Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan began refining the Emperor Grade Pill Embryo above Jia Nan Academy, using the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation, the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and millions of medicinal ingredients to complete its properties. After the final fusion began, Emperor Flame engulfed Xiao Yan, leaving his friends and family fearing for him.

• Cai Lin kissed Xiao Yan and urged him to return victorious as he prepared to refine the Emperor Grade Pill Embryo before his friends, family, Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun.
• Xiao Yan used his Twenty-Two Types of Heavely Flames, Emperor Realm Soul Power, and Fen Jue to form the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation and began separating the pill embryo’s spirituality.
• After forty days, Xiao Yan transferred the separated spirituality into Xing Tian, who gained life and stayed to protect him.
• Xiao Yan spent six months refining millions of medicinal ingredients through the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then sent the altered pill embryo into it to absorb their medicinal properties and Source Qi.
• After another hundred days, Xiao Yan began fusing the pill and the Twenty-Two Types of Heavely Flames, but the resulting Emperor Flame swallowed him as Xun Er cried out and Cai Lin urged her to trust him.

Xiao Yan completed the All Living Beings Emperor Breakthrough Pill, but its lack of Pill Lightning revealed that the Dou Qi Continent had been cut off from Source Qi. He concluded that the vanished Dou Gods had deliberately severed the supply to protect the continent from a threat beyond the heavens, and identified Tou She Ancient God as an outsider from the universe’s origin.

• Xiao Yan spent a year completing the Emperor Grade Pill, draining the continent’s natural energy as his cultivation rose to the late stage of Eight Star Dou Saint.
• The All Living Beings Emperor Breakthrough Pill appeared, but no Pill Lightning descended, leaving it without spirituality or recognition from heaven and earth.
• Xiao Yan reasoned that the Dou Qi Continent had been exiled from the Source Qi supply and that its Dou Gods had vanished after cutting off the source fifty thousand years earlier.
• Xiao Yan suggested the vanished Dou Gods had acted to protect their descendants, and he pointed to Tou She Ancient God as a visitor from beyond the heavens.
• Xiao Yan noted that the Inner Academy’s meteor crater was tied to Fallen Heart Flame and Tou She Ancient God’s cave, supporting his theory that Tou She had come from the universe’s origin.
• Xiao Yan prepared to use the Emperor Grade Pill with Heavenly Flame refinement to break through, with Nihility Devouring Flame as the only remaining flame he had not refined.

Xiao Yan refined Nihility Devouring Flame and the All Living Beings Emperor Breakthrough Pill, becoming a Dou God and awakening new clan marks and bloodlines among his relatives and companions. He opened Tou She Ancient God's inheritance, resisted its overwhelming pressure, and confronted the remnant soul, whose plans had been disrupted.

• Xiao Yan swallowed the All Living Beings Emperor Breakthrough Pill and refined Nihility Devouring Flame through a year of painful cultivation.
• Cai Lin, Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Nalan Yanran, Yun Yun, Qing Lin, Ya Fei, Feng Qing'er, and Xiao Yu awakened Heavenly Flame sub-flames and new clan marks, while Xiao Yan's blood relatives gained strengthened Dou God Bloodlines.
• Xiao Yan broke through to the Dou God realm, gained control over the Dou Qi Continent's energy, and discovered that he could not revive Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan used Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Nihility Devouring Flame to open Tou She Ancient God's Stone Statue, whose light forced everyone except protected Xiao Clan members to kneel.
• Xiao Yan burned away the inheritance's oppressive light and summoned Tou She Ancient God's remnant soul, then revealed that he had expected the inheritance to unfold differently.

Xiao Yan defeated Tou She Ancient God's remnant with Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus and gave the resulting Emperor Flame Seed to Mao Wu, establishing himself as the Dou Qi Continent's unmatched Dou God. The story then pointed toward the Great Thousand World, where Xiao Yan's next trials and the mysteries surrounding Tou She Ancient God and Fen Jue remained ahead.

• Tou She Ancient God summoned the Heavely Flame Eternal Ruler, while Xiao Yan gathered all twenty-three Heavely Flames to form Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan's fire lotus destroyed Tou She Ancient God's ruler, the Heavely Flame Plaza, and the Cave Mansion, leaving behind an Emperor Flame Seed.
• Xiao Yan gave the seed to Mao Wu, which swallowed it and slightly advanced Fen Jue.
• Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Hun Tiandi, and the others recognized Xiao Yan's overwhelming strength and named him the Xiao Clan's Dou God.
• The closing passage introduced the Great Thousand World and raised questions about Xiao Yan's future role among its powers.

After Xiao Yan destroyed Tou She Ancient God's statue with his Fire Lotus, the witnesses recognized how far he had surpassed other Dou Gods and debated his place in history. Xiao Yan set aside questions about the Great Thousand World and refused to rule the continent, leaving everyone to greet him as its sole Dou Di.

• Xiao Yan's Fire Lotus destroyed Tou She Ancient God's statue, leaving Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Hun Tiandi, and the other witnesses awed by his power.
• Gu Qingyang explained that inherited bloodlines and techniques could become shackles for Dou Gods, while onlookers speculated about Xiao Yan's rank among history's Gods.
• Cai Lin noticed Xiao Yan's Sub-flames, and Xiao Yi Xian, Nalan Yanran, Yun Yun, Ya Fei, Feng Qing'er, and Zi Yan reacted to their own ties to him and the flames.
• Xun Er asked Xiao Yan whether he was thinking about the Great Thousand World, and he said there were other matters to handle first.
• Jia Xing Tian, Hai Bodong, Elder Yao, Old Ghost Zhai Xing, and the gathered disciples knelt and called Xiao Yan Your Majesty.
• Xiao Yan lifted everyone with a wave and said he had no intention of unifying the Dou Qi Continent.

Xiao Yan fulfilled his promise to Hun Tiandi, who became a Dou God, then visited Xiao Xuan in the Heaven Tomb and discussed whether to reconnect the Dou Qi Continent to the Great Thousand World. Xiao Yan decided they should restore the connection, and Xiao Xuan urged him to turn his attention to having children for the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Yan promised Hun Tiandi an Emperor Breakthrough Pill within a month, and Hun Tiandi returned to the Hun Realm with his clan.
• The Hun Clan released surviving Shi Clan and Spirit Clan captives, while the clans’ bloodlines and strength remained devastated.
• One month later, Hun Tiandi became a Dou God, and the Flame Alliance dissolved as Xiao Yan’s name spread across the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Yan visited Xiao Xuan in the Heaven Tomb and recounted the events surrounding Tou She Ancient God’s inheritance and the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yan considered whether Mao Wu’s Emperor Flame Seed could reopen the connection to the Great Thousand World, and Xiao Yan said they should reestablish it.
• Xiao Xuan clarified that Xiao Yan should not reconnect the worlds merely to revive him, then told Xiao Yan it was time to have children for the Xiao Clan.

After spending the night with Qing Lin, Xiao Yan reassured her that she could keep serving him by choice. He then investigated Mao Wu’s slow refinement of Tou She Ancient God’s Flame Seed and searched the Xiao Clan’s recovered records for clues to the unusable Breaking Though the Heavens, finding none and deciding to investigate the first Dou Di’s history.

• Qing Lin awoke beside Xiao Yan, blushed, and insisted that she still wanted to serve him and Cai Lin by her own choice.
• Xiao Yan met with the Nihility Devouring Flame, who warned that Mao Wu would need years to refine Tou She Ancient God’s Flame Seed.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame reported that the Hun Clan would share most of its soul-cultivation texts and returned four rings of Xiao Clan materials seized by other clans.
• Xiao Yan tried to use Breaking Though the Heavens but found that the technique still felt sealed or incomplete.
• Xiao Yan searched the recovered records without finding information about the technique and resolved to look into the first Dou Di’s history.

The Mittel Auction House opened a grand auction in Jia Ma Holy City, offering techniques from the Dou God Clans and more than a hundred Heaven Rank techniques from Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion. Nalan Yanran and Feng Qing'er arrived to bid, and Mittel Ya Fei took the stage to begin the auction.

• The Mittel Auction House drew powerful cultivators from across the continent to bid on techniques Xiao Yan had made available.
• Nalan Yanran arrived at Jia Ma Holy City and entered a special box to bid for techniques she had not received from Xiao Yan.
• Feng Qing'er arrived atop a spirit crane and was welcomed into the box beside Nalan Yanran's.
• The auction hall filled with bidders, and Mittel Ya Fei appeared onstage to preside over the auction.

Ya Fei opened the Mittel Auction House auction, where Xiao Yan watched from disguise as she sold rare treasures and arranged for Nalan Yanran to receive a Heaven Rank High-Level sword technique. The crowd stayed silent until a black-robed bidder offered two Flame Coins, drawing everyone’s attention.

• Ya Fei opened the auction and introduced a Heaven Rank Low-Level lightning cultivation method, which bidders drove up to five billion Flame Coins.
• Xiao Yan watched Ya Fei from the audience, remembering her past help and his plan to have her search for ancient writings.
• After lower-ranked items were auctioned, Ya Fei presented an Ancient Jade containing a Heaven Rank High-Level sword technique from Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion and set its starting price at one Flame Coin.
• The audience understood that Ya Fei had arranged the technique for Nalan Yanran, and no one dared to bid against the Misty Cloud Sect's Sect Master.
• A black-robed figure bid two Flame Coins, startling the audience and drawing Ya Fei's curious gaze.

Xiao Yan disguised himself as a Hun Clan bidder and provoked Nalan Yanran at the auction, but ended up buying the Heaven Rank Dou Technique after she stopped bidding. After the successful auction, Nalan Yanran confronted him, recognized him, and accused him of driving up her price.

• Xiao Yan outbid Nalan Yanran by one Flame Coin and revealed a Soul Token, convincing the crowd that he belonged to the Hun Clan.
• Nalan Yanran repeatedly raised her bid, while Xiao Yan answered each time with a one-coin increase until she offered one hundred billion Flame Coins and he fell silent.
• The two-day Mittel Auction House event ended with every item sold, and Ya Fei asked successful bidders to complete their transactions within three days.
• Xiao Yan went to the Mittel Auction House to pay for the item he had bought, and Nalan Yanran angrily confronted him after recognizing him beneath his robes.
• Xiao Yan denied being himself, but Nalan Yanran pointed out that he had raised her bid and left her owing the auction house Flame Coins.

Xiao Yan learned from Feng Qing'er that the Phoenix Ancestor had left a cryptic message about the Divine Beast Continent, then visited Ya Fei at the Mittel Auction House and became intimate with her. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan planning further investigations into the Great Thousand World.

• Xiao Yan revealed himself to Nalan Yanran, forgave her debt, and gave her the Combat Technique before leaving her behind.
• Feng Qing'er reported ancient records suggesting the Phoenix Ancestor left the Dou Qi Continent before the Dou Gods vanished and left behind the words “Divine Beast Continent.”
• Xiao Yan rewarded Feng Qing'er by declaring that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan would become one of the three great Magical Beast clans.
• Xiao Yan resolved to have Ya Fei investigate the Divine Beast Continent and search for records among fallen Dou God clans.
• Xiao Yan found Ya Fei waiting for him at the Mittel Auction House, and they embraced and shared an intimate moment.

Xiao Yan enlisted Ya Fei to search the continent for records of the Great Thousand World and Divine Beast Continent, but the investigation uncovered little. Zhu Huo proposed searching the Wild Ancient Region for clues, while Zhu Kun learned that Tou She Ancient God may have deliberately trapped him.

• Xiao Yan spent the morning with Ya Fei, then asked her to help investigate ancient records.
• Ya Fei issued a Mittel Auction House bounty for books, murals, and oral histories related to Dou Gods, the Divine Beast Continent, and the Great Thousand World.
• People across the Dou Qi Continent searched for qualifying records, while the auction house exposed counterfeit submissions.
• Xiao Yan asked Zhu Kun and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan about the missing history, but they had no records of the Divine Beast Continent.
• Xiao Yan reasoned that Tou She Ancient God may have deliberately lured Zhu Kun into the Cave Mansion, prompting Zhu Kun to blame Tou She Ancient God for his long imprisonment.
• Zhu Huo suggested that they search the Wild Ancient Region, where the Divine Beast War had taken place, for ancient clues.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan traveled to the Wild Ancient Region to search for the remains of an ancient Ancient Void Dragon expert whose remnant soul might reveal clues about the Great Thousand World. After Xiao Yan killed a mercenary group that harassed Zi Yan, witnesses in Wild Town recognized him as a Dou Di.

• Zhu Kun and the elders told Xiao Yan that Zi Yan's bloodline could help locate an ancient Ancient Void Dragon expert's remains in the Wild Ancient Region.
• Xiao Yan found Zi Yan sleeping in seclusion, and she eagerly agreed to accompany him in exchange for alchemy.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan traveled through a black flame passage to Wild Town and set out for the Wild Ancient Region.
• Hu Xiao harassed Zi Yan, so Xiao Yan snapped his fingers and burned the Manhu Mercenary Group, including its Nine Star Dou Zun leader, to ash.
• A witness recreated Xiao Yan's face in Wild Town, and a frightened onlooker identified him as Dou Di Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan entered the Wild Ancient Region to find where the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had died in an ancient battle. After Xiao Yan subdued the region’s vicious beasts, Zi Yan sensed a hidden space underground, and Xiao Yan overturned the earth to expose ancient bones.

• Zi Yan suggested that Xiao Yan flatten the Wild Ancient Region, but he insisted they explore it for clues.
• A colossal, dragon-headed vicious beast confronted Xiao Yan and Zi Yan, and Zi Yan’s Dragon Might awakened the auras of Rank 9 beasts across the region.
• Xiao Yan released his Dou Di might, silenced the Wild Ancient Region, and asked a familiar shadow to guide them to the ancient battlefield.
• Zi Yan sensed a faint reaction from her Dragon Phoenix Bloodline and identified a hidden space underground.
• Xiao Yan struck the ground with Earth Overturning Seal, churning up the land and revealing seas of ancient bones.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan uncovered an ancient Beast Spirit Shroud in the Wild Ancient Region and found a palace containing a pool of Essence Blood from several ancient monster beast races. Zi Yan shared the pool with Xiao Yan, and they began cultivating together as its power enveloped them.

• Zi Yan followed her Dragon Phoenix Bloodline to a hidden Beast Spirit Shroud concealed inside a giant bone, and Xiao Yan shielded its revealing light.
• Zi Yan used her blood to open the shroud, and she and Xiao Yan entered a palace formed within the ancient bone.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan discovered a pool of Essence Blood containing the power of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, the Heavenly Phoenix Race, and the Ancient Heavenly Serpent.
• Xiao Yan offered the pool to Zi Yan, but she pulled him in so they could share its benefits.
• The Essence Blood surged around them as they cultivated, and Xiao Yan kissed Zi Yan while the pool formed a tornado around them.

Xiao Yan helped Zi Yan absorb the blood pool’s Essence Blood and evolve her Dragon Phoenix Bloodline, then learned from her inherited memories that the Wild Ancient Region’s gateway to the Divine Beast Continent had collapsed after an event on the continent’s side. Zi Yan also discovered that the Dragon Phoenix belonged to the Heavenly Ranking of the Ten Thousand Beasts Record.

• Xiao Yan used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to refine the Essence Blood and help Zi Yan evolve her bloodline, while absorbing some of the blood himself.
• After three months, Xiao Yan finished helping Zi Yan absorb the pool’s Essence Blood, and she asked him about his relationship with Cai Lin.
• Xiao Yan asked what information Zi Yan had gained, and she revealed that the Divine Beast Continent gathered powerful Magical Beasts from countless Lower Planes.
• Zi Yan explained that the gateway between the Wild Ancient Region and the Divine Beast Continent had collapsed fifty thousand years earlier after the passage on the continent’s side was destroyed.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan that her evolved bloodline identified the Dragon Phoenix as part of the Ten Thousand Beasts Record’s Heavenly Ranking.

Xiao Yan prepared to travel to the Great Thousand World, making plans to strengthen Zi Yan and gather resources for a Ninth Grade Golden Pill. As he prepared to teach alchemy at Jia Nan Academy, crowds filled the Black-Corner Region, and the story left him inside Xiao Hall before the public demonstration began.

• Xiao Yan agreed that he would go to the Great Thousand World to find resources to revive Xiao Xuan, and Zi Yan insisted on accompanying him.
• Zi Yan returned to Dragon Island to absorb Essence Blood and raise her Cultivation Level for the journey.
• Xun Er brought Xiao Yan medicinal ingredients from the Gu Realm, and Xiao Yan embraced her before taking the Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan told Xun Er that his father wanted them to have a second child, and the two spent time alone together.
• Xiao Yan prepared to refine a Ninth Grade Golden Pill publicly and teach alchemy at Jia Nan Academy.
• Alchemists and spectators flooded the Black-Corner Region ahead of Xiao Yan's class, while Mang Tianchi and Su Qian watched from Jia Nan Academy.

Xiao Yan gathered alchemists from across the Dou Qi Continent to demonstrate pill refining and pass on Yao Chen’s Alchemy Techniques, hoping to nurture future masters. After Xun Er departed to investigate the Great Thousand World, Xiao Yan welcomed the assembled alchemists and began with Fa Ma.

• Xiao Yan and Xun Er watched alchemists arrive for his pill-refining demonstration, and he promised to show Xun Er his skill.
• Xiao Yan planned to guide Fa Ma, Ye Xin Lan, Yue Er, Yao Tian, Yao Ling, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen while sharing Yao Chen’s teachings with alchemists across the continent.
• Xiao Yu welcomed the guests, and Cao Ying asked where Xiao Yan was while reflecting on not receiving one of his special Sub-flames.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er appeared in the courtyard, and Xun Er left to help Ya Fei verify information about the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan greeted Fa Ma and thanked him for attending, while Fa Ma said receiving Xiao Yan’s guidance was every alchemist’s dream.

Xiao Yan gave alchemy formulas and instruction to Fa Ma, Xin Lan, Yue Er, Yao Ling, Yao Tian, Dan Chen, and Cao Ying ahead of the conference, introducing a formation-assisted technique he had created. After discussing preparations with Xiao Yu, he teased her during a sword fight in the back mountain and asked whether she had heard the story of the wolf coming.

• Xiao Yan distributed new pill formulas and promised to explain them before demonstrating the refining process at the conference.
• Dan Chen and Yao Tian recognized that Xiao Yan’s formulas used formations to assist alchemy, and Xiao Yan encouraged Yao Ling to restore the Yao Clan’s legacy.
• Xiao Yan told Cao Ying to focus on alchemy and warned that Dan Chen was about to surpass her.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan that the conference preparations and supplies for a Ninth Grade Golden Pill were ready, and he teased her about having feelings for him.
• Xiao Yu attacked Xiao Yan with her leg and sword, but he caught her lower leg and reminded her of their past encounter in Wutan City.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yu whether she had heard the story of the wolf coming.

Xiao Yan grew intimate with Xiao Yu in a secluded pool, where their Sea Heart Flame sub-flames resonated and improved her cultivation and talents. He later taught alchemy to Yao Ling and the others, and the day of his public alchemy inheritance arrived at Jia Nan Academy.

• Xiao Yan teased Xiao Yu about her past accusations, then kissed her as their Sea Heart Flame sub-flames resonated and strengthened her.
• Xiao Yan carried Xiao Yu into a pool, where they continued their flirtation before the story skipped ahead.
• Xiao Yan lectured Yao Ling, Yao Tian, Dan Chen, Cao Ying, and the others on alchemy, astonishing them with his clear explanations.
• Xiao Yan credited Yao Lao's teachings for the lecture and prepared to pass on his alchemy heritage.
• Alchemists gathered at Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy to watch Xiao Yan refine pills.