Chapter Summaries

Yan Qingshan entered the Void Lightning Pool, leaving twelve demon puppets to temper themselves while he took the Three-Headed Demonic Dragon toward the core to absorb Black Demonic Lightning. After meeting an old man fleeing the lightning spirits, Yan Qingshan let the dragon puppet endure a fierce barrage and withdrew it once it neared its absorption limit.

• Yan Qingshan sent twelve Earth Demonic Puppets into a concentrated area of lightning to improve them, then rode the Three-Headed Demonic Dragon deeper into the pool.
• Yan Qingshan encountered an old man chased by Black Demonic Lightning and used the dragon puppet to shield him; the old man wondered about Yan Qingshan and then left by another route.
• Yan Qingshan reached the core of the Void Lightning Pool and cautiously approached its intelligent Black Demonic Lightning with the Three-Headed Demonic Dragon.
• The dragon puppet absorbed a bolt of Black Demonic Lightning, provoking the surrounding bolts to attack and hurl it more than a thousand zhang.
• Yan Qingshan let the dragon puppet withstand the Black Demonic Lightning until it neared its absorption limit, then withdrew it from the core region.

Yan Qingshan returned to Ancient Dragon Island after strengthening the Three-Headed Demonic Dragon Puppet to Six Star Dou Saint level, where Ziyan gave him rare Dragon-Phoenix treasures and explained her duties as the new Dragon Emperor. He and Xiao Yi Xian then left for the Central Plains and arrived outside Danta in Holy Pill City.

• Yan Qingshan finished tempering the Three-Headed Demonic Dragon Puppet until it could match a Six Star Dou Saint.
• Yan Qingshan returned to Ancient Dragon Island and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Ziyan.
• Ziyan gave Yan Qingshan a Dragon Bone and Phoenix Wings refined from the remains of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• Ziyan explained that she had to remain on Dragon Island to consolidate her rule, while Yan Qingshan urged her to resolve the matter of her father later.
• Yan Qingshan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled through a spatial rift to Holy Pill City and arrived outside Danta.

Yan Qingshan returned to Holy Pill City with Xiao Yi Xian and warned Xuan Kongzi that the Soul Hall might target the Pill Convention and Three Thousand Burning Flame. At his residence, he helped Xuelan break through to Dou Wang before news from the Northern Region sent him traveling again.

• Yan Qingshan entered Holy Pill City with Xiao Yi Xian and told Xuan Kongzi that the Soul Hall posed a threat to the coming Pill Convention.
• Xuan Kongzi agreed to strengthen the Pill Tower's defenses while Yan Qingshan planned to watch over the convention himself.
• Yan Qingshan returned to his residence, where Xuelan worried that her weaker talent made her less useful than Qingling.
• Yan Qingshan gave Xuelan Dou Saint Essence, and she transformed and advanced to Dou Wang.
• News from the Northern Region of Central Plains ended Yan Qingshan's quiet days and sent him back on the road.

Yan Qingshan observed the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool’s energy tide and discovered Xiao Yan among the gathered experts. After meeting Feng Qing'er, he revealed that he had reached Dou Zun and offered her Wings of Heavenly Phoenix, proposing that she might revive the Heavenly Phoenix race; they agreed to wait until after the mountain journey to begin.

• The Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool’s energy tide erupted, drawing the gathered experts toward the entrance as Yan Qingshan watched from the summit.
• Yan Qingshan recognized Feng Qing'er, Tang Ying, Wang Chen, Mu Qingluan, and Xiao Yan among the crowd, while Old Ya sensed an unseen observer.
• Xiao Yan raced past Feng Qing'er toward the entrance and exchanged probing attacks with her before escaping ahead.
• Yan Qingshan descended to Feng Qing'er and revealed he was no longer a Dou Zong, then tried to ease her resentment over his earlier absence.
• Yan Qingshan presented Feng Qing'er with Wings of Heavenly Phoenix made from an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix skeleton and proposed helping her revive the Heavenly Phoenix race.
• Feng Qing'er agreed to try, and Yan Qingshan said they would begin after her trip through the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range.

Feng Qing'er fused the phoenix wings and bloodline treasure with Yan Qingshan’s help, while Yan Qingshan fused the Dragon Bone into his body. After their powers stirred an uncontrolled night of passion involving Mu Qingluan, the three woke to awkward resentment, and Yan Qingshan resumed teasing them.

• Feng Qing'er left the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range and met Yan Qingshan in a secluded valley while Mu Qingluan secretly followed her.
• Feng Qing'er tore off her phoenix wings, refined them with Demonic Phoenix Flame, and fused them with the purple-gold phoenix wings, sealing herself inside a golden cocoon.
• Yan Qingshan fused the Dragon Bone into his spine, then became caught up in passion with the sleeping Feng Qing'er and the watching Mu Qingluan.
• The next morning, Feng Qing'er and Mu Qingluan woke embarrassed and irritated with Yan Qingshan, who embraced them and then renewed his teasing of Mu Qingluan.

Yan Qingshan reunited with Han Yue in Northern Sky City and planned to connect the city to Holy Pill City with a Spatial Wormhole. At the Wind Lightning Pavilion, the Four Directions Pavilion Tournament began as Xiao Yan and Old Ya prepared to approach Venerable Feng.

• Yan Qingshan told Feng Qing'er to keep her suspicions about his unusual wings and Dragon Bone to herself, then warned Mu Qingluan not to get too close to Xiao Yan.
• Yan Qingshan surprised Han Yue at the Han Family estate, reunited with her, and proposed building a Spatial Wormhole from Northern Sky City to Holy Pill City.
• Crowds gathered at the Wind Lightning Pavilion's Thunder Mountain for the Four Directions Pavilion Tournament, hosted by the pavilion's four masters.
• Venerate Lei welcomed Venerate Jian and Tang Ying, while Venerate Huangquan arrived with Wang Chen and took his seat without courtesy.
• Venerable Feng arrived, and Xiao Yan privately asked Old Ya whether they should try to contact him; Old Ya assured him that Feng Xian was trustworthy.

Yan Qingshan arrived at the Four Directions Pavilion Martial Arts Tournament in disguise, while Xiao Yan and Lin Yan entered the fifty-four-person free-for-all. The tournament began with Xiao Yan and Lin Yan briefly cooperating, then Lin Yan faced Wang Chen as the Yellow Spring Pavilion disciple revealed quasi-Dou Zong strength.

• Yan Qingshan appeared as Zhang Wuji with Han Yue and Han Xue, drawing wary reactions from the pavilion leaders and recognition from Xiao Yan.
• Venerate Lei announced the tournament’s free-for-all rules, and fifty-four participants entered the arena, including Xiao Yan, Lin Yan, Mu Qingluan, Tang Ying, Wang Chen, and Feng Qing'er.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Yan recognized each other during the melee, agreed to cooperate briefly, and drove back several attackers before splitting up to fight.
• Wang Chen confronted Lin Yan and asked whether he was friends with Xiao Yan, prompting Lin Yan to attack with his spear.
• Lin Yan’s flame-based techniques forced Wang Chen to retreat, but Wang Chen unleashed a dark aura approaching the Dou Zong realm.

Lin Yan conceded after overpowering Wang Chen in their clash, but Xiao Yan later defeated Wang Chen and helped secure a place among the tournament’s final four. Xiao Yan was matched against Mu Qingluan, who recognized him as Venerable Feng’s junior and a disciple of Venerable Yao.

• Lin Yan unleashed Wildfire Explosion against Wang Chen, then conceded and withdrew after their clash left Wang Chen at a disadvantage.
• At Venerate Huangquan’s command, Wang Chen attacked the remaining contestants, but Xiao Yan knocked him out with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler and sky-blue flames.
• Venerate Lei ended the first round, and Xiao Yan, Tang Ying, Mu Qingluan, and Feng Qing'er won their second-round battles to advance to the final four.
• Venerate Lei drew the next matches as Feng Qing'er versus Tang Ying and Xiao Yan versus Mu Qingluan; Feng Qing'er quickly defeated Tang Ying.
• Mu Qingluan recognized Xiao Yan as her teacher’s junior, while Venerable Feng confirmed that Xiao Yan was Venerable Yao’s disciple.

Xiao Yan defeated Mu Qingluan, then faced Feng Qing'er in the final match of the Four Directions Pavilion tournament. After Feng Qing'er’s Wind Kill Finger was swallowed by Xiao Yan’s Sea Heart Flame, she revealed a powerful phoenix technique that formed a massive violet-gold bell and burst through the sea of fire.

• Mu Qingluan surrendered to Xiao Yan and urged him to fight Feng Qing'er, while Venerable Feng recognized Xiao Yan as Yao Chen’s disciple.
• Feng Qing'er defeated Tang Ying, setting up the final match against Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan provoked Feng Qing'er by insulting her, and she unleashed a wind-and-lightning storm and attacked with Wind Kill Finger.
• Xiao Yan used the Sea Heart Flame to swallow Feng Qing'er’s attack and sweep a sea of fire across the arena.
• Old Ya warned Xiao Yan to retreat as Feng Qing'er formed a giant violet-gold bell from the image of an Immortal Phoenix, which exploded the sea of fire.

Xiao Yan and Feng Qing’er unleashed their strongest techniques, and Xiao Yan’s Three-Colored Fire Lotus shattered her Heavenly Phoenix Bell. Feng Qing’er then struck him from behind, leaving him badly wounded as the battle appeared to turn in her favor.

• Feng Qing’er revealed the Heavenly Phoenix Bell, and Xiao Yan answered with a Three-Colored Fire Lotus containing three Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan’s fire lotus battered the bell until it cracked and exploded, scattering violet-gold fragments across the plaza.
• Xiao Yan defended himself from the falling fragments as Feng Qing’er emerged from the flames and attacked with her ribbon.
• Xiao Yan grabbed Feng Qing’er’s ribbon and charged, but the figure before him proved blurry as an unseen blow struck his back.
• Xiao Yan coughed up blood and lost his advantage, while Feng Qing’er remained standing after the battle’s apparent conclusion.

Old Yao possessed Xiao Yan and stopped Feng Qing'er from killing him, prompting Venerable Feng to reveal his long friendship with Yao Chen and threaten war to protect them. After Wind Lightning Pavilion yielded, Venerable Feng took Xiao Yan away, while Yan Qingshan asked Venerate Jian for permission to visit the jade vein beneath Jade Dragon Mountain in exchange for an Eighth-Grade Spirit Pill.

• Old Yao possessed Xiao Yan, blocked Feng Qing'er's attack, and asked her to concede the match because Xiao Yan was his disciple.
• Venerable Feng recognized Old Yao as Feng Xian's old friend, demanded that the others leave Xiao Yan alone, and threatened war between Starfall Pavilion and Wind Lightning Pavilion if Xiao Yan was harmed.
• Yan Qingshan identified the soul as Venerable Yao, and Venerate Lei ended his objections after realizing who Yao Chen was and seeing Venerable Feng's resolve.
• Venerable Feng took Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan away on a gale eagle, while Venerate Huangquan and Venerate Jian departed with their disciples.
• Yan Qingshan offered Venerate Jian an Eighth-Grade Spirit Pill in exchange for permission to visit the jade vein beneath Jade Dragon Mountain.

Yan Qingshan traded an eighth-tier medicinal pill to Venerate Jian for a token that could open the Jade Sword Sect’s earth vein, then took Feng Qing'er aside to say goodbye. Feng Qing'er chose to enter seclusion and declared that she would defy the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s expectations.

• Yan Qingshan exchanged an eighth-tier, two-colored medicinal pill with Venerate Jian for a token to open the Jade Sword Sect’s earth vein.
• Venerate Jian and Tang Ying left Thunder Mountain, and Yan Qingshan departed with Lin Yan, Han Yue, Han Xue, and Feng Qing'er.
• Yan Qingshan revealed his true face to Feng Qing'er and told her he had kept her away from Xiao Yan’s affairs.
• Feng Qing'er discussed her awakening Heavenly Phoenix Blood with Yan Qingshan and said she would become a true daughter of the Heavenly Phoenix.
• Yan Qingshan opened a Spatial Passage and left the Wind Lightning Pavilion with the others.
• Feng Qing'er told Venerate Lei she would enter seclusion and become the first pure-blooded descendant of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to marry outside it.

Yan Qingshan discovered the Azure Dragon Saint’s inheritance beneath the Jade Dragon Mountain Range, gained the beginnings of the Azure Dragon Dharma Body, and left rather than risk repeating the Saint’s fatal mistake. The story then shifted to a black-robed attacker assaulting the Soul Hall’s Departed Souls Branch Hall in the Mountain Range of Departed Souls, where Star-Picking Heavenly Venerate emerged to fight back.

• Yan Qingshan traveled with Lin Yan, Han Yue, and Han Xue to the Jade Sword Sect, then descended beneath Jade Sword Peak to investigate the Jade Dragon Earth Vein.
• Yan Qingshan passed through the jade wall and fell into an underground Dragon Pool, where the Azure Dragon Saint’s inheritance appeared before him.
• Yan Qingshan learned that the jade vein held the Azure Dragon Saint’s legacy and cultivated the Azure Dragon Dharma Body, but chose not to absorb the entire vein because it could lead him down the Saint’s doomed path.
• A black-robed figure found the Soul Hall’s Departed Souls Branch Hall in the Mountain Range of Departed Souls and tore open its hall, killing and scattering many of its occupants.
• The black-robed attacker restrained the branch hall’s Dou Zuns and exposed Star-Picking Heavenly Venerate, who broke the vine spheres and freed the other Venerable Elders.

Yan Qingshan destroyed Soul Hall branches to seize their accumulated soul origin and learned the locations of its strongholds. After destroying the fourteenth Earth Fiend Branch Hall, he faced Soul Hall’s Ninth Heavenly Venerate, Mo Yu, who suspected an ancient clan was behind the attacks.

• Yan Qingshan defeated the five Venerable Elders at the Departed Souls Branch Hall, captured Star-Picking Old Ghost, and hypnotized him into revealing the locations of Soul Hall’s branch halls.
• Yan Qingshan killed Star-Picking Old Ghost, uncovered a sphere of soul origin gathered from nearly a hundred thousand souls, and decided to target the twenty-four Earth Fiend Halls while avoiding the three Heavenly Gang Halls.
• Yan Qingshan attacked and destroyed the fourteenth branch hall in Ghost Marsh, defeating its defenders and retrieving its soul-origin sphere.
• Mo Yu arrived and confronted Yan Qingshan, questioning whether the Gu Clan, Spirit Clan, or Yao Clan had sent him.

Yan Qingshan defeated and killed Mo Yu, Soul Hall’s Nine Heavenly Venerate, then left with the Three-Headed Demonic Dragon. After learning that Mo Yu and the Ghost Branch Hall were lost, Hun Miesheng raged at his subordinates over the lack of clues about the killer.

• Yan Qingshan trapped Mo Yu with vines, then used the Great Heaven Creation Palm to cripple him and capture him alive.
• Yan Qingshan refined Mo Yu, collected his soul origin, and left the ruins with the Three-Headed Demonic Dragon.
• A white-haired Soul Hall expert arrived at the ruins, recognized that Old Nine was dead, and returned to report.
• The white-haired elder told Hun Miesheng that the Ghost Branch Hall had been destroyed and Mo Yu was dead.
• Hun Miesheng erupted in anger and demanded to know why his subordinates had no clue about the murderer.

Yan Qingshan refined the soul origins stolen from sixteen Soul Hall branch halls, while Hun Miesheng ordered a search for those responsible. After months of seclusion, Yan Qingshan reached Spirit Realm Grand Perfection and seven-star Dou Zun, then chose to leave for the approaching Pill Convention.

• Hun Miesheng learned that sixteen Earth Fiend Branch Halls had fallen and ordered the remaining halls guarded while Soul Hall searched the Central Plains for the attackers.
• Yan Qingshan refined the stolen soul origins and the resentments of the souls taken by Soul Hall, producing seventeen powerful soul spheres.
• Yan Qingshan absorbed soul origin until his soul reached its limit, though he recognized that he still lacked the cultivation needed to reach the Heavenly Realm.
• Yan Qingshan broke through to Spirit Realm Grand Perfection and seven-star Dou Zun, then ended his seclusion because the Pill Convention was about to begin.

Yan Qingshan visited the Pill Tower and revealed that he had destroyed sixteen Soul Hall branch halls, then offered Xuan Kongzi resources to help him break through to Half-Saint in exchange for his position. Xuan Kongzi handed over the token and drove Yan Qingshan and the others away, while Yan Qingshan kept the Bodhi Seed.

• Yan Qingshan stored thirteen clusters of Soul Origin and left the secret chamber as turmoil spread across the Central Plains over the Soul Hall's search for whoever had destroyed sixteen branch halls.
• Yan Qingshan arrived at the Pill Tower with Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Ye Xinlan, where Xuan Kongzi warned them to stay inside while the Soul Hall was enraged.
• Yan Qingshan admitted that he had destroyed the sixteen Earth Fiend Branch Halls, killing Mo Yu, more than seventy Dou Zuns, and over ten thousand experts, and revealed that he had collected more than a million souls' worth of Soul Origin.
• Yan Qingshan gave Xuan Kongzi Soul Origin and three drops of Dou Saint Essence, saying they could help him break through to Half-Saint if he stepped down from his position.
• Yan Qingshan teased Xuan Kongzi with a Bodhi Seed, and Xuan Kongzi handed him the token before angrily sending the group away.

Yan Qingshan captured Old Man Mugu after he attacked Xiao Yan and Old Ya in Holy Pill City. Mugu’s attempt to steal the Flame Mantra ended with Yan Qingshan taking him away, while Old Ya was told to prepare for Xuan Yi’s return.

• Yan Qingshan received Danta’s Pill Token and took Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Ye Xinlan to a prepared bedchamber to share the Dou Saint Essence and soul origin.
• Old Man Mugu appeared at Starfall Pavilion and demanded that Old Ya return the Flame Mantra, while Xiao Yan recognized him as a Soul Hall enemy.
• Mugu sealed the courtyard and attacked Xiao Yan, but Old Ya intercepted his strike as Xiao Yan prepared to fight back.
• Danta’s barrier-breaking intervention exposed Mugu, and Yan Qingshan appeared and subdued him with the authority of the Pill Token and his seven-star Dou Zun strength.
• Yan Qingshan seized Mugu and left through a spatial rift, telling Old Ya that Xuan Yi would soon emerge from seclusion.

Yan Qingshan helped Danta prepare for the Pill Convention, then entered its first trial, the Soul Illusion Realm, with the other contestants. As he reunited with Dan Chen, Cao Ying, and Ye Xinlan inside the deteriorating Pill Realm, he realized Danta’s plan to protect it needed to be advanced.

• Old Ya explained that Yan Qingshan’s Pill Token marked him as the next Danta giant, unsettling Xiao Yan.
• Yan Qingshan brought Old Man Mugu to Danta and had Xiao Yi Xian torture him for information about Soul Hall.
• The Pill Convention began in Holy Pill City, and Heavenly Thunder Child announced the rules and opened the Soul Illusion Realm as its first pass.
• Yan Qingshan entered the trial after greeting the Danta seniors and his companions.
• Yan Qingshan noticed that the Pill Realm had deteriorated further and decided Danta’s plan to preserve it had to be moved up.
• Dan Chen, Cao Ying, and Ye Xinlan reunited with Yan Qingshan, and Cao Ying teased him before leading the three women away.

Yan Qingshan took Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Ye Xinlan to the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, where he invited Xiong Zhan to leave the Pill Realm and travel to Ancient Dragon Island. At the Pill Realm exit, Yan exposed and captured Soul Hall agents before leading the group back to Holy Pill City for the final Pill Convention competition.

• Yan Qingshan told Xiong Zhan he could leave the Pill Realm and gave him directions to Ancient Dragon Island; Xiong Zhan let Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Ye Xinlan gather herbs from his plaza.
• Xiong Zhan carried Yan Qingshan and the three women to the Pill Realm exit on a Mystic Bird Beast.
• Yan Qingshan exposed a dozen Soul Hall agents among the contestants and captured them after they attacked nearby alchemists.
• A Danta elder opened a spatial passage, arranged a separate passage for Xiong Zhan, and let the contestants leave the Pill Realm.
• Yan Qingshan and the three women returned to Holy Pill City as the final Pill Convention competition began, while Heavenly Thunder Child learned that Yan had prevented the Soul Hall agents from disrupting it.