Chapter Summaries

Yao Wan and Xiao Yan weathered the Medicine Emperor’s teasing after an accident left Yao Wan exposed, then Xiao Yan began learning Great Thousand World alchemy. Yao Wan prepared a mountain cave for them, and her strong affection for it left Xiao Yan asking whether she liked it.

• The Medicine Emperor teased Xiao Yan and Yao Wan about their marriage and suggested they have a child, while Yao Wan covered herself with the Luo River Silk and scolded her Progenitor.
• The Medicine Emperor stopped joking and began teaching Xiao Yan how to refine pills in the Great Thousand World.
• Yao Wan opened a mountain cave at the intersection of spiritual veins and lit its interior with luminous stones.
• Yao Wan felt conflicted about the cave’s home-like atmosphere, then Xiao Yan asked whether she liked it.
• Yao Wan told Xiao Yan that she liked it very much.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan teased each other in a mountain cave, where a fall led Yao Wan to turn the tables and fluster him before Senior Medicine Emperor interrupted them. Afterward, a Desire Seal appeared from Yao Wan's Storage Ring, and Senior Medicine Emperor urged them to refine the seal while suspecting their intimacy had triggered it.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan talked about a joke Yao Wan had learned from the woman she called Mother, and Xiao Yan recalled meeting that woman in a reincarnation fragment.
• Yao Wan pressed Xiao Yan about his distracted thoughts until they tripped and fell together on the cave floor.
• Yao Wan imitated the Progenitor and teased Xiao Yan, who struggled to keep his composure.
• Senior Medicine Emperor called from outside the cave, interrupting them and provoking Yao Wan's furious reply.
• A Desire Seal emerged from Yao Wan's Storage Ring, and Senior Medicine Emperor told them to refine it while joking that their intimacy had caused it to react.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan worked with the Medicine Emperor to remove the alms bowl’s lingering mark and refine it using the Desire Seal. As Xiao Yan succeeded, the Medicine Emperor teased Yao Wan about her feelings for him and offered to give her advice.

• Yao Wan hesitated to refine the alms bowl, so the Medicine Emperor took the Desire Seal and used its Streaking Light to wash away the bowl’s mark.
• The Medicine Emperor explained that Pu Ku had refined the alms bowl beforehand, preventing its original owner from tracking it, and described the Buddha Sect’s major factions.
• Yao Wan refused to use the monk’s alms bowl, and Xiao Yan began refining it with the mental technique Pu Ku had left behind.
• Xiao Yan’s refinement succeeded, turning the bowl crimson-gold again as Sanskrit chanting and scriptures briefly appeared around him.
• The Medicine Emperor teased Yao Wan about her feelings for Xiao Yan and offered her guidance, while Yao Wan doubted that the Medicine Emperor was qualified to advise her.

The Medicine Emperor teased Yao Wan about her relationship with Xiao Yan while he completed the sacrificial refinement of the Crimson-Gold Alms Bowl. Xiao Yan finished the refinement and learned the Divine Artifact had additional uses, while Yao Wan and her Progenitor continued their familiar banter.

• The Medicine Emperor and Yao Wan traded barbs about how considerate the Medicine Emperor should be toward her descendant.
• The Medicine Emperor hinted that Yao Wan could not out-stubborn Xiao Yan and guessed at their private relationship, making Yao Wan flustered and defensive.
• The final wave of Divine Sense entered the Crimson-Gold Alms Bowl, and Xiao Yan opened his eyes after completing the sacrificial refinement.
• Xiao Yan said the Crimson-Gold Alms Bowl had uses beyond those he had just discovered, while Yao Wan showed little interest in it.
• The Medicine Emperor praised Xiao Yan's speed, and Yao Wan accused her of encouraging the idea that she might abduct him to become a monk.

Joyous Abbot reached Small Spirit Mountain and discovered Wu Ai was dead, with both the ancient Buddhist treasure and his alms bowl missing. He confronted Qian Master, who blamed Joyous Temple for Qing Ming’s fall, and their dispute erupted into an Earth Supreme battle.

• Joyous Abbot sensed that his alms bowl had lost its connection to him and hurried to Small Spirit Mountain.
• At the devastated battlefield, Joyous Abbot recognized traces of Wu Ai and his alms bowl, then realized Wu Ai’s Divine Soul was gone and he was dead.
• Joyous Abbot approached the sealed Earth Supreme Tomb to search for the missing Buddhist treasure and alms bowl.
• Qian Master appeared and accused Joyous Abbot of knowing what happened to Cang Qian Palace’s direct disciple, Qing Ming.
• Joyous Abbot denied responsibility, but Qian Master demanded that he return to Cang Qian Palace and explain himself.
• Joyous Abbot and Qian Master exchanged threats, and another Earth Supreme battle began at Small Spirit Mountain about seven days after Xiao Yan and Yao Wan left.

The Medicine Emperor continued passing her knowledge to Yao Wan and Xiao Yan, then discussed her dimmed Heavenly Flame and the possibility of restoring it through resurrection. The conversation left the Medicine Emperor considering a return to the Dou Qi Continent and the Yao Clan after she was revived.

• The Medicine Emperor shared her inheritance with Yao Wan and Xiao Yan and reflected on how their experiences could drive them to grow in the Great Thousand World.
• Yao Wan asked the Medicine Emperor how to make her expressions seem natural, and the Medicine Emperor concluded that Expression Management required talent.
• Yao Wan asked about the unique Heavenly Flame the Medicine Emperor had once refined, and the Medicine Emperor revealed that only a dim spark remained within her Divine Soul.
• The Medicine Emperor explained that resurrecting her might let the spark blaze again, and Yao Wan asked whether she would return to the Dou Qi Continent afterward.
• Yao Wan suggested that the Medicine Emperor could return as the Yao Clan's oldest Old Ancestor and bring honor to the clan, leaving the Medicine Emperor tempted.

The Medicine Emperor began a Resurrection Ritual using her Earth Supreme Skeleton, the spiritual veins, and the Spirit Medicines preserved in the Stone Emperor Treasure Box. As Xiao Yan’s Emperor Flame refined the medicines into a Spirit Pool, new flesh and meridians began growing over the skeleton.

• The Medicine Emperor judged the preparations sufficient to revive herself and warned that they needed to begin before enemies arrived.
• The Medicine Emperor activated the vast spiritual array, revealing the intersecting spiritual veins and drawing their power into it.
• Yao Wan released the preserved Spirit Medicines, and Xiao Yan used his Emperor Flame to refine them into a Spirit Pool.
• The Medicine Emperor lowered her jade-like skeleton into the boiling Spirit Pool, where the medicinal liquid began forming flesh and meridians over it.

The Medicine Emperor entered the Spirit Pool to begin his resurrection, while Xiao Yan and Yao Wan guarded the ritual. The Qian Master found their defensive array and attacked it to seize whatever lay within, prompting an unseen voice to challenge him.

• The Medicine Emperor entered the Spirit Pool, and the spiritual array transformed into a defensive formation around the resurrection ritual.
• A barrage of attacks struck the array, and Xiao Yan and Yao Wan realized they were trapped and warned each other to be careful.
• After Joyous Abbot escaped their battle, the Qian Master traced the powerful Soul Power to the area around Small Spirit Mountain.
• The Qian Master found the spiritual array, decided its absent master could not stop him, and attacked it to claim what it was protecting.
• An unseen voice declared, “My things, and you dare covet them?”

The Medicine Emperor resurrected in the spiritual array and drove Qian Master of Cang Qian Palace into retreat. After Yao Wan helped stabilize her new body, the group discussed returning to Dou Qi Continent, with the Medicine Emperor pretending she had no particular wish to go.

• Qian Master tried to crush the spiritual array, but it repelled his attack as the Medicine Emperor began forming a body within it.
• The Medicine Emperor confronted Qian Master, expanded the spiritual array, and attacked him as he fled; she finished forming her face but struggled to control her new body.
• Yao Wan used her bloodline power to stabilize the Medicine Emperor's newborn body, and the two exchanged teasing remarks as the Medicine Emperor recovered.
• Xiao Yan reported that Qian Master had retreated, and the Medicine Emperor dismissed him as no threat.
• Yao Wan suggested returning to Dou Qi Continent, and the Medicine Emperor coyly claimed she would stay longer if everyone else went back.

Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and the Medicine Emperor set out to return to the Dou Qi Continent, with the Medicine Emperor using his Earth Supreme power to find a route without relying on their old coordinates. They reached the planar mist quickly, but near the Dou Qi Continent they sensed something unexpected: Demonic Qi.

• Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and the Medicine Emperor cleaned up traces of their stay and began their return journey.
• Xiao Yan realized they could bypass the old spatial coordinates, and the Medicine Emperor opened a Space Tunnel using his Earth Supreme power.
• The Medicine Emperor explained that he could use his connection to the Dou Qi Continent to locate it and later establish exclusive coordinates and a passage.
• The three entered the tunnel and reached the planar mist much faster than before, with the Medicine Emperor saying they were about halfway home.
• Yao Wan confirmed there should no longer be Demonic Qi near the Dou Qi Continent, and the Medicine Emperor asked what they were sensing.

The Dou Qi Continent’s Dou Di experts confronted the Demon Spirit Clan, whose vanguard had established a foothold beyond the continent and was waiting for its main force. Zi Yan fought the vanguard, gaining the upper hand before he empowered himself with a Dou Di Body.

• The Dou Qi Continent’s Dou Di experts, including Xun'er, Gu Yuan, Xiao Xuan, and Zi Yan, gathered and set out to eliminate the Demon Spirit Clan invaders.
• The Demon Spirit Clan vanguard revealed himself alongside three other Supreme experts and warned that his king would eventually claim the Dou Qi Continent.
• Zi Yan attacked the vanguard with her Dragon Phoenix strength, but his body turned intangible and his Demonic Qi froze her arm.
• Zi Yan resisted the freezing effect and tore into the vanguard’s head and face, though he recovered from her wounds.
• The vanguard summoned a huge demonic shadow and greatly increased his aura as Zi Yan prepared to respond.

Zi Yan used her Dragon Phoenix power to defeat the Demon Spirit Clan vanguard, then sensed a spatial disturbance and rushed toward the passage to the outside world. As the Demon Spirit Clan’s king began to descend, a flame-wreathed figure appeared through the reopened Space Tunnel and declared that the evil clan was the one that deserved to die.

• Zi Yan absorbed Heaven and Earth Energy with a breath, greatly increasing her strength and alarming the Demon Spirit Clan vanguard.
• The vanguard unleashed Demon Spirit Light, but Zi Yan shattered it with a Golden Lightning Spear and pierced through his Demonic Shadow.
• Zi Yan sensed a spatial fluctuation sweeping across Dou Qi Continent and flew toward the Space Tunnel.
• The defeated vanguard rejoiced that his king was descending and declared that the continent’s inhabitants would die.
• A flame-wreathed figure emerged from the reopened Space Tunnel and said the evil clan deserved to die.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan returned to the Dou Qi Continent and rescued it from a Demon Spirit Clan invasion. After Xiao Yan burned away the Demonic Qi and the pair revealed that they had defeated the clan’s main force, the vanguard realized they had badly underestimated them.

• Zi Yan prepared to sacrifice herself to drive the invader from the plane, but Xiao Yan appeared in the Space Tunnel and apologized for arriving late.
• Xiao Yan spread Emperor Flame across the Dou Qi Continent and burned away the Demonic Qi.
• Xiao Yan identified himself as the Flame Emperor and pressured the Demon Spirit Clan vanguard, while the people of the continent rejoiced at his return.
• Yao Wan appeared with spiritual crystals from the Demon Spirit Clan’s defeated main force, and the people greeted her as the Mystic Empress.
• The vanguard questioned how Xiao Yan and Yao Wan could defeat the clan’s elites, and the pair pointed out that they were not the only Sovereigns.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan returned to the Dou Qi Continent after only a few months away, only to learn that nearly ten years had passed and its people had become Dou Di. Zi Yan and the Medicine Emperor attributed the continent’s recovery to Heaven and Earth Resurgence after the Spirit Devouring Saint King’s death, and the chapter ended with everyone asking Xiao Yan and Yao Wan what they had encountered beyond their world.

• Xiao Yan arrived in time to kill the Demon Spirit Clan vanguard and eliminate the remaining invaders.
• Xiao Xuan and the others welcomed Xiao Yan and Yao Wan back, then revealed that nearly ten years had passed on the Dou Qi Continent during their two-to-three-month journey.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the people present had all broken through to Dou Di, with Zi Yan explaining that Spirit Crystal Land energy had supported their breakthroughs.
• Zi Yan described Heaven and Earth Resurgence, which she believed began after the Spirit Devouring Saint King’s death and restored the Dou Qi Continent’s energy; the Medicine Emperor agreed that the world had recovered.
• Xun'er asked what Xiao Yan and Yao Wan had seen outside the continent, and everyone urged them to tell the story briefly.

Xiao Yan and the others discussed the return of the Medicine Emperor and the Dou Di descendants’ future beyond the Dou Qi Continent. Yao Wan explained why she had avoided returning to the Yao Clan and joked that marriage had made her part of the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Yan recounted the events of his trip, and Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan welcomed the surviving Medicine Emperor.
• The Medicine Emperor suggested that the newly advanced Dou Di leave the Dou Qi Continent and explore the Great Thousand World with Xiao Yan and the others.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Wan that his father and elder brothers were doing well under the Xiao Clan’s protection.
• Yao Wan explained that the dominant remnant soul had wanted to visit the Yao Clan, while she herself had avoided the clan’s ceremonies and ancestral formalities.
• Yao Wan joked that she now belonged to the Xiao Clan because a married daughter was like spilled water.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan teased each other before discussing Yao Chen’s progress and deciding to visit him at Starfall Pavilion. They arrived the next day, where Yao Chen greeted them, and Yao Wan helped ease his embarrassment over Xiao Yan’s teasing.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan bantered about whether he would choose her, and he reassured her that she would always belong with the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Wan that Yao Chen had reached the peak of the Nine Star Dou Sheng realm and had been searching for something.
• Yao Wan sensed others’ feelings about their ten-year absence, then sent Xiao Yan on his way and reflected on a past sin after he left.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan traveled to Starfall Pavilion the next day and met Yao Chen, who emerged from distorted space to welcome them.
• Xiao Yan teased Yao Chen about his youthful appearance, and Yao Wan praised Yao Chen’s young heart to help him recover from his embarrassment.

Xiao Yan reunited with Yao Chen and learned that his teacher had spent the past ten years rebuilding Han Shanshan’s body and searching for an independent space in the void. Yao Wan began scanning the continent and the surrounding void for it.

• Xiao Yan teased Yao Chen about Han Shanshan, then greeted Xuan Yi and Han Shanshan when they arrived.
• Xuan Yi left through a Space Tunnel, and Han Shanshan followed her to accompany her for a walk.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that he had reconstructed Han Shanshan’s physical body and that they had spent the past ten years together.
• Xiao Yan asked what Yao Chen had been searching for, and Yao Chen explained that he sought an independent space drifting beyond the Dou Qi Continent.
• Yao Wan recalled a possible connection and extended her Divine Sense across the Dou Qi Continent and into the void.

Yao Wan used her Divine Sense to find a distant void space that Yao Chen had searched for years, and Yao Chen revealed that it was the former home of Demon Saint Valley. He took Xiao Yan and Yao Wan there to seek a reunion or make amends, leaving them on the verge of entering the transformed space.

• Yao Wan located a distant speck of light in the void, and Yao Chen prepared to take the group there.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that Demon Saint Valley had once been a powerful Magical Beast faction that fled the Dou Qi Continent into the void.
• Yao Chen admitted he had a Karmic Tie with Demon Saint Valley and wanted to bring its inhabitants back to the changed Dou Qi Continent.
• Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Yao Wan crossed the void and found that Demon Saint Valley's former space had become a Small World.
• Yao Wan stopped Xiao Yan from speaking as they arrived at the Small World.

Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and Yao Chen encountered the Demon Realm Master Hu Jiu Jiu, who recognized Yao Chen as someone from her past. Hu Jiu Jiu welcomed them into her realm, while Yao Wan reflected on how relying too heavily on prior information could cloud her judgment.

• A ripple revealed that the inhabitants of the floating land had discovered Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and Yao Chen.
• Hu Jiu Jiu appeared and questioned why visitors from the Dou Qi Continent had come to her Demon Realm.
• Yao Chen apologized for their arrival, and Hu Jiu Jiu recognized him as Yao Chen and recalled their past as Little Demon Girl.
• Hu Jiu Jiu introduced herself as the Demon Realm Master and invited Yao Chen and his disciples into her realm.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan speculated about Yao Chen and Hu Jiu Jiu's past relationship as they followed them through a Space Tunnel.
• Yao Wan realized she had been relying too much on information from the past and entered the realm with Xiao Yan.

Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Yao Wan arrived in the Demon Realm, where Hu Jiu Jiu told them about its people and learned of Yao Chen’s hardships after their separation. Yao Chen urged Hu Jiu Jiu to return to the Dou Qi Continent, leaving her to consider whether humans and the Demon Race could live apart in peace.

• Hu Jiu Jiu showed Yao Chen the Demon Realm and explained that the Demon Race had hidden in the void to escape the Spirit Devouring Clan.
• Yao Chen described the Spirit Devouring Clan’s defeat and the Dou Qi Continent’s recovery, while Xiao Yan and Yao Wan reacted to his modest claims about the two Dou Di experts.
• Hu Jiu Jiu brought the group to her palace, where Demon Realm residents eyed Xiao Yan and Yao Wan with suspicion as humans from outside.
• Hu Jiu Jiu heard how Yao Chen had been betrayed, killed, and restored with his disciple’s help, and regretted what he had suffered after she left.
• Yao Chen told Hu Jiu Jiu that the Eastern Continent had vanished and invited her to return, arguing that humans and the Demon Realm could live separately in peace.