Chapter Summaries

Yao Ling defeated Sect Master Tian Ming and helped drive Gu You into self-destruction, though both escaped through a spatial opening. Old Man Bao Shan and Saint Hu Yun pledged their sects to the Yao Clan in exchange for protection, and days later Yao Dan summoned Xiao Yan to his home.

• Yao Ling blocked Sect Master Tian Ming’s Heavenly Netherworld Blood Palm and wounded him with her Heavenly Flame while Xiao Yan, Saint Hu Yun, and Old Man Bao Shan fought Gu You.
• Yao Ling bound Sect Master Tian Ming with fire rings, but Gu You killed him with a black ray and then self-destructed to blast a hole through Yao Ling’s spatial blockade.
• Two black rays escaped through the opening, and Saint Hu Yun reminded Xiao Yan that their opponents had been evenly matched.
• Old Man Bao Shan pledged Treasure Mirror Mountain’s loyalty to the Yao Clan, and Yao Ling rewarded him with two Eight-grade Nine-color pills.
• Saint Hu Yun pledged Water Lake Gate’s loyalty to the Yao Clan, and Yao Ling gave him two Nine-grade Treasure Pills.
• Several days later, Xiao Yan visited Yao Dan and found the clan leader grilling lamb skewers with Nine Nether Wind Flame.

Xiao Yan and Yao Dan discovered they were both transmigrators from Earth and bonded over food, drinks, and memories of their former lives. Yao Dan revealed how Xiao Yan could prepare to subdue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Xiao Yan later told Yao Ling that Yao Dan had shared information about her.

• Xiao Yan recognized Yao Dan as a fellow Earth transmigrator after hearing him speak English rhymes.
• Yao Dan explained that he had found Xiao Yan through the Yao Clan archives, and the two shared food, drinks, and stories about Earth.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Dan became sworn brothers and then turned their attention to the Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan refined the map with his blood and Heavenly Flame, revealing a message that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would descend in three years.
• The map acknowledged Xiao Yan as its master and sent him the remnant soul of the Netherworld Demonic Saint, whom Yao Dan said would help him subdue the flame.
• Yao Dan left to handle Yao Clan business, and later Yao Ling reacted with astonishment when Xiao Yan told her that Yao Dan had shared information concerning her.

Xiao Yan told Yao Ling that Yao Dan had taught him the method for subduing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and invited her to cook for him. When Xiao Yan arrived at Yao Ling’s secluded home for dinner, he met her father, Yao Shao, who welcomed him and asked about his experiences.

• Xiao Yan told Yao Ling that Yao Dan had found the trump card for subduing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in the completed Fragmented Map and had taught it to him.
• Xiao Yan teased Yao Ling about her beauty and cooking, and Yao Ling invited him to dinner the next evening.
• Xiao Yan entered a hidden space in the Medicine Realm and found Yao Ling’s medicinal garden and villa.
• Yao Shao greeted Xiao Yan at the villa, acknowledged him as a prospective son-in-law, and said he would not oppose Yao Ling’s choice.
• Yao Shao served Xiao Yan a cultivation drink made from medicinal materials, then asked him to share his experiences.

Xiao Yan shared his arduous rise with Yao Ling’s parents over a meal of medicinal cuisine, winning their approval. Yao Shao then described two rare opportunities ahead: the Bodhi Ancient Tree, appearing in half a month, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, arriving in three years.

• Xiao Yan recounted his journey from the impoverished Northwest Continent and said he was willing to tell Yao Shao about his experiences.
• Yao Ling served dishes she had prepared, including Sizzling Eel Paste and Wensi Tofu, while Yao Hua introduced herself as Flower Fairy.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Ling’s family shared a meal and discussed cooking, Medicinal Cuisine, and Xiao Yan’s adventures.
• Yao Shao praised Xiao Yan’s achievements and explained that the Yao Clan could readily obtain resources that had been rare opportunities for him.
• Yao Shao named the Bodhi Ancient Tree and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as two opportunities worth pursuing, noting that the tree would appear in half a month and could make Xiao Yan a Saint.

Yao Shao told Xiao Yan that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was about to appear and asked him to fuse two Yao Clan Heavenly Flames. Xiao Yan created the Nine Nether Earth Spirit Flame, exhausted himself, and was left to recover before Yao Shao planned to send him toward the Barren Ancient Region.

• Yao Shao revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would soon descend and explained the treasures it contained, then offered Xiao Yan a chance to strengthen himself by fusing the Yao Clan's Heavenly Flames.
• Yao Shao released the Nine Nether Wind Flame and Turtle Spirit Earth Fire, and Xiao Yan began fusing them while Yao Ling supplied pills to replenish his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan's repeated fusion attempts condensed his Dou Qi until he reached the peak of the Seven-turn Dou Zun realm.
• On the tenth day, Xiao Yan fully fused the flames into the Nine Nether Earth Spirit Flame and collapsed from exhaustion, near the peak of the Eight-turn Dou Zun realm.
• Yao Shao told Flower Fairy that he would open a spatial tunnel to send Xiao Yan and Yao Ling to the Barren Ancient Region, while warning that the Hun Clan had taken an interest in the Southeast Continent.

Xiao Yan and Yao Ling traveled to Barren Town to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where Xiao Yi Xian joined them and tensions between the two women surfaced. As the group prepared to enter the Barren Ancient Region, Hun Ya appeared and provoked Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Ling left the Yao Clan for Barren Town after Xiao Yan promised to bring back Bodhi Seeds.
• Xiao Yi Xian reunited with Xiao Yan, and she and Yao Ling exchanged pointed remarks before Old Man Bao Shan sent them to rest.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Yao Ling played Go while discussing their relationships with Xiao Yan, then stopped when he returned with news that the first experts to enter the Barren Ancient Region had all died.
• The next day, Xiao Yan decided to let the gathered experts enter first, and Yao Ling indicated that she and Xiao Yi Xian had made peace.
• Hun Ya appeared with several figures concealed in black mist and insulted Xiao Yan, who warned him that he would pay for it.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the depths of the Barren Ancient Region in search of the Bodhi Ancient Tree after Hun Ya revealed his Nihility Devouring Flame. When Yao Ling sensed that Xiao Yan’s old flames were in mortal danger, Xiao Yan rushed northwest to save them.

• Hun Ya used a sub-flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame to overpower Xiao Yan’s Azure Spirit Wind Flame, but Yao Ling destroyed Hun Ya’s flame barrier and wounded him, allowing him to escape.
• Xiao Yan recognized Hun Ya’s flame as the Nihility Devouring Flame and the group decided to prioritize finding the Bodhi Ancient Tree before reporting the threat to Yao Ling’s clan.
• Xiao Yan used the Azure Spirit Wind Flame to protect the group as they crossed the poisonous miasma and reached the deepest part of the Barren Ancient Region.
• Yao Ling used a Bodhi Seed to determine that the Bodhi Ancient Tree lay far to the northwest, and sensed the Heavenly Nether Sect and ferocious beasts besieging Xiao Yan’s two old flames nearby.
• Xiao Yan immediately flew northwest to rescue his old flames, and Yao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, and Old Man Bao Shan followed him.

Yun Yun and the Flower Sect were trapped and overwhelmed by the Heavenly Nether Sect and magical beasts until Yao Ling intervened, rescued Nalan Yanran, and defeated the attackers. After Xiao Yan arrived, the Flower Sect's survivors were left to recover and face their unexpected allies.

• Yun Yun led the Flower Sect elders in fighting the encircled Heavenly Nether Sect and magical beasts, then sent Elder Qinghua away to seek help from the Supreme Elder.
• The Heavenly Nether Sect Deputy Sect Leader captured Nalan Yanran, but Yao Ling appeared, severed his arm, destroyed him, and drove the surviving attackers away.
• Yao Ling freed Nalan Yanran and gave healing pills to the injured Flower Sect elders, while Yun Yun thanked her and asked about her connection to the sect.
• The Heavenly Nether Sect Seventh Elder's corpse fell from the sky, and Xiao Yan arrived with several figures and greeted Yun Yun.

After rescuing Yun Yun and the Flower Sect, Xiao Yan absorbed the Demonic Blood Pool and reached the peak of the Nine-Revolutions Dou Zun realm. At the Ancient Domain Platform, Yao Ling confronted Gu You, and a newcomer suggested they make peace.

• Yao Ling confirmed to Yun Yun that she had been the mysterious expert who rescued the Flower Sect, and an elder offered Xiao Yan the Demonic Blood Pool as thanks.
• Xiao Yan entered the Blood Pool to absorb its energy while Xiao Yi Xian, Yao Ling, Yun Yun, and the Flower Sect elders stood guard.
• After two days, Xiao Yan emerged at the peak of the Nine-Revolutions Dou Zun realm, and the group set off for the Ancient Domain Platform.
• Xiao Yan's group reached the crowded Ancient Domain Platform and began looking for Xun'er, but Yao Ling spotted Gu You among their old enemies.
• Gu You threatened to repay Yao Ling for their past conflict, and an unidentified speaker urged them to put aside their hostility.

Elder Tong Xuan intervened when Gu You confronted Xiao Yan’s group, then challenged Xiao Yan over his relationships and the pressure they placed on Xun’er. After Xun’er asked Xiao Yan to become a true Dou Sheng before visiting the Gu Clan again, Hun Yu and Gu You discussed the Hun Clan’s plans and Hun Yu vowed to kill Xiao Yan himself.

• Elder Tong Xuan arrived with the Gu Clan’s younger generation and rebuked Gu You for provoking the Gu Clan through the Soul Hall.
• Elder Tong Xuan criticized Xiao Yan for pursuing multiple wives while seeking Xun’er, and Xun’er ended the argument before it escalated.
• Xun’er told Xiao Yan she was upset but accepted his choice, then asked him not to visit the Gu Clan until he reached the Dou Sheng realm.
• Hun Yu told Gu You he wanted the Hun Clan to exterminate the Yao Clan before the Shi Clan, but Gu You explained that the Hun Clan had already chosen to target the Shi Clan first.
• Hun Yu blamed Gu You for failing to kill Xiao Yan in the past and declared that he would kill Xiao Yan himself.

Hun Yu rallied the gathered factions into an alliance to cross the beast tide, while Xiao Yan and the Gu Clan group remained wary of his motives. As the allied forces approached the beasts, Hun Yu asked Gu You to cooperate with Yao Ling, leaving Gu You stunned but unable to openly refuse.

• Hun Yu persuaded the crowd to form an alliance and lead the way toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Yan questioned Elder Tong Xuan, who explained that reaching the tree alone would not grant them its opportunity.
• Xun'er agreed that her group should join the procession, and Yao Ling said she would watch Gu You while Elder Tong Xuan cleared the beasts.
• The group caught up with the alliance and saw a beast tide whose combined aura stirred storms and changed the heavens and earth.
• Hun Yu invited Yao Ling to travel with the alliance, then offered to have Gu You cooperate with her; Gu You objected but swallowed his protest under Hun Yu's gaze.

Yao Ling accepted Hun Yu’s invitation to join his group crossing the beast tide, intending to confront Gu You and prevent him from interfering. After using Soul-powered pills to clear a path and warning Hun Yu against harming her, she heard his offer to recruit her as an alchemist for the Hun Clan.

• Yao Ling explained to Xiao Yan and Elder Tong Xuan that she would join Hun Yu’s group to keep Gu You in check, and Xiao Yan warned her to protect herself.
• Hun Yu led Yao Ling and his experts into the beast tide, with the other fighters following behind them.
• As stronger beasts slowed the group’s advance, Yao Ling detonated two Eight-grade Six-color pills to clear a path.
• Yao Ling warned Hun Yu that she had hundreds of similar pills and would detonate them if he tried to harm her.
• Hun Yu abandoned his plan to attack Yao Ling and asked whether she would serve the Hun Clan as a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill Grandmaster.

Yao Ling rejected Hun Yu’s demand that the Yao Clan become a vassal of the Hun Clan, then escaped the collapsing group caught in the beast tide and returned to Xiao Yan. After she warned them that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had allied with the Hun Clan, Xiao Yan’s group pursued Hun Yu toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• Yao Ling refused Hun Yu’s offer and learned that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had sworn allegiance to the Hun Clan.
• Hun Yu sacrificed two companions to evade Yao Ling’s Soul attacks as the beast tide overwhelmed the group.
• Yao Ling used her Medicine Gourd to blast open a path through the beasts and made her way back to Xiao Yan’s group.
• Yao Ling told Xiao Yan and the others about the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s allegiance, and Elder Tong Xuan confirmed that the clan’s shift had worried the Gu Clan.
• When Hun Yu’s group rushed ahead, Xiao Yan led his companions after them, leaving only four or five hundred people struggling in the beast tide.

Xiao Yan's group reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree and waited for the other parties after learning that its trial summoned powerful puppets. Hun Yu arrived and discussed joining forces with them, while secretly celebrating that Yao Ling had badly injured two of his rivals.

• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan followed the Hun Clan's party after its multicolored-eyed young clan leader ordered them to move.
• Xiao Yan's group broke through the beast tide and reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where Yao Ling warned that it summoned puppets as strong as low-level Half Saints.
• Xiao Yan and the others rested before the tree, deciding to wait for the other parties and face the trial together.
• Hun Yu arrived and mocked the group for waiting, and Yao Ling sarcastically echoed his words before rebuffing his thanks for her earlier attacks.
• Hun Yu proposed that they join forces and privately welcomed the damage Yao Ling had inflicted on two Hun Clan rivals, which strengthened his standing among the younger generation.

Hun Yu urged the gathered teams to cooperate against five Half-Saint puppets guarding the next Bodhi Ancient Tree trial. After a team was slaughtered and the survivors destroyed the puppets, everyone advanced toward the tree and was drawn inside.

• Hun Yu explained that passing the Bodhi Three Trials required cooperation, just as five Half-Saint experts emerged from a spatial rift.
• The five Half-Saints killed the leader of one team and slaughtered more than half its members while the other teams attacked amid the chaos.
• Xiao Yan proposed that the four surviving teams each handle one Half-Saint, and they agreed to fight together.
• Elder Tong Xuan identified the Half-Saints as lifeless puppets, and the four teams quickly destroyed them with powerful Dou Skills.
• After resting, the survivors approached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, whose radiance enveloped them and carried them inside.

Yao Ling escaped the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion and reunited with Xiao Yan, while Hun Yu and Gu You also emerged. The tree offered only two Bodhi Seeds and revealed that two of four candidates would become Dou Saints, forcing the four into a battle under suppressed cultivation.

• Yao Ling realized the treasure pavilion was an illusion and broke it by placing a real Bodhi Seed among the fakes.
• Yao Ling touched the Bodhi Ancient Tree, felt it nourish her cultivation, and then reunited with Xiao Yan as Hun Yu and Gu You appeared.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree produced four Bodhi Seeds, but two returned to its trunk, leaving one for each pair of opponents.
• The tree showed four experts fighting until two remained and became Dou Saints, confirming that only two of the four could advance.
• Yao Ling chose to fight Gu You while Xiao Yan faced Hun Yu, and Gu You summoned the Nihility Devouring Flame.

Gu You used the Senluo Youhuo Lock to sacrifice his flesh and souls for the Nihility Devouring Flame’s power, then trapped and wounded Yao Ling. Yao Ling struck back with her Clan Mark beam, leaving Gu You badly injured as Xiao Yan’s furious voice rang out.

• Gu You attacked Yao Ling while the Bodhi Ancient Tree suppressed her, but she evaded his strikes and taunted him as Hun Yu struggled against Xiao Yan.
• Gu You sacrificed his flesh and more than ten thousand souls with the Senluo Youhuo Lock, borrowing the Nihility Devouring Flame’s power.
• Gu You bound Yao Ling with flame chains, wounded her right shoulder with a blade, and prepared to kill her.
• Yao Ling concentrated her Soul power and Dou Qi into her Clan Mark and blasted Gu You in the chest, shattering his ribs and extinguishing the flames around him.
• Xiao Yan shouted that Gu You would die that day.

Xiao Yan arrived in time to save Yao Ling and struck Gu You with a Six-Colored Fire Lotus, but the Bodhi Ancient Tree teleported Gu You and Hun Yu away and rewarded them with Bodhi Seeds. The tree healed Xiao Yan and Yao Ling, then showed them a battle between two Dou Di before sending information into their minds.

• Xiao Yan gave Yao Ling medicinal pills, then attacked Gu You with a Six-Colored Fire Lotus.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree teleported Gu You and Hun Yu out of danger and gave Hun Yu three Bodhi Seeds and Gu You five.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree healed Xiao Yan and Yao Ling's injuries.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Ling watched the tree reveal images of two Dou Di fighting, after which two streams of information entered their minds.

Xiao Yan and Yao Ling refined Bodhi Seeds to cleanse the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s negative consciousness, then endured its reincarnation trial and emerged far stronger. Xiao Yan reached the Elementary Half-Saint realm, and Yao Ling revealed power that appeared to belong to a Dou Saint before trapping Gu You.

• Xiao Yan realized the Bodhi Ancient Tree wanted them to refine Bodhi Seeds to dispel the fallen Dou Emperor’s negative consciousness, and he and Yao Ling began refining them.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree replenished Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi as he worked, and after half a month of refining, its negative consciousnesses were completely eliminated.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree drew Xiao Yan and Yao Ling into a reincarnation illusion, while the other people emerged from the tree and Elder Tong Xuan guarded their opportunity.
• After a month outside, Xiao Yan and Yao Ling emerged with powerful ancient auras, and Xiao Yan said he had reached the Elementary Half-Saint realm.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sent out forty Bodhi Seeds before its small world shattered and everyone was expelled into the Barren Ancient Region.
• Yao Ling immobilized Gu You by solidifying the space around him, prompting the onlookers to suspect she was a true Dou Saint.

Yao Ling defeated Gu You’s resistance and confronted the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan after refusing to give them Bodhi Seeds. When Ying Huang demanded six seeds, she refused and prepared to fight, leaving the conflict on the verge of a clash between Dou Saints.

• Yao Ling compensated the neutral teams with pills, then slaughtered the Hun Clan fighters while Gu You remained trapped.
• Hun Yu taunted Jiu Feng, who defended the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s allegiance to the Hun Clan and attacked Yao Ling.
• Jiu Feng used the Blood Phoenix Edict to summon Ying Huang, who broke Yao Ling’s spatial confinement and demanded six Bodhi Seeds.
• Yao Ling rejected Ying Huang’s demand and gave six Bodhi Seeds to Gu Xun'er, Gu Qingyang, and Elder Tong Xuan.
• Ying Huang manifested his wings as the people nearby retreated, and a fight between Dou Saint experts became unavoidable.