Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan refined the Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill, the Thunder Tribulation Pill, using the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning and advanced to Six-Star Dou Saint. After returning to Dragon Island, he spoke with Zi Yan about leaving for the Flame Alliance, but fled when she revealed the elders had agreed he could become Dragon Emperor.

• Xiao Yan refined the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning into the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then used his Hundred Lifetimes Pill Fusion Method to create the Thunder Tribulation Pill.
• Xiao Yan stored the sleeping pill within himself to nourish it with the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame and discovered he had advanced to Six-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan returned to Dragon Island and met Cai Lin and Zi Yan, who were surprised by his breakthrough.
• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan that he planned to return to the Flame Alliance, and she reminded him that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan owed him its support.
• Zi Yan revealed that the clan elders had agreed Xiao Yan could become Dragon Emperor, so Xiao Yan made an excuse and fled the island.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Realm, saw how Xiao Yi Xian had restored it, and moved the revived Xiao Clan to the Beast Domain. After announcing the Xiao Clan’s return, he prepared to visit the Ancient Clan to arrange his marriage to Xun Er and seek entry to the Heaven Tomb so Xiao Xuan could witness the clan’s restoration.

• Cai Lin gave Xiao Yan the Medicine Clan’s invitation to the Medicine Ceremony, and Xiao Yan said he would attend after moving the Xiao Realm to the Beast Domain.
• Xiao Yan toured the thriving Xiao Realm with Xiao Yi Xian and praised her work cultivating its land and medicinal fields around the Bodhi Ancient Tree branch.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian stayed together for three days, then used Mao Wu’s power to relocate the Xiao Realm to former Heaven Demon Phoenix territory in the Beast Domain.
• Xiao Yan announced the Xiao Clan’s return, while Ya Fei spread an embellished account of its history and Xiao Yan’s rise across the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan elders prepared to transfer clan leadership to Xiao Yan and agreed to visit the Ancient Clan, where Xiao Yan planned to discuss entering the Heaven Tomb for Xiao Xuan’s sake.

Xiao Yan’s wedding to Xun Er drew the Xiao and Ancient clans together in a grand celebration, where he defeated Gu Yao and uncovered the presence of Lei Dong, a powerful young leader of the Lei Clan. The chapter ended as Lei Dong confronted Xiao Yan, with black lightning surging around him and the wedding crowd watching their imminent fight.

• Xiao Yan prepared for his wedding to Xun Er, and Xiao Yu teased him before sending him out of the bridal chamber.
• Xiao Ning and the Xiao Clan disciples offered pills to open Ancient Holy City’s gates, and Xiao Yan’s party entered to the crowd’s celebration.
• Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao with one move, freeing him from his fixation on Xun Er.
• Xiao Yan spotted Lei Dong hiding among the crowd and challenged him to fight.
• Lei Dong stepped onto the arena and unleashed Black Demon Lightning as Xiao Yan’s family urged him to hurry to the wedding ceremony.

Xiao Yan defeated Lei Dong with one strike, married Xun Er, and then entered the Heaven Tomb with his family to visit Xiao Xuan. The chapter ended as Xiao Chen wept at Xiao Xuan’s grave marker and Xiao Yan teased him.

• Lei Dong challenged Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan defeated him with Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning in one move.
• Gu Yuan entrusted Xun Er to Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan took her as his wife in a wedding attended by guests from across the clans.
• Three days after the wedding, Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Heaven Tomb through a crack Gu Yuan forcibly opened.
• Xiao Yan led the group to the depths of the Heaven Tomb, where Xiao Chen saw Xiao Xuan’s grave marker and began to cry.

Xiao Xuan reunited with Xiao Chen and welcomed the revived Xiao Clan, then witnessed Xiao Yan take over as clan leader. As Xiao Yan recounted the threat posed by Hun Tiandi and the mystery of Tou She Ancient God, Xiao Xuan supported his choice to prioritize protecting the clan.

• Xiao Xuan emerged from his grave marker and comforted Xiao Chen, telling him that guarding the Xiao Clan was now his responsibility.
• Xiao Xuan welcomed Xiao Yan and the Xiao Clan disciples, praised Xiao Yan and the three women beside him, and learned that Xiao Yan had restored the Xiao Realm.
• Under Xiao Xuan's witness, Xiao Yan received the clan leader's decree from Xiao Zhan and promised to lead the Xiao Clan well.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan about Tou She Ancient God, the vanished Dou Gods, and Hun Tiandi's plan to use an Emperor Grade Pill Embryo to become a God.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that the Ancient Jade's eight pieces were needed to locate and open Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, then agreed that Xiao Yan should avoid war with the Hun Clan to protect his people.

After meeting Xiao Xuan, Xiao Yan decided that the Xiao Clan and Flame Alliance would stay neutral in the struggle for the Tou She Ancient God Jade. He then prepared to attend the Yao Clan Medicine Ceremony alone, which was due to begin the next day.

• Xiao Xuan advised Xiao Yan to focus on protecting those he cared about, and Xiao Yan decided that the Xiao Clan would not join the fight over the Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan elders that the Xiao Clan and Flame Alliance would remain neutral, while Gu Yuan asked him to protect Xun Er and agreed to send young members of the Ancient Clan to the Flame Alliance.
• Gu Yuan warned the Ancient Clan elders that Hun Tiandi might have another way to become a Dou Di, and ordered them to guard their Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Yan studied Alchemy Techniques in seclusion, then chose to travel alone to the Yao Clan Medicine Ceremony.
• Xiao Yan left the Xiao Realm for the Shen Nong Mountain Range, where the Yao Clan was preparing to hold the ceremony.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Medicine Clan’s Medicine Ceremony as a celebrated alchemist and the leader of the Xiao Clan. After Yao Wangui and his followers insulted Yao Chen, Xiao Yan attacked them, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Xiao Yan reached the Shen Nong Mountain Range and entered the Medicine Clan’s realm with his invitation.
• A Medicine Clan escort brought Xiao Yan to the clan’s central mountain, where visiting family heads tried to curry favor with him.
• Yao Wangui confronted Xiao Yan and disparaged Yao Chen, while his followers joined in insulting Yao Chen’s legacy.
• Xiao Yan used Soul Severing Strikes to cut the tongues from two disciples who had insulted Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan struck Yao Wangui and the other disciples with his Dou Qi, breaking Yao Wangui’s defense and sending them flying.

Xiao Yan confronted Yao Wangui at the Medicine Clan after the elder’s disciples insulted Yao Chen, then revealed his Six-Star Dou Saint strength and threatened war on the clan. Yao Wanhuo arrived and forced Yao Wangui to apologize, stopping Xiao Yan from leaving to declare war.

• Xiao Yan struck Yao Wangui and the Medicine Clan disciples who had insulted him, revealing that he had reached the Six-Star Dou Saint level.
• Xiao Yan demanded that Yao Wangui kowtow at Yao Chen’s grave and admit his mistake, but Yao Wangui refused.
• Xiao Yan declared war on the Medicine Clan on behalf of the Flame Alliance and opened a Space Channel to leave.
• Yao Wanhuo arrived and condemned Yao Wangui, ordering him to make amends to prevent a conflict with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan closed the Space Channel and praised Yao Wanhuo after the elder intervened.

Xiao Yan visited Yao Chen’s former home in the Yao Clan, buried Black Demon, and erected a grave marker for his honored teacher. When Yao Wangui refused to kneel and admit fault, Xiao Yan crushed him with Soul Power and unleashed Xiao Yi’s Nightmare Sky Mist.

• Xiao Yan asked Yao Wanhuo to have Yao Ling lead him to Yao Chen’s former residence, then warned Yao Wangui to attend the grave rites.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Ling cleared the abandoned home, where Xiao Yan buried Black Demon and erected a grave marker for Yao Chen.
• Yao Ling admitted that Yao Tian could not independently refine a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill and explained the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony plans.
• Yao Wangui arrived, refused to bow before Yao Chen’s grave, and challenged Xiao Yan to kill him.
• Xiao Yan crushed Yao Wangui’s knees with Soul Power and forced his head to the ground, then summoned Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yi used Nightmare Sky Mist on Yao Wangui, who panicked after recognizing the technique.

Xiao Yan attended the Medicine Ceremony after exposing Yao Wangui’s crimes, where he encountered leading alchemists and watched Hun Xuzi arrive to challenge the Yao Clan’s hospitality. Hun Xuzi declared his interest in claiming the title of the Continent’s Number One Alchemist.

• Yao Wangui confessed to framing and driving Yao Chen out of the Medicine Clan, while Xiao Yan left him alive and declined to carve Yao Chen’s name onto the Medicine Clan Monument.
• Yao Ling took Xiao Yan to the Medicine Ceremony, where the crowd reacted to his strength and his defeat of Yao Wangui.
• Yao Dan opened the ceremony, and Old Man Shen Nong arrived and recognized Xiao Yan’s Half-Emperor Realm Soul Power.
• Hun Xuzi arrived uninvited, angering the Yao Clan Elders and prompting Elder Wanhuo to question his intentions.
• Hun Xuzi said he had come to compete for the title of the Continent’s Number One Alchemist.

Xiao Yan faced Hun Xuzi’s challenge for the title of Continent’s Number One Alchemist as the Medicine Ceremony progressed from its opening contests to the main event. After the Yao Clan’s young alchemists finished, Xiao Yan donned his alchemist robe and Hun Xuzi entered the arena, leaving their contest about to begin.

• Hun Xuzi challenged Xiao Yan to compete for the title of Continent’s Number One Alchemist, and Yao Dan allowed him to remain as a guest under the Medicine Clan’s rules.
• The Medicine Ceremony began, and the Yao Clan’s younger alchemists competed for more than half a month while Xiao Yan and the other masters watched.
• Yao Wangui was released from the Nightmare Sky Mist, and Yao Tian took first place, Yao Ling second, Yao Xingji third, and the woman fourth.
• Yao Ling encouraged Yao Tian to learn humbly from Xiao Yan, and Yao Tian set aside his jealousy as he anticipated the main competition.
• Xiao Yan put on his alchemist robe and prepared to compete as Yao Dan invited the four masters into the arena; Hun Xuzi appeared first and declared his intention to claim the title.

Hun Xuzi, Elder Wanhuo, Old Man Shen Nong, and Xiao Yan prepared to compete for the Medicine Ceremony championship, displaying their Heavenly Flames before the contest began. Xiao Yan chose Yao Chen’s Bone Chiling Flame and formed his Refining Heaven Ancient Formation, leaving the story at the start of the alchemy contest.

• Elder Wanhuo and Old Man Shen Nong challenged Hun Xuzi’s claim to the title of Continent’s Number One Alchemist, and Xiao Yan joined them in the sky.
• Hun Xuzi summoned a Fire Cauldron made from the Void Swallowing Flame’s Sub-flame and invited the others to show their Heavenly Flames.
• Elder Wanhuo revealed the Nine Serene Wind Flame, and Old Man Shen Nong displayed the Life Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan briefly brought out Xiao Yi and Mao Wu, then summoned the Bone Chiling Flame and said he would use it in the contest.
• Yao Dan announced the start, and Xiao Yan formed the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation with the Bone Chiling Flame.

Xiao Yan, Hun Xuzi, Old Man Shen Nong, and Yao Wanhuo began refining Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills at the Medicine Ceremony. Xiao Yan gained an early lead by finishing his ingredient preparation first and claiming the scarce power of heaven and earth, but the other three joined the struggle, turning the Medicine Realm sky into a violent storm.

• Xiao Yan, Hun Xuzi, Old Man Shen Nong, and Yao Wanhuo each began refining a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill, with Old Man Shen Nong using the Life Spirit Flame to grow and prepare medicinal ingredients.
• Yao Dan identified the pills the four were making, and the spectators recognized the enormous quantity of ingredients required for their simultaneous attempts.
• After about a week of preparation, Xiao Yan finished extracting his ingredients first and used Gather Heaven Power to draw the surrounding energy into his Refining Heaven Ancient Formation.
• Hun Xuzi, Old Man Shen Nong, and Yao Wanhuo realized Xiao Yan intended to monopolize the energy and hurried to finish their preparations.
• Two days later, the other three began competing with Xiao Yan for the power of heaven and earth, and their Soul Power clash shattered the sky above the Medicine Realm.
• Yao Dan raised a protective barrier over the spectators as the four alchemists fought over the energy needed to complete their pills.

Xiao Yan used his advance calculations and stored heaven-and-earth energy to complete a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill after the other alchemists exhausted the surrounding energy. As Old Man Shen Nong recognized Xiao Yan’s mastery, Hun Xuzi attacked Yao Wanhuo and Shen Nong to steal their energy, then turned his attention toward Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan’s three rivals struggled for five days to absorb the energy needed for their pills, exhausting the energy across the surrounding thousand li.
• When the four alchemy furnaces fell short of the energy required, Xiao Yan melted crystals made by Ancient Devouring Insects to supply the final energy for his pill.
• Old Man Shen Nong realized Xiao Yan had calculated the pill’s exact energy requirements and had likely refined a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill before.
• Hun Xuzi used his Void Swallowing Flame sub-fire to drain energy from Yao Wanhuo’s and Old Man Shen Nong’s furnaces despite their attempts to stop him.
• After checking that his own pill still lacked energy, Hun Xuzi turned his ruthless gaze toward Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan refined a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill and brought life-giving Pill Rain to the Medicine Realm. As he claimed the pill, Hun Xuzi revealed a massive store of Soul Origin and hinted that the pill he was refining surpassed the Greater Soul Black-Purple Pill.

• Xiao Yan summoned Xing Tian to deter Hun Xuzi, who attacked Yao Wanhuo and Old Man Shen Nong and stole their embryonic pills to feed the Void Swallowing Flame.
• Hun Xuzi unleashed the Netherworld Army of a Hundred Ghosts, but Xiao Yan had Xiao Yi use the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to dispel the soul technique.
• Xiao Yan completed the Hundred Lifetimes Pill Fusion Method, forming a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill whose Pill Rain spread vitality across the Medicine Realm.
• Xiao Yan took his Mysterious Pill as Hun Xuzi produced a huge mass of Soul Origin and told him that the pill he was refining was the true source of the Greater Soul Black-Purple Pill's formula.

Xiao Yan revealed that his unfinished Thunder Tribulation Pill could be refined into a living Ninth Grade Golden Pill, surpassing Hun Xuzi’s Devouring Heaven Myriad Soul Pill. His achievement made him the Medicine Ceremony’s undisputed champion and honored the alchemy technique of his teacher, Yao Chen.

• Hun Xuzi completed the Devouring Heaven Myriad Soul Pill, whose purple-black Pill Rain could strengthen souls and raise a six-star Dou Sheng by one star.
• Xiao Yan released his nearly finished Thunder Tribulation Pill and used the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation to make it devour his newly refined Mysterious Pill.
• Xiao Yan combined three Heavenly Flames and used his soul power to control the formation, then announced that he was demonstrating the technique created by his teacher, Yao Chen, whom the Yao Clan had cast out.
• Xiao Yan’s blood mist helped the Nine Mysterious Golden Dragon become real as the Thunder Tribulation Pill gained complete self-awareness and life.
• The pill formed a golden Pill Rain thundercloud, and the alchemists recognized Xiao Yan had created a living Ninth Grade Golden Pill and won the title of the Dou Qi Continent’s number one alchemist.

Xiao Yan’s golden pill became the Nine Mysterious Golden Dragon, survived the heavenly lightning, and reached the peak of Seven Star Dou Saint strength. As the Medicine Ceremony ended with Xiao Yan recognized as the continent’s foremost alchemist, Hun Xuzi demanded to borrow the Yao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade.

• The Nine Mysterious Golden Dragon faced the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning alone and absorbed its baptism, raising its strength to Seven Star Dou Saint Peak.
• Yao Dan and the Yao Clan elders realized their clan had lost its standing as the continent’s leading alchemy force, while Xiao Yan’s reputation and the Flame Alliance’s influence soared.
• The Nine Mysterious Golden Dragon shrank into a tattoo on Xiao Yan’s arm and chose to guard him for a hundred years.
• Old Man Shen Nong and Yao Wanhuo acknowledged Xiao Yan’s alchemy skill, and Yao Dan accepted him as the new number one alchemist.
• Hun Xuzi proposed that the Hun Clan temporarily borrow the Yao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade, shocking Xiao Yan and the Yao Clan elders.

At the Medicine Ceremony, Hun Xuzi revealed his strength and declared that the Hun Clan had targeted the Medicine Clan. He sealed off the Medicine Realm with the Nihility Devouring Flame, leaving Xiao Yan and everyone else trapped as the attack began.

• Hun Xuzi provoked Yao Dan by demanding the Tou She Ancient God Jade, then defeated Old Man Wanhuo with power that revealed he was a Seven Star Dou Saint.
• Yao Dan recognized Hun Xuzi as the mastermind behind the Spirit Clan and Shi Clan disappearances and tried to alert the Yan Clan and Lei Clan, but Hun Xuzi blocked all transmissions.
• Hun Xuzi let the ceremony’s guests attempt to flee, then black flames erupted around the Medicine Realm and killed those who had reached its edge.
• Hun Xuzi announced that the Yao Clan was finished as the Nihility Devouring Flame enveloped the realm and began draining everyone’s Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the Nihility Devouring Flame had sealed the Medicine Realm in Void Space, preventing anyone from sending news outside.

The Hun Clan attacked the Yao Clan, and Yao Dan activated the clan’s ancient grand array and summoned the Medicine Emperor’s remnant mark to defend it. Nihility Devouring Flame overpowered the defense by sacrificing descendants of the Yao, Shi, and Spirit Clans, leaving the array close to breaking as Xiao Yan remained unchallenged in his role as Hall Master of the Hall of Souls.

• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to activate the Heaven Transformation Medicine Array, and the clan poured its energy into the formation.
• Nihility Devouring Flame appeared and attacked the array with black fire, while Yao Dan used the clan’s stores of medicinal pills to summon the Medicine Emperor’s remnant mark.
• The Medicine Emperor’s mark repelled Nihility Devouring Flame’s first attack, but repeated black-flame strikes cracked its medicinal cauldron.
• Nihility Devouring Flame sacrificed descendants of the Yao, Shi, and Spirit Clans to create a blood sphere that shattered the cauldron and battered the grand array.
• Xiao Yan judged that the array was about to break and wondered why Nihility Devouring Flame and Hun Xuzi had ignored him, since he was now Hall Master of the Hall of Souls.

Nihility Devouring Flame destroyed the Yao Clan’s protective array and attacked the clan as its members fought desperately to survive. As Soul Clan reinforcements arrived, Yao Dan entrusted Xiao Yan with the Medicine Clan’s young survivors and begged him to preserve their bloodline.

• The Yao Clan’s remnant Dou God soul attacked Nihility Devouring Flame and was destroyed, after which the clan’s Grand Array shattered.
• Yao Dan led the Yao Clan in a desperate counterattack, but Nihility Devouring Flame absorbed their attacks with a black-hole vortex.
• Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed Tunling Clan incarnations that killed Yao Clan members and devoured their Dou God Bloodline.
• Yao Dan ordered the Medicine Clan’s experts to self-destruct and make an escape route for their young, while Hun Xuzi summoned Hun Jing, Hun Yan, and other Soul Clan fighters.
• Hun Jing rejected Yao Dan’s refusal to make the Medicine Clan a Soul Clan vassal and ordered the clan killed; Yao Dan then gave Xiao Yan the young Medicine Clan members and begged him to protect their bloodline.