Chapter Summaries

The experts fought over the sealed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as Yan Qingshan warned Yao Ling to stay back and watched her reveal an extraordinary soul talent. Xiao Chen intervened to protect Xiao Yan from a wounded Hun Clan Dou Saint, then clashed with Soul Demon Elder, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Hun Clan Dou Saint tried to seize the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, triggering a chaotic struggle among the experts, and Yao Tian joined the fight.
• Yan Qingshan held Yao Ling back and noticed her secret technique revealed a soul talent with the potential to reach Emperor Realm Soul.
• Xiao Yan fought Hun Feng and Hun Yu, seized the sealed lotus flame, and was attacked by a wounded Four Star Dou Saint from the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Chen appeared to protect Xiao Yan, revealed his mid Five Star Dou Saint strength, and attacked the Hun Clan fighters with his blood axe.
• Soul Demon Elder stepped forward to defend Hun Feng and the others, and his black mist clashed with Xiao Chen's Sky-Shattering Three Axes.

Soul Demon Elder’s attempt to seize the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame failed when the flame revealed it had allowed itself to be sealed. After battling the gathered Dou Saints, the flame activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Array and claimed it would make everyone trapped in the Demonic Flame Space helpless before him.

• Soul Demon Elder confronted Gu Nanhai and the others, then revealed he had taken the black-light seal containing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Yao Ling warned Yao Wangui that the flame had never truly been sealed, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame burst free and engulfed the Hun Clan experts.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame targeted Hun Feng for his Nihility Devouring Flame’s Sub-Fire and formed the Demonic Flame God Statue to attack the gathered experts.
• Soul Demon Elder used the Soul Gu Frog to resist the flame, while Xiao Chen and Queen Medusa struck the Demonic Flame God Statue and sent the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame into the lava.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged from the lava and summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, revealing matching formations above and below the lava sea.

Yan Qingshan revealed that he could control the Heaven Refining Ancient Array and summoned the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint’s lingering image to subdue Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. After the other survivors escaped the Demonic Flame Space, the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint began stripping the flame of its memories and spirituality.

• Soul Demon Elder and Xiao Chen agreed to split their forces and attack the Heaven and Earth Arrays, but Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame activated the formation against them.
• Yan Qingshan rose into the air, redirected the array’s pillars of light onto Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and revealed the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint’s lingering image.
• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame exploded into a sea of fire, and the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint opened a Spatial Passage for the survivors to escape.
• Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Qingling, Feng Qing'er, Yao Ling, Xiao Yan, and the other survivors left the Demonic Flame Space, leaving Yan Qingshan and the two ancient beings behind.
• The Pure Lotus Demonic Saint trapped Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in a prison of fire and began removing the intelligence and memories he had once bestowed upon it.

Yan Qingshan obtained the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame after the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint refined himself and the flame’s spirituality into an energy pearl. After refining the flame and emerging from a long transformation, Yan Qingshan reached Seven Star Dou Saint.

• The Pure Lotus Demonic Saint used the Heaven Refining Ancient Array to strip the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame of its memories and intelligence, then refined their spiritual origins into a blazing pearl for Yan Qingshan.
• Yan Qingshan collected the pearl and the Demonic Flame Origin, then used the Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill to help subdue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Yan Qingshan absorbed the Demonic Flame Origin and entered a crystalline egg to undergo a long transformation as the commotion over the flame’s emergence faded.
• The crystalline egg cracked open, and Yan Qingshan emerged with flame lotuses in his pupils and the strength of a Seven Star Dou Saint.

After gaining three stars from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, Yan Qingshan tried to use its intelligent Fire Spirit, Xiao Yao, to help his Heavenly Flame Clone cultivate the Flame Mantra and fuse his Heavenly Flames. The clone’s unstable transformation plunged into the Magma Ocean as the remaining Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame gathered around it.

• Yan Qingshan summoned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Fire Spirit and named it Xiao Yao, then tested its reaction to his Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yan Qingshan explained that he wanted Xiao Yao to cultivate the Flame Mantra within his Heavenly Flame Clone so it could suppress and fuse his other Heavenly Flames.
• Yan Qingshan sent the Flame Mantra’s information to Xiao Yao, who entered the clone as Yan Qingshan transferred his other Heavenly Flames into it.
• The clone’s energy surged out of control, and it expanded until it crashed into the Magma Ocean.
• A vortex formed in the magma, drawing the remaining Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame toward the clone.

Yan Qingshan completed the Flame Mantra’s evolution in the Demonic Flame Space, then left with the transformed Fire Infant. Meanwhile, the Demonic Flame Stones drew factions to the plains, where the Hun Clan’s expansion and the Imperial Clans’ response plunged the Central Plains into renewed conflict.

• Yan Qingshan used the Demonic Flame Space’s accumulated energy to evolve his Flame Mantra and stabilize his cultivation.
• Yan Qingshan reunited with the transformed Fire Infant, named it Xiao Yao, and left the Demonic Flame Space.
• Mercenaries discovered Demonic Flame Stones on the plains, attracting factions eager to control their valuable deposits.
• The battle over the Demonic Flame’s descent had killed many powerful Central Plains experts, triggering a reshuffling among factions.
• The Hun Clan exploited the upheaval to expand its influence, prompting the Gu Clan and other Imperial Clans to intervene.
• The Imperial Clans and the Hun Clan fought over interests in the Demonic Flame Plains, bringing renewed chaos and war to the Central Plains.

Yan Qingshan returned to Danta and learned that the Soul Clan concealed far greater strength than its enemies knew, while also holding back from open war. He ordered rumors spread to provoke the Central Plains into conflict, as Soul Demon Elder struggled to contain Starfall Pavilion’s attacks at the new Soul Hall.

• Yan Qingshan reunited with the women at Danta, who eagerly passed around the fire spirit he had brought back.
• Queen Medusa and Qingling briefed Yan Qingshan on the Central Plains conflict and the Soul Clan’s suspicious preparations.
• Yan Qingshan revealed that the Soul Clan had hidden high-tier Dou Saints but explained that their restricted forces made an all-out attack risky.
• After learning Soul Demon Elder commanded the Soul Clan’s forces at the Demonic Flame Plains, Yan Qingshan ordered agents to spread rumors implicating the Soul Clan in several ancient conflicts.
• At the new Soul Hall, Soul Demon Elder berated the subordinate factions for losing seven branch halls, and they blamed Starfall Pavilion’s young pavilion master, Xiao Yan.

Yan Qingshan infiltrated the Soul Hall, turned Soul Demon Elder into a Fire Slave Puppet, and learned secrets about the Soul Clan and its elders. He planned to send Soul Demon back to the Soul Realm to stir conflict between the Soul Clan and the Gu Clan, using the upcoming Yao Clan Medicine Ceremony as an opportunity.

• Soul Demon Elder ordered his subordinates to focus on the Soul Clan’s secret formation work rather than pursue Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen.
• Yan Qingshan appeared in the sealed hall and restrained Soul Demon Elder with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Yan Qingshan refined Soul Demon Elder into a Fire Slave Puppet, burning his bloodline to raise his strength toward Six Star Dou Saint.
• Soul Demon Elder told Yan Qingshan what he knew about the Four Soul Clan Elders, the Gate of Silence, and the Soul Clan’s history.
• Yan Qingshan ordered Soul Demon Elder to return to the Soul Realm and gradually intensify conflict between the Soul Clan and the Gu Clan, with the Yao Clan Medicine Ceremony as a coming opportunity.

Yan Qingshan entered the Void Lightning Pool and reached the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, a powerful spiritual entity nearing its Spirit Gathering stage. He intended to claim it as a way to advance his cultivation.

• Yan Qingshan rode the Three-Headed Demonic Dragon into the Void Lightning Pool, where it absorbed Black Demonic Lightning while the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame protected him.
• Xiao Yao appeared on Yan Qingshan's shoulder and devoured several bolts of Black Demonic Lightning, though their power could not significantly raise Yan Qingshan's cultivation.
• Yan Qingshan and the Three-Headed Demonic Dragon pushed through the lightning storm toward the pool's depths, where Black Demonic Lightning gathered around a golden dragon.
• Yan Qingshan identified the golden dragon as the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, a Seven Star Dou Saint-level entity on the verge of Spirit Gathering.
• Yan Qingshan recognized that the Nine Profound Golden Lightning could help him advance and revealed that he had come to the Void Lightning Pool for it.

Yan Qingshan began the Nine Profound Golden Lightning’s Spirit Gathering and Transformation, hoping to claim its power for himself. As the lightning endured a severe backlash, countless Black Demonic Lightning Pythons sacrificed themselves to help it, leaving it more spiritual but increasingly weak.

• Xiao Yao absorbed the Golden Lightning Dragon’s attack and refined its lightning energy, slightly advancing his cultivation.
• Yan Qingshan used the Spirit Gathering Method, Lightning Transformation Art, and Spirit Point Formation to begin the Nine Profound Golden Lightning’s Spirit Gathering.
• Yan Qingshan summoned his Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body and watched as the Nine Profound Golden Lightning suffered violent backlash while its spiritual energy emerged.
• Yan Qingshan recognized that the lightning’s vast accumulated energy was making its Spirit Gathering more difficult.
• Countless Black Demonic Lightning Pythons rushed into the Nine Profound Golden Lightning to suppress its backlash, strengthening its spirituality while dimming its body.

Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame weighed the Soul Clan’s response to rumors about the Tunling Clan and the Imperial Clan Alliance. They approved Soul Demon Elder’s plan to attack the Yao Clan during its Medicine Ceremony, leaving Hun Xuzi to disrupt the event and the Soul Clan’s sleeping elders set to awaken for war.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor questioned Nihility Devouring Flame about rumors linking the Soul Clan to the Tunling Clan and discussed Hun Miesheng’s disappearance and the destruction of the Three Heavenly Gang Halls.
• Nihility Devouring Flame warned that an all-out war risked placing the Soul Clan at a disadvantage before it had found all the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Soul Demon Elder proposed using the Soul Clan’s hidden strength and Array of Silence to strike the Yao Clan and ambush the Imperial Clan Alliance’s reinforcements.
• Nihility Devouring Flame supported Soul Demon Elder’s plan, and Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered Hun Xuzi to disrupt the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered the awakening of Hun Yuantian and the other sleeping elders for the coming campaign.

Yan Qingshan helped the Nine Profound Golden Lightning survive its Spirit Gathering Tribulation by drawing off part of its power and merging the dragon with his Lightning Illusory Body. He later refined the extracted power into a Golden Lightning Treasure Pearl, which he planned to use for his next transformation.

• Yan Qingshan entered the Void Lightning Pool and drew part of the Nine Profound Golden Lightning’s power into a sealed lightning dragon, allowing the weakened treasure to gather spiritual energy and accept him as its master.
• Yan Qingshan merged the golden lightning dragon with his Lightning Illusory Body, beginning its transformation into the Golden Lightning Illusory Body.
• Yan Qingshan brought the sealed lightning power to Danta and soothed Xiao Yao, whose body bore a mark from containing it.
• Yan Qingshan refined the lightning dragon in a medicinal cauldron for more than half a month, removing its violent instinct and forming a Golden Lightning Treasure Pearl.
• Yan Qingshan kept the pearl as the key to his next transformation rather than using it to refine a Ninth Grade Profound Pill.

After the Hun Clan vanished and Soul Hall fell silent, Yan Qingshan traveled alone to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, where he followed a young woman to a private meeting. He arrived days before the ceremony, confident his plan was working, and was led toward a maiden’s chamber.

• The Hun Clan and Soul Hall disappeared from the Central Plains, prompting the Imperial Clans to search for the sealed Soul Realm while the Danta Alliance and Starfall Pavilion expanded.
• Cao Ying gave Yan Qingshan an invitation to the Medicine Ceremony and urged him to take guards, but he decided to go alone and told the Pill Tower to retreat to the Pill Realm if danger arose.
• Yan Qingshan entered the Yao Clan’s Medicine Realm and reached the ceremony grounds five or six days before the event began.
• A young woman approached Yan Qingshan, said her Miss had arranged everything, and led him toward a residence and an exquisitely decorated maiden’s chamber.

Yan Qingshan attended the Yao Clan's Medicine Ceremony, where Elder Wanhuo defused a confrontation between the Yao Clan and Starfall Pavilion. The ceremony began with the arrival of the Yao Clan Chief, as Yan Qingshan watched from the honored seats.

• Yan Qingshan rose with Yao Ling'er and warned her to be careful amid the expected disturbance at the Medicine Ceremony.
• Xiao Chen seized Yao Wangui during a confrontation, but Elder Wanhuo persuaded the parties to settle the matter peacefully, and Xiao Chen released him.
• Yan Qingshan greeted Elder Wanhuo, then followed him and the other guests to the mountaintop ceremony grounds.
• Elder Wanhuo seated Yan Qingshan near the front as the crowd gathered, and Yao Ling'er told him the Medicine Ceremony had begun.
• The Yao Clan members welcomed their Clan Chief, who emerged from the clouds onto the mountaintop platform.

Hun Xuzi arrived uninvited at the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, where Yan Qingshan confronted him over their enmity and Yao Dan forbade a fight. The ceremony proceeded, and Yao Ling defeated Xiao Yan and demonstrated his skill by refining a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill while Hun Xuzi watched him.

• Hun Xuzi appeared at the Medicine Ceremony, prompting hostility from the Yao Clan and reminding Yan Qingshan and Yao Chen of his betrayal and ties to the Hun Clan.
• Yao Dan welcomed Hun Xuzi as a guest while secretly arranging for the clans to be notified; Hun Xuzi traded barbs with Yao Chen and Yan Qingshan.
• A palm struck at Hun Xuzi from behind, but he evaded it; Yan Qingshan warned that Hun Xuzi would not leave the Medicine Realm alive, and Yao Dan prohibited fighting.
• Yao Dan opened the Medicine Ceremony, and the Yao Clan’s younger alchemists competed over several days.
• Xiao Yan took part in the later events but lost to Yao Ling, who refined a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill.
• Hun Xuzi watched Yao Ling with a faint cold smile as Yan Qingshan continued observing him.

Yan Qingshan, Hun Xuzi, and Elder Wanhuo competed to refine ninth-grade Profound Pills at the Medicine Ceremony, while Hun Xuzi tried to sabotage his rivals and kill Yan Qingshan. Yan Qingshan completed his pill first, and its Pill Lightning appeared as Elder Wanhuo and the Three-Headed Demonic Dragon drove Hun Xuzi back.

• Hun Xuzi, Elder Wanhuo, and Yan Qingshan entered the arena and displayed their Heavenly Flames before beginning to refine pills.
• Yan Qingshan used four Heavenly Flames and the Four Flames Heavenly Array to gather most of the natural energy around Medicine Mountain, while Hun Xuzi and Elder Wanhuo attempted to refine Profound Pills.
• After three days, Yan Qingshan completed his pill embryo first, while Elder Wanhuo fell behind and Hun Xuzi remained confident.
• Hun Xuzi used his Nihility Sub-Flame to attack Elder Wanhuo's cauldron and devour part of the Nine Nether Wind Flame, but Yan Qingshan destroyed the black hole with his four Heavenly Flames.
• Yan Qingshan's flame array overturned the arena and condensed his pill, while Elder Wanhuo admitted defeat and Hun Xuzi attacked Yan Qingshan.
• Elder Wanhuo and the Three-Headed Demonic Dragon fought Hun Xuzi as Pill Lightning gathered above Yan Qingshan's completed ninth-grade Profound Pill.

Yan Qingshan sealed his Ninth Grade Profound Pill to improve its quality as Hun Xuzi revealed his plan to seize the Yao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade and attacked the clan. As the Yao Clan fought to withstand the Hun Clan and Nihility Devouring Flame, Yao Dan summoned the Yao Clan Ancestor.

• Yan Qingshan sealed the formed Ninth Grade Profound Pill inside the Myriad Beast Cauldron, and Yao Dan declared him the winner of the Medicine Ceremony.
• Hun Xuzi demanded the Tou She Ancient God Jade, then revealed his Seven Star Dou Saint strength and struck down Elder Wanhuo.
• Hun Xuzi announced that the Yao Clan would be destroyed as Nihility Devouring Flame’s black flames spread across the Medicine Realm and drained battle qi.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to activate the Heavenly Transformation Medicine Array, but Nihility Devouring Flame’s fire rain began devouring its energy.
• Yao Dan poured pills into the formation and used the Myriad Pills Transform Heaven to summon the Yao Clan Ancestor, whose appearance forced clan members to kneel.

The Soul Clan attacked the Medicine Realm as Nihility Devouring Flame battled the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul and Yao Dan defended the Yao Clan. While Yao Dan held off the Soul Clan’s leaders, Yan Qingshan killed Hun Xuzi and took his Sub-Fire of Nihility Devouring Flame.

• The Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul defended the array against Nihility Devouring Flame, while Yao Dan urged the Yao Clan to reinforce it.
• Nihility Devouring Flame summoned the Soul Clan’s experts and ordered Hun Xuzi to slaughter the Yao Clan and destroy the Heaven Refining Ancient Array.
• Yao Dan rejected Hun Xuzi’s demand for the Yao Clan’s submission and fought the Four Demonic Saints, letting Hun Xuzi descend toward the square.
• Hun Xuzi targeted Yan Qingshan, while Xiao Yan and Old Ya rallied the gathered experts to resist the Soul Clan.
• Yan Qingshan seized Hun Xuzi’s Sub-Fire, tore off his head, and refined his body and soul in the Myriad Beast Cauldron.

Yan Qingshan used the Heaven Refining Ancient Array to trap the Soul Clan’s forces and began refining a Ninth Grade Golden Pill with the Medicine Realm as his cauldron. After the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul sacrificed himself to hinder Nihility Devouring Flame, Yan Qingshan faced Nihility Devouring Flame’s attempt to disrupt the refinement.

• Yan Qingshan revealed his complete Heavenly Flame Clone and used his wooden giant and Golden Lightning Illusory Body to capture Soul Flame, the Demonic Saints, and the other Soul Clan experts.
• Yan Qingshan activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, returned Yao Dan to the Yao Clan’s grand array, and drew the captured Soul Clan members and nearly ten million units of soul essence into the array’s divine radiance.
• Yan Qingshan revealed that he would use a Ninth Grade Profound Pill as a catalyst and the Medicine Realm as a cauldron to refine a Golden Pill, while the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul sacrificed himself to strike Nihility Devouring Flame.
• The Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul entered the pill cauldron, and he told Yan Qingshan to treat Ling'er well before his spirit dispersed.
• Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed a vast black-hole vortex to disrupt the refinement, but Yan Qingshan’s Verdant Radiance Gathering Array stabilized the land as golden and pink figures charged at Nihility Devouring Flame.

Yan Qingshan and his two avatars fought Nihility Devouring Flame while the Yao Clan battled the Tunling creatures it unleashed. As the conflict spread across the Medicine Realm, Yan Qingshan infused the embryonic Imperial Soul Golden Pill with the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, bringing the pill close to completion.

• Yan Qingshan’s Nine Profound Golden Lightning and Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame avatars forced the wounded Nihility Devouring Flame to reveal its original black-hole form.
• Nihility Devouring Flame released swarms of Tunling creatures, and Yan Qingshan warned Yao Dan that they could devour flesh and Dou Qi and must be destroyed.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan’s Saint-level experts to protect their descendants and exterminate the Tunling creatures, while Xiao Yan and the others fought them.
• Yan Qingshan rejected Nihility Devouring Flame’s accusations and said the soul origins he had gathered came from the Hun Clan.
• Yan Qingshan sent a bead of golden lightning into the embryonic Imperial Soul Golden Pill, and the Medicine Realm’s formation poured energy into it as it neared completion.