Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan encountered Dan Qing while she searched the Shang Continent for Spirit Medicines, and they discussed her plans and the Pill God Clan. After parting with her, they returned to Thousand Mountain Workshop, where their companions teased Xiao Yan about the meeting.

• Yao Wan led Xiao Yan over to Dan Qing after recognizing her nearby.
• Dan Qing remarked on Xiao Yan and Yao Wan's rapid cultivation progress and asked whether they had witnessed an extraordinary pill being refined on the Shang Continent.
• Dan Qing invited Xiao Yan and Yao Wan to visit the Pill God Clan, but Xiao Yan declined because he was traveling with his wives and friends.
• Dan Qing parted ways with Xiao Yan and Yao Wan to continue searching for Spirit Medicines ahead of the Pill God Ceremony.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan returned to Thousand Mountain Workshop, where their companions teased Xiao Yan about calling Dan Qing a young lady he got along with.

Xiao Yan and his companions left Thousand Mountain Workshop and discussed their lack of a permanent home as they traveled away from Shang Continent. Xiao Yan considered establishing a force of their own, and the group began weighing the idea.

• Xun'er questioned Yao Wan about whether she was repeating an old trick, and Yao Wan flustered her with an ambiguous reply.
• Xiao Yan bade farewell to the shopkeeper of Thousand Mountain Workshop, who watched the powerful group depart with awe.
• The group crossed the void away from Shang Continent, admiring its distant lights before acknowledging it was not their territory.
• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan that their constant travel without a home was unsustainable, and Zi Yan recognized he was considering building a force.
• Medicine Emperor argued that three Earth Supremes were enough to dominate a continent, while Yao Wan and Xiao Xuan joined the discussion about establishing a force.

Xiao Yan and the others transformed the Heavenly Tomb into a stable base in the Great Thousand World, using Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix bloodline to strengthen its space. The work left Zi Yan feeling newly connected to the Heavenly Tomb, and she discovered she could alter its gate.

• Yao Wan proposed using the Heavenly Tomb as the group’s base, and Xiao Yan agreed that its space needed strengthening.
• Zi Yan supplied Dragon Phoenix blood, and Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and the Medicine Emperor worked together to expand and stabilize the Heavenly Tomb Space.
• After many days, the Heavenly Tomb had grown dozens of times larger, gained a cycle of life and death, and its stone tablet had become a stone archway.
• Zi Yan sensed she had refined the Heavenly Tomb anew and enlarged its gate by manipulating her connection to the space.
• The others suggested Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix blood might have made her the Lord of the Plane.

Zi Yan discovered that her Dragon Phoenix bloodline let her control the newborn Heavenly Tomb Space and open its gate with almost no effort. Months later, the newly formed Fire Domain stirred up the Azure Profound Continent by acquiring rare treasures, while local factions struggled to locate its hidden base.

• Yao Wan urged Zi Yan to test how much she could control the Heavenly Tomb Space, and Zi Yan found she could open a gate up to ten thousand zhang wide without spending energy.
• Zi Yan explained that she could still access the space even if Xiao Yan put away the Heavenly Tomb Stone Tablet, prompting Xiao Yan and Yao Wan to consider its strategic uses.
• A pursuer sensed the Dragon Phoenix’s aura after crossing the fog barrier and hurried away to report its presence.
• Several months later, the Fire Domain appeared on the Azure Profound Continent and gained attention by collecting rare treasures.
• Local factions grew wary and searched for the Fire Domain’s lair, but its people remained impossible to track.

Cang Qian Palace grew suspicious of the Fire Domain’s powerful Supremes and sent Azure Master to assert control over the Azure Profound Continent. As Xun'er and Zi Yan arrived to collect Spirit Medicine, they noticed Azure Master and his followers nearby.

• Cang Qian Palace recognized that the Fire Domain’s Supremes were an unusual and potentially hostile force, and decided they could not let them challenge its rule.
• Cang Qian Palace dispatched Azure Master, one of its three Earth Supremes, to investigate the appearance of rare Spirit Medicine and confront the newcomers.
• Azure Master arrived with several Supreme experts and used his Divine Sense to search the surrounding region.
• Zi Yan and Xun'er appeared to gather Spirit Medicine, and Zi Yan spotted Azure Master through the void barrier.

The Azure Master trapped Zi Yan and Xun'er in a spatial seal and tried to bring them to Cang Qian Palace, but Zi Yan broke free and opened a Space Tunnel revealing powerful allies. The Azure Master realized the two women had never been at his mercy.

• The Azure Master sensed Zi Yan and Xun'er, then sealed them in space before they could leave.
• The Azure Master offered to take the women to Cang Qian Palace, while Zi Yan challenged his demand and released her divine beast aura.
• The Azure Master grew greedier after sensing Zi Yan's bloodline and dismissed her refusal.
• Zi Yan cut through the Earth Supreme's spatial seal with a fingertip and opened a Space Tunnel.
• The Azure Master sensed several auras inside the tunnel that could threaten him, and Zi Yan revealed she had never been trapped.

Xiao Yan and the others confronted Azure Master, who tried to back down after sensing their strength, but Xiao Yan revealed an old grudge and attacked. As Xiao Yan’s Emperor Flame consumed Azure Master’s Sovereign subordinates and closed in on him, the other two Earthly Sovereigns of Cang Qian Palace rushed to the scene.

• Zi Yan reassured Xun'er as they emerged from the Space Tunnel with Xiao Yan and faced Azure Master.
• Azure Master recognized the three Lower Earthly Sovereigns and tried to settle the confrontation peacefully.
• Xiao Yan showed Azure Master a Cang Qian Palace Storage Ring and revealed that he had killed one of the palace’s personal disciples.
• Xiao Yan rejected Azure Master’s demand to let the matter rest and unleashed his Emperor Flame, which turned the surrounding Sovereigns into ash.
• Azure Master struggled against the flames and feared he would not survive until reinforcements arrived.
• Qian Master and Palace Master received Azure Master’s message and hurried to the confrontation.

Xiao Yan confronted Cang Qian Palace Master after killing Azure Master, while Qian Master recognized him as the killer of Qing Ming. As they began fighting, Cang Qian Palace Master sensed Xiao Yan had a helper, and Qian Master realized it was the woman who had previously stopped him.

• Cang Qian Palace Master and Qian Master found the scorched battlefield where Azure Master had fallen and encountered Xiao Yan.
• Qian Master recognized Xiao Yan as the man who had killed Qing Ming on the Western Paradise Continent.
• Cang Qian Palace Master vowed to avenge Azure Master and protect Cang Qian Palace's rule by killing Xiao Yan and the people of the Flame Region.
• Xiao Yan clashed with Cang Qian Palace Master's azure giant shadow and admitted that alone he could likely only fight him to a draw.
• Cang Qian Palace Master sensed Xiao Yan's hidden helper and revealed that Cang Qian Palace had another person on its side.
• Qian Master recognized the helper as the woman who had stopped him from attacking Xiao Yan before.

Cang Qian Palace Master confronted Xiao Yan and his newly advanced Earth Supreme allies, while Medicine Emperor battled Qian Master. As Cang Qian Palace Master’s Azure Green Sword Transformation clashed with the Lord of the Flame Region’s flames, Qian Master was driven into a desperate retreat by another Earth Supreme.

• Cang Qian Palace Master realized that Xiao Yan’s two companions had recently reached the Earth Supreme Realm and prepared to face them.
• Cang Qian Palace Master unleashed the Azure Green Fa Body and used Azure Green Sword Transformation against the Lord of the Flame Region.
• The Lord of the Flame Region’s flames blocked the giant sword, and the watching Supremes realized he could contend with Cang Qian Palace Master.
• Qian Master fled across the sky with another Earth Supreme pursuing him, shocking the Supremes who watched from afar.

The Medicine Emperor pursued and killed the Qian Master, leaving Cang Qian Palace with only one of its three Earthly Sovereigns. As Sovereigns realized the Azure Master was also missing and the Cang Qian Palace Master was in danger, the Azure Green Fa Body struggled against two powerful opponents.

• The Medicine Emperor chased the exhausted Qian Master across nearly half the continent and dismissed his offer of Cang Qian Palace’s treasures.
• The Medicine Emperor killed the Qian Master despite his pleas to be spared.
• The death of an Earthly Sovereign sent a violent wave across the region, and Sovereigns realized that Cang Qian Palace had lost the Qian Master and the Azure Master.
• The Sovereigns inferred that the Cang Qian Palace Master faced imminent peril from the Lord of the Flame Region, while the Medicine Emperor flew back toward the ongoing battle.
• The wounded Azure Green Fa Body acknowledged that the two opponents before it were no ordinary fighters.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan killed Cang Qian Palace Master after stopping his attempt to self-destruct, then claimed Cang Qian Palace and the Azure Profound Continent for their new force, Fire Domain. The continent’s old power was dismantled, while outsiders eyed the territory and influence left behind.

• Cang Qian Palace Master learned that Xiao Yan and Yao Wan had ascended from a Lower Plane, then chose to self-destruct rather than accept defeat.
• Xiao Yan attacked the swelling Azure Green Fa Body with the Strange Fire Ancient Ruler while Yao Wan used Blood Blade, soul sever to kill Cang Qian Palace Master.
• Yao Wan replenished her and Xiao Yan’s strength with pills, while the Medicine Emperor urged them to collect their spoils.
• The Medicine Emperor revealed that their true prize was Cang Qian Palace and the entire Azure Profound Continent.
• Cang Qian Palace was disbanded, its three Earth Supremes were reported dead, and Fire Domain took its place as the continent’s leading force.
• Experts from other continents began looking to exploit the upheaval and seize Cang Qian Palace’s former influence and territory.

While Yao Wan taught Qing Lin, Xiao Yan explained that factions on Azure Profound Continent had approached the Fire Domain after Cang Qian Palace fell. Yao Wan objected to accepting opportunistic allies, but Xiao Yan clarified that he had only asked them to work for them without joining the Fire Domain.

• Yao Wan used a lull in alchemy work to teach Qing Lin, whose rapid progress toward Supreme surprised her.
• Qing Lin said she had worked hard because she did not want to hold Xiao Yan and Yao Wan back.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Wan that remnants of Cang Qian Palace were trying to gather its remaining loyal factions and preserve its base.
• Xiao Yan revealed that factions opposed to Cang Qian Palace had offered their allegiance to the Fire Domain.
• Yao Wan called them weather vanes and warned Xiao Yan against accepting them into the Fire Domain.
• Xiao Yan said he had not agreed to let them join and had only arranged for them to do some work for the group.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan discussed the group's cultivation and the remains of three Earth Supremes before sharing an intimate moment while Qing Lin cultivated nearby. The chapter ended with news spreading across the Azure Profound Continent that the Lord of the Flame Region was an alchemist.

• Xiao Yan asked about everyone's condition, and Yao Wan reported that Zi Yan had reached sixth grade and the others had advanced by one to two grades.
• Xiao Yan showed Yao Wan the remains of three Earth Supremes, but she said the others could use them and questioned the idea of consuming them directly.
• Yao Wan teased Xiao Yan, then kissed him and used spiritual energy curtains to conceal Qing Lin, who was cultivating nearby.
• Yao Wan took the initiative with Xiao Yan, and he stopped resisting and let her continue.
• News spread after the destruction of Cang Qian Palace that the Lord of the Flame Region was an alchemist.

News that the Lord of the Flame Region was an Earth Supreme-level alchemist unsettled the surrounding factions, prompting them to investigate and seek his favor. A manager from Thousand Mountain Workshop met Xiao Yan and asked him to restore a fragmentary Supreme Pill Formula.

• The surrounding factions reconsidered seizing Cang Qian Palace’s former territory after hearing that the Flame Region’s lord was an Earth Supreme-level alchemist.
• A visitor from Shang Continent confirmed the Lord of the Flame Region’s importance by seeking an audience, and rival factions sent gifts to approach him.
• The Thousand Mountain Workshop manager visited Xiao Yan and thanked him for his past help.
• The manager gave Xiao Yan materials for refining Little Supreme Pills and a fragmentary Supreme Pill Formula entrusted by the Main Family.
• Xiao Yan pointed out that restoring the formula would be much harder than refining a pill.

Yao Wan offered the Thousand Mountain Workshop shopkeeper a ready-made Supreme Pill Formula in place of restoring the damaged one, and he agreed to report the deal to his Main Family. After he left, Xiao Yan and Yao Wan discussed whether the family would buy the formula, but their conversation was interrupted by an Earth Supreme seeking an audience outside the Heavenly Tomb Gate.

• Xiao Yan clarified that he had not refused the shopkeeper’s request but thought restoring the old Pill Formula would be too difficult.
• Yao Wan gave the shopkeeper a Jade Slip containing a trace of a different Supreme Pill Formula, and he recognized it as the item he wanted.
• The shopkeeper worried he lacked the funds to pay, so Yao Wan offered to let him arrange payment after reporting to his Main Family.
• After the shopkeeper left, Xiao Yan and Yao Wan debated whether the Main Family would buy the formula or ask Xiao Yan to refine Supreme Pills instead.
• An Earth Supreme named Qing Xuan’s neighbor arrived at the Heavenly Tomb Gate seeking an audience, and Yao Wan asked whether Xiao Yan knew him.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan discussed why the visitors were seeking help, while the Lord of the Flame Region refused to refine pills for them. After one Earth Supreme forced his way in and was burned by a dark flame, the Lord demanded compensation and warned all the observers not to offend him.

• Xiao Yan questioned whether the Lord of the Flame Region should turn away the neighboring Earth Supremes, and Yao Wan said they likely wanted something in return for their gifts.
• The Lord of the Flame Region told the first visitor to leave his gifts and go, refusing to refine pills.
• An impatient Earth Supreme rushed toward the Heavenly Tomb Gate, and the Lord struck him with a dark flame that badly burned him.
• The injured Earth Supreme surrendered a Divine Artifact as compensation, tore open a Space Tunnel, and escaped; the first visitor also left.
• The Lord of the Flame Region addressed the remaining observers across the Azure Profound Continent and warned them not to offend him.

After Yao Wan revealed that she had spread word of Xiao Yan’s reputation to prepare for future alchemy business, Xiao Yan worried over her habit of taking on every task. Their conversation turned to something he had once left unsaid before a powerful fluctuation in the Heavenly Tomb interrupted them.

• The Earth Supremes who witnessed Xiao Yan’s power withdrew, deciding not to oppose the Flame Region.
• Xiao Yan realized Yao Wan had spread news of his reputation as an Earth Supreme alchemist.
• Yao Wan explained she was laying the groundwork for future business and developing the Flame Region’s alchemy industry.
• Xiao Yan comforted Yao Wan and pointed out that she always found another task instead of resting.
• Yao Wan asked Xiao Yan to finish what he had once stopped saying, but a powerful fluctuation from the depths of the Heavenly Tomb interrupted them.

Zi Yan resonated with the Heavenly Tomb and broke through to Seventh Grade Supreme, then sensed a powerful Dragon Clan connected to her bloodline had noticed her. She decided to face them immediately, while Xiao Yan and Yao Wan prepared to support her.

• Zi Yan emerged from her breakthrough after space cracks formed a cocoon around her, and Xiao Yan and Yao Wan assessed her as a Seventh Grade Supreme.
• Zi Yan said she would stabilize her cultivation before seeking resources to reach the Earth Supreme Realm, and Yao Wan offered to refine a pill that might help.
• Zi Yan sensed another powerful Dragon Clan through the spatial fluctuations and realized they had also detected her presence.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan worried the unknown clan might treat her like the Northern Dragon King had, and Zi Yan decided to confront them without delay.
• Yao Wan reassured Zi Yan that once she became strong enough, no one would dare trouble her.

The Crimson Dragon Third Elder and his people tracked Zi Yan’s powerful Dragon Phoenix bloodline to the Azure Profound Continent and tried to make her join their clan. Zi Yan refused and fought back, leaving their Dragon Trapping Formation torn apart as the confrontation escalated.

• The Crimson Dragon Third Elder arrived with his clansmen after sensing Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix aura near the Azure Profound Continent.
• The Third Elder claimed the Crimson Dragon Clan shared the Dragon Clan’s orthodox source and said Zi Yan should return with them.
• Zi Yan mocked the Crimson Dragon Clan, rejected their claims, and told them to leave.
• The Third Elder ordered his clansmen to form a Dragon Trapping Formation around Zi Yan and the two others.
• Zi Yan unleashed her Dragon Phoenix aura, golden thunder, and a powerful cry that ripped open the formation.

Zi Yan and Xiao Yan faced the Scarlet Dragon clan, whose members had pursued her for her bloodline. After Xiao Yan absorbed the Scarlet Dragon Fire, he and Zi Yan targeted Crimson Dragon Third Elder, who transformed into a gigantic Scarlet Dragon to fight them.

• Crimson Dragon Third Elder attacked Zi Yan with fire chains and Scarlet Dragon Fire, but her golden lightning held its own against his flames.
• Xiao Yan emerged unharmed and absorbed the Scarlet Dragon Fire, revealing his power to devour flames.
• Xiao Yan said the Scarlet Dragon Fire would be a suitable first flame for him to collect in the Great Thousand World, and Zi Yan agreed to help him take it.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan attacked Crimson Dragon Third Elder, with Zi Yan wielding a lightning spear and Xiao Yan using Emperor Flame.
• Crimson Dragon Third Elder transformed into a Scarlet Dragon ten thousand feet tall, and Xiao Yan demanded his Source Fire Seed.