Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ling met Yun Yun, who asked him to refine an Imperial Pill for herself and a Sect Breaking Pill for Yun Shan. Although he showed interest in the Misty Cloud Sect’s offerings, he said he had to leave before noon and implied that he expected better compensation, leaving Yun Yun to decide how much more the sect would offer.

• Xiao Ling learned from Pei En that Yun Yun had come to the Xiao Family alone and went to meet her in the Reception Hall.
• Yun Yun recalled how Gu He had failed to refine Imperial Pills and explained that Yun Shan needed a Sect Breaking Pill to have a chance of reaching the Dou Ancestor Realm.
• Xiao Ling and Yun Yun exchanged courteous greetings, then Xiao Ling asked her to state her purpose because he planned to leave Jia Ma Empire that day.
• Yun Yun presented three sets of ingredients for each pill and offered several medicinal herbs, including a Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva.
• Xiao Ling said his schedule prevented him from refining the pills and dismissed the Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva as insufficient compensation, signaling that he expected the Misty Cloud Sect to offer more.

Yun Yun offered Xiao Ling an ancient Seventh-grade High-level Pill Recipe in exchange for the Imperial Pill and Sect Breaking Pill, only to learn he had already refined both. She took the pills back to the Misty Cloud Sect to help Yun Shan, while Xiao Ling stayed behind with Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin.

• Yun Yun offered the Misty Cloud Sect's ancient Spirit Origin Marrow Cleansing Pill Recipe as compensation, and Xiao Ling accepted it after confirming its rarity and effects.
• Xiao Ling revealed that he had already refined the Imperial Pill and Sect Breaking Pill, and Yun Yun inspected them before storing them in her Ring.
• Yun Yun thanked Xiao Ling and hurriedly flew toward the Back Mountain of the Misty Cloud Sect with the Sect Breaking Pill for Yun Shan.
• Qing Lin asked whether Yun Yun had left, and Xiao Ling explained that she was likely rushing to give Yun Shan the pill so he could break through to the Dou Zong Realm and extend his life.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Ling for some of the rare medicinal ingredients, and he promised to refine a few tasty pills for her.

Xiao Ling and his companions traveled to the Falling Goose Empire to explore ruins, while planning to hunt powerful snake-type Magical Beasts for Qing Lin and search for ingredients and treasures. After reaching a hidden grassland in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, they arrived at the lake behind which the ruins lay.

• Xiao Ling asked Yao Chen to inspect a Seventh-grade High Spirit Origin Marrow Cleansing Pill recipe, and Yao Chen found that they lacked the Marrow-Washing Flower and Heavenly Spirit Root Fibers.
• Xiao Ling led Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin to Ling Feng Town, where they heard that Yan Luotian had failed again to capture the Purple Flame Wind Winged Snake.
• Xiao Ling said they would investigate the ruins first, then search the mountain range for snake-type Magical Beasts for Qing Lin and medicinal ingredients for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Ling and his companions spent two days crossing the Magical Beast Mountain Range, collecting herbs and defeating or subduing several Magical Beasts along the way.
• Xiao Ling led the group into a hidden ravine and across a secluded grassland to a lake, telling them that the ruins lay beyond it and might be protected by measures involving Space Power.

Xiao Ling and his companions encountered the Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor, guardian of Turtle Spirit Venerate’s inheritance, and learned why its rare species was hunted for its Deep Wave Source Crystals. After Xiao Ling revealed Turtle Spirit Venerate’s relic map and passed the guardian’s initial scrutiny, it demanded a trial by combat, and Xiao Yi Xian stepped forward to fight in Xiao Ling’s place.

• Xiao Ling led Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan to the lake, where they discovered a peak Sixth-Order Magical Beast lurking beneath the water.
• The Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor emerged and warned the group to leave, while Yao Chen explained its near-extinction and the value of its Deep Wave Source Crystals.
• The Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor revealed that it had once served Turtle Spirit Venerate and guarded his inheritance, then questioned why Xiao Ling possessed the relic map without the Venerate’s bloodline aura.
• Xiao Ling claimed the map had been passed down through his family, and the Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor agreed to believe him for now but required him to pass a trial by defeating it.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked to fight the Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor herself, and Xiao Ling agreed as she flew forward to face it.

Xiao Yi Xian fought the Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor to prove the group’s strength, winning only after trapping it in her Netherworld Heavenly Poison Domain and surviving its final attack. Xiao Ling negotiated their entry into the ruins, and Xiao Yi Xian cured the guardian’s poison as the group prepared to proceed.

• Xiao Yi Xian challenged the Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor and used poison techniques to keep the powerful beast at a distance.
• The Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor gained the upper hand and wounded Xiao Yi Xian, prompting her to unleash the Netherworld Heavenly Poison Domain.
• The Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor launched a desperate water attack, but Xiao Yi Xian blocked it; both fighters were left exhausted, and Xiao Ling caught and healed her.
• Xiao Ling and his companions agreed not to harm the defeated guardian, and Xiao Ling offered to have Xiao Yi Xian cure it in exchange for permission to enter the ruins.
• The Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor acknowledged that the group had passed the trial, and Xiao Yi Xian removed the poison from its body.

The Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor gave Xiao Yi Xian its Deep Wave Source Crystal and directed the group to Turtle Spirit Venerate’s inheritance. Xiao Ling and his companions entered the hidden space, where they discovered the residence and medicinal field, and Yao Chen removed the field’s barrier.

• The Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor sacrificed its cultivation to gather its power into the Deep Wave Source Crystal and gave the crystal to Xiao Yi Xian, explaining that its duty was finished and it wished to aid its master's descendants.
• The Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor showed Xiao Ling and his companions where to find the map and the Space Barrier leading to Turtle Spirit Venerate’s inheritance.
• Xiao Ling used the ancient map to awaken the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame image and open the hidden passage, and Yao Chen led the group inside.
• Zi Yan sensed rare medicinal ingredients near the wooden houses and persuaded Xiao Ling to let her harvest them first.
• Yao Chen dismantled the formation around the medicinal field, revealing its rare ingredients to the group.

After harvesting the rare herbs needed for the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill, Xiao Ling and his companions explored Turtle Spirit Venerate’s Library Pavilion and found a combat art suited to Xiao Ling’s powerful recovery. They left with valuable manuals and considered learning the Blood Flame Burning Spirit Art as a group trump card.

• Xiao Ling and his companions harvested the herb garden’s rare plants, including the three main herbs needed for the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill.
• Yao Chen explained that the Sky-Covering Bottle could cultivate more herbs from their roots, easing Yao Tianhuo’s worry that there was only one set of ingredients.
• Xiao Ling gave Zi Yan a Spirit Origin Fruit, and she ate a little before saving the rest to refine later.
• Xiao Ling led everyone to the Library Pavilion, where he gathered numerous Earth Grade Cultivation Techniques and Combat Skills.
• Yao Chen showed Xiao Ling the Earth Tier Advanced Blood Flame Burning Spirit Art, and Xiao Ling realized his Meteor Tear-enhanced recovery could offset its essence-blood cost.
• Xiao Ling suggested that Xiao Yi Xian and the others learn the art as a group trump card, with pills to replenish the essence blood they consumed.

Xiao Ling mastered the Blood Flame Burning Spirit Art and tested its power, confirming that it greatly increased his strength without serious aftereffects for him. He then led the group into Turtle Spirit Venerate’s alchemy chamber, where Yao Chen identified its finest cauldron as the Spirit Gathering Cauldron, ranked fourth on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.

• Xiao Ling cultivated the Blood Flame Burning Spirit Art, and Yao Chen confirmed that its second level raised Xiao Ling’s strength from three-star Dou Zong to seven-star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Ling explained the art’s three levels and their pill costs, then ended the technique and returned to his normal strength.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan collected their chosen techniques, including a low-grade Earth Grade movement skill, and Xiao Ling led everyone toward the alchemy chamber.
• Xiao Ling opened the alchemy chamber and revealed its tools and four Medicine Cauldrons, including an unusual bronze cauldron that caught the group’s attention.
• Yao Chen recognized the bronze cauldron as the Spirit Gathering Cauldron, ranked fourth on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking, and described how it improved control over flames and the quality of refined pills.

Xiao Ling’s group explored Turtle Spirit Venerate’s alchemy rooms, obtaining a powerful cauldron, an alchemy legacy, and many pills. After discovering an illusion formation hiding the Venerate’s resting place, they revealed the Hall of Honored Remains and prepared to enter.

• Xiao Ling stored the Spirit Gathering Cauldron and found Turtle Spirit Venerate’s book of alchemy insights and pill recipes, including several Eighth-grade recipes.
• Xiao Ling and his companions searched the second-floor pill room and collected four Eighth-grade Pills, more than thirty Seventh-grade Pills, and over a hundred Sixth-grade Pills.
• Xiao Ling realized Turtle Spirit Venerate’s body and Earth Flame were missing because an illusion formation concealed an area, and Yao Chen and Yao Tianhuo confirmed they had sensed it too.
• Xiao Ling struck the hidden formation with Dou Qi, revealing the Bronze Hall of Honored Remains, which the group recognized as Turtle Spirit Venerate’s resting place.
• Xiao Ling explained that the formation was likely a test, then opened the hall’s bronze doors as his companions prepared to enter cautiously.

Xiao Ling and his companions explored the Bronze Hall and found Turtle Spirit Venerate’s remains on an Ice Soul Cold Prison Jade Bed. Turtle Spirit Venerate’s will set a test requiring Xiao Ling to defeat it for the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame and relics, and the chapter ended as their battle began.

• Xiao Ling sensed another Heavenly Flame near the Jade Bed, and Yao Chen identified the jade as Ice Soul Cold Prison Jade that could store Heavenly Flames.
• Turtle Spirit Venerate’s remains rose from the Jade Bed, and a beam examined Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin.
• Turtle Spirit Venerate’s will declared that the group had to pass its test and defeat it to inherit its Heavenly Flame and relics.
• Xiao Ling assessed the will’s strength at roughly eight or nine stars of the Dou Zong realm and chose to fight it alone.
• Xiao Ling accepted the test, gripped the Meteor God Weapon, and faced Turtle Spirit Venerate’s overwhelming aura as his companions watched.

Xiao Ling battled Turtle Spirit Venerate, using the Four Spirits Burning Heaven Flame and a surprise spear attack to injure him. Turtle Spirit Venerate stopped fighting and revealed a frail Soul Body, leaving everyone waiting to learn what he intended.

• Turtle Spirit Venerate summoned the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame as a giant turtle and attacked Xiao Ling with a torrent of fire.
• Xiao Ling blocked the flames with the Meteor God Weapon and used the Four Spirits Burning Heaven Flame to overpower the giant turtle.
• Turtle Spirit Venerate withdrew the turtle and attacked with a vortex of flaming arrows, but Xiao Ling spotted flaws and maneuvered behind him.
• Xiao Ling struck Turtle Spirit Venerate with nine flaming phantom spears, breaking his Flame Barrier and badly injuring him.
• Turtle Spirit Venerate ended his assault and revealed a weak Soul Body above his wounded body.

Xiao Ling received the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame from Turtle Spirit Venerate, who then dissipated after giving him a final gift. Xiao Ling absorbed the Venerate’s inherited memories and emerged unharmed, while the full alchemical knowledge remained for him to study later.

• Turtle Spirit Venerate praised Xiao Ling’s strength and agreed that he was worthy to inherit the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame.
• Turtle Spirit Venerate released the flame to Xiao Ling, who stored it in the System Space for later refinement.
• Xiao Ling offered to help revive Turtle Spirit Venerate, but the Venerate explained that he was only a memory-incomplete soul clone and could not be revived.
• Before dissipating, Turtle Spirit Venerate gave Xiao Ling a light ball containing his inherited memories and his body.
• Yao Chen identified the light ball as a projection of Turtle Spirit Venerate’s memories, and Xiao Ling absorbed it, gaining access to the Venerate’s alchemical knowledge.
• Xiao Ling opened his eyes after absorbing the memories and reassured Xiao Yi Xian that he was unharmed.

After leaving Turtle Spirit Venerate’s collapsing inheritance grounds, Xiao Ling and his companions received a clue to the Purple Flame Wind Winged Snake’s territory and flew toward the eastern depths of the Magical Beast Mountain Range. The chapter ended with Xiao Ling spotting unusual fluctuations that might mark the snake’s lair.

• Xiao Ling explained that he had stored Turtle Spirit Venerate’s alchemy memories and gained a small increase in Soul Power, then led the group out through the spatial gate as the ruins began to collapse.
• The Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor told Xiao Yi Xian that the Purple Flame Wind Winged Snake had appeared in the eastern depths and left purple flames across its territory.
• Xiao Ling gave the Abyssal Water Crocodile Emperor Sixth-grade Pills in gratitude, but the Crocodile Emperor chose to remain and guard its home.
• Xiao Ling and his companions set out for the eastern depths of the Magical Beast Mountain Range to find the Purple Flame Wind Winged Snake.
• While flying on Void Dragon, Xiao Ling noticed unusual fluctuations in the distance, and Qing Lin wondered whether they had found the snake’s territory.

Xiao Ling’s group found the Seventh-Rank Purple Flame Wind Winged Snake and Xiao Ling subdued it so Qing Lin could use her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to claim it. Qing Lin began the process, but the snake woke under the pupils’ light and could not move.

• Xiao Ling sensed a Seventh-Rank Magical Beast inside the Cave Mansion and identified it as the Purple Flame Wind Winged Snake.
• Xiao Ling chose to fight the snake himself, and Void Dragon carried the group to its cave.
• The Purple Flame Wind Winged Snake attacked with purple fire, but Void Dragon’s dragon breath shattered the flames and sent the snake crashing into the mountain.
• Xiao Ling used Illusory Dream Spirit Shadow to control the injured snake and offered it to Qing Lin.
• Qing Lin awakened the snake with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and the snake regained consciousness but remained unable to move.

Qing Lin subdued the Purple Flame Wind Winged Snake with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, named her Xiao Zi, and watched her transform into Human Form. The group flew to a scenic valley to celebrate with a picnic, where Qing Lin decorated Xiao Yi Xian's hair with wildflowers.

• Qing Lin controlled the Purple Flame Wind Winged Snake and imprinted a green flower on its forehead, making it accept her as its master.
• Xiao Ling gave Qing Lin a Soul Origin Pill to restore her Soul Power, and Qing Lin named the snake Xiao Zi and told her to obey Xiao Ling as well.
• At Zi Yan's request, Qing Lin ordered Xiao Zi to transform into Human Form, and Xiao Zi appeared as a purple-haired girl.
• Zi Yan and Xiao Zi discussed their forms and agreed they could spar, before Xiao Yi Xian suggested celebrating Xiao Zi's new partnership.
• Xiao Zi carried Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan to a valley with a clear lake, where they prepared a picnic.
• Qing Lin tucked freshly picked wildflowers into Xiao Yi Xian's hair and praised her appearance.

Xiao Ling and his companions returned to Jia Ma Holy City after he spent three days absorbing Turtle Spirit Venerate's memories, gaining valuable alchemy knowledge that could soon let him refine Eighth-grade Pills. After entering the city to a warm reception, they reached the Xiao Family courtyard, where Xiao Ling told everyone to rest.

• Xiao Ling and his companions shared a picnic, drank his cola, and then flew toward the Jia Ma Empire on Xiao Zi.
• During the three-day journey, Xiao Ling absorbed Turtle Spirit Venerate's memories and gained alchemy knowledge that brought him closer to refining Eighth-grade Pills.
• Near Jia Ma Holy City, Qing Lin returned Xiao Zi to her pupil-art space, and Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan flew to the city gates.
• The city guards and citizens recognized Xiao Ling, and he gave a Fourth-grade Pill to cover the entry fees for the people delayed by his arrival.
• Xiao Ling led Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan to the Xiao Family courtyard and urged them to rest; Zi Yan sat on the swing.

Xiao Ling entered seclusion to refine the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame while the Jia Ma Empire gained several new Dou Zong experts amid rising tensions with the Tri-Empire Alliance. Ten months later, the alliance’s forces approached Black Mountain Fortress.

• Xiao Ling prepared to refine the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame, promised Zi Yan pills, and asked Xiao Yi Xian to keep visitors away during his seclusion.
• Xiao Ling used the Ice Soul Cold Prison Jade Bed and two protective pills, then absorbed the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame and began refining it with Fen Jue.
• Jia Xing Tian, Hai Bodong, and Yun Shan broke through to Dou Zong while the Jia Ma Empire strengthened its forces and watched the Tri-Empire Alliance warily.
• Xiao Ling remained unaware of events outside as he spent ten months refining the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame.
• The allied forces of the Chu Yun Empire, Mu Lan Empire, and Falling Goose Empire advanced toward Black Mountain Fortress on the Jia Ma Empire’s northeastern border.

The Jia Ma Empire faced the Tri-Empire Alliance’s early assault at Black Mountain Fortress, prompting Jia Xing Tian to leave for the battlefield and Yao Ye to seek allies. As the war began, Xiao Ling completed his long seclusion and emerged with a sharpened presence.

• Mu Tie and the officers at Black Mountain Fortress confirmed the Tri-Empire Alliance’s attack and requested reinforcements as the enemy vanguard approached.
• The Tri-Empire Alliance began its assault, and Dou Wang experts from both armies clashed above the battlefield.
• Jia Xing Tian received urgent news, assigned Yao Ye to manage the imperial family, and set out for the front lines.
• Jia Xing Tian told Yao Ye that Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin could aid the empire, so Yao Ye decided to visit the Xiao Family herself.
• The Turtle Spirit Earth Flame absorbed energy in Xiao Ling’s Cultivation Room, returned to his body, and Xiao Ling opened his eyes after nearly a year in seclusion.

Xiao Ling fused five Heavenly Flames into the Five Spirits Blazing Heaven Flame and advanced to six-star Dou Zong peak. After using his remaining extraction attempts, he obtained a Spirit Nurturing Cushion and successfully created a new energy by combining Dou Qi and Soul Power.

• Xiao Ling formed the Five Spirits Blazing Heaven Flame from five Heavenly Flames and named it.
• The fusion triggered Xiao Ling's breakthrough from four-star Dou Zong to six-star Dou Zong peak, while improving Flame Mantra to quasi-Heavenly Rank.
• Xiao Ling checked his System Panel and used three extraction attempts, drawing thirty million Gold Coins, a Spirit Nurturing Cushion, and a Senzu Bean.
• Xiao Ling examined the Spirit Nurturing Cushion and learned that its Heaven Earth Ancient Formation could combine two kinds of power into Yuan-Spirit Energy.
• Xiao Ling experimented with the cushion, mastered its formation, and successfully fused his Dou Qi and Soul Power into a controllable sphere of chaotic-colored energy.

After nearly a year in seclusion, Xiao Ling refined Spiritual Energy, examined a Senzu Bean, and learned that Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan had gone to aid the Jia Ma Empire and its allies. He flew north to join the conflict with the Tri-Empire Alliance, while the chapter ended with Yun Shan, Hai Bodong, and Jia Xing Tian standing on a fortress wall.

• Xiao Ling created and stored Spiritual Energy, then kept the Spirit Nurturing Cushion rather than risking the formation sealed inside it.
• Xiao Ling examined a Senzu Bean and stored it as a safeguard against severe injuries.
• Xiao Ling left seclusion, dismissed the protective formation, and discovered the courtyard was empty.
• Void Dragon told Xiao Ling that Xiao Yi Xian and the others had left for fighting in the north, and a maid explained that Yao Ye had requested their help against the Tri-Empire Alliance.
• Xiao Ling rode Void Dragon toward the border after learning that Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin had agreed to help only if the Jia Ma Empire faced a dire threat, while Zi Yan had gone to aid Medusa.
• Yun Shan, Hai Bodong, and Jia Xing Tian stood with other defenders atop a fortress overlooking the battlefield.