Chapter Summaries

Lu Chuan brought Tang Huo'er back to his palace and introduced her to the women in his harem, then agreed to take Zi Yan to meet her clansmen. He traveled with Zi Yan and several companions to Tianhuang City, hoping the Ancient Void Dragon Clan would sense Zi Yan’s Royal Bloodline and reveal Dragon Island’s location.

• Lu Chuan gave Old Ancestor Huoyun a Space Scroll and handed medicinal pills to Tang Zhen before returning with Tang Huo'er to the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
• Tang Huo'er met Lu Chuan’s other women and soon became comfortable with them.
• Lu Chuan told Yun Yun that the Black Alliance controlled the Northwest Continent and had more than forty Dou Zun experts.
• Zi Yan asked to visit her clansmen, and Lu Chuan agreed, planning to use her Royal Bloodline to draw the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s attention.
• Lu Chuan traveled to Tianhuang City with Zi Yan, Yun Yun, Queen Medusa, Nalan Yanran, Han Yue, Liu Fei, Tang Huo'er, and Feng Qing’er.

Lu Chuan and Zi Yan encountered Hei Qing, an Ancient Void Dragon Clan member who recognized Zi Yan as the clan’s Royal Bloodline. Zi Yan prepared to return to her clan with Lu Chuan, while Hei Qing was stunned to learn that Lu Chuan was her husband and a Demon Saint.

• A purple giant dragon sensed the aura of the Royal Bloodline and left the space storm to seek it out.
• Lu Chuan noticed Zi Yan sensing a familiar bloodline aura approaching and concluded that an Ancient Void Dragon Clan member was nearby.
• Hei Qing emerged from a spatial rift, recognized Zi Yan as the long-lost Royal Bloodline, and offered to take her back to the clan.
• Zi Yan asked Lu Chuan to accompany her, and he agreed to go with her.
• Lu Chuan introduced himself to Hei Qing as Zi Yan’s husband and the Demon Saint, leaving Hei Qing stunned.

Lu Chuan agreed to accompany Zi Yan back to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Hei Qing led them through a space tunnel to Dragon Island. They arrived at the clan’s hidden home in the void, where Lu Chuan sensed the presence of many powerful experts.

• Hei Qing set aside his concerns about Zi Yan’s marriage and asked Lu Chuan to accompany her to Dragon Island.
• Lu Chuan agreed, instructed Han Yue and the others to wait nearby, and entered a space tunnel with Zi Yan and Hei Qing.
• During the journey, Zi Yan told Hei Qing how Lu Chuan had cured her lingering troubles from consuming Shapeshifting Grass, and Hei Qing thanked Lu Chuan for helping their clan recover its Royal Bloodline.
• After traveling through the tunnel for more than three hours, Lu Chuan, Zi Yan, and Hei Qing emerged above Dragon Island, a vast island enclosed by a barrier and floating in the void.
• Hei Qing led Lu Chuan and Zi Yan down toward the island, where Lu Chuan sensed the clan’s many Dou Zong and Dou Zun experts.

Lu Chuan brought Zi Yan to East Dragon Island, where the Ancient Void Dragon Clan recognized her Royal Bloodline and welcomed her return. After learning about her father and the divided clan, Zi Yan agreed to accept the clan’s inheritance while Lu Chuan prepared to protect the island from the Three Great Dragon Kings.

• Zi Yan, Lu Chuan, and Hei Qing arrived on East Dragon Island, where the Ancient Void Dragon Clan experts recognized Zi Yan’s Royal Bloodline.
• Third Elder Zhu Li welcomed Zi Yan and told her that her father had been the clan’s king before vanishing with her years earlier.
• Hei Qing revealed that Zi Yan was married to Lu Chuan, and Lu Chuan demonstrated his power, shocking Zhu Li and Hei Qing.
• Zi Yan defended her marriage to Lu Chuan and learned that the Three Great Dragon Kings had split the clan apart.
• Zhu Li urged Zi Yan to accept the clan’s inheritance, and Lu Chuan advised her to learn its techniques but skip the cultivation infusion.
• Lu Chuan gave Zhu Li a Spatial Jade Slip to summon him if East Dragon Island came under attack while Zi Yan accepted the inheritance.

Lu Chuan returned from Ancient Dragon Island with the news that Zi Yan had gone to receive her clan’s ancestral inheritance, then brought the others home as Queen Medusa was close to giving birth. Medusa delivered dragon and phoenix twins, Lu Ning and Lu Yuan, and Lu Chuan opened the reward pack he received for reaching twenty offspring.

• Lu Chuan explained that Zi Yan’s Royal Bloodline made her clan’s ancestral inheritance valuable, then decided the group should return because Queen Medusa was nearing childbirth.
• A few hours after they returned to the Monster Beast Mountain Range, Queen Medusa gave birth to a girl and a boy, earning Lu Chuan a system reward for reaching twenty offspring.
• Lu Chuan named the twins Lu Ning and Lu Yuan, and Medusa and the others celebrated their birth.
• After spending the night with Medusa, Lu Chuan opened the Normal Gift Pack and received increased lifespan and cultivation speed, pills, Replication Gems, and four Large Soul Origins.

Lu Chuan opened the Special Gift Pack, gained a Miniature Spacetime Secret Realm and powerful pills, and raised his cultivation to Late Stage Four-Star Dou Saint. Meanwhile, Xue Mei and Ling Fei expressed interest in the Pill Gathering, and Lu Chuan encouraged them to participate.

• Lu Chuan opened the Special Gift Pack and received a Miniature Spacetime Secret Realm, ten Eighth-order Magical Beast Quick Success Pills, and a Yin Yang Creation Pill.
• Lu Chuan swallowed the Yin Yang Creation Pill and advanced to Late Stage Four-Star Dou Saint.
• Lu Chuan summoned Golden Eagle and told him to find ten trustworthy low-order magical beasts for the Quick Success Pills.
• Xue Mei and Ling Fei asked Yun Yun about the Pill Gathering and admitted they wanted to participate.
• Lu Chuan appeared and encouraged Xue Mei and Ling Fei, praising Ling Fei's skill and cultivation.

Lu Chuan helped Xue Mei and Ling Fei advance their Spiritual Power so they could prepare for the Pill Gathering, then took them to Sacred Pill City, intending to claim the Three Thousand Burning Flame. With the gathering approaching, they arrived in the city and went to an Alchemist Tower branch to obtain the credentials required to participate.

• Lu Chuan gave Xue Mei and Ling Fei Soul Origin, and they entered seclusion to absorb it.
• Five days later, Ling Fei and Xue Mei both reached the Spiritual Realm, and Lu Chuan urged them to study pill formulas and try refining Eighth-grade Pills.
• Lu Chuan set out with Xue Mei, Ling Fei, and the others for the Pill Region, planning to attend the Pill Gathering and obtain the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• After seven or eight days of travel, Lu Chuan's group arrived at Sacred Pill City and found an inn in the outer region.
• The next day, Lu Chuan took Ling Fei and Xue Mei to an Alchemist Tower branch to secure the Fifth-grade-or-higher Alchemist badges required for the Pill Gathering.

Lu Chuan and his companions prepared for the Pill Gathering in Sacred Pill City, where Xue Mei and Ling Fei entered as Seventh-grade Alchemists. As the competition began, Lu Chuan explained its first two trials, which the women were well equipped to pass.

• Lu Chuan met Dan Chen, whose strange constitution absorbed Spiritual Power, but the effect did not harm him; she hurried away after their awkward encounter.
• Xue Mei and Ling Fei obtained Seventh-grade Alchemist badges, drawing attention because of their age and lack of ties to the Pill Region’s five great families.
• Lu Chuan and the women spent several days exploring Sacred Pill City before the Pill Gathering began.
• Xue Mei and Ling Fei set out in their Alchemist Tower robes as Yun Yun, Queen Medusa, and the others wished them luck.
• At the packed Pill Gathering venue, Lu Chuan explained the Illusion Realm Trial and the Pill Realm trial to Xue Mei and Ling Fei.

Xuan Kongzi announced the Pill Gathering’s first trial and its grand prize as the contestants entered the Soul Illusion Realm. As Xue Mei and Ling Fei drew the attention of the Pill Tower’s Three Giants with their cultivation, Lu Chuan spotted Cao Ying, Xuan Kongzi’s alluring disciple and a leading contender for the championship.

• Xuan Kongzi introduced the Pill Gathering’s three trials and announced that the champion would receive an ancient soul cultivation method and a chance to become a candidate for one of the Pill Tower’s giants.
• Xuan Kongzi opened the Soul Illusion Realm, and Xue Mei and Ling Fei entered after receiving encouragement from Yun Yun, Queen Medusa, and the others.
• Xuan Kongzi and the other two giants noticed Xue Mei and Ling Fei’s remarkable cultivation and agreed to watch them closely.
• Lu Chuan saw Cao Ying appear on the high platform, where the black-clad woman’s seductive presence drew the crowd’s attention.

Lu Chuan watched Cao Ying arrive at the Alchemist Tower gathering and planned to claim the Three Thousand Burning Flame after the competition. Meanwhile, Xue Mei and Ling Fei passed the first trial and met Cao Ying at the entrance to the Pill Realm, where they had to wait before entering the next trial.

• Lu Chuan admired Cao Ying and decided he would take the Three Thousand Burning Flame if the Alchemist Tower refused to give it to him.
• Lu Chuan recalled the origins and unusual history of the Pill Tower Ancestor as Cao Ying entered the first trial.
• Xue Mei and Ling Fei crossed the illusion realm by opening paths through its spatial folds, then restored the trial’s distortions.
• Xue Mei and Ling Fei reached the clearing before the Space Tunnel, where an Alchemist Tower elder told them to wait for the other challengers.
• Cao Ying arrived as the third successful challenger, and Xue Mei and Ling Fei greeted her warmly.

Cao Ying joined Xue Mei and Ling Fei in the Pill Realm, where the sisters led her to the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range to gather their task ingredients. As they looted the mountain’s stores, the venue outside awaited the contestants who would pass the round.

• The old man explained the Pill Realm’s ten-day limit, dangerous magical beasts, and the bloody stakes of the Pill Gathering before contestants entered.
• Xue Mei and Ling Fei brought Cao Ying to the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, following Lu Chuan’s advice about its abundant medicinal ingredients.
• Ling Fei intimidated the Eighth-order Magical Beast Xiong Zhan with her cultivation, and he allowed the three women into his stone hall.
• Xue Mei and Ling Fei gathered medicinal ingredients from the plaza, and Cao Ying joined them while Xiong Zhan watched helplessly.
• Outside the Pill Realm, spectators gathered around the black stone gate, waiting for contestants who had passed the round to emerge.

The finalists emerged from the Pill Realm, and Xuan Kongzi opened the Pill Gathering’s final competition. Cao Ying gained confidence when she revealed her powerful Blood Demon Flame, while Xue Mei and Ling Fei began refining pills with ordinary Beast Fire; the contest continued as time passed.

• Cao Ying emerged from the spatial gate with Xue Mei and Ling Fei, drawing loud cheers from the crowd.
• Xuan Yi judged that Xue Mei and Ling Fei’s strength would make it difficult for Cao Ying and Dan Chen to win.
• Xuan Kongzi announced the final competition and invited the contestants to refine the pills they knew best.
• Cao Ying summoned her Medicine Cauldron and revealed a powerful Blood Demon Flame, impressing the spectators and restoring some of her confidence.
• The alchemists began refining their pills, and the competition proceeded through a long stretch of waiting.

As the Pill Gathering neared its end, Song Qing and several other alchemists produced peak Grade Seven Pills, filling the sky with Pill Lightning. Dan Chen then completed her pill, whose eruption formed the gathering’s first two-colored Thunder Cloud, signaling an Eighth-grade Pill.

• A middle-aged contestant became the first to summon Pill Lightning by refining a Grade Seven Pill.
• Song Qing produced a peak Grade Seven Pill and proudly raised it as Pill Lightning formed overhead.
• Eight more peak Grade Seven Pills emerged within minutes, bringing the total to nine bolts of Pill Lightning.
• Dan Chen, pale and exhausted, poured her blood into her pill as it neared completion.
• Dan Chen’s Medicine Cauldron shattered, and her pill sent up a green pillar of light that formed the first two-colored Thunder Cloud of the Pill Gathering.

Dan Chen and Cao Ying produced pills that summoned two-colored Pill Lightning, while Old Monster Qing Hua and Ling Fei reached three and four colors respectively. Xue Mei then summoned five-colored Pill Lightning, leaving the Pill Gathering’s championship contest at its most spectacular point.

• Dan Chen summoned two-colored Pill Lightning, impressing Lu Chuan and drawing the crowd’s attention.
• Cao Ying revealed an Eighth-grade Pill whose lightning approached three colors.
• Old Monster Qing Hua produced a pill that summoned three-colored Pill Lightning.
• Ling Fei refined a pill that produced four-colored Pill Lightning, astonishing the plaza.
• Xue Mei summoned five-colored Pill Lightning after declaring she would take the championship from Ling Fei.

Xue Mei won the Pill Gathering championship and received an ancient soul cultivation method, while the top ten were promised a chance to enter the Star Region and subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame. After the competition, Xue Mei and Ling Fei asked Xuan Kongzi to transfer their spots to someone else.

• Xue Mei and Ling Fei shattered the Pill Lightning with casual palm strikes.
• Xuan Kongzi declared Xue Mei the champion after the contestants displayed their pills.
• Xuan Kongzi named Xue Mei a candidate for a future giant of the Alchemist Tower and awarded her an ancient soul cultivation method.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that the top ten could enter the Star Region in two days to attempt to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xue Mei and Ling Fei accepted the Three Giants' invitation to rest at the Alchemist Tower, then asked to transfer their spots to someone else.

Lu Chuan arrived at the Alchemist Tower and secured permission for the Pill Gathering champion and runner-up to give up their places, though the other contestants would try to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame first. In the Star Region, Cao Ying made the first attempt before the sealed flame, while its immense presence unnerved the group.

• Lu Chuan revealed himself as the Demon Saint, and Xuan Kongzi agreed to let the champion and runner-up surrender their places on the condition that the other eight tried first.
• The next day, Xuan Kongzi opened a spatial gate to the Star Region, and Qiu Ling led the contestants inside and explained the rules.
• Qiu Ling brought the group to the sealed Three Thousand Burning Flame, a gigantic dragon surrounded by purple-black flames.
• Qiu Ling called Cao Ying forward first, and she approached the dragon's head, sensing its overwhelming presence.

Cao Ying and the others failed to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, so Lu Chuan sent them away and attacked it with his Natal Divine Fire. The flame resisted and began breaking its Seals, but Lu Chuan immobilized it with a much stronger Seal.

• Cao Ying entered the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s inner world and tried to approach it, but it burned away her Spiritual Power.
• Old Monster Qing Hua, Dan Chen, and the others each tried and failed to subdue the Heavenly Flame.
• Lu Chuan appeared, opened a Space Gate, and ordered Qiu Ling and the others to leave.
• Lu Chuan sent his Jade Flame lion into the Three Thousand Burning Flame to devour it and strengthen his Natal Divine Fire.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame resisted, cracked its Seals, and tried to protect its intelligence, but Lu Chuan layered a stronger Seal over it and immobilized it.

Lu Chuan subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame and fused it into his Natal Divine Fire, then took Cao Ying to meet Xue Mei and Ling Fei. He told her that three years earlier, one sister had been a Second-grade Alchemist and the other a First-grade Alchemist, leaving Cao Ying incredulous.

• Lu Chuan erased the Three Thousand Burning Flame's consciousness and absorbed it into his Natal Divine Fire, which grew to the power of a Two-Star Dou Sheng.
• Lu Chuan appeared before Xuan Kongzi and the others and demonstrated his greatly strengthened Natal Divine Fire, confirming that he had subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Cao Ying asked to see Xue Mei and Ling Fei, and Lu Chuan took her through a space crack.
• Cao Ying guessed that Xue Mei and Ling Fei had been Seventh-grade Alchemists three years earlier, but Lu Chuan said one had been a Second-grade Alchemist and the other a First-grade Alchemist.
• Cao Ying asked Lu Chuan seriously whether he was joking.

Lu Chuan and Cao Ying became lovers, and he promised her a life by his side before responding to a summons from Ancient Dragon Island. There, West Dragon Island and South Dragon Island arrived, and West Dragon Island's commander demanded that East Dragon Island's lord with the Royal Bloodline visit the West Dragon King.

• Lu Chuan brought Cao Ying to the inn, where Yun Yun, Queen Medusa, Xue Mei, Ling Fei, and the others teased her.
• Lu Chuan offered Cao Ying Soul Origin that could help her become a high-tier eighth-grade alchemist, and she asked him to promise she could stay with him forever.
• Lu Chuan promised Cao Ying a life of happiness, and the two became lovers while the other women left them alone.
• A strand of Space Power summoned Lu Chuan, and he left through a space crack after telling Cao Ying something had happened on Ancient Dragon Island.
• Xuan Mo arrived outside East Dragon Island with forces from West Dragon Island and South Dragon Island, then announced that the West Dragon King wanted its Royal Bloodline lord to visit.

East Dragon Island resisted West and South Dragon Island’s attempt to seize Zi Yan, who was receiving her inheritance. As the attackers pressed their advantage, Zhu Li summoned Lu Chuan, whose arrival made the invading leaders pause.

• Xuan Mo demanded that East Dragon Island hand over Zi Yan, while Lie Shan arrived and claimed South Dragon Island had ordered the same.
• Qing Shan and East Dragon Island’s Second Elder emerged to defend the island as Xuan Mo and Lie Shan prepared to attack.
• Xuan Mo and Lie Shan engaged the East Dragon elders while the Savage Dragon Army advanced toward East Dragon Island.
• Zhu Li crushed a Space Jade Slip to summon Lu Chuan when East Dragon Island’s defenders were outnumbered.
• Lu Chuan appeared with an aura stronger than the Dragon Kings’, and Xuan Mo asked whether he intended to interfere in the Ancient Dragon Clan’s affairs.