Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu refined the Ninth-grade Dragon-Phoenix Supreme Pill on Tianmu Mountain, drawing Black Demonic Lightning and revealing that he had reached Dou Sheng. He survived the lightning, the Godfall Sword became a divine artifact, and the pill formed a Pill Beast before Lu Yu captured it.

• Lu Yu refined hundreds of medicinal ingredients and fused them with Vast Ancient Dragon Essence Blood and Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Essence Blood to form the Dragon-Phoenix Supreme Pill.
• After half a month, the pill’s formation summoned Black Demonic Lightning, and Gu Yuan revealed confidence that Lu Yu had prepared to face it.
• Lu Yu’s Dou Sheng aura emerged as the Pagoda Tower shattered nine bolts of Black Demonic Lightning and the Godfall Sword absorbed their energy.
• The Godfall Sword transformed into a divine artifact while the Azure Luan Cauldron released a Pill Beast from the completed pill.
• The Pill Beast tried to escape, but the Godfall Sword struck it and returned the transformed purple-gold pill to Lu Yu.

After refining a Ninth-grade Dragon-Phoenix Supreme Pill, Lu Yu agreed to trade a Heavenly Spirit Pill formula for the Lei Clan’s Dou Sheng-level thunder seed and negotiated with Gu Yuan over a strike against the Soul Hall. He began consuming the pill to raise his strength, while Gu Yuan and Mang Tianchi discussed the risks of the planned raid.

• Lu Yu answered the Spirit Treasure Pavilion alchemists’ questions after refining the Ninth-grade Pill, then said goodbye to Xiao Yan.
• Mang Tianchi offered the Lei Clan’s Black Demonic Lightning thunder seed for the Heavenly Spirit Pill formula, and Lu Yu accepted the exchange.
• Gu Yuan offered several rewards for an eighth-grade peak prescription, but Lu Yu declined them and asked for a treasure that could rapidly increase his strength.
• Gu Yuan proposed raiding the Soul Hall for a Void Devouring Flame Seed Fire, and Lu Yu agreed to target the Earth Hall if the Ancient Clan provided support.
• After Lu Yu departed, Mang Tianchi questioned Gu Yuan’s plan, and Gu Yuan insisted he had prepared for the consequences.
• Lu Yu swallowed the Dragon-Phoenix Supreme Pill, whose energy transformed his body and drove his One-star Dou Sheng cultivation to rise.

Lu Yu completed his seclusion, reached peak One-star Dou Sheng, and tested his Dragon-Phoenix Armor before preparing to travel to Dragon Island. He left Yao Ming to protect Tianmu Mountain and met Cai Lin in the Sky Mountain Blood Pool, where she honored their agreement and drew close to him.

• Lu Yu emerged from his cocoon at peak One-star Dou Sheng and found that Yao Ming's full-force punch could not damage his Dragon-Phoenix Armor.
• Lu Yu told Gu Yuan and Mang Tianchi he would travel to Dragon Island to refine another Dragon-Phoenix Supreme Pill, and they agreed to guard Tianmu Mountain.
• Lu Yu left Yao Ming with Little Fairy Doctor for protection and reassured her before setting out.
• Lu Yu found Cai Lin cultivating at the bottom of the Sky Mountain Blood Pool, where she had nearly reached the Half-Saint realm.
• Cai Lin asked Lu Yu to lie on the Seven-Orifice Spirit Nurturing Lotus and began tending to him in keeping with their agreement at the Nine Nether Yellow Spring.

Lu Yu left Cai Lin and traveled with Zi Yan to East Dragon Island to refine a pill from the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit. While preparing for the task, he broke through to the middle Heaven Realm, strengthening his chances of success.

• Lu Yu kissed Cai Lin goodbye after spending time with her in the blood pool, and then met Zi Yan to set off for Dragon Island.
• Lu Yu explained that he planned to refine a Ninth-Grade Profound Pill from the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and needed Dragon Island’s abundant energy to support the process.
• Elder Zhu Li welcomed Lu Yu and Zi Yan to East Dragon Island and brought them to meet First Elder Qing Shan and Second Elder Qing Mu.
• Lu Yu gave the elders a list of 367 supplementary treasures and requested a location near an energy vein; Qing Shan offered the Azure Dragon Pool and arranged three days of undisturbed seclusion for him.
• Lu Yu consumed five Silver-grade Soul Infant Fruits and used the Thunder Emperor Scripture to break through from the early Heaven Realm to the middle Heaven Realm.

Lu Yu refined the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit into a Ninth-Grade Profound Pill at the Azure Dragon Pool, using three Strange Fires and the black ancient tower to purify worldly energy. After surviving pill lightning and producing pill rain, the completed pill tried to escape Dragon Island, and the elders moved to stop it.

• Lu Yu arrived at the Azure Dragon Pool, where Zi Yan and the three elders had prepared the medicinal ingredients for his refinement.
• Lu Yu used three Strange Fires to melt the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and called on the black ancient tower to purify the worldly energy feeding the pill.
• After more than twenty days, pill lightning gathered over the Azure Dragon Pool, and the opening cauldron released pill rain.
• The Ninth-Grade Profound Pill endured the lightning tribulation, broke free of its embryonic shell, and fled toward the edge of Dragon Island.
• Qing Shan, Qing Mu, and Zhu Li tried to block the fleeing pill with a spatial Prohibition, the Dragon Island Grand Array, and Zhu Li's dragon body, but it nearly escaped.

Lu Yu captured the Ninth-Grade Profound Pill for Zi Yan, then rested and began a simulation as a Thunder God Palace disciple. The simulation ended with him becoming the palace’s holy son and defeating two remnant souls, after which he faced a choice of rewards.

• Lu Yu subdued the dragon-phoenix-shaped Ninth-Grade Profound Pill with the Pagoda Tower and gave it to Zi Yan, warning her that refining it would take time.
• Zi Yan teased Lu Yu about Cai Lin, confessed her feelings, kissed him, and left to refine the pill.
• After recovering, Lu Yu chose the Thunder God Palace disciple identity for his simulation.
• In the simulation, Lu Yu restored the missing part of Thunder God Palace’s inheritance, became a renowned spirit array master, and rose to become its holy son.
• While seeking the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s inheritance, Lu Yu’s ancestor’s avatar destroyed the remnant souls of the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor and Profound Demon Emperor, and Lu Yu chose the Three Yang Radian Thunder Method.
• The simulation ended and offered Lu Yu the Nine Heavens Thunder Seal, Thunder Beast Blood Essence, or his Inheritance Jade Slip.

Lu Yu chose the Inheritance Jade Slip and discovered that the Three Yang Radian Thunder Method could fuse spiritual objects to raise their grade. Several days later, he tested the inherited divine arts in a sparring match with Elders Qing Shan and Qing Mu above Dragon Island.

• Lu Yu rejected the peerless sacred object and Earth Supreme thunder beast essence blood, choosing the Inheritance Jade Slip for its compatible techniques.
• Lu Yu studied the jade slip’s divine arts, including the Thunder Emperor Undying Body, and learned the Three Yang Radian Thunder Method.
• Lu Yu used the method to transform five seventh-rank Dragon Blood Grass plants into pseudo Strange Fires, fuse them, and produce eighth-rank Dragon Blood Grass.
• Several days later, Lu Yu used Dragon Phoenix Carefree Journey, Void Breaking Finger, and Heaven Burning Seal while sparring with Elders Qing Shan and Qing Mu above Dragon Island.
• Elders Qing Shan and Qing Mu combined their techniques to withstand Lu Yu’s Heaven Burning Seal, and Lu Yu ended the sparring match with a respectful greeting.

After sparring with Elder Qing Shan and Elder Qing Mu, Lu Yu went to the Void Lightning Pool and seized three bolts of Black Demonic Lightning to cultivate the Thunder Emperor Undying Body. He completed its first level and returned toward Dragon Island to see whether Zi Yan had emerged from seclusion.

• Elder Qing Shan and Elder Qing Mu praised Lu Yu’s Dou Skills and cultivation after their battle, and Lu Yu took his leave to train.
• Lu Yu entered the deeper regions of the Void Lightning Pool and discovered a swarm of Black Demonic Lightning.
• Lu Yu used the Myriad Flames Burning Heaven Sword Array to block the swarm, captured three bolts with the Pagoda Tower, and escaped the pool’s pursuit.
• Lu Yu refined the three bolts over half a month and completed the first level of the Thunder Emperor Undying Body.
• Lu Yu declared that he had made up for his shortcomings and headed back to Dragon Island to check on Zi Yan.

Zi Yan emerged from seclusion after completing her evolution, and Lu Yu prepared to join the Ancient Clan in a strike against the Soul Hall’s Earth Hall. The Ancient Clan envoys and Spirit Treasure Pavilion forces assembled, and the joint expedition set out to depart.

• Lu Yu returned to Dragon Island, where Zi Yan emerged from seclusion with a newly evolved Dragon-Phoenix form and was welcomed as Dragon Emperor by the Great Void Dragon Clan.
• Lu Yu told the elders that the Ancient Clan would lead an attack on the Soul Hall’s Earth Hall, while the Great Void Dragon Clan stayed out of the operation and Zi Yan remained behind to stabilize her cultivation.
• Lu Yu gave Zi Yan a Space Jade Slip so she could open a passage to him if he faced a powerful enemy, then left Dragon Island several days later.
• Lu Yu returned to Spirit Treasure Pavilion and learned that the Ancient Clan envoys, led by Gu Zhenshan, had been waiting for him.
• Lu Yu and the Ancient Clan envoys agreed to attack Earth Hall at once, with Spirit Treasure Pavilion dispatching three Dou Zun, seventeen Dou Zun-level puppets, and fifty Dou Zong elders.

Lu Yu led the Spirit Treasure Pavilion and Ancient Clan in an assault on the Soul Hall’s Earth Hall, where they broke through its defenses and fought its forces. He trapped the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master with a sword array, but the enemy sent a signal summoning Hun Miesheng as Lu Yu and Gu Yuan prepared to finish the battle.

• Lu Yu and the Spirit Treasure Pavilion joined Elder Gu Zhenshan and the Ancient Clan to attack the Earth Hall in the Falling Soul Mountain Range.
• Little Fairy Doctor absorbed the poison mist, and the attackers shattered the Earth Hall’s spatial barrier before Lu Yu killed its guarding Venerable Elder.
• The Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s forces attacked the Soul Hall guards, while Lu Yu broke the Heavenly Venerables’ formation and Gu Zhenshan engaged the Vice Hall Master.
• Lu Yu’s Myriad Flames Burning Heaven Sword Array pinned the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master, and he proposed using the enemy’s body to revive Mo You.
• The Vice Hall Master burned his vital blood to escape, then shattered a Jade Slip to summon Hun Miesheng.
• Lu Yu restarted the sword array and asked Gu Yuan to help finish the battle before Hun Miesheng arrived.

Lu Yu and the Ancient Clan experts destroyed the Soul Hall’s Earth Hall, freed its imprisoned souls, and captured its Vice Hall Master before escaping with the Soul Origin and a Void Devouring Flame Seed Fire. Hun Miesheng arrived too late to stop them and ordered the branch halls to hunt them down.

• Lu Yu and Gu Zhenshan defeated and sealed the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master, while Gu Yuan, Tong Xuan, and Tong You held off the other Soul Hall fighters.
• Lu Yu and the allied experts wiped out the remaining defenders, destroyed the prison hall, and freed its captive souls.
• Lu Yu recovered the Soul Origin and received a Half-Saint level Void Devouring Flame Seed Fire from Tong Xuan and Little Fairy Doctor.
• Lu Yu ordered the group to withdraw and burned the Earth Hall as they escaped through a Space Passage.
• Hun Miesheng arrived after the group had left, found no trace to track, and ordered the Soul Hall branch halls to search the Central Plains for them.

Lu Yu returned from the battle with the Soul Hall, strengthened Little You by feeding it two Black Flames, and advanced his cultivation and soul power while attempting an Earth-grade spirit array. Meanwhile, Hun Miesheng ordered the Soul Hall to massacre every force on a list of recent opponents, declaring that the Hall needed no evidence.

• Lu Yu returned to Spirit Treasure Pavilion with the Ancient Clan group, reported four Dou Zong elders and all seven Dou Zun puppets lost, and ordered secret compensation for the fallen elders' families.
• Lu Yu had Little You devour the Void Devouring Flame Seed Fire and Life-bound Phoenix Flame, helping him reach the early stage of Two-star Dou Sheng.
• Little You purified the Soul Origin collected from the Soul Hall, and Lu Yu absorbed it to reach the late Heaven Realm.
• Lu Yu attempted to form the Zhou Tian Star Locking Spirit Array, corrected an unstable energy node, and began another attempt.
• Hun Miesheng learned that the Soul Hall had found no definite clue about the killer and ordered the forces opposing the Hall to be wiped out, including Spirit Treasure Pavilion.

Lu Yu planned to revive Mo You using the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master's body and sought Ninth-tier Sky Swallowing Python essence blood, while Cai Lin neared a breakthrough that might provide it. As Lu Yu studied a Supreme Pill recipe to help her advance, Soul Hall attacked Spirit Treasure Pavilion, where its protective array held and Venerable Sky Flame's sword array devastated the invading vanguard.

• Lu Yu told Mo You that resurrection required a Dou Sheng body, Ninth-tier Magical Beast essence blood, and a Ninth-grade Bone-Generating Blood-Melding Pill, and Mo You preferred essence blood from the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python clan.
• Lu Yu found Cai Lin cultivating at the Sky Mountain Blood Pool, sensed her high-rank Half-Saint realm and emerging ninth color, and decided to study whether Dou Sheng bone marrow could substitute for Supreme Spirit Liquid in a Supreme Pill.
• Zi Yan visited Little Fairy Doctor at the Spirit Treasure Pavilion, and the women noticed the alarm when Soul Hall's forces arrived to attack Tianmu Mountain.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate ordered Soul Hall to break the protective array, but its chains only produced ripples across the barrier.
• Venerable Sky Flame activated the Heaven Burning Li Fire Sword Array, burning through Soul Hall's vanguard and driving the survivors back.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate, enraged by the losses, declared that he would personally break Spirit Treasure Pavilion's protective array.

Great Heavenly Venerate broke Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s protective array, but Zi Yan arrived and killed him with one punch. She overpowered Hun Miesheng, who summoned Hun Sha, one of the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan, to face her.

• Great Heavenly Venerate reached Two-star Dou Sheng strength and shattered the Heaven Burning Li Fire Sword Array, wounding Venerable Sky Flame and opening the way for the Soul Hall army.
• Zi Yan appeared and killed Great Heavenly Venerate with a single punch, causing the Soul Hall army to flee.
• Hun Miesheng arrived and revealed himself as a Five-star Dou Sheng, but Zi Yan knocked him back and shattered his Myriad Souls Devouring Heaven Palm.
• Hun Miesheng offered compensation, but Zi Yan refused and continued attacking him.
• Hun Miesheng crushed a spatial Jade Slip and summoned Hun Sha, one of the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan, who set his sights on Zi Yan.

Gu Yuan appeared in time to stop Hun Sha’s attack, defeated him, and confronted Hun Tiandi over the Soul Clan’s violation of the ancient alliance. Hun Tiandi arrived to shield his subordinates and shifted the dispute toward Spirit Treasure Pavilion, leaving Gu Yuan facing accusations of favoritism.

• Hun Sha threatened Zi Yan, but Lu Yu used a golden edict to warn him against attacking the Great Void Dragon Clan.
• Hun Sha rejected Mang Tianchi’s reminder of the Eight Ancient Clans’ pact and launched a devastating saber strike at them.
• Gu Yuan appeared, destroyed Hun Sha’s attack, revealed his identity as the Ancient Clan’s chief, and defeated Hun Sha after he tried to flee.
• Hun Tiandi arrived and questioned Gu Yuan’s actions while Hun Sha blamed Hun Miesheng and Hun Miesheng blamed the dead Great Heavenly Venerate.
• Hun Tiandi argued that Spirit Treasure Pavilion should answer for injuring Soul Hall’s Heavenly Venerates and accused Gu Yuan of having another motive for defending it.

Lu Yu rejected Hun Tiandi’s proposed exchange and fought Hun Miesheng to settle the dispute between the Spirit Treasure Pavilion and the Soul Hall. Lu Yu killed Hun Miesheng, captured his Void Devouring Flame Seed Fire, and secured the Ancient Clan’s victory as Hun Tiandi ended the confrontation.

• Lu Yu challenged Hun Miesheng to resolve the conflict, and Gu Yuan backed him as the Ancient Clan’s son-in-law while Hun Tiandi agreed to let them fight under the Eight Clans Alliance rules.
• Hun Tiandi healed Hun Miesheng with a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill, then reduced his cultivation to the peak of Four-star Dou Sheng and ordered him to kill Lu Yu or die.
• Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi created a barrier for the duel, and Lu Yu used Spirit Burning Transformation to raise his strength to the early Three-star Dou Sheng level.
• Lu Yu countered Hun Miesheng’s attacks with his exotic flames, Yin-Yang Qi, and soul sword, then unleashed the Flame Ancestral Talisman’s power through the Godfall Sword and cut Hun Miesheng down.
• Lu Yu used the Pagoda Tower to suppress the escaping Void Devouring Flame Seed Fire, and Gu Yuan declared the Ancient Clan the winner before Hun Tiandi ended the matter and departed.

Lu Yu discussed the Soul Clan’s likely retaliation and his relationship with Xun'er with Gu Yuan after the battle at Spirit Treasure Pavilion. Days later, Spirit Treasure Pavilion rose to second among the Central Plains’ forces, and Lu Yu made a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill for Cai Lin as she prepared to break through to Dou Sheng.

• Hun Tiandi took the injured Hun Sha away, and the surviving Soul Hall experts retreated from Spirit Treasure Pavilion.
• Lu Yu told Gu Yuan he planned to strengthen himself against the Soul Clan and affirmed that he loved Xun'er and his other confidantes equally; Gu Yuan warned that the Ancient Clan might test him.
• Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s victory made it the Central Plains’ second-greatest force, while Soul Hall’s leaders and most of its Heavenly Venerates were dead.
• Lu Yu refined a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill and used the Pagoda Tower to absorb the Black Demonic Lightning Tribulation before capturing the pill in its spirit-deer form.
• Lu Yu gave the Supreme Pill to Cai Lin to help her reach Dou Sheng, then left to enter seclusion and prepare pills for Xian'er.
• Cai Lin began her own seclusion at the Sky Mountain Blood Pool, determined to break through and fight alongside Lu Yu.

Lu Yu prepared pills for Little Fairy Doctor before beginning a simulation in the Gu Spirit World, where he uncovered the world’s role as a Spirit Insect Tribe trial ground and escaped with a reward. The simulation ended with Lu Yu choosing among three items.

• Lu Yu gave Little Fairy Doctor three eighth-tier nine-colored pills and instructions to help her advance, and she entered seclusion.
• Lu Yu chose the Ice Spirit Clan Descendant identity and secretly cultivated before rising to become a Fourth-tier Gu Master.
• Lu Yu killed White Village's old ancestor, assumed his identity, and obtained the Blood Gu Yuan Devouring Art and a Substitute Gu Puppet.
• Lu Yu won Gu Yuefeng's trust, married Gu Yueyu, and discovered a bone shard revealing that the Gu Spirit World was a cultivation ground for the Great Thousand World's Spirit Insect Tribe.
• Lu Yu uncovered evidence that the Upper Realm harvested Gu Immortals, then refined a Futu Immortal Gu to draw the attention of a powerful Spirit Insect Tribe elder.
• The elder opened a passage for Lu Yu to leave and gave him Nine Revolutions Profound Spirit Liquid, after which the simulation offered him three possible rewards.

Lu Yu used the Futu Immortal Gu to upgrade his Pagoda Tower, repaired Hun Miesheng’s body for Mo You, and advanced to Three-star Dou Sheng by having Little You devour the Void Devouring Flame Seed Fire. After receiving the Black Demonic Lightning Seed from Lei Dong and releasing Mang Tianchi from their agreement, Lu Yu was approached by Gu Yuan.

• Lu Yu chose the Futu Immortal Gu, which raised his Pagoda Tower from a Low-grade Divine Artifact to a mid-grade Divine Artifact.
• Lu Yu used the Living Flame to repair Hun Miesheng’s Five-star Dou Sheng body so Mo You could use it.
• Lu Yu let Little You devour the Void Devouring Flame Seed Fire and advanced from Two-star to Three-star Dou Sheng.
• Qing Lin announced that Lei Dong had arrived with the Black Demonic Lightning Seed, which Lu Yu accepted in the council hall.
• Lei Dong asked to end the Spirit Nurturing Dust agreement and take Mang Tianchi back to the Lei Clan; Lu Yu agreed and gifted the clan the remaining Spirit Nurturing Dust.
• After Lei Dong and Mang Tianchi departed, Gu Yuan appeared beside Lu Yu.

Lu Yu refined the Black Demonic Lightning Seed and advanced his Thunder Body, then witnessed Cai Lin break through to peak Three-star Dou Sheng. Their intimacy and shared cultivation helped Cai Lin’s Spiritual Meridian begin advancing, and it was undergoing a transformation when the chapter ended.

• Gu Yuan gave Lu Yu an Ancient Realm token, returned to his clan, and urged Lu Yu not to keep Xun'er waiting.
• Lu Yu refined the Black Demonic Lightning Seed for half a month and advanced his Thunder Body to Lesser Accomplishment.
• Cai Lin broke through to peak Three-star Dou Sheng above Tianmu Mountain, and Lu Yu arrived to witness her transformation.
• Cai Lin and Lu Yu reunited in the Spirit Treasure Pavilion bedchamber and agreed to tell Xian'er about their relationship after her seclusion.
• Cai Lin sensed her Spiritual Meridian was about to advance, so she and Lu Yu joined their cultivation energies to help her break through.