Recaps

Lu Chuan consumed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, defeated the Soul Hall at Fallen Peak, and strengthened his power before accompanying Yao Chen to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon. The arc ends as the alchemy contest begins and Hun Xuzi threatens to reclaim the flame.

• The Pure Lotus Demonic Sage sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, then vanished with it in an explosion that left its Demon Flame Origin for Lu Chuan to devour.
• Lu Chuan finished refining the flame with his Natal Divine Fire, which became a late Six-Star Dou Sheng Flame Lion, while the Soul Clan tightened pressure on the Central Plains after believing Lu Chuan dead.
• Lu Chuan returned, rallied the Central Plains forces into the Demonic Sect, and accepted Hun Miesheng’s challenge to fight at Fallen Peak.
• Xiao Chen and Elder Soul Demon fought to a draw, while the Pill Tower Ancestor and Hun Qianmo also drew, and Lu Chuan then killed Hun Miesheng and badly injured Hun Qianmo before the Soul Clan escaped.
• Lu Chuan tempered his body in the Void Thunder Pool, helped the Nine Profound Golden Thunder form a spirit, and advanced to Seven-Star Dou Sheng.
• Lu Chuan accompanied Yao Chen to the Yao Clan, where Yao Chen asked for his parents’ names to be inscribed on the Clan Monument and Elder Wan Huo agreed.
• Hun Xuzi arrived at the Medicine Canon to compete for the title of the continent’s number one alchemist, and Yao Dan allowed him to stay under the clan’s rules.
• Cao Ying, Xue Mei, and three other alchemists prepared for the contest as Hun Xuzi displayed his Earth Child Flame and the pill-refining competition began.

Lu Chuan helped Cao Ying create a Ninth-grade Profound Pill, then protected the Yao Clan from Hun Xuzi and the Soul Clan. The Yao, Lei, and Yan Clans allied with the Ancient Clan, but the Soul Clan’s confrontation with them coincided with Gu Yang stealing the Ancient Jade.

• Cao Ying completed a Ninth-grade Profound Pill after Hun Xuzi drained the other alchemists’ cauldrons and she used their pill embryos to finish her own.
• Hun Xuzi revealed his strength, sealed the Medicine Realm, and unleashed Nihility Devouring Flame against the Yao Clan.
• The Medicine Emperor’s remnant failed to stop Nihility Devouring Flame, so Yao Wanhuo and Yao Tian offered their Heavenly Flames to Lu Chuan in exchange for protection.
• Lu Chuan absorbed the Nine Nether Wind Flame, Turtle Spirit Earthly Flame, and Flame of Life, then fought alongside the Yao Clan as the Soul Clan arrived.
• Lu Chuan raised his cultivation to Eight-Star Dou Sheng and forced the Soul Clan to retreat, while the Yao Clan suffered heavy losses.
• Yao Dan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin agreed to form an alliance with Gu Yuan, who welcomed their armies into the Ancient Realm.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor arrived with Nihility Devouring Flame and the Four Demon Saints, while Gu Yuan’s clans prepared to face them.
• As the clans stood off, Gu Yuan learned that Gu Yang had wounded ancestral hall elders and stolen the Ancient Jade, and ordered the Ancient Realm sealed.

The Soul Clan seized most of the Ancient Jades and clashed with the alliance of four clans, while Lu Chuan recovered the Yan Clan’s jade and secretly turned two Soul Clan servants into traitors. The Soul Clan withdrew after a devastating battle, and the alliance destroyed its abandoned Soul Hall branches before taking up watch outside the Soul Realm.

• Gu Yang revealed that Lord Void had fused with the real Gu Yang, then self-destructed and sent the Tou She Ancient God Jade flying as Soul Heavenly Emperor and Gu Yuan fought over it.
• Nihility Devouring Flame escaped with another Ancient Jade, and the Soul Clan revealed it had also taken the Lei and Yan clans’ pieces, leaving only the Xiao Clan’s jade unaccounted for.
• Lu Chuan defeated Hun Xuzi, took the Yan Clan’s Ancient Jade, and exchanged it with Yan Jin for three Heavenly Flames, reaching Eight-Star Dou Saint after absorbing them.
• Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu visited Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Xuan explained the Soul Clan’s pursuit of the cave mansion and helped Lu Chuan reach the Emperor Realm Soul.
• Gu Yuan led the four clans against the Soul Clan at Burial Sky Mountain Range, where Hun Yuan Tian trapped the alliance in a Death Space that killed Yao Dan and many other experts.
• The clans sacrificed Dou Saint elders to shatter the Death Space, then Hun Jing and Hun Xuzi betrayed the Soul Clan and self-destructed, killing Hun Yuan Tian and another elder.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor swallowed the alliance’s attacks and escaped through Nihility Devouring Flame’s Black Hole with the Soul Clan, while the alliance claimed victory.
• Gu Yuan ordered the alliance to destroy Soul Hall, but its forces found the branches empty and learned the Soul Clan had evacuated them and removed their Soul Origin.

Lu Chuan reunited Zi Yan with her imprisoned father, Zhu Kun, and drew the rival clans toward the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion. After the Ancient Jade opened the gates, the assembled forces entered and found a hall guarded by the Tou She Ancient God’s overwhelming statue.

• Nihility Devouring Flame absorbed the Soul Hall’s Soul Origin and reached the Emperor Realm Soul, while Soul Heavenly Emperor blamed Lu Chuan for the Soul Clan’s losses.
• Lu Chuan brought Zi Yan to Zhu Kun, revealed that she had become Dragon Emperor and reunited them, then promised to help free him.
• Lu Chuan evacuated Jia Nan Academy and spread word that the Cave Mansion lay beneath its former Heavenly Flame Refining Tower, drawing the Soul Clan and Alliance of Four Clans to the magma sea.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor and Gu Yuan entered the hidden space and found Zhu Kun and the Cave Mansion gate, then joined the other experts in trying to open it.
• Lu Chuan revealed the Ancient Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade, and the clans gathered all eight pieces for Zhu Kun to activate.
• The Ancient Jade summoned Tou She Ancient God’s phantom and opened the Cave Mansion gates, allowing the rival forces to enter.
• Lu Chuan, Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, Soul Heavenly Emperor, and Nihility Devouring Flame led their groups across a floating landmass to a stone hall lined with pillars bearing weakened Heavenly Flames.
• Nihility Devouring Flame swallowed the mist concealing the stone hall, revealing Tou She Ancient God’s statue and its crushing pressure.