Chapter Summaries

Wei Yang and Xiao Yan completed their Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills by drawing on the Yao Realm’s energy, and the resulting Pill Rain astonished everyone present. As the pills emerged, faint Nine Profound Golden Thunder appeared above Wei Yang’s cauldron, suggesting his pill had reached the grade’s limit and begun to approach a Golden Pill.

• Wei Yang drew vast amounts of natural energy from the Yao Realm to raise the quality of his pill while Soul Void watched in envy as he fought the two puppets.
• Dark clouds and terrifying Pill Lightning gathered as Wei Yang and Xiao Yan prepared to finish their Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills.
• Wei Yang and Xiao Yan opened their cauldrons, releasing a pill fragrance that condensed into Pill Rain, and they congratulated each other on succeeding.
• Wei Yang recognized a faint trace of Nine Profound Golden Thunder above his cauldron and realized his pill had reached the limit of the Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill.
• Both cauldrons shook and sent pillars of light into the thunderclouds, with glowing pill embryos visible inside.

Wei Yang and Xiao Yan watched their quasi-Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills endure the Thunder Tribulation, then captured and imprinted the pills after they transformed and tried to flee. Wei Yang’s pill proved to be a Quasi Golden Pill, while the gathered onlookers marveled at the two rare creations.

• Black lightning battered the two glowing pill shells until cracks spread across them and the shells burst, releasing two Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills.
• The newly born pills fled in opposite directions, but Wei Yang twisted space to teleport them back and restrain them.
• The pills transformed into beautiful girls and tried to escape again after Wei Yang and Xiao Yan recognized their disguises.
• Wei Yang branded his pill with a Soul Imprint, and Xiao Yan did the same, returning both pills to their original forms.
• The two pills were revealed as Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills, with Wei Yang’s reaching the level of a Quasi Golden Pill; Yao Dan praised the younger generation.

Wei Yang and Xiao Yan won recognition as the foremost alchemists, and the Yao Clan agreed to let Yao Chen handle the Ancestral Clan Monument. Soul Void then demanded the Yao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade, revealing the Soul Clan’s threat and leaving Wei Yang and Xiao Yan unable to escape the Yao Realm.

• Wei Yang and Xiao Yan sealed away their Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills and recalled the Northern King and Southern King from their fight with Soul Void.
• Elder Shen Nong and Elder Wanhuo acknowledged Wei Yang and Xiao Yan as the foremost alchemists, and Xiao Yan yielded the top place to Wei Yang.
• Wei Yang and Xiao Yan asked Yao Dan to grant Yao Chen access to the Ancestral Clan Monument, and Yao Dan agreed.
• Soul Void requested to borrow the Yao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade, shocking the Yao Clan elders and the crowd.
• Xiao Yan warned Wei Yang that the Soul Clan had come to attack the Yao Clan, and Wei Yang said they could no longer leave the sealed Yao Realm.

Soul Void revealed his full strength and trapped the Yao Clan’s world under Spatial Lock, preventing anyone from sending warnings. Yao Dan recognized Soul Void as the mastermind behind the Ling and Stone Clans’ disappearance and prepared to face the Soul Clan’s attack.

• Soul Void defeated Elder Wanhuo’s attack, revealed his concealed Seven Star Dou Sheng strength, and sent Elder Wanhuo crashing into the plaza.
• Xiao Yan felt the pressure of Soul Void’s full aura, while Wei Yang reassured Elder Yao that Soul Void was no threat to them.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to alert the Yan Clan and Thunder Clan, but Soul Void’s Spatial Lock disrupted their messages and blocked the spatial channels.
• Soul Void said his clan could make the Yao Clan disappear as it had the Ling and Stone Clans, and Yao Dan rose to confront him.

The Soul Clan trapped everyone in the Yao Realm beneath the Nihility Devouring Flame, draining their Dou Qi and killing those who tried to flee. As Wei Yang prepared to break through to Eight Star Dou Sheng and Yao Dan activated the Yao Clan’s ancient defensive array, the Yao Clan’s survival hung in the balance.

• Yao Dan rose into the air as the visiting sect leaders begged Soul Void to let them leave, and Soul Void pretended to grant their request.
• Soul Clan forces killed the fleeing observers, while the true Nihility Devouring Flame spread across the Yao Realm and sealed its space.
• Xiao Yan and the others discovered that tiny traces of the flame were devouring people’s Dou Qi, though Heavenly Flames protected them for the time being.
• Wei Yang swallowed the Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill and asked Xiao Yan and Elder Yao to conceal him while he attempted to break through to Eight Star Dou Sheng.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to activate the Heavenly Transformation Medicine Array, which drew energy from the mountains and withered their medicinal herbs.

The Soul Clan attacked the Yao Clan’s clan-protecting formation, and Nihility Devouring Flame appeared in its true form to break it. Yao Dan sacrificed the clan’s medicinal pills to summon the Yao Clan Progenitor, whose phantom appeared as the chapter ended.

• The Yao Clan poured its Dou Qi into its ancient clan-protecting formation, which grew powerful enough to rival an Eight-star Dou Sheng.
• Soul Void called upon Nihility Devouring Flame, who emerged from the black flames in his true form.
• Nihility Devouring Flame sent black fire rain against the formation, devouring its energy and urging the Yao Clan to surrender.
• Yao Dan fed the formation the clan’s medicinal pill reserves and invoked the Yao Clan Progenitor.
• The Yao Clan Progenitor’s phantom appeared, and the Yao Clan members knelt before him in reverence.

Nihility Devouring Flame attacked the Yao Clan’s grand formation, and the Yao Clan progenitor’s remnant soul struggled to defend it. After Nihility Devouring Flame devoured millions of Yao Clan descendants and used their bloodline power to destroy the progenitor’s medicinal cauldron, the grand formation neared collapse.

• Yao Dan summoned the Yao Clan progenitor’s remnant soul, which scattered the black flames clinging to the grand formation.
• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked the formation with a giant black-flame finger, and the progenitor blocked it with a medicinal cauldron.
• Nihility Devouring Flame repeatedly struck the cauldron, forcing Yao Dan and the Yao Clan members to pour their Dou Qi into the formation.
• Nihility Devouring Flame devoured millions of Yao Clan descendants and formed their bloodline energy into a sphere.
• Nihility Devouring Flame used the blood sphere to destroy the medicinal cauldron, and the resulting force slammed into the grand formation until it began to break.

The Yao Clan’s protection array fell after the Pill Emperor’s remnant soul perished, leaving the clan facing Nihility Devouring Flame. Yao Dan led a desperate counterattack, and Nihility Devouring Flame answered with a vast black-hole vortex that swallowed the clan’s attacks.

• The Pill Emperor’s remnant soul sacrificed itself against Nihility Devouring Flame and vanished, weakening the Yao Clan’s bloodline as its protection array shattered.
• Elder Yao watched the ancestor’s disappearance but resolved to save some Yao Clan members when he and his companions eventually escaped.
• Yao Dan rallied the clan to preserve its bloodline, and Yao Wangu and the other Yao Clan members charged into battle.
• Yao Dan and the clan’s fighters unleashed a massive barrage of Dou Qi at Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame formed a vast black-hole vortex that devoured the attacks, splitting the earth and forcing him to stagger backward.

Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed the Tunling Clan creatures on the Yao Clan, turning Medicine Mountain into a slaughterhouse. As Yao Dan ordered the clan’s experts to self-destruct and preserve their bloodline, Xiao Yan’s group prepared to escape, only for Soul Void to summon four powerful Demon Saints.

• Nihility Devouring Flame released black-flame creatures that attacked everyone at Medicine Mountain, and Elder Yao identified them as the Tunling Clan.
• Yao Dan realized the Soul Clan had used the Tunling Clan to survive while other races declined, then gathered young Yao Clan members and ordered the elders to self-destruct to preserve the clan’s bloodline.
• Xiao Yan prepared to break out with Elder Yao and the Southern King, while Wei Yang completed his breakthrough to Eight Star and summoned the Northern King.
• The Yao Clan experts began gathering their power to self-destruct, and Soul Void tore open a black-flame passage to summon four Seven Star Dou Sheng Demon Saints.

The Soul Clan’s Four Demon Saints arrived to destroy the Yao Clan and offered Yao Dan submission in exchange for sparing the bloodline. As the Yao Clan fought back through self-destruction, Wei Yang recognized that the Soul Clan had also assembled an overwhelming force to target his group.

• Soul Flame, Soul Mirror, Soul Slaughter, and Hun Sha arrived, and Yao Dan refused their offer to make the Yao Clan a vassal.
• The Soul Clan experts attacked, and a wounded Yao Clan elder self-destructed to repel them.
• Yao Clan members continued self-destructing to damage the sealed space, but Soul Mirror flung would-be sacrificers away from the designated area.
• Yao Dan called Elder Wanhuo and the Dou Sheng elders into battle, and Soul Slaughter engaged them.
• Xiao Yan realized the Yao Clan’s sacrifice resembled the Xiao Clan’s past struggle to preserve its bloodline, while Wei Yang assessed the Soul Clan’s forces and their intent to target his group.

As the Soul Clan cornered the Yao Clan, Yao Dan entrusted Yao Chen with saving the clan’s young bloodline. Wei Yang revealed the power he had gained by refining the Quasi Golden Pill, tore open space, and prepared to lead the group through Nihility Devouring Flame’s barrier.

• Soul Flame, Soul Mirror, Hun Sha, and Soul Void discussed killing Wei Yang and Xiao Yan while the Yao Clan’s defenders were pinned down.
• Yao Dan brought the Yao Clan’s young elites to Yao Chen and begged him to preserve their bloodline; he struck Yao Tian when he refused to flee.
• Yao Chen accepted Yao Dan’s plea, and Elder Shen Nong joined the group as Yao Dan prepared to hold off the Soul Clan.
• Wei Yang stopped Yao Dan from sacrificing the Yao Clan’s elders to make an escape route and unleashed the power of the refined Quasi Golden Pill.
• Wei Yang tore open a spatial crack and swallowed the black flames pouring through it, while Xiao Yan formed a Destructive Fire Lotus and prepared to face Nihility Devouring Flame.

Xiao Yan unleashed a destructive fire lotus that tore open the Yao Realm’s seal, allowing Wei Yang and the survivors to escape. Wei Yang stayed behind with Xiao Yan and the two Kings to face the pursuers as the others fled into the Space Fold.

• Wei Yang revealed that he had reached the Eight-star stage while Xiao Yan formed a fire lotus from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the Life-Extinguishing Flame.
• Xiao Yan detonated the fire lotus, devastating the Yao Realm and breaking Nihility Devouring Flame’s blockade.
• Wei Yang led survivors through the breach while Yao Dan delayed Soul Mirror and Soul Slaughter from pursuing them.
• Wei Yang and the others escaped into the Space Fold, and the surviving sect experts and Yao Clan members hurried away.
• Wei Yang remained with Xiao Yan, Northern King, and Southern King to confront Soul Flame, Soul Void, and Soul Slaughter.

The Yao Clan and the stranded sect experts fought desperately as the Soul Clan sealed their escape, while Wei Yang confronted Nihility Devouring Flame and then turned on the Soul Clan pursuers. The chapter ended as Wei Yang unleashed a terrifying Emperor Realm soul attack on Soul Void, Soul Flame, and Soul Slaughter.

• Wan Huo, Yao Dan, and the Yao Clan elders led desperate attacks against the blockade, but the Soul Clan and Spirit-Devouring creatures kept them trapped in the Yao Realm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame offered to return Xiao Zhan if Xiao Yan surrendered the Tuoshe Ancient Jade.
• Wei Yang stopped Soul Void, Soul Flame, and Soul Slaughter from leaving and challenged them after they pursued him beyond the Yao Realm.
• Soul Void sensed the danger and ordered the others to retreat as Xiao Yan pulled the two puppets away.
• Wei Yang formed a seal and unleashed a devastating soul attack that collapsed the surrounding void.

Wei Yang killed Soul Void and two other Soul Clan Dou Sheng with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, then demanded that Nihility Devouring Flame release Yao Dan and Wan Huo. Nihility Devouring Flame refused and prepared to confront him as the Yao Realm burned around them.

• Wei Yang unleashed Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, killing Soul Void and the two fleeing Dou Sheng and reducing the surrounding void to emptiness.
• Xiao Yan recognized the technique's devastating power and realized Wei Yang had entered the ranks of the continent's strongest experts.
• Wei Yang collected the three soulless corpses and faced Nihility Devouring Flame, who accused him of going too far.
• Wei Yang demanded that Nihility Devouring Flame release Yao Dan and Wan Huo, but Nihility Devouring Flame refused and ignited the Yao Realm while spreading his Devouring Power.

Wei Yang confronted Soul Heavenly Emperor’s projection during the Soul Clan’s destruction of the Yao Clan and bargained for compensation after Yao Dan was killed. Soul Heavenly Emperor refused to hand over Wan Huo and offered Yao Wangu instead.

• Wei Yang gathered Elder Yao, Yao Tian, and the others into a Space Sphere as Nihility Devouring Flame warned that Soul Heavenly Emperor was coming.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor appeared as a spiritual projection, confirmed the destruction of the Yao Clan was nearly complete, and recognized Wei Yang’s cultivation and Emperor Realm Soul.
• Nihility Devouring Flame reported that Yao Dan had been killed, and Soul Heavenly Emperor told Wei Yang he could leave because the Yao Clan’s destruction did not concern him.
• Wei Yang said the conflict had cost him the chance to use his Quasi Golden Pill to reach late Eight-star and demanded Wan Huo in exchange for leaving.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor refused to give up Wan Huo and offered Yao Wangu instead, hoping to get Wei Yang out of the way.

Wei Yang confronted Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame over Wan Huo’s death and secured the Nine Nether Wind Flame before withdrawing. Soul Heavenly Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame then discussed Wei Yang’s growing threat and their plans for the Soul Origin.

• Nihility Devouring Flame told Wei Yang that Yao Wangu and Wan Huo were dead, so Wei Yang demanded Wan Huo’s Nine Nether Wind Flame.
• Wei Yang revealed his Mid-stage Eight-star strength and challenged Nihility Devouring Flame when he refused to hand over the flame.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor told Nihility Devouring Flame to give Wei Yang the Nine Nether Wind Flame, and Wei Yang caught and stored it.
• Wei Yang agreed to keep Starfall Pavilion out of the Imperial Clans’ conflict, requested that Xiao Zhan be prepared for an exchange, and left.
• Nihility Devouring Flame warned that Wei Yang could become a threat, while Soul Heavenly Emperor said their collected Soul Origin would soon grant Nihility Devouring Flame an Emperor Realm Soul.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor urged Nihility Devouring Flame to proceed quickly before the Ancient Clan, Thunder Clan, and Yan Clan intervened.

Soul Mirror and Hun Sha recovered after Yao Dan’s self-destruction and secured the Yao Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Jade, but learned that Wei Yang had killed three of their Seven Star Dou Sheng. They began gathering the Yao Clan’s Bloodline Power, leaving the Soul Clan’s campaign against Wei Yang unresolved.

• Soul Mirror retrieved the Tuoshe Ancient Jade from the crater where Yao Dan had self-destructed, and he explained why Yao Dan had left it behind rather than give it to the escaping youths.
• Soul Mirror and Hun Sha learned that Wei Yang had killed Soul Flame, Soul Slaughter, and Soul Void, and they concluded his Emperor Realm Soul made him too dangerous to confront.
• Soul Mirror and Hun Sha left Wei Yang’s threat to the clan leader and Nihility Devouring Flame and focused on collecting the Yao Clan’s Bloodline Power.
• Soul Mirror and Hun Sha recalled the Soul Clan’s past victory over the Xiao Clan and their fear of Xiao Xuan, then descended to attack the surviving Yao Clan experts.

After escaping the Soul Clan, Wei Yang and his companions mourned the Yao Clan’s destruction and returned to Starfall Pavilion, where Elder Shen Nong joined them. News of the massacre spread across the Central Plains, turning the Soul Clan and Soul Hall into targets and prompting other factions to form alliances.

• Wei Yang brought Elder Yao, Xiao Yan, and the rescued Yao Clan youths safely away from the Shennong Mountain Range, where they grieved for their fallen clansmen.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling thanked Wei Yang and his companions, while Elder Yao urged them to preserve the Yao Clan’s bloodline.
• Wei Yang predicted that the Ancient Clan, Thunder Clan, and Yan Clan would unite against the Soul Clan, and told Xiao Yan to prepare to exchange the Ancient Jade for his father.
• Elder Shen Nong asked to join Starfall Pavilion, and Wei Yang welcomed him as an honorary Supreme Elder.
• Starfall Pavilion confirmed that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Yao Clan, and the news spread across the Central Plains.
• The Ancient Clan, Thunder Clan, and Yan Clan began coordinating, while numerous alliances formed and targeted the Soul Clan and Soul Hall.

At Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Yan and the assembled clans learned from Gu Dao that the Tunling Clan was an ancient race that devoured other clans’ Bloodline Power, and that the Soul Clan might have inherited something from its last leader. The Thunder Clan elder raised the possibility that the Soul Clan had secretly destroyed other ancient races, leaving the gathering to confront a troubling suspicion.

• Elder Yao recounted the destruction of the Yao Realm to representatives of the surviving clans.
• Xiao Yan asked Gu Dao about the Tunling Clan after the elders of the Gu and Yan Clans reacted with fear to its name.
• Gu Dao explained that the Tunling Clan had devoured other ancient races’ Bloodline Power, was defeated by an alliance, and had its last clan leader slain by the Soul Clan.
• Gu Dao said the Soul Clan was probably not the Tunling Clan but might have obtained something from its last leader that helped preserve its bloodline.
• The Thunder Clan elder suggested that the Soul Clan may have secretly destroyed ancient races whose disappearances resembled those of the Stone Clan and Spirit Clan.

After the Soul Clan’s threat prompted the ancient clans to watch it closely, Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion at Seven-star Dou Saint. Wei Yang then detected Soul Heavenly Emperor spying on Starfall Pavilion, leaving the others braced for his appearance.

• Gu Dao and the other experts discussed the Soul Clan’s lasting Bloodline Power and suspected Nihility Devouring Flame had gained the Tunling Clan’s ability by devouring its last patriarch.
• Wei Yang and the other Starfall Pavilion members stayed out of the brewing conflict, while the Soul Clan withdrew Soul Hall’s forces and secretly moved its collected Soul Origin to the Soul Clan.
• Three months later, Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion and revealed that he had reached Seven-star Early Stage after absorbing Nihility Devouring Flame’s Earth Sub-Flame and consuming a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill.
• Wei Yang sensed Soul Heavenly Emperor spying nearby and called on him to reveal himself, shocking Xiao Yan, Elder Yao, and Elder Shen Nong.