Chapter Summaries

Yang Hao killed Xiao Yan and took the Tou She Ancient God Jade before bribing Great Elder Su Qian to leave. Hai Bodong returned to the Mittel Family, where he learned of his allies’ progress, then set out for the Misty Cloud Sect after sensing a Hall of Souls presence and hearing of Yun Shan’s rise.

• Yang Hao insulted Xiao Yan, and Xun'er left Jia Lan Academy with the Black Annihilation Army after warning Xiao Yan.
• Yang Hao killed Xiao Yan with a single attack and took the Tou She Ancient God Jade from his ashes.
• Great Elder Su Qian confronted Yang Hao, but accepted pills from him and let him leave.
• Hai Bodong returned to the Mittel Family and found Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, and Miter Tengshan had advanced in cultivation.
• Hai Bodong headed for the Misty Cloud Sect after sensing an evil Hall of Souls aura there and hearing that Yun Shan had become a one-star Dou Zong.

Hai Bodong confronted Yun Shan in his secluded cave, removed the Hall of Souls’ influence from Yun Shan’s soul, and forced him to pledge the Misty Cloud Sect’s submission to the Mittel Family. Yun Shan survived by accepting Hai Bodong as his superior.

• Hai Bodong evaded the Misty Cloud Sect’s guards and arrived at Yun Shan’s secluded cultivation site.
• Yun Shan fretted over his ambitions and Hai Bodong’s strength, then was startled when Hai Bodong appeared in the cave.
• Hai Bodong challenged Yun Shan about his plans to dominate the Jia Ma Empire and the Dou Qi Continent, and Yun Shan denied the rumors.
• Hai Bodong pulled Yun Shan’s Soul Body from his body and destroyed the black matter Wu Protector had planted in it.
• Hai Bodong demanded that Yun Shan and the Misty Cloud Sect submit to the Mittel Family, and Yun Shan knelt and agreed.

Hai Bodong reassured Yun Shan about the Hall of Souls threat and taught him about the wider Dou Qi Continent. When Old Mu Gu arrived, Hai Bodong destroyed his Soul Body and captured it for Old Yao to torment.

• Yun Shan warned Hai Bodong that Wu Protector had gone to fetch a Hall of Souls Venerable Elder, but Hai Bodong said he was prepared to face them.
• Hai Bodong transmitted knowledge about the Central Continent to Yun Shan, who realized how insignificant the Misty Cloud Sect was across the continent.
• Old Mu Gu arrived through a spatial passage, frightening Yun Shan with his Dou Zun strength.
• Hai Bodong recognized Old Mu Gu and struck before he could finish speaking, shattering his Soul Body.
• Hai Bodong wrapped Old Mu Gu's remaining Soul Body in Heavenly Flame and stored it in his Ice Spirit Storage Ring so Old Yao could take revenge.

After Hai Bodong killed Old Mu Gu, he consolidated control over the Jia Ma Empire and expanded his forces into neighboring regions while strengthening his cultivation and soul. As he reached the Spiritual Realm Soul level, a spatial crack suddenly appeared beside him in the Miter Auction House.

• Hai Bodong sent Yun Shan to settle Misty Cloud Sect affairs and returned to the Mittel Family residence.
• Over the next three months, Jia Xing Tian, Yun Shan, the Jia Ma Empire Alchemist Guild, and major families submitted to Hai Bodong and the Mittel Family.
• Hai Bodong subdued the poison master factions in the Chu Yun Empire and took control of their forces with help from the Heavenly Snake Manor and Lion Nether Sect.
• Old Yao suppressed the Black Corner Region's factions and delivered Bodhi Body Birth, ice cultivation methods and Dou Skills, a Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse, and a puppet-refining method to Hai Bodong.
• Hai Bodong broke through to peak Dou Zong, expanded into the Mulan Empire and Golden Wild Goose Empire, and advanced his soul to the Spiritual Realm.
• As Hai Bodong cultivated in the Miter Auction House, a tiny spatial crack appeared beside him.

Old Yao received two Heavenly Flames from Hai Bodong and used them to raise the Flame Mantra and reach the Half-Saint realm. Over the following years, Xiao Yi Xian mastered her Calamity Poison Body and Old Yao organized the Northwest Alliance to resist the Hall of Souls.

• Old Yao gave Hai Bodong a Seventh-Order Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core and an eighth-tier Pill to Break Dou Zun, and Hai Bodong gave Old Yao the Netherworld Poison Flame and a Fallen Heart Flame seed.
• Hai Bodong told Old Yao that Heavenly Fire Venerable had given him the Fallen Heart Flame in exchange for a new body, and that Heavenly Fire Venerable had recovered his peak Six-Star Dou Zun cultivation.
• Old Yao merged the Heavenly Flames, raised the Flame Mantra to the low-tier Heaven Tier, and broke through to the low-grade Half-Saint realm.
• Old Yao helped Hai Bodong reach Three-Star Dou Zun, and Hai Bodong helped Xiao Yi Xian master her Calamity Poison Body and reach Seven-Star Dou Zun.
• Over more than five years, Old Yao united most Northwest Continent forces into the Northwest Alliance after the Hall of Souls attacked the region.

Hai Bodong reviewed the gains from his secluded cultivation and recalled how Ice River Valley had submitted to him after he killed Bing He. Old Yao then invited him to attend the Spatial Trading Meet, a gathering known only to powerful forces and peak experts.

• Old Yao advanced his Burning Art and cultivation by devouring three Heavenly Flames, while Hai Bodong reached peak Six-Star Dou Zun and late Spiritual Realm soul power through years of cultivation.
• Hai Bodong checked his attributes and reflected on killing Bing He, appointing Tian Shuangzi as Ice River Valley’s new Valley Master, and receiving the valley’s ice-attributed resources.
• Hai Bodong recalled mastering Ice River Valley’s special techniques and using Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Marrow to wield Frozen Sky Palm proficiently.
• After finishing his seclusion, Hai Bodong used a spatial rift to meet Old Yao in the Starfall Pavilion’s Pavilion Master chamber.
• Old Yao invited Hai Bodong to accompany him to the Spatial Trading Meet, surprising him with news of the rare gathering.

Old Yao brought Hai Bodong to the Spatial Trading Meet, where Hai Bodong discovered that the supposedly barren desert concealed a gathering of powerful experts. The chapter ended as they reached the massive spatial wormhole that served as the meet’s entrance.

• The narration described Ice River Valley’s forces and contrasted them with the formidable foundations of the Spatial Trading Meet’s three organizing sects.
• Old Yao and Hai Bodong arrived at the desert hosting the Spatial Trading Meet, and Old Yao pointed out the powerful auras gathered nearby.
• Hai Bodong sensed over a hundred auras at or above the three-star Dou Zun level and more than a dozen peak Dou Zun auras.
• Old Yao explained matters Hai Bodong needed to know and led him to a concealed depression in a towering sand mountain.
• Hai Bodong saw experts enter a huge spatial wormhole and realized it was the entrance to the Spatial Trading Meet.

Old Yao and Hai Bodong explored the Spatial Trading Meet, where Old Yao bought Hai Bodong a hundred-thousand-year portion of Cold Marrow. They then entered the Ancient Treasure Pavilion with Old Yao's invitation and received concealed black cloaks from its guards.

• Old Yao and Hai Bodong entered the Spatial Trading Meet's spatial town and browsed its rare goods.
• Hai Bodong spotted hundred-thousand-year Cold Marrow, and Old Yao exchanged an eighth-tier healing pill for it.
• Old Yao asked Hai Bodong to take him through another crossing after they returned, and Hai Bodong agreed.
• Old Yao presented a red jade invitation to the Ancient Treasure Pavilion's guards, who gave him and Hai Bodong black cloaks.
• Old Yao explained the cloaks' effects and led Hai Bodong deeper into the pavilion.

Hai Bodong and Old Yao attended the Spatial Trading Meet, where Old Man Baoshan opened the gathering and presented the first item, a Quasi-Heaven Tier cultivation method. The Ice Heart Art drew numerous offers, and Hai Bodong was struck by the rarity of the goods being traded.

• Old Yao warned Hai Bodong to keep a low profile among the powerful guests and hinted that old acquaintances would bring them trouble after the meeting.
• A bell marked the start of the Spatial Trading Meet, and Old Man Baoshan appeared on the high platform and enclosed it in a formidable Spatial Barrier.
• Old Man Baoshan announced the Ice Heart Art, a Quasi-Heaven Tier method that improved ice-attributed practitioners' aptitude and purified their Dou Qi.
• Old Man Baoshan said the scroll's owner wanted a Quasi-Heaven Tier lightning-attributed method or medicinal pills of matching value.
• Several attendees offered their goods, and Hai Bodong saw more than ten lightning-attributed Quasi-Heaven Tier cultivation methods floating around Old Man Baoshan.

At the Spatial Trading Meet, Old Yao used a Grade 8 Pill to secure a chance to trade for the Ice Nether Secret Record, a mid-tier Heaven Tier ice-element cultivation method that suited Hai Bodong. The method’s owner accepted Old Yao’s Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill and offered nine Ice Origin Fruits as additional items, leaving Old Yao to consider the deal.

• Hai Bodong asked Old Yao to bid for a lightning-element Quasi-Heaven Tier cultivation method, and Old Yao offered a Grade 8 Pill that had endured eight-colored pill lightning.
• Old Yao’s Half-Saint-level pressure injured attendees who probed their strength, while Old Man Baoshan upheld the trading meet’s privacy rules.
• Old Man Baoshan said the owner of the lightning-element method preferred a lightning-element method and offered a mid-tier Heaven Tier ice-element cultivation method in exchange for a Grade 9 Treasure Pill.
• Hai Bodong inspected the Ice Nether Secret Record and asked Old Yao to trade for it.
• Old Yao offered a Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill and requested a satisfactory additional item, and the owner offered nine Ice Origin Fruits alongside the cultivation method.

Old Yao traded a Heaven Tier ice-attributed cultivation method for nine Ice Origin Fruits and returned safely with Hai Bodong to Starfall Pavilion. Three months later, Hai Bodong had advanced to Seven-Star Dou Zun, and Old Yao gave him the nine Ice Origin Pills he had refined.

• Old Man Baoshan removed the restriction on the Heaven Tier cultivation method, and Old Yao traded a Grade 9 Treasure Pill for nine Ice Origin Fruits.
• Old Yao and Hai Bodong left the Spatial Trading Meet and returned to Starfall Pavilion without being ambushed, though Old Yao regretted missing a chance to eliminate the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts.
• After three months cultivating the Ice Nether Secret Record, Hai Bodong replaced his Dou Qi and advanced to Seven-Star Dou Zun.
• Old Yao used a Saint Demon Puppet to block eight-colored pill lightning and completed the ninth Ice Origin Pill.
• Old Yao gave Hai Bodong all nine Ice Origin Pills, and Hai Bodong thanked his master.

Old Yao learned that Zi Yan was the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s new Dragon Emperor and helped her decide to return to East Dragon Island. After she left, he headed to the Pill Tower to seek a chance to refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame, while Hai Bodong assessed Qing Lin’s strength and found that she could defeat ordinary peak Seven-Star Dou Zun fighters.

• Old Yao exposed Hei Qing, an elder of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, who had come to take Zi Yan back as the clan’s new Dragon Emperor.
• Hei Qing explained the clan’s situation, and Zi Yan agreed to return to East Dragon Island after Hai Bodong and Old Yao persuaded her; she left Old Yao an Imperial Dragon Seal to help refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Old Yao informed Venerable Wind Feng Xian and Queen Medusa of Zi Yan’s departure, then went to the Pill Tower to negotiate a chance to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Hai Bodong brought Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian to the martial arena to assess their cultivation, then sparred with Qing Lin.
• Hai Bodong found that Qing Lin had reached peak Four-Star Dou Zun and could control thirteen powerful Eighth-Order Magical Beasts, making her stronger than an ordinary peak Seven-Star Dou Zun fighter.

Hai Bodong sparred with Xiao Yi Xian, using his ice techniques and a temporary cultivation boost to challenge her poison attacks. Xiao Yi Xian’s Corrosive Poison Demon Hand injured him, and he dispelled the poison without using his Divine Blood Realm, leaving her to tease him about losing.

• Hai Bodong sent Qing Lin to watch from outside the arena before beginning his spar with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian attacked with Thousand Illusions Poison Spring, but Hai Bodong dodged and countered with his ice techniques and Ice Demon True Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian trapped the arena in Heavenly Poison Prison Realm and contaminated its natural energy, while Hai Bodong answered with Ice God's Wrath and Frozen Sky Palm.
• Xiao Yi Xian countered with Corrosive Poison Demon Hand, and the clash injured Hai Bodong with her Calamity Poison Power.
• Hai Bodong coughed the poison out rather than risk consuming his lifespan by using his Seventh Divine Blood Realm, and Xiao Yi Xian teased him about being unable to beat her.

Hai Bodong teased Xiao Yi Xian, then returned to cultivation and emerged nearly two years later as a peak Nine-Revolution Dou Zun. He learned that Old Yao had become a high-grade Half-Saint after subduing the Three Thousand Burning Flame with Zi Yan’s Dragon Seal.

• Xiao Yi Xian scolded Hai Bodong for teasing her, then took Qing Lin through a spatial passage to play in the Beast Domain.
• Queen Medusa confronted Hai Bodong over the commotion he caused and agreed to send Servants' Hall personnel to clean up after he gave her a seventh-tier magic core.
• Hai Bodong returned to his secluded chamber, where he planned to use ice-attribute magic cores and ninth-tier pills to advance his Dou Zun cultivation.
• Nearly two years later, Hai Bodong emerged as a peak Nine-Revolution Dou Zun and celebrated his increased strength.
• Old Yao appeared beside Hai Bodong, and Hai Bodong realized his master had reached high-grade Half-Saint after using Zi Yan's Dragon Seal to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Hai Bodong and Old Yao crossed back to their original world, where Zhou Xiao'an was preparing to return to Bureau 107 after learning about the Corpse Tribes and the Liu and Bai families’ ancient feud. Fifth Master Liu hoped Zhou Xiao'an would someday repay the help he had given him, while Liu Shijie trusted that Liu Shuangshuang’s Corpse Gu would keep Zhou Xiao'an under her control.

• Hai Bodong and Old Yao activated the Time Wheel Hourglass and crossed back to their original location near Tianjin City.
• Hai Bodong and Old Yao headed to the Liu Family to check on Zhou Xiao'an, who had stayed there for a week to learn about the Corpse Tribe and avoid his Heart Addiction flaring up.
• Zhou Xiao'an learned that the Liu and Bai families’ ancestors, Di Xin and Peng Zu, had been allies before Peng Zu’s betrayal helped bring about the Shang Dynasty’s defeat.
• Zhou Xiao'an said farewell to Fifth Master Liu and left for Bureau 107 with the Liu siblings, Mei Xiaoqian, and two police officers.
• Liu Shijie questioned Fifth Master Liu for teaching Zhou Xiao'an the Corpse Song, but Fifth Master Liu said he hoped Zhou Xiao'an would favor the Liu Family in the future.
• Liu Shijie dismissed his father’s hopes and believed Liu Shuangshuang would control Zhou Xiao'an with her Crimson Mountain Corpse Gu and become famous through the expedition to Heavenly Palace Star City.

Hai Bodong and Old Yao learned that Zhou Xiao'an was heading to Heavenly Palace Star City and set out to catch up with him. Near Bureau 107, Zhou Xiao'an met his biological mother, Wu Li, who warned him about Liang Dong's team and gave him a laptop with their location and personnel files; he then continued on the road with his companions.

• Fifth Master Liu gave Hai Bodong and Old Yao information about Zhou Xiao'an's destination and mission, and they left to pursue him.
• After visiting his adoptive mother, Wang Juan, Zhou Xiao'an traveled with Fatty Liu and the others toward Bureau 107.
• Wu Li met Zhou Xiao'an by the roadside and revealed that Liang Dong had departed early with a team, despite the director's orders.
• Wu Li warned Zhou Xiao'an that Liang Dong was dangerous and that a foreigner wearing an Ancient Ring had revealed Star City's location.
• Wu Li gave Zhou Xiao'an a laptop containing the team's location and personnel files, then hugged him and asked him to return safely.

Zhou Xiao'an and his companions searched the Gobi for Liang Dong and the Frenchman Reno, whose signal had disappeared near the suspected route to Heavenly Palace Star City. Their search led them to a hidden cluster of stone houses, where green smoke rose from one roof.

• Zhou Xiao'an, Fatty Liu, Mei Xiaoqian, and the others reached the place where Liang Dong's signal had vanished, but they could not contact him by satellite phone.
• Zhou Xiao'an explained that Reno had offered to help Bureau 107 find Star City in return for thirty days of research access, and he suspected Reno might be plotting something.
• Liu Shuangshuang dismissed the legend of Star City, while Fatty Liu argued that advanced Snake Tribe technology could keep it hidden from humans.
• The group searched the gravel and sand for tracks but found no clues about Liang Dong's convoy.
• Officer Liu spotted irregular stone houses beneath distant mushroom-shaped rocks, and the group noticed green smoke rising from one roof.

While Zhou Xiao'an recovered from the Serpent God Treasure Armor’s effects, Mei Xiaoqian and the others followed Bagen into Red Stone Ravine to find the camel caravan people as a sandstorm struck. Zhou Xiao'an remained stranded with Liu Shuangshuang, worried about Mei Xiaoqian, while she and the others took shelter in a cave.

• Hai Bodong and Old Yao secretly followed Zhou Xiao'an's group to the Gobi after marking them with spiritual marks.
• Bagen led Zhou Xiao'an's group to attack the Shageba People who coveted the Serpent God Treasure Ring, and they killed everyone but Bagen and forced him to guide them toward Jiang Xuanyan's group.
• Zhou Xiao'an fell unconscious from the side effects of the Serpent God Treasure Armor, and Liu Shuangshuang took charge while he slept.
• Mei Xiaoqian, Fatty Liu, and police officers Ma and Liu followed Bagen into Red Stone Ravine to look for the camel caravan people, leaving Zhou Xiao'an with Liu Shuangshuang.
• A massive sandstorm cut off communication and trapped Zhou Xiao'an in the Land Rover, while the others sheltered in a cave where Mei Xiaoqian saw a decomposed corpse.

Mei Xiaoqian and the others followed Bagen through a cave to search for the missing camel riders, while Bagen told them legends about the Tomb of King Wu. At the bottomless-looking pit, Bagen revealed the riders were dead, but Hai Bodong appeared and froze him in ice.

• Mei Xiaoqian worried about Zhou Xiao'an after learning he had joined the Corpse Tribe, while Officer Ma reassured her that Liu Shuangshuang was with him.
• Fatty Liu pressed Bagen about the third thing he had mentioned, and Bagen told the group legends that King Wu's tomb lay in the sky and that the Shageba People guarded their ancestors' tomb.
• Bagen led the group through the cave to a deep pit and claimed the dead camel riders had been thrown into it.
• Mei Xiaoqian and Officer Ma examined the pit and concluded it was at least two hundred meters deep, while Officer Liu beat Bagen for deceiving them.
• Hai Bodong appeared and froze Bagen into an ice sculpture, and Fatty Liu recognized him.

Hai Bodong exposed Bagen’s scheme and led the survivors away from the danger. After the storm cleared, Zhou Xiao'an reunited with Jiang Xuanyan in the Gobi, then realized Bagen’s lie put the others in danger.

• Hai Bodong revealed that Bagen was a man-eating giant locust who had lured the group to draw out Locust Granny, and Liu Fugui, the police officers, and Mei Xiaoqian thanked him.
• Worried that Mei Xiaoqian and the others had been gone for hours, Zhou Xiao'an and Liu Shuangshuang packed supplies and set out to search for them.
• The storm stopped, an upside-down rainbow appeared, and Zhou Xiao'an spotted Jiang Xuanyan riding a white camel toward him.
• Jiang Xuanyan told Zhou Xiao'an that Brother Dao had falsely claimed he did not want to see her, and explained that she had come to investigate a city near the China-Mongolia border.
• Jiang Xuanyan said her team had stopped nearby because a member had heatstroke, and Zhou Xiao'an suddenly realized that Bagen had lied.