Chapter Summaries

Yao Ling fought Elder Ying Huang, using her superior soul power and agility to counter his physical strength. After Elder Ying Huang targeted Xiao Yan and forced her to stand her ground, Yao Ling blasted him backward, leaving Jiu Feng stunned by the apparent reversal.

• Elder Ying Huang transformed into his Demon Phoenix Dharma Body and attacked Yao Ling, but she evaded him and wounded him with soul shockwaves.
• Elder Ying Huang used his speed to pursue Yao Ling, who kept retreating to exploit her advantages and exhaust him.
• Elder Ying Huang fired a black beam at Xiao Yan, forcing Yao Ling to block it and stop evading.
• Yao Ling activated her Clan Mark, raised her aura to mid-stage one-star Dou Saint, and declared she would finish Elder Ying Huang within ten moves.
• Elder Ying Huang charged through Yao Ling's Heavenly Flame net, but she struck his unguarded chest with a solidified soul soundwave and blasted him back over a thousand zhang.
• Jiu Feng watched Elder Ying Huang's retreat and wondered in disbelief whether the elder had lost.

Yao Ling and her allies forced the Hun Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to withdraw from the battle over the Bodhi Seeds. Xiao Yan shared the seeds among the Flower Sect and his allies before Xun'er and the others departed, while the Bodhi Heart remained hidden within Xiao Yan.

• Eagle Phoenix stopped fighting, and Hun Yu ordered the Hun Clan forces to retreat after Gu You warned that they could not suppress both the Gu Clan and the Yao Clan.
• Jiu Feng and Eagle Phoenix sent the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts away, while Xun'er challenged Jiu Feng over his clan's dependence on the Hun Clan.
• Yun Yun asked Xiao Yan for Bodhi Seeds, and he distributed two to the Flower Sect, one each to Xiao Yi Xian and Old Man Bao Shan, and four to the Gu Clan.
• Gu Qingyang regretted that they had not obtained the Bodhi Heart, which Xiao Yan secretly carried within his chest.
• Elder Tong Xuan warned Yao Ling about the Hun Clan and took Xun'er and the Gu Clan group back to the Ancient Realm, after which the others went their separate ways.

Xiao Yan asked Yao Dan to help refine a Bodhi Ten Thousand Purities Pill, and Yao Dan blessed his relationship with Yao Ling. After Yao Tian emerged from seclusion as a Battle Saint, he found out that Yao Ling had become a Battle Saint too and went to confront Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan showed Yao Dan the Bodhi Heart and asked for help refining a Bodhi Ten Thousand Purities Pill.
• Yao Dan revealed that the Yao Clan elders knew about Xiao Yan and Yao Ling’s relationship, blessed them, and offered to refine the pill himself.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Ling left together, drawing dismay from the Yao Clan’s young cultivators.
• Yao Tian emerged from seclusion as a Battle Saint, then learned that Yao Ling had also become a Battle Saint.
• Yao Tian found Xiao Yan and Yao Ling together and introduced himself, saying he would examine Xiao Yan as Yao Ling’s elder brother.

Yao Tian challenged Xiao Yan to test his strength and accepted him after Xiao Yan's Six-Colored Fire Lotus broke through his defense. Yao Tian then spoke privately with Yao Ling about clan affairs and the two siblings discussed entering the Pill Emperor's Ruins together.

• Yao Tian challenged Xiao Yan to prove himself, promising to defend rather than attack and to support Yao Ling's choice if Xiao Yan broke through his defenses.
• Xiao Yan formed a Six-Colored Fire Lotus that shattered Yao Tian's Great Vajra Shield and left a wound on his arm.
• Yao Tian praised Xiao Yan's strength, then asked him to leave so he could discuss clan matters with Yao Ling.
• Yao Tian told Yao Ling he would treat Xiao Yan as a member of the Yao Clan, while Yao Ling urged him to abandon prejudice over bloodlines.
• Yao Ling suggested that she and Yao Tian enter the Pill Emperor's Ruins together, since both had reached the Dou Saint realm.

Yao Tian and Yao Ling entered the Pill Emperor's Ruins to face its trials, where they were tasked with killing five rank-nine magical beasts. Their first encounter was a gigantic rank-nine He Yuan, which Yao Ling recognized as an impossible existence.

• Yao Tian and Yao Ling discussed preparing healing and repelling pills before he opened a spatial tunnel and took them home.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling arrived at the ruins the next morning, and Elder Wan Huo opened the entrance for them.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling entered the ruins together and received a task to cross the Barren Forest after killing at least five rank-nine magical beasts.
• Yao Tian revealed his late one-star Dou Sheng strength and encouraged Yao Ling to combine her Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul with his power.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling entered the Barren Forest and encountered a gigantic ape; Yao Ling identified it as a rank-nine He Yuan and questioned how one could exist.

Yao Ling and Yao Tian fought and killed the ninth-tier Magical Beast He Yuan by combining soul attacks, Heavenly Flames, and a binding net. Afterward, five or six powerful Magical Beasts surrounded them, leaving them facing another dangerous battle.

• Yao Ling and Yao Tian attacked He Yuan with soul techniques and Heavenly Flame swords, then used a shield to withstand his charge.
• Yao Ling and Yao Tian transferred violent Heavenly Flame energy into He Yuan, causing him to flee before they caught him with a Binding Fire Net.
• Yao Ling exhausted herself using a soul technique, and Yao Tian took control of the net until she recovered enough to help restrain He Yuan.
• Yao Ling and Yao Tian bound He Yuan with the fire net and killed him after several minutes of struggle.
• Yao Tian explained that a precious pill had advanced him to the mid-phase of the one-star Dou Saint realm, while Yao Ling wondered if He Yuan's corpse held a Demonic Core.
• Yao Tian sensed five or six powerful Magical Beasts approaching, and Yao Ling realized their battle had attracted them.

Yao Tian and Yao Ling escaped the magical beasts pursuing them by using a Soul avatar as a decoy, then hid underground to recover. After waking, they discussed hunting the remaining four beasts, and Yao Ling revealed that she had kept He Yuan’s corpse in her Medicine Gourd.

• Yao Tian and Yao Ling fled the encircling magical beasts, but sensed their route was blocked and turned to evade the six Saint Stage pursuers.
• Yao Ling created a Soul avatar with a weakened aura, drawing the magical beasts after it while she and Yao Tian escaped in different directions.
• The avatar exploded with Soul power, stunning the pursuing beasts, while Yao Tian and Yao Ling hid underground.
• Yao Ling collapsed from exhaustion, and Yao Tian shared his remaining energy with her before falling asleep himself.
• After they awoke, Yao Tian joked with Yao Ling about the Xiao Clan, then suggested hunting the remaining four magical beasts.
• Yao Ling expanded their underground hiding place and brought He Yuan’s corpse out of her Medicine Gourd.

Yao Tian and Yao Ling extracted a ninth-rank Demonic Core from He Yuan’s corpse, then hid in the Barren Forest as powerful magical beasts converged on its energy. With the runes sealing the core weakening, Yao Tian proposed refining it into a nine-grade Treasure Pill.

• Yao Ling revealed that she had stored He Yuan’s corpse in the Medicine Gourd, and Yao Tian and Yao Ling took turns burning it with their Heavenly Flames.
• The corpse shrank until it exploded in a violent Energy Storm, shaking the Barren Forest and drawing powerful magical beasts underground.
• Yao Ling secured the blue-golden ninth-rank Demonic Core in the Medicine Gourd, and she and Yao Tian fled as the magical beasts arrived.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling hid in a giant tree while the magical beasts searched for them, and Yao Ling warned that the weakening runes could not contain the core much longer.
• Yao Tian suggested that he and Yao Ling jointly refine the Demonic Core into a nine-grade Treasure Pill.

Yao Tian and Yao Ling destroyed He Yuan’s remnant soul, then joined forces to refine a Nine-grade Treasure Pill in the Barren Forest. After Black Demon Lightning exposed their location, they escaped underground with the finished pill, where Yao Tian insisted that Yao Ling take it.

• Yao Ling contained He Yuan’s Demonic Core, and Yao Tian burned away the remnant soul that emerged from it.
• The golden scroll updated its first task to require killing at least four ninth-rank magical beasts.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling combined the Demonic Core and medicinal ingredients in a flame cauldron to refine the Nine-grade Treasure Pill.
• Black Demon Lightning gathered over the Barren Forest, so Yao Ling dispersed the thunderclouds while Yao Tian secured the finished pill.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling fled underground and evaded several ninth-rank magical beasts; Yao Tian then urged Yao Ling to take the pill.

Yao Ling refined a Nine-grade Treasure Pill and gained enough strength to join Yao Tian in completing their mission to cross the Barren Forest. Beyond the forest, they met a projection of the Remnant Soul of Dou Di, who set them a new challenge: defeat him or give up.

• Yao Ling swallowed the Nine-grade Treasure Pill and spent half a month refining its energy, advancing to the middle stage of one-star Dou Sheng.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling spent two months hunting ferocious beasts in the Barren Forest and killed the Colorful Venomous Spider to complete their mission.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling crossed out of the Barren Forest and encountered an old man who recognized their familiar auras.
• Yao Tian identified the old man as the Remnant Soul of Dou Di, who revealed that his projection had the strength of an ordinary three-star Dou Sheng.
• The Remnant Soul of Dou Di challenged Yao Tian and Yao Ling to defeat his projection, then appeared before them in a flash.