Chapter Summaries

After returning from the Douluo plane, Xiao Han arrived in the Scorching Flame Mountain Range at Nine Star Dou Zun and began slaughtering Flame Lizards for experience and rewards. He killed a Flame Lizard BOSS and obtained a Silver-grade treasure chest and the Earth Rank Intermediate skill Earth Flame Thousand Surges.

• Xiao Han emerged in the Scorching Flame Mountain Range and learned that his cultivation had risen to Nine Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Han killed a sixth-tier Flame Lizard and received experience, a fire-attributed magic core, and the Earth Low-Rank skill Earth Surge Flame Spring.
• Xiao Han transformed with Vajra Transformation and used Phantom Thirteen Claws to kill the Flame Lizards swarming around him.
• A Flame Lizard elder ordered the others to retreat, but Xiao Han trapped and killed him with Space Lock.
• The system identified the elder as a seventh-tier Flame Lizard BOSS and awarded Xiao Han a Silver-grade treasure chest and Earth Flame Thousand Surges.

Xiao Han arrived at Burning Flame Valley and proved his strength to its gatekeepers. After learning he was an alchemist, Scarlet Fire Elder invited him inside to help the Valley Master.

• Xiao Han sensed Burning Flame Valley nearby and traveled to its mountain gate.
• A gatekeeper asked Xiao Han to leave the area, so Xiao Han announced his identities and claimed to be a Ninth-Grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Han split a distant mountain with a slash of Dou Qi to prove his strength.
• The gatekeeper summoned Scarlet Fire Elder, who asked Xiao Han whether he was truly an alchemist.
• Scarlet Fire Elder invited Xiao Han to help the Valley Master, and Xiao Han agreed to enter Burning Flame Valley.

Xiao Han arrived at Burning Flame Valley as the Alchemists protested a required selection, and his Dou Zun strength silenced their objections. As Tang Zhen explained the test for helping refine a high-tier seventh-grade pill, Xiao Yan stepped forward to offer his help, and Xiao Han challenged Tang Zhen to take his test instead.

• More than a hundred Alchemists complained about having to undergo Burning Flame Valley’s selection.
• Scarlet Fire brought Xiao Han to Tang Zhen and said he could help refine a seventh-grade pill.
• Xiao Han’s presence and revealed Dou Zun cultivation quieted the Alchemists, and Tang Zhen’s daughter stood beside him.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself as Starfall Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master and offered his help to Tang Zhen.
• Tang Zhen revealed the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame and explained that candidates had to withstand it for ten minutes.
• Xiao Han said he was willing to help but asked Tang Zhen to take his test first.

Xiao Han displayed four Heavenly Flames and offered to refine an Eighth-Rank healing pill for Tang Zhen, astonishing the alchemists in Burning Flame Valley. He rejected Tang Zhen’s Mountain Smelting Cauldron and produced the higher-ranked Saint Radiance Cauldron, leaving Xiao Yan convinced that Xiao Han was showing off.

• Xiao Han summoned four Heavenly Flames and merged them into a four-colored Glass Flame, stunning the alchemists and unsettling Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Han offered to refine an Eighth-Rank pill with better healing effects for Tang Zhen, who agreed to let him begin.
• Tang Zhen brought out the Mountain Smelting Cauldron, but Xiao Han refused to use it.
• Xiao Han summoned the Saint Radiance Cauldron, and Huan Grandmaster recognized it as the famed cauldron ranked seventh on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.
• Xiao Yan privately concluded that Xiao Han had refused the Mountain Smelting Cauldron only to show off the Saint Radiance Cauldron.

Xiao Han revealed that he was the Xiao Clan’s current Patriarch and asked Tang Zhen for the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame in exchange for refining Burning Flame Valley’s pill. Tang Zhen agreed, while Xiao Yan’s attempts to discredit Xiao Han and offer Yao Chen’s help failed to change his mind.

• Tang Zhen asked Xiao Han what reward he wanted for refining the pill, and Xiao Han identified himself as the Xiao Clan’s current Patriarch.
• Xiao Han requested the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame, which Tang Zhen agreed to give him if he refined the pill.
• Xiao Han asked for one set of medicinal ingredients, surprising the Alchemists with his confidence in refining the Eighth-Rank Pill.
• Xiao Yan revealed Xiao Han’s connection to Hun Susu and offered to have Yao Chen refine the pill, but Tang Zhen declined and honored his agreement with Xiao Han.
• Tang Zhen told Xiao Yan that Burning Flame Valley would not join the League, and Xiao Yan turned toward the silent woman beside him.

Xiao Han completed an eighth-rank pill while appearing to sleep, and its Five-Colored Pill Lightning shocked the gathered Alchemists. Xiao Yan left Burning Flame Valley after realizing he had failed to recruit an ally and might have made a powerful enemy, while Xun Er explained the Valley’s formidable hidden strength.

• Xiao Han remained motionless through a day and night of pill refinement, and Tang Zhen stopped Scarlet Fire Elder from waking him.
• Five-Colored Pill Lightning appeared as Xiao Han completed his pill, prompting Alchemists to compare his skill with Medicine Saint Yao Chen’s.
• Xiao Yan left Burning Flame Valley without speaking to Xun Er, and she hurried after him.
• Xun Er told Xiao Yan that pressuring Tang Zhen could have made an enemy of Burning Flame Valley, which had once produced a Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng and still sheltered several Dou Sheng experts.
• Xiao Yan realized that an alliance between Burning Flame Valley and Xiao Han would put him at a serious disadvantage.

Xiao Han refined an Eighth-Rank Golden Creation Pill and endured Five-Colored Pill Lightning with his bare body, impressing Burning Flame Valley. Tang Zhen accepted the pill for Tang Huo'er and let Xiao Han choose a technique and Dou Skill, while he wondered whether Tang Huo'er had feelings for him.

• Burning Flame Valley's Supreme Elder tried to receive the Five-Colored Pill Lightning, but Xiao Han revealed his Body Cultivation and refused his help.
• Xiao Han took multiple bolts of Five-Colored Pill Lightning with his bare body, strengthening his body as the thunderclouds dispersed.
• Xiao Han collected the Eighth-Rank Pill and gave it to Tang Zhen, explaining that the Golden Creation Pill could heal Tang Huo'er's internal injuries.
• Tang Zhen brought Xiao Han to the Dou Skills Pavilion, where Xiao Han began sensing the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame from a glowing crystal ball.
• Tang Zhen asked Tang Huo'er whether she was interested in Xiao Han, and she admitted that she was inferior to him.

After the Pill Tower canceled the Pill Gathering to prevent Xiao Han from competing and possibly claiming the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Xiao Han confronted its guards above Saint Pill City. He reached a barrier high over the city, while Lan Lan sent word to Hun Susu.

• The Pill Tower announced that the Pill Gathering had been canceled, enraging the Alchemists gathered in Saint Pill City.
• Xiao Han realized the cancellation was meant to keep him from competing because of his ties to the Eastern Hun Family and the Hall of Souls, and because he might claim the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Lan Lan demanded that the Eastern Hun Family declare war, but Xiao Han told her he would handle the Pill Tower himself.
• Xiao Han rose toward the Pill Tower's restricted area despite the guards' warnings, while Lan Lan retreated and sent someone to alert Hun Susu.
• Xiao Han forced the Dou Wang guards back and reached a barrier more than three thousand meters above Saint Pill City.

Xiao Han confronted the Pill Tower giants in the Star Region and tried to free the Three Thousand Burning Flame, exposing why the Pill Gathering had been canceled. Ancestor Mu Tong appeared and reinforced the seal, leaving Xiao Han facing the ninth-tier pill who promised to stop him.

• Xiao Han revealed his Heavenly Flames and accused the Pill Tower giants of canceling the Pill Gathering because they feared he would win.
• Xiao Han expanded his four Heavenly Flames in the Star Region, disturbing the seal that held the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xuan Kongzi recognized the danger and urgently told Xiao Han to stop as the Star Region began to ripple and weaken.
• Mu Tong arrived on an ox, and the Pill Tower elders and giants bowed to him as their Ancestor.
• Xiao Han mocked the Pill Tower for obeying a pill, while Mu Tong reinforced the barrier and ordered Xiao Han to leave.
• Xiao Han refused to back down and challenged Mu Tong, declaring that it was uncertain who would make things difficult for whom.

Xiao Han exposed Xuan Kongzi’s lies about the canceled Pill Gathering and warned the people in Saint Pill City to flee before he fought the Pill Tower. After the bystanders evacuated, Xiao Han revealed his extraordinary soul rings and a huge flood-dragon phantom as the battle began.

• Mu Tong questioned Xiao Han’s intent to fight the Pill Tower, and Xuan Kongzi claimed the Pill Gathering had been canceled because of secret difficulties.
• Xiao Han accused the Pill Tower of harboring Hall of Souls spies, and Xuan Kongzi’s reaction convinced the gathered Alchemists that he had lied.
• Xiao Han warned everyone to leave Saint Pill City, and Lan Lan and the other bystanders evacuated the coming battlefield.
• Xiao Han and Mu Tong waited for the evacuation to finish while Xuan Kongzi warned that the Pill Tower had other Dou Saint experts.
• Xiao Han unleashed his Dou Qi, revealed three soul rings and a vast flood-dragon phantom, and prepared to begin the battle.

Xiao Han unleashed his soul skills and froze and devastated Saint Pill City, killing Pill Tower fighters and gaining six levels. As Mu Tong fought him, Xuan Yi urged Xuan Kongzi and Tian Leizi to flee to Starfall Pavilion and seek an alliance against Xiao Han.

• Xiao Han used Blood Boiling and the Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame to raise his strength from Nine Star Dou Zun to Three-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Han unleashed Snowflakes and Frost, freezing Mu Tong and the Pill Tower forces across Saint Pill City.
• Xiao Han’s icy arrows devastated the city and killed many Pill Tower fighters, earning him enough experience to gain six levels.
• Xuan Yi blamed the Pill Tower’s predicament on its choices and proposed fleeing to Starfall Pavilion to seek help from the Western Soul Hall.
• While Mu Tong engaged Xiao Han, Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and Tian Leizi set off for Saint Pill City’s Space Wormhole.

Xiao Han used repeated four-colored Destruction Fire Lotuses to battle Mu Tong, the Pill Tower Ancestor, and discovered that the Heavenly Flames could damage his consciousness. When Xiao Han unleashed three fire lotuses, Mu Tong begged for his life and offered to surrender the Pill Tower, but Xiao Han launched the lotuses anyway.

• Xiao Han fused four Heavenly Flames into a Destruction Fire Lotus and clashed with Mu Tong’s Savage Ox, devastating much of Saint Pill City.
• Xiao Han created a second fire lotus and attacked again, after which Mu Tong tried to withdraw and threatened retaliation from the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Han intercepted Mu Tong and deduced that their clashes had injured his consciousness because his true body was a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill vulnerable to fused Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Han summoned three Destruction Fire Lotuses, forcing Mu Tong to beg for his life and offer the Pill Tower’s submission.
• Xiao Han said he wanted Mu Tong’s Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill more than the Pill Tower and sent all three fire lotuses toward him.

Xiao Han defeated and devoured the Pill Tower Ancestor, reaching One-Star Dou Sheng and gaining a pill-refining codex. He then negotiated with Three Thousand Burning Flame, offering to remove the mark controlling it in exchange for its help in an upcoming battle.

• Xiao Han trapped the Pill Tower Ancestor between three exploding Destruction Fire Lotuses, captured its pill form, and devoured it.
• Xiao Han gained 100 million Experience Points, rose six levels to One-Star Dou Sheng, and received a Gold-tier treasure chest and the Myriad Realms Pill Refining Codex.
• Xiao Han learned that the Pill Tower Ancestor was a Star Fire Pill that could revive as long as part of it remained, and that its energy had made him exceptionally hard to kill.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame emerged above Xiao Han and asked whether he had helped free it from its seal.
• Xiao Han explained that a Void Ancient Dragon's mark could leave Three Thousand Burning Flame vulnerable to control and promised to remove it within two years.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame agreed to consider Xiao Han's offer after he asked it to help in an upcoming battle.

Xiao Han arrived at the Beast Domain with Feng Qing'er and learned that the ruins held a relic important to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. He faced Xiao Yan, Gu Xun Er, and Zi Yan among the rival groups as the ancient hall appeared above the Skeleton Mountain Range.

• Feng Qing'er told Xiao Han that the ruins contained a relic that could transform the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Xiao Han promised to help her claim it.
• Xiao Han recalled how he had given Cai Lin Medusa's soul bone and brought Three Thousand Burning Flame to the Eastern Hun Family, which was allied with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Little Fairy Doctor pointed out Xiao Yan's group, and Feng Qing'er sensed an urge to eat Zi Yan, whom Xiao Han recognized as a Void Ancient Dragon.
• Feng Qing'er’s elders explained that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan could also benefit from eating Void Ancient Dragons, and one warned Xiao Han that Hun Feng and the Western Soul Hall opposed them.
• A massive ancient hall emerged above the Skeleton Mountain Range, signaling the beginning of the struggle over the ruins.

Xiao Han led Feng Qing'er, Little Fairy Doctor, and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elders through the ancient Dou Saint ruin by bypassing its Fire Path trap and disabling its guardians. He obtained two Soul Infant Fruits, leaving Xiao Yan without the materials needed to refine a body for Yao Chen.

• Xiao Han led his group into the Fire Path, then plunged into the magma below and sealed the maze above to delay the others.
• Xiao Han stored the ten peak Dou Zong Earth Demon Puppets in his Storage Ring and ordered the eighteen Eastern Hun Family Dou Saints to search separate passages.
• Xiao Han and his companions ignored the lesser treasures along their passage and entered a forest containing a lake and the Soul Infant Demon Tree.
• Xiao Han frightened the peak seventh-rank Heavenly Flood Dragon into retreating and picked the two Soul Infant Fruits from the tree.

Xiao Han and his companions discovered and claimed a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, then searched an ancient pill chamber and captured its Pill Beast. They left with the chamber’s pills and headed for the main hall.

• Feng Qing'er’s bloodline sense led Xiao Han, Little Fairy Doctor, and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elders to a Beast Spirit Cover, which she opened with her blood.
• The group entered the covered area and found a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit surrounded by the bones of Void Ancient Dragons and Heaven Phoenixes.
• Feng Qing'er touched the fruit, which turned into golden-purple liquid and seeped into her body, leaving a pattern on her palm.
• Xiao Han assigned the pill chamber’s floors to his companions and went to the fourth floor to capture the Pill Beast and store it in his System Inventory.
• Feng Qing'er, Little Fairy Doctor, and the two elders collected the pills, then Xiao Han led the group toward the main hall.

Xiao Han and his allies reached a hall in the ancient ruins, where he claimed its treasures for the Eastern Hun Family and defeated the remnant thought guarding a jade Dou Sheng skeleton. After leaving the ruins, they watched the other experts emerge from the Fire Path to find that Xiao Han’s group had taken nearly everything.

• Xiao Han and the Eastern Hun Family elders entered a bronze hall containing ten light spheres and a jade skeleton, while Feng Qing'er and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan agreed to let the Eastern Hun Family claim the treasures.
• Xiao Han sealed and collected the ten earth high-rank Dou Skills as the Eastern Hun Family elders subdued eighteen Dou Zun puppets.
• The jade skeleton awakened and attacked the group, but Xiao Han used his Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul realm to erase its remnant thought and stored the skeleton away.
• Xiao Han and his allies left the plaza as the other experts broke through his Space Lock and emerged from the Fire Path.

Xiao Han reunited with Qing Lin in the Ancient Ruins, then ordered the Hun Clan elders to eliminate the Gold Devouring Rat Clan after Jin Shi mocked the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. Xiao Han personally killed Jin Shi and gained experience, a Gold-tier treasure chest, and two earth-based skill books.

• Xiao Han called out to Qing Lin, recognized her as his former maid, and introduced her as another maid to Feng Qing'er.
• Jin Shi mocked Feng Qing'er and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, so Xiao Han ordered the Gold Devouring Rat Clan killed.
• Hun Feng tried to stop the Eastern Hun Family elders, who argued that Xiao Han was Hun Clan kin and condemned Hun Tiandi's rule.
• The eighteen Hun Clan elders defeated the Gold Devouring Rat Clan members and brought them before Xiao Han.
• Xiao Han killed the Gold Devouring Rat Clan members with his sword, then killed the begging Jin Shi.
• The system rewarded Xiao Han with experience, a Gold-tier treasure chest, Earth Release, and Earth Release: Sand Waterfall.

Xiao Han confronted Hun Feng and his nine Dou Zun followers, seeking to eliminate opposition to reunifying the Hun Clan. After Gu Xun Er refused an alliance and withdrew with Xiao Yan, Xiao Han countered Hun Feng’s God-Rank bloodline pressure and had him killed.

• Xiao Han offered Hun Feng’s nine Dou Zun followers a chance to submit, but they refused, so he ordered the Eastern Hun Family elders to attack.
• Hun Feng appealed to Xiao Yan and Gu Xun Er for an alliance, but Gu Xun Er judged the battle too costly and led the Gu Clan forces away, with Xiao Yan following.
• Xiao Han let Xiao Yan and Gu Xun Er leave and ordered Hun Feng crippled for execution.
• Hun Feng used his God-Rank bloodline pressure to suppress the eighteen Eastern Hun Family elders and weaken Xiao Han’s Dou Qi.
• Xiao Han summoned his Cold Rock Golden Flood Dragon martial soul and used Blood Boiling to strengthen the elders while suppressing Hun Feng.
• The eighteen elders beat Hun Feng and brought him to Xiao Han, who killed him with the Heartless Sword.

Xiao Yan questioned Gu Xun Er’s refusal to act against the Hun Clan, while Xiao Han went to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to help Feng Qing’er refine her Dragon Phoenix Crystal Layer. The chapter ended with Xiao Han beginning the dangerous procedure, which could also benefit his own cultivation.

• Xiao Yan killed Hun Feng, gained enough experience to reach Three-Star Dou Sheng, and obtained a Gold-tier Treasure Chest and the Nether Devouring Soul Palm.
• Gu Xun Er explained that she wanted the Gu Clan to let the Eastern and Western Hun Families weaken each other, but Xiao Yan left for Starfall Pavilion dissatisfied.
• Huang Tian brought Xiao Han to Feng Qing’er, who was sealed inside a blood-red cauldron after obtaining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Xiao Han demonstrated his control over the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Huang Tian gave him five drops of Ancient Demon Phoenix Essence Blood for the procedure.
• Xiao Han sat atop the cauldron and began pouring four-colored flame into it to refine Feng Qing’er’s Dragon Phoenix Crystal Layer.