Chapter Summaries

Old Man Yao and Venerable Feng discussed the Minghe Alliance’s ties to Soul Hall and the growing danger facing the Tianfu Alliance. After returning, Xiao Li revealed the Hun Clan’s plan to attack the God Clans for the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and he and Zi Yan prepared to wait for the Spirit Clan to be targeted before acting.

• Old Man Yao told Venerable Feng that Soul Hall had cultivated the Minghe Alliance to draw the God Clans’ hostility toward the Tianfu Alliance.
• Old Man Yao and Venerable Feng reviewed the Tianfu Alliance’s powerful allies and growing strength as the Minghe Alliance attacked factions across the Central Continent.
• Xiao Li and Zi Yan returned, and Old Man Yao briefed them on recent events and the coming Pill Assembly.
• Xiao Li said the Hun Clan would attack the Spirit Clan and other God Clans to seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade and open the Ancient God Cave Abode.
• Xiao Li and Zi Yan decided to stay hidden until the Hun Clan moved against the Spirit Clan, while Xiao Li asked Old Man Yao to keep searching for something he had requested.
• Zi Yan revealed she had reached Eight Star Dou Saint Early Stage with a Dragon Phoenix Bloodline, while Xiao Li had reached Four Star Dou Saint Late Stage.

Xiao Li and Zi Yan prepared Xiao Yan for the Pill Assembly, giving him support and a Dragon Seal needed to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame. In Holy Pill City, Danta’s leaders faced the threat of the Minghe Alliance and brought out their Great Elder to oversee the gathering.

• Old Man Yao showed Xiao Li the list of Pill Assembly participants, including Mu Gu, Tang Zhen, Wang Ming, and five members of the Minghe Alliance, and explained the allies arranged to protect Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Li left to help Zi Yan reclaim Dragon Island and unite the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, while Zi Yan summoned Xiao Yan and gave him a Dragon Seal that could help him subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• In Holy Pill City, Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi discussed the Minghe Alliance’s threat and the powerful figures drawn to the Pill Assembly.
• Great Elder Lin Mo arrived with the Small Danta Elders’ Council and announced that he would oversee the Pill Assembly, though he admitted he could not defeat Youming Old Ghost.

Danta weighed the threat from the Minghe Alliance and Soul Hall against an invitation from the Tianfu Alliance, whose leader was the powerful Yin Yang Saint. Old Lin secured the Elders’ agreement to join, and Xuan Kongzi departed to inform Yao Chen as preparations began for the Pill Assembly.

• Old Lin explained that Danta was threatened by the Minghe Alliance and Soul Hall and had been invited to join the Tianfu Alliance.
• Xuan Kongzi and the Elders learned that the Yin Yang Saint had reached at least Three Star Dou Saint cultivation and Heaven Realm Great Perfection in soul power.
• Old Lin argued that joining the alliance would help Danta protect alchemists and resist its enemies, and the Elders accepted his decision.
• Old Lin predicted that the Yin Yang Saint would likely become Alliance Master and urged the Elders to befriend him and learn from his alchemy insights.
• Old Lin told Xuan Kongzi to notify Yao Chen that Danta was joining the alliance, and Xuan Kongzi left for Starfall Pavilion with Xuan Yi following him.

The Tianfu Alliance prepared for the Pill Assembly and discussed the threat of the Minghe Alliance and the God Clans. The Danta joined the alliance, while Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Hua Qing ended up in an awkward meeting watched by curious onlookers.

• Old Man Yao and the Tianfu Alliance’s leaders discussed building their strength before confronting the God Clans, while Fire Cloud Old Ancestor urged an attack on the Minghe Alliance.
• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi arrived at Starfall Pavilion, where Qing Fairy challenged them and Xuan Yi argued back before Old Man Yao stopped the confrontation.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that the Danta would join the Tianfu Alliance, adding its alchemists and resources to the coalition.
• The alliance agreed that each sect’s leader would serve as a Vice Alliance Master, while the Alliance Master position remained vacant.
• At a pavilion in the Star Realm, Xuan Kongzi sat awkwardly with Xuan Yi and Hua Qing as Fire Cloud Old Ancestor, Tianyin Old Man, and others secretly watched from a bush.

Xiao Li, Zi Yan, and Yun Yun arrived at East Dragon Island, where Zi Yan declared her intent to unite Dragon Island. The Dragon Emperor Seal revealed her presence to the other Dragon Kings, who mobilized their forces to seize it.

• Xiao Yan and his companions watched Xuan Yi and Qing Fairy trade insults while Old Man Yao looked on in dismay.
• Xiao Li, Zi Yan, and Yun Yun traveled through a spatial passage to East Dragon Island, and Xiao Li sensed the island’s powerful inhabitants.
• Xiao Li questioned why the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s hidden experts had not defeated the three Dragon Kings, while Zi Yan promised the clan’s treasure trove would support his alchemy.
• Zi Yan greeted Great Elder Qing Shan and announced that she would unify Dragon Island, then displayed the Dragon Emperor Seal and unleashed its violet-gold radiance across the islands.
• The three Dragon Kings recognized the Dragon Emperor Seal and led their forces toward East Dragon Island to capture it.

Zi Yan used the Dragon Emperor Seal’s power to stop the North Dragon King’s attempt to devour the South and West Dragon Kings, then defeated the three rebels and restored Dragon Island’s unity. The Ancient Void Dragons recognized Zi Yan as their Dragon Emperor and awaited her judgment.

• The Dragon Emperor Seal released Ancient Dragon Divine Light, purifying the East Dragon Island dragons’ bloodlines and raising their cultivation; Qing Shan advanced to Three Star Dou Saint Early-Stage.
• Ancient Void Dragon experts across the boundless void felt the divine light, and Zhuhuo identified it as proof that the Dragon Emperor had returned.
• Zhu Kun sensed the light from the Ancient God Cave Abode and recognized that Zi Yan had released it.
• The North, South, and West Dragon Kings forced their way onto East Dragon Island, but Zi Yan’s Space Barrier trapped them and her aura made the other dragons kneel.
• The North Dragon King activated the forbidden Dragon Transformation Demon Array to absorb the other two Dragon Kings, but Zi Yan used the Dragon Emperor Seal to stop it.
• Zi Yan summoned the Dragon Slaying Sword, severed the three Dragon Kings’ limbs, and secured the submission of the three Dragon Islands.

Zi Yan defeated the three Dragon Kings and reunited the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, then began her enthronement as Dragon Emperor. Xiao Li learned the clan’s current strength and how greatly it had declined from its former peak.

• Xiao Li found the three Dragon Kings alive, and Zi Yan said she would take the traitors to her father for judgment.
• Zi Yan sensed returning Ancient Void Dragon powerhouses, dissolved the barrier around East Dragon Island, and revealed her Dragon Emperor bloodline, Dragon Slaying Sword, and Dragon Emperor Seal.
• Zhuhuo and the returning dragons recognized Zi Yan as their imperial princess and asked her to ascend the Dragon Emperor’s throne.
• Zi Yan unified the four islands, restricted former rebels with the Dragon Emperor Seal, and began her enthronement ceremony as Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Li learned that Zi Yan and Zhuhuo were the clan’s only Eight Star Dou Saints and heard that the clan had once possessed a Late Nine Star Dragon Emperor and two Early Nine Star Grand Elders.

Zi Yan rewarded Yao Ming and the Nine Serene Earth Nether Python Clan with Ancient Heavenly Serpent Essence Blood, then defeated Xiao Li in a month-long bedroom battle. Meanwhile, the Pill Assembly in Holy Pill City continued, where Tang Zhen refined a Rank 7 Peak Pill.

• Zi Yan welcomed Yao Ming as an ally and gave his clan half of the Ancient Heavenly Serpent Essence Blood, keeping the rest for Xiao Li and a girl with Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• The Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan remained absent and weakened after Xiao Li's attacks and Huang Tian's death.
• After handling several days of visitors, Zi Yan found Xiao Li and Yun Yun in her bedchamber and challenged Xiao Li; a month later, he lay drained while Yun Yun watched over him.
• Old Freak Lin and the Danta elders watched the Pill Assembly, where Xiao Yan, Blood Dragon Venerate, Mu Gu, Demon Flame Lord, and Old Freak Fen competed as leading contenders.
• Tang Zhen completed a Rank 7 Peak Pill at the Pill Assembly after nourishing his Wood Attribute Dou Qi with Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and refining a Wood Attribute treasure.

The Pill Assembly neared its end as Dan Chen, Cao Ying, and several other contestants refined Grade 8 pills, while Mu Gu used a soul sacrifice to claim victory. Xiao Yan and Wang Ming then displayed their strongest pills, and Wang Ming knocked Mu Gu unconscious.

• Dan Chen and Cao Ying each summoned Two-Colored Pill Lightning, and Qinghua Old Freak, the Demon Flame Lord, and Old Freak Fen refined increasingly powerful Grade 8 pills.
• Mu Gu sacrificed a soul during pill refinement and summoned Five-Colored Pill Lightning, boasting that he had won the assembly.
• Xiao Yan released six Heavenly Flames and began refining his pill, while Wang Ming struck Mu Gu with Soul Force for mocking him.
• Xiao Yan and Wang Ming summoned Seven-Colored and Eight-Colored Pill Lightning, respectively, and Xiao Yan's puppets absorbed the lightning to become Golden Heavenly Demon Puppets.
• Wang Ming struck Mu Gu off his stone platform and knocked him unconscious.

After Wang Ming won the Pill Assembly, the alliance prepared for a confrontation with Soul Hall over the Three Thousand Burning Flame. Xiao Li agreed to return to Danta and Zi Yan insisted on going with him.

• Xuan Kongzi declared Wang Ming the Pill Assembly champion, made him a future Giant candidate, and awarded him a Soul Cultivation Method.
• At a Danta meeting, Old Freak Lin and Tianyinzi agreed to lead a force into the Star Domain, while Su Wan Yin raised the possibility that Hun Miesheng might appear.
• Old Man Yao contacted Xiao Li at the Void Thunder Pool and asked him to return to Danta before the Star Domain opened.
• Xiao Li agreed to return, then Zi Yan announced that she would accompany him and visit her father on the way.

Xiao Li unveiled Saint Phoenix, a powerful war puppet, and later the Pill Assembly’s top ten entered the Star Domain to seek Three Thousand Burning Flame. As Qiu Ling led Danta’s three direct descendants away from the group, trouble gathered outside the Star Domain.

• Xiao Li called Saint Phoenix back from the Void Thunder Pool and explained how he had fused its weapons into its body with Black Demon Thunder.
• Xiao Li described Saint Phoenix’s weapons and strength to Zi Yan, then traveled with her toward Danta after deciding to wait until the next day.
• Three days later, Xuan Kongzi and the other Danta giants opened the Star Domain for the Pill Assembly’s top ten, while they sensed that many outsiders had arrived.
• Mu Gu entered the Star Domain with the other contestants and avoided provoking Wang Ming because Wang Ming’s disciple was the Yin Yang Saint.
• Qiu Ling met the group inside the Star Domain and took Song Qing, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen away, claiming that their rewards were elsewhere.

Mu Gu and the Soul Hall forces tried to seize Three Thousand Burning Flame, but Danta’s Half-Saint elders ambushed and defeated them. Xiao Yan then began refining the flame after it agreed to cooperate in exchange for his promise to find and bury its former Ancient Void Dragon master.

• Mu Gu and the Demon Flame Lord summoned Soul Hall reinforcements, but Elder Cheng sealed the Star Domain and revealed that Danta had prepared an ambush.
• Elder Cheng, Elder Han, Lü Elder, and Tianyinzi defeated the Soul Hall forces, and Tianyinzi killed Heavenly Venerate Shuo Wu.
• Old Man Yao brought Xiao Yan to Cailin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Nalan Yanran before leading him to Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame agreed to let Xiao Yan refine it if he preserved its intelligence and eventually found its former master’s remains for burial on Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yan swore to fulfill the conditions and began refining Three Thousand Burning Flame, while Xiao Li joked with Yin Yang Holy Flame nearby.

The Tianfu Alliance confronted the Soul Hall and Minghe Alliance forces in a battle above Danta while Xiao Yan refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame. Xiao Li arrived to face Hun Miesheng, and the chapter ended with their confrontation poised to escalate.

• Fire Cloud Old Ancestor and Old Man Yao joined forces to defeat Youmingzi, whose fall smashed into Holy Pill City.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, Tian Leizi, and Old Freak Lin fought the Soul Hall’s Gu You and Netherworld Prison Saint while Qing Fairy and Hua Fairy killed Tianming Old Demon.
• Tianyin Old Man revealed his Three Star Dou Saint strength and attacked the Deputy Hall Master, who summoned Hun Miesheng for help.
• Hun Miesheng emerged, and Xiao Li appeared on a Flame Throne and challenged him.
• Hun Miesheng recognized Xiao Li’s Four Star Dou Saint Peak strength and Great Perfection soul, while Xiao Li released his aura against him.

The Hall of Souls Hall Master withdrew after revealing that he had come only as an avatar, while the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan arrived to confront Xiao Li. Xiao Li and the Xiao Tribe’s allies fought back, leaving the Spirit Clan under attack and Shi Jingtian locked in battle with Xiao Chen.

• The Hall of Souls Hall Master retreated with his members after warning that his gift was approaching, and the Tianfu Alliance defeated the Minghe Alliance remnants.
• The Spirit Clan and Stone Clan arrived, and Xiao Li ordered Saint Phoenix to attack the Spirit Clan leader before questioning Shi Jingtian’s involvement.
• Shi Jingtian refused Xiao Li’s offer and moved to suppress him, but Xiao Chen appeared and fought him with his Blood Axe.
• Xiao Li killed a Four Star Dou Saint from the Spirit Clan with Emperor’s Fury and began taking down the Spirit Clan experts.
• Ling Dong realized that Hun Miesheng had misled him about the Xiao Tribe’s strength as Xiao Li vowed to keep the Spirit Clan there.

Xiao Li and his allies defeated the Spirit-Stone Allied Army, killing Ling Dong and seriously wounding Shi Jingtian, while the Hun Clan attacked the Ling Realm in search of the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Zi Yan later gave Xiao Li an ancient jade fragment taken from Ling Dong, which he recognized as the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

• Zi Yan appeared and snapped Ling Dong's neck, and Xiao Li seized and refined Ling Dong's fleeing Soul Body.
• Xiao Chen battled Shi Jingtian with his Blood Axe, while Zi Yan struck Shi Jingtian and left him heavily wounded.
• Xiao Chen departed to cultivate in a special space, and Xiao Li planned to join him after handling matters in Holy Pill City.
• Xiao Kong drove the watching God Clan Elders away, while the Spirit Clan's Great Elder was killed and the Hun Clan ransacked the Ling Realm for the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Zi Yan handed Xiao Li an ancient jade fragment from Ling Dong, and Xiao Li recognized it as the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

Xiao Li kept the Spirit Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade while Hun Tiandi prepared to use the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade against Gu Yuan. After the Tianfu Alliance destroyed the Minghe Alliance, the Pill Tower Old Ancestor arrived at Danta and invited an old friend inside.

• Hun Tiandi learned the Ancient Emperor Jade had likely fallen into Xiao Li’s hands and vowed to retrieve it after his plan was complete.
• Xiao Li and Xiao Kong discussed the Spirit Clan’s destruction, and Xiao Li put away the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Zhu Kun enjoyed a visit from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan Elders while torturing the three rebel kings and warning the Elders to obey Zi Yan.
• Old Man Yao reported that the Tianfu Alliance had destroyed the Minghe Alliance and its allies, and Xiao Li ordered the alliance to absorb their resources.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor arrived in his original form, praised Xiao Li’s cultivation, and invited an old friend to meet the gathered experts.

Old Man Shennong joined the Tianfu Alliance and offered to lead its Alchemy Hall, then accompanied Xiao Li through Danta’s Scripture Pavilion. Xiao Li found rare pill recipes, including one that could help a soul reach the God Realm, and learned that Danta held a dangerous Rank 9 Golden Pill recipe.

• Old Man Shennong arrived, praised Xiao Li and Yao Chen, and asked to stay with the Tianfu Alliance as its Alchemy Hall master.
• Xiao Li welcomed Old Man Shennong and asked him for guidance in alchemy, while Yao Chen joined them to learn.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor explained that he had persuaded Old Man Shennong to join the alliance and that he would stay there too.
• Old Man Shennong visited Danta’s Scripture Pavilion with Xiao Li and Old Freak Lin, where Xiao Li found a Saint Longevity Pill recipe that could extend Xiao Kong’s life.
• Xiao Li discovered the Heaven-Melting Pill recipe and considered whether it could advance his soul, then rejected taking Xiao Yan’s opportunity in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Li found the Creation Golden Pill recipe, learned it could greatly increase cultivation and help a soul reach the God Realm, and noted the risks of refining and consuming it.

Old Man Shennong revealed that he possessed the Flame of Life, giving the Tianfu Alliance a way to grow medicinal herbs and expand its supply for pill refining. Xiao Li demonstrated his unusual alchemy and collected Black Demon Thunder, while the chapter ended with Xiao Yan emerging from the Star Domain after half a year.

• Old Man Shennong showed Pill Tower Old Ancestor and the others the Flame of Life, and the Alliance leaders discussed using it to grow medicinal herbs for refining Ninth Grade Treasure Pills.
• Xiao Li proposed raising Elder Han, Elder Cheng, and Lü Elder to Dou Sheng and invited the alchemists to join him in refining a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill.
• Xiao Li refined a pill before a crowd, first using his Yin Yang Fusion Pill Technique and then switching to a method the watching alchemists could understand.
• After seven days, Black Demon Thunder descended, and Xiao Li collected it for future pill refining, astonishing Old Freak Lin's alchemists.
• Half a year later, Xiao Yan emerged from the Star Domain with three women, having reached Six Star Dou Venerate Peak.

After emerging from seclusion, Xiao Yan was sent to refine pills for the growing Tianfu Alliance. Xiao Li then told him to attend the Gu Clan Coming-of-Age Ceremony in two and a half years and defeat the Gu Clan’s Four Great Commanders to prove himself worthy of Gu Xun’er.

• Xiao Yun dragged Xiao Yan away to refine Grade 8 Pills as soon as he left the Star Domain.
• The Tianfu Alliance rose to prominence after defeating the Minghe Alliance, Soul Hall, and the Spirit Clan, attracting powerful factions and independent cultivators.
• Xiao Li told Xiao Yan that the Gu Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony was for its most outstanding young members and warned him about the Four Great Commanders.
• Xiao Yan admitted he had learned the Great Annihilation Seal and Great Heavenly Fortune Palm but not the Yellow Springs Finger, and asked Xiao Li to teach him to condense a Clan Mark.
• Xiao Li challenged Xiao Yan to defeat the Four Great Commanders and reach the Dou Saint realm before the ceremony, promising to accompany him there.

Two and a half years after setting out from the Tianfu Alliance, Xiao Li brought Xiao Yan and his children to Gu Sheng City for a low-profile visit to the Ancient Realm. When Ling Quan challenged Xiao Yan at the gates, Xiao Li unleashed his Dou Saint pressure and demanded that the Gu Clan answer for its treatment of guests.

• Xiao Li said he would avoid revealing the Tianfu Alliance’s strength to the Gu Clan until Zi Yan emerged from seclusion, and prepared to travel to the Ancient Realm.
• Xiao Li recalled that he and Old Man Shennong had refined a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill for Zi Yan, while a mutated Treasure Pill helped Xiao Li break through to the Mid Five Star Dou Saint stage.
• Xiao Li led Xiao Yan, Xiao Yun, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Xue to Gu Sheng City, where Xiao Yan had reached First Cycle Dou Venerate and Xiao Li’s children had gained powerful cultivation through a ruin and rare treasures.
• Ling Quan spotted Xiao Yan at the city gates and demanded to know who had allowed him to come.
• Xiao Li erupted with Dou Saint pressure, pinned the Black Annihilation Army soldiers to the ground, and accused the Gu Clan of letting its guards insult their guests.