Chapter Summaries

The Snake People Tribe settled in the Monster Mountain Range under Cai Lin’s new rules, while Jiang Cheng and Cai Lin grew closer. Back at Peach Forest Mountain, Yun Yun played a bamboo flute for Jiang Cheng and offered to share more music.

• Mora arranged a passage for the Snake People Tribe, and the tribe reached the Monster Mountain Range and began seeking homes under First Elder Sno’s orders.
• Cai Lin established rules forbidding the Snake People from harming or abducting others, requiring collective purchases, and demanding peace with the Magical Beasts; she also raised a protective barrier over the tribe.
• Cai Lin rested at Peach Forest Mountain while Jiang Cheng massaged her feet, and Yun Yun felt disappointed when she realized they were together.
• Zi Yan reassured Yun Yun that Jiang Cheng liked her too, and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King confirmed Zi Yan had helped bring Cai Lin and Jiang Cheng together.
• Yun Yun played a bamboo flute as Jiang Cheng admired the music and sent peach blossoms sweeping through Cloud Wandering Mountain.
• Yun Yun offered to play more instruments for Jiang Cheng, and he eagerly agreed.

Jiang Cheng prepared to leave the Northwest Continent for the Central Plains to seek resources and Heavenly Flames, while arranging to deal with Soul Hall’s renewed pursuit. At Peach Forest Mountain, he guided Xiao Yi Xian through refining a Poison Pill, and she broke through to four-star Dou Spirit after consuming it.

• Jiang Cheng told the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King that he planned to travel to the Central Plains after making arrangements, and learned that Soul Hall had sent a Dou Venerate toward the Northwest Continent.
• Jiang Cheng ordered the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to have Protector Wu notify him if Soul Hall made a move.
• Jiang Cheng guided Xiao Yi Xian as she refined a Poison Pill with the Netherworld Poison Flame, while Zi Yan watched from behind him.
• Xiao Yi Xian successfully refined a top-tier third-grade Poison Pill and ate it despite its foul taste.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed that she had advanced to four-star Dou Spirit and thanked Jiang Cheng by throwing herself into his arms.

Jiang Cheng prepared to leave for the Central Continent in search of Heavenly Flames, leaving Xiao Yi Xian and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King behind with books he had written for them. Before departing, he gave Yun Yun the Earth-tier Fighting Skill Three Thousand Sword Gang Shadows, adapted from the Misty Cloud Sect’s techniques.

• Jiang Cheng told Xiao Yi Xian he would leave for the Central Continent and refused her request to accompany him because the region was too dangerous.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King pledged to serve Jiang Cheng, who gave it and Xiao Yi Xian books he had written for them.
• Jiang Cheng watched Yun Yun practice swordsmanship and described a talented swordsman friend known as the Wine Sword Immortal.
• Jiang Cheng gave Yun Yun the Earth-tier Intermediate Fighting Skill Three Thousand Sword Gang Shadows, which he had improved from the Misty Cloud Sect’s techniques.

Yun Yun practiced an Earth-Tier sword technique while Saint Soul Qing arrived to hunt Jiang Cheng, believing him to be an injured Ban Sheng. At the Monster Mountain Range, Jiang Cheng revealed himself, making Saint Soul Qing realize something was wrong.

• Yun Yun practiced the sword technique her teacher had given her, carving trenches into the ground before resting and repairing the damage.
• Saint Soul Qing appeared before Protector Wu and demanded to know how strong Jiang Cheng was.
• Protector Wu said Jiang Cheng was likely a Ban Sheng and claimed he was injured and preparing to leave the Northwest Continent.
• Saint Soul Qing spared Protector Wu, promised to make him a Venerate if they killed Jiang Cheng, and took him to the Monster Mountain Range.
• Saint Soul Qing could not sense Jiang Cheng until Jiang Cheng appeared and identified himself, causing Saint Soul Qing to retreat in alarm.

Jiang Cheng revealed his Four-Star Dou Saint strength and defeated Saint Soul Qing in the Monster Mountain Range. After crippling him with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, Jiang Cheng identified himself as the Confucian Sage and killed him.

• Saint Soul Qing discovered Jiang Cheng's true strength and threatened him on behalf of the Soul Hall, while Wu Ying disappeared.
• Jiang Cheng shattered Saint Soul Qing's black Dou Qi and evaded his attacks as experts across the Northwest Continent sensed their battle.
• Jiang Cheng struck Saint Soul Qing with his fan, breaking through his defenses and sending him crashing to the ground.
• Jiang Cheng attacked with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and a powerful punch, crippling Saint Soul Qing.
• Jiang Cheng declared himself the Confucian Sage, recalled the Demon Fire Plain Branch Hall's attempt to kill him, and beheaded Saint Soul Qing.
• Protector Wu returned and, seeing Saint Soul Qing dead, let out a long breath.

After killing Saint Soul Qing, Jiang Cheng ordered Protector Wu to conceal the incident and prepared for Soul Hall retaliation. He then left for the Central Continent to seek Heavenly Flames, arriving at Starfall Pavilion to visit Yao Chen.

• Jiang Cheng stored Saint Soul Qing's body and told Protector Wu to act as if the killing had never happened while remaining at Misty Cloud Sect.
• Jiang Cheng warned Hai Bodong and the others to stay at Peach Forest Mountain, where Hai Bodong prepared to enter seclusion and pursue a breakthrough to Dou Zong.
• Jiang Cheng refused Cai Lin's request to accompany him and promised Yun Yun and Queen Medusa he would return within a year.
• Jiang Cheng set out for Sacred Pill City in the Central Continent, crossing the border and traveling through the Central Plains.
• Jiang Cheng reached the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, where Starfall Pavilion stood, intending to visit Yao Chen.

Jiang Cheng arrived at Starfall Pavilion and reunited with Wind Venerate Feng Xian, who introduced him to Mu Qingluan and Lin Mu. The chapter ended with Feng Xian stunned after Jiang Cheng revealed he was a Four-Star Dou Saint and Ninth-Grade Alchemist.

• Mu Qingluan and Lin Mu spotted Jiang Cheng entering Starfall Pavilion territory, and Mu Qingluan flew over to question him.
• Jiang Cheng asked whether Wind Venerate was at Starfall Pavilion and continued toward the pavilion despite Mu Qingluan’s warning.
• Mu Qingluan reported the visitor to her teacher, and Feng Xian arrived to investigate.
• Feng Xian recognized Jiang Cheng as an old friend and embraced him, then introduced him to Mu Qingluan and Lin Mu as the Academy Confucian Sage.
• Jiang Cheng revealed that he had reached the Four-Star Dou Saint realm and was a Ninth-Grade Alchemist, leaving Feng Xian stunned.

Jiang Cheng visited Starfall Pavilion, where Feng Xian learned that Yao Chen was alive in the Northwest Continent as a Soul Body. Jiang Cheng then prepared to leave for Sacred Pill City, and Feng Xian urged him to refine some pills before going.

• Feng Xian and Mu Qingluan were astonished to learn that Jiang Cheng was a Four-Star Dou Saint and a Ninth-Grade Alchemist.
• Feng Xian teased Jiang Cheng about finding a partner, while Mu Qingluan blushed and wondered whether he meant her.
• Jiang Cheng told Feng Xian he planned to go to Sacred Pill City, and Feng Xian warned that a woman there might want to throw him into an alchemy furnace.
• Feng Xian introduced Jiang Cheng as the Academy Confucian Sage to Starfall Pavilion's elders, who greeted him with respect.
• Jiang Cheng told Feng Xian that Yao Chen was alive in the Northwest Continent but existed only as a Soul Body.
• Jiang Cheng invited Feng Xian to accompany him to Sacred Pill City, and when Feng Xian asked him to refine pills first, Jiang Cheng placed several pills on the table.

Jiang Cheng gave Mu Qingluan a Charm Fragrance Pill and told Feng Xian that he planned to enter the Star Domain. He and Feng Xian reached Sacred Pill City, where Jiang Cheng probed the Star Domain and drew a furious rebuke from within.

• Feng Xian invited Mu Qingluan to request a pill, and Jiang Cheng gave her a sixth-tier Charm Fragrance Pill.
• After the Elders and Mu Qingluan left, Feng Xian warned Jiang Cheng that Soul Hall might mobilize against him in the Central Plains.
• Jiang Cheng told Feng Xian he wanted to enter the Star Domain and asked him to accompany him to Sacred Pill City.
• The next morning, Jiang Cheng and Feng Xian traveled to Sacred Pill City, where Jiang Cheng sensed that the Three Thousand Burning Flame had grown violent.
• Jiang Cheng sent his soul into the Star Domain, and an unseen voice shouted at him for spying on Pill City's domain.

Jiang Cheng’s return to Sacred Pill City stirred the experts guarding Three Thousand Burning Flame, while Xuan Yi sensed his Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame through the Child Flame he had given her. She confronted him in private, where he insisted their past connection had only been about discussing alchemy.

• Jiang Cheng sensed experts hidden in the Star Domain and withdrew his Soul Power, while the Inner Domain’s experts debated the identity and threat of the intruder.
• Xuan Yi’s Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame Child Flame reacted, leading her to suspect Jiang Cheng had returned for Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xuan Yi left Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi to investigate, while Jiang Cheng realized she had sensed his main flame through their connection.
• Jiang Cheng told Feng Xian that Xuan Yi had arrived, and Feng Xian tried to flee before she kicked in the door and threw him outside.
• Xuan Yi pulled Jiang Cheng into a garden and said he had finally come back; Jiang Cheng replied that they had only discussed alchemy together.

Jiang Cheng reunited with Xuan Yi in Sacred Pill City and learned that the Pill Tower Elder Court had to approve any transfer of Three Thousand Burning Flame. He decided to seek the Elders’ support so he could obtain the flame.

• Xuan Yi confronted Jiang Cheng and teased him about their reunion, while Jiang Cheng explained that he had left before because he had other matters to handle.
• Jiang Cheng and Xuan Yi reminisced together, and she revealed that she had reached the peak of the Nine-revolution Dou Venerate realm but feared she could not break through to Ban Sheng.
• Xuan Yi asked whether Jiang Cheng had sent Soul Power into the Star Domain, and he admitted that he wanted Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xuan Yi explained that the Pill Tower Elder Court had to approve giving up Three Thousand Burning Flame, even if the Three Giants agreed.
• Jiang Cheng resolved to meet the Elders and persuade them to let him take Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Jiang Cheng met with the Alchemy Tower’s leaders to seek the Three Thousand Burning Flame and was brought before the First Elder, Old Monster Lin. After learning Jiang Cheng was a Four-Star Dou Saint who had killed a Soul Hall Dou Saint, the gathered Elders reacted with shock.

• Jiang Cheng and Xuan Yi drank through the night, and Xuan Yi passed out before they could visit the Elderly Court.
• Jiang Cheng encountered Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi, revealed he was a Four-Star Dou Saint, and went with them to speak privately.
• Jiang Cheng told Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi that he had come for the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Star Domain.
• Xuan Kongzi sent Tian Lei Zi to summon the First Elder and the other Elders of the Alchemy Tower.
• Old Monster Lin met Jiang Cheng and recognized him as the man who had killed a Soul Hall Dou Saint, shocking Xuan Kongzi, Tian Lei Zi, and the assembled Elders.

Jiang Cheng negotiated with Lin Tian Qiong for the Three Thousand Burning Flame and agreed to become an honorary elder of Sacred Pill City. Afterward, Xuan Yi kissed him and proposed marriage, brushing aside his complicated relationships.

• Jiang Cheng asked Lin Tian Qiong to give him the Three Thousand Burning Flame in exchange for anything he wanted.
• Lin Tian Qiong offered the flame for nothing if Jiang Cheng became an honorary elder of Sacred Pill City, and Jiang Cheng accepted.
• Xuan Kongzi warned Jiang Cheng that Lin Tian Qiong likely wanted his help against the Soul Hall, but Jiang Cheng acknowledged the danger without concern.
• Jiang Cheng went to see Xuan Yi, who joked that he had entered her room three times and used up his chances to avoid marrying her.
• Xuan Yi kissed Jiang Cheng and asked him to marry her, then dismissed his concerns about his other romantic entanglements.

Jiang Cheng reunited with Xuan Yi and gave her a Ninth-Grade Bodhi Great Returning Pill to help her advance to the Ban Sheng Realm. The next day, he learned that the entrance to the Star Domain would open in three days, where the Three Thousand Burning Flame was sealed.

• Xuan Yi revealed that she had waited years for Jiang Cheng, and they spent the night together beneath a maple tree.
• Jiang Cheng gave Xuan Yi a Ninth-Grade Bodhi Great Returning Pill, which offered a fifty percent chance of breaking through to the Ban Sheng Realm.
• The next morning, Wind Venerate Feng Xian warned Jiang Cheng that hostile auras had entered Sacred Pill City and urged him to be careful.
• Jiang Cheng dismissed the warning and spent the morning reading while Xuan Yi was away.
• Xuan Yi returned at noon and told Jiang Cheng that Xuan Kongzi and the others would open the entrance to the Star Domain in three days.

Jiang Cheng entered the Star Domain to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame before it could threaten Sacred Pill City or fall into the Soul Hall's hands. He found its sleeping Origin Flame and shattered its seal, leaving Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Old Monster Lin wondering how he would control the Heavenly Flame.

• Xuan Yi warned Jiang Cheng that the Soul Hall had become involved in the search for Three Thousand Burning Flame, and he promised to handle it and take her home afterward.
• Three days later, the Pill Tower Three Giants and the Elderly Court gathered as Xuan Kongzi explained the Star Domain's seal and its dangers to Jiang Cheng.
• Jiang Cheng entered the Star Domain alone while Wind Venerate Feng Xian stayed outside, and he summoned the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to withstand the heat.
• Jiang Cheng followed Three Thousand Burning Flame's aura and found its enormous dragon form asleep, with its Origin Flame contained within a seal.
• Jiang Cheng shattered the seal, prompting Xuan Kongzi to worry about a backlash while Xuan Yi and Old Monster Lin expressed confidence in him.

Jiang Cheng tried to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, but a Soul Hall force entered the Star Domain and demanded that he join them. After Jiang Cheng refused, Hun Yin ordered his men to seize the Heavenly Flame.

• The Three Thousand Burning Flame attacked Jiang Cheng, who offered to take it out of the Star Domain if it submitted.
• Jiang Cheng revealed the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and threatened to burn the Star Domain, but the Three Thousand Burning Flame still resisted.
• A Soul Hall Dou Venerate appeared and used a Space Jade Slip to summon Hun Yin and the Hall of Souls Great Heavenly Venerate.
• Hun Yin invited Jiang Cheng to join the Soul Hall, but Jiang Cheng refused and declared that they were mortal enemies.
• Hun Yin ordered the Great Heavenly Venerate and the Dou Venerate to capture the Three Thousand Burning Flame, which fought back furiously.

Jiang Cheng broke Hun Yin’s Heavenly Soul Devouring Array and faced the Soul Hall experts’ combined attack as they unleashed their Life Soul Locks. The chapter ended with Hun Yin stunned to see Jiang Cheng draw a Heaven Tier Weapon.

• Hun Yin trapped Jiang Cheng in the Heavenly Soul Devouring Array, but Jiang Cheng shattered its Black Tortoise Position with a single sword strike.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate returned after suppressing Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Hun Yin identified Jiang Cheng as a threat with Heaven Realm Soul power.
• Hun Yin ordered the three Soul Hall experts to summon their Life Soul Locks and attack Jiang Cheng together.
• Old Monster Lin and the Small Pill Tower Elders reinforced the Pill Tower Three Giants to keep the unstable Star Domain from collapsing.
• Jiang Cheng summoned a silver-white sword from his Storage Ring, and Hun Yin recognized it as a Heaven Tier Weapon.

Jiang Cheng defeated the Hall of Souls pursuers and persuaded the Three Thousand Burning Flame to become his Heavenly Flame without losing its memories. After refining it for a month, he advanced the Flame Mantra and remained a Four-Star Dou Saint, halfway to the next realm.

• Jiang Cheng killed the Great Heavenly Venerate, crippled Hun Yin, and burned the Hall of Souls Vice Hall Master to ashes.
• Jiang Cheng broke the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s chains and offered it a chance to live as his Heavenly Flame.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame agreed on the condition that Jiang Cheng preserve its memories, and Jiang Cheng swallowed it to refine it through the Flame Mantra.
• Xuan Yi and Wind Venerate Feng Xian waited outside the Star Domain while Jiang Cheng spent a month absorbing the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Jiang Cheng emerged from the refinement with the Flame Mantra advanced to Heaven Tier Intermediate Level and his realm still at Four-Star Dou Saint.

After leaving the Star Domain with the Three Thousand Burning Flame subdued, Jiang Cheng learned that Soul Hall was mobilizing its forces over the Vice Hall Master's death. He accepted the Alchemy Tower's honorary First Elder position and received a Ninth-Grade Alchemist Badge as Soul Hall's threat loomed.

• Hun Miesheng learned that Hun Yin and the Great Heavenly Venerate had died, ordered Soul Hall's Experts to investigate, and sent them out to find those responsible.
• Jiang Cheng emerged from the Star Domain and learned from Feng Xian that Soul Hall had gathered its scattered Experts across the continent.
• Xuan Yi rushed to Jiang Cheng, embraced him, and bit his shoulder before he comforted her and she went home to wait for him.
• Jiang Cheng told Old Monster Lin and the Pill Tower Elders that he had subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame and killed Soul Hall's Vice Hall Master inside the Star Domain.
• Jiang Cheng agreed to become Alchemy Tower's honorary First Elder, and Old Monster Lin gave him a Ninth-Grade Alchemist Badge.

Jiang Cheng left Sacred Pill City with Xuan Yi as the Soul Hall mobilized to pursue him. Hun Miesheng confronted Old Monster Lin in the city, but Yan Jin and Shi Heng arrived before the two sides could clash.

• Jiang Cheng invited Xuan Yi to travel with him, and she accepted while Old Monster Lin urged her to advance her alchemy.
• Feng Xian stayed behind to protect Starfall Pavilion and asked Jiang Cheng to pass along a message to Yao Chen if they met.
• Jiang Cheng took Xuan Yi and departed Sacred Pill City, while Old Monster Lin summoned Yan Jin and Shi Hao to help guard against the Soul Hall.
• Hun Miesheng arrived with Soul Hall Experts and accused Old Monster Lin of killing the Vice Hall Master and Great Heavenly Venerate.
• Hun Miesheng threatened to destroy Sacred Pill City's Inner Domain, then killed a Dou Ancestor who insulted the arriving Yan Jin and Shi Heng.