Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yuan exposed a Soul Clan spy within the Yan Clan and urged the clans to unite against the Soul Clan before heading to the Heavenly Tomb. There, the Purification Lotus Demon Saint’s insight gave Xiao Yuan a new, risky idea for breaking through his soul bottleneck.

• Xiao Yuan showed Yan Jin Gu Yuan’s warning, and Xiao Xuan arrived to vouch for him.
• Xiao Yuan used his Emperor Realm Soul to capture Huo Yan, a Yan Clan elder who had been infiltrated by the Soul Clan, and revealed Huo Yan’s memories.
• Xiao Yuan urged Yan Jin to coordinate with the Ancient and Thunder Clans, then left with Xiao Xuan to investigate the Thunder Clan.
• Yan Jin praised Xiao Yuan’s potential to surpass Xiao Xuan and told Elder Huo Yao to bring Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi closer to him.
• The Purification Lotus Demon Saint suggested that surpassing the Emperor Realm Soul might require rebuilding the sea of consciousness, and Xiao Yuan realized he might need to destroy it before creating a new one.

Xiao Yuan used Primal Chaos Qi to complete his breakthrough into the Divine Palace Realm after a year of cultivation in the Heavenly Tomb. When he awakened, Xiao Xuan warned him that something had happened, as the Shi Clan had vanished just like the Spirit Clan.

• Xiao Yuan destroyed his soul sea and struggled to rebuild it as a Divine Palace, but the Soul Strength inside could not circulate or regenerate.
• The Five-Colored Scroll drew the six qi from Xiao Yuan’s qi palaces together into Primal Chaos Qi, which revived the Divine Palace and transformed his Soul Strength.
• After a year, Xiao Yuan awakened in the Divine Palace Realm and said he felt confident facing Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yuan that an incident had occurred during his seclusion, while the Purification Lotus Demon Saint congratulated him on reaching the continent’s peak.
• Yao Wanhuo left Starfall Pavilion without retrieving Yao Wangui after being told to wait for Xiao Yuan’s return.
• News spread that the Shi Clan had mysteriously disappeared, with its millions of members gone after their sealed clan space reopened, just as had happened to the Spirit Clan.

Xiao Yuan visited the Lei Clan and defeated Lei Dong in a sparring match, demonstrating the gap between their strength. Lei Ying then challenged him to withstand a palm strike, and Xiao Yuan prepared to face him with his full power.

• Mang Tianchi welcomed Xiao Yuan into the Lei World, where Xiao Yuan used his Soul Strength to locate the Lei Clan traitor guarding the Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Yuan defeated several Thunder Guard members, then accepted Lei Dong's challenge to spar.
• Lei Dong attacked Xiao Yuan with Black Demon Lightning, but Xiao Yuan caught his strongest spear thrust, absorbed the lightning, and defeated him.
• Lei Ying appeared and challenged Xiao Yuan to take a palm strike, offering to use twenty percent of his strength.
• Xiao Yuan asked Lei Ying to use more strength and summoned three golden suns and a violet-gold dragon as his aura surged toward the level of a Five Star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yuan demonstrated his strength to Lei Ying, exposed a Soul Clan spy in the Thunder Clan, and brought Lei Ying, Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Xiao Xuan together to discuss forming an alliance against the Soul Clan. The leaders began weighing the threat and the Yao Clan’s vulnerability.

• Xiao Yuan fought Lei Ying, contained the shockwave, and asked to discuss the Spirit and Shi Clans in private.
• Xiao Yuan showed Lei Ying messages from Gu Yuan and Yan Jin, then used his Emperor Realm Soul to capture Lei Yu and reveal his memories as a Soul Clan spy.
• Xiao Yuan urged Lei Ying to join the Ancient Races against the Soul Clan, then brought him to the Ancient Clan, where Gu Yuan learned Xun Er and Xiao Yan were refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yuan revealed his greatly strengthened Soul Strength, and Xiao Xuan appeared alive; Gu Yuan explained that Xiao Yuan had mastered the Heavenly Tomb as a transit point.
• Xiao Yuan brought Yan Jin to the Ancient Clan, and Gu Yuan led the group to the Council Great Hall to discuss the Soul Clan’s attacks and the Yao Clan’s situation.

Xiao Yuan treated Yan Ling'er and advanced to Five Star Dou Sheng before joining Xiao Yan and Yao Lao on the journey to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony. The three arrived at the Yao Clan’s gate, where Xiao Yuan revealed his strength and drew the attention of the gathered guests.

• Xiao Yuan agreed to help Yan Jin save his daughter, Yan Ling'er, whose failed attempt to fuse two Heavenly Flames had severely damaged her body and soul.
• Xiao Yuan spent eight months treating Yan Ling'er, earning the Yan Clan’s gratitude and access to its Heaven Rank Battle Skills and cultivation methods.
• Xiao Yuan refined and absorbed a powerful Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill, reaching Five Star Dou Sheng; a year later, Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion as the Medicine Ceremony approached.
• Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan promised to support Yao Lao as he returned to the Yao Clan to fulfill his parents’ wish of inscribing their names on the Clan Monument.
• Yao Lao, Xiao Yuan, and Xiao Yan traveled to the Shen Nong Mountain Range and arrived at the Yao Clan’s entrance for the Medicine Ceremony.
• Xiao Yuan identified himself as a Starfall Pavilion member attending with invited guest Yao Chen and released his Five Star Dou Sheng aura, startling the guards and onlookers.

Xiao Yuan, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao arrived at the Medicine Clan, where Yao Wangui insulted Yao Lao and refused to let him leave his name on the Clan Monument. Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan attacked in response, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yuan confronting Yao Wangui after revealing overwhelming strength.

• Xiao Yuan, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao entered the Medicine Clan and were escorted to its central territory.
• Yao Wangui confronted Yao Lao in the plaza and mocked him as an expelled outcast, while his followers joined in.
• Xiao Yan burned the Medicine Clan members who insulted Yao Lao, and Xiao Yuan slapped Yao Wangui across the plaza.
• Yao Wangui ordered the Medicine Clan Iron Guards to seize Xiao Yuan, but Xiao Yuan used spatial displacement to make them strike Yao Wangui instead.
• Xiao Yuan released an aura that overwhelmed Yao Wangui's mid-stage Four Star Dou Sheng presence, leaving Yao Wangui hoping to stall until the clan's experts arrived.

Xiao Yuan confronted the Yao Clan after Yao Wangui insulted Yao Lao, killing Wangui and overwhelming the clan elders before Elder Wanhu persuaded him to let the conflict end. Xiao Yuan, Yao Lao, and Xiao Yan then joined the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, where Xiao Yuan hinted he would challenge the gathering’s alchemists.

• Yao Wangui called on the Yao Clan elders to capture Xiao Yuan, but Xiao Yuan immobilized him and forced the elders to the ground with his aura.
• Xiao Yuan killed Yao Wangui with golden flames and repelled Elder Wanhu’s attacks, then threatened anyone who disrespected Yao Lao.
• Elder Wanhu softened his stance and invited the group to attend the Medicine Ceremony, while Yao Lao agreed to end the confrontation.
• Xiao Yuan, Yao Lao, and Xiao Yan flew to Medicine Mountain’s summit, where guests whispered about Yao Lao’s past and the group’s standing as alchemists.
• Xiao Yuan, Yao Lao, and Xiao Yan took seats beside Elder Wanhu as the Medicine Ceremony gathered its guests.

Xiao Yan prepared to compete in the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony as Yao Lao sought recognition for his family, while powerful alchemists and Soul Clan member Hun Xuzi arrived. Xiao Yuan confronted Hun Xuzi over his betrayal of his master, setting up a clash at the ceremony.

• Xiao Yan said he would compete in the Medicine Ceremony to prove the Yao Clan had lost a true genius by rejecting Yao Lao.
• Yao Dan opened the ceremony, and Shen Nong Old Man arrived and praised the Heaven Realm Great Perfection Soul Strength of Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, and Xiao Yuan.
• Hun Xuzi arrived uninvited, prompting Yao Lao to explain that he had betrayed and helped assassinate his former master, the Little Pill Tower Master.
• Hun Xuzi challenged the Yao Clan and declared his interest in winning the title of Number One Alchemist of the continent.
• Xiao Yuan appeared before Hun Xuzi and condemned him for betraying his master and ancestors.

At the Medicine Ceremony, Xiao Yuan exposed the Soul Clan’s hidden attack and Hun Xuzi demanded the Medicine Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade. Hun Xuzi sealed the Medicine Realm and summoned the true Nihility Devouring Flame to destroy the clan, while Xiao Yuan waited for an opportunity to strike.

• Hun Xuzi confronted Xiao Yuan and Yao Lao, and Xiao Yan attacked him but failed to land a blow.
• Xiao Yuan revealed that three Seven Star Dou Sheng were behind the Soul Clan’s infiltration, and Hun Xuzi admitted he wanted the Medicine Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Ten Thousand Fires Elder attacked Hun Xuzi, who revealed his Seven Star Dou Sheng strength and severely wounded him.
• Yao Dan tried to alert the Yan Clan and Thunder Clan, but Hun Xuzi blocked the Medicine Realm and disrupted their signals.
• Hun Xuzi allowed outsiders to leave, then Nihility Devouring Flame appeared and covered the region, devouring those who tried to flee.
• Xiao Yuan shielded Xiao Yan and Yao Lao with a golden flame barrier and waited for a chance to attack the Soul Clan.

The Medicine Clan activated its guardian formation and summoned the remnant soul of its Forefather to defend against Nihility Devouring Flame. As the Forefather’s remnant soul weakened under repeated attacks, Xiao Yuan finally stood to act.

• Yao Dan ordered the Medicine Clan to activate the Transformation Heaven Medicine Array, drawing energy from the mountains, medicinal herbs, and clan members.
• Nihility Devouring Flame appeared and attacked the formation with black fire rain, while Xiao Yuan waited with one hand hidden in the void.
• Yao Dan sacrificed the clan’s stored pills to summon the Medicine Clan Forefather’s remnant soul, which scattered the flames devouring the formation.
• Nihility Devouring Flame launched a giant black-flame finger, and the Forefather blocked it with an enormous cauldron before repeated attacks cracked the vessel.
• Yao Dan and the Medicine Clan members reinforced the cauldron with their Dou Qi, sending it toward Nihility Devouring Flame as Xiao Yuan rose and signaled Xiao Yan and Yao Lao to act.

Xiao Yuan took control of the Medicine Clan’s guardian formation and transformed it into the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation as the Hun Clan attacked. With the Medicine Clan fighting desperately against Nihility Devouring Flame and the Tunling Clan creatures, Hun Jing and Hun Yan arrived to demand surrender, but the formation’s white mist incapacitated the invaders.

• Nihility Devouring Flame devoured Medicine Clan descendants and attacked the guardian formation with a blood sphere, but Xiao Yuan seized control and transformed it into the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation.
• Yao Dan rallied the Medicine Clan to fight, and its members launched a combined attack that forced Nihility Devouring Flame back.
• Nihility Devouring Flame sent black flame creatures against the Medicine Clan, and Yao Dan recognized them as the supposedly extinct Tunling Clan.
• Hun Xuzi summoned Hun Jing, Hun Yan, and other Hun Clan experts, who demanded that the Medicine Clan submit or be exterminated.
• The Heaven Refining Ancient Formation covered the territory in white mist, causing the Hun Clan experts and Hun Xuzi to collapse unconscious.

Xiao Yuan used Nightmare Sky Mist, the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, and Purification Lotus Demon Saint’s aid to overwhelm and kill Nihility Devouring Flame in the Medicine Clan Space. He captured the surviving flame, while the Medicine Clan and Central State factions recognized his overwhelming strength.

• Xiao Yuan summoned Purification Lotus Demon Saint and joined forces with him, unleashing power that made the Medicine Clan Space tremble.
• Xiao Yuan trapped Nihility Devouring Flame in a fire prison and used the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation to strip away his memories and intelligence.
• Nihility Devouring Flame begged Xiao Yuan for mercy and offered to serve the Xiao Clan, while Yao Dan hurriedly entrusted the Medicine Clan Clan Monument to Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yuan refused Nihility Devouring Flame’s plea, suppressed his attempt to self-destruct, and annihilated his consciousness with the Primal Chaos Soul Suppression Seal.
• Xiao Yuan crushed Nihility Devouring Flame’s hidden escape flame, captured his remaining body, and withdrew the flame surrounding the Medicine Clan Space.

Xiao Yuan saved the Yao Clan, settled Yao Tian and Yao Ling’s fates, and allowed the Medicine Ceremony to resume. After several days of competition, Yao Tian won first place while the Yao Clan remained keenly aware of Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan’s superior alchemy skills.

• Yao Dan thanked Xiao Yuan for saving the Yao Clan and offered Yao Tian and Yao Ling to remain with him, while Xiao Yuan chose to send Yao Tian back and keep Yao Ling for her special bloodline.
• Yao Tian apologized to Yao Lao and warned Xiao Yuan not to wrong Yao Ling, so Xiao Yuan kicked him away and clarified that he had no romantic intentions toward her.
• Xiao Yuan asked whether the Medicine Ceremony would continue, and Yao Dan resumed it after the battle damage was cleared.
• The Medicine Ceremony’s preliminary stages lasted several days, and Xiao Yuan observed the talent of the Yao Clan’s younger generation.
• Yao Tian won the ceremony with a pill that drew Nine-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning, while Yao Xingji placed in the top five.
• The Yao Clan elders compared Yao Tian’s achievement with Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan’s Rank 9 alchemy skills and saw Yao Ling serving Xiao Yuan.

Xiao Yuan began the Medicine Ceremony’s final showcase by refining a Ninth Grade Golden Pill, drawing on his Emperor Realm Soul to gather vast amounts of energy and infusing the pill with Nihility Devouring Flame’s origin fire. The refinement continued for days, leaving the surrounding land depleted as the pill neared completion.

• Yao Dan announced that Xiao Yuan would take the stage first, and Xiao Yuan declared that he intended to refine a Ninth Grade Golden Pill.
• Xiao Yuan formed a huge Golden Fire Cauldron and swallowed thousands of types of Medicinal Herbs into it at once.
• After a day extracting the herbs, Xiao Yuan returned the refined essences to the cauldron and added Nihility Devouring Flame’s origin fire.
• Xiao Yuan commanded heaven and earth energy to flow into the cauldron, creating enormous storms that drained energy from the surrounding land for nearly three days.
• The crowd realized the pill was absorbing Nihility Devouring Flame’s origin fire, which would let whoever consumed it refine Nihility Devouring Flame without risk.

Xiao Yuan completed the first Ninth Grade Golden Pill in hundreds of years by using energy and souls from the Soul Clan members trapped in his Nightmare Sky Mist, then guided it through its lightning tribulation and captured it. His unprecedented alchemy earned him recognition as the world’s foremost alchemist, while the Yao Clan regretted its past treatment of Yao Lao.

• Xiao Yuan used his Soul Clone and Nightmare Sky Mist to draw Spiritual Energy from the Soul Clan members and sustain the Golden Pill’s refinement.
• Xiao Yuan formed the pill, triggering a terrifying lightning tribulation and a shower of medicinal Pill Rain.
• The Golden Pill endured the golden lightning, broke free from its embryo, and tried to escape Medicine Mountain.
• Xiao Yuan stopped the pill with a Crystal Layer Handprint and sealed it in an Earth Core Jade Marrow bottle.
• Shen Nong Old Man praised Xiao Yuan as the Number One Alchemist, while Yao Dan and the Yao Clan elders regretted their past actions toward Yao Lao.

Hun Tiandi grew wary after the Medicine Clan crisis, while Xiao Yuan formed an alliance against the Hun Clan and entered seclusion with Xiao Yan to refine a Ninth Grade Golden Pill and absorb Nihility Devouring Flame. Xiao Yuan emerged with a powerful new aura just as Xun Er arrived to bring the brothers to the Ancient Clan to plan the final purge of the Hun Clan.

• Hun Tiandi struggled to explain the loss of contact with Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hun Clan forces, then became uneasy about the Xiao Clan's rising talents and prepared to make other arrangements.
• Xiao Yuan escorted Yao Dan to the Ancient Clan, established a Space Channel, and helped the Medicine Clan ally with the Ancient, Yan, and Thunder Clans against the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan relocated Yao Lao's parents' graves to Starfall Pavilion, where Yao Lao honored them and resolved to reunite with Han Shanshan someday.
• Xiao Yuan gave Xiao Yan the weakened Nihility Devouring Flame and swallowed his Ninth Grade Golden Pill in the Heavenly Tomb, while Xiao Yan absorbed the flame.
• Xun Er arrived at Starfall Pavilion with Yao Lao to find Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan and bring them to the Ancient Clan to set a date for the final purge of the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Yuan emerged from seclusion with a formidable aura and revealed the Devouring Heavenly Talisman, saying the Golden Pill had yielded a substantial harvest.

After refining a Devouring Golden Pill, Xiao Yuan reached late Six Star Dou Sheng and joined the clan leaders to plan an attack on the Soul Clan. The alliance agreed to gather forces and strike the Hall of Souls Realm in one week, while Xiao Yuan and Zi Yan left to visit Cai Lin and the Jail Dragon Emperor.

• Xiao Yuan reached late Six Star Dou Sheng after refining the Ninth Grade Golden Pill, then sent Xun Er into the Heavenly Tomb to wait for Xiao Yan to emerge from seclusion.
• Xiao Yuan gave Xiao Yi Xian a Bodhi Great Returning Pill before traveling with Zi Yan to the Ancient World, where Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders welcomed them.
• Xiao Yuan and the clan leaders discussed the Soul Clan’s hidden forces, sacrificial formations, and powerful dead experts, including Hun Yuantian and the Gate of Dead Silence.
• Xiao Yuan proposed excluding those below Five Star Dou Sheng from the assault and waiting for Xiao Yan to finish refining the Nihility Devouring Flame before attacking in one week.
• Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders agreed to gather their forces, and Xiao Yuan and Zi Yan departed through a Space Channel for the Nine Nether Earth Python Tribe.

Xiao Yuan and Zi Yan visited the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, where Cai Lin emerged from seclusion as a legendary Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. After reuniting with Xiao Yuan, Cai Lin explained her new power, and Xiao Yuan protected her soul before the three departed to deal with the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Yuan and Zi Yan arrived above the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, where Yao Ming welcomed them and offered to help Xiao Yuan confront the Soul Clan.
• Cai Lin emerged from seclusion in a nine-colored pillar of light and revealed herself as a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Cai Lin reunited with Xiao Yuan and explained that she had inherited the power of the Python clan's remnant souls.
• Xiao Yuan marked Cai Lin with the Devouring Heavenly Talisman to protect her soul and promised to restore the remnant souls.
• Xiao Yuan gave Yao Ming a Bodhi Great Returning Pill, then left with Cai Lin and Zi Yan; Yao Ming ordered his tribe to treat Xiao Yuan with the same respect as himself.

Xiao Yuan returned to Jia Nan Academy with Cai Lin and Zi Yan, reuniting with Su Qian, Xiao Yu, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao. He then announced that he and Zi Yan would investigate the underground Magma World while the academy evacuated to safety.

• Su Qian and the academy’s students gathered for the entrance and advancement ceremony as Xiao Yu, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao reminisced about Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yuan arrived through a Space Rift with Cai Lin and Zi Yan, startling the academy before Su Qian recognized him.
• Zi Yan reunited with Su Qian, and Xiao Yuan embraced Xiao Yu before greeting Hu Jia and Wu Hao.
• Xiao Yuan told Su Qian to postpone the ceremony and evacuate the academy while Cai Lin guarded the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda.
• Xiao Yuan gave Su Qian a jade tablet to summon him in an emergency, then left with Zi Yan to investigate the underground Magma World.

Xiao Yuan brought Zi Yan into the Magma World to investigate an aura linked to the Void Ancient Dragon Tribe, overcoming the Flame Lizardmen and reaching a hidden space. There they found the enormous Jail Dragon Emperor, and Zi Yan recognized him as her father while angrily defending Xiao Yuan.

• Xiao Yuan showed Zi Yan the grown Fallen Heart Flame and took her into the Magma World, where he sensed an aura from the Void Ancient Dragon Tribe.
• Xiao Yuan used his Soul Strength to force the Flame Lizardmen, including their two Half Saint leaders, to their knees and continued deeper into the magma.
• Xiao Yuan found a hidden spatial entrance at the bottom of the magma and brought Zi Yan into a dark space containing a gigantic violet-gold dragon.
• The dragon opened its eyes and released its pressure, prompting Zi Yan to transform into her Dragon Phoenix form and roar at him for glaring at Xiao Yuan.
• Old Dragon Deng recognized Zi Yan’s familiar bloodline and realized that she was the daughter he had lost.