Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan tried to reconcile with Feng Qing Er, but her anger over his past choice led to a fierce argument with Zi Yan. When Feng Qing Er demanded that Lu Yuan tear out his heart as compensation, he did so, leaving her to save him and confront the sincerity of his gesture.

• Jiu Feng left, and Lu Yuan took his place to discuss the past with Feng Qing Er and offer compensation.
• Feng Qing Er blamed Lu Yuan for betraying her, and she and Zi Yan traded insults over their looks, family backgrounds, and loyalty.
• Lu Yuan stopped their argument and warned Feng Qing Er that he would end their relationship if she kept making peaceful coexistence impossible.
• Feng Qing Er demanded that Lu Yuan tear out his heart, and Lu Yuan cut it from his chest and tossed it to her.
• Zi Yan caught Lu Yuan and noticed his signal, while Feng Qing Er panicked and knelt beside him.
• Feng Qing Er used her essence blood to reconnect Lu Yuan's heart and save him.

Lu Yuan and Feng Qing Er began to address the damage to their relationship after he gave up his heart to prove his sincerity. Their attempt to talk was interrupted by Huo Zhi’s arrival, and the chapter ended with her provoking Lu Yuan and uniting the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and Void Ancient Dragon Clan against her.

• Zi Yan explained that Feng Qing Er called herself and Lu Yuan idiots because she regretted her demand and feared she had destroyed their chance to reconcile.
• Lu Yuan told Feng Qing Er he needed an answer about whether they could put their past grievances aside, and she accepted his help as they prepared to talk.
• Huo Zhi arrived with Flame Clan members and demanded that Jiu Feng explain why the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan appeared to be allied with the Void Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Jiu Feng declared that he would support the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and would not attack them while they were recovering.
• After her allies restrained her from challenging the stronger clans, Huo Zhi insulted Lu Yuan for standing with the nonhuman clans, drawing Jiu Feng, Zi Yan, and Feng Qing Er to his side.

Lu Yuan crushed Huo Zhi and the Flame Clan members who attacked him after Huo Zhi insulted him and threatened the Void Ancient Dragon Clan. He revealed that he was a Three-Rank Supreme and vowed to hunt down the Flame Clan, leaving Huo Zhi alive to witness what came next.

• Huo Zhi decided to withdraw after Jiu Feng sided with the Void Ancient Dragon Clan, but Lu Yuan stopped her and demanded that she stay.
• Huo Zhi called Lu Yuan a traitor to humanity and challenged him, so Lu Yuan used spatial power to crush her and the attacking Flame Clan members into the ground.
• Huo Zhi activated her Clan Tattoo, insulted Lu Yuan, and threatened that the Flame Clan would hunt him down.
• Zi Yan and Feng Qing Er urged Lu Yuan to kill Huo Zhi, but he stopped them and explained why he held a grudge against her and the Flame Clan.
• Lu Yuan revealed that he was a Three-Rank Supreme and declared that he would hunt down the Flame Clan rather than be hunted by them.

Lu Yuan rejected Huo Zhi’s appeals to the greater good and argued that strength, not human or beast lineage, determined who could impose their will. He annihilated the Flame Clan forces arriving to rescue Huo Zhi, killed her, and promised that the Soul Clan would follow.

• Huo Zhi urged Lu Yuan to spare her and consider the alliance against the Soul Clan, but he dismissed her appeal to the greater good.
• Lu Yuan challenged Huo Zhi’s claims that humans differed from beasts, revealing his dragon-derived body and demonstrating that his soul could leave his body.
• Lu Yuan said strength gave him the right to reject Huo Zhi’s arguments and declared that he intended to wipe out the Flame Clan, not the entire Human Race.
• Lu Yuan sent out a Red Thread that drained the Flame Clan members rushing to rescue Huo Zhi, leaving no bodies or ashes behind.
• Lu Yuan killed Huo Zhi with a palm strike and told her that Hun Feng had already died and the Soul Clan would be next.

After Lu Yuan killed Huo Zhi and claimed to have killed Hun Feng, Jiu Feng and Zi Yan worked to calm their clans and sustain a temporary truce between the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and the Void Ancient Dragon Clan. Zi Yan revealed Lu Yuan’s strength to the Void Ancient Dragons, who accepted her call to avoid fighting the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan for now.

• Jiu Feng questioned Lu Yuan’s claim that he had killed Hun Feng, then returned to calm the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Zi Yan brought Lu Yuan and Feng Qing Er into the Void Ancient Dragon Clan’s defensive line while both clans remained wary of renewed fighting.
• Zi Yan introduced Lu Yuan to the Void Ancient Dragon Clan’s young members as her friend and the person who had helped her obtain the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Zi Yan told the Void Ancient Dragons that Lu Yuan had killed Huo Zhi, Hun Feng, and hundreds of their clansmen, and identified him as a Three-Star Dou Sheng.
• The Void Ancient Dragons accepted Zi Yan’s request to avoid clashing with the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan while Jiu Feng restrained his own clan.

After Lu Yuan's victory drove the Flame Clan and Stone Clan from the battlefield, Jiu Feng and Feng Qing Er assessed how he had shifted the balance among the clans. Zi Yan revealed that Lu Yuan had told her the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan had supplied essence blood for him, leaving Jiu Feng hoping his clan's leaders would not restart the conflict.

• The Flame Clan's surviving rear forces withdrew after learning Huo Zhi and the Core Area elites had been killed, and the Stone Clan also pulled back.
• Jiu Feng and Feng Qing Er watched Lu Yuan depart and discussed how he had defeated the coalition's plans while preserving ties with several clans.
• Feng Qing Er tested Zi Yan by asking whether she feared the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan would attack her, but Zi Yan said she trusted them and considered them Lu Yuan's friends.
• Zi Yan explained that Lu Yuan had told her the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's Dou Zun had contributed essence blood for him, which changed his attitude toward them.
• Jiu Feng acknowledged the clan's good fortune and hoped its Clan Leader and elders would not reignite the conflict.

Lu Yuan reached the vicinity of Dragon Island and gathered current intelligence on the conflict between the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and the allied forces pressuring it. After a Dou Zong insulted Little Fairy Doctor in a tavern, Lu Yuan killed him and left, making the Yao Clan another enemy.

• Lu Yuan traveled from Dragon Severing Valley to the vicinity of Dragon Island in one day and stayed in a nearby town to seek up-to-date news.
• Three Dou Zongs discussed the Soul Clan's aggression, Zhu Kun's injuries, and the ancient clans' pressure on the Void Ancient Dragon Clan.
• The Dou Zongs praised Little Fairy Doctor's Woeful Poison Body and mentioned that Ren Yaozi of the Yao Clan was pursuing her.
• One Dou Zong mocked the idea that Ren Yaozi could feed his Waste Pills to Little Fairy Doctor, and Lu Yuan drained him to ashes.
• Lu Yuan paid for his drink and left the tavern, while the two surviving Dou Zongs trembled in fear.

The chapter explained why supernatural beings built enormous training grounds, then focused on Yao Xingji’s pursuit of the Little Fairy Doctor and her rejection of him. It left the Little Fairy Doctor gathering poisonous plants in the Poisonous Swamp, poised to break through from Eight Star Dou Zun and rapidly reach Nine Revolutions Dou Zun.

• The narration explained that powerful cultivators needed vast, sturdy spaces for training, and that Yun Yun had remodeled Yun Shan’s Training Ground to instruct Lu Yuan and Nalan Yanran.
• Yao Xingji, an Eight-Rank Alchemist from the Yao Clan, became infatuated with the Little Fairy Doctor after losing interest in pursuing Yao Ling, but the Little Fairy Doctor saw through him and rejected him.
• The Little Fairy Doctor shook Yao Xingji off and continued through the Poisonous Swamp, collecting poisonous plants while poisonous creatures stayed away from her.
• The Little Fairy Doctor stood at Eight Star Dou Zun, one star short of a breakthrough, and her Woeful Poison Body let her absorb pill poison and advance through the Dou Zun stages far faster than other cultivators.

Little Fairy Doctor reunited with Lu Yuan after more than two years and explained why she and Qing Lin had remained on their own. She revealed that Qing Lin had been pursued by the Nine Netherworld Python Clan after exposing her Azure Serpent Three Flower Pupils, and that a Dou Saint had joined the hunt.

• Little Fairy Doctor mistook Lu Yuan for an impostor, attacked him with poisonous mist, and then realized he was himself.
• Lu Yuan apologized for leaving without telling her, and Little Fairy Doctor urged him to help Qing Lin.
• Little Fairy Doctor explained that she and Qing Lin avoided seeking refuge with Zi Yan or Gu Xun'er because they lacked a safe way to reach them and feared drawing danger to them.
• Little Fairy Doctor recounted how a Nine Netherworld Python Dou Zun forced Qing Lin to reveal her Azure Serpent Three Flower Pupils before they killed him.
• The Nine Netherworld Python Clan sent more than a dozen Dou Zuns after Qing Lin, and its First Elder, a Dou Saint, joined the pursuit.

Lu Yuan learned that the Nine Netherworld Python Clan's First Elder had been tracking Qing Lin through a hidden Dou Qi Seed and that Qing Lin had sealed herself in ice while injured. He rescued her, killed the pursuing Dou Zuns, and crushed the First Elder, declaring that the rest of the clan would soon follow.

• Xiao Yi Xian explained her plan to lure the First Elder into a poison formation and escape with Qing Lin through a Small Teleportation Array.
• Lu Yuan found a planted Dou Qi Seed in Xiao Yi Xian's little snake and explained that the First Elder had used it to track them, while Qing Lin had gone dormant to evade capture.
• Lu Yuan revealed that he was a Three-Rank Supreme and used the little snake's coordinates to reach Qing Lin's hiding place.
• Lu Yuan pulled Qing Lin, sealed in ice with an ice blue serpent, from a cold pool and told Xiao Yi Xian to melt the ice with her poison.
• Lu Yuan killed the Nine Netherworld Python Clan's pursuing Dou Zuns and crushed the First Elder into a Flesh and Blood Pill after erasing his soul.

Lu Yuan reunited with Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin, then explained why he intended to settle the conflict between the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan at its source. He arrived at the Dou Sheng battlefield and confronted Huang Tian as the North Dragon King was being driven into a desperate position.

• Lu Yuan praised Qing Lin for surviving the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s pursuit, and she explained how the clan had discovered them and forced her and Little Fairy Doctor to fight their way out.
• Lu Yuan teleported Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin to the battlefield and said he planned to resolve the conflict between the two clans by dealing with their upper ranks.
• Little Fairy Doctor complained that Lu Yuan had not come to save them intentionally, and Qing Lin redirected the conversation to his plan.
• Lu Yuan explained that he could not end every conflict through slaughter without worsening the schemes and dangers facing him and his allies.
• Lu Yuan reached the battlefield, where Huang Tian was pressing the North Dragon King, and placed a hand on Huang Tian’s head before asking if he was Huang Tian.

Lu Yuan arrived at the battle between the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, killed Huang Tian repeatedly, and stopped the fighting. He offered the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan peace under Jiu Feng and Feng Qing Er, but warned that refusing would mean their destruction.

• Lu Yuan crushed Huang Tian’s skull, then greeted the North Dragon King and said he had settled matters with Jiu Feng and Feng Qing Er.
• When Huang Tian cursed him and attacked, Lu Yuan slapped him down again and ordered the Void Ancient Dragons to stop fighting.
• The North Dragon King withdrew the Void Ancient Dragon Clan’s forces, and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan retreated after Huang Tian had lost several lives.
• Phoenix restrained the obsessive Huang Tian and asked Lu Yuan what he intended to do; Lu Yuan said he wanted peace and argued that neither clan needed to keep dying.
• Lu Yuan gave the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan a choice between peace guaranteed by him and Feng Qing Er or death, with Jiu Feng and Feng Qing Er leading those who survived.

Lu Yuan confronted Huang Tian over the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s blood feud with the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and argued that revenge would only perpetuate more violence. Huang Tian accepted peace after Lu Yuan outlined his authority and connections, while Lu Yuan warned both clans that he would punish anyone who reignited the conflict.

• Huang Tian challenged Lu Yuan’s proposed peace, arguing that abandoning revenge would betray generations of Heavenly Demon Phoenixes killed by the Void Ancient Dragons.
• Lu Yuan questioned the meaning of fairness and traced how each act of revenge had created new blood debts, explaining why the Primordial Dragon Phoenixes had preserved a balance instead of exterminating either clan.
• Lu Yuan warned that rejecting peace would pass the feud to future generations, then said the resisters could either accept peace or die.
• Phoenix asked why Lu Yuan sought the clan’s agreement when he could install Jiu Feng and Feng Qing Er, and Lu Yuan replied that every death caused by rejecting peace would be an unnecessary loss.
• Huang Tian demanded safeguards against future retaliation, but Lu Yuan cited his strength, his friendship with Zi Yan, and his relationship with Feng Qing Er before asking for an answer.
• Huang Tian accepted peace on behalf of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, and Lu Yuan told the North Dragon King and the Void Ancient Dragon Clan elders to prevent further conflict while warning that he would kill whoever started another war.

Lu Yuan urgently met Zhu Kun to secure the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s safety before returning to Starfall Pavilion for Yao Lao’s remaining materials. Zhu Kun agreed not to attack the clan, leaving Lu Yuan’s immediate mission complete while the materials still awaited collection.

• Lu Yuan decided to prioritize meeting Zhu Kun because the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan was at risk if Zhu Kun acted before hearing the message.
• Lu Yuan considered the strength and political standing of the Void Ancient Dragon, Heavenly Demon Phoenix, Nine Netherworld Python, and Qingluan Clans, as well as Yao Lao’s value as a Ninth-Rank Alchemist.
• Zhu Huo recognized Lu Yuan through Zi Yan’s Reverse Scale and let him pass to see Zhu Kun.
• Lu Yuan told Zhu Kun about Dragon Severing Valley and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s surrender, revealing how the situation had changed while Zhu Kun was in seclusion.
• Zhu Kun promised Lu Yuan that he would not attack the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.

After leaving Dragon Island, Lu Yuan reached Starfall Pavilion and collected the ingredients needed to resurrect Yao Lao. With Feng Xian joining him, he set out for Canaan Academy to begin the next stage of the resurrection.

• Lu Yuan left Dragon Island with Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin after discussing the stable but unresolved war with Zhu Kun.
• The trio traveled to Starfall Pavilion and met Feng Xian and Mu Qingluan without following the usual visitor process.
• Lu Yuan introduced Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin as his maids, and Feng Xian reluctantly accepted his explanation.
• Feng Xian told Lu Yuan that Starfall Pavilion had gathered the listed resources, and Lu Yuan supplied vials of Eighth- and Ninth-Order Heavenly Demon Phoenix Essence Blood.
• Lu Yuan gathered the remaining materials from the Void Ancient Dragon Clan's treasury and departed for Canaan Academy with Little Fairy Doctor, Qing Lin, and Feng Xian, while Mu Qingluan stayed to manage Starfall Pavilion.

Lu Yuan returned to Canaan Academy with Little Fairy Doctor, Qing Lin, and Feng Xian, where Yao Chen explained how Xiao Yan and Lu Yuan became his disciples. After Xiao Yan refined the pill needed for Yao Chen’s revival, Yao Chen returned to life as a Nine Revolutions Dou Zun, just as the Medicine Clan Ceremony approached.

• Lu Yuan brought Feng Xian, Little Fairy Doctor, and Qing Lin directly to Xiao Yan’s courtyard at Canaan Academy, where Xiao Yan greeted Feng Xian as Yao Lao’s Martial Uncle.
• Yao Lao explained to Feng Xian how he had taken Xiao Yan and Lu Yuan as disciples, and Feng Xian learned that Xiao Yan would refine the pill needed for Yao Lao’s revival.
• Feng Xian provided a Dou Zun corpse, while Xiao Yan successfully refined the Flesh Bone Blood Fusion Pill.
• Lu Yuan shattered the Pill Lightning, and Yao Lao placed the pill into the corpse to begin his revival.
• After a day and a night of transformation, Yao Lao returned as a Nine Revolutions Dou Zun, with the Medicine Clan Ceremony about to begin.

Yao Chen, Xuan Yi, Xiao Yan, and Lu Yuan prepared to attend the Medicine Clan’s combined Medicine Ceremony, where the clan would showcase both its senior alchemists and younger generation. After traveling together from Danta, they arrived at the Shennong Mountain Range, with Yao Chen focused on confronting the Medicine Clan and reclaiming his dignity.

• The chapter explained that the Medicine Clan’s Medicine Ceremony combined an alchemist competition with a ceremony for its younger members because turmoil in the Central Plains made the clan want to display its strength.
• Xuan Yi revealed that Xuan Kongzi would miss the ceremony while attempting to break through to Dou Saint, and she gave Yao Chen his invitation.
• Yao Chen said he planned to return to the Medicine Clan to confront Yao Wangui, who had expelled and targeted him.
• Xuan Yi and Yao Chen agreed that she would take Lu Yuan and he would take Xiao Yan, then travel together under Yao Chen’s Three-Chapter Law.
• Xuan Yi pursued Yao Chen throughout their half-day journey, and the group arrived at the Shennong Mountain Range with Yao Chen relieved and focused on the ceremony.

Xuan Yi brought Lu Yuan, Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan to the Medicine Ceremony, where Yao Chen’s return drew attention and Xiao Yan met other alchemists. The Ancient Clans began arriving, and the chapter left off as the Flame Clan joined the gathering after the Thunder and Spirit Clans.

• Xuan Yi led Lu Yuan, Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan to sit among Danta’s alchemists, while Yao Chen’s presence prompted old acquaintances and other Eighth-Rank Alchemists to approach him.
• Yao Chen’s introductions helped Xiao Yan build connections with alchemists and their disciples.
• The Medicine Clan Leader personally welcomed Lei Dong and the Thunder Clan delegation, which included a Three-Star Dou Sheng elder.
• The Spirit Clan arrived with a delegation led by a Five Star Dou Sheng first elder and accompanied by four other Dou Shengs.
• The Flame Clan arrived with two Five Star Dou Sheng elders and a diminished younger generation, exchanged polite words, and sat beside the Thunder Clan.

The Medicine Clan hosted the Stone Clan while a disturbance involving Yao Chen’s group broke out in the Danta camp, and Gu Clan members arrived. Yao Wangui went to handle the conflict, where Lu Yuan demanded an apology and invoked Yao Chen’s old grievance against the Medicine Clan, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Yao Dan greeted the Stone Clan, then assigned Yao Wangui to handle the commotion without damaging the Medicine Clan’s reputation.
• Yao Wangui found Yao Chen, Xuan Yi, Lu Yuan, Xiao Yan, and others in a dispute with Yao Ling, Yao Xingji, and other Medicine Clan youths.
• Yao Chen mocked Yao Wangui, who called him a disgrace expelled from the Medicine Clan and tried to redirect attention to the conflict.
• Lu Yuan silenced Yao Xingji with his Dou Saint aura and demanded that Yao Wangui apologize to Yao Chen and punish the Medicine Clan youths.
• Yao Wangui refused to apologize and repeated the Medicine Clan’s old accusation against Yao Chen, but Lu Yuan challenged his account and threatened consequences if he did not comply.

Yao Wangui accused Lu Yuan and his companions of conspiring against the Medicine Clan, then attacked Lu Yuan at the Medicine Ceremony. Lei Dong intervened to protect Lu Yuan, and the chapter ended when Gu Xun'er arrived before him.

• Yao Wangui called Lu Yuan and Little Fairy Doctor agents of the Soul Clan and demanded that they surrender, while Yao Xingji, Yao Ling, and others urged him not to escalate the dispute.
• Lu Yuan and Yao Lao criticized Yao Wangui and the Medicine Clan as Yao Wangui erupted with the aura of a Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Lei Dong recognized Lu Yuan, shattered Yao Wangui's attack with a Thunder Spear, and stood between them to defend his friend.
• Yao Dan arrived, ordered Yao Ling to explain what had happened, and tried to calm the gathered factions.
• Gu Xun'er swept in and stopped before Lu Yuan, surprising Xiao Yan and drawing Lei Dong's attention.