Chapter Summaries

Zhou Xiao'an and Liu Shuangshuang encountered Liu Fugui's group in the sandy valley and learned how Hai Bodong had saved them. Chaos Tide: Qing briefly summoned Hai Bodong's consciousness and showed him information about Battle Through the Heavens and the Jie Mo Ren Universe before Hai Bodong agreed to escort Mei Xiaoqian to Heavenly Gold.

• Zhou Xiao'an and Liu Shuangshuang crossed increasingly deep sand in Red Stone Ravine before a sudden jolt knocked Liu Shuangshuang down.
• Zhou Xiao'an spotted approaching figures and ran ahead, discovering that Liu Fugui and the others were safe.
• Fatty Liu introduced Hai Bodong and Old Yao, and Zhou Xiao'an thanked them for helping the group survive.
• Chaos Tide: Qing pulled Hai Bodong's consciousness into a mysterious space and sent him information about Battle Through the Heavens and the Jie Mo Ren Universe.
• Hai Bodong returned to the group, then agreed to take Mei Xiaoqian back to Heavenly Gold.

Hai Bodong returned to Tianjin City with Mei Xiaoqian and trained his soul power alongside Old Yao by converting Primal Energy into Spiritual Qi. Two months later, Hai Bodong reached the peak of the Spirit Realm and arrived above Bureau 107, where Zhou Xiao'an questioned Reno about his serpent ring.

• Hai Bodong agreed to Zhou Xiao'an's request, brought Mei Xiaoqian through a spatial passage, and Old Yao followed him back.
• Hai Bodong and Old Yao studied how to convert Primal Energy into Spiritual Qi, and Hai Bodong purged the Corpse Tribe's corpse energy from his body.
• After two months of cultivation, Hai Bodong's soul power reached the peak of the Spirit Realm, while Old Yao remained at the mid Heaven Realm.
• Hai Bodong left Old Yao and traveled through a spatial rift to the void above Bureau 107.
• Zhou Xiao'an asked Reno about his serpent ring, and Reno explained that he had stolen it from the Old Summer Palace while serving with the Anglo-French Allied Forces.

Zhou Xiao'an questioned Reno about his century-long history, his search for Juliette, and the deaths in the Silver Vortex, concluding that Reno had used his teammates as bargaining chips to secure Bureau 107’s help. After punching Reno, Zhou Xiao'an watched as a hand emerged from a spatial gap and pulled Reno inside.

• Reno explained that the Creator's snake rings could control living creatures and admitted that he had guided the Shageba People over a century earlier.
• Reno revealed that he had joined forces with Bureau 107 to search Mercury Lake for Juliette, who had disappeared there in 1910.
• Reno said that only he and Pure Yang Master survived from Action Team One, and recounted how the Silver Vortex dissolved Liang Dong and the others.
• Reno admitted that he had entered dormancy in the Silver Vortex after despairing over Juliette's disappearance, then woke to a voice urging him to keep living.
• Zhou Xiao'an accused Reno of using Liang Dong and the others as bargaining chips and punched him through the director's office window.
• A hand appeared from a spatial gap and pulled the falling Reno inside.

Hai Bodong took Reno’s Thunder Serpent Ring, mastered its powers, and developed True God Armor and several techniques. After returning to Starfall Pavilion with Old Yao, he agreed to handle Wind Thunder Pavilion while Old Yao went to Blazing Flame Valley, then tested the armor and found that its strength depended on the ring’s limited energy.

• Hai Bodong took the Thunder Serpent Ring from Reno, searched his soul, and annihilated him.
• Hai Bodong returned to Old Yao and explained that he had obtained the ring; they then pursued their separate training and research.
• Over several months, Hai Bodong replenished the ring with Primal Energy from the Heart of Ayabi, mastered it, and created True God Armor and four techniques.
• Hai Bodong and Old Yao used the Time Wheel Hourglass to return to Starfall Pavilion, where Old Yao asked Hai Bodong to contact the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan behind Wind Thunder Pavilion.
• Old Yao left for Blazing Flame Valley to discuss the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire with Old Ancestor Huoyun, while Hai Bodong tested True God Armor and concluded that its use on the Dou Qi Continent was limited by the ring’s energy.

Hai Bodong checked his cultivation after testing the True God Armor, then traveled from Starfall Pavilion toward the Northern Region. He recognized Myriad Snake Gorge as the place where Xiao Yan had fallen after a spatial storm and arrived above the Han Family caravan as it entered the gorge.

• Hai Bodong reviewed his Attribute Panel and celebrated how quickly his cultivation had advanced with his master's pills.
• Xiao Yi Xian greeted Hai Bodong, who playfully held her upside down until she escaped through a spatial rift.
• Hai Bodong left the Starfall Pavilion secret realm and traveled toward the Northern Region of Central Continent.
• Hai Bodong recognized the desert as the place where Xiao Yan had fallen after encountering a spatial storm and sensed the surrounding area.
• Hai Bodong shuttled to Myriad Snake Gorge and watched the Han Family caravan quietly enter, taking precautions not to alert Demon Snake Xia Mang.

Demon Snake Xia Mang ambushed the Han Family caravan in Myriad Snake Gorge and demanded that Han Xue be left behind. Hai Bodong froze Xia Mang and the snakes, then departed, allowing Han Xue and the caravan to continue safely.

• Xia Mang surrounded the Han Family caravan with venomous snakes and accepted a Purple Crystal Card from Han Chong.
• Xia Mang demanded that Han Xue leave the caravan, and Han Xue emerged from her carriage to fight him.
• Hai Bodong froze Xia Mang and every snake-type magical beast in Myriad Snake Gorge without harming the caravan.
• Han Xue thanked Hai Bodong, who introduced himself and left through a spatial rift.
• Han Xue ordered the caravan onward, and its guards rejoiced after escaping the gorge.

Hai Bodong arrived in Tianbei City and offered the Han Family a great fortune, then secluded himself to test the Thunder Serpent Ring’s power on a Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse. He refined it into Heavenly Phoenix Blood Essence and confirmed that the ring let him use abilities involving time and space.

• Hai Bodong entered Tianbei City and went to the Han Manor, where he summoned Han Chi by releasing his Dou Zong pressure.
• Hai Bodong identified himself as Ice Venerable, and Han Chi welcomed him and agreed to hear his offer.
• Hai Bodong privately explained his purpose to Han Chi and took up residence in a pavilion at the Han Family estate.
• Hai Bodong traveled to the Han Family’s rear mountains and used the Thunder Serpent Ring to refine a Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse over several days.
• Hai Bodong sealed the resulting Heavenly Phoenix Blood Essence in a jade vial and concluded that the ring gave him flexible control over time- and space-related abilities.

Han Chi sought Hai Bodong’s help when Hong Chen brought the backing of Wind Thunder North Pavilion to threaten the Han Family. Hai Bodong killed the Hong Family’s visitors, accepted Han Yue and Han Xue as attendants, and drove Shen Yun away, leaving the Wind Thunder North Pavilion likely to hear of the confrontation.

• Han Chi asked Hai Bodong to intervene after Hong Chen arrived at the Han Family with Wind Thunder North Pavilion’s support.
• Hai Bodong entered the Han Family discussion hall and burned Hong Chen and the other Hong Family members to ash.
• Han Chi introduced Han Yue and Han Xue as his daughters and offered them as Hai Bodong’s personal maids, and Hai Bodong agreed.
• Hai Bodong killed the Hong Family ancestor and beat Shen Yun, an elder of Wind Thunder North Pavilion, until Shen Yun fled toward the pavilion’s headquarters.

After suppressing the Hong Family, Hai Bodong intimidated Thunder Venerable into apologizing for Shen Yun’s conduct. He then took Han Yue and Han Xue to the Tianmu Mountain Range, where the chapter left them together behind a Spatial Barrier.

• Hai Bodong delegated the remaining suppression of the Hong Family to Han Chi and the Han Family’s Dou Zong ancestor, then cultivated for half a month.
• Thunder Venerable visited Hai Bodong to challenge his treatment of Shen Yun, but Hai Bodong revealed his peak Nine-Revolution Dou Zun cultivation and forced him to apologize.
• Thunder Venerable thanked Hai Bodong for correcting Shen Yun and departed after discussing the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly.
• Hai Bodong spent several more days with Han Yue and Han Xue before using Spatial Shuttle to take them to the outskirts of the Tianmu Mountain Range.
• Hai Bodong set up a Spatial Barrier and began an intimate encounter with Han Yue and Han Xue.

Hai Bodong killed and searched the soul of an Azure Wolf King, then took the Han sisters to the inner Tianmu Mountain Range. There, he found Nalan Yanran surrounded by four Dou Huang opponents who wanted her Spiritual White Fox, and the scar-faced leader ordered his men to attack.

• Hai Bodong ended his time with the Han sisters, gave them enhancement pills, and removed his Spatial Barrier.
• Hai Bodong discovered the Azure Wolf King, froze it, extracted its soul, and stored its body and Soul Body.
• Hai Bodong searched the Azure Wolf King's soul and took the Han sisters to plunder its hidden treasures.
• Hai Bodong brought the Han sisters to the inner Tianmu Mountain Range, where he knew the Tianshan Blood Pool was located.
• Nalan Yanran refused to hand over her Spiritual White Fox to three Earth Spirit Sect disciples and Wang Chen of the Yellow Spring Pavilion.
• The scar-faced leader ordered his three companions to make quick work of Nalan Yanran.

Nalan Yanran fought three Earth Spirit Sect men who wanted her Spiritual White Fox, but Hai Bodong intervened and saved her. Hai Bodong then captured Wang Chen as he tried to flee, while Wang Chen begged for mercy.

• Three Earth Spirit Sect men threatened Nalan Yanran and demanded that she hand over the Spiritual White Fox.
• Nalan Yanran fought the three men, who joined their Dou Qi into an earth dragon that shattered her wind barrier.
• Hai Bodong struck the earth dragon with ice-attributed Dou Qi, then froze all three Earth Spirit Sect men and collected their corpses and Soul Bodies.
• Hai Bodong greeted Nalan Yanran, who thanked him for arriving before Wang Chen could restrain her with dark-attributed Dou Qi.
• Hai Bodong caught Wang Chen as he tried to escape, and Wang Chen begged him to spare his life.

Hai Bodong secured places for Han Xue and Nalan Yanran in the Tianshan Blood Pool, then brought them to the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly. After the women improved their cultivation, they arrived at the assembly and settled in the Starfall Pavilion’s residence to watch the competition.

• Hai Bodong spared Wang Chen and learned from Nalan Yanran that Yun Yun had joined the Flower Sect and was refining Granny Hua’s inheritance.
• Hai Bodong took Nalan Yanran and the Han sisters into the Tianmu Mountain Range and traded a pill that cured fire poison for two Tianshan Blood Pool places.
• Han Xue and Nalan Yanran cultivated in the pool for about a month, each advancing two stars in Dou Huang cultivation.
• Hai Bodong used Spatial Shuttle to take the three women to the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly in the Wind Thunder Mountain Range.
• Hai Bodong settled Han Xue, Han Yue, and Nalan Yanran at the Starfall Pavilion’s residence and watched the assembly with them.

The Four Directions Pavilion Assembly brought Thunder Venerable, Sword Venerable, Yellow Springs Venerable, and Venerable Feng together, while Hai Bodong dismissed the contest as unimportant. After attending to the Han sisters in his quarters, Hai Bodong confronted Nalan Yanran, who confessed that she had fallen in love with him.

• Sword Venerable and Tang Ying arrived at Thunder Mountain, where Sword Venerable traded barbs with Yellow Springs Venerable about their losses to Feng Xian.
• Venerable Feng and Mu Qingluan arrived, completing the gathering of four Dou Zun experts at the assembly.
• Hai Bodong judged Mu Qingluan likely to take second place and considered the contestants' rankings unimportant compared with the strength of their factions' top experts.
• Hai Bodong spent time with Han Yue and Han Xue in Starfall Pavilion's resting room.
• Hai Bodong found Nalan Yanran eavesdropping, and Nalan Yanran confessed that she had fallen in love with him.

Hai Bodong left with Nalan Yanran and the Han Family sisters and went to meet Thunder Venerable after the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly ended. He summoned Feng Qing'er, whom Hai Bodong said he had come specifically to see.

• Hai Bodong comforted Nalan Yanran, and she declared that she was ready to be with him.
• After feeding Nalan Yanran a Fifth-grade Healing Pill, Hai Bodong left with her and the recovered Han Family sisters for the reception hall.
• The Four Directions Pavilion Assembly results were announced: Feng Qing'er took first place, Mu Qingluan second, Tang Ying third, and Wang Chen fourth.
• Hai Bodong used Spatial Shuttle to enter the Wind Thunder Pavilion reception hall, where Thunder Venerable greeted him.
• Thunder Venerable summoned Feng Qing'er, and Hai Bodong told her that meeting her was his main purpose for visiting.

Hai Bodong secured Feng Qing'er’s acceptance of support from him and Medicine Saint, then returned to Starfall Pavilion and spent more than half a year strengthening his cultivation and bloodline. After his seclusion, Old Yao gave him a Bodhi Great Returning Pill that could raise his chance of breaking through to Half-Saint to fifty percent.

• Hai Bodong offered Feng Qing'er support from himself and Medicine Saint, and she accepted in exchange for promising to repay their help.
• Hai Bodong gave Feng Qing'er a peak seventh-tier Sovereign Extreme Pill and later returned to Starfall Pavilion with Nalan Yanran and the Han sisters.
• Hai Bodong cultivated for three months to prepare for Half-Saint, then refined Dragon Emperor Essence Blood and fused it with Heavenly Phoenix Essence Blood to create Dragon Phoenix Blood Essence.
• Hai Bodong absorbed the Dragon Phoenix Blood Essence, exhausting the Thunder Serpent Ring’s Primal Energy while improving his combat strength, cultivation aptitude, and Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor.
• After Hai Bodong ended his seclusion, Old Yao gave him a ninth-tier Bodhi Great Returning Pill, which raised his chance of breaking through to Half-Saint from twenty percent to fifty percent.

Hai Bodong consumed the Bodhi Great Returning Pill and broke through to the Half-Saint realm, then advanced his soul power and visited the Jie Mo Ren Universe to charge his Thunder Serpent Ring. He later located a sealed ruin in the Skeleton Mountain Range and considered how to enter without drawing rivals.

• Hai Bodong refined Old Yao's Bodhi Great Returning Pill and broke through to the low-level Half-Saint realm after a month.
• Old Yao told Hai Bodong about his deal with Old Ancestor Huoyun to obtain the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire in exchange for healing him.
• Hai Bodong used Soul Origin to raise his soul realm from the peak of the Spiritual Realm to its great completion level.
• Hai Bodong traveled to the Jie Mo Ren Universe, charged his Thunder Serpent Ring, and returned after the Time Wheel Hourglass's three-month cooldown.
• Hai Bodong traveled to the Skeleton Mountain Range and found a concealed ruin, hoping to obtain a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit while avoiding attracting other experts.

Hai Bodong infiltrated the ancient ruins, acquired ten Earth Demon Puppets, and used his Dragon Phoenix Bloodline to reach the Dragon Phoenix Ruins. After obtaining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and salvaging the remains of two dead Supreme Demonic Beasts, he left for the Pill Hall and collected its valuable pills.

• Hai Bodong bypassed the ruin's defenses, claimed the ten Earth Demon Puppets, and used his bloodline to identify the spatial passage leading toward the Dragon Phoenix Ruins.
• Hai Bodong entered a medicinal herb field, gathered several precious herbs, and found the Beast Spirit Barrier sealing the Dragon Phoenix Ruins.
• Hai Bodong used Ancient Void Dragon royal bloodline to enter the ruins and plucked the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit from the remains of a Primordial Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• Hai Bodong refined the resisting ancestral soul of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and collected useful parts from both Supreme Demonic Beast remains.
• Hai Bodong entered the Pill Hall, took its high-grade medicinal pills, and sealed an eight-tier nine-colored pill that had formed into a Pill Beast.

Hai Bodong looted an ancient ruin near the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan, defeated its defenses, and brought treasures back to Starfall Pavilion. He asked Old Yao to visit the Inner Earth World again so he could safely absorb the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit’s bloodline energy.

• Hai Bodong used a map to loot the ruin’s side halls before entering its main hall.
• Hai Bodong suppressed ten low-grade Dou Zun puppets, erased the ancient Dou Saint’s soul imprints, and stored the puppets and hall’s Dou Skills.
• Hai Bodong interrupted the Dou Saint skeleton’s Great Heaven Creation Palm, stored the skeleton, and left the ruin.
• Hai Bodong returned to Starfall Pavilion and gave Old Yao dozens of treasure-filled Storage Rings for the pavilion’s treasury.
• Hai Bodong asked Old Yao to visit the Inner Earth World again because he needed its Primal Energy to safely absorb the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

Hai Bodong returned to the Inner Earth World with Old Yao and spent more than two years refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, greatly increasing his cultivation and power. Back at Starfall Pavilion, he inherited and tested the Great Heaven Creation Palm, then concluded that the low-grade Heaven-tier technique did little to improve his combat strength.

• Old Yao agreed to accompany Hai Bodong to the Inner Earth World and protect him while he refined the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Hai Bodong spent about two years refining the fruit, reaching early Three-Star Dou Saint and early Heavenly Realm soul power before completing the process at late Four-Star Dou Saint.
• Hai Bodong and Old Yao returned to Starfall Pavilion, where Hai Bodong spent several days with the Han sisters and Nalan Yanran.
• Hai Bodong refined the ancient Dou Saint's remains, endured Golden Spirit Birth, and accepted the inheritance of the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Hai Bodong tested the Great Heaven Creation Palm and decided that only mid-grade Heaven-tier techniques or better could significantly improve his combat strength.

Hai Bodong prepared a medicinal bath to cure Qing Lin’s Emperor Python Heart-Eating Poison and left Xiao Yi Xian to care for her through the treatment. Seven days later, the medicinal power had fully fused, and Qing Lin faced the most crucial stage of detoxification.

• Hai Bodong checked his cultivation progress before Xiao Yi Xian rushed in with the poisoned Qing Lin and explained that she had been infected while provoking the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan.
• Hai Bodong took Qing Lin to a hidden cave and prepared a detoxifying bath using a formula from Old Yao and a drop of essence blood from a Pill Beast.
• Xiao Yi Xian placed Qing Lin in the medicinal pool and ordered Hai Bodong to leave while she tended to her.
• Hai Bodong returned to his residence, and seven days passed before Xiao Yi Xian summoned him back to the cave.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Hai Bodong that the medicinal power had fully fused and that Qing Lin was about to face the crucial stage of treatment.