Chapter Summaries

Gu Fei, Cai'er, and Xiao Yi Xian explored Space Town before the space auction, where Gu Fei bought a mysterious Origin Stone for Cai'er. Cai'er revealed it was a rare Nine-Colored Origin Stone, and the three prepared to visit a higher-level trading fair.

• Gu Fei led Cai'er and Xiao Yi Xian through Space Town and its stalls of treasures.
• Cai'er spotted a Seven-Colored Origin Stone, and Gu Fei bought it from a withered old man for two eighth-grade pills.
• Cai'er explained that Origin Stones could reach eight or nine colors and tested the stone with her blood.
• The stone revealed a ninth pattern, confirming it was a Nine-Colored Origin Stone, and Cai'er kissed Gu Fei in delight.
• Gu Fei said they had seen all that was worthwhile in Space Town and would head to a higher-level trading fair.

Gu Fei, Cai'er, and Xiao Yi Xian attended the Space Trading Fair hosted by Old Man Baoshan, where Gu Fei waited for a map fragment and bought a poison manual for Xiao Yi Xian. The auction continued with increasingly rare treasures, and Gu Fei left the bidding on the early items to others.

• Gu Fei presented his invitation, received cloaks for concealing his identity, and entered the auction hall with Cai'er and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Old Man Baoshan opened the Space Trading Fair and auctioned the Demon Phoenix Wings, which another bidder exchanged for an Eighth-Grade Pill with Four-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Gu Fei considered bidding on the Vajra Glazed Body but decided against it when the owner requested a water-element cultivation method.
• As the auction continued, Gu Fei bought the Heavenly Nether Poison Codex for Xiao Yi Xian with two Eighth-Grade Pills with Five-Colored Pill Lightning.

Gu Fei attended a trading fair where bidders competed for a remnant map linked to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but he let a gaunt black-robed man win it. Old Man Baoshan then announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared again, leaving the hall in an uproar.

• Old Man Baoshan presented a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame remnant map and opened bidding for it.
• Gu Fei bid on the map, but a gaunt black-robed man outbid him with an Eighth-Grade Pill with Nine-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Gu Fei stopped bidding, and Old Man Baoshan completed the exchange with the black-robed man, who offered a snow-white rabbit that gave off a pill fragrance.
• Old Man Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared again after ten thousand years.
• The news of the Bodhi Ancient Tree, whose Bodhi Heart could help someone become a Dou Sheng, shocked everyone in the hall.

Gu Fei learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would emerge in the Barren Ancient Domain and took the Demon Fire Remnant Map and Vajra Glazed Body from the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts. After assembling the map and refining it with Heavenly Flames, he uncovered an ancient message about the Demon Fire’s descent.

• Old Man Baoshan revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree would emerge in the Barren Ancient Domain, and Gu Fei decided to seek it out.
• Cai'er and Xiao Yi Xian learned that the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts belonged to the Cloud Rain Sect, which used young women as flesh cauldrons.
• Gu Fei crushed the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts and took their Storage Rings, finding the Demon Fire Remnant Map and Vajra Glazed Body Dou Skill inside.
• Gu Fei assembled the map in a secluded cave and used his Heavenly Flames to reveal the hidden ancient text: “Two moons appear together. Nine stars become one. Heaven and Earth Tide. Demon Fire Descends.”

Gu Fei learned that the Heaven and Earth Tide would arrive in three years and trigger the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s descent, then chose to pursue the Bodhi Ancient Tree alone to protect the Gu Clan’s younger generation. When the tree’s appearance was confirmed, Xun’er secretly set out after him despite being told to stay behind.

• Gu Fei explained that the celestial phenomenon would occur in three years and that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would descend when it did.
• The Demon Lotus Pattern on the Ancient Map shot into Gu Fei’s brow, but he reassured Cai'er and Xiao Yi Xian before returning with them to the Gu Realm.
• A Gu Clan Elder announced that the younger generation would seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but Gu Fei said he would go alone because the Soul Clan might ambush them.
• Gu Fei refused Xun’er’s request to accompany him, and the Gu Clan Elders agreed that she and the others should remain in the Gu Realm.
• After Gu Fei left, the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s image appeared in people’s minds across the continent, confirming its emergence and stirring the Central Plains.
• Xun’er secretly left the Gu Realm an hour later and hurried toward the northeast of the Central Plains.

Gu Fei traveled into the Barren Ancient Domain to find the Bodhi Ancient Tree, cutting through its dangerous regions and the beast tide with ease. As he reached the tree, Hun Yu summoned a Soul Clan elder in an attempt to stop him.

• Gu Fei entered the Barren Ancient Domain and reached the Ancient Domain Platform after killing the ferocious beasts that attacked him.
• Feng Qing'er, Jiu Feng, and Hun Yu recognized Gu Fei, and Hun Yu crushed a Space Jade Slip to summon a Soul Clan elder.
• Gu Fei crossed the beast tide by killing the charging beasts with a single palm strike.
• Gu Fei spotted the Bodhi Ancient Tree standing on the plain and identified it.

Gu Fei and the Soul Clan reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree and were drawn inside when its light engulfed them. The tree tested Gu Fei with an illusion of Xun'er, but he used a Bodhi Seed to break free and found himself before a smaller ancient tree.

• Gu Fei faced Hun Yu and the Soul Clan Dou Saint near the Bodhi Ancient Tree and invited them to claim its treasure.
• Hun Yu and the others spotted the Bodhi Heart and rushed toward it, while the Soul Clan Dou Saint destroyed five Half-Saint Puppets.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree's light enveloped Gu Fei, the Soul Clan, and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, transporting them away.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Gu Fei an illusion of Xun'er in her bridal clothes, but Gu Fei rejected the temptation and used a Bodhi Seed to shatter the illusion.
• Gu Fei found himself in an emerald-green space before an ancient tree about a dozen zhang tall.

Gu Fei discovered that a fallen Dou Di’s negative emotions had corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree and caused it to trap people in illusions. After Gu Fei purged the evil intelligence with Heavenly Flames, the tree presented him with a green heart.

• Gu Fei saw illusions trapping Hun Yu, Jiu Feng, Feng Qing'er, and others inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Gu Fei witnessed a vision of a black-clad Dou Di fighting the Bodhi Ancient Tree before another mysterious Dou Di destroyed him.
• Gu Fei realized the fallen Dou Di’s negative emotions had corrupted the tree and caused its illusions.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree asked Gu Fei to help, and he agreed to refine Bodhi Seeds with Heavenly Flames to cleanse it.
• After the last black vapor disappeared, the Bodhi Ancient Tree recovered and showed Gu Fei a strange green heart as repayment.

Gu Fei cultivated beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree while it released Hun Yu and the others from their illusions. The Soul Clan elder failed to attack Gu Fei, and as the group remained trapped, Xun'er joined the brutal effort to cross the beast tide toward the tree.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree freed Hun Yu, the Soul Clan elder, and the other intruders from their illusions and revealed Gu Fei cultivating within it.
• Hun Yu and the others realized Gu Fei had received the legendary chance to gain enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Tree, and Hun Yu grew jealous.
• The Soul Clan elder attacked Gu Fei with black chains, but the Bodhi Ancient Tree repelled the blow and sent him flying with severe injuries.
• The group accepted that they could not harm the Bodhi Ancient Tree and grew restless as they remained trapped inside.
• Xun'er reached the Ancient Domain Platform, where factions gathered experts and cannon fodder to fight through the beast tide; she fought among the stronger cultivators and resolved to make it through.

After a hundred cycles of reincarnation within the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Gu Fei emerged at the late stage of the Four-Star Dou Saint realm and claimed the tree’s Bodhi Seeds. He killed Hun Yu and the Soul Clan Dou Saint, while the Bodhi Ancient Tree began to sink back beneath the earth.

• Gu Fei awoke after a month inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree, having endured a hundred cycles of reincarnation and risen from the initial stage of the Three-Star Dou Saint realm to the late stage of the Four-Star Dou Saint realm.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree expelled more than twenty Bodhi Seeds, and Gu Fei gathered them all into his palm.
• The Soul Clan Dou Saint and Jiu Feng challenged Gu Fei over the seeds, and Gu Fei struck the Soul Clan Dou Saint down with one punch.
• Gu Fei killed Hun Yu with a crushing force and tortured the wounded Soul Clan Dou Saint to death.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree began to shake, and Gu Fei realized it was about to sink beneath the earth for ten thousand years.

Gu Fei and the surviving Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree after a month of trials, and the tree sank underground with Gu Fei holding the Bodhi Heart. When the gathered experts threatened them for the treasures, Gu Fei killed Jiu Feng and made the others back down.

• Xun'er waited outside the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and the tree expelled Gu Fei and the other survivors in a burst of emerald light.
• Xun'er rushed to Gu Fei, who rebuked her for coming and said she should be grateful if she did not cause him trouble.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sank underground as Gu Fei touched the unrefined Bodhi Heart floating over his heart and thanked the tree.
• The gathered experts targeted Gu Fei and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan survivors for their treasures, while Jiu Feng pointed them toward Gu Fei and tried to escape.
• Gu Fei crushed Jiu Feng with a gesture, causing the other experts to withdraw.

Gu Fei killed Jiu Feng and left the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan survivors alive before taking Xun'er back toward the Gu Realm. He returned with more than twenty Bodhi Seeds and began preparing Bodhi Great Return Pills for Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er.

• Feng Qing'er calmed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts and warned them not to provoke Gu Fei after he killed Jiu Feng.
• Gu Fei opened a Space Crack and told Xun'er to follow him, and she excitedly went with him.
• Gu Fei left Xun'er behind in the Eastern Region and returned to the Gu Realm, where the elders learned she was safe and saw his Bodhi Seeds.
• Gu Fei reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er, then began refining Bodhi Great Return Pills for them.

Gu Fei refined six Ninth-Grade Bodhi Great Return Pills, rested, and delivered two to the Gu Clan before Gu Yuan named him Young Clan Leader. Gu Fei then asked Gu Yuan about Hun Tiandi’s Soul Realm, leaving the reason for his question unexplained.

• Gu Fei refined his sixth Ninth-Grade Bodhi Great Return Pill, neutralized its Black Demon Lightning tribulation, and gave pills to Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er.
• Gu Fei rested for three days, woke to spend time with Wushuang and Xian Le, then went to meet the Gu Clan Elders.
• Gu Fei gave two Bodhi Great Return Pills to the clan and discussed killing Hun Yu in the Barren Ancient Domain.
• Gu Yuan announced that Gu Fei would become the Gu Clan’s Young Clan Leader and inherit the Clan Leader position.
• Gu Fei asked Gu Yuan what level Hun Tiandi’s Soul Realm had reached, and Gu Yuan answered that Hun Tiandi had reached the Emperor Realm Soul.

Gu Fei warned the Gu Clan that the Soul Clan might be cultivating another peak expert, prompting Gu Yuan to take the threat seriously. Gu Yuan gave Xun'er a Bodhi Great Return Pill, while Gu Fei accompanied Cai'er to the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, where Yao Ming told him about upheaval in the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

• Gu Fei told Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan Elders that Soul Hall had amassed enough Soul Origin to create an Emperor Realm Soul and suggested the Soul Clan might be hiding another expert.
• Gu Yuan took Gu Fei's warning seriously, then gave Xun'er a Bodhi Great Return Pill and told her to support Gu Fei as the newly appointed Young Clan Leader.
• Xun'er believed Gu Fei had sent the pill for her and resolved to improve her cultivation so she could keep pursuing him.
• Cai'er told Gu Fei that her bloodline had called to her from the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, and he agreed to accompany her there.
• Yao Ming greeted Gu Fei and Cai'er, praised Gu Fei's cultivation, and said Gu Fei's killing of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's Young Clan Leader had caused a major upheaval.

Gu Fei learned that the Soul Hall had fueled a war in the Northwest Continent to harvest the dead’s souls, and he urged the Gu Clan to intervene. The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan also punished the survivors of the Barren Ancient Domain, while Cai'er began seclusion at the Nine Serene Yellow Springs.

• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Grand Elder imprisoned Feng Qing’er and the other survivors, then executed two clansmen who protested their punishment.
• Gu Fei dismissed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan as unimportant, ordered Yao Ming to keep people away from the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, and let Cai'er begin her cultivation seclusion there.
• Gu Fei explained to Gu Nanhai and the others that the Soul Hall had empowered the Lion Underworld Sect to conquer the Northwest Continent and collect souls from the war dead.
• Gu Nanhai decided to send the Gu Clan to quell the conflict, and Gu Fei urged the elders to act quickly before the Soul Clan could harvest more souls.

Soul Clan Chief Hun Tiandi responded to the Gu Clan’s attacks on Soul Hall by ordering his clan to kill Gu Fei, whose talent he viewed as a grave threat. Nihility Devouring Flame then confronted Hun Tiandi over their disrupted plans to target the weaker Ancient Races, and both agreed that Gu Fei had to die.

• Soul Clan elders gathered in the black hall and called for war after the Gu Clan destroyed Soul Hall branches and defeated its forces in the Northwest Continent.
• Hun Tiandi arrived and told the elders that the Soul Clan would fight the Gu Clan, but not yet.
• After hearing that Gu Fei might have uncovered something, Hun Tiandi ordered Soul Clan members to show no mercy if they had a chance to kill him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame appeared and criticized Hun Tiandi for letting Gu Fei disrupt their thousand-year plan to target the Spirit Clan or Stone Clan.
• Hun Tiandi explained that Gu Yuan’s growing activity made a secret attack difficult, while Nihility Devouring Flame declared that Gu Fei deserved to die.

Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame discussed the Gu Clan’s growing vigilance and planned to use Hun Miesheng and the descending Demon Flame to kill Gu Fei. A year later, Gu Fei broke through to Five-Star Dou Saint, and Xun’er reached Half-Saint.

• Hun Tiandi told Nihility Devouring Flame that the Soul Clan’s final plan was known only to its upper echelon and that Gu Yuan would eventually ease his vigilance.
• Nihility Devouring Flame urged Hun Tiandi to deal with Gu Fei, and Hun Tiandi said Hun Miesheng would act when the Demon Flame descended.
• After a year of cultivation, Gu Fei absorbed vast Heaven and Earth Energy and broke through to Five-Star Dou Saint.
• Gu Lie and the Gu Clan members praised Gu Fei’s progress, while Xiao Yi Xian and the others watched his breakthrough.
• Xun’er broke through to Half-Saint, and Ling Xi reflected on the Gu Clan’s strength and the Spirit Clan’s declining bloodline.

After refining the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill, Gu Fei traveled with Gu Nanhai to Demon Fire Descends as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame weakened its seal. At the site, Hun Miesheng arrived, recognized Gu Fei, and regarded him with wariness.

• Gu Fei refined the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill using Yao Ming's Yellow Springs Blood Crystal and captured it after overcoming Black Demon Lightning.
• A Gu Clan Elder told Gu Fei that nine stars had aligned and twin moons had appeared in the Western Regions, signaling that the Demon Saint's seal was weakening.
• Gu Fei left the Gu Realm with Gu Nanhai, suppressed his aura to the Four-Star Dou Saint Peak, and headed toward Demon Fire Descends as factions across the Central Plains gathered.
• Gu Fei and Gu Nanhai reached the milky-white desert near the fractured space, where the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's heat distorted the surrounding region.
• Hun Miesheng appeared with several Soul Hall figures, and he and Gu Fei recognized each other as the gathered experts watched.

Gu Fei and the other clans gathered near the damaged seal holding the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while the Soul Clan waited for the flame to weaken before acting. Gu Fei resolved to subdue it himself as more powerful experts arrived, leaving the crowd waiting for an opening to enter the sealed space.

• Gu Fei and Hun Miesheng gauged each other's strength, and Hun Miesheng told Hun Feng that the Soul Clan would wait until the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame weakened the seal before making a move.
• Gu Fei told Gu Nanhai that he intended to subdue the flame, and Gu Nanhai pledged to help him even at the risk of his life.
• Fire Cloud Old Ancestor and the Burning Flame Valley group arrived, followed by Huo Xuan, Huo Zhi, and Yan Clan elder Huo Yao, who greeted Gu Fei.
• As the seal's disturbances intensified and the desert began melting into magma, experts from the Lei Clan, Stone Clan, Spirit Clan, and Yao Clan arrived.
• Huo Xuan noted that Yao Tian had reached the middle One-Star Dou Saint level after receiving a precious pill from the Yao Clan.

Gu Fei entered the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s domain and discovered that its illusions provoked intense emotions to ignite demonic fire within its victims. After resisting an illusion and finding Gu Nanhai, he awakened him before the flames could consume him.

• As the milky-white halo opened, Gu Fei and Gu Nanhai entered the space filled with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Gu Fei flew through the endless sea of fire and saw an illusion of Hun Miesheng capturing Cai'er and making her seem to die.
• Gu Fei’s grief and rage triggered demonic fire inside his body, but he calmed himself and forced the flames out with his Heavenly Flames.
• Gu Fei used his Heavenly Flames to see through the illusion and found Gu Nanhai surrounded by the first signs of demonic fire.
• Gu Fei struck Gu Nanhai’s back and awakened him with a shout carrying soul fluctuations.