Chapter Summaries

At the Ten Thousand Pill Convention, Xiao Yan revealed that alchemy was his main profession, prompting the Pill God Clan Leader and the Lord of the Eternal Green Grassland to challenge him to an exchange. As the convention’s first stage began, the three Saint Grade Alchemy Grandmasters took their positions to refine pills before the gathered experts.

• Xiao Yan said alchemy was his main profession, and the Pill God Clan Leader and the Lord of the Eternal Green Grassland eagerly invited him to exchange alchemy techniques.
• Xiao Yan agreed, and news that three Saint Grade Grandmasters would compete spread through Pill God City, drawing a huge crowd to Pill God Plaza.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Lin Dong and their families during the night before the convention began.
• The Pill God Clan Leader announced the convention’s three stages and opened the first stage for alchemists to compete.
• The Lord of the Eternal Green Grassland invited Xiao Yan to join him and the Pill God Clan Leader, and the three summoned flames and cauldrons above the plaza.

Xiao Yan, the Pill God Clan Leader, and the Lord of the Eternal Green Grassland began refining pills with their strongest techniques at the Ten Thousand Pill Convention. Xiao Yan’s blooming fire-lotus method stunned the two Saint Grade Grandmasters, who prepared to unleash their full abilities as the array around the plaza faced mounting strain.

• The Pill God Clan Leader brought out the Pill God Cauldron and Pill God Flame, while the Lord of the Eternal Green Grassland summoned the Eternal Cauldron, and Xiao Yan chose to use his flame-formed Chaos Furnace.
• The Pill God Clan Leader used Ten Thousand Gods Melting Fire to have countless flame figures refine medicinal ingredients simultaneously, while the Lord of the Eternal Green Grassland began refining with his own cauldron.
• Xiao Yan stood calmly before his furnace, then formed thousands of flame buds that slowly bloomed into fire lotuses, each holding purified medicinal essence.
• The Pill God Clan Leader and the Lord of the Eternal Green Grassland recognized the depth of Xiao Yan’s alchemy and grew eager to show their full abilities.
• The Lord of the Eternal Green Grassland unleashed his full Divine Soul power, prompting the Pill God Clan Grand Elder to ask the Spiritual Array Grandmasters to help reinforce the plaza’s array.

Hundreds of Heavenly Sovereigns and Spiritual Array Grandmasters gathered spiritual energy to support the three Saint Grade Grandmasters refining Peerless Divine Pills. After seven days, the Lord of the Eternal Green Grassland and the Pill God Clan Leader finished their initial refining, while Xiao Yan continued absorbing the Spiritual Rain for his pill.

• The Pill God Clan Grand Elder explained that three Saint Grade Peerless Divine Pills could drain the Pill God Continent's spiritual energy and damage its Plane Origin, so he asked the experts to help gather energy.
• The Green Robe Sword Saint led hundreds of Heavenly Sovereigns and nearly ninety percent of the attending Spiritual Array Grandmasters in gathering spiritual energy across the continent.
• The Pill God Clan Leader, the Lord of the Eternal Green Grassland, and Xiao Yan revealed their Dharma Bodies as their pills began absorbing the continent's spiritual energy.
• The Green Robe Sword Saint and the other experts formed a continent-wide Spiritual Rain, which the three Grandmasters divided into rivers and fed into their cauldrons for seven days.
• The Lord of the Eternal Green Grassland and the Pill God Clan Leader retrieved their initially refined pills, while Xiao Yan gathered the remaining Spiritual Rain into a vast river and continued refining.

Xiao Yan drew on the Pill God Continent’s spiritual energy for three days to refine an embryonic pill that surpassed every known Saint Grade Peerless Divine Pill. The Pill God Clan Leader revealed that it was a Saint God Pill meant for beings on the level of the Immortal Great Emperor and Heavenly Evil God, and its formation ended with a radiant pillar of light and overwhelming pressure.

• Xiao Yan gathered rivers of spiritual energy from across the Pill God Continent and poured them into the pill in his Flame Furnace.
• Green Robe Sword Saint and several hundred Heavenly Sovereigns helped draw in more spiritual energy as the pill continued absorbing it for two days.
• True Dragon Emperor, Undying Master, and the other observers marveled at the pill’s immense energy, while the Pill God Clan Leader declared it could surpass all Saint Grade Peerless Divine Pills.
• Qing Yanjing was stunned by Xiao Yan’s alchemy, while Xun’er, Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and Ya Fei remained accustomed to his feats.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the embryonic pill was a Primal Chaos Divine Pill and that its intended completed form was the Saint God Pill, which still lacked its crucial medicinal catalyst.
• On the third night, Xiao Yan stabilized the pill at fist-size, and it released a vast pillar of light as an overwhelming pressure descended over Pill God Plaza.

Xiao Yan completed the Primal Chaos Divine Pill and won the Ten Thousand Pill Convention, while the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan halted its attack plans after the Refining Heaven Devil Emperor neared a breakthrough. After making arrangements with the Pill God Clan and exchanging the Pill God Cauldron for ingredients, Xiao Yan watched the convention move on to its auction.

• A pill refined by Xiao Yan alarmed the Heaven Devil Emperors, but the Refining Heaven Devil Emperor’s stronger aura and warning convinced them not to attack the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan sealed the Primal Chaos Divine Pill, ended the pill refinement, and was acclaimed as champion of the Ten Thousand Pill Convention.
• Xiao Yan asked the Pill God Clan Leader to let his clansmen cultivate in the Pill God Clan, and the Leader readily agreed.
• Xiao Yan exchanged the Pill God Cauldron for refining materials and medicinal ingredients from the Pill God Clan.
• The convention’s half-month pill-refinement stage ended, and the next grand event, the auction, began.

The Pill God Clan auctioned the Heavenly Immortal Pill and the Eternal Ancient Pill, drawing enormous bids from powerful factions and Saint Heavenly Sovereigns. After the auction and Trading Fair, Xiao Yan and his group left for the Great Thousand Palace, where he planned to strengthen his companions before attempting a breakthrough.

• The Pill God Clan Grand Elder auctioned the Heavenly Immortal Pill, which the Wild God Clan secured for twelve billion Supreme Spiritual Liquid.
• The Grand Elder presented the Eternal Ancient Pill, whose time-accelerating effect caused Saint Heavenly Sovereigns to compete fiercely for it.
• The Green Robe Sword Saint won the Eternal Ancient Pill with a bid of twenty-eight billion Supreme Spiritual Liquid.
• Xiao Yan arranged for his group to visit Pill God City and attend the Trading Fair before they said farewell to the Pill God Clan.
• Xiao Yan and his companions boarded the Great Thousand Palace’s Heaven-Rank Warship and set off for the Great Thousand Palace.

Xiao Yan finished preparing pills and resources for his family and allies, then traveled with experts from the Dou Qi Continent to the Divine Beast Clan. At a feast on the True Dragon Continent, he arranged opportunities for his companions and offered to guide Clan Leader Tianhuang’s daughter, Nine Netherworld.

• Xiao Yan completed five Peerless Divine Pills and set aside pills and resources for Xun'er, Gu Yuan, Yao Lao, and the others.
• Xiao Yan departed with Xiao Yi Xian, Cai Lin, Zi Yan, and Dou Sheng experts from the Dou Qi Continent to visit the Divine Beast Clan.
• The True Dragon Emperor welcomed Xiao Yan and his party to the True Dragon Continent for a feast.
• Heavenly Sovereigns of the Divine Beast Clan escorted the visiting magical beasts to training opportunities suited to their bloodlines.
• Xiao Yan met Clan Leader Tianhuang’s daughter, Nine Netherworld, and offered to guide her when she was older.

Xiao Yan arranged for Zhu Kun and Zi Yan to receive the True Dragon Clan’s blessing, then brought Cai Lin to the Snake Clan to claim the Nine-Colored Demon Emperor’s inheritance. Cai Lin entered the inheritance, and the Taiyin Snake Sovereign predicted she would emerge at the Immortal Rank Peak.

• The True Dragon Emperor made the Ancient Void Dragon Clan experts eligible for the Ancient Dragon Blood Pool and named Zhu Kun and Zi Yan his nominal disciples, sending them to the True Dragon Pool.
• Xiao Yan offered the Taiyin Snake Sovereign a free Saint-grade pill in return for helping Cai Lin obtain the Nine-Colored Demon Emperor’s inheritance.
• The Taiyin Snake Sovereign led Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian to the Myriad Snake Continent and showed them the inheritance statue.
• Xiao Yan encouraged Cai Lin to face the inheritance test, and she entered the statue after bidding him farewell.
• The Taiyin Snake Sovereign congratulated Xiao Yan and predicted that Cai Lin would emerge at the Immortal Rank Peak.

Xiao Yan left Cai Lin to inherit the Nine-Colored Demon Emperor’s legacy and traveled with Xiao Yi Xian to the Heavenly Poison Forbidden Land, where the Woeful Poison Body lay. At the forbidden land’s deepest point, five poison beasts attacked them, and Xiao Yan revealed strength beyond an ordinary Saint-grade expert.

• Xiao Yan left an energy incarnation to guard Cai Lin as she entered seclusion, then departed with Xiao Yi Xian.
• The Taiyin Snake Sovereign silenced the Snake Clan Heavenly Sovereigns’ protests, forbade anyone from approaching the inheritance site, and announced that Cai Lin would be invited to become a Guest Elder.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian reached the Heavenly Poison Forbidden Land and pushed through its deadly miasma and poisonous beasts toward the Woeful Poison Body.
• At the forbidden land’s deepest point, five giant poison beasts confronted Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian, with Poison Scorpion attacking first.
• Xiao Yan summoned a massive flaming palm that slammed all five Heavenly Sovereign-level beasts into the ground.

Xiao Yan subdued the five poisonous beasts guarding the Heavenly Poison Forbidden Land, then revealed that Xiao Yi Xian was the pure-blooded successor of the Woeful Poison Body. The Heaven Poison Empress accepted Xiao Yi Xian for inheritance and promised to guide her toward Saint Grade, while Xiao Yi Xian asked how many masters the Woeful Poison Body had before the Empress.

• Xiao Yan overwhelmed the five poisonous beasts, and Poison Scorpion begged him to spare the inheritance left by their master.
• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yi Xian as his wife and the pure-blooded successor of the Woeful Poison Body, prompting Poison Scorpion to recognize her as their next master.
• Poison Scorpion led Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to the heart of the Heavenly Poison Forbidden Land, where they saw the ruined statue of the Heaven Poison Empress.
• Poison Scorpion explained that the Heaven Poison Empress had fought three peak Heavenly Devil Emperors, then left her inheritance and scattered nine drops of her heart's blood across nine Lower Planes.
• The Heaven Poison Empress appeared as a memory projection, accepted Xiao Yi Xian as her successor, and said she could help her reach Saint Grade within ten years.
• Xiao Yi Xian went with the Heaven Poison Empress for inheritance and asked whether the Woeful Poison Body had other masters before her.

Xiao Yan recalled the ancient history of the Great Thousand Sovereign, secured the Heaven Poison Forbidden Zone while Xiao Yi Xian inherited the Heaven Poison Empress's legacy, and traveled to the Fire Spirit Clan for the Ten Thousand Saint Divine Fire. The Fire Spirit Clan agreed to give him the flame, and Xiao Yan reached the Magma Ocean where it was kept.

• Xiao Yi Xian merged with the Heaven Poison Empress's remnant memory inside the stone statue to receive her inheritance, while Xiao Yan recalled the Great Thousand Sovereign's history and his own past-life meeting with him.
• Xiao Yan left Poison Scorpion and the four other poisonous beasts to guard the Heaven Poison Forbidden Zone, giving them a Jade Talisman that would summon his aid.
• Xiao Yan gathered valuable poisonous herbs from the forbidden zone and traveled to the Fire Spirit Continent.
• Old Ancestor Chihuo welcomed Xiao Yan and agreed to hand over the Ten Thousand Saint Divine Fire, which the Fire Spirit Clan had been unable to refine.
• Old Ancestor Chihuo led Xiao Yan and two elders to the vast Magma Ocean, where the Ten Thousand Saint Divine Fire burned at its center.

Xiao Yan refined the Ten Thousand Saint Divine Fire inside the Chaos Furnace while the Great Thousand World remained in an uneasy peace. Two years later, Qing Yanjing gave birth to a son, and the family gathered to welcome Xiao Chen.

• Xiao Yan entered the Magma Sea Region and subdued the Ten Thousand Saint Divine Fire with his Emperor Flame and Chaos Furnace.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the flame and began refining it in seclusion as his aura surged across the Fire Spirit Continent.
• The Great Thousand World and the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan remained quiet for two years as both sides awaited a decisive change.
• Qing Yanjing gave birth to a boy, and Xiao Yan’s family gathered at her palace to meet the infant.
• Qing Yanjing told Xiao Zhan that Xiao Yan had chosen the child’s name: Xiao Chen.

Qing Yanjing introduced the newborn Xiao Chen to Ling Xi and offered to teach the girl cultivation. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan returned to the rapidly expanding Dou Qi Continent with the spoils of his travels and began using them to strengthen it.

• Qing Yanjing let Ling Xi hold Xiao Chen, who smiled at the girl, and offered to teach her an extraordinary Cultivation Method.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Dou Qi Continent after two years in the cosmic starry sky and found it had grown enormously under the Bodhi Ancient Tree's influence.
• Xiao Yan reassured the continent's experts that he had killed the more than thirty enormous beings he brought back, then planted four Chaos Spiritual Roots across the continent.
• Xiao Yan cut the Innate Gods and Demons' heads and used their blood to nourish the Dou Qi Continent's origin, while its inhabitants grew stronger from the blood-infused air.
• Xiao Yan dismembered the corpses, kept materials for alchemy and artifact forging, and sent the rest into the Chaos Furnace.

Xiao Yan refined the corpses of thirty-odd Innate Gods and Demons, causing the Dou Qi Continent to expand rapidly and granting its inhabitants a major cultivation opportunity. As experts across the continent advanced and the Great Thousand World factions watched with alarm, the Bodhi Divine Tree suddenly began shining brilliantly.

• Xiao Yan used the Chaos Furnace to refine the corpses and blood of thirty-odd Innate Gods and Demons, feeding the Dou Qi Continent's Plane Origin and preparing materials for its spiritual roots.
• Xiao Xuan summoned experts from the Great Thousand Palace and led them, including Xun'er, back to the Dou Qi Continent to seize the new opportunity.
• The returning experts absorbed the energy leaking from the Chaos Furnace as the Dou Qi Continent more than doubled in size and Xiao Yan's Spiritual Energy Clone reached the Saint Rank Late Stage.
• The Green Robe Sword Saint identified the expanding plane as Xiao Yan's Dou Qi Continent, while the Saint Heavenly Sovereigns and Devil Emperors discussed its astonishing growth and the threat Xiao Yan posed.
• Gu Yuan and Yao Lao became Heavenly Sovereigns, more than a hundred Dou Shengs emerged, and the Dou Qi Continent's peak Dou Zuns numbered over ten thousand.
• The Bodhi Divine Tree at the center of the Dou Qi Continent suddenly erupted with brilliant radiance.

Xiao Yan oversaw the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s transformation into a Bodhi Ancestral Tree, which empowered the Dou Qi Continent to expand into the largest continent in the Great Thousand World. He then triggered his Devil Emperor Clone’s breakthrough and ordered the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan to mobilize for an invasion.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree evolved into a Bodhi Ancestral Tree, and Xiao Yan instructed it to grant Bodhi Hearts only to those who passed its trials.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s power helped the Dou Qi Continent expand to a diameter of roughly eight hundred million li and strengthened its inhabitants, including Yao Lao and Yan Jin.
• Xiao Yan concluded that the Dou Qi Continent needed far more Plane Origin to become a Great World and decided to use the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan as nourishment for its evolution.
• Xiao Yan commanded his Devil Emperor Clone to break through, and the Refining Heaven Devil Emperor unleashed his power across the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan’s territory.
• The Refining Heaven Devil Emperor claimed he could kill everyone present within an incense stick’s burn, then ordered the Saintly Heaven Devil Emperor to mobilize every army and prepare to conquer the Great Thousand World.

Saintly Heaven Devil Emperor gathered the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan’s forces for a decisive assault on the Great Thousand World, with Xiao Yan secretly leading them as the Refining Heaven Devil Emperor. At the Northern Desolate Hills, Xiao Yan crushed the Green Robe Sword Saint’s opening attack, leaving the Great Thousand World’s experts shaken.

• Saintly Heaven Devil Emperor ordered every Devil Emperor and all forces of Devil General rank and above to assemble for the invasion, while Xiao Yan surveyed their army of 7,129 Devil Emperors and 300,000 Devil Generals and Devil Kings.
• Xiao Yan led the assembled Extraterrestrial Evil Clan army from the Heavenly Devil Continent toward the Northern Desolate Hills, where the Great Thousand World’s experts prepared grand arrays under the Undying Master and Green Robe Sword Saint.
• The Green Robe Sword Saint challenged Xiao Yan’s Devil Emperor Clone and attacked with the Dragon’s Roar Sword, unleashing a vast river of star-like sword light.
• Xiao Yan formed a colossal hand of Black Flame and shattered the Green Robe Sword Saint’s sword light, thrilling the Devil Emperors and alarming the Great Thousand World’s Heavenly Sovereigns.

Refining Heaven Devil Emperor’s strike shattered the Great Thousand Demonic Transformation Array and freed Heavenly Evil God, while Xiao Yan began breaking through elsewhere. After Heavenly Evil God recognized that Refining Heaven Devil Emperor had comprehended the Great Dao of Fire and was not one of his creations, Refining Heaven Devil Emperor revealed that the discovery came too late.

• Refining Heaven Devil Emperor’s flaming hand overwhelmed the Great Thousand World’s defenders and cracked the Great Thousand Demonic Transformation Array before they could stop it.
• Xiao Yan’s breakthrough sent a powerful aura from Fire Spirit Continent, prompting both sides to fight desperately over the array.
• Heavenly Evil God emerged through the cracks, and Saintly Heaven Devil Emperor celebrated his release and praised Refining Heaven Devil Emperor.
• Heavenly Evil God reacted with alarm to Refining Heaven Devil Emperor’s mastery of the Great Dao of Fire, then attacked him and declared that he was not one of his people.
• Refining Heaven Devil Emperor absorbed Heavenly Evil God’s attack and said that Heavenly Evil God had discovered the truth too late.

Xiao Yan revealed that his Refining Heaven Devil Emperor identity had been a clone infiltrating the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan, then showed that his true body had entered the Deity Realm. The Heavenly Evil God devoured much of his own army to recover his strength and flee, but dazzling flames blocked his path.

• The Heaven Devil Emperors recognized that the Refining Heaven Devil Emperor was Xiao Yan's clone, and Saintly Heaven Devil Emperor realized Xiao Yan had used the clan's resources to weaken it from within.
• Xiao Yan's Devil Emperor Clone struck at Saintly Heaven Devil Emperor, but the Heavenly Evil God shielded him and shattered the Great Thousand Demonic Transformation Array to reclaim his devilish energy.
• The Heavenly Evil God tried to retreat with the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan army, while Xiao Yan revealed that his true body had entered the Deity Realm.
• The Heavenly Evil God devoured hundreds of thousands of devil kings and devil generals, bringing his strength back to eighty percent as he fled with several thousand Devil Emperors.
• Boundless flames formed before the fleeing Heavenly Evil God and blocked his path.

Xiao Yan confronted the Heavenly Evil God, using his clones and mastery of the Great Dao of Fire to reveal his growing divine power. He ended the chapter facing the Heavenly Evil God in his towering Flame God Body, ready to fight.

• Xiao Yan and his Devil Emperor Clone surrounded the Heavenly Evil God while the Great Thousand World experts retreated from the danger.
• The Heavenly Evil God revealed his Devil God Body and attacked Xiao Yan with a colossal devil spear, but Xiao Yan blocked it with his Flame Taiji Diagram.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Spiritual Energy Clone and burned both clones to merge their power into his true body, reaching the middle Nascent Realm.
• Xiao Yan gathered fire-attributed energy from the Great Thousand World and manifested his Flame God Body, astonishing the Heavenly Evil God with his mastery of the complete Great Dao of Fire.
• Xiao Yan crossed the distance to the Heavenly Evil God and prepared to test the power of his Flame God Body.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Heavenly Evil God, who sacrificed thousands of Devil Emperors and burned his nine eyes to reach the early World Realm. Xiao Yan absorbed his ultimate attack into the Chaos Furnace and trapped his final escape attempt, preparing to unleash the furnace’s true power.

• Xiao Yan battered the Heavenly Evil God with Divine Spirit Secret Arts, shattered the Northern Desolate Hills, and kept him suppressed even after he sacrificed three thousand Nether Devil Emperors to restore his strength.
• The Heavenly Evil God burned his nine eyes to form a tenth, pushing himself into the early World Realm and firing a devastating beam at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used the Chaos Furnace to devour the beam and revealed that he had forced the Heavenly Evil God into this state to provide energy for his breakthrough to the World Realm.
• The Heavenly Evil God exploded his demon god statue and sacrificed his remaining Devil Emperors in an attempt to escape, but Xiao Yan enclosed the devilish energy within a colossal Chaos Furnace.
• Xiao Yan formed a hand seal as Dao-like artifact patterns appeared on the furnace, declaring it the true Chaos Furnace.