Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong and Xiao Yan confronted Luo Jiu after Lin Dong killed Luo Shan, and Xiao Yan challenged Luo Jiu's Demon Ape Transformation with his Lesser Nirvana Golden Body. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan shattering Luo Jiu's pair of Spiritual Treasure hammers with a bare-fisted strike.

• Luo Jiu arrived to avenge his son, but Xiao Yan stepped in to face him while Lin Dong continued fighting.
• A black-clothed youth recognized Lin Dong and Xiao Yan's abilities and decided to send Di Teng back to Dayang Commandery.
• Lin Dong pierced Luo Shan through the heart with his spear, killing him in front of Luo Jiu.
• Luo Jiu activated Demon Ape Transformation and attacked Xiao Yan with the Great Strength Demon Ape Hammer.
• Xiao Yan activated his Lesser Nirvana Golden Body and used Eight Extremes Collapse to smash Luo Jiu's two Low-Tier Spiritual Treasure hammers.

Xiao Yan killed Luo Jiu and obtained a Bone Fragment containing Demon Ape Transformation, which he planned to adapt to help the Fire Demon Sky Ape evolve. After the group left Great Eagle City for the Great Desolate Ancient Plain, Jiang Lei decided Eagle Martial Arts School would move to Tiandu Commandery, while Jiang Xue clarified that she had only discussed Yinyin with Lin Dong.

• Xiao Yan shattered Luo Jiu’s Heaven and Earth Hammers, killed him, and took his Universe Bag as the onlookers stared in shock.
• Xiao Yan examined the Demon Ape Transformation Bone Fragment and discussed with Old Yao how it could fuse powerful bloodlines into the Fire Demon Sky Ape.
• Xiao Yan planned to retrieve the Yin Puppet Sect’s Blood Spirit Puppet and then travel to the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet to obtain Dragon blood for the Fire Demon Sky Ape.
• Old Yao led the group out of Great Eagle City toward the Great Desolate Ancient Plain the following morning.
• Jiang Lei told Jiang Xue that Eagle Martial Arts School would move to Tiandu Commandery so Yinyin could receive guidance from powerful experts.
• Jiang Xue blushed and told Jiang Lei that she had only spoken with Lin Dong about Yinyin the previous night.

Xiao Yan, Old Yao, and their companions took the Blood Spirit Puppet from the Yin Puppet Sect and headed to the Great Desolate Ancient Plain. Since the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet could not be forced open, Old Yao planned to use the Ancestral Stone to contact the lingering will inside it.

• Old Yao explained that the Blood Spirit Puppet had been refined from countless victims and could become a powerful weapon if fully controlled.
• Old Yao estimated that the puppet could reach Two-star Dou Zong strength after refinement, while Xiao Yan considered seeking stronger materials in the future.
• The group reached the Great Desolate Ancient Plain, where Little Sable used his power to counter the seal’s effect on flight.
• Lin Dong worried that they could not open the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet before its scheduled opening, but Little Sable said he and Old Yao had a plan.
• Old Yao proposed using a formation to amplify the Ancestral Stone’s aura and communicate with the lingering will inside the tablet.

Lin Dong and his companions opened the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet with the Ancestral Stone, and Old Man Heitong sent them a mysterious black Rune. The Rune revealed an Underground Palace filled with treasures and an Ancient Blood Bat Dragon guarding it, leaving Old Yao to suspect the tablet was testing candidates for the Great Desolate Sect’s inheritance.

• Old Yao sealed the area around the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet while he and Little Sable used the Ancestral Stone’s aura to activate its seal.
• Old Man Heitong sensed Lin Dong and his companions, then broke the black stone pillar beneath him and sent a black Rune through space to help them.
• The Great Desolate Ancient Tablet opened a Spatial Vortex, and the black Rune emerged and landed in Lin Dong’s hands.
• The Rune showed Lin Dong an Underground Palace piled with Pure Yuan Pills and Nirvana Pills, with an Ancient Blood Bat Dragon coiled in its center.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Ancient Blood Bat Dragon was neither alive nor dead and possessed only Creation Realm strength, while Old Yao inferred that the tablet’s trial selected a successor to the Great Desolate Sect.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet after learning that Lin Dong's rune was only a token granting him a chance to seek the Devouring Ancestral Talisman. Inside, Xiao Yan considered the differences between the two continents and suspected that the first Dou Di had devoured the Dou Qi Continent's Plane Embryo.

• Xiao Yan explained that Lin Dong's rune was not the Devouring Ancestral Talisman but a qualification to seek it, and Old Yao agreed it was a token formed from Origin Energy and the talisman's aura.
• Xiao Yan led Lin Dong and Xiao Yi Xian through the Spatial Vortex to enter the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet.
• Lin Dong admired the tablet's vast interior space and asked Old Yao how it compared with a small world created by a Dou Sheng.
• Old Yao said the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet's space was better preserved than most Dou Sheng small worlds, while the Lesser Pill Tower's space had been strengthened by generations of Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan compared the Dou Qi and Profound Sky Continents and suspected that the first Dou Di had consumed the Dou Qi Continent's Plane Embryo.

Xiao Yan and his companions traveled through the Ancient Tablet Space to find the Underground Palace, where Old Yao hoped to study ancient demonic beasts. After Xiao Yan opened the palace beneath the plaza, an enormous Ancient Blood Bat Dragon emerged, and Old Yao prepared to claim it.

• Little Sable explained that the Medicine Realm was unlike ordinary small worlds, while Xiao Yan compared the Dou Qi Continent’s Dou Sheng experts with the Profound Sky Continent’s enduring Reincarnation Realm experts.
• A Two-colored Giant Worm attacked the group, and Little Sable killed it before Old Yao collected its corpse for his research.
• The group reached the Bluestone Plaza and found that the Creation Martial Tablet was absent, so Lin Dong emphasized that the Underground Palace’s cultivation resources mattered more to the Lin Family.
• Xiao Yan struck the plaza with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, collapsing it and awakening an Ancient Blood Bat Dragon beneath it.
• The Ancient Blood Bat Dragon burst into the sky, and Old Yao welcomed the chance to obtain its remains for his research.

Old Yao defeated the Ancient Blood Bat Dragon, collected the Underground Palace’s pills, and burned away Curse Power hidden in the Nirvana Pills. After Lin Dong’s Black Rune calmed the Mysterious Skeleton, Old Yao planned to preserve it as a future ally, while Old Man Heitong sent gifts—including Xuan Yuan Pills—after hearing revival might be possible.

• Old Yao trapped and killed the Ancient Blood Bat Dragon, then stored its body for later refinement and experimentation.
• Old Yao gathered the Underground Palace’s Pure Yuan Pills and Nirvana Pills and used Bone Spirit Cold Flame to destroy the Curse Power hidden in them.
• Little Sable explained that the Curse Power could corrupt anyone who consumed the tainted Nirvana Pills and turn them into a walking corpse.
• A Five-element Nirvana Realm Mysterious Skeleton appeared, but Lin Dong’s Black Rune made it kneel and bow before the group.
• Old Yao proposed sealing the skeleton and keeping it in the Lin Family as a future trump card, and Xiao Yan led the group to leave.
• Old Man Heitong heard of the possibility of revival and used the Creation Martial Tablet to send spiritual light, Nirvana Pills, and Xuan Yuan Pills to the group.

After leaving the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet, Xiao Yan and his companions received martial arts and vast stores of pills from the lingering obsession inside it. As the Spatial Vortex closed, the obsession warned them that it could no longer suppress a Demon King, a True King who had survived the Second-layer Reincarnation Tribulation.

• Xiao Yan asked Lin Dong to stay in Great Desolate County for a month, and Lin Dong agreed to train there while seeking a breakthrough to Form Creation Realm.
• Old Yao stored the Mysterious Skeleton in a Universe Bag and gave it to Lin Dong, then mysterious lights sent martial arts knowledge to the group.
• Xiao Yan explained that Great Desolate Prison Heaven Finger could combine into the Spirit Martial Art Great Desolate Prison Heaven Hand and summon the Martial Arts Spirit of the Great Desolate Emperor.
• The Spatial Vortex sent out over ten million Nirvana Pills and Xuan Yuan Pills, and Little Sable urged Lin Dong to undergo life-and-death training with them.
• The lingering obsession warned that it could no longer suppress a Demon King, and Xiao Yan identified it as a True King who had passed the Second-layer Reincarnation Tribulation.

Xiao Yan explained the threat posed by Ninth King's Palace and reassured Little Sable that they had time to grow stronger, while Old Yao planned to turn the Demon King into a Puppet. After returning to the Tagor Desert with Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yan guarded her as she broke through to Minor Accomplishment of Form Creation Realm.

• Xiao Yan explained the realms of the two continents and told Little Sable that they had at most ten years to gain the strength needed to suppress Ninth King's Palace.
• Old Yao looked forward to refining Ninth King's Palace into a ninth-rank Puppet and vowed to confront Yao Wangui.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong divided their haul, and Xiao Yan returned to the Tagor Desert with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed an opportunity in the collision of the two worlds' laws and began cultivating outside Stone Desert City.
• After half a day of cultivation, Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Minor Accomplishment of Form Creation Realm and gained the ability to cultivate the Great Desolate Sea Splitting Seal.

Old Yao refined the Ancient Blood Bat Dragon into a powerful Sixth-Tier Puppet and began improving the Blood Spirit Puppet. Xiao Yan prepared to cultivate while Old Yao worked, aiming to break through to Dou Wang before refining the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Old Yao compressed and refined the Ancient Blood Bat Dragon, while Xiao Yan explained that it could not reach the Seventh Tier without rare materials.
• Old Yao finished the Bat Dragon Puppet, extracted its Dragon Bloodline for the Fire Demon Sky Ape, and gave the Puppet to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan accepted the Puppet, hoping it would protect his brothers Xiao Ding and Xiao Li in the Tagor Desert.
• Old Yao began refining the Blood Spirit Puppet, whose instinctive bloodlust made it struggle against his control.
• Xiao Yan took out a Nirvana Pill and Companion Purple Crystal Source to cultivate, expecting to break through to Dou Wang within two days.

Xiao Yan consumed a Nirvana Pill and broke through to the Dou King realm while Old Yao completed the Blood Spirit Puppet, now a Three-star Dou Zong. Xiao Yan set out with Xiao Yi Xian to find Qing Lin and use her abilities to locate the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake and the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Xiao Yan swallowed the Nirvana Pill and endured its violent energy as he refined it with the Fen Jue.
• Xiao Yan broke through to One-star Dou King after two days, gaining Dou Qi Wings and power comparable to a Peak Dou Huang.
• Old Yao presented Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian with the completed Blood Spirit Puppet, whose strength was about that of a Three-star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan planned to seek the Black Emperor Sect's Sky Demon Phoenix corpse to strengthen the puppet further.
• Xiao Yan put the puppet in his Storage Ring and flew with Xiao Yi Xian toward the Desert Iron Mercenary Group to look for Qing Lin.

Xiao Yan returned to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and learned that Qing Lin had found a Fourth Tier Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake near the place where the Green Lotus Core Flame lay. With Qing Lin leading the way, Xiao Yan and his companions set out to obtain the Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Qing Lin, who had advanced to the Dou Master realm after receiving the group's support.
• Qing Lin displayed her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and summoned a Fourth Tier Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake she had brought under control.
• Xiao Yan recognized that the snake's presence near Stone Desert City meant the Green Lotus Core Flame was likely buried beneath nearby magma.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li explained that Qing Lin had searched tirelessly and that the snake had confirmed a green lotus lay deep in the magma.
• Qing Lin led Xiao Yan and the others toward the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Old Yao said Xiao Yan could use it to strengthen his cultivation and body.

Xiao Yan reached the Green Lotus Core Flame in the Magma Cave and began refining it on the lotus platform. Meanwhile, Queen Medusa learned that Qing Lin might possess the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and flew toward Stone Desert City to find her.

• Old Yao sent Xiao Yi Xian out of the cavern and led Xiao Yan through the magma toward the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Old Yao found the lotus-shaped Green Lotus Core Flame and told Xiao Yan to refine it there without first neutralizing its energy.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Green Lotus Core Flame and began refining it while seated on its lotus platform.
• The Snake People Tribe learned that Qing Lin could control snake-type magical beasts and suspected she had the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Queen Medusa decided the humans of the Jia Ma Empire could not be allowed to use Qing Lin's ability and flew toward Stone Desert City.

Xiao Yan refined the Green Lotus Core Flame, advancing to Peak Dou Wang and evolving Fen Jue to Low Earth Tier. Queen Medusa arrived after sensing the Heavenly Flame and the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and she demanded that Xiao Yan come with her.

• Queen Medusa worried that Jia Xing Tian would exploit the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to draw the Snake People Tribe into war with the human empires.
• Xiao Yan absorbed most of the Green Lotus Core Flame’s energy and surged from One-Star Dou Wang to Peak Dou Wang while tempering his body.
• Xiao Yan told Old Yao that Fen Jue had evolved to Low Earth Tier, and Old Yao said it might reach Heavenly Rank before they went to the Central Plains.
• Old Yao sensed a Peak Dou Huang approaching and identified the newcomer as Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yan realized Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian were waiting outside and flew out of the magma cave.
• Queen Medusa sensed the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and the Heavenly Flame, then invited Xiao Yan to come home with her.

Xiao Yan refused to give Queen Medusa the Green Lotus Core Flame and defeated her attack without revealing his full strength. He offered her a safer way to evolve with two kinds of pills, leaving her stunned by his knowledge and generosity.

• Queen Medusa asked Xiao Yan for the Heavenly Flames, and he refused because he feared her evolution would fail.
• Queen Medusa attacked Xiao Yan, but he met her palm with a punch and sent her flying.
• Xiao Yan revealed his strength and warned that even the Snake People Tribe's hidden elders could not stop him from leaving with the Heavenly Flames.
• Queen Medusa questioned why Xiao Yan knew about her tribe and offered to help her evolve, and he promised a safer method.
• Xiao Yan presented basins of Nirvana Pills and Xuan Yuan Pills, astonishing Queen Medusa with their quantity and energy.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao prepared a formation to help Queen Medusa undergo nirvana and evolve, while Xiao Yan explained the ancient bloodline history behind the Snake People Tribe. The chapter ended with Queen Medusa entering the flames in her Purple Giant Serpent form as Xiao Yi Xian and Old Yao asked Xiao Yan to explain the Snake People Tribe’s origins further.

• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao to set up a formation and explained Queen Medusa’s potential through the Ancient Sky Swallowing Python bloodline.
• Old Yao sealed and concealed the area, then formed a Four Poles Nirvana Life-Nurturing Grand Formation using four Heavenly Flames.
• Queen Medusa chose to trust Xiao Yan, transformed into a Purple Giant Serpent, swallowed the Nirvana Pill, and entered the sea of fire.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked why the Snake People Tribe resembled Monster Beasts, and Xiao Yan described its origins as an attempt by the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe to counter bloodline decline.
• Old Yao and Xiao Yi Xian asked Xiao Yan to explain more about that attempt.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao explained the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe’s decline and the Snake People Tribe’s bloodline limits as Queen Medusa began her nirvana. Seeing Old Yao use an artificial Nirvana Tribulation to help her evolve into a Dou Ancestor, Xiao Yan wondered whether the method could be adapted to produce human experts in large numbers.

• Xiao Yan explained that the Nine Netherworld Python Emperor had destroyed the Ancient Heavenly Snake and Ancient Sky Swallowing Python bloodlines, but his descendants failed to match his strength and the tribe declined.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao discussed how the Snake People Tribe had been created by the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Tribe, and Old Yao noted that its members suffered severe bloodline shackles.
• Qing Lin alerted everyone that Queen Medusa’s nirvana had begun, and her body thrashed inside the Heavenly Flames as her scales burned away and bloody wounds appeared.
• Old Yao explained that the Xuan Yuan Pill would preserve Queen Medusa’s body while his fire Formation created a Nirvana Tribulation to evolve her bloodline and help her become a Dou Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan proposed adapting the artificial Nirvana Tribulation for human Dou Huangs and considered whether Nirvana Pills, Xuan Yuan Pills, and Heavenly Flames could mass-produce experts.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao watched Queen Medusa evolve into a Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, but her soul began to collapse because it could not withstand her transformed body. Old Yao gave Xiao Yan a secret method to save her through soul fusion, leaving Xiao Yan to decide whether to use it.

• Xiao Yan and Old Yao discussed using pills and resources to help cultivators advance through successive realms.
• Queen Medusa survived the lightning tribulation and evolved into a Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao discovered Queen Medusa's soul was weakening because her evolution had outpaced its strength.
• Queen Medusa's transformed body became unstable, and Xiao Yan caught her as she fell from the air.
• Old Yao gave Xiao Yan the Great Law of Yin-Yang Soul Nourishing Two Forms, which required Xiao Yan to merge his soul with Queen Medusa's and help her absorb Spiritual Qi.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin reacted with jealousy as Old Yao set up a formation and left Xiao Yan alone with Queen Medusa.

Xiao Yan saved Queen Medusa by merging their souls, and their shared memories led her to accept him and ask to be called Cai Lin. Their three-day fusion also helped Xiao Yan break through to Dou Emperor; he then headed back to the Xiao Family to prepare for the next threats.

• Xiao Yan used the Great Law of Yin-Yang Soul Nourishing Two Forms to merge with Queen Medusa’s soul and rescue her.
• After three days, Queen Medusa thanked Xiao Yan, asked him to call her Cai Lin, and invited him to Medusa Temple.
• Xiao Yan learned that their soul fusion had strengthened both of them and advanced him to Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan asked Cai Lin to send over ingredients for Sect Breaking Pills so Old Yao could use them in his research.
• Xiao Yan returned to Stone Desert City, learned Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin had left, and set out for the Xiao Family to prepare its defenses and upgrade the Nirvana Myriad Transformation Tower.

Xiao Yan considered using Dragon Bloodline to awaken the dormant Emperor Xiao bloodline in his clan, then diverted toward a battle near the Chu Yun Empire to capture a Peak Dou Huang for a Poison Puppet. There, he found Yun Yun fleeing Xie Shan, who had poisoned her and planned to capture her and attack the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Yan reasoned that Dragon Bloodline might stimulate dormant Emperor Xiao bloodline factors and strengthen the Xiao clan.
• Xiao Yan sensed a Peak Dou Huang fighting near the Monster Beast Mountain Range and flew toward the Chu Yun Empire, hoping to refine him into a Sixth Tier Poison Puppet.
• Yun Yun retreated through the sky while fighting Xie Shan, Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate.
• Xie Shan taunted Yun Yun, saying she had been poisoned and could not escape, and planned to capture her before attacking the Misty Cloud Sect.