Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan fought off the Medicine Emperors and Saint Venerable Yaori, demonstrating powerful techniques before the coalition overwhelmed and sealed him beneath the Great Sun Palm. As his enemies celebrated, a black-robed Xiao Yan appeared behind them, revealing an Asura Soul Body and a third Supreme Dharma Body.

• Xiao Yan shattered Myriad Herbs Medicine Emperor's armor and wounded him with the Yellow Spring Grand Seal, while the Medicine Emperor Cauldron shielded him from the attack's full force.
• Xiao Yan repelled Tian Yuan Medicine Emperor's solar flames with the Heavenly Flame Eternal Ruler, then countered Moksha Zhao and Dan Zhu Huo's surprise attacks with the Saint Eye and Six Directions Roaming Body Ruler.
• Saint Venerable Yaori attacked Xiao Yan with the Great Sun Palm, and Xiao Yan met it with the Flame God Seal, forcing their powers into a stalemate.
• Myriad Herbs Medicine Emperor urged the others to attack together, and the gathered Heaven Supremes overwhelmed Xiao Yan and sealed his powers beneath the Great Sun Palm.
• A black-robed Xiao Yan appeared in the universe behind his enemies, where his Soul Body revealed an Asura form with Three Heads Six Arms and a third Supreme Dharma Body.

Xiao Yan broke free of Saint Venerable Yaori’s seal with his Evil God Asura Soul Body and devastated Medicine Emperor City with Yellow Spring Asura Fury. He then launched a Fire Lotus made from twenty-five Heavely Flames at Myriad Herbs Medicine Emperor, leaving Saint Venerable Yaori’s shield cracking as the attack continued.

• Xiao Yan summoned his Evil God Asura Soul Body and used Yellow Spring Asura Fury to shatter defenses, destroy Medicine Emperor City, and kill or grievously injure many Heaven Supreme experts.
• Xiao Yan broke out of Saint Venerable Yaori’s Great Sun Palm seal while Myriad Herbs Medicine Emperor struggled to recover from the attack.
• Tai Ling Old Ancestor recognized that Xiao Yan’s flame-fusion method came from the ancient Lower Plane where Fire Spirit Old Ancestor had learned it, and Xiao Yan confirmed his deduction.
• Xiao Yan fused twenty-five Heavely Flames into a Fire Lotus and sent it after Myriad Herbs Medicine Emperor, while Dan Zhu Huo, Moksha Zhao, and Tian Yuan Medicine Emperor fled.
• Saint Venerable Yaori stayed to protect Myriad Herbs Medicine Emperor and raised his Nine Suns Immortal Shield, but Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotus cracked it with successive impacts.

Xiao Yan captured and killed the Myriad Herbs Medicine Emperor for his past attack on Ning Tian Continent, rejecting appeals to the Great Thousand Palace’s authority. After Saint Venerable Yaori confronted him over the Great Thousand Covenant, Xiao Yan offered the Great Thousand Palace a new pill-refining grandmaster and the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s inheritance, which Medicine Saint Nu Shan revealed belonged to the Dou Qi Continent’s Yao Clan progenitor.

• The Myriad Herbs Medicine Emperor self-destructed his body to escape, but Cat Tianzun pierced and bound his Divine Soul with the Soul Chain for Xiao Yan.
• The Myriad Herbs Medicine Emperor pleaded for his life and offered compensation, but Xiao Yan burned his Divine Soul to ashes, declaring he would kill anyone who threatened his loved ones, friends, or home plane.
• Dan Zhu Huo and Moksha Zhao fled with their remaining disciples, while the exhausted Xiao Yan faced Saint Venerable Yaori alone.
• Saint Venerable Yaori accused Xiao Yan of violating the Great Thousand Covenant, but Xiao Yan offered the Great Thousand Palace a pill-refining grandmaster and the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s complete inheritance.
• Medicine Saint Nu Shan acknowledged Xiao Yan had guessed the truth: the Ancient Medicine Emperor was the Dou Qi Continent’s Yao Clan progenitor, the Medicine Emperor.

After killing Myriad Herbs Medicine Emperor, Xiao Yan revealed his interest in the Ancient Medicine Ceremony and promised to pass on the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s inheritance if he obtained it. News of the killing spread throughout the Great Thousand World and reached the Phoenix Clan, whose members worried about losing access to the Ancient Myriad Herbs Prairie’s medicines.

• Medicine Saint Nu Shan admitted he had hoped Xiao Yan would claim the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s inheritance and restore the Ancient Myriad Herbs Prairie as an alchemy sanctuary.
• Xiao Yan promised Medicine Saint Nu Shan and Medicine Emperor Ye Ming that he would pass them the inheritance if he obtained it, and Saint Venerable Yaori considered how this could benefit the Great Thousand Palace.
• Immortal Yao Shi and Alchemy God Tong warned Xiao Yan that no one had gained the complete inheritance in fifty thousand years, not even Medicine God Emperor.
• Xiao Yan said the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s legacy shared a connection with him and hinted that he had a personal reason to claim it.
• News spread that Xiao Yan had killed Myriad Herbs Medicine Emperor and was a Grandmaster of Pill Refining, changing how many cultivators viewed people from Lower Planes.
• Phoenix Clan members on the Mountain Sea Continent discussed Xiao Yan’s deed and worried that turmoil at the Ancient Myriad Herbs Prairie would disrupt their medicinal pill supply.

Feng Qing'er feared Xiao Yan would come after her, unaware that he had arranged for her to reach the Divine Beast Continent as a scout. After three months of recovery and alchemy practice, Xiao Yan joined Immortal Yao Shi and Alchemy God Tong to attempt to draw out the Ancient Medicine Emperor's inheritance.

• Feng Qing'er left the Dou Qi Continent, joined the Phoenix Race, and became a divine beast, then panicked when she learned Xiao Yan had become a Heavenly Supreme and a Grandmaster of Pill Refining.
• Feng Qing'er decided that obtaining Heavenly Flames might win Xiao Yan's favor, while Xiao Yan separately considered traveling to the Mountain Sea Continent to obtain ingredients from the Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had secretly guided Feng Qing'er toward the Divine Beast Continent to scout ahead, though Zhu Kun's arrival made the plan unnecessary.
• Xiao Yan studied the Sublimation Pill formula as three months passed and the Ancient Medicine Ceremony continued without anyone summoning the Ancient Medicine Emperor's inheritance.
• Immortal Yao Shi and Alchemy God Tong prepared to refine pills, and Xiao Yan appeared to join their challenge as alchemists and observers watched.

Xiao Yan and the other alchemy masters spent half a year refining Tian Zun pills, and Xiao Yan’s Sublimation Pill stirred the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s inheritance after he added Tree Spirit Origin from the Bodhi Ancient Tree. As the pills approached completion, Medicine Saint Nu Shan explained that a true Tian Zun Pill had to earn the Great Thousand Will’s recognition and form a Heavenly Dao Pill Pattern.

• Xiao Yan, Immortal Yao Shi, and Alchemy God Tong began refining Tian Zun pills with their own cauldrons, flames, and medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan’s open display of his alchemy technique drew the spectators’ attention, though only Medicine Saint Nu Shan and a few other Grandmasters could grasp its intricacies.
• The three alchemists spent half a year processing medicinal ingredients, and Xiao Yan wasted two sets before completing the final one.
• At the Melting Pill stage, Alchemy God Tong added Godless Longevity Blood for a Divine Vein Tian Zun Spirit Pill, while Immortal Yao Shi added an unformed Plane Embryo for an Immortal Embryo Tianzun Pill.
• Xiao Yan added Sublimation Immortal Dew containing the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Tree Spirit Origin, triggering a reaction from the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s inheritance as he used the prairie’s life force to complete his pill.
• Medicine Saint Nu Shan explained that a Tian Zun Pill needed the Great Thousand Will’s acknowledgment to form a Heavenly Dao Pill Pattern.

Xiao Yan completed the Bodhi Sublimation Pill, an Immortal Grade pill that earned two characters from the heavens but did not open the Ancient Medicine Emperor's legacy. He used the Nihility Devouring Flame to open the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace and was drawn inside with it.

• Immortal Yao Shi and Alchemy God Tong completed two-pattern Heavenly Venerate Spirit Pills, but neither pill awakened the inheritance.
• Xiao Yan's Bodhi Sublimation Pill produced an Immortal Pill phenomenon and received two heavenly bestowed characters before the light vanished without revealing the legacy.
• The Medicine God Emperor watched through a Spirit Array and recognized Xiao Yan as a promising rival.
• Xiao Yan used the Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Origin it had devoured to open the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace.
• The palace enveloped Xiao Yan and the Nihility Devouring Flame, then disappeared into the void.

Xiao Yan entered the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace alone and discovered that the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s seal had not fully destroyed the Heavenly Demon Emperor imprisoned inside. At the palace’s deepest point, he found the demon’s immense pool of resentment and realized that it was still alive.

• Xiao Yan opened the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace using the Medicine Emperor’s soul imprint while Saint Venerable Yaori and the others waited outside, fearing the imprisoned demon might emerge.
• Xiao Yan and Nihility Devouring Flame crossed a barren mountain range where the Medicine Ceremony’s Pill Qi had struggled against the demon’s lingering power for tens of thousands of years.
• Xiao Yan found the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s garden, where the saint medicines had withered, and continued toward the palace where the Medicine Emperor had fallen.
• Xiao Yan unlocked the palace’s sealed gates with the Medicine Emperor’s soul origin and entered with Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yan discovered a pool of ink-black resentment in the palace’s deepest hall and recognized that the imprisoned Heavenly Demon Emperor of the Curse Wraith Clan was not dead.

Xiao Yan confronted the weakened Curse Wraith Heavenly Demon Emperor, defeating it with his flames, demonic power, and Saint Eye. The Emperor submitted after Xiao Yan branded its Demonic Heart with a golden seal.

• The Curse Wraith Heavenly Demon Emperor emerged from the pool of resentment and attacked Xiao Yan, who stood his ground despite its might.
• Xiao Yi released the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, which purified the Emperor’s resentment and forced it to retreat.
• The Emperor tried to recruit Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan refused and summoned his Burning Flame Dharma Body to unleash the World-Burning Fire Lotus.
• The Emperor survived the Fire Lotus as resentment, but Xiao Yan’s Evil God Asura Soul Body and Saint Eye suppressed it and overcame its defenses.
• The Emperor recognized Xiao Yan’s Saint Eye and begged for mercy, then exposed its Demonic Heart and accepted Xiao Yan’s golden binding seal.

Xiao Yan subdued Curse Wraith Heavenly Demon Emperor and awakened the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s memory imprint, explaining his origins and allegiance to the Dou Qi Continent. The Medicine Emperor offered to pass on his Alchemy Techniques, but Xiao Yan instead asked whether he knew Han Shanshan.

• Curse Wraith Heavenly Demon Emperor submitted to Xiao Yan, who sent him into the Saint Eye to recover and promised to restore his body and Cultivation Level in the future.
• Xiao Yan used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to break the seal and revived the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s memory imprint through the shattered Medicinal Pill.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself as Yao Chen’s disciple and revealed his Saint Eye, Evil God Asura Soul Body, Battle Through the Heavens Primordial Body, and the Dou Qi Continent’s Plane Embryo.
• The Ancient Medicine Emperor recognized Xiao Yan’s connection to Xiao Potian and laughed about the Xiao Clan’s past attempt to exploit the Great Thousand World’s crisis to transcend Heaven Supreme.
• The Ancient Medicine Emperor offered Xiao Yan his lifelong Alchemy Techniques, but Xiao Yan asked whether he knew someone named Han Shanshan.

Xiao Yan confirmed that Han Shanshan had crossed the River of Time to save Yao Chen, and the Ancient Medicine Emperor remembered receiving her message from fifty thousand years in the future. The Ancient Medicine Emperor passed Xiao Yan his alchemy inheritance and medicinal energy, while Lin Dong arrived in the Great Thousand World during Xiao Yan’s two-year retreat.

• Xiao Yan asked the Ancient Medicine Emperor about Han Shanshan, and the Emperor confirmed that her soul message had led him to leave a protective Soul Mark for a descendant fifty thousand years later.
• The Ancient Medicine Emperor warned Xiao Yan that changing the River of Time could cause disastrous consequences, and Xiao Yan said he could not repeat Han Shanshan’s feat.
• The Ancient Medicine Emperor accepted Xiao Yan as his inheritor, gave him the medicine river’s Medicinal Qi, and began transmitting his Alchemy Techniques and pill formulas.
• Xiao Yan cultivated and received the inheritance in the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace for two years, with the medicinal energy helping him advance toward Immortal Grade Heaven Supreme.
• Lin Dong broke through the void from the Heaven Profound Continent and arrived in the Great Thousand World while Xiao Yan remained in retreat.

Two years after Xiao Yan entered the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace, Xiao Yi Xian waited for his return as the Great Thousand World prepared for the coming Great Thousand Covenant. Meanwhile, Martial Ancestor Lin Dong sought the Ice Spirit Tablet to restore his wife Huan Huan’s soul fragments, while the Ice Spirit Old Ancestor appeared alive among the Ice Spirit Clan’s leaders.

• Two years passed as Immortal Yao Shi and Alchemy God Tong managed the Ancient Myriad Herbs Prairie, and Xiao Yi Xian waited for Xiao Yan to emerge from the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace.
• Wu Ling Tian Zun and Medicine Saint Nu Shan discussed the approaching Great Thousand Covenant and the rise of Martial Ancestor Lin Dong’s Martial Realm and the mysterious Endless Soul Domain.
• Lin Dong learned from his companions that the Ice Spirit Tablet might hold Huan Huan’s soul fragments, but the Ice Spirit Clan refused to lend it to him.
• After sending his companions back to the Martial Realm, Lin Dong prepared to approach the Ice Spirit Clan’s Ancestral Land with the Thunder Emperor Scepter.
• Inside the Ancestral Land, the Ice Spirit Old Ancestor was revealed to be alive and praised Brother Snow Demon while displaying his Ice Nether Divine Art.

Ice Spirit Old Ancestor, Snow Demon Old Man, Dragon Venerable, and the Western Heaven Battle Emperor discussed how to prepare for Yan Tianzun, whose power and connections made them wary. Their meeting was interrupted by news that a stranger from a Lower Plane had broken into the Ice Spirit Clan’s Ancestral Land to borrow the Ice Spirit Tablet, and Ice Spirit Old Ancestor revealed the woman he sought to revive.

• Ice Spirit Old Ancestor, Snow Demon Old Man, Dragon Venerable, and the Western Heaven Battle Emperor discussed their ties to Yan Tianzun and feared his retaliation.
• Dragon Venerable explained that Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun’s Torch Dragon bloodline and ties to Yan Tianzun could divide the Dragon Race if it intervened.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor proposed finding the Profound Dragon Army and gathering resources so he could break through to the Immortal Grade and confront Yan Tianzun.
• An Ice Bird told Ice Spirit Old Ancestor that someone from a Lower Plane had fought into the Ice Spirit Clan’s Ancestral Land to borrow the Ice Spirit Tablet to revive his wife.
• Ice Spirit Old Ancestor dismissed the stranger as an arrogant fool and used an ice mirror to reveal the beautiful woman connected to the tablet.

Lin Dong entered the Ice Spirit Clan’s Ancestral Land to borrow the Ice Spirit Tablet and revive his wife, but the Ice Spirit Old Ancestor refused and attacked him. Lin Dong broke through the clan’s grand array before being sealed in an ice mountain, where the Ancestor intended to keep him for a year.

• The Ice Spirit Old Ancestor discovered a remnant soul in the Ice Spirit Tablet and agreed to give her to the Western Heaven Battle Emperor after the intruder was driven away.
• The Ice Spirit Clan activated its grand array as Lin Dong arrived alone and asked to borrow the Ice Spirit Tablet, offering ten thousand Demon Subduing Points.
• After the Ice Spirit Old Ancestor refused, Lin Dong attacked and shattered the array’s ice dragons with lightning before advancing toward him.
• The Ice Spirit Old Ancestor used the Eternal Freeze Technique to trap Lin Dong inside a colossal ice mountain and declared that the seal would last one year.

Lin Dong broke free from the Ice Spirit Clan’s Eternal Freeze Technique and defeated Dragon Venerable and the Western Heaven Battle Emperor after the Battle Emperor insulted Lin Dong’s wife. Lin Dong then trapped the fleeing Battle Emperor in a spatial prison and declared he would suppress him for three years.

• Lin Dong shattered the Ice Spirit Old Ancestor’s iceberg seal with the Thunder Ancestral Symbol and emerged with his lightning power intact.
• The Snow Demon Old Man recognized Lin Dong as the Martial Ancestor, and the Ice Spirit Old Ancestor asked him and the other guests to hold Lin Dong off while he activated the Sacred Artifact.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor provoked Lin Dong by saying that Lin Dong’s wife had been given to him, so Lin Dong manifested his Primordial Body and charged at him.
• Lin Dong sent Dragon Venerable flying with a thunder-and-flame attack, then overpowered the Western Heaven Battle Emperor in a clash of fists.
• The Snow Demon Old Man, Dragon Venerable, and the Battle Emperor retreated after acknowledging Lin Dong’s strength, but Lin Dong refused to let the Battle Emperor leave unpunished.
• The Battle Emperor fled through space, but Lin Dong sealed his route with Space Prison and said he would suppress him for three years.

Lin Dong subdued the Ice Spirit Clan and secured its agreement to lend him the Ice Spirit Tablet, hoping to use it to revive his wife. The chapter ended when he discovered the tablet was badly damaged and using it might ruin her resurrection.

• Lin Dong sealed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor into the void, then confronted the Ice Spirit Clan over its refusal to lend him the Ice Spirit Tablet.
• Ice Spirit Old Ancestor unleashed the clan’s Samadhi God-Slaying Wind, but Lin Dong’s Ten Thousand Talismans Dharma Body used the Eight Ancestors Glazed Bowl to swallow and return the attack.
• Lin Dong stopped the wind before it could kill the Ice Spirit Clan, and Ice Spirit Old Ancestor agreed to lend him the tablet in exchange for compensation for any losses.
• Ice Spirit Old Ancestor showed Lin Dong the tablet’s cracks and warned that using it to revive his wife could cause it to shatter and make the resurrection fail.

Martial Ancestor used the Ice Spirit Clan’s continent baptism to revive Huan Huan, while Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion with Immortal Grade Heaven Supreme spiritual power and prepared to visit the Divine Beast Continent. The Medicine Emperor’s lingering consciousness faded after warning Xiao Yan against trying to change the past.

• Ice Spirit Old Ancestor offered the Ice Spirit Clan’s thousand-year continent baptism to revive Huan Huan in exchange for Martial Ancestor sheltering the clan’s vulnerable members if Yan Tianzun attacked.
• Martial Ancestor agreed to protect Huan Huan’s lineage, and several days later he and the Ice Spirit Clan used the Ice Spirit Tablet and continent power to restore Huan Huan.
• Huan Huan returned before Lin Dong, who welcomed her home in tears.
• Xiao Yan awoke in the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace with spiritual power at the threshold of Immortal Grade Heaven Supreme and learned from the Medicine Emperor that he could challenge an Early Stage Saint Grade Heaven Supreme.
• Xiao Yan decided to visit the Divine Beast Continent to temper his body and check on Zi Yan, then bowed to the Medicine Emperor as his lingering consciousness disappeared after warning him not to defy the River of Time.

Xiao Yan learned that reviving Yao Chen would require transcending the limits of the Great Thousand World in cultivation, soul, flame, and alchemy, and he recognized an unfinished pill formula as a possible path. He negotiated with Curse Wraith Heavenly Demon Emperor for the Demonic Eye hidden in the Ancient Myriad Herbs Prairie, offering to free him from the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace in exchange for its Mysterious Yellow Qi.

• Xiao Yan concluded that reversing the River of Time and reviving Yao Chen would require four forms of transcendence and an unfinished soul-mutating pill formula created by the Ancient Medicine Emperor.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the inheritance after about two years and told Curse Wraith Heavenly Demon Emperor that he could take him out of the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he was not the Extraterritorial Evil Clan's Saint Child and explained that the Heavenly Evil God remained alive while the Great Thousand World and the Extraterritorial Evil Clan contested equal shares of its territory.
• Xiao Yan deduced that Curse Wraith Heavenly Demon Emperor had hidden a Demonic Eye in the Ancient Myriad Herbs Prairie to transform it into a Spirit Eye.
• Xiao Yan offered to free Curse Wraith Heavenly Demon Emperor in exchange for the Demonic Eye, explaining that he needed its Mysterious Yellow Qi and would pass the eye to Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor for the Saint Clan's Ancestor Qi.
• Curse Wraith Heavenly Demon Emperor asked who Xiao Yan really was, then resigned himself to handing over the Demonic Eye after Xiao Yan said he had no choice.

After emerging from the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace, Xiao Yan shared the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s alchemy inheritance with Medicine Emperor Ye Ming and Medicine Saint Nu Shan while Xiao Yi Xian investigated the withered Sacred Medicines. Saint Venerable Yaori then summoned Xiao Yan to meet the Great Thousand Palace’s Acting Palace Master, Demon Subduing King Qin Tian.

• Xiao Yan gathered the treasures in the hidden Medicine Emperor Heavenly Realm and emerged from the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace, causing it to appear above the Ancient Myriad Herbs Prairie.
• Xiao Yi Xian welcomed Xiao Yan and revealed that she and Xun Er had reached the Heaven Supreme realm using the planar power he had left behind.
• Xiao Yan began passing the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s alchemy inheritance and pill formulas to Medicine Emperor Ye Ming and Medicine Saint Nu Shan, while Xiao Yi Xian examined the withered Sacred Medicines.
• Cultivators entering the Medicine Emperor Heavenly Realm found most of its treasures gone, though Xiao Yan had preserved the alchemist trials and their rewards.
• After three months, Xiao Yan left the palace and met Saint Venerable Yaori, who said the Great Thousand Palace wanted to learn about the Heavenly Demon Emperor and that Qin Tian was waiting for him.

Xiao Yan met Qin Tian, the Great Thousand Palace’s Acting Palace Master, to discuss the Ancient Myriad Herbs Prairie, the destroyed Heavenly Demon Emperor remnant, and Xiao Yan’s refusal to join the Great Thousand Palace. The chapter left Qin Tian seeking clarity on whether Xiao Yan would become a threat or ally as the Extraterritorial Evil Clan loomed.

• Xiao Yan agreed to receive Qin Tian at the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace, while Qin Tian said he needed to assess whether Xiao Yan and his forces were friend or foe.
• Qin Tian met Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian, praised their tea, and exchanged formal greetings with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked whether the Great Thousand Palace objected to his handling of the Myriad Herbs Medicine Emperor’s inheritance, and Qin Tian said the Palace would treat it as Xiao Yan’s private affair.
• Xiao Yan said he would leave the Ancient Myriad Herbs Prairie’s resources alone except for the Medicine Emperor Sacred Palace and wanted the Yao Clan to cultivate there; Qin Tian agreed the Ancient Medicine Emperor’s descendants could enter.
• Xiao Yan confirmed that he had destroyed the Heavenly Demon Emperor’s remnant soul and said he had no interest in becoming a Demon Slayer King or joining the Great Thousand Palace.
• Qin Tian asked what Xiao Yan planned to do next, and Xiao Yan explained that the Palace feared he might keep taking strategic resources or join the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.