Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze escaped the Ancient Realm through an Origin Tree Root and headed toward the Boundless River while considering how to grow powerful enough to counter the Soul Clan's early Jade-Seizing Plan. He believed a Grade 9 Profound Pill could bring him close to Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint, but remained unsure whether a Grade 9 Golden Pill's Tenfold Return could carry him across the Dou Emperor barrier.

• Xiao Ze emerged into the Endless Void through a Golden Tree and chose to leave the Origin Tree Root there as a possible route for future travel or escape.
• Xiao Ze reflected that the Soul Clan's early Jade-Seizing Plan and Soul Heaven Emperor's Soul-Splitting Secret Technique had disrupted his plans and raised concerns about unknown threats.
• Xiao Ze followed his connection to the Boundless River and considered how Xun'er's Tenfold Return of a Grade 9 Profound Pill might increase his strength.
• Xiao Ze reasoned that the Origin Space was a true Lower Plane and that its Origin Qi could let him overcome the Dou Emperor barrier if he had enough energy.
• Xiao Ze recalled the arduous paths Tou She Ancient God, Soul Heaven Emperor, and Xiao Yan had taken to become Dou Emperors, leaving him uncertain whether a Grade 9 Golden Pill's Tenfold Return could make him one.

Xiao Ze traveled through the Endless Void and found the immense Boundless River, whose vast energy made him consider retreating. The river attacked him with figures formed from its water, and Xiao Ze destroyed them with his Water Attribute while bracing for a greater assault.

• Xiao Ze followed the water droplet's perception through the Endless Void, burning through dangerous Void Turbulence and Spatial Storms with the Origin Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Ze emerged from a massive Spatial Storm and saw the Boundless River, whose enormous size and energy surpassed his expectations.
• The Boundless River churned up waves and sent figures ranging from Dou Emperor to Dou Saint strength toward Xiao Ze.
• Xiao Ze used the Illusion Sea Spirit Pearl's Boundless Sea Power to shatter the attacking figures with water droplets.
• Xiao Ze recognized that the figures were only a small test and prepared for the Boundless River's real attack.

Xiao Ze encountered nine powerful Saints formed from the Boundless River, led by a White-Robed Youth who tried to lure him into the river with promises of reaching Nine-Star Dou Saint. After the Youth revealed they had once wielded the World-Ending Deluge and now served the river, the nine Saints attacked Xiao Ze.

• Xiao Ze watched nine figures emerge from the Boundless River, each possessing at least Late-stage Dou Saint strength.
• The White-Robed Youth mistook Xiao Ze’s silence for confirmation that he was a late Eight-Star Dou Saint and offered him a breakthrough opportunity in the river.
• Xiao Ze pretended to be interested while questioning the White-Robed Youth, and sensed the other eight figures watching him like prey.
• The White-Robed Youth invited Xiao Ze into the river, but Xiao Ze refused, saying he would become a water body like them.
• The White-Robed Youth identified Xiao Ze as a wielder of the World-Ending Deluge and revealed that the nine Saints had once wielded it too.
• The White-Robed Youth and the other eight Saints released their auras and urged Xiao Ze to submit to their Master, but Xiao Ze challenged them to fight.

Xiao Ze fought the Boundless River’s eight Late-stage Dou Saints and overwhelmed them with his Peerless Physique. When the White-Robed Youth joined the battle, Xiao Ze revealed the Origin Emperor Flame, which threatened to burn the river-water beings into nothingness.

• The White-Robed Youth sent eight Late-stage Dou Saints to demonstrate his master’s might and persuade Xiao Ze to join the Boundless River.
• Xiao Ze crushed the attackers, blasting one Seven-Star Dou Saint apart with a single punch and shattering three more in the ensuing battle.
• The White-Robed Youth recognized Xiao Ze’s Peerless Physique and entered the fight when the remaining attackers struggled against him.
• The White-Robed Youth blocked Xiao Ze’s fist with a sphere of river water, dispersed its force, and grabbed his hand to make him accept the Boundless River’s power.
• Xiao Ze released the Origin Emperor Flame, forcing the White-Robed Youth to sever his right hand before the golden flames consumed it.

Xiao Ze confronted the awakened consciousness of the Boundless River, which tried to persuade him to merge with it before attacking him in the depths of the Endless Void. As the river trapped him with relentless water dragons and a dangerous reflection beneath its surface, Xiao Ze held his ground and kept the Tree of Origin as an escape route.

• The White-Robed Youth tried to awaken the Boundless River but was consumed by Xiao Ze’s Origin Emperor Flame.
• The Boundless River awakened and asked why Xiao Ze had come to the depths of the Endless Void despite obtaining World-Ending Deluge.
• Xiao Ze rejected the Boundless River’s offer of immortality through merging, and it unleashed deep-blue rays that his Origin Emperor Flame burned away.
• The Boundless River spread through the void and attacked Xiao Ze with seemingly endless water dragons, forcing his flames to evaporate them into vapor.
• Xiao Ze discovered that resentful figures beneath the river’s reflective surface were draining his power, while the Origin Emperor Flame protected his reflection.
• Xiao Ze remained wary but kept the Tree of Origin as a means to escape through the Origin Tree Root if the fight turned against him.

Xiao Ze fought the Boundless River’s attacks in the Endless Void, then found a way to withstand its attempts to trap him after receiving a reward notification tied to Xun’er. By reading the river’s memory fragments, he discovered that a Blue-Robed Dou Emperor had created it by nourishing a sphere of water with Dou Emperor essence blood.

• Xiao Ze burned a dark figure attacking his reflection with the Origin Emperor Flame, but traces of blackness tainted the flame both above and within the water.
• Xiao Ze manifested countless Origin Tree Roots to tear apart the Boundless River, while the blasted water formed spatial nets to seal off the surrounding space.
• A notification said Xun’er had refined the Grade 9 Profound Pill and granted Xiao Ze a Tenfold Return reward, so he formed a protective sphere of Origin Tree Roots and prepared to break through before leaving.
• Xiao Ze sensed soul-light fragments in the void and used an Origin Tree Root to read the Boundless River’s memories.
• Xiao Ze saw a Blue-Robed Dou Emperor place a sphere of water in the Endless Void and nourish it with Dou Emperor essence blood until it began to grow without end.

Xiao Ze reflected on the Boundless River’s origins and decided to use it to strengthen himself rather than risk his life trying to destroy it. He cultivated inside his Soul Ocean space, broke through to Mid-stage Eight-Star Dou Saint, and then received Queen Medusa’s warning that Soul Heaven Emperor had captured Xiao Yan to force him to surrender the Ancient Jade fragments.

• Xiao Ze considered whether the Blue-Robed Dou Emperor had intended the Boundless River to become a threat, but concluded he could not judge the emperor’s character from the available memories.
• Xiao Ze entered his Soul Ocean space and claimed the Tenfold Return reward for the Grade 9 Profound Pill.
• Xiao Ze absorbed the vast energy, rapidly raised his cultivation, and strengthened his physique as his Tree of Origin grew.
• Xiao Ze broke through to Eight-Star Dou Saint and reached the Mid-stage of that realm.
• Queen Medusa warned Xiao Ze that Soul Heaven Emperor had captured Xiao Yan and demanded the Ancient Jade fragments.

Xiao Ze arranged for Xiao Yan to be rescued and shared crucial information about the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion with Gu Yuan while continuing his dangerous refinement. As the Soul Clan gathered the Ancient Jade, Xiao Ze pressed on toward the Dou Emperor realm, and a powerful light erupted from his cultivation sphere.

• Xiao Ze sent the Tou She Ancient God Jade to Queen Medusa and asked her to have Gu Yuan bring Xiao Yan back from the Demon Flame Space.
• Queen Medusa later informed Xiao Ze that Xiao Yan had returned safely and the Soul Clan had gathered all the Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Ze told Gu Yuan the cave mansion lay beneath Jia Nan Academy and warned him not to enter without the Ancient Jade, revealing that the previous Dragon Emperor was imprisoned inside.
• Xiao Ze asked Gu Yuan to bring Zi Yan when the allied army went to the Northwest Continent, then resumed cultivating to reach the Dou Emperor realm.
• A pillar of light burst from Xiao Ze's cultivation sphere, tore through the Boundless River, and Xiao Ze challenged it to another round.

After refining a Grade 9 Profound Pill, Xiao Ze fought the Boundless River, whose Dou Emperor blood essence let it take the form of the Blue-Robed Dou Emperor. Xiao Ze shattered its attacks and closed in for close combat.

• Xiao Ze emerged from Origin Space as his Origin Tree Root retracted, and his golden radiance sliced apart the nearby Boundless River.
• The Boundless River gathered its waters into azure radiance, but Xiao Ze burned the forming river water with the Origin Emperor Flame.
• The Boundless River formed a Blue-Robed Dou Emperor figure that destroyed Xiao Ze’s flaming barrier with endless tides.
• The figure summoned a World-Ending Deluge filled with undead, and Xiao Ze split the flood with a flaming sword and burned the undead away.
• Xiao Ze closed in on the Blue-Robed Dou Emperor figure, preparing to fight it at close range.

Xiao Ze spent days annihilating the Boundless River’s spirituality and finally reduced it to the water sphere that existed before the Blue-Robed Dou Emperor empowered it. After Gu Xun’er refined a Grade 9 Golden Pill, Xiao Ze decided to take the sphere to the Starry Sky Vortex and use its vast Star Power to break through to Dou Emperor.

• Xiao Ze repeatedly shattered and burned the Blue-Robed Dou Emperor, suppressing him while gradually weakening the Boundless River.
• Xiao Ze continued his attacks for several more days until the Boundless River stopped reforming and its azure energy gathered into a water sphere.
• Xiao Ze realized the Boundless River’s spirituality and memories had been erased, leaving the truth of its connection with the Blue-Robed Dou Emperor unknown.
• Xiao Ze collected the water sphere and saw a notification that Gu Xun’er had refined a Grade 9 Golden Pill, earning him Tenfold Return.
• Xiao Ze abandoned his plan to refine the Boundless River immediately and chose to use the Star Power at the Starry Sky Vortex in an attempt to become a Dou Emperor.

Xiao Ze cultivated inside the Starry Sky Vortex, refining the Boundless River and unleashing accumulated feedback rewards to raise his Tree of Origin. By drawing on Star Power, he crossed the one-million-meter barrier and reached the Dou Emperor realm.

• Xiao Ze entered the Starry Sky Vortex and settled on a Star Power crystal without going into its Core Region.
• Xiao Ze refined the sealed Boundless River Water Ball with Origin Emperor Flame and released his accumulated Tenfold Return rewards.
• Xiao Ze's Tree of Origin grew beyond nine hundred and ninety thousand meters as his Bloodline Power began to mutate.
• After half a year, Xiao Ze used his ability to refine Star Power to draw energy from the Starry Sky Vortex and fill the Tree of Origin's final three meters.
• Xiao Ze's Tree of Origin reached one million meters, and he broke through to the Dou Emperor realm.

Soul Heaven Emperor sacrificed the remaining Soul Clan members to complete his breakthrough, while the Central Plains Allied Forces waited for Xiao Ze’s rumored arrival. Soul Heaven Emperor emerged as a Dou Emperor and gravely wounded the Allied Forces’ strongest fighters with one strike.

• Gu Yuan watched the allied forces attack the blood-cloud region, where Soul Heaven Emperor was refining the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill with Nihility Devouring Flame’s help.
• Azure Scales had destroyed Spirit Devouring Life Extinguishing Arrays across much of the Central Plains, limiting the Soul Clan’s formation to its former sphere of influence.
• Soul Heaven Emperor ordered the remaining Soul Clan members and the array’s defenders thrown into the Blood Pool, and Nihility Devouring Flame reluctantly complied.
• The formation collapsed as Soul Heaven Emperor completed his breakthrough, and Gu Yuan and the allied forces sensed the terrifying aura of a Dou Emperor.
• Soul Heaven Emperor struck the allied forces’ High-Star Dou Saints with a wave of bloody energy, severely wounding Gu Yuan, Zhukun, and the others.

Soul Heaven Emperor became a Dou Emperor and overwhelmed Gu Yuan and Zhukun, but Xiao Ze then appeared as another Dou Emperor and protected the allied forces. The two prepared to settle their rivalry in battle, with Soul Heaven Emperor unleashing a sea of blood.

• Soul Heaven Emperor sealed off heaven and earth's energy, shattered Gu Yuan and Zhukun's attacks, and sent them crashing into the mountains.
• Stars gathered in the daylight, and Xiao Ze emerged as a Dou Emperor, healing the wounded Dou Saints and shielding the allied forces with a Starfall Barrier.
• Nihility Devouring Flame sensed Xiao Ze's authority over flames and wondered whether Tou She Ancient God had left behind another path to becoming a Dou Emperor.
• Soul Heaven Emperor challenged Xiao Ze to a final battle and threatened to destroy everyone connected to him if he lost.
• Xiao Ze taunted Soul Heaven Emperor for having no family left, and Soul Heaven Emperor erupted into a sea of blood.

Xiao Ze used the Starry Sky Vortex and his Favor of the Stars talent to reach Two-Star Dou Emperor, while Soul Heaven Emperor ascended by sacrificing the Soul Clan and the people in its territories. Their battle began over the Central Plains, where both fighters transformed into towering Dou Emperor bodies.

• Xiao Ze absorbed Star Power from the Starry Sky Vortex and advanced to Two-Star Dou Emperor with the help of Favor of the Stars.
• Soul Heaven Emperor drew power from the people in Soul Alliance territory and the Soul Clan, while Azure Scales, Queen Medusa, and the others had destroyed arrays elsewhere.
• Soul Heaven Emperor unleashed a vast blood wave, and Xiao Ze countered with Star Power before shielding the Central Plains and teleporting away the people within their battlefield.
• Soul Heaven Emperor swallowed the blood clouds and transformed into a colossal Blood Emperor Body.
• Xiao Ze formed his Starfall Dou Emperor Body, and Soul Heaven Emperor sensed that it posed a threat as their decisive battle approached.

Xiao Ze overwhelmed Soul Heaven Emperor in their Dou Emperor battle and destroyed the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Blade with the Origin Emperor Flame. Soul Heaven Emperor was burned to death, ending the battle with the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Ze blasted a hole through Soul Heaven Emperor's Blood Qi Dou Emperor Body and proved his strength was superior.
• Soul Heaven Emperor activated the incomplete Emperor Slaying Array and formed the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Blade.
• Soul Heaven Emperor sacrificed his heart's blood to empower the blade and attacked Xiao Ze.
• Xiao Ze revealed the Origin Emperor Flame and incinerated the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Blade.
• Xiao Ze engulfed Soul Heaven Emperor in the Origin Emperor Flame, killing him.

After defeating Soul Heaven Emperor, Xiao Ze declared himself the Origin Emperor and helped the Central Plains recover from the Soul Clan’s attack. He became the Xiao Clan’s greatest source of power, then visited Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb and offered to revive him.

• Xiao Ze destroyed Soul Heaven Emperor, wiped out the remaining Soul Clan members, and sealed Nihility Devouring Flame before naming himself the Origin Emperor.
• Xiao Ze thanked the Central Plains Allied Forces and spoke with Gu Yuan and Zhukun, advising Zhukun to speak frankly with Zi Yan to repair their relationship.
• The Central Plains began recovering from the war, while Xiao Ze’s rise to Dou Emperor strengthened the Xiao Family and awakened Xiao Yan’s Dou Emperor Bloodline to Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Ze reunited with Xun'er, Queen Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Azure Scales, and others, then traveled to the Heavenly Tomb instead of immediately reuniting with his family.
• Xiao Ze met Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb, confirmed that he had become a Dou Emperor, and offered to attempt to revive him.

Xiao Ze used the Origin Emperor Flame to restore Xiao Xuan’s soul, then took him to reunite with the Xiao Clan. Back at the Alchemist Tower, Xiao Ze accepted Azure Scales’ feelings, while Zi Yan reconciled with Zhukun and called him father.

• Xiao Ze used the Origin Emperor Flame to restore Xiao Xuan’s soul to completeness, and Xiao Xuan became able to leave the Heavenly Tomb without a physical body.
• Xiao Ze brought Xiao Xuan to meet the current members of the Xiao Clan, then returned to the Alchemist Tower.
• Azure Scales told Xiao Ze she wanted to care for him for the rest of her life, and Xiao Ze embraced her.
• Zhukun apologized to Zi Yan after Xiao Ze encouraged him to speak with her.
• Zi Yan accepted Zhukun as her father, and he joyfully promised to give her whatever she wanted.

Zi Yan and Zhukun cautiously began building a father-daughter relationship, while Xiao Ze used his power as the Origin Emperor to spread alchemy knowledge across the Dou Qi Continent. He planted nine Trees of Transmission and left the Central Plains tree in Holy Pill City, beginning an effort to create a new Alchemy Golden Age.

• Zi Yan acknowledged Zhukun as her father, and Zhukun realized she liked Xiao Ze before she stopped him from meddling in her relationship.
• Xiao Ze left the Elder Tower after Azure Scales began refining Dou Emperor blood essence.
• Xiao Ze decided that his Grade 9 Golden Pill alchemy and Dou Emperor strength allowed him to unite alchemy teachings across the continent.
• Xiao Ze announced that he would share his alchemy knowledge and planted nine Trees of Transmission across the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Ze planted the Central Plains Tree of Transmission in Holy Pill City's inner domain and looked forward to creating a new Alchemy Golden Age.

Xiao Ze strengthened the Alchemist Tower’s protection of the Tree of Transmission, then accepted Zi Yan’s proposal to join his marriage to Xun’er and the others. More than ten days later, Xiao Ze married Xun’er, Queen Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Azure Scales, and Zi Yan in a grand ceremony.

• The Alchemist Tower sent experts to guard the Tree of Transmission across the Dou Qi Continent and offered them preferential access to resources.
• Xiao Ze received an invitation from Zi Yan and traveled to Ancient Dragon Island to meet her.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Ze to include her in his marriage, and Xiao Ze proposed that she become his wife.
• Zi Yan accepted Xiao Ze’s proposal, and they shared a private moment in her bedchamber.
• More than ten days later, Xiao Ze married Xun’er, Queen Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Azure Scales, and Zi Yan before powers from across the continent.

More than a year after his wedding, Xiao Ze established the Tree of Transmission so people with alchemy talent could receive instruction, herbs, and a flame without needing a teacher. After traveling across the continent with Xun'er and the others, he reached a bottleneck and prepared to leave for the Great Thousand World through the Origin Space.

• An old man brought his granddaughter Ling Xuan to the Tree of Transmission, hoping she could receive Xiao Ze's Alchemist Legacy.
• The old man and Ling Xuan reached Heaven Alliance City and saw the vast Golden Tree, where alchemists gathered under clear rules and refused no one based on status.
• A black-robed alchemist used the Projection Emperor Flame to grow medicinal herbs from seeds, then ran out of Dou Qi.
• The Tree of Transmission provided Xiao Ze's guidance, projected flames, and medicinal herbs to candidates with alchemy aptitude, allowing them to train into alchemists.
• Xiao Ze and his companions returned to Xiao Realm after traveling across the continent, and Xiao Ze decided to use the Origin Space to reach the Great Thousand World.