Chapter Summaries

Liu Xi returned to Jia Ma Holy City and began gathering support for reorganizing its major powers, while visiting the Misty Cloud Sect to persuade Yun Yun. He found Nalan Yanran standing in Yun Yun’s place, and left after she refused to attack him and warned that her teacher would not be persuaded.

• Liu Xi told Hai Bodong and Fa Ma about Zhongzhou and his Eighth-grade alchemy achievements, then invited them to consider his reorganization plan.
• Liu Xi reunited with his family and spoke with his master Xuan Hao, who had recovered his youth and advanced to Dou Wang.
• Hai Bodong and Fa Ma told Liu Xi that the Mittel Family and Alchemist Guild supported his plan, while the Jia Ma Imperial Family and Misty Cloud Sect remained silent.
• Liu Xi went alone to Misty Cloud Mountain to persuade Yun Yun, but found Nalan Yanran acting as sect master in her teacher’s absence.
• Nalan Yanran challenged Liu Xi to defeat her before taking the Misty Cloud Sect, but lowered her sword when he stood unguarded and said he would speak with Yun Yun instead.

Liu Xi found Yun Yun at the Misty Cloud Sect and persuaded her to stay in the Jia Ma Empire and help lead his faction, warning her of the Soul Hall’s threat. After reprimanding her for avoiding him, he gave her the Wind Chant sword, leaving her with a place in his plans and a new weapon.

• Liu Xi found Yun Yun alone on a cliff and confronted her about planning to leave the Misty Cloud Sect behind.
• Liu Xi told Yun Yun that the Soul Hall was behind the dangers threatening the continent and urged her to unite the Jia Ma Empire’s forces.
• Liu Xi asked Yun Yun to stay as second-in-command of his faction, and she agreed to remain and pursue revenge.
• Liu Xi playfully spanked Yun Yun for avoiding him until she promised not to do so again.
• Liu Xi gave Yun Yun the Wind Chant sword, and she accepted it gratefully.

Liu Xi gave Yun Yun the precious Eighth-grade Replenishing Origin Pill because he cared for her and wanted the Jia Ma Empire to gain a Dou Zun. Yun Yun accepted it and began refining it in her private chambers while Liu Xi guarded her, as her body and aura started to transform.

• Liu Xi revealed that the Replenishing Origin Pill could improve aptitude enough to give someone the potential to become a Dou Saint, and Yun Yun initially refused the gift.
• Liu Xi explained that he liked Yun Yun, wanted the Jia Ma Empire to produce a Dou Zun, and could eventually refine more pills; Yun Yun accepted the pill and embraced him.
• Liu Xi accompanied Yun Yun to her private chambers and used Spatial Power to stop the pill after it transformed into a white tiger and tried to escape.
• Yun Yun swallowed the Replenishing Origin Pill and began cultivating while Liu Xi watched over her with his Spiritual Power.
• White radiance surrounded Yun Yun as impurities left her body and her aura began undergoing a fundamental transformation.

After Yun Yun refined the Replenishing Origin Pill, she reached Nine Star Dou Zong and agreed to remain with the Misty Cloud Sect as Liu Xi persuaded her to stay. Liu Xi gathered support from Jia Ma Holy City’s major factions for a restructuring meeting, which was set for the next day at the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Yun Yun completed refining the Replenishing Origin Pill, healed her hidden injuries, and advanced to Nine Star Dou Zong.
• Liu Xi stayed the night with Yun Yun, and the next morning he postponed his meeting with Elder Hai and President Fa Ma so she could rest.
• Nalan Yanran told Liu Xi that some Misty Cloud Sect disciples wanted to leave, and Liu Xi allowed them to choose while explaining that Yun Yun had agreed to remain.
• Liu Xi returned to Jia Ma Holy City and asked Hai Bodong and President Fa Ma to announce the Misty Cloud Sect’s agreement and arrange a meeting for the next day.
• The Mu Family, Nalan Family, and Jia Ma Imperial Family accepted Liu Xi’s restructuring plan, and the meeting was scheduled for the next day at the Misty Cloud Sect’s discussion hall.

Liu Xi gathered the Jia Ma Empire’s factions on Misty Cloud Mountain and proposed uniting them into the Heavenly Alliance. The leaders accepted a structure that placed Liu Xi as Alliance Leader and Yun Yun as Vice Alliance Leader, with the old factions to be dissolved into alliance departments.

• Nalan Yanran welcomed the faction leaders and announced that Liu Xi had invited them to discuss merging their powers.
• Liu Xi arrived with Yun Yun and explained that he wanted to strengthen the Jia Ma Empire against future turmoil and expand its influence.
• Liu Xi proposed an Alliance Leader, a Vice Alliance Leader, and an Elder Council whose members would share votes while the Alliance Leader retained veto power.
• Liu Xi named himself Alliance Leader and Yun Yun Vice Alliance Leader, assigned elder seats to current factions, and said the factions would be dissolved into alliance departments.
• Liu Xi named the new organization the Heavenly Alliance, and the leaders accepted the merger.

Liu Xi consolidated the Heavenly Alliance and delegated its management to Yun Yun before spending half a year creating a cultivation method suited to his mastery of fire. His 439th meridian route succeeded, drawing an immense vortex of Heaven and Earth Energy into his body.

• Liu Xi expanded the Heavenly Alliance across the Jia Ma Empire, dismissed those who refused to join, and persuaded Gu He to become an alchemy department elder with the promise of higher-grade Alchemy Inheritance.
• Liu Xi donated cultivation methods, Dou Techniques, weapons, and medicinal pills to the alliance, prompting its members to contribute their own resources.
• Liu Xi entrusted the alliance's administration to Yun Yun, whose Nine Star Dou Zong cultivation helped her keep the factions in order.
• Liu Xi studied Fire Attribute cultivation methods and began designing a new method based on his understanding of fire and the six Heavenly Flames he had devoured.
• After half a year of deduction, Liu Xi circulated Dou Qi through his 439th proposed route, successfully drawing in vast Heaven and Earth Energy and refining it into pure Dou Qi.

Liu Xi completed the Nine Nether Suppressing Flame Art, broke through to the peak of Six Star Dou Zun, and prepared to return to Zhongzhou. Before leaving, he gave Yun Yun two Dou Zun-level Heavenly Demon Puppets to protect the Heavenly Alliance.

• The phenomenon over Misty Cloud Mountain revealed that Liu Xi was creating a powerful cultivation art, and Qing Lin and Yun Yun recognized its cause.
• Liu Xi completed the Nine Nether Suppressing Flame Art and used the gathered energy to reach the peak of Six Star Dou Zun.
• Liu Xi reflected on the art’s talent-dependent power, named it, and decided to return to Zhongzhou while waiting for Xian'er.
• Liu Xi learned that Zi Ling had unified the Snake People Race and expanded its territory while avoiding the Jia Ma Empire.
• Liu Xi summoned Yun Yun and spent five days refining two Soul Hall Dou Zun corpses into Heavenly Demon Puppets, then bound them to her as protection.
• Liu Xi and Yun Yun spent another day and night together before he descended the mountain.

Liu Xi returned to Jia Nan Academy with Qing Lin and Zi Yan, reuniting with Su Qian and the academy elders. After visiting the academy and arranging alchemy guidance for Elder Huo, Liu Xi went to the lava beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower to cultivate.

• Liu Xi, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan reached Jia Nan Academy and Zi Yan opened a rift through the Inner Court's Space Barrier.
• Liu Xi announced his return to Su Qian, who recognized that Liu Xi had advanced to Dou Venerate and learned that Zi Yan had become a Dou Zong.
• Liu Xi told Su Qian he planned to visit the academy and cultivate in the lava pool; Su Qian welcomed him and said Fallen Heart Flame had grown close to the threshold of Dou Emperor.
• Liu Xi toured the academy, met its elders and Vice Principal Hu Gan, gave acquaintances pills, and devised a plan to help Elder Huo become a Seventh-grade Alchemist.
• The next morning, Liu Xi brought Qing Lin and Zi Yan to see Fallen Heart Flame, then headed to the crimson lava beneath the tower.

Liu Xi and Zi Yan descended into the magma to find the hidden Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, while Qing Lin waited above. As they approached the cave, Liu Xi sensed its powerful Lizardmen guardians and prepared to break through with Zi Yan.

• Liu Xi shielded Zi Yan and Qing Lin from the heat, then told Qing Lin she could return while he and Zi Yan searched beneath the magma.
• Qing Lin insisted she would wait three days before coming after them, and Liu Xi and Zi Yan plunged into the magma.
• Liu Xi carried Zi Yan deeper through the magma, following a faint sense of an unusual place and hoping she would gain strength from what they found.
• Liu Xi sensed numerous Lizardmen guardians ahead, including powerful Dou Zongs, Dou Venerables, and possibly Half-Saints, and warned Zi Yan to hold on as they charged toward the cave mansion.

Liu Xi fought through the Lizardmen guarding the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion while protecting Zi Yan, then unleashed a dangerous Black Sun to escape into a dark space. The Lizardmen stopped at the spatial crevice, where two powerful auras arrived to guard it.

• Liu Xi used Blazing Heaven Finger to clear a path through the Lizardmen and flew onward with Zi Yan.
• The Lizardmen’s sonic attack injured Liu Xi and Zi Yan, so Liu Xi increased his speed and killed a Dou Zun blocking his way.
• Four Dou Zuns blocked Liu Xi’s route as nine more pursued him, and the Lizardmen prepared to fire scorching fireballs.
• Liu Xi combined his Dou Qi, azure flames, and Spiritual Power into a Black Sun that swallowed the fireballs and devoured the four Dou Zuns.
• Liu Xi reached a spatial crevice and entered a dark space, while the Lizardmen stayed back and two powerful auras appeared to guard the opening.

Liu Xi and Zi Yan reached the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion beneath the magma and encountered the Old Dragon Emperor, who recognized Zi Yan as his daughter. After his murderous killing intent overwhelmed Liu Xi, Zi Yan ordered him to stop, and Liu Xi fainted.

• Liu Xi restored his Dou Qi and carried the weakened Zi Yan toward the bronze gate marked Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Liu Xi and Zi Yan saw an enormous purple-gold dragon coiled in the darkness, and Zi Yan said it felt familiar.
• The Old Dragon Emperor asked whether Liu Xi possessed the Ancient Jade, then recognized Zi Yan and transformed into a middle-aged man.
• The Old Dragon Emperor saw Liu Xi holding Zi Yan and unleashed killing intent that left Liu Xi unable to move or sense his Dou Qi.
• Zi Yan angrily told the Old Dragon Emperor to stop, and Liu Xi fainted as the pressure on him lifted.

Liu Xi recovered after Zhu Kun’s killing intent knocked him unconscious, and Zi Yan began to soften toward her long-lost father. After learning the Ancient Dragon Clan was divided and Zi Yan was in danger, Zhu Kun gave her the Dragon Seal to protect her claim to the throne.

• Liu Xi woke beside Zi Yan and found that Zhu Kun had spared him, then politely apologized for his earlier behavior toward Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan insisted she had not acknowledged Zhu Kun as her father, but Liu Xi encouraged her to decide according to her own heart.
• Zhu Kun explained that the Ancient Jade was needed to open the bronze gate and free him from the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Liu Xi told Zhu Kun that the Ancient Dragon Clan had split into four and that three islands were plotting against Zi Yan, prompting Zhu Kun to erupt in anger.
• Zhu Kun gave Zi Yan the Dragon Seal, explaining that it would weaken others’ bloodline power and protect her claim to the Dragon Emperor’s throne.
• Zi Yan accepted the Dragon Seal and promised to gather the Ancient Jade so Zhu Kun could leave, after which she said they would owe each other nothing.

Zhu Kun gave Zi Yan his heartblood through the Dragon Seal, causing her to absorb it and faint while her bloodline strengthened. After testing Liu Xi’s feelings for her, Zhu Kun gave him a Blood Crystal to help him adapt to Ancient Dragon Blood and asked him to protect Zi Yan.

• Zi Yan touched Zhu Kun’s Dragon Seal, which entered her heart and began tempering her bloodline with his heartblood.
• Zi Yan fainted from the strain, and Liu Xi confronted Zhu Kun before learning that she was undergoing a stress response while absorbing the blood.
• Zhu Kun pressured Liu Xi to explain his intentions toward Zi Yan, and Liu Xi said he liked her and would wait until she grew up.
• Zhu Kun gave Liu Xi a Blood Crystal that could help him adapt to Ancient Dragon Blood, temporarily grant him Dou Sheng Power, and eventually enable him to use Ancient Dragon Armor.
• Zhu Kun asked Liu Xi to protect Zi Yan, and Liu Xi solemnly promised he would.

Liu Xi left the dark void with the unconscious Zi Yan after promising Zhu Kun that he would seek a way to free him. Outside, Liu Xi used Zhu Kun’s blood crystal to unleash borrowed Dou Sheng power and killed two Half-Saint Lizardmen, leaving with their fire beads.

• Liu Xi said farewell to Zhu Kun and promised to seek a way to restore his freedom by gathering the Ancient Jade.
• Zhu Kun celebrated seeing Zi Yan, struck the bronze gate in frustration, and then fell asleep.
• Two Half-Saint Lizardmen confronted Liu Xi as he emerged from the spatial barrier and threatened to punish him.
• Liu Xi activated the blood crystal and transformed beneath purple-gold scales, unleashing power up to One-star Dou Sheng.
• Liu Xi killed both Lizardmen with a single punch and collected their fire beads.

After escaping the magma with an unconscious Zi Yan, Liu Xi recovered from the strain of wielding Dou Sheng Power and recounted his discoveries to Qing Lin and Su Qian. Back at the pavilion, he inventoried his gains and wondered whether he could recreate the powerful Dou Technique he had unleashed.

• Liu Xi crushed more than twenty fleeing Dou Zun Lizardmen, collected their Fire Pearls, and withdrew his borrowed Dou Sheng Power at the cost of severe injuries and much of his blood crystal.
• Liu Xi carried the unconscious Zi Yan out of the magma and told Qing Lin that she would awaken after absorbing the energy within her body.
• Liu Xi told Qing Lin about Zi Yan's father and the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, and warned her to keep the information secret.
• Liu Xi returned Zi Yan to the pavilion, forged a metal bed to withstand her heat, and persuaded Su Qian that a mysterious Lizardmen tribe beneath the magma posed no threat to the academy.
• Liu Xi counted his Fire Pearls and remaining blood crystal, considered Zi Yan's potential and Dragon Seal, and wondered if he could recreate his powerful Dou Technique.

Liu Xi left Qing Lin to watch over Zi Yan and went to the Inner Court Back Mountain to recreate the destructive technique he had used before. After a month of experiments, he stabilized the Black Sun and named his newly created Heaven Tier Dou Technique Annihilation Finger.

• Liu Xi told Qing Lin to monitor Zi Yan, and Qing Lin explained that she could use Ling Shuang to alert him if Zi Yan's condition changed.
• Liu Xi went to the Inner Court Back Mountain with Ling Shuang and tried to recreate the technique using Dou Qi, Heavenly Flames, and Spiritual Power.
• Liu Xi's first attempt exploded, annihilating everything within a dozen zhang and leaving a smooth crater.
• Liu Xi spent a month experimenting, returning every three days to check on Zi Yan, while repeated failures scarred the back mountain.
• Liu Xi stabilized the Black Sun by combining Dou Qi, Heavenly Flames, and Spiritual Power in a one-to-one-to-two ratio, then named the Heaven Tier Dou Technique Annihilation Finger.

After deducing his Dou Technique, Liu Xi returned to Jia Nan Academy and found that Zi Yan had grown into a mature woman after absorbing the Nine-star Dou Sheng blood essence. He strengthened the academy’s defenses and departed for Zhongzhou with Zi Yan and Qing Lin, with Zi Yan determined to rescue her father.

• Liu Xi finished deducing his Dou Technique, then Qing Lin told him that Zi Yan had changed greatly.
• Liu Xi found Zi Yan transformed into a mature woman and learned that her strength had risen to around the three- to four-star Dou Zun level and that the blood essence had cleared the foreign medicinal power from her bloodline.
• Liu Xi comforted Zi Yan about her father and told her they would seek a way to rescue him; Zi Yan agreed to prepare for a journey to Zhongzhou.
• Liu Xi informed Great Elder Su Qian that he planned to leave Jia Nan Academy and visit Zhongzhou.
• Liu Xi fed his Dou Qi to the Fallen Heart Flame, helping it evolve to Dou Zong-level strength, and reinforced the Inner Court’s Space Barrier with Zi Yan and Qing Lin.
• Liu Xi left Jia Nan Academy and the Northwest Continent with Zi Yan and Qing Lin.

Liu Xi took Qing Lin and Zi Yan to the Beast Region to search for a hidden Dou Sheng Ruins in the Bone Mountain Range, hoping to find treasures including the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. As Zi Yan began searching with her spatial power, Qing Lin sensed something in the range calling to her.

• Liu Xi heard that Soul Hall was covertly provoking conflicts across Zhongzhou and grew concerned that the Soul Clan was accelerating its plans.
• Liu Xi decided to head directly to the Beast Region instead of the Pill Domain and told Zi Yan about the Dou Sheng Ruins in the Nine Nether Underworld Python territory.
• Zi Yan offered to unite the Ancient Dragon Clan and said she would help Liu Xi search the Bone Mountain Range with her command of spatial power.
• Liu Xi and his companions reached the Bone Mountain Range, where Liu Xi revealed that he did not know the ruins' exact location.
• Qing Lin sensed something within the Bone Mountain Range calling to her.

Qing Lin’s summons led Liu Xi and Zi Yan into Snake Valley, where they found the remains and lingering soul of an Ancient Tian She. Qing Lin began controlling the nine-headed soul, which did not resist, leaving its fate in her hands.

• Qing Lin sensed a summons, and Liu Xi agreed to follow it with her and Zi Yan into the Bone Mountain Range.
• Qing Lin used her Jade Snake Three Flower Pupils to put the snake-type magical beasts in Snake Valley to sleep so the group could proceed unnoticed.
• Liu Xi, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan found a nine-headed Ancient Tian She skeleton deep in the valley, and its released soul took on the form of a giant serpent.
• Liu Xi prepared to fight the Ancient Tian She soul, but Qing Lin said she might be able to control it.
• Qing Lin cast her pupil technique on the Ancient Tian She soul, and matching flowers appeared in all eighteen of its eyes without it resisting.

Liu Xi and his companions searched the Bone Mountain Range for the hidden Dou Sheng Ruins, and Zi Yan found and opened a breach into them. Their early entry accelerated the ruins’ collapse and revealed the entrance to nearby magical beasts, who began gathering and spreading the news.

• Liu Xi warned Qing Lin to tell him if the Ancient Tian She's soul behaved abnormally and promised to help suppress it.
• Zi Yan searched the Bone Mountain Range with her spatial senses while Liu Xi and the others concealed their auras from the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan.
• Zi Yan discovered a hidden space in a valley of bones and explained that it was unstable and difficult for anyone below Half-Saint to detect.
• Zi Yan tore open a fissure in the hidden space, and Liu Xi, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan entered the Dou Sheng Ruins.
• The fissure closed behind them, but the ruins’ entrance remained visible, and magical beasts gathered around it as others set out to spread the news.