Chapter Summaries

Xiao Heng helped Xiao Yan absorb the Heaven Demon Phoenix essence blood into his wings, strengthening his body and transforming the wings. Xiao Yan then told Venerable Wind what had happened to his teacher, Venerable Yao, leaving Venerable Wind furious at Han Feng and Soul Hall.

• Venerable Wind warned that Feng Qing'er might report the essence blood to her clan, and Xiao Heng took the drops from Xiao Yan to show him how to use them.
• Xiao Heng placed the essence blood into Xiao Yan's wings, and Xiao Yan struggled to control its violent energy.
• Xiao Yan redirected the excess energy into the nodes connected to his wings, which grew larger and gained blue-red patterns as his body returned to normal.
• Mu Qingluan learned that Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan had forged the wings using a Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse, and Xiao Heng explained that they had bought it at an auction.
• Xiao Yan felt his physical strength increase and said his wings and body might grow stronger with more essence blood.
• Venerable Wind asked about Venerable Yao, and Xiao Yan recounted what had happened to his teacher, prompting Venerable Wind to condemn Han Feng and Soul Hall.

Xiao Heng parted from Xiao Yan and Venerable Wind to travel toward the Central Region, where he planned to address Xiao Yi Xian’s situation and prepare Old Yao’s body. During the month-long journey, he automated the Space Ship with Spirit Stones, cultivated, and received advice from Heavenly Flame Venerable on using his fire-control technique.

• Xiao Heng told Venerable Wind and Xiao Yan that he would head to the Central Region, while Xiao Yan planned to attend the Pill Gathering and meet them at Pill Tower.
• Xiao Heng asked Venerable Wind to take him to a Space Wormhole, then left to gather medicinal ingredients and board a Space Ship.
• Xiao Heng used a Spirit Devouring Array on Spirit Stones to power the Space Ship, then cultivated during the month-long journey.
• After reaching the end of the journey, Xiao Heng practiced swordsmanship on deck, and Heavenly Flame Venerable praised his skill.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable advised Xiao Heng to split his flame into several portions to use the Five-Wheel Lihuo Array, and Xiao Heng realized the technique’s potential.

Xiao Heng learned that Xiao Yi Xian was trapped in Luoshen Ravine and hurried there, where he began killing Ice River Valley members while following an earring linked to her. Ice River Valley elders discovered the killings and debated calling for reinforcements as Xiao Heng continued searching for Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Heng paid an information broker to learn that Ice River Valley was pursuing the Calamity Poison Body and that Xiao Yi Xian was trapped in Luoshen Ravine.
• Xiao Heng obtained a map, confirmed Xiao Yi Xian’s direction with her earring, and traveled to Luoshen Ravine in just over four days.
• Xiao Heng followed the earring into the ravine and silently killed a group of Ice River Valley members.
• Bing Yuan and Bing Fu examined the ten bodies, concluded their killer was skilled with ice, and discussed summoning more people from the sect.

Xiao Heng found Xiao Yi Xian in Luoshen Ravine, treated her injuries, and learned that she had located the seventh-tier Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast. He hid her in a cave in Ice River Valley and began a medicinal treatment, leaving her recovering and their hunt for the beast still ahead.

• Bing Fu and Bing Yuan ordered reinforcements and sealed Luoshen Pass to prevent anyone from escaping.
• Xiao Heng reunited with the injured Xiao Yi Xian beneath a waterfall and used Heavenly Flames to expel the icy Dou Qi from her body.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Heng that Gu Yue had gone with Zi Yan and that Xin Lan had returned home, then revealed she had found the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast in Luoshen Ravine.
• Xiao Heng carried Xiao Yi Xian to a concealed cave and prepared a medicinal bath to treat her injuries.
• Xiao Heng activated the medicinal bath for more than an hour while Xiao Yi Xian objected to his staring, and he said three days of treatment should heal her completely.

Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian attacked the Ice River Valley camp, where Xiao Heng swiftly defeated its three Dou Zong elders and froze dozens of fleeing disciples. He spared Bing Fu to learn about the valley’s strongest experts, discovering that it had a Heaven River Venerable and an Ice Venerable, both Dou Zuns.

• Xiao Heng decided to eliminate the Ice River Valley forces before they could lure the seventh-tier Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast to them, and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to let him handle the fight.
• Bing Yuan, Bing Fu, and Bing He confronted Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian, then attacked after Xiao Heng refused to leave.
• Xiao Heng froze Bing Yuan’s Thousand Ice Cones, pursued the fleeing elders, killed Bing He and Bing Yuan, and froze dozens of escaping Ice River Valley members.
• Xiao Heng spared Bing Fu and demanded information about Ice River Valley experts, while Xiao Yi Xian praised Xiao Heng’s improved strength.
• Bing Fu revealed that Ice River Valley had around forty to fifty Dou Zongs, four peak Dou Zong law-enforcement elders, the Dou Zun Heaven River Venerable, and the Dou Zun Ice Venerable.

Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to hunt the seventh-tier Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast for its Magic Core, which Xiao Yi Xian needed to resolve her Calamity Poison Body. After Old Yao joined them, they entered Luoshen Ravine and followed the beast’s scent through the poisonous fog.

• Xiao Heng killed Bing Fu despite his offer to provide intelligence on Ice River Valley, then he and Xiao Yi Xian looted the Storage Rings and left the battlefield.
• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian discussed Ice River Valley’s likely response and decided to seek the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast before Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body erupted.
• Xiao Heng summoned Old Yao to help watch for the beast, and Old Yao shared that he had once known someone with a Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Heng, Xiao Yi Xian, and Old Yao set out for Luoshen Ravine to obtain the beast’s Magic Core.
• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian traveled through the poisonous fog, and Xiao Yi Xian identified the beast’s scent ahead.

Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian confronted the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast to claim its Magic Core, and Xiao Heng overwhelmed it in battle. The beast summoned a vast tide of poisonous beasts, but Xiao Heng stopped it from escaping as the tide approached.

• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian reached the beast’s fortress, where the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast emerged and tried to claim Xiao Yi Xian as his woman.
• Xiao Yi Xian demanded the beast’s Magic Core, and it attacked Xiao Heng, who caught it and repeatedly smashed it into the ground.
• The Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast returned to its true form and broke free, but Xiao Heng struck it with a fire lotus and hurled it into a crater.
• The beast summoned tens of thousands of poisonous beasts from Luoshen Ravine and tried to take flight as the Beast Tide approached.
• A silver figure appeared and slammed the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast back to the ground before it could escape.

Xiao Heng killed the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast, dispersed the Beast Tide, and collected its Magic Core and essence blood. He then chose a secluded ravine to refine a pill that would help restore the Heavenly Flame Venerable’s body.

• Xiao Heng and the Heavenly Demon Puppet overwhelmed the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast, and Xiao Heng killed it with a giant sword strike.
• The Beast Tide arrived, but its leaders fled after sensing their King's death, and Xiao Heng's flames drove the remaining beasts away.
• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian harvested the Beast King's Magic Core and essence blood before leaving the battlefield.
• Xiao Heng chose a poisonous, secluded ravine as the site for refining a powerful pill, and the Heavenly Flame Venerable agreed it could conceal the disturbance.
• Xiao Heng told the Heavenly Flame Venerable that it was time to refine him a body, filling the Venerable with hope.

Xiao Heng began refining the Nine-Star Reverse Fate Pill to resurrect Elder Yao, while his companions guarded the hidden ravine. As the refinement continued, Ice River Valley assembled a team to capture the Calamity Poison Body and ordered them to kill anyone who interfered.

• Xiao Heng asked Xiao Yi Xian and Heavenly Flame Venerable to guard him while he refined an Eighth-grade Pill, and Elder Yao promised to protect him for a hundred years if he recovered his strength.
• Xiao Heng and the others hid in a misty mountain ravine and set up a spatial barrier to conceal the pill-refining disturbance and keep intruders out.
• Xiao Heng began refining the Nine-Star Reverse Fate Pill, extracting its rare ingredients over seven days without mishap.
• Xiao Yi Xian grew anxious about the lengthy refinement, while Heavenly Flame Venerable reassured her that an Eighth-grade Pill could take months to refine.
• At Ice River Valley, Tian She and Di Kui disputed who would claim the Calamity Poison Body, and the Valley Master ordered them to lead the team, bring her back alive, and kill anyone who interfered.

Xiao Heng refined the Nine-Star Reverse Fate Pill for eighteen days, and its two-colored pill clouds announced the birth of an Eighth-grade Pill. As Ice River Valley’s Tian She and Di Kui rushed toward Luoshen Ravine, Pill Lightning struck and the Heavenly Demon Puppet intercepted it.

• Xiao Heng completed the medicinal-liquid fusion and nurtured the emerging spirituality until pill fragrance filled the valley.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Heavenly Flame Venerable saw the two-colored pill clouds form and prepared to defend Xiao Heng from interference.
• Tian She and Di Kui recognized the Eighth-grade Pill’s pill clouds and led Ice River Valley’s Dou Zong experts toward Luoshen Ravine.
• Xiao Heng summoned the Heavenly Demon Puppet as Pill Lightning descended, and the puppet rose to meet the strike.

Xiao Heng completed the Eighth-grade Nine-Star Reverse Fate Pill after enduring heavenly Thunder, then recovered from the exhausting refinement. He gave the pill to Old Yao, who promised to protect him after his revival.

• The Heavenly Demon Puppet absorbed five bolts of Thunder as Xiao Heng finished refining the pill, which emerged as a snow-white beast and tried to flee before Xiao Heng caught and sealed it.
• Xiao Heng reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Old Yao, and they left the ravine after a beast’s roar warned them that demonic beasts were approaching.
• Three Seventh-Rank Demonic Beasts found the ravine empty, and Tian She and Di Kui arrived afterward to search for the Calamity Poison Girl.
• Xiao Heng and his companions hid in a cave, where Xiao Heng spent three days recovering from more than twenty days of continuous pill refinement.
• Xiao Heng gave Old Yao the Nine-Star Reverse Fate Pill, and Old Yao accepted it and promised to protect Xiao Heng after his revival.

Xiao Heng used a blood array, Old Yao’s remains, and a Human-Making Fruit to create a new body for Old Yao, who entered it and began to revive. After estimating the process would take no more than seven days, Xiao Heng promised to address Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body and embraced her.

• Xiao Heng set up a Blood Transformation Spirit Array and refined corpses, magical beast essence blood, and Heavenly Flame Venerable’s bones in a blood pool.
• Xiao Heng infused the Human-Making Fruit with Old Yao’s Soul Origin, then had Old Yao swallow a pill and enter the forming body.
• Xiao Heng sealed the embryo in a blood-colored cocoon and explained that the blood pool would nourish Old Yao’s new body until his revival, likely within seven days.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked whether the revival had succeeded, and Xiao Heng told her it still needed time.
• Xiao Heng promised to deal with Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body after Old Yao revived, and he embraced her when she asked him to hug her.

Tian She and Di Kui tracked Xiao Yi Xian to Luoshen Ravine and attacked her and Xiao Heng. Xiao Heng revealed his Nine-Star Dou Zong strength and defeated their combined dragon technique, leaving the battle amid a storm of sword qi and freezing air.

• Tian She ordered the search of Luoshen Ravine to continue after Ice River Valley failed to find Xiao Yi Xian, and an elder reported a strange scent in a western ravine.
• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian spotted the approaching Ice River Valley elders and decided to stop them before they could reach Old Yao.
• Tian She and Di Kui confronted Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian, then ordered the other elders to block their escape and launched an attack.
• Xiao Heng summoned the Roaming Dragon Sword technique, revealing himself as a Nine-Star Dou Zong and sending one elder flying with the sword dragon's tail.
• Di Kui and Tian She combined their techniques to form an Ice Dragon, but Xiao Heng's sword dragon tore it apart and struck their icy barrier.
• Xiao Heng's sword dragon exploded against the barrier, unleashing sword qi that broke through it and engulfed Tian She and Di Kui in freezing air and slashing light.

Xiao Heng fought Tian She and Di Kui, using the Four-Spirit Lihuo Array to severely injure them before Heavenly Flame Venerable arrived. Heavenly Flame Venerable revealed his Dou Zun strength and began crushing the two Nine-Star Dou Zongs.

• Xiao Heng drove Xiao Yi Xian away from the battle while Tian She sent Ice Dragon, Ice Leaf, and Ice Wood after her.
• Xiao Heng used Heavenly Flames and fire-attributed Sword Intent to burn Tian She and Di Kui, forcing them to retreat.
• Xiao Heng formed the Four-Spirit Lihuo Array, trapping Tian She and Di Kui inside a sea of fire and leaving them badly injured.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable appeared beside Xiao Heng, and Tian She and Di Kui fled after learning he was a Dou Zun.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable shattered the nine ice dragons Tian She and Di Kui summoned, struck them into the ground, and used Space, Strangle on them.

After Heavenly Flame Venerable regained his strength, Xiao Heng, Xiao Yi Xian, and Old Yao traveled to Pill City to seek the Dan Family’s Divine Fire Mouth for Xiao Yi Xian. The trio entered a restaurant, where Xiao Heng qualified them for an Earth-tier private room.

• Heavenly Flame Venerable revealed that his restored body had made him a five-star Dou Zun, and promised to guard Xiao Heng for one hundred years.
• Xiao Heng decided the group would seek a place of utmost yang energy, and they traveled to Pill City to approach the Dan Family about its Divine Fire Mouth.
• Xiao Heng explained the Dan Family’s influence while Xiao Yi Xian noted that their group also had an Eighth-grade Alchemist and Dou Zun experts.
• The three chose to eat at Pill City’s First Fresh, where the attendant explained the qualifications for its private rooms.
• Xiao Heng injected Dou Qi into the restaurant’s crystal ball, qualified for an Earth-tier private room, and followed the attendant upstairs with Xiao Yi Xian and Old Yao.

Xiao Heng recognized Dan Chen as a promising young alchemist and saw a chance to secure the Dan Family's grounds for his group. He gained an audience by claiming to be from the Qiu Family, then revealed his real surname to Dan Chen.

• Xiao Heng, Xiao Yi Xian, and Heavenly Flame Venerable dined at Pill City's First Fresh and spotted the Dan Family's carriage arriving.
• Xiao Heng learned the veiled young miss was Dan Chen, whose alchemy skills and family standing could help him borrow the Dan Family's grounds.
• Xiao Heng decided to approach Dan Chen, though he could not think of a suitable opening.
• Xiao Heng sent word that he was an old friend from the Qiu Family, and Dan Chen agreed to meet him alone.
• Xiao Heng told Dan Chen that his surname was Xiao, and warned her guarded maid Cherry that she could not stop him if he meant harm.

Xiao Heng persuaded Dan Chen to bring him and his companions to the Dan Family so they could request use of the Divine Fire Mouth for his injured friend. Dan Yang agreed in principle but said the family was using the site and Xiao Heng would have to wait, leaving Xiao Heng to ask what terms he required.

• Xiao Heng met Dan Chen at a restaurant and asked to borrow the Dan Family's Divine Fire Mouth, and she offered to help him approach her father.
• Xiao Heng used his soul power and flame to stop a spilled drink, earning Dan Chen's trust despite Cherry's suspicions.
• Dan Chen brought Xiao Heng, Xiao Yi Xian, and Old Yao into the Dan Family and left them waiting in a reception hall while she fetched her father.
• Dan Yang told Xiao Heng that the Dan Family could lend him the Divine Fire Mouth after its current users were finished.
• Xiao Heng asked Dan Yang to state his terms.

Xiao Heng negotiated with Dan Yang for access to the Dan Family’s Divine Fire Mouth and agreed to prove his ability by refining a Seventh-Rank Pill. He began refining in the family’s alchemy room while Dan Yang arranged accommodations for his companions and considered the value of forming ties with their group.

• Xiao Heng revealed his identity and Old Yao demonstrated his Dou Zun strength, prompting Dan Yang to agree to let them use the Divine Fire Mouth if Xiao Heng refined a Seventh-Rank Pill.
• Dan Yang brought Xiao Heng to a specially prepared alchemy room, where Xiao Heng began refining a pill in the Myriad Beasts Cauldron.
• Dan Yang arranged quiet accommodations for Heavenly Flame Venerable and Xiao Yi Xian after Heavenly Flame Venerable declined to meet the Dan Family’s guest elder.
• Dan Yang explained to Dan Chen that he had set Xiao Heng a test to build ties with the group while making the arrangement easier to justify to the family.
• Dan Yang reflected on Xiao Heng’s potential and decided that befriending him could benefit Dan Chen and the Dan Family.

Xiao Heng refined a Seventh-Rank Pill in the Dan Family and earned permission to use the Divine Fire Mouth. After Dan Xuan challenged him, Xiao Heng defeated him instantly, and Dan Xuan offered to lead him to the Divine Fire Mouth while the Dan Family elders discussed Xiao Heng’s strength and backing.

• Xiao Heng refined a Seventh-Rank Pill, and Dan Yang confirmed that he could use the Divine Fire Mouth.
• Dan Xuan questioned whether Xiao Heng had killed Fei Tian and challenged him to prove his strength.
• Xiao Heng struck Dan Xuan through a wall, and Dan Xuan admitted defeat and offered him use of the Divine Fire Mouth.
• Dan Yang called Xiao Heng by his name and asked Dan Xuan to lead Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian to the Divine Fire Mouth.
• After they left, Dan Yang asked the elders about Xiao Heng, and they judged him to be a powerful prospect who might have killed Fei Tian.

Dan Xuan brought Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian to the Dan Family’s concealed volcanic Divine Fire Mouth so Xiao Heng could begin treating her Calamity Poison Body. After Xiao Yi Xian trusted him with the procedure, Xiao Heng removed her seal and the poison qi erupted.

• Dan Yang and the Dan Family elders agreed to recruit Xiao Heng by encouraging their eligible young women to spend time with him.
• Dan Xuan led Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian through the Dan Family medicinal garden and opened a concealed spatial gate into the volcanic Divine Fire Mouth.
• Dan Xuan left them alone at the crater, where Xiao Heng and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to begin the Calamity Poison Body treatment.
• Xiao Heng explained that he would force Xiao Yi Xian’s poison qi into her qi sea and told her to endure the pain.
• Xiao Yi Xian removed her clothes, and Xiao Heng used his Heavenly Flame to burn away the poison qi as he undid her seal, causing the poison to erupt.