Vol. 4The Flame’s Emergence

Yan Qingshan destroyed Soul Hall strongholds, rose to lead the Pill Tower, and gathered allies against the Soul Clan and the Imperial Clans. After pursuing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and helping unite the Beast Region, he watched the Hun Clan’s formation compress the flame, though he doubted it was truly threatened.

  • Yan Qingshan destroyed sixteen Soul Hall branch halls, then won the Pill Convention with a Bodhi Pill as Cao Ying tried to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
  • Soul Hall’s Heavenly Venerates confronted Danta over the branch halls, and Xuan Yi and Heavenly Thunder Child attacked them.
  • Yan Qingshan became the Pill Tower’s new giant and joined the fight against Soul Hall, while Soul Heavenly Emperor destroyed the Spirit Realm and escaped.
  • Yan Qingshan, Qingling, and Xiao Yi Xian entered the Ancient Wilderness Domain and encountered an Ancient Sky Demon Python.
  • Yan Qingshan cleansed and took the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then rose to Dou Saint and defeated challengers from the Imperial Clans.
  • Yan Qingshan recovered the complete map to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and learned it would emerge in three years.
  • Yan Qingshan helped unite the Beast Region with the Danta Alliance and secretly met Zhukun in the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Dwelling.
  • As the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged, Yan Qingshan secretly influenced its puppets while the Hun Clan’s formation compressed the flame.
Chapters 301–400 Read from ch. 301

Arc 13Pill Convention and Soul Hall

Yan Qingshan strengthened his power, sabotaged Soul Hall’s branch halls, and won the Pill Convention with a remarkable Bodhi Pill. As Cao Ying began trying to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Soul Hall’s Heavenly Venerates confronted Danta in Holy Pill City, and a battle began.

  • Yan Qingshan tempered the Three-Headed Demonic Dragon Puppet to Six Star Dou Saint strength, reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Ziyan, and returned to Holy Pill City with Xiao Yi Xian.
  • Yan Qingshan gave Feng Qing'er the Wings of Heavenly Phoenix, helped her fuse them with her own wings, and later left the Four Directions Pavilion Tournament with her and his other companions.
  • Xiao Yan reached the tournament final against Feng Qing'er, but Old Yao possessed him to stop the match, and Yan Qingshan traded an Eighth-Grade Spirit Pill with Venerate Jian for access to Jade Dragon Mountain’s earth vein.
  • Yan Qingshan cultivated the Azure Dragon Dharma Body, then destroyed sixteen Soul Hall Earth Fiend Branch Halls, killed Mo Yu and many other experts, and collected their Soul Origin.
  • Yan Qingshan returned to Danta, admitted responsibility for the attacks, gave Xuan Kongzi Soul Origin and Dou Saint Essence, and captured Old Man Mugu after he attacked Xiao Yan.
  • Yan Qingshan entered the Pill Convention, exposed Soul Hall agents in the Pill Realm, and refined a Bodhi Pill that manifested as a Nine-Tailed White Fox and won him the championship.
  • After learning of Soul Hall’s plans from Mugu, Yan Qingshan went to investigate disturbances at the Star Region entrance while Cao Ying began trying to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
  • Third Heavenly Venerate and Blood River confronted Danta over Mugu and the destroyed branch halls, but Heavenly Thunder Child and the Pill Tower refused to yield, and Xuan Yi and Heavenly Thunder Child attacked the Soul Hall leaders.
Chapters 301–325 Summaries Read

Arc 14The Spirit Realm’s Fall

Yan Qingshan rose to lead the Pill Tower, forged alliances, and struck Soul Hall while tensions between the ancient clans and Soul Clan escalated. The Spirit Realm was destroyed, and Yan Qingshan set out with Qingling and Xiao Yi Xian into the Ancient Wilderness Domain.

  • Yan Qingshan helped defeat Soul Hall’s assault on Holy Pill City, absorbed Three Thousand Burning Flame, and killed the Heavenly Venerates, while Xuan Kongzi drove Third Heavenly Venerate away.
  • Yan Qingshan killed Third Heavenly Venerate, fought the Great Heavenly Venerate, and later became the Pill Tower’s new giant as factions gathered for the succession ceremony.
  • Yan Qingshan revealed how Bodhi Transforming Saliva could produce Bodhi Seeds, then received an invitation to the Gu Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
  • Yan Qingshan secured the Flower Sect’s alliance with the Danta Alliance and traveled with Qingling to the Gu Clan ceremony, where he warned Gu Yuan that the Hun Clan might target the Spirit Clan.
  • Yan Qingshan and Qingling destroyed Human Hall, captured Gu You and the Great Heavenly Venerate, and killed the remaining Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates.
  • Yan Qingshan attacked Hun Miesheng and Saint Hun Qing, while Soul Heavenly Emperor and the Soul Clan destroyed the Spirit Realm and escaped Gu Yuan’s assault.
  • Gu Yuan called the ancient clans together against the Soul Clan, while Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered an investigation into Soul Hall’s destruction.
  • Yan Qingshan, Qingling, and Xiao Yi Xian entered the Ancient Wilderness Domain, followed the Bodhi Seed’s presence, and encountered an Ancient Sky Demon Python.
Chapters 326–350 Summaries Read

Arc 15The Bodhi Tree and the Lotus Flame

Yan Qingshan cleansed and took the Bodhi Ancient Tree, helped restore the Pill Realm, and rose to Dou Saint before forcing the Imperial Clans to reckon with him. After recovering the complete map to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, he learned it would emerge in three years and sought allies in the Beast Region.

  • Yan Qingshan subdued the Ancient Sky Demon Python, then rode through the Beast Tide with Xiao Yi Xian and Qingling to find the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
  • Yan Qingshan cleansed the Bodhi Ancient Tree of a dead Dou Emperor’s negative energy, endured a hundred reincarnations, reached peak Half-Saint, and brought the tree away with him.
  • Yan Qingshan recruited Old Man Shennong by offering the Bodhi Ancient Tree to stabilize the failing Pill Realm, then helped restore the realm before entering seclusion.
  • After two years, Yan Qingshan emerged as a Dou Saint and reorganized the Pill Tower’s response to the Imperial Clans’ conflicts across the Central Plains.
  • Yan Qingshan defeated challengers from the Yao, Yan, and Lei Clans, then overcame Hun Feng, Hun Yu, and the Soul Clan forces at Heavenly Underworld Mountain.
  • At the Spatial Trade Fair, Hun Miesheng seized the Demonic Flame Remnant Map, but Yan Qingshan recovered the map pieces and learned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would emerge in three years.
  • Yan Qingshan received the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint’s inheritance and went to the Nine Serene Deep Abyss, where Yaoming and Heiqing discussed a possible move by the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
Chapters 351–375 Summaries Read

Arc 16The Demonic Flame Hunt

Yan Qingshan helped unite the Beast Region and establish the Danta Alliance before secretly entering the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Dwelling to meet Zhukun. As the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged, the allied factions confronted it, and the arc ended with a sealing formation apparently compressing the flame while Yan Qingshan doubted it was truly threatened.

  • Yan Qingshan helped Queen Medusa awaken as a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and reunited with Ziyan, then proposed uniting the Beast Region before the Heavenly Phoenix Sacrifice.
  • Feng Qing'er awakened as an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, defeated Huang Tian with help from Medusa and Ziyan, and became the Phoenix Clan’s leader as the Beast Region joined the Danta Alliance.
  • Danta held its alliance assembly in the reopened Pill Realm, appointed Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Ye Xinlan as its new giants, and introduced Old Man Shennong after he refined a Ninth Grade Profound Pill.
  • Yan Qingshan and Ziyan found Zhukun trapped beneath Jia Nan Academy, where Ziyan revealed she had reunified the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and Zhukun gave Yan Qingshan essence blood and Ziyan the clan inheritance.
  • When the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged, Queen Medusa led the alliance toward its sealed space, where the major factions gathered alongside Xiao Yan and the Imperial Clans.
  • Yan Qingshan entered the flame’s Nightmare Heavenly Mist, overcame its illusions, and secretly took control of its Dou Saint puppets while Xiao Yan and the others confronted the true flame.
  • The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame trapped the gathered experts, killed nearly eighty percent of the Dou Zun cultivators, and forced the surviving factions to cooperate against it and its Fire Slave Puppets.
  • Yan Qingshan secretly influenced the puppets during the battle, saved Yao Ling from an explosion at the cost of being wounded, and watched as the Hun Clan’s sealing formation compressed the flame.
Chapters 376–400 Summaries Read
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