Chapter Summaries

Xuan Jin and the others uprooted the Soul Infant Fruit Tree and continued through the ruins with the Heaven-Reaching Flood Dragon as their guide. They reached an altar bearing the remains of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heaven Phoenix, where a red sapling with a single fruit grew between the skeletons.

• Xuan Jin transplanted the Soul Infant Fruit Tree into his Storage Ring with the Heaven-Reaching Flood Dragon's help.
• Zhu Li let the Pill Tower keep the two Gold-Grade Soul Infant Fruits, and Xuan Jin spared the flood dragon and gave it a Seventh Grade healing pill.
• The Heaven-Reaching Flood Dragon led the group through the ruins' traps and corridors toward the source of a powerful Dou Saint aura.
• Zi Yan sensed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit ahead and led the group's attention to the altar.
• The group saw the entwined skeletons of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heaven Phoenix, with a red sapling and one fruit growing between them.

Zhu Li secured the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit for Zi Yan, while Xuan Jin claimed the Ancient Heaven Phoenix skeleton. The group split up to search the ruin, and Xuan Jin and Zi Yan found twelve powerful Heaven Tier Sky Demon Puppets in the Main Hall.

• Zhu Li sealed the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit inside Zi Yan and collected the Ancient Void Dragon ancestor’s bones for burial.
• Xuan Jin persuaded Zhu Li to let him keep the Ancient Heaven Phoenix skeleton.
• Xuan Jin suggested that everyone search different parts of the ruin, and the group split up.
• Zi Yan guided Xuan Jin through the ruin as they collected medicinal ingredients and rare ores.
• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan entered the Main Hall and discovered twelve Heaven Tier Sky Demon Puppets with strength comparable to five- or six-star Dou Zun.

Xuan Jin subdued the twelve golden puppets and approached Saint Creation’s remains to claim the Great Heaven Creation Palm. The Dou Saint’s hostile remnant soul awakened and attacked him, leaving Xuan Jin facing a black-hole-like force in its palm.

• Xuan Jin shattered Saint Creation’s seals on the twelve puppets, imprinted them with his Soul Power, and stored them in his Storage Ring.
• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan approached Saint Creation’s skeleton and found the Great Heaven Creation Palm carved into its ribs.
• Xuan Jin attacked the skeleton’s lingering soul with soul needles, awakening its crimson-eyed remains.
• Saint Creation’s remains rose and struck at Xuan Jin, breaking his Eight Extremes Flame Prison and forcing him to launch a Three-colored Fire Lotus.
• The skeleton formed a tiny black dot in its palm that began drawing in the surrounding light, energy, and space.

Xuan Jin fought Saint Creation’s remains in the hall while Zhu Li, Hei Qing, Xuan Yi, and Xuan Kongzi arrived and watched. After the skeleton prepared its Great Heaven Creation Palm again, Xuan Jin unleashed all five of his Heavenly Flames to counter it.

• Xuan Jin’s Fire Lotus collided with Saint Creation’s Great Heaven Creation Palm, and the blast sent both fighters backward.
• Xuan Jin formed a flaming spear and struck the remains, leaving a scorch mark on its shoulder.
• Zhu Li, Hei Qing, Xuan Yi, and Xuan Kongzi entered the hall and recognized the opponent as a Dou Saint’s remains.
• Xuan Yi prepared to help, but Xuan Jin asked her and the others to watch while he continued fighting.
• Saint Creation’s remains gathered the Great Heaven Creation Palm again, and Xuan Jin unleashed five Heavenly Flames with the Five Rounds of Leaving Fire Technique.

Xuan Jin defeated Saint Creation's skeletal remains with the Five Rounds—Leaving Fire Formation and stored the bones in his Storage Ring. With the relic's barrier gone and powerful outsiders closing in, Zhu Li opened a spatial passage for the group to escape to the Pill Tower.

• Xuan Jin formed a five-colored fire ring from five Heavenly Flame spirits and used it to shatter the black void created by Saint Creation's Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• The fire formation extinguished the ghostly flames in Saint Creation's eye sockets, and Xuan Jin stored the fallen skeleton in his Storage Ring.
• Hei Qing praised Xuan Jin's strength, while Xuan Yi checked him for injuries and scolded him for taking such a risk.
• Zhu Li revealed that the relic's barrier had vanished, allowing forces across the Beast Domain to sense the relic and approach.
• Xuan Jin decided to leave before the incoming clans and experts could trap them inside the relic.
• Zhu Li opened a stable spatial rift, and Xuan Jin led Zi Yan, Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and the others through it toward the Pill Tower.

Xuan Jin and the others returned to Saint Pill City after escaping the ancient ruins, where Zi Yan unexpectedly kissed him and learned what kissing was. Zi Yan then left for Dragon Island to refine the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, promising to protect Xuan Jin once she became a true Dragon Phoenix.

• Xuan Jin and the others arrived at the Pill Tower after returning from the ancient ruins.
• Zi Yan threw herself into Xuan Jin's arms and gave him a brief kiss, then wondered why it felt different from what Xiao Yi Xian and Cao Ying had described.
• Xuan Jin kissed Zi Yan properly, leaving her dazed and blushing as Zhu Li and the others reacted in shock.
• Zhu Li urged Zi Yan to return to Dragon Island and refine the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit without delay.
• Zi Yan promised Xuan Jin she would protect him after becoming a true Dragon Phoenix, then departed with Zhu Li and Hei Qing.

After the Saint Creation Ruins expedition, Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi gave Xuan Jin the Gold-Grade Soul Infant Fruit, believing his growth would be vital to the Pill Tower’s struggle against the Soul Hall. Xuan Jin returned to his cultivation chamber and prepared to refine the fruit to advance his soul boundary.

• Xuan Kongzi praised Xuan Jin for bringing Zi Yan back and said the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s alliance strengthened the Pill Tower.
• Xuan Kongzi offered Xuan Jin the Gold-Grade Soul Infant Fruit, and Xuan Yi insisted he accept it as a reward for his contributions in the ruins.
• Xuan Yi urged Xuan Jin to refine the fruit, explaining that it could bring his late Spirit Realm soul boundary closer to perfection.
• Xuan Jin returned to his cultivation chamber, activated its defensive arrays, and settled down to cultivate.
• Xuan Jin opened the jade box and felt the fruit’s golden aura soothe his exhausted soul as he prepared to refine it.

Xuan Jin consumed the Gold-Grade Soul Infant Fruit and broke through to Complete Late Spirit Realm. He then began subduing the lingering will in Saint Creation’s ribs and studying the Great Heaven Creation Palm.

• Xuan Jin cultivated with the Gold-Grade Soul Infant Fruit while his six Heavenly Flames refined its energy.
• Xuan Jin broke through to Complete Late Spirit Realm, and his soul pressure shook the Pill Tower cultivation area.
• Xuan Jin tested his strengthened Soul Power and decided to study the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Xuan Jin used Three Thousand Burning Flame and Bone Spirit Cold Flame to suppress the will lingering in Saint Creation’s ribs.
• Xuan Jin examined the ancient writing and realized the Great Heaven Creation Palm focused on the power of creation.

Xuan Jin used Gold Spirit Saliva to cultivate the Great Heaven Creation Palm, gaining an initial grasp of its power to create a devouring singularity. With his Dou Qi at the threshold of a breakthrough, he entered seclusion again, while Cao Ying and the others waited in his courtyard.

• Xuan Jin heated Saint Creation's rib with the Star Sea Ice Lotus Flame and extracted the Gold Spirit Saliva needed to cultivate the palm technique.
• Xuan Jin absorbed the Gold Spirit Saliva, endured the pain as it tempered his right hand, and received Saint Creation's technique insights through a vision.
• Xuan Jin tested the Great Heaven Creation Palm on an Obsidian wall, erasing a section of it with a small singularity.
• Xuan Jin sensed that his Dou Qi had reached the bottleneck of One-Turn Dou Venerate and began a new period of seclusion.
• At Xuan Jin's private courtyard, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Cao Ying gathered, and Qing Lin told Cao Ying to stop sighing.

Xuan Yi gave Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Cao Ying Soul Infant Fruits and urged them to cultivate so they could keep up with Xuan Jin. After several more months in seclusion, Xuan Jin emerged on his twenty-fifth birthday at the peak of One-Turn Dou Venerate, frustrated that he had not broken through to the second turn.

• Xuan Yi gave the four women Soul Infant Fruits and explained how stronger souls would benefit each of them.
• Xuan Yi warned the women that Xuan Jin's rapid growth meant they needed to work harder, and they resolved to cultivate with the Jade Slips she provided.
• Several months passed peacefully at the Pill Tower until Xuan Jin's twenty-fifth birthday, when the stone chamber door opened and he emerged from seclusion.
• Xuan Jin reflected that he had mastered the Great Heaven Creation Palm and reached the peak of One-Turn Dou Venerate, but remained stuck before the second turn.

After emerging from seclusion, Xuan Jin learned that Qing Lin had found ancient serpent remains in the Beast Domain and agreed to go meet her. He visited Cao Ying before leaving and reassured her as she struggled with feeling left behind while the others trained.

• Xuan Jin left seclusion and met Xuan Yi, who gave him Qing Lin's message about ancient serpent remains in the Black Demon Snake Clan's territory.
• Xuan Yi told Xuan Jin that Cai'er, Xian'er, and Qing Lin had left to train, while Cao Ying stayed at the Pill Tower and Ying'er remained there.
• Xuan Jin agreed to travel to the Beast Domain and went to see Cao Ying in the Alchemy Room before departing.
• Cao Ying told Xuan Jin she could not fall behind the others, and he comforted her by affirming that her talent lay in alchemy.

Xuan Jin left the Pill Tower for the Beast Domain after learning Qing Lin had found something there. At the Bone-Eroding Mountain Range, Qing Lin watched a powerful Black Demon Snake Clan guarding an ancient skeleton and waited for Xuan Jin to arrive.

• Xuan Jin told Cao Ying he was going to the Beast Domain, and she urged him to be careful before he departed.
• Xuan Jin traveled toward the Southern Region of Zhongzhou, warning that he would destroy the Black Demon Snake Clan if it had harmed Qing Lin.
• Qing Lin hid near a valley in the Bone-Eroding Mountain Range after spending three months absorbing snake beasts and advancing to Three-Star Dou Ancestor.
• Qing Lin spotted an ancient skeleton and hoped to absorb the power within its bones, but a large Black Demon Snake force guarded it.
• Qing Lin checked the communication Jade Slip she had sent the previous night and waited for Xuan Jin to arrive.

Qing Lin was discovered spying on the Black Demon Snake Clan’s Sacred Bone and was surrounded by its leader and his experts. She revealed the power of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, summoned four powerful magical beasts, and ordered them to kill the snakefolk.

• The Seven-star Dou Ancestor Black Demon Snake leader sensed Qing Lin and attacked, while his experts surrounded her.
• Qing Lin revealed her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and absorbed a Four-star Dou Ancestor elder.
• Qing Lin summoned the Peak Dou Zong Crimson Flame Demon Python, Ice Winged Snake, and Shadow Venom Flood Dragon.
• Qing Lin summoned the One-Star Dou Venerate Golden Horned Earth-Splitting Python, terrifying the Black Demon Snake leader.
• Qing Lin ordered her summoned beasts to kill the Black Demon Snake experts.

Qing Lin and her magical beasts slaughtered the Black Demon Snake Clan until its Four-Star Dou Venerable Supreme Elder ambushed them. Just as he was about to take Qing Lin’s eyes, Xuan Jin appeared to save her and confronted the elder.

• Qing Lin ordered her four magical beasts to wipe out the Black Demon Snakes, and the Golden Horned Earth-Splitting Python swallowed the clan leader.
• The Black Demon Snake Supreme Elder struck down and killed the Golden Horned Earth-Splitting Python, leaving Qing Lin wounded by their bond.
• Qing Lin sent her remaining three magical beasts to attack the elder and tried to flee, but he blasted them aside and caught up to her.
• Xuan Jin emerged from the void, seized the elder’s wrist, and pulled Qing Lin into his embrace.
• Xuan Jin revealed his overwhelming aura and prepared to punish the Black Demon Snake Supreme Elder.

Xuan Jin helped Qing Lin subdue a Four-Star Dou Venerable as her new snake puppet, then protected her as she absorbed the Ancient Heavenly Snake’s remnant soul. After refining the skeleton into a sphere of essence blood, Qing Lin offered it to Xuan Jin despite her own powerful desire to consume it.

• Xuan Jin trapped the old man in the Eight Extremes Flame Prison, suppressed his soul, and let Qing Lin turn him into a tiny black snake puppet.
• Xuan Jin treated Qing Lin’s injury and warned her to protect herself, then encouraged her to draw the remnant soul from the Ancient Heavenly Snake’s skeleton.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to absorb the Nine-Headed Python’s Remnant Soul and began refining its Soul Power.
• Xuan Jin used the Star Sea Ice Lotus Flame to melt the skeleton and refine its essence into a crimson blood sphere.
• Qing Lin’s strength rose from Three-Star to Five-Star Dou Ancestor, and she offered the essence blood to Xuan Jin even though her instincts urged her to devour it.

Xuan Jin persuaded Qing Lin to absorb the Peak Dou Zun Ancient Heavenly Snake's Bone Essence so she could grow strong enough to fight beside him. Meanwhile, Xiao Yi Xian followed the restless Calamity Poison Qi within her to a lone grave in Ice River Valley's territory.

• Xuan Jin told Qing Lin that absorbing the Bone Essence could transform her strength, and she resolved to stand at his side rather than remain a burden.
• Qing Lin activated her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and began devouring the Bone Essence as Xuan Jin sealed the space around her to guard her.
• Xiao Yi Xian traveled through a strange green valley in Ice River Valley's territory, where her Calamity Poison Qi grew increasingly restless.
• Xiao Yi Xian found a solitary earthen grave in a meadow and cautiously touched its moss-covered mound.

Xiao Yi Xian received the Calamity Poison Body’s Poison-to-Rune Transformation inheritance, but the process left her unable to defend herself as Ice River Valley disciples arrived to capture her. The chapter ended with the disciples launching an Ice Lock Array against her.

• Xiao Yi Xian touched the soil by the grave and inherited the Poison-to-Rune Transformation method from a previous Calamity Poison Body owner.
• The poison stored in Xiao Yi Xian’s Poison Pill erupted, turning the valley into a toxic wasteland and sending a visible pillar of poison into the sky.
• The Horse-Faced Deacon recognized the Calamity Poison Body and ordered his disciples to summon nearby elders and seize Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian continued the painful transformation, sensing the approaching Ice River Valley forces but remaining unable to move.
• The Horse-Faced Deacon and his disciples entered the valley and cast an Ice Lock Array to trap Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yi Xian completed her Calamity Poison Body breakthrough, destroyed Horse-Faced Deacon and his disciples, and reached Five-Star Dou Venerate. After Ice River Valley’s distress signal went up, she stayed to consolidate her cultivation as Ice River Venerable awaited news at the valley’s headquarters.

• Xiao Yi Xian endured Horse-Faced Deacon and his disciples’ assault while struggling to condense her Poison Talisman.
• Xiao Yi Xian gathered the poisonous energy into her dantian and awakened a perfect Calamity Poison Body, breaking through to Five-Star Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yi Xian dissolved Horse-Faced Deacon and his weapon, then prepared to kill the remaining disciples.
• Horse-Faced Deacon’s distress signal alerted Ice River Valley, but Xiao Yi Xian chose to stay and consolidate her cultivation.
• At Ice River Valley’s headquarters, Ice River Venerable sat excitedly on his throne.

Xiao Yi Xian reached five-star Dou Venerate and was confronted by Bing He, the lord of Ice River Valley, who coveted her innate Calamity Poison Body. She countered his poison ice dragons with her Heavenly Poison Prison Realm, which began devouring his attack.

• Bing He learned that an innate Calamity Poison Body had appeared and ordered Tian She and Ice River Valley’s forces to seal off the area and capture its owner.
• Xiao Yi Xian finished her breakthrough to five-star Dou Venerate and wondered how Xuan Jin was doing.
• Bing He, Tian She, and the other Ice River Valley elders arrived and confirmed that Xiao Yi Xian possessed an innate Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian rejected Bing He’s demand to surrender, and Bing He ordered his forces to attack before launching two poison ice dragons at her.
• Xiao Yi Xian unleashed her Heavenly Poison Prison Realm, melting Bing He’s dragons and devouring the Dou Qi within his attack.

Xiao Yi Xian overwhelmed Bing He and Ice River Valley’s elders with her Perfect Calamity Poison Body, breaking their attacks and defeating their formation. Bing He was left alone before her, terrified and desperate to escape.

• Xiao Yi Xian crushed Bing He’s ice dragons with her Corrosive Poison Demon Hand, and Bing He called on Tian Shuangzi and Elder Tian She to form the Dry Dragon Profound Underworld Formation.
• Tian Shuangzi, Elder Tian She, and the other elders used the formation’s frigid energy to restrain Xiao Yi Xian’s Heavenly Poison Prison Realm while Bing He attacked her with Sky Freezing Palm.
• Xiao Yi Xian unleashed Thousand Illusions Poison Spring, piercing the formation and killing two elders while gravely injuring Tian Shuangzi and Elder Tian She.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Bing He he was the only one left, and Bing He abandoned his greed and tried to flee.