Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuan bargained with Hun Tiandi for the Soul Clan’s secret art to control the resurrected Pure Lotus Demon Saint, hoping to revive the Gu Clan and oppose the Son of the Dragon Phoenix. Hun Tiandi demanded the Gu Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment in exchange, and Gu Yuan threw it to him.

• Gu Yuan asked Hun Tiandi for the method to control the resurrected, and Hun Tiandi questioned him about the expert’s corpse.
• Gu Yuan revealed that the corpse and soul had been preserved and prepared for resurrection, though most of the soul had dispersed.
• Hun Tiandi threatened to imprison and torture Gu Yuan, but Gu Yuan argued that their shared enemy, the Son of the Dragon Phoenix, made cooperation advantageous.
• Hun Tiandi agreed to give Gu Yuan the secret art only if he surrendered the Gu Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment.
• Gu Yuan decided that obtaining the method was more urgent than keeping the fragment and hurled it toward Hun Tiandi.

Hun Tiandi gave Gu Yuan a method to control the Pure Lotus Demon Saint during resurrection, helping him avoid damaging the body sealed in the Millennium Profound Ice Coffin. Gu Yuan left the Soul Hall with the control inscriptions and his own plans for obtaining the required pill and soul.

• Hun Tiandi accepted the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment and pressed Gu Yuan to explain his plan.
• Gu Yuan explained that he intended to resurrect the Pure Lotus Demon Saint to help the Gu Clan oppose the Son of the Dragon Phoenix, but needed to control him so he would not side with Xiao Ji Bai.
• Hun Tiandi proposed sealing the Demon Saint's soul and inscribing control runes into the Ninth-grade Golden Pill to control his body without opening the ice coffin.
• Hun Tiandi gave Gu Yuan a blood-red jade slip containing the control method and said Pill Tower's Old Ancestor and Xiao Xuan were likely targets for the required pill and Emperor Realm Soul.
• Gu Yuan warned Hun Tiandi that he had his own plans, then left the Soul Hall.

Hun Tiandi revealed that he had sent Gu Yuan to revive the Pure Lotus Demon Saint because he doubted the Soul Clan’s secret art could control a half-Emperor and wanted Gu Yuan to bear the risk. As Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan prepared to follow Gu Yuan’s coordinates, a burst of power from the Alchemist Tower suggested that the Pill Tower’s Old Ancestor had advanced to the Ninth-grade Golden Pill realm.

• Hun Tiandi told Hun Xuzi that his injuries from the Sword Emperor’s sword intent made confronting Gu Yuan too dangerous.
• Hun Tiandi admitted he had little confidence in the Soul Clan’s secret art and planned to let Gu Yuan attempt to control the Pure Lotus Demon Saint, leaving the Demon Saint to fight the Son of the Dragon Phoenix if the attempt failed.
• Hun Tiandi examined the Gu Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment and declared that Gu Yuan would not escape his schemes.
• At the Flower Sect, Xun’er apologized to Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan for Gu Yuan’s actions and said she did not know where he had found the final Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan prepared to travel to the coordinates Gu Yuan had left, while Xun’er stayed in the Pill Region.
• A massive pillar of golden light erupted from the Alchemist Tower, and Xiao Xuan identified the aura as the Pill Tower’s Old Ancestor possibly reaching the Ninth-grade Golden Pill realm.

Pill Tower's Old Ancestor emerged as a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill and began a lightning tribulation to break through to the Ninth-grade Golden Pill realm. He blocked the first strike, leaving the onlookers hopeful as the tribulation continued.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan watched a golden pillar rise from the Pill Region as Pill Tower's Old Ancestor began his breakthrough, drawing excited onlookers across the region.
• Divine Farmer warned that the breakthrough might not be simple while the Alchemist Tower's site was revealed as a vast crater over an active volcano.
• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor emerged from the crater in his still-black Mysterious Pill form, making Xuan Kongzi realize that the breakthrough had not yet succeeded.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the sentient pill had to endure a lightning tribulation, and dark clouds gathered over the Pill Region.
• A Black Demon Lightning struck, but Pill Tower's Old Ancestor shattered it with a golden palm, encouraging the crowd that he might overcome the tribulation.

Pill Tower's Old Ancestor endured eighty bolts of lightning during his tribulation, but the final strike took the form of a Nine Profound Golden Lightning dragon. Divine Farmer tried to help with the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, but the tribulation rejected it, leaving the Old Ancestor to face the descending lightning alone.

• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor used the Mysterious Pill to withstand eighty increasingly powerful bolts, leaving it cracked and nearly drained.
• A golden lightning dragon formed in the clouds, and Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan, and the others feared the weakened Old Ancestor could not survive the Nine Profound Golden Lightning.
• Divine Farmer threw the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda toward the thunderclouds, and Xuan Kongzi and Xiao Xuan believed it could help the Old Ancestor overcome the tribulation.
• The tribulation rejected the pagoda because it no longer belonged to Pill Tower's Old Ancestor, and Divine Farmer realized his mistake.
• The Nine Profound Golden Lightning descended as the pagoda fell away and the onlookers panicked.

Pill Tower's Old Ancestor failed to overcome the Nine Gold Mysterious Lightning and survived in a weakened state, leaving him questioning how an exotic being could break through the limits of his Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill body. Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan postponed their journey to visit him with the others.

• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor unleashed his remaining power to resist the Golden Lightning Dragon, but the tribulation overwhelmed him and he failed to advance.
• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor transformed into a child, and Xiao Yan, Xuan Kongzi, and the Pill Region mourned his failure.
• Xiao Xuan took Xiao Yan to the ruins of the Alchemist Tower, postponing their trip to Gu Yuan's coordinates.
• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor recovered much of his injuries with his own vitality, and Divine Farmer praised the natural advantages of Heavenly Exotic Species.
• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor reflected on the spirituality humans possess from birth and wondered where his path to further advancement lay.

Xiao Yan and the others learned that the Spirit Ascension Method could not improve Pill Tower's Old Ancestor, and Divine Farmer revealed a forbidden human-sacrifice alchemy technique that might work. As the Son of the Dragon Phoenix’s campaign left only the Yan Clan and Soul Clan among the Ancient Emperor Clans, Pill Tower's Old Ancestor approved Xiao Yan’s plan to seek Gu Yuan.

• Xiao Yan proposed using the Spirit Ascension Method on Pill Tower's Old Ancestor, but Old Yao explained that it could not affect a completed pill.
• Divine Farmer revealed the Ancient Era’s Evil Art of alchemy, which used living humans to increase a pill’s grade and spirituality, and said someone in the present age possessed an incomplete copy.
• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor rejected the evil method and asked how the continent’s situation had changed.
• Divine Farmer reported that the Son of the Dragon Phoenix had destroyed the Spirit Clan and the Stone Clan, leaving only the Yan Clan and the Soul Clan among the Ancient Emperor Clans.
• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor learned that Gu Yuan was still alive and approved Xiao Yan’s plan to head to the coordinates.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan traveled to the ruined Tianheng Mountain Range to investigate coordinates given by Gu Yuan. Inside a cave, they found an ancient tomb and discovered carved writings that startled Xiao Xuan.

• Seven days after Pill Tower's Old Ancestor stabilized, Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yan left the Pill Region despite Old Yao's warning to beware of Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yan reached the devastated Tianheng Mountain Range and saw the ruined Thunder Realm and evidence of the Lightning Clan's slaughter.
• Xiao Yan used a jade stone to locate the coordinates deep in the mountains, where he and Xiao Xuan found a cave marked by traces of battle.
• Xiao Xuan searched the cave with his Soul Power and found no active traps, so he and Xiao Yan entered.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan passed through a dark passage into a tomb where the coffin had been removed, then spotted ancient writings carved into the innermost wall.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan discovered that the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s maps were meant to resurrect him, and learned that Gu Yuan had taken his corpse. Gu Yuan proposed an alliance to revive the Demon Saint and fight the Son of the Dragon Phoenix, leaving Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yan to answer his challenge.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan read the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s testament and learned that the maps were meant to resurrect him.
• Xiao Xuan noticed the Demon Saint’s Ice Coffin was missing and suspected Gu Yuan had taken the corpse.
• Gu Yuan entered the tomb and explained that reviving the Demon Saint required the four Fragmented Maps, an Emperor Realm Soul, and a Ninth-grade Golden Pill.
• Gu Yuan urged Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yan to set aside their enmity and join him against the Son of the Dragon Phoenix.
• Xiao Xuan mocked Gu Yuan’s motives, and Gu Yuan demanded an answer, asking whether Xiao Xuan was afraid.

Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yan resisted Gu Yuan’s demand for the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s map fragments, then left the cave after Xiao Yan claimed the fragments were entrusted to Shennong. Gu Yuan let them go but warned Xiao Yan to take good care of Xun'er, leaving his intentions unclear.

• Xiao Xuan recognized that Gu Yuan wanted him to sacrifice his Emperor Realm Soul to resurrect the Pure Lotus Demon Saint, but he hesitated because he still hoped to see the Xiao Clan rise and Ji Bai emerge from seclusion.
• Xiao Yan confronted Gu Yuan and objected that resurrection was impossible without a Ninth-grade Golden Pill, but Gu Yuan said the Gu Clan had a secret art to help Pill Tower’s Old Ancestor reach the Golden Core Realm.
• Xiao Xuan said he and Xiao Yan would consult Pill Tower’s Old Ancestor, while Gu Yuan demanded their three map fragments before letting them leave.
• Xiao Yan claimed he had entrusted the fragments to Senior Shennong in the Pill Region, and Gu Yuan backed down rather than risk a conflict with the Alchemist Tower.
• As Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan passed him, Gu Yuan asked whether Xun'er was with Xiao Yan and told him to take good care of her.

Xiao Yan returned from the cave with the truth about the Fragmented Maps and warned the Alchemist Tower that Gu Yuan might use a cruel alchemical method to revive the Pure Lotus Demon Saint. The chapter ended with Xiao Xuan suspecting that Gu Yuan had already begun sacrificing people beyond the Pill Region.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan left Gu Yuan in the cave after Xiao Yan dismissed him as too crippled to threaten Xun'er, and Gu Yuan vowed revenge and claimed the Pure Lotus Demon Saint's power for himself.
• Several days later, Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan arrived at the Alchemist Tower and summoned its Saints and elders to a meeting.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Fragmented Maps were keys to reviving the Pure Lotus Demon Saint, a ritual requiring an Emperor Realm Soul and a Ninth-grade Golden Pill.
• Divine Farmer explained that Gu Ming possessed the forbidden technique Using Humans as Medicine, which could potentially produce the required Golden Pill.
• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor rejected the technique because it used living people as ingredients, but Xiao Xuan warned that Gu Yuan may already have begun sacrificing people beyond the Pill Region.

Gu Yuan, Gu Ming, and Gu Jian slaughtered the people of Yong'an City to gather blood for a pill intended to revive the Pure Lotus Demon Saint, then left to attack more cities. Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan, and Old Yao arrived too late and found the city destroyed.

• Gu Yuan, Gu Ming, and Gu Jian trapped Yong'an City behind a Spatial Barrier and killed its inhabitants to collect blood.
• Gu Yuan and Gu Jian unleashed Saint Power and sword attacks, reducing the city and its million residents to ruins.
• Gu Ming said the collected blood was far from enough for the Ninth-grade Golden Pill, and Gu Yuan ordered them to seek more sacrifices in other cities.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan, and Old Yao arrived after the attackers had left and saw the massacre.
• Xiao Yan vowed to kill Gu Yuan, while Old Yao lamented that they had arrived one step too late.

After Gu Yuan, Gu Ming, and Gu Jian slaughtered more than one billion people across the Central Plains, the Alchemist Tower prepared to fight them when they came to demand its help. Xiao Xuan confronted Gu Yuan beyond the Pill Region’s barrier, and both sides stood poised for battle.

• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan, and Old Yao found the aftermath of Gu Yuan’s slaughter and returned to the Alchemist Tower to plan a response.
• Over the next three months, Gu Yuan, Gu Ming, and Gu Jian massacred people across the Central Plains, killing more than one billion.
• The Divine Farmer explained that the trio needed the Alchemist Tower’s help and Xiao Xuan’s Emperor Realm Soul to resurrect the Pure Lotus Demon Saint, so they would eventually come to the Pill Region.
• Gu Yuan called for the Alchemist Tower to come out, and the Divine Farmer shrank the tower before joining the others outside the barrier.
• Xiao Xuan accused Gu Yuan of his crimes and formed a golden spear as the two sides faced each other in the sky.

Gu Yuan tried to persuade Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan, and Pill Tower's Old Ancestor to accept the slaughter of a billion people as the price of reviving the Pure Lotus Demon Saint and resisting the Son of the Dragon Phoenix. He offered Pill Tower's Old Ancestor the victims' blood essence to help him reach the Ninth-grade Golden Pill realm, leaving everyone waiting for his choice.

• Xiao Yan denounced Gu Yuan for slaughtering innocents, and Gu Yuan struck him with golden qi, leaving Old Yao to catch and heal him.
• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor rejected Gu Yuan's proposal and insisted humanity could resist the Son of the Dragon Phoenix without reviving the Pure Lotus Demon Saint.
• Gu Yuan warned that the Beast Race could destroy humanity and argued that sacrificing some people was necessary to save the entire race, causing the Alchemist Tower members to waver.
• Gu Ming produced a bronze bottle containing the essence of a billion humans, and Gu Yuan offered it to Pill Tower's Old Ancestor as a way to break through to the Ninth-grade Golden Pill realm.
• Everyone waited for Pill Tower's Old Ancestor to decide whether to cooperate with Gu Yuan.

Xiao Yan opposed Gu Yuan’s plan to cooperate and revive the Pure Lotus Demon Saint, but the human leaders chose survival over vengeance. Gu Yuan revealed that Pill Tower's Old Ancestor had been programmed to protect humanity a thousand years ago, and the Old Ancestor confirmed the control while explaining why he could never truly become human.

• Xiao Yan urged the others to reject Gu Yuan’s proposal, but Divine Farmer said the human race’s survival had to come first.
• Gu Yuan revealed that Pill Tower's Old Ancestor had been created with a program compelling him to protect humanity and choose the optimal plan for its survival.
• Gu Yuan argued that Pill Tower's Old Ancestor’s lack of compassion for pills showed he was not acting freely, leaving the gathered experts shocked and doubtful.
• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor admitted he had been controlled for a thousand years and described his attempts to experience human life.
• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor took an Eighth-grade Pill transformed into a rabbit from Xuan Kongzi’s Storage Ring and said he could not consume pills as humans did.

Pill Tower's Old Ancestor agreed to sacrifice himself to revive the Pure Lotus Demon Saint, and Xiao Xuan also accepted the same fate for humanity. When Divine Farmer handed over the three remaining Fragmented Maps, he suddenly blocked Gu Yuan from taking them, breaking off Gu Yuan's suction force.

• Pill Tower's Old Ancestor revealed that a program had controlled his actions for a thousand years, then agreed to sacrifice himself for humanity's survival.
• Xiao Xuan agreed to sacrifice his Emperor Realm Soul, while insisting that he acted for humanity rather than yielding to Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Yan told Divine Farmer to hand the three remaining Fragmented Maps to Gu Yuan, and Divine Farmer produced them.
• Gu Yuan tried to seize the Fragmented Maps with a suction force, but Divine Farmer summoned the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Tower to block him.
• Gu Yuan accused Divine Farmer of going back on his word.

Divine Farmer and the Zhongzhou Alliance demanded control over the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s revival site to guard against Gu Yuan’s betrayal. Gu Yuan agreed, and Divine Farmer chose the Pill Region under the watch of the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.

• Divine Farmer argued that Gu Yuan’s ruthless history made it unsafe to leave the revival ritual entirely in his hands.
• Xiao Yan and the Zhongzhou Alliance experts demanded the right to choose the revival location.
• Gu Yuan readily agreed, explaining that the Gu Clan also needed the Pure Lotus Demon Saint revived to oppose the Son of the Dragon Phoenix.
• Divine Farmer accepted Gu Yuan’s cooperation and placed the revival site in the Pill Region under the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda’s watch.

Gu Yuan assembled the four Fragmented Maps of the Pure Lotus Demon Saint and revealed the Saint’s preserved body in an Ice Coffin. Xiao Yan noticed that the coffin and the body reminded him of Senior Su, leaving him troubled by a new suspicion.

• Divine Farmer released the three Fragmented Maps to Gu Yuan, who joined them with his own map to form the complete ancient map.
• Old Yao and Xiao Yan reacted with shock to the complete map’s Half-Emperor aura, and Xiao Yan asked where the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s body was.
• Gu Yuan opened a Space Rift and brought out an Ice Coffin containing the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s body.
• Divine Farmer marveled at how perfectly the body had been preserved, and Gu Yuan explained that the Saint’s power could preserve it across ages.
• Xiao Yan recognized that the Ice Coffin and the man inside seemed strangely similar to Senior Su, stirring suspicion in his heart.

Gu Yuan demanded materials and healing pills from the Alchemist Tower to prepare for the Pure Lotus Demon Saint's resurrection, and Divine Farmer agreed under threat. On Dragon Island, Su Yun summoned six subordinates and ordered them to gather the army to wipe out the Yan Clan.

• Gu Yuan claimed special resurrection arrays required rare materials and healing pills, and threatened to end their cooperation if the Alchemist Tower refused.
• Xiao Yan challenged Gu Yuan's demands, but Divine Farmer agreed while warning him against betrayal within the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda's domain.
• Gu Yuan, Gu Ming, and Gu Jian entered the Pill Region as the barrier closed behind them, and the Alchemist Tower group escorted Divine Farmer and the Pill Tower's Old Ancestor toward the tower's core.
• Su Yun awakened on Dragon Island and decided to intervene as the Pure Lotus Demon Saint's resurrection neared its final step.
• Su Yun summoned Huang Tian, the North Dragon King, and the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes, then ordered them to gather the army and wipe out the Yan Clan.

Su Yun ordered the Beast Race army to attack the Yan Clan after ensuring Gu Yuan’s preparations to resurrect the Pure Lotus Demon Saint were progressing smoothly. As Dragon Island raced toward the Flame Realm, Yan Jin ordered the Yan Clan to activate its defenses and gather for a fight to the death.

• Su Yun told Huang Tian, the North Dragon King, and the others to prepare a swift assault on the Yan Clan.
• Phoenix helped assemble the billions-strong Beast Race army, and Dragon Island set off toward the Flame Realm with Su Yun aboard a golden carriage.
• Yan Jin learned from a scout that the Beast Race army would reach the volcanic range within an hour.
• Yan Jin ordered the Flame Burning Heaven Array activated and summoned all Yan Clan members to defend the Flame Realm.