Chapter Summaries

After two and a half years in the Void Lightning Pool, Xu Haoyu reached Eight-Star Dou Zong, and his incarnation reached the same realm. By using the incarnation to cultivate the Flame Mantra and refine the fused Heavenly Flames, he advanced to Dou Zong Peak and began upgrading his cultivation method with five Earth-Rank elemental arts.

• Xu Haoyu's cultivation in the Void Lightning Pool raised him to Eight-Star Dou Zong, while the Heavenly Flame-tempered incarnation also reached Eight-Star Dou Zong.
• Xu Haoyu gave the incarnation his knowledge of the Flame Mantra, and it tried to refine the fused Heavenly Flame origin but exploded when the flames resisted.
• Xu Haoyu suppressed the Heavenly Flames while the incarnation refined them, and after seven days the Flame Mantra reached Earth Rank High Grade and both Xu Haoyus advanced to Dou Zong Peak.
• Xu Haoyu retrieved five Earth Rank Middle Level elemental cultivation methods, studied them, and began replacing his existing five-element methods with them.

Xu Haoyu spent three years cultivating in the Void Lightning Pool, upgraded his Guiyi True Art to a Low-Level Heaven Rank method, and broke through to peak one-star Dou Zun. He returned to Eastern Dragon Island with Hei Qing, where Zi Yan greeted him and fought him after he teased her about still looking young.

• Xu Haoyu refined lightning plasma in the Void Lightning Pool, raised his Guiyi True Art to a Low-Level Heaven Rank method, and cultivated until he broke through to peak one-star Dou Zun.
• Xu Haoyu absorbed his incarnation and learned that nearly four years had passed and he was nineteen.
• Xu Haoyu left the Void Lightning Pool with Hei Qing, promised to refine him a Nine Revolutions Returning Yuan Pill once Hei Qing gathered the ingredients, and they returned to Eastern Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan came to see Xu Haoyu, complained that she had run out of his pills, and Xu Haoyu noticed she had reached the seventh rank and become a Dou Zong.
• Xu Haoyu teased Zi Yan for not growing taller, so she angrily attacked him and he easily subdued her.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan decided to return to the Black-Corner Region to search for clues about her father, the Old Dragon Emperor. Before they left Eastern Dragon Island, Zhuo Li gave Xu Haoyu a Dragon Mark that could help him subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Hei Qing carried them into the void.

• Xu Haoyu told Zi Yan that searching the Black-Corner Region for her father might reveal clues or help her grow stronger, and she agreed to go with him.
• Zhuo Li approved their plan, explained that the Old Dragon Emperor might be trapped, and asked them to search on behalf of the Void Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Zhuo Li gave Zi Yan a Storage Ring filled with medicinal herbs and entrusted her safety to Xu Haoyu.
• Zhuo Li placed a Dragon Mark on Xu Haoyu and explained that it could help him subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame, which the Pill Tower had captured.
• Hei Qing transformed into his true form and carried Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan away from Eastern Dragon Island into the void.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan returned from the Beast Region to Tianxin City, where he reunited with Xu Tianlong and Yao Tian Huo after four years away. He promised to refine pills to restore Yao Tian Huo’s strength and help Xu Tianlong attempt a breakthrough, while asking Yao Tian Huo to keep protecting the family as he prepared to leave again.

• Hei Qing said he would gather medicinal ingredients for Xu Haoyu and told Zi Yan to signal him when she next returned to Eastern Dragon Island.
• Xu Haoyu opened a Space Channel, and Zi Yan coached him in spatial control as they traveled toward the Northwest Continent.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan reached Tianxin City, where Xu Tianlong and Yao Tian Huo met them after sensing their arrival.
• Yao Tian Huo revealed that soul-body agents had secretly investigated the family, but none had dared act while he guarded them.
• Xu Haoyu promised to refine a Rank 8 Fuling Qing Pill to restore Yao Tian Huo’s peak strength and Seventh-Rank Pills to help Xu Tianlong prepare for a Dou Zun breakthrough.

Xu Haoyu strengthened his family before setting out with Zi Yan for Jia Nan Academy. They arrived in the academy’s Back Mountain and spotted a group of knights descending from the sky, leaving their purpose unknown.

• Xu Haoyu refined a Fuling Qing Pill for Yao Tian Huo, who agreed to guard the Xu family for another ten years while he recovered his strength.
• Xu Haoyu gave Xu Tianlong pills to help him pursue a breakthrough to Dou Zun and shared the first half of the Taiyi Soul Mantra with his teacher.
• Xu Haoyu gave Li Fufeng alchemy advice, prompting Li Fufeng to enter seclusion and study it.
• Xu Haoyu made a Life Tablet for the Sky Demon Puppet and left both with Xu Tianlong before departing with Zi Yan.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan traveled through a Space Channel to Jia Nan Academy’s Back Mountain, where they saw knights riding strange beasts descend from the sky.

Xiao Xun'er was escorted away by the Black Annihilation Army, leaving Xiao Yan determined to reach Dou Zong and find her. Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan arrived afterward, and Yao Chen learned that Xu Haoyu had advanced to Dou Venerable during his travels in the Central Plains.

• Ling Quan arrived with the Black Annihilation Army to take Xiao Xun'er back to her clan, and she told Xiao Yan not to seek her until he reached Dou Zong.
• Ling Quan insulted Xiao Yan and threatened to break his legs, but Xiao Xun'er stopped their confrontation before departing with the army.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen how soon he could reach Dou Zong and vowed to complete any training needed to do it within five years.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan appeared, and Yao Chen sensed that Xu Haoyu had advanced from Dou Wang to Dou Venerable in only a few years.
• Xu Haoyu explained that he had returned to search for clues about Zi Yan's father, while Yao Chen warned that Xiao Yan would face hardship winning the approval of Xiao Xun'er's clan.

Xu Haoyu returned to Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan and sent a clone into the Underground Lava World to investigate a possible clue to her father. The clone evaded the Lizardmen and found an invisible boundary leading into another space.

• Xiao Yan told Xu Haoyu that Dragon Abyss still thrived in the Inner Courtyard, with Lin Xiuya, Liu Qing, Lin Yan, and Han Yue as its Four Guardians, but Xu Haoyu declined to visit its headquarters.
• Xu Haoyu sent a clone to scout the Underground Lava World while he and Zi Yan went to visit Su Qian.
• The clone gained permission from Elder Liu to enter the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower and descended into the magma without obstruction.
• The clone avoided patrols of Lizardmen by using the Aura Concealment Technique and continued into increasingly dark, perilous depths.
• The clone discovered an invisible wall and passed through it into another space.

Xu Haoyu’s avatar found Zhu Kun trapped in the Dou Di’s dwelling and told him about his daughter, Zi Yan. Zhu Kun asked Xu Haoyu to bring her to him, and Xu Haoyu left to return to the outside world.

• Xu Haoyu’s avatar entered the vast, dark dwelling and encountered the enormous purple dragon Zhu Kun.
• Zhu Kun asked whether Xu Haoyu carried the Ancient Jade, and Xu Haoyu identified him as the Old Dragon Emperor and explained that he had come on Zi Yan’s behalf.
• Xu Haoyu told Zhu Kun that Zi Yan was his daughter and described her life, her journey to the Central Plains, and the Ancient Dragon Clan’s division.
• Zhu Kun grieved over Zi Yan’s hardships and cursed the North, West, and South Dragon Kings for their rebellion.
• Zhu Kun asked Xu Haoyu to bring Zi Yan to him, and Xu Haoyu agreed after asking him to restrain his power.
• Xu Haoyu left through the wall, while Zhu Kun celebrated and looked forward to seeing his daughter.

Xu Haoyu took Zi Yan to the Underground Lava World, where they found Zhu Kun trapped in a special space. After explaining why he had left her, Zhu Kun reunited with Zi Yan and agreed to help her reclaim the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Xu Haoyu told Su Qian that Zi Yan's father was trapped in a secret space beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, and Su Qian agreed to keep the discovery secret.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan descended through the lava and reached the special space while Su Qian waited outside.
• Zhu Kun appeared and told Zi Yan that Tuo She Ancient Emperor had trapped him after he brought her to the cave as an egg.
• Zi Yan told Zhu Kun she wanted to become stronger, reunify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and punish the three False Kings.
• Zhu Kun promised to help Zi Yan and began considering how to strengthen her.

Zhu Kun used his essence blood to awaken Zi Yan’s Ancient Void Dragon Royal Bloodline, beginning her transformation. While she evolved, Zhu Kun took Xu Haoyu to see Tuo She Ancient Emperor’s Cave and promised him a favor, leaving Xu Haoyu planning how to gather the Ancient Jade and grow stronger.

• Zhu Kun poured his purple-gold essence blood into Zi Yan to awaken her Royal Bloodline, and she entered a cocoon of light to evolve.
• Zhu Kun brought Xu Haoyu away from Zi Yan’s transformation and showed him the bronze gate to Tuo She Ancient Emperor’s Cave.
• Zhu Kun thanked Xu Haoyu for bringing Zi Yan to her father and clansmen, and promised to repay him with a favor.
• Xu Haoyu considered how to obtain all eight pieces of Ancient Jade, deal with the Ancient Eight Clans, and gain powerful companions.

After refining Zhu Kun's blood essence, Zi Yan endured a lightning tribulation and advanced to the Dou Zun realm. She left the magma prison with Xu Haoyu, promising to rescue Zhu Kun after reaching Dou Sheng and reunifying the Four Dragon Islands.

• Zi Yan emerged from her cocoon after awakening her Royal Bloodline and summoned the lightning tribulation required to reach the eighth tier.
• Zi Yan fought through all seventy-two lightning bolts, using the tribulation to strengthen her body and successfully advancing to Dou Zun.
• Zhu Kun told Zi Yan that his blood essence would help her reach Half-Saint, and she promised to rescue him and reunite the Four Dragon Islands after becoming Dou Sheng.
• Xu Haoyu gave Zi Yan healing and Qi Recovery Pills, then accompanied her out of the magma prison while Zhu Kun returned to the bronze gate.
• Zi Yan kissed Xu Haoyu's cheek to thank him for staying by her side, and Xu Haoyu put an arm around her waist.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan fought their way out of the magma depths, collected Lizardman fire pearls, and returned to Jia Nan Academy, where Zi Yan thanked Su Qian. Xu Haoyu then began refining the pearls to strengthen himself.

• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan attacked a Lizardman patrol, killed its Dou Venerate members, and gathered the corpses before fleeing the pursuing reinforcements.
• After collecting around 120 Lizardman corpses, Xu Haoyu told Zi Yan he planned to refine their fire pearls and decided they should return rather than fight more patrols.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan emerged from the magma and reunited with Su Qian, who arranged accommodations for them at Jia Nan Academy.
• Zi Yan thanked Su Qian for bringing her to the academy, and Su Qian welcomed her back.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan extracted over 120 fire pearls from the corpses, and Xu Haoyu began refining them with Heavenly Flames and absorbing their energy.

Xu Haoyu returned to Jia Nan Academy after reaching the peak of Two-Star Dou Zun and revealed that he had become a Rank 8 Alchemist, then spent ten days refining pills for the Academy. After leaving a clone to hunt Lizardmen beneath the magma, he set off with Zi Yan for the Heavenly Serpent Empire to visit Qing Lin.

• Xu Haoyu told Zi Yan and Su Qian that refining Fire Pearls had raised him to the peak of Two-Star Dou Zun, and offered to refine pills for Jia Nan Academy without charge.
• Xu Haoyu revealed that the Pill Tower had certified him as a Rank 8 Alchemist, prompting Su Qian to gather the Academy's elders and medicinal ingredients.
• The Academy's elders and students gathered to watch Xu Haoyu refine pills, while Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen how Xu Haoyu compared to him as an alchemist.
• Xu Haoyu refined pills for ten days and handed them to Su Qian to distribute throughout the Academy.
• Xu Haoyu left a clone beneath the magma to hunt Lizardmen and traveled with Zi Yan toward the Heavenly Serpent Empire to visit Qing Lin.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan arrived at the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to check on Qing Lin, whom they had not seen for nearly five years. After the Mansion Master welcomed them and Qing Lin reunited with them, she assured them she was doing well and had been working hard to catch up with them.

• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan reached the Heavenly Serpent Mansion and asked to see Qing Lin.
• The Heavenly Serpent Mansion Master recognized them, sensed they were Dou Zuns, and respectfully welcomed them despite her elders’ objections.
• Zi Yan’s aura silenced the elders, and Xu Haoyu explained that they had come only to visit their friend Qing Lin.
• The Heavenly Serpent Mansion Master said Qing Lin was her disciple, the Holy Maiden, and the designated next Mansion Master, then invited them inside.
• Qing Lin joyfully reunited with Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan and told them she was treated well and wanted to grow strong enough to stand beside them.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan left the Heavenly Serpent Mansion after spending seven days with Qing Lin, then traveled to the Chuyun Empire to seek news of Xiao Yi Xian. There, they learned that the Poison Sect and Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate were preparing for a decisive battle in the Netherworld Poison Swamp, and Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan went to watch.

• The Heavenly Serpent Mansion Master welcomed Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan, and Qing Lin showed them around the mansion and empire for seven days.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan departed, and Qing Lin tearfully promised to find them someday.
• Xu Haoyu praised Qing Lin’s growth and said staying at the Heavenly Serpent Mansion would give her time to develop.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan traveled to the Chuyun Empire to look for news of Xiao Yi Xian and heard that the Poison Sect and Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate would fight in the Netherworld Poison Swamp.
• Xu Haoyu wondered whether the Netherworld Poison Swamp could harbor the Netherworld Poison Flame, then he and Zi Yan vanished to watch the battle.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan found the Netherworld Poison Flame beneath the Netherworld Poison Swamp, where its rampage killed many Poison Masters above. Xu Haoyu captured the Flame's origin and began erasing its intelligence and imprinting his soul on it.

• Xu Haoyu sensed a Heavenly Flame beneath the Netherworld Poison Swamp and took Zi Yan through a Space Crack to find it.
• Xu Haoyu identified an emerald-green python as the Netherworld Poison Flame, and it attacked them with poisonous fire.
• The Flame drew on the swamp's accumulated miasma, killing many Poison Masters above and forcing the stronger cultivators to flee.
• Xu Haoyu protected himself with the Five Elements Divine Light, decapitated the python, and captured the palm-sized Emerald Green Snake that held the Flame's origin.
• Xu Haoyu used his Soul Strength to erase the origin's intelligence and place a Soul Imprint on it.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian outside the Netherworld Poison Swamp, where Xu Haoyu killed the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate's master and his followers. Xiao Yi Xian explained how her Woeful Poison Body had changed her and left her unable to control its poison, and Xu Haoyu invited her to leave with them to seek a solution.

• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan appeared as the Poison Sect and Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate prepared to fight, and Zi Yan recognized Xiao Yi Xian despite her changed appearance.
• Xiao Yi Xian denied that she was Xiao Yi Xian, but Xu Haoyu said they would deal with her trouble before talking.
• Xu Haoyu killed Xie Shan and the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate members with a single palm strike.
• At a temporary camp, Xiao Yi Xian told Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan that her Woeful Poison Body had awakened as she absorbed poison and had transformed her body and strength.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that she had founded the Poison Sect to protect herself while searching for a way to control her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xu Haoyu invited Xiao Yi Xian to leave with him and Zi Yan so they could seek a solution and potentially make her their companion.

Xiao Yi Xian joined Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan after choosing to seek a way to control her Woeful Poison Body. At Jia Nan Academy, Yao Chen revealed that he had the Poison Pill Method and gave it to Xu Haoyu in exchange for help rebuilding his body.

• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to leave the Chuyun Empire with Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan, asking them to kill her if the Woeful Poison Body made her lose control.
• Xiao Yi Xian handed leadership of the Poison Sect to its strongest member and departed with Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan for Jia Nan Academy.
• Xu Haoyu reunited with his clone, received its Storage Ring of Lizardmen corpses, and summoned Yao Chen to the Back Mountain.
• Yao Chen explained that the Poison Pill Method could control the Woeful Poison Body by condensing its poison into a pill.
• Yao Chen gave Xu Haoyu the Poison Pill Method and asked him to help rebuild his body; Xu Haoyu agreed and told Yao Chen and Xiao Yan to prepare to leave the academy.

Xu Haoyu helped Xiao Yi Xian gain control over her Woeful Poison Body and began gathering the materials to resurrect Yao Chen. After securing a seventh-tier magical beast’s essence blood, he captured Earth Demon Old Ghost in Demon Flame Valley to use his body for the resurrection.

• Xiao Yi Xian read the method for controlling her Woeful Poison Body, and Xu Haoyu supplied the needed Strange Flames and Bodhi Transformation Saliva while explaining that they still needed a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s Magical Core.
• Xu Haoyu lent Xiao Yi Xian the Netherworld Poison Flame, which she absorbed and used to accelerate her cultivation.
• Xiao Yan applied for early graduation from Jia Nan Academy, then joined Xu Haoyu and Yao Chen after leaving.
• Xu Haoyu obtained part of the Crimson Flame Lion King’s essence blood in exchange for sparing its life.
• Xu Haoyu and his companions went to Demon Flame Valley, where he trapped Earth Demon Old Ghost and ordered Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to clear the area before taking him to his cave.

Xu Haoyu resurrected Yao Chen with a Rank 8 Bone Growing Blood Fusion Pill, the Crimson Flame Lion King's blood essence, and Heavenly Flames. After Yao Chen awoke as a Six-Star Dou Zun, Xu Haoyu, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian left for the Central Plains, while Yao Chen and Xiao Yan set out for the Jia Ma Empire.

• Xu Haoyu erased Earth Demon Old Ghost's soul and used his corpse as the foundation for Yao Chen's resurrection.
• Yao Chen swallowed the Bone Growing Blood Fusion Pill and entered the corpse as Xu Haoyu refined it with the Crimson Flame Lion King's blood essence and Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan found the incomplete Earth-Rank Middle-Level Flame Manipulation Art and studied the scroll while Yao Chen's body and soul fused.
• After about a day, Yao Chen awakened as a Six-Star Dou Zun, thanked Xu Haoyu, and invited him to visit Starfall Pavilion in the Central Plains.
• Xu Haoyu left with Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian through a Space Channel, while Yao Chen and Xiao Yan departed for the Jia Ma Empire to settle Xiao Yan's family affairs and begin training.