Chapter Summaries

The major clans received news that the Son of the Dragon Phoenix had reached Six-star Dou Sheng and prepared to defend themselves, while Gu Ming delivered the warning to the Zhongzhou Alliance. Xiao Yan was devastated by the news, and Xiao Xuan remained distrustful of Gu Yuan’s motives.

• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to activate its protective formation and guard the Medicine Realm’s borders, while urging Yao Ling to preserve her cultivation.
• Lei Ying recalled the Lightning Clan’s members and activated its protective formation, telling Mang Tianchi that Jia Nan Academy and its disciples would have to fend for themselves.
• The Yan Clan, Stone Clan, and Spirit Clan also received the warning and prepared to defend themselves.
• Gu Ming told the Alchemist Tower and Zhongzhou Alliance that the Son of the Dragon Phoenix had consumed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, reached Six-star Dou Sheng, and taken command of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Yan blamed himself for failing to stop the Son of the Dragon Phoenix, while Xiao Xuan dismissed Gu Ming’s claim that Gu Yuan had sent the warning out of goodwill.

As the Alchemist Tower prepared for the Beast Race’s coming war, Pill Tower’s Old Ancestor asked Xiao Yan about Xiao Ji Bai’s seclusion and urged him to grow stronger. Old Yao revealed that a rare heavenly phenomenon would bring the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame into the world, leaving Xiao Yan realizing the Heavenly Flame he had encountered before was nearing its appearance.

• Gu Ming delivered news of the Son of the Dragon Phoenix and vanished, leaving the Alchemist Tower hall in silence.
• Pill Tower’s Old Ancestor ordered the Central Plains’ civilians moved to the Central Region and activated a defensive formation as the leaders prepared for war.
• Pill Tower’s Old Ancestor asked Xiao Yan about Xiao Ji Bai, and Xiao Yan explained that he did not dare interrupt his ancestor’s seclusion.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that Qing Lin had come to find Xiao Ji Bai and was staying at the Alchemist Tower while he remained in seclusion.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that a rare thousand-year heavenly phenomenon would bring a powerful Heavenly Flame into the world.
• Xiao Yan recognized the coming flame as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, third on the Heavenly Flame Ranking.

After three months of seclusion, Su Yun emerged as a Six-star Dou Sheng and received the homage of the Beast Domain’s myriad races. He rewarded his followers with the Ancient Sky Phoenix inheritance and prepared to settle accounts.

• The Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes and the Beast Race forces celebrated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s return to glory, while Huang Tian concealed his resentment over Su Yun’s strength.
• Feng Qing'er summoned Phoenix, Kun Huang, Eagle Phoenix, and Huang Tian to Phoenix Cry Hall, where Su Yun questioned Huang Tian about his former seat as Clan Leader.
• Su Yun revealed that he had spent three months comprehending the Great Dragon Phoenix Technique and tempering Saint Artifacts, then bestowed the Heavenly Phoenix inheritance on the four elders.
• Su Yun released his Dragon Phoenix aura and declared that it was time to settle all accounts.

Su Yun chose to attack the Yao Clan in the Medicine Realm rather than target Dragon Island first, despite Phoenix's objections. He led the Beast Race army to surround the Shennong Mountain Range and faced the Medicine Realm's barrier.

• Su Yun examined the map of the Seven Ancient Clans' Small Worlds and selected the nearby Medicine Realm as the Beast Race's first target.
• Phoenix urged Su Yun to attack the divided Ancient Void Dragon Clan first, but Feng Qing'er accepted his order to march on the Yao Clan.
• Feng Qing'er warned Phoenix through a soul transmission that Su Yun could no longer wait, and Phoenix sensed his overwhelming killing intent.
• Ten million Beast Race troops and countless flying beasts surrounded the Shennong Mountain Range and sealed off the Medicine Realm.
• Su Yun stood atop a Five-star Dou Sheng Sky Demon Phoenix and looked up at the Medicine Realm's barrier.

Su Yun and Phoenix failed to breach the Medicine Realm’s barrier, but Su Yun said someone would open its gates for them. Yao Ling betrayed the Yao Clan and reached the gates, where Yao Wanhuo found her standing amid the dead with madness in her eyes.

• Phoenix attacked the Medicine Realm’s barrier with a powerful flame strike, but the Medicine Emperor’s formation repelled it.
• Phoenix proposed sacrificing Beast Race soldiers to wear down the barrier, but Su Yun refused and said someone would open the gates.
• Yao Wanhuo and the Yao Clan elders celebrated the barrier’s strength until the badly wounded Yao Wanwan arrived and accused Yao Ling of betrayal.
• Yao Wanhuo rushed to the gates to stop Yao Ling and found the guards dead and Yao Ling waiting among their bodies.
• Yao Wanhuo saw that Yao Ling’s eyes were filled with scarlet madness.

Yao Ling revealed that she had gained power through the Blood Skull Gu and used the Star Annihilation Sword Art to stop Yao Wanhuo from capturing her. She opened the Medicine Realm’s gates, allowing Phoenix and the Beast Race army to launch their assault on the Yao Clan.

• Yao Ling absorbed blood qi from the corpses and told Yao Wanhuo that the Blood Skull Gu had been bestowed on her by the Phoenix Emperor.
• Yao Wanhuo attacked Yao Ling, but her Star Annihilation Sword Intent disrupted his bloodline and halted his Saint Power.
• Yao Ling took the Medicine Realm key and confronted Yao Wanhuo over his refusal to avenge her brother.
• Yao Ling pressed the key into the gate, opening the Medicine Realm to the waiting Beast Race army.
• Phoenix ordered the attack, and the Beast Race surged into the Medicine Realm.

Su Yun led the Beast Race into the Medicine Realm and confronted Yao Wanhuo as the Yao Clan tried to resist the invasion. After easily defeating Yao Wanhuo’s attacks, Su Yun pierced his heart with a strike that crossed space.

• The Beast Race poured through the Medicine Realm gates, and Yao Wanhuo tried to burn them back and close the gates.
• Su Yun arrived, destroyed Yao Wanhuo’s jade hands, and was hailed by Yao Ling as the Phoenix Emperor and Son of the Dragon Phoenix.
• Yao Wanhuo refused to kneel and attacked Su Yun with a fire dragon, but Su Yun erased it with Space Power.
• Su Yun told Yao Wanhuo that their shared Six-star Dou Sheng realm did not make them equals, then ordered him to kneel and leave.
• Su Yun crossed the space between them with a purple-golden strike and pierced Yao Wanhuo’s heart.

Su Yun killed Yao Wanhuo and unleashed the Beast Race to ravage the Medicine Realm, driving the Yao Clan’s survivors toward their Central Hub. After seven days, the Beast Race surrounded the last stronghold, where Yao Dan and the remaining Yao Clan Saints faced Su Yun.

• Su Yun killed Yao Wanhuo with Space Power and urged the Beast Race to avenge its past humiliation by destroying the Yao Clan’s lands.
• The Beast Tide overran the Medicine Realm and slaughtered the Yao Clan’s Descendant People.
• Yao Wandan tried to lead the elders toward a hidden northwest gate, but Yao Wanwan warned that Yao Ling could have revealed the escape routes and urged them to reach the Central Hub instead.
• Yao Wandan and the elders fought through the Beast Tide toward the Central Hub while a faint black glint flickered in Yao Wanwan’s eye.
• After seven days of slaughter, the Beast Race surrounded the Central Hub, where Su Yun confronted Yao Dan and the surviving Yao Clan Saints.

Su Yun shattered the Medicine Realm Central Hub’s defenses and badly defeated the Yao Clan Saints, while Yao Ling’s betrayal was exposed. Yao Dan summoned the Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor as the Yao Clan’s last defense, but Su Yun told him to come.

• Su Yun destroyed the central hub’s protective formation and crushed the Yao Clan Saints with a single attack.
• Phoenix and the Beast Race army proclaimed Su Yun’s supremacy as Yao Ling appeared beside him.
• Yao Wandan accused Yao Ling of opening the Medicine Realm gates, and Yao Dan realized she had betrayed the clan and used Su Yun’s Evil Art to awaken her bloodline.
• Yao Dan summoned the Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor, prompting Yao Ling to warn Su Yun that it could approach Nine-star Dou Sheng strength.
• Su Yun calmly told Yao Dan to let the Medicine Emperor’s soul come.

Su Yun used the Human Emperor Banner to capture and control the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul after Yao Dan summoned it. He turned the soul against the Yao Clan, leaving Yao Dan and the clan facing their ancestor’s power.

• Yao Dan summoned the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul, whose Imperial Might shook the Medicine Realm despite its weakness.
• Su Yun revealed his Human Emperor Banner and explained that his version was more authentic and powerful than Xiao Yan’s.
• Su Yun used the banner to overpower and absorb the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul despite its attempt to resist.
• Su Yun released the remnant soul under his control and ordered it to attack the remaining Yao Clan members.

The Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor annihilated the Yao Clan in the Medicine Realm Central Hub, but Su Yun revealed that Yao Wanwan had survived and was a Soul Clan member seeking a Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment. As Su Yun moved to seize it, a mysterious black flame attacked him from the void.

• The Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor unleashed a golden sphere that destroyed the Medicine Realm Central Hub and wiped out the Yao Clan, leaving Yao Chen and Yao Ling alive.
• Phoenix celebrated the Beast Race’s victory, but Su Yun silenced her and searched the ruins for a hidden presence.
• Su Yun called out the concealed Yao Wanwan, who emerged with restored limbs and the power of a Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Su Yun identified Yao Wanwan as a Soul Clan member and deduced that he had been searching for one of the Yao Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragments.
• Yao Wanwan refused to surrender the fragment, so Su Yun gathered Space Power to attack him.
• A pitch-black flame tore through the void and shot toward Su Yun’s head.

Su Yun defeated Yao Wanwan, claimed the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment, and fought Nihility Devouring Flame, who escaped rather than face him at full strength. The Beast Race watched as the Medicine Realm barrier shattered and Nihility Devouring Flame fled through the opening.

• The Remnant Soul of the Medicine Emperor blocked Nihility Devouring Flame’s ambush while Su Yun killed Yao Wanwan and took the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment.
• Su Yun identified Nihility Devouring Flame and refused to hand over the jade fragment, then attacked him with the Dragon-Phoenix Secret Art: Mountain Shaker.
• Su Yun shattered Nihility Devouring Flame’s flaming barrier and struck him into the Medicine Realm’s spatial barrier.
• Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed his full power and prepared to fight, but then broke through the damaged barrier and fled into the void passage.

Su Yun trapped Nihility Devouring Flame in the Medicine Realm and forced him into battle. After Su Yun wounded him, Nihility Devouring Flame tried to sever the Medicine Emperor's connection to the realm, but Su Yun raised the Human Emperor Banner and summoned the dead Yao Clan souls.

• Su Yun used the Human Emperor Banner and the Medicine Emperor's Remnant Soul to seal Nihility Devouring Flame's escape route.
• Su Yun confronted Nihility Devouring Flame, who turned back and prepared to fight rather than be trapped.
• Su Yun and Nihility Devouring Flame clashed, and Su Yun's Dragon Phoenix Claw tore a mass of black flame from his shoulder.
• Nihility Devouring Flame rushed toward the Medicine Emperor's Remnant Soul, hoping to sever its connection to the Medicine Realm and escape.
• Su Yun swept the Human Emperor Banner and summoned the dead Yao Clan souls, which the Medicine Emperor's Remnant Soul prepared to devour.

Su Yun defeated Nihility Devouring Flame with the help of the Medicine Emperor's Remnant Soul, who advanced to Nine-star Dou Sheng by devouring the Yao Clan souls. Nihility Devouring Flame survived through a hidden substitute technique, but Su Yun exposed his weakness and prepared to seal him.

• Nihility Devouring Flame tried to seize the Yao Clan souls, but Su Yun cut off his devouring vortex with the Human Emperor Banner.
• The Medicine Emperor's Remnant Soul devoured the souls and advanced to Nine-star Dou Sheng, then struck Nihility Devouring Flame into the ground.
• Su Yun attacked Nihility Devouring Flame with a giant silver spear, apparently killing him and leaving a massive crater in the Medicine Realm.
• Su Yun sensed Nihility Devouring Flame had survived through a feigned-death substitute technique and blasted him out of hiding.
• Su Yun recognized the Soul Guiding Jade as Nihility Devouring Flame's weakness and formed a silver seal to capture him.

Su Yun suppressed Nihility Devouring Flame and began extracting its source to strengthen the Nether Poison Flame. Across the Central Plains, the Yao Clan’s destruction and Nihility Devouring Flame’s capture alarmed the major clans, while Nihility Devouring Flame demanded to know what Su Yun really was.

• Su Yun overpowered Nihility Devouring Flame’s attempt to self-destruct and sealed it inside a palm-sized black sphere.
• News of the Yao Clan’s destruction and Nihility Devouring Flame’s capture spread, prompting Pill Tower’s leaders to keep everyone inside the Pill Region.
• Gu Yuan rejected Gu Lie’s suggestion of an alliance with the Soul Clan and said he already had another plan.
• Hun Tiandi learned that Nihility Devouring Flame had been captured and ordered the Soul Realm sealed.
• Su Yun imprisoned Nihility Devouring Flame in a purple-gold cage and fed pieces of its source to the Nether Poison Flame, leaving the captive horrified by what he was.

Su Yun captured Nihility Devouring Flame and used the Yao Clan’s collected Essence Blood to forge the Emperor Slaying Sword. After forty-nine days, the completed sword emerged with power enough to threaten even a Nine-star Dou Sheng, and Su Yun took it in hand.

• Su Yun dismissed Nihility Devouring Flame’s questions, compressed it into a mark on his palm, and summoned Phoenix through the Soul Guiding Jade.
• Phoenix reported that the blood of every Yao Clan member had been collected, and Su Yun took her to the ruined holy ground where it had been gathered.
• Su Yun sank an ancient Sword Embryo into the blood pool and explained that the Emperor Slaying Sword grew stronger by consuming Imperial Clan Essence Blood and suppressed Imperial Clan bloodlines.
• Su Yun used Space Power to accelerate the Sword Embryo’s absorption, and the blood sacrifice continued for forty-nine days until the pool ran dry.
• The Sword Embryo became a blood-gold longsword, split the chaotic spatial currents with its slaughtering sword intent, and flew into Su Yun’s grasp.

Su Yun agreed to Phoenix’s proposal to conquer the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan and use its Dragon Kings to pull his imperial carriage, then led the Beast Race army toward Dragon Island. There, he discovered the North Dragon King had reunited the islands to enact a demonic array, slaughtering his own clan to increase his power, just as a devastating boom sounded above him.

• Phoenix urged Su Yun to subdue the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan and presented him with a grand carriage intended to be pulled by dragons and phoenixes.
• Su Yun approved Phoenix’s proposal but warned her there would not be a next time.
• Su Yun led the Beast Race army through the void and used his spatial arts to locate Dragon Island, noticing its four islands had reunited behind a stronger barrier.
• The North Dragon King revealed that he had used the reunion as a scheme to sacrifice Taixu Ancient Dragons and raise his cultivation to Five-star Dou Sheng.
• The North Dragon King lamented that Zi Yan and the survivors of East Dragon Island had escaped, then a world-shaking boom erupted from the void above him.

Su Yun arrived above Dragon Island with a vast army and confronted the North Dragon King, who had slaughtered his kin to reach Five-star Dou Sheng. Huang Tian defeated the North Dragon King in one strike and dragged him before Su Yun, who wondered at Huang Tian’s growing resemblance to the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

• Su Yun appeared above Dragon Island with countless Sky Demon Phoenixes and magical beasts, then asked the North Dragon King whether he would be his enemy.
• The North Dragon King recognized Su Yun as the Son of the Dragon Phoenix and erupted in rage when Su Yun mocked him as a potential carriage-puller.
• The North Dragon King attacked Su Yun with the full force of his Five-star Dou Sheng cultivation, but Huang Tian intervened with the Heavenly Phoenix Bell.
• Huang Tian shattered the North Dragon King’s attack, defeated him in one strike, and dragged him from the crater to Su Yun’s feet.
• Huang Tian knelt and proclaimed his victory to Su Yun, who privately wondered why Huang Tian was becoming like the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

Su Yun enslaved the North Dragon King, spared Huang Tian, and took control of Dragon Island as a Beast Race stronghold. He ordered the army to rest and prepare for war with the Gu Clan, then entered Dragon Island’s central cave dwelling alone.

• Su Yun branded the North Dragon King’s soul with a Slave Seal and ordered him to serve as his carriage driver.
• Su Yun warned Huang Tian against future schemes but spared him because he had performed well.
• Su Yun inspected Dragon Island and decided it would serve as a war fortress.
• The North Dragon King gave Su Yun Dragon Island’s control core, and Su Yun refined it to take control of the island.
• Su Yun ordered Phoenix to have the Beast Race army rest and prepare to attack the Gu Clan.
• Huang Tian bound the North Dragon King before Su Yun’s carriage, while Su Yun entered the central cave dwelling and ordered that no one disturb him.

At the Alchemist Tower, Qingshan told Xiao Yan and the gathered experts that the North Dragon King had seized Dragon Island and destroyed the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan’s home. The Flower Sect’s Supreme Elders then brought news of the Son of the Dragon Phoenix’s army entering the Endless Void, before revealing a devastating personal message that left Xiao Yan raging and shouting Xun’er’s name.

• Zi Yan wept as Qingshan explained that the North Dragon King had used the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array to slaughter his kin, seize the four islands, and reach Five-star Dou Sheng.
• Pill Tower’s Old Ancestor offered Qingshan and Zi Yan refuge at the Alchemist Tower, hoping to gain the Great Elder’s help against the Beast Race army.
• Qing Xianzi reported that the Son of the Dragon Phoenix and his army had vanished from the Medicine Realm and left spatial traces leading into the Endless Void.
• Qingshan feared the Son of the Dragon Phoenix had gone to Dragon Island and that the North Dragon King could not stop him.
• Hua Xianzi delivered an undisclosed piece of news to Xiao Yan, whose fury surged as he cried out, “Xun’er!”