Chapter Summaries

Hun Jing learned why his subordinate had gone to the Central Continent and ordered Lu Bu and Xiao Yan investigated while the Hun Clan prepared to attack the Yao Clan. Meanwhile, the Ancient Clan and Yao Chen’s group prepared to refine Bodhi Pills, and Lu Bu completed a Bodhi Pill on East Dragon Island as nine-colored pill lightning appeared.

• Hun Jing was mocked by Hun Sha, Hun Tu, and Hun Yan after failing to deal with Lu Bu, then learned his subordinate Hun Yu had ties to the incident.
• Hun Jing discussed Lu Bu and Xiao Yan with the others, who decided to investigate them while remaining cautious about their next target, the Yao Clan.
• Gu Yao and the others received five Bodhi Seeds, and three Ancient Clan elders began preparing to refine Bodhi Pills to help them advance to Dou Sheng.
• Yao Chen and the three Alchemy Tower giants gathered at Starfall Pavilion to refine Bodhi Pills while Xiao Yan remained in seclusion.
• Lu Bu spent a month refining a Bodhi Pill on East Dragon Island, and nine-colored pill lightning appeared when the pill was complete.

While Lu Bu refined an Eighth-grade Nine-Colored Pill on East Dragon Island, Zi Yan protected him from its lightning tribulation and the pill’s violent transformation. Meanwhile, the North Dragon King proposed seeking help from the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan Chief to defeat East Dragon Island’s powerful elder, despite the risk of betraying the Ancient Dragon Clan.

• At Mountain Villa, Qing Lin told Zi Yan about Lu Bu’s mistreatment by Soul Hall, and Zi Yan vowed to destroy it.
• Zi Yan shielded Lu Bu from the pill’s nine-colored lightning tribulation as Ancient Void Dragons watched in awe.
• Lu Bu used the Pill Transformation Array to subdue the jade dragon formed by his pill, then resumed refining.
• The North, South, and West Dragon Kings debated how to overcome East Dragon Island’s Five-star Dou Sheng elder.
• The North Dragon King urged the others to ask Sky Demon Phoenix Clan Chief Huang Tian for help, and declared that survival mattered more to him than the Ancient Dragon Clan.

South Dragon King Zhu Ao secretly decided to surrender to East Dragon Island and planned to earn merit by exposing the North Dragon King's scheme. Meanwhile, Lu Bu refined more Bodhi Pills, then entered seclusion to break through to Dou Sheng as Huang Tian rejected the Ancient Dragons' alliance proposal.

• North Dragon King Zhu Shao persuaded the West Dragon King and South Dragon King to coordinate with the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan against East Dragon Island, while secretly planning to devour his allies afterward.
• South Dragon King Zhu Ao decided to contact East Dragon Island and help the Dragon Emperor defeat the other Dragon Kings, while concealing his plan and stalling for time.
• Lu Bu used his Devouring Power to refine Grade 8 pills at great speed, and Zhu Li endured the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning during another pill's formation.
• Huang Tian learned that two Ancient Dragon subordinates wanted the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan to help destroy the Ancient Void Dragons, so he ordered them captured and sealed.
• Lu Bu gave Bodhi Pills to Zi Yan, Hei Qing, and the women, then began seclusion to break through to Dou Sheng while Medusa cultivated outside.

Zi Yan handled a request concerning South Dragon Island while Lu Bu remained in seclusion, and the Dragon Kings argued over a plan to attack East Dragon Island. Zhu Tan discovered that the East Dragon Island elders had deceived her into returning, but Lu Bu's sudden breakthrough interrupted her attempt to punish them.

• Zi Yan told Medusa that she would not refuse, take the initiative, or reply to the South Dragon King's surrender, then left to address a matter on South Dragon Island.
• Over half a year, Lu Bu refined five Eighth-grade pills, while Xiao Yan and the three Pill Tower giants entered seclusion and Yao Chen stayed on guard and prepared a Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill.
• The North Dragon King urged the South and West Dragon Kings to join him in attacking East Dragon Island, claiming their Heaven Earth Man Grand Formation could contend with a Five-star Dou Sheng; Zhu Ao remained suspicious but resolved to surrender.
• Zhu Tan returned to East Dragon Island and learned that Zhu Tao and the other elders had tricked her into coming back by inventing a war and a plan to seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• As Zhu Tan chased Zhu Tao, Lu Bu broke through to Dou Sheng in a pillar of violet-black fire, startling the elders and prompting Zhu Xiu to offer to explain who he was.

Lu Bu advanced to the Late One-star Dou Sheng stage, and Zi Yan decided to attack the divided Dragon Islands, choosing North Dragon Island as the first target. As the armies clashed, Lu Bu unleashed the Devouring Ancestral Talisman against North Dragon Island’s Two-star Dou Sheng.

• Lu Bu emerged from his sea of purple-black flames as a Late One-star Dou Sheng, and Zi Yan resolved to remain by his side after dealing with the rival Dragon Kings.
• The North Dragon King secretly studied the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array and planned to devour Zhu Ao and Zhu Yong, while Zhu Ao sent East Dragon Island information about the other Dragon Kings.
• Zi Yan ordered an expedition against North Dragon Island after Lu Bu warned that the North Dragon King’s ancestor had managed forbidden arts and might have stolen one.
• The North Dragon King prepared to face East Dragon Island’s invading army, and Zi Yan demanded his surrender before ordering her forces to attack.
• Lu Bu targeted North Dragon Island’s Two-star Dou Sheng and gathered the Devouring Ancestral Talisman’s power as the battle began.

Lu Bu used the Devouring Ancestral Talisman to repel Nie Zhu, while Zi Yan overwhelmed the North Dragon King in their duel. The North Dragon Island forces celebrated the arrival of West Dragon Island and South Dragon Island reinforcements, but Lu Bu and Zi Yan seemed amused rather than worried.

• Nie Zhu attacked Lu Bu with a storm of spatial blades, but Lu Bu devoured it and wounded him with a black chain.
• Zhu Gang mocked Zhu Mao as Zhu Li overwhelmed North Dragon Island’s Dou Zuns and Half-Saints.
• Zi Yan pierced the North Dragon King’s chest, forced him out of hiding, and watched as he began to turn to a forbidden art.
• Lu Bu ambushed Nie Zhu with the Devouring Seal, wounded him badly, and explained that he had hidden the spatial fluctuations of his teleportation.
• West Dragon Island and South Dragon Island reinforcements arrived, prompting the North Dragon King and Nie Zhu to celebrate while Lu Bu and Zi Yan exchanged amused looks.

The West Dragon King arrived to support the North Dragon King, but Zhu Ao revealed his allegiance to Zi Yan and attacked the two kings. As the battle shifted, Lu Bu annihilated Nie Zhu and Zhu Mu with Black Hole Annihilation, leaving the remaining fighters stunned.

• The West Dragon King arrived with reinforcements and joined the North Dragon King in threatening Zi Yan.
• Zhu Mu joined Nie Zhu to confront Lu Bu, while Lie Shan arrived and formed an encirclement around him.
• Zhu Ao struck the North Dragon King and West Dragon King, then knelt before Zi Yan and declared his loyalty to her.
• Zi Yan ordered Zhu Ao to manage South Dragon Island's troops while Lu Bu refused Lie Shan's offer to join the fight.
• Lu Bu swallowed Zhu Mu's golden attack with a black vortex, then trapped and annihilated Zhu Mu and Nie Zhu with Black Hole Annihilation.

Lu Bu watched Zi Yan battle the West Dragon King and North Dragon King, who resorted to the Dragon Transformation Demonic Qi after she overpowered them. When the North Dragon King killed the West Dragon King and prepared to destroy his enemies, Lu Bu revealed a Dragon Emperor-like aura and confronted him.

• Zhu Gang told Dou Sheng and Zhu Ao that Lu Bu was Zi Yan’s husband and a Peak Eighth-grade Alchemist, while Lu Bu chose not to interfere in Zi Yan’s fight.
• Zi Yan shattered the Dragon Emperor Bell, pierced the West Dragon King with her spear, and countered the North Dragon King’s attack with the Immovable Ancient Dragon Bell.
• The North Dragon King attacked the West Dragon King, broke his neck, and then flew toward him as blood-red Dragon Transformation Demonic Qi consumed him.
• The North Dragon King pierced the West Dragon King’s heart and laughed as he prepared to use a formation disk to destroy his enemies.
• Lu Bu appeared before the North Dragon King with Purple-Gold Dragon Marks and a condensed Purple-Gold Dragon Spear, startling him with an aura like a second Dragon Emperor.

Lu Bu shattered the North Dragon King's Dragon Transformation Demonic Array, allowing Zi Yan to kill both Dragon Kings and unite the Ancient Void Dragons. The elders spared Zhu Ao and placed him under Lu Bu's command, while Lu Bu and Zi Yan planned their next move toward the Nine Netherworld Abyss.

• Lu Bu destroyed the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array with his Purple-Gold Dragon Spear, freeing the West Dragon King from the formation.
• Zi Yan used the Ancient Dragon Heavenly Seat Seal to kill the West Dragon King and North Dragon King, then ordered her followers to unite the Dragon Islands.
• Zi Yan gave Lu Bu the two Dragon Kings' Ninth Order magic cores, and Zhu Ao followed them through a spatial passage to meet the elders.
• The elders debated Zhu Ao's punishment, and Lu Bu asked to put him to work against the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan and the Hun Clan.
• Lu Bu and Zi Yan said they would travel to the Nine Netherworld Abyss in two or three days, where they expected to find opportunities for cultivation.

Lu Bu entered the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs and freed Yao Ming, the sealed Two-star Dou Sheng, after retrieving a Yellow Springs Blood Crystal from him. Yao Xiaotian and the First Elder learned that the seal had broken and rushed to confront the danger.

• Lu Bu, Medusa, Zhu Ao, and Yao Rong traveled through the Nether Snake Earth Vein to the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs.
• Lu Bu descended into the lake, found Yao Ming chained at its bottom, and took the Yellow Springs Blood Crystal Yao Ming offered.
• Lu Bu severed Yao Ming's chains, gave him Grade 8 pills to aid his recovery, and accepted his promise to help.
• The First Elder sensed that the Netherworld Cold Iron had broken and warned Yao Xiaotian that Yao Ming had escaped.
• Yao Xiaotian and the First Elder hurried toward the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs.

Lu Bu rescued Yao Ming from the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs and helped him confront the traitorous Yao Hui and Yao Xiaotian. Lu Bu destroyed their attacks with the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, leaving Yao Ming to deal with his younger brother.

• Lu Bu emerged from the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs with Yao Ming, whom Yao Rong and Zhu Ao recognized as the clan chief who had been betrayed and imprisoned by his younger brother and Yao Hui.
• Yao Hui attacked while Yao Ming recovered, but Zhu Ao froze and shattered his venomous claw before Lu Bu ordered Zhu Ao to defeat him.
• Yao Hui charged Lu Bu with the Yellow Springs Finger, but Lu Bu's formation refined the attack and bound Yao Hui in purple-black flames.
• Yao Xiaotian arrived with the Nether Serpent Guards and deployed the Coiled Serpent Grand Formation, drawing the clan's attention to the Yellow Springs.
• Lu Bu trapped and refined the giant serpent inside the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, causing Yao Xiaotian and the guards to fall injured.
• Lu Bu left Yao Xiaotian for Yao Ming to handle and burned Yao Hui to ashes, leaving behind a gray-black crystal.

Lu Bu helped Yao Ming reclaim leadership of the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, then arranged protection for Medusa as she cultivated in the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs. He left for the Alchemy Tower after asking Yao Ming to gather intelligence on the Emperor Clans, while Yao Ming hinted at a fortuitous opportunity to discuss when Lu Bu returned.

• Lu Bu shattered Yao Xiaotian's Coiled Serpent Grand Formation, and Yao Ming wondered whether Lu Bu had reached the Emperor Realm Soul before pursuing his fleeing brother.
• Lu Bu gave Medusa a Bodhi Pill, and she transformed into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and entered the lake to cultivate under Lu Bu's Earth Formation.
• Yao Ming emerged with Yao Xiaotian, revealed the Nine Netherworld Underworld Staff, exposed Yao Xiaotian's betrayal, and killed him before the clan's elders.
• Yao Ming accepted the clan's return to his rule and tasked three elders with reorganizing it, while Lu Bu asked him to gather detailed intelligence on the Emperor Clans for the Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Yao Ming welcomed Zhu Ao's stay with the clan, agreed to keep the lake a forbidden ground, and offered Lu Bu a fortuitous opportunity when he returned from the Alchemy Tower.

Lu Bu returned to his estate as a One-star Dou Sheng and asked the Pill Tower for Ninth-grade pill formulas. He secured the Phoenix Eye Ruizhi Pill formula in exchange for agreeing to attend the Lesser Pill Tower’s elder selection a year later, then set out with Heavenly Fire Venerable for the Nether Snake Earth Vein.

• Lu Bu returned to his estate, where Heavenly Fire Venerable and the Pill Tower elders sensed his arrival and discovered he had become a Dou Sheng.
• Lu Bu gave Heavenly Fire Venerable a Wu Lian Pill and told him he would soon have work to do.
• Lu Bu asked Xuan Kongzi for Ninth-grade pill formulas that could aid Dou Sheng cultivation, then revealed his strength when Xuan Kongzi questioned his breakthrough.
• Elder Lin offered Lu Bu the Phoenix Eye Ruizhi Pill formula in return for attending the Lesser Pill Tower’s elder selection in a year, and Lu Bu accepted.
• Lu Bu explained that refining a Bodhi Heart had enabled his breakthrough, leaving the elders stunned, then departed with Heavenly Fire Venerable for the Nether Snake Earth Vein.

Yao Ming told Lu Bu about the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance and led him to the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet. Lu Bu entered the tablet’s inner space and faced the Demon Saint, who challenged him to take the essence blood and the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath technique by force.

• Yao Ming told Zhu Ao that Lu Bu was married to the Dragon Emperor, and Zhu Ao explained that Lu Bu had plans for them both.
• Yao Ming revealed that the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan possessed the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet and that its inheritance included the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s essence blood.
• Zhu Ao stayed behind with the Heavenly Fire Venerable while Yao Ming led Lu Bu to the tablet and described the inheritance.
• Lu Bu unleashed his soul power against the tablet, entered its inner space, and defeated its Yellow Springs Finger test.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint praised Lu Bu’s Heavenly Realm Great Perfection soul, then rose and challenged him to seize the inheritance.

Lu Bu defeated the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant image, obtained his techniques and essence blood, and negotiated with Yao Ming over the spoils. After explaining that a Heavenly Soul was needed to cultivate Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, Lu Bu proposed raiding Soul Hall for Soul Origin so he could pursue an Emperor Realm Soul, and Yao Ming agreed to join him.

• Lu Bu used his Devouring Realm to overcome the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s soul attack, and the Demon Saint admitted defeat and passed on his three Yellow Springs techniques and essence blood.
• Lu Bu returned from the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet as Yao Ming prepared to learn Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, but Lu Bu stopped him and warned that the technique would injure him.
• Lu Bu refused to share the Demon Saint Essence Blood, offering instead to refine a Phoenix Eye Ruizhi Pill for Yao Ming in exchange for the ingredients and Yao Xiaotian’s Magic Core.
• Lu Bu told Yao Ming that Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath required a Heavenly Soul and suggested obtaining Soul Origin by raiding Soul Hall.
• Yao Ming agreed to join the raid after Lu Bu said the Ancient Dragon Clan would participate and revealed that he wanted Soul Origin to reach an Emperor Realm Soul.

Lu Bu absorbed the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s essence blood, broke through to Two-star Dou Sheng, and began refining a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill for Yao Ming. The pill was still being refined when Yao Ling, Yao Tian, and another Yao Clan elder arrived, leaving Yao Ming and Zhu Ao ready to defend the clan.

• Lu Bu created a soul avatar to cultivate the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Heavenly Tier Dou Techniques while he devoured the Demon Saint’s essence blood.
• After half a month, Yao Ming gathered the ingredients for the Phoenix Eye Ruizhi Pill and ordered the clan to secure the Nether Snake Earth Vein and Earth Abyss.
• Lu Bu emerged from seclusion as a Two-star Dou Sheng, accepted Yao Ming’s medicinal ingredients, and began refining a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill with a Ninth Order Magic Core.
• Lu Bu refined the pill for over a month while Yao Ming and Zhu Ao guarded the area and the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python clan watched over them.
• Yao Ling, Yao Tian, and an old Yao Clan elder appeared and recognized Lu Bu, while Yao Ming and Zhu Ao prepared to respond if they interfered.

Lu Bu completed a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill as Yao Ming endured its Black Demon Lightning, but Yao Tian accused Lu Bu of stealing a Yao Clan secret technique and demanded an explanation. Lu Bu responded by ordering Zhu Ao to take down Yao Tian and Yao Qu.

• Yao Tian dismissed Lu Bu’s abilities, while Yao Ling warned her brother not to underestimate him.
• Lu Bu used the Object Condensation Pill Refinement method to form a pill, and Black Demon Lightning descended as proof of its Ninth-grade status.
• Yao Ming fought off the pill lightning while Zhu Ao’s presence deterred spectators from stealing the pill.
• Lu Bu trapped the pill’s transformed python form with a formation, and it returned to a pill that Yao Ming received.
• Yao Tian accused Lu Bu of using the Yao Clan’s Pill Transformation Array without permission and confronted him alongside Yao Qu.
• Lu Bu gave the pill to Yao Ming, summoned a purple-black flaming disk over Yao Tian’s group, and ordered Zhu Ao to take them down.

Lu Bu subdued the Yao Clan after confronting Yao Ling over her alleged role in drawing the Soul Clan’s attention to him, then returned to Dragon Island as its elders considered the ancient clans’ strength. He helped Zi Yan cultivate with Demon Saint Essence Blood, and the chapter ended when Xiao Yan contacted him after emerging from seclusion.

• Lu Bu forced Yao Tian to kneel and struck him, restrained Yao Qu, and questioned Yao Ling, who denied slandering him to the Soul Clan.
• Yao Wan Gui attacked Lu Bu, but Zhu Tao emerged from hiding and defeated him; Lu Bu then returned to Dragon Island with Zhu Tao.
• Zhu Yin and the Dragon Island elders discussed the ancient clans’ power and the intelligence Lu Bu had gathered.
• Zi Yan told Lu Bu that the elders wanted her to have a child, but Lu Bu gave her Demon Saint Essence Blood to refine so she could advance in cultivation.
• After cultivating for a month or two, Lu Bu received a message from Xiao Yan’s Parent-Child Communication Talisman and realized Xiao Yan had emerged from seclusion.

The Heavenly Mansion Alliance formed under Elder Lin and agreed to strike Soul Hall’s Earth Hall, while Lu Bu joined the alliance. Five days later, the allied forces began simultaneous attacks on Soul Hall sites, and Yao Ming confronted the Great Heavenly Venerate at the Human Hall.

• Elder Lin established the Heavenly Mansion Alliance to investigate Soul Hall’s attacks and protect the Central Continent’s major powers.
• Lu Bu arrived with Zhu Huo, joined the alliance, and agreed with Elder Lin to attack the Soul Hall Earth Hall instead of the Human Hall.
• Zhu Ao and Yao Ming prepared Beast Domain forces to raid Soul Hall branches, and Yao Ming revealed that his scouts had found nine unusually concealed halls.
• Five days later, the alliance’s forces surrounded the Earth Hall while Yao Ming approached the Human Hall and demanded entry to search for a missing tribesman.
• Zhu Ao trapped the Human Hall in spatial turbulence as Yao Ming’s forces appeared around it and prepared to attack the Great Heavenly Venerate.

Lu Bu and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance attacked Soul Hall’s Earth Hall, where Lu Bu fought the Soul Hall Deputy Hall Master. Lu Bu broke the deputy’s soul technique and nearly defeated him, but Hun Miesheng arrived and stopped Lu Bu’s final attack.

• The Soul Hall Deputy Hall Master learned that the Earth Fiend Halls had been restored and planned to recover their losses from the Heavenly Mansion Alliance.
• Zhu Huo used spatial turbulence to isolate the Earth Hall as Lu Bu, Fire Cloud Ancestor, Tang Zhen, Xiao Yan, Elder Lin, Yao Chen, and Fairy Qing Hua launched their attack.
• Lu Bu confronted the Soul Hall Deputy Hall Master while the others fought Saint Hun Qing, Gu You, and Soul Hall’s forces.
• The Soul Hall Deputy Hall Master summoned the Soul Demon Earth Fiend Tower to attack Lu Bu’s soul, but Lu Bu shattered it with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• Lu Bu struck the wounded deputy with Yellow Springs Palm and prepared a Yellow Springs Finger, but Hun Miesheng appeared and dissipated the attack with Devouring Power.