Chapter Summaries

Ning Luo’s Reincarnation Beam failed to defeat the Soul Hall Master, who revealed the Nihility Devouring Flame and trapped Ning Luo with its child flame. Xiao Yi resisted the child flame’s devouring power and began refining it, while Ning Luo moved to keep the Soul Hall Master from intervening.

• Ning Luo compressed his Reincarnation Beam against the Soul Hall Master, but the Soul Hall Master emerged unharmed from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Soul Hall Master revealed a child flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame, which devoured the pink flames and trapped Ning Luo in a prison of black fire.
• Xiao Yi transformed into a giant infant, bit into the child flame, and resisted its devouring power with crystalline pink armor.
• The Soul Hall Master lost contact with the child flame and realized Ning Luo’s fused Heavenly Flames could withstand its devouring.
• Ning Luo appeared before the Soul Hall Master to stop him from interfering, and the Soul Hall Master launched a fierce attack against Ning Luo.

Ning Luo defeated the Soul Hall Master at Fallen Summit, forcing Soul Hall to retreat and establishing the Heavenly Mansion Alliance as the Central Plains’ new power. Three months later, Ning Luo sat in the Star Realm studying a mysterious black bead as the Alliance continued to transform.

• Xiao Yi bombarded the Soul Hall Master with ten Flame Lotuses while Ning Luo attacked him, and their assault left the Soul Hall Master badly wounded.
• Hun Qianmo refused to let the battle become an all-out war, then intervened when Ning Luo tried to kill the defeated Soul Hall Master.
• Hun Qianmo recovered the Soul Hall Master's shattered soul and withdrew with Soul Hall, while Ning Luo regretted failing to destroy the soul completely.
• The Central Plains hailed Ning Luo and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance after the battle, and the Alliance's members came to revere Ning Luo as an almost divine figure.
• Three months later, Ning Luo meditated in the Star Realm and examined a mysterious black bead floating above his palm.

After discovering Xiao Yi could purify energy absorbed by the devouring bead and return some of it to him, Ning Luo received news of a demon phoenix attack and an anomaly in the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring. He set out with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin for the Beast Domain to find Cai Lin.

• Ning Luo found that the devouring bead drained his Dou Qi and life force, while its absorbed energy was too impure for him to use.
• Xiao Yi swallowed the bead’s black specks and transformed impure energy crystals into pure energy, returning some of it to Ning Luo.
• Ning Luo considered investigating the magma world beneath Jia Nan Academy and the mystery surrounding the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Yao Lao gave Ning Luo a scroll from Yao Ming announcing a demon phoenix attack and an anomaly in the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring.
• Ning Luo chose not to involve the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and left for the Beast Domain with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to check on Cai Lin.

The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Huang Tian attacked the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan to seize Cai Lin and draw out Ning Luo. Ning Luo arrived in time to confront Huang Tian, who immediately attacked him.

• Yao Ming refused Huang Tian’s demand to hand over the woman cultivating in the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring, despite Huang Tian’s deadline and threat.
• Huang Tian overpowered Yao Ming and broke through the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan’s formation to reach the Yellow Spring.
• Huang Tian stirred the Yellow Spring, but a sudden soul sound wave struck him, and Ning Luo appeared to stop him.
• Ning Luo realized Huang Tian had used the threat against Cai Lin to force him to appear, then challenged Huang Tian’s authority.
• Huang Tian dismissed Ning Luo’s victory over the Soul Hall Master and attacked him with a golden claw.

Ning Luo fought Huang Tian and endured the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan patriarch’s speed and Demon Phoenix Sacred Image. Just as Ning Luo prepared to attack with his six-flame Flame Lotus, Cai Lin emerged from the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring as a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and bound Huang Tian.

• Ning Luo met Huang Tian’s claw and fist attacks with the Yellow Springs Palm and his own flame-enhanced punch.
• Huang Tian used the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Demon Phoenix Step to strike Ning Luo with rapid afterimages, but Ning Luo relied on soul perception to evade him and wounded his hand with Condensing Fire Finger.
• Huang Tian unleashed his Demon Phoenix Sacred Image, and Ning Luo hit him with three Yellow Springs Heavenly Wraths, shattering golden feathers and dimming his radiance.
• As Ning Luo prepared to throw his six-flame Flame Lotus, a nine-colored pillar erupted from the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring and interrupted the fight.
• Cai Lin appeared in the form of a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and coiled around Huang Tian, stunning him and the watching experts.

Cai Lin emerged from seclusion with the power of a four-star Dou Saint and helped Ning Luo defeat Huang Tian’s attempt to capture them. Ning Luo learned that Zi Yan was in grave danger and hurried with Cai Lin toward the Dragon Seal’s resonance, which led them to a blood-red island in the void.

• Cai Lin transformed from the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and struck Huang Tian, forcing him to admit defeat.
• Cai Lin told Ning Luo that she had reached the strength of a four-star Dou Saint after finding the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python Clan’s relic nest.
• Ning Luo warned Huang Tian that he would hold the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan responsible if anything happened to Zi Yan.
• Ning Luo and Cai Lin tore through the void after the Dragon Seal’s weakening resonance suggested Zi Yan was in serious danger and away from East Dragon Island.
• Ning Luo and Cai Lin approached a gigantic blood-red island floating in the void.

The North Dragon King attacked Zi Yan inside the Demon Dragon Array after devouring the West and South Dragon Kings and many clan members. Ning Luo and Cai Lin arrived, and Ning Luo unleashed his Destruction Fire Body to confront the North Dragon King as the battle continued.

• The North Dragon King used the Demon Dragon Array and struck Zi Yan, leaving her badly injured as he reached for her head.
• Ning Luo and Cai Lin appeared, and Ning Luo protected Zi Yan with his Heavenly Flames.
• The North Dragon King attacked Ning Luo with the Dragon Slaying Sword, and Ning Luo countered with Yellow Springs Palm.
• Ning Luo activated the Destruction Fire Body, releasing a destructive aura that heartened Zi Yan and the Ancient Dragon Clan elders.
• The North Dragon King absorbed the blood mist from clan members whose bodies exploded, growing the blood dragon even more crimson.

Ning Luo used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to defeat and kill the North Dragon King, ending the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s internal conflict. Zi Yan prepared to unite the four Dragon Islands while Ning Luo began gathering materials to refine the North Dragon King’s corpse into a puppet.

• The North Dragon King entered the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array’s blood dragon and attacked Ning Luo, but Ning Luo’s counterattack shattered its blood-red energy.
• Ning Luo purified the North Dragon King’s blood bead with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and survived the ensuing explosion.
• The North Dragon King tried to flee and sent ten figures against Ning Luo, but Ning Luo pursued him and destroyed his soul, killing him.
• Zi Yan thanked Ning Luo and agreed that he could keep the North Dragon King’s corpse to refine into a puppet.
• Zi Yan planned to unite the four Dragon Islands while Ning Luo checked the gathered materials and prepared the North Dragon King’s body for puppet refining.

Ning Luo refined King Bei’s body, but King Bei revived and attacked before Ning Luo subdued him and bound him as a puppet. Ning Luo then took King Bei into the depths of the Void Lightning Pool to strengthen him with Black Demon Lightning.

• Ning Luo spent ten days refining King Bei’s body with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• King Bei revived inside the Fire Cauldron, revealed that his body was his soul, and attacked Ning Luo.
• Ning Luo trapped King Bei’s remnant soul, bound him with a drop of essence blood, and named him King Bei.
• Ning Luo led King Bei to the Black Demon Lightning region and watched as the lightning began strengthening King Bei’s body.
• King Bei absorbed the Black Demon Lightning, drawing the surrounding bolts into a barrage that sent him flying thousands of zhang.

Ning Luo and King Bei spent a month absorbing Black Demon Lightning in the Void Lightning Pool, strengthening Ning Luo and advancing King Bei. As Ning Luo prepared to leave, he discovered a Nine Profound Golden Lightning dragon and fled when it awakened and attacked him.

• Xiao Yi devoured Black Demon Lightning and shared its refined energy with Ning Luo, who realized the lightning could greatly accelerate his cultivation.
• Ning Luo cultivated undisturbed for a month while Xiao Yi and King Bei absorbed Black Demon Lightning.
• Ning Luo finished cultivating, recalled Xiao Yi, and headed toward the dark region with King Bei.
• Ning Luo discovered a colossal Nine Profound Golden Lightning dragon surrounded by Black Demon Lightning.
• The dragon awakened, and Ning Luo fled as Black Demon Lightning pursued him and the golden dragon fired a massive bolt that caught up to him.

Ning Luo used Xiao Yi to absorb Nine Profound Golden Lightning, which helped him break through to the late stage of a five-star Dou Saint. He captured the lightning while it was weakened as it gathered intelligence, then returned to Dragon Island and reunited with Cai Lin and Zi Yan.

• Ning Luo and Xiao Yi endured the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, and Ning Luo broke through to the late stage of a five-star Dou Saint.
• Ning Luo watched the lightning gather intelligence as Black Demon Lightning weakened it, then decided to wait for a chance to act.
• Ning Luo sealed the weakened Nine Profound Golden Lightning, leaving it intelligent, and escaped the Lightning Pool with Xiao Yi.
• Ning Luo saw the golden dragon tattoo on Xiao Yi and flew back to Dragon Island.
• Ning Luo sensed nearly ten Dou Saint experts on Dragon Island, entered the island, and greeted Cai Lin and Zi Yan in a secluded courtyard.

Ning Luo returned to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance after helping the Ancient Void Dragon Clan recover, then accompanied Yao Lao to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony. The chapter leaves them at the entrance to the Yao Clan’s sacred grounds, where guards challenge them.

• Ning Luo told Zi Yan that he would return to the alliance, and Zi Yan promised the Ancient Void Dragon Clan would support him in return for his past help.
• Ning Luo returned to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and reassured Yao Lao that he would handle any obstacles to Yao Lao’s return to the Yao Clan.
• When the Medicine Ceremony arrived, Yao Lao and Ning Luo departed for the Yao Clan while Cai Lin stayed behind to guard the alliance.
• Ning Luo admired the abundant Heaven and Earth Energy in the Shen Nong Mountain Range as he and Yao Lao approached the Yao Clan.
• Yao Lao and Ning Luo reached the Yao Clan’s entrance, where guards demanded to know who they were.

Ning Luo and Yao Lao arrived at the Yao Clan's Medicine Ceremony, where Yao Wangui publicly insulted Yao Lao and ordered the clan's Iron Guards to seize Ning Luo. Ning Luo revealed his five-star Dou Saint strength, struck back, and unleashed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as the Yao Clan elders intervened.

• Ning Luo and Yao Lao entered the Yao Clan's territory for the Medicine Ceremony and were escorted to a gathering plaza.
• Yao Wangui confronted Yao Lao, mocked him as an expelled clan member, and encouraged his followers to insult the pair.
• Yao Wangui ordered the Yao Clan Iron Guards to seize Ning Luo, who released the aura of a five-star Dou Saint.
• Yao Wangui summoned the Yao Clan elders and accused Ning Luo of attacking clan members, while Ning Luo warned him against speaking carelessly.
• Ning Luo charged at Yao Wangui, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged as a Fire Infant, forcing the elders to recoil.

Ning Luo confronted Yao Wangui at the Yao Clan gathering, but Elder Wanhuo intervened and settled the dispute. Ning Luo and Yao Lao then joined the gathering on Medicine Mountain, where they met Yao Clan Chief Yao Dan, a seven-star Dou Saint.

• Ning Luo attacked Yao Wangui while Elder Wanhuo rushed in, and King Bei blocked the elder as Ning Luo seized Yao Wangui by the throat.
• Elder Wanhuo asked Ning Luo and Yao Lao to spare Yao Wangui, and they accepted his intervention.
• Ning Luo and Yao Lao followed the Yao Clan elders to the mountaintop gathering and took seats beside Elder Wanhuo.
• Yao Dan arrived to the clan's welcome, and Yao Lao identified him as the Yao Clan Chief and a seven-star Dou Saint.

The Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony began amid tense encounters between Yao Lao, Ning Luo, Elder Shennong, and Hun Xuzi. After several days of preliminary tests, the gathering turned toward its main event, where Ning Luo was set to face several of the continent’s foremost alchemists.

• Yao Dan greeted Yao Lao and Ning Luo, while Elder Shennong arrived and praised Ning Luo’s Soul Power.
• Hun Xuzi entered the Medicine Realm, provoking Yao Lao and the Yao Clan elders, and King Bei threatened him.
• Yao Dan forbade fighting during the ceremony and declared the Medicine Ceremony open.
• The younger generation’s tests lasted several days before the focus shifted to the gathering’s elite alchemists.
• Yao Lao told Ning Luo that Hun Xuzi, Elder Shennong, and Elder Wanhuo would likely be his main rivals, while Yao Dan would not compete.

Ning Luo joined Hun Xuzi, Elder Wanhuo, and Elder Shennong in the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony contest, challenging Hun Xuzi on behalf of the Heavenly Mansion Alliance. The four began refining pills, and Ning Luo used Xiao Yi to swallow several thousand medicinal ingredients at once.

• Yao Dan called the four contestants into the arena, and Hun Xuzi, Elder Wanhuo, and Elder Shennong took their places in the sky.
• Ning Luo rose to challenge Hun Xuzi, citing the Soul Clan elder’s theft of Pill Tower techniques.
• Hun Xuzi formed a massive Fire Cauldron with the Nihility Devouring Flame, while Elder Wanhuo revealed the Nine Nether Wind Flame and Elder Shennong displayed the Living Flame.
• Yao Dan told the contestants to begin refining pills, and the four divided the sky into separate regions.
• Ning Luo sent Xiao Yi into his Fire Cauldron, which swallowed several thousand medicinal ingredients at once as he began refining them with his peak Heavenly Realm Soul Power.

Ning Luo and three other alchemists drew on Heaven and Earth Energy to refine Ninth Grade Profound Pills, and Ning Luo's pill reached the heavenly tribulation stage. The embryo endured the black lightning but began to crack, leaving its final transformation uncertain.

• Hun Xuzi, Elder Wanhuo, Elder Shennong, and Ning Luo each drew Heaven and Earth Energy into their cauldrons to refine Ninth Grade Profound Pills.
• Hun Xuzi attacked Ning Luo with a black flame dragon, while Ning Luo countered by directing the Nine Nether Wind Flame against it.
• Xiao Yi sent a pillar of energy into Ning Luo's cauldron, and Elder Wanhuo gave Ning Luo his embryonic pill to add to the refinement.
• Ning Luo opened his cauldron, and Elixir Rain fell as the Profound Pill began to emerge.
• The pill embryo rose into the thunderclouds and endured repeated black lightning strikes, then developed spreading cracks as Ning Luo watched anxiously.

Ning Luo captured the Ninth Grade Profound Pill and secured Yao Dan’s permission for Yao Lao to deal with the clan monument. Hun Xuzi then revealed the Soul Clan’s attack on the Yao Clan, leaving the clan relying on its ancient protective formation for survival.

• Ning Luo intercepted the escaping Ninth Grade Profound Pill and shattered its radiance with Yellow Springs Palm, revealing King Bei.
• Ning Luo thanked Hun Xuzi, Elder Shennong, and Elder Wanhuo, then asked Yao Dan to let Yao Lao handle the clan monument; Yao Dan agreed.
• Hun Xuzi demanded to borrow the Tou She Ancient God Jade and revealed his Seven-Star Dou Saint strength.
• Ning Luo recognized the true Nihility Devouring Flame as Hun Xuzi sealed the space and began draining the crowd’s Dou Qi.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to activate the Heaven Transformation Medicine Array, which the elders summoned across the mountain range.

The Nihility Devouring Flame manifested its true body and attacked the Yao Clan’s formation, overwhelming the clan’s ancestor remnant soul and breaking their defenses. Yao Dan rallied the clan for a final all-out counterattack against the Nihility Devouring Flame.

• The Nihility Devouring Flame appeared in its true form and unleashed black fire upon the Yao Clan’s formation.
• Yao Dan used the Myriad Pills Transform Heaven formation to summon the Yao Clan ancestor’s remnant soul.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame struck the ancestor’s soul with repeated attacks and a blood sphere, causing the remnant soul to disappear.
• The Yao Clan’s protective formation shattered, and Yao Dan ordered the clan members to fight to preserve their bloodline.
• Yao Dan and the Yao Clan’s experts launched a combined Dou Qi attack at the Nihility Devouring Flame.

The Yao Clan fought the Soul Clan’s assault as Nihility Devouring Flame revealed its connection to the ancient Tunling Clan. Yao Dan ordered the elders to sacrifice themselves to break the sealed space and save the clan’s survivors, while Ning Luo tried to escape with Yao Tian and the others.

• Nihility Devouring Flame formed a massive devouring vortex, and Yao Dan recognized the Tunling Clan, realizing why the Soul Clan had endured.
• Yao Dan seized several young Yao Clan members and ordered the elders to self-destruct to preserve the clan’s bloodline.
• Yao Clan experts repeatedly detonated themselves, weakening the sealed space while Hun Xuzi fought Elder Wanhuo and Yao Dan fought Hun Jing and another Soul Clan expert.
• Ning Luo carried Yao Tian and the others toward the damaged space, but Hun Xuzi warned Nihility Devouring Flame that Ning Luo possessed a piece of the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Hun Yan blocked Ning Luo’s path, and Elder Shennong attacked him with Living Flame as Ning Luo and his companions narrowly evaded Hun Yan’s descending palm.