Chapter Summaries

After reclaiming leadership of the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan, Yao Ming took Lu Chuan to the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet. Lu Chuan sent his soul into the tablet to seek the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance, leaving his body guarded outside.

• Yao Ming accepted the clan leader position and ordered the elders to remove Yao Tian Xiao’s former confidants.
• Yao Ming pledged the clan’s loyalty to Lu Chuan, who ordered him to lead the way to the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet.
• Yao Ming explained the tablet’s history and its three Dou Skills, including the powerful Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• Lu Chuan told Yao Ming to prevent anyone from disturbing him, then sent his soul into the stone tablet.

Lu Chuan entered the space within a stone stele and confronted the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant soul to obtain Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and the Demon Saint’s essence blood. The Demon Saint unleashed Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, and its destructive sound wave rushed toward Lu Chuan as the space collapsed.

• Lu Chuan endured the space’s lightning and shattered the Yellow Springs Finger and giant yellow hand attacks.
• Lu Chuan called out the Yellow Springs Demon Saint, who appeared on a throne and warned him to leave.
• Lu Chuan demanded Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and the Demon Saint’s essence blood, and the Demon Saint challenged him with its Emperor Realm soul.
• Lu Chuan’s soul resisted the Demon Saint’s attacks, and the Demon Saint recognized the power of Heavenly Flames within it.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint unleashed Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, collapsing its true form and the surrounding space as a destructive sound wave surged toward Lu Chuan.

Lu Chuan survived Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s soul attack and received his techniques and essence blood. Yellow Springs Demon Saint vanished, and Lu Chuan returned from the stele to find Yao Ming injured after failing to learn Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.

• Lu Chuan withstood Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Heavenly Wrath with the protection of his Natal Divine Fire.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint passed Lu Chuan the cultivation methods for Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, Yellow Springs Finger, and Yellow Springs Palm.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint gave Lu Chuan his essence blood, then vanished as the mountain and throne collapsed.
• Lu Chuan returned to his body, and Yao Ming asked how the encounter had gone.
• Yao Ming tried to receive Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath from the stele but was struck by a soul impact and thrown down the stairs.
• Lu Chuan told Yao Ming that his Spiritual Power was unlikely to meet the technique’s cultivation requirements for hundreds of years without a great opportunity.

Lu Chuan distributed the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's essence blood among Yao Ming and the women around him, then received a system reward when his descendants surpassed thirty. After learning of the Space Trade Fair, he set out with Yun Yun and the others to seek the Nine-Colored Raw Stone and the final Netherworld Lotus Flame Fragment Map.

• Lu Chuan gave Yao Ming a share of the Demon Saint's essence blood, ordered him to guard the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, and left Queen Medusa there with more essence blood and a Space Conversion Banner.
• Lu Chuan returned to the Monster Beast Mountain Range, distributed the remaining essence blood among his women, and had several more descendants over the next three months.
• Lu Chuan received ten Nine-Rank Treasure Pills after his descendants surpassed thirty, while Xiao Yu completed her Heavenly Tomb cultivation and Gu Xun'er kept her encounter with him secret.
• Yun Yun told Lu Chuan that the Space Trade Fair was about to be held and gave him a token.
• Lu Chuan set out with Yun Yun and the others for the Space Trade Fair to seek the Nine-Colored Raw Stone and the final Netherworld Lotus Flame Fragment Map.

Lu Chuan brought Yun Yun, Bing Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Cao Ying, and Feng Qing'er to the Space Trade Fair, where he bought a Seven-Colored Raw Stone. He revealed that enough fallen Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Pythons could produce eight-colored or even nine-colored raw stones, leaving the group curious about the stone's hidden potential.

• Lu Chuan led the group through a Space Wormhole into Space Town, a bustling trade venue filled with powerful experts and rare goods.
• The group browsed the stalls, where Yun Yun, Bing Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Cao Ying, and Feng Qing'er admired valuable items and ingredients.
• Lu Chuan stopped at a stall and asked the gaunt old man for the price of a Seven-Colored Raw Stone.
• Lu Chuan paid two Eighth-grade Pills with at least Three-colored Pill Lightning and took the stone without bargaining, surprising the old man.
• Yun Yun asked why Lu Chuan wanted the stone when Medusa was already too strong to benefit from it.
• Lu Chuan explained that the deaths of more than a hundred Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Pythons in one place could produce eight-colored or nine-colored raw stones.

Lu Chuan discovered that the raw stone he bought was a Nine-Colored Raw Stone, then brought his group to the Space Trade Fair. The auction began with Demonic Phoenix Wings, and Lu Chuan offered an Eighth-grade Pill with Four-colored Pill Lightning for them.

• Lu Chuan used blood from the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python to reveal that the raw stone had nine colors, delighting the women.
• Lu Chuan and the women reached the ancient auction pavilion in Space Town, where two Six-star Dou Zun gatekeepers recognized him as a Demon Saint.
• Old Man Baoshan opened the Space Trade Fair after appearing in the hall and enclosing himself in a spatial barrier.
• Old Man Baoshan presented Demonic Phoenix Wings and said their owner wanted an Eighth-grade Pill with Four-colored Pill Lightning in exchange.
• Lu Chuan offered such a pill, and Old Man Baoshan asked whether anyone wished to raise the bid.

Lu Chuan traded an Eighth-grade Pill with Four-colored Pill Lightning for the Demonic Phoenix Wings and gave them to Feng Qing'er, then bid on the Heavenly Netherworld Poison Scripture for Xiao Yi Xian. The trading meet’s second-to-last item was revealed as a remnant map linked to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and the bidding began in a frenzy.

• Old Man Baoshan sent the Demonic Phoenix Wings to Lu Chuan, who gave them to Feng Qing'er.
• Old Man Baoshan auctioned the Indestructible Glazed Body, and its owner chose one of four offered Heaven-tier Low-level cultivation methods.
• Lu Chuan bid two Eighth-grade Pills with Five-colored Pill Lightning for the Heavenly Netherworld Poison Scripture on Xiao Yi Xian's behalf.
• Old Man Baoshan revealed an ancient remnant map connected to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and opened bidding for pills.
• Several bidders rapidly raised their offers for the remnant map, with bids reaching five Eighth-grade Pills with Six-colored Pill Lightning.

Lu Chuan obtained the Demonic Flame Ancient Map by trading an Eighth-grade Pill with Nine-Colored Pill Lightning. Old Man Baoshan then announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had emerged in the dangerous Vast Desolate Ancient Region, leaving the attendees to consider the risks of seeking it.

• Lu Chuan outbid the others for the Demonic Flame Ancient Map with his pill, and Old Man Baoshan completed the exchange.
• Old Man Baoshan announced that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared after ten thousand years, stirring the hall with news of its Bodhi Heart and Bodhi Seeds.
• Lu Chuan resolved to seek the tree, hoping its Bodhi Seeds would help the Peak Dou Zun women around him become Half-Saints.
• Old Man Baoshan revealed that the tree had emerged in the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, a forbidden land filled with poisonous miasma and powerful ancient beasts.
• Old Man Baoshan concluded the Space Trade Fair, and the attendees gradually left the hall.

Lu Chuan and his companions defeated the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts after they tried to steal the Demonic Flame Remnant Map. By exposing the map’s hidden message and receiving the Pure Lotus Demonic Sage’s safeguard, Lu Chuan prepared to head to the Vast Desolate Ancient Region as factions across the Central Plains awaited confirmation of the coming phenomenon.

• Lu Chuan’s group stopped the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts, who demanded the Demonic Flame Remnant Map, and Xiao Yi Xian, Cao Ying, Feng Qing’er, and Yun Yun killed all three attackers.
• More than a dozen people arrived after Lu Chuan’s group left and recognized the Scorpion Demon Three Ghosts’ bodies amid the flattened mountain range.
• Back in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, Lu Chuan assembled the Ancient Map and used his Natal Divine Fire to reveal four lines of ancient text describing the Demonic Flame’s descent.
• The Ancient Map’s Demonic Lotus pattern entered Lu Chuan’s glabella, and he explained that it was the Pure Lotus Demonic Sage’s safeguard for subduing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Lu Chuan announced that the group would travel to the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, while factions across the Central Plains sent advance parties and waited to confirm the intelligence.

After the Bodhi Ancient Tree appeared, Lu Chuan and his companions traveled to the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and reached the Ancient Domain Stage, where powerful factions were gathering. His arrival unsettled the gathered forces and threatened their tacit agreement.

• Six days after the Bodhi Ancient Tree fully appeared, Lu Chuan set out for the Vast Desolate Ancient Region with Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, Cao Ying, and Feng Qing'er.
• Lu Chuan's group passed through the poisonous insect miasma using Heavenly Flames and crossed into the dangerous ancient region.
• After traveling for a day through the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, Lu Chuan and his companions reached the Ancient Domain Stage, where many people had gathered.
• A black-clothed man worried that Lu Chuan's arrival would break the major forces' tacit agreement, while a man with multicolored pupils disparaged Lu Chuan's presence.

After Lu Chuan arrived at the Ancient Domain Stage, the major clans summoned Dou Saint reinforcements, turning the journey to the Bodhi Ancient Tree into a contest among powerful experts. Lu Chuan sent Yun Yun and the others back to the Monster Beast Mountain Range, then led the advance into the beast tide.

• Gu Qingyang, Gu Xun'er, Hun Yu, Jiu Feng, and youths from the Lei and Yao Clans summoned Dou Saint experts after Lu Chuan arrived.
• Dou Saint experts from the Soul Clan, Ancient Clan, Lei Clan, Yan Clan, and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan emerged from Space Cracks.
• Lu Chuan led the group away from the Ancient Domain Stage, and other factions followed toward the deepest part of the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• Lu Chuan used the Space Conversion Banner to send Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others back to the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
• The Dou Saint experts met the beast tide and began smashing through the ferocious beasts.

Lu Chuan and the cultivators fought through the beast tide to reach the Bodhi Ancient Tree and its Bodhi Heart. When the tree’s light swept over those at its base, it drew them inside, though Lu Chuan could choose whether to enter.

• Lu Chuan and the other Dou Saints cut a path through the beast tide, while the cultivators following them suffered heavy losses as the beasts surrounded them again.
• Lu Chuan reached the edge of the beast tide and spotted the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while the Ancient Clan and other factions approached cautiously.
• The factions saw the Bodhi Heart in the tree trunk and rushed toward it, prompting five Half-Saint puppets to emerge from the branches.
• The experts quickly destroyed the puppets and reached the tree’s base, where a pillar of light enveloped them and pulled them inside.
• Lu Chuan was drawn in with the others, but his cultivation allowed him to choose whether to remain or leave.

Lu Chuan broke free of the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion and witnessed images revealing a battle between two Dou Emperor experts and the tree. The vision ended with black air entering the Bodhi Ancient Tree, leaving its corruption unexplained.

• Lu Chuan recognized the Soul Heavenly Emperor attack as an illusion and let it vanish after a cool aura from his Storage Ring entered his mind.
• Lu Chuan entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s inner space and saw Hun Yu, Jiu Feng, Gu Nan Hai, and the others trapped in separate illusions.
• Lu Chuan protected himself with his Natal Divine Fire, prompting the Bodhi Ancient Tree to show him an image of a black-robed Dou Emperor attacking it.
• A second Dou Emperor struck the black-robed figure with a destructive gale, and the figure and his world exploded into nothingness.
• Black air emerged in the void and entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree, giving its pure aura a concealed chill.

Lu Chuan discovered that a black-clothed Dou Emperor’s lingering negative emotions had corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree and its intelligence. After using his Natal Divine Fire to refine the tree’s Bodhi Seeds and remove the corruption, Lu Chuan asked for the Bodhi Heart, and the tree presented it to him.

• Lu Chuan learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s evil intelligence had formed from the negative emotions of a black-clothed Dou Emperor who had tried to steal its tree spirit.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Lu Chuan that refining Bodhi Seeds could weaken the negative emotions, then offered him more than twenty exceptionally pure seeds.
• Lu Chuan used his Natal Divine Fire to refine the Bodhi Seeds, sending their pure energy into the tree and gradually dispersing the black qi.
• After the final trace of black qi vanished, the Bodhi Ancient Tree regained its peaceful, holy, and wise nature and bowed to Lu Chuan.
• Lu Chuan asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree for the Bodhi Heart, and it brought the beating green heart before him.

Lu Chuan cultivated inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree while the others emerged from their illusions and discovered him receiving the tree’s enlightenment. After the tree repelled a Soul Clan elder who tried to interrupt him, Lu Chuan opened his eyes, and strange fluctuations rippled through the space.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree released the people trapped in illusions, and Gu Nan Hai and Hun Yu realized their experiences had been false.
• The group recognized the Bodhi Ancient Tree and found Lu Chuan cultivating within it, prompting Hun Yu and others to covet his chance at enlightenment.
• A Soul Clan elder struck the tree to disrupt Lu Chuan, but its power rebounded and severely injured him.
• The group accepted that they could not interfere with Lu Chuan and waited as their restlessness grew.
• After a month, Lu Chuan opened his eyes, and strange fluctuations spread through the space.

After a month of cultivation inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Lu Chuan returned from a hundred cycles of trials with his strength raised to the late stage of Six-Star Dou Sheng, though his concealed cultivation still appeared to be Four-Star. The tree gave him nearly twenty Bodhi Seeds, and the chapter ended as Lu Chuan attacked the Soul Clan Dou Saint who challenged his claim to them.

• Lu Chuan emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree after enduring a hundred cycles of reincarnation and trials, having advanced from early-stage Five-Star Dou Sheng to late-stage Six-Star Dou Sheng.
• Lu Chuan thanked the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which responded by releasing nearly twenty Bodhi Seeds.
• Lu Chuan gathered all the Bodhi Seeds and gave two to Gu Nan Hai in gratitude for protecting his opportunity.
• The Soul Clan Dou Saint and Jiu Feng challenged Lu Chuan over keeping the seeds, while members of the other Ancient Races tacitly supported dividing them.
• Lu Chuan rejected the demand, and when the Soul Clan Dou Saint threatened him, Lu Chuan rushed forward with a purple-glowing fist.

Lu Chuan killed Hun Yu and the Soul Clan Dou Saint after they threatened him over the Bodhi Seeds, then escaped the collapsing space inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree. Once outside, he watched the tree sink underground and revealed that he possessed an unrefined Bodhi Heart.

• Lu Chuan defeated the Soul Clan Dou Saint with a single punch, then killed Hun Yu with Space Power when Hun Yu threatened him.
• Lu Chuan repeatedly punched the injured Soul Clan Dou Saint until he was dead, frightening the Ancient Races' experts and leaving Jiu Feng terrified.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree's space began to collapse, and the people inside were thrown back into the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• Lu Chuan and the others emerged from the tree after a month, with Lu Chuan reflecting on the hundred lifetimes of reincarnation he had experienced.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sank underground, and Lu Chuan touched the crystal-green Bodhi Heart floating over his heart, which he had not yet refined.

After returning from the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, Lu Chuan used Bodhi Seeds to attract powerful experts and strengthen his forces. The Spirit Clan’s sudden disappearance then shocked the Central Plains, and suspicion fell on the Ancient Clan or Soul Clan as possible culprits seeking its Tou She Ancient God Jade.

• Lu Chuan killed Jiu Feng with a spear of Spiritual Power as the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan tried to escape the grassland.
• Lu Chuan returned to the Monster Beast Mountain Range with Bodhi Seeds, and the women welcomed him.
• Lu Chuan had Cao Ying, Xue Mei, Ling Fei, and Yao Chen refine Bodhi Pills, drawing Peak Dou Zun experts to join his forces in hopes of earning one.
• Experts discovered that the Spirit World was empty and that the Spirit Clan and its Descendants had vanished, stirring uproar across the Central Plains.
• The Ancient Races speculated that someone had targeted the Spirit Clan’s Ancient Jade, and the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan were identified as the only likely candidates capable of wiping out the clan unseen.

After the Soul Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan joined forces to attack Lu Chuan’s allies, Lu Chuan prepared to confront Huang Tian and the Phoenix Clan leadership. He left Yao Chen with a way to summon help and set out to make Feng Qing’er the new Clan Leader.

• The Soul Clan ordered Soul Hall to join the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan in attacking factions connected to Lu Chuan, beginning with Yao Chen’s Starfall Pavilion.
• Yao Chen warned Lu Chuan that Soul Hall was attacking cities under its jurisdiction, and Lu Chuan explained that the attacks helped distract from the Spirit Clan’s destruction.
• Lu Chuan visited the Starfall Pavilion and left Yao Chen a Spatial Jade Slip refined by Zi Yan for emergencies.
• Lu Chuan gathered the women and told Feng Qing’er he would fulfill his promise to help her become the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Clan Leader.
• Lu Chuan and Feng Qing’er prepared to go to Danxue Mountain to subdue Huang Tian and the clan’s higher-ups, while Feng Qing’er asked to avoid excessive slaughter.

Lu Chuan and Feng Qing'er infiltrated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s forbidden ground, where Lu Chuan challenged Clan Leader Huang Tian. Their battle began with Huang Tian’s golden feather striking Lu Chuan’s transformed Golden Giant, but Huang Tian evaded the giant’s first punch.

• Lu Chuan and Feng Qing'er used the Space Conversion Banner to enter Danxue Mountain unseen and reached the clan’s burial ground.
• Huang Tian confronted the intruders, recognized Feng Qing'er’s clan bloodline, and sized up their strength.
• Lu Chuan challenged Huang Tian, and the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes arrived and identified him as Jiu Feng’s killer and Feng Qing'er as a traitor.
• Huang Tian ordered the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes to target Feng Qing'er and attacked Lu Chuan with a golden feather.
• Lu Chuan transformed into a Golden Giant, withstood the golden feather, and swung at Huang Tian, who dodged the punch.