Chapter Summaries

Chen Yang explained the Soul Clan’s plan to gather Origin Qi and warned that Hun Tiandi’s rise could devastate the continent, while Xiao Yan vowed to stop them. A report of unusual activity in the Void Thunder Pool revealed that the Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon Chen Yang had encountered was about to take shape, so the group set out to meet it.

• Chen Yang teased Xiao Yan until Xiao Yan was beaten into becoming a grandson, then the group discussed the Soul Clan’s plans and the danger they posed to the Dou Qi Continent.
• Chen Yang said Hun Tiandi might become a Dou Di by sacrificing countless lives, which could deter the Outer Realm Evil Clan from invading.
• Xiao Yan insisted that they could not let the Soul Clan carry out its plan now that they knew about it, and Chen Yang agreed to keep watch.
• Zhuo Huo reported unusual activity in the Void Thunder Pool to Zi Yan, who relayed the news to Chen Yang.
• Chen Yang recalled that he and Xiao Yan had encountered the Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon there ten years earlier and predicted it was about to take shape.
• Chen Yang, Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and the others headed to the Void Thunder Pool to enlighten the Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon.

Chen Yang helped the Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon gather its spirit in the Void Thunder Pool by refining Ninth-grade Golden Pills. After three months, the dragon took human form and greeted him as its master.

• Chen Yang, Xiao Yan, and their companions entered the Void Thunder Pool, where Zhu Huo explained the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s claim over the territory.
• The Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon began gathering its spirit, but the backlash threatened to weaken it severely.
• Chen Yang summoned the Azure Emperor Cauldron and refined Ninth-grade Golden Pills, drawing Nine Profound Golden Lightning into the pool to ease the dragon’s burden.
• Over the next three months, Chen Yang continued supplying lightning while the dragon’s strength grew, then let it digest the power on its own.
• The Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon emerged as a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, shrank into a golden-haired little girl, and greeted Chen Yang as its master.

Chen Yang named Zhu Xuan and arranged for the Lei Clan and Yang Realm to cooperate over the Void Thunder Pool while he trained Xiao Yan in alchemy. After half a year, Xiao Yan successfully refined a Ninth-grade Golden Pill.

• Chen Yang named the Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon Zhu Xuan, and Zi Yan agreed to admit her to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan as a Grand Elder.
• Chen Yang returned to the Yang Realm, where Xun Er contacted Gu Yuan and Chen Yang began teaching Xiao Yan alchemy.
• Lei Ying scolded Lei Dong for resenting Xiao Yan’s marriage to Gu Xun’er, then agreed to cooperate with Chen Yang over the Void Thunder Pool.
• Lei Ying brought Secret Arts and medicinal materials to the Yang Realm, and Chen Yang entrusted the cooperation to Elder Zhuo Huo and Ya Fei.
• After half a year of Chen Yang’s guidance, Xiao Yan refined a Ninth-grade Golden Pill.

Chen Yang watched Xiao Yan successfully refine a Ninth-grade Golden Pill, then used his new Emperor Grade Alchemist knowledge to plan how to help his allies become Dou Di. He harvested Origin Qi through a weakened Realm Barrier, caught an Outer Realm Evil Clan avatar probing the passage, and began refining Di Grade Pills.

• Xiao Yan used Hun Miesheng, refined into a Heavenly Soldier puppet, to block the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and complete his Ninth-grade Golden Pill.
• Xiao Yan turned the pill into its round form, stored it, and left to tell Medicine Elder of his success.
• Chen Yang examined the Emperor Grade Alchemy Technique and planned to help his faction advance to Dou Di before confronting Tou She Ancient God.
• Chen Yang cut through the Realm Barrier with the Rainbow Sword, gathered a hundred wisps of Origin Qi, and let the barrier heal.
• An Outer Realm Evil Clan avatar appeared and detonated a Nuclear Boy, but Chen Yang drove it away and added another Nuclear Boy to the defenses.
• Chen Yang returned to the pill-refining site and began refining Di Grade Pills.

Chen Yang refined the Emperor Sealing Pill, which could help a Peak Nine-star Dou Sheng break through to Dou Di, and planned to give it to Zhu Kun. At a gathering celebrating Xiao Yan’s achievement as a Ninth-grade Golden Pill Alchemist, Chen Yang hinted that he had advanced beyond him, leaving Xiao Yan stunned by the possibility that Chen Yang was an Emperor Grade Alchemist.

• Chen Yang completed his first Di Grade Pill, the Emperor Sealing Pill, and decided to give it to Zhu Kun.
• Chen Yang visited Easter Island and watched Yao Tian, Huo Xuan, Gu Qingyang, Huo Zhi, and Lei Dong endure the Void Thunder Pool to refine Lightning Tribulation Pills.
• Chen Yang arrived at Taiji Hall, where Xiao Yan and their companions had gathered to celebrate Xiao Yan becoming a Ninth-grade Golden Pill Alchemist.
• When Xiao Yan claimed there were two Ninth-grade Golden Pill Alchemists, Chen Yang insisted Xiao Yan was the only one.
• Qing Lin asked whether Chen Yang had become an Emperor Grade Alchemist, and Xiao Yan realized what Chen Yang’s remark implied.

Chen Yang revealed that his Emperor Sealing Pill could guarantee a Peak Nine-star Dou Saint’s breakthrough to Dou Di, then promised to teach Xiao Yan and assigned him pill-refining work. The chapter ended with Chen Yang discovering that Xiao Yi Xian was pregnant and celebrating that he would be a father again.

• Chen Yang gave Xiao Yan the Emperor Sealing Pill, and Zhu Kun and Medicine Elder recognized its Di Grade aura.
• Chen Yang explained that the pill guaranteed a Peak Nine-star Dou Saint’s breakthrough to Dou Di and urged everyone to reach that level.
• Xiao Yan joked and pleaded for Chen Yang to teach him; Chen Yang told him to become a Dou Di first and gave him Ninth-grade Golden Pill recipes to refine.
• Chen Yang and Xiao Yi Xian woke up days later, and Xiao Yi Xian began dry-heaving during breakfast.
• Chen Yang checked Xiao Yi Xian’s pulse and discovered that she was pregnant, then joyfully announced that he would be a father again.

Xiao Yi Xian learned she was pregnant, and Chen Yang reassured her that the baby was healthy and urged her to keep cultivating. After the news spread among their household, Zi Yan demanded that Chen Yang have a Dragon Phoenix child with her too, and he carried her away.

• Xiao Yi Xian panicked over whether the poisonous pills she had taken would harm her unborn child, and Chen Yang used his Piercing Gold Eyes to confirm the baby was healthy.
• Chen Yang told Xiao Yi Xian that their child might inherit his Nine Yang Divine Physique, her Woeful Poison Body, and the Dou Di Bloodline, and Xiao Yi Xian decided to take fewer Poison Pills.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Yun Yun she was pregnant, and Yun Yun congratulated her before the two women teased each other about Chen Yang.
• News of Xiao Yi Xian's pregnancy spread among a small circle in the Yang Realm.
• Zi Yan emerged from cultivation with her Soul Realm at Heaven Realm Grand Perfection and demanded that Chen Yang have a Dragon Phoenix child with her.
• Chen Yang agreed to Zi Yan's request, scooped her up, and vanished with her.

Xiao Yan returned to the Soul Clan after declining the Yao Clan’s invitation to the Medicine Canon, which he expected to become a contest between the Soul Clan and Yang Realm. There, he learned the Soul Clan had already destroyed the Stone Clan and regretted not being present to reduce their casualties.

• Chen Yang discovered Xiao Yi Xian was expecting a boy, and she asked to have a daughter with him next.
• The Yao Clan invited Chen Yang and Xiao Yan to the Medicine Canon, but Xiao Yan declined while planning to return to the Soul Clan and gather information.
• Chen Yang and Xiao Yan recognized that the Medicine Canon would largely pit the Soul Clan against the Yang Realm, with Hun Xuzi facing Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Soul Hall Headquarters and thanked Hun Qianmo for overseeing the Soul Hall.
• Hun Qianmo told Xiao Yan that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Stone Clan half a month earlier, and Xiao Yan regretted not being there to prevent more Soul Clan deaths.

After returning to the Soul Clan, Xiao Yan ordered compensation for the Soul Clan and Soul Hall casualties from the Stone Clan Destruction War, winning Hun Xuzi’s support despite the clan’s old customs. He and Hun Xuzi then agreed to attend the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon and challenge Chen Yang.

• Xiao Yan told Hun Qianmo to tally Soul Clan casualties and arrange compensation, while Hai Bodong and Star Picking Old Ghost assessed Soul Hall’s losses.
• Hun Qianmo met Hun Xuzi and told him that Xiao Yan had returned and wanted to see him.
• Xiao Yan explained his plan to compensate the fallen fighters and support their families, and Hun Xuzi agreed to help him change the clan’s customs.
• Hun Xuzi told Xiao Yan that the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon was approaching and warned that Chen Yang was a Ninth-grade Golden Pill Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan said he was eighty percent confident he could refine a Ninth-grade Golden Pill, and he and Hun Xuzi agreed to attend the Medicine Canon and challenge Chen Yang.

Xiao Yan strengthened his standing in the Soul Clan while preparing to challenge Chen Yang at the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon, where Hun Tiandi planned to attack the Yao Clan and seize its Tou She Ancient God Jade. The Medicine Canon began with a vast crowd of powerful guests, as Chen Yang arrived at the gathering.

• Xiao Yan and Hun Xuzi submitted the list of fallen Soul Clan warriors, and Xiao Yan won goodwill by urging the clan to support their families.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Xuzi refined thousands of pills, including restorative Grade 8 Pills for the maimed, earning their loyalty before the Medicine Canon.
• Chen Yang and the Yang Realm’s alchemists planned for the Medicine Canon, anticipating that Hun Tiandi might attack the Yao Clan and target Chen Yang.
• Hun Tiandi praised Xiao Yan’s handling of compensation and revealed his plan to wipe out the Yao Clan and top alchemists, then seize the clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Yan told Chen Yang about Hun Tiandi’s plan, and Chen Yang reassured him.
• The Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon opened, drawing numerous powerful visitors, and Chen Yang arrived with Zi Yan.

Chen Yang and Yao Dan opened the Medicine Canon with alchemists from across the continent in attendance, while Xiao Yan, disguised as Yan Xiao, arrived with Hun Xuzi and challenged Chen Yang to an alchemy contest. The contest was scheduled to follow the youth prelude, which began with a Saint-Entering Pill offered as its prize.

• Fire Cloud Old Ancestor and other major figures arrived, and Chen Yang asked them to respect the Yao Clan as host.
• Chen Yang's young alchemists, including Cao Ying, Ye Xinlan, Yao Ye, and Liu Ling, gathered for the Medicine Canon prelude, impressing Yao Dan with the Yang Realm's talent.
• Hun Xuzi and Xiao Yan, disguised as Yan Xiao, arrived uninvited; Xiao Yan privately warned Chen Yang that Hun Tiandi, Nihility Devouring Flame, and four eight-star Dou Sheng were waiting to capture the alchemists.
• Chen Yang provoked Xiao Yan into agreeing to an alchemy contest, and Yao Dan announced three rounds of exchanges, ending with the two men competing.
• Yao Wan Huo began the Medicine Canon prelude, and Yao Xingji, Gu He, Liu Ling, and other alchemists entered the arena to compete for the Saint-Entering Pill.

Chen Yang defended Xiao Yan against Hun Xuzi’s mockery as Gu He won the Medicine Canon prelude. Before the ninth-grade treasure pill competition began, Chen Yang announced that Yang Realm alchemists would forgo the prizes, leaving the other contestants to compete for them.

• Chen Yang praised Gu He’s alchemy, and Hun Xuzi mocked Xiao Yan for being absent from the prelude.
• Chen Yang slapped Hun Xuzi from a distance and warned him not to provoke him, while Xiao Yan changed the subject with compliments.
• Yao Dan announced the prelude results, and Gu He won after refining a pill that summoned eighth-grade nine-colored pill lightning.
• Yao Wan Huo announced the ninth-grade treasure pill competition and its ninth-grade golden pill prize, sponsored by Chen Yang.
• Chen Yang said Yang Realm alchemists would not compete for any prizes, prompting the other alchemists to thank him and promise to heed his advice.

The grand ceremony’s ninth-grade alchemist competition began as Hun Tiandi assessed the threat posed by Chen Mo and revised his plans against the Xiao Clan. Xiao Yan revealed that Soul Devouring Flame had given him a new mission, and Chen Mo explained that his display of strength had prompted the change.

• Cao Ying, Ling Qingzhu, Xiao Yi Xian, and Medusa talked while the ninth-grade alchemist competitors gathered for the grand ceremony.
• Chen Mo began supplying spiritual energy to the pill realm so the competitors’ pills could mature.
• Hun Tiandi decided to obtain the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Emperor’s Jade during an attack and ordered Soul Devouring Flame to seize it from the Xiao Clan Chief.
• Soul Devouring Flame secretly told Xiao Yan to capture the Xiao Clan Chief and take the jade while the Hun Clan acted.
• Xiao Yan relayed the changed plan to Chen Mo, who said he had displayed his nine-star Dou Saint strength to force Hun Tiandi to alter his strategy.

Chen Mo organized alliances and recruited alchemists after the ninth-rank Treasure Pill Refining Conference. The Green Scale Hermit refused his offer, but Ling Qingzhu promised to recruit him, while Chen Mo and Ling Qingzhu considered what to do about four rejected alchemists who might join the Hun Clan.

• Chen Mo contacted allied ancient clan leaders and reviewed their strength, resources, and support against the Hun Clan.
• Xuan Yi won the alchemist competition, but Chen Mo awarded the ninth-rank Mysterious Pill to the Green Scale Hermit as the eligible male champion.
• Chen Mo invited the Green Scale Hermit to join Netherworld, but the alchemist declined because he disliked restraints.
• Ling Qingzhu told Chen Mo she would persuade the Green Scale Hermit to join, and Chen Mo warned her not to cause trouble.
• Seven other ninth-rank master alchemists offered to join Netherworld, but Chen Mo accepted only three and rejected four.
• Ling Qingzhu proposed turning the four rejected alchemists into puppets if they looked to join the Hun Clan, and Chen Mo praised her as a genius.

Chen Mo oversaw the ninth-tier mysterious pill competition, where five refiners, including Ling Qingzhu and Yan Jing, took the stage. As the Pill Ceremony reached its final showdown between Chen Mo and Xiao Yan, Chen Mo warned Xiao Yan that Hun Xuzi was making his move, and a voice urged Xiao Yan to seize Yao Dan.

• Hun Xuzi proposed that the refiners wager prizes, but Chen Mo refused and made Hun Xuzi's ring the wager instead.
• Chen Mo introduced Yan Jing as his disciple and warned that anyone who used underhanded methods would face his subordinates.
• Ling Qingzhu began refining with a flame seed of the Supreme Nether True Flame, while Chen Mo replenished energy for the five refiners.
• Yan Jing became the first to successfully refine a ninth-tier mysterious pill, and Hun Xuzi privately plotted to capture the others after the competition.
• As Xiao Yan asked Chen Mo for a proper match, Chen Mo warned him that Hun Xuzi was making his move, and a voice in Xiao Yan's mind told him to seize Yao Dan.

Hun Tiandi and Xiao Yan seized Zhuri Dan and Zhuri Huo, then brought Hun Clan forces to the Zhuri Realm and demanded that its guests surrender or die. Hun Tiandi offered Chen Mo a vice clan leader position, but Chen Mo warned that Hun Tiandi had exposed a trump card; Hun Tiandi hinted that the reveal might have been deliberate, leaving Chen Mo alarmed.

• Xiao Yan captured Zhuri Dan with the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame, while Hun Xuzi restrained Zhuri Huo with a sub-flame of the Soul Devouring Flame.
• Hun Tiandi arrived with the Soul Devouring Flame and summoned countless Hun Clan experts to surround the Zhuri Realm.
• Xiao Yan invited the Zhuri Clan’s guests to join the Hun Clan, and several thousand people accepted.
• Xiao Yan offered Chen Mo the position of Zhuri Clan Great Elder, and Hun Tiandi promised him the rank of vice clan leader if he joined the Hun Clan.
• Chen Mo refused and warned Hun Tiandi that he had foolishly revealed his trump card, but Hun Tiandi suggested that the revelation might have been intentional.

Chen Mo’s plan to hide the Flame clan in the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s Supreme Sea was disrupted when the Hun Clan tricked Yan Jin into surrendering the Flame clan’s Ancient Emperor’s Tuoshe Jade. As the staged battle ended and Hun Tiandi moved to seize the people below, two figures emerged from a tear in space, and he froze upon seeing Xun’er alive.

• Chen Mo’s arrangement moved the Flame clan members into the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s Supreme Sea, where the Flame Emperor assured them they would be safe and provided for.
• The Hun Clan’s illusion fooled Chen Mo and Yan Jin, allowing the disguised Flame Emperor to take the Flame clan’s Ancient Emperor’s Tuoshe Jade.
• Chen Mo teleported Yan Jin away, and Yan Jin summoned the Flame Emperor’s remnant soul to help defend the clan.
• Hun Tiandi fought the Flame Emperor’s remnant soul while Soul Devouring Flame and the Flame Emperor attacked Chen Mo, and the Hun Clan nearly finished its cleanup below.
• As Hun Tiandi reached to seize the people below, two figures emerged from a tear in the Flame Realm’s space, and Hun Tiandi recognized Xun’er and exclaimed that she was not dead.

Chen Mo’s plan fooled Hun Tiandi into believing he had secured all the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s Jade, allowing the clans to survive and forcing Hun Tiandi to retreat. Gu Yuan and the others learned Chen Mo had arranged the deception, while the rescued clans remained hidden until Hun Tiandi was defeated.

• Xiao Xuan taunted Hun Tiandi, who withdrew after the Xiao Clan’s inheritance and jade became his focus.
• Chen Mo told Gu Yuan that Hun Tiandi had lured him away to seize the clans’ jade, and Gu Yuan and Yan Jin threatened Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that his clan had gathered every piece of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s Jade and escaped with the Hun Clan using a secret formation.
• Yan Jin’s severed hand regrew, Yao Dan recovered, and Yan Jin explained that the Yao Clan members were alive in the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s space.
• Xiao Xuan told Lei Ying that Chen Mo, a Dou Di, had arranged the plan that deceived Hun Tiandi and Xiao Yan.

Hun Tiandi celebrated the Hun Clan's recovery of most of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jades and planned to seize the Ancient Clan's jade by capturing Gu Yan. In the Netherworld, Chen Mo prepared to support Gu Yan's operation as Hun Xu Zi headed to the Ancient Realm to take the Green Scale Hermit's tier-nine Golden Pill.

• Hun Tiandi praised the Hun Clan's successful operation, ordered rewards distributed, and discussed capturing Gu Yan to obtain the Ancient Clan's Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade.
• Chen Mo revealed his Dou Di strength to Lei Ying, proposed that the Ancient Clan and Netherworld Alliance destroy the Hun Clan together, and moved the Ancient Clan's people and estate to the Netherworld.
• Soul Flame asked Hun Xu Zi about a tier-nine Golden Pill, and Hun Xu Zi identified the Green Scale Hermit as its possessor before leaving with law-enforcement elders for the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yan secretly told Chen Mo that the operation had begun and asked him to locate her, retrieve the Green Scale Hermit, and ideally send someone to impersonate her.

Green Scaled Hermit secretly left a ninth-tier Golden Pill in Liu Yi’s sleeve, causing alarm when the pill was discovered in the Netherworld. On his way home, Soul Spiderling confronted Green Scaled Hermit and attacked him for the pill.

• Green Scaled Hermit returned from the Flame Realm after secretly leaving his ninth-tier Golden Pill in a jade bottle in Liu Yi’s sleeve.
• Liu Yi discovered the bottle in the medicinal pavilion, and the pill transformed into a girl before Medicine Elder identified it as a Soul-Nurturing Pill.
• Liu Yi explained that the bottle had appeared in his sleeve, while the Divine Herb Elder recounted what had happened at the medicinal gathering.
• Green Scaled Hermit wondered whether his action would cause trouble for Liu Yi, then continued toward home.
• Soul Spiderling blocked Green Scaled Hermit in a mountain valley and demanded the ninth-tier Golden Pill.
• Green Scaled Hermit refused to surrender and summoned a spear, so Soul Spiderling lunged at him.