Chapter Summaries

Chen Yang arranged for Yan Jin to temper Xiao Yan with Heavenly Flames, letting Xiao Yan refine the Nine Profound Vajra Pill and raise his body to Peak Four-star Dou Sheng. After finishing a major round of alchemy and receiving news that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had intervened against the Yang Alliance in the Northern Region, Chen Yang set out with Xiao Yan to confront them.

• Chen Yang asked Yan Jin to temper Xiao Yan for eighty-one days with his fused Heavenly Flame so Xiao Yan could quickly refine the Nine Profound Vajra Pill before infiltrating the Soul Hall.
• Yan Jin burned Xiao Yan for two months while Xiao Yan endured the pain, and Chen Yang later arranged for Yao Ling and Cao Ying to watch his children while he refined forty-seven batches of Ninth-grade medicinal pills on Ancient Dragon Island.
• Chen Yang's puppets absorbed Pill Lightning during the three-week alchemy session, raising one hundred thousand to Early Three-star Dou Saint and Heavenly Soldier to Mid Two-star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan and Yan Jin returned after the tempering, with Xiao Yan reaching Peak Four-star Dou Sheng, and Chen Yang handed Yan Jin the sixteen medicinal pills he had requested.
• Chen Yang received a message from the Heavenly Fire Venerable that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had intervened in the Yang Alliance's conflict with the Wind Lightning North Pavilion, so he and Xiao Yan left to meet them.

Chen Yang confronted Kun Huang after the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan intervened to protect the Wind Lightning Pavilion, and refused to let the Yang Alliance abandon its campaign. He ended by using his power and influence to decree that alchemists across the continent could no longer sell Shape-Shifting Pills to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, leaving Kun Huang stunned and Huang Tian scrambling to discover what had happened.

• Kun Huang told Feng Qing'er and Thunder Venerable that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan would protect the Wind Lightning Pavilion and demanded ten more Shape-Shifting Pills in return.
• Chen Yang arrived at the Yang Alliance’s gathering, promised rewards for its members, and said the Wind Lightning Pavilion must surrender or be destroyed.
• Kun Huang tried to mediate and invoked the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s strength, but Chen Yang rejected his demand and Xiao Yan prepared to fight him.
• Chen Yang warned Kun Huang to leave, then declared that alchemists of Seventh Grade and above could no longer sell Shape-Shifting Pills to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan or help others buy them.
• The Pill Tower, Ancient Clan, Yan Clan, Yao Clan, Lei Clan, Stone Clan, Spirit Clan, and Soul Clan agreed to Chen Yang’s decree.
• Huang Tian ordered Jiu Feng to investigate who had offended Chen Yang and said he would personally apologize, while Kun Huang stood dumbfounded before Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan defeated Kun Huang with Chen Yang’s help and learned of Chen Yang’s plan to let Hun Tiandi become a Dou Di before turning him into a Heavenly General puppet. Chen Yang then gave Xiao Yan a Primordial Creation Pill whose effect was to “break and rebuild,” leaving Xiao Yan bewildered.

• Xiao Yan fought Kun Huang, activated the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes, and used Overturning Sea and Sky Ruler to bring the battle to a climax.
• Kun Huang tried to self-destruct, but Chen Yang restrained him, claimed his body and Magic Core, and let Xiao Yan capture his soul for a Demon Puppet.
• Back in the Yang Realm, Chen Yang dismissed Xiao Yan’s concerns about revealing his strength and explained that he intended to wait for Hun Tiandi to become a Dou Di before killing him and refining him into a puppet.
• Chen Yang said he would help Xiao Yan obtain the Tou She Ancient God Jade and infiltrate the Soul Clan, then gave him a pill to help him advance toward Dou Saint.
• Chen Yang named the pill the Primordial Creation Pill and explained that it could break and rebuild, leaving Xiao Yan confused.

Chen Yang assured Xiao Yan that the Primordial Creation Pill would let him break through by rebuilding, then planned to use the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance to secure the saint’s essence blood. After two months, Chen Yang, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan traveled to the Beast Domain, where Chen Yang uncovered a chained man beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.

• Chen Yang told Xiao Yan the Primordial Creation Pill had a one-hundred-percent chance of enabling a break-and-rebuild and said the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance could help him obtain powerful essence blood.
• Chen Yang told Xiao Yan to practice alchemy until Qing Lin finished her seclusion, then prepare to travel to the Beast Domain.
• Two months later, Qing Lin returned to Chen Yang and joined him, Cao Ying, and Yao Ling as they cared for the children.
• Chen Yang, Qing Lin, Xiao Yan, Chen Qi, and Chen Sha arrived in the Beast Domain to seek the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s essence blood and other treasures.
• Chen Yang brought the group beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and revealed a withered man bound by enormous chains, who pleaded for them to save him.

Chen Yang freed Yao Ming and helped him reclaim leadership of the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan in exchange for its ancestors’ remains and the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet. He then found the Seven-Colored Heavenly Swallowing Python Clan’s resting place and offered to restore its souls, bloodlines, and clan in return for passing its inheritance to his wife and daughter.

• Chen Yang broke Yao Ming’s chains, promised to help him defeat Yao Xiaotian, and gave him a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill to restore his strength.
• Chen Yang sent Ten Thousand and Heavenly Soldier after Yao Ming to capture Yao Xiaotian and the others’ bodies and souls for Qing Lin.
• Chen Yang searched beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and found the Seven-Colored Heavenly Swallowing Python Clan’s resting place.
• Chen Yang revealed Tun Tun to Yue Xian, who was shocked to learn that a Seven-Colored Heavenly Swallowing Python bloodline survived.
• Chen Yang offered to restore the clan and its bloodlines if Yue Xian and the other ancestors passed their inheritance to his wife and daughter.

Chen Yang recruited Yue Xian and the remaining Seven-Colored Heavenly Swallowing Python souls, then brought them to the Nine Nether Underworld Python clan. He sent Xiao Yan into the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet to provoke the Yellow Springs Demon Saint and claim his inheritance, leaving the enraged remnant ready to attack.

• Chen Yang persuaded Yue Xian and fifty-five other python souls to follow him, promising that his wife could lead their clan and help restore their Spiritual Power.
• Yue Xian explained that the Yellow Springs Demon Saint had stolen their bloodline, and Chen Yang placed the souls and their inheritance in Xiao Yan's Bone Flame Ring before taking them to the Nine Nether Underworld Python clan.
• Yao Ming welcomed Chen Yang, who stopped him from digging up his parents' graves and arranged to stay with the clan.
• Chen Yang gave Xiao Yan a Virtual God Pill so his body and soul could enter the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet together.
• Xiao Yan fought off the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's techniques, then insulted him until the remnant flew into a rage and shouted that the junior should die.

Xiao Yan challenged the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and passed out, after which Chen Yang intervened and befriended the ancient remnant soul. Chen Yang revealed that he came from the Great Thousand World, stabilized the Yellow Springs Demon Saint with a Ninth-grade Golden Pill, and left him to watch over Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan unleashed nine Heavenly Flames and fought the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, but lost consciousness after enduring much of the attack.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint noticed Xiao Yan’s body beginning to recover and prepared to use his Demon Saint Blood Essence to help Xiao Yan reach the Dou Saint realm.
• Chen Yang appeared, stopped the Yellow Springs Demon Saint, and explained that Xiao Yan had only been boasting when he spoke of him.
• Chen Yang told the Yellow Springs Demon Saint that he came from the Great Thousand World and offered to take him beyond the Dou Qi Continent to pursue the Dou Di realm.
• Chen Yang extracted the Yellow Springs Blood Essence and used a Ninth-grade Golden Pill to stabilize and restore the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant soul.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint agreed to follow Chen Yang, took responsibility for watching over Xiao Yan, and Chen Yang left the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet Space.

Chen Yang secured the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and soul infant fruits from the Creation Saint’s relic, then helped the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan with pills and access to the relic. He left the Beast Domain with the fruit, expecting it to help Zi Yan grow up.

• Chen Yang gave Yao Ming the Heavenly Snake Pill ingredient list and promised to refine a pill for every set of ingredients the clan gathered, prompting Yao Ming to send his elders to collect them.
• Chen Yang and Qing Lin traveled with Yao Ming and Elder Liu to the Skeleton Mountain Range, where Chen Yang found the Creation Saint’s relic and let the clan search the remaining treasures.
• Chen Yang used the life spirit flame to make the soul infant demon tree produce two more fruits, then entered the Beast Spirit Barrier and retrieved the relic’s Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Chen Yang left a space tunnel for the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan, refined more than fifty thousand Shape-Shifting Pills for them, and told the Yellow Springs Demon Saint to have Xiao Yan return the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet after waking.
• Chen Yang left the Beast Domain with the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, thinking it would help Zi Yan grow up.

Chen Yang discussed using the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit to help Zi Yan evolve, then spent a year developing his people in the Yang Realm. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan returning after breaking through to Dou Saint, while the System rewarded Chen Yang with a sound-wave Dou Technique.

• Chen Yang explained that he planned to refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Pill for Zi Yan using the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and rare blood essences.
• Over the following year, Xiao Yi Xian became a One-star Dou Sheng, Qing Lin reached Intermediate Ban Sheng, and Chen Yang’s other companions and allies advanced in cultivation, alchemy, and spiritual power.
• Chen Yang’s people and forces continued growing stronger, including Hai Bodong, Heavenly Fire Venerable, the guardian beasts, the Black Armored Army, and the Yang Alliance.
• While accompanying Ya Fei, Chen Yang triggered the System Mechanism and received the God-tier Low-grade Sound Wave Dou Technique Million Corpses.
• Xiao Yan returned and announced that he had broken through to Dou Saint.

Xiao Yan returned to the Yang Realm as a One-star Dou Saint and brought Chen Yang the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan's collected treasures and a Pill Beast. He and Chen Yang discussed Yellow Springs Demon Saint's recovery and agreed to proceed with raising Xiao Yan's teacher's Soul Body after Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er and proposed marriage.

• Xiao Yan returned from a year of closed-door cultivation, delivered clan treasures and medicinal materials to Chen Yang, and brought along an Eighth-grade Nine-Colored Pill Lightning Pill Beast.
• Ya Fei teased Xiao Yan about which sister-in-law he had brought the Pill Beast for, and Xiao Yan decided to save it for Xun Er.
• Xiao Yan celebrated his return with the Yang Realm's residents, then told Chen Yang that Yellow Springs Demon Saint had entered closed-door cultivation with a borrowed broken sword.
• Chen Yang told Xiao Yan that Xun Er had visited three months earlier but returned after waiting for him, and Xiao Yan said he would reunite with her when he went to propose marriage.
• Xiao Yan and Chen Yang agreed to proceed with raising Xiao Yan's teacher's Soul Body, with Xiao Yan agreeing to follow Chen Yang's lead.

Chen Yang coordinated plans with the Yan and Yao Clans to raise Medicine Elder’s and Xiao Yan’s standing inside Soul Hall and send Hai Bodong there as well. At the Shennong Mountain Range, the System granted Chen Yang the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame after detecting Old Man Shennong’s Living Flame.

• Chen Yang arrived at the Yan Clan with Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong, where Yan Jin and Medicine Elder learned that Xiao Yan had become a Dou Saint.
• Chen Yang gave Yan Jin Soul Infant Fruits and confirmed the plan for Yan Jin to take Huo Zhi and Medicine Elder to the Yao Clan, with the next stage planned for half a year later.
• Chen Yang visited Yao Dan, took three jars of wine, and gave him a Ninth-grade Golden Pill in exchange for the Yao Clan’s help.
• Chen Yang told Yao Dan to publicly drive out Yan Jin, Huo Zhi, and Medicine Elder so Soul Clan spies would report the apparent rift, while he planned to send Hai Bodong into Soul Hall.
• Chen Yang left the Yao Realm with Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong and went to the Shennong Mountain Range, where the System granted him the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.

Chen Yang arranged for Hai Bodong and Xiao Yan to infiltrate the Soul Hall while Yan Jin and Huo Zhi staged a visit to the Yao Clan to secure Yao Chen’s return. After the Yao Clan rejected Yan Jin’s request for a pill, an unknown powerful figure seized Yao Chen, and Hun Miesheng learned he had been captured again.

• Chen Yang obtained the Azure Emperor Cauldron, told Xiao Yan he could pass its alchemy inheritance to him, and explained the plan for Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong to infiltrate the Soul Hall.
• Yan Jin and Huo Zhi entered the Yao Clan, where Yan Jin presented Yao Chen’s soul and asked Yao Dan for a pill to help Huo Zhi refine the Red Lotus Karma Flame.
• Yao Wan Huo identified Yao Chen as an expelled Yao Clan member, while Yao Chen protested that Yao Feng had framed him; Yao Dan refused Yan Jin’s request and secretly told Yao Chen the clan would welcome him back.
• Yan Jin threw Yao Chen outside the Medicine Realm, but an ice-blue figure snatched him away before Mo Yu could capture him for the Soul Hall.
• Seven days later, Gu You told Hun Miesheng that Yao Chen had been captured again and delivered by a powerful person seeking the Soul Hall.

Xiao Yan returned to the Soul Hall with Hai Bodong and presented Yao Chen as a captured soul, while revealing that he had become a Dou Saint and a Ninth-grade Alchemist. Hun Miesheng approved Hai Bodong’s appointment as Fourth Heavenly Venerate and ordered Yao Chen transferred to the Earth Hall, then asked Xiao Yan to visit headquarters for good news.

• Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong arrived at the Human Hall, where Soul Hall members welcomed Xiao Yan as Third Master.
• Xiao Yan told Gu You that he had advanced to Dou Saint and revealed that he was a Ninth-grade Alchemist, then gave Gu You his first Ninth-grade Treasure Pill.
• Xiao Yan explained that Hai Bodong had brought Yao Chen’s soul to the Soul Hall and asked Gu You to arrange a position for Hai Bodong as Fourth Heavenly Venerate.
• Gu You reported Xiao Yan’s return and the capture of Yao Chen to Hun Miesheng, who approved Hai Bodong’s appointment.
• Hun Miesheng ordered Yao Chen placed in the Earth Hall under the protection of its Three-star Dou Sheng Vice Hall Master and told Gu You to invite Xiao Yan to headquarters.

Hun Miesheng investigated Dong Bohai’s account and summoned Xiao Yan to Soul Hall headquarters, intending to cultivate his Spiritual Power to Heaven Realm Grand Perfection. Xiao Yan arrived and learned of the Hall Master’s plan, while Mo Yu discovered that Dong Bohai’s promotion had cost him his place among the Nine Heavenly Venerates.

• Hun Miesheng ordered Blood Red to investigate the Shennong Mountain Range incident and question Mo Yu about Dong Bohai.
• Blood Red questioned Mo Yu, confirmed Dong Bohai’s story, and told him Dong Bohai had become Fourth Heavenly Venerate, demoting the remaining Heavenly Venerates by one rank.
• Mo Yu realized Blood Red had advised him to build ties with Xiao Yan, arranged for someone to guard the branch hall, and set out for Human Hall.
• Gu You told Xiao Yan that the Great Heavenly Venerate would take Yao Chen to Earth Hall while Gu You entered closed-door cultivation, and Xiao Yan then traveled to Heaven Hall.
• Hun Miesheng welcomed Xiao Yan and announced that Soul Hall intended to nurture his Spiritual Power to Heaven Realm Grand Perfection.

Hun Miesheng investigated Dong Bohai’s role in capturing Yao Chen and, reassured by reports from Mo Yu and the Soul Clan, summoned Xiao Yan to the Heaven Hall. He offered to cultivate Xiao Yan’s Spiritual Power to Heaven Realm Grand Perfection, leaving Xiao Yan both surprised and quietly mindful of his plans against Hun Miesheng.

• Hun Miesheng sent a confidant to investigate what happened near the Shennong Mountain Range and ordered a thorough inquiry into Dong Bohai.
• Blood Red Heavenly Venerate questioned Mo Yu, learned his account of Yao Chen’s capture, and told him to maintain a good relationship with Third Heavenly Venerate.
• Blood Red told Mo Yu that Dong Bohai had become Fourth Heavenly Venerate, causing the other Heavenly Venerates to drop one rank and Mo Yu to lose his Nine Heavenly Venerate position again.
• Hun Miesheng received Mo Yu’s account and intelligence about infiltrators in the Yao Clan and Yan Clan, strengthening his trust in Dong Bohai.
• Xiao Yan spoke with Gu You at the Human Hall, then traveled to the Heaven Hall after discussing matters with Hai Bodong.
• Hun Miesheng welcomed Xiao Yan and offered to use Soul Origin to raise his Spiritual Power to Heaven Realm Grand Perfection.

Xiao Yan refined Soul Origin in seclusion and emerged with Mid Heaven Realm Spiritual Power, while Cai Lin emerged as a Dou Saint and reunited with her family. Hun Miesheng then ordered Xiao Yan to represent Soul Hall at the Pill Tower Pill Gathering, leaving him stunned.

• Hun Miesheng gave Xiao Yan thirteen Ninth-grade Treasure Pill formulas and materials, and Xiao Yan returned to seclusion to refine Soul Origin.
• Hun Qing Shengzhe delivered Yao Chen's soul to the Earth Hall, where he reunited with his father, Soul Hall's Vice Hall Master.
• Cai Lin emerged from seclusion as a nine-colored giant python, reunited with Chen Yang and their daughters, and joined the family in celebration.
• Xiao Yan emerged from three months of cultivation with Mid Heaven Realm Spiritual Power, and Hun Miesheng assigned him to refine pills in Heaven Hall.
• Hun Miesheng told Xiao Yan to enter the Pill Tower Pill Gathering in a year and bring glory to Soul Hall, leaving Xiao Yan dumbfounded.

Chen Yang brought Yao Ling back to the Yao Clan to receive its inheritance, then sent Yao Dan to rescue Medicine Elder from Soul Hall’s Earth Hall. Yao Dan destroyed Earth Hall and escaped with Medicine Elder’s soul and the remaining Soul Origin, leaving Hun Miesheng shocked that Yao Chen had been kidnapped again.

• Hun Miesheng ordered Xiao Yan to impersonate Yao Chen’s disciple at the Pill Gathering and sabotage the Pill Tower, and Xiao Yan agreed to consider it.
• Chen Yang brought Yao Ling to Yao Dan Palace so she could receive the Yao Clan’s inheritance and reunite with her family before advancing to Ban Sheng.
• Chen Yang told Yao Dan to rescue Medicine Elder, destroy Earth Hall, and seize its remaining Soul Origin; Yao Dan agreed and warned that the Yao Clan had Soul Clan spies.
• Seven days later, Yao Dan confronted Yao Wan Huo over the Yao Clan’s past treatment of Yao Chen, then left for Earth Hall.
• Yao Dan seized Medicine Elder’s soul and the remaining Soul Origin, killed the Vice Hall Master and Hun Qing Shengzhe, and destroyed Earth Hall.
• Hun Miesheng learned of the rescue and exclaimed in disbelief that Yao Chen had been kidnapped again.

After Yao Dan destroyed Earth Hall and rescued Yao Chen, Xiao Yan refined a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill and was promoted to Soul Hall Vice Hall Master. He returned to Human Hall, announced new appointments, and received an enthusiastic welcome from the Soul Hall experts.

• Blood Red Venerable reported to Hun Miesheng that Yao Dan had destroyed Earth Hall, killed its occupants, and advanced to Eight-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan refined a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill, and Hun Miesheng stopped its Black Demon Lightning while Hun Xuzi secured approval for Xiao Yan to become Vice Hall Master.
• Hun Miesheng appointed Gu You Great Heavenly Venerate, Dong Bohai Third Heavenly Venerate, and Blood Red acting Second Heavenly Venerate, then gave Xiao Yan the authority to leave and investigate Yao Chen’s rescue.
• Xiao Yan returned to Human Hall and announced the promotions, including his own appointment as Vice Hall Master.
• Xiao Yan told the assembled Soul Hall experts that Yao Dan had rescued Yao Chen and destroyed Earth Hall, and they celebrated Xiao Yan’s promotion.

Xiao Yan rose to Vice Hall Master of the Soul Hall and returned to the Yang Realm after preparing to infiltrate the Pill Tower as a Soul Hall agent. There, Chen Yang revealed that all preparations to revive Medicine Elder were complete, leaving Xiao Yan overwhelmed with excitement.

• Xiao Yan distributed pills to loyal Soul Hall members, who pledged to follow him, and celebrated his new position as Vice Hall Master.
• Chen Yang, Medicine Elder, and Yao Tianhuo discussed Xiao Yan’s rise and the Soul Hall’s plan to use him as a scapegoat.
• After half a month in the Human Hall, Xiao Yan told Gu You he would investigate the Pill Tower and the Pill Gathering, then left with Hai Bodong.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Yang Realm and told Chen Yang and the others that Hun Miesheng had ordered him to enter the Pill Gathering as Medicine Elder’s disciple.
• Ya Fei and Cai Lin proposed that Xiao Yan infiltrate the Pill Tower as a Soul Hall agent, and Chen Yang agreed to the plan.
• Chen Yang told Xiao Yan that Medicine Elder had reached Heaven Realm Grand Perfection, Fen Yan Ancestor’s remains had been retrieved, and the preparations to refine a body for Medicine Elder were complete.

Xiao Yan used the Azure Emperor Cauldron and rare materials to revive Medicine Elder, whose new body and aura revealed that he had become a Mid Eight-star Dou Sheng. The chapter left Medicine Elder fully revived, while Chen Yang and the others reacted to his immense strength.

• Fairy Qing confronted Medicine Elder over his past estrangement from her and Xuan Yi, while Xiao Yan tried to smooth things over.
• Chen Yang provided the Azure Emperor Cauldron and promised it to whichever of Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder became a Ninth-grade Golden Pill Alchemist first.
• Xiao Yan began refining Medicine Elder's body with nine Heavenly Flames as the group watched from a safe distance.
• After a month refining Fen Yan Ancestor's Corpse Bone and three more days completing the resurrection, Medicine Elder's aura erupted across Mount Tai Peak.
• Chen Yang assessed the revived Medicine Elder and confirmed that he had reached Mid Eight-star Dou Sheng.