Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yun auctioned the Sect-Advancing Pill, chose Fa Ma’s offer, and later gave Hai Bodong an Emperor’s Extreme Pill before refusing the gathered powers’ requests for an audience. As Jia Xingtian left the Mittel Family, a black-robed stranger offered him a scroll that made him react with delighted surprise.

• Zi Yan killed a Dou Wang with spatial force, cowing the auction hall as Jiang Yun began bidding for the Sect-Advancing Pill.
• Jia Xingtian, Fa Ma, the Mulan Three Elders, Yan Luotian, and the Misty Cloud Sect competed with techniques, ingredients, and other valuables.
• Jiang Yun chose Fa Ma’s offer and handed him the Sect-Advancing Pill, then left the auction with Zi Yan and the others.
• Jiang Yun refined pills through the night and gave Hai Bodong an Emperor’s Extreme Pill, then refused to meet the visitors seeking an audience.
• Hai Bodong told the assembled bidders that Jiang Yun would receive no visitors, and they departed without meeting him.
• A black-robed figure approached Jia Xingtian as he left and tossed him a scroll, which Jia Xingtian read with sudden delight.

Yun Shan agreed to help Protector Wu isolate Jiang Yun’s companions while Protector Wu planned to target the Seventh-Grade alchemist. When Jiang Yun visited the Misty Cloud Sect and exposed Yun Shan’s ties to the Hall of Souls, Protector Wu appeared in the Great Hall, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Yun Yun told Yun Shan about Jiang Yun, and Yun Shan said he would emerge from seclusion soon; after she left, Protector Wu urged Yun Shan to help him target Jiang Yun, and Yun Shan agreed to hold back Jiang Yun’s companions.
• Jiang Yun arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Yun and the elders welcomed him before he asked Yun Yun for a favor.
• Jiang Yun asked for Yun Shan to reveal himself, and Zi Yan struck a hidden space node, forcing Yun Shan out of hiding.
• Jiang Yun accused Yun Shan of secretly working with the Hall of Souls and warned that a restriction had been planted in his soul.
• Jiang Yun called out Protector Wu, who emerged from black mist and revealed himself to the group.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan fought Protector Wu and Yun Shan in the Misty Cloud Sect’s hall, while Yun Yun hesitated to obey her teacher. Jiang Yun captured Protector Wu, and Yun Shan collapsed after his soul was nearly drawn toward the Flame Barrier.

• Yun Shan confirmed Protector Wu’s ties to the Hall of Souls, and Protector Wu admitted he had helped Yun Shan break through to Dou Zong.
• Jiang Yun revealed that he had captured Protector Xuan, then clashed with Protector Wu as Zi Yan fought Yun Shan and Bai Ya protected Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Yun Shan ordered Yun Yun to summon the sect disciples and deploy the Cloud Smoke Covering Sun Formation, but she hesitated.
• Jiang Yun trapped the hall in an Ensnaring Formation and defeated Protector Wu with his Heavenly Flames, sealing him in the jade bottle beside Protector Xuan.
• Zi Yan overwhelmed Yun Shan, while a disturbance from the Flame Barrier briefly pulled at his soul before it subsided, leaving him to realize Protector Wu was responsible.

Jiang Yun entered the Misty Cloud Sect’s Gate of Life and Death, uncovered an ancient Teleportation Array connected to the Great Thousand World, and cultivated in the secret realm. He reached Seven-Star Dou Zun as war spread among the empires.

• Jiang Yun spared Yun Shan and asked the Misty Cloud Sect for the method to enter the Gate of Life and Death.
• Jiang Yun entered the secret realm, where Qing Ming helped him discover a damaged Teleportation Array bearing traces of Great Thousand World Spiritual Energy.
• Qing Ming began repairing the array as a possible one-way route to the Great Thousand World, and Jiang Yun brought Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian inside to cultivate.
• News of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect’s destruction and the return of the Mulan Three Elders and Yan Luotian heightened tensions, while a black-robed figure healed Jia Xingtian, Mu Chen, and Nalan Jie.
• Jiang Yun’s aura surged during secluded cultivation, and he reached Seven-Star Dou Zun.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan entered an ancient battlefield through the repaired teleportation array, where they discovered that the world’s spiritual energy was converting their Dou Qi. Jiang Yun awakened his Nine Divine Veins and reached the Heaven Transformation Realm, while Zi Yan began learning to adapt to the new energy.

• Jiang Yun found that he and Zi Yan had grown stronger, while Qing Lin reached Five-Star Da Dou Shi and Xiao Yi Xian reached Two-Star Da Dou Shi with help from Zi Yan’s energy crystals.
• Qing Ming revealed that the repaired teleportation array led to an ancient battlefield where no existence above the Sovereign level could survive, and Jiang Yun and Zi Yan agreed to go.
• Before their departure, Jiang Yun gave Xiao Yi Xian a Bodhi Seed, and he and Zi Yan left Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian to cultivate.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan arrived on the battlefield, where spiritual energy began consuming their Dou Qi, and Jiang Yun taught Zi Yan how to convert it.
• Jiang Yun’s Nine Divine Veins reactivated, forming a Chaos Veil and allowing him to absorb spiritual energy until he reached the Heaven Transformation Realm.

Jiang Yun helped Medusa begin converting her Dou Qi into Spiritual Energy while he and Zi Yan rested in a devastated ancient battlefield tainted by demonic energy. Meanwhile, Yun Yi arrived at Heavenly Snake Sacred City in a chariot drawn by seventh-tier Amethyst Winged Lion Kings, provoking the Heavenly Snake Mansion as its members surrounded him.

• The Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python yielded to Medusa, who received Jiang Yun's cultivation formula and began converting her power into Spiritual Energy.
• Jiang Yun set up concealment and Spirit Gathering formations, surveyed the ruined battlefield, and detected demonic energy before waiting for Zi Yan to finish cultivating.
• Yun Yi used a Soul Token to mobilize Hall of Souls forces as his chariot traveled toward the Heavenly Snake Empire.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion argued over how to handle Jiang Yun and the possessor of the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils; Green Snake Venerable considered inviting them to the mansion.
• Yun Yi's chariot entered Heavenly Snake Sacred City in defiance of its ban on flying, and Heavenly Snake Mansion forces rose to surround him.

Yun Yi confronted the Heavenly Snake Mansion and demanded that it submit to him, but Green Snake Venerable attacked instead. Yun Yi revealed the Hall of Souls’ backing, and its forces arrived to surround Heavenly Snake Sacred City.

• She Qi challenged the Amethyst Winged Lion Kings, but Green Snake Venerable appeared and invited the visitors into the city.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King demanded that Green Snake Venerable meet Yun Yi in person, provoking She Qi into attacking before Green Snake Venerable stopped the clash.
• Yun Yi emerged from the carriage and declared that he wanted the Heavenly Snake Mansion, offering submission or death.
• Green Snake Venerable tried to capture Yun Yi, but Yun Yi broke free and met his attack with the Soul-Shattering Finger, though he was injured.
• Yun Yi told the Heavenly Snake Mansion to face his forces, and hundreds of Hall of Souls fighters emerged from black mist to surround Heavenly Snake Sacred City.

Yun Yi led the Hall of Souls in an assault on Heavenly Snake Sacred City, where Green Snake Venerable and the Heavenly Snake Mansion fought back. As the city burned and the battle escalated, Yun Yi continued absorbing Dou Qi while the Amethyst Winged Lion King attacked a group trying to escape.

• Qing Hai, Qin Tian, and Qiu Long bowed to Yun Yi as the Hall of Souls’ Young Hall Master, and Yun Yi ordered his forces to kill everyone in Heavenly Snake Sacred City.
• Qing Hai engaged Green Snake Venerable while She Qi rallied the Heavenly Snake Mansion and activated the Ten Thousand Snake Formation.
• She Qi’s formation summoned an Ancient Heavenly Snake phantom, which clashed with Qin Tian and Qiu Long; both sides suffered injuries, and the Dou Zun pressed their attack.
• Yun Yi’s black flames spread through the city, killing its inhabitants and drawing Dou Qi toward him as he neared the Dou Zong breakthrough.
• When a group of Dou Wangs and Dou Emperors pleaded to leave, Yun Yi refused; one attacked him and was struck down by the Amethyst Winged Lion King, which then unleashed a storm of purple flames.

After the Hall of Souls destroyed the Heavenly Snake Mansion, Yun Yi refined the spoils and broke through to Three-Star Dou Zong. He then began an experiment to create a powerful puppet from the Green Snake Venerable’s corpse and thousands of souls.

• Qin Tian, Qiu Long, and Qing Hai killed the Green Snake Venerable after the Ten Thousand Snake Formation fell, while the Hall of Souls hunted down the remaining defenders.
• Yun Yi rewarded the three Dou Zuns with Venerable-Beginning Pills, ordered them to clean up and conceal the massacre, and used captured Dou Lings as Fire Slaves.
• Yun Yi spent a month refining the battle’s energy, while Qin Tian and Qiu Long guarded him and discussed the sects investigating the Heavenly Snake Sacred City’s destruction.
• Yun Yi broke through to Three-Star Dou Zong, displayed his ability to repair shattered space, and sent Qin Tian and Qiu Long to assist Qing Hai.
• Yun Yi tempered the Green Snake Venerable’s corpse with black flames and merged thousands of souls from a Soul Bag, beginning his attempt to create a powerful puppet.

Yun Yi completed a powerful Heavenly Demon Puppet, named it the Devouring Heavenly Corpse, and brought it to confront Shi Tian and the other Northwest Continent leaders. After Yun Yi refused to justify the Hall of Souls' destruction of the Heavenly Snake Mansion, the corpse killed Xue Si, leaving the gathered sect masters facing Yun Yi's challenge.

• Yun Yi fused Green Snake Venerable's body, a soul made from tens of thousands of souls, an eighth-tier Magic Core, metals, and Saint Heavenly Demon Flame to create a puppet that reached Dou Zun strength.
• Yun Yi branded the puppet, tested its durability and rapid healing, and named it the Devouring Heavenly Corpse before setting off in his war chariot.
• Black mist carried away the thousand-odd Fire Slaves from Heavenly Snake Holy City as Yun Yi arrived at the confrontation between the Hall of Souls and Shi Tian's allied sects.
• Yun Yi declared that the Hall of Souls had destroyed the Heavenly Snake Mansion and asked what Shi Tian and the other leaders intended to do about it.
• When Xue Si criticized the Hall of Souls, Yun Yi ordered the Devouring Heavenly Corpse to kill him, and it swiftly broke his bones and tore him in half.
• Yun Yi asked whether anyone objected to the Purple Sun Sect's destruction after the Devouring Heavenly Corpse killed Xue Si.

Yun Yi forced the nearby Northwest Continent sects to submit to the Hall of Souls and ordered them to expand its control. In the Ancient Battlefield, Zi Yan and Medusa converted their cultivation to Spiritual Energy, and Jiang Yun explained their new world to Medusa.

• Yun Yi threatened the gathered sect leaders with submission or death, then used a Soul Skill to torment Shi Tian until he and the others agreed to join the Hall of Souls.
• Yun Yi ordered Qing Hai, Qin Tian, and Qiu Dragon Venerable to mobilize the Hall of Souls' Northwest Continent branches, while Hun Yu arrived and warned them to carry out the young master's orders.
• Jiang Yun watched Zi Yan and Medusa convert their cultivation, as their beast phantoms appeared and their new realms rose to the Heaven Fusion Realm and middle Heaven Transformation Realm.
• Zi Yan woke and complained that she could not use her strength, then became hostile toward Medusa when she saw her with Jiang Yun.
• Jiang Yun explained that they were no longer on the Dou Qi Continent and described Spiritual Energy to Medusa, who accepted him as her guide in the unfamiliar world.

Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and Medusa explored a ruined battlefield, fought Flame Demon Clan creatures, and gathered Energy Cores to strengthen themselves. As they began cultivating in a Formation, numerous uniformed teams arrived through a spatial rift elsewhere on the battlefield.

• Jiang Yun led Zi Yan and Medusa across the desolate land while they searched for signs of life.
• A Flame Demon creature ambushed the trio, but Zi Yan, Jiang Yun, and Medusa fought it and killed it.
• Jiang Yun discovered that the creature's Energy Core contained usable energy mixed with evil aura, and he warned Zi Yan and Medusa not to absorb the cores themselves.
• The trio hunted more creatures, gathered over a hundred Energy Cores, and Jiang Yun processed them into a Spirit Gathering Array.
• Zi Yan and Medusa began cultivating in the Array, each determined to reach a higher realm than the other.
• Dozens of teams in standardized uniforms appeared on a massive dark-red rock after pillars of light descended through a spatial rift.

Jiang Yun, Medusa, and Zi Yan encountered a squad from the Great Thousand World and attacked them to learn why they had come to the ruins. The fight escalated as Jiang Yun killed one man and Medusa and Zi Yan battled the squad’s leader, while Jiang Yun faced the remaining fighters.

• A fiery-robed young man and his team surveyed the world, and Elder Wu reported that its suppressive force had reduced his strength to Body Tribulation.
• Jiang Yun, Medusa, and Zi Yan completed their cultivation breakthroughs and flew deeper into the ruins.
• Jiang Yun sensed an eight-person squad approaching and hid the trio, then decided they would capture the newcomers for information.
• The squad leader detected the hidden trio by instinct and attacked the forest, forcing Jiang Yun, Medusa, and Zi Yan to reveal themselves.
• Medusa attacked the squad, and Jiang Yun killed the yellow-robed man while Zi Yan joined Medusa in fighting the leader.
• The squad’s remaining fighters attacked Jiang Yun, who summoned a fire dragon and met a backstabber’s short spikes with his fist.

Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and Medusa defeated an enemy group in the Ancient Battlefield, then continued gathering Energy Cores and advancing toward the continent’s center. Their journey ended as a fiery rift opened in the distance, revealing an ancient aura that suggested an inheritance was emerging.

• Jiang Yun killed the attackers with his fists and White Tiger Seal, then joined Medusa and Zi Yan as they fought the enemy leader.
• The leader used the Blood Transformation Great Method and attacked Zi Yan, who risked harming her unstable bloodline by unleashing the Great Heavenly Dragon Emperor Seal.
• Jiang Yun stopped Zi Yan, calmed her bloodline, and used the Xuan Mo Divine Slash to leave the leader vulnerable to Medusa’s killing strike.
• Jiang Yun collected the group’s storage bracelets and explained the Great Thousand World’s storage items, weapons, and auxiliary professions before the trio divided the spoils.
• The trio hunted Energy Cores as they traveled toward the continent’s center; Jiang Yun and Zi Yan reached the peak of the Heaven Transformation Realm, while Medusa recovered her Heavenly Connection Realm cultivation.
• A fiery disturbance tore open space in the battlefield’s depths, and the group saw an ancient, boundless aura emerge from the rift.

Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and Medusa entered a legacy site and crossed a dark forest toward a rare Great Sun Yang Flame Fruit. As other seekers fought over the fruit, Jiang Yun discovered that a Bloodthirsty Ghost King Vine was feeding on the dead beneath the forest.

• Jiang Yun explained the Great Thousand World's Heavenly Sovereign ranks to Medusa, and the three decided to pursue the legacy.
• Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and Medusa entered the legacy's shattered spatial barrier and landed in a silent, deathly forest where flight was suppressed.
• A pillar of light and a rare fragrance led the three to a Great Sun Yang Flame Tree bearing a Great Sun Yang Flame Fruit, but Jiang Yun sensed something was wrong.
• The teams fought fiercely over the fruit, and Jiang Yun noticed that fallen fighters' blood and bodies were disappearing.
• Jiang Yun used his purple divine sight to reveal black vines draining corpses beneath the forest and identified the creature as a Bloodthirsty Ghost King Vine.

Jiang Yun, Medusa, and Zi Yan fought the survivors trapped by the bloodthirsty ghost king vine while Jiang Yun targeted its rare core. Medusa revealed her Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python form, and Jiang Yun unleashed the Five Spirits Imperial Extreme Array against their enemies and the vine.

• The bloodthirsty ghost king vine attacked the remaining cultivators, draining several of them while Jiang Yun explained that its heartlike core could strengthen bloodlines and physiques.
• Medusa stopped a fleeing cultivator, drawing the survivors’ hostility, and Jiang Yun told Medusa and Zi Yan to hold them back while he prepared a powerful Spirit Array.
• As the cultivators tried to break through the vine’s attack, Medusa transformed into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and Zi Yan trapped the nine survivors in a Void Cage.
• Medusa’s python tail struck the trapped cultivators and sent them crashing into the vine’s grasp, while Jiang Yun finished arranging his Spirit Array.
• Jiang Yun activated the Five Spirits Imperial Extreme Array, summoning a dragon, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, White Tiger, and Qilin to charge at the cultivators and the bloodthirsty ghost king vine.

Jiang Yun killed the Bloodthirsty Ghost King Vine, collected its treasures with Zi Yan and Medusa, and cultivated until he broke through to the Heavenly Connection Realm. Elsewhere, powerful figures discovered an aura tied to the Wan Huo Indestructible Body, and a group of cultivators headed toward the Battlefield ruins.

• Jiang Yun used his Five Spirits Array to suppress and kill the Bloodthirsty Ghost King Vine, then gave its heartlike fruit to Zi Yan and spirit herbs to Medusa.
• Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and Medusa hid in a cave, where Zi Yan and Medusa cultivated while Jiang Yun studied a jade slip and prepared his gathered treasures.
• Jiang Yun refined the treasures into spiritual liquid and absorbed it, advancing to the Heavenly Connection Realm at the peak of its middle stage as Zi Yan and Medusa's auras erupted too.
• Powerful figures outside the Battlefield attacked its boundary, sensed a Divine Flame associated with the Wan Huo Indestructible Body, and agreed to leave the ruins to younger competitors.
• A black flame detected the Ancestor's aura and sent word to its Clan, and days later a group of powerful cultivators traveled toward the Battlefield ruins.

Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and Medusa explored a ruined city and followed the crowds into an ancient Alchemy Room, where they discovered a trove of Grade 8 Pills. They began collecting the pills as other teams pursued them.

• Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and Medusa reached the crimson battlefield and found a ruined city filled with traces of an ancient war.
• The three searched a hall of skeletal remains, found that its weapons and storage bracelets had crumbled, and continued toward the Inner City.
• Jiang Yun and his companions joined the crowds rushing through an opened stone door, then followed Zi Yan's sense of treasure to the Alchemy Room.
• Jiang Yun led Zi Yan and Medusa past the lower floors and into the third floor, where they found countless Grade 8 Pills suspended in the air.
• Jiang Yun warned the two women to collect pills within their abilities, and the three began breaking the restrictions and gathering them.

Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and Medusa encountered four powerful Pill Beasts blocking the pill chamber’s exit and agreed to help the other cultivators fight them. After Zi Yan and Medusa wore down their assigned beast, Jiang Yun trapped it inside a Spirit Array, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Zhong Shan and his group arrived in the pill chamber, but Jiang Yun persuaded them to collect pills rather than fight over the stash.
• Four Divine Soul Tribulation Pill Beasts blocked the exit, so Zhong Shan asked Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and Medusa to handle one while the other cultivators fought the remaining three.
• Zi Yan attacked their Pill Beast, but its defenses and strength overwhelmed her despite her speed.
• Medusa joined Zi Yan, and the two women coordinated their attacks until the Pill Beast was covered in wounds.
• Jiang Yun formed a Spirit Array that trapped the Pill Beast while Zi Yan and Medusa escaped its range.

Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and Medusa captured a Divine Pill hidden inside a flood dragon Pill Beast, but Wu Tong appeared and tried to take it. Jiang Yun defeated Wu Tong with his formations, fire, and control of space, leaving the others to face the aftermath of his sudden death.

• Jiang Yun trapped the flood dragon Pill Beast in an ensnaring formation, and he, Zi Yan, and Medusa shattered it to reveal the Divine Pill.
• An unseen force tried to pull the little flood dragon away, but Medusa and Zi Yan froze the space around it while Jiang Yun refined it into a pill and stored it.
• Wu Tong confronted the group and demanded the Divine Pill, then attacked Jiang Yun with lightning after Jiang Yun refused.
• Jiang Yun used the Life and Death Great Hand Seal and a fire phoenix to injure Wu Tong, who then unleashed Nine Heavens of the Thunder Dao.
• Jiang Yun countered Wu Tong's lightning dragons with Heaven-Burning Flame of Separation, passed through the attacks using spatial power, and killed him.