Chapter Summaries

Zi Yan trained against Zhukun, who helped her improve her combat skills while Lin Yuan arranged for Zhukun to develop her immersive training device. Lin Yuan then revealed three remnant maps left by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint, and Zhukun uncovered a soul hidden within them.

• Zi Yan challenged Zhukun to spar, and he guided her to use her speed, strength, and Dragon Phoenix Bloodline more flexibly.
• Lin Yuan gave Zhukun a game crystal and materials, asking him to make Zi Yan's combat-training illusions and improve the cultivation device.
• Zhukun agreed to keep his survival secret, saying Zi Yan could unify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan without revealing that he was alive.
• Lin Yuan showed Zhukun three remnant maps that he believed had been left by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint and asked him to examine their hidden Soul Power.
• Zhukun enclosed the maps in a Space Prison and probed them with his Di Realm soul power, drawing out a cloud of Nightmare Heavenly Mist.
• A voice sighed from inside the mist, lamenting that its backup plan had changed.

Zhukun and Lin Yuan met the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint’s remnant soul, who revealed his connection to Zhukun’s father and his mission to restore the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Lin Yuan agreed to cooperate, leaving the group poised to help Jiang Yan fulfill his mission in exchange for his inheritance and the flame.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint appeared before Zhukun, recognized him as Zhuxuan’s son, and recalled fighting alongside Zhuxuan in the past.
• Jiang Yan reflected on his failed search for the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Dwelling and learned that Zhukun had also been trapped there by Tou She Ancient God’s arrangements.
• Zhukun invited Jiang Yan to stay with him until the cave dwelling opened, but Jiang Yan explained that he needed to restore the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and return it to its original state.
• Jiang Yan offered to share his inheritance and wisdom in exchange for the group’s help, promising Lin Yuan the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the Demonic Saint Legacy if the plan succeeded.
• Lin Yuan agreed to Jiang Yan’s proposal after Zhukun signaled his approval.

Lin Yuan negotiated with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint for access to his vast knowledge in exchange for help with the demonic flame and the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling. The Saint agreed to teach him, and the chapter ended with Lin Yuan asking whether the Bodhi Ancient Tree held the Source Qi needed to reach Dou Di.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint explained that his cultivation method and strongest techniques depended on the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Lin Yuan demanded to learn everything the Saint had studied and promised to help him find the fourth fragment map and reshape the demonic flame.
• The Saint warned that absorbing too much knowledge could create an obstruction, but Lin Yuan said he planned to use the Bodhi Opportunity to integrate his foundations.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint approved Lin Yuan's plan to use Bodhi Samsara to digest his knowledge.
• Lin Yuan asked whether the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint had found Source Qi at the Bodhi Ancient Tree while seeking to break through to Dou Di.

Lin Yuan asked Zhukun and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint about the Bodhi Ancient Tree and its possible connection to source qi. They warned him against harming it and explained its power and the dangers of monopolizing its treasures before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint revealed he had experienced Bodhi Tree Enlightenment.

• Lin Yuan asked Zhukun and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint whether the Bodhi Ancient Tree had stored source qi, claiming he learned about source qi from a Pill Tower ancestor’s remnant soul.
• Zhukun warned Lin Yuan never to attack the Bodhi Ancient Tree, explaining that even Dou Di experts had died after trying and that the tree could sense malice.
• Zhukun cautioned Lin Yuan not to put Zi Yan at risk by courting death near the tree.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint explained that the Bodhi Tree’s three treasures had helped many experts break through and that its beneficiaries’ gratitude made it a shared interest no faction could safely monopolize.
• Lin Yuan thanked the two seniors, then asked whether the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint had obtained the Bodhi Opportunity.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint confirmed that he had experienced Bodhi Tree Enlightenment.

Lin Yuan asked the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint to share his inheritances, develop a way to protect Lin Yuan’s mind during the Hundred Generations of Reincarnation, and help refine his secret techniques. The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint agreed to research the requests and began examining Lin Yuan’s proposed methods, while Lin Yuan offered him a Gold Grade Soul Infant Fruit.

• Lin Yuan realized the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint’s experience with the Hundred Generations of Reincarnation could improve his chances of succeeding in Bodhi Tree Enlightenment.
• Lin Yuan asked the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint for his inheritances, help guarding Lin Yuan’s mind during reincarnation, and help deducing secret techniques.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint examined Lin Yuan’s Natal Qi Core Pill methods and praised his work on refining Heavenly Flames into a pill.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint reviewed Lin Yuan’s fire-type secret techniques and agreed to complete the main body of a new technique, while Lin Yuan would handle its alchemical aspects.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint said he would research a method to protect Lin Yuan’s mind and expected results within a few years.
• Lin Yuan presented the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint with a Gold Grade Soul Infant Fruit as a token of gratitude.

Lin Yuan received the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint’s legacy after giving him a Gold Grade Soul Infant Fruit, while Zhukun sealed the Saint in the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Dwelling until the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared. After awakening and studying the inheritance, Lin Yuan thanked both seniors, just as Zi Yan announced that she had finally cleared her game.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint accepted Lin Yuan’s Gold Grade Soul Infant Fruit and passed his legacy to him, leaving Lin Yuan unconscious.
• Zhukun sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint in the cave dwelling and promised to release him before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared.
• Lin Yuan awoke half a day later and examined the Saint’s techniques, which helped him clarify his cultivation path.
• Lin Yuan thanked Zhukun and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint for helping him receive the inheritance.
• Zi Yan excitedly announced that she had cleared the game after struggling to defeat Hun Xu Zi.

Zi Yan emerged from Lin Yuan’s Immersive Simulation Cultivation Device and reported its difficult boss fight and recurring disconnection problem. Zhukun and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint agreed to help improve the device, while Lin Yuan tested and strengthened his relationship with the Saint.

• Zi Yan told Lin Yuan she had cleared the high-difficulty illusion game and described Hun Xu Zi’s powerful abilities and the Illusion Realm Space’s tendency to disconnect.
• Zhukun promised Zi Yan that he and Lin Yuan would improve the device and that he had a solution to the disconnection problem.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint revealed his sorrow over his broken relationship with Little Yao as he watched Zhukun and Zi Yan together.
• Zi Yan mistook the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint for Lin Yuan’s handsome older brother, and Lin Yuan introduced him as Teacher Jiang.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint accepted Lin Yuan’s warmer form of address, while Zhukun urged Zi Yan to call him Uncle Jiang.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint gave Zi Yan maps and a key to his sealed former residences, which contained medicinal gardens. Lin Yuan suspected the Saint’s corpse formed the cornerstone of the Demonic Flame Space, then asked whether Nightmare Heavenly Mist could reproduce the Bodhi Tree’s Hundred Generations of Reincarnation.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint gave Zi Yan maps to his former residences and a key that worked with the Nightmare Breaking Talisman.
• Zi Yan thanked Uncle Jiang, who said he hoped to see her become a Great Completion Dragon Phoenix.
• Lin Yuan reasoned that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint’s corpse might anchor the Demonic Flame Space and help secure the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Lin Yuan asked the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint how Nightmare Heavenly Mist related to Hundred Generations of Reincarnation and whether it could achieve the same effect.

Lin Yuan asked whether the Nightmare Heavenly Mist could compress years of cultivation into a dream, but the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint explained that memories shape the soul and that the mist could instead cause severe soul damage. The chapter left Lin Yuan warned against pursuing the idea without great caution.

• Lin Yuan proposed using precise control of the Nightmare Heavenly Mist to make dream-based study rival years of cultivation.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint rejected the idea as too difficult and costly, then asked Lin Yuan about the soul and how it was shaped.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint explained that memories could alter the soul and described inner demons and false-memory saturation as ways to injure it.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint revealed that the Nightmare Heavenly Mist had begun as an attempt to replicate Bodhi Tree Enlightenment but had become a soul-attack method.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint said he had used the mist on Frost Moon City to cut off its people’s cultivation, leading to the city’s eventual destruction, and urged caution in soul research.
• Lin Yuan thanked Teacher Jiang for his instruction.

Lin Yuan proposed adapting the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint's Nightmare Heavenly Mist into a device that could accelerate thought during battle, and his teacher agreed to refine a prototype. The chapter ended as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint began forging it with Lin Yuan's materials and flame.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint warned Lin Yuan that illusion realms could not usually reproduce real-world laws, but Bodhi Tree Enlightenment could, and explained that Nightmare Heavenly Mist depended heavily on the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Lin Yuan suggested weakening Nightmare Heavenly Mist's combat effects while strengthening its time-stretching effect, then combining it with formations and forging to create a usable illusion device.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint approved Lin Yuan's idea, which Lin Yuan had named Soul Overclocking, and asked him to prepare materials.
• Lin Yuan provided equipment-refining materials, including Spirit Hosting Jade, along with Spirit Repository and his Azure Blue Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint wrapped the materials in the Azure Blue Flame and began refining them into an ice-blue fire lotus.

Lin Yuan asked Zhukun to review his cultivation research and help develop a Natal Blood Pill plan for Zi Yan, while the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint made a jade stele as his temporary residence. Lin Yuan and Zi Yan left the hidden space to meet Qi You and retrieve the Three Thousand Burning Flame, as Zhukun began preparing the Dragon Emperor Legacy.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint forged the Purifying Lotus Stele, advised Lin Yuan on fire-control arts, and entered the stele to organize its inner space.
• Zhukun accepted Lin Yuan’s scrolls on blood and spirit cultivation, essence-qi-spirit fusion, the Three Pill Extreme Origin Method, and the Natal Blood Pill, agreeing to review them for Zi Yan’s benefit.
• Lin Yuan told Zi Yan that Zhukun’s research would determine whether the Natal Blood Pill could help her, then said they needed to return before Qi You arrived.
• Zi Yan recalled that she had ordered Qi You to return to the clan and bring the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Zi Yan took Lin Yuan through the space layer, while Zhukun said he would prepare the Dragon Emperor Legacy.

Lin Yuan and Zi Yan returned from the Lava Sea and concealed their discovery of Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion from Su Qian. The next morning, Lin Yuan told Medusa about the cave mansion as they discussed the women who had left for the Central Plains.

• Zi Yan ordered two Lizardman Half-Saints to guard the Lava Sea and kill anyone entering its depths without her token.
• Lin Yuan and Zi Yan emerged from the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower, and Lin Yuan told Su Qian they had made discoveries but would keep the details private.
• Lin Yuan drew Medusa's eyebrows at the Medicine Lord's Mansion, and she admired his work before asking him to explain the Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Medusa told Lin Yuan that Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Little Cai had gone to the Central Plains for their respective missions, though Little Cai mainly wanted to play games.

Lin Yuan told Medusa about the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling and his plans for the Demonic Flame Partial Map, while she offered to help him search for it. Their quiet conversation ended when Lin Yuan sensed Elder Qi You arriving with the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Lin Yuan recounted to Medusa how he and Zi Yan entered the Lava Sea and encountered Dragon Emperor Zhukun and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint.
• Medusa teased Lin Yuan for winning the help of two peak experts and offered to collect the fourth Demonic Flame Partial Map for him.
• Lin Yuan explained that the partial map and Nine-Colored Origin Stone were not yet ready to be seized, and planned to search for them before the Spatial Auction Fair.
• Lin Yuan promised to help Medusa strengthen her cultivation before she entered seclusion at the Beast Region's Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Lin Yuan sensed a spatial ripple in the northwest and realized Elder Qi You had arrived with the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Zi Yan brought Qi You to the independent space she had opened for Jia Nan Academy, where Lin Yuan met them and received a large cache of medicinal ingredients and Heavenly Thunder Seeds. After seeing sixty-six Black Demonic Lightning seeds, Lin Yuan celebrated his growing resources, and Zi Yan asked Qi You to hand over the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Qi You arrived near Jia Nan Academy, and Zi Yan escorted him into the independent space she had created for the academy.
• Lin Yuan greeted Qi You, and Qi You accepted Lin Yuan’s request to address him as Alchemy Master.
• Qi You gave Lin Yuan a storage ring containing medicinal ingredients and Heavenly Thunder Seeds, including sixty-six Black Demonic Lightning seeds refined by Great Elder Qingshan.
• Qi You told Lin Yuan that Zhuli had thanked him because the Thunder Tribulation Pill had helped loosen his bottleneck.
• Lin Yuan inspected the resources and rejoiced at the materials available for his alchemy.
• Zi Yan told Qi You to release the Three Thousand Burning Flame and hand it over to Lin Yuan.

Qi You released the Three Thousand Burning Flame, but Zi Yan subdued it and helped Lin Yuan bind it with a Dragon Seal. Lin Yuan entered a soul battle with the Heavenly Flame and unleashed his Azure Blue Ice Flame against it.

• Qi You released the Three Thousand Burning Flame from its seal, and it emerged as a massive purple fire dragon.
• Zi Yan used her bloodline pressure and purple-gold light screen to restrain the flame and extract its origin.
• Zi Yan told Lin Yuan to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame with his Dragon Seal, warning him not to underestimate Heavenly Flames.
• Lin Yuan used a drop of dark-gold blood to place a Dragon Seal on the Three Thousand Burning Flame, forming a connection between them.
• Lin Yuan entered the Dragon Seal's soul battlefield, where the Three Thousand Burning Flame attacked him with a sea of purple-black fire.
• Lin Yuan scattered the flame sea with his soul power and sent beasts formed from Azure Blue Ice Flame toward the fire dragon.

Zi Yan sealed away the energy shell left by the Three Thousand Burning Flame and received Qi You’s report on Eastern Dragon Island’s preparations. Three days later, Lin Yuan gained the upper hand in the soul battle, leaving the Three Thousand Burning Flame near defeat.

• Zi Yan shielded Lin Yuan, then used the Ancient Dragon Mustard Seal Technique to seal the purple-fire dragon’s energy as a pattern around her wrist.
• Qi You reported that Eastern Dragon Island was gathering intelligence and preparing for a campaign against the other three islands, with preparations expected to take half a year.
• Zi Yan told Qi You she would return within a year to reunify the Ancient Void Dragon and ordered him to search for the missing Ancient Dragon seniors without revealing information about her to them.
• Three days later, Lin Yuan’s Dragon Seal had weakened the Three Thousand Burning Flame while strengthening him, giving him an overwhelming advantage in their soul battle.
• Lin Yuan countered the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s final attack and declared that it was time to end the fight.

Lin Yuan subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame, preserved its fire spirit, and reunited with Zi Yan after breaking free of the protective shield. He planned to study the flame for seven days before visiting the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling, while Zi Yan explained the Ancient Dragon Mustard Seal Technique.

• Lin Yuan used the Dragon Seal to absorb the Three Thousand Burning Flame in his soul space, then extracted and preserved its fire spirit.
• Lin Yuan took control of the flame and formed a purple mark between his brows, then dismissed the protective shield with the Dragon Seal Technique.
• Zi Yan appeared and confirmed that Elder Qi You had returned to Dragon Island and that she had stabilized the Jia Nan Realm.
• Lin Yuan told Zi Yan they would study the Three Thousand Burning Flame for seven days before heading to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling for her Dragon Emperor Legacy.
• Zi Yan showed Lin Yuan the dragon mark on her wrist and explained that the Ancient Dragon Mustard Seal Technique created personal storage space and could seal energy.

Lin Yuan considered the Ancient Dragon Mustard Seal Technique’s similarities to other spatial arts and learned it from Zi Yan. After realizing it could one day be combined with the Gate of Dead Silence and other techniques, he invited Zi Yan to an ice-and-fire feast, but she had other plans.

• Lin Yuan recalled the Gate of Dead Silence and its deadly space, which the Soul Clan’s Four Elders were refining for their planned array.
• Zi Yan explained that the Ancient Dragon Mustard Seal Technique was harder to use than Qing Lin’s pupil space and normally required reaching the Dou Saint realm.
• Zi Yan transferred the technique to Lin Yuan through a connection between their brows.
• Lin Yuan recognized that his Ancient Dragon Qi could let him cultivate the technique once he reached the Dou Saint stage, and considered eventually combining it with other secret arts.
• Lin Yuan invited Zi Yan to an ice-and-fire feast, but Zi Yan gazed at him hungrily and decided she wanted to enjoy his company first.

Xiao Yi Xian attacked Ice River Valley over its persecution of the Woeful Poison Body, while Lin Yuan completed another Azure Blue Ice Flame fusion and joined Zi Yan at the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling. Zi Yan began Zhukun’s Dragon Emperor Legacy baptism, and Lin Yuan stayed behind to help Zhukun prepare for her return to the wider world.

• Xiao Yi Xian left Qinglin to provide support and breached Ice River Valley’s barrier, declaring the sect would be destroyed for its pursuit of the Woeful Poison Body.
• Lin Yuan completed the fusion of the Azure Blue Ice Flame’s fifteenth Sub-Flame and set out with Zi Yan for the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Dwelling.
• Zhukun welcomed Zi Yan and showed her the Legacy Blood Pool he had prepared to strengthen her bloodline and help her reach Six-Star Dou Saint.
• Zi Yan entered the pool and began her baptism as Zhukun sealed the space around her.
• Lin Yuan urged Zhukun to prepare tokens for Zi Yan to use with the Ancient Dragon Tribe’s elders, then offered a Soul Clone to help Zhukun make Game Crystals while he began alchemy.

Lin Yuan refined pills for nearly three months before advancing his alchemy to the Nine-Nine-Nine level, while Xiao Yi Xian studied Ice River Valley’s research and chose a path toward Sainthood. Lin Yuan’s alchemy reached new heights, and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to extract Venerable Ice’s Acquired Woeful Poison Origin.

• Lin Yuan completed his first batch of pills, then used the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning to strengthen the eleven Heavenly Demon Puppets protecting Jia Nan Academy.
• Lin Yuan began successive alchemy batches to practice his fire-control methods, saving his limited Bodhi materials for later.
• Xiao Yi Xian investigated Ice River Valley’s research into special constitutions and studied its Woeful Poison Transformation Method.
• Xiao Yi Xian concluded that unifying the innate and acquired Woeful Poison Bodies was her best path to Sainthood and planned to ask Lin Yuan to refine the method.
• After sensing Qinglin reach Peak Nine-Revolving Dou Venerate, Xiao Yi Xian set out to extract Venerable Ice’s Acquired Woeful Poison Origin.
• Over nearly three months, Lin Yuan advanced from Seven-Nine-Seven to Nine-Nine-Nine alchemy and became confident he was the strongest alchemist below the ninth grade.