Chapter Summaries

Dan Saint arrived at the Starfall Pavilion and replaced Xiao Yan’s materials with superior treasures to help Yao Chen reforge his body and pursue the Dou Sheng level. As Yao Chen entered the Dou Sheng skeleton, Dan Saint invited Xiao Yan to visit his clan, while the Starfall Pavilion’s enemies prepared to respond to the gathering phenomenon.

• Dan Saint emerged from a spatial rift carrying a skeleton and revealed that Yao Chen was his junior and Xiao Yan’s ancestor had been his sworn brother.
• Dan Saint replaced Xiao Yan’s materials with a Nine-Revolutions Life-Returning Pill, a recently deceased early two-star Dou Sheng’s body, and his own essence blood.
• Dan Saint used the Nine Nether Wind Flame and gathered natural energy to help Yao Chen enter the Dou Sheng skeleton and begin reforging his body.
• Dan Saint invited Xiao Yan to visit his clan, and Xiao Yan accepted eagerly.
• Elder Lei feared Yao Chen might have reached the Dou Sheng level and brought disaster upon the Wind Thunder Pavilion.
• Black-White Heavenly Venerable ordered the Eighteen Venerables summoned and called the Four Heavenly Venerable Blood River out of seclusion to attack the Starfall Pavilion.

Yao Dan told Xiao Yan embellished stories about his ancestor Xiao Xuan and the Yao Clan’s supposed protection of the Xiao family, then gave Xiao Yan a Heavenly Flame and a pill. Xiao Yan believed Yao Dan’s claims and accepted the gifts gratefully.

• Xiao Yan asked Yao Dan about his ancestor, and Yao Dan explained why the Yao Clan had not helped the fallen Xiao family.
• Yao Dan recounted a string of fabricated stories portraying himself and Xiao Xuan as close friends and the Yao Clan as the Xiao family’s protector.
• Yao Dan presented Xiao Yan with the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire and an eight-colored, eighth-grade Eight-turn Ice Cold Pill.
• Xiao Yan knelt and thanked Yao Dan, convinced of his kindness.

Xiao Yan absorbed Yao Dan’s Turtle Spirit Earth Fire and advanced his Flame Mantra, while Yao Chen broke through to the Dou Sheng realm. Soul Hall attacked Starfall Pavilion, where Yao Chen faced Bone Blade as Yao Dan watched under the Ancient Eight Clans’ restrictions.

• Yao Dan supported Xiao Yan and Yao Chen’s cultivation at Starfall Pavilion while preparing for Soul Hall’s expected invasion.
• After several months in seclusion, Xiao Yan emerged with a Quasi-Heavenly Rank Flame Mantra, Four-Star Dou Zun strength, and a new flame formed from four Heavenly Flames.
• Yao Chen broke through to the Late Two-Star Dou Sheng realm and pledged to return to the Yao Clan when Yao Dan called for him.
• Soul Hall demanded that Starfall Pavilion hand over Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, and Yao Dan told them to fight while he concealed his aura because he could not intervene.
• Yao Chen killed several Soul Hall Venerates with Nine Yang Fire Phoenix, but Bone Blade shattered the attack and confronted him.

Yao Chen fought Great Heavenly Venerate Bone Blade as Soul Hall’s array empowered him, but revealed his Late Heavenly Realm soul power and shattered the array. He spared Bone Blade and demanded that some Venerates remain behind, then continued the fight when Bone Blade refused to abandon them.

• Great Heavenly Venerate ordered the Soul Hall Venerates to form the Senluo Sky-Splitting Array, raising his strength to Late Two-Star Dou Sheng.
• Bone Blade attacked Yao Chen with Bone Emperor Blade, Man-Blade Unity, and the two exchanged blows as the battle ended in a draw.
• Yao Chen gradually fell behind, and Bone Blade offered to spare him and Xiao Yan if Yao Chen surrendered.
• Yao Chen used Nine Yang Fire Phoenix to break the array and revealed that his soul realm had reached the Late Heavenly Realm.
• Yao Chen let Bone Blade leave but demanded that several Soul Hall Venerates stay behind; Bone Blade ordered his subordinates to retreat while he covered them.
• Yao Chen attacked Bone Blade with a flaming palm, but Bone Blade blocked it with Soul Chains.

Yao Dan drove Hun Miesheng and the Soul Hall forces away from Starfall Pavilion, then invited Yao Chen and Xiao Yan to the Yao Clan to help them grow stronger. The group planned to leave once the clan’s replacement defenders arrived the next morning.

• Hun Miesheng threatened Yao Chen and Starfall Pavilion, but Yao Dan appeared and warned that killing him would make the Hun Clan an enemy of the six clans.
• Hun Miesheng withdrew with Bone Blade and the Soul Hall army rather than risk fighting Yao Dan.
• Yao Chen thanked Yao Dan, who urged him to return to the Yao Clan and improve his alchemy, cultivation technique, and Dou Skills.
• Yao Dan invited Xiao Yan to visit the Yao Clan and offered to help him grow stronger before the Gu Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony.
• Yao Dan said the Yao Clan’s replacement defenders would arrive the next morning, after which he, Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan would set out for the clan.

Yao Dan, Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan left Starfall Pavilion for the Yao Clan, where Yao Chen faced lingering hostility from Yao Wangui’s allies. During the journey, Yao Dan promised to give Yao Chen a chance to prove himself and offered to protect Xiao Yan while he refined the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

• Yao Dan reprimanded Yao Xing and Yao Chang, then Yao Chen tested his strength in a handshake with Yao Xing and earned his acknowledgment.
• Yao Dan opened a spatial tunnel to the Medicine Realm, and Yao Chen and Xiao Yan departed with him.
• Yao Dan explained that Yao Wangui’s influence had turned Yao Xing and Yao Chang against Yao Chen, but said most clansmen sympathized with him.
• Yao Dan promised Yao Chen a chance to demonstrate his strength and told Xiao Yan that he would need to prove himself and the Xiao Clan.
• Yao Dan offered to protect Xiao Yan while he refined the Bone Spirit Cold Flame before they reached the Yao Clan.

Yao Dan brought Xiao Yan and Yao Chen back to the Yao Clan, where he showed them the clan’s grounds and introduced its customs and a prominent young alchemist, Yao Ling. The visit left Yao Chen absorbed in memories, while Yao Dan’s mood darkened upon seeing Punishment Elder Yao Wangui.

• Yao Dan praised Xiao Yan’s rapid rise to Peak Six-Star Dou Zun and led him and Yao Chen through the Yao Clan’s spatial gateway.
• The three traveled on a giant bird to the clan’s central plaza, where Yao Chen fell silent as he recognized the buildings from his past.
• Yao Dan showed Xiao Yan the Archive Hall, alchemy teaching grounds, Elder Council, and secluded cultivation ranges, mentioning Young Clan Leader Yao Tian’s progress.
• Yao Dan introduced his younger sister, Yao Ling, as a Nine-Star Eighth-Rotation Dou Zun and an Eighth-Grade Nine-Colored Alchemist.
• Yao Wangui introduced himself as the Yao Clan’s Punishment Elder, and Yao Dan’s face darkened.

Yao Dan arranged for Xiao Yan and Yao Chen to be received by the Yao Clan, while Yao Wangui objected to Yao Chen’s return. As the elders gathered for a rare full meeting, Yao Dan said it would address the Ling Clan’s sudden disappearance and the Water Clan’s earlier disappearance.

• Yao Dan ordered Yao Ling to host Xiao Yan and arrange a residence for Yao Chen, then told Yao Wangui that Yao Chen was now a Yao Clan member and called for a full Elder Council meeting.
• Yao Wangui complained that Yao Chen was an outcast and resented Yao Dan’s public welcome, but agreed to notify the elders and the Three Saints.
• Yao Ling showed Xiao Yan the luxurious Tianya Garden and took Yao Chen to his residence, praising his resilience and expressing her admiration for Xiao Yan.
• Five elders gathered beneath the Elder Council’s dome, where Yao Dan said the meeting would discuss the Ling Clan’s sudden closure and compare it with the Water Clan’s disappearance.

Yao Dan gathered the Yao Clan’s elders and warned that Ling Clan’s sealed space might signal the same threat that had erased the Water Clan. The clan prepared to refine a Nine-grade Profound Pill, and Yao Chen began crafting an Eight Desolations Primordial Spirit Pill as the chapter ended.

• Yao Dan told the elders that Ling Clan’s sealed space resembled the Water Clan’s disappearance and urged the Yao Clan to prepare.
• Yao Dan proposed refining a Nine Profound Marrow Cleansing Pill, with Yao Wangui arranging for a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill Grandmaster to return.
• Several days later, Yao Chen began refining the Eight Desolations Primordial Spirit Pill at the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion.
• Yao Chen summoned the Nine Nether Wind Flame into a medicinal cauldron and fed the selected ingredients into it, hoping the refinement would succeed.

Yao Chen refined thousands of medicinal ingredients with remarkable speed, impressing the Yao Clan elders, while Xiao Yan studied advanced alchemy under Yao Ling. The chapter ended with Yao Dan declaring someone a Pill Grandmaster and granting them a place in the Yao Clan’s Elder Council.

• Yao Chen transformed thousands of ingredients into pure energy, and the elders praised his skill and Late Heavenly Realm soul power.
• Yao Dan told the elders that Xiao Yan could defeat Ren Yaozi in a fight to the death and noted that Yao Ling was teaching him alchemy.
• Yao Ling began demonstrating the refinement of a high-grade pill, and Xiao Yan replenished her Dou Qi with a pill he had made.
• Several days later, Black Demon Lightning struck the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion as a Nine-grade Treasure Pill was born.
• Yao Dan hailed someone as a Pill Grandmaster and granted them a place in the Yao Clan’s Elder Council.

Yao Chen returned to the Yao Clan as a Pill Grandmaster, while Xiao Yan helped Yao Ling refine a Ninth-Grade Pill and grew closer to her. Yao Dan made Xiao Yan’s chance to obtain the Nine Nether Wind Flame depend on restoring the Xiao Clan’s former glory, just as Yao Xingji attacked him.

• Yao Dan welcomed Yao Chen back with an Eight Desolations Primordial Spirit Pill and told him that Xiao Yan had been studying alchemy with Yao Ling.
• Xiao Yan assisted Yao Ling in refining the Four Symbols Primordial Spirit Pill, which she successfully completed after thirteen days.
• Yao Ling and Xiao Yan left the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion together, stirring jealousy among the Yao Clan’s men, and Xiao Yan returned to Tianya Garden.
• Yao Xingji confronted Xiao Yan at his door and challenged him to a fight.
• Yao Ling relayed Yao Dan’s decree that Xiao Yan could obtain the Nine Nether Wind Flame only if he restored the Xiao Clan’s former glory, and she warned the clan against harming him.
• Yao Xingji charged at Xiao Yan, enraged by Yao Ling’s attention to him.

Xiao Yan defeated Yao Xingji after dodging his attacks and landing a concealed Three-colored Fire Lotus, and Yao Ling backed his punishment while explaining that Yao Dan had sent him to discipline the Yao Clan’s troublesome members. After Xiao Yan won five arena matches in a row, Yao Dao challenged him, leaving the next fight about to begin.

• Xiao Yan evaded Yao Xingji’s powerful Dou Techniques and knocked him unconscious with a concealed Three-colored Fire Lotus after Yao Xingji insulted the Xiao Clan.
• Yao Ling ordered the guards to take Yao Xingji away and suspend his stipend for two years, then told Xiao Yan that Yao Dan wanted him to discipline unruly clansmen.
• Yao Dao demanded that Yao Dan punish Xiao Yan, but Yao Dan refused and told him that Yao Xingji had provoked Xiao Yan first.
• Xiao Yan defeated five Dou Zun opponents in succession at the Yao Clan Arena, including an Eight-star Dou Zun, and replenished his Dou Qi with pills.
• Yao Dao entered the arena and challenged Xiao Yan, drawing alarm from the crowd and concern from Yao Ling.

Xiao Yan fought six of the Yao Clan’s top Dou Zun experts, earning five victories and a draw against Yao Dao. Meanwhile, Shi Gandang warned Yao Dan that the Ling Clan had been destroyed, and the two Clan Leaders prepared to fight over which clan would lead an alliance.

• Xiao Yan used a Four-colored Fire Lotus to clash with Yao Dao, and they agreed to a draw after both were driven back and exhausted.
• Yao Ling gave Xiao Yan pills to restore his Dou Qi and treat his injuries, while his string of victories spread through the Yao Clan and its guests.
• Shi Gandang told Yao Dan that the Ling Clan had likely been wiped out and warned that the Yao and Shi Clans could be next.
• Yao Dan and Shi Gandang argued over which clan was stronger and challenged each other to a duel to decide who would lead their alliance.
• Yao Dan opened a temporary battle space, and he and Shi Gandang prepared to settle the matter with a fight.

Yao Dan defeated Shi Gandang in a spar and secured the Shi Clan’s agreement to unite under the Yao Clan. He invited Shi Gandang to witness the Yao Clan attempt to refine a Nine-grade Profound Pill, and the pill-refining process began in the Lesser Medicine Realm.

• Shi Gandang transformed into a stone giant and attacked Yao Dan, who dodged his blows and struck the giant’s temple with the Myriad Medicine Spear.
• Shi Gandang admitted defeat, agreeing that the alliance between the clans would be led by the Yao Clan.
• Yao Dan offered to help train Shi Clan alchemists and preserve some of the clan’s bloodline, then invited Shi Gandang to observe a Nine-grade Profound Pill refinement.
• Yao Dan ordered Yao Linmao to assemble alchemists for the Myriad Medicine Returning Formation, and Shi Gandang accepted the invitation.
• Yao Dan and Elder Wan Huo summoned the power of heaven and earth into a Heavenly Flame cauldron as Shi Gandang watched in astonishment.

Yao Dan successfully refined a Nine-grade Profound Pill with help from Yao Chen, Yao Ling, and Xiao Yan, then used the achievement to press Shi Gandang to consider his proposal. Shi Gandang entrusted the Shi Clan’s promising youths to the Yao Clan’s protection, while Yao Chen and Xiao Yan asked for rewards for their contributions.

• Yao Chen, Yao Ling, and Xiao Yan guided the immense flow of heaven-and-earth energy for three days to support Yao Dan’s refinement.
• Pill rain and Black Demon Lightning marked the pill’s completion, and Yao Dan captured the Nine Profound Marrow Cleansing Pill in a Medicine Gourd.
• Yao Dan explained that the pill could let him advance from the Seven-star Dou Sheng realm to the Eight-star Dou Sheng realm, and urged Shi Gandang to reconsider his proposal.
• Shi Gandang asked Yao Dan to protect more than a dozen Shi Clan geniuses if his clan fell, and Yao Dan agreed.
• Yao Chen requested that his parents’ names be engraved on the clan monument, and Xiao Yan asked for a strand of the Yao Clan’s Nine Nether Wind Flame.

Xiao Yan sought the Nine Nether Wind Flame, but Yao Dao challenged him to endure a hundred moves from Yao Ling in exchange. After Yao Ling battered him through ninety-nine moves, Xiao Yan rose from the pit with a Five-Colored Fire Lotus in his hands.

• Yao Dan said the Yao Clan could not easily grant Xiao Yan the Nine Nether Wind Flame, but he agreed to pursue the request because of Yao Chen and Xiao Yan’s contributions.
• Yao Dao rejected the request, then agreed to grant the flame if Xiao Yan could withstand a hundred moves from Yao Ling.
• Yao Chen and Yao Dao watched as Xiao Yan and Yao Ling began their sparring match, with Yao Dao declaring that life and death would be left to fate.
• Xiao Yan activated Heavenly Flame Three Profound Transformations, but Yao Ling struck him and overwhelmed his defenses with her bare hands.
• After Yao Ling announced that ninety-nine moves had passed, Xiao Yan staggered out of the pit holding a Five-Colored Fire Lotus.

Xiao Yan survived Yao Ling’s hundred-move trial and earned the right to obtain the Nine Nether Wind Flame, though his injuries left him unconscious for seven days. After he recovered, Yao Dao took Xiao Yan and Yao Ling to the abyss where the flame was kept.

• Yao Ling used the Jade Balance Ten Thousand Spears Art against Xiao Yan, and their attacks detonated in a massive blast that left him badly wounded.
• Yao Ling declared that Xiao Yan had survived a hundred moves and refused Yao Dao’s demand to condemn him, while Yao Dao promised to arrange for Xiao Yan to collect the Nine Nether Wind Flame.
• Xiao Yan fainted, and Yao Chen treated him; Yao Ling later tended to him as he awoke after seven days.
• Yao Ling apologized for striking Xiao Yan too heavily, and Xiao Yan thanked her for holding back during their fight.
• Yao Dao brought Xiao Yan and Yao Ling to the abyss where the Yao Clan cultivated the Nine Nether Wind Flame and explained the events that had led to his punishment.

Xiao Yan helped Yao Ling merge the Nine Nether Wind Flame with the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire as she refined it, then refined another Nine Nether Wind Flame himself. After both strengthened their cultivation, Yao Ling told him that Yao Dan had summoned them to receive a mission.

• Xiao Yan offered to help Yao Ling merge the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire with the Nine Nether Wind Flame, and she gave him the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire before beginning her refinement.
• Yao Ling spent three days suppressing the Nine Nether Wind Flame’s intelligence, then swallowed it and began refining it with Xiao Yan’s help through the Flame Mantra.
• After several more days, Yao Ling completed the refinement and gained the Azure Spirit Wind Flame, reaching low-level Half-Saint strength and the Mid Heavenly Realm in soul strength.
• Yao Ling gave Xiao Yan the second Nine Nether Wind Flame and erased its intelligence so he could refine it safely.
• Xiao Yan refined the Nine Nether Wind Flame and advanced to the middle phase of Eight-star Dou Zun.
• Yao Ling told Xiao Yan that Yao Dan wanted them to meet him for a mission.

Yao Ling and Xiao Yan were sent to the Ancient Void Dragon clan, while Yao Dan arranged to align Starfall Pavilion with the Yao Clan and investigated Central Continent’s hidden strength. The chapter ended with a mysterious cowherd boy arriving at Starfall Pavilion to meet Yao Dan.

• Yao Ling accepted the Young Clan Leader role and agreed to accompany Xiao Yan to the Ancient Void Dragon clan, carrying a Nine-grade Treasure Pill as a possible gift for the Dragon Emperor.
• Yao Dan asked Yao Chen to make Starfall Pavilion the Yao Clan’s front organization in Central Continent, and Yao Chen agreed in principle despite Starfall Pavilion’s lack of experts.
• Yao Dan secretly searched Central Continent with his Soul power and found a place in the Extreme North Domain that he could not probe.
• Venerable Feng identified the mysterious northern valley as likely Sound Valley and said Soul Hall had suffered losses there.
• Yao Chang reported that an eight- or nine-year-old cowherd boy had arrived to meet Yao Dan and possessed strength at least equal to his own.

Yao Dan negotiated an alliance with the Old Ancestor of the Pill Tower by promising to help him become a Nine-grade Golden Pill, and the Old Ancestor agreed to give the Yao Clan fifty years. After Starfall Pavilion and the Pill Tower formed an alliance, Hun Miesheng dismissed the threat and ordered the Soul Hall to continue its assigned tasks.

• Yao Dan met the Old Ancestor of the Pill Tower in a private space and sought his alliance to protect the Yao Clan from the fate of the Ling Clan.
• Yao Dan offered to help the Old Ancestor transfer his spiritual consciousness into a Nine-grade Golden Pill, then showed him a Nine-grade Profound Pill refined by the Yao Clan.
• The Old Ancestor of the Pill Tower agreed to the alliance but gave the Yao Clan fifty years to produce the promised pill, warning that failure would carry a price.
• Starfall Pavilion and the Pill Tower formed an offensive and defensive alliance, unsettling powerful factions across the Central Continent.
• Hun Miesheng told Bone Blade not to report the Yao Clan's movements or take action, saying the Soul Hall should focus on its assigned tasks.