Chapter Summaries

After destroying the Yellow Springs Pavilion, Tang Dongfeng returned to the ruins to discuss reviving Gu Yue with the system. He settled on rebuilding her body with a Void Ancient Dragon bloodline and improved bloodline purity, then began upgrading his cultivation method.

• Tang Dongfeng took Yellow Springs Venerable’s storage ring and remains, then left the Yellow Springs Mountain Range as experts from the other pavilions arrived to investigate the destruction.
• Elder Lei, Elder Jian, and Elder Feng concluded that a powerful user of Heavenly Flames had destroyed the Yellow Springs Pavilion, and Elder Feng pursued Tang Dongfeng’s spatial trail.
• Tang Dongfeng evaded Elder Feng by looping back to the Yellow Springs Mountain Range, where he checked his rewards and learned he had gained 2.39 million Points.
• Tang Dongfeng asked the system about reviving Gu Yue and chose to exchange Yellow Springs Venerable’s remains for a Void Ancient Dragon body and pay to purify her bloodline, bringing the cost to 1.7 million Points.
• Tang Dongfeng spent 100,000 Points to improve the Earth-tier low-grade Heaven's Mandate Art.

Tang Dongfeng used his remaining Points to create a Nirvana Egg for Gu Yue, then cultivated the Yellow Springs Corpse Decay Art while a clone guarded them. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan learned that Nalan Jie needed a Heavenly Flame to cure his Branding Poison and found a soul-restoring herb that Yao Lao wanted.

• Tang Dongfeng spent his remaining Points to create a Nirvana Egg and guided Gu Yue inside so she could reshape her body.
• Tang Dongfeng converted his divine sense into soul power, reached the low-grade Spirit Realm, and began cultivating the Yellow Springs Corpse Decay Art using life force from nearby trees.
• Gu Yue continued reshaping her body while Tang Dongfeng's Dou Zong clone and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python stayed nearby in the Yellow Springs Mountain Range.
• In the Jia Ma Empire, Xiao Yan, Hai Bodong, and Tang Dongfeng's clone overheard Ya Fei and Nalan Yanran discuss Nalan Jie's Branding Poison and the need for an alchemist with Heavenly Flames.
• Ya Fei gave Xiao Yan a list of treasures, and Yao Lao urged him to obtain the Seven-colored Phantom Spirit Saliva to restore his soul power.

Xiao Yan agreed to enter the Jia Ma Empire Alchemist Tournament in exchange for Tang Dongfeng treating Nalan Jie’s Branding Poison and obtaining a Spirit Melting Pill. Tang Dongfeng’s clone arrived at the Nalan residence and insulted the gathered alchemists after they dismissed him, leaving a confrontation brewing.

• Xiao Yan asked Tang Dongfeng to help Nalan Jie, and Tang Dongfeng offered to do so if Xiao Yan won the Alchemist Tournament and obtained a Spirit Melting Pill.
• Xiao Yan agreed to compete but refused to visit Nalan Yanran, while Tang Dongfeng remarked that she would not be worthy of him in the future.
• Yao Chen recognized that the Tang Dongfeng traveling with Xiao Yan was a clone, and Xiao Yan learned that Tang Dongfeng’s true strength was far greater than a peak Dou Huang’s.
• Ya Fei arranged for Tang Dongfeng to be taken to Nalan Jie’s residence, where gathered alchemists had failed to cure the Branding Poison.
• Tang Dongfeng demanded to see Nalan Jie, then mocked a white-haired fourth-tier alchemist and the other gathered alchemists for their weakness.

Tang Dongfeng arrived at the Nalan residence and used his Sea Blue Flame to devour Nalan Jie's Branding Poison. Nalan Jie woke after being cured, while Yun Yun and the others learned that Tang Dongfeng was a powerful clone from the Central Continent.

• Alchemists confronted Tang Dongfeng for insulting them, but Nalan Yanran came out and silenced them.
• Tang Dongfeng criticized Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran grew angry when he insulted her teacher.
• Yun Yun recognized Tang Dongfeng, stopped Nalan Yanran from attacking him, and learned that he was a clone left behind from the Central Continent.
• Tang Dongfeng told Yun Yun he had come to cure Nalan Jie and obtain the Seven-colored Phantom Spirit Saliva, not to find her.
• Nalan Yanran asked Tang Dongfeng to save her grandfather, and he entered Nalan Jie's room to treat him.
• Tang Dongfeng used his Sea Blue Flame to devour the Branding Poison, and Nalan Jie woke as the poison vanished.

Tang Dongfeng extracted Nalan Jie's Branding Poison and left the Nalan Family with Yun Yun, who planned to seek him out in Central Continent. Yun Yun asked him to attend the Three-Year Agreement and guide Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan, and he left the invitation unresolved.

• Tang Dongfeng used his Heavenly Flame to remove Nalan Jie's Branding Poison, then left without taking the Seven-colored Phantom Spirit Saliva.
• Nalan Su and Nalan Yanran told Nalan Jie that Tang Dongfeng was seventeen, had humiliated the alchemists, and had been Yun Yun's old acquaintance; Nalan Jie abandoned his idea of pairing him with Nalan Yanran.
• Tang Dongfeng told Yun Yun that he would be staying at Yellow Springs Pavilion in Central Continent and advised her to stabilize her cultivation and temper her Dou Qi.
• Yun Yun invited Tang Dongfeng to watch the Three-Year Agreement in half a month and asked him to guide Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan.

Tang Dongfeng joined Yun Yun to watch Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong stop their duel, then identified himself as a member of Yellow Springs Pavilion. Half a month later, he attended the Three-Year Agreement on Cloud Mist Mountain, where Yao Yue asked him to predict the fight between Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan.

• Yun Yun persuaded Tang Dongfeng to guide Nalan Yanran, and they flew to investigate the clash between Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong.
• Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong ended their fight amicably, and Tang Dongfeng assessed their combat abilities before introducing himself as a member of Yellow Springs Pavilion.
• Jia Xing Tian recognized Yellow Springs Pavilion's reputation, and Tang Dongfeng left the gathering.
• Over the next half month, Tang Dongfeng met Yao Yue at the Alchemist Tournament and later joined Hai Bodong's group on Cloud Mist Mountain for the Three-Year Agreement.
• Yao Yue asked Tang Dongfeng who he thought would win when Nalan Yanran fought Xiao Yan, while Yun Yun had yet to return.

Tang Dongfeng predicted Xiao Yan would defeat Nalan Yanran while his true body completed the Yellow Springs Corpse Decay Art and broke through to Dou Zun. After his Yellow Springs Corpse Body raised him to peak Five-star Dou Zun, three Dou Zun experts confronted him over the Yellow Springs Storage Ring.

• Tang Dongfeng named Xiao Yan as the likely winner against Nalan Yanran, and the gathered experts learned he knew Xiao Yan's teacher.
• Xiao Yan began climbing toward the Yun Lan Sect while Tang Dongfeng's true body absorbed the surrounding plant life and completed the eighty-first cycle of the Yellow Springs Corpse Decay Art.
• Tang Dongfeng broke through to One-star Dou Zun, appeared above the Yellow Springs Mountain Range, and activated the Yellow Springs Corpse Body.
• Tang Dongfeng's strength surged to peak Five-star Dou Zun, impressing Elder Lei, Elder Jian, and Elder Feng.
• Elder Lei, Elder Jian, and Elder Feng emerged and focused on Tang Dongfeng and the Yellow Springs Storage Ring.

Tang Dongfeng revealed his strength to the Central Continent Venerables, then reunited with Gu Yue and established a new Yellow Springs Pavilion in the Yellow Springs Mountain Range. The chapter ended with the Venerables preparing to leave and make amends.

• Tang Dongfeng learned that upgrading the Yellow Springs Corpse Decay Art to the low Heaven Tier would cost five million Points, then dismissed the technique and returned to his One-star Dou Zun strength.
• Elder Lei, Elder Jian, and Elder Feng greeted Tang Dongfeng, who chose the title Venerable Dongfeng and said he planned to rebuild the Yellow Springs Pavilion.
• Gu Yue appeared as a Six-star Dou Zun Void Ancient Dragon, reunited with Tang Dongfeng, and agreed to become Deputy Pavilion Master.
• Gu Yue used her Creation Power, supported by Tang Dongfeng's nuclear energy, to rebuild the Yellow Springs Mountain Range and raise a new Yellow Springs Pavilion.
• Elder Lei and Elder Jian declined Tang Dongfeng's invitation and prepared to return to their pavilions to arrange congratulatory gifts and return what they had taken from the Yellow Springs Pavilion.

Tang Dongfeng told Feng Xian that Yao Chen had survived Han Feng’s ambush and brought him to watch Xiao Yan’s duel at the Yun Lan Sect. After Nalan Yanran lost and Yun Shan emerged to seize Xiao Yan, Tang Dongfeng waited as the empire’s elders rallied against Yun Shan, sensing that Yun Yun and a hidden Hall of Souls protector were nearby.

• Tang Dongfeng told Feng Xian that Yao Chen’s soul had escaped to the northwest after Han Feng destroyed his body, then invited Feng Xian to see Yao Chen’s new disciple.
• Tang Dongfeng took Feng Xian and Gu Yue through a spatial tunnel to the Yun Lan Sect, where Nalan Yanran lost to Xiao Yan and tried to kill herself before Xiao Yan saved her.
• Yun Leng tried to detain Xiao Yan over Mo Cheng’s death, but Tang Dongfeng’s intervention and Ling Ying’s defeat of Yun Leng disrupted the attempt.
• Yun Leng summoned Yun Shan, whose unstable new Dou Zong realm alarmed the spectators, while Tang Dongfeng dismissed him as weak.
• Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, and Nalan Jie joined Hai Bodong in opposing Yun Shan’s attempt to seize Xiao Yan, while Tang Dongfeng stayed back and waited for someone.
• Tang Dongfeng sensed Yun Yun at the foot of the mountain and Wu Protector of the Hall of Souls hidden above as three people watched from a concealed space.

Yun Shan confronted Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, and the three great clans over their protection of Xiao Yan, then ordered Yun Yun to help capture him. Tang Dongfeng stepped in and declared that he would protect Xiao Yan, leaving Yun Shan and Yun Leng facing his defiance.

• Yun Shan accused Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma of opposing the Yun Lan Sect, and they joined Nalan Jie and the other great clans in standing behind Xiao Yan.
• Yun Shan threatened the gathered experts and told Yun Yun, newly returned to Yun Lan Square, to capture Xiao Yan with Yun Leng.
• Tang Dongfeng left the platform and appeared beside Xiao Yan, prompting the gathered experts to relax.
• Yun Yun explained that Tang Dongfeng had saved her life, and Yun Shan urged him not to risk offending the Yun Lan Sect for Xiao Yan's sake.
• Tang Dongfeng refused to stand aside, citing his duty as an elder of Jia Nan Academy and his ties to Xiao Yan's teacher, while Yun Leng insisted that Xiao Yan must stay for killing Mo Cheng and destroying the Yun Lan Sect.

Tang Dongfeng revealed that his apparent confrontation with the Yun Lan Sect had been handled by a clone, while Elder Feng arrived to protect him and force Yun Shan to back down. After the Three-Year Agreement ended, Tang Dongfeng urged Xiao Yan to return to Jia Nan Academy and grow strong enough to earn Xun'er's family's approval.

• Yun Shan ordered Yun Yun to restrain Tang Dongfeng and Yun Leng to seize Xiao Yan, determined not to let the group defy the Yun Lan Sect.
• Elder Feng appeared and overwhelmed the Yun Lan Sect with his aura, while Tang Dongfeng's water clone dissipated and the real Tang Dongfeng revealed he had captured Wu Protector.
• Elder Feng introduced himself as Starfall Pavilion's deputy pavilion master and a four-star Dou Zun, and Tang Dongfeng explained that he was a Dou Zun in his teens and had taken over Yellow Springs Pavilion.
• Gu Yue brought Yao Yue to Tang Dongfeng, who caught her and confirmed that he was the real person rather than a clone.
• Tang Dongfeng told Xiao Yan to return to Jia Nan Academy and become strong enough to gain Xun'er's family's approval, while Yao Chen encouraged Xiao Yan not to lose heart.

Tang Dongfeng exposed Yun Shan’s ties to the Hall of Souls and urged him to abandon the dangerous alliance. Yun Shan agreed to let Yun Yun go to Central Continent, hoping she could find a way to save him from the pill he had taken.

• Elder Feng confronted Yun Shan over his treatment of Xiao Yan, and Tang Dongfeng persuaded Elder Feng to accept compensation instead of punishing the Yun Lan Sect.
• Tang Dongfeng revealed that Yun Shan had taken a Hall of Souls pill to advance to Dou Zong and that the Hall of Souls wanted his soul.
• Yun Shan agreed to let Yun Yun cultivate in Central Continent with Tang Dongfeng and told her not to worry about the Yun Lan Sect.
• Yun Yun asked Tang Dongfeng whether he could counter the pill’s effects, but he said he knew neither pill refining nor the Hall of Souls’ soul-extraction methods.
• Yun Shan urged Yun Yun and Yanran to leave for Central Continent, where they might find a way to save him.

Tang Dongfeng prepared to leave Yun Lan Sect with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, while Yun Shan resolved to resist the Hall of Souls after learning it had engineered his breakthrough. The group departed through a spatial passage, leaving Yun Shan behind and Yao Yue with Tang Dongfeng’s parting gift.

• Yun Shan vowed to protect himself from the Hall of Souls after learning it had caused his breakthrough and intended to claim his soul.
• Gu Yue told Yun Yun she was of the dragon race, and Elder Feng took Xiao Yan through a spatial rift toward Starfall Pavilion after Tang Dongfeng asked him to return Xiao Yan to Jia Nan Academy.
• Yun Yun chose to travel with Tang Dongfeng and asked him to bring Nalan Yanran along.
• Tang Dongfeng gave Yao Yue a storage ring, then took Gu Yue, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran through a spatial passage out of Yun Lan Square.
• Yun Yun promised Yun Shan she would find a way to save him before she departed.

Tang Dongfeng returned to Jia Nan Academy with Gu Yue, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran, then asked Su Qian to help him learn alchemy. Su Qian dragged him to have his attributes tested, leaving the three women to settle into Tang Dongfeng’s courtyard.

• Tang Dongfeng emerged from a spatial vortex at Jia Nan Academy and greeted Su Qian, who was surprised by his strength.
• Tang Dongfeng introduced Gu Yue as Yellow Springs Pavilion’s Deputy Pavilion Master and Yun Yun as Yun Lan Sect’s Sect Master, and asked Su Qian to arrange training for Nalan Yanran and recruit academy talents.
• Su Qian agreed to discuss sending students to Yellow Springs Pavilion and offered Tang Dongfeng a communication jade slip for emergencies.
• Tang Dongfeng asked Elder Fire to teach him alchemy, but admitted he did not know whether he had the required attributes.
• Su Qian grabbed Tang Dongfeng and hurried him to the Alchemy Hall to test his attributes.
• Gu Yue told Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to stay in the courtyard, and Yun Yun resolved to cultivate harder while Gu Yue claimed Tang Dongfeng’s room.

Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran decided to focus on cultivation and leave for the Central Continent, while Su Qian brought Tang Dongfeng to test his Dou Qi attributes. Tang Dongfeng’s nuclear energy failed to activate the testing crystal, and increasing its intensity caused the crystal to crack.

• Nalan Yanran recognized Yun Yun’s feelings for Tang Dongfeng, and Yun Yun sent her away without answering.
• Nalan Yanran urged Yun Yun to go to the Central Continent, and Yun Yun agreed to prioritize cultivation and finding a way to save Yun Shan.
• Yun Yun began a period of secluded training as Nalan Yanran prepared to leave Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian brought Tang Dongfeng to the Alchemy Hall, where Elder Fire produced a crystal to test his attributes.
• Tang Dongfeng released nuclear energy into the crystal, but it showed no reaction, so Su Qian told him to increase the intensity.
• The testing crystal cracked when Tang Dongfeng fed it more nuclear energy.

Tang Dongfeng used his Origin Flame to create a Nuclear Reaction Alchemy Furnace and discovered it could refine pills by copying Elder Fire’s demonstrations. After it successfully produced pills up to fifth grade, Elder Fire challenged Tang Dongfeng to refine a second-grade pill without a demonstration, and the furnace began forming one.

• Elder Fire discovered Tang Dongfeng had attribute-less Dou Qi, and Tang Dongfeng explained that his Origin Flame could imitate the Spirit Flame.
• Tang Dongfeng went with Elder Fire and the others to the alchemy room and formed a Nuclear Reaction Alchemy Furnace from his flames.
• Tang Dongfeng’s furnace copied Elder Fire’s method and independently refined a first-grade Power Accumulation Pill, which Elder Fire tested and found effective.
• Tang Dongfeng’s furnace successfully reproduced second- through fifth-grade pills after Elder Fire demonstrated their refining processes.
• Elder Fire challenged Tang Dongfeng to refine a second-grade pill without a demonstration, and Tang Dongfeng’s furnace began refining it.

Tang Dongfeng discovered that his Alchemy Furnace could refine pills on its own, then returned home to find Gu Yue had temporarily separated Na’er’s soul so they could meet. Gu Yue admitted she loved him and demanded that he not like anyone else, ending by promising to prove how much she loved him.

• Tang Dongfeng’s Alchemy Furnace slowly refined a Second-grade Pill without Elder Fire’s demonstration, and Elder Fire planned to prepare ingredients for higher-grade pills.
• Tang Dongfeng returned home and found Na’er waiting with Gu Yue, whose strength had fallen to One-star Dou Zun after temporarily separating Na’er’s soul.
• Tang Dongfeng promised to find a safe way for Gu Yue and Na’er to exist independently, and Gu Yue took his hand.
• Gu Yue closed the door and raised a barrier before admitting she loved Tang Dongfeng and could not stand him getting close to other women.
• Na’er told Tang Dongfeng that Gu Yue wanted him to like only her, and Gu Yue promised to prove how much she loved him.

Gu Yue tried to follow Na’er’s storybook advice and knocked Tang Dongfeng unconscious, but he woke up delighted rather than heartbroken. Tang Dongfeng went to learn alchemy while Gu Yue and Na’er worried over their failed plan, and he looked forward to confronting Gu Yue that night.

• Gu Yue knocked Tang Dongfeng unconscious and carried him to bed, believing Na’er’s advice that he would be upset if she forced herself on him.
• Tang Dongfeng woke with no memory of the night and happily told Gu Yue he liked her as she was, then left to study alchemy.
• Gu Yue asked Na’er why Tang Dongfeng had not reacted as expected, and Na’er admitted the storybooks had led them astray and refused to help further.
• Tang Dongfeng told Elder Fire he was thinking about Gu Yue and suspected she had been pretending, then began copying Elder Fire’s alchemy techniques into the Nuclear Reaction Alchemy Furnace.

Tang Dongfeng refined pills for Zi Yan and learned that Gu Yue had left Jia Nan Academy. He hurried back to his courtyard, where Yun Yun told him Gu Yue had left a message for him.

• Tang Dongfeng replicated the methods for refining Sixth-grade and Grade 7 Pills, then went to the herb warehouse to gather ingredients.
• Tang Dongfeng made a fifth-grade pill for Zi Yan, who declared him her chef and promised to protect him in the Inner Academy.
• Su Qian caught Zi Yan stealing herbs, and Tang Dongfeng identified her as being of the same race as Gu Yue.
• Zi Yan told them Gu Yue's aura had disappeared about two hours earlier, so Tang Dongfeng, Zi Yan, and Su Qian rushed to Tang Dongfeng's courtyard.
• Yun Yun told Tang Dongfeng that Gu Yue had left a message for him before departing.

Tang Dongfeng left Jia Nan Academy for the Black Corner Region, intending to find a fragment map at an auction before returning to the Central Continent. The chapter ended with him asking Su Mei about recent fragment-map auction items.

• Yun Yun told Tang Dongfeng that Gu Yue had returned to Yellow Springs Pavilion and did not want him to look for her, and Tang Dongfeng realized she had left in embarrassment.
• Su Qian asked Tang Dongfeng to take Zi Yan to the Central Continent and help her find her family, and Tang Dongfeng agreed.
• Tang Dongfeng told Yun Yun and Zi Yan to prepare to leave that night, then vanished from Jia Nan Academy and arrived at Rakshasa City.
• Xiao Ya told Tang Dongfeng that Su Mei was in Black Seal City for an upcoming auction, and he flew there after learning the way.
• Tang Dongfeng found Su Mei and asked whether any fragment maps had recently appeared at auction, and she said there were several kinds.