Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xie used Shadow Clones to absorb the blood-red energy beneath the Blood Pool and advanced from peak Four Star Dou Zong to Nine Star Dou Zong. After stabilizing his cultivation, he left through the Space Barrier, having drained the pool’s stored energy.

• Xiao Xie summoned fifty Shadow Clones and used the six divine beast Heavenly Flames to keep Fire Poison from the energy they absorbed.
• Xiao Xie broke through to Five Star Dou Zong as his Shadow Clones returned their accumulated energy to him.
• Xiao Xie and his clones absorbed all the blood-red energy beneath the Blood Pool, raising his cultivation to Eight Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Xie swallowed a Dou Zong Pill and broke through to Nine Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Xie dismissed the remaining Shadow Clones to stabilize his cultivation, then used the Gold-Devouring Rat Skull to leave through the Space Barrier.

After reaching Nine Star Dou Zong in the Tianshan Blood Pool, Xiao Xie rewarded Jin Shi and Jin Gu and learned why the Four Directions Pavilions had invited him to their assembly. He decided to attend the gathering to build his reputation in the Central Plains.

• Xiao Xie found Xiao Yi Xian absorbing Fire Poison at Four Star Dou Zong and Qing Lin cultivating in the Blood Pool at Three Star Dou Huang.
• Xiao Xie emerged from the volcanic crater at Nine Star Dou Zong, astonishing Jin Shi and Jin Gu with how far he had advanced.
• Xiao Xie gave Jin Shi two bottles containing Dou Zong Pills and Po Zong Pills to thank him for revealing the cultivation spot.
• Jin Shi handed Xiao Xie an invitation to the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly and explained that the pavilions sent it after seeing the ten Dou Zun white bone demonic beasts guarding the Blood Pool.
• Xiao Xie decided to attend the assembly as an opportunity to gain Worship Points and make a name for himself in the Central Plains.

Xiao Xie traveled alone to Thunder Mountain for the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly, leaving Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to cultivate under the protection of ten White Bone Monsters. The assembly began with the Four Pavilion masters gathering, and Tang Ying arrived with the Sword Venerable.

• Xiao Xie left the Tianmu Mountain Range aboard the Heavenly Phoenix and headed to the Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s East Pavilion, leaving ten White Bone Monsters to guard Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Xie reached Thunder Mountain, where crowds had gathered to watch the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly.
• Thunder Venerable and the masters of the Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s other three pavilions appeared and took their seats before the plaza.
• A giant sword flew into the plaza, and Thunder Venerable greeted the arriving Sword Venerable.
• Tang Ying descended with the Sword Venerable, carrying a massive azure sword on his back.

Sword Venerable, Yellow Springs Venerable, and Wind Venerable arrived at the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly, completing the gathering of the Four Great Venerables. Xiao Xie then arrived and stunned them with his age and rapid rise to Nine Star Dou Zong, while the crowd recognized him as the young master who seized control of the Tianmu Blood Pool.

• Sword Venerable arrived with Tang Ying and took his seat beside Thunder Venerable.
• Yellow Springs Venerable arrived with Liu Ji and Wang Chen, and Thunder Venerable praised Wang Chen's talent.
• Wind Venerable arrived with Mu Qingluan, completing the arrival of the Four Great Venerables.
• Thunder Venerable explained that the vacant seat had been reserved for the ruler of the Tianmu Mountain Range, who had not come.
• Xiao Xie arrived on the Heavenly Phoenix, and the Four Great Venerables welcomed him personally.
• Thunder Venerable learned Xiao Xie was seventeen and a Nine Star Dou Zong, while the spectators recognized him as the young master who took control of the Tianmu Blood Pool.

The Four Directions Pavilion Assembly began at Thunder Mountain, with fifty-four contestants entering a free-for-all to determine which eight would advance. As the battle was about to erupt, Xiao Xie noticed Wang Chen’s killing intent toward Liu Ji.

• Thunder Venerable welcomed the crowd, announced the assembly rules, and called the fifty-four participants into the arena.
• Mu Qingluan, Tang Ying, and Liu Ji entered the arena, followed by Feng Qing'er on a seven-colored crane.
• Xiao Xie spoke with the Four Great Venerables about his cultivation and mentioned a friend whose progress matched his own.
• Xiao Xie spotted Wang Chen looking at Liu Ji with killing intent and suspected Wang Chen was connected to Liu Ji’s death.
• Thunder Venerable started the competition, and the tense contestants began fighting when one participant attacked another.

After Feng Qing'er won the Four Directions Pavilion Tournament, she questioned Xiao Xie about the Heavenly Phoenix and its connection to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, provoking his anger before they reconciled. Thunder Venerable then gathered the other Venerables and Xiao Xie to invite them to explore an Ancient Saint Remains.

• Feng Qing'er won the tournament after using a secret technique of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to overcome her rivals.
• Feng Qing'er asked Xiao Xie whether the Heavenly Phoenix was related to her clan, and he warned her not to presume she could claim it.
• Thunder Venerable urged Feng Qing'er to apologize, and Xiao Xie gave her a Huang Ji Pill as an apology of his own.
• After the tournament ended, Thunder Venerable called Xiao Xie and the other Venerables to his study.
• Thunder Venerable invited them to explore an Ancient Saint Remains, and the Venerables reacted with surprise.

Thunder Venerable recruited Xiao Xie and the other Venerables to explore the Ancient Saint Remains, agreeing that Xiao Xie would choose treasures first. In the Ancient Realm, Ling Ying told Xun Er that someone had seized the Tianshan Blood Pool half a month earlier.

• Thunder Venerable proposed that he, the other Venerables, and Xiao Xie explore the Ancient Saint Remains and divide their gains equally.
• Xiao Xie agreed to join but negotiated priority in choosing the treasures, and the group set out with him and the Heavenly Phoenix following Thunder Venerable.
• Xun Er cultivated atop a mountain in the Ancient Realm until she noticed Ling Ying arriving.
• Xun Er said she was uninterested in clan affairs, but Ling Ying caught her attention by reporting that someone had seized the Tianshan Blood Pool.

Xun Er learned that Xiao Xie had reached Nine Star Dou Zong and entered the Central Plains, and she resolved to cultivate harder before their next meeting. Xiao Xie and the Four Venerables entered the Ancient Saint Remains and reached an ancient Dou Saint’s cave, where its stone guardians attacked them.

• Ling Ying told Xun Er that Xiao Xie had occupied the Tianshan Blood Pool, reached Nine Star Dou Zong, and joined the Four Directions Pavilion Tournament.
• Xun Er asked Ling Ying to report any new information about Xiao Xie and decided to cultivate diligently to catch up to him.
• Thunder Venerable opened a portal to the Ancient Saint Remains with a jade token, and Xiao Xie and the other Venerables entered the hidden world.
• Following the token’s guidance, Xiao Xie and the Venerables crossed the grassland and found an enormous cave residence with an aerial restriction barrier.
• Thunder Venerable opened the cave entrance, awakening ten Stone Statue Warriors that attacked Xiao Xie’s group with streaks of red light.

Xiao Xie and the four Venerables entered the Ancient Saint Remains, defeated Stone Puppet guards, and split up to search the residence. After Xiao Xie's shadow clones helped clear the small rooms, the group regrouped and wondered whether the ruins were truly safe.

• Xiao Xie and the four Venerables evaded the Stone Statue Warriors, and Wind Venerable explained that they were Stone Puppets powered by magic cores.
• Xiao Xie suggested that the group split up, and Wind Venerable proposed that each person keep treasures found in the small rooms while they shared treasures from the central buildings.
• Yellow Springs Venerable, Thunder Venerable, Wind Venerable, and Sword Venerable hurried off to search, while Xiao Xie summoned one hundred shadow clones to search the rooms.
• Xiao Xie and his clones searched more than one hundred thousand rooms in half a day, finding a few thousand rooms with mostly low-value weapons and expired medicines and herbs.
• Xiao Xie regrouped with the four Venerables, and Thunder Venerable questioned why they had encountered no dangers beyond the entrance guardians.
• Yellow Springs Venerable suggested that any guardians or mechanisms in the ruins might have stopped working over the tens of thousands of years.

Xiao Xie and the Four Great Venerables searched the ancient Alchemy Pavilion, where nearly all the pills had decayed, including a precious Saint Origin Pill. They found four preserved Life Creation Pills among the five of them, leaving Yellow Springs Venerable worried that he would miss out.

• Wind Venerable led Xiao Xie and the others to the three central buildings, whose ancient inscriptions identified them as the Alchemy Pavilion, Beast Garden, and Cultivation Room.
• Thunder Venerable opened the Alchemy Pavilion, and the group found more than a thousand bottles of pills, but nearly all had crumbled into medicinal residue.
• Thunder Venerable discovered that a bottle labeled Saint Origin Pill contained spoiled pills, despite the pill's power to turn anyone into a Dou Saint.
• Thunder Venerable opened a bottle of preserved Life Creation Pills, and four pills rolled into his hand.
• Yellow Springs Venerable worried that he would not receive a pill, while Sword Venerable urged the group to keep searching.

Xiao Xie and the Venerables explored the Ancient Saint Remains, discovering its owner’s legacy and dividing its treasures. Xiao Xie chose the Mountains and Rivers Fan over the Heaven-tier Dou Skills, leaving Sword Venerable relieved that he could claim one.

• Xiao Xie chose the top-tier cauldron over the Life Creation Pill, and the Venerables divided the remaining pills after finding that they had expired.
• Xiao Xie summoned a White Bone Demonic Beast to open the Cultivation Room, where the group found no bones but discovered three mid-level Heaven-tier Dou Skills and several artifacts.
• Thunder Venerable and the others used a Sound Recording Stone to learn that the remains belonged to the Heaven Flipping Great Saint, who had left behind a legacy before facing a powerful enemy.
• The group learned that the Mountains and Rivers Fan was a mid-level Heaven-tier weapon, while the Mind Concentrating Furnace had lost much of its use because its incense was gone.
• Xiao Xie chose the Mountains and Rivers Fan instead of a Dou Skill, and Sword Venerable was relieved that he could claim one of the three scrolls.

Xiao Xie and the four Venerables entered the vast Beast Garden, where they sensed danger and learned they could leave only with Thunder Venerable’s token. Inside, Black Demon King discovered outsiders had entered and summoned Poison Rose, Poison Fang, and Nine Dragons to respond.

• Thunder Venerable, Wind Venerable, Sword Venerable, and Yellow Springs Venerable divided the Cultivation Room’s treasures before Xiao Xie led them to the Beast Garden.
• Thunder Venerable used the token to open the restricted gate, alerting Black Demon King, who summoned Poison Rose, Poison Fang, and Nine Dragons.
• Thunder Venerable entered with Xiao Xie and the others, and they found the Beast Garden was a vast inner world.
• Thunder Venerable urged the group to stay together and keep close to the token, while Yellow Springs Venerable and the others sensed something was wrong.
• A short old man emerged from the void, watched the group, and went to report the outsiders to Lord Poison Fang.
• Black Demon King told Poison Rose and the others that his barrier had detected outsiders and explained that the Beast Garden was an Emperor Rank Weapon’s internal space trapping them inside.

The Four Kings sent five eighth-order Magical Beasts to capture Xiao Xie and the Four Great Venerables, hoping to seize the outsiders’ key to escape the Beast Garden. The group began fighting their captors, and Xiao Xie blocked a fox woman’s claw with his Magic Sword.

• Nine Dragons, Poison Rose, Poison Fang, and Black Demon King discussed escaping the Beast Garden by killing the outsiders and taking their key.
• Xiao Xie found and collected an eighth-tier Star Light Grass while traveling with the Four Great Venerables.
• Five eighth-order transformed Magical Beasts arrived and announced that the Four Kings had ordered them to bring the group back.
• The Four Great Venerables confronted their attackers, with Thunder Venerable summoning his Three Thousand Illusory Thunder Body and the others engaging their opponents.
• A fox woman attacked Xiao Xie, but he blocked her claws with his Magic Sword.

Xiao Xie killed Huo Xi with Amaterasu and joined Thunder Venerable against the Earth Demon Rhino. After Xiao Xie cut down the rhino, he urged Thunder Venerable to help the others, who were still locked in difficult battles.

• Xiao Xie’s Amaterasu consumed Huo Xi’s fox fire and exploded, killing the Fire Fox.
• The Earth Demon Rhino transformed and summoned earthen spikes, while the other three shape-shifted Magical Beasts revealed their original bodies and fought the Four Great Venerables.
• Xiao Xie used the Divine Refining Hand on Huo Xi’s corpse, retrieved a treasure chest, and stored the corpse.
• Xiao Xie transformed into a giant golden warrior and, with Thunder Venerable binding the Earth Demon Rhino, cleaved the rhino in half.
• Thunder Venerable’s Three Thousand Illusory Thunder Body re-formed, and Xiao Xie urged him to help Wind Venerable and the others.

Xiao Xie and the Four Great Venerables escaped the Beast Garden after defeating its guardians, only to discover that powerful shape-shifted magical beasts had tricked them into opening the exit. The beasts seized the token and began freeing their kind, while Xiao Xie and the others fled from the Dou Sheng-level pursuers.

• Xiao Xie and the Four Great Venerables defeated the Howling Moon Demon Wolf and the other beasts, then hurried toward the Beast Garden's exit.
• Thunder Venerable opened the exit with his token, and more than a dozen ninth-rank shape-shifted magical beasts followed them through the teleportation array.
• Black Demon King took Thunder Venerable's token, declared the beasts free, and opened the Beast Garden's gate to release its captives.
• Xiao Xie and the Four Great Venerables fled through the void, recognizing they could not defeat the many Dou Sheng-level beasts.
• Nine Dragons sent a Green Light Pillar after the fleeing group, while Poison Rose urged Nine Dragons and Poison Fang to preserve their unity before they entered the outside world.

Xiao Xie and the Four Great Venerables escaped the Space Turbulence after Hong Kui emerged from the Magic Sword and protected them. The group survived, and Wind Venerable thanked Xiao Xie and Long Kui after the Life Creation Pill healed his injuries.

• Poison Rose and the others agreed they would need to work together to leave the Beast Garden, unaware that Dou Dis no longer existed on the Dou Qi Continent.
• Hong Kui flew out of the Magic Sword and used her Houyi Sun-Shooting Bow to destroy the Green Light Pillar threatening Xiao Xie and the others.
• Hong Kui shielded Xiao Xie from the Space Turbulence, then opened a Space Channel and rescued the Four Great Venerables at Xiao Xie's request.
• Xiao Xie praised Hong Kui's strength, and she changed into Lan Kui, who worried over his injuries and blamed herself for being unable to help him.
• Wind Venerable thanked Xiao Xie and Long Kui, explaining that the Life Creation Pill had healed his injuries from the Space Turbulence.

After surviving the Space Turbulence, Xiao Xie and Long Kui received thanks from the Four Great Venerables for saving them. The group reached Tian Huang City, where Xiao Xie learned it belonged to Burning Flame Valley and considered seeking some of its Nine Dragons Thunder Flame.

• Wind Venerable recovered first with a Life Creation Pill, and Thunder Venerable and the other three also took the pills to restore their injuries.
• Thunder Venerable worried that the magical beasts from the Ancient Saint Remains might escape and threaten the continent, while the Four Great Venerables promised to repay Xiao Xie and Long Kui for saving them.
• Xiao Xie suggested finding out where they had landed, and Thunder Venerable sensed a road leading east toward the nearest city.
• Xiao Xie flew east on the Heavenly Phoenix with Long Kui, followed by the Four Great Venerables, and they reached Tian Huang City in less than half a day.
• Wind Venerable explained that Tian Huang City was affiliated with Burning Flame Valley and had a Space Wormhole to the Pill Domain.
• Xiao Xie recalled Burning Flame Valley's Nine Dragons Thunder Flame and considered obtaining some of its fire to create his seventh Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Xie and Long Kui traveled to Burning Flame Valley, where Xiao Xie identified himself as a descendant of Xiao Xuan. Tang Zhen recognized Xiao Xuan’s name and explained to Tang Huo'er that he had been a supreme expert and the creator of the Three Mysterious Transformations of Skyfire.

• Wind Venerable, Thunder Venerable, and Sword Venerable bid farewell to Xiao Xie and left for the Four Directions Pavilion.
• Xiao Xie told Long Kui they were heading to Burning Flame Valley and flew there on the Heavenly Phoenix.
• At Burning Flame Valley’s entrance, Xiao Xie introduced himself as a Xiao Clan descendant and revealed Xiao Xuan was his ancestor.
• A Burning Flame Valley disciple reported Xiao Xie’s arrival, and Tang Zhen ordered that he be invited inside.
• Tang Zhen told Tang Huo'er that Xiao Xuan had been one of five supreme experts and had created the Three Mysterious Transformations of Skyfire.

Xiao Xie entered Burning Flame Valley and met Valley Master Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er. He requested the Three Mysterious Transformations of Skyfire and flames from the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame, offering Bodhi Heart in exchange, and Tang Zhen faced the difficulty of negotiating access to the valley's guarded technique.

• Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er grew curious about Xiao Xuan's descendant and invited Xiao Xie into Burning Flame Valley.
• Xiao Xie and Long Kui toured the valley before meeting Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er in the study.
• Tang Zhen recognized Xiao Xie's Nine Star Dou Zong cultivation, while Tang Huo'er became eager to challenge him.
• Xiao Xie asked to learn the Three Mysterious Transformations of Skyfire and obtain flames from the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame.
• Xiao Xie offered Tang Zhen a bottle of Bodhi Heart in exchange, leaving Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er troubled by the request.

Xiao Xie exchanged the Bodhi Heart for the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame and access to Burning Flame Valley’s Three Mysterious Transformations of Skyfire inheritance. He reached the Inheritance Crystal and began channeling Soul Power into it while Tang Zhen stood watch.

• Tang Zhen recognized that the Bodhi Heart could cure Tang Huo’er’s lingering injuries from the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame backlash.
• Xiao Xie gave Tang Zhen the Bodhi Heart, and Tang Zhen handed Xiao Xie a Flame Pearl containing part of the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame.
• Tang Zhen led Xiao Xie, Long Kui, and Tang Huo’er to the Dou Skills Pavilion and opened its protected third floor.
• Tang Zhen revealed the Inheritance Crystal, which contained Burning Flame Valley’s complete Three Mysterious Transformations of Skyfire inheritance and generations of refinements.
• Xiao Xie placed both hands on the Inheritance Crystal and sent his Soul Power into it as Tang Zhen kept watch.