Chapter Summaries

Gu He refined a Ninth-grade Profound Pill by drawing in natural energy for seven days, then let it withstand Black Demon Lightning to complete its transformation. He captured the pill when it tried to flee and sealed it in a jade bottle.

• Gu He drew in natural energy across the surrounding region, draining nearby herbs and turning the land barren as the pill took shape.
• A point of light appeared in the fire cauldron, and black thunderclouds gathered overhead as pill rain fell.
• Gu He allowed the Black Demon Lightning to strike the pill’s light mass, strengthening it until cracks formed and its medicinal fragrance revived the desolated land.
• The light mass exploded, and the newly born Ninth-grade Profound Pill fled toward the mountain’s edge.
• Gu He appeared beside the pill, subdued it with a Soul Imprint, and sealed it in a jade bottle.

Gu He restored the Medicine Realm’s energy and began refining another batch of Ninth-grade Profound Pills while Zi Yan fought to reunify the Primordial Void Dragon Clan. Zi Yan killed all three Dragon Kings, but the Northern Dragon King’s Dragon Transformation Demon Formation cost countless lives before she defeated him and unified Dragon Island.

• Gu He, Elder Shen Nong, and Great Elder replenished the Medicine Realm’s energy, and Gu He began refining pills again.
• Zi Yan defeated the three Dragon Islands’ forces and imprisoned their experts, then Qing Shan urged her to capture the three Dragon Kings.
• The Northern Dragon King’s forces joined the West and South Dragon Islands in attacking East Dragon Island, and Zi Yan rushed back and killed both Dragon Kings and their subordinates.
• The Northern Dragon King activated the Dragon Transformation Demon Formation, sacrificing the Primordial Void Dragon Clan members on North Dragon Island to reach Five-Star Dou Sheng strength.
• Zi Yan fought the Northern Dragon King with her Dragon Emperor Sword and killed him, bringing the Primordial Void Dragon Clan toward unification at a terrible cost.

After reaching peak Dou Saint, Gu He released Jing Lian Yao Sheng's remnant soul from the four Remnant Maps of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and offered to deal with the flame in exchange for the secrets of advancing further. Jing Lian Yao Sheng agreed to explain his path to an Emperor Realm soul and Half-Emperor, leaving Gu He with knowledge of the realms beyond peak Dou Saint.

• Gu He refined ten Nine-turn Profound Pills with Elder Shen Nong and the Great Elder, then gave them each a Ninth-grade Profound Pill before leaving the Medicine Realm.
• Gu He helped Caiyi consume a Ninth-grade Profound Pill, raising her cultivation to the middle stage of Five-Star Dou Sheng, then used pills to strengthen his other companions.
• Gu He refined six Ninth-grade Profound Pills and broke through from late-stage Nine-star Dou Sheng to peak Dou Saint.
• Gu He sealed a stable space, activated the four Remnant Maps of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and captured Jing Lian Yao Sheng's remnant soul when it tried to escape.
• Gu He offered to enter the Demonic Flame Space and deal with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame if Jing Lian Yao Sheng revealed how to reach an Emperor Realm soul and Half-Emperor.
• Jing Lian Yao Sheng described how he cultivated his soul to the Emperor Realm and reached Half-Emperor, explaining the abilities of both realms.

Gu He brought Jing Lian Yao Sheng’s phantom into the Demonic Flame Space to confront the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, but Gu He’s attack broke through and continued toward him.

• Gu He decided to take Jing Lian Yao Sheng to the Demonic Flame Space to seek an opportunity for his soul’s advancement.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sensed Gu He forcing his way into the space and prepared to attack him.
• Gu He entered with Jing Lian Yao Sheng’s phantom, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame angrily accused Jing Lian Yao Sheng of bringing an outsider to deal with him.
• Gu He explained that he had persuaded Jing Lian Yao Sheng to come for the sake of the Central Continent’s living beings, then launched a massive palm strike.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, but Gu He’s attack shattered its two pillars of light and pressed on toward him.

Gu He defeated Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and sealed it in a purple sphere while Jing Lian Yao Sheng chose not to intervene. Gu He then took Jing Lian Yao Sheng to a secluded space, where he prepared to reveal the secret behind his strength.

• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame used the Heaven Refining Ancient Array to defend against Gu He, but Gu He attacked with Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm.
• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed Demonic Flame World Annihilation, but Gu He's attacks shattered his defenses and damaged the crimson memories and intelligence within his fire lotus.
• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame begged Jing Lian Yao Sheng to save him, but Jing Lian Yao Sheng refused, believing his violent nature would not change.
• Gu He sealed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame inside a purple sphere and promised Jing Lian Yao Sheng he would erase its intelligence.
• Gu He took Jing Lian Yao Sheng and the sealed demonic flame into a separate space, set restrictions, and prepared to reveal his greatest secret.

Gu He used his unique Devouring Flame to refine Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, explaining that he had gathered eighteen Heavenly Flames and planned to fuse Emperor Flame to reach Dou Di. As the refinement strengthened Gu He’s body and soul, Jing Lian Yao Sheng sensed the essence of an Emperor Realm soul in his growing pressure.

• Gu He revealed that his black flame could refine everything into energy and explained his plan to gather twenty Heavenly Flames and advance to Dou Di.
• Gu He told Jing Lian Yao Sheng that he had gathered eighteen Heavenly Flames and needed two more before fusing Emperor Flame.
• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame begged Gu He to spare it, but Gu He refused and intensified the black flames until it began to be devoured.
• Gu He refined the energy from Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, stabilizing his strength and discovering that its soul power also strengthened him.
• Gu He refined the flame’s soul and body into himself, and Jing Lian Yao Sheng identified the aura around him as the essence of an Emperor Realm soul.

Gu He refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Jing Lian Yao Sheng’s remaining soul power, then broke through to the Emperor Realm Soul. He ended the chapter sensing that everything within a million li was under his control.

• Jing Lian Yao Sheng feared Gu He might harvest innocent souls to advance, but decided to help him and asked him to leave unrelated people unharmed.
• Jing Lian Yao Sheng gave Gu He his remaining soul power and asked him to protect his heart if he failed to reach the Emperor Realm.
• Gu He promised not to actively harm the people of the world before he despaired of cultivation.
• Gu He spent three days refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Jing Lian Yao Sheng’s power, bringing his strength to the peak of the Dou Saint realm and his soul to the brink of breakthrough.
• Gu He’s soul spread hundreds of thousands of li as spiritual energy surged toward him, allowing him to break through to the Emperor Realm Soul.
• Gu He’s soul figure returned to his body, and he sensed that he could control everything within a million li.

Gu He monitored the Yan Realm as the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon began, where Xiao Yan won the preliminary contest and honored Yao Chen’s parents. When the Hun Clan attacked the Medicine Realm, Gu He sealed the Yan Realm’s connection to the outside world, prompting the Yan Clan to mobilize.

• Gu He reached Flame Mountain, scouted the Yan Realm, and waited for the passage between the Yan and Medicine Realms to be cut off.
• Xiao Yan attended the Medicine Canon, refined a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill to win the preliminary contest, and secured permission to engrave Yao Chen’s parents’ names on the ancestral monument.
• Elder Wan Huo and Hun Xuzi began refining Ninth-grade Profound Pills as the Medicine Canon’s main contest.
• Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hun Clan army approached the Medicine Realm, and Nihility Devouring Flame began severing its connections to the outside.
• Gu He used multicolored flames to seal the Yan Realm’s passage to the outside world.
• The Yan Clan Chief called the clan to arms, and Dou Shengs rose across the Yan Realm.

Gu He arrived in the Yan Realm and demanded the Yan Clan’s Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame and Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire in exchange for preserving their bloodline. Yan Jin refused, and the chapter ended as Gu He and the Yan Clan clashed in a battle that shattered the realm.

• Yan Jin learned that the passages between the Yan Realm and the outside world had been severed and warned Huo Ling that their clan was under threat.
• Gu He appeared, and Yan Jin’s attempt to send a message to the allied clans failed.
• Gu He demanded the Yan Clan’s two Heavenly Flames and promised to ensure the continuation of their bloodline.
• Yan Jin refused to surrender the clan’s inherited flames, and Gu He stepped forward to fight.
• Yan Jin led the Yan Clan’s elders and fighters in an attack, which collided with Gu He’s colossal energy hand and split the land and sky across tens of thousands of miles.

Gu He overwhelmed the Yan Clan with a devastating attack, forcing Yan Jin to offer the clan’s Heavenly Flames in exchange for his people’s safety. The chapter ended with Huo Xuan refusing to surrender the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame while Gu He watched.

• Yan Jin rallied the Yan Clan to attack Gu He, but Gu He answered with Universe in a Finger and shattered their attacks.
• Gu He’s energy finger exploded among the Yan Clan fighters, killing three Dou Saints, five Half-Saints, and forty-seven Dou Zuns while injuring many others.
• Yan Jin offered Gu He the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame and the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire to spare the clan.
• Yan Jin treated the wounded and ordered Huo Xuan to hand over the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame.
• Huo Xuan refused to surrender the Yan Clan’s inherited Heavenly Flame, and Gu He watched without intervening.

Huo Xuan surrendered the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame to Gu He, who warned Yan Jin that the Yao Clan might have fallen and the Hun Clan had planted spies among the ancient clans. After Gu He left, Yan Jin secured the Yan Clan’s Ancient Jade and sent Huo Ling to investigate the Yao Clan.

• An elder reminded Huo Xuan that surrendering the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame would preserve the Yan Clan, and Huo Xuan handed it to Yan Jin as his strength fell to the Half-Saint realm.
• Yan Jin gave Gu He the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame and his fused Heavenly Flame, and Gu He absorbed both into his own multicolored flames.
• Gu He secretly warned Yan Jin that the Yao Clan had likely been destroyed and that the Hun Clan had spies in the Yan, Lei, and Ancient Clans.
• After Gu He left the Yan Realm, Yan Jin ordered Huo Ling to retrieve the Ancient Jade and investigate the Yao Clan.
• Huo Ling flew toward the Medicine Realm, while Yan Jin prepared to guard the Ancient Jade in the ancestral hall.

Huo Ling discovered that the Medicine Realm had been sealed and could not enter, while Hun Sha reported her visit to Nihility Devouring Flame. Nihility Devouring Flame ordered the Hun Clan to hasten the assault on the Yao Clan, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• Huo Ling reached the Medicine Realm, found every Space Channel sealed, failed to break through its defenses, and departed.
• Hun Sha appeared where Huo Ling had been and then entered the Medicine Realm to report that she had discovered something was wrong.
• Hun Sha told Nihility Devouring Flame that Huo Ling had left to report to the Yan Clan, and Nihility Devouring Flame ordered him to join the attack and end the battle quickly.
• Nihility Devouring Flame reprimanded Hun Xuzi for holding back and ordered him to fight harder, which Hun Xuzi agreed to do.

Hun Xuzi targeted the surviving guests of the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon, including Xiao Yan, and offered to admit them into the Hun Clan if they killed Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan’s warning and defensive move made the frightened survivors begin to consider attacking him.

• Hun Sha went to aid Hun Jing and Hun Yan while ordering Hun Xuzi to eliminate the weaker opponents and surviving guests.
• Hun Xuzi approached the survivors, and one guest offered to join the Hun Clan in exchange for his life.
• Xiao Yan warned the guests that Hun Xuzi had deceived people before and that they could not trust his offer.
• Hun Xuzi identified Xiao Yan as the surviving bloodline of the Xiao Clan and offered the other guests entry into the Hun Clan if they killed him.
• Xiao Yan turned to face the guests to guard against an attack, and they began to look at him with killing intent.

Xiao Yan fought Hun Xuzi’s allies after they turned on him, but their combined attacks overwhelmed and killed him. Hun Xuzi took the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Tou She Ancient God Jade, then broke his promise to spare the attackers, leaving them in despair.

• A man attacked Xiao Yan, and Hun Xuzi’s other allies joined the assault.
• Xiao Yan fought back with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, killing several weaker Dou Zuns as the battle drained his strength.
• A Half Saint struck Xiao Yan in the chest, and the sole Dou Saint and several Half Saints later joined forces to kill him.
• Hun Xuzi extracted the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and took the Tou She Ancient God Jade from Xiao Yan’s body.
• The Tunling Clan devoured Xiao Yan’s remains, which Hun Xuzi said would help sustain the Hun Clan’s bloodline.
• Hun Xuzi refused to honor his promise to spare the attackers, leaving them terrified and despairing.

The Hun Clan destroyed the Yao Clan and reduced the Medicine Realm to a wasteland. Yao Dan sacrificed himself to badly wound Hun Jing and Hun Yan, and Nihility Devouring Flame intervened as the two lay near death.

• The Hun Clan overwhelmed the Yao Clan, leaving only Yao Dan and a few young clansmen alive in the ravaged Medicine Realm.
• Hun Sha urged Yao Dan to surrender, but Yao Dan refused to let the Yao Clan survive as a broken remnant.
• Hun Sha attacked the surviving clansmen, and Yao Dan charged the other two Four Demon Saints instead of trying to save them.
• Yao Dan self-destructed, gravely injuring Hun Jing and Hun Yan before Hun Xuzi gave them pills and warned they might need ten years to recover.
• Nihility Devouring Flame appeared, criticized Hun Jing and Hun Yan, and sent black flames toward them to aid their recovery.

After obtaining the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame and Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire, Gu He traveled to a remote magma pool and began transforming his Heavenly Flames in an attempt to advance beyond peak Dou Saint. His flames started fusing and growing stronger, but the transformation was still underway.

• Nihility Devouring Flame restored Hun Jing and Hun Yan with his source flame, leaving them stronger but under his control.
• Nihility Devouring Flame and the others left the ruined Medicine Realm and returned to the Hun Clan.
• Gu He traveled to the continent’s desolate northern region with the two newly acquired Heavenly Flames, intending to risk advancing to Half-Emperor or Dou Di.
• Gu He extracted traces of source flame from the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame and Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire and sealed away the remaining flames.
• Gu He refined the two traces, triggering a transformation that began fusing and strengthening the Heavenly Flames within his body.

Gu He absorbed the energy of the magma sea and the multicolored flame, steadily strengthening himself as his aura approached the threshold of Half-Emperor. After learning of the Yao Clan’s danger, Yan Jin prepared to move the Yan Clan’s people out of the Yan Realm and unite the clan’s elites with the Lei Clan, betting that Gu He would become their strongest support.

• Gu He drew energy from the magma sea and the multicolored flame, strengthening his body and Dou Qi as his aura continued rising beyond the peak of Dou Saint.
• Yan Jin retrieved the Tou She Ancient God Jade and told the Yan Clan’s elders that he would take selected elites to the Lei Realm while the remaining clansmen moved to the Central Continent.
• Yan Jin withheld Gu He’s warning from the elders because he suspected that one of them might be controlled or influenced by the Hun Clan.
• Yan Jin said the Yan and Lei Clans would form a temporary third force and rely on Gu He’s progress toward Half-Emperor to gain time against the Ancient Clan and Hun Clan.
• Yan Jin ordered the elders to carry the clan’s valuable treasures, evacuate the Yan Realm, and seal its passages once everyone had left.

Hun Tiandi learned that Gu He had seized the Soul Hall’s Heavenly Flames and might be pursuing the path to Emperor Flame, threatening the Hun Clan’s plans to reach Dou Di. Nihility Devouring Flame warned that Gu He could soon become a Half-Emperor, leaving Hun Tiandi furious.

• Nihility Devouring Flame returned from the Medicine Realm and reported the Yao Clan’s defeat and the gains to Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi reviewed the battle, then received Elder Yan Tie’s report about Gu He’s assault on the Yan Clan and Yan Jin’s decision.
• Hun Tiandi summoned Nihility Devouring Flame, who suspected Gu He had also taken the Heavenly Flames from the Soul Hall.
• Nihility Devouring Flame explained that Tou She Ancient God had been Emperor Flame and could evolve by devouring twenty Heavenly Flames.
• Nihility Devouring Flame estimated Gu He was close to gathering all twenty Heavenly Flames and could reach Half-Emperor, enraging Hun Tiandi.

Hun Tiandi accelerated his plan to seize the Ancient Jades and destroy the Yan and Lei Clans, while Gu He remained unaware and continued cultivating beneath the magma. After reaching Half-Emperor strength, Gu He emerged from the magma and began attempting to create a Half-Emperor body, but his control over the absorbed magma neared its limit.

• Hun Tiandi ordered the four elders and Four Demon Saints to attack the Yan and Lei Clans when the Yan Clan arrived at the Lei Realm, while he planned to demand the Ancient Jade from Gu Yang.
• Nihility Devouring Flame offered to accompany Hun Tiandi in destroying the Lei and Yan Clans.
• Gu He continued refining Heavenly Flame essence beneath the magma, strengthening his Dou Qi until his meridians were filled and he entered a wondrous state.
• Gu He emerged from the magma with a terrifying aura and demonstrated his increased power by blasting apart a distant mountain with beams from his eyes.
• Gu He drew magma into his body to form a Half-Emperor body, growing several hundred zhang tall before his control over the magma approached its limit.

Gu He tested his self-created Half-Emperor Body, retrieved the remaining Heavenly Flames, and realized that advancing from Half-Emperor to Dou Di would require far more energy than he possessed. He returned to the Small Pill Tower, where Caiyi and the others sensed his immense power and asked whether he had become a Dou Di.

• Gu He tested his Half-Emperor Body, found its power lacking, and refined it with Heavenly Flames before returning to his normal size.
• Gu He retrieved two clusters of Heavenly Flames and calculated that even refining all twenty kinds would not give him enough energy to advance to Dou Di.
• Gu He flew to Central Continent and resolved to move the Pill Tower, Pill Fire Pavilion, and his allies to a hidden space away from the Hun Clan's plans.
• Gu He arrived at the Small Pill Tower and revealed his presence to the Great Elder, the Pill Tower Ancestor, Elder Shen Nong, and Caiyi.
• Caiyi welcomed Gu He and asked whether he had become a Dou Di.