Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan began burning his soul to defeat the Soul of Heavenly Tomb and extract its Soul Origin for Ao Qing. As the Soul Origin emerged, Ao Qing prepared to receive the power, while Xiao Xuan’s sacrifice threatened to erase him forever.

• Xiao Xuan revealed that the Soul of Heavenly Tomb was a creature formed from the remnant souls and promised to turn its Soul Origin into aid for Ao Qing, asking him to protect Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Xuan rose into the sky and declared that he would fulfill the Energy Bodies’ long-held plea to free them from the Soul of Heavenly Tomb’s rule.
• The Soul of Heavenly Tomb appeared as a colossal face and attacked Xiao Xuan, who burned his soul and reflected its soul spear back into it.
• Xiao Xuan bound the Soul of Heavenly Tomb in a fiery formation and began pulling its Soul Origin from its body.
• Ao Qing felt the power of the Soul Origin as it emerged and recognized it as the Soul of Heavenly Tomb’s essence.

Xiao Xuan extracted the Soul of Heavenly Tomb’s Soul Origin and gave it to Ao Qing, who refined its vast Soul Power and broke through to the Emperor Realm Soul. Just as Xiao Xuan was about to dissipate, Ao Qing returned and offered to revive him.

• Xiao Xuan tore the Soul Origin from the Soul of Heavenly Tomb, and the Energy Bodies destroyed its weakened body.
• Xiao Xuan gave the Soul Origin to Ao Qing, who entered the crystalline halo to cultivate while Xiao Xuan waited outside.
• Ao Qing refined the vast ocean of Soul Power with Life Dragon Flame and his Dragon Pearl as time passed more slowly inside the halo.
• Xiao Xuan grew increasingly translucent and nearly vanished after waiting for Ao Qing through the final day of the second month.
• Ao Qing emerged with an Emperor Realm Soul, demonstrated its power, and offered to revive Xiao Xuan.

Ao Qing absorbed Xiao Xuan’s soul, killed Xiao Yan, and used the Heavenly Tomb to cultivate until he reached an Emperor Realm Soul and Eight-Star Dou Saint. He emerged before Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan, leaving Gu Yuan shocked by his power and by the presence of another formidable Ancient Void Dragon expert.

• Ao Qing swallowed Xiao Xuan and burned him into Soul Power, then killed Xiao Yan while he cultivated in the blood pool.
• Ao Qing swallowed the Ninth Grade Golden Core and entered secluded cultivation in the Heavenly Tomb.
• After three years inside the Heavenly Tomb, Ao Qing broke through to Eight-Star Dou Saint and an Emperor Realm Soul, shattering the Stone Tablet Space.
• Gu Yuan tried to force open the Heavenly Tomb, but a soul ripple repelled his attack before Ao Qing emerged.
• Ao Qing revealed his new strength to Gu Yuan and attributed his soul breakthrough to an opportunity from Xiao Xuan.
• The Purification Lotus Demon Saint appeared before Ao Qing, and Gu Yuan realized the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had another terrifying ancient expert.

Ao Qing, Purification Lotus Demon Saint, and Yao Chen traveled to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon, where Yao Chen faced the clan elder Yao Wangui. After Yao Chen struck two men who insulted him, Ao Qing stopped him and promised that their reckoning was only beginning.

• Ao Qing left the Ancient Realm with Purification Lotus Demon Saint and explained Xiao Yan’s disappearance to Yao Chen after returning to Jia Nan Academy.
• Three months later, Ao Qing chose to attend the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon with Purification Lotus Demon Saint and Yao Chen, keeping their arrival concealed from the Soul Clan.
• Yao Chen presented his invitation at the Yao Clan’s spatial gate, and the three entered the clan’s territory.
• Yao Wangui confronted Yao Chen at the Medicine Canon and encouraged his followers as they insulted him.
• Yao Chen struck two men who had mocked him, but Ao Qing told him to stop and said their troubles with the group were only beginning.

Yao Chen and Ao Qing attended the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon, where Yao Dan and the legendary alchemist Old Man Shen Nong also appeared. Hun Xuzi arrived uninvited, provoking the Yao Clan and drawing Ao Qing’s attention to a chance to strike at the Soul Clan.

• Ten Thousand Fire Elder stopped Yao Chen from pursuing Yao Wangui, and Yao Chen agreed to end their confrontation.
• Ao Qing, Purification Lotus Demon Saint, and Yao Chen took seats at the Medicine Canon after Ten Thousand Fire Elder invited them.
• Yao Chen explained that the Medicine Canon’s final contest would determine the continent’s top alchemist, and Yao Dan arrived as a Seven-Star Dou Saint.
• Old Man Shen Nong appeared and praised Yao Chen’s Heavenly Realm Soul Power.
• Hun Xuzi arrived without an invitation, and Yao Chen identified him as a powerful Soul Clan figure involved in the Soul Hall’s soul-collecting plot.
• Yao Dan allowed Hun Xuzi to stay as a guest if he followed the Yao Clan’s rules, while warning that he would otherwise be forced to remain.

The Medicine Canon Convention’s main competition began as Hun Xuzi, Ten Thousand Fire Elder, and Old Man Shen Nong entered the arena to contest the title of Continent’s Number One Alchemist. Hun Xuzi revealed an Earth Sub-fire of Void Flame Swallowing, and the three grandmasters summoned their Heavenly Flames as the contest got underway.

• Yao Dan announced that Hun Xuzi, Ten Thousand Fire Elder, and Old Man Shen Nong would compete for the title of Continent’s Number One Alchemist.
• Hun Xuzi appeared above the arena and declared that he intended to take the title back to the Soul Clan.
• Ten Thousand Fire Elder and Old Man Shen Nong joined Hun Xuzi in the air, each challenging his claim to the title.
• Hun Xuzi formed a vast black flame cauldron with his Earth Sub-fire of Void Flame Swallowing, startling the other grandmasters.
• Ten Thousand Fire Elder summoned the Nine Nether Wind Flame, and Old Man Shen Nong released the Life Spirit Flame.
• Ao Qing and the Purification Lotus Demon Saint watched the grandmasters’ Heavenly Flames and anticipated valuable gains from attending.

After Hun Xuzi won the alchemy contest, he revealed the Soul Clan’s attack on the Yao Clan and sealed the Yao Clan Space while Nihility Devouring Flame engulfed the Medicine World. Yao Dan activated the clan’s ancient protective formation, and Nihility Devouring Flame appeared as Hun Xuzi called on him to break it.

• Hun Xuzi won the contest by refining a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill and was named the Continent’s Number One Alchemist.
• Hun Xuzi demanded the Yao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade, then unleashed hidden strength and defeated Ten Thousand Fire Elder with Nihility Devouring Flame’s power.
• Yao Dan accused the Soul Clan of destroying the Spirit Clan and Shi Clan and tried to summon help, but Hun Xuzi had sealed the Yao Clan Space.
• Hun Xuzi let outsiders attempt to flee, but Nihility Devouring Flame’s black flames spread across the Medicine World and devoured their Dou Qi.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to activate the Heaven Transformation Medicine Array, and Hun Xuzi called on Nihility Devouring Flame to break it.
• Nihility Devouring Flame appeared above the formation as Ao Qing and the Purification Lotus Demon Saint watched.

Nihility Devouring Flame attacked the Yao Clan, shattered its defenses, and destroyed the remnant soul of its ancestor. With the clan facing annihilation, Ao Qing offered protection in exchange for its submission to Jia Nan Academy, and Yao Dan accepted.

• Nihility Devouring Flame assaulted the Yao Clan’s formation with black flames, and Yao Dan summoned the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul using the clan’s pills.
• The Medicine Emperor resisted Nihility Devouring Flame’s attacks, but Nihility Devouring Flame devoured Yao Clan descendants to destroy the ancestor’s cauldron and weaken the formation.
• The Medicine Emperor sacrificed his remnant soul to attack Nihility Devouring Flame, and the Yao Clan’s formation broke soon afterward.
• Ao Qing offered to save the Yao Clan if it submitted to Jia Nan Academy, and Yao Dan accepted and gave him the Tuo She Ancient Jade.

Ao Qing intervened to protect the Yao Clan as Yao Dan led its people against the Soul Clan’s assault. Ao Qing severely injured Nihility Devouring Flame with his Emperor Realm Soul, and Hun Tiandi appeared after Nihility called for him.

• Ao Qing told Purification Lotus Demon Saint to watch Hun Tiandi while he faced Nihility Devouring Flame, and Yao Dan rallied the Yao Clan to attack Hun Xuzi.
• Nihility Devouring Flame absorbed the Yao Clan’s combined attack, then unleashed black-flame creatures that tore through Medicine Mountain and revealed the Tunling Clan.
• Ao Qing stepped in beside Yao Dan, promised to protect the Yao Clan, and challenged Nihility Devouring Flame before they transformed and clashed.
• Purification Lotus Demon Saint shielded the Yao Clan’s worthy members from the battle’s shockwaves while his demon fire killed Yao Wangui and Yao Tian.
• Ao Qing cut Nihility Devouring Flame’s soul with an enormous soul sword, revealing that he possessed Emperor Realm Soul, and Nihility called for Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi emerged from the void as the Soul Clan Patriarch.

Ao Qing fought Hun Tiandi at the Yao Clan, matching the Soul Clan Patriarch through a prolonged battle before Gu Yuan arrived with reinforcements. Hun Tiandi withdrew, and Ao Qing prepared to relocate the Yao Clan to Jia Nan Academy.

• Ao Qing challenged Hun Tiandi, trading attacks with him and fighting him hand-to-hand for more than two hours without either gaining a decisive advantage.
• After the Soul Clan’s Four Demon Saints arrived, Ao Qing revealed that the Purification Lotus Demon Saint was present, and the demon saint shed his disguise.
• Gu Yuan arrived with Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the Three Immortals of Gu Dao, while Hun Tiandi confirmed that the Soul Clan had caused the Ling Clan and Stone Clan disappearances.
• Gu Yuan urged Ao Qing to help stop Hun Tiandi, but Ao Qing refused, and Hun Tiandi led the Soul Clan forces away through a spatial passage.
• Ao Qing asked Yao Dan to gather the Yao Clan’s belongings and prepared to take the remaining elders and disciples to Jia Nan Academy.

Ao Qing and Purification Lotus Demon Saint left Medicine Mountain while Hun Tiandi returned to hold Gu Yuan in place as the Soul Clan stole the Gu Clan’s Ancient Jade. Gu Yang was revealed as a Soul Clan spy and escaped with the help of another Soul Clan expert, while Hun Tiandi hinted that the Thunder and Flame Clans had also been attacked.

• Ao Qing and Purification Lotus Demon Saint led the remaining Yao Clan members toward Jia Nan Academy, and Hun Tiandi returned to Medicine Mountain to stall Gu Yuan.
• Gu Yuan learned that Gu Yang had stolen the Gu Clan’s Ancient Jade and ordered a search of the Ancient Realm while Hun Tiandi and the Four Demon Saints blocked the others.
• Xun'er and Gu Qingyang caught up with Gu Yang, who revealed that a Soul Clan agent had shared his body for over a hundred years, but Gu Lie’s intervention failed to keep him from escaping with a Soul Clan elder.
• Gu Lie reported that the Ancient Jade was lost and an Eight-Star Dou Saint remained alive in the Soul Clan, prompting Gu Yuan to halt the battle with Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi withdrew through a spatial rift and suggested the Soul Clan had also seized the Thunder and Flame Clans’ Ancient Jades while Lei Ying and Yan Jin were away.

After the Soul Clan stole the Lei and Flame Clans’ Ancient Jades, Gu Yuan brought the Gu, Lei, and Flame Clans into an alliance against them. Both sides recognized the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s immense strength and considered how its jade might be obtained, leaving the Soul Clan wary of attacking it directly.

• Lei Ying and Yan Jin learned that traitors had taken the Lei and Flame Clans’ Ancient Jades during the Soul Clan’s assault, and they joined Gu Yuan to discuss resisting the Soul Clan.
• Gu Yuan warned Lei Ying and Yan Jin that the Soul Clan’s strength, including Nihility Devouring Flame’s Nine-Star Dou Saint realm, made an alliance necessary.
• Yan Jin proposed taking the Yao Clan’s Ancient Jade from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, but Gu Yuan explained that the clan had several formidable experts and could not be overcome by their three clans.
• Gu Yuan proposed waiting for the Soul Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan to fight, then seizing their Ancient Jades when the chance arose, and Lei Ying and Yan Jin agreed to form an alliance.
• In Soul World, Hun Tiandi warned Nihility Devouring Flame that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had powerful hidden experts and that attacking it would be dangerous.

Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame set aside their plans to acquire the remaining Ancient Jade, while Zi Yan learned at the Space Trading Fair that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the Wild Ancient Domain. Back at Jia Nan Academy, Ao Qing told Zi Yan that he had brought the Yao Clan and planned to appoint Yao Dan and Yao Chen to lead the Alchemy Hall.

• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame decided to focus on cultivation after discussing the difficulty of obtaining Gu Yuan's Ancient Jade and the threat of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Zi Yan, Mang Tianchi, and Feng Xian attended the Space Trading Fair, where Old Man Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the Wild Ancient Domain.
• Mang Tianchi and Feng Xian recognized the opportunity and danger of the news, while Zi Yan considered how a Bodhi Heart could help her and Jia Nan Academy's experts advance.
• Zi Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy with Mang Tianchi and Feng Xian, then met Ao Qing, who revealed that he had brought the Yao Clan to the academy.
• Ao Qing told Zi Yan that he wanted Yao Dan to lead the Alchemy Hall and Yao Chen to serve as deputy hall master, leaving Zi Yan stunned.

Zi Yan led Ao Qing’s companions into the Wild Ancient Domain to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree, arriving at the Ancient Domain Platform and finding Gu Xun’er and Feng Qing’er. When Feng Qing’er provoked Zi Yan, Ao Qing appeared and crushed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan with his pressure, forcing its elder to beg for mercy.

• Ao Qing brought Zi Yan to the Alchemy Hall, where Yao Dan and the Yao Clan members respectfully greeted them and settled into their new arrangement at Jia Nan Academy.
• After three months, Zi Yan led Aru Na, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Heavenly Flame Venerable, and Venerable Feng Xian toward the Wild Ancient Domain, waiting for many other seekers to enter first.
• Zi Yan’s group crossed the forest and reached the Ancient Domain Platform, where powerful teams gathered and they spotted Gu Xun’er among the Gu Clan’s people.
• Feng Qing’er challenged Zi Yan as she stepped onto the platform, drawing everyone’s attention to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Little Princess.
• Ao Qing appeared and unleashed his pressure, making Feng Qing’er and a Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan Dou Saint Elder spit blood; Feng Ming knelt and begged him to show mercy.

Hun Yu united the gathered experts and led them into the Wild Ancient Domain’s enormous beast tide, with Zi Yan’s group advancing in the middle. The charge stalled under mounting pressure, and Hun Yu and the Soul Hall experts disappeared, leaving the trapped alliance to face the beasts alone.

• Ao Qing refused to intervene, and Hun Yu persuaded the gathered factions to join forces to reach the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Jiu Feng agreed on behalf of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, while Gu Xun'er warned Zi Yan that Hun Yu and Jiu Feng intended to use the alliance as a shield.
• Hun Yu led the arrow-shaped formation toward the beast tide, and Zi Yan’s group stayed near its middle as the experts began their assault.
• The force pushed deeper into the tide, but stronger beasts slowed their advance and casualties began as close combat erupted.
• Gu Xun'er spotted that Hun Yu and the Soul Hall experts had vanished, while the remaining fighters were forced forward and lost any chance to retreat.

Zi Yan and her allies broke through the beast tide and reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where Hun Yu’s group and other pursuing factions gathered. Hun Yu warned that the tree had likely killed a Half-Saint, leaving the groups to face its unknown danger.

• Zi Yan led her group through the intensifying beast tide with Heavenly Flame Venerable, while the remaining groups struggled behind them.
• Zi Yan and her allies escaped the beast tide and saw the Bodhi Ancient Tree; Jiu Feng and the other groups emerged and hurried after them.
• Zi Yan’s group reached the tree and found Hun Yu’s group waiting nearby as the others arrived.
• Hun Yu described the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s immense power and warned that it had likely killed a Soul Clan ancestor who was a Half-Saint.
• Zi Yan and her allies remained relatively unconcerned because Ao Qing would protect them from danger.

After the groups defeated the Half-Saint puppets, the Bodhi Ancient Tree pulled them into a realm where they lost their Dou Qi and were separated. Zi Yan escaped a seductive illusion with the Bodhi Seed and found herself before a miniature Bodhi Ancient Tree, where Ao Qing appeared.

• Zi Yan and the other groups defeated the Half-Saint puppets at heavy cost, then gathered before the Bodhi Ancient Tree as the weaker survivors stayed behind.
• The tree enveloped the groups in a pillar of light, drained their Dou Qi, and carried them away while Feng Qing'er watched them vanish.
• Zi Yan entered an illusion of the Wild Ancient Domain, gained the false power of a Dou Saint, and slaughtered the beasts and Hun Yu's Soul Clan group.
• The Bodhi Seed cleared the illusion's influence from Zi Yan's mind, and she realized the Half-Saint puppets had been victims of the tree's illusions.
• The illusion shattered, revealing Zi Yan in a green-lit space before a miniature Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Ao Qing emerged from the void.

Ao Qing and Zi Yan learned that a dead Dou Di’s negative emotions had corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Zi Yan began purifying it with Bodhi Seeds. As she refined them, the tree replenished her Dou Qi and expanded her capacity, leaving her eager to continue.

• Ao Qing and Zi Yan watched the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s memory reveal a black-clothed Dou Di fighting the tree before another Dou Di helped destroy him, after which the fallen expert’s negative emotions invaded it.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Zi Yan that its intelligence had split between its original nature and an evil portion formed by the invading emotions, then offered Bodhi Seeds to help remove the corruption.
• Zi Yan used Dragon Flame to refine a Bodhi Seed into pure qi, which entered the tree and caused a wisp of black qi to disperse.
• After Zi Yan rested on a cushion formed by the Bodhi Ancient Tree, pure energy restored her Dou Qi and expanded her capacity, so she resumed refining the Seeds with renewed enthusiasm.

Zi Yan refined all the Bodhi Seeds, purifying the Bodhi Ancient Tree before it drew her inside to undergo Enlightenment Beneath the Bodhi Tree. After a month, she awoke with ancient wisdom in her gaze and called for Ao Qing.

• Zi Yan refined every Bodhi Seed, clearing the black Qi from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which then drew her sleeping body into its trunk.
• Gu Xun'er and the others emerged from the tree’s illusions, and Hun Yu and Jiu Feng attacked Zi Yan to awaken her.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree repelled Hun Yu and Jiu Feng, and Ao Qing burned them and their accompanying Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members to ashes.
• Everyone cultivated and waited in the tree’s space for over a month as Zi Yan remained motionless inside it.
• Zi Yan opened her eyes with an ancient, all-seeing gaze, then recognized Ao Qing and spoke his name as her familiar liveliness returned.

After Zi Yan endured the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s trials, Ao Qing distributed its Bodhi Seeds and helped her break through to the Dou Saint realm with Peak Dou Saint Essence Blood. As Ao Qing kissed Zi Yan, the Bodhi Ancient Tree attacked him, and he prepared to fight back.

• Zi Yan emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s trials, and it released more than twenty Bodhi Seeds, which Ao Qing gathered and shared with the others before sending them away.
• Ao Qing gave Zi Yan time to break through beneath the tree and tempered Peak Dou Saint Essence Blood for her to refine.
• Zi Yan absorbed the Essence Blood, broke through to the Dou Saint realm, and continued refining the remainder before celebrating her success with Ao Qing.
• Ao Qing kissed Zi Yan, prompting the Bodhi Ancient Tree to attack him with its branches.
• Ao Qing remained unfazed by the tree’s assault and prepared to fight back.