Chapter Summaries

At the Yao Clan’s Medicine Codex, Hun Xuzi arrived uninvited, concealed his seven-star Dou Saint cultivation, and was publicly humiliated by Lin Ran. As the ceremony began, Yao Dan secretly crushed a Storage Ring, leaving his intentions unclear.

• Hun Xuzi arrived at the Medicine Codex without an invitation, and Yao Dan allowed him to stay under the clan’s rules.
• Lin Ran called Hun Xuzi a traitor and provoked him, then swiftly pinned him beneath his foot.
• Hun Xuzi revealed that he was a seven-star Dou Saint and broke free, but Yao Dan forbade fighting at the ceremony.
• Hun Xuzi suppressed his anger, and Yao Dan began the Medicine Codex while remaining wary of him.
• Yao Dan crushed a Storage Ring into powder as the opening proceedings began.

As the Medicine Codex’s final event began, Lin Ran joined Hun Xuzi, Elder Wan Huo, and Elder Shen Nong in the arena and revealed his fused Burning Flame. The gathering was interrupted by the arrival of Lei Ying and Yan Jin, whom Yao Dan welcomed as honored guests.

• After the Yao Clan’s younger members finished their tests, Yao Dan announced that four alchemists would compete for the title of the continent’s number one alchemist.
• Hun Xuzi, Elder Wan Huo, and Elder Shen Nong entered the arena as the first three contenders.
• Lin Ran joined them and insulted Hun Xuzi over his stolen knowledge, betrayal of his master, and use of a Nihility Devouring Flame child flame.
• Hun Xuzi summoned his child flame, Elder Wan Huo displayed the Nine Nether Wind Flame, and Elder Shen Nong revealed the Living Flame.
• Lin Ran showed his fused Burning Flame, causing the other three Heavenly Flames to wilt.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin arrived through spatial rifts, and Yao Dan greeted them warmly.

Lin Ran and three master alchemists began refining pills at the Yao Clan’s Medicine Codex, each displaying extraordinary methods. The chapter ended with all four drawing on the power of heaven and earth to refine Ninth Grade Profound Pills.

• Lin Ran chose not to summon Gu Yuan, deciding instead to use the Yao Clan’s crisis to strengthen himself before confronting the Soul Clan.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying attended the Medicine Codex, and Yan Jin recognized that Lin Ran’s pink-gold flames contained several Heavenly Flames.
• Lin Ran, Hun Xuzi, Elder Wan Huo, and Elder Shen Nong formed fire cauldrons and began refining large batches of medicinal ingredients.
• Elder Shen Nong used the Living Flame to rapidly grow medicinal ingredients, while Yao Ling watched Lin Ran and resolved to seek an exchange with him after the event.
• After refining ingredients for about a day, Hun Xuzi drew in the power of heaven and earth to refine a Ninth Grade Profound Pill, and the other three followed suit.

Lin Ran and three other alchemists began refining Ninth Grade Profound Pills, but the shortage of natural energy halted their progress. Hun Xuzi tried to steal energy from the others, and Lin Ran destroyed his body and trapped his soul in the Pure World Saint Heart Flame to refine it into his own Nine-Turn Profound Pill.

• Lin Ran, Hun Xuzi, Elder Wan Huo, and Elder Shen Nong spent three days drawing in natural energy to refine Ninth Grade Profound Pills, until the energy around Medicine Mountain ran out.
• Hun Xuzi used the Nihility Devouring Flame to steal energy from the other three cauldrons, and the black holes swallowed some of Elder Wan Huo and Elder Shen Nong's Heavenly Flames.
• Lin Ran used his Pure World Saint Heart Flame to dissolve Hun Xuzi's black hole and absorb the energy, then abandoned his own pill and attacked Hun Xuzi from behind with the Great Sun Annihilation Palm.
• Hun Xuzi's body exploded, but his Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul survived, so Lin Ran surrounded it with the Pure World Saint Heart Flame.
• Lin Ran declared that he would refine Hun Xuzi's soul, energy, and half-finished pill into his Nine-Turn Profound Pill, then ordered the flame to refine him.

Lin Ran refined an exceptionally potent Ninth Grade Profound Pill by combining Hun Xuzi’s essence with the nascent pills of Elder Shen Nong and Elder Wan Huo, then captured the pill after it survived its lightning tribulation. As Yao Chen’s family was accepted onto the Yao Clan’s Clan Monument, Nihility Devouring Flame invaded the Medicine Realm.

• Lin Ran refined Hun Xuzi’s soul and nascent pill with the Pure World Saint Heart Flame, while Elder Shen Nong and Elder Wan Huo added their own nascent pills to the cauldron.
• Lin Ran’s cauldron produced pill rain, and a Ninth Grade Profound Pill endured its lightning tribulation before escaping in the form of a woman.
• Lin Ran subdued the pill, sealed it in a jade bottle, and thanked Elder Shen Nong and Elder Wan Huo for their help.
• Yao Dan agreed to place Yao Chen’s family names on the Clan Monument, fulfilling Yao Chen’s lifelong wish.
• Nihility Devouring Flame tore open the Medicine Realm and appeared before Yao Dan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying.

The Soul Clan attacked the Yao Clan during the Medicine Codex, and Yao Dan joined forces with Yan Jin and Lei Ying to activate the clan’s protective formation against Nihility Devouring Flame. As the battle raged, Lin Ran and Yao Chen broke into the Yao Clan treasury, leaving Yao Dan furious.

• Nihility Devouring Flame sealed the Medicine Realm and began draining the people’s Dou Qi, while Lin Ran protected himself and Yao Chen with a flame barrier.
• Lin Ran asked Yao Chen to lead him to the Yao Clan treasury, and Yao Chen agreed despite the impending invasion.
• Yao Dan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying activated the Heaven Transformation Medicine Array to confront Nihility Devouring Flame, who demanded the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade.
• Yao Dan’s formation briefly gained the advantage against Nihility Devouring Flame, and the two sides began a fierce battle.
• Lin Ran broke through the treasury barrier with the Joyful Zen Asura Hand and entered with Yao Chen, prompting Yao Dan to realize the treasury had been breached.

Lin Ran looted the Yao Clan’s treasury, discovered a Soul Clan spy stealing the clan’s ancient jade, and was nearly killed by Nihility Devouring Flame before Gu Yuan’s hidden power saved him. As the Soul Clan’s reinforcements arrived, Yao Dan unleashed the Myriad Pills Transform Heaven formation and called for the Progenitor’s return.

• Lin Ran collected pills and medicinal ingredients from the treasury while Yao Chen waited in the main hall.
• Lin Ran found a Yao Clan elder holding the clan’s ancient jade, exposed him as a Soul Clan spy, and watched him self-destruct to send the jade flying toward the battlefield.
• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked Lin Ran, but a golden palm imprint bearing Gu Yuan’s aura blocked the strike and let Lin Ran escape with Yao Chen.
• Nihility Devouring Flame summoned Hun Jing, Hun Yan, Hun Sha, and other Soul Clan forces, while Yao Dan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying prepared to face them.
• Yao Dan sent tens of thousands of pills into the formation and invoked Myriad Pills Transform Heaven, calling for the Progenitor’s return.

Yao Dan summoned Emperor Yao’s remnant soul to defend the Yao Clan against Nihility Devouring Flame, but the battle remained desperate. Lin Ran merged his Pure World Saint Heart Flame into the formation, helping Emperor Yao wound Nihility Devouring Flame, who then threatened Yan Jin and Lei Ying with news of trouble in their clans.

• Yao Dan sacrificed pills to summon Emperor Yao’s remnant soul, which blocked Nihility Devouring Flame’s attacks and fought him with a Medicine Cauldron.
• Lin Ran entered the battle and transformed into the origin of his Pure World Saint Heart Flame, then Yao Dan merged him into the formation.
• Emperor Yao wielded Lin Ran’s flame to attack Nihility Devouring Flame, while the flame’s power caused Hun Longtao to attack the Soul Clan before Nihility Devouring Flame killed him.
• Yao Dan and the Yao Clan poured their Dou Qi into the formation, strengthening the flame cauldron until it struck Nihility Devouring Flame and made him spit black blood.
• Nihility Devouring Flame announced that the Soul Clan had obtained the Yao Clan’s ancient jade and ordered a retreat, but Yao Dan pressed the attack.
• Nihility Devouring Flame turned himself into a black hole to absorb Emperor Yao’s attack and warned Yan Jin and Lei Ying that something was happening within their clans.

After the Soul Clan escaped the Yao Clan with the ancient jade, Yao Dan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying uncovered Nihility Devouring Flame’s use of the supposedly extinct Tunling Clan to devour other clans’ bloodlines. Lin Ran carried news of the attack to the Ancient Clan, where Gu Yuan and its leaders gathered to confront the exposed threat.

• Nihility Devouring Flame used a Devouring Spirit Barrier made from the Tunling Clan’s power to weaken Emperor Yao’s remnant soul, then escaped through a spatial black hole with the Soul Clan and the ancient jade.
• Yao Dan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying realized the Soul Clan had used Tunling Clan abilities to consume other clans’ bloodlines, and agreed that the Ancient Races needed to unite against Hun Tiandi.
• Yao Dan thanked Lin Ran, gave him a Ninth Grade Profound Pill, and formally added Yao Chen and his mother to the Yao Clan’s stone monument.
• Lin Ran left the Medicine Realm with Yao Ling to report the attack to Gu Yuan, while Yao Chen returned to Starfall Pavilion.
• Lin Ran arrived before Gu Yuan, the Ancient Clan elders, and Xun Er, and solemnly addressed the assembled leaders.

Lin Ran warned Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan was using the Tunling Clan and urged the Ancient Clan to unite with the Yao, Yan, and Lei Clans against it. After Gu Yuan agreed, Lin Ran began seclusion in the Ancient Realm to raise his cultivation, ending as he swallowed a Ninth Grade Profound Pill.

• Lin Ran told Gu Yuan about the Tunling Clan’s appearance in the Medicine Realm and explained how the Nihility Devouring Flame had gained its abilities.
• Lin Ran warned that the Soul Clan might already hold seven ancient jades and would target Gu Yuan’s jade next, then urged the Ancient, Yao, Yan, and Lei Clans to unite.
• Gu Yuan agreed to summon the three Clan Chiefs, while the Ancient Clan began preparing for war and investigating its elders for possible infiltration.
• Lin Ran stayed in the Ancient Realm, gathered medicinal ingredients from Xun Er, and warned her to be wary of the clan elders before entering seclusion.
• Lin Ran swallowed thirteen Ninth-Rank Treasure Pills over seven days, reaching the late stage of the seven-star Dou Saint realm, then took the weaker of his two Ninth Grade Profound Pills.

After breaking through to Eight-Star Dou Saint, Lin Ran joined the Ancient, Yao, Yan, and Lei Clans’ alliance against the Soul Clan. With war planned for half a month later, he set out with Zi Yan for the Void Lightning Pool to seek Nine Profound Golden Lightning and strengthen himself.

• Lin Ran emerged from seclusion at Eight-Star Dou Saint, and Xun Er told him the Yao, Yan, and Lei Clans had agreed to ally with the Ancient Clan.
• Lin Ran attended the alliance meeting, where Gu Yuan revealed that the Yan and Lei Clans’ ancient jades had been stolen, while the Ancient Clan’s jade was safe after Gu Yuan caught infiltrator Gu Yang.
• Lin Ran agreed to join the alliance, and Gu Yuan announced that their forces would assemble in half a month to confront the Soul Clan.
• Lin Ran realized that Nine Profound Golden Lightning in the Void Lightning Pool might help him grow stronger, so he left with Zi Yan for the pool.
• Lin Ran and Zi Yan reached the immense lake of silver lightning in the Void Lightning Pool.

Lin Ran entered the Void Lightning Pool and devoured its Black Demon Lightning while searching for the Nine Profound Golden Lightning. He caught the golden lightning dragon during its spirit-gathering process, extracted its source, and swallowed it.

• Lin Ran reassured Zi Yan, entered the Void Lightning Pool, and began absorbing Black Demon Lightning with the devouring power of his Pure World Saint Heart Flame.
• After three days of searching while devouring lightning, Lin Ran found the Nine Profound Golden Lightning coiled in the pool’s deepest region.
• The Nine Profound Golden Lightning attacked Lin Ran, who drew it into his body and began absorbing its destructive energy.
• As the Nine Profound Golden Lightning struggled through spirit gathering, the surrounding Black Demon Lightnings sacrificed themselves to weaken its backlash and support its emerging intelligence.
• Lin Ran entered the weakened golden lightning dragon, seized its source from between its eyes, and swallowed it.

Lin Ran endured the violent Nine Profound Golden Lightning and Black Demon Lightning as he refined them, pushing toward a breakthrough beyond the eight-star Dou Saint level. With Lin Ran absent, Gu Yuan led the allied clans and the Sacred Sect to the Burial Sky Mountain Range to begin their assault on the Soul Clan.

• Lin Ran refined the Nine Profound Golden Lightning while Black Demon Lightning attacked him, and his body repeatedly broke down and healed as his cultivation advanced.
• When Lin Ran failed to return after half a month, Gu Yuan announced that the allied army would attack the Soul Clan the next day.
• The Ancient, Yan, Lei, and Yao Clans assembled and traveled through a spatial passage toward the Soul Clan's gateway.
• The Sacred Sect, led by Yao Chen, joined them at the Burial Sky Mountain Range with Xiao Chen, Feng Qing'er, Cai Lin, Yao Ming, and their forces.
• The allied leaders recognized the Sacred Sect's powerful allies, while Xun Er, Cai Lin, and Feng Qing'er exchanged brief greetings.

Gu Yuan, the four clans, and the Sacred Sect launched an invasion of the Soul Realm to reclaim the Ancient Jade, and their armies clashed with Hun Tiandi’s forces in the Burial Sky Mountain Range. The alliance gained ground as Cai Lin and the poison-wielding fighters joined the battle, while Zi Yan waited anxiously for Lin Ran to emerge from seclusion inside the Void Lightning Pool.

• Gu Yuan struck at the Soul Realm, but Hun Tiandi appeared with Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan’s forces to block the attack.
• Lei Ying ordered the clans to unleash their formations, and the Soul Clan’s black chains blocked the alliance’s combined assault.
• Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi as the armies clashed, while Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan attacked Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Cai Lin saved Yao Ming from a Soul Clan ambush and joined the fight alongside Feng Qing'er and Xiao Yi Xian.
• The alliance pushed the Soul Clan back, while Zi Yan stayed by the Void Lightning Pool as cracks spread across the Black Demon Lightning cocoon surrounding Lin Ran.

The Soul Clan turned the battle against the allied clans and Sacred Sect by unleashing four revived Eight-Star Dou Saints and trapping the forces in the Realm of Death. Just as Hun Tiandi seemed poised to win, a mysterious figure emerged with the aura of a Nine-Star Dou Saint.

• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan fought Nihility Devouring Flame to a standstill before Gu Yuan urgently told them to retreat.
• Four ancient Soul Clan experts emerged from black coffins as living dead and opened the Gates of Silent Death, enclosing the allied forces in a deadly formation.
• The Realm of Death drained life from the trapped forces, and black spears killed allied experts as the clans tried to break through.
• Hun Tiandi demanded that Gu Yuan surrender the Ancient Clan and Xiao Clan ancient jade, but Gu Yuan refused.
• A spatial rift opened above the Burial Sky Mountain Range, and a figure emerged with a Nine-Star Dou Saint aura, shocking Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame.

Lin Ran arrived at the Burial Sky Mountain Range as a Nine-Star Dou Saint after devouring the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, shattered the Soul Clan’s Realm of Death, and healed his allies. He confronted Nihility Devouring Flame while the allied forces turned the battle against the Soul Clan, leaving Hun Tiandi facing the prospect of defeat.

• Lin Ran appeared with Zi Yan and the Ancient Void Dragons, stunning both armies with his breakthrough to the Nine-Star Dou Saint stage.
• Lin Ran destroyed the Realm of Death with a single strike, then healed the wounded allies and removed the death energy from the Sacred Sect members.
• Lin Ran restored Xun Er, Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Feng Qing'er, and the others with his golden blood, then declared that the Soul Clan would fall.
• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked Lin Ran, whose crimson-gold thunderfire burned away the black flames before the two vanished to fight.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Gu Yuan, Zi Yan, the four clans, and the Sacred Sect attacked the Soul Clan, while the weakened Four Elders struggled against the allied forces.
• Gu Yuan told Hun Tiandi that the Soul Clan would perish, and Hun Tiandi recognized that Lin Ran's arrival had turned the battle against him.

Lin Ran battled Nihility Devouring Flame while the four clans and Sacred Sect attacked the Soul Clan, and Hun Tiandi intervened to protect Nihility Devouring Flame. After Nihility Devouring Flame devoured nearly ten Soul Clan Dou Saints to increase his power, Lin Ran transformed into his Sacred Golden Lightning Flame Body and charged straight into Nihility Devouring Flame’s black flame dragon.

• The four clans and Sacred Sect bombarded the Soul Clan’s chain formation as Lin Ran and Nihility Devouring Flame exchanged powerful attacks.
• Lin Ran broke through Nihility Devouring Flame’s defense, but Hun Tiandi struck him from behind; Lin Ran healed quickly, and Gu Yuan engaged Hun Tiandi again.
• Nihility Devouring Flame absorbed nearly ten Soul Clan Dou Saints who carried his sub-flames, revealing that he had been using them as reservoirs of Dou Qi.
• The Soul Clan’s allies rallied against them, while Nihility Devouring Flame’s aura surged toward the mid-stage Nine-Star Dou Saint level.
• Lin Ran activated his Sacred Golden Lightning Flame Body, reached the mid-stage Nine-Star Dou Saint level, and charged head-on into Nihility Devouring Flame’s black flame dragon.

Lin Ran and Nihility Devouring Flame fought as Nihility Devouring Flame sacrificed his origin power to devour the battlefield’s living beings and raise himself to late-stage nine-star Dou Saint. With both armies withdrawing and Nihility Devouring Flame claiming victory was assured, Lin Ran summoned a vast domain of Black Demon Lightning and revealed the Nine Profound Golden Lightning.

• Lin Ran shattered Nihility Devouring Flame’s black-flame attack, but Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed black rain that devoured soldiers from both sides and fed his strength.
• Nihility Devouring Flame forcefully raised his cultivation to late-stage nine-star Dou Saint and clashed with Lin Ran’s Sacred Golden Lightning Flame.
• Yao Dan and Gu Lie urged the alliance to withdraw, and the Soul Clan’s forces also retreated as both sides left the outcome to Lin Ran and Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame recalled the black flames, compressed their gathered Dou Qi into his body, and challenged Lin Ran with his increased power.
• Lin Ran summoned a vast thunder domain filled with Black Demon Lightning, which gathered around the Nine Profound Golden Lightning dragon as he called forth his lightning power.

Lin Ran used the Nine Profound Golden Lightning to overpower Nihility Devouring Flame, but Hun Tiandi intervened before Lin Ran could kill him. Hun Tiandi escaped with Nihility Devouring Flame and sent the Soul Realm into the Chaos Void, leaving the alliance to prepare for the Soul Clan’s eventual return.

• Lin Ran drew on the Black Demon Lightning in the Void Lightning Sea, raising his strength to rival Nihility Devouring Flame’s late Nine-Star Dou Saint level.
• Lin Ran and Nihility Devouring Flame fought until their enhanced power waned, but Lin Ran’s Sacred Golden Lightning Flame and recovery ability gave him the advantage.
• Lin Ran weakened Nihility Devouring Flame and launched a finishing attack, but Hun Tiandi appeared and swallowed the attack with a spatial rift.
• Hun Tiandi rescued Nihility Devouring Flame, used the four Gates of Silent Death to send the Soul Realm drifting into the Chaos Void, and escaped before Lin Ran and Gu Yuan could stop him.
• Gu Yuan apologized that Lin Ran had not been able to kill Nihility Devouring Flame, and Lin Ran urged the Sacred Sect and four clans to maintain their alliance against the Soul Clan.

After the alliance drove the Soul Clan from the Burial Sky Mountain Range, Lin Ran entered seclusion while the allied forces purged Soul Hall branches across the Central Continent. In the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi betrayed Nihility Devouring Flame and devoured his origin, intending to grow powerful enough to defeat Gu Yuan and Lin Ran.

• Gu Yuan and Lin Ran agreed to protect the Ancient Jade, search for Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, and eliminate the Soul Hall's remaining strongholds.
• Lin Ran entered seclusion to stabilize his Nine Profound Golden Lightning and refine his use of the Pure World Saint Heart Flame, while the alliance swept the Central Continent for Soul Hall branches.
• The Soul Hall was eradicated from the Central Continent, and many local factions relocated ahead of the expected decisive battle.
• Hun Tiandi concluded that Lin Ran possessed the missing Xiao Clan Ancient Jade and discussed with Nihility Devouring Flame how difficult it would be to reclaim the jades.
• Hun Tiandi seized Nihility Devouring Flame's origin, revealed that he had discovered Nihility Devouring Flame's schemes, and used his soul to immobilize him.
• Hun Tiandi swallowed Nihility Devouring Flame's origin, declaring that he would use its power to reach the peak of the Dou Saint realm and challenge Gu Yuan and Lin Ran.