Chapter Summaries

Chu Xiao and Zi Yan claimed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and collected the ancestral remains of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix. After plundering the ruins, Chu Xiao revived a Teng Snake skeleton and gained its submission.

• Chu Xiao tore the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit from its tree and gave it to Zi Yan, who stored it in her dantian.
• Chu Xiao had Zi Yan and Feng Qing Er summon the ancestral souls of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, then took their souls and skeletons into the Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower.
• Chu Xiao continued relocating and looting the Primeval Forest, taking its treasures and a plump white Grade 8 pill beast from the Pill Hall.
• Chu Xiao broke the seal in the ruins' main hall and collected its ten Dou Zun puppets and ten scrolls.
• Chu Xiao fed fierce beast flesh to a Dou Saint skeleton, awakened the Teng Snake within it, and persuaded it to submit in exchange for help reviving it.

Chu Xiao revived Teng Jiu, learned how the Nine Snake Heavenly Palace had fallen, and prepared Zi Yan to refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit under the protection of his Heavenly Flame. After Zi Yan demanded a feast before going into seclusion, she surprised Chu Xiao by asking to have his child before she transformed.

• Chu Xiao used the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame to revive Teng Jiu, who revealed that a mysterious mist had driven the Nine Snake Heavenly Palace’s members to kill one another.
• Chu Xiao promised to investigate Teng Jiu’s missing brothers after his recovery, stored him in the Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower, and plundered the Nine Snake Heavenly Palace.
• Chu Xiao urged Zi Yan to refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Zhu Huo agreed that Chu Xiao’s Heavenly Flame and Small World could protect her more safely than Dragon Island.
• Chu Xiao brought Zi Yan to his Small World, cooked her a feast, and then heard her insist that she wanted to have his child before going into seclusion.

Chu Xiao took Cai Lin to the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan’s headquarters to seek an inheritance suited to her and explore the Nine Nether Springs. At the springs’ depths, Chu Xiao revealed a mass of black sludge bound by four chains, leaving Cai Lin alarmed.

• After Zi Yan recovered in the Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower, Chu Xiao left to visit the Nine Nether Springs before the Emperor Clan Conference.
• Chu Xiao brought Cai Lin to the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan’s territory and explained its connection to the Snake-People Tribe and their ancestral homeland.
• Chu Xiao told Cai Lin that an inheritance there could help her become a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python, and supported her idea of uniting the local Snake-People Tribe settlements.
• Chu Xiao and Cai Lin descended into the Nine Nether Springs, where Chu Xiao endured the chilling energy while Heavenly Flames protected Cai Lin.
• At the depths, Chu Xiao used his Soul Power to reveal four Chains of Binding converging on black sludge, which Cai Lin demanded to know the identity of.

Chu Xiao and Cai Lin discovered Yao Ming imprisoned beneath the Nine Nether Springs, and Chu Xiao bound him with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils before freeing and recruiting him. After Yao Ming left to recover and rebuild the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan under Ling Xiao Pavilion, Chu Xiao found Nether Spring Yin Stone and promised to forge equipment for Cai Lin, who asked when he would let her bear his child.

• Yao Ming revealed that his younger brother Yao Xiaotian and the Grand Elder had betrayed him and imprisoned him beneath the Nine Nether Springs.
• Chu Xiao used the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to mark Yao Ming’s life-bound soul and chose him to lead the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan as Ling Xiao Pavilion’s Second-grade Elder.
• Chu Xiao shattered Yao Ming’s chains, gave him a token and a healing pill, and sent him to recover before reorganizing his clan.
• Chu Xiao explained that Nether Spring Yin Stone, not the chains, had confined Yao Ming and promised to forge Cai Lin armor, a whip, a sword, and a defensive artifact.
• Cai Lin asked Chu Xiao when he would let her bear him a child, leaving him speechless.

Chu Xiao brought Cai Lin to the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python nest, where she went to pursue its inheritance while he prepared to revive the ancient python souls. He then entered the Yellow Spring Stone Stele to learn its techniques and confronted the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s lingering soul, which told him he was too weak.

• Chu Xiao told Medusa they should wait until they reached Dou Emperor before having a child, then broke the Nether Spring Yin Stones and continued into the Nine Nether Springs with her.
• Yao Ming escaped, learned Chu Xiao had removed Yao Xiaotian’s soul imprint, and set out to recover his strength and reclaim control of his clan.
• Chu Xiao brought Cai Lin to the ancient python nest and directed her toward the inheritance that could help her evolve into a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python.
• Chu Xiao used Star Spirit Liquid to nourish the python souls, sealed the nest, and traveled to the Nine Nether Earth Python clan’s rear mountain to investigate the Yellow Spring Stone Stele.
• Chu Xiao entered the stele’s spiritual world, endured its lightning to master the Yellow Spring Finger and Yellow Spring Palm, and called for the Yellow Spring Demon Saint.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint appeared on a throne and told Chu Xiao that he was too weak, ordering him to leave.

Chu Xiao defeated the Yellow Spring Demon Saint's remnant soul in the trial and received Yellow Spring Heaven Fury and his primordial essence blood. As Chu Xiao prepared to leave, he revealed several ways to revive the Demon Saint, who quickly asked to discuss them further.

• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint challenged Chu Xiao to prove himself, and Chu Xiao blocked his attacks with the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint unleashed Yellow Spring Heaven Fury, but Chu Xiao endured the assault and strengthened his soul body as it repeatedly reformed.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint acknowledged Chu Xiao's success and gave him the cultivation method for Yellow Spring Heaven Fury and his primordial essence blood.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint said he planned to dissipate, and Chu Xiao described three ways he could restore or revive him.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint called Chu Xiao back and said they could discuss the matter further.

Chu Xiao persuaded the Yellow Spring Demon Saint to accept resurrection in exchange for joining Ling Xiao Pavilion, then took the Yellow Springs Stele from the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan. After recording his plans and visiting Feng Qing Er, he announced that he was going to take the Phoenix Perching Parasol Tree from her clan.

• Chu Xiao offered to resurrect the Yellow Spring Demon Saint, who agreed to join his faction in exchange for the chance to return to life and pursue the Dou Emperor realm.
• Chu Xiao left the Yellow Springs Stele, with the Demon Saint's blood essence, in his Small World, causing the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan's territory to lose its core source of energy.
• Yao Xiaotian ordered the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan to investigate the stele's disappearance, unaware that Chu Xiao had taken it.
• Chu Xiao wrote in his Diary about his plans for the Yellow Spring Demon Saint, Yao Ming, Cai Lin, and the Magical Beast clans he hoped to bring into Ling Xiao Pavilion.
• Chu Xiao went to Feng Qing Er and told her to lead him to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan so he could take the Phoenix Perching Parasol Tree.

Chu Xiao traveled with Feng Qing Er to claim the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Phoenix Perching Parasol Tree, while his diary revealed why the tree had entered dormancy and that he could revive it. After Xun Er received the Ancient Clan progenitor’s inheritance, she stunned Gu Yuan by revealing that Chu Xiao had reached the Second Grade Sovereign realm and could cultivate toward the Earthly Sovereign level.

• Feng Qing Er questioned Chu Xiao’s plan to take the Phoenix Perching Parasol Tree, but he said he could revive it and reminded her that she was his mount before she was a member of her clan.
• Chu Xiao wrote that the Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Tree had gone dormant to survive the Dou Qi Continent’s decline and that he could easily awaken it.
• Mu Qingluan hoped Chu Xiao would bring the tree to the Ling Xiao Pavilion, while Cao Ying and Yun Yun discussed waiting for his return before Cao Ying approached him about joining the Pill Hall.
• Xun Er told Gu Yuan that she had received the progenitor’s inheritance and that Chu Xiao was a Second Grade Sovereign who could pursue the Earthly Sovereign realm.
• Gu Yuan, shaken by Xun Er’s revelation, asked whether he could begin cultivating the Great Thousand Method in advance.

Xun Er received Gu Yuan’s permission to visit Chu Xiao and took the Netherworld Coffin containing Gu Yan, hoping Chu Xiao could restore her. Chu Xiao then visited the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and demanded its withered Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Tree, leaving Huang Tian eager to hand it over after Feng Qing Er said Chu Xiao could revive it.

• Gu Yuan told Xun Er she could freely leave the Ancient Realm and gave her the Netherworld Coffin containing Gu Yan, whose life and soul were deteriorating outside it.
• Gu Yuan revealed that his true body was fighting Hun Tiandi in the void and that Yan Jin and Lei Ying were secretly guarding against Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Chu Xiao arrived in the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan with Feng Qing Er, and Huang Tian and the clan’s Dou Sheng elders greeted him deferentially.
• Chu Xiao demanded the Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Tree, and Huang Tian initially refused to part with the clan’s symbol.
• Chu Xiao demonstrated the Yellow Spring Finger by erasing a distant mountain and warned that he also knew more powerful Yellow Spring techniques.
• Feng Qing Er said Chu Xiao could revive the ancient tree, so Huang Tian eagerly agreed to give it to him, prompting Feng Qing Er to ask him to return to his earlier attitude.

Chu Xiao revived the Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Tree and moved it into the Ling Xiao Realm before the Dou Qi Continent’s lightning punishment could strike. Gu Yuan realized Chu Xiao was safe and turned the tables on Hun Tiandi, who had mocked him about his future son-in-law.

• Huang Tian agreed to let Chu Xiao take the Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Tree after Chu Xiao explained that it needed a world beyond the Dou Qi Continent to awaken safely.
• Chu Xiao ignited the tree with Thunder Flame Emperor Flame and opened a gateway to the Ling Xiao Realm, causing the Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Tree to revive.
• A lightning-punishment eye began forming above the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, drawing the attention of powerful experts across the continent.
• Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi paused their battle to investigate, but Hun Tiandi resumed attacking and taunted Gu Yuan about Chu Xiao’s danger.
• The revived tree shrank and fled through Chu Xiao’s gateway, making the lightning punishment vanish before it fully formed.
• Gu Yuan stopped Hun Tiandi from sending messages and laughed at him for believing Chu Xiao was in danger.

Chu Xiao secluded the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members with the awakened Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Tree so they could strengthen themselves. Three days later, Xiao Yan and Yan Xiao confronted Yao Wangui at the Yao Clan sacrifice, where Xiao Yan publicly challenged his insult to Yao Chen and the Ling Xiao Pavilion.

• Chu Xiao placed the Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Tree in the Ling Xiao Realm and sent Huang Tian, Feng Qing Er, and the others to cultivate with its stored energy.
• Chu Xiao began cultivating above the ancient tree, absorbing its energy alongside the Star Spirit Liquid gathered by the Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower.
• At the Yao Clan sacrifice, Yao Wangui insulted Yao Chen, and Yan Xiao and Xiao Yan mocked him while Gu Xiyang and Huo Ba blocked his Dou Saint aura.
• Yao Wanhuo intervened to ease the confrontation, but Xiao Yan argued that Yao Wangui had insulted Yao Chen’s Yao Clan ancestors and bloodline.
• Xiao Yan challenged Yao Wangui’s contempt for the Ling Xiao Pavilion by asking whether he could withstand Soul Extinguisher or an arrow from Xiao Yan’s cousin.

At the Medicine Clan ceremony, Xiao Yan exposed Yao Wangui’s contempt for Ling Xiao Pavilion, and Yao Dan announced punishment for Yao Wangui’s crimes against Yao Chen. Yao Wangui tried to escape through a portal, but Yao Dan reinforced the Small World with the Medicine Emperor’s Remnant Soul.

• Xiao Yan cited Chu Xiao’s strength and Ling Xiao Pavilion’s Ninth Grade Alchemists to rebuke Yao Wangui and warn the Medicine Clan against underestimating the pavilion.
• Yao Ling challenged Yao Wangui, and Yao Dan appeared to announce that the punishment elder would be stripped of his position and resources, have his cultivation sealed, and undergo three hundred years of the Tribulation of Heart Reflection.
• Yao Dan detailed how Yao Wangui had sabotaged Yao Chen’s alchemy competition, framed him, and arranged an assassination after his expulsion.
• Yao Wangui attacked Yan Xiao and Xiao Yan with an ultimate flame, then used a bead and jade slip to open a portal and flee.
• Yao Dan summoned the Medicine Emperor’s Remnant Soul to reinforce the Small World, trapping Yao Wangui before he could escape.

Chu Xiao and the Yao Clan defeated Yao Wangui after Nihility Devouring Flame empowered him to escape, and Chu Xiao captured another Earthly Child Flame. Yao Dan punished Yao Wangui and invited Yao Chen back into the clan, while Chu Xiao began refining the Life-Death Ancestor Symbol.

• Yao Wangui offered his soul to Nihility Devouring Flame, broke free of Yao Dan’s Medicine Emperor Dharma Body Phantom, and fled with his cultivation boosted to the peak of the Six-star Dou Saint stage.
• Chu Xiao trapped Yao Wangui with the Life-Death Prison Realm, and Yao Dan empowered the Life-Death Ancestor Symbol to strike him down and suppress Nihility Devouring Flame’s Earthly Child Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame lamented his losses, decided to devour the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame before pursuing Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, and searched for Hun Tiandi.
• Chu Xiao recovered the Life-Death Ancestor Symbol in the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory and began refining it, considering making its spirit the artifact spirit of a weapon forged from all eight Ancestor Talismans.
• Yao Dan crippled Yao Wangui, stripped away his bloodline, and imprisoned him at Heart Examination Cliff, then invited Yao Chen back to the Yao Clan.
• Yao Chen agreed to return after Yao Dan promised to enter his parents and grandparents onto the Clan Tablet, and Yao Ling wondered whether to ask Huo Zhi for advice about becoming Chu Xiao’s wife.

Yao Ling sought Huo Zhi’s advice on winning Chu Xiao’s affection, then persuaded Yao Dan to help her obtain several Heavenly Flames and strengthen the Yao Clan’s ties with Chu Xiao. Meanwhile, Chu Xiao prepared for Zhu Kun’s release, and Xun Er teased him about relying on his wives.

• Yao Ling asked Huo Zhi how she had become Chu Xiao’s woman, and Huo Zhi explained that confessing her feelings and offering a Heavenly Flame had helped bring them together.
• After the clan sacrifice, Yao Ling asked Yao Dan for both of the Yao Clan’s inherited Heavenly Flames and revealed Chu Xiao’s control of the Bodhi Ancient Tree and his powerful alchemy.
• Yao Dan agreed to help Yao Ling get close to Chu Xiao and proposed asking Shen Nong to let her obtain the Spirit of Life Flame.
• Yao Dan summoned Yao Wanhuo and Yao Tian to give their Heavenly Flames to Yao Ling, then went to seek Shen Nong’s help.
• Chu Xiao awoke from cultivation as the Emperor Flame seal on Zhu Kun neared its end, and Xun Er joked that he lived off his wives.

Xun Er reunited with Chu Xiao after receiving the Dou Di Inheritance, and he welcomed Yao Ling and Old Shen Nong to Ling Xiao Pavilion. Chu Xiao revealed that the Soul Clan had killed Old Shen Nong and destroyed the Yao Clan in the original timeline, leaving Yao Ling determined to avenge her clan.

• Yun Yun and Ya Fei teased Xun Er about challenging Chu Xiao, while Xun Er insisted she was ready to prove herself.
• Ya Fei received word that Yao Ling and Old Shen Nong were on their way to Ling Xiao Pavilion, and Xun Er contacted Chu Xiao.
• Chu Xiao traveled to Xun Er, praised her growth, and listed several abilities that made him far stronger than she had expected.
• Chu Xiao invited Xun Er, Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and Huo Zhi to meet Old Shen Nong and recalled how the Soul Clan had killed him and destroyed the Yao Clan in the original timeline.
• Yao Ling learned that her clan had been destroyed and resolved to make the Soul Clan pay for the blood debt.

Yao Ling brought Old Shen Nong to meet Chu Xiao at Ling Xiao Pavilion, hoping the Pavilion Master could persuade the independent alchemist to join. Chu Xiao welcomed them with a rare Phoenix Heart Nirvana wine, leaving Old Shen Nong eager to taste it.

• Old Shen Nong told Yao Ling he had agreed to meet Chu Xiao but had no intention of joining Ling Xiao Pavilion, since he valued his freedom.
• Yao Ling and Old Shen Nong arrived at the newly expanded Manghuang City, where Yao Ling explained the districts built under Ling Xiao Pavilion's authority.
• A Half Saint Heavenly Demon Phoenix guided Yao Ling and Old Shen Nong through the pavilion's fiery cloud stairs to meet Chu Xiao.
• Chu Xiao greeted Old Shen Nong and Yao Ling, and Huo Zhi teased Yao Ling by boasting about her husband's help with her cultivation.
• Chu Xiao served Phoenix Heart Nirvana wine made with Heavenly Phoenix ingredients, and its aroma transformed into a Fire Phoenix as Old Shen Nong marveled at it.

Chu Xiao used rare wine, a powerful pill, and the promise of superior alchemy resources to recruit Old Shen Nong into Ling Xiao Pavilion. Old Shen Nong accepted, leaving Yao Ling curious about what Chu Xiao had offered him.

• Chu Xiao served Phoenix Heart Nirvana wine, and Old Shen Nong praised its quality and learned that Chu Xiao had many other rare wines.
• Chu Xiao showed Old Shen Nong a six-revolution Grade Nine Profound Pill whose quality had been enhanced by the energy and lightning tribulations of another world.
• Chu Xiao hosted Old Shen Nong and Yao Ling, then spoke privately with Old Shen Nong while the women entertained Yao Ling.
• Chu Xiao told Yao Ling that Old Shen Nong had agreed to become Ling Xiao Pavilion’s Medicine Hall Deputy Hall Master and oversee spiritual plant cultivation.
• Old Shen Nong admitted to Yao Ling that Chu Xiao had offered too much, prompting her to ask what he had promised.

Old Shen Nong explained the benefits and terms of his agreement with Chu Xiao, including surrendering the Spirit of Life Flame in exchange for a more powerful flame. Chu Xiao then won Zhu Kun’s support for his relationship with Zi Yan by promising to restore Zhu Kun’s wife and unborn son.

• Old Shen Nong told Yao Ling that Chu Xiao had offered spirit wine, cultivation resources, a Spirit Art, and a stronger flame in exchange for his loyalty and the Spirit of Life Flame.
• Yao Ling returned to the reception hall and learned from Huo Zhi that Chu Xiao had gone to see Zhu Kun.
• Chu Xiao greeted Zhu Kun with ninth-grade spirit wine and called him father-in-law.
• Chu Xiao promised that he could restore Zhu Kun’s wife and lost origin, and help them conceive the son they had lost.
• Zhu Kun eagerly accepted Chu Xiao as his son-in-law and pledged the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan’s support.

Chu Xiao brought Zhu Kun back to the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan, where Zhu Kun reunited with Zhu Huo and restored his authority. After announcing Zi Yan would lead both the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan and the revived Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan, Zhu Kun took Chu Xiao to the untouched clan treasury.

• Chu Xiao opened a spatial gate and accompanied Zhu Kun to East Dragon Island, where the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan was gathered before Zhu Kun’s statue.
• Zhu Huo recognized Zhu Kun, and the two reunited as Zhu Kun praised Chu Xiao as his worthy son-in-law.
• Zhu Kun subdued the Taixu Ancient Dragons with his aura and declared that the clan would follow only his voice from then on.
• Zhu Kun told the clan that Zi Yan would become the shared Empress of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan and the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Clan, while Feng Qing Er would manage the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Zhu Kun gave Zhu Huo Chu Xiao’s plans and took Chu Xiao to the clan treasury, where Chu Xiao was struck by its riches.

Chu Xiao took most of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan’s treasure vault and traveled to the Void Thunder Pool to strengthen himself by absorbing its lightning. He began devouring Black Demon Lightning at the pool’s core, astonishing a Lei Clan elder who wondered whether a Dou Emperor had been reborn.

• Chu Xiao accepted Zhu Kun’s permission to take treasures from the vault, leaving the clan’s foundation intact while claiming two-thirds of the items he could use.
• Chu Xiao asked Zhu Kun to restore order on Dragon Island and accompany him to the Emperor Clan Conference the next day, then departed to collect treasures from the Void Thunder Pool.
• Chu Xiao traveled through space to the Void Thunder Pool and used the Mountain River Seal to begin gathering the entire pool into the Ling Xiao Realm.
• Chu Xiao entered the pool, absorbed its lightning with the Dragon Phoenix Demonic Lightning Body, and used the Life-Death Ancestor Symbol to absorb the lightning’s deathly energy.
• At the pool’s core, Chu Xiao devoured Black Demon Lightning, while a Lei Clan elder watched in disbelief and feared that a Dou Emperor had been reborn.