Chapter Summaries

Three Thousand Burning Flame erupted and engulfed the Star Region, leaving Ning Luo inside as he battled its source flame. After waiting until the flame weakened, Ning Luo defeated it and pulled it into the Dragon Seal, while Xiao Yi Xian and the others waited anxiously outside.

• Xuan Kongzi escaped the Star Region and ordered the tower experts to seal it after Three Thousand Burning Flame flooded it with fire.
• Xuan Kongzi told Xuan Yi that Ning Luo had stayed behind to refine the source flame, and Xiao Yi Xian learned that he remained trapped inside.
• Zi Yan reassured Xiao Yi Xian that Ning Luo was alive because his Dragon Seal still shone with golden light.
• Ning Luo waited inside the sea of fire until Three Thousand Burning Flame weakened, then emerged and fought back with his own flame.
• Ning Luo overpowered Three Thousand Burning Flame and drew it into the Dragon Seal in his palm.

Ning Luo spent more than half a year refining Three Thousand Burning Flame in the sealed Star Region and broke through to Seven-Star Dou Zun. After condensing the surrounding flames into a Fire Lightning Seed, he headed for the spatial gate to leave.

• Ning Luo shattered the soul space, swallowed Three Thousand Burning Flame, and began refining it as the Star Region’s flames circled him.
• Xiao Yi Xian demanded that the three great leaders open the Star Region, but the released sea of fire drove them back; Xuan Kongzi later entered and quickly fled in a miserable state.
• After more than half a year, Ning Luo’s purple-brown flame formed a giant dragon that devoured the surrounding fire before returning to his body, and Ning Luo opened his eyes.
• Ning Luo’s cultivation surged past the Seven-Star level before stabilizing at Seven-Star Dou Zun.
• Ning Luo condensed the Star Region’s flames into a Fire Lightning Seed and set off toward the spatial gate.

Ning Luo emerged alive from the Star Region after absorbing Three Thousand Burning Flame, reuniting with Xiao Yi Xian and the others. Back in his room, he began studying the remaining seals of the Emperor Seal Art to strengthen himself before rescuing Yao Lao.

• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi tried to reinforce the seal as violet-black flames erupted from the Star Region and threatened Sacred Pill City.
• Ning Luo emerged from the flames, and Xuan Kongzi realized he had absorbed Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian rushed to Ning Luo and held his arm, while Zi Yan and Heavenly Flame Venerable welcomed him back.
• Ning Luo returned to his room with Xiao Yi Xian and the others and said he would rest before refining the Fuling Green Pill and entering seclusion.
• Ning Luo studied Xun'er's scroll and began practicing the Earth Covering Seal and Annihilation Sky Seal of the Emperor Seal Art.

After seven days of cultivating the Emperor Seal Art, Ning Luo was confronted by Chen Tiannan and Yi Chen at the Pill Tower. He accepted Yi Chen’s arena challenge, and their fight began with Yi Chen staggering back under Ning Luo’s explosive aura.

• After seven days of cultivation, Ning Luo learned that Chen Tiannan and the Xuanming Sect had come to the Pill Tower seeking revenge for Chen Xian.
• Qiu Ling defended Ning Luo, while Yi Chen proposed an arena challenge instead of taking him by force.
• Ning Luo emerged and accepted Yi Chen’s challenge to protect his reputation as the Pill Gathering champion.
• Yi Chen attacked Ning Luo with Blood Bone Devouring Hand and Blood Burst, then used the Blood Condensation Great Law.
• Ning Luo unleashed a powerful aura that sent Yi Chen staggering backward across the arena.

Ning Luo defeated Yi Chen, and Chen Tiannan withdrew after Xiao Yi Xian and Heavenly Flame Venerable intervened and Xuan Yi warned him. Ning Luo and his companions then reached the Wanhun Mountain Range and prepared to enter cautiously because of its dangerous mist and the Soul Hall branch within.

• Yi Chen unleashed several deadly techniques, but Ning Luo combined the Mountain Splitting Seal, Seafall Seal, and Earth Covering Seal to defeat him.
• Chen Tiannan tried to strike Ning Luo, but Xiao Yi Xian and Heavenly Flame Venerable blocked him, while Xuan Yi warned that the Pill Tower’s presidents would not tolerate further trouble.
• Chen Tiannan led his group away, and Yi Chen left with them after threatening Ning Luo.
• Ning Luo traveled with Xiao Yi Xian and the others to the Wanhun Mountain Range and told them to rest before entering.
• Venerable Wind warned the group that the dense cold mist, dangerous Magical Beasts, and Soul Hall branch made flying into the mountain range risky.

Ning Luo and his companions followed Zi Yan and the Stone-Eating Ant Queen to Soul Hall, where they launched an assault with the ant swarm. The swarm overwhelmed the valley’s defenses, and an unseen attacker struck down a Soul Hall Protector as the alarm sounded.

• Venerable Wind warned Ning Luo and the others about the Stone-Eating Ant Swarm, but Zi Yan plunged into the mist before they could retreat.
• Zi Yan subdued the Stone-Eating Ant Queen with her dragon might and revealed that it knew the way to Soul Hall.
• Zi Yan led Ning Luo and the others through the mountain range and warned them that Soul Hall was nearby.
• Ning Luo and his companions reached the black hall, and the Stone-Eating Ants poured into its valley.
• Soul Hall Protectors raised the alarm as the ants swarmed the hall, and an unseen attacker crushed one Protector.

Ning Luo stormed into the Soul Hall with several Dou Zun allies, fought his way through its defenders, and reached the imprisoned Yao Lao. He freed Yao Lao from his light barrier and chains, but his attempt to strike the remaining chains was stopped by a sudden spatial barrier.

• Four Dou Zun experts attacked the Soul Hall, while Ning Luo confronted the Purple-robed Venerable and rushed into the hall.
• Ning Luo defeated the Protectors blocking his path and blasted open the iron gates to the Soul Hall’s prison plaza.
• Yao Lao called for help, and Ning Luo agreed to free him in exchange for his service as a subordinate.
• Ning Luo used the Three Thousand Lotus Heart Flame to break Yao Lao’s light barrier and chains.
• Ning Luo swung a fiery whip at the remaining chains, but a frozen patch of space blocked the strike.

Ning Luo fought Old Ghost Star-Picking inside the Soul-Locking Hall, freeing the trapped souls and escaping the hall. Outside, he drove back three Soul Hall Protectors, but Old Ghost Star-Picking sealed the surrounding space and advanced on him.

• Old Ghost Star-Picking revealed himself in the Soul-Locking Hall and blocked Ning Luo and Yao Lao from escaping.
• Ning Luo fought off Old Ghost Star-Picking's attacks with his flames, Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus, and Fire Lightning Seeds, breaking the chains and freeing the souls trapped in the hall.
• Ning Luo escaped through the hall, pursued by Old Ghost Star-Picking, and charged through the remaining Soul Hall guards.
• Ning Luo emerged into a ruined valley and defeated three Soul Hall Protectors who attacked him.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking burst through the hall roof, sealed the surrounding space, and advanced toward Ning Luo.

Ning Luo prepared a four-Heavenly-Flame Destruction Fire Lotus while Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan fought to keep Old Ghost Star-Picking from reaching him. The chapter ended as Xiong Zhan swung at Old Ghost Star-Picking from behind, and the latter twisted aside without turning to face him.

• Zi Yan transformed into her adult form and volunteered to hold off Old Ghost Star-Picking while Ning Luo prepared his attack.
• Zi Yan dispelled Old Ghost Star-Picking's spatial compression and traded blows with him, surprising him with her strength.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking seized Zi Yan by the neck, but Xiong Zhan intervened and struck him with an iron fist.
• Ning Luo completed a palm-sized Destruction Fire Lotus made from four Heavenly Flames, alarming Old Ghost Star-Picking with its destructive power.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking charged toward Ning Luo, and Xiong Zhan pursued him and swung at his back.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking twisted sideways to avoid turning around and meeting Xiong Zhan's punch.

Ning Luo was gravely injured after clashing with Old Ghost Star-Picking, and Zi Yan helped the group escape the Black and White Venerables with Iron Sword Venerable’s sacrifice. After traveling south for weeks, the survivors reached the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, where Venerable Wind revealed Starfall Pavilion was hidden.

• Xiong Zhan struck Old Ghost Star-Picking, and Zi Yan cursed him as the Soul Hall elder prepared a deadly attack on Ning Luo.
• Ning Luo unleashed the unstable Destruction Fire Lotus as Old Ghost Star-Picking’s Nine Nether Soul Hand struck him, leaving him gravely wounded while the explosion badly injured Old Ghost Star-Picking.
• The Black and White Venerables arrived, and Zi Yan warned the group that they had to flee without fighting; Iron Sword Venerable stayed behind and self-destructed to hold off their pursuers.
• Xiao Yi Xian found that Zi Yan had survived, while Venerable Wind examined Ning Luo and grew more troubled by his injuries.
• Yao Lao, Venerable Wind, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others traveled for weeks to the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, where Venerable Wind said Starfall Pavilion could only be entered by a specific method.

Ning Luo returned to Starfall Pavilion, where Yao Lao was welcomed as its pavilion master, then cultivated in purplish-brown flames for a year. As Medusa waited for him with their daughter Ning Xueyan, Ning Luo finally awakened when the Three Thousand Lotus Heart Flame transformed into a dragon and absorbed a pillar of starlight.

• Mu Qingluan greeted Venerable Wind and recognized Yao Lao as Starfall Pavilion's pavilion master.
• Ning Luo reassured Mu Qingluan that the Soul Hall's branch hall had not harmed them, and the group shared wine at the pavilion.
• Ning Luo began cultivating within purplish-brown flames as days passed.
• Medusa watched the moon in Jia Ma Holy City and recalled Ning Luo's promise to return, while Ning Xueyan called out to her.
• After a year, the Three Thousand Lotus Heart Flame erupted from the stone tower as a giant dragon and drew down a pillar of starlight.
• Ning Luo opened his eyes and awakened.

Ning Luo awakened as an early Dou Saint and recovered, then learned that Ancient Ruins had appeared in the Beast Domain, home to powerful Magical Beast clans. He and his companions set out for the ruins as Mu Qingluan explained the region’s forces and Zi Yan offered to protect them.

• Ning Luo emerged from the giant dragon’s forehead with a Dou Saint aura, astonishing Mu Qingluan, Venerable Wind, Yao Lao, and the others.
• Ning Luo awoke, sensed his vast Dou Qi, and demonstrated how easily he could distort space with his power.
• Venerable Wind told Ning Luo that Ancient Ruins had appeared in the Beast Domain, where Magical Beast clans would resist human visitors seeking the ruins’ treasures.
• Ning Luo traveled toward the Beast Domain with Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Mu Qingluan, and gave Zi Yan a bottle of medicinal pills to quiet her complaints.
• Mu Qingluan described the Beast Domain’s major clans, and Zi Yan boasted that she would handle the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan if they challenged the group.

Ning Luo’s group reached the Bone Mountain Range, where Elder Hu reported that Fei Tian of the Wind Thunder Pavilion had injured Elder Qi. Ning Luo led the Starfall Pavilion forces toward the Wind Thunder Pavilion’s camp to confront them, while Fei Tian noticed a disturbance approaching.

• Mu Qingluan warned Ning Luo that the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan would contest the Ancient Ruins and urged him to leave after obtaining the Soul Infant Fruit.
• Ning Luo’s group hurried to the Bone Mountain Range as travelers gathered there, and Mu Qingluan summoned Elder Hu with an ancient jade.
• Elder Hu explained that Fei Tian and Wind Thunder Pavilion experts had injured Elder Qi while the elders scouted the area.
• After meeting the wounded Elder Qi, Ning Luo ordered the Starfall Pavilion forces to head for the Wind Thunder Pavilion camp.
• Fei Tian instructed his guards to keep the camp secure, then noticed a disturbance on the mountain path.

Ning Luo confronted Fei Tian and Thunder Venerable after Wind Thunder Pavilion drove away Starfall Pavilion’s elders, then forced Wind Thunder Pavilion to retreat by revealing Starfall Pavilion’s overwhelming Dou Zun strength. The chapter ended with Thunder Venerable vowing to settle the score later as Ning Luo’s disciples celebrated.

• Ning Luo arrived with Starfall Pavilion after Fei Tian ordered his experts to seize the intruders.
• Ning Luo stopped Fei Tian’s attack by collapsing space around him and sent him crashing into the camp.
• Thunder Venerable confronted Ning Luo, but Ning Luo’s Dou Zun presence kept his pressure from intimidating him.
• The Earth Tiger Clan patriarch asked them to stop, but the tiger-robed elder and silver-haired elder threatened Ning Luo and Starfall Pavilion.
• Three hidden Dou Zuns revealed themselves beside Ning Luo, and their combined strength forced Thunder Venerable and his followers to withdraw.
• Thunder Venerable promised to settle the score with Ning Luo later, while Starfall Pavilion’s disciples cheered.

Ning Luo and the Starfall Pavilion waited for the Ancient Ruins while watching for threats from the Wind Thunder Pavilion, the Soul Hall, and the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan. A masked stranger attacked Zi Yan, escaped Ning Luo, and was identified as the mysterious figure pursued by the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan.

• Ning Luo and Mu Qingluan discussed securing the Soul Infant Fruit and staying alert to the Wind Thunder Pavilion, the Soul Hall, and the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan.
• Ning Luo kept the Starfall Pavilion disciples on their mountaintop camp as they waited three days for the Ancient Ruins to open.
• Ning Luo thought of Xun'er and Cai Lin before a masked stranger attacked Zi Yan, and he met the stranger's counterattack but could not stop them from escaping.
• Members of the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan arrived pursuing the stranger, and Ning Luo realized the figure was their mysterious killer.
• Ning Luo told Xiao Yi Xian and the others what had happened, and Zi Yan dismissed the suggestion that the attacker had mistaken her for a Nine Netherworld Nether Python.

Ning Luo and his companions reached the Bone Mountain Range as the Ancient Ruins opened, then entered the sea of bones after avoiding the spatial seal’s deadly shockwave. At the crimson hall, he encountered old enemies and reunited with Tang Huo'er and Tang Zhen, while Tang Zhen noted how many forces were against him.

• Ning Luo warned his companions to be cautious and hurried toward the Ancient Ruins, where powerful experts had gathered to claim a Heaven Tier Combat Skill.
• When the ruins’ spatial seal shattered, Ning Luo pulled Zi Yan back from the shockwave, and Xiao Yi Xian and the others retreated with them before advancing into the sea of bones.
• Ning Luo and his companions saw a vast crimson hall emerge, where Ning Luo recognized Feng Qing'er and noticed the hostility of Venerable Bing He and Chen Tiannan.
• Tang Huo'er recognized Ning Luo, and Tang Zhen approached with the experts of Fen Yan Valley to greet him.
• Tang Zhen asked about Ning Luo’s difficult situation, and Ning Luo calmly called it bad luck.

Ning Luo and his companions crossed the ruins’ deadly fire passage with the Three Thousand Lotus Heart Flame and reached a stone gate guarded by ten Earth Demon Puppets. A one-star Dou Zun challenged the puppets and began overpowering them, while the entrance to the true ruins remained blocked.

• Tang Zhen and Ning Luo protected their groups with their Heavenly Flames and led them into the fire passage.
• Ning Luo’s group sped through the passage, overtook several experts, and saw Venerable Bing He hurry ahead with the Ice River Valley experts.
• Ning Luo’s group descended through the magma, and Ning Luo told Zi Yan to search for the Soul Infant Fruit once they entered the hall.
• Ning Luo and his companions reached a stone gate guarded by ten Earth Demon Puppets, which Ning Luo recognized as peak Dou Zong puppets.
• A gray-robed one-star Dou Zun attacked all ten puppets and sent several staggering back, leaving Ning Luo doubtful that they could hold him much longer.

Ning Luo subdued the ten Earth Demon Puppets and entered the ancient forest with his companions to search for the Soul Infant Fruit. After discovering that other groups had entered the forest from another direction, Zi Yan sensed the fruit and led them onward.

• Ning Luo used his Soul Power to subdue the ten Earth Demon Puppets and stored them in his Ring of Holding.
• Ning Luo and his companions entered the opened ruins, followed Zi Yan to a medicinal chamber, and collected its herbs while Zi Yan ate some lingzhi mushrooms.
• Ning Luo led the group into the ancient forest and warned them about its powerful Magical Beasts.
• Ning Luo sensed many other people entering the forest from another direction, so the group hurried onward.
• Zi Yan sensed the Soul Infant Fruit and led Ning Luo and the others toward it.

Ning Luo, Zi Yan, and their companions found the Soul Infant Demon Tree and then followed a bloodline calling to Zi Yan to an altar bearing a legendary Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. Feng Qing'er and other treasure hunters arrived as Zi Yan prepared to claim it, leaving Ning Luo's group ready to fight.

• Zi Yan subdued the Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon with her Ancient Void Dragon aura, and Ning Luo offered it mature Shaping Grass in exchange for access to the Soul Infant Demon Tree.
• Ning Luo's group collected the Soul Infant Fruit, then followed Zi Yan's bloodline calling deeper into the forest to a stone altar.
• Zi Yan and Ning Luo discovered the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and the enormous skeletons of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix surrounding the plain.
• Zi Yan decided to take the fruit before the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan could obtain it and become stronger.
• Feng Qing'er and other treasure hunters arrived, and Ning Luo told his companions to prepare to fight.

Ning Luo and his allies fought Feng Qing'er and the other Dou Zuns over the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, until Feng Qing'er awakened an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix ancestral soul. Zi Yan appeared with an Ancient Void Dragon ancestral soul and drove back the phoenix, but Feng Qing'er empowered it with her blood, leaving Zi Yan to counter its charge with a dragon-shaped beam.

• Ning Luo brought out the Earth Demon Puppets as he and his allies faced Feng Qing'er, Thunder Venerable, and the black-robed elder in a fight for the altar.
• Ning Luo sent the Heavenly Demon Puppet and the ten puppets against the black-robed elder, while Xiao Yi Xian confronted Thunder Venerable and Ning Luo fought the white-haired man.
• Feng Qing'er used blood to draw a rune and awaken the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix ancestral soul, forcing Ning Luo and the others to retreat to the altar.
• Zi Yan appeared and revealed an Ancient Void Dragon ancestral soul, stunning the black-robed elder and the others.
• Feng Qing'er sent a golden phoenix against Zi Yan, who trapped it with collapsing space, but Feng Qing'er used her blood to help it break free and charge at the altar.
• Zi Yan released a huge purple beam that transformed into an Ancient Void Dragon and rushed toward the golden phoenix.