Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiao obtained Duanmu Yang’s Seven-Colored Original Stone and learned of his final wish to reassure his missing daughter, Duanmu Yiqing. He then pre-paid for a Heaven-Rank Advanced cultivation technique, renamed it the Frost Soul Nine Chapters, and its cultivation triggered a Heaven and Earth anomaly across Yellow Maple Valley.

• Elder Han Feiyu led Chen Xiao to the dying Duanmu Yang, who gave him the Seven-Colored Original Stone and asked him to tell Duanmu Yiqing that Yellow Maple Valley had never truly mocked her.
• Duanmu Yang died, and Valley Master Yi Ziqian arrived, recognized Chen Xiao as a far stronger senior, and arranged for the elder’s remains to be taken away.
• Chen Xiao searched Duanmu Yang’s letters for clues about Yiqing, found no way to locate her, and then pre-paid for the Ice Hell Scripture.
• Chen Xiao received the Heaven-Rank Advanced technique, renamed it the Frost Soul Nine Chapters, and discovered it could create up to nine Ice Soul Talismans and External Incarnations.
• As Chen Xiao began cultivating, Yellow Maple Valley shook, icy fog and snow spread across the fire-vein region, and Yi Ziqian realized a Heaven-Rank cultivation technique had caused a Heaven and Earth anomaly.

Chen Xiao’s creation of a Heaven-Rank technique triggered an anomaly that drew the attention of Yellow Maple Valley, the Azure Ocean Sect, and factions across the Eastern Domain. As visitors gathered outside the Ten Thousand Li Canyon, Ice Venerate of Ice River Valley arrived, hoping the creation was a cultivation technique.

• Yi Ziqian deduced that Chen Xiao’s anomaly signaled the creation of a Heaven-Rank Dou Skill or cultivation technique and ordered Elder Han to contact the Ancient Clan for protection.
• Yi Ziqian warned Yellow Maple Valley’s elders that the revelation could bring disaster, leaving their safety dependent on the Ancient Clan and Chen Xiao.
• The Azure Ocean Sect’s Sect Master refused to attack Yellow Maple Valley, ordering his elders to watch the Ancient Clan’s response and avoid provoking the unknown creator.
• News of the anomaly spread, and experts from various factions gathered outside the Ten Thousand Li Canyon without entering.
• Ice Venerate of Ice River Valley arrived among the crowd and revealed his hope that the anomaly had come from a Heaven-Rank cultivation technique.

After Chen Xiao finished creating the Heaven-Rank cultivation technique, Xun Er explained that Soul Hall might be influencing hidden sects in the Eastern Domain and asked for his help drawing them out. Chen Xiao began suspecting the six Ancient Races might intend to seize Soul Hall’s collected Soul Origin, and the chapter ended with Wu Xiao of the Azure Ocean Sect arriving at Yellow Maple Valley.

• Chen Xiao awakened after half a month of cultivation and reunited with Xun Er, who praised his creation of a Heaven-Rank cultivation technique.
• Xun Er said she had sent two Ancient Clan Elders away after finding signs of Soul Hall among the nearby Hidden Sects, and she asked Chen Xiao to help investigate.
• Chen Xiao questioned why the six Ancient Races kept fighting Soul Hall despite the conflict accelerating Soul Hall’s collection of Soul Origin, and Xun Er relayed her father’s explanation that there was no solution without provoking a greater war.
• Chen Xiao suspected the six Ancient Races planned to seize Soul Hall’s accumulated Soul Origin, while Xun Er revealed that her father had met with the other Clan Leaders and was now monitoring the Soul Clan.
• Wu Xiao, Sect Master of the Azure Ocean Sect, arrived at Yellow Maple Valley with more than ten people and called out to the senior in seclusion.

Chen Xiao revealed himself to protect Yellow Maple Valley and faced the Azure Ocean Sect and the hidden experts seeking his Heaven Rank techniques. He slaughtered several attackers but remained surrounded by the powerful hunched old man and other Dou Venerates.

• Wu Xiao led the Azure Ocean Sect’s six Dou Venerates into Yellow Maple Valley, while Xun Er warned Chen Xiao that outsiders might target him for his techniques.
• Chen Xiao appeared on an Ice Throne, froze the Dou Qi of three One-Star Dou Venerates, and announced that Yellow Maple Valley was under his protection.
• Chen Xiao revealed his Eight-Star Dou Venerate aura, drawing out six hidden Dou Venerates, including a hunched old man at the Peak of the First Revolution Dou Venerate level.
• Yi Ziqian joined Chen Xiao, and Chen Xiao killed Wu Xiao with a single strike after the Azure Ocean Sect Sect Master attacked him.
• The hunched old man and six other experts attacked Chen Xiao, but their combined techniques also struck the old man; Chen Xiao burned three Dou Venerates with Bone Spirit Cold Flame and killed Ice Venerate and two Azure Ocean Sect elders.

Chen Xiao killed the nameless old man with the Great Heaven Creation Palm, then helped Yi Ziqian defeat another Dou Venerate. He turned toward the fallen Ice Venerate and wondered if the opponent was the Soul Hall's Eight Heavenly Guardian.

• The nameless old man offered Chen Xiao four Earth Tier scrolls, then attacked with an ice phoenix when Chen Xiao refused to stop fighting.
• Chen Xiao countered the old man's ice attacks with Blood Cold Extreme Freezing Sky and Bone Spirit Cold Flame, but the old man transformed into a giant using Extreme Cold's Wrath.
• Chen Xiao unleashed the Great Heaven Creation Palm, swallowed the ice giant, and claimed the old man's Storage Ring.
• Chen Xiao used Soul Power to destroy another Dou Venerate's sea of consciousness, allowing Yi Ziqian to kill him.
• Chen Xiao looked toward the fallen Ice Venerate and wondered whether he was the Soul Hall's Eight Heavenly Guardian.

Chen Xiao and Xun Er stopped the Soul Hall’s attack on Yellow Maple Valley and captured the Eight Heavenly Guardian’s Soul Body. Just as Chen Xiao was preparing to visit the Ancient Saint City with Xun Er, a cracked Jade Slip warned him that a major incident had occurred, and he hurried back.

• Chen Xiao and Xun Er cornered the Eight Heavenly Guardian, who tried to self-destruct, but Chen Xiao suppressed him, burned away his body, and captured his Soul Body in a Jade Bottle.
• Yi Ziqian thanked Chen Xiao and Xun Er for saving Yellow Maple Valley, and Xun Er promised to report his discovery of Soul Hall activity to the clan.
• Chen Xiao considered visiting the Ancient Saint City with Xun Er, but a Jade Slip signaling a major incident shattered in his Storage Ring.
• Chen Xiao told Xun Er that Xian'er and the others were likely safe, embraced her, and tore open space to return.
• Xun Er watched Chen Xiao depart and murmured that reaching Dou Saint would not take long.

Chen Xiao returned to Purple Firmament Pavilion as the Northern Heaven Ruins drew cultivators from across the region. After learning how Qing Lin discovered the ruins and hearing that the situation could soon spiral out of control, he chose to allow a fair competition while targeting the Spirit Nurturing Dust pill formula.

• Chen Xiao questioned Eight Heavenly Guardian, who claimed the Ancient Clans had provoked Soul Hall and secretly enabled its war with the Dan Tower to continue for their own gain.
• Chen Xiao confirmed that the Northern Heaven Ruins had appeared and hurried back to Purple Firmament Pavilion as crowds flocked toward them.
• Xiao Yi Xian organized pavilion forces to guard their allies and restrict access to Qifeng Mountain while Chen Xiao was away.
• Chen Xiao returned and reunited with the three little ones before asking Xiao Yi Xian and Cao Ying for details about the ruins.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that Qing Lin had discovered the ruins while testing the Heavenly Demon Puppets, and that Qing Lin, Heavenly Flame Honored One, and Hei Qing were now controlling the situation there.
• Chen Xiao decided to let outsiders compete for the ruins, believing the contest would reduce his forces’ casualties while he sought the Spirit Nurturing Dust pill formula.

Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian arrived at the Sand Shadow Mountain Range, where Qing Lin explained the Ancient Ruins’ dangers and the limits imposed by their spatial seal. When the seal began to open, numerous Dou Venerates gathered and greeted Chen Xiao with respect after news of his power in Yellow Maple Valley spread.

• Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian flew to the highest peak to meet Qing Lin and Heavenly Flame Honored One, while Chen Xiao identified the Heavenly Underworld Sect among the forces gathered below.
• Qing Lin told Chen Xiao that three Spatial Rifts had appeared, killing everyone who entered, and showed him a damaged Heaven-grade Heavenly Demon Puppet that had been struck by the seal’s counterattack.
• Heavenly Flame Honored One explained that the seal was weakening and might dissipate after two more openings, and Chen Xiao ordered the pavilion to select five elders and fifteen disciples to join the expedition.
• Five days later, a spatial fluctuation shook the Sand Shadow Mountain Range, and crowds rushed toward the ruins as a huge Spatial Rift opened.
• Sword Venerable, Yellow Springs Venerable, Tang Zhen, and other Dou Venerate experts greeted Chen Xiao, whose reputation from Yellow Maple Valley had reached the gathered forces.

Chen Xiao entered the Heavenly North Ruins with Qing Lin and others, only to be separated from his companions by an illusion formation. He followed the changed Pre-pay instructions toward the Void Devouring Serpent Saint's Nirvana Hall, but a strange black mist attacked him before he could get far.

• Dou Venerate powerhouses and other cultivators charged into the Spatial Rift after it stabilized, and Chen Xiao led Qing Lin, five Elders, and fifteen disciples inside.
• Heavenly Flame Honored One sensed that the spatial seal threatened him and stayed behind while Chen Xiao's group entered the ruins.
• Chen Xiao discovered that the entrance was a powerful illusion formation that scattered his companions, then checked their Soul Tablets and confirmed they were all alive.
• Chen Xiao found himself on a lifeless plain and checked the updated Pre-pay instructions, which told him to seize the Void Devouring Serpent Saint's Nirvana Hall to obtain the Spirit Nurturing Dust Pill Recipe.
• Chen Xiao reasoned that the Void Devouring Serpent Saint might have been a serpentine Magical Beast and flew northwest, but strange black mist surged up and rushed at him.

Chen Xiao fought off swarms of strange creatures in the Ancient Ruins and discovered that one had possessed Kui Bin of Burning Flame Valley. After warning Kui Bin and setting off toward the Void Devouring Serpent Saint’s hall, Chen Xiao noticed widespread fighting and learned that one Purple Firmament Pavilion disciple had died; the great hall finally came into view.

• Chen Xiao used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to destroy the strange creatures that erupted across the plain, finding Heavenly Flames more effective against them than his other attacks.
• Chen Xiao found Kui Bin of Burning Flame Valley possessed by an intelligent black creature, drove it from his body, and burned it away.
• Kui Bin told Chen Xiao that the creature had entered him while he meditated and later took control of his body, prompting Chen Xiao to worry that others might be affected too.
• Chen Xiao warned Kui Bin to beware of the creatures and continued northwest toward the hall where the Void Devouring Serpent Saint had passed away in meditation.
• Chen Xiao saw cultivators fighting across the ruins and discovered that one Purple Firmament Pavilion disciple’s Soul Tablet had shattered.
• After traveling another half hour, Chen Xiao reached the sight of the towering great hall.

Chen Xiao and the Purple Firmament Pavilion reached the great hall at the center of the Ruins, where he warned his companions about creatures that could control people. After the hall opened and its first entrants were killed, twenty-seven Dou Zong-level Heavenly Demon Puppets emerged, and Chen Xiao approved Qing Lin’s plan to claim them.

• Chen Xiao met Qing Lin and the Purple Firmament Pavilion elders and disciples outside the great hall, checked them for abnormalities, and heard that they had encountered few dangers on the way.
• Chen Xiao told the group about the mind-controlling bizarre creatures and warned them to stay alert inside the hall.
• The great hall’s stone door opened, and a wave of cultivators rushed into the passage while Chen Xiao and the major factions waited.
• Fighting erupted inside the passage, and the first entrants were killed before twenty-seven blood-covered Dou Zong-level Puppets emerged.
• Qing Lin recognized the Puppets as Earth-class Heavenly Demon Puppets and wanted to capture them, and Chen Xiao approved her plan.

Qing Lin claimed all twenty-seven Earth-grade Heavenly Demon Puppets for Purple Firmament Pavilion before Chen Xiao and the others entered the ruins’ great hall. The Void Devouring Serpent Saint then revealed that his inheritance lay on the second floor, prompting Liu Cang and the other experts to race up the stairs.

• Qing Lin disabled and collected all twenty-seven puppets while the other experts watched, and she returned to Chen Xiao.
• Chen Xiao sent the Purple Firmament Pavilion disciples and Elders through the passage, then followed Qing Lin into the colossal great hall.
• Chen Xiao and Qing Lin explored corridors and searched pavilions but found nothing more valuable than a Fire Attribute High-Level Earth Tier Cultivation Technique.
• A stone pillar descended into the hall, and the Void Devouring Serpent Saint announced that the first floor held miscellaneous items while his inheritance was on the second floor.
• Liu Cang led the Heavenly Underworld Sect up the stairs, and the other Dou Venerate experts rushed after him.

Chen Xiao and Qing Lin entered the second layer of the hall, where they found a giant Ancient Heavenly Serpent statue whose Blood Pupils seemed tied to the Void Devouring Serpent Saint’s inheritance. As Chen Xiao fought off the Dou Venerate experts who turned against him, Qing Lin took the statue’s eighteen Blood Pupils, leaving her vacant-eyed and unresponsive.

• Chen Xiao waited as the crowd fought its way up the stone pillar, then took Qing Lin to the second layer after Liu Cang entered without triggering any apparent danger.
• Chen Xiao recognized the Ancient Heavenly Serpent statue as a possible source of an inheritance suited to Qing Lin, then warned Liu Cang away from its Blood Pupil and forced him back.
• Liu Cang rallied the other Dou Venerate experts against Chen Xiao, but Qing Lin shattered his attack and drove him back before the group surrounded Chen Xiao.
• Chen Xiao hurled three Ice Soul Talismans at the attackers, and their explosions killed several Dou Venerates and injured the survivors.
• Chen Xiao turned toward the statue and saw that Qing Lin had taken all eighteen Blood Pupils and stood behind it with an unfocused gaze.

Chen Xiao rescued Qing Lin from the Evil Entity’s influence, defeated the Dou Venerates in the altar, and learned that the eighteen blood pupils contained the inheritance of the Void Devouring Serpent Saint. The Evil Entity escaped into the Ancient Heavenly Serpent statue, leaving Chen Xiao and Qing Lin with the mystery of its origin.

• Chen Xiao used Soul Stars and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to free Qing Lin, while the Evil Entity fled into the Ancient Heavenly Serpent statue.
• Chen Xiao burned away the Black Qi affecting the experts, defeated Liu Cang, and killed the remaining Heavenly Underworld Sect Dou Venerate.
• Yao Chen, Feng Xian, Tang Zhen, Sword Venerable, and Yellow Springs Venerable thanked Chen Xiao and left through the exit Qing Lin revealed.
• Chen Xiao killed Liu Cang after realizing he had never been controlled by the Evil Entity, then asked Qing Lin what she had learned.
• Qing Lin explained that the blood pupils were the Void Devouring Serpent Saint’s inheritance and described how he sealed himself and the Evil Entity inside the Ruins.
• Qing Lin revealed that the Evil Entity might not come from the Dou Qi Continent, but the Void Devouring Serpent Saint had never discovered its true origin.

Chen Xiao and Qing Lin waited three days for the ruins to reopen, then entered the third-floor space to confront the Evil Entity before it could recover. They found it controlling the Void Devouring Serpent Saint’s skeleton, and Chen Xiao challenged it directly.

• Chen Xiao decided to spend three days preparing while Qing Lin studied the Void Devouring Serpent Saint’s inherited memories, then they would investigate the third floor regardless of whether the ruins reopened.
• Chen Xiao sorted his spoils, found a large piece of Ice Spirit Jade in Liu Cang’s Storage Ring, and laid killing formations in the Altar Space.
• After three days passed without the ruins opening, Chen Xiao and Qing Lin entered the third-floor space and found themselves in a vast desert shaped like the Ancient Heavenly Serpent.
• Chen Xiao and Qing Lin attacked the awakening sea of sand with their combined forces, but a giant skeleton emerged without suffering any damage.
• The Evil Entity, speaking from the Void Devouring Serpent Saint’s skeleton, called itself a General and threatened to kill them, so Chen Xiao advanced and challenged it.

Chen Xiao and Qing Lin fought the Evil Entity controlling the Ancient Heavenly Serpent's Five-Star Dou Saint skeleton, but their strongest attacks only cracked it. As Qing Lin restrained the skeleton, Chen Xiao gathered the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and prepared a killing move.

• Chen Xiao, Qing Lin, and their puppets attacked the Ancient Heavenly Serpent, but its skeleton withstood their blows and shrugged off the five-seal Emperor Seal Technique attacks, though the seals left cracks.
• Chen Xiao pointed out the cracks and told Qing Lin not to be swayed by the Evil Entity's taunts; when the skeleton attacked, he drew Qing Lin back and faced it while she recovered.
• Chen Xiao countered the skeleton's tail with Yellow Spring Finger, then used Yellow Spring Palm, but the Evil Entity summoned a red demonic bird that sliced the attack apart and smashed one of the puppets.
• Qing Lin returned to the battle and used Heavenly Serpent Binding to restrain the skeleton with an illusory Ancient Heavenly Serpent, leaving her exhausted.
• Chen Xiao guarded Qing Lin, supplied her with medicinal pills, and gathered the Bone Spirit Cold Flame in preparation for a killing move.

Chen Xiao and Qing Lin defeated the Evil Entity, uncovered a hidden pavilion containing rare pill recipes and a cultivation-art deduction, and gathered the Ruins’ treasures. As Qing Lin prepared to absorb the Ancient Heavenly Serpent Blood Essence with Chen Xiao’s help, an unfamiliar aged voice warned that it was too powerful for anyone below the Dou Saint realm to absorb easily.

• Chen Xiao destroyed the Ancient Heavenly Serpent skeleton with his ice-and-fire attack, then erased the exposed Evil Entity with the Heavenly Wind Soul Imprint.
• Chen Xiao used pieces of Ice Spirit Jade to reveal a hidden mountain pavilion, where he and Qing Lin found a weakened Evil Entity and Chen Xiao destroyed it after it offered him information and power.
• Chen Xiao and Qing Lin collected eighteen papers, including sixteen eighth-grade pill recipes, the ninth-grade Nine Nether Nirvana Pill recipe, and a deduction of the Heavenly Serpent Devouring Star Art.
• Chen Xiao’s Pre-pay information updated after he obtained the Spirit Nurturing Dust Pill Recipe, and Qing Lin proposed that they absorb the Ancient Heavenly Serpent Blood Essence together.
• An unfamiliar aged voice spoke from the pavilion, warning that its blood essence was too powerful for someone below the Dou Saint realm to absorb easily.

Chen Xiao and Qing Lin learned how the Void Devouring Serpent Saint had trapped the Evil Entity and were warned that refining his essence blood required them to work together. After the Saint’s remnant soul vanished, Qing Lin confessed her feelings, and Chen Xiao reciprocated, leaving them alone in the third level of the ruins.

• The Void Devouring Serpent Saint explained that he had sealed the Evil Entity within his remains and divided his inheritance to prevent it from escaping.
• The Saint warned Chen Xiao and Qing Lin that his essence blood could overwhelm them and amplify their desires, so they needed to refine it together.
• The Saint’s remnant soul disappeared after thanking Chen Xiao and Qing Lin for ending the Evil Entity.
• Qing Lin confessed that Chen Xiao had always been the only one in her heart, and Chen Xiao told her not to call him Young Master anymore.
• Qing Lin sent her Puppets, Dou Venerates, and the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake to wait in the second level, clearing the third level for herself and Chen Xiao.

As Chen Xiao and Qing Lin refined the Ancient Heavenly Serpent's essence blood inside the Ruins, their strength surged to the Nine Revolutions to Sainthood stage. Outside, Tian Mingzi's appearance led Xiao Yi Xian to prepare the Purple Firmament Pavilion for a possible Soul Hall attack, and black-robed figures emerged near Qifeng Mountain.

• The Heavenly Flame Honored One found that five Purple Firmament Pavilion disciples' Soul Tablets had shattered, then sensed Tian Mingzi arrive at the Sand Shadow Mountain Range.
• The Heavenly Flame Honored One suspected Tian Mingzi's hostility was connected to Chen Xiao's conflict with the Soul Hall and ordered the pavilion's people to return.
• Xiao Yi Xian prepared the Purple Firmament Pavilion for a possible Soul Hall attack, ordering Hai Bo Dong to recall the disciples and Iron Sword to bring the Snake-People Race to Qifeng Mountain.
• Ten days after the pavilion began preparing, black-robed figures emerged from a tear in space near Qifeng Mountain.
• Chen Xiao and Qing Lin refined the Ancient Heavenly Serpent's essence blood for half a month and advanced to the Nine Revolutions to Sainthood stage.

With the Ruins open again, Xiao Yi Xian kept the Purple Firmament Pavilion sealed against the Soul Hall while its allies considered how to protect Chen Xiao. Inside the Ruins, Tian Mingzi encountered a terrifying woman who expelled him, and he angrily told the Soul Hall to get lost when they asked him to capture Chen Xiao.

• The Ruins reopened, and waves of experts entered as the spatial seal vanished.
• Fifth Heavenly Venerate and Sixth Heavenly Venerate threatened the Purple Firmament Pavilion again, but Xiao Yi Xian ignored them and discussed countermeasures with her allies.
• A mysterious woman arrived in the hall and offered to protect Chen Xiao’s side while Tian Mingzi remained a concern inside the Ruins.
• Tian Mingzi entered the Ruins, found the woman on the second level, and recognized her overwhelming power; she ordered him to leave and sent him out of the Altar Space.
• Fifth Heavenly Venerate contacted Tian Mingzi to ask him to capture Chen Xiao, but Tian Mingzi replied, “Get lost!”