Chapter Summaries

Hai Bodong battled the Soaring Sky Flood Dragon while Xiao Yan’s group moved to intercept the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan at the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. Xiao Yan revealed that he had outmaneuvered Feng Qing’er, and the chapter ended with Huang Dong knocked unconscious as Xiao Yan appeared beside her.

• Hai Bodong used his ice techniques to fight the Soaring Sky Flood Dragon, awakened its bloodline power, and answered with his Mystic Ice Dragon Ascension technique.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the others had reached their destination and left Nalan Yanran and Little Lion King to guard Hai Bodong while he, Venerable Tian Huo, and Xiao Yi Xian hurried onward.
• Feng Qing’er opened the Beast Spirit Shroud with her blood, leading the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and its allies to the altar where they found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Xiao Yan arrived and refused Huang Xuan’s offer to surrender the fruit, while Huang Xuan ordered his allies to hold Xiao Yan back as Huang Dong tried to awaken the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix’s Ancestor Soul.
• Feng Qing’er froze in fear, realizing Xiao Yan had left a method on her, and Xiao Yan’s illusion body distracted Thunder Venerable while his main body appeared beside her.
• Xiao Yan placed his hand on Feng Qing’er’s shoulder, and Huang Dong was knocked unconscious by Xiao Yan’s Soul Impact.

Xiao Yan’s group defeated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and obtained the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, which Feng Qing'er had to keep inside her body. Xiao Yan offered her a chance at freedom if she could withstand one move, but after she summoned the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix’s Ancestor Soul, he destroyed it with his new soul power and left her defeated.

• Xiao Yan’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body killed the Clan Leaders of the Great Earth Tiger Clan and the Silver Moon Wolf Clan, while Xiao Yi Xian poisoned Huang Xuan and the rest of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan fell.
• Xiao Yan spared Feng Qing'er, then learned from Xiao Yi Xian that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit had been cultivated using the remains of an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix and an Ancient Void Dragon.
• Xiao Yan ordered Feng Qing'er to pluck the fruit, and she stored it inside her body using her phoenix bloodline.
• Xiao Yan offered Feng Qing'er freedom if she could withstand one move from him, and she summoned the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix’s Ancestor Soul to attack.
• Xiao Yan activated the Hun Clan Tribal Mark and used Asura Hand to cleave apart Feng Qing'er’s Golden Heavenly Phoenix, leaving her injured and defeated.

Xiao Yan defeated Feng Qing'er's Ancestor Soul, poisoned and subdued her, then promised her a Desolate Beast Heavenly Spirit Pill if she helped bring the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. After Xiao Yan's group moved the ancient Medicinal Herb Forest and headed deeper into the ruins, Feng Qing'er revealed that the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe was pursuing a medicinal pill.

• Xiao Yan defeated the Ancestor Soul and left Feng Qing'er too injured to resist.
• Xiao Yi Xian poisoned Feng Qing'er to prevent her from contacting the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Xiao Yan coaxed her out of despair by promising a Desolate Beast Heavenly Spirit Pill.
• Feng Qing'er agreed to go with Xiao Yan and bring the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Yan's group left the Beast Spirit Shroud, and Mao Wu swallowed the ancient Medicinal Herb Forest along with the surrounding space.
• Xiao Yan led the group toward the center of the hall to seek Creation Sage's Herb Planter inheritance, and Feng Qing'er said the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe was searching for a medicinal pill.

Xiao Yan’s group searched the Pill Hall, where he discovered a Pill Beast and obtained the Creation Scripture, Creation Sage’s Herb Planting inheritance. They reached the ruins’ deepest chamber, where ten clusters of light and a Dou Sheng’s skeleton awaited them.

• Xiao Yan led the group through the Pill Hall, and Xiao Yi Xian protected them from the poisonous air on its upper floors.
• Xiao Yan gave Nalan Yanran a Seventh Grade pill, but a white beast tried to steal it and he realized it was a Pill Beast.
• Xiao Yan tempted the Pill Beast with pills, and it spat out the Creation Scripture, revealing Creation Sage’s Herb Planting inheritance.
• Xiao Yan entrusted the Creation Scripture and the Pill Beast to Xiao Yi Xian, then concealed the creature and led the group onward.
• Xiao Yan and his companions reached the deepest chamber and saw ten suspended clusters of light above a jade-white Dou Sheng skeleton.

Xiao Yan discovered that the Heaven Rank Grand Creation Palm was hidden within Creation Sage’s skeleton, not among the sealed scrolls, and rushed to claim it as the inheritances were unsealed. The skeleton awakened and clashed with Xiao Yan, leaving the gathered factions stunned as he prepared to face it.

• Xiao Yan sensed Dou Saint Essence Blood in Creation Sage’s skeleton and planned to use it to raise his strength before visiting the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Yan entered the hall with his companions, assigned them to pursue the light clusters, and greeted Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er before Yun Yun arrived and reunited with Nalan Yanran.
• Old Ghost Zhai Xing arrived with Soul Hall experts and secretly focused on Creation Sage’s skeleton, confirming Xiao Yan’s suspicion that the Grand Creation Palm was hidden there.
• The seals broke, releasing ten scrolls and awakening the puppets, and the factions rushed into battle over the inheritances.
• Xiao Yan abandoned the scrolls and charged toward the skeleton, but Zhai Xing tried to stop him; Xiao Yan sent his Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body to fight Zhai Xing and continued onward.
• The skeleton awakened and roared at Xiao Yan, who answered with the Ancient Dragon’s Roar; their sonic attacks collided, and both were blasted back as the crowd watched in shock.

Xiao Yan defeated the Creation Sage Skeleton in close combat, then countered its Heaven Rank Grand Creation Palm with the Emperor Seal Technique. After the blast destroyed the plaza and killed many rivals, he collected the Sage’s bones and left the ruins with Xiao Yi Xian and the others.

• Xiao Yan fought the empowered Creation Sage Skeleton head-on and eventually blasted it away, while Star Plucking Tian Zun recognized him as the Soul Hall’s Tenth Tian Zun and stopped his subordinates from attacking.
• Greedy experts rushed toward the apparently disabled skeleton, but it began unleashing the Grand Creation Palm, and Star Plucking Tian Zun knocked two Nine Serene Deep Ground Python experts into its path.
• Xiao Yan used the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change and four stacked seals of the Emperor Seal Technique to clash with the Grand Creation Palm, then survived the blast with Xiao Yi Xian’s help.
• The battle destroyed the plaza and erased many experts, while the Creation Sage Skeleton’s red light faded and the survivors dared not challenge Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan collected the Creation Sage’s bones, recovered some Dou Qi with a Medicinal Pill, and left the Ancient Ruins with Xiao Yi Xian and the others.

Xiao Yan left the relic with the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and traveled to East Dragon Island, where he gave it to Zi Yan. After Zi Yan entered inheritance training, Xiao Yan rewarded Feng Qing'er with a pill and warned her to keep the island’s secrets.

• Hai Bodong gave Xiao Yan Creation Sage's puppet-refining method, while Xiao Yan distributed the other relic rewards and parted from his companions.
• Xiao Yan met Zhai Xing, accepted the Soul Bodies he had collected, and spared him before taking Feng Qing'er to Dragon Island.
• Hei Qing welcomed Xiao Yan to East Dragon Island, where Zi Yan excitedly reunited with him and learned he had brought her food.
• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Zhu Li took her to the Inheritance Ground after Xiao Yan secured her three days of rest.
• Xiao Yan refined a high-grade Desolate Beast Heavenly Spirit Pill for Feng Qing'er and warned her not to reveal the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit or Zi Yan's identity.

Xiao Yan pressured Feng Qing'er to mislead the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, then helped Xiao Yi Xian establish a hidden medicinal valley before traveling to the Flower Sect. He arrived in time for the contest to decide the sect’s master, where Yun Yun was summoned to face the challenge.

• Xiao Yan told Feng Qing'er to blame the Three Dragon Islands for her group’s deaths and promised protection for her Feng clan line, then let her return.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian transformed the Small Mountain Valley into a guarded medicinal-herb sanctuary and named it Creation Valley.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian shared a kiss in the valley, and she agreed to accompany him to the Gu Realm.
• Xiao Yan traveled to the Flower Sect, met Nalan Yanran, and learned Yun Yun was preparing to challenge Yaouhua Xiejun for the sect’s leadership.
• Xiao Yan meditated in a cave until the contest day, when a woman and Yaouhua Xiejun called for Yun Yun to appear.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Flower Sect duel and used his Heavenly Flame Spirits to overwhelm Hua Jin and Yaouhua Xiejun while teasing Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran. After Yaouhua Xiejun froze the Flame Spirits with a Yellow Spring Blood Crystal, Xiao Yan unleashed a powerful soul attack against the charging pair.

• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran arrived at the square, where Hua Jin demanded that Yun Yun surrender Granny Hua's Dou Qi and call out Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan appeared beside Yun Yun, pulled her into his embrace, and dismissed Hua Jin and Yaouhua Xiejun as opponents he could handle while seated.
• Hua Jin and Yaouhua Xiejun attacked, but Xiao Yan summoned the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame and Three Thousand Burning Flame to destroy their techniques and drive them back.
• Yaouhua Xiejun used a Yellow Spring Blood Crystal to freeze both Heavenly Flame Spirits, then charged at Xiao Yan with Hua Jin.
• Xiao Yan released his Soul Power and launched Asura Soul Sever at the approaching Hua Jin and Yaouhua Xiejun.

Xiao Yan defeated Hua Jin and Yaouhua Xiejun, helping Yun Yun become the Flower Sect’s new Sect Leader and blocking a possible alliance with the Heaven Nether Sect. While he tried to help Yun Yun refine Granny Hua’s sealed Dou Qi, an accident left Yun Yun exposed, and Nalan Yanran walked in on them.

• Xiao Yan unleashed a Soul Storm that wounded Hua Jin and Yaouhua Xiejun, and Hua Jin admitted defeat when the Heavenly Flame Spirits broke free.
• The Flower Sect Great Elder named Yun Yun the new Sect Leader, and Xiao Yan warned her that Yaouhua Xiejun belonged to the Heaven Nether Sect and that their alliance threatened the Flame Alliance and Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan told Yun Yun to hand the Misty Cloud Sect leadership to Nalan Yanran and gave Nalan Yanran advice and ingredients to help her advance toward Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan examined Yun Yun’s seal and used the Wind Fury Dragon Flame to open it further, but the released Dou Qi destroyed her clothes.
• Nalan Yanran returned and entered Yun Yun’s room after hearing her cry, finding Yun Yun on top of Xiao Yan; Xiao Yan then told Nalan Yanran to come over.

Xiao Yan helped Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran recover from the previous day's awkward incident, then used a medicinal bath and the Yin-Yang Twin Flame to help Nalan Yanran improve her cultivation. He stayed at the Flower Sect to cultivate and began unlocking the body-tempering method hidden in Creation Sage's ribs, enduring its agonizing effects.

• Xiao Yan cleared up Nalan Yanran's misunderstanding and promised Yun Yun that he would keep what happened between them secret.
• Yun Yun explained that the previous day's incident had been caused by breaking Granny Hua's seal, while Nalan Yanran realized Xiao Yan still held someone else in his heart.
• Xiao Yan prepared a medicinal bath for Nalan Yanran, gave her a Zong Restoration Pill, and used the Yin-Yang Twin Flame to help refine its effects.
• Fairy Hua and Fairy Qing watched Xiao Yan leave, and Fairy Qing silently mourned her lingering feelings for him.
• Xiao Yan discovered soul information sealed in three of Creation Sage's ribs and melted them with his fused Heavenly Flames to produce a dark-gold liquid.
• Xiao Yan put his hand into the liquid, which wrapped around it and caused intense pain as it began tempering his body for a Heaven Rank Dou Technique.

Xiao Yan inherited the Heaven Rank Low-Level Grand Creation Palm and spent a month cultivating it at the Flower Sect. When Nalan Yanran challenged him, their spar escalated into a clash between her Wind's Extremity, One Sword Astonishing Venerable and Xiao Yan's Grand Creation Palm.

• Xiao Yan inherited the Grand Creation Palm from the memory fragment of Creation Sage, learned its meridian route, and discovered that it required a palm tempered by Gold Spirit Saliva.
• Xiao Yan practiced the Grand Creation Palm for a month while Flower Sect disciples watched him cultivate.
• Nalan Yanran emerged from seclusion at Nine Star Peak Dou Zong and challenged Xiao Yan to another fight.
• Xiao Yan suppressed his strength and sparred with Nalan Yanran, who used her sword techniques and Flower Sect movement skills against his Dou Techniques.
• Nalan Yanran unleashed Wind's Extremity, One Sword Astonishing Venerable, as Xiao Yan answered with the Grand Creation Palm.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran sparred, and he later completed his Emperor Seal Technique during training with Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun. When Zi Yan’s Soul Jade Pendant shattered, Xiao Yan rushed to East Dragon Island and found her crystallized after a failed evolution using the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Nalan Yanran broke through Xiao Yan’s Grand Creation Palm with her Yin-Yang Twin Flame, but Xiao Yan answered with the Ancient Emperor Seal and won their sparring match.
• Xiao Yan continued sparring with Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun, improved his techniques, and helped both women strengthen their cultivation.
• Zi Yan’s Soul Jade Pendant shattered, prompting Xiao Yan to leave for East Dragon Island while Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran stayed behind.
• Hei Qing told Xiao Yan that Zi Yan needed an alchemist’s help, and Zhu Li led him to a hall where she lay sealed inside a crystal.
• Zhu Li explained that Zi Yan’s evolution with the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit had gone out of control and crystallized her body.

Xiao Yan used his fused Heavenly Flame to refine Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit crystal and help her evolve into the Dragon Emperor. After Zi Yan gave him protective armor, Xiao Yan headed for a Void Thunder Pool to temper himself and refine Essence Blood before the Heaven Tomb opened.

• Xiao Yan began refining Zi Yan inside the Nong Cauldron, using his fused Heavenly Flame while Zhu Li and Qi You watched.
• After more than half a month of work, Xiao Yan melted the crystal layer, and Zi Yan awakened with the Dragon Phoenix Body and the Dragon Emperor’s bloodline.
• Zi Yan’s Ancient Void Dragon Clan bowed to her as Lord Dragon Emperor, and she gave Xiao Yan the Dragon Emperor Ancient Armor before leaving to consolidate her power.
• Xiao Yan asked Hei Qing where he could temper his body, rested, then followed him to a Void Thunder Pool in the void outside the island.
• Xiao Yan decided to spend the more than half a year before the Heaven Tomb opened in the thunder pool, refining Essence Blood and strengthening himself.

Xiao Yan trained in the Void Thunder Pool, refining his body and absorbing the Bearing Venerable Spirit Pill and ancient dragon essence blood until he advanced from Five Star to Eight Star Dou Zun. After escaping Black Demon Lightning with an Elder surnamed Mang, he returned with Hei Qing to prepare the Nine Revolutions Heaven Transformation Pill before his appointment.

• Xiao Yan entered the Lightning Pool, left his puppets and Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body to evolve them, and moved deeper to temper himself.
• Xiao Yan refined the Creation Sage's skeleton and ancient dragon essence blood, then swallowed the essence and Bearing Venerable Spirit Pill while using the lightning to refine his energy.
• Xiao Yan cultivated for nearly half a year, during which his puppets became Heavenly Demon Puppets and he broke through to Eight Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan fled the Void Thunder Pool when Black Demon Lightning pursued a Half-Saint Elder surnamed Mang, then escaped alongside him.
• Hei Qing arrived, and Xiao Yan returned with him, planning to refine the Nine Revolutions Heaven Transformation Pill before his appointment.

After refining a Nine Revolutions Heaven Transformation Pill, Xiao Yan left East Dragon Island and traveled to the Ancient Holy City to attend the Ancient Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony. At the city gates, he confronted Ling Quan and revealed that he had come as the Xiao Clan’s young clan leader, shocking the gathered experts.

• Xiao Yan refined another Nine Revolutions Heaven Transformation Pill, and Elder Zhu Li told him that Zi Yan remained in seclusion while preparing to break through to Rank 9.
• Xiao Yan gave Elder Zhu Li a jade pendant for Zi Yan, accepted a Space Jade Slip, and left East Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yan met Third Tian Zun Gui Ming and gave him the Nine Revolutions Heaven Transformation Pill in exchange for their earlier arrangement.
• Xiao Yan traveled alone to the Ancient Holy City with his Gu Jade Token, intending to enter the Gu Realm for the Coming-of-Age Ceremony and meet Xun Er.
• At the city gate, Ling Quan attacked Xiao Yan, who suppressed him with Space Power; the Fifth Commander and Black Submerging Army soldiers confronted Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan showed the Gu Jade Token and declared that he had come as the Xiao Clan’s young clan leader, leaving the crowd stunned.

After claiming recognition as the Xiao Clan’s young clan leader, Xiao Yan arrived in Ancient Holy City and became the focus of a dispute over the clan’s alliance and Heaven Tomb slots. When Yang Hao challenged him in a tavern, Xiao Yan broke his fingers with chopsticks, and Yang Hao unleashed his Clan Mark and attacked with the Earth Overturning Seal.

• Xiao Yan declared himself the Xiao Clan’s young clan leader, and Zhuang Pei acknowledged his status, ordered Ling Quan taken away, and arranged for Xiao Yan to stay in Ancient Holy City.
• Xiao Yan entered the city and obtained a courtyard while Xun Er learned of his arrival and eagerly asked Ling Ying about him.
• During Xiao Yan’s two-day stay, arguments spread through Ancient Holy City and the Gu Realm over the Xiao Clan’s alliance, the Heaven Tomb slots, and Xiao Yan’s relationship with Xun Er.
• Yang Hao challenged Xiao Yan at a tavern, but Xiao Yan ignored him until Yang Hao attacked and Xiao Yan trapped his hand with chopsticks wrapped in the Fallen Heart Flame, then broke his fingers.
• Yang Hao activated his Clan Mark, raised his strength, and attacked Xiao Yan with the Earth Overturning Seal.

Xiao Yan defeated Yang Hao and faced down the Ancient Clan’s commanders before discovering a mysterious connection between Huo Zhi’s Red Lotus Karma Flame and his Yin-Yang Twin Flame. When the Gu Realm’s entrance opened, Xiao Yan prepared to enter and meet the Gu Clan.

• Yang Hao attacked Xiao Yan with the Earth Overturning Seal, but Xiao Yan revealed that he was an Eight Star Dou Zun, disrupted Yang Hao’s technique, and caused it to explode, badly injuring Yang Hao and Ling Quan.
• Lin Xiu confronted Xiao Yan, but Elder Gu Xun stopped him and reminded him that the Xiao Clan was an ally of the Ancient Clan.
• Huo Zhi’s Red Lotus Karma Flame reacted to Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames, and she sensed that he possessed both Fallen Heart Flame and Yin-Yang Twin Flame.
• Hun Ya identified himself as a descendant of the man who helped bring down Xiao Xuan and declared that he would take Xiao Yan’s Soul Body of the Pill Gathering Champion.
• Elder Gu Xun opened the passage to the Gu Realm, and Xiao Yan grew nervous as he prepared to enter.

Xiao Yan entered the Gu Realm, defeated Lin Xiu, and challenged the Ancient Clan’s reverence for Dou God Bloodline while speaking with Gu Zhen. When the Ancient Clan tried to stop him from leaving the Shuttle Sky Boat, Xiao Yan broke through their restraint, and Mang Tianchi appeared to confront the elders pursuing him.

• Xiao Yan used his Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body and Nine Dragons Thunder Flame to defeat Lin Xiu, then struck him again with gray heavenly lightning after Lin Xiu threatened him.
• Xiao Yan entered the Gu Realm, boarded a Shuttle Sky Boat, and met Huo Xuan, who introduced him to Yao Xingji as a renowned young alchemist.
• Xiao Yan sat with Gu Zhen, who explained the Ancient Clan’s rules against outsiders marrying into the clan and tried to warn him about Xun Er.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Zhen that Dou God Bloodline was not the best source of power, then left the ship and broke through a Space Lock with his fused Heavenly Flame.
• Gu Qian and Gu Xu pursued Xiao Yan, but Mang Tianchi appeared and blocked their path, stunning Xiao Yan with his familiar name.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er in the Gu Realm, where Gu Yao challenged their relationship and threatened to confront Xiao Yan at the Ancient Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony. After Xiao Yan confessed his past with Cai Lin and Xiao Xiao, he and Xun Er sparred, and the ceremony began the next morning.

• Mang Tianchi stopped Gu Qian and Gu Xu from pursuing Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan hurried into the core of the Gu Realm to find Xun Er.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er reunited, embraced, and kissed before Gu Yao interrupted them with an attack.
• Xiao Yan mocked Gu Yao, who threatened to challenge him at the Coming-of-Age Ceremony, then Xiao Yan and Xun Er left together.
• Xun Er warned Xiao Yan that Gu Yao would use the ceremony to challenge him, and Xiao Yan told her about Cai Lin and Xiao Xiao.
• Xun Er and Xiao Yan discussed their separation and her bloodline, then she sealed the space and beat him in a sparring match.
• The Ancient Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony began the following morning.