Chapter Summaries

Hun Changqing unexpectedly reunited with his ex-girlfriend Ya Fei in the imperial capital, where she clung to him and begged him to forgive her. After they left together and spent the night at a hotel, he explained why he had come to the city, and Ya Fei happily accepted his story.

• Ya Fei spotted Hun Changqing in the auction hall and rushed to embrace him, apologizing for their past argument and saying she could not live without him.
• Hun Changqing comforted Ya Fei and led her away to find somewhere private to talk, while Hai Bodong watched in confusion.
• At a hotel, Ya Fei nestled against Hun Changqing after they had sex and reproached him for coming to the imperial capital without telling her.
• Hun Changqing claimed he had come from the Snake-People Desert on business and planned to return to Wutan City to see Ya Fei.
• Ya Fei believed Hun Changqing and told him that he was the only gift she wanted.

Hun Changqing learned that Gu Xun'er had ordered the Wutan City Auction House destroyed while Ya Fei was away, and he remained conflicted about whether to separate from her. After Ya Fei left to host an auction in the Imperial Capital, Hun Changqing went to meet Hai Bodong, who warned Mittel Tengshan that Hun Changqing was at least a Dou Zong before someone’s presence interrupted them.

• Ya Fei told Hun Changqing that the Wutan City Auction House had been destroyed by an unknown expert, and he suspected Gu Xun'er had ordered it.
• The chapter revealed that Gu Xun'er had sent Ling Ying to destroy the auction house after Ya Fei escaped by visiting her family in the Imperial Capital.
• Hun Changqing persuaded Ya Fei to host the three-day auction, though she delayed leaving to spend more time with him.
• After Ya Fei left, Hun Changqing weighed his feelings for her against her limited cultivation talent and decided to let her remain in the Imperial Capital for now.
• Hun Changqing went to the Mittel Family meeting hall, where Hai Bodong warned Mittel Tengshan not to interfere with the black-robed man because he was at least a Dou Zong.
• Mittel Tengshan sensed an unusual presence in the hall and shouted for whoever was there to reveal themselves.

Hun Changqing visited the Mittel Auction House with Hai Bodong and drew the attention of the crowd with his intimidating aura. After learning that the two women arriving were Jia Xingtian’s granddaughters, Yao Ye and Yao Yue, he asked whether the Jia Ma Imperial Family had a longstanding problem he could resolve.

• Hun Changqing arrived at the Mittel hall, and Hai Bodong and Mittel Tengshan bowed to him.
• Hun Changqing told Hai Bodong to take him to the auction and proposed that Ya Fei take over leadership of the Mittel Family.
• Hun Changqing entered the auction house, silenced the crowd with his extreme yin aura, and went with Hai Bodong to a private room.
• Yao Ye and Yao Yue arrived at the auction house, and Hai Bodong identified them as Jia Xingtian’s granddaughters.
• Hun Changqing asked Hai Bodong whether the Jia Ma Imperial Family had a longstanding trouble he could help resolve.

Hun Changqing watched the auction and, disappointed by its offerings, left with Ya Fei. When Mu Zhan attacked him, Hun Changqing killed him with a casual slap and asked Hai Bodong what the young man had been.

• Hai Bodong told Hun Changqing about the sick Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast, and Hun Changqing considered offering to cure it in exchange for time with Jia Xingtian's granddaughters.
• Ya Fei led an unusually successful auction, but Hun Changqing found the items worthless and grew disappointed.
• After the auction, Yao Yue and Yao Ye discussed Mu Zhan's threat to anyone who approached Ya Fei, and Mu Zhan arrived at the auction house.
• Hun Changqing embraced Ya Fei and prepared to leave, but Mu Zhan attacked him from behind.
• Hun Changqing instinctively slapped Mu Zhan, reducing him to bloody mist, then asked Hai Bodong what had happened.

After Hun Changqing killed Mu Zhan, he dismissed warnings about the Mu Family and left with Ya Fei. Hai Bodong then negotiated with Jia Xingtian for Hun Changqing to heal the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast in exchange for the two princesses, and Hun Changqing arrived as the imperial family argued over the demand.

• Hun Changqing killed Mu Zhan, and Yao Yue and Yao Ye warned him that Mu Chen would seek revenge while offering him Imperial Family protection.
• Ya Fei explained that Mu Zhan had harassed her, but Hun Changqing dismissed the threat and left the auction house with her.
• Hai Bodong went to the Jia Ma Imperial Palace to arrange a deal between Hun Changqing and the two princesses.
• That night, Hai Bodong demanded that Jia Xingtian accept Hun Changqing's condition: he would heal the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast in exchange for Yao Ye and Yao Yue keeping him company.
• Hun Changqing arrived at the palace hall, where Jia Xingtian and the princesses were resisting Hai Bodong's demand.

Hun Changqing demanded Jia Xingtian’s granddaughters as the price for healing the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast, and Yao Ye and Yao Yue agreed to the bargain. He gave Jia Xingtian a Primordial Bone-Shaping Pill, warned him against letting the Mu Family provoke him, and took the princesses away to a palace.

• Jia Xingtian offered to find other women, but Hun Changqing refused to change his price.
• Yao Ye offered herself in exchange for the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast’s treatment, and Hun Changqing said she alone was not enough.
• Yao Yue agreed to go with her sister, and Yao Ye accepted the deal as well.
• Hun Changqing gave Jia Xingtian a Primordial Bone-Shaping Pill and warned him to keep the Mu Family from provoking him.
• Hun Changqing took Yao Ye and Yao Yue to a palace, leaving Hai Bodong and Jia Xingtian to argue.

Hun Changqing left the Imperial Capital for the Black-Corner Region after telling Ya Fei that he had to grow stronger and avenge his clan. Ya Fei stayed behind, determined to build her influence and support him, while the two princesses watched him depart with complicated feelings.

• Hun Changqing told Ya Fei that his clan had been destroyed by a powerful enemy and that he needed to leave to pursue revenge.
• Ya Fei begged to accompany Hun Changqing, but he refused and promised to return and marry her once he had taken revenge.
• The next day, Hun Changqing gave the Little Purple Beast to Ya Fei and left the Imperial Capital with Hai Bodong for the Black-Corner Region.
• Ya Fei watched Hun Changqing leave, then resolved to help him by gathering cultivation resources and headed to the Mittel Auction House.
• The two princesses watched Hun Changqing depart and recalled their complicated experiences with him, while Hun Changqing remained unconcerned with their feelings.

Hun Changqing and Hai Bodong reached the Black-Corner Great Plains and entered a strange gorge whose yin qi disturbed the natural energy. Wary of a threat inside, Hun Changqing gave Hai Bodong pills to break his seal, and Hai Bodong restored his cultivation to Seven-Star Dou Huang.

• Hun Changqing and Hai Bodong arrived at the Black-Corner Great Plains and recognized the gorge where Hai Bodong had once been.
• Hun Changqing sensed dangerous yin qi within the gorge and prepared to face whatever threatened them.
• Hun Changqing gave Hai Bodong a Seal-Breaking Pill and a Purple Spirit Recovery Pill so he could restore his strength.
• Hai Bodong used the Seal-Breaking Pill to break Queen Medusa's seal and swallowed the Purple Spirit Recovery Pill.
• Hai Bodong's cultivation surged from Two-Star Dou Wang to Seven-Star Dou Huang, freezing the land around him before his aura settled.

Hai Bodong regained his strength and followed Hun Changqing deeper into the Gorge, where they discovered the cold had intensified. As the ground began to erupt beneath them, Hun Changqing prepared to face the immense force while Hai Bodong struggled across the shaking terrain.

• Hai Bodong celebrated regaining his strength and swore loyalty to Hun Changqing, who warned him that danger still lay ahead.
• Hun Changqing and Hai Bodong ventured deeper into the Gorge as its accumulated cold slowed their progress.
• Hai Bodong told Hun Changqing that the Gorge's cold pressure had become much stronger since his last visit, and Hun Changqing decided to continue toward the center.
• The ground and mountains began trembling, so Hun Changqing summoned water swords and a mirror while Hai Bodong gathered his Dou Qi.
• The ground split apart and erupted, forcing Hai Bodong to dodge across the unstable terrain and blast falling rocks with his Ice Dou Qi.

Hun Changqing rescued Hai Bodong from a collapsing mountain and fought through a swarm of black vines and immense cold pressure to escape the valley. They reached a cliff, where Hun Changqing collapsed after spitting blood and realized the valley had become far more dangerous than he expected.

• Hai Bodong leaped across falling rocks as the mountain collapsed, but Hun Changqing caught him with a water sword before he fell.
• Countless black vines erupted from underground and attacked Hun Changqing and Hai Bodong, while Hun Changqing's water swords and Hai Bodong's Mysterious Ice Blade struggled to hold them back.
• Hun Changqing shattered his mirror with Mirror Flower, Water Moon, using the shards infused with Supreme Yin True Qi to pierce and wither the vines.
• Hun Changqing swallowed a bottle of medicinal pills, grabbed Hai Bodong, and flew toward the valley's center as the mirror shards disintegrated and the vines retreated underground.
• Hun Changqing reached a cliff, dropped Hai Bodong, and spat out blood as he recognized that the valley's pressure and black vines made it far more perilous than he had anticipated.

Hun Changqing and Hai Bodong traveled deeper into the eerie valley and reached the motionless black river before a towering black mountain. Hun Changqing suspected the mountain was the source of the valley’s yin-cold energy and prepared to investigate further.

• Hun Changqing decided to continue exploring despite the valley’s pressure and the dangerous vines, while Hai Bodong explained that the pressure was far stronger than during his earlier visit.
• Hun Changqing gave Hai Bodong healing pills, and the two raced through the lifeless valley toward its center.
• Hun Changqing and Hai Bodong reached a stone forest beside a still, deathly black river, with a massive black mountain looming beyond it.
• Hun Changqing concluded that energy from the mountain had formed the river and influenced the valley, then summoned the three-light divine water.

Hun Changqing and Hai Bodong reached a black river whose freezing pressure blocked their path, so they worked together to form an ice bridge. Hai Bodong considered sabotaging the bridge while Hun Changqing crossed, but chose not to risk the consequences, leaving both men poised to continue toward the opposite bank.

• Hun Changqing used the Three-Light Divine Water to shield himself and Hai Bodong from the river’s freezing pressure.
• Hun Changqing asked Hai Bodong to form an ice bridge and gave him medicinal pills to replenish his Dou Qi.
• Hai Bodong condensed the bridge while Hun Changqing used weak water whirlpools to absorb most of the river’s yin qi.
• As the bridge neared collapse, Hun Changqing raced across toward the opposite bank.
• Hai Bodong considered destroying the bridge to kill Hun Changqing, but abandoned the plan because he feared the consequences and considered the Mittel Family’s connection to him.

Hun Changqing crossed the Black River and climbed the mountain at the source of the valley’s Yin Qi, where he discovered that Death Qi was concealed within it. After refining the energy that invaded him, he continued toward the black mist at the summit, seeking to find and refine the Death Qi’s source.

• Hun Changqing crossed the ice bridge, then told the exhausted Hai Bodong he could leave or stay and cultivate.
• Hun Changqing reached the mountain and felt its powerful Yin Qi and Death Qi batter the barrier protecting him.
• Hun Changqing climbed the mountainside until the pressure weakened his barrier, then stopped to refine the Yin Qi inside his body.
• Hun Changqing discovered and refined a wisp of Death Qi, realizing it eroded vitality and was the reason the valley held no life.
• Hun Changqing replenished his true qi, formed a new barrier with Three-Light Divine Water, and resumed climbing toward the summit’s black mist.

Hun Changqing reached the mountain summit and found a sentient black log that controlled the death qi and attacking vines. After draining energy from its trunks, he unleashed his Supreme Yin Divine Light at the log.

• Hun Changqing crossed the death-qi mist and found a black log at the summit, which released the valley’s death qi.
• The log summoned countless black vines, and Hun Changqing used monadic heavy water, water swords, and mirror shards to fight through them.
• More than ten enormous black trunks emerged and attacked Hun Changqing, regenerating as the log supplied them with energy.
• Hun Changqing drained energy from two trunks with weak-water vortices, but the log strengthened the remaining trunks.
• Hun Changqing gathered his true qi and fired his Supreme Yin Divine Light at the black log.

Hun Changqing fought a little piece of wood that transformed into a massive Wooden Giant, whose peak Nine-Star Dou Zong strength and mind-affecting aura threatened him. Trapped by vines as the Giant’s fists struck, Hun Changqing used three-light divine water and a weak-water vortex to absorb the attack.

• Hun Changqing’s divine light failed to destroy the little piece of wood, which gathered vines and trunks into a towering Wooden Giant.
• The Wooden Giant’s yin and death qi nearly made Hun Changqing surrender to death, but he broke the influence by biting his tongue.
• Hun Changqing’s Water Sword and Water Mirror barely scratched the Giant’s wooden fists, and he narrowly dodged its attacks.
• The Wooden Giant restrained Hun Changqing with vines while its fists closed in, leaving him unable to evade.
• Hun Changqing enveloped himself in three-light divine water and used a weak-water vortex to absorb the Giant’s fists, channeling his Supreme Yin True Qi into it.

Hun Changqing and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python battled the wooden giant on the mountaintop. After Hun Changqing unleashed his Years-Long Dreaming Waves technique, the battered giant began gathering the mountain’s energy and enclosing itself in tree trunks to face the next wave.

• Hun Changqing retreated into a clearing after the wooden giant’s fists overwhelmed him, then took medicinal pills to recover.
• The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python awakened, accepted Hun Changqing’s offer of a feast, and attacked the wooden giant.
• The snake dodged the giant’s attacks and struck its head with her tail, knocking it to the ground.
• Hun Changqing unleashed Years-Long Dreaming Waves, and the first wave destroyed two of the giant’s arms while corroding its energy and weakening its soul.
• The wooden giant drew in energy scattered across the mountain and enclosed itself in interwoven tree trunks as the second wave approached.

Hun Changqing defeated the Wooden Giant and discovered that its core was a death-qi wood essence, which began ascending after absorbing another piece of Blackwood. As its power surged toward the Dou Zun realm, Hun Changqing used his supreme yin origin to contain and refine it.

• Hai Bodong stayed beside the Black River and heard the mountain rumble through a day and night, convinced Hun Changqing had prevailed.
• Hun Changqing found the Wooden Giant's black-wood core in the devastated summit crater and used three-light divine water to erase its consciousness.
• Hun Changqing compared the wood essence with a matching piece of Blackwood from the Nine Netherworld Python's cave abode, and the essence absorbed it.
• The wood essence gathered the gorge's yin qi and rapidly rose from Peak Dou Zong toward the Dou Zun level.
• Hun Changqing enveloped the ascending wood essence in supreme yin origin and began consuming and refining it.

Hun Changqing struggled to refine the Black Wood essence as its deathly energy threatened to destroy his body, then forced the excess energy into the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. The snake transformed into Queen Medusa, whom Hun Changqing suppressed, and he ended the chapter producing a Transformation Pill after realizing she still had a serpent’s tail.

• Hun Changqing absorbed the wood essence, but its growing yin and death qi battered his body faster than he could refine it.
• Hun Changqing channeled the excess energy through his arm and forced it into the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python transformed into Queen Medusa, who attacked Hun Changqing and cursed him.
• Hun Changqing used the death qi inside Medusa to suppress her, then noticed she still had a serpent’s tail.
• Hun Changqing took a High-grade Seventh-rank Transformation Pill from his Storage Ring.

Hun Changqing forced Medusa to take a Transformation Pill, turned her snake tail into legs, and threatened the Snake-People Tribe to stop her from resisting. He used her as a temporary vessel while refining his energy and advancing the Black Little Wood, leaving them enclosed inside a black bud.

• Hun Changqing forced the Transformation Pill down Medusa's throat, transforming her snake tail into two legs.
• Medusa threatened to blow herself up, but Hun Changqing threatened to destroy the Snake-People Tribe if she did.
• Hun Changqing sealed Medusa's recovering Dou Qi with supreme yin true qi and used her body to store his overflowing energy while he refined it.
• Hun Changqing drew cold yin energy from the valley to advance the Black Little Wood within him.
• Huge tree trunks sprang up around Hun Changqing and Medusa, enclosing them in a sealed black bud.

After a year in the gorge, Hun Changqing and Medusa emerged from the black flower bud with their cultivation greatly increased, while Hai Bodong broke through to Dou Zong. Hai Bodong celebrated his new strength, but Medusa appeared before him and revived his old fear.

• The gorge’s Yin Qi and Death Qi dwindled over the year, and the valley began returning to life.
• Hun Changqing advanced to the peak of Seven-Star Dou Zong while refining his treasures, and Medusa reached Five-Star Dou Zong.
• Hun Changqing teased Medusa about their year of cultivation together, and she threatened to kill him someday.
• Hai Bodong absorbed the remaining Yin Qi from the Black River and broke through from Peak Dou Emperor to Dou Zong.
• Hai Bodong celebrated his breakthrough and vowed to take revenge on Medusa, but she appeared before him and awakened his fear.