Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ming absorbed the Dou Di Bloodline, which fused with his Dragon Phoenix Bloodline without increasing his cultivation. Three days later, he led a Pill Tower force toward the Northwest and revealed that their target was a Hall of Souls Branch in the White Cloud Mountain Range.

• Xiao Ming endured the Simulator’s bloodline replacement process, which evaporated his blood before restoring his body.
• The Dou Di Bloodline fused with Xiao Ming’s Dragon Phoenix Bloodline, forming a crystal near his heart, but his realm did not increase.
• Three days later, Xiao Ming and the mission team left the Pill Tower and traveled toward the Northwest on a Tier 7 Magical Beast.
• Shangguan Cuo asked Xiao Ming to explain the mission to the group, and Xiao Ming identified the Hall of Souls Branch in the White Cloud Mountain Range as their target.

Xiao Ming and the Pill Tower experts prepared to attack the Hall of Souls Branch in the White Cloud Mountain Range, learning it was defended by five Dou Zuns. After traveling to the range and using a Cloud Goose to find the hidden hall, they arrived outside it, ready to begin the assault.

• Elder Shangguan reported that the Hall of Souls Branch had five Dou Zuns and additional Protectors, and Xiao Ming assigned the Elders to rescue the captured Alchemists' Soul Bodies.
• Shangguan Cuo gave Xiao Ming an invitation from Sound Valley's Qing Yi, which Xiao Ming accepted and planned to answer after the mission.
• Xiao Ming led the group to the White Cloud Mountain Range, where they landed outside the fog and prepared for the journey in.
• Shangguan Cuo captured a Seventh Tier Cloud Goose, and Xiao Ming persuaded it to guide them to the Hall of Souls Branch.
• The Cloud Goose brought Xiao Ming and the others to the massive black hall embedded in a mountain, and Xiao Ming let the guide leave.

Xiao Ming led the Pill Tower into the Hall of Souls to rescue their captured alchemists, launching a surprise attack on the branch. As the battle spread across the plaza, Xiao Ming held off the remaining Venerables while Pill Tower elders entered the hall to search for the prisoners.

• Xiao Ming and the Pill Tower forces crossed the Space Barrier and surprised the Hall of Souls branch.
• The Hall of Souls sounded the alarm, but Xiao Ming crushed a black-clothed man and lightning struck down four Protectors.
• Xiao Ming and four Dou Zun Experts led the assault, killing Hall of Souls Protectors as the branch's Venerables emerged.
• Xiao Ming used the Fallen Heart Flame to burn many Protectors, while Shangguan Cuo, Fu Hai, and the other Dou Zuns engaged several Venerables.
• Xiao Ming sent the Dou Zong Elders into the hall to search for the captured Pill Tower alchemists and stopped a Venerable from pursuing them.
• Xiao Ming struck the Venerable back more than thirty steps and made him spit blood.

Xiao Ming overwhelmed the Hall of Souls Elders, killing three before the Black and White Venerable arrived. He defeated the two Six-Star Dou Zun as well and killed them before they could summon further reinforcements.

• A wounded Hall of Souls Elder crushed a Spatial Jade Slip to summon reinforcements, and Xiao Ming decided to kill the remaining Elders before more arrived.
• Xiao Ming shattered one Elder’s arm, seized him by the throat, and endured the other two Elders’ attacks without injury before killing their captive and collecting his Soul Body.
• Xiao Ming crushed the two surviving Elders into Blood Mist as reinforcements arrived, revealing the Black and White Venerable.
• Xiao Ming reassured Overturning Sea Venerable and the others, then blasted the Black and White Venerable into a ravine with his White Fire Dragons.
• After White Venerable crushed another Spatial Jade Slip, Xiao Ming snapped both Venerables’ necks and stored their corpses in his Na Ring.

Xiao Ming fought Prison Earth, the Eighth Heavenly Venerable, after defeating Black and White Venerable, while Pill Tower Elders rescued captives from a Hall of Souls Branch. The chapter left Xiao Ming facing Prison Earth’s enormous ice attack with his Great Heaven Creation Palm, as the rescue was interrupted by a blast outside.

• Prison Earth arrived through a spatial rift, recognized Xiao Ming’s strength, and attacked him.
• Xiao Ming countered Prison Earth’s freezing palm with a fire dragon and sent him crashing into a mountain wall.
• Prison Earth used Ice Break Firmament to gather ice crystals into a massive sphere and launched it at Xiao Ming.
• Xiao Ming formed a dark golden Great Heaven Creation Palm to meet Prison Earth’s attack.
• Pill Tower Elders found countless Soul Bodies imprisoned in a Hall of Souls Branch and began freeing them.
• An earth-shaking explosion outside halted the Pill Tower Elders’ rescue.

Xiao Ming and the Pill Tower Elders freed the Soul Bodies imprisoned in the Hall of Souls’ Branch Hall and destroyed the stronghold. Xiao Ming took the Soul Origin, while a Hall of Souls messenger arrived afterward and vowed revenge.

• The Pill Tower Elders formed a formation that broke the chains and freed the Soul Bodies.
• Xiao Ming arrived, told the Elders the Hall of Souls members outside had been killed, and ordered them to escort the freed souls away.
• Xiao Ming unearthed the Soul Origin, broke its chains, and stored it in his Na Ring.
• Xiao Ming unleashed a Flame Storm that destroyed the Branch Hall and surrounding forest, then left with the Pill Tower experts.
• A black shadow searched the ruins, discovered the Soul Origin was gone, and blamed the Pill Tower before threatening revenge.

After gathering Soul Origin from destroyed Hall of Souls Branch Halls, Xiao Ming and his companions traveled to Sound Valley to repay a favor. They entered the hidden valley and arrived at its bamboo forest, where music shaped the surrounding Heaven and Earth Energy.

• Xiao Ming met Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Venerable Tian Huo after they returned from destroying a Hall of Souls Branch Hall and handed over two clusters of Soul Origin.
• Xiao Ming told his companions they would go to Sound Valley, explaining that he owed it a favor and had accepted Flute Sound Soul Control as an advance payment.
• Xiao Ming led the group toward Sound Valley using a Purple Token, and they reached a secluded lake ten days later.
• Xiao Ming activated the Purple Token to open the spatial barrier above the lake and led his companions through it.
• Xiao Ming and the others entered Sound Valley's bamboo forest and heard music that transformed the surrounding energy into attacks and shields.

Xiao Ming arrived at Sound Valley and examined the Nine Revolutions Returning Yang Pill formula, which Qing Yi wanted him to refine. Qing Yi revealed that the pill was needed to treat Sound Valley’s twin Old Ancestors, who were suffering from Cold Poison.

• Sound Valley disciples welcomed Xiao Ming and his companions after confirming his invitation from the Pill Tower.
• Qing Yi greeted Xiao Ming and brought him and his companions to a reception hall.
• Xiao Ming examined the formula and explained that the Six Revolutions pill had an eighty percent success rate, while the Nine Revolutions version had a thirty percent chance.
• Qing Yi asked Xiao Ming to attempt the Nine Revolutions Returning Yang Pill, and he recommended the safer Six Revolutions version.
• Qing Yi explained that Sound Valley’s twin Old Ancestors had been injured by an Advanced Ban Sheng Ice Dragon Scorpion while seeking Nai Qiong Divine Ice and were afflicted with Cold Poison.

Xiao Ming negotiated with Qing Yi to learn the location of Nai Qiong Divine Ice in exchange for refining pills to treat Sound Valley’s Old Ancestor. After several attempts, he successfully made two Nine Revolutions Returning Yang Pills and kept them to help the Old Ancestor use them.

• Xiao Ming learned that the Sound Valley Ancestor suffered from Advanced Half-Saint-level Ice Dragon Scorpion Cold Poison and asked Qing Yi for Nai Qiong Divine Ice’s location as his reward.
• Xiao Ming began refining Nine Revolutions Returning Yang Pills while Sound Valley’s elders and disciples watched.
• After eight days, Xiao Ming’s first refinement produced Nine-colored Pill Lightning, which Sound Valley endured with its Sect Protecting Great Formation.
• Xiao Ming ruined four sets of ingredients in later attempts before successfully refining another pill amid Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Ming gave the two pills to Qing Yi, who returned them to him because he would need to help the Old Ancestor use them.

Xiao Ming entered Sound Valley's palace with Xiao Yi Xian to treat the twin Half-Saints, Qing Yinan and Qing Yiya, for Ice Dragon Scorpion Cold Poison. He learned Sound Valley had only incomplete information about Nai Qiong Divine Ice, then prepared to begin the treatment with the Nine Revolutions Returning Yang Pills.

• Qing Yi led Xiao Ming and Xiao Yi Xian through the palace gates while Qing Lin and Venerable Tian Huo waited outside.
• Qing Yi brought Xiao Ming and Xiao Yi Xian to the jade bed where Qing Yinan and Qing Yiya were recovering from the Cold Poison.
• Qing Yinan and Qing Yiya revealed they knew only an approximate location for Nai Qiong Divine Ice, and Qing Yi offered additional compensation.
• Xiao Ming took out the two Nine Revolutions Returning Yang Pills and explained that the sisters needed to remove their clothes before he treated them.
• Qing Yinan and Qing Yiya exchanged glances and agreed to undress.

Xiao Ming used the Nine Revolutions Returning Yang Pill and his Pale White Flame to force the Cold Poison out of Qing Yinan, while Xiao Yi Xian absorbed it. The treatment ended with Qing Yinan’s Cold Poison completely dispelled.

• Qing Yinan agreed to undergo treatment first and swallowed the Nine Revolutions Returning Yang Pill Xiao Ming gave her.
• Xiao Ming guided the pill’s medicinal power and Pale White Flame through Qing Yinan’s body to drive out the Cold Poison, causing her intense pain.
• Xiao Ming called Xiao Yi Xian to absorb the Cold Poison, and Qing Yi and Qing Yinan recognized her Woeful Poison Body.
• Qing Yiya revealed that Xiao Yi Xian was a One-Revolving Dou Zun and suggested Sound Valley grow closer to Xiao Ming.
• Xiao Ming forced out the last trace of Cold Poison, then confirmed that Qing Yinan had been completely cured.

Xiao Ming expelled the Cold Poison from Qing Yinan and Qing Yiya, while Xiao Yi Xian absorbed it. After the twins promised Sound Valley’s support and Xiao Ming offered the Pill Tower’s aid, he brought Xiao Yi Xian to Listening Bamboo Pavilion so she could enter secluded cultivation and absorb the poison.

• Xiao Ming removed Qing Yinan’s Cold Poison, and Qing Yiya confirmed that it was completely gone.
• Xiao Ming expelled Qing Yiya’s Cold Poison as Xiao Yi Xian absorbed it, and Qing Yiya recovered from the decades of cold.
• Qing Yiya and Qing Yinan offered to help Xiao Ming in the future, and Xiao Ming invited them to seek High-grade Pills at the Pill Tower.
• Sound Valley’s elders celebrated Xiao Ming’s success, and Qing Yi led him and Xiao Yi Xian to Listening Bamboo Pavilion.
• Xiao Ming told Xiao Yi Xian to enter secluded cultivation and completely absorb the Cold Poison.

Xiao Ming absorbed the Soul Origin and advanced his soul to the Heaven Realm Late Stage, creating a disturbance across Sound Valley. He learned that Burning Flame Valley’s Valley Master Tang Zhen had arrived and decided to pursue the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes and its Clan Mark.

• Xiao Ming combined the three Soul Origin clusters, purified them with the White Glass Heart Flame, and absorbed them to raise his soul to the Heaven Realm Mid Stage.
• Xiao Ming’s Soul Domain spread across Sound Valley, and Qing Yinan and Qing Yiya sensed his rising Heavenly Realm soul while Qing Yi ordered the disciples not to disturb him.
• Xiao Ming broke through to the Heaven Realm Late Stage, and Qing Yinan suppressed the resulting storm before she and Qing Yiya discussed whether Sound Valley should get involved in the conflict between Burning Flame Valley and Ice River Valley.
• Xiao Ming sensed the whole of Sound Valley and overheard Qing Yinan and Qing Yiya mention Tang Zhen’s arrival.
• Xiao Ming decided to meet Tang Zhen to obtain Burning Flame Valley’s incomplete Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes and its Clan Mark.

After emerging from seclusion, Xiao Ming learned that his companions had advanced and met Tang Zhen, the Valley Master of Burning Flame Valley. Tang Zhen asked him to refine a Fire Bodhi Pill for his daughter, and Xiao Ming agreed in exchange for the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes.

• Xiao Ming emerged from three months of seclusion and learned that Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Venerable Tian Huo had all advanced in cultivation.
• Qing Yi introduced Tang Zhen to Xiao Ming, and the two exchanged greetings before going inside to talk.
• Tang Zhen asked Xiao Ming to refine a Fire Bodhi Pill to treat the aftereffects of his daughter's failed attempt to subdue the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Fire.
• Xiao Ming agreed to refine the pill on the condition that Burning Flame Valley give him the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes, and Tang Zhen accepted.

Xiao Ming and his companions left Sound Valley with Tang Zhen and traveled to Burning Flame Valley, where they entered its hidden headquarters in the Blazing Fire Mountain Range. The valley’s young disciples mistook Xiao Ming’s group for powerful elders, while Tang Zhen’s concern about Ice River Valley and the Hall of Souls remained unresolved.

• Qing Yi gave Xiao Ming Sound Valley’s payment and told Tang Zhen that Sound Valley could not support Burning Flame Valley against Ice River Valley.
• Tang Zhen left Sound Valley with Xiao Ming and his companions, pondering whether Burning Flame Valley should seek closer ties with the Pill Tower.
• After several days of travel, Tang Zhen brought the group to the Blazing Fire Mountain Range and described its abundant Fire Attribute Energy and unexplored areas.
• Tang Zhen opened Burning Flame Valley’s spatial barrier with a fiery-red Jade Token and led the group into the purified, verdant valley.
• Burning Flame Valley disciples greeted Tang Zhen and then wondered whether Xiao Ming’s group were powerful elders or helpers against Ice River Valley.

Xiao Ming met Tang Huo'er and the Burning Flame Valley elders after Tang Zhen brought him to the valley to refine her Fire Bodhi Pill. The elders disputed Tang Zhen’s offer of the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes, but Tang Zhen ultimately overruled them and upheld the deal.

• Tang Zhen brought Xiao Ming and his companions to the Burning Flame Valley hall and sent for the elders.
• Tang Huo'er arrived, met Xiao Ming, and thanked him for coming to help refine her Fire Bodhi Pill.
• The Burning Flame Valley elders entered and greeted Xiao Ming before Tang Zhen turned the meeting to business.
• Tang Zhen offered Xiao Ming the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes as payment for refining the pill, but Wu Chen and the Second Elder objected because it was a valley secret.
• Tang Zhen declared his decision final, and the Second Elder and Third Elder left; Tang Zhen apologized to Xiao Ming, who accepted their concern for the valley.

Tang Zhen brought Xiao Ming into Burning Flame Valley’s Dou Technique Pavilion to receive the complete inheritance of the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes. As Xiao Ming absorbed the inheritance, the crystal orb blazed with a light that astonished Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er, who reflected on his extraordinary potential.

• Tang Zhen led Xiao Ming and Tang Huo'er to Burning Flame Valley’s Dou Technique Pavilion, where three elders opened its guarded doors.
• Tang Zhen took Xiao Ming to the pavilion’s third floor and revealed the Inheritance Crystal containing the complete Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes and generations of accumulated experience.
• Xiao Ming placed his hands on the crystal and sent his Soul Power into it, effortlessly absorbing its vast stream of information.
• The crystal erupted in dazzling crimson light, far brighter than the light Tang Huo'er had produced when receiving the inheritance.
• Tang Zhen regretted that Xiao Ming was not a Burning Flame Valley disciple, while Tang Huo'er considered his achievements and potential exceptional.

Xiao Ming completed the Burning Flame Valley inheritance and obtained the complete Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes before using a Life Simulation opportunity that charted his rapid cultivation and pill-making progress. The simulation ended with him seeking to resign as one of the Eight Great Elders and enter the Small Pill Tower.

• Tang Zhen explained that Xiao Ming was taking longer than Tang Huo'er because he was absorbing the inheritance's full store of experience.
• Xiao Ming awakened with the complete Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes, and Tang Zhen warned him to control its violent energy carefully.
• Tang Zhen invited Xiao Ming to a banquet, then Xiao Ming returned to his room and began a Life Simulation.
• In the simulation, Xiao Ming broke through to Eight Star Dou Zun, refined the Fire Bodhi Pill, and later advanced to Nine Star Dou Zun.
• In the simulation, Xiao Ming killed a Three-Star Dou Sheng after comprehending the Heaven Tier Intermediate Soul Skill Silent World, then recovered and refined a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill.
• On Day 600 of the simulation, Xiao Ming decided to resign from the Eight Great Elders and enter the Small Pill Tower.

Xiao Ming obtained the Heaven Tier Intermediate Soul Skill Silent World from the simulation and received its inheritance in a silent ice-and-snow realm. As he watched a spiritual imprint demonstrate the skill’s hand seals, he began memorizing how to cultivate it.

• Xiao Ming reviewed the simulation rewards and suspected the Hall of Souls had arranged the Dou Sheng attack on the Fallen God Ice Plain.
• Xiao Ming chose the Silent World soul skill, and a mass of white light entered his mind and drew him into an ice-and-snow realm.
• Xiao Ming encountered a spiritual imprint that resembled him and learned that Silent World required a soul at the Heavenly Realm or higher.
• The imprint explained Silent World's abilities and demonstrated its hand seals, which Xiao Ming carefully memorized.

Xiao Ming mastered a Heavenly Rank Soul Skill, broke through in cultivation, and began refining a Fire Bodhi Pill for Tang Zhen's daughter. After three days of work, the pill reached the formation stage as thunderclouds gathered over Burning Flame Valley.

• Xiao Ming finished mastering the Soul Skill and cultivated through the night, then broke through the next morning.
• Xiao Ming encouraged Xiao Yi Xian's alchemy and invited her to watch him refine a Grade Seven pill.
• Tang Zhen gave Xiao Ming the Fire Bodhi Pill formula and ingredients, then led him to Burning Flame Valley's square to use the Mountain Melting Cauldron.
• Xiao Ming used his Heavenly Flame to extract many ingredients at once while Burning Flame Valley's Alchemists watched in amazement.
• After three days, medicinal fragrance spread from the cauldron, dark clouds and thunder filled the sky, and Tang Zhen watched as the Fire Bodhi Pill began to form.