Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiao and his companions left Falling God Ravine for the north, but they destroyed the predatory Desire Immortal Sect after its members tried to abduct the women. Xun Er and Qing Lin then departed for the Ancient Clan, leaving Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian to continue toward the Northern Continent and the Netherworld Poison Flame.

• Chen Xiao praised his refined cultivation method, which stored his Dou Qi in three Ice Soul Talismans, and he and Xun Er set out north with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• The young master of Desire Immortal Sect blocked their path and demanded the women, so Chen Xiao sent the Heavenly Demon Puppet to kill him and destroy the sect.
• Chen Xiao's group collected the sect's spoils, and Xun Er used her Golden Emperor Heavenly Flame to clean the puppet after it killed the sect's last survivor.
• Chen Xiao told Xiao Yi Xian that they would seek the Netherworld Poison Flame at Black Water Heavy Abyss, where it could strengthen her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xun Er and Qing Lin sensed that Ancient Clan members were approaching and left through a spatial passage after bidding farewell to Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian continued north together, with Chen Xiao anticipating that the journey would bring him a major transformation.

Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to the Black Water Heavy Abyss to find the Netherworld Poison Flame. After reaching the heart of the poisonous swamp, they discovered the eerie green Heavenly Flame hovering above the mire.

• Chen Xiao practiced the Earth Covering Seal and demonstrated its destructive power in the Far Northern Desert.
• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian continued north, crossing into the Northwest Continent after a long journey through the cold wilderness.
• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian reached the Black Water Heavy Abyss and protected themselves from its deadly poison.
• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian ventured deeper into the swamp, where the insects vanished and the heat intensified.
• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian spotted the Netherworld Poison Flame flickering above the black mire.

Xiao Yi Xian refined the Netherworld Poison Flame and advanced to Four-Star Dou Venerate. After she and Chen Xiao left the poisonous energy unaddressed, she drew him into an intimate encounter amid the frozen mire.

• Chen Xiao told Xiao Yi Xian to suppress and refine the Netherworld Poison Flame, and she seized it despite its poisonous attacks.
• Xiao Yi Xian extracted the flame’s source seed, swallowed it, and began refining it while Chen Xiao contained the spreading fire.
• After half a month, Xiao Yi Xian finished refining the flame and broke through to Four-Star Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that the Netherworld Poison Flame suited her Woeful Poison Body and suggested an easier way to deal with the poisonous haze.
• Xiao Yi Xian kissed Chen Xiao, and they settled together on the ice as a barrier enclosed them.

Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian entered the Extreme Northern Land, where Chen Xiao saved the Shuofeng Tribe from the Barbarian Bear Tribe and asked its leader Ji Chuan about the region. Ji Chuan explained that the Fallen God Ice Plain was the site of a past calamity over the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and Chen Xiao recognized the story as part of Yao Chen’s history.

• Xiao Yi Xian uncovered the remains of a seventh-rank Magical Beast, and Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian flew toward a battle in the distance.
• Chen Xiao intervened in the fight, deflected the Barbarian King’s attack, and defeated the Barbarian Tribe warriors with a rain of ice blades.
• Ji Chuan thanked Chen Xiao, offered him the Barbarian King’s Storage Ring, and led Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian to the Shuofeng Tribe.
• Ji Chuan described the Northern Continent’s tribes and powers, then agreed to provide a map and explained that the Fallen God Ice Plain was more than half a year away.
• Ji Chuan recounted how outsiders seeking the Bone Spirit Cold Flame had devastated the region and how Qing Hua destroyed the Yellow Ultimate Tribe; Chen Xiao connected the account to Yao Chen’s past.

Chen Xiao used the Purple Spirit Cold Qi to locate the hidden False Heaven Ruins in the ice sea beyond the Fallen God Ice Plain. When a spatial tear opened at the marked location, Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian were pulled inside, and Chen Xiao decided to see what awaited them.

• Chen Xiao studied Ji Chuan’s map, left a Soul Mark and directions for Qing Lin, then traveled with Xiao Yi Xian to the Fallen God Ice Plain.
• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian explored the frozen plain and its ice sea, where Chen Xiao suspected the False Heaven Ruins were hidden.
• Chen Xiao used a Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures Pre-pay to obtain the Purple Spirit Cold Qi, which instinctively drifted toward the Ruins.
• After waiting ten days for Qing Lin, Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian followed the Purple Spirit Cold Qi into the ice sea and marked the spot where it struck an invisible barrier.
• A spatial tear opened and trapped Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian in a powerful suction force; Chen Xiao told Xiao Yi Xian not to resist, and they were swallowed by the tear along with the Purple Spirit Cold Qi.

Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian arrived in the Dream Realm, where twin Saintesses Qing Huan and Xing Yao guided them into the Holy City. When Cold Night suddenly began, Chen Xiao’s Purple Spirit Cold Qi reacted dangerously, leading him to conclude that the realm was governed by the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian met Qing Huan and Xing Yao, who called them arrivals and explained that they were Saintesses appointed by the High Priest.
• Qing Huan and Xing Yao led Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian into the Holy City and arranged a place for them to stay before reporting their arrival to the High Priest.
• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian entered their lodgings and agreed to seek an audience with the High Priest to learn more about the Dream Realm.
• When Cold Night began, the sudden chill disrupted Chen Xiao’s fusion with the Purple Spirit Cold Qi, and Xiao Yi Xian used the Netherworld Poison Flame to warm him.
• Chen Xiao deduced that Cold Night marked the Bone Spirit Cold Flame shifting into its extreme-cold state, confirming that the flame was present in the realm.

Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian learned from the High Priest that the Dream Realm was an isolated small world created to protect the White Tribe, with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame controlling its cycle of day and Cold Night. The High Priest revealed that the White Tribe’s saintesses had died attempting a trial for a powerful expert’s inheritance, and Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian left the choice to join it undecided.

• Chen Xiao confirmed that his fusion with the Purple Spirit Cold Qi remained stable even without Xiao Yi Xian’s Netherworld Poison Flame.
• Qing Huan and Xing Yao escorted Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian to meet the High Priest, and told them that holy maidens began cultivating at age ten and disappeared at thirty.
• The High Priest explained that an ancient expert had hidden the White Tribe in the Dream Realm, using the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to create its alternating day and Cold Night.
• The High Priest said leaks in the small world’s formation periodically drew outsiders inside, and revealed that previous saintesses had died trying to pass the ancient expert’s trial.
• Chen Xiao asked whether he and Xiao Yi Xian could attempt the trial, and told the High Priest they would consider it before deciding.

The High Priest gave Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian two valuable cultivation scrolls and explained how to survive the Dream Realm’s Cold Nights. As they explored Holy City, they learned of the fallen White Dragon Honored One and encountered Xing Yao and Qing Huan, prompting Chen Xiao to consider taking the girls out of the Dream Realm.

• The High Priest gave Chen Xiao the Heavenly Wind Soul Scripture and Xiao Yi Xian the Heavenly Poison Overturning Void Chapter, then warned them to enter a city before Cold Night.
• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian discussed whether the High Priest was trustworthy and decided to keep exploring Holy City.
• A young girl told Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian that the White Dragon Honored One had defeated a powerful Magical Beast, later fought the Saintess, and died alongside her.
• Xing Yao and Qing Huan arrived and offered to show Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian an album of portraits of past saintesses.
• Chen Xiao privately reassured Xiao Yi Xian that he could take Xing Yao and Qing Huan out of the Dream Realm when they left.

Chen Xiao investigated the White Tribe’s Saintesses with Qing Huan and Xing Yao, then cultivated the Heavenly Wind Soul Scripture and broke through his soul’s limits. His consciousness unexpectedly entered the Trial Grounds, where he encountered Saintess Qiwu and Saintess Xuanyin before Xuanyin forced him out.

• Qing Huan explained that Saintess Qiwu’s death led to the rule that Saintesses began cultivating at ten and disappeared at thirty, while Xing Yao recounted Saintess Xuanyin’s message to her and Qing Huan.
• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian checked their new cultivation techniques, then began cultivating the Heavenly Wind Soul Scripture and Heavenly Poison Overturning Void Chapter.
• Chen Xiao’s soul cultivation stirred energy across the Holy City, and the High Priest secretly sent spiritual light from the city’s formation to accelerate his breakthrough.
• Chen Xiao’s soul perception expanded across the Holy City, and he entered the Spirit Realm after drawing spirit energy into his soul.
• Chen Xiao’s consciousness reached a vast hall in the Trial Grounds, where he saw Saintess Qiwu, Saintess Xuanyin, and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Saintess Xuanyin rebuked Chen Xiao for entering the Trial Grounds outside its rules and drove his consciousness back.

Chen Xiao entered the Spirit Realm and learned from the High Priest about the dangerous inheritance trial outside Tinglan City. He and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to investigate it, while their doubts about the High Priest and the long-lived Saintess Qiwu remained unresolved.

• Chen Xiao reunited his humanoid soul with his body, completing his breakthrough into the Spirit Realm as Xiao Yi Xian watched.
• The High Priest explained that the trial might test array talent and combat strength, could not be interrupted once begun, and was hidden behind a stone tablet outside Tinglan City.
• Chen Xiao decided he and Xiao Yi Xian would enter the trial together, and the High Priest gave them a map to the site.
• After the High Priest left, Chen Xiao told Xiao Yi Xian about the two former Holy Maidens he had seen and shared his suspicions about the High Priest and Saintess Xuanyin.
• Chen Xiao chose to visit the trial site, but first planned to say goodbye to Qing Huan and Xing Yao, who arrived at the Holy City.

Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian reached Tinglan City and learned that a stone stele held a trial ground and periodically released increasingly dangerous Puppets. They defeated a swarm led by two Dou Zong Heavenly Demon Puppets, then entered the trial as the doorway closed behind them.

• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian arrived in Tinglan City, where Bai Heng explained that the names on the stone stele honored those who had died defending the Dream Realm from Puppets emerging from it.
• A young man entered the stele to seek its inheritance, and the resulting spatial doorway released a Puppet that Bai Heng and the city’s fighters quickly destroyed.
• Dozens more Puppets poured out, including two Dou Zong Heavenly Demon Puppets, and they overwhelmed Bai Heng and the other defenders.
• Xiao Yi Xian destroyed the ordinary Puppets with Spatial Strangulation while Chen Xiao captured the two Heavenly Demon Puppets and erased their Soul Marks.
• Chen Xiao urged Bai Heng to pursue a breakthrough to Dou Zong, then entered the trial doorway with Xiao Yi Xian, and it closed behind them.

Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian crossed the misty plaza inside the stone tablet and learned to use Rune Seals to control puppets and form arrays. After gaining a force comparable to a One-Star Dou Venerate, they continued deeper and found instructions for a Flame Ice Array, reinforcing Chen Xiao’s suspicion that the trials drew on Great Thousand World Spirit Array Master inheritance.

• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian followed the Netherworld Poison Flame’s pull through the mist, where nine human-grade Heavenly Demon Puppets surrounded them and a parchment revealed the Nine Palaces Returning Formation.
• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian learned to condense Rune Seals, with Chen Xiao completing nine and Xiao Yi Xian completing seven.
• Chen Xiao placed his Rune Seals in the nine puppets and controlled them to form the Nine Palaces Returning Formation, which Xiao Yi Xian tested and found nearly as strong as an ordinary One-Star Dou Venerate.
• Chen Xiao stored the puppets, and he and Xiao Yi Xian continued through the plaza until a Jade Slip revealed the Flame Ice Array and its eighteen-Rune-Seal diagram.
• Chen Xiao concluded that the array methods likely came from Great Thousand World Spirit Array Master inheritance.

Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian completed the second trial, but White Dragon Honored One interrupted their progress and offered them the inheritance in exchange for helping free the White Tribe from the False Heaven. He revealed his identity and long campaign to prepare the tribe to leave, then explained that breaking the Dream Realm’s barrier would require their help.

• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian activated the Flame Ice Array and passed the second trial before the hall of the Bone Spirit Cold Flame suddenly appeared around them.
• Saintess Xuanyin told them the trial had been interrupted because Qing Lin’s presence outside the False Heaven risked drawing powerful experts there.
• Saintess Xuanyin offered them the inheritance if they helped bring the White Tribe out of the False Heaven.
• Saintess Qiwu revealed that Xuanyin was actually White Dragon Honored One, who had split his soul and served as the Dream Realm’s High Priest while secretly preparing the White Tribe to leave.
• White Dragon Honored One and Qiwu explained their efforts, the sacrifices involving Soul Origin, and the danger facing the White Tribe if it entered the outside world unprepared.
• Chen Xiao asked White Dragon Honored One what he needed to do to break the Dream Realm’s barrier.

Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian accepted White Dragon Honored One’s plan to take the Purple Spirit Cold Qi and inheritance while helping stabilize the Dream Realm and calm Qing Lin. As White Dragon Honored One began activating the great array, Xiao Yi Xian was sent through a temporary opening to meet Qing Lin outside, leaving Chen Xiao behind.

• White Dragon Honored One offered Chen Xiao seven wisps of Purple Spirit Cold Qi and the task of refining the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, while Xiao Yi Xian received a Heaven-Rank Intermediate Dou Skill and half of the Array Heaven Sacred Hand inheritance.
• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to the plan, and Xiao Yi Xian warned White Dragon Honored One that she would seek help from the Ancient Clan if Chen Xiao did not emerge within a year.
• White Dragon Honored One activated the Yin Yang Harmony Heaven Great Array, shaking the Dream Realm, while the High Priest told the tribe that their realm had reached its end and ordered its leaders to the Holy City.
• White Dragon Honored One revealed that he had merged with the great array and entrusted the remaining arrangements to Saintess Qiwu before rising to control it.
• The great array opened a temporary passage to the misty world outside, where Qing Lin appeared, and Xiao Yi Xian passed through before the opening closed.

Chen Xiao completed his fusion with the Purple Spirit Cold Qi, advancing to Three-Star Dou Zong and gaining a frost domain through his strengthened Dou Qi. He removed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame’s source and began refining it, while White Dragon Honored One warned that he could suppress the failing array for only a year and a half.

• Chen Xiao fused with the Purple Spirit Cold Qi, advanced to Three-Star Dou Zong, and found that his Dou Qi had grown far more powerful.
• Saintess Qiwu discussed the White Tribe’s coming emergence, while the High Priest gathered the tribe’s leaders and arranged its resources and opportunities.
• After a month of fusion, Chen Xiao’s Dou Qi spread frost across the hall and restricted the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Saintess Qiwu warned Chen Xiao about the danger of refining the Heavenly Flame, and he seized the Bone Spirit Cold Flame’s source from the tray.
• White Dragon Honored One suppressed the array’s loss of control and said he could hold it for a year and a half; Chen Xiao then swallowed the flame’s source, determined to return within a year.

Chen Xiao used the Yin Yang Harmony Heaven Great Array inheritance to refine the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, then sealed it inside the Naling and triggered an unexpected surge in strength. As his aura continued rising beyond the High-level Dou Zong realm, White Dragon Honored One and Saintess Qiwu waited to see how far he would go.

• Chen Xiao found that the Bone Spirit Cold Flame’s hot state could not merge with his Dou Qi, so he cultivated while waiting for it to change.
• White Dragon Honored One passed Chen Xiao Array Heaven Sacred Hand’s inheritance and taught him to use ninety-nine Rune Seals to form a crude Yin Yang Harmony Heaven Great Array in his meridians.
• Chen Xiao spent three months forming the Rune Seals, advanced to Four-Star Dou Zong, and used the array to turn the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to its extreme cold state.
• After guiding the flame through his meridians for two more months, Chen Xiao forced it into the space created by the Naling and completed its refinement.
• Chen Xiao’s body broke free of the ice as energy from the Bone Spirit Cold Flame drove his strength rapidly upward, and White Dragon Honored One said it could reach Dou Venerate while warning that this might not be good for him.

Chen Xiao broke through to the One-Star Dou Venerate realm after gaining powerful new abilities in the Stone Stele Space. The High Priest prepared the White Tribe to leave the False Heaven in ten days and asked Chen Xiao to help them reach land and protect Qing Huan and Xing Yao, while allowing the rest to face the dangers of the outside world.

• The High Priest calmed the crowds gathered around Tinglan City and announced that the White Tribe would begin another great migration as Chen Xiao's breakthrough shook the earth.
• Chen Xiao emerged as a Dou Venerate, and Saintess Qiwu and the High Priest discussed the risks his rapid advancement might pose to his future cultivation.
• Chen Xiao assessed his gains, including a Spirit Realm soul, the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and six wisps of Purple Spirit Cold Qi, and accepted the High Priest's warning to settle his strength.
• The High Priest announced that the White Tribe would emerge into the world in ten days and asked Chen Xiao to open a route across the Ice Sea and find a place for Qing Huan and Xing Yao.
• The High Priest asked Chen Xiao not to interfere with the White Tribe's survival after they reached land, and Chen Xiao agreed to keep their affairs confidential.

Chen Xiao helped the White Tribe escape the collapsing Dream Realm and led them onto the Dou Qi Continent, where he froze a path across the Ice Sea for their migration. After the entire tribe had crossed, the High Priest and Qiwu remained behind as the rift closed, and Chen Xiao took Qing Huan and Xing Yao under his care.

• Chen Xiao joined the High Priest as the White Tribe prepared to activate the great array and break through the realm.
• The Yin Yang Harmony Heaven Great Array tore open a spatial rift, and Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin crossed through to reunite with Chen Xiao.
• Chen Xiao used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to freeze the Ice Sea and made an ice staircase so the White Tribe could reach the continent.
• The White Tribe migrated through the rift for a day and a night, with Chen Xiao guiding the millions who crossed.
• The High Priest and Qiwu chose to remain in the ruined Dream Realm, and the spatial rift closed behind them.
• Chen Xiao promised to help Qing Huan and Xing Yao adapt to the Dou Qi Continent.

Chen Xiao returned to Purple Firmament Pavilion with Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Qing Huan, and Xing Yao, where Hai Bo Dong told him about Xiao Yan’s expulsion from Jia Nan Academy and his later search for the Yin-Yang Dual Flames. As a Heavenly Flame fluctuation came from Jia Nan Academy, Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian set out to help contain the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Chen Xiao’s group saw the Gu Bai Tribe fighting a Barbarian Tribe, but Chen Xiao refused to intervene and continued toward the northwest.
• Chen Xiao brought Qing Huan and Xing Yao to Purple Firmament Pavilion, where he reunited with Hai Bo Dong and introduced the two girls as potential students.
• Hai Bo Dong told Chen Xiao that Jia Nan Academy expelled Xiao Yan after he tried to reach the Fallen Heart Flame with Yao Chen’s help, and that Xiao Yan had headed for the Central Plains.
• Chen Xiao learned that Xiao Yan had obtained the Yin-Yang Dual Flames and that the Jia Ma Empire was preparing for war against neighboring empires.
• Qing Lin revealed that Chen Xiao had advanced to Dou Zun and Xiao Yi Xian had reached Five-Star Dou Zun, shocking Hai Bo Dong.
• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian sensed the Fallen Heart Flame’s fluctuation from Jia Nan Academy and left to help the Inner Academy deal with it.

The Fallen Heart Flame erupted beneath Jia Nan Academy’s Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower and shattered the Inner Academy’s seals as Su Qian and the elders tried to contain it. Chen Xiao arrived with two women and drove the flame back underground by releasing a ghastly white fire.

• Su Qian sensed the Fallen Heart Flame gathering power in the magma and realized it had been hiding its strength before launching a violent breakout.
• The Fallen Heart Flame burst from the magma, shattered the tower’s prepared seals, and battered the barrier protecting the tower’s tip.
• Su Qian ordered the students to evacuate and prepared to activate the Dean’s Thousand Layer Seal as the remaining barrier began to fail.
• Chen Xiao appeared above the tower with two women, surprising Su Qian, who warned them to escape the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Chen Xiao summoned a ghastly white flame that transformed into an azure dragon, frightening the Fallen Heart Flame into retreating underground.