Chapter Summaries

Huo Xuan and the other groups defeated the five Half-Saint Puppets guarding the Bodhi Ancient Tree and approached its trunk. A pillar of light then enveloped them, stripped away their Dou Qi, and pulled them into the tree.

• Hun Yu identified the five motionless Half-Saint experts as Puppets and recognized one as an ancestor from his clan who had vanished with the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Hun Yu proposed that the groups divide the five Puppets among themselves, and Huo Xuan and the others agreed to fight them.
• Huo Xuan defeated his Half-Saint Puppet with a multicolored fire lotus, while the other groups destroyed the remaining four.
• The groups continued to the Bodhi Ancient Tree and were caught in a pillar of light that drained their Dou Qi and drew them into the trunk.

Huo Xuan became trapped in an illusion created by the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where he imagined himself as a Dou Emperor destroying the Gu Clan. The Bodhi Seed dispelled the illusion, and he awoke in a space with a miniature Bodhi Ancient Tree that showed him the others trapped in their own illusions.

• Huo Xuan entered a halo in the white realm and found himself in Yan World, where Huo Yun described a future in which Huo Xuan had become the continent's only Dou Emperor.
• Huo Xuan imagined annihilating the Gu Clan and killing Gu Yuan with overwhelming power, becoming consumed by slaughter.
• The Bodhi Seed released a cool aura that cleared Huo Xuan's disordered memories and revealed that his power and the massacre had been an illusion.
• Huo Xuan used the Bodhi Seed to shatter the illusion and awoke before a miniature Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree released images showing that the other people who had entered it were trapped in their own illusions.

Huo Xuan learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had been corrupted by the Negative Emotions of a slain Dou Emperor and used Bodhi Seeds to cleanse it. Afterward, the tree drew Huo Xuan into its trunk, then expelled the others who had entered it.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Huo Xuan images of a Dou Emperor attacking it, dying in battle, and leaving Negative Emotions that corrupted the tree.
• Huo Xuan understood that the tree contained both its original kind consciousness and a dark consciousness, and he agreed to help heal it.
• Huo Xuan refined his Bodhi Seed, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree gave him twenty-four pure Bodhi Seeds in return.
• Huo Xuan refined the remaining seeds until the tree's coldness vanished and its corrupted Negative Emotions were cleared.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree pulled Huo Xuan into its trunk, where he fell asleep, then opened spatial rifts and expelled the rest of the group.

Huo Xuan underwent a month of Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree while the others waited, unable to leave. When the tree released more than twenty Bodhi Seeds, Huo Xuan summoned them all into his palm.

• Hun Yu attacked Huo Xuan to interrupt his enlightenment, but the Bodhi Ancient Tree repelled him and sent him flying.
• The others waited and cultivated in the tree’s restorative space for about a month while Huo Xuan experienced reincarnation.
• Huo Xuan emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree and reassured Huo Zhi that he was fine.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree released more than twenty Bodhi Seeds, and everyone rushed to seize them.
• Huo Xuan summoned all the Bodhi Seeds into his palm and thanked the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

Huo Xuan left the Bodhi Ancient Tree with all three treasures, including the Bodhi Heart, and kept the Heart secret as the tree sank underground. When Hun Yu and his allies demanded the Bodhi Seeds, Huo Xuan refused and demonstrated his strength, leaving the others stunned into silence.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s space shattered, and Huo Xuan and the others were expelled into the Wild Ancient Region as the tree sank underground.
• Huo Xuan hid the fact that he possessed the Bodhi Heart while others lamented that they had not found it.
• Hun Yu demanded that Huo Xuan share the Bodhi Seeds, and Huo Xuan gave some to Yao Tian and Lei Dong.
• Hun Yu demanded eight Seeds for the Hun Clan and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, but Huo Xuan refused and dispersed the pressure directed at him.
• Huo Xuan wiped out the four teams from hidden Central Plains factions with one attack, warning Hun Yu and the others not to challenge him.

Huo Xuan faced Hun Yu, Gu You, and Elder Tongxuan over the Bodhi Seeds, then revealed that his Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation had brought him to the One-Star Dou Sheng realm. Gu You and Tongxuan were left shocked as Huo Xuan turned their threat back on them.

• Huo Xuan dismissed Hun Yu's threats, and Lei Dong suspected that Huo Xuan had reached Half-Saint.
• Hun Yu and the Gu Clan members crushed Space Jade Slips to summon clan experts, but Huo Xuan stopped Huo Zhi from calling the Flame Clan elders.
• Gu You and Elder Tongxuan arrived, and both pressed Huo Xuan to share the Bodhi Seeds while implying they would join forces against him.
• Huo Xuan revealed that his power had risen past High Half-Saint and reached the One-Star Dou Sheng Initial Stage through a hundred years of cultivation during Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation.
• Yao Tian and Lei Dong recognized that Huo Xuan had reversed the situation, leaving Gu You and Tongxuan facing a true Dou Sheng.

After Huo Xuan became a Dou Sheng, he returned to the Yan World and investigated the assassinations of Canaan Academy members, suspecting the Gu Clan. He gave Huo Zhi the Bodhi Heart to help her break through while preparing to subdue the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

• Jiu Feng, Gu You, Hun Yu, and Tong Xuan withdrew from the Bodhi Seeds after Huo Xuan's breakthrough made a fight too dangerous.
• Yao Tian and Lei Dong congratulated Huo Xuan on becoming a Dou Sheng, and Huo Xuan's group returned to the Yan World.
• Lei Dong showed Huo Xuan a casualty list from Canaan Academy, and they concluded the seemingly random killings might target the Xiao Clan.
• Huo Xuan and Lei Dong decided not to publicize their suspicion that the Gu Clan was behind the assassinations.
• Huo Zhi gave Huo Xuan the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill recipe, then prepared to enter seclusion with the Bodhi Seeds.
• Huo Xuan gave Huo Zhi the Bodhi Heart and planned to visit the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.

Huo Xuan returned to the Snake-People Mountain Range and offered to help Queen Medusa become a Dou Sheng. He also met Qing Lin, whose feelings for him became clear after he admitted he had saved her because of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

• Huo Xuan told Queen Medusa he would help her advance to Dou Sheng over about a year, and she left to arrange the tribe's affairs.
• Qing Lin met Huo Xuan and told him she had reached the Six-Star Dou Zun realm.
• Huo Xuan said he would seek permission for Qing Lin to cultivate in the Void Ancient Dragon clan's Ancient Dragon Graveyard.
• Qing Lin asked whether Huo Xuan had saved her because of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and he admitted that was why.
• Qing Lin left disappointed, while Huo Xuan resolved to watch her closely in case she betrayed him.

Huo Xuan brought Queen Medusa to the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan’s headquarters to enter the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, where he sought something for himself and an opportunity to help her advance to Dou Sheng. They plunged into the sacred lake, stirring its energy, and the chapter ended with them submerged inside.

• Huo Xuan told Queen Medusa that the Nine Nether Yellow Springs held an opportunity to help her advance to Dou Sheng, and reprimanded her for asking how he knew.
• Huo Xuan and Queen Medusa traveled through the underground world to the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan’s headquarters, the Nether Serpent Earth Vein.
• Huo Xuan concealed their auras and used spatial power to bypass the earth vein’s defenses before descending into the deep chasm.
• Huo Xuan tested the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and used his Strange Fire to melt the ice forming on his arm.
• Huo Xuan entered the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, and Queen Medusa followed, causing the lake’s energy to stir before it fell silent.

Huo Xuan descended through the Nine Nether Yellow Springs with Queen Medusa, fighting off its creatures despite the lake’s frigid energy slowing him down. At the bottom, he uncovered the chained, skeletal Yao Ming, who begged to be freed and promised the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan’s allegiance.

• Huo Xuan struggled against the Yellow Springs’ frigid energy as he and Queen Medusa hurried downward.
• Huo Xuan punched apart a mysterious creature, then used his Strange Fire to burn away a swarm of strange snakes and their black water arrows.
• Huo Xuan followed a faint light to a rocky expanse at the bottom of the Yellow Springs.
• Huo Xuan uncovered four enormous chains and cleared away the mud to reveal the skeletal Yao Ming.
• Yao Ming opened his eyes, begged Huo Xuan to save him, and promised that the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan would acknowledge Huo Xuan as its master.

At the bottom of the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, Huo Xuan and Medusa discovered Yao Ming, the imprisoned former leader of the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, and negotiated for his rescue. Yao Ming agreed to Huo Xuan’s conditions, including handing over the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet, and Huo Xuan prepared to free him.

• Yao Ming identified himself as the clan’s former leader and told Huo Xuan that his younger brother, Yao Xiaotian, had poisoned him and imprisoned him for hundreds of years.
• Yao Ming promised to make the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan serve Huo Xuan if he helped him defeat Yao Xiaotian and reclaim leadership.
• Huo Xuan demanded a Yellow Spring Blood Crystal, access to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, and the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet containing the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s essence blood.
• Yao Ming gave Huo Xuan a Yellow Spring Blood Crystal, which Huo Xuan stored after melting the ice that formed around his arm.
• When Yao Ming hesitated over surrendering the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet, Huo Xuan started to leave, and Yao Ming agreed to hand it over once he regained control of the clan.

Huo Xuan freed Yao Ming from his chains in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs after placing a Soul Imprint on him. Yao Ming pledged the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python clan’s help, and Huo Xuan prepared to face Yao Xiaotian once Yao Ming recovered.

• Huo Xuan refused to free Yao Ming without safeguards, so Yao Ming agreed to let him place a Soul Imprint on his soul.
• Huo Xuan discovered that the Yellow Spring Yin Stone was too durable for ordinary force and used his Strange Fire to destroy it.
• Yao Xiaotian learned that Yao Ming’s seal had broken and left the clan gathering to stop him from escaping.
• Yao Ming snapped his chains, thanked Huo Xuan, and pledged the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python clan’s aid in return for his rescue.
• Huo Xuan gave Yao Ming a medicinal pill and said they would confront Yao Xiaotian after Yao Ming recovered.

Huo Xuan and Yao Ming confronted Yao Xiaotian and the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan’s Great Elder after escaping the Nine Nether Yellow Springs. Huo Xuan matched the Great Elder’s power, while Yao Ming shattered Yao Xiaotian’s seal and sent him crashing into a mountain before an unknown voice challenged the fighters.

• Huo Xuan and Yao Ming surfaced from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and found Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder waiting for them.
• Yao Ming confronted his brother Yao Xiaotian, while Huo Xuan agreed to fight the Great Elder.
• The Great Elder attacked Huo Xuan with frigid energy, but Huo Xuan countered with Strange Fire and used his Clan Mark to reach the One-Star Dou Sheng Late Stage.
• Huo Xuan and the Great Elder’s Heavenly Tier techniques collided evenly, with both attacks dissipating.
• Yao Xiaotian transformed into a giant black serpent and used the Yellow Spring Grand Seal, but Yao Ming’s Yellow Spring Palm broke the seal and blasted him into a mountain.
• An unidentified speaker demanded to know who was causing trouble in the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan.

Huo Xuan killed the Great Elder as the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan’s forces gathered, and Yao Ming revealed that Yao Xiaotian had betrayed and imprisoned him. With the Nine Nether Scepter confirming his claim to leadership, the clan’s elders split over who should rule, and Yao Xiaotian attacked Yao Ming.

• Huo Xuan threw a fire lotus at the exhausted Great Elder, killing him as the clan’s experts and Nether Serpent Guard surrounded Huo Xuan.
• Yao Xiaotian returned and ordered the elders to form the Ten Thousand Serpents Grand Formation, while Yao Ming declared himself the clan’s true leader.
• Yao Ming identified Elder Xian, Elder Ming, and Elder Liu as witnesses to his identity and revealed that Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder had poisoned and sealed him in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• The clan members learned that the Great Elder was dead, and Yao Ming produced the Nine Nether Scepter, which elders recognized as the clan leader’s token.
• Yao Ming’s supporters argued that the scepter and the clan’s rules made him the rightful leader, and Yao Xiaotian attacked him.

Yao Ming defeated Yao Xiaotian and reclaimed control of the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan. After killing his younger brother and extracting his Magic Core, Yao Ming was left with little satisfaction despite avenging himself.

• Yao Ming drained Yao Xiaotian's Dou Qi while the clan elders debated who should lead the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan.
• Elder Ming and the older elders blocked Yao Xiaotian's followers from interfering in the fight.
• Yao Ming revealed that he had reached the Two-Star Dou Sheng level, leaving Yao Xiaotian with no hope of winning.
• Yao Xiaotian begged Yao Ming for mercy and blamed the Great Elder for his betrayal, but Yao Ming killed him and ripped out his Magic Core.
• Yao Ming's vengeance was complete, and the clan members watched as Yao Xiaotian's aura and bloodline vanished.

After Yao Ming reclaimed leadership of the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, he guided Huo Xuan to the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet, where Huo Xuan entered its hidden space to seek Yellow Spring Sky Wrath and the Demon Saint Essence Blood. He confronted the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s remnant soul, and their battle was about to begin.

• Yao Ming reclaimed his position, ordered the elders to purge Yao Xiaotian’s remaining confidants, and restored order within the clan.
• Yao Ming took Huo Xuan to the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet and explained the three Dou Techniques carved into it, including the inaccessible Yellow Spring Sky Wrath.
• Huo Xuan sent his soul into the tablet and entered its hidden space, where he countered the Yellow Spring Finger and Yellow Spring Palm with his Soul Power.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s remnant soul appeared and demanded that Huo Xuan leave, but Huo Xuan insisted on obtaining the Essence Blood and Yellow Spring Sky Wrath.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint challenged Huo Xuan to defeat him first, and Huo Xuan declared that he feared no remnant soul.

Huo Xuan defeated the Yellow Spring Demon Saint Remnant Soul in a soul battle and received the Demon Saint's techniques and essence blood. After passing on his legacy, the Yellow Spring Demon Saint dispersed, and Huo Xuan left the collapsing Void Space.

• Huo Xuan and the Yellow Spring Demon Saint Remnant Soul fought with their souls, and Huo Xuan countered the Demon Saint's attacks with Soul Power infused with Strange Fire.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint Remnant Soul used Yellow Spring Sky Wrath, shattering Huo Xuan's soul giant, but Huo Xuan survived with the protection of Strange Fire.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint gave Huo Xuan the cultivation methods for Yellow Spring Sky Wrath, Yellow Spring Finger, and Yellow Spring Palm.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint handed Huo Xuan the Demon Saint Essence Blood and lamented that he had failed to reach the Dou Di realm.
• After the Demon Saint Essence Blood left him, the Yellow Spring Demon Saint Remnant Soul dispersed, and Huo Xuan bowed before leaving the vanishing Void Space.

Huo Xuan defeated the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s remnant soul, preserved Yellow Spring Sky Wrath for the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, and returned to the Yan World to prepare for the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame by refining the Demon Saint Essence Blood. Meanwhile, Gu Xun'er continued cultivating in the Gu World and vowed to defeat Huo Xuan.

• Huo Xuan emerged from the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet after defeating the remnant soul, then chose not to destroy the tablet or its record of Yellow Spring Sky Wrath.
• Huo Xuan told Yao Ming that the remnant soul had dissipated, asked him not to disturb Medusa, and left the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan.
• Huo Xuan returned to the Yan World, transcribed the three Yellow Spring skills and the Demon Saint’s insights for the Flame Clan, and prepared to refine the Demon Saint Essence Blood.
• Huo Xuan used his Heavenly Flame to refine the essence blood, gradually absorbing its violent energy into his body.
• Gu Xun'er, now at the peak of Five-Star Dou Zun, received cultivation resources from Gu Yuan and vowed to defeat Huo Xuan.

After nearly twenty days refining Demon Saint Essence Blood, Huo Xuan advanced to Three-Star Dou Sheng Middle Stage and prepared for the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s arrival. As the Yan Clan restored his Young Clan Leader status and its other young geniuses returned from seclusion, Gu Xun'er resolved to break through to Dou Sheng so she would not fall behind him.

• Huo Xuan completed his refinement of the Demon Saint Essence Blood, rising from One-Star Dou Sheng Initial Stage to Three-Star Dou Sheng Middle Stage.
• The Yan Clan elders gave Huo Xuan the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pills and cautioned him against forcing his attempt to seize the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Yan Jin restored Huo Xuan's status as Young Clan Leader, while Huo Yun and two others emerged from seclusion having reached the Nine Revolutions Realm but not Half-Saint.
• Huo Zhi remained in seclusion, and Huo Xuan expected her Bodhi Heart to help her break through to Dou Sheng.
• Gu Xun'er reached High-Level Half-Saint after two years of cultivation and resolved to break through to Dou Sheng so she would not fall behind Huo Xuan.

Huo Xuan advised Huo Yun, Yan Ling, and Yan Liao to cultivate steadily, while Huo Zhi refined the Bodhi Heart and later gained strength from Demon Saint Essence Blood. As the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame descended, Huo Xuan, Huo Zhi, and Elder Huo Yao set out to compete for it.

• Huo Xuan told Huo Yun, Yan Ling, and Yan Liao to reach the Nine Star Dou Zun Peak before considering a breakthrough to Half-Saint, and warned them not to rush their cultivation.
• Huo Zhi emerged from secluded cultivation at the One-Star Dou Sheng Initial Stage after refining the Bodhi Heart, while Huo Xuan gave her Demon Saint Essence Blood to help her grow stronger before the contest for the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Huo Xuan learned that the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame was about to descend, and twin moons and nine aligned stars signaled its arrival.
• Huo Zhi successfully refined the essence blood and reached the One-Star Dou Sheng Late Stage.
• Elder Huo Yao led Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi toward the Demon Flame Plains to compete for the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.