Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Qing Lin descended through the Nine Nether Yellow Spring, where Qing Lin briefly controlled several Strange Snakes but could not override the god in their minds. At the lakebed, Xiao Yan suppressed the imprisoned Yao Ming so Qing Lin could use his Dou Qi to advance, and discovered that the Nine Nether Nether Staff might lead to the inheritance hidden in the spring’s depths.

• Xiao Yan shielded Qing Lin and the other woman from the Strange Snakes’ water arrows, then let Qing Lin attempt to control several of them.
• Qing Lin imprinted three jade-green flowers on the Strange Snakes but learned they could not disobey the god in their minds, so Xiao Yan led the group deeper.
• Xiao Yan found Yao Ming chained beneath the lakebed and suppressed his consciousness, soul, body, and Dou Qi with his techniques and flames.
• Xiao Yan had Qing Lin control Yao Ming so she could draw on his recovered Dou Qi, and left a flame seal on him as protection while she cultivated.
• Yao Ming surrendered Yellow Spring Blood Essence, clan inheritance scrolls, and the Nine Nether Nether Staff, which Xiao Yan sensed was connected to the inheritance deep within the Nine Nether Yellow Spring.

Xiao Yan freed Yao Ming, then helped Queen Medusa enter a hidden realm beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Spring to pursue a bloodline breakthrough. Outside the ravine, Yao Xiaotian tried to convince the clan Elders to yield the spring to Xiao Yan and his companions, warning them of Xiao Yan’s strength.

• Xiao Yan destroyed the mechanism core inside the Yellow Spring Yin Stone, and Qing Lin stored the freed Yao Ming in her peculiar space.
• Qing Lin revealed that the Nine Nether Nether Staff unlocked another underground ruin, but Xiao Yan chose to continue deeper with her and Queen Medusa.
• Queen Medusa’s Nine-Colored Raw Stone opened a vortex, and Xiao Yan sent a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python flame inside to check it before letting her enter.
• Xiao Yan left a Fallen Heart Flame Sub-flame on Queen Medusa, then departed with Qing Lin after sensing that Queen Medusa was safe.
• Yao Xiaotian faced a divided group of Elders outside the ravine, and he defended handing over the Nine Nether Yellow Spring by citing Xiao Yan’s formidable strength and youth.

Xiao Yan defeated the Yellow Spring Demon Sage’s test and claimed his inheritance, including the Demon Sage’s Essence Blood. After leaving the stele, he rewarded Yao Xiaotian with the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and departed with Qing Lin, while Yao Xiaotian learned firsthand how vast the gap between them was.

• Yao Xiaotian identified the rebellious Elders, and Xiao Yan trapped them in the Nightmare Heavenly Mist.
• Xiao Yan entered the Yellow Spring Stele and used his flames and Soul Power to overcome its lightning, Yellow Spring Finger, and Yellow Spring Heavenly Fury.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Sage acknowledged Xiao Yan’s victory, passed on his three Dou Techniques and Essence Blood, and was pulled away by the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan declined Yao Xiaotian’s offer to stay but gave him the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame before leaving with Qing Lin.
• Yao Xiaotian touched the stele’s newly emerged mouth, was struck by a powerful soul impact, and concluded that he had chosen the right person to follow.

Xiao Yan accompanied Zi Yan to East Dragon Island, where she announced her return as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Emperor. The elders welcomed her and asked Xiao Yan to help defend against the rival Dragon Islands, while they tried to raise Zi Yan’s strength.

• Xiao Yan studied the Puppet formation and realized it could combine the power of his Flame Slaves into the Creator Heavenly Saint.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan traveled through the void to East Dragon Island, where Zi Yan roared that the Dragon Emperor had returned.
• The East Dragon Island elders recognized Zi Yan as the Old Dragon Emperor’s daughter and learned from Xiao Yan that her father was trapped in Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion.
• The elders warned that the other Dragon Islands might attack Zi Yan and asked Xiao Yan to aid them; Xiao Yan agreed.
• The East Dragon Island elders offered Zi Yan inheritance techniques and medicinal herbs, hoping she would reach Four-star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan helped Zi Yan cultivate while the Three Dragon Kings prepared to seize East Dragon Island and take him as their Ninth Grade Alchemist. Zi Yan destroyed the Three Dragon Kings with her overwhelming power, and the Ancient Void Dragons acknowledged her as their Dragon Emperor.

• Xiao Yan refined a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill and three Pill Beasts for Zi Yan, helping her advance to Three-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan warned Zi Yan and the Great Elder that the Three Dragon Kings were approaching, so East Dragon Island evacuated its weaker clansmen and prepared to fight.
• The North Dragon King demanded that Zi Yan hand over Xiao Yan and submit to North Dragon Island, while the Three Dragon Kings resisted Zi Yan's pressure.
• Zi Yan unleashed a gigantic Purple-gold Flame dragon that immobilized the Three Dragon Kings and destroyed them with its roar.
• The Ancient Void Dragons knelt to welcome Zi Yan back as Dragon Emperor, and Zi Yan recognized Xiao Yan's voice and accused him of setting the pace.

After uniting the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, Xiao Yan entered the Void Lightning Pool to strengthen the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire and his allies. Two months later, he fused his ten Flame Slaves into the Creator Heavenly Saint, while his own strength barely changed, leaving him to consider seeking the Nine Profound Golden Thunder deeper in the pool.

• The Ancient Void Dragon Clan reunited on Ancient Dragon Island, and Xiao Yan asked the Great Elder to take him to the Void Lightning Pool.
• Xiao Yan entered the pool, where the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire absorbed silver lightning and then drew the Black Demonic Lightning into exchanges that gave the bolts Spiritual Qi.
• Xiao Yan used ten Flame Slaves and the Creator Heavenly Saint to absorb the Black Demonic Lightning while he cultivated on a Milky White Lotus Platform.
• After two months, Xiao Yan permanently merged the ten Flame Slaves into the Creator Heavenly Saint, sacrificing them to greatly increase its strength.
• Xiao Yan found that the lightning had barely affected his own cultivation or body and suspected only the Nine Profound Golden Thunder could challenge him.

Xiao Yan helped the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire absorb Black Demonic Lightning, drawing the attention of the Nine Profound Golden Thunder. He weakened the golden dragon’s backlash, gave it emerging intelligence and cultivation methods, then left to refine a Ninth Grade Profound Pill.

• Xiao Yan spent a month helping the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire absorb purified Black Demonic Lightning until its energy reached the Dou Sheng level.
• The Seven Star Dou Sheng-level Nine Profound Golden Thunder attacked the silver sea of fire and began gathering Spiritual Qi to develop intelligence.
• Xiao Yan used the Emperor Flame to bind the golden lightning, and the Nine Profound Golden Thunder poured out its origin power to reduce the backlash harming it.
• Xiao Yan sealed the Nine Profound Golden Thunder’s origin, planted a seed of Spiritual Qi in it, and taught it cultivation methods and Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Yan named the golden dragon Xiao Long, gave it a Jade Slip bearing a Flame Mark, and departed to refine a Ninth Grade Profound Pill.
• The Black Demonic Lightning were left weakened to Dou Zun strength, while the Nine Profound Golden Thunder remained as an empty shell.

Xiao Yan refined a Ninth Grade Profound Pill from the Nine Profound Golden Thunder and used it to break through to the Early-stage Seven-star Dou Sheng realm. He then headed for the Demon Flame Space, where he found Nihility Devouring Flame wearing down its restrictions, and chose to confront it alone.

• Xiao Yan gathered medicinal herbs, left Zi Yan, and traveled to the Heavenly Tomb to refine a Lightning Tribulation Pill.
• Xiao Yan swallowed a bolt of Golden Lightning and modified the pill’s refinement so its violent power would temper his body.
• Xiao Yan spent a month refining the golden dragon into a Ninth Grade Profound Pill, then swallowed the pill and absorbed its power.
• Xiao Yan shaped an Energy Tide in the Heavenly Tomb and broke through to the Early-stage Seven-star Dou Sheng realm.
• Xiao Yan left the Heavenly Tomb for the Demon Flame Space but sensed Nihility Devouring Flame nearby, secretly approached, and decided to fight without calling Gu Yuan.

Xiao Yan defeated Nihility Devouring Flame’s main body and Hun Tiandi’s Split Soul, then took their remaining origins and a Child Flame into the Heavenly Tomb for secluded cultivation. In the Soul Realm, the weakened Nihility Devouring Flame and Hun Tiandi discussed seeking aid from the Yan Clan and Yao Clan, before Hun Tiandi severed his connection with the Split Soul.

• Xiao Yan used the Nightmare Heavenly Mist, multiple Heavenly Flames, and Yellow Spring Heavenly Fury to overwhelm Nihility Devouring Flame, who split into fleeing heads and escaped.
• Xiao Yan captured two heads containing Nihility Devouring Flame’s origin, absorbed the residual flames, and entered the Demon Flame Space.
• Xiao Yan defeated and sealed Hun Tiandi’s Split Soul, returned the ruined Demon Flame Space to the Dou Qi Continent, and brought the Split Soul to Ancestor Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Yan took the Child Flame and two clusters of origin energy into the Heavenly Tomb to begin secluded cultivation.
• Hun Tiandi advised the weakened Nihility Devouring Flame to seek recovery resources from the Yan Clan and Yao Clan, then severed his connection with the Split Soul.

Xiao Yan refined Nihility Devouring Flame and its origin flames, strengthening his Emperor Flame and advancing his cultivation. As he prepared to seek more Heavenly Flames, Ye Zhong asked how the Ye Family should handle its growing ties to factions opposed by the Pill Tower’s neutral stance.

• Hun Tiandi gathered support and resources from the five clans while planning to provoke Xiao Yan into conflict with them.
• Xiao Yan refined Nihility Devouring Flame’s Sub-flame and two origin flames in the Heavenly Tomb, reaching the middle stage of Seven Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan studied his new Emperor Flame, discovered that it could reproduce the traits of individual Heavenly Flames, and later broke through to the late stage of Seven Star Dou Sheng by refining a Ninth Grade Profound Pill.
• Xiao Yan gave Candle Star Flame an Emperor Flame Sub-flame and promised more for each ownerless Heavenly Flame Candle Star Flame found.
• Ye Zhong asked Xiao Yan what the Ye Family should do about its close ties to the Flower Sect and Burning Flame Valley, which had put it at odds with the Pill Tower’s neutral policy.

Xiao Yan spent ten years cultivating in the Heavenly Tomb, reached Eight-star Dou Sheng, and trained the Creator Heavenly Saint puppet. After learning the Yao Clan had excluded him from the Pill Canon, he decided to hold his own pill-refining demonstration on the same day.

• Xiao Yan helped Ye Zhong secure a place among the Pill Tower Eight Great Elders while Old Monster Hou entered seclusion after suffering backlash.
• Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Tomb, where he cultivated alongside the Creator Heavenly Saint puppet and spent ten years reaching Eight-star Dou Sheng.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that the Yao Clan had invited the Pill Tower's Great Elder to the Pill Canon but excluded him and the Gu Clan.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Gu Clan's sole Ninth Grade Golden Pill Recipe required the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, which he could not use.
• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao to invite the Gu Clan and other major factions to watch him refine a Ninth Grade Golden Pill on the day the Pill Canon began.

As Xiao Yan prepared to refine a Ninth Grade Golden Pill at Sacred Pill City, Hun Tiandi plotted to exploit the gathering to kill Alchemists and harvest their souls. On the day of the refinement, the Nine Nether Nether Pythons, Ancient Void Dragons, and Gu Xun'er arrived, and an indistinct figure appeared in the plaza.

• Hun Tiandi proposed luring Yao Dan and Yao Wanhuo to Xiao Yan’s pill refinement so the Soul Clan could attack and harvest the Alchemists’ souls; Yan Jin and Lei Ying agreed to join the plan.
• Xiao Yan helped Queen Medusa absorb power from the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s residual souls and a wisp of Nihility Devouring Flame, then spent months traveling the Beast Region with Xiao Xiao and Xiao Qingshan.
• Xiao Yan’s Soul Realm advanced further, and he decided it was time to head to Sacred Pill City for the Pill Canon.
• The Pill Tower limited attendance to Seventh Grade Alchemists and their companions, but Sacred Pill City still filled with spectators eager to witness Xiao Yan’s refinement.
• At the plaza, five Nine Nether Nether Pythons and seven Ancient Void Dragons arrived and took their seats, followed by Gu Xun'er and three mysterious Old Men.
• After the three factions had taken their seats, a blurry figure appeared at the center of the plaza.

Xiao Yan began refining a powerful Pill from Bodhi Seeds and tens of thousands of Medicinal Herbs, using an unprecedented process to distill their essence into Medicine Qi. After forming the embryonic Pill, he flew into the Pill Lightning and used the Nine Profound Golden Thunder to transform it further, while Pills across the plaza began surging with spirituality.

• Elder Shennong arrived at the plaza, and Xiao Yan welcomed him before beginning his refinement.
• Xiao Yan refined the Medicinal Herbs around nine Bodhi Seeds into Medicine Qi over three days, then spent ten more days compressing and purifying it.
• Xiao Yan continued refining for a month until the Bodhi Seeds broke apart and released nine streams of life-filled qi, which he combined into a multicolored flame vortex.
• Xiao Yan formed an embryonic Pill as a massive energy tornado gathered around the plaza, then drew powerful Pill Lightning into the sky.
• Xiao Yan let the Nine Profound Golden Thunder strike the Pill, causing it to transform into a smaller, gold-patterned Pill.
• As the Pill neared its final transformation, Spiritual Qi poured into the Pills carried by everyone nearby, making their spirituality surge.

Xiao Yan completed his pill refinement, calmed the chaos caused by spiritually enhanced Pills, and proposed founding the Pill Canon. Hun Tiandi arrived and launched an attack as Xiao Yan prepared to use the Nine Revolutions Emperor Soul Pill to revive Xiao Xuan.

• Xiao Yan used Nihility Devouring Flame and the Formation to restrain the Alchemists and return their escaped Pills, then examined the Nine Revolutions Emperor Soul Pill.
• Xiao Yan realized that adding Origin Qi could turn the Nine Revolutions Emperor Soul Pill into an Emperor Pill, and he devoured the clouds and Pill Lightning with Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire.
• Xiao Yan proposed holding a Pill Canon every thirty Pill Gatherings, and Gu Xun'er suggested asking the Yao Clan to change the name of its own event.
• Hun Tiandi arrived with Dou Sheng Experts and challenged Gu Xun'er, while she defended Xiao Yan's plan and criticized the Yao Clan's Pill Canon.
• Xiao Yan told Hun Tiandi to state plainly if he intended to rob him, then said he was taking the Pill to revive Xiao Xuan; Hun Tiandi and the others immediately attacked.

Xiao Yan defeated the Soul Clan’s assault and helped Gu Yuan contain Hun Tiandi’s self-destruction, then accepted the Gu Clan’s Golden Body Creation Pill recipe. After the Pill Canon ended, Xiao Yan arranged trades and farewells, while Yao Xiaotian proclaimed his clan’s devotion to him.

• Xiao Yan killed Yan Jin and Lei Ying in one exchange, forcing Nihility Devouring Flame to flee with their souls.
• Xiao Yan restrained Hun Tiandi as Gu Yuan trapped him in the Gate of Deathly Silence, which exploded and tore open a vast rift in space.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Yuan realized Hun Tiandi had likely transferred the Soul Clan’s Dou Di Bloodline and used his self-destruction to escape, so Gu Yuan gave Xiao Yan the Golden Body Creation Pill recipe.
• Xiao Yan collected Yan Jin and Lei Ying’s bodies, turned them into Flame Slaves, and announced that the Pill Canon had ended.
• Elder Shennong stayed in Sacred Pill City and traded his Flame of Life to Xiao Yan for a promise of a future Ninth Grade Golden Pill.
• Xiao Yan gave Yao Xiaotian a Child Flame with Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire properties, and Yao Xiaotian prostrated himself and pledged his clan’s worship.

Xiao Yan revived Xiao Xuan and studied the Golden Body Creation Pill while Hun Tiandi arranged to revive Yan Jin and strengthen the Yan and Lei Clans. The Spirit, Stone, and Yao Clans reconsidered their allegiance as the Soul Clan’s collapse loomed.

• Xiao Yan healed Xun'er after she separated the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, then used Yan Jin's corpse, the Nine Revolutions Emperor Soul Pill, and Yellow Spring Demon Sage's Essence Blood to revive Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Yan spent a month purifying Yan Jin's bones before Xiao Xuan began his revival, then studied his newly fused Heavenly Flames and the Golden Body Creation Pill recipe.
• Hun Tiandi watched the Yan Clan gather its bloodline to revive Yan Jin and the Lei Clan gather around Lei Ying as they prepared to restore their Patriarchs.
• Hun Tiandi concluded that Yan Jin and Lei Ying could help hold back Xiao Xuan, but Xiao Yan would remain unstoppable, so he planned preparations on two fronts.
• The Spirit and Stone Clans considered surrendering and struggled over the Tou She Ancient God Jade, while Yao Dan sent Yao Ling to become Yao Chen's disciple and gave her the Jade.

Gu Xun'er returned to the Ancient Realm with pills from Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yan revived Xiao Xuan and helped him regain strength. Xiao Xuan accepted a Golden Body Creation Pill and prepared to temper his body.

• Gu Xun'er gave Gu Yuan two Golden Body Creation Pills and four Lightning Tribulation Pills from Xiao Yan, astonishing him with Xiao Yan’s gifts and power.
• Xiao Yan stopped refining pills after making five of each kind, as the Heavenly Tomb’s World Energy had grown thin and Xiao Xuan had awakened.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Xuan gravely weakened after the Heavenly Tomb’s changes disrupted his attempt to reverse life and death.
• Xiao Yan restored Xiao Xuan’s life force with the Flame of Life and gave him the Nihility Devouring Flame and Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Xiao Yan explained that Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi were cultivating Dou Di Physical Bodies, then gave Xiao Xuan a Golden Body Creation Pill to aid his body tempering.

Xiao Yan swallowed the Golden Body Creation Pill and used several Ninth-grade pills and Pill Beasts to guide his body through a dangerous transformation toward a Dou Di Physical Body. Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi reconstructed his body with the Soul Clan's bloodline, while Nihility Devouring Flame gathered resources to reach the Emperor Realm Soul; the chapter left both sides preparing for their breakthroughs.

• Xiao Yan prepared medicinal pills and Pill Beasts, then swallowed the Jun Tian Suo Mai Pill before taking the Golden Body Creation Pill.
• The Golden Body Creation Pill's golden fluid overwhelmed Xiao Yan, so he swallowed Pill Beasts and the Man Huang Xue Gu Pill while using his Emperor Flame and Emperor Realm Soul to control its effects.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Sheng Hun Yun Ling Pill, temporarily merged the boundary between his body and soul, and began transforming toward a Dou Di Physical Body.
• Hun Tiandi used the Soul Clan's Dou Di Bloodline and an ancestor's stele to reconstruct his physical body, promising the clansmen their bloodline could be restored and raised afterward.
• Nihility Devouring Flame used resources gathered from the Ancient Races to pursue the Emperor Realm Soul, while Yan Jin and Lei Ying obtained treasures from the Yao, Spirit, and Stone Clans without demanding the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

After advancing to the early Nine-star Dou Sheng stage by devouring the Yin Yang Twin Flames, Xiao Yan searched the void and found Nihility Devouring Flame’s hiding place. He launched a devastating bomb made from fifteen Heavenly Flames and fled before it struck.

• Xiao Yan fused his physical body with Emperor Flame while refining the Golden Body Creation Pill, reaching the late Eight-star Dou Sheng stage and slightly strengthening his Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan devoured the Yin Yang Twin Flames after their Xiao Clan Dou Emperor imprint dissipated, breaking through to the early Nine-star Dou Sheng stage.
• Xiao Yan contacted Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan but received no reply, so he decided to attack the Soul Clan without waiting for them.
• Xiao Yan searched the void with his Soul Power and discovered Nihility Devouring Flame concealed in a region without spatial fluctuations.
• Xiao Yan compressed fifteen Heavenly Flames into a zhang-sized light orb, launched it at Nihility Devouring Flame, and fled on his Heavenly Phoenix Wings.

Nihility Devouring Flame and Hun Tiandi fled when a devastating orb destroyed the Soul Realm, but Xiao Yan confronted them after the blast weakened them. Xiao Yan trapped Hun Tiandi in the Endless Fire Domain and attacked him with its many flames and forces, leaving Hun Tiandi’s Blood-colored Armor cracked.

• Nihility Devouring Flame advanced to Emperor Realm Soul, then fled the Soul Realm when he sensed danger; Hun Tiandi followed as a light orb annihilated the Soul Clan and its realm.
• The orb’s fire wave swept across the Dou Qi Continent, and Xiao Yan confronted the weakened Nihility Devouring Flame and Hun Tiandi after they escaped its range.
• Hun Tiandi proposed opening Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion together, but attacked Xiao Yan when Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan approached.
• Hun Tiandi gained the upper hand in their physical fight, while Xiao Yan used Eight Extremes Collapse to make Heavenly Flames explode inside him.
• Xiao Yan formed a Small World from Nihility Devouring Flame and confined Hun Tiandi within the Endless Fire Domain.
• Xiao Yan unleashed storms, lightning, a Dragon Phoenix, White Insects, and a golden fist against Hun Tiandi, cracking his Blood-colored Armor.