Chapter Summaries

Hai Bodong explored a hidden cave in Laojun Mountain and found a cluster of energy-rich stalagmites. After collecting eleven gemstones, he accidentally knocked down the last one and discovered a pool below, just as a giant python attacked him.

• Hai Bodong used the Cube System’s teleportation to enter a damp cave and searched for the gemstone signal.
• Hai Bodong followed a breeze through a narrow crack into a vast stalactite cave and nearly fell while traversing the opening.
• Hai Bodong spotted the gemstone cluster, avoided a black snake’s bite with teleportation, and carefully crossed the cave despite the system’s cooldown.
• Hai Bodong collected eleven gemstones and then accidentally knocked down the isolated final stalagmite with his iron shovel.
• Hai Bodong saw a pool below and noticed a strange reflection beside him before the giant python launched an attack.

Hai Bodong escaped the giant python by entering Cube Space and learned that the Cube System could synthesize gems. He began combining his collected gems into an Advanced Gem, but the process would take about 100 hours.

• Hai Bodong fell toward the pool while entangled with the giant python and discovered that Cube Space would not admit the snake.
• Hai Bodong realized the Cube System counted the python wrapped around him as a living creature he was carrying.
• Hai Bodong freed himself by entering Cube Space without the python.
• Hai Bodong asked the Cube System to synthesize his newly collected gems and learned that gem synthesis was one of its core functions.
• Hai Bodong chose to synthesize an Advanced Gem, and the Cube System estimated that it would take approximately 100 hours.

A modern man transmigrated into the Dou Qi Continent as the young Xiao Yan and began planning how to use his knowledge of the story to survive. After he left his room, the liquid he had left with the ancient ring mysteriously vanished, and Xiao Yan joined Xiao Zhan and his brothers for a meal.

• Xiao Yan realized he had become the original protagonist and resolved to plan around the plot he knew.
• A maid told Xiao Yan that dinner was ready, and he left his room.
• The liquid in the bottle Xiao Yan had left behind slowly disappeared, leaving the ancient ring at the bottom.
• Xiao Zhan welcomed Xiao Yan to dinner and asked whether he had taken the medicine Master Gu had made for him.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan that his illness had improved, while Xiao Ding and Xiao Li smiled at him.

After waking from a three-day unconscious spell, Xiao Yan reassured his family and considered how to make amends for taking over the original Xiao Yan’s body. The chapter ended with him returning to his room and reflecting on the quality of the soul-healing medicine.

• Xiao Zhan welcomed Xiao Yan back after he had been unconscious for three days.
• Xiao Li joked that Xiao Yan might have woken up an idiot, and Xiao Ding told him to stop talking nonsense.
• Xiao Yan decided inwardly to treat the family better to compensate for taking over the original Xiao Yan’s body.
• After dinner, Xiao Yan walked back to his room and wondered whether the soul-healing medicinal liquid was at most second tier.

Fang Yuan activated the Demon God Simulator, which showed his predetermined future after transmigrating to the Dou Qi Continent. The simulation left him at Jia Lan Academy’s Inner Academy as a one-star Dou Ling and fourth-grade alchemist.

• Fang Yuan confirmed his login to the Demon God Simulator, which granted him a free first life simulation and explained that future simulations would cost demon essence.
• The simulation showed Fang Yuan being taken in by Xiao Zhan and his wife as a Xiao Family handyman, then earning the clan’s trust through diligent work and cultivation.
• After reaching the Dou Zhe realm, Fang Yuan was formally admitted into the Xiao Family, received resources and training, and became the disciple of alchemist Gu Ni.
• Fang Yuan advanced in cultivation and alchemy, supplied the Xiao Family marketplace with pills, and then joined Jia Lan Academy’s Outer Academy.
• Fang Yuan became a third-grade alchemist at the Outer Academy, entered the Inner Academy, and studied under Elder Huo.
• By age 23, Fang Yuan had reached the one-star Dou Ling realm and passed the fourth-grade alchemist examination.

Fang Yuan received the cultivation, soul power, and memories from his simulation, then woke in the Xiao Family. He told Xiao Zhan and Tian Qi that he could cure her hidden ailment and asked to inspect her ring.

• Fang Yuan confirmed that he wanted to claim the rewards from his first simulation.
• The memories flooded into Fang Yuan’s mind as his soul power, Dou Qi cultivation, and body transformed; he passed out from the pain.
• Fang Yuan woke in the Xiao Family and thanked Xiao Zhan and his wife for caring for him.
• Fang Yuan identified Tian Qi’s hidden ailment and promised to cure her with a Restoration Pill if Xiao Zhan gathered two sets of materials.
• Xiao Zhan and Tian Qi bowed in gratitude, and Fang Yuan asked to examine Tian Qi’s ring.

Fang Yuan extracted the energy from Madam Xiao’s Bone Flame Ring, raising his soul power to the Mortal Realm Peak and uncovering Old Yao’s treasures. He used the Demon God Simulator to preview a future in which he devoured the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, took Xiao Yan away, and became an honorary elder, but the simulation ended when his demonic essence ran out.

• Fang Yuan accepted Madam Xiao’s Bone Flame Ring and passed out while extracting the violent energy inside it.
• The next morning, Fang Yuan discovered his soul realm had reached the Mortal Realm Peak and found Old Yao’s techniques, treasures, and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame’s origin flame in the ring.
• Fang Yuan started a new life simulation, which showed him helping Xiao Zhan’s wife recover and taking the four-year-old Xiao Yan as his disciple.
• In the simulated future, Fang Yuan devoured the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, advanced his cultivation, took Xiao Yan to the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, and became an honorary elder of the Mittel Family and the Alchemist Guild.
• The simulation ended when Fang Yuan ran out of demonic essence, and he complained that the simulator consumed it too quickly.

Fang Yuan claimed the Dou Qi cultivation from his simulated life, reaching One-star Dou Zong, then took Xiao Yan to the Monster Mountain Range to train. After leaving Xiao Yan in a protected cave, Fang Yuan searched for Xiao Yi Xian and located the household where she lived as a child.

• Fang Yuan chose the simulated life’s Dou Qi cultivation as his reward and gained the cultivation of an Eight-star Dou Huang.
• Fang Yuan followed the events of his previous simulation, broke through to One-star Dou Zong, and adapted to his increased strength in the Monster Mountain Range.
• Fang Yuan took Xiao Yan from the Xiao Family in Wutan City and brought him to a hidden cave in the Monster Mountain Range.
• Fang Yuan gave Xiao Yan Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and supplies, then sealed the cave with a Spatial Barrier to make him train safely.
• Fang Yuan searched the surrounding villages for Xiao Yi Xian and identified the household where she lived.

Fang Yuan found Xiao Yi Xian and persuaded her mother, Shen Yunyou, to let Xiao Yi Xian and herself leave with him. Over the next six years, Fang Yuan trained and gathered demonic essence in the Monster Mountain Range, reaching the early Spiritual Realm in soul power and Half-step Dou Zun in Dou Qi.

• Fang Yuan visited Shen Yunyou and learned that Xiao Yi Xian's father, Lin Xiuyuan, had died while serving as a soldier.
• Fang Yuan explained the Calamity Poison Body to Shen Yunyou, who agreed to let him take Xiao Yi Xian away; Fang Yuan invited both mother and daughter to join him, and they accepted.
• Fang Yuan stayed in the Monster Mountain Range for six years, teaching Xiao Yi Xian, training Xiao Yan, fighting magical beasts, and collecting their corpses and magic cores for demonic essence.
• Fang Yuan used frequent life simulations to improve his Dou Qi cultivation and soul realm, eventually reaching the early Spiritual Realm and Half-step Dou Zun.
• Fang Yuan advanced his alchemy by studying Old Yao's memories, creating several pill formulas, and cautiously refining a few Grade 7 Pills behind Spatial Barriers.

Fang Yuan reflected on the six years he had spent cultivating and training Xiao Yan, then decided to send Xiao Yan to the Black Corner Region to gain more experience. He tasked Zi Ming with taking Xiao Yan there while he prepared to leave.

• Fang Yuan recalled exploring a cave dwelling and passing Xiao Yan several Dou Techniques and cultivation methods, while keeping his better techniques to himself.
• Xiao Yan complained to himself about Fang Yuan's harsh training and lack of personal alchemy instruction, then bragged that he could refine fourth-tier pills.
• Fang Yuan appeared beside Xiao Yan and teased him about grumbling before Xiao Yan obediently apologized.
• Fang Yuan summoned Zi Ming, praised his and his mother's advances to seventh-tier magical beasts, and said he would soon be leaving.
• Fang Yuan ordered Zi Ming to take Xiao Yan to the Black Corner Region and temper him there.

Fang Yuan sent Xiao Yan away with Zi Ming, arranged for Purple Crystal to care for Xiao Yi Xian, and traveled to Mo City to seize Hai Bodong’s map fragments. After obtaining them, Fang Yuan sent the Bone Spirit Cold Flame into Hai Bodong’s body, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Fang Yuan gave Zi Ming a Storage Ring of resources for Xiao Yan, ordered him to keep the boy away from Jia Lan Academy, and reminded him to collect resources for Fang Yuan while stirring up trouble.
• Xiao Yan gladly left with Zi Ming, and Fang Yuan summoned Purple Crystal and told her to care for Xiao Yi Xian before heading to Mo City.
• Fang Yuan secretly entered Mo City and went to Hai Bodong’s Ancient Map shop.
• Fang Yuan used his half-step Dou Zun aura to force Hai Bodong to hand over two fragments of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map.
• After verifying the fragments, Fang Yuan praised Hai Bodong and sent the Bone Spirit Cold Flame into his body, causing him intense pain.

Fang Yuan broke Queen Medusa’s seal on Hai Bodong and restored his peak Dou Huang cultivation with a Spirit Recovery Purple Pill. He sent Hai Bodong to find Qing Lin, and the chapter ended with the girl brought before Fang Yuan.

• Fang Yuan told Hai Bodong to stop resisting as the Bone Spirit Cold Flame painfully broke the seal, restoring him to a two-star Dou Huang.
• Queen Medusa sensed that Hai Bodong’s seal had broken but decided she could investigate later.
• Fang Yuan gave Hai Bodong a Spirit Recovery Purple Pill, which restored him to his peak five-star Dou Huang cultivation.
• Fang Yuan asked Hai Bodong to find seven-year-old Qing Lin in Stone Desert City, and Hai Bodong quickly brought her back.
• Fang Yuan praised Hai Bodong and dismissed him to return to the Mittel Family.

Fang Yuan helped Qing Lin awaken her bloodline, advanced his cultivation, and killed Han Feng to seize his resources and Sea Heart Flame. He began refining the flame in Maple City, while Queen Medusa remained undecided about accepting his help with her evolution.

• Fang Yuan awakened Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, taught her survival rules, and concealed the energy fluctuations from her awakening.
• Over the next three months, Fang Yuan fused the Green Lotus Core Flame with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, advanced his Flame Mantra to Earth-tier low-grade, and broke through to One-star Dou Zun.
• Queen Medusa invited Fang Yuan to the Snake People Sacred Hall after sensing his breakthrough, but she declined his offer to use Heavenly Flames to aid her evolution.
• Fang Yuan left Qing Lin in Yue Mei's care and traveled to Maple City in the Black Corner Region.
• Fang Yuan killed Han Feng, sealed his soul, and looted Maple City's resources, including the Myriad Beasts Cauldron, Sea Heart Flame, pill formulas, and Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Fang Yuan set up a spatial formation in Maple City and began refining Han Feng's Sea Heart Flame.

After devouring the Sea Heart Flame, Fang Yuan broke through to Three-Star Dou Zun and spent more than a year exterminating criminal factions across the Black Corner Region. He left the region’s remaining power structure transformed, while Xiao Yan and Zi Ming grew stronger under his support.

• Fang Yuan devoured the Sea Heart Flame, raising his cultivation to Three-Star Dou Zun and advancing the Burning Art to Earth Tier High Grade.
• Fang Yuan destroyed the Black Corner Region’s major factions and spent more than a year eliminating smaller criminal groups, converting their experts into demonic essence.
• Great Elder Su Qian confirmed Fang Yuan meant Jia Lan Academy no harm, supported his actions, and invited him to visit the academy, but Fang Yuan declined.
• Fang Yuan encountered Xiao Yan during his training and gave him targets, a new cultivation method, and Dou Skills; Xiao Yan reached One-Star Dou Ling and became a Fifth-grade Alchemist at age twelve.
• Zi Ming advanced from One-Star Dou Zong to Four-Star Dou Zong, while Fang Yuan strengthened his foundation by devouring the blood essence of a Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse.

Fang Yuan prepared to leave the Black Corner Region after placing the Demon Origin Sect under local management and sending Xiao Yan to train in the Chu Yun Empire. He traded pills and resources for Jia Lan Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame, fused it into the Burning Art, and left as a six-star high-level Dou Zun with a Quasi-Heaven Tier cultivation technique.

• Xiao Yan reflected on his exhausting year under Fang Yuan before Fang Yuan appeared and asked for Zi Ming.
• Fang Yuan ordered Zi Ming to take Xiao Yan to the Chu Yun Empire and manage the Black Corner Region’s forces outside Jia Lan Academy.
• With Jia Lan Academy’s help, Fang Yuan established the Demon Origin Sect’s management and left it Human-Demon Puppets and nine Earth Demon Puppets to enforce control.
• Fang Yuan refined many captured Black Corner Region powerhouses into puppets and advanced to a four-star Dou Zun with middle-stage Spiritual Realm soul power.
• Fang Yuan gave the Thousand Hundred Elders and Great Elder Su Qian valuable pills and resources in exchange for Jia Lan Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame.
• Fang Yuan fused the Fallen Heart Flame into the Burning Art, reaching six-star high-level Dou Zun and gaining a Quasi-Heaven Tier cultivation technique.

Fang Yuan prepared to help Queen Medusa evolve by devouring a Heavenly Flame after consolidating his gains in the Black Corner Region. Queen Medusa endured the flames and a Seven-Colored Pill Lightning strike, and the chapter left her evolution underway amid signs of new life.

• Fang Yuan kept the Two-Star Dou Zun Heavenly Demon Puppet with him, delayed refining a new body for Heavenly Fire Venerable, and gathered the Black Corner Region's treasures, though he failed to find a Seventh-Order Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core.
• Fang Yuan visited Queen Medusa and asked whether she had decided to use the Snake People's secret technique to evolve with a Heavenly Flame.
• Queen Medusa agreed, prepared for the evolution, and invited Fang Yuan to the underground palace beneath the Snake People Royal Palace.
• Fang Yuan gave Queen Medusa pills to aid her and used a Heavenly Flame to burn her transformed snake body as she cried out in agony.
• After several hours, Seven-Colored Pill Lightning struck Queen Medusa, and a seven-colored radiance and rising life force emerged from her charred body as the Snake People guards cheered.

Fang Yuan helped Queen Medusa complete her evolution, accepted the Snake People’s submission, and relocated them to the Black Corner Region. He then began a new Demon God Simulator run, which recounted his rise to Seven-Star Dou Zun and an encounter with Venerable Wind Feng Xian.

• Fang Yuan examined Queen Medusa’s evolved Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python form, then used a Spirit Merging Pill and his soul power to reunite her original Soul Body with the python’s newly born one.
• Queen Medusa thanked Fang Yuan for the pill and offered to bring the Snake People under his command in exchange for help relocating them.
• Fang Yuan agreed to move the Snake People to the Black Corner Region, and they settled in a cool valley near Jia Lan Academy with help from Jia Lan Academy and the Demon Origin Sect.
• Fang Yuan advanced Queen Medusa cultivation pills, and she accepted them to grow stronger and improve the Snake People’s standing.
• Fang Yuan started a Demon God Simulator run in which he became a Seven-Star Dou Zun and defeated Venerable Wind Feng Xian, who eventually departed after confirming Han Feng’s Soul Body’s account.
• The simulation reported that Hall of Souls Soul Venerable Qing Hai went to rescue Wu Protector and capture Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan collected his soul.

Fang Yuan chose to purify his Heavenly Demon Phoenix bloodline, using materials from a phoenix corpse to gain the ability to transform into a noble-blooded adult Heavenly Demon Phoenix. After the purification also raised his cultivation to Seven-Star Dou Zun, he sent the Demon Origin Sect to attack the surrounding empires for resources.

• Fang Yuan chose bloodline purification instead of claiming the Eight-Star Dou Zun cultivation from his simulation.
• Fang Yuan fed Heavenly Demon Phoenix remains and other materials into the purification process, enduring intense pain as his bloodline transformed.
• Fang Yuan completed the purification in under three hours and broke through to Seven-Star Dou Zun.
• Fang Yuan discovered he could transform into a noble-blooded adult Heavenly Demon Phoenix, though his form could not last long.
• Fang Yuan ordered the Demon Origin Sect to attack the Chu Yun, Mu Lan, and Luo Yan Empires, keeping the Snake People out of the expedition.

Fang Yuan advanced to nine-star Dou Zun and peak Spirit Realm, then raided a Hall of Souls branch hall to gather resources before heading to Heavenly Snake Manor. He arrived during its annual disciple recruitment day, where the chapter left him learning why the manor was crowded.

• Fang Yuan spent two years consolidating the Demon Origin Sect's control over the Black Corner Region and the empires of Chu Yun, Mulan, and Luoyan, reaching eight-star and then nine-star Dou Zun.
• Fang Yuan broke through to the late Spirit Realm in soul strength and decided to seek resources at Heavenly Snake Manor.
• Fang Yuan disguised himself, killed the Hall of Souls branch hall's Venerable Elders and Protectors, and took its Soul Origin and valuable resources.
• Fang Yuan absorbed the stolen Soul Origin and reached the peak Spirit Realm before continuing to Heavenly Snake Manor.
• Fang Yuan arrived at Heavenly Snake Manor's headquarters and learned from a young man that its annual disciple recruitment day was underway.

Fang Yuan trespassed into Heavenly Snake Manor, killed its Great Elder, and broke the Heavenly Snake Grand Formation with overwhelming force. The injured elders recognized him as a high-level Dou Zun and called for the two sect masters to decide what to do.

• Fang Yuan bypassed the disciple-recruitment queue and used a spatial passage to enter Heavenly Snake Manor.
• The Heavenly Snake Manor disciples sent a distress signal and halted recruitment as Fang Yuan approached the sect grounds.
• Fang Yuan killed the peak Dou Zong Great Elder with Spatial Strangulation and obtained materials for refining puppets.
• Heavenly Snake Manor's elders formed the Heavenly Snake Grand Formation, but Fang Yuan shattered it with another Spatial Strangulation.
• The elders suffered severe injuries, and their leaders identified Fang Yuan as a high-level Dou Zun and called for the two sect masters.