Chapter Summaries

Liu Yi’s jade pendant drew the attention of a human Five-Star Dou Zong and three magical-beast Dou Zongs, who fought over the artifact and the Immortal Abode it could reveal. When Liu Yi was nearly seized, a hidden Six-Star Dou Zong from the Snake-People Race intervened, leaving the rival experts shocked.

• The Lizard Dou Zong threatened Liu Yi for the jade pendant while Flame Dou Zong promised to protect him and offered rewards for it.
• Liu Yi revealed the jade pendant, and the magical beasts and Flame Dou Zong rushed to claim it.
• Flame Dou Zong knocked down the Lizard Dou Zong and trapped the other two magical beasts behind a wall of fire, then demanded the pendant from Liu Yi.
• Liu Yi refused to hand over the pendant until Flame Dou Zong killed the three beasts and promised to reveal the Immortal Abode’s location.
• As the fire wall fell, Flame Dou Zong grabbed Liu Yi, but an unseen attacker forced him to release the boy.
• A hidden Six-Star Dou Zong appeared before Liu Yi, and the magical beasts realized the Snake-People Race had a powerful expert.

The previous Queen Medusa confronted Fire Spirit and the other Dou Zongs, but Liu Yi trapped the three magical beasts in his Star Chen Yi chessboard and badly wounded them before they broke free. Liu Yi collapsed from the backlash, leaving Fire Spirit convinced he could seize the Heaven-Rank Battle Skill and the jade pendant.

• The previous Queen Medusa appeared as a temporary divine consciousness, and Fire Spirit revealed that she could exist for only half an hour.
• The previous Queen Medusa charged Fire Spirit while the three magical beasts moved to seize Liu Yi.
• Liu Yi vanished and unleashed Star Chen Yi, a chessboard domain that drained the magical beasts' Dou Qi and life force.
• The Lizard Dou Zong gathered the other two Dou Zongs' power and shattered Star Chen Yi, sending Liu Yi flying and leaving him severely injured.
• Fire Spirit saw the three magical beasts badly wounded and declared that he would take Liu Yi's Heaven-Rank Battle Skill.

A Black-Clothed Dou Zun rescued Liu Yi after defeating the attackers who sought his Heaven-Rank Battle Skill. He killed the three magical beast Dou Zongs and Fire Spirit, then took the injured Liu Yi away, leaving the Snake-People Race to prepare for life without Queen Medusa.

• The three magical beast Dou Zongs and Fire Spirit overwhelmed Liu Yi, while Queen Medusa’s phantom was defeated and Yin Shi could not intervene.
• The Black-Clothed Dou Zun appeared, froze the four attackers, and killed the three magical beast Dou Zongs.
• Fire Spirit blamed the beasts and invoked his teacher, Fire Zun, but the Black-Clothed Dou Zun killed him as well.
• The Black-Clothed Dou Zun spared Queen Medusa’s remaining consciousness, promised to return Liu Yi safely, and vanished with him.
• Queen Medusa told Yin Shi to lead the Snake-People Race deeper into the Tagor Grand Desert after she left.

The former Queen Medusa ordered the Snake-People Race to abandon its homeland and vanished, while Yin Shi Great Elder began organizing their evacuation. Seven days later, Liu Yi woke in a tavern and reunited with his elder sister Liu Yuling, who vowed to protect him and restore the Liu Family.

• The former Queen Medusa warned that powerful outsiders would target the Snake-People Race, urged them to leave the desert, and disappeared into pink fragments.
• Yin Shi Great Elder ordered the civilians and the tribes of the Eight Great Leaders to gather and evacuate through the passage.
• Seven days later, Liu Yi woke in a tavern and recognized Liu Yuling, who had rescued him from his injuries.
• Liu Yi told Liu Yuling about his mistreatment by the Yunlan Sect and his resolve to kill its members, and she promised to help him take revenge.
• Liu Yuling explained that she had returned from the Central Plains and had sensed Liu Yi through his jade pendant, which she said was vital to the Liu Family's future.
• Liu Yuling vowed to protect Liu Yi and help restore the Liu Family, but Liu Yi questioned the need to keep fighting.

Liu Yuling trained Liu Yi and gave him rare pills as he prepared to take revenge on the Yunlan Sect. Half a month later, Liu Yi reached Eight-Star Dou Wang, still one step short of the Nine-Star Dou Wang required to use the Dou Ling Pill and advance to Dou Huang.

• Liu Yi told Liu Yuling he would avenge the people who harmed his family but did not want to lead the family and planned to leave after recovering.
• Liu Yuling gave Liu Yi a Dou Ling Pill and a Dou Huang Pill, then said she would train him and help him grow stronger before the Yunlan Sect's operation.
• With Liu Yuling's training and pills, Liu Yi advanced from Three-Star Dou Wang to the peak of Six-Star Dou Wang in a month.
• Half a month later, Liu Yi broke through to Eight-Star Dou Wang and vowed to kill Yun Shan for backing the Yunlan Sect's attack.

Liu Yi's elder sister, Liu Yuling, revealed the Liu Family's tragic past, gave him powerful artifacts, and left to search for their father. Three days later, Liu Yi arrived in the Gama Empire's capital and learned that the Alchemist Grand Meeting's final round was the next day.

• Liu Yuling told Liu Yi to grow stronger through battle and warned him not to confront Yun Shan unless he was certain he could survive.
• Liu Yuling gave Liu Yi the Lock Core Armor, the Sky Swallowing Gourd, and other treasures before revealing that their father was a Dou Sheng and their family had once had eight Dou Sheng.
• Liu Yuling explained that their family had been destroyed after their grandfather was ambushed over the jade pendant Liu Yi carried, and Liu Yi resolved to activate its key in the Demon Beast Mountain Range.
• Liu Yuling departed to search for their father, and Liu Yi vowed that the Liu Family would one day rule the Dou Qi Continent.
• Three days later, Liu Yi reached the Gama Empire's capital and heard that the Alchemist Grand Meeting's final round would take place the next day.
• A man recognized Liu Yi's Tier 4 Alchemist badge, and the nearby people knelt in respect.

Liu Yi reunited with Xiao Yan at the Alchemist Grand Meeting and promised to help him overcome the Chu Yun Empire’s alchemists and deal with the Yunlan Sect after the Three-Year Agreement. He decided to enter the competition, while Xiao Yan faced a difficult path to victory with only one Strange Fire.

• Liu Yi followed Ya Fei into the Alchemist Grand Meeting, where he reunited with Xiao Yan as the latter cultivated in his room.
• Xiao Yan told Liu Yi that Nalan Yanran had reached the Great Dou Shi realm and worried that Yunlan Sect experts might interfere in their upcoming battle.
• Liu Yi vowed to settle his grudge with the Yunlan Sect after Xiao Yan fought Nalan Yanran, naming Yun Shan, Yun Ling, and Gong Qing as targets.
• Liu Yi said he would enter the Alchemist competition and give Xiao Yan the champion’s pill formula if he won.
• Xiao Yan and Liu Yi discussed the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill, which Xiao Yan could not refine because he possessed only the Bone Spirit Cold Fire.
• Fa Ma, the Gama Alchemist Guild president and a peak Tier 5 Alchemist, sat in a private room with two people before him.

Liu Yi persuaded President Fa Ma to let him enter the Pan-Continent Alchemist Competition, promising that the Gama Empire would win. At the competition, he revealed the legendary Nine Dragons Sacred Cauldron, shocking the experts as Xiao Yan and the other contestants prepared to refine pills.

• Liu Yi convinced President Fa Ma to allow him to compete against Yan Li for the Gama Empire.
• Liu Yi and Xiao Yan arrived at the Alchemist Guild Plaza, where Yan Li noticed Liu Yi's unusual, unreadable strength.
• President Fa Ma began the competition and announced that the winner would receive a Tier 6 Pill Formula.
• Xiao Yan brought out Yao Lao's cauldron while Liu Yi discarded the provided medicinal ingredients as unsuitable.
• Liu Yi summoned the Nine Dragons Sacred Cauldron, and President Fa Ma and Jia Xingtian recognized it as a legendary artifact once owned by a Dou Emperor.
• Hai Bodong recognized Liu Yi as the young man who had defeated him, and Jia Xingtian asked how he knew him.

Liu Yi used the Nine Dragons Sacred Cauldron and Strange Fire to refine a pill that summoned a powerful thunder tribulation, revealing that he was a Rank 7 Alchemist. As the storm shook the Gama Empire, Jia Xingtian celebrated Liu Yi’s apparent victory over the Chu Yun Empire.

• Yan Li and the other alchemists began refining their pills while Liu Yi brought out the Nine Dragons Sacred Cauldron.
• Liu Yi summoned silver-white Strange Fire, stunning the contestants and prompting Jia Xingtian to praise him for representing the Gama Empire.
• Violent lightning struck the plaza as Liu Yi’s pill neared completion, forcing the two Dou Huangs to protect the civilians with the barrier.
• Jia Xingtian and President Fa Ma recognized the storm as Pill Lightning and suspected Liu Yi had refined a Rank 7 Pill.
• Powerful experts across the empire observed the tribulation, and Jia Xingtian declared that Liu Yi’s achievement proved he was a Rank 7 Alchemist.

Liu Yi’s alchemy stirred the Gama Empire as experts concluded he might be a Rank 7 Alchemist, drawing powerful outsiders who hoped to claim him. A blood-colored dragon appeared above the pill refinement, leaving the onlookers waiting to learn what Liu Yi had created.

• Yan Li denied that someone so young could have reached Rank 7, while the tournament audience reacted with shock and tears.
• The president, Hai Bodong, and other experts discussed Liu Yi’s apparent rank as the earth and sky stirred and powerful figures gathered around the Gama Empire.
• Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong recognized that hostile Dou Huang experts had arrived, but they chose to wait for Liu Yi to finish refining his pill.
• Yun Yun arrived and decided that the Yunlan Sect should recruit Liu Yi.
• A huge blood-colored dragon appeared in the sky, frightening the gathered experts and prompting them to speculate about its connection to Liu Yi and his pill.

Liu Yi completed a Rank 7 Pill, drawing the greed of powerful outsiders and forcing the Gama Empire’s experts to prepare for battle. As the outsiders demanded that Liu Yi be handed over, the impending fight threatened to erupt around the Pill Refining Platform.

• The Gama Empire’s experts agreed to wait for Liu Yi’s pill to form and planned to defend him from the foreign Dou Huang Experts.
• The pill tribulation intensified, forcing the crowd to retreat as Yun Yun sensed a familiar presence beneath Liu Yi’s mask.
• A crimson beam struck the cauldron, and the pill’s fragrance confirmed Liu Yi had successfully refined a Rank 7 Pill.
• The Alchemist Grand Meeting president praised Liu Yi’s achievement, while the Gama Empire’s experts prepared to evacuate the crowd and fight the outsiders.
• Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, and the Gama Empire’s experts confronted the foreign Dou Huang Experts, who demanded that they hand Liu Yi over.

Liu Yi concealed himself and disappeared after refining a Rank 7 Pill, while the Gama Empire’s experts confronted the Central Plains fighters seeking to take him. The Hall of Souls threatened to destroy the empire and Yunlan Sect, and Yun Yun fought back as the battle escalated.

• Jia Xingtian attacked the Central Plains experts, and Hai Bodong joined the battle while Yun Yun watched for a chance to secure Liu Yi.
• Liu Yi stored his Rank 7 Pill, changed his clothes and mask, concealed his aura, and slipped into the crowd as Xiao Yan watched.
• The Central Plains experts renewed their assault and threatened the Gama Empire with the power of the Hall of Souls and the Hun Clan.
• Jia Xingtian hesitated over whether to hand Liu Yi over, while Yun Yun declared that the Yunlan Sect would not let outsiders take him.
• A Central Plains Dou Huang insulted Yun Yun and struck at her, and Yun Yun counterattacked.

Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong weighed whether to surrender the Rank 7 Alchemist, but Yun Yun was defeated by the Central Plains experts. A Black-Clothed Dou Zun arrived, claimed the alchemist for himself, and attacked Jia Xingtian.

• Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong discussed handing over the Rank 7 Alchemist to protect the Gama Empire from the Hall of Souls.
• Yun Yun lost her battle against the Central Plains Dou Huang Experts, who warned her to leave.
• Hai Bodong urged Jia Xingtian to defend the empire's dignity, and Jia Xingtian prepared to fight.
• A Black-Clothed Dou Zun appeared, ordered his subordinates to find the Rank 7 Alchemist, and claimed the alchemist for himself.
• Jia Xingtian bowed to the Dou Zun, who threatened to kill him and began assaulting him.

An unseen power killed a Dou Zun Expert and his Dou Huang companions near the Gama Empire, leaving Jia Xingtian fearing retaliation from the Hall of Souls. The dead expert’s master sent another disciple to investigate while continuing his search for the Immortal Abode’s key.

• A crimson-gold beam trapped the Dou Zun Expert and shattered him and the several Dou Huang Experts accompanying him.
• Jia Xingtian admitted he did not know who had intervened and ordered the Gama Empire’s citizens to evacuate and the imperial family to hide.
• The aged Old Man sensed his disciple’s death and concluded that someone exceptionally powerful had killed him.
• The Old Man sent a young Dou Huang to investigate the Gama Empire, warning him to be careful.
• The Old Man reflected on the approaching opening of the Immortal Abode and his search for its key, which he believed could offer a path to Dou Di.

After Liu Yi won the pill formula for Xiao Yan, he prepared to confront Yunlan Sect alongside him during the Three-Year Agreement. Liu Yi accepted Jia Xingtian’s invitation to become the Gama Empire’s Imperial Teacher, though he might leave for the Central Plains in the future.

• A powerful man in seclusion wondered whether Liu Yi would uncover his disciple’s killer and mused about the Liu Family’s prospects.
• Liu Yi gave the pill formula he had won to Xiao Yan and said they would make Yunlan Sect answer for its past sins after the Three-Year Agreement.
• Jia Xingtian invited Liu Yi to join the Gama Empire and offered him its resources and treasures.
• Liu Yi said he could not promise to remain in the empire but agreed to become its Imperial Teacher.
• Jia Xingtian knelt to honor Liu Yi, and Hai Bodong and the others knelt with him.

Liu Yi agreed to refine Jia Xingtian’s Breakthrough Pill after his secluded cultivation, then advanced from Eight-Star Dou Wang to Dou Emperor. After learning that Jia Xingtian and other experts had gone to the Yunlan Sect, Liu Yi flew there to avenge Xiao Shi and his brother.

• Liu Yi agreed to refine Jia Xingtian’s top-grade Rank 7 Breakthrough Pill, warning him that the ingredients could be lost if refinement failed.
• Liu Yi entered secluded cultivation and advanced from Eight-Star Dou Wang to Nine-Star Dou Wang after half a month.
• Liu Yi swallowed the Dou Huang Pill and endured a painful breakthrough, reaching the Dou Emperor realm.
• Liu Yi vowed to avenge Xiao Shi and his brother at the Yunlan Sect.
• Yao Ye told Liu Yi that Jia Xingtian and several experts had gone to the Yunlan Sect, and Liu Yi flew there.

Liu Yi returned to the Yunlan Sect during Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s battle, stopped Yun Ling’s interference, and revealed that he had become the Gama Empire’s Imperial Teacher. He challenged the sect and his former enemies, then unleashed his power against its elders.

• Yun Ling secretly empowered Nalan Yanran during her attack on Xiao Yan, but Liu Yi appeared and shielded him.
• Jia Xingtian drove back the Yunlan Sect Disciples and declared Liu Yi the Gama Empire’s Imperial Teacher.
• Liu Yi vowed to destroy the Yunlan Sect and confronted Gong Qing, Ling Fei, and Luo He, who had once forced him to a cliff.
• Liu Yi revealed that he had advanced from Dou Shi to Dou Huang and stopped Jia Xingtian from intervening.
• Liu Yi attacked the Yunlan Sect’s seven Dou Wangs and two Dou Huangs with the Immortal Slaying Sword’s God Slaying Slash.

Liu Yi defeated two Yunlan Sect Dou Huang Experts and prepared Star Chen Yi to face the sect’s Dou Zong, Yun Shan. As Yun Yun arrived to confront him, Liu Yi warned that he would destroy the Yunlan Sect even if she stood in his way.

• Yun Ling urged Yun Dong and Yun Ying to kill Liu Yi, and they charged at him with the sect elders.
• Liu Yi unleashed Extreme Wind: Rampage, dodged Yun Dong’s attack, and struck Yun Dong and Yun Ying down with the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Liu Yi secretly released Star Chen Yi to prepare to eliminate Yun Shan, the Yunlan Sect’s former sect master and a Dou Zong.
• Hai Bodong and Jia Xingtian praised Liu Yi’s strength and agreed to intervene if Yun Shan threatened him.
• Yun Yun rushed into the battle, and Liu Yi warned her that he would destroy the Yunlan Sect if she opposed him.

Liu Yi rejected Yun Yun’s pleas to stop his revenge against the Yunlan Sect and demanded that Grand Elder Yun Ling, Gong Qing, and the others be killed. The fighting spread across the sect, and Liu Yi overpowered Yun Yun’s defense, leaving her injured and driven back.

• Yun Yun begged Liu Yi to stop and offered to help him, but Liu Yi insisted the Yunlan Sect must pay for its past crimes.
• Liu Yi offered to halt the slaughter if Yun Yun killed Grand Elder Yun Ling, Gong Qing, and the others; Yun Yun refused and confronted him.
• Grand Elder Yun Ling, the Yunlan Sect’s fighters, and members of the Gama Empire’s royal family joined the battle, with Jia Xingtian, Ice Emperor Hai Bodong, President Fa Ma, and Nalan Jie fighting on Liu Yi’s side.
• Liu Yi and Yun Yun exchanged powerful Dou Techniques, and the clash killed weaker disciples and injured others nearby.
• Liu Yi used the Immortal Slaying Sword to knock Yun Yun back dozens of meters, leaving her pale and bleeding from her hand.

Liu Yi killed six Yunlan Sect elders before former Sect Leader Yun Shan arrived as a Dou Zong and ordered the attackers killed. With the Gama Empire’s experts and Ling Ying backing Liu Yi, Yun Shan learned that Liu Yi was a Rank 7 peak alchemist and vowed to kill him.

• Liu Yi killed six Yunlan Sect elders who charged to stop him, despite Yun Yun’s plea.
• Yun Shan appeared as a Dou Zong, and the Yunlan Sect’s experts knelt to greet their former Sect Leader and teacher.
• Yun Shan ordered the Yunlan Sect disciples to kill everyone, while Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong refused to abandon Liu Yi.
• Ling Ying arrived and revealed that Liu Yi was a Rank 7 peak alchemist, leaving Yun Yun stunned.
• Yun Shan admitted he had sensed the Dou Zun’s arrival and laughed as he declared he would taste an alchemist’s blood.