Chapter Summaries

After learning that Zi Yan was in danger, Xiao Yan and Cai Lin rushed to East Dragon Island, where the North Dragon King had slaughtered clan members and trapped the island in a Blood Sacrifice Great Array. They arrived as the North Dragon King prepared to kill Zi Yan, and Xiao Yan's fury shook the island and cracked the array.

• Huang Xuan told Xiao Yan that the North Dragon King had used the Blood Sacrifice Great Array to reach Six-Star Dou Sheng and was attacking Zi Yan on East Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yan spared Huang Xuan for the moment, threatened the Heavenly Demon Royal Clan if Zi Yan was harmed, and traveled through a space rift with Cai Lin.
• The North Dragon King demanded Zi Yan surrender the Ancient Dragon Emperor's heirloom and bloodline, but Zi Yan denounced his betrayal and fought him.
• The North Dragon King overwhelmed Zi Yan's attacks, shattered her shield, and wounded her until she lay buried in the ruins with her power nearly depleted.
• As the North Dragon King fired a lethal beam at Zi Yan, Xiao Yan and Cai Lin arrived; Xiao Yan's rage unleashed a powerful aura that cracked the Blood Sacrifice Great Array.

Xiao Yan and Cai Lin arrived at East Dragon Island and joined the wounded Zi Yan in fighting the North Dragon King. They destroyed him and his Blood Sacrifice Great Array, then promised to help Zi Yan rebuild the devastated island.

• Xiao Yan reached Zi Yan and used his Dou Qi to stabilize her while Cai Lin suppressed the Blood Sacrifice Great Array with her nine-colored Energy.
• Xiao Yan entered the Destructive Living State and attacked the North Dragon King as Zi Yan recovered and restrained him with her Ancient Dragon Emperor bloodline.
• Xiao Yan struck the North Dragon King with Yellow Springs techniques and Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, but the array healed and empowered him.
• Zi Yan pinned down the injured North Dragon King, allowing Xiao Yan to destroy him with an eight-colored Fire Lotus.
• The Blood Sacrifice Great Array collapsed, and Xiao Yan and Cai Lin helped Zi Yan as the surviving Vast Ancient Dragon Clan members gathered.

Xiao Yan and Cai Lin purified East Dragon Island's Ancient Dragon Spring Eye, restoring the island and erasing the North Dragon King's lingering will. After the Vast Ancient Dragon Clan rebuilt its home, Xiao Yan presented Zi Yan with a pill refined from the North Dragon King's remains, and she began absorbing its power to strengthen her Ancient Dragon Emperor Legacy.

• Cai Lin healed the injured ancient dragons and warned that Yin Sha Qi from the North Dragon King's corpse threatened East Dragon Island's earth veins.
• Zi Yan revealed that Xiao Yan and Cai Lin could purify the Ancient Dragon Spring Eye, and Xiao Yan asked to use the North Dragon King's remains to refine a pill for her.
• Xiao Yan and Cai Lin descended into the pit, where Xiao Yan burned away the Yin Sha Qi as Cai Lin protected the spring eye with her Nine-colored Energy.
• The North Dragon King's lingering resentment attacked the purification, but Xiao Yan destroyed it with the combined power of the Eight Exotic Flames and Yellow Springs Power, restoring the spring and the island's vitality.
• Zi Yan led the clan in rebuilding East Dragon Island, while Xiao Yan refined the Ancient Dragon Nirvana Pill from the North Dragon King's Dragon Origin.
• At the clan's celebration, Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan the pill, and she swallowed it, causing her Dragon Qi and Ancient Dragon Emperor aura to surge.

Xiao Yan purified North Dragon King's corpse and rebuilt it into a peak Five-Star Dou Sheng puppet to protect East Dragon Island. He named the puppet North King and ordered it to guard the Vast Ancient Dragon Clan, as they prepared to rebuild the island and clear dangers from the surrounding sea.

• Xiao Yan used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to erase North Dragon King's remnant soul and resentment, then purified the corpse's blood, bones, and sinews.
• Xiao Yan infused rare materials into the corpse and embedded a Soul Core, activating the puppet's formations with eight Heavenly Flames.
• The rebuilt puppet awakened at peak Five-Star Dou Sheng strength and demonstrated its power by pulverizing a massive black boulder.
• Xiao Yan named the puppet North King and ordered it to protect East Dragon Island and the Vast Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan agreed to help rebuild the island while North King cleared magical beasts and pirates from the surrounding sea.

Xiao Yan entered Thunder Mountain to temper himself and North King, where he discovered and awakened a forming Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon. He helped North King advance to the initial stage of Six-Star Dou Sheng, then set off with North King and the newly named Golden Thunder to return to East Dragon Island.

• Xiao Yan and North King crossed Thunder Mountain, using the heavenly lightning to temper their bodies as they approached the Source of Thunder.
• Xiao Yan discovered a Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon struggling to form and used a soul crystal and his Soul Force to awaken its intelligence.
• The awakened dragon accepted Xiao Yan's offer to leave Thunder Mountain, and Xiao Yan named it Golden Thunder.
• Xiao Yan combined heavenly thunder with his eight Heavenly Flames to help North King break through to the initial stage of Six-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan, North King, and Golden Thunder departed for East Dragon Island to aid its defense and rebuilding.

Xiao Yan led the Heavenly Mansion Alliance in an assault on the Soul Hall’s main hall, where he killed its vice hall master before confronting the stronger Hall Master. After Cai Lin and Zi Yan were badly injured and the Hall Master unleashed a swarm of soul-devouring insects, North King and the Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon arrived to help.

• Xiao Yan and the alliance leaders agreed to attack the Soul Hall’s main hall while its forces were occupied elsewhere, then marched with a million-strong army into the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, Zi Yan, and the alliance army attacked the Soul Hall’s main hall, and Xiao Yan killed the vice hall master after overcoming his defenses and the elders’ attacks.
• The Hall Master of the Soul Hall emerged as an early-stage Six-Star Dou Sheng and struck at Xiao Yan with a black dragon head, seriously injuring Cai Lin and Zi Yan when they intervened.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the black dragon head with an Eight-colored Fire Lotus, but the Hall Master summoned a vast tide of soul-devouring insects.
• North King and the Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon appeared before Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan to block the approaching insects.

Xiao Yan and his allies destroyed the Soul Hall Headquarters, but the Hall Master escaped through a spatial rift into the Soul Realm and revealed the Hun Clan’s greater threat. Xiao Yan ordered the Heavenly Mansion Alliance to secure the Black-Corner Region and prepare for war.

• North King and Jin Lei annihilated the Soul Insects and blocked the Hall Master of the Soul Hall’s attack.
• The Hall Master tried to escape, but Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan struck at his spatial vortex and were injured in the clash.
• The Hall Master escaped into the Soul Realm after warning that the Hun Clan had Dou Di-level experts, while North King failed to stop the closing rift.
• Xiao Yan and his companions sensed the Soul Realm’s terrifying power and recognized that destroying the Soul Hall had exposed a much greater danger.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Heavenly Mansion Alliance to eliminate remaining Soul Hall forces, aid civilians, strengthen defenses, and prepare for war against the Hun Clan.

Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance accepted the Hun Clan’s Three Battles Pact over control of the Black-Corner Region and began preparing for the duels. With the confrontation at Soul Severing Cliff three days away, Xiao Yan planned to stabilize his strength and lead the alliance’s fighters into battle.

• Xiao Yan returned to Heavenly Mansion Alliance Headquarters, where Elder Yao showed him the Hun Clan’s challenge letter demanding three duels at Soul Severing Cliff.
• Xiao Yan burned away the Soul Power guarding the jade slip and read the terms: two victories would decide the contest, with defeat costing the alliance the Black-Corner Region and its core experts.
• Cai Lin, Zi Yan, Elder Yao, and Venerable Lei warned that the Hun Clan’s Dou Sheng experts and secret arts made the duels dangerous, while Xiao Yan argued that refusing would embolden the enemy.
• Xiao Yan identified North King and Golden Thunder as counters to the Hun Clan’s soul and Yin Sha techniques, and said he would strengthen his Dou Sheng realm and Eight Exotic Flames before the duels.
• Cai Lin and Zi Yan pledged to prepare, and Venerable Feng ordered heightened defenses, resources for the fighters, medical teams on standby, and the alliance elders to accompany them to Soul Severing Cliff.

At Soul Severing Cliff, Xiao Chen arrived to aid Xiao Yan and fought Venerable Hun Sha, the Hun Clan’s first combatant. Xiao Chen defeated him with the Xiao Clan secret technique, leaving the Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s duel poised to continue.

• Venerable Hun Sha released his pressure against the Heavenly Mansion Alliance before Xiao Chen appeared and challenged him.
• Xiao Chen met Venerable Hun Sha’s opening axe strike, and the clash injured both fighters, though Hun Sha was driven back farther.
• Venerable Hun Sha used the Hun Sha World-Ending Axe, drawing on Soul Severing Cliff’s Yin Sha Qi to summon a massive phantom axe.
• Xiao Chen countered with Blood Axe Shatters Heaven and Earth and broke through Hun Sha’s secret technique and Black Soul Shield.
• Xiao Chen’s blood-colored beam struck Venerable Hun Sha, severely injuring him and leaving him unable to move.

The Pill Ancestor fought Hun Xiao at Soul Severing Cliff, using the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire to defeat and destroy the Hun Clan elder. Afterward, the Pill Tower pledged to stand with the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, while Xiao Yan considered how the Pill Dao might strengthen his Heavenly Flame fusion.

• Hun Xiao entered the battle after Venerable Hun Sha's defeat and challenged the Pill Ancestor, who stepped forward to face him.
• Hun Xiao unleashed Soul Sea Devouring Heaven, but the Pill Ancestor used the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire and Myriad Flames Returning as One to purify the attacking souls.
• Hun Xiao formed the Soul Sha Devouring Heaven Seal, and the Pill Ancestor countered with Sacred Fire Burns Heaven, shattering the seal and severely wounding him.
• Hun Xiao tried to detonate his soul core, but the Pill Ancestor stopped him with a thread of golden fire and burned him to ash.
• The Pill Ancestor returned to Xiao Yan and pledged the Pill Tower's support to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance until the Hun Clan was destroyed.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire and considered combining the Pill Dao with his Heavenly Flame fusion to break the clans' encirclement.

The Hall Master of the Soul Hall confronted Xiao Yan at Soul Severing Cliff and attacked with Nihility Devouring Flame’s Purple Fire. Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan countered with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Eight-colored Heavenly Flames, leaving the Hall Master wounded as the Heavenly Mansion Alliance celebrated its first victory in the final battle.

• The Hall Master of the Soul Hall emerged at Soul Severing Cliff and sent his Purple Fire surging toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan summoned Xiao Yi, who used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to burn through the Purple Fire and defeat its beast phantoms.
• The Hall Master of the Soul Hall formed a giant Purple Fire phantom and attacked Xiao Yi with Void Spirit Devour, but Xiao Yi destroyed it with Pure Lotus Demon Suppressing.
• Xiao Yan joined Xiao Yi and fused his Eight-colored Heavenly Flames with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, striking the Hall Master of the Soul Hall and burning through his defense.
• The Hall Master of the Soul Hall retreated wounded as Xiao Yi taunted him and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance cheered, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi prepared for the Hun Clan’s counterattack.

Xiao Yan accompanied Yao Chen to the Yao Clan Sacred Mountain so Yao Chen could clear his name after being expelled for allegedly stealing the Pill Dao Origin Record. When the elders tried to drive them away, Xiao Yan summoned the North King Puppet and forced them to agree to reinvestigate the case.

• Yao Chen asked Xiao Yan to accompany him to the Yao Clan, and Xiao Yan agreed without hesitation.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan arrived at the Yao Clan Sacred Mountain, where the guarding disciples mocked Yao Chen and Xiao Yan's pressure silenced them.
• Yao Chen asked Great Elder Yao Lie and the other elders to clear his name, but they rejected his claim and pressured him to leave.
• Xiao Yan summoned the North King Puppet, whose Peak Six-Star Dou Sheng power overwhelmed the elders and forced Yao Lie to promise a reinvestigation.
• Xiao Yan subdued the North King's pressure, and Yao Chen entered the Council Hall unopposed to seek justice.

At the Yao Clan’s Ten Thousand Pills Conference, Xiao Yan competed against Yao Tian, Old Man Shen Nong, and Hun Xuzi to refine a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill. Xiao Yan completed the Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Pill, won the contest, and offered it to the Yao Clan to make amends for Yao Chen’s past suffering.

• The Medicine Emperor announced that the competitors had seven days to refine a Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Pill, with the winner receiving the Eternal Pill Scripture and leadership of the Yao Clan’s Pill Dao Hall.
• Yao Tian, Old Man Shen Nong, and Hun Xuzi began refining pills with their respective methods, while Xiao Yan spent half an hour using Soul Force to deduce the formula.
• Xiao Yan used the Buddha Flame Fire Lotus and a hundred rare ingredients to refine the pill, while Yao Tian stalled at the eighth revolution, Old Man Shen Nong’s pill lacked balance, and Hun Xuzi produced a vicious pill.
• At dawn on the seventh day, Xiao Yan completed a genuine Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill as the Seven-Colored Flame pillar filled the sky above the sacred mountain.
• Yao Lie and Old Man Shen Nong acknowledged Xiao Yan’s victory, while Hun Xuzi withdrew without attacking.
• Xiao Yan gave the Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Pill to the Yao Clan for Yao Chen’s sake, and the Yao Clan disciples cheered for him.

Hun Xuzi led the Hun Clan in a sudden assault on the Yao Clan Sacred Mountain, sealing it with the Nihility Devouring Flame and overwhelming its defenders. With Yao Emperor gravely wounded and Xiao Yan trapped beneath an Eight-Star Dou Sheng’s pressure, Yao Chen prepared to sacrifice himself to open a path for Xiao Yan to escape.

• The Hun Clan breached the Yao Clan’s Nine Revolutions Pill Spirit Array and surrounded the Sacred Mountain with an army of experts.
• Hun Xuzi unleashed the Nihility Devouring Flame to enclose the mountain in a barrier that cut off escape and devoured incoming power.
• An Eight-Star Dou Sheng defeated Yao Emperor and demanded the Yao Clan’s Pill Dao Origin Record and Xiao Yan’s Exotic Flame Origin.
• Hun Clan warriors attacked the Yao Clan disciples, while Hun Clan Dou Shengs drove Yao Lie and the elders back.
• Xiao Yan tried to break through the fire cover with his Soul Force and Buddha Flame Fire Lotus, but the barrier and the Eight-Star Dou Sheng’s pressure stopped him.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan he would use Pill Blood to activate the Yao Clan’s Final Secret Treasure and open a gap so Xiao Yan could seek help from the Heavenly Mansion Alliance.

Medicine Emperor summoned the Yao Clan Ancestor’s Remnant Soul to resist the Hun Clan invasion, but the Eight-Star Dou Sheng destroyed it and left the Yao Clan’s last defenders in despair. With Medicine Emperor unconscious and the fire cover closing in, Xiao Yan faced the Eight-Star Dou Sheng with little power to resist.

• Medicine Emperor used the Ancestor Summoning Seal to awaken the Yao Clan Ancestor’s Remnant Soul from the Sacred Mountain Earth Vein.
• The Ancestor’s Remnant Soul attacked the Hun Clan Eight-Star Dou Sheng with nine golden pill swords, but their clash ended with both attacks weakened.
• The Eight-Star Dou Sheng bound the remnant soul with soul threads and devoured it after its final Pill Seal failed to pierce his barrier.
• Medicine Emperor fainted as the Heaven and Earth Cauldron fell silent, and Hun Xuzi declared that the Yao Clan would be destroyed.
• The Eight-Star Dou Sheng turned on Xiao Yan, whose strength could not overcome the crushing pressure as the remaining Yao Clan Disciples despaired.

As the Hun Clan besieged the Yao Clan Sacred Mountain, the Medicine Emperor entrusted Yao Ling and the Yao Clan’s Pill Dao Heritage to Xiao Yan. The Medicine Emperor and several Yao Clan elders sacrificed themselves to break the Nihility Devouring Flame’s barrier, leaving Xiao Yan and Yao Ling a narrow escape route with Hun Xuzi and an Eight-Star Dou Sheng closing in.

• The dying Medicine Emperor placed Yao Ling’s hand in Xiao Yan’s and asked him to protect her and carry on the Yao Clan’s Pill Dao Heritage.
• Yao Ling refused to leave her father, but the Medicine Emperor ordered Yao Lie and the other surviving elders to clear a path for her and Xiao Yan.
• Yao Lie, Yao Yong, and several Dou Sheng elders self-destructed, weakening the Black Fire Cover formed by the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• The Medicine Emperor self-destructed and shattered the weakened barrier, opening a gap to the world beyond the sacred mountain.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Ling faced the Spatial Turbulence as Hun Xuzi and an Eight-Star Dou Sheng targeted the opening.

Xiao Yan fused ten Heavenly Flames to break the Hun Clan Eight-Star Dou Sheng’s barrier and escape the Yao Clan Sacred Mountain with Yao Ling, Yao Chen, and Old Man Shen Nong. Though the Yao Clan’s sacred land fell, Old Man Shen Nong urged them to seek the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, while the Hun Clan vowed to continue its hunt.

• Xiao Yan called on Old Man Shen Nong and Yao Ling to lend their Heavenly Flames, then summoned the North King Puppet and Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon to hold back the Hun Clan Eight-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan fused ten Heavenly Flames into a greatsword and shattered the Hun Clan Eight-Star Dou Sheng’s Dou Qi barrier.
• Xiao Yan carried Yao Ling and dragged Yao Chen and Old Man Shen Nong through the spatial gap, escaping the Hun Clan’s forces.
• Xiao Yan and the others saw the Yao Clan Sacred Mountain engulfed by black Qi, and Old Man Shen Nong proposed going to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance to unite the Central Plains.
• The Hun Clan Eight-Star Dou Sheng swore to hunt down Xiao Yan and Yao Ling, seize Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames, and destroy the Yao Clan’s survivors.

After escaping the destruction of the Yao Clan, Xiao Yan fought off the pursuing Hun Clan Eight-Star Dou Sheng while carrying Yao Ling toward the Ancient Clan to seek aid. He left Yao Chen and Old Man Shen Nong to rally the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, and continued toward the Ancient Clan as his power and defenses dwindled.

• Xiao Yan escaped the spatial breach with Yao Ling while Yao Chen and Old Man Shen Nong struggled against their injuries and the encroaching Death Qi.
• The Hun Clan Eight-Star Dou Sheng attacked Xiao Yan, who used his remaining Heavenly Flames to repel the Soul Sha Blades and protect his companions.
• Xiao Yan ordered Yao Chen and Old Man Shen Nong to go to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, while he planned to take Yao Ling to the Ancient Clan for help.
• Xiao Yan fought off the Hun Clan Dou Sheng's pursuit and told Yao Chen to meet him at the Abyss of Fallen Gods in three months with the Ancient Clan's answer.
• Yao Chen and Old Man Shen Nong departed for the Heavenly Mansion Alliance as Xiao Yan continued toward the Ancient Clan with Yao Ling, sustaining the weakening Flame Shield under relentless attacks.

Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Phoenix Bone Wings and a Ninth-Grade Pill to escape the pursuing Hun Clan Eight-Star Dou Sheng while protecting Yao Ling. He continued racing toward the Ancient Clan’s territory, with the pursuer still close behind.

• Xiao Yan unfurled his Heavenly Phoenix Bone Wings and accelerated, driving the Soul Fiend threads away from his Flame Shield.
• Xiao Yan swallowed a Ninth-Grade Pill, which restored his strength and soul perception and further empowered his wings.
• The Hun Clan Eight-Star Dou Sheng accelerated and attacked Xiao Yan with a Soul Fiend pillar, but Xiao Yan dodged the blow.
• Xiao Yan poured the pill’s remaining medicinal power into his wings and shield as he carried Yao Ling toward the approaching golden sky curtain of the Ancient Clan.

Xiao Yan reached the Ancient Realm’s barrier, but a Hun Clan Eight-Star Dou Sheng attacked before he could enter. Xiao Yan survived the assault with a fusion of thunder and flame, and Gu Chen’s forces drove the attacker away, leaving Xiao Yan and Yao Ling safe at the gates.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Ancient Realm’s barrier while carrying Yao Ling, but the Hun Clan Eight-Star Dou Sheng launched a Hun Sha Great Axe at him.
• Xiao Yan merged the Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon’s power with his flames and Ninth-Grade Pill’s medicinal power, then shattered the axe with a palm strike.
• The clash threw Xiao Yan against the barrier and wounded him, while the Hun Clan Dou Sheng was also forced back.
• Gu Chen and several dozen Ancient Clan experts arrived and surrounded the Hun Clan Dou Sheng.
• The Hun Clan Dou Sheng threatened Xiao Yan and the Ancient Realm before retreating, and Xiao Yan relaxed against the barrier with Yao Ling safe in his arms.