Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yang devoured the Heavenly Tomb’s energy storm and refined the crystal wall for two years, reaching the initial stage of Nine Star Dou Sheng. He then destroyed the Heavenly Tomb Soul and began absorbing its Soul Origin, leaving the Heavenly Tomb’s energy bodies watching as his soul power approached the Di Realm.

• Xiao Yang swallowed the Heavenly Tomb’s energy storm, then burned through the barrier to the third level and absorbed its energy while Xiao Yan and Xun Er went ahead.
• After two years of cultivation, Xiao Yang reached the initial stage of Nine Star Dou Sheng and met Xiao Xuan, giving him Soul Origin to help restore his soul.
• Xiao Yang summoned the Heavenly Tomb Soul, defeated it with the Great Sealing Technique, and learned that it had absorbed half the Source Qi left in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yang gave the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s Soul Origin to Xiao Xuan to examine, then absorbed it to strengthen his own soul.
• One month later, Xiao Yang’s soul pressure spread across nearly the entire Heavenly Tomb as his soul power continued rising toward the Di Realm.

Xiao Yang emerged from seclusion as a Di Realm soul master, exposed Soul Emperor’s spy in the Gu Clan, and prepared for the Space Trading Fair. He entered Space Town with his companions, where they began browsing the rare goods on offer.

• Xiao Yang refined the Heavenly Tomb Soul, reached the Di Realm, and took control of the Heavenly Tomb before sending its trial participants out.
• Xiao Yang gave Gu Yuan the Tou She Ancient God Jade as a betrothal gift and asked to exchange it for a high-level Heaven-Tier Wind Attribute cultivation technique.
• At the Gu Clan ancestral hall, Gu Yuan exposed Gu Yang as a Soul Clan spy, searched his soul, and sent him to the Heavenly Tomb under Xiao Yang’s seal.
• Xiao Yang, Xiao Yan, and Xun Er returned to Starfall Pavilion and prepared high-grade pills for the Space Trading Fair.
• Xiao Yang arrived at the desert fair with Yao Lao, Xiao Yan, Qian Renxue, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xun Er, then entered Space Town and browsed its rare wares.

Xiao Yang and Yao Lao attended the Space Trading Fair, where Xiao Yang acquired a Heaven Demon Phoenix wing and three Heaven-Tier cultivation techniques. The fair continued after Xiao Yang made offers for the techniques that had not been selected.

• Yao Lao presented invitations to the guards at the Ancient Treasure Pavilion, and the group entered the fair in identity-concealing cloaks.
• Treasure Mountain Old Man opened the Space Trading Fair and offered a Heaven Demon Phoenix wing, which Xiao Yang traded for a Grade Eight Medicinal Pill with Four-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Treasure Mountain Old Man presented the Heaven-Tier Dou Technique Vajra Glazed Body, and its owner accepted a water-element cultivation technique in exchange.
• Xiao Yang offered Grade Eight Medicinal Pills with Eight-Colored Pill Lightning for the three unselected Heaven-Tier cultivation techniques and obtained all three.

Xiao Yang bought the Saintly Radiance Heavenly Sun Snow Lotus for Qian Renxue and the Heavenly Nether Poison Codex for Xiao Yi Xian, then uncovered the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts’ attempt to drive up his bid for the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox essence blood. The auction’s finale was a fragmentary map linked to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, whose price rose to nine Grade Eight Medicinal Pills with six-colored pill lightning.

• Qian Renxue asked Xiao Yang to buy the Saintly Radiance Heavenly Sun Snow Lotus, and Yao Lao identified it as a treasure tainted by the origin of light; Xiao Yang won it with three Grade Eight Medicinal Pills with seven-colored pill lightning.
• Xiao Yang bought the Heavenly Nether Poison Codex for Xiao Yi Xian with two Grade Eight Medicinal Pills with five-colored pill lightning.
• Xiao Yang bid on the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox essence blood, discovered that the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts were deliberately raising the price, and stopped bidding.
• Treasure Mountain Old Man presented a fragmentary map linked to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and competing bidders quickly drove its price up to nine Grade Eight Medicinal Pills with six-colored pill lightning.

Yao Lao and his companions lost the auction for the remnant map but learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the Wild Ancient Region. After leaving the fair, they pursued the map’s buyer and waited along his route, where Yao Lao revealed the Cloud Rain Sect’s brutal use of young women as Cauldrons.

• A Black-Robed Person outbid Yao Lao for the remnant map with a pill bearing Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, and Xiao Yang resolved to take the map from him.
• Treasure Mountain Old Man announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the Wild Ancient Region, a deadly place in the northeastern Central Continent.
• Yao Lao suspected Treasure Mountain Old Man had shared the news to draw more people into the region and create an opportunity for the organizers to profit.
• Xiao Yang, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao left the fair and traveled to a mountain where Yao Lao expected the map’s buyers to pass.
• Qian Renxue asked about the buyers, and Yao Lao explained that the Cloud Rain Sect drained the life force of young women it raised as Cauldrons.

Xiao Yang killed the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts and helped Xiao Yan decipher the completed Ancient Map, which revealed that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would descend in three years. The map then sent a mysterious light into Xiao Yan, identifying itself as the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint, while Xiao Yang urged his brother to focus on reaching Dou Saint.

• Yao Lao explained that the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts were powerful old enemies, and they arrived to confront his group.
• Xiao Yang trapped and killed Heaven Scorpion, Earth Scorpion, and Human Scorpion, then took their Rings of Acceptance and erased the traces of the fight.
• Xiao Yang assembled the Ancient Map, and Xiao Yan used Heavenly Flames to reveal a message about the twin moons, nine stars, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame descending in three years.
• Xun Er said Xiao Yan would need to reach Dou Sheng within three years, but when he touched the map, its Demon Lotus Pattern shot into his forehead and sent a beam into his soul.
• Xiao Yan learned the light was connected to the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint, and Xiao Yang reassured Xun Er before reminding Xiao Yan to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree and Bodhi Heart in the Wild Ancient Region.

After the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s emergence drew Central Continent’s factions to the Wild Ancient Region, Xiao Yang led a joint Starfall Pavilion and Flower Sect party into the perilous forest. His group crossed the poisonous miasma and entered the region’s depths, where Xiao Yang paused for tea before continuing their search.

• Xiao Yang refined a Heavenly Demon Marrow Cleansing Pill for Hu Liena and summoned Yun Yun and the Flower Sect to rendezvous with Starfall Pavilion.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s emergence sent a clear aura across Central Continent, and Xiao Yang’s party set out for Wild Town.
• Xiao Yang opened a spatial passage, bringing the assembled Flower Sect and Starfall Pavilion forces to Wild Town ahead of most groups.
• Xiao Yang waited for many other factions to enter the forest, then shielded his group with spatial energy and led them into the Wild Ancient Region.
• Xiao Yang’s group crossed poisonous miasma that killed and drove mad many intruders, then passed into the region beyond a vast chasm.
• Xiao Yang burned attacking ferocious beasts with the Fallen Heart Flame and later stopped to rest with Yun Yun’s tea and pastries.

Xiao Yang reached the Ancient Domain Platform after killing the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon and learned that a fierce beast army blocked the way to the Bodhi Ancient Tree. As Soul Jade led a temporary alliance toward the beast tide, Xiao Yang followed separately, confident in his strength.

• Xiao Yang trapped the Heavenly Underworld Old Demon in Tsukuyomi, devoured his soul, and sent the Heavenly Underworld Sect's remaining members away through a spatial rift.
• Xiao Yang led his group to the Ancient Domain Platform, where Gu Qingyang welcomed Xun Er and explained that a massive fierce beast army blocked the route to the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Yang dismissed Soul Jade's alliance proposal as a plan to use independent cultivators as cannon fodder, then explained his assessment of Soul Emperor's strategy against Xiao Xuan.
• Soul Jade persuaded a large group to form an alliance and advance toward the beast tide, while Xiao Yang waited before carrying his companions after them with Space Power.
• Xiao Yang flew over a lush mountain and saw a vast black plain stretching beyond sight.

Xiao Yang and the allied experts crossed the beast tide toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while Soul Jade used the formation as cover and sacrificed its members. Xiao Yang opened a path through the beasts and reached the legendary tree, where the chapter leaves him and his companions taking in its immense presence.

• Soul Jade led the allied formation into the beast tide, and Xiao Yang stayed near the middle while concealing his strength.
• The formation slowed under the beasts’ assault, and Soul Jade and the Soul Hall experts disappeared from the front, leaving other fighters to be pushed forward as cannon fodder.
• Xiao Yang secretly used Space Power to stop people from shoving his group toward the front, then spotted Soul Jade waiting near the rear.
• When Soul Jade and the other experts escaped past a powerful beast, Xiao Yang used Great Creation Palm to blast open a path through the beast tide.
• Xiao Yang led his companions to the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where they beheld its enormous trunk, vast canopy, and powerful vitality.

Xiao Yang and the other factions confronted the Bodhi Ancient Tree and discovered it guarded the Bodhi Heart with five Half-Saint puppets. After Xiao Yang let the other factions fend for themselves, their losses forced them to withdraw, while Soul Jade’s group continued fighting the puppet of their vanished ancestor.

• Soul Jade warned the gathered factions that a Half-Saint ancestor had vanished after encountering the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Xiao Yang identified the chilling aura around the tree as death aura and resentment.
• As the groups approached the Bodhi Heart, the Bodhi Ancient Tree produced five Half-Saint puppets, including Soul Jade’s long-lost ancestor.
• Xiao Yang declared that each faction would face a puppet on its own, then destroyed the one that charged him with his Great Creation Palm.
• The Soul Clan, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and other groups battled their assigned puppets, suffering casualties as the less-coordinated teams were overwhelmed.
• Xiao Yang opened a spatial passage and offered to save the defeated factions if they withdrew, then destroyed two puppets after they agreed to leave.
• Soul Jade’s group kept fighting, and Soul Jade sacrificed another Soul Hall expert to unleash a Heaven-Tier Fighting Skill that shattered his ancestor’s head.

Xiao Yang purified the Bodhi Ancient Tree of a Dou Di remnant soul’s resentment and gave its Bodhi Heart inheritance and Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation opportunity to Xiao Yan. After everyone cultivated in the tree’s space for over a month, Xiao Yan finally opened his eyes.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree pulled Xiao Yang and the others into illusions, but Xiao Yang broke through his own illusion and reached the tree’s spiritual body.
• Xiao Yang learned that a wounded Dou Di had tried to take the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s spiritual body, and that the Dou Di’s lingering resentment had corrupted the tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree offered Xiao Yang twenty-four Bodhi Seeds, and he purified the resentment, absorbing some of the remnant soul’s power and strengthening his Di Realm soul.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree released the others from their illusions, and Xiao Yang asked it to give the Bodhi Heart inheritance and Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation opportunity to Xiao Yan instead.
• The group cultivated in the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s space for roughly a month and seven days, until Xiao Yan stirred and opened his eyes.

Xiao Yan emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree as a Ban Sheng and gained many Bodhi Seeds, then waited for Medusa to finish her seclusion and evolve into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. After Medusa and Zi Yan advanced through cultivation with Xiao Yan, the group left Dragon Island and reached Starfall Pavilion.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree as a Ban Sheng, and the tree released more than twenty Bodhi Seeds.
• Xiao Yang waited at the Nine Nether Yellow Springs until Medusa emerged as a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and attained Nine Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yang traveled with Medusa to Dragon Island, where Zi Yan had unified the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and reached Six Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yang cultivated with Medusa and Zi Yan for a hundred days, advancing to Nine Star Dou Sheng Mid-Stage while Zi Yan reached Seven Star Dou Sheng and Medusa reached Five Star Dou Sheng.
• Zi Yan left Dragon Island with Xiao Yang and Medusa, and the three arrived at Starfall Pavilion.

Xiao Yang prepared Starfall Pavilion for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s return and led the group to the shattered space where it had descended. As factions from across the continent gathered, Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er while the Soul Hall and the Ancient Eight Clans faced off nearby.

• Xiao Yang ordered the alliance to search cities attacked by the Soul Hall, suspecting it had hidden a Soul Devouring Life Extinction Array.
• Months later, the twin moons, nine aligned stars, and Heaven and Earth Tide heralded the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s descent, and Xiao Yang barred those below Ban Sheng from joining the expedition.
• Xiao Yang and his companions reached a vast desert formed by the flame’s heat and waited rather than rushing into the shattered space.
• Soul Destruction arrived with the Soul Hall, then the Ancient Eight Clans gathered, including Xun Er, Gu Qingyang, and Gu Nanhai from the Gu Clan.
• Xiao Yan embraced Xun Er, who told him that she had missed him.

Xiao Yang confronted the Yao Clan’s Yao Wan Gui after the elder mocked Yao Lao, forcing him to kneel under overwhelming pressure until Yao Lao asked Xiao Yang to stop. The Yao Clan trio withdrew, while the gathered factions continued waiting near the shattered space where the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was expected to appear.

• Xun Er told Xiao Yan she was finally free to stay by his side, and Xiao Yang teased them about marrying before Xun Er threatened to reveal his embarrassing childhood stories.
• As the desert melted beneath the shattered space, the Lei Clan and Shi Clan arrived, followed by Yao Tian, Yao Ling, and Yao Wan Gui from the Yao Clan.
• Yao Lao recognized Yao Wan Gui as the elder who had expelled him from the Yao Clan, and Yao Wan Gui mocked him while Yao Tian joined in.
• Xiao Yang slapped Yao Wan Gui twice, then used his Di Realm Soul pressure to force Yao Wan Gui and Yao Tian to kneel and demand an apology to Yao Lao.
• Yao Ling offered to apologize on their behalf, and Yao Lao asked Xiao Yang to show mercy; Xiao Yang withdrew his pressure, and the Yao Clan trio retreated after recovering with pills.
• Xiao Yang dismissed concerns about the Ancient Clans’ agreement, and the factions remained gathered as they awaited the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Xiao Yang led his allies through the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s illusion-filled Demonic Flame Space and fought through waves of Fire Slaves. At the final trial, they discovered Xiao Chen, an ancestor of the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Yang began pulling the demonic flame from his body.

• Xiao Yang entered the Demonic Flame Space, saw through the Nightmare Sky Mist, and rescued Yao Lao from its illusion before gathering Medusa, Qian Renxue, Zi Yan, and his elder brother.
• Xiao Yang and his allies reunited with Xun Er and the other experts, then fought their way through the Fire Slaves and shattered the giant gate to enter the Demonic Flame Great Hall.
• Xiao Yang led the group through several halls of increasingly powerful Fire Slaves, absorbing the Milky White Flame as they advanced.
• The group found a lone Four Star Dou Sheng in the final hall, and Xiao Yang recognized him as Xiao Chen, the Blood Axe and an ancestor of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yang used his devouring force to pull the Milky White Flame from Xiao Chen as Xiao Chen struggled against it.

Xiao Yang shattered the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s illusion and confronted its true form in a sea of magma. The flame trapped the gathered experts, killed many of them, and faced a coalition of seven Dou Saints as the battle began.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Chen that the Xiao Clan no longer existed, and Xiao Yang revealed his Nine Star Dou Sheng strength and Di Realm Soul.
• Xiao Yang broke the false space with his Soul Power, revealing the magma realm and the true Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sealed the passage and used Demon Fire Refines the Heavens to trap the experts, killing many with flames triggered by their emotions and strength.
• The flame summoned ten Dou Saint Fire Slaves, and Soul Destruction urged the gathered factions to unite against it.
• Seven Dou Saints surrounded the flame while Xiao Yang watched over the others, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned a Fire Demon Halberd and attacked with a wave of demonic flame.

Xiao Yang killed the ten Dou Sheng Fire Slaves while the seven experts battled and sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. When Soul Destruction tried to take the sealed flame, Xiao Yang seized its source first and slaughtered many of the challengers, leaving Soul Qian Mo and Hun Feng badly injured.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sent ten Fire Slaves to attack, and Xiao Yang pulled the fire pearls from their heads, killing them and absorbing their energy.
• The Soul Hall Master and six allies combined their power to activate the Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Array and seal the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Soul Destruction tried to take the sealed flame for the Soul Clan, but Xiao Yang intercepted the Demonic Flame Source.
• Soul Demon Old Man, Soul Qian Mo, Hun Feng, and other experts charged Xiao Yang, who killed more than ten Dou Saints and Ban Shengs with two Heaven-Tier Fighting Skills.
• Soul Qian Mo pulled Hun Feng out of danger, but both were badly injured by the attack's residual force.

Xiao Yang defeated Soul Hall’s forces and confronted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, who turned the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint’s Heaven Refining Ancient Formation against everyone. As the flame unleashed a desperate attack, the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint possessed Xiao Yang’s elder brother and seized control of the formation, but the battle’s deadly heat still threatened everyone else.

• Xiao Yang knocked Soul Destruction unconscious, killed Soul Demon Old Man, and left Soul Qian Mo badly injured.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame broke the Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Array and summoned the Demonic Flame God Statue to attack Xiao Yang, who blocked its strike.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation and destroyed the spatial passage, trapping everyone inside the Demonic Flame Space.
• Xiao Yang dispersed the formation’s attack and revealed the pressure of a Di Realm Soul, but the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame launched another assault.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Saint possessed Xiao Yang’s elder brother, stopped the attack, and wrested control of the ancient formation from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed Demonic Flame World Extinction, evaporating the space’s energy and burning a Ban Sheng expert to ash.

After separating much of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s power, Xiao Yang left Xiao Yan and Xun Er to refine the remaining flame and returned to Starfall Pavilion, where a year of cultivation brought him to the late stage of Nine Star Dou Sheng. He then traveled with Yao Lao, Xiao Yan, and others to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, where Yao Wan Gui confronted Yao Lao upon his return.

• Xun Er struck Gu Nanhai into the spatial passage and stayed behind with Xiao Yan as the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint and the flame’s mad consciousness perished.
• Xiao Yang extracted the Magma Sea’s energy and thirty percent of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then left the remaining flame for Xiao Yan and Xun Er to refine.
• After a year of secluded cultivation with his companions, Xiao Yang reached the late stage of Nine Star Dou Sheng.
• The Shi Clan was annihilated, leaving five of the Ancient Eight Clans, and Yao Lao prepared to attend the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony with Xiao Yang and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yang’s group entered the Yao Clan’s domain and arrived at the Medicine Ceremony venue, where Yao Wan Gui approached and taunted Yao Lao for returning after being expelled.

Xiao Yang and his companions attended the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, where Soul Void Son arrived uninvited and provoked Yao Lao and Xiao Yang. Yao Dan allowed Soul Void Son to stay but forbade fighting, and the ceremony began as Xiao Yang watched the Soul Clan’s plans unfold.

• Xiao Yan defeated Yao Wan Gui, and Xiao Yang forced him to kowtow and apologize to Yao Lao before Yao Dan had him carried away.
• The Ten Thousand Fires Elder welcomed Xiao Yan, Xiao Yang, and their companions to the Medicine Ceremony, where they took seats beside Yao Lao.
• Old Man Shen Nong arrived at Medicine Mountain, followed by Soul Void Son, whose appearance angered the Yao Clan elders.
• Yao Dan permitted Soul Void Son to remain as a guest under the ceremony’s rules, and Soul Void Son took a seat near Xiao Yang and Yao Lao.
• Soul Void Son taunted Yao Lao, and Xiao Yang blasted his stone table and chair before telling him to leave; Yao Dan then warned Soul Void Son against fighting.
• Yao Dan announced that the Medicine Ceremony had begun.