Chapter Summaries

Chu Xiao warned Gu Yuan and Yan Jin that the Soul Clan had inherited the Tunling Clan’s bloodline-devouring power and possessed formidable hidden forces. Gu Yuan and Yan Jin agreed to unite the clans, but Chu Xiao left them more alarmed by revealing the Soul Clan’s revived elders and powerful allies.

• Chu Xiao told Gu Yuan and Yan Jin that Nihility Devouring Flame had inherited the Tunling Clan’s ability and used it to sustain the Soul Clan’s bloodline.
• Chu Xiao claimed Purifying Lotus Demon Sage had revealed the secret, showing the Nether Flame Demon Fire Fragment Maps and summoning the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame as proof.
• Gu Yuan urged Yan Jin to unite their clans against the Soul Clan, and Yan Jin agreed; Chu Xiao asked them to gather the other clans without explaining the threat yet.
• Chu Xiao warned that the Soul Clan could defeat the allied clans, revealing its revived Four Elders, Four Demon Saints, and additional Seven Star Dou Saints.
• When Gu Yuan asked how Chu Xiao knew about the Soul Clan’s forces, Chu Xiao attributed the information to Ancestor Fen Yan.

Chu Xiao convinced Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Huo Ling that the Soul Clan had infiltrated the ancient clans and urged them to secretly prepare for war. After Gu Yuan and Yan Jin left to warn their allies, Chu Xiao asked Huo Ling to delay her seclusion and help him with a journey in exchange for a reward.

• Chu Xiao claimed he had met Ancestor Fen Yan, Xiao Xuan, and the founder of the Pill Tower, and explained that Xiao Xuan remained in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Chu Xiao warned Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Huo Ling that the Soul Clan had planted spies among the ancient clans, including those guarding the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Chu Xiao gave Gu Yuan and Yan Jin child flames of Thunder Flame Emperor Flame that could detect Nihility Devouring Flame nearby, and they agreed to secretly alert the others.
• Gu Yuan and Yan Jin returned to their true forms and vowed to destroy the Soul Clan.
• Chu Xiao asked Huo Ling to postpone her seclusion and take him somewhere, and Huo Ling requested a tempting reward.

Chu Xiao maneuvered Huo Ling into agreeing to take him to the Bodhi Ancient Tree, while Huo Zhi’s affection for him became harder to hide. Elsewhere, Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian discussed growing stronger to support Chu Xiao before his Diary entry about the Outer Realm Evil Clan alarmed the women.

• Huo Zhi tried to persuade Huo Ling to help Chu Xiao, but Huo Ling teased her about taking an outsider’s side and being lovestruck.
• Chu Xiao revealed that he wanted to find the Bodhi Ancient Tree and offered Huo Zhi Bodhi Seeds, prompting Huo Ling to insist on helping after learning what he sought.
• Chu Xiao refused to let Huo Ling take him without offering benefits, evaded her attack with spatial movement, and left her to consider his demand.
• Huo Ling warned Huo Zhi that Chu Xiao was shrewd, while Huo Zhi blushed and reaffirmed her trust in him.
• Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian discussed finding resources to strengthen Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin so they could support Chu Xiao.
• The women read Chu Xiao’s Diary entry about the Tunling Clan’s ties to the Outer Realm Evil Clan and grew alarmed.

Chu Xiao explained the Tunling Clan’s ties to the Demon Devouring Clan and the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then revealed he could help the tree recover and grow intelligent. Huo Ling’s corrupted branch unexpectedly bonded with Xiao Yi Xian, and Chu Xiao sealed her transformation in a cocoon before Huo Ling could learn what was happening.

• Chu Xiao used the Heavenly Derivation Art to explain that the Tunling Clan descended from Demon Devouring Clan survivors and that a Tunling Dou Di had corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Huo Ling told Huo Zhi that she had obtained a branch from the Bodhi Ancient Tree and planned to take it back to help the tree recover.
• The branch reacted to Huo Ling’s wine, consumed it, and shed several black spots, prompting Huo Ling to hurry to Ling Xiao Pavilion to find Chu Xiao.
• The branch shot toward Xiao Yi Xian, but Chu Xiao stopped Huo Ling from intervening and used the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame to separate and temper the corrupted portion.
• Chu Xiao placed a seventh-rank Bodhi Seed against Xiao Yi Xian’s brow, and the resulting energy cocoon entered his clan mark as Huo Ling demanded an explanation.

Chu Xiao explained Xiao Yi Xian’s safe breakthrough opportunity, then obtained the Void Dragon Pearl from Zhu Kun to enter the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s realm without alerting other experts. He returned to Ling Xiao Pavilion and told Huo Zhi they could depart.

• Chu Xiao explained that the contaminated Bodhi Ancient Tree branch was pure poison for Xiao Yi Xian to absorb, and Huo Ling recorded the information in the Diary.
• Chu Xiao agreed to travel with Huo Ling to find the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then introduced Xun Er to Ling Xiao Pavilion’s upper ranks and arranged for her to return to the Ancient Clan.
• Three days later, Chu Xiao entered the space beside Zi Yan’s cocoon and gave Zhu Kun a seventh-tier magical beast corpse to eat.
• Chu Xiao asked Zhu Kun about entering the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s spatial realm, and Zhu Kun gave him the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan’s Inherited Treasure, the Void Dragon Pearl.
• Chu Xiao returned to Ling Xiao Pavilion with the Void Dragon Pearl and messaged Huo Zhi that they could depart.

Chu Xiao obtained the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Star Domain and then asked Huo Ling to take him to Burning Flame Valley for the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame. He also offered to create an infant flame from the Flame Clan’s Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, and Huo Ling agreed to consider giving it to him for a higher price.

• Xuan Yi took Chu Xiao, Huo Ling, and Huo Zhi to the Pill Tower and secured Chu Xiao entry to the Star Domain.
• Chu Xiao broke the seal on the Three Thousand Burning Flame, which submitted to his Thunder Flame Emperor Flame and was devoured.
• Chu Xiao asked Huo Ling to take him to Burning Flame Valley to obtain the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame.
• Chu Xiao offered to split an infant flame from the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, and Huo Ling agreed to give it to him if he paid more.

Chu Xiao negotiated with Huo Ling for the mature Eight Desolations Destruction Flame in exchange for multiple cultivated flames and resources for the Flame Clan. He then brought Huo Ling, Huo Zhi, and Xuan Yi to Burning Flame Valley, where Tang Zhen welcomed them as distinguished guests.

• Chu Xiao offered to return two young Eight Desolations Destruction Flames, help them mature within five years, and cultivate a young Red Lotus Karma Fire for the Flame Clan in exchange for its mature Eight Desolations Destruction Flame.
• Huo Ling negotiated for a young Yin-Yang Azure Lotus Core Flame and a Three Thousand Burning Flame sub-flame containing its origin, and Chu Xiao accepted her terms.
• The spatial passage carried Chu Xiao, Huo Ling, Huo Zhi, and Xuan Yi to the Scorching Volcano Range, where Chu Xiao suggested Yan Xiao could train and find treasures after leaving seclusion.
• Chu Xiao's group reached Burning Flame Valley's gateway, and Old Ancestor Huo Yun sent Tang Zhen to greet them before coming to receive them personally.
• Tang Zhen opened the spatial gateway and formally welcomed Chu Xiao, Huo Ling, Huo Zhi, and Xuan Yi to Burning Flame Valley.

Chu Xiao and his companions visited Burning Flame Valley to trade for the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame, and Chu Xiao effortlessly absorbed it with his Thunder Flame Emperor Flame. Tang Huo'er declared that only her husband could take the Heavenly Flame away, leaving everyone stunned.

• Tang Zhen welcomed Chu Xiao, Xuan Yi, Huo Zhi, and Huo Ling into Burning Flame Valley and brought them to the guest hall.
• Tang Huo'er challenged Chu Xiao’s reputation, while Old Ancestor Huo Yun arrived and respectfully greeted Huo Ling.
• Huo Ling asked Tang Huoyun to trade the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame to Chu Xiao.
• Tang Huo'er explained the flame’s inherited marks and doubted that Chu Xiao could refine it, but Chu Xiao offered to prove he could.
• Tang Zhen released the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame, and Chu Xiao’s Thunder Flame Emperor Flame drew in its nine fire dragons and severed Tang Zhen’s connection to it.
• Tang Huo'er reacted in shock and said she would give the flame to an outsider only if he became her husband.

Tang Huo'er boldly proposed marrying Chu Xiao in exchange for the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame, but Chu Xiao refused to turn marriage into a transaction. Burning Flame Valley accepted his offer for the flame, and Tang Huo'er secured permission to stay by his side for five years and pursue him.

• Tang Huo'er declared that she would give Chu Xiao the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame only if he married her, while Chu Xiao explained that he wanted its origin and could compensate Burning Flame Valley.
• Chu Xiao admitted that he already had five wives, but Tang Huo'er insisted that she could be his sixth and offered the flame as her dowry.
• Tang Huoyun said Burning Flame Valley could give Chu Xiao the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame if he married Tang Huo'er, but Chu Xiao rejected using marriage as a bargaining chip.
• Chu Xiao offered to separate the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame into three young flames, provide resources and pills, or help Tang Huo'er fuse with one young flame if he took only one.
• Tang Huo'er asked to stay with Chu Xiao for five years and be treated as a younger sister while they got to know each other, and Chu Xiao agreed.

Chu Xiao separated three young flames from the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame for Burning Flame Valley, agreed to refine an Azure Nether Flame Heart Pill once the ingredients were gathered, and obtained the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame. He prepared to leave for the Ancient Desolate Domain with Huo Ling, while Tang Huo'er eagerly joined them.

• Chu Xiao and Tang Huo'er made a deal, and he spent seven days separating three young flames from the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame for Tang Zhen.
• Chu Xiao told Tang Zhen he could refine Ninth Grade Treasure Pills with a guaranteed success rate, and Tang Zhen gave him the Azure Nether Flame Heart Pill formula while arranging to obtain its ingredients.
• Huo Ling gave Chu Xiao the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, which he subdued with the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame.
• Xuan Yi accepted Tang Huo'er as her registered disciple and agreed to guide her in alchemy.
• Chu Xiao announced that they would depart for the Ancient Desolate Domain, and Tang Huo'er eagerly asked to accompany him.

Chu Xiao gathered Tang Huo'er, Xuan Yi, Huo Ling, Qing Lin, Cai Lin, and Feng Qing Er to venture into the Ancient Desolate Domain, promising Tang Huo'er help with her Nine Dragon Lightning Flame and recruiting Huo Ling to Ling Xiao Pavilion. After crossing the Central Plains, the group entered the dangerous forest, where Chu Xiao welcomed its poisonous miasma as nourishment.

• Chu Xiao promised to refine Tang Huo'er's Nine Dragon Lightning Flame and gave Xuan Yi a Half-Saint energy pearl, but Xuan Yi persuaded him to let her join the expedition.
• Huo Ling joined Ling Xiao Pavilion as a Second-grade Guest Elder after Chu Xiao promised to help her reach Emperor Realm Soul and Eight-star Dou Sheng strength if they encountered the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The five travelers crossed the Central Plains, rested at Manghuang Town, and entered the Primeval Forest on the edge of the Ancient Desolate Domain with Qing Lin and Cai Lin accompanying them.
• Feng Qing Er carried the group deep into the forest and warned that poisonous miasma was rising around them.
• Chu Xiao told Feng Qing Er to let the poison mist in, intending to absorb it with the aid of his Innate Poison Body and Xiao Yi Xian's.

Chu Xiao led his group into the Ancient Desolate Domain to claim an Ancient Sky Demon Python and its Sky Demon Blood Pool before searching for the Bodhi Ancient Tree. Yao Ling appeared while fighting the python, but Chu Xiao claimed the entire opportunity belonged to him and said he could prove it.

• Chu Xiao absorbed the poisonous insects on the outskirts of the Ancient Desolate Domain, then chose to head east to find an Ancient Sky Demon Python.
• Huo Zhi explained the dangers of the Ancient Desolate Domain, and the women considered how the python's blood pool could benefit them.
• The group reached the python's mountain and found Yao Ling beating the Ancient Sky Demon Python into the ground.
• Yao Ling said she had come to find Snake-shaped Demonic Beast blood for medicine, while the women recognized that she had likely learned of Chu Xiao through a Diary Copy.
• Chu Xiao told Yao Ling to leave, claiming he had raised the python and created its blood pool, and insisted he had evidence.

Chu Xiao convinced Yao Ling to return the Ancient Sky Demon Python and the Sky Demon Blood Pool, then asked her to help investigate Yao Chen’s expulsion from the Yao Clan. Yao Ling agreed to investigate, and Chu Xiao gained a synchronization opportunity that gave him the Yao Clan’s Dou Di Bloodline.

• Chu Xiao used the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame to make the Ancient Sky Demon Python submit, then Yao Ling returned it and the Sky Demon Blood Pool to him.
• Chu Xiao revealed his identity as Ling Xiao Pavilion’s master and persuaded Yao Ling that he could help her through cooperation.
• Chu Xiao recounted how Yao Wangui framed Yao Chen and asked Yao Ling to help clear Yao Chen’s name and secure his return to the clan.
• Yao Ling agreed to investigate the accusations and consider restoring Yao Chen if they proved true, while Chu Xiao offered her one Bodhi Seed.
• Chu Xiao successfully bound Yao Ling and used the synchronization opportunity to obtain the Yao Clan’s Dou Di Bloodline.

Chu Xiao secured Yao Ling’s cooperation by offering Bodhi Seeds and a place in the group’s cultivation, while Qing Lin bonded the Ancient Sky Demon Python. After preparing rare ingredients from the Sky Demon Blood Pool, Chu Xiao began refining a Ninth Grade pill, surprising Huo Ling and Xuan Yi.

• Yao Ling agreed to investigate Yao Feng and the clan academy before accepting Chu Xiao’s offer to travel and cultivate with his group.
• Chu Xiao set up a Level 5 Spirit Array around the Sky Demon Blood Pool, and Yao Ling, Huo Zhi, Cai Lin, Xuan Yi, and Huo Ling began cultivating there.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to mark the Ancient Sky Demon Python and drew it into her pupil space to grow stronger.
• Chu Xiao refined the Sky Demon Blood Pool into three drops of Sky Demon Blood Essence and gathered it with other rare ingredients.
• Chu Xiao began refining a Ninth Grade pill, leaving Huo Ling and Xuan Yi stunned that he was serious.

Chu Xiao refined a Quasi-Profound Pill with Yao Ling’s blood as a catalyst, while the pill’s heavenly phenomena drew powerful Fierce Beasts to the area. The pill took shape and stirred the gathered beasts, leaving Chu Xiao to face the coming threat.

• Chu Xiao spent days refining a Grade Nine pill as Xuan Yi and Huo Ling guarded him from Fierce Beasts drawn by the heavenly phenomenon.
• Yao Ling learned from the Diary Copy that Chu Xiao wanted her blood to enhance his pills, and she decided to accept his benefits while continuing to lie flat.
• Mu Qingluan received a pill from Wind Venerable to develop her bloodline and resolved not to let Feng Qing Er surpass her.
• Chu Xiao borrowed a drop of Yao Ling’s essence blood, then used Ziwei Tiangang’s devouring mode to withstand the Black Demon Lightning.
• Chu Xiao completed a Quasi-Profound Pill, trapped it when it tried to flee, and watched the surrounding Fierce Beasts riot as its medicinal fragrance spread.

Chu Xiao used the Ice-Fire Spirit Devouring Heaven Array to trap and devour Fierce Beasts, then gathered their vital essence to upgrade his Quasi-Profound Pill. Huo Ling watched the transformation begin and declared that she wanted the pill.

• Chu Xiao baited Fierce Beasts with the Dragon Soul Phoenix Blood Yin-Yang Pill and activated the Ice-Fire Spirit Devouring Heaven Array, freezing and burning the beasts that entered its range.
• Xuan Yi sensed the array’s danger, and Huo Ling explained that it could contend with a Three-Star Dou Sheng.
• Chu Xiao drew five ninth-order Fierce Beasts into battle, while the array’s energy dragons engaged four of them.
• Chu Xiao struck the Profound Nether Ba Snake with the Wind-Thunder Demon Suppression Bell and branded it with his Jade Snake Five Flower Eyes, drawing it into the space within his eyes.
• Chu Xiao condensed the Yin-Yang Spirit Devouring Life Extinguishing Array and fed the purified power of countless Fierce Beasts into the pill.
• Huo Ling rose and declared that she wanted the pill.

Chu Xiao stored the Dragon Soul Phoenix Blood Yin-Yang Pill and explained that a different pill would better suit Huo Ling and other fire cultivators. Huo Ling eagerly agreed to gather the resources for the highest-grade Yan Yan Gui Yi Pill, while Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan entered the void to fight over the pill.

• The Dragon Soul Phoenix Blood Yin-Yang Pill completed its transformation, and Hun Tiandi sensed its birth and rushed to the Ancient Desolate Domain.
• Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi and refused to let him take the pill refined by Gu Yuan’s son-in-law, Chu Xiao.
• Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan created a separate space in the void and began fighting as Chu Xiao stored the pill in his Small World.
• Cai Lin and the others benefited from the drained Sky Demon Blood Pool, and Huo Ling asked Chu Xiao to refine another Dragon Soul Phoenix Blood Yin-Yang Pill for her.
• Chu Xiao warned that the pill would hinder Huo Ling’s future cultivation and described the Yan Yan Gui Yi Pill, which could greatly increase fire cultivators’ strength.
• Huo Ling accepted that the Yan Yan Gui Yi Pill suited her better and asked Chu Xiao what resources she needed to gather for its highest grade.

Chu Xiao explained the materials and conditions needed to refine Huo Ling’s Yan Yan Gui Yi Pill, prompting her to ask Yan Jin to prepare resources. The group reached the Ancient Domain Platform, where Chu Xiao revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was only thirty li ahead.

• Chu Xiao told Huo Ling that the Yan Yan Gui Yi Pill required rare materials and Ninth-Order Fire Attribute Demonic Cores, and that refining its highest quality required ten Heavenly Flames and a stronger soul realm.
• Huo Ling contacted Yan Jin and explained the pill’s benefits; Yan Jin agreed to prepare two sets of materials and suggested having Huo Zhi use pillow talk if Chu Xiao refused to refine it.
• Huo Ling arranged for the resources to be sent, and Chu Xiao promised to refine a Grade Nine Pill for her as a Ling Xiao Pavilion consecrator.
• Huo Ling transported Chu Xiao and The Women toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree while Yao Ling and the others exchanged teasing remarks about the clans willing to protect Chu Xiao.
• At the Ancient Domain Platform, Chu Xiao told Huo Ling the Bodhi Ancient Tree was thirty li ahead, and Huo Ling confirmed she could see it.

Chu Xiao brought Yao Ling and the others to the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where he exposed a false Bodhi Heart and effortlessly took control of five Half Saint tree puppets. The tree emerged and drew them into its world, where Chu Xiao’s Diary protected him from its memory-altering attack and he prepared to take the tree with him.

• Yao Ling agreed to accompany Chu Xiao without contacting the Yao Clan, and Fairy Huo Ling sealed most of her strength before the group flew toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• At the tree, Chu Xiao used his Jade Snake Five Flower Eyes to reveal that the apparent Bodhi Heart was an illusion and captured five Half Saint puppets with his Thunder Flame Emperor Flame.
• Chu Xiao burned away some of the Black-clothed Dou Di’s Negative Emotions, prompting the Bodhi Ancient Tree to emerge and alert powerful factions across the Dou Qi Continent.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree enveloped Chu Xiao and the others in pillars of light and drew them into its world, where the Diary erased the hostile energy that entered Chu Xiao’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Chu Xiao saw the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s smaller true form and said he would take it with him.

Chu Xiao broke the women free from the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusions and brought them to witness an ancient battle between two Dou Emperors. The vision revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had fought alongside the White-clothed Dou Di to defeat the Black-clothed Dou Di, and the scene continued to change.

• Chu Xiao used Thunder Flame Emperor Flame to shatter the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusions and woke Cai Lin, Feng Qing Er, Huo Zhi, and Tang Huo'er, whose dreams had exposed their feelings for him.
• Tang Huo'er and Huo Zhi openly asked Chu Xiao to consider them, while Xuan Yi and Huo Ling escaped their illusions by their own strength.
• Chu Xiao took the women into a vision of ten thousand years earlier, where they saw the Black-clothed Dou Di and White-clothed Dou Di confront the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Black-clothed Dou Di attacked the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but the White-clothed Dou Di joined the battle and ultimately killed him.
• The women realized that the Bodhi Ancient Tree could contend with a Dou Emperor, and the vision changed again.