Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze defeated the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Saint Shadow and killed Huang Tian after Huang Tian regretted choosing to ally with Soul Hall. The Nine Serene Deepground Python Clan celebrated its ties to Xiao Ze as he demonstrated strength worthy of a Six-Star Dou Saint.

• The Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Saint Shadow appeared and unleashed its Bloodline Pressure and a pillar of light at Xiao Ze.
• Xiao Ze used Spatial Displacement to strike the Saint Shadow with a golden-flamed fist, sending it flying.
• Xiao Ze unleashed the Nine Profound Golden Thunder and Origin Emperor Flame, destroying the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Saint Shadow.
• Yao Ming and the Nine Serene Deepground Python Clan elders recognized Xiao Ze's strength and rejoiced that their clan had allied with him.
• Huang Tian regretted choosing Soul Hall over the Pill Alliance, and Xiao Ze burned away his Soul Body.

After Xiao Ze helped the Nine Serene Deepground Python Clan defeat the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Tribe, Yao Ming agreed to lead the clan into the Pill Alliance. As Xiao Ze stayed near the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, his Tree of Origin announced that Queen Medusa had successfully evolved into a Nine-Colored Sky-Devouring Python and granted him a Tenfold Return reward.

• Xiao Ze accepted the Nine Serene Deepground Python Clan's thanks and rewarded Yao Ming with high-grade pills for guarding the Nine Serene Yellow Springs.
• Xiao Ze invited Yao Ming to bring the clan into the Pill Alliance, and Yao Ming agreed on the clan's behalf.
• Yao Ming introduced Xiao Ze to the clan members, who thanked him for saving them from destruction.
• Yao Ming hosted Xiao Ze at a celebratory banquet and invited him to stay while the clan gathered medicinal ingredients and treasures.
• As Xiao Ze followed a maid to his quarters, the Tree of Origin announced Queen Medusa's successful evolution and awarded Xiao Ze a Tenfold Return.

Queen Medusa emerged from seclusion as a Nine-Colored Sky-Devouring Python and reunited with Xiao Ze in the Seven-Colored Sky-Devouring Python's nest. She revealed that she had reached Five-Star Dou Saint, but Xiao Ze disclosed that he was a Six-Star Dou Saint after they became intimate.

• Xiao Ze sensed Queen Medusa had emerged from seclusion and left to find her at the Nine Serene Yellow Springs.
• Xiao Ze entered the Space Channel at the bottom of the Nine Serene Yellow Springs and reached the Seven-Colored Sky-Devouring Python's nest.
• Queen Medusa told Xiao Ze that her bloodline had surged and she had reached Five-Star Dou Saint.
• Queen Medusa embraced Xiao Ze and initiated an intimate encounter, saying she wanted to be on top while her cultivation surpassed his.
• Xiao Ze revealed that he had reached Six-Star Dou Saint and reversed their positions.

Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa left their secluded cultivation at the bottom of the Nine Serene Yellow Springs after he explained how her bloodline had improved. Queen Medusa chose to let the remnant souls of the Seven-Colored Sky-Devouring Pythons rest, and Xiao Ze suggested they might try to revive them someday.

• Queen Medusa noticed her bloodline had improved, and Xiao Ze explained that he had found a Nine-Colored Raw Stone at the Spatial Trade Fair.
• Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa left their sealed space and returned to the Seven-Colored Sky-Devouring Python nest.
• The remnant souls bowed to Queen Medusa, and Xiao Ze asked what she intended to do with them.
• Queen Medusa chose not to disturb the remnant souls again and used her nine-colored radiance to soothe them into deeper rest.
• Xiao Ze suggested that they try to revive the remnant souls in the future.

Xiao Ze reunited with Queen Medusa, visited Yao Ming to arrange for the Nine Serene Deepground Python Clan to join the Pill Alliance, then traveled to the Void Thunder Pool to refine the North Dragon King's body into a puppet. Queen Medusa returned to Ancient Dragon Island to see Zi Yan while Xiao Ze began the refining.

• Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa emerged from the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, and he reassured her that she no longer needed to guard him and promised a grand wedding for all of them.
• Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa visited Yao Ming, who welcomed them and gave Xiao Ze a jade slip listing the Nine Serene Deepground Python Clan's gathered treasures.
• Xiao Ze stayed with the clan for several days, explained the Pill Alliance's situation, and used the Origin Tree Root to tell Old Ya that the clan was joining the alliance.
• Xiao Ze took Queen Medusa to the Void Thunder Pool, but sent her to Ancient Dragon Island to reunite with Zi Yan because the Black Demonic Thunder would trouble her.
• Xiao Ze entered the Void Thunder Pool, brought out the North Dragon King's body, and began refining it into a puppet.

Xiao Ze refined the North Dragon King's corpse into a powerful puppet using ancient puppetry methods and rare materials. Satisfied with the result, he sent it into the Black Demonic Thunder to strengthen its body further.

• Xiao Ze chose a spot near the depths of the Void Thunder Pool and summoned the North Dragon King's corpse and more than a thousand refining materials.
• Xiao Ze inspected the corpse, confirmed that the Nine Profound Golden Thunder had erased its soul, and decided to refine it without adding another soul.
• Xiao Ze tempered the North Dragon King's body in the Golden Fire Cauldron, removed its two heads, and crafted it an ordinary-looking replacement head.
• After more than ten days, Xiao Ze finished fusing the materials into the puppet, making it stronger than the North Dragon King had been in life.
• Xiao Ze controlled the unnamed puppet and sent it into the Black Demonic Thunder to strengthen it further.

Xiao Ze strengthened the North Dragon King's body with Nine Profound Golden Thunder and returned to Ancient Dragon Island. There, he told Zi Yan, Queen Medusa, and Azure Scales that the coming Heaven and Earth Spectacle would bring the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame into the world.

• Xiao Ze stopped tempering the North Dragon King with Black Demonic Thunder and began strengthening him with Nine Profound Golden Thunder.
• Xiao Ze stored the North Dragon King in his storage ring and left the Void Thunder Pool for Ancient Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan, Queen Medusa, and Azure Scales welcomed Xiao Ze back, and he reassured Azure Scales that he would help her keep pace despite the scarcity of powerful snake-type Magical Beasts.
• At a meal on Ancient Dragon Island, Zi Yan asked Xiao Ze about his plans, and he predicted the Heaven and Earth Spectacle would soon occur.
• Xiao Ze explained that the Heaven and Earth Tide triggered by the spectacle would bring the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame into the world, astonishing the three women.

Xiao Ze and his companions discussed the coming emergence of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the limits imposed by the Ancient Races’ agreement. On their way to the Alchemist Tower, they met the Pill Tower Ancestor, who left the matter in Xiao Ze’s hands and entrusted the Alchemist Tower to his care.

• Xiao Ze proposed using the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence to weaken the Soul Alliance, while warning that the Ancient Races’ agreement restricted Five-Star Dou Saints from acting.
• Xiao Ze and the three women left Ancient Dragon Island for the Alchemist Tower aboard a golden lightning boat.
• Xiao Ze sensed someone waiting nearby and landed in a forest clearing, where a shepherd boy riding a green ox appeared.
• Xiao Ze recognized the shepherd boy as the Pill Tower Ancestor, and Azure Scales explained how the Ancestor experienced new lives through infants.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor learned that Xiao Ze was preparing for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence and decided not to intervene.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor asked Xiao Ze to care for the Alchemist Tower, then returned toward the village as Xiao Ze and the women continued on their way.

Xiao Ze returned to Holy Pill City with Zi Yan and two other women, where Pill Alliance forces verified his identity before escorting the group inside. He reached the Alchemist Tower and reunited with Old Ya and other familiar figures.

• Xiao Ze explained that the Pill Tower Ancestor was a sentient medicinal pill who wanted to experience an ordinary human life.
• A Pill Alliance elder intercepted Xiao Ze’s golden boat near Holy Pill City and verified his identity after Xiao Ze introduced himself as president of the Alchemist Tower.
• The elder escorted Xiao Ze and the women into Holy Pill City, where Xiao Ze observed its prosperity and learned how the Pill Alliance’s trade sustained its experts.
• The elder led the group into the Alchemist Tower’s inner district, where Xiao Ze met Old Ya, Old Ancestor Huoyun, and the Qinghua Two Immortals.
• Old Ya greeted Xiao Ze with delight and told him that he had finally returned.

Xiao Ze returned to the Pill Alliance and warned its experts that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would soon emerge, urging them to stop the Soul Alliance from obtaining it. After reviewing the Pill Alliance’s growing strength, he recognized that war and alchemy had fueled its expansion, but that its reliance on captured resources could become dangerous.

• Xiao Ze told the gathered Pill Alliance experts that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would emerge in less than a month and attract factions across the Central Plains.
• Xiao Ze said members of the Pill Alliance could try to obtain the flame, but the Alliance’s priority was to prevent the Soul Alliance from getting it, following the Pill Tower Ancestor’s warning.
• Xiao Ze cautioned the experts about the flame’s danger, recalling that even the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint had died from its backlash.
• Yao Chen gave Xiao Ze a jade slip detailing the Pill Alliance’s forces, which included more than ten Dou Saint experts and many Half-Saints.
• Xiao Ze concluded that the Alliance’s growth came from war spoils and its ability to turn resources into medicinal pills, while recognizing that its supply of plundered resources would eventually run out.

Xiao Ze arranged for Zi Yan to lead the Pill Alliance’s operation around the emergence of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while he and Queen Medusa stayed out of the fight. As factions gathered at the sealed mountain range and the two alliances paused their war, twin moons and nine aligned stars signaled the demonic flame’s descent.

• Xiao Ze told the Pill Alliance’s Dou Saints that he and Queen Medusa could not act, and revealed that he had reached Five-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Ze proposed that Zi Yan lead the operation, and the gathered experts agreed because she had reached Late Stage Four-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Ze offered the Pill Alliance’s support to members seeking the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and many Dou Saints volunteered to join Zi Yan’s operation.
• As the flame’s emergence drew hidden factions to the mountain range in the northwest of the Central Plains, the Pill Alliance and Soul Alliance tacitly halted their fighting.
• After spending time researching medicinal pills, Xiao Ze sensed a change and saw two crescent moons appear as nine stars aligned, heralding the demonic flame’s descent.

As the Heaven and Earth Tide appeared, Xiao Ze and the Pill Alliance’s Saints set out for the northwest, where the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was breaking free from its seal. They reached the demon flame’s sealed mountain range and found that its heat had turned the once-green mountains into a vast desert.

• Xiao Ze sensed the Heaven and Earth Tide and explained that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s descent was near as the Pill Alliance’s Saints gathered at his Elder Tower.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Pill Alliance, and the group saw a blinding light and terrifying heat erupt in the northwest as the demon flame attacked its seal.
• Xiao Ze ordered that only Saints join the operation, and the Pill Alliance set out while factions across the Central Plains also rushed northwest.
• Xiao Ze and the others approached the demon flame’s location and saw its residual heat overwhelm high-level Dou Venerates from another group.
• Xiao Ze’s party arrived at the sealed mountain range and found that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had transformed its lush mountains into a vast desert.

Xiao Ze and the others reached the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s shattered seal, where the Soul Hall Master arrived and challenged Xiao Ze over the Xiao Clan’s future. Mang Tianchi then joined them, having advanced to the Dou Saint realm and transformed his Thunder Power into Black Demonic Thunder.

• Xiao Ze and the others crossed the desert created by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Xiao Ze shielded them from its heat with Water Attribute energy.
• The Soul Hall Master arrived with his forces, and Xiao Ze assessed that his true strength had reached the Five-Star Dou Saint level.
• The Soul Hall Master warned that the Ancient Races’ restrictions would soon end, while Xiao Ze challenged him and refused to show fear.
• Mang Tianchi arrived, greeted Xiao Ze, and revealed his newly acquired Black Demonic Thunder and Mid One-Star Dou Saint strength.

Xiao Ze and Mang Tianchi discussed the Ancient Races’ motives for leaving the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sealed, warning the Pill Alliance that the other races could become rivals. As another Ancient Race arrived, Old Ya recognized the alchemist who had once cast him out, and the man called him a Yao Clan castaway.

• Mang Tianchi praised the Pill Alliance’s strength, then warned Xiao Ze that the other Ancient Races might oppose its attempt to obtain the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Mang Tianchi explained that the Ancient Races kept experts above Five-Star Dou Saint from acting openly and restrained one another to prevent any race from claiming the flame.
• Xiao Yan realized that the Ancient Races had allowed the flame to remain sealed because none wanted another force to obtain it.
• Xiao Ze argued that the dangers inside the Demon Flame Space could keep the Ancient Races too occupied to hinder the Pill Alliance.
• An alchemist from the Yao Clan arrived, and Old Ya recognized him; the man sneered and called Old Ya a Yao Clan castaway.

Xiao Yan learned that Yao Wangui had expelled Old Ya from the Yao Clan, but Xiao Ze stepped in before Xiao Yan could attack. After Yao Tian insulted Old Ya and Xiao Yan, Zi Yan slapped him and then fought Yao Wangui, leaving the Ancient Void Dragon and Yao Clan on the brink of open conflict.

• Old Ya told Xiao Yan that Yao Wangui had expelled him from the Yao Clan, and Xiao Yan vowed to make Yao Wangui pay.
• Xiao Ze stopped Xiao Yan from acting and asked to handle the conflict himself.
• Yao Tian called Old Ya and Xiao Yan trash, so Zi Yan struck Yao Tian across the face.
• Yao Tian demanded that Yao Wangui kill Zi Yan, and Zi Yan revealed she was from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Yao Wangui attacked Zi Yan, who met his punch with her Dragon Spear, shattering the surrounding space.

Zi Yan defeated Yao Wangui in a clash, and Xiao Ze countered the Yao Clan elder’s attempt to turn the gathered factions against the Pill Alliance. Yao Wangui withdrew with Yao Tian and Yao Ling, while Xiao Yan resolved to avenge his teacher in the Demon Flame Space; then three figures arrived, and one called out to Xiao Ze.

• Zi Yan sent Yao Wangui flying in their clash, then challenged him to fight again.
• Yao Wangui tried to rally the other factions against the Pill Alliance, but Xiao Ze defended the alliance and exposed the elder’s hypocrisy.
• Yao Wangui left with Yao Tian and Yao Ling after acknowledging that the Yao Clan could not contend with the Pill Alliance.
• Xiao Ze told Old Ya and Xiao Yan that he planned to kill Yao Wangui in the Demon Flame Space, and Xiao Yan insisted on avenging his teacher himself.
• Three figures emerged from spatial ripples, and one of them smiled at Xiao Ze and called him Brother Xiao Ze.

Xun'er reunited with Xiao Ze and sensed that he and Queen Medusa had grown closer, but she accepted the situation and teased him about his other partners. As the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s entrance fully opened and drove weaker experts away, Xiao Ze met Gu Nanhai and Gu Qingyang before preparing to enter the Demon Flame Space.

• Xun'er embraced Xiao Ze, then met Queen Medusa’s gaze before warmly greeting her as Sister Medusa.
• Xun'er confronted Xiao Ze privately about his relationship with Queen Medusa, accepted his other partners, and asked how many more sisters he planned to find for her.
• The rupture expanded into a milky-white ring of light, unleashing intense heat that forced weaker experts to retreat as powerful figures entered the Demon Flame Space.
• Xun'er introduced the Ancient Clan elder Gu Nanhai to Xiao Ze, and Xiao Ze exchanged greetings with Gu Nanhai and Gu Qingyang.
• Xiao Ze and the others prepared to enter the Demon Flame Space, where Xiao Ze hoped to experience the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s illusion.

Xiao Ze entered the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Nightmare Sky Mist, resisted its influence, and rescued several Pill Alliance members. As endless Flame Slaves attacked the platform, the experts decided they had to force their way through the milky-white gate.

• Xiao Ze let the Nightmare Sky Mist affect his body while protecting his Soul Origin so he could search for Xiao Chen within the illusion.
• Xiao Ze found several Pill Alliance members in the mist and used golden lightning to wake them, then led them back to the platform where Xun'er and the others waited.
• Gu Nanhai explained the power of Nightmare Sky Mist, and Xun'er warned that the approaching figures were Flame Slaves controlled by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Zi Yan and Gu Nanhai destroyed the Flame Slaves charging the platform, but more continued to pour from spatial ripples.
• The experts saw that the endless waves could not be stopped and decided to force their way through the milky-white gate.

Xiao Ze’s group fought through the Demon Flame Halls until they encountered a powerful Flame Slave bearing the Xiao Clan Mark. Xiao Ze recognized him as Ancestor Xiao Chen and helped him resist the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, leaving the flame surging out of Xiao Chen’s body.

• The group shattered the milky-white giant door and pressed deeper into the Demon Flame Halls to escape the endless Flame Slaves.
• Zi Yan led the assault through the halls as the Flame Slaves grew stronger and began injuring the Pill Alliance’s Dou Saint experts.
• The group reached a final hall where a Four-Star Dou Saint Flame Slave confronted them, and Gu Nanhai warned that he retained some intelligence.
• Xiao Ze stepped forward to fight the gaunt Flame Slave, who attacked with a Blood-Colored Giant Axe and revealed the Xiao Clan Mark.
• Xiao Ze stopped the axe, revealed his own Xiao Clan Mark, and identified the figure as Ancestor Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Ze pressed a blood-formed clan mark onto Xiao Chen’s forehead, causing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to surge from Xiao Chen as he resisted its control.

Xiao Ze freed Xiao Chen from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control, and Xiao Chen learned that the Xiao Clan had fallen and urged Xiao Ze and Xiao Yan to survive. Xiao Ze then revealed that the group was still trapped in an illusion and shattered it, leaving them facing a boundless milky-white Lava Sea.

• Xiao Ze used Bloodline Power, Origin Emperor Flame, Soul Power, and Nine Profound Golden Thunder to drive the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame out of Xiao Chen and destroy it.
• Xiao Chen regained control of himself, recognized Xiao Ze and Xiao Yan as descendants of the Xiao Clan, and learned that Xiao Xuan had fallen and the clan had been destroyed.
• Xiao Chen vowed to take Xiao Ze and Xiao Yan out of the Demon Flame Space, while Xiao Yan asked him to lead them to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame so they could try to subdue it.
• Xiao Ze warned Xiao Chen that they were all still inside the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s illusion and used the power of the Origin Space and Nine Profound Golden Thunder to break it.
• Xiao Ze and the others regained their senses and found themselves before a boundless milky-white Lava Sea.