Chapter Summaries

Tou She Ancient God agreed to make Xiao Yan his inheritor, but said carefully undoing the Spatial Lock would take one to three months. While Zhu Kun waited to return to his clan, Tou She Ancient God showed him an ancient ruin that might offer compensation for his long imprisonment.

• Tou She Ancient God named Xiao Yan, who cultivated Fen Jue and had refined many Exotic Fires, as his intended inheritor.
• Yuan Gan decided the Dragon Clan should form a good bond with Xiao Yan, while Emperor Xiao asked Tou She Ancient God to undo the Spatial Lock so Zhu Kun could return home.
• Tou She Ancient God explained that carefully opening the cave mansion and dividing the space would take one to three months without the complete Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Tou She Ancient God offered Zhu Kun an ancient ruin as compensation and showed a crimson plain with a stone altar where an Early Ninth-order Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Sky Phoenix had perished together.

Zhu Kun discovered that the altar held a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and learned it would emerge in the Skeleton Mountain Range in about two months. Worried that his daughter Zi Yan would be endangered by the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s internal rebellion and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, he arranged for the Dragon Clan to escort her back to Dragon Island and restore order.

• Zhu Kun recognized the fruit on the altar as a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, a rare source of supreme beast bloodline power.
• Tou She Ancient God revealed that the ruin containing the fruit would emerge in the Skeleton Mountain Range in about two months.
• Zhu Kun asked the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor to take Zi Yan to Dragon Island and purge the rebels before the foreign threat arrived.
• Emperor Xiao said that five experts could remain to help Tou She Ancient God with the formation while the others departed.
• After learning that three Three-star Dou Shengs were the strongest rebels, the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor decided that he and Qing Zhi would escort Zi Yan to Dragon Island.

Qing Zhi used Zhu Kun’s scale to bring Zi Yan and their group to East Dragon Island, where the elders were wary of the powerful Azure Dragon King. He revealed that Zhu Kun was alive and had sent him to help restore order and reunify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Zi Yan used her father’s Purple-gold Scale to open a spatial passage to Dragon Island, and Qing Zhi marveled at its power.
• The group arrived at East Dragon Island, which was surrounded by a light barrier and suspended in Void Space.
• Qing Zhi sensed two Reincarnation Realm auras, while Zi Yan explained East Dragon Island’s strength and its place among the four divided islands.
• Zhu Li confronted the newcomers, and Qing Zhi introduced himself as the Azure Dragon King, prompting Zhu Li to escort him to the island’s leaders.
• The First Elder Qing Mu and Second Elder Qing Shan arrived and questioned Qing Zhi about his purpose and ties to the other Dragon Kings.
• Qing Zhi said Zhu Kun was alive and had entrusted him with helping East Dragon Island restore order and reunify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, leaving the three elders stunned.

Qing Zhi brought Zi Yan to East Dragon Island and revealed her Dragon Emperor Bloodline, winning the Three Great Elders’ trust. He explained that Zhu Kun was alive and planned to help Zi Yan reunify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan by luring the rebel leaders to East Dragon Island.

• Qing Zhi asked Zi Yan to remove the seal Zhu Kun had placed on her Dragon Emperor Bloodline.
• The Three Great Elders recognized Zi Yan’s Imperial Bloodline and asked Qing Zhi about his ancestry and where he had found her.
• Qing Zhi denied any blood connection to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and revealed that Zhu Kun was alive, trapped after falling into Tou She Ancient God’s scheme, and that Zi Yan was his daughter.
• Qing Mu and Qing Shan worried that East Dragon Island was outnumbered by the Three Great Dragon Islands, but Qing Zhi dismissed the threat.
• Qing Zhi asked the elders to lure the Three Great Dragon Kings and their Dou Sheng allies to East Dragon Island so he could capture them together.

Qing Zhi planned to use his late Five-star Dou Sheng strength to draw out the Three Great Dragon Kings and defeat them quickly. When West Dragon Island’s Great Commander Xuan Mo arrived and tried to seize Zi Yan, Qing Zhi struck him with Azure Dragon Palm.

• Qing Zhi told Qing Mu and the elders that his late Five-star Dou Sheng strength would let them deal with the Three Great Dragon Islands without delay.
• Qing Mu agreed to announce Zi Yan’s return, expecting the rival islands to send scouts within half a day.
• Xuan Mo arrived from West Dragon Island to invite Zi Yan to meet the Western Dragon King, and Qing Mu explained that he was a Two-star Dou Sheng sent to test East Dragon Island.
• Xuan Mo recognized Zi Yan’s Imperial Bloodline but, seeing that she was only Seventh Tier, attacked Qing Zhi and tried to capture her.
• Qing Zhi answered with Azure Dragon Palm, and the collision broke bones in Xuan Mo’s hand.

Qing Zhi defeated and captured Xuan Mo, then confronted Zhu Mu and Lie Shan on East Dragon Island as he sought to draw out the Three Great Dragon Kings. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Zhu Kun discussed the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s hidden strength and the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, which could help Zhu Kun challenge a newly ascended Dou Di.

• Qing Zhi struck down Xuan Mo and bound him with Dragon Pattern chains.
• Qing Zhi tore open the void and forced Zhu Mu and Lie Shan to appear, then offered them a choice between surrender and death.
• Qing Mu identified Zhu Mu, Lie Shan, and Xuan Mo as the strongest subordinates of the Three Great Dragon Kings.
• Zhu Kun watched the confrontation on a light screen while Yuan Gan admired the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s strength.
• Xiao Yan explained that Candle Fire Great Elder was only a Mid Ninth Rank expert and suggested the clan’s decline had slowed his cultivation.
• Zhu Kun said the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit could advance his bloodline and give him a chance to challenge someone newly ascended to Dou Di.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Kun discussed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and the fate of the Three Great Dragon Kings, while Qing Zhi pressured captured Dragon Island experts to switch sides. The captives agreed, but their Dragon Kings had already lost contact, prompting Qing Zhi’s group to investigate the Three Great Dragon Islands.

• Zhu Kun decided the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit should go to Zi Yan, and Xiao Yan explained that evolving into a Dragon Phoenix would take time.
• Xiao Yan warned Zhu Kun that the Three Great Dragon Kings might use the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array, and Zhu Kun accepted the possibility of using their bodies to revive Ancestor Xiao Lan.
• Qing Zhi offered Xuan Mo, Lie Shan, and Zhu Mu the choice to defect or die, and they agreed after learning Zhu Kun was alive.
• Qing Mu told the three captives to pledge allegiance and send a false message claiming they had kidnapped Zi Yan and needed support from the Dragon Kings.
• Xuan Mo, Lie Shan, and Zhu Mu discovered they could no longer contact their Dragon Kings, so Qing Zhi led the group toward the Three Great Dragon Islands to investigate.

Qing Mu and the others discovered that the Northern Dragon King had used the forbidden Dragon Transformation Demonic Array to slaughter the elites of the three Dragon Islands and increase his power. The Northern Dragon King emerged as a three-headed, six-armed monster, while Yuan Gan watched the scene through a light screen and rejected the array’s bloody method.

• Qing Mu, Xuan Mo, Lie Shan, and the others arrived at Northern Dragon Island and found it soaked in blood, with the Western and Southern Dragon Kings and their forces also lost.
• Zhu Li identified the forbidden Dragon Transformation Demonic Array, and Qing Shan and Qing Mu explained that it sacrificed clan members to empower the person serving as its core.
• Qing Mu estimated that the Northern Dragon King might have grown stronger than a Four-star Dou Sheng after consuming hundreds of Dou Zun, more than a dozen Half-Saints, and several One-star Dou Sheng.
• The Northern Dragon King emerged from the blood mist as a grotesque creature with the heads of the Western, Southern, and Northern Dragon Kings and six arms wielding golden greatswords.
• Yuan Gan watched the scene through the formation’s light screen and decided he had no interest in using the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array.

Zhu Kun explained that the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array had once helped the Ancient Void Dragon Clan survive by sacrificing its members, and the Northern Dragon King used it to reach Late Five-star Dou Sheng. Qing Zhi matched his strength, gained the advantage in their first exchange, and summoned the Dragon Suppressing Platform.

• Zhu Kun told Xiao Yan that the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array had once raised a clan expert to battle power comparable to a Dou Di, at the cost of sacrificing clan members.
• Zhu Kun warned that the Northern Dragon King's power would keep increasing as the Formation fed him, while Xiao Yan considered how the stronger Northern Dragon King might benefit Ancestor Xiao Lan's revival.
• The Northern Dragon King dismissed Qing Mu's warning, declared he would unify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and vowed to devour Qing Zhi's Dragon Emperor Bloodline.
• The Northern Dragon King revealed that the Formation had raised him to Late Five-star Dou Sheng, but Qing Zhi showed that he had reached the same level.
• Qing Zhi halted the Northern Dragon King's sword strike with a beam of cyan light and forced him back three steps.
• Qing Zhi formed the Dragon Suppressing Platform, summoning a vast platform encircled by nine enormous azure dragons.

Qing Zhi battled the Northern Dragon King, whose Dragon Transformation Demonic Array let him rise to Six-star Dou Sheng and shatter the Dragon Suppressing Platform. The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor appeared, crushed the Northern Dragon King with his pressure, and destroyed the Formation, leaving the Northern Dragon King stunned by the stranger’s claim to be a Dragon Emperor absent from his clan’s history.

• Qing Zhi used the Dragon Suppressing Platform and his bloodline-suppressing martial art against the Northern Dragon King, who drew power from the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array.
• The Northern Dragon King entered a giant blood dragon and attacked Qing Zhi, but the Dragon Suppressing Platform dispersed his blood light.
• The Northern Dragon King swallowed a Dragon Soul Pearl made from his clan members’ souls, advanced to Six-star Dou Sheng, and shattered the Dragon Suppressing Platform with his pressure.
• Qing Zhi called for the Progenitor, and the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor appeared and forced the Northern Dragon King to his knees.
• The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor destroyed the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array and absorbed its blood qi to restore his body.
• The Northern Dragon King demanded the stranger’s identity, and the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor named himself, prompting the Northern Dragon King to deny that such a Dragon Emperor had ever existed.

The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor overwhelmed the Northern Dragon King, who transformed into a three-headed, eight-clawed Ancient Void Dragon and still could not withstand his attacks. After the Northern Dragon King surrendered, the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor healed and strengthened him, then summoned the Eight Divisions Sacred Dragons and Demon Suppressing Platform.

• The Northern Dragon King tried to flee, but the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor struck him into Northern Dragon Island and left him badly injured.
• The Northern Dragon King transformed into his three-headed, eight-clawed dragon form and charged the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor, who crushed him with a single palm.
• The Northern Dragon King surrendered and promised to abandon the Three Great Dragon Islands, so the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor healed and strengthened him with purple-gold light.
• Qing Zhi reassured the Ancient Dragon Elders that the Northern Dragon King would still die, and that Xiao Yan needed his powerful corpse.
• The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor transformed into a colossal purple-gold dragon and summoned the Eight Divisions Sacred Dragons and Demon Suppressing Platform.

The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor forced the Northern Dragon King into the Seven Star Dou Sheng realm, then killed him with the Demon Suppressing Platform. Xiao Yan accepted the Northern Dragon King’s corpse for Xiao Lan and prepared to return to revive Old Yao once the formation was stable.

• The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor poured the Dragon Transformation Demonic Array’s power into the Northern Dragon King, painfully reshaping him over several hours.
• The Northern Dragon King reached Seven Star Dou Sheng and boasted that he could lead his race to greatness.
• The Northern Dragon King attacked the Demon Suppressing Platform, but the Eight Divisions Sacred Dragons and platform overwhelmed him.
• The Six-fingered Dragon Emperor revealed he was the Profound Sky Dragon Clan’s progenitor and Ninth Stage Peak before the Northern Dragon King was killed.
• Xiao Yan agreed that the Northern Dragon King’s corpse was suitable for Xiao Lan, and considered having Teacher study the Eight Divisions Sacred Dragons.
• Zhu Kun told Xiao Yan that the formation would soon be maintained by returning experts, freeing him to go back and help revive Old Yao.

After the Ancient Void Dragon Clan reunited under Zi Yan, Xiao Yan received the Northern Dragon King's corpse as a possible resource for reviving his teacher. Zhu Kun then proposed using the clan's other lingering souls and bloodlines to resurrect more ancestors, leaving the elders startled.

• Candle Fire returned with the reclusive elders, and the Four Great Dragon Islands were reunited as one Ancient Dragon Island under Zi Yan.
• Qing Zhi delivered the Northern Dragon King's corpse to Xiao Yan and warned that a lingering soul fragment remained inside it.
• Zhu Kun explained that refining the corpse could benefit Xiao Yan's ancestor and thanked Qing Zhi for helping the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Yuan Gan and the other experts handed over their Formation and Reincarnation Realm Essence Blood before returning to their clans.
• Zhu Kun suggested that Xiao Yan's teacher might need more Ancient Void Dragon Essence Blood to revive ancestors from the Dragon Tomb, startling Zhu Huo and the other elders.

Xiao Yan left the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and returned to help Old Yao refine multiple Four Poles Soul Nurturing Pills. After the two combined their skills to temper and merge the medicinal ingredients, they formed a pill embryo, leaving the refinement at its crucial next stage.

• Xiao Yan declined Zhu Kun's offer of more essence blood, gathered the Northern Dragon King's corpse, and departed from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Old Yao prepared more than a thousand medicinal ingredients in the Life and Death Gate Small World, tempering them while he waited for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan returned and joined Old Yao, using the Fusion of Exotic Flames to accelerate the tempering as Old Yao prepared to condense the pills.
• After five days, Old Yao began merging the medicinal liquids and powders while Xiao Yan carefully controlled the flames.
• The master and disciple completed nearly ten days of merging and formed a small pill embryo inside the Black Demon Cauldron.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao continued refining the Four Poles Soul Nurturing Pill, and the appearance of Black Demon Lightning signaled that the pill was nearly complete. Xiao Yan chose to face the lightning with his Candle Dragon Purple-gold Body to test whether his body could reach Ninth-order Monster Beast strength.

• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao whether he had condensed only one Pill Prototype, and Old Yao said the number of pills would depend mostly on Xiao Yan’s flame.
• Black clouds gathered over the Small World, and the Heavenly Nether Poison Sage, Xiao Lan, and Old Yao recognized the Black Demon Lightning that appeared during Ninth Grade Treasure Pill refinement.
• A bolt of Black Demon Lightning emerged from the clouds and descended toward the Black Demon Cauldron.
• Xiao Yan transformed into a purple-gold humanoid Ancient Void Dragon and told Yun Potian he would handle the lightning himself.
• Xiao Yan activated the Candle Dragon Purple-gold Body and took the Black Demon Lightning head-on, unleashing a destructive storm that shattered the surrounding space.

Xiao Yan endured Black Demon Lightning with his physical body and reached the limit of the High-level Half-Saint, while Old Yao’s three Four Poles Soul Nurturing Pills drew two more bolts of lightning. Xiao Yan faced them eagerly, hoping to cross the hundred-zhang threshold and transform his body.

• Xiao Yan’s physical body withstood the first Black Demon Lightning, and Yun Potian explained that the Dragon Emperor Essence Blood would help him endure it.
• Xiao Yan planned to seek the Void Lightning Pool for further physical tempering, but his remark about wanting more lightning was followed by the clouds gathering again.
• Heavenly Nether Poison Sage wondered if Xiao Yan’s words had summoned the lightning, while Old Yao reasoned that the three pills in his cauldron would each draw a bolt.
• Two more bolts of Black Demon Lightning descended, and Xiao Yan welcomed them as a chance to reach a hundred zhang and attain the true Ninth Stage Realm.

Xiao Yan endured the Black Demon Lightning and strengthened his physical body to the ninth order, then captured the three Four Poles Soul Nurturing Pills he had refined. He gave pills to Yao Chen and the Heavenly Nether Poison Sage, who entered seclusion to restore his soul, while Xiao Yan prepared materials to improve Yao Chen’s revival.

• Xiao Yan survived three Black Demon Lightning bolts, grew new dragon scales, and reached a height of one hundred and eight zhang as his physical body advanced to the ninth order.
• Yao Chen praised Xiao Yan for refining three Ninth Grade Treasure Pills in one cauldron and gave one Four Poles Soul Nurturing Pill to the Heavenly Nether Poison Sage.
• Xiao Yan subdued the three pills as they transformed into giant beasts, then distributed one to Yao Chen, one to the Heavenly Nether Poison Sage, and kept one for himself.
• Xiao Yan promised to find the Heavenly Nether Poison Sage a stronger body and accepted his poisoned bones as material for a Dou Sheng puppet.
• The Heavenly Nether Poison Sage entered seclusion to absorb the pill and restore his Lingering Soul Fragment.
• Xiao Yan gave Yao Chen the essence blood of Dragon Clan Reincarnation Realm experts to combine with Dragon Emperor Essence Blood for his revival.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen began the process of reviving Yao Chen in the body of Ancestor Xiao Lan, while the Xiao Family secured the area and prepared for the lengthy refinement. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan using fused bloodline essence to refine the skeleton around Yao Chen’s soul.

• Xiao Yan placed Ancestor Xiao Lan’s skeleton on the stone platform and prepared to refine it for Yao Chen rather than use the Northern Dragon King’s corpse.
• Yun Potian, Xiao Zhan, and the elders agreed to secure the Xiao Family and halt its expansion while Yao Chen’s revival took priority.
• Yun Potian guarded the Nirvana Emperor Blood Tower as Wind Venerable and several Half-Saint Puppets fortified Wutan City against intrusion.
• Yao Chen released a wisp of soul, and Xiao Yan drove it into Ancestor Xiao Lan’s skeleton as the primer for the body refinement.
• Xiao Yan brought out the fused bloodline essence and began refining the skeleton, telling Yao Chen to enter the body once the process succeeded.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao began restoring Old Yao’s body with a four-star Dou Sheng skeleton and fused Dragon Clan essence blood. Meanwhile, the Soul Hall’s Human Hall gathered to hear a report about a powerful expert in the Northwest Continent, as a black-mist figure arrived.

• Xiao Yan spent nearly three days tempering Xiao Lan’s skeleton with fused Dragon Clan essence blood and exotic flame.
• Xiao Yan called for Old Yao, who swallowed two pills and entered the prepared skeleton as his soul.
• Xiao Yan repeatedly burned and regrew Old Yao’s flesh until a new body took shape, leaving Old Yao to complete his final fusion with it.
• Xiao Yan wondered which Xiao Clan ancestor had fallen in the Northwest Continent after Xiao Lan sensed a familiar aura there.
• The Soul Hall’s Great Heavenly Venerate, surviving Fifth Heavenly Venerate and Sixth Heavenly Venerate, and other Venerates gathered at the Human Hall to await a superior’s arrival.
• A black-mist figure appeared and questioned whether the report of a secluded Four-star Dou Sheng expert in the Northwest Continent was true.

The Soul Hall learned that a powerful Xiao Family remained in the Northwest Continent and debated how to destroy it without provoking the other ancient clans. The Hall Master's Deputy proposed using Huang Tian and a Ninth Rank Ancient Sky Phoenix corpse to test the clans’ reactions while making the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan take the blame.

• The Great Heavenly Venerate reported that Soul Hall experts had fallen to a Four-star Dou Sheng in the Xiao Family, which might be descended from the destroyed Xiao Clan.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate urged the Hall Master's Deputy to summon a Soul Clan Demon Sage, but the deputy warned that openly violating the Ancient Covenant could unite the other clans against them.
• The Hall Master's Deputy proposed having Huang Tian, the Five-star Dou Sheng clan leader of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, attack the Xiao Family so the Soul Clan could test the other clans’ reactions.
• The Hall Master's Deputy revealed that the Soul Clan would offer Huang Tian a Mid Ninth Rank Ancient Sky Phoenix corpse to persuade him, leaving the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to bear the consequences of breaking the alliance agreement.