Chapter Summaries

Hun Miesheng overwhelmed Ling Li and Little Doctor Fairy in the shattered Space Channel, while Zi Yan struggled to protect their companions. When Hun Miesheng moved to capture Zi Yan, four Eastern dragons appeared and a silver-robed man addressed her as Dragon Emperor.

• Hun Miesheng struck Ling Li into the Space Ship, shattering it and breaking open the Space Channel.
• Zi Yan protected Ling Li and Mu Qingluan from the chaotic spatial currents while Little Doctor Fairy prepared to hold Hun Miesheng back.
• Little Doctor Fairy used the Calamity Poison Body to attack Hun Miesheng, but he devoured her Netherworld Poison Flame and rendered her unconscious.
• Hun Miesheng formed a spatial palm to seize Zi Yan, and Zi Yan threatened to kill herself if help did not arrive.
• Four Eastern dragons appeared, dispersed Hun Miesheng's spatial hand, and the silver dragon transformed into a young man who knelt before Zi Yan and asked whether she would return with them.

Zi Yan reunited the divided Great Void Dragons and set them against Hun Miesheng, who escaped after being overwhelmed in spatial turbulence. She refused Zhu Huo’s demand to return to Ancient Dragon Island and declared she would not go back even after the Dragon Kings failed to kill Hun Miesheng.

• Zhu Hao, Zhu Yao, Zhu Huang, and Zhu Huo knelt to welcome Zi Yan as the Dragon Emperor, while Hun Miesheng watched warily.
• Zi Yan provoked the Dragon Kings by saying she would return to Ancient Dragon Island only if they killed Hun Miesheng, and they attacked him together.
• As the dragons battled Hun Miesheng, Zi Yan rescued Little Doctor Fairy and treated her, Ling Li, and Mu Qingluan with medicinal pills.
• Zhu Huo tried to persuade Zi Yan to return with him, but she refused and insisted that she would decide whether to go back.
• The Dragon Kings drove Hun Miesheng into retreat, but he escaped with spatial power after using the Void Devouring Flame to repel them.
• Zi Yan told the returning Dragon Kings they had disappointed her by failing to kill Hun Miesheng, then declared she would not return to Ancient Dragon Island.

Two years after Zi Yan returned to Ancient Dragon Island with Ling Li and the others, Ling Li advanced to Half-Saint and neared the Dou Saint realm by cultivating with the island’s spatial power. He reunited with Zi Yan and the Dragon Kings, while Zhu Huo’s hostility and the Great Void Dragons’ loyalty to Zi Yan remained sources of tension.

• Zi Yan agreed to return to Ancient Dragon Island after Zhu Huo threatened Ling Li and the others, but insisted they come with her.
• Ling Li spent two years on Ancient Dragon Island, reaching Half-Saint after absorbing energy and comprehending spatial power, and then approached the Dou Saint threshold.
• Three Great Void Dragon guards greeted Ling Li after his secluded cultivation, and Zi Yan rushed to him with Little Doctor Fairy and the three Dragon Kings.
• Zhu Hao congratulated Ling Li on his progress, and Ling Li wondered how he would reach Hun Miesheng’s level after his breakthrough.
• Ling Li reflected that the Dragon Kings and Great Void Dragons were devoted to Zi Yan, while Zhu Huo and Zhu Li still rejected Ling Li’s status as her queen.

Zhu Huo and Zhu Li summoned Zi Yan, Zhu Hao, and Ling Li after the Soul Clan began searching the spatial turbulence for Ancient Dragon Island. Zhu Li proposed opening the Dragon Tomb and having Zi Yan forge the Dragon Slaying Sword, provoking Zhu Hao’s fury as the group faced the threat of a Soul Clan invasion.

• Hei Qing brought Zi Yan, Zhu Hao, and Ling Li to meet Zhu Huo and Zhu Li on East Dragon Island.
• Zhu Li revealed that Hun Qianmo and Hun Miesheng were searching the spatial turbulence for Ancient Dragon Island.
• Zhu Li proposed opening the Dragon Tomb and asking Zi Yan to forge the Dragon Slaying Sword.
• Zhu Hao attacked Zhu Li in rage and warned him not to suggest the plan again.
• Zi Yan said she did not want the Dragon Slaying Sword and showed the crimson sword Ling Li had given her.
• Zhu Li explained that he disliked the idea but feared the dragons could not resist the Soul Clan without a divine weapon.

Ling Li proposed using the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit to strengthen Zi Yan, but the Dragon Kings clashed over whether its mixed bloodline would taint her heritage. He demonstrated that his treasure Greed could separate fused bloodlines and revealed that the fruit lay somewhere in a Fighting Saint Ruins in the Skeleton Mountain Range.

• Zhu Hao rejected forging the Dragon Slaying Sword and using a bloodline-consuming technique to raise Zi Yan's cultivation.
• Ling Li suggested the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Zhu Hao explained its power and the Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline it created.
• Zhu Hao opposed Zi Yan consuming the fruit, while Zhu Li and Zhu Huo argued with him and Zi Yan tried to provoke a fight.
• Ling Li used Greed to separate Zhu Hao's blood from Little Doctor Fairy's blood, demonstrating that he could divide mixed bloodlines.
• Ling Li said the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit was somewhere in a Fighting Saint Ruins in the Skeleton Mountain Range of the Southern Region of Central Continent.

Ling Li obtained the means to seek the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, then broke through to the Fighting Saint realm on Ancient Dragon Island. He left Hun Miesheng and Hun Qianmo baffled after ambushing them and escaping with his new strength.

• Zi Yan gave Zhu Li the Nine Lives Soul Lamp to help search for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, warning him to return it filled with lamp oil.
• Ling Li declared that he would deal with the Soul Clan and the Ancient Eight Clans after reaching the Fighting Saint realm.
• A month later, Ling Li broke through to the Fighting Saint realm on Ancient Dragon Island, aided by the Third Dragon King during his strange red-glowing lightning tribulation.
• After another half month of secluded cultivation, Ling Li finished adapting to his new power.
• Hun Miesheng and Hun Qianmo searched the spatial turbulence for the wielder of the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Blade, and Ling Li appeared to challenge them before escaping.
• Hun Qianmo identified Ling Li as a one-star Fighting Saint, while Hun Miesheng wondered how he had risen from an eight-star Dou Zun in only two years.

Ling Li lured Hun Qianmo and Hun Miesheng away from Ancient Dragon Island, then raced across the continent while they pursued him. Hun Qianmo could not use Spatial Power to capture Ling Li because the Red Lightning around him blocked his control of space.

• Hun Qianmo ignored Hun Miesheng’s warning and pursued Ling Li through the spatial turbulence, while Hun Miesheng checked the Soul Clan’s spies for signs of an ambush.
• Ling Li escaped to the Northern Region of the Central Continent and rushed away to keep the Soul Clan pursuers from finding Ancient Dragon Island.
• Hun Qianmo and Hun Miesheng emerged from the spatial turbulence and pursued Ling Li across the continent, briefly devastating the land with their auras before restraining them.
• Hun Miesheng asked why Hun Qianmo did not use Spatial Power to pull Ling Li over, and Hun Qianmo explained that Ling Li’s Red Lightning blocked his control of space.

Ling Li descended into the Magma Sea Region in search of the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and fought off the Flame Lizardmen guarding its entrance. After defeating them and collecting their pill-like cores, he was attacked from behind by pursuers using powerful techniques.

• The Snake People felt Ling Li and two other powerful auras arrive above the Black Corner Region, and their warriors rushed to alert Queen Medusa.
• Ling Li reached the ruins of Jia Nan Academy, broke through the barrier concealing the Magma Sea Region, and plunged into the magma.
• After descending deep into the region, Ling Li found a faintly shimmering spot that he believed led to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Ling Li killed the Flame Lizardmen that surrounded him, including two Half-Saint leaders whose cores resembled Pill Beast pills.
• As Ling Li prepared to collect the remaining spheres and enter the cave mansion, an attacker struck from behind with Soul Burial Technique and Great Annihilation Finger.

Ling Li escaped Hun Miesheng and Hun Qianmo by entering the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, where Zhu Kun killed both Soul Clan pursuers. Zhu Kun then demanded to know where Ling Li had gotten the satchel in his hand.

• Ling Li used Red Lightning to repel Hun Miesheng and Hun Qianmo's attacks and fled through the rainbow entrance into the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Hun Miesheng and Hun Qianmo followed Ling Li into the independent space and discovered the enormous gate inscribed with "Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion."
• Zhu Kun appeared atop the gate and declared that only those with a jade pendant could enter the tomb.
• Hun Qianmo tried to flee, while Zhu Kun's roar killed Hun Miesheng and scattered his soul.
• Zhu Kun destroyed Hun Qianmo with a purple-gold beam, then transformed into a middle-aged man and questioned Ling Li about his satchel.

Ling Li showed Zhu Kun Zi Yan’s satchel and recounted her life, then negotiated for Zhu Kun’s help against the Soul Clan and other Ancient Clans. They agreed that Zhu Kun would kill three people and help Ling Li find the Tou She Ancient God Jade and escape the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion.

• Zhu Kun recognized Zi Yan’s satchel and demanded to know where Ling Li had found it.
• Ling Li recounted twelve years of traveling with Zi Yan, and Zhu Kun learned that she had inherited the Dragon Emperor position and survived various dangers.
• Ling Li asked Zhu Kun to kill five people in exchange for bringing Zi Yan to meet him, but Zhu Kun refused and offered to kill only one.
• Ling Li described the threats facing the Great Void Dragon clan and blamed the Soul Clan and Ancient Eight Clans for seeking Ancient Dragon Island.
• Zhu Kun and Ling Li agreed that Zhu Kun would kill three people, find the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and help Ling Li leave the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion.

Zhu Kun explained how Tou She Ancient God sought a perfect body through the Pill Possession Method and how the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Origin Emperor Qi enabled him to refine an Emperor pill. The chapter ended as Tou She Ancient God began refining the pill after taking the origin qi from the Bodhi Ancient Tree again.

• Zhu Kun told Ling Li that Tou She Ancient God had become a Dou Di by devouring the twenty-two other Mysterious Flames, but remained unable to sense the world through a complete physical body.
• Zhu Kun explained that Tou She Ancient God devised the Pill Possession Method to use an Emperor Grade pill as a vessel, requiring a pure possessor, a nascent pill, and Origin Emperor Qi.
• Zhu Kun revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was the source of Origin Emperor Qi and that excessive harvesting had weakened it, leaving only rare chances to become an Emperor.
• Zhu Kun recounted how Tou She Ancient God separated his evil thoughts beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, struck them into it, and inadvertently created the Devouring Spirit Clan and its seven strange treasures.
• Zhu Kun said that Tou She Ancient God seized the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s origin qi again a thousand years later and began refining an Emperor pill.

Ling Li learned how Tou She Ancient God created and possessed the emperor-grade pill, leaving Zhu Kun trapped inside the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. Ling Li returned to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where he reunited with Ya Fei and Queen Medusa after emerging in a spectacular eruption.

• Zhu Kun told Ling Li that Tou She Ancient God used the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan Chief's essence blood to form the emperor-grade pill, then possessed it and became trapped within it.
• Zhu Kun explained that Void Devouring Flame and Pure Lotus Demon Flame sealed him outside the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion by shattering the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Ling Li concealed that he possessed the jade.
• Ling Li left the cave mansion and burned away Zhu Kun's aura so Zi Yan would not discover her father's location.
• Ya Fei, Queen Medusa, Han Yue, and Han Xue waited in battle formation outside the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower as they worried about Ling Li's return.
• The tower erupted in a controlled torrent of magma that cooled into volcanic rock, and Ling Li appeared and pulled Ya Fei and Queen Medusa into his arms.

Ling Li reunited with Queen Medusa and Ya Fei, then spent ten days with them and the Han sisters at the Mercenary Guild. He offered Han Yue and Han Xue the choice to follow him or leave, and Han Xue accepted as Ling Li went to meet his daughter.

• Ling Li greeted Queen Medusa and Ya Fei, while Han Yue and Han Xue were invited to stay at the Mercenary Guild.
• Ten days later, Ling Li gave Han Yue and the other women medicinal pills that healed their injuries and aided their cultivation.
• Han Yue asked Ling Li what he intended to do about her and Han Xue, and he said they could follow him or leave freely.
• Han Xue declared that she and Han Yue would follow Ling Li, who promised to protect them and the Han Family.
• Ling Li gave the sisters pills suited to their approaching breakthroughs, then left to meet the daughter he had never seen.

Ling Li found his daughter Ling Ling in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, gave her an Eighth-grade First Beginning Pill, and entrusted her care to the Snake People Five Elders. He prepared to take Medusa to Central Continent to help her evolve and face the powerful enemies there, leaving Xiao Yan unseen.

• Ling Li used his Soul Power to find the Snake People Five Elders and Ling Ling in the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
• Ling Li picked up Ling Ling, learned of her birth and cultivation, and gave her an Eighth-grade First Beginning Pill to refine while she slept.
• Ling Li gave the Snake People Five Elders pills, a Mysterious Flame Bottle, and a Summoning Jade Slip to protect Ling Ling.
• Ling Li told the elders he would take Medusa to Central Continent and help her evolve into a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.
• Ling Li considered visiting Xiao Yan but decided against it because he had no news of Xiao Zhan and did not want to endanger the Xiao Family.

Ling Li returned to Ancient Dragon Island with his companions after building Space Channels, then joined Zhu Li and Zhu Huo in the Skeleton Mountain Range to find the Fighting Saint Ruins. The Nine Lives Soul Lamp revealed a hidden Space Channel, and the group prepared to enter the ruins.

• Ling Li constructed Space Channels linking Tianya City with the Gamma Empire and the Northern Region, then led Queen Medusa, Han Yue, Han Xue, Xia Mang, and Xia Pan to Ancient Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan greeted Ling Li, then turned away coldly when she saw Han Yue and Han Xue with him.
• Zhu Li and Zhu Huo told Ling Li they had located the Fighting Saint Ruins but could not find their entrance, so Ling Li agreed to accompany them.
• Ling Li, Zhu Li, and Zhu Huo traveled to a barren peak in the Skeleton Mountain Range, where Zhu Li used the Nine Lives Soul Lamp to reveal a hidden Space Channel.

Ling Li, Zhu Huo, and Zhu Li discovered that the fiery passage was an illusion concealing the entrance to a Devouring Spirit Clan ruin. They reached its Dark Realm and found the temple containing the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, guarded by ten Earth Demon Puppets.

• Ling Li recognized that the endless fire passage was a trap made from Devouring Spirit Clan material and that the real path lay beneath the magma.
• Ling Li and the others descended through the magma and entered a stone passage leading to a plaza and temple.
• Ling Li recognized the ruins as a Devouring Spirit Clan member’s Dark Realm and sensed that the temple contained a way to fully open his own Dark Realm.
• Ling Li led Zhu Huo and Zhu Li toward the temple, where they found ten Earth Demon Puppets guarding its single stone door.

Ling Li, Zhu Huo, and Zhu Li entered the ruins and followed Zhu Huo’s bloodline rune to a hidden barrier containing the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. After securing the fruit and the ancient remains, Ling Li considered how the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix remains could help advance his plans.

• Ling Li stored the Earth Demon Puppets, causing the temple gate to open, and he and the two elders entered the hall to search for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Zhu Huo used his essence blood to create a golden tracking sphere, which led them through a ruined street and into a forest filled with rare medicinal herbs.
• Zhu Li found a concealed beast spirit barrier, and the three crossed it into a blood-red plain with an ancient altar at its center.
• Ling Li, Zhu Huo, and Zhu Li found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit growing on the altar, and Zhu Huo and Zhu Li carefully plucked and secured it.
• Zhu Huo and Zhu Li stored the Great Void Dragon remains for burial, while Ling Li collected the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix remains for the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

Ling Li followed a bloodline calling to the center of the divine hall, where he encountered a Dou Saint skeleton that passed on the Great Heavenly Creation Palm. After Ling Li unleashed the skill, a black ring began devouring the hall, leaving Zhu Huo and Zhu Li struggling to escape.

• Ling Li led Zhu Huo and Zhu Li to a vast hall filled with sealed scrolls and treasures.
• Zhu Huo and Zhu Li recognized the Purple Light Dragon Seal, and Ling Li warned them that taking a scroll would eject them from the ruins.
• Ling Li approached a jade-white skeleton at the hall's center, and it pressed its palm to his and passed black light into him.
• The skeleton spoke the name of the Great Heavenly Creation Palm, and Ling Li involuntarily copied its movements as Dou Qi flooded his body.
• Ling Li struck the floor and unleashed a black ring that erased everything in its path, while Zhu Huo and Zhu Li tried to flee its spreading suction.

Ling Li tested the Dark Realm’s ability to hold others, then returned to Ancient Dragon Island with Zhu Huo and Zhu Li as he prepared to oppose the Ancient Eight Clans. After a year of preparation, Zi Yan emerged from her slumber transformed and was welcomed as Dragon Emperor.

• Zhu Huo and Zhu Li searched Ling Li’s Dark Realm, found the Purple Light Dragon Seal, and were expelled with Ling Li to the Skeleton Mountain Range.
• Ling Li explained the Dark Realm’s limits and announced that he would move against the Ancient Eight Clans after Zi Yan refined the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• The Third Dragon King gave Ling Li the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Ling Li divided it into Dragon Origin Fruit and Phoenix Origin Fruit for safekeeping.
• The Third Dragon King gathered medicinal ingredients for an Eighth-grade Dragon Source Stabilizing Pill, and the Great Void Dragon clan supported Zi Yan’s year-long refinement with an altar formation.
• Zi Yan awakened as a purple-gold dragon appeared above Ancient Dragon Island, and the assembled group welcomed her as Dragon Emperor.

Zi Yan emerged from her breakthrough as a four-star Dou Saint and was hailed as the Great Void Dragon clan’s Dragon Emperor. She and Ling Li discussed how to prepare for war against the Ancient Eight Clans by building alliances and weakening their enemies.

• Zi Yan descended from Ancestor Dragon Island with a powerful bloodline aura, and the Great Void Dragons knelt to welcome her as their Dragon Emperor.
• Zhu Huo and Zhu Li were relieved that Zi Yan’s strength made her the clan’s strongest member and helped secure the islands against rebellion.
• Zi Yan thanked Ling Li and agreed to his joking request, then proposed striking against the Ancient Eight Clans before they attacked.
• Ling Li warned that the Great Void Dragons could not face the remaining Ancient Clans directly and urged them to build alliances and weaken their enemies first.
• Zhu Hao objected to allying with the Heavenly Demon Phoenixes and Nine Nether Nether Pythons, but Zi Yan said they would ally with Ancient Heavenly Phoenixes and make the pythons their vassals.