Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan rewarded Gu Zhen and Shi Yi with powerful pills, strengthening their friendship and helping Gu Zhen pursue a Black Annihilation Army command position. After learning the Yao Clan had prepared treasure pills for Yao Tian and Yao Ling ahead of the Pill Convention, Lin Yuan asked Gu Zhen whether he could arrange for an outsider to enter the Heavenly Tomb.

• Gu Zhen received dozens of Eighth-Grade Medicinal Pills from Lin Yuan and realized they could strengthen his branch’s position within the Gu Clan.
• Lin Yuan gave Gu Zhen a Venerate Origin Extreme Heart Pill, and Shi Yi credited the same pill with greatly advancing his cultivation.
• Gu Zhen accepted Lin Yuan’s gift as a friend and promised to help him when needed, then the three shared wine.
• Gu Zhen warned Lin Yuan that Yao Tian and Yao Ling might become Half-Saints before the Pill Convention after receiving Ninth Grade Treasure Pills from the Yao Clan’s clan head.
• Lin Yuan asked whether Gu Zhen’s branch could help arrange a Heavenly Tomb entry for someone outside the Eight Ancient Clans.

Lin Yuan secured Gu Zhen’s help in pursuing a Heavenly Tomb quota and agreed to expand cooperation with Gu Qingyang’s line. Shi Yi then delivered the Shi Clan’s gifts and confirmed Lin Yuan’s appointment as a secret guest elder, leaving Lin Yuan with a first-rank elder token and a Heaven Tier High-Grade body-refining technique.

• Gu Zhen said he would consult the Gu Clan elders about Lin Yuan’s Heavenly Tomb quota, while Shi Yi offered to seek a quota through the Shi Clan.
• Gu Zhen explained that Gu Qingyang had gone searching for the Thick Earth Pearl and had entrusted him to negotiate expanded cooperation; Lin Yuan accepted the same terms as before and gave Gu Zhen a letter for Gu Xun'er.
• After Gu Zhen left, Shi Yi told Lin Yuan that the Shi Clan had approved him as a guest elder and presented thirty percent of its body-refining research materials along with a Heaven Tier High-Grade technique.
• Lin Yuan promised to become a ninth grade grandmaster within five years and visit the Shi Realm, and Shi Yi gave him a first-rank elder token while saying the appointment would remain secret for now.

Lin Yuan received the Heavenly Overlord Body, a costly Heaven Tier High-Level body-refining Dou Skill, and gave Shi Yi an Eighth-Grade Eight-Colors Saint Origin Pill beast in exchange for help with Shi Clan affairs. After Shi Yi left, Lin Yuan studied the skill and discovered that its methods and requirements seemed unusually suited to him.

• Shi Yi explained that the Heavenly Overlord Body demanded enormous resources and rare Magical Beast materials, which had kept it unused in the Shi Clan treasury for thousands of years.
• Lin Yuan transformed an Eighth-Grade Eight-Colors Saint Origin Pill into a snow-white pill beast and gave it to Shi Yi, boosting Shi Yi's confidence in reaching peak Dou Venerate.
• Lin Yuan asked Shi Yi to seek him a Heavenly Tomb quota and serve as his agent for Shi Clan developments and exchanges, and Shi Yi agreed.
• Shi Yi returned toward the Northern Region, while Lin Yuan went back to his residence and began studying the Heavenly Overlord Body.
• Lin Yuan learned that the skill used Magical Beast blood and souls to form Dharma Bodies, and wondered whether its similarities to a myth from his past life were coincidental.
• Lin Yuan realized that the skill's methods seemed specially prepared for him, though its finest materials were nearly impossible to obtain.

Lin Yuan chose the Myriad Tribulation Body as a supplementary body-refining Dou Skill and rapidly reached its first stage by tempering himself with lightning. Having found a candidate in Feng Qing'er for restoring the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, he emerged from seclusion and prepared to give Ye Zhong instructions before setting out.

• Lin Yuan decided that Feng Qing'er was the best candidate to undergo a transformation using Heavenly Phoenix materials and return to her ancestry.
• Lin Yuan selected the Myriad Tribulation Body from eleven Heaven Tier body-refining Dou Skills and began cultivating it with destructive energy, relying on Fu Xuan to heal his injuries.
• After seven days of cultivation, Lin Yuan reached the Myriad Tribulation Body's Minute Level, doubling his physical strength and vitality.
• Lin Yuan concluded that his improved physical body could aid his eventual breakthrough to Half-Saint and decided to invest further in physical cultivation.
• Lin Yuan left his secret chamber and met Ye Zhong in the courtyard, telling him he had matters to handle concerning the Shi Clan.

Lin Yuan left the Dan Tower after giving Xuan Kongzi alchemy insights and asking Cao Ying and Dan Chen to compete against the Yao Clan at the Pill Convention. In the Gu Realm, Gu Xun'er received a letter from Lin Yuan and learned that his alchemy and strength had grown to extraordinary levels.

• Lin Yuan gave Xuan Kongzi three memory crystals of his alchemy insights and asked the Dan Tower chairmen to review them with him after his return.
• Lin Yuan gave Cao Ying a separate alchemy crystal, told her about the Yao Clan's competitors, and promised to handle Yao Tian and Yao Ling at the Pill Convention.
• Xuan Kongzi promised to increase support for Cao Ying and Dan Chen, and Lin Yuan left through a space rift to settle personal matters.
• Gu Xun'er, troubled by marriage pressure from several imperial clans, received Lin Yuan's sealed letter from Gu Zhen.
• Gu Zhen told Gu Xun'er that Lin Yuan's alchemy was at least eighth grade eight colors and that his strength was impossible for a Five-Star Dou Venerate to see through.

Gu Xun'er read Lin Yuan's demanding letter, learned of Xiao Yan's progress, and decided to visit Holy Pill City and make Lin Yuan shoulder his share of their cooperation. Meanwhile, Lin Yuan completed his Myriad Tribulation Body training and used his soul slices and Bodhi Seeds to accelerate his comprehension of heaven-and-earth rules, leaving him hopeful of reaching Half-Saint sooner.

• Gu Xun'er burned Lin Yuan's letter in anger after reading his demands for the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame Sub-Flame and his pointed reminders about their cooperation.
• Gu Xun'er asked Ling Ying about Xiao Yan and learned that he had reached two-star Dou Sect, placed in the Southern Region Contest's top sixteen, and traveled under the alias Chen Yan.
• Gu Xun'er planned to cultivate to six-star Dou Venerate, gather information in Holy Pill City, and deliver Lin Yuan the sub-flame while making him fulfill his obligations before the Heavenly Tomb opened.
• Lin Yuan completed the initial mastery realm of the Myriad Tribulation Body after ten days of training, with Fu Xuan helping heal his injuries and continuing to refine the Demonic Essence Mark.
• Lin Yuan meditated with his three soul slices and Bodhi Seeds, entered the Dao Body merging with the nether state, and gained insights that could hasten his breakthrough to Half-Saint.

Lin Yuan visited Wind Lightning Pavilion, rewarded Venerable Lei for his service, and ordered him to bring Feng Qing'er back from the Western Pavilion. As Lin Yuan cultivated in seclusion and waited for her, two figures appeared outside his courtyard on the seventh morning.

• Lin Yuan secretly surveyed Wind Lightning Pavilion, then met Venerable Lei, whose strength had grown to five-star Dou Venerate after taking Lin Yuan’s pill.
• Venerable Lei offered Lin Yuan the medicinal herbs Wind Lightning Pavilion had collected, and Lin Yuan rewarded him with cultivation manuals and an Eighth-Grade Eight-Colored Pill Beast.
• Lin Yuan instructed Venerable Lei to accept a future alliance with Starfall Pavilion and position Wind Lightning Pavilion within it for the Dark Alliance.
• Venerable Lei explained Feng Qing’er’s background, including how her parents’ crimes left her an estranged descendant of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Lin Yuan learned that Feng Qing’er was taking the Heavenly Thunder Tower test at Wind Lightning Western Pavilion and ordered Venerable Lei to bring her back within seven days.
• Lin Yuan settled into a secluded courtyard to cultivate, and two figures appeared outside it early on the seventh morning.

Lin Yuan took Feng Qing'er away from Venerable Lei, intending to offer her a dangerous opportunity connected to her Heaven Demon Phoenix bloodline. After Feng Qing'er tried to escape and resisted him, Lin Yuan sealed her power and warned that failure to grasp the opportunity would mean death.

• Lin Yuan finished cultivating and welcomed Venerable Lei and Feng Qing'er into his courtyard, rewarding Venerable Lei with medicinal pills.
• Lin Yuan told Feng Qing'er to leave with him for a year, and Venerable Lei accepted the arrangement and named her his successor as Wind Lightning Pavilion master.
• Lin Yuan took Feng Qing'er aboard his cloud warship, where she recognized his Ancient Void Dragon and Heaven Demon Phoenix auras and attacked before trying to flee.
• Lin Yuan nullified Feng Qing'er's lightning, pulled her back with an invisible force, and sealed her power when she prepared to self-destruct.
• Lin Yuan told Feng Qing'er he did not intend to eat or kill her, but warned that the opportunity he planned to give her could end in death if she failed to grasp it.

Lin Yuan revealed his identity to Feng Qing'er and told her he planned to help her transform into an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, then took her toward the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool. At the mountain range, he discovered that its energy-gathering formation centered on the volcano, where he regretted finding that the Volcanic Rock Flame had already been taken.

• Lin Yuan unveiled his face, and Feng Qing'er recognized him as the Medicine Lord and Central Plains' foremost young genius.
• Feng Qing'er speculated that Lin Yuan had a conflict with the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, but Lin Yuan told her he had a deep relationship with them and no current designs on her clan.
• Lin Yuan announced that he would use special methods and precious materials to help Feng Qing'er revert into an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, and told her she had to cooperate with him for a year.
• Lin Yuan directed the Void Shuttle Boat to the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range to visit his disciples, meet Venerable Skyfire, and inspect the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool.
• One day later, Lin Yuan examined the mountain range and found that it was a formation gathering energy tides, centered on the Heavenly Eye Volcano, but the Volcanic Rock Flame was gone.

Lin Yuan left the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool with Feng Qing'er and prepared to take revenge on the Heavenly Underworld Sect. Half a month later, he began cultivating his Myriad Tribulation Body in a Black Lightning Essence Pool while Feng Qing'er cultivated nearby and kept her chance to return to her ancestors secret from her clan.

• Lin Yuan found an immature Exotic Flame seed inside the Volcanic Stone Mother, then asked Venerable Skyfire to watch over Xin Lan and Dan Chen and teach them the Leaving Fire Method.
• Lin Yuan extracted a blood pool energy crystal, purified its fire poison, and gave it to Feng Qing'er to cultivate without breaking through to Dou Sect.
• Lin Yuan told Feng Qing'er they were heading to the Heavenly Underworld Sect to take revenge for the sect master's past schemes.
• Half a month later, Lin Yuan prepared a Black Lightning Essence Pool and entered it to cultivate the Myriad Tribulation Body, enduring the lightning's destruction before repairing his body with his Exotic Flame, Natal Blood Pill, and Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Feng Qing'er decided not to contact her clan about Lin Yuan's return-to-ancestry plan and instead used the energy crystal and Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Cultivation Method to advance toward Dou Sect.
• After seven days, Lin Yuan continued cultivating as the lightning pool's energy and water dwindled by more than half.

Lin Yuan completed the tenth revolution of his Dou Venerate cultivation and set out with Feng Qing'er to confront the Heavenly Underworld Sect. After they bypassed its powerful protective barrier, they were surrounded by hostile sect members.

• Lin Yuan absorbed the Black Lightning Essence Pool and broke through to the tenth revolution, astonishing Feng Qing'er with his powerful aura.
• Lin Yuan explained the difficulty and benefits of the tenth revolution, then praised Feng Qing'er's progress and urged her to become an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• Lin Yuan and Feng Qing'er traveled to the Heavenly Underworld Sect, where Lin Yuan said he intended to fight its Half-Saint expert.
• Lin Yuan used his spatial power to guide himself and Feng Qing'er through the sect's protective barrier.
• Lin Yuan and Feng Qing'er entered the gloomy, bloodstained mountain range and were surrounded by dozens of Heavenly Underworld Sect members.
• Lin Yuan welcomed the sect members as potential guides who could provide information.

Lin Yuan and Feng Qing'er entered the Heavenly Underworld Sect, where Lin Yuan killed its scouts and questioned them about Sect Master Yi. At the sect headquarters, Yi Ming plotted to undermine the Flower Sect through Yi Chen, but Lin Yuan arrived after killing Yi Chen and Elder Qiu, confronting Yi Ming with Yi Chen's body.

• A Heavenly Underworld Sect squad recognized Lin Yuan, and he froze its members, killed their Seven-Star Dou Sect leader, and asked whether Sect Master Yi was at the headquarters.
• Yi Ming discussed the failed marriage alliance with the Flower Sect and heard Liu Cang report Yun Yun's resistance and efforts to remove the sect's agents.
• Yi Chen proposed challenging Yun Yun's disciple to weaken Yun Yun and help the Heavenly Underworld Sect annex the Flower Sect, and Yi Ming approved the plan.
• Yi Ming sent Elder Qiu to accompany Yi Chen, but Elder Qiu was hurled back into the hall with shattered meridians and died after warning of a powerful enemy.
• Lin Yuan and Feng Qing'er entered the hall, and Lin Yuan greeted Yi Ming before tossing Yi Chen's corpse at him.

Lin Yuan killed Yi Ming and subdued the Heavenly Underworld Sect after explaining that he had come to settle the score for Yi Ming’s past role in delaying his return to the Dan Tower. He left Senluo Ghost Venerate alive with a message for Old Demon Tianming, who emerged from seclusion and flew toward Purgatory Valley.

• Yi Chen’s corpse fell in the hall, and Lin Yuan mocked Yi Ming’s attempt to justify retaliation as righteous.
• Yi Ming ordered the elders to form the Netherworld Great Formation and capture Lin Yuan and Feng Qing'er.
• Lin Yuan used the Heavenly Chant Soul Tremor Strike to collapse the formation, incapacitate the elders, and seize Yi Ming.
• Yi Ming pleaded for his life and offered treasures and an alliance, but Lin Yuan snapped his neck and extracted his soul and the elders’ souls.
• Lin Yuan left Senluo Ghost Venerate alive and ordered him to tell Old Demon Tianming to bring Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to Purgatory Valley in exchange for the souls.
• After the barrier lifted, Senluo Ghost Venerate delivered the message, and Old Demon Tianming emerged from seclusion and flew toward the southwest.

Lin Yuan lured Old Demon Tianming, a High-Level Half-Saint, to Purgatory Valley and trapped him in a prepared formation for a battle. Their first clash showed Lin Yuan could fight Tianming head-on despite sustaining light injuries, and their fierce battle continued.

• Feng Qing'er worried that Old Demon Tianming would not honor a trade after Lin Yuan killed the Heavenly Underworld Sect Master, Yi Chen, and eight elders.
• Lin Yuan explained that the supposed trade was bait, finished preparing the Lotus Fire Sealing Heaven Array, and sent Feng Qing'er away with Heavenly Puppet One.
• Old Demon Tianming arrived, demanded the souls and Lin Yuan's surrender, and learned that the trade had only been a pretext to lure him out.
• Lin Yuan activated the array to seal Purgatory Valley, then challenged Old Demon Tianming to fight for his survival.
• Lin Yuan and Old Demon Tianming exchanged a head-on blow; both were pushed back, and Lin Yuan healed his light injuries with purple flames.
• Lin Yuan and Old Demon Tianming continued clashing in the sky, their attacks collapsing stretches of space.

Lin Yuan battled Old Demon Tianming in Purgatory Valley, using his Three Pills Secret Technique to overwhelm the Half-Saint with the Great Compassion Hand. The fight ended with Old Demon Tianming defeated and trapped inside the Lotus Fire Sealing Heaven Array.

• Lin Yuan endured Old Demon Tianming's attacks and gradually found chances to counterattack as the battle sharpened his control of his power.
• Old Demon Tianming unleashed the Dark Nether Qi Transforms Heaven and Earth and prepared to finish Lin Yuan with the Dark Nether Heavenly Underworld Blood Palm.
• Lin Yuan activated all three parts of his Three Pills Secret Technique, raising his strength beyond Old Demon Tianming's.
• Lin Yuan's Great Compassion Hand crushed Old Demon Tianming's attack and left him gravely injured.
• Old Demon Tianming tried to escape, but Lin Yuan closed the Lotus Fire Sealing Heaven Array and captured him inside Purgatory Valley.

Lin Yuan killed Old Demon Tianming after defeating him and exposed the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s secret stockpile of Soul Origin. He installed Senluo Ghost Venerate as the sect’s leader and left with Feng Qing'er after securing the resources and strengthening Senluo’s position.

• Lin Yuan trapped Old Demon Tianming in the Lotus Fire Sealing Heaven Array, feigned willingness to accept his surrender, and used Soul-Severing Smoke and Nightmare Heavenly Mist to disable him before killing him and extracting his Heaven Realm soul.
• Lin Yuan reviewed his battle and the Three Pills Secret Technique, then traveled with Feng Qing'er toward the Heavenly Underworld Sect to take control of it.
• Three days later, Lin Yuan found and seized the sect’s sealed Soul Origin, which he intended to use with captured souls to prepare materials for the Natal Soul Pill.
• Senluo Ghost Venerate presented Lin Yuan with the sect’s medicinal ingredients and thanked him for making him sect master and granting him a cultivation method and pills.
• Lin Yuan gave Senluo Ghost Venerate elders’ corpses to refine, a Heaven Tier Dou Skill, and orders to secure control of the sect before departing with Feng Qing'er.

Lin Yuan took Feng Qing'er to Cloud Rain Sect to avenge Xiao Yi Xian and destroy the sect, killing Human Scorpion and defeating Heaven Scorpion. He captured both Scorpion Demons' souls and left Heaven Scorpion with no explanation for his fate.

• Lin Yuan and Feng Qing'er left the Heavenly Underworld Sect, and Feng Qing'er said she valued power over titles and authority.
• Lin Yuan brought Feng Qing'er to Cloud Rain Sect, where he explained that the sect used young women as cauldron furnaces and announced his intention to kill the Three Scorpion Demons.
• Heaven Scorpion and Human Scorpion attacked Lin Yuan and Feng Qing'er, but Lin Yuan stopped Human Scorpion's giant palm and severely injured Heaven Scorpion with a punch.
• Human Scorpion tried to seize Feng Qing'er as a hostage, but Lin Yuan stomped him into the ground, killed him, and sealed his soul.
• Lin Yuan captured Heaven Scorpion's soul in a Soul Casket and told him that destroying him was none of his concern.

Lin Yuan looted the Cloud Rain Sect after defeating two of the Three Scorpion Demons, then headed south with Feng Qing'er for an arranged battle that could lead him to the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame Sub-Flame. Meanwhile, Gu Xun'er and Xiao Yan also set out for the Skyfall Mountain Range.

• Lin Yuan took the Three Scorpion Demons' treasures, including an eighth-grade pill beast and several Heaven Tier Cultivation Methods, and gave two scrolls to Feng Qing'er to examine.
• Lin Yuan and Feng Qing'er left the Cloud Rain Sect and traveled toward the Southern Region aboard their warship, with Lin Yuan explaining that the Flower Sect would shelter the Cloud Rain Sect's disciples.
• Lin Yuan told Feng Qing'er that the arranged battle would pit Gu Xun'er against Huo Zhi, while his wife was the most outstanding young woman overall.
• Gu Xun'er departed Ancient Saint City with the Black Annihilation Army for the Skyfall Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan, now a Four-Star Dou Sect after the Ancient Yao Baptism, left the Qing Feng Mountain Range with Mu Qingluan to travel to the Skyfall Mountain Range.

Lin Yuan arrived at Sky Meteor Cross Peak with Feng Qing'er before Gu Xun'er and Huo Zhi’s arranged battle, where they encountered Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan. As Feng Qing'er and Mu Qingluan traded challenges, Xiao Yan asked Lin Yuan to speak with him privately.

• Lin Yuan surveyed the Skyfall Mountain Range and spotted Mu Qingluan and Xiao Yan among the many spectators.
• Lin Yuan showed Feng Qing'er images of Mu Qingluan and Xiao Yan, prompting her to recall her past defeats by Mu Qingluan and Chen Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan waited near Sky Meteor Cross Peak, where Mu Qingluan warned him to keep his identity hidden and control his emotions around Gu Xun'er.
• Lin Yuan sealed the area and emerged from a spatial crack with Feng Qing'er, surprising Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan.
• Feng Qing'er and Mu Qingluan exchanged taunts about their rivalry and the next Four Pavilions Assembly while Lin Yuan watched.
• Xiao Yan asked Lin Yuan to speak with him privately.

Lin Yuan concealed Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame aura and warned him about the dangers of the Central Plains, while Xiao Yan decided against secretly meeting Xun'er and entrusted Lin Yuan with a letter for her. As the four ancient clans arrived at Sky Meteor Cross Peak, Xun'er and Huo Zhi began their closely watched duel.

• Lin Yuan froze Xiao Yan, extracted a trace of his soul power and Wind Fury Dragon Flame, and used them to seal away the aura of Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames.
• Lin Yuan warned Xiao Yan that a Dou Sect without powerful backing could not act freely in the Central Plains, and Xiao Yan thanked him and abandoned his plan to meet Xun'er in person.
• Xiao Yan prepared a letter for Xun'er, and Lin Yuan returned to Feng Qing'er and Mu Qingluan as they ended their argument.
• Warships from the Gu, Yan, Hun, and Lei Clans arrived above Sky Meteor Cross Peak, bringing four Half-Saints and drawing the attention of the gathered spectators.
• Xun'er realized the Hun Clan had helped draw a crowd to the duel, while Elder Tong Xuan urged her to focus on the contest.
• Huo Zhi and Xun'er faced each other in the arena, then summoned the Red Lotus Karmic Fire and the Gu Clan’s golden flame.