Chapter Summaries

Xiao Se repaired the Luo Family’s Space Wormhole, traveled with his family through Central State, and left Yun Yun and her son at the Flower Sect before heading for the Pill Tower. Meanwhile, Xun Er learned that Xiao Se had built a family and issued an Absolute Kill Order against Xiao Yan, and Ling Ying revealed Xiao Yan’s betrayal of Yao Chen.

• Xiao Se’s companions repaired the Luo Family’s Space Wormhole, and Xiao Se accepted several treasures in return before staying overnight at the Luo Residence.
• Xiao Se and his group visited the Tianmu Blood Pool, where Xiao Se, Yun Yun, Qing Lin, and Nalan Yanran absorbed its energy and improved their cultivation.
• Xiao Se left Yun Yun, A Si, and Nalan Yanran at the Flower Sect with pills, an Eight-Star Dou Zun Heavenly Demon Puppet, and Soul Imprint jade slips, then set out for the Pill Tower with his remaining companions.
• Xun Er listened as Ling Ying reported Xiao Se’s rise to Dou Zun and his many wives and children, leaving her upset.
• Ling Ying told Xun Er that Xiao Se had issued an Absolute Kill Order against Xiao Yan because Xiao Yan had joined the Soul Hall and betrayed Yao Chen.

Xiao Se and his companions reached Saint Pill City, where he earned a Rank 7 High Grade alchemist certification and traded for a dark-attribute cultivation method for Bi Bi Dong. As they continued exploring the Pill Tower, Xiao Se waited for Xuan Yi to hear of his arrival.

• Xun Er learned that Xiao Yan had joined the Soul Hall and told Ling Ying to watch for news of Xiao Se.
• Xiao Se and Little Fairy Doctor defeated a Soul Hall Protector, and Xiao Se used the man's remains to refine an Earth Demon Puppet.
• Bi Bi Dong returned with Qing Lin, who had advanced to one-star Dou Zun after hunting snake-type magical beasts.
• Xiao Se arrived at Saint Pill City and passed the Pill Tower's assessment, earning a Rank 7 High Grade alchemist badge.
• Xiao Se traded a Rank 7 Pill and the Flame Manipulation Skill for an Earth High Rank dark-attribute cultivation method, which he gave to Bi Bi Dong.

Xiao Se refined a perfect Eighth Grade Tuckahoe Green Pill and used its Nine-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning to advance an Earth Demon Puppet into a Five Star Dou Zun Heavenly Demon Puppet. After Xiao Se delivered the pill to the injured old man, the Pill Tower Three Giants approached him to ask about Yao Chen.

• Xiao Se agreed to refine the Tuckahoe Green Pill in exchange for cultivation methods and other treasures, and the gray-haired old man gave him the Heavenly Nether Poison Manual along with the advertised fire method and Dou Technique.
• Xiao Se refined the pill over three days, drawing Nine-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning and the attention of the Pill Tower Three Giants, Cao Ying, and Saint Pill City.
• Xiao Se froze the space around the lightning, allowing his Earth Demon Puppet to absorb its power and advance into a Five Star Dou Zun Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Se gave the Tuckahoe Green Pill to the gray-haired old man, who swallowed it and secluded himself in the alchemy tower to restore his cultivation.
• Xuan Yi and the other Pill Tower Three Giants approached Xiao Se, and Xuan Yi asked him about his connection to Yao Chen.

Xiao Se received Eighth Grade Peak Alchemist certification and told the Pill Tower Three Giants how Yao Chen had been betrayed and captured. After Xiao Se revealed that he had captured Old Man Mu Gu, the story shifted to Yao Chen, tortured by the Soul Hall and facing Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Se entered the Little Pill Tower with Bi Bi Dong and the girls, passed his assessment, and was certified as an Eighth Grade Peak Alchemist.
• Xuan Yi introduced Xuan Kongzi and Tian Leizi, then asked Xiao Se about his connection to Yao Chen.
• Xiao Se recounted Yao Chen’s bargains, betrayals by Han Feng and Mu Gu, and capture by the Soul Hall, enraging the Pill Tower Three Giants.
• Xuan Kongzi questioned Xiao Se about his account, and Xiao Se answered candidly about putting his own survival first.
• Xiao Se produced the bottle containing Mu Gu’s soul, shocking the Pill Tower Three Giants.
• Yao Chen remained bound and weakened in the Soul Hall’s custody, where he faced the long-disappeared Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan blamed Yao Chen for his ruined life and secretly resolved to betray him for the Soul Hall’s power. Hun Miesheng arrived and offered Yao Chen a chance to join the Soul Hall, leaving Yao Chen demanding that Xiao Yan be killed instead.

• Xiao Yan recalled how jealousy, defeat, his father’s capture, and his crippled body had turned him against Yao Chen.
• After losing the Fallen Flame and his Beast Flames, Xiao Yan decided to trade the Ancient Jade and Yao Chen’s fate for the Soul Hall’s resources.
• Hun Miesheng appeared before Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, revealing himself as the Soul Hall Master and frightening Xiao Yan into losing control of his bladder.
• Hun Miesheng offered to let Yao Chen deal with Xiao Yan if Yao Chen joined the Soul Hall.
• Yao Chen refused and demanded that Hun Miesheng kill Xiao Yan, regretting that he had not listened to Xiao Se and cast his disciple aside.

After learning that Yao Chen had been captured by Soul Hall, Xiao Se bargained with the Pill Tower Three Giants for the chance to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame in exchange for rescuing him. The Giants went to verify Xiao Se’s identity and consult the Little Pill Tower, while Xiao Se waited with his companions in Saint Pill City, confident he could control the Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Se told Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and Tian Leizi that Yao Chen had been captured, and Xuan Yi immediately wanted to rescue him.
• Xuan Kongzi persuaded Xuan Yi to plan carefully and asked Xiao Se to lead the rescue because the Pill Tower Three Giants would attract attention.
• Xiao Se demanded medicinal ingredients and a chance to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame in exchange for rescuing Yao Chen; Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi supplied the requested ingredients.
• Xuan Kongzi said Three Thousand Burning Flame was sealed in the Star Region and left with the others to consult the Little Pill Tower’s Great Elder.
• At an inn, Xiao Se told Little Fairy Doctor that the Pill Tower was checking their identities before approving his request.
• Qing Lin worried that Xiao Se could not subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame, but his companions trusted his soul techniques and powerful Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Se joined the Pill Tower as an honorary elder to gain the chance to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, which he quickly entered the Star Region to devour and refine. Meanwhile, news of his alchemy and new position spread across Central State, and a Soul Hall Heavenly Guardian confronted Xiao Yan after he devoured a Beast Flame.

• Cao Ying escorted Xiao Se to meet Xuan Kongzi and asked about his age and daughter; Xiao Se invited her to join the Sea Alliance as a Pill Hall elder.
• Xuan Yi explained that joining the Pill Tower as an honorary elder would give Xiao Se an opportunity to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Xiao Se accepted.
• Xuan Yi led Xiao Se and the four women to the Star Region, where Xiao Se entered the sealed area and the disturbance soon ceased.
• Word spread across Central State that Xiao Se had become an Eighth Grade Peak Alchemist and a Little Pill Tower elder.
• After Xiao Yan devoured a seventh-tier Beast Flame, a Soul Hall Heavenly Guardian appeared and commented on his cultivation and technique.

Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Se had become a Dou Zun and an Eighth Grade Peak Alchemist, then fled with the Soul Hall Protector toward the Beast Domain to avoid him. In the Ancient Clan, Gu Yuan invited Xiao Se to attend the Coming-of-Age Ceremony three months later.

• Xiao Yan used the Soul Hall token to obtain five Beast Flames from the Soul Hall Protector, then mocked him for failing to acquire a seventh-rank flame.
• The Soul Hall Protector told Xiao Yan that Xiao Se had refined an Eighth Grade Pill with Nine-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning and become the youngest Eighth Grade Peak Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan feared Xiao Se would discover his betrayal and ordered the Soul Hall Protector to take him away; they decided to go to the Beast Domain.
• A messenger told Gu Yuan that Xiao Se had reached Dou Zun and become an Eighth Grade Peak Alchemist.
• Gu Yuan sent Xiao Se an invitation to attend the Ancient Clan Coming-of-Age Ceremony in three months.

After refining the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Xiao Se emerged from seclusion with greatly increased strength as the Burning Art evolved to Heaven Rank. His family and the Little Pill Tower elders witnessed the breakthrough and its heavenly phenomenon.

• Xiao Se steadily refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame inside the Star Region, and his aura grew stronger over half a month.
• Bi Bi Dong and Xiao Xue waited anxiously outside the Star Region while Qing Lin assured them Xiao Se was fine, and Little Fairy Doctor brought food.
• Xiao Se emerged as a powerful aura spread through Saint Pill City, and the Little Pill Tower elders judged that he had reached the peak of the seven-star Dou Zun realm.
• Dark clouds, wind, lightning, and thunder appeared over the city, and Xuan Yi recognized the phenomenon as a sign that Xiao Se's Burning Art had become a Heaven Rank cultivation method.
• Xiao Se activated the evolved Burning Art and absorbed streams of pure Dou Qi drawn from the surrounding natural energy.

After finishing his breakthrough cultivation, Xiao Se learned that Gu Yuan had invited him and Xiao Xue to Xun Er’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony. Xiao Xue and the women questioned him about Xun Er, and he explained their history, leaving them with mixed reactions.

• Xiao Se stopped cultivating in the damaged Star Region, then left after deciding to ask Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun to remove the restriction on the Yan Clan’s cultivation method.
• Xiao Se reunited with Xiao Xue and learned from Xuan Yi that his breakthrough had drawn the Little Pill Tower elders to the passage.
• Xuan Yi gave Xiao Se an invitation from Gu Yuan, who invited him and Xiao Xue to the Ancient Clan for Xun Er’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
• Xiao Se told the group that Gu Yuan was the Ancient Clan’s leader and Xun Er’s father, a Nine Star Dou Sheng Peak expert.
• Xiao Xue, Bi Bi Dong, and Qing Lin asked Xiao Se about Xun Er, and Little Fairy Doctor shared what she knew of their past.
• Xiao Se recounted his experiences with Xun Er, prompting mixed reactions from the women.

Xiao Se and his allies stormed the Soul Hall branch in the Mountain Range of the Dead Souls to rescue Yao Chen, while Bi Bi Dong devoured the souls of the Soul Hall’s defenders. They defeated all five guarding Dou Venerables, leaving the group poised to continue searching for Yao Chen.

• Xiao Se interrogated a Soul Hall Protector and learned that Yao Chen was held in the branch, guarded by five Dou Venerables and dozens of Soul Hall Protectors.
• Xiao Se assigned Qing Lin and Wind Venerable Feng Xian to seal the branch with a Space Barrier while he, Bi Bi Dong, Little Fairy Doctor, and Xiao Xue attacked.
• Xiao Se and the three women broke through the entrance and swept through the Soul Hall, with Bi Bi Dong devouring the souls of the Protectors they spared.
• Xiao Se killed Star Plucking Old Ghost, and Little Fairy Doctor and Xiao Xue helped defeat Qing Hai Venerable and Qin Tian before Bi Bi Dong devoured their souls.
• Xiao Se and Bi Bi Dong ambushed Black Heavenly Venerable and White Heavenly Venerable, pierced their bodies, and gave their souls to Bi Bi Dong to devour.

Xiao Se destroyed a Soul Hall branch, recovered its vast stock of Soul Origin, and freed the souls imprisoned there. He rescued Yao Chen and Xiao Zhan, then left with them and the three women, while Xiao Yan remained missing.

• Xiao Se sent Xue Er, Dong Er, and Xian Er to rescue Yao Chen and searched beneath the ruins for Soul Origin.
• Xiao Se found a sphere formed from the Soul Origin of hundreds of thousands of souls, shattered its chains, and stored it in the System Warehouse.
• Bi Bi Dong and the other women returned with the sleeping Yao Chen and Xiao Zhan, and told Xiao Se that Xiao Yan had left with a Soul Hall Heavenly Guardian.
• Xiao Se told Xiao Zhan that the Sea Alliance could help him reunite with his family and that Xiao Yan's fate depended on his actions.
• Xiao Se freed the imprisoned souls and departed through a spatial rift with Bi Bi Dong, the other two women, and Xiao Zhan.

Xiao Se rescued Yao Chen from Soul Hall and agreed to help revive him, while Wind Venerable pledged Falling Star Pavilion to the Sea Alliance. The group returned to Saint Pill City, where Xiao Se began arranging Yao Chen’s recovery and Bi Bi Dong’s seclusion.

• Xiao Se told Wind Venerable that Soul Hall had been destroyed and Yao Chen rescued, then accepted Wind Venerable’s offer to bring Falling Star Pavilion into the Sea Alliance.
• Xiao Se teleported the group away, and a powerful figure arrived at the ruined Soul Hall and roared in fury.
• Xiao Se promised to revive Yao Chen and gave Wind Venerable a list of needed materials, including a Soul Infant Fruit and ingredients for an Eighth Grade Flesh Bone Regeneration Pill.
• Wind Venerable provided a Dou Zun skeleton and agreed to search for the other materials and news of the Purification Lotus Demon Fire Remnant Map.
• Bi Bi Dong told Xiao Se she would enter seclusion to refine the energy she had devoured, and Xiao Se arranged a safe chamber for her.
• Xiao Se gave Xiao Xue pills and sent her to explore Saint Pill City with Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin while asking her to inform Xuan Yi that Yao Chen had been rescued.

Xiao Yan learned that Yao Chen had escaped the destroyed Soul Hall branch, while Xiao Se continued advancing his alchemy and prepared for the Ancient Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony. The chapter ended with Xiao Se planning to bring Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun to help him enter the Heavenly Tomb.

• The Soul Hall Protector told Xiao Yan that the Mountain Range of the Dead Souls branch hall had been destroyed and Yao Chen had been rescued along with the imprisoned souls.
• Xiao Yan feared for his father, Xiao Zhan, but relaxed after reasoning that Xiao Se likely had sent him back to the Gama Empire.
• Xiao Se refined a perfect Eighth Grade Flesh Bone Regeneration Pill at the Pill Tower, and Xuan Yi remarked that his Soul Power had reached the Heavenly Realm.
• Xuan Yi told Xiao Se that Yao Chen had awakened but remained despondent after being betrayed, and Xiao Se suggested she comfort him while he was vulnerable.
• Xuan Yi reminded Xiao Se that the Ancient Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony was less than a month away, and Xiao Se planned to bring Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun to enter the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Se prepared to travel to the Ancient Clan with Xiao Xue while Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin set off for the Beast Domain. As Xiao Se and Xiao Xue left Saint Pill City, Hun Shang, a Two-Star Dou Sheng of the Soul Clan, appeared to confront them.

• Xiao Se told Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin that he and Xiao Xue would be away for at least half a year, but they chose to travel to the Beast Domain to cultivate and gain experience.
• Xiao Se gave Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin three Flesh Bone Regeneration Pills and the Heavenly Demon Puppet to protect them on their journey.
• Qing Lin quickly learned Xiao Se's Flying Thunder God technique, revealing that she had spatial talent like Xiao Se and Xiao Xue.
• Xiao Se and Xiao Xue departed Saint Pill City after Xiao Se gave his remaining instructions and left a message for Bi Bi Dong.
• A thousand miles from Saint Pill City, Xiao Se sensed a hidden Dou Sheng and shielded Xiao Xue as Hun Shang emerged from a crack in the sky.

Hun Shang ambushed Xiao Se outside Saint Pill City and tried to recruit him into the Soul Clan, but Zhu Kun intervened and subdued him. Xiao Se then offered Zhu Kun a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit in exchange for help destroying the Soul Hall’s Human Hall and Heaven Hall and taking their Soul Origins.

• Hun Shang confronted Xiao Se and offered to make him his disciple in the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Se insulted Hun Shang, who attacked him and Xiao Xue with a black finger strike.
• Xiao Se used Zhu Kun’s Dragon Scale to shield himself and Xiao Xue from Hun Shang’s attack.
• Zhu Kun appeared, identified himself as the Dragon Emperor of the Void Ancient Dragon Race, and restrained Hun Shang.
• Xiao Se asked Zhu Kun to spare Hun Shang and offered him a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit within three years.
• Xiao Se asked Zhu Kun to destroy the Soul Hall’s Human Hall and Heaven Hall and obtain their Soul Origins in return.

Xiao Se secured Zhu Kun’s help and the corpses of three traitorous Void Ancient Dragons, then spent a month absorbing the Human Hall and Heaven Hall’s Soul Origin. He emerged from seclusion with his soul at Heaven Realm Great Perfection and his cultivation at Eight-Star Dou Zun, while Xun Er waited for him at her Coming-of-Age Ceremony.

• Xiao Se asked Zhu Kun to help him obtain the Soul Origin taken by the Soul Hall, and Zhu Kun agreed in exchange for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Zhu Kun gave Xiao Se the corpses of three Void Ancient Dragons who had colluded with the Soul Clan, and Xiao Se planned to interrogate Hun Shang about the Human Hall and Heaven Hall.
• On the day of Xun Er’s eighteenth Coming-of-Age Ceremony, Ling Ying told her that Xiao Se had set out to attend but might have been delayed by the Soul Clan’s upheaval.
• Xun Er learned that the Soul Clan had lost something important from its Human Hall and Heaven Hall and suspected Xiao Se was responsible, but focused on hoping he was safe.
• After a month in seclusion, Xiao Se emerged before Xiao Xue and Zhu Kun, having reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection in soul strength and Eight-Star Dou Zun in cultivation.

Xiao Se rushed to the Ancient Clan with Xiao Xue and Zhu Kun after learning he had missed most of Xun Er’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony. Zhu Kun forced their way through the clan’s guards, and they reached the plaza just as Xun Er’s bloodline test was about to begin.

• Xiao Xue told Xiao Se that Zhu Kun had adopted her as his granddaughter and taught her Heaven Rank Dou Techniques, and Xiao Se learned he had been in seclusion for a month.
• Xiao Se asked Zhu Kun to take him and Xiao Xue to the Ancient Clan before Xun Er’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony ended.
• At the ceremony, Gu Santong passed with a third-grade bloodline and one-star Dou Zong strength, while Gu Yao passed with a peak seventh-grade bloodline and peak Dou Zong strength.
• Xiao Se, Xiao Xue, and Zhu Kun reached the Ancient World, where Black Submerging Army soldiers tried to turn them away; Zhu Kun blew them aside and slapped successive groups of guards out of their path.
• As Xun Er was called for her bloodline test, a Black Submerging Army soldier crashed into the plaza and announced that someone had forcibly entered the Ancient Clan.

Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun arrived at the Ancient Clan with Xiao Se and Xiao Xue, explaining that he had come to repay Xiao Se’s favor and introduce his granddaughter. Xun Er recognized Xiao Se and rushed into his arms, leaving the Ancient Clan’s younger generation stunned and angry.

• A Black Submerging Army member reported an intruder, prompting the Ancient Clan elders to prepare a defense and shelter Xun Er and Gu Yao’s group.
• Gu Yuan arrived, and Zhu Kun emerged from a spatial rift, identifying himself as the Dragon Emperor of the Void Ancient Dragon Race.
• Zhu Kun told Gu Yuan he had come with Xiao Se because he owed him a favor and had taken Xiao Xue as his granddaughter.
• Xiao Se and Xiao Xue stepped out of the rift, and Xun Er ran past Zhu Kun to embrace Xiao Se in tears.
• The Ancient Clan’s younger generation recognized Xiao Se and reacted with anger at seeing Xun Er throw herself into his arms.

Xiao Se reunited with Gu Xun'er at the Ancient Clan and openly declared himself Gu Yuan’s son-in-law. As the Coming-of-Age Ceremony continued, Xiao Se provoked the clan’s young men before an elder smoothed over a challenge.

• Xun Er wept with relief as Xiao Se comforted her and welcomed him back as the big brother she had missed.
• Zhu Kun and Xiao Xue interrupted their reunion, and Xiao Se descended with them and Xun Er to greet Gu Yuan as his father-in-law.
• Gu Yuan bristled at Xiao Se’s bold claim, then arranged for the Coming-of-Age Ceremony to proceed and invited Zhu Kun to talk privately.
• Xiao Se and Xiao Xue watched from the guest seats while Xiao Se teased the Ancient Clan’s young men about resenting his relationship with Xun Er.
• Gu Ling challenged Xiao Se, but Gu Feng intervened and apologized; Xiao Se accepted his courtesy and said he would not blame the younger generation.