Chapter Summaries

Yan Qingshan killed Hong Li while disguised as a silver-clad young man, then used his puppets to repel Hong Tianxiao and left for Phoenix Dwelling Mountain to pursue Shen Yun. Hong Tianxiao persuaded Han Fei to accompany him in warning Shen Yun, while secretly planning to put Han Fei in danger.

• Yan Qingshan killed Hong Li with lightning and took his Storage Ring as Han Chi and the Han Family witnessed the scene.
• Hong Tianxiao attacked Yan Qingshan, but a silver puppet blocked his saber and left him seriously injured, so he stopped pursuing Yan Qingshan.
• Yan Qingshan questioned Han Yue and Han Xue, then departed on the Demonic Roc Puppet toward Phoenix Dwelling Mountain.
• Hong Tianxiao confronted Han Fei and argued that the Hong and Han Families had to warn Shen Yun before the Wind Lightning Northern Pavilion blamed them.
• Han Fei agreed to help Shen Yun, while Hong Tianxiao privately planned to leave Han Fei to face Yan Qingshan's stronger puppet.

Yan Qingshan ambushed Shen Yun’s party to seize the Supreme Lightning Marrow, killing Hong Chen and overpowering Shen Yun with the Demonic Roc Puppet. Hong Tianxiao and Han Fei arrived to find Hong Chen dead, while Yan Qingshan mocked Hong Tianxiao over his son’s death.

• Shen Yun sensed Yan Qingshan approaching, and Yan Qingshan demanded the Supreme Lightning Marrow from him.
• Shen Yun ordered the Wind Lightning Pavilion disciples to attack, but Yan Qingshan and the Demonic Roc Puppet overwhelmed them.
• Yan Qingshan defeated Hong Chen’s lightning hammer technique, seized him, and killed him after learning he was Hong Li’s son.
• The Demonic Roc Puppet gained the advantage over Shen Yun, while Yan Qingshan struck him and took his Storage Ring.
• Hong Tianxiao and Han Fei arrived, and Hong Tianxiao grieved over Hong Chen’s death as Yan Qingshan taunted him.

Yan Qingshan turned Shen Yun and Han Fei against Hong Tianxiao, then used his puppets to kill the Hong Family patriarch. He left the battlefield after telling Han Fei to deliver his assumed name, Zhang Wuji, to Han Yue and Han Xue.

• Hong Tianxiao fought the Demonic Roc Puppet while Shen Yun prepared to attack Yan Qingshan, and Han Fei agreed to stand by.
• Yan Qingshan drew in a storm of lightning and forced Shen Yun into a losing contest, prompting Shen Yun to beg Han Fei for help.
• Han Fei rescued the badly injured Shen Yun and left after Yan Qingshan asked him to tell Han Yue and Han Xue that he was called Zhang Wuji.
• With Hong Tianxiao left alone against Yan Qingshan and the Demonic Roc Puppet, he pleaded to be allowed to leave.
• Yan Qingshan ordered his puppets to kill Hong Tianxiao, and the Demonic Scorpion Puppet emerged from underground and pierced his chest.

Yan Qingshan extracted Hong Tianxiao’s soul, seized Shen Yun’s storage ring, and uncovered a fragment of the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body technique. After recording and analyzing its inheritance, he met Han Yue, Ziyan, and Han Xue, who learned that Hong Tianxiao was dead.

• Yan Qingshan crushed Hong Tianxiao’s resistance, erased his consciousness, and sealed his soul away with the corpse.
• Shen Yun discovered his storage ring’s soul imprint had been erased and vowed to summon Wind Lightning Northern Pavilion experts, while Han Fei quietly sought to learn whether Pavilion Master Fei would come.
• Yan Qingshan opened Shen Yun’s silver scroll with the Demonic Roc Puppet and found a fragment of Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body, then used Dawn to record and analyze its garbled inheritance.
• Yan Qingshan realized the technique could help advance his A Single Thought Blooms, though he would need all four portions to decipher it.
• Han Yue, Ziyan, and Han Xue arrived, and Yan Qingshan showed them Hong Tianxiao’s corpse and said Hong Tianxiao no longer existed.

Yan Qingshan defeated Hong Tianxiao and prepared to face the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s retaliation, hoping Fei Tian would stay away. The Four Grand Elders trapped him in a lightning array, but Yan and his Demonic Roc Puppet withstood their attacks and threatened to strike into the thunderclouds.

• Yan Qingshan told Han Yue that the Han Family could move against the weakened Hong Family, and Han Xue warned him that the Wind Lightning Pavilion might send reinforcements.
• After learning Fei Tian was unlikely to leave Phoenix Dwelling Mountain, Yan Qingshan asked Ziyan to watch for the reinforcements and confirm whether Fei Tian had come.
• Shen Yun led the Four Grand Elders and Wind Lightning Pavilion elites to a barren mountain, where Yan Qingshan had already defeated many of their fighters.
• Yan Qingshan revealed the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body scroll and challenged the elders, while Shen Yun ordered the elites to form the Nine Heavens Lightning Prison Array.
• The Four Grand Elders attacked with lightning techniques, but Yan Qingshan’s Demonic Roc Puppet shattered their attacks and kept him unharmed.
• Yan Qingshan threatened to send his puppet into the thunderclouds after the silver-browed elder interrupted its movement with Heavenly Lightning Slash.

Yan Qingshan turned the Wind Lightning Northern Pavilion’s Nine Heavens Lightning Prison Array against its elders, using its power to strengthen his Earth Demonic Puppet and obtain the pavilion’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body inheritance scrolls. The defeated elders retreated to report to Pavilion Master Fei Tian, who prepared to deal with Yan Qingshan personally.

• Shen Yun and the other elders unleashed the Nine Heavens Lightning Prison’s Wrath of the Thunder God, but Yan Qingshan survived and shattered the array from within the thunderclouds.
• Yan Qingshan revealed that he had used the array’s lightning to strengthen his Earth Demonic Puppet and had mastered the Lightning Illusory Body and Three Thousand Lightning Movements.
• Yan Qingshan’s Demonic Roc Puppet defeated the elders and took their Storage Rings, revealing three more inheritance scrolls; Yan Qingshan spared the Wind Lightning Pavilion members and left.
• The four elders returned to Phoenix Dwelling Mountain and begged Pavilion Master Fei Tian for forgiveness after recounting their defeat.
• Fei Tian rebuked the elders and asked whether Yan Qingshan had comprehended something from the incomplete Lightning Illusory Body scroll.

Yan Qingshan left Northern Sky City and met Fei Tian in Heavenly Eye City after Fei Tian came to confront him over the Wind Lightning Pavilion. Fei Tian tried to force Yan Qingshan to return with him, and their clash began with Fei Tian destroying Yan Qingshan’s Demonic Roc Puppet.

• Yan Qingshan told Han Yue, Han Xue, and Ziyan that he was leaving Northern Sky City before Fei Tian could corner him there.
• Yan Qingshan sent Ziyan toward the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range with the Amethyst Winged Lion King and the Two-headed Fire Spirit Snake, then teased Han Yue and Han Xue before departing.
• Yan Qingshan arrived in Heavenly Eye City in disguise as Zhang Wuji and drew attention from the women at a local restaurant.
• Fei Tian met Yan Qingshan at the restaurant, praised his cleverness, and offered to make him the future Pavilion Master of the Wind Lightning Northern Pavilion if he became his disciple.
• Yan Qingshan refused Fei Tian’s offer, and Fei Tian used his eight-star Dou Zong strength to attack him and destroy the Demonic Roc Puppet.

Yan Qingshan lured Fei Tian away from Heavenly Eye City by scattering scrolls of the Wind Lightning Northern Pavilion’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body, then faced Fei Tian’s duplicate with two powerful puppets and Venerable Tianhuo’s help. The duplicate was destroyed, leaving Fei Tian enraged as Yan Qingshan escaped his pursuit.

• Fei Tian increased his strength and battered the Demonic Roc Puppet while pursuing Yan Qingshan through Heavenly Eye City.
• Yan Qingshan threw four Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body scrolls in different directions, forcing Fei Tian to choose between chasing him and retrieving them.
• Fei Tian created a duplicate to pursue Yan Qingshan while he went after the scattered scrolls.
• Yan Qingshan confronted Fei Tian’s duplicate with the Demonic Roc Puppet and the stronger Demonic Scorpion Puppet.
• As Fei Tian’s duplicate tried to escape, Venerable Tianhuo unleashed a powerful soul attack that destroyed it.

Yan Qingshan stole Fei Tian’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body technique and escaped, then used Dawn and Supreme Lightning Marrow to rapidly cultivate his own avatar. After reaching nearly Hall Ascension strength, he considered using the Fallen Heart Flame to temper another avatar.

• Yan Qingshan seized Fei Tian’s cultivation formula and insights as Fei Tian’s avatar was destroyed, then fled on the Demonic Roc Puppet.
• Fei Tian searched the forest and vented his rage, while Yan Qingshan stayed hidden in a cave until he left.
• Yan Qingshan studied the technique and used his movement skill to create nine afterimages, absorbing three of the most stable phantoms into his body.
• Several days later, Yan Qingshan used Dawn to safely transfer the Supreme Lightning Marrow’s energy into his avatar, raising it to a level stronger than Subtle Entry but short of Hall Ascension.
• Yan Qingshan asked Venerable Tianhuo whether the Fallen Heart Flame could temper an avatar, and Venerable Tianhuo considered the idea.

Yan Qingshan tried to temper a new avatar with the Fallen Heart Flame before subduing it, a risky method that could let him wield two Heavenly Flames without conflict. With Venerable Tianhuo's help and Dawn's analysis, he successfully began strengthening the avatar, which reached Dou Wang and continued advancing toward Dou Emperor.

• Yan Qingshan explained that he planned to temper an avatar with the Fallen Heart Flame first, then use it to subdue the flame and keep it separate from his Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Venerable Tianhuo warned Yan Qingshan that the plan had almost no chance of success, but agreed to help and placed a trace of his soul imprint in the avatar.
• Venerable Tianhuo controlled the Fallen Heart Flame while Yan Qingshan transformed its violent power in his body and carefully fed it into the fragile avatar.
• Yan Qingshan used Dawn to monitor and adjust the flame's temperature and infusion rate, successfully tempering the avatar on his first attempt.
• As dawn broke, the avatar solidified and its aura rose past Dou Ling to Dou Wang, advancing toward Dou Emperor.

Yan Qingshan entered the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range to cultivate in the hidden depths of the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool and break through to Dou Zong. Ziyan had gained the Gold-Devouring Rat Clan’s trust with pills, and Yan Qingshan arrived to negotiate with them.

• Yan Qingshan traveled into the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range, intending to use the energy beneath the Blood Pool to temper himself and reach Dou Zong.
• Yan Qingshan met Ziyan, who said she had posed as a member of a high-level Magical Beast clan and become an honored guest of the Gold-Devouring Rat Clan.
• Ziyan brought Yan Qingshan to the clan’s territory, where the elder Jingu welcomed her and eyed Yan Qingshan with interest.
• Jingu grew enthusiastic when Ziyan offered to introduce the person who could provide more Enlightenment Pills and Spirit Wisdom Pills.
• The Gold-Devouring Rat Clan had long sought affordable pills to awaken its members’ intelligence and develop their potential.

Yan Qingshan negotiated with Jin Shi, chief of the Gold-Devouring Rat Clan, to develop a bloodline-specific pill formula in exchange for access to the pure energy sealed beneath the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool. After collecting essence blood from rats of different tiers, Yan Qingshan began preparations for his research, promising results within ten days.

• Jingu escorted Yan Qingshan and Ziyan to meet Jin Shi atop the Gold-Devouring Rat Clan’s mountain.
• Jin Shi asked Yan Qingshan for affordable pills that could aid the clan’s Magical Beasts, and Yan Qingshan offered to derive a formula suited to their bloodline.
• Jin Shi agreed to provide bloodline samples and access to the sealed energy beneath the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool if Yan Qingshan produced the formula.
• Yan Qingshan asked the clan to gather Gold-Devouring Rat essence blood from different tiers, and Jingu and Jin Shi each contributed their own.
• Yan Qingshan requested common herbs, ores, unusual materials, and a secluded location, saying he expected results within ten days.

Yan Qingshan gave Jin Shi a pill formula that could unlock the Gold-Devouring Rat Clan’s bloodline potential and traded for access to the depths of the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool. He led Ziyan and the two Magic Beasts into the sealed depths to cultivate, while Jin Shi ordered his clan to investigate a rival lightning beast.

• Yan Qingshan gave Jin Shi the Gold-Devouring Pill and its formula, then received a Gold-Devouring Rat Clan token granting access to the blood pool’s depths.
• Yan Qingshan offered to cure Jin Shi’s fire poison in exchange for a seventh-tier lightning-attributed Magic Beast’s corpse, blood essence, and Magic Core, but Jin Shi did not agree to the price.
• Jin Shi resolved to exploit the blood pool if Yan Qingshan could make it safe and ordered Jingu to investigate the Azure Sky Thunder Wolf.
• Yan Qingshan gave pills to Ziyan, Crimson Serpent, and Amethyst Crystal, then used the token to open the seal at the bottom of the blood pool.
• Yan Qingshan entered the sealed area with Ziyan and the two Magic Beasts and prepared to cultivate amid the dense, fire-poisoned energy.

Yan Qingshan used the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool to advance his cultivation and strengthen his Heart Flame Clone, then fused the Formless Fire Python into it as part of his plan to subdue the Fallen Heart Flame. After reaching peak Dou Emperor, he swallowed a Sect Breaking Pill and began attempting to break through to Dou Zong, determined not to leave the pool until he succeeded.

• Yan Qingshan and his companions absorbed the blood-colored energy at the bottom of the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, while the Green Lotus Core Flame protected him from its fire toxins.
• Yan Qingshan used the pool's energy to cultivate his Heart Flame Clone, whose strength quickly rose toward his own.
• Yan Qingshan drew the Formless Fire Python into the Heart Flame Clone using Venerable Tianhuo's inheritance mark, beginning its fusion with the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yan Qingshan reached peak Dou Emperor and decided to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zong.
• Yan Qingshan swallowed a Sect Breaking Pill and resumed cultivation, resolving to remain at the bottom of the pool until he broke through.

Yan Qingshan emerged from seclusion in the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool after breaking through to the Dou Zong realm and using its energy to refine the Demonic Poison Mark and Fallen Heart Flame. He reached Five-Star Dou Zong, then accepted the Gold-Devouring Rat Clan’s congratulations as he thanked Jin Shi and Jingu.

• Energy surged into the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool as Yan Qingshan began a breakthrough, and Jin Shi ordered Jingu to guard the area from outsiders.
• Yan Qingshan refined the Demonic Poison Mark and merged the Fallen Heart Flame into his body, rapidly advancing to Five-Star Dou Zong.
• The breakthrough’s immense aura and celestial phenomenon startled Jin Shi, Jingu, Ziyan, and experts across the surrounding region.
• Yan Qingshan emerged from the Blood Pool and thanked Jin Shi and Jingu, giving them a pill formula and pills for removing fire poison.
• Jin Shi congratulated Yan Qingshan and presented him with the corpse of a seventh-rank Azure Sky Thunder Wolf.

Ziyan sensed a call from her bloodline, and Yan Qingshan explained that she likely belonged to the Ancient Void Dragon clan before preparing her journey to find them. After Ziyan left with the Amethyst Winged Lion King and the other Magical Beasts, Yan Qingshan and Venerable Tianhuo considered whether an Ancient Void Dragon had once roared beneath the magma world.

• Ziyan told Yan Qingshan that her bloodline seemed to be calling her back to her clan.
• Yan Qingshan explained the three great Magical Beast clans and guessed that Ziyan was a high-status Ancient Void Dragon whose parents might have been kept from her by a Heaven Demon Phoenix.
• Yan Qingshan advised Ziyan to follow her bloodline sense, avoid Heaven Demon Phoenix territory, and seek out the Eastern Dragon Lineage before joining any clan.
• Yan Qingshan gave Ziyan a lightning-powered gray wolf puppet and asked her to take Zijing, Crimson Serpent, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King with her.
• Ziyan departed with the Magical Beasts, and Venerable Tianhuo teased Yan Qingshan about her leaving.
• Yan Qingshan and Venerable Tianhuo suspected that an Ancient Void Dragon had made the roar that nearly scattered their souls beneath the Fallen Heart Flame's magma world.

Yan Qingshan visited Jade Sword City, where the Myriad Sword Pavilion was preparing to host the Four Directions Pavilion Martial Arts Tournament and open its Jade Sword Branch Pavilion. At a restaurant, he spotted Feng Qing'er and Mu Qingluan arriving for the tournament and greeted them from the window.

• Jade Sword City grew crowded as factions and young experts gathered for the tournament, which would also mark the opening of the Myriad Sword Pavilion's Jade Sword Branch Pavilion.
• Yan Qingshan drank at the Myriad Phenomena Restaurant with Venerable Tianhuo and joked about attracting attention with his handsome face.
• Venerable Tianhuo noted that Yan Qingshan's breakthrough to Dou Zong and mastery of the Fallen Heart Flame had made him formidable below the Dou Zun realm.
• Yan Qingshan noticed Feng Qing'er arriving with a powerful group and Mu Qingluan traveling with several companions.
• Yan Qingshan raised his cup to greet Feng Qing'er and Mu Qingluan, and Mu Qingluan smiled back at him.

Yan Qingshan faced the Wind Lightning Pavilion in Jade Sword City, drawing Feng Qing'er into a confrontation while Mu Qingluan watched. When the Western Pavilion Master and Elders Fire and Wood attacked, Yan Qingshan’s upgraded puppets fought them off, leaving the battle underway.

• Yunting recognized Yan Qingshan at the Myriad Phenomena Restaurant and reported his presence to the Western Pavilion Master, who decided to capture him for his Thunder Illusory Body technique.
• Yan Qingshan refused Yunting entry and invited Feng Qing'er to share a drink, then sent Yunting tumbling when he reached for the bead curtain.
• Feng Qing'er entered Yan Qingshan’s room and questioned his hostility toward Fei Tian and the Wind Lightning Pavilion before attacking him with seven-colored ribbons and a wine arrow.
• Yan Qingshan countered Feng Qing'er’s attack as the Demonic Scorpion Puppet and Demonic Roc Puppet appeared and fought the Western Pavilion Master and Elders Fire and Wood.
• The restaurant’s guests fled after Yan Qingshan warned them about the Demonic Scorpion Puppet’s poisonous gas, while Mu Qingluan watched the powerful puppets battle the three Dou Zong experts.

Yan Qingshan subdued Feng Qing'er and the Wind Lightning Pavilion experts, then confronted Tang Ying of the Myriad Sword Pavilion, who arrived to enforce a ban on fighting in Jade Sword City. Tang Ying apologized and offered Yan Qingshan a jade sword, which resonated with his Dou Qi and could aid his cultivation.

• Yan Qingshan restrained Feng Qing'er and defeated the Wind Lightning Pavilion experts with his two puppets while Mu Qingluan taunted Feng Qing'er and watched him paint her portrait on his Beauty Fan.
• Yan Qingshan forced wine on Feng Qing'er and kissed her, provoking her fury as she remained unable to fight back.
• Tang Ying of the Myriad Sword Pavilion arrived and ordered everyone to stop fighting under the pavilion’s month-long ban on hostilities near Jade Sword Peak.
• Yan Qingshan explained that the Wind Lightning Pavilion had attacked first, and Tang Ying apologized on behalf of the Myriad Sword Pavilion.
• Tang Ying gave Yan Qingshan a jade sword token for the Sword Appreciation Assembly, and Yan Qingshan noticed that it resonated with his Dou Qi and might aid his cultivation.

Yan Qingshan provoked Feng Qing'er in public and arranged a secret meeting with her that night. He revealed that his interest in her stemmed from her exceptionally pure Phoenix Bloodline and his research into Phoenix power.

• Tang Ying explained the jade swords and the prizes for the Sword Appreciation Assembly, while warning Yan Qingshan that Venerate Lei would soon arrive.
• Yan Qingshan fed Feng Qing'er a pill and pretended it was an aphrodisiac, alarming the Wind Lightning Pavilion group before leaving for the rear courtyard.
• Mu Qingluan warned Yan Qingshan to flee before Venerate Lei arrived, and he assured her he would keep himself safe.
• Feng Qing'er visited Yan Qingshan at night and challenged him to explain the pill, which he said had reacted to her Phoenix Bloodline.
• Yan Qingshan showed Feng Qing'er his Flying Dou Skills made from a Black Flame Purple Cloud Eagle and explained that they had sparked his research into Phoenix power.