Chapter Summaries

Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Yao Wan recognized Jiu Xuan as the Nine Profound Golden Lightning they had encountered on the Dou Qi Continent. After waking from decades of sleep and finding them, Jiu Xuan asked to stay by their side, and Zi Yan looked to Xiao Yan for his decision.

• Zi Yan recognized the golden-haired Jiu Xuan as the Nine Profound Golden Lightning from the Dou Qi Continent.
• Jiu Xuan told Zi Yan she had cultivated for years hoping to find her and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan arrived, recognized Jiu Xuan, and Yao Wan teased Xiao Yan about leaving a romantic debt behind.
• Jiu Xuan explained that she had awakened after a planar tremor and wanted to help Xiao Yan and stay with them.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Yan what he thought about letting Jiu Xuan stay.

Xiao Yan agreed to let Jiu Xuan stay with Zi Yan, who began teaching the lightning-born girl to cultivate. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan noticed Yao Wan acting unusually distant and wondered if her clan had urged her to have another child.

• Xiao Yan agreed that Jiu Xuan could stay with Zi Yan, and Zi Yan happily took the girl under her care.
• Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Yao Wan noticed that Jiu Xuan's appearance resembled both Zi Yan and Xiao Yan, which Xiao Yan attributed to their influence when she took human form.
• Zi Yan began teaching Jiu Xuan to transform her Dou Qi and move through the Great Thousand World, while Xiao Yan and Yao Wan watched her progress.
• Yao Wan grew distracted and uneasy when Xiao Yan came close, and she said she had only chatted with the Yao Clan elders.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Yao Wan had been urged to have another child, and she reacted with surprise.

Xiao Yan reassured Yao Wan about her uncertainty over having children, telling her they did not need to rush and that the choice should come from their feelings rather than obligation. After she admitted she wanted that kind of simple relationship, Xiao Yan took her away to rest together.

• Yao Wan became flustered when Xiao Yan asked what she thought about having children, and she explained that remarks from her family had left her uncertain.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Wan they were young and had plenty of time, then asked whether she genuinely liked or disliked children.
• Yao Yan admitted she did not especially like or hate children but wanted any decision about descendants to come from their feelings for each other.
• Xiao Yan reassured Yao Wan that she did not have to decide alone, then told Zi Yan he was taking her back to rest.
• Xiao Yan transported Yao Wan to a bedroom, where she realized he intended to be intimate and asked him to be gentle.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan rested together, and he reassured her about their uncertain chances of having a child. After Yao Wan struck Xiao Yan and sent him onto Jianmu’s crown, they inspected the Spirit Medicine garden there, where she warned him not to provoke her again.

• Yao Wan fell asleep exhausted in Xiao Yan’s arms, and he reflected that their Heaven Supreme strength made having a naturally conceived child uncertain.
• After bathing, Yao Wan felt relieved that she was not pregnant but also sensed a vague disappointment, and she threatened to plant Xiao Yan into Jianmu.
• Yao Wan told the alerted residents of the Endless Fire Territory that the commotion near Jianmu was only movement in her Medicine Garden.
• Zi Yan heard the commotion and decided to check on Jiu Xuan’s cultivation.
• Xiao Yan explored the Spirit Medicine world atop Jianmu’s crown, and Yao Wan warned him that he would suffer if he provoked her again.

Over several peaceful years, the Endless Fire Territory expanded across the Sumeru Realm, strengthening its forces and trade beneath the growing Jianmu. Its expansion was interrupted when Qin Tian of the Great Thousand Palace arrived to meet Xiao Yan, acknowledging the Flame Emperor’s defeat of a Demon Emperor.

• The Dou Qi Continent’s people settled into the Endless Fire Territory, while the Medicine Tower produced pills for cultivation and trade.
• The Mystic Empress devised spiritual teleportation arrays that linked explored continents to the Endless Fire Territory.
• The Endless Fire Territory recruited wanderers and expanded its reach to one-tenth of the Sumeru Realm.
• A powerful Heaven Supreme arrived above Jianmu and asked whether the Flame Emperor was present.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan met the visitor, who introduced himself as Qin Tian of the Great Thousand Palace and confirmed he had come because Xiao Yan killed a Demon Emperor.

Qin Tian visited Xiao Yan and Yao Wan to discuss the revived Sumeru Realm and gave Xiao Yan a Great Thousand Palace token, making him a Guest Elder. Xiao Yan agreed to guard the realm, while he and Yao Wan reflected on Great Thousand Palace and Senior Medicine Emperor’s stay at Great Spirit Mountain.

• Qin Tian explained that the Sumeru Realm’s location near the Demon Domain made its revival a concern for Great Thousand Palace, and he gave Xiao Yan a token appointing him a Guest Elder.
• Xiao Yan accepted the token and promised to protect the Sumeru Realm, which had connected to his homeland.
• Qin Tian left after concluding that Xiao Yan and Yao Wan could defend the realm with Great Thousand Palace keeping watch.
• Yao Wan and Xiao Yan discussed Great Thousand Palace’s role against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan and considered whether Senior Medicine Emperor would be safe at Great Spirit Mountain.
• Yao Wan declined the token and remarked that killing a Demon Emperor might earn her one anyway, while Xiao Yan wondered what help Great Thousand Palace could provide.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan discussed a Heaven Supreme seeking pills through the Shang Continent and waited for him at the Endless Fire Territory. Lin Dong led his companions from the Southern Border toward the territory, hoping to confirm whether its masters were old acquaintances, and they arrived beneath Jianmu's vast canopy.

• Xiao Yan told Yao Wan that Qin Tian seemed to be near peak Immortal Grade and relayed Shang Jun's news about a Heaven Supreme seeking pills.
• Yao Wan called the buyer a blockhead and agreed that Shang Jun had wisely directed him to the Endless Fire Territory.
• Lin Dong explained that he was traveling to meet the Endless Fire Territory's masters, who might be old acquaintances, and said he wanted to avoid the pill sellers' price gouging.
• Lin Dong and his companions crossed a Space Tunnel and saw the vast azure shade of Jianmu.

Lin Dong and his companions arrived at the Endless Fire Territory, where the Sky-Reaching Divine Tree and thriving cities astonished them. Boundless Venerable escorted them inside and explained how Xiao Yan and the Mystic Empress had brought people from a Lower Plane to settle there.

• Lin Dong, Qing Tan, Qing Zhu, and their two companions crossed the Space Tunnel and marveled at the Sky-Reaching Divine Tree.
• The group reached the Endless Fire Territory, where Boundless Venerable stopped them and recognized Lin Dong as the Heaven Supreme expected by Xiao Yan.
• Boundless Venerable used the Shang Continent seal to confirm Lin Dong’s arrival, then escorted the five past the territory’s barrier.
• Lin Dong observed the numerous cities and living inhabitants and wondered how the Sumeru Realm had become so populated.
• Boundless Venerable explained that the Mystic Empress had used Jianmu to connect the Two Realms, allowing willing people from a Lower Plane to settle in the Endless Fire Territory.

Lin Dong arrived at the Jianmu Royal Capital and reunited with Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and their companions. He sought a pill-supply partnership with the Endless Fire Territory, while Yao Wan asked whether he would trade inheritances and techniques taken from defeated forces to strengthen their foundation.

• Lin Dong and his companions reached the Jianmu Royal Capital, where Xiao Yan and Yao Wan met them.
• Xiao Yan welcomed Lin Dong and his party beneath the divine tree, and they discussed their past encounters and cultivation.
• Lin Dong offered Xiao Yan a list of needed pills and proposed future purchases at Shang Continent market prices.
• Yao Wan asked Lin Dong to trade inheritances and techniques from the forces he had defeated in exchange for support for the Endless Fire Territory.

Lin Dong agreed to trade seized inheritances for pills and accepted Yao Wan’s offer to stay in the Endless Fire Territory while she refined them. Their negotiations ended when Xiao Xiao arrived and reunited with Xiao Yan.

• Lin Dong warned Yao Wan that the inheritances he could offer had been seized and might bring trouble, but she agreed to take them.
• Xiao Yan supported his wife’s plan, and Lin Dong offered the inheritances as a deposit in exchange for pills within a year.
• Yao Wan offered to refine Lin Dong’s pills within a month if he and his companions stayed in the Endless Fire Territory, and Lin Dong accepted.
• Yao Wan spotted Xiao Xiao and Nalan Yanran peeking from behind a wall and beckoned Xiao Xiao over.
• Xiao Xiao ran to Xiao Yan and explained that Nalan Yanran had brought her, while Nalan Yanran reminded her to behave.

Yao Wan welcomed Lin Dong and his companions to the Endless Fire Territory, while Xiao Yan doted on Xiao Xiao and the adults teased Yao Wan about her past. As Lin Dong’s group settled into guest quarters on Jianmu, they assessed their hosts and discussed Yao Wan’s formidable strength.

• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Xiao a Longevity Fruit and sealed part of its medicinal power so she could refine it safely later.
• Yao Wan asked Boundless Venerable to arrange lodging for Lin Dong and his companions, then apologized for Xiao Xiao’s interruption.
• Yao Wan inspected the Storage Ring Lin Dong had left as a deposit, and she and Nalan Yanran joked about her history of provoking forces.
• Boundless Venerable escorted Lin Dong and his companions to guest quarters on Jianmu and offered to meet their cultivation needs.
• Lin Dong and Lin Diao praised the Endless Fire Territory’s prosperity and hospitality, then assessed Xiao Yan and Yao Wan.
• Lin Dong concluded that he could likely retreat from a one-on-one fight with Yao Wan but would probably lose against her and Xiao Yan together.

Lin Dong and his companions discussed the strength of Xiao Yan and Yao Wan, then decided to prepare to establish their own force. Xiao Yan stayed with Xiao Xiao as she asked him for a bedtime story, and he began one about a young Beast Tamer named Xiao Zhi.

• Lin Dong explained that Yao Wan had crippled three Heaven Supremes with one sword strike, earning her a reputation that kept other factions out of the Sumeru Realm.
• Lin Dong told his companions he planned to establish a force of their own and eventually help the Tianxuan Continent rise beyond being an obscure Lower Plane.
• Xiao Yan spent the day with Xiao Xiao and stayed beside her as she prepared to sleep.
• Xiao Xiao asked Xiao Yan for a bedtime story and told him that her older sister and aunt Nalan had told her stories before.
• Xiao Yan struggled to think of a tale, then began telling Xiao Xiao about a young Beast Tamer named Xiao Zhi.

Nalan Yanran sparred with Yao Wan and was badly outmatched, though Yao Wan praised her ability to resist a Heaven Supreme. After treating Nalan Yanran’s injuries, the two teased each other about their bodies and children, and Yao Wan admitted that having a child depended on luck.

• Yao Wan defeated Nalan Yanran in their spar, leaving her too injured to stand.
• Yao Wan told Nalan Yanran that her skill let her contend with opponents of the same realm, but she needed to cultivate her spiritual energy further to face Heaven Supremes.
• Nalan Yanran rejected the suggestion to seek guidance from the Green Robe Sword Saint, saying she wanted to pursue her own further realm.
• Yao Wan carried Nalan Yanran to the spiritual pool atop Jianmu, where its waters healed her injuries.
• Yao Wan and Nalan Yanran teased each other about their figures and whether they would have children, and Yao Wan said it depended on luck.

Yao Wan and Nalan Yanran discussed having children, regrets, and why the timing was not yet right. Later, Yao Wan and another Heaven Supreme prepared to refine medicine for Lin Dong, drawing alchemists and guests to watch at Jianmu.

• Nalan Yanran teased Yao Wan about children, and Yao Wan said the time was still not suitable.
• Nalan Yanran explained that she would raise a future child strictly so the child would not repeat her youthful mistakes, then asked Yao Wan about her regrets.
• Yao Wan said she had no regrets, believing her life had become complete across two cycles of reincarnation.
• After Xiao Xiao entered deep sleep, Yao Wan arranged to fulfill her promise to Lin Dong by refining medicine with another Heaven Supreme.
• Lin Dong, Lin Yan, Lin Diao, Ling Qingzhu, and Lin Qingtan joined countless alchemists to watch the first medicine-refining session by two Heaven Supremes in the Endless Fire Territory.
• Yao Wan and her companion emerged at Jianmu to a roaring welcome, and Lin Qingtan reflected on their renown and compared their achievements to Lin Dong's past deeds.

Lin Dong and his companions watched Xiao Yan and Yao Wan refine medicine beneath Jianmu, while Yao Chen explained how their flames and alchemy differed from the methods of the Great Thousand World. The powerful Divine Sense overwhelmed many spectators, but Lin Dong urged his companions to use the pressure as an opportunity to cultivate.

• Lin Dong recognized Xian'er and Xun'er, who approached with Yao Chen, Xiao Yan's teacher, and exchanged greetings with him and his companions.
• Yao Chen explained that he and the two women had come to observe Xiao Yan's medicine refining and discuss the Dao of alchemy.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan gathered energy and Spirit Medicines beneath Jianmu, creating a fire furnace whose heat affected the watching crowd.
• Lin Dong recognized that his Flame Ancestral Symbol and the flames within Yao Chen, Little Fairy Doctor, and Xiao Xun'er shielded them from the heartfire's effects.
• The spectators sensed a difference between Great Thousand World pills and Dou Qi Continent pills, while Yao Chen struggled to understand what he perceived.
• As the Divine Sense above Jianmu overwhelmed some alchemists, Lin Dong encouraged those with him to treat its pressure as Divine Sense cultivation.

As Xiao Yan and Yao Wan finished refining pills beneath Jianmu, most of the watching alchemists had fallen unconscious, though Yao Chen entered meditation through enlightenment. Lin Dong accepted the pills, repaid Xiao Yan with a powerful thunderstone, and reflected that fellow travelers who helped one another were rare.

• After several dozen days of watching, Little Fairy Doctor and Xiao Xun'er could no longer absorb the alchemy insights, while Yao Chen remained in meditation.
• Lin Dong observed that the Endless Fire Territory still had room to develop and began forming plans for his future faction.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan gathered the newly formed pills and saw that most of the watching alchemists had fallen unconscious.
• Lin Dong accepted the pills and gave Yao Wan a thunderstone from a Heaven Supreme ruin as repayment for Xiao Yan's extra gift.
• Lin Dong noted that his companions had gained enlightenment and said that helpful fellow travelers were rare on the long road to the summit.

After observing Xiao Yan and Yao Wan's alchemy, the alchemists recovered and Lin Dong and his companions prepared to leave the Endless Fire Territory. Yao Wan suggested where Lin Dong might search for his wife's remnant soul, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yan and Yao Wan discussing his search.

• The alchemists dealt with the aftermath of observing Xiao Yan and Yao Wan's alchemy, while Yao Chen entered meditation to absorb what he had learned.
• Lin Dong and his four companions awakened, then thanked Xiao Yan and Yao Wan and prepared to leave the Endless Fire Territory.
• Lin Dong told Xiao Yan and Yao Wan that he was searching for his wife's remnant soul, which had a female body and Ice Spirit Protection.
• Yao Wan suggested that Lin Dong investigate powerful ice-cultivating members of the ancient races, and Lin Dong thanked her for the advice.
• Lin Dong and his companions departed, and Xiao Yan and Yao Wan speculated about his search before Xiao Yan recalled that Yao Wan had once been lost too.

Yao Wan and her companions divided up the work of developing the Endless Fire Territory, while Little Fairy Doctor reassured Yao Wan that she was content helping at the Medicine Tower. After hearing of the Martial Ancestor’s rise, Xiao Yan and Yao Wan discussed accepting alchemy commissions and using the Suppression Thunderstone to limit the destructive power of Heaven Supremes in their territory.

• Yao Wan gave Xun'er two Storage Rings and entrusted her with managing the Inheritance Land.
• Yao Wan checked whether Little Fairy Doctor was comfortable working at the Medicine Tower, and Little Fairy Doctor said she was content refining pills and helping there.
• The Endless Fire Territory received news that an ascended Heaven Supreme had defeated two famous experts and taken the title Martial Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan agreed to accept Heaven Supreme alchemy commissions in exchange for valuable resources.
• Yao Wan proposed using the Suppression Thunderstone to restrain Heaven Supremes’ power in the Endless Fire Territory, though the laws and formation around it still needed to be developed.

Yao Wan took Xiao Yan’s advice to rest instead of worrying about Jianmu and the Suppression Thunderstone, then visited the Medicine Tower, where Yao Ling was helping manage operations. She asked about Yao Ling’s cultivation and her relationship with Yao Xingji, leaving Yao Ling flustered.

• Xiao Yan comforted Yao Wan about Jianmu and promised to handle the things needed for the Suppression Thunderstone.
• Yao Wan agreed to rest for a while, then decided to visit the Medicine Tower because she was bored.
• Yao Ling was startled to see Yao Wan and explained that she and Yao Xingji were both nearing the Sovereign level.
• Yao Wan asked Yao Ling how she and Yao Xingji were getting along, and Yao Ling became flustered.

Yao Wan discovered that Little Fairy Doctor had been working hard to resolve the Medicine Tower’s overdue pill shipment, despite Yao Wan’s own earlier pressure having contributed to the burden. After Little Fairy Doctor declined help, Yao Wan turned to reward the Pill Tower Old Ancestor for his past assistance.

• Yao Ling told Yao Wan that the acting tower master regularly inspected the Medicine Tower’s jurisdiction, prompting Yao Wan to worry about Little Fairy Doctor’s workload.
• Little Fairy Doctor thanked the Pill Tower Old Ancestor for helping in the Demon Fire Space and explained that they were working to fulfill the Medicine Tower’s pill agreement with the Shang Continent.
• Yao Wan arrived and learned that Little Fairy Doctor had been handling the shipment shortfall, which Yao Wan realized had resulted partly from her own earlier decision to pressure the Medicine Tower.
• Little Fairy Doctor said the remaining work could be completed within half a year and declined Yao Wan’s help, citing the importance of keeping the Endless Fire Territory’s promises.
• Yao Wan offered the Pill Tower Old Ancestor a reward for his past assistance, and he was surprised by the offer.