Chapter Summaries

Xu Haoyu exposed Yao Chen’s identity to Xiao Yan and traded Han Feng’s soul for the Flame Mantra. Yao Chen confronted his treacherous disciple, but Han Feng’s accusations left him desolate.

• Yao Chen promised to help Xiao Yan recover his strength, and Xiao Yan thanked Xu Haoyu for uncovering the cause of his lost Dou Qi.
• Xu Haoyu told Yao Chen that Han Feng had caused him trouble and asked about the Flame Mantra.
• Yao Chen explained that the Flame Mantra evolved by devouring Heavenly Flames and warned Xu Haoyu against cultivating it.
• Xu Haoyu traded Han Feng’s soul for Yao Chen’s Flame Mantra, then Yao Chen freed Han Feng from the Jade Bottle.
• Yao Chen confronted Han Feng over his betrayal, but Han Feng accused him of selfishly withholding the Flame Mantra, leaving Yao Chen desolate.

Yao Chen killed Han Feng and accepted Xiao Yan as his disciple, while Xu Haoyu gave Xiao Yan two Dou Technique scrolls and arranged to stay with the Xiao Clan. That night, Xu Haoyu studied the Flame Mantra and secured Yao Tian Huo’s promise to protect his family for ten years if revived.

• Yao Chen used the Bone Chilling Flame to kill Han Feng after Han Feng pleaded and cursed in vain.
• Yao Chen asked Xiao Yan to become his disciple, and Xiao Yan knelt and accepted.
• Xu Haoyu gave Xiao Yan the Mystic High-Rank Dou Technique Raging Lion's Roar and the flying Dou Technique Eagle's Wings.
• Xu Haoyu told Xiao Zhan that Xiao Yan's talent had recovered, then agreed to stay at the Xiao Family Residence with Zi Yan.
• Xu Haoyu studied the Flame Mantra and asked Yao Tian Huo to protect his family for ten years after being revived; Yao Tian Huo agreed.

Xiao Yan learned that medicinal ingredients were needed for pills to speed up his cultivation, but he lacked the money to buy them. Xu Haoyu funded the ingredients in exchange for Yao Chen’s alchemy guidance and received a soul-cultivation technique and valuable pill recipes.

• At the Back Mountain, Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that pills could help him condense a qi vortex in about a year, but refining them required medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan told Xu Haoyu he could not afford the ingredients, and Xu Haoyu offered ten million Gold Coins in exchange for Yao Chen’s alchemy instruction.
• Yao Chen agreed to teach Xu Haoyu and gave Xiao Yan a Storage Ring full of Gold Coins; Xiao Yan hurried off to buy the ingredients.
• Yao Chen sensed that Xu Haoyu’s soul had reached the great completion of the Mortal Realm and taught him the Perception Chapter to help him reach the Spiritual Realm.
• Yao Chen gave Xu Haoyu a stack of pill recipes, including the Venerable King Pill and Saint Emperor Pill recipes.

Xu Haoyu strengthened his soul through the Perception Chapter, improved his alchemy under Yao Chen’s guidance, and refined a Dou Zong Breakthrough Pill for Queen Medusa. After Medusa left with the pill, Xu Haoyu decided to leave the Jia Ma Empire.

• Xu Haoyu practiced the Perception Chapter in the mountain forest and felt his soul approaching the Spiritual Realm.
• Xu Haoyu spent the following days learning alchemy techniques from Yao Chen.
• Queen Medusa arrived in Wutan City with three sets of herbs and payment, asking Xu Haoyu to refine a Dou Zong Breakthrough Pill.
• Xu Haoyu began refining the pill in the Back Mountain while Medusa guarded him and watched his Heavenly Flame.
• Xu Haoyu completed the six-rank pill, creating a Heaven and Earth Phenomenon that drew attention across Wutan City.
• Medusa took the pill and departed, and Xu Haoyu decided to leave the Jia Ma Empire.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan went to the Golden Goose Sect to obtain the Sky Goose Nine Transformations Wings, but sect master Yan Luotian refused to sell it. They returned at night, killed him, and took the technique, leaving to raid the sect’s treasure vault.

• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan arrived at Golden Goose Valley and offered Yan Luotian two Six-Rank Huang Ji Pills for a copy of the Sky Goose Nine Transformations Wings.
• Yan Luotian refused, calling the flying Dou Technique the Golden Goose Sect’s treasure, and Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan left.
• After Yan Luotian fell asleep, Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan sneaked into his room with Yao Tian Huo’s help.
• Xu Haoyu killed Yan Luotian with his fused Heavenly Flames and took the Sky Goose Nine Transformations Wings from his Storage Ring.
• Xu Haoyu stored Yan Luotian’s corpse for Yao Tian Huo’s resurrection, then followed Zi Yan toward the sect’s treasure vault.

After refining the Sky Demon Phoenix’s Bone Wings into a flying technique, Xu Haoyu prepared to take Zi Yan to the Tianxin Empire. He realized Zi Yan’s growing sleepiness meant she was close to a breakthrough, and they set off for his home with her asleep in his arms.

• The Golden Goose Sect’s elders concealed Yan Luotian’s disappearance and the loss of the treasury while secretly competing to take control of the sect.
• Xu Haoyu spent several days refining the Sky Demon Phoenix’s Bone Wings, removing their beast aura and shaping them with wind- and fire-aligned materials.
• Xu Haoyu bound the finished Bone Wings to his body and discovered they let him fly faster than ordinary Dou Zong experts.
• Xu Haoyu woke Zi Yan and realized her constant sleepiness came from accumulating energy and nearing a breakthrough.
• Xu Haoyu carried Zi Yan into the sky and headed for the Tianxin Empire, eager to go home.

Xu Haoyu returned to the Xu Family with Zi Yan, who began advancing in seclusion, then secluded himself to replace his cultivation methods and break through toward Dou Emperor. After fusing the upgraded wind and thunder methods into the Guiyi True Art, he raised it to Quasi-Heaven Rank and began absorbing a massive influx of Heaven and Earth Energy.

• Xu Haoyu returned to Tiannan City with the sleeping Zi Yan, and Xu Tianlong led them to the Xu Family's Forbidden Ground.
• Zi Yan fell into a deep slumber and began forming a purple cocoon inside a Mountain Cave while Xu Haoyu told Xu Tianlong he planned to break through into Dou Emperor.
• Xu Haoyu entered another Mountain Cave and studied the Whispering Wind Chant and Thunderclap Mirror to replace his lower-ranked wind and thunder cultivation methods.
• Xu Haoyu spent a month refining his wind and thunder Dou Qi with the new methods, then fused them into the Guiyi True Art and raised it to Quasi-Heaven Rank.
• Heaven and Earth Energy gathered above the Xu Family, and Xu Haoyu used the Fallen Heart Flame to purify the energy before absorbing it for his advancement.

Xu Haoyu completed his breakthrough to Four-Star Dou Huang after a month of absorbing energy drawn by his fused Quasi-Heaven Rank technique. He returned to Xu Tianlong and began preparing a Grandmaster Pill as a gift for his grandfather.

• Xu Tianlong and Xu Yaozu decided to openly announce that Xu Haoyu had broken through to Dou Huang, while Xu Tianlong urged Xu Yaozu to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zong.
• Xu Haoyu absorbed the energy tide for over a month, then completed his breakthrough and reached Four-Star Dou Huang.
• Xu Haoyu left Zi Yan's Mountain Cave, returned to the courtyard, and told Xu Tianlong about his breakthrough and improved cultivation technique.
• Xu Haoyu sensed that Xu Tianlong had advanced to Six-Star Dou Zong, and Xu Tianlong confirmed his progress.
• Xu Haoyu brought out a medicinal cauldron and ingredients and began refining a Grandmaster Pill for Xu Tianlong.

Xu Haoyu refined a seventh-tier intermediate Grandmaster Pill while Xu Tianlong protected it from powerful Pill Lightning. After capturing the pill, Xu Haoyu gave it to his grandfather, who praised him for surpassing his teacher.

• Xu Haoyu used his Heavenly Flame to refine more than a hundred medicinal ingredients and carefully fused their essences into a pill.
• Pill Lightning gathered as the Seventh-Rank Pill neared completion, and Xu Haoyu asked Xu Tianlong to block it.
• Xu Tianlong destroyed more than twenty lightning bolts, suffering injuries before the Tribulation Clouds dispersed.
• The pill tried to flee, but Xu Haoyu caught it and sealed it in a Jade Bottle.
• Xu Haoyu explained that the seventh-tier intermediate Grandmaster Pill could raise a Dou Zong expert's cultivation by one star without side effects, and Xu Tianlong praised him for surpassing his teacher.

Xu Haoyu revealed that he had become a Rank 7 Alchemist, shared a soul cultivation technique with his teacher, and then studied the Five Elements Life and Destruction Grand Array. He condensed all five elemental essences and transformed the formation into a powerful technique he called the Five Elements Divine Light.

• Xu Tianlong announced that Xu Haoyu had become a Rank 7 Alchemist and displayed the mid-tier Rank 7 Grandmaster Pill he had refined.
• Xu Haoyu gave Li Fufeng the Perception Chapter, which could strengthen Soul Strength by refining spiritual energy from the surroundings.
• After a night of natural soul cultivation, Xu Haoyu went to the Forbidden Ground to study the Five Elements Life and Destruction Grand Array.
• Xu Haoyu spent several days condensing Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood Essences from his five types of Dou Qi.
• Xu Haoyu activated the five essences to form the Five Elements Divine Light, using it as both a defensive robe and an offensive sword.
• Xu Haoyu recognized that the technique consumed too much Dou Qi and decided to simplify the formation’s cumbersome steps.

The Xia Family Royal Family debated how to deal with Xu Haoyu after he became a fourteen-year-old Dou Emperor, and Emperor Xia chose to prepare for war against the Xu Family. He secured an alliance with Eagle Guardian and sought the help of the Xia Family’s Old Ancestor, leaving the plan to unify the Tianxin Empire poised to begin.

• The Xia Family Royal Family argued over whether to attack the Xu Family or assassinate Xu Haoyu, while Emperor Xia weighed the risk of an empire-wide war.
• Emperor Xia ordered Xia Jinan to ask the Zhao and Wei Families not to interfere in exchange for additional fiefs after the Southern Three Provinces were reclaimed.
• Emperor Xia agreed to let Eagle Guardian claim the souls of experts killed in the war in return for his help.
• Emperor Xia visited the underground Blood Pool and asked the Xia Family’s Old Ancestor to oversee the coming conflict.
• The Old Ancestor agreed to act once if necessary, saying that no one below Dou Zun could match him.

After the Xia Family Royal Family tried to turn the Zhao and Wei Families against the Xu Family, Xu Haoyu prepared a Yin Yang Life Soul Pill to help the Xu Family gain another powerful expert. He successfully refined it and used the pill lightning to strengthen his cultivation, leaving Xu Tianlong reassured about his safety.

• The Zhao and Wei Families warned the Xu Family of the Xia Family Royal Family’s offer to divide the Southern Three Provinces and confirmed they would remain allies.
• At the family council, Xu Yaozu assigned guards to the checkpoints, while the elders reassured Xu Haoyu that the family would protect him.
• Xu Haoyu gathered enough ingredients for one Yin Yang Life Soul Pill, prepared himself, and spent four days refining its medicinal ingredients.
• When the pill lightning struck, Xu Haoyu used Five Elements Divine Light to break it down and absorb its energy, advancing toward five-star Dou Emperor.
• Xu Haoyu caught the completed Yin Yang Life Soul Pill and told Xu Tianlong that the pill lightning benefited him and that the pill would give the family another powerful expert.

Xu Haoyu began resurrecting Yao Tian Huo in Yan Luotian’s corpse while Emperor Xia launched a sudden war against the Three Great Heterogeneous Royal Families. The Xu Family was driven back to Tiannan City, where Xu Tianlong faced Xia Muqian as the two sides prepared to decide the war through their strongest fighters.

• Xu Haoyu used Cyan Crimson Blood and blue flames to restore vitality to Yan Luotian’s corpse, then Yao Tian Huo swallowed the Yin Yang Life Soul Pill and entered the body.
• The Xia Family Royal Family accused the Three Great Heterogeneous Royal Families of treason and attacked them with more than a million soldiers and powerful experts.
• After ten days of fighting, the Xu Family’s forces fell back to the outskirts of Tiannan City.
• Xu Yaozu challenged Emperor Xia’s accusations, but Xia Muqian declared that the Xu Family would be destroyed.
• Xu Tianlong stepped forward to protect Xu Yaozu and confronted Xia Muqian, declaring that the Emperor would die beneath Tiannan City.

Xu Tianlong fought Xia Muqian and Eagle Guardian while the Tianxin Empire army attacked Tiannan City, but Xia Muqian revealed the powerful Xia Renfan from a blood-red coffin. As Xu Tianlong faced the old ancestor, two distant voices entered the battle, one asking that Xia Renfan’s body be preserved.

• Xu Tianlong battled Xia Muqian and Eagle Guardian in the sky, while both sides prepared for a larger fight.
• The Tianxin Empire army fired ballistae at Tiannan City, and the defenders used their Dou Qi to stop the arrows as the melee began.
• Xu Tianlong unleashed the Heaven Splitting Divine Palm, badly injuring Xia Muqian and scattering Eagle Guardian’s black mist to reveal his soul body.
• Xia Muqian called on the Old Ancestor, and Xia Renfan emerged from a blood-red coffin with an aura that overwhelmed the Dou Zong experts.
• Xu Tianlong recognized Xia Renfan and feared he had no way out, before a distant voice asked that Xia Renfan’s Half-Step Dou Zun body not be destroyed.

Yao Tian Huo arrived to help the Xu Family and pursued Xia Renfan, while Xu Haoyu confronted Eagle Guardian. Xu Haoyu trapped Eagle Guardian in a five-flame formation and launched its attack, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Yao Tian Huo blocked Xia Renfan’s attack with spatial power and chased him as he fled.
• Xu Haoyu told Xu Tianlong that Yao Tian Huo had been resurrected and would protect the Xu Family for ten years.
• Xu Tianlong confronted Xia Muqian while Xu Haoyu faced Eagle Guardian.
• Eagle Guardian devoured three souls from his Soul Bag to restore his strength.
• Xu Haoyu formed five flame spirits with the Five Round Li Fire Method and surrounded Eagle Guardian with a flame array.
• Xu Haoyu ordered the five spirits to attack, and Eagle Guardian released the souls in his Soul Bag to unleash the Senluo Soul Devouring Array.

Xu Haoyu defeated Eagle Guardian and secured the soul, corpse, and Magical Core needed to refine a Sky Demon Puppet. With the battle won and Yao Tian Huo pledging to protect the Xu Family for ten years, Xu Tianlong ordered an immediate counterattack against the Xia Family Royal Family and the conquest of the Tianxin Empire.

• Eagle Guardian devoured thousands of souls, temporarily rising to the strength of a nine-star Dou Zong, but Xu Haoyu strengthened his flaming formation and sealed Eagle Guardian's soul.
• Yao Tian Huo returned with Xia Renfan's corpse, which Xu Haoyu collected alongside the captured soul and Magical Core for a Sky Demon Puppet.
• Xu Tianlong brought Xia Muqian's corpse to Xu Haoyu, who explained that he planned to refine puppets from Dou Zong corpses.
• Yao Tian Huo promised to protect the Xu Family for ten years, and Xu Tianlong welcomed his pledge.
• After the battle ended, Xu Tianlong ordered the Xu Family to counterattack, destroy the Xia Family Royal Family, and seize the Tianxin Empire.

The Xu Family crushed the Tianxin Empire’s forces, seized Tianxin City, and began wiping out the Xia Family and its allies. After reaching five-star Dou Emperor, Xu Haoyu began preparing to refine a Sky Demon Puppet from Xia Renfan’s corpse.

• The Xu Family pursued the routed Tianxin Empire army, accepted the ordinary soldiers’ surrender, and executed its middle-ranking and senior officers.
• Xu Tianlong and Xu Haoyu used a Space Channel to seize Tianxin City with Yao Tian Huo, then killed the returning Dou Wang and Dou Emperor experts.
• Xu Yaozu arrived with the main army, and the Xu Family exterminated the Xia Family and Lin Family Commerce, purged the Alchemist Guild, and confiscated their wealth.
• Xu Tianlong and Yao Tian Huo went to deal with royal and faction remnants on the eastern and western frontlines, while Xu Haoyu stayed behind to cultivate.
• Xu Haoyu broke through to five-star Dou Emperor and decided to refine the Sky Demon Puppet using rare ores and Xia Renfan’s corpse.
• Xu Haoyu cleansed and prepared Xia Renfan’s corpse, then took out a Sky Demon Phoenix Magical Core and Eagle Guardian’s soul for the refinement.

Xu Haoyu refined Xia Renfan’s corpse, the Sky Demon Phoenix’s Magical Core, and Eagle Guardian’s soul into a golden Sky Demon Puppet. After naming it Number One and binding it to himself, Xu Haoyu left to see how events outside had unfolded.

• Xu Haoyu purified Eagle Guardian’s soul, placed it in Xia Renfan’s corpse with the Sky Demon Phoenix’s Magical Core, and refined ores into scarlet liquid metal.
• When the corpse, Magical Core, and soul resonated, Xu Haoyu fused them and covered the corpse with the liquid metal, refining its body through green and silver stages into gold.
• Xu Haoyu bound the completed Sky Demon Puppet to himself with his blood essence and soul imprint, causing it to recognize him and kneel before him.
• Xu Haoyu assessed Number One as strong enough to overwhelm high-level Dou Zongs and said it could grow stronger by absorbing lightning energy.
• Xu Haoyu stored Number One, named it the first of future puppets, and left to check on events outside after the Xu Family took control of the Tianxin Empire.

Xu Haoyu returned to Tiannan City and cultivated for half a year while Zi Yan completed her advancement in seclusion. Zi Yan emerged with a temporarily mature body before shrinking back to her childlike form, while Xu Haoyu finished refining the five elemental essences and advanced to a 7-Star Dou Huang.

• Xu Yaozu ascended the throne as the new Tianxin Emperor, and the Zhao and Wei Families submitted to the Xu Family while retaining control of their primary businesses.
• Xu Haoyu returned to Tiannan City, checked on Zi Yan in the Forbidden Ground, and began refining the five elemental essences into his internal organs.
• After half a year, Zi Yan's purple cocoon broke open, and she briefly became an adult before shrinking back to her childlike form.
• Zi Yan left her cave, followed Xu Haoyu's scent to his cave, and waited outside when she sensed his energy was in turmoil.
• Xu Haoyu completed the five-element cycle in his organs, strengthened his life force, and advanced from a 5-Star to a 7-Star Dou Huang.

After Zi Yan awoke and advanced, Xu Haoyu decided they were strong enough to travel to the Central Plains and investigate her origins in the Beast Region. With his grandfather Xu Tianlong and teacher Li Fufeng’s support, Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan set out, while Xu Haoyu wondered whether Xiao Yan’s broken engagement would still happen.

• Xu Haoyu found Zi Yan awake and learned she had advanced, while she discovered he had reached 7-Star Dou Huang during her nearly ten months of sleep.
• Xu Haoyu took Zi Yan to Tianxin City, where they reunited with Xu Tianlong and Zi Yan called him Grandpa Xu.
• Xu Haoyu told Xu Tianlong that he and Zi Yan planned to train in the Central Plains, and Xu Tianlong accepted his decision and gathered information for their journey.
• Xu Tianlong prepared a map and intelligence, while Li Fufeng gave Xu Haoyu a Rank 7 Alchemist badge and robes.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan said farewell and flew toward the Central Plains, as Xu Haoyu wondered whether Xiao Yan’s broken engagement would still occur.