Chapter Summaries

Yao Yunting visited Ancient Dragon Island to invite Zi Yan to the Medicine Codex and explain the Four Clan Alliance’s plan to use it as bait for the Soul Clan. Zi Yan agreed to send an authorized representative, leaving Liu Xi’s role in the coming event unresolved.

• Elder Qing Shan escorted Yao Yunting through Ancient Dragon Island to meet Zi Yan in the royal hall.
• Yao Yunting invited Zi Yan to the Medicine Codex and said the Four Clan Alliance hoped to build friendly ties against the Soul Clan.
• Yao Yunting revealed that the Medicine Codex was an open scheme to lure the Soul Clan into a prepared battle or bolster the alliance if the enemy stayed away.
• Zi Yan accused the alliance of putting the Ancient Dragon Clan at risk, then released a terrifying aura that subdued Yao Yunting.
• After hearing Liu Xi’s instructions, Zi Yan agreed to send someone with full authority to the Medicine Codex, and Yao Yunting departed.

The Ancient Dragon Clan prepared to join the struggle over the Ancient Jade, sending Liu Xi and Zhu Bei to observe the Medicine Codex while Zi Yan stayed behind to lead the Beast Region’s forces. Liu Xi arrived near the Yao Clan in disguise as the Medicine Codex was about to begin.

• After Yao Yunting left, Zhu Bei, Zhu Yu, Zhu Fei, and Liu Xi discussed the Ancient Jade and agreed that Zhu Bei and Liu Xi would attend the Medicine Codex.
• Zi Yan asked to go with Liu Xi, but he and Zhu Bei refused and assigned her, Zhu Yu, and Zhu Fei to prepare the Beast Region’s army.
• Liu Xi spent the month before the Medicine Codex with Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Er Long.
• Liu Xi and Zhu Bei departed for the Yao Clan, with Liu Xi disguising himself as a powerful Ancient Void Dragon and concealing his strength.
• After traveling through Space Passages, Liu Xi arrived near a mountain range covered in medicinal herbs and remarked on the Yao Clan’s long history of cultivation.

Liu Xi and Zhu Bei arrived at the Yao Clan’s Medicine Codex, where Liu Xi used his Emperor Realm Soul to investigate the Four Clan Alliance’s preparations against the Soul Clan. Elder Wan Huo welcomed them and escorted them toward the clan chiefs, while Liu Xi’s Zhu Yin disguise kept his true strength inconspicuous.

• Liu Xi and Zhu Bei approached the Mysterious Realm’s light gate, and Zhu Bei presented the Ancient Dragon Clan’s invitation to the guards.
• Liu Xi secretly surveyed the area with his Emperor Realm Soul and discovered formations beneath the Shennong Mountain Range that could draw out its energy and medicinal power.
• Liu Xi and Zhu Bei entered the Mysterious Realm, where their presence startled the Yao Clan’s elite soldiers.
• Wan Huo arrived, welcomed the Ancient Dragon Clan guests, and revealed his concern over Yao Tian and Yao Ling being trapped in the Demon Fire Space.
• Zhu Bei told Wan Huo that the Dragon Emperor would not join them in taking risks, and Wan Huo led him and the disguised Liu Xi toward the summit of Medicine Mountain.

Liu Xi attended the Medicine Codex in disguise beside Zhu Bei, where the Yao, Flame, and Thunder Clan chiefs discussed the gathering and the war with the Soul Clan. While the younger alchemists began competing, Liu Xi spotted Xiao Yan among them.

• Zhu Bei and the disguised Liu Xi arrived at Medicine Mountain as representatives of the Ancient Dragon Clan, drawing the attention of the gathered clans.
• Yao Dan introduced Yan Jin and Lei Ying, and the clan chiefs discussed the Medicine Codex and the danger of the Soul Clan’s war.
• Liu Xi assessed Yan Jin’s Heavenly Flame and Elder Wan Huo’s Nine Nether Wind Flame while considering how he might take them.
• Yao Dan explained that the clan chiefs’ presence at the Medicine Codex would disguise their gathering and help keep the Yao Clan from becoming a battlefield.
• Liu Xi noticed Xiao Yan competing in the younger generation’s pill-refining contest, where his Eighth-grade Pill offered little advantage among the Yao Clan’s alchemists.

The Medicine Codex drew renowned alchemists and experts to the Yao Clan, where Old Man Shen Nong arrived with the Flame of Life and Hun Xuzi provocatively joined the contest. As the competition began, Liu Xi watched from the sidelines, eyeing the powerful flames gathered there.

• The younger alchemists finished their contests, with a Yao Clan woman summoning Eight-Colored Pill Lightning and Xiao Yan summoning Five-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Old Man Shen Nong arrived atop the Flame of Life and was welcomed by Elder Wan Yao and the clan leaders.
• Hun Xuzi arrived uninvited and threatened the Yao Clan, while Yao Dan suppressed him and the clan leaders secretly activated their plan.
• Yao Dan announced that the Medicine Codex had officially begun, and Elder Wan Huo, Old Man Shen Nong, and Hun Xuzi headed to the plaza.
• Liu Xi stayed seated and watched the alchemists, thinking about the Flame of Life, the Nine Nether Wind Flame, and the Nihility Devouring Flame.

Hun Xuzi, Elder Wan Huo, and Old Man Shen Nong competed in the Medicine Codex by refining Nine-grade Profound Pills, while the clans grew certain that the Soul Clan was tied to the vanished Tunling Clan. As the three masters drew in Heaven and Earth Energy, Liu Xi sensed that the true Nihility Devouring Flame had arrived.

• Hun Xuzi summoned the Nihility Devouring Flame’s offspring, prompting the Lei, Yan, Yao, and Gu Clan chiefs to resolve to eliminate the Soul Clan.
• Hun Xuzi, Elder Wan Huo, and Old Man Shen Nong each formed a Medicine Cauldron from their Heavenly Flame and began refining vast quantities of medicinal ingredients.
• Old Man Shen Nong used the Flame of Life to ripen seeds into potent medicinal ingredients, drawing Liu Xi’s attention.
• After three days of preliminary refinement, Hun Xuzi gathered Heaven and Earth Energy to condense a Nine-grade Profound Pill, and Elder Wan Huo and Old Man Shen Nong followed suit.
• Liu Xi sensed the arrival of the true Nihility Devouring Flame, not merely one of its offspring flames.

Hun Xuzi sabotaged the other alchemists and defeated Old Man Shen Nong and Elder Wan Huo, gathering enough energy to make his Nine-grade Profound Pill ready to emerge. The chapter left the Yao Clan’s title as the continent’s top alchemists in jeopardy while the allied clans discussed destroying the Soul Clan.

• Liu Xi sensed that Nihility Devouring Flame was devouring the surrounding space and chose to let the other alchemists weaken it first.
• Hun Xuzi attacked the other Qi Cyclones to seize their Heaven and Earth Energy, sparking a clash among his black flames, Flame of Life, and Nine Nether Wind Flame.
• Hun Xuzi overwhelmed Old Man Shen Nong, whose pill became unstable and whose Flame of Life was partly devoured.
• Hun Xuzi taunted Elder Wan Huo and defeated him by devouring his Qi Cyclone and scattered Nine Nether Wind Flame.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin discussed killing Hun Xuzi and seeking the Ancient Dragon Clan’s help against the Soul Clan, while Zhu Bei said he would report their case to the Dragon Emperor.
• Hun Xuzi poured the stolen energy into his Medicine Cauldron, and the sounds from within showed that his Nine-grade Profound Pill was ready to emerge.

Hun Xuzi won the Medicine Codex by refining a Nine-grade Profound Pill, then demanded that the Yao Clan lend him the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Liu Xi planned to let the clan chiefs weaken the Nihility Devouring Flame while he ambushed Hun Xuzi and stole the pill he had marked.

• Hun Xuzi defeated Wan Huo and Old Man Shen Nong, then refined a Nine-grade Profound Pill that survived the Black Demon Lightning.
• Hun Xuzi captured the newly emerged Profound Pill, and Yao Dan declared him the Medicine Codex champion.
• Hun Xuzi demanded to borrow the Yao Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade, shocking and angering the gathered Ancient Races.
• Zhu Bei anticipated a fight over the Ancient Emperor Jade, while Liu Xi confirmed the space was sealed by the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Liu Xi planned to let the clan chiefs weaken the Nihility Devouring Flame, then ambush Hun Xuzi and take the marked Profound Pill.

At the Medicine Codex ceremony, Hun Xuzi revealed himself as a Soul Clan traitor and attacked the Yao Clan, but Nihility Devouring Flame arrived with the power of a Nine-star Dou Sheng. Yao Dan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin prepared to fight while Liu Xi protected Zhu Bei and waited for a chance to act.

• Yao Dan trapped Hun Xuzi and declared that the Yao Clan would punish him for his betrayal, but Hun Xuzi broke free and revealed that he was a Seven-star Dou Sheng.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying joined Yao Dan, and Hun Xuzi welcomed Nihility Devouring Flame as black flames spread across the sky and drained the crowd's Dou Qi.
• Liu Xi used Azure Flame to clear the tiny sparks feeding Nihility Devouring Flame, protected Zhu Bei, and learned that the space around them had been sealed.
• Nihility Devouring Flame appeared as a Nine-star Dou Sheng and told Zhu Bei that the Ancient Dragon Clan should stay out of the Soul Clan's affairs.
• Nihility Devouring Flame incinerated those who begged to remain neutral, and Yao Dan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin resolved to fight him.

The Yao Clan activated its Heaven Transformation Medicine Array and summoned the Medicine Emperor’s Remnant Soul to fight Nihility Devouring Flame, with the Flame and Thunder Clans joining the battle. As the Soul Clan’s Great Death Realm Array descended and threatened the Medicine Clan’s Mysterious Realm, Liu Xi slipped away to find Hun Xuzi and reclaim his pills.

• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to activate the Heaven Transformation Medicine Array, summoning the Medicine Emperor’s Remnant Soul.
• Yao Dan explained the destruction of the Ling Clan and Stone Clan, and the Medicine Emperor agreed to help confront Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked with a giant black python, but the Medicine Emperor blocked it with the Medicine Cauldron and Soul Fire.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin formed the Myriad Heavy Thunder Prison Array and Yan Ming Demon Suppressing Array to help the Medicine Emperor fight Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame called for the Great Death Realm Array, and four Deadly Silence Gates descended as Yao Dan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying recognized the Soul Clan’s deadly formation.
• Liu Xi took advantage of the chaos and set out to find Hun Xuzi and reclaim his pills.

As the Soul Clan overwhelmed the Yao, Thunder, and Flame Clans at Medicine Mountain, Liu Xi tracked down Hun Xuzi and found him tormenting Xiao Yan and holding Yao Chen captive. Hun Xuzi offered to reveal Xiao Zhan’s condition if Xiao Yan begged, and Xiao Yan finally did so.

• The Soul Clan’s death-qi forces attacked the assembled clans while the Medicine Emperor’s Remnant Soul, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin fought to hold them back.
• Liu Xi used Nightmare Sky Mist techniques to conceal himself and tracked Hun Xuzi to the foot of Medicine Mountain.
• Hun Xuzi beat Xiao Yan, then revealed that he had recaptured Yao Chen and bound his soul with a Soul Lock.
• Hun Xuzi threatened to withhold information about Xiao Zhan unless Xiao Yan begged him, and Xiao Yan finally pleaded for an answer.

Hun Xuzi revealed that Xiao Zhan had been killed, then crushed Xiao Yan after his bloodline awakened. Liu Xi killed Hun Xuzi, burned Xiao Yan and Yao Chen’s remains, and left to pursue the Soul Clan’s Heavenly Flames.

• Hun Xuzi told Xiao Yan that Xiao Zhan had been killed and his soul refined into Soul Origin.
• Xiao Yan’s grief awakened his Xiao Family Clan Mark, but Hun Xuzi crushed him with his Seven-star Dou Sheng strength.
• Liu Xi attacked Hun Xuzi by surprise and burned his body, soul, and Nihility Devouring Flame child flame with Azure Flame.
• Liu Xi took Hun Xuzi’s Storage Rings and Nine-grade Profound Pill, then burned Xiao Yan’s corpse and Yao Chen’s soul to nothingness.
• Liu Xi left to prepare to seize Nihility Devouring Flame and other Heavenly Flames, while Soul Clan members discovered Hun Xuzi’s death.

Liu Xi absorbed Hun Xuzi’s energy while the Soul Clan slaughtered the allied forces in the Yao Clan’s Mysterious Realm. Medicine Emperor’s Remnant Soul sacrificed himself to burn Nihility Devouring Flame’s soul, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Liu Xi hid in a dark corner and absorbed Hun Xuzi’s Dou Qi as the Great Death Realm Array devastated the allied forces.
• Medicine Emperor’s Remnant Soul fought Nihility Devouring Flame, whose Black Flame wave he shattered with “Calm the Cauldron and Stabilize the Universe!”
• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked Medicine Emperor with a Blood Sphere made from the Yao Clan’s descendants, but Medicine Emperor refined it in his cauldron.
• Medicine Emperor used “Sacrifice Body to Fire,” turning himself into Transparent Flame and catching Nihility Devouring Flame before he could escape.
• The Transparent Flame burned a large portion of Nihility Devouring Flame’s soul, making him cry out in pain.

Medicine Emperor’s death left the Yao Clan’s bloodline weakened and the allied clans on the verge of defeat as the Soul Clan pressed its attack. Liu Xi seized an opening in the death aura to kill two Soul Clan experts, take Wan Huo’s corpse, and secure the Nine Nether Wind Flame.

• Nihility Devouring Flame recovered from Medicine Emperor’s final attack and ordered the Soul Clan to destroy the Thunder Clan, Flame Clan, and Yao Clan.
• Yao Dan realized Medicine Emperor’s death had doomed the Yao Clan’s bloodline, while Lei Ying and Yan Jin struggled to hold off the Soul Clan with their arrays.
• Liu Xi waited for a chance to act, then sensed Wan Huo being killed by two Soul Clan experts.
• Liu Xi killed Hun Shi, forced the Nine Nether Wind Flame back into Wan Huo’s body, and took Wan Huo’s corpse before Soul Clan reinforcements arrived.
• Liu Xi concealed himself in the death aura, sealed the Nine Nether Wind Flame within his body, and planned to bury Wan Huo.

Old Man Shen Nong fled three Soul Clan Dou Shengs and sought protection from Zhu Bei and Liu Xi. Zhu Bei drove off the pursuers, but Liu Xi’s unsettling smile left Old Man Shen Nong worried that he had traded one danger for another.

• Old Man Shen Nong evaded a Six-star Dou Sheng and two Four-star Dou Shengs as the Soul Clan pursued him through the Medicine Clan’s Mysterious Realm.
• Old Man Shen Nong spotted Zhu Bei and Liu Xi on the high platform and begged them to save him.
• Zhu Bei asked Liu Xi whether they should intervene, and Liu Xi agreed because Old Man Shen Nong was a valuable High-level Alchemist.
• Zhu Bei ordered the Soul Clan pursuers to leave and declared Old Man Shen Nong under his protection, so the three Dou Shengs withdrew.
• Old Man Shen Nong thanked Zhu Bei and sat with him, then shuddered when Liu Xi looked at him with an unnerving smile.

Lei Ying and Yan Jin sacrificed the Yao Clan’s defense to focus their strength on breaking the Great Death Realm Array. Nihility Devouring Flame, weakened by his soul injuries, prepared to attack them, while Liu Xi watched and waited for a chance to take him down.

• Lei Ying and Yan Jin agreed to break the array by targeting Hun Yuantian and to withdraw with their elites, if possible taking the Yao Clan’s elites with them.
• Nihility Devouring Flame learned that Hun Xuzi, Hun Shi, and Hun Tu had been killed, then suspected someone was hiding among those in the Xuan Realm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame decided to personally attack Lei Ying and Yan Jin, coveting Yan Jin’s fused Heavenly Flames to help restore his strength.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin combined their arrays’ power to unleash a thunder dragon and a magma dragon that annihilated Hun Yuantian and destroyed one Deadly Silence Gate.
• Liu Xi watched the fighting grow more chaotic and waited for the right moment to take Nihility Devouring Flame.

Nihility Devouring Flame confronted the Thunder and Flame Clans after the Great Death Realm Array was weakened, while the survivors discovered the devastation the Soul Clan had inflicted on the Yao Clan. Grief-stricken Yao Dan attacked in a final, desperate bid to make everyone pay.

• Lei Ying and Yan Jin destroyed Hun Yuantian and his Deadly Silence Gate, then decided the Thunder and Flame Clans would break out rather than defend the Yao Clan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame arrived and ordered Hun Shengtian, Hun Yao, and Hun Feng to attack the clans while he fought Yan Jin; Lei Ying was blocked from joining the battle.
• Liu Xi watched without acting after the death aura dispersed, while Old Man Shen Nong lamented the Soul Clan's cruelty and the Xuan Realm's destruction.
• Yao Dan saw that the Yao Clan had been nearly wiped out, then took a grievous wound and cursed the Soul Clan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Zhu Bei.
• Yao Dan charged forward, gathered power into his shattered body, and unleashed an explosion.

After the Yao Clan fell, Liu Xi and Zhu Bei searched its hidden vaults for the Ancient Jade and uncovered valuable alchemy inheritances. They found the jade and the method for refining Emperor-grade Pills, leaving Liu Xi determined to avenge the Yao Clan and give Yao Tian and Yao Ling a chance.

• Yao Dan destroyed himself in a final attack, and Zhu Bei shielded Liu Xi, Old Man Shen Nong, and himself from the blast.
• Liu Xi decided to search the Yao Clan ruins for the Ancient Jade, and he brought Zhu Bei and Old Man Shen Nong with him.
• Zhu Bei used his treasure-seeking and spatial abilities to open concealed vaults in the Xuan Realm, and Liu Xi collected the Yao Clan's treasures and alchemy inheritance.
• Liu Xi and Zhu Bei discovered a secret chamber beneath the Yao Clan ancestral shrine and found an Ancient Jade in its first treasure box.
• Liu Xi broke the restrictions on a soul-light sphere and discovered that it contained the method for refining Emperor-grade Pills.
• Liu Xi resolved to carry on the Yao Clan's vengeance and give Yao Tian and Yao Ling a chance.

After claiming the Ancient Jade and looting the Yao Clan’s treasures, Liu Xi saw a chance to seize Nihility Devouring Flame amid the battle between the Soul Clan and the Thunder and Flame Clans. He set out to act while the fighters were weakened, ignoring Old Man Shen Nong’s warning.

• Liu Xi left the ancestral hall with the Ancient Jade, confident it would let him open the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion and give him leverage over the Soul Clan.
• Zhu Bei rejoiced that they had obtained an Ancient Jade without fighting, while Old Man Shen Nong coveted the Yao Clan’s alchemist inheritance.
• Liu Xi noticed Old Man Shen Nong’s interest in the inheritance and privately considered making him work on Ancient Dragon Island after acquiring the Flame of Life.
• Liu Xi, Zhu Bei, and Old Man Shen Nong returned to find the Thunder Clan and Flame Clan nearly destroyed, with Yan Jin close to death and the Soul Clan’s forces badly strained.
• Liu Xi told Zhu Bei he wanted Nihility Devouring Flame, and Zhu Bei agreed to help him.
• Old Man Shen Nong tried to dissuade Liu Xi from challenging Nihility Devouring Flame, but Liu Xi and Zhu Bei ignored him.

The Soul Clan pursued the fleeing Thunder Clan and Flame Clan after Lei Ying sacrificed himself, and Nihility Devouring Flame swallowed Yan Jin. Liu Xi then revealed his true strength and attacked the weakened Nihility Devouring Flame, beginning a battle to devour him and claim the Emperor Flame.

• Yan Jin struggled against Nihility Devouring Flame as the Soul Clan tried to prevent the Thunder Clan and Flame Clan from escaping.
• Lei Ying self-destructed, apparently killing Hun Shengtian, Hun Yao, and Hun Feng while opening a path through the blockade.
• Yan Jin ordered the surviving Thunder Clan and Flame Clan experts to flee through the passage, then prepared to sacrifice himself.
• Nihility Devouring Flame swallowed Yan Jin and sent Soul Clan experts after the escapees.
• Liu Xi arrived, revealed his true strength and Azure Flame, and clashed with Nihility Devouring Flame.