Chapter Summaries

Chen Cheng strengthened his allies, delegated Heavenly Demon Puppet production, and sent Xing Hun to retrieve a treasure map reported in the Central Region Western Regions. The chapter ended with Xing Hun’s team setting out to investigate whether the map was the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame Remnant Chart.

• Chen Cheng brought his improved companions to Yellow Spring Pavilion, gave Chen Zihang cultivation materials, and assigned Xing Hun Zhu Wu Shi and Nameless to refine Heavenly Demon Puppets.
• Chen Cheng told Nalan Yanran that Xiao Yan had Yao Chen’s support, spurring her to resolve to defeat Xiao Yan when their agreement came due in two years.
• Yun Yun told Chen Cheng that factions in the Central Region Western Regions were fighting over a treasure map that might be the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame Remnant Chart.
• Xing Hun reported that eleven Dou Venerable corpses had become Three-Star Dou Venerable puppets and that three Dou Zong corpses had been processed.
• Chen Cheng sent Xing Hun with six Heavenly Demon Puppets, Three-Eyes, Howling Celestial Hound, and Yellow Spring Pavilion subordinates to find and recover the treasure map.

Xing Hun obtained the Purifying Lotus Demonic Flame Remnant Chart from the Yan Family in exchange for a pill, then encountered Earth Flame Old Immortal, who tried to trade for it. Xing Hun refused to give up the chart and began considering how to take the old man's pill prescription instead.

• Xing Hun and his allies found Yan Li of the Yan Family and demanded the remnant chart in exchange for a Seventh Grade Pill.
• Yan Li accepted the low-level seventh-tier Esteemed Violence Pill and handed the chart to Xing Hun.
• Xing Hun confirmed the chart matched the ones Chen Cheng already possessed, and the group set off for Yellow Spring Pavilion.
• Earth Flame Old Immortal, a Nine-Star Dou Zun, stopped them and offered four high-level Seventh Grade Pills for the chart.
• Xing Hun refused the exchange and began considering how to obtain Earth Flame Old Immortal's pill prescription.

Xing Hun fought Earth Flame Old Immortal over a fragment map and drove him away, then delivered the map to Chen Cheng. Chen Cheng assembled the maps, revealed a message about the demonic flame, and refined the Purification Lotus Demon Saint’s remnant will, earning a replication opportunity.

• Xing Hun offered Earth Flame Old Immortal pills and a prescription for the fragment map, but Earth Flame Old Immortal refused and proposed a lesser exchange.
• Xing Hun used six Heavenly Demon Puppets to fight Earth Flame Old Immortal while Three-Eyed carried him and the Yellow Spring Pavilion experts through the battle.
• Earth Flame Old Immortal injured the puppets with an Earth Rank Advanced Dou Technique and escaped through a Space Channel, and Xing Hun returned to Yellow Spring Pavilion with the map.
• Xing Hun handed the fragment map to Chen Cheng, who assembled it with the other fragments and burned it with Heavenly Flames to reveal a message about the demonic flame.
• Chen Cheng restrained and refined the Purification Lotus Demon Saint’s remnant will, after which the system offered him one replication opportunity.

Chen Cheng gained Devouring Power and revived Creation Saint in a powerful new body, then learned that Creation Saint had been a Ninth-Rank Alchemist. The chapter ended with Creation Saint offering a method to fuse people with the Ancestor Souls of the Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.

• A woman completed the Dou Emperor baptism and set out to find Brother Xiao Yan, vowing to kill anyone who bullied him.
• Chen Cheng's failed attempts to copy Xiao Lian's abilities improved his Soul Control Method and upgraded his Star Absorbing Great Art into Devouring Power.
• Chen Cheng used valuable materials to give Creation Saint a new body, restoring him at the peak of One Star Dou Sheng.
• Creation Saint told Chen Cheng he had been a Ninth-Rank Alchemist, and Chen Cheng suggested he pursue the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Pill Tower.
• Creation Saint explained that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit required dragon or phoenix blood and Heavenly Flame, then offered a method to fuse humans with the Ancestor Souls of the Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.

Chen Cheng obtained the Dragon Phoenix Dimension Pill formula and learned how to test compatibility with the Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Ancestor Souls. After testing his companions, he chose Yun Yun to receive the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Ancestor Soul, while Yan Lingji teased him over being passed over.

• Creation Saint confirmed that Ao Bing could refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and gave Chen Cheng the Dragon Phoenix Dimension Pill formula, which Chen Cheng already had in his System Storage Space.
• Creation Saint taught Chen Cheng a method for testing compatibility with the Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Ancestor Souls before leaving with Ao Bing to prepare for the fusion.
• Chen Cheng found that Howling Celestial Hound had 83% compatibility with the Ancient Void Dragon, while Yan Lingji had 88% and Yun Yun had 95% compatibility with the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• Yan Lingji and Yun Yun both offered to yield the Ancestor Soul to the other, but Chen Cheng chose Yun Yun because her compatibility was higher.
• Yan Lingji used Fire Enchantment to tempt Chen Cheng, and he picked her up around the waist.

Xing Hun gathered ingredients for Chen Cheng’s Dragon Phoenix Dimension Pill and arranged for the Yellow Spring Pavilion to receive Pill Lightning for Pill Tower alchemists. Cao Hong came to test their claim by refining a high-grade Seventh Grade Pill, and Xing Hun accepted the medicinal ingredients for the challenge.

• Xing Hun traded one of Chen Cheng’s improved Rank 6 Pills for a Bone-Urging Flower and collected more ingredients for the Dragon Phoenix Dimension Pill.
• Xing Hun met the Pill Tower’s Three Giants, invoked Chen Cheng’s standing as a Ninth-Rank Alchemist, and obtained additional medicinal ingredients.
• Xing Hun asked Xuan Kongzi for permission to receive Pill Lightning on behalf of Pill Tower alchemists, and Xuan Kongzi agreed.
• Xing Hun and Qin Yan Yang advertised their Pill Lightning service, drawing the attention of Cao Hong, who decided to test their ability.
• Cao Hong brought thirty medicinal ingredients and challenged Xing Hun’s group to receive the Pill Lightning from his high-grade Seventh Grade Pill.

Xing Hun used his puppets to absorb Pill Lightning, attracting alchemists eager for his inexpensive help and drawing the attention of the Pill Tower’s three giants. Xuan Kongzi approached him to ask whether he could withstand the Eight-Colored or Nine-Colored Pill Lightning from a pill he planned to refine.

• Xing Hun used an Earth Demon Puppet to block Cao Hong’s Pill Lightning, helping it evolve toward a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Xing Hun recruited alchemists to provide Pill Lightning for his puppets, and more than twenty puppets reached their limits.
• Several Dou Venerates tried to stop Xing Hun from undercutting their Pill Lightning business, but his puppets defeated them, and alchemists backed him.
• Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi discussed Xing Hun’s growing puppet army and decided to favor him rather than interfere.
• Xuan Kongzi approached Xing Hun and asked whether he could take the Eight-Colored or Nine-Colored Pill Lightning from his planned pill.

Chen Cheng pulled the Demon Fire Space from the void and entered with Xie Jianxian and Chonglou, leaving Feipeng to guard its entrance. When the major clans tried to force their way in, Feipeng defeated their combined experts and drove them away, while the clans left to report his strength.

• Chen Cheng spent three days extracting the Demon Fire Space and entered it with Xie Jianxian and Chonglou, while Feipeng guarded the entrance.
• Hun Miesheng, Gu Nanhai, Huo Yao, and Yao Wangui arrived with forces from their clans and demanded access to the Demon Fire Space.
• Feipeng refused to let anyone interfere with the Young Master's business and drew the Demon Suppressing Sword when the clans challenged him.
• Hun Miesheng persuaded the assembled forces to join their more than twenty Dou Sheng in attacking Feipeng.
• Feipeng wounded the attackers without being hit, returned to his post, and forced Hun Miesheng and the other forces to retreat.

Chen Cheng and his companions defeated the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Chen Cheng refined it along with the energy of ten Fire Slaves, reaching the late stage of Six-Star Dou Sheng. After learning that the Xiao Clan had fallen, Xiao Chen chose to return to see the surviving Xiao Family.

• Chen Cheng, Xie Jianxian, and Chonglou broke through the Nightmare Sky Mist illusion, then Chonglou subdued Xiao Chen, whom the flame had partly controlled.
• Chen Cheng found the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, which sent ten Fire Slaves to attack while attempting to flee.
• Chen Cheng stopped the Fire Slaves from self-destructing and devoured their energy as Chonglou captured the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Chen Cheng erased the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's intelligence and refined it and the Fire Slaves' energy over two months, advancing to the late stage of Six-Star Dou Sheng.
• After the flame's control ended, Xiao Chen learned of the Xiao Clan's decline and said he would return to visit the Xiao Family before deciding whether to follow Chen Cheng.

Chen Cheng refined three Dragon Phoenix Dimension Pills and helped Yun Yun merge with the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix's Ancestor Soul. Yun Yun and Howling Celestial Hound emerged with greatly increased cultivation and new abilities.

• Chen Cheng summoned Yuan Hong and Six-Eared Macaque, while Sun Wukong reached Nine-Star Dou Sheng Peak and Nezha advanced to Six-Star Dou Sheng.
• Chen Cheng rapidly refined a Ninth-Rank Treasure Pill, devouring its Black Demon Lightning after a Heavenly Demon Puppet was destroyed, then completed three Dragon Phoenix Dimension Pills.
• Creation Saint took two pills and brought Ao Bing and Howling Celestial Hound into seclusion to merge with an Ancestor Soul.
• Chen Cheng helped Yun Yun merge with the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix's Ancestor Soul over half a month, raising her cultivation from Nine-Star Dou Zong to Eight-Star Dou Zun and strengthening her speed and bloodline suppression.
• Howling Celestial Hound emerged after merging with the Ancient Void Dragon's Ancestor Soul, reaching Five-Star Dou Zun and gaining treasure-hunting, spatial, and tracking abilities.

Chen Cheng strengthened Yellow Spring Pavilion, assigned the investigation of Soul Hall’s branch halls, and sent Xing Hun to negotiate for a pill recipe. Wind Venerable told Xiao Yan that the search could help locate his captive friend, and Xun Er offered her support.

• Chen Cheng helped Purple Flame and the Three-Eyed Golden Eagle advance to the seventh rank, then convened Yellow Spring Pavilion’s leaders.
• Xing Hun reported that all 108 puppets had reached Dou Zun level, and Chen Cheng put him, Nameless, and Zhu WuShi in charge of them.
• Chen Cheng ordered Wind Venerable, Thunder Venerable, Venerable Sword, and Blazing Fire Venerable to find Soul Hall’s branch halls.
• Chen Cheng sent Xing Hun and the Thirty-Six Heavenly Generals to trade a Venerable Bodhi Heart Pill for Earth Travel Sect’s pill recipe, with orders to avoid conflict if possible.
• Wind Venerable told Xiao Yan that Yellow Spring Pavilion’s search for Soul Hall would help him look for his captive friend, and Xun Er pledged to help rescue him.

After Yuwen Tuo was gravely wounded by a powerful force linked to Lion Underworld Sect, Xu Changqing and Zi Xuan helped him refine the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill, which could elevate him to Dou Venerable once he recovered. As Lion Underworld Sect allied with Soul Hall and began conquering the Northwest Continent, Chen Yuan’s clan resolved to join other surviving factions and attack them.

• Zijing reported that a mysterious enemy, likely connected to Lion Underworld Sect, ambushed him and Yuwen Tuo, leaving Yuwen Tuo badly injured and his Heavenly Demon Puppet nearly destroyed.
• Han Feng explained that Yuwen Tuo’s injuries could trigger the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill’s power and allow him to become a Dou Venerable; Chen Yuan ordered that he be saved.
• Xu Changqing and Zi Xuan arrived and used Mount Shu Daoist Arts and the Water Spiritual Pearl to help Yuwen Tuo absorb the pill’s power within a month.
• Chen Yuan told the clan meeting that Lion Underworld Sect had destroyed the Heavenly Serpent Mansion with help from more than ten Dou Venerables and Soul Hall fighters.
• Chen Yuan proposed attacking Lion Underworld Sect, and the Chen Family agreed to join the surviving factions to resist it.

The Chen Family alliance fought Lion Underworld Sect and the Hall of Souls in a massive battle across the Northwest Continent. As the Chen side gained the upper hand, a powerful Hall of Souls expert named Blood River Venerable arrived, leaving Chen Yuan’s forces facing a new threat.

• Chen Yuan confronted Shi Tian and demanded that Lion Underworld Sect retreat, while smaller sects appealed to the Chen Family for protection.
• The armies clashed, and Chen Yuan fought Shi Tian as Yuwen Tuo, Heavenly Flame Venerable, Xu Changqing, Zi Xuan, Fa Hai, and Zixia Fairy battled powerful opponents.
• The Chen Family’s military formations overwhelmed Lion Underworld Sect’s troops, while Yuwen Tuo killed a Five-Star Dou Zun and Zixia Fairy defeated another enemy expert.
• An Eight-Star Dou Zun from the Hall of Souls summoned reinforcements with a Space Jade Slip after he and his allies began losing ground.
• Blood River Venerable, the Hall of Souls Fourth Heavenly Guardian, emerged through a spatial rift and challenged the Chen Family to identify the powerful expert backing them.

Blood River Venerable attacked Chen Yuan’s forces and summoned a giant beast that threatened to consume the battlefield, but Sun Wukong and Chen Cheng arrived and defeated the threat. After learning that Soul Hall had provoked his family, Chen Cheng decided to unify the Northwest Continent and ordered Sun Wukong to eliminate the Lion Underworld Sect and Soul Hall forces.

• Blood River Venerable struck at Chen Yuan, and Chen Yuan and the other Dou Zun joined forces to withstand his attack.
• Blood River Venerable absorbed the battlefield’s souls and blood, then summoned a giant beast that began swallowing soldiers and draining the battlefield.
• Chen Yuan crushed a Space Jade Slip, while Zixia Fairy called for Sun Wukong to help.
• Sun Wukong killed Blood River Venerable with one strike, and Chen Cheng arrived and destroyed the giant beast with an energy wave.
• Chen Yuan explained the conflict to Chen Cheng, who declared he would unify the Northwest Continent and ordered Sun Wukong to kill the Lion Underworld Sect and Soul Hall forces.

Chen Cheng helped the Chen Family destroy the Lion Underworld Sect and Soul Hall’s Northwest Continent branch, then expanded the family’s territory and linked it with spatial teleportation points. He left with Xiao Chen and others to confront Soul Hall, and ended by offering the imprisoned Zhu Kun a chance to escape.

• Sun Wukong slaughtered Soul Hall and Lion Underworld Sect forces after Chen Cheng sealed the battlefield, while Chen Yuan mourned the fallen Chen Mian.
• Chen Cheng destroyed Soul Hall’s Northwest Continent branch, left Sun Wukong to assist Chen Yuan, and expanded the self-contained space near Anyang City.
• Chen Cheng established more than thirty spatial teleportation points across the Northwest Continent and summoned Xiao Chen, who left techniques and cultivation methods for the Xiao Family.
• Chen Cheng departed with Feng Ruoxue, Xiao Yu, Sun Wukong, and Xiao Chen, leaving Jade Cauldron True Person to guard Anyang City.
• Chen Cheng met Zhu Kun beneath Jia Nan Academy and offered him a chance to escape his imprisonment.

Chen Cheng offered to free Zhu Kun in exchange for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s loyalty and promised to find his daughter. After Howling Celestial Hound tracked down Zi Yan, she reunited with Zhu Kun, who agreed to Chen Cheng’s condition.

• Chen Cheng told Zhu Kun he could break the spatial formation if the Ancient Void Dragon Clan pledged loyalty to him.
• Chen Cheng offered to find Zhu Kun’s daughter, then had Sun Wukong bring Howling Celestial Hound to track her scent.
• Howling Celestial Hound found Zi Yan in Jia Nan Academy’s medicinal herb storage room and brought her through a Space Channel.
• Zhu Kun recognized Zi Yan as his daughter, and she eventually accepted him despite resenting his absence.
• Zhu Kun thanked Chen Cheng and agreed to his condition.

Chen Cheng rescued Zhu Kun, settled the Ancient Void Dragon crisis, and led Yellow Spring Pavilion in destroying Soul Hall’s branch halls, but Hun Miesheng avoided his ambush. After Chen Cheng advanced to late-stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng, Nihility Devouring Flame set out to destroy Yellow Spring Pavilion.

• Chen Cheng rescued Zhu Kun, brought him to Yellow Spring Pavilion, and watched him take Ao Bing back to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan while leaving Zi Yan behind.
• Chen Cheng led Sun Wukong, Xie Jianxian, and Xiao Chen in destroying twenty-four Earth Fiend Halls and the Human Hall, then absorbed their Soul Origins and gained Xiao Chen’s loyalty.
• Chen Cheng waited for Hun Miesheng above the Human Hall, but Hun Miesheng feared an ambush and reported the attacks to Hun Tiandi instead.
• After a month of cultivation, Chen Cheng reached late-stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng, though his soul realm still had not reached Great Perfection of the Heavenly Realm.
• Hun Miesheng told Nihility Devouring Flame that Yellow Spring Pavilion had attacked Soul Hall, and Nihility Devouring Flame decided to destroy it himself.

Chen Cheng learned that Nihility Devouring Flame was coming to attack Yellow Spring Pavilion and prepared to capture him. When Hun Miesheng led Soul Hall’s forces against the pavilion, Chen Cheng used spatial techniques to turn their attacks back on them and confronted Hun Miesheng.

• Taishang Laojun gave Chen Cheng ten Three Revolutions Golden Pills capable of helping Nine-Star Dou Sheng experts break through to Dou Emperor.
• Six-Eared Macaque told Chen Cheng that Nihility Devouring Flame had reached the Emperor Realm in soul cultivation and that Soul Hall planned to attack the Spirit Clan and Yellow Spring Pavilion.
• Chen Cheng eagerly prepared for Nihility Devouring Flame’s arrival instead of refining pills for Yan Lingji and the others.
• Hun Miesheng brought Nihility Devouring Flame and a vast Soul Hall force to Yellow Spring Pavilion, where Nihility Devouring Flame sealed the surrounding space.
• Chen Cheng’s spatial plane reflected Soul Hall’s attacks back at its troops, killing many Dou Zong, before Chen Cheng appeared and told Hun Miesheng he had been waiting for him.

Chen Cheng confronted Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Hall forces at Yellow Spring Pavilion, while Xiao Chen, Nezha, and Sun Wukong arrived to support him. After sealing the battlefield, Chen Cheng ordered his allies to capture the Dou Sheng alive and kill the rest, and Sun Wukong unleashed tens of thousands of clones.

• Chen Cheng used spatial wormholes to redirect Soul Hall's attacks into its own forces, then faced Nihility Devouring Flame and Hun Miesheng.
• Nihility Devouring Flame recognized traces of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in Chen Cheng and decided he had to be killed to protect the Soul Clan's plans.
• Xiao Chen arrived and confronted Soul Hall, while Hun Miesheng and Nihility Devouring Flame assessed his strength.
• Nezha and Sun Wukong joined Chen Cheng, and Nihility Devouring Flame sensed that Sun Wukong had reached at least Nine-Star Dou Sheng Peak.
• Chen Cheng completed a powerful spatial seal and ordered Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Xiao Chen to capture the Dou Sheng alive and kill everyone else.
• Sun Wukong created tens of thousands of clones, terrifying Soul Hall's Dou Zong forces.

Sun Wukong, Xiao Chen, and Nezha overwhelmed Soul Hall’s forces, capturing Hun Miesheng and the deputy hall master while fighting Nihility Devouring Flame. Chen Cheng absorbed the two captives’ energy and called Sun Wukong back, preparing to deal with Nihility Devouring Flame himself.

• Sun Wukong’s clones defeated Soul Hall’s forces as Xiao Chen attacked Hun Miesheng and Sun Wukong broke Nihility Devouring Flame’s Devouring Realm.
• Sun Wukong smashed Nihility Devouring Flame into countless sub-flames, while Nezha beat and bound the deputy hall master and brought him to Chen Cheng.
• Chen Cheng drained the deputy hall master’s energy, and Xiao Chen defeated Hun Miesheng before delivering him to Chen Cheng.
• Chen Cheng absorbed Hun Miesheng’s energy and gave Xiao Chen a healing pill for his injuries.
• Chen Cheng called Sun Wukong back from his fight with Nihility Devouring Flame, intending to deal with the Heavenly Flame himself.