Chapter Summaries

After completing his deal with the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Bai Ge obtained fourteen Bodhi Seeds and distributed them among major factions and independent experts. He planned to use the gifts to attract powerful unaffiliated experts to the Bai Di Sect as turmoil spread across the Central Continent.

• Bai Ge thanked the weakened Bodhi Ancient Tree, then asked it for one last favor before leaving with Xiao Xun'er, Little Doctor Immortal, and the others.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sent fourteen Bodhi Seeds to Bai Ge, prompting excitement among the gathered factions and experts.
• Bai Ge kept seven Bodhi Seeds for the Bai Di Sect and distributed the rest among the Ancient Clan, Yan Clan, Lei Clan, Shi Clan, Yao Clan, and Pill Tower.
• Bai Ge gave two more Seeds from the Bai Di Sect's share to independent experts, intending to win over free Dou Zun experts and attract talent amid the coming turmoil.

Bai Ge distributed Bodhi Seeds to independent powerhouses and Bai Di Sect members, then refined the remaining seeds into pills. Six months later, news revealed that the Ling Clan had been exterminated, throwing the Central Continent into fear.

• Bai Ge gave two Bodhi Seeds to the independent powerhouses with the highest cultivation, earning their gratitude and admiration.
• Bai Ge returned to the Bai Di Sect and distributed Bodhi Seeds among its Dou Venerate-level powerhouses, while arranging for Ya Fei and Empress Yao Ye to receive theirs.
• Bai Ge spent the next six months refining his remaining Bodhi Seeds into Bodhi Pills and Great Bodhi Pills for the sect.
• A powerhouse entered the Spirit Realm and discovered it ruined and empty, revealing that the Ling Clan had been exterminated.
• The Central Continent's powerhouses and factions panicked, fearing they could suffer the same fate as the Ling Clan.

After the Ling Clan’s destruction, Bai Ge’s Bai Di Sect became Central Continent’s leading power and allied with the Pill Tower. Bai Ge then received Cai Lin’s signal and arrived at the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan as she completed her transformation into a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.

• Independent experts flocked to join the Bai Di Sect after hearing that Bai Ge had distributed Bodhi Seeds and possessed Bodhi Pills, rapidly increasing its strength.
• The Pill Tower’s Three Giants visited Bai Ge to propose an alliance between the Pill Tower and the Bai Di Sect, and Bai Ge agreed.
• Bai Ge continued to let the Soul Clan’s threat unfold, believing it would force Central Continent’s factions to unite and allow him to reshape the continent.
• Bai Ge received a signal from Cai Lin, tore through space, and arrived at the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan’s territory.
• Yao Ming told Bai Ge that a nine-colored pillar of light had appeared minutes earlier, then watched Cai Lin emerge as a colossal Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.

Cai Lin evolved into a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and broke through to the Dou Saint realm. As Bai Ge, Cai Lin, and Yao Ming prepared to celebrate, a messenger reported that the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan had attacked, and Bai Ge suspected the assault was connected to him.

• Cai Lin returned to human form after evolving, and Bai Ge congratulated her on her transformation.
• Yao Ming congratulated Bai Ge and Cai Lin, but Bai Ge asked him to keep Cai Lin’s breakthrough quiet and accepted an invitation to dine with the clan.
• A Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan messenger reported that the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan had attacked the clan.
• Yao Ming questioned why the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan had attacked, and the messenger said the attack had come without warning.
• Bai Ge told Yao Ming that the attack was probably because of him and suspected the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan was seeking revenge for Huang Tian’s death.

Bai Ge told Yao Ming that he had killed Huang Tian and returned to the Bai Di Sect to fetch Feng Qing'er, while Yao Ming and Cai Lin went to aid the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan. At the Nine Nether Abyss, Yao Ming arrived just in time to save Elder Ming from Kun Huang's attack.

• Bai Ge revealed that he had killed Huang Tian after Huang Tian colluded with the Soul Hall and Tian Ming Sect, then returned to the Bai Di Sect to bring Feng Qing'er.
• Yao Ming and Cai Lin set out for the Nine Nether Abyss to confront the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's attack.
• Jiu Feng and Kun Huang led the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's assault on the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan, seeking revenge on Bai Ge through his vassals.
• Kun Huang trapped Elder Ming in his Demon Phoenix Claw and tried to crush him.
• Yao Ming arrived with Cai Lin and pierced the Demon Phoenix Claw with his Yellow Spring Finger, allowing Elder Ming to escape.

Yao Ming and Cai Lin turned the battle against the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, with Cai Lin killing Kun Huang in a single strike. Bai Ge arrived through a rift with Feng Qing'er as the fight continued.

• Yao Ming revealed his Three-star Dou Sheng strength and broke through Phoenix's Demon Phoenix Claw with the Yellow Spring Finger.
• Phoenix attacked Yao Ming while Kun Huang unleashed the Demon Phoenix Phantom against Cai Lin.
• Cai Lin transformed into a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and destroyed Kun Huang with her tail.
• Bai Ge emerged from a rift with Feng Qing'er.

Bai Ge arrived at the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan’s battlefield and overwhelmed the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan with his Six-star Dou Sheng strength. As Feng Qing’er pleaded for the clan, Jiu Feng called on its members to die with him, but only a few hundred responded.

• Bai Ge arrived with Feng Qing'er, revealed his Six-star Dou Sheng aura, and accused the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan of repeatedly provoking him.
• Bai Ge declared that he would erase the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and stopped Phoenix from escaping with Jiu Feng using the Heavenly Demon Force Field.
• Feng Qing'er begged Bai Ge to spare the clan, while Jiu Feng rebuked her and refused to accept her plea.
• Bai Ge challenged Jiu Feng's pride and asked whether he could speak for the whole clan by choosing death.
• Jiu Feng called on the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan to die with him, but fewer than five hundred members answered.

Feng Qing'er challenged Jiu Feng for leadership of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, arguing that his defiance threatened the clan’s survival. After revealing her nearly complete transformation into an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, she defeated and wounded him, then prepared to strike again as she claimed the Clan Leader position.

• Bai Ge mocked Jiu Feng for demanding that the clan die with him, and Feng Qing'er called on him to step down as Clan Leader.
• Jiu Feng rejected Feng Qing'er's appeal and challenged her to defeat him for the position.
• Feng Qing'er revealed her Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Bloodline, suppressing much of Jiu Feng's power and declaring that the clan’s leadership should belong to her.
• Jiu Feng attacked with his Demon Phoenix Phantom, but Feng Qing'er destroyed it and severely wounded him with her Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Phantom.
• Feng Qing'er vowed to lead the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan to new glory and sent her phantom’s claw crashing down toward Jiu Feng.

Feng Qing'er killed Jiu Feng and took control of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, while Bai Ge waited for the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame to emerge. After the flame's appearance drew experts from across the Central Continent, Bai Ge prepared to set out for it.

• Feng Qing'er killed Jiu Feng with a Demon Phoenix Claw, and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan members accepted her as their new Clan Leader.
• Phoenix saluted Feng Qing'er, choosing the clan's survival over his loyalty to Huang Tian.
• Feng Qing'er compensated the Nine Netherworld Nether Python Clan and returned to reorganize the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan while Bai Ge left her to lead it.
• Bai Ge followed the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame map to a mountain range, found the flame sealed behind spatial cracks, and marked the location before returning to the Bai Di Sect.
• The Pure Lotus Demonic Flame's growing emergence drew alchemists and countless factions, and Bai Ge prepared to set out for it.

Bai Ge brought Cai Lin, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yu to the place where the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame was about to emerge and met allies from the Yan and Vast Ancient Dragon Clans. Zi Yan and Xiao Xun'er arrived to join him, leaving the gathered forces poised for the flame's emergence.

• Bai Ge and the three women reached the scorched desert around the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame's spatial fissures, where he greeted Huo Xuan of the Yan Clan.
• Zi Yan arrived with Zhu Li, and she thanked Bai Ge for helping the Vast Ancient Dragon Clan while Qing Lin admired her transformed appearance.
• The Ancient Clan arrived, and Xiao Xun'er reunited with Bai Ge after breaking through to Dou Sheng and obtaining permission to come.

Bai Ge and the ancient clans gathered as the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame neared its emergence, while Bai Ge concealed that he had killed Hun Miesheng and planned to deal with Yao Wangui. After twin moons appeared and nine stars aligned, the seal shattered and the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame emerged.

• Gu Nanhai greeted Bai Ge and noticed that Bai Ge had advanced to Four-star Dou Sheng, while Huo Yao discussed the Ancient Clan's arrival with him.
• Hun Tianxing and another Soul Clan expert arrived, and Bai Ge kept Hun Miesheng's death secret as Gu Nanhai and Huo Yao wondered about his absence.
• Yao Wangui arrived with Yao Tian and Yao Ling, and Bai Ge resolved to set Yao Wangui up inside the Demonic Flame Space.
• Twin moons appeared and nine stars aligned, prompting Gu Nanhai to warn everyone that the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame was about to emerge.
• The distorted space shattered, revealing the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame.

After the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame Space opened, Xiao Xun'er warned the group that the flame could ignite people through their emotions. Bai Ge used his Fallen Angel Domain to shield everyone from the flame and the Nightmare Sky Mist, then led them toward a distant plaza and gate where the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame’s trial awaited.

• The space sealing the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame shattered, and eager cultivators rushed inside.
• Xiao Xun'er and Gu Nanhai warned the group that the flame could burn people alive by feeding on their emotions.
• Bai Ge said his Fallen Angel Domain could counter the flame and gathered everyone close before enveloping them in the domain.
• Bai Ge’s group entered the space and saw other cultivators fall into illusions before the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame burned them to ashes.
• Gu Nanhai confirmed that the domain protected them, and Bai Ge led the group toward a distant plaza and gate.

Bai Ge and his companions crossed the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame’s trials, breaking through hall after hall until they confronted the Four-star Dou Sheng Flame Slave Blood Axe Xiao Chen. Xiao Yu’s Xiao Clan Mark awakened Xiao Chen’s consciousness, and he asked her about the clan’s present state.

• Gu Nanhai explained that the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame set trials, and Flame Slaves emerged as Bai Ge’s group approached the first gate.
• Zi Yan shattered the gate, and Bai Ge led everyone through; they broke through more than a dozen similar halls while Bai Ge and Zi Yan smashed each gate.
• After the final gate, the group found a Four-star Dou Sheng Flame Slave, who drew a blood-red battle axe and revealed himself to Bai Ge as Xiao Chen.
• Bai Ge asked Xiao Yu to reveal her Xiao Clan Mark, and its bloodline aura helped Xiao Chen resist the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame’s control.
• Xiao Chen briefly regained his consciousness and asked Xiao Yu how the Xiao Clan was doing.

Bai Ge freed Xiao Chen from some of the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame’s control, allowing Xiao Yu to tell him that the Xiao Clan had fallen and Xiao Xuan was dead. Xiao Chen joined Bai Ge’s group as they approached the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame, whose figure awaited them on a throne at the altar.

• Gu Nanhai recognized Xiao Chen as Blood Axe Xiao Chen, a gifted Xiao Clan elder who had vanished long ago.
• Bai Ge received the method to disrupt the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame’s control and weakened its hold over Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Chen that the Xiao Clan had lost its former glory and that Xiao Xuan had fallen, prompting Xiao Chen to vow revenge on the Soul Clan.
• Bai Ge warned Xiao Chen that the Soul Clan was too powerful to confront yet and suggested they first face the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame.
• Xiao Chen led Bai Ge and the others through a gate and up a long staircase to an altar, where the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame welcomed them as the first group to arrive.

Bai Ge shattered the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame’s illusion and exposed the flame’s true battlefield, where the powerful Heavenly Flame summoned its Flame Slaves and forced the rival clans to unite. The chapter ended as Bai Ge, Gu Nanhai, Zi Yan, and the other Four-star Dou Shengs charged the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame.

• Bai Ge used a Nightmare-Breaking Blood Talisman to dispel the illusion and reveal the magma-filled battlefield and the awakened clan members.
• The Pure Lotus Demonic Flame appeared as a handsome man in white robes, revealed his Five-star Dou Sheng aura, and burned the nearby Half-Saints and stronger cultivators to death.
• Hun Tianxing persuaded the gathered clans to join forces against the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame, who summoned hundreds of Flame Slaves, including ten Dou Shengs.
• Gu Nanhai assigned the Four-star Dou Shengs to fight the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame and the remaining fighters to battle the Flame Slaves, while Xiao Chen stayed behind to protect Xiao Yu and the others.
• The Pure Lotus Demonic Flame attacked with his Fiery Demon Halberd, and Bai Ge, Gu Nanhai, Zi Yan, and the other Four-star Dou Shengs charged to confront him.

The assembled Dou Saints trapped the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame in Hun Tianxing’s Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array and refined it into an origin flame. Hun Tianxing tried to flee with it, but Zi Yan disrupted his escape, triggering a chaotic scramble as Xiao Chen warned Qing Lin that the Flame had been sealed on purpose.

• Hun Tianxing urged the eight fighters to use their secret techniques, then trapped the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame in his Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array.
• The fighters poured their Dou Qi into the array, helping Hun Tianxing compress the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame into a fist-sized origin flame.
• Hun Tianxing tried to take the origin flame and escape, but Zi Yan used her spatial abilities to move the array away from him.
• Hun Tianxing and Yao Wangui fought over the relocated flame, and their attacks sent it flying into a crowd of contenders.
• A Half-Saint briefly seized the origin flame before attacks from all sides killed him and sent it flying again.
• Xiao Chen stopped Qing Lin from joining the scramble and told her that the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame had likely allowed itself to be sealed.

Elder Hun Mo and the Pill Ancestor of the Pill Tower appeared as the Soul Clan fought Bai Ge’s group over the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame. The Pill Ancestor revealed that he was a Six-star Dou Sheng and exposed the flame’s supposed sealing as a ruse, then attacked it to force it to reveal itself.

• Elder Hun Mo arrived and challenged Gu Nanhai, while the Pill Ancestor of the Pill Tower emerged on a green ox.
• The Pill Ancestor asked Zi Yan for the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame, and Bai Ge told her to hand it over.
• Elder Hun Mo tried to seize the flame, but the Pill Ancestor slapped him away and revealed his Six-star Dou Sheng strength.
• The Pill Ancestor explained that the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame had deliberately allowed itself to be sealed to make the factions fight.
• The Pill Ancestor tossed the sealed flame away and fired a black ray at it to force it to reveal itself.

The Pure Lotus Demonic Flame revealed that it had deliberately allowed itself to be sealed and battled Pill Ancestor of the Pill Tower, who aimed to hold it until the heavenly energy tide subsided. As their fight escalated, Bai Ge caused Yao Wangui to be struck down, and Pill Ancestor of the Pill Tower used a secret technique to damage the Demonic Flame Idol.

• The Pure Lotus Demonic Flame broke free of the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array and admitted that it had allowed itself to be sealed as part of its plan.
• Pill Ancestor of the Pill Tower explained that he intended to keep the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame trapped until the heavenly energy tide subsided, and the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame summoned the Demonic Flame Idol to attack him.
• Pill Ancestor of the Pill Tower blocked the Demonic Flame Idol's punch, whose force shattered parts of Hanging Mountain and drove nearby cultivators to flee.
• Bai Ge used the Heavenly Demon Force Field to pull Yao Wangui into the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame's path, and the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame struck Yao Wangui into nothingness.
• Pill Ancestor of the Pill Tower used Dan Rong Tian to melt more than half of the Demonic Flame Idol.

The Pure Lotus Demonic Flame seized the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation and tried to refine everyone in the Demonic Flame Space, but Bai Ge summoned the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint through the Remnant Map. As the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint regained control of the formation, the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame transformed into its true form and charged at him, while Bai Ge's allies and the other Dou Sheng escaped.

• The Pure Lotus Demonic Flame summoned two Heaven Refining Ancient Formations, sealed the Demonic Flame Space, and prepared to turn everyone inside into Flame Slaves.
• Bai Ge called on the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint, who emerged through the Remnant Map and took temporary control of Bai Ge's body.
• The Pure Lotus Demonic Saint seized control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, and the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame revealed its fury at his plan to erase its consciousness.
• The Pure Lotus Demonic Flame transformed into a vast sea of flames and attacked, while Bai Ge urged Little Doctor Immortal and Xiao Xun'er to escape.
• Little Doctor Immortal led the group out through a spatial rift, and the other Dou Sheng fled as the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame swept toward Bai Ge and the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint.

The Pure Lotus Demonic Saint used the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation to refine the rampaging Pure Lotus Demonic Flame and erase its violent nature. As the flame resisted, the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint asked Bai Ge to preserve its newly born consciousness in exchange for teaching him Nightmare Sky Mist and how to control the Flame Slaves, and Bai Ge agreed.

• The Pure Lotus Demonic Saint trapped the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame in the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation and explained that he intended to restore its original innocent nature.
• The Pure Lotus Demonic Flame resisted the formation by unleashing blood-colored flames, but the formation overwhelmed it and began purifying its consciousness.
• The Pure Lotus Demonic Saint told Bai Ge that he had once reached the Half-step Dou Di realm while searching for a way to break through to Dou Di.
• The Pure Lotus Demonic Saint asked Bai Ge to preserve the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame's newly born consciousness when he devoured it, offering Nightmare Sky Mist and control over the Flame Slaves in return.
• Bai Ge agreed to preserve the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame's consciousness.