Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan escaped an Eighth Grade Supreme savage beast and secured the Stone Emperor Treasure Box. Xiao Yan’s casual remark made Yao Wan realize she had relied on foreknowledge for security on the Dou Qi Continent, but now felt just as uncertain about the Great Thousand World as he had before.

• An Eighth Grade Supreme savage beast appeared, forcing Xiao Yan and Yao Wan to flee while Dan Qing and Jade Fox Fairy stayed behind to face it.
• After escaping, Yao Wan handed Xiao Yan the Stone Emperor Treasure Box, and they decided not to open it in the dangerous area.
• Xiao Yan asked whether using her life force as bait had harmed Yao Wan, and she said the loss was negligible.
• Xiao Yan remarked that Yao Wan used to explain many things on the Dou Qi Continent, prompting her to recognize how much she had relied on knowing the future.
• Yao Wan told Xiao Yan that her uncertainty in the Great Thousand World resembled his earlier state, though he did not understand what she meant.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan continued following the bloodline guidance through the Eight Emperors’ small world while Yao Wan wrestled with feelings she could not yet tell him. After sensing an inheritance being claimed and uncovering something beneath a volcanic ridge, they were attacked by a huge beast.

• Yao Wan avoided explaining her inner conflict, and Xiao Yan chose to give her time while assuring himself he would stay by her side.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan continued west, following the bloodline guidance deeper into the small world.
• They sensed Ling Clan aura spreading through the world and guessed that someone had obtained the Spirit Emperor’s inheritance.
• Their Heavenly Flames stirred, so Xiao Yan used Emperor Flame to melt the mountain ridge and expose something beneath it.
• A giant beast burst through the magma and attacked them, and Xiao Yan struck back with the Heavenly Tomb Stone Tablet.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan confronted the Eighth Grade beast guarding the Crimson Emperor's Inheritance, and Xiao Yan defeated it with the Emperor Flame. The beast left behind a Crimson Remnant Page that raised a black palace from the magma, where the palace's red-robed master summoned them inside.

• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Tomb Stone Tablet to suppress the beast, while nearby Supremes gathered to watch.
• Yao Wan merged her spiritual energy with Xiao Yan's, strengthening him as his Emperor Flame burned one observing Supreme and drove the others to flee.
• Xiao Yan formed the Emperor Flame into the Strange Fire Ancient Ruler and struck down the beast with a wave of fire.
• The beast dispersed into a Crimson Remnant Page, and a black palace rose from beneath the magma.
• A voice invited Xiao Yan and Yao Wan inside, and they entered the palace and faced a tall figure in red robes.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan met the Crimson Emperor, who explained why the Dou Qi Continent’s passage to the Great Thousand World had been sealed and offered them his legacy. After debating whether Yao Wan should accept it, both prepared to inherit the legacy together.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan woke in a candlelit hall and met the Crimson Emperor, who recognized them as descendants from the Dou Qi Continent.
• The Crimson Emperor asked about the Dou Qi Continent, and Xiao Yan and Yao Wan told him what had happened there over the tens of thousands of years.
• The Crimson Emperor confirmed that he and his companions had sealed the passage to the Great Thousand World to protect the Dou Qi Continent from the Spirit Devouring Clan.
• The Crimson Emperor offered his legacy to Xiao Yan and Yao Wan, but Yao Wan urged him to give it to Xiao Yan alone.
• Xiao Yan refused to accept the legacy without Yao Wan, and the Crimson Emperor mistook their disagreement for a young couple’s quarrel.
• Yao Wan agreed to prepare for the inheritance, and Xiao Yan and Yao Wan took their positions as the Crimson Emperor began the legacy’s formation.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan inherited the Crimson Emperor's Fire and broke through to Sixth Grade Supreme. The Crimson Emperor then told them to head north after leaving, where other Ancestors’ remnants awaited.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan absorbed the Crimson Emperor's Fire, and the Crimson Emperor marveled at their unusual powers of flame and creation and destruction.
• They carefully refined the inheritance in their Supreme Seas and advanced from Fourth Grade Supreme to Sixth Grade Supreme.
• Xiao Yan showed the Crimson Emperor the Crimson Remnant Page he had obtained by defeating the restriction beast, and the Crimson Emperor urged him to study it later.
• The Crimson Emperor revealed that fragments of other Ancestors remained and instructed Xiao Yan and Yao Wan to head north after they left.

After inheriting the Crimson Emperor’s Fire, Xiao Yan and Yao Wan learned that the Eight Emperors’ burial ground lay in the Northern Border, where the Crimson Emperor’s original body and the past’s unanswered mysteries awaited. They reached the misty shore and found other inheritors gathered there, including Dan Qing, the fox-like woman, and a man bearing the Soul Emperor’s aura.

• The Crimson Emperor explained that his remnant would pass their conversation to his original body in the Northern Border and urged Xiao Yan and Yao Wan to go there for answers about what the emperors had encountered.
• The Crimson Emperor sent Xiao Yan and Yao Wan out of his palace, and Xiao Yan reassured Yao Wan that he trusted her and valued her companionship.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan reviewed which Eight Emperors’ Inheritances had been obtained and concluded that the remaining inheritances and the Medicine Emperor’s original body were in the Northern Border.
• After traveling for three days, Xiao Yan and Yao Wan reached the northern shore and saw that fewer than half of the original Supremes remained.
• Yao Wan recognized that the fox-like woman had gained the Spirit Emperor’s Inheritance, Xiao Yan noticed Dan Qing’s Thunder Emperor’s Inheritance, and they sensed the Soul Emperor’s aura from a man of the Hun Clan.

Qing Ming revealed that he had obtained an Earth Supreme inheritance and tried to claim the Medicine Emperor’s nearly complete skeleton. The skeleton rejected his attack and chose Yao Wan, leaving Qing Ming ready to kill her.

• Qing Ming opened his eyes after accepting an inheritance and dismissed Xiao Yan and Yao Wan as insignificant.
• The Wandering Monk privately told Xiao Yan and Yao Wan that he posed no threat and urged them to accept their inheritance.
• A nearly complete white jade skeleton appeared on the coast, and Yao Wan sensed a blood connection to it.
• Qing Ming revealed his peak Eighth Grade Supreme strength and claimed the skeleton for Cang Qian Palace.
• The skeleton shattered Qing Ming’s attack and sent its radiance to Yao Wan, prompting Qing Ming to threaten her.

Qing Ming tried to force Xiao Yan to kill Yao Wan so he could claim the Earth Supreme Skeleton, but Xiao Yan refused and fought him. Xiao Yan wounded Qing Ming despite their gap in cultivation, and Qing Ming summoned a gigantic azure figure to continue the battle.

• Qing Ming decided to kill Yao Wan because he believed the Earth Supreme Skeleton would choose her over him.
• Xiao Yan shielded Yao Wan, rejected Qing Ming's demand, and met his attack with Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Ming exchanged a thousand blows as the watching Supremes marveled at Xiao Yan contending with an Eighth Grade Supreme.
• Xiao Yan seized an opening and struck Qing Ming, caving in his chest and weakening his aura.
• Qing Ming stabilized his injuries and summoned a gigantic azure figure with the technique Boundless azure, break the heavens.

Xiao Yan used the Crimson Emperor Mysterious Star to destroy Qing Ming’s Azure Green Fa Body and kill him, then entered the jade-like skeleton with Yao Wan to claim its inheritance. The Wandering Monk watched them disappear and sensed something troubling nearby.

• Qing Ming summoned the Azure Green Fa Body and challenged Xiao Yan, who revealed the Crimson Emperor Remnant Page.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Crimson Emperor Mysterious Star, which overwhelmed Qing Ming’s Blood Blade and destroyed the Azure Green Fa Body.
• Xiao Yan beat Qing Ming, detonated Emperor Flame in his mouth, and crushed and burned his Divine Soul.
• Xiao Yan took Qing Ming’s Storage Ring and entered the jade-like skeleton with Yao Wan to claim its inheritance.
• The Wandering Monk wondered whether fortune or disaster awaited them, then turned toward something that made him frown.

After Xiao Yan killed Qing Ming, Xiao Yan and Yao Wan were drawn to a misty shore, where they met the remnants of the Eight Emperors, the progenitors of the Dou Qi Continent's clans. The emperors welcomed them, and Soul Emperor gave Yao Wan a copy of Blood Blade, Soul Sever, though its life-consuming nature made the gift seem more like a curse.

• After Xiao Yan annihilated Qing Ming, a flash from Medicine Emperor's skeleton drew Xiao Yan and Yao Wan to a misty shore where the Eight Emperors were gathered.
• Spirit Emperor, Thunder Emperor, Ancient Emperor, Stone Emperor, and Crimson Emperor welcomed the newcomers and regretted that their inheritances had not reached descendants from the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Di proudly greeted Xiao Yan as a descendant of the Xiao Clan, while Soul Emperor calmly accepted that Xiao Yan and Yao Wan had killed his descendants, including Qing Ming and Hun Tiandi.
• Yao Wan admitted that she had joined several Nine Star Dou Sheng to refine Hun Tiandi after he took the Emperor Pill and approached becoming a Dou Di.
• Soul Emperor gave Yao Wan the Blood Blade, Soul Sever divine ability and explained that it consumed qi, blood, and life, then revealed that he had withheld its true inheritance from Qing Ming.

Yao Wan reunited with the Medicine Emperor, who explained why the Eight Clans' Progenitors had traveled to the Great Thousand World and revealed the catastrophe they faced there. The Medicine Emperor entrusted Yao Wan with a seal marked “Desire.”

• Xiao Di reassured Yao Wan about Soul Emperor's dangerous divine ability, and Yao Wan accepted it as a powerful trump card.
• Yao Wan approached the Medicine Emperor and learned that she had restored the Progenitor's damaged Divine Soul from the remnant soul in the Inheritance Land.
• The Medicine Emperor explained that the Progenitors had killed the Spirit Devouring Saint King, sealed its indestructible remains in the Forgotten Ruins, and opened a passage to the Great Thousand World.
• The Medicine Emperor told Xiao Yan and Yao Wan that the Great Thousand World had been devastated by the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, and that the Progenitors had arrived during the height of the war.
• The Medicine Emperor recounted how the Buddha Sect rescued the Progenitors and how its Buddha Lord destroyed the Sumeru Realm while sealing himself and hundreds of thousands of believers to contain rampaging heart demons.
• The Medicine Emperor gave Yao Wan a small seal carved with the character “Desire” and told her to keep it safe.

The Medicine Emperor reunited her two remnant souls and explained how she and the other Progenitors had been caught in the destruction of the Sumeru Realm. Xiao Yan learned the history behind the Xiao Clan’s bloodline and vowed to settle the old grudge with the Flame Demon Clan’s Demon Emperor; the Medicine Emperor then began preparing to restore her body.

• The Medicine Emperor gave Yao Wan the Desire Seal and merged her remnant soul with the soul she had left behind on the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Di explained that a Demon Emperor had shattered the Progenitors’ Divine Souls during the Sumeru Realm’s destruction, while the dying Medicine Emperor used their remains to create the small world that eventually reached Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Di revealed that he had deliberately spent the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di Bloodline, trusting future descendants to produce another Dou Di if needed.
• Xiao Yan vowed to settle the ancient grudge with the Flame Demon Clan’s Demon Emperor, whom Xiao Di said might have grown even stronger.
• The Medicine Emperor awakened with her souls reunited and said she could soon reshape her body using her bones and the Stone Emperor’s medicinal ingredients.

Yao Wan and Xiao Yan left the Earth Supreme Tomb after meeting the Medicine Emperor’s restored remnant soul and the Dou Di Progenitors. As the Medicine Emperor prepared to help revive the Medicine Emperor, Yao Wan turned her attention to an unresolved threat outside Small Spirit Mountain.

• Yao Wan confirmed that the Medicine Emperor had recovered the memories of both remnant souls, though the Medicine Emperor noticed Yao Wan’s troubled state and teased her about Xiao Yan.
• The Medicine Emperor’s restored Divine Soul began transforming the small world, and Xiao Di told Xiao Yan to pursue his own wishes rather than the Progenitors’ hopes.
• Xiao Di gave Xiao Yan a Supreme Fa Body-related gift to help him condense his own Supreme Fa Body.
• The Medicine Emperor brought Xiao Yan and Yao Wan out of the small world, and they reappeared outside Small Spirit Mountain as onlookers suspected they had claimed the tomb’s final inheritance.
• Yao Wan refused to begin the Medicine Emperor’s revival immediately and demanded that someone hiding nearby come out.

After the Eight Emperors' Tomb expelled everyone, Demon Monk Wu Ai trapped the group beneath a Divine Artifact and targeted Jade Fox Fairy and Dan Qing. The Wandering Monk confronted him, and the chapter ended as he swung a fist at Wu Ai.

• Yao Wan sensed a hidden presence, and Wu Ai revealed himself while sealing Small Spirit Mountain beneath the Crimson-Gold Alms Bowl.
• Wu Ai identified himself as Joyous Temple's Chief Protector and threatened Jade Fox Fairy, who attacked him with Jade Needles and her nine-tailed phantom.
• Dan Qing threw explosive pills at Wu Ai to help Jade Fox Fairy, but he remained stronger than both women.
• Wu Ai recognized the Wandering Monk as an Ascetic Monk from Great Spirit Mountain and warned him not to interfere.
• The Wandering Monk declared Wu Ai a great evil and punched toward him.

The Wandering Monk fought Wu Ai, whose Crimson-Gold Alms Bowl suppressed the spiritual energy of everyone beneath it. After Dan Qing and Jade Fox Fairy briefly resisted the bowl’s pressure, Yao Wan killed Wu Ai with Blood Blade, Soul Sever, leaving the others stunned by her power.

• Wu Ai revealed his Joyous Fa Body and attacked the Wandering Monk while the Crimson-Gold Alms Bowl suppressed his spiritual energy.
• Dan Qing and Jade Fox Fairy joined forces to shield the Wandering Monk from the bowl’s pressure, but the effort left them badly injured.
• The Wandering Monk used the brief opening to strike Wu Ai with Vajra, Demon Subduing, but Wu Ai’s Fa Body endured the attack.
• Wu Ai prepared to overpower the others, but Yao Wan struck him with Blood Blade, Soul Sever and destroyed his Fa Body.
• Yao Wan’s strike killed Wu Ai, and she reflected on the divine ability’s power as the onlookers stared at her in shock.

After Xiao Yan and Yao Wan killed Wu Ai, the survivors fled the Earth Supreme Tomb, and the two met the grateful Wandering Monk Pu Ku. Pu Ku explained his connection to the Buddha Sect and its fallen Joyous Temple lineage, while Xiao Yan and Yao Wan bickered over his praise of her wisdom.

• Yao Wan's black-light strike killed Wu Ai, and the Crimson-Gold Alms Bowl lost its power as the frightened survivors departed.
• Jade Fox Fairy cautiously left after realizing how dangerous her earlier conflict with Xiao Yan and Yao Wan could have been.
• Pu Ku thanked Xiao Yan and Yao Wan for helping him defeat Wu Ai, and Xiao Yan praised Pu Ku's good deeds.
• Pu Ku explained that he belonged to the ascetic lineage of the Buddha Sect, while the Joyous Temple followed a corrupted branch of its inheritance.
• Yao Wan said people should be judged by their actions, and Xiao Yan grabbed her hand and called her clever since childhood.
• Pu Ku mistook their teasing exchange for newlywed affection, and Xiao Yan and Yao Wan awkwardly denied it.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan learned that Master Pu Ku had a faint grasp of the Buddha Sect's Power of Fate, and he gave them a Crimson-Gold Alms Bowl while warning them about scattered Buddha Sect inheritances. After Master Pu Ku left, Dan Qing offered her Thunder Emperor Divine Artifact for a Red Lotus Petal, but Yao Wan opened the Stone Box with ease, stunning her.

• The Medicine Emperor explained that Master Pu Ku had only vaguely touched the Power of Fate and warned that knowing fate could become another kind of confinement.
• Master Pu Ku gave Xiao Yan and Yao Wan the Crimson-Gold Alms Bowl and cautioned them that Buddha Sect inheritances and the karma surrounding them were scattered across the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan accepted the bowl, and Master Pu Ku learned their names before departing.
• Yao Wan asked Dan Qing why she had stayed, and Dan Qing offered her Thunder Emperor inheritance treasure in exchange for one Red Lotus Petal from the Stone Box.
• Dan Qing warned that the Stone Box's unusual seal might damage its contents if forced open, but Yao Wan opened it with a trace of her power, leaving Dan Qing astonished.

Yao Wan opened the Stone Emperor Treasure Box and gave Dan Qing the Red Lotus Petal she needed for the Pill God Ceremony, while receiving her pendant in return. After Dan Qing invited them to the Pill God Clan, Xiao Yan discovered the pendant contained the Thunder Emperor's Spear, and the group decided to find a safe place and revive Senior Medicine Emperor.

• Yao Wan opened the Stone Emperor Treasure Box and found the Red Lotus Petal Dan Qing sought, while Dan Qing explained that she was gathering materials as part of the Pill God Clan's trial for its next generation.
• Dan Qing exchanged the Red Lotus Petal for her purple-gold pendant and invited Xiao Yan and Yao Wan to visit the Pill God Clan.
• Xiao Yan used spiritual energy on the pendant and revealed the Thunder Emperor's Spear, which Senior Medicine Emperor demonstrated before returning it to him.
• Xiao Yan suggested finding a safe place and prioritizing Senior Medicine Emperor's revival, prompting her to tease him as the Yao Clan's son-in-law.
• Yao Wan protested Senior Medicine Emperor's teasing, and Senior Medicine Emperor vanished into Yao Wan's body after joking that she could not afford to offend her.

Yao Wan admitted that entering the unfamiliar Great Thousand World had left her anxious and disoriented, while Xiao Yan helped her explain the feelings she had kept bottled up. Their conversation also revealed that Yao Wan had been jealous of Xiao Yan speaking with another woman, and it ended with her flustered denial that she liked his teasing.

• Yao Wan and Xiao Yan agreed to find a safe place, but Xiao Yan said he wanted to talk with her first.
• Xiao Yan pointed out that Yao Wan had been acting strangely, and she admitted that the Great Thousand World felt overwhelming because she knew nothing about its people, powers, or spiritual energy.
• Xiao Yan comforted Yao Wan and embraced her, then mentioned that she might have been upset when he spoke with a fox spirit.
• Yao Wan admitted that she had overthought the encounter and had been jealous, then recalled asking Xiao Yan whether he was reluctant to leave a beautiful woman behind.
• Xiao Yan teased Yao Wan by calling her the warm, fragrant softness in his arms, and she blushed and insisted that she did not like it.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan left Small Spirit Mountain with the revived Medicine Emperor and searched for a safe place to begin her resurrection. They found a spirit-vein convergence in the wilderness, where the Medicine Emperor began demonstrating Great Thousand World medicine refining, but her teasing possession of Xiao Yan's body irritated Yao Wan.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan bantered about their feelings before the Medicine Emperor urged them to leave Small Spirit Mountain.
• The Medicine Emperor warned that the Blood God Clan, Cang Qian Palace, and Joyous Temple might pursue them, and said the Stone Emperor Treasure Box held enough materials to rebuild her Earth Supreme-level body.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan crossed the Great Western Paradise Realm and found an uninhabited mountain wilderness where spirit veins converged.
• Xiao Yan asked the Medicine Emperor to teach him how to refine medicine in the Great Thousand World, and she agreed to demonstrate.
• The Medicine Emperor used Xiao Yan's body to tease Yao Wan and cast a small flame at her, prompting Xiao Yan to notice that her clothes had been affected.