Chapter Summaries

Lu Bu and Yao Chen refined Grade 8 pills, then traded the Wu Lian Pill formula for the location of the ancient tomb tied to the Calamity Poison Body. Lu Bu left with the location scroll, intent on finding a way to fully control Xiao Yi Xian’s poison.

• Yao Chen agreed to discuss Lu Bu’s proposed trade after his Eight-Colored Pill Lightning arrived, and Elder Qiu Mao returned to watching the refinement.
• Lu Bu and Yao Chen used their Heavenly Demon Puppets to absorb most of the pill lightning, while Elder Qiu Mao had to withstand several bolts himself.
• After the three Grade 8 pills were completed, Yao Chen noticed Lu Bu’s Pill Transformation Array and learned that Lu Bu had killed two Yao Clan members to obtain it.
• Lu Bu offered the Wu Lian Pill formula for the ancient tomb’s location, and Yao Chen refused until Lu Bu threatened to search through the Alchemy Tower’s network.
• Yao Chen accepted the trade, and Lu Bu exchanged the Wu Lian Pill formula for the location scroll before leaving to test the Shenxu Pill.

Earth Scorpion reported his defeat to Soul Hall leaders, who focused on Xiao Yan’s restored Xiao Clan bloodline and dismissed Lu Bu as an unknown nobody. In the Star Realm, Lu Bu strengthened Three Thousand Burning Flame by absorbing star power, then prepared to leave with Qing Lin and Nalan Yanran before Elder Qiu Mao stopped him.

• Earth Scorpion told Gu You and Sixth Heavenly Venerate that Xiao Yan had recovered his Xiao Clan bloodline and described Lu Bu as the Five-Revolution Dou Zun who defeated him.
• Gu You and Sixth Heavenly Venerate decided to report Xiao Yan to the Hall Master but dismissed Lu Bu’s danger and left Earth Scorpion to handle him.
• Earth Scorpion accepted Soul Hall’s help obtaining materials to refine a new body and departed with a Soul Hall Heavenly Venerate.
• In the Star Realm, Lu Bu absorbed some fallen-star power into Three Thousand Burning Flame before Xiao Yan and Yao Chen stopped him.
• Qing Lin returned cheerful while Nalan Yanran looked dejected, and Elder Qiu Mao hurried over to speak with Lu Bu as he was about to leave.

Lu Bu persuaded Elder Qiu Mao to strike at Soul Hall’s exposed branch halls instead of reinforcing the Pill Tower’s existing front, then led him to attack the Chaiji Marsh branch. After Elder Qiu Mao broke through its defenses and fled from a Hun Clan expert, Lu Bu prepared to take on the remaining defenders himself.

• Elder Qiu Mao told Lu Bu that Soul Hall was attacking the Pill Tower across the Pill Domain and asked him to help fight Fifth Heavenly Venerate and Ninth Heavenly Venerate.
• Lu Bu convinced Elder Qiu Mao to open a third battlefield by attacking Soul Hall branch halls, and Elder Qiu Mao shared their known locations.
• Lu Bu, Qing Lin, and Elder Qiu Mao traveled to the north, where Cao Ying brought Heavenly Fire Venerable to help Elder Cao break the stalemate against Soul Hall.
• Lu Bu and Elder Qiu Mao attacked the Chaiji Marsh branch hall, and Elder Qiu Mao shattered its defensive formation with a fireball.
• A Hun Clan expert revealed his power, so Elder Qiu Mao withdrew while Lu Bu and Qing Lin remained to face the branch hall’s defenders.

Lu Bu and Qing Lin destroyed a Soul Hall site, killed its defenders, and took the gathered Soul Origin before moving on to another Earth Fiend Hall. A month later, Soul Hall leaders discussed Lu Bu and other threats, then sent Earth Scorpion with the Fifth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates to confront Heavenly Fire while Gu You ordered an investigation into the deaths at the Earth Fiend Halls.

• Lu Bu killed the Hun Clan Nine-star Dou Zun with Spirit Fire, and Qing Lin eliminated the fleeing Soul Hall Protectors.
• Lu Bu destroyed the main hall, collected its Soul Origin, and joined Elder Qiu Mao in covering their tracks before heading with Qing Lin to another Earth Fiend Hall.
• A month later, Gu You and the Soul Hall leaders learned that Heavenly Fire had wounded the Fifth Heavenly Venerate and discussed Lu Bu’s strength and his ties to the Ancient Clan.
• Earth Scorpion urged the Soul Hall leaders to take Lu Bu seriously, but Gu You focused on Heavenly Fire and Xiao Yan as their main threats.
• Gu You sent Earth Scorpion with the Fifth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates to wound Heavenly Fire and draw Lu Bu out, then ordered an investigation into the deaths at the Earth Fiend Halls.

Soul Hall traced the destruction of fifteen branch halls to Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, then sent forces toward Starfall Pavilion while Hun Que and Hun Shui pursued another lead. At Yanshan City, Earth Scorpion attacked the Alchemy Tower’s defenders and threatened Cao Ying, but Lu Bu appeared with Qing Lin to confront him.

• Hun Que, Hun Shui, and Soul Hall Fifth Heavenly Venerate examined the ruins of the Earth Fiend Hall and concluded Xiao Yan and Yao Chen were likely behind the branch hall raids.
• Hun Que ordered Soul Hall to gather forces and destroy Starfall Pavilion, while Lu Bu and Qiu Mao left to rendezvous with the Alchemy Tower’s forces.
• Xiao Yan resumed refining Wu Lian Pills with Yao Chen after Wind Venerable reported that five Transitional Dou Zuns had joined them.
• Soul Hall Fifth Heavenly Venerate confronted Elder Cao Ye and Heavenly Fire Venerable at Yanshan City, then called on Earth Scorpion, who shattered the defenders’ formation.
• Earth Scorpion wounded Cao Ye and Heavenly Fire Venerable and threatened Cao Ying, but Lu Bu emerged from the void with Qing Lin.

Lu Bu confronted Earth Scorpion while Heavenly Fire Venerable and the elders fought Soul Hall Fifth Heavenly Venerate, as Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi clashed with Hun Jue. Gu You then besieged Starfall Pavilion, but Yao Chen and Xiao Yan revealed that Lu Bu’s pill formula had helped them recruit powerful reinforcements.

• Lu Bu arrived at the battle and took Earth Scorpion on himself while Heavenly Fire Venerable, Elder Cao Ye, and Qiu Mao attacked Soul Hall Fifth Heavenly Venerate.
• Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi faced Hun Jue, who used the Hun Clan bloodline to reach the initial Half-Saint realm and engage the Alchemy Tower forces.
• Lu Bu held his own against Earth Scorpion, who revealed that Gu You was leading an assault on Starfall Pavilion, but Lu Bu remained unshaken.
• Gu You arrived at Starfall Pavilion with Soul Hall experts and demanded Yao Chen and Xiao Yan surrender or die.
• Yao Chen opened the Star Realm entrance, and five powerful reinforcements arrived as Xiao Yan and Wind Venerable revealed that Lu Bu’s pill formula had helped Starfall Pavilion recruit them.

Gu You’s forces attacked Starfall Pavilion, but Yao Chen’s newly strengthened forces forced Soul Hall into a full battle. Lu Bu killed Earth Scorpion and helped bring down Fifth Heavenly Venerate, then sent the Alchemy Tower elders to join Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi while he headed home with Qing Lin.

• Yao Chen stopped Gu You’s retreat with a blood-red flaming palm, and Starfall Pavilion and Soul Hall began fighting in earnest.
• Lu Bu overwhelmed Earth Scorpion with a torrent of physical attacks while Heavenly Fire Venerable trapped and badly wounded Soul Hall Fifth Heavenly Venerate.
• Earth Scorpion struck Lu Bu with Soul Shockwave, but Lu Bu recovered and killed him with Devouring Lightning Palm.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable finished off Soul Hall Fifth Heavenly Venerate, ending the threat at Yanshan City.
• Lu Bu told Qiu Mao and Cao Ye that Gu You had attacked Starfall Pavilion, then sent them to join Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi.
• Lu Bu asked Qiu Mao to keep his secret from Yao Chen and left with Qing Lin to return home.

Lu Bu returned to Sacred Pill City with Qing Lin, bringing back a soul attack technique and facing the cold shoulder of Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Medusa. Meanwhile, Starfall Pavilion gained reinforcements in its battle against Soul Hall, and Lu Bu tried to placate the women before Medusa pulled him onto her bed.

• Lu Bu studied Earth Scorpion’s Soul Shockwave while Qing Lin guided their magical beast toward Sacred Pill City.
• Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Medusa welcomed Qing Lin home but ignored Lu Bu and went off to cultivate.
• In the Star Realm, Hun Shui and Xiao Yan continued fighting as reinforcements arrived for Starfall Pavilion and forced Gu You to order a retreat.
• Lu Bu massaged Xiao Yi Xian, whose poison roughened his palm, then went to Medusa’s room to make amends.
• Medusa stopped Lu Bu from leaving, and he offered her Shenxu Pill before she applied it to her foot and pressed it against his chest.

Lu Bu gave Xiao Yi Xian a map to the tomb of a Calamity Poison Body senior and promised cultivation aid to the others while the Pill Tower defeated Soul Hall and forced it to pay reparations for Gu You. After Medusa entered seclusion to break through, Yun Yun drew Lu Bu into her room, leaving Qing Lin to emerge days later and find the manor empty.

• Lu Bu gave Xiao Yi Xian a map to the ancient tomb containing the complete Pill Refining Method for Poison and explained that the Dou Sheng Energy Cores were best used after reaching the Transitional Dou Zun stage.
• The Pill Tower and Starfall Pavilion defeated Soul Hall and the Tian Ming Sect, captured Gu You, and later made Soul Hall pay reparations and cede territory for his return.
• Lu Bu refined pills for Yun Yun and Qing Lin while cultivating with Medusa, who reached the peak of Nine-star Dou Zun and entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough.
• Yun Yun emerged from seclusion as a Five-star Dou Zun and took Lu Bu to her room, saying she no longer wanted to wait for her clan mark before cultivating with him.
• Several days later, Qing Lin emerged from seclusion and found the manor empty, with Lu Bu, Medusa, and Yun Yun all gone.

Lu Bu learned that a fragment of the Pure Lotus Demon Sage’s map would appear at the Space Trade Fair, while Xiao Yan confronted him over their deal and left after seeing Queen Medusa break through. After Heavenly Fire Venerable brought the fair’s invitation and Pill Tower supplies, Lu Bu began refining pills and completed a Grade 8 Pill with nine-colored pill lightning in ten days.

• Yun Yun fed Lu Bu at dinner, and Xiao Yan arrived at the manor to ask why a map fragment was being offered at the Space Trade Fair despite Lu Bu’s earlier claims.
• Lu Bu argued that he had never said he possessed every map fragment, and Xiao Yan realized their deal prevented him from competing for the fragment.
• Queen Medusa broke through, and Xiao Yan departed to seek cultivation advice from his teacher at the Pill Tower.
• Several days later, Heavenly Fire Venerable returned with the Space Trade Fair invitation and Pill Tower gifts, while Lu Bu prepared to refine pills.
• Lu Bu spent ten days refining a Grade 8 Pill that summoned nine-colored pill lightning as Xuan Yi, Dan Chen, Cao Ying, and others watched.

After exhausting himself refining Grade 8 pills, Lu Bu recovered and brought Yun Yun and Medusa to the Space Trade Fair, where they found a rare Nine-Colored Raw Stone. The chapter ended as Lu Bu sensed Yao Chen and Xiao Yan nearby.

• For a month and a half, Lu Bu refined pills that drew repeated Grade 8 Pill Lightning, then collapsed from exhaustion and spent five days recovering.
• Lu Bu cultivated with Yun Yun and Medusa while Qing Lin trained Yao Zi and Yao Rong; Yun Yun advanced to Nine-star Dou Zun and Medusa stabilized at One-Revolution Dou Zun.
• Lu Bu took Yun Yun and Medusa to the Space Trade Fair, leaving Qing Lin, Yao Zi, and Yao Rong at the manor.
• At Space Town, Lu Bu used his soul power to awe the crowd and traded two lower-grade pills for a Seven-Colored Raw Stone.
• Lu Bu explained that the stone was a Nine-Colored Raw Stone connected to the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, then sensed Yao Chen and Xiao Yan nearby.

Lu Bu, Yun Yun, and Medusa attended the Space Trade Fair, where Lu Bu acquired Sky Demon Phoenix Wings for Yun Yun. After he repelled a powerful probe into their private room, the trade fair’s host warned everyone against fighting.

• Lu Bu met Yao Chen and Xiao Yan outside the trade fair and entered with Yun Yun and Medusa using an invitation from the Alchemy Tower.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan entered the crowded trade fair separately, while Lu Bu’s group settled into a private room overlooking the plaza.
• Treasure Mountain Elder opened the trade fair and offered Sky Demon Phoenix Wings in exchange for a Grade 8 Pill that had endured four-colored pill lightning.
• Lu Bu made the winning offer and said he intended to refine the wings into a Flying Dou Technique for Yun Yun.
• An unknown attendee sent a forceful probe toward Lu Bu’s private room, and Lu Bu destroyed it with the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Treasure Mountain Elder warned that fighting was forbidden at the venue, while Lu Bu wondered who had challenged him.

At the Space Trade Fair, Lu Bu acquired the final fragment map linked to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the Primordial Desolate Region. After leaving the fair with Yun Yun and Medusa, he was confronted in a valley by four members of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

• Xiao Yan coveted the Adamantine Glazed Body, but Lu Bu said he had no interest in it because he relied on the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art.
• Lu Bu bid on the Heavenly Nether Poison Canon for Xiao Yi Xian while waiting for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map to appear.
• A bidder challenged Lu Bu's offers for the incomplete map, and an elderly woman secured it with a Grade 8 Pill that had endured Seven-Colored Pill Lightning; Lu Bu then revealed he had obtained the final fragment.
• Treasure Mountain Elder announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the Primordial Desolate Region, exciting Xiao Yan and Yao Chen.
• After the trade fair, Lu Bu, Yun Yun, and Medusa were stopped in a valley by four figures led by a white-robed young man with multicolored pupils, whom Lu Bu identified as members of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

Lu Bu confronted Jiufeng and the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan over the Demon Phoenix Wings, but Jiufeng ordered a Half-Saint to attack. Yao Chen and Xiao Yan arrived to help, and Lu Bu’s group began fighting the clan members, leaving Jiufeng enraged and Yun Yun’s Spirit Clan identity revealed.

• Jiufeng demanded that Lu Bu hand over the Demon Phoenix Wings, and Lu Bu refused before warning the clan to leave.
• Jiufeng ordered Uncle Zhao to attack, but Yao Chen arrived with Xiao Yan and blocked the Half-Saint’s strike.
• Jiufeng threatened Lu Bu again, so Lu Bu struck him into a cliff and ordered Yun Yun and Queen Medusa to kill the other two clan members.
• Queen Medusa blinded Huang Yang and drove him back, while Yun Yun burned and badly disfigured the Sky Demon Phoenix woman.
• Yao Chen recognized Yun Yun’s use of two Heavenly Flames as a sign of the Spirit Clan, while Lu Bu declared that he would kill Jiufeng.

Lu Bu badly wounded Jiufeng in a fight with the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan, but Jiufeng summoned Elder Ying Huang, a Dou Sheng who trapped the group in a Spatial Prison. Just as Ying Huang attacked, Zhu Gang appeared, caught his strike, and punched him.

• Jiufeng ordered Huang Xin and Huang Yang to seize Yun Yun and Medusa while he challenged Lu Bu.
• Jiufeng’s attacks failed to defeat Lu Bu, who overpowered him and severed his arm with a counterattack.
• Jiufeng summoned Elder Ying Huang, who emerged from a spatial rift and trapped Lu Bu, Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, Yun Yun, and Medusa in a Spatial Prison.
• Elder Ying Huang attacked the group, but Zhu Gang appeared from the void, stopped his talon, and struck him with a punch.

Lu Bu and Zhu Gang defeated the Sky Demon Phoenixes, then accepted the clan’s compensation and spared them. Zhu Gang brought Lu Bu, Yun Yun, and Medusa to Dragon Island to see Zi Yan, where Zhu Tao seized him for a beating and Zhu Li offered to guide them to the Dragon Emperor.

• Zhu Gang arrived in time to rescue Lu Bu and his companions, then beat Ying Huang and incapacitated the other Sky Demon Phoenixes.
• Kun Huang offered Lu Bu a Ninth Order Magic Core as compensation, and Lu Bu took the Phoenixes’ Rings before Zhu Gang released the survivors.
• Lu Bu warned Xiao Yan and Yao Chen that the Bodhi Ancient Tree controlled several Half-Saint puppets, then left with Zhu Gang, Yun Yun, and Medusa for Dragon Island.
• Zhu Tao appeared on Dragon Island and dragged Zhu Gang away for another beating, while Zhu Li approached Lu Bu and offered to take him to Zi Yan.

Lu Bu reunited with Zi Yan, learned that she planned to challenge the three Dragon Kings, and met the returning Ancient Dragon Clan elder Zhu Yin. Zhu Yin sought information on the Dou Di Clans and revealed his intention to prepare the Ancient Dragon Clan to join their struggle.

• Zhu Li brought Lu Bu, Yun Yun, and Medusa to Zi Yan’s residence, where Zi Yan rushed past the women to embrace Lu Bu.
• Zi Yan revealed that she had reached One-star Dou Sheng and planned to attack the three Dragon Kings once she reached Two-star Dou Sheng, while Lu Bu warned her that they were Late Three-star Dou Shengs.
• Zi Yan introduced Lu Bu to Zhu Yin, an Eight-star Dou Sheng, and Lu Bu gave Yun Yun and Medusa Dou Sheng Energy Cores before they entered seclusion.
• Zhu Yin assessed Lu Bu’s cultivation and alchemy skills, then said he wanted to learn about the Dou Di Clans and the Old Dragon Emperor’s possible imprisonment in a Dou Di cave dwelling.
• Zhu Yin revealed his intention to prepare the Ancient Dragon Clan to join the struggle among the Dou Di Clans, and Lu Bu suggested asking the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan for intelligence.

Zi Yan assigned Lu Bu to subdue the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan within a hundred years, with Zhu Huo and Zhu Xuan ordered to assist him. Lu Bu secluded himself on Dragon Island, refined fifteen clusters of Soul Origin, and prepared to pursue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and its Heaven Refining Ancient Formation.

• Zi Yan appointed Lu Bu to subdue the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, setting a hundred-year deadline and assigning Zhu Huo and Zhu Xuan to support him.
• Zi Yan led Lu Bu to a secluded cave on Dragon Island, where he decided to cultivate with the Soul Origin taken from the Soul Hall's Earth Fiend Halls.
• Lu Bu used the Object Condensation Pill Refinement method to remove the Soul Hall's safeguards from fifteen clusters of Soul Origin, then absorbed them to strengthen his soul.
• Lu Bu's soul pressure swept across East Dragon Island, startling the elders and forcing Zhu Huo to move the weaker young dragons out of its reach.
• Lu Bu completed his breakthrough to the Heavenly Realm soul and revealed a map depicting the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as he prepared to seek the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation.

Lu Bu forced the Pure Lotus Demon Sage’s remnant image to give him the Nightmare Sky Mist and Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, then studied them while Medusa and Yun Yun advanced in strength. As the Bodhi Ancient Tree appeared in the Primordial Desolate Region, Lu Bu set out with Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, while Yun Yun stayed behind.

• Lu Bu used the Three Thousand Burning Flame and Devouring Power to draw out the Pure Lotus Demon Sage’s remnant image, which gave him the Nightmare Sky Mist and Heaven Refining Ancient Formation in exchange for being nourished before the demonic flame descended.
• After half a month, Medusa reached Nine-Revolutions Dou Zun and Yun Yun reached Seven Revolutions, and Lu Bu told Zi Yan he would return to Central Continent to pursue the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Lu Bu and Medusa, Yun Yun, and Zi Yan said their goodbyes on East Dragon Island, and Zi Yan opened a spatial passage for them before beginning secluded cultivation.
• Back in Central Continent, Lu Bu learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was drawing factions toward the dangerous Primordial Desolate Region, while Xiao Yi Xian returned with the complete Pill Refining Method for Poison and reached Three-Revolutions Dou Zun.
• Yun Yun chose to stay at the estate, and Lu Bu departed for the Primordial Desolate Region with Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin after gathering maps and information.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree appeared in the Primordial Desolate Region as a strange, fragrant aura spread across Central Continent.

Lu Bu and his companions entered the Primordial Desolate Region, where they faced deadly poisonous insects and encountered Xiao Yan fighting Chen. After Chen fled and Xiao Yan refused Lu Bu’s invitation to travel together, Lu Bu continued toward a fortuitous opportunity with his group.

• Lu Bu rejected Qing Lin’s suggestion to gather information in Primordial Desolate Town and led the group directly into the Primordial Desolate Region.
• Lu Bu discovered that the region’s poisonous mist was made of tiny venomous insects, then used his Heavenly Flames to protect his companions and clear their path.
• Yao Zi spotted Starfall Pavilion and the Tian Ming Sect fighting ahead, and Lu Bu chose to proceed straight through rather than detour.
• Lu Bu’s group watched Xiao Yan clash with Chen, whose Heavenly Nether Asura Hand met Xiao Yan’s Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Chen recognized Lu Bu and fled with the Tian Ming Sect, while Xiao Yan refused Lu Bu’s invitation to join him and left with Starfall Pavilion.