Chapter Summaries

Yao Dan traveled with Venerable Feng to Sound Valley, hoping to apologize and form an alliance with the secluded faction. Sound Valley refused an alliance but gave Yao Dan valuable gifts, and its mysterious zither melody continued to echo after he left.

• Yao Dan and Venerable Feng crossed the Extreme North Domain and found Sound Valley hidden behind an ancient barrier.
• Yao Dan offered the Valley Master a Nine-grade Treasure Pill as an apology, and guards admitted him to the valley.
• Yin Xisheng, Sound Valley’s Third Elder, told Yao Dan that the Valley Master would not meet him and that Sound Valley would not ally with any faction.
• Yin Xisheng returned Yao Dan’s gift with six Bodhi Seeds and a formula for the Nine-grade Treasure Pill, the Bodhi Great Returning Pill.
• Yin Xisheng asked Yao Dan to keep Sound Valley secret, and Yao Dan left as a zither-like chord sounded behind him.

Yao Dan returned to the Yao Clan and began refining the Nine-grade Profound Pill, while Yao Ling agreed to use her Heavenly Flame to dissolve the crystal encasing Zi Yan. As Yao Ling started the dangerous process on Ancient Dragon Island, powerful intruders arrived demanding the person with the Royal Bloodline.

• Yao Dan left Sound Valley with Venerable Feng, ordered him to keep their discoveries secret, and returned to the Lesser Medicine Realm to swallow the Nine-grade Profound Pill.
• Yao Dan began refining the pill as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan prepared for a possible battle and Zhu Li asked Xiao Yan to help free Zi Yan from the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit crystal.
• Xiao Yan recommended Yao Ling, who revealed her Half-Saint cultivation and Mid Heavenly Realm soul power and agreed to refine the crystal after Zhu Li prepared the necessary materials.
• Zhu Li brought Yao Ling to the volcanic crater, where she swallowed the Heart of the Kong Ao and began using her Heavenly Flame to refine Zi Yan's crystal casing.
• After several days, powerful figures appeared outside Ancient Dragon Island and demanded that the clan hand over the one who possessed the Royal Bloodline.

Xiao Yan fought alongside Elder Zhu Li to defend East Dragon Island from the Dragon Armor Army, until Qing Yan and reinforcements turned the battle against them. Zi Yan awakened as the new Dragon Emperor, stopped the fighting, and ordered the invaders to leave.

• Xia Ao led the Dragon Armor Army in an attack on East Dragon Island, while Elder Zhu Li fought him and Xiao Yan subdued invading Dou Zun experts.
• Qing Yan arrived with North Dragon Island reinforcements and ordered the Dragon Armor Army to attack, while Xiao Yan refused to abandon Elder Zhu Li and was badly outmatched by Qing Yan.
• The crystalline energy around Zi Yan melted away, and her awakening as the new Dragon Emperor halted the fighting across Ancient Dragon Island.
• Yao Ling introduced herself as the Yao Clan's Young Clan Leader, presented Zi Yan with a Nine-grade Treasure Pill, and fainted from exhaustion.
• Zi Yan ordered guards to care for Yao Ling, then commanded the invaders to leave Dragon Island or face death.

After recovering from his injuries, Xiao Yan cultivated in the Void Lightning Pool with Yao Ling and began absorbing the Ancient Void Dragon bloodline. Mang Tianchi arrived and invited him to travel to the Gu Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony, where Xiao Yan hoped to reunite with the person he had missed.

• Qing Yan and Xia Ao fled East Dragon Island after sensing the Dragon Emperor’s killing intent, and Zi Yan used her blood to heal Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan woke under Elder Zhu Li’s care and learned that Zi Yan was recuperating while Yao Ling waited near the Void Lightning Pool.
• Yao Ling explained that the lightning would help Xiao Yan absorb the Ancient Void Dragon bloodline, and he cultivated until Mang Tianchi’s arrival forced him out of the pool.
• Yao Ling revealed that Mang Tianchi was Jia Nan Academy’s wandering headmaster, and Mang Tianchi recognized Xiao Yan as the student praised by Bai Lie and Qian Mu.
• Mang Tianchi told Xiao Yan about the Gu Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony, and Xiao Yan agreed to go; Yao Ling joined them to enter the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Yan challenged Gu Yao at the Gu Clan's coming-of-age ceremony and defeated him with a Six-Colored Fire Lotus. The chapter left Xiao Yan facing arrest as Ling Quan ordered the Gu Clan fighters to seize him.

• Xiao Yan accepted Gu Yao's challenge and fought him inside a protective barrier.
• Xiao Yan wounded Gu Yao with Heavenly Flame energy, then formed a Six-Colored Fire Lotus as Gu Yao used the Ancient Saint Treasure Mirror and Great Nirvana Finger.
• Two Hun Clan elders blocked Yao Ling and Mang Tianchi from intervening in the fight.
• Xiao Yan's Six-Colored Fire Lotus overwhelmed Gu Yao and left him unconscious, stunning the Gu Clan spectators.
• Ling Quan accused Xiao Yan of a serious crime and ordered more than a dozen peak Dou Zun fighters to seize him.

After Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao, the Black Nirvana Army tried to punish him, but Mang Tianchi and Yao Ling intervened. Gu Yuan ended the confrontation, though Xiao Xun'er soon confronted Yao Ling over her interest in Xiao Yan.

• Ling Quan invoked the Black Nirvana Army’s regulations and prepared to punish Xiao Yan, while Xiao Xun'er protested and Gu Yuan chose not to interfere.
• Mang Tianchi declared he would take his student away, but Gu Fa ordered four Black Nirvana Army experts to hold him off.
• Yao Ling stepped in to support Xiao Yan, offering to provide medicine for Gu Yao and warning Gu Fa not to push matters too far.
• Gu Yuan decided to end the confrontation, and his voice brought the Black Nirvana Army’s forces to withdraw.
• Xiao Yan felt relieved, but Xiao Xun'er questioned Yao Ling about her fused Heavenly Flames and hinted that the Gu Clan was stronger than the Yao Clan.

Yao Dan broke through to Eight-star Dou Sheng, refined a Heaven and Earth Reincarnation Pill and Nine Profound Silver Lightning, and traveled to meet the Yan Clan. He proposed uniting the Middle Three Clans, but Yan Jin questioned whether the Yao Clan was strong enough to join them.

• Xun'er warned Yao Ling to abandon her feelings for Xiao Yan, and the two clashed before Xun'er left.
• Yao Dan broke through to Eight-star Dou Sheng and promised Elder Wan Huo a Nine-grade Profound Pill.
• Yao Dan spent eight days refining a Heaven and Earth Reincarnation Pill and collected the Nine Profound Silver Lightning that formed during the process.
• Elder Wan Huo swallowed the pill and began meditating to break through to Seven-star Dou Sheng, while Yao Dan left to attend to matters for the Yao Clan.
• Yao Dan visited Yan Jin and Fairy Huo Ling, confirmed his breakthrough, and tentatively proposed that the Middle Three Clans unite.
• Yan Jin questioned whether the Yao Clan had enough strength to stand alongside the Yan and Lei Clans.

Yao Dan persuaded Yan Jin to form an alliance with Yao Clan by offering rare pills and future support. Nihility Devouring Flame chose to keep his original plan of attacking Shi Clan first, a decision he would later regret.

• Yao Dan showed Yan Jin and Fairy Huo Ling a superior Nine-grade Profound Pill and offered Yao Clan's pill-making services in exchange for Yan Clan's protection.
• Yao Dan gifted Fairy Huo Ling a Flame Dragon Nirvana Pill, and Yan Jin agreed to an alliance with Yao Clan.
• News of the alliance reached Nihility Devouring Flame, who asked Hun Miesheng whether to attack Shi Clan or Yao Clan first.
• Hun Miesheng advised destroying Shi Clan first to avoid provoking an alliance among the other clans, and Nihility Devouring Flame accepted the plan.

Yao Dan sparred with Gu Lie in the Gu Clan and narrowly won before meeting Gu Yuan to discuss who sealed the Ling Clan's Space. Gu Yuan suspected Nihility Devouring Flame and revealed that he had secretly monitored Hun Tiandi for millennia, then confronted Yao Dan about trying to match the Yao Clan's saintess with his son-in-law.

• Yao Dan and Gu Lie fought fiercely for half an hour, and Yao Dan won by a slight margin, establishing himself as one of the strongest experts among the Ancient Eight Clans.
• Gu Dao directed Yao Dan to meet Gu Yuan, who privately asked why he had come.
• Yao Dan and Gu Yuan suspected Nihility Devouring Flame had sealed the Ling Clan's Space, and Gu Yuan said only a Nine-star Dou Sheng could do so.
• Gu Yuan revealed that he had tracked Hun Tiandi for several thousand years using a trace of Soul power hidden in his soul.
• Gu Yuan accused Yao Dan of trying to bring the Yao Clan's saintess together with his son-in-law, and Yao Dan teased him about Xun'er's mother.

Gu Yuan promised Yao Dan that he would protect the Yao Clan if Hun Tiandi attacked, while Xiao Yan and Xun'er entered the Heavenly Tomb together. Hun Clan experts ambushed the pair on the third level, and as Xun'er was cornered after escaping with Xiao Yan's Fire Lotus, Yao Ling appeared.

• Gu Yuan agreed to stop Hun Tiandi from attacking the Yao Clan and said he would let the younger generation decide their own affairs.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er entered the Heavenly Tomb, while Yao Ling decided she would no longer help Xiao Yan with future troubles.
• After exploring the first two levels for more than three months, Xiao Yan and Xun'er approached the entrance to the third level.
• Hun Ya and Hun Li summoned Hun Clan energy bodies to attack Xiao Yan and Xun'er, and Xiao Yan took their techniques head-on before launching a Fire Lotus that opened an escape route.
• Xun'er escaped the encirclement, but Hun Li and Hun Ya blocked her path; Yao Ling appeared and challenged them.

Yao Ling rescued Xiao Yan and Xun'er from Hun Ya, Hun Li, and their ambush, revealing that she had advanced to High-level Half-Saint. After treating Xiao Yan, she meditated while Xun'er kept watch, and Xiao Yan finally woke a month later.

• Xun'er pleaded with Yao Ling to save her and Xiao Yan, and Yao Ling revealed her High-level Half-Saint strength by striking Hun Gua and attacking the Hun Clan forces.
• Hun Gua stayed behind to hold Yao Ling off while Hun Ya and Hun Li escaped, and Yao Ling defeated the remaining energy bodies with her Kaiyang Sacred Fire Box.
• Yao Ling rebuked Xun'er, then treated Xiao Yan's wounds with medicinal ointment and fed him Eighth-grade Pills.
• Yao Ling told Xun'er that Xiao Yan's recovery depended on him, then meditated to stabilize her realm as Xun'er guarded her.
• After a month, Xiao Yan slowly opened his eyes.

Xiao Yan and Xun'er reunited with Yao Ling, who led them and the Gu Clan into the Heavenly Tomb's third layer. As the group set out to investigate Xiao Xuan's Tomb Mansion, Hun Ya and Hun Li sacrificed themselves on the second layer, awakening powerful energy beings beyond the crystal wall.

• Xiao Yan woke in the Heavenly Tomb and learned that Yao Ling had saved him and Xun'er, after which the three continued toward the third layer together.
• At the entrance, Yao Ling confronted Yao Bei for traveling with Gu Qingyang's group, then agreed to let the boy remain in their care.
• Yao Ling used her Wind Flame to burn a passage through the Energy Crystal Wall, and the Shi, Lei, and Yan Clan members thanked her with Energy Cores before departing.
• Xun'er and the Gu Clan asked Yao Ling to accompany them as they searched for Xiao Xuan's Tomb Mansion, and she warned them to avoid powerful energy beings.
• On the second layer, Hun Ya and Hun Li swallowed a black key-shaped object and burned their bodies and souls, sending energy through the wall that awakened several powerful beings in the third layer.

Yao Ling and the Gu and Xiao Clan geniuses encountered two Half-Saint energy forms in the Heavenly Tomb, who targeted the young clansmen. Xun'er and Yao Ling fought back, but Yao Ling was outmatched by the gray-robed elder, who cornered her with his Myriad Souls Wailing Blade.

• Yao Ling sensed danger in the Heavenly Tomb, prepared her group with pills and armor, and redirected them away from two Half-Saint energy forms.
• The two elders confronted the group, and Xun'er decided they had to fight rather than abandon Yao Ling.
• Xun'er and the others attacked together, while Yao Ling engaged the gray-robed elder and the black-robed elder fought Xun'er’s group.
• The gray-robed elder revealed his Myriad Souls Wailing Blade and pressured Yao Ling with his speed and strength.
• The gray-robed elder anticipated where Yao Ling would land and swung his blade toward her waist.

Yao Ling and Xun'er defeated two Half-Saint energy bodies in the Heavenly Tomb, but two stronger Hun Clan elders emerged to claim the energy cores. Hun Diao admitted that he and his companion had let the fight happen so they could ambush the survivors, then sealed off the surrounding space.

• Yao Ling used her Soul power, exploding pills, and the Shaking Light Medicine Phoenix Formation to defeat the gray-robed energy body, which became a green energy core.
• Xun'er and her companions overwhelmed the black-robed energy body, which transformed into a white energy core.
• Hun Diao and another elder watched the battles from beside a gravestone and planned to reap the fisherman's profit.
• Yao Ling accepted the higher-grade energy core while Xun'er and the others agreed to divide the lower-grade one.
• Two white-robed Hun Clan elders appeared, claimed the energy cores, and sealed off the space around the group.

Xiao Xuan appeared to save Xiao Yan and his companions from Hun Diao and another Dou Saint energy body, then brought Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, and Yao Ling to his tomb residence. There, he asked Xiao Yan to tell him what had happened to the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Xuan shattered the spatial seal and destroyed Hun Diao and the other Dou Saint energy body with a single strike.
• Xiao Yan performed the grand rite to honor Ancestor Xiao Xuan, and the Gu Clan and Yao Clan juniors paid their respects.
• Xiao Xuan praised Yao Ling, questioned the Gu Clan about its agreement with him, and learned that Gu Xun'er was Gu Yuan's daughter.
• Xiao Xuan led Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, and Yao Ling into his tomb residence while the others stayed outside to cultivate.
• Xiao Yan recounted the Xiao family's history and the help he had received from Gu Xun'er and the Yao Clan.

Xiao Xuan revealed that he was only a fragmentary soul waiting to pass the Xiao Clan’s remaining Bloodline power to Xiao Yan, who began the inheritance in the blood pool. While Xiao Yan endured the painful process, Xiao Xuan taught Xun’er and Yao Ling methods to advance their cultivation, leaving Yao Ling immersed in a spiritual world to comprehend the Dao.

• Xiao Xuan warned Yao Ling to convey that the Xiao Clan would remember the Yao Clan’s aid but would not tolerate anyone using the clan for their own purposes.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that he was only a fragmentary soul and entrusted him with the duty of restoring the Xiao Clan’s glory.
• Xiao Yan entered the blood pool to inherit the Xiao Clan’s final Bloodline power and endured the cleansing for half a month.
• Xiao Xuan opened Xun’er’s meridians and taught her a faster method of cultivation, helping her advance to the peak of the first transformation.
• Xiao Xuan enveloped Yao Ling in Soul power and gave her four lines to contemplate as she entered a spiritual world to comprehend the Dao.

Xiao Xuan used Yao Ling’s Spirit Grade Bloodline and Xun’er’s Divine Grade Bloodline to help Xiao Yan fuse the Dragon Phoenix and Xiao Clan bloodlines, allowing him to reach the peak of One-Revolution Dou Zun. After Xiao Yan completed his Clan Mark, Xiao Xuan sent Yao Ling and Xun’er away so he could explain something important to him.

• Xiao Xuan explained that Yao Ling’s balanced Spirit Grade Bloodline could mediate the conflict between Xiao Yan’s Dragon Phoenix and Xiao Clan bloodlines.
• Xun’er and Yao Ling each offered some of their bloodline power, and Xiao Xuan used it to fuse the four bloodlines within Xiao Yan.
• After a year and a half of cultivation, Xiao Yan reached the peak of One-Revolution Dou Zun and thanked Xiao Xuan, Yao Ling, and Xun’er.
• Xiao Yan spent more than half a year cultivating his Clan Mark until it appeared complete on his forehead.
• Xiao Xuan told Yao Ling and Xun’er to leave before he explained important matters to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Xuan urged Xiao Yan to give Yao Ling a proper answer and sent him onward through a spatial tunnel. A day later, Hun Xuzi retrieved Hun Ya from the Heavenly Tomb and threatened Yao Ling, while Xiao Yan joined Yao Ling and Xun'er as they set out for a banquet.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that he should consider Yao Ling's feelings and the benefits of ties with the Yao Clan, then sent him through a spatial tunnel.
• Hun Xuzi arrived at the Ancient Realm to receive Hun Ya and praised his son before the Heavenly Tomb group emerged.
• Hun Xuzi restored Hun Ya from his soul imprint, then blamed Yao Ling and threatened to make her his slave and maid.
• Xun'er warned Yao Ling that Hun Xuzi's true strength and methods exceeded what he displayed, and Yao Ling said she would stay wary.
• Yao Ling invited the Shi Clan members to return to their clan, and Xiao Yan joined her while Xun'er said she would seek him out once she reached Dou Sheng.

After leaving Xiao Xuan, Xiao Yan met the others emerging from the Heavenly Tomb, where Hun Xuzi restored Hun Ya and threatened Xun'er and Yao Ling. The group set out for the Yao Clan, with Xiao Yan accepting Yao Ling’s invitation as Xun’er promised to seek him out once she reached Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Xuan urged Xiao Yan to give Yao Ling a proper answer, and Xiao Yan said he would consider it because he did not want to betray Xun'er.
• Hun Xuzi arrived at the Ancient Realm to receive Hun Ya and praised his son’s talent.
• Hun Xuzi restored Hun Ya from his soul imprint, then blamed Yao Ling and threatened her after Xun'er explained that Hun Ya had attacked first.
• Xun'er warned Yao Ling that Hun Xuzi’s strength and methods exceeded what he showed, and Yao Ling said she would stay wary.
• Yao Ling invited Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and the others to the Yao Clan, while Xun'er promised to find Xiao Yan after reaching Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan visited Yao Dan, who reassured him that the Yao Clan would not pressure him, while Yao Ling learned why the Clan Leader had welcomed the clan’s outcast back. Yao Dan awarded Yao Ling the Imperial Sword, and the Shi-Yao alchemy ceremony began with a contest poised to produce a Nine-grade Treasure Pill.

• Xiao Yan congratulated Yao Dan on reaching Eight-star Dou Sheng and relayed Ancestor Xiao Xuan’s message, then left reassured by Yao Dan’s promise not to coerce him.
• Yao Ling challenged Yao Dan over his fabricated stories, but he defended his choices and asked whether the Shi Clan guests had been treated properly ahead of the alliance treaty.
• Yao Dan praised Yao Ling’s work and bestowed the Imperial Sword on her, granting her authority over matters outside the clan elders’ domain.
• Five days later, Shi Gandang and the Shi Clan delegation arrived for the Shi-Yao Alchemist Alliance ceremony, where their alchemists competed with young members of the Yao Clan.
• As the ceremony entered its final stage, Yao Dan announced that the four alchemists would attempt to produce a Nine-grade Treasure Pill.