Chapter Summaries

After surviving the Beast Tide, Chen Guan and the other factions reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where five Half-Saint puppets guarded the way and forced the contenders to divide into separate battles. Four puppets were defeated, leaving the exhausted Temporary Alliance to face the last one as the factions prepared to compete for the tree’s opportunity.

• Hun Yu, Chen Guan, Gu Xun'er, and the others broke through the Beast Tide, then hurried toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree as the survivors learned it was surrounded by deadly dangers.
• Five Half-Saint puppets attacked the experts who had rushed ahead, and Hun Yu killed a former ally seeking his help before warning the remaining contenders to withdraw or fight.
• Chen Guan and Yao Chen and Xiao Yan agreed to compete separately, while the remaining Dou Venerate Experts formed the Temporary Alliance.
• Hun Yu, Gu Xun'er, Chen Guan, Feng Jiu, and the Temporary Alliance each engaged one puppet; Gu Xun'er, Hun Yu, and Chen Guan defeated theirs, and Feng Jiu's team prevailed after losing two elders.
• Chen Guan mocked Feng Jiu over his losses, while the Temporary Alliance finally destroyed its puppet after a prolonged fight that left its members heavily depleted.

As the Bodhi Ancient Tree drew the gathered experts into illusions, Chen Guan broke free from a vision of Queen Medusa’s life and learned the tree had been corrupted by a fallen Dou Di’s negative emotions. The tree sought Chen Guan’s Heavenly Flames to restore its suppressed sentience, leaving him to decide how to respond.

• Six Dou Venerates from the Temporary Alliance retreated, while Chen Guan warned his companions about the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s risks and gave Ran Qingchen the Bodhi Seed.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree enveloped the approaching experts in light and transported them into separate illusions, while the Bodhi Seed helped Ran Qingchen awaken.
• Chen Guan experienced an illusion in which he secretly aided Queen Medusa as she strengthened the Snake People Race, then broke free when she began refining a Heavenly Flame.
• Chen Guan returned to a space containing a miniature Bodhi Ancient Tree and saw visions of the people trapped in its illusions, including Ran Qingchen awake with the Bodhi Seed.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Chen Guan how a fallen Dou Di’s negative emotions had entered it and revealed that it wanted Chen Guan’s Utmost Yang and Utmost Rigid Heavenly Flames to restore its own suppressed sentience.

Chen Guan purified the Bodhi Ancient Tree by refining its Bodhi Seeds, and the tree drew him inside to undergo enlightenment while expelling the other cultivators. As Chen Guan remained absorbed in the tree, Hun Yu and Feng Jiu grew increasingly hostile, and Gu Xun'er sensed that Chen Guan had awakened.

• Chen Guan refined twenty-four Bodhi Seeds with Heavenly Flames, removing the black gas and sinister aura from the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Chen Guan an energy cushion that replenished and expanded his Dou Qi, then pulled him inside its trunk without his noticing.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree expelled Gu Xun'er, Hun Yu, Feng Jiu, and the others, but kept Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, Ran Qingchen, Venerable Skyfire, and Chen Guan inside.
• Hun Yu attacked Chen Guan through the tree, but the Bodhi Ancient Tree repelled him and trapped the group in the Strange Space.
• During the following month and a half, Feng Jiu and Hun Yu grew more hostile toward Chen Guan, while Gu Qingyang suggested that the Ancient Clan support him.
• Gu Xun'er watched Chen Guan inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree and said that he had awakened.

After completing Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, Chen Guan emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree vastly transformed and claimed the Bodhi Seeds it released. When Hun Yu and Feng Jiu led their factions against him, Chen Guan slaughtered their Dou Venerate experts and crushed Hun Yu’s trump card, leaving Hun Yu unable to accept the defeat.

• Chen Guan emerged from Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, thanked the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and the others, including Venerable Skyfire, who had become an Eight-Star Dou Venerate.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree released more than twenty Bodhi Seeds, and Chen Guan repelled the crowd before collecting them and offering to trade most of them later at the Pill Tower.
• Hun Yu and Feng Jiu led their factions in an attack, but Chen Guan stopped their techniques, killed two Dou Venerates immediately, and killed four more as the battle became a slaughter.
• Chen Guan explained that Feng Jiu’s Spiritual Power could not break through his defenses, while Feng Jiu’s Pupil Technique failed to affect him.
• Hun Yu activated his clan mark, reached the Nine Revolutions Dou Venerate realm, and summoned a Nihility Soul Beast, but Chen Guan split the phantom with his saber and declared Hun Yu no match for him.

Chen Guan defeated Hun Yu in the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s collapsing space, and Gu Xun'er delivered the killing blow before the survivors were expelled. After the Bodhi Ancient Tree sank underground, Gu You of the Soul Clan appeared and, learning Hun Yu was dead, declared that Chen Guan and Gu Xun'er could not leave.

• Chen Guan overwhelmed Hun Yu with his saber, then struck him with a Flaming Great Hand as the Strange Space began to collapse.
• Gu Xun'er pierced Hun Yu’s brow with a Golden Flame, killing him before the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s space shattered and expelled everyone.
• Gu Xun'er ordered word sent within the Ancient Clan while Chen Guan realized the Bodhi Heart had taken root in his chest.
• A hidden expert sealed the area after the Bodhi Ancient Tree sank, and Chen Guan identified the arriving forces as the Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Gu You, the Soul Clan’s Second Heavenly Venerable, emerged as a High-Level Half-Saint, learned Hun Yu had died, and said he could no longer let Chen Guan and Gu Xun'er leave.

Feng Xuan broke the spatial lockdown and withdrew with Feng Jiu as the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan faced off over Gu Xun'er and Chen Guan. The Soul Clan’s Three-Star Dou Saint appeared, and the Little Pill Tower’s Great Elder confronted him while Chen Guan prepared for a larger battle.

• Feng Xuan emerged from the void, took Feng Jiu, and left the battlefield as the Central Plains experts fled.
• Elder Tong Xuan arrived and told Chen Guan that the Ancient Clan would shelter him and his allies while he cultivated for a breakthrough.
• A Soul Clan elder sent a massive Dou Qi hand toward Chen Guan, Gu Xun'er, and the others.
• The Little Pill Tower’s Great Elder blocked the attack with a Pill Cauldron Phantom, and both elders revealed themselves as Dou Saints.
• The Great Elder warned Chen Guan that his opponent was a Three-Star Dou Saint and that he could not hold him off for long.
• Chen Guan stayed ready, sensing the void and waiting for a stronger Soul Clan figure to appear.

The Soul Clan elder overwhelmed the Pill Tower Great Elder, who prepared to sacrifice himself, until Zi Yan appeared and destroyed the elder’s attacks with ease. Zi Yan killed the Soul Clan elder, leaving the stunned experts to witness the abrupt end of the battle.

• The Soul Clan elder crushed the Great Elder’s Pill Cauldron Phantom and forced him to prepare a self-destructive attack.
• Zi Yan appeared beside the Great Elder and effortlessly destroyed the Soul Clan elder’s black halo.
• Chen Guan asked Zi Yan to keep the Soul Clan elder there, and she confronted him as an Ancient Void Dragon.
• The Soul Clan elder tried to flee, threatened Zi Yan, and then attempted to self-destruct.
• Zi Yan seized his Dragon Head Staff and pierced his brow, killing the Three-Star Dou Saint.

Chen Guan spared Gu You for Ran Qingchen’s sake, then arranged for his companions to return while he went to the Lava World to cultivate. At the Ancient Emperor’s Cave, the Old Dragon Emperor took Chen Guan’s mysterious storage ring as Chen Guan began refining a Bodhi Heart to break through to Half-Saint.

• Xiao Yan urged Zi Yan to kill Gu You, but Chen Guan spared him because he had once helped Ran Qingchen’s mother; Gu You then departed.
• Chen Guan declined Elder Tong Xuan’s offer to cultivate in the Ancient Realm and asked the Ancient Clan to protect the Pill Tower and Heavenly Alliance.
• Chen Guan sent his companions on their separate journeys, gave Yao Chen two Bodhi Seeds, and took Ran Qingchen’s Bodhi Seed to refine later.
• Chen Guan and Zi Yan visited Jia Nan Academy, where Zi Yan chose not to meet the Old Dragon Emperor yet, and Chen Guan entered the Lava World alone.
• The Old Dragon Emperor took Chen Guan’s storage ring and told him to cultivate elsewhere; after preparing himself, Chen Guan began refining the Bodhi Heart to advance to Half-Saint.

After Soul Hall’s attacks destroyed the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion, Xuan Kongzi formed the Pill Alliance to organize resistance across the Central Plains. Meanwhile, Chen Guan advanced to Half-Saint in seclusion but remained unconscious as he refined the Bodhi Heart, while Zhu Kun refused to leave the underground Lava World without all the Ancient Jade.

• Soul Hall and its allied factions destroyed more than twenty Central Plains factions, including the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion.
• Xuan Kongzi established the Pill Alliance with the gathered factions and began arranging reinforcements and defenses against Soul Hall.
• The Pill Alliance brought some order to the chaos, but Soul Hall escalated the fighting into larger battles.
• Chen Guan broke through to Half-Saint in the Jia Nan Academy Lava World and continued refining the Bodhi Heart while his consciousness merged with the world.
• Zhu Kun told the young girl that Chen Guan still had a long way to go before becoming a Dou Saint and that he could not leave without all the Ancient Jade.

After two and a half years of war between the Pill Alliance and Soul Hall Alliance, Medusa led the Pill Alliance and warned its leaders that Soul Hall had a Five Star Dou Saint. She ended the meeting by wondering when Chen Guan would emerge from seclusion and threatening him if he was not stronger than her.

• The Central Plains endured two and a half years of fighting, and Xiao Yan rose to fame by killing six Dou Venerate Experts.
• Three months earlier, Medusa emerged from seclusion, joined forces with the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan, and helped drive the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to the brink before Soul Hall reinforcements forced a retreat.
• Xuan Kongzi stepped aside, and Medusa became Pill Alliance Leader at Qingce Manor.
• Gate Master Yang urged the Pill Alliance to launch a major offensive, but Medusa warned that the Soul Hall expert who had retreated possessed Five Star Dou Saint strength.
• Medusa ordered the alliance to pull back and continue wearing down Soul Hall, while Xiao Yi Xian reported that the mysterious expert was likely Hun Miesheng.
• Xiao Yi Xian suggested asking Zi Yan about Chen Guan, but Medusa refused and said Chen Guan had better emerge stronger than her.

After completing his seclusion at the Ancient Emperor's Cave, Chen Guan learned about Ling Yu and accepted her offer to exchange treasures for help restoring her body. He then obtained Zhu Kun's blood to aid a search for missing Ancient Dragon elders, while a Soul Hall group secretly entered the Black Corner Region to launch an operation before reinforcements arrived.

• Chen Guan awoke at peak One-Star Dou Saint, and Zhu Kun warned him against refining more dragon blood because it could compromise his human bloodline.
• Zhu Kun explained that Ling Yu's father, Spirit Clan Chief Ling Chong, had entrusted her to Chen Guan before dying, and Ling Yu offered a Heaven Tier cultivation technique, a Heaven Tier Dou technique, and rare medicinal ingredients in exchange for a body.
• Chen Guan accepted Ling Yu's offer and agreed to find her a suitable physical body.
• Chen Guan asked Zhu Kun for Ancient Dragon blood to help locate the elders lost in Void Space, and Zhu Kun supplied a large amount before Chen Guan left for Jia Nan Academy.
• A group of more than ten Soul Hall members entered the Black Corner Region unnoticed, and their leader urged them to act quickly before Queen Medusa's reinforcements arrived.

Chen Guan returned to the Northwestern Region, gave Ya Fei the Heaven Mending Pill he had promised, and secretly visited the Heavenly Alliance headquarters to reunite with Yaoye. He left Yaoye to deal with approaching outsiders after sensing their arrival.

• Chen Guan visited Ya Fei at the Mitel Auction House and gave her the Heaven Mending Pill to improve her aptitude.
• Chen Guan secretly explored the Heavenly Observation Pavilion, confirmed that Jia Xingtian’s substitute and Old Monster You Du were safe, and found Yaoye at the top floor.
• Chen Guan reunited with Yaoye, who asked how long he could stay, but he did not answer.
• Chen Guan sensed a group approaching the Holy City, told Yaoye that enthusiastic friends had followed him, and left to settle them in.
• Outside the Holy City, an old man ordered his group to capture the Heavenly Alliance’s leaders alive and deal with the others as they wished.

Chen Guan returned to the Northwestern Region, killed Old Demon Tian Ming and his forces, then departed for the Central Plains after visiting his allies and leaving safeguards behind. There, he reunited with Zi Yan and agreed to help her find the Ancient Void Dragon elders before they returned to face Medusa.

• Chen Guan sealed the space around Old Demon Tian Ming and his forces and destroyed them without alerting anyone in the Holy City.
• Chen Guan spent the evening with Yaoye, Jia Xingtian, Yun Shan, and the others, while Jia Xingtian privately discussed the Jia Ma Empire's lack of a worthy successor.
• Chen Guan left resources and safeguards with Yaoye, hugged her goodbye, and returned to the Central Plains five days later.
• Zi Yan met Chen Guan as soon as he arrived and asked him to help locate the Ancient Void Dragon elders who had left Dragon Island.
• Chen Guan realized Zi Yan was avoiding Medusa after Dieyi emerged from seclusion, then sent a message ahead and agreed to go with Zi Yan to Dragon Island first.

Chen Guan searched the Void Turbulence for lost members of the Ancient Dragon Tribe while refining Bodhi Sacred Spirit Pills. After two and a half months without success, he found Ming Xie, a Third Elder of Ancient Dragon Island, and began guiding him back to Dragon Island.

• Chen Guan and Zi Yan arrived at the volcano on Dragon Island, where Chen Guan began refining Bodhi Sacred Spirit Pills and searching the Void Turbulence with Dragon Emperor blood and his Spiritual Power.
• Zi Yan quietly brought Chen Guan rare medicinal ingredients to replenish his Spiritual Power while he maintained the search for seventy-five days.
• Chen Guan ended the search because he was exhausted, the Dragon Emperor blood had nearly run out, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was due to emerge soon.
• A lost Ancient Dragon Tribe member named Ming Xie sensed the Dragon Emperor blood and called out to Chen Guan.
• Chen Guan told Ming Xie that the Old Dragon Emperor was safe and offered to guide him back to Dragon Island.
• Ming Xie asked Chen Guan his position on Ancient Dragon Island, and Chen Guan replied that he was the Old Dragon Emperor's Son-in-Law.

Chen Guan and Zi Yan welcomed Ming Xie back to Dragon Island, explained that Zhu Kun was trapped in Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, and sent Ming Xie to reunite with him. After Zi Yan caught up with Chen Guan on the way to Holy Pill City, they prepared to face Medusa together.

• Ming Xie returned to Dragon Island, where Chen Guan and Zi Yan greeted him and Zi Yan identified him as the loyal Third Elder.
• Chen Guan told Ming Xie that Zhu Kun had been trapped in Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion and that Zi Yan had become the Dragon Emperor.
• Ming Xie asked to see Zhu Kun, so Zi Yan led him there while Chen Guan continued toward the Pill Tower alone.
• Zi Yan caught up with Chen Guan after learning that Ming Xie had found the Fifth Elder's corpse in the Void Turbulence.
• Chen Guan and Zi Yan arrived near Holy Pill City and set off to meet Medusa together.

At the Pill Alliance celebration, experts tried to bargain for Bodhi Seeds while Xiao Yan resolved to grow stronger. Chen Guan arrived with Zi Yan and reunited with Medusa, whose warm public welcome concealed a reckoning still to come.

• Tian Leizi and Xuan Yi celebrated their breakthroughs to Half-Saint, while allied experts privately pressed Xuan Kongzi for Bodhi Seeds.
• Yao Chen envied Xuan Kongzi’s attention, and Xiao Yan vowed to become strong enough to help in the fight against the Soul Clan.
• Cao Ying guessed that Chen Guan had brought another woman into the family, and Medusa discussed Zi Yan’s situation with Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian while Qing Lin carried the sleepy Qing Yan away.
• Medusa warned the women that Chen Guan should be kept in check, then greeted him warmly when he arrived at the celebration with Zi Yan.
• Chen Guan recognized that Medusa’s affection meant their disagreement was only postponed, embraced her, and told her he had missed her.

Chen Guan reunited with Medusa and Zi Yan at the Pill Alliance banquet, then gave the gathered experts and Pill Tower leaders gifts and handed Xuan Kongzi a Bodhi Sacred Spirit Pill. After spending the night with his daughter, Chen Guan was summoned by Medusa to discuss matters with her and the others.

• Medusa ended her reunion with Chen Guan and introduced Zi Yan as her sister-like companion and a member of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Chen Guan congratulated Tian Leizi and Xuan Yi on reaching Half-Saint, gave them Enlightened Venerate Pills, and directed inquiries about Bodhi Seeds to Xuan Kongzi.
• After the banquet, Chen Guan gave Xuan Kongzi his remaining Bodhi Seeds and a Bodhi Sacred Spirit Pill before the Pill Tower group departed.
• Medusa took Zi Yan, Yun Yun, and Xiao Yi Xian away to discuss matters, leaving Chen Guan waiting outside while he chose not to spy on them.
• Chen Guan stayed with his sleeping daughter Qing Yan, studied pill formulas, and spent the morning with her after she woke.
• Medusa summoned Chen Guan, and he entered the room to find Zi Yan grinning before Medusa told him to stand up for a discussion.

Chen Guan answered Medusa and the others’ questions about the women in his life, then revived Ling Yu before the coming contest for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Ling Yu departed after thanking him, leaving Chen Guan to examine the Spirit Clan techniques she had left behind.

• Medusa questioned Chen Guan about whether he planned to bring more women into the family, and he explained his feelings about Qing Lin, Cao Ying, Qingchen, and Gu Xun'er.
• Chen Guan told the women that the Spirit Clan had been destroyed and that he planned to revive Ling Yu; Zi Yan helped him escape the interrogation by urging him to do so soon.
• Chen Guan released Ling Yu's Soul Body and learned that her original body had been damaged so she could be revived more easily.
• After five days, Chen Guan completed Ling Yu's revival and suggested she hide in the Northwestern Region because of her identity and the turmoil in the Central Plains.
• Ling Yu left, and Chen Guan examined a scroll containing the mid-grade Heaven-tier cultivation technique Spirit and the high-grade Heaven-tier Dou Technique Rhinoceros Finger.

Chen Guan prepared to travel with Medusa to the Beast Region and asked Zi Yan to handle several errands while he was away. After parting from Yun Yun, he tried to flee when Medusa offered to guide his cultivation, and she chased him with her Four-Star Dou Saint aura.

• Chen Guan chose to cultivate the Rhinoceros Finger and said he planned to visit the Beast Region to break through before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged.
• Chen Guan entrusted Zi Yan with preparing medicinal ingredients for Qing Yan and delivering a Bodhi Sacred Spirit Pill to Sound Valley.
• Chen Guan, Medusa, and Yun Yun left the Pill Region and went their separate ways; Yun Yun returned to the Flower Sect with two pills.
• Chen Guan and Medusa traveled toward the Beast Region, and Medusa reminisced about their time at Jia Nan Academy before offering to guide his cultivation.
• Chen Guan ran from Medusa, who released her Four-Star Dou Saint aura and chased him.

Chen Guan and Medusa reached the Beast Region after four days of fighting and visited the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan. Chen Guan began testing the Yellow Springs Stone Stele for the Yellow Springs Demonic Saint’s techniques and essence blood.

• The Pill Alliance and Soul Hall Alliance identified Chen Guan and Medusa’s battle, and the Soul Hall Master sent Gu You to investigate the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s possible involvement.
• Medusa told Chen Guan about the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan’s submission and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s strength, and they discussed finding a future territory for the Snake People Race.
• Yao Ming welcomed Medusa and Chen Guan, then led them to the Yellow Springs Stone Stele and explained its techniques, remnant soul, and rumored essence blood.
• Yao Ming said the stele had repelled him before, but Chen Guan declared he could claim its contents easily and closed his eyes to begin.