Chapter Summaries

Yao Ling joined three Shi Clan alchemists in a public pill-refining contest, using her Azure Spirit Wind Flame and an unusual set of ingredients that suggested she was attempting a Nine-grade Treasure Pill. The competitors began refining their pills, and Yao Ling’s Late Heavenly Realm soul power impressed the Yao Clan elders as the Shi Clan alchemists answered with their own methods.

• Shi Gandang doubted that Yao Ling was old or experienced enough to refine a Nine-grade Treasure Pill, but Yao Dan said he trusted her.
• Yao Ling recognized the Shi Clan alchemists’ Volcanic Stone Flames and explained that her own flame was called the Azure Spirit Wind Flame.
• Yao Ling released more than a thousand ingredients, including a Bodhi Seed, and the Shi Clan alchemists realized she was likely attempting an unfamiliar Nine-grade Treasure Pill.
• Yao Ling and the three Shi Clan alchemists summoned their ingredients into four flame cauldrons and began the contest.
• Yao Ling used her Late Heavenly Realm soul power to melt her ingredients rapidly, while the Shi Clan alchemists increased their flames and relied on their Dou Qi and experience.

Yao Ling successfully refined the Bodhi Great Returning Pill and advanced to Ninth-grade Treasure Pill Grandmaster, with a Shi Clan alchemist shielding her from the Black Demon Lightning. After the ceremony, Shi Gandang asked Yao Dan to consider a marriage between Shi Wei and a talented young woman of the Yao Clan.

• Yao Ling spent seven days condensing the pill’s energy while the three Shi Clan alchemists ruined eight batches of ingredients and four cauldrons.
• Yao Ling used Fire Dragon Pill Condensation to complete the pill, and a Shi Clan alchemist endured the Black Demon Lightning for her.
• Yao Ling caught the finished Bodhi Great Returning Pill and gifted it to the Shi Clan alchemist, explaining its benefits to Dou Zun and Dou Saint experts.
• Yao Dan and Shi Gandang praised the arrangement while Yao Wangui suggested that Yao Ling could soon refine a Nine-grade Profound Pill.
• Shi Gandang introduced Shi Wei to Yao Dan and asked him to consider a marriage between Shi Wei and a young genius of the Yao Clan.

Yao Dan arranged for Yao Ling to meet Shi Wei but left the marriage decision to her, and she rejected the match while agreeing to spar with him. Five days later, they entered a specially prepared space to fight, with Shi Wei offering a way for either outcome to resolve the marriage proposal.

• Yao Dan told Shi Gandang he would let Yao Ling meet Shi Wei and decide for herself whether to marry him.
• Yao Ling met Shi Wei, rejected the marriage proposal, and said she would not be a pawn in the Yao Clan's diplomacy.
• Shi Wei challenged Yao Ling to a spar, and she accepted on the condition that the result would not change her decision.
• Shi Wei gave Yao Ling a drop of essence blood extracted by Shi Gandang, and she accepted it while promising a return gift.
• Five days later, Yao Ling and Shi Wei entered a fighting space beside the arena, where Shi Wei proposed explanations for either possible outcome as Yao Ling prepared to use all her Soul power.

Yao Ling fought Shi Wei to a standstill before conceding and entrusting him with Yao Dan’s gift for Clan Leader Gandang. After recovering at home, she met Yao Dan, who offered to give her extra lessons.

• Yao Ling tested Shi Wei’s defenses with her Imperial Sword, then fought him for half an hour using sword techniques and Soul power.
• Yao Ling stopped the spar, admitted defeat, and gave Shi Wei a Medicine Gourd containing a Nine-grade Profound Pill and instructions for Clan Leader Gandang.
• Yao Ling collapsed from exhaustion and woke two days later in her home, where her parents told her Yao Dan had come to visit.
• Yao Dan offered Yao Ling extra lessons, and she agreed to leave with him.

Yao Dan brought Yao Ling to the Yao Clan ancestral graves and gave her a soul light sphere formed from Old Clan Leader Yao Guang’s life imprint. After absorbing it and speaking with Yao Guang’s lingering image, Yao Ling broke through to Heaven Realm Great Perfection.

• Yao Dan led Yao Ling to the hidden ancestral graves and explained that he could no longer teach her directly after her advancement to Half-Saint.
• Yao Dan retrieved a soul light sphere nurtured from Old Clan Leader Yao Guang’s life imprint and gave it to Yao Ling.
• Yao Ling accepted the sphere and absorbed its soul energy over nearly half a month, despite initially worrying that doing so resembled devouring Yao Guang’s remains.
• As the sphere’s final energy entered her, Yao Ling saw Yao Guang’s image and told him what had happened in the Yao Clan since his death.
• Yao Guang’s image vanished, and the resulting soul fluctuation revealed that Yao Ling had reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection, astonishing Yao Dan.

Yao Ling reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection and was sent by Yao Dan to help Mang Tianchi and Xiao Yan deal with the Soul Hall’s conflict with the Yan Alliance. The three traveled through a spatial wormhole toward the Northwest Continent, with Yao Ling carrying protections in case they faced enemies beyond their strength.

• Yao Ling formed and dismissed a soul avatar after her Soul power reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection, and Yao Dan congratulated her.
• Yao Dan asked Yao Ling to join Mang Tianchi and Xiao Yan in mediating the conflict between the Yan Alliance and the Soul Hall.
• Yao Dan gave Yao Ling a spatial scroll and told her how to call for help if she encountered an overwhelming threat.
• Yao Ling met Mang Tianchi and Xiao Yan at the Yao Clan’s main gate, where Mang complained about their three-hour wait.
• Yao Ling crushed a spatial scroll, and she, Mang Tianchi, and Xiao Yan entered the wormhole bound for the Northwest Continent.

With the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s headquarters fallen to the Lion Nether Sect, Xiao Yan returned to Xuanhuang Fortress with Mang Tianchi and Yao Ling to help the Yan Alliance and the Mansion. As they discussed the threat, the enemy called on the fortress to surrender.

• The Lion Nether Sect’s assault destroyed the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s headquarters, leaving the Yan Alliance and the Mansion’s remnants to defend Xuanhuang Fortress.
• Medusa asked Liu Chang how many Dou Zun experts he had recruited, and he reported six Four-Star and two Six-Star experts.
• Feng Lin said he had barely escaped the Lion Nether Sect’s Half-Saint and hoped Xiao Yan could bring powerful reinforcements.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Mang Tianchi and Yao Ling, and Mang Tianchi promised to help reclaim the lost territory.
• Yao Ling questioned whether the Soul Hall’s actions were truly so vicious, but a roar interrupted Feng Lin and demanded the fortress surrender.

Yao Ling turned the battle at Xuanhuang Fortress by killing Shi Tian and fighting Er Tiansheng, Gu You Saint. After revealing her soul avatar’s overwhelming strength, she left Gu You badly wounded and the battle tilting toward the Yan Alliance.

• Feng Lin raised the Myriad Manifestations Snake Dance Formation as Yao Ling identified Shi Tian, the Lion Nether Sect’s leader, as the war’s chief instigator.
• Yao Ling sent a Soul power figure into Shi Tian’s ranks and destroyed him in a massive explosion, then charged into the enemy army as the fortress forces scattered it.
• Er Tiansheng, Gu You Saint, appeared with nearly a hundred experts, and Xiao Yan recognized him as the Soul Hall’s Second Heavenly Venerate.
• Yao Ling attacked Gu You with the Imperial Sword, fought him to a temporary standstill, and used her soul avatar to kill several powerful Dou Zun experts.
• Gu You realized Yao Ling’s soul had reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection, and she struck him in the chest with Soul power, making him vomit blood.

Yao Ling defeated Gu You’s forces and spared the routed troops after crippling their high-star Dou Zongs, then led an attempt to reclaim the Heavenly Snake Mansion. When the attackers began overwhelming the Soul Hall’s black grand hall, Soul Clear Saint finally agreed to intervene and revealed himself as a Dou Saint.

• Gu You used a scroll to sacrifice more than thirty Dou Zun experts, letting the Soul Hall forces escape in a cloud of black mist.
• Yao Ling spared the routed troops but ordered the Venerates to cripple every expert above Six-star Dou Zong, then began planning to reclaim the Heavenly Snake Mansion with Feng Lin.
• Yao Ling and her group flew to Xuanhuang Fortress while the remaining routed troops dispersed over three days.
• More than twenty Eight-star Dou Zuns attacked the black grand hall outside the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and Yao Ling prepared a spatial scroll in case her group had to retreat.
• Gu You offered Soul Clear Saint three additional Eight-grade Nine-color medicinal pills to capture the attackers, and Soul Clear Saint emerged from the grand hall and displayed the aura of a true Dou Saint.

Yao Ling led the battle against Soul Hall, holding Soul Clear Saint at bay while her allies gained the advantage. Just as Soul Clear Saint summoned powerful reinforcements, an even stronger black figure emerged from the spatial tunnel.

• Yao Ling asked Mang Tianchi and Feng Lin to restrain Gu You while she faced Soul Clear Saint, and both elders agreed to fight him together.
• Yao Ling and Soul Clear Saint clashed with their Heavenly Flames, and Yao Ling mocked his weak cultivation and techniques as they fought for over a hundred exchanges.
• A Six-Colored Fire Lotus struck Soul Hall's Third Heavenly Venerate, who fled by crushing a spatial jade slip, shifting the battlefield in Yao Ling's favor.
• Gu You urged Soul Clear Saint to retreat and report what they had learned about Yao Ling, but Soul Clear Saint refused and crushed a spatial scroll to summon help.
• A black figure with an aura several times stronger than Soul Clear Saint emerged from the spatial tunnel and demanded to know why he had been summoned.

Yao Wangui forced Hun Meng and the Soul Hall to retreat after they threatened Yao Ling, who then offered to help Feng Lin rebuild the Heavenly Snake Mansion. The chapter ended with Hun Miesheng reporting Yao Wangui’s formal protest to the Hun Clan, which had sent Elder Hun Xi to investigate.

• Yao Ling distracted Hun Meng with a jade bottle and a self-destructing Nine-grade Treasure Pill, then summoned Yao Wangui for help.
• Yao Wangui confronted Hun Meng and ordered him to apologize to Yao Ling and leave the Northwest Continent with his subordinates.
• Hun Meng and the Soul Hall forces withdrew, and Yao Wangui gave Yao Ling a spatial scroll before returning to the Yao Clan.
• Yao Ling asked Feng Lin to take her to visit the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan and offered to help rebuild the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Hun Miesheng told the Soul Hall that Yao Wangui had lodged a formal protest, and that the Hun Clan had sent Elder Hun Xi to hear the matter.

Hun Xi judged Gu You and Soul Clear Saint for their failed mission and their conflict with the Yao Clan, while Hun Miesheng began gathering intelligence on Yao Ling and Xiao Yan. At the rebuilt Heavenly Snake Mansion, Yao Ling offered to restore its master’s body if the mansion joined the Yan Alliance.

• Hun Xi, Hun Miesheng, and Hun Meng questioned Gu You and Soul Clear Saint about their mission and the dispute with Yao Wangui.
• Hun Xi cleared Gu You of further punishment but stripped Soul Clear Saint of the Hun surname, suspended his stipend for three years, and demoted him.
• Hun Miesheng ordered Gu You to gather intelligence on Yao Ling, Mang Tianchi, Feng Lin, and Xiao Yan, promising him a reward for the latest information on Yao Ling.
• The Yan Alliance and Heavenly Snake Mansion celebrated their victory at the mansion’s rebuilt headquarters, where Xiao Yan credited Yao Ling with being better suited to restore the mansion master’s body.
• Yao Ling offered to refine a Rebirth Soul Returning Pill, and Medusa proposed that the Heavenly Snake Mansion join the Yan Alliance in exchange for the alliance’s help.

Yao Ling persuaded the Heavenly Snake Mansion to join the Yan Alliance by offering access to a Heavenly Grade Dou Technique and agreeing to provide an Eighth-grade Nine-color Pill. The alliance was settled, and Yao Ling planned to refine the pill at Xuanhuang Fortress before visiting the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan.

• Medusa and Yao Ling explained that the Yan Alliance sought a mutual-defense alliance with the Heavenly Snake Mansion, not control over its internal affairs.
• Yao Ling offered qualified members of the mansion a chance to study the Heavenly Grade soul technique Myriad Soul Heavenly Movement, while Xiao Yan described the soul-cultivation secret technique needed to use it.
• Feng Lin and the master of the Heavenly Snake Mansion hesitated over the terms, but Yao Ling and Mang Tianchi stressed the value of joining the Yan Alliance and connecting with the Yao Clan.
• The master of the Heavenly Snake Mansion agreed to join the Yan Alliance if Yao Ling gave them an Eight-grade Nine-color Pill.
• Yao Ling promised to deliver the pill in five days, asked the master to introduce her to the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, and arranged to refine the pill at Xuanhuang Fortress the next day.

Yao Ling refined an Eight-grade Nine-color medicinal pill before the Yan Alliance alchemists, then helped expose widespread corruption in the Pill Hall. Xiao Yan later returned to Jia Nan Academy with Mang Tianchi and Yao Ling, where they learned the academy’s spiritual energy revival came from the Magma World and planned to investigate it.

• Yao Ling completed an Eight-grade Nine-color medicinal pill in less than three days and destroyed the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning with a single strike.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Ling demanded that corrupt Pill Hall members confess, prompting Liu Chang and many others to admit their crimes.
• Xiao Yan left the punishment of the alchemists to Medusa and Yao Ling, then invited Yao Ling to Jia Nan Academy to teach him alchemy.
• Mang Tianchi, Xiao Yan, and Yao Ling arrived at Jia Nan Academy, where Su Qian and Elder Qian Bai described the region’s increased natural energy.
• Elder Qian Bai identified the Magma World beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower as the likely source of the spiritual energy, and Xiao Yan proposed investigating it.

Xiao Yan and Yao Ling explored the Magma World beneath the Inner Academy, growing closer as they spoke about their feelings and responsibilities. Their conversation was interrupted when the Tou She Ancient God Jade emerged and glowed, prompting Yao Ling to warn Xiao Yan to keep its anomaly secret.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Ling entered the Magma World after Mang Tianchi declined to join them, and they noticed its fire-attributed energy had become much denser.
• Yao Ling teased Xiao Yan about his codename, then warned him against improper advances; the two shared a kiss and spoke intimately about their feelings and their clans.
• The Tou She Ancient God Jade drifted out of Xiao Yan's robes and released a sacred green radiance.
• Yao Ling panicked at the sight of the legendary jade, and Xiao Yan reassured her that the Soul Hall had failed to take it from him over the years.
• Yao Ling concluded that the Eight Clans' mutual constraints had helped protect Xiao Yan and insisted that they keep the jade's anomaly secret.

Xiao Yan and Yao Ling explored deeper into the Magma World to investigate the spiritual energy resurgence, but turned back after Lizardmen warned them away from the God's Tomb and its guardian. They returned safely to Mang Tianchi at Jia Nan Academy, while a colossal being in the depths continued to release the energy behind the resurgence.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Ling agreed to keep exploring the Magma World, with Xiao Yan promising to protect Yao Ling and the Tou She Ancient God Jade if they faced danger.
• Three hours later, a horde of Lizardmen surrounded Xiao Yan and Yao Ling, including two Half-Saint experts.
• A white Lizardman warned them not to enter the God's Tomb or awaken its guardian, and Xiao Yan and Yao Ling retreated without learning more.
• Their actions unknowingly awakened a colossal being whose energy spread through the Magma World and sustained Jia Nan Academy's spiritual energy resurgence.
• Mang Tianchi and Su Qian waited anxiously at Jia Nan Academy until Xiao Yan and Yao Ling returned safely.
• Xiao Yan told Mang Tianchi that they had made little progress on the resurgence's cause and described the Lizardmen as difficult opponents.

The Soul Hall, Yan Clan, and Xiao Yan’s group prepared to compete for a Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame at the Space Trading Convention. Xiao Yan and Yao Ling arrived at the convention, where Yao Ling relayed a cryptic message from Yao Dan that left Xiao Yan sensing a major secret.

• Hun Miesheng sent Gu You and Sect Master Tian Ming to the convention, ordering them to disrupt the bidding for the Fragmented Map if it appeared.
• Fairy Huo Ling assigned Elder Huo Ye to lead the Yan Clan’s team and authorized him to take as many Nine-grade Treasure Pills as needed.
• Medusa stayed behind to manage the Yan Alliance while Xiao Yan and Yao Ling departed for the Central Continent.
• Yao Ling told Xiao Yan she had brought thirteen Nine-grade Treasure Pills and other resources approved by Yao Dan to secure the Fragmented Map.
• Yao Ling passed on Yao Dan’s cryptic lines about changing variables, constants, and Imperial Jade Liquor, prompting Xiao Yan to suspect they concealed an important secret.

Xiao Yan and Yao Ling attended the Space Trading Convention to obtain the final Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while Xiao Yan struggled with a memory awakened by Yao Dan’s rhyme. The bidding escalated into a dangerous clash between powerful factions, and it continued with a bid of one Nine-grade Treasure Pill.

• Xiao Yan concealed his reaction to Yao Dan’s rhyme, then went with Yao Ling to Space Town and the Space Trading Convention.
• Yao Ling detected Gu You and Half-Saint elders from the Yan, Lei, and Gu Clans in the auction hall, but said the Yao Clan had a strong chance of winning through wealth.
• The auction began, and bidders offered increasingly valuable pills for the Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• A bidder offered one Eight-grade Nine-color Pill, then Yao Ling raised the bid to three; the black-robed bidder withdrew.
• A bid of five Eight-grade Nine-color Pills was followed by a black attack aimed at Xiao Yan and Yao Ling, which Yao Ling destroyed as many spectators fled.
• An unseen bidder offered one Nine-grade Treasure Pill, intensifying the contest.

Yao Ling and Xiao Yan competed with the Hun, Yan, Gu, and Lei Clans for the Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Yao Ling secured the map with Saint Hu Yun and Old Man Bao Shan’s support, but Gu You urged the other clans to unite against her.

• Xiao Yan warned Yao Ling that their bids were becoming too costly, but she said they could not safely seize the map by force after the auction.
• Gu You bid one Nine-grade Treasure Pill and five Eight-grade Nine-color pills, and Yao Ling countered with one Nine-grade Treasure Pill and seven Eight-grade Nine-color pills.
• The auction hall’s powerful bidders revealed their identities, and Elder Huo Ye bid two Nine-grade Treasure Pills for the Yan Clan while Lei Ming explained the Lei Clan opposed any Ancient Race claiming the map.
• Yao Ling matched Huo Ye’s offer and promised lifelong protection to Old Man Bao Shan and the seller, prompting the seller, Saint Hu Yun, to side with her.
• Old Man Bao Shan handed the map to Yao Ling despite being seriously injured, and Gu You proposed that the other clans unite to take it from her.

Yao Ling used Nine-grade Treasure Pills to buy the withdrawal of the Lei, Gu, and Yan Clans from the struggle over the Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. After sealing the auction hall, she demanded that Old Man Bao Shan and Saint Hu Yun prove their allegiance by fighting the Hun Clan, leaving Gu You and his allies trapped with her.

• Yao Ling revealed her Heaven Realm Great Perfection Soul avatar and challenged the others to make the first move for the Fragmented Map.
• Yao Ling gave Elder Lei Ming a Four Symbols Primordial Spirit Pill, and he withdrew from the struggle.
• Yao Ling gave Elder Tong Xuan a Four Symbols Primordial Spirit Pill, and he left the venue.
• Yao Ling gave Elder Huo Ye two Myriad Flame Body Tempering Pills, and he withdrew with the Yan Clan.
• Yao Ling sealed the auction hall with a Space Scroll and told Old Man Bao Shan and Saint Hu Yun to prove their allegiance by fighting the Hun Clan.
• Gu You urged his allies to fight, warning that it was their only chance to survive.