Chapter Summaries

Mo Yu and the others entered the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s domain, escaped its illusions, and fought through the Fire Slaves toward the Flame’s true body. At the final trial, they faced a powerful axe-wielding figure whom Mo Yu recognized as Blood Axe Xiao Chen.

• Mo Yu entered the flame-filled space alone, dispelled an illusion of Soul Hall Hall Masters, and rescued Uncle Snake from the Nightmare Sky Mist.
• Mo Yu and Uncle Snake reached Lei Fei'er, Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and the others, where they were attacked by waves of Fire Slaves and forced their way through a giant gate.
• Mo Yu’s group broke through multiple halls of increasingly powerful Fire Slaves as they advanced toward the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s true body.
• In the final hall, Zi Yan, Lei Jizhou, and Gu Nanhai fought a formidable gaunt figure wielding a giant Blood Axe.
• The figure’s Xiao Clan Clan Mark appeared and boosted his aura, leading Mo Yu to identify him as Blood Axe Xiao Chen.

Xiao Yan and his allies escaped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s illusion with the Breaking Nightmare Talisman, freeing Xiao Chen from its control for the moment. They faced the Flame’s true form in a magma sea, where it trapped them, killed most of the Dou Zun practitioners, and summoned ten Dou Sheng Fire Slaves.

• Xiao Yan identified Xiao Chen as a member of the Xiao Clan, and Mo Yu temporarily suppressed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control over him.
• Xiao Chen learned that the Xiao Clan had been destroyed and led Xiao Yan and the others to the altar where the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame awaited them.
• Xiao Yan used the Breaking Nightmare Talisman to shatter the Nightmare Sky Mist illusion and reveal the Magma Sea.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged in its true form, erased the spatial passage, and trapped everyone in a prison of flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame made more than eighty percent of the Dou Zun practitioners explode, then summoned ten Dou Sheng Fire Slaves.

Mo Yu and the other experts fought Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and his Fire Slaves, while Mo Yu discovered that he could temporarily control a Fire Slave with his Black Lotus Rune. The Soul Hall Hall Master then activated the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array and struck Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, attempting to seal him.

• The Soul Hall Hall Master, Mo Yu, Xiao Yan, and the other experts agreed to cooperate against Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and his ten Dou Sheng Fire Slaves.
• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame repelled the seven Four-star Dou Shengs with a fiery attack and sent the Fire Slaves after the other fighters.
• Mo Yu battled the late-stage Three-star Dou Sheng Fire Slave with his Divine Might Black Thunder Spear, while Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and others fought their own Fire Slaves.
• After another expert weakened a Fire Slave by extinguishing its demonic flames, Mo Yu used his Black Lotus Rune to isolate its Fire Pearl and temporarily take control of it.
• The Soul Hall Hall Master summoned the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array and struck Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with its beam, declaring that the flame would return to its origin.

After the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was sealed, Mo Yu seized the chance to turn the remaining nine Fire Slaves into Thunder Slaves while the survivors fought over the Demonic Flame Origin. The Soul Hall Hall Master revealed his Five-star Dou Sheng strength and attacked Mo Yu and Xiao Yan, but Xiao Chen intervened, and Old Man Soul Demon emerged as the conflict escalated.

• The Soul Hall Hall Master tried to take the sealed Demonic Flame Origin, but Zi Yan twisted space and knocked it off course, triggering a battle among the survivors.
• Mo Yu used the Black Lotus Heart Soul Thunder to convert the remaining nine Dou Sheng Fire Slaves into Thunder Slaves and stored all ten in his Beast Ring.
• Yao Wangu seized the black pillar, but the Soul Hall Hall Master ambushed him and revealed that he had reached the Early Five-star Dou Sheng realm.
• The Soul Hall Hall Master moved to kill Mo Yu and Xiao Yan, but Xiao Chen blocked his attack and revealed Mid-stage Five-star Dou Sheng strength.
• Xiao Chen struck the Soul Hall Hall Master with a Blood Axe, prompting Hun Miesheng to trap them both in a Black Light Prison and summon Old Man Soul Demon.
• Old Man Soul Demon revealed his concealed strength and called on the hidden old monster of the Little Pill Tower to appear.

The Pill Tower Old Ancestor confronted the Hun Clan over the Demonic Flame Origin, but exposed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s scheme and fought him. As the flame unleashed the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint awakened through Xiao Yan, seized control of the array, and opened a way out, leaving Xiao Yan with an opportunity to refine the Demonic Flame while Xun'er stayed behind with him.

• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor arrived on a Green Ox and used Space Relocation to stop Old Man Soul Demon from seizing the Demonic Flame Origin, revealing his six-star Dou Sheng strength.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor exposed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s plan to exploit the others, prompting the flame to form a Demonic Flame God Statue and attack him.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, but the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint emerged through Xiao Yan and froze the array before taking control of it.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame opened a spatial passage and urged everyone to escape before his power erupted.
• Mo Yu prepared to leave with Uncle She, Lei Fei'er, and the others, while Xun'er chose to remain beside Xiao Yan as he gained a chance to refine the Demonic Flame.

After Xiao Yan and Xun'er remained trapped in the Demonic Flame Space, Mo Yu reassured their allies and helped deter the Hun Clan from attacking him. The Pill Tower Old Ancestor warned that the Hun Clan was preparing a major scheme, while Mo Yu anticipated that the coming conflict could become a war of three emperors.

• Seven days after the Demonic Flame Space closed, Gu Nanhai left to report Xun'er’s disappearance, while Mo Yu assured Old Yao that Xiao Yan and Xun'er were likely alive and Xiao Yan would subdue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Vice Hall Master of the Soul Hall mocked Mo Yu, and Old Man Soul Demon threatened to kill him to eliminate the Lei Clan’s Divine Grade Bloodline.
• Lei Jizhou stood between Mo Yu and Old Man Soul Demon, while the Pill Tower Old Ancestor also intervened, citing Mo Yu’s gift of a Tier 9 Pill Cauldron.
• Old Man Soul Demon withdrew with the Soul Hall leaders and Hun Feng, who vowed to avenge his past humiliation by Mo Yu.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor warned Mo Yu that the Hun Clan might have destroyed the Ling Clan and was plotting something enormous.
• Mo Yu reflected that Xiao Yan’s emergence and the Hun Clan Clan Head’s return could bring a War of Three Emperors instead of a War of Two Emperors.

After a year in seclusion, Mo Yu broke through to Three-star Dou Sheng and learned that the Stone Clan had vanished and the Lei Clan, Yan Tribe, and Yao Clan had formed the Three Clan Alliance. He accepted Lei Ying’s invitation for Yuan Manor to join the alliance.

• The Soul Hall and Yuan Manor continued fighting, while the Stone Clan mysteriously disappeared like the Ling Clan and suspicions fell on the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan.
• The Lei Clan, Yan Tribe, and Yao Clan formed the Three Clan Alliance and began investigating the Stone Clan’s disappearance.
• Mo Yu absorbed the energy gathered by the Taotie Great Array and broke through from Two-star to Three-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Li reported the major events of the past year, including the Stone Clan’s disappearance and the alliance’s formation.
• Uncle She told Mo Yu that Lei Ying had invited Yuan Manor to join the Three Clan Alliance, and Mo Yu agreed.

After strengthening Yuan Manor and joining the Three Clan Alliance, Mo Yu entered the Void Thunder Pool to use Little Gold to devour Dark Demon Lightning and raise his cultivation. After half a year, he had reached the peak of the Four-star Dou Sheng realm, while Little Gold had grown enormously, but Mo Yu stopped short of breaking through to Five-star Dou Sheng.

• Yuan Manor joined the Three Clan Alliance, connected the clans’ spaces, and recruited high-grade Alchemists from the Yao Clan.
• Mo Yu decided to seek rapid cultivation in the Void Thunder Pool and flew there after giving Xiao Yi Xian and the others instructions.
• Mo Yu brought Little Gold into the depths of the Void Thunder Pool, where Little Gold discovered it could refine and devour Dark Demon Lightning.
• Mo Yu cultivated on the energy Little Gold refined, while Little Gold consumed the Dark Demon Lightning and grew into a massive dragon.
• After nearly half a year, Mo Yu reached the peak of the Four-star Dou Sheng realm, but his resistance to the lightning slowed his progress before he could reach Five-star Dou Sheng.

Mo Yu discovered the Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon in the Demonic Thunder Pool and watched its attempt to gather intelligence leave it gravely weakened. He decided to have Little Gold devour it, and the chapter ended with the thunder dragon too feeble to resist.

• Mo Yu found the Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon, which attacked him with a bolt of golden lightning as he tried to flee.
• Mo Yu realized the dragon was undergoing Spirit Gathering and decided Little Gold could devour it if the process failed.
• The Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon's Spirit Gathering failed as violent backlash weakened it and shattered its emerging intelligence.
• Mo Yu approached the feeble dragon, and the Dark Demon Lightning stopped advancing when Little Gold appeared.
• Mo Yu told the Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon to become one with Little Gold to avoid vanishing.

Mo Yu gained the Nine Profound Golden Thunder’s power for Little Gold, and the resulting energy helped him break through to Early Five-star Dou Sheng. After returning to Origin Manor, he found the conflict with Soul Hall escalating when Soul Hall challenged him to a life-or-death battle at Falling Peak in three days.

• Mo Yu extracted the Nine Profound Golden Thunder’s power and sealed it inside Little Gold, then gave the weakened thunder dragon spiritual intelligence.
• Little Gold began refining the energy, and its feedback helped Mo Yu break through to Early Five-star Dou Sheng.
• Mo Yu returned to Origin Manor after half a year and reunited with Xiao Yu and Zi Yan before entering seclusion.
• Origin Manor and Soul Hall maintained a tense truce as factions across the Central Plains watched for a decisive clash.
• Soul Hall sent Mo Yu a blood-red challenge demanding that they decide life and death at Falling Peak three days later.

The Soul Hall and Yuan Manor gathered at the Great Emperor Mountain Range for a three-battle showdown, and Mo Yu accepted the terms. As Hun Qianmo emerged as a powerful threat, Xiao Chen and Lei Ying stepped forward to fight for Yuan Manor.

• The Soul Hall arrived with ten Dou Shengs, while Yuan Manor revealed fifteen, including its ten Thunder Slaves and several powerful allies.
• Mo Yu accepted the Soul Hall Hall Master's proposal for three battles, with two victories deciding the outcome.
• Old Man Soul Demon chose to fight, but Xiao Chen appeared and volunteered to represent Yuan Manor, then attacked Hun Qianmo after he arrived.
• Hun Qianmo overpowered Xiao Chen's axe strike and declared that Mo Yu carried the scent of a Divine Grade Bloodline.
• As the Soul Hall Hall Master prepared to fight Mo Yu, Lei Ying appeared and offered to take on Hun Qianmo.

Lei Ying intervened to protect Mo Yu and fought Hun Qianmo to a draw, while Xiao Chen battled Old Man Soul Demon to another draw. With both sides tied, Mo Yu faced the decisive final round himself.

• Lei Ying appeared beside Mo Yu, promised to protect him, and challenged Hun Qianmo to a fight.
• Lei Ying and Hun Qianmo fought inside a Lightning Space, then emerged and declared the battle a draw.
• Xiao Chen challenged Old Man Soul Demon, who used a Soul Gu Frog and fought him to a bloody stalemate.
• Xiao Chen told Mo Yu that their round would end in a draw and that Mo Yu had to handle the final round himself.

Mo Yu battled the Soul Hall Hall Master, using the Nine Profound Golden Thunder to gain the upper hand. The Hall Master absorbed the thunder and revealed that he wielded a Child Flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame, leaving the duel poised to escalate.

• Mo Yu and the Soul Hall Hall Master exchanged taunts before beginning their decisive battle atop the mountain.
• Mo Yu struck first, broke through the Hall Master's black Dou Qi defenses with golden thunder, and wounded him with the Golden Thunder Dragon.
• Mo Yu unleashed Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, but the Hall Master countered with Ten Thousand Souls Worship and resisted the soul attack.
• Mo Yu summoned Little Gold, whose Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon engulfed the Hall Master in devastating lightning.
• The Hall Master emerged by devouring the golden thunder and revealed a black flame, which Mo Yu identified as a Child Flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame.

Mo Yu and Little Gold defeated the Soul Hall Hall Master by having Little Gold devour the Nihility Devouring Flame’s Sub-Flame and then bombard the Hall Master with Thunder Pellets. The Soul Hall conceded the match, and Mo Yu’s victory established Yuan Manor as the Central Plains’ new overlord.

• The Soul Hall Hall Master unleashed the Nihility Devouring Flame’s Sub-Flame against Mo Yu, but Mo Yu sent Little Gold to fight it with his Profound Thunder.
• Little Gold trapped the Sub-Flame in a thunder prison, overpowered its devouring force, and began refining it while Mo Yu kept the Soul Hall Hall Master from intervening.
• Hun Qianmo and Old Man Soul Demon tried to rescue the Sub-Flame, but Uncle She, Xiao Chen, Lei Ying, and Yuan Manor’s Dou Sheng powerhouses blocked them; Hun Qianmo agreed to keep the three-match, two-victory arrangement in place.
• Little Gold swallowed the Sub-Flame and joined Mo Yu’s attack, striking the Soul Hall Hall Master with Thunder Pellets until a massive explosion overwhelmed him.
• The onlookers accepted Mo Yu’s victory, and Yuan Manor’s forces celebrated as the manor’s status rose above the Soul Hall.

Mo Yu’s victory over the Soul Hall Hall Master established the Yuan Manor as the Central Plains’ new hegemon, and Mo Yu grew stronger while the manor expanded. After learning that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was attacking the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe while Cai Lin secluded herself in the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, Mo Yu set out with four companions to help.

• Mo Yu defeated the Soul Hall Hall Master, and Lei Ying stopped Hun Qianmo from attacking Mo Yu as the Soul Hall withdrew.
• The Yuan Manor gained influence and carefully recruited new members, while Mo Yu advanced to the Mid-stage Five-star Dou Sheng level and Little Gold reached the Six-star Dou Sheng level.
• Mo Yu asked Uncle She to invite Yao Clan alchemists to the Yuan Manor, anticipating danger to the Yao Clan from the Hun Clan.
• Uncle She delivered Yao Ming’s warning that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was attacking and that something had changed in the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, where Cai Lin was in seclusion.
• Mo Yu chose not to mobilize the Yuan Manor and instead departed with Yao Ming, Purple Fire, and Xiao Yi Xian to assist Cai Lin and the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe.

Huang Tian led the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan in an assault on the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe, aiming to seize Cai Lin from the Nine Serene Yellow Springs. As Huang Tian broke through the tribe’s defenses and reached for her, Mo Yu arrived and struck him with the Nine Profound Golden Thunder.

• The Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe’s Third Elder reassured the Elders that reinforcements from Yao Ming and Yuan Manor would arrive, then sent Qi Fu to guard the Nine Serene Yellow Springs where Cai Lin was cultivating.
• Huang Tian arrived with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, declared Mo Yu his enemy, and attacked the tribe’s headquarters.
• The Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan deployed their clan-protecting arrays, but Huang Tian broke through and reached the Nine Serene Yellow Springs.
• Huang Tian defeated Qi Fu and his guards with a golden-feather attack, shattered the ice covering the Yellow Springs, and began pulling Cai Lin from its depths.
• Mo Yu arrived as a Thunder Golden Dragon and struck Huang Tian with the Nine Profound Golden Thunder, blasting him through several mountain peaks.

Mo Yu arrived to defend the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe and battled Huang Tian, gaining the upper hand with his Golden Thunder techniques. Cai Lin then emerged from the Nine Serene Yellow Springs as the legendary Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and returned to human form, leaving Mo Yu watching her with joy.

• Mo Yu and Yao Ming arrived at the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe, and Mo Yu restored the water Huang Tian had drawn from the Nine Serene Yellow Springs.
• Huang Tian attacked Mo Yu, who countered with Thunder Dragon Roar and used his Phoenix Bone Wings and Golden Thunder to outmaneuver and wound him.
• Mo Yu detonated the Golden Thunder Finger inside Huang Tian, leaving Huang Tian badly burned and reconsidering whether to retreat.
• A nine-colored light pillar erupted from the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, and Mo Yu recognized that Cai Lin had completed her evolution.
• Cai Lin appeared as a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, absorbed dozens of Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python souls, and transformed back into a beautiful woman.
• Cai Lin looked toward Mo Yu, and her expression softened as he welcomed her with a joyful smile.

After Cai Lin emerged from seclusion with the strength of a Four-star Dou Sheng and the ability to call on ancestral souls, she joined Mo Yu against Huang Tian. Mo Yu refused Huang Tian’s demand to leave, and Cai Lin captured the defeated clan leader as the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe rallied behind Mo Yu.

• Cai Lin told Mo Yu that she had reached Four-star Dou Sheng and could contend with Five-star or Six-star Dou Shengs by borrowing the power of ancestral souls.
• Mo Yu rejected Huang Tian’s offer to withdraw and vowed to avenge the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe members Huang Tian had killed, earning the tribe’s fervent allegiance.
• Huang Tian transformed into his Demon Phoenix Saint Image, but Cai Lin bound him with her giant snake body and a net of Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Pythons.
• Huang Tian escaped the tightening snake net in human form, but Cai Lin struck him down with her tail.
• Mo Yu intercepted the falling Huang Tian and seized him, leaving the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s leader captured.

Mo Yu defeated Huang Tian, enslaved him, and brought the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan into Yuan Manor as Demon Phoenix Hall. After Zi Yan secured an alliance with the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, Mo Yu learned that Gu He had been invited to the Yao Clan’s upcoming Medicine Ceremony.

• Mo Yu planted a Black Lotus Seal in Huang Tian, sealed his Dou Qi, and ordered the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe to capture the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members and attack their lair.
• Mo Yu returned to Yuan Manor with Cai Lin, where the manor’s leaders celebrated her strength and Uncle She welcomed the prospect of her bloodline benefiting the Snake People Race.
• Mo Yu deepened the Black Lotus Seal until he controlled Huang Tian, who persuaded the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to join Yuan Manor as Demon Phoenix Hall.
• After members of Demon Phoenix Hall and Nether Snake Hall clashed, Mo Yu publicly punished Huang Tian and Yao Ming, ending the infighting and easing the new members’ resistance.
• Zi Yan told Mo Yu that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had agreed to ally with Yuan Manor.
• Mo Yu asked Uncle She about the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, and Uncle She said it was about a month away and that Gu He had been invited.

Mo Yu and Gu He traveled to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, where they reunited with Xiao Yan and Old Yao. After entering the clan grounds, they encountered Yao Wangu confronting Old Yao over his return from exile.

• Mo Yu left Yuan Manor with Gu He while Cai Lin stayed behind to guard the manor.
• Mo Yu and Gu He reached the Yao Clan’s gateway and met Xiao Yan and Old Yao, who had come to attend the Medicine Ceremony.
• Xiao Yan told Mo Yu that he had subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with Xun’er’s help, and they discussed Mo Yu’s battle with the Soul Hall Hall Master.
• The four entered the Yao Clan’s territory and rode a giant bird to the clan’s mountain, where Old Yao recognized the familiar surroundings.
• Yao Wangu approached the group and mocked Old Yao for returning to the clan as an exile.