Chapter Summaries

Li Yu looted the Heavenly Flame Plaza and the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, then learned why this world had run out of origin qi. Before leaving, he carved a taunting message into the ground.

• Li Yu collected the Heavenly Flames from the plaza's Stone Pillars and had the system analyze them.
• Li Yu dispersed the mist, took the Ancient Emperor's Cultivation Methods and Ancient Texts, and forced the Ancient Emperor to the ground.
• Li Yu transformed the Ancient Emperor into the Emperor Pill and had the system analyze its memories, structure, and origin qi.
• Li Yu learned that Dou Emperors had depleted the world's origin qi by leaving for the Great Thousand World, and that heavenly tribulations helped worlds preserve their energy.
• Li Yu removed the Emperor Flame and the Ancient Emperor's soul thought from the statue, then carved, "Young man, you came too late!" into the ground.

Li Yu extracted the Ancient Emperor’s memories and analyzed the Emperor Flame before preparing to watch the auction-house chaos caused by his meddling. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan was captured by Hun Miesheng, who planned to devour his four Heavenly Flames.

• The old dragon begged Li Yu to free him, but Li Yu sent him into the dark void and told him he would be released later.
• Li Yu returned to the auction house, extracted the Ancient Emperor’s memories, and recorded his analysis of the Emperor Flame in the Resource Library.
• Li Yu looked forward to the coming auction, imagining Hun Tiandi and the others discovering that the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion had already been emptied.
• The auction invitation and its detailed guide convinced those seeking the cave mansion that its treasures were real, and the Void Devouring Flame confirmed the information.
• Hun Miesheng captured Xiao Yan after Xiao Yan fused four Heavenly Flames and attempted to resist Soul Hall.
• Hun Miesheng unleashed black flames to engulf Xiao Yan and devour his Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan used the new Fen Jue to refine Hun Miesheng’s Void Child Flame, consuming Hun Miesheng’s power and the Soul Hall along with it. After the resulting explosion destroyed the Soul Hall’s mountain, Xiao Yan crashed down in front of Xiao Feng and the Nine Netherworld Python clan.

• Hun Miesheng used the Void Child Flame to overwhelm Xiao Yan’s four Heavenly Flames and began consuming them.
• Xiao Yan activated the new Fen Jue, which started refining the Void Child Flame and merging it with his other Heavenly Flames.
• The refining process made the Void Child Flame devour Hun Miesheng’s Dou Qi, allowing Xiao Yan to consume both the flame and Hun Miesheng’s power.
• Purple-black flames swept through the Soul Hall and devoured everyone inside before an explosion shattered the mountain peak.
• Xiao Feng and the Nine Netherworld Python clan arrived to find Xiao Yan falling from the dust-filled sky, while the Supreme Alchemist Spirit joked that he had eaten too much and gotten stuffed.

The Number One Auction House Under Heaven opened in Wu Yuan City, drawing the most powerful factions from across the world, who submitted to its rules and waited to enter. Ya Fei presented the auction’s treasures, including Heavenly Flames, a Ninth Grade Pill, and the Ancient Emperor’s Jade, leaving the gathered clans and experts in shock.

• Powerful figures arrived through spatial passages and obediently lined up outside the auction house after presenting their invitations.
• Li Yu told Ya Fei that, as someone who worked for him, she stood above the assembled powers, and she went downstairs to open the auction.
• Ya Fei displayed numerous treasures, then opened a bronze box containing the Void Devouring Flame, startling the Soul Clan.
• Ya Fei revealed a Ninth Grade Pill, which shocked the Pill Tower’s elders.
• Ya Fei uncovered eight pieces of Ancient Emperor’s Jade, and the Eight Ancient Clans cried out in alarm.

At the auction, the Eight Ancient Clans verified eight genuine pieces of Ancient Emperor's Jade before bidding began. The clans made increasingly extreme offers, and Hun Tiandi's final bid of the Soul Clan's treasures, realms, Imperial Clan bloodlines, and Void Devouring Flame won the jade, triggering a battle as the hall erupted with powerful auras.

• Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, and representatives of the Eight Ancient Clans verified that the eight pieces were genuine Ancient Emperor's Jade.
• The auction sold Dou Techniques, medicinal pills, Heavenly Flames, and a Ninth-grade Golden Core before beginning the bidding for the jade.
• The Shi, Ling, Lei, Yao, and Yan Clans offered increasingly valuable treasures, secret arts, and realms for the jade.
• Gu Yuan bid the Gu Clan's Black Nether Cauldron, secret arts, Ancient Realm Heavenly Tomb, and Ancient Realm, leaving Hun Tiandi furious.
• Hun Tiandi offered the Soul Clan's Chaos Cauldron, secret arts, Soul Realm, the bloodlines of twenty-one destroyed Imperial Clans, and Void Devouring Flame.
• Ya Fei declared the jade sold to Hun Tiandi, and the powerful figures in the hall prepared to seize it by force.

After Hun Tiandi won the Ancient Emperor's Jade, Ya Fei offered the location of the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and letters about heavenly cauldrons for sale. Li Yu prepared to give Xiao Feng an Emperor Pill and arranged benefits for Ancient Tree before settling in to watch events unfold.

• Hun Tiandi completed the purchase of the Ancient Emperor's Jade and left, while the Great Emperor made Void Devouring Flame disappear when it resisted being sold.
• Ya Fei offered the location of the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, then traded letters about the heavenly cauldrons for cauldrons from the Eight Ancient Clans and Demonic Flame Valley's leader.
• Li Yu told the System to analyze the collected heavenly cauldrons, especially the Chaos Cauldron, and planned to let Hun Tiandi find the cave mansion empty.
• Li Yu decided to complete the embryonic Emperor Pill for Xiao Feng and return the Ancient Emperor soul remnant and Dou Emperor origin to Xiao Yan.
• Li Yu chose the Bodhi Heart Lamp Method as a cultivation reward for Ancient Tree, then lay down to watch what happened next.

Hun Tiandi opened the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and revealed that he had turned himself into the core of a formation capable of draining life across the Central Continent. As he attacked Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders, Xiao Yan, Xiao Feng, and Xiao Xun'er arrived, and Xiao Yan charged to defend Gu Yuan.

• Hun Tiandi used the Ancient Emperor's Jade to raise the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion from the magma, but Gu Yuan and the leaders of the other Eight Ancient Clans confronted him.
• Hun Tiandi revealed the Spirit Devouring Life Extinguishing Array carved into his chest and said he had sacrificed the Soul Realm, the Chaos Cauldron, Void Devouring Flame, and himself to power it.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed Blood Demon Heart Corroding Thunder at Gu Yuan and the clan leaders, and Gu Yuan used the Ancient Emperor's Mirror to shield them.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Feng, and Xiao Xun'er sensed the battle beneath Jia Lan Academy and entered the underground space through a spatial passage.
• Xiao Xun'er saw Gu Yuan defending the others, and Xiao Yan attacked Hun Tiandi with the Flame Devouring Wave Splitting Ruler.

Xiao Feng and Xiao Yan overwhelmed Hun Tiandi, but he detonated the Spirit Devouring Life Extinguishing Array and escaped into the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. The others followed and found Hun Tiandi repeatedly crashing into the ground while a violet-gold dragon laughed at him.

• Xiao Feng and Xiao Yan attacked Hun Tiandi together, driving him back with golden flames, Xiao Yan's ruler, and Xiao Feng's pestle.
• Hun Tiandi ripped the rune-marked skin from his chest and detonated the Spirit Devouring Life Extinguishing Array, engulfing everyone in blood clouds.
• Xiao Feng used the Great Sun Golden Flame to purify the blood clouds while Xiao Yan and Gu Yuan shielded Xun'er.
• Hun Tiandi opened the passage into the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion with the Ancient Emperor's Jade and rushed inside; Xiao Feng, Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and the others followed.
• Inside the cave mansion, Hun Tiandi repeatedly crashed into the ground, shouting, "Boy, you came too late," as a violet-gold dragon laughed at him.

Hun Tiandi died after old dragon struck him, and the crowd discovered that someone had reached the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion before them. As everyone left, Ancient Tree summoned Xiao Feng and Xiao Yan on behalf of his sovereign, and Supreme Alchemist Spirit revealed that he had been formed from a scroll and had an owner.

• Hun Tiandi attacked old dragon and was killed by a crushing dragon claw.
• Old dragon showed the crowd the words “Boy, you came too late” and fled when Gu Yuan asked who had arrived first.
• The crowd suspected Number One Auction House Under Heaven and left the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion empty-handed.
• Ancient Tree appeared above the lava sea and told Xiao Feng and Xiao Yan that his sovereign wished to see them.
• Supreme Alchemist Spirit revealed to Xiao Feng that he had been formed from the scroll in Xiao Feng’s mind and therefore had an owner.
• Xiao Feng agreed to meet the sovereign and told Xiao Yan to come with him.

Xiao Feng and Xiao Yan met Li Yu, who revealed the Supreme Alchemist Spirit’s origins and gave each brother a path to become a Dou Emperor. The brothers left with new gifts and titles in mind, while Li Yu was startled by Xiao Yan’s choice of “Flame Emperor” and “Yellow Emperor.”

• Xiao Feng and Xiao Yan arrived at the Number One Under Heaven Auction House in Wu Yuan City and met Li Yu.
• Li Yu summoned the Supreme Alchemist Spirit from Xiao Feng’s ring and explained that he had created the spirit from a book of alchemy insights.
• Li Yu gave Xiao Feng an Emperor Pill and gave Xiao Yan the world’s fire source and an adjusted cultivation method.
• The Xiao brothers thanked Li Yu and left the auction house with the Supreme Alchemist Spirit.
• Xiao Yan chose the title Flame Emperor for himself and suggested Xiao Feng become the Yellow Emperor, leaving Li Yu sputtering in surprise.

Li Yu returned to the Immortal Estate and began setting up its Pill Hall with the alchemy resources he had brought back. He activated the hall’s flames and left the Earthly Azure Lotus Flame and a memory-wiped Void Devouring Flame bound to it.

• Li Yu left the Mall Outpost in the ancient tree’s care and returned directly to the Immortal Estate Garden.
• Li Yu planted the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit Tree in a flowerpot and decided to cultivate the Earthly Azure Lotus Flame in the Pill Hall.
• Li Yu transferred the alchemy arts from the Resource Library into the Pill Hall Library and placed a row of pill cauldrons in the hall.
• Li Yu fused all the Heavenly Flames into Emperor Flame, then erased Void Devouring Flame’s memories and reshaped it into a small fire dragon.
• Li Yu created a lava pool in the Pill Hall, planted the Earthly Azure Lotus Flame, and designated it and the fire dragon as the hall’s alchemy flames.

Li Yu placed the thunder pool in an ancient well and used the first Mall Outpost to expand the Mall Space. He then discovered that Zhou Yi had submitted a cache of resources, including several rare treasures.

• Li Yu placed the thunder pool in the ancient well and set up a soundproofing array at its entrance.
• Li Yu decided to use the Ancient Realm Heavenly Tomb as an energy source for the system.
• The system announced that the Mall Outpost had met the conditions to expand the Mall Space, and Li Yu ordered the expansion.
• Li Yu found that the expansion enlarged only the Mall Space, not its nine floating islands, and concluded that he still needed to raise his permissions.
• Li Yu learned that Zhou Yi's submissions had been stored in the Mall Space and inspected a list containing Source Stones, corpses, a Kirin Undying Elixir, Battle Saint Ape blood, Immortal Exquisite, and a dragon pearl.

Li Yu explored the Immortal Estate warehouse and collected Zhou Yi’s submitted treasures, then used the Dragon Pearl Stone Ball and Source Stones to form an Earth Dragon Vein and planted the Kirin Undying Elixir. After leaving the Mall Space, he called out to Little Tingting.

• Li Yu found the Kirin Undying Elixir, Blood of the Battle Saint Ape, Immortal Exquisite, Dragon Pearl Stone Ball, and Source Stones in the warehouse and stored them in the System Resource Library.
• Li Yu buried the Dragon Pearl Stone Ball and Source Stones beneath the main island to cultivate an Earth Dragon Vein.
• Li Yu planted the Kirin Undying Elixir in the Immortal Estate Garden, where it grew into a golden tree that he could draw upon for its life-saving power.
• Li Yu left the Mall Space and called out to Little Tingting.

Li Yu returned to Wangchuan Peak and planned to use the upcoming Dao Completion Ceremony to gather texts from the major sects and investigate the world's mysteries. He created the Heaven-Evolving Bead, a disguised information-gathering system he intended to give to a host before reclaiming it and its collected records.

• Li Yu reunited with Little Tingting, learned she was studying the Taiyin True Scripture with the Azure Lotus Clone, and considered bringing her along on a future trip to another world.
• Li Yu learned the Dao Completion Ceremony was three days away and decided to use the visiting sect disciples to access their texts and records.
• Li Yu questioned the world's unusual size, geography, and rules for Dao completion, and concluded that something about the world was wrong.
• Li Yu designed the Heaven-Evolving Bead to gather, store, organize, and analyze information while appearing to its host as a magical treasure.
• Li Yu set the bead to obey only his commands, collect texts for its host, and uninstall itself with all recorded information when he ordered it.

Li Yu prepared a disguised fire sale of fortuitous opportunities and set a trap at the market beneath Cangwu Mountain. Chen Hailing stole the baited black iron ore, while Li Yu planned to swindle him later.

• Li Yu used the Apothecary body-refining method to create twenty-six new bodies for his fire sale.
• Independent cultivators gathered at the foot of Cangwu Mountain as visitors arrived for Azure Lotus Grandmaster's Dao Completion Ceremony.
• Li Yu posed as a gaunt stallholder and secretly imbued a piece of black iron ore with Dao resonance.
• Chen Hailing noticed the ore's hidden markings, sent Xishi to look at hairpins, and distracted Li Yu by asking for directions.
• Chen Hailing knocked the stall's ores aside and secretly took the black iron ore, and Li Yu resolved to trick him later.

Li Yu staged a market full of apparent fortuitous encounters, tricking visiting sect disciples into acquiring seemingly worthless objects and odd bargains. After two days of successful schemes beneath Cangwu Mountain, his grand clearance sale ended.

• Li Yu disguised himself and arranged for a fat monk to take a massive sword after a staged confrontation.
• A man posing as a Shuiyun Sect disciple fled a brothel fight, leaving behind an inkstone that a white-robed youth collected.
• A scholar bought an old beggar’s alms bowl and hurried away alone.
• A young monk bought a shabby bronze statue from a boy after realizing it was a fortuitous encounter.
• Disciples visiting for the Azure Lotus Grandmaster’s Dao Completion Ceremony collected strange treasures and tokens of affection, and Li Yu’s sale concluded successfully.

Azure Lotus Grandmaster’s Dao Completion Ceremony began at Cangwu Academy, where the Demon Emperor arrived and challenged him to a fight in the Turbulent Void. The Demon Emperor departed in his carriage, leaving Azure Lotus Grandmaster to decide whether to accept the challenge.

• The gathered sects and Cangwu Academy disciples welcomed Azure Lotus Grandmaster as he descended into the hall and took his seat.
• Headmaster Qin Muyu praised Azure Lotus Grandmaster’s achievement and predicted that the demon fiends would no longer threaten the Central Plains.
• The Demon Emperor arrived in a carriage pulled by nine black flood dragons and overwhelmed the crowd with his aura until Azure Lotus Grandmaster dispelled it.
• The Demon Emperor said he had come to see Azure Lotus Grandmaster, then accepted his wine and froze it before drinking.
• The Demon Emperor declared that he had not yet fulfilled his purpose, left for the Turbulent Void, and challenged Azure Lotus Grandmaster to fight him there.

Azure Lotus Grandmaster accepted the Demon Sovereign’s challenge in the Turbulent Void, where the two clashed. The Demon Sovereign called Azure Lotus his brother, revealed his name as Mo Bai, and fled after hinting that the world was a prison.

• Azure Lotus Grandmaster dismissed Qin Muyu and the others’ warnings and left to face the Demon Sovereign in the Turbulent Void.
• Li Yu told the system to gather information from the battle as the Azure Lotus Clone entered the chaotic realm.
• The Demon Sovereign and Azure Lotus exchanged attacks, and Azure Lotus’s Emperor Weapon and Nine Slashes of the Demon Emperor forced the Demon Sovereign to retreat injured.
• The Demon Sovereign called Azure Lotus his brother, said great power belonged to oneself, and fled while inviting him to overturn the prison.
• Li Yu wondered what the Demon Sovereign knew about the truth and the prison.

After the Azure Lotus Clone defeated Demon Emperor Mo Bai, Li Yu considered the Demon Emperor’s views on cultivation and turned his attention to the Heaven-Evolving Bead plan. Chen Hailing refined the bead’s first restriction, revealing its ability to analyze what he had learned, and Li Yu anticipated gaining access to the Cloud Firmament Sect’s archives.

• The Azure Lotus Clone returned to Cangwu Mountain after defeating Demon Emperor Mo Bai, and the human race celebrated the victory.
• Li Yu concluded that Mo Bai had been probing the Azure Lotus Clone and considered whether true power came from oneself rather than the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Yu checked the twenty-six Heaven-Evolving Beads and saw that hosts across the major sects were refining them.
• Chen Hailing used True Essence Spiritual Qi and blood to refine the bead’s first restriction, causing it to enter his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Heaven-Evolving Bead analyzed Chen Hailing’s knowledge and cultivation methods, and Li Yu expected to obtain the Cloud Firmament Sect’s archives.

After the Heaven-Evolving Beads went online, Li Yu decided to travel to another world while their hosts gathered information. He brought Little Tingting to a snowy realm, identified as the Great Qian Dynasty, and headed toward its capital, Yujing.

• The system notified Li Yu that all Heaven-Evolving Bead systems were functioning normally, though their hosts had collected little useful information so far.
• Li Yu selected a world with a Supreme Daoist Sect and planned to study its cultivation methods, complete his system tasks, and gather treasures.
• Li Yu invited Little Tingting to accompany him, and the system transported them both to the target world.
• Li Yu realized Little Tingting was comfortable in the snow because of her Taiyin Physique and exchanged winter clothes for them.
• Li Yu spotted the great city of Yujing and walked toward it with Little Tingting.