Chapter Summaries

Xu Haoyu passed through the illusion-filled Gate of Space with ease and reunited with Xiao Yan before the Pill Realm trial began. After collecting the required items, they entered the Pill Realm separately, where Xu Haoyu began searching for his assigned rare ingredients.

• Xu Haoyu brushed aside the illusions and spatial maze, reaching the plaza before the other participants.
• Cao Ying watched Xu Haoyu with a provocative gaze, and Xiao Yan arrived to greet him; Xu Haoyu praised Xiao Yan's progress to Dou Zong.
• An old man explained that participants had to collect assigned medicinal ingredients and gave them maps and space stones for the second trial.
• Xu Haoyu and Xiao Yan collected their items and entered the Pill Realm, where they were teleported to separate locations.
• Xu Haoyu identified his location as the Thousand Fold Mountain Range, read his list of rare ingredients, and set off to find them.

Xu Haoyu gathered medicinal ingredients from Xiong Zhan’s cave and then rescued the Pill Gathering contestants from Mu Gu’s Soul Barrier. He discovered that Mu Gu wielded a child flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame and prepared to take it.

• Xu Haoyu subdued the beasts guarding Xiong Zhan’s cave with his aura and asked Xiong Zhan to let him take medicinal herbs.
• Xu Haoyu selected the ingredients he needed and some rare herbs, then left the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range.
• Xu Haoyu spotted Mu Gu’s Soul Barrier, broke it, and freed Cao Ying, Song Qing, and the other trapped alchemists.
• Mu Gu recognized Xu Haoyu and ordered his men to attack, but Xu Haoyu’s energy palm killed them and forced Mu Gu to counter with the Netherworld Bone-Eroding Arm.
• Xu Haoyu recognized the devouring power as belonging to a child flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame and decided to take it.

Xu Haoyu left the Pill Realm after Mu Gu escaped, then marked him with Soul Strength when he finally emerged. The third round of the Pill Gathering began, with Xu Haoyu, Mu Gu, Xiao Yan, and the other finalists preparing to refine pills.

• Xu Haoyu searched the Pill Realm for Mu Gu, then gave up and returned to the plaza through the Gate of Space.
• Xu Haoyu recognized that Xiao Yan’s soul had likely advanced to the Spiritual Realm, while Mu Gu emerged just before the Gate of Space closed.
• Xu Haoyu sent a thread of Soul Strength to mark Mu Gu, ensuring he could track him after the Pill Gathering.
• Xuan Kongzi announced the start of the pill-refinement round, and roughly a hundred alchemists took their places on floating arenas.
• Xu Haoyu, Mu Gu, Xiao Yan, and the other alchemists summoned their flames, drawing attention to Xu Haoyu’s blue flame and Mu Gu’s Void Devouring Flame Sub-fire.

The Pill Gathering’s final contenders completed their pills, and Xu Haoyu drew in heaven and earth energy as terrifying Black Demon Lightning gathered above his cauldron. The chapter ended with the revelation that Xu Haoyu had refined a genuine Rank 9 Pill.

• Mu Gu and Xu Haoyu began refining their pills as the alchemists and spectators settled in for a contest expected to last many days.
• Xuan Yi recognized Mu Gu, and Xuan Kongzi reassured her and Tian Leizi that Xu Haoyu could challenge him.
• After nearly ten days, Song Qing completed a high-grade Seventh-Rank Pill, followed by Qinghua Old Freak, Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Xiao Yan with pills that summoned increasingly powerful pill lightning.
• Mu Gu unveiled a pill that summoned four-and-a-half-colored pill lightning, then challenged Xu Haoyu to surpass it.
• Xu Haoyu drew heaven and earth energy into his pill, summoning Black Demon Lightning and revealing that he had refined a Rank 9 Pill.

Xu Haoyu refined a Rank 9 Pill that drew Black Demon Lightning and used his Dou Sheng puppet to withstand the lightning and capture the pill. Xuan Kongzi declared Xu Haoyu the champion of the Pill Gathering.

• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi realized Xu Haoyu had refined a Rank 9 Pill, while the spectators and alchemists reacted with shock and admiration.
• Mu Gu refused to accept Xu Haoyu's achievement and expected the Black Demon Lightning to destroy him and his pill.
• Xu Haoyu sent a Dou Sheng puppet to block the Black Demon Lightning, and the puppet endured nine bolts without damage.
• Xu Haoyu sealed the Rank 9 Treasure Pill when it tried to escape, then caught it after the Number Two puppet wounded it.
• Xuan Kongzi announced Xu Haoyu as the champion of the Pill Gathering.

Xu Haoyu won the Pill Gathering and, after it ended, tracked down and killed Mu Gu, taking the Void Devouring Flame Sub-fire. He began refining it through his clone, leaving the two flames clashing inside the sealed room.

• Xuan Kongzi declared Xu Haoyu the champion and announced that the top ten alchemists would enter the Star Region for a chance to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Mu Gu hid in a Soul Hall stronghold and sent the Hall Master a report about Xu Haoyu and the disrupted plan to seize the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xu Haoyu and Xiao Yi Xian broke into the stronghold, and Xu Haoyu killed Mu Gu, captured his soul, and took the Void Devouring Flame Sub-fire.
• Xu Haoyu separated Mu Gu's soul from the flame, sealed the soul in a jade bottle, and gained temporary control of the sub-fire.
• Xu Haoyu gave the Void Devouring Flame Sub-fire to his clone to refine with the Flame Mantra, then sealed the room as black and illusory blue flames collided inside the clone.

After refining the Void Devouring Flame Sub-fire, Xu Haoyu advanced to an Eight Revolutions Dou Zun and received permission to freely use the Pill Tower's treasury and collection. He then joined the other candidates and Qiu Ling in entering the Star Region, where they would face Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Xu Haoyu refined the Void Devouring Flame Sub-fire, raising the Flame Mantra to Quasi-Heaven Rank and advancing his cultivation to Eight Revolutions Dou Zun.
• The Void Devouring Flame discovered that it had lost contact with its sub-fire and sent people to investigate.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi praised Xu Haoyu for killing Mu Gu and granted him free access to the Pill Tower's treasury and collection.
• Xuan Kongzi told Xu Haoyu and the others that they would enter the Star Region to try to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Qiu Ling led Xu Haoyu, Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Qinghua Old Freak, and the other candidates through the Gate of Space into the Star Region.

At the Pill Tower, Xu Haoyu and the other alchemists tried to communicate with the sealed Three Thousand Burning Flame, but it ignored everyone except Xu Haoyu. After its soul attacked him, Xu Haoyu used Zhuo Li’s Dragon Mark and his fused Heavenly Flames to seize and instantly refine it.

• Qiu Ling led the alchemists to the sealed Three Thousand Burning Flame and warned them not to provoke it.
• Xu Haoyu let the lower-ranked alchemists try first, while the Three Thousand Burning Flame ignored each of them, including Xiao Yan.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame opened its eyes when Xu Haoyu approached, sensing the Heavenly Flames within him and wanting to devour him.
• Xu Haoyu activated the Dragon Mark Zhuo Li had planted in him, drawing both their consciousnesses into a special space.
• Xu Haoyu overwhelmed the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s soul with his Heavenly Realm Soul Strength and flame chains, then seized and refined it.

Xu Haoyu subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame and refined its Ancient Dragon Body with his clone, raising both to Nine Revolutions Dou Zun and advancing the Flame Mantra to Heaven Rank. He left the Star Region intending to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree and obtain the Three Bodhi Treasures.

• Xu Haoyu told Qiu Ling and the others that he had subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame and needed time to refine it, so Qiu Ling led everyone out of the Star Region.
• Xu Haoyu summoned his clone and gave it the Dragon Mark so it could absorb the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s source flame and Ancient Dragon Body.
• Xu Haoyu and his clone spent a day guiding the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s energy into the Flame Mantra, then refined it for three more days.
• Xu Haoyu reached Nine Revolutions Dou Zun at great perfection but failed to break through to Half-Saint, while his clone’s refinement advanced the Flame Mantra to Heaven Rank.
• Xu Haoyu examined his fused six Heavenly Flames and decided he could use them to help the Bodhi Ancient Tree temper a Bodhi Seed.
• Xu Haoyu flew to the Star Region’s exit and prepared to force it open.

After subduing the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Xu Haoyu studied Pill Tower alchemy records before taking Xiao Yi Xian to the Ancient Wasteland Domain, where he hoped to find the Bodhi Ancient Tree and gain a chance to break through to Dou Sheng. The pair entered the perilous domain in search of the Ancient Domain Platform.

• Xu Haoyu returned safely from the Star Region with the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Xiao Yi Xian welcomed him while the three Pill Tower presidents departed.
• Xu Haoyu asked Xiao Yi Xian to accompany him on a dangerous journey, and she agreed.
• Xu Haoyu spent a month studying and memorizing notes and pill-refining knowledge in the Pill Tower.
• Xu Haoyu and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to Desolate Town, where he revealed that an opportunity to increase the chance of breaking through to Dou Sheng might await in the Ancient Wasteland Domain.
• Xu Haoyu bought a map in Desolate Town, then set out with Xiao Yi Xian the next morning and entered the Ancient Wasteland Domain.

Xu Haoyu and Xiao Yi Xian fought through the dangers of the Ancient Wasteland Domain and found the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which had appeared ahead of schedule. After Xu Haoyu’s puppets defeated its guardians, Xiao Yi Xian sensed something troubling about the tree, and Xu Haoyu revealed a Bodhi Seed he hoped would help them.

• Xu Haoyu used Heavenly Flames to repel the poisonous insects concealed in black mist, then continued with Xiao Yi Xian through the Ancient Wasteland Domain.
• Xu Haoyu and Xiao Yi Xian slew attacking Ferocious Beasts and collected valuable materials before reaching the Ancient Domain Platform.
• Xu Haoyu sensed the Bodhi Ancient Tree and sent puppets Number Two, Number Three, and Number Four ahead to clear a path through the Beast Tide.
• Xu Haoyu’s three puppets destroyed five half-Saints guarding the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xu Haoyu that the tree made her uneasy, and Xu Haoyu showed her a glowing Bodhi Seed from his Storage Ring.

Xu Haoyu and Xiao Yi Xian were brought into the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s inner space, where the tree spirit revealed how a Dou Di’s resentment had corrupted it. Xu Haoyu purified the tree by refining hundreds of Bodhi Seeds with his Heavenly Flame, then fell into a deep sleep as the tree enveloped him in light.

• The Bodhi Seed awakened the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s tree spirit, which brought Xu Haoyu and Xiao Yi Xian into its inner space.
• The tree spirit showed Xu Haoyu how a Black-Clothed Dou Di’s lingering resentment had split the Bodhi Ancient Tree into benevolent and evil spirits and corrupted its body.
• Xu Haoyu agreed to help the tree spirit and used his violet-black Heavenly Flame to turn Bodhi Seeds into pure qi that drove out the black qi.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree replenished Xu Haoyu’s energy as he tempered hundreds of seeds, refining his Dou Qi and expelling the last of the corruption.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree enveloped the exhausted Xu Haoyu in dazzling light, and Xiao Yi Xian stopped herself from intervening as he fell asleep.

After awakening from the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, Xu Haoyu emerged as an Advanced Half-Saint and received twenty-four Bodhi Seeds. He returned with Xiao Yi Xian to Ancient Dragon Island, gave Hei Qing the promised pill, and began secluded cultivation to refine more pills.

• Xu Haoyu awoke after a month, revealed his Advanced Half-Saint strength, and thanked the Bodhi Ancient Tree for placing the Bodhi Heart inside him.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Xu Haoyu twenty-four Bodhi Seeds and sent him and Xiao Yi Xian out of its inner space.
• Xu Haoyu promised to refine Xiao Yi Xian an improved Bodhi Pill, then opened a Space Channel and took her back to the Beast Region.
• Xu Haoyu and Xiao Yi Xian reached Ancient Dragon Island, where Hei Qing congratulated Xu Haoyu and received the Nine Revolutions Returning Yuan Pill.
• Xu Haoyu visited Zi Yan, gathered medicinal ingredients from the island’s treasury, and began secluded cultivation to refine pills.

Xu Haoyu refined Rank 9 pills on Ancient Dragon Island, then entered seclusion to break through to Dou Sheng using a Bodhi Great Return Pill and the Bodhi Heart’s energy. Two years later, he was still cultivating in seclusion and had grown stronger beyond his initial breakthrough.

• Xu Haoyu blocked all nine bolts of Black Demon Lightning with his Five Elements Divine Light and captured the Rank 9 Treasure Pill.
• After refining another Rank 9 pill, Xu Haoyu gave Xiao Yi Xian a Bodhi Great Return Pill and told her to use it after reaching Nine Revolutions Dou Zun.
• Xu Haoyu promised to refine Zi Yan a Saint Emperor Pill once she reached Early Six-Star Dou Sheng through her own efforts.
• Xu Haoyu swallowed his remaining Bodhi Great Return Pill, refined the Bodhi Heart’s energy, and broke through to Dou Sheng without awakening.
• Xu Haoyu continued cultivating for two years, growing stronger as he refined the Bodhi Heart’s energy.

Xu Haoyu emerged from seclusion on Ancient Dragon Island as a Three-Star Dou Sheng and reunited with Qing Lin, who had been rescued from the Nine Serene Earthly Python Clan. Zi Yan launched the Void Ancient Dragon Clan’s campaign to unify the Beast Region, and the chapter ended as the Dragon Guard Army confronted the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

• Xu Haoyu broke through to Three-Star Dou Sheng and found Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin waiting outside his cave.
• Qing Lin explained that the Nine Serene Earthly Python Clan had pursued her before Void Ancient Dragon experts rescued her and brought her to Ancient Dragon Island.
• Xu Haoyu promised to help Qing Lin take control of the Nine Serene Earthly Python Clan, and Zi Yan declared her intent to conquer the Beast Region.
• Zi Yan ordered the Dragon Guard Army to march against the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and the army reached the Heavenly Demon Mountain Range three days later.
• Huang Tian and the Heavenly Demon Three Huangs flew out to meet the invading Void Ancient Dragons.

Zi Yan confronted Huang Tian and began a fierce battle to establish her authority as Dragon Emperor and secure the Void Ancient Dragon Clan’s supremacy. Their fight left the outcome undecided as their attacks tore open the sky.

• Zi Yan declared that the Void Ancient Dragon Clan would rule the Magical Beast Realm and demanded Huang Tian’s submission.
• Huang Tian recognized Zi Yan’s dual bloodlines, refused to surrender, and vowed to seize them for himself.
• Zi Yan sent Wind, Rain, Lightning, and Thunder aside and announced that she would fight Huang Tian personally.
• Zi Yan transformed into purple-gold battle armor and spread her Heavenly Phoenix Wings, while her bloodline pressure weakened Huang Tian and the Heavenly Demon Three Huangs.
• Huang Tian and Zi Yan clashed at extreme speed, their attacks tearing through space and creating a deadly zone around the battle.

Zi Yan overwhelmed Huang Tian with her dual bloodlines and killed him with the Dragon Slaying Sword. She then ordered the Dragon Guard Army to attack the Heavenly Demon Mountain Range, sparing only Sky Demon Phoenixes who surrendered.

• Huang Tian used the Demon Phoenix Bell, but Zi Yan's Dragon Emperor Bell shattered it and badly injured him.
• Huang Tian summoned the Demon Phoenix Saintly Image, and Zi Yan destroyed it with the Dragon Emperor Great Seal before pinning him beneath it.
• Huang Tian transformed into his true Heavenly Demon Phoenix form and charged at Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan wielded the Dragon Slaying Sword and severed Huang Tian's head, killing him.
• Zi Yan ordered the Dragon Guard Army to attack and spare those who surrendered; Wind, Rain, Lightning, and Thunder led the ancient dragons into the Heavenly Demon Mountain Range.

Xu Haoyu and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan defeated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and seized its resources before confronting the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan over its hunt for Qing Lin. Xu Haoyu dismantled the power of the clan’s forces with the Five Elements Divine Light and sent Qing Lin to control its leaders and use them for cultivation.

• Xu Haoyu harvested Huang Tian’s Magical Core, wings, blood, feathers, flesh, and bones for future use.
• Zi Yan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan subdued the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, looted its treasuries, and left some forces behind to secure them.
• Zi Yan led Xu Haoyu, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and the rest of the force to the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan’s territory.
• Xu Haoyu confronted Yao Xiaotian over the clan’s attempt to hunt Qing Lin and challenged its leaders to attack him.
• Xu Haoyu used the Five Elements Divine Light to break down the power of Yao Xiaotian, the Grand Elder, and the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan’s forces.
• Xu Haoyu told Qing Lin to control the clan’s upper ranks and make them resources for her cultivation.

Qing Lin enslaved the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan’s leaders, including its imprisoned former chief Yao Ming, while Xu Haoyu recovered a rare crystal from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs. Xu Haoyu then arranged to auction his Bodhi Seeds in a month, leaving Zi Yan to spread the news and bring the Void Ancient Dragon Clan to keep order.

• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control Yao Xiaotian and the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan’s upper ranks.
• Xu Haoyu and Qing Lin descended into the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, where Qing Lin enslaved the imprisoned Yao Ming and Xu Haoyu found a Yellow Springs Blood Crystal.
• Xu Haoyu freed Yao Ming, and Qing Lin ordered the two brothers not to kill each other.
• Xu Haoyu told Zi Yan that the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan was under Qing Lin’s control and instructed her to gather the magical beast clans under the Void Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Xu Haoyu asked Zi Yan to announce an auction of his Bodhi Seeds in a month, accepting only Heaven-tier or higher cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, and Zi Yan agreed to help spread the news and keep order.

Xu Haoyu traveled to the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan’s Nether Serpent Mountain Range to claim the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s essence blood and Dou Skill inheritance. After surviving the Demon Saint’s trial, Xu Haoyu earned the right to receive his legacy.

• News spread that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had subdued the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan, while Xu Haoyu announced his Dou Sheng breakthrough and the auction of Bodhi Seeds.
• Xu Haoyu entered the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s stone tablet while Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian guarded his body.
• Xu Haoyu destroyed the Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm, prompting the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant to appear and question him about his unusual Heavenly Flame.
• Xu Haoyu explained that the absence of Source Qi had prevented the Yellow Springs Demon Saint from becoming a Dou Emperor, and the Demon Saint offered him a chance to earn his inheritance by enduring Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• Xu Haoyu used his violet-black flames to form an Ancient Void Dragon that exhausted Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, and the Yellow Springs Demon Saint left his essence blood behind for Xu Haoyu.