Chapter Summaries

During the Heavenly Phoenix Sacrifice, Feng Qing'er drew forth the ancestral souls and transformed into an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix. She broke through to Dou Saint as the phoenix clans bowed to her, while Huang Tian alone remained standing.

• Luo Ting, a young leader of the Thunderbird Tribe, awakened a powerful Thunderbird bloodline, while a Heaven Demon Phoenix clansman revealed a Vermilion Phoenix bloodline.
• Mu Qingluan manifested the Azure Luan and suppressed most of the other phoenix phantoms, prompting Huang Feng to unleash his Demonic Phoenix Sacred Image.
• Jiufeng overwhelmed Huang Feng and Mu Qingluan with his Heaven Demon Phoenix phantom as he competed for the King of Ten Thousand Phoenixes title.
• Feng Qing'er summoned the Heavenly Phoenix Sacred Images and awakened the ancestral souls, which poured their remaining strength into her.
• Feng Qing'er transformed into an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix and rapidly broke through to Dou Saint, causing the phoenix clans to bow before her while Huang Tian remained upright.

Feng Qing'er revealed her Ancient Heavenly Phoenix bloodline and used her new authority to support an alliance between the Beast Region and the Danta Alliance. She left Huang Tian unable to openly challenge her after she killed his supporters for insulting her.

• Feng Qing'er manifested her Heavenly Phoenix True Body at the Phoenix Fall Mountain Range, while Ziyan dismissed concerns that she threatened the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Yaoming proposed that the Beast Region ally with human factions to avoid being drawn into the ancient Imperial Clans' conflict, and Yan Qingshan presented the Danta Alliance as a partner.
• Feng Qing'er endorsed the alliance on behalf of the phoenix clans, and their members accepted her authority despite Huang Tian's doubts.
• Huang Tian's supporters denounced Feng Qing'er, so she burned them to ashes and set Jiufeng ablaze.
• Huang Tian saved Jiufeng and accused Feng Qing'er of attacking her own clan, but she defended the executions and faced no opposition from the other phoenix clans.

Feng Qing'er rallied the Phoenix Clan against Huang Tian, while Yan Qingshan’s allies intervened when Huang Tian attacked her. Queen Medusa and Ziyan overwhelmed him, leaving him defeated in the crater as the clan watched.

• Feng Qing'er condemned Huang Tian’s suppression of dissent and urged the Phoenix Clan to support an alliance with Danta.
• Several clans and members of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan publicly backed Feng Qing'er, while Yaoming and the elders blocked the Three Heavenly Demonic Phoenixes from intervening.
• Huang Tian accused Feng Qing'er of conspiring with outsiders, transformed into a demonic phoenix, and attacked her.
• Queen Medusa transformed into a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and restrained Huang Tian as Feng Qing'er attacked him with Heavenly Phoenix Sacred Flame.
• Huang Tian broke free of Medusa’s serpent net but was struck into a crater by her tail, leaving him severely injured.
• Ziyan transformed into a Violet-Gold Divine Dragon with Phoenix Wings and attacked Huang Tian, who collapsed under her pressure.

Yan Qingshan defeated Huang Tian and secured his cooperation in transferring power to Feng Qing'er and joining the Beast Region with Danta. The Beast Region unified and connected itself to the Pill Realm, whose announced reopening stirred the Central Plains.

• Ziyan revealed herself as the Supreme Dragon-Phoenix, and Huang Tian recognized that he could not win against the allied forces.
• Huang Tian conceded defeat and suspected Yan Qingshan had orchestrated the upheaval; Yan Qingshan told him to transfer authority to Feng Qing'er and stop opposing the alliance.
• Yan Qingshan proposed stationing Huang Tian and other elders in the Pill Realm, and Huang Tian agreed after receiving a bloodline-transformation method.
• The Ancient Void Dragons, Nine Serene Deep Ground Pythons, and Heaven Demon Phoenixes unified the Beast Region and opened a spatial passage to the Pill Realm.
• Three months later, Danta announced that the long-sealed Pill Realm would reopen, prompting the Central Plains' major powers and ancient Imperial Clans to mobilize.

The Dan Realm’s reopening drew the attention of the Gu Clan, the Soul Clan, and Starfall Pavilion, while Yan Qingshan’s plans remained unclear. Gu Xun’er and Xiao Yan prepared to attend the Pill Tower gathering, as Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered his clan to avoid provoking the Pill Tower and focus on the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

• Gu Yuan asked Gu Xun’er what she thought of Yan Qingshan, then ordered her and Qingyang to attend the Pill Tower gathering with Elder Nanhai and watch the Soul Clan.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor dismissed the Pill Tower as a current threat, warned his clan not to provoke it, and assigned Hun Feng and Hun Yu to investigate its strength and the Profound Pill Clone.
• Xiao Yan asked Old Ya about the Dan Realm’s restoration and whether its reopening was tied to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Old Ya told Xiao Yan that the Pill Tower Three Giants might change and that the Flower Sect and Blazing Flame Valley appeared ready to join the Pill Tower’s alliance.
• Xiao Yan agreed to attend the gathering, as news of it spread across the continent and drew attention from the major factions.

Holy Pill City hosted the alliance grand assembly as Yan Qingshan prepared to reshape the Pill Tower and lead its alliance. The succession ceremony installed Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Ye Xinlan as the new Pill Tower giants, while Yan Qingshan was set to become Alliance Leader.

• News of the alliance assembly drew factions from across the continent to Holy Pill City, hoping to join the coalition.
• Heavenly Thunder Child welcomed Flower Sect leaders Fairy Qing and Fairy Hua, who noticed his recent breakthrough to Half-Saint.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun arrived as a genuine Dou Saint and nearly revealed the Pill Tower's role in destroying Soul Hall branches before Heavenly Thunder Child warned him to stop.
• Old Monster Lin led the Small Pill Tower's reclusive experts to the assembly, astonishing visitors with the Pill Tower's strength and numerous Half-Saints.
• Xuan Kongzi, Heavenly Thunder Child, and Xuan Yi began the succession ceremony and named Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Ye Xinlan as the new Pill Tower giants.
• Yan Qingshan relinquished his giant position and prepared to become Alliance Leader, the alliance's central leader.

Danta held an alliance gathering in the Pill Realm, where Yan Qingshan brought together Danta, powerful factions, and the major magical beast clans. As the alliance concluded, an energy storm erupted because Danta’s newly appointed master of the Pill Realm was refining pills.

• After Danta’s leaders completed their succession ceremony, Old Monster Lin announced an alliance to stabilize Central Plains and transported the gathered experts into the Pill Realm.
• Xiao Yan and Old Ya sensed that the Pill Realm’s energy and space had changed greatly since their previous visit.
• The Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan, Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and other magical beast clans arrived to join the alliance, astonishing the assembled factions.
• Gu Xun’er recognized Ziyan as the former student from Jia Nan Academy, while Hun Feng and Hun Yu assessed the strength of Danta and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Yan Qingshan led the alliance alongside representatives including Ziyan, Feng Qing’er, and Queen Medusa.
• An energy storm surged through the Pill Realm, and Yan Qingshan explained that Danta’s newly appointed master of the Pill Realm was refining pills.

Old Man Shennong refined a Nine-Revolutions Profound Pill in the Pill Realm, drawing energy from across the region and causing Black Demonic Lightning to gather. The pill rain fell and Yan Qingshan shared its energy grains with the crowd, while the newly formed pill faced its final trial beneath the lightning.

• Experts in the Pill Realm recognized that the alchemist was attempting a Ninth Grade Profound Pill, and Old Ya told Xiao Yan that such a feat was extraordinarily difficult.
• Old Man Shennong controlled the vast energy flowing into his cauldron, and a green point of light appeared as the pill embryo formed.
• Black clouds gathered over the Pill Realm, and the birth of the Nine-Revolutions Profound Pill produced a rain of energy grains.
• Yan Qingshan distributed pill-rain grains to the crowd, while Old Ya judged their abundant energy to indicate that the refiner had reached at least the Six Star Dou Saint level.
• Black Demonic Lightning struck toward the glowing pill inside the pillar of light as it faced the final trial of its creation.

Old Man Shennong refined a Ninth Grade Profound Pill, subdued it after it tried to flee, and presented it to Yan Qingshan. Yan Qingshan then left to enter secluded cultivation and break through, while Xuan Kongzi took over receiving the gathered experts.

• The embryonic Ninth Grade Profound Pill endured the Black Demonic Lightning tribulation, hatched, and tried to escape.
• Old Man Shennong caught the pill, sealed it in a jade bottle, and revealed himself as the new master of the Pill Realm.
• Yan Qingshan introduced Old Man Shennong to the gathered experts, whose arrival and strength heightened their shock at the Pill Tower’s growing power.
• Old Man Shennong handed Yan Qingshan the Ninth Grade Profound Pill, and the crowd speculated that he had broken through to the High-tier Dou Saint realm.
• Yan Qingshan announced that he would enter secluded cultivation to make a breakthrough and vanished, leaving Xuan Kongzi to receive the experts.

Yan Qingshan returned to Jia Nan Academy with Ziyan and reunited with Grand Elder Su Qian before taking her to the magma world beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda. There, they encountered the Flame Lizardmen guarding the Graveyard of the Gods, and Yan Qingshan faced them without fear.

• Yan Qingshan and Ziyan surprised Grand Elder Su Qian with their return to Jia Nan Academy, where Hu Jia and Wu Hao also served as instructors.
• Yan Qingshan told Ziyan that her father was connected to the magma beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda and apologized for keeping her away before.
• Yan Qingshan and Ziyan descended into the magma world, where hidden creatures gathered around them.
• A white Flame Lizardman warned them to leave the Graveyard of the Gods or face the guardian.
• Ziyan examined a crystal core from a Flame Lizardman, enraging the surrounding creatures, while Yan Qingshan remained unthreatened by their strongest member, a Half-Saint.

Yan Qingshan and Ziyan forced their way through the magma and found the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling. There, they encountered the missing Dragon Emperor Zhukun, who recognized Ziyan as his child.

• Yan Qingshan used his soul power to scatter the Flame Lizardmen, and he and Ziyan continued deeper into the magma.
• A dormant figure sensed Yan Qingshan and Ziyan approaching, while the white Flame Lizardman ordered his tribe to retreat.
• Yan Qingshan and Ziyan entered a hidden space and found the enormous stone door to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling.
• Yan Qingshan spotted the colossal purple-gold creature below the stone door and recognized it as Dragon Emperor Zhukun.
• Zhukun recognized Ziyan by her bloodline, and Ziyan told him that she was now the Dragon Emperor of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

Ziyan reunited with her father, Dragon Emperor Zhukun, who had been trapped in the Ancient God Cave Mansion for over a thousand years. After learning how the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and Central Plains had changed, Zhukun discovered Yan Qingshan was Ziyan’s husband and awkwardly accepted him.

• Dragon Emperor Zhukun asked Ziyan to approach carefully, and she descended with Yan Qingshan to meet him.
• Ziyan recognized their bloodline connection but rejected Zhukun’s attempt to call himself her father, saying she had grown up an orphan.
• Zhukun explained that Tou She Ancient God’s restriction had trapped him and that he had sent Ziyan away before she was born; Ziyan stopped him from repeatedly injuring himself against the barrier.
• Ziyan told Zhukun that she had reunified the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and allied with other forces to protect it amid turmoil in the Central Plains.
• Yan Qingshan explained that Soul Heavenly Emperor sought the eight pieces of Tou She Ancient God Jade to break through to Dou Emperor, and Zhukun cursed the clans for splitting the jade.
• Zhukun noticed Yan Qingshan and asked who he was, and Ziyan said he was her husband before Zhukun awkwardly accepted him.

Yan Qingshan brought Ziyan to meet Dragon Emperor Zhukun, who explained how Dragon-Phoenix power might eventually free him and passed his clan’s inheritance to her. While Ziyan underwent a three-year transformation, Yan Qingshan traded information with Zhukun and asked about the ancient Dou Emperor era.

• Zhukun explained that only a Dou Emperor or a Great Accomplishment Dragon-Phoenix at Half-Emperor strength could open the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Dwelling or free him, and he warned Ziyan not to attempt a rescue yet.
• Yan Qingshan revealed that he had secretly left his supposed seclusion to visit Zhukun, seeking guidance and resources while keeping his plans for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame hidden.
• Zhukun gave Yan Qingshan three spheres of refined essence blood and sent his Ancient Dragon Imperial Clan inheritance into Ziyan.
• Ziyan fell asleep inside a purple-gold cocoon as Zhukun predicted she would need three years to absorb the inheritance and reach peak Six Star Dou Saint.
• Yan Qingshan told Zhukun about the outside world, and Zhukun softened toward him before answering his questions about the ancient era of Dou Emperors.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame descended near the Central Plains, prompting the continent’s major factions to mobilize and race toward it. Yan Qingshan left the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Dwelling while Queen Medusa led the Pill Tower alliance to the site, where they encountered Xiao Yan and the other contenders.

• The nine stars aligned and the tide of heaven and earth announced the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence.
• Zhukun gave Yan Qingshan an attack formed from his essence blood and stayed behind to watch over Ziyan as Yan Qingshan set out for the Central Plains.
• Queen Medusa, following Yan Qingshan’s plan, led the Pill Tower alliance and its allies toward the flame’s location while the other major factions also mobilized.
• Queen Medusa’s group endured the flame’s intense residual heat and reached a milky-white desert surrounding a rift pouring out the flame’s radiance.
• The Pill Tower experts encountered Xiao Yan with the Starfall Pavilion and Gu Clan forces, and learned he had reached the Dou Saint realm after receiving Xiao Xuan’s help in the Heavenly Tomb.

The major factions and Imperial Clans gathered outside the Demonic Flame Space as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s heat turned the surrounding desert into milky-white magma. With the space’s opening imminent, Xiao Yan and the others discussed the Hun Clan’s ambitions and the risks of entering.

• Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, and Old Ya observed Danta’s forces and noted that Yan Qingshan remained in seclusion.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er discussed Gu Yuan’s reluctance to confront the Hun Clan and the danger of its plans.
• Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi arrived with Yan Clan experts, followed by representatives of the other Imperial Clans.
• Gu Xun'er explained the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s history and the sealed space’s dangers, while Gu Nanhai warned Xiao Yan against putting too much hope in obtaining it.
• The factions gathered as the residual heat melted the desert into milky-white magma, and a ring of light formed at the entrance after several hours.

Yan Qingshan entered the Demonic Flame Space, saw through its illusions, and used his inherited authority over the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint’s techniques to pass through its dangers. He discovered Soul Demon Elder among the survivors and began secretly tampering with the space’s powerful puppets.

• Yan Qingshan entered the Nightmare Heavenly Mist, dispelled its illusion, and weakened the mist to help trapped cultivators survive.
• Yan Qingshan reached a platform where independent cultivators proposed an alliance, then watched Fire Slave Puppets swarm them and drive them through a gate.
• Yan Qingshan used the mist to slip past the puppets and entered the hall, where he collected valuables and found Soul Demon Elder fighting a Four Star Dou Saint puppet.
• Yan Qingshan sensed the Demonic Flame Space and began manipulating its Dou Saint puppets, drawing on his authority over the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint’s techniques.

Yan Qingshan broke the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s illusion and took control of its puppets, allowing Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, and the other experts to emerge into the magma sea. The true Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame trapped them in a fiery prison and began preparing to refine them into puppets.

• Yan Qingshan used a Nightmare Breaking Talisman to shatter the illusion and seize control of the puppets, causing them to vanish from the experts’ battles.
• Xiao Chen resisted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control, and Xiao Yan approached him as the Xiao Clan Mark helped restore his awareness.
• The illusion collapsed, bringing Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, and the gathered experts to the magma sea, where the true Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame concealed the Spatial Passage and unleashed Demonic Flame Refining Heaven, trapping everyone in a prison of milky-white fire.
• Xiao Chen warned that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame rivaled a peak Five Star Dou Saint, and the experts gathered to fight it together.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame revealed its terrifying power, killing most of the Dou Zun experts and summoning ten Dou Saint fire slaves. The surviving factions agreed to cooperate and surrounded it, while Yan Qingshan’s allies kept their plans and strength concealed as the battle began.

• Yan Qingshan recognized that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was hiding strength beyond its claimed peak Five Star Dou Saint level.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame used emotions to ignite its victims, then killed nearly eighty percent of the Dou Zun experts with Flame Burst.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned ten powerful fire slaves and declared that the survivors would join its collection.
• Hun Yu proposed that the factions cooperate, and Queen Medusa, Gu Nanhai, Yao Wangui, and Huo Yao agreed.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Chen to remain out of the fight, while Queen Medusa and six other Four Star Dou Saints surrounded the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned the Fire Demonic Halberd, while Qingling told Yaoming not to speculate about Yan Qingshan’s plans.

Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame battled the seven Four Star Dou Saints while the other experts fought his Fire Slave Puppets. Yan Qingshan secretly seized control of several puppets and redirected one toward Hun Feng, Hun Yu, and their companions.

• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed a massive wave of demonic flame, but Queen Medusa, Gu Nanhai, Yao Wangui, Huo Yao, the Hun Clan elder, and two other experts confronted him together.
• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame struck the seven experts with the Great Compassion Hand, knocking them into the magma, before Queen Medusa transformed into a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and the group renewed their assault.
• Yan Qingshan stayed among the experts as they fought the Fire Slave Puppets, then secretly inscribed a rune on a puppet brought through a spatial rift by Xiao Chen.
• Yan Qingshan subdued several puppets while Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame grew enraged and distracted by losing control of them.
• Yan Qingshan influenced a puppet fighting Xiao Yan, causing it to rush toward Hun Feng, Hun Yu, and the others as if it were about to explode.

Fire Slave Puppets self-destructed across the Demonic Flame Space, and Yan Qingshan saved Yao Ling before using the opportunity to gain the Yao Clan's protection. The Hun Clan then activated its Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Array against the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, which appeared to be trapped and reduced to a small cluster of flame.

• The Fire Slave Puppets detonated in succession, killing many experts and forcing the survivors to flee.
• Yan Qingshan pulled Yao Ling clear of an explosion and shielded her with his body, leaving him wounded.
• Yao Ling treated Yan Qingshan with an Eighth-Grade Spirit Pill, and Yao Tian agreed to let him stay with them because he had saved her.
• The Hun Clan's Four Star Dou Saint deployed the Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Array, with Medusa and five other experts joining its formation nodes.
• The formation struck the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, which struggled and seemed to shrink as its controllers sacrificed essence blood to strengthen the array.
• The black pillar contracted around a small cluster of milky-white flame while Yan Qingshan watched, unsure whether the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was truly in danger.