Chapter Summaries

At the Space Trading Fair, Xiao Yan bought Little Fairy Doctor a dormant Zhen Feather Aconitum and Medusa a Seven-Colored Ore, despite their high prices. Yao Wan then found two familiar yellow fruits that delighted her and Xiao Yan, leaving the others curious about what they were.

• Little Fairy Doctor warned Xiao Yan not to touch the strange pitch-black object, and Xiao Yan bought it from the stall owner for an Eighth Grade Five-Colored Pill.
• Little Fairy Doctor identified the object as an immature Zhen Feather Aconitum, a mid-ranked Poison King, and Xiao Yan comforted her about the price.
• Xiao Yan saw Medusa eyeing a Seven-Colored Ore and bought it for two Eighth Grade Three-Colored Pills.
• Nalan Yanran and Yao Wan rejoined Xiao Yan and the others after finding little of interest at the fair.
• Yao Wan returned with two bright yellow fruits, handed one to Xiao Yan, and said they were very sweet.

Xiao Yan and the others entered the Space Trading Fair under disguises, where Yao Wan tried to prank Nalan Yanran with a lemon. Nalan Yanran ate it without reacting to the sourness, leaving Yao Yan puzzled about the fruit’s unusual taste.

• Xiao Yan presented the invitation to the Space Trading Fair’s guards, and the group donned cloaks that concealed their appearances.
• An old man in gray led Xiao Yan and the others into the auction hall, where they attracted the attention of other cloaked attendees.
• Xiao Yan brought the group to a secluded corner and enclosed their space, while Yao Wan removed her hood and teased Nalan Yanran with the yellow fruit.
• Yao Wan shoved the fruit into Nalan Yanran’s mouth, but Nalan Yanran chewed and swallowed it calmly instead of grimacing.
• Nalan Yanran said the fruit was neither sweet nor sour, and Yao Wan wondered whether it only looked like a lemon.

Yao Wan bid a Grade Eight Nine-Colored Pill for the remnant map linked to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but another bidder challenged her with an additional pill. The chapter ended with Yao Wan angrily demanding to know who dared steal her prize.

• Yao Wan bit into Xiao Yan's lemon, found it unbearably sour, and spat it out.
• Little Fairy Doctor teased Nalan Yanran for getting jealous, and Xiao Yan and Yao Wan laughed at Nalan's embarrassed denial.
• The Space Trading Fair began, and Elder Baoshan presented a remnant map said to be connected to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Yao Wan bid one Grade Eight Nine-Colored Pill for the map, silencing nearly everyone in the hall.
• An unknown guest countered with one Grade Eight Nine-Colored Pill and one Grade Eight Seven-Colored Pill, prompting Yao Wan to demand who dared steal her stuff.

Yao Wan outbid a rival for the remnant map by offering two Grade Eight Nine-Colored Pills, while Nalan Yanran and Medusa pranked her inside the private spatial curtain. The pills appeared before the Space Trading Fair, leaving the crowd stunned as Elder Baoshan prepared to accept the winning bid.

• Xiao Yan stopped Yao Wan from impulsively confronting the rival who had challenged her bid.
• Yao Wan and the rival raised their offers, with the rival reaching nine Grade Eight Eight-Colored Pills.
• Nalan Yanran removed Yao Wan's Cloud Boot and tickled her foot while Medusa held her ankle.
• Yao Wan offered two Grade Eight Nine-Colored Pills, and the rival fell silent because he could not match her bid.
• Yao Wan sent two Grade Eight Nine-Colored Pills out of the spatial curtain, and they flew toward Elder Baoshan as the crowd watched.

Xiao Yan secured the final Demon Flame Fragment Map, and Elder Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had reappeared after ten thousand years. Yao Wan promised to take Xiao Yan there, while Nalan Yanran asked to join and teased Yao Wan with an unexpected offer.

• Elder Baoshan completed the exchange, giving Xiao Yan the final Demon Flame Fragment Map in return for two Grade Eight Nine-Colored Pills.
• Yao Wan and Nalan Yanran stopped teasing each other when the fragment map arrived, and Yao Wan passed it to Xiao Yan.
• Elder Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared again, and Yao Wan said it could help Xiao Yan become a Dou Saint.
• Yao Wan flirted with Xiao Yan and promised to take him to the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but Nalan Yanran interrupted and said she wanted to go too.
• Yao Wan asked Nalan Yanran to show her something in return, and Nalan offered to give Xiao Yan to her for a few days before implying she had learned a more provocative idea from him.

After the Space Trading Fair, Yao Wan and Xiao Yan set out with their companions, but the Hun Clan ambushed them over the Demon Fire Ancient Diagram. Xiao Yan overwhelmed Hun Chi Ming and prepared to finish him off.

• Yao Wan urged Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran, Xian'er, and Medusa to return to Starfall Pavilion after the fair.
• Yao Wan sensed danger on the road, and Xiao Yan identified the hidden attackers as members of the Hun Clan.
• Hun Chi Ming introduced himself as Hun Feng's subordinate and demanded the Demon Fire Ancient Diagram, then attacked Yao Wan and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan blocked Hun Chi Ming's strike and mocked him, learning that he had caused trouble at the trading fair and made them spend an extra Grade Eight Nine-Colored Pill.
• Hun Chi Ming activated his clan tattoo and unleashed wronged souls, but Xiao Yan's Strange Fire attack burned them away and drove him back.

Xiao Yan killed Hun Chi Ming and recovered his spoils after the Hun Clan ambush, while Yao Wan and Nalan Yanran dealt with their opponents. The group headed back to Starfall Pavilion to handle the Demon Flame Fragment Map, as Yao Wan hinted that she wanted Xiao Yan to give her a ring of a different kind.

• Xiao Yan defeated Hun Chi Ming, destroyed his body and soul, and took his Storage Ring.
• Nalan Yanran and Yao Wan confirmed they were safe after dealing with the other Hun Clan attackers.
• Xiao Yan offered Yao Wan the Grade Eight Nine-Colored Pill from Hun Chi Ming's spoils, but she told him to keep it and teased him about giving her that kind of ring.
• Nalan Yanran grew jealous as Yao Wan hinted at her feelings for Xiao Yan, and Little Fairy Doctor noticed her reaction.
• Xiao Yan and the others returned to Starfall Pavilion to deal with the Demon Flame Fragment Map.

Xiao Yan assembled the Demon Flame Fragment Maps and used his seven-colored Heavenly Flame to reveal a prophecy about the Heaven and Earth Tide and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Yao Wan outlined a plan for Xiao Yan to grow stronger before the next Tide, while the others accepted her unexplained knowledge as a possible secret of the Yao Clan.

• Xiao Yan pieced together his Demon Flame Fragment Maps, revealing a landscape painting that Yao Wan told him to burn with his Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan intensified his seven-colored Heavenly Flame until the painting's lines emerged as ancient words: “Two moons appear together, nine stars become one; Heaven and Earth Tide, the demonic flame descends.”
• Yao Chen explained the celestial phenomenon, and Yao Wan said the next Heaven and Earth Tide would occur in three years, after the Bodhi Ancient Tree's revival and the Yan Clan's Burning Flame Secret Realm could help Xiao Yan advance.
• Yao Chen worried that Yao Wan's plan was too idealistic, but Xiao Yan reassured him and thanked Yao Wan for helping uncover the diagram's secret.
• When the others asked how Yao Wan knew about the diagram, Medusa suggested she had encountered information about the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Yao Chen reasoned that the Yao Clan might have preserved such secrets.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan prepared to travel to the Wild Ancient Domain for the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while Xiao Yan noticed that Yao Wan seemed to be hiding something from him. Yao Wan asked whether he would be angry about her secret, and the chapter ended with her flusteredly sending him off to cultivate.

• Xiao Yan planned to use the time before entering the Bodhi Ancient Tree to cultivate his Glass Body Sculpting Art.
• Yao Wan received a message from the Yao Clan telling her to head directly to the Wild Ancient Domain, where elders would meet them.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan teased each other about their engagement and Yao Wan's knowledge of things from his past.
• Xiao Yan questioned Yao Wan about her clues and knowledge, and she gave hesitant explanations that made him suspect she was concealing something.
• Yao Wan asked whether Xiao Yan would be angry if she had a secret, and Xiao Yan reassured her that he would not.
• Yao Yan got embarrassed when Xiao Yan teased her, then told him to go cultivate.

The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s awakening sent a strange fluctuation across Central State, giving Yao Wan and Xiao Yan insight into its power. After Xiao Yan learned that the Hun Clan was connected to the Void Swallowing Flame, Yao Wan prepared their group to set out for the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• Yao Wan felt the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s awakening sweep across Central State and recognized it as a rare opportunity to advance her soul and cultivation.
• Xiao Yan awoke from cultivating the Glass Body Sculpting Art and told Yao Wan that a voice had warned him he needed to become a Dou Saint to obtain a suitable body.
• Yao Wan suspected Xiao Yan had received enlightenment from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Xiao Yan grew more determined to obtain the Bodhi Heart.
• Xiao Yan asked about Hun Chi Ming and learned that Hun Feng and the Hun Clan were connected to the Void Swallowing Flame, which had become intelligent and taken human form.
• Yao Wan told Xiao Yan not to worry about the Void Swallowing Flame yet and said she had contacted the others so they could prepare to set out together.

After news of the Bodhi Ancient Tree spread, Xiao Yan and his companions traveled to the Wild Ancient Domain, where countless experts gathered in hopes of becoming Dou Sheng. They reached Wild Town, a bustling but blood-soaked stop at the domain’s edge.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s appearance in the Wild Ancient Domain drew factions and experts across Central State, who hoped it would help them become Dou Sheng.
• Yao Wan, Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran, Little Fairy Doctor, and Medusa set out from Starfall Pavilion, and Yao Chen gave Xiao Yan a Jade Slip so he could call for help.
• After several days of travel, Xiao Yan and his companions saw a vast stream of people heading toward the Wild Ancient Domain.
• Some travelers recognized Xiao Yan as Flame Venerable and greeted him respectfully, while Yao Wan teased him about the title.
• Xiao Yan and his companions arrived at Wild Town, where Nalan Yanran noticed the heavy stench of blood and asked how many people had died.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Wild Ancient Domain, where Nalan Yanran mercifully killed poison-stricken travelers who could not be saved. As they headed toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree, they found an injured Flower Sect group, and Xiao Yan chose to help because of Yao Chen’s past connection to the sect.

• Yao Wan led Xiao Yan and the women through the Wild Ancient Domain’s Poisonous Barrier, which Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor neutralized with their abilities.
• Several travelers emerged from the barrier blinded and fatally poisoned, so Nalan Yanran killed them swiftly to end their suffering.
• Xiao Yan reassured Nalan Yanran that no one would blame her for her choice, and the group continued toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The group encountered an injured team of women that Yao Wan recognized as likely members of the Flower Sect.
• Remembering Yao Chen’s past ties to the Flower Sect, Xiao Yan decided to intervene and help them.

Xiao Yan and his companions reached the Ancient Domain Stage, where they encountered Xun'er and the Gu Clan geniuses gathered to compete for the Bodhi Ancient Tree. Xun'er approached Xiao Yan’s group, leaving both her and the women around him bracing for an awkward reunion.

• Xiao Yan and his companions traveled through the Wild Ancient Domain and soon arrived at the lively Ancient Domain Stage.
• Xiao Yan noticed Xun’er with the Gu Clan geniuses, while Xun’er and Yao Wan recognized each other.
• Onlookers recognized Xiao Yan as Flame Venerable and discussed his achievements and the powerful women accompanying him.
• Xun’er worried about facing Xiao Yan’s Soulmates, recalling her past conflicts with them, but chose to approach first.
• Xian’er reacted coldly to Xun’er, while Gu Qingyang and Gu Hua watched the tense encounter and worried about what would happen.

Xun'er joined Xiao Yan and the women around him, facing the lingering resentment caused by her past actions. The Little Fairy Doctor refused to accept Xun'er's apology yet, leaving their relationship unresolved as the others watched.

• Gu Qingyang accepted that Xun'er had passed the Gu Clan's hurdle and could decide her own affairs, while Yao Wan greeted him and turned her attention to Xun'er.
• Nalan Yanran looked to Yao Wan for help managing Xun'er, but Yao Wan left the matter to the other women; the Little Fairy Doctor reacted with hostility.
• The Little Fairy Doctor greeted Xun'er as someone she had heard about from Xiao Yan, prompting curious onlookers to speculate about their relationship.
• Xun'er tried to apologize privately for what she had said at the Wind and Lightning Pavilion, but the Little Fairy Doctor told her there was no need to apologize and could not yet accept her goodwill.
• Medusa watched Xun'er without showing much hostility and reflected on how she had grown accustomed to life among the women in the Xiao Clan's backyard.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xun'er and learned that a Beast Tide blocked the way to the Bodhi Ancient Tree. He invited her to travel with his group, and they set out to cross the Wild Ancient Domain on their own.

• Nalan Yanran accepted Xun'er’s return without hostility, and the women avoided the quarrel the onlookers had anticipated.
• Xun'er told Xiao Yan that the Beast Tide had forced the competing groups to turn back and that no one could pass without joining forces.
• Yao Wan warned against teaming up with the Hall of Souls and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, then frightened a colorful-pupiled man with her Dou Saint aura.
• Xiao Yan invited Xun'er to join his group, and she agreed before telling Gu Qingyang to follow them quickly.
• Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, Xun'er, and their companions flew toward the Beast Tide as Gu Qingyang and Gu Hua watched them leave.

Xiao Yan and his party set out to break through the Wild Ancient Domain’s Beast Tide, while Hun Yu watched Gu Qingyang choose to follow them. At the edge of the advancing beasts, Xiao Yan admitted he could pass through alone but might not be able to destroy the entire tide.

• Hun Yu mocked Flame Venerable’s confidence and tried to frame Gu Qingyang’s choice to follow Xiao Yan as siding against everyone else.
• Gu Qingyang ignored Hun Yu, took Gu Hua and the Gu Clan members, and set off after Xiao Yan’s group.
• The colorful-eyed Young Clan Leader of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan recovered from his fear and vowed revenge on Xiao Yan and Yao Wan.
• Xiao Yan’s party reached the dark plain and saw the enormous beasts forming the Wild Ancient Domain’s Beast Tide.
• Yao Wan asked whether Xiao Yan could handle the Beast Tide himself, and Xiao Yan said he could likely get through but might struggle to wipe it all out.

Xiao Yan and the women fought their way into the Beast Tide, using Heavenly Flame, sword techniques, poison, and a flame array to clear a path. As Yao Wan prepared to reveal her contribution, a massive Bronze Ancient Bell formed behind Xiao Yan from silver-gray Soul Power.

• Xiao Yan plunged into the Beast Tide and used Heavenly Flame to destroy the beasts within a hundred li.
• Xiao Yan swung a Heavenly Flame ruler to carve a path through the Beast Tide, and Nalan Yanran joined him with her sword.
• Medusa summoned the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python to tear open a gap, then returned to Xiao Yan's side.
• Little Fairy Doctor released Poison Fire and poison mist that slowed the beasts and melted them into blood.
• Xun'er formed a Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame array that burned the outer beasts to nothing.
• Yao Wan hinted that she would act, and Xun'er noticed Soul Power gathering behind Xiao Yan into a hundred-zhang Bronze Ancient Bell.

Xiao Yan manifested a radiant ancient bell and pushed deep into the Beast Tide, astonishing Xun'er, Yao Wan, Gu Qingyang, and the watching Dou Zun. As Hun Yu urged the spectators to join the advance, a soul storm swept toward them from the Beast Tide.

• Xiao Yan shrank his soul-powered ancient bell until its reliefs revealed figures from his past, and Yao Wan explained that he had uniquely manifested the Soul Dou Technique’s spirit.
• Gu Qingyang and the Gu Clan geniuses followed Xiao Yan through the weakened rear of the Beast Tide, while Gu Zhen injured his eyes trying to look at Xiao Yan’s radiant bell from afar.
• Dou Zun watching from the edge of the Ancient Domain Stage admired Xiao Yan’s progress and considered joining him to reach the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Hun Yu encouraged the Dou Zun to assist Xiao Yan, and they prepared to set out toward the Beast Tide.
• A soul storm swept over the assembled Dou Zun, prompting one of them to warn everyone to prepare.

Xiao Yan used Great Sound is Soundless to destroy the savage beasts blocking the way, then led his companions through the Beast Tide to the Bodhi Ancient Tree. Yao Wan effortlessly killed five Half-Saints guarding the tree, leaving Gu Qingyang stunned by her power.

• Xiao Yan's Great Sound is Soundless wiped out many high-level savage beasts, and the experts behind the Beast Tide grew wary of his strength.
• Xiao Yan checked that Nalan Yanran and the others were unharmed, and Yao Wan explained that she had left him a solution in the form of Great Sound is Soundless.
• Xiao Yan joined up with Gu Qingyang and led both groups through the Beast Tide, whose remaining beasts no longer dared to charge them.
• Xiao Yan and his companions reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree and saw its branches release five Half-Saints to block their path.
• Yao Wan erased the Half-Saints' pressure and split all five apart with a crescent of Soul Power, shocking Gu Qingyang.

The Bodhi Ancient Tree drew Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and the others into its interior, where Xiao Yan found himself alone in an illusion of places from his past. After rejecting the illusion, he reached the wounded ancient tree and heard it ask for his strength.

• Yao Wan warned everyone to stay alert and hold on to their sense of self, then clasped Xiao Yan’s hand as the Bodhi Ancient Tree enveloped them in light.
• Hun Yu shattered a filthy black jade stone beneath the tree, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree drew him and the other figures nearby into its branches.
• Xiao Yan awoke alone in a landscape beyond the Wild Ancient Domain and recognized familiar places, including the Yun Lan Sect, Tagor Desert, and Canaan Academy.
• Xiao Yan found the empty Xiao Clan courtyard and dismissed the scene as an illusion, causing it to shatter and reveal a dark void.
• Xiao Yan followed his instincts to a radiant but badly wounded Bodhi Ancient Tree, and his Bodhi Seed awakened as the tree asked to borrow his strength.