Chapter Summaries

Liu Xi recovered on the newly unified Ancient Dragon Island and refined the North Dragon King and Huang Tian into puppets. The two became his servants, named A Long and A Huang.

• Liu Xi continued recovering from the severe depletion of his Dou Qi while Zi Yan secluded herself after awakening with a chance to become a Five-star Dou Sheng.
• Liu Xi summoned the corpses of the North Dragon King and Huang Tian and began tempering them with Azure Flame to make Heavenly Demon Puppets.
• After half a month of tempering, the North Dragon King and Huang Tian rose and revealed their surviving remnant souls, which Liu Xi then imprisoned in their bodies.
• Liu Xi refined the corpses with rare ores and metals, then bound the finished puppets to himself with drops of his blood.
• The puppets knelt and called Liu Xi Master, and he named them A Long and A Huang.

Liu Xi entered the Void Thunder Pool to temper A Long, A Huang, and A San with Black Demon Lightning while practicing the Yellow Springs Fighting Skills. He mastered Yellow Springs Finger and left a vast stretch of the thunder pool cleared by its power.

• Liu Xi traveled alone to the Void Thunder Pool, crossed its ordinary lightning, and found a region filled with Black Demon Lightning.
• Liu Xi released A Long, A Huang, and A San into the Black Demon Lightning so they could absorb it and strengthen themselves.
• Liu Xi practiced the Yellow Springs Fighting Skills while the three puppets endured the lightning.
• Liu Xi mastered Yellow Springs Finger and used it to crush the surrounding lightning, clearing a large area of the thunder pool.

Liu Xi completed his study of the Yellow Springs fighting skills in the Void Thunder Pool, but a Nine Profound Golden Lightning appeared and forced him to flee. He escaped to Ancient Dragon Island with A Long and A Huang, then considered returning for the lightning someday.

• Liu Xi demonstrated Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and reflected that he had mastered three Yellow Springs fighting skills with the Yellow Springs Demon Sage’s guidance.
• The Void Thunder Pool erupted, and Liu Xi spotted a massive Nine Profound Golden Lightning dragon in the depths.
• Liu Xi fled toward the outskirts of the Void Thunder Pool with A Long and A Huang following him.
• Liu Xi continued past the pool until he neared Ancient Dragon Island, then stopped and admitted he could not risk confronting the Nine Profound Golden Lightning yet.
• A Long and A Huang knelt before Liu Xi, and he inspected their newly lightning-tempered bodies with satisfaction.

Liu Xi returned to Ancient Dragon Island, praised Qing Lin’s progress, and discussed strengthening their allies without exhausting the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan. He then headed with Qing Lin to meet Zi Yan, who was preparing to wage war on the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and unify the Beast Region.

• Liu Xi returned to Ancient Dragon Island and praised Qing Lin for advancing to One-star Dou Sheng.
• Qing Lin proposed exchanging Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder for Yao Ming so the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan experts could recover before being used to cultivate her further.
• Liu Xi learned that Xiao Yi Xian was refining poison with herbs from the Ancient Dragon Clan and urged Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian to cultivate patiently toward Nine-star Dou Sheng.
• Liu Xi and Qing Lin set out to see Zi Yan, who had advanced to Five-star Dou Sheng and was discussing a campaign against the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Zi Yan and the elders agreed that they had to fight to unify the Beast Region.

Zi Yan and Liu Xi planned to bring the Beast Region under Ancient Dragon Clan rule, then led the clan to absorb the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan surrendered without a fight, shaking the Beast Region.

• Zi Yan rejected waiting for the returning elders and ordered Elder Qing Shan to mobilize the Ancient Dragon Clan's three armies against the weakened Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Liu Xi reunited with Zi Yan, revealed his four-star Dou Sheng strength, and advised her to subdue the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and later bring the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan into submission.
• Three days later, Phoenix and Kun Huang submitted to Zi Yan after seeing Huang Tian turned into a puppet, then guided the Ancient Dragon Clan's forces to surround the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• With its leaders defeated or submitted and no chance of reinforcements, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan surrendered to the Ancient Void Dragon.
• News of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's surrender spread and shook the Beast Region.

The Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s rise prompted the Beast Region’s hidden clans to rally around Yao Ming, while Qing Lin coordinated their gathering as part of Liu Xi and Zi Yan’s plans. Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Four-star Dou Sheng, and the chapter ended with the Beast Region’s unification and the Ancient Dragon Clan’s return still to come.

• After the Ancient Void Dragon Clan reemerged and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan submitted, Yao Ming welcomed eleven hidden bloodline clans and prepared to meet them at the Nether Snake Earth Vein.
• The Soul Hall Great Heavenly Venerate agreed to help Yao Ming resist the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, while Qing Lin reported the plans to Liu Xi and Zi Yan.
• Liu Xi praised Qing Lin for helping force the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan to surrender, and Zi Yan thanked her.
• Liu Xi, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin sensed Xiao Yi Xian’s breakthrough and went to her secluded cultivation site.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s Dou Qi surged until she reached the Four-star Dou Sheng realm.

Xiao Yi Xian used Du'e Powder to advance from a One-star Dou Sheng to a Four-star Dou Sheng, then joined Liu Xi and the others for a celebratory banquet. Meanwhile, Yao Ming gathered Beast Region experts to resist the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, but a mysterious emissary arrived offering assistance.

• Xiao Yi Xian explained that Du'e Powder had amplified her Calamity Poison Gas and helped her reach Four-star Dou Sheng, though she could not use the powder again until her poison had developed further.
• Liu Xi congratulated Xiao Yi Xian and took her, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin to celebrate before heading to the Nether Snake Earth Vein.
• Yao Ming hosted reclusive Beast Region experts and warned them that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan would target the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan after swallowing the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• A sinister visitor arrived at Yao Ming's banquet in black mist and claimed that the Hall Master had sent him to offer assistance.

Yao Ming revealed that he had brought Zi Yan, the Dragon Emperor, to the gathering and pledged the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan to her. Zi Yan crushed the Soul Hall Great Heavenly Venerate and demanded that the gathered clans submit.

• The Soul Hall Great Heavenly Venerate arrived with more than a dozen Soul Hall Venerable Elders, and the clan chiefs questioned Yao Ming's alliance with Soul Hall.
• Yao Ming announced that he had another guest, then greeted the arriving Zi Yan as the Dragon Emperor and bowed to her.
• Zi Yan praised Yao Ming's contribution, and he pledged to serve her while the gathered clans realized he had brought them into a trap.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate tried to leave and threatened Zi Yan, but she struck him down and left him barely alive.
• Zi Yan offered the gathered clans three choices: submit, submit, or submit.

Zi Yan forced the gathered clans to submit to the Ancient Dragon Clan, while Liu Xi secretly captured the Great Heavenly Venerate’s soul. After the Beast Region was reorganized, Soul Hall demanded justice for its fallen leader, and Liu Xi quietly departed with the soul.

• Zi Yan killed the Great Heavenly Venerate in front of the clan chiefs, prompting Wang Yi and the other leaders to pledge loyalty to her.
• Liu Xi secretly seized the Great Heavenly Venerate’s soul, intending to use it to uncover the secrets of the Heaven and Earth Halls and strengthen his Spiritual Power.
• Zi Yan ordered the clan chiefs to kill the remaining Soul Hall Venerable Elders, and Wang Yi and the others slaughtered them.
• The Ancient Dragon Clan consolidated the Beast Region as its rival factions and hidden bloodline clans submitted.
• Soul Hall protested the Great Heavenly Venerate’s death, and Hun Miesheng went to the Beast Region’s edge to pressure the Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Liu Xi quietly left the Beast Region with the Great Heavenly Venerate’s soul.

Hun Miesheng maintained a futile standoff at the Beast Region border while Liu Xi attacked Earth Hall in a canyon and annihilated everyone there. Liu Xi left Earth Hall in ruins with no survivors.

• Hun Miesheng waited outside the undefended-looking Beast Region, but the Ancient Void Dragon Clan ignored him.
• Soul Hall figures complained that their workload had increased after Human Hall’s destruction and warned that Ancient Clan suppression was worsening.
• Liu Xi appeared above Earth Hall and destroyed its palaces and defenders with a massive palm.
• Earth Hall’s Vice Hall Master confronted Liu Xi, but Liu Xi killed him with successive punches.
• Liu Xi put away the Vice Hall Master’s corpse, crushed the fleeing Soul Hall experts, and searched the palaces until Earth Hall was completely annihilated.

Liu Xi collected the Soul Origin from Earth Hall, freed its sealed souls, and hurried to Heavenly Hall before the Soul Clan could respond. He annihilated Heavenly Hall and everyone defending it, leaving the Soul Hall’s central stronghold in ruins.

• Liu Xi uncovered the Soul Origin beneath Earth Hall and dispersed the lingering obsessions before collecting it.
• Liu Xi awakened the souls sealed in Earth Hall, and the freed souls fled the ruins.
• Liu Xi headed for Heavenly Hall, hoping to seize its treasures before Hun Miesheng or the Soul Clan could intervene.
• Liu Xi arrived at Heavenly Hall and used a massive torrent of Dou Qi to crush its defenders and destroy the palace complex.

Liu Xi broke into the Heavenly Hall’s underground vault and absorbed its enormous reserve of Soul Origin before looting the Soul Hall’s treasures and records. Hun Miesheng returned to find the headquarters devastated and everything valuable missing.

• Liu Xi summoned the Great Heavenly Venerate’s soul, learned that the Soul Origins were stored somewhere in the Heavenly Hall, and drilled through the floor with Azure Flame.
• Liu Xi mapped the underground maze with his late Heaven Realm soul and used a Black Sun to break the sealed door, destroying seals that included traces of Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Hun Miesheng sensed that his seals had been destroyed, realized the Heavenly Hall was being raided, and rushed back from the border of the Beast Region.
• Liu Xi absorbed the immense Soul Origin in the vault, then opened more rooms and took the Soul Hall’s treasures, branch hall records, expert lists, missions, and crime dossiers.
• Hun Miesheng returned to find the Heavenly Hall in ruins and its Soul Origins, collections, and records gone, then collapsed and roared in fury.

After the Soul Hall’s defeat and the theft of its Soul Origin, Liu Xi returned to Ancient Dragon Island to refine and absorb the vast hoard. With the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s help, his soul began absorbing the purified Soul Origin, while his seclusion caused plants across the mountain to flourish.

• Hun Miesheng blamed the Ancient Clan for the theft, withdrew the Soul Hall from Zhongzhou, and returned to the Soul Clan to ask for help.
• The Ancient Clan suspected the Soul Hall’s accusation was false, while Gu Xun Er put aside her romantic anguish and began acting like a clan heir.
• Liu Xi returned to Ancient Dragon Island with Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian, then entered seclusion with the stolen Soul Origin.
• Liu Xi burned the Soul Origin with Azure Flame to remove gray vapors filled with dangerous negative emotions.
• Liu Xi began absorbing the purified Soul Origin, and the Ancient Bodhi Tree helped nourish his soul as life flourished around his body.

After a year absorbing Soul Origin, Liu Xi reached the great completion of the Heaven Realm Soul and reunited with Zi Yan on Ancient Dragon Island. Zi Yan told him the Ling Clan had vanished, revealing that the Soul Clan’s thousand-year plan had begun.

• Liu Xi finished absorbing the Soul Origin, reaching the great completion of the Heaven Realm Soul but falling short of an Emperor Realm Soul.
• Liu Xi noticed Ancient Dragon Island’s experts had grown stronger and met Zi Yan and the three commanders Zhu Bei, Zhu Yu, and Zhu Fei.
• Zi Yan said the commanders had returned after searching for the previous Dragon Emperor, and Liu Xi assured them he would take responsibility for his relationship with her.
• Zi Yan told Liu Xi that Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin had entered seclusion while she had spent the year managing affairs on Ancient Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan reported that the Soul Hall’s forces had withdrawn after Liu Xi robbed it, and that the Spirit Realm had reopened with the Ling Clan’s millions of members gone.
• Liu Xi realized that the Ling Clan’s disappearance marked the beginning of the Soul Clan’s thousand-year plan, which had left Zhongzhou in fearful silence.

Liu Xi prepared to capture the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame by refining the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill. He smoothly completed the pill embryo and began infusing it with Spiritual Power.

• Liu Xi decided to keep the Soul Clan’s progress in the Stone Clan instance secret and focused on strengthening his own foundations and the Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Liu Xi found the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill formula and used his Heaven Realm Great Perfection Spiritual Power to understand it.
• Liu Xi extracted the medicinal essences, including that of the Yellow Springs Blood Crystal, with his Azure Flame.
• Liu Xi fused the medicinal liquids into a pill embryo after three days of refining.
• Liu Xi began Spirit Infusion, and the pill embryo absorbed the radiance as it grew more lively and smooth.

Liu Xi subdued the newly born Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill and traded his alchemy skills for gifts from the Ancient Dragon elders, growing stronger during several months on Ancient Dragon Island. With the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence drawing near, he prepared to return to the Dou Qi Continent and join the coming struggle for it.

• Liu Xi stopped the Black Demon Lightning from destroying the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill, then caught the fleeing pill and sealed it in a jade bottle.
• The Ancient Dragon elders crowded around Liu Xi with gifts and asked him to refine Eighth-grade and Ninth-grade Pills for them.
• Liu Xi spent several months refining pills on Ancient Dragon Island, raising his strength to Late Four-star Dou Sheng.
• Liu Xi turned down further requests and prepared to return to the Dou Qi Continent before Twin Moons Appearing Together and Nine Stars Aligned heralded the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Liu Xi traveled across Zhongzhou with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, then set out to pursue the emerging Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. They reached the scorching desert where it would appear, keeping their identities and strength concealed as powerful figures gathered around them.

• Liu Xi returned to Zhongzhou with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, while Zi Yan and three Ancient Dragon commanders secretly watched over them from afar.
• Liu Xi surveyed Zhongzhou and learned that a western mountain range had become unstable and scorching, sensing the aura of a powerful Heavenly Flame there.
• Twin Moons Appearing Together and Nine Stars Aligning triggered a Heaven and Earth Tide, announcing that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was about to emerge.
• Liu Xi sealed the auras of himself, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin at the Half-Saint level and led them west alongside the gathering experts.
• Liu Xi and his companions reached the vast, intensely hot desert where the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would emerge and stayed behind the crowd.

Liu Xi watched the Soul Clan, Ancient Clan, Flame Clan, and Yao Clan gather to pursue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. As the factions clashed over old grievances, Liu Xi remained confident that his Heavenly Demon Puppets could help him claim the flames.

• Qing Lin hid from the desert heat as Liu Xi explained the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's power and waited for the pathfinders to arrive.
• Hun Miesheng and Hun Feng arrived with two Soul Clan elders, and Liu Xi recognized Hun Miesheng as the man whose Soul Origin he had stolen.
• Gu Xun Er arrived without Xiao Yan, and Gu Nanhai countered Hun Miesheng's pressure as the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan exchanged accusations.
• Hun Feng challenged Gu Xun Er over Hun Yu's death, and she accepted his challenge in the coming Demon Fire Space.
• The Flame Clan and Yao Clan arrived, and Liu Xi eagerly eyed the Heavenly Flames among the gathered factions.

Liu Xi entered the Demon Fire Space to seek the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but Nihility Devouring Flame appeared in an illusion and nearly overwhelmed him. With help from the Ancient Bodhi Tree, Liu Xi broke free and expelled the flame, then noticed the Nether Lotus Demon Saint’s remnant soul stirring.

• Liu Xi warned Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame used emotional illusions, and the three entered the Demon Fire Space with the other experts.
• Liu Xi encountered a black-mist figure resembling Hun Miesheng and realized it was Nihility Devouring Flame appearing through an illusion.
• The illusion made Liu Xi believe Nihility Devouring Flame was draining his powers, but he recognized the deception and regained his strength with aid from the Ancient Bodhi Tree.
• Liu Xi shattered the illusion, used Azure Flame to expel the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame from his body, and understood how its illusions could turn victims into fire slaves.
• The Nether Lotus Demon Saint’s remnant soul stirred, drawing Liu Xi’s attention.

Liu Xi entered the Nether Lotus Demon Saint’s soul space, secured the Demon Saint’s inheritance, and returned to find Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian trapped in illusions. He freed both women from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but they woke with hurt feelings about him abandoning or rejecting them.

• Liu Xi entered the Nether Lotus Demon Saint’s soul space with the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s protection and met the Demon Saint.
• Liu Xi agreed to use the Demon Saint’s power wisely and promised to help if the Demon Saint later needed him.
• Liu Xi received the Demon Saint’s inheritance, including Dou Skills and formations such as the Great Sorrow Hand and Heaven Refining Ancient Formation.
• Liu Xi returned to reality and found Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian affected by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Liu Xi used soul talismans and Azure Flame to break the women’s illusions and expel the flame from their bodies.
• Qing Lin accused Liu Xi of not wanting her anymore, while Xiao Yi Xian accused him of finding her poisonous nature disgusting.