Chapter Summaries

Yao Dan decided to protect the Yao Clan during the Medicine Ceremony by personally seeking support from the Yan and Lei Clans, despite the cost. Jiang Xing waited outside the Medicine Realm, believing his warning would prevent the Soul Clan from destroying the clan and let him claim the Life Spirit Flame; as the ceremony began, Hun Xuzi arrived to coordinate the attack.

• Yao Dan learned that the Yan and Lei Clans planned to send only a few Half-Saints to the Medicine Ceremony and decided to visit Yan Jin and Lei Ying himself.
• Yao Dan told Yao Wanhuo to keep the clan’s preparations secret and vowed to fight the Soul Clan if it attacked.
• Yao Dan left the Yao Clan carrying precious pills to offer in exchange for the Yan and Lei Clan chiefs’ attendance.
• Jiang Xing waited outside the Medicine Realm, hoping Yao Dan had believed his warning enough to thwart the Soul Clan’s attack and secure Old Man Shen Nong’s escape.
• Old Man Shen Nong and Hun Xuzi arrived at the Medicine Ceremony, where Hun Xuzi prepared to coordinate the Soul Clan’s attack with Nihility Devouring Flame.

Jiang Xing waited outside the Medicine Realm for the Life Spirit Flame, and Zi Yan followed him and agreed to help conceal them. Inside, the Medicine Ceremony reached its final showdown, while Yao Dan remained wary of Hun Xuzi’s hidden intentions.

• Yao Dan suspected Hun Xuzi had come to coordinate an attack on the Yao Clan, but Yao Wanhuo relaxed after learning Lei Ying and Yan Jin were hidden in the Medicine Realm.
• Yao Dan opened the Medicine Ceremony, and the alchemy competition began.
• Jiang Xing repeatedly moved farther from the Medicine Realm to avoid Nihility Devouring Flame, until Zi Yan found him and offered to help him obtain the Life Spirit Flame.
• Zi Yan used spatial power to conceal herself and Jiang Xing outside the Medicine Realm.
• After several days of competition, Hun Xuzi, Old Man Shen Nong, and Yao Wanhuo entered the final showdown and summoned their respective Heavenly Flames.

Hun Xuzi sabotaged the Medicine Ceremony, then revealed his Seven-Star Dou Saint strength and joined the Nihility Devouring Flame in attacking the Yao Clan. The Yao Clan raised its Clan Protection Formation, but the Nihility Devouring Flame launched an assault against it.

• Hun Xuzi, Yao Wanhuo, and Old Man Shen Nong began refining Ninth-Rank Mysterious Pills, but the Medicine Realm lacked enough energy to sustain all three.
• Hun Xuzi used his Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame to drain energy from Yao Wanhuo's and Old Man Shen Nong's nascent pills, prompting Yao Wanhuo to attack him while Old Man Shen Nong stayed neutral.
• Hun Xuzi and Yao Wanhuo failed to finish their pills, and the Medicine Ceremony ended in a draw.
• Hun Xuzi asked Yao Dan to lend him the Yao Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade, then revealed his Seven-Star Dou Saint cultivation when Yao Wanhuo threatened him.
• Hun Xuzi summoned the Nihility Devouring Flame, who demanded the Ancient Jade and the Yao Clan's submission; Yao Dan ordered his people to form the Celestial Transformation Medicine Formation.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame attacked the Yao Clan's formation with his Black Flames.

The Soul Clan attacked the Yao Clan, and Yao Dan summoned the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul to resist Nihility Devouring Flame. Yan Jin and Lei Ying struck Nihility Devouring Flame from ambush, while reinforcements from the Yan and Lei Clans began breaking through his seal.

• Nihility Devouring Flame used Black Flame to absorb the Yao Clan’s protective formation as Yao Dan refused to wait for outside help.
• Yao Dan rallied the Yao Clan to summon the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul, using pillars of medicinal pills and clan members’ Dou Qi.
• The Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul blocked Nihility Devouring Flame’s first attack with a medicinal cauldron, but the cauldron weakened under his next strike.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying attacked Nihility Devouring Flame by surprise, and Lei Ying’s lightning-charged attack injured him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame realized that the Yan and Lei Clans’ experts were attacking the seal he had established.

Nihility Devouring Flame covered the Soul Clan's retreat while fighting Yao Dan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying, and he slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Yao Clan descendants. Yao Dan recognized that Nihility Devouring Flame was using the supposedly extinct Tunling Clan's methods, and the three clan leaders realized the Soul Clan might have grown immensely powerful.

• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered the Soul Clan experts to retreat and stayed behind to hold off their pursuers.
• Yan Jin, Yao Dan, and Lei Ying attacked Nihility Devouring Flame, but he evaded them and unleashed Black Flame that devoured nearly five hundred and fifty thousand Yao Clan descendants.
• Yao Dan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying intensified their assault as Nihility Devouring Flame fought back with Black Flame Creatures.
• Yao Dan examined a Black Flame Creature and recognized its methods as belonging to the supposedly exterminated Tunling Clan.
• Yao Dan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying realized the Soul Clan had likely grown powerful after devouring millions from the Spirit Stone Clans, and Lei Ying urged them not to let Nihility Devouring Flame escape.

Nihility Devouring Flame escaped the three clan chiefs, who resolved to form an alliance against the Soul Clan. Outside the Medicine Realm, Jiang Xing and Zi Yan ambushed Old Man Shen Nong to seize his Heavenly Flame, and Jiang Xing prepared to kill him despite his surrender.

• Nihility Devouring Flame used a sea of Black Flame to hold off Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Yao Dan before escaping.
• Yao Dan urged the others to form the Four-Clan Alliance with the Gu Clan after confirming the Soul Clan had destroyed the Stone Clan and Spirit Clan and possessed the Tunling Clan's devouring abilities.
• Jiang Xing and Zi Yan waited outside the Medicine Realm, then secretly followed Old Man Shen Nong away from Yao Clan territory.
• Jiang Xing and Zi Yan ambushed Old Man Shen Nong, overwhelmed him, and demanded the Heavenly Flame on him.
• Old Man Shen Nong offered to surrender his Heavenly Flame, but Jiang Xing said he would kill him and take it anyway.
• Old Man Shen Nong pleaded that he could refine pills for Jiang Xing as Jiang Xing gathered Dou Qi for an attack.

Jiang Xing killed Old Man Shen Nong, claimed his pill collection and Life Spirit Flame, and advanced his cultivation. Meanwhile, the Gu, Yan, Lei, and Yao Clans formed an alliance against the Soul Clan, but could not find its relocated headquarters.

• Jiang Xing killed the surrendered Old Man Shen Nong, took his Storage Ring and Heavenly Flames, and kept his body to refine into a puppet.
• Jiang Xing returned to Dragon Island, refined the Life Spirit Flame in seclusion, and reached the Seven-Star Dou Saint Middle Stage.
• Nihility Devouring Flame returned to the Soul Clan and told Hun Tiandi that the other four clans would unite against them.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to seal itself and recalled Hun Miesheng rather than face the alliance directly.
• The Gu, Yan, Lei, and Yao Clan chiefs formed the Four-Clan Alliance and declared war, but found the Hun Realm had been relocated and the Hall of Souls abandoned.

After devouring the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and Black Demon Lightning, Jiang Xing reached the middle Eight-Star Dou Saint stage and learned that the Soul Clan was avoiding the Four-Clan Alliance while plotting from hiding. Seeking ways to strengthen his allies, he asked about the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and discovered that Ancient Void Dragons could grow stronger by devouring them.

• With the Flame Spirit's help, Jiang Xing devoured the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and reached the peak of the early Eight-Star Dou Saint stage.
• Zi Yan told Jiang Xing that the Four-Clan Alliance had declared war on the Soul Clan, which was avoiding battle while remaining a threat.
• Jiang Xing refined the Black Demon Lightning in the Void Lightning Pool and broke through to the middle Eight-Star Dou Saint stage.
• Jiang Xing considered how to strengthen his allies and suspected that Ancient Void Dragons could gain power by consuming Heaven Demon Phoenixes.
• Zi Yan summoned the Six-Star Dou Saint Zhu Feng, who confirmed that Ancient Void Dragons could increase their strength by devouring Heaven Demon Phoenixes.

Jiang Xing learned why the Ancient Void Dragons had not destroyed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan sooner, and Zi Yan led the elders in unanimously approving a surprise raid. Zi Yan, Jiang Xing, and Zhu Feng confronted Huang Tian as fighting broke out across the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory.

• Elder Zhu Feng explained that the Ancient Void Dragons had halted their near-destruction of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan after the Old Dragon Emperor disappeared and Dragon Island fell into turmoil.
• Zi Yan proposed destroying the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and the elders unanimously agreed.
• Zi Yan organized a surprise raid, sending Six-Star Dou Saints and above inside while the other experts blocked escape routes.
• Zi Yan, Jiang Xing, and Zhu Feng infiltrated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory and confronted Huang Tian in his cultivation chamber.
• Zhu Feng revealed his late-stage Six-Star Dou Saint strength, and Zi Yan declared that they had come to destroy the clan as fighting erupted outside.

The Ancient Void Dragon Clan, led by Zi Yan, Jiang Xing, and Zhu Feng, annihilated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and explored its clan tomb. News of the clan’s destruction spread across the Central Continent, leaving the continent in uproar.

• Huang Tian transformed into his Demon Phoenix Avatar but was killed by Zi Yan, and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s ambush also killed Phoenix, Kunhuang, and Yinghuang.
• Zi Yan and Jiang Xing discovered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Secret Realm, which contained preserved bodies but no treasures or manuals.
• Zi Yan gathered the clan’s remains, and Jiang Xing refined their essence blood for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan to distribute among its members.
• Jiang Xing found that consuming the essence blood gave him only a negligible boost, while it could strengthen Ancient Void Dragons.
• News of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s annihilation spread across the Central Continent and shocked humans and magical beast clans alike.

The Soul Clan launched a surprise attack on the Yao Clan while the Four-Clan Alliance had dispersed to focus on its own affairs, and Hun Tiandi led the clan to destroy the Yao Clan. When the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans arrived, they saw Hun Tiandi and four Eight-Star Dou Saint elders, leaving Gu Dao shocked to find Hun Yuantian and Hun Shengtian alive.

• News of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's destruction spread, and people cautiously speculated about the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's role.
• The Four-Clan Alliance split up after the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans supported a limited search for the Soul Clan while Yao Dan's call for a stronger effort went unheeded.
• The Soul Clan suddenly attacked the Yao Clan, and Hun Tiandi killed Yao Dan as the clan's defenses collapsed.
• The Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans rushed to the Medicine Realm but arrived after the Yao Clan had been destroyed.
• Gu Dao recognized Hun Yuantian and Hun Shengtian among Hun Tiandi's four Eight-Star Dou Saint elders and questioned how they could still be alive.

The Soul Clan battled the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans after destroying the Yao Clan, while reinforcements arrived to strengthen the allied forces. Hun Tiandi revealed that the Soul Clan had stolen the three clans’ Ancient Jades and retreated to the Hun Realm with them.

• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to attack, and Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and their experts fought back while waiting for reinforcements.
• Gu Lie and other reinforcements arrived through the Space Tunnels, easing the pressure on the three clans and turning the battle in their favor.
• Gu An reported that Gu Yang had betrayed the Gu Clan and stolen its Ancient Jade, while the Yan and Lei Clan guards revealed their Ancient Jades had also been stolen.
• Hun Tiandi explained that he had arranged the theft while the three clans’ realms were poorly defended and ordered the Soul Clan to retreat.
• The three clans failed to stop the Soul Clan, which killed two experts covering its escape and returned to the Hun Realm with the Ancient Jades.

Hun Tiandi discovered that his subordinates had brought him only three Ancient Jades and prepared to trap the three clans while strengthening the Soul Clan. Meanwhile, the three clans joined their realms together to resist him, and the Gu Clan tried to give Gu Xun'er hope that Xiao Yan could be revived.

• Gu Yuan retreated with the other clan chiefs after they failed to break into the Hun Realm, while Hun Tiandi celebrated having gathered the Ancient Jades he believed he needed.
• Hun Tiandi learned that the three Six-Star Dou Saints had obtained only three Ancient Jades, and the elders who visited the Ancient Realm said Gu Yang had given them only one.
• Hun Tiandi wrongly concluded that Gu Yuan had kept the missing Ancient Jade and ordered Hun Yuantian and the others to prepare the Gates of Oblivion.
• Hun Tiandi had Nihility Devouring Flame use millions of captured Yao Clan descendants to strengthen the Soul Clan's experts.
• The three clans relocated and connected the Ancient Realm, Flame Realm, and Thunder Realm, then gathered to plan against the Soul Clan.
• The Gu Clan's elders told Gu Xun'er that Xiao Yan might be revived after someone reached Dou Di, supporting the claim with a fabricated ancient book.

Gu Xun'er broke through to the Three-Star Dou Saint realm as the three clans sought allies against the Soul Clan. They decided to recruit the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, but could not find Ancient Dragon Island and turned to the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan for help locating it.

• Gu Xun'er resumed frantic cultivation and broke through to the Three-Star Dou Saint realm through her determination and longing for Xiao Yan.
• A Low-Level Dou Saint Elder suggested recruiting the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Gu Yuan persuaded Yan Jin and Lei Ying to send envoys to negotiate with them.
• Yan Jin dispatched his subordinates to find Ancient Dragon Island, but they searched the Beast Domain for nearly a month without success.
• The three clans decided to seek the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan's help in finding Ancient Dragon Island or contacting the Ancient Void Dragons.
• The Ancient Void Dragon Clan had entered seclusion to refine Demon Phoenix Blood Essence, strengthening their bloodlines and making the island harder to locate.

After the Ancient Void Dragon Clan grew stronger by refining Heaven Demon Phoenix Essence Blood, Jiang Xing learned that the Three-Clan Alliance wanted to recruit them against the Soul Clan and negotiated with the Yan Clan. He agreed to consider joining in exchange for the Yan Clan's Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, leaving the Fire Spirit Fairy stunned.

• Zi Yan broke through to early Eight-Star Dou Saint, while several Ancient Void Dragon elders and Half-Saints also advanced after refining the essence blood.
• Jiang Xing captured a Yan Clan elder and learned that the Three-Clan Alliance sought the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's help against the Soul Clan.
• Jiang Xing contacted the Yan Clan and met the Fire Spirit Fairy, revealing that he and Zi Yan had reached the Eight-Star Dou Saint realm.
• Jiang Xing told the Fire Spirit Fairy that only he and Zi Yan would fight, then rejected her offer of cultivation resources and requested Heavenly Flames and fifteen Ninth-Rank Treasure Pills.
• After the Fire Spirit Fairy explained that the Yao Clan's flames were unavailable, Jiang Xing agreed to accept the Yan Clan's Eight Desolations Destruction Flame instead, freezing her smile.

Jiang Xing refused the Three-Clan Alliance’s offer and used the threat of cooperating with the Soul Clan to pressure Fire Spirit Fairy for better terms. After she returned to report, the alliance’s elders were shocked to learn that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had two Eight-Star Dou Saints.

• Jiang Xing rejected the Yan Clan’s Eight Desolations Destruction Flame as a possible substitute and suggested that the Soul Clan might trade Heavenly Flames for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s support.
• Fire Spirit Fairy warned Jiang Xing against helping the Soul Clan and offered ten Ninth-Rank Treasure Pills and eighty eighth-rank medicinal pills for his assistance.
• Jiang Xing refused the offer and told Fire Spirit Fairy to return with better terms, warning that the Soul Clan might make a more generous deal.
• Jiang Xing decided to keep the Soul Clan and the Three-Clan Alliance in balance so he could secure greater benefits and preserve the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s leverage.
• Fire Spirit Fairy returned and reported the negotiations, and the elders were astonished to learn that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had two Eight-Star Dou Saints.

Jiang Xing used the rivalry between the Three-Clan Alliance and the Soul Clan to auction his and Zi Yan’s support, prompting both sides to offer Heavenly Flame Sub-Flames and pill resources. After the Soul Clan’s offer surpassed the alliance’s, Yan Jin proposed adding Huo Yao’s refined Fire Cloud Water Flame to improve the alliance’s bid.

• Jiang Xing publicized the Three-Clan Alliance’s recruitment attempt, alerting the Soul Clan and angering the alliance’s experts.
• Hun Tiandi sent negotiators to recruit Jiang Xing and Zi Yan, and Jiang Xing told both sides that whoever offered more would get his help.
• The Three-Clan Alliance offered five Heavenly Flame Sub-Flames, thirty Ninth-Rank Treasure Pills, and one hundred eighth-rank pills.
• The Soul Clan offered four Heavenly Flame Sub-Flames, including a Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame, fifty Ninth-Rank Treasure Pills, and one hundred eighth-rank pills.
• Jiang Xing judged the Soul Clan’s terms superior and asked the Three-Clan Alliance to raise its offer.
• Yan Jin proposed adding Huo Yao’s refined Fire Cloud Water Flame to the alliance’s bid.

Jiang Xing rejected the Three-Clan Alliance’s offers and allied with the Soul Clan in exchange for Heavenly Flames and medicinal pills. After refining the flames, he joined the Soul Clan and Zi Yan at the start of the war, arriving with a mad plan to reach Nine-Star Dou Saint sooner.

• Jiang Xing rejected the Three-Clan Alliance’s increased offer, then agreed to help the Soul Clan fight the three clans.
• Hun Tiandi gave Jiang Xing the Heavenly Flames and half the promised pills, keeping the rest until Jiang Xing and Zi Yan proved their loyalty.
• Jiang Xing refined the three Heavenly Flames but remained at the middle stage of Eight-Star Dou Saint.
• The Soul Clan launched an open war against the allied three clans, and Jiang Xing and Zi Yan arrived at the agreed location.
• Jiang Xing met Hun Tiandi and decided against hiding on Dragon Island to cultivate, instead coming to the war with a mad plan.

Hun Tiandi assigned the Soul Clan’s forces to fight the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans, reserving Jiang Xing, Zi Yan, and three elders to face their Progenitors’ remnant souls. Jiang Xing persuaded Hun Tiandi to let him and Zi Yan take on the Yan Clan Progenitor, leaving the Gu and Lei Clan Progenitors to the elders.

• Hun Tiandi arranged matchups for the Soul Clan’s experts against Gu Yuan and the other leaders and fighters of the three clans.
• Hun Tiandi explained that Jiang Xing, Zi Yan, and the three elders would need to fight the clans’ Progenitors’ remnant souls.
• Jiang Xing asked about the remnant souls’ strength, and Hun Tiandi estimated that the Yan and Lei Progenitors were mid Eight-Star Dou Saints while the Gu Progenitor was a late Eight-Star Dou Saint.
• Jiang Xing claimed Zi Yan needed his protection and requested that they fight the Yan Clan Progenitor while the three elders handled the Gu Clan Progenitor.
• Hun Tiandi accepted Jiang Xing’s proposed assignment and left the Lei and Gu Clan Progenitors to the three elders.

The Soul Clan attacked the Ancient Realm, forcing the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans to summon their Progenitors for the battle. Jiang Xing and Zi Yan confronted the Yan Clan Progenitor, who underestimated Jiang Xing and attacked him first.

• Hun Tiandi taunted Gu Yuan, then clashed with him before ordering the Soul Clan experts to attack the Ancient Realm.
• The Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans summoned their Progenitors as the battle spread across the Ancient Realm.
• Jiang Xing and Zi Yan went after the Yan Clan Progenitor to help their later plan proceed.
• The Yan Clan Progenitor marveled that Jiang Xing had reached Eight-Star Dou Saint without a Dou Di bloodline, then attacked him.
• Jiang Xing unleashed a Dou Technique to meet the Yan Clan Progenitor's strike.