Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi Xian returned to Jia Nan Academy with eleven Central Plains alliance agreements and quotas for five places of opportunity, while Lin Yuan prepared for further pill refinement beneath the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling. Zi Yan emerged from seclusion as a mid Six-Star Dou Saint, and Lin Yuan planned to begin her combat training after they returned in seven days.

• Xiao Yi Xian gave Su Qian alliance agreements from eleven Central Plains sects and tokens and booklets granting Jia Nan Academy quotas at five places of opportunity.
• Lin Yuan collected three high-grade Black Demonic Thunder Tribulation Pills, considered preparing materials for a Treasure Pill Grade pill, and received scrolls from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint on the Spirit Origin Transformation, Qi Origin Transformation, and Natal Qi Core Pill.
• Zi Yan emerged from the purple-gold cocoon with mid Six-Star Dou Saint strength and demonstrated her Space Shifting ability to Lin Yuan.
• Zhukun praised Zi Yan's advancement and told her he had fixed her game device and prepared game crystals and combat training to help her master the Dragon Phoenix Power.
• Lin Yuan said that he and Zi Yan would return after reporting that they were safe and making preparations, and proposed beginning her training in three days.

Lin Yuan reunited with Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Little Cai in the Jia Nan Realm, where he shared cultivation inheritances and planned for their breakthroughs. Qing Lin brought news and supplies from Holy Pill City, and Zi Yan ended the chapter by offering the others a gift.

• Zi Yan bragged to Little Cai that she had cleared every floor of two games, while Little Cai admitted she had cleared only eighty percent.
• Qing Lin gave Lin Yuan Soul Origin gathered from four Hall of Souls branch halls, and he purified it before handing it back for her to absorb.
• Lin Yuan gave Qing Lin the Demonic Soul Saint Technique and other inheritances, then urged her to reach the Heaven Realm before they subdued the Nine Serene Deep Nether Python clan.
• Xiao Yi Xian showed Lin Yuan her plans to combine the Innate and Acquired for a breakthrough, and he promised to refine them into a complete plan and prepare pills for her.
• Qing Lin reported on Xin Lan and Dan Chen and delivered medicinal herbs, including eleven sets of Bodhi Transformation Saliva; Lin Yuan calculated that he would have enough Bodhi Seeds for pills and to locate the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Zi Yan approached the group holding Little Cai and offered Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin a gift.

Zi Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Medusa Zhukun’s reverse scale blood, while Little Cai agreed to keep training for a promised share of Ancient Dragon Blood. After Lin Yuan and Zi Yan returned to the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Dwelling, Lin Yuan purified Bodhi Seeds and began refining a Bodhi Pill, which reached a crucial moment on the tenth day.

• Zi Yan divided Zhukun’s reverse scale blood among Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Medusa, who carefully stored it away.
• Zi Yan promised Little Cai Ancient Dragon Blood if she cleared the hundredth floor of the City of Heavenly Clouds and defeated the final gatekeeper of the Holy War Magic Ring, then went to train with her.
• Qing Lin and the other women began secluded cultivation with Bodhi Seeds while Lin Yuan and Zi Yan returned to the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Dwelling.
• Lin Yuan and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint completed their deduction of the Natal Qi Core Pill and laid the foundation for the Three Pill Method.
• Lin Yuan refined four portions of Bodhi Transformation Saliva into Bodhi Seeds, purified them into one usable seed, and began refining a Bodhi Pill.
• After nine days of refining and two dangerous moments, Lin Yuan continued the process with the tenth day beginning as thunder sounded beneath the Lava Sea.

Lin Yuan completed his preparations and began refining the Natal Qi Core Pill, intending to use five Heavenly Flame spirits to create a unique humanoid flame spirit. Zi Yan defeated a phantom of the Divine Rainbow Sword Saint in the immersive simulation and then received battle guidance from Zhukun; the chapter ended as Lin Yuan used fifty-four Nine-Colored Medicinal Pills to begin the flame-spirit creation.

• Lin Yuan captured the Bodhi Pill after refining it, reviewed the process, and concluded that he had mastered its key points.
• Zi Yan defeated the Divine Rainbow Sword Saint's phantom in the simulation, and Zhukun explained the swordsman's identity before reviewing her battle with her.
• After seventy-one days of refining, Lin Yuan had produced fifty-four Eighth Grade Nine-Colored Medicinal Pills and entered the Pill Soul Realm to begin making the Natal Qi Core Pill.
• Lin Yuan used the Three Thousand Burning Flame and nearly a thousand medicinal ingredients to form the pill's medicinal liquid over nearly half a month.
• Lin Yuan summoned spiritual light extracted from five Heavenly Flames and brought out all fifty-four Nine-Colored Medicinal Pills to create a humanoid Heavenly Flame spirit.

Lin Yuan and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint successfully created the world’s first Pill Fire Spirit, Fu Xuan, by merging a Natal Qi Core Pill with Heavenly Flame. After a Black Demonic Lightning cloud appeared but bestowed Fu Xuan with mysterious spiritual charm instead of striking her, she introduced herself to Lin Yuan and vowed to serve him for life.

• Lin Yuan combined the Natal Qi Core Pill’s sentience with five streams of Heavenly Flame, medicinal-pill spirits, and spiritual energy to create a new life.
• Lin Yuan shaped the new Pill Fire Spirit’s form and personality, then named her Fu Xuan as she emerged from the shattered cauldron.
• Fu Xuan prepared to face the pill lightning, but a vast Black Demonic Lightning cloud gathered above her, far exceeding the expected power of an Eighth Grade Nine-Colored Pill.
• Lin Yuan arranged an emergency rescue with Zi Yan while Fu Xuan secretly worried about asking for help and resolved to face the lightning herself.
• The Black Demonic Lightning never struck; it dissipated after granting Fu Xuan mysterious spiritual charm that appeared to raise her potential.
• Fu Xuan told Lin Yuan that the encounter had gone as expected, then bowed and vowed to serve him for life.

Lin Yuan and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint examined Fu Xuan and found that the Black Demonic Lightning’s spiritual charm had raised her potential to at least Intermediate Dou Saint. After leaving the lava space with Zi Yan and Fu Xuan, Lin Yuan prepared to cultivate in seclusion while Fu Xuan began a transformation using the Flame Mantra.

• Lin Yuan asked Fu Xuan about her sentience, and she said her spirit was already powerful and had grown further after absorbing the Black Demonic Lightning’s spiritual charm.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint examined Fu Xuan and estimated that she could reach Intermediate Dou Saint, with the possibility of rising higher if her origin and sentience improved.
• Lin Yuan wondered whether heaven and earth had spirits that granted living beings potential, then completed further work in the space over the next seven days.
• Lin Yuan, Zi Yan, and Fu Xuan left the lava space; Zi Yan returned to finish her training after giving Fu Xuan several drops of Reverse Scale Blood.
• Lin Yuan told Fu Xuan to transform while he entered seclusion, and she recognized the Yellow Tier Low-Grade Cultivation Method as Flame Mantra.

Lin Yuan guided Fu Xuan into cultivating the Flame Mantra so she could fuse four Heavenly Flames and advance as both a flame and a medicinal pill. After preparing Soul Origin from a captured Barbarian Saint, he began secluded cultivation to break through to the Heaven Realm; Fu Xuan’s fusion was progressing smoothly.

• Lin Yuan explained how the Flame Mantra and alchemy could raise Fu Xuan’s origin and spirituality, potentially allowing her to surpass the Emperor Flame.
• Lin Yuan gave Fu Xuan the Fallen Heart Flame, Sea Heart Flame, Green Lotus Core Flame, and Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, along with the Azure Lotus Platform, and she began fusing them.
• Lin Yuan considered how Fu Xuan could grow into a Golden Core through parallel cultivation as a pill and a Heavenly Flame, while he pursued several ways to obtain a Ninth-Grade Golden Core.
• Lin Yuan decided to break through to the Heaven Realm using the Demonic Soul Saint Technique and opened the dragon-marked Soul Casket to refine Man Long’s soul.
• After two days, Lin Yuan collected Man Long’s Soul Origin, confirmed that Fu Xuan was smoothly fusing another Heavenly Flame, and began secluded cultivation toward the Heaven Realm.

Lin Yuan broke through to the Heaven Realm middle stage and found that Fu Xuan had fused four heavenly flames and mastered a powerful five-colored fire lotus. He planned to use dual cultivation with her to temper medicinal pills and develop her further before they eventually became one as human and pill.

• Lin Yuan cultivated the Demonic Soul Saint Technique, reached the Heaven Realm, and then absorbed soul origin to advance to the middle stage.
• Lin Yuan left his cave and examined Fu Xuan, confirming that her fused flame had surpassed the Azure Blue Ice Flame.
• Lin Yuan taught Fu Xuan the Fire Lotus Technique, and she formed a destructive five-colored fire lotus capable of killing a Half-Saint across realms.
• Fu Xuan offered to help Lin Yuan break through to the Half-Saint Realm by becoming one with him as human and pill, but Lin Yuan said it was too early.
• Lin Yuan proposed that he and Fu Xuan begin dual cultivation by jointly tempering and absorbing the medicinal strength of several high-grade pills.

After a month of dual cultivation with Fu Xuan, Lin Yuan reached Four Revolutions Peak and left seclusion, then explored a greatly expanded Jia Nan Academy during its celebration. He left Fu Xuan to experience the festivities and returned toward the Jia Nan Realm, where Han Yue and Han Xue discussed the academy and Lin Yuan’s past.

• Lin Yuan completed a month of dual cultivation with Fu Xuan, reaching Four Revolutions Peak and strengthening his control over the Natal Qi Core Pill.
• Lin Yuan left the fiery-red magma world with Fu Xuan and visited Jia Nan Academy, whose enrollment and influence had grown through its cooperation with the Eleven Sects.
• Lin Yuan gave Fu Xuan resources and a few days off to enjoy the academy’s celebration, then continued alone toward the Jia Nan Realm.
• Lin Yuan recognized former students serving as Inner Academy elders and briefly saw Han Yue and her younger sister, Han Xue, before disappearing.
• Han Xue told Han Yue that the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s support had protected their family from the Hong Family and that she planned to study and work at Jia Nan Academy.
• Han Xue asked Han Yue to tell her more about Lin Yuan, especially his early years before he became famous.

Zi Yan created the Jia Nan Secret Realm for Jia Nan Academy, and Lin Yuan and his companions prepared to return to the Central Plains. Xiao Yi Xian stayed behind to cultivate and pursue a breakthrough, while Lin Yuan departed for Heavenly Desolate City.

• Zi Yan showed Su Qian her Dou Saint strength and gave him ten keys to the Jia Nan Secret Realm, which she had opened for Jia Nan Academy.
• Lin Yuan told Su Qian that he and Zi Yan would leave for the Central Plains the next morning, and Su Qian welcomed them to return to Jia Nan Academy whenever they wished.
• Xiao Yi Xian decided to remain at the academy, cultivate toward the Dou Saint Realm, and oversee the academy reforms; Lin Yuan agreed to wait for her in the Central Plains.
• Lin Yuan spent the night with Xiao Yi Xian and said goodbye to her the next morning before meeting Medusa, Zi Yan, and Qinglin.
• Zi Yan opened a space tunnel to Heavenly Desolate City, and Lin Yuan and his companions left the Jia Nan Realm.
• Xiao Yi Xian watched them go and headed toward the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower to begin secluded cultivation, hoping to reach the Dou Saint Realm before the Pill Convention.

Lin Yuan arrived in Heavenly Desolate City to meet the Shi Clan and investigate its subordinate forces, while Medusa, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin attended the city’s grand auction. By night, both sides had made valuable discoveries, and Lin Yuan began telling Medusa about his successful covert visits.

• Lin Yuan explained Heavenly Desolate City’s history and its role as the Shi Clan’s trading hub, then entered the city with Medusa, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin as its three-year auction was about to begin.
• Lin Yuan split from the three women to investigate the Shi Clan’s subordinate forces, while Medusa led Zi Yan and Qing Lin to the auction.
• Lin Yuan used Nightmare Heavenly Mist to control Vajra Sect master Jin Huang, searched the sect’s treasury, and learned that the Shi Clan had invested in subordinate sects while preparing for its bloodline’s decline.
• Lin Yuan returned treasures worth more than what he took, altered Jin Huang’s memories, and left him believing he was still in seclusion before heading to other subordinate sects.
• Medusa, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin returned from the auction with rare treasures, including an Eight-Colored Primordial Stone Medusa had bought for the price of a Seven-Colored one.
• Lin Yuan reunited with the three women and said his own day’s harvest had also gone well.

Lin Yuan prepared to negotiate with the Shi Clan and reunited with Shi Yi at Moon-Gazing Pavilion, where he learned how the ancient clans’ younger generation had been competing. The chapter left Lin Yuan and Shi Yi heading into a banquet as Shi Yi described the rivalries and rising talents shaping the clans.

• Lin Yuan told Medusa and Zi Yan that he had obtained seven Heaven Tier body refining Dou Skills, medicinal ingredients, and intelligence from Shi Clan-affiliated forces, then asked Zi Yan to watch over his meeting with the Shi Clan.
• Zi Yan proposed raiding the Shi Realm, but Lin Yuan rejected the plan to avoid exposing her strength and provoking the ancient clans before the Hun Clan’s Millennium Plan.
• Lin Yuan spent the night with Medusa, then left with Zi Yan to sample local specialty foods before his appointment.
• Lin Yuan met Shi Yi at Moon-Gazing Pavilion and praised his progress to Six-Star Dou Venerate.
• Shi Yi told Lin Yuan that the ancient clans had encouraged their juniors to compete, reporting that Lei Dong and Hun Feng had drawn, Xun'er was emerging as a leading Gu Clan talent, and the clans had increased their investment in the younger generation.

Lin Yuan learned how far the ancient clans’ younger generation had advanced and considered the political motives behind a proposed Seven Clans Martial Gathering. He reached the Shi Clan’s negotiation room, where he met Shi Lin and revealed that he had become an Eighth-Grade Peak Alchemist.

• Shi Yi told Lin Yuan that Hun Feng, Lei Dong, and Hun Yu had reached Nine-Star Dou Venerate, while Gu Xun'er had reached Five-Star Dou Venerate and defeated stronger opponents with the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.
• Shi Yi explained that the ancient clans were considering a regular Seven Clans Martial Gathering, and Lin Yuan suspected the Gu and Hun Clans each intended to use it for political advantage.
• As Lin Yuan and Shi Yi arrived at the meeting room, Zi Yan warned him that a High-Level Half-Saint and a concealed Three-Star Dou Saint were inside.
• Lin Yuan gave Shi Yi a Venerate Origin Extreme Heart Pill, an Eighth Grade Seven-Colored Medicinal Pill he had created, and Shi Lin approved Shi Yi's acceptance of it.
• Shi Lin introduced himself as the Shi Clan's Ninth Elder and said he would handle Lin Yuan's transaction request; Lin Yuan confirmed he had become an Eighth-Grade Peak Alchemist.

Lin Yuan negotiated with the Stone Clan for a Heaven Tier High-Level body refining Dou Skill, offering increasingly valuable medicinal pills and a future Ninth-Grade pill guarantee. The Third Elder agreed to make an exception under strict limits, but Lin Yuan then proposed joining the clan as a guest elder to gain broader access to its inheritance.

• Stone Forest welcomed Lin Yuan and Shi Yi, and Lin Yuan let Shi Yi keep the Venerate Origin Extreme Heart Pill as a courtesy in return for useful information.
• Lin Yuan asked the Stone Clan to trade a high-level body refining Dou Skill and its research materials, but Stone Forest initially offered only a Heaven Tier Middle Level skill.
• Lin Yuan offered a universal-attribute Heaven Tier Middle Level Qi Method and up to fifteen Eighth Grade Nine-Colored Medicinal Pills, then promised future Ninth-Grade pills to persuade the Stone Clan.
• Stone Forest summoned the Third Elder, who agreed to trade the core skill if Lin Yuan kept it secret and cultivated it only himself.
• Lin Yuan accepted the restriction, then proposed joining the Stone Clan as a guest elder so it could open more of its inheritance to him.

Lin Yuan offered the Shi Clan a mutually beneficial exchange for its body-refining research, promising future support while insisting that the clan would need outside allies as it transformed. When the Third Elder challenged him over a veiled warning about stolen inheritance, Lin Yuan called on Zi Yan to deter him, and a powerful aura suddenly appeared.

• Lin Yuan offered to become a Shi Clan guest elder in exchange for its body-refining research materials and the Heaven Tier High-Grade Body Refining Dou Skill.
• The Third Elder asked why an alchemist wanted the clan's research, and Lin Yuan explained that he hoped to connect body refining with alchemy.
• Lin Yuan offered to help the Shi Clan develop body-refining pills and said he could eventually draw on the Pill Tower's resources.
• Lin Yuan urged the Shi Clan to exchange its inheritance for benefits before outsiders took it, warning that rules alone could not protect it from theft.
• The Third Elder accused Lin Yuan of threatening the Shi Clan, and Lin Yuan secretly asked Zi Yan to deter him.
• A fierce aura appeared before the Third Elder could increase his pressure.

Lin Yuan used Zi Yan’s overwhelming aura to strengthen his position while negotiating with the Shi Clan over a body-refining Dou Skill and a possible guest elder role. After leaving trade materials and arranging for Shi Yi to bring the clan’s decision to Holy Pill City, Lin Yuan departed.

• Zi Yan released a terrifying aura that subdued Shi Yi, Stone Forest, and the Third Elder, then withdrew it after Lin Yuan reassured them.
• Lin Yuan told the Third Elder he wanted to cooperate with the Shi Clan and asked to become an outside guest elder; the Third Elder said the clan council would decide and that he would support the proposal.
• Lin Yuan placed a Heaven Tier Middle Level cultivation method, fifteen Eighth Grade Nine-Colored Thunder Tribulation Pills, alchemy certificates, and his requirements for a body-refining Dou Skill before the Third Elder.
• Lin Yuan declined the invitation to visit the Shi Realm and asked Shi Yi to bring the clan’s decision and the Dou Skill to Holy Pill City, promising him a valuable gift.
• Lin Yuan bid farewell and vanished through spatial ripples as Zi Yan’s purple light and shadow disappeared with him.

Lin Yuan decided to leave Heavenly Desolate City after concluding negotiations with the Shi Clan, while Qing Lin reported on the Dark Alliance’s expanding resource network and her own advances. The chapter ended by explaining how Lin Yuan and Qing Lin developed the Sky Dome Calculation Power System to harness the calculation power of Qing Lin’s Snake Race Subordinates.

• Lin Yuan rejected Zi Yan’s offer to help capture the Shi Clan’s Dou Saints and decided the group should leave Heavenly Desolate City to avoid unnecessary danger.
• Qing Lin reported that her subordinates had bought rare medicinal ingredients in the city and that Venerable Lei had sent Xiao Yi Xian’s requested ingredients to Holy Pill City.
• Qing Lin said Venerable Lei had requested a One Venerate Pill to break through his cultivation bottleneck, and she had arranged for him to receive one.
• Lin Yuan’s group had built a resource-gathering network through Wind Lightning Pavilion, Ice River Valley, and other subdued sects, which Lin Yuan named the Dark Alliance and Qing Lin led.
• Lin Yuan and Qing Lin developed the Sky Dome Calculation Power System, a soul secret technique designed to use the calculation power of Qing Lin’s Snake Race Subordinates.

Lin Yuan praised Qing Lin’s progress with the Sky Dome Calculation Power System, then decided to return with Zi Yan to Eastern Dragon Island and reunify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. The elders sensed the Dragon Emperor’s return and hurried to welcome her.

• Lin Yuan explained how Qing Lin’s Sky Dome Calculation Power System coordinated dependent nodes and used bounties to gather solutions to its mathematical and algorithmic problems.
• Qing Lin reported that she could match the computing power of nearly a hundred people, and Lin Yuan praised her work and entrusted her with the system’s continued development.
• Lin Yuan chose Eastern Dragon Island over Holy Pill City as their destination, and Zi Yan opened a space tunnel for the group.
• Great Elder Qingshan questioned Zhuli, Qi You, and Qingmu about their cultivation and the locations of the other Dragon Islands.
• Qingmu sensed movement in the Central Great Hall, and the four elders realized Zi Yan had returned and rushed to greet her.

Zi Yan returned to Eastern Dragon Island and resumed her throne as Dragon Emperor. After hearing the elders’ preparations to subdue the three rebel islands, she asked Lin Yuan for advice and agreed to consider a restrained campaign that would restore the clan’s unity.

• Zi Yan, Lin Yuan, Medusa, and Qing Lin emerged into the great hall, where the four elders welcomed Zi Yan back as Dragon Emperor.
• Zhuli thanked Lin Yuan for the Thunder Tribulation Pill that had helped him break through to Dou Saint.
• Zi Yan took the throne and asked whether the elders had prepared to attack the three rebel islands.
• Qingshan reported that Eastern Dragon Island’s forces were ready, and Qingmu detailed the locations and strength of the northern, western, and southern islands.
• Lin Yuan proposed a three-day mobilization followed by campaigns against the islands in north, west, and south order, urging Zi Yan to execute the Three False Dragon Kings and their loyalists while sparing ordinary clansmen.
• Qingshan and the other elders endorsed Lin Yuan’s plan and warned that excessive bloodshed could alienate powerful Ancient Dragon seniors and their descendants.

Zi Yan declared herself the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Emperor and announced a campaign to reunite the clan. Three days later, she led Eastern Dragon Island’s Imperial Dragon Army north to attack Northern Dragon Island first.

• Zi Yan agreed to launch a campaign against the three islands in three days, while Lin Yuan proposed sealing off Eastern Dragon Island to keep the plan secret.
• Zi Yan appeared above Eastern Dragon Island and proclaimed her return as Dragon Emperor, promising to defeat the rebels and reunite the clan.
• Zi Yan’s bloodline pressure convinced the dragons on the island of her authority, and Black Azure and the gathered experts welcomed her as their emperor.
• Three days later, Zi Yan addressed the assembled Imperial Dragon Army and ordered it to punish the traitors and unite the Dragon Clan.
• Zi Yan ordered the army to attack Northern Dragon Island first, and the Four Great Elders used their spatial power to set Eastern Dragon Island flying north.