.

Chen Xuan arranged for Xiao Yan to use Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame to prepare for the Heavenly Fire Venerable’s resurrection, while learning that Little Scale would need a rare eighth-rank snake-type beast’s body. After Xiao Yan extracted the flame and Chen Xuan refined the required Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, the Heavenly Fire Venerable’s resurrection appeared close at hand.

• Chen Xuan offered Xiao Yan Han Feng and the Sea Heart Flame, asking him to help refine a new body for the Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• Xiao Yan explained the resurrection requirements and said Little Scale would need a body made from an eighth-rank snake-type magical beast; Chen Xuan accepted that the materials were unavailable for now.
• Chen Xuan warned Xiao Yan not to challenge the Soul Hall before reaching Dou Zun, then sent him to the dungeon to deal with Han Feng.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan emerged with Han Feng’s soul extracted and the Sea Heart Flame, while Chen Xuan kept Han Feng’s body to make a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Yan refined the Sea Heart Flame and rose to the peak of six-star Dou Emperor as Chen Xuan gathered materials and refined the seventh-grade Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable rejoiced as the pill’s powerful phenomenon signaled that his resurrection was near.

Mo Ya entered the Snake-People Tribe’s blood pool to heal his injuries and seek a breakthrough to Dou Zong, while Chen Xuan prepared Xiao Yan to treat Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body. After strengthening the tribe and entrusting its safety to the Heavenly Fire Venerable, Chen Xuan entered seclusion to break through to Dou Zun.

• Great Elder Snake Ji led Mo Tianxing and Mo Ya into the Snake-People Tribe’s blood pool, where she explained its power to aid breakthroughs and improve aptitude.
• Mo Ya began cultivating in the blood pool, and its energy started healing the damage from his failed attempt to break through to Dou Zong.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable explained the Poison Pill Method to Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Yan agreed to treat Xiao Yi Xian using the gathered materials and his three heavenly flames.
• Chen Xuan told the Heavenly Fire Venerable that he planned to enter seclusion to advance from Half-Step Dou Zun and entrusted Demon Cloud City’s safety to him.
• Chen Xuan distributed pills and medicinal materials to strengthen the Snake-People Tribe, allowed the Gold and Silver Elders to use the blood pool, and then entered seclusion.

Chen Xuan secluded himself beneath the Sacred Hall to awaken his Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline and gather the energy needed to break through to Dou Zun. After more than half a year, the energy vortex over Demon Cloud City vanished and a terrifying aura erupted, signaling that his breakthrough had begun.

• Chen Xuan entered seclusion in the Secret Chamber and absorbed the surrounding energy, causing a vast vortex to form above the Sacred Hall.
• Mo Ya emerged from the Blood Pool as a Dou Zong, while Mo Tianxing warned him never to provoke the Snake-People Tribe; Xiao Yan decided to head for the Central Plains to rescue his teacher and father.
• Over the next half year, Yue Mei, Gu He, the Gold and Silver Elders, and other Snake-People Tribe fighters advanced in strength as Demon Cloud City grew into the Black-Corner Region's greatest city.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable sensed that the energy vortex was changing, while the Snake-People Tribe's experts gathered and watched it shrink away.
• A boundless aura erupted across Demon Cloud City after the vortex vanished, and its experts recognized the pressure that had accompanied the Black-Corner Region's sole Dou Zun breaking through.

After Queen Medusa broke through to Dou Zun, Chen Xuan returned from more than half a year of seclusion as a Three-Star Dou Zun and prepared to leave the Black-Corner Region for the Central Plains. He entrusted the Snake-People Tribe’s people with resources and responsibilities, then set his departure for three days later.

• The Snake-People Tribe and Demon Cloud City celebrated Queen Medusa’s breakthrough to Dou Zun, and Chen Xuan emerged from seclusion at Three-Star Dou Zun.
• Chen Xuan learned that Xiao Yi Xian had controlled her Woeful Poison Body and advanced to peak Six-Star Dou Zong.
• Chen Xuan told the assembled leaders that he would leave for the Central Plains because the Black-Corner Region could no longer support his rapid advancement.
• Chen Xuan gave Gu He a Ninth-Grade Alchemy Master’s notes and distributed Blood Essence Pills to the Snake-People Tribe’s elders and leaders.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable chose to remain for ten years, received a Heaven-Rank Dou Technique, and promised to protect the Snake-People Tribe.
• Chen Xuan announced that he would depart in three days.

Chen Xuan left Demon Cloud City and traveled to the Jia Ma Empire to assess its expansion and discuss how to support its vast territory. After learning that the Lion Nether Sect and the Heavenly Snake Mansion had approached Jia Xingtian about cooperation, he went to meet their representatives.

• Chen Xuan entrusted the Snake-People Tribe to Heavenly Fire Venerable, Yue Mei, Gu He, and the other experts before leaving Demon Cloud City.
• While traveling through a spatial passage, Chen Xuan discussed visiting the Jia Ma Empire with Queen Medusa and proposed building a space wormhole to connect the Black-Corner Region with the Central Plains.
• Chen Xuan arrived in the expanded Jia Ma Imperial Capital and praised Jia Xingtian for uniting the Four Great Empires and developing the city.
• Jia Xingtian told Chen Xuan that the Lion Nether Sect had sought cooperation instead of attacking, while the Heavenly Snake Mansion had also come to establish friendly relations.
• Chen Xuan learned that the two factions knew of his breakthrough to Dou Zun and the Snake-People Tribe's two Dou Zun experts, then went with Jia Xingtian to meet their representatives.

Queen Medusa oversaw trade agreements between the Jia Ma Empire, the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and the Lion Nether Sect, then inspected the empire’s growing military and rewarded Jia Xingtian with Sect Breaking Pills. The chapter ended with Yun Shan asking Queen Medusa to protect the Misty Cloud Sect from the Soul Hall.

• Queen Medusa arrived at the Great Hall, where the Heavenly Snake Mansion and Lion Nether Sect proposed trade cooperation with the Jia Ma Empire, and the three parties reached an agreement.
• After a week in seclusion, Queen Medusa inspected the empire’s army and sensed unusual energy near the forbidden grounds, where Yao Yue was cultivating at Four-Star Dou Emperor.
• Queen Medusa gave Jia Xingtian two Sect Breaking Pills and told him to seek aid from Demon Cloud City if powerful enemies threatened the empire.
• Yun Shan arrived and revealed that the Misty Cloud Sect would submit to Queen Medusa if she protected it from the Soul Hall.

Yun Shan sought Queen Medusa’s help against the Soul Hall, which had demanded souls in exchange for helping him reach Dou Zong, but Chen Xuan refused and made his survival a test of his choices. Back at the Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Shan chose to collect souls by attacking the Jia Ma Empire, just as an ominous voice answered him.

• Yun Shan admitted to Chen Xuan and Jia Xingtian that the Soul Hall had helped him break through and threatened to destroy the Misty Cloud Sect unless he collected powerful souls.
• Chen Xuan refused Yun Shan’s offer to place the Misty Cloud Sect under her command and said she would judge him by how he handled the crisis.
• Yun Shan returned to the Misty Cloud Sect and told Yun Yun that Queen Medusa had refused to help; Nalan Yanran also returned to stand with the sect.
• Elder Yun Lei proposed collecting souls by attacking the Jia Ma Empire, and Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran condemned the idea.
• Yun Shan overruled them and ordered the sect to follow Yun Lei’s proposal, calling the people’s lives worthless; a cold voice then rang out and frightened him.

Chen Xuan killed Yun Shan and let Yun Yun kill Vulture Protector, then warned the Misty Cloud Sect about the Soul Hall. Yun Yun disbanded the sect and left with Nalan Yanran, while Chen Xuan exposed and destroyed a fake Vulture Protector before departing.

• Chen Xuan killed Yun Shan in the Misty Cloud Sect hall, despite Yun Yun pleading for him to spare her teacher.
• Chen Xuan immobilized Vulture Protector, and Yun Yun asked to kill him herself; she struck him down with her Azure Longsword to avenge Yun Shan.
• Chen Xuan warned the Misty Cloud Sect that the Soul Hall might retaliate and left through a Spatial Vortex.
• Yun Yun announced that the Misty Cloud Sect was disbanded and left with Nalan Yanran.
• Chen Xuan revealed that Vulture Protector had only appeared to die, then burned him away with the green lotus core flame and truly departed.

Chen Xuan traveled from the Jia Ma Empire to Tianya City after receiving a map that showed the city’s space wormhole. He agreed to help the Luo Family repair it and was invited to an auction, where Queen Medusa planned to take the lead.

• Jia Xingtian gave Chen Xuan the materials he had gathered and a map of part of the Central Plains, and Chen Xuan chose to visit Tianya City.
• Yao Yue promised Chen Xuan she would keep training after he reminded her that Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran had also reached the Dou Emperor realm.
• Chen Xuan flew to Tianya City and learned from the scarred Luo Family Dou Emperor that spatial turbulence had damaged the city’s space wormhole.
• Chen Xuan agreed to help the Luo Family repair the wormhole in exchange for a reward and free use of it, then accepted their offer of lodging for the night.
• A woman in red invited Chen Xuan to the Luo Family inn’s auction, and Queen Medusa declared she would take charge while Chen Xuan reminded her to look for an Eighth-Tier Magic Core.

Queen Medusa attended the Luo Family auction in Tianya City, where she intimidated Ice River Valley after its young master insulted her and Chen Xuan explained the Central Plains’ major powers. The auction’s final item was an eighth-rank magical beast’s mummified corpse, and Chen Xuan told Medusa to buy it despite its missing magic core.

• Queen Medusa and Chen Xuan went to the auction, where Bingya of Ice River Valley provoked her and she forced him to his knees with her Dou Qi pressure.
• Elder Zhao apologized on Bingya’s behalf and offered an ice soul fruit, which Chen Xuan accepted before Medusa withdrew her pressure.
• The Luo Family began the auction, and Chen Xuan explained Ice River Valley and the other famous forces of the Central Plains to Medusa.
• Chen Xuan directed Medusa to bid on several high-tier medicinal materials as the auction progressed.
• The Luo Family presented the mummified corpse of an eighth-rank magical beast, and Chen Xuan confirmed that its magic core was gone.
• Chen Xuan told Medusa to buy the corpse because it still had other valuable parts.

At the Luo Family auction, Medusa and Chen Xuan acquired an eighth-rank magical beast’s corpse and a fragmentary map in exchange for a Barrier-Breaking Pill. The map pointed to dangerous ruins in the Skeleton Mountain Range of the Beast Region, setting the pair on a new lead.

• Medusa recognized that the corpse might contain eighth-rank blood essence, while the Luo Family explained that its magic core was missing and required an exchange of equal value.
• After several experts failed to meet the seller’s price, the Luo Family elder asked whether Chen Xuan’s group included an alchemist, and Medusa revealed her status by intimidating the hall.
• The One-Eyed Elder explained that he had offered the corpse to obtain a pill for breaking through to Dou Zun, and Medusa advised him that the exchange would require more than the corpse alone.
• The One-Eyed Elder offered a fragmentary ruins map alongside the corpse, and Medusa exchanged a Barrier-Breaking Pill for both.
• The One-Eyed Elder revealed that the ruins lay in the Skeleton Mountain Range of the Beast Region, and Chen Xuan verified the map before Medusa stored it and the corpse.