Chapter Summaries

Xuan Jin left Saint Pill City alone to seek the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, promising Xuan Xi he would return within half a year. He reached the Demonic Flame Plains with his aura and appearance concealed, intending to wait in the shadows as others pursued the flame.

• Xuan Jin assigned Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei to protect Saint Pill City while he traveled alone.
• Xuan Jin promised Cao Ying he would return within half a year and told her to pass a farewell to Xuan Yi.
• Xuan Jin told Xuan Xi he was leaving for half a year, made a pinky promise to return, and said goodbye to her.
• Xuan Jin bid farewell to the others waiting outside the courtyard and opened a spatial passage out of Saint Pill City.
• Xuan Jin concealed his aura and appearance, then emerged in the Demonic Flame Plains near the crater where the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was sealed.

Xuan Jin waited for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s seal to break, then watched the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan clash as the flame attacked the gathered experts. When Hun Feng cornered Gu Xun Er, Xuan Jin revealed his hidden Early Eight-Star Dou Sheng strength, stunning everyone present.

• Xuan Jin surveyed the assembled clans and judged that the seal beneath the Demonic Flame Plains would fail within three days.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged from the crater, unleashing a mental shockwave and spreading illusions across the plains.
• Hun Miesheng’s Soul Hall forces seized positions around the core area, while Gu Nanhai challenged him on behalf of the Ancient Clan.
• The demonic flame struck Gu Nanhai and wounded him, allowing Hun Miesheng to send Hun Feng and Soul Hall experts after Gu Xun Er.
• Hun Feng suppressed Gu Xun Er’s Golden Emperor Incinerating Heaven Flame and cornered her as the Ancient Clan was tied down by the fighting.
• Xuan Jin revealed his Early Eight-Star Dou Sheng aura, making the gathered experts, including Hun Miesheng and Gu Nanhai, turn toward him in disbelief.

Xuan Jin arrived at the crater, drove back Hun Miesheng and the Soul Hall forces, and subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He absorbed it as his tenth Heavenly Flame, leaving the other experts to witness his overwhelming strength.

• Xuan Jin struck Hun Feng and seven Soul Hall experts away, freeing Gu Xun Er from the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xuan Jin told Gu Xun Er to retreat, and Hun Miesheng ordered the Soul Hall forces to withdraw from the core region.
• Xuan Jin entered the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s territory and advanced through its illusory attacks with his Emperor Realm Soul.
• Xuan Jin sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with his Emperor Gold Mark and devoured its Six-Star Dou Sheng-level attack.
• Xuan Jin absorbed the subdued Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame into the Star Sea Ice Lotus Flame, gaining his tenth Heavenly Flame.

Xuan Jin fused the ten Heavenly Flames and reached Peak Eight-Star Dou Saint, forcing Hun Miesheng to retreat. He escorted Xun Er toward the Ancient Clan before continuing to Saint Pill City and considering the Soul Clan’s likely response.

• Xuan Jin harmonized the ten Heavenly Flames and advanced to Peak Eight-Star Dou Saint, stunning the watching clans.
• Hun Miesheng refrained from challenging Xuan Jin and ordered his followers to return and report Xuan Jin’s strength to the Soul Clan leader.
• Xuan Jin warned Xun Er to have Gu Yuan remove the suppressed Golden Emperor Incinerating Heaven Flame seed, then agreed to escort her toward the Ancient Clan’s territory.
• In the spatial passage, Xuan Jin told Xun Er that he had no news of Xiao Yan but was monitoring the Soul Hall’s movements.
• Xun Er left for Ancient Holy City after thanking Xuan Jin, who continued toward Saint Pill City and anticipated the Soul Clan’s reaction.

Hun Miesheng reported Xuan Jin’s strength and capture of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, prompting Nihility Devouring Flame to leave him alone and target the Yao Clan. Gu Yuan learned of Xuan Jin’s power and moved to strengthen ties with him, while Xuan Jin returned to Saint Pill City and reunited with Cao Ying and Zi Yan.

• Hun Miesheng sent the Soul Clan an emergency message describing Xuan Jin’s cultivation, talents, and swift subjugation of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered the Soul Clan not to touch Xuan Jin and directed its next move toward the Yao Clan.
• Gu Nanhai and Gu Xun Er confirmed Xuan Jin’s feats to Gu Yuan, who ordered Gu Nanhai to bring Xuan Jin a gift and maintain the Ancient Clan’s relationship with him.
• Xuan Jin returned to Saint Pill City, where Cao Ying told him that Xixi was asleep, Zi Yan had been upset about being left behind, and Xiao Yi Xian wanted to discuss the poison path inheritance.
• Xuan Jin ate dinner with Cao Ying, then found Zi Yan in the back courtyard, where she greeted him with a displeased “Hmph.”

After resolving the Demonic Flame Plains affair, Xuan Jin discovered that his Emperor Realm Soul had erased the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s intelligence, leaving its powerful origin energy undigested. He entered long-term seclusion to refine that energy and the other forces within him, aiming to break through to Nine-star Dou Saint.

• Xuan Jin gave Zi Yan a ten-thousand-year Spirit Fruit to make up for leaving her behind, and she accepted it after warning him not to exclude her again.
• Xuan Jin found that his Emperor Realm Soul had erased the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s remaining intelligence, while much of its energy remained unrefined within him.
• Xuan Jin realized that refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s origin, the Life Spirit Flame’s foundation, and the Yan Clan Ancestral Hall inheritance could bring him to the Nine-star Dou Saint barrier.
• Xuan Jin told Cao Ying, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Ya Fei, Zi Yan, and Huo Zhi that he would enter seclusion, leaving Pill Tower affairs under his master and Xuan Kongzi’s supervision.
• Xuan Jin began circulating the Burning Art in the sealed cultivation chamber and carefully released the immense energy dormant in the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s origin.

During six months of seclusion, Xuan Jin refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's origin and comprehended how his ten Heavenly Flames shared a common Law. He broke through the Flame Law barrier and charged toward Nine-Star Dou Saint.

• Xuan Jin completely refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's deeper origin, bringing his cultivation to the limit of Peak Eight-Star Dou Saint.
• Xuan Jin focused on comprehending Flame Law and sought to raise Myriad Flames Share One Source from a Dou Technique into a Law.
• Cao Ying trained Xuan Xi while Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan went about their routines, and Cao Ying relayed news and gifts from the Ancient Clan and Yan Jin to Xuan Jin.
• After six months, Xuan Jin's Emperor Gold Mark linked the Law imprints of all ten Heavenly Flames, causing them to pulse in unison.
• Xuan Jin shattered the Flame Law barrier, broke past Peak Eight-Star Dou Saint, and surged toward Nine-Star Dou Saint as crimson-gold fire clouds formed above Saint Pill City.

Xuan Jin’s Ten Thousand Flames Returning as One erupted, revealing the aura of a Nine-star Dou Saint and shaking the Pill Region. His breakthrough drew the attention of the Pill Tower’s leaders, the Pill Tower Ancestor, and his family, and the chapter ends as Zi Yan reacts to the commotion.

• Xuan Jin’s ten Heavenly Flames fused, shattered his restraints, and burst through the branch courtyard’s roof as crimson-gold fire clouds covered the sky.
• Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi recognized Xuan Jin as the source of the phenomenon, then Xuan Kongzi told Tian Lei Zi to find Xuan Yi.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor sensed Xuan Jin’s pure, formidable aura and set off for Saint Pill City.
• Cao Ying protected Xuan Xi while Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei gathered in the courtyard and felt the pressure of Xuan Jin’s breakthrough.
• Xuan Xi asked whether Xuan Jin had become stronger than Zi Yan, and a heavy exhale sounded from the corner of the courtyard.

Xuan Jin’s breakthrough unleashed a city-shaking phenomenon, prompting the Yan and Ancient Clans to rush toward Saint Pill City. After the crimson-gold fire clouds vanished, Xuan Jin emerged from the ruins, leaving his family wondering about his new cultivation level.

• Zi Yan instinctively spread her Dragon Phoenix wings when she sensed Xuan Jin’s overwhelming power, then admitted she was not used to how strong he had become.
• Yan Clan and Ancient Clan spies reported that Xuan Jin had broken through, and Yan Jin and Gu Yuan each set out for Saint Pill City.
• Crimson-gold fire clouds covered Saint Pill City for a quarter of an hour before condensing into a pillar of light that plunged beneath the ground.
• Xuan Jin emerged from the ruined cultivation chamber and reunited with Cao Ying, Xuan Xi, and the others.
• Qing Lin asked Xuan Jin what his cultivation level was, while Ya Fei and the others watched for his answer.

After breaking through to the early stage of Nine-Star Dou Saint, Xuan Jin stunned his family and companions with his unprecedented strength. His breakthrough drew Yan Jin and Gu Yuan, the leaders of the Yan Clan and Ancient Clan, to Saint Pill City, where they sensed his formidable aura.

• Xuan Jin revealed that he had reached the early stage of Nine-Star Dou Saint, leaving Ya Fei, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Cao Ying, and Zi Yan shocked.
• Xuan Yi arrived after sensing the disturbance, and Xuan Jin told her that he had become a Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Ya Fei reassured Xuan Yi that Xuan Jin had never been someone who could be judged by common sense.
• Yan Jin and Gu Yuan arrived in Saint Pill City through separate spatial rifts, accompanied by Fairy Fire Spirit and Gu Qingyang.
• Yan Jin and Gu Yuan sensed Xuan Jin's aura and recognized that he was a Nine-Star Dou Saint with an unusually stable foundation.

Xuan Jin’s Nine-star Dou Saint breakthrough drew the attention of the Pill Tower Ancestor, Yan Jin, and Gu Yuan, who gathered to assess and recruit him. Before they could discuss the rising threat of the Soul Clan, Xuan Jin and Zi Yan sensed Cai’er’s aura from the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs, and Xuan Jin sent his Emperor Realm Soul toward the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan.

• Yan Jin and Gu Yuan arrived at the Pill Tower courtyard and exchanged claims on Xuan Jin’s ties to their clans.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor appeared, praised Xuan Jin’s strength and temperament, and gave Xuan Xi a wisp of Origin Medicinal Qi.
• Xuan Jin welcomed Yan Jin, Gu Yuan, and the Pill Tower Ancestor as they prepared to discuss the continent’s dangers and his role in the coming conflict.
• Xuan Jin and Zi Yan sensed a powerful fluctuation from the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs that carried Cai’er’s familiar aura.
• Xuan Jin closed his eyes and sent his Emperor Realm Soul across the void to the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan.

Xuan Jin left a gathering with Yan Jin, Gu Yuan, and the Pill Tower Ancestor to guard Cai'er as she completed her evolution in the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs. He sealed the surrounding region and waited as the ancient restriction began to break.

• Xuan Jin told Yan Jin, Gu Yuan, and the Pill Tower Ancestor that his wife was nearing the end of her seclusion, then entrusted Xuan Yi with entertaining them.
• Xuan Jin said goodbye to Xuan Xi and tore open space to leave, while the three powerful guests settled in for tea with Xuan Yi.
• A powerful phenomenon shook the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan as Cai'er's evolution drew energy from the Yellow Springs.
• Xuan Jin arrived above the Yellow Springs and used his Emperor Realm Soul Power and Nine-star Dou Saint strength to seal the area for ten thousand miles.
• Xuan Jin saw Cai'er glowing beyond the cracking ancient restriction and stood guard as her aura reached its peak and the restriction shattered.

Cai'er shattered the restriction in the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs and emerged as an Early Five-Star Dou Saint with a transformed bloodline. She reunited with Xuan Jin and returned with him to Saint Pill City, where Gu Yuan asked Xuan Yi where Xuan Jin had gone.

• Cai'er broke through the ancient restriction, stabilized her Early Five-Star Dou Saint strength, and awakened a deeper bloodline transformation.
• Xuan Jin contained the surge of energy with his Emperor Realm Soul, and Cai'er rushed to embrace him after seeing him.
• Yao Ming and the Nine Serenity Deep Earth Python Clan members bowed in fear and congratulated Cai'er on emerging from seclusion.
• Cai'er asked Xuan Jin to return with her, and he opened a spatial rift to Saint Pill City before ordering the clan to keep the incident secret.
• Xuan Jin and Cai'er arrived at the courtyard residence, where Xuan Yi struggled to entertain Yan Jin, Gu Yuan, and the Pill Tower Ancestor.
• Gu Yuan asked Xuan Yi where Xuan Jin had gone.

Xuan Jin returned with Cai'er, who had emerged from seclusion as an Early Five-Star Dou Saint and evolved into a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python. The three visiting experts departed after the Pill Tower Ancestor warned that Cai'er's bloodline aura contained an unexplained anomaly, leaving Xuan Jin to attend to his family.

• Xuan Yi told the Pill Tower Ancestor that she did not know where Xuan Jin had gone, and he, Yan Jin, and Gu Yuan agreed to wait.
• Cai'er arrived in nine-colored radiance, greeted Xuan Yi, and told Xuan Jin she had reached the Early Five-Star Dou Saint realm before going to stabilize her cultivation.
• Xuan Jin introduced Cai'er as his wife and explained that her bloodline had evolved into a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.
• Xuan Jin postponed the experts' discussion because Cai'er had just emerged from seclusion and his daughter Xuan Xi was still inside.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor warned Xuan Jin that Cai'er's aura contained something beyond her known bloodline, then departed with Gu Yuan and Yan Jin.
• Xuan Yi complained that Xuan Jin had left her to face the three experts, and Xuan Jin reassured her about Cai'er's breakthrough and future.

Xuan Jin reflected on Cai'er’s growth and reunited with his family after the tense gathering with three powerful Old Ancestors. He found Xuan Yi alone in the Black Tower and kissed her, while their relationship remained private.

• Xuan Jin recalled how Cai'er had advanced from Snake-People Queen to a Five-star Battle Saint and spoke with Xuan Yi about their difficult years.
• Qing Lin asked Xuan Jin why he had gone to Yellow Spring without explaining, and he said it had been an emergency.
• Ya Fei congratulated Xuan Jin on Cai'er's breakthrough, then went with Xuan Yi to review the ledger.
• Qing Lin told Xuan Jin that Xuan Xi was waiting for him, and he said he would visit her shortly.
• Xuan Jin found Xuan Yi alone in the Black Tower corridor, pulled her into his arms, and kissed her.

After spending the night with Xuan Yi, Xuan Jin investigated the strange aura in Cai’er and discovered a faint sign of Bloodline Reversion. Cai’er accepted his reassurance, then told him she wanted a child.

• Xuan Jin carried Xuan Yi into the Alchemy Room’s inner chamber, and the two later discussed the Pill Tower Ancestor’s concern about Cai’er’s aura.
• Qing Lin told Xuan Jin that Cai’er was meditating in the back courtyard to consolidate her cultivation.
• Cai’er told Xuan Jin she had stabilized at Early Five-Star Dou Saint after evolving into a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.
• Xuan Jin examined Cai’er with his Emperor Realm Soul and detected a faint aura of Bloodline Reversion in her bloodline core.
• Xuan Jin reassured Cai’er that she appeared to be undergoing Atavistic Awakening, and she told him she wanted a child.

After spending a month with his family, Xuan Jin entered seclusion to absorb the lingering effects of his Emperor Blood’s complete Atavistic Awakening. There, he discovered the Emperor Flame World-Suppressing Art and began testing its first form.

• Xuan Jin agreed to Cai'er’s wish for a child and promised to devote the month to his family.
• Xuan Jin spent the month training Xuan Xi and sharing time with the women in the estate.
• Xuan Jin announced that he would enter seclusion for several months to half a year to temper the effects of his awakened Emperor Blood.
• Xuan Yi’s restrictions sealed Xuan Jin inside the forbidden chamber, where he circulated his Emperor Blood Origin.
• Xuan Jin endured an overwhelming imprint of the Ancient Flame Emperor’s understanding and discovered the Emperor Flame World-Suppressing Art.
• Xuan Jin tried the art’s first form, which harmonized his ten Heavenly Flames and nearly doubled their circulation speed, but consumed immense energy.

Xuan Jin completed the Emperor Flame World-Suppressing Art after three months of seclusion and learned that the Yao Clan’s Pharmacopoeia would open in twenty-eight days. He prepared to leave for the Medicine Realm alone, assigning his companions to protect Saint Pill City and respond to any trouble.

• Xuan Jin spent nearly a month refining the first form of the Emperor Flame World-Suppressing Art, while Cao Ying told him that Xuan Xi had broken through to Dou Zhe.
• Xuan Jin completed the art after three months, gaining the ability to suppress fire-based techniques across several miles and strengthen his own Heavenly Flames.
• Xuan Yi told Xuan Jin that the Yao Clan’s Pharmacopoeia would begin in twenty-eight days and that the Medicine Realm would open then.
• Xuan Jin reunited with his family and companions, praised Xuan Xi for her breakthrough, and accepted Xiao Yi Xian’s medicinal tea.
• Xuan Jin announced that he would leave for the Pharmacopoeia alone, assigned Zi Yan, Cai’er, and the others to defend Saint Pill City, and told them to send word immediately if anything happened.

Xuan Jin traveled to the Medicine Realm for the Pharmacopoeia, where he detected Hun Xuzi disguised among the Yao Clan and watched the younger generation’s competition. When the four Ninth Grade Alchemists began the final contest, Xuan Jin revealed a trace of his bloodline, silencing Yao Wangui and changing the Yao Clan’s attitude toward him.

• Cao Ying gave Xuan Jin Xixi’s cultivation journal before he left, while Qing Lin and Zi Yan questioned him and saw him off.
• Xuan Jin arrived at the Medicine Realm and greeted Gu Nanhai and Old Man Shennong before the Pharmacopoeia began.
• Xuan Jin recognized Hun Xuzi’s concealed devouring aura in a man disguised in Yao Clan attire.
• Yao Tian won the younger generation’s competition as Yao Clan members disparaged the outsiders’ alchemy.
• Xuan Jin revealed his Emperor Gold Mark when Yao Wangui cautioned him about taking the stage, leaving the punishment elder speechless.
• Yao Wanhuo, Hun Xuzi, Old Man Shennong, and Xuan Jin opened their cauldrons to begin the final contest.

Xuan Jin won first place in the Pharmacopoeia and claimed the Ancient Medicine Emperor's Ancient Alchemy Secret Manual. Hun Xuzi then sealed the Medicine Realm and led a Soul Hall invasion that overwhelmed the Yao Clan's defenses, while Xuan Jin remained on the platform as the Four Demon Saints attacked him.

• Xuan Jin's cauldron produced a Ninth Grade Profound Pill that drew the pill rain from across the Medicine Realm, and Yao Dan declared him the winner.
• Xuan Jin requested and received the Ancient Medicine Emperor's Ancient Alchemy Secret Manual before leaving the platform.
• Hun Xuzi revealed his Early Seven-Star Dou Saint cultivation and used the Nihility Devouring Flame's Black Flame Barrier to seal the Medicine Realm.
• Hun Tu, Hun Sha, Hun Jing, and Hun Yan appeared with Soul Hall forces, and Yao Dan awakened the Ancient Medicine Emperor's Remnant Soul to defend the Yao Clan.
• The Soul Hall forces broke through the Yao Clan's defenses as Yao Tian retreated under Hun Sha's pursuit and Old Man Shennong protected the elderly and weak.
• Xuan Jin stayed his ground as the Four Demon Saints formed an attack around him, with Hun Tu leading a black-flame assault.