Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ling and his companions crossed the Space Wormhole and arrived in Star Brilliance City, where they learned about the Central Plains and bought a regional map. While planning their next journey, Xiao Ling revealed a chance for Xiao Yi Xian to strengthen her Calamity Poison Body by seeking the Netherworld Poison Flame and a powerful scorpion beast.

• Little Fire piloted the group through the Space Wormhole and brought them safely to its exit after more than twenty days of travel.
• Xiao Ling, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Yao Chen, and Heavenly Fire Venerable entered the Central Plains through Star Brilliance City and noticed how powerful its residents and guards were.
• Xiao Ling asked an elderly passerby for directions, and the man secretly recognized the group before vanishing from the crowd.
• Xiao Ling bought a detailed Central Plains map from a shopkeeper, who explained Star Brilliance City's location, the Star Brilliance Sect, and the city's Space Wormholes.
• Xiao Ling found Tianbei City on the map but could not locate Poison Mist Valley or Luoshen Gorge, then said they should pursue an opportunity for Xiao Yi Xian before visiting Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Ling showed Yao Chen a beast-hide map marking the Netherworld Poison Flame and explained that its power and the magic core of a seventh-tier Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion could help Xiao Yi Xian condense her Poison Pill.

Xiao Ling decided to seek the Netherworld Poison Flame and Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion to help Xiao Yi Xian, then traveled with her, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan to Tianbei City to visit Han Yue. He reunited with Han Yue at the Han estate as her family faced growing pressure from the Hong Family.

• Yao Chen warned Xiao Ling that the aged map's Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion might have grown powerful, and Xiao Ling vowed to pursue the opportunity for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Ling and his companions explored Star Brilliance City, attended an auction, and set out for Tianbei City the next morning.
• Han Chi told Han Yue and Han Xue that the Hong Family had intercepted a Han caravan and was threatening the Han Family's control of Tianbei City.
• Xiao Ling arrived at the Han estate with Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan, introduced himself to the guards, and waited in the reception hall.
• Han Yue and Han Xue greeted Xiao Ling and his companions, and Han Yue and Xiao Ling reunited after two years apart.

Xiao Ling visited the Han Family with Han Yue and her companions, where his Dou Zong cultivation and alchemy rank drew admiration and Zhu Gan’s challenge. After the banquet, Xiao Ling began refining a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill before a gathering of Han Family observers, aiming to produce an Eighth-grade pill.

• Han Yue introduced Han Xue to Xiao Ling and led the group to meet her father, Han Chi.
• At the banquet, Xiao Ling revealed that he had reached the Dou Zong Realm, and Han Yue added that he was already a Sixth-grade Alchemist two years earlier.
• Zhu Gan questioned whether Xiao Ling could meet Zhongzhou’s standards for a Sixth-grade Alchemist, and Xiao Ling agreed to demonstrate his skills during his stay.
• After the banquet, Xiao Ling declined to wait until morning and began preparing to refine a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill in the courtyard as Han Family elders watched.
• Xiao Ling summoned his ancient bronze cauldron, ignited it with crimson-gold flames, and drew out the many herbs needed for the pill.

Xiao Ling refined the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill, and the pill’s power revealed it to be a true Eighth-grade pill. As pill lightning gathered over the Han Family, Xiao Yi Xian warned the assembled factions not to interfere, while everyone waited to see whether Xiao Ling could withstand the coming tribulation.

• Xiao Ling began refining the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill, while Zhu Gan initially doubted his ability and Yao Chen recognized the pill he was making.
• Xiao Ling refined the ingredients and fused them under precise Soul Power control, impressing Zhu Gan and the Han Family elders over several days.
• Xiao Ling completed the pill’s nurturing stage, and his finished red pill triggered dark clouds and silver lightning over Tianbei City.
• Hong Tianxiao and other city experts gathered near the Han Family as Han Chi worried about the strength of the pill lightning.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed that Xiao Ling was refining a true Eighth-grade pill and warned the gathered experts not to harbor improper intentions.
• Han Yue worried that Xiao Ling might not withstand the pill lightning, but Xiao Yi Xian reassured her that he had prepared for the danger.

Xiao Ling completed an Eighth-grade pill and used his Sky Demon Puppet to withstand the Four-colored Pill Lightning. The lightning ended after strengthening the puppet, and Xiao Ling claimed the pill while the spectators kept their distance.

• Xiao Ling opened the cauldron, releasing a golden flame pillar that drew four-colored thunderclouds and confirmed the pill's Eighth-grade quality.
• Xiao Ling summoned the Sky Demon Puppet, and Xiao Yi Xian explained that it could absorb Pill Lightning to improve its grade.
• Xiao Ling sent the Sky Demon Puppet to meet the lightning, and it shattered and absorbed the incoming bolts while protecting him.
• The Four-colored Pill Lightning battered the puppet for over thirty minutes before the thunderclouds dispersed, leaving the puppet stronger and darker in hue.
• Xiao Ling retrieved the luminous Eighth-grade pill from the cauldron, and the spectators restrained their desire to seize it after seeing the puppet's power.

After completing a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill, Xiao Ling learned the location of Poison Mist Valley from Han Yue and prepared to continue his search for the Netherworld Poison Flame. Meanwhile, the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion learned of Xiao Ling’s arrival and sent its leader to Tianbei City to approach him; that night, Xiao Ling reunited privately with Han Yue.

• Xiao Ling stored the pill, dismissed the gathered factions, and Xiao Yi Xian turned away Hong Tianxiao, whose Hong Family had ties to the Wind Thunder Pavilion.
• Han Yue shared her Ancestor’s information about Poison Mist Valley and gave Xiao Ling a map marking Youyun City near the Netherworld Mountain Range.
• The Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion confirmed reports of Xiao Ling’s four-colored pill lightning, and its silver-robed leader decided to travel to Tianbei City to befriend or investigate him.
• Xiao Ling and Han Yue spent the night together after discussing their reunion and Han Yue’s feelings.

Xiao Ling arranged for Qing Lin to cultivate in the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool and decided to revive Yao Tianhuo before Yao Chen, whose body would require better materials. He began refining a body for Yao Tianhuo, and after two days of destruction and regeneration, the new body took shape with a powerful aura.

• Xiao Ling gave Xiao Yi Xian pills to trade with the Gold Devouring Rat tribe and gave Qing Lin Fire Sealing Pills for her cultivation at the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool.
• Xiao Ling proposed reviving Yao Tianhuo first and waiting to make a stronger body for Yao Chen, and both elders agreed.
• Xiao Ling prepared Heavenly Fire Venerable's rebuilt body and began the revival process with the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill and Purple Shadow Ghost Wolf Emperor essence blood.
• Yao Tianhuo entered the body, and Xiao Ling used three Heavenly Flames to burn and regenerate its flesh as Yao Tianhuo's soul merged with it.
• After two days, Heavenly Fire Venerable's body finished forming and began to gather a vast aura.

Xiao Ling oversaw Heavenly Fire Venerable’s resurrection and promised to help Yao Chen obtain a body, then refined a pill and encountered the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion’s Fei Tian investigating him. After overhearing Fei Tian’s plans to recruit him, Xiao Ling saw an opportunity to acquire the pavilion’s secret techniques.

• Xiao Ling and Yao Chen congratulated Heavenly Fire Venerable after he revived, and Heavenly Fire said he could recover Peak Three-star Dou Zun strength after seven days of adapting to his body.
• Yao Chen suggested a Poria Qing Pill could restore Heavenly Fire to Five-star Dou Zun, and Xiao Ling proposed gathering its ingredients in the Pill Region after dealing with the Netherworld Poison Flame.
• Xiao Ling refined a Spirit Fusion Pill for Queen Medusa, then teased Han Xue while reassuring Han Yue that he only regarded her sister as a younger sister.
• Xiao Ling sensed an Eight-star Dou Zong arrive in Tianbei City and left the Han Family estate to investigate.
• At the Hong Family estate, Fei Tian learned that Xiao Ling was a young Eighth-grade Alchemist from Jia Nan Academy and rewarded Hong Chen for investigating him.
• Xiao Ling secretly overheard Fei Tian considering recruiting him into the Wind Thunder Pavilion and resolved to use the opportunity to obtain Three Thousand Lightning Movement and the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body cultivation method.

Xiao Ling sent Old Ghost Di Mo and nine soul bodies disguised as Soul Hall Protectors to kill Fei Tian and obtain the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body technique, while making the Wind Thunder Pavilion blame the Soul Hall. Fei Tian was killed and his soul taken, and Hong Tianxiao escaped to carry the news away.

• Xiao Ling equipped ten soul bodies with Soul Hall robes and ordered Old Ghost Di Mo to attack Fei Tian while leaving witnesses.
• Old Ghost Di Mo and two soul bodies stormed the Hong Family reception hall, killed Hong Chen, and attacked Fei Tian and Hong Tianxiao.
• Fei Tian used Thunder God Descends and the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body to fight back as Hong Tianxiao fled.
• Xiao Ling stopped the ambushing soul bodies from pursuing Hong Tianxiao and ordered them to help surround Fei Tian.
• The soul bodies overwhelmed Fei Tian, and Old Ghost Di Mo extracted his soul before leaving with his body.

After defeating Fei Tian, Xiao Ling returned to the Han Family and discovered the Wind Thunder Pavilion’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body technique in Fei Tian’s Storage Ring. He began cultivating it and, after several days, formed a clone that had only reached Dou Emperor strength.

• Xiao Ling left the devastated Hong Family courtyard after Old Ghost Di Mo and the others dealt with their target, leaving the surviving Hong Family clansmen to face the aftermath.
• Xiao Ling returned to the Han Family, told Han Yue that the Hong Family had suffered a disaster, and gave her a Sect Breaking Pill for her father.
• Xiao Ling searched Fei Tian’s Storage Ring and found the complete scroll for the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body.
• Xiao Ling extracted the technique’s coded instructions from the scroll and had Fei Tian explain how to decipher them.
• Xiao Ling practiced merging his Soul Power with his afterimages, while Fei Tian advised him to focus on a single image.
• After several days, Xiao Ling formed a clone and found that it had reached only Dou Emperor strength.

Xiao Ling left the Han Family with Zi Yan and Heavenly Fire Venerable to retrieve the Netherworld Poison Flame from Poison Mist Valley. As they pressed deeper into the dangerous region, Zi Yan began taking rare treasures from the Magical Beasts that guarded them.

• Xiao Ling learned that Han Yue's father was cultivating toward the Dou Zong Realm and told Han Yue and Han Xue to pass a message to Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian if they returned before him.
• Xiao Ling set out from the Han Family with Zi Yan and the restored Heavenly Fire Venerable, riding Rayquaza toward Poison Mist Valley.
• Xiao Ling's group entered the Netherworld Mountain Range, took Detoxification Pills prepared by Xiao Yi Xian, and continued toward the vast Poison Mist Valley.
• Xiao Ling explained that powerful Magical Beasts, including the Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion, lived in the valley, while Zi Yan boasted that she could deal with any attackers.
• As the group traveled deeper, Zi Yan used her instinct for rare treasures to claim medicinal herbs and poisons from the Magical Beasts guarding them, defeating those that resisted.

Xiao Ling and his companions found the Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion, which had reached the eighth tier, and launched an attack to obtain its magic core and the Netherworld Poison Flame. The battle began with the Scorpion overpowering the Sky Demon Puppet as Heavenly Fire Venerable prepared his Five-Round Separation Fire Disc.

• Zi Yan gathered valuable herbs as the group traveled through Poison Mist Valley in search of the Netherworld Poison Flame.
• Yao Chen sensed the concealed Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion and determined that it had reached the eighth tier, comparable to a human Five-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Ling chose to confront the Scorpion, assigning Zi Yan to handle its two seventh-tier underlings and asking Heavenly Fire Venerable and the Sky Demon Puppet to hold it back.
• Xiao Ling sent the Sky Demon Puppet into the Scorpion's cave, drawing the Scorpion outside, where it demanded the group's Storage Rings and Xiao Ling instead demanded its magic core.
• The Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion struck the Sky Demon Puppet and gained the upper hand, but Xiao Ling followed with an Earth Overturning Seal.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable summoned five fire spirits and formed a massive Five-Round Separation Fire Disc while the Sky Demon Puppet kept the Scorpion occupied.

Xiao Ling and his allies fought the Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion while Zi Yan held off two other Seventh-tier Magical Beasts. After Xiao Ling’s fused Five-colored Fire Lotus grievously wounded the scorpion, Zi Yan revealed her pure Primordial Dragon Bloodline, and Xiao Ling killed it with the Godfall Weapon.

• Heavenly Fire Venerable struck the Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion with the Five-colored Fire Plate while Xiao Ling began fusing his five Heavenly Flames.
• Zi Yan defeated the Purple Flame Poison Python and Shadow Poison Spider as Heavenly Fire Venerable and the Sky Demon Puppet stalled the scorpion.
• Xiao Ling’s clone hurled the completed Five-colored Fire Lotus at the Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion, leaving it gravely injured.
• The wounded scorpion charged Zi Yan, but her pure Primordial Dragon Bloodline overwhelmed it and stopped its attack.
• Xiao Ling pierced the Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion’s head with the Godfall Weapon, killing it.

Xiao Ling’s group defeated the Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion and captured the Netherworld Poison Flame, while a distant elder sensed Zi Yan’s royal bloodline and resolved to return it to Ancient Dragon Island. Meanwhile, Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin rescued Ning Yu Xi of Sound Valley, whose mission to seek help from Fen Yan Valley may involve a Heavenly Flame.

• An elder on a mysterious island sensed the Taixu Ancient Dragon Royal Family bloodline and decided it had to be brought back to Ancient Dragon Island without alerting the other factions.
• Xiao Ling and his companions defeated the Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion, and Xiao Ling collected its intact wings and corpse.
• Xiao Ling trapped the Netherworld Poison Flame and stored it away, planning to give it to Xiao Yi Xian before taking the group toward Tianbei City.
• Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian rescued Ning Yu Xi, a Five-star Dou Zong from Sound Valley, after a Space Storm left her unconscious in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Ning Yu Xi revealed that she had been sent to ask Tang Zhen of Fen Yan Valley to refine a medicinal pill, and Xiao Yi Xian suspected the task was connected to a Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin arranged for Xiao Ling, a Seventh-grade Alchemist with Heavenly Flames, to help Sound Valley refine its Spirit Origin Restoration Pill. Xiao Ling agreed to visit Sound Valley when his plans allowed and accepted Ning Yu Xi's contact token.

• Ning Yu Xi explained that Sound Valley needed a Heavenly Flame to refine the Spirit Origin Restoration Pill and that her original plan involved Valley Master Tang Zhen and two Seventh-grade Alchemists.
• Xiao Yi Xian showed Ning Yu Xi a pill refined by Xiao Ling, proving that he possessed a Heavenly Flame, and offered to introduce them.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin took Ning Yu Xi to Tianbei City on Little Purple, where they met Xiao Ling and his companions at the Han Family estate.
• Qing Lin introduced Ning Yu Xi to Xiao Ling, and Ning Yu Xi asked him to help Sound Valley refine the Spirit Origin Restoration Pill.
• Xiao Ling agreed to help when he had time, and Ning Yu Xi gave him Sound Valley's contact token so its members could guide him there.

Xiao Ling returned to Tianbei City with the Netherworld Poison Flame and the Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion’s magic core, then prepared to leave for Sacred Pill City and help Xiao Yi Xian and Heavenly Fire Venerable. After a secret nighttime encounter brought him together with Han Xue and Han Yue, he left the next morning and planted a suggestion that they would help an injured old woman at the Flower Sect.

• Ning Yu Xi said she had to return to Sound Valley, and Xiao Ling watched her leave.
• Xiao Ling showed Xiao Yi Xian the Netherworld Poison Flame and the Eighth-tier Netherworld Poison Dragon Scorpion’s magic core, assuring her he would help her condense her Poison Pill.
• Xiao Ling told Han Yue he planned to leave for Sacred Pill City the next morning, and Han Yue said she and Han Xue would seek further training, possibly at the Flower Sect.
• Xiao Ling entered Han Yue’s room at night and mistakenly kissed Han Xue, then Han Yue joined them after Han Xue agreed to be with him.
• In the morning, Xiao Ling cut the bloodstained portion from the sheet and used soul suggestion to prompt Han Yue and Han Xue to help an injured old woman at the Flower Sect.

Xiao Ling and his companions traveled toward Sacred Pill City, but Hei Qing intercepted them in a Space Wormhole and revealed that Zi Yan was the princess of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. Zi Yan agreed to return with him to seek answers about her parents, while Xiao Ling and the others continued their journey separately.

• Xiao Ling and his companions departed for Sacred Pill City, stopping in Qingfeng City to buy medicinal materials and enter a Space Wormhole.
• Xiao Ling told Zi Yan that Medusa was sleeping while her souls fused, and he reassured her that Medusa would be fine.
• Hei Qing appeared aboard their Space Ship, introduced himself as a member of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and said he had come to bring Zi Yan back to Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan asked why her parents had abandoned her, and Hei Qing said Elder Zhu Li would explain the complicated matter on Dragon Island.
• Xiao Ling encouraged Zi Yan to return to her clan, and she agreed on the condition that he and the others could visit her.
• Xiao Ling and Zi Yan tearfully parted, and he gave her a ring of medicinal pills before entrusting her safety to Hei Qing.

After leaving Zi Yan behind, Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin reached Tianhuang City and reunited with Xiao Ling’s old classmate Liu Qing. They planned to wait there for the Space Wormhole to reopen after a family competition, and Xiao Ling offered to refine Liu Qing an Imperial Extreme Pill.

• Zi Yan and Hei Qing departed for the Ancient Dragon Race, taking the Little Sky Swallowing Python with them.
• A month later, Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin arrived in the Central Region and decided to visit Liu Qing in Tianhuang City on their way to the Pill Region.
• Xiao Ling and his companions traveled to the Liu Family estate, where Liu Qing warmly welcomed them and learned of their plans to visit the Pill Region.
• Liu Qing told Xiao Ling that the Space Wormhole was closed for three days before the Liu Family and Cheng Family competition, so Xiao Ling agreed to wait in the city.
• Xiao Ling offered to refine an Imperial Extreme Pill for Liu Qing, who promised to treat the group well during their stay.

Xiao Ling obtained a Demon Luo Fruit Seed from Liu Qing and settled into the Liu Family estate before refining Liu Qing’s Imperial Extreme Pill. He then cultivated the True Flame Manipulation Art, creating a Life Transformation Fire and strengthening it with numerous Beast Fires.

• Liu Qing gave Xiao Ling a Demon Luo Fruit Seed from the Liu Family treasury, and Xiao Ling promised to refine a top-grade Imperial Extreme Pill for him.
• Liu Qing hosted Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin for a meal and arranged a quiet guest courtyard for their stay.
• Xiao Ling gave Xiao Yi Xian the Demon Luo Fruit Seed and Sky-Holding Bottle to cultivate while he prepared to refine a pill and practice a Dou Technique.
• Xiao Ling refined a top-grade Imperial Extreme Pill for Liu Qing, then used three seventh-tier Beast Fires to create a Life Transformation Fire.
• Xiao Ling fed more than twenty Beast Fires to the new Life Transformation Fire, strengthening it until it could serve as a new aid to his power.

Xiao Ling and his companions attended the annual Liu Family–Cheng Family contest for the right to manage Fen Yan Valley’s Space Wormhole, where Liu Qing gained the upper hand against Cheng Nan. Xiao Ling recognized Fen Yan Valley’s Tang Huo’er and her connection to the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, while Xiao Yi Xian teased him about winning her over to obtain the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes.

• Qing Lin woke Xiao Ling and reminded him that the competition would decide who could use the Space Wormhole, and Xiao Ling gave Liu Qing the Imperial Extreme Pill he had promised.
• Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Liu Qing went to the city plaza, where they waited for Fen Yan Valley’s delegation before the contest could begin.
• Elder Chi Huo announced that one young fighter from each family would compete for the Space Wormhole’s management rights, and Liu Qing faced Cheng Nan.
• Liu Qing and Cheng Nan began their Dou Huang battle, with Liu Qing gaining the advantage and steadily suppressing his opponent.
• Qing Lin sensed an unusual scorching aura from Tang Huo’er, and Xiao Ling identified her as Tang Zhen’s daughter, who had fused with a child flame of the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire.
• Xiao Ling discussed obtaining the complete Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes, and Xiao Yi Xian teased him that he could win Tang Huo’er over.