Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuan broke free of the Heaven's Path Library, surpassed the Emperor Lord realm, and killed the Ruthless One, restoring the God Realm. He then learned that Nie Yun, Luo Ruoxi's father, was the God Realm's Heaven's Path and had orchestrated Zhang Xuan's journey to test whether someone could transcend the world's limits.

• The Ruthless One explained how he could dissolve his soul contract, then overwhelmed Zhang Xuan, Luo Ruoxi, their allies, and the Emperor Lord of Sword God Heaven.
• Luo Ruoxi revealed that her father was Heaven's Path and that restoring him required reuniting Heaven's Flaw and Heaven's Order; Zhang Xuan instead brought her to the resurrected Master Kong.
• Master Kong proposed concentrating their power in Zhang Xuan, and he and Luo Ruoxi transferred their strength to him before the Ruthless One attacked the others.
• Zhang Xuan let the Ruthless One deliver his strongest strike, used the pendant's blood to separate the Heaven's Path Library from his soul, merged with his clone, and broke through the Emperor's Shackles.
• Zhang Xuan bound the Ruthless One with the world's emotions and destroyed him, then returned the Library to Heaven's Path and restored the God Realm.
• Nie Tong brought Zhang Xuan to Nie Yun, who revealed that he had created the God Realm, was Luo Ruoxi's father, and had arranged Zhang Xuan's transmigration to test whether someone could surpass the world's limits.

Chen Xuan overwhelmed Yi Tianya and Star-Picking Old Ghost with the Five Seals as One, forcing Star-Picking Old Ghost to summon the Soul Hall’s Ninth Heavenly Venerate. Xuan Kongzi intervened to protect Chen Xuan, and the Soul Hall group withdrew after warning him.

• Yi Tianya and Star-Picking Old Ghost unleashed their full strength, but Chen Xuan outmatched them and damaged the Heavenly Demon Puppet in the fighting.
• Chen Xuan combined the five seals of the Emperor Seal Art and annihilated Yi Tianya and Star-Picking Old Ghost’s joint attack, injuring them both.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost called for the Ninth Heavenly Venerate, who appeared with the power of an Eight-Star Dou Zun and attacked Chen Xuan.
• Xuan Kongzi appeared and erased the Ninth Heavenly Venerate’s attack, then challenged him to fight on Pill Tower territory.
• The Ninth Heavenly Venerate warned Chen Xuan before leaving through a Spatial Gate with Star-Picking Old Ghost and Yi Tianya.

Chen Xuan stayed at the Pill Tower after the Soul Hall's failed attempt to kill him, consolidating his Seven-Star Dou Zun cultivation and practicing an ancient soul method. Three months later, Old Ancestor Huoyun recovered his Dou Sheng strength after Xiao Yan refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and he and Xiao Yan were astonished by Chen Xuan's rapid advancement.

• Xuan Kongzi warned Chen Xuan about the Soul Hall and invited him to remain under the Pill Tower's protection.
• Chen Xuan entered seclusion, consolidated the two-star breakthrough he had gained from a pill, and began practicing the Soul Cultivation Method.
• After three months, Chen Xuan had learned the basics of the method and felt his soul power growing when he sensed a terrifying Dou Sheng aura.
• Chen Xuan recognized the aura as Old Ancestor Huoyun's and realized Xiao Yan had fully refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun announced that his injuries had healed and promised to help the Pill Tower if it went to war with the Soul Hall.
• Chen Xuan congratulated Old Ancestor Huoyun, who marveled at Chen Xuan's rise to Seven-Star Dou Zun; Chen Xuan and Xiao Yan were surprised by each other's progress.

Chen Xuan and Xiao Yan received offers from the Little Pill Tower, while its Second Elder revealed that the tower sought powerful allies against the Soul Hall. Xiao Yan recruited Queen Medusa to help rescue Yao Chen from a Soul Hall branch in the Dead Soul Mountain Range, and Chen Xuan set out after the rescuers gathered.

• The Little Pill Tower's Second Elder offered Chen Xuan a position as a Pill Tower Giant and Xiao Yan a Giant Candidate role, but Chen Xuan declined and Xiao Yan said he would consider it.
• The Second Elder explained that the Pill Tower feared the Soul Hall and hoped to recruit Chen Xuan because she had a strong chance of reaching the Dou Sheng realm.
• Queen Medusa agreed to help Xiao Yan rescue Yao Chen from a Soul Hall branch in the Dead Soul Mountain Range in exchange for ending their three prior conditions.
• Xiao Yan gathered allies, including Venerable Feng and Tang Zhen, and later informed Chen Xuan that the group was ready to depart.
• Chen Xuan finished cultivating his soul power and vanished from the courtyard, intent on defeating the Soul Hall experts guarding the branch.

Chen Xuan and Xiao Yan gathered allies and infiltrated the Soul Hall’s branch in the Dead Soul Mountain Range to rescue Yao Chen. After Zi Yan opened a path into the hidden space, Yao Chen sensed Chen Xuan and Queen Medusa’s presence as the ant swarm poured into the branch.

• Xuan Kongzi welcomed Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan, and their allies as they assembled at the Pill Tower to plan Yao Chen’s rescue.
• Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Xiong Zhan, Venerable Feng, Tang Zhen, and Iron Sword Venerable set out for the Dead Soul Mountain Range after agreeing on a plan.
• Chen Xuan subdued a Stone-Eating Ant Queen, which helped the group evade the Soul Hall’s beast sentries and reach the branch’s hidden space.
• Zi Yan opened a spatial rift into the branch, and Chen Xuan sent the ant swarm inside before the group followed.
• Yao Chen sensed Chen Xuan’s Spirit Realm aura and Queen Medusa’s presence while imprisoned in the Blackstone Giant Hall.

Chen Xuan and his allies stormed the Soul Hall branch to rescue Yao Chen, while Chen Xuan fought the Black and White Heavenly Venerables. As Xiao Yan pressed deeper into the hall, Chen Xuan began unleashing a Heaven-Rank Dou Technique and Star-Picking Old Ghost secretly called for help.

• Venerable Feng and the others attacked the Soul Hall Protectors, aided by Chen Xuan's nine Peak Dou Zong Road Puppets.
• The Purple-Robed Protector summoned Star-Picking Old Ghost and four others, after which Star-Picking Old Ghost called the Black and White Heavenly Venerables to confront Chen Xuan.
• Venerable Feng sent Xiao Yan to rescue Yao Chen while he and the others battled the Soul Hall's Venerable Elders.
• Chen Xuan fought the Black and White Heavenly Venerables, whose combined power rose to the Seven-Star Dou Zun Peak realm, but they still fell behind.
• Chen Xuan began the Heaven-Rank Dou Technique Heaven-Devour, and Star-Picking Old Ghost secretly crushed a Jade Token.

Chen Xuan defeated Yi Tianya and Star-Picking Old Ghost with the Emperor Seal Art, Five Seals as One, but the Soul Hall’s Ninth Heavenly Venerate arrived to intervene. Xuan Kongzi protected Chen Xuan, forcing the Soul Hall fighters to withdraw while warning that their conflict was not over.

• Yi Tianya reached Seven-Star Dou Zun Peak with the Blood Evil Art, while Star-Picking Old Ghost advanced to six-star dou zun, and both fought Chen Xuan at full strength.
• Chen Xuan overpowered Yi Tianya in combat, then faced both enemies’ combined attacks with the Emperor Seal Art, Five Seals as One, and severely injured them.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost summoned the Ninth Heavenly Venerate, whose arrival revealed strength at least at the peak of Eight-Star Dou Zun.
• The Ninth Heavenly Venerate attacked Chen Xuan, but Xuan Kongzi appeared and erased the attack, warning that the Pill Tower would stand against the Soul Hall.
• The Ninth Heavenly Venerate, Star-Picking Old Ghost, Yi Tianya, and the others departed through a Spatial Gate after the Ninth Heavenly Venerate threatened Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan defeated the Ninth Heavenly Venerate and stole the Soul Hall branch's accumulated soul origin before leaving. The Soul Hall Venerables returned to find the branch stripped bare, and the Fourth Heavenly Venerate arrived with the captured Ninth Heavenly Venerate to condemn them.

• The Ninth Heavenly Venerate sent the Black and White Heavenly Venerables, Star-Picking Old Ghost, and the other Venerables after the fleeing group, then fought Chen Xuan alone.
• Chen Xuan overpowered the Ninth Heavenly Venerate, who escaped through a spatial passage after sacrificing his right arm to avoid being pulled back.
• Chen Xuan gathered the branch's stored soul origin, searched the ruins for anything else, and departed.
• The Black and White Heavenly Venerables, Star-Picking Old Ghost, and the other Venerables returned, discovered the soul origin was gone, and found the Ninth Heavenly Venerate's arm.
• The Fourth Heavenly Venerate appeared holding the Ninth Heavenly Venerate and berated the Soul Hall Venerables for failing to stop Yao Chen's rescue and losing the soul origin.

After destroying a Soul Hall branch, Chen Xuan traveled toward the Northwest Continent and refined the captured soul origin in the Black Stone Mountain Range, advancing his soul to Spirit Realm Grand Perfection. He left with all eight Eighth-Tier Magic Cores gathered and planned to return to the Jia Ma Empire to explore a hidden space and move it to the Black-Corner Region.

• News spread that Chen Xuan and his allies had destroyed a Soul Hall branch and rescued Yao Chen, whose return strengthened the Starfall Pavilion.
• Chen Xuan traveled through space to the Black Stone Mountain Range and refined the Soul Hall's captured soul origin with the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Absorbing the purified soul origin raised Chen Xuan's soul power to Spirit Realm Grand Perfection and let him project his soul body hundreds of li away.
• Chen Xuan's soul body encountered an eighth-rank transformed magical beast, who recognized his immense soul power and respectfully asked his purpose.
• Chen Xuan returned to his physical body and decided to go back to the Jia Ma Empire with his eight Eighth-Tier Magic Cores to explore a hidden pocket space and relocate it to the Black-Corner Region.

Chen Xuan returned to the Black-Corner Region and found Demon Cloud City and the Sovereign King Hall greatly strengthened, but facing an advancing Lion Nether Sect. As the assembled leaders debated how to defend the region, Chen Xuan and Queen Medusa arrived, bringing their return to the crisis.

• Chen Xuan crossed the Black Domain Great Plains and learned that Demon Cloud City and the Sovereign King Hall had grown stronger while the Lion Nether Sect threatened the Black-Corner Region.
• Chen Xuan reached Demon Cloud City and found more than twenty Dou Zong experts gathered in the Sacred Hall, including Heavenly Fire Venerable, Xiao Yi Xian, and the little one, who had reached Dou Zun.
• Great Elder Snake Ji reported that Lion Nether Sect forces were massing and that Elder Qian and Elder Bai were struggling to hold the northwest front despite reinforcements.
• Xiao Yi Xian offered to join the battle, Yue Mei proposed using the Eight Gates Technique, and Heavenly Fire Venerable considered risking his life against Shi Tian.
• Chen Xuan and Queen Medusa appeared in the Sacred Hall, where the gathered leaders welcomed Queen Medusa's return.

Chen Xuan returned to the Sovereign King Hall and prepared its members to face the Lion Nether Sect, revealing that she had reached High-Rank Dou Zun and Eighth-Tier Alchemist levels. The chapter ended as Chen Xuan gave Qian Mu and Bai Lie Eighth-Tier Dou Zun-Breaking Pills with a fifty-percent chance of helping them break through.

• Chen Xuan told the Sovereign King Hall that the Lion Nether Sect remained a serious threat and promised to refine pills to strengthen its members.
• Shi Xuan confronted Qian Mu and Bai Lie at the border, but the two elders' combined strength made the Lion Nether Sect experts withdraw until reinforcements arrived.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable reached the border and sent Qian Mu and Bai Lie back to Demon Cloud City.
• Chen Xuan appeared before the assembled Sovereign King Hall members, who greeted her as their returned founder and heard her plan to strengthen them.
• Chen Xuan presented Qian Mu and Bai Lie with Eighth-Tier Dou Zun-Breaking Pills that offered a fifty-percent chance of reaching the Dou Zun Realm.

Chen Xuan secretly strengthened the Sovereign King Hall while the battle against the Lion Nether Sect escalated, and Qian Mu and Bai Lie broke through to Dou Zun. When Shi Tian’s forces faced the Hall’s experts, a devastating palm strike badly wounded the Lion Nether Sect’s leaders before a beautiful woman in red appeared.

• Chen Xuan promised Dou Zun-Breaking Pills to Hall members who reached Peak Dou Zong and refined pills to strengthen their forces while keeping his return secret.
• Over the following month, the Sovereign King Hall and the Lion Nether Sect fought a fierce battlefield stalemate as reinforcements arrived on both sides.
• Shi Tian arrived with six other Dou Zun experts and demanded that Heavenly Fire Venerable and the Hall’s forces submit.
• Qian Mu and Bai Lie appeared as newly advanced Dou Zun, while Qing Lin and the other Hall experts assembled to face the Lion Nether Sect.
• A sky-shrouding palm shattered Shi Tian’s saber, killed several Dou Zong experts, and severely injured Shi Tian and the other Dou Zun.
• A beautiful woman dressed in red appeared in the distant sky as Shi Tian demanded to know who had attacked him.

Chen Xuan faced the Soul Hall's Eighth Heavenly Venerate while the Sovereign King Hall and Lion Nether Sect fought below. After Chen Xuan overwhelmed the Eighth Heavenly Venerate, he self-destructed, and Chen Xuan contained the blast in a spatial cage, though the explosion devastated the battlefield and killed many fighters.

• Chen Xuan arrived as Shi Tian questioned Queen Medusa's strength, and the Soul Hall's Eighth Heavenly Venerate emerged and challenged her over the loss of the branch hall's soul origin.
• The Eighth Heavenly Venerate trapped Chen Xuan in a spatial cage while Shi Tian's forces attacked Heavenly Fire Venerable and the others; Yue Mei, Gu He, and Qing Lin opened all Eight Gates and joined the battle at Dou Zun strength.
• Chen Xuan broke through the spatial cage with his soul power, injured the Eighth Heavenly Venerate, and struck him with the Emperor Seal Art, forcing him out of a spatial passage.
• The Eighth Heavenly Venerate unleashed his full power and began to self-destruct, so Chen Xuan warned everyone to retreat and formed a spatial cage around the blast.
• The explosion killed many Lion Nether Sect Dou Zong experts and injured fighters on both sides, while Chen Xuan contained its energy and the survivors stared at the devastated battlefield.

Chen Xuan defeated the Lion Nether Sect and made its surviving experts serve the Sovereign King Hall, cementing the hall’s rise as the Northwest Continent’s new overlord. After strengthening the Snake-People Tribe and arranging new space wormholes, he left for the Jia Ma Empire to build one and investigate a spatial secret realm.

• Chen Xuan killed Shi Tian after the Eighth Heavenly Venerate’s self-detonation, then forced the Lion Nether Sect’s surviving experts to take Soul-Controlling Pills and serve the Sovereign King Hall.
• News of Queen Medusa’s victory spread across the Black-Corner Region and the Northwest Continent, drawing many outside experts and establishing the Sovereign King Hall as the region’s foremost faction.
• Chen Xuan refined more Soul-Controlling Pills, brought the Lion Nether Sect’s Dou Emperor and Dou Zong experts under control, and inspected and supplied the Snake-People Tribe.
• Chen Xuan gathered the Sovereign King Hall’s eleven Dou Zun experts and had them establish three teleportation arrays near Demon Cloud City, including routes toward the Jia Ma Empire and Black Stone City.
• Chen Xuan sent two Dou Zun experts to Black Stone City to complete a space wormhole, then left for the Jia Ma Empire with three mid-rank Dou Zun experts to build another wormhole and visit a spatial secret realm.

Chen Xuan returned to the Jia Ma Empire, rewarded Jia Xingtian, and completed a space wormhole linking the empire to Demon Cloud City. He then entered the independent world of the Dou Sheng ruins with Venerable Cold Sword, Venerable Gale, and Venerable Flash, and they began exploring amid powerful magic beasts.

• Chen Xuan and his three Dou Zun companions arrived in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, where Jia Xingtian and the imperial experts mistook them for hostile visitors until they recognized Chen Xuan as Queen Medusa.
• Chen Xuan praised Jia Xingtian for strengthening the empire and gave him a powerful pill.
• Chen Xuan and his companions spent three days completing a space wormhole between Jia Ma Holy City and Demon Cloud City, then ordered Jia Xingtian to guard it and keep it closed to the public.
• Jia Xingtian led Chen Xuan and the three Venerables to a stone stele in a guarded forbidden area, and Chen Xuan opened its spatial vortex.
• Chen Xuan and the Venerables entered an independent world believed to have been created by a Dou Sheng, where Chen Xuan warned them of powerful magic beasts.
• Chen Xuan killed a High-Rank Dou Zong magic beast with a surge of dark energy and led the others deeper into the world.

Queen Medusa sensed a bloodline connection deep within the mountains and led Chen Xuan and their allies to a Dou Saint ruin. After joining forces with the Golden Giant Ape and three other magical beasts to break the spatial restriction, the group rushed into the ruins.

• Queen Medusa sensed an aura linked to her bloodline and took control of Chen Xuan's body as they traveled toward the mountains' depths.
• Queen Medusa and her companions reached a valley protected by a powerful spatial restriction and encountered the Golden Giant Ape, who remembered their earlier theft of an Eighth-Tier Pill.
• The Nine Nether Profound Snake proposed that the two groups work together to break the restriction, and Queen Medusa agreed.
• The Golden Giant Ape and the other magical beasts attacked the restriction, then Queen Medusa unleashed a powerful strike that fractured it.
• The restriction shattered, and the Golden Giant Ape, Queen Medusa, Chen Xuan, and their companions rushed into the ruins.

Queen Medusa followed her bloodline through a freezing maze to the hidden heart of the Dou Saint ruins, where Saint Tongtian recognized her and gave her golden blood to transform her Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline. She began meditating as the inheritance took effect.

• Medusa identified the ruins as belonging to an Eight-Colored Heaven Reaching Python and let the Golden Giant Ape and his companions enter the palace ahead of her.
• Medusa revealed that the nine passages were false routes, sent Venerable Cold Sword and the others into them, and opened the true passage beneath the altar with her blood.
• Medusa followed her bloodline through the icy tunnels and reached a hall containing an enormous serpent skeleton and three glowing orbs.
• A powerful puppet stopped its attack when it sensed Medusa's Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline, then allowed her to enter.
• Saint Tongtian appeared, sent golden blood into Medusa to help her evolve into an Eight-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and entered her brow as she began meditating.

After a year of waiting outside the Dou Saint Ruins, Venerable Cold Sword and his companions witnessed Medusa emerge with an Eight-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline and Six-Revolution Dou Zun strength. Her transformation left the nearby Dou Zun experts and magical beasts awed by her overwhelming power.

• Saint Tongtian's soul aura vanished as Medusa continued cultivating inside the ruins, while Venerable Cold Sword, Venerable Gale, and their companion were expelled with lesser rewards.
• The Golden Giant Ape and three other Eighth-Rank Magical Beasts confronted Venerable Cold Sword's group outside the valley but withdrew without fighting.
• Venerable Cold Sword and his companions waited and cultivated for a year, with Venerable Cold Sword reaching Five-Star Dou Zun and the others nearing that level.
• Medusa's aura erupted from the valley, drawing the Golden Giant Ape and the other magical beasts as the spatial restriction disappeared.
• Medusa emerged in the form of an eight-colored serpent before returning to her human form, and Venerable Cold Sword's group bowed to her.
• Medusa revealed that her bloodline had advanced to that of an Eight-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and her strength had risen from Seven-Star Dou Zun to Six-Revolution Dou Zun.

After Medusa gained an Eight-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline and rose to Six-Revolution Dou Zun, she led her allies out of the ruins and brought four powerful magical beasts under her service. Back in Jia Ma, she used the Spatial Displacement Formation to move the entire city, though the chapter ended before its destination was confirmed.

• Medusa revealed that her new bloodline let her aspire to Six-Star Dou Sheng, while Chen Xuan warned that the Soul Hall remained a threat until she reached Dou Sheng.
• Medusa agreed to free the Golden Giant Ape and three other eighth-rank magical beasts in exchange for twenty years of service, then opened a spatial passage out of the ruins.
• Medusa and her companions returned to Jia Ma Holy City, where Jia Xingtian reported the Sovereign King Hall’s expansion across the Northwest Continent.
• After resting for three days, Medusa activated the Spatial Displacement Formation with eight eighth-rank magic cores to relocate the Dou Saint small world to the Black-Corner Region.
• A vast formation enveloped Jia Ma Holy City, a spatial vortex appeared, and the light and energy vanished as the sky cleared.

Queen Medusa and Chen Xuan moved Saint Tongtian’s small world into the Demon Blade Mountain Range and later visited Demon Cloud City, where Medusa reunited with Ya Fei. The chapter ended with Medusa recognizing that Ya Fei’s white rabbit might one day become a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill, while the rabbit trembled in fear of her.

• Medusa and the experts used the Spatial Displacement Formation to move Saint Tongtian’s small world into the Demon Blade Mountain Range and restricted access to Sovereign King Hall token holders.
• Chen Xuan and Medusa toured Demon Cloud City, where Medusa attracted a crowd before she slipped away and spotted the thriving Demon Cloud Auction House.
• Medusa entered the auction house and found Ya Fei managing it as its pavilion master, with the Dou Zong Old Yang serving her respectfully.
• Ya Fei welcomed the white rabbit and Little Purple, who argued over the rabbit stealing medicinal materials and admitted nothing about sneaking away from training.
• Medusa appeared before Ya Fei and Little Purple, praised their progress, and observed that the rabbit might eventually become a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill.