Chapter Summaries

Chu Xiao cleansed the Bodhi Ancient Tree of the Tunling Clan Dou Emperor’s malicious intent and brought it into his Small World. He used the tree’s abundant energy to help six women cultivate, then turned to Huo Zhi and considered collecting the Red Lotus Karma Fire.

• Chu Xiao explained that the Black-clothed Dou Di had tried to possess the Bodhi Ancient Tree through soul fragments and Negative Emotions, splitting its intelligence between kind instinct and malicious intent.
• Chu Xiao used the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame to suppress the malicious intent, collected the twenty-four Bodhi Seeds, and gained the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s trust.
• Chu Xiao moved the Bodhi Ancient Tree and its surrounding space into his Small World, where it took root and greatly increased the wood-attributed energy.
• Chu Xiao brought The Women to the Bodhi Ancient Tree and had six women absorb its Pure Qi, while Huo Ling felt her Eight-star Dou Saint bottleneck loosening.
• Chu Xiao began cultivating beside the Bodhi Ancient Tree and looked toward Huo Zhi as he considered collecting the Red Lotus Karma Fire.

Chu Xiao used the Qiankun Qingming Pill, the Supreme Sea, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree to improve his essence, energy, and spirit, while the Diary recorded his reincarnation experiences. The Bodhi Ancient Tree offered reincarnation comprehension to Chu Xiao and the others, and his first lifetime began in a world resembling The Smiling, Proud Wanderer.

• Chu Xiao gave the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame, Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Eight Desolations Destruction Flame to the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame, then used the Qiankun Qingming Pill and the Supreme Sea to strengthen himself.
• Chu Xiao accepted Soul Power and Negative Emotions from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and the Diary purified the emotions, saving the Bodhi Seeds.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree submitted to Chu Xiao and helped him comprehend the Dao, while the Diary agreed to record his reincarnation experiences automatically.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree spread its power through the Small World, and Huo Ling, Xuan Yi, Cai Lin, Huo Zhi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin chose to undergo reincarnation comprehension.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sent the Bodhi Heart to Chu Xiao as pill lightning and Black Demon Lightning surged toward him.
• Chu Xiao began his first reincarnation as an escort-agency young master, mastered the Bixie Sword Manual, and planned his way through further lifetimes before reacting to the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s unexpected shared insights.

In his ninety-first life, Chu Xiao found himself in a world resembling Battle Through the Heavens, where his fiancée Tang Huo'er protected him while he sought a Heavenly Flame to restore his cultivation. After refining the Green Lotus Core Flame, he subdued Medusa as his pet, leaving her furious as she watched him embrace Tang Huo'er.

• Chu Xiao recognized that Tang Huo'er’s devotion and the familiar cultivation details made this a linked reincarnation, and accepted her promise to help him recover.
• Fairy Huo Ling appeared from Chu Xiao’s ring, revealed her role in his cultivation regression, and gave him the Fen Jue; Chu Xiao then learned Xuan Yi had taken the Heavenly Flame in the imperial mystic realm.
• Chu Xiao learned about other Heavenly Flames and traveled with Tang Huo'er to the Sun Never Sets volcano, where he refined the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Medusa challenged Tang Huo'er over the volcano, but Tang Huo'er defeated her while Chu Xiao completed his refinement.
• Chu Xiao contracted Medusa as his pet, and Medusa grew jealous when Tang Huo'er embraced him.

Chu Xiao completed nine more lifetimes during his three-year Samsara Tribulation, then awoke before the Bodhi Ancient Tree with vastly increased power. His reunion with the women ended with Cai Lin teasing him about how Tang Huo'er compared to Xun Er.

• Chu Xiao threatened Medusa into working for him and led the group northwest, where he rescued Qing Lin from bullies and took her in as his maid.
• Chu Xiao and his companions searched for Heavenly Flames, met Xiao Yi Xian, Yao Ling, and Huo Zhi, and refined the Red Lotus Karma Fire through Dual Cultivation.
• Chu Xiao experienced nine more lifetimes, recorded parts of them in his Diary, and completed three years of Samsara Tribulation.
• Chu Xiao awoke in the Ling Xiao Realm and found that Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Feng Qing Er, Huo Zhi, Tang Huo'er, Qing Lin, and the others had also grown stronger.
• Chu Xiao revealed his immense gains in cultivation, soul strength, spiritual energy, and his Heavenly Emperor Dharma Body.
• Cai Lin embraced Chu Xiao and asked how Tang Huo'er compared to Xun Er, leaving him caught off guard.

After the Bodhi Ancient Tree clarified that each person’s reincarnation was a unique, realistic spiritual world, Chu Xiao revealed that the tree had acknowledged him as its master. He then challenged Huo Ling to test his strength in the void, leaving the women to anticipate her defeat.

• Cai Lin emerged from her reincarnation insights and realized that her jealousy about Tang Huo'er’s past with Chu Xiao had come from a dreamlike experience.
• Tang Huo'er asked whether their reincarnations had overlapped, and Chu Xiao explained that the Bodhi Ancient Tree created unique worlds from its memories and each person’s understanding.
• Chu Xiao revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had acknowledged him as its master, startling Huo Ling and making her wonder whether he knew what she had experienced.
• Chu Xiao dismissed Xuan Yi as an opponent and opened a rift into the void to fight Huo Ling.
• Huo Ling entered the void to teach Chu Xiao a lesson, while he silently assessed his First Grade Supreme cultivation, powerful soul, spiritual body, and flames.

After three years of growth at Manghuang Town, Ling Xiao Pavilion had become a major force as Chu Xiao fought Huo Ling before the Bodhi Ancient Tree. Chu Xiao defeated her with his Heavenly Emperor Dharma Body, and Huo Zhi began scheming to uncover his secrets.

• Ya Fei and Yun Yun discussed Ling Xiao Pavilion’s growing influence and its conflict with Soul Hall, Icy River Valley, and the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• Chu Xiao fought Huo Ling in a void opened within a Small World, using Thunder Flame Emperor Flame and the Divine Technique Thunder Dragon Devouring Light.
• Huo Ling’s blood-red fire lotus suppressed Chu Xiao’s thunder dragon and his Eight-Colored Glazed Light Divine Ability.
• Chu Xiao summoned the Heavenly Emperor Dharma Body and used the Heaven and Earth Sword to defeat Huo Ling’s fire lotus.
• After they returned before the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Huo Zhi questioned Huo Ling about the fight, and Huo Ling admitted she had lost.

Chu Xiao reunited with Ya Fei and Yun Yun, assigned Cai Lin to oversee Ling Xiao Pavilion, and prepared to help Huo Zhi break through to Dou Saint. Huo Zhi instead asked him to help her cultivate in the same intimate way as his other women.

• Huo Ling revealed that Chu Xiao had defeated her despite being only a One-star Dou Sheng, shocking Xuan Yi and the other women.
• Chu Xiao asked Huo Zhi to give him the Red Lotus Karma Fire, and she agreed in exchange for his help breaking through to Dou Saint.
• Chu Xiao reunited with Ya Fei and Yun Yun at Ling Xiao Pavilion and told them they would cultivate beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which he had subdued.
• Chu Xiao appointed Cai Lin to oversee Ling Xiao Pavilion and left Ya Fei to host Yao Ling and Tang Huo'er while he took Huo Zhi to the Small World.
• Chu Xiao prepared to use the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame and three Bodhi Seeds to help Huo Zhi advance, but she asked him to help her cultivate like Yun Yun, Cai Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian.

After Huo Zhi and Chu Xiao became intimate, Chu Xiao discovered that the Diary’s lottery rules had changed after his breakthrough to the Sovereign Realm and drew several higher-grade rewards. He used the new items to gain a weapon and cultivation resources, then considered using Azure Spirit Liquid to help the Bodhi Ancient Tree convert its energy into Spiritual Qi.

• Huo Zhi told Chu Xiao that she had married him several times during reincarnations, and Chu Xiao carried her into the fire lotus.
• After their union, Chu Xiao’s Thunder Flame Emperor Flame refined the Red Lotus Karma Fire and helped him break through to the second-grade Sovereign Realm.
• Chu Xiao discovered that the Diary had replaced lower-grade lotteries with higher-grade draws and used his accumulated chances to obtain new items.
• Chu Xiao recorded the Ice Spirit Nether Heart Art in the Diary, prompting Ya Fei and the other women to discuss her future cultivation.
• Chu Xiao refined the Sacred Heart Stone into the Sacred Heart Glazed Bow, a low-grade Saint Artifact he kept secret from the Diary.
• Chu Xiao considered using Azure Spirit Liquid to convert the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s energy into Spiritual Qi and help it become a Sovereign Realm spiritual being.

Chu Xiao invested Azure Spirit Liquid in the Bodhi Ancient Tree and recorded several cultivation methods and treasures in his Diary. He ended by noting that the Great Sun Void Fruit suited Zi Yan, who was pleased he had remembered her.

• Chu Xiao fed Azure Spirit Liquid to the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which began transforming into a Ninth-Grade Sovereign and would eventually produce Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Chu Xiao recorded the Myriad Flames Dharma Body method, prompting Xun Er and the other women with fire attributes to consider cultivating it.
• Chu Xiao reviewed the Five Spirit Art and Green Lotus Spirit Sword Body, deciding the latter could help him create a wood-fire Dharma Body for women such as Xuan Yi, Yao Ling, and Cao Ying.
• Yun Yun thought the Green Lotus Spirit Sword Body suited her wind-attribute sword path.
• Chu Xiao noted that the Sea Breaking Pearl produced Supreme Spirit Liquid, then wrote that the Great Sun Void Fruit was tailor-made for Zi Yan, who said he still remembered her.

Chu Xiao emerged from three years of seclusion with a Plane Bridge and a Mountain River Seal, revealing plans to reach Tianxuan Continent after dealing with the Soul Clan. He visited Zi Yan and Zhu Kun, offered Zhu Kun a Great Sun Void Fruit, and explained that it could strengthen his control over space to rival a Dou Emperor.

• Zi Yan read Chu Xiao's Diary entry about the Plane Bridge, which could connect planes, and his plan to travel to Tianxuan Continent after resolving the Soul Clan threat.
• Chu Xiao examined the Mountain River Seal, a mid-grade sacred artifact, and decided to visit Zhu Kun in Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Chu Xiao reunited with Zhu Kun and Zi Yan, who teased him for leaving her alone, then explained that he had spent the past three years in seclusion.
• Chu Xiao summoned the Great Sun Void Fruit, and Zhu Kun recognized it as a treasure comparable to the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Chu Xiao told Zhu Kun that the fruit came from the Great Thousand World and could strengthen his spatial control enough to rival a Dou Emperor.

Chu Xiao offered Zi Yan the Great Sun Void Fruit, but she gave it to Zhu Kun after learning she would gain less from it once she became a Dragon Phoenix. Chu Xiao then revealed the Mountain River Seal, and Zhu Kun eagerly agreed to let him try using it to help him escape.

• Chu Xiao gave Zi Yan the Great Sun Void Fruit and explained its effects, including its benefits for Ancient Void Dragons.
• Zi Yan decided to pursue the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and passed the Great Sun Void Fruit to Zhu Kun, who accepted it after Chu Xiao confirmed it would benefit him more.
• Chu Xiao brought out the Mountain River Seal, whose power made Zhu Kun sense that it could kill him.
• Chu Xiao explained that the seal was a mid-grade Sacred Artifact and offered to use it to help Zhu Kun escape.
• Zhu Kun eagerly agreed to follow Chu Xiao's instructions and try to escape.

Chu Xiao freed Zhu Kun from Tou She Ancient God's chains by isolating him from the cave mansion and bringing him into the Mountain River Seal, then began devouring the remaining chains. At Ling Xiao Pavilion, the Netherworld Saint appeared with overwhelming Dou Saint pressure, and Yao Chen confronted him.

• Chu Xiao used the Mountain River Seal to break Tou She Ancient God's mark's connection to Zhu Kun and captured Zhu Kun inside the seal's mountain-and-river realm.
• A flame figure briefly appeared by the cave mansion gate as the Emperor Pill Embryo sensed that the energy being drained from him had lessened and hoped to escape.
• Chu Xiao told Zhu Kun that the chains would take seven days to erode, and Zhu Kun agreed to wait while Chu Xiao's Thunder Flame Emperor Flame devoured them.
• Zi Yan chose to leave with Chu Xiao to see Cai Lin and the others, leaving Zhu Kun in the Small World.
• The Netherworld Saint arrived above Ling Xiao Pavilion and demanded to know who was in charge, while Yao Chen appeared and prepared to face the powerful Dou Saint.

Netherworld Saint threatened Ling Xiao Pavilion to obtain its method for using fierce beasts, but Yao Chen revealed that it enhanced alchemy. Chu Xiao arrived and used the transformed Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower to suppress Netherworld Saint and the surrounding space.

• Netherworld Saint demanded Ling Xiao Pavilion's secret for using fierce beast corpses, threatening to destroy the pavilion if it refused.
• Yao Chen explained that Ling Xiao Pavilion used a special secret method to improve pills with fierce beast flesh and blood, and Netherworld Saint demanded the method.
• Netherworld Saint revealed that he was a peak four-star Dou Saint and unleashed his pressure over the area.
• Chu Xiao appeared with Zi Yan, dispersed the black mist, and confronted Netherworld Saint.
• Chu Xiao summoned the Low Grade divine artifact Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower, which expanded above the mist and suppressed the surrounding space for a hundred miles.

Chu Xiao suppressed Netherworld Saint and confronted Soul Extinguisher, who refused to honor the agreement binding five-star Dou Saints. As Huo Ling and Hun Tu entered the void to fight, Chu Xiao shot Soul Extinguisher with the Sacred Heart Glazed Bow, leaving him dying.

• Chu Xiao used the Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower to suppress Netherworld Saint and challenged the gathered factions over their plans to obtain fierce-beast techniques.
• Chu Xiao confronted Venerable Ice and Old Demon Netherworld, who called on Soul Extinguisher for help.
• Soul Extinguisher rejected the agreement restricting five-star Dou Saints from intervening on the Dou Qi Continent, and Huo Ling appeared to oppose him.
• Soul Extinguisher summoned Hun Tu, who followed Huo Ling into the void to battle.
• Chu Xiao formed an arrow from the Life-Death Ancestor Symbol and fired it through Soul Extinguisher's chest, causing his life force and soul to collapse.

Chu Xiao defeated Soul Extinguisher and reclaimed the Earthly Child Flame while taunting Nihility Devouring Flame into withdrawing. He arranged a meeting of the Imperial Clan heads at Ling Xiao Pavilion and had Zi Yan use his scale, awakening a powerful being who sensed the Dragon Emperor’s aura.

• Chu Xiao used the Yin-Yang Life-Death Array and the Life-Death Ancestor Symbol to battle Nihility Devouring Flame, then pierced Soul Extinguisher with a Bodhi Seed arrow and sealed the Earthly Child Flame.
• Chu Xiao taunted Nihility Devouring Flame, which withdrew rather than risk interrupting its plan, while Hun Tu escaped the battlefield after Huo Ling struck him.
• Chu Xiao told Yao Chen to destroy the Nether River Alliance and arranged an Imperial Clan heads’ meeting at Ling Xiao Pavilion in eight days.
• Huo Ling agreed to communicate the meeting details, and Chu Xiao told Zi Yan to begin by infusing his scale with her Dou Qi.
• A terrifying existence in the depths of the void opened its eyes and sensed the Dragon Emperor’s royal bloodline.

Chu Xiao helped Yao Ling secure Yao Dan’s promise to investigate Yao Chen’s case and punish Yao Wangui, while warning him that the Yao Clan faced a hidden threat. After hunting ninth-rank Fierce Beasts in the Ancient Desolate Domain, Chu Xiao discovered that the region was connected to the Outer Realm Evil Clan.

• Zhu Huo sensed a familiar bloodline fluctuation in the Void Sea and hurried toward its source.
• Chu Xiao took Zi Yan, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Huo Zhi, Tang Huo'er, and Yao Ling into the Ancient Desolate Domain to train against Fierce Beasts and gather materials.
• Yao Ling contacted Yao Dan, and Chu Xiao persuaded him to capture Yao Wangui, investigate the old case, and give Yao Chen justice.
• Chu Xiao gave Yao Dan a Life-Death Ancestor Symbol for protection, and Yao Ling warned him that Soul Clan members were inside the Yao Clan.
• Chu Xiao hunted ninth-rank Fierce Beasts with Tang Huo'er and Yao Ling, then examined Qing Lin’s Ancient Sky Demon Python and realized the Ancient Desolate Domain was connected to the Outer Realm Evil Clan.

Chu Xiao reflected on the possible connection between the Ancient Desolate Domain and the Outer Realm Evil Clan, then promised to improve Qing Lin’s abilities and accepted her request to share his bed. After sensing something strange near the mountain range, he prepared to investigate the Ancient Clan as the Ancient Void Dragons arrived to recognize Zi Yan as Dragon Emperor.

• Chu Xiao suspected that secrets in the Ancient Desolate Domain were connected to the Outer Realm Evil Clan and decided to investigate when he became stronger.
• Chu Xiao told Qing Lin he would refine pills to raise the grade of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and explained the different tiers of Spirit Pills to the women.
• Chu Xiao returned to the Small World, where he checked on Huo Zhi’s progress and the energy Zhu Kun’s Emperor Flame mark was releasing.
• Qing Lin asked Chu Xiao to let her share his bed, and he agreed before kissing her.
• Chu Xiao sensed something strange in the mountain range and said he needed to visit the Ancient Clan as soon as possible.
• Zi Yan arrived as dozens of Ancient Void Dragons emerged from the void and greeted her as Dragon Emperor; Chu Xiao declared that offense and defense had switched against the Soul Clan.

Zhu Huo reunited with Zi Yan and explained how her parents had sacrificed themselves to protect her, while Chu Xiao revealed his Dragon Phoenix bloodline and challenged Zhu Huo’s objection to their relationship. After Zhu Huo ordered Dragon Island’s reunification, Chu Xiao asked for his help obtaining a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and prepared to set off.

• Zhu Huo greeted Zi Yan and learned from Chu Xiao that Zhu Kun was alive and had been imprisoned by Tou She Ancient God.
• Zhu Huo told Zi Yan that her mother had protected her at the cost of her own strength and could recover once the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan produced a Dou Emperor.
• Chu Xiao said Zhu Kun had been rescued and relayed his request to reunite Dragon Island, so Zhu Huo sent Lie Yang, Zhu Ming, and Xuan Kun to unify it within three days.
• Zhu Huo objected to Zi Yan marrying a human, but Chu Xiao revealed his Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heavenly Phoenix auras and said he would obtain a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit for her.
• Chu Xiao asked Zhu Huo to dismiss the other Ancient Void Dragons, then formed a seal and prepared to set off with him.

Chu Xiao led Zi Yan and Zhu Huo to the Bone Mountain Range, where Zhu Huo opened the sealed entrance to the Creation Saint’s ruins. After a Nine Nether Earth Python entered and was killed by the passage’s traps, Chu Xiao revealed the true route beneath the lava and guided the group toward the ruins’ plaza.

• Chu Xiao identified the Creation Saint’s ruins in the Bone Mountain Range, and Zhu Huo carried him and Zi Yan there through the void.
• Chu Xiao found a spatial seal linked to a Nine Nether Earth Python Clan earth vein, and Zhu Huo opened it while containing the resulting phenomena.
• Chu Xiao and Zi Yan entered the passage, followed by Zhu Huo, while a nearby Nine Nether Earth Python slipped in after them and was killed by the passage’s lava and blue flames.
• Chu Xiao revealed that the passage was a false route and led Zi Yan through the shattered corridor into the lava below.
• The three reached a plaza, where Chu Xiao said they would make a small fortune first.

Chu Xiao, Zi Yan, and Zhu Huo explored the Ancient Teng Snake’s Dou Saint ruins, collecting its treasures and discovering a Beast Spirit Barrier. Inside, they found a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit growing atop an ancient altar, leaving them poised to claim it.

• Chu Xiao stored the ten Earth Demon Puppets and led Zi Yan and Zhu Huo through the black stone gate into the ruins.
• Chu Xiao identified the ruins’ owner as the Netherworld Teng Snake, and Zi Yan guided the group to a medicinal forest that Chu Xiao transferred into his Small World.
• Chu Xiao told Zhu Huo that Zhu Kun was trapped by the Tou She Ancient God's Chains of Binding and was receiving help inside the Small World.
• Zi Yan defeated a Tongtian Jiao and made it her mount after the group encountered it near the Soul Infant Demonic Tree.
• Zhu Huo opened a Beast Spirit Barrier with his essence blood, and the group found a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit on an altar within.