Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan awakened the Xuan Pill’s spirit, Mo Xuan, and questioned him about the Dou Di Ruins and Yun Yangtian’s failed attempt to become a Dou Di. Xiao Xuan asked Mo Xuan to follow him, and Mo Xuan began negotiating for his safety.

• Xiao Xuan sealed and then restored Mo Xuan’s senses, making the Xuan Pill spirit realize that Xiao Xuan was an exceptionally powerful Peak Dou Sheng with an Emperor Realm Soul.
• Xiao Xuan asked Mo Xuan about his origins and his connection to Yun Yangtian, and Mo Xuan explained that the small world had been a Dou Di’s secluded cultivation dwelling.
• Mo Xuan said Yun Yangtian entered the small world as a Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint, won Mo Xuan over, and modified the ruins as part of a failed plan to become a Dou Di.
• Xiao Xuan asked what happened to Yun Yangtian, but Mo Xuan fell silent, then Xiao Xuan casually told Mo Xuan to follow him.
• Mo Xuan asked what would happen if he refused and demanded that Xiao Xuan not consume him or use him to restore his energy when he regained a physical body.

Xiao Xuan left the small world and offered the Misty Cloud Sect a place as a peripheral faction of the Xiao Clan, promising to develop the world together. Yun Shan accepted, and Xiao Xuan gave him a condensed Dou Qi seed that could help him reach Dou Zun.

• Xiao Xuan sealed the small world and met Yun Shan, who had waited outside the forbidden grounds.
• Xiao Xuan thanked Yun Shan for the Misty Cloud Sect's help and asked whether its ancestors included Yun Yangtian, but Yun Shan had found no such name in the genealogy.
• Xiao Xuan offered to make the Misty Cloud Sect a peripheral faction of the Xiao Clan and proposed that both groups develop the small world together.
• Yun Shan accepted the Xiao Clan's leadership after learning that the Misty Cloud Sect's ancestor had left behind a small world created by a Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Xuan gathered the surrounding Qi of heaven and earth, placed a condensed Dou Qi seed inside Yun Shan, and said it could help him break through to Dou Zun.

Xiao Xuan secured the Misty Cloud Sect as an ally and began investigating how to create an Emperor's Origin for his breakthrough to Dou Di. He secluded himself to consider whether spatial power—and possibly time—was necessary to recreate heaven and earth.

• Yun Shan accepted the Dou Qi Seed and pledged the Misty Cloud Sect's service to the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan ordered Yun Shan to monitor the Jia Ma Empire and conceal the Xiao Clan, then directed him to bring the Jia Ma Imperial Family into the Xiao Clan's service.
• Xiao Xuan claimed the sect's forbidden ground as his abode and concealed the Gate of Life and Death while he adjusted it.
• Xiao Xuan questioned Mo Xuan about hiding from Yun Shan, and Mo Xuan admitted he looked down on Yun Yangtian's descendants before asking to go to the Central Plains.
• Xiao Xuan warned that Peak Dou Sheng experts might remain in the Central Plains and decided to stay in seclusion to study a breakthrough to Dou Di.
• Xiao Xuan considered recreating heaven and earth with the powers of earth, fire, water, and wind, and questioned whether his plan also required spatial or temporal power.

Yun Shan used his power as a Five-Star Dou Zong to demand that the Jia Ma Empire’s factions pledge allegiance to a mysterious superior clan. Nalan Jie surrendered first, but Yun Shan’s warning about Nalan Yanran’s grave mistake left the other factions wary as his countdown neared its end.

• Yun Shan revealed his Five-Star Dou Zong strength and ordered the Jia Ma Empire’s factions to submit or die.
• Yun Shan struck Nalan Jie when he tried to negotiate, and Old Man Jia Ma caught him and condemned Yun Shan’s demands.
• Yun Shan said the factions would become peripheral forces of a superior clan, concealing the Xiao Clan’s role in his plans.
• Nalan Jie pledged the Nalan Family’s allegiance and asked the superior clan to heal his injuries, but Yun Shan refused and hinted that Nalan Yanran had committed a grave mistake.
• The Mu Family and Mittel Family Dou Wangs questioned Yun Shan’s intentions, while he continued counting down toward an attack.

Yun Shan moved to bring the Jia Ma Empire’s factions under Misty Cloud Sect’s control, but Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran urged him to reconsider. Mo Xuan appeared and secured the factions’ submission with gifts of pills, then departed as Yun Shan prepared to discuss the new order; on the way back, Yun Shan asked Yun Yun about the Three-Year Agreement.

• Yun Yun arrived with Nalan Yanran and asked Yun Shan to abandon his coercive plans, but he rejected their pleas.
• Mo Xuan appeared before Yun Shan and the gathered experts, then gave each of them several fifth- or sixth-tier pills.
• Old Man Jia Ma agreed to submit on behalf of the Imperial Family, and the other Jia Ma experts followed.
• Mo Xuan placed the factions under Yun Shan’s command, advised them to preserve Jia Ma’s existing order, and left through a Space Wormhole.
• Yun Shan postponed discussions until the next day, then took Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran back to Misty Cloud Mountain and asked how they would resolve the Three-Year Agreement.

Yun Shan decided Nalan Yanran would lose her Misty Cloud Sect privileges after the Three-Year Agreement, but Xiao Xuan gave her the power to face Xiao Yan, who had already reached Dou Ling. The chapter left Nalan Yanran ready to fight him, while Xiao Xuan increasingly wanted her to become Xiao Yan’s wife.

• Yun Shan ordered Nalan Yanran to continue reflecting and decided she would be expelled from the Misty Cloud Sect after the Three-Year Agreement, though Yun Yun offered to help train her.
• Mo Xuan urged Yun Shan to cultivate boldly, and Xiao Xuan emerged from seclusion with a plan to gather the powers of fire, earth, water, and wind.
• Xiao Xuan praised Nalan Yanran and said he might once have considered making her a daughter-in-law of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that Xiao Yan had become a Dou Ling, and Nalan Yanran agreed to fight him despite being far weaker.
• Xiao Xuan raised Nalan Yanran’s strength to Dou Ling, and she vowed to give everything in the fight and accept its consequences.

Xiao Yan arrived in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital and planned to visit the Misty Cloud Sect while searching for another map fragment at the Mittel Family's auction house. Above the city, Xiao Xuan arranged an alchemist competition and left with Mo Xuan for the Chu Yun Empire to investigate the Hun Clan and seek the Nether Poison Flame.

• Xiao Yan learned that Yun Shan had broken through to Dou Zong and asked Yao Chen to keep him pinned down when he confronted the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Hai Bodong headed to the Mittel Family's auction house to look for another fragment of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map.
• Xiao Xuan watched Xiao Yan and ordered Yun Shan to arrange an alchemist competition to test Xiao Yan's progress.
• Xiao Xuan told Yun Shan that nothing serious would happen to Xiao Yan, then left with Mo Xuan for the Chu Yun Empire to investigate the Hun Clan and search for the Nether Poison Flame.

Xiao Xuan took Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to the Chu Yun Empire to search for a possible Nether Poison Flame, giving them two spiritually formed Eighth-Tier Pills from Mo Xuan along the way. After sensing several possible locations, Xiao Xuan prepared to investigate while Mo Xuan balked at going near a Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Xuan introduced Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to Mo Xuan, who gave each girl a spiritually formed Eighth-Tier Pill beast.
• Xiao Xuan told the girls to keep the pill beasts as cultivation companions and teased Mo Xuan about giving them more treasures.
• Xiao Xuan led the group through a Space Wormhole to the Chu Yun Empire, where he searched for signs of a Nether Poison Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian realized Xiao Xuan had come searching for a Heavenly Flame for her, and she felt guilty about the trouble he took.
• Xiao Xuan sensed several possible locations to investigate, while Mo Xuan objected to approaching a Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Xuan took Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to Poison Mountain Marsh, where he found the Heavenly Poison Scripture and gave it to Xiao Yi Xian to cultivate. The chapter ended with him discovering a deep green flame burning beneath the marsh.

• Xiao Xuan asked Mo Xuan to search for traces of the Hun Clan while he left with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Xuan explained the Nether Poison Flame to Xiao Yi Xian and uncovered the powerful, deteriorated formation hidden among Poison Mountain Marsh's peaks.
• Xiao Xuan found a cave dwelling at the central peak and discovered the Heavenly Poison Scripture among its jade slips.
• Xiao Xuan praised the Heavenly Poison Scripture and gave it to Xiao Yi Xian, who began reading it.
• Xiao Xuan searched the marsh and spotted a deep green flame burning beneath the accumulated toxins.

Xiao Xuan found the weak Nether Poison Flame and helped Xiao Yi Xian refine it while protecting her from its dangers. Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Dou Wang and thanked her master, with her feelings for him seemingly deepening.

• Xiao Xuan collected the weak Nether Poison Flame and returned to find Xiao Yi Xian in seclusion after studying the Heavenly Poison Scripture.
• Xiao Xuan infused the Nether Poison Flame into Xiao Yi Xian and carefully guarded her as she began refining it.
• Xiao Xuan used his Soul Power to help Xiao Yi Xian withstand and absorb the flame's power.
• Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Dou Wang and formed translucent green Dou Qi wings.
• Xiao Yi Xian thanked Xiao Xuan sincerely, with an additional feeling faintly mixed into her gratitude.

Xiao Xuan sealed Poison Mountain Marsh for Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, then set out with them to find Mo Xuan and seek a Heavenly Flame for Qing Lin. The chapter ended with Xiao Xuan sensing Mo Xuan confronting two Soul Hall Protectors and preparing to teach them a lesson.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Xuan that becoming a Dou Wang felt wonderful and described her limited control over Poison Mountain Marsh.
• Xiao Xuan sealed Poison Mountain Marsh, allowing Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to enter freely while keeping others out.
• Xiao Xuan planned to find Mo Xuan and search for the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame for Qing Lin, despite her saying she did not need a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin offered to let Xiao Yan or Xiao Xuan's other clansmen use their Heavenly Flames, but Xiao Xuan told them to keep them.
• Xiao Xuan sensed Mo Xuan berating two kneeling Soul Hall Protectors and declaring that he would teach them a lesson.

Xiao Xuan uncovered the Hun Clan’s Soul Origin scheme, marked two Soul Hall Protectors to serve his plans, and set out for the Heavenly Snake Empire. As he investigated why extraordinary talents and ancient secrets clustered in the northwest, Mo Xuan began to remember something important.

• Mo Xuan told Xiao Xuan that the Hun Clan was stealing Soul Origins, and Xiao Xuan considered what the clan might be preparing for.
• Xiao Xuan planted marks in the two Soul Hall Protectors’ souls, extracted their knowledge, and sent them away to serve as his agents.
• Xiao Xuan dismissed Mo Xuan’s wish to kill the protectors and said he had other plans for the Hall of Souls.
• Xiao Xuan opened a Space Wormhole toward the Heavenly Snake Empire and asked Mo Xuan about unusual events in the northwest.
• Mo Xuan searched his hazy memories of his creation by a Dou Di and suddenly understood something.

Xiao Xuan suspected that the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s inheritance came from an Ancient Heavenly Snake hidden in its forbidden land, and he went to investigate. There, Venerable Snake sensed a Space Wormhole opening and prepared to defend the mansion.

• Mo Xuan said Yun Yangtian might know about the past but offered no concrete memories or leads.
• Xiao Xuan suspected the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s long-lasting strength came from an Ancient Heavenly Snake’s bloodline and inheritance.
• Xiao Xuan and Mo Xuan headed to Heavenly Snake City to ask about the forbidden land.
• Venerable Snake told the mansion’s master to restrict access to the forbidden land and leave its opportunities to younger disciples.
• Venerable Snake sensed a Space Wormhole opening in the hall and gathered a powerful Dou Technique to confront the intruders.

Xiao Xuan subdued Venerable Snake and revealed that he knew the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s ruins held traces of the Ancient Heavenly Snake. He spared the sect and told Venerable Snake to keep guarding the ruins, leaving the Mansion with a chance to benefit from its connection to him.

• Xiao Xuan effortlessly suppressed Venerable Snake and recognized a trace of the Ancient Heavenly Snake in him.
• Venerable Snake tried to defend the sect’s forbidden grounds, but his failing body gave out when he summoned his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Xuan gave Venerable Snake a wisp of origin Qi, restoring some of his vitality.
• Venerable Snake offered to serve Xiao Xuan and let him explore the ruins, but Xiao Xuan told him to keep guarding them and contact him if trouble arose.
• Venerable Snake gave Xiao Xuan a jade slip containing the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s findings from exploring the ruins.

Xiao Xuan took Qing Lin and his companions into the Ancient Heavenly Snake ruins, where he let Qing Lin refine several Magical Beasts and broke through the ruins’ inner spatial barrier. As they entered the deepest reaches, something seized control of Qing Lin’s body.

• Venerable Snake led Xiao Xuan and his companions to the forbidden grounds, and Xiao Xuan ordered him to keep everyone else away.
• Xiao Xuan and his companions crossed the spatial barrier into the ruins, where he recognized the Ancient Heavenly Snake’s powerful bloodline.
• Xiao Xuan captured several Magical Beasts for Qing Lin to refine with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Xuan led the group farther into the ruins and found another spatial barrier concealing a spatial storm.
• Xiao Xuan struck the barrier’s weak point, but a sudden disturbance took control of Qing Lin’s body.

Xiao Xuan stopped the Ancient Heavenly Snake from taking Qing Lin’s body, then entered her sea of consciousness and rescued her from its Soul Origin. The snake woman recognized Xiao Xuan’s overwhelming strength, while Qing Lin remained safe with her master.

• Xiao Xuan pulled Qing Lin away from the ruin’s suction and discovered the Ancient Heavenly Snake’s remains and surviving remnant soul.
• The Ancient Heavenly Snake shed its soul power and sent its Soul Origin into Qing Lin, knocking her unconscious before Xiao Xuan destroyed the remnant’s remaining power.
• Xiao Xuan told Mo Xuan to stand guard and entered Qing Lin’s sea of consciousness to find the Ancient Heavenly Snake’s Soul Origin.
• The snake woman tried to tempt Qing Lin into merging with her, but Xiao Xuan’s Emperor Realm Soul swept away the influence and restored Qing Lin’s senses.
• Qing Lin hugged Xiao Xuan, and the snake woman recognized him as a Peak Dou Sheng with an Emperor Realm Soul.

Xiao Xuan forced the Ancient Heavenly Snake Tian Ling to agree to reside within Qing Lin until she grew strong enough to help Tian Ling regain her peak. Tian Ling then demanded a Soul Origin Oath from Qing Lin before revealing the true use of the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

• Tian Ling threatened to fight Xiao Xuan, but he rejected her demand to leave and ordered her to submit.
• Xiao Xuan offered Tian Ling a place within Qing Lin and help restoring her strength, and Tian Ling agreed after realizing his Xiao Clan might be an ancient Emperor Clan.
• Tian Ling insisted that Qing Lin swear a Soul Origin Oath to keep the secret of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Xuan reassured Qing Lin that the oath was safe, and Qing Lin cautiously approached Tian Ling.

Tian Ling linked her soul to Qing Lin, giving herself a place to recover, while Xiao Xuan secretly created a Soul Clone inside Qing Lin to protect her and investigate the secrets of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. The chapter ended with Qing Lin waking in her body as Xiao Xuan appeared outside.

• Tian Ling drew Soul Origin from Qing Lin and herself to form a soul link, allowing Xiao Xuan to glimpse the mysterious purpose of the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Tian Ling settled her soul core inside Qing Lin, securing a place to reside and recover her strength.
• Xiao Xuan added a tiny Soul Clone to Qing Lin to guard her, despite Tian Ling warning that splitting his soul could cause serious harm.
• Xiao Xuan reassured Qing Lin and said he wanted to explore the secrets she carried, while Qing Lin promised to take him to the hidden place when she was stronger.
• Mo Xuan reinforced the Ancient Heavenly Snake ruins, and Xiao Xuan appeared outside as Qing Lin's presence returned.

Xiao Xuan led Qing Lin and the others out of the ruin after Qing Lin inherited Tian Ling’s power and became a Dou Emperor. They encountered Venerable Snake outside, where Xiao Xuan recognized signs that the Hun Clan had also targeted the ruin.

• Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Xuan welcomed Qing Lin after she awoke as a Dou Emperor, and Xiao Xuan explained that Tian Ling’s power had caused her sudden advancement.
• Xiao Xuan declared the ruin Qing Lin’s territory and led the group away, leaving Tian Ling’s remains for Qing Lin to deal with later.
• Tian Ling emerged from Qing Lin and clashed with Mo Xuan, but Qing Lin stopped her from attacking and Xiao Xuan ended the argument.
• Mo Xuan asked how Tian Ling had survived since ancient times, and Xiao Xuan explained that she had seized a way to sustain her remnant soul during her failed attempt to become a Dou Di.
• Xiao Xuan led the group out of the ruin, where Venerable Snake greeted them with injuries, and Xiao Xuan recognized traces of the Hun Clan’s methods.

Xiao Xuan arranged for the Heavenly Snake Mansion to serve as a foothold in his plans against the Hall of Souls, placing Qing Lin in charge and giving Venerable Snake a means of protection. As the Hall of Souls prepared to attack, Venerable Snake led his people to meet the threat while Xiao Xuan watched, and Mo Xuan opened a Space Wormhole to join the fray.

• Venerable Snake asked Xiao Xuan to shelter some Heavenly Snake Mansion juniors from the Hall of Souls, but Xiao Xuan told him to draw the enemy out and made the mansion serve Qing Lin.
• Qing Lin revealed the Ancient Heavenly Snake's presence, prompting Venerable Snake to accept her as the mansion's leader, and Xiao Xuan placed a protective sword of primordial Qi between Venerable Snake's brows.
• Three Hall of Souls elders prepared to attack the Heavenly Snake Mansion and planned to turn it into a puppet under their control.
• Venerable Snake sensed the three Dou Zun approaching, rallied the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and led its fighters to face the Hall of Souls protectors.
• Xiao Xuan watched the battle preparations from the forbidden grounds while Mo Xuan opened a Space Wormhole to join the fight.