Chapter Summaries

Chen Guan passed the Yellow Springs Demonic Saint’s trials and spoke with the ancient expert, who revealed his failed attempt to preserve himself by scattering fragments of his soul. Yellow Springs Demonic Saint gave Chen Guan his essence blood and the Yellow Springs Three Absolutes inheritance before fading away, and Chen Guan vowed to carry his legacy forward.

• Chen Guan repelled the Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm, then summoned Yellow Springs Demonic Saint to appear.
• Yellow Springs Demonic Saint assessed Chen Guan’s soul and fortune, and Chen Guan explained that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had given him the experience of Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation.
• Yellow Springs Demonic Saint recounted how, after failing to become a Dou Di, he scattered fragments of his soul in an attempt to return through the memories of humans and magical beasts, but the plan caused him to collapse.
• Yellow Springs Demonic Saint gave Chen Guan the inheritance of the Yellow Springs Three Absolutes and his Demonic Saint Essence Blood.
• Chen Guan accepted the gifts, left the mountain, and vowed that the Yellow Springs Three Absolutes and Yellow Springs Demonic Saint would not be forgotten.

Chen Guan passed the Yellow Springs Demonic Saint’s trial and revealed the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath inheritance, though Yao Ming could not withstand its Soul Impact. After leaving the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan, Chen Guan began tempering his palms with Demonic Saint Essence Blood, preparing for the coming struggle over the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Chen Guan emerged from the stele after speaking with the Yellow Springs Demonic Saint, and the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath imprint appeared.
• Yao Ming tried to learn the Dou Skill, but its Soul Impact injured him and revealed that it required a Heaven Realm Soul.
• Chen Guan reassured Yao Ming that he would leave the stele with the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan, then departed with Medusa.
• Chen Guan divided the Demonic Saint Essence Blood among his family and allies, reserving some to temper his own palms.
• Chen Guan absorbed the medicinal mixture and essence blood while enduring—and enjoying—the pain, as Medusa watched in surprise.

After witnessing the devastation in Hanyun City, Chen Guan and Medusa joined the Pill Alliance leaders in deciding to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Soul Hall and its allies. Medusa organized the alliance’s forces into four routes, while Chen Guan quietly prepared to pursue his own plans against the Soul Hall.

• Chen Guan and Medusa arrived in ruined Hanyun City, saw the devastation, and sensed a nearby battle.
• Tang Zhen fought Ice Venerable and a Soul Hall elder until Chen Guan’s intervention let the two enemies escape, then Tang Zhen’s forces killed the remaining Soul Hall fighters.
• At Qingce Manor, Medusa told the alliance leaders that more than a million people had died and six cities had been destroyed in recent attacks.
• Medusa called for the alliance to eradicate the Soul Hall and its minions, and the assembled experts agreed.
• Medusa divided the alliance’s forces into four routes to attack the enemy strongholds, while Chen Guan planned to act against the Soul Hall himself.

Chen Guan revealed that the Soul Hall harvested Soul Bodies to gather Soul Origin for a powerful Soul Clan figure, then led Medusa and Zi Yan to attack the Soul Hall’s Earth Hall. The assault began across the Central Plains, and Chen Guan’s group reached the Serpent-Slaying Mountain Range, ready to kill its guard and seize the Soul Origin.

• Chen Guan explained that the Soul Hall’s Earth Hall was his target because it might contain Soul Origin, while the Great Elder agreed to watch for Hun Miesheng and the Great Heavenly Venerable.
• The next day, Pill Alliance forces launched attacks across the Central Plains, and Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Xuan Yi assaulted the Yellow Springs Pavilion.
• Chen Guan, Medusa, and Zi Yan arrived at the Serpent-Slaying Mountain Range, where Zi Yan created a spatial barrier around the area.
• Chen Guan ordered Medusa and Zi Yan to kill the Earth Hall’s Vice Hall Master and leave no survivors as they searched for Soul Origin.

Chen Guan, Medusa, and Zi Yan destroyed Earth Hall, freed the captive Soul Bodies, and found a vast Soul Origin. Chen Guan began absorbing it after promising to bear the souls’ hatred, while Heavenly Flames emerged to counter Soul Hall’s hidden tricks.

• Chen Guan, Medusa, and Zi Yan ambushed and killed the Soul Hall Venerable Elders sent to reinforce the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• Chen Guan, Medusa, and Zi Yan stormed Earth Hall, killed the Vice Hall Master, and annihilated its remaining members.
• Chen Guan destroyed the chains imprisoning the Soul Bodies and sent the freed souls through the spatial barrier.
• Chen Guan excavated beneath the hall and uncovered a massive Soul Origin formed from the captive souls.
• Chen Guan vowed to bear the Soul Origin and the souls’ hatred, then began absorbing it and detected Soul Hall’s hidden tricks.
• Chen Guan summoned Heavenly Flames to deal with the tricks concealed within the Soul Origin.

Chen Guan purified and absorbed the Soul Origin, reaching Heaven Realm Great Perfection and forming a powerful soul body. After eliminating a Soul Hall Venerable who entered the mountain range, he confronted Hun Miesheng as Medusa and Zi Yan prepared for battle.

• Chen Guan burned away the Soul Hall's hidden toxin from the Soul Origin and absorbed it while Medusa and Zi Yan guarded him.
• Chen Guan's soul ripples swept across the Serpent-Slaying Mountain Range, and Medusa and Zi Yan used the quiet days to cultivate as he continued absorbing Soul Origin.
• After nine days, a Soul Hall Venerable entered the mountain range to investigate the missing Vice Hall Master, but Chen Guan's breakthrough knocked him from the sky and left him unconscious.
• Chen Guan completed his breakthrough to Heaven Realm Great Perfection and manifested a substantial soul body that could act alongside his physical body.
• Chen Guan sensed Hun Miesheng watching from a distant mountain and greeted him, while Medusa and Zi Yan moved to guard against an attack.

Chen Guan and his allies took the Soul Origin from Earth Hall, but Hun Miesheng lured Chen Guan away long enough to attack the Great Elder at Human Hall. An unknown Old Ghost rescued the Great Elder, while Hun Miesheng sensed Chen Guan, Medusa, and Zi Yan closing in.

• Hun Miesheng questioned Chen Guan about his knowledge of Soul Hall, and Chen Guan revealed that Mu Gu had given him access to its secrets.
• Hun Miesheng left Earth Hall after warning Chen Guan about the Soul Clan, and Chen Guan realized the Great Elder might be in danger at Human Hall.
• Hun Miesheng attacked and defeated the Great Elder at the Corpse Burying Mountain Range, then decided to capture him as leverage against Chen Guan.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable stopped Hun Miesheng from killing the Great Elder and urged him to keep the elder alive.
• An aged voice blocked Hun Miesheng's next attack and took the Great Elder away, identifying himself as Old Ghost.
• Hun Miesheng and the Great Heavenly Venerable sensed Chen Guan, Medusa, and Zi Yan approaching at great speed.

Chen Guan found the Pill Tower Ancestor, who had rescued the Great Elder from Hun Miesheng and warned Chen Guan not to kill the Soul Hall master while the Soul Clan’s larger plans remained unclear. The Ancestor released the wounded Great Elder to Chen Guan and said he would return to the Pill Tower later, leaving Chen Guan to take the Great Elder home as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence approached.

• Chen Guan arrived at the Corpse Burying Mountain Range and, after learning the Great Elder’s body had been destroyed, nearly attacked Hun Miesheng and the Great Heavenly Venerable.
• A voice told Chen Guan that the Great Elder’s soul had survived, and Chen Guan left with Medusa and Zi Yan while fireballs struck Human Hall behind them.
• Chen Guan traced the voice to a valley and met the Herding Boy, the Pill Tower Ancestor, who confirmed that he had rescued the Great Elder.
• The Herding Boy warned Chen Guan that killing Hun Miesheng could provoke the Soul Clan and explained that the Soul Clan was behind the Soul Hall’s activity in the Central Plains.
• The Herding Boy returned the Great Elder’s weakened soul to Chen Guan and said he would return to the Pill Tower at a later time.

After the Soul Hall’s Earth Halls were destroyed, Chen Guan helped the Great Elder recover and prepared to pursue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He left Qingce Manor with Medusa and Zi Yan, heading first to Starfall Pavilion to seek Xiao Yan’s blood.

• Chen Guan absorbed the Purifying Demonic Saint’s remnant soul into his mind and used rare medicinal ingredients to help stabilize the Great Elder’s soul.
• Chen Guan entrusted the Great Elder’s care to Tian Leizi, asked Xuan Yi to prepare medicinal liquid for Qing Yan and Tang Xi and his sister, and gave Cao Ying his experience notes.
• Twin moons appeared and nine stars aligned, announcing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s descent as its energy swept across the continent.
• Chen Guan, Medusa, and Zi Yan departed Qingce Manor, leaving the others behind to cultivate.
• Chen Guan led Medusa and Zi Yan northwest toward Starfall Pavilion, hoping to find Xiao Yan and ask him for a few drops of blood.

Chen Guan entered the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Demonic Flame Space with Medusa and Zi Yan, where he resisted its illusions and searched for them. He found Medusa fighting Hun Miesheng and a powerful Soul Clan youth, who declared that Chen Guan had to die.

• Chen Guan took Xiao Yan’s blood, gave him a Yellow Springs Blood Crystal, and left with Medusa and Zi Yan as Xiao Yan decided to visit the Demonic Flame Space with Yao Chen.
• Chen Guan, Medusa, and Zi Yan reached the lava sea and entered the Demonic Flame Space after Chen Guan warned them that its illusions could separate and deceive them.
• Chen Guan endured the white flames and broke free of an illusion that had shown him Cao Ying crying in Yun Yun’s room.
• Chen Guan found Medusa battling Hun Miesheng and a black-robed young man, then pulled Medusa behind him.
• The young man identified himself as a member of the Soul Clan, blamed Chen Guan for Hun Yu’s death, and vowed to kill him.

Chen Guan saw through the Demonic Flame Space’s illusion trial, reunited with Medusa and Zi Yan, and reached a platform where the gathered powerhouses waited for the next stage. The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sent waves of Fire Slaves to attack them, including several recognizable experts.

• Chen Guan broke the illusions of Medusa, Hun Miesheng, and Hun Feng, then waited for Medusa and Zi Yan to emerge safely from the mist.
• Chen Guan led Medusa and Zi Yan through the mist and told them that Gu Xun'er and Hun Feng were already ahead of them.
• Chen Guan and his companions reached a platform crowded with powerhouses, where Huo Xuan explained that the Giant Gate would open when the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame allowed it.
• After about half a day, the surrounding space split open and milky-white flames poured out, revealing a host of Fire Slaves.
• Elder Huo Yao warned the gathered powerhouses that the Fire Slaves were captured experts controlled by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Chen Guan and the other experts fought their way through the Demonic Flame Main Hall’s increasingly dangerous trials until they encountered Xiao Chen, a conscious Four-Star Dou Saint Fire Slave. Hun Miesheng revealed his strength while battling Xiao Chen, and after receiving a sudden influx of information, Chen Guan urged the others to let the fight continue before they joined in to subdue Hun Miesheng.

• Gu Nanhai urged the gathered experts to break through the Giant Gate, and Hun Miesheng showed his agreement by attacking alongside them.
• Chen Guan, Gu Xun'er, Medusa, and Zi Yan followed Gu Nanhai into the Demonic Flame Main Hall and passed through a series of halls filled with increasingly powerful Fire Slaves.
• The group reached a hall where Xiao Chen stood alone, and Yao Wangui proposed that Hun Miesheng fight him while the others conserved their strength.
• Hun Miesheng recognized Xiao Chen as the Blood Axe Xiao Chen and engaged him in battle, revealing that his strength exceeded what he had previously shown.
• Chen Guan opened Xiao Yan's blood bottle, but Xiao Chen did not react; as Hun Miesheng and Xiao Chen fought, Chen Guan received a flood of information from the strange light cluster in his mind.
• After reassuring Medusa and Zi Yan, Chen Guan told them to let Xiao Chen wear Hun Miesheng down before they joined forces to subdue him.

Chen Guan freed Xiao Chen from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control and led the group to the altar, where the Flame challenged them to a fight. When the Flame’s attacks vanished around Chen Guan and Gu Xun’er, they revealed that they had seen through the apparent danger, leaving the others bewildered.

• Xiao Chen was overwhelmed by seven Four-Star Dou Saints, but Chen Guan splashed fresh blood on him and used Heavenly Flames to break the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control.
• Xiao Chen recognized Chen Guan’s help and led the group through the Giant Gate and up the stairs to the altar.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame challenged the group to defeat him or become Fire Slaves, and Chen Guan stepped forward to fight first.
• The Flame’s spear vanished before striking Chen Guan, and its barrage of flaming spears injured the experts who attacked it.
• Gu Xun’er tested the Flame by striking at him, and his sea of fire dissipated before it reached her; she then teased Chen Guan for not sharing the chance to show off.

Chen Guan broke the Nightmare Heavenly Mist illusion and led the group to the true Demonic Flame Space, where they confronted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. After the Flame sealed their exit and unleashed its Fire Slaves, the survivors agreed to cooperate and divide their opponents.

• Chen Guan explained that the group was still trapped in an illusion, then used a Nightmare Breaking Talisman to shatter it and reveal the Lava Sea.
• Chen Guan placed a Curse Mark on Xiao Chen to block the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's control, but the true Flame appeared and sealed the exit.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame trapped everyone in a fiery prison and caused many Dou Venerate and Half-Saint Experts to explode.
• Chen Guan warned the survivors to empty their minds, helped a Peak Dou Venerate resist the Flame, and saw the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summon ten Dou Saint-level Fire Slaves.
• Hun Miesheng proposed that the experts attack together, and Chen Guan agreed while warning Xiao Chen to watch Hun Miesheng.
• Gu Nanhai assigned the Four-Star Dou Saints and stronger experts to fight the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while the others prepared to handle the Fire Slaves.

Chen Guan subdued two of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Fire Slaves and prepared to claim more, but the demon flame made several slaves self-destruct. Hun Miesheng then gathered the remaining experts’ power to activate the Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Formation and strike the flame.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame attacked the encircling Dou Saints while its Fire Slaves charged Chen Guan, Gu Xun'er, Hun Feng, and the others.
• Chen Guan defeated a Three-Star Dou Saint Fire Slave and used a Soul Rune to take control of it.
• Chen Guan helped Gu Xun'er subdue another Fire Slave, prompting the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to make one slave self-destruct; the ensuing explosions killed three one-star Dou Saints and many Half-Saints.
• Hun Miesheng called on the remaining Dou Saints to support the Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Formation, and Medusa, Zi Yan, and Xiao Chen joined after Chen Guan nodded.
• Hun Miesheng launched the formation’s black pillar of light at the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and invoked Heavenly Net Fire Refining.

Hun Miesheng and the eight Four-Star Dou Saints sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but the gathered experts immediately fought over its origin. After learning the Soul Clan had destroyed the Xiao Clan and Spirit Clan, Xiao Chen attacked Hun Miesheng, who then summoned Elder Mo as Chen Guan watched from afar.

• Hun Miesheng and the eight Four-Star Dou Saints strengthened the formation until it reduced the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to its origin and sealed it.
• Hun Miesheng tried to seize the Demon Flame origin, while Medusa struck Yao Wangui and cut off his ear; Chen Guan later stopped her from joining the ensuing scramble.
• Hun Feng and the other experts rushed for the Demon Flame origin, and Gu Xun'er joined the fight when Hun Feng neared it.
• A young Peak Dou Venerate told Xiao Chen that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Xiao Clan and Spirit Clan, and Chen Guan confirmed the news.
• Xiao Chen attacked Hun Miesheng with his Sky-Breaking Three Axes, badly wounding him despite Hun Miesheng's Soul Burial Technique.
• Hun Miesheng enclosed the battlefield in a black light screen and demanded that Elder Mo intervene, while Chen Guan studied the young man who had revealed the clans' fate.

The Herding Boy revealed himself as the Pill Tower Ancestor and used his Six-Star Dou Saint strength to stop Soul Demon Elder from taking the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's origin. He exposed the flame's scheme and forced it to emerge, whereupon it declared its intent to fight and summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation.

• Chen Guan warned the disguised young man, whose clan had been destroyed by the Soul Clan and Soul Hall, not to risk his life for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Soul Demon Elder revealed himself among the Half-Saints, and the Herding Boy appeared on a green ox after calling out to him.
• The Herding Boy used spatial displacement to switch places with Soul Demon Elder and revealed that he had reached the Six-Star Dou Saint realm.
• The Herding Boy exposed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's plan to let the contenders fight while it waited to reap the benefits, then forced it to reveal itself.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame denounced the Purifying Demonic Saint, vowed to settle accounts with the Herding Boy, and summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation.

Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame trapped the gathered experts in the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation and unleashed an attack that should have killed them, but Chen Guan’s body manifested Purifying Demonic Saint and shielded everyone. Purifying Demonic Saint confronted the Flame, acknowledged his responsibility for its violence, and said he would end the memories and violence that began with him.

• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame revealed that it controlled the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, shattered the escape routes, and attacked the trapped experts.
• Pill Tower Ancestor and Soul Demon Elder joined forces with the other experts, but their combined attacks could not stop the formation’s Milky White flames.
• A halo appeared around Chen Guan and protected the group; Pill Tower Ancestor recognized the figure emerging from his body as Purifying Demonic Saint.
• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame raged at Purifying Demonic Saint, accusing him of betraying it and celebrating his death.
• Purifying Demonic Saint accepted responsibility for the Flame’s violence and declared that its memories and violence would end because of him.

The Purifying Demonic Saint took control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation and drove the other experts from the space as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed its power. Medusa and Gu Xun'er stayed behind to watch as the Saint began stripping away the Lotus Flame’s memories, leaving the confrontation at its climax.

• The Purifying Demonic Saint froze the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s attacks, seized control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, and opened a Space Channel for the others to escape.
• Zi Yan left after Medusa insisted on staying, while Gu Xun'er chose to remain despite Gu Nanhai’s protests, hoping to secure the Ancient Clan’s ties with Chen Guan.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame turned the space into a sea of fire and formed a Demonic Fire Lotus as Medusa and Gu Xun'er watched beside Chen Guan’s possessed body.
• The Purifying Demonic Saint sealed the Lotus Flame in a Four-Sided Fire Pillar Prison and used the formation to force its memories and intelligence out of its true form.
• The Purifying Demonic Saint left Chen Guan’s body and walked toward the sealed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as it begged for mercy.

Chen Guan found the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s origin after it and the Purifying Demonic Saint perished, then prepared to refine it inside the sealed Demonic Flame Space. Gu Xun’er questioned his intentions and learned that the Soul Clan had two Nine-Star Dou Saints, while Medusa agreed to help guard him as he made preparations.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame tried to perish together with the Purifying Demonic Saint, and their clash destroyed them both.
• Chen Guan searched the Demonic Flame Space and found the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s origin drifting in the Lava Sea.
• Chen Guan could not break out of the space, so he decided to refine the origin there while Medusa guarded him.
• Gu Xun’er explained her concerns about Chen Guan gaining the flame, and Chen Guan told her the Soul Clan had two Nine-Star Dou Saints and the Ancient Clan might not withstand an all-out war.
• Chen Guan set up the Heavenly Cold Array and began preparing cold materials for refining the flame, asking Medusa to adjust her condition because he might need her help.