Chapter Summaries

Hun Ruoruo met Nihility Devouring Flame on its dead home star, where it explained its alliance with the Soul Clan and its effort to dispel Hun Tiandi’s suspicions. It warned her that the clan’s elders would target a descendant of the fallen Xiao Clan, leaving her stunned.

• Hun Ruoruo confronted Nihility Devouring Flame, which praised her strength and revealed that its dead star was its birthplace.
• Nihility Devouring Flame told Hun Ruoruo that Gu Yuan had nearly defeated it and explained that the Soul Clan’s Divine Bloodline depended on seizing the bloodlines of others.
• Nihility Devouring Flame described why it had chosen to ally with Hun Tiandi and said it wanted to clear itself of his suspicions.
• Hun Ruoruo said she would report its words to Hun Tiandi, but Nihility Devouring Flame warned that she could not leave yet.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that the Soul Clan’s elders would harass a descendant of the Xiao Clan, shocking Hun Ruoruo.

Hun Feng learned that Hun Ruoruo would compete with him for Young Clan Leader, while Hun Ruoruo’s training in the Void Land strengthened her and advanced the Sea Heart Flame. Nihility Devouring Flame told her that she needed the Emperor Soul Art to challenge Hun Feng.

• Hun Yu warned Hun Feng that Hun Ruoruo had appeared and intended to compete for the Young Clan Leader position.
• Hun Feng concluded that the Clan Leader meant for Hun Ruoruo to use him as a stepping stone, then revealed he had reached Third Transformation Dou Zun.
• Over three months, Hun Ruoruo fought her own Void Child Flame incarnations and fed their source power to the Sea Heart Flame.
• Hun Ruoruo’s Sea Heart Flame transformed, and her cultivation rose from Five-star to Six-star Dou Zun.
• Nihility Devouring Flame said Hun Feng also possessed one of its child flames and named the Emperor Soul Art as what Hun Ruoruo needed.

Hun Ruoruo learned that the Emperor Soul Art could let her command small worlds, while Nihility Devouring Flame revealed its monstrous nature and called her a kindred monster. Meanwhile, Old Man Yao recognized the Soul Clan’s lack of alchemy guidance and resolved to advance his physical-body plan.

• Nihility Devouring Flame showed Hun Ruoruo how the Emperor Soul Art could draw strength from the small world preserved within its pages.
• Nihility Devouring Flame explained that the art could make Hun Ruoruo master of as many as three thousand small worlds, though completing it would be a distant prospect.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed it had consumed the core of the dead star that birthed it and called Hun Ruoruo a monster like itself and Emperor Brother.
• Old Man Yao observed the Soul Clan Alchemists and concluded their progress was limited by a lack of high-grade instruction and complete alchemy texts.
• Old Man Yao decided he needed to resolve the matter of refining a physical body as soon as possible.

Old Man Yao asked Hun Miesheng to conceal his secret technique for refining a real body, offering him a Ninth-grade Pill in return. Meanwhile, Mo Yu reported a Dou Sheng relic to Hun Ruoruo and told her Xiao Yan had returned from the Star Domain with a little girl, prompting her to hang up on him.

• Old Man Yao revealed that he could refine a real body and asked Hun Miesheng to keep the secret, promising him a Ninth-grade Pill in exchange.
• Hun Miesheng accepted Old Man Yao’s offer, binding himself to Hun Ruoruo’s cause, but neither man knew where to find a suitable body.
• Hun Miesheng noticed a report from Four about a Dou Sheng relic and recognized it as a possible lead.
• Mo Yu told Hun Ruoruo that he had investigated the relic because she and Xiao Yan planned to find a body for Yao Chen.
• Mo Yu reported that Xiao Yan had left the Star Domain with a young girl, then tried to defend him and promised to watch him closely.
• Hun Ruoruo hung up on Mo Yu, reconnected the soul link, and told him to get lost.

Xiao Yan emerged from the Star Domain as a Dou Zun and learned that Three Thousand Lotus Heart had a Heavenly Venerate Token that could help locate Hun Ruoruo. He discovered that Ruoruo had deliberately kept herself out of reach, while she continued training for the Soul Clan’s Young Clan Leader selection and planned to return to the Central Continent when an ancient ruin opened.

• Xiao Yan returned to Danta after refining the Three Thousand Burning Flame and learned that Three Thousand Lotus Heart wanted to know where Hun Ruoruo was.
• Three Thousand Lotus Heart showed Xiao Yan the token Ruoruo had given her, and Xiao Yan identified it as a Heavenly Venerate Token.
• Xiao Yan explained the token’s function, and Three Thousand Lotus Heart praised his knowledge before remarking that Ruoruo had called him her Dao Companion and said he could do whatever he wanted with her.
• Hun Ruoruo played with her own Heavenly Venerate Token and joked that it would keep Xiao Yan from messaging her whenever he pleased.
• Old Man Yao warned Hun Ruoruo not to overexert herself and explained that she needed to succeed in the Soul Clan’s Young Clan Leader selection.
• Old Man Yao planned to prepare for Hun Ruoruo’s body-refining needs and said Hun Miesheng would take her to the Central Continent when the ancient ruin opened.

Old Man Yao returned to Tiangang Hall and discovered that Hun Ruoruo and Mo Yu had transformed it into an alchemy factory that used advanced techniques to discipline and motivate Alchemists. After seeing its methods and results, he realized the plan would shake the Central Continent’s old alchemy factions and strip away the Yao Clan’s last fig leaf.

• Mo Yu welcomed Old Man Yao back to Tiangang Hall and explained that Hun Ruoruo had ordered a project meant to benefit both Danta and the Soul Clan.
• Mo Yu showed Old Man Yao the crowded alchemy factory, where Alchemists worked in coordinated stages to refine pills at high speed.
• Mo Yu explained that the Alchemists were lured by opportunities to learn higher-level alchemy techniques, carrying forward the Soul Clan’s traditions.
• Mo Yu demonstrated how Dan Chen, Cao Ying, and another Alchemist worked together to refine Tier 6 pills and earned half-step Tier 6 badges.
• When Old Man Yao asked whether the Alchemists received compensation, Mo Yu argued that apprentices seeking instruction were expected to pay their masters.
• Old Man Yao realized the plan would devastate old-fashioned alchemy factions and leave the Yao Clan without its last fig leaf.

Xiao Yan learned that the Soul Clan had revived Mu Gu to serve Yao Lao, and Three Thousand Lotus Heart urged him to accept the clan’s ways and become stronger. Hun Ruoruo then offered to help Three Thousand Lotus Heart obtain a physical body, but hinted it would come from a Heavenly Demon Phoenix.

• Xiao Yan learned that Yao Lao was engrossed in the Alchemy Factory and that Mu Gu had been revived to serve as his medicine boy.
• Three Thousand Lotus Heart told Xiao Yan to stop worrying about the Soul Clan’s methods and focus on becoming stronger, repeating Hun Ruoruo’s phrase, “the unity of knowledge and action.”
• Hun Ruoruo explained that she had asked Three Thousand Lotus Heart to deliver the message because Xiao Yan was ready to accept the Soul Clan.
• Hun Ruoruo offered to find materials to refine a physical body for Three Thousand Lotus Heart and asked if she knew about a Dou Sheng relic in the Beast Region.
• Hun Ruoruo suggested using a Heavenly Demon Phoenix body, leaving Three Thousand Lotus Heart shocked at the prospect of taking human form using her kind’s rival as material.

Hun Ruoruo proposed that Three Thousand Lotus Heart use the remains of an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix to forge a body, potentially creating a Dragon Phoenix. Meanwhile, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan learned that ancient ruins held unusual remains and an Ancient Void Dragon aura, prompting their Saint ancestor to claim them personally.

• Three Thousand Lotus Heart rejected using a Heavenly Demon Phoenix's body, but Hun Ruoruo suggested an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix and revealed the possibility of a Dragon Phoenix.
• At the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's ancestral land, Huang Xuan learned that the ruins contained the remains of one of their kind and ordered the clan to retrieve them.
• Feng Qing'er reported sensing an Ancient Void Dragon's aura in the ruins and recalled her fear and hatred of the dragons.
• The clan's Saint ancestor awakened the ancestral statue and declared that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan would obtain the relics personally.

Xiao Yan sought a vacant Soul Hall Heavenly Venerable seat and set out with Three Thousand Lotus Heart and Zi Yan to the Beast Region relic. Meanwhile, Hun Ruoruo learned that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was pursuing the same goal and prepared to confront a possible Saint-tier expert.

• Xiao Yan asked Three Thousand Lotus Heart to help him become a Soul Hall Heavenly Venerable, and she told him he had to hunt down a Dou Zun of at least five stars.
• Xiao Yan said they had a powerful helper and left for the Beast Region with Three Thousand Lotus Heart.
• Zi Yan mistook Three Thousand Lotus Heart for Xiao Yan and Ruoruo's daughter, then learned that she belonged to the Taixu Ancient Dragon Royal Family.
• Three Thousand Lotus Heart relayed Ruoruo's message that the Soul Hall would kill anyone who refused to comply, regardless of status.
• Cao Ying reported to Hun Ruoruo that Xiao Yan, the Eight Heavenly Venerable, and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had entered the relic, and that a possible Saint-tier expert was with the clan.
• Hun Ruoruo welcomed the prospect of a Saint-tier opponent and ordered her people to depart.

Xiao Yan and his companions explored the Dou Saint ruins, where Three Thousand Lotus Heart chose the remains of an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix to forge a body while Zi Yan received the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan mistook the awakening corpse for an ancestor, but Three Thousand Lotus Heart revealed her identity by ordering Xiao Yan to kill them.

• Xiao Yan disguised himself as a Soul Hall Venerable to provoke a fair fight, but the independent cultivators fled in terror.
• Zi Yan led Xiao Yan and Three Thousand Lotus Heart to the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and both women agreed that Zi Yan should have it.
• Three Thousand Lotus Heart entered an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix corpse, intending to forge a Dragon Phoenix body and return to her peak.
• Huang Xuan led the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to the corpse, and the clan members prostrated themselves, believing their ancestor had awakened.
• The awakened Three Thousand Lotus Heart told Xiao Yan to slaughter the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

After the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix revived and turned against the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Huang Xuan and the others attacked Xiao Yan and Zi Yan. The fight left the clan horrified when Zi Yan revealed her power as a Great Void Ancient Dragon and devoured two guardians.

• The Ancient Heavenly Phoenix called the Heavenly Demon Phoenixes mongrel birds and joined forces with outsiders against them, leaving the clan stunned.
• Huang Xuan and Feng Qing'er recognized Xiao Yan as the Pill Gathering champion and urged the clan to seize him for his treasures and alchemy skills.
• Huang Xuan activated his clan mark and attacked Xiao Yan, who matched his strength with the Mysterious Black Ruler.
• Huang Xuan sent two guardians to capture Zi Yan while he held Xiao Yan back, but Zi Yan sealed the surrounding space and devoured them.
• Zi Yan spat out feathers and complained about the guardians' tough meat, while Feng Qing'er recognized her as a Great Void Ancient Dragon and screamed.

Xiao Yan defeated Huang Xuan after the Heavenly Demon Phoenix elder attacked him, while Zi Yan devoured the other Phoenix Clan members. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan recognizing Feng Qing'er and learning that a Saint of her clan had arrived at the ruin.

• Zi Yan began preparing to cook as Xiao Yan challenged Huang Xuan to fight before eating.
• Xiao Yan used his Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body to overwhelm Huang Xuan, then finished the battle with repeated Fire Lotuses.
• Xiao Yan staggered from the fight as Huang Xuan's body fell from the sky.
• Xiao Yan found that Zi Yan had eaten the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan members, but she had kept Feng Qing'er alive because she had wet herself.
• Feng Qing'er refused to provide information, insulted Xiao Yan, and warned that a Saint of her clan had arrived at the ruin.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan exposed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Ancestral River as a means of consuming clan members’ blood to strengthen its Saint, then captured Feng Qing'er after she revealed a Half-Saint was waiting outside the relic. With Three Thousand Lotus Heart’s Saint breakthrough uncertain, Xiao Yan began refining a body from Ancient Heavenly Phoenix blood and qi to restore her origin.

• Zi Yan claimed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Saint used clan members’ blood to strengthen the Ancestral River, and Feng Qing'er’s reaction confirmed she had drunk from it during her bloodline awakening.
• Feng Qing'er warned that the clan’s Half-Saint would be waiting at the relic’s exit, then fainted when Xiao Yan and Zi Yan treated her threat as information to record.
• Xiao Yan bound Feng Qing'er and said they could send her to Soul Hall for intelligence, while noting that she had been part of Ruoruo’s scheme.
• Three Thousand Lotus Heart said she might become a Saint if she regained her body, but that breaking through without her lost origin was unlikely.
• Xiao Yan used his flames and a cauldron to refine a body from Ancient Heavenly Phoenix blood and qi, despite Three Thousand Lotus Heart warning that the process could kill him.

Hun Ruoruo confronted a Heaven Demon Phoenix Saint who blamed the Xuanming Sect for the deaths of his clansmen in the relic. After the Saint killed Chen Xian and the Xuanming Sect members, he demanded Hun Ruoruo hand over the Black Demon Lightning, and she told him to get lost.

• Chen Xian emerged from the relic and claimed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had fled before he could obtain the Heavenly Tier Dou Technique.
• A Heaven Demon Phoenix Saint appeared, froze the two pavilion elders, and demanded that Chen Xian explain what happened to his clan members.
• Chen Xian blamed the deaths on the Creation Saint's remains and said the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had disappeared after a beast's roar.
• The Saint killed Chen Xian and the Xuanming Sect members, then raised a cloud-made hand to destroy the relic.
• Hun Ruoruo appeared and stopped the Saint, who offered to spare her if she handed over the Black Demon Lightning.
• Hun Ruoruo refused the Saint's demand and told him to get lost.

As the ruins collapsed, Xiao Yan struggled to restore the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix while Hun Ruoruo confronted the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Half-Saint outside. The Half-Saint unleashed his Demon Phoenix Sacred Image, and Hun Ruoruo charged straight at it, seemingly intent on being struck down.

• Zi Yan warned Xiao Yan that a Half-Saint was destroying the small world, while Xiao Yan continued restoring the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix with dwindling medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan saw Hun Ruoruo facing the Half-Saint, and Feng Qing'er woke and taunted her before Zi Yan struck her.
• Feng Qing'er said the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix could not be restored without blood and vitality from an Ancient Void Dragon, prompting Xiao Yan to look toward the dragon corpse as the Void Spirit Devouring Flame stirred.
• Hun Ruoruo refused the Half-Saint’s demand for the Black Demon Lightning and mocked him, while she ordered Mo Yu to tell Hun Miesheng not to interfere.
• A pillar of blood and vitality erupted from the collapsing small world, and the Half-Saint summoned the Demon Phoenix Sacred Image to attack Hun Ruoruo.
• Hun Ruoruo realized the attack could annihilate her, then charged toward the descending giant image instead of retreating.

Hun Ruoruo faced a Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan Half-Saint who intended to kill her, but used the Emperor Soul Art to swallow and reflect his attack, knocking him into a vast abyss. She identified the Half-Saint as female, provoking the furious warrior as the confrontation continued.

• Venerable Jian and the gathered experts believed Hun Ruoruo could not survive the Half-Saint’s attack, while Tang Ying worried about her fate.
• Hun Ruoruo endured the Half-Saint’s killing intent and rejected his demand that she submit to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan as blood food.
• The Half-Saint attacked with a Soul Dou Technique, and Hun Ruoruo swallowed it with her purple radiance, suffering severe injuries from the Saint Soul’s force.
• Hun Ruoruo invoked the Emperor Soul Art, Three Thousand Worlds, absorbed the Half-Saint’s demon phoenix attack, and sent it crashing back into him.
• Hun Ruoruo saw the Half-Saint’s revealed female form and remarked that she was female, enraging the battered warrior.

Hun Ruoruo faced the Phoenix Clan Half-Saint’s lethal attack until Xiao Yan arrived and rescued her. After he presented her with the ruins’ spoils and playfully kissed her hand, an enormous creature emerged from space and stunned the attacking Half-Saint.

• The Phoenix Clan Half-Saint transformed into her Heavenly Demon Phoenix form and summoned the Demon Phoenix Bell, whose shockwaves killed many cultivators and forced the survivors to flee.
• Hun Ruoruo stood her ground as the bell descended, confident that Xiao Yan would arrive.
• Xiao Yan broke through the Half-Saint’s spatial lockdown, rescued Hun Ruoruo, and told her he had completed his task and brought the ruins’ treasures.
• Xiao Yan knelt to pay his respects to Miss Ruoruo, slipped a Storage Ring onto her finger, and kissed her hand, embarrassing her.
• The Half-Saint charged at Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo in her true form, but a gigantic creature carrying a purple-haired girl appeared from space and made her freeze in terror.

Hun Ruoruo and Zi Yan reunited as Three Thousand Lotus Heart revealed her colossal dragon-and-phoenix form and defeated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan Half-Saint. Hun Ruoruo left the defeated woman facing her preference for having both the dragon and phoenix.

• Three Thousand Lotus Heart revealed her gigantic dragon body and divine wings, shocking the gathered experts and frightening the Phoenix Clan Half-Saint.
• Zi Yan reunited with Hun Ruoruo and explained that Xiao Yan had gained bone wings after using himself to transfer the Ancient Void Dragon's remaining blood and vitality into Lotus Heart.
• The Phoenix Clan Half-Saint attacked Three Thousand Lotus Heart, who tore off her wings and crushed her in battle.
• Hun Ruoruo confronted the defeated Half-Saint and criticized the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan for fearing the Ancient Void Dragon while envying the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• Three Thousand Lotus Heart knelt before Hun Ruoruo, and Hun Ruoruo told the defeated woman that she preferred having both.

Hun Ruoruo revealed that she was a Dragon Phoenix and left Xiao Yan to deal with Feng Lin, who tried to submit to him and obtain his Ancient Void Dragon bloodline. After the relic began collapsing, Hun Ruoruo spared Venerable Jian and Tang Ying but ordered them to spread the full account of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s slaughter, drawing the clan into a storm across Central Continent.

• Feng Lin recognized Hun Ruoruo as a Dragon Phoenix, then offered to serve Xiao Yan and Starfall Pavilion in exchange for her life.
• Three Thousand Lotus Heart explained the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s origins and suspected Feng Lin wanted Xiao Yan’s Ancient Void Dragon bloodline.
• Xiao Yan rejected Feng Lin as an old woman and attacked her with a Heavenly Flame armor-clad fist.
• Hun Ruoruo ordered Venerable Jian to recount the battle and the clan’s massacre, including who had saved the survivors.
• Venerable Jian realized he and Tang Ying had been spared to spread the story, severed his own arm, and fled as outrage against the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan spread across Central Continent.

Hun Ruoruo practiced the Emperor Soul Art in the Creation Ruins and resolved to uncover Hun Tiandi’s intentions by becoming stronger. After Xiao Yan agreed to accompany her to the Soul Clan headquarters, their flirtation ended with him asking her to give herself to him.

• Hun Ruoruo used the Emperor Soul Art to practice controlling the damaged world of the Creation Ruins and decided she needed to become a Saint to understand Hun Tiandi’s plans.
• Hun Ruoruo teased Xiao Yan about their intimacy and asked him to see her off to the Soul Clan headquarters for her Heavenly Venerate coronation.
• Hun Ruoruo brought Xiao Yan into the Heavenly Venerate Main Hall and reflected on her complicated feelings about returning to the clan.
• Xiao Yan took Hun Ruoruo’s hand, kissed it, knelt before her, and asked her to give herself to him.