Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan completed a hundred generations of reincarnation beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree, advanced his soul and alchemy realms, and divided the Bodhi Seeds while denying the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan access to pill refining. Chen Yang relocated the Bodhi Ancient Tree and ordered the Vast Desolate Ancient Region cleared as he prepared for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to emerge.

• Chen Yang gave Xiao Yan an Enlightenment Tea Leaf, deepening the hundred generations of enlightenment he experienced beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• After a month and a half, Xiao Yan emerged with a Half-step Emperor Realm soul and the ability to refine Nine-Rank Profound Pills.
• Xiao Yan distributed Bodhi Seeds and offered pill refining to the gathered forces, but excluded the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and gave it another Bodhi Seed instead.
• Cai Lin warned Chen Yang that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan might turn to foreign enemies, so Chen Yang decided to lift its sanctions in exchange for ten rotating mounts for the Yang Realm.
• Chen Yang took the Bodhi Ancient Tree from the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and ordered Yun Yun to summon the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan to clear out its Ferocious Beasts.

Chen Yang planted the Bodhi Ancient Tree in the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s territory and the Enlightenment Tea Tree in Hibiscus Garden, where its leaves gave his companions powerful insights. The group discovered the tea tree possessed First-grade Sovereign strength, then heard Xiao Yan return to the Yang Realm.

• Chen Yang brought the Bodhi Ancient Tree to Five Springs Mountain and told Hei Qing to look after it.
• Chen Yang planted the Enlightenment Tea Tree in Hibiscus Garden, and its fragrance gave Cai Lin, Yao Ling, and others new insights.
• Chen Yang brewed tea from its leaves; Cao Ying and the others gained breakthroughs in understanding and began cultivating or refining pills.
• Chen Yang assessed the tree as a First-grade Sovereign, and Zhu Kun warned him to keep its existence quiet.
• A voice called out from above the Yang Realm, and Chen Yang recognized the returning Xiao Yan and led everyone to see what he had gained.

Xiao Yan returned from a century of reincarnation beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree with greatly improved cultivation, soul realm, and alchemy, then carried Chen Yang’s decree to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. Huang Tian learned the clan could be pardoned if it sent ten members to serve as mounts for thirty years, and Xiao Yan left him to decide.

• Xiao Yan reported that his cultivation had reached Mid-stage Six-star Dou Saint, his Soul Realm had reached Half-step Emperor Realm, and his Nine-Rank Profound Pill success rate exceeded ninety percent.
• Chen Yang ordered Xiao Yan to secure ten Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members as mounts and said he would help improve Xiao Yan’s physical body after the Vast Desolate Ancient Region was settled.
• Huang Tian rejected Phoenix’s demand for revenge against the Pill Tower and accepted that the clan had brought its punishment upon itself.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and announced that Chen Yang had lifted its ban after more than seven years.
• Xiao Yan told Huang Tian that full pardon required the clan to send ten members to the Yang Realm as mounts every thirty years, then asked him to consider the decree.

Xiao Yan delivered Chen Yang’s request for ten Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members to serve as mounts, but Huang Tian welcomed it as an opportunity for the clan. Xiao Yan began selecting from the clan’s young female Dou Zuns, then noticed one of the eighteen was missing.

• Huang Tian eagerly asked whether he could become Chen Yang’s mount, surprising Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan proposed that the clan provide ten women under a hundred years old, each with strength above Dou Zun, and Huang Tian agreed to the conditions.
• Huang Tian explained that serving the Yang Alliance for thirty years was a great opportunity because of Chen Yang’s power and status as a Ninth-grade Golden Pill Alchemist.
• Phoenix brought eighteen eligible women for Xiao Yan to choose from, and Xiao Yan began inspecting them.
• Xiao Yan counted only seventeen women and asked Huang Tian where the missing one was.

Xiao Yan selected nine Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan women for the Yang Alliance and named Feng Qing'er as the tenth mount. After Huang Tian forced Feng Qing'er to finish her inheritance early, she refused to become Chen Yang's mount, even if he were a Dou Di.

• Huang Tian discovered that Feng Qing'er was missing from the group, and Phoenix explained that she was receiving an inheritance.
• Xiao Yan recognized Feng Qing'er as a former member of the Wind Lightning Pavilion, selected nine women, and named Feng Qing'er as the remaining mount.
• Huang Tian reassured the women who were not selected and then went with Phoenix to help Feng Qing'er complete her inheritance ahead of schedule.
• Feng Qing'er woke with the strength of a Peak Nine-turn Dou Zun, but refused to go to the Yang Realm as Chen Yang's mount.
• Huang Tian argued that joining the Yang Alliance would benefit the clan, but Feng Qing'er declared that she would refuse even if Chen Yang were a Dou Di, as Xiao Yan overheard.

Xiao Yan returned from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan with ten female members, whom Chen Yang assigned to serve as maidservants. After three months, the Vast Desolate Ancient Region had been cleared, and Chen Yang prepared to explain how Xiao Yan could devour the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame more safely.

• Xiao Yan stopped Huang Tian from striking Feng Qing'er and encouraged him to take her to the Yang Alliance, where Xiao Yan claimed she would be handled.
• Chen Yang found that Xiao Yan had brought back ten female Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members and decided to have them trained as maidservants under Ya Fei.
• A female Phoenix Clan member offered to serve as a mount, and Chen Yang agreed to let Xiao Yan arrange matters with the group.
• Three months later, Chen Yang refined the Vast Desolate Ancient Region's ferocious-beast essence blood into a body-tempering pool, but Xiao Yan asked whether it could raise his physical strength to Nine-star Dou Sheng.
• Chen Yang asked how Xiao Yan could improve his chances of devouring the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame without backlash, and began to reveal the method.

Chen Yang prepared Xiao Yan to devour a wisp of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame by having him cultivate the Golden Body Undying Method in a Blood Pool. As his companions entered seclusion and he spent time with his daughters, Zi Yan finished refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Pill and emerged from seclusion in the Heavenly Tomb.

• Chen Yang sent Xiao Yan into the Blood Pool to cultivate the Golden Body Undying Method with Solar True Fire tempering his body, saving the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's sub-flame for the final step.
• Medicine Elder and the others drank Enlightenment Tea and entered closed-door cultivation, leaving Chen Yang free to spend his days with Chen Qi and Chen Sha.
• Chen Yang played chess with Gu Yuan, then left his daughters in Gu Yuan's care after a signal called him away.
• Chen Qi and Chen Sha beat Gu Yuan at chess, leaving him astonished by their skill.
• Chen Yang arrived beside Zi Yan in the Heavenly Tomb, where she had emerged after refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Pill.

Zi Yan completed her evolution, reached Peak Nine-star Dou Sheng, and reunited with Chen Yang after ten years of cultivation. After visiting Gu Yuan and their daughters, Chen Yang returned home with Zi Yan and prepared to become a true Dragon Knight.

• Zi Yan awoke from her ten-year cultivation, embraced Chen Yang, and revealed that her evolution had made her a Peak Nine-star Dou Sheng with a powerful Dragon Phoenix Bloodline.
• Chen Yang and Zi Yan watched Chen Qi and Chen Sha challenge Gu Yuan at Go, and Gu Yuan admitted defeat when the girls called him out for putting away the board.
• Chen Yang gave candied hawthorns to Zi Yan and the two girls, then left the Ancient Realm with them.
• Back in the Yang Realm, Chen Yang cooked a meal that delighted Zi Yan, Chen Qi, and Chen Sha.
• Chen Yang left the two girls in Zi Yi's care and told Zi Yan to call him Husband as he prepared to become a true Dragon Knight.

Zi Yan defeated Zhu Kun in a playful father-daughter fight, while Xiao Yan completed his body refinement and absorbed a sub-flame of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He reached the middle stage of Seven-star Dou Sheng, and Chen Yang told him to return to the Soul Hall after resting.

• Zi Yan challenged Zhu Kun to a fight, and Chen Yang watched with the Nether Lotus Demon Saint, Yellow Springs Demon Saint, and Xiao Xuan.
• Zi Yan defeated Zhu Kun, whose battered face turned proud when the others praised her strength.
• Chen Yang visited Xiao Yan in the Heavenly Tomb after sensing he had completed his body refinement and found him at the peak of Six-star Dou Sheng.
• Chen Yang fed Xiao Yan a sub-flame of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Xiao Yan endured the pain until he refined it.
• Xiao Yan advanced to the middle stage of Seven-star Dou Sheng, and Chen Yang advised him to return to the Soul Hall after resting.

After completing his cultivation, Xiao Yan returned to the Pill Tower, distributed the promised pills, and visited his Earth Hall and the Soul Hall headquarters. He told Hun Miesheng that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had raised him to mid-Seven-star Dou Sheng, leaving the Hall Master stunned and remarking that Xiao Yan should have held his position.

• Xiao Yan announced at the Pill Tower that he had become a Ninth-grade Profound Pill Alchemist and delivered the promised medicinal pills, while the Ancient Clan, Yan Clan, and Soul Clan kept the peace in Sacred Pill City.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Earth Hall with Hai Bodong, rewarded its members with Seventh-grade Pills, and heard Star Picking Old Ghost report that Hun Miesheng had advanced to Six-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan traveled to the Heaven Hall and met Hun Miesheng, who had been discussing Xiao Yan’s accomplishments with Blood Red Saint.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Hundred Generations Reincarnation had raised him to mid-Seven-star Dou Sheng and brought his soul realm to Half-step Emperor Realm.
• Hun Miesheng was shocked by Xiao Yan’s progress and said the Soul Hall Hall Master position should have been his.

Xiao Yan returned to the Soul Clan and entered a year of seclusion to advance his Soul Realm while preparing to devour the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He emerged after gaining control of his newly attained Emperor Realm Soul.

• Hun Miesheng told Xiao Yan to report to the Soul Clan and promised him Heaven Hall’s soul essence if he could reach Emperor Realm Soul.
• Xiao Yan told Hun Xuzi and Nihility Devouring Flame that he had reached mid-stage Seven-star Dou Sheng and Half-step Emperor Realm Soul, then showed them the assembled Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map.
• Nihility Devouring Flame and Hun Xuzi arranged for Xiao Yan to use Heaven Hall’s soul essence to break through within a year and left Dong Bohai to manage his hall affairs.
• Xiao Yan returned to Heaven Hall and cultivated in seclusion for a year as the Yang Realm’s forces and Medicine Elder made progress.
• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion after three days of mastering his Spiritual Power and reached Emperor Realm Soul.

After a year in seclusion, Xiao Yan emerged with an Emperor Realm Soul and planned with Hun Miesheng to claim the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Six months later, Xiao Yan and the Soul Hall group reached the Demonic Lotus Flame Plain, where clans across the continent had gathered for the flame’s appearance.

• Xiao Yan completed a year of cultivation and reached the Emperor Realm Soul, then rewarded the Three-star Elder guarding his chamber.
• Xiao Yan showed Hun Miesheng his new soul power and discussed the factions likely to compete for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Hun Miesheng agreed to report the plan to the Soul Clan and arrange for an Eight-star Dou Saint to accompany them.
• Xiao Yan studied the Ninth-grade Golden Pill for six months but did not break through to that realm.
• Xiao Yan joined Hun Miesheng and the others on their journey to the Demonic Lotus Flame Plain, where strong people from every clan had gathered.

Xiao Yan and the Soul Clan arrived at the Demonic Flame Space as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged, and Xiao Yan clashed with the Yan and Yao Clans over the rules. Chen Yang arrived and set limits on the contest, but an unknown challenger immediately questioned his authority.

• Hai Bodong and Star Picking Old Ghost discussed Xiao Yan's whereabouts as several Ancient Clan representatives gathered near the Demonic Flame Space.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Hun Miesheng and other Soul Clan members, and Hun Miesheng claimed he had reformed the Soul Hall before revealing that he and Yan Xiao were Six-star and Seven-star Dou Saints.
• When the Yan Clan leader called for fair competition under the continent's rules, Xiao Yan cursed the Yan Clan representative and accused the Yan and Yao Clan leaders of destroying the Soul Hall's branches and killing its members.
• Chen Yang arrived with Yao Ming, a Seven-Colored Heavenly Swallowing Python Clan member, Zi Yan, and Feng Qing'er, then declared that he would not intervene and that no one could use strength above Five-star Dou Saint inside the Demonic Flame Space.
• An unidentified person in the crowd challenged Chen Yang's authority, leaving everyone stunned.

Chen Yang negotiated with Nihility Devouring Flame over the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, trading away his claim in exchange for the Living Flame, pill ingredients, and rare medicinal materials. The Soul Clan accepted his terms, leaving the clans alarmed by its two Nine-star Dou Shengs.

• Hun Miesheng challenged Chen Yang, but Nihility Devouring Flame intervened and defused the confrontation.
• Nihility Devouring Flame offered Chen Yang pill ingredients, the Living Flame, and Emperor Grade Alchemist Inheritances to make him withdraw from competing for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Chen Yang rejected the Inheritances and asked for rare medicinal materials instead, offering to give up the contest if the Soul Clan could provide them.
• Nihility Devouring Flame accepted the list with the caveat that the Soul Clan might not possess every item, then gave Chen Yang the Living Flame and a Storage Ring.
• The Lei Clan members discussed the Soul Clan's strength and worried that its two Nine-star Dou Shengs threatened the other clans.

Chen Yang withdrew from the contest for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then entered the Demonic Flame Space with Zi Yan, the Nether Lotus Demon Saint, and Xiao Xuan. The Nether Lotus Demon Saint took control of the space and freed Xiao Chen, who mistook Xiao Xuan for a Soul Clan traitor and attacked him.

• Chen Yang traded the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to Xiao Yan for resources and withdrew while the other clans prepared to oppose the Soul Clan.
• Xun Er arrived with Gu Nanhai, and Chen Yang explained his decision before leaving the Demonic Lotus Flame Plain.
• Chen Yang sent Feng Qing'er, Yao Ming, and the Sky Swallowing Python toward the Yang Realm, then entered the Demonic Flame Space with Zi Yan, the Nether Lotus Demon Saint, and Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Yan shattered the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's illusions and rescued Hun Feng, Hun Yu, Hun Miesheng, and Hun Qianmo.
• Chen Yang seized the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and the Nether Lotus Demon Saint took control of the Demonic Flame Space.
• The Nether Lotus Demon Saint freed Xiao Chen from his Fire Slave control, but Xiao Chen mistook Xiao Xuan for a Soul Clan traitor and charged at him with his Blood Axe.

Xiao Xuan and Xiao Chen reunited, then helped Chen Yang and Xiao Yan confront the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in the Demonic Flame Space. Hun Miesheng was manipulated into sacrificing himself, leaving the battle against the flame ongoing.

• Xiao Xuan stopped Xiao Chen from attacking and reunited with him after a thousand years, then both thanked Chen Yang for saving the Xiao Family.
• The Nether Lotus Demon Saint took control of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and its illusions, while Xiao Yan worked with him to seize control of the Demonic Flame Space.
• Xiao Yan, Hun Miesheng, and Hun Qianmo fought the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame until Xiao Chen attacked Hun Qianmo as a Fire Slave.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sent another Fire Slave into the battle, and Hun Miesheng lost an arm and a leg while defending the one Chen Yang was impersonating.
• Hun Miesheng, unable to control his own actions, grabbed Chen Yang's Fire Slave disguise and self-destructed.

After Hun Miesheng sacrificed himself, Xiao Yan began refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame while Chen Yang rescued Xiao Chen and protected him from Xiao Yan. A year later, Xiao Yan’s breakthrough shook the Demonic Flame Space, and he reached Late Nine-star Dou Sheng.

• Hun Miesheng self-destructed, injuring Hun Qianmo and Xiao Chen, while Xiao Yan pretended to grieve and prepared to attack Xiao Chen.
• Nihility Devouring Flame stopped Xiao Yan and told him to refine the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then Xiao Yan tried to kill Xiao Chen.
• Chen Yang caught Xiao Yan’s sword, claimed Xiao Chen was under his protection, and took Xiao Chen to the Yang Realm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame defeated the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and gave its essence to Xiao Yan to refine with a Nether Lotus Pill.
• Chen Yang later gave Xiao Yan the Living Flame, and after a year of cultivation Xiao Yan’s energy surged to Late Nine-star Dou Sheng.

Chen Yang obtained and merged the Nihility Devouring Flame into his Solar True Fire while Xiao Yan awakened in the Demonic Flame Space after reaching Late Nine-star Dou Sheng. Chen Yang concealed Xiao Yan’s true cultivation and told him to maintain his position in the Soul Clan as they prepared for a possible threat from the Outer Realm Evil Clan.

• The system awarded Chen Yang the Nihility Devouring Flame after identifying Xiao Yan as the bearer of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Chen Yang fused the new flame into his Solar True Fire.
• Xiao Xuan, Xiao Chen, and Nether Lotus Demon Saint recoiled from Chen Yang’s Solar True Fire, and Chen Yang explained that he had refined a Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Yan awoke at Late Nine-star Dou Sheng with an Emperor Realm Soul and a Half-step God-tier Flame Mantra, then Chen Yang pulled him out of the Demonic Flame Space.
• Xiao Yan greeted Xiao Xuan, Xiao Chen, and Nether Lotus Demon Saint before exchanging jokes with Chen Yang.
• Chen Yang told Xiao Yan to present himself as a Late Eight-star Dou Sheng and to avoid moving against the Soul Clan for now.
• Chen Yang warned that his unease might signal the Outer Realm Evil Clan, and Xiao Yan agreed to follow their original plan.

Xiao Yan returned to the Soul Clan after devouring the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and advanced to Late Eight-star Dou Sheng. Nihility Devouring Flame appointed him to oversee the Soul Hall and granted him broad authority, while Xiao Yan continued to mourn Hun Miesheng in front of the Soul Hall’s subordinates.

• Xiao Yan reported his breakthrough to Nihility Devouring Flame and asked to confront Chen Yang over Blood Axe Xiao Chen, but Nihility Devouring Flame explained that the Soul Clan was focused on gathering the Tou She Ancient God Jade and becoming a Dou Di.
• Nihility Devouring Flame appointed Xiao Yan to oversee the Soul Hall, assigned Dong Bohai and Gu You to handle its specific affairs, and gave him authority to use the Soul Clan’s people, resources, medicinal materials, and supplies.
• Xiao Yan spent two days in the Hun Realm meeting old acquaintances, then left for the Heaven Hall and lingered at places where he had stayed with Hun Miesheng.
• Xiao Yan learned from Star Picking Old Ghost that Blood Red Saint had been transferred to the Human Hall and that Elder Hai served as Vice Hall Master at the Earth Hall.
• Xiao Yan settled beside Hun Miesheng’s quarters, rewarded Star Picking Old Ghost with an Eighth-grade Seven-Colored Pill Lightning Pill, and continued acting grief-stricken after Star Picking urged him not to despair.

Xiao Yan was appointed Great Elder of the Soul Clan and left the Soul Hall to visit the Yang Realm. There, he reunited with Chen Yang and the others, where Chen Yang jokingly claimed to be his father.

• Nihility Devouring Flame and Hun Tiandi appointed Xiao Yan the Soul Clan's Great Elder after observing his recovery and loyalty.
• Hun Qianmo brought Hun Tiandi's order to Xiao Yan, who assigned him to guard the Soul Hall and gave him a Seven Saint Pill and medicinal pills for the former Hall Master's descendants.
• Xiao Yan left the Soul Hall, collected Hai Bodong from the Earth Hall, visited the Pill Tower, and then returned to the Yang Realm.
• Chen Yang teased Xiao Yan about becoming the Soul Clan's Great Elder, and Xiao Yan rushed at him but was easily subdued.
• Xiao Yan greeted Medicine Elder, Xiao Xuan, and the others, then argued with Xiao Xuan about his standing in the Yang Realm.
• Chen Yang pressed a hand on Xiao Yan's shoulder and jokingly told him, "I'm your father."