Chapter Summaries

The North Dragon King unleashed the Dragon Transformation Demon Array to absorb the power of Dragon Clan fighters, but Zi Yan killed him with the Dragon-Slaying Sword. After East Dragon Island defeated the allied forces, Zi Yan ordered the four islands united under East Dragon Island.

• The North Dragon King activated the Dragon Transformation Demon Array and began devouring the dragon blood, Dou Qi, and life essence of fighters caught in its range.
• Lin Cang pulled Zhu Li out of the array, while Xuan Jin watched from beyond its reach as the North Dragon King's strength rose toward Five-star Dou Saint.
• Zi Yan approached the North Dragon King with the Dragon-Slaying Sword and cut through his transformed dragon body, killing him.
• The array vanished after the North Dragon King's death, leaving the Three Islands Allied Forces defeated and their leaders dead.
• Zi Yan ordered Zhu Li to place North Dragon Island, West Dragon Island, and South Dragon Island under East Dragon Island's jurisdiction, uniting the four islands.

After the battle on Dragon Island, Xuan Jin salvaged the Dragon Kings’ essence blood and took the North Dragon King’s intact corpse to refine into a Sky Demon Puppet. With the island’s affairs left to Zhu Li and Zhu Huo, he and Zi Yan planned to return to the Pill Tower to visit Xuan Yi.

• Xuan Jin found the West Dragon King, South Dragon King, and North Dragon Island’s Great Elder too badly mutilated to become Sky Demon Puppets, so he refined their remains into twelve drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood.
• Xuan Jin found the North Dragon King’s body relatively intact and stored it in his Storage Ring for future refinement into a Sky Demon Puppet.
• Zi Yan joined Xuan Jin, and Zhu Li and Zhu Huo saw her affectionately link arms with him but decided not to interfere.
• Xuan Jin left Zhu Li and Zhu Huo to handle Dragon Island’s remaining affairs and told Zi Yan they would return to the Pill Tower to see Xuan Yi.
• Zi Yan happily agreed, saying she missed Xuan Yi and her pills.

After the battle for Dragon Island, Zi Yan arranged quarters for Cai'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, then brought Xuan Jin to her hall. Xuan Jin distributed Ancient Dragon Essence Blood among Zi Yan and the others, and left to deliver the remaining portions to Xuan Yi and Cao Ying.

• Lin Cang thanked Xuan Jin for settling the Dragon Island conflict, advised him to recover from his lost essence blood, and departed for the Pill Tower.
• Zi Yan instructed Zhu Li to stabilize East Dragon Island while the surrendered soldiers were detained and the fallen were gathered.
• Zi Yan assigned rooms to Cai'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, then claimed Xuan Jin would stay with her to watch over his recovery.
• Xiao Yi Xian teased Zi Yan about how she had helped Xuan Jin recover, while Cai'er and Qing Lin also remarked on Zi Yan's possessive behavior.
• Xuan Jin offered Zi Yan, Cai'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin two drops each of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood, persuading Zi Yan to accept her share.
• Xuan Jin reserved the remaining essence blood for Xuan Yi and Cao Ying, then left to deliver it.

Xuan Jin gave Ancient Dragon Essence Blood to Cai'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, whose cultivation surged over the following seven days. With the four Dragon Islands unified and the Dragon Kings’ relatives executed, Zi Yan left Dragon Island for the Pill Tower.

• Xuan Jin gave Cai'er two drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood, then gave Xiao Yi Xian the blood and medicine to support her cultivation and Qing Lin the final bottle to temper her foundation.
• Over seven days, Cai'er advanced to Four-Revolution Dou Venerate, Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Early-stage Half-Saint, and Qing Lin advanced to Mid-stage Half-Saint.
• Zhu Li and Zhu Huo completed the incorporation of the four islands, deployed more than seven thousand six hundred Dragon Guards, and executed thirty-seven relatives of the three Dragon Kings.
• Zi Yan confirmed the island’s affairs were settled and told Zhu Li and Zhu Huo she would leave for the Pill Tower to visit Aunt Xuan.

Zi Yan took Xuan Jin and the others through several spatial passages from East Dragon Island to the Pill Region, then accompanied him to see his teacher, Xuan Yi. Xuan Yi recognized Zi Yan as Xuan Jin introduced her, but was stunned by how much she had changed.

• Zi Yan opened a spatial rift with her Five-star Battle Saint power and led Xuan Jin, Xiao Yi Xian, Cai'er, and Qing Lin through the passages to a valley near Saint Pill City.
• Xuan Jin sent Xiao Yi Xian, Cai'er, and Qing Lin ahead to the residence while he took Zi Yan to visit his teacher.
• As Xuan Jin and Zi Yan traveled toward the Pill Tower, Zi Yan sampled the scent of Green Spirit Grass and they passed Cao Ying's courtyard, where she remained in seclusion.
• Xuan Jin brought Zi Yan to Xuan Yi's courtyard, where Xuan Yi recognized her as Zi Yan and stared in shock at her grown appearance and powerful pressure.

Xuan Jin and Zi Yan reunited with Xuan Yi and told her how Zi Yan had conquered East Dragon Island and become a Five-star Battle Saint. Xuan Yi accepted their relationship and the chapter ended with her warning that Soul Hall was harvesting alchemist souls across the border regions.

• Xuan Jin introduced Zi Yan as his woman, and Xuan Yi accepted their relationship after hearing how they had grown close.
• Xuan Jin recounted how Zi Yan refined the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, awakened her Emperor Blood, slew the Three Dragon Kings, and united East Dragon Island.
• Xuan Jin gave Xuan Yi two drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood, which she accepted after he insisted.
• Xuan Yi teased Xuan Jin about his many partners while Zi Yan ate medicinal pills from the stone shelf.
• Xuan Yi told Xuan Jin that Soul Hall was harvesting alchemist souls in the border regions, escalating its conflict with the Pill Tower.

Xuan Jin discussed the Soul Hall’s schemes with Xuan Yi, then took Zi Yan to explore Saint Pill City. As they returned to the Pill Tower, Zi Yan promised to protect him while urging him to keep growing stronger.

• Xuan Jin told Xuan Yi that the Soul Hall was gathering alchemist souls, but the Soul Clan still had to contend with the other Ancient Clans and had not begun an all-out war.
• Xuan Jin reassured Xuan Yi that he could protect her, and she sent him to check on Ying'er while Zi Yan took a bottle of Yuan-Nurturing Pill.
• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan wandered through Saint Pill City, where Zi Yan sniffed herbs, visited an alchemy workshop, and ate three expensive fire-attribute treasures.
• On their way back to the Pill Tower, Zi Yan told Xuan Jin she could protect him now and promised to split anyone who threatened him in half.
• Zi Yan urged Xuan Jin not to stop cultivating and told him to grow stronger so she would not look down on him.

After Cao Ying emerged from seclusion, she told Xuan Jin that she was pregnant with his child, conceived the night before he left for East Dragon Island. Xuan Jin embraced her and asked about her health, while Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er sensed the new life and left them alone.

• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan returned to the Pill Tower and found that Cao Ying had come out of seclusion.
• Cao Ying greeted Xuan Jin and Zi Yan, then took Xuan Jin aside to share important news.
• Cao Ying told Xuan Jin that she was pregnant and that Elder Yi Xiu had confirmed it.
• Xuan Jin was stunned before embracing Cao Ying and saying he was happy; Zi Yan congratulated him and teased that Cao Ying had been too fast.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er sensed the new life and left without delivering the medicinal soup.
• Cao Ying told Xuan Jin that Elder Yi Xiu had warned the child might have exceptionally strong Soul Power.

Cao Ying told Xuan Jin she was pregnant, and he promised to care for her and their child while forbidding her from refining pills until after the birth. Zi Yan spread the news around the Pill Tower, and Qing Lin privately admitted she hoped to have a child with Xuan Jin someday; the chapter ended as Zi Yan startled Xuan Yi at the courtyard gate.

• Xuan Jin promised to refine a pill for Cao Ying and told her to stop refining pills because the risks could harm the baby.
• Zi Yan rushed off to tell Xiao Yi Xian, Cai'er, and Qing Lin that Cao Ying was pregnant, loudly announcing the news near the courtyard gate.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er said they had already heard Zi Yan's announcement, while Qing Lin learned the news from Zi Yan in her room.
• After Zi Yan left, Qing Lin reflected on her bond with Xuan Jin and privately hoped she might bear his child one day.
• Xuan Yi returned to the courtyard after handling a report about the Soul Hall harassing a Pill Tower branch, and Zi Yan startled her from behind a pillar.

After learning that Cao Ying was pregnant, Xuan Yi reflected on Xuan Jin’s coming fatherhood, while Xuan Jin and Cao Ying prepared to tell her. Xuan Yi confirmed the pregnancy was stable and advised them to keep it secret for now as Xuan Jin planned to make protective pills.

• Zi Yan told Xuan Yi that Cao Ying was pregnant, then teased her about becoming a grandmaster and urged her to give her a granddisciple.
• Xuan Yi reflected on Xuan Jin’s years as her disciple and felt wistful that he was starting a family while she remained alone.
• Xuan Jin stayed awake beside Cao Ying, resting his hand over her abdomen and recognizing the child as a continuation of his bloodline in this world.
• Xuan Jin and Cao Ying visited Xuan Yi, who examined Cao Ying and confirmed the pregnancy was stable while warning her to avoid Dou Qi and pill furnaces.
• Xuan Jin and Cao Ying decided to keep the pregnancy from Cao Yuanlang and Cao Dan until it was stable, and Xuan Jin said he would prepare Soul-Calming Spirit-Condensing Pills.
• Zi Yan’s head appeared at the courtyard gate as the group discussed the pregnancy.

After a month of recuperation, Xuan Jin fully restored his essence blood and prepared to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree in the Wild Wilderness, intending to use Zi Yan’s abilities to find its hidden realm. He left the story ready to set out, with Zi Yan’s cultivation stabilized.

• Zi Yan gathered Xuan Jin, Cao Ying, and Xuan Yi for Xiao Yi Xian’s medicinal soup, and the group shared a meal with Cai'er and Qing Lin.
• Xuan Jin considered the Bodhi Ancient Tree his next target and decided to rely on Zi Yan’s treasure-hunting talent and spatial abilities to locate its secret realm.
• Xuan Jin studied a map of the route to the Wild Wilderness while Cao Ying rested and the others continued their cultivation and recovery.
• Over the following month, Xuan Jin replenished the last of his lost essence blood while Cao Ying’s pregnancy stabilized with the help of an Eighth-Rank High Tier Fetal-Stabilizing Pill.
• Xuan Jin completed his recovery, sensed that Zi Yan’s Early Five-Star Dou Saint cultivation had stabilized, and stepped outside, ready to act.

Xuan Jin asked Zi Yan to accompany him to the Wild Wilderness to find the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and he informed his teacher and companions before they departed. The pair traveled through spatial passages toward the Wild Wilderness, where Zi Yan planned to search for the hidden secret realm.

• Xuan Jin found Zi Yan eating Fire Spirit Grass and invited her to help locate the Bodhi Ancient Tree in the Wild Wilderness.
• Xuan Yi cautioned Xuan Jin to be careful, and Cao Ying asked him to return early while reminding him that she and the baby would wait for him.
• Xuan Jin told Cai'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin that they had to stay behind to help watch over Cao Ying because the Soul Hall and Pill Region were unstable.
• Zi Yan met Xuan Jin outside the Pill Tower, opened a spatial passage, and carried him toward the Wild Wilderness.
• Zi Yan told Xuan Jin she could sense the region's mixed spiritual energy and strange things, then opened another passage as they drew closer.

Xuan Jin and Zi Yan reached Wilderness Town on the edge of the Wild Wilderness, where they rested and prepared to enter the dangerous region. The chapter left them planning to reach the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s core area before other factions arrived.

• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan arrived at the bleak wasteland outside Wilderness Town after three days of travel and decided to rest there for the night.
• They concealed their strength, entered town, drew attention from the locals, and bought a rough map of the Wild Wilderness.
• Xuan Jin rented a room, and Zi Yan asked whether their stay counted as a world for two; he agreed that it did.
• Xuan Jin studied the map and planned to use Zi Yan’s treasure-sensing talent to reach the Bodhi Ancient Tree early and leave with its treasures before other factions arrived.

Xuan Jin and Zi Yan spent the night together after agreeing to try for a child, then set out from Wilderness Town toward the Wild Wilderness. Zi Yan sensed something ancient and still alive beyond the Poison Miasma Zone, and the miasma opened a passage for them.

• Zi Yan told Xuan Jin she wanted a baby, and he agreed to try despite the difficulty of Dragon Phoenix reproduction.
• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan spent the night together in their inn room.
• The next morning, Xuan Jin reviewed their route while Zi Yan slept, then woke her so they could head out.
• At the edge of Wilderness Town, Zi Yan sensed many things within the Poison Miasma Zone, including something ancient and still alive.
• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan flew toward the dark green fog, and the poisonous miasma parted to let them through.

Xuan Jin and Zi Yan traveled from the Wild Wilderness’s poisonous outer zone into its Ancient Forest, where Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix instincts helped them find and gather treasures. They continued deeper into the domain, leaving the search for the Bodhi Ancient Tree Secret Realm underway.

• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan crossed the poisonous miasma, and Zi Yan sensed a Red Flame Root beneath the soil and ate its fruit while Xuan Jin kept the stem.
• Zi Yan detected no living people nearby, only human auras hundreds of miles south moving outward, so Xuan Jin and Zi Yan continued without interruption.
• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan left the poisonous zone and entered the Ancient Forest, where richer spiritual energy strengthened Zi Yan’s treasure-seeking instincts.
• Zi Yan found an Emerald Marrow Stone, Fire Ganoderma, and a Fire Essence Crystal, while Xuan Jin stored the useful treasures and Zi Yan sampled them.
• A Four-Star Dou Venerable Crimson Flood Dragon fled after sensing Zi Yan’s aura, and she joked with Xuan Jin about how magical beasts reacted to her.

Xuan Jin discovered a Soul Hall elder searching the Ancient Battlefield for the shifting entrance to the Bodhi Ancient Tree Secret Realm. He killed the elder and took his Jade Slip map, narrowing the search to its uncrossed spatial nodes.

• Xuan Jin reached the edge of the Ancient Battlefield with Zi Yan and sensed a Nine-Star Dou Venerate hiding in a ravine.
• Xuan Jin left Zi Yan behind and slipped into the ravine, where he overheard the gray-robed man complaining that the spatial nodes kept shifting.
• Xuan Jin subdued the Soul Hall elder, Qi Yuan, and searched his memories to learn that Soul Hall was tracking the Bodhi Ancient Tree Secret Realm’s entrance.
• Xuan Jin burned Qi Yuan’s body and retrieved his Jade Slip, which marked the remaining possible locations of the secret realm’s entrance.

Xuan Jin used a map taken from a Soul Hall scout to search the wasteland for the Bodhi Ancient Tree Secret Realm with Zi Yan, whose Dragon Phoenix Bloodline could sense its entrance. After clearing most of the marked locations, Zi Yan detected an ancient life aura beneath a folded space three li southeast of them.

• Xuan Jin showed Zi Yan the Jade Slip map of spatial nodes that Soul Hall had already investigated and explained that the secret realm entrance lay among the remaining marks.
• Zi Yan used her Dragon Phoenix Treasure-Seeking Talent to rule out nine points on the first day and eleven more on the second.
• After Zi Yan fell asleep from the strain of sensing, Xuan Jin carried her to a bed, covered her with his robe, and kept watch while considering Soul Hall's reconnaissance and the Hundred Lives Reincarnation.
• Zi Yan rested overnight, ate breakfast Xuan Jin had brought, and resumed searching with him the next morning.
• At the seventh marked point, Zi Yan sensed an extremely ancient life aura about three li southeast beneath a folded space and said it smelled very nice.

Xuan Jin and Zi Yan broke through a hidden seal with Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix Blood and entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree Secret Realm. They reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Xuan Jin prepared to seek the opportunities within it.

• Zi Yan located a deeply buried spatial node, but her first attempt to tear through it failed against a golden barrier.
• Zi Yan used her Dragon Phoenix Blood to crack the barrier and opened a temporary rift.
• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan leaped through the rift together before it closed.
• They arrived in a lush secret realm filled with abundant energy and saw the enormous Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Zi Yan admired the tree and sensed that it held many valuable things, while Xuan Jin considered the opportunities and dangers ahead.

After Qi Yuan's death in the Wild Wilderness, Great Heavenly Venerate sent Gu You, Third Heavenly Venerate, and Blood River to seek Bodhi Seeds. In the Bodhi Ancient Tree Secret Realm, Xuan Jin and Zi Yan defeated three puppets, but Xuan Jin was drawn into an illusion that showed him the Yan Clan branch massacre from thirty years earlier.

• Great Heavenly Venerate learned that Qi Yuan had been killed while scouting the Bodhi Ancient Tree Secret Realm and summoned Gu You, Third Heavenly Venerate, and Blood River.
• Great Heavenly Venerate ordered the three Heavenly Venerates to go to the Wild Wilderness and bring back Bodhi Seeds if the ancient tree appeared.
• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan crossed the secret realm, with Zi Yan gathering herbs and trying to eat Soul Cleansing Grass.
• Zi Yan destroyed three Half-Saint puppets with a single strike, and Xuan Jin warned that more difficult dangers lay ahead.
• An Inner Demon Illusion Realm seized Xuan Jin and showed him the burning ruins of a Yan Clan branch settlement massacred thirty years earlier.

Xuan Jin and Zi Yan overcame the Inner Demon Illusion Realm by confronting painful memories and holding onto the people in their lives. They reached the Golden Lotus Platform, where Xuan Jin began cultivating in hopes of advancing his soul realm.

• Xuan Jin resisted an illusion that replayed his infant self’s attempted murder, then shattered it with his Heaven Realm Grand Perfection Soul Power.
• Xuan Jin found Zi Yan trapped in an illusion of her lonely childhood and guarded her until she broke free with her Dragon Phoenix power.
• Xuan Jin comforted Zi Yan, and they walked together to the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Golden Lotus Platform.
• Xuan Jin asked Zi Yan to guard him, stepped onto the platform, and lost consciousness as its runes poured light into his soul.