Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan learned that Qing Lin had obtained Soul Origins from three Soul Palace branch halls and planned to leave the Remnant Star Mountain Range after reuniting with her, traveling south aboard the Void Shuttle Boat. He and Xiao Yi Xian shared a quiet moment before Lin Yuan turned their solitude into an intimate encounter.

• Lin Yuan praised Qing Lin’s strength, followers, and Sky Dome Network, and explained that she was raiding three branch halls from within the Soul Palace to gather Soul Origins.
• Lin Yuan estimated that the branch halls’ accumulated souls would provide a major harvest for refining medicinal pills that strengthened their souls.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked whether they would stay in the Remnant Star Mountain Range, and Lin Yuan said they would leave after meeting Qing Lin to avoid drawing attention with his pill refinement.
• Lin Yuan proposed traveling south to explore unusual Magical Beast Clans and Dark Races while cultivating aboard the Void Shuttle Boat, and Xiao Yi Xian eagerly agreed.
• Lin Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian enjoyed a quiet moment together, then began an intimate encounter while Qing Lin was away and Zi Yan was in seclusion.

Qing Lin returned from destroying three branch halls and reported her cleanly executed mission to Lin Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian. After collecting her spoils, the group set out aboard the Void Shuttle Boat, and one year later Qing Lin finished writing the record for its three hundred and sixty-fifth day.

• Qing Lin returned to the secluded valley and joined Lin Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian at the stone table.
• Qing Lin described sealing off and destroying three branch halls, killing their protectors and Venerable Elder, and bringing back captured souls and soul origin.
• Lin Yuan collected the spoils and praised Qing Lin, then told the group to set out according to their plan.
• Lin Yuan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin boarded the Void Shuttle Boat and flew south across the continent.
• One year later, Qing Lin completed the diary entry for the boat's three hundred and sixty-fifth day.

A year of travel and cultivation left Qing Lin at Eight-Star Dou Venerate and Spirit Realm Peak, while Lin Yuan entrusted her with leading the campaign to seize the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame. With Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian backing her, Qing Lin began the operation as Lin Yuan entered seclusion to cultivate.

• Qing Lin reviewed the year’s journey, during which Lin Yuan’s pills and resources helped her reach Eight-Star Dou Venerate and Spirit Realm Peak.
• Qing Lin and Lin Yuan discovered that the Barren Beast Region’s blood purification ritual used the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, and Qing Lin’s controlled Netherwing Snake elder Blackwing revealed the three tribes’ strength.
• Qing Lin used a One Venerate Pill and soul resources to strengthen herself before Lin Yuan entrusted her with planning the campaign to take the flame.
• Lin Yuan entered seclusion, and Qing Lin set out with Zi Yan while Xiao Yi Xian followed to provide support.
• Qing Lin began the plan by using the Netherwing Snake Tribe’s third elder to lure out its second elder and great elder.

Qing Lin chronicled the group’s campaign to obtain the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, their journey across the continent, and the rapid cultivation gains aided by Xiao Yan’s alchemy. The chapter left Xiao Yi Xian at Nine Revolutions Peak, with Bodhi treasures and a Bodhi Pill ready to help the group attempt breakthroughs to the Saint Realm.

• Qing Lin and Zi Yan took control of the Netherwing Snake Tribe and Fire Spirit Flood Dragon Tribe, then defeated the Ancient Luan Tribe and collected all three keys.
• The group opened the seal and retrieved the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, which Qing Lin later gave to Xiao Yan after he emerged from seclusion.
• Xiao Yan refined Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pills and arranged cultivation plans for Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Little Cai; Qing Lin reached Nine-Star Dou Venerate and confessed her feelings to him.
• The group captured Dark Races for Xiao Yan’s research, learned they were unrelated to the Tunling Clan, and changed course toward the Eastern Continent.
• Zi Yan advanced to Four Revolutions Peak, while Xiao Yi Xian reached Nine Revolutions Peak after seclusion.
• Xiao Yi Xian emerged from seclusion, and Qing Lin discovered Xiao Yan had prepared Bodhi Transformation Saliva, a Bodhi Seed, and a Bodhi Pill to help them break through the Saint Realm.

The group traveled from the Eastern Continent into the Northern Continent, where Xiao Yi Xian advanced to Two-Star Dou Venerate and Young Master developed increasingly powerful Natal Qi Core Pills. After visiting Shimo City, reuniting with Xiyue, and paying respects to Young Master's family in the Jia Ma Empire, they set out for the Beichen Wasteland.

• The group left the Eastern Sea, visited the Mystic Sound Empire, and continued north while Young Master refined Natal Qi Core Pill 1.0 and tested repeated breakthroughs to One-Turn Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yi Xian mastered an improved Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils method, learned that Late Spirit Realm soul power enabled the Nine Revolutions to Sainthood, and broke through to Two-Star Dou Venerate.
• Young Master refined the seventh-grade Natal Qi Core Pill 2.3, and Zi Yan rose from Four Revolutions Peak to Eight-Turn Dou Venerate after taking the Sacred Origin Venerate Extreme Pill.
• The group returned to Shimo City, where Xiao Yi Xian and Young Master reburied her mother, then went to the Mulan Empire after Little Cai sensed Xiyue's aura and reunited with her and the Snake People Race.
• Young Master visited Jia Ma Holy City, caught up with Hai, and paid respects to his parents' graves with the group before they departed for the Beichen Wasteland.

After arriving in the Beichen Wasteland, Lin Yuan planned to study the barbarians’ Beast Soul Fusion and advance his companions’ cultivation. He left Qinglin to investigate the barbarians while Medusa and Zi Yan received resources for their next breakthroughs.

• Qinglin reread her travel notebook, then joined Lin Yuan and the others for a family meeting aboard the Void Shuttle Boat.
• Lin Yuan asked Qinglin to find an energy-rich place for pill refining and investigate the barbarians; he also told her to test whether her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils could control barbarians with snake souls.
• Lin Yuan explained the barbarians’ history and Beast Soul Fusion, which he hoped to study to improve his Human and Pill as One system.
• Lin Yuan gave Medusa a Sacred Origin Venerate Extreme Pill and Dou Saint Bone Marrow to help her advance beyond Sixth Revolution Peak.
• Lin Yuan returned the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit to Zi Yan and urged her to reach Eight-Turn Peak’s next breakthrough before using it; he withheld plans to take her to Dragon Emperor Zhukun until she had absorbed the fruit.

Lin Yuan prepared a soul-powered holographic game device for Little Cai and continued developing ways to use the knowledge from his past life. Ten days later, he began refining pills in the Beichen Wasteland while Medusa watched over him with Little Cai and Zi Yan, and a mysterious pair of purple eyes opened in the void.

• Qing Lin left to search for an energy-rich place, and Xiao Yi Xian followed secretly to protect her.
• Medusa entered seclusion after leaving Little Cai with Lin Yuan, who took his daughter to meet his many clones aboard the Void Shuttle Boat.
• Lin Yuan and his clones introduced Little Cai to a soul-powered holographic game device, which let her explore an illusionary world.
• Ten days later, Lin Yuan sealed a valley in the Beichen Wasteland and began refining pills with Azure Blue Ice Flame and a Heavenly Thunder Bead.
• Medusa stopped Zi Yan and Little Cai from playing with the device and made them sit beside her while she guarded Lin Yuan.
• In a dark void, a pair of purple eyes opened and called something a delicacy.

Lin Yuan completed three high-grade medicinal pills while Medusa and the others prepared for an unseen intruder. When Man Long, a hidden Barbarian Tribe Half-Saint, seized the nine-colored Thunder Tribulation Pill and threatened them, Lin Yuan triggered a trap in the pill, engulfing Man Long in a catastrophic explosion.

• Medusa received urgent messages and secretly coordinated a battle plan with Zi Yan and Little Cai while an unseen purple-eyed intruder watched the valley.
• After nine days of refining, Lin Yuan completed one nine-colored Thunder Tribulation Pill and two seven-colored pills, then used Heavenly Puppet One to withstand the pill lightning.
• Man Long emerged from a concealed space barrier, seized the Thunder Tribulation Pill, and demanded that Lin Yuan and the women accompany him back to the Barbarian Tribe.
• Lin Yuan identified Man Long as a Barbarian Tribe Half-Saint, mocked his threats, and revealed that he had planted a backup plan in the pill.
• Lin Yuan triggered the pill’s collapse, and its explosion formed a pitch-black thunder dragon that swallowed Man Long and devastated the valley.

Lin Yuan’s Nine-Colored Thunder Tribulation Pill badly wounded Man Long, but the Barbarian Tribe Half-Saint survived by consuming the clan’s last Ancient Void Dragon soul. As Zi Yan and Medusa held him off, Lin Yuan revealed his hidden power and prepared a devastating arrow to finish the fight.

• Lin Yuan’s pill storm battered Man Long, who survived by using the Ancient Void Dragon soul fused with him, but lost the soul in the process.
• Man Long targeted Zi Yan and Medusa, and they teamed up to fight him while Lin Yuan watched from the stone platform.
• Man Long tried to seize Lin Yuan, prompting Lin Yuan to use his Natal Blood Pill and Natal Soul Pill to raise his strength to nine-revolving Dou Venerate.
• Lin Yuan joined the battle’s plan through the Sky Dome Network as Zi Yan and Medusa kept Man Long occupied.
• Lin Yuan appeared in the void with an ice-blue bow and a seven-colored flame arrow, and Man Long hid inside his Ancient Barbarian Dragon Bell as Lin Yuan fired his Setting Sun Divine Arrow.

Lin Yuan and his allies killed the Barbarian Tribe Half-Saint Man Long through a coordinated ambush, then captured his soul to obtain his memories and inheritance. Qi You arrived after the battle, and Lin Yuan asked him to help seize the Barbarian Tribe inheritance, noting that two Half-Saints remained.

• Lin Yuan shattered Man Long’s Dragon Pattern Giant Bell with a seven-colored Sky Fire Divine Shot and left him badly injured.
• Medusa and Zi Yan pursued Man Long as he fled, while Xiao Yi Xian intercepted him and poisoned him with Nether Poison Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Medusa coordinated their attacks to kill Man Long, and Lin Yuan used iron chains to capture his soul.
• Qi You emerged from hiding and praised Zi Yan’s progress after serving as Lin Yuan’s backup against another possible Half-Saint.
• Lin Yuan asked Qi You to help seize the Barbarian Tribe inheritance and revealed that two Half-Saints remained.

Lin Yuan learned that the Barbarian Tribe Hidden Three Lineages had survived in the Beichen Wasteland, and Elder Qi You set out to destroy them. After Lin Yuan and Zi Yan gathered their allies and prepared for her breakthrough, Qi You guarded a volcano while Zi Yan swallowed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Lin Yuan told Elder Qi You about the Hidden Three Lineages, and Qi You left to deal with them using the information Lin Yuan had obtained from a captured Half-Saint.
• Lin Yuan fed pills to his natal pill beasts, gave Zi Yan the final auxiliary pills, and sent Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin away with their assigned tasks and supplies for Jia Nan Academy.
• Lin Yuan and Zi Yan met Qi You at a volcano in the Beichen Wasteland, where Qi You agreed to guard the area while Zi Yan consumed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Zi Yan used the Profound Spirit Reversion Pill to return her body to a malleable state, while Lin Yuan formed an icy fire cauldron and array using the Azure Blue Ice Flame.
• After three days, Zi Yan emerged at the Nine Revolutions Peak in a childlike form, and Lin Yuan brought her to the cauldron to swallow the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

Lin Yuan helped Zi Yan refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit until she awakened as a Dragon Phoenix with a complete Royal Bloodline. After Qi You departed to carry out her orders, Zi Yan dropped her regal bearing and returned to her playful self.

• Lin Yuan activated the Separation Fire Burning Heaven Formation and used the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to help Zi Yan absorb the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Qing Lin confirmed Lin Yuan was safe, then departed with Xiyue and Xiao Yi Xian for Jia Nan Academy.
• Three months later, Lin Yuan emerged from the volcano after two months of refining and told Qi You that Zi Yan was doing better than expected.
• Zi Yan emerged as the Dragon Phoenix, and Qi You recognized her awakened Royal Bloodline and knelt to welcome the Dragon Emperor.
• Zi Yan ordered Qi You to retrieve the Three Thousand Burning Flame for Jia Nan Academy and keep information about her secret among Eastern Dragon Island's Saint Realm higher-ups.
• After Qi You left, Lin Yuan teased Zi Yan, and she dropped her royal demeanor and demanded that he bow.

Zi Yan completed her transformation at Five-Star Dou Saint mid-stage, and Lin Yuan planned to help her master her strength and gain battle experience before pursuing further opportunities. After the pair returned to Jia Nan Academy, Zi Yan interrupted Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian’s contest to see who would become a Dou Saint first.

• Lin Yuan asked Zi Yan about her strength, and she revealed that she had reached Five-Star Dou Saint mid-stage and could advance to Five-Star peak after absorbing the remaining energy.
• Lin Yuan told Zi Yan to focus on controlling her power and improving her combat experience, and he planned to use the Immersive Simulation Cultivation Device to train her.
• Zi Yan trapped Lin Yuan in a space prison, and the two stayed inside for three days before returning to Jia Nan Academy.
• Two days later, Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian began competing to see who would become a Dou Saint first.
• Zi Yan appeared through a space rift and announced that she would end Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian’s competition.

Lin Yuan returned to Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan, who had become a Five-Star Dou Saint, and learned how much the academy had grown. Xiao Yi Xian presented a plan to expand the academy’s ties across the Central Plains and said she intended to deal personally with Ice River Valley; the chapter ended with news that Yao Chen had become a Half-Saint.

• Zi Yan arrived with Lin Yuan and announced that she had reached the Middle Stage of Five-Star Dou Saint, while Lin Yuan confirmed her strength.
• Medusa told Lin Yuan that Little Cai had become absorbed in the game console he made, and Zi Yan went to find her.
• Xiao Yi Xian reported the academy’s elders’ breakthroughs and its growing resources, then showed Lin Yuan her plan to connect Jia Nan Academy with major Central Plains forces.
• Lin Yuan approved Xiao Yi Xian’s plan and offered her access to his resources.
• Xiao Yi Xian said she planned to confront Ice River Valley over its research on the Woeful Poison Body and make it a safe haven for its hosts.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Yuan that Yao Chen had broken into the Saint realm as a Half-Saint and that Starfall Pavilion was expanding.

Xiao Yan became a Seventh Grade Alchemist, and Elder Yao sent him out from Starfall Pavilion to train and build connections across the Central Plains. Meanwhile, Lin Yuan learned that ranking competitions had spread across the region, including a Male Beauty Ranking that had unexpectedly placed him at the top.

• Starfall Pavilion grew into the Southern Region’s dominant force, and Old Monster Qinghua joined as its chief alchemist elder after Elder Yao gave him the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan refined a pill that summoned pill lightning, reaching Seventh Grade Alchemist status at age twenty-two.
• Elder Yao told Xiao Yan to leave Starfall Pavilion and train across the Central Plains under the name Chen Yan, giving him supplies, a route, and introductions to his old contacts.
• Xiao Yan accepted Elder Yao’s instructions and prepared to visit the Flower Sect’s Supreme Elder with a letter for Fairy Qing.
• Several days later, Xiao Yan and Old Monster Qinghua left the Star Realm for the Beast Region.
• At Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Yuan that he topped the Hidden Dragon, Alchemist, and Male Beauty rankings, prompting her and Medusa to laugh.

Lin Yuan returned to Jia Nan Academy, met old friends, and gave Su Qian an improved formation plan before taking Zi Yan back to the Magma World. After discovering that the Tou She Ancient God Jade had grown brighter and encountering lizardmen guarding the area, Lin Yuan and Zi Yan continued toward the depths of the lava sea.

• Lin Yuan visited academy elders and caught up with Hu Jia and Wu Hao, who returned gifts for the Earth Marrow Body Tempering Pill he had given them years earlier.
• Lin Yuan secretly brought Zi Yan to the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower and gave Su Qian a plan to improve the Heart Flame Sub-Fire formation.
• Lin Yuan and Zi Yan entered the Magma World, where Lin Yuan retrieved the Tou She Ancient God Jade and told Zi Yan to keep it because she was stronger.
• Lin Yuan said the lava sea might lead to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling, and he and Zi Yan descended into the magma.
• Two Half-Saint lizardmen warned them away from God's Burial Ground, but Lin Yuan stopped Zi Yan from attacking and continued downward with her.

Zi Yan and Lin Yuan descended through the lava sea and entered the space where Zhukun had been trapped, confirming that he was Zi Yan’s father. Their reunion began awkwardly, but Zhukun reassured her that he had never abandoned her and offered her the Reverse Scale Blood he had saved for her.

• Beneath the lava sea, Zhukun sensed Zi Yan’s bloodline and struck at his spatial prison, sending his Ancient Dragon Aura through a crack as he called for her.
• Zi Yan sensed a bloodline connection below and, after Lin Yuan comforted her, carried him down through the lava toward its source.
• At the space fault, Lin Yuan tested whether people and objects could pass through safely, then entered with Zi Yan once his tests succeeded.
• Inside the hidden space, Zi Yan recognized Zhukun as her father but hid behind Lin Yuan, while Lin Yuan asked Zhukun if he was her father.
• Zhukun panicked when Zi Yan turned to leave, identified himself as her father, and accepted her claim to the Dragon Emperor title.
• Zhukun gave Zi Yan a bottle of Reverse Scale Blood he had saved for her, and she finally called him Father.

Zhukun reunited with Zi Yan, told her about her mother and his mistake that had trapped him, and apologized for leaving her alone. After Zi Yan forgave him and the family shared Lin Yuan’s cooking and wine, Lin Yuan asked Zhukun how to cultivate a soul to the Di Realm.

• Zhukun embraced Zi Yan, showed her an image of her mother, and recounted how his attempt to force open the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling had imprisoned him.
• Lin Yuan found the enormous stone door bearing the words “Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling” and prepared a feast with his Shadow Clones.
• Zhukun apologized for abandoning Zi Yan, and she struck him with her Dragon Phoenix power to vent her remaining resentment.
• Lin Yuan invited Zhukun to dine, and Zi Yan made clear that she and Lin Yuan were together before they shared the meal and Zhukun praised the food and wine.
• Lin Yuan asked Zhukun how one could cultivate a soul to the Di Realm.

Lin Yuan explained that he sought soul resources to help Zi Yan advance and warned Zhukun that the Hun Clan was preparing to open the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling. He revealed that his information came from his position under the Hun Clan's chief alchemist and that he wanted to escape his teacher's control.

• Lin Yuan asked Zhukun how one could attain an Emperor Realm soul, explaining that he wanted to prepare resources for Zi Yan, whose soul had reached the Late Heaven Realm.
• Zhukun described two paths to an Emperor Realm soul and warned that purifying enough soul origin required immense resources and could provoke the entire continent.
• Zi Yan recognized that the Hall of Souls was collecting souls for the outward-seeking path, and Lin Yuan explained that the Hall of Souls served the Hun Clan.
• Lin Yuan told Zhukun that the Hun Clan possessed formidable hidden strength and that Hun Tiandi was recovering from his injuries while preparing a millennium plan to seize the Ancient God Jade and open the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling.
• Zhukun questioned how Lin Yuan knew the Hun Clan's secrets, and Lin Yuan admitted that his teacher was the Hun Clan's chief alchemist and that he wanted to escape his control.

Lin Yuan explained that he had joined the Hall of Souls undercover and that his master had placed a Great Perfection Heaven Realm soul restriction on him. Zhukun said he could remove it, but Lin Yuan chose to wait because doing so would sever The Soul Clan Connection.

• Lin Yuan told Zhukun that the Soul Clan had recruited him for its search for ninth-grade alchemists and that he had joined the Hall of Souls willingly to further his plans.
• Lin Yuan revealed that his master had recently placed a soul restriction on him, and Zhukun recognized it as a Great Perfection Heaven Realm restriction.
• Zi Yan became furious and urged Zhukun to remove the restriction from Lin Yuan.
• Zhukun examined Lin Yuan’s soul and confidently said he could undo the restriction.
• Lin Yuan asked to postpone its removal because it would completely sever The Soul Clan Connection.