Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan received the Sky Demon Phoenix ancestors’ remains and waited for Old Ancestor Huoyun to emerge from seclusion. After learning the Heavenly Refining Medicine Saint might revive his father, Huoyun set out for the Northwest Continent carrying his father’s coffin.

• Heavenly Nether Phoenix Saint broke the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s ancestral tomb restrictions, allowing Phoenix to bring dozens of Sky Demon Phoenix skeletons to Xiao Yan.
• Phoenix told Xiao Yan that the clan had used up its stronger ancestors’ bones and refined the Ancient Sky Phoenix remains for their bloodline.
• Xiao Yan stored the skeletons as a surprise for his teacher and began training with the Lightning Dragon Pearl while awaiting Old Ancestor Huoyun’s emergence.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun emerged from seclusion after Tang Zhen told him the Heavenly Refining Medicine Saint could heal him and might revive his father.
• Huoyun retrieved his father’s coffin, then took Tang Zhen and headed for the Northwest Continent.

Old Ancestor Huoyun and Tang Zhen visited the Xiao Family to attend an appointment and seek help reviving the Blazing Flame Ancestor. Xiao Yan explained the limits of his soul-revival research and offered to treat Huoyun’s injury, leaving Tang Zhen ready to present Blazing Flame Valley’s Nine Dragon Thunder Flame.

• Yun Potian welcomed Old Ancestor Huoyun and Tang Zhen, then led them toward the Reception Hall after the Shattering Star Dragon Saint appeared in his newly revived body.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun asked Xiao Yan whether his father could be revived, and Xiao Yan said the Four Poles Soul Nurturing Pill could currently restore a Three-star Dou Sheng’s soul.
• Xiao Yan offered to adjust Huoyun’s body, explaining that his Heavenly Flame could counter the Death Qi causing Huoyun’s hidden injury.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun agreed to Xiao Yan’s help and ordered Tang Zhen to bring out Blazing Flame Valley’s Nine Dragon Thunder Flame.

Xiao Yan accepted the Nine Dragon Thunder Flame from Tang Zhen and brought Old Ancestor Huoyun and Tang Zhen into the Xiao Family’s small world. He revealed the Xiao Family’s strength and began offering Old Ancestor Huoyun three ways to remove the hidden danger in his body, leaving him intrigued by the superior method.

• Tang Zhen gave Xiao Yan the Nine Dragon Thunder Flame, which Xiao Yan refined with Fen Jue but gained little from.
• Xiao Yan opened a passage with the Great Desolate Tablet and brought Old Ancestor Huoyun and Tang Zhen into the Xiao Family’s small world, where they saw dozens of ninth-order Heaven Demon Phoenix corpses.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had become an outer force of the Xiao Family and revealed thirteen flames, including ten Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan offered Old Ancestor Huoyun superior, middling, and inferior methods to remove his hidden danger, then described the superior Method of Human Pill using a Heaven Demon Phoenix, deathly stillness, and ten Heavenly Flames.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun was tempted by the superior method but waited to hear the other two options before choosing.

Xiao Yan refined Old Ancestor Huoyun together with a Sky Demon Phoenix corpse, curing his Deadly Silent Qi and transforming him into an Ancient Sky Phoenix. Old Ancestor Huoyun emerged at late Three-star Dou Sheng and met Tablet Spirit, whose power impressed him.

• Xiao Yan offered Old Ancestor Huoyun three treatment options, and Huoyun chose to be refined with a Sky Demon Phoenix corpse.
• Xiao Yan used the Ten Directions Raging Fire Realm and thousands of medicinal ingredients to refine Huoyun for seven days.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun emerged from the cocoon with his Deadly Silent Qi removed and his cultivation raised to late Three-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan realized he could awaken Ancient Sky Phoenix bloodlines from Heaven Demon Phoenix corpses and use them to produce Ancient Sky Phoenixes.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun greeted Tablet Spirit and sensed that the white-robed elder possessed strength above Four-star Dou Sheng.

Old Yao emerged from seclusion after reaching early Five-star Dou Sheng and created a Ninth Grade Profound Pill formula, the Eternal Soul Nurturing Pill, to restore Ancestor Xiao Lan’s lingering soul fragment. He began refining it above Wutan City, leaving Xiao Yan to warn him that the Northwest Continent lacked enough energy as the formation drained the surrounding land and people.

• Old Ancestor Huoyun recovered and returned to the Central Plains with Tang Zhen to oversee the Heavenly Mansion Alliance.
• Old Yao emerged from seclusion with early Five-star Dou Sheng cultivation, and Xiao Yan considered teaching him the Candle Dragon Purple-gold Body.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that he had improved the Four Poles Soul Nurturing Pill into the Eternal Soul Nurturing Pill, which could restore a lingering soul fragment at late Six-star Dou Sheng level.
• Old Yao activated the Two Extremes Heavenly Refining Great Formation above Wutan City and began refining the pill, while Xiao Yan warned that the Northwest Continent’s thin energy made it an unsuitable location.
• Old Yao refined tens of thousands of medicinal ingredients and drained energy from the surrounding land and people, then used the blood of twelve Otherworldly Demon False Kings to empower twelve Eternal Illusion Demon Flowers.

Old Yao refined twelve Ninth Grade Profound Pills, using the process to draw experts across the Northwest Continent into a protective cultivation illusion and promising them energy from the coming Pill Rain. As the pills formed and terrifying Pill Lightning gathered, he released the formation and the rain of medicinal beads began.

• Xiao Yan realized Old Yao’s refinement had drawn experts within ten thousand miles into the Eternal Illusion Demon Flower’s illusion, where Falling Heart Flame protected them as they gained simulated cultivation experience.
• Xiao Yan understood that the coming Pill Rain would replenish the experts’ energy and help them break through after leaving the illusion.
• Old Yao continued refining the twelve pills through an enormous formation, while Xiao Yan prepared the Great Desolate Tablet to protect Wutan City from a possible explosion.
• Old Yao added a drop of purple-gold Dragon Emperor Essence Blood, and the twelve pill embryos rapidly compressed into three-foot forms.
• Terrifying Pill Lightning covered the sky as the pills took shape, and Old Yao dispersed the formation, releasing a rich medicinal fragrance and a rain of colored medicinal beads.

Old Yao’s first furnace of twelve Ninth Grade Profound Pills brought Pill Rain across the Northwest Continent, transforming its cultivation environment and empowering its people. As the pills endured tribulation, Hun Miesheng recognized that Yao Chen had become a major threat to the Soul Hall.

• Pill Rain fell across the Northwest Continent, and a long-lived Dou Shi broke through to Dou Wang after swallowing a pill grain.
• The illusion’s accumulated cultivation experience and the Pill Rain raised the region’s cultivators to astonishing levels, while Xiao Lan and Yun Potian witnessed the transformation.
• Yun Potian congratulated Xiao Lan on his coming revival, and Xiao Lan rejoiced that the Xiao Family might regain its former strength.
• Twelve Ninth Grade Profound Pill Primordial Forms entered the Black Demon Lightning to undergo tribulation as Old Yao refined Eternal Soul Nurturing Pills.
• Hun Miesheng told Soul Hall experts that Yao Chen’s strength and talent had made the Soul Hall’s failure to anticipate him a serious miscalculation.

Hun Miesheng led Soul Hall forces to attack Wutong Island and seize the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s bloodline. The attack stalled when the clan leader, Heavenly Nether Phoenix Saint, revealed that he was a Late Five-star Dou Sheng.

• Hun Miesheng decided to target the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan while the Soul Clan prepared to destroy the Ancient Families.
• Heavenly Nether Phoenix Saint trained the clan’s Half-Saint elders at Wutong Island, while Phoenix remained in the northwest protecting Xun'er.
• Hun Miesheng arrived at Wutong Island with two other Dou Shengs and six High-level Half-Saints, then unleashed the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Formation.
• Heavenly Nether Phoenix Saint transformed into a giant Nether Sky Phoenix and revealed his Late Five-star Dou Sheng strength, shocking Hun Miesheng, the Deputy, and Saint Hun Qing.

Hun Miesheng and the Soul Hall Experts tried to overcome the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s formation with a powerful Soul Hall formation and Hun Miesheng’s soul attacks, but the Heavenly Nether Phoenix Saint proved too strong. Hun Miesheng escaped with Saint Hun Qing after losing an arm, leaving the Soul Hall Deputy Master and the remaining Soul Hall Experts behind.

• Hun Miesheng ordered the Soul Hall Experts to reinforce the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Formation while the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan formed the Sky Phoenix Ancient Formation.
• The Heavenly Nether Phoenix Saint merged with the Sky Phoenix Phantom and attacked as Hun Miesheng sent his Soul Clone to control the Soul Hall formation.
• Hun Miesheng used Myriad Souls Worship against the Heavenly Nether Phoenix Saint, but the attack failed to turn the battle in his favor.
• Hun Miesheng rammed the formation at the Phoenix Saint and fled with the Hall Master's Deputy and Saint Hun Qing, but the Phoenix Saint cut off his right arm and the deputy fell into the void.
• Hun Miesheng blood-sacrificed his severed arm and escaped with Saint Hun Qing, while the Heavenly Nether Phoenix Saint turned to attack the remaining Soul Hall Experts and the Soul Hall Deputy Master.

The Heavenly Nether Phoenix Saint reported that the Soul Hall’s attack on the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had failed, and Xiao Yan considered why he would not yet destroy the Soul Clan. Zhu Kun then revealed that Zi Yan had evolved into a Dragon Phoenix and that the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s location had been found, leaving Xiao Yan to lead a group there.

• The Heavenly Nether Phoenix Saint subdued the Soul Hall’s Deputy and captured six High-level Half-Saints with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s forces.
• The Heavenly Nether Phoenix Saint told Xiao Yan that Hun Miesheng’s attack on the clan had failed, then suggested wiping out the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Yan decided against attacking the Soul Clan before they had a counter to the Emperor Slaying Ghost Blood Array and could use the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s endurance.
• Zhu Kun arrived with Zi Yan, who had awakened and evolved into a Dragon Phoenix, and told Xiao Yan that the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s location had been confirmed.
• Zhu Kun explained that he had suppressed Zi Yan’s realm so she could complete the Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation and potentially rise to Five-star Dou Sheng, and asked Xiao Yan to lead the group to the tree.

Xiao Yan prepared to take his allies to the Ancient Bodhi Tree in the Barbaric Ancient Domain so they could benefit from its enlightenment. He gathered the Great Desolate Tablet and collected experts from several factions, then set out for the domain.

• Zhu Kun gave Xiao Yan a purple-gold Dragon Scale that could summon him in an emergency.
• Xiao Yan told Old Yao he was going to the Central Plains, and Old Yao urged him to collect Bodhi Seeds and bring allies from other factions.
• Xiao Yan decided to take his family, allies, and talented disciples to benefit from the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s enlightenment.
• Old Yao advised Xiao Yan to bring the Great Desolate Tablet so the group could travel safely through the Barbaric Ancient Domain.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Tablet Spirit, stored the Great Desolate Tablet and the Xiao Family and Ancient Void Dragon Clan experts inside it, then gathered allies from Starfall Pavilion, the Flower Sect, and Pill Tower before heading to the Barbaric Ancient Domain.

Xiao Yan entered the Barbaric Ancient Domain, using Heavenly Flames to overcome its poisonous outskirts and following Zhu Kun’s dragon scale toward the Ancient Bodhi Tree. He reached the Ancient Domain Platform and faced a vast Beast Tide blocking the way deeper into the domain.

• Xiao Yan crossed into the Barbaric Ancient Domain and sensed its poisonous miasma, fierce beasts, and unstable space.
• Xiao Yan collected poisonous insects in a White Jade Gourd for Old Yao and Xiao Yi Xian to study.
• Xiao Yan charged through the miasma and crossed the Heavenly Chasm, resolving to seek the Ancient Bodhi Tree before capturing fierce beasts for the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan followed Zhu Kun’s dragon scale and arrived at the Ancient Domain Platform after knocking aside an Early Ninth-order fierce beast.
• Xiao Yan saw a Beast Tide filling the plain and activated the Indestructible Candle Dragon Body and Candle Dragon Armament.

Xiao Yan used his Ancient Void Dragon form and Dragon Emperor Bloodline to push through the Beast Tide, but the Ancient Bodhi Tree came to him on its own, seeking help against the Death Emperor's Resentment. He promised to cleanse the tree, and it enveloped him in light as he approached its trunk.

• Xiao Yan transformed into a ten-thousand-zhang Ancient Void Dragon and used his bloodline pressure and Heavenly Flames to force a path through the Beast Tide.
• Xiao Yan saw the Ancient Bodhi Tree approaching with its Bodhi Heart and realized it had sensed his Heavenly Flames.
• Five Half-Saint Puppets carried the Ancient Bodhi Tree into the Beast Tide, crushing and blasting aside the fierce beasts.
• Xiao Yan persuaded the Ancient Bodhi Tree that he would help remove the Death Emperor's Resentment, and it agreed.
• The Ancient Bodhi Tree enveloped Xiao Yan in a pillar of light when he reached its base.

Xiao Yan learned that the Death Emperor’s resentment had corrupted the Ancient Bodhi Tree and its illusions, then used his Exotic Flames to cleanse it. With the tree supplying him with immense energy, he continued purging the corruption and collected hundreds of Bodhi Seeds.

• Xiao Yan watched the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s memories and saw the Death Emperor perish in battle against the tree and another Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan realized that the Death Emperor’s resentment had created an evil consciousness that produced deadly illusions within the tree.
• The Ancient Bodhi Tree gave Xiao Yan Bodhi Seeds, and he enveloped it in the Endless Fire Domain to burn away the negative energy.
• After Xiao Yan asked for help replenishing his Dou Qi, the tree gave him an ancient prayer mat and flooded him with pure energy.
• Xiao Yan collected hundreds of Bodhi Seeds and repeatedly unleashed powerful attacks, further cleansing the tree’s corruption.

After Xiao Yan purged the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s chronic illness, he persuaded it to travel with him to the Profound Sky Continent, where it might develop a true soul. The tree agreed to give enlightenment to Xiao Yan’s friends and family, and green Enlightenment Cushions appeared for the group.

• Xiao Yan finished refining the last of the black energy, restoring the Ancient Bodhi Tree to health and earning its gratitude.
• Xiao Yan asked the tree for the promised Bodhi Heart and Bodhi Enlightenment, then explained that the Profound Sky Continent might allow it to perfect its intelligence.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Great Desolate Tablet and its Tablet Spirit to show the Ancient Bodhi Tree an example of an intelligent artifact.
• After two and a half days of contemplation, the Ancient Bodhi Tree agreed to accompany Xiao Yan to the Profound Sky Continent.
• Xiao Yan brought his friends and family to the tree, which created green Enlightenment Cushions for them.

Xiao Yan underwent the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation while the Bodhi Heart, Eternal Illusion Demon Flower, and Lightning Dragon Pearl strengthened his soul, Dou Qi, and body. After two months, he broke through to the Dou Sheng realm, with his advancement continuing.

• Xun'er, Cai Lin, the Xiao Family Three Elders, and the others settled beneath the Ancient Bodhi Tree to cultivate, while the tree drew Xiao Yan into its trunk.
• Xiao Yan experienced a hundred reincarnations as the Bodhi Heart nourished his Dou Qi, the Eternal Illusion Demon Flower tempered his soul, and the Lightning Dragon Pearl strengthened his body.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate entered the Barbaric Ancient Domain to investigate unusual fluctuations but failed to detect the Ancient Bodhi Tree.
• After two months, Xiao Yan broke through the barrier to become a Dou Sheng and was expelled from the tree as his Dou Qi continued to surge.

Xiao Yan reached the middle stage of Four-star Dou Sheng after the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s enlightenment and killed the Great Heavenly Venerate with one strike. As the others emerged from reincarnation and advanced, Zi Yan remained beneath the tree and finally broke through to the middle stage of Five-star Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Yan advanced to the middle stage of Four-star Dou Sheng as his body and soul also grew stronger.
• Xiao Yan killed the approaching Great Heavenly Venerate from a thousand li away and sealed his Soul Body in a jade bottle.
• Xiao Yan resolved to take the Ancient Bodhi Tree and return with Yao Chen to confront the Yao Clan.
• Heavenly Fire Saint, the Two Immortals of Qinghua, and the Three Elders of Ancient Void Dragon Clan broke through to One-star Dou Sheng, while others emerged as Half-Saints.
• Xiao Yan returned the newly advanced experts to the Great Desolate Tablet, leaving himself and Zi Yan beneath the Bodhi Tree.
• Zi Yan’s seal vanished, and she advanced to the middle stage of Five-star Dou Sheng.

After the Spirit Realm vanished with the Spirit Clan, Xiao Yan told Old Ancestor Huoyun that the disaster was likely tied to the ancient Tunling Clan and the Soul Clan. He left the cause of the disappearance linked to the Nihility Devouring Flame, while Huoyun learned that Blazing Flame Valley might face a threat beyond its strength.

• Zi Yan and Xiao Yan returned to the Central Plains, where Old Ancestor Huoyun told them the Spirit Clan and its realm had disappeared without a trace.
• Huoyun reported that Dou Sheng experts suspected the Outer-domain Demonic Tribulation was connected to the disappearance, but Xiao Yan dismissed that theory.
• Xiao Yan explained how Dou Di and Ancestor Realm strength compared with Sovereign and Heavenly Sovereign realms in the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan identified the ancient Tunling Clan as the likely source of the threat, alarming Huoyun with the clan’s history of destroying races and stealing their bloodlines.
• Xiao Yan said the Soul Clan might have gained something from the Tunling Clan’s last clan leader, whose corpse the Nihility Devouring Flame had likely swallowed.

Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City after directing Old Ancestor Huoyun to spread suspicions about the Soul Clan, then prepared with Old Yao to move against the Yao Clan. The chapter ended with Old Yao assessing the overwhelming forces he could deploy, while keeping his most dangerous puppets as a last resort.

• Xiao Yan told Old Ancestor Huoyun to spread word that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Ling Clan and coveted its bloodline, hoping to deepen conflict among the Ancient Families.
• Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City, where Old Yao and Yun Potian praised his strength and cultivation.
• Xiao Yan told Old Yao they should subdue the Yao Clan soon, and promised he could hold back Yao Dan and handle the Medicine Emperor's Remnant Soul with help from powerful allies.
• Xiao Yan left to invite Tou She Ancient God and another senior to accompany them, while Old Yao considered how to make their attack decisive.
• Old Yao reviewed the Human Emperor Banner's 108 Dou Sheng Main Souls and the Eight Divisions Heavenly Demon Coffin's 72 Dou Sheng Puppets, but kept two dangerous Otherworldly Demon True King Puppets in reserve.

Yao Chen and Xiao Yan forced their way into the Medicine Realm and confronted the Yao Clan, with Yao Chen demanding the clan leader’s position. Yao Dan and the clan faced a powerful force of summoned Dou Sheng souls as the confrontation began.

• Yao Dan and the Yao Clan’s experts discussed the Spirit Realm’s disappearance and suspected the Soul Clan, the Ancient Clan, and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Yao Dan ordered the clan to remain on guard and avoid acting without permission.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen broke through the Medicine Realm’s barrier using the Human Emperor Banner and entered the realm.
• Yao Chen summoned one hundred and eight Dou Sheng souls, alarming Yao Wanhuo and Yao Wangui.
• Yao Chen demanded Yao Dan surrender the clan leader’s position, and Xiao Yan declared that the position belonged to his teacher.