Chapter Summaries

Yao Tian and Yao Ling learned how Yao Chen’s dealings with Huo Xuan ended, and Yao Wangui declared Yao Chen and his parents traitors stripped of the Yao surname. The Medicine Ceremony opened with Yao Dan welcoming guests, including Yan Jin, Old Man Shennong, and the uninvited Hun Xuzi.

• Yao Tian refined a pill that drew nine-colored lightning, and Huo Xuan arrived to watch.
• Huo Xuan identified Yao Ling’s Puppet as Chen Venerable, made from Yao Chen’s soul, and revealed that Yao Chen had offered him the Bone Chilling Flame in exchange for Flame Clan support against the Medicine Clan.
• Huo Xuan explained that Yao Chen wanted his parents’ names restored to the Clan Tablet, and accused Yao Wangui of distrusting him and secretly colluding with the Xiao Clan.
• Yao Wangui destroyed Chen Venerable and declared Yao Chen and his parents stripped of the Yao surname and removed from the clan genealogy.
• Yao Dan opened the Medicine Ceremony and welcomed Yan Jin and Old Man Shennong.
• Hun Xuzi arrived uninvited and asked Yao Dan not to take offense.

Hun Xuzi arrived uninvited at the Medicine Ceremony and challenged the Medicine Clan’s alchemists for the title of Continent’s Number One Alchemist, but Yao Dan allowed him to stay under the clan’s rules. After several days of tests, Yao Tian won the younger generation’s competition, and attention shifted to the masters seated on the Stone Chairs.

• Hun Xuzi appeared at the Medicine Ceremony, angering Medicine Clan elders who accused him of involvement in Soul Hall’s capture of alchemists.
• Ten Thousand Fires Elder confronted Hun Xuzi, who declared his interest in the title of Continent’s Number One Alchemist.
• Yao Dan let Hun Xuzi stay as a guest but warned that he would personally detain him if he broke the rules.
• Yao Dan opened the Medicine Ceremony, and the Medicine Clan’s young alchemists competed over several days.
• Yao Xingji placed in the top five, while Yao Tian took first place with a pill that drew Nine-Colored Pill Lightning.
• The younger generation’s tests ended, and the crowd turned its attention to the alchemy masters seated on the Stone Chairs.

Yao Dan began the Medicine Ceremony’s final contest, bringing Yao Wanhua, Old Man Shennong, and Hun Xuzi into competition for the title of Continent’s Number One Alchemist. Hun Xuzi revealed the Void Swallowing Flame, while Old Man Shennong displayed the Flame of Life, and the three prepared to refine pills.

• Yao Dan announced that three alchemists would compete for the title of Continent’s Number One Alchemist and invited them into the arena.
• Hun Xuzi appeared and declared the Hun Clan’s interest in the title, then summoned a massive cauldron of the Void Swallowing Flame.
• Ten Thousand Fires Elder and Old Man Shennong challenged Hun Xuzi’s confidence by revealing the Nine Nether Wind Flame and the Flame of Life.
• Huo Xuan recognized Hun Xuzi’s flame as an Earth sub-flame and considered the Flame of Life a possible Heavenly Flame to refine.
• Yao Dan told the three contestants to open their cauldrons and refine pills, beginning the Medicine Ceremony’s true competition.

Hun Xuzi, Ten Thousand Fires Elder, and Old Man Shennong each began refining a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill during the Medicine Clan’s gathering. Their cauldrons continued to devour the Pill Realm’s natural energy, leaving the outcome uncertain as the realm’s energy and medicinal plants dwindled.

• Hun Xuzi, Ten Thousand Fires Elder, and Old Man Shennong displayed their alchemy skills as they prepared medicinal ingredients in the sky.
• Hun Xuzi absorbed the power of heaven and earth into his cauldron, prompting the elders and alchemy masters to realize he was refining a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill.
• Ten Thousand Fires Elder and Old Man Shennong also began drawing natural energy into their cauldrons to refine Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills.
• Yao Dan judged that the Pill Realm could not provide enough energy for all three pills and expected the contest to end in failure.
• The three alchemists continued refining for nearly three days, draining natural energy and causing medicinal plants around the plaza to wither.

Hun Xuzi used the Void Swallowing Flame to steal energy from Old Man Shennong and Ten Thousand Fires Elder, allowing him to refine a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill. After claiming the title of Continent's Number One Alchemist, he asked Yao Dan to lend him the Medicine Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade.

• When natural energy ran low, Hun Xuzi used the Void Swallowing Flame to drain energy from Old Man Shennong's and Ten Thousand Fires Elder's cauldrons, even swallowing some of their Strange Fires.
• Hun Xuzi's pill embryo formed, triggering black pill lightning and a spectacular Pill Rain as Yao Dan recognized the emergence of a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill.
• After enduring the lightning, the pill's shell cracked and burst, and the finished pill flew toward the outskirts of Medicine Mountain.
• Hun Xuzi caught the escaping pill and sealed it in a jade bottle, intending to return it to the Hun Clan.
• Yao Dan acknowledged Hun Xuzi as the Continent's Number One Alchemist, and Hun Xuzi asked to borrow the Medicine Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade.

Hun Xuzi demanded the Medicine Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade, then revealed his Seven Star Dou Sheng strength and sealed the Medicine World’s space. As the Hun Clan’s forces poured in, the outsiders who tried to flee were caught in black flames.

• Hun Xuzi demanded that Yao Dan lend him the Tou She Ancient God Jade, warning that keeping it would bring the Medicine Clan disaster.
• Ten Thousand Fires Elder attacked Hun Xuzi, but Hun Xuzi absorbed his wind-flame strike and sent him crashing into the square.
• Hun Xuzi revealed his Seven Star Dou Sheng strength, while Yan Jin rose to challenge him with the aura of a Nine Star Dou Sheng.
• Hun Xuzi sealed the Medicine Clan’s space, preventing the gathered outsiders from escaping through spatial passages.
• Hun Xuzi told the outsiders they could leave, but black flames appeared as they fled and the Hun Clan’s forces poured into the Medicine World.

The Medicine Clan and its allies fought the Soul Clan in Medicine World, where Huo Xuan revealed his Seven Star Dou Sheng strength and defeated Hun Xuzi with Little Demon's Purifying Lotus Demon Flame. The Soul Clan forces were nearing defeat, while Yan Jin and Yao Dan drove back Void Swallowing Flame, leaving the battle close to resolution.

• Void Swallowing Flame appeared above Medicine World as Yan Jin, Yao Dan, Huo Xuan, and the Medicine Clan forces prepared to fight the Soul Clan.
• The battle spread across Medicine World, where the Medicine Clan's numerical advantage began turning the tide against the Soul Clan invaders.
• Huo Xuan revealed that he had reached Seven Star Dou Sheng and faced Hun Xuzi, who unleashed a Sub-flame of Void Swallowing Flame.
• Little Demon devoured Hun Xuzi's Sub-flame and burned Hun Xuzi to death, then recovered the Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill he had refined.
• Huo Xuan claimed the Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill, while Yao Ling congratulated him and Yao Tian teased her about her reaction.
• The Medicine Clan Iron Guards routed most of the Soul Clan invaders as Yan Jin and Yao Dan forced Void Swallowing Flame to retreat and damaged its Source Flame.

The Hun Clan launched coordinated attacks on the Medicine, Lei, and Gu Clans while targeting their Tou She Ancient God Jades. The Medicine Clan repelled Void Swallowing Flame but lost its jade, and alarms revealed that the Lei and Gu Clans were also under threat as Hun Tiandi confronted Gu Yuan.

• Void Swallowing Flame escaped after warning Yan Jin to worry about the Flame Clan, and Yan Jin left to return to Yan World.
• Yao Dan learned that a Medicine Clan elder had betrayed the clan and stolen its Ancient Jade before Hun Clan experts took it away.
• Hun Sha and the other Demon Saints fought Lei Ying, then the Lei Clan's ancestral hall alarm sounded and Lei Ying realized the Hun Clan wanted the Lei Clan's Ancient Jade.
• Hun Tiandi confronted Gu Yuan in Gu World and confirmed the Hun Clan's role in the Ling and Shi Clans' disappearances.
• The Gu Clan's formation clashed with the Hun Clan's Destruction Seal, injuring fighters on both sides, before the Gu Clan's ancestral hall alarm revealed a threat to its Ancient Jade.

After the Medicine Clan suffered heavy losses in the Hun Clan’s attack, Huo Xuan left to search for Old Man Shennong and claim the Flame of Life. He found Shennong dead and the flame missing, then followed Little Demon toward a nearby clue.

• Yao Dan accepted Huo Xuan’s proposal to move the Medicine Clan into the Yan World and summoned the surviving elders to prepare for the relocation.
• Huo Xuan left the Medicine World instead of taking a spatial passage, intending to find Old Man Shennong and seize the Flame of Life.
• Huo Xuan summoned Little Demon, who sensed the Flame of Life and led him toward the Shen Nong Mountain Range.
• Huo Xuan found Old Man Shennong’s corpse in a barren wasteland and burned it after confirming the Flame of Life was gone.
• Little Demon sensed a clue nearby, and Huo Xuan followed its indication toward the area ahead.

After the Hun Clan seized the Gu Clan’s Ancient Jade, Huo Xuan discovered that Gu Xun’er had survived by merging her soul with the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame. Gu Xun’er challenged him, and Huo Xuan summoned Little Demon to face her.

• Gu Yang self-destructed, but Hun Tiandi still took the Gu Clan’s Ancient Jade and threatened Gu Yuan with the Hun Clan’s black seal.
• Hun Tiandi hinted that the Hun Clan had also attacked the Flame, Lei, and Medicine Clans, then withdrew; the Lei Clan was reported to be in the same dire situation as the Gu Clan.
• Gu Xun’er’s Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame devoured the Flame of Life, and Huo Xuan appeared and recognized her within the flames.
• Huo Xuan explained how he had inferred that Gu Xun’er’s soul had merged with the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame after her body was destroyed.
• Gu Xun’er declared that defeating Huo Xuan mattered more than whether she was still human, and Huo Xuan summoned Little Demon to fight her.

Huo Xuan ambushed Gu Xun'er and defeated her with his Nine-Colored Fire Lotus, but she used her apparent self-destruction to conceal the escape of her Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame Source. Huo Xuan recovered the Flame of Life, and Little Demon captured and swallowed Gu Xun'er's Source Flame.

• Huo Xuan attacked Gu Xun'er, whose Heavenly Flame body healed her wounds as she revealed her strength had reached the late stage of Seven Star Dou Sheng.
• Gu Xun'er unleashed the Golden Flame Phantom Beast, but Huo Xuan destroyed it with his Lotus of Destruction and struck her with the Nine-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Gu Xun'er exploded her flaming body and threatened to take Huo Xuan with her, while Little Demon covered their tracks.
• Huo Xuan recovered the Flame of Life from the site of Gu Xun'er's apparent death.
• Little Demon returned with the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame Source, which it swallowed after Gu Xun'er had secretly sent it away.

Huo Xuan refined four Heavenly Flames and advanced to the late Seven Star Dou Sheng stage while the Void Lord devoured Soul Origins to enter the Emperor Realm Soul. Huo Xuan then released Gu Xun’er’s consciousness from the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame and began stripping away its spiritual intelligence.

• Huo Xuan gathered four Heavenly Flames from Huo Zhi, Huo Yun, and Huo Yao, then swallowed them to refine them together.
• In the Soul World, the Void Lord devoured hundreds of Soul Origins and entered the Emperor Realm Soul before telling Hun Tiandi to gather the eight jade pieces and locate Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• After several days, Huo Xuan completed his refinement and rose from the early to the late Seven Star Dou Sheng stage.
• Huo Xuan had Little Demon release the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame’s Source Flame, which took on Gu Xun’er’s appearance and cursed him.
• Huo Xuan ignored Gu Xun’er’s curses and began stripping away the flame’s spiritual intelligence.

With the Soul Clan assembling all eight Tou She Ancient God Jade pieces and revealing the location of the Ancient God's Cave Mansion, the Gu Clan chose to prepare for war. Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to search for the hidden cave after the image gave them an unfamiliar view of its entrance.

• Gu Yuan asked the Gu Clan elders what to do, and they urged him to fight the Soul Clan rather than await destruction.
• Gu Yuan agreed to join the Flame Clan and rebuild the Four Clan Alliance against the Soul Clan.
• Hun Tiandi united the eight jade pieces, which summoned a powerful phantom of Tou She Ancient God that repelled his attack.
• Void Swallowing Flame revealed the cave's location hidden in the phantom's eyes, showing a Magma Sea and an ancient stone gate.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Four Demon Saints to record the terrain and have Soul Clan members search the continent for the cave.

Yan Jin revealed that the Tou She Ancient God's cave abode lay beneath the Magma World under Canaan Academy, while the clan leaders discussed accepting the Gu Clan into their alliance. Huo Xuan stayed out of the political maneuvering as he relaxed at the Flame Clan, where Huo Yun defeated Lei Yun in a sparring match.

• Yan Jin told Lei Ying and Yao Dan that the Ancient God Cave Abode was beneath the Magma World under Canaan Academy.
• Lei Ying and Yao Dan agreed that the alliance could accept the Gu Clan, though they would not make it their leader.
• Huo Xuan's gains from refining the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame, Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, and a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill had raised him to the Nine Star Dou Sheng Initial Stage.
• Huo Yun stopped Lei Yun's Thunder Spear with the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame and defeated him with a palm strike.
• Lei Dong berated Lei Yun for losing, while Huo Xuan praised Huo Yun for his victory.
• Huo Xuan continued avoiding major affairs and spent his days relaxing with Huo Zhi and training young geniuses until the elders drove him away.

Lei Ying found the Ancient God Cave Abode beneath Canaan Academy and learned from Zhu Kun that the Hun Clan had obtained the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi identified the Black-Corner Region as the likely location and ordered the Soul Hall to invade it.

• Lei Ying entered the magma beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, defeated the Lizardmen, and found a hidden space containing the Ancient God Cave Abode.
• Zhu Kun confronted Lei Ying at the stone gate and asked whether he possessed the Ancient Jade.
• Lei Ying told Zhu Kun that the Hun Clan had obtained the Tou She Ancient God Jade and planned to come to the cave abode.
• Zhu Kun let Lei Ying leave after asking him to stay for company.
• Hun Tiandi learned that the Black-Corner Region best matched the map and ordered Elder Hun You to lead the Soul Hall forces there and clear the region.

As the Hun Clan’s move brought the decisive battle closer, Huo Xuan returned to the Yan World to accept Ancestor Yan’s Mysterious Inheritance. Ancestor Yan explained that Source Qi was required to become a Dou Di and gave Huo Xuan a portion, leaving his breakthrough to fate.

• Yan Jin learned that the Hun Clan had made its move, while Gu Yuan joined the alliance under strict conditions and secretly planned to use it to help the Gu Clan survive.
• Huo Xuan returned to the mountaintop in the Yan World and used Strange Fire to open the portrait’s spatial rift.
• Huo Xuan entered the scarlet space and met Ancestor Yan, whose soul body had grown faint and old.
• Yan Li explained that the Dou Qi Continent had run out of Source Qi, the energy needed to break through to Dou Di.
• Huo Xuan accepted Yan Li’s inheritance, and Yan Li condensed a ball of Source Qi for him.

Hun Tiandi led the Soul Clan against the Four Clans Allied Forces at Canaan Academy and used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to force the Ancient God Cave Abode to emerge. The ancient stone gate rose from the Magma Sea, leaving both sides facing its overwhelming aura.

• The Soul Clan arrived at Canaan Academy in force, including Hun Tiandi, Void Swallowing Flame, and four resurrected Eight Star Dou Sheng experts.
• Hun Tiandi offered to help Gu Yuan reach the Dou Emperor realm if the Gu Clan withdrew, but Gu Yuan refused and vowed to stop the Soul Clan.
• Hun Tiandi revealed the Tou She Ancient God Jade and used it to open a Deep Abyss into the Magma World.
• The expanding magma vortex erupted in towering pillars, causing casualties among both forces.
• An ancient stone gate rose from the Magma Sea, bearing the words “Ancient God Cave Abode.”

Hun Tiandi used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to open the Ancient God Cave Abode, revealing the passage within. Zhu Kun joined Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying in rushing inside to stop Hun Tiandi from claiming the Emperor Pill Embryo, leaving both sides poised for battle.

• Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan recognized the Ancient God Cave Abode above the Magma Sea.
• Zhu Kun emerged from the magma at Nine Star Dou Sheng Peak strength and greeted Yan Jin and Lei Ying, alarming Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan.
• Hun Tiandi used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to open the ancient stone gate, whose primordial ripples battered both armies.
• Yan Jin told Zhu Kun that the cave held an Emperor Pill Embryo that could help Hun Tiandi become a Dou Emperor, and Zhu Kun planned to seize it first.
• Gu Yuan, Hun Tiandi, Void Swallowing Flame, Zhu Kun, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and the experts of both sides entered the passage within the gate.

Five years after the Emperor Pill Embryo escaped, it began transforming into an Emperor Pill in the Central Plains, threatening the continent with the birth of a Dou Emperor. Huo Zhi worried over Huo Xuan’s disappearance while he reached the Half-Step Dou Emperor realm in secluded cultivation.

• The Hun Clan and the Four Clan Alliance searched for the Emperor Pill Embryo, while Zhu Kun joined the alliance and the two sides guarded Tou She Ancient God's Inheritance.
• Zhu Kun struck Tou She Ancient God's stone statue on Ancient Dragon Island but could not damage it because Emperor's Origin protected it.
• Five years later, the Emperor Pill Embryo appeared above the Central Plains and began advancing toward becoming an Emperor Pill.
• Huo Zhi comforted her nearly five-year-old daughter, Huo Yao, and worried that Huo Xuan had been missing since before her birth.
• Huo Xuan continued cultivating in the Portrait Space and advanced to Half-Step Dou Emperor, with Yan Li standing guard.

Huo Xuan broke through to Dou Emperor with Yan Li’s sacrifice, restoring and greatly strengthening the Flame Clan’s bloodline and cultivation. As the clan mourned Yan Li and Huo Xuan met his daughter Huo Yao, the successful Emperor Pill Embryo appeared above the Central Plains.

• Yan Li activated the Yan World’s Clan Protecting Grand Array and drew out the Flame Clan’s bloodline power, causing the clansmen’s cultivation to plummet.
• The gathered energy let Huo Xuan complete his breakthrough to Dou Emperor, while the Flame Clan’s bloodline returned and its members’ cultivation surged beyond its former levels.
• Huo Yao’s bloodline advanced to Divine Grade, and she rose to Eight Star Dou Sheng as the clansmen congratulated Huo Xuan.
• Yan Li’s remnant soul faded away, and Huo Xuan and the Flame Clan knelt to bid farewell to the ancestor.
• Huo Xuan met Huo Yao, who asked who he was, and Huo Zhi told her to call him Father.
• The Emperor Pill Embryo appeared above the Central Plains amid pill clouds that spread across much of the continent.